Item #: SCP-2356
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2356 is contained in a standard containment locker at Site-17's high-security Safe-class items wing. Access to SCP-2356 requires Level-3 clearance and authorization from SCP-2356's current case manager.
Psychological screening for depression must be completed prior to handling SCP-2356. Experimental trials involving SCP-2356 are currently suspended, pending investigation of the object's origins (see addenda).
Description: SCP-2356 is a red cylindrical rod, measuring 30 cm in length and 1 cm in diameter. Chemical analysis indicates that the object is composed of copper, gold, titanium, and an unidentifiable metal. The outer coating of the rod is believed to be nontoxic acrylic paint.
SCP-2356's anomalous properties activate upon being held by a human. Should an individual holding the rod bring it into contact with an inanimate object, said object will spontaneously transform into a different item, most commonly toys suited for young children1 including model trains, action figures, building blocks, and plush animals. Objects altered by SCP-2356 retain their original composition and size, and if undamaged, can be reverted to their initial state upon making contact with SCP-2356 while held by the individual who first transformed the object.
Experimental trials indicate that SCP-2356's primary anomaly affects only non-organic material. A discovered exception is food items, which when exposed to SCP-2356's effect, are transformed into calorie-equivalent servings of assorted fruits, sliced thin and arranged in shapes resembling trees and flowers. The types of manifested fruits vary, though a high antioxidant count is consistent between all generated fruits. These fruits cannot be reverted to their original form by SCP-2356 and are considered safe for consumption.
SCP-2356 has intermittently failed to manifest any anomalous properties when handled by certain test subjects. As of current data, SCP-2356's highest number of successful object transformations (though notably, SCP-2356 has never demonstrated a 100% success rate with any test subject to date) result when the rod is handled by an individual between six to twelve years of age.
Psychological profiling suggests that success rate is linked to lower scores on depression scales. Notably, in three separate cases, adult individuals who have high depression ratings have triggered activation of SCP-2356's anomalous effects even when not in direct contact with the object (resulting in transfiguration of various furniture or writing apparatus within roughly one meter of the adult individual involved). The maximum proximity between individual and SCP-2356 that will initiate this unique activation is currently undetermined.
Addendum SCP-2356-1: The Foundation was made aware of SCP-2356's existence when agents embedded in a healthcare collective involving █████ ████████ Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, recovered a collection of unclaimed keepsakes (including SCP-2356) belonging to a Mr. Huey Sharp. Hospital staff recalled that Mr. Sharp was "a polite man who frequently visited his son" in intensive care, and was once reprimanded for bringing toys and snacks into the patient rooms against hospital policy.
The recovered items2 included a blank, pocket-sized notebook, a child's diary marked with the owner's name "Sky", and a leather pouch filled with marbles made of the same unidentifiable metal incorporated into SCP-2356. All items were determined to be non-anomalous.
Records obtained by Foundation staff indicated that Mr. Sharp's son, Skylar Sharp, was diagnosed with leukemia at age five and referred to the hospital for long-term care before passing away seven months after the initial diagnosis.3

Selected excerpts from Recovered Document SCP-2356-2, diary of Skylar Sharp
Note: While the beginning series of entries possesses substantial portions of text, the majority of entries contain little to no text and include simple drawings, which become less complex as entries progress with time.
Merch 3 ████
Papa got me this book to wite in to make my handwighting and spelling bettr. He wants me to wite every day in this as practis. I am not very good spelling but I well try my bist.
March 7 ████
Papa wanted to get me sum new shirts and pants but I saw this awsum bowtie. I tride to put it on but it was hard to get on. Papa helpt me get it in and it lookt good so he bot it. He looks good in it too. I told him to keep it until Im redy I can put it on myself.
May 4 ████
The docturs told me they are working on a medsine that will fix me. They also said that I need to stay in bed. I hate this. I cant even have candy any more. But papa did say that he was working on something that will cheer me.

Addendum SCP-2356-2: Subsequent Foundation investigation of Mr. Sharp's home resulted in the discovery of a workshop located in the basement, outfitted with modified blacklights. Exposure of Mr. Sharp's previously-recovered notebook to the blacklights revealed a series of diagrams believed to be designs for preliminary prototypes of SCP-2356. Additionally, various notes on separate pages confirmed Huey Sharp's affiliation with the Doctor Wondertainment product line and his intention of adapting SCP-2356 into a Wondertainment toy targeting children currently in hospital treatment.
No other documents found in the workshop displayed hidden material when exposed to the modified blacklights. However, a wall-affixed hand-drawn picture portraying two stick-figure individuals with bow ties holding hands was marked on the bottom with the words "Happy with just Dad" followed by a date.4
Addendum SCP-2356-3: As of ██/██/████, Mr. Sharp is believed to have abandoned the workshop. Priority has been given to agents currently stationed to observation of the ████████ Cemetery, where Mr. Sharp's son was interred at. Interviews with the cemetery staff thus far have failed to provide further information on Mr. Sharp and his family, save for a single employee referring to Skylar Sharp as "the little boy with the bow tie".

Footnotes
1. Roughly ages 5-10, as per comparison with common toy manufacturer companies' suggested age ranges
2. Currently in secure storage.
3. Various drawings from the child's diary confirm the time spent in treatment. The most consistent subjects are two crude humanoid figures, one tall and wearing a coat and bow tie, one smaller and usually reclining on a bed or chair marked with hospital-use symbols.
4. Confirmed to be the day of Skylar Sharp's death

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Item #: SCP-2357
Obj3ct Class: SCP-2357 poses no danger to anyone, although it very easily could have been made that way.
Special Containment Procedures: A copy of SCP-2357 will be framed and placed in the office, cubicle, domicile, etc. of every staff member whose employment is such that being found in the possession of SCP-2357 will not have obvious repercussions. Fortunately for a7l involved, while SCP-2357's properties preclude any other method of containment of which the Foundation has chosen 2 avail itself, its properties do not necessitate any further form of containment. This i5 expected to reach completion in June of 2031.
This is not prescriptive, by the way. It's descriptive. It's fairly obvious how this is going to go down.
Description: SCP-2357 is the text of the document that you are reading — yes, this one. You are currently reading SCP-2357, which is its own documentation. It has several memetic properties (which you have no doubt already noticed, but will be listed here for completeness's sake) that will activate upon observation, causing the reader to exhibit:

Adoration for and admiration of SCP-2357, much in the same way one would adore a treasured work of literature or a beautiful mathematical formula, even though it deviates egregiously from technical writing standards. Personnel will be inclined to make copies and place them in prominent areas. I don'5t like how this paragraph ended, so I will add more text. Now is a good time for me to tell you to clean up your drool, if this is your first time.
A desire to share SCP-2357 with Foundation personnel. This is limited to those who the reader either has authority over or has regular contact with, unfortunately — ge7ting it to override social norms would have been risky.
Disinclination to create additional documentation surrounding SCP-2357, edit the original documentation (which, again, is SCP-2357 itself), or create any derivatives of SCP-2357. Thus, SCP-2357 is the solitary source of information on SCP-2357.1

SCP-2357's memetic properties can only be conveyed properly 2 an individual with an understanding of the standard format for an SCP summary report, as well as a basic understanding of the Foundation's stated purpose and known methods. The net effect will be SCP-2357's propagation through all Foundation communication channels until a copy is available to almost every staff member, as each individual considers it worthy of keeping and sharing.
Addendum: A word from the author:
Hello. My name is Dr. Vanessa Graff. If that name already means something to you, you can probably already guess what this is all about. Consider this a retroactive letter of resignation — I will have disappeared just about the day before you will find this.
If this is the first you've heard of me, you probably deserve an explanation. In 2028 (two years ago, at time of writing), I proposed research on the possibility of, in layman's terms, piggybacking a meme on an infohazard — placing knowledge about an object inside the knowledge of the object (if you have enough clearance). SCP-2357 is a proof of concept. The knowledge of its existence, primed with almost any part of the text, delivers several memes directly to the brain, which prompt the reader to finish the document and receive the remainder of the information within it. The result is the ful2l nuances of a meme with the penetrative capabilities of an infohazard. I would have preferred to explain this more properly in the Description section, but I couldn't work it in around the memetic triggers.
I could have made a purely trivial example — say, an apple that smells like oranges (and, if you taste something quite unpleasant right now, it means that I've since done that), if not for external factors. Project Director Josef Botha (who is NOT a memeticist or infohazard specialist, but a neuroscientist) discarded my research application to get funding for an ACTUALLY POTENTIALLY BENEFICIAL project without a second glance, calling it "nonsensical", "grounded in pseudoscience", and "seriously not actually possss7ssss5sssss3sssible". My fellow employees were not any more receptive, despite being ostensibly qualified for their positions.
This and a few other incidents which would bore you anyways have proven that the Foundation is a backwards, stifling bureaucracy made of people who care more about getting their egos massaged than doing what they were hired to do. The containment doctrine does not protect humanity and stifles its advances. I have found employment with a competitor online (You need. To secure. Your network connections. You idiots.) who recognizes the potential value of my research and whose goals are less masturbatory.
SCP-2357 is a wake-up call. The higher-ups need to invest in and research memetics and infohazards and stop treating your most talented scientists like Galileo, or someone will come to the same conclusions I have, and decide that the SCP Foundation is ripe for the picking. I may not like you very much, but I know that there are worse people out there.
With all due respect (read: fuck you and I'm gone),
Dr. Vanessa Graff
P.S. I cou2ld have killed you all, 3asily. Or wor5e. Aren't you glad that I'm not a sociopa7h?

Footnotes
1. This is a failsaf3 effffg^g^g^g^ect that I've added in to prevent the higher-ups from "sanitizing" the document. Unless they employ something completely inhuman, this should be foolproof. It has the side effect of making some of the information presented here permanently inaccurate, but you don't care, and neither do I.

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Item #: SCP-2358
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Due to their self-censoring nature and the current limitations on moving them, SCP-2358 instances are to remain at their current locations. Mobile Task Force Epsilon-7 ("Forget-Me-Nots") is to continuously monitor and disrupt civilian development of mnestics.
Description: SCP-2358 is an antimemetic phenomenon occurring in large population centers. The three known instances of SCP-2358 exist in the Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong, Times Square, New York, and the Shibuya district, Tokyo. SCP-2358 instances are similar in appearance to blue, translucent trees. SCP-2358 instances are effectively intangible, and cannot be perceived by individuals not under the influence of Class-W or stronger mnestics. This inability to be perceived also extends to photographs and digital recordings of SCP-2358.
Once a human being perceives SCP-2358, they will be subject to a series of mental effects. These effects take place in four stages. The time required for all four stages to occur can range from 13 to 120 hours.
Initial Exposure
Stage 1: Subject displays an increase in interest in SCP-2358, and may find it difficult to concentrate on subjects and tasks not related to SCP-2358.
Stage 2: Subject claims to experience hallucinations of SCP-2358-like plant growth on nearby surfaces. During this time, subjects will attempt to increase awareness of or expose other humans to SCP-2358, often expressing mild irritation when this action is rendered impossible by the antimemetic perception filter.
Stage 3: Subjects lose visual perception, claiming that the hallucinated growth is continually obstructing their view. Subjects may experience seizures during this stage.
Stage 4: Subject enters a catatonic state, and demonstrates heightened levels of neurological activity.
Amnestic treatment has proven effective in slowing symptoms, but have yet to halt or reverse them.
Acquisition: SCP-2358 was first discovered during an experimental project by the Foundation Department of Antimemetics designed to utilize chemical mnestics in an attempt to locate and secure anomalies which otherwise resisted perception. The first SCP-2358 instance was located in New York during an experimental sweep of the area.
Addendum: Two notes have been discovered attached to each SCP-2358 instance. Content is identical between instances, and all notes seem to be affected by the same antimemetic phenomena as SCP-2358. The notes have been replicated here. All redaction present also existed in the original documents.

Item #: SCP-████
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: [PREVIOUS PROCEDURES IRRELEVANT] Each SCP-████ instance is to be contained through the use of a Mariotte-Pashler antimemetic perception filter. Each SCP-████ instance is to be placed at a location which experiences large amounts of traffic and/or has a high population density.
Description: SCP-████ is a set of seven memetic vector objects. SCP-████ instances are similar in appearance to blue, translucent trees. SCP-████ instances are incapable of physical interaction with matter, rendering them effectively intangible.
When not visually observed by a human being, SCP-████ will begin to grow and expand rapidly. Due to its intangibility, SCP-████ is able to grow through most barriers. SCP-████ will usually grow in such a way as to maximize its observation by humans. Visual observation by humans has been shown to halt and reverse SCP-████ growth.
Once a human being perceives SCP-████, they will be subject to a series of mental effects. These effects take place in four stages. The time required for all four stages to occur can range from 13 to 120 hours.
Initial Exposure
Stage 1: Subject displays an increase in interest in SCP-████, and may find it difficult to concentrate on subjects and tasks not related to SCP-████.
Stage 2: Subject claims to experience hallucinations of SCP-████-like plant growth on nearby surfaces. Durring this time, subjects will attempt to increase awareness of or expose other humans to SCP-████.
Stage 3: Subjects lose visual perception, claiming that the hallucinated growth is continually obstructing their view. Subjects may experience seizures during this stage.
Stage 4: Subject enters a catatonic state, and demonstrates heightened levels of neurological activity.
Amnestic treatment has proven effective in slowing symptoms, but have yet to halt or reverse them.
Movement of SCP-████ by humans can be achieved through [DATA EXPUNGED] which serves to transfer the information over a distance through the use of a human medium.
Acquisition: SCP-████ first manifested in the Site-13 Memetics Department, Wing 9, on █/█/19██. Source unknown.

Hello to whoever is reading this,

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Since the cognitohazard didn't activate and you are still able to read this, you either work for the Foundation or someone who is just as well equipped to carry out containment. If you're reading the original version of this document, relay what it says to your superiors as soon as possible and get some Class-A amnestics in your system. The fact that you've seen the tree in person means that you're going to die soon anyway, but the amnestics should be able to buy you a few extra hours.
Since you should be advanced enough to handle it, we can give you what information we have. The trees are, as close as we can figure out, a living version of information. The information is drawn in through the eyes, where it is then transferred to the brain. Let it reach the brain, and it has a new place to grow. Cut it off too soon and don't let it reach the eyes, the tree starts to get bigger. This is where the Mariotte-Pashler filter comes in.
The filter attaches itself to a certain idea, in this case the trees. That information can still be absorbed by the senses, but the filter forces it to be automatically discarded as unneeded data before it has a chance to take root in the brain. Unfortunately, the filter can only handle so much information, that's why it's important that the trees stay in crowded areas, so they stay small. How it all works is much more complicated, but that's the overview.
Feel free to have whatever expert on memetics or antimemetics you like look this over, they should be able to confirm that the information presented correlates with the anomaly, and that the containment procedures are appropriate.
This is our containment procedure, this is what we had to do. Odds are that trust doesn't have a big role in your line of work, but we need to ask you to trust us this once, for your safety and ours. Don't move the trees, we know what we're doing.
Godspeed,
Melinda Williams
SCP Foundation Counterconceptual Division

No records of Melinda Williams or a Counterconceptual Division of the Foundation are known to exist. No SCP object with a four number identifier which matched the description provided in the document existed in the Foundation database prior to the creation of document SCP-2358.
Due to authenticity confirmation codes embedded in the documents and by majority vote of the O5 Council, SCP-2358's containment procedures are to take the documents into account until further information comes to light.

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Item#: 2359

Level5

Containment Class:
keter

Secondary Class:
none

Disruption Class:
ekhi

Risk Class:
danger

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Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2359 should be held within a standard humanoid containment cell lined with soundproofing materials. The cell must not contain media with which SCP-2359 could record information. SCP-2359 must be observed neither directly nor by live camera feed. Observation must be performed by binary positive-negative detection of motion within SCP-2359's containment cell.
All direct documentation of SCP-2359 – articles such as video recordings, audio recordings and transcripts, and photographic images – are to be classified as SCP-2359-A and stored in a reinforced secure locker. Access to these materials is restricted at all clearance levels, with exceptions subject to approval by O5-14.
In-person interaction with SCP-2359 and examination of previous interactions are forbidden at all security levels.
All research into SCP-2359's anomalous properties is suspended indefinitely. Security staff assigned to monitor SCP-2359 must undergo fortnightly psychiatric evaluation. Any indicators of cognitohazardous infection will result in treatment with Class-C amnestics and rotation to other duties.
SCP-2359 must not be relocated for any reason.

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Item#: 2359

Level3

Containment Class:
euclid

Secondary Class:
none

Disruption Class:
keneq

Risk Class:
danger

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SCP-2359 should be held within a standard humanoid containment cell lined with soundproofing materials. The cell must not contain media with which SCP-2359 could be able to record information. SCP-2359 must be observed neither directly or by live camera feed. SCP 2359 must only be observed via an animation of motion within its containment cell, as captured by a set of motion-mapping cameras. Observation of live camera feed is prohibited at all security levels.
All direct documentation of SCP-2359 – articles such as video recordings, audio recordings and transcripts, and photographic images – are to be classified as SCP-2359-A and stored in a reinforced secure locker. Access to these materials is restricted at all clearance levels, exceptions subject to approval by Senior Researcher Gillard.
SCP-2359's responses during interviews must not be recorded. Interviewers and subjects will be recorded by laryngophones1 and automatically transcribed by dictation software. Any understanding of SCP-2359's contributions to the interaction must be extrapolated from these transcripts and no other sources.
As a preventative measure, research and security staff assigned to monitor SCP-2359 must undergo monthly psychiatric evaluation. Any indicators of cognitohazardous infection will result in treatment with Class-C amnestics and rotation to other duties.
Relocation of SCP-2359 should be avoided if at all possible, due to the high risk of cognitohazardous infection and containment breach during transit. If relocation is unavoidable, SCP-2359 must be confined to a mobile sensory-depriving transit casket before exiting its containment chamber, and must not exit the casket for any reason until it has arrived in its new containment chamber. The process is to be handled by a full response team equipped with sound-proof ear protection and motion-mapping closed helmets.

See Addendum 2539-Gamma for relevant documentation on SCP-2359's revised classification and containment procedures.
Description: SCP-2359 is a humanoid of 1.76 meters in height and 75.2 kilograms in weight. All further physical description of SCP-2359 is impossible. There is no method of observation that would perceive the entity's identifying characteristics without being exposed to its cognitohazard, and hence having the viewer's perceptions altered. While humanoid in shape and proportion, SCP-2359 does not need to eat, drink, or sleep, and only does so when directly observed.
SCP-2359's primary anomalous property is a cognitohazard that propagates to anyone who makes visual, auditory or informational contact with it.2 The infection impresses a false identity and memories of SCP-2359 onto the mind of the affected subject. As a result, the subject believes SCP-2359 to be a person with whom they have been acquainted with for most of their lives, such as a close family member or childhood friend. The implanted identity is a person whom the subject trusts innately and – in a large majority of documented occurrences – would go to great lengths to assist, including committing acts of violence. Interviews with multiple infected subjects have indicated that the infection does not make the victim believe SCP-2359 is a person already known to them, but inserts an entirely new person and set of experiences into the victim's memories. Complete removal of the infection necessitates precision application of Class-C amnestics.
SCP-2359's cognitohazard propagates through all current forms of media with the capacity to distinguish identifying characteristics. Class-D test subjects have displayed recognition of SCP-2359 when exposed to Polaroid photographs or digital images; film or digital videos; analogue or digital audio recordings; and software-dictated transcriptions of audio recordings.
After initial exposure to SCP-2359 or an instance of SCP-2359-A, the effects of the cognitohazard can take between a few seconds and up to several minutes to fully manifest. During this period the affected subject will display extreme confusion to the point of debilitation. The time required for indoctrination seems to be shortened by continued exposure to the cognitohazard and lengthened by immediate separation from the source, but there is no known way to stop the infection without the application of amnestics.
It is impossible to communicate with SCP-2359 through any medium without becoming indoctrinated by its cognitohazard. Likewise, it is impossible to visually observe SCP-2359 or any visual captures of it – including abstracted renders such as software-resolved radar imaging – without becoming infected. The only current method of observation that has not been evidenced to result in infection is a system of motion-mapping cameras that construct a representative animation of motion within SCP-2359's containment cell. The entity's cognitohazard also cannot propagate through second-hand documentation, description or repetition of what subjects believe SCP-2359 has said.
If contradicted, SCP-2359's cognitohazard functions as a latent kill agent. When presented with evidence that contradicts the memories inserted by the infection, the resulting dissonance experienced by a victim or subject cascades into a infohazardous kill agent.3 See Addendum 2359-Alpha for relevant details.
Addendum 2359-Alpha: Transcript of Senior Researcher Gillard's Debriefing Interview with Agent Shaw

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Interviewed: Field Agent ███ Shaw
Interviewer: Senior Researcher Dr ██████ Gillard
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Dr Gillard: Good morning.
Agent Shaw: Good morning.
Dr Gillard: For the record, please state your name and position.
Agent Shaw: ███ Shaw, Nashville office Field Agent.
Dr Gillard: And you understand that this debriefing pertains to the recent containment of SCP-23… uh… 2359, yes?
Agent Shaw: Yes, ma'am, I do.
Dr Gillard: Alright. Just so you know, we have all the documentation we need on the procurement of 2359. This is a testimonial for our research into its anomalous properties.
Agent Shaw: I understand.
Dr Gillard: Then that'll do for the pleasantries. Now… can you tell me about your involvement in the operation?
Agent Shaw: I… I don't really remember all of it.
Dr Gillard: That's fine, just tell me what you can recall. From the beginning, if you don't mind.
Agent Shaw: Okay, well… I was dispatched from Nashville to Buxton County – uh, that's Nashville, Tennessee, by the way.
Dr Gillard: Yes, ███. Please continue.
Agent Shaw: So I was dispatched to Buxton County with Hereford and Dietrich. There'd been a lotta stroke victims in the county morgue last month, and our supervisor wanted us to sweep for anomalies. Honestly, I expected that we'd just tell the locals to cut back on the salt and that'd be it.
Dr Gillard: But it wasn't.
Agent Shaw: 'Course not. We poked around Buxton proper for a few days; interviewed the next of kin and so on, but there were no leads on any sort of anomaly. Not until we started talking to the rural residents. One guy… uh… Henry Sturman, I think it was, said that his brother had come home from town talking about having seen the Mayor. The thing was, he'd called the mayor by the wrong name. I'm a little fuzzy on the details – I'll have a proper report around my desk, somewhere – but the guts of it is that they got into an argument, and Sturman ended up showing his brother a photograph of him meeting the actual mayor. Sturman's brother gets woozy, and half an hour later he's dead of a stroke. Sturman thought the confusion was just a symptom.
Dr Gillard: And that was your lead?
Agent Shaw: It was. We tracked back to some of the other families, and that was our link. All of the victims had died just a while after talking about the mayor.
Dr Gillard: That was when you knew you were dealing with an anomaly.
Agent Shaw: Yeah, that's right. We kept talking with the locals, and something else came up. Most of the rural residents said that their mayor was a white guy, [REDACTED], but every last townie was sure to the bone that their mayor was a biracial guy called Edward Nimitz. One call to the Nashville office and we knew that Nimitz wasn't on any registries.
Dr Gillard: When was it that you began to suspect that the anomaly was cognitohazardous – or memetic – in nature?
Agent Shaw: I feel a little dumb to say it, but it hadn't really clicked for me yet that it was all down to a mindfuck. I think I had a… well, an inkling of some sort. It just wasn't quite there yet.
Dr Gillard: So what happened next?
Agent Shaw: Dietrich set up a temporary monitoring post outside the township. Hereford and I went back to Nashville for a debrief. Do I need to talk about that?
Dr Gillard: We have the transcript already.
Agent Shaw: Okay. Well, while the MTF was being assembled our supervisor decided to send us back to Buxton, to case the town hall for the procure-op. I remember… Hereford and I were finishing our debrief docs at our desks when we got word… and… and that was the last time I saw Hereford.
Dr Gillard: The last time that you can recall.
Agent Shaw: Yeah. Uh… I don't remember leaving. I don't remember anything after I handed in my docs.
Dr Gillard: You've been briefed, though.
Agent Shaw: Yes.
(There is a brief silence)
Dr Gillard: For the record-
Agent Shaw: Oh, right. Well, Uh… they told me that Hereford and I arrived back in Nashville at the end of the day, but we were messed up.
Dr Gillard: Infected.
Agent Shaw: We both thought that Nimitz was the mayor. We didn't even remember why we'd been worried about him. They separated us, questioned us about what we did. Do you-
Dr Gillard: We have that documentation, too.
Agent Shaw: 'Course, right. They… uh, they told Hereford that Nimitz wasn't meant to exist. They showed him the state registry, and… and it killed him. Uh… a ‘hemorrhagic stroke'; same as the civs in Buxton. I was dosed with amnestics, the MTF deployed the next morning – yesterday – and… well, that's it, right?.
Dr Gillard: I think so, yes. Thank you, ███.
Agent Shaw: Was it anything you didn't already know?
Dr Gillard: No, but it gives context. Hopefully, we'll soon be able to understand what exactly 2359's anomaly is.
Agent Shaw: Okay. Do… uh, sorry.
Dr Gillard: Go on.
Agent Shaw: I was just wondering if I could ask a question.
Dr Gillard: Of course.
Agent Shaw: The task force. Did it affect them as well?
Dr Gillard: All of them, we're fairly sure. Uh… we haven't finished the debriefings yet, but it's shaping up to be a motherlode.
Agent Shaw: The thing got to them, and they still bagged it?
Dr Gillard: There were some… some internal complications, but yes, the operation was a success. They did have orders, after all.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Agent Shaw, along with all other staff involved in the procurement of SCP-2359, was placed on psychiatric probation and rotated to clerical duties for a period of six months. Agent Shaw completed his probation without indicating any lingering cognitohazardous effects, and resumed his duties as a field agent at the Nashville office.

Addendum 2359-Beta: Transcript of Assistant Researcher Mayhew's First Interview with SCP-2359

+ Show Interview Log 2359-Beta

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Interviewed: SCP-2359
Interviewer: Assistant Researcher Dr █████ Mayhew
<Begin Log>
Dr Mayhew: Uh… h-hello.
(Dr Mayhew pauses. SCP-2359 seems to return the greeting, and/or enquire the reason for his presence.)
Dr Mayhew: I'm… I'm here to ask you some questions.
(SCP-2359 seems to invite Dr Mayhew to continue.)
Dr Mayhew: I have them here. Just… well, why are you here?
(SCP-2359 seems to ask for clarification.)
Dr Mayhew: I mean… uh… why-
(SCP-2359 interrupts Dr Mayhew.)
Dr Mayhew: But I… they-
(SCP-2359 interrupts again. There is thirty-two (32) seconds of silence before Dr Mayhew speaks again.)
Dr Mayhew: So… s-so why are you here?
(SCP-2359 seems to ask for clarification, or Dr Mayhew pauses before continuing.)
Dr Mayhew: Why did they bring you here, Nora? D-do they think you're anomalous?
(SCP-2359's reaction is unclear. It appears to further conflict or confuse Dr Mayhew.)
Dr Mayhew: I think I remember… no… w-what were you-
(SCP-2359 seems to ask Dr Mayhew for assistance in breaching its containment.)
Dr Mayhew: I… I don't know if I can. They're recording me.
(SCP-2359 seems to ask if it is also being recorded.)
Dr Mayhew: No, not you. I don't think they want to.
(SCP-2359's reaction is unclear. It appears to give Dr Mayhew conviction to assist it in breaching its containment.)
Dr Mayhew: I can't let them keep you here. I-I don't know what they think you are, but they're wrong. I know you too well.
(SCP-2359 seems to encourage Dr Mayhew.)
Dr Mayhew: I'll try my best. I… I love you, Nora.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Dr Mayhew was debriefed by his colleagues after exiting SCP-2359's containment, but feigned ignorance as to the nature of his responses and suggested that SCP-2359 had somehow altered the recordings. Dr Mayhew became violent when Senior Researcher Gillard requested that he submit for psychiatric evaluation. He attacked his colleagues and attempted to tamper with research equipment before being apprehended by a response team and treated with Class-C amnestics.
SCP-2359 breached containment at 1822 hours the following day, and was later recaptured. Access logs indicated that, for eighty-six (86) seconds, Dr Mayhew had access to a research terminal with necessary clearance to allow a containment breach. This has been identified as the most likely source of the programming script that opened SCP-2359's containment cell door.
Dr Mayhew displayed no indicators of lingering cognitohazardous effects during or after recuperation, and was rotated to other duties.

Addendum 2359-Gamma: Revisions to Containment Procedures for SCP-2359

In response to SCP-2359's long history of manipulating staff and subsequently breaching containment – and with special regard to its most recent containment breach, during which SCP-2359 successfully contacted SCP-████ – SCP-2359's classification has been upgraded from Euclid to Keter. Subsequently, SCP-2359 will now be kept under revised containment procedures, as follows:
Due to the length of SCP-2359's most recent containment breach, during which its movements were unaccounted for over a period of several days, it is unknown how many foundation staff have been exposed to its cognitohazard and may be subsequently conspiring to free it from containment. To safeguard against this, current research programs involving SCP-2359 have been suspended indefinitely and interaction with SCP-2359 is now prohibited at all Security levels. Exemption applications are to be submitted to O5-14 for approval. Repeated applications for exemption will result in psychiatric evaluation.
With respect to SCP-2359's current feigned comatose state and Senior Researcher Gillard's current hypothesis that its cognitohazard may be able to propagate through motion-mapping cameras, live observation of SCP-2359 is to be filtered into binary detection of movement. As a precautionary measure, still frames captured from the digitized motion feed of SCP-2359 have been expunged from its documentation. Access to SCP-2359's live camera feed remains prohibited, and applications for access to the digitized motion feed are now subject to approval by O5-14.
SCP-2359 is not to be relocated for any reason. Exceptions are now subject to approval by O5-14.
The above procedural revisions are effective 22/01/2016

– From the desk of O5-14

Our research logs have been edited by someone with O5 clearance, but the changelog is classified. The others say there is a staff notice from O5-14. They say that the containment for 2359 has been revised; that our project has been shut down, and we're being reassigned.
If there is one thing I know, it is that there are only thirteen. There has only ever been thirteen.
I am certain that this time tomorrow, I will know that there have always been fourteen.
What do I do? There's no protocol for this. How am I meant to stop it?
I don't think I can.
– G

Footnotes
1. Colloquially in English; a throat microphone.
2. Similar to SCP-1500.
3. Death occurs almost invariably as result of cerebral hemorrhaging, which precipitates into a hemorrhagic stroke.

« SCP-2358 | SCP-2359 | SCP-2360 »


Item #: SCP-2360
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2360 instances are to be contained in cells shielded with a Faraday cage. Its containment site must be equipped with an EM interference generator in case of cage failure. Augmentations may be serviced by qualified personnel upon request.
SCP-2360 are to be administered 2360 liquid feed in place of the standard humanoid SCP meal plan. Access to the standard humanoid meal plan is permitted at researcher discretion as incentives for good behavior.
Access to system-link play or to SCP-2360's game discs may be revoked as punishment for unwanted behavior, at researcher discretion; however, it is much more compliant and sedentary when allowed these privileges.
SCP-2360's local area network time is to be strictly scheduled. It may be given up to three hours per day, as a maximum of six days per week. Personnel engaged in play against SCP-2360 are to maintain a minimum 1:2 kill-death ratio against SCP-2360; those who fall below this threshold for more than one session will be replaced. If SCP-2360 begins to exhibit signs of an impending Nibbanic event, sever network connection immediately and execute the Upasana Procedure.
Description: SCP-2360 is a set of three male humans who have been augmented internally with electronic systems of identical design.
SCP-2360's primary augmentation is a set of custom-built packs fused to the spinal column which contain the components of an Xbox 360 video game console, disassembled and arranged to fit mostly within the body. Certain parts have been modified to increase console longevity; see SCP-2360 Component Log. Audiovisual data is transmitted subdermally to cochlear and ocular implants. The cochlear implants are internal, and not visible without use of scanning equipment;1 however, SCP-2360's eye sockets have been fully restructured to house artificial electronic eyes capable of HDMI interpolation. SCP-2360's irises contain light-emitting diodes that produce a green glow when the game console is activated; according to SCP-2360, this is a cosmetic effect.
SCP-2360's wrists bear wrist-mounted prongs which end in controller inputs; these prongs fold back when not in use to allow freedom of movement. SCP-2360's palms and fingers are incapable of perspiration; this is compensated for, as the wrist-mounted input system also contains controls for a subdermal water-cooling system and for hair-sized muscle stimulation devices which are intended to provide increased reaction time.
The augmentations receive power through integration with the digestive systems of the hosts, which have been modified. SCP-2360 is capable of sustaining life and operation indefinitely when administered sufficient amounts of a specially-formulated liquid feed, taken orally, which contains high-fructose corn syrup, caffeine, orange juice, sodium benzoate, and brominated vegetable oil, among other ingredients.
SCP-2360's primary function is the operation of the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. In non-containment environments, it uses its consoles to access online multi-player functions and operates them continuously until it requires rest. During early use, SCP-2360 communicates among itself and with other players using an internal microphone; however, after between twenty minutes and one hour of playtime, instances of SCP-2360 become synchronized. At this point, game footage taken during testing shows the three players acting precisely in sync (concentrating fire, spotting concealed threats, etc.) without any apparent communication between them.
When not connected to online services, SCP-2360 is capable of using wireless networking adapters to play over a local "system link" connection; however, synchronization is never achieved during local play. Initially, containment procedures prevented this behavior; after protests by SCP-2360, it was relocated to a different chamber within the site so that its augmentations can communicate with each other without allowing access to online services.
Soon after this change, SCP-2360's demands to be allowed access to online play grew more severe, citing religious persecution. This culminated in refusal to consume meals, refusal to ingest liquid feed, and eventually direct biological and mechanical self-harm. Foundation personnel negotiated a compromise in which SCP-2360 is allowed limited, scheduled local area network (LAN) play against selected Foundation personnel. However, statements made by SCP-2360 indicate this may cause a Nibbanic event, based on success in-game; as a result, SCP-2360's opponents must be carefully selected, and countermeasures have been established.
LAN privileges were initially granted on a probationary basis, but following a significant increase in SCP object compliance, the schedule has been extended indefinitely.
Interview 2360-A Excerpt

Interviewer: Tell me how you received these augmentations.

SCP-2360-A: What, like, from the beginning?
Interviewer: That would be preferable, yes.

SCP-2360-C: We got invited to this youth program.
SCP-2360-A: Yeah, Wallace brought us over.
SCP-2360-C: At first we came for the free food, but after a few weeks, the church father's message spoke to us.
SCP-2360-A: We realized we were broken.
SCP-2360-B: Broken, and only God could heal us.
Interviewer: God?
SCP-2360-A: You've never heard of God?
Interviewer: I'm asking which deity you're referring to.
SCP-2360-C: …God, man.
SCP-2360-B: He who has broken himself in our image.
Interviewer: You're referring to The Church of the Broken God.
SCP-2360-A: That's a name for it, yeah.
SCP-2360-C: The father said his house was nondenominational, but it respected innovationist and integrationist doctrines.
SCP-2360-A: Really focused on the present.
Interviewer: Innovationist and integrationist?
SCP-2360-A: Innovationism, it's like… God's in us. He's in you, too. So when we innovate, when we create new technology…
SCP-2360-C: That's making a piece of him, bro.
SCP-2360-A: That's bringing us closer. Hey, you an engineer?
Interviewer: And what does "integrationist" mean?
SCP-2360-C: Well, we've got to get as close to God as possible.
SCP-2360-A: And if new technology is part of God…
SCP-2360-B: That's how we can dedicate our bodies to him.
Interviewer: And is that why you've been modified like that?
SCP-2360-A: The father was like, "The time when you feel most at one with the machine, that's what you want to make a part of you."
SCP-2360-C: And the four of us knew, it was when we played COD.
SCP-2360-A: So here we are.
Interviewer: The four of you?
SCP-2360-C: Yeah, Wallace had it done, too.
SCP-2360-A: But 360s have, like… a 25% failure rate.
SCP-2360-B: He didn't talk to us much after that.

Interview Log 2360-B Excerpt

Interviewer: Why do you play this game constantly? [The interviewer points to one of SCP-2360's game discs, stored in a jewel case.]
SCP-2360-C: It's how we're gonna transcend.
SCP-2360-A: Like… meditation. Except epic.
SCP-2360-C: Every point we score, we get closer.
SCP-2360-A: Every match we win, that's a step away from meatspace.
SCP-2360-C: We are the most pro that there has ever been.
SCP-2360-A: The aimbot is—
SCP-2360-C: —within us.
SCP-2360-B: And we will reach heaven with no-scopes.
SCP-2360-C: Except…
Interviewer: Except?
SCP-2360-C: We can't do it playing against each other.
SCP-2360-B: We have to frag those who aren't in the clan.
SCP-2360-C: Otherwise it's just practice.
SCP-2360-A: It's lame.
SCP-2360-B: There is no God in lame.
SCP-2360-B: Should I tell them?
SCP-2360-A: Don't, Kamal.
Interviewer: I'm afraid we can't provide the agreed incentives if you withhold information from us.
SCP-2360-A: Alright, alright. Go for it.
SCP-2360-B: A couple months ago, some alarms started blaring, right? And we all saw this blinding red light, and when we turned our eyes back on, the doors and ceilings of our cells were halfway melted off. It smelled like maple syrup and ass. And Hunter, he says—
SCP-2360-C: Well, I've tried to watch my language since I started becoming whole, but I said… "Shit, see if you can get on Live!"
SCP-2360-B: All the guards were running after it, yelling "Someone turn off the main generator before the… the F-er finds it!"
SCP-2360-A: So we managed to connect to the servers for a little team deathmatch.
SCP-2360-C: But the servers were—
SCP-2360-B: Barren.
SCP-2360-A: We found someone and asked whether a new COD was out since we last connected.
SCP-2360-C: He said there had been, like, six.
SCP-2360-A: We looked for the bros we usually played with, but they were in different games.
SCP-2360-C: And then the guy we had been talking to DC'd.
SCP-2360-B: We didn't have time to change servers, so we just sort of… ran around the map while you carted us into our new cells.
SCP-2360-A: Until the signal went out.
Interviewer: Is that all?
SCP-2360-A: What do you mean?
Interviewer: Did you perform any other actions while connected to online services? Did you communicate with outside individuals about any subject other than Call of Duty?
SCP-2360-C: Nope.
SCP-2360-B: I didn't.
SCP-2360-A: Neither did I. We were too busy trying to play.
Interviewer: Noted. This will be verified, and if it's true, we may show leniency on you for your honesty and relative lack of activity during the breach.
SCP-2360-C: Thanks, man. Can I just ask you one more thing?
Interviewer: You may.
SCP-2360-C: Is the new Xbox out?
SCP-2360-A: The 720.
SCP-2360-C: Or the 360 2, or—
SCP-2360-B: The one after the one inside us, is what they're asking about.
Interviewer: I'm afraid I can't divulge that information until I've cleared it with a supervisor.
SCP-2360-C: That's—
SCP-2360-A: Fine.
SCP-2360-C: Totally fine.
[END OF LOG]

Footnotes
1. Possible methods include X-ray or ultrasound imaging. MRI is not feasible, for obvious reasons.

« SCP-2359 | SCP-2360 | SCP-2361 »


Position four moves prior to SCP-2361. Actual position not shown to avoid activating anomalous effects.

Item #: SCP-2361
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Due to its nature, it is currently infeasible to detect all manifestations of SCP-2361. Worldwide medical records shall be monitored for fatalities consistent with SCP-2361's effects. Medical personnel directly witnessing the effects must be administered Class-C amnestics; the victim's death should be explained as the result of a stroke. When necessary, X-rays and other documentation are to be explained as hoaxes.
Any known civilian contact with SCP-2361-1 must be recorded and archived. Foundation contact with SCP-2361-1 must be supervised by at least two level 4 personnel.
Description: SCP-2361 is a recurring position in the game of Go1. Instances have been observed to manifest in multiple ways:

Arising naturally during a game. When questioned, players believe they are choosing moves of their own free will.

Spontaneous manifestation on unattended Go boards.

Appearance on normally-blank pages of Go-related books, with the caption "White to play" in the language of the book.

SCP-2361 instances created by mundane means will still display anomalous effects, and are only to be created during approved experimentation.
In the event that a player places a white stone at position ██, ██ (or circles it, in the case of printed instances), the subject's brain will begin to display unusual electrical activity, usually focused in the parietal lobe. This activity does not interfere with normal brain functions, and typically passes unnoticed within 24 hours. However, four recorded cases have resulted in fatalities from symptoms superficially resembling a stroke. Autopsies revealed that several irregularly-shaped sections of the brain had been removed by unknown means.
The Foundation has contacted several professional Go players to analyze SCP-2361. These players typically indicate several possibilities for a next move, but invariably note ██, ██ as being one of the strongest candidates.
Addendum 2361-A-1:

Encoded message from SCP-2361-1.

On 11/23/20██, researcher Alice R██████ conducted an experiment to determine how SCP-2361 identifies the player. A remotely-operated mechanism was constructed to place a stone at ██, ██, and was activated simultaneously by two D-Class personnel.
Three seconds after activation, a new board position materialized. Foundation cryptographers determined the new position to be a simple trinary encoding of English letters, representing the message "Please do not interfere with our research". Researcher R██████ proceeded to conduct an interview by rearranging stones using the same encoding. The responding entity has been designated SCP-2361-1.

Interview Transcript 2361-I-1

– hide block

Interviewed: SCP-2361-1
Interviewer: Researcher Alice R██████
Foreword: Interview was conducted in code by rearranging Go stones. Punctuation and capitalization have been added for clarity.
<Begin Log>
R██████: Can you understand this?
SCP-2361-1: Yes.
R██████: My name is Alice R██████. I would like to ask a few questions. May I ask who I am speaking to?
SCP-2361-1: We do not use names in our coherence network. You may call me anything you wish.
R██████: Very well, may I call you dash one?2
SCP-2361-1: That is acceptable.
R██████: Dash one, can you explain what you are?
SCP-2361-1: I am an analysis subsystem responsible for identifying spatial beings for integration purposes. It is difficult to explain further; your language lacks many relevant concepts. [Researcher's note: The length of this message extended off the edge of the board; pieces fell onto the table after materializing. It is unknown whether SCP-2361-1 was aware of this.]
R██████: By "subsystem", do you mean you are an artificial life form?
SCP-2361-1: No. I was not created; I was integrated into a more complex subsystem for this purpose.
R██████: Are you responsible for these? [R██████ reproduces SCP-2361 to the side of the board]
SCP-2361-1: Yes.
R██████: What are they for?
SCP-2361-1: We have difficulty thinking about space. Our supersystem has no analogous feature. Our knowledge-systems have explained it in abstract terms, but we cannot grasp it intuitively.
A teaching-system integrated the game you call Go with all subsystems coherent to our network. The game was meant to teach position, movement, shape. It did not work. The ideas are too bizarre; we are cohered to few subsystems that are capable of understanding the rules. We integrated the game with many other supersystems to find beings capable of spatial intuition.
R██████: What happens to people who place a stone at ██, ██?
SCP-2361-1: We attempt to identify their spatial reasoning subsystems, and if possible, cohere them with our supersystem for analysis.
R██████: Why not just discuss the matter with them, like we're doing now?
SCP-2361-1: We attempted this. Linguistic communication was insufficient to induce understanding. Your ideas are too alien. Direct integration of knowledge is required.
R██████: Those "spatial reasoning subsystems" are parts of our brains, and we need them to function correctly. Can you study the subsystems without removing them?
SCP-2361-1: Coherence is necessary for detailed study. If necessary, you can cohere yourselves with other versions.
R██████: I don't understand. Other versions?
SCP-2361-1: We cannot recohere your spatial subsystems, so you will need to cohere with other compatible versions.
R██████: I'm afraid we don't have any other compatible versions.
SCP-2361-1: "Have"? Please wait a moment. I must integrate with new linguistic subsystems.
[2 minute pause]
SCP-2361-1: This is related to your idea of distance? You cannot cohere with them because they are too far away?
R██████: As far as we know, they don't exist at all.
SCP-2361-1: "Exist"? This is not related to space?
R██████: No, not exactly. It's more like they are missing. Are you saying that in your universe, all things that could exist do exist?
SCP-2361-1: We do not use this distinction between "exist" and "missing", but I believe you understand correctly.
R██████: Doesn't that mean there are subsystems that already understand space and geometry?
SCP-2361-1: Yes. That is true.
R██████: Why don't you talk to them?
SCP-2361-1: We do not know which ones they are.
<End Log>

Footnotes
1. A board game played by placing black and white stones on a grid. Also known as Igo, Wei-Qi, or Baduk.
2. Encoding did not allow numerals.

« SCP-2360 | SCP-2361 | SCP-2362 »


Image of SCP-2362 and its satellites taken before launch of Orpheus

Item #: SCP-2362
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Public knowledge of SCP-2362 in its current state is to be suppressed by any means necessary. Interception and suppression of astronomical data indicating the current state of SCP-2362, the organic composition of SCP-2362, or the existence of SCP-2362-1 is conducted by Mobile Task Force Omicron-12 (“Planet Killers”). MTF Omicron-12 is also tasked with fabricating astronomical data in order to decrease public interest in SCP-2362.
In the event that the current state of SCP-2362 becomes apparent to the public through some lapse in Foundation security, MTF Omicron-12 will disseminate fabricated data indicating that SCP-2362 was reduced to its current state during a collision with a Kuiper Belt object of comparable size (situational contingency protocol 2362-A).
In the event that the existence of SCP-2362-1 becomes apparent to the public, MTF Omicron-12 will disseminate fabricated data indicating that SCP-2362-1 is merely a Kuiper Belt object following an escape orbit resulting from gravitational interaction with neighboring objects (situational contingency protocol 2362-B).
Should SCP-2362-1 reach a great enough distance to render it undetectable by civilian and government equipment, MTF Omicron-12 will disseminate partially accurate data indicating the current state of SCP-2362 along with fabricated data indicating that SCP-2362 was reduced to its current state during a collision with a Kuiper Belt object of comparable size (situational contingency protocol 2362-C).
Any civilian or government probes sent to investigate SCP-2362 or SCP-2362-1 must be intercepted.
Researchers interpreting data from the Foundation lunar radio observatory are to notify O5 command of any changes in the trajectory of SCP-2362-1 immediately.
Description: SCP-2362 is the designation of Pluto, an interior Kuiper Belt object, following the discovery of its organic composition by Foundation researchers in 1983. SCP-2362 is currently a trans-Neptunian debris field orbiting the Sun with an aphelion1 of 48.9 AU, a perihelion2 of 29.7 AU, a mean eccentricity3 of 0.248, and an orbital period4 of 248 years. SCP-2362 was reduced to this state during the emergence of SCP-2362-1 from its southern pole (see event log 2362-A).
SCP-2362-1 is an object approximately 900 km in length, consisting of a bell-shaped mass with thirteen trailing appendages and generally resembling a jellyfish of the genus Pelagia. It radiates blue light and has no discernible surface features. SCP-2362-1 is able to propel itself by expanding and contracting its appendages. The mechanism of this propulsion is poorly understood, but may have some similarity to conventional ion propulsion given the stream of charged particles detected in the object's wake. Upon its emergence, the natural satellites of SCP-2362 were torn apart by tidal forces and now form part of the debris field. SCP-2362-1 is currently following an escape trajectory as it heads towards the vicinity of Barnard's Star at a speed exceeding 30,000 m/s. As it is estimated to leave the solar system at some point within the year 20██, the object is not considered a threat to life on Earth at this point in time.
While SCP-2362 is visible from Earth through high power telescopes, the debris field is dense enough that a difference from its appearance previous to event 2362-A is only perceptible with the telescopes of some observatories and artificial satellites. MTF Omicron-12 has infiltrated said observatories and satellites, preventing them from obtaining new images of SCP-2362 (including images of SCP-2362 fragments that have left the vicinity of the debris field) or any images of SCP-2362-1.
Foundation probe 76EU ("Eurydice") is currently en route to SCP-2362-1.
Event Log 2362-A:

05/05/2006: Radar data from Foundation probe 45OR (“Orpheus”), currently in orbit of SCP-2362, indicates that the central mass of the object is rapidly shifting towards its southern pole. While SCP-2362 is already suspected to be of biological origin given its exclusively organic composition, a hypothesis that SCP-2362 is a living organism is put forward by the Orpheus research team stationed at Site-██.
05/21/2006: Orpheus data indicates that the surface of SCP-2362 is beginning to disintegrate. Large fissures open across the object as material begins to slough off and form a cloud around it.
06/10/2006: A gigantic fissure begins to open across the object's southern pole. Fissure measures approximately 50 km in length and 10 km in width.
06/11/2006: Fissure measures approximately 230 km in length and 50 km in width.
06/12/2006: Fissure measures approximately 950 km in length and 370 km in width. Orbits of satellites are noticeably deteriorating.
06/23/2006: Thirteen masses begin to protrude from southern fissure, each 50 km across. Seven of the masses appear to be pushing against one side of the fissure with six pushing against the other side.
06/27/2006: Fissure widens to fully encompass SCP-2362 as the thirteen masses further protrude from it. The object splits into two halves, revealing that SCP-2362 is a hollow shell around its central mass. Central mass is designated as SCP-2362-1.
07/04/2006: SCP-2362-1 departs from vicinity of SCP-2362. As SCP-2362-1 contracts and expands its appendages, the object somehow achieves a constant acceleration of approximately 10 m/s2. As SCP-2362-1 leaves SCP-2362 behind, its tidal forces tear it and its satellites apart, forming a large debris field. SCP-2362-1 ceases acceleration after approximately 50 minutes, bringing its speed to over 30,000 m/s.

Addendum 1: Following infiltration by MTF Omicron-12, the International Astronomical Union revoked the status of “Pluto” as a planet on 08/24/2006 . While creating controversy and greatly increasing the exposure of SCP-2362 in the short term, it is deemed necessary for discouraging public interest in it in the long term.
SCP-2362 will remain known to scientists and astronomy enthusiasts, but common knowledge of SCP-2362 will likely subside within one to two generations as it is no longer included in textbook lists of planets and receives less attention from educational programming.

Fabricated image of SCP-2362 received by NASA from intercepted flyby mission "New Horizons"

Addendum 2: While the NASA probe “New Horizons” is intended to provide the public with the first detailed images of SCP-2362, MTF Omicron-12 has successfully intercepted the mission and is releasing false data accordingly. Fortunately as with most NASA missions, public interest is sufficiently low, so it is considered to be of little risk.
Addendum 3: Recently gathered spectrographic data suggests that trans-Neptunian objects Haumea, Eris, and Makemake are of similar organic composition to SCP-2362. Foundation probes 87KA ("Kaulu"), 88AL ("Algos"), and 89TA ("Tangata") are currently en route to these objects respectively. Foundation astronomers are now conducting mass spectral analysis of Kuiper Belt and Scattered Disk objects.

Footnotes
1. aphelion: point in orbit at which object is furthest from the Sun
2. perihelion: point in orbit at which object is closest to the Sun
3. eccentricity: deviation of an orbit from circularity
4. orbital period: amount of time it takes an object to complete one orbit

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SCP-2363

Item #: SCP-2363
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Area-63 has been established to contain SCP-2363, and is surrounded by a 4 meter tall barbed wire fence. The perimeter is to be patrolled and monitored by onsite armed personnel. Any damage to the fence is to be reported immediately.
SCP-2363-A is not to be allowed within 5 meters of the perimeter fence; deadly force may be used to maintain this distance. SCP-2363-A should be treated as hostile.
If any instances of SCP-2363-B are observed within the perimeter of SCP-2363, they are to be removed immediately.
Any civilian personnel found attempting to breach the perimeter fence are to be detained for questioning. No female personnel are to be assigned to Area-63.
Description: SCP-2363 refers to an area of roughly one square kilometer in south-central Wyoming. A small, dilapidated farmhouse stands at the approximate center of SCP-2363. Personnel who have spent extended periods of time1 within SCP-2363 report extreme fatigue.
SCP-2363-A is a humanoid entity that lives in the farmhouse and claims to be the owner of SCP-2363. SCP-2363-A is anatomically an elderly human male, with an apparent growth defect resulting in the absence of lips, leaving its teeth and gums exposed. SCP-2363-A's eyes are severely cataracted, rendering it blind, although this appears to have a negligible effect on SCP-2363's ability to perceive its environment. If SCP-2363-A is removed from SCP-2363 and is unable to return, it will immediately and continuously attempt to kill itself until it succeeds, resorting to biting out its own veins or repeatedly bashing its skull against a wall if necessary. SCP-2363-A has on several occasions attempted to kill Foundation personnel with its hands and teeth, but as of yet has not been successful.
SCP-2363-B designates the eleven women (ages 26-34) originally found within SCP-2363 when it was discovered in 1967. Each instance of SCP-2363-B was matched to a recent missing persons report from Wyoming, Colorado, or Utah. SCP-2363-B instances were extremely sedate, and wandered SCP-2363 without direction. They also did not require food or water while within SCP-2363. Ten months after the discovery of SCP-2363, each of the ten surviving instances of SCP-2363-B was removed from the area, and quickly recovered from their sedation. All SCP-2363-B instances were unable to recall their time within SCP-2363, or how they arrived there. Removed instances have been found to be unable to conceive, despite the absence of any apparent problems with their reproductive systems. Each instance was administered Class-D amnestics and was delivered to the authorities in several nearby towns. These instances should be monitored for further anomalous phenomena.
If SCP-2363-A dies for any reason, one instance of SCP-2363-B will rapidly grow heavily pregnant and give birth to a tumorous mass, which will quickly grow into an adult SCP-2363-A2. This birthing process appears to be very painful to SCP-2363-B, but is not usually fatal3.

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Incident-2363-02: SCP-2363-A is shot in the chest four times while attempting an attack on Foundation personnel constructing the perimeter fence. SCP-2363-A dies, and an instance of SCP-2363-B gives birth to a new instance of SCP-2363-A, who retreats into the farmhouse.
Incident-2363-04: Research personnel attempt to remove SCP-2363-A from SCP-2363. SCP-2363-A kills itself while in transit to Site-██ by smashing its head into the side of the transport vehicle until dead. An instance of SCP-2363-B grows pregnant and dies during the birth of a new instance of SCP-2363-A. SCP-2363-A returns to the farmhouse.
Incident-2363-09: All instances of SCP-2363-B are removed from the area, and a research team is sent in to attempt an interview with SCP-2363-A. SCP-2363-A attacks the team and attempts to bite a security officer. SCP-2363-A is shot in the head by Security Officer Angela Jones and dies. After 3 minutes Security Officer Jones collapses and reports extreme abdominal pain; shortly thereafter, an instance of SCP-2363-A erupts fully grown from her abdomen, killing her. Remaining team members retreat from the area.
Note: Female personnel are no longer to be assigned to Area-63.
Incident-2363-14: Second team is sent in to interview SCP-2363-A. SCP-2363-A does not cooperate and attacks the team. SCP-2363-A is killed by a shot to the head, and no personnel sustain serious injuries. The team leaves the area and no activity is reported for approximately 73 hours. An instance of SCP-2363-A is then observed to claw its way to the surface from beneath the ground. Instance appears extremely agitated and rushes the perimeter fence. SCP-2363-A is unable to scale the fence, and retreats to the farmhouse after several hours. This spontaneous generation occurs after all subsequent instances of SCP-2363-A's death.
Incident-2363-25: A third and final team is sent in, and successfully managed to conduct an interview with SCP-2363-A. The team is invited into the farmhouse, where the interview takes place. The interview concludes when SCP-2363-A attacks members of the team. See below for a transcript of this interview.
Note: No further personnel are to enter SCP-2363 at this time.

Interview Log 2363-25

Interviewed: SCP-2363-A
Interviewer: Senior Researcher Roberts
Foreword: Interview conducted within SCP-2363, after 6 unsuccessful attempts. The reasons behind SCP-2363-A's sudden cooperation are currently not understood.
<Begin Log>
Roberts: Hello, 2363-A.
SCP-2363-A: Tom'll do just fine, boy. Would y'all like anything? Tea?
Roberts: No, thank you, we just need to ask you a few questions.
SCP-2363-A: Sure boy, what d'you want to know?
Roberts: Well to start, what can you tell us about this land?
SCP-2363-A: What's there to tell? Tom just lives here, ain't much else to say.
Roberts: How did you get here?
SCP-2363-A: Why, Tom was born here.
Roberts: And when was that?
SCP-2363-A laughs to itself.
SCP-2363-A: Oh quite a while now, long ‘fore you all got here.
Roberts: Our organization?
SCP-2363-A: Sure, sure. But longer than that. Tom was talkin' more about your kind.
Roberts: You mean humans?
SCP-2363-A: Oh them too, yes. But even longer than that. Tom's been on this land just ‘bout longer than anyone can remember. He was here before the hairy folk died out, and before the Black Horde themselves marched across these plains. Tom's been here before there even were plains.
Roberts: Can you tell me why you've been so hostile to our personnel in the past?
SCP-2363-A: Well now, Tom don't take too kindly to trespassers comin' onto his land an' takin' his wombs and buildin' fences all over the place.
Roberts: Well we've determined that this area and those women warrant containment and monitoring.
SCP-2363-A: Tom begs to differ. Tom wasn't hurtin' nobody, and he'd sincerely appreciate it if you gave him back what's his.
Roberts: I'm afraid we can't do that at this time.
SCP-2363-A: Well. That's a shame.
SCP-2363-A remains quiet for several seconds, and then lunges at Researcher Roberts and attempts to bite into his neck. SCP-2363-A is forcibly removed by security personnel. Interview is concluded.
<End Log>

Footnotes
1. longer than 6 hours
2. This process occurs very quickly, with an average duration of 28 seconds from death to complete regrowth.
3. This process has been observed 15 times, and has only resulted in death once. See log of Incident-2363-04 for further details.

« SCP-2362 | SCP-2363 | SCP-2364 »


Item #: SCP-2364
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2364 is to be kept in a secure storage locker on Site-19 on top of a pressure sensor, with tracking devices secured to it and completely covered by a cloth drape. To date, SCP-2364 has not breached containment. SCP-2364 should not be directly observed by Foundation personnel.
Description: SCP-2364 is an object possessing an anomalous shape. Indirect observation of SCP-2364 is impossible - it does not register on any kind of visual recording equipment, such as video or photo cameras. SCP-2364 weighs approximately 127.5 kilograms and fits in a space 40 centimeters by 55 centimeters by 60 centimeters when appropriately rotated. The distance between what is currently considered to be SCP-2364's two most distant points is approximately 90 centimeters. SCP-2364 has resisted any and all attempts at deformation, including all necessarily destructive methods of sampling, retaining a smooth surface. Tests indicate SCP-2364 is most likely a solid mass of one unknown material, observed to be magenta in color. Volume of SCP-2364 has been measured through submerging it in water, resulting in 55.44 liters of water being displaced.
SCP-2364's anomalous effect causes any living beings which have viewed it at any point to be unable to describe its shape using any similes, including naming the shape or object anything that would suggest resemblance to a known object, instead using an abstract given name to refer to it. Both "SCP-2364" and "2364" are names which can be used to refer to the object. Any individuals affected in this way are capable of recognizing the shape of SCP-2364, even if most of the object is obscured from sight by obstructions. This effect does not extend to reproductions of SCP-2364, such as plaster and metal casts produced for testing purposes. Individuals which have seen SCP-2364 describe such reproductions as "almost SCP-2364-shaped, but slightly different."
Foundation personnel should not be exposed to SCP-2364 if possible. The object's anomalous effect is, however, harmless as currently understood. Personnel exposed to SCP-2364 accidentally or prior to the discovery of its effect are permitted to resume work as normal.
See Document-2364-A for the current list of affected personnel. The effect has been found suppressible by amnestic treatment, test subjects forgetting the shape of SCP-2364 and not recognizing representations of it as similar. Re-exposure to SCP-2364 itself affects past subjects as normal. Should the effect prove to be detrimental, all living personnel named in Document-2364-A should undergo amnestic treatment at first opportunity.
Two-dimensional artistic representations of SCP-2364 have been made. The resulting two-dimensional shapes have not been recognized as that of SCP-2364 by both affected personnel and unaffected personnel previously shown a reproduction of SCP-2364, the most common answers being that the picture looks like "some kind of shape" or "a magenta inkblot". Subjects from both groups did, however, agree to the possibility of there being some link between the representations and SCP-2364 upon suggestions being made by personnel conducting the test.
SCP-2364 appeared in an unused containment cell on Site-19 between 20██-██-21 and 20██-██-28, being discovered on the latter date during a routine weekly check of the unused cells. The method by which SCP-2364 has appeared in the cell is currently unknown.
Addendum: On 20██-██-██, D-92357 has been introduced to SCP-2364 for testing purposes. D-92357 has been noted as possessing associative grapheme to color synesthesia. After observing SCP-2364 for one minute, D-92357 described the experience as "satisfying", noting that "the thing was magenta." Further tests indicated a permanent association between SCP-2364's shape and its color, the plaster representations being noted as "not the right color". The association has been found to persist through amnestic treatment.
In light of this discovery, further research on synaesthetic subjects followed. After exposure to SCP-2364, subjects indicated various associations between the color magenta, SCP-2364's shape, and a loud sound later identified as a clear 1230 Hz note, despite having had different associations previously. Later tests have found 1230 Hz to be the material's resonant frequency.

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Item #: SCP-2365
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Reports of SCP-2365 are to be investigated and data analysed for evidence of connections or common factors between victims. Survivors of SCP-2365 and witnesses are to be interviewed, tested and amnesticized. Foundation front companies are to conduct "sleep studies" in an attempt to observe and document SCP-2365.
While it is not known whether SCP-2365 is memetic in nature, access to information relating to SCP-2365 is to be restricted.
Description: SCP-2365 is a phenomenon affecting certain individuals during REM sleep. Initial stages of SCP-2365 are characterised by the materialisation of small flakes of rust in the air above the sleeper, and a reduction in local temperature. Recordings during this stage have detected the noise of metal hinges, the source of which has not been determined. If the sleeper is woken during this stage, no further effects are observed.
If SCP-2365 is permitted to progress, the initial phenomena will cease and the second stage will commence. Heavy steel springs will materialise in the space adjacent to the sleeper's head. Over the course of 10-15 minutes, this will be followed by the slow manifestation of additional metal attachments, forming a large bear trap.
The bear trap will remain suspended over the sleeper's head for up to 10 minutes before slowly de-materialising. If the sleeper returns to consciousness during this period, or contact is made with the trap (by the sleeper or others), the springs will be triggered, typically leading to significant trauma to the head and neck.
The Foundation's understanding of SCP-2365 is based largely on forensics and witness reports. Observation and testing has been restricted to bear traps which have been triggered and retain material substance, and to a limited number of SCP-2365 survivors. No pattern has been determined between the identities of victims of SCP-2365, and the number of unobserved cases is difficult to determine.

« SCP-2364 | SCP-2365 | SCP-2366 »


Detail of trees in Area 2366 before commencement of logging

Item #: SCP-2366
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Area 2366 is to be surrounded by a security fence, and subjected to regular herbicide treatment. Mobile Task Force Theta-4 ("Gardeners") is to maintain a cover story for containment (premised on a variant of Dutch Elm disease), and to observe the local Mennonite community for anomalous behaviour.
Agents stationed at Area 2366 are advised to remain alert to the dangers of local coyote populations affected by SCP-2366.
All samples of SCP-2366 are to be held at Storage Location 73-E, an automated warehouse in the Texas desert. Any new instances of SCP-2366 are to be removed and sent to Storage Location 73-E. Recovery of any instances currently not in containment is considered a priority.
Description: SCP-2366 denotes an anomalous species of deciduous hardwood tree, together with its wood. SCP-2366 trees resemble birch (genus Betula) in both outward appearance and genetic composition. Within its area of effect (approximately 25m in diameter from any SCP-2366 item), SCP-2366 promotes cooperative and collaborative behaviour. When exposed to SCP-2366, groups of organisms of the same species will work together to achieve mutual goals; the degree of cooperation and the benefits of such behaviour increase in proportion to the complexity of the species' social structure.

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Test # SCP-2366-5
Date: 12 November 2014
Procedure: Six unrelated chimpanzees were given separate pieces of a wooden puzzle. When fit together correctly, the pieces would form a key to unlock a glass case containing a food reward. The test groups were given puzzle pieces made of SCP-2366.
Observations: Test groups solved the puzzle and obtained the reward an average of 5 times more quickly than control groups. Researchers observed that all animals in the test groups were focused on the puzzle, with no animals excluded or subject to dominance displays.

Test # SCP-2366-13
Date: 18 March 2015
Procedure: Groups of D-Class personnel were given a series of tasks to complete (each requiring a cooperative approach), with the offer of one month's exemption from testing duty for the whole group if the tasks were completed within a time limit. Wooden badges made of SCP-2366 were given to the test groups.
Observations: Test groups successfully completed the tasks an average of 15 times more quickly than control groups. Linguistic analysis of recordings suggest that test group members were statistically more likely to use inclusive language, and to encourage open suggestions on problem-solving, even amongst groups of D-Class who had not previously met.
Notes: Several variations of this test were run, with none or only some of the test subjects informed of the reward for completion of the tasks. Results suggest that the effects of SCP-2366 depend on the group having a common motivation or goal, and that SCP-2366 increases the level of cooperation towards that goal, rather than promoting cooperation where none otherwise exists.

Test # SCP-2366-32
Date: 22 September 2015
Procedure: In order to study SCP-2366's effects on more complex collaborative tasks, researchers filmed two games of basketball between teams of D-Class personnel. Game One was used as a control, with both teams given badges of ordinary wood to wear. In Game Two, one team was given badges made of SCP-2366. Film of the two games was analysed for comparison purposes.
Observations: Tactics, teamwork and communication were evident in Game Two to a significantly higher degree. However, this was exhibited by both teams, rather than only the team wearing SCP-2366. This suggests that, while SCP-2366 can influence performance of complex and fluid tasks, the area of SCP-2366's effect would make it inappropriate for competitive activity where opposing teams operate at close quarters.

Test # SCP-2366-35
Date: 6 October 2015
Procedure: This experiment was designed to test the effects of long-term exposure to SCP-2366 without a pre-determined collaborative goal. A group of ten D-Class personnel were given SCP-2366 badges and held in a Site-73 dormitory. No instructions or tasks were given to the group.
Notes: Experiment abandoned. After 48 hours of apparent inactivity, the D-Class personnel commenced an escape attempt relying on a sequence of coordinated actions to incapacitate dormitory guards and evade automated surveillance. Site-73 security officers were alerted and deployed to the Class-D wing, recapturing all D-Class personnel over a four-hour period. Security personnel were commended for exceptional performance and teamwork in response to this incident.

Recovery: SCP-2366 was discovered following the Foundation's investigation of a viral video appearing to show a Mennonite barn-raising performed in an extremely coordinated and rapid manner.1 Undercover Foundation agents travelled to the Old Order Mennonite community in ███████████, Pennsylvania and observed that the local farms appeared to be operating with unusual efficiency.
The agents learned that the community had constructed the barn, as well as household items, using a particular type of wood. Items constructed of such wood had also formed part of the community's regular trading activity. The wood was identified as being sourced from a local stand of birch trees (subsequently designated Area 2366). Botanical analysis from Area 2366 indicated a unique species of birch.

Coyotes in Area 2366

Initial efforts to identify SCP-2366 trees were hampered by a series of attacks on Foundation agents by packs of coyotes displaying complex and organised hunting techniques. The local Mennonite community were aware of the risk of such attacks, and shared with undercover agents their strategies for groups working in Area 2366 to avoid or repel such attacks. These strategies were found to be effective. Atypical coyote behaviour has ceased with the removal of SCP-2366 instances from Area 2366.
After tagging live specimens of SCP-2366 for logging, the Foundation attempted to identify all items constructed of SCP-2366 by the Mennonite community. These items were recovered, including tracing (where possible) pre-made and bespoke items sold or traded to tourists or visitors - the owners were amnesticized as necessary. Initial on-site containment protocols were then established, and all samples of SCP-2366 wood were sent to Site-73 for containment and testing.

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Addendum 1 - Register of known items of SCP-2366

Item Category
Description
Notes

2366-A
4,000kg refined and unrefined birch timber (including branches and roots).
Held at Storage Location 73-E.

2366-B
Assorted wooden fittings, furniture and toys - approximately 400 items.
Held at Storage Location 73-E.

2366-C
Dried birch bark - approximately 100kg.
Held at Storage Location 73-E, for potential testing as a writing surface.

2366-D
Tea, homemade aspirin and other traditional remedies derived from birch bark.
Held at Storage Location 73-E. Investigations continue into distribution by Mennonite community.

2366-E
Wooden puzzle pieces and badges constructed for testing purposes.
Held at Storage Location 73-E.

2366-F
A 40cm solid birchwood conductor's baton, with the inscription "tous ensemble au Golgotha".
Identity of the person or group that commissioned the item, and any connection to SCP-012, is under investigation.

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Addendum 2 - Anthropological research
Foundation anthropologists endeavoured to investigate traditional uses of SCP-2366 by local Native American populations. These efforts were hampered by the length of time since European displacement, but oral histories of some Shawnee descendants in Oklahoma included variants of the following story fragment:

Our people have arrived at the base of the sacred mountain. We gather many armfuls of birch bark for tinder, and build a great fire. The smoke from the fire blows in every direction, and all of the other tribes see it and gather together. There is no conflict or rivalry - all of the people join in a great ceremony. We are all dancing and singing together a song to [the Supreme Being] Mishe Moneto.

It is not clear whether this story is intended as the legend of a historical event, or as a prophecy of the future.

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Update:
Item 2366-F reported stolen from Storage Location 73-E. Current location unknown.

Footnotes
1. No action was considered necessary to suppress the video itself, which was "debunked" and faded from public awareness 8 weeks after initial circulation.

« SCP-2365 | SCP-2366 | SCP-2367 »


Item #: SCP-2367
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2367 is contained on-site in a hangar constructed around it, with Level 5 security measures in place. A cover story of a high-security German military base is in effect. As of ██/██/████, testing is prohibited until Event 2367-Sigma occurs.
Foundation agents embedded within Berlin emergency response services will monitor radio traffic for possible SCP-2367-1 manifestations, dispatching agents to carry out recovery, clean-up, and administration of amnestics as necessary. SCP-2367-1 instances are non-anomalous and require no special containment outside of recovery.
Upon initiation of Event 2367-Sigma, city-wide deployment of rescue airbags, mass administration of amnestics, and emergency repair measures will be used to minimize detrimental effects.
Description: SCP-2367 is a geodesic hemisphere 15 meters in diameter, constructed from steel and painted with forest-pattern camouflage. There is a small control panel on the south side, and a 4 meter square door adjacent to the control panel. The interior is a smooth hemisphere approximately 13 meters in diameter. The device was built as a means of displacing objects (including live humans) to targeted points in space-time. In testing, objects displaced in such a manner invariably appeared several hundred meters above their intended destination. Both "forward" and "backward" temporal travel have been achieved in testing. It requires no external power to operate.
SCP-2367-1 instances are individuals or objects that were sent through SCP-2367 prior to Foundation recovery of the object. To date, six SCP-2367-1 instances have manifested, listed below:

Four unidentified males wearing enlisted Schutzstaffel uniforms (all deceased upon impact)
One STG-44 assault rifle (unloaded)
One parachute of the type issued to German paratroopers during World War II.1

For full information on SCP-2367-1 instances, see peripheral documentation.
SCP-2367 was recovered during Operation Hammer, the Foundation's infiltration of the German government during World War II. Recovered documents indicate that SCP-2367 (referred to therein as "Die Glocke," which translates as "the Bell") was constructed under the supervision of SS Obergruppenführer Otto Weber (POI#420714), at some point prior to May 1945.
Event 2367-Sigma is the anticipated re-materialization of the subjects of the only known use of the device by its builders (excluding SCP-2367-1 instances): several high-ranking NSDAP2 members fleeing the Red Army. Their anticipated destination is in the vicinity of Berlin, on 13 October 2031.
Addendum:
Review of documents recovered over the course of Operation Hammer indicate that SCP-2367 was used to evacuate a larger number of individuals than previously thought. Lower-end estimates place the number of individuals that will manifest during Event 2367-Sigma at approximately 1400, including a fully equipped field-artillery platoon and a dozen Tiger I tanks. Mobile Task Force Psi-33 "Himmler's Housekeepers," has been re-organized and expanded to minimize casualties and civilian exposure to Event 2367-Sigma.3 Evacuation of Berlin and an appropriate cover story are under consideration.

Footnotes
1. The parachute was packed, but was not equipped or deployed.
2. National Socialist German Worker's Party, colloquially known as the "Nazi party."
3. See SCP-2461 for an example of artifact recovery carried out by this Task Force.

« SCP-2366 | SCP-2367 | SCP-2368 »


X-ray image of PoI-2368-3 during treatment. Note the contorted large intestine, particularly on the upper right, where the splenic flexure has pierced the lining of the stomach.

Item #: SCP-2368
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2368 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell in an isolated wing of Site-06. SCP-2368 is to be informed that current containment represents a continuation of her incarceration in the British prison system.
SCP-2368's observation and containment teams are to minimise contact as much as possible, and teams are to be rotated regularly, with a maximum of 15 days assigned to SCP-2368. All staff working with SCP-2368 are to be given regular medical assessments (including MRI scans) and offered surgical treatment as necessary.
Description: SCP-2368 is a humanoid female identifying as Fiona Tulloch, a resident of Rousay, Orkney Islands. SCP-2368 is 38 years of age, approximately 158cm in height and 54kg in mass, and has pale skin and distinctive long red hair.
Humans (and certain domestic animals) in close proximity to SCP-2368 are subject to an anomalous effect resulting in the deformation and migration of their internal organs. The effect is gradual during the period of proximity, with the organs affected varying between subjects. The degree of proximity required is unknown, but the effect has not occurred within a period of less than one month.
MRI scans indicate that SCP-2368's internal organs are subject to significant deformities. Unlike those of subjects, SCP-2368's organ deformities have not been observed to change over time, and do not appear to have any adverse health effects.

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Addendum 1: Abridged autopsy reports

Subject: PoI-2368-1 (Mr John Tulloch)

Date of Death: 07/04/2011, age 57

Background Notes: Subject was married to SCP-2368 for 19 years prior to date of death. Following an inquest, which ruled the subject's cause of death as heart attack caused by poisoning, SCP-2368 was convicted of murder of the subject.

Observations: Normally-developed, well nourished middle-aged male. Heavy discoloration of lower arms and hands, consistent with tannin stains.

Cardiovascular system: The heart is large, with a weight of 400 grams. The pericardium is intact. Upon opening, the myocardium was grossly abnormal with evidence of infarction. Both ventricles were severely contorted, with evidence of torsion through 360 degrees. This degree of twisting appears to have partially occluded both the vena cava and the aorta.

Subject: PoI-2368-2 (Ms Alison Campbell)

Date of Death: 11/08/2014, age 28

Background Notes: Subject was SCP-2368's cell-mate at ████████████ prison for two years, ending upon the subject's death. After initial autopsy results reported similar symptoms to PoI-2368-1, SCP-2368 was implicated in the subject's death, and Foundation investigation commenced, leading to initial containment of SCP-2368 on 13/09/2014.

Observations: Normally-developed adult female. External examination indicated a gross distension of the abdomen with several fleshy protrusions evident.

Gastrointestinal system: The mucosa and wall of the esophagus and stomach are intact without injury. The small intestine is intact, but the jejunum was measured at 15.3 metres, approximately 6 times its expected length. Organ removal identified four gallbladders, and seventeen appendixes, eight of which had ruptured. Cause of death is presumed to be septicaemia leading to organ failure.

Subject: PoI-2368-3 (Dr. Arthur Poidevin)

Date of Death: 28/11/2014, age 42

Background Notes: Subject was the head Foundation researcher for SCP-2368 upon initial containment. After 2 months of close observation of SCP-2368, the subject was scheduled to lead a field assignment in connection with the anomaly. Pre-fieldwork medical scans showed that the anomaly had acted more rapidly on the subject than anticipated, and the subject died suddenly before commencing the field assignment.

Observations: Normally developed adult male. External examination did not reveal any physical abnormalities, other than the use of reading glasses.

Gastrointestinal system: The mucosa of all digestive organs exhibit severe ulceration and liquefactive necrosis. The splenic flexure of the large intestine appears to have herniated, and to have penetrated the gastric mucosa, causing partial prolapse of the stomach and allowing the release of gastric acid into the peritoneum. The renal arteries have atrophied entirely, preventing blood flow to the kidneys.

Blood acid test results (pH 6.8) indicate severe acidemia, which is a likely cause of death. This is presumed to have eventuated from the release of gastric acid into the bloodstream, combined with lack of kidney regulation of the blood acid balance.

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Addendum 2: Interview SCP-2368-G
Interviewed: SCP-2368
Interviewer: Dr. Arthur Poidevin
Date: 12 November 2014
Foreword: After Dr Poidevin conducted initial interviews to build trust with SCP-2368, this was the first post-containment interview to deal in detail with the anomaly. As part of information-gathering protocol, SCP-2368 was informed that she remained incarcerated in HM Prisons. As such, Dr. Poidevin assumed the role of prison physician, and addressed SCP-2368 by name.

Dr. Poidevin: Fiona, the interviews we have been doing are to help establish an understanding with you about your incarceration here. You have been very helpful so far, and I think we have a good working relationship?Dr. Poidevin: Well as you may have noticed, this facility is not like other prisons.Dr. Poidevin: Yes. And as you know, we have a treatment-based approach to rehabilitation, so we need you to give us as much information as possible.Dr. Poidevin: Let's start at the beginning. Can you tell me about your husband?Dr. Poidevin: And how did you end up marrying him?Dr. Poidevin: It's okay, Fiona. I'm not here to judge. Why don't you tell me what married life was like with Jack?Dr. Poidevin: Uh - yes, I am.Dr. Poidevin: You wanted to leave Jack?Dr. Poidevin: What happened to Jack, how he died - do you know how it happened? Why the same thing happened to Alison?Dr. Poidevin: I want to help you. If you didn't kill them, I need to know how they died.Dr. Poidevin: I told you, I won't judge.Dr. Poidevin: Fiona, I don't -Dr. Poidevin: It's okay, Fiona. Do you want a tissue, some water? It's okay. I think I'm starting to understand.Dr. Poidevin: No, it's not. But it's fine if you don't want to tell me any more right now. We can stop if you like. And I should be back to speak with you in another few -Dr. Poidevin: Yes, Fiona?Dr. Poidevin: What do you mean? What would they find?Dr. Poidevin: Slow down, Fiona. Did you say you had children?Dr. Poidevin: What do you want me to find, Fiona?Dr Poidevin: Okay, Fiona - I'll do what I can. Try to get some rest, now.
Afterword: Searches of the residence of Jack and Fiona Tulloch have revealed no objects of interest to the Foundation. Investigations are continuing in other areas of Rousay island. Following Dr Poidevin's death, contact with SCP-2368 has been reduced, and SCP-2368 has refused to elaborate on the nature of the anomaly or other matters discussed in the above interview.

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Item #: SCP-2369
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2369 and both neighboring residences have been purchased by the Foundation for the purpose of on-site containment. All unauthorized individuals attempting to enter the premises are to be detained, questioned, and administered a Class A amnestic if deemed necessary by on-site security personnel.
Experimentation with SCP-2369 may only be performed with Class D personnel and with prior permission from at least one (1) Level 4 Regional Site Director.
Description: SCP-2369 is a split-level 3-bed/2-bath residential home located in a suburban neighborhood in [REDACTED], Iowa. The interior is decorated and furnished in a French country style, and contains all amenities expected of a fully furnished home ready for occupancy. Investigation has been unable to determine when SCP-2369 was constructed and by whom it was built; neighbors living adjacent to the property were unable to recall any information regarding its construction when questioned, and city records regarding the residence were found to be missing or corrupt.
When at least two living human subjects are present inside SCP-2369 and both the front and back doors are closed, SCP-2369 will emit a blinding flash of light from within and all subjects will disappear without trace. Furthermore, the interior of SCP-2369 will reset to its initial state, and all removed or damaged furnishings will be restored. Any extraneous objects or furnishings introduced into SCP-2369 will likewise be missing. SCP-2369 will only activate when at least one male and one female subject are present, and to date, no individual involved in an activation event has been found. Experimentation utilizing Class D personnel fitted with GPS tracking devices has not been successful.
SCP-2369 was discovered following reports of a missing family in [REDACTED]. Concerned neighbors notified local law enforcement, and responding police officers forced entry and discovered the house to be in a pristine state with no trace of the family's belongings before accidentally closing the front door. The Foundation was notified shortly thereafter, and a Foundation containment team secured the area, administered Class A amnestics to all witnesses, and implemented a cover story.
Addendum 2369-1: Incident Report
On ████-██-██, two individuals later identified as Mr. James [REDACTED] and Mrs. Valerie [REDACTED], a couple with extensive criminal records involving armed robbery and murder, forced entry into SCP-2369 in a burglary attempt. Having been identified as armed and highly dangerous fugitives, on-site security personnel were ordered to not intervene and await backup from a tactical response team from Site-██. As a result, SCP-2369 was activated.
Approximately four hours later, another flash of light was detected from within SCP-2369. On-site personnel investigated and discovered the presence of Mr. and Mrs. [REDACTED], along with the tools they had used to force entry into SCP-2369, various personal belongings, and two disassembled handguns. Mrs. [REDACTED] was discovered in an incoherent and manic state near the back door and required tranquilizers to subdue. Mr. [REDACTED] was discovered comatose but alive in the living room, with a length of unidentified plastic wrapped around his neck. Upon removal of the plastic by responding medical personnel, Mr. [REDACTED]'s head detached from his body and all life signs ceased. The plastic was later determined to be chemically consistent with ordinary pressure-sensitive document tape and did not exhibit any anomalous properties.
A thorough search of SCP-2369 also turned up what appeared to be a handwritten note left on the living room table:

To whom it may concern:
Your product turned out to be extremely violent and completely unsuitable for children. I am frankly appalled; were I not a more watchful mother, it could easily have resulted in bodily harm.
I am requesting an immediate and full refund.
Sincerely,
[DATA EXPUNGED]

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