Item #: SCP-2137
Object Class: Euclid Keter Thaumiel
Special Containment Procedures: When not being used, SCP-2137 is to be kept within a typical electronic 10-digit metal safe in the Safe Wing of Site 23. All digital and wireless broadcast media must be kept at least one hundred meters away from SCP-2137. Due to SCP-2137's anomalous effect having been determined to have no ranged limit, digital, wireless and broadcast media may be used but should be monitored closely for any appearance of SCP-2137-1 or -2.
Other than the testing and recording of Track 7, SCP-2137 should be considered an inanimate item without agency of its own, and any demands or threats made by SCP-2137-2 should be ignored.
Once a week, SCP-2137 is to be cleaned and all tracks are to be played in succession, with special attention paid to the instance of SCP-2137-1 that replaces track 7.
The names, situations and anecdotes presented in that instance of SCP-2137-1 must then be reported to 2137 Special Committee ("Pac Watch").
On the rare occasion that non-Foundation organizations cannot address the situation presented in an instance of SCP-2137-1, O5-9 has given authorization to activate MTF-339 ("The Suge Knights") to take any and all measures necessary to reach a resolution to the problem. Operational success will be indicated by a new instance of 2137-1.
Personnel who wish to examine or attempt to interact with SCP-2137 must ask Dr. Kivowitz for authorization beforehand, which will then pend O5 clearance.
Description: SCP-2137 is a single compact disc copy of "Me Against The World," a hip-hop album by the artist Tupac Shakur, released in 1995. Physical examination as well as laser testing indicates that the CD was one of the initial release, manufactured and distributed in 1995; conventional testing of the disk itself reveals identical results to a non-anomalous copy of the album. The case and liner notes have been determined to have no anomalous qualities, and the physical makeup and encoding of the disk appear completely normal.
However, upon playing track 7, normally "Heavy In The Game," the listener will encounter an instance of SCP-2137-1. The anomaly takes the form of spontaneously-generated, professionally-produced songs featuring Tupac Shakur in various styles within the hip hop genre. Though each instance of SCP-2137-1 generated is unique, they share certain commonalities in terms of subject matter. The central focus of the song invariably addresses a crime, almost always a murder or series of murders, and then gives necessary anecdotal evidence or information to correctly identify and prosecute the killer, even going so far as to specify prosecutors or recommend vigilante justice.
Though generation of SCP-2137-1 has been determined to have a definite causal nature, the manner in which SCP-2137-1 instances are copied onto SCP-2137 has yet to be ascertained.

SCP-2137-2
The primary voice on the songs, from herein identified as SCP-2137-2, matches cleanly through advanced audio analysis to that of the real Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996, over a year before the recovery of SCP-2137.
However, occasionally, on crimes of a particularly complicated or brutal nature, SCP-2137-2 will be joined by other "performers," either guest-rapping or singing the chorus or bridge. This has included many of Tupac's contemporaries, such as Snoop Doggy Dogg, Nas, No Doubt, Everclear, Weezer and Busta Rhymes, as well as artists from the 2000s including Chris Brown, Katy Perry, Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, the Ying Yang Twins, Drake, Neon Trees, Jet, Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Eminem, usually at the height of their popularity.
On a few notable occasions involving long-unsolved crimes by still active criminals, there have been guests of a more blatantly anachronistic nature, stand-outs among whom include Phil Harris, the Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra, Buddy Holly, The Who, Elvis Presley, Diana Ross, and The Beatles. Heavily anachronistic guests tend to take the role of primary artist, the song performed in their style, with SCP-2137-2 joining as a rap guest.
When contacted, none of these artists had any recollection of recording for, or information regarding, SCP-2137.

The crimes themselves share that they are unsolved, or, in some cases, have escaped detection entirely. The majority of instances of SCP-2137-1 address crimes of private citizens such as serial killers, spree-murders, or career criminals, though occasionally the songs will address larger groups, such as Hamas, ISIS, the IRA, and even in two separate instances the Chaos Insurgency and the Church of the Broken God.
A prototypical example of SCP-2137-1 is included here for reference.

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Jeff Riegert out there and still stalkin the night,
Killed his brother and five strangers with the same damn knife,
Now it's not my place to tell you what to do,
But I know what I would do if I were you
He hid the blade in an old barn off the North 111
He already killed six don't make it seven

When the crimes have been addressed and the guilty parties brought to light, either by the legal system or otherwise, SCP-2137-1 is immediately replaced by a new instance. However, the track is easily recorded through conventional means, recorded versions are not subject to change or replacement, and the original can be replayed from the CD endlessly before the killer is found, with no little variation. There are currently nearly one thousand instances of SCP-2137-1 on record.

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SCP-2137 was recovered in the home of Avon Lincoln, arrested for the vigilante slaying of Michael Ferris, who was later revealed to have been the Ojai Strangler, responsible for six murders over the summer of 1996.
Avon's insistence that Tupac Shakur spoke to him from beyond the grave and told him he had to take justice into his own hands, because Ferris' position as District Attorney would prevent a fair trial, drew the attention of Foundation agents after the song in question was produced as evidence in court.
Amnestics were administered to all involved, and Lincoln was released back into the general population.

Addendum 1a: The XK Incident:
Initially, researchers experimented with anonymously tipping off local police departments through Foundation plants, which led to the resolution of over ███ cold cases, including the recovery of SCP-██, SCP-████, and SCP-617, though no direct link has been established other than the murders involved.
However, after █ years this use of the SCP was deemed impractical; repeatedly addressing the crimes discussed in 2137's "music" was, in practice, allowing the SCP to dictate the circumstances of its containment, and under the wrong circumstances, opened the Foundation to potential exposure through continuous interaction with law enforcement at all levels across multiple governments.
In response to this, O5-9 ceased addressing the crimes in late 20██.
After two months passed, SCP-2137's behavior radically changed, when, for the first time, an instance of SCP-2137-1 was produced that revealed SCP-2137-2 had an awareness of its containment.

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You say you're about security but you ain't the good guys,
You redact and expunge man your silence is lies
You say you're here to protect yet you're letting killers run free
Don't make me show you how rough this south law can be
You couldn't stop the beat so don't you start this struggle
You better watch your tone unless you're looking for trouble
Maybe y'all should lay back and let me do my duty,
Locked in drawer feelin like y'all tryna screw me,
You're steppin all up on my destiny
You might not believe I'm the real Pac
But I'm not just a CD

The decision was made to halt testing entirely, rather than acquiesce.
After one week passed, an instance of SCP-2137-1 appeared spontaneously on the YouTube channel of Los Angeles-based hip hop station [DATA EXPUNGED], and in the lone hour before it was taken down accrued over █████ views.

"XK Scenario" Incident
The image displayed on the video was a still photograph, apparently authentic though by its nature highly anomalous. The photograph is of Shakur, estimated to be in his early forties,1 wearing the garb of Foundation D-Class Personnel, with his middle fingers raised. The accompanying song, titled "███ █████," focused on SCP-███, revealing its actual location and means by which it could be broken free of current containment procedures, and identified several members of the O5 Council by their first names as it described the function and nature of the Foundation.

In a massive sweeping operation involving the activation of multiple task forces across █ continents all trace of the video was erased, and all █████ viewers were administered Class-A Amnestics. Midway through this operation, an entire album titled "XK Scenario" was released to the iTunes account of Beyonce Knowles. Each song featured SCP-2137-2, as well as a variety of guest artists, and focused on a different Keter class SCP currently in captivity.
Though SCP tracking bots were able to bring "XK Scenario" down after only ███ downloads, complete digital eradication of the individual files has proven difficult. Though no loss of life or property was incurred, the sheer scale of the danger posed by this containment breach prompted a Foundation-wide state of high alert. This prompted an ongoing upgrade to all automatic SCP firewalls, and engendered the reclassification of SCP-2137 from Euclid to Keter.
The breach sparked heated debate as to how to proceed with the containment of (and conceptual understanding regarding) SCP-2137, which came to an end upon the appearance of a new instance of SCP-2137-1. This instance was produced spontaneously through the mouth of SCP-███, which appeared to fall into a trance state during the incident, with the lyrics, in totality, repeatedly written in what was identified as [DATA EXPUNGED] one hundred and seventeen thousand (117,000) times all over the interior of its containment chamber.

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Help me find my killers, and I'll find yours
Tryin' not to play the CD, you're startin' a war
You don't really wanna see me in flesh
I wouldn't hesitate to put you little nerds to rest
So feel my power
What if i told you that ████ ████ planned it all
What if the world knew that ███ ████ █ ███ bout to fall?
Don't try to play me cuz you need me inside
It was the reason ██████ ████████ had died
██████ ████████ I would never let her
████████ █████ was set up
████████ self████ to keep his head up
█████ █████ 19, and █████ ███
Is not what it seems
I may be rare and i can't be touched
And if you think about a plan imma fuck shit up
You try to hide but i see it all
And now i'm coming for your head like a tylenol
You don't wanna fall
Dressed in black like you can't be seen
I fight alone i don't need no team
So do your job cus i'm giving you tips
And put that whole CD in the Mix, Biatch

The decision was made to resume the former method of testing, involving the embedded informants used to relay SCP-2137's evidence and information, while continuing to study the method by which SCP-2137 transmits its broadcasts, in an effort to truly contain it completely. SCP-2137-2 resumed its previous behavioral pattern, SCP-2137-1s focusing on crimes until their killers are located by conventional law enforcement, with the exception of one final track — at this time, its last recorded direct interaction with the Foundation.

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I guess it took time for it to sink in
I'm just glad you understood what i was thinkin'
I just knew you'd come around so you see it now
Ain't no need to get upset or even throw down
You know i got the crown
I see it's hard to get some sleep at night
You got a head full of greys and your skin ain't tight
So lets be real ain't no need to fight it
There's a grander design i bet your gonna like it
It's black and white so don't get caught up in the deep thoughts
You got my music on the side with a greater force

Investigation into any kind of link or pattern between the crimes SCP-2137 solves is ongoing, as is interest to why it doesn't use its agency to pursue the criminals in question rather than working through proxies.

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EMAIL FROM SITE-515 DIRECTOR DR. GWEN PRISTINE
TO: O5 Council
RE: Regarding Tupac
This will be the fifth time I have written to propose an update to SCP-2137.
When they enter our program here at Site-515, researchers, engineers, MTF Troops, and even D-Class all walk in the door having read the official documentation, and believe the Foundation has been essentially blackmailed into cooperation with a devious SCP. But everyone who actually works here knows this is no longer the case.
In the nearly 3 decades since its containment, the Foundation's collaboration with SCP-2137 has led to recovery of dozens of SCPs. Our mobile task forces have deposed dictators and toppled tyrants, chased down rogue reality benders from Three Portlands to Lamplight, this of course, all adjacent to the arrest or end of nearly 30,000 murderers.
To add some perspective here: a serial killer hasn't made it past their third victim, anywhere on Earth, in fourteen years.
SCP-2137 has produced over 40,000 individual and unique pieces of music … function at Site-515 has become effectively frictionless. First it was just the Suge Knights. But as we became more effective at addressing SCP-2137's instruction, another MTF joined, then an Elite Division. Which brings us up to the present, where the five mobile task forces under my command are in constant action against forces all over planet Earth and beyond, all under the guidance of detailed strategy provided by the mysterious music from a compact disc that the Foundation has failed to adequately contain.
A silent, undocumented understanding has grown among us. The SCP does not simply “catch” murderers. It directly and aggressively searches out anything that maliciously takes a human life.
The amount of lives saved and untold disasters that have been prevented through the information 2137 supplies are at this point stupefying to contemplate, much less that it has been able to essentially bully us into a pattern of unilaterally heroic expenditures of Foundation resources.
It's little wonder that we show the highest numbers globally in Foundation morale tests. It makes sense of course; here at Site-515, “The SCP Foundation” is a fast action team of gun-slinging heroes, smashing cults, blowing away terrorists, and catching murderers and monsters in our spare time as we blast rap music out of landing attack hovercraft, or working behind the scenes, turning local cops into super sleuths and vigilantes into heroes.
But this period, as productive as it's been, has been intellectually stagnant. Throughout all of this, the motives and origin of 2137 remain a mystery, defying every search for a pattern, every algorithm-driven analysis. The research wing of the site has become a ghost town, as the MTF response barracks has grown to dominate everything, and perhaps rightfully so.
But a few young researchers have diligently continued a hunt for meaning, for greater truth behind SCP-2137-1. An unexpected advance in this area is behind the urgency in my message to you today. It had long been understood that the life of the actual Tupac Shakur held little information or relevance towards the mystery of SCP-2137's existence.
This has potentially changed.
Researcher Marija Cozlvich recently came across an unreleased interview with Shakur from 1994, two years before his death and three before the discovery of SCP-2137. The interview was buried by his managers because there was anxiety about Shakur's mental state in the footage, because he was speaking what they called “nonsense.”
I think you will agree that while Mr. Shakur may not be speaking clearly, what he actually says is very possibly of vital interest to the Foundation, and very definitely not nonsense.
I feel we may finally have, if not an answer, the beginnings of one. But I can say with certainty that in my entire time at the Foundation, I've never personally felt this excited.
So I start my proposal here: a Keter-class object actively interested in aiding the human race is not a Keter-class object at all.
I am officially re-submitting my proposal for SCP-2137 to at long last be redesignated Thaumiel-class object and for a quadrupling of our research team and site resource allocation. We must tug this thread and see where it leads us.
Perhaps after hearing the audio attached, you might finally agree.
DR. GWEN PRISTINE - Site director, Site 515

DOCUMENT - RECOVERED FOOTAGE 1L:
TUPAC SHAKUR, dressed casually, sits on a large red couch, smoking a marijuana cigarette, hunched forward and visibly heavily intoxicated, with drooping eyes and slightly slurred speech. He seems happy and jovial, and laughs often through the interview despite repeatedly becoming distracted by the presence of his entourage dancing and talking in the room.
His director and videographer Gobi Rahimi, sits nearby, and VH1 interviewer MILA VENDI, also visibly intoxicated, sits nearby.
The relevant portion begins 00:09:14 into the interview.
SHAKUR: People ask me where I get my inspiration from. They say how do you go so hard, put in that much work. But what they don't understand is: This is me taking a break. This is me on vacation. I think some people would say that was irresponsible, to just sit back and be human for a while, be an artist, experience that. I can't be chasing the king all the time. I feel like I've been doing that forever, to protect you, all of you. He's not so big. And you're not so small. But he's gotta trick you like it doesn't matter because that's the only way he can keep it looking like he's the man, like he's some big bad evil…motherfucker. You don't see that when I die, I'll live on. My death is my destiny, and then I become something else…what I was before. The voice will still shout, and it'll shout justice, in poetry, and art, and music! I got you. I got you, humanity. When I eventually go toe to toe and brawl with this fool, he's gonna gather up his little red dress and go home crying like a bitch, and he knows it. Evil knows its days are numbered. So the king's still running. The chase isn't over. Prepare. Prepare.
“Prepare.”

Footnotes
1. At the time of his murder in 1996, Shakur was twenty-five years old.

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Item #: SCP-2138
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2138 is contained in a pressurized canister, sealed inside an air-tight box. The box is stored in a standard containment locker at Site-73. Pressure sensors inside the canister are programmed to notify staff in case of any leak.
Response to any leak, or any other activity requiring the containment locker to be opened, is to be carried out by Level-1 personnel trained to operate the site's industrial vacuum system. In the event of containment breach by SCP-2138, all personnel with Level-3 security clearance and higher are to be evacuated from Site-73 immediately. Any persons exposed to SCP-2138 are to be quarantined in isolation pending Site Director instructions.
Research on SCP-2138 has been terminated following Incident SCP-2138-1. As a result of Incident SCP-2138-2, no instances of SCP-2138-A are available for further study.
Description: SCP-2138 is a light blue, odourless, gaseous substance of unknown composition. The substance is chemically inert with normal atmospheric gases, is not flammable, and exhibits a rapid rate of diffusion. Initial gas chromatography results were inconclusive, and further physical and chemical properties of SCP-2138 have not been established. SCP-2138 was generated as a by-product of Dr Isaacs' attempts to synthesise a less harmful alternative to current psychoactive substances used as "truth serums" in Foundation field work.1
Exposure to or inhalation of SCP-2138 results in no harmful physical effects on animal specimens tested, but humans exposed to the substance exhibit the anomalous effect referred to as SCP-2138-A. Whether SCP-2138 has the same anomalous effect on all sapient entities is unknown.
SCP-2138-A consists of the appearance of a dark rectangular shape (approximately 45 x 30 cm) above the subject's head. The shape displays a series of short statements in bright yellow text, with the series repeating over time. Each statement discloses information known to the subject alone, or to the subject and a limited set of others. The effect appears to be permanent, although a change in the subject's knowledge will affect the content of the statements displayed. SCP-2138-A is invisible to the subject, and attempts to interact physically with SCP-2138-A appear to be harmful to the subject.

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Incident Report: SCP-2138-1
Date: 05/21/20██
Location: Site-73, Research Laboratory 218-B – Dr Isaacs (Head of Site-73 Materials Research) supervising.
Note: After animal testing of SCP-2138 revealed no anomalous effects, human testing was commenced on Dr Isaacs' authority.

10:15 AM:

D-13962 is seated in the testing chamber. A low concentration of SCP-2138 is introduced via respirator.
D-13962 reports no pain or discomfort. D-13962's vital signs remain at baseline levels.

10:21 AM:

Observation team detects the appearance of SCP-2138-A above D-13962's head.
Observation team records the following statements:

"There is a stash of cigarettes under my mattress"
"[D-4435] disgusts me and I just pretend to like him"
"I did not kill my father but I lied to save my kid brother from jail"
"When those guys in robes attacked the labs I got shot but they were shooting at Dr Isaacs"
"There is a place called the Foundation and they have weird machines they are in an office block in Texas"

10:26 AM:

D-13962 is asked to look up and read the text on SCP-2138-A. D-13962 turns to look upward, but is unable to see SCP-2138-A.
D-13962 attempts to touch SCP-2138-A.
D-13962 suffers sudden drop in heart rate and respiration, and exhibits symptoms consistent with cardiac arrest.
Dr Isaacs enters the testing chamber, removes the respirator from D-13962 and commences CPR.
Observation team requests assistance from Foundation EMTs.
D-13962's circulation and respiration returns after 90 seconds of CPR.

10:34 AM:

Foundation EMTs arrive and remove D-13962 for transfer to medical bay.
An instance of SCP-2138-A appears above Dr Isaacs' head.
Observation team records the following statements:

"I know what D-13962 did for me and I switched his assignments to my safest projects"
"The true purpose of SCP-1176 is [REDACTED]"
[DATA EXPUNGED]2

10:50 AM:

Site Director is notified of security breach by Dr Isaacs.
Site Director authorises use of B-class amnestics for D-13962 and the observation team.

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Transcript of Post-Incident Debrief following Incident SCP-2138-1
Date: 05/21/20██
Time: 4:30 PM
Attendees: Site-73 Director, Dr Jan Isaacs

SD-73: Recording now. This is Site Director Garcia, noting for the record the outcome of my discussion with Dr Jan Isaacs following Incident SCP-2138-1. As discussed, Dr Isaacs, your involvement in the incident has given rise to what I could euphemistically call a human resources issue. For obvious reasons, we haven't been able to include HR representatives in this meeting - that's also why we're using audio recording, and not video.
Dr Isaacs: This is Dr Isaacs. For the record, I confirm that this approach has my full consent.
SD-73: So, where should we start?
Dr Isaacs: Well, our debate on the relative ethical merits of the use of clearance to adjust experimental assignments versus D Class treatment in general was, well, spirited, but let's gloss over that, shall we?
SD-73: Agreed. I think your current condition is more than sufficient punishment for any infractions in that regard. So, then we discussed the fact that you are now a serious security risk for this site, and the Foundation in general.
Dr Isaacs: You can't let me leave, nor can I work or interact with anyone without my current broad clearance. Basically you said you want to stick me in containment.
SD-73: That's not what -
Dr Isaacs: Sorry Alex, that was unfair. You didn't say that, but that doesn't change what it means from my perspective. You were offering me permanent residence at Site-73, in total isolation. We discussed in detail the likely psychological effects.
SD-73: We did. And in recognition of that fact, I offered you the chance to spend time with your family.
Dr Isaacs: On the condition that they live here permanently too! I mean, how did you think I could put my kids through living in this place, with the risks that we run every day, the -
SD-73: - you know that this site has the Foundation's cleanest record in terms -
Dr Isaacs: - and how could I look at them and tell them they have to leave their friends, their lives -
SD-73: - a larger purpose to consider. Jan. Jan! I don't think we need to rehash this again.
Dr Isaacs: I'm sorry, Alex, but that's easy for you to say. It's not your life.
SD-73: It wasn't my choice that led to this. Look, we've worked together a long time. Are you sure about this?
Dr Isaacs: I'm sure. Having discussed at length, I have requested that, in lieu of contai- in lieu of quarantine or termination, I am to be given an F-Class amnestic.
SD-73: I'd like to record a formal caution on this request - Jan, you know that it won't be you any more. It's a total personality overwrite.
Dr Isaacs: I know. But my new personality won't know any of the secrets I'm revealing now - I won't be a security risk. And I'll live. I mean, the whole point of this research in the first place was to avoid unnecessary harm.
SD-73: We still won't be able to let you leave.
Dr Isaacs: No, but I won't go mad thinking of the life that was taken away from me, and perhaps I can be of some use. Make me a clerk, or a janitor. Even a D Class.
SD-73: Okay, then. I formally grant the request. Dr Isaacs will be given an F-Class amnestic and reassigned based on the replacement personality. For all external and internal purposes, this will be treated as death in the course of meritorious service to the Foundation, with full benefits to the family. This recording is to be treated as Clearance 4/General-73.
Dr Isaacs: Thank you, Site Director. Alex.
SD-73: Jan, before we finish. What you've done for the site, over the years. I want to say - what you have been trying to do, I - I respect it. I - anyway. Ah, I guess I'll call the amnestics team. We can stop recording now.

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Incident Report: SCP-2138-2
Date: 05/29/20██
Location: Site-73, D-Class secure accommodation wing - hallway R-12
6:34 PM: A minor riot was reported during the return of Class D personnel to quarters following the completion of daily testing. Security personnel have attested that the inciting factor was a violent assault by D-4435 on D-13962. D-13962 later died of his injuries. One other Class D (yet to be designated an identification number) suffered a fatal heart attack whilst intervening in the riot, and fifteen Class D personnel were injured.

Footnotes
1. Dr Isaacs' research notes are classified, and are available to personnel with 2138/4 clearance.
2. Comprising a series of further statements revealing Level-4 classified information.

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Item #: SCP-2139
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Site-35 is currently inoperative, and is not to be accessed by Foundation personnel. A recovery plan is in development for the removal of individual Keter and Euclid-class anomalies from Site-35 without recovery teams being compromised by the effects of SCP-2139. All retrieved anomalies will be contained temporarily at Site-73. Once existing anomalies have been removed, a testing regime is to be established for the identification of SCP-2139 on an objective basis, with objects confirmed negative for SCP-2139 to be removed from the site individually and stored or disposed of at the discretion of the Site-73 director.
Former staff of Site-35 are to be held in quarantine at Site-73, pending confirmation that they are no longer affected by SCP-2139. Upon release from quarantine, staff are to be reassigned to alternative projects until Site-35 reopens.
Description: SCP-2139 is the provisional designation for a potentially anomalous psychological phenomenon which occurred at Foundation Site-35, located 53km North of Alexandria, Louisiana. The effect is theorised to be generated by an anomalous object or objects.
Based on the evidence available, SCP-2139 is believed to greatly increase the credulity and suggestibility of persons affected by the anomaly. Affected persons do not have insight into their condition. Initial testing of former Site-35 personnel indicates that the psychological effect is anomalous, and fades over a period of one month after exposure to SCP-2139 ceases. Further research will be required to confirm that SCP-2139 behaviours are not the result of ordinary crowd psychology effects.
Formal testing of SCP-2139 itself has not been possible, as the entirety of Site-35 appears to have been affected by the anomaly before the existence of SCP-2139 was confirmed. This has also prevented the identification of the object or objects purportedly giving rise to the anomalous effect.
Addendum 2139/1 - Site-35 Daily Briefings
Below are relevant extracts from Site-35's scheduled daily briefings to US central command. On 17 January 2016, Command noted that Site-35 had a higher rate of research proposals than usual, and queried the reason for this increase.
18 January 2016

We have discussed the growth of research proposals with the heads of department, and their reports indicate that researchers are generating more ideas than usual to explain the anomalies secured on site. At this stage our working hypothesis is that there is some form of interaction between the anomalies on-site that is causing a positive feedback loop and making their properties more readily ascertainable.

19 January 2016

You're correct, of course, that any anomalous interaction would have shown up before now - we have discarded that possibility. We are now wondering whether the effect is the result of a new anomaly, yet to be classified.
Testing across the site with Kant-counters has shown no unexpected readings, which we interpret as evidence that this new anomaly must have a side-effect of disabling Foundation technology. That would also explain why none of the Scranton Reality Gauge Alarms were triggered.
Noting that this could be a more serious situation than originally anticipated, we have cancelled all non-essential staff leave as a precaution.

20 January 2016

Alternatively, the anomalous effect could simply be to enhance creativity and generate more research proposals in that manner. A behavioural influence, rather than an effect on reality, would explain why the anomaly doesn't give rise to abnormal Hume readings.
Dr. Carter has raised the point that, if the anomaly is focused so narrowly on assisting the development of original thought, it is unlikely to have arisen naturally. The question is: who would have the ability and incentive to construct such an anomaly, and for what purpose?

21 January 2016

On reflection, we agree with you that the anomaly appears to affect credulity, rather than creativity. Our previous theories have been discarded, and we have initiated a site-wide lockdown. We are looking into potential sources of the anomalous effects, based on when symptoms first became evident.

22 January 2016

Investigations have uncovered the following potential sources of the anomaly:

Uncommonly mild winter weather through January 2016, potentially indicating a meteorological phenomenon
Extended D-Class testing of SCP-1011 during November 2015
Change of Site-35 supplier of cardboard boxes on 1 December 2015
15 August 2015 - further amendments to SUSEOCT (Southern United States Extranormal Organization Cooperation Treaty) on behalf of the Foundation and representatives of UIU and Marshall, Carter and Dark LLP
Third anniversary of the death of former Region 352 Director John O'June in January 2016
Unscheduled visit on 4 January 2016 by Site Director Aktus, Site-81

We will advise further as our hypotheses develop.

23 January 2016

Numerological combinatorics to assess congruence between January temperatures and significant dates in Director O'June's life has so far yielded few results. At Dr. Yu's suggestion, we will incorporate the section numbers of SUSEOCT amendments into our next iteration.
Separately, cross-checking of Foundation containment files to which we have access has turned up several possibilities which we think Command should investigate further. SCP-2366 and SCP-2604 are both mind-affecting anomalies stemming from otherwise-ordinary wood and wood-derived products. Both are deliberately manufactured, and would fit with our working theory of an intentionally designed anomaly. They could also easily evade standard detection - when everyone is looking at the trees, the wood is the one thing on Earth no-one has their eyes on. There could be other similar anomalies out there, hidden in plain sight.
We hereby request delivery of samples of SCP-2366 and SCP-2604 to Site-35 for comparative analysis with our supplies of cardboard boxes.

24 January 2016

The Site-35 management committee, having debated at length, are agreed that cardboard boxes are the most likely source of the anomaly. All site resources have now been devoted to this investigation - we look forward to your response to our requisition request.
Senior Researcher Michaels has noted that the new supplier for the boxes was "Apollo Office Supplies Inc.". Could this company be related to the Order of the Hyacinth, responsible for the death of Director O'June? According to Greek myth, Hyacinth was a lover of the god Apollo, suggesting a connection. The infestation of Louisiana by water hyacinth is well-known, and several staff have since corroborated reports of increased growth of the plant in bodies of water near the site. Water hyacinth is also known as the Terror of Bengal. Please advise.

25 January 2016

Please respond to our previous requests. The general staff population are very concerned about the Order of the Hyacinth plot to destabilise Site-35, and silence from Command will encourage further talk of complicity in this scheme by Foundation personnel outside the site.
We have discovered that the change of cardboard box supplier was confirmed by one "Declan Hall". No person of that name is on the current Site-35 staff list, and we have been unable to discover any such person on the Foundation database. Presuming that the HR records have not been redacted by co-conspirators in RAISA, this appears to have been a fake name, suggesting an inside job.
As the Order of the Hyacinth is a Catholic sedevacantist sect, we have taken the precaution of confining all known Catholic staff in the D-Class barracks.

26 January 2016

We continue to generate theories as to the source of the anomaly. Our previous cardboard box theory has been supplanted by new analysis suggesting that the anomaly could be caused by a single object with a large area of effect, or by a liquid or gas that is able to move around the site undetected.
We accept that the detention of certain staff members may have been disproportionate, and they have been released. Indeed, we now consider that the anomaly may have been deliberately made to look like the work of a Catholic sect in order to frame innocent staff, and that the real perpetrators of this conspiracy have been manipulating the situation throughout.
Could you please share with us information about the movements of Director Aktus between June 2015 and today. Certain staff have raised concerns that his visit may not have been as unscheduled as it originally appeared. Further data is required in order to ascertain the full extent of his involvement.

27 January 2016

Negative, Command: we strongly advise against shutting down Site-35. Our investigations into the anomaly continue to generate new leads, in a number of different directions, which should be pursued to the fullest extent by the site community. We recognise that we are under the influence of the anomaly, but we do not understand why you have dismissed our contention that it was deliberately engineered as a threat to the Foundation. Surely the anomaly's effect puts us in the best position to develop theories as to its source?
The removal of personnel or objects risks the loss of containment of the anomaly within site walls, before it is formally identified. Taking objects off-site, or worse, to other Foundation sites, risks cross-contamination of anomalous properties and could cause a cascade effect, with further sites compromised by the anomaly. This could be exactly what the anomaly's creators want.
We are very concerned with Command's attitude to our advice and updates. We have noted your refusal (or inability?) to provide us with details of Director Aktus' movements, and thus the suppression of our quest for the truth. Please be advised that, as of this time, we will consider any Foundation approach to the site as evidence of collusion with the person or group behind this anomaly, and will respond with force.

On 28 January 2016, MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") was deployed to establish control over Site-35. [REDACTED]. The site was eventually subdued with no further casualties and all personnel and affected MTF members removed to Site-73 for quarantine.

« SCP-2138 | SCP-2139 | SCP-2140 »


SCP-2140

Item #: SCP-2140
Object Class: Thaumiel (SCP-2140-1-D is considered Neutralized)
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2140 poses no threat to Foundation personnel. Deployment to counter hostile SCP-2140-1 instances under the conditions of Appendix A is authorized. Expanded deployment against other threats must be approved on a case-by-case basis by O5 command and the Ethics Committee.
Every possible effort should be made to prevent creation or discovery of additional instances. Any person exposed to, or possessing significant knowledge (as defined in Appendix C) of any SCP-2140-1 instance is to be terminated, amnesticized or exposed to SCP-2140 at the discretion of the Strategic Threats Officer.
The fragments of the only known copy of SCP-2140-1-D are permanently sealed in secure deep storage at the facilities listed in Appendix E.

Area-313 Deep Storage

Description: SCP-2140 is an image derived through Project Kallinikos from SCP-2140-1-D. SCP-2140-1 instances are alternative versions of the image. All instances depict glyphs in the [REDACTED] script.
While it is possible for persons of any background to view isolated portions, 100% of persons who view a complete SCP-2140 (regardless of medium) are loyal Foundation personnel with 2/2140 clearance or higher. These persons invariably have highly corroborated personal histories (with multiple eyewitnesses, known Foundation colleagues, and documentation) consistent with this profile. The presence of corroborating physical evidence supports the hypothesis that this is a retroactive alteration to personal history such that the person will always have been a loyal Foundation employee with appropriate clearance. It is suspected that this anomaly follows a "path of least resistance" and alters the minimum necessary number of events (Appendix B). No record exists of any experimental test subjects (such as D-Class personnel) or any other person lacking appropriate background and clearance viewing the complete image.
SCP-2140-1-D was first located at the [REDACTED] dig site ███ km west of [REDACTED], Uzbekistan. Irregularities in the dig team's reports were noted and due to the nature of the dig site, a memetic hazard was suspected. MTF Eta-10 ("See No Evil") was deployed and faced heavy resistance from the dig team. The researchers and security personnel were later discovered to have been a covert cell within the Foundation dedicated to the retrocreation of [REDACTED] and were killed resisting capture.1
Following recovery, Project Kallinikos was enacted. The project's separate teams analyzed sections of SCP-2140-1-D in isolation. Their findings were given to the compartmentalized implementation team which was then able to produce a working prototype of SCP-2140 with zero exposure to the original. All members of the project (including all personnel exposed to early prototypes) were subsequently exposed to SCP-2140 and amnesticized.

Footnotes
1. Ultimately MTF η-10 suffered three casualties as a result of SCP-2140-1-D exposure. Agent Swanson was presumably exposed first and then deliberately affected Agents Kim and Okoro. Subsequently these three agents were discovered to have represented another deep cell (despite originating on three separate continents and knowing each other for less than a year) and were killed attempting to access SCP-███ .

« SCP-2139 | SCP-2140 | SCP-2141 »


Item #: SCP-2141
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: As of 7/04/20██, the entrance to the tunnel in which SCP-2141 resides must always remain unobstructed. Mobile Task Force Omega-23, under the command of Site Administrator L██████, has been designated as the primary unit responsible for secure containment procedure regarding SCP-2141.
Logistics for containment of SCP-2141 are provided by Provisional Containment Site-141, located at 44.0437° N, 73.9265° W, 6 km due east-by-northeast of SCP-2141. This Site operates under the front of a Forest Service outpost.
When SCP-2141-1 emerges from SCP-2141 and attempts escape, personnel must record the date and time of the anomaly's appearance and its observable movement patterns, including average velocity and any instances of SCP-2141-1 delving underground. Following acquisition of requested data, personnel must fire upon SCP-2141-1 with rubber ammunition, only, until it is incapacitated. Personnel must lastly contact Site Administrator L██████ to confirm that SCP-2141 has retrieved SCP-2141-1 and returned to its underground dormant state.
Description: SCP-2141 is an immense earthworm-like creature located within a derelict tunnel at 44.0345° N, 73.9416° W, near the Adirondack Mountains. SCP-2141's dimensions exceed the dimensions of the tunnel, with an average diameter of 8.5 m and a currently undefined length; no instance of SCP-2141's emergence has resulted in the emergence of its entire body. It is theorized that SCP-2141 is a spatial anomaly, able to “condense” its body while within the tunnel in order to compensate for its massive size.
Mild video and radio interference occurs within approximately 5 km of the tunnel's entrance. However, all electronic equipment used beyond 49 m of the entrance becomes permanently nonfunctional.
Following Incident-2141-I, SCP-2141 periodically emerges from a chasm of unknown depth estimated 200 m beyond the entrance of the tunnel between intervals of 23 18 days. Upon emergence, SCP-2141 deposits SCP-2141-1 at approximately 50 m within the tunnel.
SCP-2141-1 is a disfigured female humanoid believed to be a thorough mutation of the body of Mrs. ████ █████████ after extensive exposure to SCP-2141. Its prominent features include a severely bloated abdomen as well as a viscous coating of pale yellow fluid. To achieve displacement, SCP-2141-1 aligns itself face-up and parallel to surfaces upon which it “slithers,” using this fluid to mitigate frictional forces. This fluid also bestows SCP-2141-1 increased resistance to physical trauma, allowing the anomaly in one event to survive and make limited recovery from lower body amputation.
Following Incident-2141-II, SCP-2141 is considered to be using SCP-2141-1 as a form of gestational “nesting probe” to discover suitable habitats for the birth of its offspring. Consequentially, SCP-2141 is fiercely protective of SCP-2141-1 and will immediately pursue it if it is incapacitated. However, SCP-2141 does not appear to respond to other non-fatal damage to SCP-2141-1.
Unless SCP-2141-1 is incapacitated outside of the tunnel during escape attempts, SCP-2141 does not attempt egress, facilitating containment procedures. However, SCP-2141 will not return to its dormant state unless it has retrieved SCP-2141-1 following incapacitation. When undergoing retrieval SCP-2141's high speeds (between 5██ and ███ kph) and size cause extensive damage to the landscape as a consequence of its size.
In rare circumstances, SCP-2141-1 has been known to emulate the behavior of SCP-2141, such as its velocity and tendency to momentarily delve underground (See Incident 2141-III).

+ Incident 2141-I (5/31/20██):

- Incident 2141-I (5/31/20██):

Regarding the emergence of SCP-2141: Discovery of SCP-2141 occurred during routine SAR1 mapping of the Northeastern U.S. in an effort to detect further instances of subterranean anomalies following discovery and containment of SCP-███. Radar imaging due northwest of the Adirondack Park revealed imaging distortion surpassing absolute thresholds, prompting researchers to send one (1) remote-controlled GPR2 unit to the affected coordinates to conduct a subsurface survey. Electromagnetic interference prevented the unit from detecting subsurface anomalies, but a video feed attached to the unit, while subject to interference, eventually discovered SCP-2141's habitat at the above coordinates, upon discovering a trail not found on any known maps.
Foundation agents embedded in the Forest Service were activated to secure the perimeter of the tunnel. However, agents reported that it existed within the private property of the █████████ family, consisting of one vacation home seasonally occupied by a married couple of one (1) year (Mr. █████ █████████ and Mrs. ████ █████████). Discrete surveillance and exploration of the area continued, and two (2) field agents posing as Forest Service rangers were sent to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. █████████ upon their arrival to extract official permission to survey the tunnel under the guise of removing hazardous material and dangerous local fauna.
Upon the arrival of field agents to his home, Mr. █████ █████████ reacted violently when questioned regarding the tunnel housing SCP-2141, lunging at the agents with a ceremonial knife which could not be recovered from the scene. Agents responded with force, shooting Mr. █████ █████████ twice in the abdomen. The wounds were believed to be non-fatal, but upon being injured, Mr. █████ █████████ self-terminated by slashing his throat. Within three (3) minutes, SCP-2141 arrived at the seasonal home, demolishing the structure and "consuming" Mrs. █████ █████████.
The surviving agent was gravely injured, but managed to recover the following document upon arrival of Foundation personnel on-scene.

Document recovered from the home of Mr. █████ █████████
The mother must not be denied her offspring.
Though tomorrow I betray your trust, beloved, know that it is in the service of maternity beyond the ken of both man and woman. And know that I shall pay for any wrong I have done unto you in my own blood, as is the cost of paternity.
But the father must not be denied his birthright.
Though my father, and my father's father, and their fathers before them all failed to fulfill their paternal obligation, my father did pass on to me the knowledge of how to claim my inheritance. Yet it is not the will of my forefathers I invoke, but the will of primordial existence long denied the fruits of labor undeservedly enjoyed by humanity.
Do you not know, ‘twas not for humanity that carnal knowledge was intended, but the Wyrm?
We depart in the scorching condemnation of daylight. I feel my resolve wavering before me in the lines of stinking heat. But tonight, the moon shall be full with the promise of delivery. And so let deliverance come.
No, I shall not ask for forgiveness. You will not bear our son, but you will bear witness to something infinitely greater. In your twenty-first year of womanhood, you shall free us from our original sin.

The organism revealed to reside within the tunnel's chasm has since been termed SCP-2141. Both individuals are now effectively considered deceased. Ownership of the territory surrounding SCP-2141's habitat has since been transferred directly to the Foundation, facilitating effective containment.

+ Incident 2141-II (6/23/20██):

- Incident 2141-II (6/23/20██):

Regarding Mrs. ████ █████████'s reappearance: Until further notice, SCP-2141-1 has been designated to describe all instances of Mrs. ████ █████████'s reemergence. The first such emergence occurred at 8:41 p.m. on 6/23/20██, interrupting research being conducted near the tunnel to determine the geological age of the site.
Senior Researcher L██████ ordered personnel to non-lethally incapacitate SCP-2141-1 for retrieval and biopsy to confirm her hypothesis that SCP-2141 had selected Mrs. ████ █████████ as a host for its offspring. She further ordered personnel to delay recovering SCP-2141-1 in the event that SCP-2141 emerged in an attempt to reclaim the body.
SCP-2141 emerged shortly after incapacitation of SCP-2141-1 and reclaimed its body before immediately returning underground. Senior Researcher L██████ thus recommends incapacitation of SCP-2141-1 immediately after any initial appearance. Containment procedures have been adjusted accordingly.
While researchers were unable to collect SCP-2141-1 for testing, fluids collected on the scene left by SCP-2141-1 are somewhat consistent with trace elements of amniotic fluid. Senior Researcher L██████'s earlier conjecture that SCP-2141 may be incubating offspring between intervals of its emergence is considered confirmed.
Senior Researcher L██████ received a promotion to Provisional Site Administrator for her prudence and leadership on-site.
Tests conducted regarding the geological age of the area within and immediately surrounding the tunnel were inconclusive.

+ Incident 2141-III (7/04/20██):

- Incident 2141-III (7/04/20██):

Following Incident-2141-II, provisional containment procedures were established under order of Site Administrator L██████, including the construction of a barricade to obstruct the motion of SCP-2141-1. At 2:37 p.m. (within six (6) minutes of finalization of construction), SCP-2141-1 appeared just outside of the constructed barrier, emerging from underground. It immediately moved due south-by-southwest at an approximated velocity of between 5██ and ███ kph, continuing to delve underground and resurface between very short intervals as few as 0.03 s. At the time such movement patterns were unprecedented, and on-site personnel were unable to incapacitate SCP-2141-1 and prevent containment breach.
SCP-2141-1 was instead incapacitated following a collision on Interstate 91 with a trailer truck, which resulted in the amputation of SCP-2141-1 above the knees. SCP-2141 reclaimed both the incapacitated body of SCP-2141-1 and its severed remains upon arrival.
Foundation agents on the scene reported 7█ casualties, 1█ of which were Foundation personnel. Additionally, severe structural damage was caused to Interstate-91, with property damage incurred of $8,███,███.██.
The aftermath was publicly explained as a series of avalanches, mudslides, and sinkholes prompted by nearby activity of the ████ & ███████ Drilling Company. After the consequential bankruptcy of the company, the Foundation was able to significantly increase its presence in the area near SCP-2141 by offering front services to repair damages and by occupying many vacant Forest Service positions.
In spite of having travelled a distance of ███ km, SCP-2141 was noted to be continuous for the entire length of its “head” to its initial point of origin. Additionally, the anomaly has been determined to be the source of video and radio interference originating within SCP-2141, with this effect extending along its entire length. It is believed that this interference results from the anomalous spatial effects caused by SCP-2141. Class A Amnestics administered by agents posing as paramedics on scene thus ensured that the public remained unaware of SCP-2141's existence.

+ Interview Log 2141-████20██ (██/██/20██):

Interview Log 2141-████20██ (██/██/20██):

Interviewed: Provisional Containment Site-141 Administrator, D███ L██████ (“DL-141”)
Interviewer: Site-28 Administrator (“Admin-28”)
Location: Site-28, New York, New York
<Begin Log: 7:25 p.m., ██/██/20██>
DL-141: An interview room. What the fuck.
Admin-28: You called me; you told me it was serious. Now it's serious. This is standard procedure. You have urgent information to share regarding 2141, correct? You think we had you airlifted from upstate so you could make a courtesy call? “Off-the-books” isn't a card you have in your hand right now, D███.
DL-141: I called the O5s, – (pauses) – “twenty-eight,” not you. They “deferred” me to your – (snorts) – “expertise.”
Admin-28: The point, D███. What the O5s decide isn't something I decide, you know that.
DL-141: Don't give me that crap. This is because of Incident[-2141]-III. They don't trust my – what's the term? Operational judgment? Professional discretion? What's the terminology for you all thinking I'm “a hysterical bitch”? You all air-hauled me out here so I could explain myself.
Admin-28: There was a lot of damage. Not only Foundation lives lost, but civilians'. We cleaned it up – we're still cleaning it up – but I think it's reasonable if the O5-Council would like someone to confirm that what you have for us today isn't going to result in another –
DL-141: So this is “the point,” huh? Fuck you, twenty-eight. You think you would have done better? You've seen the reports. “Unprecedented.” I – we – had no reason to believe that blocking off 2141-1's exit – to such a limited extent, I might add – would cause a containment breach. The damn thing's – (pauses) – she's been learning.
Admin-28: From SCP-2141. You claim.
DL-141: It's fucking Euclid-class, twenty-eight. Most of what I have is claims. But they're claims backed by solid evidence. Since Incident 2141-I, she's –
Admin-28: “It.” “SCP-2141-1.” I would think that at your position you would have learned a degree of professional distance, D███. (quietly) Lord knows I've had to.
DL-141: (silent)
Admin-28: Look, Administrator. We're on your side. But you have to understand that this isn't politics. This is protection. These are priorities. Secure, contain –
DL-141: Protect. (sighs) I know. (pauses) I fucked up. (quietly) I fucked up.
Admin-28: You “made an operational error due to the high variability of anomalous properties complicating containment.” (quieter) You need to get used to this, D███. You're right. We – I've – seen the reports. And there were other researchers on-site who agreed with your decision to revise containment procedure. Those deaths aren't your fault any more than SCP-2141-1's predicament is – (pauses) – the fault of the “deceased” wife. The only one who's to blame is – well actually, it might as well be our reality.
DL-141: (laughs) This is some kind of psych eval, huh?
Admin-28: (laughs) As I said, standard protocol. We don't think you're – what was your term?
DL-141: “A highly-pressured upper-level employee of the Foundation subject to typical stressors and psychological distress in the course of professional operations.”
Admin-28: You're learning.
DL-141: Yeah, I guess I am.
Admin-28: We are taking you seriously, D███. What do you have for us?
DL-141: (exhales) Here. (hands a document to Admin-28)
Admin-28 (reading): Increased instances of SCP-2141 delving underground. (continues reading) And SCP-2141-1 is emerging at a greater average frequency.
DL-141: Around every eighteen days or so.
Admin-28: But existing containment procedure has been effective?
DL-141: If this keeps up, they won't be.
Admin-28: What do you mean?
DL-141: Like I was saying – (pauses) – it's learning. The anomaly is emulating the behavior – and in some cases, the appearance – of SCP-2141. That viscous coating – she's had that from day one, but we've noticed other things.
Admin-28: Such as?
DL-141: Her eyes. Her sclerae, her irides, they've darkened considerably. And what looks like cataracts on her eyes makes us think she's not using them – if she ever was. For the first few emergences after – (pauses) – after Incident 2141-III, she was bumping into walls, moving more erratically – but that's since stabilized. SCP-2141 doesn't have eyes – how it gets around, how it detects SCP-2141-1's location is all a mystery to us – so that's just one piece of evidence that SCP-2141-1 is becoming more like its…
Admin-28: Progenitor.
DL-141: Yes. But there's others.
Admin-28: The delving underground, the erratic velocities.
DL-141: Yes. Nothing like what we saw during Incident 2141-III, but enough to make us worry. If it ever exhibits that kind of behavior again…
Admin-28: Existing containment procedures won't suffice.
DL-141: Correct.
Admin-28: Are you proposing terminating SCP-2141-1 to prevent containment breach?
DL-141: Fuck no. For all we know the thing can probably regenerate. (hesitates) I'm proposing – (pauses) – “neutralizing” SCP-2141.
Admin-28: I – what? How? The sheer size alone – if we even could kill it –
DL-141: - Neutralize it.
Admin-28: (pauses) Neutralize it – how would we –
DL-141: Dispose of the remains? I know. But something has to be done. I – I tried hindering the movement of SCP-2141-1. It doesn't work, and I do not recommend trying it again. Even if it could work, the costs of a mistake are – they're excessive. Especially if we don't get the kind of godsend we got from that frickin' 18-wheeler. (pauses) Do you know how close its projected path put it to this Site? What would have happened if that truck hadn't hit it?
Admin-28: And then we don't even know what would have happened if the collision had neutralized it.
DL-141: Exactly. And look, further down.
Admin-28 (reading): “Personnel on-site have additionally reported increased seismic activity in the immediate vicinity of SCP-2141 while dormant.” Fuck.
DL-141: Exactly, again. And we can't get a reading of whatever is happening down there. Interference blocks off all attempts to use GPR beyond █ km.
Admin-28: Jesus Christ.
DL-141: So you see why I'm here. There's a timetable on this. We don't know what SCP-2141 is doing in response to our containment procedures. We can't guarantee that any containment procedure we do design will prevent unprecedented anomalous behavior. This isn't the first time that a scip has presented a threat to existing containment procedures, but this one is coming faster than we're ready to deal with it. Those greater frequencies of SCP-2141-1's emergence – they represent decreases in the time it takes for SCP-2141 to incubate one of its offspring.
Admin-28: What do you have to support that claim?
DL-141: Not much. But if these things need to be carried to term, as they apparently do, it's unlikely that all the shit we put SCP-2141-1 through allows those gestating shits to survive inside of her. At the very least, we think SCP-2141 is doing damage control whenever it reclaims SCP-2141-1. Rehabilitating the trauma to the infant. But even one more of these things would be hell on our ability to contain the situation. Not to mention hell on our budget.
Admin-28: I've yet to see hell freeze over cold enough to freeze out our funds, D███.
DL-141: Yeah, and that's probably because it'll be the last thing you see.
Admin-28: True. (pauses) I'm sending a log of our conversation over to the O5. I'll endorse your recommendation. We're prioritizing termination of SCP-2141.
DL-141: Fantastic. (sound of shuffling sheaves of paper)
Admin-28: Wait. One more thing.
DL-141: What is it? I've got a flight to catch, in less than five minutes, apparently.
Admin-28: That document from Incident 2141-I. The O5 wants your assessment of it. It's not included in the report.
DL-141: That lunatic's writings? (laughs derisively) I don't know what the hell he's on about, and frankly, I don't care. Maybe there is some pre-civilization legend about this thing we're dealing with. (quietly) What I am worried about is that there might be more idiots like him. Or even other locations where things like this are lying dormant. (pauses) My assessment of that document is that there is only one SCP-2141, given the way he refers to the anomaly as unique. But it's not an airtight conclusion.
Admin-28: As you said, few things are. Keep up the good work.
<End log: 7:58 p.m., ██/██/20██>

Site Administrator L██████ has since been cleared of all charges of misconduct or negligence in her operational duties.

Footnotes
1. Synthetic aperture radar
2. Ground-penetrating radar

« SCP-2140 | SCP-2141 | SCP-2142 »


Item #: SCP-2142
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Individual instances of SCP-2142 require no special containment procedures, and are to be stored in a Bulk Storage Unit at Site-33. Testing of SCP-2142 may only occur in soundproof testing chambers of Class 3 or higher.
Although individual instances of SCP-2142 can be stored with minimal upkeep, SCP-2142's methods of propagation or generation are not currently understood. MTF Delta-7 ("Sci Fidelity") is assigned the task of identifying, intercepting, and cataloging individual instances of SCP-2142. MTF Delta-7 is authorized to employ Class-B amnestics and administer Corrective Procedure 271 in civilian populations as they deem necessary. Research into SCP-2142 and its effects should focus on identifying songs, albums and artists likely to be an infection vector for SCP-2142.
Foundation personnel exposed to SCP-2142 and determined to be under its effects can opt to undergo Corrective Procedure 27 and be re-assigned to another project. Personnel who will not consent to Corrective Procedure 27 are instead to report to Site-33's resident psychiatrist for a mandatory monthly evaluation and lessons in lucid dreaming techniques.
Description: SCP-2142 designates any compact disc (78% of known instances), vinyl recording (18%), or cassette tape (4%) which induces the "Lavinia Complex"2, an anomalous psychological disorder, in the listener. 1,8██ instances of SCP-2142 are currently in containment, with an unknown quantity of additional instances existing outside of containment.
Listeners exposed to SCP-2142 will suffer from an anomalous sleep disorder dubbed the "Lavinia Complex" by its discoverer, Dr. Nadeem █████████3. Individuals suffering from a Lavinia Complex invariably dream about consuming the metacarpals and carpals of their own hands, along with all attendant flesh, tendons and muscle tissue. Subjects describe these dreams as vivid and unsettling. Those suffering from the complex also report anxiety, insomnia and hypnophobia; subjects tend to dread sleeping for any length of time.
Of the Lavinia Complex sufferers the Foundation has been able to interview, subjects report that they dream every night, regardless of the length of their sleep. Even subjects who sleep for less than 90 minutes4 wake up to report nightmares involving self-cannibalization of the subject's hands. The dreams fit two major narratives:
Type A: Type A dreams are vivid, gruesome and detailed, consisting solely of the subject's consumption of their own hands. Other details of the dream, such as where the dream occurred and whether or not the dreamer was alone, fade from memory when the subject awakes. Typical individuals suffering from the Lavinia Complex report that 90% or more of their dreams are Type A.
Type B: Type B dreams have wildly divergent narratives, but always end with the dreamer consuming or about to consume their hands, then shortly thereafter waking. For example, one subject described exploring a tropical island and meeting friendly natives that invited him to a feast. The feast's main course was revealed to be several charred human hands, skewered through the palms on wooden stakes. The subject then noticed that his own hands had been severed at the wrist before he awoke. Some Lavinia Complex sufferers never experience a Type B dream, but most experience a Type B dream at least once in their lifetime. Subjects that profess to be lucid dreamers report much higher rates of Type B dreams, with over 60% of their dreams following the Type B narrative.
SCP-2142 has only been discovered to affect album recordings by a limited number of artists. Additionally, only certain tracks appear to trigger5 the Lavinia Complex in listeners, while other tracks may only induce the anomalous disorder after repeated exposure. Below is a list of all songs and albums known to potentially be instances of SCP-2142.
Current Known Potential SCP-2142 Vessels:

Album
Artists
Date of Discovery
Details

The Lonesome Crowded West
Modest Mouse
1999
In affected albums, Track 13 "Polar Opposites" appears to be an ideal host for SCP-2142, triggering the Lavinia Complex in 100% of listeners.

Sad, Sappy Sucker
Modest Mouse
2001
In affected albums, Track 2 "Four Fingered Fisherman" and Track 13 "Red Hand Case" induce the Lavinia Complex in approximately 23% of listeners. After this was discovered, █████ █████ was designated PoI (Person of Interest) 2142-01.

Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
2002
Track 3 "Cecilia" appears to be an ideal SCP-2142 host, again triggering the Lavinia Complex in 100% of listeners. Upon discovery, █████ █████'s designation as PoI 2142-01 was rescinded.

I Want to Hold Your Hand
The Beatles
2002
The eponymous track appears to be an ideal host in the original 1963 recording, infecting 100% of subjects listening to affected albums. The song itself has proven to be a potential host for SCP-2142 even in later re-printings or when featured on compilation albums, resulting in infection rates of approximately 34% in those instances.

All albums and songs
████ ████ █████ ███ ████
2005
The studio recordings of indie rock band ████ ████ █████ ███ ████ appear to be a highly fecund source of SCP-2142 instances. The band's entire discography serves as a potential host for instances of SCP-2142, with 32% of listeners developing the Lavinia Complex after exposure to affected albums. Track 1 "Clap Your Hands!" off the band's eponymous, debut album is noted as having an infection rate of 100%. The members of ████ ████ █████ ███ ████ may be designated as PoI 2142-02; currently pending O5-█'s approval.

The Fruit That Ate Itself
Modest Mouse
2010
Track 4 "Dirty Fingernails" is a very weak host for SCP-2142, with affected albums inducing Lavinia Complex in only 11% of listeners. █████ █████'s re-designation as PoI 2142-01 is currently pending O5-█'s approval.

Songs for Children Volume █
Various unaccredited artists
2011
Track 3 "If You're Happy and You Know It" was discovered to be a highly effective SCP-2142 host, infecting 100% of listeners exposed to affected albums.

Footnotes
1. Corrective Procedure 27 is a Foundation-developed medical process that involves inserting a sterilized needle into the patient's ear canal. The surgeon's goal is for the needle to penetrate a depth sufficient for puncturing the patient's eardrum, rendering the patient permanently deaf. Corrective Procedure 27 has so far proven to be the only effective cure for SCP-2142's effects.
2. Named for the article that first described the condition. █████████, Nadeem. "The Lavinia Complex." American Journal of Psychiatry 05 Mar. 1999
3. Though Dr. Nadeem █████████ discovered the Lavinia Complex and brought it to Foundation attention by publishing his article in the American Journal of Psychiatry, he did not discover the connection between SCP-2142 and the disorder. This connection was later made by the Foundation's in-house research team. Dr. Nadeem █████████ was offered a position as a Junior Researcher for SCP-2142, but opted for a dose of Class B amnestics instead.
4. 90 minutes is not long enough for a non-anomalous, neuro-typical human brain to enter REM sleep.
5. Onset of the Lavinia Complex is easy to diagnose, as the disorder initially presents with an intense headache lasting several hours. Subjects described this initial onset of symptoms as being similar to being "punched in the head" or "like someone is flicking at my brain" or "digging fingernails into my brain."

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SCP Series 3

Item #: SCP-2143
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2143 is contained within an electrically insulated Large Scale Containment Cell at Site-42. The center of the cell is to be furnished according to Class-III Humanoid Containment standards, underneath a 3-by 3-meter Plexiglas roof supported by 3-meter tall steel girders. Two (2) guards equipped with tasers are to be stationed outside SCP-2143's containment chamber at all times. In the event that an Omicron event expands beyond the containment chamber, Kolokol-2 is to be immediately introduced into SCP-2143's containment chamber via the ventilation system until SCP-2143 is sedated. Following the cessation of Omicron events, non-anomalous objects spawned should be incinerated onsite by crew following Bio-safety Level 4 protocols. Anomalous objects that are spawned should be classified as SCPs or anomalous items and contained accordingly. The results of each Omicron event should be recorded and uploaded into the SCP-2143 data file daily.
Description: SCP-2143 is a Greek male, approximately 30 years old, with black hair and brown eyes. Physically, SCP-2143 is non-anomalous in nature, but it possesses extreme proficiency with all musical instruments, an eidetic memory for an unknown number of songs, and a singing voice that personnel describe as pleasant and enjoyable to listen to. Once per day, SCP-2143 will perform a random musical piece. SCP-2143 appears to have no control over what music it plays, and has never been observed to repeat a piece on its own accord. SCP-2143 is able to take musical requests, but is only able to perform a piece that has already been performed, and is unable to play any musical piece more than twice even under duress.
SCP-2143-2 is a lyre with the ability to immediately relocate to SCP-2143 regardless of distance. If played by anyone other than SCP-2143, SCP-2143-2 will fail to make a sound. When played by SCP-2143, SCP-2143-2 is able to transform into any musical instrument, regardless of size or complexity, such as keyboards, oboes, guitars, and trumpets. SCP-2143 remains able to vocalize while playing wind instruments.
Performance of a musical piece by SCP-2143 invariably results in an Omicron event. During an Omicron event, an anomalous stratocumulus cloud (hereby referred to as SCP-2143-3) will form directly above SCP-2143. Although SCP-2143-3 will produce lightning and thunder, it will rain objects that are thematically linked to the music being played instead of water. Omicron events occur both indoors and outdoors. If indoors, SCP-2143-3 appears just underneath the ceiling, taking on the width and length of the room. If outdoors, SCP-2143-3 appears at a size and altitude typical of non-anomalous stratocumulus clouds. Omicron events only last as long as SCP-2143 is performing a song.
Each musical piece played by SCP-2143 is linked to a single, specific Omicron event. SCP-2143 can view Omicron events, but is unable to physically interact with them. It claims that it does not purposefully cause these events, and usually expresses distress at these occurrences.
If prevented from performing for more than one day, SCP-2143's health and morale will drop drastically. At the same time, personnel who come within a three meter radius of SCP-2143 will be afflicted by an as-yet unknown disease. Each day SCP-2143 is prevented from performing, the area of effect will double in size. Although the symptoms of the disease are that of septicemic plague (diarrhea, fever, low blood pressure, gangrene, shock, etc.), the disease is untreatable by antibiotics. The disease's vector is unknown. If SCP-2143 is allowed to sing, any afflicted persons will quickly recover, and the area of effect will dissipate.
Addendum:

Interview Log 2143-1:

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The following is an interview of SCP-2143 shortly after the third Omicron Event observed during SCP-2143's incarceration.
Date: Jan. 7, ████
Interviewer: Dr. T█████
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. T█████: Good morning, SCP-2143.Dr. T█████: Please answer the following questions.Dr. T█████: Do you know why your singing causes Omicron Events?Dr. T█████: SCP-2143, please answer the question.Dr. T█████: Who is your father?Dr. T█████: When was the first time an Omicron event occurred?
Dr. T█████: Would it be possible to communicate with your father?At this point, SCP-2143 began playing "Regurgitated Guts" and had to be tranquilized. SCP-2143 was returned to containment.

Addendum: Recent Omicron Events
The following table lists the seven most recent songs performed by SCP-2143 and the results of each. For a full list of all performed songs, see Document 2143-2.

Original Performer: Song
Omicron Event

The Weather Girls: It's Raining Men
Numerous identical instances of Luther Vandross emerged from the storm. All instances appear to have been killed by the fall or being crushed by other Luther Vandrosses. Each instance possessed a copy of the musical album The Glow of Love.

Beastie Boys: Electric Worm
Several instances of SCP-████ were spawned, killing █ personnel.

The Beatles: Here Comes the Sun
A large sphere of plasma emerged, expanding exponentially in the middle of the chamber. The guards on duty entered the chamber and tranquilized SCP-2143, causing the plasma to dissipate before it could consume the chamber. The guards were hospitalized for severe burns and given Foundation Badges of Merit for their timely actions.

Hoagy Carmichael: Stardust
Dust composed of iron, silicon, sulfur, chlorine, titanium, scandium, and calcium emerged. SCP-2143's morale decreased sharply afterwards for several days.

Michael Jackson: Blood on the Dance Floor
Switchblades were produced, all with blood on the blade. The blood from each switchblade was genetically identical, although not in the Foundation database, and found to be HIV-positive.

Edvard Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King
1963-era Dam dolls appeared. Each Dam doll had a small crown on the head.

Led Zeppelin: Custard Pie
Numerous egg custard pies were produced. The custard of each pie contained vaginal lubrication.

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Item #: SCP-2144
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2144 is to be kept in an open-air enclosure at Site-37. The walls surrounding said enclosure are to have windows built in and a gatehouse built along the walls is to serve as the access point.
An observation post is to be established along the perimeter of the enclosure. At all times, a guard is to be stationed in the observation post to watch over SCP-2144. An auxiliary group of up to three guards are to be put on standby, in case the assigned guard is unavailable for observation duty. Guards on duty are to rotate in shifts of two hours apiece; see Document 2144-Ø for observation duty schedule.
If SCP-2144 is required to be transported from the enclosure, it is to be placed in a hermetically-sealed container with radiation shielding and an air pump installed. One side of the container is to be transparent, such that SCP-2144 may be observed by personnel. An electrocardiogram (ECG) and automated defibrillator are to be attached to SCP-2144, with the defibrillator set to activate when its heart rate is below 30 bpm. If defibrillation fails to increase heart rate, voltage may be increased. Personnel handling SCP-2144 are to wear Level A Hazmat suits.
Prior to opening the container, the pre-installed air pump is to be activated to remove hydrogen cyanide (HCN) present in the container. Canisters filled with HCN are to be disposed of as per standard non-anomalous waste disposal protocols.

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Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2144 is to be kept in a modified Size-S animal containment cell at Site-37, equipped with hermetically-sealed walls, radiation shielding and an air pump. A surveillance camera is to be set up to observe SCP-2144, and a transparent glass window is placed to allow direct observation of SCP-2144. An ECG and automated defibrillator are to be attached to SCP-2144, with the defibrillator set to activate when its heart rate is below 30 bpm. If heart rate fails to increase after defibrillation, voltage may be increased and research staff assigned to SCP-2144 are to be notified immediately.
Once per week, a containment engineer is to maintain the structural integrity of the cell and repair any damages to it. Prior to opening the cell, all personnel handling SCP-2144 or the cell are to wear Level A Hazmat suits and the air pump is to be activated to remove HCN present in the cell.
When not in the cell, SCP-2144 is to be placed in a hermetically-sealed container with an air pump pre-installed and radiation shielding. The ECG and automated defibrillator are to remain attached to SCP-2144. One side of the container is to be transparent, such that SCP-2144 may be observed. Prior to opening the container, the pre-installed air pump is to be activated to remove HCN present in the container. Canisters filled with HCN are to be disposed of as per standard non-anomalous waste disposal protocols.

Description: SCP-2144 is a creature resembling a specimen of Felis catus (domestic cat). It stands at about 25 cm in height, and its head-to-tail length is about 80 cm. SCP-2144 does not possess a reproductive system, and there are no signs of neutering performed on it. Only humans are capable of interacting with SCP-2144; other animal species (including F. catus) are unable to detect or recognise SCP-2144's existence.
SCP-2144 exhibits different anomalous properties based on it being in an open space or an enclosed space.1
While SCP-2144 is in an open space, it is animate despite lacking a heartbeat. In addition, it also does not require nutrients or respiration. In this state, SCP-2144 can only be perceived via direct observation by a human. Its image cannot be captured on photographs or video, requiring direct observation by a human to perceive it. Similarly, sounds produced by it can only be heard directly by a human observer and are unable to be recorded. SCP-2144's mass is unable to be measured; scales regularly register its mass as 0.0 kg. However, personnel who had held SCP-2144 estimate its mass to range from 2 to 5 kg.
In terms of behaviour, SCP-2144 is shown to be lively while in an open space and typically moves about whenever it can. It also tends to avoid approaching any doors, windows or similar openings in the vicinity. Thus, SCP-2144 shows a level of resistance towards attempts to place it in containers or cells.
When SCP-2144 is in an enclosed space, it ceases all movement and remains immobile until it is removed from the space. Its heartbeat and respiration can only be detected while under this state. Notably, its heart rate usually starts at about 200 bpm and slowly declines over time. Estimations suggest that it takes about 48 hours for asystole to occur. Furthermore, SCP-2144's image can be photographed in this state. Its mass can be recorded in this state, although measurements are inconsistent and range from 1.9 kg up to 5.2 kg.
During this state, trace amounts of beta particles and gamma radiation are detected within the enclosed space. Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is also spontaneously generated within the enclosed space via transmutation, aided by the ionising radiation generated. HCN samples taken record a concentration of approximately 300 mg/m3, which is capable of killing an average human within 10 – 60 min. However, SCP-2144 is resistant to the toxic effects of HCN and is shown to be capable of inhaling HCN. Generation of HCN ceases when SCP-2144 is removed from the enclosed space.
SCP-2144 was first found in the residence of Jason Schmidt2 in Berlin, Germany on ██/██/2003, where said individual had died of cyanide poisoning. Hydrogen cyanide and gamma radiation were detected from within his residence. SCP-2144 was also present at the scene, and was initially believed to be dead. Its anomalous properties were revealed when it resumed motion after removal from the residence. Foundation agents subsequently recovered SCP-2144 under the guise of hazard control, and began containment of it. A cover story of a murder attempt on Schmidt was disseminated to the Berlin Police, and his residence was decontaminated afterwards.
Addendum 2144-1: When initially found, it was wearing a collar with a note attached to it. The item is deemed non-anomalous and is kept in the Non-Anomalous Items Storage Sector at Site-37. Text of the following note has been translated from German.

Dear Jason,
It's been nine months, but our baby's finally here. Look at the fruits of our labour and know this: Every idea has its right to exist. Please tell what do you think of it tonight.
Love, Mel3

Addendum 2144-2: Attempts to defibrillate SCP-2144 are noted to be increasingly difficult with each attempt. Thus far, higher voltages have been utilised successively to prevent asystole. Dr. Johann Wolfgang hypothesises that SCP-2144 may be adapting to electric shocks applied on it.
Addendum 2144-3: As of ██/██/2003, SCP-2144's Special Containment Procedures have been revised. Dr. Hu An has issued the following memorandum in regards to this update.

Upon the board's review of SCP-2144's current Special Containment Procedures, we express concern over the effectiveness of its regular defibrillation. While our current stance is to increase voltage to prevent possible self-termination, there is a limit as to how far it can go on. There may come a point where a significantly high voltage will electrocute SCP-2144 or it will be forced to flatline.
As such, procedures have been updated to alter SCP-2144's living space – to give it a little breathing space. Outside the box, it is not inherently dangerous. Ideas are hardly dangerous on their own; that falls down to their treatment by others (re: us). And this creature is an idea – a flawed idea, but it exists still and we're not letting it go out for being incorrect in the real world.
Do not worry about the possibility of SCP-2144 escaping. Based on behavioural studies of SCP-2144, it appears to instinctively avoid all doors and windows, perhaps thinking that another box is behind those doors and windows. It clearly does not like being locked in a box; after all, ideas are meant to wander about.

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1. Defined as systems enclosed by walls or similar structures in the 4 general directions and directly above. Said space would no longer be considered "enclosed" if there is at least 1 open aperture present in the boundaries whereby SCP-2144 can move through.
2. A teaching assistant affiliated with Humboldt University of Berlin's Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences I (Biology, Chemistry, Physics).
3. Interviews with Schmidt's peers and family claim no knowledge of any individual referred to as "Mel". In light of additional data elicited from SCP-2305, "Mel" is currently believed to be an Oneiroi (or an equivalent of which) who is associated with and/or the creator of SCP-2144. Proposals to contact "Mel" via SCP-990 and/or Mobile Task Force Omicron Rho ("The Dream Team") are currently under review.

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Item #: SCP-2145
Object Class: Keter Neutralized Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2145-1, -2, and -3 are to be contained in standard humanoid cells at Site 19. They frequently attempt to engage in self-harm, and are to be considered a moderate to high suicide risk; although Dr. ██████ has speculated that the nature of their anomaly would prevent any self-inflicted injuries from being fatal, this is — short of allowing a suicide attempt to proceed to completion — unfalsifiable. For their psychological well-being, they are permitted to undergo cosmetic surgery procedures at their own request; these procedures may not be performed any more frequently than once every three months.
The cadaver of SCP-2145-4 is contained in a high-security morgue freezer at Site 26. Access to tissue samples requires written permission from two O5-level personnel.

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SCP-2145 is not currently containable; containment procedures will instead focus on minimizing damage. SCP-2145-1, -2, -3, and -4 are to be kept under surveillance at all times. No Foundation agent, operative, or employee is to come within 100 m of SCP-2145-1, -2, -3, and/or -4. All electronic communication to and from SCP-2145-1, -2, -3, and/or -4 is to be intercepted, recorded, transcribed via a double-blind system, and archived. No individual Foundation agent, operative, or employee is to be assigned to SCP-2145 for more than 6 consecutive days; the interval between two successive assignments to SCP-2145 must be no less than 14 days.
Individuals who have had direct "scene"-level interactions with SCP-2145-1, -2, -3, and/or -4 are to be debriefed, and then to be administered class-A amnestics; individuals who are suicidal as a result of scene-level interactions are to be tranquilized prior to debriefing.
The actors Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are to be kept under surveillance at all times. In order to prevent the possibility of a Pirandello-Malkovich mass consciousness overwriting, at no time are any of Seinfeld, Alexander, Richards, and/or Louis-Dreyfus to be allowed to come within 300 meters of SCP-2145. In the event of any of these individuals coming within 2000 meters of SCP-2145, their itineraries are to be rerouted via Kerner-Leeming traffic manipulation protocols. Moisseiff-Eldridge infrastructure sabotage protocols are to be used at 1500 m from SCP-2145, Phelps-Poole crowd manipulation protocols are to be used at 1000 m, and Bardo-Chapman injury protocols are to be used at 500 m.

Description: SCP-2145 is the collective term for three individuals, and the cadaver of a fourth individual, who have been anomalously altered to be exact physical replicas of the primary cast of the American situation comedy Seinfeld (1989-1998), as they appeared in approximately 1998. SCP-2145-1 is an exact replica of actor Jerry Seinfeld, SCP-2145-2 is an exact replica of actor Jason Alexander, SCP-2145-3 is an exact replica of actor Michael Richards, and SCP-2145-4 was an exact replica of actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The three living instances do not show any external signs of physical aging (other than those which were present on Seinfeld, Alexander, and Richards in 1998), and any significant physical modifications will gradually revert themselves at a rate proportional to the degree of modification.1

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Description: SCP-2145 is the collective term for four entities who are exact replicas of the primary cast of the American situation comedy Seinfeld (1989-1998) as they appeared in approximately 1998, existing separately from the actors who portrayed them. SCP-2145-1 is an exact replica of actor Jerry Seinfeld (portraying a fictionalized version of himself), SCP-2145-2 is an exact replica of actor Jason Alexander (portraying "George Costanza"), SCP-2145-3 is an exact replica of actor Michael Richards (portraying "Cosmo Kramer"), and SCP-2145-4 is an exact replica of actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus (portraying "Elaine Benes").
These entities reside in New York City (the setting of Seinfeld episodes) and cause the occurrence of "Seinfeld-like" ("SL") events. SL events involve the macro-scale modification of probability affecting the actions of all individuals within the entities' immediate vicinity (ranging from approximately 30-40 m for each of the entities when alone, to approximately 60 m when all four entities are together), leading to drastically increased rates of coincidence, synchronicity, and miscommunication. These rates are increased still further for individuals who interact2 with the entities; such individuals also exhibit behavioral modifications involving decreased empathy, malignant narcissism, and general amorality. Foundation dramaturges and critical theorists have shown3 that SL events are parametrically consistent with the scenarios portrayed in broadcast episodes of Seinfeld, and posit that they are phenomenologically indistinguishable from "living in the show". Medium-level cognitive distortion has also been observed to occur, such that affected individuals show no awareness of either the fictional characters whose appearance SCP-2145 mimics, the television program which featured those characters, or the actors who portrayed those characters.

Acquisition log: After the first 22 attempts at containment were disrupted by the unexpected range of SCP-2145's anomalous effect [see documents 2145-HL2 through -HM-17], the Foundation entered into a temporary partnership with the Global Occult Coalition, and another with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Unusual Incidents Unit; neither of these organizations was made aware of the Foundation's cooperation with the other. The rationale for this was that, by joining forces with two separate organizations which had conflicting intentions towards anomalies, the Foundation would be insulated from SCP-2145's manipulation of probability, behavior, and cognition. To increase the likelihood of success, Foundation personnel deliberately limited the extent to which they were available to GOC and UIU agents, such that those agents would be encouraged to take action without first consulting Foundation liaisons; similarly, information provided to GOC and UIU agents was deliberately incomplete, with several important details redacted, such that both GOC and UIU agents would be encouraged to make fallacious and/or incomplete conclusions regarding the exact nature of SCP-2145's anomaly.
On 17 December 2005, the GOC launched Operation Flamingo, in which SCP-2145-1 was codenamed Hyacinth, SCP-2145-2 was codenamed Kepler, SCP-2145-3 was codenamed Gooseberry, and SCP-2145-4 was codenamed Needlework. This was in direct conflict with the UIU's Operation Gooseberry (launched the same day), in which SCP-2145-1 was codenamed Needlework, SCP-2145-2 was codenamed Flamingo, SCP-2145-3 was codenamed Hyacinth, and SCP-2145-4 was codenamed Kepler.4
The UIU had concluded (correctly) that the number of individuals SCP-2145 could simultaneously affect was limited. The UIU's Operation Gooseberry was thus intended to create civil unrest via crowd-manipulation protocols, under the assumption that this would overload and shut down SCP-2145's anomaly; this would thereby allow the four members of SCP-2145 to be forcibly separated from each other and arrested, under the pretext of being taken into protective custody. The GOC, however, had concluded (also correctly) that only one member of SCP-2145 was truly anomalous, and that the other three were either accomplices or (as was later found to be the case) unwilling victims who had been anomalously modified; since direct action against that entity was blocked by its anomalous effect, the GOC's Operation Flamingo was intended to first psychologically disrupt the anomalous "leader" of SCP-2145 by confronting it with the violent death of one of its companions. Both operations were to be conducted via double-blind methodology, to circumvent inhibition via SCP-2145's anomaly.
On 18 December 2005, Operation Gooseberry and Operation Flamingo were simultaneously implemented. In the midst of the civil unrest that resulted, a series of miscommunications and conflicts with UIU operatives led GOC operatives to conclude that the leader of SCP-2145 was most likely to be SCP-2145-3, followed by -1, and then -2. SCP-2145-4 was therefore considered the most likely to be a non-anomalous follower, and was selected for assassination; a GOC sniper, acting from a 28th-story office window at the corner of [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], killed SCP-2145-4 in full view of its three companions.
SCP-2145-1, -2, and -3 immediately collapsed; they were taken into custody by UIU agents, and subsequently remanded into Foundation custody. The cadaver of SCP-2145-4 was also taken into custody; interviews with -1, -2, and -3 indicate that, behavioral and dramaturgical analysis to the contrary, -4 was in fact their leader. Post-mortem analysis has revealed several macro- and microstructural anomalies in SCP-2145-4's brain and nervous system; however, the extent to which these caused SCP-2145-4's anomalous properties, rather than being caused by them, is speculative at best, especially in light of the assassination damage.

Footnotes
1. See document 2145-V-19 for operational parameters of what is considered "significant".
2. Monitoring the entities for more than 7 consecutive days has been found to result in the same effect as directly interacting with them; fortunately, this effect is temporary
3. "Something Instead of Nothing", by G. Hofstadter and D. Morrison, in Foundation Journal of Literary, Textual, Linguistic, and Semantic Anomalies; February 2003
4. These coincidences, which were not detected until after the fact, are believed to have been the result of SCP-2145's unconscious manipulation of probability.

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