Item #: SCP-2293
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Containment is focused on seizing and destroying instances of SCP-2293 and all evidence thereof. Manifestation of SCP-2293-affected media to a large viewing audience are to be given standard cover stories, and at the head researcher's discretion, amnestics are to be distributed.
Foundation AI (ATLS-12 and GRGN-03) are to monitor all possible communications at 12-hour intervals for appearances or descriptions of SCP-2293 instances. If a geographical area is found to be undergoing a SCP-2293 event, MTF-E-72 (“Bachman's Boys”) is to quarantine the area under the cooperation of the location's government under any applicable cover story. MTF-E-72 is to enact Protocol-GLEAN in order to discern the number of SCP-2293-affected media in the area. The destruction of afflicted areas is authorized if the number of affected works meets a density of 1300 occurrences per square kilometer or greater. All civilians displaced by this destruction are to be compensated through a joint account operated by the Foundation and the involved government.
Efforts toward studying SCP-2293 should be focused upon making predictive forecasts of SCP-2293 locations.
Description: SCP-2293 is a phenomenon in which media within a given area (up to 20km2) that contains any form of dialogue or speech may be subject to alterations. The area's baseline Hume rating decreases in direct proportion to the quantity of media affected by SCP-2293. SCP-2293 appears irregularly, and no method for prediction of future manifestations has been devised.
SCP-2293 causes all affected media to include a portion in which the 1999 car accident of American writer Stephen King is referenced. In each affected work, the line appears as follows: “Did you know that world-renowned writer Stephen King was once hit by a car? Just something to consider.” The line occurs once at a random point within the media, although a preference is shown for moments that ruin an established mood. Media by Stephen King, those written under his pseudonym Richard Bachman, or directly based on his output are unaffected by SCP-2293 across all manifestations.
The introduction of this line, along with descriptions of characters turning to face an unseen audience when applicable, causes the work to increase in size. This includes seconds being added to the tracks of albums affected by SCP-2293 but may also cause pages to be added to afflicted books, if necessary. In mediums where a work has taken up the entirety of a finite space (such as data on a CD), the medium is simply made to hold more data than possible with no other changes made to its nature.
SCP-2293 is also able to change media as it is broadcast, whether live or not. This includes live broadcasts but also “reruns” of previously taped media. The changes SCP-2293 makes to the media are present to all viewers in the affected area. It is unclear how these changes are made to live television.
On average, SCP-2293 events last four days, although some have lasted up to three weeks. No area has been subject to the SCP-2293 phenomenon more than once. Upon the ending of the SCP-2293 phenomenon, all affected media remain changed.
Addendum 2293-1: On 11/16/16, a raid on the headquarters of GoI-5869, "Gamers Against Weed",1 uncovered information indicating that GoI-5869 was responsible for the creation of SCP-2293. The headquarters were found to be abandoned in haste less than six hours prior to the Foundation's arrival.
Included in the document are a collection of the incriminating chat logs found on a laptop left at the scene. Only conversations pertaining to SCP-2293 have been included.

+ Log 1

 - Access Granted

gaycopmp4: so did you guys hear theyre making a new it movie
bones: What?
hetcopogg: IT
bones: What?
gaycopmp4: you know that fuckin the book about the clown
hetcopogg: yeah, dude. it was that movie with Tim Curry as the gay clown that did the evil to the children.
harmpit: that is one of them ost terrifying movies iv eever fucking scene
bones: I'm not familiar.
bluntfiend: My Favorite Part is when Pennywise The Clown turns to the camera and says “Did you know that world-renowned writer Stephen King was once hit by a car? Just something to consider.” and then he fucking honks his nose horn.
jockjamsvol6: I don't think I understand this joke?
gaycopmp4: that dosent happen int he movie at all????
polaricecraps: loooooollll
bluntfiend: It's just something to think about.
gaycopmp4: dude you shouldnt make jokes about that he almost died!!!!
hetcopogg: didn't an artist dude character get in a car crash at the beginning of kingdom hospital?
bluntfiend: I am like one thousand percent sure that's also all Lisey's Story is about, too.
gaycopmp4: is the fact that people write about thier trauma that fucked up to you?
polaricecraps: lmao stephen king is also in the last dark tower book and gets hit by a car in it
hetcopogg: oh god, and didn't the main character think he had arthritis, but it was really the pain from his car crash?
lesbian_gengar: what about, liiiike, fucking,,, maximum overdrive? and fucking christine and fucking from a buick 8.
gaycopmp4: what about them 2 of those were even before the car accident
lesbian_gengar: maybe the car crash was an attack. maybe the fucking cars they saw he knew their plans against them.
hetcopogg: dude what.
harmpit: bec areful! you odnt want thec ars to hear you
bluntfiend: I agree. Stephen King was hit by a car for knowing too much.
gaycopmp4: @bones
bones: Yes?
gaycopmp4: tell bluntfiend to stop talking about this
bluntfiend: You're a baaaaaby.
hetcopogg: it's all in good fun, honey.
bones: Hm. I'll allow it.
polaricecraps: do you think he stopped wandering around streets at night after this?
bluntfiend: Dude! Too soon.
gaycopmp4: this is bullshit and im outta here for tonight.
bluntfiend: ;_;
hetcopogg: :( aw c'mon babe we're having fun.
bluntfiend: Look, I'm sorry, bud. I won't bring it up again.
gaycopmp4: okay well sorry for being mad its just not funny like he almost died you know
bluntfiend: I do, and I'm sorry. I won't bring it up again.

+ Log 2

 - Access Granted

gaycopmp4: @bluntfiend FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
polaricecraps: what the fuck
bluntfiend: What ever is the matter, friend gaycopmp4?
hetcopogg: oh boy.
bones: What's up?
gaycopmp4: don tyou fucking play @ me like you fucking dont know like you dont know the fucking shit you pulled isnt it against the fucking rules do this kind of magic bullshit otherworldly shit to a comrade what the fuck is this dude this is low even for you i thought we were cool but this is just fucking beyond even you fuck you dude
hetcopogg: :/ come on, honey. calm down. what happened?
harmpit: if eel like you made up taht rule
bones: I'm pretty sure they made up that rule.
lesbian_gengar: lmao what did you fuckin do @bluntfiend.
bluntfiend: I plead the fifth.
jockjamsvol6: Lol.
gaycopmp4: fuck you bluntfiend dont act like you dont fucking know what you did
bones: I really think you should consider taking a breath and then telling us what happened.
polaricecraps: oh god I wanna hear this one.
gaycopmp4: okay okay. so i was trying to just veg out and watch game of thrones, you know?
harmpit: loooolll you watch gaem of thrones
gaycopmp4: shut up its a guilty pleasure im allowed guilty pleasures fuck you
hetcopogg: honey, just go on.
bluntfiend: Please.
gaycopmp4: fuck you.
bones: Unnecessary, bluntfiend. Please, go on, gaycopmp4.
gaycopmp4: this is kinda spoileras i guess but everyones seen them emes so whatever it was when sean bean as papa stark was going to get his head cut off and it was a really well done serious seen but like just as he's about to get his head cut off he turns his head to the fucking camera and he says the fucking thing
jockjamsvol6: ? What thing?
gaycopmp4: that FUCKING stephen king line blutnfiend kept saying!
bones: “Did you know that world-renowned writer Stephen King was once hit by a car? Just something to consider”? That one?
gaycopmp4: yes!
jockjamsvol6: LOL
polaricecraps: im having a heart attack and im dying in front of my family please c all the cops theres been a murder
hetcopogg: that's it?
gaycopmp4: no! thats not even the whole fucking thing! i laughed it off okay because im not all whining and bitching like you guys say i can joke so i started playing final fantasy xii and in the fucking middle of a cutscene ashe turned to the screen and fucking said it and no matter how many times i go back she keeps saying it i even went to a new file and she always fucking does it he broke my fucking game too
bluntfiend: You should also check out your books.
bones: No taunting.
harmpit: thisis a classic
gaycopmp4: fuck you dude it even got into my moms fucking beatles cd she plays in the car you didnt have to fuck her stuff up too it wont fucking go away what the hell is your problem
polaricecraps: cool CD, normie.
gaycopmp4: IT'S MY MOM'S!!!!
hetcopogg: honey, I understand why you'd be mad but… it is kind of funny.
gaycopmp4 has logged off.
bluntfiend: She'll be fine in a few days. It'll stop doing it to streaming media, at least.
hetcopogg: i'll get her.
bones: You're going to have to apologize. You went too far.
polaricecraps: it is REALLY funny tho?
bones: Any humor, present or not, is besides the point. Apologize, and we can move on.
harmpit: yeha I mean you know how she is i bet she just felt ganged up on itll be okya i bet if you justl ike tellh er sorry real quicklik
lesbian_gengar: how did you even do that @bluntfiend?
bluntfiend: Oh, you know, bb. A little bit of this. A little bit of that.
gaycopmp4 has entered the room.
bluntfiend: Dude, I'm sorry. I thought you'd find it as funny as I did.
gaycopmp4: its okay just dont do anything like that again you dont see bones pulling pranks on people with its weird computer shit or w/e
bones: I don't play pranks.
gaycopmp4: whatever bones its a fucking example you know what i mean
lesbian_gengar: bones doesn't even fucking play tricks.
bones: Yes.
jockjamsvol6: It was really funny.
gaycopmp4: i like you better when you're afk
hetcopogg: honey! be nice. come on. we're friends here.
bluntfiend: Friends against weed.
bones: Let's move on.
polaricecraps: what did your mom think about it, @gaycopmp4? about her beatles cd
gaycopmp4: i pretended her car got a computer virus and i think she believed me

+ Log 3

 - Access Granted

jockjamsvol6: Guys, check out what I just found on Reddit! [LINK DELETED]
polaricecraps: lmao you go on reddit?
bluntfiend: Holy shit.
jockjamsvol6: Right?
harmpit: waht is it i dont click links
hetcopogg: omg bluntfiend what did you fucking do.
bones: The link details a redditor talking about a strange moment in last night's episode of Saturday Night Live wherein Alec Baldwin as current president-elect Donald Trump turned to the camera and said “Did you know that world-renowned writer Stephen King was once hit by a car? Just something to consider.” No one in the thread believed the redditor until someone living in the same geographical location backed up the story.
harmpit: ty bones
bones: You are very welcome.
gaycopmp4: youre going to get in trouble!!!!
hetcopogg: how the hell is that still going? i thought it was done after a few days like you said.
bluntfiend: Uh, well. I did think the joke was super funny.
polaricecraps: what the fuck does that have to do with your spooky magic.
bluntfiend: A good joke wants to be heard, you know?
hetcopogg: hahahah the thread is already deleted. bet you got the janitors called on that one.
harmpit: lollll good one, bluntfiend
gaycopmp4: i still think its a fucked up joke to make
jockjamsvol6: You're just mad, because you're angry.
bluntfiend: #WasteTheirTime2K16
gaycopmp4: dont pretend like you did it on purpose to get them to waste their time on stupid shit
bluntfiend: Did I, friend? Did I?
bones: You didn't.
bluntfiend: Yeah, no. I definitely didn't. It's still pretty funny, though.
harmpit: fucking classic
lesbian_gengar: hey guys whats going on in this thread i'm not about to backread
polaricecraps: bluntfiend's stephen king troll on gaycopmp4 went wild and we think the janitors are on it now
lesbian_gengar: lmao.

Footnotes
1. A group previously suspected of involvement in several events of interest, as well as SCP-2842. This raid was conducted in connection with reports of local leftist groups using anomalous items during protests.

« SCP-2292 | SCP-2293 | SCP-2294 »


Item #: SCP-2294
Object Class: Safe
Containment Procedures: SCP-2294 is to be kept in an acrylic glass container with holes drilled in for air at Site-19. SCP-2294 and its instances do not seem to require nor have ever requested any food or water. The container is to be monitored through the use of microphones at all times. These recordings are to be kept for future reference in Foundation archives. The room and container are also equipped with an intercom for interview purposes with SCP-2294.
Description: SCP-2294 is a severed, Caucasian right hand measuring around fifteen centimeters in length and eight centimeters in width. The hand partially extends beyond its wrist, and the end of the hand is covered in scar tissue and badly damaged in some areas.
The primary anomalous feature of SCP-2294 are the thumb and fingertips of the hand, which have been replaced with heads which strongly resemble the former US president Richard Milhous Nixon. Beyond the appearance of the heads, the fingertips also have the voice of the previous president. Auditory amplification is required in order to hear SCP-2294, due to their diminutive size. Although SCP-2294 is capable of movement through the use of its fingers in a manner similar of certain insects or spiders, it is usually found laying palm up with the fingers raised so that the instances are facing each other.
All of the instances appear to be sentient, and seem to be capable of intelligence and thinking on the level of most humans. Four of the five “heads” believe they are still President, and often engage in debates over what decisions should be made for the country. The topics of their debates are usually about current events happening in the political world of the US, both domestic and foreign. It is currently unknown how they obtain information about these current events. Despite the heads having a wide range of topics, they seem to be very limited in finding solutions. The debates have included:

The Cold War with the Soviet Union;
The 9/11 attacks and how to respond to them;
Legalization of Same-Sex marriage;
Gun Control;
Climate Change.

While the heads resemble that of Richard Nixon, they all have varying beliefs and outlooks, which is primarily conveyed through their political debates. The instances (SCP-2294-1-5) will briefly discuss non-political subjects in interviews, but will often find ways to relate the subject back to politics in some manner.

SCP-2294 Instance
Type of Finger
Personality

2294-1
Thumb
Has a somewhat moderate personality. 2294-1 will always try to mediate arguments between the other fingers when intense arguing breaks out. When it comes to making political decisions of foreign policy, it prefers peace when possible, but has conceded to war under certain conditions and provocations, especially when there was a deliberate attack on the US or its people. It professes usually conservative ideals when it comes to domestic policy. It frequently gives lengthy speeches (2 hours and 14 minutes on the longest instance) to the other instances about what it believes is best for the country.

2294-2
Index
More docile in nature than 2294-1. It is very hesitant to enter conflict with another country, and only concedes to war when a very clear attack has been made against the US. It is distressed about the environmental status of the world, and seems to be the only instance that is so. It also displays concern about increased equality in the US, socially and economically.

2294-3
Middle
Extremist and nearly radical in its level of patriotism and desire for advancement of the US. Dissolute and combative in nature, it sees war as a viable answer to nearly every conflict, whether it be minor or major, and encourages using the power of the US as a tool to further expand the country at any opportunity. It is incredibly conservative in domestic policy, and its most prevalent concern is the growth of the US economically and militarily. It is frequently seen causing arguments between the other members of SCP-2294, and is a large reason as to why war is such a common topic in the debates.

2294-4
Ring
Also very extreme in its views. Acting reserved and restrained when speaking, it is incredibly pacifistic, and has never conceded to war in any of the recordings the Foundation has of it, even when the US has been directly threatened or attacked. Nearly all of its decisions end up being related to creating or working towards world peace. It desires an economical system change in the US from capitalism to socialism, as it feels it would make individuals of the US more fulfilled and connected to each other.

2294-5
Little
SCP-2294-5 is the most unusual of the instances. It is the only one aware of its status as a sentient appendage, and is even aware of its SCP-classification and containment, something the other instances have never verbally acknowledged. It is disinterested in politics, and rarely partakes in the other four instances' debates. It displays signs of chronic depression, and is incredibly apathetic about its containment. Despite being the most self-aware instance of SCP-2294, it has not answered any questions regarding its origins, and avoids answering when asked, mostly by redirecting the question onto other subjects.

Whether or not true sentience is held by instances 1-4 is currently under question, due to their fixation with politics and inability to discuss anything else for a substantial length of time, as well as their lack of awareness about their containment.
Recovery Log - 2294:
SCP-2294 was recovered on █/██/████. A police investigation had gone underway in a wooded, rural area located in southern Kansas1, due to several complaints from hikers of a harsh odor emanating from a one-story house that had been reportedly abandoned. An investigation of the house showed nothing unusual on the first story, and there were no signs of the house being inhabited.
The police investigation team entered the basement, where five corpses in advanced stages of decomposition were found around a circular table. Four of the five corpses were restrained and shackled. SCP-2294 was found on the table, reportedly speaking, but was not loud enough to be heard.
Reports of a speaking, disembodied hand quickly reached the Foundation, and a recovery team was dispatched to the area. Amnestics were administered to those involved, and SCP-2294 was recovered. A note was also recovered from the police team database that had been found in the basement (located at the end of this document). A thorough investigation by Foundation personnel revealed no other anomalous objects or activity in the basement. DNA testing identified the four restrained individuals, but showed no relation in genetics or demographics. These four were confirmed to be kidnapping victims. The fifth remaining individual has yet to be identified.
Autopsies of the bodies revealed no anomalous properties of the corpses, and showed the four identified individuals had died from severe cerebral hemorrhaging, and the unidentified individual had been killed by a shotgun wound to the chest. The house where SCP-2294 was recovered is currently under surveillance by the Foundation. Reports of the house being entered by any person are to be relayed to Foundation personnel immediately for investigation.
In the over ████ hours of auditory recording the Foundation has of SCP-2294, it has never mentioned this incident, why it was found there, or how (if at all) it is related to what events may have happened there. SCP-2294 does not acknowledge questions about the topic when interviewed.

+ Note found at location of recovery

- Hide Note

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together

Footnotes
1. This area is a known active area for GoI-113.

« SCP-2293 | SCP-2294 | SCP-2295 »


SCP-2295 in an inactive state

Item #: SCP-2295
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2295 is to be kept in a standard containment locker within Storage Wing-25 in Site-37.
Personnel with Level 3 or higher security clearance are authorized to perform tests on SCP-2295 after filling out the appropriate paperwork. Please contact Dr. Gergis if required access to SCP-2295 is expected to exceed twenty-four (24) hours.
Description: SCP-2295 is a patchwork stuffed bear, approximately 0.46m from 'head' to 'foot,' and stuffed with synthetic fiber and cotton. SCP-2295 has a small, anatomically correct pin of a heart on the left side of its thorax, and a bow wrapped around its neck. The fabric and color of SCP-2295's patches vary. Tests confirm that no components of SCP-2295 contain any anomalous chemical properties.
SCP-2295 enters an active state when within two (2) meters of a human sustaining major trauma to an organ. When in the proximity of two or more possible subjects, SCP-2295 will invariably choose the youngest subject. SCP-2295 will anomalously produce scissors, white thread, and either sewing needles or a crocheting hook from its mouth and use any fabric and stuffing in close proximity1 to fashion an instance of SCP-2295-1, a patchwork imitation of the subject's organ2. SCP-2295-1 vanishes from sight and the subject falls into a state of unconsciousness. SCP-2295-1 instances then replace the subject's damaged organ via anomalous means. The whereabouts of organs replaced this way are undetermined.
If there is no usable material in close proximity, SCP-2295 will use fabric and stuffing from itself. SCP-2295 regenerates one (1) gram of stuffing every day until completely replacing any lost or used stuffing. Note that fabric used this way does not regenerate, and additional fabric must be placed near SCP-2295 for the purpose of self-mending.
Instances of SCP-2295-1 successfully carry out their respective functions despite the numerous expected biological, chemical, and medical incompatibilities. Once within the subject, adjacent tissues and veins attach to the imitated organ without observable complications. There have been no cases of rejected SCP-2295-1 instances, and all subjects recorded at the time of writing made full recoveries.
Test Log-2295
Testing approved to test the limitations of SCP-2295. Materials provided within testing chamber.

 +Test Log

 -Test Log

Subject: D-2353, 38 years old
Diagnosis: Lungs heavily damaged as a result of twenty-five (25) years of smoking
Notes: SCP-2295 creates SCP-2295-1 using one (1) black textile swatch and one (1) red textile swatch. New 'lungs' act at a capacity similar to those of healthy adult lungs.

Subject: D-3452, 50 years old
Diagnosis: Frequent heart palpitations and severe atherosclerosis
Notes: SCP-2295 crochets SCP-2295-1 using various surrounding yarns. SCP-2295-1 observed to have a heartbeat before vanishing. Transfer successful - how SCP-2295-1 manages to perform function despite absorbent properties of material and multiple gaps in design is unknown. Symptoms no longer present in subject.

Subject: D-7894, 24 years old
Diagnosis: First and second degree burns ranging throughout upper torso, left lateral, and right leg. D-7894 sedated during testing.
Notes: SCP-2295 sews two (2) 5m x 5m sections of patchwork fabric. SCP-2295 cuts appropriately sized swatches and manually places one layer onto subject's affected areas, creating multiple instances of SCP-2295-1, and then repeats this process. The created SCP-2295-1 layers act as dermis and epidermis and, upon recovery, D-7894 claims to have retained feeling in replaced 'skin'. Subject makes a full recovery.

Subject: D-2723, 18 years old
Diagnosis: Cerebral hemorrhaging
Notes: SCP-2295 grasps various materials in its proximity in a distressed state for approximately one (1) minute. SCP-2295 then anomalously produces a ███████'s Dove Milk Chocolate King Size Candy Bar and offers it to subject. SCP-2295 spends rest of test embracing subject's lower right leg while anomalously producing a saline solution from its 'eyes'.

Addendum-2295: Document 2295 was recovered taped to SCP-2295 inside the site of a crashed mail delivery vehicle. Document-2295 is a red "Get Well" card with the text "KAIROS THE BEAR" written on the front cover.

+Recovered Document 2295

-Recovered Document 2295

Contents of Document 2295

To Tommy,
Because only time can mend all wounds.
Love,
Grammy

Footnotes
1. Materials have included yarn, textile, cloth, cotton, silk, synthetic fiber, polyester, wool, and thread.
2. How SCP-2295 is capable of the dexterity necessary for these actions is unknown.

« SCP-2294 | SCP-2295 | SCP-2296 »


Artificially exposed instance of SCP-2296

Item #: SCP-2296
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: The containment protocol for SCP-2296 is focused on minimising the chance of civilian discovery, and consists of three main strands.
First: popularising paths for trans-Antarctic treks that avoid emperor penguin breeding grounds, such as the Ronne Ice Shelf–Ross Ice Shelf route.
Second: holding exclusive rights to wildlife filming in the Antarctic through a Foundation holding company, with the cover story that no other media company is able to adhere to stringent environmental regulations concerning commercial activities in the Antarctic.
Third: authoring all academic papers on emperor penguin biology, and preventing any academic group from observing emperor penguin populations, also under the guise of stringent environmental regulations.
The Foundation is not to prevent emperor penguins from accessing SCP-2296.
Description: SCP-2296 is a phenomenon observed in the Antarctic1 breeding grounds of the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri). SCP-2296 is active during the June–July period in which male emperor penguins incubate eggs while females remain at sea to feed.2
In this time, males frequently form tight “huddles” of ten to several thousand individuals — a behavioural adaptation to survive conditions that can reach −50 °C with 200 km/h winds — and go without feeding from the sea for a mean of 115 days.3

Several huddles containing hidden instances of SCP-2296 can be observed at the top of the image

SCP-2296 is observed in these huddles. Once a huddle has been active for at least 12 minutes, pink, dimpled tubes made from polyethylene and collagen are extruded from the ground over a period of 20 seconds. SCP-2296 tubes are 89±12 cm tall4 with a diameter of 21 cm. The tubes' interiors are hollow, and contain a gelatinous mixture of protein, fat and water that is continually replenished from an unknown source.
In addition, 16 radially arranged nozzles point perpendicularly from the exposed end of SCP-2296 tubes. The nozzles are 13 cm long, with rounded rectangular openings measuring 6.4 cm x 3.2 cm, and constantly produce streams of warm air heated to 20–28 °C.
SCP-2296 tubes manifest at random positions at least 1.7 m from the edge of the huddle, and at least 2.5 m away from any other instance. Emperor penguin males then take turns feeding from the protein–fat mixture within the tubes and warming themselves on the heated streams of air, moving away to the edge of the huddle once they are sated. When the huddle separates, SCP-2296 instances retract into the ground within 4 seconds, secreting dense ice from the hollow interior to fill any channels left by their movement.
The source of the tubes themselves is unknown. Attempts to dig out SCP-2296 instances cause the tubes to instantly retract into the ground to an unknown depth; furthermore, no underground infrastructure of any kind has been detected in emperor penguin breeding grounds.

Apathy in penguins deprived of SCP-2296

One test of SCP-2296 deprivation on emperor penguin populations has been conducted. After 10 days without access to SCP-2296, 341 of 1200 males in the deprived group of the Franklin Island colony expired.5 Deceased males displayed signs of both hypothermia and malnutrition. Furthermore, all penguins displayed listless behaviour during SCP-2296 deprivation, with significant reductions in self-directed movement and social vocalisations. The Ethics Committee has forbidden further tests on SCP-2296 deprivation on emperor penguins, as well as containment procedures that would prevent emperor penguins from accessing SCP-2296.
SCP-2296 instances also produce a secondary anomalous effect, designated SCP-2296-A. SCP-2296-A takes the form of a repeated “thought-feel” message directed to sentient minds within 1.5 m. To date, SCP-2296-A transmission has only been firmly verified for human minds, although behavioural observations of expedition sled dogs suggest that non-sapients (such as emperor penguins) are similarly affected.
Human subjects experiencing SCP-2296-A report difficulties in providing an exact transcription of the message, which is largely emotive rather than lexical. However, feelings of comfort and contentment are consistently described. In particular, subjects note a greater sense of peace with the harsh environmental conditions of the area.6
The phrases most frequently found in SCP-2296-A transcriptions are given below.

+ SCP-2296-A transcription phrases

– SCP-2296-A transcription phrases

YOU ARE IMPORTANT.

YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB.

KEEP GOING.

I'M PROUD OF YOU.

Footnotes
1. SCP-2296 is also observed within relevant SCP-2720 iterations.
2. Uniquely among penguins, emperor males take sole responsibility for incubation, which involves balancing the egg on top of their feet for an unbroken period of 64 days.
3. This time includes the 100–160 km journey from shore to breeding grounds, the period of courtship, and the 64-day egg incubation.
4. As adult emperor penguins measure 110–130 cm in height, SCP-2296 tubes are typically not visible from outside the huddle.
5. This also resulted in the loss of all eggs incubated by deceased males.
6. Lack of exposure to this message is believed to have caused the listlessness in emperor males during SCP-2296 deprivation experiments.

« SCP-2295 | SCP-2296 | SCP-2297 »


Item #: SCP-2297
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2297 is to be magnetically suspended in a Safe-Class storage locker that is not parallel or perpendicular to the floor of the room in which the storage locker is kept. This storage locker must be assessed for damages once every 24 hours. If the Safe-Class storage locker has been rendered inoperable and/or unsuited for the containment of SCP-2297, an on-site supervisor must be notified immediately.
Description: SCP-2297 has the appearance of a BOSCH RTH6450D1009 5-1-1-Day Programmable Thermostat. Of note is SCP-2297's unique internal composition. Inside the casing of SCP-2297 rests a fleshy interior composed of various organs whose functions remain mostly unknown, though visual comparisons liken them to the lungs and kidneys found in humans. The flesh itself is highly resistant to mechanical sampling using conventional tools, thus the use of projectional radiology has been necessitated. These tests were able to reveal a system composed of valves and flaps responsible for the intake and output of oxygen. A proposal to use more invasive forms of sampling is currently awaiting approval.
SCP-2297 will remain in a dormant state indefinitely so long as it does not rest face-up on a flat surface. When mounted or placed on a flat surface, SCP-2297 will activate and display one of several messages in the following format: "[X] IS NORMAL". These messages pertain to the anomalous conditions that will be exhibited within the room SCP-2297 is activated. Determined by the displayed message, the environment and temperature of the room SCP-2297 occupies will be altered drastically. These effects steadily increase in intensity upon activation of SCP-2297 before instantaneously dissipating four minutes after activation. After SCP-2297 has carried out a full, uninterrupted four minutes of its chosen effect, it functions as a normal thermostat until removed and reactivated. Those located within the same room as SCP-2297 are not concerned with the effects of change in temperature and environment, and do not believe themselves to be in any danger.
The messages and their corresponding effects documented thus far can be found in Addendum-2297-1.
SCP-2297 only affects the specific room in which it was activated. SCP-2297 appears to self-define a "room" as any area that is enclosed by walls, a floor, a ceiling, and a distinct structural element dividing the room from the rest of the structure. These "divisions" can range from doorways to a change in elevation such as a flight of stairs or a ladder. Repeated testing in a singular room setup yielded many different results and led to the conclusion that SCP-2297 determines for itself what is and what is not a room. SCP-2297 also recognizes if it has been placed in an outdoor area, and will not activate when placed outside. Further testing in this environment is low-priority due to the many precautions necessary for such a potentially dangerous experiment.
SCP-2297 was recovered at ██████████ in ███████ after the ██████ Conference, an event notable for being a gathering of scientists dedicated to the preservation of the environment. An agent embedded within the local police force notified the Foundation of the presence of anomalous activity after being dispatched to the scene of the incident. All ███ attendees of the ██████ Conference were found dead in conference room 417. The cause of deaths were initially labeled as respiratory failure from smoke inhalation and/or self-immolation, but were later determined to be immolation by SCP-2297. Although SCP-2297 has some notable cognitive abilities based on previously conducted research, it does not seem to have any reason for or predictable order in which it carries out its anomalous abilities at this time.

+ Addendum 2297-1

- Addendum-2297-1

Message: FIRE IS NORMAL
Effect: The average temperature of the room increased from 23 degrees Celsius to 1113 degrees Celsius over a period of 4 minutes.
Results: A singular D-Class subject indicated no signs of discomfort or pain as his body was burning. He did not display any symptoms of respiratory distress or succumb to respiratory failure before expiring from fire-related injuries despite the room having purposefully inadequate ventilation.

Message: ICE IS NORMAL
Effect: The average temperature of the room decreased from 23 degrees Celsius to -195 degrees Celsius over a period of 4 minutes.
Results: A singular D-Class subject reported no changes in movement capabilities, temperature, or comfort for the entire duration of the test. Three D-Class personnel responded similarly, the only difference of note being that the D-Class huddled together for warmth in what would be the final stages of profound hypothermia, despite all D-Class claiming otherwise. All test subjects survived testing due to the short exposure time, as predicted.

Message: NOTHING IS NORMAL
Effect: The average temperature of the room increased from 23 degrees Celsius to 36 degrees Celsius over a period of 4 minutes.
Results: Testing was inconclusive. Repeated testing has resulted in subjects who claim to be either melting, freezing, or simply dying. A test conducted with several D-Class in the same room results in each subject reporting a different temperature and condition. Despite their claims the D-Class were never observed to be suffering from any of the described conditions and were fine once removed from the testing room. Evaluation to determine whether or not the "simulated" pain inflicted will have long-term psychological effects on the D-Class is still underway.

Message: HEIGHT IS NORMAL
Effect: The average air pressure of the room decreased from 100 kPa to 20 kPa over a period of 4 minutes. Air inside the room condenses, producing a fine mist inside the test chamber.
Results: Researchers noted increased heart rates and lower blood circulation in the D-Class subjects; a post-test autopsy on one subject revealed a severe accumulation of fluids in the lungs. Despite this, all D-Class continued to report that they "feel fine" during testing and none succumbed to the effects of the lowered air pressure until after leaving the testing room.

Message: WATER IS NORMAL
Effect: The specific humidity of the room increased from an average of 7.6205 g/kg (44%) to a specific humidity of 37.434 g/kg (214%) over a period of 4 minutes.
Results: All D-Class tested were observed to have difficulty breathing, with two of the D-Class hyperventilating mid-test. Despite the observed hyperventilation, both D-Class were able to interact and communicate with other D-Class in the test chamber. When researchers requested a response from the affected D-Class they either refused to communicate or were incapable of doing so.

Message: █████████ IS NORMAL
Effect: The environment of the room changed from a controlled temperature of 23 degrees Celsius, consistent air pressure and humidity to one of █████████████████, with averages of ████ and ██. Of note were the runic markings that appeared on the floor and ceiling, as well as the coating of ████████████ that formed on the walls of the test chamber.
Results: [EXPUNGED], with all D-Class quoting numerous related texts found in Divine Comedy. After 4 minutes of continued ███████████, all D-Class underwent a Type Σ-04 planar shift. All D-Class personnel involved are to be considered lost and unrecoverable. Research into what caused these results, and if they can be replicated for further study, is ongoing.

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One instance of SCP-2298-1.

Item #: SCP-2298
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: The shed housing SCP-2298 is to be relocated to Site-162's Euclid Wing. The containment chamber is to be monitored via security cameras and motion detectors which, when triggered, will automatically set off a medium threat level alarm. Motion detectors must be turned off remotely prior to entering the containment chamber.
Routine surveys of SCP-2298 are to be conducted on a bi-weekly basis, and any significant changes in behavior of SCP-2298-1 instances is to be reported.
Description: SCP-2298 is a city block which occupies the confines of a small shed in █████, Italy. The exterior of the shed, constructed of concrete, wood, and plaster, has a length of 3 m and a width of 2.4 m. As one enters the shed, they will find themselves exiting a building within SCP-2298. The block in question consists of two roads (Planck Ave and Luminol Rd) which intersect at the center of the block, and 14 buildings of varying sizes and purposes. These include apartments, retail stores, a small supermarket, post office, and ██████. All materials1 in SCP-2298 are composed of plastic, rubber, latex, and/or resins.
SCP-2298 covers a space of 94 m2, and appears to be "boxed in", as the edges of the city block lead to solid plastic walls painted to look like a skyline. Further analysis reveals that the sky directly above SCP-2298 is also a ceiling placed 2 km above ground level. When SCP-2298 is devoid of human activity, the sky has been noted to change based on the time of day.
SCP-2298-1 instances designate the 37 sentient polyester resin mannequins which inhabit SCP-2298. SCP-2298-1 instances do not appear animate while humans or any recording devices are inside SCP-2298, but will change location at unknown intervals when the city is unobserved. The mannequins display only a vague awareness of human intervention within the city block (See Addendum). It is theorized that when the city is observed, time within SCP-2298 is paused2.
Long term study of SCP-2298 and SCP-2298-1 instances have shown patterns within individual mannequin behavior, suggesting that each one has a unique personality and even interpersonal relationships.
Addendum 2298a: On ██/██/██, contact with SCP-2298-1 instances was attempted through a survey by the Foundation front company S&C Plastics. Twenty-six copies of the survey were delivered; text is below.

Hi. We're a research team at S&C Plastics conducting a product survey. We would greatly appreciate it if you answered our questions and returned this letter to your local post office. Doing so will allow us to provide a better experience with our products, and give you as the consumer more value with every purchase.
Question 1: What is your full name?
Question 2: Are you male or female?
Question 3: How old are you?
Question 4: Have you ever heard of S&C Plastics?
Question 5: Would you consider buying S&C Plastics products in the near future?
Question 6: What is your current town of residence?
Question 7: On a rate from 1 to 10, how well do you rate your reaction to change?
Question 8: Do you believe in the paranormal? Please explain why or why not.

Only 3 of the 26 SCP-2298-1's filled out the survey and returned it to the post office. Upon collection, the surveys had changed from paper sheets to plastic ones. Transcripts of them can be found below:

Survey 2298-1-12

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Question 1: What is your full name? A█████ ███████
Question 2: Are you male or female? male
Question 3: How old are you? 26
Question 4: Have you ever heard of S&C Plastics? Nope, never.
Question 5: Would you consider buying S&C Plastics products in the near future? Probably not.
Question 6: What is your town of residence? ███, NH, USA.
Question 7: On a rate from 1 to 10, how well do you rate your reaction to change? 6.5
Question 8: Do you believe in the paranormal? Please explain why or why not. Yes. There was this one time a few years ago when everything in my friends house got moved around during the night. Spooky stuff.

Survey 2298-1-22

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Question 1: What is your full name? E████ ███
Question 2: Are you male or female? Female.
Question 3: How old are you? 38
Question 4: Have you ever heard of S&C Plastics? No.
Question 5: Would you consider buying S&C Plastics products in the near future? Maybe?? I'm not really sure what you make.
Question 6: What is your current town of residence? It's ███, New Hampshire.
Question 7: On a rate from 1 to 10, how well do you rate your reaction to change? 2
Question 8: Do you believe in the paranormal? Please explain why or why not. Yup. It kinda feels like everyone in town has a story about how something weird and unexplainable has happened to them.

Survey 2298-1-36

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Question 1: What is your full name? Not comfortable sharing this with you.
Question 2: Are you male or female? Male.
Question 3: How old are you? 43
Question 4: Have you ever heard of S&C Plastics? Yes. Nice acronym, btw.
Question 5: Would you consider buying S&C Plastics products in the near future? No, ‘cause that company doesn't exist. Of course, we both already know that, don't we?
Question 6: What is your current town of residence? ███, NH. Why do you need to know?
Question 7: On a rate from 1 to 10, how well do you rate your reaction to change? depends on the kind.
Question 8: Do you believe in the paranormal? Please explain why or why not. The door opens both ways.

Following this, Containment Procedures were heavily revised.

Footnotes
1. Including both organic substances such as food, and technology such as personal computers.
2. Relative to instances of SCP-2298-1. SCP-2298 and instances of SCP-2298-1 appear frozen in place, but time does not actually stop.

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4/2299 LEVEL 4/2299
CLASSIFIED

Item #: SCP-2299
Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: All cases of SCP-2299 infection are to be contained at Site-116, formerly the town of ███████, Washington. The town and all its residents are to be confined on-site, and all births and deaths are to be noted by on-site personnel. Should affected individuals make an attempt to approach Foundation personnel for any reason, they are to be turned away immediately. Personnel are not allowed to engage any affected individuals in any extended conversation. New additions are to be integrated in groups of four or more to ensure safety in the event of community rejection.
MTF Upsilon-51 ("Red Hand") is to be dispatched to any incident of SCP-2299 and must consist of at least 3 separate teams alternating on active duty, to maintain a perpetual state of high alert. All social media outlets and digital forums including clear communication between users typing incoherent text should be noted and investigated. Any significant reports of large-scale violence atypical for the region or reporting unusual communication should be investigated as a potential outbreak.
Extreme caution must be maintained, as confirmed instances of SCP-2299 are fully aware of outside observation and will take extreme measures to evade capture. If an individual is known to have been infected within a 24-hour period, they are to undergo Class-A amnestic treatment as quickly as possible. Cases that have persisted untreated for more than 30 hours are to be restrained and terminated if necessary. All remains are to be incinerated, including personal effects and clothing.
Description: SCP-2299 is an unknown phenomenon which occurs seemingly at random, targeting groups of people between 4 and 600,000 in number. Over the course of 30-36 hours SCP-2299 significantly alters the host's mental faculties, causing damage to the hippocampus1, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex2, and an overall reduction in function of the frontal lobe.
Affected individuals typically suffer severe mental degradation and physical damage consistent with traumatic encephalopathy. The most consistent symptoms exhibited by the host have been restricted blood flow to the anterior cingulate cortex3 and an increase in size and blood flow to the amygdala. The most prominent signs involve affected individuals holding fluid conversation despite suffering from severe aphasia. When manifesting digitally, individuals display severe grammatical errors and incoherent text indicative of improper hand placement while typing.
Prior to SCP-2299's apparition, individuals have described a 30-40 second period of sensory overload during which the individuals are said to feel momentarily panic-stricken, while having a very strong taste of blood or metal. Following this, SCP-2299's brain-altering effects begin to take place, accompanied by a strong odor of ammonia or formaldehyde, lasting up to two days following affliction.
Discovery: SCP-2299 was first detected in the town of ███████, Washington, where residents reported witnessing what was described as a "giant ghostly octopus" encompassing much of the sky for 10-15 minutes. Photographs taken by the residents show the anomaly to be indistinct, but apparently resembling a disembodied spinal column, with the vertebrae extending into tendrils. Doppler radar did not detect anything unusual in the region beyond a brief spike in humidity which had begun to dissipate when the reported event occurred.
The incident itself was connected to SCP-2299 when outbreaks matching the observed events in ███████ occurred in █ separate cities, preceded by the sudden apparition of the image in the sky.
Interviews with affected individuals indicate most have never witnessed the event, while those who have describe it as having appeared and disappeared within a fraction of a second. Thus far, only the first reported sighting of the apparition has remained longer than a fraction of a second.
Method of Action: Persons infected by SCP-2299 typically go through five discernible stages of "infection."

6-20 minutes: Subjects begin to display symptoms such as poor motor control, trembling, sporadic instances of short-term memory loss, confabulation4, hypoxia, and in rare instances, potentially fatal temporal lobe epilepsy. Subjects are highly uncomfortable discussing their symptoms with anyone but close friends or family members.

1-4 hours: Subjects will begin to experience spikes in blood flow to the amygdala, prompting abnormal growth of the amygdala, a process which has proven fatal in 1-2% of those infected. Further damage occurs to the anterior cingulate cortex, inducing a state of greatly exaggerated fear, anxiety, and paranoia. Subjects at this stage begin to seek out others, engaging either in like-minded discussion or arguments.

4-6 hours: Adrenaline and dopamine flow is stimulated when the subject engages in a series of actions or activities which lead to violent encounters with others. Affected individuals begin to identify one another via shared symptoms and begin to cooperate with one another in committing violent acts usually directed against others who are not affected, although affected individuals have been noted assaulting one another.

6-15 hours: Affected individuals taking part in larger groups will begin pushing for an escalation of violence against individuals not affected by SCP-2299. Subjects at this point tend to withdraw completely from friends and family members who are not affected. Those who remain in contact tend to steer all conversations towards socio-economic, political, and religious topics, or more often topics involving a supposedly hypothetical "invasion" by "trans-dimensional" humans.

15-30 hours: Organized groups consisting of infected individuals tend towards more coordinated and organized acts of violence, including small acts of terrorism and rituals involving imitations of cannibalism. Groups will systematically single out unaffected individuals and subject them either to "liquidation" or "rectification", the former being a ritualized execution, the latter an apparent attempt to "spread" the condition via complete blood transfusion with several of the affected.

After 30-36 hours, further alterations of the affected individual's brain caused by SCP-2299 cease. Adrenaline and dopamine levels stabilize, allowing for more complex thought and calculations. At this point, the affected individual appears to function normally within their community and in most cases is indistinguishable from an unaffected individual.
Observation Log: An outbreak of SCP-2299 was reported in the town of █████████, some ██ km from its reported point of origin, ███████, Washington. Foundation personnel moved in to contain the site within 2 and a half hours of first report. Agents and Class-D personnel in various disguises were dispatched to the town to engage in conversation with affected personnel in 2-hour patrol intervals. All involved personnel were instructed not to contradict or antagonize the affected townspeople.

Timestamp
Recorded Incidents

16:40
Personnel arrive on-site and enter a local bar. Subjects within are engaged in excited conversation of a political nature. Remarks contain a strong misogynistic leaning, with certain politicians denigrated for being "pussy-whipped", regardless of political party. D-Class are invited to participate in conversation. Cameras note several instances of spilled drinks and dropped glasses, as most individuals have their hands trembling and are blinking rapidly. Conversation briefly halted as one individual suffers an epileptic seizure and is taken to the local clinic. Someone remarks that the victim must have been "an eight" or "an ape."

18:00
Personnel witness a man arguing with young woman in the street. The topic appears to involve the merits of grapes over saline capsules. Most individuals flee the scene, while a sizable group of men arrive and take up the argument, disseminating it along largely socio-economic lines. Another group, consisting largely of older men and women, begin to assault the others. All groups disband following arrival of police.

19:34
Two females are included in D-Class group. Few of the subjects make note of them unless directly confronted. Conversations in the street begin to take on a strong nationalistic tone, while others explicitly involve the romanticizing of "Civil War genitals". Personnel are approached by a man and a woman asking if they saw someone "smiling too much, like a shark." The affected individuals express disbelief at the negative response, and dismiss the D-Class as "blind idiots."

23:11
Most of the residents are awake, as police officers arrest several individuals near the town square. An angry mob is protesting, and violence escalates as rocks and beer bottles are flung at the officers. Shots are fired, and D-Class personnel flee the scene. As they depart, they are stopped by a man armed with a shotgun, who addresses the personnel (including accompanying female agent) as "Harold", a close friend of the subject. Subject does not distinguish between personnel, and invites the four "Harolds" over for breakfast in the morning. Personnel respectfully decline, and depart without further incident.

08:08
Personnel find several houses boarded up, with police officers patrolling streets near the local bar with marked frequency. Several armed men sit outside the bar, apparently keeping watch. Within, the billiards area had been cleared out, allowing for bare-chested men and women to participate in impromptu bare-knuckle boxing matches. Many of the men and women have not left the bar since the day before.

10:30
Police maintain a heavy presence near the bar, although the armed men have disappeared. Personnel enter the bar, and find everyone within calm and collected. In groups of two, the men slowly begin to leave the bar, heading out the back exit. Personnel exit the bar, and are briefly accosted by local police. Officers release the D-Class after identifying them as out-of-towners. Personnel note the officers are highly agitated and trembling noticeably.

10:50
Officers begin to surround and enter the bar. A bomb is detonated moments later, killing many of the officers and collapsing the small building. Personnel flee the scene.

11:00
Much of the male populace (along with sporadic females) of the town emerges from their homes fully armed. Questioned by personnel, they state they are "going hunting" and head towards the western outskirts of the town. Many individuals have blood or dye coating their right hands in an apparently ritualistic fashion.

11:32
Personnel station themselves on the roof of a house near the outskirts of town. Subjects are witnessed "hunting" the female population whom they have apparently herded into a 500-acre region of the town.

11:45
Observation is ended and town placed under quarantine

Affected individuals have proven resilient to interrogation attempts, often necessitating 10-18 hours of uninterrupted dialogue by skilled interrogators in order to ascertain relevant information. From such interrogations, it has been determined that the affected individuals may be faintly aware of the existence of SCP-2299 as a physical affliction, with some regarding it as a minor nuisance and others as a vital "supplement." The sole consistent factor between affected individuals apparently aware of SCP-2299 has been in associating it and those affected by it with the number 9.
A single interview log has been retained due to potential relevancy in discerning the nature of SCP-2299.

Interview Log

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Interviewed: [V████ Madsen, former resident of ███████, Washington]
Interviewer: [Dr. Anna Sobotka]

<Log skips ahead by 22 minutes>
Dr. Sobotka: To repeat, you're well aware of this—
Mr. Madsen: Cephalensis-9
Dr. Sobotka: How did you become aware of it?
Mr. Madsen: Pretty easy. Everyone was outside looking at the big tentacle cloud, taking pictures. I didn't care, I was just out for a smoke. Suddenly I'm getting chills and shaking, then everyone else in town starts up. Head to the clinic and it's damn near empty. The doctor says I'm fine, but I see his hands are trembling and he's struggling to write. So I start up a casual conversation with him and lo and behold, we start getting pretty friendly. Turns out we got a lot in common.
Dr. Sobotka: What sort of things did you have in common?
Mr. Madsen: Just things… Ways of thinking, that sort of thing.
Dr. Sobotka: What about the name, "Cephalensis-9"? Where did that come from?
Mr. Madsen: Are you east European, Ms. Sobotka? "Sobotka"… sounds Polish, I think.
Dr. Sobotka: I am of Polish descent, yes.
Mr. Madsen: Weird… you don't really look too Polish.
Dr. Sobotka: What?
Mr. Madsen: Are you sure your parents were pure Polish? You've got some decidedly non-European features to you. Might be a bit of miscegenation in your line.
Dr. Sobotka: The name, please, Mr. Madsen.
Mr. Madsen: Just sounded right. It was like word association—hear a word, say the first thing that pops into your head. Every time I thought about the thing, I got words like "cephalus" popping in my head. Then it morphed to "Cephalensis" so I started calling it that and it stuck. I rather like it. The "9" part, well… makes it sound more refined that way, you know? Like Cephalensis-1 through 8 just weren't good enough, but Cephalensis-9 came out just right.
Dr. Sobotka: You said earlier that you noticed a sharp increase in violent discussions amongst your neighbors, am I right?
Mr. Madsen: Some chattering, nothing serious. Had some very enlightening discussions on Zionism with them. It was nice to have a receptive audience for once. Too many Americans just refuse to hear the truth.
Dr. Sobotka: At what point did it escalate into violence?
Mr. Madsen: Do you know what truth I'm talking about, Anna? Why does such a small ethnic group wield such a disproportionate amount of political power and influence? Have you ever wondered why Zionism got so much traction in the West?
Dr. Sobotka: Please stay focused, Mr. Madsen.
Mr. Madsen: Took barely two hours. Guys start polishing their guns, gathering up empty beer bottles, taking spare tanks to the gas stations. "Just in case" they all said with a smile.
Dr. Sobotka: Were you doing the same?
Mr. Madsen: No. I don't even own a gun.
Dr. Sobotka: Were you directly involved in that led to the rioting in front of [REDACTED] High School?
Mr. Madsen: I didn't hurt anyone.
Dr. Sobotka: None of the individuals affected by Cephalensis-9 we've encountered have displayed any anti-Semitic tendencies. They had quite a lot to say about us "uninfected", however. Are you sure you had such a receptive audience?
Mr. Madsen: What, you expect them to be vocal about it? Howling "[EXPLETIVE]" in the streets and all?
Dr. Sobotka: It doesn't seem logical to keep quiet about wanting to kill Jews but have no problem threatening to kill anyone not like them, Jew or not.
Mr. Madsen: You think we all got infected by some "crazy mutant virus" that's turning us all into racist zombies attacking and killing each other.
Dr. Sobotka: What really prompted the riot?
Mr. Madsen: Concerned citizens worried about the state of their community.
Dr. Sobotka: From what I've read, your community is among the best in the state. Very low crime, plenty of decent, hardworking people all getting along just fine. No major complaints about the mayor or the local police, no neighborly feuds escalating into dramatic confrontations or brawls in the street. Why start now?
Mr. Madsen: You know what vaccines are, right? Vaccines were made to make us stronger. And the way you overcome a sickness is by being exposed to that sickness, just a bit, so our immune system can take a peek and figure out just how best to handle it. It hurts for a bit, yeah, but in the long run, it helps us. Prepares us for future battle with that illness, so we can survive.
Dr. Sobotka: Cephalensis is like a vaccine, then?
Mr. Madsen: Yes. It's… helping us. It sees we can't properly function, so it comes down like the hand of God and giving us a push in the right direction.
Dr. Sobotka: That's like a vaccine?
Mr. Madsen: Shit. Sorry, that's not how vaccines work. More like… a bit of artificial selection. Give us a quick little boost.
Dr. Sobotka: Why is an alien influence making people kill each other a "boost"?
Mr. Madsen: I didn't say "alien."
Dr. Sobotka: Then what is it for?
Mr. Madsen: I already told you. Someone clearly screwed up, is all.
Dr. Sobotka: Who screwed up?
Mr. Madsen: What ever god or government engineered it, obviously. Going back to the original topic a bit, how do you suppose such a tiny group of people gain an ungodly level of power and influence over so many others?
Dr. Sobotka: I really can't go on discussing this with you, Mr. Madsen.
Mr. Madsen: Doesn't have to be Zionists, could easily be Christians in a non-Christian land, immigrants… any group of minorities who refuse to recognize they are the minority, and refuse to integrate into a society that generously accepts them and lets them be who they are. Instead, they're insular, and they keep themselves walled off from everyone not like them. They devote their entire lives to "the tribe", or "tribes." They think they're being persecuted and they act accordingly. There's nothing wrong with borrowing from them, adapting their "my tribe" mentality for the majority.
Dr. Sobotka: Right now, Mr. Madsen, you and others like you are not the majority. You've all suffered significant brain damage from whatever this affliction was and it's over now.
Mr. Madsen: Sure. Of course it is.
Dr. Sobotka: Thank you for your time, Mr. Madsen.
Mr. Madsen: Whatever…
<Note: Despite the allegations of Mr. Madsen, it is very unlikely any of his ideological rhetoric played a role in either triggering or exacerbating the outbreaks of violence among the affected individuals. Mr. Madsen's retention of his pre-existing prejudices may be purely incidental alongside the effects of SCP-2299.>
<End Log>

Note: Based upon the subject's responses and questions, a working theory has emerged that SCP-2299 may not have been intended as a destructive anomalous effect, but mis-engineered or otherwise unintended for human physiology.

Footnotes
1. Portion of the brain responsible for spatial recognition and navigation, as well as the formation of new memories
2. Responsible for processing fear and risk, as well as regulating emotions
3. Portion of the brain responsible for rational decision-making, empathy, and impulse control.
4. The interpretation of fictional events as real memories

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Item #: SCP-2300
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2300 instances are currently individually contained within specially-designed containment units within Site ██. Containment units must not match the composition of the SCP-2300 instance they contain and must be resistant to damage caused by the contained instance's three states of matter. Radioactive instances of SCP-2300 are to be placed in a separate containment area with appropriate shielding. At no point should any instance of SCP-2300 and SCP-2046 be kept within the same facility.
Description: SCP-2300 is the collective designation for a series of 98 miniature humanoid figures. Each instance is composed of a single chemical element, and is marked with their respective atomic number on the crown of their heads. Individual SCP-2300 are designated to match this marking. SCP-2300 are solid at all times regardless of the atmospheric pressure and temperature, and exhibit the normal properties of the respective element when in a solid state. However, SCP-2300 can be physically damaged, and separated material is subject to normal melting, freezing, and boiling points. SCP-2300 are able to consume any and all matter, allowing them to regenerate sustained damages if necessary. Material not matching the instance will be ejected from the mouth orifice as a solid mass several minutes later, which will often be passed on to other SCP-2300 to consume.
SCP-2300 are sapient and display varying degrees of intelligence, with SCP-2300 composed of elements with a lower density typically displaying greater intelligence. SCP-2300 often group together with others within their elemental period. While incapable of verbal speech1, SCP-2300 comprehend both verbal and written English. Interviews staged with writing implements reveal that SCP-2300 consider SCP-2300-2, -10, -18, -36, -54, and -86 to be of nobility, each ruling over the elemental period they are in. SCP-2300-2, considered the highest noble and by extension ruler over the first six periods, often defers to SCP-2300-1 as -1 appears to be the most intelligent of SCP-2300 (with a Foundation Intelligence Quotient of 132). SCP-2300-87 to -98 do not follow this monarchy, instead taking part in a monastic order following the teachings of SCP-2300-1 directly. Testing reveals that while these instances meditate, they are not subject to radioactive decay, and it is hypothesized that other radioactive instances are also capable of this should they join the monastic order.
SCP-2300 often damage themselves to create tools from their bodies to carry out given tasks, sometimes altering themselves so severely that their entire body is a tool for other SCP-2300 to use, thus necessitating other SCP-2300 to force feed them to instigate regeneration. Should the mouth be damaged in a way that prevents typical regeneration, SCP-2300 will attempt to anomalously build a replacement from the leftover material. Newly created instances possess no knowledge of their former self, and must be instructed by other SCP-2300 about their culture and situation.
Most SCP-2300 activity is dedicated to the creation of art, which often possess anomalous properties. Despite SCP-2300 normally segregating themselves into small groups, they will often hold gatherings in the form of a gallery. However, there appears to be no preliminary process to what can be in any given gallery, meaning less experienced SCP-2300 are capable of showcasing material deemed unsatisfactory to a majority of their more experienced peers. While works that are universally viewed as poor are often removed from galleries within a small time-frame, some are left on display due to the approval of the high number of less experienced SCP-2300.
Proposals to use instances of SCP-2300 as means of isolating anomalous elements from other materials, including SCP-148, are currently pending review.

Footnotes
1. The transmission of communication between SCP-2300 is currently unknown.

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Item #: SCP-2301
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Provisional Containment Zone Delta-3 has been constructed surrounding SCP-2301's manifestation area. At any given time, no fewer than 2 containment teams (designated Alpha and Beta) must be present, with a third relief team on active standby.
Alpha Team is to be equipped with period-accurate 15th-century Japanese lamellar armor, and a full set of period-accurate weapons commonly used by the samurai class of feudal Japan. In addition, each containment team member is to receive extensive training in traditional kabuki acting, along with classes in basic Japanese mythology, and Shintoism.
Beta Team is to be equipped with period-accurate 15th-century Gothic plate armor, and a full set of period-accurate weapons commonly used by the knights of feudal Germany. In addition, each containment team member is to receive extensive training in European theater arts, along with classes in Medieval texts concerning dragons.
During a manifestation event, all personnel must remain in character at all times. Once SCP-2301 is terminated, all personnel must remain in character until all components of SCP-2301 have decayed. Should SCP-2301 manifest in a different form, the standby team will be mobilized to determine the method in which SCP-2301 should be confronted. D-class personnel will be used to distract SCP-2301 from approaching a population center until a solution can be found.
Description: SCP-2301 is a hostile metamorphic entity that manifests in ██████████, ████████ every month, and takes the form of various antagonists from different fables, plays, or legends, notably that of Japanese and European origin.
SCP-2301 cannot be damaged unless it perceives its attackers to correctly be those that would defeat such a character in the legend or play in which it would be found. Therefore, should SCP-2301 manifest as a European-style dragon, it can only be harmed by those that it perceives to be Medieval knights. This also applies to containing SCP-2301, in that modern containment procedures such as reinforced Keter-class Hostile Anomaly chambers can easily be destroyed or bypassed by SCP-2301. SCP-2301 can also, given enough time, destroy period-accurate containment, such as chains or cages.
SCP-2301 will remain in character as the particular antagonist that it has manifested as for the duration of an event. It is critical that personnel remain in character, and exchange dialogue with SCP-2301 while in combat with the entity, due to the fact that SCP-2301 will not accept individuals that it perceives as “not playing the role” to its satisfaction. Once SCP-2301 determines an individual to be insufficiently in character, said individual will be unable to harm SCP-2301 for the duration of the manifestation event.
A manifestation event ends when SCP-2301 has been sufficiently damaged to the point at which it can no longer function, causing SCP-2301's body to rapidly decompose. Should one of the individuals that participated in terminating SCP-2301 fail to remain in character until the body has fully decomposed, SCP-2301 will re-manifest.
Active containment personnel have reported that SCP-2301 is incredibly durable and lethal. SCP-2301 possesses all of the capabilities of the character that it chooses to represent in a particular manifestation event, and similarly possesses the same weaknesses.
SCP-2301 originally manifested only as a character from Japanese folklore. However, beginning on the date of ██/██/████, SCP-2301 began to manifest as creatures from Medieval European mythology. Currently, SCP-2301's limits in replicating characters from other cultures is unknown.
SCP-2301 most commonly manifests as a Japanese Oni, a type of demon that wields a kanabō1 in combat. Said creature is noted as “incredibly strong” in various myths and legends, and is also described as a humanoid entity possessing horns, claws, and blue or red skin-coloration. SCP-2301 is roughly 2 meters in height in this form, and has been demonstrated as strong enough to fully collapse a human chest protected by lamellar armor with its kanabō.
SCP-2301 second most commonly manifests as a European dragon. In this form, SCP-2301 possesses two winged forelimbs with a wingspan of 25 meters, and two clawed hindlimbs. SCP-2301 is roughly 7 meters tall in this form, and is capable of producing fire in excess of 1000° C from within its throat, through an as of yet unknown mechanism.
SCP-2301's purpose during a manifestation event is currently understood to be of complete inimity towards all human life. SCP-2301 has been demonstrated to immediately attempt to navigate towards the largest population center available, and will attempt to kill any human that it encounters. Despite this, SCP-2301 possesses a superb grasp of human culture, specifically Germanic and Japanese history, languages, literature, and mythology. SCP-2301's origin, or method of acquiring this information is currently unknown.

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1. A type of long Japanese club

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Item #: SCP-2302
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2302 has been detached from the ceiling, and stored in a low-value containment safe, equipped with surge-protected audio inputs, at Site-54 storage. Before any interviews begin, the safe is to be moved to a small containment chamber.
Before SCP-2302-1 begins communication, all personnel should evacuate the entire building save for the one communicating D-Class given a list of pre-written questions. It is now considered an unnecessary security risk to send researchers into the building (see Interviews 4a and 4b). The D-Class is to be accompanied by nine realistic dummies dressed as members of the Foundation staff. All interviews are to be recorded by cameras and microphones placed around the chamber temporarily containing the safe. Interviews must be regularly conducted, but the D-Class interviewer is required to give short, terse questions, and end the interview quickly.
Following the interview, a janitorial crew is to mop up the chamber, and two Level 2 staff are to transfer the safe back to storage.
Description: SCP-2302 is an overhead loudspeaker originally installed in the East Science Lab of Site-54. Examination of the internal components of SCP-2302 indicates no anomalous technological modifications. However, SCP-2302 is not connected, and cannot be connected, to the main Bose brand intercom located in the main office. It is instead connected to an unknown location, through which a Class II reality-warping entity has access. It is unknown how this entity gained initial access to the loudspeaker.
This entity, designated SCP-2302-1, presents vocally as a pre-pubescent male child of indeterminate age. Once a week at 12:33 UTC, it will attempt to communicate with Foundation personnel on a wide variety of subjects despite an incoherence to its speech. While its demeanor can be placid, it is unknown if it intends hostility. SCP-2302-1 can be communicated with by connecting SCP-2302 to a microphone. Audio input from the Foundation appears to be broadcast in SCP-2302-1's location.
Analysis of the audio from SCP-2302 indicates that SCP-2302-1 is playing some form of electronic music characterized by cascading synthesized notes and deep booming noises. The music matches none recorded by any artist. This music contains an unknown mild cognitohazard, inducing temporary symptoms in 45% of listeners of scopophobia, the fear of being seen; psychophobia, the fear of the mind and intelligence; and lachanophobia, the fear of vegetables, specifically potato chips.
Following the conclusion of the interview, one random member of staff at Site-54 present within the building will rapidly melt into a substance identical to human vomit. This process also applies to inanimate representations of a staff member.
Addendum: Selected Interviews with SCP-2302.
Interview 4a:

Researcher Kelvin: Do you know where you are?
SCP-2302-1: The puppet show is moving, Doctor Mommy! I am green and small with little beady eyes, but I'm also not. Let's talk about snowflakes! (There is a cascade of synthesized notes in the background.)
Researcher Kelvin: Um, what do you mean by snowflakes?
SCP-2302-1: They're great! They're small and white like paper beads and they fall from the sky in big clumps even when all the stars are out. Where I live the city is black and the sky is purple and it's full of stars! I love the stars almost as much as I love the snowflakes! I am in the puppet show. You can't move! (There is a second cascade of notes.)
Researcher Kelvin: Are you in a city right now?
SCP-2302-1: No. There's many things you can do with snowflakes! Doctor Mommy, I wanna go to the grocery store and get donuts! And then we can use the snowflakes to make new people. We can make very new people, Doctor Mommy! I don't want any game plans, I just want to wake up. We want to rub your body on the bathtub but the shampoo keeps getting in your eyes.
Researcher Kelvin: Um. Okay. Can you elaborate on what you mean, at all?
SCP-2302-1: There's a big storm coming in against the wide purple sky. Covering the stars, Doctor Mommy. Covering the stars with sleepy rain and thunder. (There is a booming noise.) I'm scared, Doctor Mommy! I'm scared!
Researcher Kelvin: It's okay, It's okay! I'm here. Everything's going to be okay!
SCP-2302-1: You're wrong. Why crawl inside you when you aren't even real. Why, you could be just another you! Made of throw-up.
(SCP-2302 shuts off. Researcher Kelvin promptly melts into vomit instead of the dummies)

Interview 4b:

Researcher Ferres: Did you have any hostile intent towards Researcher Kelvin?
SCP-2302-1: I am from the smokestack at the top of the tall street with the houses and the trees and the road goes to the blue mountain by the deep canyon.
Researcher Ferres: That is not an answer. Can you please explain why you transmute people to digestive fluid following these conversations?
SCP-2302-1: The thunder! The thunder! The thunder! The thunder! The thunder! The thunder! The thunder! The thunder! The thunder! The thunder!
Researcher Ferres: Please answer my question. Are you actively hostile towards the Foundation? Do you even understand what the Foundation is?
SCP-2302-1: You know about the potato chips?
Researcher Ferres: No? Please explain. Why do they melt?
SCP-2302-1: You remember what it was like being a child and lying in your crib and then driving down the roads with your mommy and your daddy and watching the roads turn into dreams. That's what this is. Mommy isn't your mommy anymore. You have to choose your real mommy. If you look at the fake mommy, she melts. She's a throw up person.
Researcher Ferres: That's not an answer.
SCP-2302-1: Only if you look at them. Only if you look at the potato chip on the counter. On the supermarket counter.
Researcher Ferres: What are you talking about!?
Deeper Unknown Voice: A ditz! (Cackling laughter from the voice and several children.)
(Researcher Ferres braces himself for either him or the dummies to melt. Neither do.)

Following the conclusion of the second interview, field agents discovered several hundred pounds of plastic potato chips covered in human vomit at a nearby abandoned supermarket. The meaning of this is unknown.

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SCP-2303, originally intended to serve as the Municipal Office Complex of Ciudad Encrucijada

Item #: SCP-2303
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Site-885 has been established in proximity to SCP-2303. Foundation activities in the vicinity of the anomaly are to be presented to potential observers as a long-term architectural engineering study. Due to the lack of permanent residents in the area of SCP-2303, Minimum Security Perimeter protocols are in effect.
Monitoring and documentation of SCP-2303 phenomena is to be performed via automated means whenever feasible. In cases where direct observation must be performed, standard memetic hazard safety procedures are to be instituted.
All suspected SCP-2303 phenomena are to be independently investigated and confirmed to the extent possible before being formally entered into the research log.
SCP-2303 research is assigned to Mobile Task Force Phi-9 ("Barqueros"). Members of MTF Phi-9 are currently subject to provisional security clearance authorization. Provisional status will be reevaluated on ██/██/████, per the standard five year probationary period for Special Recruitment personnel.
Description: SCP-2303 is an abandoned high-rise building, located in the ghost city of Ciudad Encrucijada1, in the Río Negro province of Argentina. SCP-2303 is the apparent focal point for recurring episodes of anomalous information transfer. As observed through specialized methodology and equipment, SCP-2303 is host to a phenomenon wherein concepts and ideas that are not fully realized and never implemented by their originators are communicated to observers in the vicinity. These concepts range widely across the spectrum of human endeavor, and have in the past included proposed artworks, philosophical schools of thought, political systems, scientific theorems, and public works projects.
Information transmitted within SCP-2303 may be observed through a variety of media. Appliances such as antenna-equipped televisions and radios which are powered on but not set to an occupied frequency are capable of receiving and displaying audio and visual information. These typically take the form of short, sporadic bursts of interrelated information, such as sequential scenes from a motion picture, or related tracks from a musical album. SCP-2303 has been outfitted with monitors and recording devices throughout its structure in order to observe this information.
In order to observe more abstract concepts, such as philosophical precepts or hypothetical political movements, direct observation is required. A methodology for discerning the outside influence of SCP-2303 (as opposed to inherent thought processes in the observer) was developed by former Group of Interest GX-5573, a loose collective of academics, artists and amateur researchers from throughout southern Argentina who first encountered the anomaly. This methodology incorporates elements of autohypnosis, meditation techniques developed by indigenous Tehuelche tribespeople, and activities similar to the Spiritualist practices of automatic writing and psychometry.
Individual works and concepts encountered within SCP-2303 are observable for a time period of between three days and five weeks. Information presented within SCP-2303 will become less contextualized and coherent from occurrence to occurrence, until the unifying concept decays and is no longer observable.
The manifestation of ideas presented in SCP-2303 do not appear to be linked chronologically to their originators. While concepts imagined within the past thirty years comprise the majority of observed data, older ideas have been documented, in some cases originating hundreds of years prior to observation.
Addendum 2303.1 - Concepts Observed Within SCP-2303
Floors 1-12: Artistic Works

Location Observed
Description
Notes

Floor Eight, Hallway
Inmate art exhibit, Ferguson Prison
Correctional officers at Ferguson Prison in Midway, Texas, considered staging a public exhibition of paintings by inmates as a means of improving morale and performing local community outreach. Most of the works submitted were painted by █████████████, a particularly notorious offender convicted of multiple counts of murder.

Floor Three, Room 32
Sequels to The Last Temptation of Christ
Two concepts were observed in this location, but were interrelated. The first was a planned novel by author William Styron following up on the events of the original work by Nikos Kazantzakis, told from the perspective of Judas. The second was an adaptation of the proposed Styron project into a film directed by filmmaker Terence Malick. While no evidence exists that Styron ever advanced beyond discussing the idea, the film adaptation apparently progressed to the point of obtaining a commitment from actor Harvey Keitel to reprise the role of Judas before the project was abandoned.

Floor Five, ceiling crawlspace
Alternate soundtrack to A Serbian Film
This occurrence consisted of one hour and fifty-seven minutes of music intended to serve as a soundtrack to the motion picture A Serbian Film, recorded by industrial noise act Pharmakon. This was apparently intended to broaden the film's appeal to American audiences. The film was ultimately scored by Serbian musician Wikluh Sky.

Floor Eleven, Room 8
Comedic spoken-word performance, 2011 Hajj
A group of students at the International Islamic University in Islamabad considered holding a stand-up comedy festival at the Miqat Qarn al-Manazil prior to the 2011 Hajj as an attempt to create positive coverage in Western media outlets. Several established performers had been committed to the project before it was aborted.

Floors 13-19: Religion and Philosophy

Location Observed
Description
Notes

Floor Seventeen, Room 12
Treatise on the Importance of Self-Extinction
This work, written by an unknown scholar, consisted of a discussion between eight characters citing the works of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Avicenna, and several lesser-known figures in philosophical thought, making an argument for the moral imperative of suicide. The work concludes with each character committing suicide in turn. The scholarly citations and style of writing suggests that the work was considered during the ninth century AD by an author residing in Moorish Cordoba, making this entry the oldest observed unimplemented concept found within SCP-2303 to date.

Floor Nineteen, Room 32
Church of the Twelfth Prophet
A nascent religious movement before ultimately disbanding in 2004, this doctrine held that the Mahdi, a messianic figure prominent in Islam, is also the twelfth Guru of Sikhism2. █████████████, the individual claiming to be the eponymous Twelfth Prophet, was provisionally classified as a Person of Interest due to suspected anomalous phenomena associated with their activities before disappearing in January of 2005.

Floor Fourteen, North Elevator Shaft
Brewsterism
This phenomenon was a school of intellectual thought, discussed among a group of doctoral students at the University of Salzburg, proposing the infallibility of the writings of Harold Brewster, an unemployed Irish university professor residing in the Weimar Republic during the 1920s. Post-observational verification of Brewster's papers reveal several anachronistic commentaries on modern fields of science, such as biomolecular engineering, m-theory, and exoplanetary astronomy. Brewster's papers also contain lengthy, nonsensical exhortations against activities such as creating music, riding bicycles and sleeping. The majority of Brewster's writings are suspected to have been destroyed immediately prior to the abandonment of Brewsterism by its proponents.

Floor Eighteen, Air Vent Between Rooms 3 and 9
Sixth Meditation on the Actualization of Salvation
Extant materials related to this concept consist of 255 wheatpasted flyers, distributed throughout urban areas in the Kitchener, Ontario metropolitan region. The only information on the flyers consisted of the phrase "Sixth Meditation on the Actualization of Salvation," an address of a private residence in Bujumbura, Burundi, and an appointed time of 2300 hours, 29 July, 2005. Based on observational data, this meeting was intended to be a gathering of unknown persons, with the intent of generating a thoughtform entity through anomalous means3. Flyers were intended to be posted in eighteen additional cities in fifteen countries before this project was abandoned.

Floors 20-27: Public Works and Large Scale Coordinated Projects

Location Observed
Description
Notes

Floor Twenty-Six, Room 21
Proposed Australian space program
Confirmed by examination of classified documents, several officials in the Australian Ministry of Industry, Innovation and Science proposed a multi-billion dollar investment in a new space exploration initiative, culminating in an interstellar satellite mission. Detailed information of this proposal ceases sometime around the launch of a research mission bound for the Saturnian moon of Iapetus.

Floor Twenty-One, Room 6B
Low-cost cryonics initiative
A crowdfunded project was considered by █████████████, a high-profile startup investor in Scottsdale, Arizona, to construct several low-cost facilities designed to house large quantities of cryopreserved human remains. This project was intended to increase public awareness, acceptance, and adoption of cryonics as a funerary practice.

Floor Twenty, Main Utility Access Hall
Karnali River Dam
A hydroengineering firm based in the United Kingdom was considering a proposal to construct a massive dam project on the Karnali River in Nepal. Despite no evidence that the project ever progressed beyond internal planning discussions, the concept engendered several large protests in Nepali rural areas, as well as a speech in the Indian Parliament condemning the project as a "theft of resources that cannot go unanswered."

Floor Twenty-Three, Lobby
Zambezi Superdeep Borehole
Sometime during the early 1970s, Mozambican officials were presented with a plan for a deep drilling project intended to penetrate the Earth's crust 50 km offshore in the Indian Ocean, as part of an experimental new method for hydrocarbon and mineral extraction. Of note is the fact that the proposed site would eventually be used for a similar project in connection with SCP-2798.

Floors 28-31: Science

Location Observed
Description
Notes

Floor Twenty-Nine, Cafeteria
Argus Radio Observatory System
This proposal was discussed in three separate meetings between entrepreneur Jeff Bezos and SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell, centering around a prospective $50 billion investment in a network of omnidirectional radio telescopes dedicated to searching for evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations, to be known collectively as the Argus Radio Observatory System. The project was not discussed again after the third meeting between Bezos and Shotwell, documented to have occurred on the campus of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Floor Thirty, Room 13
Engineered anti-syphilis phage introduction
In 2011, researchers at Moscow Medical Academy claimed to have developed a species of bacteriophage that would eliminate all forms of syphilis. In a meeting with Kremlin officials later that year, the lead project researcher proposed to introduce this bacteriophage "into the wild" throughout Russia as a public health measure. This plan was rejected by the Kremlin three weeks later.

Floor Twenty-Seven, Room 1
Superconducting Super Collider
This particle accelerator complex, proposed in the 1970s in the United States, would have been the world's largest particle accelerator, approximately twice as large as the Large Hadron Collider and projected to generate approximately three times its energy. This project was formally cancelled by the United States Congress in 1993.

Floor 32: CLASSIFIED

Location Observed
Description
Notes

Floor Thirty-Two, Grand Hall
The Man at the Threshold
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Addendum 2303.2 - MTF Phi-9 Introductory Statement

FROM: Rojas, Aurelio
TO: Guest4939
RE: <none>
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Let's get this thing out of the way. This is Phi-9, and most of us were inducted to the Foundation from outside. You are joining us with none of our history.
That's good.
You're a Barquero now. That means you ferry this stuff to wherever the hell it goes after it's gone. The bosses above told you to document this and research it and what have you. Don't worry, we're going to do plenty of that.
But really, you're here to watch these things in the tower go away and disappear. To make sure they go away and disappear. Eduardo calls them dreams but he's an asshole and not to be trusted. You'll find that out soon.
All the formal stuff and the manuals are there. You'll read them eight times without me needing to tell you. Oh man, the culture shock. Most of you aren't from the Southern Hemisphere. We do things different. Yeah, read the manuals. Then close those and listen to me.
You're going to be in that tower soon. Exciting, right? They tell me people ask to be here. You're going to read the manuals no matter what I tell you, so you're going to be on your guard, so much that you think you'll never let it down again.
Bullshit. One day, and it's going to be soon, I promise you, you're going to think "hey, that one's a pretty good idea, bring that one out, man." I know you are. It happens a lot. It happened to me on the top floor. I thought I knew better than this madhouse that we all were so smitten by. I told everyone that we needed to save something from here. We should pull it back out I said, this is just too beautiful. And it was. We all dropped to our knees to see it, even after it started doing what it did.
When it was over, I ran as fast as I could into the night to find anyone that could help us put things back. There was a lot to clean up.
Here's your first order, don't ask about the other Barqueros, from before this was an official outfit. There's eight of us left from the top floor thing. There were a lot more before.
Here's your other first order. You leave that shit in the tower. Every single thing you see in there is a painted corpse. That's because it's a grave. All of it stays in there to rot and die, no matter what, or I put the bullet in your head myself. I look out for my people, and you're one of mine now.
Welcome aboard, Barquero.
ROJAS

Footnotes
1. Despite its intended purpose as a regional financial center planned by the Argentine government in the 1970s, Ciudad Encrucijada was never fully inhabited, and was abandoned soon after construction of the city center was completed. The Argentinian Ministry of Modernization reported a population of zero for Ciudad Encrucijada in 1978.
2. Note that mainstream Sikhism holds that only eleven Gurus exist.
3. Though unconfirmed, these methods are believed to be derived from those used in the creation of SCP-1984-1.

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