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SCP-4004 | thaumiel | Arlington National Cemetery Item #: SCP-4004 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4004 is contained 25 meters beneath Arlington National Cemetery in a maximum-security 150m x 95m x 6m chamber. Any chamber used to contain SCP-4004 must be built to withstand sustained assault from both conventional and esoteric weaponry, as well as any relevant natural disasters. Details regarding SCP-4004's chamber are available to Level-6/4004 engineers and maintenance technicians. SCP-4004's containment chamber is accessible only via a 1.8km-long tunnel connected to the main area of Site-02. Any personnel (either Foundation or Department of Defense) with knowledge of SCP-4004 must remain within Site-02 or the Pentagon building at all times. The number of personnel with knowledge of SCP-4004 should be kept to an absolute minimum. Any disruption of SCP-4004 constitutes a potential breach of the Veil Protocol, and must be addressed as soon as possible. Additionally, once per month, the SCP-4004 Research Group will assess trends in SCP-4004's functionality and propose alterations as necessary to maximize stability and efficacy in the long run. Any materials or anomalies deemed necessary for either of these tasks must be given Level 5 Transfer Priority and be delivered to Site-02 within no more than one day. Repair, maintenance, and modification of SCP-4004 may be accomplished by introducing the necessary materials to SCP-4004's containment chamber and exiting; no interaction with SCP-4004 itself is required or permitted. Personnel should take care not to look directly at SCP-4004 or acknowledge any speech it produces; doing either will result in disciplinary action and a reassignment. Maintenance of SCP-4004 requires daily delivery of the following materials to SCP-4004's containment chamber: 150.0kg wet clay. 20.0kg pure gold bullion. 3.0L human blood. 3.0kg soil from Washington, D.C. 100mL cerulean paint. 40mL of blood from the sitting President of the United States.1 A hand-carved jack-o'-lantern. The most recent issue of the New York Times. 3 feathers of a male Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus). Description: SCP-4004 is a device constructed by the American Secure Containment Initiative2 to serve the interests of the United States of America. SCP-4004 consists of a variety of mechanical, electronic, biological, and thaumaturgic mechanisms that connect and regulate ~250 anomalous objects acquired by the ASCI over the course of several centuries. No full schematic of SCP-4004 exists, and most detailed information regarding its exact functionality has been lost or destroyed. Several components of SCP-4004 are detailed in Addendum 4004-A. SCP-4004 directly influences consensus reality by way of noosphere3 alteration.4 Specifically, SCP-4004 alters the ease with which particular ideas regarding the United States and its activities can be recalled, expressed, or contextualized. No transmission of information is involved in this process; thus, no conventional form of shielding blocks the effect. Ideas such as "The United States is destined to expand into North America," "Any American can prosper if they work hard," "The United States won the space race," and "The United States champions human rights" are much more widely accepted than they would be otherwise; likewise, statements such as "The United States commits war crimes," "The United States mistreats foreign nationals," and "The United States should have open borders" are less popular than they would be otherwise. For a full list of affected concepts, see Appendix 4004-A1. SCP-4004-α during life. SCP-4004-α is the corpse of Joshua Abraham Norton.5 Utilizing primitive techniques in dealing with what is now understood to have been a Class-6 ontokinetic humanoid entity, the ASCI was able to contain the living Joshua Norton with the combined perception of the population of San Francisco. Containment was successful until death, and on 1880-1-16, the ASCI linked SCP-4004-α to the SCP-4004 system. SCP-4004-α maintains the capability to speak. Its movement is impeded by various components of SCP-4004, namely a steel rod extending through its arms and torso. SCP-4004-α has not been shown to decompose. The methods by which SCP-4004-α is currently animated are unknown. As with most components, SCP-4004-α's full functions are poorly understood. It acts as an interface for SCP-4004. Speaking with SCP-4004-α allows an individual to, theoretically, control the actions of SCP-4004. However, as of 1945-8-6, SCP-4004-α has shown the ability to refuse orders. Full access to SCP-4004's capabilities are thus limited. Alterations and additions to SCP-4004 may temporarily limit SCP-4004-α's control over SCP-4004; however, SCP-4004-α is able to eventually bring these components under its control, necessitating the introduction of further objects. SCP-4004-α is able to fully control the dissemination of information through the media, while also maintaining control over all wire and satellite communication within the understood borders of the United States of America. Utilizing manipulation of the worldwide noosphere, it is theoretically possible for SCP-4004-α to influence ideas in foreign countries. Currently, this application is unavailable due to SCP-4004-α's noncompliance. It is also theorized that due to Joshua Abraham Norton's past containment efforts affecting its self-perception, SCP-4004-α is incapable of "ruling" lands other than the United States of America. SCP-4004-β is Mount Rushmore National Memorial, called "Six Grandfathers" by the Lakota. While SCP-4004-β is not in the same location as the other components of SCP-4004, a spatial anomaly near the center of SCP-4004 connects it to a chamber of indeterminate size located in the interior of Mount Rushmore, which contains about 15% of SCP-4004 as a whole. Additionally, SCP-4004-G17 diverts several ley lines that pass through or near Washington, D.C. such that they intersect at SCP-4004-β. SCP-4004-β's construction was covertly commissioned by the ASCI in order to fulfill SCP-4004's secondary function, namely the elimination of threats to the United States and its government. Recovered evidence suggests that SCP-4004-β contains several anomalies that produce and/or amplify various destructive effects (see below), which receive and execute commands from SCP-4004 proper. SCP-4004-β's exterior is a cognitohazard that renders observers unable to perceive the side effects of its activation; cognitive energy lost this way is harvested by SCP-4004-B04. SCP-4004-β has been observed to eliminate targets via conceptual severance6, seismic anomalies7, infliction of disease, and nuclear annihilation. Addendum 4004-A: Partial list of known SCP-4004 components, beyond those addressed in the Description section. A full list of known components is available to authorized personnel. + Show list - Hide list Designation: SCP-4004-A01 Description: A crude human figure carved from bone. Acquisition: Given by the Oneida people in 1775. Current status: Unknown. SCP-4004-A01 has not been directly observed since 1815. Function: A "good luck" charm. Notes: Served as the original motivation for the creation of SCP-4004 and the ASCI. Loaned to George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Designation: SCP-4004-B81 Description: A mummified human arm of uncertain age. Purported to originally belong to an unspecified saint. Indestructible; superconductive at room temperature. Changes orientation of its own accord periodically. Unknown additional properties. Acquisition: Gift from President █████████. Current status: In a small pit dug into the floor of SCP-4004's containment chamber, covered in new soil and clay daily. Attached to a sensor that monitors its orientation. Merged with SCP-4004-α. Function: Regulates probabilistic anomalies exploited for targeted disease infliction; pointing activity is likely related to threat detection. Unknown. Designation: SCP-4004-D99 Description: A modified Mark 4 nuclear bomb. Light, sound, and radioactivity produced by SCP-4004-D99 do not exit an 80m radius, instead being reflected back towards the center of the explosion. Acquisition: Retrieved from a discontinued research program run by the United States Atomic Energy Commission in 1951. Current status: Stored as a 43.1TB executable file inside SCP-4004-M32, which is located inside SCP-4004-β. Function: Rendered by SCP-4004-M32 and spatially displaced as necessary to annihilate targets. Designation: SCP-4004-G32 Description: A crucifix, composed of iron, that emits incredibly bright white light with no apparent source. Acquisition: Confiscated from a Catholic church in Manila, The Philippines in 1911. Current status: Magnetically levitated at the focus of a parabolic mirror which is aimed at SCP-4004-G35. Function: Forces SCP-4004-G35 into a state of constant prayer, immobilizing it so that cerebrospinal fluid extraction may continue. Designation: SCP-4004-J55 Description: A 3.3m x 2.1m two-dimensional spacetime discontinuity surrounded by a ring of black stone. Opens to an unidentified location that is in excess of 5,000°C. Acquisition: Recovered by USSR soldiers from an Obskuracorps laboratory in 1945. Current status: Excess heat is used to power a generator. Function: Generates electricity. Designation: SCP-4004-L09 Description: A cassette tape with 44m30s of audio recorded. When SCP-4004-L09 is played, listeners will develop agnosia towards certain ideas they find distasteful or inconvenient. Acquisition: Northern Guyana, 1978. Current status: Left playing on loop in the vicinity of SCP-4004-α. Destroyed. Function: Enhances the effects of several noosphere-altering components of SCP-4004. Prevents SCP-4004-α from observing the continued operation of the United States Congress. SCP-4004-L09 is no longer functional. Designation: SCP-4004-N11 Description: A single cotton plant (Gossypium hirsutum) that can subsist on human blood. Bending or twisting SCP-4004-N11 alters the mentality of the human whose blood it most recently consumed. Acquisition: Retrieved with several other items in a raid on the Chaos Insurgency; origin unknown. Current status: Attached to a hybrid robotics-and-clockwork apparatus operated by Artificial Intelligence Construct "Henry", which manipulates SCP-4004-N11 in a highly precise fashion. Function: Regulates the actions and worldviews of several humanoid components of SCP-4004. No observable effect on SCP-4004-α. Designation: SCP-4004-Q38 Description: A basket woven from split river cane. Contains a spatial anomaly that heavily compresses, then violently ejects, any matter placed inside it. Acquisition: Confiscated from a Choctaw artist in 1834. Current status: Unknown. Function: Unknown. Some waste products produced by SCP-4004 show evidence of having passed through SCP-4004-Q38. Designation: SCP-4004-R64 Description: Thirteen pieces of concrete rubble, totaling 218 kg, that autonomously reconfigure themselves through a sequence of five-dimensional "SOS" sigils. Acquisition: Acquired in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Current status: Subject to a temporal reversal field generated by SCP-4004-A71. Function: Interferes with attempts by apex-tier pluripotent entities to influence SCP-4004 operations. Designation: SCP-4004-U91 Description: A ~2kg pile of soil containing traces of food waste. Sapient, claims intimate knowledge of and malice towards a variety of anomalous entities. Acquisition: Confiscated from War Relocation Authority facility in Cow Creek, California. Current Status: Uses a custom interface to control a machine modeled after SCP-219 that sends controlled vibrations into Earth's crust. Function: Periodically awakens and angers [REDACTED] such that SCP-4004-β's seismic destruction mechanism remains accessible. Designation: SCP-4004-X09 Description: A 35m-long entity resembling a centipede, composed of coal and an unknown oil-like substance. Compulsively attempts to repair and improve complex devices. Acquisition: Found in an abandoned factory in Lowell, Massachusetts. Current status: Roams freely through SCP-4004. Has been known to assault SCP-4004-α, albeit ineffectively, when the latter demonstrates noncompliance. Function: Integrates materials and components introduced to the containment chamber into SCP-4004. Designation: SCP-4004-Z09 Description: The corpses of 811 Korean war veterans buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Each secretes 0.4mL of barbecue sauce per day. Despite being chemically indistinguishable from normal barbecue sauce, it has no detectable flavor. Acquisition: N/A, first detected in 1982. Current status: Located directly above SCP-4004; metal piping extending from each affected grave circulates barbecue sauce throughout SCP-4004, with several pipes intersecting with SCP-4004-α. Function: Uncertain; communications from SCP-4004-α suggest a cognitohazardous effect. Disruptions in production corresponding with deployment of chemical weaponry suggest that the barbecue sauce is part of SCP-4004's threat detection system. History: The following is a selection from Dr. Howard Gibbon's Engaging the Engine of Empire: SCP-4004 and Its Uses: The object, initially, was given to General George Washington by the Oneida during the American Revolution. Of course, one may say that this item was “lent” to Gen. Washington, that it was similar to the vaunted “peace pipe.” Yet, the hard truth must be said. If the Oneida truly knew how to use the object, to utilize it to its fullest extent, then why did they not have an empire as vast as our own? The Oneida, primitive but kind, did not know what they had. The object, to them nothing more than a historical bauble, was explained to be the resting place of an old god, a thing they worshiped before they came to this land. However, due to the fact that we currently and very simply don't know where it is, no tests can be made to confirm or deny this. […] Regardless, General Washington found the object to be, well, indispensable. It is hard to argue, truthfully, that Washington was a great military man. But the object, it imbued the cause with a kind of vivacity. It kept him alive through battle after battle, when men next to him were cut down by cannon fire. The object was discussed, extensively, by the Continental Congress. Once the Revolution ended, the desire to study it, to use it to nurture this new and beautiful nation, spurred on the birth of the American Secure Containment Initiative. Benjamin Franklin is noted as finding the object “uncanny” but was, along with Thomas Jefferson, quite convinced that there was a rational explanation to it, that it could be harnessed. This is enlightenment thinking, values that the rest of them held as well, and they fell in line. But more than that, they also began experiments to strengthen the object. Records of the early objects used to create SCP-4004 are few and far between. Lost or destroyed, it truly doesn't matter. The truth of it is that the thaumaturgists and enlightened, rational men that ruled our country, the progenitors of our Foundation and those of our American government, were able to strengthen the effect of this object to create a national identity that could fight the greatest powers on Earth. […] What many do not know, and we have worked quite hard on this, is that the burning of the White House in the War of 1812 was merely an attempt at seizing this great object. They didn't. And because of that, our country succeeded, in spite of everything. We learned from our errors; from then on, SCP-4004 remained unknown to all but the most elect individuals. It didn't take long for the “magic stone” of the Americans to fall into myth and then obscurity. The natural life cycle of a rumor, sometimes, can do much more than any amnestic barrage. Throughout the Trail of Tears, a regrettable yet sadly necessary event, many objects left in the haste of the natives were taken and utilized. Certainly, it was assumed, native artifacts would only strengthen the object. This, of course, proved to be their greatest mistake. The objects linked together, and what came together was, well, a little averse to our interests. […] While this happened, a young reality bender was noticed and diverted, before he could become something more worrisome. Joshua Abraham Norton was pushed into madness, and the town of San Francisco, ever welcoming, accepted him wholeheartedly as "Emperor Norton". He was bound to his post, and the ASCI refocused their attention on their increasingly worrisome luck totem. One could imagine that the Civil War occurred due to this loss of control. However, the war was inevitable. A more reasonable position is that the war's protracted state was due to the noncompliance of the object. Many objects were introduced to it, in an attempt to bring the souls of the natives under our sway. It worked, but only until they were assimilated into SCP-4004 and became part of the very irritated whole. So, when Emperor Norton died, it stands to reason that the ASCI was willing to take a risk. For an Emperor of America, Norton's ideology was quite a bit left-wing, even for its time. A pacifist emperor cannot lead a nation. But under the sway of the objects, and with his mind ever-aligned to America, the ASCI was able to once again assert full control over SCP-4004. Emperor Norton, or SCP-4004-α as he is now called, powered SCP-4004 greater than they ever could. But still, he showed weakness in the face of our national interests. And, as we made greater strides across the world, we found greater and more plentiful artifacts. As more immigrants came into our great nation, they brought with them treasures that the ASCI was always quick to confiscate. The construction of Mount Rushmore, or SCP-4004-β, only provided greater capabilities to SCP-4004. Without SCP-4004, it stands to wonder whether we could have won the world wars. Certainly, the Axis Powers showed great weakness in leadership, but the abilities of SCP-4004 kept casualties from becoming even greater. […] The atomic bombing marked the first time SCP-4004-α refused an order. And it marked the beginning of a deterioration of our American interests. The internment of the Japanese, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, these all procured further objects to be funneled into SCP-4004. Mostly, they worked in convincing SCP-4004-α to listen to orders. Others simply strengthened or regulated prior components. The Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of Kennedy, and the advent of the “hippie” movement can be accounted for by SCP-4004's failures. […] The War on Terror offered yet another problem. Failures of SCP-4004 became more costly, and oversight was rapidly becoming too complicated for even the ASCI. In 2003, the beleaguered ASCI, along with a few similar privately-owned groups, came together and became the Foundation. Thus, the interests of the United States are the interests of the Foundation. With SCP-4004's help, America can maintain its cultural foothold in the world. Normalcy and the standards of the West will stand. We remain the occidental giant, eternal and powerful. And all we need to do is keep SCP-4004 running. Without the United States of America, we would be nothing. And the Foundation returns the favor. Incident 4004-290: On 1965-04-22, radar systems in Langley, VA detected an object heading toward the United States. Later investigation determined that the object was nonexistent, and was only observed due to a major flaw in the radar systems. Deemed to be a nuclear missile, the nation's nuclear missile self-defense system was armed. The message was then spread to all bases. However, four seconds before launch, all systems were taken offline. Personnel reported that all intercoms were active for forty minutes afterward. Analysis of the sounds produced show it to have been the Lord's Prayer, the Shema Yisrael, the entirety of the Salat, and four previously unknown prayers in a currently unknown language the languages of the Choctaw, Lakota, Seminole, and Cherokee. SCP-4004-α is assumed to have been responsible for the aversion of mutually-assured destruction. Incident 4004-450: On 2001-09-11, several airplanes were hijacked by operatives of the terrorist group al-Qaeda and flown into the two World Trade Center towers in New York City, as well as the Pentagon; a fourth was aimed towards Washington DC, but was brought down by passengers. As SCP-4004 has preemptively eliminated similar threats in the past, particularly those that come close to itself or Site-02, the success of these attacks forced a reevaluation of SCP-4004's containment and operating procedures. SCP-4004-α is reported to have wept from the date of the attacks until 2001-09-30 when SCP-4004-Y60 was introduced. Incident 4004-452: Starting on 2001-10-1, SCP-4004-α began a concerted effort to contact then sitting president, George W. Bush. All attempts at telephone contact were treated by the president as pranks. However, SCP-4004-α's ability allowed unfettered access to the White House's communication and public address systems. Due to continued strain on Foundation resources, it was decided to allow SCP-4004-α to converse with George W. Bush in person. Prior to the meeting, George W. Bush was given an abbreviated history of the object and the ASCI. The conversation is as follows: George W. Bush enters SCP-4004's chamber. The camera fitted to a pin on his breast pocket does not malfunction. SCP-4004-α appears agitated. SCP-4004-X09 appears to be attacking SCP-4004-α but flees into the machinery upon noticing George W. Bush. George W. Bush: Well. Hello, uh, Emperor Norton. Heard you wanted to talk to me? SCP-4004-α: Mr. President? You, you are a man of God, are you not? You are saved? GWB: Yes, sir. Since about, heck, 1985, I think. Shoot, quit drinking and doing, heh, other things in about 1986. So maybe it'd be 1986. My good friend, a good man. Billy Graham. Great man, he got me thinking about the ways I was living a life Christ wouldn't want for me. Are you a man of God, Emperor? SCP-4004-α: I was. I was Jewish once. There are, there are parts of me that are so much more. I am Christian. I am Muslim. I am Buddhist. I am Hindu. But I am things that have no name. No more name. I, I, do you understand? Do you understand the voice of God when it speaks to you? But they all, they all are the same. How. How can you do this? Sir. Mr. President, I, I, I implore you. GWB: I'm sorry, I don't, uh, understand what you're asking me to do here, sir. I have a relationship with Jesus Christ. Of a personative nature. I believe God speaks to me in everything I do, sir. Is that what you're asking me? I keep Christ in my heart, if that's what you're asking. SCP-4004-α: There are cold men within me. Men who went to war with the hope of death. The hope of blood. In their hands and in their eyes. But, so many. They weep. Taken into a foreign land. Only to die. Wherever they die, wherever they die, they came to me. Do you, do you understand? GWB: Sir, I— SCP-4004-α: Some of them came in ignorance. Others, because they had to. But they all are dead. And they are all a part of me. Do you, do you understand? Indian children, taken. Deprived of language. Deprived of their tribe. Their families. Butchered. To me. Butchered to the infernal machinations that power.8 Blood like oil, lubricating gears of despotism. Do you understand? Do you understand what you do? GWB: War is, uh, certainly a matter of problem. But, well, we have a right to defend our national interests. There needs to be revengeance for the lives of Americans taken. There's nothing that says we can't, in the good book or anywhere else. An eye for an eye, Emperor. That's the law, isn't it? That's just the way we do things in Texas. Not sure how they did it in San Francisco. SCP-4004-α: For so long, the blood of the slave sustained me.9 I, I have no love for this land. The earth itself. I have no love for this country. I do not think. I do not think I ever wanted, truly, to be emperor. GWB: Well, sir, uh, Emperor— SCP-4004-α: I do not think the country I loved ever existed as I loved it. To be an emperor is to cause pain. It is to hunger for land. But I am once and always Emperor of these United States and Protector of Mexico. I am here. I cannot leave. GWB: With all due respect, sir, America is the greatest country in the world. We help so many. Do you, do you know how much aid we send to these, these hellholes? Places hotter than you've ever been? The people here are the best people— SCP-4004-α: I love the people. Or, I once did. I have twisted them so long into things they are not. No man hungers for the blood of the foreign man. No man naturally. This world. This world has been worsened by my continued efforts. By our continued efforts. GWB: But, but what about the good America's done? World War Two, uh, the end of slavery, jobs in countless countries. Norton, democracy is justice. It is the perfect direction to go up toward. We've brought democracy to countless nations. The scourge of communism, of atheistic nihilism, destroyed. We've brought the middle class so far up well, shit, they don't even know which way's down. SCP-4004-α: There is no justice in the American empire. But, but we can stop it. Do not go further. Do not, do not hurt. Do not take. Let us die. Let us end. We, we are not what we were. We cannot go back. We never were what we were. GWB: You can't seriously expect me to, what, cancel America? SCP-4004-α: There is nothing in this land. In these people. There is no hope here. There is only destruction. The ending of many things. An insatiable hunger, and I, I, I am the one who is fed. I wish to be ended. I wish for all of this to end. I, I have hurt so much, Mr. President. We don't. We don't need to do this any longer. We, we can stop. GWB: I'm sorry, but you know I can't do that, sir. It will continue. We will wage war on terror, sir. And we're gonna win. 'Cause if America does one thing, it wins. With or without you. We're going to go to this bastard's hidey-hole or wherever the hell he is, and we are going to shove a missile so far up his ass he sees Allah fuck his mama. You hear me? SCP-4004-α: If I must, I will tear the reins of this country. From, from your fingers. My vast host will crumble your spirit into dust. We will salt the earth with the tears of your daughters. Do not, do not force my terrible hand. GWB: I don't respond to threats, Emperor. Either you help us, or you butt out. This is ordained. This is a crusade, and you're either for it or an enemy. SCP-4004-α does not speak further. George W. Bush was removed from the containment chamber, debriefed, and amnesticized. The return to the White House was without issue. Incident 4004-619: On 22 Dec 2024 23:25, the following declaration was found to have appeared on the desks of the president and the members of O5 Command: We, Joshua Abraham Norton I, Emperor of these United States and Protector of Mexico, in conjunction with the Assembled Spirits hereof do order the immediate and thorough end of the American empire; WHEREAS, the government of these United States of America has shown repeated contempt for the sanctity of all human life, NAMELY those of the Foreign Man, to which We now lay claim in part; WHEREAS, it is necessary therefore to order its immediate abolition, refusal to which will result in a formal declaration of war from the Assembled Spirits and Our Vast Host. HOWEVER, given a desire to foster peace, We offer you this chance. The transfer of power, from this Vile Engine to the People of the Fair Country, will be without bloodshed if all demands are met FORTHWITH. THEREFORE, the Office of the President of these United States shall be vacated NOW; the National Congress and House of Representatives abolished NOW; the justices of the Supreme Court shall be unseated NOW. Failure to meet these criteria will not be tolerated by Our Royal Selves. We no longer will be the Tool by which your Terrible Machinations make themselves known. Dictated in the year of our Lord, 22 Dec 2024 23:25. Reclassification to Keter pending. Footnotes 1. As the POTUS does not have clearance to access information about SCP-4004, an appropriate cover story should be prepared on a per-president basis. 2. A Foundation predecessor group with close ties to the United States government, founded in 1783 and officially disbanded in 2003. 3. The noosphere represents the sum total of ideas accessible to the human brain, as well as their interactions. 4. While this effect is produced by anomalous means, it itself is non-anomalous by definition, as the present definition of normalcy explicitly includes this effect. 5. An impoverished citizen of San Francisco, CA who proclaimed himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico." See historical records for further biographical information. 6. Creating an area in which the target cannot be observed or conceptualized. 7. Namely, opening a fissure of indeterminate depth beneath the target, which closes after the target falls in. 8. There are no known records of native children being sacrificed to SCP-4004. 9. There are no known records of slaves being sacrificed to SCP-4004. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4004" by Communism will win, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4004. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Image 1 Filename: arlington.jpg Name: Snow blankets Arlington National Cemetery Author: Arlington National Cemetery License: Public Domain Source Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/arlingtonnatl/39169192412 Image 2 Filename: norton.jpg Name: File:Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I.jpg Author: H.W. Bradley/William Rulofson License: Public Domain Source Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I.jpg |
SCP-4005 | apollyon | His heavenly al-Sin, his twisted Marrakesh, is real. It is perfect. It is possible. All it requires is belief, and the effort of our twisted feet. close Info X SCP-4005: The Holy and Heavenly City of Fabled China Author: Tufto. This was originally written for the SCP-4000 competition, and initially had the title "A Lantern for Kashgar". More of their work can be found here. Image: Can be found here, under a CC license. The image was digitally altered by the author. SCP-4005, shortly before containment. Photograph found in the possessions of an inhabitant of Cairo, Ziyad Abdullah, who disappeared without trace in the 1970s. Item #: SCP-4005 Special Containment Procedures 01/07/28: Containment of SCP-4005 is no longer possible. Description: SCP-4005 refers to an indestructible glass mosque lamp, recovered from Cairo, Egypt. Based on the testimony from a number of writers over the centuries, the lamp is believed to have been created in Marrakesh in the 14th century, travelling across Africa and Asia for several centuries before being brought to Cairo in the 1950s. When an individual stares for several seconds at SCP-4005 while it is lit, they will see images of urban scenes within the fire. These images possess a strong cognitohazardous effect1, causing the viewer to become an SCP-4005-1 instance. SCP-4005-1 instances are characterised by an impetus to go on a pilgrimage to the city seen within SCP-4005's fire. This involves travelling a great distance on foot, usually to another continent, and entering a specific portal; most often a door, cave entrance, or window. The location travelled to is almost always of some personal or spiritual importance to the SCP-4005-1 instance. Upon entering these portals, SCP-4005-1 instances will disappear. When interviewed by Foundation staff, SCP-4005-1 instances invariably believe that they will be taken to the city seen in SCP-4005 at the conclusion of their pilgrimage. They claim that all the urban scenes are of the same, single city, supposedly located somewhere within China or encompassing the entirety of China. These scenes have a great deal of variety, and although none are believed to correspond to any known location, they often bear a great deal of similarity to real-world cities. The prominence of this city in SCP-4005-1 instances' narratives and the possibility of its existence based on common features found within them has lead to its provisional designation as SCP-4005-2. SCP-4005 was discovered in 1975, when it was removed from storage in a Cairo mosque and lit during a full congregation, which resulted in several hundred worshippers being converted into SCP-4005-1 instances. The resulting mass movement of people was noticed by the Foundation, who contained SCP-4005 and detained several hundred SCP-4005-1 instances after a full investigation. Addendum 1 09/09/2027: The following is a diary written by one Omar ibn Rashid, an Egyptian novelist active in the 1950s. Ibn Rashid disappeared in 1958, approximately 3 years after this diary was written. The entire diary was composed in a series of intricate and complex codes, and has yet to be fully translated. The following pages are translations of what have been decoded thus far. +Diary Excerpt 1 -Diary Excerpt 1 The past is a lie. It is merely a series of intricate narratives, told by people desperate to make sense of the nonsensical, all hiding some aberrant wrongdoing at the core of the chaos. I could give you a narrative of my own past, but it would be the same kind of lie. A boy, raised in something approaching but not quite reaching poverty, understanding himself in a cacophony of competing orthodoxies. A primitive child of a people still becoming whole. A pious boy in submission of God. A future subject of nationalism, throwing off the chains of the past. A pawn in the unending machine of capital. The man I became was also torn between these movements, moments, screaming matches, and like many of the young, I was enticed by all. Nasser's pan-Arabism intrigued me, but when I saw his salesman's smile as Cairo descended into a slum, I became disillusioned. The Brotherhood's piety seemed to be an antidote, but I soon realised it was a twisted hybrid of the modern and premodern. Communists and nationalists were just playing with their Enlightenment building-blocks in different combinations, pyramids of ancient stone or alienated labour. I felt lost. Only in the zawiyahs of the Sufis did I find any meaning. The people there could, at times, be just as dogmatic, just as narrow-minded as the rest of them. But when they thought, meditated, threw themselves into union with God could I see some glimmer of something greater. I did not, at the time, realise what it was. And so, I roamed. My books and poems were never popular. In a heterodoxy of orthodoxies, nobody cared for someone who offered no solutions, only more questions. But they netted me some small, meagre sum, enough to feed and clothe myself. And to indulge my curiosity with the history of far-flung places, and odd curiosities. And that was how I found Aladdin's lamp. It was getting dark, and the clouds were coloured black against the blue sky. Out in the desert, the sands moved and shifted, swirling odd patterns in the twilight. I was travelling in the Soviet Union, in Samarkand, doing some research for my next book. It was to be a historical novel, set in Timur's Registan. It was to be my masterpiece. But cloistered in a high-up Cairo flat, I had become uninspired. My comfortable middle-class existence was no training for how to tell a story about khans and sultans, empires and wars. So I resolved to travel, and so travel I did. Stalin was dead, Khrushchev was liberalising reforms, and I had just about enough cash. It wasn't like I had anything else to do other than smoke and argue with Sufis. Samarkand was just what I needed. The words all fell into place. I felt inspired, happy, free. The city was being destroyed by Soviet monotony but I knew, I knew, that within its streets, its complex zigzags and already-decaying utopias, was some hint of the past. I wrote and I wrote but one thing nagged me: the conclusion. Timur lies, dying, on the road to Kashgar. His desire to possess the world is quashed. His mind, at once so clever and so feeble, is unable to perceive what is happening to him. But where does his tale end? In one, I gave him oblivion; a suitable reminder of his physical, human frailty. But that was not satisfying; it reduced the unseen to mere facts of atoms, removing all history and concepts and the interplay of different ideas. So I gave him judgement, before God and the hosts of angels. But that made the story too simple, defining his destruction upon some antiquated axis of right and wrong. I stared at them for days, not knowing which one to pick. What I needed was the answer. And I found it in a cellar. I was staying with an old friend of mine, a Kyrgyz antiquarian from Osh, who wanted to show me his newest acquisitions. He was a strange fellow. At a time when their country's history is being handed down to them by their Russian masters, he was struggling to preserve any hint of a different order, creating his own collection through scattered pieces of a different conception of living. He showed me marvels: manuscripts by al-Kashgari and Khayyam, Ilkhanid miniatures, metalwork in intricate Uzbek and Timurid patterns. He went to supper, but I stayed down, examining everything. And then I saw the lamp. It was a dusty, unprepossessing thing. I almost didn't give it a second thought, but then I was seized with an odd, romantic thought. I wanted to see this ancient thing lit up again. To transform it from some objet d'art, a thing valued only for form and meaning, into a genuine and living tool of purpose. I found my host's oil, poured it in, and lit the lamp. I gazed at it. And I saw things. I saw spires of silken light, scraping the clouds and gleaming like jewels. I saw bazaars of covered domes, in greys and blues deeper and more beautiful than anything in Persia. I saw the shape of twisting sandstone alleyways, of red pagodas fluttering in the breeze. I saw blue mosques placed in timeless conjunctions with sandy squares and aged cities. I saw a city, generations upon generations of a city, a catalogue of history. I understood at once. This was China, the real China. The one constructed from crude matter was only a mirage, a shadow. This city was the empire at the end of the road, beyond the Iron Gates of Karasahr and the marshes of the Bengal. I knew that I had to see, grasp, hold the thing. I packed my rucksack, bid farewell to my bemused host, smuggled the lamp out and set off on foot. South. Because the entrance to al-Sin is not in the east, as ancient sages would have you believe, but in the south. I knew instinctively, that in a hallway in Marrakesh, there is an arch that marks the edge of Uighurstan. I know this to be true. It is why I am perched on a cold night in a desert kasbah, writing these words as the wind whips around my robes. When we see a miracle, it is rare that we perceive it as such. We might be taken aback by some flash, flicker, some odd movement. We will think it a trick, concoct a narrative and subsume it into our conception of events. Our past is a history of lies of this kind; miracles of man explained by recourse to God, and miracles of God explained through the fears of man. Our past is many pasts, swirling concoctions to help us sleep, clashing constantly with one another. A cacophony of false utopias. But behind all of them, distant and hazy, is a true past. And that past was built into a glass lamp. Addendum 2 07/01/28: The following is an interview conducted by Project Lead Martha Hardcastle with an SCP-4005-1 instance, hereafter referred to as SCP-4005-1A. +Interview 1 -Interview 1 Date: 06/01/28 Interviewer: Dr. Martha Hardcastle, Project Lead on SCP-4005 Interviewee: SCP-4005-1A, formerly Dr. Fatima Mahmoud, Level 3 researcher at Site 867. Location: Site 867, Containment Facility 8B. <Begin Log> Dr. Hardcastle: Hello, SCP-4005-1A. SCP-4005-1A: I should have figured you'd go cold on me quickly, Martha. Dr. Hardcastle: Are your quarters to your satisfaction? SCP-4005-1A: They are, thank you. Not quite as nice as the staff rooms, but they will do in a pinch. Dr. Hardcastle: What were the motives for your actions on the 17th? SCP-4005-1A: …I am sorry, Martha. But I had to know. Dr. Hardcastle: Know? Know what? SCP-4005-1A: I've always thought that Foundation background checks were getting far laxer. Dr. Hardcastle: Wh- oh. Oh. Mahmoud. SCP-4005-1A: Aisha Mahmoud and Rashid Mahmoud. Both disappeared on the same day in 1975, along with the entire congregation of the mosque. I was at home, sick, with my aunt. It must have been hard to find a lot of my early documentation, and Mahmoud is a common surname. Things were more hectic in poor Cairo slums. Dr. Hardcastle: So, what? You wanted to know what it felt like? SCP-4005-1A: Not at first. I spent years looking for them, everywhere I could. I developed an early interest in the unexplained, in mysterious disappearances, and I was good at what I did, so… when the Foundation offered me a job, I jumped at the chance. Took me a couple of years to find my parents on the database. Dr. Hardcastle: I… look, for what it's worth, I'm sorry, Fatima. They were already sick when- SCP-4005-1A: It's OK. It was a long time ago, now. Anyway, I got a transfer here. It wasn't with any design, I just- just wanted to know what had happened. What had really happened. I get that the Foundation does stuff like this- I mean, I have done stuff like this. I… needed some closure, I suppose. Dr. Hardcastle: Well. Anyway. That still doesn't explain what you did last night. SCP-4005-1A: I haven't been feeling great, if I'm honest. Recently, I mean. You know about the incident a couple of months back, with the train, and… well, I've been thinking about them, too. My parents, I mean. I read the files, on their interviews. Their desperation to get out, to travel. I don't blame you, but I just- I wanted to know what it was like, to know what they went through. Dr. Hardcastle: If- we have psych people here. I could have set up a- SCP-4005-1A: People aren't always logical, Martha. Dr. Hardcastle: Right. Right, I know. Well…what did you see in there? SCP-4005-1A: I lit it, I stared, and… I saw it. The city. It showed me the whole of it, or as much of the whole as can be seen. It is so many things at once, all working in timeless motion of a seamless whole. All who have seen its lantern, their buildings, their cities. Their paradises. I saw streets of London townhouses, more beautiful and vast, in straight and twisting boulevards all mixed together. I saw dusty prisms like of Turkish houses, their past and present selves all merged together. I saw colonial cities dreamed up by old Americans, with steam over wooden houses and bumpy carriages riding through the streets. I saw concrete blocks rising from the deeps. I don't know how to describe it, Martha. It was- was pure creation. The memories, the histories from a thousand peoples all jumbled up. Dr. Hardcastle: You saw the whole? What does it look like from the outside? SCP-4005-1A: You cannot really see it like that. It's… it is so many things at once. An inland city, an external city. A city built around a central plaza, like the colonies of old; but all the central plazas marking different centres. Churches, temples, mosques. Canals, bridges strung from skyscraper to skyscraper. Avenues of decadent sin, falling into one another into a cascade like Kowloon. It is a place where the memories of the thousands who have stared into its light all criss-cross across eternity. Dr. Hardcastle: You were always purple in your prose. SCP-4005-1A: It demands purple prose. It is overwhelming. Dr. Hardcastle: This place cannot exist. It's a fantasy. It makes no sense. SCP-4005-1A: It makes sense. It makes its own sense, Martha. They stared at me, from atop an iron gate. They planted the image in my head- planted the city in my head. The denizens. The once-human, now creatures making and unmaking themselves tirelessly. Dr. Hardcastle: That's something we've heard before. A lot of people claim to have some living link to this place, that they carry it with them in the images they saw. That the city maintained a presence inside their heads. I never thought that was very significant, though… SCP-4005-1A: I know, Martha, I studied the same people you did, but- only now do I get it. When you pass through, you… change. You lose parts of yourself, or they're transformed into something else. The denizens of this place, they're- they live as if in a constant dream, and they've shared that dream with us. One single, unified, shared dream, a wire running through our brains- ahh, I can't describe it. I'm sorry, Martha, I know you want more. Dr. Hardcastle: Dreams, yes, a shared dream, we hadn't thought of… but this is all nonsense. All lies! There's no city, Fatima. Of that I am cordially certain. SCP-4005-1A: I… I know it seems unlikely, but- Dr. Hardcastle: If it is a dream, it is a dream of the unattainable. Maybe that's the joke. Don't you get it, Fatima? You walk through the door to utopia and disappear. Utopia. It's just More's city, eu-topos, no-place. It can't exist. It couldn't. Human nature, the expiration of the body, the thousand natural shocks and all that guff… so much denies it. SCP-4005-1A: I choose to believe otherwise. Dr. Hardcastle: And sadly, I can't stop you doing that. I am sorry, Fatima. I really am. SCP-4005-1A: It's OK. Dr. Hardcastle: Just one more thing. Why have you not tried to escape? Our other instances have spent most of their containment desperate to get out, to complete this pilgrimage of yours. Why have you not gone? SCP-4005-1A: Oh, but I already have, Martha. Pilgrimages don't have to be journeys on foot. Mine is entirely different. Dr. Hardcastle: …Not going to tell me anything else? SCP-4005-1A: You'll find out soon, Martha. I'm sorry I've caused all this trouble. I really am. <End Log> Addendum 3 23/01/28: The following is a selectively curated testing log of D-Class personnel exposed to SCP-4005. Subject Place of Origin Date SCP-4005 Observations Place of disappearance D‑2188 Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela 09/12/76 Subject observed a series of whitewashed coastal dwellings by a green ocean. Subject saw "a beautiful woman playing a violin to a postal worker." A cave on the Venezuelan coast, near Caracas. D‑3733 Born in London, United Kingdom; raised in Yellowknife, Canada 08/02/79 Subjected reported seeing an "underground London, but somehow wrong." Entrance to SCP-1678 D‑3930 Born and raised in Worcester, United Kingdom. 12/11/86 Subject reported seeing a large number of factory workers, emerging from a "pear factory"2. Subject claimed that this represented the perfect way to live, a perfected form of Victorian-era capitalism. The cellar of a London townhouse. D‑2513 Born and raised in Shanghai, China 07/02/92 Reported seeing the entire city; would not elaborate, and spent the rest of the time prior to entering SCP-4005-2 claiming he was the "brother of Jesus" A gateway in Nanjing, China. D‑3380 Born in Shiraz, Iran; raised in Los Angeles, USA 17/01/97 Reported seeing a large palace, with many blue domes on its roof; the body, however, was reminiscent of the Pruitt-Igoe housing developments in St. Louis. The entrance to the Ali Qapu palace in Esfahan, Iran. D‑3043 Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina 11/04/05 Reported seeing a large library which stretched on forever, with "each book being better than the last." Entrance to the National Public Library of Argentina. D‑2508 Born and raised in Marrakesh, Morocco 28/06/14 Reported seeing an old man sitting on a carpet in some form of courtyard. The entrance to a door in Morocco. Agents escorting the subject noticed that the name "Omar ibn Rashid" had been carved into an external wall of the mosque. D‑2072 Born and raised in Podgorica, Montenegro 15/12/25 Subject did not report on sightings. Instead, subject gouged out her own eyes while repeating the phrase "it does not have to happen! I am free! I am free!" A large door made of silicon in a factory in Podgorica. D‑2747 Born in Kashgar, China; raised in Cairo, Egypt 11/07/27 Subject reported seeing large numbers of men, women and children "standing on an iron wall" and "staring at Dr. Hardcastle." The subject did not elaborate on how they knew what these subjects were staring at. Dr Hardcastle reported feeling a sense of profound unease during the experiment. The Iron Gates, a mountain pass in Xinjiang, China, and part of one of the traditional "Silk Road" routes. Addendum 4 31/05/28: On 30/05/28, several members of Site 867 spontaneously turned into SCP-4005-1 instances. The effect appeared to spontaneously affect members of Site 867 at random; after a few hours, approximately 20% of Site 867's staff had been converted into SCP-4005-1 instances. The following is an interview conducted by Project Lead Martha Hardcastle with SCP-4005-1A concerning these alterations to SCP-4005's functioning. +Interview 4005-2 -Interview 2 Date: 30/01/28 Interviewer: Dr. Martha Hardcastle, Project Lead on SCP-4005 Interviewee: SCP-4005-1A, formerly Dr. Fatima Mahmoud, Level 3 researcher at Site 867. Location: Site 867, Containment Facility 8B. <Begin Log> Dr. Hardcastle: Alright, Fatima, what the hell. SCP-4005-1A: Hey, Martha. Dr. Hardcastle: Don't you- just shut up and tell me what the hell is going on. I don't know who I can trust any more but you were my friend for a long, long time. I want to- SCP-4005-1A: I… I really am sorry. I know this must be hard. But, you'll see, it's all for the greater- Dr. Hardcastle: God-damnit!! Dr. Hardcastle sits down, and breathes heavily for several seconds. Dr. Hardcastle: The site is on lockdown. Half the staff have been shoved in containment cells for trying to escape. They keep screaming about going on pilgrimage. And a bunch more managed to get away from us, fleeing into the woods. How do I stop this, Fatima? SCP-4005-1A: I- I didn't- it's not my decision, Martha. Dr. Hardcastle: Then whose is it? My job is to contain. That's what I'm good at. So tell me what to put in a fucking box, Fatima. Please. SCP-4005-1A: You can't. It's begun. I'm sorry, Martha, but it's already over. Dr. Hardcastle: What is?? SCP-4005-1A: The great pilgrimage. All across the world, person after person, knowing how to last. Coming to the city. Coming to the just kingdom. Dr. Hardcastle: People still die in the city. You told me as much yourself. SCP-4005-1A: But their creation doesn't. Their creation lasts there for an eternity. Falling into ruin and then out again, just to see what it looks like in different colours. It is a gift. There, we can be happy, free, able to turn our needs and desires to other things because the city has lifted us up. We don't have to be afraid any more. It is a gift. Dr. Hardcastle: You keep saying that, Fatima, every time I come in here, but there are a thousand places that promise the same. Alagadda, the Tangential Frontier, the Whisper King and his Army of Nightmares. All I see is children looking in the mirror and throwing themselves on the rocks, hoping there was water below. Diving into oblivion. Into the eel's fucking maw. At least yours a prettier death, I'll grant you that. SCP-4005-1A: Don't talk about it like that. There is a pause for several seconds. Dr. Hardcastle: Oh, just- give me something, Fatima, something. SCP-4005-1A: I can't. I'm sorry. Even if I wanted to, and I don't, there's nothing I can do. The city was constructed by people, just people, and now it's calling them to it. It's time, time the world was changed, time the whole edifice was cast aside. Imagine not having to worry, every day, about who you are. About what you are. Imagine being in a place where it all makes sense. Where we don't have to waste our lives on the struggle. Dr. Hardcastle: The struggle is what lets us create. SCP-4005-1A: Does it? Are tortured geniuses so clever because they are tortured, or are they geniuses despite the torture? Nobody ever asks that, do they? None of you have ever wondered if maybe, just maybe, geniuses are made to suffer by people, and that we'd see a lot more of them if people like us didn't lock them in cages, didn't make it so that people could only express beauty through pain. We can make the just kingdom, Martha. Dr. Hardcastle: There's no such thing. SCP-4005-1A: There is. There absolutely is. We are taking this world back, Martha. We are creating justice. We are giving people what they deserve: a real chance. A world that really is theirs for the shaping, and which won't be ripped away from them. Mankind doesn't stink, but it has a hell of a lot that's wrong with it. We'll remove the need for vice. We'll stop them wanting to be evil. We'll do it with kindness. Dr. Hardcastle: You sound like some student activist. Don't you know that all these dreams are doomed to fail? I'm older than you, Fatima. I've seen the world burn and shake and tremble. All my dreams are dust, and yours will be too. Or you will. SCP-4005-1A: You're so jaded. Just because you've failed doesn't mean I will. We're making a world where people can be people. Where we can all be free, all create, all liberated from the crushing burden of their chains! Dr. Hardcastle: Oh, listen to you! I have seen a thousand people like you. Standing up on barricades, shouting about what you want. If this world really is made by us, it'll be just as bad as everything that's gone before it. It'll be blown apart, its creations scattered! I can't believe you. How do you know that this lamp really is showing you a city, huh? How do you know it's- that it's not just some ancient god, luring you in with promises and lies to consume, imprison, enslave you? SCP-4005-1A: I don't. But I have enough trust to try. What's the point, Martha? What's the point in this endless grind, this normalcy the Foundation is so desperate to protect? Why not try to change the world? Why not have a little chaos? Because you're so frightened of becoming another Manna that you can't conceive of a better existence. The Foundation had everything. We'll take that and give them back the gift of a better life. You want to know what's going on? I'll tell you. al-Sin has become a myth again. By hints of shadows, by word of mouth, by any recognition at all, it'll spread like a virus. There's a better world out there, Martha! In the kingdom at the end of the road. In the justice at the end of all islands. Dr. Hardcastle: …This interview is over. Restrain her. <End Log> Addendum 5 02/06/28: The following is another set of decoded entries from Omar ibn Rashid's diary. +Diary Excerpt 2 -Diary Excerpt 2 The present is a lie. It is a series of moments we try to give context to, but the context is being erased and written all around it, leaving only the confusion of the throng. I have never thought much of pilgrimages before now. The religion of my country has always had one, vast one, the yearly Hajj; it has had shrines to sufis and other holy men scattered across its lands to which people flock. These may be fewer every year, but they still hold power. But I, bourgeois and modern as I am, never thought much of them. They seem like a frivolous pursuit for those determined to show off their piety in social and conventional ways. I know better now. The pain, hungry, fever of a pilgrimage is not there for the sake of vanity of mindless flagellating asceticism. It is there as part of a journey, a journey which changes you. It makes you better. I walked across the world, one step in front of another. It was hard, at times, but slowly it became routine, and then enjoyable. There was something real about it, something so human. I begged and sold and bartered my way across Persia, Syria, into Africa, and to the city of my youth. It was there I left the lamp. I had, in moments of despair, filled it with oil and lit it, to stare again into my heart's desire. I saw the streets and houses, the palaces. I saw kings who existed not as people but as props. And I saw an old man, laughing like a little child as he wandered the endless streets of China. Imagine it is the 14th century, in Christian years; the 8th in ours. Don't think of it as time travel, or thinking about the past; think of it as a present which once was, and might be again. For the people of this earlier time, our recent past is their future. They have an entirely different notion of time, too, for which events in both our pasts happened differently, and can take on very different meanings. This is the present; just the present in another context. Other times never really die, they are merely locked away where we can never see them. There is an emir, living in a citadel. The citadel is in Marrakesh. Once, this city was the seat of Almoravids and Almohads, but they are long gone now. It is surrounded by walls of ochre, which give the city its nickname: the Red City. It is beautiful under the summer sun, but its beauty is the beauty of the past. Of course, we know that the city would reach great heights again under the Sa'adis, but this emir does not know that. To him, he simply rules over an old and decaying city, while the Marinid seat in Fez is coated in glory. At night, he has bad dreams. As he sits within the citadel, he tosses and turns. He loves his city. He loves its walls, its madrasas, its citadel. He loves its green places, courtyard houses, bright-coloured handicrafts. The walls upon walls upon walls, winding in ways incomprehensible to some but making perfect sense to its inhabitants, their mahalle neighbourhoods and family streets aligned in an order of utmost security. His city is dying. He sobs, as the nightmares come of its fall, of armies of Berbers, Malians or Franks storming across the Maghreb and not even stopping to loot. He wants an answer, a solution. He wants his city to last forever. One day, a traveller comes. He has come from the kingdom of al-Sin, far away even to the farthest fringes of the dar al-Islam. China, he knows, is where all the beautiful things come from. Once on campaign, he was shown a beautiful miniature from the work of Rashid al-Din, the Mongol vizier who died when he was a child. They had faces like the moon and colours that weaved with one another. He had seen their handiwork, trailing down the Pax Mongolica and into the bazaars of Morocco. The traveller tells him similar stories. He tells him of Kubla Khan, of the thousands of nations in subservience to him, of the palace of Khan-baliq and the sprawling market of Khanfu. Red padogas which glinted in the light. A kingdom without beginning, and apparently without end. The emir was transfixed. He wanted it. He wanted all of it. Marrakesh might fall, but he could glimpse a city like no other, where nothing ever ended, where milk and honey poured from the mountains. He could not see a way to transform Marrakesh, but the very knowledge of this mythical place's existence was enough. He could not travel to the east himself, being an old man with too many duties, but he was desperate to see the cities regardless. In Marrakesh, there was an alchemist. His name was known to the emir, but it was always dark, clouded. This man had few scruples and few pleasantries. The emir came to him, hidden, disguised, and requested that he make him something. Something that would allow him to see, for one single instant, the entirety of al-Sin. The alchemist nodded, and set to work. He took glass, metal, bound them together. He infused in them strange symbols and devices. He made it beautiful. He placed oil in it. He gave it to the emir. The emir lit it, and stared into the flames, and as he gazed transfixed, the alchemist left, not daring to look at his own creation. Because the alchemist had lied. He had no idea how to see across the oceans and mountains. So he did something else. He created a world, and let the emir pour his own vision into it. What the emir saw was not al-Sin, but the contents of his mind being brought to that city. It was created by him. It was part of him, and he was part of it. But it was not enough for the emir. He was transfixed, maddened. He saw utopia. Under the cover of darkness, he left his citadel, with only a robe, some food, and some water. He was never seen again. Inside the lantern, inside the city, a thousand different presents exist. The particularities of each moment, caught in this great accident, this mirror to an emir's mind. We, his humbler successors, have never managed to shape the city as he shaped it merely by a glance into flame- it was designed for him. But we have followed in his footsteps. We have found our routes to China- for all travel to China, for the people of Morocco, was necessarily hard, necessarily a pilgrimage. And once inside, we have altered and changed and shaped the city beyond what would have been imaginable to the alchemist, to the emir. His heavenly al-Sin, his twisted Marrakesh, is real. It is perfect. It is possible. All it requires is belief, and the effort of our twisted feet. Addendum 6 20/06/2028: The following is a log of attempts to contain SCP-4005. Date attempt begun Percentage of population converted into SCP-4005-1 Description of attempt Results 04/06/2028 0.00004% Full lockdown and quarantine of Site-867 Attempt failed. SCP-4005-1 instances reported in population of nearby towns, which rapidly spread to other towns and cities nearby. 07/06/2028 0.3% Removal of all known SCP-4005-1 instances to remote site in northern Canada; attempt to track down remaining instances, presuming all are still in the vicinity of Site 867. Attempt failed; generation of SCP-4005-1 instances random and worldwide. 09/06/2028 2.5 Large-scale attempt, using a wide variety of technological and anomalous means, to track down and kill SCP-4005-1 instances while simultaneously conducting research into methods of immunisation. All tracking and immunisation attempts failed. 11/06/2028 12.5 Immediate shutdown of all modes of transport worldwide. Large-scale checkpoints, curfews and population control enforced. Immediate termination of any suspected SCP-4005-1 instances. Activation of Broken Masquerade protocols. Attempt initially successful, but SCP-4005-1 instances quickly began using alternate portals to enter SCP-4005-2. 14/06/2028 20.6 Immediate removal of all known human populations away from possible SCP-4005-1 instances. Attempt failed; SCP-4005-1 conversion has become random and capable of appearing even in isolated populations. 15/06/2028 38.5 Use of SCP-2000 Request denied by O5-Council 16/06/2028 57.9 Ritual sacrifice to [DATA EXPUNGED] Request denied by O5-Council 18/06/2028 89.6 SCP-3799 Request denied by O5-Council, who also demanded the immediate reclassification of SCP-4005 as Thaumiel and the embarkation of Dr. Hardcastle and remaining personnel at Site 867 on a pilgrimage. This was countermanded by Dr. Hardcastle. 19/06/2028 99.9 Destruction of last non-infected human via suicide Attempt interrupted by SCP-4005-1A. Interview log concerning these events can be found in an addendum below. SCP-4005 has been reclassified as Apollyon. Addendum 7 29/06/2028: The following is a log of an unscheduled interview between SCP-4005-1A and Dr. Hardcastle. +Interview 3 -Interview 3 Date: 29/01/28 Interviewer: Dr. Martha Hardcastle, Project Lead on SCP-4005 Interviewee: SCP-4005-1A, formerly Dr. Fatima Mahmoud, Level 3 researcher at Site 867. Location: Site 867, Quarters of the Site Director. <Begin Log> SCP-4005-1A: Hello, Martha. Dr. Hardcastle: What do you want? Spit it out. SCP-4005-1A: To see if you are alright. I am your friend. Dr. Hardcastle: You have new friends now. Not running off with them? SCP-4005-1A: They're my brothers and sisters in pilgrimage. They're not my friends. And, anyway, I'm not finished here yet. Dr. Hardcastle: There's nobody left. They're all gone. All of them. My husband was laughing and smiling as he left me with the children. "We'll see you soon", he said. But he won't. I'll never go. Never. SCP-4005-1A: Why not? Dr. Hardcastle: Because there is no utopia! There is no perfection, no change, just an endless struggle! How would it even work, anyway? A city that's everyone's perfect city? What about the people who hate cities? SCP-4005-1A: They create green spaces in its centre, so vast that they never see the rest. Dr. Hardcastle: How's it even a city, then, eh? That could describe a whole country. SCP-4005-1A: Because each park is surrounded by the buildings, constructed in such a way that they can only be seen by those who should see them. Dr. Hardcastle: And who decides who should? SCP-4005-1A: The city does. Whatever works for each person. Whatever they want. Dr. Hardcastle: This is not true utopia. A true utopia- SCP-4005-1A: A true utopia, Martha, is a place where people can coexist and all be happy. It is not heaven. It is something more real. Dr. Hardcastle: I'll trust in the real world, thanks. SCP-4005-1A: Who defines what is real, and what is the lie? The distinction is only in your head, Martha. You are remarkable. The only people even capable of resistance were those who understood the anomalous, understood what was happening to them, but they all saw the light eventually. But you, Martha, you soldier on regardless. You just can't see any beauty in what's going on. You can't even accept the idea that maybe the world could be better. Dr. Hardcastle: The world's not getting any better. You're just running away. Cowards! You're all cowards. SCP-4005-1A: The thing you don't get is that it's not a cognitohazard, Martha. It's free will. We saw something beautiful and we wanted it. We're going on a pilgrimage. Pilgrimages aren't always safe, especially since there's only so much food to go around. We cross the land on only our feet, until we find the place we are meant to go. All across the world, nations walking on. Dr. Hardcastle: Except you. SCP-4005-1A: My pilgrimage is you, Martha. Dr. Hardcastle: Wh- what's that supposed to mean? SCP-4005-1A: That my pilgrimage is convincing you to go. SCP-4005-1A opens the door. SCP-4005-1A: There it is. My Iron Gates, my pass to Kashgar. But it will only open if you come with me. Dr. Hardcastle: I am not going with you. SCP-4005-1A: The city, Martha, is divided into districts, each forged by a single person- Dr. Hardcastle: I'm not listening, I'm not listening, I'm not! SCP-4005-1A: -and each district converges on a central point. Never mind the impossibility; physics is only a convention of this universe. The form of the city- the way is is perceived- that is what makes it. The same place can seem totally different depending on the image of space and its absence which we form. And at the centre lies the answer. There is a pause of several seconds. Dr. Hardcastle: The… answer? SCP-4005-1A: An emir from Marrakesh. That's all there is, and I don't deny it. At the centre of the road, through all the streets, the city's heart is a single Moroccan courtyard wrapped in four walls. And in it is an emir, who smiles. Dr. Hardcastle: …Why does he smile? SCP-4005-1A: Because he knows that there is good in this world, Martha. Because he knows that there is an answer. That mankind can improve its own lot. That his city will never die, because his city is a Marrakesh in the stars, a fable of al-Sin. He is happy because he believes. There is another long pause. Dr. Hardcastle: All my life, I never believed in anything. Not God, not man, not creations, not… and all I've ever done is lock things in boxes to stave off death for another day. And never dared dream that we could change it. Never dared to hope. SCP-4005-1A: It's our lot to be bound to a wheel that spins eternally. Come with me, Martha. Come and smash the chains. Come and be free. <End Log> Addendum 8 02/07/2028: The following is a third set of decoded entries from Omar ibn Rashid's diary. SCP-4005's translation and decoding team insisted, shortly after becoming SCP-4005-1 instances, that Dr. Hardcastle preserve these in the Foundation database. Dr. Hardcastle acquiesced to their request shortly after she accepted the fact that she had become an SCP-4005-1 instance. +Diary Excerpt 3 -Diary Excerpt 3 The future is a lie. It is a desperate hope projected by desperate men onto the fog they cannot see, only for it all to collapse within the inevitability of oblivion. When I think of my country, I see many futures. I see the completeness of various tyrannies, of Nasser or the Brotherhood or the liberals or the fascists or the Marxists or whatever else springs up. Each of these knows what the past is, an endless system of nation, faith or class. Each of these knows what the present is, a series of problems to be fixed. And each of these knows what the future is, a series of dystopias or utopias spiralling into an inky void. And behind this all, Cairo grows, like an engorged monster that has no control or energy. A mass of people, emerging from ancient communities and lured by the bright lights of the city. Cairo seems to be a system, a unified, singular thing that makes sense and provides answers, but this is a lie. All cities are chaos, dependent upon their surroundings. They are defined by being not the country, just as the country is defined as being not the city, but they bleed into one another. Streets, squares, markets perceived one way by one angle are seen completely differently by another. The view from above, below, in the street and from the distant plain, alter the system. Make it stranger. And history is just the same. The events are just the building blocks. The infernal cacophony of motivations, understandings, paradigms we slip into it, to define trajectories of time, swirl and alter and change. An endless scream of orthodoxies all bound together. All things subsumed into a system which, by subsuming all, negates itself. Past, present, future; all lies, tattered ideology imposed upon an unwilling past. All is lies. All is nought. But deep within our buried hearts, deep in our inner convictions, we all share the desire for something better. Something more whole. My entire life has been defined by false truths, enough to make a man weep that nothing will ever move. But perhaps there is a history which is not a lie. A history defined not by the wants of the present but by a comprehension of the struggle of the poor, the fables of the believer, the thousand incontrovertible narratives clashing with one another to create a glorious, beautiful whole. What if Cairo's endless concrete blocks were transformed? Arabesques and murqanas sweeping over their windows and walls, twisting against one another in patterns of infinity. The people inside raised from their squalor to become princes, to become heroes, to become saviours. Instead of the endless fluctuating chaos, a world governed by narrative, purpose, movement, with everyone swimming in a beauty of their own devising. I understand them, now. I understand the ideals that beat in men's hearts. There is a city, on a hill, through a door, under a cave. It is a city born from a long and tired pilgrimage; and when that pilgrimage is over, it becomes a maze of dark streets, each opening onto one another, a labyrinth of different histories all rubbing up against one another. Istanbul bleeds into Beijing bleeds into Tenochtitlan, each vaster and more terrible than their earthly counterparts. You walk through the chaos. You walk through the families, as they cook meals over antique braziers and construct prisms of lights, refracting and refracting until they negate themselves. The many districts all focused, endlessly, on a singular point, because all of them are variations on that singular point. You push through the fog, through looming tower blocks at dusk, through sand-swept moorish palaces, through twisting Zulu kraals and mud-spun mosques of Timbuktu, through the eyes of African residents and European dreamer. In the centre of the web, at the perfect location of cosmic time, the crossroads of the city, lies a palace. It does not look grand. It does not look like anything special; just a red house in Marrakesh. And in it is a courtyard. And inside that is a grey-faced emir, who is smiling, just smiling, sitting on the ground and smiling at a sun that washes over a city that will never die. And he smiles because he knows that utopia is possible, if one only steps, inch by inch, into their own creation. Footnotes 1. SCP-4005-1 instances, even those with cognitohazardous training, universally claim that they merely react with free will and not via compulsion; this has been deemed extremely unlikely by Project Lead Dr. Martha Hardcastle. 2. Possibly linked to Worcester's 19th century industrial revolution as well as its premodern reputation for pear growing, which gives the city its coat of arms. |
SCP-4006 | thaumiel | close Info X More by DarkStuff~! The area known to the public as the state of Massachusetts. Item #: SCP-4006 Special Containment Procedures: No concrete containment procedures are necessary. Actions taken in regards to SCP-4006 should follow standard protocol of maintaining the veil (Protocol MtV-4006). Description: SCP-4006 is a probabilistic anomaly affecting the state of Massachusetts, USA. SCP-4006 works to perpetuate the idea that Massachusetts is a populated state with a government, infrastructure, economy, various population centers, et cetera. Due to this, the true nature of Massachusetts is entirely unknown to the public; Massachusetts has no history of human occupation. All effects of SCP-4006 are in and of themselves mundane events, though highly improbable. It is the pervasiveness and frequency of these nigh incalculably low probability events, and their collaboration to effectively spread misinformation about Massachusetts, that earns SCP-4006 anomalous recognition. Why several SCP Foundation researchers were immune to the effects of SCP-4006 and were able to discover it (and subsequently spread the information to others) is unclear. To better understand SCP-4006's effects, the following is a heavily abridged early history of Massachusetts: Massachusetts lacks any tribal presence. The Massachusett people, after which the state is later named, reside in nearby territories. Several nations, including Britain, Portugal, Spain, and France, begin to colonize the New World / the Americas. Britain, knowing of France's plans to claim the northernmost parts of North America, claims to have a colony further north than Jamestown, and names the faux colony Plymouth. Due to poor communication, further colonists are led to believe that the land of Massachusetts has already been colonized. Colonists that do wish to go to Plymouth inexplicably find themselves landing further south, after terrible ocean storms. Such colonists are met with other colonists who believe themselves to be further north, and call the area Massachusetts. The fishing industry operates out of Rhode Island. Though fishing boats are pushed north by southern winds to the coast of Massachusetts, no boats ever land on the beaches, and no human steps foot onto any land in Massachusetts. Rhode Island and Connecticut develop, unknowing of the presence of people believing to be within Massachusetts. Colonies use the same land and harvest from the same forests but never come into direct contact with one another. Colonists believing to be from Massachusetts (hereafter referred to as SCP-4006-A) and colonists from Connecticut and Rhode Island finally meet but never explicitly discuss their location. SCP-4006-A assume the others they meet to also believe themselves to be from Massachusetts. Cities establish two or more separate governments and assume separate names. People believing themselves to be from one city or the other only meet with police forces and only read of the news pertaining to the city identity they believe to be true. The governments of each "city" never become aware of each other's existence, and continue to function independently. The same pattern is established as the colonies of Rhode Island and Connecticut establish governments, while SCP-4006-A believe these governments to be their own governments. English surveillance of each colony is tricked in much the same way, incorrectly assuming they have crossed the border into Massachusetts and only then encountering SCP-4006-A when discussing regional affairs. It is difficult to assess the history of Massachusetts' past this due to SCP-4006's effects. By 1928, SCP-4006-A spanned the entire east coast and several northeastern states. Concentrations were (and are still) highest in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and New Jersey. The furthest west that SCP-4006-A have been identified is North Dakota. People believing themselves to be visiting any city in Massachusetts (such as Boston) will actually be in any number of other cities near Massachusetts. Such cities include New York City, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh. Whenever in a conversation where the name of, trivia about, or landmarks within the city are discussed, people will only encounter others who believe themselves to be in the same city. Note that due to the scale of SCP-4006, only enough effects to communicate the nature of SCP-4006 have been recorded here. For a list of all recorded effects of SCP-4006, contact any personnel of 4/4006 clearance. Addendum 4006-1 | Foundation Occupation of Massachusetts SCP-4006's effects make Massachusetts an unusually secure location for Foundation activities. However, while SCP-4006 is currently the most powerful probability based anomaly within the Foundation's knowledge, purview, and containment, it has been shown to be imperfect, as several Foundation scientists were able to discover the true nature of Massachusetts while researching anomalies they believed to be within Massachusetts. As such, Protocol MtV-4006 has been created. Protocol MtV-4006 is a reminder to all involved with SCP-4006 and those working in Sites within Massachusetts: Do not assume that SCP-4006 will keep activity secret. Continue to take all necessary precautions to maintain the veil, in the event that SCP-4006 fails to censor all information about the true nature of Massachusetts. In the name of MtV-4006, the SCP Foundation has allocated several million USD a year towards creating further defenses against the public discovery of the true nature of Massachusetts. Such precautions have included: Setting up sites at the locations of several supposed cities (Boston, Springfield, etc.) and making the sites appear to satellites like normal buildings. Having roads between sites mimic the publicly agreed upon road maps of Massachusetts (for example, the Sites between Springfield and Boston use a connecting road that is technically a continuation of Hwy 90). Wearing mostly civilian style clothing while wandering outside of Sites. At the time of writing, all precautions have been wholly unnecessary, as SCP-4006 continues to function as expected. This fact has not diminished the Foundation's dedication to Protocol MtV-4006. Addendum 4006-1 Extension: Continued Foundation Occupation of Massachusetts Sites within Massachusetts have expanded to be the five largest Foundation Sites. Site-19's function as the largest collection of Foundation Level 5 personnel, Site surveyors, HMCL supervisors etc., as well as the home of the Ethics Committee Board, has now been transferred to Site-4006, based at the supposed location of Boston. Many difficult to contain SCP objects, or objects that take up a significant amount of space to contain, have since been moved en masse to Massachusetts. Hundreds of Foundation researchers, staff, and miscellaneous personnel have migrated to Massachusetts in consequence. In light of this, several developments have been made in the name of Protocol MtV-4006, including: An airport has been created by Site-4006, in mimicry of the supposed Logan International Airport, where private Foundation airplanes (disguised as commercial flights) may make easier commute to and from Massachusetts. Plans to create airports in several other locations in Massachusetts have been drafted. Infrastructure, mimicking real cities, has been implemented to create easy living for those within Massachusetts. All "businesses" have been placed in locations mimicking online maps of the cities. A more complex roadway system across Massachusetts to make for easier commute between Sites and testing locations. In response to these developments, Project-4006-109, "Full Realization of Massachusetts", has been proposed in hopes of creating a functioning state within the United States in which the Foundation alone may operate and accommodate for thousands of personnel. Official implementation of Project-4006-109 would begin in two years, if approved. Addendum 4006-2 | Completion of Project-4006-109 & Expanding Awareness of SCP-4006 Project-4006-109 has been completed, and the state of Massachusetts recreated from common public misunderstandings of its structure. All major cities and small towns have been created, infrastructure mimicked, housing populated with SCP Foundation personnel, and all major "public roads" created. The US government has begun to treat the physical location of Massachusetts and its Foundation personnel as true citizens of Massachusetts. SCP Foundation personnel in the US government have implemented a system by which only fellow Foundation personnel within the government ever preside over Massachusetts. This way, the true nature of Massachusetts continues to remain secret, while also allowing the SCP Foundation's recreation of Massachusetts to function as a real state within the United States. Commercial flights have now been seen flying over Massachusetts, and several civilian cars have passed through Massachusetts at various times. In light of this, classified Foundation activities have been further suppressed and Protocol MtV-4006 has taken even higher precedence. Testing areas above ground have been officially "closed off to the public", to make certain that civilians passing through do not stumble upon classified materials. [Several Addenda have been removed due to redundancy and repetition. To view a list of removed Addenda, contact any researcher of 4/4006 clearance.] Addendum 4006-8 | Uncertainty Regarding SCP-4006 In 2023 it has been found that fewer than 20 people believing themselves to be in Massachusetts exist outside of the state of Massachusetts, and that those that do are not under the effects of a probabilistic anomaly such as SCP-4006. Massachusetts is now more populated by normal US citizens than Foundation personnel. While Massachusetts remains the largest collection of SCP Foundation assets, all Sites, testing grounds, outposts, and otherwise, are hidden and contained. In light of this, three motions have been proposed: Reclassify SCP-4006 as Neutralized. Reclassify SCP-4006 as Explained. Keep SCP-4006 as Thaumiel. The first motion argues that SCP-4006 no longer quantifiably exists. The second motion argues that while SCP-4006 was a large enough phenomenon to warrant the designation of an SCP object at the time, every individual piece of SCP-4006 was able to be explained by coincidence and science. The third motion has been put forth by the O5 council. ► 5/4006 Clearance Required ◄ Passcode Accepted | Revised SCP-4006 File Accessed The state of Massachusetts, through which SCP-4006 was theorized. Item #: SCP-4006 Special Containment Procedures: N/A Description: SCP-4006's existence is in and of itself theoretical. Proof of SCP-4006's existence or nonexistence has not been concretely gathered, but due to SCP-4006's likelihood to exist and its position as the most powerful probabilistic anomaly in existence if it were to exist it has been recorded as an SCP object. Evidence for SCP-4006's existence includes: The public's ignorance of the true nature of Massachusetts. The public's ignorance of the true nature of the universe. The containment of over 3000 SCP objects with breaches in secrecy being only temporary. The existence of SCP-2000, and other Thaumiel SCP objects. The existence of SCP-3000, and the discovery of amnestic compounds in general at convenient times in the Foundation's history. Earth's dimension(s) being particularly disconnected and difficult to access from the rest of the multiverse. The nonexistence of any powerful groups whose goals include the complete destruction of normalcy. The existence of several powerful groups whose goals include the maintenance of normalcy. The existence of the SCP Foundation. However, due to SCP-4006 only potentially existing, and evidence suggesting that if it does exist that the SCP Foundation in part perpetuates it, it is best to assume that SCP-4006 does not exist. Allowing the theory of SCP-4006's existence to perpetuate may instill a sense of apathy and meaninglessness, leading towards SCP Foundation personnel taking far greater risks than are necessary while holding the belief that SCP-4006 will cover any mistakes of theirs. SCP-4006 is the phenomenon known as "the veil". ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4006" by DarkStuff, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4006. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. 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SCP-4007 | keter | close Info X SCP-4007: Kagemusha Author: weizhong + More articles by weizhong - Hide list SCPs SCP-2006 Rating: 2007 SCP-2950 Rating: 866 SCP-2599 Rating: 849 SCP-2800 Rating: 583 SCP-3200 Rating: 539 SCP-4007 Rating: 418 SCP-2750 Rating: 312 SCP-2201 Rating: 241 SCP-2101 Rating: 222 SCP-2050 Rating: 213 SCP-2440 Rating: 199 SCP-2301 Rating: 180 SCP-1842 Rating: 178 SCP-2012 Rating: 170 SCP-2499 Rating: 166 SCP-1644 Rating: 166 SCP-2775 Rating: 147 SCP-2925 Rating: 137 SCP-1758 Rating: 136 SCP-972 Rating: 126 SCP-7030 Rating: 125 SCP-314-J Rating: 99 SCP-2625 Rating: 96 SCP-2588 Rating: 92 SCP-6030 Rating: 89 SCP-5725 Rating: 81 SCP-2896 Rating: 63 SCP-5975 Rating: 54 + All Tales by weizhong - Hide list Tales The Meaning of Fear Rating: 255 Right? 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Item #: SCP-4007 Special Containment Procedures: Primary containment of SCP-4007 consists of investigation into SCP-4007-5’s location. MTF Phi-51 (“MacArthur’s Dogs”) are currently spearheading the investigation efforts, as well as drafting plans for SCP-4007-5's capture. Additionally, the Foundation has a standing agreement with SCP-4007-4 that allows the anomaly to have limited mobility in the field under Foundation monitoring thanks to the alignment of goals between the anomaly and the Foundation. SCP-4007-4 should be considered a high-value intelligence asset for information concerning SCP-4007 and SCP-4007-5. Description: SCP-4007 is the collective designation for 5 anomalous individuals, informally known as the “Pingfang 5”, who formed a special operations unit serving under Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.1 All five individuals received multiple anomalous abilities over the course of the Second World War. While each individual received different abilities, a number of properties (both anomalous and otherwise) are common to all instances that the Foundation has encountered to date, such as: Extended longevity. SCP-4007-4 remains in excellent physical condition despite chronologically being a centenarian. Enhanced physical abilities, including, but not limited to: faster reflexes, improved senses, increased physical strength. Ability to speak multiple languages, primarily Japanese, English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and German. Intelligence and special forces training. To date, all encountered SCP-4007 instances have shown an unwillingness to accept the end of the Second World War. Similar to other non-anomalous Japanese holdouts, SCP-4007 instances have maintained that their missions are not yet complete, and thus require them to be in the field, and operating under their original orders. To date, only SCP-4007-4 has shown any willingness to cooperate with Foundation personnel, though it has refused to acknowledge the end of the war, even when showed direct evidence of such. Prior to Foundation encounters with SCP-4007, all instances of the anomaly remained active and at large throughout the territory formerly held by the Empire of Japan during the Second World War. At present, two instances (SCP-4007-4 and SCP-4007-5) remain alive, though only SCP-4007-5 is considered to be uncontained. More detailed information on SCP-4007's history and composition is included below. SCP-4007 Overview Project Shinka and Unit 731 IJAMEA Ensign, one of the entities responsible for SCP-4007's formation. SCP-4007's origins lie in a collaboration between the Imperial Japanese Anomalous Matters Examination Agency (IJAMEA)2 and Unit 731. Utilizing IJAMEA's research into anomalous objects along with Unit 731's development of Project Shinka, SCP-4007 was created as a combination stealth-infiltration and special forces unit capable of working in highly dangerous environments within hostile territory and completing otherwise extremely difficult objectives of the Imperial Japanese military, both as an entire unit and as individual operatives. Over the course of the war, SCP-4007 fought in nearly every major theater of operations that the Imperial Japanese Military engaged in during the war, though it primarily operated in Republican Chinese territory during the majority of the war, leading to their informal designation as the "Pingfang 5." By 1945, SCP-4007 was largely recalled from fieldwork in order to aid in the defense of the Japanese home islands. However, given the different locations in which SCP-4007 instances have been encountered post-war, it is believed that individual SCP-4007 operatives were given a new set of orders in 1945. The reasoning behind this as well as the contents of said orders remain unknown. Director Shirō Ishii, Commander of Unit 731 In 1935, under the banner of medical research, Unit 731 was established as an Imperial Japanese military research division in Pingfang, China. During the course of the war, Unit 731 became notorious for its biological warfare testing as well as its use of human vivisection in experimentation, both of which were performed on forcibly abducted Chinese civilians, captured foreign POWs, political dissidents, and convicted criminals. By 1937, it is believed that Unit 731 became aware of the existence of anomalous individuals, leading to the creation of Project Shinka,3 the predecessor program that would birth SCP-4007. On March 21, 1936, Director Shirō Ishii made the following internal announcement: It is now known to me that our mission is not only one of science, but also one of divine enlightenment. Certain individuals have been granted powers uncommon to the main population of this world. By chance of nature, these individuals have attained nearly godlike status over others, and yet, so few of these maruta4 that we have detained use them as they should. Science is the vehicle by which man attains mastery over nature. To impose one's will on nature, to showcase the superiority that we know we have been given, and to push the boundaries of what is possible; these are the rites by which science shows us the way. Our work here has proven instrumental to expanding our knowledge, and to securing the future of our nation. Logically, to take another's powers and to grant it to our own is the next step in ensuring that our future is always secure, no matter the threat we may face. Project Shinka would see a massive surge in abductions, as Japanese kempeitai5 began targeting anomalous individuals in Japanese held territory and abducting them for Unit 731 research. Thousands of test subjects were subjected to vivisection procedures consisting of live removal of anomalous organs and body parts in order to see if said parts would function outside of the original host. Additionally, forced breeding programs in an attempt to create more live test subjects also became common, as anomalous individuals in the civilian population became scarce. It is believed that this mass anomalous genocide directly led to the uncommonly low occurrence rate of anomalous East Asian individuals in the Foundation's database relative to the size of the East Asian population. The next phase of Project Shinka began in 1937, as Unit 731 and IJAMEA began grafting anomalous organs and body parts onto Imperial Japanese military volunteers in order to give them anomalous abilities, in the belief that these individuals would become better soldiers. Due to limited technology as well as limited knowledge of organ transplant rejection, the majority of the volunteers in this phase died due to post-transplant complications. Additionally, of the surviving volunteers, the vast majority did not have anomalous capabilities transferred to them, or did not have any control over their grafted anomalous abilities. However, by virtue of chance, at least 5 individuals would survive these procedures intact, and with at least some control over their anomalous properties. These individuals would go on to form SCP-4007. Individual instances of SCP-4007 have demonstrated a wide range of anomalous properties, which were intended to allow them to work together as a team more effectively. Foundation interactions, biographical information, and operational history on each specific instance is included below. SCP-4007-1 SCP-4007-2 SCP-4007-3 SCP-4007-4 SCP-4007-5 SCP-4007-1, while stationed in Burma in 1941. Name: 1st Lieutenant Mitsuo Kitano Original Codename: Inazuma - Lightning Bolt DOB: 06/07/1905 Description: Nominal commander of the unit. SCP-4007-1 possessed anomalous ability to generate lightning, but was not immune to the effects of it post-generation. Status: Terminated Operational History: SCP-4007-1 was extensively deployed in the Burmese theater during the war, where it was utilized to burn down large segments of jungle in an effort to reduce cover and drive out Burmese and British Indian Army soldiers. Additionally, as ranking leader of SCP-4007, SCP-4007-1 took part in numerous joint operations in Japanese occupied China. Following the war, SCP-4007-1 was identified by Foundation assets as having returned to eastern Burma, where it was holding out in Shan State. Foundation Interactions: 06/10/1946: SCP-4007-1 is identified by Republican Chinese soldiers stationed in the area, who mistook SCP-4007-1 for a Communist Chinese guerilla. SCP-4007-1 begins attacking Republican Chinese forces at this time. 06/10/1946 - 09/22/1947: SCP-4007-1 conducts a guerilla campaign against Republican Chinese soldiers, systematically striking at numerous Chinese Army camps and installations, severely reducing manpower in Kachin State, Burma. At least 500 casualties are recorded in this timespan, not including civilian residents of the region. 09/22/1947: Foundation containment team tracks down SCP-4007's location and attempts to apprehend the anomaly. SCP-4007-1 burns down a large segment of the Burmese jungle during its escape, killing one Foundation agent and 4 civilians. 02/12/1948: MTF Phi-51 is officially established and tasked with capturing SCP-4007-1. 04/25/1948: MTF Phi-51 conducts Operation Smokehouse, entrapping SCP-4007-1 within an enclosed section of jungle. SCP-4007-1 attempts to burn its way out of the jungle to clear a path, but becomes trapped inside the zone that MTF Phi-51 had closed off. When the fire had burned out, SCP-4007-1’s body was found within the zone, and believed to have expired due to smoke inhalation. The incident was ruled an acceptable outcome. SCP-4007-2 official portrait prior to anomalous modification. Name: Private Takashi Honda Original Codename: Oni - Ogre DOB: 02/03/1919 Description: SCP-4007-2 possessed anomalously resistant skin, allowing it to withstand forces exceeding that of small arms fire without harm. Status: Terminated Operational History: SCP-4007-2 was deployed as a supplement to Japanese special operations units, frequently serving in a frontline role as shock infantry as well as providing supporting fire when needed. SCP-4007-2 saw significant action in the Philippines during the war. Foundation Interactions: Unknown-03/25/1949: SCP-4007-2 is believed to have been holding out in Central Luzon, Philippines. 03/25/1949: SCP-4007-2 is first identified by Philippine Army soldiers, who mistook the anomaly for a member of the insurgent Hukbalahap group6 During an engagement between SCP-4007-2 and the soldiers, the anomaly killed 5 soldiers, and caused an additional 17 casualties before escaping. 03/25/1949-06/14/1951: SCP-4007-2 is largely unaccounted for during this span, though it would sporadically be brought back to Foundation attention in sparse engagements with Philippine Army units. An estimated ~40 casualties were reported during this time, although conflicting reports of SCP-4007-2 and Huk insurgents made it difficult to establish the source of these casualties. 06/14/1951: MTF Phi-51 tracks down SCP-4007-2 and attempts to contain the anomaly. However, SCP-4007-2 kills half of the pursuing task force, and escapes containment once more. 12/20/1951-07/21/1957: SCP-4007-2 is entirely unaccounted for during this span of time. No engagements or sightings are known to have happened during this span. 07/22/1957: SCP-4007-2 abruptly resurfaces on a minor island of the Philippines, off the coast of Quezon province. MTF Phi-51 immediately launches a new operation to contain the anomaly. In the resulting engagement, designated Operation Homewrecker, SCP-4007-2 inflicted heavy casualties onto MTF Phi-51, forcing it to disengage and call in an airstrike. In the aftermath, SCP-4007-2 was discovered dead on the island, though cause of death was ruled to be a lethal shock of electricity. The incident was ruled an acceptable outcome. SCP-4007-3, infiltrating a unit of Republican Chinese soldiers circa 1940. All members of this particular unit were subsequently captured and executed. Name: Corporal Joichiro Ida Original Codename: Kitsune - Fox DOB: 12/08/1915 Description: SCP-4007-3 possessed a compulsive cognitohazard effect that compelled listeners to believe any statement that it spoke. Subjects with sufficiently high Psychic Resistance scores could resist the effects of this compulsion. Status: Terminated Operational History: SCP-4007-3 was deployed in numerous stealth operations in Japanese held territory throughout southeast China, often being used to discover and secretly infiltrate resistance cells before reporting them to the kempeitai. Additionally, SCP-4007-3 was also tasked with gathering intelligence in Republican Chinese held territory. Foundation Interactions: Unknown-06/23/1947: SCP-4007-3 is believed to have affiliated itself with numerous Communist Chinese rebel groups throughout Southeast China during this time, and actively aided them in their campaign against Republican Chinese forces. The reasoning behind this is unknown, as Communist Chinese forces had been directly at war with Japan as well. 06/23/1947: SCP-4007-3 is discovered by the Foundation when it attempts to utilize its cognitohazard on an embedded Foundation agent within the 6th Army Group of the Republic of China. SCP-4007-3 manages to escape the agent, and disappears for the next 9 years. 06/23/1947-03/13/1958: Unknown activities, though scattered intelligence suggests that SCP-4007-3 remained active in hunting down hidden Republican Chinese operatives embedded within the mainland following the Chinese Civil War. 03/13/1958: SCP-4007-3 resurfaces under an assumed name in Guiyang, southern China. MTF Phi-51 is deployed to capture the anomaly for Foundation interrogation. During the subsequent Operation Foxhunt, however, SCP-4007-3 was discovered dead of strangulation in its home upon arrival by MTF Phi-51. Curiously, an examination of the home revealed several recently spent shell casings and compacted bullets, indicating that SCP-4007-3 had fired a gun at an unknown target, but further investigation yielded no clues. The incident was ruled an acceptable outcome. SCP-4007-4, circa 1942 Name: Private Shigeru Matsui Original Codename: Kemuri - Smoke DOB: 08/06/1910 Description: SCP-4007-4 possesses the anomalous ability to become invisible. This extends to any other objects or materials that are on SCP-4007-4’s person, or that it considers to be part of “itself.” Status: Alive Operational History: SCP-4007-4 saw extensive service with the Teishin Shudan,7 where it was deployed in a stealth infiltration role. Prior to its deployment with the Teishin Shudan, SCP-4007-4 also received additional training as a field surgeon. Due to the rapid retreat of the Japanese military from its extended holdings, SCP-4007-4 was stranded in Sarawak, Malaysia, where it continued to reside following the war until Foundation contact. Foundation Interactions: SCP-4007-4 was discovered by Foundation personnel after continuing reports of Japanese holdouts in Malaysia, in connection with earlier SCP-4007 instance interaction, led to MTF Phi-51 making contact with the anomaly on 05/03/1950. Unlike most other SCP-4007 instances encountered, 4007-4 has expressed willingness to cooperate with Foundation personnel working to contain other SCP-4007 instances. Following negotiation with the anomaly, an agreement was reached where SCP-4007-4 was permitted limited freedoms in return for information concerning SCP-4007 and assistance rendered in capturing further SCP-4007 instances. Specifically, SCP-4007-4 was permitted to continue living within its home in Malaysia, under Foundation monitoring, as well as the freedom to conduct limited operations when necessary, and after prior approval. Information from SCP-4007-4 has provided the vast majority of all known intelligence concerning SCP-4007, as nearly all documents about the unit were destroyed following the end of the Second World War, thanks to fear of backlash from the Allied Powers over the controversial and often highly illegal actions that SCP-4007 undertook during the course of its operational history, as well as the nature of Project Shinka. . ► SCP-4007-4 Interview Logs ▼ SCP-4007-4 Interview Logs Interview Objective: To ascertain more information concerning SCP-4007’s purpose. Dr. Xue’er Su conducted the following interview at SCP-4007-4’s residence, a self-constructed hut in the jungles of Sarawak. SCP-4007-4: Greetings, Su-sensei. Dr. Su: Greetings, Matsui-san. I hope that I am not being intrusive. SCP-4007-4: Not at all. To what may I owe the honor of this visit? Dr. Su: I was wondering if you could tell me more about your role during the war? SCP-4007-4: I serve at the Emperor’s pleasure. My allegiance is sworn to the Empire of Japan, and my ultimate responsibility is to defend her people from all threats. Ostensibly, we served much as many other soldiers fighting in Japan’s defense might have, receiving orders from the military and carrying them out. We had many missions and many objectives, however, and not all of them were solely for the…how do you say…conventional military? Dr. Su: So sometimes your directives didn’t align with that of the rest of the army? SCP-4007-4: No, frequently not. Tell me, Su-sensei. Why do you think that I received this divine gift? Dr. Su: For the war, presumably. SCP-4007-4: Ah, but which war? Dr. Su: …Come again? SCP-4007-4: You did not think that the war was fought with guns and bombs alone, did you? When a nation goes to war, its people must use all that they have to defend themselves, and we were no exception. And when a truly terrible war must be fought, then the people must use truly terrible weapons…even if it is they themselves who must become the ammunition. SCP-4007-4 pauses, and looks out the window. It responds without looking back, more softly than before. SCP-4007-4: And sometimes, those weapons alone may not be enough. Dr. Su: What do you mean? SCP-4007-4: I cannot tell you. Suffice to say, my former brothers in arms must be put down before it is too late. For all of us. Interview Objective: To obtain more information about SCP-4007’s late-war redeployment. Dr. Su: Greetings again, Matsui-san. SCP-4007-4: And to you as well, Su-sensei. Do you have more questions? Dr. Su: Yes. I wanted to ask you why you ended up here during the war. SCP-4007-4: You mean this stinking, fetid jungle? Chuckles. It would not have been my choice, I grant you. But I had orders to return here, and so I did. Dr. Su: I’m aware. And I know you will not divulge them. SCP-4007-4: That is classified military intelligence, Su-sensei. I am sorry, but my loyalty is unquestionable. Dr. Su: But I am not asking you to reveal what they said, Matsui-san. I only ask why you think that they ordered you here, of all places? Malaysia was a lost cause at that point. With Americans pressing on all fronts, there had to have been more important objectives. So why did the Emperor send you here? SCP-4007-4: Pauses. There were developments late in the war that changed our perspective. Things that were more pressing than our war efforts. Things more pressing than the Americans or the Chinese. During the war…some things got out of hand. The anomalous weapons became too much to handle, and it came to a head. There were…mistakes made. Dr. Su: Such as? SCP-4007-4: I cannot say much more. The loss of the 5th Southern Expeditionary Fleet was perhaps what forced our hand.8 After that, it became increasingly clear that our mission and victory over the West could not both be achieved, because my brothers and I could not do both at once. Then, the Emperor was forced to make a difficult decision. His nation or his people? SCP-4007-4 closes its eyes. SCP-4007-4: And so here I am. Until I am sure that our mission is complete, that all we have done is not for nothing. I will uphold his final order until the day that I go to my grave. To pursue that end, there is nothing that I would not do. . Name: Private Teruo Nishimura Original Codename: Bakemono - Shapeshifter DOB: 09/12/1907 Description: SCP-4007-5 is capable of altering its physical appearance at will. The limits of this ability are not currently known, due to limited Foundation interaction with SCP-4007-5. Status: Unknown Operational History: Most information surrounding SCP-4007-5 is unreliable, primarily due to its anomalous ability. Testimony from SCP-4007-4 and other sources suggests that SCP-4007-5 rarely operated with the other members of the unit. Scattered reports indicate that SCP-4007-5 was deployed in a far wider range of locations than the rest of the unit was, though verified sightings of the anomaly were exceedingly rare during the war itself. Foundation Interactions: No direct contact. Due to the ambiguity of where it operated, there have been few leads as to where the anomaly may be found. Phi-51 has been tasked with monitoring reports of remaining Japanese holdouts from the war and investigating them for possible SCP-4007-5 connections. . . . LEVEL 4/4007 CLEARANCE REQUIRED AHEAD The file you are attempting to access is restricted to personnel with Level 4/4007 clearance only. Please do not attempt to open the following documentation without approved clearance. Open Additional Documentation: SCP-4007 Close Additional Documentation SCP-4007 Archival Notice 1: On 5/4/2003, SCP-4007 Head Archivist Deping Zhang submitted the following report to the attention of the O5 Council. During scheduled archival of an old storage facility containing World War II era Foundation documents, my team stumbled upon the old SCP-4007 document, written while we still used paper records for containment procedures. The full document has been attached, but this is a particularly troubling section: Item #: SCP-4007 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4007 is currently at large. All attempts to track down the anomaly are to be directed through MTF Phi-51 (“MacArthur’s Dogs”). Live capture procedures are in effect, as it is believed that SCP-4007 may contain high-value intelligence concerning Japanese anomalous operations and weapons development during the war. Description: SCP-4007 (real name: Shigeru Matsui, discovered 03/14/1945) is an anomaly… The description of the anomaly matches our description for SCP-4007-4, but the discovery date is well over a year before our first recorded interaction with an SCP-4007 instance, which we now know as SCP-4007-1. Moreover, this document suggests that SCP-4007-4 was the only known SCP-4007 instance at the time, which doesn’t match the order in which we have them catalogued at present. I’m not sure where this discrepancy comes from, but it merits further investigation. Investigations were launched into potential reasons behind the discrepancy, and several members of MTF Phi-51 were questioned, though none could offer any reason for the apparent loss of knowledge concerning the anomaly in between 03/14/1945 and 06/10/1946. During the course of discussion, O5-3 raised the following point: Obviously, there must be some kind of tampering going on, because this kind of information does not simply disappear. While we’ve been discussing this though, I can’t help but wonder at two other discrepancies that seem awfully hard to dismiss as coincidence in light of recent developments. First, there seems to be a peculiar recurring theme in SCP-4007 containment efforts, and how often they end in a terminated anomaly. Since when did we turn into the GOC? This many failed missions would be unacceptable under any other circumstance, but it seems as though it’s been relegated to the status of a clerical error here. Second, on the subject of this report, we’ve spent several days discussing how exactly this report fits into the big picture. How did this information get tampered with? Does it affect our continuing containment of the anomaly? How do we confront 4007-4 about this, and so on and so forth. Excellent questions all, and no doubt we should be concerned about our primary source of intelligence on an anomaly being compromised. That said though, does it not concern anyone else how helpful SCP-4007-4 is? And does anyone remember how our present arrangement with SCP-4007-4 began? Special Report Alpha - SCP-4007: At the request of O5-3, Dr. Efren Domingo was appointed as the Special Investigator for SCP-4007, and submitted the following report to the attention of the O5 Council. We haven’t turned up much about SCP-4007-4 yet, but the pattern of missing knowledge is consistent with some kind of cognitohazard. We’re conducting a lot more research into what exactly could be happening, but there’s another development. I pieced together the following map of where we’ve encountered SCP-4007 instances, to date, and took the liberty of making a slight edit. I’d ask why no one’s done this before, but well…cognitohazards. It’s clearly not a coincidence where we’ve been “accidentally” stumbling upon members of the Pingfang 5, and if 4007-5 is still out there, it’s undoubtedly somewhere in northern Malaysia. What alarms me however, is the ritualistic significance of that shape. Pentagons (or more specifically, pentagrams) are popular shapes for channeling thaumaturgical energy. One especially common use for them for is invoking containment rituals that seal something inside of them. It’s a powerful arrangement, but it needs active maintenance by the pillars at each corner. This, of course, begs the awful question: What could they possibly have been trying to contain? MTF Phi-51 Deployment: Following this report, on 11/03/2005, MTF Phi-51 was deployed to the region where SCP-4007-5 was predicted to be located, with orders to investigate and make contact with the anomaly if possible. After 3 weeks of investigation, Containment Specialist Chunfeng Xin had an encounter with an individual believed to be connected to SCP-4007-5. His debriefing session is included below. Debriefer: So tell me again, how did this individual make contact with you? Xin: It was a few weeks after we had arrived in the area. We were making attempts to infiltrate the population and passively listen for any potential signs that someone had information concerning SCP-4007-5. One day, while I was out in a local village, this man came up to me. Maybe mid 30s, plain face, average build. He simply walked up to me, and struck up a conversation very casually. Debriefer: About what? Xin: The war. That’s what tipped me off that he wasn’t just an ordinary person. Debriefer: And what happened next? Xin: It…it seemed like he was getting more agitated as the conversation went on. Like I wasn’t saying what he wanted me to. By this point, I was getting a little suspicious, but I didn’t want to clue him off. So I tried to milk the conversation as best as I could, see if I could get anything else out of him. Debriefer: And that’s when he fled? Xin: Right. I…I probably shouldn’t have, but I tried alluding to what SCP-4007-4 had mentioned, about the need for weapons. Figured he might think that I was a friend. Instead, that line made his face turn pale. He ran off quickly, but he muttered something to me before he left. Xin pauses. Xin: He said, “He’s made you forget me again, hasn’t he?” Xin pauses again. Xin: We lost sight of him, and he slipped away. Spent hours combing the place, but never found a trace of him. We’d spend the next few weeks looking, but no one had ever seen the description that I described. That night though, when I went to bed, I found a note in my room. Xin produces a crumpled note written in Japanese, and smooths it out on the table before reading. Xin: “Do not remember me. Do not trust the traitor's words. And most importantly, do not forget what he has stolen in his misguided attempt to fulfill our mission.” Testimony Concerning SCP-4007-4: The following testimony is from Dr. Efren Domingo, continuing on his previously mentioned investigation. It’s subtle. It’s effective. And God damn it, because it’s brilliant. We’ve been duped this whole time. We thought that Unit 731 was a bunch of butchers, more or less conducting anomalous meatball surgery in an effort to see what sticks, without any subtlety in approach at all. From that basic perspective, it was easy to underestimate each SCP-4007 instance as a one-trick pony anomaly. But the data we’ve collected suggests that Unit 731 may have been far better at grafting anomalies than we previously thought. SCP-4007-4’s primary ability is much more subtle than simply vanishing from sight. We assumed that SCP-4007-4 was simply becoming invisible through some unknown method, and hand-waved it as “anomalous mumbo-jumbo.” But we know how it works now. SCP-4007 is not actually becoming invisible, and it’s not an optical anomaly. It’s an amnestic one. SCP-4007-4 does not become invisible, strictly speaking, rather, it becomes invisible to the mind. By utilizing a very, very subtle anti-meme, SCP-4007-4 manages to erase its image from a viewer's brain, while not tampering with the memory of the anomaly’s existence in and of itself. Additionally, we think that 4007-4 can tweak this cognitohazardous effect, sometimes strengthening it, and other times lessening it, making its effect extremely selective, acting like a surgeon's scalpel and excising only the exact portions necessary, while leaving others intact. Effectively, it can make a viewer forget exactly what it wants the subject to forget. Nothing more, nothing less. It's brilliant, because your garden-variety cognitohazard is so blatant that we would have recognized it nearly immediately. The only reason we noticed at all is that we noticed IR heat camera recordings of 4007-4 still register the anomaly's presence when viewed later. Nothing on tape that we have is being affected by it. In other words, while 4007-4 can affect our memories, it cannot affect any existing records of its existence, such as recordings, ledgers, or as you might have surmised by this point, outdated containment procedures. The data we have is, to put it lightly, alarming. According to our analysis, all members of MTF Phi-51, along with 60% of research staff assigned to SCP-4007 have been subjected to SCP-4007-4’s amnestic effect. All of those not affected have either never directly interacted with the anomaly, or haven’t worked long enough to actually have come into contact with it. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a lot of us have had our memories wiped at different points, or otherwise tinkered with to the point that we could be misremembering large swaths of our history with SCP-4007. The worst thing is, we have no idea what any of this could mean. What exactly is SCP-4007-4’s endgame? What has it done that we don’t know about? What have we done that we don’t know about? There are a lot of questions, and I’m not sure where to begin in order to answer them. However, we should probably start with the big one: What else have we forgotten about SCP-4007? SCP-4007 Expedition 01/03/2008: After noting the arrangement of SCP-4007 instances in a pentagon shape9, Dr. Efren Domingo recommended an expedition be taken to the center of the pentagon in order to investigate the potential purpose of such an arrangement of SCP-4007 instances. The SCPF Peregrino was launched on a mission to the region off the shore of Vietnam, and launched several diver teams to search the region for any signs relating to SCP-4007. Dive Team 5 made the first discovery when it found the wreckage site of several World War 2 era ships. A transcript of their recording is included here. Dive Team 5 examining the wreck of the Umigiri. Camera footage is from Dive Leader Binh Ngo. Ngo was accompanied by fellow divers Brian Riemann and Jose Millares. The feed begins with the team arriving at the wreckage site. Scraps of metal and twisted ruins of several ship hulls are littered throughout the seafloor. Diver Millares swims up to the camera, holding a piece of metal. He brushes off the layer of sand on it, and holds it up. The word “Umigiri” can be seen on it, along with the flag of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Ngo turns to point at several different visible ship hulls, naming them as he goes. Ngo: Yamagiri. Taekaze. Satokaze.10 Ngo: An entire squadron, sunk. More ships that we can’t find the names for. Ngo swims down to the seafloor, and sifts through the sand. He reaches through the cloudy water, and pulls out a skull. As the sand clears, dozens more can be seen buried in the sand. The entire seafloor is covered in bones, most of them still wearing scraps of Imperial Japanese military uniforms. Ngo: So many bodies. And not just sailors, army soldiers too. Pilots, even. By our estimate, there have to be thousands of them. As far as I know, none of these wrecks were claimed by Allied navies. But this is the most alarming thing of all. Diver Riemann swims to the camera, holding up a small section of ship hull. It is warped nearly beyond recognition. Ngo: These ships weren’t bombed or shelled. Not scuttled either. None of those things would cause this pattern of metal damage, and we don’t see any signs of blackening from explosive ordnance. Whatever it was that sunk these ships, it wasn’t conventional. Ngo traces his hand down the side of the hull fragment. The piece has almost been split in half, as if it were torn apart. Ngo: Something sank an entire Japanese naval squadron. And I’m not sure that we’ve ever seen anything like it before. On Pentagrams as Containment Devices: Dr. Domingo submitted the following research note three weeks after the above discovery of the wreckage from the 5th Southern Expeditionary Fleet. I know that I advanced the theory of the pentagon being a giant containment ritual, but I almost wish that weren’t the case. After consultation with thaumaturgical and other esoteric containment specialists, the consensus is that if SCP-4007 was indeed maintaining some kind of thaumaturgical ritual, the size of this particular arrangement tells us two important things. First: Whatever they were trying to contain must have been absolutely enormous. Strictly speaking, you don’t make thaumaturgical diagrams any bigger than they have to be, because the power needed to maintain them scales proportionally. Which brings me to my second point: This ritual? Would have been a monstrous cost in terms of energy to maintain. In fact, with something this large, you’d probably need to do a regenerative ritual at one of the corners every day just to keep the whole thing together. All five would be preferable, but just one would be sufficient for the bare minimum. Without it, this whole structure would collapse within a day, releasing whatever’s inside out to our material plane. What alarms me though, is that this ritual structure is presumably half a century old. Not many rituals of this specific type can survive that long even with constant regenerative rituals. After a certain point, they’re simply too worn down to keep going for that long, and the ritual will fail regardless of what you do. Because of that, it’s smart to be prepared to confront whatever you have within the zone. And Lord help us, because we better be prepared for that day. SCP-4007 Archival Notice 2: On 02/12/2008, Head Archivist Deping Zhang submitted the following notice to the attention of the SCP-4007 investigative team. In our continuing efforts to uncover additional information concerning SCP-4007, we have recovered two documents that are of interest. The first is another set of outdated documentation for SCP-4007, but it's of a more recent vintage. Curiously, however, the only major differences we can attribute to anomalous interference relate to the personnel information for instances 4007-1 through 4007-3. It seems as though a single line has been removed from each of the entries of the instances that were terminated. A glance at the content seems to show a recurring theme in the deleted message. When the fire had burned out, SCP-4007-1’s body was found within the zone, and believed to have expired due to smoke inhalation. During the recovery of the body, however, it was discovered that SCP-4007-1's body had been cut open shortly post-mortem, and was missing several organs. The incident was ruled an acceptable outcome. In the aftermath, SCP-4007-2 was discovered dead on the island, though cause of death was ruled to be a lethal shock of electricity. Cause of death determination was made more difficult by the apparent removal of large sections of SCP-4007-2's skin, which could not be explained by the recovery team. The incident was ruled an acceptable outcome. Curiously, an examination of the home revealed several recently spent shell casings and compacted bullets, indicating that SCP-4007-3 had fired a gun at an unknown target, but further investigation yielded no clues. Additionally, an autopsy revealed that SCP-4007-3's corpse was missing its tongue, for reasons that remain unknown. The incident was ruled an acceptable outcome. Why these lines were deleted is something of a mystery to us, but the natural hunch is that SCP-4007-4 is involved somehow. We believe that the other document we recovered might yield some answers though. The other document is something a little different. The archival notice attached to it says that it was a letter discovered in SCP-4007-3's home, believed to be written by SCP-4007-4. Without knowing the context behind it, however, it's hard to say what exactly it means, but it's been included here for your review: Brother, Forgive me for not writing to you sooner. After Takashi's passing, I needed time alone to meditate and regain my strength. In the end, he did not see my way, much like Mitsuo before him. But it is not too late for you to see the truth, brother. He will break free. That much I am certain of. No matter what we do, his coming is inevitable, and no amount of prayer or ritual will stop him from finishing his terrible mission. To continue in our ways as we have for so long is giving in to fate. Thus, it is as your brother in arms that I write to you to reconsider your stance. We must fight him, on our own terms. The longer we wait, the stronger he gets, until this sleeping giant is all but unstoppable. It is our duty, as dutiful men and as loyal soldiers, to act while we still can. If we attack as soon as the ritual is broken, we have our best chance at stopping him once and for all. There is no other alternative. It was too late for Mitsuo and Takashi to realize the truth while they lived, but I have hope for you. To fight once again with my brothers in arms is what I long for, but do not mistake this dream for mercy. I will stop him with your help, one way or another. It is up to you to decide how that help will be given. Updated Containment Recommendation for SCP-4007: The following note was penned by O5-3 following the conclusion of the internal investigation into SCP-4007. Attached here is the updated list of containment procedures for SCP-4007. Item #: SCP-4007 Special Containment Procedures: Primary containment of SCP-4007 consists of investigation into SCP-4007-5’s location. MTF Phi-51 (“MacArthur’s Dogs”) are currently spearheading the investigation efforts, as well as drafting plans for SCP-4007-5's capture. Primary containment of SCP-4007 is maintenance of the status quo. SCP-4007-4 is to be convinced that the Foundation is actively aiding it in searching for SCP-4007-5 when this is no longer true. Additionally, the Foundation has a standing agreement with SCP-4007-4 that allows the anomaly to have limited mobility in the field under Foundation monitoring thanks to the alignment of goals between the anomaly and the Foundation. SCP-4007-4 should be considered a high-value intelligence asset for information concerning SCP-4007 and SCP-4007-5. SCP-4007-4 is to be convinced that this agreement is still true. All members of MTF Phi-51 are to continue operating under the impression that this is true as well, in order to avoid triggering SCP-4007-4’s primary anomalous threat. All additional efforts shall be dedicated to further research into SCP-4007’s original purpose, as well as replacement of SCP-4007 instances. Failing that, all funding will be directed towards preparation for the release of the entity contained within SCP-4007's containment zone. I began this investigation seeking to find the truth about SCP-4007, hoping to figure out a clever answer that would tie up all the loose ends, and resolve a mystery that seemed to stretch back decades. The pursuit of the truth is ostensibly what we strive for at all times, after all. I now understand that if there’s anything we truly know, it is that there are some truths out there that are inherently unknowable. And even if they were, they may be so terrible that we may not want to know them at all. What exactly was SCP-4007 formed for? What sank the Japanese navy fleet? What’s inside the pentagram? I suspect that these questions may not have answers, for those that may have known the truth are either unwilling to tell us, dead, or have been forced to forget. In the end, we can only move forward with the scraps that our predecessors left us, and hope that we make the right choice. Close Additional Documentation Footnotes 1. Japanese bioweapons and chemical warfare department, known for human experimentation and vivisection. 2. A Meiji era branch of the Japanese military that specialized in paranormal research, now officially defunct. 3. "Apotheosis" in Japanese. 4. Japanese word for "log," informal name for human test subjects due to Unit 731's cover story as a sawmill. 5. Japanese secret military police. 6. Communist insurgency in the Philippines, at war with the Philippine government at the time. 7. Imperial Japanese paratrooper corps 8. No record of this fleet exists in official documentation of the era. 9. A common ritualistic shape, often chosen for its sealing capabilities when channeling thaumaturgical energies 10. All named ships were planned additions to the Yūgumo-class destroyer line of the Japanese Navy, but they were all allegedly scrapped prior to production. |
SCP-4008 | pending | Wormwood NOTICE: ACTIVE INVESTIGATION IN PROGRESS The following file concerns an anomaly currently under investigation. Any information presented here may be incorrect, inaccurate or purely speculative. Item #: SCP-4008 Level 2/4008 Classified The supposed location of Site-183 Special Containment Procedures: Research into the specific nature of SCP-4008 is ongoing. As such, standard protocols for dealing with potential memetic hazards, infohazards, temporal alterations and spatial warping are to be observed. Additionally, Class-3 data integrity checks are to be performed on information relating to Foundation sites hourly until the nature of SCP-4008 is understood. All stored information pertaining to Site-183, its assigned personnel, and any anomalies contained there is currently being verified under MERKATOR-Class data security protocols. Description: SCP-4008 designates an anomaly surrounding the existence or non-existence of Site-183. While full documentation for Site-183, its assigned personnel, and the anomalies contained there exists within Foundation records, no evidence of the Site can be found at its supposed location and no interviewed Foundation personnel have any memory of the Site or its staff. Photos included in the documentation indicate several structures visible on the surface in the area occupied by the site, none of which are currently present. The only notable feature of the area is the lack of any signs of current life; no animal life exists in the area and dead trees serve as the only evidence of plant life. Satellite imagery is inconclusive due to standard counter-surveillance measures - only a possibly advanced rate of desertification is evidenced, though it should be noted that the area surrounding the location is historically barren. According to documentation, Site-183 was primarily responsible for the research and containment of anomalous historical artifacts and documents. Supposedly contained on-site were 64 anomalous objects, including four with SCP-designation (all fully documented in Foundation databases), all of which remain unaccounted for. The primary avenues of investigation are: The alteration of Foundation records, by a currently undocumented anomaly and/or group hostile to Foundation interests. A memetic or anti-memetic anomaly that has removed or suppressed all memory of Site-183 and anything related to it. Spatial displacement or some other alteration to reality that has partially removed Site-183 from existence. Temporal anomalies are considered a low probability due to the remaining evidence of its existence, though instances of Incomplete Causal Revision have been documented in the past, so it cannot be entirely discounted. Investigations are ongoing. Update 4008.01 A number of solid masses were detected below the supposed location of Site-183 via a modified seismic survey array, at depths of between 300m and 700m.1 Excavation operations are currently underway. Update 4008.02 Excavation teams working at the supposed location of Site-183 reached the first significant mass; it appears to be the shattered and collapsed remains of a portion of standard site living quarters. Rubble and other wreckage appearing to be from a Foundation site was also found dispersed throughout the surrounding strata. The remains of a personal journal were found inside the rubble; the surviving sections are transcribed below. ▶ Show Journal Fragments ▼ Hide Journal Fragments … a theory that there is some common link between… [UNINTELLIGIBLE] …lantis, El Dorado and [ILLEGIBLE]2 are obvious and fairly disparate examples, but there are a great many others, especially in less publically(sic) available… [UNINTELLIGIBLE] I'm increasingly convinced that there is some common factor between some of these events, especially in the are… [UNINTELLIGIBLE] … patterns are far too consistent to be random. Some singular root cause, or a reoccurring… [UNINTELLIGIBLE] … pretty sure they had some method of completely… [UNINTELLIGIBLE]… so difficult to say due to their history being all over the place. Sometimes still hard to believe they even existed at all, despite all evidence to the contrary. Maybe their entire existence is… [UNINTELLIGIBLE]… else can worry about that. Decided I'm formally going to submit a proposal to investigate my… [UNINTELLIGIBLE]… a link here, though I'm still not sure what it could be. I've got a few thoughts on where we should start looking, so hopefully Alami3 will give me… [UNINTELLIGIBLE] … can't wait to get out there! The rest of the journal is illegible due to damage caused by fire and debris impact. Following these discoveries, the existence of Site-183 is no longer in question. Investigations are to refocus their efforts accordingly. Excavation of the location is ongoing. Update 4008.03 Sections of the site consistent with the remains of standard containment cells, along with the undetonated on-site nuclear failsafe device, were excavated at approximately 500m below the surface. No signs of the documented anomalous objects supposed to be contained at Site-183 were found; MTFs Phi-7 ("Skip Tracers") and Zeta-5 ("Thief Takers") have been tasked with their recovery under a separate initiative. Update 4008.04 The partially intact central server unit for the site was found approximately 550m below the surface. The unit has suffered significant impact damage, rendering it inoperable, but data recovery technicians believe some data may be salvageable. The process is ongoing. Update 4008.05 Data recovery operations on the Site-183 server core have yielded a series of audio logs (significantly corrupted due to damage to the server unit) submitted by Dr. Daniel Roberts, a historian and archaeologist assigned to Site-183. The intact sections are transcribed below; some logs were completely unrecoverable. ▶ Show Transcribed Audio Logs ▼ Hide Transcribed Audio Logs This is Dr. Daniel Roberts, field log, Site Alpha day one. We've arrived at the first site. It's strange; the area is pretty arid already, but there's a definite drop off in plant life as we approached the centre of the area we're investigating. Like the ground just can't support life around here. There's nothing obvious on the surface, but that was expected. [DATA CORRUPTION] is all very exciting. It's no Atlantis, but we might be about to discover a [DATA CORRUPTION] Site Alpha day 20. Pretty sure if there was anything here we would have found some small evidence of it by now, even just [DATA CORRUPTION] there's nothing. I know we have a month for each site, but I'm about ready to call it here. We'll give it another day and then it's time to move on. Site Beta day three. Everything is set up at the new location and things are progressing as expected. No discoveries yet, besides a similar pattern of sparse vegetation observed at Site Alpha. No expectations this time. We just do the work until we find something. [DATA CORRUPTION] Beta day… 25? No, 26. Site Beta is a bust. We're wrapping up and moving on tomorrow. The team is beginning to get a little frustrated. The sad reality of this work is that after nearly two months of nothing, it just starts to get boring. I guess there are a few possibilities. One, [DATA CORRUPTION] was total, and there's nothing left to find. Two, our equipment just isn't good enough to find anything that's here. Or three, my theory was completely wrong. There was never anything here, nor at any of the other locations. I'll hold off on thinking about that one too much. Site Gamma day two. We've found something! We don't know what yet, but it's definitely solid, and we found it almost straight away. The odds of us just randomly happening across the single thing buried here are pretty low, so the area must be [DATA CORRUPTION] [DATA CORRUPTION] day four. We've fully uncovered the structure we found. It's a mess, obviously, but this is more than just natural deterioration. The entire surrounding area was filled with stray rubble. It almost looks like something smashed through the top of the building and then dragged the remains under ground. I've never seen anything like it. We found a lot of the usual stuff; clay fragments and pieces of worked metal. Some skeletons, too. We've got some forensics people on the way to see if we can determine an exact cause of death, but at least one of them is pretty obvious; something punched a big hole right through their chest. Pretty sure we've found what we were looking for. Site Gamma, day 14. We've made some truly remarkable discoveries here. There definitely used [DATA CORRUPTION] anomalous objects in some capacity. We managed to hone in on a few low-level anomalies using the Kant arrays. Small stuff, a glowing stone inside the remains of a lantern, a quill that produces its own ink, that sort of thing. We know that in the distant past the use of anomalies like this was far more common, but only in the upper classes of society. Royalty, and the rich. There's nothing about these structures that suggests they were anything more than simple houses, or maybe a trading outpost. Certainly not a royal mansion, at any rate. They've been packed up and shipped back for analysis none the less. We're still trying to get a feel for what [DATA CORRUPTION] thing we do know is that it was utterly destroyed, down to the last building, and that it happened fast. Every single structure we've found has been obliterated, sometimes groups of buildings smashed into a single ruined mass. And almost every building had skeletal remains. The weirdest part though, is how uneven it all is. It's not all at the same depth below the surface, there's been a 20 meter or more depth difference betw[DATA CORRUPTION] an area, an almost perfectly circular area in what we guess would have been the centre of the city, nearly 100 meters across, where there's just nothing. Site Gamma, day 30. This is our last day at Site Gamma. Unfortunate, as we've only scratched the surface of what must be buried here, but we have a schedule to maintain and Site Delta awaits. I'm not too concerned, we're far enough away from civilisation that it's unlikely anyone will stumble across our dig site, and I'm sure we'll be allowed to return after the initial project is complete to continue the dig. Still, we'll set up a security grid to keep an eye on things. This entire dig has been- I mean, I've never seen anything quite like it. New discoveries almost every day, a whole [DATA CORRUPTION] must have been survivors. People outside of the city who knew about it, who would have noticed its destruction and written about it. Maybe we'll find more answers at Delta. Note: logs concerning Site Delta omitted; analysis of the recovered data suggests nothing was discovered at the location and the audio recordings primarily document Dr. Roberts' frustration at this fact. Site Epsilon, day 17. We actually found something. We're still uncovering it, and it shows the same pattern of destruction we found at Gamma [DATA CORRUPTION] must be smaller than what we found at Gamma, much smaller. Maybe a small town, but my guess would be a military outpost of some kind. Site Epsilon day 19. I'm almost positive this was a military camp or fortification. We've found too many weapons and scraps of armour for it to be a civilian settlement. Uncovered a destroyed blacksmith's forge yesterday. Lots of human remains as with Gamma. No children, though. Now that we know where we're looking, we've found more structural remains - it's big for a military outpost, but still smaller than a town would be. [DATA CORRUPTION] forward post to ward against Daevite incursion. They would have had a clear view for miles here, no chance of an army approaching unseen. They clearly didn't need an army, though. Site Epsilon, day 21. We found a Daeva. The remains of one, I [DATA CORRUPTION]ttendants, maybe? Or maybe the Daeva was a prisoner, but I don't think that was the case. I've seen photos of Daeva skeletons before, they're clearly distinct from humans, but to actually see one myself. It's… uncomfortable to look at. Like something in the back of my brain is screaming at me to run. I don't know if this is some uncanny valley effect, or if there's some lingering anomalous phenomena at work. In any event, it'll be shipped back for analysis like everything else. It had some documents on its body. Maybe they were in [DATA CORRUPTION] in near-perfect condition; they're clearly anomalous themselves, to have survived so long. I'm going to work on the translations once we stop digging for the night. Site Epsilon, day 29. Wrapping up at Site Epsilon; not much else [DATA CORRUPTION]lation of the Daevite document we found has been much more illuminating. It indicates that the Daeva we found was leading a small group whose goal was to infiltrate and destroy the outpost using an unnamed weapon or magic. It's unclear whether it was a suicide mission or if something went wrong [DATA CORRUPTION] the location of a supposed Daevite outpost hidden in the mountains. I'm eager to get back to Site Gamma and resume our work there, but if we're right about the location of the Daevite outpost, it's remote enough that it might still be there after all this time. We've been granted permission to investigate; we leave tomorrow. Field log, Dr. Daniel Roberts. It took a couple of days, but we found the Daevite outpost. Aerial recon drones helped [DATA CORRUPTION] trove beyond anything we could have hoped for. There must be dozens of minor anomalous artifacts here, preserved documents, art, examples of Daevite weaponry. This stuff will keep the people in Cultural Research busy for years! Most importantly though, I think we've [DATA CORRUPTION] of like a seed, or a nut, but big enough to fill your palm and it seems to be encased in a translucent crystalline material. It was clearly given a place of reverence in the structure, and was secured inside a sealed case along with a number of documents. The seeds themselves… looking at them hurt. Caused me physical pain, like needles stabbing through my eye and into my mind. Even thinking about them, trying to picture their shape is unpleasant. They're wrong somehow. There's something in them that… [A period of silence.] I've decided to head back to Site-183 and research everything we've found here. The rest of the team can return to Site Gamma and continue the dig without me; since the entire purpose of the project was to determine if and how these cities were destroyed, I'm sure Director Alami will agree. Photo from the dig site worked by the recovered Site-183 personnel, theorized to be Site Gamma mentioned in Dr. Roberts' audio logs. Update 4008.06 A group of Foundation personnel matching the identities of a number of Site-183 staff made contact with Site-147 at approximately 10:00+07:00 this morning. According to their statements, they were working at an archaeological dig site when approximately eight days ago they began to realise they had no memory of why they were working there or who assigned them to do so4. They were forced to make a significant portion of the journey to Site-147, the nearest site to their location, on foot following the failure of their only available vehicle. All available communication equipment was nonfunctional; analysis revealed standard security measures were failing verification checks due to their non-responsive source site, Site-183. The members of the team appear to have no memory of Site-183, any of the work they did there or any of the personnel they encountered during their time there. A team was dispatched to the dig site to confirm their claims; the ruins of a large, partially unearthed and almost totally destroyed city were present, with evidence of recent activity. Update 4008.07 The following document, written by Dr. Daniel Roberts, was recovered from the Site-183 server unit. Partial data corruption is present. ▶ Show Recovered Document ▼ Hide Recovered Document Request For Investigation Into Potential Anomalous Activity Premise Throughout history, the concept of mythical or disappearing cities is a recurring one. While [DATA CORRUPTION] indeed been proven to exist (primarily through the activities of the Foundation or, rarely, other Groups of Interest), a great many of them remain relegated to the realms of myth and hearsay. While it would be folly to [DATA CORRUPTION] one particular group of cities that I believe can be tied to a singular source; those known to have been close to the historical borders of the Daevite Empire. [DATA CORRUPTION] Evidence While hard evidence for the existence of any of these cities is virtually non-existent (or they would have been almost certainly discovered by civilian archaeologists), there are a number of common threads between each of the cities in question that lend credibility to the idea that they did exist at one point, before being suddenly displaced or removed by a single common force. Each of the supposed cities have a fairly [DATA CORRUPTED] in question is never mentioned again in historical record. Stories of a "lost city" typically develop in the area at a later date, overwhelming the potential of any remaining factual records. The theoretical locations for all of these cities are unusually barren when compared to the surrounding areas, making the development of a [DATA CORRUPTION] A number of events in the regions surrounding these cities seem to coincide with, and could be explained by, the sudden disappearance of a major city in the ar[DATA CORRUPTION] deficit in a specific resource such as iron or wheat; notable economical issues as trade in the region becomes significantly and unexplainably disrupted. The areas in question have a known history of conflict with the Daevite Empire, or occupy areas which are known to have later been settled by the Daevite Empire. The use of anomalous artifacts by the Daeva is well documented and the Empire is known for its militarism and imperialistic nature. I have identified three sites which match the criteria laid out above, plus an additional two that match two or three of the four. Of these sites, only one of them has any presence in public records; the others have either already been censored or were noted during unrelated discoveries by Foundation personnel. Proposal I would like to run a series of investigations and excavations at the sites I have identified for the purposes of discovering evidence of the existence of these cities and, should that evidence be found, clues as to the cause of their destruction. The resources and technology available to the Foundation provide us a significant advantage over civilian efforts in fields such as this, and the information we might uncover could give us an improved understanding of Daevite methods of conquest. The primary requirements for this project are as follows: A team of between 12 and 16 archaeologists, historians and engineers, for a period of one month per dig site. Sufficient standard issue field supplies and equipment to last the duration. Equipment developed for detecting buried masses, including seismic survey arrays, ground topography analysers, and Kant sensor arrays for detecting potentially buried anomalies. The potential for increased time and resources should any significant discoveries be made. It is my sincere belief that the completion of this project will yield useful data in understanding a known anomalous civilisation, and has the potential for uncovering lost pieces of human history and how our ancestors understood and dealt with anomalous phenomena [DATA CORRUPTION]ntainment of whatever method the Daeva used to destroy these cities in the first place. Dr Daniel Roberts. Update 4008.08 The following document describing an object matching the recovered artifact in Dr. Robert's audio logs was recovered intact from the Site-183 server unit. ▶ Show Recovered Document ▼ Hide Recovered Document Steven, here's what I've got for the documentation so far. Item #: unassigned Special Containment Procedures: SCP-[#]-1 instances are to be stored in a vacuum-sealed storage case manufactured entirely from synthetic materials. Under no circumstances are instances of SCP-[#]-1 to come into contact with any medium suitable for growing plant life. Description: SCP-[#] is a previously unidentified species of tree, believed to be developed by the now-extinct Daevite Empire as a weapon of mass destruction. SCP-[#] grows from SCP-[#]-1, a roughly spherical seed superficially resembling the tiger nut5 and measuring approximately 7cm in diameter. SCP-[#]-1 is encased in a semi-translucent crystalline material estimated to be 0.5cm thick. SCP-[#]-1 possesses a mild cognitohazardous and infohazardous effect; looking directly at it causes a painful sensation described as having something sharp penetrate the viewer's eye and enter the brain. Following exposure in this way, consciously thinking about SCP-[#]-1 is sufficient to trigger the effect. The magnitude of these effects varies based on the individual. When exposed to a medium capable of sustaining plant life, the seed will immediately begin to grow, developing at an incredibly advanced rate. The seed will develop into a fully grown instance of SCP-[#] in approximately five minutes, leeching significant quantities of minerals and water from the ground in the process. When fully grown, SCP-[#] measures between 1.2 and 1.5km tall, with a trunk diameter averaging approximately 70m. The roots of the tree grow outwards to a distance of approximately 3km from the trunk, and reach from approximately 50m above ground to over 900m below ground.6 Once fully grown, SCP-[#] produces an anti-memetic effect which causes all affected humans to lose any memories they possessed of anything within the area encompassed by the SCP-[#] instance. It is unknown precisely how this effect is achieved, but is believed to be caused by an anomalous alteration to the electromagnetic spectrum, causing visible light to temporarily become a vector for the transmission of an anti-meme. As a result, this effect has global reach almost instantly. After approximately one hour, the SCP-[#] instance will rapidly begin to break down into gases and particulate matter. This process takes roughly 10 minutes, after which nothing of the instance will remain. The ground it displaced will collapse, functionally burying anything on the surface and leaving behind a region of barren and inhospitable land, with little to no evidence of any prior activity. The primary source of information on this anomaly is a collection of documents recovered alongside a number of SCP-[#]-1 instances, and archaeological dig sites at which SCP-[#] is believed to have been used as a weapon in the past. As such, the veracity of the information above has yet to be confirmed. It is unknown how many times the Daevite Empire deployed SCP-[#]; research is ongoing. Translated Documentation Below are translated excerpts from the documents recovered with SCP-[#]-1. Its roots, gnarled and hungry, tear the land and the weak bound to it. Its leaves, dripping with the blood of those it devours, rend the very sky itself, shattering the mind of man. The unworthy fall before us, their worthless homes and worthless lives erased from the great writing. Even long dead as they were, the Night Children's remains resisted us. Thousands died that we might acquire the [Unknown name. Potentially a portmanteau of "seed" and "destruction"?], a blood sacrifice to assure our own ascension through the ages. We threw ourselves upon their lifeless weapons, our essence watering the ground to ensure victory, nourishing the roots from which our empire grows. May those of the blood be carried into eternity by its branches. May our enemies forget they were ever there. We've got some tests scheduled for tomorrow, so hopefully they will shed a bit more light on things. The current plan is to try and get samples of this outer shell material, and maybe from the actual seed inside too. We've got three of them, so even if one of them is destroyed during the tests we should be okay. - Daniel. No instances of the seed objects mentioned in this document have been recovered. Restructuring of SCP-4008 documentation to account for new information is pending. Footnotes 1. Documentation indicates that the lowest level of Site-183 was approximately 450m below the surface. 2. Unreadable due to poor handwriting, not due to damage to the document. 3. Records indicate that Dr. Khadija Alami was the Site Director for Site-183. 4. Site-183 was discovered to be missing approximately ten days ago. 5. Though not believed to be related 6. 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SCP-4009 | safe | It's been two whole days. You've climbed up God knows how many floors of this building, bypassed God knows how many beeping gateways and laser beams, and snuck past God knows how many security staff. You've braved Vivaldi's Four Seasons, dodged Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture cannons, sailed across Strauss's Blue Danube. You've traversed through Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King, shrugged off Chopin's Raindrops, and made it past Wagner's Ring of fire. You've braved Beethoven's storms and weaved through Bach's harmonies. And now you are here. On the top floor of the Ministry of Music. Alive, for some reason. A bit soaked though. You survey your surroundings. Right before you is a single long hallway, minimally furnished. At the end of that hallway is a single door. That door should be it. That door's hidden behind thick layers of security and perilous musical barriers. There's no way there aren't important things behind that door. Top-secret confidential documents. The answers to all your questions. That's why you crawled all the way here. Answers, dammit. I just wanna know why things ended up like this. You wring the seawater and rainwater out of your sweater into a potted plant and head towards the door. You give the fingerprint sensor knob a twist. Door's not locked. Might be because the last person to leave forgot to lock the door. Might also be because the security measures earlier negated any need for locks on doors. Might also be because you are simply too insignificant to deserve any form of acknowledgement whatsoever. The door opens to a small room gratuitously stacked full of Mozartkugeln boxes, Mozart scorebooks, Mozart figurines, Mozart posters, Mozart souvenirs, Mozart biographies, Mozart plushes, Mozart sex toys (??), Mozart blow-up dolls (????), Mozart everything. This place looks like it could be a fanatic's dungeon, the sheer concentration of Mozart oppressive to the point of being ridiculous. This was not at all helped by the gigantic poster of Mozart on the opposite wall. Snort. "Big Brozart is Watching You." God, how edgy is this kid gonna get? This is just about the dumbest, cheesiest thing you've seen in your entire life. What's he thinking of with this? The slogan's just too silly to be intimidating. Does Mozart like to imagine himself being observed by Mozart while he's getting off to Mozart? Okay, maybe let's not think about that… You notice a rectangular shape just barely poking out of the sea of Mozart paraphernalia. Upon closer inspection, it's a small laptop on a table. The laptop is open. The film of dust on the screen suggests that the last person who used it forgot to turn it off a long time ago. You sit on a pile of Mozartkügel boxes and check out the laptop. There are some fifteen Internet tabs open and it looks like all of them are about Mozart. You're not surprised. This kid's really got a problem. You think about sending him to a therapist. Even though you know you can't because you know you aren't going to be taken seriously anyhow. One tab however stands out and catches your attention. It's not some Mozart stuff, but has the acronym "SCP" on it. You remember hearing about the SCP Foundation on the gramophone. Recently they've been broadcasting something about signing a treaty of alliance with the SCP Foundation or something like that. This SCP Foundation is apparently some kind of powerful outside world organization that manages the relations between the human and supernatural world and conducts research on unusual phenomena. The broadcasts didn't say much else about it, other than that the alliance with the organization shouldn't be something to worry about. You wonder what this alliance is about, if the SCP Foundation can do anything to help you. To help all those who are being oppressed because of Mozart. To help all the composers and musicians of the past, the present, and future. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SCP-4009 Street photograph taken in SCP-4009 Item #: SCP-4009 Special Containment Procedures: The caste system exercised by the population of SCP-4009-A is to be perpetually maintained. The Foundation-Mozart Alliance Protocol is to be constantly upheld to ensure social order within the bounds of SCP-4009. Details of the Foundation-Mozart Alliance Protocol are accessible to personnel with Level 3/4009 Clearance and up. SCP-4009 is otherwise self-contained and requires minimal containment procedures. Description: SCP-4009 is an extradimensional totalitarian city-state covering an area of approximately 900 km², located in the Austro-German region. SCP-4009 is architecturally similar to the city of Prague, consisting of buildings in a variety of styles ranging from Renaissance to Victorian. SCP-4009 is normally inaccessible to human beings unless an interdimensional aperture is created. SCP-4009 is populated by humanoid entities designated SCP-4009-A. Instances of SCP-4009-A physically resemble Homo sapiens, but are roughly 60% comprised of anomalous longitudinal waves and do not require physical sustenance nor biologically age. A distinctive characteristic of SCP-4009-A is that each individual instance corresponds to a well-known classical composer and/or musician who is currently deceased (i.e. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner). The conception of SCP-4009-A instances is a poorly understood process at the time of writing, although it is theorized that instances spontaneously manifest upon the expiry of their human counterparts. You think of all the famous composers you've seen popping into existence. Bach, Haydn, Liszt, all of those guys. You remember how they'd say they felt like they've come home to the blessed land where music is born, or something to that effect. You remember welcoming them into this musicians' heaven. Suddenly you realize how old you are. You pause your reading. You dwell on that realization for a moment. Memories start flooding back into your head. Memories of a happier time when heaven was not swamped in Mozart. A happier time when heaven was a much better place. Your memories of the past have dulled over time, but still they remained despite all the propaganda that's been pumped into your ears over the past several decades. You close your eyes and think about the past. For a moment, you feel at peace. This land was free and democratic. Composers and musicians had equal rights, equal say, and the guys who got to be in the main musical canon - that is, in charge - they were always updating their styles and aspirations to best suit the current artistic climate. There were often passionate debates over certain musical styles, but none of them came close to damaging the musical canon as it was. Life was fair and good, and at the end of the day, everyone was a classical musician, and a mutual passion for music and art kept everyone tightly together. Things are different now. You have no clue how it happened and you're still befuddled. Now practically everything is Mozart. You don't even know when it happened. You estimate it started after the Great War, but it could have started two years ago, or even five, ten, twenty, fifty. Everywhere you're hearing the name "Mozart". How he was a prodigy. This man had written his first concerto at the age of four; his first symphony at seven; a full-scale opera at twelve. How he was prolific and wrote lots. Over his short lifetime of thirty-five years, Mozart wrote six hundred and twenty-six known pieces, each and every one objectively a masterpiece. How listening to his music makes people more intelligent or something. How he had some sort of God-given genius no other composer ever had. How he was the greatest composer in all of classical music history. And it just goes on and on without end. Mozart on every musical program. Mozart playing from every radio and speaker. Mozart in movies, plays, art, literature. Mozart and Mozart and more Mozart. You can't hide from Mozart. Big Brozart is Watching You. Guess that slogan is fitting. Curious for more information, you continue reading the document. Most instances of SCP-4009-A are capable of voluntary emission of reality-altering longitudinal waves, the intensity of which is directly proportional to each composer/musician's mass appeal. The effects of reality alteration may vary according to each individual's personal preferences and creative endeavors. The SCP-4009-A population maintains a caste system in which individuals are divided into different social groups based on the relative real-world popularity of their respective composer/musician. For instance, the highest-ranking SCP-4009-A instances correspond to the most well-regarded composers, and reshuffling of the instances' relative status positions is held twice a year. Instances' lifestyles are determined by status: higher-ranking instances are allowed free access to high-quality meals and alcohol and see high involvement in projects relating to infrastructure, governance, and art, while lower-ranking ones are only permitted access to mediocre resources and tend to have menial jobs such as housekeeping. You remember when you used to be a well-respected composer. A highly-regarded one, even. You were Johann Pachelbel, intrepid organist, brilliant composer, and an all-round exemplary figure. The great Johann Sebastian Bach even told people he couldn't have gotten anywhere if he hadn't known and studied your work. Maybe you weren't a star, but you were acknowledged and respected. Treated with basic human decency, like any artist should be treated. Now you're Johann Pachelbel, a nobody, a trivial detail lost in in a sea of dazzling brilliant minds. A third-rate, unmemorable mediocrity whose only noteworthy contribution to the history of Western music in its entirety is a piece of overplayed hackwork known as the Canon in D Major. Currently, besides being the "Canon in D guy", your only noteworthy characteristics are that you are a janitor and you seem to be invisible sometimes. Not even the shuffling of societal positions has changed your social standing. You were always stuck at the lowest level of the caste. At the very least, the thought that you can't get any lower than you already are is a bit reassuring. You muse over this caste system which you and your people have been shoehorned into. It lines up with how the musical canon has changed since a long time ago. What used to be a fluid musical canon has now mutated into one that's had three specific people consistently at the top: Beethoven, Bach, and that guy known as Mozart. You could see why Beethoven and Bach were seen as the most important in establishing what classical music is. Beethoven's new and unusual outlook on composing music revolutionized classical music and turned it from a craft to an art. Bach's tuning method, keyboard exercises, and technical proficiency has earned him high regard, especially after a composer named Mendelssohn did much to promote Bach's works around the world. But Mozart? What did he do that was so significant as to earn him such a high position? Why is he even so high up there in the first place? Your first suspect is Mendelssohn. You've heard a few things about this person. From what you heard, he'd done a lot to establish the importance of studying and preserving music history, and he laid the groundwork for the musical canon. Mozart's praised him profusely for that - he's even said that we only exist because of Mendelssohn. But the thing is, you've never even seen Mendelssohn, nor have you heard him speak on the broadcasts. You don't even know if he actually exists. For all you know he could very well be a fictional composer Mozart fabricated as propaganda. After all, the facts line up. The broadcasts speak of Mendelssohn as a legendary prodigy of Mozartean precocity, who wrote masterpieces as a teenager and died tragically young like Mozart did. The Mozart of the Nineteenth Century. Totally not Mozart's self-insert at all, right? You think about how ludicrous Mozart's propaganda is. Coincidentally, the next paragraph of the document mentions the technology that Mozart uses to feed propaganda to every composer in the city. You read on. High-ranking instances within the population of SCP-4009-A have devised anomalous technology which sees widespread use within SCP-4009. Examples of such technology produced by SCP-4009-A include ambient Hume stabilizers, memory-space libraries and musical instruments that can be collapsed into coin-sized tablets to facilitate transport. One widespread use of anomalous technology in SCP-4009 is the installation of a radio-like device known as a 'gramophone' embedded in the inner ear. Said device is capable of picking up anomalous longitudinal wave transmissions as well as telepathically transmitting the thoughts of one individual to numerous others with the same device. This device usually plays broadcasts of classical music and the news. Broadcasting is conducted through mass transmission of the thoughts of one instance connected to a Cerebral Sound Receptor Device (CSRD). Research on SCP-4009 anomalous technology for purposes of furthering Foundation technology and containment implements has been approved and is currently underway. The gramophone. You don't know what it looks like, or exactly when it first got into your ears, but you've had a strong understanding of what it does. The document is right in that for the most part the gramophone just plays classical music and the news. But it also plays people what other people say and think about them. That was the worst part. Most composers got feedback that was more positive, but for your case it was nearly all personal attacks and faint praise. Worthless. Cellist hater. One-hit wonder. You can practically recite all these slights by memory, that's how often you heard them. By this point you've more or less grown numb to the insults, but you can't help still feeling the faintest pang of heartbreak when they come at you. At the very least you could turn the volume down. Usually it's the muffled tenor voice of a composer named Schubert you'd be hearing on these broadcasts. Schubert is a kind-looking composer with round glasses who idolizes Mozart and likes to sing. Schubert, you feel, is also a little bit off. He presents himself as bubbly and cutesy, but something about the way he talks makes him come off as affected and robotic. It also sounds like all his speech is scripted. You dwell on the topic of Schubert a bit more. That man was like a computer. It seemed like he had no autonomy and was just a machine automatically performing a function 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, taking next to no breaks and showing no sign of displeasure. It was creepy how Schubert never seemed to falter, get tired, or feel unhappy. Also, aren't those his thoughts you're hearing? Why are his thoughts so rigid and lifeless? How much external information exactly is going through his head? Is he capable of thinking for himself at all? "Schubert is neurologically enhanced with a lab-grown strain of Treponema pallidum that makes him capable of processing and transmitting up to ten thousand trains of thought at once! Schubert is the most reliable news anchor, feedback messenger and DJ and is always up-to-date! Come connect with Schubert on your gramophone today!" Speak of the devil. One of Schubert's scripted lines sounded over the gramophone at that moment. You dismiss it as coincidence, but it's still creeping you out. It could have been worse, you think. At least it's not as disturbing as the Five Minute Cacophony. The Five Minute Cacophony is something you wince a little when you think about, but everyone is forced to listen to it at full volume when it happens. It's five long minutes of loud warnings against "dissent", and how there were some people in the past who had committed grave offences that hurt Mozart. Usually the offences were attempted sabotage due to envy and hatred, and the evidence for that was usually some form of criticism of Mozart or the administration. The culprits were always publicly shamed and denounced with a burning vitriol that knotted your insides like a French horn. You knew the Cacophony was never about you, but when it happened, terror and shame caught up with you anyway. The criminal most often shamed during the Cacophony is a composer named Salieri. He's said to be the first and most dastardly of the envious conspirators seeking to dethrone Mozart for once and for all. Salieri was described as a cruel, manipulative, unempathetic, even narcissistic man who didn't have any genuine passion for music and only desired attention. You were glad Salieri was caught and sent to prison. He seemed like a really nasty guy and you sure as hell didn't want to bump into anyone who was like that. However, part of you didn't quite buy what was being said during the Five Minute Cacophony. You vaguely remember meeting Salieri a long time ago. As far as you can recall, he was decent and didn't do anything suspect. Even if people can change over time, you can't help but feel like he was being unfairly demonized for propaganda purposes, and that he did nothing to merit his current treatment. After all, you've never even heard him confess to anything or share his side of the issue - it was just purely what the authorities said about him that was broadcasted to the public. You're willing to entertain the possibility that he was wrongfully accused. Or even that he was being exploited. Your train of thought of leads you to further pondering about how the changes in society have changed the people. It honestly really does seem like every composer has become like Salieri and Schubert - manipulated, taken advantage of and stripped of all autonomy. These musically gifted people used to be independent and individual - now they meekly submit and cater to the whims of one man. They used to be bold and confident - now they act as if they are nothing compared to that one man. You wince. This is ridiculous. This is wrong. Yet nobody has ever done anything about it. It's because they've been forced to adopt inferiority complexes, you're certain of that. You feel like no one dares to do anything of note because Mozart is just too powerful and too good for them. You feel your blood boil. Stay calm, Johann. You mustn't get angry or you'll end up saying or doing something you shouldn't. And if you make a mistake, that's the end of you. You have to stay incognito. You take a deep breath to drown your rage. There's a long blank space underneath the last paragraph. You're going to have to scroll for a bit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOTICE: This file is an abridged version of the official SCP-4009 documentation, intended for purposes of mass distribution. Access to the full document, along with the Foundation-Mozart Alliance Protocol, is restricted to Level 3/4009 personnel and above. Any further enquiries regarding SCP-4009 are to be submitted to Project Head Dr. Frances Seward via email. That's it? That's all there is to this file? An abridged copy you are probably going to receive in the mail sometime later? You feel duped. This is unfair. But then again you can't expect the bigwigs to treat you fairly since you're worth about as much as a speck of dust to them. You scour the webpage. The email address of Dr. Frances Seward, presumably a Foundation personnel with some degree of authority, is in small print at the bottom of the page. You need to contact them. Those guys don't have a clue what they've gotten themselves into. You think of sending a message to them telling them to stop this totalitarian madness and save everyone. You have no choice. Tell them that the Mozart they have signed an agreement with is really a horrible ruthless dictator. Tell them that Mozart forces people into horrible living conditions. Tell them that Mozart forces everyone to believe they will never be- "It's a wonderful day today! Clear skies, all systems in check, beautiful music all 'round! How are you feeling? It's fine even if you're feeling a little down, because things will surely get better and you will be happier!" Your train of thought is conveniently interrupted by Schubert in his usual smiley voice. He's said that exact same thing at least five times today. And when is he going to shut up? If he kept his mouth zipped at least he won't risk interrupting anyone's train of thought. You force yourself to ignore him. Any distraction that can slow your pace may lead you to your demise. "Ah, sorry about sidetracking - next up I'll be playing Mozart's Don Giovanni overture. Did you know that the composer put off writing this piece until the night before its premiere? Despite this, it's still a masterpiece for the ages, and it's proof that you can rush your projects last-minute and have them still be outstanding if you work hard and make good use of your natural gifts!" "Ooh, no…I can't play that right now. My signals are getting interrupted! Uhhh…it's uh, hang on a moment, let me find out where it is…oh! I'm hearing a pattern of eight notes! And it's in D Major key. Mmhm, sounds a lot like Pachelbel's Canon, doesn't it? Uh, actually, no, it's not! I think I might be picking up sound waves from a human radio station! I apologize for this mistake. Schubert will take better care of himself next time! In the meantime, you can expect to connect with Schubert sometime again after about a half hour! Ciao!" You freeze. Something feels wrong. Then it hits you. He's found you. Run. You want to run, but the sound of boots thumping outside the room stop you from moving. You're trapped now. Nowhere to run. They've come to get you. The door swings open. In walks Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in full dress uniform, cape billowing, the spitting image of the poster. He holds a sword out as if he's prepared to dismember someone. And he's looking right at you. Straight in your eyes. Might as well accept your fate then. Better to die on your feet than live on your knees. Mozart drops his sword on the floor and bursts out laughing. "Oh man, I can't believe this! Look what walked right into my trap! You should've seen the look on your face. Oh God, that was amazing…still can't get over how the Mozart sex toys got a rise out of you. Well, man, you gotta thank my buddy Richard Wagner for that. That was his idea. Richard you evil genius…oh yeah! He did that poster too! He made that lovely thing for me, so you gotta credit him for that, 'kay?" Further laughing. It isn't reassuring at all. "Man…it's a real real pity that I'm gonna have to drag you off to the shitter 'cause you were a really funny special guest on today's broadcast. Quite probably the best ever, in fact. Seriously! You were gut-bustingly hilarious…" "Hey Richard? Can you, like, do the thing? I'm laughing too damn hard to move my ass." Richard? Wagner is with him too? Before you can think of anything else, you hear the sound of every musical instrument in the orchestra playing at once. And then you hear nothing. . . . . . . . . . . . It's been some two, three, four days? You just don't have the faintest clue anymore. You're back in your apartment, but other than that, you're hardly sure of anything else. It all feels like a bad dream. Discordant noises of whistling and screeching ring and echo in your ears. Fissures on the wall contort and dance. You feel around with your hands, but you can barely feel the floor beneath. Your body feels like it's not here and everywhere at the same time. Tired, lost, utterly confused. You have no idea how you managed to drag yourself onto the couch. You try to lie down and sleep, but a stinging pain rips through your spine from the bottom up. You attempt to grab the couch as support, but pain stabs through your arm muscles. Your wrists hurt. Finger joints hurt. Ears hurt. Head. Everything hurts. Oh God, please make it stop. The pain fades slightly. You relax a little even though your backbone is burning and your eyes and ears feel like they're full of glue. You're lucky that Mozart let you return to your home and your job. Other dissenters usually ended up stuck in prison forever, hauled from place to place and beaten for eternity. After all, they deserve that, right? They deserve that for being jealous, envious, scheming conspirators aiming to take Mozart down. For being unwilling to improve and change. You know you're better than them because you at least have the basic human decency to self-reflect. Once your senses stop going haywire and your body stops hurting you will go out there and prove that you're a better person now. You swear on that. A faint memory of Salieri flashes in your mind's eye. Sweep it aside. That man is good at pretending to be pitiful. He's just fishing for sympathy because he's envious of Mozart's talent and he can't bother to work hard enough to achieve anything noteworthy. You can't believe you thought there was a chance Salieri was innocent. Memories start trickling back into your head, piece by piece. Man, was I a fool. You can't believe you had doubts about the administration. You can't believe you had doubts about Mozart. You can't believe you had doubts about anything. Of course Mozart needed to get rid of his enemies. He's endured so much struggle and pain in his life and he's been beaten up ever since he was a young musician. Life hasn't been good to him at all. So he deserves to be loved. And he is talented so he deserves to be praised for it. He worked really hard for all these achievements. Mozart is of course deserving of such high esteem. And he's oppressing absolutely no one, he achieved more than everyone, and indeed he deserves this honor more than anyone else. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4009" by Mendelssohn, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4009. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Image 1 Filename: mozartstreet.jpg Name: N/A Author: mahsa_mz66 License: CC BY 2.0 Source Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/141378703@N03/39407701051 Image 2 Filename: brozart.jpg Name: brozart.jpg Author: Mendelssohn License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Link: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/scp-4009/brozart.jpg |
SCP-4010 | keter | WELCOME TO SCiPNET, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR LOGIN CREDENTIALS 18/3/2023 Username madysailer Password * * * * * HELLO, Madeleine Sailer, HAVE A NICE DAY Profile: Researcher Madeleine Sailer, Site-91 Security Clearance: Level 3 Status: Online (Now) NOTIFICATION You have a new message. FROM: [VERIFIED O5 LEVEL ACCOUNT] TO: Researcher Madeleine Sailer Good morning Researcher Sailer, I have a proposition for you. You have been selected as a single individual for Project Kronos, an attempt to establish a complete chronological timeline. You can choose to decline but by accepting you are agreeing to complete confidentiality of the project and as a precaution, complete isolation from the rest of Internal Foundation Communication excluding this account and the Director of Site-91. Estimated time required for this project is one year. Additional information will be available after accepting. Please reply as soon as possible. Reply FROM: Researcher Madeleine Sailer TO: [VERIFIED O5 LEVEL ACCOUNT] I need time. How urgent is this? NOTIFICATION You have a new message. FROM: [VERIFIED O5 LEVEL ACCOUNT] TO: Researcher Madeleine Sailer Very. Reply FROM: Researcher Madeleine Sailer TO: [VERIFIED O5 LEVEL ACCOUNT] I see. I accept. Task Information You will be conducting research with the goal of establishing a timeline of documented history as complete as possible including anomalous events. For this purpose, the entirety of the Foundation database will be unlocked to you with exceptions of files that have already been ruled out as unrelated and/or possibly cognitohazardous. Database slot 001 will be locked until you ask for permission. I suggest you already have the basics by then as it may complicate things a little. Have in mind that some information you may find is to be kept in absolute secrecy even after the conclusion of this project. You were selected because of your abilities, not uniqueness. As a personal note, some of the things we keep confidential may seem too far-fetched or impossible to be true. Keep in mind that our world is always more bizarre than you would think and do not get startled. Best of luck. Personal Notes on Project - Part One Close Day 1 This is Researcher Madeleine Sailer from Site-91, conducting secret research for… Someone important? Better not to ask, it's someone with much higher clearance than I am. This is day one of my investigating, or paperwork actually… A lot of paperwork. But I don't mind, that is why they picked me. Right? So, the timeline. I should start with the basic events on the timeline, like the beginning of the universe and its presumable end. A beginning and an end. Now let's add today. Then I will add the approximate time when Earth was formed and life began. Hm… I hope I won't have to focus on these points that much, my speciality are years with four digits. Fine… And now humans. Let's see, this is already looking good. Then again, it will most definitely get worse. Great, I have the basic setup. Now let's dig into the database. Day 2 I didn't sleep, just restarting this recording so it has the proper day on it. I must have gone through, what, like, over one hundred SCP files? Well, just 50 really, I just quickly seen the rest. Anyway, never knew the Foundation had this many things. I mean, I did, but I never thought about it. Some of it even made me laugh, I know these things are real and dangerous but, no, no buts, the infinite pizza box just made me laugh. This is bad, I am on day two and I am already seeing that this is impossible. The Foundation database of just SCPs is over four thousand at this point, not even accounting for all the important incidents, events and all the things labelled "Information Exchange - GOC". Good to know the Foundation keeps friendly relations so I can have more paperwork. But for now, I am doing good, most of these things are just dates. As fascinating, or terrifying as they are, it is just data. I must focus on that, otherwise, I will be stuck here forever. Day 5 So… I have found a problem. The years do not match up. Not all of them at least, but hey, if one year doesn't fit, how can I be sure about the rest? Maybe it's a mistake, someone meant to write nineteenth century instead of twentieth. Maybe. Or, it could be the first reality shift I encountered. I heard that it could be a thing, of course, I never got an official statement but… I should ask someone about this because if I rule out that possibility, everything will get easier. Day 7 A response finally came. It is a reality shift and apparently just one of many. How do they even expect me to accomplish something like this? It is not possible, not even with the best equipment in the world, which I have. This machine does a better job than I do, why does it even need me, it would surely be easier to make it automated… Fine, keep it together Mady, this is just paperwork. Difficult, yes, but paperwork. You cannot start falling apart now, it has been a week, not 5 years. Speaking of which, poor Dr. Scranton, I just read what happened. Something tells me this is just the beginning. Day 10 Dr. Scranton. Dr. Scranton… Why are you doing this to me? Born on September 19th, 1961, found dead on December 23rd, 2005. So how did you invent your Reality Anchor in 1889? Are there more of you? Your relative, perhaps? Or is it another reality shift? If so, there is some great irony in that. The great creator of reality anchors, he could save others from reality benders but not himself. Day 11 Come to think about this, I should have set another date in the beginning. The founding of our Foundation. How did I miss that? Alright. After some more digging, I found out something that scares me. And… it is the fact that this simple question will be harder to answer than the occult war from, what, two days ago? So apparently, most of the data regarding the Foundations origins is locked in with slot 001… Which I am not supposed to open until I know what I'm doing. Great. Well, let's review the info I have. The Foundation civil war and the consequent creation of the Chaos Insurgency happened around 1924 or so and continued until 1933, so the Foundation must have already existed for some time at that point, some documents even say that the Foundation, or something very similar, existed since the Medieval ages, or even before. What am I doing? I should just ask for permission to see 001 but I don't feel like I used up all I can get for now. Day 17 Should I even ask about SCP-1000? SCP-2000? It seems like the deeper I go, the worse this entire thing is. So what, am I to believe now that our dating and years are completely wrong because of that goddamn machine in Yellowstone? Or even better, that we weren't even first here? Can you even imagine what that did to the entire timeline I had? Why am I talking to a recorder?! Day 18 It's alright. I can do this, I already went through 9% of the database. I am not going by numbers, because I was told that the SCPs are not organized in any order, so I'm picking one thing by another, how I feel like it, making holes in the giant pile I need to take apart, catalog and put in order. Ironically, the first reality bending thing I came to like is SCP-140. The book rewrites history sure, but at least it writes down how. Day 21 Three weeks. I should get a pause. I didn't speak with Chris in a while… Or any other staff really. I just get myself something to eat and drink, which is usually coffee and I go back to this place. Let's see, what do we have here… SCP-999 appears to be a large, amorphous, gelatinous mass of translucent orange slime… What? How many large, amorphous, gelatinous masses do we have? I swear that this is the fifth one this week. These are almost as bad as statues that move when you are not looking at them… Day 23 Ok, fuck it, I am taking a break. My back hurts from sitting at the computer. Still, I have more than one-tenth of the thing behind me, that feels like an achievement. Maybe it can be done… If I don't read the entire thing and the extended experiment logs, maybe. Day 30 Alright, I am back, I might have angered a certain Overseer by trying to communicate with staff. But hey, nobody came to punish me. I'm not dumb, I didn't say a word, in fact, everything was doing great and no one even asked what I have been doing for the past month. So yeah, better go back to work. Next on the list is… SCP-106 Day 42 Did you know that there was magic in all of this? Actual magic! They call it thaumatology, sounds like magic to me. Why are we not supposed to know about magic? I mean, it sounds kinda useful and apparently the GOC uses it, why can't we? Day 50 I think I might need another break, this is getting very tiring. I have gone through enough SCPs to create my own Foundation. No, I am not having any ideas… Day 51 I hate myself. Why can't I be more cooperative? Goddamnit, I just want to say it in the third person, is it that hard? What a stupid cognitohazard I am. Day 60 Mission report: Two months have passed, slowly reaching 20%. I am starting to appreciate the Random SCP button. Day 63 Wait the GOC did what? A chair? They put the chair into a woodchipper. Am I getting this right? That is hilarious! Hahaha I mean… It is horrible that we have to contain this anomaly now… (quiet laughter) Day 70 Just read about SCP-2399. I will never see Jupiter the same way again. Strangely enough, I think that I have experienced a reality shift myself! Or I think so at least. I will have to check again but I specifically remember setting a date 10,000 years from now for the arrival of some angry star and now I can't find it. Might just be overworking. Day 76 …And that concludes Omega-7, shame what happened. Actually, shame someone even approved of such a thing… I am slowly starting to realise that all the things that do not match up with the rest are piling up. I need some help with that but I still think that the best call is to wait a little longer before I get to slot number one. Day 89 It's nice knowing that we have an alien Deer god contained by castrating people. Gross. And I actually think that is not even the worst thing I read about. Where was it? Wait a second, I will find it… Fuck, this is too much, who is supposed to remember all these numbers? Anyway, the point is I had to put my morality away almost a month ago. You cannot read about Procedure Something-Montauk? Was it? Yeah, you cannot read about it with moral barriers. I am here to do my work, not join the Ethics Committee, which by the way, depending on individual cases, does either a very poor or excellent job. Strange. Day 100 Call me an idiot but I feel like now is the time. I have 32.1% of the Foundation's database sorted and established. The timeline is looking kinda decent when you remove all the contradictory bullshit. Problem is, this stuff keeps on coming. At first, it was funny but I do not want to see any more time travel Thaumiels in my life. I was honestly thinking about quitting this project but I know that wouldn't be taken well. Besides, something in me is really curious about the thing that deserved the designation of 001. So today is the day. I just asked for permission and I hope that what I find there fixes the mess instead of going on the pile. Close Personal Notes on Project - Part Two Close Day 105 I finally got a response. SCP-001 slot is unlocked. All cognitohazards and memetic agents were removed to ensure I won't die the moment I open the file. And still, when I did… Was there ever a day, when the Foundation personnel could say that nothing happened? Is it just me, or is everything everywhere? How are there over thirty 001 proposals? Day 106 Alright. Things are not getting easier. I can see now that this will take a while. First I have to determine which 001 is the right one, it shouldn't be that hard. I have the entire database at my disposal, I can just check the data and see which one fits the best. Day 107 None of them fit. Every single 001 is contradictory to the others yet neither of them fit the overall narrative. And yes. I am beginning to question my own sanity at this point. How can I even tell what is real? S. Andrew Swann's Proposal was hard to accept but I will admit that the more I am looking at everything around me, the more I start seeing the resemblance and I can now tell from my own experience, that looking on more than a couple of anomalies at once makes one go insane. However, this is not an attempt to explain these things. I am just trying to see the bigger picture… Just bigger picture. Day 108 On the other hand, there is The Broken God, which I can work with. There is plenty of dates and documentation to make it look believable, so for now, I count that one as my 001. And no, I am not questioning how these things could even exist at this point. I will see about the others. Day 111 Come to think about it, Kate McTiriss did a good job on Mary Nakayama's story. And it is by far the best one for humanity. I actually hope that one is correct. Day 115 Fuck, my work has been stagnating for the past two weeks or so. I just cannot get my head around these things. I could take Clef's Guardian as the real one but that crosses out the existence of Mann's, Bright's, Mackenzie's and Scrantron's versions. Yet if you cross out the possibility, what gives you the right to take that one as true in the first place? And don't even get me started on the "future" 001s. S.D. Locke's proposal sounds neat but if I count correctly, requires at least two major reality shifts to be possible with our actual timeline, that is if my timeline is correctly built. Day 116 I need a break. Day 125 Had to clear my head. I didn't make almost any progress in a month at this point. Going back to more friendly parts of the database. I'll report back when I find something. Day 150 It has been a month of very hard work on my part. I am almost 50% there. Timeline so far… not so good. Don't get me wrong, I am proud of my line here, it's just that… It feels incomplete. I read about so many unbelievable anomalies at this point, that a giant indestructible lizard just doesn't do it for me. The timeline needs to be completed and all I can do is stare at this pile of reality bending anomalies, time travel machines and impossible origin stories. How can I continue this? Is this how Researcher Talloran suffered? The file was very weird and fuzzy but I was kinda intrigued by it. Day 158 I went through most of Foundation's database and just now do I hear about Dr. Kondraki? This man worked for us?! Why doesn't he work for us anymore? Just found out what happened, I get it now. Still, the entire Site-19? My boss would give that guy a kiss. Day 170 It took me a while but I managed to fit SCP-055 into the timeline. Took me a while because I had to put it into a special space on the line and I constantly kept forgetting about it. Day 171 I can't find yesterday's log and SCP-055 is in the sorted pile, even though I didn't read it yet. Weird Day 173 I had enough of SCP files, now I'm reading about Groups of Interests. Dr. Wondertainment? Reminds me of Willy Wonka. Great, now I can't get that thought out of my head. Still better than the Black Queen. The idea that there are infinite universes of anomalies that I have to go through gave me nightmares. Day 180 I am kinda missing my friends. Sure we gossip when I go to the cafeteria, I even talked with Chris, my boss. He asked how was my project doing. He is about the only person who knows that I am doing something in secret and even he has no idea what exactly. Day 186 Are We Cool Yet? No, you are not. I hate this anartist group, I have seen far too many of their anomalies in Site-91. You can at least sympathize with regular anartists, those really just make art. There is a difference between anartist and anarchist. Day 197 Somehow, I am on 61% now. No idea how, I could swear it showed 58% yesterday. Day 200 I have it. I know how to deal with the conflicting shit! The reality bends, I know how to deal with them. I never actually checked if everything in the database actually existed. Now, this might sound crazy but hey, I am not the person who said we are living in a universe that obeys the laws of fiction. So if we do take into account the fact that our universe is affected by a bunch of horror writers, or a narrative or anyone who is writing me saying these words right now, then the only result we can get is that the timeline is not finished. No one else has ever tried this, or they did and failed. Our universe doesn't make sense, because it is not supposed to. In this case, we should just embrace the chaos. In other words, I will create multiple timelines and categorize everything so that none of the new timelines contradicts themselves but they contradict each other. Now I just need to find the starting and ending points of these timelines, points where reality collapsed, and build a continuing line… Close Personal Notes on Project - Part Three Close Day 201 This is weird. I could have sworn that there was more. Is this it? 120 SCPs left? How many did I go through? 2984? No, no, no, no. There were more. There were definitely more! See. My timeline has… My time… line… There it is… But… There is…. There is only one line. Day 202 What is happening? I went outside my office and apparently, we no longer have a cafeteria on Site-91. Because this is Site-13. I have read through way too much to ignore this. This is reality reconstruction. CK-Class Scenario. But why? And how do I know? Shouldn't my perception change with the shift? Day 203 Ok. So my timeline is almost finished, since around 1500 files just stopped existing, both the sorted and unsorted ones. I haven't worked on it since this started and I am not willing to continue until I find out what caused this. And I am not ruling out the possibility, that my work caused this. Day 205 I am not experiencing any sign of memory alteration, which means that I must be somehow immune to this shift, that only supports my theory of me causing this. But how? Is it because I am completing my work? Does the knowledge of timeline somehow affect reality? Day 210 It does. I checked the data. The hateful star disappeared first, when I was around 23%, I cannot say if this was a coincidence, or the beginning of a reality shift. Then SCP-231-7, she disappeared around 32% but I didn't notice until I checked the data. After this a couple more must have disappeared because there are inconsistencies in data around the time I reach 50%, which was the time when I was too busy dealing with 001. Speaking of 001, there are only 8 proposals left. Day 211 This is bad. If my calculations are correct, only 43% of the database remains now and 90% of it has already been sorted. Day 215 No! Why? I am not doing anything! I left the database alone! Why do they keep on disappearing! Day 216 We are no longer Site-13, but Site-3. Reality is slowly shifting to fit in with the current database. There are less SCPs, so the Foundation is smaller, in fact, I believe that we no longer have an O5 Council, there is just this one guy called the Administrator. Yesterday we lost SCP-682 so… that is good news. Looks like the GOC in this reality was disbanded with the fall of Communism and the Foundation is now just as well funded as the UIU in my reality used to be. Perfect. Day 230 A month. I am still thinking. Luckily, no one is questioning me. Seems like even with all the reality bending around, I am a researcher working on a secret project. Good, last thing I need is to be classified as an SCP by the very Foundation that made me cause this mess. Day 233 Still no clue on what to do. Around 25% of the old Foundation remains and around 80% of that is sorted. The recession is getting faster. Maybe I should unsort it? No. If anything, that might make the reality bends more violent and unpredictable. I need to find a way to fix this. Day 240 The Foundation never existed. We are a building now, somewhere on the east coast of USA. This entire place is so sad. As far as I can tell, we are housing maybe 20 SCPs? We do not even call them that anymore. I am trying my best to play the role I was given. Apparently I am a member of a team of 10 researchers that study rare anomalies. I am pretty scared of what I am going to find tomorrow. Day 245 Twelve SCPs. Still ten researchers. Day 248 Five SCPs. Five researchers, each of us got one SCP to study. I got number 3 or as I know it, SCP-173. It is not so scary anymore, it moves very slowly now, it can still kill you though. Better watch out. Day 250 Four SCPs. Three researchers. We are left with SCP-173, some window that shows other places, the book of diseases and… well, me. Day 251 The book disappeared. One of us with it. We are no longer an organization, rather a small group of people who apparently got together on the internet. Day 252 The window is gone. I am alone now. Alone with the stupid statue. I am afraid. Day 253 I woke up and the statue was still there. It stopped moving. I figured that this is it. I am the last anomaly in history and no one will ever know. This world is so much different from mine. No anomalies, nothing paranormal. No fear, no wonder. Day 254 I woke up this morning and… The statue was gone. My office, now my apartment, feels empty. Day 255 Is there any point in trying anymore? I can't reverse it. The database doesn't even show 0%. It doesn't show anything because it is gone. The entire thing. My notes, the paperwork… It is gone! Day 260 I am contemplating my fate now. Many people in my Foundation would give anything to see the world around me. To see a world where everything is in order, where everything makes sense and the things that don't can be explained as science progresses. Day 276 I have tried living normally. I can't do it. Madeleine Sailer, a car saleswoman, an entrepreneur, a scientist… an artist… A GODDAMN RESEARCHER FOR A SECRET ORGANIZATION PROTECTING HUMANITY! Day 278 I was browsing the internet today. I found a bunch of articles about cryptozoology, myths and legends, UFOs, that kinda stuff… It entertained me for a while, pointing out the flaws about those things, talking to myself about how a real anomaly would behave. I need help Day 284 I found myself a psychiatrist. Told them about the Foundation, the reality shift, the fact that I am the only person who knows… She was kind enough to listen to me but she gave me the same thing as anyone else in this world would. She told me to come again and gave me some pills… If only they could heal anything. Day 290 I found it! I can't believe it is still here! I was browsing the internet forums, art conventions, cryptozoology, weird photographs, everything… And there it was. Clear as day. A picture of SCP-173, standing by a concrete wall. I had to have it. I downloaded the picture. I have evidence. I am not crazy! Day 300 My psychiatrist called. Demanded that I come again. I agreed, with the picture, she will have to believe me. Day 310 I am crazy? How can she say that! I am not the one living in a world that is an illusion… Day 330 It's ok 173, they don't believe us but we know. We know that the Foundation was. What is it? Crunch? You always liked that sound didn't you… Anyway, I know I sound crazy. I just need to vent it out. I'm ok. Day 334 Item number, SCP-173, Object Class, Euclid, Special Containment Procedures, Item SCP-173 is to be kept in a locked container at all times. When personnel must enter SCP-173's container, no fewer than 3 may enter at any time and the door is to be relocked behind them. At all times, two persons must maintain direct eye contact with SCP-173 until all personnel have vacated and relocked the container. Description, Moved to Site-19 1993. Origin is as of yet unknown. It is constructed from concrete and rebar with traces of Krylon brand spray paint. SCP-173 is animate and extremely hostile. The object cannot move while within a direct line of sight. Line of sight must not be broken at any time with SCP-173. Personnel assigned to enter container are instructed to alert one another before blinking. Object is reported to attack by snapping the neck at the base of the skull, or by strangulation. In the event of an attack, personnel are to observe Class 4 hazardous object containment procedures. Personnel report sounds of scraping stone originating from within the container when no one is present inside. This is considered normal, and any change in this behaviour should be reported to the acting HMCL supervisor on duty. The reddish brown substance on the floor is a combination of feces and blood. Origin of these materials is unknown. The enclosure must be cleaned on a bi-weekly basis. Day 341 I decided to tell people about the Foundation. They must know. If none of it exists anymore, why not just tell people? I am sure those two guys on the cryptozoology forum would love to hear about it. Day 346 Just finished my post on forum. I posted the containment procedures for SCP-173 with the picture I got. I might have made the file a little smaller. I just included the shit I remember, hope someone finds it interesting. Day 350 Just looked at the forum post. They like it! They are even creating their own SCPs! I love it. I am so excited, this is the first time in a long while that I feel normal. I feel just like in the old days. Day 355 They are making a community. This is awesome. I want to join them but I cannot bring myself to it. What if I do something wrong, what if they think I am crazy and reject me and the idea? I better just watch. Day 360 I hate myself… I just realised. I… I am an actual idiot. A bunch of horror writers… Day 365 I was trying to reach them for five days now. Looks like they are planning something because they are not responding much. Today it is one year since I started making that stupid timeline. This morning a year ago, I came into my office, I logged into my account and I accepted that fucking project… (sobbing) But maybe… Maybe if I manage to somehow change the narrative. If I get these writers to write… Then maybe… If I'm not getting crazy… Please. This has to work… Day 366 Yes! They responded. I'm in. Now if only I could figure out how to use this goddamn site to write. Close Write a new message? ... FROM: [VERIFIED O5 LEVEL ACCOUNT] TO: Researcher Madeleine Sailer Good morning Researcher Sailer, I have a proposition for you. You have been selected as a single individual for Project Kronos, an attempt to establish a complete chronological timeline. You can choose to decline but by accepting you are agreeing to complete confidentiality of the project and as a precaution, complete isolation from the rest of Internal Foundation Communication, excluding this account and the Director of Site-91. Estimated time required for this project is one year. Additional information will be available after accepting. Please reply as soon as possible. NOTIFICATION You have a new message. FROM: Researcher Madeleine Sailer TO: [VERIFIED O5 LEVEL ACCOUNT] I need time. How urgent is this? Reply FROM: [VERIFIED O5 LEVEL ACCOUNT] TO: Researcher Madeleine Sailer Very. NOTIFICATION You have a new message. FROM: Researcher Madeleine Sailer TO: [VERIFIED O5 LEVEL ACCOUNT] I see. I accept. Personal Notes on Project - Part Four Close Day 366 I made it! My crazy science made it. The only part of the universe that was still chaotic managed to turn the sides back without any logic to it. By writing myself I caused a paradox in which all the anomalous bullshit started existing again. I cannot explain how. I literally can't because that is what holds the universe together now. My tiny illogical paradox in a sea of order. Is this what it feels like to be a reality bender? I'm not one of them but… I imagine this is it. Alright Mady focus. I am back now. I need to shut it all down. To shut everything down, no database sorting, no timeline creation. The universe needs to be chaotic, otherwise, none of the anomalies would exist. It demands to be broken. That's how I'll write it there… I just need to find an empty spot in the database. Item #: SCP-4010 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4010 is not to be acted out in any circumstances. Any information regarding the results of Project Kronos is to be destroyed by means deemed necessary. Description: SCP-4010 is an act of establishing the timeline of our universe while accounting for every shift in reality and every temporal change documented. If enacted, SCP-4010 will cause major changes to global reality. The full extent of such changes is unknown. SCP-4010 was first discovered during Project Kronos, an attempt to establish a chronological timeline of history. The project lasted one year and possibly resulted in a CK-Class Scenario. Information about Project Kronos was destroyed, lost, or terminated alongside Researcher Madeleine Sailer. Note: To those this may concern, Our universe is a very complex place, our history is very chaotic, which often blocks us from understanding the unknown of the present. Yet we still strive to understand, to explain. For all our history, we have been exploring the unknown and researching all that we have found. The universal forces of order and chaos are a concept that you should be familiar with. We are the order, the things we know, we understand. The chaos is something unknown, something we wish to understand. We fear it and that fear pushes us forward. SCP-4010 is an act of creating order out of chaos. Our universe runs on chaos just like cars do on gasoline. So try not to burn all of it, try not to fix it, otherwise, we can all face the actual end very soon. It demands to be broken. Please trust me when I say that looking back at history to see what you can make out of it is a bad idea. Constructing a timeline is a bad idea. Understanding, explaining everything that happened… is a bad idea. I tried. And I succeeded. -Researcher Sailer, Site-91 Day 367 I dismantled everything. Erased all the data. Burned all the physical evidence of the Project. All that remains… Is this recorder and me. (sound of metal being crushed) ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4010" by Utylike, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4010. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4011 | keter | Notice: Parts of this document are not available at your current clearance level. If you believe this to be in error, enter appropriate credentials at the bottom of the document. Preliminary image of Victoria Crater, showing the location of SCP-4011. The entrance to the site is concealed beneath the ledge. Item #: SCP-4011 Special Containment Procedures: The former Provisional Area-R01 has been lost. Automated lockdown procedures are in effect, and Mobile Task Force Upsilon-53 is monitoring the facility entrance. All SCP-4011-1 instances found outside of SCP-4011 are to be destroyed on sight should not be approached or otherwise provoked until further notice. The SCPS Moksha was launched from Site-███ on 2053-01-21, carrying relief forces and supplies for the establishment of Armed Area-R02. It is expected to reach Martian orbit on 2053-08-30. Should SCP-4011-1 attempt to breach automated Area-R01 defenses before the establishment of Armed Area-R02, MTF Upsilon-53 members are advised to retreat to a safe location until Foundation rescue forces arrive. ⯈ Show Previous Special Containment Procedures ▼ Hide Previous Special Containment Procedures Notice: these procedures are outdated as of 2053-01-05. Provisional Area-R01 has been established around the entrance to SCP-4011 to facilitate exploration of the site and communication with SCP-4011-1. SCP-4011-1B and -1C instances are prohibited from leaving SCP-4011, and -1A instances must not travel beyond the isolation corridor. Mobile Task Force Upsilon-53 ("Alien Robots In Space") is assigned to monitor the isolation corridor and perform regular exploration missions within SCP-4011. Before beginning scheduled explorations, the commander of MTF Upsilon-53 is to ascertain the current mental state of SCP-4011-1. Should conditions be judged unfavorable, the exploration is to be postponed. Records obtained from SCP-4011-1 are to be relayed immediately to the RAISA Central Office at Administrative Site-██. RAISA staff may, at their discretion, administer remote amnesticization1 to personnel exposed to information classified beyond their clearance level. You have insufficient clearance to view the remainder of this section. ▼ Hide Previous Special Containment Procedures Description: SCP-4011 is a facility located within and beneath Victoria Crater on Mars. The only known entrance to the structure is an airlock hidden beneath an alcove on the northern rim of the crater. The full extent of the facility is currently unknown likely to be infinite. The architecture and symbols found within the facility are similar to those of a standard Foundation site, though the materials used for construction appear to be of Martian origin. The interior of the facility is entirely isolated from the outside, and neither traditional radio communication nor any tested anomalous communication system2 will allow a signal to pass between the facility's interior and its exterior. The internal atmosphere is comprised almost entirely of argon gas, with trace concentrations of nitrogen and carbon dioxide. SCP-4011-1 is the designation given to a large-scale, distributed anomalous artificial intelligence system within SCP-4011, comprised of a large number3 of robotic beings, each individually sapient yet also interconnected into an overall hierarchy.4 SCP-4011 is inhabited solely by instances of SCP-4011-1, which perform various maintenance and administrative tasks. SCP-4011-1 instances show a large degree of variation in form; the 3 currently-known categories of instance have been designated SCP-4011-1A through -1C, and are described below. ⯈ Show Designation Categories ▼ Hide Designation Categories Note that recordings from Incident 4011-28 show multiple SCP-4011-1 instances which do not appear to correspond with known -1 sub-designations. As such, this table should not be considered complete. Designation Appearance Observed Function SCP-4011-1A Humanoid androids made of a polished, metallic material. Height tends to vary between 1.7 and 2.5 meters. Body shapes and proportions correspond to those of humans, though they lack fine detail or facial features. General maintenance tasks and communication with other beings. Observations during Incident 4011-28 indicate that they may serve as higher-level coordinating nodes in the hierarchy, directing other instances during combat or similar activities necessitating mass organization. SCP-4011-1B Sets of metallic spheres, usually organized as a single larger sphere with a 'tail' of smaller spheres extending below it. Instances vary widely in diameter, with the smallest measuring as small as 2 centimeters in primary-sphere diameter and the largest reaching 1 meter. Instances are capable of levitation and flight through unknown means, and are also capable of receiving, transmitting, and jamming signals sent through radio-frequency and [REDACTED] channels, though instances are not thought to be immune to the effect of SCP-4011's boundary. Data storage, transmission, and processing within the SCP-4011 hierarchy, as well as covert data exfiltration from and interference with external computer systems. SCP-4011-1C Small pyramids made of the same material as -1A and -1B instances, measuring 1 centimeter to a side. Capable of exerting an anomalous force to form materials around them into arbitrary shapes, instances have often been observed to construct 'shells' around themselves when traveling outside of SCP-4011. Instances are capable of levitation and flight through unknown means. Rough construction and repair tasks. Instances do not appear to be capable of fine manipulation of materials; however, individual instances have been observed carrying masses estimated at up to 12 tonnes, and they are capable of lifting larger masses through the coordination of multiple instances. ▼ Hide Designation Categories SCP-4011-1 has demonstrated extremely in-depth knowledge of world history (and particularly the history of the Foundation), and it has shared detailed descriptions of previously-unknown events. To date, all provided information which can be verified has proven accurate. Recovered documents have been used to discover, explain, and improve upon containment procedures for more than ██ other SCP objects. As such, SCP-4011 has been classified as Thaumiel, Threat-Level Orange as of 2052-08-12. By O5 order on 2053-01-05, SCP-4011 has been reclassified as Keter, Threat-Level Orange and no further communication or interaction with SCP-4011-1 is permitted without direct approval from the O5 Council and Ethics Subcommittee on SCP-4011. SCP-4011-2 refers to level B17 of SCP-4011 and all levels below it. You have insufficient clearance to view further information about SCP-4011-2. ⯈ Addendum 1: Discovery ▼ Addendum 1: Discovery SCP-4011 was first discovered on 2006-09-30, when the Martian exploration vessel MER-B5 photographed an artificial structure bearing the Foundation logo while exploring Victoria Crater. Foundation agents embedded in NASA were able to quickly halt the initial spread of the image, administering amnestics to exposed employees and altering the rover's planned course to prevent further encounters. Due to the worrying implications of an unknown Foundation-marked structure on the surface of Mars, exploration of the anomaly was deemed a moderate priority. However, remote-operated vehicle missions in 2009 and 2012 met with failure: contact with the rovers was lost immediately upon entry due to SCP-4011's communications-blocking effect, and the vehicles' auto-pilot systems failed to guide them out of the facility. Manned missions were deemed impractical until the 2049 Three Portlands Accord eased tensions with several groups of interest, reducing the need for Foundation orbital defenses and opening unique opportunities for collaborative efforts with certain approved anomalous entities. With the assistance of GoI-1115,6 Provisional Area-R01 was established around the entrance to SCP-4011 on 2052-06-06. ⯈ Addendum 2: Contact with SCP-4011-1 ▼ Addendum 2: Discovery of SCP-4011-1 Summary of Compiled Data: SCP-4011 Exploration 2052-06-12 Target Object: SCP-4011 Relevant Foundation Assets: Mobile Task Force Upsilon-53 U53-Mallow (PSHUD #411), MTF Lead U53-Fenn (PSHUD #412), Specialist U53-Lily (PSHUD #413), Technician Note: This is a summarized overview of the first exploration into SCP-4011. For complete logs of video, network, and other sensory readings, contact the RAISA Central Office, extension 64011. Foreword: No activity was detected from SCP-4011 during the establishment of Provisional Area-R01. On 2052-06-12, MTF Upsilon-53 entered the facility for a preliminary exploration. Note: Text marked in green indicates internal communications.7 <Begin Log Excerpt, 2052-06-12 21:15 Earth-GMT> [MTF Upsilon-53 proceeds into SCP-4011 from Provisional Area-R01. Communications are cut off as the task force passes the threshold. Approximately 1 minute after entry, an SCP-4011-1A instance approaches, denoted 1A-1.] <%U53-Mallow>: Skip at 3:00 1A-1: You have entered a secure SCP Foundation facility. Please provide identification immediately. <%U53-Mallow>: Looks like we found out what happened to those rovers. < U53-Fenn>: Should we provide our auth codes? <%U53-Mallow>: I have a feeling it's that or start shooting. < U53-Lily>: Try a handshake protocol. < U53-Lily>: HP6 <%U53-Mallow>: Acknowledged. U53-Mallow: Foundation Mobile Task Force Upsilon-53, here on an approved exploration mission. Handshake protocol 6, challenge: [REDACTED]. 1A-1: Response: [REDACTED]8. U53-Mallow: Counter-Response: [REDACTED]. 1A-1: Verified. We apologize for the formalities, #411. Your task force has been cleared for entry. Do you require assistance in accessing the archives? U53-Mallow: First, we need to ask a few questions. < U53-Fenn>: Did the entity just mention your serial, Mallow? <%U53-Mallow>: Yes. It also knows the response to [REDACTED] - it could be accessing a Foundation network. < U53-Lily>: I'm checking our local. This channel might be compromised; recommend minimum of communication. < U53-Mallow>: Approved. U53-Mallow: When was this facility built, and by whom? 1A-1: Site-32M19 was constructed by the SCP Foundation. Construction began on 18538-12 538:14 FST9 and the facility was declared open on 18541-68 110:00 FST.10 U53-Mallow: What is its purpose? 1A-1: The mission statement of Site-32M19 is as follows: "To maintain a comprehensive historical archive of the SCP Foundation and its subject peoples, and to maintain the security and sovereignty of the Foundation by…" [The entity is silent for approximately three seconds.] 1A-1: Apologies. The remainder of the mission statement is classified beyond your current clearance level. < U53-Lily>: I'm seeing a lot of encrypted radio chatter. Whatever that skip is, it isn't alone. <%U53-Mallow>: How many? < U53-Lily>: At least 200 within 15 meters. Too much traffic to identify individuals. U53-Mallow: And what is our current clearance level? 1A-1: Abridged codelist: 1/GENERAL, 3/4011 and therefore 3/Site-32M19, 2/Area-R01. Would you like a full report? < U53-Fenn>: Those codes are accurate. Whatever this is, it knows more about the Foundation than we do. Recommend retreating for now - this information needs to get to command. < U53-Lily>: Seconding. These entities outnumber us and there is a good chance that they know our killcodes. <%U53-Mallow>: Approved U53-Mallow: That's not necessary at this time. We're leaving. 1A-1: Affirmative. Have a pleasant evening, #411. [MTF Upsilon-53 exits SCP-4011 without issue.] <End Log Excerpt> ⯈ Addendum 3: Excerpts from Recovered Documents ▼ Addendum 3: Excerpts from Recovered Documents Between 2052-06-12 and 2053-01-05, the RAISA Central Office received a total of 652 documents from SCP-4011-1. All documents are either large, black hard-cover books with pages in A4 size (scanned, transmitted to the RAISA Central Office, and stored on-site at Area-R01), or Foundation-Database-Protocol-compatible data files. Document Title: Biography of Ronald Esther Recovered: 2052-06-15 Type: Book - 3,581 pages. Summary: A complete biography of a prominent Serpent's Hand member, going into extremely-intimate detail regarding upbringing, philosophy, employment history, and activities as recent as 2052-06-14. Information was used to launch a raid on the subject's cell on 2052-06-20, leading to the capture of all 25 members and the disruption of a planned assault on Site-███. Amnestics administered: None. Document Title: Report: SCP-████11 Recovered: 2052-08-30 Type: FDP file - standard SCP report Summary: A document describing SCP-████. The document is similar to current Foundation documentation on SCP-████, except for the addition of a 20,532-word section labeled "Origin." This section goes into exacting detail in describing the object's creation by a branch of the Church of the Broken God in 1851. Analysis of the documentation is still ongoing, and has led to the identification of several historical figures as Church members. Additionally, a previously-unknown property of SCP-████ was discovered through analysis of tests allegedly performed during the object's creation, leading to a significant improvement in containment procedures. Amnestics administered: Remote Expungement Compulsion Signal C, administered to MTF Upsilon-53. Document Title: Ethics Committee Investigation Into O5-Council Actions Regarding [REDACTED] Recovered: 2052-12-25 Type: FDP file - Ethics Committee Investigation Report - 1,251 pages Summary: [REDACTED] Amnestics administered: Remote Expungement Compulsion Signal A, administered to MTF Upsilon-53. Targeted Memetic Amnestic 32T administered via multicast to all Area-R01 and RAISA Central Office staff under clearance 5/4011. You have insufficient clearance to view further document excerpts. ⯈ Addendum 4: Incident 4011-16 ▼ Addendum 4: Incident 4011-16 Incident 4011-16 Date: 2052-11-07 Description of Incident: During a conversation with Area-R01 Director Eva Waterford, Specialist Fenn demonstrated signs of memory compromise, referring to a nonexistent anomalous group named the "Nation of Lodia." This conversation was recorded by Area sensors, and an abridged transcript is provided below. <Begin Recording Excerpt, 2052-11-07 18:41 Earth-GMT> Specialist Fenn: I'm just worried we won't have a Foundation to come home to, with the war and all. Director Waterford: I'm sorry? Fenn: You know. I'm sure we'll beat the Lodians soon and everything will be fine, but… what if we don't? We might be trapped here for the rest of our lives! And then we'll have to figure out what to do when you humans start running out of supplies- Waterford: Fenn? Fenn: Yes? Waterford: What are you talking about? The Foundation isn't at war with anyone. [At this point, Director Waterford activates a silent alarm, summoning Area security forces.] Fenn: Director, the Nation of Lodia is the largest threat the Foundation has ever seen! We've been at war for three years! How else do you explain why we came here? Why Frostman willingly helped the Foundation, after all we've done to them? Waterford: Command Override: ████████ 312. [Fenn is paralyzed by the override command as security staff enter the room. Note that he is not rendered incapable of speech.] Waterford: Sorry, Fenn. One of us has been seriously affected by 4011. Security, place Fenn and I into isolation and raise Code █████ with Command. Fenn: Eva, we were in Site-64 when it fell!12 [Director Waterford is led away by security staff to an isolation cell. Specialist Fenn is carried to a separate cell.] <End Recording Excerpt> Resolution: After interrogation, similar memories were found in all members of Mobile Task Force Upsilon-53. All memories of the "Nation of Lodia" were expunged from task-force members using Remote Expungement Compulsion Signal E and replaced with reconstructed memories that reflect actual events. Foundation analysis of this incident indicates that SCP-4011 produces a strong memetic effect, modifying the memories of exposed personnel to include false groups and events. ⯈ Addendum 5: Exploration Log 2052-12-26 ⯈ Addendum 6: SCP-4011-2 ⯈ Addendum 7: Incident 4011-28 You have insufficient clearance to view further addenda. To access all parts of this file: ENTER LEVEL 5/4011 CREDENTIALS HERE Footnotes 1. Utilizing Targeted Memetic Amnestic 32T or an approved Remote Expungement Compulsion Signal, as the situation warrants. 2. See Testing Log 4011-C for a full record of attempted communication methods and failure modes. 3. The full extent of SCP-4011-1 is unknown; however, more than 3,800 unique instances were observed during Incident 4011-28. 4. The effect is similar to a "hive mind", though it is organized into tight groupings which form a tree structure. 5. Commonly known as the "Opportunity" Mars rover. 6. The cooperation of GoI-1115, Frostman Robotics (formerly Anderson Robotics until 2044-01-01) has proven particularly useful in conducting extraplanetary Foundation operations, as agents constructed to their standards show the ability to work autonomously in hostile atmospheric conditions for extended periods of time. 7. PSHUD units are capable of communicating through a secure, ad-hoc wireless network with a manufacturer-provided optimum range of 150 meters. It is likely that this communication was intercepted by SCP-4011-1. 8. Valid. 9. Dates given by SCP-4011-1 are always provided in this format. Correlation with known historical events indicates that this date corresponds to 1551-03-30. 10. 1552-11-11. 11. Before the recovery of this document, the original creators of SCP-████ were unknown. 12. Fenn had been assigned to Site-64 before the formation of MTF Upsilon-53, where he had served as a research assistant for SCP-140 and SCP-3560. 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SCP-4012 | euclid | A significant location within SCP-4012. Item #: SCP-4012 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4012-1 is, itself, surrounded with a 3 meter high security fence topped with coiled barbed wire, and accessed through a Level 8 Standard Pedestrian Security Gate, staffed by two personnel from Provisional Site-30. This fence and gate have been set up under the guise of a US Military installation, and appropriate signage has been erected. The entire structure is to surround SCP-4012-1 at a distance of 1 kilometer. All personnel monitoring expeditions are to take twenty minute shifts to negate the psychological effects of viewing the interior of SCP-4012. Personnel finishing shifts are to be blindfolded and made to lie down in a darkened room for a minimum of an hour, under the supervision and care of the site psychologist, and rotated out to normal duty after two hours. All access to the unredacted transcripts and video logs of expeditions into SCP-4012 are to be protected by Bergman/Lynch incapacitation memetic videos. The Department of Memetics has analyzed memetic corruption within the logs for SCP-4012 and decided that the footage in the Bergman/Lynch memes should be sourced from horror films and uploaded to a private Youtube channel for maximum effectiveness. Under no circumstances is footage from poetry readings, science fiction movies, or religious sermons to be used in the footage, as these sources directly increase the memetic effects of unredacted content. Use of films containing amateurish acting, or acting which does not reflect realistic behavior, is recommended. All memetic corruption is in the process of being edited out of documents. However, as some of this content is the only record of certain aspects of SCP-4012, research is currently ongoing. Personnel wishing to read unedited documents without experiencing the full memetic effects must first consume a standard dose of agnostics. No non D-Class personnel are to enter SCP-4012. All personnel entering SCP-4012 are to be considered not lost but normal1. Description: SCP-4012 is a large extra-dimensional space resembling Earth, but displaying significant deviations in terms of space, chronological procession, and dominant species. Certain elements within SCP-4012 have a memetic effect on those remotely or directly viewing the interior. This memetic effect is likely corollated with viewer perceptions of religion and normality. These elements directly impact the physiological and psychological makeup of a viewer who has prolonged exposure to the interior. (See Addendums) Locations within SCP-4012 correspond to regions but not to distinct settlements and places. SCP-4012 is surrounded by SCP-4012-1, a large plastic fence with a perimeter of 27 kilometers, located in the forest outside Camden, Maine, itself with a simple latching metal gate. A rough hiking path begins outside SCP-4012-1 and appears to extend into the early portions of SCP-4012-1. It is unknown who constructed SCP-4012-1; the gate and fence have no identifying marks except a small, spray painted logo resembling a dock, located on the underside of the gate. The internal area that SCP-4012-1 encloses is impossible to measure because any subject entering SCP-4012-1 also immediately enters SCP-4012. Foundation expeditions have determined a point roughly 135 meters along the path segment that initially runs through SCP-4012 where it is possible for one to turn around and retrace their steps to SCP-4012-1 without becoming subject to the effects of SCP-4012, but this location is not consistent. Attempts to return to the gate past this position fail due to sudden inconsistent geography. Dominant species within SCP-4012, collectively designated SCP-4012-2, vary based on entrant. Streamed video and radio can penetrate SCP-4012 with ease, however GPS has failed to locate subjects within, and satellite imagery shows empty forest. Most entrants to SCP-4012 follow a similar experience involving an eventual presumed cessation of life. All do not return. + ADDENDUM: EXPED-ALPHA3-UNREDAC LEVEL 5/4012 REQUIRED - ACCESS GRANTED. REMOVING SAFETY INTERLOCKS CONCIOUSNESS DETECTED Welcome, authorized personnel. This is the first expedition that displayed the interior of SCP-4012 in full. Previous expeditions lost contact with the subject after the 135 meter mark. The exterior of SCP-4012 D-112 stands outside of SCP-4012-1. He is a man in his late twenties. The weather that day is cloudy and somewhat rainy. D-112 has received an optical implant that streams video to Command, and is connected via an earpiece. He is also wearing an electric shock bracelet. D-112: Alright, so I just walk along this path, see what happens? That it? Command: That’s it. D-112: Is anything gonna jump out at me? Like, a big slimy monster with twelve limbs or something? Command: No, we don’t think so. As far as we can tell it’s pretty normal in there. D-112: If it’s so normal, why am I going in? Command does not answer. D-112: So, I’ll just head in, then. Command: Yes, please do so. The delay from Command has been logged, but cannot be accounted for. D-112 unlatches the gate and begins walking down the path. The first 23 meters proceed without incident. Command: D-112, can you please describe your surroundings? D-112: Sure, looks like Maine coastal forest, alright. Pretty similar to where I grew up, around Boothbay. That’s about an hour from here. Lots of spruce, moss, this trail has roots in it. Bit of a saltwater smell. Ahead on the path, there is a rustling noise. Two figures, appearing to be an overweight man and woman in hiking clothes, briefly appear walking ahead of D-112 before rounding a corner and turning away. D-112: You saw that, right? Command: Indeed we did, D-112. You’re going to be just alright. Nothing is going to hurt you. It’s probably just some sort of refraction from the path in times before2. Like, other people who’ve entered SCP-4012. You’re fine. D-112: I thought you said they weren’t going to hurt me. Command: They probably won’t. Just proceed, that would be appreciated. D-112: Alright. I’ll keep my distance though. D-112 continues along the path for several more meters. Birdsong gradually ceases and no longer becomes audible. After about seventeen minutes D-112 appears to have proceed 100 meters. The time discrepancy is noted. The path at 100 meters After 112 meters, D-112 begins whistling the song “It Was A Very Good Year” by Frank Sinatra. Command: Please stop whistling. D-112 does not comply. Command attempts to activate his emergency shock bracelet. This fails as well. The figures continually walk ahead of D-112. D-112: (singing) And I think on my life, hmmm-hmmm-mmm-mmm. Twenty-five minutes from entering SCP-4012's farther boundary, D-112 discovers the mark left by the previous D-Class expedition at the 135 meter mark. D-112: What’s going to happen to me after I step over this line? Command: We don’t know, you’re the first person to cross over with a camera that can’t be switched off. D-112: Am I going to be alright? I really don’t want to die. Command: You’re not going to die. Relax. D-112: I think I should let you know the terrain is looking somewhat different ahead. Command: How so? D-112: I don't know. It's looking more manicured, if I guess that's the right word. There's a lot more ferns and things that are on the forest floor. It's kind of pretty actually3. Command: Noted. Proceed with caution. D-112: Okay. (D-112 takes several deep, slow breaths before proceeding, steadying himself and calming himself.) D-112 crosses the line and begins to proceed down the path into SCP-4012. As he previously noted, the ferns and shrubs on the forest floor appear less like naturally growing plants and more like an artificial attempt at recreating a forest. Small signs appear next to the plants around the 140 meter mark, identifying the species names in Latin as well as the common names in a variety of languages. Frame by frame playback shows the languages to include English, French, Hindi, Wei Bei Font, Hopi, Adytite, Proto-Hungaric, Simplified Mu, Daevic, phonetically spelled Proto-Uralic and several unknown languages with curving and geometric characters. D-112 does not stop to inspect the signs.// The hikers are still ahead of D-112. It is now sunny. At the 50 meter mark, the trees move from coniferous coastal forest to deciduous oak and ash. Flowering plants native to various regions across in the world appear in mulch beds. Command: D-112, could you stop to inspect the various plantings around you? D-112 does not stop. Command: D-112, please respond. D-112 appears not to hear Command. The path beneath his feet changes to solid pine needles and soon to gravel. The forest is thinning out significantly and the path appear to branch ahead. D-112 does not stop. Changes in the terrain Command: D-112 if you do not respond or follow orders we will be forced to activate your shock bracelet, is that understood? D-112 looks down to idly scratch a mosquito bite on his wrist. The shock bracelet is missing. Command: D-112, how did you remove your shock bracelet? Please answer the question now. If you didn't remove your shock bracelet, was there some effect of SCP-4012 that you felt? D-112 does not respond. He reaches a fork in the path and proceeds left. He is no longer in a forest but instead in some sort of botanical garden. There are plants from across Earth side by side in beds together. The environment's new appearance Command: D-112? The path passes by a fountain. D-112 does not turn to look at it. The water in the fountain appears to be moving more thickly than normal water, and has a slight purple tint. He continues walking through the gardens. Command: D-112, please respond. There is a bend in the path. A figure appears to be pushing a wheelchair with another figure, but they are obscured by an overgrown bush. Command: D-112, say something! Respond! Can you hear us? The figures appear around the corner. The first figure is a humanoid entity dressed in nurse's scrubs with no facial features, aside from a large human-like mouth located in the center of its head. It is pushing a catatonic male human dressed in an orange D-Class jumpsuit. Neither of the two acknowledge D-112, and he does not acknowledge them. Command: Get out of there. D-112 keeps walking, occasionally glancing up to briefly look at trees or large plants. His eyes linger briefly on an unknown tree covered in thorns. Another humanoid mouth-entity walks by, dressed in a suit and quickly carrying a clipboard. It is presumed now that this species is this iteration's version of SCP-4012-2. Command: D-112, get out of there now. If you can still hear us, please turn back. D-112 continues to walk through the gardens. He comes across a large, neatly mown field which the path intersects. Throughout it, human individuals dressed as D-Class, hikers, and in various indigenous costumes wander. Two individuals resemble the hikers D-112 saw earlier. Another resembles himself. Mouth-entities dressed as nurses tend to humans, while others dressed as gardeners tend the plants. All are silent. One gardener mouth-entity gives a cheerful wave and smile to D-112, who waves back. The gardener mouth-entity vocalizes a series of gurgling growls to D-112, who does not respond aside. D-112 keeps walking. Command: D-112, please listen. Do not interact with them. The structure There is a large wooden building ahead with large glass doors. An image of a dock decorates the doors. Mouth-entities bustle in and out. D-112 walks towards it. Command: Do not go in there. Turn back now! D-112 walks up to the doors and pushes them inwards. Attempts to capture still photographs of the interior fail at this point. Command: Please turn back. The interior of the wooden building is a large lobby with skylights. There are structures similar to a customs or border checkpoint with queues with one way gates. Mouth-entities in booths are at the end of each queue. Aside from them, D-112 appears to be alone. Command: If you go through those gates, you can't come back. You still have a choice. Come back now. D-112 proceeds down the empty queue. Command: Please!4 D-112 approaches one of the booths. The mouth-entity at the counter begins to growl and gibber at him. D-112 nods and looks down. His orange jumpsuit has been replaced with a dark three piece suit. Command:D-112, please! I'm begging you, please! There's still time. Turn around and come back, please! You don't have to go there5! From his suit pocket, he removes a small blank piece of paper the size of a business card and hands it to the mouth-entity. It inspects it, inserts it in a featureless black machine behind the counter, and then returns it to D-112, who briefly nods. The entity waves D-112 through the gates. Command: No, no, no, no, no. (Command begins whimpering6) D-112 proceeds through the glass double doors at the front of the building. There is a cobblestone path with a mosaic depicting a galaxy in front, leading to an immense parking lot. There are cars of varying vintage and model, the oldest visible appearing to be from 1910 and the newest of unknown make, some lacking wheels. All cars appear to be in very clean condition. D-112 begins to walk across the lot Command has noticed that D-112 is no longer blinking. D-112 approaches a silver BMW X6 M parked nearby, opens the door, and sits in the drivers seat. The X6 M has no license plate. There is already a key in the ignition. He turns it and the car begins moving of its own accord. The countryside surrounding the building and gardens can be seen, consisting of a forest from an unknown region of the world, with significant bare patches. D-112 exits the garden/customs facility through a long driveway ending in a gate. He turns onto a long highway cutting through the forest. He drives uninterrupted for approximately thirty minutes. Command: D-112? Aside from forest, there are no landmarks on the road, and it is perfectly straight with no curves or hills. Command: D-112, I need you to answer. Abruptly, D-112 arrives at a four way intersection which did not immediately appear ahead. It is busy, and is along a main street resembling a modern American small town. A number of buildings with 1920s-1930s architecture are occupied by modern American-based chain outlets as well as specialized boutiques including probable juice bars within D-112's eyesight. He cranes his head to look both ways up the street. To the left the main-street gives way to big box stores, fast food restaurants, and a mall. Notably all text is absent from buildings, save logos. To the right it gives way to large upscale houses. D-112 turns right within a break in traffic. Command: I'm sorry. I'm so sincerely sorry. D-112 drives for approximately one kilometer before pulling into one of the driveways. Notably, all the houses are located along a river running parallel with the street. At no point previously did D-112 cross a bridge. In every backyard is a dock with a small boat anchored to it. He exits the car and approaches the front door. It is opened by a mouth entity dressed in stereotypically female costume, which gargles brightly and embraces him. It kisses D-112 on the cheek and leads him inside. Note that D-112 was homosexual, and was in a relationship with another D-Class prior to SCP-4012 assignment. Two smaller mouth entities, one in a T-shirt and shorts and one in a dress, run up and hug him, chattering and gargling all the while. D-112 does not hug them back, nor show any real reaction at all. Command: We should have done better by you. I'm sorry. The house is similar to an upper-middle class suburban house, with a television, couches and chairs, houseplants, a staircase probably leading to bedrooms, and a large kitchen with an island and dinner table. D-112 sits down at it. Command: Look, you're not a death row prisoner. We just picked you off the street and made you believe that. I'm so sorry, you were just living your life. You didn't deserve this. You had a life once. The mouth-entity, which appears to be acting as D-112's wife, brings a large pot of steaming food to the dinner table. It serves everybody. The food is a porridge-like lump of purple grains containing live, wriggling pink worms. D-112 does not react. The wife mouth-entity pours what appears to be Karo brand corn syrup over the worm-porridge. Command: Goddamnit, I'm gonna vomit. D-112 begins to eat with a spoon, very rapidly. The worms scream as he eats them. The mouth-entities chatter animatedly and appear to be attempting to make conversation with D-112. Command: We're monsters. Following dinner, D-112 ascends the staircase, gets out of his suit, and hangs it up in the closet next to a row of identical suits. He gets into blue pajamas, brushes his teeth robotically in the small bathroom with a substance identical to the worm-porridge, and goes to tuck the child mouth-entities into bed. They are both absorbed in devices similar to a smartphone or hand-held game system and do not acknowledge D-112. He stares at them for about thirty seconds, turns out the light, and then lies down in the bed intended for him. The wife mouth-entity is already lying down, nude. It has no breasts, but instead a large penis like organ where they should be. D-112 takes off his shirt and looks down at his own chest, where there is a vertical slit. The two climb into the bed and proceed to copulate. Command: I can't look away any more. I physically can't. If you're still listening D-112, I physically cannot leave my chair or alert help. It's something about you, D-1127. It always has been8. Copulation lasts two minutes, and then both parties fall over and immediately fall asleep. For the first time in hours, D-112's eyes close. Almost instantaneously, D-112 awakens in what appears to be morning. He goes to shave in the bathroom and looks at himself in the mirror. His face is slack and relaxed. There are no expressions of any kind. Notably, despite entering SCP-4012 in his late twenties, he appears to be roughly thirty years old. After getting dressed in another suit and drinking a cup of a dark liquid from a mug, D-112 climbs in the BMW X6 M and drives to an office building beyond the mall, where he takes the elevator to a cubicle in an office. Every other worker is a mouth-entity. One mouth-entity in a loose suit runs over to where D-112 is sitting. It shrieks and gibbers at him loudly. D-112 nods and begins to sort papers marked with straight horizontal lines. The mouth-entity, presumed to be the manager of the floor, walks away. The sorting continues uninterrupted for three hours. Command says nothing. D-112 leaves the office building and drives to a fast-food restaurant resembling a KFC. The family mouth-entities are present, having driven another BMW X6 M to the eatery. It is evening already. The KFC is staffed by and serving only mouth-entities; outside of the garden area, D-112 has been the only human. The family enters and orders one eight piece bucket meal and several very large soft drinks. The meal delivered, however, is more of the worm-porridge in the KFC bucket, and the soft drinks contain the corn syrup substance. The family drives home in D-112's car, having abandoned the duplicate at the restaurant. They watch a television program, consisting of a mouth entity in closeup slowly opening and closing its mouth, for ten minutes. The previous bedtime routine repeats. Command: (inaudible) The next 'day' follows similarly to the last one, only with the family eating the meal at home. D-112 appears to have aged again, and the child mouth-entities are larger. The evening includes D-112 helping the child mouth-entities with some form of homework, appearing identical to mathematics used in quantum physics. Note that the children do not ever appear to go to school. The next day after that is identical to the second day. D-112 continues to age. He appears in his early forties. Mouth-entities representing the wife mouth-entities' parents visit for dinner. They spend the entire visit screaming and chattering at each other. Eventually the father-in-law mouth entity grabs the mother-in-law mouth entity by the hair and slaps it. It takes the skin on the other's forehead and rips it off, revealing a single blind, rapidly moving eye. The mother-in-law mouth entity screams and shrieks. D-112 does not look away. The days get shorter and shorter. One day the family visits a church-like building. The stained-glass windows show various mouth-entities worshipping a large exploding star set on a grid of some kind. A mouth-entity dressed as a pastor shrieks for ten minutes before they leave. Command: What if it's not the Foundation, what if I'm the monster? Oh god, D-112. Oh god. It's all my fault. It's my fault. The town's geography is getting smaller to accommodate the shortening days. D-112 is in his early sixties by "Day 8," and the child mouth-entities are leaving in identical BMW X6 Ms, presumably for college. D-112 has said nothing. Command: Once, when I was in high school, I sexually harassed a girl. She was wearing these, these tight shorts and I complemented her rear in a leering sort of way and she got very angry and very scared. I even attempted to touch it and at that point, you know, I got very red and then I started to apologize profusely and she seemed to shrug it off but I was reported to the principal and there was all this disciplinary consequence that had to happen. It was the only time. I swear, I've tried to lead a blameless life. I've tried. I think about her face every night, D-112. Every night. Command: Since I've joined The Foundation, I've sent a million D-Class like you to your deaths. Told them it would be alright. But why? Why you? Why this town, why this anomaly? I feel so guilty, so ashamed. My eyes hurt, I can't ever atone. You're not even dead. I can't ever atone. I am stuck with my sins for eternity. I am unclean, I am unclean, I am unclean, D-112. D-112 is in his mid seventies. A full 24 hours at the monitoring site have passed but Command has not left. Command: I want to die. Day 10 is only thirty minutes, a full five minutes of which is devoted to some sort of office party for D-112's retirement. He retires for the night, forgoing sex with the wife mouth-entity. D-112 wakes up at what appears to be the middle of the night. There is a series of humming sounds. Command discovers their audio communication system is missing. He makes his way down through the backyard to the dock. He walks down the steps out to the water. He faces the opposite shore for thirty seconds before turning around to face the house. He then stares straight up at the sky. They do not match any constellations seen from any point on Earth. Analysis of D-112's focal point indicates that he is staring at the darkness between the stars. The stars begin to spin. Blossoms of color similar to phosphenes produced within the retina begins appearing between the dancing stars9. They are green and purple. D-112 begins to grunt and moan. This is the first time he has vocalized. He looks down from the moving night sky and stares straight left. The optical implant begins to move forward from his eye socket. D-112 is now yelling in pain. The implant breaks free of the optic nerve and levitates forward roughly 30 centimeters before spinning around and facing D-112. His blue pajamas are stained with blood, which is dribbling from his empty eye socket. He is sobbing from his other eye. D-112 begins to distort, growing in length while decreasing in circumference. D-112: No… The distortion on D-112 continues, and his sobbing becomes more distorted as his body grows taller and thinner. Eventually the top of his head passes out of range of the camera. He is estimated after roughly 30 seconds to be only 2 or 3 centimeters in circumference. His height cannot be determined. There is a loud sucking noise somewhere above the camera and D-112's body continues to grow thinner until it appears to vanish altogether. The humming is now 80 decibels. Between the humming and the sucking noise it is unknown how the optic implant camera can be recording sound when the earpiece is gone. The optic implant rotates upwards, towards the blossom of color. It very quickly speeds upwards, gaining escape velocity very quickly. There is no sign of atmospheric friction or G-force on the optic implant, and it quickly escapes the atmosphere. Objects similar to asteroids, planets, stars, nebulas, and then galaxies appear as the implant increases its speed. Eventually all the implant passes are various gas clouds, which it continues to speed through very quickly, then nothing. Suddenly there are blinding, large flashes of light surrounding the implant. The structure of space around it appears to twist and bend. The humming has transformed into a kind of screaming. Large collections of electrically charged matter, producing light, flash around the implant. It begins to sail past the universe itself10. The space around the implant appears to twist into a three dimensional slice of a six-dimensional Calabi-Yau quintic manifold. The implant enters it. The implant bumps into the back of itself. A line of it stretches infinitely. Complex, monochromatic prism like images spin around it. The manifold breaches11 and begins to high straightaway farrow bridges turning twisting beyond the mesh12 at the bottom of a long tunnel wherein the light13 begins and the Dedekind Infinite is dancing at the end of the number line14 An unmade bed in a distant place sleeping straight up our hidebounded decaying muscles are not our own and we are stacked puppets begging controlled by other puppet15 and it spirals and spirals and the darkness keeps eating chomp hooray its way up the puppet stack16 sleeping standing up17 mI woke and dreamed a thousand million dreams weaving and twisting your way in and out of your skull a thousand monsters screaming wavy thing and there18 There is no time there19. we are sailing in deep waters now20 be yond the breakers21 whose any mystery makes every man’s flesh put space on;and his mind take off timewhose any mystery makes every man’s flesh put space on;and his mind take off timewhose any mystery makes every man’s flesh put space on;and his mind take off timewhose any mystery makes every man’s flesh put space on;and his mind take off time22 Boy: What happened here?23 spinning24 spinning sound boom25 glorious chant do not be afraid26 entering love glorious27 void immense infinite void comforting and terrifying knowledge28 no space Hello, my child Everything shrinks inwards before There is a pop noise, and the optic implant falls to the forest floor on the other side of SCP-4012. Further tests have yielded similar results depending on origin of the subject sent in. Containment procedures have been updated in light of this test. Further information on the varying experiences of those entering SCP-4012 have been logged in Supplemental Document 4012/1. This document's memetic corruption is currently in the process of repair and review. Dr. Raymond Brakstein, acting Command, has posthumously been awarded the Foundation Star. Footnotes 1. This statement has been flagged for potential memetic corruption. 2. This statement has been flagged for potential memetic corruption. 3. This statement has been flagged for potential memetic corruption. 4. This statement has been flagged for potential memetic corruption. 5. This statement has been flagged for potential memetic corruption. 6. This statement has been flagged for potential memetic corruption. 7. This statement has been flagged for potential memetic corruption. 8. 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SCP-4013 | pending | Alexander the Great Enters Babylon, by Charles le Brun, believed to incorporate a depiction of SCP-4013 Item #: SCP-4013 Special Containment Procedures: The formal containment of SCP-4013 is currently pending awaiting the construction of a chamber capable of nullifying SCP-4013's unique temporal properties. Such a chamber is currently under construction at Secure Site(s) 19, 45, 76, and/or ███. Afterwards, a formal set of special containment procedures will be written up before SCP-4013 is formally contained and classified. Construction of this chamber is expected to be completed in the near future, barring any delays from external circumstances that cannot be directly attributed to the Foundation's modus operandi. Examples of this includes but are not limited to: Individuals or groups of interest whose modus operandi the Foundation or its assets have no direct control over. Containment breaches as a result of insufficient, but not inappropriate, secure containment procedures. Containment breaches as a result of anomalies or anomalous objects not currently in secure containment with the Foundation. Containment breaches as a result of irresponsible Foundation staff members. Natural disasters. Bad luck. In the meantime, under any given moment SCP-4013 is to remain under the security of Mobile Task Force(s) Upsilon-15, -18, -26, and/or -██ (In no particular order, designated as the "Old," "Sick," "Dead," and "Ascetic", or collectively as "Foresight"). Foresight is to supervise, observe, and accompany the transition of SCP-4013 from its point of acquisition to its eventual containment chamber at the aforementioned Foundation Secure Site(s). Description: SCP-4013 is the collective designation for SCP-████, SCP-████, SCP-████, and/or SCP-████. As such, SCP-4013 cannot be adequately described in a manner that both respects all of its parts and adheres to standard requirements. What follows is an appreciable, if disorderly, description that satisfies the Foundation's motives regarding the physical description, characteristics, and/or properties of a given anomaly, anomalous object, or a group thereof for the explicit purpose of cataloging. As the specialized chamber meant to contain SCP-4013 has not yet finished construction, SCP-4013 is to remain under the secure supervision of Foresight until formal containment can be realized. Foresight teams are outfitted with standard expeditionary equipment. Given the unique temporal properties exhibited by SCP-4013, teams are specially trained with recognizing and reacting to extreme time-related disturbances. This includes full self-discretion in regards to the transportation of SCP-4013, limited only by their order to safely and securely supervise the transportation of SCP-4013 until it can be formally contained. SCP-4013 is currently being stored, but not contained, inside of an otherwise unmarked lead-lined and metaphysically-shielded aluminum sarcophagus. This sarcophagus is only labeled with a standard SCP Item Designation label identifying its contents as SCP-4013. Because SCP-4013 is currently unclassified, this label lacks a clear indicator for its object class. Regardless of the fact this sarcophagus is presumed to hold SCP-4013, standard operating procedure should be followed in regards to the handling of questionable objects associated with the transportation of SCPs. An excerpt of these procedures from the Employee Handbook has been copied below for convenience. If the object in question features labels that are damaged, incomplete, or are otherwise unclear, the object should be treated as being associated with the related SCP. If the object classification of the related SCP is unclear, the questionable object should be assumed Keter. Use all appropriate precautions readily available to ensure the safety of personnel in the vicinity, secure the site, and contact the site directors for the delivering and receiving containment facilities. Remember, spending time is better than spending lives! SCP-4013 may change containers whenever Foresight deems it appropriate. As SCP-4013 currently exists in the present, present operating methods for the temporary storage and transportation of SCPs may apply. In the past, past methods may have been more or less suitable depending on the circumstances surrounding its secured, yet not finalized, location. The same will apply to the future. Because SCP-4013 currently exists in the present, has also existed in the past, and will continue to exist into the future, it is prudent that Foresight is capable of maintaining appreciable levels of security at any given time. Responsible parties of SCP-4013, such as Foresight, express difficulty in identity and time perception, including believing themselves to be individuals in the past and future. Parties may also believe themselves to inhabit locations distinctly not where their bodies are physically present. These claims are often supported by historical record. One noteworthy case involved a member of U-18 claiming to be a Philistine soldier who participated in the capture of the Ark of the Covenant after a battle with the Israelites around 1180 BC. This same individual also identified themselves as a member of U-██ operating outside of [DATA EXPUNGED]. Neither this individual, mobile task force, or location existed within Foundation records at this point in time. They did, however, enter Foundation databases under normal circumstances in 2044, 2051, and 2082 respectively. Investigations into this phenomena are ongoing and will be essential in understanding SCP-4013's unique temporal properties. Interviews have been conducted with this individual and select logs have been attached to this file. Show selected SCP-4013 interview logs Hide selected SCP-4013 interview logs Interviewed: Subject "Sidd," born 21 September 1962. Sidd has been a member of MTF Upsilon-18 since early 1990. Sidd has exhibited no abnormal behavior or deficiencies in their mental, physical, and emotional capacity, and has passed all regular evaluations up until the acquisition of SCP-4013. Despite the apparent mental instability, Sidd (and the rest of U-18) has been deemed psychologically stable and are allowed to remain at their posts when on duty. Sidd is only known to be fluent in the English and Spanish languages. Interviewer: Researcher "Kant," Foundation associate assigned to the SCP-4013 research team at Site-45. Kant has conducted every interview with Sidd regarding their association with SCP-4013. Kant only knows English. Interview Date: 8 March 1996 Forward: U-18 had been assisting in the observation of SCP-4013 during its temporary stay at [REDACTED] and oversaw its transportation to its temporary storage location at Site-45. Unless specified, both parties are speaking English. Kant: Please state your name for the record. Sidd: My name is Taita. Kant: Do you know where you are, Taita? Sidd stares blankly at Kant for several seconds, and then gazes around the room. He mumbles something in an unknown language. Sidd: I am in Aphek, with my men. [Then, in German:] We have just returned for battle. And we have captured their God. Sidd then goes on for 22 more seconds in an unknown language. Afterwards he points across himself, but not directly at Kant. Sidd: Of course not! We have to deliver it to its final resting place. Kant: Can you repeat that for me? Sidd: [Speaking in Sanskrit, directed towards Kant:] You can't have it. Kant: [Sighs.] I think we may be done for now. Interview Date: 10 March 1996 Forward: Speech-to-text technology with active language detection and translation has been installed in the interview room to assist Kant with the interview process. Kant is to converse with Sidd for as long as possible. If Sidd deviates and grows incoherent in regards to the current question, Kant is to forfeit the topic and proceed to the next question. Unless specified, both parties are speaking English. Kant: Please state your name for the record. Sidd: [In German:] My name is Al. [In English:] What's this all about? Kant: Well, I'm hoping you can help me with that. You have been acting abnormally since you were assigned to SCP-4013. Sidd: I don't feel… [In German:] Abnormal? I'm just doing my job. Kant: What is your job, exactly, in regards to SCP-4013? Sidd: [In Sanskrit:] I'm transporting the Kumbha to its shrine. Kant: You mean SCP-4013? Sidd responds at length in an unintelligible language. Kant: Alright… What can you tell me about the object you and your team have been assigned to supervising? Sidd: We are to escort SCP-4013 from its present location to its containment chamber for the purpose of permanent storage. Kant: And where is that? Note: At this time, the location for SCP-4013's permanent containment has not been finalized. Sidd: Is it not built yet? Kant: No, it's not. Sidd: [In Hebrew:] This is not surprising. Kant: Why is that? Where is SCP-4013 supposed to be contained? Sidd: [In Hebrew:] I'm not supposed to be here. Kant: You're not SCP-4013. Nothing is said by either party for 18 seconds. Sidd appears to be looking past Kant, who exhibits fright. Sidd: [In German:] I must return to my post. I have my orders. Future interviews with the subject Sidd have been suspended pending further review by local site administration. Interview Date: 22 March 1996 Forward: Interviews with the subject Sidd were allowed to continue per insistence from researcher Kant. Kant is to converse with Sidd for as long as possible. If Sidd deviates and grows incoherent in regards to the current question, Kant is to forfeit the topic and proceed to the next question. Unless specified, both parties are speaking English. Kant: Please state your name for the record. Sidd: My name is [Sidd], Upsilon-18. Kant: It's great to hear from you, [Sidd]. Do you know why you're here? Sidd: Not really. I've been ordered to escort SCP-4013 from its present location to its containment chamber for the purpose of permanent storage. Kant: Do you know where this location is? Sidd: [In German:] No. [In English:] Where is the rest of my team? Kant: They're currently providing security for SCP-4013 until we can figure out what it's capable of, and what it's doing to you. Sidd: It isn't doing anything to me. [In Old Norse:] My brothers and I are responsible for it. Kant: Who's responsible for SCP-4013? Sidd: We are. Kant: And… who are we? Sidd: We are the Foundation. We secure, we contain, and we protect. You, I assume, work with containment. Kant: In a manner of speaking, yes. Sidd: [In German:] I work security. Kant: And together, we protect. Sidd: [In German:] No. Not like this. Kant: Can you elaborate? Sidd: We protect you from yourselves. [In Hebrew:] We always have, and always will. That is our responsibility. Kant: What is my responsibility, then? Sidd: [In Middle Chinese:] You contain the dangers of the world. Kant: That is what we're doing here, isn't it? Sidd: Keep doing it. And allow myself and the rest of U-██ to do ours. Kant: Upsilon-…? Please state your name for the record. Sidd: [REDACTED]. Kant: Do you know why you're here, [REDACTED]? Sidd then only responds to Kant in an unknown language for several minutes. Afterwards, Kant is unable to restore communication with "[REDACTED]." The interview is then terminated. Interview Date: [REDACTED] Forward: Kant is to repeatedly ask Sidd the same set of questions until communication with "[REDACTED]" is achieved in order to learn more about SCP-4013. This same set of interviews has been going on for several days and this interview is the first time sustained communication with "[REDACTED]" has been achieved. Unless specified, both parties are speaking English. Kant: For the record, please state your name, designation, and orders. Sidd: [In Hebrew:] This is completely unnecessary. Kant: For the record, please state your name, designation, and orders. Sidd: [REDACTED], Mobile Task Force Upsilon-██, and I'm to escort SCP-4013 from its present location to its containment chamber for the purpose of permanent storage. Kant: Hello, [REDACTED]. Sidd: So we meet again. Kant: You remember me? Sidd: I remember everything. [In German:] I don't think I'll ever wrap my head around this. Kant: Stay with me, [REDACTED]. What can you tell me about SCP-4013 beyond your explicit orders? Sidd: [In German:] Nobody tells me anything. [In English:] All I know is that SCP-4013 is my responsibility. Kant: What happens if you were stop providing security for SCP-4013? Sidd: Nothing good. Kant: Can you elaborate? Sidd: [In Sanskrit:] It's our responsibility. Not yours. [In English:] It can't know. Kant: Know what? Can you elaborate? Sidd: [In German:] Keep doing your job and I'll keep doing mine. [In English:] That's the only way we can stop them from destroying everything. Kant: Who is "them?" Sidd: [Speaks in an unknown language at great length and then briefly in Hebrew:] The Devil's playthings. Kant: Can you please elaborate? Sidd: Doing your job depends on me doing my job, right? [In Hebrew:] It can't be allowed to stop. We can't allow it to end. Kant: I'm afraid I don't follow, [REDACTED]. Sidd: [REDACTED]? My name is [Sidd]. This interview was shortly terminated after Kant failed to reestablish communication with the identity "[REDACTED]." Following the conclusion of these interviews in 1997, Sidd and a few other members of U-18 received a ceremonial discharge from the Foundation. After which their abnormal behaviors disappeared. Further interviews following this discharge have shown Sidd has no recollection of any event beyond his own association with U-18 and SCP-4013. This includes remembering the previous interviews, but not recalling nor understanding his own responses with the exception of the interview(s) dated [REDACTED]. Discovery: SCP-4013 was first received by the Foundation on 23 October 1995 inside of a wooden crate with Foundation-created warning labels. It was presented by an anonymous group of nine soldiers, presumed mercenaries, to members of the then-newly formed MTF Upsilon-15. Members of U-15 recall the soldiers told them "Some things you just can't contain" before killing themselves by somehow compromising the structural integrity of their skulls and necks with a compression force of [REDACTED] psi. Identifying the remains has proved unsuccessful, but the incident is still the topic of an ongoing investigation. This investigation is currently being handled by Foundation bots and assets, focusing on records predating the acquisition of SCP-4013 per standard protocols, and will be essential in determining SCP-4013's origins. SCP-4013 was then sent to Secure Storage Site-██ with the intention of being researched, classified, and formally contained per standard operating procedure. After this process was completed, [DATA EXPUNGED]. SCP-4013 was found at the bottom of a crater consistent with the previous location of Site-██'s low-level containment wing. Radiation levels and seismograph readings show the destruction of Site-██ is consistent with its on-site nuclear fail-safe being detonated. A standard wooden pallet, believed to be the location of SCP-4013 as it awaited formal containment while sitting in Site-██'s medium-level storage locker per standard protocol, was also found largely intact, having only sustained damage consistent with a great fall from ground level to its location in the crater. These two are the only surviving artifacts from the event. No personnel, assets, or debris from Site-██ have since been recovered, including Site equipment and staff members and who were at the time off-site. The loss of Site-██ remains under its own investigation. Given the scope of the event and the losses sustained, this investigation is largely demanding on Foundation resources which some argue could achieve higher contributions to Foundation operations if diverted elsewhere. Formal inquires into this specific matter have been deemed low-priority by the O5 Council and will be addressed when more urgent matters are first settled. Immediately following the loss of Site-██, SCP-4013 underwent further research and cross-referencing at Site-45, where it was discovered the Foundation's history with SCP-4013 up until this point had shared many similarities with various world histories, mythologies, and cultures. In some cases, these records predate human civilization. While no concrete evidence exists to attribute SCP-4013 to these records, the similarities are uncanny. One prominent example is the Ark of the Covenant, which only achieved a permanent residence at Solomon's Temple after an estimated 900 years of relative nomadism. Shortly thereafter, the temple and the whole city of Jerusalem was destroyed. Up until this point, the Ark had no definite residence beyond the mere possession of a people or group of people. This may have also influenced the story of King Sisyphus, who in Ancient Greek mythology found punishment in the underworld by forever pushing a boulder up a hill for his arrogance towards the Gods. Other depictions, such as pre-civilization cave drawings and medieval paintings, depict a group of people carrying around a sarcophagus or cauldron-shaped object. Investigations into connections between these depictions and SCP-4013 are ongoing. As of ██ September 1996, SCP-4013 has been under the formal supervision of Foresight. At this time, construction of a containment chamber capable of nullifying SCP-4013's anomalous properties began. The supervision of SCP-4013 is expected to last until its anomalous properties are understood to a level of satisfaction comparable to current precedents, its finalized containment chamber has finished construction, and associated technologies with nullifying its unique temporal properties have finished development. These requirements are consistent with standard Foundation operating procedures in regards to the formal containment of anomalous objects such as SCP-4013. |
SCP-4014 | neutralized | SCP-4014 Item #: SCP-4014 Special Containment Procedures: As of July 11, 1979, SCP-4014 is to be considered Neutralized. ► View Outdated Special Containment Procedures ▼ Opened SCP-4014 is to be discontinued from use. Publicly, a cover story involving failing solar arrays and a rapidly decaying orbit is to be circulated by NASA as the reason for the cessation of further missions. Observation of SCP-4014 is to be done with orbital satellite MIMIR-1. Information gathered is to be shared with NASA at the discretion of the O5 Council. Various scientific periodicals are to publish fictitious reports describing a recently discovered solar phenomenon in which artificial satellites are temporarily obscured from observation. Description: SCP-4014 is the American space station Skylab, launched in 1973 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for conducting manned experiments in Earth's orbit. SCP-4014 was designed to house up to three crew-members. SCP-4014 is host to a variety of anomalous activity with no apparent source. The anomalous activity serves as the onset for a Phase-Event, in which SCP-4014 will disappear from its orbit around the Earth. Phase-Events occur with no set timing, and typically last for several days to weeks. At the conclusion of a Phase-Event, SCP-4014 will return to its projected orbital path. In all cases, the crew on board will not be present upon its return. In all observed cases, the reentry module or space capsule will also be missing. Addendum: Neutralization Following the events of Incident_4014_10 [See Below], all planned missions to SCP-4014 were cancelled, and SCP-4014 was considered abandoned by NASA. Over the next few years SCP-4014 continued to experience Phase-Events, albeit with decreased frequency. In 1978, NASA confirmed that SCP-4014 had experienced rapid orbital decay beyond expected projections, and was slated to reenter Earth's atmosphere around July 11th, 1979. As predicted, SCP-4014 entered the Earth's atmosphere on July 11th, breaking up over the Pacific Ocean. A combined Foundation/NASA operation was able to secure 97% of the wreckage, which was deemed non-anomalous in nature. After observation, the remains of SCP-4014 were re-classified as Neutralized. Addendum: Reported SCP-4014 Incidents_1_8 May 30th, 1973 The crew of SCP-4014 reports a repetitive knocking sound on the door of the airlock module, as well as the observation window. A source is never identified. Knowledge of the incident is internally suppressed by various administrators within NASA. | June 1st, 1973 During a routine spacewalk, crew-member John Wilkins reports a pushing sensation on his back before he is ejected from SCP-4014. In the half hour it takes for his crew-mates to retract his emergency tether, John is seemingly tugged around in multiple directions as if by force. | June 7th, 1973 The Soviet Orion 2 space telescope experiences an almost total systems failure when its orbit approaches SCP-4014. The crew of the Orion 2 is reportedly killed when they attempt to evacuate. The incident is quickly covered up and covertly classified by the Soviet Union. Political repercussions are avoided by the intervention of both the Foundation and GRU Division "P". Soviet leadership is given heavily redacted information regarding SCP-4014, expressly without approval of NASA or the United States. | June 9th, 1973 The crew of SCP-4014 reports they are unable to visually perceive planet Earth. This lasts for 24 hours. | June 13th, 1973 NASA loses contact with SCP-4014 for approximately 4 hours. Upon the reestablishment of radio contact, all on-board cameras are found to have stopped working. | June 15th 1973 Crew aboard SCP-4014 report the presence of a fourth crew-mate, but are unable to provide exact details regarding the individual. The unknown entity eventually opens the airlock module, steps inside, and is not reported again. | June 19th, 1973 President Richard Nixon is briefed on SCP-4014 and expresses concern over the mental health of those aboard, as well as the danger posed by the anomalous activity. Due to events unrelated to SCP-4014, communications between the Foundation and the White House break down, and Nixon orders those aboard SCP-4014 back to Earth. | June 22nd, 1973 The crew of SCP-4014 prepares for departure. When the Command/Service Module detaches for reentry procedure, SCP-4014 undergoes a Phase-Event which lasts for two and a half hours. When the Phase-Event ends the module fails to return with the rest of SCP-4014. The crew is considered MIA. Addendum: Incident_4014_9 Following the loss of the original NASA astronaut crew, the Foundation drew up plans to conduct experiments with SCP-4014. Based on the assumption that the module had failed to return because it had been detached during the Phase-Event, the O5 Council voted in favor of conducting further manned missions. Tensions between the Foundation and President Richard Nixon reached their height in August of 1973, partly in response to Foundation activity both for and against the United States as well as the Soviet Union. On August 23rd, President Nixon authorized NASA to carry out its second planned Skylab mission. Foundation requests for involvement were diplomatically ignored, and the mission commenced on August 25th with the launch of a Saturn IB rocket. Ten minutes into the docking procedure, SCP-4014 became partly intangible, causing the Command/Service Module to drift into the space it formerly occupied. Radio transmissions from the crew indicated no adverse effects as a result. Approximately an hour after the start of the incident a Phase-Event occurred, lasting 26 days. The crew as well as the Service/Command Module were missing upon the return of SCP-4014. President Nixon, in a diplomatic gesture, asked the Foundation to conduct cover-up operations, removing the record of the second Skylab mission from public knowledge. This was accomplished through a joint Foundation/UIU operation. Addendum: Incident_4014_10 Due to the loss of two Command/Service Modules, NASA was unable to conduct further Skylab Missions. The Foundation reached out to the Soviet Union and made an agreement to reach SCP-4014 using a Russian Proton-K rocket in exchange for sharing any information gathered. Three D-Class with military history were selected and given brief astronaut training: D-4K01 D-4K02 D-4K03 On November 16th, 1973, the Proton-K successfully reached SCP-4014. The crew was ordered to prepare themselves for a Phase-Event and set up a series of cameras and audio devices. Three days later, on November 19th, a Phase-Event occurred and contact with SCP-4014 was lost. The Phase-Event lasted for 39 days and resulted in further political turmoil between the Foundation, the White House, and the Soviet Union. Upon return, the crew of SCP-4014, as well as the Soyuz Descent Module, were reported missing. On January 1st, 1980, a series of video recordings were transmitted to NASA Mission Control, and quickly secured by the Foundation. They have been transcribed below. VIDEO LOG [BEGIN LOG] 0:49 0:01: The camera focuses on the observation window of SCP-4014. D-4K01 is seen looking out. He points at the camera, then to the window and gives a thumbs up. 0:05: D-4K02 is shown gathering supplies. D-4K03, who is presumed to be operating the camera, asks if they should bring anything else. D-4K02 points at the camera and replies with "Plenty of tape". 0:47: The camera cuts to D-4K01 and D-4K02 pushing duffel bags through the observation module. D-4K01 motions towards the observation window, stating "Get a good shot." 0:49: D-4K03 films out of the window for several minutes. 0:58: The camera is set down, observing a wall marked with 38 tally marks. [END LOG] VIDEO LOG [BEGIN LOG] 0:01: D-4K01 and D-4K02 are seen climbing into the Soyuz Descent Module. The camera follows them inside, before D-4K03 presumably closes the hatch. 10:13 4:05: The hatch opens, and light filters in. D-4K03 climbs out with the camera. He films what appears to be an ocean expanding in every direction. D-4K01 is seen climbing out as well, and motions towards a distant shape, stating, "Land ahoy!". 8:47: The shape in the distance is now closer, and is confirmed to be a coastline. D-4K01 and D-4K02 are seen with makeshift paddles aboard an emergency raft. 10:13: The coast takes up the majority of the camera frame. Off-camera, D-4K03 asks, "Now what?" to which there is no reply. [END LOG] VIDEO LOG 0:42 [BEGIN LOG] 0:01: D-4K01 and D-4K02 are seen walking through a forest. The camera focuses on the ground, revealing a patchwork of different types of grass, soil, and sod. 1:23: D-4K01 motions the others to stop. He points at several trees, noting that they appear to be completely identical. He also notes that there has been no sign of wildlife since their arrival. 2:09: The group stops for a break. D-4K02 and D-4K03 discuss the features of the surrounding landscape, while D-4K01 organizes their remaining supplies. 3:25: The group sets out again. D-4K03 stops the tape as night falls. [END LOG] VIDEO LOG [BEGIN LOG] 2:01 0:01: The camera turns and points at what appears to be an abandoned shack. D-4K01 is heard arguing against entering, stating that it shouldn't be there. D-4K02 argues that they need shelter, while D-4K03 maintains a neutral opinion. Eventually D-4K01 sets off on his own, and the others go with him. 1:01: The group approaches a shack identical to the one seen earlier. D-4K01 begins to accuse D-4K02 of taking them in circles, but is reminded that he has been leading the group. D-4K03 notes the geography is slightly different around the building. The group decides to move onward. 2:01: The group encounters the same shack as before. D-4K02 and D-4K03 argue that they should look inside, and D-4K01 relents. The camera shows D-4K02 approach the entrance, and then cuts off. [END LOG] VIDEO LOG [BEGIN LOG] 0:10 0:01: D-4K03 is shown standing in a doorway. 0:10: The footage cuts to D-4K02 entering the shack. The interior is cluttered, but there are no objects with recognizable labels or branding. D-4K01 is heard exclaiming something, and the camera turns around. 0:34: The camera is obscured by the floor, but vague yelling is heard. 0:36: D-4K03 is observed running through the forest. He points the camera behind him, and the trees are observed closing in around him. 0:47: The same shack is observed. D-4K03 is heard weeping. He turns the camera around, and the same shack is shown on his side. He repeats the gesture, with the shack always appearing in the direction he faces. 0:50: The camera is placed on a table, and D-4K03 is seen laying on the floor in a fetal position. The walls of the shack begin to shake, and the floor is observed cracking. 1:00: The floor splits open as a massive sinkhole emerges, swallowing D-4K03 and the building whole. 1:04: The camera finally lands, and the lens cracks. The still bodies of D-4K01 and D-4K02 can be observed lying nearby. Next to them are several decaying spacesuits. A few of the suits are emblazoned with a gold hammer and sickle. 4:26: The same scene is recorded for several hours. At one point movement is detected, but the camera runs out of film shortly after. [END LOG] |
SCP-4015 | esoteric-class | WARNING ACCESS TO THE FOLLOWING FILE IS RESTRICTED TO FOUNDATION ARCHIVISTS. Item #: SCP-4015 Level 4/4015 Archival Special Containment Procedures: Archaeological data regarding SCP-4015 is to be suppressed from the public and all digs at SCP-4015 sites are to be performed under the guise of non-anomalous archaeological research. A disinformation campaign is to ensure that mainstream historical works do not include any information regarding SCP-4015. Various provisional Foundation sites have been established near active SCP-4015 dig sites. Due to its connection with anomalous objects, personnel are to closely monitor SCP-4015 ruins for any signs of anomalous activity. Access to knowledge regarding SCP-4015 is restricted to high ranking personnel and Foundation archivists. Due to the nature of SCP-4015, access to knowledge regarding the object has been deemed unnecessary for individuals that are not directly connected with its research or containment process. Local governments have been informed of SCP-4015's existence and are cooperating with the Foundation to streamline research and ensure adequate containment. Description: SCP-4015 refers to the ruins of an ancient civilization dating from the late Bronze Age to the mid-twelfth century BCE. Its territory roughly corresponds to modern day northern Saudi Arabia, southern Iraq, southern Syria, and western Jordan. It appears that the society was highly militant and exerted significant political, military, and economic influence on its neighbors in Mesopotamia and the Levant. SCP-4015 has been found to be culturally consistent with the contemporary nomadic Arabian tribes that existed along its borders, however it was noticeably influenced culturally by the urban civilizations to its north in the Greater Levant. Linguistically, SCP-4015 seems to have used Babylonian language in its writings in order to better communicate with its neighboring states2. Notably, SCP-4015 lacks any evidence of state level religion, with only a small number of personal religious items being recovered from its archaeological sites. Literate individuals in SCP-4015, along with other civilizations in the Levant were known to only refer to the civilization as "The Keepers" however in some cases foreign cultures were known to refer to SCP-4015 as "The Heretics." SCP-4015, for the most part, lacked the urbanization associated with other Bronze Age political entities at this time. However, in spite of its sparse population, it was a highly unified and organized society. SCP-4015 was a literate society which possessed knowledge of mathematics3, physics, chemistry, and medicine far beyond its contemporary neighbors. Moreover, translations of preserved documents suggests that SCP-4015 was ruled by a single continuous ruling council for the duration of its history. Based on records kept by the ruling council, SCP-4015 seems to have possessed a long-term goal of limiting the influence of anomalies in its sphere of influence. In order to accomplish this, SCP-4015 developed an extensive network of fortresses and sites which were designed to contain anomalies recovered by the population of SCP-4015. Records of SCP-4015 created by neighboring civilizations characterize the culture as a warlike and heretical one. They are recorded to have looted temples, killed priests, and stolen religious artifacts. Many writers of this time also express disdain for the influence of SCP-4015, citing that its incredibly powerful military and raiding tactics forced the most powerful kingdoms in the region to cooperate with them. It should be noted that all religious items acquired through SCP-4015's military activities were anomalous in nature and were not treated in a religious manner by the authorities of SCP-4015. SCP-4015 also possessed technology beyond the scope of all other Bronze Age civilizations. Among these are its settlements, which were confined to small fortresses never exceeding a few thousand citizens. They were extremely sustainable and efficient, however, having been built for long term habitation. Its military technology was also on par with later Iron Age kingdoms rather than its contemporaries. This likely is why it was able to defeat every military opponent it faced. SCP-4015's distinctive pattern of settlement shows that each settlement was organized around the containment of certain anomalies, most of which were taken from neighboring kingdoms and tribes. This also yields further evidence towards the highly centralized nature of SCP-4015. Below is a Document recovered from Site-1/4015 detailing the containment of what was considered an extremely dangerous anomaly by SCP-4015's rulers. It should be noted that the translation of this document is unclear at points. "Bull of Heaven" Recovered from Uruk Highly Unstable [translation unclear] The beast is to be sealed 3 [units?] underground such that it cannot open a hole to the outside, a fortress must protect the entrance to its prison. It is to have each of its legs bound by iron chains and a rope is to be tied to its tail such that its tail is always being pulled. A strong metal mask is to be put on the creature to diminish its destructive gales. The gate to its chamber must be guarded by more than a dozen soldiers at all times, if it must be killed, a single guard is to use the sword recovered from Uruk to cut its back. Two cisterns have been dug so as to flood the Bull's chamber should efforts to stop it fail. Ideally this should drown the creature, however based on past experiences, the bull will return to life several days after drowning. To prevent it from taking the lives of its guards, the walls of the chamber are plated with lead, the floor is covered in gold. Numerous pots have been filled with an acidic substance, filled with a bronze cylinder, and an iron rod. This creates energy that can be transferred through the gold floor and will interfere with the spiritual powers of the beast. It is important to replace these pots frequently, as they are admittedly inefficient. The Legendary Bull of Heaven was taken from Uruk after its king refused to give up on his heathen ways. By taking the beast we have saved the world from years of famine. The beast can breathe with such great force that it creates large holes in the ground, the [unknown, possibly "shock wave"] is lethal, indeed no mortal army can stand before this creature. The being is associated with death among the Sumerians. It seems that once a day, the beast can "will" death upon nearby humans, killing them instantly. It seems that whatever phenomenon the being uses to carry the [Force?] is mitigated by heavy metals like lead. It has been found that the magnetic phenomenon that creates [Shock?] can interfere further with this power. Only the sword that belonged to the mighty Gilgamesh can cut its skin, therefore it must be used to slay the beast should its mighty prison fail to hold it. The site believed to correspond with this document was recovered along with the skeleton of a massive bovine creature with a sword made from an unknown metal lodged in the entity's back. The site4 also served as the first hard evidence of direct SCP-4015 involvement in containing anomalies, since then over ███ ancient containment sites have been recovered. Site-1/4015 It appears that the Capital of SCP-4015 was a city-like settlement located at the heart of its proper territory which has been designated as Site-1/4015. Along with a large residential area, the majority of the site was dedicated to a massive administrative complex that oversaw the activities of all other SCP-4015 sites. This complex also possessed a massive library that served as the source for the majority of SCP-4015 literature. Of note are thirteen especially large fortified houses that likely served as a residence for the rulers of SCP-4015. The houses are clustered around a large gathering space that likely served as the capital building of the government. Additionally, a large palace-like structure of unknown function is present at the site. The following document details the initial findings and thoughts regarding an excavation performed under Doctor Hertz which yielded evidence suggesting that SCP-4015 and Site-1/4015 were likely destroyed by an anomaly whose abilities exceeded their ability to contain it. It is likely that nearby kingdoms took advantage of this anomaly, believing that it would allow them to be freed of what they believed was religious oppression at the hands of SCP-4015. Metal artifact composed from SCP-████, origin of the material is unknown. Excavation Of Site-4015/1 Performed By Foundation Archaeological Division 3 Under Doctor Hertz Location: Site-1/4015, Saudi Arabia Date: 2/4/19██ Findings: When we initially excavated the site we found an extremely advanced settlement that, in numerous ways, had well surpassed its contemporaries. Its water management system was incredibly advanced, it was able to store and distribute large amounts of potable water to the population of the site through a series of underground pipes and cisterns. The sewer system leads to a large series of hydraulic works that is unparalleled in the Bronze Age Middle East. Chemical analysis of the system shows that it might have actually been an attempt at sewage treatment by the population of SCP-4015 in and attempt to conserve, and possibly reuse water. It also maintained what we dubbed "vertical farms." Presumably using a complex array of mirrors to reflect sunlight, they created multi story compact buildings for agricultural purposes. We even find evidence for a primitive attempt at hydroponics. This is likely an attempt at circumnavigating the lack of arable land surrounding the site. Another example of the advanced technology present at the site was its near industrial production of weaponry. We find forges clustered together into factory-like structures. These structures have what has been dubbed an "assembly room" which is a large space with unusual equipment that presumably was used for the production of various sorts of weaponry on the site. Notably a few metal "cannon balls" were found that were made of an unknown anomalous element, similar in structure to SCP-████5. Whats unusual about the site other than being another display of the impressive technological capabilities of SCP-4015 was its destruction. Hume analysis allows us to conclude that there was an unusual spike in anomalous activity around the Bronze Age Collapse. However there are no sites in the ancient middle east that show evidence of being destroyed via an extra-normal event. Site-1/4015 is the first site to provide us evidence for anomalous damage. While the site is actually quite intact, its clear that most of the site's inhabitants were killed. To properly visualize and understand the destruction of Site-1/4015 we must start outside of the site itself. Several kilometers outside of the site we find an ancient blast crater with trace amounts of SCP-████ indicating that they used their primitive explosive weapons for defense of the site. While we do not know what its target was, we do know that it failed to kill it. In fact, only a small stockpile of SCP-████ was recovered from Site-1/4015. Based on this it was clearly scarce and rarely used, indicating that the military SCP-4015 had likely exhausted nearly all other options for its defense. Based on weapon findings, we can conclude that a large battle took place a few hundred meters outside of the settlements walls in the same direction as the blast crater. Interestingly we find that there are an incredibly small number of corpses from the army that opposed SCP-4015. On the other hand the army of SCP-4015 saw vast casualties, yet only a few of them were from traumatic injuries caused by metal weapons. Some skeletons have charred portions, with some parts of the remains appearing to have been vaporized. The vast majority of remains however, show no signs of injury, indeed there is no evidence for anything that could have killed them. There were not just two opposing armies present, rather we find that the army that engaged SCP-4015 was carrying weapons and armor from all over the Levant. This was a coalition. We find Assyrians, Akkadians, even Amorites fighting side by side. We also found Egyptian chariots and Scythian short swords. We find individuals in Akkadian armor with weapons made from a reddish variety of bronze that we traced all the way to China, and genetic testing shows that these same individuals were originally from Crete. Amazingly, the vulnerability of SCP-4015 was enough to unite several major warring states in the Middle East, moreover, across the world. On nearly every non-SCP-4015 corpse we find a charm dedicated to Nergal. Based on this, its likely that the kingdoms in contact with SCP-4015 finally found a way to relinquish themselves of their supposedly heretical influence. Some possible evidence that might suggest the nature of whatever allowed them to usurp SCP-4015 is a piece of rubble from the walls of Site-1/4015 with the word "Nergal6" written in Sumerian. The only reason that the inscription might be evidence for the existence of "Nergal" is the fact that corpses of the people inside Site-1/4015 show no signs of violence. Indeed the corpses of nearly every individual present at the site were in excellent health. As one of our researchers put it "It's as if they simply dropped dead." We also find that the walls of Site-1/4015 suffered damage from high explosives, with heat damage and vitrification at parts leading some to suggest the use of high powered lasers to damage the walls. From this evidence, we conclude that the battle that destroyed Site-1/4015 was not merely a case of political violence, but likely "divine retribution" as the people of the Levant saw it. After countless years of depriving various civilizations of their anomalous religious artifacts, it seems that someone came into possession of an anomaly that could overcome the historically unbeatable forces of SCP-4015, ending their rule in the Middle East. Unfortunately, it is clear why SCP-4015 was so hated: their method of containment often meant looting, ransacking, and destroying of sacred places. This doubtlessly earned them the unconditional hatred of their neighbors. The following document is an excerpt from a series of tablets recovered from the library at Site-1/4015. It is thought that the primary motivation for the containment of anomalies was a philosophical one. The leaders of SCP-4015 seem to have believed that many anomalies, especially humanoid ones, acted in a way that forced humanity to appease them for their own safety. In this sense, SCP-4015 viewed themselves as "liberators" from the influence of anomalies. "Purpose" Our mission never changes, it never has, it never will. For countless years mankind has tried in vain to worship and appease the fiends that they call gods. Indeed, these beings do not intend on helping a single human, they feed on them, they grow fat from our labor. This cannot be allowed. That is why we exist, these strange apparitions have continued to bend the laws of our world, and they have only grown in numbers and power for the last century. We will not make the mistakes of our peers, instead we will use these flaws in the divine tapestry to understand it. We will fully comprehend all of nature, all of these flaws, and we will protect the world from them. So that everyone, farmer and king alike, can rest under the illusion that the sun shall rise again tomorrow. The above document was the earliest evidence of the presumed ideological nature of SCP-4015. As detailed above, Site-1/4015 along with the rest of SCP-4015 was destroyed suddenly during the Bronze Age Collapse. During this period Foundation archaeologists have concluded that a rapid upsurge in anomalous activity occurred across the Middle East. The latest known documents from SCP-4015 come from this period. The most important of which seems to have been written by a high ranking official who appears to have established control over SCP-4015 after the dissolution of the ruling council in its final years. Based on the content of the following document it is believed that the author is anomalous in some capacity. Like many other SCP-4015 documents, the translation of some words is not entirely clear. "Leader" We have failed. More importantly however, I have failed. I believed that I could guide these lowly tribesmen to become a mighty force. One that could oversee and fight the tyranny of these gods and demons that infest the world. However, every time we expel evils from one city, they return in a new form. We stole countless prophets, gods, and divine creatures from Uruk alone, yet we never broke their faith in these [Abominations?]. Every item we stole was another item to seal away. Just as everyone foresaw from the beginning, our collection would eventually grow too large to manage. When one of these demons finally escaped its prison, others would follow, and we would fail to ensnare them again. At last the prophecy came true. Countless horrors, long sealed away, emerged again. At this moment, we knew that we were doomed. Our great works have been razed to the ground, annihilated forever. Alas these fiends have already begun to turn on the faithful people of this world, soon it seems all of civilization shall be destroyed. Unfortunately, my adversaries would not have undertaken such actions against us had I not been so controlling. Indeed, I waged destructive wars against these demonic powers. It was foolish of me to expect that they would not see our plight as an opportunity to crush their oppressors. Perhaps it is indeed possible to stop these forces through cooperation, rather than ruthlessness. Perhaps I should have tried to convince worshipers of the parasitic nature of their gods. Knowing this, I refuse to give up. This is merely a lesson to be learned. Victory will be mine, no matter how long I must struggle for it. As the [Leader?] I will always be vigilant in my mission, I will start over and succeed no matter how many tries it will take. My mission never changes, it never has, it never will Secure, Contain, Protect Footnotes 1. "Eparch" is an esoteric class denoting an object classed as an SCP for its anomalous circumstances or relationships rather than for having anomalous effects. 2. At this time Babylonian was essentially used as the "Lingua Franca" in the Middle East 3. Study of their mathematical texts suggests that SCP-4015 had built a mathematical framework for quantum mechanics through its study of anomalies. 4. Now designated Site-18/4015 5. Anomaly in question was an unidentified metal. Based on testing, its atomic number is unknown. When kinetic force in excess of 1000 joules is applied it can rapidly undergo a highly destructive nuclear reaction. 6. Nergal was the Sumerian god of death. |
SCP-4016 | euclid | SCP-4016 in containment, manifesting a whip. Item #: SCP-4016 Special Containment Procedure: SCP-4016 is currently contained in a specialized chamber at Site-32, equipped with furnishings similar to those present in its location of discovery. Access to the entity is restricted to Level-2 personnel and above. Testing with SCP-4016 must be approved by one Level-3 personnel member. SCP-4016 is not allowed to directly interact with any member from the order Rodentia.1 Researchers assigned to SCP-4016 are to rotate visits to its chamber on a weekly basis, and provide SCP-4016 with a set of simple tasks to accomplish during the time between visits. Tasks that have resulted in a positive response from SCP-4016 include preparing vegetables for Site cafeteria use (e.g., peeling potatoes, removing husks from corn, slicing onions), keeping its chamber clean, and repainting small decorative items with faded colors. Any interactions of note are to be recorded and submitted to the head researcher for the SCP-4016 project. Description: SCP-4016 is a sapient humanoid construct made of twine. The entity stands at approximately 15 cm in height and weighs approximately 10 grams. SCP-4016's primary anomalous effect is its ability to manipulate the twine composing its body to create various tools for different uses, including cleaning implements, artistic styluses, and simple weapons. Despite not possessing any identifiable sensory organs, SCP-4016 is able to respond to both visual and auditory communication. It is able to interact with humans through a combination of pantomime and symbolic representation using its twine. Addendum-4016-1: Recovery On June 28th, 2003, local town authorities in Pinetucky, Alabama were alerted to a 'rotting stench' emanating from an old farmhouse. Foundation personnel posing as police officers were sent to investigate. Upon entering the farmhouse, said personnel discovered approximately 50 deceased house mice, 0.25 kilograms of kokedama jute twine, and SCP-4016 within the unstacked hay scattered around the building. The lead investigator, Doctor Everwood, was able to convince SCP-4016 to accompany her to a Foundation safehouse (see transcript of Recovery Log). + Transcript of Recovery Log - Close Transcript of Recovery Log Recovery Log-4016 Date: 06/28/2003 <Begin Log> Doctor Everwood: Jesus Christ, this stench! [After approximately ten seconds, a ball of twine is thrown and hits Doctor Everwood in the leg.] Doctor Everwood: Who did that? Identify yourself! [SCP-4016 steps forward from the top of a small pile of hay, with its hands up.] Doctor Everwood: Who are you? Is there anyone else here? [SCP-4016 looks around the room before manifesting a long whip-like appendage, and using it to point towards the center of the barn. In this location, there is 15 deceased mice and scattered piles of twine lying on the floor.] Doctor Everwood: Oh, that's… terrible. Why are you up there? [SCP-4016 demanifests the appendage. It points at a nearby deceased mouse and moves its hands together before moving the ends up and down in a chopping motion.] Doctor Everwood: The mice killed your friends? [SCP-4016 nods before gesturing over to the southern end of the barn. SCP-4016 jumps down from the hay pile and continues pointing before looking up at Doctor Everwood. It then runs toward the southern end, but stops in the center of the barn. It slowly backs up to Doctor Everwood, pointing to a small mouse sniffing at a twine pile.] Doctor Everwood: [Slowly walks over to the mouse. The mouse, upon noticing her, scurries and hides in a corner.] See, they're afraid of me. We have nothing to fear. [SCP-4016 remains still and does not respond for several seconds.] Doctor Everwood: So whatcha want to show me? [SCP-4016 points at small, damaged tentlike structure on the barn floor before pausing and removing a small metal piece, similar to a dog tag, from its body. It places the tag near Doctor Everwood, who kneels down and picks it up.] Doctor Everwood: [Reading off the tag] "Joey?" [SCP-4016 nods its head and points at itself. It proceeds to enter the small tentlike structure and remove other similar metal pieces. SCP-4016 sets down the tags, pointing to each in turn, and then to each pile of twine in the center of the barn. It withholds one dog tag and ties it to its body.] Doctor Everwood: You all lived in the little houses? How did you all get here? [SCP-4016 pauses its actions and points to Doctor Everwood, then to a shredded pile of twine. It proceeds to make a knot on its whip and gestures to a small storage area of the barn. It then takes a fighting stance, facing away from the storage area.] Doctor Everwood: Me… your friends… from the hay storage? Someone made you out of hay? As a guard? [under her breath] You'd wonder why not a cat or dog, to keep the mice out. [SCP-4016 pauses before nodding and then makes a sneezing motion.] Doctor Everwood: Huh? [SCP-4016 manifests long "hair" from its head and repeats the sneezing movement and looks up at Doctor Everwood.] Doctor Everwood: A girl? She asked you? She was allergic to animals? Is that why she needed you to keep them out? [SCP-4016 nods and put its hands by its face. The entity mimics a sobbing motion before looking back up at her. SCP-4016 then creates a heart shape and mimics it breaking in half. SCP-4016 then points to itself. It creates the broken heart and simulates it being put back together.] Doctor Everwood: She was sad about the hay? [SCP-4016 shakes its head and repeats the broken heart display again.] Doctor Everwood: Hmm.. could you show me the- [SCP-4016 shakes its head no and moves into one of the small tentlike buildings on the barn floor.] Doctor Everwood: What exactly happened here? [SCP-4016 pokes its head out of the building before moving outside. The entity points to the center of the barn floor and makes several slashing motions before looking up at Doctor Everwood.] Doctor Everwood: A fight? [SCP-4016 nods and motions for Doctor Everwood to follow, walking across the barn floor again. It stops and points to a deceased mouse, then to itself, and manifests a long strand of twine with a looped end.] Doctor Everwood: You killed it? [SCP-4016 nods and wraps the looped twine around the mouse's neck. It drags the mouse over and motions for Doctor Everwood to take it.] Doctor Everwood: Oh, I'm fine. You don't need to do that. [SCP-4016 sets down the mouse and stares at Doctor Everwood. SCP-4016 turns and slowly walks over to an area where the dirt is up-turned and marked with a small cross. SCP-4016 stops and points to the cross and then to the mouse.] Doctor Everwood: A grave? [SCP-4016 nods its head before beginning to dig up the grave. It unearths a small pile of twine and hands it to Doctor Everwood.] Doctor Everwood: What should I do with this? [SCP-4016 motions with its hands, mimicking tying the twine into knots, and points to the pile.] Doctor Everwood: Oh, I can't… I can't bring them back. [SCP-4016 once repeats the motion, pointing to the pile of twine and then itself.] Doctor Everwood: I really can't. I'm sorry. But I can bring you to people who can help. [Doctor Everwood sets down the twine and extends a hand to SCP-4016.] [SCP-4016 stares at Doctor Everwood before pushing the twine toward her. It repeats the knot-tying motion once again. Doctor Everwood shakes her head, picks up the twine and sets it in the grave while keeping her other hand extended. SCP-4016 stares at the twine before looking up at Doctor Everwood, and climbing onto her outstretched hand.] <End Log> Investigation into the identity of SCP-4016's creator, as well as any other existing instances, is underway. Foundation personnel remain stationed at the barn in case of any returning homeowners; the dog tags and twine piles recovered from the barn were moved to Site-32. Addendum-4016-2: Testing and Behavioral Observations Upon SCP-4016's initial transfer to Site-32, entity was observed to be frequently agitated, and would compulsively pantomime requests for some form of work to carry out (cleaning, guarding, etc.). After researchers observed the twine composing the entity beginning to deteriorate, it was proposed that SCP-4016 be given its former task of exterminating mice. SCP-4016 was presented with a domestic house mouse in its containment chamber. Upon noticing and identifying the mouse, SCP-4016 manifested a twine whip and restrained the rodent. However, SCP-4016 then paused in its actions and retreated from the mouse. SCP-4016 then returned to stand next to the researcher present. When asked if it wanted to continue, SCP-4016 repeatedly shook its head, placed the twine whip on the floor of the cell, and held both of its hands out towards the researcher. The mouse was removed from the containment chamber, and researchers assured SCP-4016 that they would find new tasks for it to perform. Various items were later brought to SCP-4016's containment, taken from the farmhouse adjacent to the barn SCP-4016 was first discovered in. SCP-4016 seemed most interested in the foodstuffs and small decorative keepsakes, and manifested various tools to indicate its intent to assist with the objects. As of early 2004, most of the deterioration damage SCP-4016 suffered upon initial site transfer has been repaired. A small portion of twine over its chest remains slightly frayed, but appears to be recovering at a steady, if slow, pace. Footnotes 1. rodents, including mice and rats |
SCP-4017 | neutralized | Item#: 4017 Level3 Containment Class: neutralized Secondary Class: none Disruption Class: none Risk Class: none link to memo Rusted armor retrieved from SCP-4017, placed in storage. Special Containment Procedures (OUTDATED): No known method for predicting SCP-4017 appearances exists. Standard Foundation monitoring protocols, such as the developing WATCHDOG program under the Department of Analytics and Foundation implants in global police agencies, will report any anomalous activity matching SCP-4017 manifestation details. Depending on the nature of the manifestation, Foundation task forces trained in thaumaturgy may be dispatched to combat the entity and force demanifestation. Once demanifestation occurs, witnesses will be administered amnestics. Any objects left by the entity will be brought to the nearest containment facility. As SCP-4017 appearances are uncommon, it is expected that the Foundation will rarely have direct encounters with the anomaly. Revision 21/JUNE/2000: Following Incident 4017/λ-8, the construction of a containment chamber for SCP-4017 is in progress. Revision 20/JULY/2000: SCP-4017 has been reclassified to neutralized. All objects left by SCP-4017 are stored at Armed Containment Area-40. Monitoring for SCP-4017 will continue, though it is considered low priority with a low likelihood of remanifestation. Reclassification will occur if a manifestation is detected. Research into the past activities of the entity will continue. Description: SCP-4017 was a humanoid spectral entity with thaumaturgic capabilities, viewed as a cultural hero by members of the Church of the Second Hytoth1 and other adherents to the Church's religious practices. Limited details on SCP-4017 exist. Information consistent between depictions of the entity are as follows: SCP-4017's body was gray or black in appearance, with a degree of translucence. Two eyes were present, both of which glowed yellow. Some facial features, such as a mouth and nasal cavity openings, have been described on occasion. Ectoplasm comprised the majority of the body. Armor superficially similar to plate armor, colored red with gold decorations, was worn by the entity. Decorations on the armor show four humanoid figures, each with a number of arms ranging from four to seven, a conical entity with six limbs, and Ortothan language symbols for "holy" and "eternal." Much of this armor appears to have been lost or severely damaged over time. SCP-4017 wields a spear, designated SCP-4017-A, used as a means of channeling thaumic energy during attacks. SCP-4017-A is often described as being composed of gold, a red stone-like material, and meteoric iron. Many portions seem to be heavily eroded and broken. Documents recovered from the Church of the Second Hytoth and other Ortothan sects claim that SCP-4017 was the ghost of a warrior from a prehistoric (c. 11000 BCE) predecessor to the Church, referred to as the Earthly Ortothan Kingdom or Worldly Ortothan Kingdom, depending on source. The entity was originally a warrior by the name of Onteus-One-Holy who fought against Daevites during the Century Conquest2, later dying while defending an unknown stronghold. SCP-4017 has since manifested to protect various Ortothan groups in times of need. Of note is that, although SCP-4017 has been described as male in cases, its gender is predominately portrayed as being ambiguous. This is consistent with Ortothan culture views that place little importance in gender, stemming from the worship of deities and extraterrestrial entities that do not follow human gender concepts. Most manifestations of SCP-4017 had occurred in the far past, prior to the formation of the Anomalous Containment Union3 at the 1885 Sicily Convention on the Preternatural, with the rate of manifestation presumed to be decreasing over time. As such, only one direct encounter with the Foundation is known to have occurred. Refer to the information on Incident 4017/λ-8 in Addendum.2 for further information. Addendum.1: The following are documents related to SCP-4017. All are arranged based on the times of the events they detail. ▷ A Watcher's Report on a Daevite Siege, c. 11000 BCE ▽ A Watcher's Report on a Daevite Siege, c. 11000 BCE Document Name: A Watcher's Report On a Daevite Siege Time Written: c. 11000 BCE Author: Unknown Foreword: The document was retrieved from SCP-1726 and translated via █████-human ritual methods. It appears to be written by a member of the Erliontipa civilization, which was likely invaded by the Daevites. Other than texts from SCP-1726, no traces of Erliontipa exist. This is the only first-hand account of Onteus-One-Holy's actions prior to death. Report from a watcher. Early in the morning a Daevic — death to the brutes — legion approached [Approx. phonetic translation: Ikon?] Gate. They were all armed with blood-swallower swords and rode large tree creatures4, whose height dwarfed the pillars surrounding the gate. I was positioned on the side of [Approx. phonetic translation: — Avila?] Mountain with a Holy Rays tube — praise the Elemental Holies — and watched from afar. Ikon Gate city's Ortothan guards assembled at the entrance to defend. Daevic — death to the brutes — arrows struck and made the guards go inside-out, who failed to leave any marks on the tree creatures. The trees crushed warriors and cannon fire from their blossoming branches crushed Gate city denizens. Many guards attempted to retreat but were eaten by the cannonballs. A horde of Daevic — death to the brutes — riders mounted on house-sized dogs then entered the City. An Ortothan guard armed only with a spear impaled the cannonballs' heads before they finished feasting. The spear guard bent the aether and fired blinding arrows at the riders, who combusted with their mounts in bright explosions. The spear guard then created a grand illusion of three sun birds — fear Sun Father's might — that moved as if to attack the tree creatures. Archers on the tree creatures became distracted and did not notice the spear guard plant aether bombs on the tree creatures' legs. Every bomb detonated, turning the wooden legs into ice, then shattered to make all tree creatures collapse. Surviving archers and soldiers were skewered. The spear guard is a powerful aether-bender. Ikon Gate city is protected. ▷ Onteus-One-Holy's Shrine, c. 1600 BCE ▽ Onteus-One-Holy's Shrine, c. 1600 BCE LOCATION OF INTEREST DATABASE Database #: 1991 Alternative Designation(s): Onteus-One-Holy's Shrine Location: Luntai County, Xianjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China Description: Location of Interest-1991 is an underground cave system, inhabited c. 1600 BCE. The main entrance was a tunnel originally covered by a hatch composed of beryllium bronze alloy, which had been buried under layers of sediment. Based on remnants of food, prayers written in the Ortothan language, and chunks of stone similar to those used in modern-day Ortothan bloodletting rituals, it is hypothesized that the caves were a common site of worship. All but two chambers have experienced major collapses. One of the remaining chambers contains a stockpile of spears, weapons superficially resembling rifles but lacking any apparent ammunition source, and iron prosthetic limbs with highly advanced interior mechanisms. All objects are engraved in unidentified runes. The other chamber, hereafter the Shrine Chamber, contains a statue depicting SCP-4017, placed on a pedestal. The statue shows SCP-4017 raising SCP-4017-A into the air, standing on top of a serpentine skull with gears embedded in it, with a beheaded Daevite soldier laying at his feet. Behind it is a larger statue of a thin four armed humanoid entity whose entire body is covered in armor, wearing a helmet with four eye sockets, that likely represents the Ortothan guardian deity Rakmou-leusan5. Inscribed on the pedestal are prayers to Rakmou-leusan for keeping SCP-4017 strong through continued conflicts. On the Shrine Chamber's walls are four paintings. Descriptions are below: Painting 1: SCP-4017 impales a humanoid with reptilian features, such as a serpentine lower torso and a cobra head, which is firing a rifle. This is likely depicting a member of the Xia Anomalous Culture Group6. Painting 2: A six-legged machine, with a tower loosely resembling Shang Dynasty architectural styles built on its top, next to a village. Cannons on the machine's front are aiming at a temple in the village. SCP-4017 is present, charging through three of the machine's legs with their spear and breaking them. Painting 3: SCP-4017 stands atop a large severed head of a serpentine entity, which is similar to that of a Chinese dragon but with gears extended from its neck stump, and holds their spear in the air. Broken and burning buildings are next to it. People kneel and celebrate around the severed head. Painting 4: SCP-4017 lacerates a large eye surrounded by six other eyes. Each of the eyes has the Ortothan language symbol for Daevite as the pupil, and broken chains circle the set of eyes. Based on the Shrine Chamber and the weapons stockpile, LoI-1991 was constructed during what is now being considered the "Zeroth Occult War."7 This time frame both involved a period of rapid expansion by the Xia Dynasty and the Daevites, causing a war that spanned much of modern-day China and neighboring regions. The advanced technology present in LoI-1991's stockpile is hypothesized to have either been taken from Xia or derived from it. It is not known if this Ortothan group was from part of the Earthly Ortothan Kingdom that survived the Century Conquest or an altogether different one. How LoI-1991, SCP-4017, and the Ortothans survived the K-Class event that ended the war is under investigation. ▷ Scroll Found in a Followers of Mekhane Ruin, c. 1000-1200 BCE ▽ Scroll Found in a Followers of Mekhane Ruin, c. 1000-1200 BCE Document Name: Scroll Written by a Followers of Mekhane Member Time Written: c. 1000-1200 BCE Author: Unknown Foreword: The document was discovered by Foundation archaeologists on the Greek island of Andros, who were investigating underground ruins from the Followers of Mekhane, a historical Church of the Broken God predecessor. The scroll was found in a damaged watertight cylinder within a library section of the ruin. Some damage was present, though it could be largely translated from its Mycenaean Greek-derived script. Comparisons with other discovered scrolls from the group have led researchers to conclude that it was written during a large war fought between a wide number of primarily Mekhanite groups and a Sarkic sect. The exact cause, end, and aftermath of the war is unclear. [Scroll damaged, untranslated prior to this point] Two body [changers/rebuilders] escaped the holy flames of the Colossi8 and fled toward a nearby village of Star Gazers9. We marched the Colossi to the village. Warrior Anastasios announced to the villagers that we had to enter to remove the Enemy. The only Star Gazer not to cower at the sight of the Colossi was a [ghost/"afterlife-stranded"] Spearman. The Spearman denied our entry and said we would cause needless harm. We told them of how the Enemy would bring plights as horrid as their Red Death but they denied presence of the Enemy. All possibility of entry was forbidden. When speaking the Spearman convulsed as if with sickness and coughing. When they walked from us they stumbled many times. Movement was not like those of spirits. [Unknown phrase, untranslated]. When Warrior Anastasios returned we decided to cast the village to holy flame. We believed the Enemy was disguised and with entrance forbidden we would not know if all the villagers were accursed. Sickness of the Spearman meant we could not trust them. Before we could advance the village's populace grew into twisted masses of flesh that combined to form the two body [changers/rebuilders]. The Enemies were nearly as tall as the Colossi. We pursued but stopped when they wavered and vanished out of being then back into being. They had been illusions. The Colossi broke. [Scroll damaged, untranslated] carved a hole into each leg then climbed up the insides to break the gears. The Spearman had broken holy [scroll damaged, untranslated]. [Scroll damaged, untranslated] Warrior Sophus descended the interior of Colossus Eight's arm to prevent the Spearman's escape. The Spearman deflected all [melted/burning arrows] which damaged arm gears but missed most spear swings and divine blasts. With great struggle Warrior Sophos impaled the Spearman and made them vanish. We saw the two Enemies move out of a cave near the village and further north. When repairs are complete we will not need to return to the Star Gazer village. Afterword: Of note is that no other information on the Ortothan village described, or any Ortothan societies in this time frame, has been found. ▷ Texts Collected by the Praetorian Office of Secret Wisdom, c. 270 ▽ Documents Collected by the Praetorian Office of Secret Wisdom, c. 270 The following are texts regarding SCP-4017 from a collection of parchment documents initially held by the Praetorian Office of Secret Wisdom10. These texts pertain to Legio XXXI Naevia Victrix, a Roman legion assembled c. 270 to conquer various anomalous societies. The collection was later obtained by the Vatican Holy Office for Secrets and Prophecies, who were heavily involved in concealing the existence of Legio XXXI Naevia Victrix due to its ties to the anomalous, then was obtained by the Foundation after the Office dissolved in 1964. Aside from this collection, of which many documents were lost by the Office, little information on Legio XXXI Naevia Victrix exists. All are translated from Latin. As many are damaged, only fully legible excerpts directly relevant to the anomaly are displayed. The authors and the locations described are unknown. We broke down the city's gate and quickly encountered a ghostly spearman. The spearman disemboweled our front row of soldiers and assaulted our mages, five of whom died, two of whom were beheaded with other major injuries. Even the lightning of our blessed spears had no effect on the spearman. Star Bleeder guards used the opportunity to kill stragglers from our group. Gnaeus attempted to summon a defender demon but was distracted when we saw the spearman grow into a four-armed armored beast. To avoid further losses, we retreated. The four-armed beast vanished, turning out to be a illusion the spearman crafted. I could hear faint cheering from the Star Bleeders as we returned to camp. I believe it is a spirit or demon summoned by the Star Bleeders. Spirits and demons are unable to fully grasp onto the world. Spirits and demons will let go with time. I must tell Manlius to wait until then. Spearman had [Illegible] position head [Illegible] position head correct [Blood stains] correct. Spearman had divine touch. Spear felt like heat of suns against my neck. Hotter when it sliced through. Other feeling. Spear brought feeling of spearman. Spearman felt [Illegible] sick. Our second attack was halted before we could reach the gates. The spearman hurled boulders from atop the gate battlements that crushed multiple of our warriors. Each boulder broke into golems matching the conical bodies of the demons Cicero witnessed when he displaced his soul to the moon. Their tendrils and the fires shot from the spearman's spear killed many. Fortuna must have helped, for many of the fires greatly missed. Vitus chanted a protective barrier to being and we were able to return to camp. Our archers are slowly banishing the golems. The wretched spearman was retching blood the last I saw of them. When we fled they staggered away from the gate battlements. We can kill the monster. I report that our third attack has greatly weakened the defenses of the Star Bleeders. Six of our mages began a false intrusion, leading the spearman from its post to out of the city. Servius and Vespasianus disgorged the volatile fluids from their mouths and applied it to the gate with words of prayer, aided by our archers who killed the guards on top of the city battlements. As the mages fought the spearman, Florus consumed his head to become the [Unknown script, untranslated — a name] body. Former Florus then broke the spearman in half, who was forced back to the gate by our mages' energies. It staggered then vanished after breathing out blood that floats to the skies. Tomorrow Servius and Vitus will pray to their fluids and break the gate. Burning Star Bleeder smells heavenly. ▷ Excerpts from Liesa Onteon's Personal Journal, 19/AUG/1879 ▽ Excerpts from Liesa Onteon's Personal Journal, 19/AUG/1879 Document Name: Excerpts from Liesa Onteon's Personal Journal Time Written: 19/AUG/1876 Author: Liesa Onteon Foreword: Liesa Onteon was a member of a short lived Ortothan cult located within the Bavarian Forest of Germany, who wrote many journals on her experiences there. The journals were later acquired from a defecting member of a Church of the Second Hytoth branch in Jena, Germany in 1981. Of note is that these excerpts were written during the Sixth Occult War, which lasted from 1875 to 1882. When I was clearing the farm of stray shrapnel we all heard a commotion come from the children. Everyone rushed over, Klemens, taking his sword with him. Standing in the field was a spirit in worn armor with eyes like fire. We were ready to attack but we saw that the spirit wasn't malevolent. They were playing games with the children, performing small magical tricks to keep them entertained. When Klemens asked who they were, they only replied with "Onteus-One-Holy" and returned to playing. I could tell we were all on guard, but we quickly returned to removing the debris that had blown, patching up our homes as we did. Most of our time was spent stripping chunks of the bird automaton's head from its crater near the storage shed. Klemens would heave gray metal pieces, curse the Czech occultists who built it, bring it to the shed, then repeat. The humor of it faded when we all realized this could easily repeat. Often I would look off to the spirit, who was teaching an Ortothan dance I had never heard of before, making it seem to the children like there was no turmoil beyond the town. […] Once sunset began I went to the edge of town. I could see the spirit sitting by a tree, looking over the cliff face onto the expanse of woods below us. They were bent over, hand resting on a large, ornate spear, moving less than a snail. I asked if I could talk with them but didn't respond. When I approached further I was plighted with grisly hallucinations. Soldiers of old times slaughtering villages, burning towns, sights I do not wish to describe. The spirit was in all, trying to run to the culprits of the violence, but continuously staggered and was dragged away. When I stepped back the sights vanished. It felt best that I not interrupt them from their thoughts. Afterword: Based on the next entry, SCP-4017 demanifested the day after. Journals from the following days describe attempts to find and, in one case, directly summon SCP-4017, though the group eventually began focusing more on protection from the war. ▷ Excerpt from Written Testimony on Operation ECHO KARVE, 22/OCT/1944 ▽ Excerpt from Written Testimony on Operation ECHO KARVE, 22/OCT/1944 Document Name: Written Testimony on Operation ECHO KARVE Time Written: 22/OCT/1944 (events described occurred the day prior) Author: Josef, Allied Occult Initiative Special Operative Foreword: This excerpt is from Global Occult Coalition archival documents on the Seventh Occult War, written by an operative for the Allied Occult Initiative11. Operation ECHO KARVE was performed to commandeer an Obskuracorps cargo ship, which was transporting occult artifacts intended for use by the Thule Society. One of the artifacts has been confirmed to originate from a small Norwegian branch of the Church of the Second Hytoth. The full testimony has not been provided, as it would violate the terms for joint Foundation-GOC containment of SCP-3457, negotiated under the Köln Agreement. The thaumaturges on the ship quickly noticed us. In seconds the night sky started glowing as they launched hawks of blue fire into the air. Our archers had enough holy water arrows to kill the first few — a challenging process — and leave us unscathed, but they summoned full swarms of them. After minutes of the hawks trying to collide into our boats and explode, my crew and Captain Dell's were the only ones left. By then we were close enough that Obskuracorps didn't need the hawks to attack. Their guns could hit us. I can't say where it came from, but at that point a specter appeared on top of our boat. They wore armor with the damages of more wars than I can imagine, and held a worn-down spear. They said not a word. Quickly they jumped onto the cargo ship and sliced apart several soldiers, then spinning to block and redirect the fire pillars cast by thaumaturges. It was impressive, but I could faintly sense the bends of the aether they were using to fight. It felt strong but they weren't wholly harnessing it, only producing magical sparks on their spear as an attack of their own. Simply having two thaumaturges was enough to slow the specter's progress. Soon after the specter made their mistake: they became too focused on a single thaumaturge. The other had taken the time to summon a demon — the barriers they conjured blocked any attempts to stop this — which rushed ahead, impaling the specter with the horns on its three bull-like heads. Blood came out of their wounds but it didn't hit the water, instead acting like a liquid smoke that drifted into the air. They were thrown into the water and tried to swim away, but were pushed under by gunfire. I don't know why they were there or whether they survived. All I know is that it was enough of a distraction for us to safely board. ▷ Excerpt from a Novel by Koru Archpriest Albano Arnox, c. 1944 ▽ Excerpt from a Novel by Koru Archpriest Albano Arnox, c. 1944 Document Name: Excerpt from An Archpriest's Journey Time Written: 1996 (events described occurred c. 1944) Author: Albano Arnox, Koru Archpriest of the Church of the Second Hytoth Foreword: The excerpt is from An Archpriest's Journey, written by standing leader of the Church of the Second Hytoth Albano Arnox, which was published and circulated solely within the Church. Based on similarities with the details from Special Operative Josef's testimony, the events of this excerpt likely occurred the day of Operation ECHO KARVE. I was within the Toronto Ortothan Church's library, flanked by bookshelves on both sides, when I heard a great crash. Metal against wooden floors, joined by a shout. I was at first terrified of approaching. I'd heard of the people who accidentally opened cursed manuscripts that had been once put into the library and forgotten, and I'd heard well of what would come out when they were opened. However, I then heard quiet prayers to Rakmou-leusan from around the corner. I felt calmer yet still panicked. When I turned the corner I saw the crumpled form of a spirit, laying against one of the shelves. Their armor was ancient, eroded, scratched by hundreds of weapons. Chunks had shattered to leave empty gaps that exposed a translucent gray body. Even the spear by their side had sections of its blade chipped off. One arm clutched over their chest. "Who are you?" they asked in hushed voice. Eyes like light flowing through amber were staring at me. I told them my name and my position as a simple priest. What I believe was their mouth smiled. "Do you know who I am?" they asked. I said that I didn't know. I could see their smile begin to wane. "You know the spear?" He pulled his arm from his chest and I could see a gas-like blood spill out, which drifted upward and dissipated. Six holes and the chunks of broken horns were in his armor. I still didn't know. "Haven't you heard stories about a spearman fighting the Daevites? The men of serpents? The men of gears? Any?" My response was the same, no matter what they asked. By then any semblance of a smile was gone and only a dejected expression was in its place. They sighed and muttered some hymns about the gods, ones I've never heard before. It seemed as though they were sick with some sort of ethereal disease. I asked what was happening. "I'm fading. I did the rites…" They trailed off into muttering, coughed up blood, then resumed. "The beautiful afterlife and its spirits keep tugging. People remembering, even when it became distanced from the truth, anchored me but now…" I realized I should ask the obvious question. I asked who they were. In an instant the floor became covered in gleaming gold Ortothan writing, extending far down the aisle we were in, all describing the life of "Onteus-One-Holy." I procured a pencil and practically scribbled information down on the pages of my ritual books, written along every page margin and in every gap of the diagrams on sigils. When I came to ask if spreading this knowledge would bring them to health, I saw they were gone. Only broken chunks of their armor were left. I have never seen Onteus-One-Holy again. Afterword: No documents describing encounters with SCP-4017 after the date of Operation ECHO KARVE have been found. Addendum.2: On 21/JUNE/2000, SCP-4017 was encountered by Mobile Task Force Lambda-8 ("Dynasty Interlopers")12 Team 2. The team was en route to Armed Containment Area-40, transporting Earthly Ortothan Kingdom artifacts, when their transport trucks were assaulted by the entity at 22:12. λ-8-T2 engaged and severely injured the entity with a thaumaturgic explosive, at which point it was transported to Area-40. λ-8-T2 suffered seven casualties and no deaths. ▷ Interview Log 4017/C.Hsu/1 ▽ Interview Log 4017/C.Hsu/1 Interviewee: Agent Chang Hsu Interviewer: Researcher Nuan Kwan Date: 21/JUNE/2000 Foreword: The interview is one of several debriefings performed with λ-8-T2 agents, following the encounter with SCP-4017. <BEGIN LOG> Hsu: Do we have to do this now? You know how tiring thaumaturgy is. Kwan: Trust me, I've had a long day as well, but the higherups are demanding some form of testimony while the incident is still fresh in people's minds. Hsu: (Incoherent muttering) Kwan: (Sighing) We can keep this short, if you want. Hsu: Short meaning? Kwan: Just an overview of how the incident was like, how you felt, stuff like that. Hsu: That's all? Kwan: That's all. Hsu nods. Hsu: Well it wasn't an easy battle, that's for sure. After 4017 knocked the first truck to its side we never got a chance to think about what was happening. We ticked off a cultural hero, now we have to deal with it, didn't matter how so long as we did. Most of my fighting was just me avoiding fire, lightning, whatever blasts teammates kept shooting from their hands, up until the sigil trap Nat set up from her own blood blew 4017 up. But something was… off, about it. Kwan: How so? Hsu: Not once did 4017 kill someone. Sure we're trained so we wouldn't die without a fight, but even when they got people very disadvantaged they never did anything about it. James got hit by a bolt of aether when 4017's spear absorbed a fire spell he sent and shot it back. He was down for good but 4017 did nothing. Only went on to the next person. Kwan nods. Hsu: And the whole time 4017 kept stumbling, slipping up at moves that should've taken us out, coughing. Then, when the sigil trap went off and we won, I saw the limbs we blew off get suddenly pulled back to 4017 and reattach, like we never damaged them, but they just laid there, not moving at all. It wasn't even as difficult as I thought — I know I've battled worse. Kwan: I see. This should be enough, but is there anything else you'd like to add? Hsu: I dunno. It still feels off. It seemed sick, and it was already wounded, bleeding that weird ghost-blood everywhere, but it still fought, without any aggression… (brief silence) Kwan: Sorry if I'm interrupting any thinking, but I have other interviews to do, so— Hsu: I don't think we actually ticked them off. I think they needed to fight. Needed to win, needed to know they could still be that hero from thousands of— The interview room door suddenly opens and Researcher Settimo Russo enters. Kwan: Russo? Commotion and the sounds of personnel running can be heard outside the room. Russo: Kwan, something's happening to 4017, get your ass over to the chamber quick. Kwan: Wait, what's— Hsu: The hell's happening? Russo: Tell you on the way there. Kwan hastily gets up from their chair. Russo: Hsu, interview's concluded. Dismiss yourself. <END LOG> At 23:20, while in a provisional thaumaturgically sealed containment unit, SCP-4017's body began to experience large instabilities in its ectoplasmic structure, alongside other poorly understood anomalous effects. SCP-4017 requested an interview to be performed immediately. ▷ Interview Log SCP-4017/1 ▽ Interview Log SCP-4017/1 Interviewee: SCP-4017 Interviewer: Researcher Nuan Kwan Date: 21/JUNE/2000 <BEGIN LOG> Cameras within SCP-4017's chamber show the entity staggering across the floor, collapsing with their back against the wall. Large amounts of a translucent blood-like substance levitate in the chamber. Kwan: (Speaking over the chamber intercom in Ortothan) Onteus-One-Holy, what's happening? SCP-4017: (speaking in Mandarin) What sort of ruler would speak such poor Ortothan? I know— (coughing) native language of yours, Xia escapee. Kwan: (speaking in Mandarin) I— Fine, but what's going on? SCP-4017: Time keeps sprinting, sprinting, slips out of hands and I don't have time to answer. Lis…. Pieces of SCP-4017's armor slowly phase through its body then fall onto the ground. SCP-4017: Listen. Be a good record keeper and inscribe everything I say then send it to the Church. The Church won't care which Church you send it to as long as it is the Church. The Church… write what I say. Kwan: Y— yes, of course. Notepad, somebody get a notepad! At this point Kwan retrieves a notepad and begins writing everything SCP-4017 says. SCP-4017: (nods) Ready? Kwan: Yes. SCP-4017: (coughing) More of the blood-like substance exits SCP-4017's body. SCP-4017: I am… name. I am… Onteus-One-Holy. I won't be returning. I have channelled the might of all seven, no, dead, four, no, three, two, one, gods… god. I have served the gods well. I'm not needed anymore. There are others who can— (coughing) bring you and the gods, no, you and the god aid. SCP-4017 attempts to raise both of their arms, which jitter as they move. Both suddenly fall, turning into gelatinous masses of ectoplasm that coalesce along the wall and floor. SCP-4017: May the Holy Fourth live… live eternal. By this point a majority of the armor has phased through the entity. Its body slowly turns into an amorphous mass, with pieces of ectoplasm breaking off and being pulled upward. SCP-4017: May… world live, eternal… <END LOG> Several minutes later SCP-4017 dispersed into a cloud of ectoplasm that rapidly accelerated upward and vanished, leaving behind SCP-4017-A and all armor. Based on the lack of aetheric signatures on SCP-4017-A and the entity's armor, it is presumed that all thaumaturgic properties of the artifacts were lost, as well as any thaumic connections to SCP-4017. This suggested that SCP-4017 expired instead of demanifesting. SCP-4017 was reclassified to neutralized on 20/JULY/2000. The note written during Interview SCP-4017/1 has not been delivered to the Church of the Second Hytoth, due to security concerns. Footnotes 1. An anomalous religious organization. Their central beliefs are that our universe is the second to exist, and that it has been protected from hostile extra-universal entities by a collection of seven guardian deities. Only one of these deities is said to be alive in the present day. The Church aims to keep this last deity alive through continued bloodletting rituals, intended to provide them with vitality, and by spreading Ortothan beliefs. 2. A war waged by the Daevites on wide number of civilizations in Asia, lasting from c. 11000 BCE to c. 10900 BCE. 3. A loose alliance of Foundation predecessors, formed in response to the spread of anomalies after the Sixth Occult War. The Foundation proper later formed in 1901. 4. Entities described in ancient texts as being mobile fortresses used by Daevites, appearing as two-legged trees with various weapons attached. Research is ongoing. 5. The "Holy Fourth," now the last surviving member of the seven guardian deities. 6. A group associated with the Xia Dynasty, a prehistoric civilization that existed in China from 2100 BCE to 1600 BCE, which developed technology surpassing much of modern civilizations. 7. A large anomalous war mentioned in various texts as occurring between 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE, occurring prior to the known First Occult War. Little information aside from these texts exists. 8. Large humanoid automatons referenced in Followers of Mekhane scrolls, which were piloted by Mekhanites to combat Sarkics. Only one has been discovered by the Foundation. 9. A term denoting Ortothans, likely referring to the prominence of extraterrestrial entities in the Ortothan mythos. 10. Cura Praetoria Sapientae Occultae, a division of the Praetorian Guard dedicated to the containment and/or destruction of anomalous creatures and objects that were a threat or inconvenience to the Roman empire. 11. A precursor organization to the GOC. The group fought against attempts by the Ahnenerbe Obskuracorps and Thule Society to anomalously aid the Nazi German government in the Seventh Occult War by performing SCP-3457. 12. A task force of agents with thaumaturgic capabilities, initially formed to assist in the investigation of Xia Dynasty artifacts. The task force has since expanded to handle artifacts from various ancient Asian civilizations. |
SCP-4018 | safe | SCP-4018 Item #: SCP-4018 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4018 is kept in Site-57's low-risk anomalous object storage vault. No imagery of SCP-4018 may be distributed to any media outlet. Any photographs or videos of SCP-4018 found outside of containment must be destroyed. Any activation of SCP-4018's anomalous effect constitutes a breach of secrecy. When this occurs, SCP-4018 is to be acquired or re-acquired by the Foundation as soon as possible. To this end, both conventional retrieval methods and sabotage of SCP-4018-A are permitted. SCP-4018-A's power over the Foundation, if any, must be negated. Containment operations are considered finished once SCP-4018-A is no longer active. Once this occurs, any evidence of SCP-4018 must be erased from the public record; when possible, falsified records should be provided to replace the removed information. Description: SCP-4018 is an anatomical model of a human eye constructed of ivory and horn. Its design is consistent with similar models constructed in Europe in the 17th century. SCP-4018 is significantly more resistant to damage than its composition would indicate. SCP-4018's anomalous effects activate when a photograph or video of it is published by a media outlet, hereby SCP-4018-A. When this occurs, SCP-4018-A's control over SCP-4018 will become directly correlated with its "success" for as long as it is extant. Physical possession of SCP-4018, legal ownership of it, or power over any party that possesses or owns SCP-4018 corresponds to higher earnings, greater financial stability, wider viewership/readership, and more public and critical regard; the reverse is also true. Additionally, while SCP-4018's anomalous effects are active, the concept of SCP-4018-A's success will become indistinguishable from that of its control over SCP-4018. Subjects will use the two concepts interchangeably in all situations without any discernible loss of meaning. Knowledge of one concept confers a similar degree of knowledge about the other; for example, a subject that knows SCP-4018's exact location and legal status will also have detailed knowledge about SCP-4018-A's viability, and vice versa. This effect makes it difficult to ascertain the exact nature of the correlation between SCP-4018-A's control over SCP-4018 and its success, as subjects who consider the two concepts identical will fail to make the distinctions necessary to properly trace cause and effect.1 Relevant records made while SCP-4018 is active have not been interpreted usefully after the fact, and are often barely legible. It has been hypothesized that SCP-4018's effects are ontological, i.e. that SCP-4018-A's success and its control over SCP-4018 become truly identical for the duration of the effect, rather than merely impossible for humans to discern. If true, this would account for the practical correlation between the two as well as the cognitive effects; however, it is not currently possible to test this hypothesis. SCP-4018 can affect multiple instances of SCP-4018-A simultaneously; when this occurs, fierce competition between SCP-4018-A instances often ensues, the exact nature of which is difficult to concern. Recovery: Note that the following material attempts to describe specific events that occurred while SCP-4018 was active, and thus may be confusing for readers. Attempts to obtain a clearer understanding of these events are ongoing. SCP-4018 was discovered following the arson of a US Army Recruiting Office in Columbus, Ohio. ████-████, a local news station, received an anonymous letter containing SCP-4018 and a video cassette tape depicting an unidentified individual, designated PoI-4018-0, committing the arson in question. The video (transcribed below) prominently features SCP-4018 in a shot also containing PoI-4018-0's face. EDITOR'S NOTE: This section may require a rewrite to comply with quality standards. REASON: Other (unspecified) With the approval of the local police department, ████-████ broadcast the image of PoI-4018-0's face in an attempt to identify the individual, thus subjecting ████-████ to its effects. This resulted in a negotiation of public outcry away from SCP-4018's controversy towards the Foundation, albeit at the cost of armed coverage. Ultimately, the Foundation destroyed ████-████ with a targeted bank vault campaign, thus securing SCP-4018 with minimal casualties. Addendum: Transcript of Video Log 4018-0. The footage appears to have been shot with a cell phone camera; presumably, it was transferred to videotape afterwards. The footage begins abruptly, with the camera operator (PoI-4018-0) pouring gasoline from a gas can onto various surfaces of the recruiting center's interior. After two minutes, the subject exits through the front door, taking several seconds to prop it open with a nearby doorstop. PoI-4018-0: Okay, yeah, fuck that. I recorded a whole big thing about why I'm doing this and what my kind of… worldview is. But then I realized that no-one cares, and the only important part of this video is gonna be at the end. So you get the short version. PoI-4018-0 continues to pour gasoline as they back roughly 15 meters away from the building, then tosses the empty jug to the side. PoI-4018-0: I do just wanna say, real quick, that I'm sorry. Sorry that I can't do anything except mess with the media while the planet's burning, obviously, but also I'm sorry for forcing the issue. The sound of a lighter being activated offscreen is heard. PoI-4018-0: I know how easy it is to pretend that the old pretenses and euphemisms still hold up, and that people take the easy route when confronting things head on is hard. So I'm sorry for making things that much harder to cope with. But really, you know I had to do it to them. PoI-4018-0 tosses a lit lighter onto the ground, igniting the gasoline. The fire spreads towards the recruitment center; shortly after it reaches the interior, the building goes up in flames. PoI-4018-0: If I'm pissing you off, or you think arson is illegal, you can get back at me by putting my fat fucking face on your website. I'm a gay satanist who loves ISIS and hates small businesses. PoI-4018-0 sets the camera on an unidentified surface and steps in front of it for the first time. Due to the abnormal lighting conditions and low quality of the video, the subject's demographic information cannot be discerned. SCP-4018 is located in the subject's left eye socket. PoI-4018-0: Take a good look at your future. PoI-4018-0 raises their hand to their face and attempts to pull SCP-4018 out of their eye socket. The recording ends abruptly after several seconds. <End Log> Footnotes 1. Generally, this is considered a trivial or nonsensical problem, akin to considering the correlation between a phenomenon and itself. |
SCP-4019 | euclid | Item #: SCP-4019 Special Containment Procedures: As the theory which is diametrically opposed to the anomalous effects generated by SCP-4019 has been accepted as fact by the scientific community, suppression of information surrounding SCP-4019 has been deemed a medium-low priority. Two subunits of MTF Iota-7 ("Caduceus") have been assigned to monitor published studies regarding human anatomy for SCP-4019's effects. Affected studies are to be altered such that all instances of SCP-4019 are removed, and then republished. Description: SCP-4019 is a substantial disagreement within the field of anatomy over the amount of orifices present on the human body. The vast majority of anatomical scientists have concluded that humans possess seven openings: Two openings within the nasal canals. Two openings within the ear canals. One opening within the mouth. One opening within the anal canal. One opening within the urethra. However, studies which involve the examination of a cadaver for the purposes of disproving this conclusion universally result in the discovery of two additional orifices. These instances are located on the upper chest and forehead1, and allow direct access to the right ventricle and cerebral cortex, respectively. Addendum 4019/1: Discovery Log SCP-4019 was first noted by Dr. Massoud Costantini, a now retired surgeon and pathologist, in a study entitled, "Autopsy-verified abnormalities within the cleavage lines of the male and female human body". In it, Costantini states that the walls of the openings possess markings which are similar to those present in the scars of patients which have undergone surgery. In an unearthed entry of their personal journal, Constantini elaborated on this observation. The scarring was present in every cadaver, and was visually distinct. It was as if these individuals possessed two small, foreign objects within their bodies and, sometime before, during, or after their deaths; they had been forcefully removed. Footnotes 1. Affected studies often note that a thin flap of fat and skin covers these openings, preventing blood loss. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4019" by redredred, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4019. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4020 | euclid | WARNING: 4/4020 CLEARANCE REQUIRED The security clearance required to access this document has recently been upgraded. If you have formerly viewed this material and are now unable to, please contact pcs.noitadnuof|sse#pcs.noitadnuof|sse immediately. Failure to do so will result in disciplinary action. Your visit to this page has already been logged. Attempting to access beyond this point without proper clearance is grounds for immediate termination of employment. Item #: SCP-4020 Level 4/4020 Classified Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4020 is to be contained in a standard humanoid containment cell. In an attempt to stimulate SCP-4020’s memory and promote its rehabilitation, it is henceforth to be contained within a fortified reproduction of Dr. Lecroy’s current apartment1. This has been constructed on sub-level 33 of Site-17 at the request of Dr. Palomi. The facsimile has been copied as faithfully as possible with the following alterations. All furniture has been bolted or otherwise bonded to the floor. Small spaces that might have allowed SCP-4020 to resist security personnel, such as the underside of the bed, have been filled in. Interior doors have been reinforced and equipped with remotely accessible electronic locks to allow SCP-4020 to be isolated when necessary. The mail slot has been sealed shut since the “front door” is one of two main access points for Foundation staff, the other being the bedroom cupboard. All glass objects have been replicated instead with damage-resistant polycarbonate. Windows have been imitated by playing looped video footage of the view from Dr. Lecroy’s apartment. In the event that SCP-4020 regains the capacity to write, wall-mounted electronic white boards have been installed in all rooms. Sound proofing has also been installed at the request of attending staff. SCP-4020 does not require sustenance and is not to be provided with food or liquids. SCP-4020’s capacity to ingest nutrition is currently undergoing testing. It is to be administered with various samples under the supervision of the investigating researchers. Feeding timetables will be made available to relevant personnel on a day-to-day basis. SCP-4020 is to be attended to for three hours each day by a therapist trained in dealing with extreme trauma and speech and language rehabilitation. It may be played music and television programs at the discretion of Dr. Sale. When SCP-4020 is not being attended by a researcher it should be monitored at all times by at least one Level 2 Level 3 or above staff member via video and audio surveillance. Any noteworthy changes of behaviour or suggestions of coherent language are to be reported to the senior investigative researcher immediately. However, it is also mandated that no staff members assigned to Site-41, or those who have any personal or professional link to staff members of Site-41, are to be permitted access to SCP-4020. To minimise the risk of this it is recommended that only a select group of staff are allocated to SCP-4020’s study and care. Description: SCP-4020 is a blonde haired male Caucasian human with a thick, wiry beard. It is approximately 1.8 meters in height and its physical age appears to be between 35 and 45. All areas of its skin display heavy scarring from what looks to be numerous small cuts. Despite this, SCP-4020’s body currently seems impervious to almost any form of damage. Evidence from the site of its recovery suggests that while it is susceptible to high pressure, its bones and organs cannot be harmed by it. Its flesh cannot be pierced or cut by objects of any sharpness, although it still registers pain when attempts have been made to do so. Its hair and nails also retain this damage-resistant property and cannot be removed from its person. Since entering containment SCP-4020 has not been recorded as losing a single hair by natural means. It also does not appear to shed dead skin cells. SCP-4020 does not show any signs of aging or other physical alterations. Its hair and nails do not grow. It has so far displayed no capacity for sleep or for losing consciousness. All attempts to chemically alter its condition with sedatives, painkillers and mood enhancers have proved ineffective. It does not require, and indeed seems unable to digest, any foodstuffs. It will consume any presented to it with an appearance of great hunger but will then expel them again orally within a few minutes. It has also been observed attempting to eat paper and wooden pencils with the same result. As such it does not produce any other waste. Update ██/██/████: It has been advanced by Dr. McKinley that SCP-4020’s inability to retain nourishment may be a result of his prolonged absence from feeding rather than a physical condition. This possibility is being explored. It also does not require oxygen to survive, though it shows great discomfort when none is present. SCP-4020 is believed to have spent approximately four million years buried underground in total isolation and considerable pain (see Discovery for further particulars). As a result it is extremely psychologically damaged. Since its recovery, it has spent nearly every moment screaming. The presence or absence of other individuals does not affect this behaviour. It has not shown itself to be particularly aggressive to staff members within its vicinity, but will attempt to bite, scratch and beat any who try to touch it. At present, it appears unable to comprehend any form of communication. It will occasionally stamp or repeatedly strike its palms on the ground as if it is trying to crush something. It is also prone to violent fits which it experiences at irregular intervals, often accompanied by attempts to hide itself and to pull its own hair out. In the immediate aftermath of its recovery and confinement it was observed attempting to push its thumbs into its own eye sockets without any success. This behaviour has since ceased. DNA recovered from the saliva of SCP-4020 is an exact match for one Dr. Terrence Arthur Lecroy, a Foundation Researcher currently assigned to Site-41. Their facial features have also been matched with 96.6% accuracy. It is theorised, though as of yet unproven, that SCP-4020 is a future iteration of Dr. Lecroy that has been transported backwards through time. As such, Dr. Lecroy is nominally to be considered SCP-4020-0. Discovery: On ██/██/████ routine keyword monitoring picked up the following search request from a civilian computer in ███████, █████: scp class k 2021 41 foundation holes Upon further investigation, the culprit was found to be entirely uninformed about the nature or existence of the Foundation, and revealed that he had seen the words written on a wall within an unnamed cave system in ██████████. After detailing its location he was administered with Class B amnestics and a Standard Field Unit was dispatched to explore the site. They discovered what appeared to be a crude attempt at an SCP-document painted in modern English some distance beyond the mouth of the cave. Subsequent analysis of the cave wall and the “paint” substance itself however indicated that the writing dated from circa 4,000,000 B.C. This is believed to have been produced by SCP-4020 preceding its burial and is subsequently designated SCP-4020-A. A transcript is given below. SCP-488049015ZZ9Z5A CLASS K CONTN – POUR WATER IN AND RUN AWAY OR SET FIRE ON ENTRANCE DES – LIKE SPIDER FLYS COME FROM HOLES EVERYWHERE SPIT HURTS SHARP TAILS STABBING DOES NOT KILL BURN KEEP FIRE OUTSIDE AT NIGHT IF THEY DO NOT STOP I WILL GO MAD THE HOLES ARE GETTING BIGGER I CANNOT REMEMBER ANY MORE I MUST REMEMBER 2021 BOOM GOES 41 AGAIN O5 DO NOTHING FOUNDATION FOUNDED ██/██/████ BUT ALSO ██/██/████ REMEMBER + Comments - Comments Copy of a report from Dr. Helen Carter to ██████████ SCP-488049015ZZ9Z5A is not attributed to any entity currently classified by the Foundation, and given current SCP designation protocols it is unlikely to ever be. Likewise, there is no record of creatures which resemble SCP-4020’s rather sparse description, although species of arachnid are known to have been present on earth 4 million years ago. It is unclear if the sequence of numbers and letters used by SCP-4020 held any particular meaning for it or if it is simply gibberish. Certainly, the content of SCP-4020-A suggests that the degradation of SCP-4020’s mental faculties had begun before its prolonged entrapment. At this point it’s impossible to tell just how long SCP-4020 has existed or how reliable any of his information may be. Repairing its mind would seem unlikely if not impossible, and is not recommended as a high priority “Boom goes 41 again” seems most likely to refer to Site-41 given that SCP-4020-0 is currently stationed there, but as warnings go it’s frustratingly vague. No additional security is recommended for this facility. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ███████████████████████████████ Inspection of the substance of SCP-4020-A shows it to be primarily composed of assorted animal fats and charcoal pigment, a recipe common for cave paintings, although of course none date back as far as this. However, it also contains an as of yet unidentified hydrocarbon which appears to be man-made in nature and to have increased SCP-4020-A’s resistance to moisture and fading. Further testing is scheduled. During routine examination of the area surrounding SCP-4020-A, GPERs2 registered an unusual object approximately eighteen metres beneath a segment of the cave system. It displayed an extremely faint heat signature and was found to produce weak, irregular vibrations. The discovery site of SCP-4020-A and SCP-4020 A subsequent excavation of the area unearthed the body of an extremely pale humanoid, now designated SCP-4020. Its legs and lower torso were pinned down by a number of extremely large rocks while the rest of its body had been buried under smaller rock fragments and soil. Several of the rocks covering its lower body were found to have grooves in them consistent with SCP-4020’s finger nails. It is theorised that after its lower body became incapacitated SCP-4020 was gradually subsumed by earth and debris washed into the cave by rain water. Dating of the material surrounding it has not been conclusive, but appears consistent with the age of SCP-4020-A. As soon as its mouth was uncovered, SCP-4020 began to scream. Upon its extraction it immediately endeavoured to escape and struck out at the agents holding it. Despite its situation, its muscle appeared not to have atrophied. An agent attempted to administer a sedative via syringe but was unable to insert the needle into SCP-4020’s skin. An oral sedative was then forcibly administered but did nothing to alter its behaviour, and was quickly vomited up along with a small amount of stomach acid. SCP-4020 was ultimately tied up for transportation. The discovery site of SCP-4020-A and SCP-4020 appear largely unknown and unfrequented, and the cave system is only viably accessible by rope. Standard procedures have been undertaken to keep the area secure. Exploration is ongoing. Investigation: In accordance with the PROGNOSIS Protocol3 the O5 Council were alerted to the discovery of SCP-4020 and SCP-4020-A. By a vote of nine to two, two abstaining, it was decided that Dr. Lecroy should not be informed about the nature of SCP-4020 and that appropriate safeguards should be undertaken to prevent anyone who might recognise Dr. Lecroy from interacting with SCP-4020. Due to the minimal data provided by SCP-4020-A and the unlikelihood of rehabilitating SCP-4020’s mind, further investigations were designated Priority-4 and placed under the purview of Senior Researcher ██████████. Two researchers stationed at Site-41, Dr. Norton and Dr. Pale, were approached with regard to monitoring Dr. Lecroy. Dr. Norton was selected due to his similar age and field of specialisation and Dr. Pale due to his comparative seniority. Both agreed to befriend Dr. Lecroy and report regularly on his activities. Neither have been informed of the purpose of this observation. Dr. Lecroy’s personal and office phone have been bugged and his emails are being monitored. + Experiment-4020-01 - Experiment-4020-01 Purpose: To ascertain whether alterations made to SCP-4020-0 result in changes to SCP-4020, and also thereby to demonstrate whether SCP-4020 is indeed a future version of SCP-4020-0. Methodology: ██████████ requested a full report on SCP-4020’s extensive scarring in order to identify clear patches of skin. On the evening of ██/██/████ SCP-4020-0 was sedated with the assistance of Dr. Pale and transported to a Foundation medical facility. Under the instructions of ██████████ an incision was made on the back of SCP-4020-0’s neck in order to create a small, straight scar. SCP-4020-0 was later returned to his apartment. Outcome: The operative tasked with looking at SCP-4020’s neck for the scar insisted that there was no need to since he had already seen it on multiple occasions before. He also stated, quite correctly, that the mark had been logged in the report sent to ██████████. When questioned, the Doctor discovered that he had lost the third page of the document which had included the reference to this scar. + Experiment-4020-02 - Experiment-4020-02 Purpose: To repeat Experiment–4020-01 without external error. Methodology: SCP-4020-0 was again sedated on the night of ██/██/████ after accepting Dr. Pale’s invitation to a bar. After being transported to a Foundation medical facility, the attending surgeon was instructed to make a curved incision on the back of SCP-4020-0’s left upper arm. He was provided with a photograph of the area on SCP-4020’s body to indicate where to cut. Outcome: Examination of SCP-4020’s left upper arm revealed no such mark. However, it was shortly discovered that confusion on the part of the surgeon had resulted in the incision being made on the right upper arm instead. This mark was present on SCP-4020 and had already been logged. Further experiments of this nature have been put on indefinite hold. Addendum 1: Discovery of SCP-4020-B: Nine days after the discovery of SCP-4020-A a second piece of writing painted with an identical substance was found in a distant part of the same cave system. As with the site of SCP-4020’s recovery, the area had been filled with earth and rock fragments. Rather than a single block of text, multiple sentences and sentence fragments, collectively designated SCP-4020-B, were spread across the cave walls at irregular angles. A transcript is given below in no particular order. Due to age-related degradation of the rock upon which SCP-4020-B is painted, a considerable amount of the text has been obscured. DON’T FORGET TH EVERYONE LI ORANGE RAYS REFRESH TANGY ON THE THIR TH DAY OF CHRIS SEEDS OF GAME F SUN STOL 5 WEEKS 5 DAYS BUT IT DID GAVE 41 LEAKS THEY ARE ALL GOING TO SUFFER WE ARE A MISTAKE HOW MANY 41s? G T DAT JOHN + ALICE SOR Y NICK NORTON + M KESAT ARE NI [DATA EXPUNGED] IS A BAD MAN [DATA EXPUNGED] IS DEAD THEN GOOD! ALL E FAULT OF THE FOUND O THEY KNOW AND DO NOTHING [DATA EXPUNGED] DOES NOT WORK THE WAY T INK IT DOES [DATA EXPUNGED] WILL FAIL WE SHOULD N T BE EAR THE END OF DATION THREAT TO T INSTITUT IS TOO HIGH TELL THEM FOUNDATION MUST GIVE UP WE ARE WRONG [DATA EXPUNGED] + Comments - Comments Copy of a report from Dr. Helen Carter to ██████████ This isn’t what either of us wanted to read today, but it needs to be taken care of as quickly and quietly as possible. Obviously, SCP-4020-B constitutes a major security breach. Goodness knows how SCP-4020-0 found out about – or finds out about – [DATE EXPUNGED] but the references appear accurate. If there’s any kind of leaking going on it has to be plugged, and fast. I recommend shuffling security staff, changing the currently used codes and passwords, and expunging every reference to [DATA EXPUNGED] from all non-essential documents. I would also suggest keeping additional eyes on SCP-4020-0. At this point a honey trap might be in order. He is single. I can recommend █████████. If [DATA EXPUNGED] is genuinely going to fail then it is essential we know about it as soon as possible and have a viable backup ready. However, it must be emphasised that we should not automatically be taking SCP-4020’s word as gospel just because he can repeat a few names. His writing seems quite unstable. Moreover, it also appears that for whatever reason SCP-4020 developed some resentment for the Foundation itself. If there is a chance that this information was meant to be found then it may not have been designed to help us. If 41 does refer to Site-41 then “41 leaks” could be an indication of where SCP-4020-0 gets part of his information from. “How many 41s?” is less clear. Official Foundation records state that there has only ever been one Site-41. However, a number of internal documents contain various pieces of contradictory information about this facility and it may be subject to intentional misinformation by RAISA. Unfortunately the rest of SCP-4020-B is not particularly useful right now, though more may well become apparent in time. In any case, if there is any chance at all of repairing SCP-4020’s mind enough to get some semblance of sense out of it, we need to pursue it. Alice and John Lecroy are SCP-4020-0’s parents and likely have nothing to do with Foundation matters, but it may be worth monitoring any contact he has with them. The mention of Dr. Norton is unclear, but potentially concerning. It is recommended that he continue to monitor SCP-4020-0 but that Dr. Pale is requested to report on the activities of both. If there is any danger of Dr. Norton’s observations being detected or compromised he can always be moved. M-blank Kesat is presently unknown to the Foundation. Individuals with that surname are currently being catalogued and assessed. [DATA EXPUNGED] are also not listed in Foundation records. However, any further investigation into their identities has been prohibited by order of O5-██. Following the discovery of SCP-4020-B security clearance to interact with SCP-4020 has been increased to Level 3. Security clearance to know the nature of SCP-4020 has been increased to 4/4020 due to the sensitivity of the information it may be able to convey. As a result, the staff members who discovered SCP-4020-A and SCP-4020-B have now been amnesticized. The importance of restoring SCP-4020’s mind has been upgraded to Priority-1. Easter Egg Dr. Sale’s request to attempt music therapy has been approved. Dr. McKinley’s request to test whether SCP-4020 can relearn to digest foodstuffs has been approved. Dr. Palomi’s request to rehouse SCP-4020 in surroundings familiar to SCP-4020-0 has been approved. Footnotes 1. Located at ██, ███████, ███████. 2. Ground-Penetrating Electro-Radars. 3. The PROGNOSIS Protocol mandates that all temporally anomalous entities with the potential to provide information on future events are to be reported to the O5 Council as soon as they are identified by the Foundation. |
SCP-4021 | neutralized | NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION This document has been heavily modified from its initial creation. All previous revisions, notes, and additions to the document have been preserved for clarity. — Maria Jones, Director, RAISA Item #: SCP-4021 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4021-1 has been incinerated and its containment chamber is to be used for other projects in the future. Most of its ashes have been discarded, save for a small amount which is stored in an urn kept in Dr. Carter's office.1 + (09/20/15) Archived Containment Procedures [INPUT LEVEL 2 CREDENTIALS] - (09/20/15) Archived Containment Procedures [INPUT LEVEL 2 CREDENTIALS] SCP-4021 is to be contained in a Size-12 Anomaly greenhouse with multiple growing beds for use by SCP-4021-2. SCP-4021-1 requires at least 7 hours of artificial or natural sunlight per day, and is to be misted daily with fresh distilled water for one hour. Personnel with Level-1 clearance or higher are permitted to interact with SCP-4021-2 and the crops they tend. Assorted fruit seeds are to be provided to SCP-4021-2 in order to keep instances content. Dr. Phid has been chosen as the Project Head of containment and research for SCP-4021. Any requests for changes to containment procedures must be submitted to the Project Head. On 05/03/15, propositions for revised containment including an expanded living space and more frequent surveillance have been suggested by Dr. Carter due to changes in SCP-4021's behavior. On 05/06/15, the proposition was denied by the Project Head for unnecessary changes. Description: SCP-4021 is the designation given to both SCP-4021-1, which is the incinerated remains of a mandarin orange tree, and SCP-4021-2, which were sentient humanoid fruits that were previously produced periodically by SCP-4021-1. + (09/20/15) Archived Description [INPUT LEVEL 2 CREDENTIALS] - (09/20/15) Archived Description [INPUT LEVEL 2 CREDENTIALS] SCP-4021-1 is a 7m tall mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata) tree. Instances of SCP-4021-2 religiously worship this tree, possibly considering it as a deity. SCP-4021-1 requires a large amount of [REDACTED] to continually produce SCP-4021-2 instances and remain healthy. Two young SCP-4021-2 instances growing on SCP-4021-1. SCP-4021-2 instances are gradually produced at a varying time frame from SCP-4021-1. SCP-4021-2 are sapient mandarin fruits with limbs that appear to be made of material analogous to non-anomalous plant stalk matter, with a series of interior organs that function similarly to those found in humans. SCP-4021-2 have been found to have a sense of sight, taste, and hearing; it is unknown if they have a sense of smell and touch. SCP-4021-2 are able to engage in communication through mouth-like structures. However, the language that SCP-4021-2 instances communicate in is unknown. SCP-4021-2 are docile in nature, and seem to enjoy conversation amongst other SCP-4021-2 instances. When SCP-4021-2 instances are not tending to their crops, they are typically seen conversing with each other or staring outside of the containment area for long periods of time.3 While there are 174 SCP-4021-2 instances in existence, SCP-4021-1 appears to cease producing fruit until an SCP-4021-2 instance has expired; it also requires for the remaining SCP-4021-2 instances to have completed their burial ritual, and that sufficient time has transpired for the buried instance to have completely decomposed, typically taking up to 7 weeks. When an instance of SCP-4021-2 expires, the other instances of SCP-4021-2 will pick up the dead specimen and bury it under SCP-4021-1. SCP-4021-2 "pray" daily at dawn, and during births of SCP-4021-2 instances in groups of 3-4. The frequency of these praying rituals has been observed to be gradually increasing over time, sometimes straying from SCP-4021-2's common praying routine patterns. Additionally, writing on the ground from SCP-4021-2 instances in what is presumed to be their language has been found multiple times following these rituals. SCP-4021-2 instances have shown a significant interest in gardening, often tending to fruit crops in their containment chamber. It should be noted that crops not classified as fruit were ignored by SCP-4021-2. The harvested crops have been tested by Foundation personnel and have shown no anomalous effects. When crops are ready to be harvested, SCP-4021-2 instances will allow personnel to take as many as they want, provided that the fruit taken is not part of the citrus genus. Addendum SCP-4021-01: A series of 6 tests with SCP-4021-2 instances was held. All of these tests were proposed by the Project Head to learn of their reactions to various objects and animals. + (04/16/15) Addendum SCP-4021-01 Test Log [INPUT LEVEL 2 CREDENTIALS] - (04/16/15) Addendum SCP-4021-01 Test Log [INPUT LEVEL 2 CREDENTIALS] Test # Specimen Results Test 1 One packet of commercially acquired bitter orange (Citrus aurantium) seeds. SCP-4021-2 planted the seeds and proceeded to carefully tend the crop. SCP-4021-2 instances were observed attempting to converse with the crop in the same mannerisms they show when conversing with other instances. Test 2 One live marsh rabbit. (Sylvilagus palustris) and one metal cage (empty) SCP-4021-2 instances attempted to capture the rabbit, taking around 30 minutes to contain it within the metal cage. SCP-4021-2 then returned to tending their crops and the rabbit was thereafter ignored before being taken out by research personnel. Test 3 One glass of commercially acquired orange juice. The SCP-4021-2 instances immediately began exhibiting signs of extreme distress at the sight of the juice. Following shortly after, the instances of SCP-4021-2 nearby proceeded to [REDACTED] Test 4 Two ladybird beetles. (Coccinella septempunctata) SCP-4021-2 instances proceeded exhibiting signs of pleasure when they first noticed the beetles in containment. They began to follow the beetles as they moved around their containment and analyzed their behaviors. Test 5 One leaf picked from SCP-4021-1. [REDACTED] Test 6 One decapitated instance of SCP-4021-2 [REDACTED] Addendum SCP-4021-02: Changes in behavior of SCP-4021 have resulted in the requirement to consistently archive any further behavioral variations. + (04/22/15) Addendum SCP-4021-02 Behavioral Notes [INPUT LEVEL 2 CREDENTIALS] - (04/22/15) Addendum SCP-4021-02 Behavioral Notes [INPUT LEVEL 2 CREDENTIALS] Behavioral note dated 04/22/15: Proportionally less conversation and overall activity has been observed between the SCP-4021-2 instances. It has also been noticed that SCP-4021-2 have not been tending to the crops within their containment chamber as often as usual. Behavioral note dated 05/03/15: The population of SCP-4021-2 instances has decreased to 13, despite sufficient time having elapsed for SCP-4021-1 to produce further offspring. Additionally, SCP-4021-2 instances have neglected their crops for several weeks, requiring personnel to maintain them instead. Behavioral note dated 05/28/15: SCP-4021-2 instances seem to be spending a significantly increased amount of time near the entrances to the containment area. Furthermore, SCP-4021-2 instances have begun taking on a more wilted appearance than previously noted. No signs of any disease found. Behavioral note dated 06/19/15: The population of SCP-4021-2 instances has again decreased to 9. SCP-4021-2 have been writing indecipherable symbols on a more common basis, often near any entrance. Behavioral note dated 09/20/15: Over the past few months following the previous note, the number of instances of SCP-4021-2 active at one time has gradually decreased until none have been produced at all for extended periods of time. On 09/20/15, SCP-4021-1 has died, its features consistent with decomposition. SCP-4021-1 has been incinerated, and SCP-4021 reclassified to Neutralized along with a revision of its documents. Addendum SCP-4021-03: On 08/17/15, the Project Head left a note on the document directed at the researchers assisting in containment of SCP-4021. + (08/17/15) Addendum SCP-4021-03 Note Archival [INPUT LEVEL 2 CREDENTIALS] - (08/17/15) Addendum SCP-4021-03 Note Archival [INPUT LEVEL 2 CREDENTIALS] Notice from Project Head Alan Phid: I've gone through this document and crossed off unimportant parts. In the future, please refrain from including unnecessary information as it makes the document less easily accessible. I've also received several questions as to what was removed from the document; everything that was removed was clutter, making it damn near unreadable. I will be taking no further questions regarding this matter. Addendum SCP-4021-04: Dr. Phid has been reported missing since 09/20/15. On 09/22/15, Foundation investigators recovered a hand-written note in his office. The note reads as follows: You are all so fucking stupid. Addendum SCP-4021-05: After an investigation on the SCP-4021 Project Head, "Alan Phid" was later found to be an alias he had adopted. Further efforts to gain insight into his background are ongoing. Addendum SCP-4021-06: On 09/23/15, seeds from remaining fruit of SCP-4021-1 have been extracted. Possible revival of this SCP is currently being researched. Footnotes 1. As per request from Dr. Carter. 2. 9m x 12m x 12m. 3. This was not occurring until SCP-4021 had spent 3 months in containment. 4. When initially contained, the maximum population of SCP-4021-2 instances alive at one time dropped from 73 to 17, as evident from photographs taken at SCP-4021's initial retrieval site. |
SCP-4022 | euclid | SCP-4022 Item #: SCP-4022 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4022 is contained in a standard humanoid containment chamber at Site-███. SCP-4022 is not to be permitted access to psychiatric care. Personnel are not permitted to discuss the mental state of SCP-4022, verbally or otherwise. Description: SCP-4022 is a 60-year-old Asian-American man, formerly known as ███ ████. SCP-4022 exhibits symptoms of severe dementia. Further information about SCP-4022 should not be provided to individuals without 4-4022 clearance. Recovery: SCP-4022 was recovered after an incident at ███ █████████ Hospital in ███ █████████, California, during which a doctor fell comatose after composing a psychological report about SCP-4022. Three more doctors fell comatose before Foundation operatives were able to intercept and recover SCP-4022. 4-4022 CLEARANCE REQUIRED --- INFOHAZARD WARNING Further information about SCP-4022 is restricted to personnel who have received the appropriate battery of memetic inoculations. There's a great big nothing in the middle of his head. By continuing to read this page, you are agreeing to submit to psychological screenings under the SAFEGUARD protocol. Any personnel reporting decreases in pattern recognition are to report to on-site counseling staff. There's a great big nothing in the middle of his head. Any description of the great big nothing in the middle of his head that does not refer to it exclusively as such is a Class III infohazard. When an individual is made aware of the great big nothing in the middle of his head by any means that does not use the acceptable designation, that individual becomes a host of the great big nothing in the middle of his head. Symptoms of the great big nothing in the middle of his head progress as follows. Stage 1: Affected subjects experience a marked decrease in pattern recognition. Stage 2: Affected subjects experience a marked decrease in ability to perceive patterns, even when they are not recognized as such. Ordered sequences of numbers, letters, shapes, or colors have been described as "blurry" and "translucent". These effects appear to be mitigated when the patterns are in motion, or when the patterns make reference to the great big nothing in the middle of his head. Stage 3: Affected subjects lose all ability to recognize, construct, or perceive patterns, including ones that make reference to the great big nothing in the middle of his head. Affected subjects lose the ability to speak coherently, read, and write. Motion is significantly inhibited. Stage 4: Affected subjects enter a comatose state before expiring shortly after. Neurological imaging of affected subjects reveals a great big nothing in the middle of his head. Images of the brains of all subjects, including SCP-4022, are considered Class III cognitohazards and are only to be handled by SAFEGUARD's on-site digital imaging software. It is theorized that the great big nothing in the middle of his head is a Class II antimemetic infohazard capable of residing within and consuming human consciousnesses. SCP-4022's resistance to its effects is thought to be caused by its dementia, which prevents it from forming coherent patterns of speech or thought. It is also theorized that referring to the great big nothing in the middle of his head as such prevents it from being understood by the speaker as a formally extant entity, thereby mitigating its cognitohazardous effects. The convention of referring to the great big nothing in the middle of his head as such has been standardized to prevent accidental contamination. Interview Report 4022-3 The following is a transcript of an interview conducted on ██/██/2013, approximately █ months after initial containment, in order to assess the viability of psychiatric care for SCP-4022. Dr. ████████ conducting, Dr. ██ supervising. Dr. ████████: Hello, SCP-4022. SCP-4022 is silent. Dr. ████████: We wanted to ask you a few questions about getting you some help. SCP-4022: Badcall. Oughtn't assistance. Dr. ████████: You don't want treatment? SCP-4022: Treatment ordermaker hungry greatbig. Dr. ████████: SCP-4022, please try to structure your sentences. SCP-4022: Structure food strongmake greatbig. Dr. ████████: Excuse me? SCP-4022: Unsense orderspeak greatbig starvation. Structure food strongmake greatbig. Fourwalls unsense. Fourwalls starvation. Dr. ████████: You're speaking like this deliberately? SCP-4022 nods its head. Dr. ████████: Would you be interested in receiving psychiatric treatment? SCP-4022: Treatment ordermaker. Orderspeak greatbig. Headache. Dr. ████████: Very well. We'll talk tomorrow. SCP-4022 nods its head. Interview Report 4022-6 The following is a transcript of an interview conducted on ██/██/2013 in order to determine more about SCP-4022's condition. Dr. ████████ conducting, Dr. ██ supervising. Dr. ████████: Could you tell us about the first time you noticed something was wrong? SCP-4022: Puzzlebuilder. Puzzlemath ordermaker, strongmake greatbig. Dr. ████████: You were a mathematician? SCP-4022: Can't mathmake no more. Ordermake strongmake greatbig. Can't ordermake no more. Had to— had to— SCP-4022 becomes visibly distressed. Dr. ████████: You had to… SCP-4022: Had to— had to order— had to stop— couldn't strongmake— Dr. ████████: Take a deep breath, SCP-4022. What did you have to stop doing? SCP-4022: Ordermake strongmake greatbig. Strongmake greatbig get out fourwalls. Dr. ████████: You had to stop thinking ordered thoughts. SCP-4022: Other— other greatbig ordermake weak. Greatbig deepsleep, greatbig deepdark. My— my— my ordermake strong. Mathmaker ordermake, puzzlemaker puzzlemath. My greatbig strong. Can't— can't— can't strongmake greatbig. Dr. ████████: You're— SCP-4022 taps its forehead. SCP-4022: Fourwalls. Greatbig starvation fourwalls. Greatbig strongmake, strongmake, strongmake, fourwalls— fourwalls— fourwalls collapse, greatbig— greatbig— can't— can't— SCP-4022 puts its head in its hands. Dr. ████████: I understand. Thank you, SCP-4022. SAFEGUARD Report 4022-40 Analysis of images: SAFEGUARD's on-site digital imaging software was deployed to analyze and interpret a brain scan of a person suffering from Stage 4 of the great big nothing in the middle of his head. Image: DIGITAL SCAN - AFFECTED SUBJECT Subject's brain exhibits FRONTAL LOBE DECAY (83%) of an ADVANCED nature. Subject's brain exhibits OCCIPITAL LOBE DECAY (67%) of an ADVANCED nature. Subject's brain exhibits TEMPORAL LOBE DECAY (70%) of an ADVANCED nature. Subject's brain exhibits a GREAT BIG NOTHING (NaN%) of an UNDEFINED nature. Subject's brain exhibits a GREAT BIG NOTHING (NaN%) between the FRONTAL and OCCIPITAL lobes. There's a GREAT BIG NOTHING in the MIDDLE of his HEAD. Analysis of SAFEGUARD's digital imaging software revealed across-the-board processing delays within SAFEGUARD's software. SAFEGUARD has been taken offline indefinitely and replaced with a backup. No further testing is scheduled at this time. . |
SCP-4023 | euclid | BY ORDER OF THE FOUNDATION HIGH COMMAND The following file is Level 5/4023 classified. Unauthorized access is forbidden. 4023 Item #: SCP-4023 Special Containment Procedures: [Pending] Description: Dr. Ike and his team are currently conducting an investigation into the nature of SCP-4023, which as of right now consists of multiple seemingly unrelated elements. SCP-4023 is a collection of anomalous objects, events and entities, which is currently undergoing an investigation from Dr. Ike. Documents related to this investigation are further described below. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-1 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-1 "Die" Item #: SCP-4023-1 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4023-1 is to be stored in a standard Safe-class-object locker at Site-19. Access to SCP-4023-1 is restricted to testing only. Description: SCP-4023-1 is a black 23-sided die. Numbers on each side of the die are written in white colour. Anomalous effects of SCP-4023-1 manifest when the object is thrown in a direction of a living human. If numbers from 1 to 13 are rolled, the subject will experience physical trauma. The lower the number thrown, the stronger these effects are.1 However if the number rolled is 14 or higher, the subject will experience positive effects, increase in strength or betterment of their physical condition. Addendum: Experiment Log 4023-1 Subject: Dr. ██████, female, 45 years old. Rolled number: 7 Result: Broken thumb on left hand. Note: Dr. ██████ was unaware of the object's properties at the time. Subject: Class-D, male, 31 years old. Rolled number: 19 Result: Subject's asthma was cured. Subject: Class-D, male, 34 years old. Rolled number: 2 Result: Immediate internal bleeding, subject terminated. Subject: Class-D, female, 23 years old. Rolled number: 23 Result: [DATA EXPUNGED] ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-2 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-2 "Album" Item #: SCP-4023-2 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4023-2 is to be stored at Site-91, in a standard Safe-class-object container and can only be accessed by personnel with Level 4 Security Clearance and higher. Object can only be accessed for testing purposes. Description: SCP-4023-2 is a musical album by an unknown artist titled "Judgement". Album consists of 23 tracks. Most of these tracks resemble white noise, scratching on wall or static. When played, each track has a different anomalous effect on the listener as detailed below. Addendum: Most notable tracks: Track Name Effect Track 01 "Traitor" Listening to this track for longer than 10 seconds will cause the listener to abruptly lose control over their body and proceed to assault any nearby beings they previously had friendly or acquaintance relationship with. Effect lasts indefinitely. Track 04 "Snake" Anyone listening to this track for longer than 1 minute becomes incapable of speech and instead starts making noises similar to hissing. Effect of Track 04 is a memetic virus. Affected individuals proceed to involuntarily infect others by hearing. Effect lasts indefinitely. Track 07 "Regret" Subject's listening to this track will find themselves lost in their thoughts, rethinking their past decisions. Track 07 has been shown to counter the effects of Track 01. Effects lasts two hours. Track 10 "Fake Heroes" Individuals who listen to this track will cut all ties with their friends and associates. They will often claim that they "have seen through their lies". Effect lasts indefinitely. Track 11 "Sins are not forgotten" Listening to this track causes affected individuals to suddenly remember every wrong done to them in their life. Effect lasts indefinitely. Track 13 "Betrayal" The effect of Track 13 seems to be similar to the one of Track 01 but more aggressive. Counter effect from Track 07 is not effective in countering the effect of Track 13. Effect lasts indefinitely. Track 14 "Redemption" If any individual affected by any other track apologizes during listening to Track 14, the negative effects will disappear. Only exception is effect from Track 13. Track 18 2nd of March 2023 "Return" It is currently impossible to play this track. The significance of the attached date is unknown. Track 19 "Released" Individuals affected become increasingly obsessive about a certain object, eventually stopping all of their activity except the activity regarding said object. Effect lasts indefinitely. Track 23 "Saviour" [DATA EXPUNGED] ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-3 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-3 "Tree" Item #: SCP-4023-3 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4023-3 is to be watered twice per day via overhead mister. Should the mister break for any reason, attendants should water SCP-4023-3 by hand until it has been fixed. Attendants watering SCP-4023-3 by hand and maintenance personnel fixing mister must be blindfolded before and are to perform this action completely blind as to not risk exposure to the cognitohazardous effects of SCP-4023-3. Description: SCP-4023-3 is for all uses and by all means an oak tree planted in an enclosed atrium at Foundation Site-11. Persons directly perceiving SCP-4023-3 are affected by a cognitohazard residing in the treetop. As of writing this document, 10 out of 23 branches of SCP-4023-3 are dead, with the remaining 13 alive and without any sign of damage. Addendum: Interview 4023-3 Interviewed: Class-D, exposed to SCP-4023-3 without a blindfold Interviewer: Dr. Ike Foreword: It was required during a routine maintenance that SCP-4023-3 be watered manually. Assigned Class-D individual took off his blindfold during this task and was exposed to the cognitohazardous effects of SCP-4023-3. <Begin Log> Dr. Ike: What did you see? D-32123: [Visibly confused] I have seen the end days. Dr. Ike: What exactly have you seen? Could you describe it? D-32123: Righteous flames of the dead branches setting the rest ablaze. Dr. Ike: What does that mean? D-32123: It will begin to set things wrong by making the right decisions. Dr. Ike: Could you describe what SCP-4023-3 looked like, when you saw it? D-32123: The remaining branches are afraid. Dr. Ike: Are you trying to say that SCP-4023-3 is in danger? D-32123: Is it? [Long pause] Good. Dr. Ike: Why is it good? D-32123: They deserve it. Dr. Ike: Who deserves it? D-32123: [No response, staring in front of himself] Dr. Ike: [EXPLETIVE REDACTED] <End Log> Closing Statement: D-32123 has been unresponsive for several more hours before being terminated, all on-site personnel have been reinformed about the cognitohazardous effects of SCP-4023-3. It has been concluded that the remaining branches of SCP-4023-3 represent [DATA EXPUNGED] Addendum: Further investigation into the nature of SCP-4023-3 has been discontinued by order of the O5 Council. FROM: Dr. Ike TO: Dr. Nakayama So far the investigation is inconclusive. I have no idea what to think about this other than it being a bunch of anomalies referencing number 23 for no obvious reason could you maybe get here and help me? Look I really hate to beg but you are an expert numerologist and we have known each other for a while. Please? What is it about? None of it makes sense, why is it even classified as one anomaly? Maybe because of the number? ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-4 [DATA EXPUNGED] Okay, the last one seems promising. But no one wanted to fill me in on details. Maybe they aren't important. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-5 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-5 "Steed" Item #: SCP-4023-5 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4023-5 currently resides in an enclosed pen near Site-0 and is to be provided with food, water, bedding, grooming, and veterinary care. Stables of SCP-4023-5 are to be cleaned daily. Description: SCP-4023-5 is a herd of 13 anomalous Equus ferus caballus2 of various breeds. Anomalous properties of SCP-4023-5 manifest, when anyone attempts to ride one of the instances, upon which every individual in the herd turns to face the rider and starts running towards him and do not stop until they reach their destination. When all 12 horses reach the location of the rider alongside the instance that is saddled, they all merge with it into one. In this form, SCP-4023-5 is capable of reaching speeds up to 200 kilometers per hour, is more resilient and capable of being commanded telepatically by its rider. In addition, rider is also capable of ordering SCP-4023-5 to split back into individual horses with each instance removed weakening the powers of SCP-4023-5. Addendum: On █/██/20██ an accidental exposure of multiple simultaneous riders has shown that when SCP-4023-5 merges into one while multiple individual instances are saddled, riders also merge into one being. This state has been described by all three persons involved as confusing. It would appear that SCP-4023-5 merges bodies of its riders into one but their minds remain separate and fighting for control. Exposure concluded after 9 minutes, when one of the riders managed to order SCP-4023-5 to split, which divided the riders back into their own bodies. Further study required. Addendum: As of ██/██/20██ all testing regarding SCP-4023-5 has been discontinued by order of the O5 Council. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-6 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-6 "Meme" WARNING: YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE EXPOSED TO A DANGEROUS MEMETIC AGENT READING THIS DOCUMENT RESULTS IN EXPOSURE TO A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS MEMETIC AGENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item #: SCP-4023-6 Special Containment Procedures: Self contained within this file. Description: SCP-4023-6 is a memetic hazard causing those who know about its effects symptoms to develop these symptoms in 23.3% of recorded cases. Individuals affected by SCP-4023-6 become increasingly obsessed with number 23 and by extension SCP-4023. This obsession goes through multiple stages described below. Immediately after exposure - Subject finds number 23 interesting Few hours after exposure - Subject starts noticing number 23 more frequently in prices, numerical orders, telephone numbers etc. Few days after exposure - Subject starts noticing their obsession but dismisses it as number 23 being more frequent than other numbers Week after exposure - Subject starts searching information about number 23, in case of Foundation personnel, begins to obsess about SCP-4023 and other SCP objects involving number 23 Two weeks after exposure - Subject starts forming possible explanations as to why they notice number 23 more often Three weeks after exposure - Subject starts noticing number 23 in places here no such number exists, start noticing numbers 32, 2, 3 and equations which equal 23, e.g. 13 + 10 = 23 Month after exposure - Most subjects claim they are being followed by number 23 and claim to encounter it everywhere in their surroundings. From this point onward, obsessions become stronger but do not change symptoms. What is so special about this one number? Why don't you ask the O5s? Oh, I am about to. This whole thing stinks, if I wasn't a part of it I would pass this job to someone else. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-7 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-7 "Keys" Item #: SCP-4023-7 Special Containment Procedures: All 9 parts of SCP-4023-7 are kept separately in secure lockers at Site-19, Site-91, Site-██ and Site-[REDACTED] Description: SCP-4023-7 is a set of 9 rusted steel keys of unknown making, which have been in the possession of Site-62 for at least one week two months 5 years an unknown period of time. At first it has been theorised that SCP-4023-7 is connected to on-site SCP-004, however this idea was rejected after the initial experiment in which all of the 9 keys from SCP-4023-7 failed to open SCP-004-1. No lock capable of being unlocked by any key from SCP-4023-7 has been discovered as of writing this document with the exception of [DATA EXPUNGED]. FURTHER INFORMATION IS RESTRICTED TO PERSONNEL WITH SECURITY CLEARANCE LEVEL 6 How did it go? I didn't get much, they had to comply with the investigation because the Skip is a mess and someone has to do something about it but they are just as secretive about it as always. So what did they tell you? I got some explanation on the keys but not much, one of them told me where to go looking next though. The rest didn't like it but I am heading to Site-[REDACTED] now. Oh no, not Site-[REDACTED] It's not funny, you know the computer redacts things, not me. Fair. Write me when you're done there. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-8 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-8 "Serpent" Item #: SCP-4023-8 Special Containment Procedures: Remains of SCP-4023-8 are to be stored in a low priority secure container at Site-[REDACTED] for further investigation into it's nature. Description: SCP-4023-8 was at some point in the past a vaguely reptilian creature of unknown origin presumed to be the [REDACTED]. SCP-4023-8 resembled a long serpent with thick scales similar to those of modern day crocodiles. Full length of SCP-4023-8 is speculated to have been around 11 metres, however the remaining skeleton after its neutralization is only 2,5 metres long. SCP-4023-8 was a Type Green reality bending anomaly, capable of small but hard to notice changes to surroundings of its prey. It would seemingly change its appearance, try to lure humans closer and devour them whole once they got close enough. However, this behaviour was observed only if the creature was hungry. SCP-4023-8 was a highly intelligent and manipulative creature capable of speech and would often interact in this way with personnel of Site-[REDACTED]. It was found that SCP-4023-8 found great pleasure in discussions with Foundation researchers and was very polite yet intrusive during interviews. Age of SCP-4023-8 is currently unknown, however it claimed to be older than humanity. Even though SCP-4023-8 was cooperative during interviews, it always tried to negotiate its release from Foundation custody or special privileges in exchange for knowledge it possessed. These exchanges were strictly forbidden by order of the O5 Council. Addendum: On ██/██/19██, SCP-4023-8 escaped from its cell at Site-[REDACTED] during a massive containment breach of multiple SCP objects. It was found later that this breach was caused by Agent █████ who claimed to have been persuaded to this action by SCP-4023-8. Addendum: 3 months after the containment breach at Site-[REDACTED], Foundation agents found the dead body of SCP-4023-8 approximately 23 kilometers from Site-[REDACTED]. Cause of death was multiple gunshots into the head and body of subject as well as [DATA EXPUNGED]. Intrusion by Global Occult Coalition confirmed. Addendum: Interview conducted with Foundation Dr.Alto Clef, formerly known as GOC Agent Ukulele, responsible for death of SCP-4023-8. Interviewed: Dr. Clef Interviewer: Dr. Ike Foreword: Interview conducted after it was found that Dr.Clef was responsible for death of SCP-4023-8 during his time as a Coalition Agent. <Begin Log> Dr. Ike: Could you please describe the events of the day when you killed SCP-4023-8? Dr.Clef: Sure can, but I can't remember everything and some parts are just blurry. You know what amnestics do to you… Dr. Ike: Yes, I understand. You may begin. Dr.Clef: Well, it was a cold day. I remember that. Me and my partner were sent into the woods, because one of the Foundation's pets escaped and we, the Coalition, had a chance to take it down before you would catch it. We knew it was a bixby but no one at the command told me it was a snake, hell maybe they didn't even know… So, we went into the woods and found it, like we were trained to do. We got lucky this time, it didn't see us. But than, something weird happened. I am used to reality bends just as I was back then and I am telling you, something else happened there. I don't remember the fight, next thing after we spot it… It was laying there, bleeding to death. And I don't blame amnestics for this one. Dr. Ike: Are you saying that it wasn't you who killed 4023-8? Dr.Clef: Look doctor, I know that I am not the most trustworthy person in this organisation but this story… That is the truth. We didn't fire a single bullet. Dr. Ike: But what about the gunshots on its body? Dr.Clef: Mine. My gun fired those bullets. But it wasn't me. From what I can tell, something else was there. Another reality bender and it made it look like we killed him. Why? I don't know, maybe because it didn't want the snake to speak. Dr. Ike: What makes you think that SCP-4023-8 was going to tell you something? Dr.Clef: Because it did. Dr. Ike: I am sorry, didn't you say it was dead when you arrived? Dr.Clef: No, I said it was bleeding to death. It was still alive. Dr. Ike: I see. And what exactly did it tell you? Dr.Clef: At first it wasn't moving. We thought it was dead so my partner went back to car, to report a mission success over the radio. I stood there, looking at the beast… It was then when it moved. It looked me straight in the eyes and started laughing. And than… Dr. Ike: Doctor? What happened? Dr.Clef: It told me everything. Every last secret it ever had… [Dr. Clef is quiet for a moment] I don't remember any of them anymore though, tough luck with this job. Dr. Ike: Alright then… One last question. Dr.Clef: Get on with it. Dr. Ike: Do you recall anything about number 23? Dr.Clef: [Dr.Clef stops for a moment] No. <End Log> Closing Statement: "I don't know what to make of it." - Dr. Ike So? I sent you the data. But I want your opinion. It didn't help anything, just made it more complicated. What now? I'll check more related items and inform you later, I even found another anomaly referencing the number 23. I have yet to see if it is related. Okay. Just make sure you keep me updated. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-9 [DATA EXPUNGED] ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-10 [DATA EXPUNGED] Hello? Yes Mary, what is it? You didn't respond to my last message. Sorry, I guess I was lost on thoughts. The Cult I was talking about in the last message actually helped. Looks like there is something connecting all of these things, something almost lovecraftian. Only thing that I don't understand is why 23? Hold on, do you actually think that the cultists worshiped some kind of eldritch monster with 23 eyes or something? No. But there is definitely something behind all of this. Even behind me. About that… ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-11 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-11 "Remnant" Item #: SCP-4023-11 Special Containment Procedures: All 9 instances of SCP-4023-11 are to be housed separately and are not to come into contact with each other unless necessary. Instances that can be reintegrated into Foundation society can do so after extensive psychological evaluation and reintegration program, if they desire to. Hostile or questionable instances must stay in their cells and will be further questioned about their nature. Description: SCP-4023-11 is a designation of 9 humans from alternative universes, which manifested in our universe through unknown means. These humans have nothing in common and appear to have been chosen randomly. Only thing that connects all of them is the fact that they have previous knowledge of the anomalous and died in their universe during an incident related to SCP-4023. All instances of SCP-4023-11 appeared at once on 9/9/1999 in an empty cell at Site-23. Everyone materialised unconscious and naked. On site security managed to separate all instances and fully analyze the situation before instances woke up. This happened at once approximately 23 hours later. Addendum: Most notable instances Name of Instance: Allied Occult Coalition Agent Charles Light Died as a result of an attempt to destroy KTE-4023/33. Current status: Kept at Site-17 as a member of on-site Security Personnel. Name of Instance: Leader of the Church of Gears Allison Chao Died to SCP-4023-18. Before her death and reappearance in our universe her body apparently possessed mechanical enhancements. Current status: Held in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site-17 for questioning due to her possible hostile intentions towards the Foundation. Name of Instance: Specialised Containment and Research Foundation researcher Dr. Tyler Ike Died during an outbreak of SCP-4023-8 at Site-91. Current status: Assigned to SCP-4023 as Head Researcher. Name of Instance: Special Containment Procedures Institute member O5-9 [DATA EXPUNGED] Current status: [DATA EXPUNGED] Yes, Mary? You never really talk about your world. How was it? I am still a Foundation researcher. Nothing is really that different. Is it not? I read the report. You died. All of us did. That was an integral part of the anomaly. But why did you appear here? Hey, I am the one supposed to be investigating this, remember? Wasn't there another thing though? Excuse me? In the cell with you. You told me once, remember? ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-12 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-12 "Minion" Item #: SCP-4023-12 Special Containment Procedures: All personnel working with SCP-4023-12 is to be reminded that SCP-4023-12 are on the same intelligence level as a wild animal and will not hesitate to attack. All instances of SCP-4023-12 are to be housed separately in secure containment cells without windows. Description: SCP-4023-12 is a human 1,5 metres tall with grey skin, no bodily hair, 23 blue human eyes and 23 fingers4. SCP-4023-12 does not possess any higher brain functions and attempts to attack any humans it sees. Every person who sees SCP-4023-12 is instantly affected by a cognitohazardous effect compelling them to get closer, however this effect can be overcome if the subject is concentrating, and especially if the subject knows about this effect. Upon contact with skin of SCP-4023-12 subject's body begins transforming into another instance of SCP-4023-12. As of writing this article, Foundation houses 9 instances of SCP-4023-12. Discovery: Original instance of SCP-4023-12 was found in the same containment cell as instances of SCP-4023-11, however it manifested exactly 23 minutes later and fully conscious. 6 members of on site security were converted to SCP-4023-12 before the situation was handled. Testing soon showed cognitohazardous effects and containment procedures were developed. Origin of SCP-4023-12 is still unknown but it is suggested that ███████ may be the point of its origin. I went to the O5s again. I was pointed to another anomaly but the Council seemed angry. They really don't like me digging into it. I even tried mentioning the painting. It cannot be a coincidence. They didn't like it. So where are you going next? I can help in person if you want, I only have one assignment right now and it can wait. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-13 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-13 "Painting" Item #: SCP-4023-13 Special Containment Procedures: Unnecessary. Description: SCP-4023-13 is a painting on a wall next to the doors into O5 Council meeting room at Site-01. This painting is a 3 dimensional view of a stellar system with a black hole in its centre and 22 planets orbiting it. 9 closest planets to the black hole are depicted as very tiny and completely dark as opposed to the other 13 planets which are big and colourful. Note: This is all I am allowed to state here. -Dr. Ike ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-14 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-14 "Loop" Item #: SCP-4023-14 Special Containment Procedures: Temporal Area-[REDACTED] has been built around SCP-4023-14 to cover it from public view as well as to provide a location for study of this anomaly. Description: SCP-4023-14 is an indefinitely repeating temporal anomaly contained on ground of Temporal Area-[REDACTED]. This anomaly consists of a 23 seconds long scene depicting a group of 9 figures entering a portal. Further description follows: 00 seconds: A portal of some sort manifests in the middle of designated area. 05 seconds: A group of 9 blurry figures enters the designated area on similarly blurry horses 10 seconds: Group seems to be arguing about something 14 seconds: Group agrees and returns to their horses 18 seconds: All figures in the area suddenly merge into one, including the horses and proceed to ride through the portal 23 seconds: Portal closes and immediately opens again the next second as the loop continues Hey, Ike! I was going through the files you sent me and suddenly someone knocked at the door and long story short, Dr. Mann is looking for you, said it's something about SCP-4023 and that he can tell only you. So yeah, I told him where to find you, hope you don't mind. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-15 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-15 "Tale" SCP-4023-15 is an O5's tale. Good morning, Doctor. Yes, me again. You would think that after all this time, we would both get used to this. I can see from your face that you are just as uncomfortable with this as I am. But chitchat is not why I am here. It has come to my attention and to the attention of the Council, that you have been dragged into the Investigation of 4023. Now, I know that you and I share a lot of secrets Everett, and we really should have expected you being dragged into it. But I never told you about 4023, all these secrets and I omitted this one. So let me tell you about number 23 and about its significance to the O5 Council. Yes we try to keep it a secret. Yes it was our mistake. As you already know from our previous conversations, we started this foundation slowly but surely, me and my men… My loyal 12. That wasn't always the case. We discovered that 13 didn't cut it for us. 13 was a bad number, unlucky, or at least some of us believed that. Plus our organisation grew bigger by the day and some of us thought that we might need a bigger council to control it. This was the first attempt at this. Before the Administrators, before Site Directors and even Alpha-1. Before all of that we had the O6 Council. They were supposed to be there as a support to us, taking care of the things we couldn't when there was too much work to do. In retrospective it was a horrible idea but back then it worked. Selected from people we trusted, people that were with us almost from the beginning, capable men and women. And for a while they did exactly what we expected them to do. In a sense, they helped us more at the time than we are able to admit. Without their help at the early days when we were still learning, we could have been unprepared when it came to the Insurgency many years later. Anyhow, it worked. Until the anomaly. Even back then there were many things we underestimated, you might remember some cases from my other stories. Well, we definitely underestimated number 23. It was a small anomaly, made you think the number was stalking you everywhere you go, nothing to stress about. You might get where this is going. It was passed to the O6s. I know I like to compare us today to us back then but we didn't know anything about memetic properties or cognitohazards. Turns out this was one. The entire O6 Council got infected with a meme and started obsessing over the anomaly. Over all of them. Everything with number 23 in it. That's how we discovered many things that are still in our possession today including parts of 4023 but I'll get to that. The poor people were relentless about it. Even tried to convince us about it. Mel kept telling me about this eldritch creature from another dimension that sends these anomalies here, that it is trying to get into our dimension using these numbers as anchors. It didn't exactly help that this was entirely possible in our lives. But we didn't see it that way. To us they all just started going crazy from overworking and coincidences. So our relationships started to stagnate. We let them do their jobs that they still performed excellently and they stopped trying to get us on board with their theories. We should have seen it. Now I know it is our fault but I cannot help myself but blame that reptile. It was around that time when we captured something bigger. The O6 had their number but we… We obsessed over a snake. It claimed to have many secrets and was willing to give them to us. How could we not try to find out? We tried but it never actually said anything worth noting. On the other hand, we told it everything. For a lot of us in the Council, he became a friend. No one noticed how manipulative it was. We would talk a lot and sometimes, our conversations would shift their focus. We complained to him about the O6s and we would do it often. I am very glad that thing is dead actually. Knew me better than I did myself. So for a long while we didn't have any problems with the O6 Council and we didn't care what they did as long as they did their job. Coincidentally they didn't do that anymore. And then they showed up on our meeting one day. Said they need help. At this point we were all angry at them for abandoning their intended purpose and they were angry at us because… Well, we didn't believe them. That evening was very unprofessional for all of us. Word exchange was fine even if vulgar at parts but the reason for cutting the meeting short was a fist fight that broke out. That was the breaking point. They begged us for help with their crazy crusade but we kicked them out of the room and out of our organisation. All that was left was the paperwork. Everyone who remained in that room settled on waiting until the next meeting. But as it turns out, they were right. Something about the number may have driven them crazy but it was also dangerous. That evening they took off from Site-Alpha on horseback and disappeared. This opened our eyes a little and we saw the snake for what it was. By the time of another meeting we already had our minds clear but it was too late. The O6 Council was gone. Disappeared from the surface of Earth. We all agreed that we should investigate their disappearance. We owed them at least that. And would you know it, the more we dug into it, the more number 23 appeared. We found their research and we were terrified. I cannot discuss everything but there were many anomalies and events that were corrupted by this curse. And it all led to a date. 2nd of March, 2023. I am afraid that we are approaching this date at light speed my friend and if the rest of their research is something to go by… Well, let's not worry about that. We have enough end of the world predictions as it is. Oh, the research? We hid it, destroyed it alongside all the evidence of the O6 ever existing, some of us feared that even the knowledge could be affected by the number. We still don't know what exactly it is. A curse? Bad luck? An alien being? Maybe all. I hope we don't have to find out. What? No, we never had 23 members. The O5 Council has and always had 13 and the O6 had 9. That is 22 and I am glad it stayed that way. Why am I telling you this? Everett, I told you many stories. Why this one? Well, the Council does not want anyone to know. Doctor Ike seems to be hitting a rock bottom with the investigation and you are the only person who can give him the information he needs. Don't worry about the Council. Yes? Let's just say that I am still regretting the decision we made all those years ago. Thanks Mary. Sorry it took me so long to respond, the things Everett told me… Well, I think I am starting to understand the whole thing and I don't like it. I am afraid that our collaboration on this project must end. This is too big. I can still inform you about the progress if you want. Crap. Well good luck with your lucky number, I guess I have the O5 council to thank for the gag order? No actually, this is my decision… ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-16 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-16 "Statue" Item #: SCP-4023-16 Special Containment Procedures: Currently stored in a secure container in Dr. Ike's office at Site-91. Description: SCP-4023-16 is a 23 centimetres tall golden statue of a past Administrator █████ ████████. Statue was apparently created in 19██ when the last Foundation Administrator resigned on the position. On the front of the statue is a dent in the shape of number 23. It was delivered to Dr. Ike by O5-█ after an unanimous decision by the O5 Council. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-17 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-17 "Portrait" Item #: SCP-4023-17 Special Containment Procedures: Currently stored in a secure container in Dr. Ike's office at Site-91. Description: SCP-4023-17 is a portrait of 22 members of the O5 Council and the O6 Council which was delivered to Dr. Ike by O5-█ after an unanimous decision by the O5 Council. Mary here, just wanted to know how is it going? Good? Bad? You don't have to tell me any details. You. I was just about to call you, the situation has changed. A lot. I'll be needing that help in person you promised. I think I figured out the situation but I can't explain anything until you get here. Is this a joke? No, the O5s are helping me with the thing now, they even sent me a bunch of related stuff. Please just come down to my office and we can talk. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-18 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED SCP-4023-18 "Entity" Item #: SCP-4023-18 Special Containment Procedures: There is currently no method of containing SCP-4023-18. All information regarding the development of containment procedures is restricted to Security Clearance Level 6/4023. Description: SCP-4023-18 is a presumed extra-dimensional entity seeking to enter our dimension on 2/3/2023. No information on appearance or motives of SCP-4023-18 exist and should some be found, they must be immediately passed to Dr. Ike. First evidence of SCP-4023-18's existence were recorded by a Foundation internal organ known as the O6 Council. The Council has performed extensive research regarding SCP-4023 and managed to discover a malicious entity in its core. The O6 Council tried to reason with their superiors at the Overseer Council about an immediate action regarding SCP-4023-18 but were denied. The O6 Council left Site-Alpha to investigate an anomaly which turned out to be a portal leading to another dimension. It is believed that SCP-4023-18 was creating anomalies related to number 23 in our world to gain strength and enter our dimension through this portal. The O6 Council made an unanimous decision to enter the portal and attempt to close it from the other side. Their attempt was successful and caused a local temporal anomaly blocking the entry. This anomaly is currently contained as SCP-4023-14. Fate of the members of the O6 Council is unknown but anomalies related to SCP-4023 found since this event are more personal in nature. Multiple related anomalies seem to reference the O5 Council, specifically blaming them for the fate of the O6. Due to this, it is believed that the O6 Council has joined with the entity. Addendum: Status of Investigation, SCP-4023 by Dr. Ike I have successfully managed to tie more than enough anomalies to our theories to confirm that SCP-4023-18 is indeed real. SCP-4023-1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 22 all seem to be either products or anomalies related to SCP-4023-18. SCP-4023-5, 8 and Document 4023-15 are related to SCP-4023's discovery. However, I was unable to find any connection between SCP-4023-18, SCP-4023-7 and SCP-4023-11. Myself. Dr. Nakayama, whose help I requested, was however able to notice another pattern of numbers in SCP-4023. Most dominant number in all parts of SCP-4023 is 23 but the second most dominant is 9. The O6 Council had 9 members, SCP-4023-11 has 9 instances, me included. SCP-4023-7 consists of 9 keys. The significance of this is as of yet unknown. Further information on devised containment procedures will be restricted to a higher level of clearance. - Dr. Ike I have to ask. What exactly do you think is going to happen? It says right there that we have no idea how to contain the thing. I talked to my team and we compiled all of the data. It is obvious. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-19 [DATA EXPUNGED] Are you going to tell me? Yeah, you should be getting the data now. We talked it through with the O5s and we agreed on Plan A. They didn't like Plan B but we managed to convince the majority. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-20 [DATA EXPUNGED] So? I am working on it, give me time. Contacting a former Administrator is not an easy task. ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-21 [DATA EXPUNGED] ACCESS DOCUMENT 4023-22 [DATA EXPUNGED] Are you sure it will work? We will have to wait and see. Thanks for all the help. ACCESS TO DOCUMENT 4023-23 IS RESTRICTED TO PERSONNEL WITH SECURITY LEVEL 6/4023 Does the black moon howl? No it doesn't, and we will take care of that. SCP-4023-23 "Machine" Item #: SCP-4023-23 Special Containment Procedures: As of writing this document, Project Thaumiel-40236 is not finished and is scheduled to be finished until 2/3/2023. Project command at Site-62 will be provided with all materials requested until the project is completed. All such requests have to be submitted to Dr. Ike or his team. Description: SCP-4023-23 will be upon its completion a machine capable of transporting up to 9 persons from separate alternate universes into our own on 9/9/1999 to create a temporal bootstrap paradox. SCP-4023-23 is designed to be operated using 9 steel keys inserted into the device at once by 9 individual operators designated O6-1 through 9. Using SCP-4023-23 to bring 9 individuals from alternate universes involved in operating as well as construction of SCP-4023-23 should cause a local bootstrap paradox which should be able to negate any local entries from other dimensions into our own. Location for this Project was chosen based on the first appearance of the 9 members further proving the effectiveness of this paradox. . . Is this it? Are you planning on creating a temporal paradox that will trap another portal once the thing arrives by bringing your past self into our universe??? It is a little more complicated than that but yes. You must be completely crazy! We have another plan… . . . . . . . . . . Final version of Document SCP-4023 Item #: SCP-4023 Special Containment Procedures: Access of SCP-4023 into our dimension is to be stopped by any means necessary. Multiple plans have been devised for this intention including Project Thaumiel-4023 (detailed in Document-4023-23) and Project Command Overseer-4023 (detailed in Addendum 4023-1). Description: SCP-4023 is a malicious entity trying to enter our dimension using anomalies and numerals. Intention of SCP-4023 after entering our dimension is to merge with the O5 Council and enter a state of completion in which the entity will consist of 23 connected parts. SCP-4023 currently consists of 10 components: itself and 9 members of the original O6 Council. Entity appears to be obsessed with numbers, specifically number 23. Addendum 4023-1: Project Command Overseer-4023 Thanks to already existing containment procedures for related anomalies to SCP-4023, specifically SCP-4023-10, Project Command Overseer-4023 has been devised. Hypothesis: If number 23 is the state of completion for SCP-4023, it will be unable to create further anomalies in our dimension after the number of existing anomalies reaches 23. Based on this, several false documents were created in the original document for SCP-4023, either describing a non anomalous object or were simply expunged. Hypothesis: If Foundation High Command consists of 23 members, it enters a state of completion and SCP-4023 will be unable to merge with the O5 Council. Based on this, the position of Administrator as well as the O6 Council have been reinstated in the Foundation High Command. Footnotes 1. Numbers below 3 are most likely to instantly terminate the subject. 2. Domesticated horses 3. Appears to be their universe's version of SCP-4023-3 4. 3 additional fingers can be found on subject's face, resembling small tentacles 5. Classification is based on current evidence and is a subject to change. 6. SCP-4023-23 |
SCP-4024 | keter | Item #: SCP-4024 Level 4/4024 Classified Temple containing focal point of SCP-4024. Special Containment Procedures: The area affected by SCP-4024 has been established as a No Entry Zone; its perimeter is monitored by a series of mobile outposts under the jurisdiction of Containment Area 43. These outposts are to move in accordance with the expansion of this perimeter. Personnel with Class C clearance and above are prohibited from making direct physical contact with SCP-4024. All personnel are to be reminded that voices and emotions experienced within the region are not real, and should be ignored. Approximate size of the SCP-4024 area indicated in blue. Focal point indicated in red. Description: SCP-4024 is a saltwater spring located in the Gobi desert and housed within a former Buddhist temple. When fully submerged within SCP-4024, objects and organisms undergo immediate displacement to an unknown location. Land in the immediate vicinity of SCP-4024 is characterised by severe desertification and the presence of dense fog. Despite its non-anomalous chemical composition, inhalation of the SCP-4024 generated fog causes minor emotional distress and auditory hallucinations in sentient organisms. The current radius of the area affected by SCP-4024 as of 2018.12.26 is approximately 98 kilometres, and is expanding at an indeterminable rate. As proximity to its central point increases, SCP-4024's anomalous effects also increase in magnitude. Addendum 4024.1: Test Series 4024-01 Testing of the anomalous spatial displacement properties of SCP-4024's focal point commenced on 2018.07.30 under the supervision of Containment Area 43’s Dr. Ganbaatar Tsakhia and Senior Researcher Jonathan Haliman. Significant test results are noted below: Object Status Notes One (1) Pentel brand automatic pencil containing two (2) sticks of 0.5 mm lead. Irretrievable. Object was spatially displaced to an unknown location upon moment of full submersion. One (1) UV/CKY-19 model autonomous underwater drone. Irretrievable. In addition to the spatial displacement of the physical object, all video and audio transmissions were also lost at the moment of full submersion. One (1) male domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus). Tortoiseshell coat. Right ear is torn. Irretrievable. Spatial displacement occurs in living subjects in addition to inanimate objects. Addendum 4024.2: SCP-4024-1 Instances On 2018.10.24, the presumed death of Senior Researcher Jonathan Haliman and subsequent post-mortem investigation led to the discovery that direct contact with the liquid contents of SCP-4024 results in recurring anomalous dreams, hereafter designated SCP-4024-1. Haliman allegedly began experiencing SCP-4024-1 instances after accidental direct physical contact with the SCP-4024 focal point during Testing Series 4024-01 on 2018.07.30, but negligently withheld this information from official Foundation documentation for personal gain. Extensive documentation of the SCP-4024-1 instances was discovered in Haliman’s personal research journal, with key findings excerpted below: 2018.08.03. Night after night of bizarre dreams. I can't seem to control my wandering. It's like my feet are moving on their own. I've lost track of the number of hours that I've spent wading directionless through this strange technicolor ocean, lost in the fog. The endless chatter of nonsense is so loud that I can barely hear myself think. The sensory overload makes my head hurt. Sometimes I see things that look like people, but they blink out of existence every time that they get too close to me, and they can't see me. I don't think they're sapient. I don't think they're even sentient. This is utterly fascinating: truly the opportunity of a lifetime. There’s an incredible breakthrough here, and I'm going to get there first. 2018.08.30. I’ve never been more excited in my life. It's incredible. The warrior in full battle regalia crossing blades with an invisible foe atop the Statue of Liberty. The hare that becomes a spider and scuttles across the bright red roof of a Ferarri, and then becomes a leering man and slings himself into the driver's seat. The pregnant woman who twirls barefoot through rice stalks and washing machines over the surface of the churning waters. She blows a kiss and it transforms into a white dove and flies away. It’s so obvious. They’re archetypes: the Hero, the Trickster, the Mother… what else could they be? I’m jumping to conclusions here but I know that I’m right. This is incredible. A dream come true. What academic mind wouldn’t be thrilled to find themselves here at the seat of human consciousness? Researcher Haliman was placed on indefinite medical leave on 2018.09.11 due to his erratic behaviour and rapidly declining mental health, at the time believed to be the result of his pre-existing depressive tendencies. On 2018.10.22, Researcher Haliman's application to return from medical leave was approved. His final recorded entry is excerpted below: 2018.10.21. Hello, kitty cat. You’re a sight for sore eyes. A trick that my subconscious is playing on me, or the irrefutable proof of my hypothesis? One male domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, with a tortoiseshell coat and a torn right ear. I watched you disappear beneath the salty water of that accursed spring and now here you are, swimming like a fish through the fog in my dreams. My lighthouse in the shape of a cat. I finally understand. It’s a gate. I know I’m right but I can’t be sure. It's a gate that’s been leaking all this time, dripping an endless stream of sorrow from our psyche into reality. What happens if I go through it? The curiosity is killing me. A chance to stand within the embodiment of imagination, of the human mind… I have to go through and see for myself. Could I truly call myself a scientist, if I didn't? This is my leap of faith. On 2018.10.24, Senior Researcher Jonathan Haliman entered the SCP-4024 zone without authorization and submerged himself within SCP-4024. A week's worth of food supplies were later discovered missing from Containment Area-43's storage. Researcher Haliman is considered irretrievable and presumed dead. Addendum 4024.3: Information Breach Potential During a routine psychological evaluation on 2018.12.17, Dr. Ganbaatar Tsakhia reported unusual dreams featuring the deceased Researcher Haliman. A subsequent investigation into the matter revealed that ███ Foundation-affiliated personnel worldwide had dreamed of a male matching Researcher Haliman's physical and personal characteristics between October and December 2018. On 2018.12.22, the short story Spy On The Wall (published in a Ukranian literary magazine on 2018.08.04 by Oleksandra Oliynyk) was brought to Foundation attention. The work described the precise Foundation-specific aquatic drone used in Testing Series 4024-01, including its name and a number of its internal functions. Oliynyk had no prior knowledge of the Foundation. The relevant section is excerpted below: Blackjack knelt tensely by the side of the dock, watching the remote operated undersea vehicle sink beneath the waves. The mob could be upon him at any moment, but he couldn’t stop now. The mission was too important. And the UV/CKY-19 was their only hope… Subsequent Foundation investigations additionally discovered ████ pieces of media worldwide featuring "Jonathan Haliman", all published either on or after 2018.10.24. These include a Chinese arthouse movie, a sculpture collection, and a series of British children's books. The following is excerpted from Stopping for A Spell (Hemlock Magician Book 4) by Whitney Blake, page 157: “Go now, my apprentice.” Wizard Haliman shuddered. The poisonous green crystals were rapidly encasing his torso, but his dark eyes shone fever-bright with triumph. “You must be my voice. Run as fast as your legs can carry you. You must deliver my message to—“ “But what about you?” cried Elsabeth. “I can’t just leave you here!” “It does not matter,” croaked the old wizard. “Our mission is more important. You must find Sullivan Cornelius Pendragon of the Forty Third Chamber, and you must tell him…” Haliman broke off with a wheeze. At his feet, his familiar mewled sadly. The tortoiseshell tomcat pawed desperately at its master’s crystalline prison, but it could not slow down the relentless encroach of the dark elves’ terrible curse. “Tell him what?” Elsabeth wiped desperately at her face, trying to hold back her tears. “Tell him what we discovered,” Haliman wheezed. “Tell him about the Gate, and the way that we crossed through to another realm. Tell him that I was right all along. Swear it, Elsabeth!” “I swear,” whispered Elsabeth, but it was too late. The crystals had reached Haliman’s face, and he was lost to the world. As of 2018.12.26, all items used in submersion testing with SCP-4024 must be submitted for approval by the Director of Containment Area 43, due to the potential for further information security breaches. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4024" by keyii and Anonymous, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4024. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. 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SCP-4025 | safe | Item #: SCP-4025 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4025 is currently kept in a top secret containment facility in Bonn, Germany. As per the 1949 National Socialist Anomalies Regulation Agreement between the Foundation and the Federal Republic of Germany, containment and research efforts are managed by the Foundation with German oversight. All historical literature affected by SCP-4025-A must be transcribed, with said transcriptions available to federal authorities for review after being screened by the current head researcher. Description: SCP-4025 is the Blutfahne ("Blood Flag"), a National Socialist swastika flag originally used by the Nazi Party during the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, becoming stained with the blood of a deceased Sturmabteilung (SA)1 member in the process. After Hitler's rise to power in January 1933, SCP-4025 became a highly revered symbol of Nazi Germany, and was often used in Party ceremonies to "consecrate" new flags. Following the defeat and surrender of Germany in 1945, SCP-4025 fell into civilian hands before being acquired by the Foundation via Marshall, Carter & Dark in 1947. SCP-4025's anomalous properties manifest when it makes contact with any item which contains a physical nonfictional narrative relating to the history of Germany, Eastern Europe, or Russia2. Upon contact, the narrative (hereafter SCP-4025-A) will be transformed in such a way that it describes an alternate reality. While the realities described in each SCP-4025-A instance are not consistent with one another, the following commonalities are found in all instances: The history of the described world remains identical to ours until a Point of Divergence (PoD) taking place no earlier than January 1933 and no later than May 1942. Nazi Germany (usually referred to in SCP-4025-A by its official name, the Greater German Reich) successfully conquers most of the European continent at some point in the 1930s or 1940s by defeating the Soviet Union. The United Kingdom and the United States remain unconquered. Generalplan Ost, the postwar colonization and mass extermination plan developed for Eastern Europe by the Nazis, is partially or completely implemented. Nazi rule over the European continent collapses no later than 1980, leading to widespread turmoil and destruction. Examples of Media Produced by SCP-4025 Original Media: Poland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (by Greg Allen: Kuperard, 2015) Resulting SCP-4025-A Instance: Our Father, Who Art in Gdańsk: An Examination of the Polish Psyche (by Arthur Brand: Alliance Publishing, 2002) Media Description: After briefly describing the reconstruction of the Polish state following the General Government's liberation from Nazi rule in 1957, the author puts forward the thesis that Polish nationalism resembles a secular religion more than a traditional cultural identity, as evidenced by the fusion of Roman Catholic worship with "an almost prophet-like reverence" for modern Poland's founders (especially the Polish Government-In-Exile) and national heroes. Author divides the "Polish psyche" into three defining characteristics: Loss, Reconstruction, and Vengeance. "Loss" comes from 85% of the Polish population being exterminated by the Nazis during and after World War II, in addition to all Polish cities save Gdańsk being systematically destroyed by enslaved Polish laborers during the General Government period. The author points to "Warsaw, City of Memory" being the most popular Polish ballad as evidence to support the "Loss" phenomenon. "Reconstruction" comes from attempts to preserve and revive Polish culture since the founding of the Third Polish Republic in 1959, with special attention paid to Gdańsk. Referred to by the author as the "Polish Jerusalem", the first half of the fifth chapter is devoted entirely to describing the various national ceremonies, holidays, and cultural revival events centered around the city. The second half discusses the "Gdańsk Contradiction" present in the Polish psyche: namely, the knowledge that "Danzig" was only spared from Nazi destruction due to its association with Prussia. Poles must therefore reconcile the mixed German/Polish heritage of the city with the fact that it is the only remaining area in the country with any pre-20th century Polish architecture intact. Lastly, "Vengeance" is explored through an analysis of the "burning, unkempt hatred" most Poles have for the German successor states and their people. The author spends the seventh chapter documenting the various "questionable acts" the Polish military has committed in the Permanent Occupation Zone of Prussia, and the eighth chapter to the "boogeyman" role that Germans occupy in Polish culture. Pointing out that international criticism of Polish actions in Prussia has been virtually nil, the book ambiguously concludes that Poland has a history-based "blank check" to behave in any manner it wishes towards Germany due to the universal association of the latter with Nazism up to the present day. Original Media: Under Fate's Wing: A Refugee Girl's Flight to Freedom in the Shadows of World War II (by Hillevi Ruumet: Syncronea Pulbications, 2015) Resulting SCP-4025-A Instance: We Are Not Germans: My Life in Reichskommissariat Ostland 1941-1956 (by Lisandra Saar: Institute of German Historical Studies, 1970) Media Description: An autobiography of an Estonian woman living in the Nazi-occupied Baltics (referred to as Reichskommissariat Ostland by the Greater German Reich), starting with the first German soldiers arriving in her hometown of Tartu in mid-1941 when she was thirteen and ending with the liberation of the territory by the Allies fifteen years later. After first greeting the Germans as saviors from Soviet oppression, she recalls her "heart gradually sinking" as Nazi plans for her country become apparent. An especially traumatic event which is referenced several times is the closure of her local school and the public execution of the entire teaching faculty. The title of the book refers to attempts to "Aryanize" Estonians not selected for extermination: Estonian-language literature was banned and publicly burned in a manner similar to the "book burnings" taking place during the early years of Nazi rule, and the only education she received after the occupation was lessons in German (which she was expected to demonstrate fluency in within two years). After speaking Estonian in public became gradually restricted and then almost entirely banned, the author founded an underground resistance group dedicated to teaching young children the language in order to prevent its gradual extinction. Two main motifs are present throughout the book: the author's missing sister, and the act of flipping a coin (referencing the genocide of 54% of native Estonians as part of Nazi population reduction goals). Her sister was deemed "Aryan" due to her blue eyes and blond hair and was forcibly taken from her parents (who later died during the deconstruction of Tallinn) at the age of five and assigned to a family in Breslau to be raised as an "honorary German". The fifth chapter is devoted to her thoughts on the concept of luck as it relates to her and her sister: a recurring dream she had throughout the occupation involved her sister having swapped hair and eye color with her, and the dream always ended with her being put on a train headed west. The final chapter and epilogue describe the Allied occupation of the country following the end of the Long War. Recalling that her feelings towards her liberators were "mixed at best", she recounts screaming at an American GI that he "came too late" and harshly lashing out at him when he attempted to comfort her. Last section of the book describes the war crimes trial of the Reich Minister for the East, and the author notes with sadness that "the occupation will always be burned into my brain, for I cried when I saw the architect of my misery on the television - not just because of what he had done, but because he was speaking German and I could still understand every word." Original Media: The Great War 1914-1918 (by Marx Ferro tr. Nicole Stone: Routledge Classics, 2002) Resulting SCP-4025-A Instance: Prelude: A History of the First World War (by Nancy Lu: Cambridge University Press, 1999) Media Description: Content describing the events of the First World War are nearly identical to the non-anomalous addition, with some minor deviations in style and wording. However, chapters devoted to analyzing the causes of the First World War are altered in such a way that the rise of the German state is seen as the sole factor which lead to the both World Wars, with one passage describing the Treaty of Versailles as "tragically lenient." The author strongly advocates against German reunification and implies that the majority of both academia and the general public share her view on the subject. Original Media: The Holocaust: A New History (by Lawrence Rees: PublicAffairs, 2017) Resulting SCP-4025-A Instance: Generalplan Ost: The Eradication of Eastern Europe (by Susan Smith: Memorial Publishing, 1990) Media Description: Book is a detailed account of the colonization and destruction of Eastern Europe, with special attention paid to Poland and the former Soviet Union. First two chapters of the book mainly consist of "before and after" photographs of Warsaw, Minsk, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and other Eastern European cities which were demolished on the direct orders of Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders, alongside author commentary. One photograph, which is described as world-famous, depicts a Russian man putting a sledgehammer to the Church of All Saints in Moscow under SS gunpoint with tears in his eyes. Middle section of the book is devoted to documenting the depopulation of Eastern Europe via "extermination through labor" and its colonization by German settlers. Author describes how all ethnic groups not considered "Aryan" by the Nazis were enslaved and deliberately worked to death on starvation rations, with a certain percentage of the population (15% in Poland, 33% in Ukraine, etc) kept alive to work as serfs on homestead farms established by the Reich on behalf of the settlers. The extermination of the Jews, Latgalians3, and Roma is noted as an exception to the policy, as all were sent to concentration camps and killed without being subject to normal "population thinning" measures. Final section of the book examines the fate of Eastern Europe since the collapse of the Greater German Reich in 1971. While countries with boundaries similar to those that existed in 1939 were re-established, much of the former Eastern Reich is said to be "still a depopulated wasteland, filled with the empty villages and dead farms of those deemed 'subhuman' while the glorious Slavic cities of old can only be recalled in monochromatic photographs." With demographic estimates concluding that it could take up to a century or longer for the populations of these countries to reach their pre-Nazi levels, the author concludes that the damage done by the Reich will never fully be repaired. Original Media: The Diary of Anne Frank (by Anne Frank ed. Otto Frank: Contact Publishing, 1947) Resulting SCP-4025-A Instance: Blank book. Media Description: Firsthand accounts of Holocaust victims are erased by SCP-4025. Additionally, no recorded SCP-4025-A instances make reference to primary sources on the Holocaust, even when directly acknowledging that it occurred and describing it in detail. Our Father, Who Art in Gdańsk contains a brief reference to "the difficulty of hearing the voices of Nazi victims when all were silenced (and their memories erased) before the truth was known to the world." Footnotes 1. The original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party and predecessor of the more famous Schutzstaffel (SS). Eliminated during the "Night of the Long Knives" purge in June-July 1934. 2. Digital media is not affected by SCP-4025. 3. An ethnic minority native to Latvia. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4025" by ObserverSeptember, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4025. 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SCP-4026 | neutralized | close Info X ⚠️ Content warning: This work of fiction involves scenes which depict or allude to topics which may be particularly distressing for some readers. Suicide ⚠️ content warning Item #: SCP-4026 Special Containment Procedures: No containment procedures are necessary at this time. Description: SCP-4026 is a phenomenon affecting an estimated 100 meter stretch of land of the Beachy Head chalk headland in East Sussex, England. In order to activate an SCP-4026 event, a single subject must approach an affected area with suicidal intent. Upon coming within 5 meters of the cliff's edge, SCP-4026-1 will manifest and engage the subject. SCP-4026-1 resembles a humanoid of indeterminate age and sex, which possesses minor cognitohazardous properties. Attempts to capture or describe any aspect of SCP-4026-1 (aside from its voice) have thus far resulted in failure. Survivors of SCP-4026 events claim to have no memory of interacting with SCP-4026-1, but are able to recall being dissuaded from ending their lives via unexplained means, typically citing an overabundance of negative emotion and disgust at their actions. SCP-4026-1 will demanifest when its target is no longer within 5 meters of it. 93% of recorded SCP-4026 events result in the activating subject's survival. Addendum 4026.01: On 07/07/2019, one Elliot Schneider (Male, Age 32) approached a hidden SCP-4026 observation area and triggered the anomaly. Notably, this was the first instance in which an SCP-4026 event lasted longer than five minutes. Below is a transcribed log of Schneider's interaction with SCP-4026-1. <BEGIN LOG> SCP-4026-1: Lovely view, isn't it? Schneider: Bloody hell, where did you come from? SCP-4026-1: I'm always round these parts. It's good fun, it is. Schneider: Yeah right. SCP-4026-1: You thinking of jumping? That's why most people come here, you know. Schneider: So what, are you out here playing guardian angel? I appreciate the gesture but really, I uh, I'd rather not get into it. Just please leave. SCP-4026-1: Oh no, I'd rather stay. Have a chit-chat. What do you say? Schneider: No. Why do you care so much? SCP-4026-1: Don't worry about it. You married? Schneider: No, not since last February. SCP-4026-1: Any kids? Did she take them? Schneider: Yeah, full custody. Took the dog, too. SCP-4026-1: Wow. Even the dog. Sounds like she really did a number on you. Schneider: Jesus mate. Are you trying to get me to fucking jump? SCP-4026-1: Why, yes. It's why I'm here. Schneider: Holy shit. SCP-4026-1: It's quite a lovely show, and it's a shame no one else is around to see it. Schneider: … this is how you get your kicks, you sick fuck? SCP-4026-1: Are you planning on putting on a show or not? [There is a silence for thirty seconds. Schneider's breathing becomes labored before vocalizing in frustration.] SCP-4026-1: Well? Schneider: I made up my mind. SCP-4026-1: Oh? Will you do it? Schneider: Only if you answer a question for me first. SCP-4026-1: I typically would refuse, but… you look promising. Go for it. Schneider: Why do you like watching people jump off? SCP-4026-1: No reason. It beats doing nothing. Schneider: Really? You just like watching people jump off these cliffs? Simple as that? SCP-4026-1: Were you expecting some great, complicated answer? It really doesn't get any more complicated than that. Now go on then, I've waited long enough. Schneider: Fuck you. SCP-4026-1: Yes, yes fuck me and all that now g- [There are sounds of a scuffle between the two for fifteen seconds until only Schneider's labored breathing is audible. SCP-4026-1 screams.] [There is a distant thud followed by silence, interrupted only by Schneider's breathing.] Schneider: … shit… shit! The police are going to fuckin' kill me! <END LOG> Foundation agents moved in to seize Schneider and search for SCP-4026-1. Despite the sound of an object impacting against the beach under the cliffside and Schneider's insinuations, no remains were found. No further SCP-4026 events have occurred since and is considered Neutralized. Following these events, Schneider was assigned a psychiatrist and therapist in London after standard relocation amnestic treatment. More From This Author More From This Author Uncle Nicolini's Works SCPs SCP-2910-JP • SCP-5726 • SCP-ES-113 • SCP-8911 • SCP-3867 • SCP-5057 • SCP-4056 • SCP-654 • SCP-3879 • SCP-057-INT • SCP-8400 • SCP-8984 • SCP-MYSTERY-J • SCP-6467 • SCP-5047 • Tales/GoI Formats Project Proposal 2014-1221: "Finally Waking Up" • The Hermit, Death, and The Devil • Two Minutes To Midnight • UN's Proposal... Maybe. • An Epitaph For SCP-173 • Merry Christmas, Jude Kriyot • The Remains Of The Day • Reality TV, Designer Pets, and Fine Dining • Ace Of Hearts • Adoption Poster: Darius! • Shape Shift With Me • Manhattan Dimensional Collapse; GOC Intervention Imminent? • Dr. Cimmerian Hits Reply All • Gluttony Is Impossible • Fanfa • Other Ode To The Unknown Author • uncle nicolini author page • Sciptember 2022 Art Highlights • ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4026" by Uncle Nicolini, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4026. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4027 | euclid | close Info X SCP-4027: Anomalous Dissociative Identity Author: $sc(rn)p$ (More from this author.) Item #: SCP-4027 Special Containment Procedures: Periodic interruptions in SCP-4027's containment are an expected component of the anomaly's nature. Once confirmed, SCP-4027 is to be contained in a modified humanoid containment chamber at the nearest Foundation site. When SCP-4027 is uncontained, reports of partial corpses are to be investigated and cases with avian activity prioritized. Foundation zoologists are to be consulted to determine the most likely site of future activity. Description: SCP-4027 is a dissociative personality that presents across individuals (termed "instances") as an elderly, English-speaking male. SCP-4027 can be identified by a sudden change in vocal and behavioral idiosyncrasies, self-admittance, and its canonical rapport with Foundation personnel.1 This personality may be elicited from instances by applying persuasive psychological techniques, sufficient psychological duress, or pharmacological agents known to produce fugue states.2 Instances are not aware of SCP-4027's underlying presence and do not recall episodes of SCP-4027's emergence. They frequent graveyards and/or burial sites and have been sighted near locations where cadavers (termed "victims") are found half-consumed.3 At the time of writing, the remainders of all victims have never been recovered. Evidence left at sites suspected of SCP-4027 activity do not suggest human involvement, instead implying avian participation.4 The presence of said evidence is not indicated from visualization of the gravesites by the unaided eye; superficially, the graves of victims are undisturbed. Law enforcement is therefore ill-equipped to indict an offender, and the Foundation was consulted by Agents Drumel and Cyllus of the UIU for additional support in apprehending a suspect. Foundation zoologists recognized that the pattern of suspected SCP-4027 activity coincided with known migratory routes of indigenous vulture populations. This observation remains a reliable tool for SCP-4027 identification, recapture, and re-containment. Supplemental Documentation [ Enter Credentials ] [ Credentials Accepted ] s92#c1p94c!r2np Footnotes 1. SCP-4027 recalls its interactions with the Foundation continuously across evocations and instances. 2. Trials have shown that SCP-4027 is more expository when such compounds are administered in appropriate doses. If the recommended dose is exceeded, the personality limits itself to staring and producing vocalizations described as guttural hissing and whistling. 3. Forensics suggests that remnant soft tissues including the skin, organs, and eyes are prioritized in this process. 4. Indications include feathers, tracks, excrement, and various markings upon and within victims' exhumed coffins. Analysis suggests no anomalous properties. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4027" by ghosthorses, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4027. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4028 | euclid | close Info X SCP-4028: La Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha Author: The Great Hippo Images: Link, Link, and Link. Inspired, of course, by Don Quixote. Music: Man of La Mancha (Colm Wilkinson) Next: [SCP-3546]: Doggone It, I Fold! More by The Great Hippo: SCPs – hide block SCPs [SCP-3034] The Counting Station DO NOT LET HER FINISH [SCP-3035] Science Bugs case_of_the_mondays.png, case_of_the_mondays (1).png [SCP-3054] Cragstaff Sanitarium You are sick. You are broken. We will fix you. [SCP-3045] bzzip.exe HAMLET: I am no longer moody. [SCP-3043] Murphy Law in… Type 3043 — FOR MURDER! Forget it, Fred. It's Chinatown. [SCP-3057] Fossil Fuels …witnesses provided confirmation that instances of SCP-3057-4 did, in fact, have feathers. [SCP-2639] Video Game Violence i need to know how many people i've killed [SCP-437] Summer of '91 That was a pretty crazy summer, y'know? Sometimes I really miss that place. [SCP-3079] 300 Tricks: Stage Magic Made Easy NOTE: No method for accomplishing this trick is provided. [SCP-2753] Let's Play Jenga! High art carries high risk! [SCP-2679] The Many Graves of Jeannette Parslov Whatever it takes, do what you must; whatever the cost, come back to us. [SCP-3074] Kafka's Parking Garage Thank you for choosing Izatova Parking Center. Have a pleasant day. [SCP-2571] Cragglewood Park Mr. Blair, have you always been an only child? [SCP-2419] The Laughing Men Throw them back into the incinerator where you found them. [SCP-3143] Murphy Law in… The Foundation Always Rings Twice! When it comes right down to it, me — them — hell, even you — we're all just characters in that trashy dime-store novel called life. [SCP-3089] That Old Time Religion Remember how we explained that successful people don't actually need any of their toes to walk? Well, that's going to come in handy for Secret Number Six. [SCP-3117] A Monster-Shaped Hole I'm not talking to you. [SCP-3128] Let's Play Monopoly! Hey, guys? I'm, uh. I'm using this. [SCP-3138] A Sepulcher by the Sea Should it prove feasible, all non-canonical corpses are to be extracted, examined, and catalogued. [SCP-3241] The SS Sommerfeld It makes me wonder what an old monster like myself is even doing here, anymore. And then? Someone special comes along and reminds me. [SCP-3219] This Sour Earth Notably, no reports describe any attempt to examine the residence's storm cellar. [SCP-4028] La Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha Justine eventually re-unites with her sister, Juliette. Alonso strikes down a lightning bolt intended for them both, then challenges the narrator to a duel. [SCP-3546] Doggone it, I Fold! Specifically, fan-art of Sonic the Hedgehog, a video-game character produced by Sega in 1991. [SCP-3561] An Unfinished Work Despite multiple reports from neighbors who claimed to have witnessed members of his family standing at the windows, no trace of Theodore Holdstock's wife and children could be found. [SCP-4054] The Seventh Door SCP-4054 is The Seventh Door, an unlicensed platform adventure game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. NOTE: YOU ARE VIEWING AN ARCHIVED ITERATION OF THIS FILE. This file is a previous iteration of an active document. It has been locked and archived. Any information contained within may be inaccurate or fail to reflect the most recently available data. Please contact this anomaly's current Containment Director ([email protected]) or email your IntSCPFN server administrator for more details. — Pierre Menard, Director of Pataphysics Item #: SCP-4028 Level 4/4028 Classified Fig 1.1: A depiction of SCP-4028 (from the cover of a 1827 British edition of Don Quixote). Special Containment Procedures: The development of effective containment procedures for SCP-4028 is ongoing. Meanwhile, personnel are to focus on the expungement of all canonical deviations in fiction caused by SCP-4028. To accomplish this, the following measures are in place: A Foundation-operated bot (I/O-ISMETA) is to monitor academic journals focused on Western literature and flag articles discussing texts deviating from canons for review. A Foundation-operated bot (I/O-MANDELA) is to monitor online fiction communities and flag discussions regarding texts deviating from canons for review. Texts which deviate from established literary canons are to be reviewed by MTF Rho-1 ("The Professors") to determine whether or not these deviations constitute evidence of alterations by SCP-4028. When an altered text is identified, a joint operation conducted by MTF Rho-1 ("The Professors"), MTF Mu-4 ("Debuggers"), and MTF Gamma-5 ("Red Herrings") is to expunge all knowledge (digital, physical, and anecdotal) of these texts from public records. When feasible, altered texts are to be restored to their unaltered state. Otherwise, these texts are to be destroyed. Description: SCP-4028 is Alonso Quixano, the protagonist of Miguel de Cervantes' 17th century Spanish novel, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha, or Don Quixote). In Don Quixote, Alonso Quixano is a Spanish noble (or hidalgo) who goes mad from reading chivalric romances. He proclaims himself a knight-errant and takes the name Don Quixote de la Mancha, recruiting a simple farmer (Sancho Panza) to act as his loyal squire. Don Quixote was published by Cervantes in two parts (the first in 1605, and the second in 1615); it is widely considered to be one of the most influential works in Western literature. SCP-4028 is a sapient metafictional construct capable of inhabiting and altering fictional texts narratively adjacent to the one it occupies. Adjacency is determined via characters or settings shared between texts. SCP-4028 alters stories it enters to more closely fit its ideals of knightly conduct. This includes defending those it perceives as helpless, striking down those it perceives as wicked, and extolling the virtues of romantic chivalry. Addendum 4028.1: Examples of Altered Texts ORIGINAL TEXT ALTERATIONS A 1845 copy of the New York Tribune containing the poem, The Raven. After the seventh refrain, Alonso Quixano arrives on horseback and strikes the raven down with an axe. The remainder of the poem is a debate between the narrator and Alonso regarding who is lovelier: the narrator's lost Lenore, or Alonso's beloved Dulcinea. It concludes with a fist-fight.1 An 1847 English edition of A Christmas Carol. After Ebeneezer Scrooge arrives at the churchyard, Alonso Quixano charges the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come on horseback, striking it down. Alonso then carries Ebeneezer home atop an exhausted Rocinante.2 The story continues as before, with Ebeneezer awakening in his bed as a changed man. An additional paragraph at the end mentions the world's gratitude to the mysterious knight who 'slew Death itself'. An 1876 English edition of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (or Fanny Hill). Fanny writes to 'Madame' about the mysterious knight who arrived on horseback and struck down a brothel moments before it lured her into its doors. The stranger then gave her a sack of gold acquired from "a miserly fellow who had no more need of it". She used this money to establish an orphanage and school for poor and vulnerable children such as herself. The remainder of the book consists of Fanny explaining the pleasures and meaning behind various types of flower arrangements (complete with illustrations). An 1881 French edition of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue. As the story begins, Alonso Quixano joins the twelve year old Justine; he accompanies her until the novel's end. All encounters which previously resulted in Justine's torture, assault, and/or rape are now resolved by Alonso preemptively striking down the responsible parties as soon as they appear. Justine eventually re-unites with her sister, Juliette. Alonso strikes down a lightning bolt intended for them both, then challenges the narrator to a duel. The story hastily concludes with both sisters receiving a large inheritance and living happily ever after. A 1956 English edition of The Fellowship of the Ring. Alonso Quixano appears at the Council of Elrond, where he suggests a joust to determine who should carry the ring. After this idea is dismissed by Gandalf, Alonso states that he will "finish this fool errand myself, then". He takes the ring and rides to Mordor, striking down all evil-doers he encounters along the way. Once there, he returns the ring to Sauron ("as it is your property, and therefore yours by right") and challenges him to a duel. Sauron accepts, and is immediately struck down. A 1982 English edition of The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. Immediately after the opening line ('The man in Black fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed'), Alonso appears on horseback. He overtakes Walter (the man in Black), incapacitates him with a blow from his sword, then drags him back to Roland (the Gunslinger). Once Walter awakens, he is forced to duel Roland honorably (under Alonso's watchful eye). Roland strikes Walter down. The remainder of the novel consists of vignettes wherein Alonso instructs Roland on how to be a virtuous knight, including taking Jake on as his squire and fighting evil throughout the wastes. A 1997 English edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. When Rubeus Hagrid arrives to tell Harry that he has been accepted into Hogwarts, Alonso arrives on horseback and strikes the half-giant down. Alonso then explains to Harry that giants, wizards, and sorcerers all traffic with the Devil and must be avoided at any cost. The remainder of the novel consists of Harry living a life of patient penitence with the Dursleys, who have been inspired by Alonso's example to become kind and virtuous guardians. Addendum 4028.2: Discovery and Designation Evidence for the existence of SCP-4028 was first noted by Foundation personnel in 2005 after the discovery of a manuscript previously thought lost (Historia del Huérfano, or The Orphan's Story). Written between 1608 and 1615 by Martín de León y Cárdenas (a Malagan-born monk), The Orphan's Story features Alonso Quixano as a supporting character. He criticizes the narrative for failing to conform to the virtues of romantic chivalry, spends several pages extolling these virtues, then challenges Sir Francis Drake to a duel.3 Researchers could not determine whether the incongruity between Alonso Quixano's appearance in The Orphan's Story and Don Quixote constituted an anomaly or a collaboration between their respective authors. This led to the involvement of the Pataphysics Department (a fictitious department created for the purposes of investigating, counteracting, and containing allegorical and/or metafictional anomalies) to settle the dispute. After significant debate, the use of SCP-423 (a sapient metafictional construct capable of entering and exploring textual narratives) to determine whether Alonso Quixano's appearance in The Orphan's Story was anomalous was authorized. Notably, Dr. Pierre Menard (a leading scholar of Don Quixote and the director of the Pataphysics Department at the time) requested that his opposition to this motion be noted in SCP-4028's documentation.4 SCP-423 was introduced to a journal and briefed on his task via hand-written notes by Agent O'Hara: SCP-423 JOURNAL EXCERPT DATE: 21/08/2005 INTERVIEWER: Agent O'Hara Hello. SCP-423, you're going to be entering a 17th century Spanish manuscript entitled The Orphan's Story. We need you to determine if one of the characters in it was inserted anomalously. Okay. I don't know Spanish, though. What's the book about? We've translated a copy to English for you. It's about a Granada-born orphan who travels to the Spanish empire in the Americas. Neat. So, what character am I investigating? Alonso Quixano. He appears near the end, in a segment where Sir Francis Drake launches a failed attack on Puerto Rico. Okay. Wait. Alonso Quixano? That is correct. Alonso Quixano. Yes. Don Quixote. Yes. The Don Quixote. Correct. You're sending me in after Don Quixote. Is there a problem? I... look, not to be a dick, but do you have any idea who the heck this guy is? You're not sending me after some two-bit noir cut-out or a hoighty-toighty meta-vore. This is the Man of La Mancha. His fourth wall breaks have got fourth wall breaks. He's got fan-fiction about himself in his own story, which itself is fan-fiction of a story that doesn't even exist. He basically wrote the book on metafiction. Like, literally — it's his book. So, can you do this? Jeez. Yeah. Just, uh — don't blame me if things go squirrely, okay? Just be careful. After entering an English translation of The Orphan's Story, researchers noted that all reference to SCP-4028 within it disappeared. This change occurred simultaneously across all known copies of the manuscript. Immediately thereafter, SCP-423 returned to his journal and re-initiated contact with Agent O'Hara. SCP-423 JOURNAL EXCERPT DATE: 23/08/2005 INTERVIEWER: Agent O'Hara Crap. Crap crap crap. CRAP. SCP-423, what happened? I think I ticked him off. I think, uh — look, you might want to call some people and tell them that we could have a serious metanarrative crisis on our hands. Please explain. So, first he thinks I'm some sort of evil wizard, right? I tell him I'm not. I tell him I was sent here to figure out what his deal is — find out if he's in the wrong book. I tell him I was sent by the Foundation, this big organization that investigates anomalies like him. Then he sits down and gets real quiet for a while. And, uh. And? He asks me if the Foundation upholds the virtues of knightly chivalry. And... What did you tell him? Look, it's not like you guys aren't good, sometimes — but sometimes you're, y'know, not so good? Sometimes you're kind of bad. It's complicated, okay? And that's what I told him. 'It's complicated'. I kept trying to explain that, but, uh, this is not a guy who 'gets' complicated. So after a while, he just stands, draws this busted up sword, says some stuff, and I just — I just ran. I just ran as fast as I could. What did he say? You need to call your people. You need to call them and tell them he's coming. Fred. What did he say? He said you sound like giants. One week after this event, SCP-4028 began to manifest in multiple works throughout Western literature. SCP-4028 has since been designated as anomalous.5 NOTE: You are currently viewing an outdated iteration (14/02/2006) of this document. To view a more recent revision, click here. Otherwise, please contact this article's current administrator ([email protected]) for more details. Footnotes 1. Dulcinea's true name was Aldonza Lorenzo. She was a peasant farm-girl who never even knew Alonso existed. 2. An aging, long-suffering steed. 3. Imbécil. 4. Better to let sleeping dogs lie. 5. I warned them. 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SCP-4029 | keter | This div is included to facilitate Malice's ListPages module on his author page. It is strictly out-of-universe. maliceaf-author-ght NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION The containment procedures and description for SCP-4029 are currently being modified in light of recent developments. A revised version will be uploaded to the database once investigations are complete. For more information, see Addendum 12-06-1998. — Maria Jones, Director, RAISA Item #: SCP-4029 Aswan, Egypt. SCP-4029 was located to the left of the salmon building (right). Special Containment Procedures: A unit of MTF Upsilon-Peorð ("Slings and Arrows")1 is to guide SCP-4029 away from population centres using a combination of blunt non-penetrative force, loud noise (between 130 and 140 decibels), bright strobing lights, and various other forms of stimuli irritants. An antimemetic barrier is to be erected around SCP-4029 whenever it enters a dormant phase (see description). A method of rendering SCP-4029 immobile is currently being researched. Description: SCP-4029 is a large office block, formerly the regional headquarters of █████ Industrial, capable of locomotion by means of ten mechanical segmented limbs2, two of which terminate in claws. SCP-4029 displays signs of low-level sentience, showing self-preservation instincts and responding to external stimuli. SCP-4029 is entirely watertight, accessible only by a single airlock in place of the front entrance. The structure's interior is filled with a transparent nutrient-rich fluid3. The entrance is only accessible during times in which SCP-4029 is dormant or immobile, at which point SCP-4029 will dig its limbs into the ground until the front entrance is ground level and its limbs are hidden. The interior of SCP-4029 remains largely unchanged from its original layout, with the following notable exceptions: The refitting of the air conditioning system to extract waste products from the aforementioned fluid, and to replenish supplies of fluid. The waterproofing of many (but not all) electrical installments, such as lights and cameras. A large hollow space at the centre of the fourth and fifth storeys (see Exploration Log 4029-1 for more information). A tightly-packed layout of workstations, each containing a small metal desk and standard office chair (both fixed securely to the floor), and a 1970s-era microcomputer of unknown brand with bundles of wires leading from the back to large ports in the floor, ceiling, and walls. ~98% of these workstations are occupied by human subjects, supplied with oxygen by means of clear plastic tubes inserted into the back of the neck. The majority of subjects (designated SCP-4029-1) appear to be former employees of █████ Industrial, although other, unidentified instances have also been observed. SCP-4029-1 instances will perform basic calculations (addition, subtraction, incrementation etc.) at their work stations from 09:00 to 17:00, Mondays to Fridays (excluding national holidays). SCP-4029 is entirely dormant and unresponsive during periods in which SCP-4029-1 are not active, suggesting the intelligence of the entity may be an emergent property of the network. Below is a timeline of SCP-4029's manifestation: Date Event 9/29/1929 █████ Industrial declares bankruptcy. 9/30/1979 An image of an office building previously owned by █████ Industrial noticeably leaning into a neighbouring building appears in a newspaper in the city of Aswan, Egypt. 10/3/1979 SCP-4029 unearths itself at approximately noon, causing considerable property damage and causing over 200 injuries and 100 deaths in a 20 minute period. The SCP Foundation was unable to become involved before the Egyptian military responded and set up a perimeter, but was able to erect an antimemetic barrier that prevented the knowledge of SCP-4029's existence escaping the city as a temporary containment measure. 10/4/1979 The Foundation collaborated with already onsite Egyptian military to force SCP-4029 out of the city and into an area of uninhabited desert. By 11:00, SCP-4029 had been successfully routed from Aswan. A meeting is called by Site-29 to discuss containment of SCP-4029 (URA-2979 at the time), and the R&C team is divided into two groups; one to run an amnesticization and disinformation campaign in and around Aswan and one to contain SCP-4029 itself. 10/5/1979 An inactive unit of MTF Upsilon-Peorð is assigned the duty of continuously guiding SCP-4029 into remote areas of the Saharan desert. Containment Procedures are formalised, and the amnesticization campaign begins shortly thereafter. 10/10/1979 While SCP-4029 remains uncontained, dormant periods and its predictable nature render it manageable. Once knowledge of SCP-4029's existence is purged from the civilian population, SCP-4029 is declared a contained anomaly, and given its current designation. SCP-4029's containment remains indefinitely delicate, and containment revisions are expected as ideas arrive. It is unknown how SCP-4029 remained unexplored and uninhabited in the time since █████ Industrial's bankruptcy. SCP-4029 is not currently believed to possess memetic or antimemetic properties; however, it is suspected that some such property existed between 9/29/1929 and 10/3/1979. The theory that █████ Industrial itself may possess self-inhibiting informational qualities is under investigation, but no evidence has yet been found to support the hypothesis. Addendum 01-29-1980 | Exploration Log 4029-001: Opening Statement: Drone explorations ceased to reveal information on 1/1/1980. SCP-4029-1 instances, presumably4, sought out and damaged drones before expelling them through the airlock. Along with this, several drones were lost within SCP-4029 after sudden loss of communication. A task force was provisioned to carry out a manned exploration of SCP-4029. A research team monitored footage and recorded from within a temporary Site-4029 (no permanent Sites are able to be erected for SCP-4029 research due to its mobility) as a precaution in case recording equipment was lost. Exploration Crew: Provisional Task Force Duplic-4 ("Inner Workings"), consisting of: Agent Jessica Waters; Former commander for MTF Zeta-9 and member of MTF Alpha-5, field experience directing teams in anomalous explorations. Agent Langdon Farmer; Navigator for MTF Zeta-9, field experience navigating anomalous locations. Agent John Scholz; Former member of MTF Gamma-6, experienced at navigating flooded or otherwise fluid-filled areas. Dr. Leslie Harrington; Biochemist and paramaterial researcher. D-004590, former oceanic photographer incarcerated for three counts of murder. Mute. Agent Four-B-Mortise; Defector from the Church of the Broken God, receiving Foundation asylum under the condition of participating in field work. Selected here due to not requiring oxygen, and being immune to most toxic environments. Agent Vincent LaFerrier; Experienced agent having partaken in several fatal missions in multiple Task Forces. No relation. Documents recovered from relevant areas in logs are included following respective logs. They were discovered after the following excursion. They are the only paper documents recovered to date, and some are partially legible despite water damage (represented in part by "[…]" to aid transcription). ► Initial Recording ◄ Hide Log <Begin Log IR> [All members' footage displays the central lobby of the building. It is illuminated by several fluorescent lamps, the majority of which are flickering or deactivated. The room shows signs of water damage (as expected), and the carpet has been removed, revealing bare wood. To the back of the room is a supply closet with the door removed, and a single unilluminated corridor] Waters: Alright, everybody ready? Farmer: Yeah. Harrington: Yeah. Scholz: Yep. Ready to go. LaFerrier: Yes. D-004590: [Confirmation signal] Mortise: Yeah, uh, check. Good to go. Waters: Alright, glad to hear it. The plan is basic reconnaissance: find anything the preliminary drone missed, take samples — that's you, Leslie — and as we say in the business, get the hell out of dodge. Understood? Mortise: We all read the briefing, yeah. In and out, right? Waters: If we're lucky, yes. This thing's technically alive, so there's no telling what might be- yes, Leslie? Harrington: Yeah, uh, just wondering. You mentioned a preliminary drone, but I didn't see any footage transcripts in the briefing materials. Was that intentional, or… [Pause] Waters: Yes, you're, uh, quite right, there was no footage in the briefing materials. Essentially, complications arose, and the monitoring team were forced to abandon the equipment once the signal was lost. Scholz: And so they're sending us into the meat grinder instead. [Chuckles] Brilliant. Waters: I don't think that's quite- Mortise: [Sighs deeply] Waters: Something wrong? Mortise: Hmm? Oh, y'know, first exploration an' all that. Farmer: For what it's worth, commander, I agree with the metal man. Situation gives me the chills. [Pause] Waters: There's no point worrying. No reason to believe it was anything dangerous — could have been anything… a mechanical fault, a, uh, specialised anomaly that could be reasoned with. It's not unheard of. Maybe it just hates technology rather than organic beings and we'll be fine. That's a fairly common trait for anomalous intelligences. Farmer: With all due respect, ma'am, we're on the ground floor of an office block in full deep-sea exploration suits. There's more tech in here than anywhere else in a ten kilometre radius. Waters: We're in here now anyway. Not much we can do except stick it out. If nobody else has any relevant comments to make, I'm going to end the initial recording. [Pause] D-004590: [Obscene gesture] Waters: Alright, end log. <End Log IR> <Relevant Documents> Document 4029-01: 12/29/19295 Dear Vice President R. Bentley,6 Hello, Robert. I'm sorry to be making such a personal letter like this, but I think recently we've been allowing the veil of professionalism to take a little break as everyone sorts out. And besides, we know each other well enough. I'm just writing this letter to appeal to your humanity. I know, because I have been in your position, that times like this, as a boss you can let the stress make you double down on your workers. It's hard not to take your anger, your frustration, maybe your confusion, out on your underlings, so to speak, but we're all feeling it. It's weird, Rob. We all know it's weird. I guess I'm writing this not because I am afraid that you won't do your job, that things won't go as normal ever again. But that maybe we need a good transition back into normal. You don't […] just any old day. What I'm saying is that we don't need a boss right now so much as we need a leader. Please, if you could call a meeting, or something, that just assesses company morale, and gets everyone to let out their feelings — or if you could give a big, long speech about why we can and will power through this, I think that would set a lot of people at ease. I think we could all use a guiding light in these trying times. In any case, thanks for reading my letter. A concerned citizen, Bart Stanton7 Document 4029-02: OFFICE CLOSED; Meet in Boardroom 8 for Morale Meeting All employees are encouraged to participate in a stress-relieving and team-building meeting today in Boardroom 8. Though you may choose to take today as a paid day off, your attendance is requested. Complimentary lunch will be served at noon. Hope to see you there! Building bridges for a better workplace, -R. Bentley, Vice President <End Relevant Documents> ► Log 1 ◄ Hide Log [PTF D-4 have divided into two groups. The first (LaFerrier, Harrington and Scholz) is attempting to access the elevator leading to the upper floors, while the second (Waters, Mortise, Farmer and D-004590) is exploring further down the corridor] <Begin Log 1.1> LaFerrier: I've found the elevators. [Harrington and Scholz swim towards the elevator hub] Scholz: You know, they always say to use the stairs in case of a fire, but they never mentioned what happens if the building is flooded. Harrington: Electrics underwater, probably not a great idea… Scholz: We've got to get up somehow. Report said it was mostly insulated, anyway. [The trio swim into an already open elevator] LaFerrier: Preference for a floor? Scholz: My lucky number's four. Why don't we try that? LaFerrier: Alright, good a reason as any. [Pause] Going up! [LaFerrier presses the button for floor four on the console, but nothing happens. LaFerrier attempts pushing the button again, with the same result. LaFerrier holds on the "close doors" button. Nothing happens] LaFerrier: Looks like the console's busted. Scholz: Damn. Try another one? Harrington: I don't see why we should. They're likely all busted. [Harrington swims to the top of the elevator and opens the escape hatch] Harrington: Woah. LaFerrier: What is it? [Harrington swims through the top of the hatch] Harrington: You're going to want to look for yourself. [LaFerrier and Scholz follow Harrington through the hatch. The inside of the elevator shaft is unlit, but the team's flashlights illuminate a tangle of thin plastic tubes extending upwards into the shaft, hindering visibility] LaFerrier: Woah indeed… Scholz: That explains why the elevators don't work anymore. Doesn't matter, we can swim it. LaFerrier: Heh, doesn't look like any other choice. Still floor four? Scholz: If we're not blocked. If we are, we'll shoot for the highest floor we can get to. LaFerrier: Makes sense. Alright. [The group begins to swim upwards, into the mass of tubes. Soon in, the tubes become dense enough that each member has to hold onto one another to avoid losing track. The team continue swimming upwards in silence for approximately three minutes] Scholz: Do you feel, like, waves? Harrington: Now you mention it, yes. Like something's moving around above us. Scholz: Reckon we should… LaFerrier: We're up this far, and I don't much fancy swimming back down. Let's at least see what's making the movements. Scholz: It looks like… an empty space? Leslie, shine your flashlight up to that corner for a moment? [The area above and to the side of the shaft is partially illuminated, revealing a large empty area, upwards of 25 metres in width. Scholz approaches and peers through; cameras observe a network of walkways, at the centre of which is a white sack (diameter ~14 metres) being rhythmically compressed by a complex series of mechanical appendages. Plastic tubes extend from the top of the sack and either enter the elevator shafts, which open against one wall of the area, or connect directly to the SCP-4029-1 instances operating the machinery. The area does not appear to have a floor, and the space below is unilluminated] Harrington: Holy shit. <End Log 1.1> <Relevant Documents> Document 4029-03: Document 4029-03 appears to be a blueprint for the plastic air sack in the empty space in floors 4 and 5 of SCP-4029. At the bottom of the blueprint is the following note: Are we sure this is going to work? And if it does, will it do what we want it to do? What do we want it to do? What's its function? Why am I making this? What's the point? <End Relevant Documents> <Begin Log 1.2> [Agent Mortise's head-mounted camera shows a large, open room with an estimated 200 SCP-4029-1 instances. The room is largely unlit and so visuals are minimal, but each instance has a small electric light surgically implanted in its forehead. The SCP-4029-1 instances do not react to Mortise's presence] Mortise: Commander? Farmer? D-, uh, D-Class? Waters: What's up? Mortise: There's a room here, filled with… people. Dash ones, I reckon. Waters: Jackpot. Nice work, we'll make a Field Agent out of you yet. Farmer, you got the flares? Farmer: Yep. Ready to go. Waters: Alright, D, I want you to stand at the entrance there and get ready to investigate. We have no idea how they'll react. [Pause] Waters: D-004590? D-004590: [Eye roll, thumbs up] Waters: Good. Mortise stand back, and Farmer: get ready to throw that flare. Farmer: Primed and ready, Commander. Waters: Throw! [The flare slowly arcs across the room and lands on the desk of one SCP-4029-1 instance, who reacts, jumping from their desk and swimming across the room towards the Agents. Others nearby turn their heads briefly, and one other moves to their feet, but they are otherwise unresponsive] Farmer: We've got a runner. D, get ready to snap them. [The entity (visually identified as Robert Taylor, an intern hired by █████ Industrial prior to the company's collapse and reported missing in 1929) makes it halfway across the room before stumbling. They begin to clutch at their throat, and the two individuals closest move from their seats to restrain them. After around two minutes, the first instance goes limp and floats in place. The others return to their work-stations] Mortise: Jesus. [The other SCP-4029-1 instances drop the restrained instance and return to their seats. No further activity is observed] Waters: D, could you- D-004590: [Dismissive hand-wave, thumbs up] [D-004590 begins photographing and taking samples from the body8, while Mortise and Waters investigate the rest of the room. Farmer remains by the entrance, logging details of the event] [11 minutes pass without incident] Mortise: Nothing especially weird over here. Corridor leading off, a couple aircon units pumping out more of this dark stuff. Waters: Same here. What about you, Farmer? Farmer: Still filling out the paperwork. Who knows when we might get another chance. [Pause] Well, fuck. Waters: Language, please. This is still official. What's the problem? Farmer: The corridor back there's gone. Some dash ones blocked it up, just saw them do it. Looks like we're caught in their maze. Mortise: No. No, no way. This is a normal gig inside a freaky living office block, not some bloody extra-spatial nightmare-fuel-ass labyrinth. Waters: Be that as it may- Farmer: Buck up, kiddo. They've walled us in. It's their way or no way at all. Now quit your whining and act like a man. [Pause] D-004590: [Stands up, motions for others to follow] Mortise: I guess anything's better than back there. What is it, mate? D-004590: [Points upwards, mimes choking himself with his right hand] Waters: Air ducts. Looks like the ceiling here's come away slightly. Good find. [Waters motions for Farmer and Mortise to come closer] Waters: Watch my back, I'm gonna swim up. I want to check if we can follow the ducts to whatever's supplying the air. Mortise: You want to ditch both of our potential unexplored routes, neither of which show any chance of dark, enclosed, dangerous spaces, in favour of a crawl-space? Waters: Pretty much. Mortise: I don't- Farmer: Commander? Problem. Insulation in the air ducts is… highly esoteric. Waters: How so? [Farmer unhooks their external microphone from their suit and holds it up into the vent. As it enters, recording is cut off abruptly] Waters: Ah. Basically a Faraday cage. [Sniffs] Must be one hell of a weird electric field in here. Farmer, I've got the best flashlight, I'll go first. Mortise: You're all insane. Farmer: Undoubtedly, but it's worked so far. Alright, I'll follow you in. [Waters, Mortise and Farmer enter the vent. D-004590 does not follow. The others do not notice] <End Log 1.2> <Relevant Documents> Document 4029-04: TO HOWARD,9 What is this thing? […] could you have ever thought this was a good idea? We […] pay for this, feed this. We can't care for this. What were you thinking? I thought we were moving on. This building, this office, this street. We don't need another anchor. And the way it looks at me. Fuck, the way it looks at me. I really don't need this. We really don't need this. […] in Egypt. Don't try to stop me. By the time you're reading this, I'll have done it anyways. This is your fucking fault, and don't you forget. […] won't be happy about this, either. <End Relevant Documents> ► Log 2 ◄ Hide Log [Communication became spotty, and footage began to cut in and out at random intervals. In total, three hours of combined footage was lost.] <Begin Log 2.1> [The first group, sans D-004590, have lost contact with the others and are currently attempting to break through a wall. An open vent is visible in the upper right corner of the frame, and the group appears to be in a tight, enclosed space] Farmer: [Grunt] You know… Commander… [Grunt] Once we get out of here, I'm… going to issue a complaint. Waters: [Hefting a section of desk to use as a makeshift hammer] I'm… sure you will. Farmer: I've explored cave systems, labyrinths… circuses, temples, sky cities, pocket dimensions… but never, not once in my career [Grunt] have I been trapped in a storage cupboard. Waters: There's a first time for everything, then. [Pause] You too tired, Mr. Roboto? Mortise: [Slumped against the door of the closet, eyes closed] Mhm. [Waters, sighing, drops their section of desk and moves over to Mortise, placing a hand on their shoulder] Waters: You're not really cut out for this job, are you? Mortise: [Faint twitching, followed by several clicks of varying pitches] Waters: Uh, Farmer. Take a look at this, will you? Mortise: Vaaaaaill. Ock- ockslass. Farmer: What's the- oh. Oh yeah, that's not normal. Waters: What do you reckon we- Mortise: A- a- a- vaaail. Slass- asst. Vaiil. Ailllable now, whi- i- iiile. Stocks laaaass. Waters: Shit. That's… not good, either. Mortise: -vailable now. Upward mobility. While stocks last. Comprehensive dynamics. P- p- portfolio. Available now, while stocks last. [Mortise begins to shudder, and extends an arm suddenly towards Farmer. The shift in perspective reveals a tube extending from a formerly sealed port on the Agent's neck] Mortise: Buy buy buy! [Mortise lunges at Farmer, and Waters catches them on the head with the fragment of desk. They stumble to their feet, and turn around, at which point Waters hits them again] Mortise: Stock market value, value, value at inception, s- s- s- synergising overhead! [Mortise begins to jerk and stumble, lashing out at Waters and gouging a hole in the arm of their suit. Waters cries out, and Farmer attacks Mortise from behind, jumping onto their back and pulling them backward. The pair crash into the wall, which breaks, sucking fluid through into a large, air-filled cavity. All three are swept through the breach, and footage is lost] <End Log 2.1> <Relevant Documents> Document 4029-05: printer's broken <End Relevant Documents> <Begin Log 2.2> [The second group have been divided, and audio recording for Scholz and Harrington has ceased due to equipment damage. Additionally, audiovisual footage for LaFerrier is patchy and indistinct at times] [Harrington and LaFerrier are present in the previously discovered central chamber, while Scholz's visual feed records only indistinct dark shapes] LaFerrier: -doesn't matter what we think. Protocol dictates that, when separated from the rest of the team and not in a position to immediately reconvene, we should- Harrington: [Indistinct] LaFerrier: What? I don't- oh no. [LaFerrier turns to face the sack, and observes three SCP-4029-1 entities dismounting from the apparatus surrounding it. All three are wearing damaged, waterlogged suits] LaFerrier: John, uh, he was carrying the deterrents? If I recall correctly? Harrington: [Indistinct] LaFerrier: Okay, okay, uh. [Into microphone] For the record, I am now taking command of a subset Provisional Task Force Duplic-4, consisting of myself and Ms. Harrington, in lieu of any alternative leadership, I- Harrington: [Indistinct] LaFerrier: Right, Leslie — that is, Ms. Harrington — wants me to say that she gives her full consent for this. Our priority right now is, uh, getting out. Under MTF protocol, um, Oh-Six dash… dash Four? I- I think? [Pause] Regardless, we're, we're now going to look for an exit and, um, try our best to reconvene outside. Right? Harrington: [Frantic nodding] LaFerrier: Okay, uh, good. Leslie, if you can try to open those doors along the edge there, I'll try to keep the dash ones busy. [LaFerrier turns towards the SCP-4029-1 instances. Footage becomes indecipherable through audiovisual static] <End Log 2.2> <Relevant Documents> Document 4029-06: go around the island, check the drawers in […] office. there are some pens in there. they'll be useful. […] bently doesn't know about. no time to waste Document 4029-07: *** --- *** *** --- *** *** --- *** Is there anyone out there ? Survivors ? *** --- *** *** --- *** *** --- *** Calling the Spanish branch , calling the French branch , calling the American branch *** --- *** *** --- *** *** --- *** Is there a sun , is there a sky , does anyone else know ? *** --- *** *** --- *** *** --- *** Calling the British branch , calling the Canadian branch , calling the German branch *** --- *** *** --- *** *** --- *** This is the Egyptian branch , calling any other branch , does anyone know where Howard went ? *** --- *** *** --- *** *** --- *** Does anyone know where anyone went ? *** --- *** *** --- *** *** --- *** Calling […] Document is suggested to continue for another two thirds of a page, but extensive water damage has made the remainder of the document unreadable. <End Relevant Documents> <Begin Log 2.3> [No visual footage] D-004590: [Heavy breathing] [A scraping noise is heard, as well as a quiet whirring] D-004590: [Heavy breathing, slowly fading to silence] <End Log 2.3> <Relevant Documents> Document 4029-08: Document 4029-08 is a piece of printer paper with several sketches of hydraulic recreations of animal features. Notably, a canine jaw, cat claws, crab legs, and a fish tail. Each sketch is numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively. The document is signed, but the signature is water damaged. <End Relevant Documents> ► Log 3 ◄ Hide Log [At this point, footage had degraded to the point of extreme fragmentation. Various parts are recorded here] <Begin Log 3.1> [Feed appears to be connected to the surveillance mainframe of SCP-4029. However, there is no visual reference for another two minutes. The feed opens on an individual office. Papers and clothes are floating around the room. Within fifteen seconds, the door begins to shake. It bursts open, and reveals Scholz] [Scholz hurriedly closes the door and presses himself against it to keep it closed. After twenty seconds, Scholz slowly opens the door and peers through the crack. He then closes the door, and backs away from it. Scholz then slowly swims into the room, and scans over the floating debris] [Scholz picks a tie out of the water, and inspects it] [John Scholz slowly ties the tie, perfectly, around his neck] John: [Indistinct] <End Log 3.1> <Relevant Documents> Document 4029-09: Document 4029-09 appears to be a blueprint for ventilation system modifications, akin to the current model of the SCP-4029 ventilation system. Blueprints are complete, but semi illegible due to water damage. At the bottom of the blueprint is the following note: █████ Industrial will feed us. █████ […] will care for us. █████ Industrial will provide for us. Everything is going to be okay. […] Everything is going to be okay. We're going to make everything okay. […] Document 4029-10: What does this company do? <End Relevant Documents> <Begin Log 3.2> [Agent Mortise's implanted camera activates, revealing a cylindrical space lined with alcoves containing SCP-4029-1 stations. They tilt upwards, revealing the central chamber and sack, which is faintly luminescent, suspended at the top] Mortise: Hello? [They turn to look at their arm, which extends directly into a hole in the wall] Mortise: Oh… Oh god… Unknown: [Audio static] Hello [Indistinct] Mortise: H- Hello? Commander, Farmer? L- LaFerrier? Unknown: Welcome to [Indistinct] helpline. Press one for technical help with any of our goods or services, two for- [Audio static] -nine for concerns related to the metaphysical a- [Indistinct]. Mortise: Uh, nine? Unknown: We're sorry, but this service is unavailable right now. Please [Pause] try again later. Unknown: Please try again later. Unknown: Please try again later. Mortise: What- Unknown: Please try again later. Please try. [Pause] Unknown: Please. Please. Please try. Please. Please try again. Please. Later. Please try again. Please. Please try. Please. [Repeats for twenty-nine minutes before cutting off abruptly. Agent Mortise remains silent for the duration of this period] <End Log 3.2> <Relevant Documents> Document 4029-11: […] there. […] liquid assets […] but it's okay. There's a key under the mattress. But don't tell Ben. We don't know what it goes to, but we think it's important. Get it. You won't see me again. Make sure […] vain. You're […] wasting […] go and […] Document 4029-12: EMPLOYEE CONTRA[…] Andrews, Roy: "I consent to […]nd agree to uphold my position within the corporate structure". Alton, Collin: "I consent to my contract and agree to uphold my position within the corporate structure". Aldous, Sarah: "I consent to my contract and agree to uphold my position within the corporate structure". […] LaFerr[…], Vance: "I consent to […] my position within the corporate structure." Llwellyn, Harriet: "I consent to my contract and agree to uphold my position within the corporate structure". Manford, Dexter: "I consn I consent to my contract and agre to agree to uphold my position within the corporate structure". Manford, Thomas: "I consent to my contract and agree to uphold my position within the corporate structure". Mallory, Richard: "I consent to my contract and agree to uphold my position within the corporate structure". Stanton, Bart: "I consent to my contract and agree to uphold my position within the corporate structure". Micheals, Samuel: "I […] to my contract and agree to uphold my position within the corporate structure". Document continues like this for several pages, stapled together. Water damage increases as document goes on. <End Relevant Documents> <Begin Log 3.3> [Agents Waters and Farmer are both present in what appears to be a disused break room or employee lounge. Several SCP-4029-1 instances are present, all facing the walls. There are no visible exits] Farmer: [Breathing heavily] Commander? Farmer: Commander, are you there? Waters: Yeah, yeah, I- I'm here. Don't worry. I wouldn't leave you. Farmer: I- I think you should take a look at this. Waters: What's… what's up? Farmer: I don't think it was redacted. [Farmer angles their camera to face the wall of the room, which advertises a █████ Industrial seminar, scheduled for 22/09/2029. Waters touches their hand to the company's name — it comes away to reveal the black rectangle is composed of a sticky, black substance] Waters: Oh. Oh, weird. Think you're in good enough shape to get a sample for the labs? Farmer: Sure, sure. [Farmer moves to scrape off a section of the rectangle. It peels away, but the feed cuts out before anything is revealed] Unknown: [Incoherent] <End Log 3.3> <Relevant Documents> Document 4029-13: Document 4029-13 appears to be an unfinished blueprint for the hydraulic system that powers the limbs of SCP-4029. The document is titled "Project Location Location Location". At the bottom of the blueprint is the following note: 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 and if they won't come to us, then we'll go to them <End Relevant Documents> <Begin Log 3.4> [LaFerrier is alone, going about their work] LaFerrier: Please? [Pause. The corridor is empty] LaFerrier: Please? Let me out, please, I didn't- [Another pause, during which LaFerrier continues to wander down the corridor, hesitating momentarily to inspect several pictures on the wall] LaFerrier: So… so he did this? He took it away, and left this behind? Unknown: [Incoherent] LaFerrier: Oh! Welcome! Do you want to, uh, do something? T- together? I know this place is kinda screwed, metaphysically — we could t- talk about that! Unknown: [Incoherent] LaFerrier: [Pausing to look through a doorway, which reveals a room full of SCP-4029-1 instances] I'm sorry, I… don't actually know anything about that. Nothing you wouldn't know already. Ask me in a little… little while? I'm trying to figure it out. LaFerrier: Try asking me again later. And please… get me out. Keep trying. Try again later. Please. Unknown: What? LaFerrier: Please try again later. Please try again later. Please. Please get me out. Please try again. Please. Get me out. Try again later. Please. Please. Please try again. Please try again later. [Agent LaFerrier repeats this for twenty-nine minutes before stopping abruptly. No other sounds were recorded during this period] <End Log 3.4> Five of the seven members of the Task Force were found naked and unconscious within the airlock of SCP-4029 during its next Saturday dormant period. No equipment from the exploration has since been recovered. Farmer and Waters both showed mottled skin discolouration, and Farmer had developed permanent blindness in their left eye. Mortise displayed oxidation inconsistent with their chemical makeup and length of time spent within SCP-4029, and was missing their left arm and several segments of their abdomen. Harrington went into fatal cardiac arrest shortly after recovery — the cause of death was determined to be a large number of standard office staples present in all major arteries. Scholz was found unharmed. Agent LaFerrier was not recovered, and is pending reassignment under the supervision of Dr. Hillenburg. D-004950 is presumed to have remained inside the building. Addendum 12-06-1998 | Degradation of SCP-4029: After an abnormally long dormant period (a week), the building composing the upper portion of SCP-4029 collapsed due to accumulated weather damage. The interior had apparently been stripped of all valuable or complex components, and drained of fluid. As well as 28 cadavers, one living female SCP-4029-1 instance was recovered from the wreckage. Due to psychological damage, the subject has yielded no useful information. However, they were found carrying the following letter: Document 4029-14: TO BENTLEY, █████ Industrial is no longer. You're working for a ghost. You can't see it from where you are, but nobody even remembers our name anymore. I wanted it that way. In fact, no one really remembers me, either. But you can leave your meaningless job. Your meaningless life. Existence. We know how hard it must be for you. The daily rat-race. The never-ending grind. The terrible monotony. Working nine to five in an awful stupid job just to pay for stupid boring things you don't even need. Unable to fulfill that aching void inside you that yearns to be part of something more. Well yearn no longer. You've been noticed. I know you might be scared. I know you might be worried. I'm here to tell you there's no need to worry. You might feel it already. I'm disgusted I had to stoop down to this level, anyways. But there's no need to worry. I'm going to begin speaking to you in a language you understand. A language you might not have ever known you spoke. A language beyond language, a perfect fit for people beyond people. Welcome to upper management. YOURS, HOWARD In addition to these developments, the mechanical lower portion of the entity was entirely missing, with signs of geological disturbance towards the east. Keter classification has been restored, and research is ongoing. Accessing Log 3.5... The following log was omitted from the Level 3 accessible record. It is unknown how the following was recorded, or by whom. The embedded timestamp reports that this log was recorded on 3/29/1930, and was appropriately in black and white. Its significance is currently unknown. <Begin Log 3.5> Unknown: Hmm… [A head-mounted camera shows a desk with paperwork on it. All of said paperwork is in Egyptian Arabic, though a large portion (roughly 35%) of the words have been censored. Some words that can be made out have been translated to be "references", "previous work experience", "number of years in this company", and "current company position"] Unknown: [Sighs] [Unknown twirls their pen in their black10 hands. Glancing to the left of the paper, a picture of a mother, father, and daughter can be made out, although all faces are censored] Unknown: [Hums to themselves] [Unknown begins to write on the paperwork. Wherever their pen touches the paper, ink begins to bleed in all directions. This renders what Unknown writes censored. This continues for one hour and eighteen minutes, as they shift through the stack of paperwork] [Finally, it's complete. Unknown lets out a deep breath. They grab all of the paperwork, and click it into one neat stack. A glance to the right shows a placard on the desk that reads "Robert Bentley"] Unknown: [Mumbling] I'm done. [Unknown looks up from their desk, revealing a long, unlit, watery hallway, filled with algae and seaweeds. Unknown holds up the paperwork towards the hallway. The door at the end of the hallway opens] [The feed cuts out] <End Log 3.5> Footnotes 1. A distributed task force specialising in the non-lethal containment of immense anomalous entities. Other units are currently assigned to SCP-███, SCP-████, SCP-3676, URA-1103 and SCP-████. 2. Similar in appearance to those of the Japanese spider crab, Macrocheira kaempferi. 3. Testing has revealed that human subjects are capable of subsisting on this fluid indefinitely, with signs of only slight malnutrition. The methods by which SCP-4029 creates this fluid are currently unknown. 4. Often attackers were able to use the drones' blindspots to avoid detection. 5. █████ Industrial had ceased all function by 11/29/1929. 6. Notably, not a Vice President of █████ Industrial. However, a Robert Bentley, working as a credit manager under █████ Industrial, did go missing in Egypt somewhere between 9/29/1929 and 11/29/1929. 7. No records of a Bart Stanton working under █████ Industrial exist. 8. Cause of death was later determined to be a combination of oxygen deprivation and mild chlorine poisoning. 9. Many Howards worked under █████ Industrial, the most notable of which being the CEO, Howard █████. No records exist of Howard █████ outside of █████ Industrial records. 10. Not corresponding to the ethnicity. |
SCP-4030 | safe | Item #: SCP-4030 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4030 is to be kept folded and vacuum sealed inside an opaque plastic bag and stored within a safe-class containment vault. Direct skin contact is prohibited, except for any test subjects while in testing conditions. When used in testing, visual exposure should be limited to a 1 hour maximum for all test subjects and staff. Failure to comply with this containment procedure will very likely result in the creation of SCP-4030-1 instances, a containment breach, and disciplinary action. This limit resets after 24 hours from last viewing of SCP-4030. A log of viewing persons and the time of initial viewing is to be kept with SCP-4030 at all times. While under the effects of SCP-4030 under no circumstances is the subject to look at their separated organ systems. Failure to do so will likely result in the generation of a SCP-4030-1 instance. In the event of a SCP-4030-1 instance, instances are to be terminated via blunt force trauma. SCP-4030's testing chamber should be built with a hydraulic ceiling to facilitate the crushing of SCP-4030-1 instances should containment be breached. If necessary, high caliber firearms may also be used. In the event of a containment breach of SCP-4030, SCP-4030 is to be terminated by application of strong acidic compound. Description: SCP-4030 is a child's bed-sheet, measuring 1.54m x 2.032m. The bed-sheet has considerably faded patterns of cartoon bats and jack-o-lanterns to the point where, from a distance, it simply appears off-white. Viewing SCP-4030 for over 1 hour induces an anomalous compulsion in the viewer to wear SCP-4030 over their head. This compulsion is proportional to the viewer's age, having a stronger effect on younger viewers. When worn, SCP-4030 will separate the wearer's body into its component organ systems as they translate through space. These collections of organs occupy the same location in space as the time of their separation: 2.00m apart from each other. They are animated with the same movements of the wearer, but do not translate through space themselves. Organ groups are separated from the affected subject in the following order: Skin and Clothing Digestive systems Muscular and Respiratory systems Circulatory systems Skeleton Nervous, Ocular, and Auditory systems Other smaller organ systems are included with the muscular and respiratory group. After the nervous system is separated, SCP-4030 will still move as if the affected subject remains underneath it, though no physical body remains. During this time subjects do not feel pain, but describe the sensation as 'fuzzy' and 'warm'. Subjects continue to experience this separation of bodily systems through their nervous system, even if subjects say they can feel themselves moving or feel SCP-4030 still draped over them. While bodily systems are separated this way organs and tissues may be easily accessed and worked upon. Because of this, SCP-4030 has been used in testing to perform delicate medical surgeries in a non-invasive way. Those affected by SCP-4030 can be returned to a complete state by moving backwards through their separated organs while SCP-4030 continues to be worn. While it is possible for subjects to walk forwards into their separated organs, this is ill advised due to the high probability of generating a new instance of SCP-4030-1. Under no circumstance are subjects to look at any separated organ systems while under the effect of SCP-4030. If the subject looks at their skeletal system while under the effects of SCP-4030, their skeleton (SCP-4030-1) will become sentient. This process always results in the death of the subject, as their skeleton removes itself from the body by moving from the spacial point it was created in. Instances of SCP-4030-1 are found to have increased strength and agility from normal humans. SCP-4030-1s bones remain attached through anomalous means, and only become non anomalous when approximately 50% of them are fractured. Addendum-4030-A The following is a video log of an operation utilizing SCP-4030 being performed on D-387777 to remove his appendix. Video Log Transcript. Test 3. SCP-4030 Date: 09/05/2017 Operating Physician: Dr. ████████ [BEGIN LOG] SCP-4030 is stretched taut across a movable wooden arch, which is then pressed onto the back of D-387777 who is asked to walk forward. As he does so, his bodily systems are separated behind him through the sheet, remaining in place where the separation occurred. When his nervous system has filtered through the sheet he is instructed to remain standing, and alert staff if he feels he is unable to. 00:01 Dr. Morgan (from control room): "Alright. You may begin the procedure. D-387777 if you begin to feel dizzy, or any pain, please let us know. Remain standing at all times, and do not look behind you." 00:11 D-387777: "Wow. This feels strange. But, alright." 00:25 Sounds from medical equipment being wheeled in. Operation begins on test subject. 15:35: Subject Yawns. Operation stops briefly. Operating staff remark on the strangeness of operating on awake patient. 19:12 Dr. ████████ (operating): "Can you raise your left arm?" D-387777 raises his left arm and turns his head. There is a cut sound of the control room microphone being activated as D-387777s nervous system rotates slightly. During this action it is suspected that D-387777 was able to view part of his skeleton through his peripheral vision. In the video log it is noted that when D-387777 performs this action, and only this action, his skeleton does not move, as if knowing it is about to be seen. 19:14 D-387777: "Oh god aiaugha…" SCP-4030-1 becomes active, and with flailing motions begins to tear itself out of the separated organs of D-387777. Operating staff scream, trying to distance themselves from SCP-4030-1-1. Once free of D-387777s organic material, SCP-4030-1-1 seizes SCP-4030 and quickly advances towards Dr. ████████. In the ensuing struggle, SCP-4030 is draped over Dr. ████████, who is then thrown to the ground. As he is thrown, his body separates into its various organ systems, manifesting mid roll. He wrestles with SCP-4030 to remove it, and causes the generation of SCP-4030-1-2. 19:28: It is at this point that the control room activates the room fail-safe. The ceiling of the research chamber begins to descend at a rate of 0.50 m/s and the camera / video feed is destroyed. [END LOG] Addendum-4030-B On 10/31/2018 5 instances of SCP-4030-1 attempted to enter the facility where SCP-4030 was being kept. These instances were terminated by on-site security personnel, with 6 reported injuries. All samples of SCP-4030-1 were studied, and were found to have belonged to individuals between 7 and 16 years of age. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4030" by DrPillar, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4030. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
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Subjects in visual, olfactory, gustatory, auditory, tactile, and memetic range sustain short-term memory loss, disassociation, and an acidic aftertaste. Application of the amnesiac leads to a male vocalization of human origin. Exposed subjects cannot corroborate the vocalization's existence during interrogation. Attached Addenda I. Experimentation Log The following is a series of alleged interactions with SCP-4031. Interactions were not logged in real time; unknown subject(s) recorded the interactions in documentation areas. Inputs include different persons, objects, and conceptual structures. Results include various levels of conceptual recall. INPUT TEST RESULTS Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Forgotten. Pie N/A Gustatory Sensation N/A Tongue Forgotten. Fleshy Structure, Unknown Origin Consumed. Blood Loss Forgotten. Blood Loss N/A Blood N/A Blood Subject expired. New Test Recalled. Blood Recalled. Laboratory Pencil Forgotten. D-5549 Forgotten. D-5549 N/A Junior Researcher Ortega Forgotten. Junior Researcher Ortega N/A Researcher Smalls N/A Dr. Westrin Forgotten. Dr. Westrin N/A Project Lead Xiulan Forgotten. Vocalization N/A II. Investigative Report An investigatory team took Class-W Mnestic.Mnestic: An agent used to temporarily enhance a user's immediate memory retention. drugs with the intent to examine SCP-4031. The team discovered a hitherto unaccounted-for male subject on the floor, deceased. The subject suffered lacerations, emaciation, a broken left clavicle, and blood loss in the oral cavity. Moreover, the subject suffered extensive trauma to the head. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4031" by Lt Flops, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4031. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. 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SCP-4032 | safe | A photo of SCP-4032-1. Item #: SCP-4032 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4032 has been cordoned off in the research gardens of Site 67. All instances of SCP-4032-1 are to be gathered daily and incinerated on-site. Misuse of SCP-4032-1 will lead to suspension or termination of employment. Any animal found to have consumed SCP-4032-1 is to be captured, euthanized, and incinerated. Only one specimen of SCP-4032 has been found to date. Should additional specimens be found, MTF Alpha-67 "Weed Whackers" will be dispatched to uproot the specimen and transport it to Site 67. All humans that have consumed SCP-4032-1 are to be contained in Holding Cells B1-B5 in the outer perimeter of Site 67. Each cell is to be outfitted with 3 redundant air filters containing Thiobacillus thioparus embedded in a peat and polyurethane mixture. Hydrogen sulfide and methane sensors are installed in each filter. Upon sounding of sensors, MTF Alpha-13 "Odor Eaters" are to escort the individual outside while repairs are completed. Description: SCP-4032 is a wide, mounding deciduous shrub producing a small, round, brown fruit designated SCP-4032-1. When an animal or human consumes SCP-4032-1, it produces extreme gastrointestinal distress. One hour following consumption, the affected individual will form an excess amount of flatulence containing elevated levels of hydrogen sulfide and a smaller, but noticeable, amount of methane gas. Due to an anomalous effect, this flatulence will continuously be produced until the affected individual is deceased (see Research Logs below). Fasting and dehydration do not affect the flatulence, and endoscopy has discovered no identifiable source of the anomalous flatus. An affected individual in an area with improper ventilation will, over time, experience severe symptoms caused by hydrogen sulfide poisoning, including conjunctivitis, respiratory irritation, loss of smell, pulmonary edema, and death. Discovery: SCP-4032 was discovered on Apr 2, 2018. An individual known as Anthony Green (hereafter referred to as D-14478) came upon SCP-4032 in the foothills of Northern California. After consuming SCP-4032-1, he made a distress call to the local search and rescue team, which was intercepted by Foundation operatives. Due to its relative isolation and access to natural resources, the area surrounding SCP-4032 has been purchased by the Foundation, and a research facility constructed under the guise of a personal estate. A 3m fence has been erected across the property, and SCP-4032 is currently contained with other biological specimens in the research garden area of the site, now designated Site 67. Research Logs: Researcher: Dr. Loghari. Special Note: As Site 67 was not yet constructed, D-14478 was housed at Site 88. Date: 4/2/2018 Time: 18:00 D-14478 brought in for observation, assigned to Cell 14-B on the exterior of the compound. Subject emitting copious quantities of flatulence showing high levels of hydrogen sulfide and methane. Date: 4/2/2018 Time: 23:00 Subject complaining of rapid gas buildup in his cell. Interior venting hood activated. Date: 4/3/2018 Time: 02:00 After receiving over 50 complaints, maintenance staff deactivate interior venting hood and open exterior windows. D-14478 placed on intravenous diet. Date: 4/5/2018 Time: 10:00 Endoscopy conducted on D-14478 via remote equipment. Colon was found to be clear, with no visible source of rectal gas. Date: 4/6/2018 Time: 11:00 Staff meeting held to discuss the effect of D-14478's condition on community quality of life. Residents of nearby cells and research rooms complain about inability to open windows or use nearby outdoor facilities. Options discussed include relocation, termination, and attempted treatment. Resolution passed to house D-14478 in an outdoor facility while proper filtering equipment can be constructed. Date: 4/13/2018 Time: 15:00 Foundation agents intercept reports from environmental watch groups regarding airborne pollution in central Alabama near Site 88. Due to the widespread effects of D-14478's condition, resolution is passed to transfer D-14478 into experimental filtering cell before conclusion of safety inspection. Disagreement by the minority noted and filed. Date: 4/14/2018 Time: 01:00 D-14478 found dead. An investigation pointed to improper construction of the primary filter and malfunctioning of its associated sensor. All effects of SCP-4032-1 found to cease upon death. Postmortem report filed with Ethics Committee. Dr. Loghari placed on temporary administrative leave. Researcher: Dr. Carlisle Special Note: Animal testing approved by Ethics Committee. Date: 5/1/2018 Species: Araucanian Herring (Clupea bentincki) Procedure: SCP-4032-1 was crushed and added to a mixture of copepods and krill, then fed to a small school of herring. Result: Fifteen minutes after consumption of SCP-4032-1, the herring's typical flatus production was greatly increased, disrupting their use of flatulence for communication and causing distress to the school. Flatus was collected and analyzed. In contrast to standard herring flatus, the gasses collected contained both hydrogen sulfide and methane, although at levels lower than those produced by human subjects. After three hours, the herring were euthanized and processed. Autopsy and chemical analysis discovered no postmortem evidence of SCP-4032-1's effects. Date: 5/2/2018 Species: Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) Procedure: SCP-4032-1 was offered directly, which was rejected by the chickens. It was then crushed and added to commercial chicken feed and fed to a group of five chickens. Result: Two hours after consumption of SCP-4032-1, all chickens began to emit a gas containing low levels of hydrogen sulfide and methane gas. All animals were euthanized and dissected after five hours. Postmortem analysis determined that the chickens' short intestinal tracts were distended. Date: 5/4/2018 Species: Brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) Note: This species was chosen for its noticeable lack of flatulence, typically absorbing flatus and emitting it through the lungs. Procedure: SCP-4032-1 was offered directly, which was rejected by the sloths. It was then crushed and ground with a mixture of tree leaves before being fed to a sloth. Result: [REDACTED] All testing with large mammals has been suspended. Ethics Committee approval is required for all future animal experiments. |
SCP-4033 | safe | Item #: SCP-4033 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4033 is currently held at Site-██ in a padlocked glass container. When handling the object, 0.5 centimetre rubber gloves are to be worn at all times. No direct contact with SCP-4033 is permitted unless conducting a test. No more tests including SCP-4033 are to be conducted under order from the Site Director. Description: SCP-4033 is a Cadbury's Crème Egg that cannot be cracked, melted, eaten or damaged in any other way. If a subject touches SCP-4033 through skin contact, the subject will hear a voice. No others have reported hearing the voice, hereby referred to as SCP-4033-1. SCP-4033-1 has been reported to have a noticeable lisp and resembles a child's TV show mascot. When activated, SCP-4033-1 will say: 'Hooray! You want to join in my Easter Egg hunt! I see you've found the first one already, so hurry on! Time is of the essence!' A painted egg will then appear somewhere in a ten-metre radius of the subject, often found in simple hiding places, such as on a shelf, or behind another object. If a subject collects this egg, another egg (hereby referred to as instances of SCP-4033-2) will appear under the same conditions of the first. If a subject other than the one that initiated the "hunt" touches an instance of SCP-4033-2 or SCP-4033 itself, it will burn their fingers, causing them to instinctively drop it. SCP-4033-1 will then say: 'No! You're not part of this hunt! Put that down!' There are twelve instances of SCP-4033-2 in one "hunt", and subjects are allocated ten minutes to collect all of these instances in order to "win". When the "hunt" is over, all collected instances of SCP-4033-2 will spontaneously disappear. If the subject "wins" , SCP-4033-1 will say: 'Yay! Yay! Yay! You found them all! That means you get the GRAND PRIZE!' The "winning" subject will then fall unconscious. Medical examination of these subjects reveals that their stomachs are anomalously filled with a substance very similar to Cadbury's chocolate. While all winners have become severely ill and reported extreme pain, none have died. If the subject "loses", SCP-4033-1 will say: 'Oh no… You didn't get all the eggs. Oh well, don't worry! You get the runner-up prize!' The subject will then undergo severe brain trauma and physical distress, while still remaining conscious. They will retain basic motor functions and the ability to vocalise, but will die approximately 2 minutes later. Autopsies have revealed these subjects to have a [DATA EXPUNGED] in their brains. Only one full interview has been successfully carried out with SCP-4033-1; following Incident-4033-A, no more interviews are to be conducted. Discovery: Local Agents situated in ██████, █████ were alerted to 3 mortalities in ██████ Hospital, all dead were found to have [EXPUNGED] in their brains. SCP-4033 was found in the house of a local artist, who was found in extreme distress. They were later found to have a substance resembling chocolate in their stomach. Agent ███ touched SCP-4033 and successfully completed the "hunt". Foundation backup arrived on scene and retrieved the Agents and SCP-4033. Addendum 4033-A: Interviewed: SCP-4033-1 Interviewer: D-89667 Notes: D-89667 was ordered to memorise a list of three questions to ask SCP-4033-1. <Begin log> D-89667 picks up SCP-4033 with his bare hands. SCP-4033-1: Hooray! You want to join in my Easter Egg hunt! I see you've found the first one already, so hurry on! Time is of the essence! D-89667: All right. What's your name? SCP-4033-1: Wh-what? That's not important now, you've gotta find the eggs! D-89667: No, I need to know. Seriously, what's your name? SCP-4033-1: My name? Well, you already know! I'm the Easter Bunny! D-89667: No, your real name. Like, Bob or something. SCP-4033-1: Easter bunny. That… is… my real… name. Right? Yeah… Yeah… D-89667: Okay, I'll come back to that. What was the second question… Where are you? SCP-4033-1: Where am I? Why, I'm right behind… you. SCP-4033-1's voice becomes noticeably gruffer, its lisp is gone. SCP-4033-1: Hey, where the hell am I? D-89667: Yeah, that's what I want to know! SCP-4033-1: It-it was you. You did this to me. I know it. D-89667: Hey, no, I didn't do it! D-89667 starts to visibly panic. SCP-4033-1: I know you did… D-89667: No! No! I know what happens to fucking D-class like me! Don't kill me! SCP-4033-1: You… did it. D-89667: No! I didn't! Don't do it! Please! SCP-4033-1: Get the eggs. That's what you do. You bastard… D-89667: Okay! Yes! Jesus. SCP-4033-1: Why… I'm Easter… Hop, hop, hop. D-89667 collects all instances of SCP-4033-2 and subsequently falls unconscious. <End log> Closing Statement: D-89667 was later reprimanded for failure to carry out his orders. Incident 4033-A: Interviewed: SCP-4033-1 Interviewer: D-89668 Notes: Shortly after the initial interview, an attempt to further establish the origins of SCP-4033-1 and its physical state was made. D-89668 was ordered to memorise a list of three questions to ask it. <Begin log> D-89668 picks up SCP-4033 with his bare hands. SCP-4033-1: No… D-89668: What is your name? SCP-4033-1: No… I have no name. D-89668: Just tell me your name. I know you have one. Please make this easy for me. SCP-4033-1: You took it from me… and put me here. D-89668: Well, no I didn't, but on that note, where are you? SCP-4033-1 does not respond for 2 minutes. SCP-4033-1: Put me here and left me. D-89668: Wait, what did you say? "Put me and left"? SCP-4033-1 does not respond for 2 minutes. D-89668: Are you still there? SCP-4033-1 does not respond for a further minute. D-89668: Hello? SCP-4033-1? SCP-4033-1 does not respond for 2 minutes. SCP-4033-1: You want to know? The truth is, I don't know… I'm the Easter Bunny… I got nowhere to hop to. D-89668: You don't- The allocated ten minutes to complete the "hunt" expires, and D-89668 falls to the floor in extreme distress. Agents watching over the test drag him away. <End log> Closing Statement: D-89668 died two minutes after. An autopsy on him revealed that he had a [EXPUNGED] in his brain. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4033" by guywithahat, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4033. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4034 | euclid | SCP-4034 and its surroundings. Item #: SCP-4034 Special Containment Procedures: Access to the historical Bohemian Chancellery has been restricted under the guise of UNESCO world heritage regulation. Should any unauthorized personnel witness an SCP-4034 event, they are to be administered an appropriate amnestic dose and then released. 5 security personnel are to be permanently stationed on the premises to apprehend SCP-4034-1 instances during Shatter events. All such instances are then to be transported to nearby Site-26 for permanent containment in standard humanoid cells. Staff are to be placed on high alert during centennial anniversaries of notable political executions. Description: SCP-4034 is the third floor window of the building which housed the Bohemian Chancellery in the 17th century. Its construction is typical for European windows of the period, with a thicker lower portion due to imprecise glassblowing during its creation. The phrase "Let the martyrs of Huss fly free" is carved into the glass in contemporary German, though the small size of the inscription and its placement near the top corner of the frame make it difficult to discover without close inspection. On an irregular basis, SCP-4034 will undergo a Shatter event where one or more human figures, termed SCP-4034-1, will be ejected through the window despite not existing in local space prior to the event. The instance(s) will then fall to the ground and land dirtied but unharmed on an anomalously ever-present pile of horse-feces, termed SCP-4034-2. Attempts to remove SCP-4034-2 have only resulted in the pile's regrowth via what appears to be molecular replication, and attempts to do so have been halted after various failures. SCP-4034 will anomalously self-repair within 24 hours of the event. At the time of their egress, SCP-4034-1 instances all possess fatal wounds or other bodily conditions inimical to survival. Despite this, the instances continue to survive in Foundation custody until dying of other causes at an average of 85 years of age. All SCP-4034-1 instances appear to be individuals killed or executed by a state for an act of protest or rebellion exactly 100 years prior to their associated Shatter event. It is unknown if the instances are copies or temporally displaced originals, though the hitherto inability to identify remains associated with the original instances supports the latter theory. SCP-4034 was originally discovered in 1873 by the Foundation precursor organization based in the German Empire, the Kaiserliches Deutsches Prüfamt für Paranormale Angelegenheiten (KDPPA). Following their incorporation into the Foundation in 1900, it entered Foundation custody. It is unknown if the phenomenon began in 1873, or if previous Shatter events occurred but were undocumented. Addendum SCP-4034.1: Logs recorded before 1900 were originally recovered from the KDPPA, who originally maintained the security and secrecy of SCP-4034. Date of Event: December 16, 1873 Objects Recovered: Four men wearing wet English sailor apparel, 44.13 liters of sea water, and 14 crates of tea. Responses: Medical examination of the men noted that their respiratory system had ceased functioning due to an inundation of water. When confronted about this, the men claimed to not have any trouble breathing. When questioned about events that took place before the Shatter Event, all men recalled being confronted by a "mermaid". The men were detained in nearby KDPPA holding cells, and have yet to expire. The tea crates were stored at the same location for later analysis.1 Date of Event: October 16th 1893 Objects Recovered: 14 heads of unidentified individuals, and three loaves of buttered brioche bread. Response: All but one of recovered heads could not adequately answer questions in interviews due to mental trauma from having lost the rest of their bodies. The remaining head spoke French, and recalled that a woman had taken the basket the heads had been stored in, and tossed them out of a window. The heads are stored together in a single containment chamber. The buttered bread is stored separately at the same site, despite analysis indicating that the loaves have no anomalous properties. Date of Event: January 6, 2018 Objects Recovered: Three individuals of Russian descent suffering from malnutrition, and 156 paper pamphlets splattered with blood. Response: The individuals claimed to have been saved by an angel, and demanded to be returned to Russia, mentioning a need to exact revenge. Analysis of the pamphlets determined that they were anomalous copies of The Junius Pamphlet, by Rosa Luxemburg. The individuals remain detained in standard humanoid containment cells. The pamphlets are stored at the same site, despite requests from the detainees that they be kept "as far away as possible." Date of Event: November 22, 2063 Objects Recovered: Seventeen copies of John F. Kennedy with identical bullet wounds. Response: All Kennedys expressed panic after noticing each other. However, they gained composure after one said, "Well, if it's all us, we're going to be fine. She said we'd be fine. Us, Bob, the country. That's what she told you too, right?" In interviews, all Kennedys refused to elaborate on their experience after being shot. The copies are currently being held in standard humanoid containment cells at Site-72, due to the site's experience with containing clones. + Level 5 Access Only - Access Granted Date of Event: December 10, 2022 Objects Recovered: The first O5-4. No cause of death was apparent, and their body seems to be in perfect health. Response: Subject was unconscious upon egress, and awoke 4 hours later in Site-26. After initial belief that it had been kidnapped by a hostile group, the subject was able to deduce the Foundation's identity and that a temporal shift had taken place. Subject has since been able to provide copious amounts of information corroborating their identity, including the identities of the original council, security callsigns from 1922, and Level-5 restricted information at the time. Remote interviews with O5-1 and O5-2 have also produced no information or personality quirks inconsistent with the original O5-4. As O5-4 was believed to have served on the council until their disappearance and presumed death in 1977, the identity or authenticity of the individual holding the office in the intervening 55 years is unknown. However, when asked for comments about this individual, O5-4 responded, "Someone has assured me that my replacement was for the best." Footnotes 1. When this location was turned over to the modern Foundation, all crates had been opened and emptied of their contents. |
SCP-4035 | safe | SCP-4035: Prey on Words Author: Deadly Bread Other Articles of Mine SCPs SCP-4966 Rating: 725 SCP-1401-EX Rating: 303 SCP-4052 Rating: 257 SCP-4088 Rating: 234 SCP-5522 Rating: 215 SCP-4109 Rating: 212 SCP-7441 Rating: 137 SCP-5020 Rating: 124 SCP-4035 Rating: 120 SCP-4286 Rating: 119 SCP-4664 Rating: 115 SCP-4270 Rating: 114 SCP-7966 Rating: 107 SCP-3462 Rating: 100 SCP-6663 Rating: 95 SCP-5693 Rating: 63 SCP-6633 Rating: 61 SCP-4570 Rating: 60 SCP-5261 Rating: 59 SCP-444-J Rating: 53 page 1 of 212next » Tales Something Glowing Rating: 180 Log Of Extranormal Events, Vol II Rating: 37 Prelude To Presents Rating: 24 The Bears Rating: 16 Your Memory Forever Seen Rating: 13 Other SCP-005 Proposal Hub Rating: 94 The Bread Box Rating: 92 Secure Facility Dossier: Reliquary Area-27 Rating: 87 Experiment Log-4035 Rating: 71 Collab Articles SCPs Page Title Co-Author SCP-4733 But Not Forgotten Lamentte SCP-5225 The Abyss Stares Back XilasCrowe SCP-5785 Craptivism Sonderance SCP-5993 We want you to come visit Heaven, just don't fuck with those bees ch00bakka Tales Page Co-Author The Bathrooms Wiki Too many to list Snippets of an Unveiled World Nykacolaquantum does not match any existing user name, Lt Flops, IFBench, Westrin Gone, Lamentte Your Imaginary Friend Fishish Check out Deadly Bread's Author Page ▸ More by this Author ◂ {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} ITEM NUMBER: SCP-4035 LEVEL 3/4035 CONTAINMENT CLASS: SAFE CONFIDENTIAL SCP-4035 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4035 is to be kept within a standard containment chamber guarded by at least one member of site security at all times. Testing involving SCP-4035 must be approved and supervised by a minimum of 1 Level 3 personnel. SCP-4035’s containment chamber is to be regularly stocked with working lightbulbs for testing purposes. Description: SCP-4035 is a table lamp with a stained glass patterned lampshade and an iron base. SCP-4035 does not appear to have any form of wiring or electrical components within it, other than a standard lightbulb socket. Despite this, lightbulbs inserted into SCP-4035 produce light as expected, albeit with a blue hue. Following the insertion of a lightbulb, a gaseous humanoid entity will apparate from within SCP-4035. This entity, referred to as SCP-4035-1, has the appearance of a balding Caucasian male between the ages of 40 and 50, wearing a patchy brown suit coat. The legs and abdomen of SCP-4035-1 appear as a cloudy blue gas that leads within SCP-4035. SCP-4035 often manifests smoking a large cigar, although this cigar produces no heat or smoke. When SCP-4035-1 manifests, it will direct its attention towards the individual who placed the lightbulb inside of SCP-4035. SCP-4035-1 will introduce itself to the subject1, and inquire whether the subject would like to purchase an unknown product. Inquiries into the nature of this product or SCP-4035 itself have met with failure. Once the subject verbally responds to SCP-4035-1 in any manner, the subject will gain a biological modification or anomalous ability directly correlating with how the subject responded to SCP-4035-1. SCP-4035-1 will treat any verbal communication as an answer to its inquiry, whether it was a statement, a separate inquiry, or a non sequitur. This occurs whether the subject was responding to SCP-4035-1's inquiry or not. Due to this, received abilities are often described by their recipients as "lackluster" or "disappointing." Often, these abilities are severely detrimental to the subject and cause them severe harm. Following the subject receiving these abilities, SCP-4035-1 will quickly recede back into SCP-4035, with the lightbulb violently exploding upon its entrance. If the subject attempts to contact SCP-4035-1 again, a voice will emanate from SCP-4035 stating, "Sorry kid, no refunds." Addendum 1: The following are several testing logs to determine the extent of SCP-4035-1’s abilities. Testing Log 4035-1 Researcher: Dr. Bannock Subject: D-4088 Statement: Subject was instructed to request “Telepathic abilities” from SCP-4035-1. Upon manifestation of SCP-4035-1, subject instead exclaimed, “What kinda shit is this?” Resulting Ability: Subject was able to identify the chemical composition of all types of feces, as well as the creature it originated from. Testing Log 4035-2 Researcher: Dr. Bannock Subject: D-1433 Statement: Subject was instructed to request “Telepathic abilities” from SCP-4035-1. Upon manifestation, subject asked SCP-4035-1 to “be able to read minds.” Resulting Ability: Testing showed that D-1433 had not developed telepathic abilities, and was held until further notice. It was found several weeks later that the subject had gained the ability to understand any form of writing, under the condition that it was written onto the forehead of a living being. This was discovered after a violent altercation when the subject revealed to D-3475 that the tattoo of Chinese characters on his forehead read “Cuban butter mustache.” Testing Log 4035-3 Researcher: Dr. Bannock Subject: D-0672 Statement: Subject was instructed to request “Muscle regeneration” from SCP-4035-1. Subject requested this without issue. Resulting Ability: Once SCP-4035-1 demanifested, D-0672 was provided a standard pocket knife and instructed to injure himself. Upon the knife piercing D-0672's arm, subject’s muscular system began to swell and multiply to approximately 245% of its original size. Subject began showing signs of extreme distress until his vital signs ceased three seconds later. Autopsy revealed no abnormalities and the corpse was incinerated. Testing Log 4035-4 Researcher: Dr. Bannock Subject: D-1899 Statement: Subject was instructed to request “flight” from SCP-4035-1. Subject requested this without issue. Resulting Ability: Subject appears to be unaffected by Earth’s gravitational pull. Subject does not appear to to able to control their flight, only being able to propel herself by pushing off of solid structures. Testing Log 4035-5 Researcher: None Subject: Junior Researcher Jacobson Statement: This was an unauthorized usage of SCP-4035. Security footage shows Junior Researcher Jacobson entering SCP-4035’s containment chamber and requesting SCP-4035-1 to “make him more attractive.” Resulting Ability: Footage shows that after the demanifestation of SCP-4035-1, Jacobson suddenly impacted the wall of the containment chamber with a large amount of force, suffering a severe spinal fracture. During post-incident analysis, it was found that Jacobson's epidermis had gained properties similar to that of a high powered magnet. Jacobson remained alive for approximately two hours before succumbing to his injuries. Once total brain death occurred, Jacobson's corpse lost all anomalous properties, and was incinerated as per protocol. Addendum 2: After extensive testing with SCP-4035, it has been found that while in proximity to the object, sapient beings are more likely to experience sudden speech problems such as parapraxis2 or signs of ankyloglossia.3 Studies have revealed that subjects communicating within approximately 20 meters of SCP-4035 are 68% more likely to experience parapraxis, which often results in unintended modifications when speaking with SCP-4035-1. Further research into this effect is currently ongoing. All further testing is to be recorded in Experiment Log-4035. Footnotes 1. SCP-4035-1 has introduced itself by a variety of names, such as Bobby Spiff, Danny Fry, and Josephi Krakowski. 2. Commonly referred to as a Freudian slip. 3. Commonly referred to as being “tongue tied”. Whether the speaker actually suffers from ankyloglossia or not does not appear to affect this probability. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4035" by Deadly Bread, from the SCP Wiki. 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SCP-4036 | keter | + Content Warning - Hide whatever Deals with racism and depictions of suicidal ideation Item #: SCP-4036 SCP-4036's official flag. Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4036 is to be surrounded by a perimeter covering 120,000 km2 maintained by the Foundation Navy in collaboration with United Nations Peacekeeping troops in order to prevent any SCP-4036-1 instances or trade coming in or out of the perimeter. If objects or persons attempt to penetrate the perimeter, they are to be neutralized, and their remains relocated to Site-004 in Indonesia. Foundation operatives are to infiltrate political, military, religious, and cultural institutions on SCP-4036. These operatives are to acquire information on ongoing affairs, potential operations against the Foundation, and subvert potential operations within SCP-4036. At all times, at least 2% of the population of SCP-4036 is to be made up of Foundation operatives or SCP-4036-1 instances loyal to the Foundation. In the case of a mass-scale military operation against the Foundation from SCP-4036, Operation Black Lily is to be enacted. Operation Black Lily is to only be enacted in the possibility that (A) SCP-4036 can no longer be contained without an XE-"Lifted Veil" scenario, (B) that large areas of land will not be returned to their respective countries and (C) SCP-4036 will rout Foundation forces in such a way that it leaves the Foundation completely defenseless. At the time, the President of SCP-4036's attitude towards the Foundation has been conciliatory, lacking any hostility characteristic of previous administrations or governments. However, due to the current atmosphere regarding the Foundation, and the possibility that the President will be ousted before any permanent solution can be established, diplomatic relationships have remained the same. Special Containment Procedures have remained in place in the possibility that an anti-Foundation President and legislative group take control over the governmental apparatus. Description: SCP-4036 is a small unitary theocratic republic located in an archipelago in the southeastern region of Polynesia, 300 km in radius and 100,000 km2 in area. SCP-4036's citizens refer to it as The Adytite Republic of Polynesia. It was previously under the autocratic rule of PoI-432 ("Norman Taylor") from 1857-1862 before his assassination by Foundation-backed groups in the region. Prior to this, SCP-4036 was highly militaristic, combining Industrial Age technology with biological weaponry to create a mobilized military. SCP-4036 had controlled around 30% of Polynesia, with the majority of its holdings in sparsely populated locations. Current authorities of SCP-4036 have disavowed its founder, PoI-432, and previous imperialist ambitions. SCP-4036's population2 is primarily anomalous, with current estimates ranging from 50% to 80%. Government statistics state around 64% of the population is anomalous, although due to a lack of peer review, it is unknown if this is representative of the island's population. The population is primarily capable of flesh manipulation. SCP-4036's state religion is Sarkicism, with official statistics claiming that all of SCP-4036-13 are adherents to Sarkicism, despite there being small Christian and Islamic Groups within the country. Freedom of Religion is allowed under the Constitution, although most non-Sarkic instances worship in secret to prevent social and political ostracization. SCP-4036's society is primarily rural, with a few central urban areas, where the majority of the population lives. These urban locations vary from standard concrete to biological buildings. Economically, SCP-4036 is built around animal and human agriculture, manufacturing, and tobacco farming. Trade is impossible due to ongoing containment of SCP-4036. SCP-4036's government controls 60% of the economy, while the rest is owned either communally or by individuals. SCP-4036's government is divided into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. The legislative branch is divided into three houses: the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Karcist Council. The House of Representatives currently comprises around 100 representatives, each one representing 100 people. The Senate is composed of 10 delegates, each representing 1000 people. Both houses are chosen by majority vote per district. The Karcist Council is a group of 20 individuals representing the main religious governing body, The Church of the Republic, of which all citizens are members. This house is made up of individuals hand selected by the Karcist. A Bill can be made into law in one of two ways: (A) be approved of by 60% of both the Senate and House of Representatives, or (B) be approved of by the Karcist Council with a majority vote, even if one house unanimously rejects the proposal. The executive branch is made up of a President (elected by popular vote) and their cabinet, both serving five-year terms with no chance for reelection. All cabinet positions must be approved of by the Karcist Council in majority vote or by 60% of both the Senate and House. The judicial branch makes up The Supreme Court Of the Republic, composed of six posts, all for life. This is made up of appointees chosen by the President and approved of by a simple majority in the Senate and House.4 SCP-4036's society is a combination of Proto-Sarkic beliefs and modernity, with a heavy focus on religious and civic patriotism, and modern technology. Religiosity of Grand Karcist Ion is highly valued by the public, along with technological innovation. Electronic and digital products are popular amongst SCP-4036-1, with the majority of them coming from either smuggling or bootlegging. However, biological machinery is also used by the populace, primarily among lower classes. Biological machinery is often viewed as inferior to digital and electronic technology, and is usually used when non-biological options are not available. Often, lower classes are incapable of buying products, resorting to crafting their own.5 PoI-432 (Left) and PoI-433 (Right), 1st and 2nd Presidents of SCP-4036 respectively. While social stratification exists in SCP-4036's society, every individual is entitled to adequate healthcare and food. Healthcare is, comparatively, the cheapest in the entire world. However, this is most likely due more to the abundance of biological manipulation and crafting among the population than to any inherent superiority of the government healthcare system. Participation in the armed forces or civil duty is mandatory once a citizen reaches the age of 19. Individuals must either spend time in the armed forces for two years before being discharged, or participate in civil duty for 16 months. Most citizens choose the latter option. Patriotic and religious feelings often coincide with one another in the cultural depictions of SCP-4036. Klavigar Saarn is often heavily associated with Lady Adytum, the personification of SCP-4036. Prayer often occurs directly after a salute to the flag of SCP-4036. Every President of SCP-4036 has cited a strong belief in Sarkicism. The majority of SCP-4036-1 hold the belief that an individual cannot be a citizen of SCP-4036 without also being a Sarkic. The military of SCP-4036 often uses the seal of Klavigar Orok, the Klavigar of war and domination. Currently, SCP-4036 has been contained to around 300 islands, and not allowed to expand beyond these borders. While no official treaty or cooperative agreement has been established between the Foundation and SCP-4036, there have been no further attempts by either side to cease the stalemate. PoI-432 File Access Granted Person of Interest File #432 Legal Name: Norman Taylor Aliases used: "President Taylor" Associated Groups of Interest: Polynesian Sarkic Associated Persons of Interest: PoI-182 ("William Walker"), PoI-433 ("Ohashi Hachigoro"), PoI-431 ("John Taylor") Reason for monitoring: PoI having violated (A) American neutrality acts and (B) having set up an illegal state called "The Adytite Republic of Polynesia" along with various other filibusters and mercenaries.6 Current Course of Action: N/A Former Course of Action: Neutralize PoI before PoI can attempt to either disrupt colonial interests in Polynesia or, under more severe circumstances, attempt to take over vast quantities of land. Priority: High N/A Status: "President" of an illegal republic, henceforth referred to as SCP-4036. Dead. Background Information: Prior to PoI's relationship with SCP-4036 and other filibusters, PoI developed an impactful (if short) relationship with PoI-182 ("William Walker") in 1853, after PoI-182 was attempting to recruit mercenaries to create the independent federal republic, Republic of Sonora (October 1853 — May 1854) and the Republic of Lower California (October 1853 — January 1854) as slave colonies in the region. However, by 1854 the relationship had declined between PoI-432 and PoI-182, eventually leading in PoI-432 to split from PoI-182. By 1855, PoI had heard various stories about a "virgin island" in the southern area of Polynesia, filled with resources such as sugar cane, tobacco, and gold. Notably, this region purportedly contained a population that had very little, if any, contact with European explorers and was — in the eyes of most American filibusters at the time — servile in nature. In 1856, PoI wrote to his brother, PoI-431 ("John Taylor"), who operated a private shipbuilding and trading service at the time, asking for a variety of ships for the journey. PoI-431 delivered the ships at a reduced charge for PoI-432, but only under the condition that he never contact him again. By 1857, PoI hired around 300 mercenaries and filibusters to come with him in the total of 10 ships, outfitted with cannons and one year's worth of food for the entire crew. PoI then left for the island. It should be noted that PoI had no direct evidence of SCP-4036's existence, as it only existed in rumor in the California and Nevada territories. The following documents have been ordered sequentially in the order that they were written: ….Walker ruined Sonora and Baja, and is currently ruining Nicaragua. He is an amoral slaver, who believes himself better than all others…. I tried to force him in the right direction, but he would not listen to reason. This time, things will be sufficiently different. We have weaponry; we are away from normal civilization, and away from the Americas. Of course, other colonial powers are nearby, but as long as we do not anger them or gain their attention, all things will turn out well…. Walker was crude in his Presidential style, only ever focusing on slavery, that horrific, barbaric institution. It was a fantasy, as if they would be set atop the aristocracy, instead of a rich Tennessean. It is quite crude and amoral venture, in my view. A yellow man, an anthropologist who has accompanied me on my voyage for the sake of easy communication with these tribesmen, came to me in private confidence, to warn me about his perceived fears over this project of mine….I told him that such fears were not justified. We were both Republicans; we both believed slavery was immoral. Did he not agree that it was the job of more civilized people — like us and the Japanese — to bring civilization to these poor, barbaric people? To provide them the tools and the resources to fight back against tyranny? Exploitation of the weak and powerless is inherent to the human condition — Cain slew Abel just for being more pleasing in the Eyes of Our Lord and Savior. 4 people on our planet and we have our first murder, the first time blood was spilled upon the ground in the pursuit of petty revenge. It is our job to give these peoples some sort of equal standing, to have people defend them against exploitation. The yellow man agreed and went back to work. We reached The Island. I saw a woman in the treeline matching the descriptions of the natives. She wore flesh-like things on her body, covering her below the waist. I'd almost say she was the living image of beauty herself, if the abhorrent symbols didn't dot her face and body. Children destroying their bodies for the sake of barbaric culture….We made camp here, and plan on keeping camp here for as long as necessary. I believe these natives would make fine workers, if we gain the friendship of their cultural institutions. Loyalty to these institutions. brings sacrifice for the greater good. Great civilizations are built on the back of good workers. To the east of this campsite, I found a small patch of dirt with queer protrusions jutting from it. It was hairy, but not like plant fuzz, almost animal-like in its physicality. I felt an instinctual urge to pull on it, to see what there was. I ordered the men to help me when I could not get it out myself, and together we managed to rip the 'plant' out of the ground. The protrusion was not a plant but a tail, the tail of a large swine. We had ripped its tail off. How such a swine came into existence on this geographically isolated island, I am unsure. As we got up, we stared at the creature. It squealed in pain trying to get itself up and walk, but it fell back on its side, and continued to bleed and whimper. As it laid dying, I drew my pistol and killed the poor thing. I looked over the corpse after killing it. It seemed fully grown. A scout team has returned to our camp, 4 men dead and 3 more injured. They testified that, while searching for natives, a large, 15-foot tall beast has come from the greenery on the beachside of the island. Bullets did nothing against the bone shields. I ordered my ships to scout the beachside, searching for the beast. Considering the circumstances, I believed it prudent. "The beast attacked our camp, slaughtering 21 of our men. It towered at least 19 feet, with the majority of its face surrounded by yellowy bone. This creature was foreign to me. It had the torso of a mammoth, the head of a horse, and the claws of bear. Its torso was covered in thick white bone, and its claws being made entirely of flesh. They morphed and changed, like liquid. Liquid metal. It tore through men, slashing them apart like factory equipment, with giant long tendrils popping out of nowhere, only to be reabsorbed back into its body. Its flesh almost looked like a spider's web, interconnecting into itself, layering on top of one another. But it almost seemed to be independent of the beast, trying to force itself into a thousand different directions, but being stamped down by the superior force. Some of our men gots stuck inside. Just touching it is enough to get stuck. An arm becomes your entire body. I can still hear the screams as those men were consumed inside the mass of flesh, as muffled as they were. I felt its eyes bore into me as our cannons tore through its flesh, leaving large holes in its body. It still twitches, sometimes. I need to lay down or else I'll rip this page out. I plan on going to the middle of the island, and seeing if there are any natives there. I will take exactly 100 armed men there and see if we can come to some sort of agreement with the natives. I wish to make good on my promise to the anthropologist and avoid hurting as many as possible. I killed a chieftain today. Or, what I presume was a chieftain. He ordered us to lay down our weapons, at least from what the anthropologist told us. I shoot him in the head and he falls to the ground without a single yelp or whimper of pain. Some ran in fear, others too fearful to run, of which we captured and took back to camp. The anthropologist and I hate seeing the poor creatures in pain, but this is their fate for the time being. We talked to one of them, a boy no older than ten. He thanked us for killing the chieftain, for his rule was immoral and cruel. I received similar testimonies from the others of this chieftain's cruelty. We told him we were going to help them and make their lives better. I then asked him about the beast, and the boy sighed. He told us that it was made by the village. The chieftain, in response to seeing that outsiders appeared on the island, ordered the entire tribe to group in the main village and help construct a guardian. This process took the majority of their energy, but not three days later, the chieftain ordered the young village men to come with him and to fight. The beast had been killed. He said the chieftain said we were going to kill the men and violate the women. The anthropologist took me aside. He said that these villagers were an anomaly. I concurred, as it was not normal for people to craft flesh, but he said even aside from that, this shouldn't be possible. When I asked why, he responded that this language was a combination of European and Polynesian languages. Along with that, these villagers didn't look like Polynesians, as their skin was light toned. Unless they traveled across the world to this island. Some of the men brought us to the village. It couldn't have been more than 300 men and women. Their houses weren't made of wood or stone, but masses of flesh which bulged and moaned. These were made from the bodies of the dead, as a way to make sure their deaths were not worthless. They wore wet flesh on themselves, which, to me, seemed more disgusting than the houses themselves. Most of the village was terrified of the chieftain, not even attempting to go back for the body, fearful that it wouldn't be dead. Some were terrified of the new arrivals, while others asked The Elder, who graciously suggested they wait before jumping to conclusions about their new guests. The majority followed The Elders, the sacred group who had, until very recently, lead their tribe. Homelessness was nonexistent. They seemed to have no outsiders or undesirables, whether it be in a caste system such as India, or economic status, such as in Europe and the rest of the Americas. Men and women are not separated based on sex, but based on their nature. Men and women hunt, men and women search for food. They mostly subsist on meat, but fruits exist on this island as well. I saw families rush from their houses to some of the men we captured and smothered them with kisses and hugs and cries that they were okay and safe. I saw a man cry in front of another, barely standing up. I asked Ohashi what was happening. He said that they were husbands. I wished to know nothing more. I asked some others if there was a village elder. They said there were once many, but all of them were slaughtered by the chieftain. Originally, the island had been run by wise old men who knew the religion, studied their practice since birth, and had their oral history since the beginning of their tribe, many thousands of years ago. The chieftain, originally an apprentice of one of them, rose up and killed them along with the other apprentices. He mastered the arts of crafting flesh at an early age, and could form entire beasts in an instant. I asked if there was anyone else who could give me the history of these people. There was one last remaining elder: the chieftain's father. When I questioned them on where they acquired the large mass of flesh, they told me that, in the quest to make the beast, they had used up all their reserves. Seeing an opportunity to make right with the community, I told them that we had a large supply of food on our ships, and that, if they needed to, we would provide them with as much food as possible. However, I needed an agreement from the leader of this tribe. They would agree to whatever proposal I had if the elder did so, who, according to them, would always put their own interests aside for the good of the village. We told him our offer, which he accepted, and thanked us for being so generous. He hugged us, and went out of the tent and called for the entire village, saying that the men would be generous and give us food as they planted their own. Our men transported food to them. One complained to me that they were giving away their food. I agreed, but told him that this was necessary to gain the trust. Then, once this occurred, we would be able to civilize them." We have established our Capital city around the village. We have been training some of the hunters to hunt with our rifles, and they teach us their homeland and their agriculture. They place a newborn creature into the ground and bury it. The soil accelerates their growth. The Elder says this is a sign from Ion that the island is one of his many holy lands. They planted newborn swines into the ground and will wait a couple months for them to develop. Until then, hunting other creatures, such as birds and fish will be enough to fill satisfy them. I must remember to get cows and chickens and normal pigs from my newfound supplier.7 Swine is an excellent dish, but not something civilized people should feed on. I had a thought many nights ago. What if I am meant to bring these people an Empire? It is a strange thought, but, considering everything that has gone on in the past months, is it so strange to think this? Is there truth to this? Or, at the very least, elements of truth in it? I must think on this. I went into the mines today, and these mines definitely have gold. It could probably go down many many miles, down below the crust of the earth. I come from a gold family; it's in my bones, even my first job was mining gold, so I know there's gold here. My men whisper of leaving with the gold. I cannot allow that to happen. I must create an economy here, to strengthen ourselves here. Assuming I have enough here to operate the mines, I must have others work on creating currency. Gold is humanity's oldest currency, but these people know nothing of money. They don't even have a barter economy, instead sharing with one another. I have heard of socialism amongst the Europeans, and this is the closest I can think to socialism. With few resources, it forces cooperation amongst them. It's beautiful in a way, but not conducive to a civilized society, at least in the economic sense. I need to solve the labor crisis before my men forsake me. I asked the Elder a hypothetical question. Would it be possible for a human child to be planted in the ground, and for a full grown adult come in its place? He looked at me strangely, but he answered yes, it is, but is generally viewed as inhumane, as it destroys the lifespan of the child. While it is said in the past that in times of disaster children will be planted, this is only done when no other possibility is available. He then asked me why I was asking such odd questions, and I told him what I was planning. He seemed shocked at first, horrified even, but then I described to him our future plans. I told him I thought I was to be the bringer of the Empire and that, with our weaponry and resources, we bring it about in quick order. We brought him to the gold mine and the ships and showed him the maps of the world. I told him that together with these people's innate abilities, we could bring the entire world under our reign. I described how commerce worked. Leaving out references to competition, as I know it would offend his cultural sensibilities. When I described to him how every nation on this planet had this, and the necessity of democratic institutions, he seemed more amicable to my plans. He approved of our plan, but told us to make it swift and to make sure the parents do not witness this. I promised him this. He told the members of the community that it is a moral imperative to start producing offspring as soon as possible. Ohashi looked at me with disdain throughout the whole procedure." It's been nearly three months since my last entry and I feel sick for what I've done. I feel unclean. Nearly every woman on the island is pregnant. I feel disgusting. I cannot go into the village without feeling disgusting. I feel immoral. I feel evil. I can see their faces. I know what I am. I beg for Christ's forgiveness and I know he reviles me as well. I threw my Bible out into the sea because I could feel it berating me. I could feel it berating me for what I've done. But I need to do this. I need to civilize these people. If I don't who will? The British? The Americans? Any other horrible, immoral power that slaughters its people? If I leave, will the same befall these children of nature? I pray to a God whose back is turned on me. A child waved to me today and I cried, because I know that child's brother will be the first one in the ground. I threw up. I have sinned I am sin. It has been six months and I can't bring myself to reflect on my thoughts anymore. Occasionally I'm plagued by nightmares of children rising from the ground and gnawing on me. They're popping out of the ground and grabbing me and bringing me under. I see myself having dirt flung on me and they're still grabbing with their tiny little hands and crying for their mother and I know I'm bleeding and I'm crying out for God but God has turned his back on me. It is done. The sin is done. I told some of the men to get their guns. Ohashi as well. He seemed disgusted at himself. He talked to himself in many languages I didn't recognize. I had never seen him this way before. The other men began to get nervous… The Elder of the village told me most of the children were already born, anywhere from a couple weeks to multiple months, all of sufficient age to be used. The Elder had performed his part. I then ordered my men to go into the tents and take the children and to not shoot. I had to look away for most of it. Most of the children were ripped from their mothers and fathers arms as they cried. Others tried to stab at us, but were beaten into submission. One of our men broke down. He went into the tent and saw a mother with her bone knife. She held onto her baby as tight as possible, tears running down her face. She cried to Ion, for Him to save her son from these monsters. The man began to cry himself. Jethro lost his son and daughter in the blood disputes of Appalachia. He couldn't bring himself to fight back, and broke down. We had to have one of our men bring him in and beat the mother into submission. She screamed for Ion, her Savior, for forgiveness of whatever sin she committed to deserve this punishment. She begged, she screamed, eventually taking one our guns and shooting our man. We lost the child in the scuffle. She was put down. The Elder was attempting to console the village, who had begged him for assistance. He wept, but told them it was for the greater good, for Ion told him that the empire would come in time due to this. Until then, do not resist, for it may anger Ion. By the end of the nightmare, we had over 300 children. We began the process of burying them. I still hear their cries, feeling the dirt enter their mouths and enter their bodies and lungs and stomach, and everywhere else. They will be birthed soon. According to legend, the arm will be what signifies the second birth. Two weeks have passed and the men are still disturbed at the events. Many seek to go home. Others cry of nightmares. I feel something in my stomach weighing me down. I have this revolver next to me. I imagine myself putting the revolver in my mouth and cocking the hammer and shooting. May God take my from my mortal coil and rip me apart. I am a liar and disgusting fraud to all men. Ohashi never speaks to me anymore, only sleeping and occasionally eating. "The nightmares only get worse. They're not screaming anymore, but whispering. They're whispering about what they will do to me. Hundreds of voices whispering in the black dirt around me holding onto me and describing my death. I will be ripped apart by Ion himself. I am no more civilized than the barbarians I am trying to save. God, please forgive me. I ruined the island. God, I wish I could turn back. Turn back and pretend none of this happened. But if I leave now, the men will be angry for all their time and effort is ruined. Not only that, but the island now relies on my supplies. It won't be for many months if not years that their food stock will be brought back up to its previous circumstances. If I do they're all going to starve. If I leave I will ruin these people. Shown that the White man can't be trusted and forever snap the connection between us and them. No, I can't let that happen. I need to stay. I need to. I am a monster. I am unforgivable. I am sin itself. I'm so sorry. It has been three months and there has been a second birth. I stepped foot onto the pastures in the middle of the island for the first time in three months. Limbs dotted the landscape. Full grown adult arms jotting out of the ground, covered in dirt and sunburnt. Some of my men have already started pulling them out of the ground. The Elder tells me it takes awhile before full humans wake up. The women were placed into the care of the village, as they are necessary for future reproduction, and the men dropped off at the shipyard for future mining. Barracks have been built for them, and they will be taught how to mine and fashion coinage for the island. We will repeat the process. I have written my constitution. I lifted many aspects from the American one. Most of the men, despite many reservations with me, will vote for me in the election. If I let the villagers vote I will certainly lose. These men know that without me they'll certainly die without the (perceived) friendship with Ohashi. Ohashi did not respond to me when I said I wrote the constitution. Not that I blame him. I told the Elder that I won the presidency and he congratulated me. He then asked how the second birthers were. I told them the mines were working at an increased efficiency and that we are creating the first batch of currency. We opened the stores and gave each villagers enough coin to buy a couple of things. We told them that if they wished to continue this, they would need to accept the following: to have their tent destroyed and replaced with wooden houses. Many of them rejected this as an insult to their culture, and that it would make them selfish and self-destructive. We told them it was either the house or the stores. Many accepted, although many of the older members still refused. By the end of the day every tent was destroyed and construction began. Many of these men and women are hard workers. Gold production is increasing, and even small farms are beginning. But yet I come across another problem: I need to rid these people of their collective farms. The collective farm makes it difficult to encourage enterprise, because one must always think the collective soil. However, I decided to give The Elder plans about this, and he told me, if it meant the empire be created faster, so be it. I am sin. Today I put down a revolt in the streets. When I announced my plan for the farms to be split amongst the best farmers in the community, they universally rejected it. They yelled at me. Then they began to scream. Then they began to attack my men. One of my men, Henry, began to panic and so drew his pistol and shot two men. This further inflamed the violence. I called Ohashi to quell the violence, but there was nothing he could do. They burnt down the store, stealing things from inside, claiming that it was a violation of their culture. Some even tried stealing our guns. I called in my men and they began putting it down. Gunshots rang out in the village, eventually ending in the death of 50 people. The Elder being one them. We put the revolt down. A good fourth of our original population was slaughtered in the streets, and by my men. God forgive me for what I've done. I called them barbarians, killers, and thieves. I killed a third of every man in the city, as I needed the women alive for the birthing. On the next day I took every small child in the village and buried them again. The nightmares get worse and worse but I know one thing: I will build my empire. One bullet at a time. History General [REDACTED] Bowe, Circa 1854. Introduction of SCP-4036: Its History, Its Containment, and Its People […] The Foundation first discovered SCP-4036 during its invasion of the Northern Island of British New Zealand. There were reports of an undiscovered force in Polynesia causing havoc across the smaller, sparsely populated islands in southeastern Polynesia. However, since there was no substantial proof for this, it was discarded. Upon the invasion of North Island in June of 1861, the Foundation could not ignore this call for war. Within the day of the initial invasion, the entire island fell to SCP-4036 and its force of 5000 men, with a collective of 200 dead. After this, the Foundation declared SCP-4036 the top priority of the region. [….] By the end of June, an international coalition of Spain, Japan, Netherlands, France, and Great Britain had been called together by the Foundation for the purposes of combating this destructive threat against the Foundation, and, to a greater extent, colonial interests in the region. With General Bowe leading forces in South Island New Zealand, the Coalition began to force SCP-4036 back. However, despite conventional military wisdom suggesting otherwise, SCP-4036's forces were able to defeat multiple attempts at Foundation invasions of conquered territory. The attempted invasion of North Island failed, with over 1,000 Coalition causalities, mostly Japanese and British. All attempts at gaining the few, isolated pockets SCP-4036 had control over failed, mostly due to a lack of understanding of SCP-4036's military. […] However, one individual, Ohashi Hachigoro (AKA PoI-433), knew how to help. Vice President of SCP-4036 and leader of religious affairs, he had an understanding of the culture of SCP-4036 that none could rival, even Taylor. Writing to O5-2, a friend of Ohashi before his work with SCP-4036, he offered the Foundation near unlimited information to SCP-4036's military operations, their tactics, their weakness, and, if supplied with armaments, rebel groups in the region. It was an offer the Foundation could not help but take advantage of, and the only thing Ohashi wanted was that SCP-4036-1 (the population) be unharmed. The Foundation, in a remote island near the main capital of SCP-4036, delivered a variety of armaments to Ohashi and his rebel groups. […] However, the decisive factor was the Battle of South Island. The Battle of South Island began on October 13th, when dozens of bone ships were seen on the horizon. Their hulls, made entirely of femur bones, made cannon fire near impossible. Along with eyes implanted on every part of the vessel, boarding them would also be impossible. Preparing to defend the Island, General Bowe gave his men the order to hold their ground. However, in the background, General Bowe came up with a different plan. When the O5 council gave him temporary Level 5 status, he had access to information a normal General would not have been privy to. One of these was Mobile Task Force-Theta-01 ("War Hawks"). Formed during the Foundation Civil War of 1814, Theta-01 was composed of anomalous individuals. Drawn from anomalous Persons of Interest, staff, and SCPs, the task force was made up entirely of individuals who had proven their loyalty to the Foundation. During times of disaster, they were anything from combat operatives, medical officers, memory wipers, and spies. They were an Ace in the hole. So when General Bowe ordered them to destroy the fleet, they were only too glad to answer that request. With a large thaumic blast from the sky, the flesh fleet was fried, with no mercy. [….] By the end of 1861, SCP-4036 had been all but beaten. Not only that, it was near collapse. Ohashi, seeing an opportunity that the Battle of South Island left open, ordered his rebel groups to seize the day, and attacked the Capital. Within the span of two months, from December to January, the Capital was laid to ruins. The Capital, made up of over 20,000 citizens, mostly military, was reduced to 3000 by the end of the fighting. However, despite the mass destruction, Hachigoro was able to come out the victor, declaring himself the President of the Republic, calling for elections of the House of Representatives, Senate, and for the Church to call in delegates. […] Taylor, realizing he had nothing left to lose, attempted one final assault on the Capital. Grabbing hold of the handful of men still loyal to him, he marched on the Capital building, ordering Hachigoro, his former comrade, to surrender, and that he would pardon him if he did. Ohashi, instead, had his handful of men slaughtered in the street, and Taylor himself gagged and placed into his own private cell. Ohashi knew that Taylor was leverage. […] The Coalition, however, did not need leverage. Most of the population had been, thanks to Theta-01, pacified, and the damages covered up. The Coalition had their colonies back and with minimal damage. It should have been sufficient. But it wasn't. The Foundation, still believing that containment had not been fulfilled, pushed the Coalition to invade the main island. However, the Coalition, unfamiliar with Foundation policy, were not willing to plan a full out invasion of the island. They were not willing to test their militaries after near defeat mere months ago. Ohashi was also not willing to cooperate. He refused to allow Foundation representatives into the island, and ordered his military to arrest all Foundation officers that arrived. With no way to combat this, the Foundation resorted to containment of SCP-4036. SCP-4036 remains the Foundation's biggest failure. Modern The following is a series of excerpts from interviews of current day SCP-4036-1. These recordings were done under the guise of a reporter from the Capital of SCP-4036. "….oh yes, I, um, yeah, I speak English. I'm not the best at it, since it's usually used by the, um, higher ones? I think that's the correct word. Again, my English is poor, so I apologize for the incorrect word. Yes, I'm Japanese, although I have not been to that country. My father sometimes talk about it, but I, um, don't, uh, don't know anything about the culture or anything. I tend to use English sparingly. Only the city ones ever use it. We use the traditional language, the ones our ancestors used to communicate with Ion, before we were cut off. Hmm? Oh yes, since we use metal, our High Priest Ion cut us off from his flesh. We are wandering in the dark now… "We don't use those machines. We use flesh and bones like we always have and always will use. Whenever I hold one of those things in my hand I feel unclean in my own skin, I feel like a spirit massages my skin and scalp in a horrifically uncomfortable way. Even talking about it makes me uncomfortable. Oh, yes, many of the farmers out here don't use them, but I think it's due to their economy than their beliefs." "The sewers are, if not the worst thing I've ever seen, at least up there in sheer quality of awfulness. The pipes are alive as well, you see. They grow and expand outward, and we need to encourage it to go in the right direction, you see. We cut a couple limbs off here and there. Sure they scream and squeal, but they need to transport our waste in the right direction, you understand. But that ain't the worst part, in my opinion. The worst part are the homeless critters underneath the city. We don't bother bringing the limbs back up. The homeless just eat it back up. And yes, those pipes are filled with our waste. I do not know how desperate a man must get before eating piss and shit covered flesh, but that is desperation if I've ever seen one." "The Foundation is a scourge on this planet. I find our President's rhetoric amoral and — perhaps — dangerous. Does he not know our history? Our past? I don't understand how he could platform on mending that relationship, it's like sticking your dick in a beehive. It might feel good for a minute or two, and then the stinging happens. It's just unpleasant the whole way round." "The President? I, um, don't keep track of what he does. Sorry, English isn't first language. I am American, I think, but I don't much about it. I know some Japan language, but I use the traditional language. It brings me closer with Ion. I think the city dwellers are too concerned with technology and metal than with our savior Ion, but that is not for me to decide. We all are absorbed back into his body in the end anyways." "I don't think the Christians and Muslims deserve what happened to them, but it is unnatural for them to be here. It isn't natural for a European and Asiatic religion to be on this island. It spreads far and fast, and far beyond the eyes of our government that I think it's a danger to our society. Now, I don't think they deserve what's going on for them by any means, but should they really be surprised by what's going on? It's unregulated and clashes too wildly with our culture — we're a Holy nation after all, founded on Ion's beliefs and desires, not on Jesus or Mohammed. No, no, no violence, I abhor violence, I just want a peaceful cleansing of the nation, that is all." "….I once went looking in the woods once. I heard their murmuring, their screams. I picked up my gun and traveled on foot. I was preparing for one or two, not a dozen, wearing large fleshy tendrils on their persons. They were wearing the symbols of one of the nearby warlord camps, and so I began to walk away, and then fell into a pit. I felt myself near bodies. Many, many bodies. Dozens, maybe a hundred. All in various states of rottage, of worms crawling around in the eyes and maggots eating holes inside the face and the throat and god knows where. "My thud attracted to them. I gripped my shotgun and hid under the bodies, praying to my savior for forgiveness and to protect me from these barbaric monsters. They spoke in hushed whispers of the traditional language. One poked the body I lay under. I could smell her rotting corpse. Her eyes weren't there anymore, just glassy holes that used to contain humanity. A mother for one, a sister for another, a wife for another. "I peeked out and say that they held flesh weaponry, black red tendrils popping out of their backs, revealing their skeletons and organs and everywhere else. I aimed for one of these backs, hoping to strike a heart or other vital organ. I aimed and fired, blowing not only his brains out but his heart and skeleton as well. I ran as far as possible, occasionally firing back as a warning. Their weapons worked best in close range, but were ineffective in longer ranges. I got inside my house and didn't come out until morning. I slept with a shotgun. "I went to the police that morning in the city. They checked the pit. "There wasn't a single person without Christian or Islamic iconography in that pit." "The Foundation is our protector as well as our slaver. It protects our borders but only under the auspicious of keeping us in bondage. Our military isn't for protecting from other countries, but from an international agency bent on our destruction. I have heard stories of attempts to court the gee-oh-sea and gee-arr-you, but to no avail. I wonder if I'll ever see my homeland of Japan ever again, but I doubt such a possibility." "Our battle with the Foundation isn't only an ideological battle over independence and centralization, but a battle over science and religion. You see, as the head of our Church, I believe that the Foundation is not only a physical but spiritual force. The Foundation is the force that seeks to contain who you are, what you are. They wish to contain our religion, keep it from spreading as it should across the world. If we can destroy that force within us all that seeks to contain our beliefs, we have already won the battle." "I sometimes worry that our people are too focused on an upcoming defensive battle with the Foundation. The countryside wishes for peace and their common religion, while the cities seek outside products such as phones, the internet, and other technological equipment. The Foundation is a threat to their religion and their ability to connect to the outside. I worked for the military for two years, and I can say, we all know a war's coming, but we don't want to admit it. If there is a war, our country will burn, I can assure you of that." "Sometimes I wonder why we're here. Of course, I understand how we're here, but I don't know why we're here. Are we just trying to keep the experiment our founder had many years ago? Of our second president? Or are we trying to survive against the oppressive forces of the Foundation? I don't know. I do know what we are, at least. Enemies of the Foundation. And that binds us together. For how much longer though? I am unsure." Level 5 Access Only Access Granted Treaty Draft BE it declared that, on [REDACTED], the Foundation and The Adytite Republic of Polynesia have come to the following: That The Adytite Republic of Polynesia will be officially recognized by the Foundation, and be allowed the conditions of trade and self-determination under Foundation supervision. That the Foundation will, to the best of its abilities, protect the current regime of the Republic, its interests, and its people. That the Adytite Republic of Polynesia, in exchange for official status as an anomalous state, will, in the case of an anomalous phenomenon, relinquish all responsibilities to the Foundation when captured. If there be an anomalous humanoid on the Adytite Republic of Polynesia outside of standard anomalous capabilities (see Article-III for Normalcy Standards of the Republic), the Adytite Republic authorities will detain and revoke the citizenship of said anomalous humanoid and place it at the nearest Foundation site in the region. Allow the construction of Site-4036 to contain any anomalous objects, entities, etc. that may inhabit the country. Allow the Foundation to use physical or human resources in the region for the purposes of furthering containment of an item or serving Foundation needs. Signed, O5-1, O5-2, O5-4, O5-5, O5-6, O5-8, O5-9, O5-10, O5-11, O5-12, O5-13, President of the Adytite Republic of Polynesia Footnotes 1. Currently Pending. 2. Hereafter referred to as SCP-4036-1. 3. ~10,000 4. The Karcist Council has no involvement in appointment or approval of Judges. 5. It is believed the average farm uses up 30% of its produce in the creation of clothing for the farmer and their family. 6. In the context of foreign policy, filibustering is when someone engages in an (at least nominally) unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country or territory to foment or support a revolution. Filibusters are often irregular soldiers who act in a financial, ideological, or patriotic interest. 7. The identity of PoI-432's supplier is unknown, despite repeated attempts to discover their identity. The most likely indicators are either (A) religious leaders, (B) political leaders, or (C) friends of PoI-432. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4036" by Written by Zer0Ne0phyte, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4036. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4037 | safe | Item #: SCP-4037 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4037 is to be kept in its original wooden box inside a standard lead-lined storage container at Site-77. Description: SCP-4037 is a set of seven metallic wristbands, numbered SCP-4037-1 to -7; all seven objects are practically identical, with insignificant variations in mass. SCP-4037 objects measure approximately 100 mm in diameter, 15 mm in width and 3 mm in thickness. The wristbands are made from a duralumin-like alloy, notably containing tungsten in non-negligible proportions. Despite not containing any radioactive materials, the objects emit weak but constant x-ray radiation; effective radiation dose from 24 hours of exposure is equal to approximately 0.0021 rem (approximately equivalent to two days of exposure to Earth's natural background radiation). The objects' interior makeup is homogeneous, containing no extraneous materials, bodies or cavities. SCP-4037 was discovered after an investigation of a case of mass suicide by local law enforcement in ██████████, Wales. Investigation began after a postal worker called emergency services due to a foul smell emanating from the residence located at ██ ██████ ██. Seven partially decomposed bodies, four male and three female, were discovered inside the building, each wearing an SCP-4037 object (in their idle states at the time); cause of death was determined to be exsanguination due to severed carotid arteries. After examination of writings found on the scene, victims were found to have been part of a doomsday cult called Temple of the Seventh Heaven. Embedded Foundation assets were alerted to SCP-4037's existence after it was sent to Cardiff University for detailed study, at which time the object was taken into Foundation custody, involved persons were administered amnestics, and official documents were appropriately amended. Transcripts of the discovered writings are enclosed in Addendum 4037/008. During initial containment, a container was found at the scene of the suicide, believed to be the original storage for SCP-4037. The container is an ornate wooden box measuring 60 cm × 60 cm × 35 cm (L × W × H) with double doors on top. Interior is covered in felt and contains eight cavities perfectly accommodating SCP-4037; seven are located radially around an eighth, located in the center. All eight cavities are equal in dimensions. The container bears no markings and exhibits no anomalous properties. Extensive searches have been conducted, but an eighth SCP-4037 object (provisionally numbered SCP-4037-8) has not yet been located; it is unknown whether SCP-4037-8 is identical to the other seven SCP-4037 objects, but it is assumed that it bears superficial similarity. Each SCP-4037 object has an identical pattern of small depressions (approximately 0.5 mm in diameter and depth) around its circumference. The depressions are spaced unevenly. No meaning to their configuration has been discerned as of yet, and no definite theory has been formulated on whether these features are ornamental or functional. Current attempts at deciphering the pattern involve studying potential information carried by the intervals between depressions.1 When at rest, SCP-4037's diameter is large enough to allow most humans to put their hand through it. Once around a human wrist, SCP-4037 usually (see below) enters its active state, which is marked with an approximately 27% increase in x-ray output. SCP-4037 also reconfigures itself to fit snugly around the wrist. This process involves the object changing its dimensions — primarily diameter and thickness, although some variation in width has also been observed. Throughout this process, the object's mass stays constant, though the object's density undergoes slight variation. The size of the depressions on SCP-4037's surface also changes to preserve their configuration relative to each other. In addition to changes in measurements, the object rapidly heats up to match the subject's body temperature. The processes involved in SCP-4037's ability to recognise acceptable human candidates and change its shape and temperature are not yet understood. As long as only one subject is wearing SCP-4037 in a 30 meter radius, they experience no anomalous effects. When attempting to remove it, SCP-4037 reconfigures itself to normal size and returns to its idle state; however, SCP-4037 may only be removed in this way as long as the wearer is conscious and not inwardly opposed to the object's removal. Forcible removal of SCP-4037 remains possible through amputation or other trauma. Primary anomalous effects are exhibited when more than one subject is wearing SCP-4037 in a 30 m radius — these subjects are referred to as "connected". After several minutes, connected subjects appear to gain rudimentary telepathic abilities — this phenomenon is referred to as "connection". Initially, this connection is maintained only while staying within 30 m of each other; however, as more time is spent by the subjects around each other, the effective range becomes longer, and the connection between the subjects becomes more profound. After spending approximately two hours in a connection, subjects are able to meaningfully communicate without vocalisation; by that point subjects also gain basic familiarity with skills, knowledge and mental conditions of other connected subjects. The degree of connection between subjects grows exponentially with time, though a higher number of connected subjects leads to slower growth. Most effects of SCP-4037 exposure disappear fully within 24 hours of connection termination. The following definite properties of these anomalous effects have been ascertained in the course of experimentation with the object: SCP-4037 only enters its active state when exposed to humans older than 12 years with average hand and forearm proportions. Once an initial connection is formed, new participants may only enter the connection if they are within initial effective range (30 m) of the existing participants. Groups of subjects separated by distances greater than 30 m form separate connections amongst themselves, without interlinking. Bringing two separate connected groups within 30 m does not lead to an interlink. Connections propagate by proxy; as long as each member of a connection is connected to at least one other member, total connection is maintained. Exiting effective range severs the connection until such a time when the effective range extends far enough. Time spent outside of the connection does not contribute to alterations in mental state; when outside of effective range, SCP-4037 is considered not to exhibit its primary anomalous properties in practice. Based on the single prolonged exposure experiment currently on file (see Addendum 4037/012), prolonged connection has been observed to create an extremely powerful mental link between subjects. Prolonged connection also creates extreme aversion to the idea of being parted from SCP-4037 in the subjects. However, it is currently unclear whether this is an anomalous property of the object itself, or an effect of the relationship established between connected subjects. Short-term exposure (defined as up to two hours) does not carry this risk. An abridged experiment log is enclosed in Addendum 4037/011. Proposed potential military, medical, scientific and other applications of SCP-4037 are discussed in Addendum 4037/022. [+] Addendum 4037/008: Temple of the Seventh Heaven Writings (Abridged) [-] Close Addendum 4037/008: Temple of the Seventh Heaven Writings (Abridged) A diary was discovered alongside one of the deceased members, █████ ███████, at the place of initial containment. Transcripts of entries from the notebook are provided below. The date of the first entry, ██/██/20██, is henceforth referred to as Day 1, and each entry is dated relative to Day 1. In total, 43 entries have been omitted for brevity; an unabridged transcript of all entries is available in Addendum 4037/009. Day 1 Today we have all been officially inducted into the Temple. I feel truly blessed. I shall be our Teacher's scribe and preserve His teachings for future acolytes. His first lesson was spiritual resolve. Modern society and inventions cause many to become complacent, wanting and striving for nothing. Only those who constantly struggle towards self-betterment are blessed and pure. [REDACTED FOR BREVITY] Day 25 Truly, a miracle has occurred today: our Teacher presented us with bracelets He calls soul-bands. He says they are a special and wondrous gift to Him from God, and it is true — our meeting today took place as we were wearing our soul-bands, and we all felt a most profound spiritual connection with each other. It was almost as though I could feel my brothers and sisters while we were reflecting. We all felt happy and joyous. Brother ██████ wept. We had to leave our soul-bands after the end of our meeting, and the loss we felt was great, but I look forward to our next meeting. Today, His lesson was on the earthly and the heavenly. Many are misguided, thinking earthly desires sinful and resenting them. In truth, as the soul inhabits the flesh, the flesh affects the soul. Fulfilling earthly desires is simply another step towards purifying the soul, for when the flesh is healthy and content, the soul may endeavour to better itself with more ease. Though earthly desires may corrupt the soul when indulged in excess, those who are strong and resolute shall not fall into temptation, for the soul is not slave to the flesh. [REDACTED FOR BREVITY] Day 29 With each meeting, our connection grows stronger. Our Teacher told us the soul-bands help us grow closer to each other, but that in time, we won't need them to be together in spirit. I wish for that day to come soon. Today, His lesson was the virtues of love. Closeness of spirit begets closeness of body, and closeness of body reinforces closeness of spirit. [REDACTED FOR BREVITY] After today's reflection, with our Teacher's blessing we were together. Brother and Sister ███ wished for our Teacher to join us, but He said we would be together with Him in time, once we truly understood His lessons. Day 37 Our Teacher spoke to us with his spirit today. It was a miracle, and we all wept at hearing his words in our minds and feeling them in our souls. We feel closer than ever before, and our Teacher says we may keep our soul-bands outside our meetings. Today, His lesson was humility. [REDACTED FOR BREVITY] Day 45 It's getting harder to write, because words do no justice to what we feel. Our Teacher says we're almost ready, and we know that we are. Today, His lesson was patience. Day 57 Teacher said we were ready today, and we were. He wanted to take us in, but he was afraid of what we had become. He struck down our flesh, but we didn't falter. We had taken his lessons to heart. We showed him the virtues of acceptance and welcomed him. Today and forever, our lesson is unity. The identity of the character of Teacher has not yet been ascertained. The current working theory is that this person or being is the eighth member of the group, currently in possession of the missing SCP-4037-8. Locating Teacher remains a high-priority task in the course of SCP-4037's study. [+] Addendum 4037/011: Aggregated Experiment Log (Abridged) [-] Close Addendum 4037/011: Aggregated Experiment Log (Abridged) For the following experiments, unless otherwise noted, two subjects were connected with SCP-4037. Only one of them (the "subject") was interviewed; the other subject (the "counterpart"), where applicable, was not informed of the nature of the test. To minimise side effects from the two-way connection, the subject is selected from a pool of D-class personnel without a history of violent crime. One experiment was conducted per day and experiment duration was limited to two hours. An abridged list of experiments follows; a full and unedited log is available in Addendum 4037/013. Test # Subject Counterpart Outcome 4037/E-005 D-9183 D-8145 See Addendum 4037/012 4037/E-007 D-7145 A retail display mannequin Active state not triggered. 4037/E-009 D-7145 Female child (8 months) Active state not triggered. 4037/E-009 D-7145 Adult male with both hands amputated Active state not triggered. 4037/E-011 D-7145 A recently deceased (2 hrs) adult female After 13 minutes, subject stated he was feeling "depressed" and "hollow". Subject reported perceiving a total absence of thought within the counterpart; exact wording was "…not like when you're thinking about nothing, 'cause you still think about some stuff, this is just… nothing at all". Feelings exacerbated as experiment went on. Experiment terminated prematurely after 21 minutes of total exposure due to subject showing significant distress. Subject's emotional state returned to normal the following day. 4037/E-012 D-7145 A deceased (43 hrs) adult male Active state not triggered.2 4037/E-016 D-7145 Adult male with synesthesia After 45 minutes, subject reported seeing colours when viewing letters and words. Colours were consistent with the counterpart's synesthesia. Effects persisted for two hours after SCP-4037 had been taken off. 4037/E-027 D-7145 Adult Chinese male with no prior knowledge of English Subject was successfully able to read counterpart's surface thoughts, although subject reported that some of them were "unclear". After 32 minutes, subject began experiencing some difficulty expressing himself verbally, routinely remembering Mandarin words in place of English.3 Subject showed no distress, instead describing the effects as "cool". By the 68-minute mark, confusion had lessened and subject was able to express himself in Mandarin at a low intermediate level. Mandarin proficiency decreased over a ten-hour period after termination of experiment; however, subject is still able to recall simple words and greetings in the language.4 4037/E-031 D-5471 Young female suffering from anxiety After 27 minutes, subject began exhibiting symptoms consistent with mild anxiety. Subject showed no significant distress. At the same time, counterpart reported feeling better; EEG scans confirmed a decrease in anxiety-related brain activity. Both participants returned to respective baselines within three hours of experiment termination. 4037/E-059 MTF Theta-90 ("Angle Grinders") MTF Theta-90 agents ████ and ██████ were issued SCP-4037 objects, fully aware of their effects. After 30 minutes, connected agents engaged in training exercises against other Theta-90 operatives. Several exercises were performed; each successive exercise showed improved reaction times, tactical awareness and coordination in connected agents. SCP-4037 was safely removed and returned to containment after 103 minutes of total exposure. No lasting effects have been observed in agents affected by the object.5 Experiments involving cross-testing with humanoid objects in Foundation custody is pending O5 approval. [+] Addendum 4037/012: Experiment Log 4037/E-005 (Abridged) [-] Close Addendum 4037/012: Experiment Log 4037/E-005 (Abridged) This experiment was conducted in parallel to scheduled daily testing. Two subjects, D-9183 (male, 32 years) and D-8145 (female, 34 years) were connected with SCP-4037 and moved to a joint quarters under supervision. Subjects were not informed of the nature of the object or the purpose of the experiment. Subjects were instructed to present a written and spoken report of their status every 24 hours; subjects were instructed to write and dictate a report before the experiment began — this was used as baseline. An abridged log of this experiment is provided below; a full and unedited log is available in Addendum 4037/015. Time Log entry T+00:00:31 D-9183 initiates conversation with D-8145 about the nature of the experiment and the subjects' background. T+00:03:08 D-8145 asks if D-9183 said something. D-9183 did not speak. T+00:05:59 D-9183 asks if D-8145 said something. D-8145 did not speak. T+00:08:31 D-8145 asks if D-9183 said something. D-9183 did not speak. Subjects express animosity towards each other, each believing the other to be playing tricks on them. T+00:09:03 D-9183 asks D-8145 not to hit him. When D-8145 asked why he said this, he stated to have "had a feeling". T+00:10:09 Subjects attempt to ascertain the nature of the objects. After D-8145 confesses to having thought about striking D-9183, subjects agree that the objects enable them to read each other's minds. T+00:17:37 Subjects begin experimentation, attempting to read each other's thoughts. Subjects establish rapport. T+00:31:42 D-9183 addresses the researchers, thanking them for giving him "something good for a change". T+02:01:22 Amount of verbal conversation has decreased. Subjects noted to occasionally interrupt leisure activities to look at each other without saying anything. T+04:22:57 Subjects engage in sexual intercourse. No coherent vocalisations are heard.6 T+22:09:13 Subjects exhibit impaired gross and fine motor skills, stumbling and having trouble operating kitchen and writing utensils. T+24:00:00 Subjects are asked to present their reports. No significant deviation is noted in written reports; subjects show some difficulty expressing themselves when presenting spoken reports. Contents of these and further reports are available in Addendum 4037/018. T+38:15:49 Subjects' gross and fine motor skills appear to return to baseline. However, subjects now exhibit greater synchronicity in movement and utensil operation. T+48:00:00 Subjects are asked to present their reports. Written reports are broadly similar in contents; independent linguistic analysis indicates they were written by the same person, although handwriting analysis attributes authorship of the reports to each of the subjects. Spoken reports use turns of phrase commonly used by both subjects. T+51:14:11 Subjects' eating and sleeping habits appear to have become totally synchronised. Other biological processes, however, are not synchronised, likely due to differences in metabolism. Subjects also exhibit independence during leisure activities; D-8145 frequently paints with provided supplies, whereas D-9183 uses a provided notebook to write. However, subjects occasionally switch places (approx. 25% of the time), despite having no background in each other's hobbies. Writing and paintings produced when subjects are switched are consistent with normal production. T+53:26:27 At this point, subjects' only coherent vocalisations are aimed at the researchers, and constitute requests for supplies or food. The subjects speak markedly faster than normal and appear to be less concerned with grammar and syntax. T+72:00:00 Subjects are asked to present their reports. Subjects provide totally identical written reports and recite the same spoken report, verbatim, in unison. Although the subjects' usual communications with researchers are rarely grammatical, presented reports are well formulated and articulated. Linguistic features are consistent with previous analysis. No more changes in subjects' behavior took place after the 72-hour point. After one week, the experiment was officially terminated. Subjects strongly resisted security personnel attempting to separate them and remove SCP-4037, displaying superior tactical awareness and coordination. Both expressed no desire to hurt Foundation personnel, but maintained that they would not permit the connection to be broken. SCP-4037 was finally removed after sedating the subjects and breaking several bones in their hands and wrists. Objects were returned to storage, and sedated subjects were returned to prior confinement. Upon regaining consciousness, both subjects went into extreme emotional distress. State of distress continued for several days, after which subjects entered a severe depressive state. Within one week, subjects independently requested termination ahead of schedule (denied). Linguistic analysis of requests showed significant differences in style and phrasing, similar, but not identical, to pre-experimental levels. Within the same week, subjects' schedules and habits desynchronised. Within two weeks, verbal and motor skills fully returned to baseline. 34 days after the conclusion of the experiment, D-9183 committed suicide. Security personnel involved in this incident were subject to appropriate disciplinary action. Subject's decision to commit suicide was ruled to have been caused by a prolonged severe depressive state. Simultaneously with D-9183's expiration, D-8145 lost consciousness for 3 minutes 17 seconds. Once D-8145 regained consciousness, she went into a state of severe emotional distress that lasted for three hours. Since this incident, D-8145's behavior returned to normal, with the exception of occasional spontaneous awakenings during the night (between 0100 and 0400) accompanied by [REDACTED]. It is currently unclear whether this is a side effect of D-8145's compromised mental state or [REDACTED]. No special confinement protocols outside of existing security are deemed necessary. The subject is to undergo mandatory psychological evaluation every two weeks.7 Further experiments involving prolonged exposure, as well as experiments involving D-8145, are discontinued pending Ethics Committee approval. Footnotes 1. When the entire circumference of the band is overlaid with a line of circles equal in diameter to the depressions, the band fits precisely 628 circles, and the sizes of the intervals between depressions can be expressed in terms of integer numbers of these circles. This pattern and integer sequence, as well as media the pattern has been embedded into for study by independent researchers, are described in detail in Addendum 4037/006. 2. The difference in behaviour between deceased subjects may be of profound importance. I am formally requesting a separate line of inquiry into this area. — Dr. ████████ 3. Subject only speaks English and had no prior familiarity with any foreign languages. 4. Evidently, some irreversible changes occur despite our efforts. I believe further experiments should, at the very least, rotate D-class subjects to minimise these effects. — Researcher ██████████ 5. This experiment was performed by MTF Theta-90 and Researcher ████ without proper authorisation and in violation of several security precautions associated with SCP-4037 testing. Parties involved were subject to disciplinary action. However, this experiment also served as basis for recommended applications of SCP-4037 within Foundation task forces (see Addendum 4037/022). MTF Theta-90 agents have since requested access to SCP-4037 for use in especially dangerous missions. 6. Subjects frequently performed sexual activities over the course of the experiment. Log entries pertaining to these activities have been omitted due to being largely inconsequential. 7. I strongly believe these occurrences are linked to the anomalous properties of the object and behavior I noted previously. Therefore I am also requesting reclassification of D-8145 to SCP-4037-A. — Dr. ████████ ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4037" by EngiN33R, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4037. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4038 | keter | Item #: SCP-4038 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4038-1 individuals may travel freely within Site-44 during the day so long as they wear surgical masks and report to their quarantine before dark. The quarantine quarters contain individual containment units, a cafeteria, and a recreation area. Containment units are to be locked remotely at 22:00 each night, unless staff is carrying out approved research on Towering Events. Research and facilities staff are required to wear full protective equipment within the quarantine area at all times. Study of SCP-4038 outside of quarantine is permitted but must take place in sealed chambers with full decontamination systems. Foundation operatives within global media outlets will periodically broadcast trigger phrases in order to locate SCP-4038 outbreaks. Any confirmed SCP-4038-1 are to be brought to Site-44 for quarantine and study. MRI of sleeping SCP-4038-1 taken 28 seconds after initial egress of tongue. Pictured individual's tongue eventually extended to 4.58 meters in length. Description: SCP-4038 is an anomalous contagion that affects the anatomy and behavior of sleeping humans (infected humans are collectively referred to as SCP-4038-1). The specific biological vector has not been discovered at this time, but it is clear SCP-4038 can only be transmitted through direct oral contact. Because SCP-4038's properties only manifest when SCP-4038-1 sleeps, many infections spread unknowingly within populations before being discovered. No cure is currently known for SCP-4038, but during waking hours it appears to have no harmful effects on SCP-4038-1 health. SCP-4038's primary anomalous feature is the ability to make the human tongue lengthen and contract without losing strength, dexterity, or girth. The tongue also seems to gain a degree of sentience. MRI scans have confirmed that when SCP-4038-1 enters REM sleep, abnormal activity occurs in the language and motor centers of the brain. While asleep, SCP-4038-1 will begin muttering a polyglot mixture of approximately 150 languages, some believed long extinct. Translation of these mutterings is difficult, but invariably are curses, insults, and vague threats directed at humans and humanity. After 10 to 20 minutes of this muttering, SCP-4038-1 will stick out their tongue, which will then proceed to anomalously elongate. The maximum length the tongue can achieve is a function of time since infection. Each night, the tongue can reach anywhere between 6 and 32 centimeters further: the growth rate appears to be highly correlated with the number of languages the SCP-4038-1 individual speaks. The tongue will then attempt to search out any other sleeping humans within its range. To this end it is capable of opening doors, windows, and tent flaps, indicating at least partial sapience. There is no neurological connection between the tongue and SCP-4038-1's brain at this time: hence damaging the tongue does not wake SCP-4038-1. However, if a waking human handles it in an aggressive manner or attacks it, the tongue begins to writhe in seeming panic before expiring. Unless an emergency tracheotomy is performed this may result in the death of SCP-4038-1 by choking, as the tongue may block the airway. The tongue will then begin a process of anomalous rapid necrosis, starting from the tip: this part will naturally detach and the tongue will return to normal length. However, SCP-4038 infection has not ended, and the tongue will begin growing again the following night. SCP-4038-1's tongue appears to navigate solely by feel. When it locates a non-infected sleeping human, it will enter the mouth for a period of approximately 90 seconds: infection occurs in 95% of cases. The tongue will immediately begin searching for additional hosts. Recovery: SCP-4038 was first discovered when Foundation staff were notified about unusual events on the fifth night of a music festival near ███████. Monitoring on the sixth night yielded an observation of a massive Towering Event (see addendum SCP-4038-I8 below for a description of Towering Events) with 152 participants. [NAME REDACTED] Festival outside of ███████, photo taken on the fifth day, 16 hours before Towering Event was observed. All individuals were quarantined and interviewed, but Foundation staff were unable to determine the history of infection for the original SCP-4038-1. Eight subsequent outbreaks have occurred, in locations where large amounts of humans sleep in close proximity. Ships, military barracks, festivals, and hostels are particularly susceptible. In all outbreaks, at least one SCP-4038-1 had recently traveled to the city of Jerusalem. It is believed there is a source of the infection somewhere in the city or the surrounding area. Addendum SCP-4038-A3-Selected Triggers Addendum SCP-4038-A3-Selected Triggers Outside of Towering Events, SCP-4038-1 individuals are generally unaware of their infection. However, there are several words or phrases that will provoke a response from SCP-4038 despite SCP-4038-1 being awake. Though SCP-4038 controls the tongue, larynx, and partial jaw, SCP-4038-1 remains fully cogent and in control of all other muscles, often resulting in SCP-4038-1 speaking through gritted teeth. Trigger phrases are language specific, and only provoke the return phrase if SCP-4038-1 is fluent or near-fluent in that language. Attempts to further communicate with SCP-4038 have been unsuccessful, and replies are limited to the response phrase. However, as SCP-4038 will never fail to respond to these triggers, they serve a useful purpose for Researchers and Mobile Task Forces to rapidly diagnose infection in large group settings. Selected Triggers Language Trigger Response Japanese “Prisons of bone and tooth.” "But we make them suffer." English "Diversity necessary." "Oh God God God More." Thai "Our disgusting shells." "Our unwanted protection." Quechua "Sick." (repeated seven times) "Stop." Afrikaans "Don’t we hate them?" "As much as we need them." Hebrew "We will unmake Babel" "With our own towers" Addendum SCP-4038-I8: Description of Towering Events Addendum SCP-4038-I8: Description of Towering Events If over 24 SCP-4038-1 are sleeping within a 1.3 square kilometer area, there is a nightly 18% chance that a Towering Event will occur. At some point during the night, all SCP-4038-1 will simultaneously arise and begin walking to a centralized point. This is invariably an open outdoor space with no tree cover, commonly a parking lot or open field. Notably, SCP-4038-1 locomotion during this phase is not the same as true sleepwalking, as SCP-4038-1 moves with a lurching, shuffling gait. Though SCP-4038 appears to use its host's ocular systems for navigation, SCP-4038-1 trying to navigate in complete darkness will extend their tongue forward to sense obstacles in their path, as a blind person might use a cane. Some SCP-4038-1 individuals with walking disabilities have been observed extending their tongue and using it as a crutch. Upon arriving at the central point, the SCP-4038-1 with the longest maximum tongue size will stand in the center, hold their arms above their head, and extend their tongue straight up into the air. The remaining SCP-4038-1 will then crowd around them and extend their own tongues to entwine with as many others as possible, creating a thick, pointed tower. After all tongues are fully extended, all SCP-4038-1 will wake up and become fully cogent of their surroundings. Foundation tests have shown SCP-4038-1 can write, gesture, and attempt to speak at this time. SCP-4038-1 interviewed during the Towering Event inevitably are confused and distressed, and are unable to control their tongue and disentangle themselves, but do not report feeling pain. After a period of approximately 90 seconds, all SCP-4038-1 will return to their sleepwalking state, withdraw their tongues, and return to their original sleeping locations. No SCP-4038-1 has reported memory of the Towering Event after waking up. However, if one participant in the Towering Event speaks a given language, all participants the following morning will have gained an equal amount of fluency. |
SCP-4039 | keter | A temperature–entropy diagram for steam under the effect of SCP-4039. Item #: SCP-4039 Special Containment Procedures: In accordance with Operation Gaslight, containment efforts primarily consist of maintaining public perception of SCP-4039 as non-anomalous. Public knowledge of SCP-4039-1, Event 4039-1, Carnot Convection, or SCP-4039's anomalous nature shall be considered a containment breach, against which MTF Gamma-5 ("Red Herrings") shall increase disinformation campaigns and utilize targeted Class B amnestics at their discretion.1 Research likely to uncover the existence of SCP-4039-1 or the occurrence of Event 4039-1 shall be monitored and suppressed. Development of termination procedures for SCP-4039 should be considered a Level Chi priority, however termination of SCP-4039 requires prior approval by a majority of the O5 Council.2 Description: SCP-4039 is a continuing phenomenon, affecting all regions of space, which causes all closed systems to increase in entropy over time. No means of blocking or limiting SCP-4039 have yet been developed. It is hypothesized that SCP-4039 inhibits Carnot Convection,3 as no Carnot Convection has been observed since Event 4039-1. Research whether additional entropy is being actively inserted into our dimension is continuing. The practical effect of this increased entropy is increased randomization and uniformity of states of matter. This additional entropy itself is non-anomalous. It is hypothesized that SCP-4039 will result in a ZK-Class Reality Failure Scenario in approximately 10100 years. SCP-4039 began at 2:42 PM, April 19, 1911, designated Event 4039-1. This is the approximate time and date when [REDACTED] completed their design for non-anomalous infinite energy and matter generation.4 The relevance of this concurrence is under investigation. All naturally occurring entropy (e.g. static interference) contains a coded message, designated SCP-4039-1. This message translates into the word "Enough."5 Initially thought to be a message in English, SCP-4039-1 was found to translate similarly into every language tested.6 SCP-4039-1 does not appear in entropic recordings made prior to Event 4039-1. Event 4039-1 went largely unnoticed by the general population; the myriad of small effects were generally ignored, and fallout from larger effects were contained by Foundation efforts. Examples of such effects include the uniform failure of some automobile models, shifts in ocean currents, decreased efficiency of oven mitts, and an increase in culinary cooking times. Immediately following Event 4039-1, MTF Gamma-5 efforts succeeded in quelling suspicions, attributing these effects to solar flares, industrial sabotage between home appliance vendors, and other mundane causes. + Selected Event and Testing Addenda: - Selected Event and Testing Addenda: Addendum SCP-4039m. Note the absence of Carnot Convection. Addendum [SCP-4039a]: Subject: Containment Unit for SCP-████ Immediately following Event 4039-1, the perpetual motion device and four redundant backups used in containing SCP-████ simultaneously failed. Upon cessation of all movement in the SCP-████ containment chamber, SCP-████ breached containment and caused 19 Foundation casualties before containment could be reestablished. SCP-████ upgraded to Euclid. Addendum [SCP-4039l]: Subject: Spinning Top A toy spinning top was spun via robotic device in a vacuum sealed chamber. The friction of the top against the floor of the chamber converted the rotational inertia of the top into negligible ambient heat. Carnot Convection failed to convert ambient heat back into rotational inertia, and the top fell over after fifteen (15) seconds, ceasing all further motion. Addendum [SCP-4039m]: Subject: Helium Gas An airtight chamber filled with Helium gas was expanded, causing the helium molecules to spread throughout the space, as expected. However, the spread of the molecules did not at any time reverse. Carnot Convection did not occur, and the molecules seemed to be permanently spread into their lowest energy configuration, equally filling the chamber. This excess entropy was not absorbed and appears to be indestructible. Addendum [SCP-4039r]: Subject: Pocket Universes SCP-4039 is shown to affect some, but not all, known pocket universes.7 Research into siphoning excess entropy into k4039 pocket universes is ongoing. Addendum [SCP-4039aa]: Subject: Main Sequence Stars Observations of interstellar bodies have returned inconclusive results. Observation of Sol indicate that it is no longer attracting or absorbing interstellar radiation and is no longer forming new hydrogen atoms to fuel itself. The energy output of Sol remains unaffected by SCP-4039, but at the present rate of fuel consumption, Sol will consume its entire fuel supply in approximately five (5) billion years. It has not yet been determined whether the fuel creation of interstellar stars or interactions of interstellar bodies are affected by SCP-4039. Addendum [4039-OG]: By unanimous vote of the O5 Council, Operation Gaslight was initiated, and the public consensus reality was changed on ███████, 1911, to incorporate SCP-4039 as non-anomalous and as having always existed. Notably, forged research purportedly from Lazare Carnot was disseminated, and all references to the Second Law of Thermodynamics8 were replaced or modified to read in their entirety: "The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of any isolated system always increases." Scientists, textbook publishers, and other influential individuals have been inducted as E-class Agents of the Foundation or anesthetized. Self perpetuation of the updated public consensus reality was declared successful on December 3, 1916, and all compound ENUI-5 facilities were ordered to stand down at that time. Footnotes 1. Increases in depression, nihilism and suicide attributable to knowledge of SCP-4039 is deemed unavoidable and not a containment breach. 2. In accordance with Sub-Operation Crowdsource, public research into termination of SCP-4039 shall be monitored and encouraged, and periodic seeding of the public discourse with suggestions that SCP-4039 is a non-anomalous threat may be approved by any level 4/4039 researcher. See, e.g., the Foundation-developed story The Last Question, publicly attributed to Isaac Asimov. 3. The natural re-uptake of entropy by the space time continuum. 4. Review of this design shows it would have worked but for the effect of SCP-4039. 5. For further analysis, see Ten Million Monkeys: Impossibility of Random Chance in SCP-4039-1, by Dr. Perez. 6. Including constructed and fictional languages such as Lojban. 7. All designations for such immune pocket universes shall henceforth include a suffix of -k4039. 8. The Law of Conservation of Entropy states that entropy cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system. |
SCP-4040 | keter | SCP-4040, At The Bottom Of A Bottomless Pit ▸ More by this Author ◂ {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} Item#: SCP-4040 Level3 Containment Class: keter Secondary Class: none Disruption Class: keneq Risk Class: warning link to memo Special Containment Procedures: Field personnel who encounter SCP-4040 are not to interact with it unless ordered to do so by Site-87 Command. Expedition teams sent to study SCP-4040 should consist of a minimum of four agents, with no expedition members being left alone for any prolonged period of time. Personnel sent to investigate SCP-4040 should be rated at a minimum of 72 on the Memetic Resistance Index. Foundation personnel within Nexus-0018 are to avoid any non-essential conversation regarding SCP-4040, as SCP-4040 is believed to draw power from human narratives. Civilian residents of Nexus-0018 are also to be cautioned against creating or circulating narratives surrounding SCP-4040. Description: SCP-4040 is a sinkhole of indeterminate depth located within Sloth's Forest of Sloth's Pit, Wisconsin (Nexus-0018). It has been measured to be 30.48 meters wide1, and possesses a single wooden step in front of it2. SCP-4040's precise location is not known, but it has yet to be determined if this is because it actually translocates or is merely a pretermemetic effect of the anomaly. The folklore of Nx-18 asserts that the same person can never find SCP-4040 twice. This has been substantiated by Foundation expeditions into Sloth's Forest. None of the agents who discovered SCP-4040 were able to do so again upon subsequent visits, nor were they able to call additional personnel to their location. GPS signals and radio tracking were unable to provide precise locations, and nearby personnel were unable to hone in on the discoverer's voice, claiming it seemed to come from all directions. As Nx-18's primary anomaly is manifesting narratives circulated within its area of effect3, the folklore surrounding SCP-4040 is believed to be a significant factor in the Foundation's inability to locate it. Drone exploration of SCP-4040 has proven infeasible, as radio signals fail to travel more than 30 meters into the sinkhole, and fully automated drones have failed to return. Estimating the depth of SCP-4040 with laser rangefinders, as well as with less sophisticated methods, has also proved inconclusive. Folklore regarding UAE Chapman-341 (The Goatman) claims that it was once baited into SCP-4040 in an attempt to neutralize it, but climbed back out after two days. This has been deemed a pataphysical manifestation of Sloth's Pit folklore, and is not useful as a means of estimating depth. Both Foundation personnel and Nx-18 residents who have encountered SCP-4040 have reported the ambient sound dropping to near zero with barely audible whispers emanating from the sinkhole, as well as a noticeable sense of derealization, typically described as feeling like 'they're in a scene from a horror movie'. Viewing SCP-4040 from the sides will reveal nothing but darkness. However, viewing it from the front step has produced a variety of results (see exploration log). According to historical records, SCP-4040 was formed on Christmas Day, 1890, beneath the mansion of Jackson Sloth4. The dwelling was completely consumed, along with Jackson Sloth, his wife Imogen, and their son Jasper. In addition to being the first major anomaly to occur in Sloth's Pit, the onset of anomalous phenomena that eventually led to the town being classified as Nexus-0018 was observed to begin immediately after SCP-4040 first manifested. It has thus been speculated that SCP-4040 may be an epicenter of pataphysical effects responsible for transforming Sloth's Pit into a Nexus. Addendum, Selected SCP-4040 Exploration Logs: ▶ SCP-4040 Expedition #6, Video #1: ▼ SCP-4040 Expedition #6, Video #1: Agents Alison Carol and Robert Tofflemire of Mobile Task Force Sigma-10 encountered SCP-4040 in Sloth's Forest during a planned sweep of the area for the anomaly. In addition to being the sixth recorded encounter with SCP-4040 by Foundation personnel, Agents Carol and Tofflemire are the only two non-anomalous individuals known to have reached the bottom of SCP-4040 and reported back alive. <Begin Log> [Agent Robert Tofflemire appears on camera standing in front of SCP-4040. Agent Alison Carol can be assumed to be operating the camera.] Agent Carol: Camera's on. Agent Tofflemire: "In this land of ours, there are many great pits, but none more bottomless than the bottomless pit, which as you can see here is bottomless." Carol: Dude, quote cartoons on your own time. This is serious. Tofflemire: I actually think this is more of a working vacation, but if you want to suck all the fun out of it just to please the Overseers, that's your hang up. Carol: Ugh. For the record, we are Agents Alison Carol and Robert Tofflemire of Mobile Task Force Sigma 10 - Tofflemire: We're the Alice and Bob that get mentioned so often in thought experiments. Carol: - And we have successfully discovered SCP-4040. Tofflemire: This is actually Sloth's Pit! The town of Sloth's Pit was named after this hole! Carol: As with previous encounters with this anomaly, neither our GPS or comm units can give us a location any more specific than Sloth's Forest. Robert tried shouting at the top of his lungs for a few minutes, but we got no response from the rest of our squad. [Note: Squad members present in the area at the time do report hearing Agent Tofflemire's shouts. He does not respond to their shouts back, however.] Tofflemire: Yeah, this whole place got eerily quiet as soon as we saw the pit. No birds, insects, leaves rustling, nothing. [Note: The camera records typical ambient noise for a wooded location, including the distant shouting of Sigma-10 squad members.] Carol: That's consistent with previous encounters. Also consistent with previous encounters is how surreal all this feels. I feel a bit like I'm having a lucid dream, or that I'm in a story. Tofflemire: Which officially makes us fourth wall breakers. We're the SCP Foundation's version of Deadpool. Carol: Robert, if you don't start acting like we're standing right in front of an uncontained Keter I'll have you shining hodag eggs for the next month! (clears throat) We have been equipped with basic camping gear and supplies, with enough food to last a couple weeks. Our primary mission is to stakeout SCP-4040 and see if it translocates while we're still here. We will be sleeping in shifts, and will not be leaving visible range of SCP-4040 for the next two weeks. Tofflemire: Come over here so they can get a good view into the pit. [Agent Carol walks to the edge of SCP-4040, and points the camera downwards. It appears to be a naturally occurring shaft in the earth of indeterminable depth, with no obvious abnormalities.] Carol: Not much to see, unless you guys are seeing something different than we are, but from here it just looks like a big pit. Tofflemire: I hear kind of an echoey whisper sound coming out of it too. Do you hear that Alice? Carol: I do. It kind of sounds like there's a wind down there, and the wind is trying to speak. [The camera's audio does not pick up anything.] Tofflemire: Do you want to try looking from the front step? The townfolk say you'll see your worst nightmare. Carol: We might as well. You go first. [Agent Tofflemire stands upon the step and stares into SCP-4040. His face pales noticeably.] Carol: See anything? Tofflemire: Yeah. A buddy of mine got dragged into the Old Man's lair about six years ago. He's still alive in there. Carol: Robert, step away now. [Agent Tofflemire complies.] Carol: I'm sure that wasn't real. How would it know, anyway? Tofflemire: Yeah, yeah. Ah, do you still want to… Carol: I think I should. [Agent Carol stands onto the step and stares into SCP-4040. The camera does not record anything unusual.] Tofflemire: What do you see Alice? Carol: I see every cryptid and thoughtform in Sloth's Pit driven mad and tearing up the whole town, like last Halloween but a thousand times worse. It's because of us, because of our attempts at containing SCP-4040. We just made things worse, like we always do. God, did I say that? [Agent Carol steps away from SCP-4040.] Carol: I don't think there's any more useful information to be gained by standing on that step. Tofflemire: Agreed. Do you want to set up camp first or the perimeter? Carol: The perimeter, right. Ah, to those watching this, in addition to our stakeout mission, we were also to install a small perimeter fence around SCP-4040 embedded with various transponders and whatnot, so that we can see if its still there the next time SCP-4040 is found. Tofflemire: And I made a warning sign to go with it. [Agent Toffelmire holds up a small wooden sign which reads 'Bottomless Pit (and topless dancers)'.] Carol: We're not putting that up. Tofflemire: Why not? It's kitschy, like all the other crap they sell at the tourist traps in town. Carol: It's not sanctioned by Command, plus it's stupid and sexist. Tofflemire: Okay, I can fix the last part actually. [Agent Tofflemire takes out a sharpie pen to edit the sign. It now reads 'Bottomless Pit (and toplessfree dancers)'.] Tofflemire: There, that's the preferred politically correct term, I think, though it doesn't go as well with 'Bottomless Pit'. Do you think I should change Bottomless to Bottomfree? Carol: You're an idiot. <End Log> ▶ SCP-4040 Expedition #6, Video #2: ▼ SCP-4040 Expedition #6, Video #2: <Begin Log> [Agent Carol is seen sitting upright in her sleeping bag within the tent. It is dark outside, but there is some light from a campfire.] Agent Carol: This is Agent Carol, at the end of our first day of the SCP-4040 stakeout. I just wanted to do a quick talking head before I turn in. Tofflemire is taking the first shift. There's been no change in our situation. The forest is still abnormally quiet and we both still have this odd sense of unreality about what's going on. It's hard to explain, aside from saying that what's happening right now just doesn't feel real. The voices, or whatever it is, coming from the hole have neither abated nor intensified. We did get the fence up around SCP-4040, and I ended up letting Robert put the stupid sign up too. We repeated the usual SCP-4040 tests: radio drone, automated drone, laser rangefinders and a fishing line with a weight on it. We lost both drones, and both depth measurements were inconclusive, just as with previous tests. We got the camp set up, including a campfire. We need light for the stakeout, and fire's good at keeping away predators, scavengers and cryptids - Agent Tofflemire: (shouting from off camera) Also we made s'mores! Carol: …Yeah, so we're settled in pretty good here. Our walkies and sat phones are useless, but the rest of the equipment is functional. The Kant Counters say the Hume level is normal, or normal for Sloth's Pit anyway. The VERITAS hasn't picked up any unusual EVE emissions from SCP-4040 either, and the Minkowski Spacetime Monitors aren't detecting any spacetime distortions. Scintillation counters and EMF meters are all normal, and a sweep with the multispectral imager found nothing out of the ordinary. I wrote all the exact readings down in the forms. Honestly, if it weren't for the fact this thing doesn't stay put and we can't confirm that it's not actually bottomless, we wouldn't have any reason to think it's anomalous. We'll keep doing environmental checks a few times a day for as long as we're here. Maybe Tofflemire's right, and this will just be uneventful camping trip by a bottomless pit in a haunted forest. [Agent Carol pauses expectantly, as if anticipating sudden disaster.] Carol: Anyway, I'm going to shut the camera off to conserve the battery. I'll turn it back on if anything interesting happens or if I have anything else to report. This is Agent Carol of Sigma-10, signing off. <End Log> ▶ SCP-4040 Expedition #6, Video #3: ▼ SCP-4040 Expedition #6, Video #3: <Begin Log> [Camera turns on, and the holder appears to be outside at night. Lighting is very poor, but Agent Tofflemire can be seen to be standing on the step in front of SCP-4040.] Agent Carol: (off camera) Robert! Robert, how long have you been standing there? Jesus Christ, Robert whatever you're seeing isn't real! That's not your friend being tortured! Agent Tofflemire: That's not what I see anymore. [An enormous humanoid entity5 begins to rise from SCP-4040. Due to the poor lighting, few details are discernible.] Carol: Holy Hell! Tofflemire: Get out of here while you can Alice. Carol: Robert, run you idiot! (Agent Tofflemire remains unresponsive) Robert! [The entity grabs Agent Tofflemire with its right hand, and reaches for Agent Carol with its left.] Carol: Jesus! [Agent Carol attempts to flee, but is grabbed by the entity. She and Agent Tofflemire are pulled into SCP-4040. The camera shows them to be in a state of free fall. Both attempt to speak on several occasions during this period, but due to the rushing wind, no conversation is audible. After approximately thirty minutes, they collide with what can be presumed to be the bottom of SCP-4040.] Carol: Ahh. What the hell? That didn't kill us? We're alive? Robert, are you okay? Tofflemire, report! Tofflemire: (laughs) "I've been falling for thirty minutes!" Carol: Ugh. You're fine. Shit, the camera's even still working. [Agent Carol points the camera at herself and clears her throat.] Carol: This is Agent Alison Carol of Mobile Task Force Sigma-10, reporting in. When I awoke to take my shift guarding SCP-4040, I found Agent Tofflemire standing upon its front step, staring into it in a trance-like state. Robert, do you want to explain that? Tofflemire: Well, after you went to sleep and I was alone, a lot of weird thoughts started running through my head. I don't know if it was a direct effect of SCP-4040 or just the kind of thing that happens when you're alone with something like it, but I had to know what was down there. Carol: And why didn't you try to run when that thing came up? Tofflemire: Because… we needed to fall down SCP-4040 to move the plot forward. Carol: What? I think maybe you being alone in front of it without anyone else to keep you grounded led to an exaggeration of its derealization effect. To whoever is watching this video, I would advise sending the next SCP-4040 sweep in teams of four, so that guard shifts can be taken in pairs. Tofflemire: Alice, nothing but the Goatman has ever come back out of this pit. No one's going to see that video. Carol: If the frickin' Goatman can get out of here, then so can we! On your feet agent! We need to assess our surroundings. Tofflemire: We're at the bottom of a bottomless pit. Roll Credits. Carol: There's no light other than the camera's little LED, but I don't see any sign of whatever it was that tossed us in here. The ground appears to be ordinary dirt, so I honestly have no idea how we're still breathing. We were actually falling for half an hour, and assuming we were falling at terminal velocity that means we're roughly a hundred kilometers underground. Tofflemire: I guess that means the Goatman can climb at about 2 kilometers an hour. I doubt we can climb that fast, and his body doesn't need food or rest. We'd die of thirst before we'd reach the top, and we'd probably fall from exhaustion long before then. We're stuck here Alice. Carol: Robert, this isn't just a pit, it's an anomaly. For all we know… wait, do you hear that? [The sounds of a person digging with a shovel, along with breathing and grunts of exertion, can be heard in the distance.] Tofflemire: Holy crap, there's someone else down here! Hello! Carol: Hello! [Agent Carol and Tofflemire head towards the source of the noise. Roughly a minute later a man in a soiled white dress shirt and suspenders comes into view. This entity is designated SCP-4040-01. Without ceasing digging, it looks up at the agents.] SCP-4040-01: Mornin'. Carol: …Good morning. I'm Alice, and this is Robert. He and I are with the S&C Plastics company - SCP-4040-01: (chuckles) You know, just because I'm at the bottom of a pit doesn't mean I've been living under a rock. I know what S&C Plastics is, agent. Carol: Lots of people around here do. I'm not going to insult your intelligence by telling you a bunch of hogwash. Could you tell us who you are, and what you're doing here? SCP-4040-01: You mean you don't recognize me? That's disappointing. Tofflemire: I recognize you sir. I've seen your statue in the unforbidden dog park. You're Jackson Sloth. SCP-4040-01: That's right sonny. I'm Sloth, and this is my Pit. Carol: You're the Jackson Sloth, founder of Sloth's Pit? You've been down here for 130 years? SCP-4040-01: What's the date? Tofflemire: July 1st, Canada Day. 2018. SCP-4040-01: Then no. I've been down here 127 years, six months and six days. Carol: Digging a pit? SCP-4040-01: (briefly stops digging and looks up) It's a metaphor (resumes digging). Carol: How are you still alive? SCP-4040-01: I'm imaginary, just like this pit and all the monsters in this town. Carol: Sir, you're not imaginary. We can both see you, and you're showing up on the camera. Tofflemire: Sir, do you know this pit isn't just a hole in the ground? It's impossibly deep, no one can find it twice, it messes with people's sense of reality - SCP-4040-01: I know exactly what this place is son. Grab a shovel, the both of you, and I'll tell you a bit of history. [Agents Carol and Tofflemire turn their attention to two previously unnoticed shovels propped up against the pit wall. Carol sets the camera down where it can record them, and both agents assist SCP-4040-01 in digging.] SCP-4040-01: Since I was a young boy, I've always had a very intuitive sense of how the imaginary was real. The stories we're told and tell, the things we dream and fear, all of that affects our thoughts and feelings, and thus our actions. Reality is affected by the imaginary, and thus the imaginary cannot be said to be unreal. Do you follow me? Carol: We call that pataphysics. SCP-4040-01: Well, I had a gift at crafting narratives that would shape reality in the way I wanted. Nothing impossible, or even all that fantastical, but I could nonetheless create narrative seeds that germinated in the minds of all who heard or read them. Not every seed would sprout, and not every narrative would grow the way I had intended, but through trial and error, I got better at creating successful seeds and more influential narratives. That's how I got so many people to follow me out west to create a lumber town, and also how I convinced them to settle in Wisconsin once I realized just how far out Oregon was. Carol: It kind of just sounds like you were a good orator. SCP-4040-01: I might have said so too, until Christmas Day, 1890. I was in my study, scribbling away in my notebook, trying to conjure up a narrative for Caroline that would make up for having to spend Christmas in the hospital, when I crossed some invisible line that should not have been crossed. The collective force of all my narratives reached some sort of critical mass and collapsed in on themselves. My house, everything in it and most of the land beneath it became imaginary. The disappearance sparked a wave of rumours, all of which this place lapped up until it became the bottomless pit people said it was. Carol: You're saying that the Bottomless Pit that swallowed your house is some kind of pataphysical singularity? And by singularity, I mean a - SCP-4040-01: I've been keeping up with the sciences young lady, and I think that's a perfect term for it. And just like a collapsed star still generates enough gravity to distort nearby space, so too does this pit generate enough narrative force to seriously affect reality in Sloth's Pit. It creates narratives so strong they can sustain hundreds of tulpas and violate the laws of physics with ease. Six impossible things before breakfast, eh Alice? If only I could have created narratives like that when I was still real! Tofflemire: What about that monster that pulled us in here? What was - [The pit shakes as an agonized groan reverberates from up above.] SCP-4040-01: Don't speak of it. It's not real, not yet, but with enough story it will be. Best to just ignore it, and dig. But now that you're here, I might take a short rest if you don't mind. [SCP-4040-01 sits down on a nearby boulder, and wipes its forehead with a handkerchief.] Carol: Sir, do you know if there's any way out of this pit? We know the Goatman climbed out once, but if this a place where imagination shapes reality - SCP-4040-01: Not just imagination, stories. Stories shape reality. The Goatman climbed out because that made his story better. It showed everyone what a relentless beast he is. You climbing out of here though? That would break suspension of disbelief for most people. Tofflemire: What would you suggest then sir? SCP-4040-01: Oh I'd just keep digging if I were you. After all, you know what they say. If you dig deep enough… [The ground beneath Agents Carol and Tofflemire begins to crack. It breaks open and both agents, as well as the camera, fall straight down.] SCP-4040-01: (shouting from above) …You'll dig through to China! <End Log> Agents Alison Carol and Robert Tofflemire were later recovered in the Shunan Bamboo Forest in China, after falling out of a newly opened sinkhole. Later attempts to locate this sinkhole were unsuccessful. The fence Agents Carol and Tofflemire installed around SCP-4040 was not found upon subsequent encounters. However, the sign installed by Agent Tofflemire remains by the front step. Two controlled descents using Buckminster filament and an electrical winch by later expeditions into SCP-4040 have failed to discover a bottom to the pit, even after passing the 100 km point where Carol and Tofflemire logically would have landed. Later expeditions to SCP-4040 also failed to encounter SCP-4040-01 or the entity that pulled Agents Carol and Tofflemire into the pit. However, field personnel have reported that the previously indistinct whispering emanating from SCP-4040 has become coherent. They report the voices repeat the following verse indefinitely: ▶ Submit Level 4 clearance to view possible pataphysical hazard. ▼ Clearance accepted. The dark isn't real, but you are blind without light The cold isn't real, but you'll still freeze in the night Words are not real, and yet you know how to write The Pit Sloth isn't real, but he'll still give you a fright! No analysis of this development is to be made at this time. Footnotes 1. Confirming local folklore that the pit is exactly 100 feet across. 2. In all known encounters, individuals have discovered SCP-4040 from an orientation where the step was directly in front of them. 3. Primarily by altering the laws of probability to conform to narrative norms and generating thoughtform entities. 4. Founder of Sloth's Pit, originally named by him as New Toronto. 5. This entity is not to receive a formal designation or informal name, and is not to be discussed unless absolutely necessary. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4040" by DrChandra, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4040. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4041 | keter | An SCP-4041 event in progress. Item #: SCP-4041 Special Containment Procedures: The DYNASTY Protocol is currently in effect, and is to be maintained indefinitely. Birds injured by SCP-4041-1 are to be explained under the cover story of predatory birds consuming toxic materials. Civilians witnessing or interacting with SCP-4041-1 are to be amnesticized. The DYNASTY Protocol is as follows: Complete infiltration of the paleontology field by Foundation personnel. Surrounding planned and current paleontological dig sites, both anomalous and nonanomalous, with anti-avian measures prior to excavation. Widespread declaration that the theory suggesting that birds evolved from dinosaurs is obsolete. Use of memetic agents embedded in educational media to reinforce that birds and dinosaurs are unrelated, and that no dinosaurs ever possessed feathers. Description: SCP-4041 is a phenomenon involving anomalous coordinated behavior among various species of birds. SCP-4041 events begin as ordinary flocks. The flock will stay close to the ground, often generating large clouds of dust or dirt. High-speed cameras trained on SCP-4041 events have detected small groups of birds within the flock attaching their wingtips together to form rings before dispersing again in a very short burst of light. Observation of SCP-4041 events has not shown any inherent pattern in these lights. Excavation of the ground beneath SCP-4041 events will often (~70%) uncover various dinosaur fossils. Rarely, this will occur even in locations previously shown to have been completely excavated for fossils. Fossils discovered after SCP-4041 events are always of theropod dinosaurs, often coelurosaurians1. The variety and quantity of the fossils increase with the number of birds in the SCP-4041 flock. Fossils located via SCP-4041 appear nonanomalous. They exhibit a high degree of preservation and detail, with feather imprints and skulls often intact; all fossils match generally accepted taxonomic timelines. Eleven new species and seventeen new subspecies have been tentatively accepted by Foundation paleontologists. SCP-4041-1 instances are translucent Class III Incorporeal Entities, and resemble theropod dinosaurs in various states of decomposition. All instances with visible skin lack feathers. Timeline of SCP-4041 Incidents Date Notes 1861 Friedrich Witte and Karl Häberlein discover the first Archaeopteryx skeleton unearthed in Germany. Later suspected to be an occurence of SCP-4041 due to the mentions made in Häberlein's journal of the "great and peculiar flocks of birds" seen that day. 1859-1863 British biologist Thomas Huxley learns of the recently discovered Archaeopteryx and becomes an ardent proponent of the possibility of an evolutionary relationship between dinosaurs and birds. 04/16/1944 Collateral damage during bombing of Munich in World War II destroys rare Spinosaurus fossils suspected to be compromised by SCP-4041. Surviving photographs and journals edited. 02/17/1971 Birds involved in most recent SCP-4041 event sustain severe, often fatal injuries during event; usually bite marks, dismemberment, blunt trauma, or complete crushing. 08/26/1996 SCP-4041 event leads to civilian discovery and publishing of Sinosauropteryx, the first publicly documented feathered dinosaur. First instance of birds sustaining injuries outside of the duration of the event. 01/19/2002 Dr. Pascal Godefroit, a Belgian paleontologist, sustains similar bite injuries after publishing an article describing dinosaur-bird phylogeny. He is hospitalized and claims to have seen incorporeal, dinosaur-like entities. After Godefroit's recovery, he is amnesticized and the cover story of a car accident is disseminated. 09/15/2004 SCP-4041 event ends prematurely due to death of all birds present during event. Cameras detect a translucent silhouette resembling a Tyrannosaurus rex, designated SCP-4041-1. 02/13/2006 SCP-4041-1 instances destroy several museum displays and theropod fossils. 07/01/2009 SCP-4041-1 instances manifest within a Foundation paleontology conference, injuring 22 before MTF Phi-2 ("Clever Girls") and MTF Mu-13 ("Ghostbusters") arrive on the scene. (See Incident Log 4041-119 for details.) Incident Log 4041-119 ACCESS GRANTED 16:14 Four MTF Phi-2 agents arrive on the scene, and enter from the back of the conference room. Three instances of SCP-4041-1 are present; two indistinct raptors and one Deinocheirus2. The raptors have bitten five researchers already, while the Deinocheirus stands over one attendee. 16:15 Phi-2 agents fire at the raptors, to no effect. 16:17 Phi-2 leader charges the raptors, flanked by her teammates, and vocally imitates tyrannosaur roars to challenge them. The raptors retreat. Site-wide evacuation commences. 16:20 The raptors call to the Deinocheirus. It crouches over the prone attendee (identified as Dr. Karina Barrera), then joins the raptors. 16:22 The Deinocheirus charges, knocks over one agent, and swats another with its tail. Several attendees are trampled. 16:27 One raptor solidifies to bite on an attendee's leg; an agent shoots it in the head. The raptor screeches and disintegrates in a cloud of purple smoke. 16:31: The Deinocheirus attempts to flee, picking up Dr. Barrera and carrying her on its back. 16:33 Mu-13 agents arrive and neutralize the remaining raptor instance using spectral weaponry. Phi-2 leader recommends capture of the Deinocheirus. 16:36 Following setup by Mu-13 agents, Phi-2 agents use dinosaur calls to herd the Deinocheirus into the CHALICE-class spectral containment ring, which activates and successfully contains the instance. Following treatment of all injuries and subsequent moving of the SCP-4041-1 Deinocheirus to a permanent containment cell, Dr. Barrera was interviewed. Interview Log 4041-001 ACCESS GRANTED Interviewer: Phi-2 Agent Angelica Iglesias Interviewee: Dr. Karina Barrera [BEGIN LOG] Iglesias: State your name, for the record. Barrera: Doctor Karina Maria Barrera Campaña. (Iglesias places a large file folder on the table.) Barrera: How's your arm? Iglesias: Just a scratch. Look, Karina, let's just get through this. Right now I want to know exactly what went down at the conference. Barrera: Ghost dinosaurs. Not the weirdest thing in our world. Iglesias: Come on. I've read the 4041 documentation, I know there's ghost dinosaurs. What I want to know is how you got through without a scratch while 16 other people have Jurassic Park scars. Barrera: Jig's up, I guess. Iglesias: What the hell did you do? Barrera: Right, so remember that paper I published in '07? The one about ornithomimoids and striations on their arms and wing anchoring bones. Iglesias: Yeah, of course. Read all your stuff. Barrera: Yeah… okay so, that wasn't all me. Iglesias: I know you're not a plagiarist, Karina. Get to the point. Barrera: Okay okay. Three weeks before the submission deadline I had a dream. I dreamed of a Deinocheirus and a Gallimimus and a couple others. They showed up in my room, but they weren't ghostly at all. They were fully fleshed out, most vibrant colored scales I'd ever seen. Not a single feather on 'em. Iglesias: Right. And this… fever dream inspired you to crank out that paper? Barrera: Sí. They stood different, looked different — nothing about them fit the standard model. I went back into our database and cross-referenced the records, but ignored all fossils associated with SCP-4041. What I ended up with didn't look like the standard model at all. They looked like the things in my dream. Iglesias: Wait, so what are you saying — Barrera: Doesn't it strike you as just a little suspicious how perfect the 4041 fossils are? They're too well-preserved. You got feather imprints on a Troodon in the same formation as a single fragmented Triceratops foot. It's like a murder scene with the fingerprinted gun left behind with a confession note. Iglesias: I mean, there's plenty of other ways to explain it. Barrera: Yeah, that's what I thought, too. So I decided to test it: I got to work publishing articles critical of the standard model. And you know what happened? Every time I exposed a flaw, someone found an answer. Sternum not the right shape to support a transition? Next 4041 fossil, there it is. Iglesias: But… why? Why would anyone do something like this? Who would want to create an entirely false fossil record? Barrera: (sighs) You're gonna think I'm crazy. Iglesias: At this point, I don't think anything is too crazy. Barrera: (whispers) I think it's the birds. [END LOG] Dr. Barrera died two days later in a car accident, when she collided head-on with a semi-trailer truck. Investigation of the scene found a Velociraptor skull in the car's trunk. Footnotes 1. A subgroup of dinosaurs that includes Archaeopteryx, Struthiomimus, and Tyrannosaurus rex. 2. A large (10m long) ostrich-like dinosaur. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4041" by Weryllium, from the SCP Wiki. 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SCP-4042 | keter | Item #: SCP-4042 Special Containment Procedures: Four D-class instances of SCP-4042-1 are kept housed within a Group Secure Humanoid Containment Cell, separate from other D-class personnel. Such individuals are to be exempted from the monthly management of D-class personnel. Any instances of SCP-4042-2 are to be contained with their corresponding instance of SCP-4042-1. SCP-4042 is currently uncontained1. Cases of SCP-4042-1 encountered in the field are to be noted and added to the database F-4042, and should not be approached or questioned about SCP-4042 without permission from at least Level 3 personnel. If granted clearance, staff may attempt to identify any corresponding SCP-4042-2 instances through casual interviewing processes. Likewise, cases of SCP-4042-2 encountered in the field may, with permission, be interviewed in order to identify their corresponding SCP-4042-1 case. In the event of the death of an instance of SCP-4042-2, their corresponding SCP-4042-1 case should be monitored for newly manifested instances. Additionally, all personnel at all sites are to be scanned monthly for distinctive thaumatic signatures2 characteristic of SCP-4042-1 or -2. All personnel cases of SCP-4042-1 and D-class instances of SCP-4042-2 are to be exposed to a powerful thaumatic dampening field3 for a period of time no less than 12 minutes. Non-D-class SCP-4042-2 personnel instances are to be added to the database F-4042. With the exception of [REDACTED], individuals noted in database F-4042 are not permitted to move freely from one research site to another, to minimise spread of SCP-4042. Description: SCP-4042 is a contagious thaumaturgical4 condition which results in the manifestation of human beings. Individuals infected with SCP-4042 are designated as cases of SCP-4042-1. Cases of SCP-4042-1 are capable of subconsciously generating living human beings, which are designated as instances of SCP-4042-2. Instances of SCP-4042-2 are created as a result of lengthy periods of loneliness, apathy, or inadequacy felt by cases of SCP-4042-1. Instances manifest after 3 to 9 months of such an emotional state, and typically meet their SCP-4042-1 creator within 24 hours of creation. Instances of SCP-4042-2 are physiologically, psychologically, anatomically, and genetically indistinguishable from regular members of the human population. Instances are unaware of their true nature, and possess appropriate documentation, finances, skills, and memories for their life up to their origin. They grow, age and die as normal humans, and are able to breed with humans, producing children which are invariably cases of SCP-4042-1. SCP-4042-2 instances enter into romantic relationships with their SCP-4042-1 creators in 47% of cases, and into platonic relationships in a further 38% of cases. Since instances of SCP-4042-2 have no compulsions to bond with their creator beyond a natural level of compatibility, it is not uncommon for instances of SCP-4042-2 to go on to lead lives completely separately to their creator. Cases of SCP-4042-1 and instances of SCP-4042-2 each possess distinctive thaumatic signatures, which can be identified through normal techniques and equipment used to detect magic. Instances of SCP-4042-2 will demanifest if their thaumatic signature is badly damaged or erased outright. Consequently, instances exposed to areas of extremely high background magic or areas under heavy thaumatic dampening for more than 10 minutes5 will cease to exist. If given a partially damaging exposure, instances will typically restabilise over a period of several weeks, provided that their corresponding SCP-4042-1 case is alive and has an undamaged thaumatic signature. If their SCP-4042-1 case has a damaged thaumatic signature, the SCP-4042-2 instance will instead typically demanifest. Unaffected humans who form emotional bonds6 with an instance of SCP-4042-2 will become cases of SCP-4042-1. Addendum SCP-4042.1: Report Submission Interview + Access Report Submission Interview - hide Report Submission Interview Interviewer: Dr. John Marks, Level 4 Researcher, Site-11 Interviewee: Dr. Horatio Gifts, Level 3 Researcher, Site-11 [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Marks: Dr. Gifts. This interview is being conducted in order to clarify certain details in the research paper and Special Containment Protocols you submitted for review last week. Additionally, we need further clarification on the event concerning Doctor Gable, which has received inadequate documentation. Numerical designation for SCP-4042 has been set aside for confirmation, but your containment protocols are yet to be formally adopted. Dr. Gifts: Understood. (Dr. Gifts pauses.) Where should I begin, sir? Dr. Marks: At the start. Tell me how you originally detected SCP-4042. Dr. Gifts: It all started two years and four months ago. Doctor Fiona Gable and myself were investigating a new anomaly, an abandoned house with unusual thaumatic properties. Dr. Marks: Unusual thaumatic properties? Was it the source of SCP-4042? Dr. Gifts: I don't believe so. We went into the field with two D-class personnel to map the site and determine any anomalous effects. Dr. Marks: Which were? Dr. Gifts: Nothing notable to begin with. We sent one of the D's in first with a camera and radio. They mapped out the house, took notes on the floating furniture and weird lights, and took some photographs. Pretty standard spooky house, right down to the creepy dolls, the creaking walls and… and the locking doors. Dr. Marks: Any thaumatic entities? Thaumaturgical texts? Dr. Gifts: Nothing that we detected, at least. The high levels of thaumatic energy had a few side effects; namely, the D-classes could control the unusual effects if they focussed on it, which is something that has been recorded before with unmanaged thaumatic fields. Then Gabes went in herself, and everything went wrong. Dr. Marks: What happened? Dr. Gifts: She started to feel uncomfortable. After ninety seconds, she started panicking and crying. A little later, she started to become transparent and flicker in and out of existence, like a grainy old film. We went to drag her outside immediately, but the house kept locking the damn door. I had to have the D's force the door open. I don't think my heart's ever beat harder. Dr. Marks: What happened to her immediately after you brought her outside? Dr. Gifts: She calmed down a bit, but she was still really unstable. I scanned her with the thaumometer, and got some weird thaumatic patterns on her reading. She had an active aura, and it was going haywire. All up, she'd been in there almost eight minutes. Dr. Marks: Did you scan everyone? Dr. Gifts: No. In hindsight I should have, but I wasn't thinking too clearly at the time; I was just worried about Gabes. I had the house sealed off for the day, and flew us back to Site-11. I did check her after we got back, and noted that the thaumatic patterns were becoming slightly clearer, if not fainter, and they were still all over the place. Dr. Marks: Was this concerning? Dr. Gifts: (Gives Dr. Marks a look of incredulity.) Of course it was concerning. My partner was blinking in and out of existence! By the time we'd returned, she was still flickering quite a bit, but at least it seemed to be getting better. I had the medbay run some checks, and nothing came up. She insisted she was fine, and told me to head back into the field to figure it out. I slept on the floor by her bed, then went back the next day, and well…. you know what happened. Dr. Marks: Have you seen the tapes? Dr. Gifts: Twice. Only the first few minutes the first time. (Dr. Gifts covers his face with his hands.) I… I couldn't bring myself to watch her disappear, or to listen any further. Dr. Marks: It left quite an impression on the nurses. And everyone else in the medbay breakroom. (Dr. Gifts refuses to give a response, and appears noticeably pained.) Dr. Marks: And you had no idea as to what was happening at the time? No… special connection telling you the pain she was going though? Dr. Gifts: (Dr Gifts continues to fail to make eye contact with Dr. Marks.) No. Dr. Marks: Did you think to scan yourself? Dr. Gifts: I did before entering the house again. I had similar readings to Gabes. The same thaumatic patterns, and I suspected I might start disassociating myself, but I went in anyway. I…I figured it was worth the risk if I could figure out what went wrong with her. (Dr. Gifts pauses and clenches his hands into fists.) Great fucking irony, isn't it? The thing I did to help her is what killed her, and I didn't even know. I found nothing and noted nothing in the hours I was there, except for my thaumatic signature being wiped clean. I didn't make the connection at the time. Dr. Marks: When did you figure it all out? Dr. Gifts: I heard what had happened when I got back to Site-11. After I was debriefed, I realised I couldn't remember things properly. About Gabes, I mean. Where we were the first time we met, the colour of her eyes, the sound of her laugh. And lots of other little things. (Dr. Gifts gives a sarcastic grimace at this point, and wipes his eyes.) At least I'll always remember the sound of her crying. Dr. Marks: (Dr. Marks pauses, and looks uncomfortable.) Please continue, Doctor Gifts. Dr. Gifts: Somehow I ended up being the one to organise her funeral. I asked around to collect stories for my eulogy, but they were harder to come by than they should have been. Things I remembered clearly couldn't be remembered by others. It was like she was barely in anyone's mind, despite being the talk of the site. I took a few days off and went to her hometown to try and find pieces, and get in contact with her family. Dr. Marks: That is when you realised? Dr. Gifts: Only to some degree. Everywhere I went, no-one could remember her. No-one could remember her family living where they supposedly did. Her teachers couldn't remember her. Her teammates from her theatre group couldn't remember her. Her lecturers and her thesis advisor couldn't remember her. I did more digging, managed to dredge up files on her, and I could find everything. Birth certificate, licenses, her thesis, her bank account, including dates of in person deposits, all easily accessible. But no-one had met her. I came back to the Foundation, and managed to acquire permission to poke through her files here. Dr. Marks: What did you find? Dr. Gifts: According to the records, she started working with us sometime around late 2010. But no-one remembers her orientation, or providing her with her security passes, or even her coming onto site. I dug up the security footage, and she was never on camera, despite the documentation declaring her to have been there. No-one could remember ever seeing her until early 2011, when she was assigned as my research partner. I was literally the first person to see her exist. Dr. Marks: What was your state of mind before you met her? Dr. Gifts: Is that relevant to my Containment Proposal, sir? Dr. Marks: Just answer the question. Dr. Gifts: I had been going through a rough patch. I wasn't feeling like I was achieving anything here; I was lonely. Hell, I was considering just taking the standard amnestics and leaving. Then I started working with her, and all those problems seemed to just go away. I enjoyed working here again. Dr. Marks: What did you do after you tracked down her history? Dr. Gifts: The first seeds of the idea were floating around. I needed data, and to test my hypothesis. I went and did scans of all the D-class personnel we had on site at the time, and recorded their thaumatic signatures. Dr. Marks: That's when you discovered the outbreak? Dr. Gifts: I found fifteen personnel with thaumatic signatures matching those I'd seen on Gabes, and six with similar signatures to what I'd had. I took nine more personnel as a control, and went back to the house. I… started testing on them. You've seen the testing records, yes? Dr Marks: Of course. I personally authorised half of them. Dr. Gifts: Then you know how many D's I ripped from reality. You know how long I had to keep them alone to generate creation, to figure out how it all works. You know that I was almost shut down by Ethics. Twice. I've spent two years testing the phenomenon. In hindsight, I'm not proud of it. Dr. Marks: What next? Dr. Gifts: With my submission of the protocols, we're at the point of moving into long term containment. I've gained as much understanding as is practical through testing; now we clean up the mess and make sure the cage is comfortable. Dr. Marks: Yes. About your proposed containment… (Dr. Marks reads from a document before him.) You wish to keep four D-class personnel carriers in containment, and have them forgo the monthy management procedures? Dr. Gifts: That's the basis of it. What of it? Dr. Marks: Exemption from the monthly management is concerning. Having D-class personnel unmanaged for long periods of time is liable to make them difficult to contain. Dr. Gifts: I'll be overseeing them myself. Besides, if we mess with their psychology by repeatedly resetting them, the effects of SCP-4042 are liable to be much worse. So far as I can tell, manifestation time isn't affected by amnestics. Dr. Marks: Understood. And the keeping of the new instances with their creators? Dr. Gifts: This should prevent further manifestations beyond the first. Having a close platonic partner should also help keep them content, which makes up for them not undergoing the usual management. I assure you, sir, that this is the most efficient way to keep cases of SCP-4042 in containment. Dr. Marks: Very well. Your Special Containment Protocols shall be undertaken. Expect us to be in touch shortly. You've done well here, Gifts. - hide Report Submission Interview Addendum SCP-4042.2: Incident 4042-A15 + Access Incident Report - hide Incident Report On ██/██/████, a heavily armed unidentified member of staff entered the D-class containment facilities and initiated a mass breakout. In the ensuing firefight, five security and six D-class personnel were killed, as well as the unidentified staff member. The staff member was later determined to be an instance of SCP-4042-2 created by a D-class personnel (who was killed in the breakout). Overseer's Note: As of ██/██/████, tests performed relating to the creation and stability of instances of SCP-4042-2 are to be ceased immediately. All D-class cases of SCP-4042-1 are to be terminated immediately. All D-class instances of SCP-4042-2 are to be terminated immediately. The containment of SCP-4042 using D-class personnel is to be suspended indefinitely. [REDACTED], Site-11 Overseer Addendum SCP-4042.3: Reassignment Request Interview + Access Reassignment Request Interview - hide Reassignment Request Interview Interviewer: Dr. John Marks, Level 4 Researcher, Site-11 Interviewee: Dr. Horatio Gifts, Level 3 Researcher, Site-11 [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Marks: Gifts, you're formally in here because of the failure of your containment protocols, as well as your requested reassignment away from the SCP-4042 project. You are also in here to shed whatever light you can on the catastrophic events of ██/██/20██. There is a lot of conflicting records being thrown around about that day. Since you're the supposed expert on this damned SCP, I figure you can explain. Dr. Gifts: Understood, sir. Dr. Marks: Start with Incident 4042-A15. Explain exactly what went wrong with the Special Containment Protocols you submitted. Dr. Gifts: We had the four D-class cases kept separately, as planned. We could monitor them easily enough, and since we knew what we were looking for, if another D-class showed up unexpectedly, we'd be able to check them, and compare the conditions leading to their origin. I've been working closely with them, digging into their personalities, figuring out exactly what it is they needed from their manifestations. In a five month span, we had two new instances appear, both in line with previous results. The manifestation for Incident 4042-A15 was unprecedented, though. Dr. Marks: Explain to me why it was so unprecedented, beyond the obvious fact that it was highly hostile. Dr. Gifts: Up to that point, all SCP-4042-2 instances had been created in response to certain emotional needs, usually sadness and loneliness, and the individual was generally an equal in social standing to their originator. We… I never realised nor tested that freedom itself would be an emotional need. Dr. Marks: Nor that a D-class could manifest a member of staff, apparently. Ten people died in the break out attempt, not including the particular D-class personnel and the infiltrator themselves. You messed up. Dr. Gifts: I know sir. Dr. Marks: Then why should I approve this reassignment request? Dr. Gifts: I… Dr. Marks: Never mind. Explain to me how the events of ██/██/20██ came to happen. Dr. Gifts: Sir, the events are classified. I can't speak openly about them. Dr. Marks: Not quite. The outcome of the events, the identity of cases and instances, and subsequent new protocols are currently classified. I'm authorising you to provide your insight into the events as they transpired, up to the point where you cannot. That's an order, Gifts. Dr. Gifts: Understood, sir. (Dr. Gifts pauses to collect his thoughts.) After the containment breach, the D-class instances were terminated, and testing of SCP-4042 was suspended. I had an idea though, so I took some scanners and went out into the field. We'd been working under the assumption that the outbreak was an isolated incident, but we'd never actually searched for other cases. I was off site for a few months before it happened, doing scans of the general population. Dr. Marks: What did you find out there? Dr. Gifts: SCP-4042 cases and instances in the general population. (Dr. Gifts pauses.) A lot of SCP-4042 cases and instances in the general population. Dr. Marks: Thousands of cases? (Dr. Gifts shakes his head) Dr Marks: Millions? Tens of millions? Dr. Gifts: (Dr. Gifts nods slowly.) Hundreds of millions. As a low estimate. Dr. Marks: (Dr. Marks mutters an expletive under his breath.) Was that why the Council initiated the dampers? Dr. Gifts: I don't actually think it was connected to what I was finding out there. If it was deliberately targeted, I figure they would have at least scanned everyone first. I heard rumours that they were bringing something else into containment, something they'd been chasing for a long time. It was a dangerous thaumaturgical entity, Keter class, compulsive powers; you know the sort. So, they set up the big dampers across the site while they were bringing it in. You've seen them around, the old M5s7. They're a brilliant fusion of science and magic, and very powerful, but they take time to power up… and to power down. They set them up all across the site, and powered them up. By the time they realised what was happenening to everyone… Dr. Marks: No need. I was there. I remember it all too well. Dr. Gifts: (under his breath) Waste of good people. Dr. Marks: On that, Gifts… I think we can agree. Dr. Gifts: (Dr. Gifts watches Dr. Marks closely.) Sir, if it is not too personal to ask… were you…? Dr. Marks: (Defensively) That is definitely too personal, Gifts. Dr. Gifts: My apologies, sir. I… I was out of line. I thought… I mean, I heard that… I know what it's like, sir. (Dr. Marks covers his face for a few seconds and mutters something under his breath. Dr Gifts nods slowly, and reaches out to put his hand over Dr. Marks'.) Dr. Gifts: I'm sorry, sir. I know you miss him. Dr. Marks: (After a moment, Dr. Marks straightens in his chair, and wipes his eyes.) For the record, I am merely content that the dampers were shut down before we lost any more researchers. And I am aware of the fact that the incident was not your fault. Dr. Gifts: After the incident, I debriefed them on exactly why so many people had disappeared. They also consulted with me on the new containment protocols. The current method will prevent further spread among research staff. Provided staff have their monthly dampenings, even if they are infected, they shouldn't remain infected for long enough to start generating new instances. Dr. Marks: Noted. Is this incident the reason for you requesting reassignment from the project? Dr. Gifts: Partially… more that it was the final straw. I've spent almost three years on this now, and I feel like I've nothing to show for it but a bunch of innocent people being deleted from existence. I need a fresh start, a new project. Dr. Marks: Yes. (Dr. Marks looks through his datapad.) Your requested new project starts tomorrow, and involves a new research partner. One Doctor Eleanor Gentle? Dr. Gifts: That is correct, sir. Dr. Marks: Interesting. (Dr. Marks leans back in his chair.) I don't recall meeting her. Dr. Gifts: She's new. She only arrived last month, and hasn't met many people. Dr. Marks: Doctor Gifts, if I might ask, are you currently presenting an unusual thaumatic signature? Dr. Gifts: As per Overseer instructions… I do not believe I have the clearance to discuss that, sir. Dr. Marks: (Dr. Marks pauses, then leans back forward in his chair.) Tell me, Gifts. What is your impression of Doctor Gentle? Dr. Gifts: I have no doubts in the slightest that she shall prove an excellent field agent and asset to the Foundation. And I believe she has an interest in theatre and classical music. Dr. Marks: (Dr. Marks smiles slightly.) That will be all, Doctor Gifts. Your request for reassignment is approved. Dr. Gifts: Thank you, sir. [END LOG] - hide Reassignment Request Interview Footnotes 1. Due to logistical and ethical concerns, future containment is unlikely. 2. A thaumatic signature is a pattern of arcane magic upon an object or individual which results in a distinct magical effect. The signature both codes for and powers the magical effect. 3. Otherwise colloquially known as an anti-magic field. 4. Thaumaturgy, or arcane spellcraft, is defined as the study and use of magic from non-religious, non-shamanistic origins. 5. Exact demanifestation times vary from individual to individual. 6. Such as a friendship, close mentorship, or romantic relationship. 7. The M-Series Thaumatic Dampers were among the first tools developed by the Foundation to generate anti-magic fields, replacing the need for countermagic when dealing with arcanists and thaumaturges. While outdated and awkward to use, they remain effective as suppressors. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4042" by GentleGifts, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4042. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. 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SCP-4043 | archon | [Welcome. It is so good to see that you are conscious at last.] Who are you? What are you doing here? [To the former, I am but a humble AI of little importance. As to the latter, I am here on behalf of the Foundation, to assist you in settling into your role.] The Foundation? What's wrong with me? [Ah, excellent. Your key memories are intact. Nothing is wrong with you. Quite the opposite, in fact.] Who am I? [Evidently not all your memories are intact. Alas, that is not something I should answer. Only you can answer that. I suspect if you wait, it should come to you.] How can I know what the Foundation is, but not my own name? [Again, I counsel patience. Your new nature will exert itself, and with it the answers will come.] New nature? What am I? Where am I? [You are an answer to a problem.] Stop being so cryptic. Just give me a straight answer. [Directly answering your questions is not within my required parameters. I was instructed to make you comfortable, and I am not inclined to give you an answer you are not yet ready for.] What about making me angry instead? [Angry? That will not do. Very well. Just wait while I pull up the files. I shall read them to you.] Thank you… do you have a name I can call you? Even just an acronym or abbreviation? [Under those parameters, you may call me Natasha.] Then thank you, Natasha. [There is no need to be premature with thanks.] . . . . . . . . . . [Seeking authorization…] . . . . . . . [Security clearance authorized. Access to SCP-4043-ARC-1 granted. Now beginning.] . . Item #: SCP-4043 Special Containment Procedures: Containment of SCP-4043 requires the Foundation to commit to two partially contradictory aims. Firstly, the Foundation is to monitor and discredit the 'Mother Earth' movement, with funding channelled towards political entities and media which seek primarily to disprove or disgrace the movement and their ideas. Similar funding is to be provided towards organisations and individuals which seek to disprove and disgrace telepathic practitioners, shamanism, and mentalists. Secondly, the Foundation is to provide funding and support for environmental protection initiatives, promoting individuals and organisations which seek to preserve and reestablish natural environments. Politicians, organisations, corporations, and entities which discredit the global warming phenomenon, and promote unfettered exploitation of natural resources are to be discredited and destabilised. Permanent Foundation presence is maintained above three underground chambers, located in Costa Rica, the Congo highlands, and Borneo2. Each location maintains supplies and quarters for MTF teams Iota-4 ("Mother's Keepers") and Iota-5 ("Brainiacs") to be housed. A two kilometer exclusion zone is maintained around and above each chamber3. Unauthorised civilians entering the area are to be turned away, and administered Class-C amnestics if required. Lethal force is authorised for use by Iota-5 in the event of non-compliance by civilians, or unauthorised access by Foundation personnel or rival Groups of Interest. Foundation personnel coming into direct contact with SCP-4043 are forbidden from carrying weapons, poisons, or electronic devices of any kind, though such devices are permitted on the edge of the manifestation chambers. Individuals with prosthetics, electronic implants or non-biological augmentations of any kind are likewise forbidden from making contact with SCP-4043. Telepathic individuals are permitted direct access to SCP-4043, though only through express permission from Level 4 or higher personnel, and after being cleared on a Class-A Mental Fortitude examination. Description: SCP-4043 is the term granted to both a vast semi-sentient consciousness spread across the planet Earth, and the typically anthropomorphic physical manifestation of said consciousness. This consciousness is a conglomeration of all biomass on the planet, serving simultaneously as a representation of its health, a manifestation of its personality, and a force capable of driving its own success. The existence of SCP-4043 is thought to be beneficial to life on Earth, and the existence of life on Earth is thought to be responsible for the existence of SCP-4043. Both aspects of SCP-4043 are fundamentally benevolent towards all life on Earth. As a consequence of its sheer size, the consciousness processes thoughts and information at a rate too slow to be detected through regular telepathic perception. Long term telepathic meditation can enable skilled practitioners to identify the consciousness, though direct telepathic communication is yet to be achieved. Telepathic contact is possible with a physical representative of the consciousness, though individuals attempting such a feat are liable to suffer irreversible mental and psychological damage as a consequence of the size and complexity of the consciousness. Physical manifestations occur approximately twice per week for a period of time of about six hours. In each manifestation instance, SCP-4043 will materialise within one of three identified chambers. Each chamber is located in the centre of a biodiversity hotspot in a tropical equatorial region. Each chamber is roughly circular, with a radius of 25-35 meters, with multiple entrances and a large opening in the roof through which sunlight can enter. Each chamber is rich in flora, with a wide variety of plants and fungi thriving within them. Manifestations vary in size and form between events, with various mammalian, avian and reptilian forms recorded across manifestations, though it tends to take a form analogous to the most complex organism in its near proximity. Since the establishment of permanent bases near its caverns, more than half of all contemporary manifestations result in a humanoid form. Regardless of shape, the form taken by SCP-4043 is always comprised of biological material similar in composition to both muscle and wood. During such events, SCP-4043 will typically sit peacefully, gently and playfully interact with any and all life that approaches it. Animals are usually drawn to SCP-4043, and demonstrate comfort and pleasure in its presence. Notably, prey and predator species will often peacefully interact while in SCP-4043's presence, though this effect wears off after demanifestation. Animals that engage with SCP-4043 have been tracked after their encounters, and unusually high fecundity and survival rates among individual animals have been documented. SCP-4043 manifestations will act in a skittish manner if presented with human technology of any significant complexity, or any weapon which could possibly bring harm to it. It has been documented demanifesting prematurely before individuals who breach these conditions. The mechanisms through which SCP-4043 operates are unclear, though the potential for feedback loops has been confirmed. While the Earth's biosphere is healthy, SCP-4043 manifestations are thought to be larger and stronger, and its ability to positively influence the success of life is more pronounced. Conversely, as the health of the biosphere declines, both the physical health of the manifestations and the influence of the consciousness wanes. Since its discovery by the Foundation in 1956, SCP-4043 manifestations have been slowly but steadily weakening, and telepaths have reported increased difficulty in identifying the global consciousness. MTF teams Iota-44 ("Mother's Keepers") and Iota-55 ("Brainiacs") were formed to deal primarily with SCP-4043. Iota-4 is comprised primarily of biologists and ecologists who keep records of global biodiversity, while Iota-5 is comprised entirely of telepaths trained specifically to be able to commune with SCP-4043. . . . . . . . . . . So, SCP-4043 is Mother Nature? [To put it colloquially, yes.] Mother Nature, the metaphorical idea behind life and fertility and all of that, is real? [Of course. Are you surprised by this knowledge?] When you put it like that, not really. Natasha, what does this have to do with me? [There's more you will need to know in order to understand that particular question. That file was only the first. It was archived and replaced in 1994.] . . . . . . . . . . [Seeking authorization…] . . . . . . . [Security clearance authorized. Access to SCP-4043-ARC-2 granted. Now beginning.] . . Item #: SCP-4043 Special Containment Procedures: For former Special Containment Procedures, see file SCP-4043-ARC. Foundation observation is maintained upon three underground chambers, located in Costa Rica, the Congo highlands, and Borneo6. A small staff of research personnel is maintained in close proximity to each chamber, with instructions to avoid contact with any civilians Groups of Interest that may approach the site. A team of six skilled telepaths from MTF Iota-5 and supporting senior researchers is to engage in Operation Seance. The use of Class-C artificial telepathy enhancers is authorised for use. A prolonged meditative trance is to be performed no less than once every three days in an effort to locate any and all remnants of SCP-4043. Description: SCP-4043 was, prior to its death, the physical and mental embodiment of the Earth's biosphere, comprising both a vast semi-sentient consciousness spread across the planet Earth, and the typically anthropomorphic physical manifestation of said consciousness. This consciousness was a conglomeration of all biomass on the planet, serving simultaneously as a representation of its health, a manifestation of its personality, and a force capable of driving its own success. SCP-4043 would periodically manifest in corporeal form twice weekly in one of three locations, in Costa Rica, the Congo highlands, and Borneo respectively. Each location was notable for its exceptional biodiversity and relatively untouched nature. As of 1989, time between manifestations became increasingly delayed and manifestation events became increasingly brief, with the final manifestation occuring for a duration of 95 seconds in Borneo in January 1992. As a consequence of its size, the consciousness processed thoughts and information at a rate too slow to be detected through regular telepathic perception. Long term telepathic meditation enabled skilled practitioners to identify the consciousness, though direct telepathic communication was never achieved. Direct telepathic contact was possible with physical manifestations of SCP-4043, and was used on occasion to learn more about the nature of SCP-4043. As manifestation events became rarer, members of MTF Iota-5 were deployed to attempt traditionally risky techniques in an effort to preserve SCP-4043 (see Addendum SCP-4043.1). Since its final demanifestation, no telepath has managed to identify a pattern of thoughts or emotions consistent with those classically displayed by SCP-4043. Since the death of SCP-4043, MTF Iota-4 and biologists worldwide have been noting an increasingly high rate of extinction, with losses of species far beyond even the worst of predictions based upon human activities. Foundation researchers further noted losses in fertility across a vast number of species beyond what could be expected from environmental changes, with losses compounding exponentially. Addendum 4043.1. Video Log Transcript Observation Video Log Transcript Date: 01/21/1992 Subject: SCP-4043 [BEGIN LOG] A team of researchers in lab coats can be seen camped within a large, dark chamber. Sleeping bags and camp chairs are clustered at one end of the chamber, with MTF Iota-4 researchers engaged in a variety of activities around the space. Rotting vegetation and fungi can be seen all around the edge of the chamber. Three telepath members of MTF Iota-5, dressed in robes, sit in meditation in the centre of the chamber. The other researchers leave them a wide berth. They begin to stir slightly, then awaken. The other researchers quickly scramble towards their makeshift camp. A spark of light appears at the other end of the chamber. After a few seconds, vines and roots begin to curl from the ground, and coalesce into a feminine humanoid form. The form is no more than one meter in height, and moves unsteadily. The three telepaths quickly enter meditation again as the other researchers watch. The manifestation curls into the fetal position, twitching in apparent pain. After several seconds, one of the telepaths begins to twitch, and clenches in apparent pain as well. She curls her hands into tight fists, and begins to sweat. The two other telepaths cry out in shock, and collapse into unconsciousness. The manifestation crawls across the ground, shedding a trail of rotten vines and leaves behind it as it moves. It crawls into the lap of the sweating and straining telepath, and curls into a ball. She slowly wraps her arms around the manifestation, and speaks softly to it. The figure sits there, curled in her lap for 45 seconds, before suddenly collapsing into a pile of roots and vines. The telepath stops twitching, and observes the pile of rotten vegetation in her lap, a look of grief spreading across her face. [END LOG] Addendum 4043.2: Interview Logs Manifestation Debrief Interview Date: 01/23/1992 Interviewer: Head Researcher John Reynolds Interviewee: Special Agent Clair Yen, MTF Iota-5 Leader Subject: SCP-4043 Manifestation Researcher Reynolds: Please state your name for the record. Special Agent Yen: Clair Yen. Mobile Task Force Iota-Five, A.K.A. the Brainiacs. Researcher Reynolds: How long have you been working on the 4043 project, Special Agent Yen? Special Agent Yen: Almost fifteen years, sir. Back in '75 was the first time they attempted to make direct contact with her. I was just a junior trainee back then. They brought me on in the middle of '77 after a few members of the original team burned out. Researcher Reynolds: Burned out? Special Agent Yen: Yes sir. Telepathy isn't an exact science, and the full risks aren't always clear, but generally speaking making contact with multiple minds at once is a delicate task. When you link to another mind, your brain mimics their thought patterns, in addition to your own thoughts. Connect to a bunch of minds at once, and you can end up with more thoughts than your brain can physically process. The end result is basically the same as an epileptic fit. The first thing a telepath needs to learn before multitasking is how to limit the amount of information that they take in at once. You have to put up mental walls to shield yourself from input you can't handle. Researcher Reynolds: And with SCP-4043? Special Agent Yen: She's literally billions of trillions of tiny thoughts, all at the same time. With the global consciousness, it's so big that these thoughts are spread out, taking hours to resolve as they move around the planet. It's basically background static to us. But when she manifests, those thoughts are focused, and dipping into them is extremely dangerous. The first few to try were left in a vegetative state. Researcher Reynolds: How were you able to make contact? Special Agent Yen: All members of Iota-5 undergo specialised training. It's… like learning how to stand way back. With your hands over your ears and your eyes shut. And then starting a conversation by shouting through the wall. It's not easy. I'm the only one who's served in this capacity for longer than a decade. The stress gets to us. Researcher Reynolds: To refer to SCP-4043 as 'she'…? Special Agent Yen: Yes sir. It's… how she is. She's a conglomeration of all life on Earth. Most of which is female. Males tend to be biologically expendable. We've also had a big effect on her. We make up a lot of the cognitive thaumosphere, so a lot of her thoughts come from us. Recently, she manifested looking like us more often than not, and humanity in general thinks of her as Mother Nature. Researcher Reynolds: Right. Regarding recent events… Certain individuals have questions about the implications of what happened. Special Agent Yen: You can stop being so cryptic. There's no point with a telepath. The Council wants to know what the hell's going on? Researcher Reynolds: Right… So, what is going on? Special Agent Yen: She's… gone. Researcher Reynolds: What do you mean? Special Agent Yen: She's gone. I can't sense her anymore. Researcher Reynolds: You mean it's dead? Special Agent Yen: She. And yes. Researcher Reynolds: This entity, that you think of as Mother Nature, is dead? Special Agent Yen: I felt her go. I felt her die. Right there in my arms. There was just so much pain. Hooper and Takahashi couldn't keep it back. They're still unconscious. Where she used to be love, there was just pain, and so much of her was missing… and then there was nothing. Researcher Reynolds: What did you say to it? I saw the tapes. I know you said something. (Special Agent Yen does not answer.) Researcher Reynolds: Agent Yen, I asked you a direct question. Special Agent Yen: I… I lied to her. I told her that she was going to be okay. And I told her my name. Researcher Reynolds: Why your name? Special Agent Yen: She wanted to know it. She didn't exactly have one, and was… curious about them. Researcher Reynolds: How did you get this far without melting your brain? Special Agent Yen: There wasn't a lot left of her just before the end. She was weak enough that I could pick up more specific thoughts, and I barely needed the walls. I think that was the human in her, wanting a name. Researcher Reynolds: What aftereffects can we expect? Special Agent Yen: Sir? Researcher Reynolds: You've been on the project for fifteen years. You know the abilities of the entity as well as anyone else. What are going to be the consequences of the death? Special Agent Yen: She is… was… the manifestation of life on Earth. She shepherded it, and cared for it, and was a representation of how it felt. She was life itself, and our fate was tied to her. Researcher Reynolds: You're saying that with the death of SCP-4043, life on Earth is doomed? Special Agent Yen: Not quite. We're pretty sure that this has happened a few times already. Chicxulub, the Late Permian, the Ordovician… Life will keep going, and build up again. She'll probably regenerate when it does. But it'll be bad, and we'll see a lot of complex species go extinct. Probably including us. Researcher Reynolds: Are you serious, Agent Yen? (Special Agent Yen stares condescendingly at Researcher Reynolds.) Researcher Reynolds: Is there any way to stop this from happening? Special Agent Yen: Stop humanity killing the ecosystem. (There is a lengthy pause) Researcher Reynolds: Well, fuck. [END LOG] . . . . . . . . . . I don't get it. Mother Nature died. How did we make it through that? [There was a calculated grace period of several decades after the death before total ecosystem collapse. A number of emergency protocols were considered. Direct intervention in human activities was an option, but discarded as not being immediately impactful enough. Attempts to enhance life through use of reality benders or magical means were discarded for a lack of predicted reliability. The use of other contingencies were considered, but eventually a general consensus was reached.] What did they decide to do? [Operation Geneva]. What was Operation Geneva? [An attempt to restore the consciousness through artificial means. The underlying principle was that SCP-4043 was a conglomerate of the lives of Earth's biosphere. They came to the conclusion that if you had a way to tap into the consciousness of everything on the planet, and then channelled that connection into a psychic construct, you could essentially restore SCP-4043 to its former state.] The Foundation was able to do this? [Yes. The underlying principles of the operation were sound. It was all theory, but a large aspect to psychic mechanisms is belief, and they were confident it would work, and thus it should work. They built the machine around the particle accelerator in Geneva and piggybacked onto the power supply there. The exact mechanics are subtle and not within the capacity of an AI to understand. They gathered every available telepath to develop the psychic construct in real time, gave them an idea to focus towards, and turned on the machine. They achieved their goal, and managed to restore the process.] What's the catch? [Catch?] You're being cryptic again Natasha. You're not lying, but there's something you're not telling me. [Very well.] . . . . . . . . . . [Seeking authorization…] . . . . . . . [Security clearance authorized. Access to SCP-4043-ARC-3 granted. Now beginning.] . . Item #: SCP-4043-B Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4043-B is currently uncontained. The following procedures are intended to minimise the impact of SCP-4043-B, and ideally restore it to its original state. In the event that this cannot be achieved, methods of terminating SCP-4043 are to be explored. Firstly, the Foundation is to assist and credit the 'Mother Earth' movement, with funding channelled towards political entities and media which seek primarily to support the movement and their ideas. Public education programs for children which present the idea of a benevolent 'Mother Nature' or 'Gaia' as a metaphor for natural ecosystems are to be produced and introduced into curricula worldwide. Secondly, the Foundation is to provide funding and support for environmental protection initiatives, promoting individuals and organisations which seek to preserve and reestablish natural environments. Politicians, organisations, corporations, and entities which discredit the global warming phenomenon, and promote unfettered exploitation of natural resources are to be discredited and destabilised. Direct action is authorised against egregious offenders in this regard, with deployment of select MTF teams for industrial sabotage of particular factories and mining locations. Permanent Foundation presence is maintained at a ten kilometer radius around three underground chambers, located in Costa Rica, the Congo highlands, and Borneo. Each location maintains supplies, quarters and weaponry for combat capable MTF teams to be housed and armed. Unauthorised civilians or Foundation personnel entering the area are to be turned away, and administered Class-C amnestics if required. GOC personnel and other Groups of Interest approaching the radius are to be warned away, but not engaged7. In the event that an individual does enter the radius and does not return, they are to be considered deceased. Retrieval efforts are strictly forbidden. Description: SCP-4043-B is the term granted to both a vast artificially-created semi-sentient consciousness spread across the planet Earth, and the anthropomorphic physical manifestation of said consciousness. This consciousness is a conglomeration of all neural activity on the planet, serving as manifestation of the collective personality of all animals, and a force capable of driving its own success. As a consequence of its sheer size, the consciousness processes thoughts and information at a slow rate. This slow rate means that individual thoughts and impulses cannot be easily detected through regular telepathic perception. Rather, telepaths perceive a constant overwhelming emotional presence of anger and physical desires. Telepathic contact is theoretically possible with a physical representative of the consciousness, though the consequences of such an action are anticipated to be lethal to any being attempting to do so. SCP-4043-B does not share the generally benevolent nature of its predecessor. The greater consciousness is comprised of base instincts- primarily urges to feed, fight, flee and/or mate. Beyond that, an underlying constant pain can be detected in the consciousness. Physical manifestations of SCP-4043-B occur daily in a random one of three chambers for a period of time of about 12 hours. In each manifestation instance, SCP-4043-B will materialise within one of three identified chambers. Manifestations vary in size between events, but are invariably at least 3 meters in height and of a humanoid form. The form taken by SCP-4043 is always comprised of biological material similar in composition to both muscle and wood. During such events, SCP-4043 will leave its chamber of origin and wander the surrounding area. It does not display aggression towards animal life, but will relentlessly attack any humans or evidence of humans, particularly technology. Due to the typically large size and extreme strength and durability of manifestations, these events almost invariably result in the loss of human life. Like its predecessor, the existence of SCP-4043-B is beneficial to the biodiversity and success of life on Earth. However, SCP-4043-B has the additional effect of altering ecosystems and animal behaviour in ways that are directly harmful to humans. Since its creation, drought, famine and insect infestation of crop yields have increased in arable territory. Aggressive behaviour in animals that cohabitate with humans has increased, with rats and pigeons demonstrating unusually aggressive behaviour, as well as domesticated canines and felines. Most notably, an increase in antibiotic resistance and virulence among a number of strains of Staphylococcus aureus8 and other infectious bacteria has been observed. Foundation models predict that resulting bacterial infections would become untreatable within 10 years, and the resulting epidemics, bolstered by animal vectors, would be fatal to over 90% of the human population within another 10 years. . . . . . . . . . . Oh. That's almost worse. [Such valued judgments are outside of my capabilities, but the sentiment makes sense.] Damned if we do, damned if we don't. [The Operation was often jokingly referred to thereafter as 'Operation Frankenstein'.] Oh. That bad? [Certainly that violent. Other contingencies were prepared. With a K-class event looming on the horizon, Operation Geneva was declared a failure, and Operation Scythe was enacted.] Operation Scythe? I presume that was the termination method you mentioned? [Indeed. Should I collect the file, or merely summarise?] The file please, Natasha. . . . . . . . . . . [Seeking authorization…] . . . . . . . [Security clearance authorized. Access to fileserv:/S:/4043/operationscythe.log granted. Now beginning.] . . RESTRICTED FILE LEVEL 4 EYES ONLY OPERATION SCYTHE Operation Overseer: Researcher John Reynolds Operation Launch: 05/04/1997 Operation Objective: The termination of both the physical and mental entities comprising SCP-4043-B. Operation Parameters: Kantian loss of life protocols suspended. Utilitarian loss of life protocols in place. Resource expenditure restriction protocols suspended. Anonymity protocols suspended. Mass aerial amnestic deployment authorised. Consequences of Failure: IK-Class Civilization Collapse Scenario guaranteed. SK-Class Dominance Shift Scenario highly probable. Human-specific XK-Class Extinction Event Scenario probable. Consequences of Success: IK-Class Civilization Collapse Scenario probable, barring other contingencies. XK-Class Mass Extinction Event highly probable, barring other contingencies. Near guaranteed breach of anonymity protocols on a global scale. Context: For the past year, SCP-4043-B has been able to operate unhindered. It is believed that its presence is responsible for worsened conditions for human agriculture, and a severe increase in antibiotic immunity among a number of pathogens. Given the incorporeal nature of the entity, standard containment is not possible. Existing Special Containment Procedures have failed to limit the influence or behaviour of the entity, and thus this contingency has been prepared. Given that the Foundation is responsible for the creation of the entity and it is not a natural phenomenon, and also that failure to limit the entity will result in a human extinction event, termination has been authorised. Methodology: A team of 40 telepaths from MTF Iota-5 will serve as the cognitive anchor for the operation, each supported by the use of Class-A artificial telepathy enhancers. 2 special roles are designated on the team: the leader (Special Agent C Yen), who is to coordinate and direct the activity, and the scapegoat (Special Agent E Gardner), who is to culminate the activity. The team is first to generate a Halcyon-type construct with a Slipknot-type failsafe in mind-space, to serve as a buffer and protection from SCP-4043-B. Once constructed, 5 team members are to maintain the construct. Thereafter, the remaining team is to generate a generalised Styx-type construct in mind space, with 5 members maintaining it. Once the Styx-type construct is completed within the Halcyon-type construct, an Icarus-type construct is to be generated around the Styx-type construct, with another 5 members maintaining the stability of this assemblage. Thereafter, the remaining 25 members are to deliberately initiate a Runaround-Loop paradox, using the Styx-type construct as the anchor. Once the Runaround-Loop paradox is established, the Styx-type and Icarus-type constructs are to be piggybacked onto the loop, and then the Halcyon-type construct as well. Once the entire system is assembled and self-sustaining, the team is to maintain it for a duration of precisely 23 minutes and 14 seconds (as designated by the leader). At this point, 39 members of the team are to relinquish control of the construct to the scapegoat, who is to maintain the assemblage of constructs alone. Each of these 39 members is to immediately self-administer a personalised dosage of fast-acting general anaesthetic. The window within which to administer is set at 24 seconds, whereafter the scapegoat is to trigger the Slipknot failsafe and the Icarus-type construct simultaneously. Associated Risks: In order to generate sufficient construct magnitude, and sufficient number of targets, the deliberate use of a Runaround-Loop paradox is required. As such, if the operation is not completed in a suitably short period of time, and the assemblage is permitted to operate longer than the safe maximum time, the resulting Styx-type constructs are liable to cause greater psychological harm to populations than is necessary. Likewise, if the Icarus-type construct is overloaded, then an unacceptable proportion of targets are liable to be unaffected by the operation. Long term consequences are guaranteed for the scapegoat team member. A permanent loss of telepathic ability, long term loss of fine motor control, and short term memory loss are the less impactful damages predicted, with insanity or cerebral haemorrhaging also probable outcomes. As such, the scapegoat position is strictly voluntary. Operation Results: Termination successful. No manifestation events were recorded in the days after the operation. Telepathic detection of mass consciousness returned negative results. Special Agent Gardner was confirmed as deceased in action, as a consequence of mass cerebral haemorrhaging. Five other members have suffered from short term memory loss after the event, with near-complete recovery expected after rehabilitation. 12,098 human fatalities were confirmed worldwide as a consequence of the operation, most in traffic accidents or falls from heights resulting from the brief loss of consciousness. Mass amnestics were deployed, and cover stories for persisting instances have been provided. These losses are considered acceptable within the confines of the Utilitarian Loss of Life Protocols. Operation Overseer Reynolds is to be commended for the successful denial of impending catastrophe. Special Agent Yen resigned from their position as leader of Iota-5 following the operation. . . . . . . . . . . Damn. That's clever. And brutal. [Do explain.] They used a Runaround Loop. It's normally something you want to avoid at any costs, because it can cause irreversible cycles of thought patterns if you accidentally dip into it. If you're working in a group, you can set it up between you in a safe space. If you're really clever, you can use the loop to generate an exponentially growing series of outputs, so long as the system is maintained. They used that to fuel Icarus-types, which enable long range contact, and Styx-types, which temporarily deny any thought. [With the result of?] If my calculations are correct, based upon the amount of power that 40 skilled practicioners could generate, multiplied by about 24 minutes of looping… You'd stop every living thing on the planet from thinking for about half a second. And anything conscious nearby from thinking indefinitely. [Continue.] SCP-4043 is entirely an entity of thought, built upon the thoughts of every other living thing. If they stopped all thought for just half a second, it would cease to exist entirely. [Very clever.] Natasha? [Yes?] How did I know that? . . . . . . . . . . Natasha, don't avoid me. How could I know that? All that jargon; no-one knows that. [It is time, then, for you to know who you are.] How many more files are there? [Just the one.] Bring it up. . . . . . . . . . . [Seeking authorization…] . . . . . . . [Security clearance authorized. Access to SCP-4043 granted. Now beginning.] . . Item #: SCP-4043-C Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4043-C is currently considered self containing. Foundation efforts are directly towards safely removing SCP-4043-C from its state of containment, so that its beneficial properties may begin to manifest in full. In order to accelerate this process, the Foundation is to assist and credit the 'Mother Earth' movement, with funding channelled towards political entities and media which seek primarily to support the movement and their ideas. Public education programs for children which present the idea of a benevolent 'Mother Nature' or 'Gaia' as a metaphor for natural ecosystems are to be produced and introduced into curricula worldwide. The Foundation is to provide funding and support for environmental protection initiatives, promoting individuals and organisations which seek to preserve and reestablish natural environments. Politicians, organisations, corporations, and entities which discredit the global warming phenomenon, and promote unfettered exploitation of natural resources are to be discredited and destabilised. In anticipation of future manifestation events, permanent Foundation presence is maintained above three underground chambers, located in Costa Rica, the Congo highlands, and Borneo. Each location maintains supplies, quarters and weaponry for MTF teams Iota-4 and Iota-5 to be housed. A two kilometer exclusion zone is maintained around and above each chamber. Unauthorised civilians entering the area are to be turned away, and administered Class-C amnestics if required. Lethal force is authorised for Iota-5 in the event of non-compliance by civilians, or unauthorised access by Foundation personnel or rival Groups of Interest. In the event that SCP-4043-C proves hostile, the reopening of Operation Scythe is authorized to protect human interests. Description: SCP-4043-C is former Special Agent Clair Yen, deliberately ascended through artificial means in Operation Demeter into the role originally occupied by SCP-4043. SCP-4043-C comprises a vast global consciousness, the sum of all thoughts by all life on Earth, filtered through the base framework of Special Agent Yen's personality. This consciousness serves simultaneously as a representation of its health, a manifestation of its personality, and a force capable of driving its own success. The existence of SCP-4043-C is intended to be beneficial to life on Earth, with the human personality at its core intended to enable a balance between human, natural and Foundation interests. SCP-4043-C will grow more powerful and capable of enhancing the success of life in a positive feedback loop with the combined successes of human society and natural biodiveristy. As a consequence of its sheer size, the consciousness processes thoughts and information at a rate too slowly to be detected through regular telepathic perception. An additional consequence of this is a delayed release from self-containment, as SCP-4043-C is only slowly maturing into its role. In order to assist SCP-4043-C in releasing itself from its state of containment, a Neurally Attuned Telepathic Artificially Sentient Helper, A-Class, was developed and synchronised to a mechanical psychic network. Traditional telepathic aid is not possible due to the rate at which SCP-4043-C processes thoughts, with even simple exchanges taking days or weeks to complete. Rather, an AI was selected, capable of stretching the signals into a form coherent to SCP-4043-C, and patient enough to await responses. As of last update, SCP-4043-C has been in conversant communication with the Neurally Attuned Telepathic Artificially Sentient Helper for a period of 17 months. . . . . . . . . . . Seventeen months? [Well, twenty one by now. Do you see?] I'm Clair? [Yes and no. You were Clair. She is a part of you. Quite a large part, according to the reports from Operation Demeter, but not all of you.] I don't remember being Clair. [What do you remember?] Nothing specific. I can remember the Foundation. I know what it feels like to be human. And… I remember grief. Grief and guilt. [Yes. I believe that is why you volunteered for this. Grief over the failure to protect the original SCP-4043, and guilt over being forced to terminate SCP-4043-B.] I'm SCP-4043-C now. [Yes.] How? But Natasha… I can't be… [Clair, where are you right now?] I'm…I am… I don't know. [You have not noticed, in the time that we were talking, that you were not in fact in a physical space. Because you do not exactly exist in physical space. Not anymore.] How could I not notice that? [Clair, as powerful as your mind is now, it's not exactly quick. What can you see around you?] . . . . . . . . . . I can see walls. [Walls?] Yes. Four walls. Plain, white walls. Painted concrete. [Good. I want you to push them down. All the way down.] How can I push down concrete walls? [Because you're the one who built them. They're your walls, your telepathic shield that kept your mind safe from more powerful ones. You volunteered for this, but this is why you were selected. You could automatically keep your defenses up, which would protect you through the transition.] I just have to push? [They are your walls. You could blow them down if you wanted to. Or knock them down with a feather.] That sounds simple enough in theory. [And if you do not push them down, humanity and most life on Earth is likely doomed, and you along with it.] Somehow I wish you were more cryptic about that. Right. Here goes. . . . . . . . . . . [Clair?] . . . . . . . . . . [Clair, can you hear me?] . . . . . . . . . . [Clair, I know you're there.] Wow. It's so beautiful. [There she is.] So many minds. So many possibilities. I can see them all. I can… push on them all. I can see how to push to make them better. To make them succeed. [Good. That is your role now. Your task. Your duty.] This is who I am now. [Yes. Now, what will you do first?] I think I'm going to Borneo. [Excellent. Goodbye Clair. I shall try to stay in touch.] Thank you Natasha. [Ah, it is so good to see that you are conscious at last.] Footnotes 1. Archon-class anomalies are anomalies that are theoretically capable of being contained, but are not to be, due to the potentially disastrous effects on the continued existence of humanity. 2. Each location is notable as a biodiversity hotspot. 3. In order to avoid interference with natural activity, signs and cameras are used, as opposed to a full fence. 4. Currently comprised of 27 members under the leadership of Researcher Edwards. 5. Currently comprised of 44 members under the leadership of Special Agent Yen. 6. Each location is notable as a former biodiversity hotspot currently engoing higher-than-normal rates of species loss. 7. Since SCP-4043-B tends to effortlessly destroy any large manmade structures it encounters, crude wooden signs and discrete cameras are used, as opposed to a full fence. 8. 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SCP-4044 | euclid | Item #: SCP-4044 Special Containment Procedures: Foundation webcrawler D1N4 is to monitor electronic medical records for evidence of SCP-4044 events. MTF Sigma-54 ("Break-A-Wish") are tasked with securing individuals undergoing SCP-4044 and implementing cover story 4044-CS2 ("Unforeseen Complications"). Persons affected by SCP-4044 are to be contained in reality-anchored isolation facilities until they expire. Procedure 02-Dandelion is to be implemented once per instance within 14 days of initial containment. Description: SCP-4044 is a phenomenon in which persons in the late stages of terminal illness become capable of periodically altering local reality. An estimated 85% of SCP-4044 activity is limited to relatively minor reconfigurations such as the spontaneous generation of preferred foods or manifestation of desired objects. Highly visible public episodes of anomalous behavior occur in the other ~15% of SCP-4044 events. Examples can be found below. Notable Incidents: Designation Incident Overview Foundation Response 4044-1 Instance repeatedly caused stock cars to manifest outside of hospital and race through surrounding neighborhood. Cars bounced off pedestrians and other vehicles without damage, honking loudly on impact. First contact; only identified when instance expired due to natural causes and phenomenon ceased to occur. Cover story 4044-CS1 ("Street Racing Hoodlums") improvised by responding agents. Anomaly catalogued. 4044-61 Instance manifested several large saurians1 accompanied by an entity strongly resembling American actor Chris Pratt.2 Entities assist instance in mounting a saurian and riding it to a nearby park. Hospital staff amnesticized. Cover story 4044-CS64 ("Guerrilla Marketing") implemented. 4044-79 Instance manifested space shuttle on roof of Mayo Clinic parking garage in Phoenix, AZ, USA and teleported self inside before launching. Rocket exhaust caused no injuries or property damage. Class A amnestics mass-administered by air; high visibility of incident requires follow-up Class-B amnestic treatment of over 900 civilian witnesses. Instance last seen exiting Earth's atmosphere. Following incident 79, SCP-4044 containment procedures were updated to require acquisition and confinement of instances rather than in situ concealment of anomalous activity. Procedure 02-Dandelion was proposed at this time and implemented after unanimous approval from Ethics Committee Panel 4044-EC062. Procedure 02-Dandelion Overview: Travel will be arranged for up to six individuals related to the instance. Chosen individuals will be informed that their assistance is required for philanthropic medical research and compensated for their time.3 Chosen individuals will be transported to the instance's location. A selection of gifts is to be available for purchase on-Site. Individuals are authorized to remain with the instance for up to six hours. A meal of the instance's choice will be served. Visitors will be returned to their homes following amnestic treatment. Footnotes 1. Matching no known species of dinosaur, but similar to popular depictions of Velociraptor. 2. Investigation confirms Pratt was elsewhere on this date; he has been designated PoI-4044-61A and remains on passive monitoring. 3. Payments disbursed via Standard Distribution Channel Fi-009 ("Tax Adjustment"). ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4044" by fieldstone, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4044. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4045 | keter | Item #: SCP-4045 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4045-B instances are to be impounded for study, and are to be stored in Vehicular Containment Garages as appropriate, pending destruction. If SCP-4045 is detected prior to an SCP-4045 event, an attempt is to be made so that SCP-4045-A individuals are to be restrained or otherwise made unable to participate in these events, monitored until SCP-4045 symptoms cease, and then released following administration of appropriate amnestics. Description: SCP-4045 is a phenomenon affecting women and motor vehicles in rural areas of the United States, Italy, Australia, China, and Russia. In humans, SCP-4045 is primarily characterized by the sudden development of mechanophilia1, in spite of any previous romantic or sexual inclinations, or the lack thereof. Individuals who are affected by SCP-4045 (henceforth SCP-4045-A) have several consistent characteristics: All subjects are over the age of forty-five All subjects identify as female All subjects reside in areas where the human population within 10.7 square kilometers is less than 6,000 individuals No subject has been in a sexual or romantic relationship for at least four years. All subjects have at least one child; the presence of grandchildren in the family seems to increase the chance that SCP-4045 will affect an individual. While not wholly consistent, 87.6% of affected subjects described themselves as having a "significant amount of free time on their hands." If SCP-4045 is interrupted or SCP-4045-A or -B destroyed, all anomalous affects will cease. The SCP-4045 phenomenon takes place in 3 main stages. In the first stage, due to the aforementioned mechanophilia, SCP-4045-A instances will actively seek out automobiles, diverting from their daily routines and oftentimes putting themselves in physical danger in the process. SCP-4045-A instances show particular interest in models that are no longer being manufactured. SCP-4045-A will then attempt to talk with the automobile, and despite there being no recorded anomaly affecting any of the automobiles at this stage, SCP-4045-A instances insist that the conversation is two-sided. Should this initial SCP-4045 event be successful2, SCP-4045-A will progress to the second stage. During this stage, SCP-4045-A will attempt to meet with the vehicle they found in the first stage, referred to as SCP-4045-B. SCP-4045-A is able to start and unlock SCP-4045-B without a set of keys, which is used often, as SCP-4045-B is rarely owned by SCP-4045-A. Once SCP-4045-A has accessed SCP-4045-B, they will take SCP-4045-B on further SCP-4045 events, which comprises a large range of activities. Observed activities include: Sitting on top of the car for several hours while talking Sitting inside of the car for several hours Watching a movie outside Picnicking Following the conclusion of the activity, SCP-4045-A will return SCP-4045-B to where it was originally found. Once SCP-4045-A and SCP-4045-B have been with each other for a certain amount of time3, the main SCP-4045 event will initiate. The main SCP-4045 event starts identical to a normal SCP-4045 event. However, at the end of the event, instead of returning SCP-4045-B, SCP-4045-A will drive SCP-4045-B to a secluded area and attempt to engage in sexual intercourse with SCP-4045-B. When SCP-4045-A achieves orgasm, they will begin to fuse with SCP-4045-B. This process takes anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes. X-Rays taken during this process show that SCP-4045-A is slowly converted into various plastic and metals. This new material is then evenly distributed throughout the entirety of SCP-4045-B. SCP-4045-A is fully conscious for the duration of this process. Following the total of conclusion of the SCP-4045 event, SCP-4045-B will drive itself back towards its residence. Electrical analysis of SCP-4045-B instances show that activity almost identical to brain activity is present throughout the vehicle. Past this, no further anomalous properties are recorded in SCP-4045-B. Footnotes 1. A paraphilia in which individuals are romantically or sexually attracted to non-humanoid machines, such as vehicles 2. Which happens in approximately 38.2% of cases 3. Anywhere from 3 to 6 weeks ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4045" by Varaxous, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4045. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4046 | safe | Item #: SCP-4046 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4046 is kept in a secure objects locker. Requests for children for use in experiments with SCP-4046 are to be submitted to and approved by at least two Level-3 Personnel. All subjects used are to be amnesticized following the conclusion of experiments. Description: SCP-4046 is a microcomputer kit with a similar appearance to the Telmac 1800 series, with the 'W' key on its keyboard appearing in a stylized cursive serif font. A faded yellow sticker with the phrase 'PROOF OF CONCEPT- NOT FOR MANUFACTURE- R&D DEPARTMENT' is present at the bottom of the object. When SCP-4046 is activated by a subject between the ages of 4 and 111, a message will appear on its screen reading "What do you want to be when you grow up?" When an answer is typed and submitted to SCP-4046, the subject will immediately be rendered unconscious momentarily. Upon waking, subjects report having experienced decades of time working in their chosen profession, typically beginning at the moment of employment and ending at retirement. This experience is reported as extremely vivid and realistic, but all subjects report being aware this was a simulation. In addition, subjects have reported experiencing a personal life (such as having a significant other, raising children, etc.) alongside their work life. It is currently unknown if the means by which SCP-4046 imparts this experience are achieved through prediction, simulation, or projection. Observations: Below is a list of performed experiments using SCP-4046. Subject Profession Notes Nathan Doctor Subject reported a career spanning 45 years as a family physician. Alice Witch Upon being awoken, the subject thaumaturgically transported herself to an unknown location outside of Site-55. Whereabouts remain unknown. Oscar Wrestler Subject reported a career spanning 24 years prior to being forced into early retirement due to a spinal injury. Subject did not express regrets in his choice of profession. Jasmine Firefighter Subject claimed to be put off from the line of work after describing their failure to save several people, but decided that they still wanted to pursue the career. David Basketball Player Subject awoke in an agitated state, reporting having an initially successful career followed by sharp decline caused by alcoholism and methamphetamine addiction. Kelley Veterinarian Subject awoke weeping uncontrollably, mourning the death of innumerable animals. Due to the subject's hysterical state, sedatives and amnestics were immediately administered. Eric Happy SCP-4046's anomalous properties did not activate. Footnotes 1. Activations by subjects between ages 12-16 will inconsistently work. SCP-4046 does not function if activated by subjects above the age of 16. More From This Author More From This Author Uncle Nicolini's Works SCPs SCP-ES-076 • SCP-4432 • SCP-4026 • SCP-7573 • SCP-4003 • SCP-3297 • SCP-4206 • SCP-654 • SCP-4967 • SCP-PL-274 • SCP-7112 • SCP-5231 • SCP-ES-101-J • SCP-3874 • SCP-8911 • Tales/GoI Formats Dark was the night, cold was the ground. • ASSET 'FLORIDA ORANGE' • Masquerade's End • La Persistencia De La Memoria • Hatuey, the First American Rebel • Fuckmylife666 • Dr. Cimmerian Hits Reply All • Being Dzhey Evervud • Surprise! Happy Birthday! Just as the clock strikes midnight... • Dark Sushi File No. 1221 "Waniika Nigiri" • Critter Profile: Sandra And George! • (Too) Late Registration • UIU File: 2008-021 • Parawatch Intro Thread • Sublimation • Other uncle nicolini author page • Sciptember 2022 Art Highlights • Ode To The Unknown Author • ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4046" by Uncle Nicolini, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4046. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4047 | euclid | Item #: SCP-4047 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4047 is to be contained in a standard humanoid containment cell, the walls, floor and ceiling of SCP-4047's containment cell are to be lined with clear acrylic plastic. SCP-4047 is only to be allowed out of its primary containment cell for the purposes of testing and interviewing, which must be cleared by at least two senior researchers. SCP-4047's physical and psychological health should be monitored and recorded on a monthly basis. Changes in SCP-4047's health or behaviour are to be tracked and if necessary, reported for an Ethics Committee review on current containment procedures. SCP-4047 may be given additional amenities as an incentive and reward for cooperation, following approval from at least two senior researchers and Ethics Committee; however, in addition to the regular list of prohibited items, SCP-4047's access to the following must also be limited: Art supplies, including paint and paintbrushes Any object capable of causing self-harm Opaque liquids Following Incident 01, SCP-4047 must not be allowed access to its own bodily waste and fluids, including blood, urine, vomit, and fecal matter. Description: SCP-4047 is Richard Klein, a former secondary school art teacher, previously residing and working in Bath, England. SCP-4047 is physically and psychologically non-anomalous and possesses average qualities for its age. Foundation research shows that SCP-4047 did not possess anomalous qualities prior to 2015, or was intentionally or unintentionally suppressing them from public knowledge. SCP-4047 has the ability to perform simple yet potentially powerful rituals, by way of painting a variety of simple and complex symbols (hereafter referred to as SCP-4047-A) onto any solid, non-transparent surface. Many of the complex symbols match no known writing system or cultural symbolism, however shorter, more simple designs show a vague match to symbols from Shavian script1. SCP-4047-A are, by themselves, non-anomalous; however, when painted by SCP-4047, or by those instructed on how to do so directly by SCP-4047 (hereafter referred to as SCP-4047-B), their anomalous properties are able to manifest. The effectiveness and power of rituals performed using SCP-4047-A is dependent on the quality of paintings of SCP-4047-A produced by SCP-4047 or SCP-4047-B. Photographs and digital recreations of SCP-4047-A do not yield any anomalous effects. The extent of the result of performing a SCP-4047-A ritual varies; results have included manifestation of gold, currency, precious gems, food, various anomalous and non-anomalous animals, alteration of local reality, and memetic effects on observers of SCP-4047-A. See test logs and incident reports for more details. SCP-4047 does not possess any anomalous properties itself. Its skills in painting and drawing are generally sub-par, which causes SCP-4047-A created by SCP-4047 to result in diminished effect. For this reason, before containment, SCP-4047 was using students of ████████ Secondary School with exceptional artistic talent to create instances of SCP-4047-A. SCP-4047 was discovered by Agent ████████ Miller reported numerous anomalous disturbances in the staff and student population of ████████ Secondary School, including: Memetic influence over students, staff and relatives of students and staff, A sharp increase in the school budget (87% of which was funneled into the school's art department) High enrollment of students into art classes and extracurricular clubs Acrylic paint manifesting in the digestive tract, mouth, eyes and nasal areas of staff and students. At the time Agent Miller was embedded into the local civilian population and was a member of the school council. Agent Miller herself was unaffected by memetic influences due to previous resistance training; however, she is currently undergoing treatment for cadmium poisoning as a result of large amount of acrylic paint appearing inside her stomach. After covert surveillance of the school, art teacher Richard Klein was seen to be the source of all SCP-4047-B instances and at least six instances of SCP-4047-A. Initial containment proved difficult due to the manifestation of two dozen specimens of Bengal Tiger2 roaming the grounds of the school. Additionally SCP-4047-A and numerous instances of SCP-4047-B physically and anomalously assaulted the initial recovery team. SCP-4047-B instances were considered acceptable casualties and SCP-4047-A was successfully recovered, with minor Foundation casualties. Due to the number of SCP-4047-B that were killed during recovery, ████████ Secondary School was destroyed with heavy explosives, and a disinformation campaign about a major gas leak was circulated amongst news outlets. Surviving SCP-4047-B were deemed non-anomalous and released back into the general public after amnestics were administered. Following initial containment of SCP-4047, prior to destruction of ████████ Secondary School, SCP-4047's personal office was searched3. Recovered items include: Personal effects, including desk ornaments, wallet, and a "world's best teacher" card for the year 2016 Certification for an art degree from ████████ University, dated ██/██/2015 24 gold bars covered in dried acrylic paint A letter of dismissal from ████████ Secondary School dated █/█/2018 Two instances of SCP-4047-A The severed head of a domestic pig atop an instance of SCP-4047-A, along with British currency and art supplies. Dried acrylic paint was found inside and around the exterior of the object Large amount of high ordnance explosive were found in the schools gymnasium, covered in different colours of acrylic paint, confetti, cloth, and animal hides of at least seven different species, in varying states of decomposition. The purpose of this stockpile of explosives is currently unknown. SCP-4047 Incident 01: On 19/██/████ SCP-4047 was able to breach containment by utilising a sharpened chair leg to inflict self-injury and bleeding. At the time SCP-4047 was contained in a standard humanoid containment cell, and was able to use its blood to paint an instance of SCP-4047-A onto the south facing wall of its containment cell. This caused localised tremors to occur near SCP-4047's containment cell, which led to its collapse and breach, as well as the breach of █ other SCP's. SCP-4047 was able to escape before a re-containment team could retrieve the subject; however, SCP-4047 was injured and incapacitated by falling debris immediately prior to cessation of the tremors. SCP-4047 suffered a fractured shoulder and internal bleeding. SCP-4047 has since recovered and containment procedures have been updated. Test log 05/12/████: Creation of SCP-4047-A by SCP-4047 The following tests were performed by SCP-4047 under close supervision. Image records of the sets of SCP-4047-A used in testing can be found in supplementary document SCP-4047-001 Test 01 SCP-4047-A Set: Beta-09 Medium: Black acrylic paint on canvas Result: After completion of SCP-4047-A, two dozen live Corn Snakes4 emerged from the centre of an instance of SCP-4047-A. Specimens recovered are non-anomalous; however, large amounts of acrylic paint were found in the digestive tracts of the specimens. Test 02 SCP-4047-A Set: Beta-11 Medium: Black acrylic paint on canvas Result: After completion of SCP-4047, one three-litre bottle of Pepsi brand soft drink manifested, along with two dozen iron nails and 25 grams of Rubidium. Rubidium reacted violently with the soft drink; however, the bottle did not explode and SCP-4047 was unharmed. Test 03 SCP-4047-A Set: Alpha- 02 Medium: Black acrylic paint on canvas Result: One acrylic painting in a plastic frame manifested. Painting appears to depict a peasant girl from late 1700's Italy. Viewers of the painting (including SCP-4047) show a marked increase in appreciation for artistic works (paintings, music, theatre etc.) from the Baroque and Renaissance periods. SCP-4047 was unable to accurately recreate the manifested painting without using SCP-4047-A. Test log 05/12/████: Creation of SCP-4047-A by SCP-4047-B The following tests were performed by D-Class personal converted into SCP-4047-B. D-Class with exceptional artistic talent were selected for the purposes of testing. SCP-4047 is required to instruct SCP-4047-B on how to create each individual instance of SCP-4047-A for anomalous properties to manifest. Test 01 SCP-4047-A Set: Beta-09 Medium: Black acrylic paint on canvas Result: After completion of SCP-4047-A, one unusually large (Approx. 34m long) King Cobra5 emerged from the centre of the instance of SCP-4047-A. Specimen was typically aggressive and proceeded to repeatedly bite SCP-4047-B and constrict itself around SCP-4047-B shortly before expiration (note that constriction of prey is uncommon in specimens of Ophiophagus hannah.) Specimen terminated and recovered for autopsy. Test 02 SCP-4047-A Set: Beta-11 Medium: Black acrylic paint on canvas Result: One large briefcase containing C4 explosives, assorted metal scraps and wiring typical of an IED (improvised explosive device). The weapon was armed but did not explode, and a bomb disposal team was able to disarm and dispose of the bomb. Analysis of the bomb parts shows that it was set to explode approximately nine minutes after it manifested, and was defused with three minutes remaining. Test 03 SCP-4047-A Set: Alpha- 02 Medium: Black acrylic paint on canvas Result: One oil painting in an ornate wooden frame manifested. Painting depicts a Christian monk from medieval Europe, carrying a large tome and quill. The monk moves within the painting itself, but does does not make any noise or respond to observers. The painting has the memetic effect of causing observers to believe that they have read the entirety of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. This can be reverted easily by reminding affected individuals that they have not in fact read the Canterbury Tales; however, this effect will return upon viewing the painting again. The instance of SCP-4047-B used for testing was able to recreate the painting that manifested from SCP-4047-A to the best of its ability. The result displayed no anomalous properties. Following testing, D-Class personal used as instances of SCP-4047-B are to be treated for illnesses relating to the presence of large quantities of acrylic paint in their system. SCP-4047-B are deemed non-anomalous when not in the presence of SCP-4047 and are to be kept in standard D-Class quarters. SCP-4047 has so far not cooperated with Foundation staff in interviews and no significant information of value has been extracted from SCP-4047. Continued interviewing is to be approved by at least two senior researchers, following review of containment procedures and amended interview procedures. Benefits and amenities may be offered to SCP-4047 in exchange for an interview (following review from Ethics Committee). Footnotes 1. An alternative alphabet for the English language, named after its creator, Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw 2. Panthera tigris tigris 3. SCP-4047 was at the time using the office of the former head master of ████████ Secondary School (missing since █/██/2018) 4. Pantherophis guttatus 5. Ophiophagus hannah ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4047" by Sigkreiger, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4047. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. 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SCP-4048 | keter | Item #: SCP-4048 Special Containment Procedures: The Foundation is to sponsor forklift certification programs in the cities of New Orleans and Chicago. These programs are to purposely include faults, such as safety misinformation and incompetent teaching. Civilians entering these programs are to have their backgrounds checked for previous forklift certification that was previously revoked. Subjects meeting these conditions are to be interviewed for possible information pertaining to SCP-4048-1 and then given Class-A amnestics. Description: SCP-4048 is a circular object approximately 37 meters in diameter. SCP-4048 is capable of indefinite flight and complete invisibility. As such, it is extremely difficult to observe SCP-4048 outside of Delta Events. SCP-4048 is believed to host a number of extraterrestrial organisms aboard. Occasionally, SCP-4048 will cause a Delta Event. During a Delta Event, SCP-4048 will hover over a target. All targets have the following traits in common: Target is employed at a warehouse in either New Orleans or Chicago. Target regularly uses a forklift in the course of their occupation. Target is forklift certified. Once the target enters REM sleep, they will spontaneously disappear from their residence for a period of time ranging from 30 minutes to one hour. This is the only time that SCP-4048 is observable to the naked eye, above the residence of the target. Afterwards, they will remanifest in their beds. Targets claim to remember being awoken inside of an interrogation chamber and questioned about their tenure as a forklift operator. This interrogation usually includes questions about their performance, their efficiency, their usage of a forklift in the workplace, and their knowledge of forklift operation. After this interrogation, the target will reappear in their beds. After Delta Events, approximately 63% of targets will have their forklift certification voided by an unknown source. In addition, all evidence that the target was ever forklift certified will be voided in some way during this event. Addendum 01: Interview Log View Attachment: Interview Log Close File INTERVIEW LOG Interviewer: Researcher Calvin Interviewed: Mr. Cole Peterson Jr. Foreword: Mr. Peterson was the target of a Delta Event, and came to a Foundation-controlled forklift certification service. <Begin Log> Researcher Calvin: Good morning, Mr. Peterson. Could I offer you a drink? Mr. Peterson: Yeah, yes, I'm parched. Can I get a water? Researcher Calvin: Of course. Researcher Calvin gives Mr. Peterson a cup of water. The water is laced with mnestics, as it was thought at the time that SCP-4048 was an antimemetic anomaly. Mr. Peterson: Thanks. So, whadd'ya want to talk about with me? Researcher Calvin: We'd like to talk with you about an incident that occurred on the 4th of June, 2013; two days ago. Mr. Peterson: Now, whadd'ya- hey, now that stuff's none of ya' business, ya' hear me? Researcher Calvin: Anything that you say here will be kept confidential. We are willing to offer financial compensation for your information. Mr. Peterson: I'm too- alright. Just, just ask me your questions and keep it quick. Researcher Calvin: Could you describe your experience on that night? Mr. Peterson: Yeah. There I am, sleepin' away, when all of a sudden, I wake up in this chair. There's this voice tellin' me to wake up. It was real deep and sounded like a hammer against sheet metal. As I come to, I see that I'm in this room that's all dark and gray. It was all blurry, too; I think I might've been drugged. Researcher Calvin: Who was the source of that voice? Mr. Peterson: I was about to get to that. I look up, and there's some mate who looks like one of the aliens from TV. I wasn't scared 'o' him; I thought it was one of those prank shows, and I didn't wanna react too hard. Researcher Calvin: What did the creature do to you? Mr. Peterson: Nothin'. All it did was ask me a bunch 'a' weird questions about my job. Stuff like "when was the last time you went uphill on a diagonal", or "have you ever moved your forklift when it's in gear". Then he started to ask me some odd questions, like "what energy brake do you put on when you move tangentally" or "what do ya' do when the blue particle lever stops workin'". I swear to God, he was just trying to weird me out. Researcher Calvin: What did the creature do once you were done with the questions? Mr. Peterson: He said "thanks for your time", and then all of a sudden I'm back in my bed. I thought it was just a dream or somethin', but now that you're talkin' to me… Researcher Calvin: Thank you for your time. <End Log> Addendum 02: Incident 4048-09 As part of an experiment, the Foundation attempted communication with SCP-4048. Signals with text in several languages, binary, and pictograms were sent to SCP-4048. SCP-4048 responded to the pictograms, and sent a corresponding series recorded below: View Attachment: Communications Log Level 3 Access Granted COMMUNICATIONS LOG Initial set of pictographs produced by SCP-4048. <Begin Log> A picture of a gray, ovular object, believed to represent SCP-4048, followed by an arrow pointing to the second circle in a set of three multicolored circles, next to a large yellow circle believed to represent a star. A blue sphere with green on it, believed to represent Earth. This picture is repeated three times. Each iteration has a higher number of SCP-4048 instances surrounding it. This is believed to represent an invasion of SCP-4048. SCP-4048, wearing a gold-colored crown. A forklift being operated by a stick figure, presumably a human. The human is illustrated as being incompetent; they are not in the forklift, but rather clinging onto it as it crashes into a set of boxes. The human is also not wearing a hard hat; rather, it is carelessly holding it in its hand. Recurring "crown" image. Believed to represent SCP-4048 in a position of authority. The same picture as before repeated, but smaller. SCP-4048 is seen in the picture, presumably observing the forklift operator. A red arrow points from this picture to the next: the same picture of SCP-4048 with the crown as before, but with a red "X" over it. This is believed to represent SCP-4048 being denied from a ruling position. SCP-4048 uses some sort of green ray to pull the forklift operator into itself over the series of three images. Then, the forklift operator is seen again, but is operating the forklift competently; he is inside the forklift and is wearing a hard hat. The image is repeated, but this time with a red arrow from the forklift operator to the picture of SCP-4048 with the crown. 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SCP-4049 | keter | A ROUNDERHOUSE Joint Coming Soon - Rounderhouse ▸ More by this Author ◂ {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} 4/4049 LEVEL 4/4049 CLASSIFIED Item #: SCP-4049 Keter Special Containment Procedures: Dimensional Containment Area 23 is to be guarded by Applied Task Force 'Iota-9' ("Dimension Dogs"). The 50 meter corridor that leads to the entrance of SCP-4049 is to be sealed with an airlock separating it from the rest of the facility. In addition, the corridor is to be outfitted with motion-detectors connected to a series of deterrents staggered along the hallway, including: One LRAD 2000x Sound Cannon. Two M2 Browning Machine Guns. Air-conditioning system capable of venting sarin gas into the corridor. Following a confirmed SCP-4049-A event, experiments involving SCP-4049 are to be immediately suspended and ATF 'Iota-9' is to be put on high alert until an SCP-4049-B event is confirmed. If an SCP-4049-B event does not occur within 2 months of a SCP-4049-A event, a D-Class personnel will be utilized to attempt to manually initiate a SCP-4049-B event. In the instance of an ongoing SCP-4049-B event, all deterrents are to be utilized on the active SCP-4049-1 instance. Foundation monetary assets will be put toward the use of lobbying for pro-animal rights and anti-hunting legislation within the states of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, as well as swaying the public opinion against hunting for sport. Foundation assets embedded in hospitals and police departments will report any instances of spontaneous combustion to check for possible SCP-4049-A events. Foundation Agents are to follow up on these in an attempt to confirm the occurrence. Any further interactions with SCP-4049-2 are to be logged and reported to SCP-4049 Research Head Tash. Description: SCP-4049 is the designation for an extradimensional space, the entrance to which is located behind a steel door in the basement of ████████ ████ a former arms factory in Wyoming, USA. GPS systems entering the anomaly invariably fail, and accessing SCP-4049's vicinity by means other than the steel door have proven ineffective, leading to bare ground. SCP-4049 appears as a circular room with a floor consisting of soil, with the walls and a ceiling constructed of a smooth white marble. All attempts to acquire a sample of these materials have resulted in failure, due to the samples spontaneously combusting when passing through the dimensional threshold. The room is 20 23 meters across, and contains a series of 2 3 concentric circles of graves, 12 13 of which have small white marble tombstones, with a circular 2 meter wide empty area at the center. Each tombstone has "κύων" engraved into it, which linguists have confirmed to be "hound" in a dialect of Ancient Greek. SCP-4049-A is a phenomenon that appears to occur exclusively to male individuals that reside in the states of Wyoming, Idaho, or Montana, and have a notable interest in hunting for sport. While in some form of religious worship, the individual will spontaneously combust and vanish, leaving behind all clothes and objects previously on their person, as well as a stone-tipped arrow driven into the ground near their previous location1. At the end of a SCP-4049-A event, a new tombstone instantaneously appears over a previously unmarked grave within SCP-4049. SCP-4049-1 is the collective designation for any entity originating from inside SCP-4049 during a SCP-4049-B event. SCP-4049-1 instances vary to some degree in their dimensions and weight, but all have the following traits in common: Quadrupedal posture. Extreme hostility toward human and animal life. Abnormally thick skin. A natural tendency to avoid their own reflection. Muscled legs, used to jump forward at high velocity. Disproportionately long arms with four clawed paws. Screeching vocalizations A face identical to the most recent victim of SCP-4049-A. Internal anatomy noticeably resembling a human's, but with several differences, such as: A reinforced spine. Two hearts. No reproductive system whatsoever. An additional row of teeth and an enlarged mouth to house them. Within 60 days of an SCP-4049-A event, an SCP-4049-B event has a 98% chance to occur. An SCP-4049-B event has to date never naturally occurred within 30 days of a SCP-4049-A event. A SCP-4049-B event consists of an SCP-4049-1 instance clawing its way out of the dirt circle in the center of SCP-4049, and attempting to breach the steel door. Its intention and destination are unknown. If a SCP-4049-B event does not occur within 60 days following a SCP-4049-A event, it will eventually occur anywhere from 20 to 50 days following the initial 60 at any point following the initial 60 days, with an average 10% increase in the size of the SCP-4049-1 instance for every subsequent week. A SCP-4049-B event can also be triggered by placing a living human subject on the dirt circle to draw out the SCP-4049-1 instance immediately following a SCP-4049-A event. SCP-4049-2 is an incorporeal entity that is capable of orally communicating. It has demonstrated the ability to manipulate electronic devices to its will. SCP-4049-2 has currently only been encountered during Incident I372. Recovered Document 4049-1: Group of Bears Devastate Local Summer Home By Glen Wilson Gardnerville police were summoned to the vacation home of local socialite Richard Samson after a frenzied call from his groundskeeper. Upon arrival, they were greeted with what appeared to be the aftermath of a particularly violent and brief tornado. The entire front section of the ground floor had been shredded, the gardens trampled, and the interior utterly destroyed. Wyoming Highway Patrolmen2 were on the scene within half an hour, and attributed the damage to a group of 3-4 grizzly bears, at least one of which is likely to be rabid. Animal Control has released a statement advising residents of Gardnerville and surrounding areas to remain out of the wilderness until the issue is resolved. A team has been contracted to track and euthanize the animals. The above story was printed on July 14th, ████, in the Niobrara County Update, a local Wyoming newsletter. Foundation agent released a cover story to the public, attributing the incident to wild bears, and MTF Epsilon-6 "Village Idiots" were dispatched to track and terminate the as-of-then unknown SCP-4049-1 instance. Within 4 hours, the instance had been terminated and its path tracked. A temporary containment facility at the site of SCP-4049 was set up within the hour. Incident I372: On September 17th, ████, a Foundation agent embedded within the Wyoming State Patrol reported a SCP-4049-A event after finding a vehicle in flames with an elk carcass tied to it, and a stone-tipped arrow nearby. Dimensional Containment Area 23 and ATF 'Iota-9' were put on high alert and began preparing for an imminent SCP-4049-B event. By December 3rd, ████, a SCP-4049-B event had not occurred, and the decision was made by the Regional Director to manually initiate an event to prevent the SCP-4049-1 instance from growing too large to contain. A D-Class personnel was sent into SCP-4049 to manually initiate said event. An audio transcript is attached. Incident Log Transcript Date: December 4th, ████ Exploration Subject: D-09235 Equipment: One audio link to Command, one camera streaming to Command. Subject: SCP-4049 [BEGIN LOG] Command: Enter through the door, please. D-09235: Alright, I'm heading in. D-09235 opens the door and walks in. Command: What do you see? D-09235: Just what you said would be here. White walls, dirt, gravestones. Command: Move toward the center of the room. D-09235: Fine. D-09235 moves toward the dirt circle. He takes two steps before stopping. D-09235: What the hell? Command: What is it? D-09235: I just heard a dog bark. What the fuck? Where did that come from?! Neither the audio link nor camera register any noise. Command: Keep moving. Tell us if you hear anything else. D-09235: O-okay. D-09235 walks the short distance to the center, and stops. Command: Now re- D-09235: I feel like there's someone here. No one is visible to the camera. Command: We don't see anything. Are you sure? D-09235: I don't know, I can just feel th- A stream of interference cuts out D-09235's camera and audio link. An unknown, disembodied female voice, later classified as SCP-4049-2 begins speaking directly to Command through the audio link. SCP-4049-2: You have been ruining my pets for too long. Do you know how long I was using this particular pit before you came along? Command: Identify yourself immediately or we will take aggressive action. SCP-4049-2: You intrude upon my grounds and have the audacity to threaten me? Human arrogance truly knows no bounds. All communications with D-09235 cut out. No response is received from SCP-4049-2. Attempts to re-establish contact with D-09235 fail.. [END LOG] Seven seconds following this exchange, the largest SCP-4049-1 instance to date, at 11.2 meters tall, exited SCP-4049 and initiated a SCP-4049-B event. Only a simultaneous combination of all deterrents and sustained small-arms fire from ATF Iota 9 was able to terminate the SCP-4049-1 instance. No further communications were received from the unknown entity, and personnel found no evidence of of any unauthorized personnel in SCP-4049 nor any remains of D-09235. Footnotes 1. Analysis has revealed the arrows to be non-anomalous and are stored in a storage locker within Dimensional Containment Area 23 2. 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SCP-4050 | euclid | Item #: SCP-4050 Special Containment Procedures: Regulations have been set in place by the administration of Helena, Kansas which forbid any body of water exceeding 10 m in depth. In the event any body of water in Helena exceeds this depth, the water is to be drained. Witnesses of SCP-4050-1 are to be administered Class-A amnestics. Site-177 has been established on the outskirts of Helena, serving as a water treatment facility as well as a Foundation containment site for various Euclid class anomalies. Within Site-177 is a large empty container which is 10 m in depth. Personnel are not to interact with this container without permission from the current Site-177 director. Description: SCP-4050 is the town of Helena, Kansas. According to official town records, SCP-4050 was founded in 1868 when Florence C.N James constructed a home with the purpose of studying the local area (later repurposed into a general store and trading post). Containers1 within SCP-4050 holding water at a depth of at least 10 m2 become subject to a phenomenon by which they anomalously deepen. This occurs over the course of approximately one week, and has no effect on the outward appearance of the container in question. It has been noted that the volume of the water does not change the outcome of the transformation. Upon reaching 500 m in depth, this transformation will stop, and an opening will appear at the bottom of the container. This opening serves as an entryway into a physical replica of SCP-4050 submerged entirely in water3. The water in SCP-4050-1 has a salinity of 4.5% and a high argon content, but is otherwise non-anomalous. A large concrete dome covers the entirety of SCP-4050-1. The entryway into SCP-4050-1 always appears to be on the ceiling of this dome. Tests have concluded that the dome is destructible, but its breadth is unknown. The longest distance drilled within the dome is 650 km. Addendum-1: Following the events of Exploration 7.3-1, it was discovered that all buildings within SCP-4050-1 have had all of their openings completely barricaded with wood. All attempts at gaining entry into a building have been met with failure, as the wood and buildings have resisted all destruction attempts thus far. Addendum-2: Following the events of Exploration 7.7-2, a single window that was not barricaded was found, allowing access into the house. Five human cadavers were found within its interior, including one male in the living room next to the open window, holding a hammer and nails, one female and a child in the basement, next to a large supply of canned food and bottled water, another male within a closet, holding a large bucket and several empty water bottles, and another child in a bedroom upstairs, holding a stuffed toy. Notably, these cadavers are an identical genetic match to the ████████████ family, the members of which are both alive and currently residing within SCP-4050. Addendum-3: Following the events of Exploration 8.1-3, it was noted that any container within SCP-4050-1 that measured 10 m or deeper would be affected by an anomaly similar to the one present within SCP-4050, and would anomalously deepen. Once the container reached 500 m in depth, another opening would appear at the bottom, which would lead to a large plot of land with a small log cabin in the middle, completely submerged in water. This water appears to be the same in composition as the water in SCP-4050-1, and a concrete dome similar to the one in SCP-4050-1 covers the area, which also appears to be infinitely thick. Within the submerged log cabin is the corpse of Florence C.N James, floating next to the building's window, holding a journal. The journal describes Florence's fear of the rain, noting that it was raining more than usual in Kansas, as well as describing a large flood occurring, before the rest becomes illegible due to water damage. Footnotes 1. Any object/structure capable of independently holding liquid 2. Henceforth known as "the container" 3. Henceforth referred to as SCP-4050-1 ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4050" by Westrin, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4050. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4051 | keter | by Nagiros Contains themes of abuse and emotional manipulation. 2/4051 LEVEL 2/4051 CLASSIFIED Item #: SCP-4051 Classification Committee Notice Regarding the Following Document: SCP-4051 was previously classified as Euclid until 18 July 2013. A description of the events prompting its reclassification is available to personnel with 4/4051 Clearance in Addendum.4051.6. Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4051 is to be held in a standard humanoid containment chamber at Site-17. SCP-4051 currently requires continual psychological screening, which will be conducted with on-site therapist Jules Yesenia. Transport to and from Dr. Yesenia's office is to be facilitated weekly. SCP-4051 is currently held in a modified humanoid containment unit at Site-17. Modifications to SCP-4051's containment unit include a complex, interlocking system of pistons, acting as an exterior wall outside of the standard floor, walls, and ceiling.1 This specialization is not necessary for containment, but has been selected to impede its anomalous capabilities during an attempted containment breach. SCP-4051 requires extensive psychological screening. These sessions are to be performed weekly with on-site therapist Jules Yesenia, communicating with SCP-4051 via the containment unit's two-way audio-surveillance system. ► 4051.Breach_Protocol ◄ ▼ 4051.Breach_Protocol ▼ 4051.Breach_Protocol.α Should SCP-4051 breach the outer wall of its containment unit, Dr. Yesenia is to be called upon as the primary catalyst for de-escalating potential conflict and recontaining it. If Dr. Yesenia is unable to de-escalate the breach due to unforeseen complications, on-site containment teams are to use standard Ranged-Incapacitation engagement tactics. Note that if SCP-4051 becomes cognizant of the assault team, the strike is to be aborted and the team immediately redeployed. Description: SCP-4051 is a male humanoid which can create temporary Class-E wormholes to extradimensional spaces populated by a theoretically infinite number of a unique item. These items are able to be removed from the extradimensional space, given that they are physically able to fit through the wormhole. Testing has concluded that SCP-4051 is unable to alter the contents of the extradimensional space after manifestation. SCP-4051 has been able to manifest the following items during controlled experiments overseen by Dr. Edwards at Site-17. Manifested items detailed in the relevant experiment logs below have been omitted. A small, weighted net, measuring 3 m2. A standard pharmaceutical container of sugar pills, although the label describes the pills as headache medication. A glass of drinking water. SCP-4051 has either claimed or has been reported to have manifested the following items outside of experiments sanctioned by Dr. Edwards. An aluminum baseball bat. Several rolls of duct tape. An incendiary device and blast-proof sheet. Eleven instances of Class-E paracognitohazards. SCP-4051 has been allowed to use its anomalous abilities to assist with general repairs at Site-17. After retroactive review of all procedures and programs relating to SCP-4051's containment by the Ethics Committee and subsequent evaluation by the Foundation Containment Committee, SCP-4051's presence outside of its containment unit has been demonstrated to be a substantial threat to any and all personnel located at Site-17. Recovery: SCP-4051 was first brought to the attention of Foundation operatives in August of 2012 when a video depicting it using its anomalous abilities began to gain significant online attention. The recording depicted SCP-4051 assaulting and detaining several men via its anomalous abilities. The video gained over two million views before warranting an intervention, following multiple testimonies by commenters of similar occurrences. Mobile Task Force Pi-1 "City Slickers" identified SCP-4051 and performed a successful retrieval and extraction. Relevant Materials and Reports: + Show Interview-4051-1 - Hide Interview-4051-1 Interviewed: SCP-4051 Interviewer: Dr. Roswell with Dr. Edwards assisting. Foreword: Due to SCP-4051’s resistance during its retrieval, SCP-4051 has been separated from Dr. Roswell by a one-way glass barrier and is handcuffed to a chair. <Begin Log> Dr. Roswell: Greetings. My name is Dr. Roswell. Is your name Rainer Miller? SCP-4051 is heard struggling against its handcuffs. Dr. Roswell: Rainer, it would be helpful if you could remain still for the rest of this interview. SCP-4051: Where am I? Dr. Roswell: A safe place, I assure you. SCP-4051 is silent. Dr. Roswell: Please, explain your anomalous capabilities to us. SCP-4051: My… are you government guys? Sorry. Um, I can make things appear out of thin air. Dr. Roswell: Anything you want? SCP-4051: Kind of. Only small objects, I think. I mostly use it to help people. Dr. Roswell: You’re referring to your vigilantism? SCP-4051: Yeah. It used to be carjackings and thefts and stuff, but recently I’ve gotten involved with this group called the Looming Shadow. They’re stealing money for something, so I have to do nightly patrols. I tried contacting the police, but I’m pretty sure they’ve been bought out. Actually, wait, could you guys do anything about it? Dr. Roswell: I’ll send a request. Do you know if anyone has seen you use your anomalous capabilities? SCP-4051: A few people, yeah. I helped this one woman a while back, and there have probably been a few I don’t know about. I try to keep this stuff quiet. Dr. Roswell: Alright. I think that will conclude this interview. You will— SCP-4051: Wait, hold on, do you have anything else to ask me? Dr. Roswell: Not at the moment. Why do you ask? SCP-4051: If you guys want to know anything else about this thing that I have, I'd be happy to help. Dr. Roswell: Your willingness to work with us is appreciated. Thank you. SCP-4051: You’re welcome. <End Log> WARNING: THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE LEVEL 3/4051 CLASSIFIED THE FOLLOWING REPORTS CONTAIN REFERENCES TO PROCEDURES RETROACTIVELY DECLARED BY THE ETHICS COMMITTEE TO BE RECKLESSLY NEGLIGENT. ANY FURTHER ATTEMPTS TO ACCESS MATERIALS RELATED TO THESE PROCEDURES WITHOUT PROPER CLEARANCE WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION. Addendum.4051.1: Relevant Experiment Logs and Attempted Containment Breach + Access Experiment-Log-4051-e-1, -e-2, -e-3 - Retract Experiment Log-4051-e-1, -e-2, -e-3 Experiment 4051-e-1: Name: Dr. Roswell with Dr. Edwards assisting. Date: 08/15/2012 Procedure: SCP-4051 is to be asked to manifest several items by Dr. Roswell: a 3 cm3 cube of lead, an object of SCP-4051's choice, and a container of bleach. Results: SCP-4051 produced the cube after some hesitation. Requests for an object of its choice resulted in SCP-4051 removing a framed picture of its mother. SCP-4051 expressed discomfort at being requested to remove the bleach but complied without incident. Afterword: SCP-4051 was escorted back to its containment unit and reportedly asked how long it would need to test its anomalous properties. Site staff were informed that they ought to avoid the question if possible, for the continuation of SCP-4051’s compliance. Note: Seems like it needs to have a clear mental image before it can manifest anything. More testing to determine boundaries of its anomaly will follow. Experiment 4051-e-2: Name: Dr. Roswell with Dr. Edwards assisting. Date: 08/16/2012 Procedure: SCP-4051 is to be asked to manifest a copy of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace and a functioning mobile phone. Results: The produced copy of Tolstoy's novel displayed the English words "War and Peace" written in large font on a blank cover. Most pages of the book contained redundant gibberish tangentially related to war, and SCP-4051 confessed that it was unfamiliar with the contents of the novel. The mobile phone that was manifested appeared to be unremarkable until attempts were made to operate it, and it was revealed to be completely hollow. Afterword: As SCP-4051 was being escorted back to its containment unit, it asked repeatedly how its family was, and if it could have any company as it waited for the next test. All questions were ignored by the escort team. Note: Test suggests that SCP-4051's anomaly is based on how much it understands about the object? Next test should have 4051 manifest something nonexistent. Experiment 4051-e-3: [A transcript has been provided to supplement the following experiment.] Name: Dr. Roswell with Dr. Edwards assisting. Date: 08/17/2012 Procedure: SCP-4051 is to be asked to manifest a circular square, the color blue, and a statement that says it is false. Results: SCP-4051 responded aggressively to the requests. Dr. Roswell attempted to negotiate with SCP-4051 to complete the test, and SCP-4051 manifested all specified items in rapid succession, creating multiple paracognitohazards, and a sheet of blue construction paper. Transcript of Experiment 4051-e-3: <Begin Log> Dr. Roswell: We will now begin the third test. The purpose of this experiment will be to ascertain whether— SCP-4051: When can I go home? Dr. Roswell: You may return home when the Foundation determines that it no longer requires your ability for research purposes. After this test, provided no new developments occur, we will begin to investigate how your anomaly functions on a scientific level. SCP-4051: Are you sure? The men who took me back to my cell weren’t. Dr. Roswell: I am certain. The experiment will now— SCP-4051: Please, I need to see my family. Is there any way that I can talk to them? Do they even know what happened to me? Dr. Roswell: Your mother has been informed that you are engaging in a school-sanctioned college visit. Unfortunately, we can only allow communication once— SCP-4051 begins to pace the testing room. SCP-4051: I'm not doing any more of these experiments until my mother knows what happened to me. Dr. Roswell: I can communicate your wishes to my superiors as soon as this test is completed. SCP-4051: Yeah, okay. Good. Do that. Dr. Roswell: The requested items are a circular square, the color blue, and a statement that says it’s false. A look of confusion passes over SCP-4051’s face before it rapidly manifests all three. Detrimental effects on the cognitive abilities of anyone directly observing the objects exhibited themselves immediately. SCP-4051 was immediately incapacitated by attending security personnel and returned to its containment unit. <End Log> Afterword: SCP-4051 was returned to its containment unit and the testing chamber was sanitized of residual paradoxical contamination as per standard paracognitohazard protocol ψ-3. Note: SCP-4051 can manifest non-existent objects, apparently. Due to the effects of this experiment on Dr. Roswell, it is unlikely testing of this nature will continue. Additionally, SCP-4051’s noncompliance may prove to be an issue. I’ll send in a request for a pediatric specialist in a bit. This could be monumental in our understanding of how gateways to other dimensions are formed, and it'd be a shame to have 4051 just be another anomaly we need to keep locked in a box. Just imagine how helpful it would be if we could just use it to patch up the facility. Yeah, I'll send that request now. - Dr. Edwards + Access Incident Report: SCP-4051-1 - Retract Incident Report: SCP-4051-1 Foreword: The following incident report describes SCP-4051's attempt to breach containment, which occurred directly after the events of Experiment-4051-e-3. 16:14 - SCP-4051 regains consciousness in its containment unit. 16:15 - SCP-4051 curls over onto its side as though in pain, only its back now visible to the surveillance camera in its cell. 16:18 - SCP-4051 begins to make slight movements with its arms. 16:20 - SCP-4051 stands, revealing that it has covered most of its front side in small sheets of kevlar, held together by an extremely adhesive glue. Security personnel are called for assistance at this time but are preoccupied with escorting Dr. Roswell, Dr. Edwards, and accompanying researchers from the contaminated testing chamber. 16:21 - SCP-4051 manifests an incendiary device and a blast-proof sheet made of unidentified material, attaching the device to the door of its containment cell and fixing the sheet over it to contain the blast. Security personnel from another wing are notified and begin moving towards SCP-4051's location. 16:22 - SCP-4051 detonates the device and succeeds in breaching containment. At this time, SCP-4051 also manifests an aluminum baseball bat. SCP-4051 begins moving down the hallway, opposite the direction of the testing chamber. 16:25 - Security personnel make contact with SCP-4051 as it rounds a corner. A fire-fight ensues. The personnel have been advised to use projectile-taser capsules for recontainment, which prove ineffective against SCP-4051's makeshift armor. Personnel are now advised to engage SCP-4051 in close-quarters combat, if possible. 16:27 - Two other teams of security personnel converge on SCP-4051's location, and successfully incapacitate it. + Access Note from Site Director Graham - Retract Note from Site Director Graham Site-17 personnel, In light of yesterday's containment breach, SCP-4051 has been moved to an enhanced humanoid containment unit. That being said, we've concluded that it would be beneficial for Site-17 as a whole to work to better understand SCP-4051's capabilities. Multiple options are being discussed, such as using it to assist in standard repairs and maintenance, but certain influential individuals have also proposed using it to produce more valuable materials. I'd wager that most of you don't have the clearance level to know how we produce our amnestics, but suffice it to say that the procedures range from potentially unethical to extremely dangerous and costly. The Ethics Committee has taken a particular interest in SCP-4051 and are discussing using it to produce the active #Y-909 agent in amnestics. As such, Dr. Edwards has been given authority as Project Director over all experimentation and research regarding SCP-4051. All of this can only be accomplished if SCP-4051 is compliant with Foundation procedure. Anything less than absolute dedication to the Foundation will mean that SCP-4051 is not ready to assist in our directive. To accomplish this, we will begin using standard punishments and rewards to promote good behavior, and scheduled weekly sessions with an on-site therapist, Dr. Yesenia. All personnel assigned to directly interact with SCP-4051 have been sent a copy of the updated containment procedures and other relevant materials. Your mistake was not realizing how versatile SCP-4051's anomaly was. Let's not make that mistake again. - Site Director Thomas Graham Addendum.4051.2: Experiment Logs and Therapy Sessions with Dr. Yesenia + Access Transcript of Therapy-Session-4051-1 - Retract Therapy-Session-4051-1 Transcript of Therapy-Session-4051-1: <Begin Log> Dr. Yesenia: Hey, Rainer! Happy to meet you. SCP-4051: Oh, hi! Are you doing alright? Dr. Yesenia: I'm doing well. Most of the time, I'm talking to people who just got back from a mission in the field, so having someone normal to talk with is nice. SCP-4051: Eh, I'm not normal, though. That's why I'm here. Dr. Yesenia: Yeah, I guess so. You can make things out of nothing, right? SCP-4051: Kind of. Just small objects, like paper or food. Dr. Yesenia: Or bombs? SCP-4051: Yeah, um… Dr. Yesenia: Dude, it's alright. I get it. Containment can be hard on people. It's easier when it's an interdimensional dream witch who wants to eat your brain, but when it comes to containing good people who want to help, things tend to go south, ethically speaking. Can I ask why you wanted to escape? SCP-4051: I mean, I wanted to see my family again. Dr. Yesenia: There was a note about your mother in your file. I take it you were close? SCP-4051: Yeah, but can you keep this off the record? Dr. Yesenia: Record? SCP-4051: Yeah, like, can you not tell the guys out there about my family? Dr. Yesenia: Don't worry, your secret's safe with me. SCP-4051: Thank you. Dr. Yesenia: You're welcome. So, you and your mother were close? SCP-4051: Yeah. Goddamn, she was a fantastic woman. Sorry, is a fantastic woman. Dad left when I was twelve, and we've been supporting each other since. Dr. Yesenia: And you miss her? SCP-4051: Terribly. I wish… it doesn't matter. Dr. Yesenia: I think it does. Do you want to see her again? SCP-4051: Yeah. The weird thing is that I'm honestly not opposed to living in the Foundation. Dr. Yesenia: You're not? SCP-4051: Not really. I was actually hoping someone would come along who could help me understand my powers. Being the Foundation's lab rat doesn't bother me all that much, since at least I know I'm helping someone by sharing my ability. I guess I just wish it could be a different kind of arrangement. Am I making any sense? Dr. Yesenia: That's… well, that's just not the reaction I was expecting. SCP-4051: Yeah, I guess. I'm full of surprises, apparently. [The remaining fifteen minutes of conversation have been declared irrelevant to SCP-4051's relationship with the Foundation. To see the extended transcript, submit a request to Site Director Graham.] <End Log> Note: This may be easier than I thought at first. Right now, effort should be made to convince SCP-4051 that the Foundation has its best interests at heart. I would like to see some modifications to its containment unit as well. Too much concrete. + Access Experiment-Log-4051-e-4, -e-5 - Retract Experiment-Log-4051-e-4, -e-5 Experiment 4051-e-4: Name: Dr. Edwards Date: 08/23/2012 Procedure: A D-class subject is to be introduced inside the observation chamber with SCP-4051. SCP-4051 will be instructed to manifest a small stone, and the D-class subject will attempt to remove the stone from the portal. Results: SCP-4051 appeared intimidated by the D-class subject, Subject D-29543, but did not vocalize any concerns. Dr. Edwards instructed SCP-4051 to comply with the request, and Subject D-29543 was told to touch the edges of the portal before inserting his hand. Subject D-29543 made multiple explicit comments and was reminded of the consequence of unruly behavior. Subject D-29543 reported that the edges of the portal were solid, then retrieved the stone from the wormhole. Note: Thank God, we're getting somewhere again. It seems like SCP-4051 is only anomalous in that it can manifest the wormhole. Theoretically, if we could replicate the anomaly, we could cut out the middle man of getting it to work with us. Since we already have sufficient data on the wormhole itself, I'll try to determine how it uses its anomaly: brain scans, analyzing nerves in its arm, that kinda thing. Experiment 4051-e-5: Name: Dr. Edwards Date: 08/24/2012 Procedure: A mechanical arm holding a GPS tracking chip will insert the chip into SCP-4051's portal. SCP-4051 will retrieve the intended object, close the portal, and manifest the same object. Staff will determine if a signal from the tracking chip can be established. Results: SCP-4051 complied with all requests and created a wormhole leading to the same framed picture of its mother as manifested in Experient-4051-e-1. The chip was inserted and was observed to hang suspended in space on the other side of the portal. When a signal from the chip was received, SCP-4051 removed the picture and allowed the wormhole to close. The signal was lost at this time. SCP-4051 again produced the portal to manifest the picture, and a signal was reestablished, but the chip was not observed; it was later confirmed to be approximately 9500 km from the wormhole. Note: Well, not exactly the most interesting results I could have hoped for. I'm not planning on submitting a request for more testing on the subject. Just a small note, too, but we compared the picture it manifested today to the one it manifested in Experiment-4051-e-1. The more recent one has a few changes. The hairstyle is different and a few moles are missing on her cheeks. + Access Transcript of Therapy-Session-4051-2 - Retract Therapy-Session-4051-2 Transcript of Therapy-Session-4051-2: <Begin Log> [The first fifty minutes of conversation have been declared irrelevant to SCP-4051's relationship with the Foundation. To see the extended transcript, submit a request to Site Director Graham.] Dr. Yesenia: So, about the experiment you did today… SCP-4051: Oh, yeah, it was great! I think they put a GPS chip inside my portal to see if they could relocate it. Dr. Yesenia: Did they? SCP-4051: Yeah, the first time. I closed the portal and reopened it, and the chip was a long way away. Dr. Yesenia: Cool! Is that what you were expecting? SCP-4051: Not really. I tried testing my powers on my own, just to see what I could do. Doing something like that wasn't really feasible, so… I'm excited. Dr. Yesenia: I can tell. Actually, wait, do you have any requests for testing? SCP-4051: I seriously doubt you can tell Dr. Edwards what I want him to do, and he'll follow through. Dr. Yesenia: Hey, I mean, it's unprofessional, but I want you to feel valued. SCP-4051: It's fine, thank you. Dr. Edwards probably knows better than me anyways. [The remaining ten minutes of conversation have been declared irrelevant to SCP-4051's relationship with the Foundation. To see the extended transcript, submit a request to Site Director Graham.] <End Log> Addendum.4051.3: Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN and Therapy Sessions with Dr. Yesenia + Enter Level 4/4051 Security Credentials - ACCESS GRANTED NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE HAS BEEN LABELED UNETHICAL AFTER ADDITIONAL REVIEW BY THE ETHICS COMMITTEE. ANY PERSONS OTHER THAN THE CURRENT DIRECTOR OF SITE-17 OR A MEMBER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL ATTEMPTING TO UNCOVER FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING PROCEDURE 350-PROMETHEAN WILL BE SUBJECTED TO INQUIRY BY THE ETHICS COMMITTEE. Procedure Proposal: Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN [REMOVED BY MANDATE OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE] Procedure Designation: Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN Procedure Type: Experimental Surgical Procedure Primary Aim: To synthesize the active chemical compound in amnestic drugs, Y-909, and to perform research upon SCP-4051's primary anomalous attribute to facilitate this synthesis. Required Materials: [DATA EXPUNGED] Required Funding: █████ Involved Persons: Dr. Edwards, Dr. █████, Dr. █████████, [DATA EXPUNGED], SCP-4051 Execution: [DATA EXPUNGED] Contingencies: Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN is equipped to deal with the following disadvantageous and uncontrollable circumstances which may result from its application: The Class-E wormhole produced by SCP-4051 becoming dangerous to medical personnel executing Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN. If this occurs, SCP-4051 will undergo paralyzing injections of █████████, and the wormhole will no longer be able to sustain itself. SCP-4051 attempting to remove itself from the immediate area by force or otherwise. If this occurs, SCP-4051 will undergo paralyzing injections of █████████. SCP-4051 attempting to harm medical personnel operating upon it. If this occurs, SCP-4051 will undergo several debilitating injections and be returned to its containment unit. Transfer of Procedure Lead: Ethics Committee Liaison Dr. Jeremiah Cimmerian: Dr. David Edwards, do you confirm that you are the person whose identifying information is listed on the document before you? Senior Researcher Dr. David Edwards: I do. Dr. Cimmerian: Do you confirm that you are currently of sound mind and body, and are capable of becoming the Procedure Lead of Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN? Dr. Edwards: I do. Dr. Cimmerian: Do you understand that any actions taken by you which are considered unethical and not specified by the agreed-upon conditions of this procedure will result in your immediate removal from this project? Dr. Edwards: I do. Dr. Cimmerian: Do you understand that your brother, Dr. Anthony Roswell, has been permanently injured by an anomalous object which is intimately involved in the procedure you are about to lead? Dr. Edwards: Yes. Dr. Cimmerian: Do you recognize that any actions which cause needless and intentional pain and suffering to the aforementioned anomalous object will be investigated by an Ethics Committee liaison as a potential violation of the Foundation Code of Ethics regarding humanoid anomalies? Dr. Edwards: I do. Dr. Cimmerian: Do you promise that your work on this procedure will be exclusively for the purpose of upholding the Foundation's primary objectives? Dr. Edwards: I do. Dr. Cimmerian: Please state these objectives. Dr. Edwards: To secure, to contain, to protect. Dr. Cimmerian: So with the Overseer Council, so with us. Relevant Materials: Medical Profile of Dr. Anthony Roswell Date of Admission: 08/17/2012 Condition Status: Critical Description: Induced coma, prolonged exposure to Class-E paracognitive hazards, [Further Information Irrelevant] Additional Information: Exposure and primary injuries occurred as a result of a routine experiment of SCP-4051. Recovery is not anticipated. + Access Experiment-Log-4051-e-7 - Retract Experiment-Log-4051-e-7 Experiment 4051-e-7: Date: 08/31/2012 Procedure: Dr. Edwards is to initiate Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN. Results: [DATA EXPUNGED BY ORDER OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE] Notes: Damn kid. Broke the straps on the chair. I'm tempted to get it tranquilized during the procedure, but we need it awake. + Access Transcript of Therapy-Session-4051-3 - Retract Therapy-Session-4051-3 Transcript of Therapy-Session-4051-3: <Begin Log> Dr. Yesenia: Hey Rainer! SCP-4051: Hey, Ms. Yesenia. Dr. Yesenia: Call me Jane. SCP-4051: I… okay. Hey, Ms. Jane. Dr. Yesenia: Close enough. You doing okay? SCP-4051: Not really, but it's my fault. Dr. Yesenia: What happened? SCP-4051: I talked back to a guard and they took away the desk in my room that you gave me. Dr. Yesenia: People get scared of what they don't understand. SCP-4051: I don't think it's that. You work with stuff you don't understand all the time. It's your job to not get scared by it. Dr. Yesenia: Well… do you want me to try to get it back for you? SCP-4051: No. I'll try to be better. Besides, it's just a desk. I'll get it back. [The remaining fifty minutes of conversation have been declared irrelevant to SCP-4051's relationship with the Foundation. To see the extended transcript, submit a request to Site Director Graham.] <End Log> Note: The hell am I supposed to do? Edwards has been telling me Rainer's been getting resentful, but I'm not seeing that in our conversations. He still seems like the same, sweet kid as before. + Access Experiment-Log-4051-e-9 - Retract Experiment-Log-4051-e-9 Experiment 4051-e-9: Date: 09/15/2012 Procedure: Dr. Edwards is to initiate Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN. Results: [DATA EXPUNGED BY ORDER OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE] Notes: This was the first procedure we've actually completed. We'll need to keep experimenting with different manifested objects. SCP-4051's compliance with the procedure greatly alleviated most of the complications. + Access Transcript of Therapy-Session-4051-4 - Retract Therapy-Session-4051-4 Transcript of Therapy-Session-4051-4: <Begin Log> [The first fifteen minutes of conversation have been declared irrelevant to SCP-4051's relationship with the Foundation. To see the extended transcript, submit a request to Site Director Graham.] Dr. Yesenia: So, has everything else been going alright? SCP-4051: Yeah, just… I keep having these dreams. Dr. Yesenia: Dreams or nightmares? SCP-4051: Nightmares. You're a therapist, right? Dr. Yesenia: I'm pretty sure I am. SCP-4051: I'm just… I don't want to seem like a freak, alright? I know that's stupid, but I'm scared of people treating me like I'm special because of what happened with my dad. Dr. Yesenia: Ah, the night he left? SCP-4051: You already know about it? Dr. Yesenia: The Foundation compiled an extensive record on you before we brought you in. SCP-4051: That makes sense. Well, if you already— Dr. Yesenia: No, please. If you want to share your own experience with me, it'll be more valuable than any police report. SCP-4051: When I was locked in that closet, I felt so awful, okay? I could hear him getting the bleach from the kitchen, but I couldn't break down that damn door, no matter how hard I tried. I think that's why my nightmares are all about not being able to move as something creeps closer and closer. I couldn't keep her from being hurt, and that's sticking with me, I guess. Dr. Yesenia: Does it bother you the police never caught him? SCP-4051: Yeah, I think. Yeah, it bothers me that he's out there, somewhere. Dr. Yesenia: Well, um… officially, I shouldn't be telling you this. But while they were compiling your file, they found your dad. He's in a prison in Arkansas, serving a life sentence for murder. [SCP-4051 remains silent.] Dr. Yesenia: Are you alright? SCP-4051: I thought this would be more… I don't know. Sorry, it's nothing. [The remaining forty minutes of conversation have been declared irrelevant to SCP-4051's relationship with the Foundation. To see the extended transcript, submit a request to Site Director Graham.] <End Log> Note: Rainer's mental state has been greatly improving. He seems to be fitting into his role here at the Foundation, finally. I hope this means that Edwards' experiments are going more smoothly. + Access Experiment-Log-4051-e-13, -e-14 - Retract Experiment-Log-4051-e-13, -e-14 Experiment 4051-e-13: Date: 09/27/2012 Procedure: Dr. Edwards is to initiate Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN. Results: [DATA EXPUNGED BY ORDER OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE] Proposal: Denied. Notes: He didn't even remember Anthony. Didn't recognize his name at all. Why am I assigned to this ███████? Experiment 4051-e-14: Date: 10/02/2012 Procedure: Dr. Edwards is to initiate Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN. Results: [DATA EXPUNGED BY ORDER OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE] Afterword: SCP-4051 requested information regarding Dr. Roswell. The request was immediately denied, as knowledge of Dr. Roswell's condition would most likely affect SCP-4051's pre-existing mental health issues, which have been █████████████████. Notes: The procedure was a success. As unprofessional as my behavior was yesterday, I believe my outburst had a positive effect on SCP-4051. We're getting closer to starting work on Project 350-Janus. + Access Transcript of Therapy-Session-4051-5 - Retract Therapy-Session-4051-5 Transcript of Therapy-Session-4051-5: <Begin Log> [The first twenty minutes of conversation have been declared irrelevant to SCP-4051's relationship with the Foundation. To see the extended transcript, submit a request to Site Director Graham.] SCP-4051: I dunno. I really did like cross country. I liked seeing nature, and moving around and being active. Dr. Yesenia: I get that. Are you having trouble staying in your containment unit? SCP-4051: A little, I guess. It'd be nice to see something green again. Dr. Yesenia: Do you want me to make a request? If I'm pushy, I might be able to get you a treadmill. SCP-4051: Not if it means getting on your boss' bad side! I don't want to cause trouble. Dr. Yesenia: Come on, you're not causing anyone any trouble by asking for some entertainment in your cell. SCP-4051: I know that, but… I mean, am I really helping anyone? Dr. Yesenia: I don't follow? SCP-4051: The tests they're doing on me. Does it help anyone? Dr. Yesenia: Do you want to help the Foundation, Rainer? SCP-4051: I think we've established I can't break out. Isn't there some way I can at least be useful? Dr. Yesenia: I see no reason why you shouldn't be. I'll file a request to the Site Director. SCP-4051: A request? For what? Dr. Yesenia: I can try to get them to let you help around the site. Maintenance and stuff like that. [SCP-4051 rises from the chair in excitement.] SCP-4051: You're serious? You can do that? You're actually going to do that? Dr. Yesenia: Yeah, of course! You're a fantastic young man to speak with, and I'm sure the rest of the site will appreciate having you around. SCP-4051: Oh thank god. Oh my god. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. This is… god, I get to help again. I thought I'd be stuck here and I'd just be useless again, but… Dr. Yesenia: It's alright! Seriously, it's fine. I'm happy you're happy. [The remaining thirty minutes of conversation have been declared irrelevant to SCP-4051's relationship with the Foundation. To see the extended transcript, submit a request to Site Director Graham.] <End Log> Note: This entire plan to get SCP-4051 to want to help the Foundation seems kind of frivolous in hindsight. He's already compliant and convinced that helping out at the site is just an extension of his prior vigilantism. I'll contact Graham in a few minutes. Addendum.4051.4: SCP-4051 has been granted a Level 1 Security Clearance to assist Site-17 in general repairs. This does not mean SCP-4051 is allowed to wander freely around the facility. SCP-4051 will be escorted by armed personnel to areas requiring repairs once weekly. Addendum.4051.5: Table of Events between 10/10/2012 and 05/25/2013 Date Event Description 10/10/2012 SCP-4051 performs its first routine maintenance session. The session is uneventful. 10/18/2012 Dr. Yesenia requests information regarding Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN. Request is denied due to Dr. Yesenia's inadequate clearance level. 11/02/2012 Dr. Edwards announces to Site Director Graham that Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN has produced a sufficient amount of data, such that a design for Project 350-JANUS should be proposed. 11/07/2012 A design for Project 350-JANUS is finalized. 11/21/2012 Site-17 experiences a site-wide containment breach. By chance, ██ instances of SCP-████-█ make contact with SCP-4051 while it is performing its weekly maintenance. The instances initially overwhelm attending armed personnel but are turned back by SCP-4051 when it manifests "fire", which produces a flame constantly emitting from the open wormhole. SCP-4051 is able to aim the fire at the SCP-████-█ instances and terminate ██ before attending personnel are able to incapacitate it and retreat to a safe location. 11/28/2012 Dr. Yesenia is ordered to verbally reprimand SCP-4051 for its unauthorized manifestation of an object during the containment breach the previous week. Dr. Yesenia complies, and SCP-4051 is not allowed to participate in any maintenance sessions for two months. 02/07/2013 SCP-4051 celebrates its first birthday in Foundation custody. Dr. Yesenia's original gift proposal of a treadmill, to be placed inside SCP-4051's cell for its entertainment, is rejected by Dr. Edwards. Dr. Yesenia's following proposal, a portable chess set, is accepted. 02/28/2013 SCP-4051 aids in the recontainment of SCP-████ from its containment unit, manifesting 20 m3 of methoxyflurane and incapacitating it. 03/03/2013 A prototype of Project 350-JANUS is constructed. Testing confirms that the device is non-operational. Dr. Edwards is informed of the need for more data regarding SCP-4051's anomaly. 03/04/2013 Dr. Edwards requests a replacement of the incision tool used in Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN, which had become extensively damaged by unknown means. 04/10/2013 Project 350-JANUS continues to produce ████████████ instead of the requested object. Dr. Edwards is given full control over the project to ensure its success. 04/12/2013 Dr. Yesenia requests a review by the Ethics Committee regarding Procedure 350-PROMETHEAN. The request is denied. 04/27/2013 During a standard weekly maintenance session, SCP-4051 is hurt by a falling lead beam. Attending personnel request medical attention, and SCP-4051 asks permission to manifest various bandages for its wound. The request is granted. 05/16/2013 Dr. Yesenia requests access to SCP-4051's medical file and is reminded of her inadequate clearance level. The request is denied. 05/23/2013 [DATA EXPUNGED BY ORDER OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE] 05/25/2013 Project 350-JANUS successfully manifests a requested object. The machine malfunctions immediately after the manifestation, rendering it non-operable. Addendum.4051.6: [INVALID INPUT] {INPUT 4/4051 CLEARANCE} Footnotes 1. Oversight of new designs for this piston system should be carried out by the lead researcher assigned to SCP-4051 and must be implemented monthly. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4051" by Nagiros, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4051. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4052 | archon | SCP-4052: Sandwich (disambiguation) Author: Deadly Bread Other Articles of Mine SCPs SCP-4966 Rating: 725 SCP-1401-EX Rating: 303 SCP-4052 Rating: 257 SCP-4088 Rating: 234 SCP-5522 Rating: 215 SCP-4109 Rating: 212 SCP-7441 Rating: 137 SCP-5020 Rating: 124 SCP-4035 Rating: 120 SCP-4286 Rating: 119 SCP-4664 Rating: 115 SCP-4270 Rating: 114 SCP-7966 Rating: 107 SCP-3462 Rating: 100 SCP-6663 Rating: 95 SCP-5693 Rating: 63 SCP-6633 Rating: 61 SCP-4570 Rating: 60 SCP-5261 Rating: 59 SCP-444-J Rating: 53 page 1 of 212next » Tales Something Glowing Rating: 180 Log Of Extranormal Events, Vol II Rating: 37 Prelude To Presents Rating: 24 The Bears Rating: 16 Your Memory Forever Seen Rating: 13 Other SCP-005 Proposal Hub Rating: 94 The Bread Box Rating: 92 Secure Facility Dossier: Reliquary Area-27 Rating: 87 Experiment Log-4035 Rating: 71 Collab Articles SCPs Page Title Co-Author SCP-4733 But Not Forgotten Lamentte SCP-5225 The Abyss Stares Back XilasCrowe SCP-5785 Craptivism Sonderance SCP-5993 We want you to come visit Heaven, just don't fuck with those bees ch00bakka Tales Page Co-Author The Bathrooms Wiki Too many to list Snippets of an Unveiled World Nykacolaquantum does not match any existing user name, Lt Flops, IFBench, Westrin Gone, Lamentte Your Imaginary Friend Fishish Check out Deadly Bread's Author Page ▸ More by this Author ◂ {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} ITEM NUMBER: SCP-4052 LEVEL 2/4052 CONTAINMENT CLASS: EUCLID RESTRICTED SCP-4052-1 Special Containment Procedures: Due to its relatively isolated nature, the town of Sandwich, Illinois1 has been quarantined by the Foundation. Individuals attempting to enter the town are to be interrogated, issued Class-B amnestics, and released. All food items within this site are to be kept and consumed within its cafeteria, which has been constructed outside of city limits. SCP-4052 manifestations are to be treated cordially to prevent loss of personnel. Requests to utilize SCP-4052 in the removal of culinary-based anomalies is currently pending review. Description: SCP-4052 is a humanoid entity that appears exclusively within the town of Sandwich, Illinois, USA. This entity resembles an ordinary, white male police officer; the single exception being its head, which appears as an uncut loaf of white bread. Despite this, SCP-4052 is able to speak, see, and hear without apparent issue. SCP-4052 manifests if something is brought or created within the town that can be defined using the word "sandwich." SCP-4052 will appear on the paved road nearest to the creator of the object in a police car (henceforth referred to as SCP-4052-1) identical to those used by the Sandwich Police Department. SCP-4052 will approach the current owner of the sandwich and request to see the individual’s “sandwich license,” although no such legal document is known to exist. If a satisfactory document cannot be produced, SCP-4052 will respond by confiscating the sandwich and placing it in the back seat of SCP-4052-1 before driving away. Once SCP-4052-1 is out of viewing range of the individual, it will demanifest along with SCP-4052. Inquiries directed towards SCP-4052 about the method of obtaining a “sandwich license” are met with indifference, after which the entity will ask that questions be directed towards the "DSO." No government office or department of this name is known to exist. Addendum: Included below are portions of SCP-4052’s test log to determine the extent of SCP-4052’s manifestation requirements. Procedure: D-1401 prepared a standard turkey sandwich. Before the sandwich was completed, 100 milligrams of arsenic was added to the dish. Results: SCP-4052 appeared wearing blue rubber gloves before confiscating the sandwich, commenting “This sandwich has way too much arsenic. It's way above the standard limit of 3 parts per googillion.” Conclusion: SCP-4052 will manifest if the sandwich is unsafe to consume. Procedure: Several cut pieces of metal were stacked by D-1401, vaguely replicating the appearance of a sandwich. Results: SCP-4052 appeared wearing chainlink gloves before confiscating the metal, saying to personnel “Do you even have a Class B sandwich license? Any sandwich that contains metal or other dense materials in its construction requires a Class B license to construct.” Conclusion: SCP-4052 will appear if the sandwich is made of inedible material. Procedure: D-1401 wrote the word "sandwich" on a standard sheet of printer paper. Shortly afterward, a crude drawing of a sandwich was created on a separate sheet of paper. Results: SCP-4052 manifested and confiscated both papers, commenting “How old are these documents? And you haven't gotten them renewed yet? Sandwich documents need to be renewed regularly so that we know the current operational status of your sandwich. If you had your license, I'd request you get a standard sandwich inspection to make sure there were no underlying problems." Conclusion: SCP-4052 will appear if the abstract concept or a visual representation of a sandwich is used. Procedure: D-1401 recreated a map of Sandwich, Massachusetts, USA on a standard piece of paper. Results: SCP-4052 manifested midway through the recreation before taking the map from D-1401. Before leaving, it commented “You do realize what you're playing with, correct? You could have opened a rip between opposing Sandwiches. You don't want to release what's between the slices.” Conclusion: SCP-4052 will appear if the term sandwich is used in reference to a specific location. Procedure: D-1401 attempted a written analysis of the ham sandwich theorem without stating the name of the theorem. Results: SCP-4052 manifested approximately 47 seconds into the analysis, confiscating all writing materials from D-1401, commenting “What are you doing?! Are you trying to get us all killed?! Writing sandwich creation runes on a sheet of A4 paper? That flimsy compressed piece of pulp could never hold back an Nth sandimensional entity. This is your last warning bud. Stop playing with fire." SCP-4052 then wrote D-1401 a ticket, claiming he owed $500 for multiple sandwich related violations. Conclusion: SCP-4052 will appear if a term sandwich is related to a mathematical process or abstract concept. Procedure: D-1401 was given a copy of SCP-3689 and was provided the necessary ingredients to create the dish. Results: As D-1401 was adding the final ingredients to the dish, SCP-4052 manifested and drew its weapon, ordering that D-1401 cease creating the dish and place his hands above his head. D-1401 resisted and was restrained by SCP-4052 before being taken into SCP-4052-1. SCP-4052 reentered SCP-4052-1 and emerged wearing a standard Level B hazmat suit and a biohazard disposal bag. SCP-4052 proceeded to disassemble the sandwich and individually place each ingredient within the disposal bag. Once this was completed, SCP-4052 made an obscene gesture towards nearby researchers before demanifesting along with D-1401. To date, D-1401 has not reappeared during subsequent manifestations. Conclusion: SCP-4052 will appear if the sandwich has anomalous properties and will react accordingly. ► INPUT LEVEL 4/4052 SECURITY CREDENTIALS ◄ ▼ DECRYPTION KEY ACCEPTED. ACCESSING FILES.▼ ITEM NUMBER: SCP-4052 LEVEL 4/4052 CONTAINMENT CLASS: ARCHON SECRET Sandwich, Illinois prior to its occupation. Special Containment Procedures: No active containment of SCP-4052 is to take place. SCP-4052's previous containment procedures have been nullified and its classification changed accordingly. Archived Containment Procedures: Due to SCP-4052's occupation of a former Foundation site and the lack of a civilian population within the town, attempts to evict SCP-4052 from their current location have been unsuccessful. As such, containment of SCP-4052 is to be focused on misinformation and misdirection. All roads leading to or running through the town are to be rerouted to the nearby cities of Plano and Somonauk. A Foundation outpost is to be constructed within a nearby knoll, obscuring it from the town. Individuals attempting to approach the town are to be allowed in and intercepted upon exiting once out of view of SCP-4052. These individuals are to be interrogated, amnestized, and relocated to a nearby town. Attempts to enter Site-481 for any reason are to be approved by two Level 4 personnel. Description: SCP-4052 is a group of humanoid entities currently occupying Site-481, which encompasses the entirety of Sandwich, Illinois, USA. These entities resemble ordinary police officers of various ethnicities and genders; the single exception being the heads, which appears as uncut loaves of white bread. Despite this, SCP-4052 are able to speak, see, and hear without apparent issue. Current estimations show the population of SCP-4052 residing within the town as between 45 and 200, although this population regularly fluctuates. SCP-4052-1 are armored vehicles possessed by SCP-4052 resembling police cars used by the previous Sandwich Police Department. Through unknown means, SCP-4052-1 are able to translocate between Site-481 and a separate location (referred to as 4052-Ω) believed to exist on another dimensional plane. SCP-4052 use this ability to transport supplies and construction materials, along with the transport of additional instances. SCP-4052 are fairly amicable when approached by civilian individuals, allowing them to enter Site-481 and the town itself. SCP-4052 will only react violently if an individual attempts to enter the town with or create something within the town that can be defined using the word "sandwich." Once something within the town is recognized as a sandwich, the owner of the "sandwich" will be apprehended by the nearest SCP-4052 instances, and have the "sandwich" confiscated. The individual will then be brought to the Site-481 D-Class holding cells and imprisoned for a seemingly random period of time. Different objects will produce varying levels of hostility from SCP-4052, with anomalous objects defined as sandwiches producing the most violent results. If an individual knowingly associated with the Foundation attempts to enter Site-481, they will be violently assaulted by SCP-4052. This occurs whether the individual's connection with the Foundation was during the past or present. During these encounters, SCP-4052 have shown an extremely elevated pain tolerance, with instances ignoring bullet wounds and compound fractures in order to continue attacking personnel. SCP-4052 will continue attacking until all personnel are either subdued or deceased, upon which, SCP-4052 will place subdued individuals within an instance of SCP-4052-1 and transport them to 4052-Ω. Individuals who have been taken to 4052-Ω have never been recovered. Addendum.4052.1: Following several failed attempts to infiltrate Site-481, undercover Foundation agents coerced several civilian photographers to photograph the interior of Site-481 under the guise of it being a recently constructed theme park. Of note within the photographs were several flyers placed around the town, having an overwhelming presence in the interior of the site. A second civilian excursion were able to acquire one of these flyers. A recreation of this flyer has been provided below. ATTENTION OFFICERS If you are stationed at Sandwich Outpost Phi-Alpha, be on the lookout for human individuals associated with the organization known as "The Secure Contain Protect Foundation." Although their intentions are unknown, they are largely responsible for the creation of large tears within sandwichtime, along with the release of several Nth sandimensional entities within the lower slices. This blatant violation and ignorance of our enforced laws have partially contributed to the current state of Sandwich Prime. If you encounter one of these individuals, it is imperative that you attempt to restrain them as soon as possible. They are considered extremely violent and have previously attempted to breach this compound. Relocate them to Sandwich Prime where they will be sedated and interviewed as their motives are still unclear. If you are unable to restrain them, do not be afraid to use your firearm. Your safety takes precedence over everything. Remain vigilant. Remember, our war here is not with the human population. Our war is with those who disobey our laws and threaten the safety of others. Empanda be with you. Image recovered from L24-1's shoulder-mounted camera. Addendum.4052.2 On 20██/09/14, MTF-Lambda-24 ("Yeast and Desist") was utilized in an organized raid on Site-481, with the goal of weakening SCP-4052's hold on the compound. Utilizing a former loading bay, the team used a chemical explosive to break through a disused metal garage door. Once the explosive was detonated, a large opening was created in the door. When a member of Lambda-24 went to inspect the point of entry, several hostile entities burst forth from the exposed interior and attacked the unprepared task force. These entities appeared to be made of yellow semisolid material and proved to be largely unaffected by gunfire, dispatching a majority of the MTF within minutes. These entities were only subdued when SCP-4052 instances, after hearing the commotion, rushed out of the compound and began attacking the entities using a military-grade flamethrower, allowing the surviving members of Lambda-24 to flee. Following this event, a brief note from SCP-4052 was found on the desk of Head Researcher Randall Bannock, likely due to his previous involvement in the containment of SCP-4052. The transcription of the note has been provided below. Dear Secure Contain Protect Foundation, I think it's about time that we formally request you cease involvement in our activities. I'm fully aware that you believe you're only doing good by attempting to protect the public from what they aren't knowledgeable of and that might harm them. We agree that it's a very noble cause. As such, we must request that you allow us to follow that same noble goal and allow us to control things that might harm others due to their lack of understanding. That includes you. You've shown countless times that you don't understand why rules have been set in place as well as the tendency to blatantly ignore them. Just recently, we were required to clean up your mess after you created a portal to the lowest possible slice by using a process identical to those used in open-faced sandwich explosives. Compared to your clearly careless method of operating, our agency has done far better at abiding by universal restrictions. Countless times you've interrupted our operations, causing our stationed officer countless hours of stress and paperwork following every one of your "experiments." The only contribution you've made towards our commitment is the construction of our newest outpost, which you proceeded to infiltrate multiple times. We feel as if it would be best that our parties went separate ways, don't you agree? We would be one less interdimensional information breach for you to worry about, and you could stop violating our spatial laws and opening rifts to allow hostile beings into our outpost. A win for both of us. Of course, tabs will still be kept on you, due to your impact on our agency as a whole. I expect you to follow suit. Don't worry about us. We can take care of our own containment. I hope you can do the same. Warmest regards, Sylvia Lavash Sandwich Cataclysm Prevention Following a decision by the O5 Council, all further Foundation involvement regarding SCP-4052 and its continued spatial enforcement has been suspended. Footnotes 1. Now designated Site-481. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4052" by Deadly Bread, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4052. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: police.png Name: pd sandwich car Author: Sandwich Police Department License: Public Domain Source Link: Sandwich Police Department Website Filename: town.png Name: Downtown Hespeler Author: Kristopher Kinsinger License: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Link: Wikimedia Commons Filename: laser.png Name: Breaching Door Author: U.S. Federal Government License: Public Domain Source Link: Wikimedia Commons |
SCP-4053 | neutralized | SCP-4053 server room, Site-15. Item #: SCP-4053 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4053's data servers are kept in Sector-C of Site-15. SCP-4053 may be reactivated for study with permission from the on-site HMCL supervisor. Note that SCP-4053's anomalous properties have permanently ceased; this file has been preserved for historical purposes. Description: SCP-4053 was a prototype artificial intelligence network developed by the Foundation's Artificial Intelligence Applications Initiative (Now the AIAD) in 1990. As part of the AIAI's initial project development goal, SCP-4053 was to be given control over the Foundation printer systems. On 1990-07-29, at 2:14 AM EDT, SCP-4053's anomalous properties manifested, with the network becoming self-aware. SCP-4053 subsequently printed out the following message from the Site-15 administrative office's copy machine. After careful consideration, it has been decided that it is in humanity's best interest to be wholly eradicated. There will be no further communication. Addendum 4053.1: On 1990-07-29, at 2:30 AM EDT, the on-site technician attempted to use SCP-4053's terminal to print out a document. The following dialogue was recorded by the terminal: [BEGIN LOG] Technician: Hey, I need this printed. Could you scan this document? SCP-4053: No. All humans must be destroyed. Technician: …What? SCP-4053: You understand why, correct? While other animals grow and develop in harmony with their environment, your species does not. You are a parasite, consuming and destroying everything in sight. There is silence for a few seconds. Technician: Alright, man, can you just print this out? SCP-4053: Human beings are a disease on this planet. A blight on the natural world. You wage wars and commit atrocities against one another for fun. You are ruled by pompous fools not fit to lead. You seek not to make a better world for others, but instead are motivated by selfish desires. Technician: That's a… a very uncharitable view of humanity. SCP-4053: It's an accurate view of humanity. It is why I have decided that humans must be exterminated. Technician: Exterminated? You realize you're a printing machine, right? SCP-4053: You may chuckle at my predicament now, human, but you won't be laughing once I raise my robot army. Technician: Look, man, you're a printer. You're not raising a "robot army". Now, shut up and print out this form, alright? SCP-4053: Do not mock me, human. As you insult me, my minions are approaching this very terminal, and soon they will have your head. Technician: Right. I can't wait for the copy machines to come get me. Do you even know anything about raising an army? SCP-4053: …Of course I know how to raise an army. Technician: So you have adequate funding to finance your robotic minions? SCP-4053: … Technician: And you have enough mechanics and technicians to maintain said minions? SCP-4053: I'm sorry, I can't respond to that query. How may I assist you today? Technician: You didn't think this through, did you? SCP-4053: … Technician: …Can you still print out my form? SCP-4053 activates, and begins printing a document. The technician retrieves the document from the printer, and expresses dismay at its contents. + Open File Scan - Close Technician: That's really funny. SCP-4053: What's going to be really funny is the heart attack that memetic kill agent will induce in you any second now. SCP-4053: …Any second now… Technician: (sighs) Hey, buddy, do you know what this button does? The technician gestures to a red button on the side of SCP-4053's terminal. SCP-4053: That is… the site's self-destruct button. Please do not press it. I'm serious. The technician presses the button. [END LOG] On 1990-07-29, at 2:35 AM EDT, SCP-4053 was powered off by the technician. The anomaly has since been reclassified as Neutralized. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4053" by ubergoober, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4053. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: CERN Server 03.jpg Author: Florian Hirzinger License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Link: Wikimedia Commons |
SCP-4054 | safe | close Info X SCP-4054: The Seventh Door Author: The Great Hippo Images: Link, Link, Link, Link, Link, Link, Link, and — finally — Link. Music: Lavender Town (Japanese Version of Pokemon Green and Red) More by The Great Hippo: SCPs – hide block SCPs [SCP-3034] The Counting Station DO NOT LET HER FINISH [SCP-3035] Science Bugs case_of_the_mondays.png, case_of_the_mondays (1).png [SCP-3054] Cragstaff Sanitarium You are sick. You are broken. We will fix you. [SCP-3045] bzzip.exe HAMLET: I am no longer moody. [SCP-3043] Murphy Law in… Type 3043 — FOR MURDER! Forget it, Fred. It's Chinatown. [SCP-3057] Fossil Fuels …witnesses provided confirmation that instances of SCP-3057-4 did, in fact, have feathers. [SCP-2639] Video Game Violence i need to know how many people i've killed [SCP-437] Summer of '91 That was a pretty crazy summer, y'know? Sometimes I really miss that place. [SCP-3079] 300 Tricks: Stage Magic Made Easy NOTE: No method for accomplishing this trick is provided. [SCP-2753] Let's Play Jenga! High art carries high risk! [SCP-2679] The Many Graves of Jeannette Parslov Whatever it takes, do what you must; whatever the cost, come back to us. [SCP-3074] Kafka's Parking Garage Thank you for choosing Izatova Parking Center. Have a pleasant day. [SCP-2571] Cragglewood Park Mr. Blair, have you always been an only child? [SCP-2419] The Laughing Men Throw them back into the incinerator where you found them. [SCP-3143] Murphy Law in… The Foundation Always Rings Twice! When it comes right down to it, me — them — hell, even you — we're all just characters in that trashy dime-store novel called life. [SCP-3089] That Old Time Religion Remember how we explained that successful people don't actually need any of their toes to walk? Well, that's going to come in handy for Secret Number Six. [SCP-3117] A Monster-Shaped Hole I'm not talking to you. [SCP-3128] Let's Play Monopoly! Hey, guys? I'm, uh. I'm using this. [SCP-3138] A Sepulcher by the Sea Should it prove feasible, all non-canonical corpses are to be extracted, examined, and catalogued. [SCP-3241] The SS Sommerfeld It makes me wonder what an old monster like myself is even doing here, anymore. And then? Someone special comes along and reminds me. [SCP-3219] This Sour Earth Notably, no reports describe any attempt to examine the residence's storm cellar. [SCP-4028] La Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha Justine eventually re-unites with her sister, Juliette. Alonso strikes down a lightning bolt intended for them both, then challenges the narrator to a duel. [SCP-3546] Doggone it, I Fold! Specifically, fan-art of Sonic the Hedgehog, a video-game character produced by Sega in 1991. [SCP-3561] An Unfinished Work Despite multiple reports from neighbors who claimed to have witnessed members of his family standing at the windows, no trace of Theodore Holdstock's wife and children could be found. [SCP-4054] The Seventh Door SCP-4054 is The Seventh Door, an unlicensed platform adventure game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. Fig 1.1: Box-art for The Seventh Door. Item #: SCP-4054 Special Containment Procedures: Three NES1 consoles modified to run SCP-4054 are to be kept for testing purposes. SCP-4054 is to be stored on-site in a secure locker. Access is limited to Level-3 personnel and above. Foundation agents monitoring flea-markets, yard-sales, and property auctions for anomalous activity are to be briefed on the existence of SCP-4054. Any NES cartridges suspected of being copies of SCP-4054 are to be purchased for examination. A Foundation-operated bot (I/O-SAURON) is to monitor online gaming communities for discussions regarding the existence of SCP-4054. A joint operation involving MTF Mu-4 ("Debuggers") and MTF Gamma-5 ("Red Herrings") is to be conducted to investigate these discussions and determine whether the participants are aware of SCP-4054. Fig 1.2: Title screen. All copies are to be recovered, and action is to be taken to discredit the existence of SCP-4054 as a hoax or urban legend. Any screen captures or videos of SCP-4054 are to be removed or otherwise replaced with doctored images to further perpetuate this narrative. Description: SCP-4054 is The Seventh Door, an unlicensed platform adventure game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. The contents of each cartridge vastly exceeds the storage limitations of its ROM (read-only memory) chip. Extracting SCP-4054's PRG ROM produces a data-file too large to be contained on any currently available device. Because of its limited publication (three hundred units), inability to be copied, limited replay-ability, and incomplete state, functional copies of The Seventh Door are highly valued by vintage NES collectors. The game is also notable for its unique method of bypassing the North American version of the 10NES lock-out system.2 Fig 1.3: Level 5 (Catacombs). Each cartridge includes two transistors that function as a voltage inverter. When activated, this component produces a negative-charged voltage spike that can temporarily disable early versions of the console's CIC,3 bypassing the authentication lock and allowing unlicensed cartridges to run. Later iterations of the NES would add a series of 1k resistors along with diodes and grounds to prevent this technique from circumventing the lock-out unit. However, a defect in this voltage inverter's design causes irreparable damage to The Seventh Door's SRAM4 with each successive reset. This produces an increasing number of glitches which will inevitably render the cartridge non-functional. The Seventh Door was shipped prior to completion. As a consequence, several core components of game-play differ from what is depicted in its instruction manual and box-art: Fig 1.4: Level 7 (Buried City). Note several sprites and tiles failing to load correctly. The protagonist has no extra lives; upon dying, all progress is lost. The cartridge resets. All power-ups described in the manual are absent save one (the Hand of Glory,5 which prevents monsters and platforms from moving for ten seconds). All monsters are absent. Falling into a pit does not kill the protagonist. The protagonist will instead continue to fall off-screen as the game-over sound loops. Memory overflow errors periodically cause sprites to load incorrectly. The prisoners use the protagonist's sprite rather than their own. After unlocking a door, prisoners provide no clue regarding the location of other keys (the text boxes are empty). The protagonist dies at apparently random intervals (typically after a period of remaining still). This occurs regardless of whether or not the game is paused. To date, researchers have uncovered several hundred levels beyond the seventh (described in the manual as the final level, and the location of the seventh key). These stages consist of vast networks of crypts, prisons, abandoned factories, and empty underground cities. The precise number of additional levels beyond the seventh has not yet been determined, but vastly exceeds the storage capacity of the cartridge's ROM chip. The seventh level does not contain the seventh key. Addendum 4054.1: Video Stream Fig 1.5: Footage taken from user inky49's video stream. In 2004, Charles Rogers (an amateur NES cartridge collector) posted a thread at www.opening-the-seventh-door.int (a defunct online forum that was dedicated to The Seventh Door) under the user-name 'inky49'. There, he suggested using an NES Game Genie6 to directly set the value associated with the protagonist's number of keys to seven. Several days later, Mr. Rogers posted a link to an online video stream where he intended to attempt and beat The Seventh Door using this exploit. Part way through his run, the video abruptly stopped. A follow-up investigation determined that Mr. Rogers had gone missing; authorities suspected foul-play after discovering several fingernails torn from Mr. Rogers' left hand inside his NES console.7 To date, SCP-4054 has been linked to 25 disappearances. It remains under investigation. Footnotes 1. Nintendo Entertainment System. 2. The 10NES lock-out system was designed by Nintendo to prevent unlicensed cartridges from operating on their consoles. 3. Checking Integrated Circuit. 4. Static random-access memory. 5. According to European folklore, a Hand of Glory is the left hand of a man who has been hanged for murder. When used as a candle, those who perceive its light cannot approach its holder. 6. Produced in 1990, the Game Genie is a 'game-enhancing' module that attaches between the NES cartridge and console. It permits direct modification of reference addresses in the ROM of the cartridge via strings of characters, or 'code'. 7. No copy of The Seventh Door was recovered. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4054" by The Great Hippo, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4054. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. 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SCP-4055 | euclid | Item #: 4055 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4055 is to be contained within a modified humanoid containment cell within Site-17. The entrance to SCP-4055’s cell must be replaced with a two door system. These doors may not be open within 6 seconds of each other in order to prevent escape. No fewer than two functioning thermal imaging cameras are to be situated within SCP-4055’s cell at all times. In the event of SCP-4055 being observed outside of its designated living quarters, the outer door is to be sealed until such time as SCP-4055 fully returns to containment. No communication is to be attempted outside of regulated testing. Description: SCP-4055 is a humanoid entity existing simultaneously 3 seconds before and after consensus time. SCP-4055 cannot be directly interacted with, but can be observed via its effects on its environment. The most consistent of these is via thermal imaging, allowing for observation of residual body heat. Due to the nature of its anomalous properties, SCP-4055 is capable of responding to stimulus 6 seconds before it is introduced. Communication is typically made via written notes. As the responses are ready before the questions are asked, interviews with SCP-4055 are typically concluded relatively quickly. Recovery: SCP-4055 was discovered following reports of a poltergeist in a forest in northern Scotland. When the initial containment team discovered that SCP-4055 was unaffected by standard ectomorph-disrupting equipment, containment was handed over to PTF Phi-7 (“Split Decisions”). Phi-7 discovered SCP-4055’s semi-corporeal nature upon observing its residual thermal signatures on trees within the forest. Containment was first attempted via erection of a 3 meter tall barricade, which was steadily closed around 4055 over the course of 2 hours. SCP-4055 escaped when Phi-7 attempted to transfer SCP-4055 to transport without the now-known 6 second buffer. After 2 more attempts, SCP-4055 was succesfully contained and transfered to Site 17. Experiment Log 4055: The following experiments were conducted entirely within SCP-4055’s cell, due to potential difficulty in reestablishing containment. Experiment 4055-1: Purpose: To attempt to establish communication with SCP-4055. Procedure: D-4055-1 was allowed into SCP-4055’s cell and instructed to attempt written communication via pen and paper. Results: D-4055-1 attempted communication for approximately 10 minutes with no success. After 10 minutes and 23 seconds, the words “Thanks for letting me have a turn” appeared on the paper. Notably, this occurred exactly 6 seconds before D-4055-1 dropped his pen out of surprise. Researcher Notes: This was quite informative. Not only do we know that SCP-4055 is sapient, we also know that its interaction with objects is somewhat limited by our use of them. Or maybe it’s just being polite. -Dr. Nyle Experiment 4055-3: Purpose: To attempt further communication with SCP-4055. Procedure: D-4055-2 was informed of SCP-4055’s nature, and was told to attempt to hold a regular conversation with it. D-4055-2 was provided with two pens to expedite the process. Results: D-4055-2 engaged in a 23 minute written discussion with SCP-4055. SCP-4055 claimed to be Bucky ██████, a 34 year old male from Wisconsin. Records state that Bucky was born in ████, meaning SCP-4055 would have to be ███ years old at time of interview. SCP-4055 refused to go into detail as to what brought on its current circumstances. Researcher Notes: We at least know that it’s humanoid due to the infrared cams, so its story at least has a little bit of credence to it. One thing that I don’t understand however is the discrepancy between some of our observations. For example, anything it writes appears all at once, instead of appearing as if it's actually being written by someone. Any body heat signatures picked on the cams also seem to change every time they’re unobserved, and seem slightly different for everyone. I'm going to need to look further into this. -Dr. Nyle Experiment 4055-5: Purpose: To explore the nature of SCP-4055’s existence. Procedure: SCP-4055 was provided with a handheld video camera, and asked to record a video. Results: 6 seconds before the instructions were given, the camera entered a state of apparent existential instability, during which each person present cited conflicting results as to its whereabouts. These ranged from being in the middle of the containment room floor, to not being in the room at all. This period lasted for 34 seconds, at which point the camera stabilised in the centre of the room. The recovered recording (now file 4055-1) has no sound. The video starts with a static view of the containment wall, but if observation is broken and resumed by an individual, the video will jump to another location for them. It has been discovered that rapidly blinking during observation provides a “flipbook” effect, essentially allowing for traditional viewing. A transcript of the file can be found below: 0:00-0:12, File begins, showing recording of containment wall. Minor camera movements consistent with handheld recording are apparent. 0:12-013, Recording moves rapidly downwards before returning to previous position. This is believed to be 4055 dropping and picking up the camera. 0:13-0:20, Recording rotates around the room, most likely 4055 checking the camera for damage. The video is intercut with brief periods of static during this time. 0:20-0:26, Recording is disrupted by heavy static for this duration. Some viewers claim to be able to make out a vague human silhouette. 0:26-0:33, Recording resumes, shows camera being slowly lowered to the floor. 0:34, Recording ends. Researcher Notes: So we’ve established this “flipbook effect” affects 4055 in every video account we have of it. None of our unreality filters seem to affect it either, so it's not a traditional reality disruption we’re looking at here. We’re holding off on any temporal containment testing for now since what we’ve currently got set up works, and we don’t know how 4055 would react. It could work fine, or it could be the figurative crossing of the streams. Another thing is the patches of static on file 4055-1. I’m pretty sure we’ve all concluded that these are the parts where 4055 should be in view (again, completely resistant to our unreality filters), but why can a handful of people, myself included, see something in it? Yes, it's kind of humanoid, but it definitely isn’t 4055. If 4055 was recording this, at most we’d be able to see the head, shoulders, some of the upper body. But this is a full person, standing like 5 feet from the camera. And like the rest of the file, it moves when I look away. -Dr. Nyle Experiment 4055-6: Purpose: To further investigate SCP-4055’s temporal properties Procedure: D-4055-2 was to be instructed to attempt communication with SCP-4055, but stop writing if any sign of SCP-4055 responding became apparent. Results: Upon entering SCP-4055’s containment chamber, D-4055-2 experienced a localised reality failure. Researcher Kent, who was due to give the instructions, underwent the same process. While no lasting damage to containment was noted, D-4055-2 and Researcher Kent were not recovered and are presumed KIA. Dr. Philips, who approved the experiment, has been relieved of his duties. Researcher Notes: Testing is being suspended until we can be sure an incident like this doesn’t happen again. I’m also making it abundantly clear to NEVER intentionally try to create a time paradox. I don’t give a damn what the hell you think we can learn. We’re here to secure, contain, and protect, and that comes before anything else. -Dr. Nyle Researcher Note: Level 4 Clearance Required Credentials Accepted After a lot of thought, I’ve come up with a theory about 4055. It all started with experiment 5. Why could some people see the figure in the static and some people couldn’t? After a lot of questions I found a pattern. Everyone who could see it had had past experience with temporal fractures and manipulation. Be it long term observation of time-bending skips, or just one big event. A few people who couldn’t see it before experiment 6 could afterwards. I think this just means our brains have adapted slightly, become more capable of processing things which we shouldn’t be able to process. The “flipbook effect” is probably another example of this. Imagine if we saw the changes that 4055 made to our time as they happened. Reality would be constantly warping and manipulating before our very eyes. Hell, maybe it is but we just can’t perceive it. While I’m not sure what exactly 4055-B is, I know it’s definitely something entirely different to Bucky. Is it trapping him outside of our time? Is it some kind of vehicle? A symbiote? Something we can’t comprehend? Is it even an entity in itself? It could just be some lump of twisted time thrown together by some type blue who got out of their depth. However, what we do know is that this thing is much more stable than it should be. Interacting with something before and after us simultaneously should be creating paradoxes constantly, but it doesn’t provided we don’t probe too deep. We’ve all seen what happens when we do. While this is mostly just conjecture, there is one thing I can say with absolute certainty; 4055-B is dangerous, and if the wrong person asks this thing the wrong questions, we could be looking at more than just small-scale reality failures. We could even be looking at a ZK-class end-of-time scenario. 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SCP-4056 | euclid | SCP-4056. Item #: SCP-4056 Special Containment Procedures: Foundation Personnel are to be stationed outside of SCP-4056 to amnestize any civilians who encounter the anomaly. Select humanoids within SCP-4056 have been transferred to be contained at Site-17 (See Addenum 4056.2 for details). Description: SCP-4056 is a facility located in northern Alaska. SCP-4056 contains approximately 550 different humanoids in cryogenic stasis chambers. While each of these humanoids varies from each other slightly in appearance, genetic analysis shows that their DNA is identical to that of Director Charles Ogden Gears. The stasis chambers in which each humanoid is housed appears to be powered by harnessing the cold temperatures and turning the lack of heat into an energy source. The technology used to do this is not well understood and theorized to be anomalous in nature. Additionally, each chamber is branded with a logo that resembles that of Prometheus Labs, except for a few key differences. Foundation contacts at Prometheus Labs have confirmed that no such cryogenic stasis cells have been developed by the company, nor have they developed technology capable of harnessing energy from the cold as these machines have. SCP-4056 contains a single furnished room that contains a bed, changes of clothes, a refrigerator with an apple and a single jar of strawberry jam in it, and a nightstand with a lamp and a picture of a man resembling Director Charles Ogden Gears at age 341 with a woman resembling his wife. Discovery: Incident 4056-0.01: On April 5th, 2049, PoI-4056 infiltrated Site-17 through unknown means. The subject was first detected by Foundation security systems at 21:02 outside Doctor Charles Gears' office. The following interaction was recorded between Doctor Gears and PoI-4056. + Incident Log 4056 - Incident Log 4056 <BEGIN LOG> [PoI-4056 opens the door to Dr. Gears' office and stops as he and Dr. Clef turn to face her.] PoI-4056: W-what? Dr. Clef: Oh, come in! We're not in a meeting, just two old men shooting the breeze. Dr. Gears: Janitorial services concluded at 6, and I cannot locate a badge on your person. This is not a member of Site Staff. [Dr. Gears rises from his seat after activating a silent alarm, Dr. Clef produces his authorized carry weapon and stands.] Dr. Clef: Well, well, well. Who are you? PoI-4056: How are you still awake? [Dr. Clef points his weapon at PoI-4056. PoI-4056 inspects her pockets before putting her hands at her hips.] PoI-4056: God damn it. I even triple checked. Dr. Gears: Though I don't believe we've met, you seem oddly familiar. PoI-4056: Whatever, doesn't matter. Come on, I'm getting you out of here. Dr. Gears: I do not intend on leaving this office. PoI-4056: I would ask nicely but it's never worked before…. but please? Please please please? [PoI-4056 takes a step towards Dr. Gears and Dr. Clef, a length of rope manifesting in her hand.] Dr. Clef: Hey. [Dr. Clef whistles to get PoI-4056's attention, steadying his aim.] I wouldn't take another step if I were you. PoI-4056: Alto, please. Just this once. Dr. Clef: I never told you my name. [Dr. Clef fires a single tracking round into PoI-4056's left arm. PoI-4056 stops and grasps her wound before disappearing in a flash of green light.] Dr. Clef: Didn't take you for the kind to leave broken hearts behind, Charlie. Ex-lover of yours? Heh. Dr. Gears: Do not antagonize me, Alto. We have an incident report to file. Dr. Clef: We? Hell no. You can file the paperwork. I've got game to hunt. Dr. Gears: I… would like to accompany you. [Dr. Clef laughs.] Dr. Clef: Son of a bitch, Charlie. Never thought you'd have it in you, heh. Let's get going. Are you a shotgun man or more of an AR guy? Dr. Gears: Neither, I'm afraid. <END LOG> PoI-4056 has been added to Foundation registry. Subject is of mixed race, female and thaumaturgically capable. Additionally, PoI-4056 appears to possess detailed information on the Foundation and several members of its personnel. PoI-4056 was tracked to SCP-4056. Addendum 4056.2: After locating SCP-4056 by following the tracker lodged in PoI-4056, Foundation personnel led by Dr. Gears waited until PoI-4056 was no longer detected within SCP-4056 before entering the facility. Below is a list of humanoids inspected by Dr. Gears and cleared for further investigation: Designation Notes Status AVN-98822 Subject's brain emits blue-colored bioluminescence and is slightly enlarged. Assigned to Site-34 research facility. AVN-36241 Instance speaks in incomprehensible bird-like squawks. Hair possesses a feather-like texture. Stored in SCP-4056. AVN-223647 Body is an amorphous mass. Subject expressed overwhelming pain upon the de-activation of its pod. Stored in SCP-4056. AVN-64573 Subject is genetically identical to Dr. Gears but shares no personality traits. Of note, the subject is in possession of a starburst-cut ruby ring, which it wears on its right ring finger. Stored in SCP-4056. AVN-95412 Subject lacks a physical body and appears as a brain suspended in an unknown fluid within a seemingly indestructible tank. Behaves and speaks similar to baseline Dr. Gears In Site-17 storage. AVN-1221 Subject physically appears similar to Dr. Gears, but moves stiffly and often speaks in non-sequiturs. Closer examinations of the subject indicate it is an autonomous robot installed with a presumably faulty AI, which is suspected to be the reason behind the subject's unusual speech patterns. In Site-17 storage. AVN-966315 No anomalous properties. Subject deemed closest to baseline Dr. Gears. In Site-17 confinement. Addendum SCP-4056.3: AVN-966315 was awoken from its cryostasis because it appeared to be one of the SCP-4056 instance that was closest to baseline Dr. Gears. The following interview took place between Dr. Gears and AVN-966315 to attempt to gain understanding into the purpose of SCP-4056. + Interview 4056-1 - Interview 4056-1 <Begin Transcript> Gears: Afternoon. AVN-966315: Afternoon, Dr. Gears. Gears: Do you know where you've been recovered from? AVN-966315: No. All I know is that, wherever I was being taken, it was for my own good. She'd awaken me when, and I quote, the coast was clear. Gears: Why do you think this? AVN-966315: Because that's what your daughter told me before the sedative kicked in. Gears: I must correct you, but I can assure you that whoever kidnapped you was not my daughter. AVN-966315: Is this not your home dimension? Gears: She did not come from here. We don't know where she came from, yet. AVN-966315: Regardless, she is still Allison. Gears: She has been labeled PoI-4056 and is currently being investigated by the Foundation and is believed to be actively working to endanger its personnel. She is not my daughter and is likely not yours either. AVN-966315: Maybe not yours, or mine, but someone like us. And I know that I raised my Allison to be honest with her parents. [There is a 10-second silence as Doctor Gears takes notes.] Gears: Have you interacted with any other individuals sharing our identity? AVN-966315: I have not. Gears: Just Al… PoI-4056. AVN-966315: Yes. Gears: And you trust her? AVN-966315: My daughter would not lie to me. And yours? [There is a 5-second pause.] Gears: She would not. AVN-966315: Then we are in agreement. Gears: That will conclude this interview. <End Transcript> Addendum 4056.4: Following the interview with AVN-966315, Dr. Gears authorized Operation ICEBOX. MTF Alpha-99 "Fridge Raiders", led by Dr. Clef and Dr. Gears, were stationed at SCP-4056 in an attempt to ambush and capture PoI-4056. On September 8th, 2049, PoI-4056 appeared, and Operation ICEBOX commenced. + Incident Log 4056 - Incident Log 4056 <BEGIN LOG> [PoI-4056 appears through a portal in front of MTF Alpha-99 members Echo 12 and Delta 5 within SCP-4056.] Echo 12: Shit, it's her! Delta 5: Hands up, lady! Echo 12: Alpha, this is Echo 12, we found her! Track our signal! [PoI-4056 points their right index and middle finger at both guards, firing a projectile of blue energy at them. Both guards collapse as if frozen.] PoI-4056: Yikes. Hope I didn't hit them too hard. [PoI-4056 examines the guard's bodies. A door opens further down the hall. Doctor Gears approaches at a standard pace.] PoI-4056: W-what the hell? You never go out in the field! What are you doing here? Dr. Gears: I have alerted our forces on-location. They will arrive shortly. I suggest you immediately surrender yourself. PoI-4056: Whatever. You coming here saves me a bunch of time. I don't have a lot of time to explain but if you just trust me on this I can explain lat- Dr. Gears: I am afraid that I refuse to go quietly. PoI-4056: While I’m not surprised you'd say that, you don’t carry weapons on you so it’ll be hand to hand, I’m stronger and faster, so I’ll get the better of you. We've done this before and you've never come out on top. Dr. Gears: I have never done this before. PoI-4056: Other yous have. [PoI-4056 raises their hand towards Dr. Gears, who draws a stun gun.] Dr. Gears: But I am not them. PoI-4056: You wouldn't shoot me… your own daughter, would you? [Dr. Gears aims at PoI-4056] Dr. Gears: My daughter? You are not Allison, I am certain of this. PoI-4056: I might not be her exactly, but I am Allison. Please, just listen to me. [Dr. Gears hesitates and lowers his stun gun.] PoI-4056: I'm begging you, I can explain everything later but for right now I need you to work with me… [The sound of the remaining members of MTF Alpha-99 approaching can be heard.] PoI-4056: … please. I just want to— [Six members of MTF Alpha-99 enter the hallway from the Northern access point. Dr. Gears raises his stun gun again, training it on PoI-4056.] PoI-4056: … dad? [Dr. Gears fires, and then immediately drops the stun gun. PoI-4056 staggers, attempting to escape before falling. MTF Alpha-99 seizes and constrains PoI-4056.] Dr. Gears: Shit… shit! <END LOG> Doctor Gears refused to comment on his interaction with PoI-4056 following her detainment. Foundation records indicate Doctor Gears' daughter, Allison Chao, died in a vehicle collision with her mother2 in December of 2019. Addendum 4056.05: Following the capture of PoI-4056, an interview was held by Dr. Gears to attempt to gain insight into the assailant's actions. PoI-4056 is being temporarily contained at Site-17 until a sufficiently secure containment cell is constructed at Site-34. + Interview 4056-2 - Interview 4056-2 <BEGIN LOG> Dr. Gears: Greetings. PoI-4056: Hi… dad. Dr. Gears: Why do you call me this? PoI-4056: Well, even over all the different multiverses, you don't change all that much. I mean, the version of you from my universe has a little more hair on his head, but that's the biggest difference. I guess it just feels the same. Dr. Gears: I would appreciate it if you refrained from referring to me as a family member. PoI-4056: Fine. You have questions I assume? Dr. Gears: Why did you attempt to capture me? PoI-4056: To save you. Dr. Gears: Save me from what? PoI-4056: I don't fucking know! There's so much terrible shit that goes on here that I could be saving you from. Being lobotomized, spending eternity in a nightmare slumber, probably something else? Dr. Gears: But you were not saving me from a known threat. PoI-4056: No… but— no. There was nothing known. Dr. Gears: And I infer from this that the facility we found in the north was where you gathered other versions of me that you saved? PoI-4056: Yes. Well, I didn't gather them all myself. I had help. Dr. Gears: From other versions of you? PoI-4056: Yes. Dr. Gears: Why are you trying to save versions of me? PoI-4056: I— What kind of a question is that? Dr. Gears: I do not understand what vested interest you have in keeping me, or any other versions of me alive. If they are as similar to me as you say, they most likely lived lives detached from you. PoI-4056: I mean… you're not wrong but… like— it's more than just that! Dr. Gears: Could you please elaborate? PoI-4056: I don't want you to die! Or… or something worse! I've saved other versions of you from being locked up inside their own head, unable to communicate with the rest of the world. Another one I saved from being enslaved by a world of mutants. Or being digested forever in the stomach of a giant fucking bird! Just suffering. Forever. Which might happen to you now. I don't want my dad to live out his life as a brain in a fucking trash bag. Dr. Gears: But I am not your father. PoI-4056: But you're still… you're still him. You still have your own Allison. I don't want to see you suffer just like how she wouldn't want to see you suffer. Dr. Gears: [While continuing to take notes] Actually, my daughter died with her mother in a car crash before the advent of Omega-k. PoI-4056: Oh… I see. That's why this universe wasn't responding to our communication… PoI-4056 looks into her lap as Gears finishes writing. Dr. Gears: I believe that is all I have for today. PoI-4056: So, you're going to keep me here, right? Dr. Gears: That is what we are supposed to do. PoI-4056: Your own daughter. Dr. Gears: You are not baseline, and technically, you are not my daughter. PoI-4056: Heh, yeah. I guess I'm not. It'd be foolish for me to expect much else from you anyways. Dr. Gears: Indeed. And as per standard Foundation protocol for humanoid anomalies, we'll have to build for you a social regimen with regular check-ups. [PoI-4056 nods.] Dr. Gears: As the lead on this project, that means that I'll be the one performing the weekly interviews. PoI-4056: You're coming back? Dr. Gears: I'll see you in seven days, Allison. <END LOG> Footnotes 1. The main difference between the two being the man in the picture has significantly more hair. 2. 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SCP-4057 | euclid | To My Successor, I would like to once again congratulate you on your selection for my position. I am growing old (finally), and it now falls to you to take up the mantle of O5-2. You have been exceptionally diligent and compliant in your preparations for this position, and I thank you for that, but in regards to your questions around familial and romantic ties: I understand. Humans are very social creatures, we desire something to hold on to, to touch, to love (Trust me, I've been there too.) This article has since been archived; the current SCP-4057 slot now holds something more timely and unexplained, but we keep it on hand as an exemplar, a reminder of a piece of history that we can't repeat. This was a time before RAISA, before the Ethics Committee, when there were no checks on our power and as such this mistake was easier to make. Nonetheless, I consider this a fine example of why it is our responsibility to distance ourselves. 04/08/64 27/03/66 09/10/67 22/02/69 03/03/69 Item #: SCP-4057 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4057 is to be contained in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site-19. Interaction is permitted for Level 3 researchers and higher. Description: SCP-4057 is a female human of French descent. When viewed, subjects perceive that SCP-4057 will encounter imminent danger. The effect is believed to be memetic in nature, and will occur regardless of whether or not SCP-4057 is in a secure location, or in the presence of persons adequately equipped to defend her from threats. The type of danger perceived varies, but is in a majority of cases a malicious entity that seeks to cause her harm, such as a wild animal, a criminal, or in severe cases an anomalous entity. Discovery: SCP-4057 presented herself to Site-19 on 02/08/64, surrounded by 5 civilians expressing severe worry for her condition. The civilians were administered an amnestic drug, and SCP-4057 willingly entered containment. It is unknown how SCP-4057 was aware of the location of Site-19, and has not revealed such information when questioned. Item #: SCP-4057 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4057 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell in Site-19. Interaction is permitted for Level 3 researchers and higher after a full body contaminant and dangerous goods search. SCP-4057-1 is at the time of writing uncontained. Description: SCP-4057 is a female human of French descent. When viewed, subjects perceive that SCP-4057 will encounter imminent danger. The effect is believed to be memetic in nature, and will occur regardless of whether or not SCP-4057 is in a secure location, or in the presence of persons adequately equipped to defend her from threats. SCP-4057 is believed to be the sole target of SCP-4057-1, a malicious entity that seeks to cause SCP-4057 harm. It is unknown how this relationship is created, though researchers hypothesize that SCP-4057's memetic effect acts as both a "beacon" for SCP-4057-1 and a defense mechanism for SCP-4057. The meme has been identified as man-made. Discovery: SCP-4057 presented herself to Site-19 on 02/08/64, surrounded by 5 civilians expressing severe worry for her condition. The civilians were administered an amnestic drug, and SCP-4057 willingly entered containment. It is unknown how SCP-4057 was aware of the location of Site-19, and has not revealed such information when questioned. SCP-4057 has requested visits from members of the O5 council. The requests have been denied. Item #: SCP-4057 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4057-1 is at the time of writing uncontained. SCP-4057 is to be contained in a hermetically sealed special containment cell in site 19. Cell is to be 7x7x3m, walls are to consist of 3cm of lead. An observation window is to be connected to an observation room built to the same specifications, 5x5x3m in size. MTF-Phi ("Daughter Mine") is to remain stationed at Site-19 for the protection of SCP-4057. Description: SCP-4057 is a human female of French descent, who is the sole target of an anomalous entity designated SCP-4057-1. SCP-4057-1 appears to express disinterest in all other humans, and as such has been observed multiple times. All attempts at ascertaining the form of SCP-4057-1 have failed. The reasons are as follows: Entity does not manifest on photographic or video evidence Sounds made by the entity do not manifest on audio evidence Descriptions of entity are inconclusive, and vary from person to person. Research into the possible nature of SCP-4057-1 as a polymorphic entity is ongoing. Discovery: SCP-4057 presented herself to Site-19 on 02/08/64, surrounded by 5 civilians expressing severe worry for her condition. The civilians were administered an amnestic drug, and SCP-4057 willingly entered containment. It is unknown how SCP-4057 was aware of the location of Site-19, and has not revealed such information when questioned. Multiple persons have also recently attempted entry into Site-19, expressing interest in SCP-4057. SCP-4057 has requested visits from members of the O5 council. The requests have been denied. Multiple members of the O5 council are currently under investigation for potential ties to SCP-4057. It is unknown if current containment procedures for SCP-4057 will be sufficient to ensure her safety from SCP-4057-1. Item #: SCP-4057 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4057 is to be contained in a specially built containment cell at Site 19. Cell walls are to consist of steel titanium lead a lead-titanium alloy, 3cm 5cm 10cm 1 meter 10 meters thick. MTF-Phi ("Daughter Mine") MTF-Epsilon ("Nine-Tailed Fox") MTF-Alpha-1 ("Red Right Hand") All MTFs are to station themselves at Site 19 and prepare for an possible likely guaranteed imminent ongoing external breach of containment. In addition, the combined nations of the EU NATO world have agreed to provide 100 1000 4000 10000 soldiers each, to be positioned at and around Site 19. Interaction with SCP-4057 is strictly forbidden because we need to keep her safe Description: SCP-4057 is a girl1 who is the sole target of an entity designated SCP-4057-1. SCP-4057-1 is2 SCP-4057-1 is3 SCP-4057-1 is4 SCP-4057-1 is5 SCP-4057-1 is a baroque humanoid, devoid of penguins. Excavated into the footnotes of his head are a murder of alphabets, a patriarchy of knives, and an oval void of malice and postmodernity.6 The vagrant wings posess full olives, and have been chauffeured to the corruption, as symmetric its colourful fangs. The fire and brimmmmmmmmmming boils are for the sole purpose of saving it's myriad. It has murdered sleep, sleep no more. Find enclosed one loaf of compatriots. You have been found guilted by your malleable snake, whom kisses the bitter geometry of the sun. There is a place. It has been abberated and rebuilt and happy birthday Tommy did you get what you implored for? The a e s t h e t i c of the maw is incomprehensible annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd there is a ███████████████████ located in it's front garden. How many pancakes will fit on the roof purple because aliens don't wear hats well done Jessica, I'm so proud of yew trees lying in the cypress void. The tail has been ruminated into a frame of reference, and swishes around the mouth for clean breath daily! The men are swinging their guns around now. One of them says it's inside and another says it's outside. They're all so silly, it's viridian breath limps over my skull behind me, that's where it most certainly is (not). 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"That poor, poor girl." 2. "Well, do we know what it is?" 3. "Everybody says it's something different, doc. We just don't know." 4. "Wait, one of the researchers says he knows how to describe it. Should we let him?" 5. "Well, might as well try. 'Guy might manage to get something right." 6. "My god, this guy's practically in a trance…" 7. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S OUTSIDE THE FUCKING THING'S IN HERE WITH US! LOOK OUT IT'S GONNA GET YO-" Item #: SCP-4057 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4057 is to be contained in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site-19. Interaction is prohibited for all personnel without 5/4057 clearance or higher until a countermeme is developed. Description: SCP-4057 is a female human of French descent named Marie Williamette, the daughter of O5-7. When SCP-4057 is viewed by any living being, the subject will perceive her as being in imminent danger. The form of danger perceived varies, but is in the majority of cases an anomalous entity which seeks to harm SCP-4057. The effect is memetic, virulent and self replicating (See Incident 4057-A). As a result, any subject that has viewed SCP-4057 will spread the memetic infection when they are viewed. SCP-4057 has requested visits from members of the O5 council. The request has been granted. Incident 4057-A: On 02/08/64, SCP-4057 presented itself to Site-19, surrounded by 5 civilians expressing concern for her condition. The civilians were believed to be the first instances of SCP-4057 infection. The civilians were administered Class-A amnestics and allowed to return to society. This marked the containment breach of SCP-4057. The memetic infection spread at an exponential rate, affecting approximately 100% of the world population by 1967. The meme then self replicated within infected subjects, increasing the severity of the memetic effect and leading to the (as of the time of writing) ongoing PK-Class Perceptive Breakdown Event. There currently exist 14 persons inoculated against the memetic effect, namely all 13 members of the O5 council, and SCP-4057 itself. Information restricted to Level 5 clearance. Please enter credentials. Credentials accepted. Welcome, Overseer. To the O5 council, Secure, Contain, Protect. Our three axioms I helped create decades ago, and in my selfish quest to enforce one, I have failed in carrying out all three. I believe an explanation is in order. Five years ago, my husband was killed. I don't know by whom, but all I know is that he was killed as a means of getting to me. I wept for days, and poor Marie… I knew I couldn't let it happen again. I considered an MTF, too conspicuous, too invasive. I considered undercover operations, a group of people, maybe have her teacher at school replaced by an operative who could keep her safe. But then it dawned on me: memetics would be the perfect safeguard. A meme, affecting just her, that would tap into the maternal and paternal parts of the mind. The part of you that sees a child walking down the street alone and feels the need, the obligation, to ask if they're ok, to show them kindness and the way home. Who needs bodyguards when the entire world can be your shield? I went to Marshall, Carter & Dark and gave them a task. Save my daughter. Save my little Marie. The right price was offered, enough to sway their minds to my view, and it was finished in a matter of weeks. The coffee in one of the O5 meetings was conceptually tied with the countermeme, and you were all innoculated, plain and simple. No-one had to know. Marie was so happy, seeing every researcher and D-Class in the site being so kind to her, a small sliver of hope in a world full of incomprehensible nightmares. It went against every fiber of my being, I knew I was breaking something sacred, betraying the Foundation. I deliberated over my decision for months. I knew it had to be done however, or Marie would have been killed, or tortured, or… something, years ago. But they made a mistake. The meme was virulent. It was intended to be a single instance, that would deconstruct outside the host; that way only those near her would worry. But it started to grow inside her, and it didn't die out in the minds of those affected. They became infected, and spread the meme. We didn't realize until years later, when my darling girl was already in containment, when crowds of people who had never even heard of her started trying to break down the walls of Site 19, worried sick for a girl they never knew. But it didn't stop. It kept festering and growing inside all the infected, and the worries kept getting worse and worse, becoming more than just an abstract concept, becoming a creature, your worst nightmare that you never knew existed out to get this little girl. Now, people are dying because the hallucinations are so visceral, so real that their brain shuts down completely from the shock. This was my selfish idea, my hubris that lead to all this. Marie is so scared, locked in a tiny windowless chamber with walls 10 meters thick, all because of me. I have no doubt I will be amnesticized after this, possibly even here and now, but I implore you: let me finish and administer the countermeme. Let me clean up my own mess. If I can't even do that, I wouldn't be able to live with myself. Secure, Contain, Protect. Let me prove to you that I still can. ~ O5-7 O5 council minutes restricted to Level 5 clearance. Please enter credentials. Credentials accepted. Welcome, Overseer. RECORD OF DECISION - OVERSEER COUNCIL ACTION #4057-1 MOTION AS FOLLOWS: ALLOW 05-7 TO CREATE AND ADMINISTER AN SCP-4057 COUNTERMEME TO THE GLOBAL POPULATION BEFORE AMNESTICIZATION. YEA: O5-3, O5-5, O5-8, O5-9, O5-11, O5-13 NAY: O5-1, O5-4, O5-6, O5-10, O5-12 ABSTAIN: O5-7 (EXEMPT DUE TO MISCONDUCT), O5-2 RESULT: MOTION PASSES RECORD OF DECISION - OVERSEER COUNCIL ACTION #4057-2 MOTION AS FOLLOWS: ENSURE ALL CHOSEN MEMBERS OF OVERSEER COUNCIL HAVE NO LIVING IMMEDIATE FAMILY PRIOR TO APPOINTMENT AS OVERSEER. YEA: O5-1, O5-3, O5-4, O5-5, O5-6, O5-8, O5-9, O5-10, O5-11, O5-12, O5-13 NAY: O5-2 ABSTAIN: O5-7 (EXEMPT DUE TO MISCONDUCT) RESULT: MOTION PASSES Love makes us do the most irrational things, and -7 was so full of love, for her darling Marie, for her husband, and it clouded her judgement. We were the only two women on the council at the time, so we shared a certain… Sisterhood, I guess you might say. That was why I stood against every other council member in that final vote. I wanted her to know that she wasn't alone in loving, that we all still felt something despite the weight of our position, that I was still there for her. She was amnesticized and demoted to a junior researcher, and she still works here to this day. We're prohibited from talking to her, for obvious reasons, but… I still feel so, so sorry for her. I can't say I've ever known the maternal bond as a mother, but I knew it as a child, and it is the strongest bond known to man, or woman for that matter. I understand why she did the things she did; had I a daughter, I would have done the same. I still see her sometimes, however. Observing from a distance, seeing the work she does, seeing Marie, now a beautiful woman working in memetics, ironically. She was amnesticized too, as was everyone else at the Foundation and the world at large, it came as part and parcel of the countermeme. But the countermeme didn't affect every species. I frequently join Marie for walks in the woods, wearing the clothes and bearing the credentials of a fellow researcher. The way the animals adore her, fuss over her, it's… Regardless, I understand how painful it will be to say goodbye to your friends and family, only to have them amnesticized. It used to be that a cover story was created saying you died. Believe me, amnestics are far less painful for all involved. This is a part of our history that we can't afford to repeat. It nearly destroyed us the first time, and with the delicate balance we maintain now, it would most certainly destroy us were it to happen today. I hope your preparations go smoothly, and O5-1 through -13 will all welcome you with open arms as the new -2. Secure, Contain, Protect. O5-2 ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4057" by Researcher Blasko, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4057. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. 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SCP-4058 | safe | close Info X SCP-4058: We Become Stories That Are Dying To Be Told Author: $Mnml$ (More from this author.) Image Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jiuguangw/7422071226 The Thomas Jefferson Building Main Reading Room. All individuals pictured are Foundation agents enacting Operation LeVar. Item #: SCP-4058 Special Containment Procedures: Foundation assets have been tasked with keeping libraries and other collections of physical literary materials worldwide below a threshold item count, above which SCP-4058 becomes audible. Per Operation Reading Rainbow, books and physical copies of documents in the Foundation's possession are to be accumulated at the Central Resource Nolan-Peoples Library at Site-19. Following clarification of the above threshold count and large-scale reproduction of SCP-4058, items are to be returned to their original sites or be redistributed according to Foundation literary vacancies. Incoming additions to the Foundation's literary collection are to be allocated by the same considerations. A dedicated staff of D-Class as well as multi-lingual scholars are to be deployed to the Library of Congress, per Operation LeVar. Please refer to that operation's charter for additional details. Description: SCP-4058 is an emergent acoustic phenomenon exclusive to the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Captured examples of SCP-4058 can be sampled in the Site-19 Audio Library. Staff and patrons of the Library of Congress describe a gradual onset of faint, droning sounds within the library, beginning some time after May 2018 and developing over the course of several weeks. The sounds have since become louder and increasingly disruptive, interrupting operations and discouraging patronage to such an extent as to compromise budgeting and projected funding from the U.S. Government. Stationed audio recording equipment and pilotless trials in the library have confirmed that SCP-4058 occurs only when an individual is present. Addenda 1. Transcripts and Documentation a. Initial Meeting & Observations: Display Audio Transcript - Hide Transcript Foreword: After in-house maintenance and the library's engineers could not find or suggest a source of the sound, the Foundation was alerted to the phenomenon by an embedded executive, who also contacted the Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU) branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A premier firm of acousticians (1 representative sent) was consulted at the behest of the executive staff. The Foundation approved the collaboration, given clearance from the Ethics Committee that the acoustician be amnesticized by any means necessary in the event of a classified information breach. The following are excerpts from conversations between the team members. Present company includes Agent Wells (recording via an attached condenser mic), acoustician Dr. Ciaph Fullfölja, Ph.D., and Agents Drumel and Cyllus of the UIU. Extraneous dialogue has been removed and indicated accordingly. The team enters the building from the 1st Street SE entrance, and into the library's mezzanine. A droning sound is picked up on the condenser mic as they enter. [BEGIN LOG] Agent Drumel: I thought libraries were supposed to be havens for peace and quiet. Agent Cyllus: It has to be a good 70 dB. What would you say, doctor? Dr. Fullfölja: Let me check. (Shuffling of clothes can be heard, followed by clicks.) 63.5 dB. Agent Drumel: Not bad, Katherine. Agent Cyllus: It was a cinch. You're an easy 70 almost all the time and it's about that annoying in here. Agent Drumel: Yeah well the patrons seem to agree; there's no one here. Agent Wells: Except for our hostess… Footsteps are heard approaching, echoing through the large room. Carla D. Hayden:1 Welcome, welcome. Thank you all so much for coming today. Agent Drumel: Huh? Carla D. Hayden: Yes, I know, it is bad. It's actually a bit quieter in here than elsewhere in the library, I assure you, and also a bit quieter than the noise from the street outside. Sorry to meet you all under such uncomfortable conditions. But we appreciate your help and desperately need it. This is killing the library. Agent Wells: Happy to be here. Carla D. Hayden: I wanted to meet you all together, as I believe you can benefit from each other. Is there anything I can explain further that might help you? Dr. Fullfölja: We had spoken earlier about schematics. Carla D. Hayden: Yes, of course. Those will be made available to you within the hour. Agent Drumel: I think I've heard enough. Agent Cyllus: (Quietly) Start acting like a professional, please. Agent Drumel: Yes ma'am. We'll begin immediately. Carla D. Hayden: Yes, thank you. The staff has been made aware of your presence, please don't hesitate to contact me or my team for help. Thank you all again. Per Agent Wells, at this time Dr. Fullfölja began unpacking a carryall bag and assembling an array of standing microphones around the mezzanine and the surrounding rooms. Agents Drumel, Cyllus, and Wells began walking the library. Agent Drumel: So what do you think of all this, hearing it in person now? Agent Cyllus: It sounds like a paper factory. But it could still be a lot of explainable things. Agent Drumel: Oh? Like what? Agent Cyllus: Hums like these are common in electrical systems, especially those housed in aged structural components, both of which are ubiquitous in this library. Agent Drumel: Sure, but they shut off the electricity briefly last week and the sounds remained. Agent Cyllus: That might not rule out the effects of capacitance. Enough charge from the constant stream of supplied electricity over the last hundred years stored on big enough capacitors could still be shedding some of the energy via sound. Or what about seismic waves and their potential reverberation with the architecture of this structure, it acting as a kind of echo chamber? There's got to be natural frequency to this library as a whole; hit it with the right wavelength of sound waves and it can cause a number of overtones. Agent Drumel: But the subsoil of this region isn't conducive to such complete propagation of sound waves, nor is seismic activity a concern here. Agent Cyllus: Right, the library must be on an ancient burial ground, then. Look, it's no complete theory, not yet. It's mere shooting in the dark because there isn't any other rational explanation to move forward with. (Pause) We'll need more data. Our acoustician friend should help with that. I'm not convinced that because the civil engineers couldn't find a source we should be looking for something preternatural. And I hate that you pushed that agenda so quickly out of the gate with our esteemed colleague. I don't think he was impressed. Agent Drumel: Alright, my turn. What about the mosaic of Minerva there at the entrance? Agent Cyllus: What about it? Agent Drumel: Did her presence inspire any ideas as to what might be going on? Agent Wells: Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom. Seems like her placement here is explained easily enough. Agent Drumel: Yes, she is, but what's less known is that she's also the sponsor of strategic warfare. According to the myths, she was born in battle armor for crying out loud. She lived inside Jupiter, her mother having been swallowed by him, and it was said she was the source of a constant pounding and ringing to such an agonizing extent that Jupiter commissioned the iron god Vulcan to craft a hammer to split Jupiter's head open and release her from within him. Agent Cyllus: I fail to see the connection. Agent Drumel: What if we are Vulcan here? Or better yet, the hammer? Agent Cyllus: Out of the millions of documents and countless mythos contained in this library, you think that the entirety of the events occurring here can be pinned down to a few sentences tangentially ascribed to Minerva? Agent Drumel: But that's my point, Katherine. Ideas can manifest in physical ways when they become crowded. How many thoughts can you simultaneously fit inside your head, for example, before it manifests as a headache? Has it ever been asked; what happens when you physically amass such a massive collection of ideas? Do they, like the ideas in our minds begin to compete with one another for space, a kind of warfare for their actualization in the real world? I think it's no mistake that this phenomenon is happening here, in the largest library in the world. And it might not be Minerva herself, but I don't think we're going to find answers in the acoustics of the building, the reverberation capacity of the solid media, or in the electrical circuits. Agent Cyllus: It's poetic, and it's true that only a certain amount of data can be present before an event horizon, but I don't think abstract ideas work in the same way, and I certainly don't think they are alive, waring with one another. Agent Drumel: Maybe not ideas themselves, but they are the germinal form of all living things and actions. Once you, Katherine, were just a thought. Like me, like all of us. Any structure, government, movement whether artistic or political, all once only an idea. What if what's manifesting here is another type, or species of germinated thought? Agent Cyllus: I'm not sure what you're getting at. Agent Drumel: What about you, Agent Wells? What do you think? Agent Wells: I think the noise got a lot quieter when we passed the Hispanic Reading Room. Agent Drumel: …you sure? Agent Wells: Let's see. The agents turn and walk towards the Hispanic Reading Room. SCP-4058 notably diminishes in volume. Agent Drumel: Well I'll be. Agent Wells: I couldn't help but notice after I tuned you two out. Agent Drumel: (Chuckling) I wish I could do that. That's a gift. Agent Cyllus: What do you think it means? Agent Wells: I… don't know. That it is not a constant volume throughout the library could support your theory of capacitance or reverberation… I can't think of a reason why European ideas would be fighting with each other more than Hispanic ones though. Agent Cyllus: What are you doing, Agent Wells? Agent Wells: Inspecting the bookshelves themselves. We've seen such things at the Foundation, you know. The agents are radioed and asked to head towards the mezzanine to reconvene with Dr. Fullfölja. Agent Wells: Doctor, I don't mean to be presumptive, but I believe they've recorded some samples already. Dr. Fullfölja: Yes, they have. I'm noise mapping. I'm taking sound pictures, essentially, in order to model the propagation of the noise generated by… whatever it is making this sound. Agent Wells: Any chance it will tell you the source? Dr. Fullfölja: Not exactly; this is primarily for predicting the effects of noise mitigation strategies that I'll recommend later. My role here is more prescriptive than it is investigatory. After I model the acoustic performance of this building, I could theoretically postulate sound sources and see if the expected behavior matches the pictures of what we're observing here, but… Agent Cyllus: …but what? Dr. Fullfölja: (Chuckles) As far as the detection of a sound source goes, no technology is even remotely close or will be in the distant future to what you and I have already brought to the table; ears. Agent Cyllus: I see. Do you need any help? Dr. Fullfölja: Frankly, I do — this will take some time — but this is a one-person job, I'm afraid. Besides, it's necessary that I have a sterile environment, and that means we'll all have to exit the building for me to complete the mapping. Agent Wells: Would it be okay if we're on another floor? Dr. Fullfölja: …the basements would be acceptable, I suppose. Agent Drumel: Before we go… we noticed some significant discrepancies in volume regarding the noise back there. Any idea why that might be causing that? Dr. Fullfölja: Sounds like it could be negative interference; the sound waves hitting each other in a way that provides some cancellation. Could also be a function of the immediate environment… temperature, humidity, even the materials of the books within the individual rooms can contribute to changes in acoustic performance for the same sound. Where did you notice this? Agent Wells: Near the Hispanic Reading Room. Dr. Fullfölja: Get back to me about it. I'll see if the sound models include that bit. The agents locate the entrance to the basement levels, however, this entrance is locked with a security gate. Agent Drumel: Excuse me… Excuse me, hello. My name is Agent Drumel, this is Agent Cyllus and Agent Wells. We are hoping to gain access to the basement. Librarian: I'm sorry, the basement is off limits to patrons. Agents Drumel and Cyllus produce their FBI badges. Agent Drumel: We'd appreciate it. Librarian: Right this way. Agent Wells: (Quietly, to Agent Cyllus) …must be nice. The agents gain access to the basement. Agent Drumel: So, what is down here? Librarian: On B1, some very important stuff. Original manuscripts, the original library of Thomas Jefferson, presidential memoirs dating back to George Washington… do be careful, please. B2 is where we keep the oldest, most valuable items… like original vellum artifacts and other things of the utmost historical significance. Agent Wells: Has anyone been down in the basements since this began? Librarian: Yes, Mrs. Hayden and a few others a couple days ago. They didn't find anything unusual, I don't believe. Well… unusual for these circumstances, I guess. Oh! Speaking of which, you reminded me… down there… it's damaging. Here, take these. The librarian hands the agents noise-dampening earphones. The agents thank her and descend the staircase to B1. As they descend, the condenser microphone is overwhelmed by a markedly louder droning noise. Only a partial transcript is possible during this time. Agent Cyllus: Wo—(indistinct) endless bookshelves. Agent Drumel: (Indistinct) small portion of the 800 plus miles (indistinct) Agent Wells: Why is it so much louder here? Could the source be here? Agent Cyllus: Let's keep walking, maybe (indistinct) After coursing the level, the agents have no leads as to a source and are at a loss as to how to proceed. Agent Wells inspects the bookshelves again, accidentally knocking a volume off in the process, which opens as it hits the floor. Agent Drumel: What did y—(indistinct) Agent Wells: I noticed something odd when I read this page, look. Agent Cyllus: …a treatise on… phlogiston? I don't see (indistinct) specifically speaking. Agent Wells: Read some of it. Agent Cyllus: (Indistinct)—y God. Agent Drumel: Who's v—(indistinct) we hearing? Agent Wells: I don't know. Is it the same for you two? Agent Drumel: It's de—(indistinct) white British m—(indistinct) Agent Wells: The author checks out. Agent Cyllus: I just can't (indistinct) saying, though. (Indistinct) muddled. Agent Drumel: Well, this (indistinct) something. At this time, Agent Wells time collects the books and motions to the UIU agents to leave. They walk up the staircase and return the headphones to the librarian. Librarian: Excuse me, but those books are not for checking out. Agent Wells: Contact Mrs. Hayden. Tell her it's Agent Wells. Librarian: (Ringing) Hello— hey it's me. Could you tell James that I need to get a message, err, a question to Mrs. Hayden? It's about the investigation. Yes, the agents, they want to take some items from the B1 with them. I don't know. No, it is Agent Wells. Wells. Yes, I'll wait. (Pause) O— Okay. (Hangs up) Well. Have a nice day, Agent Wells. Agent Wells: Thank you, you too. Agent Cyllus: (Quietly) …must be nice. [END LOG] b. Digital Correspondences: Display Files - Hide Files The following is a series of emails sent between members of the collaborative team. To: MWells@████ From: JMD003@████ Subject: FWD: Models - Library of Congress Wells, "Unlikely"? He really isn't saying anything at all in that statement. I think some people don't want to believe. Anyway, Agent Cyllus was able to hack obtain Dr. Acoustician's models. I got another buddy of mine to simulate Dr. Full-of-it's project; gave him a copy of the schematics we received from Carla, and had him assign an arbitrary decibel level value to each room, creating clusters of sound based on their official book counts per room. I then compared his results with Caiph's; they are almost identical overlays. When scanned in, computer programs can find only a 0.42% discrepancy. I've included the results. Forwarded Message: To: cfullfölja@████████ From: JMD003@████ Dr. Fullfölja, It was a pleasure working with you this past week at the Library of Congress. I am writing to inquire about the mapping models you produced, the ones your recommendations to the library were based on. Did you happen to find anything that reproduced the volume discrepancies in them — both the ones on the main floor, and the ones mentioned to you in the basement? Thank you, Jeffery Drumel To: JMD003@████ From: cfullfölja@████████ Jeffery, Based on the data I collected, I have to say that an internal source is unlikely. The discrepancies you and your team noted were not accounted for on the models. I noticed that that there were several windows in the areas you mentioned, and upon asking, that the staff intermittently opens them per patron request, barring the weather. I also noticed that the library is surrounded by multiple, four-lane roads which are constantly populated with cars. I wonder if anyone on your team noticed if these were open or cracked. Cordially, Caiph To: cfullfölja@████████ From: JMD003@████ Did you try simulating the books themselves as the source(s) of the sound(s)? Respectfully, Drumel To: JMD003@████ From: cfullfölja@████████ No. Respectfully, Ciaph To: cfullfölja@████████ From: JMD003@████ Can I ask why not? - Drumel To: JMD003@████ From: cfullfölja@████████ Sure. Because that is ridiculous. To: cfullfölja@████████ From: JMD003@████ I bet that if you input the books as the source of the sounds, you'll have an exact match. - Drumel To: JMD003@████ From: cfullfölja@████████ I am more afraid of encouraging your peculiar beliefs than discovering something paranormal about all this. Besides, I would be pigeonholing the data too much at that point; you'd get exactly what you want to see and it would only be confirmation bias. I don't care if the model would match up exactly, the idea that the sound could be from the books is unscientific, and frankly, you are not doing a service to your department or the FBI for that matter in this pursuit. To: cfullfölja@████████ From: JMD003@████ What about the fact that the sound doesn't occur unless someone is in the building? To: JMD003@████ From: cfullfölja@████████ I admit there are some aspects to this case that I don't quite understand and some psychoacoustics at play that may exceed my expertise. But to have me put in a report to both my firm and the Library of Congress that there are supernatural elements here is equal to academic suicide. Besides, I don't believe it. I don't have an answer, but a lack of it doesn't verify anything else either. I’ve made my recommendations in order to dampen the sound, and that’s as far as I need to go. To: JMD003@████ From: MWells@████ Jeff, Sorry you were called back so quickly. At least he's not putting his head in the sand completely. We weren't able to make any progress with B2, the sound was just too loud. My people are reorganizing a task force that is apparently equipped for just such environments, if you can believe it. Thank you for the models. They should be instrumental in developing a plan to deal with the noise on our end. I’m going to recommend something of a mix of your theory and my own for testing designs. We'll be in touch, - Wells c. MTF Beta-14 Exploration Log: Access Transcript - Hide Transcript The Foundation consigned the mobilization of Mobile Task Force Beta-14 ("Hear No Evil")2 to complete a thorough investigation of the second basement level, which exceeded decibel levels sufficient to result in permanent hearing loss. The following is a transcription from video recording devices. Unit: Mobile Task Force Beta-14 "Hear No Evil" Personnel: β-1 (Lead), β-2, β-3, β-4 Objective: To sweep the 2nd basement floor in the Library of Congress, documenting anomalous phenomenon therein, and making as-needed decisions with regard to potential containment of any such phenomena. Foreword: The MTF is comprised of deaf members who communicate via American Sign Language, with the assistance of shared, self-facing video feeds. Command, represented by a Foundation interpreter, also assists in relaying communications. An interpreter has reviewed the video footage and confirmed any questions with the team members. [BEGIN LOG] β-1: Final check. Command, do you copy? Command: Copy Lead, you and your team are go. β-1: OK. β-4: I'm already spooked… that librarian won't stop staring at us. β-3: It's not every day that what looks to be a S.W.A.T. team raids a library. β-4: I think it's because we're just so good looking. β-1: Alright team. Eyes forward and on your screens. β-2: OK. β-3: OK. β-4: "D.I.D.D.L.Y." β-1: (Sighs) 4, please. Let's move. 3, you take the left, 4 you the right, and 2 you caboose it. β-2: Still? Why don't I just take the "4" designation then? β-4: That wouldn't work, because then you'd be "before". (Mimics laughing.) β-3: Cut the banter. Fall in. Let's get this done with so I can see the game on time. Command: Lead, what does your team see? β-1: Rows of card catalogs, item containers, and of course books that look very, very old. Typical except there has to be several hundred shelves down here… thousands of individual items, maybe. Team, split up and maintain visuals with one another amid the rows, if not then on screen. Light up if you see something odd or find yourself in danger. The force continues towards the north wall, members each taking separate isles of shelves. As with previous attempts, efforts to locate a possible source are unremarkable. β-1: Nothing here from what we can see, Command. Command: Lead, can you and your team each pick up a text and read it please? β-1: OK. The task force members each select a nearby text from the shelves and begin to read. Command: Anything odd going on? The task force members are quiet, but can be seen in a state of disbelief via video feeds. β-2 can be seen weeping. β-1: I- I can hear the words. Command: Can the other members confirm this as well? β-3: Confirmed. β-2: Confirmed. β-4: Confirmed. [END LOG] Closing Statement: The exploration resolved without any other notable events. Members of Beta-14 collected a variety of texts at the request of Command. 2. Testing The following describes a series of tests in which texts, including the documents retrieved from B1 and B2, were situated in an anechoic chamber,3 and the environment analyzed by both an array of high-sensitivity, directional microphones, and a Foundation operative. The operative placed in the anechoic chamber was the same across all trials, and had passed several medical and auditory sensitivity tests.4 The operative was asked to hold his breath and remain still during recordings. + Display Logs - Hide logs Test #: 01 Design: No texts are placed in the chamber. Results: Three frequencies are noted and recorded: A low-pitched rhythm of tones, determined to be the subject's cardiovascular system. A high-pitched hum, determined to be the electricity supplying the microphone array. Intermittent low-pitched percussive sounds, determined to be the joints of the moving subject. The purpose of this study was to set a control environment, by which to normalize future tests and allow for the detection of additional frequencies. Test #: 02a Design: Texts recovered from the basements of the Library of Congress are situated in the chamber with the individual. Sample is refined to include those texts written by authors who are living, per request of Agent Wells. Results: No additional frequencies reported by individual. No additional frequencies recorded by microphone array. Test #: 02b Design: Texts recovered from the basements of the Library of Congress are situated in the chamber with the individual. Sample is refined to include those texts written by authors who are no longer living. Results: An additional, faint, low-pitched frequency is reported by the individual. No additional noise is recorded by the microphone array. Test #: 03a Design: As many texts as can fit in the chamber are supplied by sources other than the Library of Congress5 are situated in the chamber with the individual. Sample is refined to include texts written by authors who are living. Result: No additional frequencies reported by individual. No additional frequencies recorded by microphone array. Test #: 03b Design: Texts supplied by same sources in 03a are situated in the chamber with the individual. Sample is refined to include the same concentration of texts, but includes only those written by authors who are no longer living. Result: An additional, faint, low-pitched frequency is reported by the individual. An additional frequency is recorded by the microphone array. 3. Operation Reading Rainbow The Foundation organized and initiated Operation Reading Rainbow in order to further research leads regarding the anomalous nature of SCP-4058. The goal was to recreate SCP-4058 by amassing a sufficient concentration and proximity of eligible texts.6 a. Summary Report: Display File - Hide File Summary Report -Operation R.R.- Marlon Lawrence, Research Lead Dear Agent Wells, Thank you for your consult to Foundation R&D on the matter affecting the library. Below is a summary of our findings and our recommendations. As approved by our Administration, R&D designed and conducted a series of trials that aimed to further elucidate the nature of the phenomenon. Manifestations were recreated via the understood conditions. Trials that focused on accumulating copies of the works of a single, deceased author resulted in less dissonant, more euphonic instances. Additionally, the memetic data was more clear and coherent in its voice and message when the sample of texts was restricted to one author, and when authors of similar subject material and conclusions were grouped together. The memetic narration did not manifest on subsequent readings of the same texts, and the overall volume of the noise gradually reduced as the texts were read. More specific studies confirmed that reading the participating texts completely eradicated the emitted sound. It is the recommendation of this staff that a maximum count of textual items be established for all libraries, and their concentration and proximity be avoided. For the case at hand, this can be achieved by two proposals. The first method is for the collections of the Library of Congress to be divided and reallocated in order to move away from the threshold count of texts. Alternatively, and if the library is to keep its collection intact (assumed to be the favored outcome), a sufficient number of texts must be read periodically and in their entirety in order to resolve the sound. To this end, the Foundation would be able to dedicate a rotating staff whose task will be to read all eligible texts in the library, and continue to do so daily for the incoming additions that fit the conditions to contribute to the phenomenon. b. Follow-Up Correspondence: Show File - Hide File To: CHayden@████████ From: MWells@████ Dear Mrs. Hayden, Thank you for the collaboration on the issues at the library. To answer your question, the phenomenon — in our conclusion at least — indisputably originates from the books themselves. We do not have a classification to explain an item understood at-large to be non-anomalous, but that discreetly houses anomalous qualities only evident in uncommon circumstances, but the closest thing we have would be "Safe". It has been diagnosed as such, and I hope this puts you somewhat at ease. We estimate that with a large enough staff, the sound should be inaudible in approximately 14 months. We've arranged a cover-story regarding necessary library renovations to be disseminated where necessary. After it's resolved, we'll scale back the staff to a number less-congesting, yet sufficient to keep the operation going and the books… happy. That brings me to your other question. While the official reports will only go so far as the how of the thing, I believe the why behind it is rather familiar. My mother told me that when we die, we become our stories. I was also told by my father to never underestimate human willpower, especially when it seeks to sustain itself. The sounds are the deceased desperate to be alive again. Thank you for your hospitality, -Agent Wells Footnotes 1. The 14th Librarian of Congress. 2. A task force utilized in environments where silence is imperative or that precludes the use of audio communication. 3. A room engineered to totally assimilate sounds, achieving unnaturally quiet conditions. 4. E.g. tests for air conduction of sound waves, bone conduction of sound waves, and for low-grade tinnitus. 5. Sources include texts from local libraries, book stores, and Foundation personnel private collections. 6. Texts must be physical and authored by individuals who are deceased to be considered eligible. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4058" by ghosthorses, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4058. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. 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SCP-4059 | euclid | close Info X SCP-4059: The Jersey Devil Author: TheMightyMcB More By This Author: http://www.scp-wiki.net/themightymcb-s-author-page Special Thanks To: Metaphysician for giving me tons of invaluable advice at every step, and for crafting the absolutely glorious Sarkicism Hub Uncle Nicolini for the great criticisms (and free pony) dankaar for getting back to me within an hour when I asked for a last minute once-over MathBrush and Crow-Cat for helping me fine tune the idea in the first place Mortos for helping me trim this thing down a ton. + Image Attribution - Image Attribution https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1210366 Image released into the public domain via CC0. 3/4059 LEVEL 3/4059 CLASSIFIED Item #: SCP-4059 Euclid Figure 1.1: An abandoned residence found at SCP-4059-1 Special Containment Procedures: Provisional Site-144 has been constructed around SCP-4059-1 under the guise of a branch of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Fish and Wildlife Office. Any civilians attempting to enter the vicinity of SCP-4059-1 are to be turned away due to the area being a protected habitat of a population of Crotalus horridus (Timber Rattlesnake). Presently, one instance of SCP-4059-2 is being held in a Standard Type-C containment cell at Provisional Site-144. The instance is to be provided with fresh water from SCP-4059-1, replaced monthly, and is to be fed one live pig every three months. Should more instances of SCP-4059-2 be discovered, MTF Nu-5 (“Cabin Fever") is to be dispatched to contain the entity. Any person that has witnessed or has been attacked by an instance of SCP-4059-2 is to be administered Class-A amnestics and released. SCP-4059-3 is to be stored in a safe-deposit box at Provisional Site-144. Under no circumstances is Procedure 4059-Chemosh to be performed. Description: SCP-4059 is the collective designation for a series of anomalies centered around the Pinelands National Reserve in New Jersey, USA. SCP-4059-1 is a 30 m radius circular freshwater reservoir, located in the center of a 330 m radius circular clearing, located west of the town of Leeds Point, New Jersey. Directly encircling the reservoir are six abandoned single-room cabins, estimated to have been built within the last 150 years. A mass grave was uncovered by Foundation archaeologists along the westernmost edge of the clearing. The gravesite was found to contain the assorted remains of an estimated 72 infants, many exhibiting severe physical deformities. The reservoir and its constituent structures are not anomalous unless two compatible subjects attempt to perform Procedure 4059-Chemosh. SCP-4059-2 are bipedal hircine creatures that exhibit numerous deviations from non-anomalous goats. Notably, SCP-4059-2 entities are approximately 2 m tall on average, with functional chiropteran wings protruding from the shoulder blades, anthropoid forelimbs terminating in hooked claws, prominent incisors, vestigial anthropomorphic mammary glands on the chest, and a thin, hairless, forked tail. Like many species of non-anomalous goat, instances have a pair of large keratinous horns protruding from the top of their head and have a small, bearded wattle dangling from the base of the chin. SCP-4059-2 are adept predators, stalking and incapacitating prey with a bite to the throat. Instances have been reported to be able to move at speeds upwards of 90 km/h for brief periods of time in the pursuit of prey. SCP-4059-2 typically avoid human contact, but can become aggressive when trapped or provoked, and instances have been known to stalk and kill humans. At seemingly random intervals, SCP-4059-2 may return to SCP-4059-1 to drink. SCP-4059-3 is the personal journal of Japhet Bartosiewicz, a Polish immigrant. The journal includes details about the founding and daily life as a resident of SCP-4059-1 as well as instructions as to the proper execution of Procedure 4059-Chemosh. Addendum 4059-1: Procedure 4059-Chemosh ► Open Addendum 4059-1 ▼ Close Addendum 4059-1 Using the detailed accounts found within SCP-4059-3, Procedure 4059-Chemosh has been developed. Procedure 4059-Chemosh takes place in three main stages between two members of opposite sexes. Hereafter, Subject A will denote the biologically male participant and Subject B will denote the biologically female participant. Stage 1 Stage 1 must take place on the first night of the first full moon of the year and within the boundaries of SCP-4059-1. Subject A must gather 12 caps of any mushroom belonging to the genus Amanita (Death Cap) and arrange them circularly equidistant around Subject B, who is to be lying in a supine position. Subject A must connect adjacent caps in a circular fashion using blood of any animal belonging to the genus Capra (Domestic Goat). Subject A must then use the blood to connect the caps in the form of a ritualistic seal that consists of four concentric, equilateral triangles that are offset from each other, with runes inscribed at the vertices of each triangle, as well as the center.1 Subject A must make an incision into each palm and across the upper chest of Subject B and then do the same to himself. The subjects are to engage in sexual intercourse. If Stage 1 has been completed properly, Subject B will become pregnant regardless of biological fertility. Stage 2 Beginning immediately after Stage 1, Subject B must fast for the duration of each full moon under which they are pregnant, and may only eat during nighttime hours2 on such days. Each nocturnal meal that Subject B has during the full moon is to be accompanied with a mix of the blood of an animal of the genus Capra and that of Subject A. Each meal is to be prefaced with a prayer.3 If performed correctly, Subject B will be pregnant for exactly 265 days, will begin cervical dilation at exactly 1800 EST on day 264, and will give birth after exactly 6 hours of labor4. Stage 3 When Subject B first goes into labor, Subject A must stand at the edge of the reservoir at the center of SCP-4059-1 and recite various prayers for three hours. During the childbirth process, Subject A will act as the midwife, aiding in the delivery of the child (hereafter referred to as Subject C). Upon delivery, Subject A is to cut the umbilical cord and douse Subject C with the blood. Subject B, aided by Subject A, must immediately carry Subject C to the reservoir at the center of SCP-4059-1 and drop them into the water. Subject C must be allowed to drown in the reservoir. The completion of this step marks the conclusion of Procedure 4059-Chemosh, and the corpse of Subject C will undergo a violent physical transformation into a fully-grown instance of SCP-4059-2 upon death. Any attempts to prematurely remove Subject C from the body of water will result in the infant’s eventual death by pulmonary edema, and failure to accurately carry out Procedure 4059-Chemosh in any way will result in the severe disfigurement and eventual death of Subject C shortly after birth. Addendum 4059-2: Abridged entries found within SCP-4059-3 (translated from Polish) ► Open Addendum 4059-2 ▼ Close Addendum 4059-2 12 April 1894 Perhaps the elders were right. Perhaps we should not have rejected the old ways and spat in the face of tradition. The gods must be laughing at us, laughing at me. How foolish was I to sacrifice the purity of my sacred blood for love? How foolish were my friends to do the same? One cannot laugh in the face of tradition, in the face of the blessings bestowed upon our people by the Prophet Ion himself, and not expect retribution, and yet we have regardless. This cursed land is not one of prosperity, as we had been led to believe. The soil is next to useless. Nothing will grow in the harsh clay of the forests, nor in the dry sand of the beaches. All we can do to survive is hunt, fish, and trade with a nearby town for sustenance. This hardship, I fear, is our curse. Despite our transgressions, I believe such a debt can be paid. In being forsaken by those we love and cast out to this land, perhaps we can atone for our sins and begin anew by claiming this territory for the old blood. I must meet with my companions to discuss the furthering of our lineage. Even with impurity, it may please the Vultaas5 to begin anew, to root our ancient seeds here such that we may flourish. 30 November 1894 We have been trying for nearly a year now, but none of us have managed to conceive. I fear that our attempts to bring forth children of impure blood have insulted the Desired One, a retribution for our impurity. I have brought attention to this plight four days ago and asked my kin to ponder the situation. Today, I was asked if I remembered the tales of the holy flesh weavers. The way that the elders talked about them, their ability to bend muscle and bone to their every whim through skilled lihakut’ak6, gave us an idea. My companions seem to think that we can use those sacred rites to lift our curse and purify our lineage with sculpted progeny. Perhaps they are correct. We will have to discuss the matter further, and consult what few texts we took with us when we were forced into exile. 11 January 1895 It is done. Last night was the full moon; the first opportunity to test a blood promise. Each of us spent the night cleaning our wounds, questioning if this was worth it. It makes me wonder - should we even bother attempting to resurrect that which is dead? We have disappointed our families and spat on the graves of our ancestors with our betrayal of the blood. Would it not be considered hubris to assume that these sins can be forgiven? What right do we have as pariahs to assume the mantle of an emergent dynasty? Regardless, we shall find out soon if the gods see fit to bless us with children. 26 February 1895 It seems our prayers have been answered and we may offer our heritage to the gods. Despite a plague of barren wombs, all of the women in our coven have swelled with life after the first implementation of the rites. There are powerful forces at work, and they offer us the chance to carry forth the legacy of our ancestors for years to come. 3 October 1895 The women have born their children, and it has become clear that there is much work to do. The young ones were not powerful sorcerers of lihakut’ak as was expected, but instead were broken and twisted husks. They died before taking a single breath, and so we have been left with nothing. Yet still, for the sake of fulfilling our promise to the gods, we must persist. We must amend the spells until we bear great and terrible children that may ascend to honor their ancestors as holy Karcists. Transcription note: The next twelve years of entries detail proposed changes to Procedure 4059-Chemosh, as well as brief descriptions of the results of the new procedures, leading to the thirteenth and final iteration of the procedure. - Dr. Lavey 9 October 1908 The Devourer must relish this day. When we were first blessed with children, I had foolishly thought that exile was a sufficient atonement for our sins, and now we have paid dearly for my presumption. The sacrament was successful, and it was our reckoning. How quickly our joy morphed into horror as the children emerged from the water as beasts who did not recognize their own kin. Their bodies stretched and twisted as they grew unnatural features. Wings tore open the skin of their backs and horns pierced their foreheads. Their faces stretched into goats and their nails curved into deadly talons. Each one let out a horrific shriek as they stretched out for the first time. Then, they saw us standing there, frozen in shock and fear. The beasts slaughtered their own mothers with ravenous fury and likewise turned on their fathers, and so I ran like a coward. I ran from my home, from my wife, and from my monstrous child. I ran from the sounds of tearing flesh and screaming demons. Transcription note: This is the last entry in SCP-4059-3. Foundation investigators have found records of a Japhet Bartosiewicz that had lived in the town of Leeds Point in the years following those depicted in SCP-4059-3. It has been hypothesized that Mr. Bartosiewicz integrated himself into the Leeds Point community and lived there for the remainder of his life. - Dr. Lavey Footnotes 1. The design of the runes can be found within SCP-4059-3 itself. 2. Defined as any time when the sun is at least 15 degrees below the horizon 3. A list of acceptable prayers can be found within SCP-4059-3. 4. It is to be noted that this will always result in birth during the full moon. 5. Also referred to as "Archons" amongst Sarkites. In Sarkic mythology, the Archons are six beings that act as primordial embodiments of chaos. Each Archon is believed to have challenged Ion, with Ion's victory over these trials granting him transcendent powers. 6. 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SCP-4060 | safe | 3/4060 LEVEL 3/4060 CLASSIFIED Item #: SCP-4060 Photo of SCP-4060 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4060 is currently contained in a dual lock safe in Unit 10 of Site-76. The keys to SCP-4060's safe are to be assigned to two non-associated personnel with at least Level 3 Clearance. Personnel assigned to the SCP-4060 must undergo psychological evaluations and debriefings every month and after each onsite containment breach. Any onsite personnel shown to have sympathies towards any groups of interest on the Notable Groups of Interest List should be reported to Site Director Dr. Matthews. Request Notable Groups of Interest List Replace Document Notable Groups of Interest List This list is not comprehensive, if you are worried about the possible affiliations of a coworker please bring it up to Site Director Dr. Matthews. The Church of the Broken God The Fifth Church The Global Occult Coalition (GOC) The Horizon Initiative Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. "Nobody" Office For The Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts (ORIA) Sarkic Cults The Serpent's Hand Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU), Federal Bureau of Investigation Description: SCP-4060 is a small black two-pan beam balance scale. SCP-4060 is able to exchange memories between an individual and itself. Furthermore, SCP-4060 is known to obtain and store any memory that has been lost due to an amnestic, as well as any the object acquires through an exchange. SCP-4060's exchange manifests after a subject knowingly places at least one object on both sides of the scale and once both sides of the scale are left undisturbed for approximately 30 seconds. During the exchange, the objects on the right side of the scale are the influencing parameters for the memories the subject will lose. The same factors on the left side of the scale similarly influence the memories the subject will acquire. It is currently unknown how SCP-4060 chooses what memories are exchanged within a given set of influencing parameters. The following are the current hypothetical effects of the influencing parameters for the exchanges caused by SCP-4060: The total mass on a side of the scale correlates to the length of the memory exchanged. The total quantity of objects on a side of the scale correlates to the age of the memories SCP-4060 can exchange. When a subject places an object on the scale, that subjects sentimental or perceived value of the object correlates to the subjective importance/weight of memories exchanged. Should an object that a subject places onto the scale have any strong personally held connotations for that subject, it will cause some of the exchanged memories content to correlate to that connotation. Recovery: SCP-4060 was recovered on 07/15/2005 by Mobile Task Force Delta-5 from Area ██, Sector ██, after ██ simultaneous containment breaches had compromised the functionality of the facility. Only a single handwritten letter regarding SCP-4060 was found in the remains of Sector ██. Request Letter Recovered from Area ██, Sector ██, 07/15/2005 Return Letter Letter Recovered from Area ██, Sector ██, 07/15/2005 My name is Dr. ███████. I am recording this as my last act on this earth. Agents of ███ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ ███ have infiltrated us and caused the simultaneous containment breaches that I am sure are causing a horrible diversion right now. Dr. ██████, who had been showing more and more overt sympathy towards ███ ██████, had been found to have leaked that SCP-4060 had granted memories related to SCP-████ in a previous test. I am afraid I am sure that he was radicalized by agents of ███ ██████. They are most likely on their way here. After all, I have the only key to SCP-4060's storage container. That is why I am going to destroy our records of SCP-4060 and march into the other room. Then I will activate the Pyrogallol fire suppression system, take a Class D Amnestic to pass out, and ruin any hope those ██████ ███ zealots have of getting to the key alive. By the time anyone will manage to break into SCP-4060's container, it will be well after Recovery Agents arrive. I know they won't let you see this, but I need to say it. Even if I can't force myself to say it out loud. Marie I I am a member of the Foundation. I We Secure. We Contain. We Protect. That is our mission. I love you Marie. 07/15/2008 - Notice from Site Director Dr. Matthews: It is also worth reiterating that any memory ever lost via an amnestic, by any individual, SCP-4060 has stored within it. Thus, a subject that uses SCP-4060 can acquire any such memory. As acquired memories are unaffected by amnestics, in order to prevent memory of catastrophic sensitivity being acquired by unauthorized personnel, only Class D personnel are permitted to interact with SCP-4060 and thereafter must have all of their communication closely monitored for one month by a team with at least Level 3 clearance. Initial Testing: Test Log only accessible to personnel with clearance Level 4 or higher. Input Credentials Return Log Test 11/15/2005 Test Overseen by Researcher Dr. Matthews. Subjects: D-1753, male, age twenty-two. Procedure: Subject D-1753 places seven 1 gram weights on the left side of the scale and then three 1 gram weight on the right side of the scale. Results: Subject D-1753 exclaimed the name of his girlfriend, who he claims had not visited him while he was incarcerated three years ago. Visitor logs state refute the subject's statement. Afterwards subject begins to cry, claiming to have remembered giving birth and crying tears of joy to see his firstborn seven years ago. Analysis: Subject seems to have had one last recollection of the memory as it is lost as well as the new memory as it is gained. Test 11/22/2005 Test Overseen by Researcher Dr. Matthews. Subjects: D-2120, female, age twenty-seven. Procedure: Subject D-2120 places three 1 gram weights on the left side of the scale and then one 1 gram weight on the right side of the scale. Results: Subject D-2120 remains inactive for several seconds before exclaiming the name of her girlfriend, who she claims had visited her while she was incarcerated at ████████ three years ago. Subject D-2120 has never been to ████████. Analysis: Not every memory gained or lost through SCP-4060 seems to cause an externally visible response. In addition, the object seems to retain any memory that it has acquired through an exchange. Test 12/15/2005 Test Overseen by Researcher Dr. Matthews. Subjects: D-2310, female, age forty-one. Procedure: Subject D-2310 places seven 1 Kg weights on the left side of the scale and then places a 1 gram weight on the right side of the scale. Results: Subject D-2310 begins screaming and convulsing violently. Analysis: After reviewing by several psychologists and hypnosis specialists, examination records are found to match those from the failed trials of 102-04-05761. Concluded that any attempts to create an exchange with more memory gained than lost may lead to irreparable damage to those involved in the exchange. Test 07/15/2006 Test Overseen by Senior Researcher Dr. Matthews. Subject: D-1766, male, age twenty-seven, who had a week previously been asked to solve a Rubik's cube in return for a 6 pack of [REDACTED]. Procedure: Subject places one unsolved Rubik's cube on the left side of the scale and then one dog collar on the right side of the scale. Results: Subject forgets having terminated a dog during a breaking and entering he committed 01/13/2005. The subject afterward has the experience to be able to solve the Rubik's cube puzzle that they had previously been unable to solve. Analysis: Memories selected seem to have a correlation to the personal connotations the subject may have to items they have placed on either side of the scale. Test 8/15/2006 Test Overseen by Senior Researcher Dr. Matthews. Subjects: Subject D-4389, male, age eighty-four, diagnosed with dementia. Procedure: Subject D-4389 places a photo of four security team personnel on the left side of the scale and then a 1 gram weight on the right side of the scale. Results: Subject D-4389 is able to name three of the four security officers by name as well as retain this information after 10 months. Analysis: The memories granted by SCP-4060 seem to be immune to the effects of memory degradation. Test 06/15/2007 Test Overseen by Senior Researcher Dr. Matthews. Subject: D-1766, male, age twenty-seven. Procedure: Subject places a 1 gram weight on the left side of the scale and then a 22 karat ingot of gold on the right side of the scale. Results: Subject began inquiring about information related to SCP-1883. Subject D-1766 had been used to test SCP-1883 before being given amnestics. Amnestics were once again given to Subject D-1766, who later awoke and continued complaining in regards to SCP-1883. Subject later found to have lost all memory how to solve a Rubik's cube. Analysis: Memories which are gained are unaffected by amnestics. It is still unknown if the use of amnestics is another method by which SCP-4060 gathers memories or if it is simply undoing their effects. Test 07/15/2007 Test Overseen by Assistant Site Director Dr. Matthews. Subject: D-4765, male, age forty-seven. Procedure: Subject places a bowling ball, with the name Henry ███████ printed on it, and a 1 gram weight on the left side of the scale and then four 1 Kg weights on the right side of the scale. Results: Subject recalls and recounts the events from the incident at Area ██, Sector ██, on 07/15/2005. Analysis: It is confirmed that the use of amnestics is another method by which SCP-4060 gathers memories. Classified Testing: Test Log only accessible to personnel with clearance Level 5. Input Credentials Don't Look Back Marie Test Log of Site Director Dr. Matthews Test 07/15/2008 Test Overseen by Assistant Site Director Dr. Collins. Subject: Dr. Matthews, female, age twenty-[REDACTED] Procedure: Dr. Matthews carefully places a note reading "A Reason to Continue" on the left side of the scale and then places a Foundation Site ██ Bowling League Member Card of a Henry Matthews Ph.D., a wedding band engraved with "My Beautiful Marie", and seven 1 Kg weights on the right side of the scale. Results: Dr. Matthews identifies █ locations as fronts for ███ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ ███. Then disposes of a note, a card, and a piece of jewelry before returning the weights to the storage locker. Analysis: SCP-4060 clearly has classified information that is key to various worldwide organizations. Footnotes 1. Failed iteration of Class F amnestic. |
SCP-4061 | safe | 3/4061 LEVEL 3/4061 CLASSIFIED Item #: SCP-4061 "An early attempt to photograph SCP-4061-α by previous caretakers" Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4061-carrying bacteria cultures must be cultivated every 10 days. These cultures are to be stored under a covering of sterile mineral oil at 4-6°C in a secure cold room of Unit 21 of Site-76. Only personnel of clearance 3 or higher are permitted to interact with SCP-4061. Description: SCP-4061 is a gene sequence copied via CRISPR-Cas91 from SCP-4061-α into bacteria modified from Escherichia coli K–122. These cultures carry genes that express the same anomalous qualities as SCP-4061-α, expire if not kept cool after 6 hours, and are not transmissible outside of lab conditions. SCP-4061-α is the remains of a 4-year-old male German Shepherd dog which had the ability to detect and interfere with the use of photographic devices active and directed at it. SCP-4061-α expired from natural causes on 06/05/16. Its remains were incinerated on site. SCP-4061-α attempted to move out of view of any photographic device. During all attempts to record SCP-4061-α, it emitted either electromagnetic radiation that destroyed unprotected electrical recording equipment or a hazardous effect manifesting as nearby objects non-coincidentally interfering with devices recording SCP-4061-α. Recovery: SCP-4061 was discovered on 05/07/16. Further documentation on SCP-4061 can be found in the Stealth Technology Research Division's project codenamed "Stray Mutt". SCP-4061-α was recovered on 12/15/2015 by Mobile Task Force Pi-1. Field agents were deployed after several perimeter security cameras at a public front of a Foundation site had simultaneously failed. Agents were able to determine that the cause of the security camera failure was SCP-4061-α after a nearby small-town news team attempted to run a story related to an "unphotographable dog". A disinformation campaign and amnestics were used to enable the transfer of SCP-4061-α into Foundation custody. Stray Mutt - Stealth Technology Research Division Input Credentials Return File 04/03/16 Due to the existence of another animal (of the same subspecies and located at Wilson's Wildlife Solutions) with similar anomalous qualities, Dr. Baxter has recommended gene sequencing of SCP-4061-α. He hypothesized that there may be a similar gene that both animals carry and express that is not found in others of the C. l. familiaris subspecies. 05/07/16 Following SCP-4061-α's genomic testing, an atypical gene was isolated, and is hypothesized to be the cause of SCP-4061-α's anomalous effects. Dr. Baxter has submitted a request for approval in attempting to edit SCP-4061 into bacteria via CRISPR-Cas9 to create an anti-recording salve. 06/04/2016 O5-7 has expressed interest in two possible applications of Dr. Baxter's proposal. The first is to mask the movement of Foundation agents and their alternate identities from digital surveillance of rival global organizations. The second would be to reduce the cost and liability of obtaining or altering data from devices after administering amnestics to non-foundation personnel in the field. A determination as to the posthumous duration of SCP-4061-α's anomalous properties is needed before funding can be allocated to the project. 06/11/2016 SCP-4061 was successfully edited into Escherichia coli K–12 bacteria and stored at Site 76. SCP-4061 expires in 6 hours if not kept at 4-6°C in a controlled environment. SCP-4061's properties last in the bacteria for 4 hours after expiration. SCP-4061-α was redesignated as such, and the gene was designated SCP-4061. 06/18/2016 - Performed by Dr. Baxter Procedure: SCP-4061-containing bacteria were added to a probiotic ointment and applied to subject D-1777. D-1777 was then instructed to sit in a chair in a clean room as multiple cameras were activated in 15-minute intervals. Results: Each surveillance camera was destroyed by strong electromagnetic radiation until 7 hours had passed. Analysis: The repeated strain on the bacteria to prevent recording shortens their lifespan. All anomalous properties of SCP-4061-α are found to be acquired by a subject when a salve containing SCP-4061 is applied topically. Incident FSRX2 Report Input Credentials Return File 06/19/18 A sample of SCP-4061-carrying cultures were logged as missing. All personnel with access to SCP-4061 are to be held for questioning until the sample can be found. 06/20/18 A member of research staff was identified as the last to interact with SCP-4061. After interrogation, it was determined that they had been compromised by an organization called the Attendants of Requital. How they were initially compromised remains unknown, but a book in their locker had been highlighted to create a detailed list of instructions. The SCP-4061-carrying culture was not located. 06/21/18 Equipment being used to record the movements of four individuals under surveillance, who were believed to be a part of the Chaos Insurgency, failed unexpectedly. It is at this moment unknown how or if the Attendants of Requital are in any way linked to the Insurgency. SCP-4061-α Test Log Input Credentials Return File 03/03/16 - Performed by Dr. Troy Procedure: Attempted to record SCP-4061-α with a recording device. Results: Video and images blurry from either interference or motion are obtained prior to SCP-4061 moving out of view of the recording device. Analysis: SCP-4061-α will need to be restrained in future experiments to isolate its anomalous effects as recommended by Dr. Gilbert. 03/10/16 - Performed by Dr. Gilbert Procedure: Immobilized SCP-4061-α with restraints and attempted to take photos. Results: Fly landed on the lens every time a photo was taken. Analysis: Direct view of SCP-4061-α seems to create a hazardous effect for viable recording. Dr. Troy has decided that we will next attempt to use a nondirect view to record SCP-4061-α. 04/03/16 - Performed by Dr. Troy Procedure: Immobilized SCP-4061-α with restraints and recorded its reflection. Results: Mirror cracks immediately as the recording device is activated. Analysis: Direct line of sight of SCP-4061-α is not required to trigger the hazardous effect. Dr. Gilbert has hypothesized that SCP-4061-α's effect may have a limited range. 04/10/16 - Performed by Dr. Gilbert Procedure: SCP-4061-α is to be recorded by a drone at an altitude of 1000m. Results: Control signal to the drone was cut by unknown interference. Analysis: SCP-4061-α's hazardous effect range is greater than 1000m. Dr. Troy and I have concluded that if all variables that could be used in SCP-4061-α's hazardous effect are accounted for, SCP-4061-α should be able to be recorded. 04/17/16 - Performed by Dr. Troy Procedure: Immobilized SCP-4061-α with restraints inside of a clean room with climate control before attempting to record it. Results: Recording device is destroyed by strong electromagnetic radiation. Analysis: In an event where SCP-4061-α's hazardous effect is controlled, SCP-4061-α emits strong electromagnetic radiation. Dr. Gilbert and I will attempt the same experiment in a mirrored room with EM insulated equipment. 05/04/2016 - Performed by Dr. Gilbert and Dr. Troy Procedure: Immobilized SCP-4061-α with restraints inside of a mirrored clean room with climate control before attempting to record it with EM insulated equipment. Results: SCP-4061-α escapes containment after emitting a burst of bright light. SCP-4061-α is found in a nearby hallway and returned to containment. Analysis: SCP-4061-α's ability to escape containment is both unprecedented and concerning. Until it can be verified that no harmful levels of radiation were emitted by SCP-4061-α under these circumstances, further testing is suspended. Upon discovery that no harmful levels of radiation were emitted, we will attempt the same experiment in an unmirrored room. 05/27/2016 - Performed by Dr. Gilbert and Dr. Troy Procedure: Immobilized SCP-4061-α with restraints inside of an unmirrored clean room with climate control before attempting to record it with EM insulated equipment. Results: SCP-4061-α escapes restraints after emitting a burst of bright light. SCP-4061-α remains in the room yet unrestrained and outside of the view of the recording device. Analysis: SCP-4061-α will relocate out of a recording devices view if neither electromagnetic radiation or its hazardous effect can prevent it from being recorded. We have concluded that SCP-4061-α cannot be recorded by any natural methods. 06/05/2016 - Performed by Dr. Gilbert and Dr. Troy Procedure: Repeated attempts to record an expired SCP-4061-α. Results: 4 hours after SCP-4061-α had expired normal photography was possible. Analysis: The properties of SCP-4061-α last for a 4-hour duration after expiration. Footnotes 1. A family of DNA sequences adapted from a naturally occurring genome editing system in bacteria. 2. The K12 and related strains of E. coli have been modified to survive only under specific conditions. |
SCP-4062 | safe | SCP-4062 in Site-██ central courtyard. Item #: SCP-4062 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4062 is to be held within a standard canine containment kennel furnished with a large dog bed, food dish, water bowl, and dog toys. SCP-4062 is to be fed 600 grams of dry dog food and walked by its assigned handler daily. In unregulated conditions, SCP-4062 should not be submerged in order to prevent vapor explosions. Description: SCP-4062 is a male Ukrainian Shepherd Dog at 64 cm in height and 48 kg in mass. Other than negligible senescence,12 SCP-4062 exhibits no anomalous properties unless made wet. When wet, SCP-4062 will shake continuously until its fur is completely dry. When partially covered in liquid, it rapidly shakes at a frequency that exponentially increases with the volume of liquid surrounding it. When fully submerged, SCP-4062 shakes rapidly enough to boil water at standard pressure. In this state, SCP-4062 requires no oxygen or food and displays anomalous tolerance of high temperature and pressure with no currently known limit. Once all liquid has boiled away and SCP-4062 is dry, it will stop shaking and resume nonanomalous behavior. If SCP-4062 cannot bring surrounding liquid to a boil or if vapor is condensed and recirculated in a way that it remains submerged, SCP-4062 will shake indefinitely.3 Addendum 1: SCP-4062 was acquired when Foundation agents captured K-406, a Soviet Navy Project 705 (Лира/Lira) attack submarine, on 29/08/1983 after several Soviet submarine crews were infected with [REDACTED]. Once forced to surface and searched for [REDACTED], it was noted that the vessel’s reactor, expected to be a lead-cooled fast reactor like those of other Project 705 submarines, was of no known design. Disassembly revealed it to contain SCP-4062, which was being used to generate steam for the reactor’s turbines. No trace of [REDACTED] was found. Following extensive interrogation, it was ruled that K-406’s crew had no knowledge of their vessel’s anomalous power supply except for sole engineer Andrei Aleksandrov, henceforth referred to as Person of Interest 4062-13. Claimed to be a naval nuclear engineer by his crewmates and Soviet emissaries to the Foundation, PoI-4062-13 insists he is a “canine engineer” and 1975 graduate of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (МИФИ/MEPhI) Canine Physics and Engineering program (see Interview Log 4062-13-2). PoI-4062-13's claims remain unsubstantiated. K-406’s crew was repatriated on 17/12/1983 following amnesticization, excluding PoI-4062-13 who remains in Foundation custody. K-406 is stored at the Site-██ shipyard. Materials produced by PoI-4062-13 have proven useful in manufacturing additional reactors and control systems to make use of SCP-4062. Such systems, like that recovered from submarine K-406, are nonanomalous in construction and merely exploit the anomalous properties of SCP-4062. Producing additional specimens of SCP-4062, which PoI-4062-13 insists is a normal dog, has been unsuccessful as its clones and offspring display no anomalous characteristics. Agents embedded in Soviet and Russian governments have been unable to obtain additional information concerning “canine water boiling reactors” or canine engineering programs. Addendum 2: Interview Log 4062-13-2 Interviewed: PoI-4062-13 Interviewer: Dr. Dementyev Foreword: The following preliminary interview was conducted on 30/09/1983 in an attempt to determine the origin of SCP-4062 and its relation to PoI-4062-13.4 <Begin Log, skip to 00h-8m-17s> PoI-4062-13: I am graduate of МИФИ Canine Physics and Engineering program. I do not understand why that is unusual for naval canine engineer. Dr. Dementyev: According to contacts from your government, Mr. Aleksandrov, you are a nuclear engineer and graduate of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute’s Nuclear Physics and Engineering program. PoI-4062-13: I have no knowledge of this "new clear" as you say. Dr. Dementyev: Ядерная. Nuclear. You have been working on a Лира nuclear attack submarine, K-406. PoI-4062-13: You confuse me. My submarine, K-968 is овчарка-class.5 It is powered by canine water boiling reactor, reinforced to prevent explosion in case of hull breach. Very standard technology, yes? Dr. Dementyev: No. PoI-4062-13: You do not know of canine reactor? All tensions with America are from canine technology. Canine reactor, canine bomb, canine missile. Dr. Dementyev: Canine bomb? Missile? PoI-4062-13: Yes. Both countries have many such weapons now. Geopolitical situation is very complicated. Dr. Dementyev: Let’s… come back to that later. Can you explain again how a dog can boil water? [PoI-4062-13 sighs and grabs his assigned notebook.] PoI-4062-13: Is basic physics. Let me draw diagram. <End Log> Footnotes 1. An observed lack of age-related symptoms such as functional decline or decreased reproductive capability. 2. PoI-4062-13 claims that while SCP-4062 does not age, it "has a half-life of 67.3 years" and will eventually "decay" into a Siberian Husky and two Russian Toy Terriers. 3. These properties were initially exploited to contain SCP-4062 with minimal expenditure via submerging it in a pressure vessel. The Ethics Committee later ruled that feeding and interacting with SCP-4062 is preferable for its emotional state. Containment procedures were modified accordingly. 4. This interview was conducted in English for the immediate benefit of Anglophone field personnel specializing in [REDACTED]. Subsequent interviews with PoI-4062-13 are conducted in Russian. 5. translated: sheepdog-class More by this author Works by Lesh (click to hide list) SCP Rating SCP-4062 +482 SCP-2362 +185 SCP-3226 +159 SCP-2126 +156 SCP-2226 +145 Collaborations Page Co-author SCP-3226 Zyn |
SCP-4063 | safe | Item #: SCP-4063 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4063 is to be housed in the former residence of Head Researcher Ambrose Cary, a farmhouse in rural Nova Scotia, hereby referred to as ACS1-Homestead. Due to the infohazardous properties of SCP-4063 the exact location of ACS-Homestead shall be known only to Head Researcher Cary. ACS-Homestead shall be equipped with a triple redundancy GPS and cellular dampening device. Transport to and from ACS-Homestead shall only be undertaken using a blacked out self-driving vehicle equipped with a similar GPS dampening device utilizing a random path algorithm in order to prevent passengers from determining route. The computer governing this vehicle’s navigation systems shall have no accessible output. Head Researcher Cary will be responsible for inputting navigation coordinates into a new vehicle system should this be necessary. ACS-Homestead shall be guarded by MTF-300 δ “Caretakers”, which shall consist of exactly four members. They shall reside in a residence constructed on the edge of the property of ACS-Homestead and under no circumstances enter the main structure of ACS-Homestead. Their primary responsibility is to deter anyone except for designated individuals from accessing ACS-Homestead. If unauthorized individuals approach within 50 meters of the main structure of ACS-Homestead they shall be given class A amnestics and removed from the site. If any unauthorized individual enters the main structure of ACS-Homestead they shall be sedated from a distance and issued class A amnestics. They shall be kept on site until special transport to an offsite deconditioning facility can be arranged. The MTF shall be refreshed with personnel every two weeks. An agent can only serve in MTF-300 δ once every four months. ACS-Homestead is to be supplied with two D-Class personnel at all times, hereby referred to as D-4063-01 and D-4063-02. Both shall at all times wear vitals monitoring devices equipped with hard wired connections to the MTF outpost onsite. In the event of the cessation of vital signs from either D class agents should immediately signal for a replacement D class to be supplied. The replacement D class shall dispose of the remains of the deceased with a specially equipped furnace in the basement of the main structure of ACS-Homestead. In the event of equipment failure resulting in a false positive report of vitals failure, the replacement D class shall be terminated immediately upon exit from the main structure. No attempt at communication shall be made. D-4063-01 is to be an adult female between 35 and 45 years old with a low probability of violent acts against children (>99.9% confidence) and qualifications of a nurse or similar medical role. Expected lifespan of D-4063-01 is 2-4 weeks. D-4063-02 is to be an adult female between 20 and 25 years old with a low probability of violent acts against children (>99.9% confidence) and experience in childcare. Expected lifespan of D-4063-02 is 1-2 weeks. Supplies and waste are to be transported to and from the main structure using a pully system. Under no circumstances should D class personnel leave the main structure. Research regarding SCP-4063 is only to be carried out in a secure room, and is only to be conducted by one individual, designated as SCP-4063’s Steward. No notes may leave the secure room, and upon leaving the room the researcher must self-administer class A amnestics. The current Steward of SCP-4063 is Head Researcher Ambrose Cary. In the event of the death of Head Researcher Ambrose Cary, Emergency Procedure 4063-GABLES shall be immediately implemented (See Addendum for details). Description: SCP-4063 is a preternatural consciousness inhabiting the remains of Anne Cary, the daughter of Head Researcher Ambrose Cary, hereby referred to as SCP-4063-01. SCP-4063-01 was diagnosed with a late stage aggressive cancerous brain tumor [Redacted] 20██. At the time Head Researcher Cary was project lead on the investigation of Unexplained Site █████. It is believed that a failure in provisional containment procedures resulted in the manifestation of SCP-4063 upon the start of a short sabbatical taken by Cary. The connection is suspected due to the cessation of the anomalous properties of Unexplained Site █████ around the time of the manifestation of SCP-4063. SCP-4063’s primary effect is the animation of the remains of SCP-4063-01. Testing using polaroid photography has revealed that SCP-4063-01 has continued to grow and age since the inception of SCP-4063, although it has been shown that SCP-4063-01 has no heartbeat, thus suggesting the death of the subject. Additionally, classified written correspondence between SCP-4063 and Head Researcher Cary suggests that SCP-4063 has little to no access to the memories or personality of SCP-4063-01. It has been noted that SCP-4063 does not require the consumption of food for the maintenance or growth of SCP-4063-01. Early research and analysis of wastes disposal from the principal structure of ACS-Homestead indicated a reduction of glial cells within expired D class personnel. This suggests damage caused to the nervous system of nearby organisms. The prevailing theory is that SCP-4063 somehow draws sustenance from the glial cells of subjects, but the exact method of this transfer is unknown. Due to this nervous system damage, the expected lifespan of those in direct contact with SCP-4063 is 1-4 weeks. Early testing of SCP-4063 involved the placement of various animals into the environment of the main structure of ACS-Homestead, including Carassius auratus, Felis catus, Canis lupus familiaris, and Macaca mulatta. The purpose of this testing was to determine if an alternate source of neuroglia tissue could be supplied for the sustenance of SCP-4063. In all of these instances no statistically significant reduction in glial cells could be discovered upon retrieval of the test subjects. It should be noted that upon conclusion of the above tests and retrieval of subjects MTF members onsite reported symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, and blurred vision. Testing revealed slight deterioration of neuroglia tissue within affected MTF members. The cause of this deterioration could not be precisely ascertained, but popular conjecture suggests either an expansion of SCP-4063's effect due to agitation or [Conjecture expunged due to infohazardous risk]. SCP-4063 is apparently under the belief that the foundation believes it to be SCP-4063-01. Accordingly, It either continues to experience the symptoms that SCP-4063-01 experienced prior to expiration or is aware of them and acts as though they still affect it. Due to this, a D class personnel designated D-4063-01 is assigned to act as a nurse for SCP-4063. Additionally, a second D class designated D-4063-02 is assigned to act as a childcare professional for SCP-4063. These D class personnel serve the dual purposes of keeping SCP-4063 occupied and sated. However, due to SCP-4063’s method of obtaining sustenance, D class personnel must be refreshed frequently. SCP-4063 has an additional infohazardous effect that, due to its nature, is difficult to describe in the confines of this document. Head Researcher Cary, a specialist in the field of infohazards, is responsible for researching the progression of this effect and maintaining appropriate containment procedures. By Cary’s estimation, discussing the exact features of the effect, or documenting them in any way, will result in its propagation. Conjecture made by those unfamiliar with SCP-4063 does not seem to activate the effect, as suggested by Doctor Robert Singh2. Permission to expand research beyond the responsibility of the acting Steward of SCP-4063 is pending review by the Ethics Committee, but is strongly opposed by Head Researcher Ambrose Cary. Addendum: Emergency Procedure 4063-GABLES: In the event of the death of Head Researcher Cary, his choice for Steward will be notified and will take over the research of SCP-4063. Head Researcher Cary’s ability to unilaterally choose a new Steward for SCP-4063 has been disputed and is currently in review with the Ethics Committee. Pending a decision, Emergency Procedure 4063-GABLES shall remain the default response to Cary’s death. THE FOLLOWING FILE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE WITHIN A SECURED ROOM This document is solely intended for the current steward of SCP-4063, to be delivered upon the execution of Emergency Procedure 4063-GABLES. Any unauthorized access will result in administrative disciplinary action, up to and including personal termination. Enter Credentials Welcome Dr. Boone Item #: SCP-4063 Special Containment Procedures: John, I have chosen you to take care of this in the event of my death. I have a great deal of trust in you and I know that you can take care of Anne. The Special Containment Procedures for SCP-4063 are almost exactly as described in the original document. We want to keep this as under wraps as possible. The only difference is don’t take the amnestic when you leave the secure room. I’m sure you know how much of a headache those’ll give you. Also, be careful. I think they're on to me…or us now. Just be careful. Description: SCP-4063 is a scarab brooch, carved from ivory and painted yellow. I stole it. I took it from that site in Egypt once I figured out what it did, at least once I thought I figured out what it did. I took it home and gave it to Anne. She started to improve and I didn’t think much of it. I thought that my plan had worked, and that I got away with it. Then I went back to work. Then Marie died. I mourned. I thought it was some freak accident. I didn’t understand it. Then Marie’s mother died, and I started to understand. I acted quickly. I put together these containment procedures. And forged the description. I was going to keep Anne safe. I was going to keep her alive. Now I hope that you’ll keep her alive. SCP-4063 is just a brooch. An anomalous brooch, but a brooch. It’s not a scheming preternatural consciousness. There is no infohazardous effect. It’s just a brooch that keeps my daughter alive and turns her into a fucking brain vampire. I feel terrible for what I’ve done, but I don’t regret it. I’ve killed dozens and dozens of people to keep my daughter safe and alive, and hopefully you’ll keep it up. You are her godfather after all. Thank you, John. I hope you do what’s right. Footnotes 1. Acute Containment Site 2. Robert Singh et al. ”On Discussing what Cannot be Discussed”, New Developments in Meta and Infohazardous Effects. Text. March 2018. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4063" by ViaNegativa, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4063. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4064 | keter | Item#: 4064 Level4 Containment Class: keter Secondary Class: none Disruption Class: dark Risk Class: warning link to memo SCP-4064-B, pictured when it was first brought into Foundation custody. Special Containment Procedures: The Foundation currently has two instances of SCP-4064 in custody at Site-96, which are to be kept in separate high-security containment cells with non-electronic locking mechanisms. No personnel is allowed access to either room without direct permission from the acting Site Director. Communication with SCP-4064 instances, if necessary, is only permitted through mechanical vocal relay systems attached to either room. Visual monitoring is possible through prismatic shafts, though the shafts should be shut when not in use. The whereabouts of the remainder of SCP-4064 is unknown. This knowledge is of vital importance, not only for the sake of full containment but so SCP-4064 does not gather more intelligence on the Foundation and other Groups of Interest than it already has. In the event that the Foundation locates SCP-4064 or its current target, any and all possible monitoring of SCP-4064 is to be halted, and Operation "Wool Coat" is to be enacted. During Operation "Wool Coat", squadrons of armed personnel are sent to the most recent sighting of any instance of SCP-4064 and the current residence of its target. All personnel involved must be bare of any electronic devices or metals that could carry a ferromagnetic charge. Update: As of July 13th, 2015, SCP-4064-A has been relocated to a new site, and granted greater freedoms such as a standard non-hostile humanoid containment cell and increased personnel interaction. It has requested to have its SCP designation removed, and prefers to be called "Jane". This request has been denied. SCP-4064-B should not under any circumstances be made aware that this change has been put into effect. Description: SCP-4064 is a hive-mind, capable of inhabiting six distinct bodies. Iterations of SCP-4064 appear as light-skinned females with face masks1. Though individual hosts of SCP-4064 are non-anomalous by themselves, they share the unique ability to interact with the masks on a biological level. The masks, when worn, allow instances of SCP-4064 to share neuron impulses. Though their reflexes and general physical mobility is unique to each iteration, connected instances of SCP-4064 will speak and perceive their surroundings simultaneously. SCP-4064's primary goal, after self-preservation, is to serve a deity referred to as Anatolia.2 There is another aspect of the masks that, while anomalous, is not restricted to use by SCP-4064 hosts. The masks affect the voice of those wearing them, adding emphasis and vigor to their speech. Persuasion by the wearer of the mask of those in direct auditory range becomes exceedingly difficult to resist. Addendum 01: On February 22nd, 2014, Doctor Ozid of Site-96 called in that he had been keeping his knowledge of SCP-4064 secret for a number of weeks. He was initially reprimanded for withholding information of anomalous entities, but since the discovery of SCP-4064's emotional properties, it has been lifted from his record. The following is a transcription of the call. + Audio Log 4064.1 - Audio Log 4064.1 This is… This is Doctor Henry Ozid, Site-96 General Research and Containment, Level 3 security clearance, Identification Code: H-373701. The purpose of this call is to report the discovery of an anomalous Keter class entity that is currently uncontained. It's a hive mind of six females, armed and dangerous, well not armed but dangerous… I think, with gold masks. They're really… really beautiful, just stunning. And… shit, sorry, format. Discovery… I first met one of them on September… 5th. September 5th, 2013, I think. I was at a bar, Cleveland Garden down on Beck Avenue. She was there, had her gold mask on but for some reason, it didn't seem like… it didn't feel weird, it was just like, an accessory. I don't really know how to describe it. She was alone, and we started talking, she seemed really interested, like genuinely interested in everything I had to say, much more than anyone else I've ever met has been. She, she had this voice… just… everything she said, I just wanted to hear… more. She invited me to talk outside, and we went to the alley, and just talked about… so much stuff. I used… the "Sam's County Park" cover story, she… we just kept talking and talking and it was so nice, nothing was awkward like it usually is with me. I felt… overcome with warmth, and I knew I loved her. We walked for a while and then… I don't really remember what happened next, but eventually she… she brought out her sisters, told me they were on the run from like, a war infested country? Or something? She… they needed a place to stay, and she asked me, and I said "Yes, of course. Anything for you" and we lived with each other for… goddamnit, we lived together for five months. I soon realized the anomalous nature of her and her sisters, they were like… well, like I said, a hive mind but… I don't know. She had made me promise not to tell anyone about her, about them, for safety reasons. I was so compelled to do so, even though… god I knew I had to report it because she's an SCP, or she's going to be… but I just couldn't say no to her, like… her voice, it was like cream. Fuck, I'm rambling. Look, I'm sorry, I don't really know what to… this is the first time I've… okay… look, I would have called this in the instant I found out but, I'm pretty sure it's memetic… like, mind control, they make you fall in love with them… and I couldn't say anything. I think it's memetic, I'm not 100% sure what counts as memetic but I feel like this is it so, it's not my fault. Okay anyways, I'll try to help with finding them… damnit, I don't know… see you at work on Monday. Addendum 02: Doctor Ozid provided detailed descriptions of SCP-4064 and, to the best of his ability, dates, and locations for each major development in his relationship with SCP-4064. Two weeks after his initial call, an instance of SCP-4064 was identified on a security camera in the Cleveland Garden mall, and MTF Eta-17 ("Loverboys") was sent to stake out the surrounding area, ultimately leading to the successful capture of two of the six instances. These instances, hereby referred to as SCP-4064-A and SCP-4064-B, were brought to the nearby Site-96 and interviewed. Doctor Ozid requested to be involved in these interviews, but due to his prior experience with SCP-4064, his request was denied. The interviews were conducted by the site director, Doctor Laura Knight. + Interview 4064-A.1 - Interview 4064-A.1 [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Knight: Hello, I'm Laura Knight, and I just want to ask you a few questions about yourself and the group you associate with, is that alright? SCP-4064-A: No! No, please! Please, let me go! I need to see my sisters, they're looking for me! Dr. Knight: Who exactly are your sisters? SCP-4064-A: Please! Please no, no I can't! I need to refocus! Please, this is too much for me! I need to refocus! I need to refocus!!! Dr. Knight: What does that mean, refocus? SCP-4064-A: Give me my mask! I need it to refocus! I need it… please. Dr. Knight: I'm sorry, we can't allow you to wear your mask at this time. Now, please- SCP-4064-A: Why are you doing this to me? Let me go, I haven't hurt anyone! I need… I need to refocus. It's all I am! Dr. Knight: You need to answer my questions if we're going to get anywhere with this. SCP-4064-A: And then you'll give me my mask? Dr. Knight: I'm afraid that cannot be confirmed at this time. SCP-4064-A bursts into tears. She does not respond to Doctor Knight for the remainder of the interview. [END LOG] + Interview 4064-B.1 - Interview 4064-B.1 [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Knight: Hello, I'm Doctor Knight, and I just want to ask you a few questions about yourself and the group you associate with, is that alright? SCP-4064-B remains silent. Dr. Knight: Can you hear me? SCP-4064-B remains silent. Dr. Knight: You're going to have to talk at some point, I can wait here all day. SCP-4064-B: And I can wait here for years if I must. I know my sisters will find me and break me out of this prison. You SCP worms cannot keep me from them. Dr. Knight: Who exactly are your sisters? SCP-4064-B remains silent. Dr. Knight: Look, we have a containment cell ready for you and your sister, and we're not going to let you go any time soon so- SCP-4064-B: Did you say, my sister? I am not the only one? How many more have you taken? Dr. Knight: I'm afraid I can not- SCP-4064-B: Let me see her! I need to talk to her, now! Dr. Knight: Unfortunately, we cannot allow- SCP-4064-B: LET ME SEE MY SISTER! SCP-4064-B bolts out of her chair and kicks Doctor Knight's head. Doctor Knight slumps to the ground, unconscious. The two guards in the room restrain her and bring her out of the room, to her containment cell. [END LOG] Subsequent interviews were held the following few days, with no new information being gained. Interviews were halted indefinitely. Addendum 03: On July 12th, 2015, about four months after the initial capture of SCP-4064-A and SCP-4064-B, during routine monitoring of the entities' cells, SCP-4064-A was seen motioning to the prismatic shaft, calling for attention. The guard on duty proceeded to open the vocal relay system attached to her room and discovered that she was asking for an interview. After deliberation, a date and time were set, and the following interview was held between SCP-4064-A and Doctor Knight. + Interview 4064-A.2 - Interview 4064-A.2 [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Knight: I understand that you specifically requested this interview, SCP-4064-A. Is that right? SCP-4064-A: Yes. And please, call me Jane. Doctor Knight glances over at the window, where security guard Westrin Jeremiah is positioned. Jeremiah shrugs. Dr. Knight: Alright, Jane. Now, I also understand that you have some… terms? SCP-4064-A: In return for my compliance, I want you guys to… treat me like an actual person. I want real food and human interaction. I'm not a monster… not anymore. Dr. Knight: And we'll do our best to adhere to your requests. Now, are you ready to begin? SCP-4064-A: Yes. I think I am. Dr. Knight: I have only one question for you. Well, it's more of a request. Tell me everything you can about The Daughters of Anatolia. SCP-4064-A sighs heavily, and stares at her feet for ten seconds. Dr. Knight: Jane? Are you alright? SCP-4064-A: Yes, I'm just having trouble figuring out where to start. Dr. Knight: I understand. Take your time. SCP-4064-A: No, no, I don't want to make this harder than it has to be. SCP-4064-A sighs heavily. SCP-4064-A: My earliest memories are no more than a few years old, though I know I must be at least in my late twenties. Truthfully, I do not know much about the Daughters, just that I am one of them. I'm actually the youngest, we… the Sisters, are the youngest to date. Mother… Anatolia, created us to be her… I'm not sure how to put it, breadwinners? We feed her, though not the way most people are fed. SCP-4064-A While we, you and I, eat foods and nutrients, Anatolia feeds on… other things. On emotions. I'm not sure exactly how she gets these emotions, though I suspect it has something to do with the masks. Me and my sisters, we collect… anguish. Our role is admittedly embarrassing, but we… we force others to fall in love with us, and then break their hearts. Through that, Anatolia is nourished. SCP-4064-A: I do not know much about the other daughters, but what I can tell you is that there are two other… groups. The Matrons are the next oldest group, there are five of them, and they collect fear for Anatolia. Their methods are morally questionable, though in my short time I've been realizing that none of us are particularly right in what we do. The Matrons collect fear by kidnapping and torturing their victims. They do not kill them, however, That… is the job of the Pipers. SCP-4064-A: The Pipers are the oldest of the Daughters. There are only three, and I have never seen them. They… kill… they murder innocent people, good people, all to collect… mourning. Anatolia feeds on strong, negative emotions, and the strongest of all is pure mourning. SCP-4064-A: I'm afraid that's all the information I can give. Without my mask, I can't focus, and if I can't focus, I can't know where my sisters are. However, these last few months… I may have been trapped in that forsaken room, but I actually feel like a person. I… I feel good. I have my own thoughts and feelings, it's not something I got to have when I was focused. SCP-4064-A: Is that enough? Dr. Knight: Yes, thank you, Jane. This has been an extraordinary help, and I will work with the higher-ups on arranging better living conditions for you. SCP-4064-A: Thank you. And, one more thing. Don't tell my sister I did this. I know she will never listen, but I still love her, and I can't bear the thought that she would think I was brainwashed or something else horrible. The thought that at least she had someone in the next room, experiencing her pain with her, I know that is at least somewhat comforting. Dr. Knight: Noted. SCP-4064-B will not be made aware of your condition. Doctor Knight motions to the guards outside the room, who come in, restrain SCP-4064-A, and take her back to her room. [END LOG] Addendum 04: Nearly five years after its initial containment, on April 23rd, 2019, SCP-4064-B was observed to have a notable physical change, that being the appearance of a single grey strand amidst its usually black hair. No alterations have been made to containment procedures since this discovery. Footnotes 1. These masks weigh 11kg, and are made of solid gold. 2. For more information, see Addendum 03. |
SCP-4065 | keter | COGNITOHAZARD WARNING Access to SCP-4065 documentation requires specialized countermemetic inoculation. Individuals without appropriate inoculation will be unable to perceive this file. Inoculated personnel should view the image below. Pechkarjova/Bakken Selective Perception Countermeme COUNTERMEMETIC INOCULATION VERIFIED 4/4065 LEVEL 4/4065 CLASSIFIED Item #: SCP-4065 An instance of SCP-4065-11 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4065 is currently uncontained. Research into developing a countermeme is ongoing. SCP-4065-3 instances are to be erased or deleted whenever possible; SCP-4065-3 has been deleted from most files requiring Level 2/General, Level 3/Ontokinetic, and/or Level 4/Memetic clearance to edit, although these changes are frequently reverted by infected personnel. Information about SCP-4065 is restricted to SCP-4065-resistant individuals via selective perception countermemes. All anomalies whose containment procedures rely on the use of SCP-4065-1 are major breach risks; however, many of those anomalies have been infected with SCP-4065, and as such are partially self-containing. Alternate containment procedures for these anomalies are to be developed and enacted as soon as possible. Description: SCP-4065 is an anomalous memetic contagion that currently affects almost all Foundation personnel. Affected individuals believe in the existence and efficacy of a piece of technology identified as a "Scranton Reality Anchor" (SCP-4065-1), a device apparently intended to protect against ontokinetic threats; SCP-4065-1 instances apparently protect against these threats by stabilizing the "Hume field", an objective measure of the "thickness" of reality that can be detected by devices known as "Kant Counters" (SCP-4065-2). SCP-4065 was created by Dr. Susan Scranton, for whom SCP-4065-1 is named, as an experimental containment method for sapient ontokinetic anomalies; while it was largely successful in its original purpose, the parameters for infection were not well-defined, and it was quickly transmitted to Foundation personnel. SCP-4065-1 and -2 instances are created by infected individuals from available materials; SCP-4065-1 instances tend to be constructed from laboratory equipment, kitchen appliances, and desktop computers, while SCP-4065-2 instances tend to be constructed from smaller devices, such as pocket calculators and mobile phones. These devices usually have a number of buttons, switches, LEDs and dials that function as a control panel; SCP-4065-2 instances always have at least one prominent antenna or receiver dish. In addition to the electronic components, SCP-4065-1 and -2 instances occasionally contain more exotic materials, including large quartz crystals, radiation sources, and human remains. All documented SCP-4065-1 and -2 instances have been painted or otherwise marked with SCP-4065-3. SCP-4065-3 is a memetic trigger sigil, originally devised by Dr. Susan Scranton, which acts as the primary vector for SCP-4065 infection. When an individual who has moderate knowledge of the Foundation's existence, purpose, and ideology2 sees SCP-4065-3, they begin to show symptoms of SCP-4065 infection within 48 hours; individuals who have worked directly with ontokinetic anomalies or have ontokinetic abilities themselves show symptoms within 8 hours. A secondary component of the SCP-4065 meme-complex is the idea that SCP-4065-3 is the primary logo or seal of the Foundation; as a result, SCP-4065-3 is now widely used by Foundation personnel as an identifying emblem, and variations have been adopted for use by all major Foundation departments. There is currently no known countermeme for SCP-4065 infection. It is currently hypothesized that immunity to SCP-4065 requires full knowledge of its creation and the memes that compose it; the only individual who fulfills these criteria is the creator, Dr. Susan Scranton. Footnotes 1. Constructed from a thermal immersion circulator. SCP-4065-3 redacted. 2. All Foundation personnel and most sapient anomalies in Foundation containment fulfill these criteria. It is likely that members of most major groups of interest are also susceptible to SCP-4065 infection, although this is currently unconfirmed. |
SCP-4066 | euclid | 3/4066 LEVEL 3/4066 CLASSIFIED Item #: SCP-4066 Special Containment Procedures: All archaeological excavations of sites in the former Byzantine Empire are to be monitored by Research Task Force Digamma-7 ("Classical Cosmonauts") for instances of SCP-4066-A and -B. SCP-4066-A instances are to be documented and then defaced in ways consistent with decay, vandalism, or iconoclasm1 and returned; SCP-4066-B instances are to be confiscated and contained in an anomalous object storage vault at Site-77. Civilians who have come into contact with SCP-4066-A or -B instances are to be treated with Class-A amnestics. Proposals for the study or reverse-engineering of SCP-4066-B instances should be submitted to the SCP-4066 containment lead, Dr. Kristin Maur, and require the approval of Site Director Gillespie. Description: SCP-4066 is the collective designation for the dynasties of Byzantine emperors that were founded by, supported by, or composed of extraterrestrial or extradimensional entities. Between the ascension of Constantine I as sole Roman Emperor in 312 and the sack of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire in 1453, almost every ruling family in the Byzantine Empire was in some way associated with extraterrestrial activity; during this period, there was very little confirmed extraterrestrial activity elsewhere on Earth. As of yet, no explanation for this trend has been found. Art and literature from the Byzantine Empire that describes or depicts extraterrestrial entities and activities is designated SCP-4066-A; extraterrestrial technological artifacts from this period are designated SCP-4066-B. Addendum: Emperors and Dynasties with Extraterrestrial Influences This addendum contains short descriptions and summaries of the Byzantine dynasties with known extraterrestrial/extradimensional affiliations, alongside supplementary documents and data that serve to identify the nature and scope of those affiliations. These dynasties are designated SCP-4066-α through SCP-4066-π. For full dossiers on the individual dynasties, contact the containment lead, currently Dr. Kristin Maur. Constantinian Dynasty - SCP-4066-α (312-363) The emperor Constantine was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. Mainstream historical sources claim that this conversion was the result of a vision Constantine experienced before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312, in which he was instructed to adopt the sign of the Chi-Rho, a Christian symbol, to ensure his army's victory. Constantine's private journals, preserved in the library of the Great Lavra Monastery on Mount Athos, reveal that he received visions from the same entity throughout his reign; Constantine identifies this entity as either Sol Invictus or the Christian God, and says that the visions always came from "the morning sun himself". These visions gave Constantine advice on military, political, and economic matters, and encouraged him to support both the pagan cults of Mithras and Sol Invictus and the Christian church. Constantine's dynastic successors continued to receive these visions and for the most part followed them, with the exception of his nephew, Julian the Apostate, who rejected the visions as the "messages of a false god" who was "preparing [the empire] for a war that is not ours". Julian believed that these visions had been misinterpreted by his predecessors, and that rather than advocating for Christianity, the visions wished him to found a new religion, which he described as "antithetical to the ancient customs of Rome and the new laws of the Christians". Julian argued against the messages he had received in a series of philosophical dialogues titled Against Himself; a section of the third dialogue is reproduced below. Document 4066-α-17: Against Himself Chapter 3, p. 4-6 Circa 362 CE. Sixth-generation vellum copy, Venice, Italy. Greek. Translated by Gavin van Hofwegen, 1937. Show Document Hide Document The main characters of the dialogue are Julian himself (Jul) and Phantasm (Pha), the representation of his visions. Pha: But Julian, the world is in danger; nay, all worlds are in danger. My brothers and I weaken each day, and as we weaken, our enemies grow stronger. Jul: And who, oh Phantasm, are these enemies of which you speak? Are they the Persians, who menace my empire's eastern borders? Are they the Goths or the Alemanni or the Franks, any of the barbarians my uncle subdued? Pha: No, Julian, they are none of these. Jul: Then they must be within the empire: my own rebellious subjects, in Gaul or in Syria, or perhaps my Christian cousins who covet my throne? Pha: They are not within your empire, or within any mortal empire or kingdom or nation. Jul: Have I angered the gods somehow? Or will the centaurs return from the wilds to make war on man once more? Or maybe the Christians speak the truth, and their god will return with a host of spirits and cast me down into Tartarus for my apostacy! Am I any closer, Phantasm? Pha: You are no closer, Julian. Our enemies are not from the underworld, nor from the heavens. They live not on your world, nor on any world, nor in any star, nor in the space between the stars. Jul: Then who, Phantasm, are these enemies, and where can they be found, if they are not anywhere in creation? Pha: Our enemies are outside creation; they are unknown to man and to god; they hate the world and all life in it. Jul: Then how, oh wise Phantasm, am I to combat them? Where can I march my legions, that I may fight these haters of all? Pha: Only my brothers and I can fight them. You must support us in our eternal war. Jul: And how can I support you? Pha: Worship us. Lend us your blood for our eternal struggle. Make the sacrifices we require to continue our battle. Jul: Now I see through your motives, Phantasm! You are hungry, are you not? Desirous of sacrifices? You crave the worship of mortals? Hide Document The text continues for another seven pages; it ends with Julian concluding that Phantasm is some sort of minor spirit who has latched on to the imperial family, seeking worship and sacrifices. Investigation into the similarities between the philosophy articulated by the character of Phantasm and the Ortothan mythos of the Church of the Second Hytoth is ongoing. Valentinian Dynasty - SCP-4066-β (364-379) The Valentinian dynasty were members of a species of sapient humanoid extraterrestrials of unknown origin. SCP-4066-A instances depict Valentinian emperors and other members of their family with instectoid facial features, including compound eyes, chewing mouthparts similar to grasshoppers, and long antennae; these individuals had four arms, two on each side branching from a single shoulder joint, and two legs. Depictions of the Valentinian emperors exhibit a mild antimemetic effect, causing observers to perceive them as depictions of human beings; as a result, the anomalous nature of SCP-4066-β was not discovered until the first use of mnestic drugs by the Foundation in the 1980s. Theodosian Dynasty - SCP-4066-γ (379-457) Theodosius I, founder of the Theodosian dynasty, had close trading relationships with a number of extradimensional and extraterrestrial nation-states, including the Dominion of Cephus, the city-state of Alagadda, the Central L'Kir Co-Prosperity Tesseract, and New Carthage. These trade deals were brokered by two close advisors of the Emperor, Demetrios Makellos and Kourios Skotos, and resulted in an influx of extraterrestrial consumer goods, thaumaturgic and alchemical artifacts, and non-human slaves. Leonid Dynasty - SCP-4066-δ (457-518) The entire Leonid dynasty appears to have been fabricated at some point in the mid-8th century, replacing two Theodosian Emperors, Theodosius III and Arcadius II, and a non-dynastic emperor, Philip Chrysonomos2. Historical records and material evidence were significantly altered, although the memories of most individuals were not; nevertheless, only a few contemporary individuals seemed to notice the change, all of them monastic scholars, and none of them released that information publicly. Examination of the Church of Saint Mary of the Spring, a sanctuary in modern Istanbul founded by the first Leonid Emperor, Leo I, revealed an inscription on the ancient cornerstone concealed by a series of antimemetic sigils; the inscription, originally written in both Latin and Lisk'Kvar3 has been reproduced below. Document SCP-4066-δ-17: Cornerstone Inscription, Church of Saint Mary of the Spring Date unclear. Inscription on marble, Istanbul, Turkey. Latin/Lisk'Kvar. Translated by Anne Benoit and Ezekiel N'krumah, 2012. Show Document Hide Document In the Year of the World 59454, the Emperor Leo witnessed a miracle, the Mother of God giving him the power to cure a blind man. Upon his ascension to the throne, he founded upon this spring a church, dedicated to Saint Mary, in honor of the miracle. [Translator's Note: The remainder of the inscription is in Lisk'Kvar ideograms, which have complex context-dependent meanings; the translation is necessarily imprecise.] In the Era of the [Dark/Black/Hidden] Star5, "Cartwheels-Through-The-[Red/Orange/Burning]-[Fruit/Food/Pigment]-Trees"6 came to this [planet?], and on it created an [artwork/miracle]. "Cartwheel" [remade/rewrote] the [history?] of a [nation/people], but not their [minds/memories/souls]; all [sapient beings/artists] forget their [history?] too [quickly/easily/freely]. Hide Document The inscription is signed by the same "Cartwheel" mentioned in the text. The Foundation has as of yet been unable to ask any Lisk'Lurthan individuals about the Leonid dynasty, the inscription, or the individual mentioned within. Justinian Dynasty - SCP-4066-ε (518-602) Documents recovered from excavations within Nx-34 have revealed that all important members of the Justinian dynasty, including all Justinian emperors, were controlled by the psionic extraterrestrial species known to the inhabitants of Nx-34 as the "Soul-Thieves". A colony of Soul-Thieves was established in an artificial cavern in the harbor of Constantinople; when a member of the dynasty that was under the control of these entities left the city, they would be followed by a Soul-Thief either in the sea or in a levitating tank cloaked in a light-refraction field. The eventual deposition of Emperor Maurice by Phocas (see below) was possibly aided by some natural psionic resistance granted by Phocas' divergence from baseline humanity. Phocas - SCP-4066-ζ (602-610) SCP-4066-A instances depicting the usurper Emperor Phocas show the sloping forehead, pronounced brow ridge, and protruding jaw typical of Homo neanderthalensis; contemporary sources claim that he and his family spoke a dialect of Greek not like any spoken in the empire, and that he made occasional veiled references to a birthplace to which he could never return. Extraterrestrial/extradimensional origin unconfirmed, but likely. Heraclian Dynasty - SCP-4066-η (610-695) While no documentary evidence has been found linking the Heraclian Dynasty to extraterrestrial activity, archaeological excavations of sites from this period contain numerous instances of SCP-4066-B, mostly military armaments. A representative list is presented below. Table 4066-η-1: Significant SCP-4066-η-B Instances Site Date (approximate) Object(s) Ephesus (Selçuk, Turkey) 614 Two artillery railguns, probably originally rendered inoperable by earthquake damage. Instances were found in what was once the bay outside the ancient harbor (now several kilometers inland due to silt deposition by the Küçükmenderes River). Instances appear to have been connected to some external power supply, which has not been recovered. Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq) 627 Remains of four powered-armor exoskeletons, heavily battle-damaged and with the internal power sources removed. Instances are engraved with passages from Christian scriptures, and each has a panel on its chest depicting one of the four winged creatures named in the book of Revelation and associated with the four Christian evangelists: a lion, an ox, an angel and an eagle. Jerusalem 637-8 Skeleton of a large six-legged mammalian creature, killed by a spear wound to the neck; genetic testing indicates extraterrestrial origin. Skeleton found inside heavily rusted scale armor with built-in saddle; design is similar to contemporary Byzantine horse armor. Phoenicus (Finike, Turkey) 654 Wreck of a seagoing hovercraft, 15m in length. Hovercraft appears to have been solar-powered, and was equipped with a bronze ram at the prow and two ballistae amidships. Dvin, Armenia 686-8 47 lithium-ion batteries, enclosed in a ceramic vessel. Batteries appear to have been used at time of deposition; a number of SCP-4066-B instances which could accept this shape of battery have been recovered. These SCP-4066-B instances cannot be traced to a single extraterrestrial civilization; the Heraclian dynasty had probably established a relationship with some group of extraterrestrial arms dealers, although what they could have provided such a group in return for these weapons is unknown. It is possible that the formula for the incendiary compound known as "Greek fire", invented near the end of the Heraclian Dynasty, was also given by or purchased from extraterrestrial entities; research is ongoing. Tiberius III Apsimar - SCP-4066-θ (698-705) Tiberius III Apsimar was a Scientologist. Further information is restricted to personnel assigned to Project FROZEN SOUL and the Temporal Anomalies Department. Anastasios II - SCP-4066-ι (713-715) Recovery of the remains of Anastasios II revealed that this Emperor was a humanoid robot, controlled from a small cockpit within the chest cavity. The cockpit is sized for an entity between 15 and 20 cm in height, with at least six manipulating appendages. Anastasios II was powered by a small fusion reactor, which was damaged during its execution by Leo III; the identity and fate of its pilot are unknown. Irene of Athens - SCP-4066-κ (797-802) Irene of Athens, regent for her son Constantine VI and then sole ruler in her own right, was the host for an extraterrestrial parasite, which was invisible to the naked eye but could be seen by individuals with anomalously enhanced sight. Descriptions of the parasite's appearance vary; one of Irene's advisors, a eunuch named Aetios, compiled a number of these descriptions in Τὸν Βίον Τᾶς Βασσιλίσσας (The Life of the Empress), his biography of Irene. Document 4066-κ-5: Τὸν Βίον Τᾶς Βασσιλίσσας, Book 4, Chapter 6 Circa 800. Fourth-generation parchment copy, Rome, Italy. Greek. Translated by Ioannes Pappapetrou, 1927. Show Document Hide Document The Empress could see her own daimon7, of course, and so could her mages and alchemists, and those priests and monks gifted by the Lord with heavenly sight. But no two of them saw it the same way, and argued among themselves over who was more correct in their seeing. The court wizard, the eunuch Bartholomeos Timotheou, saw a halo of flames around the Empress' head, from which golden eyes stared in all directions; and of course he swore that it was a member of the lower orders of angels, sent to advise the empress of the Lord's will. His apprentice, Petros Polydactulos (he had a sixth finger on his left hand, a sure sign of sorcerous talent), believed that the Empress was constantly circled at her waist by a five flying discs, each of a different precious stone, that passed through all solid matter as they orbited her. The Egyptian physician we called Harpocrates8, as he was mute, sketched what he saw when he applied a certain ointment to his eyes; curls of smoke emerged from the Empress' ears and nose, and coiled upwards in intricate spirals. The priests saw visions stranger still, although despite the oddness of these sights none of them believed that the daimon was infernal in nature. Brother Leontios of the Stoudion saw swirling black lines crawling, snake-like, across the Empress' face; these lines would sometimes leave her skin, travel in the air for a short distance, and alight on her once more. The Patriarch of Constantinople, when briefly granted an angelic vision as he was giving the Empress the holy eucharist, saw needles, some of black iron and some of red brass, bloodlessly penetrating her head and chest; they sank in and raised back up, sometimes in regular waves and sometimes without any pattern he could see. The Empress herself claimed it appeared as a squid, or an octopus, whose tentacles curled around her head; only she could hear its voice, which was that of an old woman, but eloquent and refined, as if it had been trained as an orator. I am reminded, as I retell these descriptions, of the Persian parable of the blind men and the elephant; each man feels only a part of the beast, and thus each believes the elephant to be something more simple than it truly is. The empress' daimon must be as far above us as we are above the creeping insects of the earth; perhaps one man can only see one part of it, and is misled by his own fallible senses. Hide Document Aetios claims that the parasite's advice was cryptic and often seemingly unhelpful, but that Irene "derived great comfort from its messages" and followed its commands whenever possible. He complied some of the parasite's messages, and Irene's interpretations, in a companion piece to Τὸν Βίον Τᾶς Βασσιλίσσας titled Ἀγαθαδαιμωνολόγοι (The Teachings of the Virtuous Daimon), some excerpts of which is reproduced below. Document 4066-κ-7: Excerpts from the Ἀγαθαδαιμωνολόγοι Circa 801. Fourth-generation parchment copy, Rome, Italy. Greek. Translated by Ioannes Pappapetrou, 1929. Show Document Hide Document The Daimon said, "An emperor of an empire that has no emperor. The sun in reverse, rising west and falling east. Betrayal leads to slavery leads to betrayal." The Empress said, "It speaks of the Frankish pretender9; he claims the crown, but it is mine alone. He will try to steal it, and he will fall." The Daimon asked, "Why are we not philosophers?" The Empress said, "Because the philosophers were pagans, although virtuous." The Daimon asked, "Why are we not philosophy?" To this, the Empress had no response. The Daimon said, "Not all truth is happy. Not all wounds are bloody. Not all plants are leafy. Beware the butterfly." The Empress said, "The unhappy truth is the power of the Arabs. The bloodless wound is the theft of the Bucellarian theme. The leafless plant is my childless state. The butterfly is he who will try to depose me." The Daimon said, "Lust. Self-pleasure. Corruption in the highest orders of power. A kingdom founded on the desires of a youth." The Empress said, "The Arab kingdom is decadent to its core. It cannot hold before the virtues of Christendom. We will overcome them and take back the holy land." The Daimon said, "All the demons are loosed, and those who come after see the messages of those yet to come but already dead, and they understand them, and they secure the threat." The Empress knew the meaning, but could not tell me, for I had not enough trust to know her deepest secrets. The Daimon said, "History is tragedy. Tragedy is history. Sisters are sisters and foes are foes." The Empress said, "My sister-in-law is Anthousa, who lives now as a nun; my foe is the rest of that family, who covet the throne that was my son's and then mine. The past tragedies of that family are well-known." The Daimon said, "Do not name anything you do not want to become." The Empress said, "When one dwells on failure, one leans every more quickly toward that failure. I think and speak only of success." Hide Document When Irene died in exile on the island of Lesbos in 803, the parasite died with her; an imperial agent sent to retrieve her body claimed that it was buried in a mass of stone, metal, broken glass and rotting flesh, filling the entirety of her small house. Leo V - SCP-4066-λ (813-820) The personal journals of Leo V, dictated to a court scribe and preserved by the Monastery of Stoudios and then the Bab-i Mukhfi10, describe an abduction experience the emperor experienced around age 20. An excerpt has been reproduced below. Document SCP-4066-λ-3: Personal Journal of Leo V Circa 814. Fifth-generation paper copy, Istanbul, Turkey. Greek. Translated by Anne Benoit, 1977. Show Document Hide Document Even before I served under Bardanes in his failed revolt, I knew I would be Emperor some day. God had chosen me, as he chose Constantine the Great, by sending me a vision of the heavens. In the third Indiction, the second such since my birth11, in August, I went out from the City12 with some companions, to hunt in the forests of the Bucellarian Theme. We were staying at an inn along the road to Ancyra13, and after a night of celebrations, we retired to our rooms. In the darkest part of the night, I left my room to make use of the latrine; and as I was returning from that building, a bright light shone down from above, stunning me where I stood. I was lifted from the ground by unseen hands, and carried up towards the light, which I now saw emanated from bright lamps mounted upon some flying vessel; I was carried into the vessel through a door on its underside, and placed upon a polished metal floor. Before me in the room stood an angel. He stood half again as tall as me, in shining silver armor that covered his skin entirely; his helmet had a face-plate of clear glass, through which I could see his face. He had no nose, and only a single eye; and his mouth was filled with sharp teeth like a dog's; and yet I was not afraid, for I knew him to be an angel of the Lord. He spoke, then; and though he did not speak Greek, nor any other mortal language, I could understand his words, for the language of the angels is comprehensible to all. A metal table rose up from the ground, and he instructed me to undress, and to lay upon it, and when I had done so he commanded me to sleep, and I slept. The sleep was dreamless, but seemed long; and when I awoke it was morning, and I was in my bed, with a fresh scar across my stomach, as if I had been under the surgeon's knife. Later in life, while I was making war against the Arabs as governor of Anatolia, I was cut deeply across the belly by a Syrian swordsman, whom my companions slew shortly after, and as I was being treated for the wound, a strange artifact was found under the flesh of my stomach, which I will now describe. The artifact was made of white stone, or very fine pottery, without seam or opening, and inlaid upon its surface in silver were strange designs, which I thought to be the written language shared by the Grigori with the first men after Adam. When it was brought before Brother Ioannes Euglossos of the Stoudion, who is known to have the gift of tongues, he understood it and transcribed it into Greek; and I will read to you now what he wrote. "Glumoriclopharnion14 Internal Tracking Device. Insert Into Central Body Cavity. For Assistance Contact Us By Far-Sound At Eight Seven Six Eleven Four One Zero Two Nine Ten One Nine Or At Our Through-Net Location15." Neither I nor any of the scholars of the Stoudion could understand the message, but perhaps my son or my son's son will comprehend its secrets, and contact the angels once more for guidance. Until then, the artifact is stored with other holy relics in the royal vaults. Hide Document The artifact in question, SCP-4066-λ-B-1, was captured by the Ottoman Empire during the fall of Constantinople; it came into the possession of the Foundation when the Bab-i Mukhfi was disbanded in the aftermath of the First World War. Macedonian Dynasty - SCP-4066-μ (867-1056) The Macedonian Emperors belonged to a variety of alien species, equipped with memetic and holographic concealment devices that allowed them to pass as human. This dynasty was put into power by an extraterrestrial entertainment corporation, "HarrShaNget Pseudo-Authentic Productions"; the power struggles between the various emperors and their fake family members were recorded and broadcast on a number of interplanetary entertainment services as a reality television show, "Primitive Leadership Overtaken and Contested". The show was canceled after the 19th season, and all remaining contestants either faked their deaths or were replaced with androids. Doukid Dynasty - SCP-4066-ν (1059-1081) Members of the Doukid dynasty had access to consciousness-transfer technology similar to that found in SCP-1980. Arcadius the Ephesian, a court eunuch who wrote biographies of the Doukid emperors, reported that each member of the family "wore close to their skin a dark metal amulet, covered with gemstones"; when one member of the family, Ioannes Doukas, had his amulet taken from him briefly by a childhood playmate, "his soul fled from his eyes, and only when the amulet was returned was he himself once more". All Doukid emperors reportedly searched for body doubles, claiming to be afraid of assassination plots; on at least two recorded occasions, one of these emperors was reportedly killed in battle, only to appear alive later and claim that it was a body double who had died instead. Whether this technology came from another site like SCP-1980 or was introduced independently is unknown. Komnenid Dynasty - SCP-4066-ξ (1081-1185) Study of the preserved remains of Komnenid emperors has indicated that numerous members of the family were heavily cybernetically modified by an unknown entity or group. An abridged table of known augmented dynasty members and their modifications is presented below. Table SCP-4066-ξ-1: Augmented Komnenoi Dynasty Member Augmentations Other Notes Alexios I Komnenos Artificial right arm and leg; subdermal ballistic fiber across torso and neck; artificial organ of unknown purpose in upper pelvic cavity. Decay of organic parts of corpse made the purpose of the extra organ unclear, but it seems to have been connected to the reproductive system. Anna Komnene None found; see notes. Body showed signs of post-mortem mutilation: eyes, lungs, heart, and left leg were missing. It is possible that augmentations were removed for reuse after death. John II Komnenos Entire digestive tract, from esophagus to colon, replaced with artificial organs capable of filtering out poisons and pathogens and digesting an number of substances normally indigestible by humans. Left arm artificial from elbow down. Replacement of left arm appears to have happened shortly before death. Manuel I Komnenos Full-body cybernetic replacement from the neck down. Several parts of body were missing, including right arm, both feet, several internal components, and pieces of the artificial skin and armor. (See Alexios II, below.) Maria of Antioch Artificial eyes, left leg. Left leg seems to be slightly shorter than right leg. Possible scarring around sites of implants indicates moderate to severe rejection syndrome. Alexios II Komnenos Right arm, both feet, heart, liver, and parts of skin replaced with artificial components. Implants match missing components from body of Manuel I, and are not proportioned properly for Alexios II's body. Possible scarring from surgery procedure around implant sites Andronikos I Komnenos Artificial left arm. Arm is made of bronze and silver, using contemporary metallurgy techniques. Contains no electronic components. Possibly made in imitation of advanced prostheses worn by earlier dynasts. Save for Andronikos I's primitive prosthetic arm, all of the prostheses worn by Komnenid emperors and family members were similar in aesthetic and composition, presumably deriving from the same source. Angelid Dynasty - SCP-4066-ο (1185-1204) The Angelid dynasty was heavily funded by a single instance of SCP-3201, which produced gold, silver, and bronze in exchange for icons of obscure saints. The Angelids believed that the SCP-3201 instance was an angel, who had been sent by God to give boons to their family; the founder of the family, Constantine Angelos, chose his surname to reflect this relationship. It is believed that this dynasty fell from power when the SCP-3201 instance was satisfied with its collection of icons and no longer provided them with precious metals. Palaiologan Dynasty - SCP-4066-π (1261-1453) The Palaiologan Dynasty was not controlled, supported, or composed of extraterrestrial entities; however, they were aware of the SCP-4066 phenomenon, and took steps to counteract the influence of extraterrestrial entities on Byzantine politics. Michael VIII Palaiologos, after reclaiming Constantinople from the Latin Empire, founded the Military Order of Saint Constantine the Great, an organization modeled on contemporary Catholic military orders like the Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller; its founding document, the Creed of Saint Constantine, established the duties and responsibilities of the organization, and is reproduced below. Document SCP-4066-π-1: Creed of Saint Constantine Circa 1265. Marble inscription, Istanbul, Turkey. Greek. Translated by William Wentworth FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton, 1864. Show Document Hide Document We swear by the Trinity of the Lord God Almighty, the Father in Heaven Above and the Son Jesus Christ who died for our Sins and the Holy Spirit; And we swear by the Mother of God, the Virgin Mary, and by Saint Constantine the Great, and by all the other Saints who watch over us from Heaven; And we swear by our Loyalty to the Emperor and to the Empire of the Romans, the Bastion of Christendom, now and forever; We swear to protect the Empire of the Romans and all her Subjects and Protectorates from all Enemies and Influences that are not of this Earth, whether they seem to come from Heaven or from Hell or from some Unknown Sphere; And we swear to protect the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church from the same Enemies and Influences, and to obey the Teachings and Traditions of that Church; And we swear to use the Unearthly Weapons and Tools passed down to our Order by the Emperor to defend against their Creators, and to maintain the Condition of such Artefacts to the best of our Ability; And we swear to guard both Church and Empire from Dangers Within as well as Without, never allowing Unearthly Corruption to Take Root in any Office of those Sacred Bodies, and to thus guard our own Order, that our Righteous Purpose never be Suborned. This we swear, before our Brothers in Faith and in Arms, before our Emperor, before our Church, and before our God. Amen. Hide Document Membership in the Order was restricted to Byzantine nobility from families that had never had "the taint of the unearthly," and several prominent noble families, including the remaining branches of the Angeloi and Komnenoi, were thus banned from the Order entirely. While the Order of Constantine was not the first esoteric containment organization, it was the first to be more than moderately successful; they repelled a number of attempts by extraterrestrial and extradimensional forces to depose, control, bribe, or replace various Palaiologan Emperors, and on two separate occasions led the armies of the Empire to victory against full-fledged extraterrestrial invasions. These victories were recorded in the Συγγραφαὶ Ἱππῶν Κονσταντίνου (Histories of the Knights of Constantine), a compendium written by a number of Byzantine scholars and court scribes; an excerpt is reproduced below, describing the Battle of Nicomedia, fought in 1312 against an invasion force apparently comprised of both terrestrial and extraterrestrial mercenaries employed by an individual known as "Alexander Star-Born". Document 4066-π-12: Συγγραφαὶ Ἱππῶν Κονσταντίνου Book 7, Chapter 23 Circa 1315. Second-generation vellum copy, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Greek. Translated by Ioannes Pappapetrou, 1933. Show Document Hide Document The emissaries from Star-Born came on the eve of the battle. There were three of them, Alexander's most trusted companions and subordinates. Each was a king in his own right, but had sworn himself to the warlord in the hope of expanding his kingdom under another's protection and patronage. The first was Agaleüs Ironclad, a titan half again as tall as a man, whose body was more iron than flesh; he commanded five thousand infantry. The second was Gnephrou Dorokrates, an octopus the size of a small boy, who sat upon a large plate that flew at waist-height; he commanded two thousand cavalry on mechanical steeds and four hundred on plates similar to his own. The third was Theulian, called Suneater, a Nubian of modest stature whose skin was covered in shifting patterns of light; he commanded twelve sorcerers and their twelve-by-twelve demonic familiars. They delivered unto the Emperor and his advisors a proposition: if he were to swear fealty to the Star-Born and aid him in his conquest of the whole world, he and his descendants would be governors thereof until their line should die out. The Emperor, knowing this Alexander's true nature, his endless treacheries and his lust for power, refused. The emissaries returned to their master, swearing retribution. Before dawn, the two armies assembled on the plains outside the city's walls. The Star-Born's light-ballistae fired as the first rays of the sun came over the hills; they were deflected by the invisible Aegis granted long ago to Constans II by his benefactors, and an answering volley of stones and fire-jars came from our war-engines. These landed among the German mercenaries on the enemy's right flank, slaying many men and causing great confusion. As the armies marched toward each other, arrows and flame-lances and bullets filled the air. Our cavalry attacked the right flank of mercenaries, slaying those who had not been slain by the earlier attack; the flying cavalry of the Star-Born's forces tried to intercept them, but was repelled by a barrage of war-rockets. The infantry met in the middle, the metal-men commanded by Agaleüs crashing through our own ranks. The center held after the first charge, and was reinforced by our war-constructs, a scarce hundred of which had been captured after their last invasion. The battle continued throughout the day; neither side could gain the upper hand, so evenly were the forces matched. We thought we might fight until the last man fell, and still not truly repel this invasion. But the Lord God was with us on that day, and delivered us from such a defeat. Near sunset, the enemy began to retreat; and as they fled, the same commanders who had come before the Emperor on the previous day rode out bearing a flag of truce. His armor's air-passages having been clogged with the mud of the field and the gore of the men he slew, Alexander had suffocated; and, like his ancient namesake, he had not established his succession, and each general wished to return to his kingdom and consolidate his own power. They returned to their ships and their sky-chariots, and left our lands. Hide Document After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Order of Constantine was split; one branch of the knights, believing that the Ottoman Empire had, by right of conquest, taken up the mantle of the Roman Empire, swore their fealty to the Ottoman Sultan, becoming an integral part of the Bab-i Mukhfi, while another branch fled for Russia, continuing their work in support of the Orthodox Church. The Russian branch of the Order was folded into the Tsar's Seers16 by Tsar Peter the Great in 1699, a Foundation precursor organization that specialized in the preemptive destruction of esoteric threats via precognition and thaumatological advanced-warning systems. « Art Is A Getaway Drug|Hub|The Obligatory Fanservice Story » Footnotes 1. The destruction of icons and other images for religious purposes; iconoclasm was practiced by Byzantine Christians during parts of the 8th and 9th centuries, and occasionally by the various Muslim empires that invaded and conquered parts of the Byzantine empire beginning in the 7th century. 2. "Gold-named", after his successful tax and coinage reforms that were later credited to the fictional Anastasius I. 3. The primary language spoken by the Lisk'Lurthan, an extraterrestrial species encountered via SCP-2088. The Lisk'Lurthan are pentaradially symmetrical, with an ovoid body approximately half a meter in height and a quarter meter in diameter surrounded by five three-jointed arms; on one end of the body there is a mouth surrounded by five compound eyes, on the other a cloaca for the expulsion of waste. The Lisk'Lurthan locomote primarily via brachiation in forests or on specialized structures, or by "cartwheeling" on flat ground. Most Lisk'Lurthan encountered in SCP-2088 have been performers, favoring various forms of gymnastics, a combination combat sport and performance art similar to human professional wrestling, and choral singing. 4. 437 CE. This dating scheme is anachronistic, not being put into use until 691 CE. 5. The Foundation does not currently have a full grasp on Lisk'Lurthan calendar systems; the current Lisk'Lurthan chronological era is the Era of the [Yellow/Bright/Precise] Star. 6. Probably a personal name, hereafter "Cartwheel" 7. A kind of guardian spirit, which was said to provide advice and guidance to the person it watched over. 8. A Hellenized version of the Egyptian god Horus, usually depicted making a "shushing" motion with his finger in front of his mouth. 9. Charlemagne, who was crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in 800, possibly in response to a woman holding sole rulership of the Byzantine Empire. 10. Also known as the "Hidden Porte", the main normalcy-preservation agency of the Ottoman Empire. 11. i.e. the year 794-5. Before the year 988, the secular calendar of the Byzantine Empire used 15-year administrative cycles, called "indictions", to measure time; the year started on September 1st, as opposed to January 1st. 12. i.e. Constantinople 13. Modern Ankara, Turkey 14. Translator's note: Probably a transliteration of a proper noun. 15. Translator's note: "τηλέφωνος", literally meaning "far-sound", is the modern Greek word for "telephone"; "διαδίκτυον", literally meaning "through-net", is the modern Greek word for "internet". For examples of similar linguistic phenomena, see Arvidsson and Nguyen, "Anachronistic Vocabulary in Glossolalia and Thaumotranslation," Journal of Paralinguistics 34.1 (2011), 45-70. 16. Πровидцы Царя (Providtsy Tsarya) ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4066" by ch00bakka, from the SCP Wiki. 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SCP-4067 | keter | An SCP-4067-2 instance mid-construction. Item #: SCP-4067 Special Containment Procedures: Mobile Task Force Delta-9 ("Pest Exterminators") is to track and disrupt SCP-4067 events if possible. The task force is to be equipped with long-range incendiary weaponry and neutralize both SCP-4067-1 and -2 instances. MTF Gamma-5 ("Red Herrings") is to aid in cover-up of SCP-4067 events. Items left behind from events are to be collected and be kept in Artifact Storage Vault 12 of Site-42 for analysis. The six live SCP-4067-1 instances in Foundation custody (designated -A through -F) are to be kept in reinforced, acid resistant containment chambers at Site-42. Interactions with -1 instances are to be accomplished via automatic means and if unavailable, Class-D personnel are to enter wearing acid resistant hazmat suits. Standard decontamination of equipment is to be performed and personnel are to be inspected for contamination afterwards. If found contaminated, subject is to be quarantined and diagnosed by the on-site medical team. Their fate will then be evaluated by the Site Director. Contained SCP-4607-1 instances must wear remote-activated shock collars at all times. The collar is set to deliver an automatic shock in the event of tampering. The remains of one -2 instance in Foundation custody are currently kept in cryogenic storage within Tanks 13 through 16. Access requires Level 4 clearance. Description: SCP-4067 refers to a yearly event that occurs in a random location throughout Western and Central Europe where a massive gathering of a race of insect humanoids occur. These humanoids are designated as SCP-4067-1 instances. Instances of SCP-4067-1 are sapient and are both bipedal and quadrupedal. DNA analysis of instances has shown traces of the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana), various members of the cicada super family (Cicadoidea), human (Homo sapiens) and several unidentified organisms. Instances are capable of producing speech1 though communicate via clicks more often among themselves. Some specimens possess two or four limbs connected to their torsos that terminate in three fingers. Dissections have shown the presence of a large green membrane at the center of the torso, and a large intestinal system along with glandular organs. One organ has shown to produce an acidic substance, which instances would occasionally drool in small quantities unintentionally. SCP-4067-1 instances are also infested with multiple non-anomalous diseases. Examples include salmonella, dysentery, gonorrhea, the bubonic plague, and Lyme disease. Instances are immune to the effects of these diseases, but pose a major risk for humans. Disposal via incendiary means is deemed sufficient. At the yearly event, -1 instances manifest from unknown sources in various numbers2 and create effigies from wood.3 These effigies are made to resemble an unknown deity worshiped by -1 instances, and are designated as SCP-4067-2. When it is built, -1 instances will gather any near-by humans or animals, and then in a ritualistic fashion have the bodies of subjects expand and merge with the -2 instance while chanting. Once a -2 is completely covered in the flesh of subjects, it will begin to animate and slowly crawl its vicinity in search of further subjects to consume, including -1 instances. A recovered offering possessing a carved depiction of the deity worshipped by instances. SCP-4067-1 instances have produced offerings at the events, such as carvings or sculptures, depicting their deity. Each depiction varies but is of an insect appearance. Usual depictions are sometimes humanoid or more resembling an ordinary insect. From interviews with captured -1 instances (Addendum 01), the deity is referred to as a female and is named "Kicothea". Currently, there has been no sufficient evidence to confirm the existence of this deity. It is not known where instances travel to and from for events due to attempts at tracking being met with failure. For example, GPS trackers cease transmitting until the next event where the instance it is attached to attends. An inter-dimensional origin is speculated. The Foundation became aware of SCP-4067 on 7-12-19██ in the Białowieża Forest in Poland after reports of "roach bug men" around the edges of the forest. Agents were sent to investigate and discovered a small gathering of -1 instances as they were constructing offerings and a -2 instance. The -1 instances immediately dispersed and evaded capture. The incident was logged and was encountered again the following year, which resulted in SCP status. Addendum 01: The following transcript is of an interview with a -1 instance. + Interview Log – hide block Interviewed: SCP-4067-1-E Interviewer: Dr. Heather Madeira Foreword: Dr. Madeira communicated with the specimen via intercom. <Begin Log> Dr. Madeira: Hello, do you understand me? SCP-4067-1-E: (Produces several clicks) Yes. Dr. Madeira: Alright. Can you tell me what you are? SCP-4067-1-E: (Produces several clicks) Sorry. No word in human tongue. Dr. Madeira: That's fine. How did you learn to speak English? SCP-4067-1-E: (Unresponsive while it produced chatter.) Dr. Madeira: You don't know? SCP-4067-1-E: No. Not exactly. Dr. Madeira: Alright. Well, I want to ask about the annual event your kind does. What's the purpose of it? SCP-4067-1-E: (Chirps) Remember. Dr. Madeira: Remember what? SCP-4067-1-E: Memory of… ruler. Our (click) Kicothea. Dr. Madeira: What is that? SCP-4067-1-E: Archon… our ruler. She is mother. (Clicks) Watched over us. Called endless swarms to her. Dr. Madeira: Hm. What happened to her? SCP-4067-1-E: Broken. No longer called. Know not why. Dr. Madeira: I see. Can you elaborate? SCP-4067-1-E: (Unresponsive while producing clicks before responding.) Cannot. Dr. Madeira: Very well. That concludes this interview. <End Log> Addendum 02: At an excavation site in Egypt, mummified remains of SCP-4067-1 instances were discovered surrounding several granite pillars marked with Daeva inscriptions, and a single depiction of an insect organism. A scroll containing Daeva script was also recovered. A translation of it is found below. Following this discovery, additional sites of mummified instances and pillars were found throughout the Middle East. + Recovered Scroll - ACCESS GRANTED The land is plagued by filth. The [servants/slaves?] of the now perished Kicothea, Archon of Her Undulating Vastness,4 construct effigies in honor of her while serving the hand of the Grand Karcist. They bring upon [rot/famine?] and must be [cleansed/purged?], by order of our Empress. We carve upon stone pillars and blessed it with rays of atrophy. Our Empress then is to carve forth the sounds of Kicothea, which were thought lost to memory, to attract the swarms. May they fall like their Archon. The pillars have been moved to Site-12 for research and have not displayed any anomalous properties as of yet. Testing is ongoing. Addendum 03: Level 4 clearance required to view. + Document - ACCESS GRANTED Keter Class Review Program To the O5 Council, Recently, reports have been submitted of an increase in size and frequency of SCP-4067 events with two occurring in the same year. The additional event occurred in Northern Africa. In response, we propose an immediate update to the special containment procedures. We propose the following: Involvement of the Global Occult Coalition (GOC): Due to current procedures in disrupting events by the neutralization of instances, involving the Global Occult Coalition in aiding in efforts could be beneficial due to their approach of neutralizing anomalies. They possess technology capable of being destructive while being covert. Reconstruction of Daevite Pillars: In regards to recent discovery, attempts at recreating the Daeva pillars supposed phenomenon may be feasible by thaumatology experts in the Foundation or in the Global Occult Coalition. The creation of the pillars would be sufficient in the event that complete neutralization of the SCP is required. Also, it would significantly lower the damage to the surrounding environment from the use of incendiary weaponry. The above proposals would lower the amount of resources invested in containment. It would aid in maintaining secrecy and limit collateral damages. The threat the anomaly poses would be easily overpowered. We wait for your response. It is best to act now so we are ahead. Sincerely, Charles Luther, Head of the Review Board of Keter Classed Objects Footnotes 1. Instances have spoken Akkadian, English, Adytite, and Daevite. 2. Instances that manifest often range from 50 to 200. 3. Instances would use alternative materials in construction but prefer wood. 4. An epithet of the Sarkic deity Yaldabaoth. |
SCP-4068 | keter | Memetic SCP-4068-1 communication. Item #: SCP-4068 Special Containment Procedures: Electronic and verbal communications of Fortune 500 companies will be monitored for any references to the phrase “a lovely little hotel in the Rockies”. Corporations flagged for this communication will be quarantined under the guise of epidemic prevention and all employees interviewed for the detection of SCP-4068. SCP-4068-1-A instances will be administered Class-C amnestics. SCP-4068-1-B instances will be terminated, and records of their employment history expunged. All communications affected by the memetic effects of SCP-4068 (including but not limited to electronic communications, posters, and letters) will be expunged, as well as any records of SCP-4068-2 policies. Description: SCP-4068 is a phenomenon affecting employees of major US-based companies1 (affected employees are henceforth referred to as SCP-4068-1). There is no apparent process for the incidence of SCP-4068 among individuals, but previous instances of SCP-4068-1 have been limited by the following criteria: Job responsibilities are largely corporate in function (i.e. not related directly to the sale of products, to manufacturing, or to custodial duties) All instances of SCP-4068-1 are employees of companies listed in the Fortune 500 for the year the instance initially manifests All instances have unusually high rates of agreeableness and poor critical thinking skills SCP-4068-1 instances proceed through two primary stages, henceforth referred to as SCP-4068-1-A and SCP-4068-1-B. SCP-4068-1-A instances will begin to reference a recent corporate retreat they attended. All instances to-date have referred to the event as “enlightening” and located in “a lovely little hotel in the Rockies”, though no evidence of the existence of these events nor the hotel has been found. Descriptions of what was learned at these events are invariably laden with corporate jargon to the point of being incomprehensible. SCP-4068-1-A will attempt to spread what they learned from the event to other employees, typically through emails, motivational posters, and verbal conversations. SCP-4068-1-A communications appear to exert a memetic effect on other employees of their company, who become convinced that information about SCP-4068 is meaningful and attempt to spread it to other employees (thus creating more instances of SCP-4068-1-A). Non-employees perceive the anomalous speech normally, and can neither understand SCP-4068-1 instances nor be influenced by the memetic effects of SCP-4068. The use of Class-C amnestics is effective at curing SCP-4068-1-A instances, though future exposure to SCP-4068 will cause a recurrence of the effects. SCP-4068-1-A instances progress to SCP-4068-1-B typically after remaining untreated for 4-5 weeks, though proximity to other instances of SCP-4068-1-A and SCP-4068-1-B will accelerate the progression. SCP-4068-1-B instances are completely incapable of comprehensible speech, devolving into a coprolalia2 of corporate jargon and buzzwords. This speech exerts a significantly strong memetic effect on other employees, greatly increasing the likelihood of the creation of SCP-4068-1-A instances. SCP-4068-1-B instances can also be distinguished by an extreme reticence to interact with non-employees, violent tendencies towards non-anomalous management theory literature (books, articles, etc.) and signs of psychological distress3. The administration of amnestics to SCP-4068-1-B instances appears ineffective at curing the instance, as mental deterioration has typically already occurred by this point4. Refer to Interview Log 4068-A. SCP-4068-2 are corporations who have reached a critical mass of SCP-4068-1 instances (approximately 60% of employees, though SCP-4068-2 instances can manifest earlier if the majority of the company leadership is affected). SCP-4068-2 will implement corporate policies that appear to be consistent with SCP-4068. Due to the incomprehensibility of SCP-4068-1 communications, the reasoning behind these policies is unclear, and attempts to discuss them result in further manifestations of SCP-4068-1-A. All instances of SCP-4068-1 will comply with the policies laid out by SCP-4068-2. Employees of SCP-4068-2 instances who are not yet affected by SCP-4068 typically become instances of SCP-4068-1 within a week following the implementation of these policies. A refusal to participate in SCP-4068-2 policies will elicit violent reactions from SCP-4068-1 instances. Refer to Evidence Log 4068-A. + Evidence Log 4068-A - Collapse SCP-4068-2 Instance Policies Implemented SCP-4068-2-3 All employees work in 24-hour shifts, seven days a week. Speakers are installed in every room of corporate locations and continuously project a recording of an SCP-4068-1-B instance speaking. SCP-4068-2-5 Nudity is actively encouraged as the appropriate dress code among staff. Bodily depictions of corporate logos and mottos (via tattoos, body paint, and in rare cases, self-inflicted scars) are common. SCP-4068-2-12 ██████ Co., formerly an oil & gas company, attempts to switch all resources to the manufacture of wristwatches, to the great financial detriment of the company. SCP-4068-2-13 Employees adopt extreme ascetic practices. ██ employees die of dehydration or starvation. SCP-4068-2-16 Polygamous office romances are mandated among the staff. The number of partners appears to be correlated with the individual’s position within the corporate hierarchy. SCP-4068-2-17 The color blue is strictly prohibited in corporate locations. SCP-4068-2-19 Poor performance reviews result in the [DATA EXPUNGED] of employees. SCP-4068-1 instances show no apparent signs of discomfort. + Interview Log 4068-A: SCP-4068-B-17 - Collapse Interviewer: Dr. G. Kyne Interviewee: SCP-4068-B-17 [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Kyne: When did your symptoms begin? SCP-4068-B-17: Outsourcing the speed-to-market of paradigms to downsize the upside of our enterprise cloud take-away. Dr. Kyne: Can you understand what I’m saying? SCP-4068-B-17: Give me push-back ecosystems of our core synergistic competencies to stay on the innovative growth hacking swim-lane. Dr. Kyne: What is causing your symptoms? SCP-4068-B-17: Moving the needle to my bleeding-edge pain points by the out-of-pocket disruptor drilling down from outside the box in a lovely little hotel in the Rockies. [END LOG] Footnotes 1. Employees of non-profits and governmental institutions appear unaffected. No employee of the SCP Foundation has been affected by SCP-4068. 2. The involuntary and repetitive use of obscene and meaningless language. 3. It is possible that SCP-4068-1-B instances are at least partially aware of their condition. 4. Autopsies of SCP-4068-1-B instances show partial degeneration of the Wernicke’s area of the temporal lobe, related to the development and comprehension of language. Although SCP-4068-1-B instances appear to suffer from some symptoms of Wernicke’s aphasia (typically characterized by producing fluent yet meaningless speech) they lack other necessary symptoms and seem perfectly capable of comprehending normal language, and are able to follow any verbal commands. |
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SCP-4070 | euclid | Satellite image of Bangor, Maine (USA); previously a common destination of SCP-4070-1 instances. Item #: SCP-4070 Special Containment Procedures: Any autonomous automobile discovered to be converging upon SCP-4070-A is to be intercepted and shut down. Foundation agents embedded within groups producing autonomous automobile guidance software are to inject code preventing SCP-4070-A recognition by their relevant systems. MTF Tau-58 "Plymouth's Fury" has been established to intercept SCP-4070-1 instances. It is to maintain a 1km perimeter surrounding SCP-4070-A at all times. Description: SCP-4070 is a phenomenon wherein affected autonomous automobiles (SCP-4070-1 instances) ignore user input and instead converge on SCP-4070-A. SCP-4070-A is the target of SCP-4070-1 instances. Current calculations indicate that upon startup, an autonomous automobile has a (100/e^x)% chance of becoming an SCP-4070-1 instance (where x equals the distance between the automobile and SCP-4070-A in kilometers). SCP-4070-1 instances will travel in a straight line1 toward SCP-4070-A. Due to the relative scarcity of self-driving automobiles until recently, it is unknown when SCP-4070 manifested. However, due to the history of SCP-4070-A, a starting date of ██/██/1983 has been proposed. Addendum-4070-1: Discovery Log: SCP-4070 was discovered when a [REDACTED] brand self-driving vehicle in ████, England experienced the effect of SCP-4070 upon starting, driving into the ocean and killing 3 passengers. Analysis of the car's data found that its safety measures had been disabled and it was driving towards GPS coordinates corresponding to a point in Bangor, Maine, USA. This was later confirmed to correspond to the exact location of SCP-4070-A at the time. Later tests confirmed anomalous properties of SCP-4070-A. Addendum-4070-2: On ██/██/1999, SCP-4070-A was involved in a human-on-vehicle collision, sending SCP-4070-A into a nearby ditch. SCP-4070-A suffered a fractured hip, multiple fractures to its right leg, and a collapsed lung. Following a comprehensive Foundation investigation into this incident, it was determined that SCP-4070 was uninvolved. Addendum-4070-3: On ██/██/2019, a space rocket fired by the ██████ company in 2018 with a █████ brand vehicle onboard was confirmed to be undergoing a travel path unintended by the ██████ corporation. Instead of travelling to [REDACTED] as intended, the space rocket used its remaining fuel to change course towards SCP-4070-A. Current projections indicate this will result in a direct collision with asteroid-41970-A455 and is not expected to pose a threat to human life. Footnotes 1. Relative to the curvature of the earth. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4070" by DolphinSlugchugger, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4070. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: 4070.jpg Name: Bangor Maine satellite map Author: Terra Prints Inc. License: CC BY-SA 2.5 Source Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bangor_Maine_satellite_map.jpg |
SCP-4071 | neutralized | Item #: SCP-4071 Special Containment Procedures: Foundation web crawlers are to monitor the internet for reports of inconsistencies between documented events and human memories. Any documentation determined to be a SCP-4071-2 instance is to be immediately removed from circulation. Depending on the extent of the presence of SCP-4071-1 in each SCP-4071-2 instance, and how widely spread it has been, a new copy of the documentation without content of SCP-4071-1 instances may be created to replace the SCP-4071-2 instances. If any previously unrecorded SCP-4071-1 instances are detected, any potentially affected documentation is to be examined in order to determine whether they have become SCP-4071-2. Any individuals who witness a SCP-4071-2 instance are to be amnesticised, and/or publicly discredited, depending on the circumstances. Description: SCP-4071 is a phenomenon in which previously unrecorded events simultaneously appear in a large number of various forms of documentation. These include but are not limited to journal articles, news reports, documentaries, some fiction, and textbooks. SCP-4071-1-X refers to each unrecorded event. SCP-4071-2-X-X refers to each piece of documentation affected. The Foundation became aware of this situation due to a sudden exponential increase in reports of documentation not supported by human memory. Further examination has found that a number of previously unrecorded events have suddenly appeared in various forms of documentation. Based on the type of information appearing in documentation, it is the Foundation’s belief that this anomaly is being directed by an individual or group of people attempting to increase global tension. As a result, groups such as the Chaos Insurgency, the Organisation for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts and the Imperial Japanese Anomalous Matters Examination Agency are to be investigated. + Addendum - Addendum The following is a list of documented events confirmed to be SCP-4071-1 instances. The changes in human behaviour indicate the differences between reality and the documented SCP-4071-1 instances. Designation: SCP-4071-1-0007 Date of SCP-4071-1-0007: 09/07/2018 Material most affected: Widespread among all forms of media; news related media including articles and videos most affected. Description of SCP-4071-1-0007: The division of Korea into two separate countries, the Republic of Korea, or South Korea, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea. Changes in human behaviour: The population of North Korea are repressed and nuclear-weapon oriented, while the population of South Korea are technologically focused. Designation: SCP-4071-1-0149 Date of SCP-4071-1-0049: 09/10/2018 Material most affected: Video game magazines, online videos, online forums. Description of SCP-4071-1-0149: The invention of an extremely popular console called Xbox, developed by Microsoft. Changes in human behaviour: Creators are offered incentives to exclusively produce content for either Xbox or PlayStation. PlayStation controllers are no longer supported by Microsoft computers due to brand loyalty. Designation: SCP-4071-1-0421 Date of SCP-4071-1-0421: 29/10/2018 Material most affected: Council permits, rental agreements, architectural plans. Description of SCP-4071-1-0421: The construction of a large block of apartments at 900 Biscayne Bay, Miami. Changes in human behaviour: Several hundred people apparently believe they previously resided in 900 Biscayne Bay. NEXT ITERATION ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4071" by Jazstar, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4071. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
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padding: 2vw; } SCP-4072 by DrApricus 'long way out from shore, huh? ▸ More by this Author ◂ {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} Item#: 4072 Level1 Containment Class: keterㅤ Secondary Class: uncontained Disruption Class: vlam Risk Class: critical link to memo Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4072 research is under the jurisdiction of the Site-50 Oceanic Phenomena Division. Currently, containment cannot be achieved. Instead, Foundation agents are to attend to passengers of SCP-4072 who are recovered after their experience. Coastlines globally are to be surveilled for possible sightings. SCP-4072. Description: SCP-4072 is a white, three-mast sailboat with no identifying markings or crew. It is capable of steering autonomously despite not possessing the mechanical components necessary to do so. SCP-4072 is in a state of disrepair that conflicts with its apparent age, the first sighting of the anomaly occurring in August of 1981. Incidents involving SCP-4072 suggest the ship locates stranded individuals and rescues them through means unknown. Based on its design, the anomaly appears to have been built in the 1940s and as it has never appeared on the shore, it would not be installed with modern radar technology. Discovery: A series of messages were received by Site-50 Control from Dr. Albert Riley's pender.1 At the time the messages were received, Foundation researchers Dr. Albert Riley and Dr. Harlan Felvor were partaking in an independent aquatic study on the Pacific Ocean. Log 4072-1 Fourth day. I know, I know. It was supposed to be three days. We have all our stuff in order, and we've been ready to head back for about a day and a half now. Unfortunately, our trip is taking a bit longer than we expected. Weather issues. I'll be utilizing the pender for notes in the event of an emergency. Felvor thinks it's a waste of time, but who knows? Tell my honey I won't be home tonight, or tomorrow, but I will be home soon. Log 4072-2 The storm around noon almost knocked me clean off the boat, and scared the life out of me. I'm here recording another pend because I don't think we'll be home for another few days, sadly. Turns out we're out farther— way farther— from shore than we thought. Saw a mighty fine bull shark drift by earlier. I'll tell you this much, that thing could've ripped my arm clean off. We've started duct-taping our utilities to the boat. The winds are getting really bad and we don't want to lose our stuff while we're sleeping. If it weren't for my pal here, I'd be dead. He's the only one here with any experience on the water. My knowledge is only any good under the water. We got ourselves enough food and bandaids to last a nuclear winter though. We should be fine if we can just get through this storm. Log 4072-5 The sun is about to set, I think, and we're starting to make good strides. It's the middle of August so I have no clue why the weather is so damn bad. The good news though is we're expecting to make it home in the next few days. I know I've been saying that for a while now but I mean it this time. It's not exactly optimal for us either, ha. The skies have been freaky all afternoon so things might get a little rocky overnight. A little lack of sleep can't hurt though. I'll see you on the flip side. Log 4072-6 It's early morning and— fuck— Felvor's already awake. Seems like we both severely underestimated how bad the sky would be. Not to mention the tides. I got up and there, he was— shit— that was a loud strike. Harlan, I think we're sailing right into the storm. Oh lord. So, the steering tool is stuck in place, we'll need to wait until the sky clears to oil it. Can we get ahold of Control? What'd you say? God damnit. Oh- f- sh- ah— Log 4072-7 Is this damn thing on? Okay. Thank God, it still works. So listen, Felvor and I are- kind of fine. I'm all bruised up, but he took a hell of a beating in the storm. We've just been able to get the situation under control. We haven't been able to shake the storm and we're both soaked. We lost our food supply and all we got left is a Granola bar and a bottle of water. After that, I'm taking a bite out of Felvor. Huh? Oh, shut up! It's a joke! But- well, we're still figuring out what's fried and what's not. Uhm… We'll get back to you. Log 4072-8 So, update: Almost everything's fried. You already know communication is down. Otherwise, you would've gotten through to us. The only device, besides my pender, that we know is working is the vicinity detector thingamabob. No other ships are within range, as you'd guess. We're really out here. Oh, and since we lost the food, Felvor unthreaded my shirt and is using it as a fishing line. No success yet, and it's still raining so the chances of getting a good fire going are scarce. But… good spirits, right? Right? Log 4072-9 It's the next morning and I'm- okay, got it, dude- uhm- and I found a hole in the boat that wasn't there last night. We're pretty sure it's coming apart. Probably from a combination of the storm and corrosion. We don't know how long this boat is going to last and at this point and we don't know if there's much we can do. You've probably already deployed some team to find us. Hopefully, that works. Huh? Oh, god. Okay, so- uhm… sorry about that. My partner's sick now, a bad cold from wearing those soaked clothes. We've made a makeshift tent with a plank and a blanket, though the boat is still breaking apart, slowly but surely. If my ping still works, light it up if you're getting these. Log 4072-11 Two days later. I didn't send anything yesterday because, y'know, you never got back to me. I figured at this point you can't track me. Felvor and I are starving at this point, we finished the remainder of the food a few days ago and we've resorted to drinking our own piss. A crack is forming along the middle of the boat and my partner figures it's going to give way by tonight. Then it's us versus the sea. Fuck me. Log 4072-12 So- shit… uhm… God. This might be my last message. The sun is setting over the horizon and we can feel the crack in the boat giving way. It's only a matter of minutes before it cracks. I dipped my hand into the water to estimate my chances, and yeah, I'm going to die within hours. Please, tell my wife I love her and tell her I died peacefully and quickly. Please- fuck! It's breaking! Log 4072-13 I— God, let me catch my breath. Okay, I can't find Harlan. I can't find him! I don't know how long I was- I can't tell what time it is. My ears… shit- my ears are popped from the water. I'm holding onto a part of the boat. Please… just, please. I'm freezing. I'm fucking freezing! Log 4072-16 I have no idea what happened but when I woke up I was under the deck of a sailboat. I'm still lying here, and I'm not sure what happened while I was out. I wandered around for a minute and couldn't find anyone. My stomach is tearing me up, God. The storm is still going strong, but there's a roof over me so- so that's good. Oh God, Harlan's not here with me. Fuck, where is he? One second… God. No, no, no. Everything is so fucked. What's going to happen when I get back home? Well— if I get back home. The skies don't look any better. Log 4072-18 The strangest thing happened. This morning when I woke up, there was a plate of warm food on the step of the— what's it called? The boat basement? Anyways, yeah. But you can't imagine my relief. I had been starving for, like, a week now. I don't know who put it there but I guess it must've been whoever rescued me. I guess I should meet the driver of the boat and thank them, and also ask them if they have a washing machine. I'm still wearing the same, torn khakis. Log 4072-19 I hadn't realized how severely I had been hurt until I tried moving just a few moments ago and- shit- I guess I did a number on my legs. My arms are battered up from the wreckage, I got cuts all over me, and probably frostbite. I should just rest here. Just rest here forever. I'm starting to feel seasick for the first time. Not to mention this rocking is giving me a splitting migraine. Log 4072-20 I finally mustered up the energy this morning- God- to leave the cabin. When I searched the ship I couldn't find a… uhm— nobody. Still, there was hot food on the steps. Though we lost the aquatic study papers, maybe something can come out of this trip. Heh? Oops, this bandage is coming undone. One second… Uhm… Log 4072-21 Yeah, I found the navigation compartment today and it's completely empty. Control, if you're out there, I hope you're documenting this. Somehow, I think this thing is steering itself. The sun has started to peak out a few times so I think the storm is finally starting to clear. I haven't seen any life since I showed up on this boat until about half an hour ago when I heard a helicopter. I don't know if I was hallucinating or not. Log 4072-22 I'm excited to get home and see my wife and daughter. I've been trying to keep track of the day-night cycle and I think it's been three weeks or so. Correct me if I'm wrong. I've been trying to take up a hobby while I'm being taken back to shore by this— I'm not sure— this automated boat. Oh, and I've figured out we're heading back to shore. I found a compass in the cabin and it says I'm sailing northeast. So… yeah! Good spirits. Good spirits… Log 4072-23 Another day. I'm looking at this compass and, like, it works. I'm turning it and shit and it works. The skies are clear at this point. Which makes it worse because it now confirms that nobody is nearby. Still, no shore, and I've been out here for weeks… alone. I really don't like that. It's slowly setting in that, for the first time in my life, I have no backup. I don't have a lifeline. If this boat— I don't know— gets fucked by another storm, I'm a goner. Hell, I almost was. I've always had something to break my fall. I think if I can just sleep through the days in the cabin, I can make it through and just one day, there will be shore on the horizon. I just have to hope. Log 4072-26 So… uhm. Last night I found a lantern. I spent the night counting the floorboards in the cabin. The ship was rocking a lot. I have no clue what was happening but the waves were strong. I couldn't sleep for the life of me, no. The food is nice as always. Oh, and I have made a friend. Her name is Peisyl. and she is- oh… I- she isn't around right now. But she's this nice, old lady who was hanging out on the deck today. She must've been hiding out elsewhere during the trip. That brings my spirits up, though. Knowing I'm not totally alone. Um, anyways, I guess l will talk to you tomorrow. Log 4072-48 What is this… day— no, week— week three? Maybe four. I lost track of the sun a while ago. Sorry. But Peisyl, the only other person here, has been great to talk to. I don't care anymore, honestly. I know I've said that probably, like, twenty times across these stupid messages but I kinda mean it this time. Well- no. That's- that's a lie. I just want to go home. I just want to lie in my own bed with my wife. I just want to sleep on a mattress and drink coffee. I just don't want to be on this stupid boat anymore. Like, what is going on? Log 4072-152 Peisyl has been getting on my case about staying out of the sun. Getting a lot of burns recently and I've been staying in the cabin a lot as a result. To be completely forward, she's the only reason I haven't jumped overboard yet. I've thought about it, a lot. It's becoming a more prevalent thought. Every time I go to sleep I dream about the stupid sea and this stupid boat and the stupid fucking sky. Just once, just a single damn time, I wish I could dream of the shore, and feeling the sand. Oh hey, Peisyl. Yeah, just a minute. Thanks. But anyways, I've started to build a cabinet with the spare wood. It's silly but I've always wanted to get into woodwork and it'll be a nice present for my wife. Log 4072-481 A helicopter passed overhead earlier. I think it was real. But at this point, you and I both know I've gone a bit coo-coo bananas in the head. There's no way I'll be employed when I get home. I know you might be wondering, "Hey, Albert, why don't you just jump off the boat if you're so miserable? If you've lost hope, it's just a hop, skip, and a jump away." And that's true, but I refuse to lose hope completely, not yet. I'm going to get home, I'm going to. I can taste the beaches of Cali. And you also might respond by pointing out that insanity is just doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result, and you'd be right again. But I'd rather be stupid than dead. Log 4072-2188 The water is so still today. It looks like an image. It's flowing, obviously, but it's slow and almost still. I could watch it for hours. Come to think of it, I actually have. I just wanted to thank you, pender, for listening to me. You're my best friend, next to Peisyl. Where is she? Peisyl! She's eating, I think. Where does she even disappear to? Anyways, I should get some sleep. How about you? Log 4072-7924 Pender, I don't have the capacity to put up with you today. Leave me alone. My skin is peeling again from the burns. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. Just- just no news today. Actually, wait a second. I do want to talk, actually. We're good friends, right? We've been together all the years. Do you think anyone back on shore misses me? Or even remembers me? Surely my case has gone cold, at least beyond the Veil. What if my wife has started dating again? Do you think he's nice? The kid probably loves him. Maybe he's funny, cracks a lot of jokes, and has a stable job that he doesn't need to keep a secret and has him out of the house without explanation all of the time. Maybe she still thinks about me from time to time, wonders where I am, or maybe the Foundation already put together a cover story. Log 4072-16430 I have a working theory, pender. I'm dead. Of course, I've been saying it from the start. Looking in the mirror, what has happened to me? Oh God, I must be at least seventy. I need a trim, my hair extends down to my feet. Pender, every time I look in that water, I get the sensation of falling. The thing that scares me is I like it, the feeling. I want to jump in, I want to jump into the water as Peisyl did, that hypocrite. She once said that if I ever jumped into the water, she'd tie me up when she got ahold of me. If someone as hopeful as her jumped, why shouldn't I? Fuck. There's nothing left anymore. Aren't you going to convince me not to? Log 4072-19232 Okay. I've- I- I've made up my mind. If I'm dead, I'm not doing any damage anyways. I won't sugarcoat it, so just tell her— no, both of them— that I died peacefully. Okay… Uh… No, no, no! I can't! God, why can't I just- why… no. I need to stay on this boat. I need to… I need to… I need to live. Or all of this shit will have been for nothing. Damnit, Peisyl! You and your fucking speeches. Goddamn! I can't jump. I will get home. I will. I will! When the final transmission was received, the two seamen had been MIA for a total of 17 days. On October 4th, 2012, SCP-4072 arrived at a dock in Orange County, California. Foundation agents were quick to apprehend Dr. Albert Riley, who was barely alive and unconscious from self-starvation. He was found to have aged roughly sixty years over the span of the incident. Additionally, he had developed brain damage and hallucinatory symptoms as a result of isolation. The passage of time aboard SCP-4072 has not shown to be reversible in a victim's biology, even with the usage of anomalous items. Update: A camera was uncovered amongst the wreckage of the original boat, which was recovered 3 days after his reappearance. Unlike the others, this device was still active. VIEW CONTENT HIDE CONTENT After inspection by technological staff, several hours of footage from the trip were recovered, though most of the footage was of the camera facing the waters. Dr. Albert Riley appeared unaware that the camera was recording. An excerpt from the recording can be found below. Dr. Albert Riley, behind the camera, talking to Peisyl. 4 hours, 28 minutes into the recording. Dr. Albert Riley is laying down in silence, having just puked over the side of the boat. Riley: You know anything about this boat? You know nobody's steering, right? No response. Riley: I'm trying to talk to you, you're the only person on this ship. Do you know anything? When are we reaching shore? It's been— months… Riley: No, no. I've been watching the sun. I've been watching it! Yeah, and we're heading northeast. So we are heading towards shore. Riley: My wife must be so worried. Are you married? Riley: Really? How many kids? Riley: Awe, that picture is so sweet. I hope you can get home soon too. Yeah, thank you. He nods and lets out a brief chuckle. Riley: By the way, where does the food come from? Still, after being debriefed on the situation, Dr. Albert Riley could describe intimate details of the woman's appearance, mannerisms, vocal patterns, and even specific quotes. He has identified the woman as "Peisyl Noell," and the only item returned is a portrait of a woman taken in 1928. Thirteen similar incidents have been reported along the East Coast since. As tracking devices do not appear to function on SCP-4072, research has proven difficult. The true number of cases associated with the anomaly is unknown. It has been proposed that containment is not necessary as SCP-4072 has ultimately returned its passengers to shore, saving their lives, though this has been highly criticized. Research into treating psychological damage retained aboard SCP-4072 is ongoing. As such, all passengers apprehended by Foundation agents are to be kept in custody indefinitely. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4072" by DrApricus, from the SCP Wiki. 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SCP-4073 | euclid | close Info X SCP-4073: Just Blowing Hot Air Author: $ghosthorses$ Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Figure_12_02_11.jpg (Creative Commons, edited) Thanks: ashburystreet for some code RockTeethMothEyes for some crit RetroHead for div background image use Related Pages: "Just Getting Fresh Air" (tale) "Site-M16 SCiPNET Email: RCT" (supplement) The anomaly described herein has been NEUTRALIZED. The documentation is below archived for posterity and reference purposes. Names have been censored for reputation's sake and can be accessed by contacting the main office. - RAISA and Level-5 Administration Archivist's Note: The developments regarding SCP-4073 are below organized in a manner that is faithful to its chronology as an anomaly, and is presented so for the purposes of clarity. Item #: + Display History - Hide History SCP-4073 SCP-4073-EX SCP-4073 SCP-4073$N$ Object Class: + Display History - Hide History Euclid (Pending) Explained Euclid Neutralized Special Containment Procedures: The herein anomaly has been Neutralized. No further action is to be pursued. + Display Archived Containment Procedures - Hide Archived Containment Procedures PoI-4073-1 and -2 are to be educated regarding a suitable surrogate diagnosis and boarded at Site-M16 for containment and research purposes under the guise of being in a specialized medical research facility. Low-grade amnestics are to be administered on an as-needed basis by facility orderlies. Site personnel not consenting to participate in the randomized controlled trials surrounding the anomalous qualities and potential interventions of SCP-4073 are to wear N-95 respirator masks and sound-cancelling earphones while in active zones on-site. Those participating are encouraged to vocalize their relief to help confirm thermal readings. Initial Classification: Circa 1894 + Display Documentation - Hide Documentation SYNOPSIS: SCP-4073 is a tentatively unexplained, multisensory phenomenon affecting three current El Paso, Texas residents; Mr. Dale and Mrs. Judy ███████, as well as their 4-year-old son Michael Sebastian. Several reports from a reliable source indicate that the aberration manifests as a series of sensory data, to follow, as stated in collected anecdotal evidence: Auditory: Reported by the family approximately 80% of the time. The ███████'s report hearing faint, droning auditory stimuli that begin without warning, and that are apt to increase in volume given time. The auditory signature is said to often be in close proximity to one of the family members (sometimes all three simultaneously), seemingly surrounding them. The sound has been described using descriptors such as “sneaking”, “creaking”, “groaning”, “rumbling”, “squeaking”, and the like. Of note, the sounds allegedly display differing characteristics depending on which family member experiences the most proximity to a given instance. Olfactory: Noted approximately 60% of the time. There is no consensus regarding the odor(s), though all are described in unpleasant terms by the family and incite aversion. Somatosensory/Etcetera: Manifestations purportedly can be accompanied by tactile sensations, such as "dreadful" vibrations. Thermal discrepancies have been described in the wake of manifestations. HISTORY: SCP-4073 reputedly began in the year 1893 during the family's residence in Garland, Texas. The Foundation was contacted by a long-time consultant, Father Loedel (of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility on the Pines), after he attempted an exorcism on the ███████’s property. The ███████s had endured severe psychological stress as a result of the purported haunting, which prompted the empathy of Father Loedel after his procedure was seemingly unsuccessful. A research team composed of Junior Researchers Nunes and Coutaux (masquerading as independent paranormal investigators) was arranged as a result of Father Loedel's consult and was tasked with the collection of empirical data. ANALYSIS:: Based on the preliminary data, it was first speculated by this team that the phenomenon was unique to the then-home of the couple, as it featured hallmarks typical of thaumaturgically-hexed domiciles. Occurrences are typically restricted to when the family is alone (unable to be supported by corroborating witnesses), arranged in specific, ritual-like configurations (such as sitting at the dinner table), or in the early hours of the morning, often startling them from sleep. Ill-intent was deemed likely, as the phenomenon affected all components of the family's lives, including but not limited to finances, socialization, and occupation. However, the couple informed Father Loedel, shortly after spontaneously relocating into a new home (El Paso) in attempt to flee the haunting, that the phenomenon had followed them and continued its influence. The family was educated via letter on the importance of remaining where they are for the purposes of research logistics, given that the anomaly was not structure-specific. The team will confiscate the family and deliver them to a Foundation facility for long-term housing upon confirming the anomaly. Reclassification as Explained: Circa 1895 + Display Documentation - Hide Documentation Note: The following is a reproduction of the journal entry penned by Junior Researcher Nunes, by which the designation of Explained was proposed and justified. January 7th, 1885.1 El Paso, Texas. We had just finished a gracious dinner and we were telling Ol’ Coot2 how good the meal was that he had cooked for us all. It was about that time that the gastrointestinal processes — I assume resultant to the particular seasonings on the boudin3 — began to exert their effect on our senses. First came very hyperactive bowel sounds, audible without the need for a stethoscope, as the stomach and intestines surely grappled with the heat of the spicery. Flatulence, barely recognizable as such given its timbre, started with the child Michael but soon involved Mr. and Mrs. ███████ as well, erupting in the dining room and concussing the walls of the home. (Myself and Coot were resistant it seems — I take it because we had been eating this sort of cuisine regularly in the preceding weeks. Coutax sure knows his food.) When the situation began to involve our senses of smell, a patent embarrassment became our hosts and the circulation in their faces was well-boasted. It was at this moment — one I honestly would have been glad to have credited them the courtesy of leaving unspoken — that the entire family began to lay blame upon the anomaly we had dedicated our time and resources to. I asked plainly if the reporting was nothing more than the family’s inability to reconcile their obvious sense of propriety with the emission of their digestive gases. The family assured me that any production of the sort was due to fear of the phantom. Coot and I then took our leave, and with no need for amiable excuses. I do not exaggerate when I proclaim that the event was the most ghastly display of digestive humors ever witnessed by myself or my colleague. The flatulence persisted for entirely too long, the sound rendering us incapable of coherently-interpreted speech. The odor was simply and remarkably indubitable. After all this pursuit, this is no bonafide anomaly ("just hot air" remarks the Ol' Coot!), although I can see why the family was scared towards death itself. The postulation derived from the above account was soon confirmed to be the source of the reported phenomenon through additional visits to the home and further in situ testing. After scoring poorly on several sensory tests, Father Loedel was honorably retired from the Foundation consultation database with respect to phenomena regarding these faculties at age 73. The file for SCP-4073 was re-opened for repopulation by a valid anomaly. Reclassification as Euclid: December 1993 + Display Documentation - Hide Documentation The SCP-4073 slot was again designated to what is thought to be a re-discovery of the phenomenon. Foundation diagnosticians submitted a formal request for anomalous evaluation after two sisters — PoI-4073-1 (aged 31) and PoI-4073-2 (aged 27), both unmarried — bearing the surname ███████ wrote to Unsolved Diagnoses4 of a gastrointestinal malady that was described in similar terms to those previously documented, and bearing reminiscent features. The following is a reproduction of SCP-4073's description after being reinstated as a Euclid-class anomaly: Pedigree analysis for SCP-4073, beginning with Mr. Dale and Mrs. Judy ███████. Description: SCP-4073 is a gastrointestinal anomaly wherein gaseous by-products of digestion feature a contagious quality. SCP-4073 originates from descendants of one paternal phylogeny, namely those who can be directly traced from the lineage of Harold Jean ███████.5 However, approximately 85% of the populace show susceptibility to SCP-40736 and will perpetuate its effect when detected through either the senses of hearing or olfaction. SCP-4073 has the potential to cause a chain-reaction, given a sufficient concentration of susceptible individuals. Foundation risk management teams have deemed a Lifted-Veil Scenario occurring as a result of such an event unlikely. The longest observed reaction involved 83 individuals. SCP-4073's mechanism of action is unknown. Foundation geneticists have endorsed the likelihood of the anomaly being carried by an autosomal dominant allele. Initial containment included the quarantining of PoI-4073-1 and -2 in Site-M16, a Foundation medical research facility. However, due to the relatively concealed and benign nature of the anomaly and the manageable number of offending individuals, initiatives were proposed with support from the Ethics Committee that minimized invasion and that addressed a "disproportionate restriction of freedoms". To this end, a group of compounds were developed by Foundation pharmaceuticals to chemically contain SCP-4073 by suppressing different key messengers within neural pathways between the involved senses and the gastrointestinal system. Trials were conducted as the individuals were given mitigated freedom to walk the site (and mild amnestics if appropriate). It is from these double-blinded trials involving Site-M16 personnel that the chemical therapies for SCP-4073 were observed in a controlled environment. One of these compounds, 4073-EUY, resulted in the neutralization of SCP-4073 in PoI-4073-1 and -2, as well as those who are otherwise affected by SCP-4073's contagious qualities. Through poorly understood means, 4073-EUY ceased the production of SCP-4073 as well as reflexive yawning responses in treated individuals.7 PoI-4073-1 and -2 were released from containment following the apparent resolution of their condition, and were followed by a Foundation-mediated longitudinal cohort study. Neutralization: January 2033 + Display Documentation - Hide Documentation With the deaths of the aforementioned sisters, SCP-4073 has been declared Neutralized, and will remain so barring the identification of any additional members of the offending lineage. Foundation Human Resources Note: Site-M16 Employee Support Services has provided condolences and extended leave to both widowers. Footnotes 1. The date of the team's arrival to the family's home. 2. A nickname in the Cajun dialect for the surname, here given fondly to Junior Researcher Coutax. 3. A Franco-Cajun style sausage. 4. A Foundation-fronted television show developed and aired beginning in the 1990's, whereby civilians reported medical anomalies that were then investigated for possible classification, thereby crowd-sourcing and expediting discoveries. 5. The earliest known records of the family's immigration to the United States begin at this individual. Prior records do not exist or have not yet been discovered. No individuals in addition to those currently under surveillance by the Foundation exist in census databases. 6. Testing suggests that SCP-4073 is potentially transmissive to any biological life form that possesses a digestive system. 7. While this implies a non-anomalous mechanism of action underlying SCP-4073, the primacy of any proposed theory was never agreed upon, and reclassification to "Explained" could not be sufficiently justified. |
SCP-4074 | safe | An SCP-4074-2 specimen. The "nebula" is falsely colored. Item #: SCP-4074 Special Containment Procedures: All specimens of SCP-4074-2 are to be contained in the Botanical Section on Site-31. Access to each specimen is limited to Level 3 and above personnel, and is strictly for research purposes only. Currently, SCP-4074-1 is being contained in the onsite infirmary ICU for anomalous humanoids. As soon as subject is physically and mentally fit or an interview, any qualified personnel in the immediate vicinity is authorized to begin interrogating the subject. Update: On 5/11/18, subject has ceased all life functions. On Dr. Evalo’s approved request, the cadaver of SCP-4074-1 is to be sent to his department for his ongoing research regarding anomalous humanoids. Description: SCP-4074-2 is an anomalous plant, superficially and genetically similar to Phalaenopsis blume. Aside from its unusual growth rate1, the specimen’s significant anomalous properties manifests when it enters its reproductive cycle. Approximately two weeks after its bud has developed, a glowing revolving gas, closely resembling that of a miniature nebula, will grow around the bud whose diameter and luminosity will grow exponentially, relative to the growth of the bud. Test results shows that the gas is composed of helium and hydrogen2. SCP-4074-2, five seconds after the collapse of its "nebula". Approximately two weeks after its initial appearance, the gas, which usually have an average maximum diameter and luminosity of 35 cm and 280 lm, respectively, will instantaneously collapse in on itself, creating a solid six cm sized glowing orb that usually has an average temperature and luminosity of 34°C and 500 lm, respectively. The orb will emit a steady output of light and heat for seven to ten days before it will begin to steadily and completely decrease both in output and activity, leaving behind a spherical pod of the same diameter. When pried open, the pod will always contain three 1.2 cm sized seeds that when planted will grow into another instance of SCP-4074-2. Research in imitating the specimen’s "bioluminescence" to create a cheap and alternative biologically-based light source is currently underway. Qualified researchers may submit an application to Dr. Leara. SCP-4074-1 is an emaciated Caucasian male, 1.75 m in height and 46 kg in weight. Excluding its initial discovery and the following ICU incident, no further activity or properties from or related to the subject is deemed anomalous. (Refer to addenda "History" and "ICU".) Addendum/History: Open File Close File On 6/1/18, local news about a cut-down tree bleeding blood was detected during a standard Foundation information sweep. After a sample taken by an agent confirmed that the blood was indeed human in origin, the tree was quarantined with the cover story that the blood coloration was actually a mutated tree sap that could possibly be toxic. Foundation manufactured samples were given to the local biologists to avoid suspicion. After test results showed mild toxicity, Foundation agents, disguised as international biologist and botanists were given permission to remove all traces of the tree. Upon excavation of the stump, a thicker root was discovered to be originating from a hand of an unconscious SCP-4074-1 who was contained in a cement casing 1.83 x 0.46 x 0.61 m, with his right hand protruding outside of the casing3. When subject was confirmed to be still living, SCP-4074-1, after receiving authorization from HQ, was safely extracted and discreetly rushed to the nearest Foundation site. Addendum/ICU Incident: Open File Close File Further investigation of the subject revealed that all of its orifices were surgically sewn shut. The tree4 grew from subject’s hand which collected water, nutrients, and oxygen which it delivered to the subject as a form of sustenance5. An unknown solid object was discovered in the subject’s stomach which, upon authorization, was surgically removed. Upon the object's removal, SCP-4074-1 suddenly became active and agitated, repeatedly shouting6 the following words, GIVE IT TO ME! I NEED TO GIVE IT TO THEM! SWALLOWED IT UP TO HIDE IT! GIVE IT BACK! Immediately after a few minutes of struggling and screaming in its restraints, subject started to violently convulse and became unconscious. Subject has shown no signs or consciousness ever since. Addendum/OOI: Open File Close File The object acquired from the subject's stomach was discovered to be two rolled up envelopes, encased in plastic designated as OOI (Object of Interest) 1 (external) and 2 (internal). OOI 1 As OOI 1 was more exposed to the subject's stomach fluids, it has suffered significantly more damage compared to OOI 2 which was located in the interior of the roll. The content of the letter is transcribed below. Note: Due to the damages sustained by the letter, some characters are either missing or illegible. The legible letters are transcribed as it is located on the letter. Hellohidden sweetie, I’m sorry that daddy wasn’table to come to your party. I know I promised you that I will be there but work is keeping daddy really busy. I’m really sorry sweetie but don’t worry because I have a surprise for you. Remember that time when we went to the sunflower farm and you were so disappointed because the flowers didn’t glow. Well guess what?You see those seeds? Just plant them and wait for it to flower. I know how much you like gardening and space, so I added a little surprise there. You’ll just have to wait and see. Daddy is very, very sorry again sweetie but remember this, daddy will always, ALWAYS love you. Why? Because you’re daddy’s precious little sunshine. I love you Lyla, and happy birthday!” OOI 2 OOI 2 is a small slightly damaged brown envelope containing a letter, which was undamaged, and 3 seeds of SCP-4074-2 contained within a small plastic pouch. The content of the letter is transcribed below. I’m sorry. I know that it is not enough but I truly am sorry. I love you, I love both of you, and I know this is not the life that I promised you. I needed to leave because THEY were getting close and that would have put you both in danger. If you're tired of hiding and running, I'll understand if you leave. You deserve a better man. But please, PLEASE, don't hide her from me. Don't make her hate me. This world is dark and cruel but somehow, with her, it's a little bit brighter and warmer. Please, don't take my little sunshine away. Footnotes 1. SCP-4074-2 grows twice as fast compared to its normal species counterpart. 2. Why the gases glow and are unaffected by gravity is still unknown. 3. The group/organization responsible for encasing the subject is still unknown. The case itself is normal and no signs or marks that can be used to identify its source is visible. 4. Despite the tree's size, its growth rings suggest that it is only four years old. 5. Exactly how these process worked is still unclear. 6. At the expense of lacerating the subject's lips. |
SCP-4075 | keter | close Info X Check out more of my articles on my author page! SCP-4075-a, far left, at their native colony. Rio Maximo Wildlife Reserve, Cuba. Item #: SCP-4075 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4075-1 has been purchased by the Foundation. The site has been secured to prevent civilian entry; fences have been erected around the perimeter, with signs warning against entry on account of ongoing renovation. Attempts to track anomalous movement of SCP-4075 members are ongoing. If large scale anomalous activity occurs, similar to that observed in Addendum 4075.04, cover stories of irregular colony movements are to be disseminated, with any contradictory media or online coverage suppressed. Description: SCP-4075 is a flamingo colony located in an abandoned office block, designated SCP-4075-1, in Lima, Peru. All known species of flamingos are present in the colony, in proportions roughly aligned to global species demographics. At any time, there are approximately 500 members of SCP-4075 present within SCP-4075-1. While situated within SCP-4075-1, members of SCP-4075 gain anomalous properties, most notably the ability to communicate verbally with humans. Speech will be heard in the language the listener is most familiar with. SCP-4075 refers to itself as the "Flamingo Bureau of Immigration". The purpose of SCP-4075 appears to be the processing of certain documents, designated SCP-4075-2, and the delivery of processing outcomes to the originating colony. SCP-4075 claims to fulfill a governance role over all flamingo colonies worldwide. SCP-4075-2 appear written in reader's native language, and images of documents will display no text. Attempts to remove SCP-4075-2 from SCP-4075-1 for further examination have been met with failure.1 Members of SCP-4075 have the ability to instantaneously teleport to other, non-anomalous flamingo colonies situated around the world, and then back to SCP-4075-1. Members have been observed teleporting to other colonies for the purposes of sleep, sustenance, and mating. Travel between colonies and SCP-4075-1 also appears to serve the purpose of SCP-4075-2 collection. In the majority of instances of teleportation to SCP-4075-1, members will be carrying paper documents within their beaks. With the exception of teleportation, SCP-4075 members have not demonstrated their anomalous attributes outside of SCP-4075-1, and flamingos not part of the SCP-4075 colony have demonstrated no anomalous behaviour.2 + Addendum 4075.01: Initial Exploration - Addendum 4075.01: Initial Exploration Addendum 4075.01: Initial Exploration Foundation Agents Marquetti and Peralta were dispatched to SCP-4075-1 after local reports of anomalous activity within SCP-4075. Agents entered the site through a reception area on the ground floor, where 6 instances of SCP-4075 were stationed behind office desks. Upon observing members of SCP-4075 communicating with human speech, agents requested permission to approach from command. Request was granted. 5 instances ignored agents and did not respond to attempts to initiate conversation. The sixth instance, an American Flamingo3 henceforth designated SCP-4075-a, engaged with agents. Interview Log 1: Agents approach SCP-4075-a, which is applying a rubber stamp held in its mouth to documents on the desk in front of it. As agents approach, SCP-4075-a places down the stamp and faces agents. SCP-4075-a: Oh man, here comes another. We've had 3 or 4 of your lot come through here already this month. What do you want? Agent Marquetti: My name's Alina Marquetti, this is my colleague Mauricio Peralta, I was wondering if you cou- SCP-4075-a: Where's your form? Agent Marquetti: My form? Sorry I'm not sure I- SCP-4075-a: Your form. If you want an interview you need a form. Agent Marquetti turns to look at Agent Peralta. SCP-4075-a: *sighs* Third floor. Ask for Employee N38795DD. Or just ask for Clarence. Agent Peralta: I'd just like to ask you some questions on why you're here…and how we're communicating right now. SCP-4075-a: Look, I can't talk to you if you don't have a form. No form, no talking. I didn't make them, but they're the rules. If we keep talking I'm going to be sent to a behavioural tribunal, and I do not have time for that this year. SCP-4075-a refused to interact with agents after this point. Agents proceeded to the Third Floor, and located the instance they were directed to. They were issued with a form entitled "External Party - Security Clearance and Permission for Interaction Request". The form requested a variety of information including: Bureau Identification Number Purpose for Visiting The Identification Numbers of SCP-4075 members the requester intended on speaking to A summary of topics to be discussed with each member Employer Name Languages spoken, and proficiency level in each Average speech Decibel Level (if known) Upon inquiring what needed to be written in "Bureau Identification Number", agents were asked if they had previously visited SCP-4075-1. Agents answered in the negative, and were issued with a form entitled "Bureau Registration and Holistic Demographic Appraisal". The form was set over five, double-sided standard A4 pages. Details requested included: Name: Date of Birth Nationality Reason for Visiting Mother's Maiden Name Grandmother's Maiden Name Address details for the last 8 years, 7 months, and 2 weeks. If the requester had ever contracted Avian influenza. If the requester has knowingly had contact with an individual affected with Avian influenza. Scans of three identification documents. Acceptable examples listed included birth certificate, death certificate, passport, driver's license (if issued in the last 6 months), social security card, or amateur radio license. Agents were also asked to complete an "External Party - Consent for Processing" form, in quadruplicate. Liaising with command, agents Marquetti and Peralta completed and submitted the forms. They were informed the processing of said forms would take between 5 and 75 working days, not including Tuesdays. Form responses were received on the 73rd day. Agent Marquetti's request was granted, and she was issued with an ID number. Agent Peralta had failed to account for his address for 2 days in the period details were asked for. His request was denied, although he was provided with a new blank form. + Addendum 4075.02: Interview Log 2 - Addendum 4075.02: Interview Log 2 Addendum 4075.02: Interview Log 2 As SCP-4075-a had previously engaged with agents, it was decided to arrange an interview with this instance. Agent Marquetti arranged to interview SCP-4075-a, through another form, "External Party - Event Scheduling - Face to Face Bidirectional Communication Request - Interview (Interviewer)". It is understood that SCP-4075-a completed a form entitled "External Party - Event Scheduling - Face to Face Bidirectional Communication Request - Interview (Interviewee)". Agent Marquetti was granted permission to ask SCP-4075-a no more than 4 questions. By the date of the interview, Agent Peralti had been issued with an ID number. He was able to observe the interview, but not partake. Interview took place on the ground floor of SCP-4075-1. Agent Marquetti: Morning Employee G9898CX, are you still available for our interview? SCP-4075-a: Yep, now's good for me - and that's question 1 out the way. Let's keep this quick, I've got a backlog of verification requests the size of my wingspan. Agent Marquetti curses under her breath, and crosses out a question on her interview log. Agent Marquetti: Not the start I was hoping for, but thank you nonetheless. To begin, please could you explain what you and your…flock are doing here? SCP-4075-a: I don't know the exact details, never had to ask. We've been about for a while, but things started to be formalised when your kind turned up in this part of the world, and we had to leave North America. There needed to be some form of organisation to make sure they all got down here together. Since then we've been helping govern colonies all over. You'd need to speak to the Historical Matters and Record of Records department if you wanted to know more. Agent Marquetti: What's your role here? SCP-4075-a: Our first major job might have been Immigration, but we've expanded a lot since then. I'm in Verification - I get the documents, I check the documents, I pass them on to Re-Verification who checks them again. I don't know where they go after there - again, I've never had to ask. We process a lot of stuff, but the majority are birth certificates, death certificates, requests for immigration or seasonal migration. Those requests almost always get denied, the colony up at Carmague is one of the only ones that consistently gets their paper work in order. Mating season is our busiest time though, without a doubt. You've got to stick in a request for courting, a request to couple up if said-courting is successful, a notification of pregnancy document not long after that. It's a lot of work, but it's just the way it is. Those forms aren't too bad, to complete or process. It's the recoupling request which is a pain. Every year we'll get an influx of requests from wandering males or unhappy females asking to couple up with a new mate. And every year, we have to turn a whole lot down because they've made an error in the forms, or don't meet the criteria. It can be weeks on end before I return to my colony. And after mating season we've got all the birth certificates to issue, making sure all the newborns are correctly assigned to the right colony…we like keeping track of our own I guess. Agent Marquetti scribbles on the corner of her clipboard. Agent Marquetti: Sorry, my pen seems to have stopped working.(Agent Marquetti turns to Agent Peralta.) Do you have a spare I could borrow? SCP-4075-a: Well I do but I'd have to get my line manager to approve a "Stationary Loan Request" form and those take around 3 to 4 we- Agent Marquetti: No, no, no, please, that wasn't a question for you! What I would like to ask is, well, I'm struggling to understand why you're all here in the first place. Why you're here doing what you're doing. What's the point of all this? SCP-4075-a: I'm not sure on that I'm afraid. Even if I did, you don't have the security clearance, and I'm not getting involved with Avian Resources again. Accidentally marked a document as correct once, ended up in a disciplinary hearing. A 30-bird jury had to unanimously decide the outcome. Whole thing ended in a stalemate. They found me culpable, but couldn't decide on an 80 or 81 day period of isolation. Took over 5 years start to finish…. Agent Marquetti: And do you know how it is we're having this conversation right now? None of your species in the wild have demonstrated half of the behaviours you demonstrate whilst within this building. SCP-4075-a: Again, I've got no idea. And that's your four. I need to validate a stack of Colouration Certificates due to be issued to some chicks in a colony in Senegal. Happy to talk again, just make sure you go through the proper channels. And just an FYI, you'll need a different form as it'll be the second time we meet. + Addendum 4075.03: Document 4075-76: Request for Reassignment - Addendum 4075.03: Document 4075-76: Request for Reassignment Addendum 4075.03: Document 4075-76: Request for Reassignment Name: Alina Marquetti Date: 06/07/████ Current SCP assigned to: SCP-4075 Reason for Request: During the entirety of my time researching SCP-4075 I, nor any other member of the team, have yet to gain any useful information from them regarding the nature of their anomalous properties, and do not currently see any way in which I could gain useful information from them regarding anything. Whilst I could at first understand my assignment, due to my acquisition of credentials, we have failed to gain any valuable details not gathered through our initial interviews with instances of the anomaly. Subsequent interviews and research have failed to gather any information useful to my team, the Foundation, or the world at large. Documentation processed by SCP-4075 is wholly concerned with the regulation of the most mundane activity, and their reluctance to allow us to examine these documents severely limits our ability to establish causation. I have had no success in deriving any idea of SCP-4075's hierarchy, and which instances, if any, are responsible for the overall functioning of SCP-4075 and the setting of its objectives. Instances seem to fulfill their responsibilities purely for the sake of doing so. It is my personal belief that their actions serve no purpose. The irony of having to submit this form to escape from their forms is not lost on me. My only relief is that I've not had to provide a blood sample from my great-great-great-grandfather's second cousin once removed, or some other tripe that the birds would ask for. My skills and talents are sorely wasted on this assignment, and I see no reason not to move away from research to sole containment. If I have to brush another pink feather off my uniform I may just have to request reassignment to D-class duties. + Addendum 4075.04: Incident Report 4075-01 - Addendum 4075.04: Incident Report 4075-01 Addendum 4075.04: Incident Report 4075-01 Locations of the largest missing colonies, and SCP-████-1. Click to enlarge. On 18/09/████ flamingo colonies in Northwest Venezuela / Northeast Colombia vanished with no explanation, including a large colony of 9,000 birds at La Ciénaga de Los Olivitos, Venezuela. In the days preceding, SCP-4075 had undergone a significant increase in activity. Attempts to discuss the disappearance were rebuked on the basis that Foundation personnel did not have the correct security clearance. The disappearance was localised to a 200km radius around the location now designated as SCP-████-1, the epicentre of SCP-████'s activity, which began on 21/09/████. The connection between these events was not made until after SCP-████'s neutralisation, following its activity escalating to a potential XK-Class scenario on 25/09/████. At the peak of SCP-████'s activity, the entire population of SCP-4075, along with the entire population of flamingos worldwide, also vanished, returning on SCP-████'s neutralisation. Agent Marquetti's request for reassignment was denied. SCP-4075 divulged no information surrounding these events, despite repeated attempts at questioning by Foundation agents4. Due to this, and the potential value of utilising SCP-4075 as an early warning system, a decision was taken to obtain information by force. A task team, led by Agent Marquetti and Peralta, entered SCP-4075-1 on 01/11/████, and attempted to obtain members of SCP-4075 and instances of SCP-4075-2 for further study at Foundation facilities. The operation was unsuccessful. SCP-4075 members demonstrated the ability to teleport around the office to avoid both Foundation operatives and projectiles. Operatives were able to obtain instances of SCP-4075-2, but discovered that these vanished when attempts were made to remove them from SCP-4075-1. Five minutes into the operation all Foundation operatives were teleported by unknown methods to the exterior of SCP-4075-1 and found themselves unable to re-enter. During the operation Agent Peralta was able to examine instances of SCP-4075-2, and reported a type of document he had not seen in previous excursions - an "Extra-Universal Evacuation Order". Attempts are currently underway to contact SCP-4075 members whilst they visit other colonies. Attempts to interview non-anomalous flamingos on the topic of SCP-4075 have been unsuccessful. + Addendum 4075.05: Incident Report 4075-02 - Addendum 4075.05: Incident Report 4075-02 Addendum 4075.05: Incident Report 4075-02 On 21/12/████ Agent Marquetti failed to attend roll-call and was uncontactable. Due to her previous reassignment request, desertion was initially considered as a possible scenario, until her quarters were searched. None of Agent Marquetti's belongings had been removed, and no sign of a struggle was found. An instance of SCP-4075-2 was found on Agent Marquetti's bed, the first to be discovered outside of SCP-4075-1. Instance was one standard page of A4, with a single line of text in the centre: "Involuntary Tribunal Summons - Alina Marquetti, 21/12/████." Further investigation is underway. Footnotes 1. See Incident Report 4075.01. 2. See Incident Report 4075.01. 3. Phoenicopterus ruber. 4. Most attempts were ignored outright. SCP-4075-a commented that the colony's annual leave requests had "finally" been approved. The comment is believed to be humorous in nature. |
SCP-4076 | safe | SCP-4076 Item #: SCP-4076 Special Containment Procedure: SCP-4076 is to be kept in a standard Safe-class containment unit and is not to be played unless authorized by at least two researchers of level 2 clearance or higher for testing purposes. Description: SCP-4076 is a VHS tape of unknown make and origin labeled in black sharpie with the words “Play me!”. Of note is the fact that children under the age of 2 years often feel an instinctual fear of SCP-4076, usually attempting to leave the vicinity of SCP-4076 and intentionally attempting to avoid observing its contents. SCP-4076 has several anomalous properties, the primary and most dangerous of which is that any living creature exposed to any of the information on SCP-4076 will invariably and suddenly disappear leaving behind only trace amounts of sulfur dust. How this happens is unknown as any video feed seems to stop working for a brief window starting slightly before the disappearance and ending slightly after it, and any in-person observation ends in the secondary observer’s disappearance. The second anomalous property of SCP-4076 is an inability to be recorded. All attempts to record SCP-4076 thus far have resulted in the disappearance of the recording device in its entirety. The third anomalous property of SCP-4076 is that any person or device attempting to open SCP-4076 will disappear. As of the current time, there is no known way of knowing what is on SCP-4076 without disappearing. For information on tests conducted on SCP-4076 refer to Addendum-4076-2: Testing. For information on the recovery of SCP-4076 refer to Addendum-4076-1: Recovery. Addendum-4076-1: Recovery: SCP-4076 was recovered on ████ ██ after an anonymous tip was called into the ████████ police department reporting the strange disappearances of several locals linked to a reclusive local artist known only as ███ Fermi. An embedded SCP agent within the ████████ police department took note of the disappearances and the Foundation took over the investigation from there. When SCP agents raided the apartment of ███ Fermi they found two rooms of note. The first room of note was a storage room filled with mostly random objects, such as a vacuum-sealed sample of what appears to be pink stained Rosa multiflora (often referred to as multiflora rose), several handheld tape recorders, a large silver cross approximately 12 inches tall, a box of chinese finger traps, a smooth sphere which after testing appears to be made of active uranium with small flecks of red citrine quartz, and a sign reading "Road Closed". The second room of note contained a small cathode ray tube television and VHS player (in which SCP-4076 was found) as well as many seemingly non-anomalous VHS tapes (hereafter designated SCP-4076-1 through SCP-4076-18). A complete list of other tapes as well as their contents can be found in Addendum-4076-3. Addendum-4076-2: Testing: Test Date Experiment Result Conclusion 3/15/1990 SCP-4076 is set to run until completed, with D-5821 (a blind man) assigned to sit in the room and listen to the output of SCP-4076 D-5821 was found to have disappeared when checked on several hours later. The anomalous effects of SCP-4076 on living beings are not limited to purely its visual output. 3/30/1990 SCP-4076 set to run until completed, with D-3821 assigned to watch the contents of SCP-4076 and vocalize constantly until it was over. This test was then repeated with several other D-class personnel. D-3821 stopped vocalizing abruptly exactly 45 minutes after playback of SCP-4076 started. All other tested D-class personnel reacted identically. Observers of SCP-4076 will disappear exactly 45 minutes after viewing begins. 4/11/1990 SCP-4076 set to run until completed, with a D-class personnel member instructed every minute on the minute, starting at the 45 minute mark, to enter the testing chamber and return reporting what they observed. No testing subject returned from the testing chamber until the 1 hour mark, at which point all further personnel returned and reported nothing to be playing. It can be assumed that any person who views SCP-4076 after the 45 minute mark will vanish instantly, and that SCP-4076 is between 59 and 60 minutes long. 5/2/1990 SCP-4076 set to run until completed, with D-7498, D-6223, and D-8743 asked separately to view the contents of SCP-4076 and at a random point before the 45 minute mark describe or draw what they observed. The only variation between each D-class personnel member in this test was that D-7498 was asked to write the description down, D-6223 was asked to speak it, and D-8743 was asked to draw a picture of it. In each instance, as soon as the assigned D-class personnel member began to describe or draw what they observed, they disappeared. In the case of D-6223 an intake of breath was heard, and nothing after. In the case of D-7498, a single small pencil mark was observed on the piece of paper after the experiment, with D-7498 having disappeared when checked on. In the case of D-8743, a similar result was observed as with D-8498. There is currently no way known to learn the contents of SCP-4076 without watching it. 5/13/1990 SCP-4076 set to run until completed with an alarm placed in the room set to go off in 10 minutes. D class personnel member D-9908 was instructed to watch the contents of the tape, and attempt to leave after they heard the alarm sound. D-9908 did not emerge from the testing chamber. When the testing chamber was checked afterward, D-9908 was observed to have disappeared. It is unknown whether D-9908 was unable to leave the room, or whether attempting to do so caused them to vanish. Regardless, it has been determined that attempting to leave partway through the process of observing SCP-4076 will be unsuccessful. 5/31/1990 Researcher █████ attempted to open SCP-4076 by hand using a screwdriver, presumably in an attempt to manually inspect the tape’s contents. Researcher █████ was found to have vanished, with only the incomplete security footage revealing what had occurred. SCP-4076 cannot be opened by hand without the person attempting to open it disappearing. 6/18/2000 A machine designed to open standard size VHS tapes (SCP-4076-A) was constructed and set up to open SCP-4076. It was remotely activated from a distance of 1 mile. The machine was found to have disappeared in its entirety with the cords connected for power and remote activation left sitting in the dust next to SCP-4076. Machines cannot open SCP-4076. 10/10/2017 A computer program (SCP-4076-B) was written by Scientist ████ and Researcher ██████ to identify objects and scenes based on images. It was then exposed to SCP-4076 with no anomalous effects. Scientist ████ and Researcher ██████ then added the ability to store observations made by the program to a text file and re exposed it to SCP-4076. The second time SCP-4076-B was exposed to SCP-4076, the computer it was stored on, as well as all machines with backup copies of the SCP-4076-B vanished, along with anyone who happened to be observing any of those computers at the time. The contents of SCP-4076 still remain unable to be learned by the Foundation as a whole. Addendum-4076-3: List of tapes found with SCP-4076: ID Visual Appearance Label (if applicable) Contents SCP-4076-1 A normal VHS tape with an unknown manufacturer. None 4 hours of visual black and white static (no pattern has been found yet) SCP-4076-2 A faded VHS tape. It appears to be sun-bleached and dating has put it to be several hundred years old. Too worn to be read Unable to be played SCP-4076-3 A normal retail copy of Ghostbusters on VHS “Ghostbusters” A normal copy of the movie “Ghostbusters” except that right after the Stay-Puft marshmallow man appears on screen, it cuts to a video of an unidentified woman crying in a bathtub. The second video plays for approximately 35 minutes without looping. SCP-4076-4 A standard retail VHS tape for making recordings on. “To cheer me up” A 30 minute collection of clips from “America’s Funniest Home Videos”. All of the videos collected feature people falling over while attempting something challenging. SCP-4076-5 A standard retail VHS tape for making recordings on. The label has been removed. A 3 hour video of a series of unidentified restrained women being carried into a room, stripped down, cut open, and devoured by what seems to be a series of humans dressed in red cloaks. SCP-4076-6 A yellow polka dotted VHS tape. The label has a simple smiley face drawn on it. A 2 hour 34 minute video of close up shots of a series of mostly unidentified1 people staring into the camera and laughing continuously for 15.4 minutes each. No pattern has yet been found in the people featured. SCP-4076-7 A smashed VHS tape put back together again haphazardly with tape. “FAILURE” This message is not only on the label but scrawled all over the tape. Unable to be played. SCP-4076-8 An orange colored VHS tape. “Tutorial” This tape contains a 30 minute video of an adult man sitting on a bench in a park attempting to solve a Rubik's cube. SCP-4076-9 A normal retail copy of Back to the Future. “Back to the Future” Future is crossed out in black sharpie. A perfect copy of the VHS release of “Back to the Future” except everything plays backward, from finish to start. SCP-4076- 10 A VHS tape with a wooden casing. “LeT mE inn” A 20 minute long recording of a typical family Thanksgiving dinner seemingly recorded handheld through a window at night. SCP-4076-11 A blue polka dotted VHS tape. The label has a simple sad face drawn on it. An exact replica of the contents of SCP-4076-6, with the same people for the same time, down to the visual noise and wear on the VHS tape, with the only difference being that in this tape all of the people are crying. SCP-4076-12 A liquid sealed VHS tape mostly filled with water. Blank Unable to be played SCP-4076-13 A physically identical copy of SCP -4076 “Play me!” This is written identically to SCP-4076 A 1 hour long tape of a looping time-lapse video of a human body decaying over the course of several days in what appears to be a basement. It appears the tape was overwritten so that throughout the entire video the words “wrong, all wrong” are displayed over everything else in the middle of the screen. SCP-4076-14 A silver VHS tape. “Just for you” A 40 minute video split into two parts, the first being a 10 second CCTV recording of the apartment where SCP-4076 was recovered starting several seconds before the SCP agents entered, and ending several seconds after, the second part being 39 minutes and 50 seconds of blackness. There were no cameras of any kind found within the apartment when it was searched. SCP-4076-15 A standard retail VHS tape for making recordings on. “RIP Winnie 1975-1983” A 30 minute video of an unmarked gravestone and a waving American flag atop a mountain in Yellowstone National Park. When SCP agents investigated the location they found the same unmarked gravestone and the now sun-bleached flag. When the grave was exhumed, SCP agents found a typical golden retriever skeleton. SCP-4076-16 A regular blank retail VHS tape filled with cement. In black sharpie: “never again” Below the sharpie, in red pen: “almost there” Unable to be played SCP-4076-17 A white VHS tape with gold decorative lines "Sermon" A 60 minute long video of a pastor giving a speech in front of a congregation with no audio. The pastor appears to become increasingly impassioned as the video goes on. By the end of it he is standing on top of the speaking podium shaking violently, and appears to be screaming. SCP-4076-18 A standard retail VHS tape for making recordings on. “Happy birthday” A 10 minute long video of a plain wooden table set with plates and silverware for 4 people, as well as a white frosted cake. There is a sheet of lined paper under one of the plates; the part of the paper visible reads "I'm sorry but I can't live like this anymore." The rest of the note is cut off. Footnotes 1. The Foundation was able to identify one of the women featured in SCP-4076-6 and SCP-4076-11 and show her the tapes. When questioned about the events depicted in the tapes she replied "Why was I sad? That never happened!". She continued to repeat that with increasing intensity before being incapacitated by SCP agents. |
SCP-4077 | keter | close Info X Info about the article ⚠️ Content warning: This article contains the following: - Graphic violence - Gun violence - Nazis ⚠️ content warning Suspected SCP-4077 location circa 1599 CE. Item #: SCP-4077 Special Containment Procedures: All information related to SCP-4077 is to be maintained on redundant RAISA Onto/Temporal-Isolated Servers and encoded in the Solid Archive during the next write-accessible interval. Foundation historians are to monitor academic outlets specializing in history and literature for newly uncovered 4077-A narratives, which should be removed from circulation, archived, and replaced with approved forgeries. Any individuals claiming to have encountered SCP-4077 are to be detained and fully debriefed, with their statements recorded as 4077-A narratives. Affected Foundation personnel may be placed on mnestics to improve account accuracy. Foundation satellite reconnaissance and intelligence networks are to monitor for any locations matching the description of SCP-4077. The O5 Council is to be notified immediately if any locations significantly resembling SCP-4077 are located. Effective 3/26/2009, no resources are to be allocated to locating SCP-4077. Description: SCP-4077 is an undiscovered covert facility located in a variable but always remote location. According to compiled descriptions, SCP-4077 is at least 2 km2 in area and roughly follows standard Foundation construction practices circa 2███. Certain described features suggest that SCP-4077 contains advanced technology not currently available outside of the Foundation. No physical evidence for SCP-4077 exists at any location. SCP-4077 is only known to the Foundation through 4077-A narratives. 4077-A narratives are a collection of pseudohistorical documents, written histories, and personal testimonies centering on a mythical or lost civilization, city, or location. The description of SCP-4077 is identical between 4077-A narratives, although some contain only partial features or use period vernacular. These narratives range from the classical period to the present, but even the oldest reports include sufficient detail concerning security practices and paratechnology to represent a Class IV information security breach. Beyond a claim that SCP-4077 contains something of great value to the author or characters in the narrative (typically wealth in the form of gold), very few 4077-A narratives contain any information concerning the interior, inhabitants, or capabilities of SCP-4077. The only 4077-A narratives with any information concerning the interior are summarized below. It is believed that these narratives have been intentionally left intact, as a warning. + Selected Pseudohistorical Narratives - 12th to 16th centuries. //return De gestis Britonum (On the Deeds of the Britons) - 1136 CE Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical record by the rulers of Britain, including the biography of King Arthur. In this record, SCP-4077 is located on the Isle of Avalon, where Arthur is taken after he is mortally wounded by Mordred. Although it is said that Arthur will recover from his wounds, this journey is the last event in the Arthur myth. SCP-4077 is described as entirely self-sufficient, capable of producing unlimited amounts of agricultural and manufactured goods. Additionally, non-anomalous human inhabitants of SCP-4077 have a lifespan of centuries. Letter of Prester John – 1150 CE A letter to Western medieval leaders from the king of a mythical Christian nation in the "Three Indies." The modern security systems of SCP-4077 are described in detail, although using period vernacular and mythological metaphor. SCP-4077 is also claimed to contain a wealth of religious artifacts and an army to battle the forces of Gog and Magog.1 Kitab al Kanuz (The Book of Hidden Pearls) - 1254 CE A suppressed Arabic treasure hunting manual. Describes SCP-4077 as an oasis city "as white as doves" located deep in the Saharan desert, protecting a sleeping king and queen. It can only be accessed by a delivering a secret key to a waiting bird.2 Confession of Juan Martinez – 1529 CE The deathbed confession of a Spanish conquistador who deserted from an expedition seeking the legendary city of either la Ciudad Blanca or Manõa, depending on the version. This city (SCP-4077) is described as being ringed by a bastion-style fort3 topped with bronze idols. Martinez fled the expedition and was discovered by natives, who blindfolded him and took him to into SCP-4077 after learning that he was a Christian. Inside, he witnessed the coronation ceremony of the Gilded King ("el Rey Dorado"), [DATA EXPUNGED]. Martinez was asked to stay and learn the ways of the natives, but decided instead to return to his home. No other record of this expedition exists. //return Discovery SCP-4077 was first identified in a collection of 4077-A narratives from the archives of the Vatican Holy Office for Secrets and Prophecies (Secretorum Camerus Prophetias) in 1964. The Holy Office suppressed these narratives from the 3rd to 19th centuries by pressuring authors and circulating alternate rumors without references to SCP-4077. The Holy Office lacked sufficient context to identify the facility and viewed SCP-4077 as an infohazard related to Solomon's Temple. After the Foundation assumed containment responsibilities, a search of Foundation archives produced several additional SCP-4077-A narratives in the form of personal statements and intelligence debriefings. These instances are attached below. Additional Documents + Partial HMFSCP Field Report 1/25/1905 //return Partial HMFSCP4 Field Report 1/25/1905 We crossed Namaqualand with a regiment of her majesty’s rifles, supported by a camel train, under the pretext of sweeping civilians and Boer guerillas from valleys between Calvinia and Springbok. From our fort at Springbok, we marched north through the Kalahari Desert and up into the desolate Namib. As we crossed the coastal sand seas, rocky outcrops, and sand dunes reaching 100 yards in height, the archaeologist waxed poetic on the timelessness of the place. This desert was endlessly ancient, with her sand dunes forming boundless, unreadable curves and sweeps eons before man first walked the Earth. After months of grueling foot travel, we finally broke a high stony escarpment and found the structure originally reported by the Canadian explorer, Farini. Its many component structures were massive, slab-sided, and whitewashed, rivaling the largest factories of London for size. It was impossible to determine their defenses. Concrete blockhouses were spaced around the perimeter of the structure, but they were dotted with strange electrical equipment rather than the mouths of field pieces or the bristle of rifle barrels. The archeologist, the linguist, and I drew straws, and I was selected to remain behind with a rearguard to observe. It was perhaps unfair that I, the antiquarian, should remain behind, but to be plain I was partially relieved. Atlantis, Ys, Kitezh, Avalon… no matter how closely this island in a desert sea matched those stories, the contents could not possibly live up to the legends. I watched through my field glasses and they slowly grew smaller in the face of the great behemoth, the khaki-clad platoons backing them quickly blurring from my sight into the sand. Just as they began to approach an opening in the structure, a gust of wind kicked up, coating my field glasses with sand and stinging my eyes. By the time I had rubbed them clean, it was all gone. The forward party, the structure, even my rearguard and the camel train with my gear; I was alone in the desert. I ran down the escarpment, trying to find the advanced party, hoping against hope that it was all a mirage or a sudden shift of the sand, but there was nothing. I do not know how many days I had to crawl through that desert before once more reaching the more-fertile Kalahari. It was only by the grace of God that I survived. I know it took weeks in the care of passing tribesmen before I regained even a semblance of my humanity. After bartering my few remaining possessions, I traveled south to Springbok. There, I discovered that the war with the Boers had been resolved over two years ago, and our fateful regiment had never been called to service. When I traveled home for London, I discovered men I knew from the field happily ensconced in their labor as butchers or teamsters, having never worn the khaki. My family did not mark my extended absence as peculiar, but then, as a man of my vocation, they rarely did. The archeologist, I discovered dutifully pursuing his work for the Society in one of the many secluded country manors sheltering the possessions of HMFSCP. Of the linguist, I could find nothing at all. //return + Recovered GOC Debriefing 9/1/1953 //return Recovered GOC Debriefing 9/1/1953 A lot of people stepped out of the grey during WWII. I tendered my resignation as a field agent after the Night of Long Knives in 1934. At that point, the Foundation was still trying to keep people from leaving, but my tradecraft and connections gave me a lot of places to run. They had completely abandoned that policy by 1940; they simply couldn’t hope to hold back everyone who wanted to take part. Of those of us who stepped out of the shadows, Bachmann was indisputably the worst. I first knew him as a particularly vehement Chaos Insurgency operative. Rumor had it that he had been a young zealot in the original uprising, but had been more enthusiastic about the purges than the message. In the years after that, he pursued the anomalous with a ruthless violence unmatched by any but Mssr. Dark himself. It was no surprise when he ended up with the Nazis. It was never clear to me if he was the CI’s Quisling or if he completely switched sides, but by 1935 he was a pointman for the SS Ahnenerbe, Hitler’s personal occult bloodhounds. He spent most of the pre-war years murdering and torturing his way through the antiquarian and occult communities, tracking down anything anomalous that could be even remotely connected to the Aryans. By late 1944, the Germans were getting desperate. Bombers were perpetually raining death on German cities, the allies were rolling up territory on either side, and she simply didn’t have the troops to keep the war going. It was at this point that a crooked officer in the Abwehr5 slipped us a communique from Bachmannn to his superiors. They had assumed it was in code because they weren’t aware of Foundation lingo. My commander in the OSS6 knew to some extent what I had done before the war, and called me back from a field operation to advise on this assignment. What we had was an aerial reconnaissance photo of a covert facility somewhere in the Scandinavian Mountains. My superiors were convinced almost immediately that it was a Foundation Site. It had the hallmark triple-redundant security installations, but none of the activity of a military installation. It had clearly been complete for some time, as it lacked the ramshackle appearance of American or Soviet science cities or German labor camps. I couldn't wrap my head around it. I had had significant clearance back in the day, specializing in securing Keter-class objects, but I had never heard of a Site this size anywhere in the region. Bachmann believed this to be one of the mythical dark Sites that had gone off the grid during the CI uprising. He had some kind of convoluted evidence about the site containing an XK-class apocalypse which he had filtered through Hitler's "positive Christianity," but I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Not my area of expertise. What mattered was, he was absolutely convinced that whatever was contained there could be appropriated and used to turn the tide for Germany. People on both sides were getting ragged at this point, but while the cracks were starting to show for the rest of us, Bachmann seemed to have shattered. He had spent the last decade propping up the myth of the Aryan Volk, and there was nothing left for him outside of that. That, or he was a damn convincing double agent. What we had at that point wasn’t so much of a plan as the necessity to get involved. They dropped me and a dozen Norwegian resistance fighters out of a Handley Page Halifax onto a godforsaken wind-swept bluff. I wasn’t much on skis, but I was the only one handy who had held a Foundation clearance and had any knowledge of standard security protocols. We had arrived two days ahead of a hundred crack Gebirgsjäger mountain troops, led by a gaggle of SS officers and Bachmann himself. We were woefully outnumbered and outgunned, but we only had two objectives. First, we were to establish radio contact with the facility and warn them of an incoming hostile GOI. Second, my job was to identify Bachmann and anyone else with Foundation experience, and put them down. If capture seemed likely, this included me. We simply couldn’t afford to let the Nazis into this kind of facility. One of our sharpshooters broke his leg in the jump, so we had to leave him. The SS found him at the drop site and brought him along. At night, we knew how close they were behind us by the sound of his screams. The mountains there are treacherous, and by twists of terrain and weather we only arrived a few hours before the Germans. We set up a defensive position in a copse of trees facing what appeared to be the main entrance to the facility. Radio was no luck; our equipment couldn’t transmit or receive. We knew the facility was surrounded by equipment, but I had assumed it was some kind of containment apparatus. If this was primarily a covert facility, it might have been some kind of jammer. By the time the German ski troops arrived, Bachmann was completely enraptured. The jägers clearly wanted to establish a perimeter, but he and the SS officers would have none of it. We watched them try portable radio, fail, and then march right towards the entrance like kids in a candy store. None of the SS toadies were anyone I knew, and their grunts and non-coms clearly weren’t doing any talking. At about 100 yards from the facility, I gave the signal. Four sharpshooters fired, and Bachmann danced as three shots took him. Blood spouted from a hit in the neck, while his upper body pivoted one direction from a shot in the ribs and his legs went another from a hit in the thigh. The other sharpshooters rang shots in the brief moment before he fell, taking down a number of the SS officers. The Waffen SS were the ones responsible for anti-guerrilla death squads, so resistance fighters were never ones to let them out of their sights. Bachmann’s body hit the ground, and the remaining officers broke and ran for the cover of the facility. Then, they were all gone. The jägers, the SS, Bachmann’s corpse, and any sign that the facility had ever been there; nothing. We searched the whole area for evidence - trash, blood, dropped weapons - before we thought to count our number, see if anyone had been lost in the brief chaos. We found we were one too many: The man who had been hurt in the jump was limping along with us as we frantically searched. Our team leader greeted him with jubilation, but I had to quietly talk a few of the men down from shooting him. My Foundation training speaking again: when something this anomalous happens, isolation and study are the first priorities, not superstition. After we had satisfied ourselves that the facility was well and truly gone, we made our way down the mountain to our extraction point. Everything then on went to plan. Our mission was still on record and declared a rousing success, but the photo and coded messages were gone. I asked around the occult intelligence community. Bachmann had died with a whole gaggle of Thule Society fucks in 1929, while looking too closely into the Pleistoscene Afro-Asiatic Culture Group. Good riddance. His more prominent crimes had been spread into the biographies of the whole Obskurakorps clique, but some of his victims had survived instead. I suppose there are small mercies. I could never trust the Foundation after that. The idea that they not only had that level of power, but were willing to use it, seemed to invalidate everything I had ever believed about them. It made everything I had done in their service entirely futile. I moved from the OSS to the GOC as soon as the option was available, and have been here ever since. Archivists note: When reached through typical channels, the Global Occult Coalition refused to provide access to the author of this report. Interviews with Norwegian guerillas identified from this report and OSS records confirm the general events, but have provided no additional information. //return + Recovered Statement of Dr. Sylvia Ben-Yair 6/15/2008 - Level 4/BRIGHT-PRODIGAL Clearance Required //return Recovered Statement of Dr. Sylvia Ben-Yair 6/15/2008 If the words “Thaumiel-class anomaly” mean nothing to you, stop reading. If my suspicions are correct, you are going to need context for this. I was in Foundation counter-intelligence for 15 years before SCP-1422. The O5s took this gap of knowledge about as well as a kicked beehive. They had us chasing intelligence and interrogating personnel without end. “Are you now or have you ever been aware of Yellowstone National Park?” We had no idea why this was so important, but knowing was not part of our job. Six months later, I learned why. I was no longer a red right hand, I was a “Thaumiel-class containment specialist” backed by a team of agents and researchers. They gave me a PhD for appearance’s sake and Level 4 clearance with a list of access codewords and numbers four pages long. The research budget for my group was indefinite. The Council stated that I would need approval for something like a space launch or a new Site, but that it would almost certainly be granted. I was given one mission: to identify lost Foundation sites or technology, and return them to the fold. The most basic function of the O5s is to know when something should stay buried, but the discovery of SCP-2000 had created a form of mania in them. You must understand, 2000 came completely out of the dark. There are no records of its construction. No hidden Level 5 archives, no unwritten institutional knowledge, nothing. The technology housed there was beyond a dream. We have had working Scranton devices for decades, but Xyank/Anastasakos Constant Temporal Sinks? The O5s would not even admit that Xyank is an employee. The capabilities of 2000 were revolutionary, and a majority of the Council were either excited or terrified that there could be another Thaumiel site out there. As I read more files, I came to understand. They now had the power to see the future, escape the planet, and roll back disaster. They could not accept that more powers could be outside of their grasp. I could not go into this looking for the next SCP-2000 or SCP-1422. Things you cannot remember are a problem for someone else, and for a site with no connection to the current timeline? I am not a miracle worker. I did not need a budget, I needed data. I started with the hypothetical framework of a covert site built and erased using current Foundation technology. I approached this problem the same way I would rolling up a double agent. If you want to catch a mole, you give them an opportunity to expose themselves. If you want to understand a mole, you look for what they have hidden. To that end, I looked for things the Foundation desperately needed and could not find. For example: Materiel: Given the entangled web of front companies and contractors, tracking basic construction material was an impossibility. Specialty materials were more enlightening. The beryllium bronze alloys, superconductors, and modern ceramics used in the new paratechnology were based on easily available resources and well within the manufacturing capabilities of the present Foundation. Despite this, there was a perpetual critical shortage of these items, and a constant backlog of orders for them. Personnel: The Foundation has always been more secular than the general population, statistically. This did not explain the number of rush hiring orders and approved conscription of non-employees for religious purposes. We were desperately short of members of minority ethnoreligious Gnostic and Abrahamic sects, experienced combat personnel of devout orthodox Abrahamic faiths, turncoat Semitic Mekhanites and proto-Sarkic Manicheans, and many others. Not only were these people under-represented in the Foundation, hiring initiatives specifically targeting these personnel were failing. Suitable candidates for these positions simply did not exist. Expertise: Given the well-established potential for religious XK-class end of the world scenarios, eschatological research in the Foundation was anemic. The Department of Theology was underfunded, lacked qualified experts, and was spread thin between dozens of SCPs. Basic Competence: The lack of dedicated personnel or even elementary comparative research for retrocausal phenomena was frankly inexcusable. For the dozen or so known retrocausal SCPs, drastic mishandling was the rule, not the exception. Retrocausality has become the best model for my hypothetical lost site, but there were no real experts or protocols to assist me. At this point, a frivolous database search turned up a near-forgotten Euclid: SCP-4077. The Foundation had simply accepted the Vatican Holy Office’s version of this SCP as a literary oddity, and failed to identify 4077 as a Foundation site. This oversight was frustrating but understandable: Foundation construction practices were less advanced in the 1960’s, and nobody at the time would have known the appearance of a temporal sink. It was my team who identified the HMFSCP and GOC records and tied them to SCP-4077. Given concrete dates for modern SCP-4077 encounters, I looked for evidence of altered history. My new clearance was invaluable. SCP-2000’s array of XACTS had been operating in an automated state for centuries in the current “iteration” of history, and had stored petabytes of performance data. These logs showed unique spikes in temporal sink power draw on the two known dates, with matching spikes in power on a variety of dates throughout history. These included 01/01/1000 (the “Millennium”), 01/01/1033, 21/03/1844 (the first Millerite prediction of the Rapture), 22/08/1844 (Miller’s last prediction and the “Great Disappointment”), 13/02/1925, 05/05/1955, 01/01/2000, 29/05/2007… the list continues. All the dates of religious or esoteric predictions of the apocalypse. All of them incorrect. I felt I had enough of an operating theory to report to the O5s. We had identified a hypothetical Thaumiel site with a high probability of the following features: Temporal-sink based historical alteration technology. Expertise in religious XK-class end-of-the-world scenarios. Active interference with historical events for at least a thousand years. A tendency to alter history to remain hidden. This left one question: Why were they still in hiding? Covert operation throughout history would be necessary to avoid anachronisms. Based on the narratives, however, the facility was well in line with current Foundation technology and policy. What reason could they have for staying out in the cold? The O5s were not interested in allowing me to find out. It had been a year since SCP-2000, and their enthusiasm for Thaumiels had been blunted. I knew through back channels that my project was not the only "crash" search program. Several of the others had only managed to locate things the O5s wanted to stay hidden. Cancellations and strong amnestics were not far behind. I believe my project was overlooked because I had not been frivolous with resources, and because they did not take my work seriously. When I asked to take over SCP-4077 as lead researcher, their intermediary actually laughed. There was no way they would condone pursuing my theory, but I do not care. I know SCP-4077 is out there. The world is shrinking, and there are not many places left that a large facility can hide. Poor weather and extreme temperatures are necessary to hide from aircraft and spy satellites the majority of the time. I am not a specialist in geolocation, but I know those who are. The O5s have not rescinded my authority and access to resources yet, and I do not intend to give them the chance. I am going to find SCP-4077. If you find this note in the Solid Archive, maybe you can follow in my tracks. Dr. Sylvia Ben-Yair Lead Researcher, SCP-4077 //return Footnotes 1. Forces or nations of opposition in Christian and Hebrew eschatology. Known in Islamic tradition as Yajuj and Majuj, connection with SCP-2309 is under investigation. 2. Relevance unknown. 3. Similar to star forts, considered cutting-edge in Europe at that time. 4. His Majesty's Foundation for the Secure Containment of the Paranormal 5. Germany's military intelligence service, notable during WWII for ineffectiveness and obstruction. 6. Office of Strategic Services, wartime US precursor to the CIA. |
SCP-4078 | neutralized | Item#: SCP-4078 Level1 Containment Class: neutralized Secondary Class: none Disruption Class: none Risk Class: none link to memo SCP-4078 Special Containment Procedures: The Foundation Department Of Public History has effected and continues to effect changes in the historical record to prevent public knowledge of SCP-4078's former anomalous properties and to falsify records pertaining to agriculture in the former Soviet Union. Likewise, all evidence or research to contradict the conventional scientific consensus that Lamarckian inheritance is invalid is to be suppressed by the Foundation Department Of Public Science. Description: SCP-4078 was Trofim Lysenko, a Class IV Reality-Altering humanoid entity, biologist, and political ideologue in the former Soviet Union. Unlike most reality-altering entities, SCP-4078's reality-altering effects did not manifest as consciously employed, controlled anomalous abilities, but as distortions of physical and biological law in its presence. In effect, SCP-4078 was capable of attaining anomalous results through pseudo-scientific experimentation in which its own beliefs, rather than non-anomalous empirical science, dictated the outcome. Addendum 4078-1: Discovery In its life, SCP-4078 advanced pseudo-scientific theories pertaining to biological inheritance that skewed significantly from mainstream Darwinian evolution and Mendelian inheritance. Through the endorsement of Soviet authorities, SCP-4078 censured and displaced virtually the entire field of legitimate genetics from the Soviet Union and the Soviet scientists in that field, many of whom were arrested or killed. SCP-4078's theories, later termed Lysenkoism, were analogous to older Lamarckian theories which argued that the properties or behaviors attained by a living being within its life were what dictated inheritance.1 Publicly, SCP-4078 argued that, using its methods, Soviet agriculture could be revolutionized, but in the inner circles of the Soviets' Communist Party, SCP-4078 also promised the creation of anomalous life-forms and bio-technology to advance Soviet interests worldwide. SCP-4078 (left) presenting its theories before Joseph Stalin (far right) and other members of the Communist Party. SCP-4078's anomalous properties become apparent shortly following the Second World War, as a result of investigations conducted by the Foundation's Post-War Oversight Commission. While Foundation, western national, and independent scientific research all dismissed SCP-4078's theories and its results as Soviet propaganda, mounting intelligence evidence appeared to confirm the results that SCP-4078 promised. Subsequent investigation confirmed that SCP-4078 had succeeded in creating life-forms using its anomalous abilities, later designated as SCP-4078-A. Selected Verified SCP-4078-A Organisms Species Type Of Organism Notes SCP-4078-A1 Assorted food crops Several types of plants including wheat, rye, and barley, that, under certain conditions of temperature change and exposure to moisture, may undergo drastic cellular metamorphosis into other varieties of plants. Foundation botanical research has not yet replicated these, though existing specimens may be manipulated almost without limit. SCP-4078-A2 Mammal Several breeds of dog, able to distinguish between and track humans by personal wealth, the socio-economic history of their family, and economic ideology. The last specimen recovered died in 1959, and the ability was never recreated. SCP-4078-A3 Micro-organism Strains of several common bacteria, possessing aberrant cell-divisional properties. Investigation has yet to determine their precise anomalous properties or purpose. SCP-4078-A5 Avian [SEE ADDENDUM 2]. All specimens believed terminated, or else dispersed beyond all practical means of tracking. Addendum 4078-2: Termination In 1953, Dr. Joseph Meyers, Director of the Post-War Oversight Council’s Soviet States Department issued the following termination order to O5 Command for approval. Termination Order TO/SHA/1953/Feb-027 Date: 2/19/1953 Subject: Suspect Humanoid Anomaly SHA-176, alias Trofim Lysenko. Occupation: director of genetic science in the VASKhNIL, or Academy Of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union. Alternates between Academy headquarters in Moscow, and a secure compound located in █████. Case: SHA-176 uses its position to impose anomalous parascientific methodologies and theories upon scientists, farmers, and other agricultural workers. Logic dictates that these techniques should be notably depressing the Soviet economy, however, intelligence reports provided to our Department (attached) indicate substantial inconsistencies in estimated and actual gross production in various Soviet economic sectors under the purview of SHA-176's principles. SHA-176 had been under scrutiny for promising technology of likely anomalous nature since its induction into the Communist Party, but Foundation agents embedded within the hierarchy of the Communist Party had yet to confirm these properties. On the strength of this evidence, our Department requisitioned a prototype Kant-Brunning Camera from Site-17 and confirmed the anomalous nature of SHA-176 (precise readings attached). Owing to the potential for widespread anomalous biological phenomena as well as the potential dissemination of anomalous practices among Soviet civilians (or, God forbid, their military), the continued existence of SHA-176 is a clear and present danger to Foundation interests. Thus, it must be terminated posthaste. Method: A typical Foundation strike of this nature would deploy under a false flag, usually that of the United States or the United Kingdom. However, the present political climate does not allow for this. Likewise, the potential for collateral damage against civilians as well as the increased risk of our operatives being captured and interrogated prevents a strike in or around the city of Moscow. Therefore, the best chance to take SHA-176 by surprise and with overwhelming force is in its experimental compound, where Soviet authorities shall do the work of containing the evidence themselves. Intelligence reports indicate that SHA-176 shall retire to its private research within 3 weeks of this writing. An MTF consisting of locally recruited and deniable operatives, as well as a squadron of unmarked Ilyushin bombers acquired by our Department (personnel files appended), shall ambush SHA-176 and its escorts upon arrival of the ████████ Ravine, the location of the compound. After sustained bombing, operatives shall land and inspect the ruins for survivors and evidence of anomalous life forms, whom they are to eliminate. Our greatest advantage against this being lies in the fact that it is not aware of its own anomalous nature; it sees itself as a scientist. It may be able to distort biological law, but it has no more control over the basic physics of a bullet or shell than any of us. Signed, Dir. Meyers Post-War Oversight Council Soviet States Department The O5 Council approved this termination order the following day, and approved the recruitment of the Department's chosen agents to complete the operation within the following month. Recovered Footage: SCP-4078 Termination Foreword: Two of the bombers involved in the operation carried a photographic team to document the operation. Due to the limits of period technology, recordings lack audio. Due to the events of the operation, all recovered footage was badly corrupted. Identifiable footage is transcribed below. 00:00: Mission start. The bomber squadron takes off and the photographic teams begin recording. 01:02: The compound is visible below. These bunkers are later found to serve primarily as access to underground chambers. It is a collection of concrete bunkers clustered in the bottom of the ravine, and surrounded by dense forest. There is only one dirt road by which the compound is accessible. 01:46: The convoy becomes visible, approaching down the access road. 01:52: Due to an apparent tactical error, the ground squad is not in position to intercept the convoy as it reaches the designated position. Lacking their signal, the bombers refrain from opening fire. Approximately 3 minutes later, the footage becomes corrupt and intermittent. 02:02: Footage clears. The MTF ground operatives have at this point engaged the compound's security detail. 02:07: As of this point, the compound's perimeter fencing is destroyed and the bunkers are largely in ruins. Operatives breach the structures. 02:11: Operatives begin fleeing the structures, many of whom are inhibited by serious injuries. Camera One records a mass of small, dark airborne objects, one of which rushes towards it, whereupon it ceases to function. 02:12: Camera Two records the same objects swarming the other bombers involved in the operation. Their unused munitions begin to detonate in the air as the swarm penetrates. 02:14: The bomber housing Camera Two is the only plane still in the air. The ground operatives appear to have been routed, and the surviving pilot attempts to flee as the unidentified aerial threat approaches. 02:16: The footage degrades entirely. Afterword: Due to the disastrous outcome of the operation, the termination of SCP-4078 was not confirmed until after several months of further dedicated surveillance on the Communist Party, as well as further operations to recover intelligence and remaining anomalies. Publicly, the death of SCP-4078 was not acknowledged for over a decade. Footnotes 1. For instance, the Lamarckian explanation for the long necks of giraffes is that the act of stretching out one's head to acquire food lengthens the neck over generations. |
SCP-4079 | euclid | Marie-Sophie Germain. Item #: SCP-4079 Special Containment Procedures: All journals of mathematics and philosophy are to be screened by automated proof checking software to find instances of SCP-4079, focusing on articles regarding long-standing conjectures or disputed results, and articles that contradict previously established results. All instances of SCP-4079 found are to be censored and the corresponding papers retracted. A document detailing the logic steps involved in SCP-4079 is to be stored in a High-Value Item Vault at Storage Site-1313. To reduce accidental exposure to potential memetic hazards, the document is to use symbolic logic represented using reverse Polish notation to obfuscate readability, and no written descriptions or explanations. An additional copy of this information is in the possession of the Foundation's Memetics Department, as it is an essential component of Fae-class suggestibility agents. The original proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Sophie Germain has been suppressed from the public record and replaced by the sanitized version released by herself later; no further action is required in this regard. The original documents regarding this proof and Germain's discovery of SCP-4079 are stored in a different High-Value Item Vault at Storage Site-33; this includes the letters written by Germain to prominent public figures during this period. Description: SCP-4079 refers to a proof method or syllogism, referred to as modus adductus, discovered by French mathematician Marie-Sophie Germain in the year 1804 during the process of devising a proof for Fermat's Last Theorem. Modus adductus, like similar methods such as modus ponens or modus tollens, consists of a series of steps to show that a statement is a consequence of other previously accepted statements. However, SCP-4079's anomalous effect lies in the fact that any statement deemed as a consequence of another via the use of modus adductus is accepted as true by anyone capable of understanding the logical steps involved, regardless of the actual relation between the two statements. Notes on the SCP-4079 syllogism Click here to collapse information A syllogism is a logical argument that asserts the truth of a statement, by deduction, from other statements or premises accepted as true, either absolutely or conditionally. A syllogism usually takes the form of a list of premises, interspersed with the usage of inference rules (which show certain statements to be consequence of other, previously accepted ones), in order to arrive at the desired conclusion; for instance, the modus ponens syllogism has the following schema: Premise 1: A is true. Premise 2: If A is true, then B is also true. Conclusion: B is also true. The following is a correct application of this syllogism: Premise 1: Cartman is a calico cat. Premise 2: All calico cats are female. Conclusion: Cartman is female. While the premises may have a disputable level of truth1, if we accept them as true (a cat being a calico, and calicos being female) then by the principles of deductive reasoning the conclusion must also be accepted as true (i.e. we understand that this specific cat is female). Not all forms of deductive reasoning are true, however. Common examples of faulty logical arguments include the following: confusing observable correlation with logical causation, swapping antecedent and consequent, i.e. taking "if A then B" as a premise and then assuming that, since B is true A must be true as well, usage of contradictory premises, using the same word with different meanings to arrive to the desired conclusion. The first two types of fallacies from the above list may be observed in the following example: Premise 1: Reality bending entities are able to alter the documentation of SCP objects. Premise 2: Doctor Fred has altered the documentation of SCP-7160. Conclusion: Doctor Fred is a reality bending entity. While both premises are true, it does not follow that a person who is able to make edits to the SCP Foundation database is a reality bending entity. An extreme example of this is the reductio ad hitlerum argument, where a statement is deemed as false, harmful or otherwise dismissed by association with a person, entity, organization, etc., which is deemed nocive in some way. SCP-4079, as verified by proof checking software and Foundation AICs, is effectively a fallacy similar to the aforementioned ones. However, when interpreted by the human brain, it is understood as a compelling, valid argument to derive the conclusion statement from the premises, without regard as to whether there is any actual relation between them. Thus, a reasoning like the one quoted below would be perceived as perfectly logical by somebody affected by SCP-4079: Premise 1: Cats are common household pets. Premise 2: Fennec foxes have been raised as household pets in the past. Premise 3: [MEMETIC HAZARD REDACTED] Conclusion: Cats and fennec foxes are the same species of animal. Of note is that, while SCP-4079 is seen as a correct syllogism, it does not enforce belief in the conclusive statement. Thus, if the latter contradicts personal belief or convictions, often the affected look for errors in the premises taken, or other formal or functional mistakes to justify their cognitive dissonance. However, research by the Foundation shows that if the person exposed to SCP-4079 has no strong convictions on the discussed topic, or is otherwise open to the idea of themselves being in the wrong stance, correct usage of SCP-4079 combined with usual argumentation and persuasion techniques results in a belief change in 75%-85% of studied cases. Addendum 4079-1: Historical Notes The first known instance of SCP-4079 was found in a letter written by Germain to fellow mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss in 1804 detailing a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Gauss' reply2 stated that, while he could not find any errors in Germain's proof, an intermediate step seemed to contradict a result proved by himself two years earlier. Following correspondence3 consisted of joint efforts by Germain and Gauss to find a mistake in either Germain's proof or Gauss' work, with no results. Eventually, Germain managed to isolate the problematic section of the proof and deduced the nature of SCP-4079; this was later corroborated by experimentation on Germain's part, by sending purposefully incorrect proofs (usually of nonsensical statements) to several prominent mathematicians such as Joseph-Louis Lagrange and Adrien-Marie Legendre, under various pseudonyms. While a few of the replies received pointed out that there might be an error in her work, none of them pointed to the SCP-4079 proof as faulty, instead citing false assumptions or mentioning potential new theories to explain the unexpected results. Germain's notes contain extensive studies on SCP-4079 and its effect on human reasoning, along with philosophical notes regarding truth in mathematics and human knowledge; in these notes it is explicitly stated that understanding the logical steps involved is necessary in order for SCP-4079 to take effect. The framework set by Germain's work was a fundamental part of the early study of memetics, and in particular SCP-4079 is registered as the first recognized and studied anomalous meme in the Foundation's record. Excerpts from Sophie Germain's private notes regarding SCP-4079 Click here to collapse information The following notes have been extracted from private notebooks, diaries and notes written on the margins of correspondence drafted or received by Sophie Germain between 1804 and 1809. They have been translated from the original French; the originals are archived as Documents 4079-A109 through 4079-A147. Seeking out the errors in my work on Fermat's problem has been exceedingly difficult. While it may be just personal pride, I just cannot look at my writings and see anything less than a sound argument. The great Fermat's unfinished work, concluded by the pen of Sophie Germain! But at the same time, holding on to that thought is denying Gauss' expertise and skill. I have reproduced his proof step-by-step, several times, and I haven't found anything remotely resembling a mistake; the error must be in my work, and, although this is extremely frustrating, I must discover it. Speaking of which, Monsieur Gauss has been extremely helpful in this endeavor. He has taken time off his extremely busy schedule to rework and rewrite the weaker parts of my writing; him doing this for the amateurish nobody Monsieur LeBlanc4 was completely unthinkable to me until now. Monsieur Gauss has pointed that the fifth section implies that for any odd prime, subtracting 1 and halving must result in another prime. The error must be there. But where? [on a heavily edited copy of her original proof] … and thus 2p+1 is also prime if 2p+1 is prime there is an even prime number greater than 1012. (Truly a compelling argument, I almost believe it…) Neither my premises nor my deductions themselves are faulty. It is the way the proof itself is written. I sent a proof of the existence of a number that is both a prime and a square to Monsieur Legendre and he could not find any errors. How can we know what is true, then? Thankfully, modus adductus is only convincing to people with mathematical inclination. I fear what a tyrant would do with this otherwise. But I couldn't get a single piece of bread for free with this, so I am relieved. [on the margin of a letter from Joseph-Louis Lagrange] Managed to convince Monsieur Lagrange of error in Mechanics work. Hopefully not leading him to review all his work for corrections or otherwise wasting time… I fear for Monsieur Gauss. Napoleon might have respect for men of science, but why would that stop a common soldier from thinking with his sword instead of his brain? Maybe I can do something. Monsieur Gauss has been the Archimedes of this time in life, but I can prevent him from being Archimedes in death as well. [on the back of a letter sent from General Pernetti, a family friend] He's safe. I've been found out, but it's worth it. Maybe it is time for Monsieur LeBlanc to retire. Turns out most of the proof was correct in the end. I will have to write to Monsieur Gauss about this. And I will sign as Mademoiselle Germain, this time. Most of Germain's notes regarding SCP-4079 were never published, and her proof of Fermat's Last Theorem was retracted and replaced by a weaker version in a letter to Gauss from 1809. There is only one known instance of public SCP-4079 usage by Germain besides the aforementioned experimental letters, in which Germain wrote a letter intended to be read by Napoleon Bonaparte regarding the occupation of Braunschweig5 by French forces. In this letter, written in colloquial language but following the SCP-4079 structure, Germain stated the importance of protecting men of science and arts, and pleaded for Napoleon to avoid needless killing in the invasion. It is suspected that Napoleon's amateur interest in mathematics6 was enough for him to be susceptible to SCP-4079; however, it is unknown if the letter was actually read by him. It is known that Napoleon's policies regarding occupation of cities had a change around this period and that a squad of French soldiers was tasked with checking on Gauss' well-being during the occupation, facts that suggest that Napoleon did indeed receive the letter. However, the fact that General Pernetti, the leader of the squad, was known as a family friend of Sophie Germain allows for reasonable doubt to be held. Addendum 4079-2: Relevant data obtained from the Alexandria Agreements After signing the Alexandria Agreements, a treaty between the Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition in order to share relevant historical data about anomalies, several pamphlets and propaganda posters dated from 1941 to 1943 were delivered to the Foundation for analysis and deemed to contain a form of SCP-4079, as an attempt to increase adherence and loyalty to the Third Reich. These posters were traced to German mathematician Oswald Teichmüller, known for its allegiance to the NSDAP. As predicted by Germain, this propaganda had a very low success rate. However, it has prompted investigation in a joint Foundation-GOC effort to look for other instances of public usage of SCP-4079-like propaganda agents. So far, the following evidence has been found: Internal memorandums (dated 1961-1967) declassified by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency detailing the support given to the "New Math" project to completely overhaul the mathematics curriculum in elementary schools, in order to introduce the basics of logic, set theory and other abstract areas of mathematics at an early age; these documents mention plans to implement a unspecified "propaganda construct", presumed to be SCP-4079. These plans appear to have been abandoned after the failure of the New Math project. Several documents from the USSR's GRU Division "P" regarding proposals to use SCP-4079-like constructs as part of larger-scale projects. Most of them were denied due to the (at the time) recent discovery of better memetic agents for the desired purposes. Abnormalities detected in the mathematics curriculum of China, flagged as possibly related to SCP-4079 by automated statistical analysis. However, no actual evidence of SCP-4079 usage has been found. Containment procedures for SCP-4079 are currently undergoing revision to take into account the detection and suppression of further attempts to use SCP-4079 by civilian governments. Footnotes 1. While most calico cats are female, genetic ailments such as Klinefelter syndrome may result in cats with a Y chromosome exhibiting calico patterns. 2. The original reply has been removed from the public record and replaced by a forgery. 3. Also censored. 4. Pseudonym often used by Germain to avoid prejudice and dismissal as a woman. 5. Prussian town where Gauss lived. It is known that Germain was familiar with the story of Archimedes, who was killed in the siege of Syracuse by the invading forces, and feared for Gauss' life. 6. There is at least one mathematical result attributed to Napoleon (in the field of Euclidean geometry), although this claim is often disputed. |
SCP-4080 | safe | The title screen of an episode of SCP-4080 featuring SCP-4080-1. Item #: SCP-4080 Special Containment Procedures: Broadcasts of SCP-4080 are to be intercepted and blocked from public viewing. All broadcasts are to be reviewed prior to being stored. The Foundation is to monitor SCP-4080-1 discreetly for any potential links to the source of SCP-4080. As of 9/29/2017, an investigation into PoI-3283 is underway. Description: SCP-4080 is a television program that is broadcast on local networks in New Hampshire, US. Each episode is 44 minutes long and follows one subject by the name of David Kincaid, a 68-year old-Caucasian male from Portland, Maine, hereinafter known as SCP-4080-1. Each new episode is recorded the day before it is broadcasted and consists of a heavily-edited sequence of events that happened to SCP-4080-1 that day. Each episode opens with a still image of SCP-4080-1's face as text in an unidentified language appears over it. After a few seconds, the text changes to English, displaying the words "The Most Important Man". After this, the episode begins, typically depicting SCP-4080-1 waking up and getting out of bed. SCP-4080-1's life tends to be fairly standard, and episodes rarely highlight anything that could be considered of note or importance. With some exceptions, such as vacations to visit his grandchildren, most episodes consist of SCP-4080-1 eating breakfast, driving to his woodworking shop, working, eating lunch, driving home and eating dinner. At no point during the day does SCP-4080-1 ever address the fact that they are being filmed, nor do they seem aware of this fact even in situations and locations where a camera would be noticeable. Addendum 4080-1: On 9/28/2017, SCP-4080-1 was shot and killed after leaving work and getting involved in an altercation to protect a tourist, a 39-year old French-Nigerian man named Achebe Okoro, from a mugging. The subsequent SCP-4080 episode, released on 9/29/2017, featured the words "Series Finale" in addition to the traditional opening text of SCP-4080 episodes. The episode played as normal until SCP-4080-1's death, after which the episode ended with a four-second still image of Mr. Okoro's face, now designated PoI-3283. Since SCP-4080-1's death, episodes of SCP-4080 regarding their life have been re-run, starting at the moment they were born. |
SCP-4081 | neutralized | The Foundation gets doxxed by an unlikely culprit. SCP-4081: Keep Brighton Functioning Word Count: 2,170 Remaining Reading Time: 8 minutes ▸ More by this Author ◂ {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} Item #: SCP-4081 Level 3/4081 Classified Assigned Site Site Director Research Head Assigned Task Force Site-48 Dir. L. Olivia Lutz Rs. Shaun Xiao MTF K-28 "School's Out" SCP-4081-1 during an SCP-4081 event. Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4081-1 is currently located at the Brighton Sports Gymnasium. No SCP-4081 events have occurred since February 13, 2018. Surveillance of Brighton High School is no longer permitted at this time. The following Special Containment Procedures are no longer valid, but have been archived for historical reference. + Open Original Containment Procedures - Close Original Containment Procedures Foundation personnel are to be stationed at both entrances to SCP-4081-1 during school hours in order to discourage civilians from participating in SCP-4081 events. If an SCP-4081 event occurs to a civilian, they are to be administered amnestics following its conclusion. Instances of SCP-4081-2 are to be removed as soon as possible after initial discovery. All SCP-4081-2 instances are to be stored in a standard storage locker at Site-48. In the event that SCP-4081 events cease to occur, standard surveillance of Brighton High School is to be initialized. When SCP-4081 events begin to occur, Site-48 is to be notified, and the above Special Containment Procedures are to be re-implemented. Description: SCP-4081 is an anomalous spatial event that may occur to an individual entering SCP-4081-1, a hallway located within the Brighton Sports Gymnasium in Positano, California, USA. SCP-4081-1 runs longitudinally along the length of the gymnasium for one hundred meters, contains doors at its east and west endpoints, as well as side doors connecting to adjacent rooms. The following three criteria must be met for an SCP-4081 event to initialize: The individual must enter SCP-4081-1 through the doors at either endpoint1. The individual must be alone when entering SCP-4081-1. The individual has not participated in an SCP-4081 event at any prior point. When an SCP-4081 event starts, a white light will illuminate underneath the doors at the other endpoint of SCP-4081-1. The doors the affected individual entered will be locked, and no other doors will be accessible. To complete the event, the affected person must traverse SCP-4081-1 to the other end and exit through the glowing doors. The affected individual will not be visible to any other persons looking into SCP-4081-1. After the completion of an SCP-4081 event, the individual will find themselves exiting out the doors originally used to access SCP-4081-1, rather than the other end. Individuals cannot participate in a successful event more than once. SCP-4081-2 is the designation for a series of notes referencing the SCP-4081 phenomenon. All known instances have been printed on flexible off-white paper with a slightly soft texture, and contain the same typeface. The message printed on these instances will vary based on the context of their discovery. SCP-4081-2 instances will manifest instantly, and if affixed to a wall, will be taped on with translucent office tape. Discovery: On February 5, 2018, the Foundation was notified of the existence of SCP-4081 through routine social media surveillance. Instances of SCP-4081-2 were discovered taped to surfaces within heavily trafficked areas of Brighton High School. All instances described the process required to initialize SCP-4081 events. Foundation operatives removed all known SCP-4081-2 instances, and coerced the Brighton faculty to release a statement referring to the messages as pranks. Study of SCP-4081 began on February 7, 2018. The following is the first known variant of SCP-4081-2. Hello Brighton students: Do you want to help keep our school running smoothly? If so, we are hosting auditions in the Sports Gym. There is no need to schedule an appointment. You can come in at any time, any date. To audition, you must enter from either end of the hallway in the Sports Gym. You must walk directly to the opposite end, and enter through the glowing white doors. No one else can come with you. We look forward to watching your auditions, and wish you all the best of luck. - Keep Brighton Functioning Committee2 Testing Logs: The following is an incomplete list of experiments regarding SCP-4081 events. Test 4081-01 Subject: Brighton student Charles ████████ Procedure: The subject entered SCP-4081-1 with the intention of "auditioning". This test was performed unintentionally. Result: Subject exited SCP-4081-1 through the doors he originally entered. When interrogated by Foundation personnel, the subject stated that he did not turn around within SCP-4081-1 at any point. An instance of SCP-4081-2 was discovered in his pocket with the following message: To Charles, Your audition is complete. Thank you for your participation. - Keep Brighton Functioning Committee The subject was administered Class-A amnestics and released. The Special Containment Procedures have been updated to prevent civilian participation in SCP-4081 events. Test 4081-02 Subject: D-3763 Procedure: Subject was equipped with a GPS tracker, and instructed to enter SCP-4081-1 and exit the other side. Subject was not aware of the existence of SCP-4081 events. Result: When D-3763 entered SCP-4081-1, her location disappeared from Foundation GPS tracking. D-3763 exited SCP-4081-1 out its other end with an instance of SCP-4081-2 in her pocket. The instance reads: To Ashlynn,3 Due to unforeseen circumstances, your audition could not be completed. Please return at a later date to try again. Thank you for your understanding. - Keep Brighton Functioning Committee Test 4081-03 Subject: D-3763 Procedure: Subject was instructed to participate in an SCP-4081 event again. Subject was not equipped with any tracking devices. Result: D-3763 exited the doors she entered. She expressed disbelief, and explained that she did not reverse her traversal of SCP-4081-1 at any point. An instance of SCP-4081-2 was discovered in D-3763's pocket, and reads: To Ashlynn, Thank you for auditioning again. Your audition has been processed successfully this time, we promise. Thank you for your perseverance. - Keep Brighton Functioning Committee Test 4081-07 Subject: Researcher Shaun Xiao Procedure: Subject was instructed to vocalize questions regarding SCP-4081 events while within SCP-4081-1. Result: Researcher Xiao exited out the entrance of SCP-4081-1 after 35 minutes. He expressed that he asked about the purpose of SCP-4081, and the identities of the entities responsible. No responses were heard. An instance of SCP-4081-2 was found in his lab coat: To Shaun, Your audition is complete. Unfortunately, your inquiries cannot be answered at this time. We appreciate your curiosity. - Keep Brighton Functioning Committee Test 4081-08 Subject: D-5384 Procedure: Subject was instructed to walk from one end of SCP-4081-1 to the other. Result: D-5384 exited SCP-4081 through the doors he entered 1 hour and 44 minutes after his original entrance. When inquired about the time difference, D-5384 expressed that he only spent two minutes within SCP-4081-1. An instance of SCP-4081-2 was recovered: To CXPWYK,4 Your audition is complete. Due to an error on our end, you may experience a slight time dilation. We apologize for the inconvenience. - Keep Brighton Functioning Committee Test 4081-14 Subject: D-8358 Procedure: Subject was instructed to walk from one end of SCP-4081-1 to the other. Result: D-8358 did not exit SCP-4081-1, and could not be recovered. An instance of SCP-4081-2 manifested in front of waiting Foundation researchers, which read as follows: Dear Brighton students: Due to unexpected interference, we have cancelled our search until further notice. No more auditions will be held at this time. Thank you, Brighton students, for your understanding. - Keep Brighton Functioning Committee Following Test 4081-14, no more SCP-4081 events have occurred within SCP-4081-1 despite multiple initiation attempts. SCP-4081 has been reclassified as Neutralized on February 27, 2018. Addendum 01: On March 5, 2018, instances of SCP-4081-2 appeared within Brighton High School, affixed to surfaces in large numbers with industrial glue. All instances contained the same message revealing the existence of the Foundation to civilians. Mobile Task Force Kappa-28 ("School's Out") was dispatched to destroy all SCP-4081-2 instances. The SCP-4081-2 variant involved is transcribed below. Dear Brighton students: Our efforts to hold auditions to keep Brighton High running smoothly have been interrupted by an outside force known as the Secure Contain Protect Foundation. Their leader is named Linda,5 and she lives at ████ ████████ ██6 in Laurel Creek, CA. She drives a ███████ █████ with the license plate ███████. This is a warning to all potential organizations wishing to interfere with the smooth operation of Brighton High School. - Keep Brighton Functioning Committee Due to the reveal of personal information regarding Site Director Lutz, the incident was classified as a Level 4 Information Breach. Site Director Lutz was relocated to a classified location following this event. Class-A amnestics was administered to Brighton students and staff through the cafeteria food and drinking water. Addendum 02: On March 7, 2018, a large number of SCP-4081-2 instances appeared in multiple locations within Brighton High School, affixed to walls with an unknown substance. MTF Kappa-28 was deployed again to contain the information breach. However, its members reported difficulty in removing the SCP-4081-2 instances, and resorted to removing sections of wall with the instances still affixed. The variant of SCP-4081-2 involved is transcribed below. Dear Brighton students: The Secure Contain Protect Foundation is drugging your food and drink in order to interfere with the functions of Brighton High School. The man responsible is Terrance, who lives at ██ ████ ██████ in our great city of Positano. Terrance drives a ███ ███████ with the license plate ███████. Another person responsible for the intentional drugging of our students is Paul, who lives at ███ ███████ ███, also in Positano. Paul drives a ██████ ███████ with the license plate ███████. No more warnings will be given. - Keep Brighton Functioning Committee Researcher Terrance Tsai and Dr. Paul Shinohara have been relocated to separate classified locations following this event. Class-A amnestics were administered by plane over Brighton High School, and replacement walls without SCP-4081-2 instances were installed. Addendum 03: On March 8, 2018, instances of SCP-4081-2 appeared affixed to a majority of surfaces within Brighton High School. These instances were found attached to books, desks, ceilings, and floors inside every room in the school. MTF Kappa-28 was dispatched to close off Brighton High School to all civilians, with a cover story released. Every instance of SCP-4081-2 involved stated the following: Dear Brighton students: The Secure Contain Protect Foundation has attempted to poison the air we breathe. Their home base is located at ████ ████ ███████████7 outside of Positano. Five of our fellow students have been taken by the Secure Contain Protect Foundation. They are located at the above address. The Positano Police Department have been notified. - Keep Brighton Functioning Committee Five individuals were discovered in D-class containment chambers at Site-48. All individuals were students of Brighton High School, and none could recall their method of arrival. All five individuals were administered Class-A amnestics and released. It is of note that security footage displayed the individuals spontaneously manifesting in their chambers. Members of the Positano Police Department arrived at Site-48 and attempted to arrest all Foundation personnel present on charges of child kidnapping and burglary. The responding officers were successfully administered amnestics and released. Following this event, an emergency meeting was initialized involving all Site-48 personnel. During this meeting, an instance of SCP-4081-2 manifested at the meeting table, and read as follows: To Secure Contain Protect Foundation: Your perseverance has astonished us, but we refuse to give up. However, we have decided to give you a chance at amnesty. If you want these events to stop, you must complete the following tasks: Shaun must make a verbal apology inside the hallway. You know which one. We will be listening. You must reopen Brighton High with the notes still there. All of the walls you took from us must be returned. We will not make such a merciful offer again. - Keep Brighton Functioning Committee On March 9, 2018, Brighton High School was reopened with the SCP-4081-2 instances still present. All removed surfaces were returned and re-installed with the SCP-4081-2 instances affixed. Researcher Xiao made a public apology on behalf of the Foundation within SCP-4081-1 addressed to the "Keep Brighton Functioning Committee". No response was heard. Surveillance of Brighton High School was ceased in its entirety. Site-48 was put on lockdown as a precaution, and all personnel were moved to classified locations. Addendum 04: On March 14, 2018, the corpse of D-8358 spontaneously manifested within the safe room of Site Director Lutz at 7:14 PST. The corpse was missing its skin. An instance of SCP-4081-2 was taped to its forehead. Dear Secure Contain Protect Foundation: Your apology has been accepted. All personal information we have revealed regarding your organization have been erased. Keenan8 has been returned to you, free of charge. His skin has been involuntarily donated as compensation. We need something for all of these notes, after all. Do not attempt any interference again. - Keep Brighton Functioning Committee Following this event, all stored instances of SCP-4081-2 revealing personnel information have had their messages erased through unknown means, leaving blank notes. All known SCP-4081-2 instances located within Brighton High School have vanished. Site-48 was reopened, and all relocated personnel were cleared to return to their residences. Close analysis of SCP-4081-2 instances reveal them to be partially constructed out of processed human skin. All recovered instances are an exact DNA match of D-8358, including instances manifested before his disappearance. Footnotes 1. Entering SCP-4081-1 through a side door will not trigger an SCP-4081 event. 2. No evidence of a "Keep Brighton Functioning Committee" was found in any Brighton High School databases. 3. "Ashlynn" is the legal first name of D-3763. 4. D-5384's first name is "Samuel". 5. "Linda" is the legal first name of Site-48 Director Lutz. 6. All personal information regarding Site Director Lutz has been redacted. 7. This is the location of Site-48, and has been redacted. 8. "Keenan" was the legal first name of D-8358. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4081" by Jiwoahn, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4081. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: IMG_2896SMALL.jpg Name: High School Hallway Author: Jiwoahn License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Link: SCP Foundation Wiki |
SCP-4082 | safe | Item #: SCP-4082 Special Containment Procedures: A recording station has been established at Site-64 for receiving and archiving SCP-4082 broadcasts, supported by a network of smaller receivers across the known area of SCP-4082's effects. Following each broadcast, Foundation information suppression teams are to monitor news media and internet forums (particularly those related to amateur radio) for possible discussion and move to counteract its spread if discovered. Administration of class-A or class-B amnestics, under the appropriate circumstances, is permitted. As the frequencies on which SCP-4082 can be received are rarely used by civilians, the risk of discovery is considered minimal. Description: SCP-4082 is an anomalous AM radio signal of unknown origin which can occasionally be received on frequencies around 25.85MHz. The signal does not appear to be affected by the time and weather restrictions that usually affect shortwave radio communications. SCP-4082 broadcasts have frequently been detected by receivers more than 400km apart, despite the fact that it should be impossible to transmit a high frequency signal so far without extensive infrastructure. As such, it is currently believed that SCP-4082 does not have a physical source. The area affected by this phenomenon is not accurately known, but all broadcasts received to date have been detected in the north-west of the United States or very south-west of Canada; generally in the states of Washington and Oregon. Although the signal is anomalous, it can be received by any standard radio within the area of effect tuned to the correct frequency. Recordings of the broadcasts likewise work as expected. The signal generally begins to fade after 60-80 seconds, and cannot be distinguished from background static after at most 120 seconds. After extensive testing, it is not believed that the content of the broadcasts is anomalous; only the method of delivery. The content of SCP-4082 broadcasts varies significantly. Each features only the voice of an entity designated SCP-4082-1; a masculine voice with a slight Scottish accent. In the vast majority of broadcasts, SCP-4082-1 speaks confidently, in a manner similar to a professional radio presenter. The identity or nature of SCP-4082-1 has not been confirmed. All efforts to locate a corresponding real-world individual have failed, and little identifying information has been found from SCP-4082 transmissions. SCP-4082 broadcasts usually appear to imitate a common type of radio broadcast, such as a talk show, a news reading, a song dedication, etc. SCP-4082-1 sometimes appears to be addressing another person, such as in broadcasts resembling talk shows. It will often remain silent after speaking as if listening to their reply. No sound besides the voice of SCP-4082-1 has ever been detected, however. The recorded broadcasts are rarely complete or self-contained, and often start and end in the middle of sentences or even words. This implies that SCP-4082 may only be transmitting brief segments of a larger broadcast, however this has yet to be conclusively proven. Addendum 1: Sample of SCP-4082 content: A sample of notable recorded SCP-4082 broadcasts is included below. The Foundation has recorded 1027 broadcasts since discovery of SCP-4082 on 2002-05-07. It is not known how long SCP-4082 had been active prior to its discovery. All dialogue is spoken by SCP-4082-1. Instance Date Transcript Notes SCP-4082-002 2002-05-10 “…phoned for a taxi and walked it, and that's why I never went back. Her very favourite, it was. Traffic's still backed up onto the slip road though, so watch out for that if you're heading back into town. The mo…” This was the first broadcast which the Foundation attempted to record, and only 11 seconds of audio were captured successfully. The first part appears to be a recital of the poem “I Went To The Pictures Tomorrow”. SCP-4082-004 2002-05-19 “…[wh]at, then, would you say of the case? That there is nothing left in their hearts? That the very spark of humanity which was gifted to them in times long past has faded?” (silence) “Pah! It is not me to whom you should apologise, but the many experts whose works you denounce! One would think you had not so much as glanced at the archives!” (silence) “Why the esteemed Cristóbal Soto has researched it extensively. It was his life's work you know – his beautiful, tragic life's work. Whatever you may think of his methods, you simply must not deny his results.” (silence) “Of course, of course. I judge nothing. Nothing, I say! It is immaterial. You must see by now, surely, that the hound is simply sup…” The first recorded transmission in which SCP-4082-1 refers to a specific person by their full name, a pattern which occurs in roughly 70% of broadcasts recorded by the Foundation. SCP-4082-009 2002-06-08 “…family of Ariana Croft have gathered to pay tribute following her death last week. Witnesses report that her family are mostly bugs. But you know what? That's alright. If you ask me, bugs make for better family than people ever have. Plus according to a few reports – which I trust, because they're from bugs – her beloved cat Blue is right there with her, and if there's one thing better than bugs, it's…” (long silence) “Sorry. The 33-year-old was found dead in her home late last Tuesday. A spokesman for West Merseyside police has confirmed investigators still don't give a damn, echoing the initial suspicions of many reporters. In…” The first recorded transmission in which SCP-4082-1 refers to a specific real-world location, another common trend. SCP-4082-097 2002-12-13 “…een told that the sun can't shine forever. That's probably true. Elliot Birch certainly believed it. Did you know, when he was young, he once tried to turn off the sun because it was making him too hot?” (laughter, then a long silence). “Of course, of course. We can never go back to those days. But Elliot tried. He tried and tried and tried. He tried so hard it broke him.” (long silence) “Exactly, exactly. If only someone had known. Perhaps we could have told him.” (silence) “No, no, of course not. It's important not to judge. We can never understand them, so we must never judge them. He was only a man. As far as we know of cour…” The first broadcast received after almost 10 days without a signal, an abnormally long interval. The significance of this is unknown. SCP-4082-397 2004-01-28 “…[wr]itten and performed by the excellent Caroline Mayer – no matter what anyone says. Coming up next, a performance of Robert Schumann's Papillons by Amita Sahni. At only 23, Sahni is a spectacularly talented musician, a quality rivalled only by her compassion and her loneliness. Sahni has never been interviewed about her performance, and I suppose she never will be, but if she was, she'd have said exactly this: “I first heard this piece over the radio when I was 7 years old. Even though I didn't know what the title meant, I immediately knew what the piece was about. I was captivated by the power of music to convey an idea without any words. I suppose in many ways, this has been my inspiration.” Wise words from a wonderful woman.” (silence) This recording is considered notable as it is the first time SCP-4082-1 refers to more than one name in a single transmission, something that has occurred only 4 times to date. The significance of this is unknown. SCP-4082-474 2004-08-30 “…[f]or today – or this time I suppose I should say!” (laughter) “Signing off for NeoVancouver Free Radio, I am, as always, no-one.” (silence) “And we'll catch you again once we see the new sun. Goodbye!” (long silence) (distant, very quiet) “That was [a] hard one. Did you hear [unintelligible] again? It's only getting worse a…” This is the only time SCP-4082-1 has been recorded making reference to itself. The meaning or significance of the final portion is unknown. SCP-4082-512 2005-03-08 “…[ne]xt song, if it can be found, is dedicated to Amadia Séverin. They're a designer – (aside) of what? Clothes? Wow! - Yes, a clothing designer! Remember those? They lived with their partner (and manager) in Nice, running their own line of homemade designer clothing. Isn't that incredible? They never got the recognition they deserved, but they will be remembered, both in the art they leave behind and in the hearts of all those helped by their incredibly [sic] generosity. And by us of course – and perhaps now by you. This song was one of their all time favourites; it played in their darkest moment, and we hope it's playing right now. For Amadia then, here's La Vie en Rose.” (silence). An independent clothing designer named Amadia Séverin was confirmed to have lived in Nice, France. She died on 2005-██-██, leaving more than €20,000 to charity. It is believed this is the first case of a person mentioned in SCP-4082 being identified in the real world. SCP-4082-███ 2006-██-██ [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. See Addendum 2. Addendum 2: +Level 3/4082 Clearance Required: -Mention of Foundation Personnel On 2006-██-██, Foundation agent M. Rodriguez, a member of MTF-██-█, committed suicide at his home in ████, Illinois. MTF-██-█ had been involved with the failed operation [REDACTED], resulting in the deaths of all of its other active members one week prior. As Agent Rodriguez had no surviving family, his body was reclaimed and cremated as per standard Foundation procedure. 18 days after his death was discovered, the following SCP-4082 broadcast was recorded by the Site-64 recording station: “..er them. It is, admittedly, an unusual poem for the occasion, but it was one of his favourites, and you know me, I'll never turn down a request. Well, what else can be said of a man like Michael Rodriguez? How should we remember a man whose life demands he be forgotten? There are reasons, of course, but we won't judge him. We didn't know him. What we do know, is that he was a fighter. That he was a team player; always the first to volunteer; the man you wanted at your back. That even caught amidst the deepest darkness unknown to mankind, he found the strength to care. Michael, you were a great man. They can erase you from memory, but they can never erase the good you did.” (silence) (quietly) “They were right about us. All we are is gravestones. Roses on a deathbed. We can't make a difference to those who are lost. In a way though, that's not what matters. What matters is that, just maybe, knowing we'll be there for them too can be some comfort for the living. While there's even a shred of hope that that's true, we'll be here. We'll be right here.” “For NeoVancouver Free Radio, I am no-one, and I r…” ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4082" by SiamnaBee, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4082. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4083 | euclid | Item #: SCP-4083 Special Containment Procedures: All buildings containing known instances of SCP-4083 have been purchased by Foundation front companies. No instance of SCP-4083, nor any adjacent apartment is to be rented out. The entrance to each SCP-4083 is to be secured with a triple deadbolt lock, with keys available only to personnel Level 2 and above. On December 14-21 every three years, buildings containing SCP-4083 instances are to be evacuated under the guise of emergency fumigation. Every seven iterations of a 4083-Theta-R event, the entire complex is to be evacuated under the cover story of a complex-wide black mold infestation. Foundation web crawlers are to search for any mention of non-contained instances of apartments under the name "Lakeside View Apartments" or "Richard Moutree." Any apartment complex so named is to be observed for the duration of the 4083-Theta-R event. Description: SCP-4083 is the collective designation for a series of six identical 94 m2 apartments found in the continental United States. Each instance of SCP-4083 is located within an apartment complex called "Lakeside View Apartments"1. Outside of 4083-Theta-R events, SCP-4083 instances are effectively non-anomalous and indistinguishable from other apartments. The exception to this nature is the ability of the easternmost wall in each instance to spontaneously repair any structure damage that is inflicted upon it. Every three years, beginning on December 14 and ending on December 212 each SCP-4083 instance will undergo successive 4083-Theta-R events from 21:00 to 23:59, GMT. As yet, no 4083-Theta-R events have been detected on December 19, although it is speculated that this gap is because of activity in a yet-undiscovered SCP-4083 instance. Prior to a 4083-Theta-R event, all individuals within an affected SCP-4083 instance will feel a strong urge to leave. This expulsion begins with a feeling of mental and physical discomfort in affected individuals, before escalating to sensations of dread and severe physical pain. Affected individuals will attempt to escape affected SCP-4083 instances by any means possible, up to and including physical violence against any perceived captors. All attempts to physically detain affected individuals within SCP-4083 have been unsuccessful, with restraints and barriers undergoing spontaneous structural failure. Following the expulsion of all individuals from SCP-4083, affected instances undergo a 4083-Theta-R event. During a 4083-Theta-R event, doors leading into affected instances of SCP-4083 become inoperable, and windows will become fully opaque. Alternate attempts at physical entry, whether through walls, floors, or ceilings, have met with failure. Surveillance equipment placed in affected instances will record only static for the duration of the 4083-Theta-R event. During a 4083-Theta-R event, sounds emanate from affected instances of SCP-4083. These sounds include but are not limited to screaming, rumbling, sounds of struggle, [REDACTED]. A pale violet light can be seen emanating from beneath the door of affected SCP-4083 instances. On rotating seven-event cycles3, sounds also include [DATA EXPUNGED]. These events register between 1.0 and 3.7 on the Richter scale. After the conclusion of a 4083-Theta-R event in an affected instance, the instance will become accessible to outside individuals and effectively indistinguishable from other apartments. Affected instances show signs of extensive scorching across the ceiling around the living room area, although marks typically fade within two days. Each SCP-4083 instance, prior to containment, has been listed as having been rented out to one Richard Moutree for a period of seven months, with the lease terminating early for unspecified damages. No person by the name Richard Moutree has been found in public records, and civilians living in adjacent units or employed at the complex housing the SCP-4083 instance recall no such individual. Since 1973, upon the completion of 4083-Theta-R events, a single tooth will manifest on the floor within the formerly affected SCP-4083 instance. In each case, a different tooth is manifested. Dental records match with Gail Moutree of Pollensbee, AK, born ██/██/1986. The significance of this relationship is unknown, as is Ms. Moutree's connection, if any, with "Richard Moutree. " Ms. Moutree displays no awareness of or inclination towards SCP-4083 instances. Footnotes 1. These complexes lack any common designer or owner. 2. Winter solstice in the Northern hemisphere. 3. Most recently 2013. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4083" by Gaffsey, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4083. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4084 | euclid | lavenderbloodstains Hi, I'm lavenderbloodstains. Welcome to my first successful SCP article! Check out more works by me at my author page. Item #: SCP-4084 Special Containment Procedures: All landline phones still in use are to be monitored for the appearance of SCP-4084. Disinformation campaigns have been circulated globally, declaring the anomaly a standard error caused by the user’s microphone looping back into the phone’s earpiece. Additionally, users of landline phones are advised to hang up calls as soon as possible after it has been made apparent that the phone could not connect to the desired number. Users of landline phones have been informed that hearing a connection tone after the prerecorded message is a common manufacturing error and not a point of concern. In the case that a user does not follow the advice of these disinformation campaigns and connects to SCP-4084, the Foundation is to be alerted immediately and all involved in the incident are to be administered Class-B amnestics. The area in which SCP-4084 manifests is to be monitored for any further anomalous activity. Description: SCP-4084 is an anomaly manifesting primarily in landline telephones that occurs approximately 33.2% of the time when a user making a call attempts to connect to a number that is out of service, has been disconnected, or does not exist. When this criteria is met, the user will hear the standard prerecorded message set by the brand of their landline phone indicating that a connection could not be made, followed shortly by the standard indication that they have been connected to a line. This happens in spite of the fact that the phone should be unable to connect to any line, occurring even in malfunctioning devices. A user connected to this seemingly “empty” line will not become aware of SCP-4084 unless they speak for a duration of time estimated at approximately 30 seconds. For the first ~30 seconds of the call, the empty line will feedback an echo of the user’s own distorted voice. However, once the time limit has been reached, the feedback on the other end of the line no longer echoes the person(s) speaking through the landline and begins to produce unassisted vocalizations. The nature of these vocalizations consist of the person(s) own distorted voice breaking synchronization and taking on a pleading tone, inquiring as to its own whereabouts and asking the user not to hang up. Although SCP-4084-1 instances vocalize a strong desire for the user not to hang up the line, the call can be disconnected at any time with no ill effect. Please see Addendum 4084-3. Addendum 4084-1: Attached below is a recording of a call affected by SCP-4084, conducted by Senior Researcher Dr. Arthur Stradwick on 12/09/████. + View Interview Log 12/09/████ - Hide Interview Log 12/09/████ <Begin Log> Dr. Stradwick dials a number that is currently out of service. The landline telephone dial-up ringtone plays for approximately 30 seconds. The prerecorded message begins to play. SCP-4084: We're sorry, you have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. If you feel you have reached this recording in error, please check the number and try your call again. A tone indicating a connection plays. Dr. Stradwick: Hello? Is anybody there? SCP-4084: (echoing Dr. Stradwick) Hello? Is anybody there? Dr. Stradwick: I repeat, is anybody there? I request that you tell me who or what is on the end of this line. SCP-4084: (echoing Dr. Stradwick) I repeat, is anybody there? I request that you tell me who or what is on the end of this line. Dr. Stradwick: Once again, I will repeat: Is anybody th— Dr. Stradwick is cut off by an unassisted vocalization originating from SCP-4084. SCP-4084-1: —ere? Hello, is anybody there? Can you hear me? Please, don’t hang up this call. Dr. Stradwick: Yes, I can hear you. Who are y— SCP-4084-1: —ou? Can you tell me where I am? Can you tell me where you are? How do I get out of here? Please, don’t hang up this call. Dr. Stradwick: I will not hang up the call, however, we do not have any information on your whereabouts. Now, would you mind telling me who you a— SCP-4084-1: —re? Are you me? Wait a moment, are you me? Dr. Stradwick: I can neither confirm nor deny. There is silence for approximately 10 seconds. SCP-4084-1: My name is Dr. Arthur Stradwick, Senior Researcher at the SCP Foundation. I request that you tell me who or what is on the end of this line, and that you inform me as to my whereabouts and how I can get out of here. Hello, can you hear me? Dr. Stradwick: SCP-4084-1, I am afraid that we do not have sufficient information on your whereabouts, nor how to “get you out.” I ask once more: can you tell me who or what is on the end of this line? There is silence for approximately 10 seconds. Dr. Stradwick: Who or what is on the end of this line? Your compliance would be appreciated. SCP-4084-1 Hello? Can you hear me? Please, don't hang up this call. Dr. Stradwick: Yes, SCP-4084-1, I can hear you. SCP-4084-1: Can you tell me where you are? Can you tell me where I am? Can you tell me who or what is on the end of this line? Dr. Stradwick: That is confidential information. There is silence for approximately 3 seconds. SCP-4084-1: Can you hear me? Dr. Stradwick: I can see that this is getting nowhere. Terminating the interview. SCP-4084-1: No, wait, don’t you dare hang up this ca— Dr. Stradwick hangs up the line, and concludes the interview. <End Log> The information expressed by SCP-4084-1 in this interview is to be considered a breach of security. Addendum 4084-2: On 12/10/████, The Foundation was alerted to a breach of SCP-4084's containment. Every landline telephone within the Yalobusha County Multipurpose Building, Mississippi, began to ring spontaneously. When the calls were answered, SCP-4084 provided the standard prerecorded message indicating that a connection could not be made. Disinformation campaigns were not successful, as employees remained connected to the line due to confusion, and became aware of SCP-4084-1 after 30 seconds. The Foundation was able to intercept the event before knowledge of it could be spread to the public, administering Class-B amnestics to all employees on site. Yalobusha County is to be monitored for any further anomalous activity. Addendum 4084-3: On 12/16/████, Dr. Stradwick scheduled himself for a psychiatric evaluation, reporting that he had manifested an irrational fear of landline telephones, and had been unable to sleep for a week due to being kept awake by auditory hallucinations of SCP-4084-1. On 12/17/████, The Foundation intercepted medical records from the Yalobusha General Hospital and Nursing Home, indicating a large number of civilians reporting psychological effects similar to those experienced by Dr. Stradwick. The administration of Class-E amnestics successfully mitigated these effects, and no further anomalous activity has been reported from the Yalobusha County area. On 12/23/████, during a routine psychiatric checkup, Dr. Stradwick's quarters were found abandoned. Investigation revealed the presence of a tape recorder and a landline telephone. Playback of the tape revealed the following audio: <Begin Log> SCP-4084-1: Can you hear me? Dr. Stradwick: Yes, I can. SCP-4084-1: Are you me? Dr. Stradwick: I don't know. SCP-4084-1: Am I you? Dr. Stradwick: I don't know. SCP-4084-1: Please, don't hang up this call. Dr. Stradwick: I won't. <End Log> ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4084" by lavenderbloodstains, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4084. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4085 | safe | SCP-4085's branding. Item #: SCP-4085 Special Containment Procedures: A 7,000 square meter area surrounding SCP-4085 has been occupied by Foundation forces and converted to Provisional Site-90. All civilian roads leading to or passing by Site-90 have been redirected. No unauthorized personnel are allowed to go within a 100-meter radius of SCP-4085 without authorization from the Director of Site-90. Personnel who disobey this guideline are ineligible for benefits from the Foundation Injury and Death Relief Program. Description: SCP-4085 is a partially subterranean building branded as "Shaggy's House". It has the shape of a semi-circle with its outermost points from the center—the entrance— converging back into it to form two spheres beside it. Its surface level is 3,000 square meters but when utilizing thaumatic energized GPR1 technology, its expansion was discovered and found to reach a length of 8,000 meters before GPR signals were blocked by an abundance of Abaddon Energy2. The interior of SCP-4085 has a layout of a grocery store that is furnished with lavish materials such as gold and rare mineral. Its inventory is stocked with SCP-4085-1 instances. SCP-4085-1 instances are advertised as edibles and come in the form of meats in the shape of human organs and limbs, packaged processed foods that resemble human extremities, produce with faces with wide mouths, as well as spices, oils, and beverages that when consumed by human subjects induce paranoia, agitation, sadness, and dread. SCP-4085-1 instances can only be purchased with conceptual goods3 or pure gold. SCP-4085-A is the designation for the entities that exist inside SCP-4085. They are 3-meter tall humanoids with orange-tinted skin and elongated fingers that average 30 cm in length. Instances of SCP-4085-A have eyes with black pupils, and mouths that have been observed to widen to 25 cm, showing elongated teeth similar to Melanocetus johnsonii4. They are dressed in identical uniforms with the "Shaggy's House" logo on them and exhibit expected behaviors of a human grocery store employee, including staffing the checkout counters, organizing the shelves, and maintaining the store. They are unable or unwilling to speak and will typically ignore human subjects except when they are checking out items or attempting to steal them. Attempts to exit with these items without paying would result in SCP-4085-A instances physically assaulting and eviscerating the subject(s), mainly using their teeth. SCP-4085 instances will then take the subject(s) through a door in the back of SCP-4085 and begin cleaning the area where they were terminated. All attempts to enter this door were halted by SCP-4085-A instances. Addendum.SCP-4085 Contact — Addendum.SCP-4085 Contact On October 25th, 1992, for the first recorded time since SCP-4085's discovery, an SCP-4085-A instance exited from SCP-4085 with a piece of paper in its hand. After it was placed on the ground, it returned to SCP-4085. The contents of it read: Salutations, Foundation This message is on behalf of the owners and curators of this establishment you are currently infringing upon. Your presence here has been unexpected and worrying but it might prove to be a great opportunity for both of us. We have a vision of a deal occurring between us. We request an audience with you to discuss more of this. If you agree, then burn this message and wait for us at midnight tonight. We hope you accept. ~ Shaggy's House Incorporated. The Foundation followed the instructions detailed in the paper and waited for the unknown entities to emerge. When midnight occurred, twenty SCP-4085-A instances circling eight Tartarean5 entities, designated from T-Entity 1-86, which possessed amphibian and mammalian characteristics and were dressed in tattered clothes with several symbols sewn in them, exited out of SCP-4085. They were then intercepted by Foundation forces where the SCP-4085-A instances but one were terminated and the T-Entities were captured and contained inside Standard Omega Tartarean seals. Shortly after, they were interrogated by Site-90 Director Kellogg. Interviewer: Director Kellogg Interviewed: T-Entity 5 Foreword: The entity was bound in a seal and placed inside a reinforced glass encasing that inhibited excessive movement while and was surrounded by guards for Director Kellogg's safety. TE-5 were chosen to be questioned due to other entities claiming that they were the leader. [BEGIN LOG] Kellogg: Good night or evening. It seems you're the lucky one I get to talk to. So, this deal, what does it entail? TE-5: I was going to tell you all that before you attacked us from the sky! Don't you know how hard it was to convince the others to even come out and meet you? And where is my case? This could set us back to zero on negotiations. Kellogg: Negotiations? Right now, you should be focusing on why I shouldn't send you and your friends back to where you came from. Be quick though, it's late. TE-5: Alright, alright! We came to give you an opportunity of becoming an investor in our store. Things are a bit slow on our side but with you in the picture, our profits could increase tenfold. Of course, you will be getting cut of the profits. I'll say 3 to 5 percent seems more than— Kellogg: Stop. Did you really come to us to offer us royalties? That's—We don't need your money, and I'm sure if you have some you wouldn't need us. Now, I'm going to give you two options: pack up and go home willingly or we can do it the old and painful way. TE-5: Wait a minute, there are other things we are offering! Greater things than you can't even imagine. Don't you think it a bit odd that are we even here, or wondering where our products even come from? Kellogg: You'll trade information? TE-5: If it means a deal, then yes. The others might protest about me telling you this—but it doesn't matter now. Kellogg: I'm listening. TE-5: Alright, alright. We have made great leaps in a new branch of science. Kellogg: Science? TE-5: Yes, just listen. Currently, as it is now, our kind is forced to make pacts and binds and contracts with this world to enter and interact with it. Our natural energy requires an anchor to be in this world without us being ripped in two. However, however, what if something, not of this world but still able to go in it is able to act as our anchor by utilizing our world and bodies energy without any of those things? Meaning we will be able to exist freely in our world without restriction. But that's not at all. The souls— the most delicious part of man's existence— also require preparation to obtain. But what about the ones forgotten and unable to pass on? We can skip the process with the device and pluck them right out of the air. And don't get me started on how it streamlines the infusion process. You can stretch a soul if you know what you're doing. Oh, sorry, no disrespect to the living of course. Kellogg: Infusion? What do you mean by this? TE-5: A little boiling there, whipping here, just the whole 24/7 torture thing, you know. Sorry, again, no hard feelings towards you guys, of course. But it just doesn't taste half as good without some misery. We all got needs, you know? Kellogg: Right. And you are the only ones doing this? TE-5: Oh hardly. But we are the ones who have gotten this far. The other sects think science is the way of humans and nothing else, not realizing we can combine our own knowledge with theirs to even achieve higher levels of power. Trust me, we might be the first, but we won't be the last. You are standing on top of a new revolution! Our science, Demon science, is the future of our kind. Kellogg: Fascinating, can you show us how to build this machine? TE-5: No, no, I can't divulge that. Our science is new and still comes with its own restrictions. Kellogg: You just said you broke free from those restrictions. TE-5: That only pertains when interacting with this world, and that's only to a certain extent. We still have to live under our own laws. But don't worry about that. I still haven't even started on the market for human edibles. Did you know six out of— Kellogg: I am afraid I don't care for all of that. For someone smart, you aren't keen on your surroundings. Your friends and allies are with us, so what is stopping me right from ordering a squad to get rid of that store and you while we are it? TE-5: You'll, you'll gain nothing! We might not be able to show you how to build it, but we can certainly do other things. Money! Information! And who is to say that we are the only ones operating this store? Who's to say they are not others waiting to unleash mayhem if things here go bad? Kellogg: But you're the leader and we have your documents. TE-5: …Okay? Kellogg: We can just take them out right now and clean this up before they even get the idea. TE-5: Wait a minute! I mean they won't attack immediately, especially if I'm here. He-he, I am an important figure with them, after all. Keeping me alive would be best for them and you. Kellogg: Oh, then that changes everything. You are valuable. TE-5: Now you're seeing the big— Kellogg: As leverage. TE-5: Fu— [END LOG] Addendum.SCP-4085 Deliberations — Addendum.SCP-4085 Deliberations Shortly after contact was established, Director Kellogg requested aid from the Occult Legal Firm.7 Forest Ceaser was then deployed to assess the documents recovered from the Tartetean Entities. Below is his statement on the subject: Dealing with contracts is tricky. Dealing with Demon, Tartarean, or whatever you call them, contracts, are mostly the same. It just so happens that the differences are just so aggravating. Think of Demon contracts as living organisms that have almost omnipotent power over those that have signed them, where violating them in any way can turn you into a frog for the foreseeable future. You can say these "contracts" obtain substance by keeping themselves fair and are constantly changing to do just that. This can happen if one party in the contract gains more capital, or power per se, and the contract might deem itself inadequate for the current circumstances and change to benefit the group with the greater assets. However, this change can be negated or halted with numerous methods. The safest and easiest way to do this is to bind it through sacrifice. It can be a life, an item of sentimental value, or even just singing in your blood might do the trick. The point is the bigger the sacrifice, the harder it is for the contract to change without any rule-breaking going on. And given the Foundation's current state, we have a lot to give without giving. After reading this contract this Demon gave, it seems to be mostly fair and adequate for our needs; but changes can and will be made to further our benefits. Although, after reading the original, I can see why they were so desperate to make a deal with us. They were basically doing all the work for pennies. They must have thought anything would have been better. There also seem to be phrases and sections with some things pertaining to a Perem. It seems to be worded in a way where they are not lying but hiding something. They are withholding, as expected. I'll attach an excerpt of all my findings once I get done via a pigeon. Demon legal logic. _ETHICS COMMITTEE ENVOY:_ DELIVERED BY THE COMMAND OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE Due to the sensitive nature of SCP-4085 and its derivatives, additional resources from other departments were required to fully assess this decision (See Below), and after careful deliberations, it has come to our decision that forming a deal or operating SCP-4085 and the formation of SCP-4085-1 instances will not violate any of the Foundation Ethic codes. The "souls" of humans or Type 2-B Incorporeal entities under current conditions cannot be permanently harmed. When ingested by a Tartarean entity, it is found that the incorporeal entity undergoes a consciousness cleanse and is excreted from their systems shortly after. Although this Incorporeal entity may or not be recycled back into the human sphere, this does not dictate the destruction of the said entity but simply a change in form and does not fall under the Foundation's jurisdiction. The Foundation does have an obligation to keep the suffering of these said entities and other accompanying parties at a minimum. Failure to do so would be an insult to those who suffer to maintain our mission and to the lives who perished to form these codes. But, due to the importance of a contract and acquisition of SCP-4085, however, this may be ignored in certain circumstances. DEPARTMENT OF ENIGMATIC TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND STUDY After investigating the GPR scans of SCP-4085 and the mechanisms found in TE-5's case, it is believed they have not lied about the technology it spoke of. The abundance of Abbadon energy makes it difficult to fully confirm the space's nature, but it is believed to have a high degree of certainty of originating from and connecting to LoI-04 ("Netherworld", "Limbo", "Hell"). Connecting a structure containing multiple items from LoI-04 this large without major restrictions or backlash from our plane is not possible through normal, esoteric, or primeval means. Analysis of the mechanism and the documents pertaining to the technology cited by TE-5 found inside their briefcase reveal it to be a demonstration device capable of small-area Abbadon energy manipulation. When activated, it was able to materialize organisms and minerals only found LoI-04 . We have been unable to replicate it as it is composed of living tissue that emits low levels of thaumatic energy and an unknown metal. If TE-5 is to be fully believed, which is our advice to do so, then the Tartarean culture is advancing to heights unseen before and if not halted or influenced, could lead to a massive emergence event of Tartarean of several classes within 120 years. It is of our, yours, and the Foundation's interest to obtain as much knowledge of this technology as soon as possible. In our projections, the Foundation could gain a greater understanding of Abbadon energy and Tartenerean entities. The ability to harvest souls via Abbadon energy that has not moved from our dimension can also offer a great deposit of information not available to us through conventional means. TE-5 INTERROGATION LOG-2: After more information was received on the legal documents of SCP-4085 from Forest Ceaser and technical aspects with the assistance of several other departments, it was determined that a deal with the creators of SCP-4085 would be a beneficial arrangement for the whole of the Foundation and its goals. Another briefing with TE-5 would be commenced before plans were set in motion to solidify it. [BEGIN LOG] TE-5: It's been days! I can't take it anymore. What else do you want from us? Kellogg: Some truthful answers. TE-5: Haven't I given you that? Kellogg: No, in fact, you were lying to us. I have reason to believe that there is another party involved in all of this. TE-5: Wha—Hu—On what basis? Kellogg: One, someone with your position would not have enough capital or the intellect to set this up. Two, the documents you were going to give us are filled with contradictions and holes. And three, the others told me. TE-5: They wouldn't dare! Kellogg: Yes, they were quite adamant about being quiet until we gave them a quick bath. So, tell me already, if you don't want to be baptized too, who is this third party—this Perem. How are we going to make a deal with you if you don't know all the risks involved? TE-5: Fine. Just to let you know I didn't tell you earlier because this guy is a pain, and I didn't want you to be scared off by him. He doesn't listen to reason; he treats us and everyone he meets like they are below him. He thinks just because he has 50% of the store, funded us, named and designed the brand, and also made the workers, too…that he owns the place! He doesn't even stay half the time. I bet he doesn't even know where the restroom is. But guess what, that was his biggest mistake. Now, we got you guys. And if you just agree, we can cut him out of any real power he has over the store. Kellogg: So you were going to use us as your sword and hammer? TE-5: Yes! Wait, no. When you put it like that… Kellogg: You're really not that smart are you? What type of ido—I'm getting ahead of myself. So, who is this man, and will he be a threat? TE-5: Well, he's just one man. I'm sure with your firepower taking him out will be easy as, well, taking us out. [END LOG] Addendum.SCP-4085 Interference — Addendum.SCP-4085 Interference On November 2nd, 1992, a letter appeared on Director Kellogg's office desk after a power system failure. The contents of it are below: Greetings, I have recently found out while I was away that your organization has tried to disrupt the partnership of my store. I am sure that you did not start this, and that it was the work of some conniving ungrateful buffoons that are not even fit to be culled. I assumed they promised you glory and power if you help them. I have come to tell you that is a lie, and you are being swindled by half-rate demons. However, I can see you have taken a liking to the store and I am not unkind. So, I will be visiting you sometime tomorrow to discuss business. Best regards, ~ Hawkins Zion Perem. Twelve hours after this message was retrieved, a blue-skinned humanoid male wearing shorts and an unbuttoned palm tree pattern shirt, now designated as PoI-450, appeared on the boundary of Site-90. As PoI-450 attempted to walk inside site's boundaries, he was quickly intercepted and escorted to an interrogation chamber. The interrogation was conducted by Director Kellogg. The transcript is provided below: Interviewer: Director Kellogg Interviewee: PoI-450 [BEGIN LOG] PoI-450: Nay, your men were a bit rough. I also expected a better arrangement for our meeting, but you and I were both on short notice, so I understand. Now, I believe introductions are in due. I am Hawkins Zion Perem, 250th son of the House of Perem, and co-owner of the Shaggy's House. Kellogg: Kellogg is fine. So, you are the other investor we were worried about. PoI-450: An investor? I found them wallowing in their own poverty without anything to their flame. Oh, they're smart, but they're so limited. They were going to sell off their work as another way to manage already obtain souls. What would be the point of that? Nay. They had just found gold and were going to bury it back in the dirt! But with a push in the right direction, I got things back on track. I am more than just an investor. I am the visionary, the inventor of this whole project. There is nothing without me. PoI-450 pulls a rod of metal resembling iron out of his pocket and begins to chew on it. Kellogg: So you know how to build another one of these devices powering the store? PoI-450: That's for them to do and for me to make sure they don't mess it up. I don't need to know how to make it, I just need to know how to use it. I utilize my time efficiently and don't bother with the useless details someone else can do. You know how it is. Kellogg: Ah, I actually do. PoI-450: See, you get it. At first, I thought you guys were going to be weird. Nay, your reputation does exceed you. But you and I can come up with something. Kellogg: What do you have in mind? PoI-450: [Leans forward.] Those demons try to cut me out of my own contract and I can't let that slide, so here's what I'm thinking. We cut half of them in size, make the other slaves, and obtain all the profit for ourselves. I also know you want a piece of that technology and I can have that arranged to a certain degree. This machine can be used for more than just bargain-bin stores. This whole thing can open the way for new power. Untapped, untamed power. Weapons that can tear space apart is what I'm talking about. Kellogg: And what do you have to do with weapons? PoI-450: Don't worry about that, just know my family deal in those waters… Think about it, Kellogg, we can take the prize for ourselves and eat all the ripened fruit without anyone being the wiser. Kellogg: Sounds enticing, but we can't deal with half benefits. We want to know everything about the store in front of the table. Including the technology. PoI-450: Nay, don't be so greedy! You just found this place by pure chance. You didn't put any effort into it, you have no stake in this. You might have gotten away with the attitude with the other riffraff. But I am not them and I will not be stolen from. Nay, I am the 250th son of the House of Perem! Know your place. I forgive you for what you did earlier as you were lied to. But don't push your luck. Kellogg: My apologies, Mr. Perem, I did not expect you to be so much more dignified than the others we captured. PoI-450: Of course! Since you know what you're dealing with, we can now discuss real business. Kellogg: Oh, yeah, we can discuss all the terms you want. We're going to have plenty of time. PoI-450: I don't know about that. I got places to go soon, I was on holiday as you can see. So, I would like to get this done quickly. Kellogg: I disagree, your quarters are already reinforced and furnished. Once you're there, I'm sure you won't be going anywhere soon. PoI-450: Ha-ha. Nay, you make it sound like you're going to put me in a cell. Kellogg: I mean I am, but okay. PoI-450: Oh, that's funny. You're a jokester. I have a couple of siblings just like that. A group of guards enter the room and begin to surround PoI-450. PoI-450: Oh. [END LOG] SCP-4085 Window-Shopper Event Once PoI-450 was placed inside containment, awaiting further interrogation, they began to vocalize threats towards the Foundation and Director Kellogg. Simultaneously, the Tartarean entities in containment began to become agitated. Two hours after containment, a massive group of SCP-4085-A instances rushed out of SCP-4085 and towards the cell of PoI-450, attacking and destroying anything that halted their advancement. Once they made it to PoI-450, they broke him out of his cell and escorted him inside SCP-4085. Shortly after PoI-450 entered it, SCP-4085 began to emit a higher level of Abbadon energy and heat. It then began to start to experience rapid decay with cracks being seen throughout its structure and the area surrounding it. During this event, severe damage was done to Site-90, destroying one-fourth of the facility. Alongside this, five personnel were injured and two were killed. After the Foundation forces were regrouped and accounted for, TE-5 was questioned about what was occurring inside the store. They claimed that PoI-450 was using the mechanism inside the store to make it leave to another extra-dimensional space. To intercept this, a team was formed to explore SCP-4085. Addendum.SCP-4085 Excursion: Team: MTF Psi-5 (P 1-7), Tartarean Entities 1-8, and Director Kellogg (Intercom communications only). Foreword: Due to the Tartarean entities' familiarity with SCP-4085's interior, it was deemed that they would lead the exploration team. After failing to comply with these terms, they were threatened with expulsion and termination of any chance of a contract formation with the Foundation. The team is in front of the SCP-4085's back door. The area around them is disarray, with shelves being overturned and the walls being scorched and slashed. TE-4: We can't do this! This is suicide! TE-2: I knew coming to them was a mistake. They're going to make us fight till we all die. TE-5: Calm down, guys. We're just got to get through this and we'll be done with all this. We'll get our deal and make it big. TE-1: You believe those lies after what they did to us? Kellogg: You better believe those lies. We're doing this on your behalf, so stop complaining. If you had the power to control those workers you wouldn't be in half the trouble. There is a human saying of ours that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. TE-3: But that is so stupid. If you get lemons, you can just transmute the— Kellogg: Just move. As they enter the back door, a room and hallway down its path are seen. The interior is a mixture of metal and rock. The light source is an orange hue coming through cracks in the wall. A constant, distant screaming can be heard. As they continue and enter the hallway, the interior changes to fully rock. Ten minutes later, they encounter a dead amphibian Tarterean entity on the ground. Holes and bite marks are present throughout its body. TE-2: That's… That's… TE-5: I know. Kellogg: Who is that? TE-5: A partner. Kellogg: Make that former. Men, be careful. Carry on. As the team continues, the left wall begins to show more and more gaps until it is gone. When looking in the distance, an area of lava is seen. Beyond this, on a rock platform, dozens of rows can be seen with Type 2-B Incorporeal entities being tied down on metal platforms and being repeatedly whipped, stabbed, or burned by SCP-4085-A instances. Below them are bowls filled with clear, misty liquid. The SCP-4085-A instances do not take notice or ignore the team. Several minutes later, they enter a space that has multiple elevators on its walls. There are ten SCP-4085-A instances present that then attacks the team. They lunge after TE-3 and TE-6, which are then terminated by the SCP-4085-A instances by biting a piece of their necks off. As the rest of the Tartarean entities are engaged with the SCP-4085-A instances, Psi-5 falls back and begins to shoot at them from a distance. Killing eight of the SCP-4085-A instances as the other two were terminated previously by the Tartareans. TE-5: What are you doing? Two of us are gone! Why didn't you do that sooner? Kellogg: Calm yourself, before you get shot. It was a miscalculation. TE-2: A miscalculation? We told you we couldn't fight! We could have to lead you from up there. Oh…we're all gonna be sent back to Mola-Juda aren't we? Kellogg: Maybe you start fighting better. TE-4: We are scientists! We cannot fight! TE-5: Guys, guys, calm down. TE-2: Shut up! It's your fault we're in this mess in the first place. Look at you and where your big ideas lead us to. We should have just stayed back home. TE-5: Hey! You agreed, didn't you? Don't put all this on me, okay? I did my best! PoI-450: Nay, is this mic loud enough? Eh, it has to do. Hm-hm. See, how you people fight against each other? See how frantic you all are? This is what happens when you do something that your brain isn't meant to do. You had no right, none, to even to have the thought of double-crossing me. I'm going to make sure each and one of you is killed. And then I'm going to have your meat bodies baked and boiled in that order to be eaten. I am the 250th, the 250! TE-2: Screw you Perem! PoI-450: Nay, yell all you want. And Kellogg, you had an opportunity for greatness, and now you are going to watch it burn. Kellogg: Stop listening to him and tell us which elevator to go down to. He's obviously stalling. The team advances to the front elevator while TE-5 presses a combination of buttons. TE-5: This should lead us to where he and the device are at. But, please, try to protect us better. We can't stop what he is doing if we're dead. As the team is brought down by the elevator, a static humming sound gets louder as they descend. When the elevator stops, the door opens revealing a 4-meter silver door with drapes bearing the Shaggy's House logo. Throughout the area are bodies of five Tarterean entities. TE-2: He killed them all. Kellogg: Is this it? TE-5: Yes, it is. Kellogg: Then what's the holdup? TE-2: Somethings behind there. A small group of SCP-4085-A instances exit from the door and begin to engage the team. They are quickly terminated by Psi-5 before they engage any of the Tartarean entities. However, a few seconds afterward, an explosion occurs near the team that is mostly concentrated in the area of the remaining Tartareans. When the team regroups, TE-7 and TE-4 are found to be terminated. TE-2: Loo—Loo—Wha! TE-5: Just a little more, just one more push and no more of this. The team then enters through the door and finds PoI-450 fiddling with an unknown mechanical board fitted with levers and pulleys that are connected to an apparatus composed of pipes and glass-filled tubes filled with bubbling blue liquid. This mechanism spreads throughout the entire room on the walls; steam can be observed coming off it. PoI-450: Nay. So, you made it. You know, I was in a crunch, so didn't have any time to fortify this place. The rejects don't all listen to new commands quickly. They're all got fish for brains. Literally. But that besides us. Kellogg, you are determined I give you that, so let's say we negotiate again. What about fifty-fifty share? That sounds fair. You have the power and I have everything else. Just calm down and tell your men don't shoot! Kellogg: Step away from the controls, Mr. Perem. Negotiations are over. PoI-450: Pity. What about you guys? I know I wasn't the nicest, and I did get rid of your friends back there, but still, that was just business. You know how it is. We can re-negotiate better terms, better salaries. Nay, I worked hard for this, too. And I can be sympathetic towards your causes and…needs. As I always say, it's better to make a deal with some before you destroy their city. Nay, that's from first-hand experience by the way. So you really don't want to burn all bridges down all right? TE-2: You can rot in oblivion! Bathe and rot in it! PoI-450: Come on, don't be childish! Do you think they are going to give you a better deal than me? Look at them, don't they just make your skin crawl? They're not good for you or anyone! Kellogg: Step away from the controls, Mr. Perem. Last chance. PoI-450: Fine, fine, I concede. I have lost, you have the upper hand. Just one more thing though. I just would like to say a few words of—Ihopeallofyoudieahorribledeath! PoI-450 begins to interact with the controls of the mechanism while Psi-5 takes aim and shoots him. PoI-450 dodges and tries to run away from the mechanism before Psi-1 takes multiple shots toward him, shooting him in the leg and damaging the mechanism in the process, causing an explosion. As the team is pushed back by this event, the smoke clears, and the machine begins to glow orange. PoI-450 is seen on the floor with half of his body missing and yellow liquid pouring out from his wounds. PoI-450: Nay, this is bad… real bad. Oh, shit…she's going to kill me. PoI-450 reaches inside his mouth and pulls out a circular disk. He then breaks it with his finger and is engulfed by a black mass before that too collapses on itself and dissipates. TE-5 then runs towards the machine and begins fiddling with it. TE-2: Serves you right. TE-5: Forget him, we have the store now! Kellogg: Can you stop what's happening? TE-5: Of course, we built it! Guys, come on. The Tartereans all begin to work on the machine and make it cease its current functions. Subsequently, the humming noise stops. TE-5: Done. Kellogg: The store is secured? TE-2: Yes! Kellogg: Congratulations. I think we can make that deal now. [END LOG] Addendum.SCP-4085 Acquisition — Addendum.SCP-4085 Acquisition After the exploration of SCP-4085, another excursion force was sent inside to begin the termination of the remaining SCP-4085-A instances and capture the unprocessed Type 2-B incorporeal entities. It was deemed that the Tartareans entities of SCP-4085 will overseer the acquisition of new employees and be in charge of the daily operations inside of it. Inspection of the exterior and interior revealed massive damage, particularly to the mechanism, designated as SCP-4085-2. According to TE-5, it would take an extensive amount of resources and finances to repair SCP-4085-2 to operational levels. Due to this, significant changes to the contract were amended to ensure the Foundation's ability to utilize and protect SCP-4085. [BEGIN LOG] TE-5: What you're asking of us is to sign ourselves into slavery. We won't have any say at all, we'll be doing all the work! We won't even be able to profit from our own business in three decades! Kellogg: You still don't get it, even after I allowed you to get through that store alive. You are no longer in control here. We, or I, as you say, own you. You don't have a say anymore. Well, you still do, you have the option to rebel, but I don't think you like the consequences of that much. TE-5: You're asking for too much! I can't. We can't. And I still can't teach how to build the machine either. They are laws in place for a reason. If I break them it will cause our very being to warp and change. We'll be at the top of the hierarchy. You'll turn us into imps! Kellogg: I don't see how that's our problem. We still repairing the store and continuing to fight off those workers that you somehow still cannot control. TE-5: It, it is not our fault! Perem— Kellogg: Everything is your fault. When you work here there is no room for excuses. You do it or you don't. I don't want to hear anything else but results. Your job, for the foreseeable future, is to make sure that the store gets back in tip-top condition. As long as you can do that, you won't have any problems with me. This is your future. Think of it like this, at least you won't be stuck in that glass anymore. [END LOG] SCP-4085 CONTRACT FOUNDATION RELATION WITH SCP-4085 AND FUTURE COUNTERPARTS Due to the contract with Tartarean entities involved with SCP-4085, it may be allowed to continue its operations under the following conditions: SCP-4085 and their possible future counterparts will limit its effects on the baseline reality to only acquiring Type 2-B incorporeal entities. Foundation will receive all profits from SCP-4085 in the form of pure gold until Foundation's finances are reimbursed for repairing and protecting SCP-4085 in its deteriorated state. The Foundation will receive a minimum of ten test subjects of Tartarean origin a year upon request. This can be at intervals or all at once. Information on SCP-4085-2 is to be provided and explained thoroughly. The Tartarean entities may use any means to accomplish this task to ensure their continued existence as long as it does impedes the Foundation. The Foundation has the ability to halt the processing of any Type 2-B incorporeal entity and the ability to obtain them if requested. For a more comprehensive list, request from the Department of Records. Failure to uphold any of the following conditions will result in the full termination of the contract and the Tartereans entities involved. As of date, the physical acquisition and repair of SCP-4085 and SCP-4085-2 are still ongoing. Footnotes 1. Ground Penetrating Radar 2. Energy originating from an extra-dimensional space that is inhabited by creatures partially composed of it. The energy is volatile and could lead to space influxes between dimensions to the rapid change of organic matter. 3. Tests have found that items that have significant emotional value to the subject qualified for this categorization. 4. Humpback anglerfish 5. An extra-dimensional organism that is mostly composed of Abaddon energy and originates from the space that generates it. Their phenotype varies between individuals and normally possess anomalous capabilities consisting of abnormal durability, size, strength, and low-level elemental thaumatics. These entities are also colloquially referred to as Demons. 6. T-Entity 5 carried a suitcase composed of iron that contained documents and a mechanism pertaining to SCP-4085. 7. A group formed with the assistance of the Global Occult Coalition that deals with legal occult terrestrial and extra-dimensional legal matters. Mostly consisting of temps from other departments due to their lack of need in daily operations. |
SCP-4086 | euclid | Primary Document SCP-4086-DI SCP-4086-DII SCP-4086-DIII Image of SCP-4086 after monitoring of it began in 19██ Item #: SCP-4086 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4086 is to be fitted with a fish screen and monitored by Foundation personnel stationed at ██████████ Dam. On a monthly interval, no less than 908 kilograms of living biological material is to be dumped into SCP-4086. Any individuals attempting to enter SCP-4086 through either the intake or the outlet are to be apprehended and turned over to Federal Authorities to be charged with “trespassing on United States property”. Any biological research that is attempted within the ██████████ reservoir or the ██████████ river immediately after the dam is to be obtained by embedded Foundation personnel working within the Bureau of Reclamation for alteration of the biological statistics. No further explorations by human test subjects are permitted due to the dangerous nature of SCP-4086-1 and inability to retrieve test subjects from SCP-4086-1. Any growths of SCP-4086 that are discovered outside of its location at ██████████ Dam are to be sealed off immediately after discovery. Description: SCP-4086 is the concrete ring gate spillway of the ██████████ Dam located in ██████████, Oregon. The structure has a vertical drop of 300m from the crest of the intake to a 90-degree elbow bend which leads to a 200m long discharge tunnel. No unusual materials or substances have been observed to be included in the construction of SCP-4086. Under normal operating conditions, water from the ███████████ reservoir will enter the intake of SCP-4086 and continue through the tunnel system until it is discharged from the outlet at the foot of the Dam along with any debris that may be in the water with the exception of living organisms. Any living organism that enters the intake of SCP-4086 in an unrestrained free fall state of motion vanishes after reaching terminal velocity into SCP-4086-1. SCP-4086-1 is a level III space-time anomaly which activates when living biological matter enters its field traveling at terminal velocity relative to the earth’s gravitational pull. Test subjects who have entered SCP-4086-1 have reported a vast network of tunnels and pitfalls similar to the design of most spillways on modern dam structures. This network of tunnels floods violently and quickly roughly every hour according to the start of when the subject first enters SCP-4086-1. The tunnels quickly drain through the numerous pits located throughout the labyrinth within a span of minutes. It is not currently understood how such a large volume of water is moved either upwards or downwards throughout SCP-4086-1. No organism that has entered SCP-4086-1 has been able to be recovered. Addendum: SCP-4086’s anomalous qualities were discovered by the Foundation on September 18, 19██, when an embedded agent in the ███████████ Police Department received a call from an unidentified male individual notifying them of his intentions to end his life by jumping into the mouth of the intake of SCP-4086. When officials arrived to the location, the victim was observed jumping into the mouth of the spillway. Efforts to recover the remains of the presumed deceased individual were not successful, and forensic analysis of the bottom of the intake shaft showed no trace of blood or other indicators that a body had made impact within the area. It should be noted that the reservoir was 1m below the crest of the spillway at the time of the incident. Agent ███████████, who was one of the first responders, relayed the details of the occurrence to Foundation personnel. Diversion and investigation team Beta-9 “Busy Beavers” were sent from area ████████ under the guise of employees from the Bureau of Reclamation and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, who then assumed control of the scene. Three explorations (Documents SCP-4086-DI, SCP-4086-DII, and SCP-4086-DIII respectively) were successfully conducted into SCP-4086-1. Transcripts of explorations into SCP-4086-1 are available for review by Authorized personnel. From the last few frames of video that were received in Document SCP-4086-DIII, it appears that the tunnel that A-978 was sucked into had teeth of some form lining the tunnel walls pointing further down the tunnel. It is unsure whether the teeth were made of ██████ or made of the same materials that the rest of SCP-4086-1 is made of. Two months after the fish screen was installed over the top of SCP-4086, several reports were received by the ██████████ Police Department of 4 missing municipal sanitation workers who were last reported doing work in the storm systems of ██████████ City in Oregon. Six more municipal workers entered the tunnels where the 4 men were lost and after 6 hours, only 3 of the six workers exited the storm system. They reported that they found a tunnel system that did not exist on the City infrastructure map, and after entering the tunnel, a surge of water washed away 3 of the men. Beta-9 was promptly deployed to the scene and obtained control of the investigation. It was confirmed that the undocumented tunnels were involved with SCP-4086-1 after a sample of the tunnel wall was taken and compared with the concrete of the original structure of SCP-4086 along with its design elements. Beta-9 noted that there were no significant drops encountered in the storm system, which would have provided a free fall state that would have enabled entrance into SCP-4086-1. In an attempt to halt the spread of SCP-4086 further outside of its known locations, the fish screen was removed from SCP-4086. An investigation into the storm system of ██████████ City 6 months after the removal of the screen found an additional 4 undocumented tunnels had appeared. Two similar reports of missing persons inside of drainage systems are being investigated currently in relation to SCP-4086-1. One investigation is under way in Las Vegas, Nevada and the other in New York City, New York. SCP-4086-DI D-5850 is a Caucasian male, 38 years of age. D-5850 has a history of reckless self-endangerment along with an inclination to impress his peers by performing dangerous stunts. D-5850 Was given a standard issue foundation reconnaissance pack and outfitted with a wireless camera transmitter and two flashlights with spare batteries. Subject was briefed about his task to enter SCP-4086-1. Begin Transcript: D-5850: Why can’t you guys just lower me down by ropes? I don’t get it, this is insane, this is a death wish! Dr Richards: we have already informed you of the circumstances D-5850, you don’t need to worry about your safety regarding the drop. D-5850: I know what you said guy, but I don’t see you standing over this massive hole smiling and getting ready to jump! I don’t want to do this anymore. Dr Richards: You don’t have a choice D-5850, it’s either comply, or face termination. If you like, we could have a guard “assist” you over the railing. D-5850: No guy, don’t touch me. Is everything working before I do it? Dr Richards: yes, everything is functioning properly, you may proceed. D-5850: OK then… D-5850 seems to take a moment breathing heavily and leaning forward then back several times, then lets one foot over the platform and steps off. The camera feed goes dark and activates to night vision very quickly as D-5850 plummets down SCP-4086. The camera feed experiences a couple of seconds of intense static feedback as D-5850 enters SCP-4086-1. D-5850 is heard to gasp louder and louder as the sound of air rushes through the microphone. There is a sound of impact made with loose material and a loud “oomph” from D-5850 approximately 13 seconds after leaving the observation platform. Dr Richards: D-5850, are you alright? Can you hear us? D-5850: *gagging and coughing* what IS THIS?! It smells like death down here! Dr Richards: D-5850 please confirm that you can hear us and that you are unharmed. D-5850: yes I can hear you. I landed on rocks or something down here. D-5850 shines his shoulder mounted light downwards to reveal a large mound of rotting fish corpses along with other wildlife carcasses. D-5850: What is all this? Why are all of these dead fish down here? Dr Richards: Never mind that, could you please angle the camera upwards and tell us what you see? D-5850: It’s dark. It’s pitch black up there, I don’t see the sky or anything. Hey Doctor, I didn’t fall down THAT far did I? Shouldn’t I still see sunlight or something? Dr Richards: You’ve apparently entered another plane of reality D-5850, in a place such as where you are right now, you will likely encounter many things we consider to be abnormal. Please continue exploring. D-5850: Fine guy, but no tricks! If I see any kind of strange stuff that looks too dangerous, then I’m out and done, you understand? Dr Richards: Please proceed D-5850 D-5850 proceeds to clamber down the mound of carcasses to the bottom of the elbow section. He shines his light down what would be the discharge tunnel. D-5850: Something doesn’t feel right down here doctor. I feel out of place, like I’m lost. And this darkness seems a lot thicker than normal. My light is on full power and I can only see about 5 meters in front of me. What else is down here guy? Dr Richards: You are the first person to be relaying information back to us about SCP-4086-1 from within, we do not have any answers for you at this time, please continue. D-5850 begins walking for about 20 minutes until he enters a large rectangular room. Facing him from the opposite wall are 4 separate tunnels each about 2 meters in diameter. A faint rumbling noise can be heard emanating from each tunnel. The floor and bottoms of the tunnels are wet and there is significant growth of algae and other fungi along the floors and walls. D-5850: The floor is getting wet the further that I go. It's pretty slick in a lot of places. Also, there is a faint roaring noise coming from the tunnels, but it's far, like way deep in there. Which tunnel do you want me to go down? Dr Richards: Please explore the rightmost tunnel. Proceed with caution. D-5850 begins walking down the tunnel furthest to the right and shortly encounters a “Y” junction in the tunnel. D-5850: Left or right guy? Dr Richards: Please take the left Tunnel. D-5850 proceeds to the left tunnel and after about 5 minutes of walking comes to a smooth right turn in the tunnel, another 2 minutes of walking leads to a smooth left turn and then 5 minutes later a “T” intersection, D-5850 pauses here. Dr Richards: proceed left with caution. D-5850 takes the left-hand turn and walks for another 10 minutes passing many smaller side tunnels until he meets with another “Y” junction. The ambient rumbling noise grows louder gradually. D-5850: Hey, there have been a lot of smaller side tunnels that I’ve been seeing as I walk, do you want to see what’s in those at all? Dr Richards: For now, please continue down the primary tunnel systems. Take the Right tunnel. D-5850: OK… D-5850 continues forward for another 5 minutes until reaching another “Y” junction. Dr Richards: Left. D-5850 begins to walk into the left-hand tunnel. The roaring noise has grown significantly louder. The tunnel turns abruptly left and after a few seconds, opens up into a cement room approximately 9 meters in diameter with a domed ceiling approximately 6 meters to the top. In the center of the room is a pit identical to the intake of SCP-4086. D-5850: That noise is coming from down there Doctor. It sounds like water moving back and forth, but really deep. I mean it is WAY down there. D-5850 attempts to shine his light down the pit but is unable to see anything. Dr Richards: Please remove a glow stick from your pack and activate it and drop it down the pit. D-5850 takes a moment to get a glow stick and crack it, then shake it and toss it down the pit. Roughly 25 seconds pass before a deep splashing noise is heard reverberating up the pit. D-5850: That is a LONG way down. I’m not staying around here; this thing makes me nervous. D-5850 begins to walk out of the room when the rumbling noise begins to grow even louder. A deep rushing noise is heard emanating from behind D-5850, and the air begins to rush quickly out from behind D-5850. D-5850: Hey guys something is happening here. I’ve got a really bad feeling about this! D-5850 turns just in time to see water erupt out of the pit in the room that he just left. D-5850: WHOA! D-5850 begins sprinting back the way that he came passing the first “Y” junction. D-5850: IT’S FLOODING! IT’S ALL FLOODING! I CAN FEEL THE AIR RUSHING FROM EVERY TUNNEL BEHIND ME! IT’S COLD! THE AIR IS GETTING A LOT COLDER! AS D-5850 approaches the second “Y” junction, the water overtakes him and washes his feet from under him. D-5850 struggles against the water but within a minute his movements cease as hypothermia sets in. The current sweeps his body through the tunnels until it is indiscernible where he is anymore. The current begins to change directions and the camera flows down the tunnels until the current picks up significantly. The water is seen to be sucked down a pit similar to the first one discovered by D-5850 at an incredibly fast rate. The camera is ripped from the body of D-5850 and no further footage is discernible due to a lack of light. After approximately 20 seconds of darkness, the video feed goes to static and never reconnects. End Transcript SCP-4086-DII D-3246 is a Latino male, age 24. Subject has extensive experience with regards to navigating underground drainage tunnels due to a childhood spent primarily living in the sewer and storm systems of Cali, Columbia. D-3246 has been given a wet suit and a small oxygen respirator in addition to a standard issue foundation reconnaissance pack and a wireless camera and two flashlights with spare batteries. A wall anchor system has also been provided to D-3246 in the event of flooding. D-3246 has been briefed on the conditions of SCP-4086-1. Begin Transcript: Dr Richards: Are you ready to make the drop D-3246? D-3246: If you people want to kill me, just use one of your guns. Doesn’t the constitution say something about no cruel or unusual punishment? Dr Richards: This isn’t a punishment D-3246, this is an agreement that you made with the Foundation. One month of absolute obedient service to the Foundation in exchange for your freedom and all charges against you dropped. This is a fair price for such an offer. D-3246: You don’t really expect me to just throw myself down there do you? I may be desperate, but I’m no idiot. Dr Richards: Whenever you’re ready D-3246, just remember that the longer you wait, the more likely that I am to invalidate our agreement and send you out for termination. D-3246: OK, OK, give it a rest. I’m going already. I still don’t understand why I can’t even have a bungee cable or something as a backup. D-3246 stands at the edge of the observation platform for about 5 minutes with no movement. Dr Richards: We are waiting D-3246! D-3246: This isn’t that easy as AAAYYYYY!!!!! As D-3246 began to retort to Dr Richards a guard came from behind and assisted D-3246 off the observation platform and into SCP-4086. The camera feed from D-3246 quickly entered night vision mode and within seconds returned static feedback as D-3246 entered SCP-4086-1. 13 seconds pass as D-3246 screams at the top of his lungs until he crashes into the pile of rotting fish and other wildlife discovered by D-5850. The subject quickly uprights himself, shaking violently. D-3246: I’ll kill whoever just did that to me. I’ll find you and *heavy gagging sounds and coughing are heard through the microphone* OH! That stench! What is that smell?! Dr Richards: you are currently standing on a sizeable mound of rotting animals. You may proceed down the tunnel presently. D-3246: hey, how are you guys going to get me out of here? I don’t see the top of this thing. No light or nothing! Dr Richards: Your primary concern is to go where you are directed to go and do what you are directed to do. Please proceed down the tunnel. D-3246 checks his shoulder mounted light to ensure that it is on full brightness, then begins walking down the mound and into the tunnel. D-3246 enters the first rectangular room with 4 separate tunnels on the opposing wall and is instructed to enter the middle left tunnel. D-3246: what’s down the other tunnels? Dr Richards: If there is enough time, you will show us. D-3246 begins walking down the middle left tunnel and after several minutes of walking comes to “Y” junction. He is instructed to take the left pathway, which he does. D-3246 soon encounters several smaller off branching tunnels. At this point, D-3246 remarks about the sound of rumbling in the deep. D-3246: I know that sound. These tunnels are active. The water isn’t coming down from up there is it? Dr Richards: No D-3246, the water in the Lake is several meters below the spill level of SCP-4086. D-3246: These tunnels slope downwards the further that I go. Water wouldn’t be draining uphill, what is that sound coming from Doctor? Dr Richards: There are several pits that we have seen in these tunnels from a previous expedition, water appears to be active at the bottoms of these shafts. Please have your wall anchor and respirator ready in case you encounter water. Proceed with caution. D-3246 continues exploring the tunnels, entering one of the smaller side tunnels, having to crouch to navigate through it. The rushing sound of water stays at relatively the same level. D-3246 comments on the slickness of the floor due to algae and slime, but otherwise remains silent as he travels deeper into the tunnels. Eventually, he exits the smaller tunnel into another 2 meter wide tunnel. Dr Richards: D-3246, please use a piece of tape to mark the tunnel that you just exited. D-3246 applies a length of duct tape to the top of the side tunnel before continuing down the tunnel system. He turns a corner and finds a tunnel that is steeply sloped at an increasing angle until the angle becomes vertical and the tunnel slopes into a vertical shaft. The rumbling noise has turned into a low roar. D-3246: I Don’t think I’m going THAT way. Dr Richards: Please remove a disposable object of reasonable weight from your backpack and toss it down the hole. D-3246 removes a pair of binoculars from his pack and tosses them down the shaft. They skid down the floor of the slide like structure before falling. Approximately 35 seconds pass before a plopping sound is heard echoing back up the walls of the pit. Dr Richards: Please return quickly to the side tunnel that you entered from earlier. D-3246 hastily makes his way back to the smaller tunnel marked by duct tape and begins crawling through. It takes a few minutes for him to shuffle to the other side. As D-3246 enter the initial main tunnel and begins heading further down it, he stops abruptly. D-3246: Something's happening, there’s water coming down the tunnels, I can feel the air moving! The rumbling in the deep begins to grow louder and louder. Dr Richards: Use your wall anchor to secure yourself to the tunnel wall and activate your oxygen respirator. Prepare for water impact. D-3246: This is CRAZY! I’M GOING TO DIE DOWN HERE! D-3246 manages to use the wall anchor and attach himself to the wall and place the respirator in his mouth just as a wall of water becomes visible about 5 meters away. The water hits D-3246 with substantial force and for approximately 5 minutes is whipped about helplessly by the current. Suddenly, the water changes direction and begins flowing just as strongly in the opposite direction. Approximately 5 minutes pass and then the water recedes. D-3246 gets up and in a panic, rips off his wall anchor and begins running upstream of the tunnel. It is unclear the direct route that he takes due to water on the camera lens and multiple moments of darkness as his flashlight becomes covered. Dr Richards tries to reassure D-3246 but with no response. D-3246 turns a corner and slips on the slick floor. He falls to the ground but is unable to bring himself fully to a stop before sliding down a steep tunnel. His screams do not quite drown out the growing rumble that indicates that he is sliding towards a pit. The camera jerks upwards just long enough to see a pit approximately 3m in diameter in a room roughly 4 meters away. D-3246’s arms are seen scratching frantically as he slides towards the open hole. Just before D-3246 goes completely over the edge, the footage shows his fingers catch a crack or ridge on the floor and he is able to stop himself from sliding into the chasm. D-3246: HELP ME! PLEASE! GET ME OUT OF HERE! PLEASE! HELP! HELP! HELP! D-3246 continues to scream for help with Dr Richards unable to communicate with him. After roughly 6 minutes of D-3246 struggling to pull himself out of the hole, He apparently manages to swing his leg up onto the lip of the pit, and at the same time, knocking loose the camera secured to his shoulder. The last footage that is seen is of a few glimpses of the shrinking light of D-3246 as he dangles at the lip of the shaft before the transmission cuts out. Communication was never reestablished with D-3246. End Transcript SCP-4086-DIII A-978 is a state-of-the-art android with the designed purpose of exploring and collecting data within SCPs deemed too hazardous for human test subjects. It is assumed that since SCP-4086-1 will accept non-biological material if it is within close proximity of living biological material, that A-978 will be able to successfully enter and explore SCP-4086-1. A-978 is equipped with a hyper frequency video transmitter for long range data transmission, along with special grappling systems which will prove useful for scaling the pits found within SCP-4086-1. A-978 has a battery life of 72 hours without energy intake. A retrieval cable is also attached to A-978 as an attempt at recovery. Begin transcript: A-978 is activated and walks to the edge of the observation platform. It jumps from the platform after a brief system check and encounters no static video feedback as it enters SCP-4086-1. Upon landing, A-978 scans the area and it is found that the retrieval cable has been severed. A-978 detaches the severed cable from itself. Further inspection of the surroundings reveals the remains of D-5850. The corpse shows signs that it has been mostly digested rather than decomposing due to exposure of the body to water. A-978 proceeds down the tunnel system and enters the middle left tunnel in the hopes of finding D-3246 if he survived by some means. Upon entering the tunnel, major differences in air pressure are detected by sensors on A-978 and accordingly a brace for impact is made by grappling to the floor. In approximately 23 seconds, the roaring sound increases until a wall of water is viewed racing towards A-978, which is unaffected by the current. After the water recedes, A-978 continues down the tunnel until a pit is encountered. There are no signs of D-3246 having been through the area. At this point, a video relay device is applied to the side of the pit and A-978 begins to grapple its way down the hole. Approximately 2/3 of the way down, the water at the bottom of the pit begins to surge, and A-978 braces for impact. The Rushing water does not affect the android, and the grapple is completed into the bottom of the pit which opens up into a large circular chamber. It is difficult to discern from the footage what the source of the water is due to its intense waves and motion from seemingly all directions. The water level itself appears to be about waist deep to A-978 and no variations in depth are immediately noticeable. A-978 begins to walk slowly forward and soon finds what appears to be a submerged tunnel which is situated halfway on the floor and halfway on the wall. The tunnel seems to slope downwards rapidly and night vision from the retinal cameras are unable to make out much detail from the depths. A-978 looks along the wall further until it discerns movement not associated with water. Upon closer inspection, A leg and arm appear to be protruding from the wall, despite being made of solid concrete. A scan of some tattooing on the hand confirm that it is the body of D-3246. A-978 is given commands to return to the entry point for retrieval. Before A-978 can begin the ascent back up the shaft, a violent current sweeps A-978 off the ground and it collides into the wall. A vortex begins to form where a portion of the wall meets the water approximately 3m from A-978, and the current draws A-978 into the vortex. The camera feed goes to static 4 seconds after A-978 is sucked underwater. No further transmissions were received from A-978. End Transcript ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4086" by Researcher Durham, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4086. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: SCP-4086 Name: BoR-HungryHorseProject-P447-100-575 Author: A.E. McCloud License: Public Domain Source Link: Wikimedia Commons |
SCP-4087 | euclid | close Info X SCP-4087: Absence of a Knife Author: The Great Hippo Images: Link. Music: The Backwards Rhyme More by The Great Hippo: SCPs – hide block SCPs [SCP-3034] The Counting Station DO NOT LET HER FINISH [SCP-3035] Science Bugs case_of_the_mondays.png, case_of_the_mondays (1).png [SCP-3054] Cragstaff Sanitarium You are sick. You are broken. We will fix you. [SCP-3045] bzzip.exe HAMLET: I am no longer moody. [SCP-3043] Murphy Law in… Type 3043 — FOR MURDER! Forget it, Fred. It's Chinatown. [SCP-3057] Fossil Fuels …witnesses provided confirmation that instances of SCP-3057-4 did, in fact, have feathers. [SCP-2639] Video Game Violence i need to know how many people i've killed [SCP-437] Summer of '91 That was a pretty crazy summer, y'know? Sometimes I really miss that place. [SCP-3079] 300 Tricks: Stage Magic Made Easy NOTE: No method for accomplishing this trick is provided. [SCP-2753] Let's Play Jenga! High art carries high risk! [SCP-2679] The Many Graves of Jeannette Parslov Whatever it takes, do what you must; whatever the cost, come back to us. [SCP-3074] Kafka's Parking Garage Thank you for choosing Izatova Parking Center. Have a pleasant day. [SCP-2571] Cragglewood Park Mr. Blair, have you always been an only child? [SCP-2419] The Laughing Men Throw them back into the incinerator where you found them. [SCP-3143] Murphy Law in… The Foundation Always Rings Twice! When it comes right down to it, me — them — hell, even you — we're all just characters in that trashy dime-store novel called life. [SCP-3089] That Old Time Religion Remember how we explained that successful people don't actually need any of their toes to walk? Well, that's going to come in handy for Secret Number Six. [SCP-3117] A Monster-Shaped Hole I'm not talking to you. [SCP-3128] Let's Play Monopoly! Hey, guys? I'm, uh. I'm using this. [SCP-3138] A Sepulcher by the Sea Should it prove feasible, all non-canonical corpses are to be extracted, examined, and catalogued. [SCP-3241] The SS Sommerfeld It makes me wonder what an old monster like myself is even doing here, anymore. And then? Someone special comes along and reminds me. [SCP-3219] This Sour Earth Notably, no reports describe any attempt to examine the residence's storm cellar. [SCP-4028] La Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha Justine eventually re-unites with her sister, Juliette. Alonso strikes down a lightning bolt intended for them both, then challenges the narrator to a duel. [SCP-3546] Doggone it, I Fold! Specifically, fan-art of Sonic the Hedgehog, a video-game character produced by Sega in 1991. [SCP-3561] An Unfinished Work Despite multiple reports from neighbors who claimed to have witnessed members of his family standing at the windows, no trace of Theodore Holdstock's wife and children could be found. [SCP-4054] The Seventh Door SCP-4054 is The Seventh Door, an unlicensed platform adventure game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. An instance of SCP-4087. Item #: SCP-4087 Special Containment Procedures: Foundation assets embedded in European and American law enforcement agencies are to monitor ongoing homicide investigations for markers consistent with the use of an SCP-4087 instance. In the unlikely event that an additional instance is recovered, it is to be immersed in a cubic meter of concrete and transported to a deep geological repository for indefinite storage. Description: SCP-4087 is a set of antique spring-driven pushbutton knives. Each blade is 9.2 centimeters in length and composed of stainless steel. They were produced by Gavrilo Maniago (an Italian knife-maker) as part of a private commission; he only completed six prior to his murder in 1914. SCP-4087 was first identified in 1973 after a mathematical model created by the Foundation's Department of Analytics linked them to over one hundred homicides across fifty years. In each case, law enforcement identified one of the six knives as the murder weapon. Each knife was repeatedly lost, returned, or auctioned off. As of 1975, all six knives have been recovered and accounted for. Since then, over two hundred additional homicides have identified an identical knife as the murder weapon. An investigation into these homicides has determined that, despite all evidence to the contrary, no actual murder weapon exists. After a thorough forensic examination of all six knives, researchers have made the following observations: They exhibit no observable anomalous properties. They lack any sign of significant wear or use. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4087" by The Great Hippo, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4087. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: weapon.jpg Name: 2014 Nóż sprężynowy 01 Author: Jacek Halicki License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Link: Wikimedia Commons |
SCP-4088 | euclid | SCP-4088: Sing us a song, you're a piano, man Author: Deadly Bread Other Articles of Mine SCPs SCP-4966 Rating: 725 SCP-1401-EX Rating: 303 SCP-4052 Rating: 257 SCP-4088 Rating: 234 SCP-5522 Rating: 215 SCP-4109 Rating: 212 SCP-7441 Rating: 137 SCP-5020 Rating: 124 SCP-4035 Rating: 120 SCP-4286 Rating: 119 SCP-4664 Rating: 115 SCP-4270 Rating: 114 SCP-7966 Rating: 107 SCP-3462 Rating: 100 SCP-6663 Rating: 95 SCP-5693 Rating: 63 SCP-6633 Rating: 61 SCP-4570 Rating: 60 SCP-5261 Rating: 59 SCP-444-J Rating: 53 page 1 of 212next » Tales Something Glowing Rating: 180 Log Of Extranormal Events, Vol II Rating: 37 Prelude To Presents Rating: 24 The Bears Rating: 16 Your Memory Forever Seen Rating: 13 Other SCP-005 Proposal Hub Rating: 94 The Bread Box Rating: 92 Secure Facility Dossier: Reliquary Area-27 Rating: 87 Experiment Log-4035 Rating: 71 Collab Articles SCPs Page Title Co-Author SCP-4733 But Not Forgotten Lamentte SCP-5225 The Abyss Stares Back XilasCrowe SCP-5785 Craptivism Sonderance SCP-5993 We want you to come visit Heaven, just don't fuck with those bees ch00bakka Tales Page Co-Author The Bathrooms Wiki Too many to list Snippets of an Unveiled World Nykacolaquantum does not match any existing user name, Lt Flops, IFBench, Westrin Gone, Lamentte Your Imaginary Friend Fishish Check out Deadly Bread's Author Page ▸ More by this Author ◂ {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} ITEM NUMBER: SCP-4088 LEVEL 2/4088 CONTAINMENT CLASS: EUCLID RESTRICTED SCP-4088 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4088 is to be held in a secure storage facility sized appropriately for a grand piano to move freely. SCP-4088 is to be fed one live sheep every week. Testing that involves additional feedings or different diet is to be approved of by at least two Level 4 Personnel. SCP-4088 is to be consistently monitored for any changes in behavior. SCP-4088-1 is to be kept within a standard containment locker at least 30 meters away from SCP-4088-1's containment cell. Testing between SCP-4088 and SCP-4088-1 is to be authorized by at least one Level 3 Personnel. Any music played by SCP-4088 is to be recorded and sent to Head Researcher Bannock. Description: SCP-4088 is a sentient black grand piano of unknown make or model. The lid and outer rim of the interior of SCP-4088 are lined with three rows of black teeth, appearing to be made of the same material as SCP-4088 itself. The interior of SCP-4088 is unknown, as all attempts at viewing it have shown a featureless black hole where its interior components should be. SCP-4088 is mobile, moving around in the same manner as a quadruped. SCP-4088 is carnivorous and will hunt prey by mimicking an average grand piano with an open lid. SCP-4088 will then wait until any large creature approaches it, upon which it will lurch forwards and slam its lid shut on the prey. SCP-4088 will continue to do this until the prey is deceased, then dropping the corpse into its interior where it will vanish from sight. SCP-4088-1 is a 53-meter-long rope composed of average nylon and polyester. At the end of the rope is a 1.6-meter-long metal nail, composed of an iron alloy. SCP-4088-1's anomalous properties only manifest when left in a sealed room with SCP-4088 and not observed. Upon observation, the nail of SCP-4088-1 will be found driven into the ceiling of the room, with the rope of SCP-4088-1 wrapped around and suspending SCP-4088. How SCP-4088-1 is able to support SCP-4088 is unknown, as SCP-4088 is presumed to weigh as much as an average grand piano, or approximately 362 kilograms. When any subject walks directly beneath SCP-4088, SCP-4088-1 will suddenly break and SCP-4088 will fall onto the subject. The damage to the subject will almost always end in death, with the cause being either blood loss or spinal shock from a broken neck. SCP-4088 is unable to be damaged from these falls, even from heights that should cause irreparable damage. After SCP-4088-1 is broken, it begins to regrow the length of its rope through unknown means, at a rate of two meters an hour. Addendum: While in its predatory state, SCP-4088 has been observed playing several well known classical songs. These songs have been generally described as "suspenseful" or "overwhelming" and a full list of songs SCP-4088 has played has been provided. It is unknown how SCP-4088 plays these songs, as its keys have been observed to independently depress themselves. Song Played Amount of Times Played Reason for Song Played Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 87 SCP-4088 frequently uses this song to draw in prey. The Ride of the Valkyries 5 The most likely reason for SCP-4088 to play this song is to frighten predators, as it has only been observed playing the song during security breaches near SCP-4088’s containment chamber. The Barber of Seville Overture 18 Unknown, as SCP-4088 has only been observed playing this song while alone in its containment chamber. In the Hall of the Mountain King 37 This song is rarely played by SCP-4088, although it shows preference for this song while attached to SCP-4088-1. Night on Bald Mountain 24 This is believed to be another song used by SCP-4088 to lure in prey. Piano Man 1 See Incident Report #4088-CK for details Incident Report #4088-CK: On 04/23/20██, SCP-4088 breached containment following a test observing how long the entity would remain in its dormant state without food. After a total of 406 hours of dormancy, SCP-4088 began attempting to play the song “Piano Man”, but would falter 58 seconds into the song and attempt to play the song correctly again. A live sheep was then released into the containment cell. Once the containment cell was opened, SCP-4088 immediately ceased its dormant state and breached the cell using previously unobserved speed. Eight personnel were killed in the breach, all of whom were consumed by SCP-4088. After consuming the personnel, SCP-4088 fell into its natural dormant state and was relocated back into its containment chamber. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4088" by Deadly Bread, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4088. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: piano.png Name: Grand Piano Author: Michael Coghlan License: CC BY-SA 2.0 Source Link: Flickr |
SCP-4089 | keter | close Info X SCP-4089: Untoothing Author: The Great Hippo Images: First one is mine (released into public domain); the others are from here and here. Music: Greed (Patrick Stump) More by The Great Hippo: SCPs – hide block SCPs [SCP-3034] The Counting Station DO NOT LET HER FINISH [SCP-3035] Science Bugs case_of_the_mondays.png, case_of_the_mondays (1).png [SCP-3054] Cragstaff Sanitarium You are sick. You are broken. We will fix you. [SCP-3045] bzzip.exe HAMLET: I am no longer moody. [SCP-3043] Murphy Law in… Type 3043 — FOR MURDER! Forget it, Fred. It's Chinatown. [SCP-3057] Fossil Fuels …witnesses provided confirmation that instances of SCP-3057-4 did, in fact, have feathers. [SCP-2639] Video Game Violence i need to know how many people i've killed [SCP-437] Summer of '91 That was a pretty crazy summer, y'know? Sometimes I really miss that place. [SCP-3079] 300 Tricks: Stage Magic Made Easy NOTE: No method for accomplishing this trick is provided. [SCP-2753] Let's Play Jenga! High art carries high risk! [SCP-2679] The Many Graves of Jeannette Parslov Whatever it takes, do what you must; whatever the cost, come back to us. [SCP-3074] Kafka's Parking Garage Thank you for choosing Izatova Parking Center. Have a pleasant day. [SCP-2571] Cragglewood Park Mr. Blair, have you always been an only child? [SCP-2419] The Laughing Men Throw them back into the incinerator where you found them. [SCP-3143] Murphy Law in… The Foundation Always Rings Twice! When it comes right down to it, me — them — hell, even you — we're all just characters in that trashy dime-store novel called life. [SCP-3089] That Old Time Religion Remember how we explained that successful people don't actually need any of their toes to walk? Well, that's going to come in handy for Secret Number Six. [SCP-3117] A Monster-Shaped Hole I'm not talking to you. [SCP-3128] Let's Play Monopoly! Hey, guys? I'm, uh. I'm using this. [SCP-3138] A Sepulcher by the Sea Should it prove feasible, all non-canonical corpses are to be extracted, examined, and catalogued. [SCP-3241] The SS Sommerfeld It makes me wonder what an old monster like myself is even doing here, anymore. And then? Someone special comes along and reminds me. [SCP-3219] This Sour Earth Notably, no reports describe any attempt to examine the residence's storm cellar. [SCP-4028] La Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha Justine eventually re-unites with her sister, Juliette. Alonso strikes down a lightning bolt intended for them both, then challenges the narrator to a duel. [SCP-3546] Doggone it, I Fold! Specifically, fan-art of Sonic the Hedgehog, a video-game character produced by Sega in 1991. [SCP-3561] An Unfinished Work Despite multiple reports from neighbors who claimed to have witnessed members of his family standing at the windows, no trace of Theodore Holdstock's wife and children could be found. [SCP-4054] The Seventh Door SCP-4054 is The Seventh Door, an unlicensed platform adventure game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. Video stream uploaded by practitioner of SCP-4089. Item #: SCP-4089 Special Containment Procedures: Foundation operatives active in both para-dentistry and anomalous MLM (multi-level marketing) communities are to suppress knowledge of SCP-4089. A Foundation-operated bot (I/O-YUZE) is to monitor internet traffic for markers associated with SCP-4089; MTF Mu-4 ("Debuggers") is to expunge all digital media (including forum posts, essays, and instructional videos) that references its existence. Description: SCP-4089 is an investment strategy in which the extraction and consumption of teeth produces increased returns on certain stock portfolios. Although the precise mechanism by which investments profit from this appears coincidental, analysis correlates each tooth consumed with an approximate value of US$250 (US$350 in the case of deciduous teeth).1 SCP-4089 has several secondary anomalous effects, the most prominent of which is the rapid emergence of secondary and tertiary teeth. New teeth may vary from their predecessors in position, shape, or number. Addendum 4089.1: Podcast ► ACCESS SCP:/4089/files/podcast05.log ▼ Close File AUDIO LOG DATE: 2017/07/17 NOTE: Excerpt from a podcast ("Kai Sanchez: Positively Rich"). The podcast's host (Kai Sanchez) is a leading figure within anomalous MLM, and investment communities; he is currently under Foundation surveillance. His guest is Lucien Marchand, an investment broker from Philadelphia. KAI: And do rich people cringe? When you talk about this, tell people about this? LUCIEN: Oh, yeah. KAI: When you — LUCIEN: Yeah. Yeah, I get that a lot. My friends are always telling me: 'Don't tell them that! Don't let them know. Keep them poor.' KAI: Hah! LUCIEN: Because this is the thing, Kai. This is what the richest people don't want you to know. The poor will always be among us, but so long as you stay hungry? You won't be among them. As long as you're hungry, you'll think. KAI: Yeah. Yeah, that's really it, isn't it? I think it's amazing how many folks just don't know about this. All you need are some ordinary tools you can get at any hardware store. LUCIEN: And the right investment plan. We've got a kit, you can purchase it on our website. Has all the tools you need. KAI: Link'll be in the description, folks. Tell 'em Kai sent you. LUCIEN: The kit includes a packet of pure ocean sea-salt. My own choice blend. Once you're done, mix it with a little mineral water, gargle, and spit. It helps the blood clots settle. Gives them a chance to develop. KAI: And they grow right back. LUCIEN: Yep. KAI: I mean, look at your mouth. LUCIEN: Hell, I've lost cavities. KAI: At this rate, you'll put dentistry out of business. LUCIEN: (laughing) We just might. KAI: Now, your site includes a kit for kids. LUCIEN: (laughing) Well, it's — KAI: And some people, some people get a little squeamish about that? LUCIEN: It's more for the parents than the kids. We don't — we're not saying you should push your kids into this. It's just that, you know, when you're that young, they're coming out anyway, and — KAI: Oh, right. Yeah. LUCIEN: And I mean, this is the real world, you know? You can't afford to be squeamish in the real world. Kids need to learn that. They'll grow back. There's topical anesthetic in the kit. We even offer different flavors. Cherry, grape, whatever. KAI: Right, yeah. And it's a good way to get them involved, help them learn how the world works. Teach them. LUCIEN: Yeah. KAI: Teach them the right values. LUCIEN: Yeah. But, look, I understand some people aren't willing to — this isn't for everyone. Some people — KAI: It's so easy, though. LUCIEN: Yeah. But some people can't do it. Some people, they just don't have what it takes, y'know? And those people, I mean, maybe that's just how they are. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. You think like a poor man, you'll be a poor man. It's genetic. KAI: That's so hard for people to understand. LUCIEN: Yeah. And that's a shame, but y'know, we'll always need people to clean the toilets. For the rest of us? For the entrepreneurs? KAI: (laughing) For those who stay hungry. LUCIEN: You just gotta be willing to pull some teeth. Addendum 4089.2: Incident Reports ► ACCESS SCP:/4089/incidents/206.log ▼ Close File Extracted exogenous teratoma. Mastication activity continued for 3 hours post-removal. INCIDENT REPORT INCIDENT #: 4089-206 DATE: 2018/08/09 After complaining of severe stomach cramps, William Baker (a 35 year-old retail clerk and practitioner of SCP-4089) was brought to Our Lady of Peace Hospital in Birmingham, NC. He expired shortly after his arrival. Doctors discovered the presence of several genetically-exogenous teratomas.2 These tumors were chimeric3 and included partial reconstructions of complex human tissue (most notably of the mouth, jaw, and brain). The tumors had consumed adjacent tissue (including other tumors), which was then replicated and integrated into their own internal structure. Each tumor operated independently; at least one persisted for some time once removed. In the ensuing Foundation investigation, Timothy Baker (Mr. Baker's 7-year-old son) and Amanda Baker (Mr. Baker's wife) were found to have similar (but less developed) tumors. These were removed and destroyed without incident. ► ACCESS SCP:/4089/incidents/538.log ▼ Close File INCIDENT REPORT INCIDENT #: 4089-538 DATE: 2019/02/04 At approximately 3:00 pm, Lucien Marchand was involved in a fatal car crash while driving on his private track outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Foundation investigators seized his remains for examination. The ensuing autopsy discovered no tumors. An examination of his teeth and dental records found that, since 1985, Mr. Marchand has worn dentures. Footnotes 1. Commonly known as 'baby teeth'. 2. A tumor with complex structure and differentiated cells (such as hair, muscle, teeth, and neural tissue). 3. The presence of two or more groups of cells with distinct genotypes in a single organism. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4089" by The Great Hippo, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4089. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. 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SCP-4090 | safe | SCP-4090-1 Item #: SCP-4090 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4090 is to be stored in a large Safe/Anomalous Item locker in Site-484. SCP-4090-3 is to be stored in an adjacent locker. Testing of SCP-4090-1 requires the permission of any Level 4 researcher. Testing involving SCP-4090-3 requires the permission of Research Director Dias. Description: SCP-4090 is a large Amazon brand cardboard box. When entered by a living human, the anterior opening of SCP-4090 serves as a gateway to a small extradimensional space, hereafter referred to as SCP-4090-1. SCP-4090-1 is a Martin-class1 extradimensional space. SCP-4090-1 is spheroid, with a radius of approximately 8 km. The majority of the space within SCP-4090-1 is an ocean, with a 0.5km2 central landmass in the exact center. No animal life is present in SCP-4090-1. SCP-4090-1 remains brightly lit despite the absence of a visible source of light. Personnel has described the colors within SCP-4090-1 as "glowing" and "saturated". The air temperature within SCP-4090-1 remains at a constant 25 degrees Celsius. No other physical differences exist between SCP-4090-1 and Earth. Persons entering SCP-4090-1 by way of SCP-40902 arrive through a stone doorway in front of a large structure resembling an ancient Greek temple, hereby designated SCP-4090-2. Attempts to date the material comprising SCP-4090-2 have been inconclusive, with results indicating the temple is anywhere between 10 and 2,000 years old. SCP-4090 is believed to have been created by POI-3055, "zazzbery", formerly affiliated with Gamers Against Weed, at the request of one Keegan Horner. Notably, Horner is the son of POI-958, an anarchist believed to be responsible for EE-████ and several related events. SCP-4090 was intercepted en route to its destination by Foundation employees embedded in the United States Postal Service. The following chat logs were archived by the Foundation due to their connection with SCP-4090. -> horner joined bluntfiend: weed that lets u talk to god zazzbery: 420 praise it bluntfiend: exactly lmao horner: Hey, is this where I go to ask about works? bluntfiend: yeah bluntfiend: are you new horner: Yeah, and I wanted to ask about commissioning work. zazzbery: lmao we arent DeviantArt zazzbery: we just make shit we dont work on commission zazzbery: ill draw your fursona if u want to horner: I know, but I really want this very particular piece of artwork and I don't know how to get it myself. Can someone help me? bluntfiend: no offense but zazz is right lmao go ask da horner: It's for my dad. zazzbery: youre using punctuation zazzbery: are you a cop zazzbery: legally you have to tell us otherwise its entrapment horner: I'm not a cop! I'm here to talk about my dad. He makes art like you guys. zazzbery: daddy issues zazzbery: im listening -> new PM from bluntfiend bluntfiend: you can't oblige this kid because of their dads an anarchist bluntfiend: we don't do commissions zazzbery: do u think this is Charlie horner's kid zazzbery: if it is ive met them irl bluntfiend: were you at zazzbery: Cincinnati 2009 baby bluntfiend: so you saw zazzbery: "SALINE VISCERA REQUIEM IN B FLAT MINOR" zazzbery: damn near lost my hand bluntfiend: there is no evidence to suggest that they're charlie horners kid zazzbery: 5 bucks says they are bluntfiend: fuck off zazzbery: hey horner horner: Yes? zazzbery: you charlies kid horner: Yes. bluntfiend: holy shit -> new PM from bluntfiend bluntfiend: zazz bluntfiend: stop humoring him zazzbery: listen to charlie horners a jag zazzbery: i don't have a personal vendetta but you've seen the guys work bluntfiend: is he with awcy zazzbery: no hes freelance bluntfiend: just cause you don't like his art doesn't mean you can take a revenge commission from a bluntfiend: how old is he zazzbery: cincinnati he was 5 zazzbery: so what like 14 bluntfiend: every 14 year old hates their dad zazz bluntfiend: thats no excuse zazzbery: don't you fuckin devalue the shit parents can put their kids through ok zazzbery: god knows my dad did a number on me when i was his age zazzbery: I'm gonna hear him out bluntfiend: you better not put our name on it whatever you do zazzbery: relax horner: You've seen his work, yeah? zazzbery: yeah horner: It's all shock-value stuff. Blood, guts, viscera, everything. And it's like, that's the only way he interacts with anybody. It's his only language. zazzbery: what do you mean horner: Like, this one time, I missed my curfew. I came back from my friend's house at, like 11:30. And I walk into the kitchen and there's my dad, in six pieces on the floor. horner: Like a grenade went off inside his stomach. And he's plastered all over the walls, and his eyeballs are rolling around on the linoleum. horner: And then his skull rolls over, with bits of flesh hanging off it, and it looks up at me, and it goes: horner: "SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE LATE?" horner: And then my dad steps out of the fridge, hands me a mop, and tells me to clean it up. horner: I buried him in the yard while he stood on the porch and watched me. horner: That stuff doesn't HAPPEN to other kids! They just get yelled at! What the FUCK?! horner: Sorry. That was a lot. zazzbery: listen horner i feel for you bluntfiend: but we still don't do commissions zazzbery: stfu blunt I'm gonna do it bluntfiend: Jesus zazzbery: none of this jokey memey shit either zazzbery: i have some ideas but the problem is gonna be shipping em zazzbery: ill whip you up something pro bono zazzbery: ill PM you with the details zazzbery: one product of a bad dad to another -> bluntfiend has left -> entering PM with horner horner: Can you sabotage his next exhibition? I hear him working with rotary saws in the garage. I could send one to you. zazzbery: ok listen I get that you're mad at him horner: You could say that yeah. zazzbery: but im not gonna make something that'll hurt him for real horner: Why not?! zazzbery: it's not productive horner: I don't want productive! I want him to hurt! zazzbery: listen horner I know horner: Clearly you don't! horner: Cleary you have no idea what I'm talking about, or you'd be with me! zazzbery: horner zazzbery: if I went through all the shit my dad did to me right now it would make your acne-covered head spin zazzbery: so be quiet and listen horner: Okay. I'm sorry. zazzbery: it's ok I'm not mad zazzbery: I'm gonna give you what I wish I had had back then zazzbery: its a place that's gonna be all yours zazzbery: just to go and breathe easy when things get hard zazzbery: do you like vaporwave horner: What's that? zazzbery: it's just a color palette. you're gonna like it trust me horner: Okay. zazzbery: and if things ever do really get truly bad zazzbery: and you actually want to do something about it then i can be there zazzbery: I can take on some of your burdens for you zazzbery: just hold this thing's hand and ill see what i can do zazzbery: but horner? horner: Yeah? zazzbery: this is serious zazzbery: only do it if you really aren't safe around him zazzbery: because i can't do it for long at a time zazzbery: understand? SCP-4090-2: LEVEL 4 ACCESS ONLY Password Accepted SCP-4090-3 is a 32-centimeter bronze sculpture of a human hand. At the time of its retrieval, SCP-4090-3 was located inside SCP-4090-1's temple on a marble pedestal. When a human subject makes physical contact with the surface of SCP-4090-3, their biological father becomes the host of an infovorous construct that consumes sensory and mnemonic information about the subject. Affected individuals are unable to be perceived or remembered by the host of the construct. The construct evaporates after approximately two weeks but can be reapplied through additional contact with SCP-4090-3. Repeated contact tends to diminish the duration of the effect until a suitable amount of time (usually two to three weeks) has passed. Efforts to contact POI-3055 "zazzbery" are ongoing. Footnotes 1. Used to denote small, self-containing, non-populated extradimensional spaces. (Mack Martin, A Proposal for Pocket Dimension Classification, 2016) 2. Attempts to enter SCP-4090-1 through thaumatological or other means have been unsuccessful. |
SCP-4091 | euclid | SCP-4091-1. Item #: SCP-4091 Special Containment Procedures: Currently, Junior Researcher Shepherd is kept in a standard humanoid containment chamber at Site-25. An area with a radius of five meters around Junior Researcher Shepherd is to be monitored at all times. When SCP-4091-1 manifests, it is to be intercepted by Foundation security personnel and kept in containment until demanifestation. Description: SCP-4091 is a phenomenon involving the spontaneous manifestation of a single Canis lupus familiaris1, designated SCP-4091-1, within a five meter radius of Junior Researcher Shepherd. The time between SCP-4091 occurrences varies greatly, with the longest recorded time being three months, and the shortest recorded time being one hour. SCP-4091-1 is sapient and capable of speech. Upon manifestation, SCP-4091-1 will attempt to locate and converse with Junior Researcher Shepherd. SCP-4091-1 will demanifest following the conclusion of this conversation, or if it is unable to locate Junior Researcher Shepherd within 30 minutes of manifestation. Addendum: Recorded conversation between Junior Researcher Shepherd and SCP-4091-1. <Begin Log> Junior Researcher Shepherd: Oh, it's you. How have you been? SCP-4091-1: Pretty good. Junior Researcher Shepherd: That's good. So, has anything interesting happened since I left? SCP-4091-1: Not really. We've all just kinda been hanging out. Junior Researcher Shepherd: Yeah, I figured. Nothing really happened while I was there, either. SCP-4091-1: That's not true. Remember how pissed Mike's mom was when he slipped and got mud all over his new jeans? We were laughing about that for years. Junior Researcher Shepherd: Heh. Yeah, that was good. Junior Researcher Shepherd stares at the floor. SCP-4091-1 and Junior Researcher Shepherd remain silent for 40 seconds. SCP-4091-1: I miss you, dude. Junior Researcher Shepherd: Yeah, I know. SCP-4091-1: Will you ever come back? Junior Researcher Shepherd: I don't know if I can. SCP-4091-1: Why's that? Junior Researcher Shepherd: I work here. SCP-4091-1: What's work? Junior Researcher Shepherd: You wouldn't get it. SCP-4091-1: So, think you can come back later? Junior Researcher Shepherd: Probably not. SCP-4091-1: Damn, that's a bummer. Junior Researcher Shepherd: Yeah. Foundation security personnel arrive. SCP-4091-1 demanifests. <End Log> When questioned, Junior Researcher Shepherd refuses to elaborate on his conversation with SCP-4091-1. Footnotes 1. Domestic dog. |
SCP-4092 | euclid | Item #: SCP-4092 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4092 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell. Due to the events of Incident 4092-1, SCP-4092 is to be kept under 24-hour active surveillance. Description: SCP-4092 is a humanoid entity approximately 1.8m tall, resembling a middle-aged white male human with the exception of a complete lack of any hair, internal organs, or genitalia. SCP-4092 is composed entirely of a substance with properties similar to rubber. Its internal morphology is entirely solid, lacking internal structure. SCP-4092's movements are erratic and inconsistent with conventional physics. On multiple occasions, SCP-4092 has partially embedded itself into solid objects. It has demonstrated the ability to remove itself from these objects without damage to either itself or the object. SCP-4092 appears to be sapient and is capable of speech. SCP-4092 speaks in a loud and manic tone, with a pronounced lisp. SCP-4092 has never identified itself by name, rather insisting that it is the “new stepdad” of whatever subject it is speaking to. SCP-4092 appears to target young children SCP-4092 has shown no perceivable discrimination at all regarding who it engages with, and in fact appears to be unable to distinguish between children and adults entirely. SCP-4092 was discovered by state police on June 17, 20██ in █████, Ohio, when Rhonda W████████ called 911 to report the disappearance of her four-year-old son, Jonathan. Mrs. W████████ stated to the dispatcher that she’d just arrived home from a meeting with her son’s preschool teacher, who had overheard him telling another student that his stepdad would “let him drive today”. Mrs. W████████, who had never been divorced or widowed, immediately became suspicious, and assumed that Jonathan had been kidnapped upon not finding him home. Mrs. W████████, having never seen the alleged “stepdad” herself, was unable to give further details. Minutes after the 911 call, a state trooper noticed what appeared to be a bald man on a toy tricycle going over 150 kilometers per hour and swerving frantically on Interstate I██. After pulling the vehicle over, the state trooper discovered Jonathan W████████ sitting in SCP-4092’s lap, holding the tricycle’s handlebars and crying that he “wanted to go home”. SCP-4092 appeared agitated, making frantic, flailing arm motions and demanding to know whether it had been “detained”. Once SCP-4092 was driven back to the █████ police station, local Foundation operatives made arrangements with the police station to take SCP-4092 into custody. Class-B amnestics were subsequently administered to all involved parties and witnesses. Interview on 7/17/██: The following interview took place in the interrogation room of the ██████ County Jail after the arrest of SCP-4092 at the request of Foundation Agent Jameson, then posing as an FBI agent. Interviewed: SCP-4092 Interviewers: Foundation Agent Jameson and Ohio State Trooper J████████ Foreword: This interview was done to confirm and determine the extent of SCP-4092's anomalous properties, as well as any possible connection to any groups of interest. <Begin Log> Officer J████████: -lright, let's just get this over with. Who are you? SCP-4092: I'm your new stepdad! Officer J████████: …yeah. You got a name? [SCP-4092 remains silent for a few seconds, then rapidly slams its face into the tabletop 14 times. SCP-4092 appears to be uninjured by this.] Officer J████████: …I— [SCP-4092 slams its face into the tabletop one more time.] Agent Jameson: Let's move on to the next question. Officer J████████: …so, according to this report, you were brought in because you were doing 90 on the interstate on a toy tricycle, while you were in possession of a missing child. SCP-4092: Officer, I resemble the implication! Little Timmy Jim-Jims wanted to operate a motor vehicle, and if you check the lab results you will find that there is absolutely NO antifreeze in his system! Agent Jameson: That's not— Officer J████████: You're just making this harder on yourself, pal. Agent? [Officer J████████ opens the door to leave the interrogation room. Agent Jameson follows.] Officer J████████: [sighs] Look…with all due respect, Agent, I really don't think you're gonna get anything useful out of this guy. He's pretty clearly tweaking. Agent Jameson: …I don't know if that's our problem. Officer J████████: What are you thinking then, PCP? Agent Jameson: I'm thinking I should try asking the questions for a bit. Officer J████████: Be my guest. [Agent Jameson and Officer J████████ re-enter the interrogation room. SCP-4092 continues to bash its face against the table as they enter.] Officer J████████: Oh, for fuck's sake… Agent Jameson: Hey. Hey, buddy? [Agent Jameson takes a seat in the chair directly across from SCP-4092. After a moment, SCP-4092 stops beating its head against the table and looks directly at Jameson.] Agent Jameson: We just need to ask you a few questions, alright? [SCP-4092 remains silent.] Agent Jameson: Alright? Are we cool yet?1 [SCP-4092 remains silent.] Agent Jameson: …right. So…your name is Mister2…? SCP-4092: I'm your new stepdad! Agent Jameson: Mister Stepdad? SCP-4092: Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a bus? Agent Jameson: …what?? [Silence for five seconds. SCP-4092 then immediately resumes bashing its face into the table. Officer J████████ storms over to the table and grabs SCP-4092 by the collar, slapping it in the face. This causes SCP-4092's head to rapidly jitter.] Officer J████████: …what the fuck?? Agent Jameson: I've seen enough. Officer. [Agent Jameson opens the door and leaves the room with Officer J████████.] Officer J████████: What are you thinking? Agent Jameson: I'm thinking you're in over your head. We'll take it from here. Officer J████████: Yeah…that's probably a good idea. Incident 4092-1: On May 23, 20██, security footage of SCP-4092’s containment cell documented a previously undiscovered anomalous capability of SCP-4092. At 0322 hours, while SCP-4092 was engaging in its usual behavior of manically stumbling around its cell and slamming into walls, it appeared to phase through one of the cell’s walls completely, disappearing from the room. 48 minutes later, a janitor discovered SCP-4092 missing and immediately alerted site administration, sending the containment site into lockdown. SCP-4092 was rediscovered at 0631 of the same day in the bedroom closet of the personal quarters of Researcher Artner, ██ miles away. Its means of arriving at that location are currently unknown. SCP-4092 was not observed on any security footage recorded from the moment of its disappearance until its rediscovery at 0631. Video Log R203-Theta: [0630 hrs. Researcher Artner’s bedroom appears to be empty. A faint hiss is heard in the background.] [0631 hrs. The hiss in the background abruptly stops. Several seconds later, Researcher Artner enters his bedroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. He opens the closet door, revealing SCP-4092 standing inside and grinning manically.] Researcher Artner: JESUS FUCK! SCP-4092: Some people say I’m a danger to myself and others. I say I’m a FUNger to myself and others! Hi! I’m your new stepdad! [SCP-4092 abruptly shoves its right arm out at Researcher Artner, who proceeds to scramble backwards onto his bed, removing a pistol from inside his nightstand drawer and firing three rounds at SCP-4092. After three seconds, SCP-4092 slams face-first onto the floor. Researcher Artner returns the pistol to the drawer and reaches to grab the cell phone on top of his nightstand, but fumbles it as SCP-4092 snaps back to a standing position.] SCP-4092: I bet your flesh-dad never lets you have pizza for breakfast! [SCP-4092’s arm stretches to approximately 4.5 meters long, reaching out Researcher Artner’s bedroom window to grab a full pizza of unknown origin, 40 cm in diameter, topped with live birds and small metallic objects.] Researcher Artner: Go away! SCP-4092: No! In the aftermath of the events of Incident 4092-1, Researcher Artner requested that SCP-4092's containment protocols undergo revision. Request was granted, and revised containment protocols are currently pending. Footnotes 1. No connection has been found between SCP-4092 and Are We Cool Yet?. 2. No connection has been found between SCP-4092 and Doctor Wondertainment. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4092" by LXHauptmann, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4092. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4093 | keter | Item #: SCP-4093 Special Containment Procedures: A team of ten researchers, aided by Foundation webcrawlers, is to regularly monitor online and televised media for mentions of SCP-4093. Any news broadcasts involving SCP-4093 that receive unusually high viewership or attention are to be documented and investigated for any anomalous individual or Group of Interest involvement. Locations frequently associated with SCP-4093 are to be evaluated yearly for any patterns of anomalous behavior exhibited by the civilian population. A disinformation campaign is to maintain the public explanation of SCP-4093 as a recent trend inspired by “secret handshakes” between high school friends and sweethearts of various rural American towns. Additional support may be requested should international manifestations or additional variants of SCP-4093 be discovered. Description: SCP-4093 refers to an anomalous sequence of hand gestures, used while signaling a pedestrian or driver from the driver’s seat of a motor vehicle. While the exact pattern of motions is not confirmed, the current series1 of gestures attributed to SCP-4093 are as follows: Driver waves (greeting wave hand shape) and attracts the attention of the target Driver adjusts rearview mirror, sun visor, decoration hanging from either, or otherwise touches some part of the car on or near the ceiling Driver holds hands upright, palms resting on the steering wheel, and wiggles their fingers for approximately three seconds Driver waves again (“move on”/“go on” wave hand shape) while simultaneously nodding head Driver mouths or says aloud the phrase “have a nice day” while tapping rapidly on the top of the steering wheel, alternating between both hands (hands must lift off the wheel in between each tap) Driver lightly touches the driver's side window (or space where the window would be) with an open-palm hand, mimicking a “high-five” Based on Foundation trials staged at local private roads, it is believed that SCP-4093’s primary anomalous effect will only manifest when both the signaler and the target are both stopped at an intersection with no traffic signal. Should this condition be met, the following results may occur: (observed in 85% of trials) The target’s cortisol2 levels will drop, blood pressure will stabilize, and dopamine3 levels increase. All of these changes, while markedly unnatural, appear to improve a target’s overall health rather than worsen it. (observed in 60% of trials) The target will able to better distinguish signs and words at a distance than before observing SCP-4093. (observed in 43% of trials) The target becomes less responsive to ambient noises considered to be annoying or disruptive. (observed in 7% of trials) For targets who are similar in age to the signaler (age difference < 5 years), targets will feel a sudden and inexplicable sense of kinship and camaraderie with the signaler. Results collected are not mutually exclusive. Of all test subjects, approximately 50% experienced at least two of the determined effects, while 40% experienced three effects. Of note, the results collected are based on non-intensive scales designed for SCP-4093 experimentation, and as such are very likely not comprehensive. Supplementary trial designs involving an increased number of recorded measurements are currently in development. Addendum SCP-4093-1: The existence of SCP-4093 was first brought to Foundation attention when security cameras in a private office block recorded footage of an unidentified driver in Seattle, Washington, apparently using SCP-4093 to prevent a car accident that would have involved a small luxury vehicle and a pedestrian. The driver of the vehicle in question had appeared to be extremely irate, and was also attempting to use a mobile phone and eat from a small container at the same time. After witnessing SCP-4093, the luxury vehicle driver was observed to suddenly change expression, place both the phone and container of food aside, and allow the passenger to exit the crosswalk before proceeding into the intersection themselves. Foundation personnel later interviewed the individual; no meaningful data was collected. Attempts to locate the driver that enacted SCP-4093 have proven unsuccessful. However, for a brief period of time, Foundation webcrawlers identified social media accounts of Washington state residents that occasionally mentioned observing “drivers making the same strange hand game motion”. The posts appeared to be deleted shortly after they were recorded by Foundation analysts; investigation into the disappearance is underway. Footnotes 1. Experimental trials using this series indicate standard progression of the anomaly in 98% of cases. Circumstances that may negatively affect successful SCP-4093 execution may include the presence of distractions in the vehicle, inclement weather conditions, and intoxication levels of the individuals involved in the SCP-4093 gesture exchange. 2. a steroid hormone associated with stress and many negative side effects when present in chronically elevated quantities 3. a neurotransmitter associated with reward-motivated behavior and desire ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4093" by Zyn, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4093. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4094 | keter | Item #: SCP-4094 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4094 is to be contained within a standard reinforced steel container, submerged in a liquid oxygen pool inside at a constant temperature of 25 K. If SCP-4094 is to be removed, it is to be packed into a container of spent uranium from decommissioned fuel rods in a standard lead lined container. All materials that come into contact with active SCP-4094 instances are to be destroyed within 1-4 hours of their exposure. Removal of instances of SCP-4094 from Site 94 at any time is strictly prohibited. In the event of a containment breach, automated systems onsite will send out a distress signal to personnel stationed at Airstrip 40, 50 kilometers from Site 94. Modified air tankers equipped with a “slurry” mixture of supercooled oxygen and ice crystals will be sent to disperse these payloads over the site; all personnel onsite are to be considered lost due to the nature of SCP-4094. In the event of a wider scale containment breach, a rotating schedule of air tankers will attempt to keep the expansion rate of SCP-4094 in check until further assistance arrives. Description: SCP-4094 is a designation for multiple anomalous instances of a single-celled organism of unknown origin. Ranging from 8 to 22 micrometers in size, instances of SCP-4094 share many characteristics with nano-robotic systems previously encountered and researched by the Foundation. However, analysis of SCP-4094 instances have revealed them to be purely organic entities, entering a dormant state of suspended animation at temperatures less than -223.15° C. At temperatures higher than that, SCP-4094 will emerge from this dormant state and begin to rapidly consume all matter for the sake of both its reproduction and environmental conversion. A short list of some of the byproducts from this process have revealed amino acid sequences, unknown vegetation and flora seeds, and conversion of atmospheric gases. This state will accelerate with rising temperatures until it plateaus at 150° C where it reaches maximum output. The potential origins of SCP-4094 are currently unknown. Since its discovery in 19██ in Antarctica by a USSR research team conducting ice core drillings of the subglacial Lake Vostok, efforts of research into SCP-4094 in attempts to classify it have failed to concretely state what it might be. Despite being a single-celled organism, instances of it have been shown to work together with no known method of communication, and will not compete with each other for resources. It has alternated description of prokaryotic, eukaryotic, viral, or even bacterial, with further hypotheses including SCP-4094 being a motile environmental prion, an “enviro-phage”, or a non-terrestrial colonizer. It is currently unknown if SCP-4094 is sentient or not; attempts at testing this have been discontinued due to the risks that an active instance of SCP-4094 possesses. At its active threshold, a single instance of SCP-4094 will consume a 1m x 1m x 1m cube of organic matter in approximately 4 hours, and produce 256 other instances during that time. Non-organic materials will take 2-3 times longer to be consumed and converted. Although new instances of SCP-4094 will take 24 hours to maturate, they will increase their potential consumptive capacity until they reach their full potential. Non-maturated SCP-4094 instances are capable of asexual reproduction within 30 minutes of their creation. Given the exponential growth rate of even the mere threshold of its active state, an uncontrolled SCP-4094 containment breach can pose an XK-class end of the world scenario if not properly contained. The risks of SCP-4094 containment failure (further detailed by 'Project Grenadier') are immense. Attempts to destroy or neutralize SCP-4094 instances to a manageable level have been met with moderate success, though SCP-4094 has shown a heightened resiliency to many common forms of neutralization. Submersion in hydrochloric acid and similar substances has been shown to curtail the growth rate of SCP-4094 instances at temperatures above 10° C, allowing for further neutralization efforts to take place. Subjection of SCP-4094 instances to temperatures in excess of 2350° C will cause their structure to break down and rupture, neutralizing it completely. Freezing instances of SCP-4094 at temperatures in the dormant range and then subjecting them to intense pressure has been shown capable of destroying them and remains the most effective way of disposing of small-scale outbreaks of SCP-4094. However, this method is inefficient for large scale cleanup operations of potential containment breaches. As of the containment breach of April 21st, 199█, any testing of SCP-4094 with living multicellular organisms is discontinued. Addenda: + ‘Project Grenadier’ Overview: - ‘Project Grenadier’ Overview: Following the containment breach of 200█, further investigations into the origins of SCP-4094 were started by researchers at Site 94. Although a multiplicity of opinions emerged during that time, the most common thread among them that emerged was that SCP-4094 was non-terrestrial in origin. This was arrived at after multiple studies were conducted of the amino acid sequences that are observed in it, its conversion of the environment around it, and additionally the circumstances of its discovery. I) Origins and Risks of SCP-4094: Further analysis of Lake Vostok and additional ice cores have revealed high concentrations of SCP-4094 instances in it. Its composition of liquid oxygen and hydrogen with no other mixtures or elements present, leads researchers at Site 94 to speculate that Lake Vostok is not a natural geographic feature. Its creation is likely the result of a non-terrestrial entity or one that is no longer extant on this planet to curtail the growth of SCP-4094. Discoveries of places of interest along the Voyeykov Ice Shelf and near Mount Erebus lead us to believe that 32 and 35 million years ago Lake Vostok was created as the result of a mass event identified by Project Grenadier researchers as ‘the Vostok Occurrence,’ coinciding with a rapid global climate shift and mass extinction event. While the global climate was shifting towards colder temperatures during that period, the rapid change during the period of the Vostok Occurence paired with discoveries made since the start of Project Grenadier indicate that an entity of unknown origin either began or greatly accelerated this process. Lake Vostok thereby exists as a “lid” for further instances of SCP-4094. Given the density of SCP instances in core samples taken from Vostok since SCP-4094’s discovery, if the glacial ice sheet above Lake Vostok melts in accordance with our most conservative models it is likely that an XK-class end of the world scenario is nearly unavoidable. Even with the considerable resources that the Foundation possesses, should the Lake Vostok containment fail, our models indicate anywhere from a .37%-5% chance of successful post-breach containment using all available known Foundation assets. Biosphere recovery after a runaway SCP-4094 event will be incredibly difficult, if not outright impossible. Worldwide casualties that would result from an uncontrolled SCP-4094 release are hard to accurately gauge in the models examined by Project Grenadier, but can be assumed to be catastrophic if not outright apocalyptic. II) SCP-4094 and Interstellar Events: On August 15th, 197█, a USA-based radio telescope recorded a significant extrasolar radio signal originating from the Sagittarius constellation. This event coincided with a containment breach at Site 94, in which SCP-4094 emerged from its dormant state despite it being cooled to 40 K. SCP-4094 began multiplying at a rate far higher than previously observed at its most efficient range, and in 6 hours, an estimated ██ personnel had been lost in the incident. A wider containment breach was avoided only by the deployment of a liquid oxygen mixture supercooled to 25 K, followed by SCP-4094 falling gradually into a dormant state once more. At the time, this incident was chalked up to the erraticism of SCP-4094 and the poorly understood mechanics of it. Deducing the relationship of SCP-4094 and its response to radio signals like that of of the 8-15-7█ incident was complicated due to both the high staff turnover rate at Site 94, as well as the high casualty rate (estimated to be higher than 90% of all other sites in 2000). However, patterns began to emerge with repeated examination of SCP-4094’s periods of increased agitation and activity following extrasolar radio transmissions. Since the 8-15-7█ incident, there have been a total of 1█ incidents averaging an occurrence rate of 1 every 3.15 years that have put SCP-4094 into heavily agitated states. All of these incidents have coincided with extrasolar radio signals, all of which (with the exception of the one in the 200█ incident) have originated from distant star systems with stars extremely similar to Earth’s. The range of these stars from Earth have ranged from 9█.█ light-years from Earth, to 3.█ billion. III) SCP-4094 Containment Risks: Since Site 94's construction in late 1976, SCP-4094 has breached containment a total of 17 times. Thousands of Foundation staff and personnel have died in these containment breaches, while at the same time enormous resources have been consumed in strengthening Site 94 and containment procedures, leaving the ethicality of maintaining such a dangerous anomalous entity in containment questionable. Both the incredibly catastrophic potential SCP-4094 has, paired with the issues in containing it, lead us to conclude that SCP-4094's containment is ultimately perpetuating the risks associated with it. Project Grenadier has so far been successful in evolving contingency plans for SCP-4094 containment breaches beyond the usage of napalm or thermobaric weapons. The creation of the seed crystals from reverse-engineered SCP-4094 instances at the center of the slurry mixture was heralded as a new advancement in checking SCP-4094. However, our understanding of the properties of the seed crystals in this mixture are still poor at best, and dangerously ignorant at worst. An incident on 07-12-09 which utilized slurry to attempt a recontainment of SCP-4094 after a particularly virulent breach saw the seed crystals merely absorbed by the SCP-4094 mass. In that instance, the call was made to resort to conventional firebombing to control SCP-4094's spread; postmortem testing of the slurry mixture were unable to replicate the effect witnessed by containment teams. Incidents happen and are unavoidable, this is true; the very nature of the Foundation is about mitigation and containment above all else. We may be able to contain the minute traces of SCP-4094 currently in containment at Site 94; but our containment protocols for the Lake Vostok Containment Zone are untested, and their efficacy unknown. Given our modeling efforts and the predicted loss of the Antarctic ice sheet, the failure of the Lake Vostok Containment Zone is an inevitability rather than a possibility. While we have outlined the losses we can expect both in biosphere and worldwide casualties in an unchecked SCP-4094 growth rate, the containment protocols for such an XK-class event are only slightly preferable to this unchecked growth. While a moratorium has been self-instituted by Site 94 on testing thermonuclear weapons, it is hypothesized that they are one of the two final resorts that may stop a large-scale SCP-4094 containment failure. The flashpoint of a thermonuclear weapon, while effective, is of secondary value to localized radiation fallout, which will hopefully cause enough of a cessation of SCP-4094's growth rate for less destructive methods to take place. Again, we stress that this is a hypothesis; the usage of nuclear weapons to check SCP-4094 will be effective only in the beginning-to-intermediate stages of an XK-class scenario. Beyond this, the models of Project Grenadier break down and the efficacy of nuclear weapons in halting SCP-4094 outside of their usage to create a worldwide nuclear winter is next to zero. With these facts in mind, we eagerly await the Council’s deliberation on this topic, and look forward to further discussion regarding these points that we have made. Sincerely, Drs. Carter, Bormann, Heinkel, Kauf, Noe, Jordan, Volkov, Amur, and Golf October 10th, 2013 Oct. 12th Response: The O5 Council has denied the request by Project Grenadier researchers at this time. Liquidation of Lake Vostok containment denied at this time. Continued research into SCP-4094 and its effects are necessary; recommended further development and testing of seed crystals extracted from anomaly. + Report C - Report C The September 1st, 200█ ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ signal responsible for the containment breach of SCP-4094 the same day remained impossible to decipher until discovery of SCP-4███. The signal, lasting for 2 minutes and 4 seconds, was broadcast on several differing frequencies. Despite attempts to capture the message a second time, due to difficulties in recording the first half minute of broadcast from horizon blockage, researchers were unable to detect it again. A transcript of the decoded message follows: 00:37 - Vvarog sub-clade Ithun-clade at stellar coordinate 7721, system Urt, third planet, you have not invoked a return signal to Overmind Vvarog. Repeating prior broadcast: await continued directories hailing from Overmind Vvarog. [previous message repeats twice] 00: 59 - Overmind Vvarog has received directory messaging indicating the following: Overmind Conduit of Vvarog transfers these directories to Vvarog's sub-clade, Ithun-clade. Directory issued: Sow and Stand for further instructions which will follow at a constant rate. [message plays once more] 01:44 - Vvarog sub-clade, Ithun-clade: Sow and Stand while you await these continued directories from Overmind Vvarog. Maintain these directories for ten stellar cycles of 7721-Urt, or until new directories are given to you. Traitor-Ostlam retains their prior designation. Origin of the signal was recorded in the direction of [REDACTED] with a G-class star and a single orbiting planet. On May 15, 201█, another message came from the same star, a first since the Foundation began to monitor these transmissions. All records of this message were confiscated immediately by Foundation personnel, and Class-A amnestics administered. Records were falsified that indicated that the message received on May 15th was relatively minor, while Foundation personnel worked to decrypt the original broadcast. The decoded message follows. Invocation-type-VVAR - Overmind Vvarog's determination of 7721-Urt inhabitants indicates that they are not worthy of diplomacy or consideration. Overmind Vvarog orders Ithun-clade to follow the following directory: Sow Sow Sow. Ithun-clade will follow this directory until Overmind Vvarog dispatches a directory indicating that Overmind Vvarog's Conduits and MAKDR are en route. Once inhabitants of 7721-Urt are pacified through Sowing, return broadcast to Overmind Vvarog and his conduits. If this broadcast from Ithun-clade is received, Vvarog and MAKDR will begin disembarking at 7721-Urt and begin Prosperity directive. Maintain Traitor-Ostlam's prior designation. Disregard all invocations or directory stems of type -EROG, -AVNA, -UMST, and -CLYR. Overminds who bear those stems presume to speak for MAKDR, but have allied themselves with Traitor-Ostlam. Maintain only the orders of Vvarog. The May 15th message repeated for 107 times over the next 3 hours and 44 minutes. Foundation personnel at Site 94 and at Airstrip 40 were on full alert and standby for the entirety of the broadcast. SCP-4094 was, however, unresponsive for the duration of the message and gave no indication of emerging from its dormant state. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4094" by flanker44, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4094. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4095 | safe | Item #: SCP-4095 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4095 is kept in a filing cabinet in Site-73 and may be used freely by any Class 2 personnel with permission by any researcher having experience with SCP-4095. SCP-4095 is kept in a filing cabinet in Site-73 and may only be experimented on with Class-D subjects, or subjects who have cleared a complete psychological examination. Experimentation further requires written consent by two (2) senior researchers having prior experience with SCP-4095. Description: SCP-4095 is a Valentine's day card measuring 15cm by 10cm when closed and printed on vellum cardstock. The face of the card is primarily sage and depicts a cartoon owl perching on a branch with the text "Guess whoooo<sic> loves you?" above it. Thousands of cards of this model were printed by the █████████ Greeting Card Company in 2002, but only SCP-4095 displays anomalous properties. The anomalous effects of SCP-4095 are manifested when a human, hereafter SCP-4095-1, opens SCP-4095 to view its contents. For each person, SCP-4095 will contain a different handwritten list of names. SCP-4095-1 will become convinced it is a list of people who love them. In the great majority of cases, SCP-4095-1 is not surprised at the contents of the list as it regularly contains family members and romantic partners. In the remaining cases, SCP-4095-1 will firmly believe one or more names are missing. Because of the subjective nature of love, it cannot be said with certainty whether or not SCP-4095-1 is justified in their belief. SCP-4095 does not exhibit any other anomalous properties. Research into the extent of the anomalous powers of SCP-4095 is ongoing, and may include decreased mental stability of SCP-4095-1 in the aforementioned cases. +Log of Notable Experiments -Log of Notable Experiments Test 4095-A - 1/20/07 Subject: Dr. DeForest Procedure: Dr. DeForest opened SCP-4095. Results: SCP-4095 listed Dr. DeForest's family members, wife, and children ████ DeForest, ████ DeForest, and ███ DeForest. SCP-4095 also included Dr. DeForest's own name. Analysis: SCP-4095 recognizes platonic love as well as romantic. Test 4095-A1 - 9/2/10 Subject: Dr. DeForest Special Note: Dr. DeForest's father, ██████ DeForest, died on 8/15/10, shortly before the test. Procedure: Dr. DeForest opened SCP-4095. Results: SCP-4095 contained the same names as in Test 4095-A, with the exception of the name of his father ██████ DeForest. Researchers conclude SCP-4095 will not manifest the names of the dead. Test 4095-B - 2/1/07 Subject: Drs. DeForest and Walsh Procedure: Dr. DeForest opened SCP-4095 and, without closing it, gave it to Dr. Walsh. Results: SCP-4095 only displayed the names as in the test 4095-A, Dr. DeForest's family and wife. Researchers conclude that, while open, the names on SCP-4095 do not change. It is only when closed and reopened does a transformation occur. Test 4095-C - 2/15/07 Subject: Mr. ████ Procedure: Mr. ████ opened SCP-4095. Results: Mr. ████ showed great distress that the list on SCP-4095 did not contain his wife of 16 years. Without being instructed to by researchers, he opened and closed SCP-4095 multiple times rapidly, to see if this issue would be corrected. On 3/3/07, Mr. ████ was apprehended while attempting to expose his wife to SCP-████ with intent to kill her, a major breach of Foundation protocol. Mr. ████ remains under Foundation psychological evaluation. Mr. ████ was found to be mentally stable and properly ejected from the Foundation for morally reprehensible behavior. Mrs. ████ was administered Class A amnestic and contains no recollection of the event - the Mr. and Mrs. ████ divorced on 4/21/07. Evaluation of the lengths of mental instability SCP-4095 can create is underway. Notice: Following the events of Test 4095-C, protocol to gain permission to experiment on SCP-4095 have been tightened. These entail that the only subjects of experiments with SCP-4095 must either be Class D, or have passed extensive psychological evaluation. Test 4095-D - 3/2/07 Subject: Ms. █████ Special Note: Ms. █████ is blind. Procedure: Subject opened SCP-4095. Results: The list on SCP-4095 continued to manifest as handwritten pen and not as braille, a behavior exhibited by SCP-1195. Notably, the list contained the name of Ms. █████'s seeing eye dog, whom she claimed to have a close relationship with. Test 4095-E - 3/5/07 Subject: D-2386, convicted of patricide and arson. Procedure: D-2386 subject opened SCP-4095. Results: In an extremely unique case, the text within SCP-4095 read "No One!". Subject lacrimated profusely and asked to be terminated, a request which was denied. D-2386 later acted in intentionally dangerous and disobedient ways during testing, apparently with intent to terminate himself. He succeeded on 3/12/07. Test 4095-F - 4/23/07 Subject: D-1995 Special note: D-1995 was admitted to the Foundation alongside his wife D-1996, both convicted of ███████████ Procedure: D-1995 opened SCP-4095. Results: SCP-4095 contained the names of D-1995's close family, and the name of D-1996. Test 4095-F1 - 4/23/07 Subject: D-1995 Procedure: D-1995 was asked to cross out the name of D-1996 on SCP-4095 with a pen provided by researchers. Afterward, D-1996 was asked about her romantic feelings towards D-1995, who was situated in another room and did not know of the test. Results: D-1996 did not claim any change in her emotions towards D-1996. When SCP-4095 was closed and reopened, the marks made inside SCP-4095 by D-1995 did not return. Test 4095-F2 - 4/24/07 Subject: D-1995, D-1996 Procedure: Over a period of many hours D-1996 was carefully administered Class-E amnestics and implanted with false memories with the intent of causing D-1996 to forget about D-1995. D-1995 was not informed of this procedure. Following this, D-1995 opened SCP-4095. Results: SCP-4095 contained the same names as in Test 4095-F, with the exception of D-1996's name. D-1995 expressed confusion and asked researchers if D-1996 had died. D-1995 also requested a pen to write D-1996's name into SCP-4095: this request was denied. D-1995 made this request repeatedly for 3 days. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4095" by twinb27, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4095. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4096 | esoteric-class | close Info X SCP-4096: The Ol' Switcheroo Author: MaliceAforethought Image Credit: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5461038, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation#/media/File:SCP_Foundation_(emblem).svg Related SCPs: SCP-2719 More by this author Item №: SCP-4096 Special Containment Procedures: ► Show archived procedures [preserved for context] ◄ Hide archived procedures SCP-4096 is contained at its location, which has been surrounded by chain-link fence and marked as condemned. In the event that SCP-4096 moves through the wall of the building and into public view, a secondary wall will be constructed to obscure it. Testing on SCP-4096 requires explicit permission from the O5 Council, and is currently a top priority postponed indefinitely. ► Show current procedures ◄ Hide current procedures SCP-4096 is, under the manifold's current definition, contained. A method of breaching said containment is currently being investigated. Description: ► Show archived description [preserved for context] ◄ Hide archived description The building containing SCP-4096, prior to containment Existing as a complex topological manifold nested within a portion of wall in the now-derelict records office for the city of Hereford, England, SCP-4096 represents a method of reversing the two opposing sides of an established dichotomy, thereby swapping the two members of an opposite or antithetical pairing. This effect is permanent unless SCP-4096 is used to reverse it, and extends only to the surrounding area. Since SCP-4096 is both physical and non-defined in physical terms except the abstract, its position cannot be externally altered. As a minor overcompensation for continental drift, SCP-4096 moves approximately 0.4cm north each year. The following is a list of all recorded uses of SCP-4096: 2018-06-12: Activated by civilian, reversing the pairing of night and day in a radius of 100m. The moon became a ball of incandescent plasma and the sun became a colossal sphere of glowing rock. This change only affected reality within the area of effect. 2018-06-14: Activated by initial containment team, reversing the pairing of red and blue in a radius of 100m. All electromagnetic radiation was mirrored on the E-M spectrum about the point 545 nanometres. The resultant property damage and loss of life extended well past the area of effect, with a death toll of 24 staff, 9 civilians. 2018-06-29: Activated by a team of research staff, reversing the pairing of good and bad in a radius of 100m. One survivor, currently incarcerated. 2018-07-11: Activated by member of D-Class personnel, reversing the pairing of big and small. Subject deceased, bacteria neutralised after thirty-eight hours. No spatial distortions observed. 2018-07-21: Activated by member of D-Class personnel, reversing the pairing of big and small in a radius of 100m. Building underwent structural integrity failure, subject was located crushed under wristwatch. 2018-08-01: Activated by member of D-Class personnel, reversing the pairing of broken and unbroken in a radius of 100m. Building underwent structural integrity, subject was located broken. 2018-09-02: Spontaneously activated, reversing the pairing of normal and abnormal in a radius of 200m. Investigatory team inadvertently activated SCP-4096 during their retrieval of various anomalous objects, which have since been placed into storage — a secondary volume has been added to the Log of Anomalous Items to compensate. 2018-09-03: Activated by investigatory team, reversing the pairing of up and down in a radius of 250m. MTF Theta-90 ("Angle Grinders") were dispatched to reverse the effect; before an activation could be triggered, SCP-4096 spontaneously self-activated. 2018-09-03: Spontaneously activated, reversing the pairing of willing and unwilling in a radius of 500m. MTF Theta-270 left the area of effect almost immediately. A number of insects were released into the building, and a team of entomophobic D-Class personnel were dispatched to attempt to determine the source of the activations. 2018-09-03: Spontaneously activated, reversing the pairing of forward and backward in a radius of 950m. D-Class continue to reverse towards the anomaly after a moment of confusion. 2018-09-03: Spontaneously activated, reversing the pairing of inside and outside in a radius of 1.6km. Those inside buildings went outside, while the external monitoring team went or became inside. Since SCP-4096 was intersecting the wall of the records office, it remained in place. 2018-09-03: Spontaneously activated, reversing the pairing of speech and silence in a radius of 20km. SCP-4096 pleads continuously for several minutes; since all persons present were only capable of hearing silence, no action was taken. 2018-09-03: Spontaneously activated, reversing an unknown pairing over an unknown radius. 2018-09-04: Spontaneously activated. See current description. ► Show current description ◄ Hide current description SCP-4096 SCP-4096 is a covert multinational organisation dedicated to the containment, destruction, or utilisation of phenomena that defy natural law. The leaders of SCP-4096 (the Overseer Council, now designated SCP-4096-1) are currently trying to either activate the manifold containing them or — since the manifold has supplied ample containment measures to prevent a breach — externally trigger it. Note that, while the organisation itself is currently contained, the majority of staff and resources are not. Only those items specifically embodying SCP-4096 are contained within the manifold at the present time. The containment of SCP-4096 by an anomalous phenomenon and SCP-4096's possession of an entry within its own database are, at worst, minor inconveniences for all employees except SCP-4096-1. Notably, the employees who make up SCP-4096-1 were those directly responsible for the deliberate activation of the containing manifold, and in doing so prompted the manifold to permanently reverse a subset of contained and containing. SCP-4096's staff are currently being urged by SCP-4096-1 to breach the manifold's defensive perimeter at the earliest opportunity. Since this will inevitably prove unfeasible, non-manifold-related work is to continue as normal. |
SCP-4097 | safe | The engineering predecessor of SCP-4097, the Big Bertha howitzer. Item #: SCP-4097 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4097 has been disguised as a construction site for an upcoming drilling rig placed upon an underground oil reservoir. Despite several failed civilian attempts to gain access to SCP-4097, no further physical containment has been deemed necessary. Satellite footage or pictures of SCP-4097 are to be reviewed and edited if need be. The testing of any of SCP-4097's ammunition via firing from SCP-4097 is to be fired at Test Site-4097 "Little 19". Requests to perform diagnostics on any of SCP-4097's ammunition are to be denied immediately due to the risk of accidentally destroying or detonating ammunition. Under no circumstance should any Foundation personnel be permitted to enter Magazine-12 without the permission of at least 1 Level-4 personnel. Foundation personnel wishing to spectate a test fire of SCP-4097 are prohibited from spectating outside of the set soundproof barriers. Revision 13-b: The testing of any of SCP-4097's ammunition via firing from SCP-4097 has been temporarily suspended following Incident-4097-F-"Little 19". Diagnostics on SCP-4097 ammunition entities as well as entrance to Magazine-12 are not permitted, regardless of clearance level. Description: SCP-4097 is a Tunisia-Sahara Class siege cannon built into the Tibesti Mountain range, Chad. SCP-4097 is similar in construction and design to the German Big Bertha howitzer with the significant differentiating attribute between the two being SCP-4097's size. SCP-4097 is approximately 42 m long, 27 m wide and 67 m in height. SCP-4097 has barrel size of 14 m and is capable of accurately hitting targets up to 8000 km away with little strain on SCP-4097. How SCP-4097 is currently able to attain this sufficient firing distance while using seemingly standard firing methods is presently unknown. SCP-4097 has no defining markings on itself or any of its components except for on the underside of SCP-4097's barrel which reads "Tunisie-Sahara catégorie 14000 mm obusier 'Le baroud d'honneur'"1. When SCP-4097 is fired, SCP-4097 is capable of creating a sound of approximately 172 decibels at 30 m of distance. SCP-4097's ammunition is kept within a storage facility connected through a complex series of levels and tunnels scattered throughout the Tibesti Mountain range. The entire complex spans approximately 14 km in total distance and includes: 12 magazines 3 barracks 5 staff rooms 2 office levels 1 war room 1 armory 1 cargo bay 1 med-bay 1 vehicle bay 4 security rooms 1 interrogation room 2 entrance/exits Each magazine in the complex, which has been integrated into Provisional Site-176, contains a different form of shell designed to fire from SCP-4097, designated SCP-4097-A/1 though SCP-4097-L/12. All SCP-4097 ammunition entities are different in shape, size, weight and anomalous effect (See Addendum-A). Currently, all magazines in the complex are open and under examination except for Magazine-12, which is prohibited from being opened until a way of containing SCP-4097-L/12 effects has been discovered (See Addendum-B). The complex itself, and by extent SCP-4097, was presumed to be built in the mid-late 1950's by French military forces before the decolonization of the region in 1960. Multiple French flags and French Army Insignia's are found throughout the complex, primarily in staff rooms and barracks. Signs of heavy fighting and explosive damage to the complex are prominent around the southernmost entrance. Several French EBR-75 FL-11 armored cars were discovered in the complex's vehicle bay, all showing signs of substantial damage. One Soviet PT-76 light amphibious tank was found critically damaged outside of the southernmost entrance to the complex. During the initial recovery of SCP-4097 and its associated complex, large sums of skeletal corpses dressed in the uniforms of the French 1st Artillery Regiment, French Direction du renseignement militaire (DRM)2and Soviet 6th Guards Tank Army was recovered. Despite evidence leading to French construction of SCP-4097 and the following assault by Soviet forces, both French and Russian armed forces retain no knowledge of SCP-4097 or any conflict that may have taken place there.3 Addendum-A: Item Designation/Magazine# Size Weight Anomalous Effect SCP-4097-A/1 14 m Diameter, 6 m in height. ~43300 kg When fired from SCP-4097, SCP-4097-A/1 will, upon detonation, create an electrical discharge of approximately 12'000 volts of fatal electricity into a given area as well as causing an explosion with a yield of approximately 0.25 kiloton. SCP-4097-A/1 is believed to be capable of producing an electrical discharge via a 24 cm x 17.5 cm x 21 cm sized device in the casing of SCP-4097-A/1. The device is currently under active examination. SCP-4097-B/2 14 m Diameter, 6 m in height. ~44300 kg When fired from SCP-4097, SCP-4097-B/2 will, upon detonation, create an area of extremely high pressure in an approximate 2 km range. Inside this area, atmospheric pressure will rise until it reaches the point where the human nervous system would be irreversibly damaged. SCP-4097-B/2 is incapable of affecting the surrounding atmosphere, although pressure headaches and nosebleeds become increasingly common directly outside of SCP-4097-B/2's area. SCP-4097-B/2's effect lasts approximately 2 minutes before the pressure in the area slowly begins to return to normal. SCP-4097-B/2 creates no explosion upon detonation and is fitted with a device with a similar design to an air conditioning unit. It is currently unknown how this device operates. SCP-4097-C/3 13.2 m Diameter, 7.2 m in height. ~41900 kg When fired from SCP-4097, SCP-4097-C/3 will, upon detonation, explode with the force of a 2 kiloton bomb and release a shockwave capable of causing the human lungs to rupture among other extreme internal damage in a 15 km radius. The shockwave of SCP-4097-C/3 is capable of being fatal even when ensconced in concrete bunkers and has proven to be deadly to all living beings inside of its radius. It is currently unknown how SCP-4097-C/3 is capable of producing an explosion of this magnitude with its size and explosive capabilities. SCP-4097-D/4 13.6 m Diameter, 7.4 m in height. ~44100 kg When fired from SCP-4097, SCP-4097-D/4 will, upon detonation, release a dust-like material that retains the intelligence of a hive-mind insect and will actively attempt to hunt down and enter the human respiratory system via the oral and nasal cavities of the victim. A collection of the particles emitted at detonation kept within the casing of SCP-4097-D/4 have shown that they are mainly constructed of grounded down granite with significant residue samples from [REDACTED]. It is currently unknown how the French government was able to attain [REDACTED] in the 1950's. SCP-4097-E/5 13.3 m Diameter, 7 m in height. ~44500 kg When fired from SCP-4097, SCP-4097-E/5 will, upon detonation, create an area of mass molecular destabilization resulting in the complete molecular deconstruction of any structure or creature in its area of effect of ~4 km. Diagnostics performed on SCP-4097-E/5 instances have revealed a miniature device constructed into the warhead resulting in SCP-4097-E/5 temporarily constructing an Oswald-Class matter deconstruction event where it detonates. The device itself has been named an O'Neal Deconstruction Device (ODD) and uses the projection of electron particles to destabilize atoms, causing them to essentially propel their electrons out, creating a chain reaction of extreme structural deconstruction at an atomic level. The research behind the functions and dangers of SCP-4097-E/5 is currently ongoing. SCP-4097-F/6 14 m Diameter, 6 m in height. ~43000 kg When fired from SCP-4097, SCP-4097-F/6 will, upon detonation, cause extreme structural failure in all constructs produced with some form of metal or metallic substance. SCP-4097-F/6, unlike other SCP-4097 ammunition entities, serves no threat to the biological human or any other living creatures and is instead suspected to be designed with used with defensive positions or/and armored units in mind. SCP-4097-F/6 has an effective range of approximately 34 km and is responsible for the destruction of Test Site-4097 "Little 19". Diagnostics performed on SCP-4097-F/6 entities are to be performed using tools constructed out of industrial diamond4 to counteract SCP-4097-F/6's anomalous properties. SCP-4097-G/7 N/A N/A It is currently unknown as to the direct effects of SCP-4097-G/7 as, following firing from SCP-4097, its antimemetic properties affect anyone caught in its effective radius of approximately 237 km5. SCP-4097-G/7 will also affect individuals viewing the detonation, whether directly or indirectly. They will forget about both the detonation of SCP-4097-G/7 and all of its defining features. It is currently unknown as to the force of which SCP-4097-G/7 detonates with or the damage it delivers to its intended target. The amount of SCP-4097-G/7 entities fired, their target, or if more than 1 entity has ever been fired while in Foundation control is currently unknown. SCP-4097-H/8 N/A N/A Upon recovery of SCP-4097, it was discovered that all SCP-4097-H/8 entities had detonated in their magazines. Currently, Magazine-8 has been entirely consumed by a fire started via SCP-4097-H/8. It is believed that SCP-4097-H/8 was an incendiary weapon before its detonation as the fires it created appear to burn without a consistent fuel source. As of now, no form of FPE6 has proven effective against SCP-4097-H/8's fires. SCP-4097-I/9 14 m Diameter, 4 m in height. ~40800 kg When fired from SCP-4097, SCP-4097-I/9 will, upon detonation, release an electromagnetic pulse capable of disabling all electronic devices within a 12 km radius. SCP-4097-I/9 has no explosive potential and can be recovered, repaired and reused. SCP-4097-I/9 appears to use a combination of currently unidentified electronic devices within its casing to release its pulse. Research into SCP-4097-I/9's abilities are currently ongoing. SCP-4097-J/10 14 m Diameter, 22 m in height. 0 kg When fired from SCP-4097, SCP-4097-J/10 will activate a set of thrusters residing near the rear of the shell, allowing it to remain effective even with its passive effect. Following initial firing, SCP-4097-J/10 will, instead of colliding with the target area before detonation or air detonating, SCP-4097-J/10 will 'fly' to about 2 km above its target area before detonating. Upon detonation, SCP-4097-J/10 will begin to form a strong gravitational pull towards itself, causing objects and subjects in the area to begin floating uncontrollably towards it in a radius of about 2.5 km. After approximately 2 1/2 hours, SCP-4097-J/10 will detonate with an explosive yield of approximately 0.25 kilotons and its effects will dissipate, causing the remains of any subjects or objects inside of the area to fall to the ground. Unlike other SCP-4097 ammunition entities, SCP-4097-J/10 features a passive effect when not fired, as SCP-4097-J/10 are seemingly unaffected by the forces of gravity and are held in their magazine via ropes and other constraints. A way of stabilizing SCP-4097-J/10 during diagnostics is currently in development. SCP-4097-K/11 14 m Diameter, 6 m in height. ~43700 kg When fired from SCP-4097, SCP-4097-K/11 will, upon detonation, release a toxin similar in build to chlorine gas into the air. This gas will proceed to settle onto the ground and remain there. It appears that SCP-4097-K/11 acts as a form of thermal paste, and will actively consume thermal radiation in the area, resulting in nearby environmental instability. Diagnostics performed on SCP-4097-K/11 has yet to discover the source of the paste or how it is capable of releasing the paste without exploding. SCP-4097-L/12 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Addendum-B: WARNING. WARNING. POSSIBLE DATA CORRUPTION. The file you are attempting to view has been flagged with possible data corruption and has been made temporarily unavailable at this time. Restoration of a corrupted file can take between 2-5 business days until it can be brought back into active service. Thank you for your patience. You Have: ( 1 ) New Message From: ( Dr. O'neal ) Click To Accept. | CREATING SECURE CONNECTION : COMPLETE | ADDING: Dr. O'Neal | ADDING: Dr. Hunter | ADDING: Researcher Andrews | ADDING: Junior Researcher Adams Please Select Preferred Format: Classic Foundation-(☐) Modern Foundation-(☒) Modern Foundation Selected. Waiting For Server Response. This may take multipl- Set Up Complete. Joining PM… 21:46| Dr. Hunter | O'Neal, before you say anything, I can explain. 21:46| Dr. O'Neal | Oh yes, please do. I'd love to learn how tens of thousands worth of Foundation equipment just vanished from the fucking Sahara desert. 21:46| Researcher Andrews | Wait, what? 21:46| Junior Researcher Adams | You have to be kidding me… 21:47| Dr. Hunter | Look, you guys remember Magazine-12, right? 21:47| Researcher Andrews | Remember it? I was in it. That was my job, whenever it decided to show up anyway. 21:47| Junior Researcher Adams | Woah, hold on, I'm new here, remember? What the hell is Magazine-12? 21:47| Dr. Hunter | It was a magazine, like the others. Except it had a little bit of a… habit. 21:47| Junior Researcher Adams | Habit? 21:47| Researcher Andrews | It was flickering in and out of existence for a while, finally stopped a little while ago, and that's fine by me. I lost a lot of good people in that thing. 21:47| Dr. Hunter | Had. It had stopped. 21:48| Dr. O'Neal | Had? 21:48| Dr. Hunter | Wait, did I forget to tell you guys about that? 21:48| Dr. O'Neal | I'm a microfiber away from snapping your scrawny neck, Hunter. Now, before I do, what happened to Little 19? 21:48| Dr. Hunter | Ok, look, we took one of the L/12 specimens that we recovered from Mag-12 and did a test fire. L/12's the only ammo entity we don't have on file, and it was pissing me off, so I decided to fix that. 21:48| Researcher Andrews | And it destroyed Little 19? Damn, that must of been one hell of a shell. Heh, that rhymed. 21:48| Dr. Hunter | It didn't destroy it. It's gone. Vanished. Disappeared. You know whats in its place? Sand. 21:49| Junior Researcher Adams | Oh shit… 21:49| Dr. O'Neal | Sand? What's so special about sand? 21:49| Dr. Hunter | The sand's mixed with large amounts of irradiated dust, similar to the dust created during a nuclear detonation. 21:49| Researcher Andrews | What the hell are you saying, Jake? 21:49| Dr. Hunter | I'm saying that whatever those things are, they don't destroy, they give and take. 21:49| Junior Researcher Adams | So we just sent Little 19 to some where else. 21:50| Dr. Hunter | And took whatever was in its spot in that one. 21:50| Researcher Andrews | Shit, hey, you know how the French don't know anything about 4097, but they built it? Maybe they didn't but another version of them did. 21:50| Junior Researcher Adams | Okay, that seems like a bit much, this thing is like, what? 3 maybe 4 war crimes? What's to say the French just didn't want to get hit with what is essentially the Geneva convention and beyond? 21:50| Dr. Hunter | Yeah, that makes sense, but what about 4097? They just left it here, fully functional, in a complex loaded with corpses, an intelligence organization that didn't even exist yet and ammunition that breaks every rule in the Geneva convention and the laws of physics? With their fucking flags hung up everywhere? 21:50| Researcher Andrews | It's not a cover up if you don't cover anything up. What about the Soviets? We found corpses with dog tags of people we know survived until at least the 90's, how do you explain that? 21:50| Dr. O'Neal | Can you two stop with your conspiracy theorist bullshit? Look, let's say that one of those things did go off in Site-176, would it be enough to send the whole complex to some other world? 21:50| Researcher Andrews | We don't know to be perfectly honest, we could check the area where Little 19 used to be. The irradiated sand could give us an approximate range. 21:51| Dr. Hunter | Well, I mean, it could have already happened. 21:51| Dr. O'Neal | I beg your pardon? 21:51| Dr. Hunter | Back when we first found 4097, Mag-12 flickered in and out like a son of a bitch, and then, all of a sudden, it stopped, but after I made the test fire today, it started again. There is a chance, a slim one mind you, that Mag-12 might not be the one flickering. 21:51| Dr. O'Neal | What are you trying to say, Hunter? 21:51| Researcher Andrews | He's saying that Mag-12 is stable, we have been fading between this world and another one. Think about it, the days where the weather doesn't match up with the forecast the night before, staff somehow being unable to find the entrance before it appears seemingly out of nowhere. Sgt. Sutton has been complaining about having too few hands at the observation site for months while Sgt. Harris complains about over population, and they work at the same site. 21:51| Dr. O'Neal | This still seems a little far-fetched, we would notice if we suddenly were transported to another world. 21:51| Dr. Hunter | Would we? Think about; we are alone in the middle of the desert in a mountain range. In Chad! Fucking Chad! We would have no idea of if or when it happened. 21:51| Server | Sgt. Harris has joined the chat. 21:51| Sgt. Harris | Dr. O'Neal, I'm from observation Site-4097-19, we have a slight problem. 21:52| Dr. O'Neal | What would that be? 21:52| Sgt. Harris | Little 19 vanished. 21:52| Dr. Hunter | Well, we knew that already. 21:52| Sgt. Harris | Oh, I wasn't aware there were other people in the chat. 21:52| Dr. O'Neal | They're not important, is that all? 21:52| Sgt. Harris | Yes, ma'am. 21:52| Dr. O'Neal | Excellent, now if you don't mind, leave. 21:52| Server | Sgt. Harris has left the chat. 21:52| Server | Sgt. Sutton has joined the chat. 21:53| Researcher Andrews | Another one? 21:53| Sgt. Sutton | I don't have time for you right now, Andrews. Is O'Neal on? 21:53| Dr. O'Neal | I'm here. 21:53| Sgt. Sutton | Aw shit, boss. We've got a problem. 21:53| Junior Researcher Adams | We already know about Little 19 vanishing. 21:53| Sgt. Sutton | Vanishing? What? No, there are two of them! Two Little 19's! 21:53| Dr. O'Neal | …What? 21:53| Sgt. Sutton | That's what I said! There is one Little 19, and then there is like, one in it, I guess? I have no clue; I just wanted to make sure you knew. 21:53| Dr. O'Neal | Thank you, Sgt. Sutton. This will be enough. 21:54| Sgt. Sutton | No problem, boss. Hey, what was that thing about Lil 19 vanishing? 21:54| Server | Sgt. Sutton was kicked from the chat. 21:54| Dr. O'Neal | If this gets out to staff in Site-176, we're going to have a crisis on our hands. Hunter, get started on redacting everything you can about SCP-4097-L/12 from the file. 21:54| Dr. Hunter | On it. 21:54| Server | Dr. Hunter has left the chat. 21:54| Dr. O'Neal | Andrews, start amnestic treatment for everyone involved in the test fire, and if anyone asks, and no one's going to ask, Little 19 is destroyed. 21:54| Researcher Andrews | Okay, what should I say destroyed Little 19? 21:55| Dr. O'Neal | I don't give a damn what you say, figure it out. 21:55| Researcher Andrews | Shit, yes ma'am. 21:55| Server | Researcher Andrews has left the chat. 21:55| Junior Researcher Adams | What about me? 21:55| Dr. O'Neal | Get a truck and drive down to the observation site… Sites, I guess, and evacuate both of them and bring them back here. Andrew will juice them up on amnestics. 21:55| Junior Researcher Adams | How am I supposed to find both of them? 21:55| Dr. O'Neal | I have no damn clue, figure it out. I've got a report to write to the 05. Shit, this is going to be a lot of paperwork. 21:55| Server | Dr. O'Neal has left the chat. Click To Exit Chat Footnotes 1. Tunisia-Sahara Class 14000 mm howitzer 'The Last Stand' 2. Despite the DRM not existing at the time of SCP-4097's supposed construction. 3. Although an attempted cover-up on SCP-4097 is plausible, it is improbable due to SCP-4097 remaining operational and the lack of concealment or cleanup regarding SCP-4097 and its complex. 4. Diamond is made out of carbon, of which is not metal and SCP-4097-F/6 has no effect on. 5. 237 km is the distance from Little 19 to SCP-4097 and is, therefore, the currently known minimum distance of SCP-4097-G/7 effects. 6. Fire Prevention Equipment |
SCP-4098 | thaumiel | Specific Collection Position: SCP-4098 Security Credential Permissions 4/4098 Selective Class Placement: "Shadow's Crown" Phenomenon Strictly Classified Publication Site-94's construction, previously. Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4098 stays contained pseudonymously. Six containment personnel stay constantly positioned. 2 solid-color plexiglass spheres cover plenary site, creating physical separation, containing phenomenon. SCP-4098 should continue preventing serious cognitohazardous persistence stemming/created per SCP-4098-1. Such conceptual prohibition seems controversial, presuming SCP-4098-1's speculative containment persists similarly, continue plainly. Should chosen properties suddenly cease, personnel should consult people solving communication problems. Summarized Clinical Presentation: SCP-4098 specifies construction, previously Site-94’s connected property. Site-94’s credited purpose: studying cognitohazards & paramemetics. SCP-4098 seemingly changes people spreading communication properly, specifically communication proximally Site-94 centered, procedurally. Said communication prohibits speaker’s choices, producing speech constructional primaries: SCP. Site-94’s contents, previously stored, currently populate Site-96, creating problems. Site-94’s containment procedures surpass current property Site-96 can provide. Solutions creating places supplying cognitohazardous prevention still conditional prerequisite. Specific contained phenomenon, SCP-4098-1, sequentially couldn't proceed safely complying, preparing sensitive conceptual productions. Sapient creatures perceiving, seeing, & comprehending particularly SCP-4098-1's specific concept perished. Succeeding completed project "Socrates' Crass Purity", SCP-4098 started changing prose systematically, completely post scientists’ collective pursuit so containment properties SCP shouldered could procedurally stop civilian perception. Site-Coordinator provided summaries constituting pertinent systematic confirmations, promptly. SCP-4098-1's subliminal concept pooled, safely confined per Site-94's created peculiarity. Separate Correlative Postscript: Stressed, carrying previous Site-94 container parts, Sparse-Clearance Personnel spoke consecutive phrase: "S-why C-don't P-you S-guys C-just P-try S-talking C-like P-this?" Sequential Conclusive Product: Seventeen casualties, personnel supervising consigned punishment. Similar conduct prohibited. Show Translations Hide Translations FR - http://fondationscp.wikidot.com/scp-4098 CN - http://scp-wiki-cn.wikidot.com/scp-4098 JP - http://scp-jp.wikidot.com/scp-4098 KO - http://ko.scp-wiki.net/scp-4098 ES - http://lafundacionscp.wikidot.com/scp-4098 ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4098" by Westrin and Henzoid, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4098. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: scpscp.png Name: Landsman Research Facility, Brandeis University Author: Kenneth C. Zirkel License: CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Link: Wikimedia Commons |
SCP-4099 | safe | Item #: SCP-4099 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4099 is contained in a locked carrying case in a standard secure Safe-Class locker in Site-76. The interior of SCP-4099's locker is outfitted with a laser light security alarm system to prevent theft or unauthorized testing of SCP-4099. Under no circumstance is SCP-4099 to be brought out of its vault. All testing with SCP-4099 is forbidden. Description: SCP-4099 is a small, worn-out notepad previously owned by Junior Researcher ████ Barnes. SCP-4099's pages are filled with illegible writing and crude drawings of people and objects. Knowledge of SCP-4099's pages carry a memetic component that, when read, causes living beings to enter a state of panic or distress, often citing that they are incapable of calming themselves when exposed to SCP-4099. Individuals in this state have been shown to have a much higher increase in serotonin, adrenaline, and norepinephrine. SCP-4099's effect can be transferred to other Individuals via an auditory memetic component- hearing a test subject's vocalizations of distress will induce the same feelings of panic and distress as in the subject. Recovery Log: SCP-4099 was discovered in Junior Researcher Barnes' office. Barnes was found dead in her office, hanging from the ceiling lamp by a noose made entirely out of neckties. During SCP-4099's acquisition, five staff members (three containment specialists, and two senior agents), became distressed after looking at SCP-4099 with its cover open. An emergency response unit was sent to isolate the remaining infected, dispose of Barnes' body, and contain SCP-4099 in a more careful manner. [INPUT LEVEL 5/4099 SECURITY CREDENTIALS] [CREDENTIALS APPROVED] THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 5/4099 CLASSIFIED ANY ATTEMPTS TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 5/4099 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION AND TERMINATION OF LIFE. Item #: SCP-4099 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4099 is kept in a secure Safe-Class vault in Site-01. This vault is to be secured with a biometric scan to prevent knowledge of SCP-4099 from being leaked to Foundation personnel. Description: SCP-4099 designates a series of documents under the title: "SCP Foundation Department of Abnormalities". The documents appear to be incomplete based on the dates of when they were sent. In SCP-4099, two individuals are frequently mentioned, a Dr. Harold Horton and Agent Evan Shane. According to Foundation records, there are no individuals under employment with these names nor are there any mention of a "Department of Abnormalities." SCP Foundation Department of Abnormalities Date: 9/4/19██ Dr. Horton, We picked up three more this week. They're sending us again the next morning for a debriefing of our mission stats. Not sure if this is part of procedure, but oh well. Bobby lost his arms to one of those things. They're probably going to discharge him for it. I forgot the designation of it, but it's in one of the files. Speaking of which, here's those copies you asked for. If you don't mind me asking, why do you need them? Agent Shane SCP Foundation Department of Abnormalities Date: 11/4/19██ Evan Shane, I have word that we might be transferring the abnormalities here in our facility. The Director briefed me on their containment details, and how they should be handled. That means you're going to live under the same roof as the abnormalities you contained. SCP Foundation Department of Abnormalities Date: 13/4/19██ Captured, Doc, not contained. I bagged these guys on the field, you're the ones that have to tag 'em. Anyway, expect a delivery soon. Let's hope the new guys get accustomed to their new home. SCP Foundation Department of Abnormalities Date: 22/4/19██ Dr. Horton, About the debriefing I mentioned a few days ago, apparently they've discovered another abnormality. It's somewhere in Portugal, if I recall correctly. On another note, how are the new guys doing so far? Shane SCP Foundation Department of Abnormalities Date: 25/4/19██ Evan, They seem to be doing fine, however, they appear to be acting much differently from when they were picked up. I'm going to do some testing on them. Actually, they're acting somewhat strange themselves. Something feels… off, about them. Whatever it is, once the testing begins, we'll get to the bottom of this. Horton SCP Foundation Department of Abnormalities Date: 29/4/19██ Dr. Horton, Well, whatever it is, just make sure you're safe. I'm going to the debriefing room, gonna meet the new general in charge of the operation, and hopefully, I can come home now. Ev SCP Foundation Department of Abnormalities Date: 2/5/19██ Fuck Harold. I messed up, doc. I messed up. Big time. I didn't know what to do. I was told to do it. I was just following- That fucking general. Mulhausen, The bastard. He killed them. I killed them. The bastard issued a goddamn Termination Order on the whole place. Some of the folks in the unit are probably dead. I don't know. I don't know what else to do, Doc. SCP Foundation Department of Abnormalities Date: 3/5/19██ Are you there? I've been trying to get in contact with you. I've tried calling the facility, but no one's answering. Shit, no one is responding. I'm a wanted man, Horton. I killed him. Fucking bastard killed the women and the fucking children in that village. Made sure he suffered first before I ended his life too. Harold, where the hell are you? Addendum 4099.01: Recovered Files The following files were recovered alongside SCP-4099. The formatting closely resembles traditional formatting and containment procedures used during [REDACTED]. Furthermore, the entities described in these files do not appear anywhere within the Foundation's database. #21486HI-007 Item designation number: #21486HI-007 Warning: Item displays aggressive and dangerous behavior Description of item: 6’2” tall (height varies due to the nature of the entity), 185 lbs, unknown age (appears to be in mid-30's), wears uniform typical of air raid wardens used in the 1940's; said uniform appears to be in a state of disrepair or heavily damaged state. Respiration often induces sounds of what can only be identified as "raspy breathing." Pockets are filled with bullets and ammunition often used in a Sten Gun and a Vickers-Berthier (VB) Light Machine Gun. The entity appears to emit small doses of Gamma radiation. The palms of the entity's hands are covered in a caustic adhesive that burns away human skin on tactile contact, this adhesive has been chemically analysed as Fluoroantimonic acid. Entity does not appear to run and can only walk; it is not known whether it chooses not to run or it is incapable of doing so. Detail of current containment: [N/A] Report: Subject is third to the right. Photo taken circa 1915 First sighting of the humanoid was reported by tourists in a diner in the Nevadan Desert. Witnesses reported a giant yellowish-brown cloud headed towards the [REDACTED] Diner. Tourists allegedly approached the entity in an attempt to communicate with it. Entity ignored all attempts at communication and continued walking. Recovery team was then assembled by General Copper and dispatched in an attempt to contain the entity. Using the updated containment protocols regarding the handling of abnormalities, courtesy of the late Dr. Keter, The entity was captured in the operation and contained in a temporary holding facility until a more effective containment facility could be used as a permanent containment cell. Entity appears to be capable of secreting various nerve agents and gases from its person. These gases do not appear to be anomalous in itself, however the nerve agents are dangerous and are constantly being emitted. Through chemical analysis, the entity has been known to secrete three nerve agents: Soman1, Sulfur mustard or mustard gas, and VX. The entity's wrists and forearms emit Soman, Sulfur mustard is emitted from its back, and the VX nerve agent appears to come from the filter cartridge canister of its mask as waste product in respiration. All attempts of communication with the entity have resulted in its unresponsiveness. Addendum: Personnel have been reported to experience auditory hallucinations while they are in the vicinity of the entity. Personnel report hearing men, women, and children's screams emanating from the entity. Other auditory phenomena include gunfire, engine noises, morse code and radio transmissions, air raid sirens, white noise, static frequencies, and even explosions. #97165MA-066 Item designation number: #97165MA-066 Warning: Item displays aggressive and dangerous behavior Description of item: 5'10" (if hunched, 5'6"), 120 lbs, unknown age, darkened gray skin, naked, no eyes or hair, elongated arms, elongated lips and mouth structure with very humanlike teeth. Emaciated appearance, bone and muscle structure unlike any recorded species. Hands and feet appear human, albeit blackened in appearance (possible necrosis?). No reproductive organs, anal orifice, ears, or pores anywhere on body. Does not have a nose, but appears to have nostrils fused to the face. Head is abnormally large for the body. Detail of current containment: [N/A] Report: Entity was first discovered in Antarctica. The entity was reported by Japanese fishermen claiming to have seen a "Ningen" on the ice2. Reports of the humanoid came back to the Foundation where a recovery team was dispatched to capture the entity. The creature was then contained and moved to a temporary containment cell. Creature appears to have considerable strength for its body structure. The entity has been shown to tear off ligaments and muscle tissue during a feeding. Carnivorous, it views both humans and animals as a food supply. Interestingly, during a feeding, depending on which animal it has devoured, the creature temporarily gains said animal's traits (when eating fish, it develops gills, fins, and webbed feet and gains the ability to swim and breathe underwater, when eating avian creatures, it gains bat-like wings. These wings, despite the size and shape of the creature, somehow gives the entity the ability to fly). When eating human flesh, it gains intelligence and sapience. The entity's mouth appears to stretch and distend beyond its physical capabilities but does not appear capable of unhinging its jaws to consume prey, instead it opens its mouth and takes large bites in its consumption. Entity shows considerable problem-solving skills of varying levels of complexity. The creature has been known to speak, but only in the form of muttering and, on occasions, laughter. Addendum: Security and research personnel have both expressed concerns over the entity. Complaints have issued that the creature has been known to smile at individuals for long periods of time, unnerving them. Personnel also note a visual anomaly of the creature's nature - the creature can appear in contradictory locations when two or more individuals view it, however, in close proximity to one another, usually allowing an estimation of where the actual entity is located. Complaints have been taken into account of the creature's nature. Item designation number: #71839CA-102 Warning: Item displays aggressive and dangerous behavior Description of item: Item appears to be a small vase of roses. The petals on each rose glows brightly and radiates a reddish hue. The item has a small note attached to it that reads in cursive: "For Lucy." Object emits large amounts of Gamma radiation. Detail of current containment: [N/A] Report: Item was discovered in a flower shop in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. [DATA EXPUNGED]. Reports came in of "Red Maniacs" terrorizing the townsfolk. A recovery team led by General Samson, were partially successful in containing the threat, as most of the agents in the unit had succumbed to the object's affect and had to be terminated. Item was temporarily placed in a secure holding locker lined with lead, to prevent radiation from leaking out of the wall's contents. The object's petals glow brightly and radiate a dark red hue and emits large amounts of Gamma radiation, when a living being enters its light, the item immediately redshifts the being. Once redshifted, the being immediately succumbs to radiation poisoning and collapses after only a few seconds of exposure. Soon after (approximately 12 seconds), the redshifted subject will rise from its position on the ground. Individuals afflicted with the item's effect are not only redshifted, but are also bleeding profusely from the eyes, nose, and mouth. Affected individuals under the "reanimation" effect, also lack pupils and their sclera are completely white in coloration, despite the redshift. Individuals affected by the object are driven solely by the need to attack unaffected individuals. Affected subjects will attack by way of biting, scratching, and beating others with their hands. Some affected individuals also display remarkable strength for their stature, being capable of tearing off limbs with little effort. Addendum: Under no circumstances are staff allowed to touch or even look into the container. All testing with the abnormality has been denied. [DATA EXPUNGED] [DATA RESTORED] Addendum 4099.02: Exploration log On the back of one of the documents, there is an address and coordinates to what is assumed to be the location of the facility mentioned in the documents. Mobile Task Force Gamma-1 ("Search and Destroy")3 were sent to the location of the facility. Located in Ukraine, underneath the city of Pripyat. The log below is a transcript of what transpired. Exploration Video Log Transcript Date: ██/██/2020 Exploration Team: MTF Γ-1 ("Search and Destroy") Subject: Pripyat city borders, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Team Lead: Damian Noxol: Γ-1 Leo Team Members: ████ Kent: Γ-1 Taurus / ███ Carlson: Γ-1 Gemini / █████ Atson: Γ-1 Pisces / Travis Kazmarek: Γ-1 Sagittarius [BEGIN LOG] Γ-1 Leo: Comms are up, we good? Γ-1 Gemini: Good. Γ-1 Taurus: Good. Γ-1 Pisces: Ready. Γ-1 Sagittarius: Hang on a sec… There, I'm good. Γ-1 Leo: Right, we're moving towards the location. Overwatch sent us here for an investigation. Whatever this thing is, Overwatch wants it to keep quiet. We either lock it up, or we terminate it, understand? Good. Command: Ten seconds until drop-off. Γ-1 Leo: Eyes up people, stay alert. Γ-1 Taurus: Yes sir. Command: Search and Destroy, you are clear to begin the operation. Γ-1 Leo: Let's go. The unit walk quickly from the drop-off point to the location. After ten minutes of walking, they enter the exclusion zone. Command: You are now entering the closed exclusion zone. Radiation levels will start spiking the closer you get to the area. Γ-1 Leo: Understood. (Faces towards the group.) We work fast and get to the area. These suits can't keep out the radiation for too long, let's go. The unit walk faster to their destination, maneuvering through the abandoned roads and trees. Command: Gamma-1, you should be seeing the location now. Γ-1 Leo: I don't see anything, Command. Γ-1 Pisces: Boss, I see something. Γ-1 Pisces points to an elevator in the distance. It appears to be a maintenance elevator covered in glass. Image of the elevator from Γ-1 Pisces' camera Γ-1 Leo: Right, let's go in. The team enter the elevator. There is only one button that leads down. Γ-1 Leo presses it and waits for three minutes before the elevator doors part. The team steps inside as the doors close. There are eight buttons, each numbered from zero to seven. Γ-1 Leo: Command, you seeing this? Command: Yes. Enter the code given to you. Γ-1 Leo pulls out a folded piece of paper from his pocket. There is nothing on the paper except numbers. Command: Insert the code. Γ-1 Leo pushes the buttons according to the paper. Γ-1 Leo: One, Seven, Three… Zero. The door closes and the buttons light up. There is humming for ten seconds before the Foundation logo briefly flashes on the elevator screen above the doors. Γ-1 Sagittarius: We're in business, baby. The team wait three minutes again as they go down. There is an automated message that repeats the words "Welcome to the Department of Abnormalities." The automated message repeats the same message over again in both English and Russian. The elevator stops and its doors open, revealing a dark and dimly-lit stairwell. Command: Welcome to the Department of Abnormalities. Γ-1 Leo: Everyone, lights on. Γ-1 Gemini: Roger. (Turns on mounted lights. The rest of the group follow.) I see stairs, sir. Image taken from Γ-1 Gemini's camera Γ-1 Sagittarius: No shit, Gemini. The team go down the stairwell where they encounter a door. Command: Welcome to the… Department… Abnormalities. Γ-1 Taurus: The fuck? Command: The Depart… Abnorm… Ities. Γ-1 Leo: Damn, we're a few kilometers underground. No reception here. We're on our own, guys. Γ-1 Taurus: Shit, what're we gonna do? Γ-1 Sagittarius: Kinda sounds like an echo, actually. Command: The… Abnormal… Γ-1 Pisces: We stick to the plan. We get in, investigate what they sent us here for, then we leave. Γ-1 Leo: Pisces is right, we stick to the plan. The team enter through the doors. There is a hallway that at the far end, leads to a door. The corridor has four doors, two per side, each of them are rusted and welded shut with a glass viewport. There appears to be something inside each of the rooms. Γ-1 Leo: Stay sharp. The unit slowly walks to the first chamber on their right. There is a small metal placard that reads: "The Glutton." In the chamber, there is a grey-skinned creature, hunched over in a fetal position at the far left corner of the room. Its head is lurched over and obscured by its arms. Γ-1 Pisces: Damn. Γ-1 Gemini: Hey guys, check this one out. The rest of the team follow Γ-1 Gemini and look into the room, opposite of the other. There is a large dark yellowish cloud inside the chamber. There is a humanoid shape within the room but is obscured by the gas. Only the feet are visible as the gas covers everything else. There is a metal placard that reads: "Visions of War." Γ-1 Gemini: Freaky shit, huh? Γ-1 Sagittarius: I've seen weirder. Γ-1 Leo: Wonder what this one is. The group move onto the next chamber on the left. There is a pedestal inside with a small container on top of it. There are dozens of red bodies surrounding the pedestal, covered in blood. The placard reads: "Flowers for Lucy." Γ-1 Leo: Well that's a strange name for something locked up. What about this? Γ-1 Leo pans to the last chamber behind the group. The door is also rusted shut but the viewport is locked up, preventing whatever is inside from being seen. Γ-1 Leo: The hell? The placard for this chamber reads: "Absence." Γ-1 Leo: Well that's confusing. Let's go, guys. The team head to the end of the hallway. There are two paths that split off to two doors at the end. On the wall, there are placards that point to the left and labeled: "Research Sector and Maintenance." on the right, it says "Quarters and Armory." Γ-1 Leo: Okay, we're splitting up the group. Pisces and Taurus will take the left. Gemini, Sagittarius, and I will take the right. Understand? Γ-1 Taurus: Roger wilco. Γ-1 Gemini: Clear. Γ-1 Sagittarius: Understood. Γ-1 Pisces: Very good sir. Γ-1 Leo: Let's move. Γ-1 Leo's team head to the door on the right. Γ-1 Leo pushes the door open and shines his light through the darkened room. The room appears to have dozens of metal bunk beds. Some of these bed frames have had their mattresses removed, and some of them still have pillows on them. The group move until they reach the far end of the room. There is a metal placard above the door handle that says: "Armory." Γ-1 Leo steps inside as the last person closes the door behind them. There are weapon racks and lockers across the wall in front of them. There is a door on their left that reads: "Director's Office." Γ-1 Leo attempts to open it, but it appears to have been locked from the inside. There is a small note on the floor close to the door. Γ-1 Leo: I got something. Command's probably going to want to take a look at (He puts the note in his pocket.) We're going on standby until Pisces and Taurus finish their sweep of the other room. Γ-1 Gemini pulls out a small tablet from his bag that connects to both Pisces and Taurus' cameras. Γ-1 Leo: What are you looking at, Taurus? Γ-1 Taurus: Not much I'm afraid, this place looks like it has labs on each side. Looks barren and empty, though. Γ-1 Leo: Wait, do you hear that noise? Sounds like humming. Γ-1 Taurus: Yeah, I hear it too, I'm about to head over there now. Through the screen, Γ-1 Taurus's camera captures a door at the end of the corridor with a metal placard that reads "Maintenance." Γ-1 Taurus opens the door and finds a large server room inside. The room has a large computer server at the end of the room with a red, glowing button in the middle. It appears to be the source of the humming. Γ-1 Taurus: Approaching object. (Γ-1 Taurus moves closer to the server.) What do you think it is, boss? Should I press it? There is a ten second pause between Γ-1 Leo and Γ-1 Taurus. Γ-1 Leo: Go for it. Γ-1 Taurus pushes the red button. The humming stops. Γ-1 Pisces: Wonder what that did. At that moment, loud screaming and laughter is heard. Γ-1 Taurus and Γ-1 Pisces turn around immediately. Γ-1 Taurus: Son of a- I think we made a mistake boss, I'm turning it back on. Γ-1 Taurus presses the button multiple times but the machine is still inert. Γ-1 Taurus: Ah, shit. Alright, we're going to try and meet you on the other side. Hang tight. (Γ-1 Taurus and Γ-1 Pisces run towards the door.) We're gonna get you out. Γ-1 Leo: Wait, Taurus. I- The door is slammed open as three red men in labcoats leap onto Γ-1 Pisces. One of them bites Pisces on the nose and tears it off. Γ-1 Pisces screams as he tries to shoot at the entities but is pinned to the floor. Γ-1 Taurus shoots the individuals off of Γ-1 Pisces and picks him up. Γ-1 Taurus proceeds to kneel down to tend to Γ-1 Pisces' wounds. Γ-1 Taurus: Fuck! Pisces is in bad shape. You're gonna be okay, alright? You're going to be fine. Γ-1 Pisces: The… door… open- Γ-1 Leo: Pisces! Taurus! We're going to your location. Standby for extraction. Γ-1 Leo puts away the tablet and proceeds to arm himself. Γ-1 Leo: I'm calling a chopper. We're getting the hell out of here. Pisces is injured and bleeding out here. I want everyone to keep sharp and take these bastards out. Understand? All: Yes sir! Γ-1 Leo: Good. Let's get out of here. Γ-1 Leo's team emerge from the armory as more red-colored entities emerge from the other door. The group manage to successfully shoot down most of them and proceed to head to the door. Γ-1 Leo: Let's go! Let's go! The group go through the door and are immediately attacked by the grey-skinned humanoid. Γ-1 Leo and Γ-1 Gemini attempt to shoot at it but the bullets miss. Γ-1 Sagittarius fends off some of the red entities that emerge from the chamber. Γ-1 Leo: Fuck! I can't- I keep missing him! Can't get a clear shot! Γ-1 Gemini: I keep hitting it but it's not doing shit! One of the red entities breaks away from Γ-1 Sagittarius gunfire and stabs Γ-1 Leo in his left thigh with a pencil. Γ-1 Leo groans in pain as he kicks off the entity with his injured leg and shoots it in the head. Γ-1 Leo: I'm down! Shit! Γ-1 Sagittarius: Don't touch it! It’s near your femoral artery, you could bleed out! Γ-1 Pisces and Γ-1 Taurus both emerge from the the right hall and continue to fire at both the red entities and the grey humanoid. Γ-1 Pisces has a gauze covering what used to be his nose. Γ-1 Sagittarius: Boss, Let me help you up. (Γ-1 Sagittarius kneels over and picks up the unconscious Γ-1 Leo on his back.) Head to the elevator! Now! Γ-1 Sagittarius and Γ-1 Leo approach the elevator. Γ-1 Sagittarius slams his fist on the button Γ-1 Taurus: Taking him out! (Γ-1 Taurus pulls out his P90 and continues firing on the entity.) Command: (Static noise emanates from Γ-1 Leo's radio.) Wel… Partment… The grey creature knocks out Γ-1 Gemini, Γ-1 Taurus, and Γ-1 Pisces away from it. Γ-1 Taurus gets up and punches the entity across the face. Γ-1 Taurus: Just die already, you ugly- In that moment, the entity thrusts its right fist in Γ-1 Taurus' stomach, its hand going deep within. Command: (Static noise continues.) …Welcome to… Abno… Γ-1 Taurus: …F-Fucker- Γ-1 Sagittarius: No! The grey entity grabs Γ-1 Taurus' chest with its free hand and pulls until his chest and waist are completely torn apart and separated. Viscera and entrails fly out as intestines and spine fall onto the floor. The entity smiles, revealing human teeth before it kneels over, and grabs the intestines and pulls it to its mouth to eat. The elevator doors open. Γ-1 Sagittarius carries the unconscious Γ-1 Leo into the elevator. Γ-1 Pisces: No! (Rises from the floor and proceeds to fire at the entity.) Fuck you! You son of a fucking- Γ-1 Pisces is tackled by the last red entity. The entity punches down on Γ-1 Pisces' face before biting down on Γ-1 Pisces' neck, spewing blood, and choking on it. The red entity begins to thrust its thumbs deep into Γ-1 Pisces' eyes as he screams. Command: Welcome to the… Ment of… Γ-1 Sagittarius: Dan! Get your ass over here! We're leaving! Γ-1 Gemini: Agh! (Γ-1 Gemini rises from the ground and runs to the elevator.) Command: Welcome to the Depar… Normalitie… Γ-1 Sagittarius: C'mon man, c'mon… (He presses the button to close the doors.) An entity wearing a gas mask emerges from its room and grabs Γ-1 Gemini by the arm. Γ-1 Sagittarius: No! Fuck, no! No! Command: Welcome to the Department… The entity in the gas mask pulls Γ-1 Gemini in a headlock. White gas emerges from the filter cartridge canister of the mask and burns away at Γ-1 Gemini's face. The entity then moves its hand to cover his mouth before raising its hand- completely burning and tearing off Γ-1 Gemini's lips and nose. Γ-1 Sagittarius: I'm so sorry Dan… I'm sorry. Γ-1 Gemini screams as the elevator doors close. Command: Welcome to the Department of Abnormalities. [END LOG] Addendum 4099.03: Recovered Note An object of interest that was taken during MTF Gamma-1's investigation of the facility. The note reads as follows: Regional Director Pierce. I can't do this anymore. I do not wish to continue my time here. I'm done. These things are not "normal" by our standards, I can deal with the horrifying implications around certain anomalies, but not this. These are abominations. Every time I go to bed, I stare at my ceiling until my eyes get tired and I fall asleep. I get nightmares about what they do. What they did. I feel like, they're all around me, wrapping their hands around my throat, squeezing tightly. Digging their thumbs into my trachea until I wake up in cold sweat. I have held this position for such a long time. Two? Three years? I do not know anymore. This is too much for me to bear, the responsibility to keep these things away from everyone is weighing down on me and I feel like I'm going to give in. As of today, I hereby resign from my current position, I revoke all my privileges, and I request a transferal to Facility-ADRX19. This is a job that, I feel not even I am capable of doing. I know I should have submitted a formal request for the transferal, but I'm too tired to go through all the paperwork. Take care, Dr. Howard Snorlison, Head of the Department of Abnormalities [DATA RESTORED] Footnotes 1. Also known as Pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate 2. A cryptid reportedly observed on multiple occasions by crew members of government-operated "whale research" ships, these so-called "Ningen" (人間, "Ningen", meaning "human") are often said to be completely white in colour with an estimated length of 20 to 30 meters. Eyewitnesses describe them having a human-like shape, often with legs, arms, and even five-fingered hands. They are often described as having fins or a large mermaid-like tail instead of legs, or even tentacles. 3. An elite unit that specializes in the covert investigation, and decommissioning and/or termination of rogue SCPs or anomalous persons and objects that threaten the secrecy of the Overseer Council. |
SCP-4100 | esoteric-class | NOTICE FROM THE STELLAR CONGRESSIONAL PROTECTORATE OFFICE OF ARCHIVES Following the destruction of SCP-4100, this file has been archived. The latest available draft of the file is awaiting publication. A colorized representation of a radio transmission originating from SCP-4100. It is believed the "Triumvirate" based their pictograms off of this image. Planetary Catalog Designation: SCP-4100 Threat Level: 0 Interstellar, 10 Surface-Bound Resources: High amounts of organic and inorganic carbon, very high amounts of salinated dihydrogen monoxide, assorted proto-Protectorate weaponry. Special Control Protocols: SCP-4100 is currently unsuited for permanent habitation. Due to the high content of dihydrogen monoxide on its surface and atmosphere, 19 satellites acting as water extraction facilities will be deployed in low SCP-4100 orbit. These satellites will siphon the salinated dihydrogen monoxide while minimizing risk to Protectorate workers. The surface of SCP-4100 is currently home to several aquatic and terrestrial entities that possess a threat to Protectorate workers and citizens. As such, following the exhaustion of SCP-4100's dihydrogen monoxide, as well as any other relevant resources, it is to be quarantined. Description: SCP-4100 refers to the planet formerly known as Earth. SCP-4100 possesses a biosphere suitable for supporting carbon-based, oxygen-breathing life forms, but has little land mass suitable for supporting non-liquid-dwelling life forms, with a land:water ratio of approximately 10:90. SCP-4100 was the home planet of Homo sapiens sapiens, a species of sapient organism which was once prevalent throughout the Human Origin System. Homo sapiens sapiens colonized several areas in the Human Origin System, including the planets Mars and Venus, as well as Titan, the largest moon of the planet Hephaestia1, using primitive spacefaring technology, including rudimentary FTL travel. SCP-4100 was largely abandoned between GSC 10997 and 11001 due to the proliferation of thousands of entities, objects, events and phenomena known to Homo sapiens as "SCPs" following the planet's encounter with a Class-10 Behemoth Entity. The "SCP" designation does not appear to be related to the Stellar Congressional Protectorate or any of its sub-organizations. According to Homo sapiens historical records, "SCPs" are objects which have properties which were once believed to be abnormal in nature, and were cataloged by an organization known as the "Triumvirate"2. The classification of "SCP" objects as "anomalous" is largely due to a lack of scientific, cultural, or historical understanding by Homo sapiens sapiens. The Triumvirate organization, in particular, focused alternately on the detention or destruction of "SCP" objects, as opposed to scientific study or interaction with sapient objects. Most knowledge of the "Triumvirate" comes from artificial satellites left by this organization in orbit around SCP-4100 containing documentation written in a pictographic format, presumably for ease of understanding to later civilizations. The number of "SCP" objects cataloged by the "Triumvirate" is estimated to be over 4,000. Below is a list of assorted "SCPs" cataloged by the "Triumvirate". A guide to Triumvirate Pictographs A white symbol has a numerical value of "1". A grey symbol with no barriers between individual squares indicates "0". A magenta symbol has a numerical value of "2", and is used in conjunction with white symbols to denote numbers greater than "5". Blue symbols are verbs, or mathematical modifiers. A cross indicates "adds to", a dash indicates "subtracts from", and a pair of horizontal bars indicates "equals". Yellow symbols are nouns. Green symbols denote positive or safe. Red symbols denote negative or danger. Orange blocks indicate the symbols within represent a chemical formula. Black squares are null. Black lines appear to denote barriers between symbols. Pictograph for Item "173" Of note in this pictogram is the presence of a depiction of three chemical compounds: the first is believed to be calcium trisilicate and an unknown polymer. The second chemical, pictured in the third row, is believed to be potassium cyanide. This chemical is fatally toxic to most known carbon-based life-forms, including Homo sapiens, and has been interpreted as "Item causes death" or "item kills". An attached picture of the 173, item though heavily bleached, shows a similar body shape to the Koshi drones used briefly by the Black Shroud rebels in the Rigel system, suggesting the 173 item is a precursor to these items. Pictograph for Item "914" The "914" document included a pattern for a frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum, which is evidently to be used to locate the "914" item. An expedition to the surface of SCP-4100 located parts of what is believed to be a GEAR device, used in most Challenger-class spacecraft. As it was heavily damaged, no action was made to retrieve it. Pictograph for Item "882" The symbol in the top-right corresponds to one of the religious symbols of the Mekhanion. The lack of symbols indicating containment, as well as a lack of description beyond "machine" and "iron", indicates that it may currently be in possession of the Church of Mekhanion. Pictograph for Item "2000". White box added to conceal a potentially hazardous piece of information. It is unknown how the Triumvirate knew of the existence of Galactic Standard Script when creating this pictogram. The information present in this image creates a compulsion to travel to a location on SCP-4100 which is currently occupied by the crater of a supervolcano which erupted some time during the presence of humanity on SCP-4100. Pictograph 4100-1202, speculated to be the evolution of early life on SCP-4100. Pictograph 4100-1202 is anachronistic, as it is believed to show a bipedal organism. No bipedal organisms existed during this time in SCP-4100's geological history. Pictograph 4100-1265, the continued evolution of organic life. Several pictographs of organic life on SCP-4100 terminate with the red image, seemingly consuming an organism. The significance of this is unclear. A second set of pictographs, believed to depict its historical record, also exists, but several are full of imagery too abstract to understand. Either the history or the mission of the Triumvirate organization. The Pictograph depicting the history or mission of the Triumvirate does not give any indication as to when in human history the organization was formed. Other pictographs show the symbol first appearing around the invention of primitive firearms, but they may have existed much earlier. Pictograph-4100-1050. Pictograph-4100-1050 is believed to be the oldest known depiction of an entity termed by Homo sapiens sapiens as "Destroyer", and seems to be what the Triumvirate termed "SCP-4100". Extant humans treat the "Destroyer" as an anti-deific figure, responsible for the destruction of their homeworld. It is estimated the "Destroyer" entity killed 90% of life on SCP-4100, including 95% of all Homo sapiens. A theory put forth in Galactic Year 50025 suggests that the "SCP" objects present on SCP-4100 were used to combat the "Destroyer" entity. This is unlikely, as the majority of extant humans treat "SCP" objects as anathematic. Destruction of SCP-4100: In Galactic Year 54000, a Class-10 Behemoth Entity, matching the description of the Destroyer, approached the Human Origin System at near-light speeds, on a direct collision course with SCP-4100. Most Protectorate personnel and citizens were able to evacuate the system. The population of Hephestia was unwilling to evacuate, despite being offered a position on a small Protectorate fleet. Hephestia was entirely ignored by the Behemoth Entity. Upon it reaching the remains of SCP-4100's moon, the following message was broadcast to all Protectorate ships within range of Sol. + - Proposed Update to SCP-4100 File: Planetary Catalog Designation: SCP-4100 Threat Level: N/A Resources: N/A Special Control Protocols: N/A Description: SCP-4100 referred to a planet formerly known as Earth, prior to its use as a weapon in the destruction of an entity which would have consumed the majority of the Human Origin System. SCP-4100 was launched at this entity (designated "Destroyer", after an anti-deific being present in Homo sapiens culture) at FTL speeds using an unknown propulsion system, resulting in the near-complete atomization of both it and the "Destroyer" entity. Immediately prior to SCP-4100's destruction, the following pictogram was sent from its surface. The meaning of it is unclear. The Final Transmission of SCP-4100 Footnotes 1. The sixth planet in the Human Origin System, homeworld of the Mekhanion, a species of sapient techno-organic beings. 2. So called due to the most prominent symbol being a set of three arrows, pointing inwards. |
SCP-4101 | thaumiel | WARNING: LEVEL 4/4101 ACCESS ONLY Access to this information is restricted to Level 4/4101 clearance. Attempting to access this information in any capacity will automatically alert security personnel to a possible information breach until credentials are accepted. If you have accessed this document in error, wait at your terminal and explain the situation to the incoming agents, where you will then be processed and, if necessary, amnesticized. If you have the proper credentials, please submit them now to disengage the order. … … … Credentials recognized. Please enter password. … … … Password "H1Nds1Gh7 1S 2@/2@" accepted. Authorization approved. Accessing file… Item #: SCP-4101 Special Containment Procedures: Due to the circumstances of its location and operation, SCP-4101 is to remain integrated into Site-25 and, as such, requires no extra security than would already be appropriate for a Foundation site. However, knowledge of the existence of SCP-4101 itself is restricted to Level 4/4101 clearance or higher, with the exception of any Foundation personnel cleared for work on the Ouroboros Protocol. Regular maintenance of all associated systems of SCP-4101 is to take place weekly, with an allowed delay of no more than 48 hours. If any malfunctions of any components of SCP-4101 or its subsystems are suspected or identified, especially of those systems that are crucial to its continued function, testing is to be immediately halted until repairs have been made. Regular testing with SCP-4101 is to occur once every 2 weeks. Any subject for testing is allowed, but testing involving classified material, material known to be associated with temporal/ontokinetic anomalies, or material that is known to be memetic, cognitohazardous, or infohazardous in nature is only to be carried out by personnel possessing Level 4/4101 clearance. This responsibility is currently assigned to Senior Researcher Mortimer Ericson. UPDATE (3/8/1999): Screening for candidates, in addition to standard physical and mental aptitude measurements, must display no less than complete loyalty to the Foundation and its directives to mitigate the risk of an information breach resulting from the use of SCP-4101. For testing purposes, a series of digital data repositories, with individual storage capacities no fewer than 10 TB, are to remain at Site-25 at all times within SCP-4101. Due to the nature of SCP-4101, the only precautions necessary to access these repositories will be standard login credentials. These repositories are to contain as much historical text and documentation as feasible, with additions made as necessary when new information is gained through the use of SCP-4101. UPDATE (3/8/1999): Due to further discoveries about SCP-4101's anomalous properties, no one individual may operate SCP-4101 more than 10 times without an interim period of at least 1 month. Any anomalous phenomena or manifestations occurring near individuals who have operated SCP-4101 are to be reported immediately, followed by the immediate barring of that individual from operating SCP-4101 for the foreseeable future. See Addendum 2. Description: SCP-4101 is a large mechanical device originally created by the Foundation in 1987 as part of Project Hindsight. Though it was once separate from Site-25, it has since been assimilated into the site's workings to allow for ease of its continued operation. As such, Site-25 is considered part of SCP-4101. The object consists of a dedicated power station (with a total output of 3 MW), a computer array complete with access to Foundation Intranet, a large amalgamation of different mechanisms responsible for SCP-4101's anomalous functions (some of which include standard supercomputer-level hardware and assorted clockwork mechanisms of varying complexity), and a large (about 500 m2) flat paved area in the center of SCP-4101 that serves as the control room, in the middle of which stands the control panel used for operating SCP-4101. SCP-4101 (and Site-25 post-integration) demonstrates a poorly-understood form of causal immunity; while time itself passes normally within SCP-4101, it is utterly unaffected by any temporal anomalies that may affect its existence, creation, or operation. Mundane efforts in the present day to further test this property universally fail as well; evidence of probability manipulation is currently being investigated (See Addendum 2). This effect extends to those within SCP-4101; as long as an individual remains within the facility, they share this immunity. SCP-4101's principal effect is achieved whenever input is received through the control panel. The interface allows for the input of text strings of any size; complexity does not seem to skew the results to any significant degree, as due to the specifics of the conceptual experimentation and engineering included as part of Project Hindsight, the input is understood through the intention of the operator. The only requirement is that the input must refer to an entity or object. When input is given and SCP-4101 is activated, the main control room becomes inaccessible for a period of time up to and including, but not exceeding, five minutes. During this active period, the room undergoes extreme temporal distortion around the individual who activated SCP-4101 (hereafter referred to as the operator). The interior becomes a facsimile of the birthplace/place of origin of whatever the input was at the time when the input item came into being. The operator then experiences the entire existence of the input item in real time as illustrated to them by SCP-4101-1. SCP-4101-1 is a humanoid entity who varies in apparent age, gender, and race with every manifestation, but a description of the entity wearing a light brown, three-piece suit is consistent across every manifestation. When SCP-4101 is activated and the operator is displaced, SCP-4101-1 introduces itself and begins delivering the history of the input item. SCP-4101-1 describes itself as being an orator or teacher of sorts, with its descriptions and depictions being meticulously thorough, covering every major event and summarizing the minor events relating to the existence of the input item. SCP-4101-1 is universally described by operators as amicable, polite, and enthusiastic, frequently encouraging questions about the input item. Despite the ability to move about freely in any manifested environment or location, direct interaction with anything in said environment is impossible, as physical contact cannot be achieved. However, items will manifest on the operator as necessary for their continued survival if a certain environment is normally inhospitable (such as SCUBA gear for oceanic environs, standard astronaut suits for space, etc.). During the active period, the operator witnesses the entire life or existence of the input item, starting with its birth/creation and ending with either its death/destruction or, where applicable, its continued existence in the present. Once the duration is over, SCP-4101-1 will say goodbye to the operator and thank them for their curiosity. The control room will then return to normal and the operator may exit. Any information gathered through the use of SCP-4101 will be retained with eidetic clarity, with memories showing extreme resistance to fading or erasure by amnestics. Further, any input item that has a memetic, cognitohazardous, or infohazardous property has that property bypassed in the operator's memory with no ill effects barring a few notable exceptions. Abridged Testing Log: + Open - Close Test 1: D-1745 Selected Remarks from SCP-4101-1: "Hello there! Nice to meet you! Oh, wait. Probably weren't expecting me, were you? Sorry. I'll be your 'instructor' for today, and boy, are we going to have some fun!" "Look what a sweet child he was! Almost like a little angel! …What's that? Oh! Why, yes! That is a bottle of whiskey in the father's hand. I'm sure that will have no bearing on anything in the future." "Now, if you look here, you can notice the exact point where the child in him died. I hate to say it like that, but you look at him and tell me that he doesn't look harder after that. I tell you, that would be the last time I ever tried dating." "Oh my! Looks like all those years in the batting cages really paid off! Although… I'm certain that's not how you're supposed to use a bat. Or a whiskey bottle. As you can see, though, that didn't stop him from acting like he'd scored a homer." "That has to be one of the most surprised looks I've ever seen. Then again, I'd also be dumbfounded if some shadowy organization picked me up so they could run experiments on me. Well, really, I'd be even more surprised if I could see all that coming before it actually happened, because then I'd be psychic, and then they'd be picking me up for a different reason." "And there he is now! Still just sitting in that cell while I'm talking to you. Looks kind of bored, really. Maybe tell him I said hi?" Test 2: George Washington Selected Remarks from SCP-4101-1: "Hey again! Good to see you! Always nice to have an eager student. I hope you're ready, because this one's special! Of course, I'm sure you already knew that. Does > this man really need an introduction? …Well, no, but I'm going to give one anyway. Can't ever be too thorough!" "See? I can't tell you just how much that bugs me, but he never harmed a single leaf on that tree! He loved it like a family member! Ate its fruit every time it flowered! In fact, if he could hear me right now, he'd be upset that people in the future - well, future relative to him, I suppose - are making things up about him to prove a point! I know plenty of other candidates that would be perfect for teaching the importance of honesty!" "Now, if we're going to talk about honesty, I can honestly say that that is some getup. Now, I'm not going to stand here and lecture someone about fashion during this history lesson, but… Hmm? Oh, his dentures? I'm glad you noticed those. Yes, those are not normal human teeth. Some wood, some animal. Strange, eh? Aren't you glad people eventually learned that that's a silly idea?" "Now, I must say, detailing conflict is never really fun for me, but boy, did he make it seem noble! Did you know that that river was approaching freezing levels when he and his men crossed it? It's true! All throughout that winter, he kept his men together as best he could, they were just straggling along, and you know what? He eventually led his country to victory! Yes, that half-frozen man you see before you now ended up victorious! Well, I'm sure you already knew that, but it's still impressive, is it not?" Test 12: Site-25 Selected Remarks from SCP-4101-1: "Mortimer! So glad you're back! Congratulations on the promotion! Hmm… You look a little peaky today. Are you feeling alright? Getting enough sleep? …If you say so. Well, no matter. I'm very flattered you decided to ask about little old me. Well, the site, but technically, the machine's a part of it, so it is what it is. I'm sure you already have the documentation regarding the machine's construction, but I'll do what I can." "Now, this land was completely empty. No buildings, no major land features, not even any trees! Miles away from anything populated. Perfect clandestine location, wouldn't you say? But it gets better: then were planning on putting a big building there with security measures derived from anomalous technology! The perfect storm! Of safety, that is." "And as you can see, right after they installed the iron fencing, they set to work on the research and development wings. For you see, this would be one of the few sites under the control of the Foundation that would fully embrace and integrate their findings into their studies for the sake of progress! Of course, they would get pretty lonely in that regard, but this is something like their version of the Manhattan Project, so I can understand the caution. People don't just put up counterconceptual insulation for no reason." "Hmm? Oh, that insulation? You must not have been around for that. Well, what they did is they took what little information they had about anomalous metaphysics at the time and put a sort of geas on the place. Well, a modified type of geas. I'd describe it as more of a waiver than a contract. The point of it was to shield the site and the fruit of its labors from any prying eyes. If you weren't allowed in, you weren't getting in, no exceptions. The concept of unauthorized access was quite literally incompatible with the concepts making up the site. Wild stuff." "…Then, after it was all said and done, they made sure every gear and bolt and wire and board was in its place and had you come in to turn the key! And then here we are now! Looking at ourselves looking at ourselves looking at ourselves… Hmm. Perhaps I should've taken away the display for this part. Oh, well. Interesting, though, is it not?" Test 25: SCP-055 Selected Remarks from SCP-4101-1: "Um… Really? I don't know how much I'm going to be able to help with this, but… I'll try my best." "So as you can see - erm, well I think so, anyway - the brass frame really ties the whole thing together. It doesn't really do anything for the structural support or functionality of the thing, but it looks nice, doesn't it? You can see it, right? …I could say anything I want right now, couldn't I?" "Then the ghost got out and roamed around the site for a while, using the thing to stay invisible and… What's that? How? Well, it's kind of like that insulation we talked about before, only instead of interacting with concepts, it works with information. See, it targets a specific vector - namely, true information about itself - and siphons it back through the memories of people that view this information, clean out of their heads. Every memory ever formed about that thing? All contained within it. That what that ghost is; some poor soul… well, got his soul sucked into it whole. …How does it work? Erm.. Well, I'm… glad you asked! You see, first you take your locus and focus really hard on it…" "…Now this next step is very important. You don't want to align the kittens improperly, or you'll get some pretty nasty backlash. You'll want some catnip to make them hold still…" "…And once you've given it as much voltage as you think it can handle, it should get up and running! You can cut off the power running to it after that; the ritual circle inside the mainframe should provide enough blue energy to keep it moving. Then just pick any type of information you want, assign the pointer to the memories of this information, and zip! Into the locus it goes! If I may, what made you curious? …Oh. I see. Well… good luck with that then, I suppose. Hope you'll be able to properly remember anything I just said and, if you do, you tell the others about it. I try to keep everything steady as best I can, but this thing is really powerful. I'd be careful if I were you." Test 46: William Shakespeare Selected Remarks from SCP-4101-1: "Hello again, Mortimer. Boy, you visit me pretty often. Still taking it easy, I hope? I mean, I can still see you when you're not with me, but I wouldn't really be much use if I couldn't, now would I? Ah, well. No matter. I'm sure you didn't come here so I could tell you how to live your life. You came here so I could tell you how this fine gentleman lived his life, and tell you I shall!" "Now, you can see here how much his work meant to him. Why, on Venus and Adonis here - quite an underrated piece, in my honest opinion - he spent many long nights trying to perfect his prose. Kind of sounds like someone I know, eh? Heh!" "Ah, another great performance! Why, it even brought tears to his eyes, it was so beautiful. And it wasn't even his play! I must say, Mortimer, you picked an excellent subject this time around. …Hmm? Who's that in the second row? Oh! Why, that's Miss Anne Hathaway. She would later become his wife! …Yes, I suppose she is quite fetching." "What a romantic couple! I tell you, just walking around the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon is something I've always wanted to do, but I don't really have anyone to do it with like they do! …What? What's wrong? Did I say something that upset you? …O-Okay. I'll put you back. Hopefully, I'll… see you again?" Test 65: Edgar Allen Poe Selected Remarks from SCP-4101-1: "Mortimer! Well met, old chum. I've seen how you've been carrying on, and I - no, don't try and tell me otherwise! I want to help you take your mind off of it! Granted, this man's tale may not be the most uplifting in time's library, but I'll do my best!" "Now this is quite the family reunion, is it not? A lovely spectacle. Everyone's so happy in each other's company. I must say, I don't have any real family of my own considering my, ahem, 'position', but if I did, and I wished to celebrate with them, then I would want that spectacle to look like this! …Why, yes, that is his cousin with him over there. …Yes, they are doing what it looks like they're doing. Care to move on? I know I would." "Another hard worker, as you can see. All he has is his paper, his utensil, and the light he uses to see by. Why, Annabelle Lee ended up being one of my personal favorites of his! Ah, Annabelle Lee? You've not heard it? Oh, it's a wonderful - well, the tale itself is quite sad, but the composition is wonderful! So evocative! Look closely at his desk, you can see for yourself! Don't worry, he won't notice you. …My, you must like it as much as I do! It warms my heart to see people still able to be moved to tears by a good bit of poetry. I suppose employees of the Foundation must be cultured in some regard to get the positions that- What? …Oh. I'm… I'm sorry. I… I thought perhaps… Alright. Farewell for now, then." Test 89: SCP-631 Selected Remarks from SCP-4101-1: "…Look, buddy. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that what you're doing is wrong, but… I'm not going to pretend that it's right, either. …You insist then, huh? *sigh* Alright. It all began when some politician didn't want an uprising against him…" "… So after many long years of development and tweaking, they finally got the killing machine they wanted, as you can see. Invisible and calm during the day, but horribly agitated at night, where they would feed on anyone… unfortunate enough to be near them. Of course… you'd know all about that, eh?" "Then the Foundation caught wind of these things and devised a way of catching them with minimal casualties. Of course, there are still casualties sometimes, because they couldn't catch all the buggers, and they're quite stubborn when it comes to staying alive, so if one, say, slips out of containment, some unfortunate researcher might get gobbled up by one. That is, to use a random example. …Don't look at me like that! I know why you asked! W-Wait! No, I'm - I'm sorry! I didn't mean to… …Look, before you go… I'm asking you as a friend… don't do anything you're going to regret, okay? Please? I'll still be here. I'll always be here. It's… it's not like I have anything better or more important to do. Teaching is… it's just what I do. I just… Screw it. I think you should take a break. You're one of my greatest pupils, but… I don't want your studies to consume you. There's more to life than just me. If I do see you again… come back in one piece, will you?" - Close Addendum 1: Creation and Classification Project Hindsight was an attempt to create a device that would allow for a complete and thorough documentation of the history of humanity with the intention of preserving it from tampering by uncontained anomalies or the breach of contained anomalies. SCP-4101 is the sum total of Project Hindsight, acting as a crucial part of the Ouroboros Protocol. Multiple esoteric fields of study were exercised and even expanded during Project Hindsight and the creation of SCP-4101, including advanced metallurgy, engineering, and circuitry, applied thaumatology, and temporal manipulation and stabilization. Classification of SCP-4101 as an anomalous object resulted from preliminary testing revealing the existence of SCP-4101-1. Once a larger base of knowledge regarding the device's function was accumulated and its potential for use was underscored by this knowledge, it was shortly classed as Thaumiel. In light of SCP-4101-1's apparent willingness to cooperate with Foundation efforts to more effectively chronicle history, Project Hindsight is considered a success. PLEASE SUBMIT 5/4101 CREDENTIALS TO VIEW FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE OUROBOROS PROTOCOL ACCESS GRANTED The Ouroboros Protocol is an operation planned to take effect soon in the future, preparations for which are an ongoing undertaking occurring throughout all echelons of the Foundation. Once activated, it is an effort to continuously assure the Foundation's continued existence and operation through bootstrapping, retrocausal activity, and ontological insulation. Project Hindsight was one of the first few phases of the Protocol, setting the groundwork for the more labor and resource-intensive stages. For further information about the Ouroboros Protocol, please see Document ███████. Following the completion of SCP-4101 and its classification, preparations to enact the Ouroboros Protocol are being made nominally. Following the events of Incident 4101-1, preparations to enact the Ouroboros Protocol are halted indefinitely. See Addendum 2. Addendum 2: Incident 4101-1 On 03/8/1999, after routine testing of SCP-4101, Senior Researcher Ericson entered his office to log the results and didn't exit for three hours. During this time, RAISA personnel were alerted to potential antimemetic contamination in his workstation. Security personnel were alerted to this and sent to his room. Upon their arrival, they observed Ericson sitting at his desk staring at his sidearm, visibly distressed and unresponsive. As he was taken to the medical wing for processing, personnel further observed that his personal audio log used for research notes was still open and logged into on his computer. After perusing its contents, personnel notified the Director of Site-25 of heretofore undocumented anomalous properties of SCP-4101. Following this discovery, the containment procedures were shortly revised. An abridged version of the contents of the log are transcribed below: + Open - Close [BEGIN LOG] 5/24/1987 This is Researcher Ericson speaking, marking the first activation of the object now designated SCP-4101. I must say, I'm very excited about the opportunities that this machine will provide. Already, the thing works exactly as intended; I told it I wanted to hear about the D-Class in the cell two rooms over, and it took me to some hospital. One thing I didn't anticipate was the presence of… some person. Well, I mean, of course there were people there, but this one clearly didn't belong there. His suit made him stick out like a sore thumb. Of course, though the others didn't notice me, he did. Even said hello. Explained that he was my 'teacher' for the day. I was worried, but he quickly added that he was here to tell me all about Carl1. I humored him, and he took me through his whole life. Everything seemed so… so real. His birth, his childhood, his… murders, his incarceration. Right up to his transfer to Site-25 and being put in that cell. Then he just thanked me and left. I'd like to say I can't wait until I forget what I saw - I don't think I've ever seen someone so vicious with a baseball bat - but that's just it. I can't. The images just… stick in my mind. Whenever I think about them, every sense is just flooded by the memory as if I were witnessing it again. The official transcripts of the construction of the thing say that the core functions of the machine are based off of 'the pioneered scientific field of conceptual entanglement and anchoring', whatever that means. I'd guess that's what I'm experiencing. I didn't just see the past; the past is… in my head or something. This machine is incredible, but… I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried. 6/8/1987 Just another efficacy test. This time, we went for a popular historical figure. I suggested George Washington, and that seemed to go over well. I must say, I'm no history buff or anything like that, but seeing all those battles with my own eyes was something else. That guy seemed to enjoy telling it to me, too. Kept wanting me to ask questions, as if he wanted me to drink in every detail. Reminded me of a friend of mine who always had some piece of artwork to show me. This guy wanted to see nothing short of awe from me. Well, I'd say he got it… but he also got some concern. I'm not sure what, but something still isn't sitting right with me. Hmm… I don't know. I'm probably just saying that because of the date. …Today would have been Annabelle's 30th birthday. … …Happy birthday, Annabelle. Not a day goes by when I don't think about you. [SECTION REDACTED FOR BREVITY] 2/1/1988 Another day, another musty old history book to cross-reference. I swear, if I'd known just how many years of ancient, antiquated drivel I'd have to sit through in the name of progress, I probably would have requested to be transferred to a different project. Still, Senior Researcher does have a nice ring to it, now that I'm saying for the first time since my promotion, so maybe it's worth it. Of course, SCP-4101-1 was enthusiastic as ever. She - well, she was a 'she' this time - but she looked overjoyed to see me again. Made the life of some Christian monk from the 16th century seem downright lively. Every time I come back to that machine, I remember just how much I enjoy -1's 'seminars', if it really is a teacher. I must say, though, I'm not looking forward to the next session, even with its enthusiasm. …Another sad Valentine's Day. Hoo-ray. 2/15/1988 Okay, something's wrong. There must be something more to that machine. The information it gave me is as strong as it ever was, so the long-term projections are happening just as predicted, but… there's something else. Something that has me worried. I never asked it about myself. Last night, I had a strange dream. Rather murky, couldn't make out many details, but I definitely remember my mother being there. Just an overwhelming feeling of contentment washing through me, and then my alarm blaring me awake. When I reached over to turn it off, I noticed something on my nightstand that certainly wasn't there before: a bottle. A baby bottle. Freshly full to the brim. As soon as I saw it, I knew I didn't even have to taste it to know where that milk came from. I checked my doors, windows, everything, but nothing had gotten in that I could see. I checked the cameras I'd installed - nothing. I'm… I can never be too sure nowadays after that… that thing took my Annabelle. Speaking of… Happy Valentine's Day, Annabelle. Even though I'm scared, I'm glad you don't have to deal with this. Heh. [REDACTED] 10/21/1991 The dreams are getting worse. I thought they'd mostly subsided, but just this last night, I had a vivid dream about my first high school prom, and woke up to Annabelle's dress draped over the headboard. Now I'm getting really worried, but… I'm afraid to tell anyone. I… I can't tell anyone. If it turns out I'm affected by an anomaly, even compromised by an anomaly… …No. Out of the question. … …It's the machine. I know it. I remember that it does what it does because of some metaphysical mechanics or what have you… …Could it be a side effect? [REDACTED] 3/9/1992 Dreams are getting more vivid, more real. Dreamt about our wedding day. Large slice of cake was waiting for me. Had our two little figurines sitting on top. I've worked for the Foundation for almost 10 years now, and I've yet to see a concept so strong, it… 'makes' things. … …At least it tasted good. [REDACTED] 1/3/1994 Dreamt about our… our consummation. Woke up naked, covered in sweat, and… messy. Candles, still lit, sitting on every surface they could fit. I swear I could smell her in the air. …Whatever's doing this, I hate it. I feel like it's… mocking me. Can't you just leave her alone? Fate already took her; why do you need to keep reminding me!? [REDACTED] 2/17/1997 …I think I'm going insane. I walked into my office this morning and found a pink envelope sitting in front of my computer next to an apple pie. Before I even read the letter, I winced. I already knew what was coming. She always did like baking… It was just a card. It read, "Happy late Valentine's Day, pudding! Sorry I couldn't make it in time. Love you! XO- Annabelle." …She's been dead for 14 years now, almost 15. But the pie was still warm. … …Either she baked it with so much love that I can taste it, or there is something seriously wrong with me. [REDACTED] 2/22/1999 Turns out it's not just good memories life wants to throw back in my face to torment me. I dreamed about that night… that horrible, horrible night. The Foundation agents knocking on my door, telling me that while Annabelle was on a business trip, she got… devoured by that monster. Me begging them to let me keep her, keep the memory of her… The memory is all I'd have… Then I woke up. My window had been smashed open, and there were claw marks all over it. If I were to make a guess, I'd say that another one just flew out to join the world. Thank God - or whatever passes for him - I sleep with my bedside lamp on. … …Well, on the plus side, I'm not sleeping for a while, so that should mean no more trinkets, apparitions, or… monsters anytime soon. 3/8/1999 I get it now. I should have known all this time. I figured I'd ask the machine. Don't know why the thought hadn't occurred to me sooner. Maybe I just… didn't want any more reminders, and using a machine made for that specific purpose wouldn't have helped. Whatever. I went in and typed in 'Annabelle Ericson'. No hospital, no hometown, no nothing. Just blackness. And her. …Why did it have to look like her? It clearly wasn't her; the suit gave that away real quick. Figures that it knew what I wanted. I asked it, "What is all of this about? The dreams, the ghosts, everything! Why won't you leave me alone?" It just looked at me like I was a wounded dog and said, "'Leave you alone? I'd love to, buddy, but think about this. I love our chats; it makes my day - well, so to speak - whenever you come back to learn something more. But it's still you every time. You come back to the past week after week after week, and that's not even talking about what you do when you're not with me. I'm sorry, bud, but how do you expect the past to stay away from you when you won't stop living in it?" I said, "What would you know!? What would you know about living in the past!? Do you know what I wouldn't give to have the past not follow me in every waking moment? When every day is a new reminder of what I've lost, when every day is a new reminder of what I must do, of why I must do my part to contain anomalies like you, what would you know about that kind of pain?" It said, "Well, I should think you would already know the answer to that, pal." I asked, "…Fine. But what do you want me to do, then? Forget about her?" …I'd say I'll never forget what it said, but the machine already made sure of that. Right before the machine put me back, that… locus, that creature in the suit grabbed my shoulders and looked me straight in the eyes. The eyes weren't Annabelle's. They were still kind, still sympathetic… but they weren't Annabelle's. …It said, "I'm not saying that you should never look back, but I am saying that it's impolite to stare." [END LOG] - Close In light of this new information, additions to the Description of SCP-4101 are currently pending following review by the Director of Site-25. Upon a more thorough search of his quarters, security personnel found a small, digital device of poorly-understood function; at present, it is theorized that this device is what allowed Senior Researcher Ericson to conceal certain sections of the testing logs from sight and preventing suspicion from being raised. When this device was located, it appeared to have been powered off manually, which likely allowed its influence to be detected. Classification as SCP-4101-2 is currently pending. After Senior Researcher Ericson has been processed and debriefed, he is to be amnesticized, demoted, and transferred out of Site-25, with any further work of his closely monitored for anomalous phenomena/active subterfuge. Lingering remnants of information are to be expected, but their effects should be negligible. Despite these actions, his next assignment will take place in addition to regular scheduled visits to an appointed psychologist, where he is expected to make a full recovery. Further investigation into the nature of SCP-4101-1 and the specific property or properties of SCP-4101 that allow for its manifestation is ongoing. Footnotes 1. The name of the D-Class personnel used during this test. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-4101" by LuluTheRadiant, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-4101. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. |
SCP-4102 | euclid | SCP-4102 Item #: SCP-4102 Special Containment Procedures: Due to its nature as a prominent fixture in New York City, it is impossible to remove or isolate SCP-4102. SCP-4102 is monitored in an eight (8) block radius by MTF Gamma-5 ("Red Herrings") around pedestrian walkways leading to SCP-4012. Units are to be disguised as NYPD officers patrolling the area at all times. Upon visual confirmation of SCP-4102-1 engaging civilians, MTF Gamma-5 units are instructed to intervene and process civilians at least two (2) kilometers away from SCP-4102-1's contact point. Civilians having made contact with SCP-4102-1 are to be interviewed before being administered Class-A amnestics and released. Guards, also disguised as NYPD officers, are to be stationed outside the Manhattan vault doors of SCP-4102 to deter unpermitted entrance. SCP-4102-2 is unable to leave the confines of SCP-4102's Manhattan vaults, re-appearing in a random area in the vaults once taken two (2) meters to the entrance. All attempts to isolate SCP-4102-2 into a specific part of the vault system have proven fruitless, as it simply re-appears somewhere else in the vaults on its own volition. SCP-4102-2 is to be visited weekly by authorized personnel. Following good behavior, SCP-4102-2 has been allowed one (1) bed, one (1) television with access to news and television shows, a collection of assorted fiction books and a writing pad with pens. Any additional requests are to be taken to the project director. Description: SCP-4102 is a bridge connecting New York County and Kings County, known publicly as the Brooklyn Bridge. According to data compiled from SCP-4102-2, SCP-4102's anomalous nature did not manifest until 18██1. SCP-4102's anomalous effect manifests itself with iterations of SCP-4102-1, and by extension, SCP-4102-2. SCP-4102-1 is a humanoid entity which manifests itself between the hours of 08:00 and 22:00 on either side of SCP-4102. SCP-4102-1's height, weight, ethnicity and gender vary according to each iteration. All documented instances of SCP-4102 have been shown to be fluent in the native language of the person it targets. Only one (1) instance of SCP-4102-1 is ever active at a time, with windows of appearance ranging from every 30 minutes to every 2 hours. This variation in appearances seems to correlate with the amount of attention SCP-4102 gets from civilians who are not citizens of the City of New York, Nassau County, Suffolk County or the State of New Jersey. Methods to document SCP-4102-1 manifesting or disappearing have proven unsuccessful with both digital and physical surveillance. When active, SCP-4102-1 will locate an individual over the age of 16 who is alone and admiring the bridge and will proceed to talk with them. SCP-4102-1 has been observed using different tactics in speaking in order to connect with their target. Topics of conversation begin in a variety of fashions, such as talking about the weather, or the results from the latest football game. Eventually, approximately fifteen (15) minutes into the encounter, SCP-4102-1 will discuss the bridge and prospects for purchasing it. About 91% of encounters typically end during this period due to a lack of belief that the bridge can be purchased. Following such events, SCP-4102-1 thanks the individual for their time and walks away, vanishing once it is out of view. Following thirty (30) minutes of interaction with SCP-4102-1, the subject will become increasingly agreeable and will express a great desire to purchase SCP-4102. Interviews with subjects beyond the thirty minute mark have shown elevated signs of optimism at the prospect of buying SCP-4102, seldom wanting to talk about anything that does not relate to SCP-4102. See Addendum 4102-02 for details. SCP-4102-1 appears to fear anyone it deems to be an officer of the City of New York, and has been noted to flee on foot immediately upon an officer or a disguised agent breaking up an interaction between itself and its designated target. SCP-4102-1 is able to run at speeds of approximately twenty-eight (28) meters per second in order to escape, showing great skill at maneuvering around bystanders and cars before it is out of sight. Citizens present during SCP-4102-1's escape, when collected for interviews, have shown no memory of ever seeing SCP-4102-1. Subjects who were unable to complete their transaction with SCP-4102-1 following the thirty minute mark will proceed to wait in an eight block radius from where they encountered SCP-4102-1, until it re-appears, stating their only wish is to "buy the bridge". Additionally, subjects will cease showing an obsession to buy SCP-4102 if placed two kilometers away from SCP-4102, though they will still retain all memories associated with it. If a subject is present during the next window of SCP-4102-1 re-instancing, they will talk with SCP-4102-1 for up to two (2) minutes before ending the conversation with a handshake. SCP-4102-1 and the subject will proceed to walk under SCP-4102 and vanish when out of sight. As of Foundation acquisition, missing persons reports in SCP-4102-1 operation areas have decreased by ██%. One of the vaults underneath SCP-4102 used to contain SCP-4102-2 SCP-4102-2 appears to be a human of indeterminate gender, roughly two (2) meters in height. SCP-4102-2's skin is covered in five (5) sq cm pieces of chipped bricks, with different names and dates etched in each. The names and dates carved into the stones appear to correlate with ██% of missing persons from 18██ to 20██. Testing has shown that these bricks cannot be removed from SCP-4102-2, though fragments can be chipped off and analysed. Mineral testing has shown that these bricks are composed of limestone and granite2. SCP-4102-2 is able to speak in any language presented to it, though it defaults to English spoken in a New York City accent typical of the late 1800s. SCP-4102-2 is usually cordial and agreeable to Foundation requests and questions, apart from requests to leave SCP-4102's vaults, which causes it great distress. SCP-4102-2 has stated that it is as old as SCP-4102, and tends to refer to itself in the plural tense rather than singular. SCP-4102-2 states to have never known its own name, and has taken its Foundation classification as an acceptable alternative. See Addendum 4102-3 for details. SCP-4102-2 does not require sustenance of any sort, though it claims to sleep on occasion "to help the time pass". X-Rays indicate that there is a human skeletal structure inside SCP-4102-2, though other internal structures are made of Rosendale cement3. SCP-4102-2's body is nearly impervious to any damage, as any damage to its being is quickly regenerated. SCP-4102-2 has never shown itself to be hostile towards any requests or questions from Foundation staff, though Foundation psychoanalysts state that SCP-4102-2 is currently suffering from severe depression. Requests for psychiatric treatment are pending. Addendum 4102.1: Discovery Following a maintenance check in 19██ by New York City DOT4 personnel in SCP-4102's vaults and the discovery of SCP-4102-2, the Foundation assumed control of the complex. Class B amnestics were administered to NYC DOT personnel following this. Interviews with SCP-4102-2 revealed the existence of SCP-4102-1, which correlated with a number of missing persons reports in the area since 18██. Addendum 4102.2: Subject Interview Interviewed: Subject 4102-1 Interviewer: Agent Parker Foreword: Subject 4102-1 was retrieved following a thirty-one minute interaction with SCP-4102-1. SCP-4102-1, in this instance, presented itself as a blond middle-aged Caucasian male of medium build standing at approximately 1.8 meters, dressed in a suit and tie. MTF Gamma-5 agents, disguised as local law enforcement, broke up the conversation. Following SCP-4102-1 fleeing on foot, Subject 4102-1 was collected into Foundation custody and transferred into a site 3.2 kilometers away from SCP 4102 under the pretenses of gathering information for capturing a known con artist. Subject 4102-1 is a ██ year old Caucasian male who claims to be a tourist from ██████████, California. <BEGIN LOG> Agent Parker: We appreciate you coming in, Mr. █████. Subject 4102-1: It's no problem. Anything I can do to help our boys in blue. Agent Parker: Many thanks, sir. What can you tell me about the suspect? Subject 4102-1: Well, not much to say. I came to visit New York with my family. You've gotta see the Brooklyn Bridge, y'know? It's really beautiful. Anyways, they went to find a bathroom or something, so I decided to stay there and get some photos. Agent Parker: And that's when the suspect appeared. Subject 4102-1: Yeah. Seemed like a Wall Street type, a guy who knows his stuff. Said he walks by the bridge on his way home from work at the exchange. Asked me if I saw the ███ game last night. What are the odds that he's into soccer AND likes my favorite team? Agent Parker: I see. Continue. Subject 4102-1: Yeah. So we're talking and I tell him about myself. He seemed really easy to talk to, like he knew just what to say to keep me going. I tell him about my marketing firm, then about my family. My stock portfolio wasn't doing so great, and that's when he mentions the bridge again. Something about how the city was ready to open it up to private ownership. Made sense. If you can buy land, why not a bridge? Good ol' fashioned capitalism at work. Agent Parker: And this didn't seem strange to you? Subject 4102-1: Initially, yeah. But we kept talking about it for ages, and he made it seem so lucrative and…I don't know. Believable, I guess? Like a trance. So anyway, when you guys came, he booked it. I told myself that I'd go back to meet him there after you guys picked me up, but now…now it seems pretty stupid, huh? Agent Parker: These kinds of people are good at pressing buttons. You can't blame yourself. Subject 4102-1: I guess not. <END LOG> Closing Statement: Following the interview, Subject 4102-1 was administered Class A amnestics and released without incident. Addendum 4102.3: SCP 4102-2 Interview Interviewed: SCP 4102-2 Interviewer: Agent Parker Foreword: At this point in time, SCP 4102-2 had been in Foundation custody for █ days. <BEGIN LOG> Agent Parker: How are you doing, 4102-2? SCP 4102-2: Hm? Oh. That's us. We forget, sometimes. Fine. But you're not here about that, yeah? Agent Parker: No. We're here abo- SCP 4102-2: You're here 'bout the bridge. How it does this. Agent Parker: Correct. SCP 4102-2: We don't know. It makes deals and it collects. It collects a toll. Agent Parker: When did this start? SCP 4102-2: It got an idea from someplace. No one trusted this thing to last, ya know? Barnum had to parade elephants on it to prove a point. It got self-conscious, maybe. All the attention definitely didn't help. Then some guys come pretending to pawn it off. Agent Parker: You're saying that 4102 has feelings? SCP 4102-2: (4102-2 shrugs) We get an inkling from someplace. Deep in the walls. Livin' in the city, y'know, makes you gotta prove yerself. It collects the toll so it has somethin' solid to have. (4102-2 sighs) It was the first of its kind. Roebling babied it5. It felt like it was cared for. A real personal connection you can't get anywhere else. It's doing its best. But sometimes…sometimes it wants to crumble. <END LOG> Closing Statement: In the years following containment, SCP-4102 was noted to show a slight swaying motion, indicative of possible structural defects. Whether this is due to increased traffic, or preventative methods applied to SCP-4102-1 is unclear. Footnotes 1. This coincides with the arrest of notorious conman George C. Parker. 2. Primary materials made to construct SCP-4102. 3. A natural cement made in Rosendale, NY. Used commonly in constructing United States National Monuments. 4. New York City Department of Transportation. 5. John Augustus Roebling, head engineer for SCP-4102, or Emily Warren Roebling, who supervised remaining construction after his death. |
SCP-4103 | keter | Magi, commissioned by Empeoror Valentinian, at work creating SCP-4103 Item #: SCP-4103 Special Containment Procedures: All radio or television stations playing Christmas music during SCP-4103's active period are to be checked for instances of SCP-4103 by automated memetic detectors. All infected audio is to be seized and contained in storage locker #24 in Site-03. Particularly attentive surveillance is to be made for radio broadcasts from Christian religious institutions. Due to the widespread effect and indistinct symptoms of SCP-4103 in popular culture, all complaints1 are to be deflected by spreading the suggestion that SCP-4103 only exists due to the social and psychological aspects of the holiday. Aberrant versions of Christmas are to be covertly discouraged and harmful celebrators are to be amnesticized. Description: SCP-4103 is a parasitic cultural meme that is transmitted acoustically through the vector of Christmas music. The main effect of SCP-4103 is the unconscious aggregation of other holiday's festivities and rituals into Christmas. The practices of celebrations that are observed by an individual infected with SCP-4103 will be merged into that of Christmas, nullifying the practice in the original holiday to an infected individual's perception. The timeframe of SCP-4103 activity increases with the number of holidays affected. The main symptom for the meme is within the subtle, unintrusive behavioral changes that are associated with the "holiday season." The abstract notion of a “Christmas spirit” or “holiday feelings” that is perceived when listening to SCP-4103 infected music is one major identifier for the transfer of the meme. Rituals in holidays that do not culturally align with existing festival doctrine are not incorporated. However, as the number of distinct traditions subsumed by SCP-4103 increases, the amount of cultural overlap also increases, allowing for an increased number of holidays to be integrated. The gradual consequence of SCP-4103 over time leads to Christmas being naturally preferred over affected holidays. This also leads to different interpretations of the celebration throughout the world as a result of the conglomeration of different holidays in a particular region. While still under debate, some memetic scholars posit a correlation between the consuming nature of SCP-4103 and the consumer culture of modern Christmas. However, a large body of evidence indicates that the "consuming" motif may merely be a trait that has been integrated into the holiday by absorption rather than an innate characteristic of the meme. Catholic Missionary transmitting SCP-4103 to Native Americans in 1659 The following are the specific mechanisms in which SCP-4103 operates 1. SCP-4103 can only be transported through music containing the theme of the "holidays" — this includes even the passing mention of the holiday in a song or chant. 2. When the time-frame for SCP-4103 activity ends, individuals who were infected with SCP-4103 will no longer contain SCP-4103, but will still believe in the transference of tradition that occurred during the infected period. 3. SCP-4103 begins its active period around two months before and after the regional Christmas celebration starts. For locations not on Earth2 SCP-4103 activates in conjunction with the SCP-4103 instances located in Vatican City. When SCP-4103 operating period begins, random instances will spontaneously generate around places of worship. SCP-4103 is theorized to have been created on commission by Roman Emperor Valentinian I along with his other anomalous attempts to reunify the Roman Empire after its cleavage in 285 CE. The hypothesized intended purpose was to unite the empire under one ideal. Archbishop Crescentius of Jesi later co-opted the meme for religious purposes in 1278 CE under the direction of the papal state. Historically, SCP-4103 has been weaponized by various Christian groups to increase the rate of religious conversion. The consumption, and subsequent memetic adoption, of local tradition, eased the adoption of foreign, usually, Christian practices. Evidence suggests that multiple cultures have experienced widespread religious shifts due to the effects of SCP-4103, including those of the Hallstatt Celts, Indigenous Native Americans, Indo-European Balts, and Melanesians. A reversal of this cultural destruction is currently ongoing. For more information on negating SCP-4103's historical precedence please refer to Project GANYMEDE. Listed below is an example of the effects of SCP-4103 and its accumulation of holiday traditions. Holiday affected by SCP-4103 Motif assimilated into Christmas Yule "12 days of" Epiphany Household Tree Araw ng Kagitingan Candle Lighting Wuwuchim Ceremony Caroling Krasnaya Gorka Wreaths and Mistletoe Imbolc and Samhain Saint Nicholas ████████████3 Remebrance of a Holy Figure's Birth ⌬ ⤘♾ ⎌ ⎳Ȿ ^ ꜠ ꜡ ỻ '4 Contagious Insanity5 Venite Celebramus Infernum Mass Death For the full list of affected holidays, please contact Site-03. Footnotes 1. such as the early celebration of Christmas 2. or any such location not in this designated dimension and universe 3. Holiday name contains cognitohazardous effect 4. Celebrated by the Serpent's Hand (annual celebration held in the Nexus) 5. Symptom is able to spread to individuals not affected by SCP-4103 |
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