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Item#: SCP-4191
Object Class: Euclid
Secure Containment Procedures: SCP-4191 is to be locked in a Secure Storage Vault with a 5 cm coating of tar pitch applied to the entire inner surface. SCP-4191 is to be suspended by the mechanism 4191-FRAME described below. When not being tested, SCP-4191 is to be held in a neutral position relative to gravity at its center of mass as follows: Long edges are to be perpendicular to Fg. Short edges, SCP-4191-1 and SCP-4191-2 are to be parallel to Fg1.
SCP-4191-FRAME is a purpose built mechanism designed to orient and constrain SCP-4191 to any position relative to local Fg regardless of being stationary or transported. This is accomplished using nested, lockable gyroscopes and servomotors, associated support structure, and user console. The primary component is a stainless steel frame insulated from SCP-4191 by 5 cm of tar pitch. Said frame is not to be tampered with or removed by testing staff. Any damage to it is to be considered a containment breach. Prior to and following each test battery, staff are to inspect 4191-FRAME for signs of wear or damage and forward said reports to the Engineering Department. A Level-3/4191 technician is to preform a complete evaluation on a monthly basis. One set of schematics sufficient to preform operation and maintenance is kept in a labeled compartment attached to the console.
When being tested, all manipulation of SCP-4191 is only to be done via 4191-FRAME's user console. Any fault in the operation of 4191-FRAME shall promptly be reported to the Foundation Engineering Department. Maintenance requests shall be answered immediately; at all times at least one Level-3/4191 technician is to be on site to respond.
Research personnel with clearance Level-2 or higher are permitted to submit testing procedures for approval. Thorough testing of SCP-4191's material properties has been completed, further testing should focus solely on the anomaly of SCP-4191-1 and -2, with emphasis on discovering a method of recovering D-14902 intact.
Description: SCP-4191 presents as a rectangular piece of gypsum plaster drywall with dimensions 1.0 m x ϕ m x 1.50 cm to the maximum precision measurable. It has a mass of 20.45 kg. The front and back faces are given the designations SCP-4191-1 and SCP-4191-2 respectively. SCP-4191-1 appears uniformly white, SCP-4191-2 is uniformly brown, and all edges are the color of gypsum plaster. All corners are perfectly square and all surfaces are flawless excepting images manifesting on -1 and -2 as a result of their anomaly. It is unknown if SCP-4191's perfect dimensions are caused by, or the result of, the anomalies of -1 and -2. Efforts to reproduce SCP-4191 have proven fruitless.
SCP-4191-1 and -2 are permeable to solid objects. The interior of SCP-4191-2 is a non-euclidean pyramid with an apex approximately 1.6 m from the rear face. Objects inserted into this space become immutable, and are magnified as they are pushed further in. SCP-4191-1 shares all the traits of -2 with one exception; objects shrink when inserted, and its interior appears to be the base of a pyramid of immeasurable depth.
The narrow faces of SCP-4191 exhibit a coefficient of friction of 0. Attempts to extract material samples from any of its surfaces has proven impossible, regardless of method. Its edges and vertices will sever any solid state matter drawn through them, leaving the separated part inside -1 or -2. Subjecting SCP-4191 to shear, compression, and tensile forces has yielded ε of 0 along any dimension.
Objects placed inside SCP-4191-1 or -2 respond only to the force of gravity and kinetic forces applied by other inserted objects. Electricity, magnetism, [REDACTED], or changes of momentum appear to have no effect on objects within SCP-4191. Other than it's invulnerability, SCP-4191 itself responds to all these as expected of consensus physics.
Security camera footage, no audio available.
Camera_2F_SHELL-SPACE 05/01/2011
09:03: Three D-Class personnel are installing drywall in a standard Foundation office. One male (D-97532) and one female (D-69874) are installing drywall to studs, one male (D-14902) is cutting drywall to size.
09:05: The installers are unable to fit their piece of drywall onto the unfinished wall due to crooked cut. D-97532 is visibly agitated, appears to castigate D-14902. Events henceforth referred to as "Reprimand Incident"
09:07: D-14902 appears sullen. D-69874 approaches D-14902 and seems to offer encouragement, instruction.09:57: Reprimand Incident, D-97532 is more agitated.
11:42: Reprimand Incident, D-97532 is extremely agitated.
12:00: All three D-Class personnel leave the work area.Camera_2F_BREAK_RM 05/01/2011
12:05: All three D-Class enter the break area, begin lunch. D-14902 finds an unoccupied table and sits apart, visibly sullen.
12:07: D-69874 approaches and speaks to D-14902. D-14902 responds with a hesitant smile. Lunch break proceeds without further interaction.Camera_2F_SHELL-SPACE 05/01/2011
12:31: All three D-Class return to the work area, resume working.
16:18:03: D-14902 finishes cutting piece of drywall, henceforth known as SCP-4191. There have been no apparent anomalies thus far. SCP-4191 falls to the floor, face up.
16:18:05: D-14902 bends over and attempts to pick up SCP-4191.
16:18:06: D-14902's fingers slip on the edge of SCP-4191 and he falls forward, attempting to break his fall by throwing his hands out.
16:18:07: D-14902's hands pass through SCP-4191-1, the remainder of his body follows.
16:18:07: D-14902 appears to become a 2D image on the surface of SCP-4191-1.
16:18:08: D-14902's image rapidly begins shrinking.
16:18:10: D-97532 appears astonished. D-69874 rushes to SCP-4191, kneels and puts her left hand across it's edge, several fingers are severed and fall into SCP-4191. D-69874 appears to scream in distress. Blood immediately pours from the severed digits, pooling onto SCP-4191 and running to the floor.
16:19: D-14902's image is now too small to see. D-69874 is attempting to apply first aid to herself. D-97532 has run from the area.
Following is a summary of the results of a a battery of tests on 7/01/2011:
- Only solid objects can enter SCP-4191.
- Contained liquids or gasses can enter SCP-4191, but won't leave their container and behave as solid.
Excerpt from Dr. VanSelben's Personal Log on 6/25/2011
took so long to get it off the floor, should've assigned me sooner. It's basically a frictionless hole with an infinitely thin edge, every device he tried either slid off or cut off. A lot of expensive machinery fell in. So while that egghead Maxwell kept trying to calculate the precise way to get a grip on it, I went to the evidence. I admit that I had to watch that absurd video about a hundred times before inspiration struck. D-69874's fingers fell in, but her blood spilled off. If submerged, it should would float. I ran out to the area they'd cordoned off and told them to dam up the area around it, then fill it with water. Of course I was right. I've been granted re-assignment tomorrow, thankfully, as working with him is… irritating.
- Objects, including living organisms, inside -1 or -2 appear to be immutable.
- Only the inserted portion of a partially inserted object is thus effected.
- D class accounts of the interiors are consistent. All test subjects report the inability to manipulate any extremity (or portion thereof) inserted.
- Insertion of any part does not impede biological function of the remainder of the organism.
- e.g. Inserting the head doesn't impede the use or sense of non-inserted limbs or organs.
- Entry and egress from SCP-4191-1 and -2 appears to cause no residual effects.
- Anything inside -1 or -2 is rendered inert.
- Mechanical and electrical equipment stop functioning as soon as critical parts are entirely within.
- Chemical reactions cease on entering, but will restart when withdrawn.
- Explosive munitions will not detonate.
- Lasers and other directed energy is diffused and scattered.
- [REDACTED]
- Objects can be thrown into SCP-4191-1 and -2, maintaining momentum.
- Impacting other objects within transfers momentum in an ideal fashion.
- Objects thrown into -2 will bounce back off its interior surface.
Note: At least I can play wall tennis with this thing.
- Objects thrown into -1 will never come back.
- Was able to retrieve Researcher VanSelben's driver by tilting the front side down and it slid out after a bit.
Note: Apparently the inside is also frictionless. Tested w/ a high speed camera and got the following result:
Test: Tilted SCP-4191-1 up and dropped a dime into it. Waited 300.0 seconds, then flipped it over.
Result: After 724.2 seconds, the coin came back out at 4160.9 m/s and detonated.
Note: It was basically a kinetic weapon, as I suspected.
- If SCP-4191 were to fall with -1 down it would fall until it hit magma, consuming a column of earth's crust along the way. Given that it was discovered in Site-██, we dodged a bullet when it landed -1 up, instead.
- The reason we did not wind up with a hole to the center of the earth is presumably because -2 is a finite pyramid and the impression it cut into the floor was larger than it's interior, supporting it.
- However, we have a separate issue. Several pieces of machinery from the initial attempts to lift this thing, 4 partial phalanges, and D-14902 are inside SCP-4191. I've done my best, but I can only approximate the current velocity of each item.
- The worst case, D-14902's 91 kg mass, is currently traveling at 22.24 million m/s minimum.
- Simply put, if we turned SCP-4191-1 down and waited for him fall out, he would do so with the energy of a 11 megaton warhead. Allowing this to happen at an isolated site is feasible except there is no containment for SCP-4191 that could withstand the blast and no way of predicting where, or even if, the object would land. Additionally, debris projected into it would recreate the same problem. Should it land -1 down SCP-4191 would be irrecoverable and the geological consequences could vary from none-at-all to catastrophic.
- Finally, SCP-4191's anomalous physics are self-consistent excepting it's interactions with living organisms. This leads me to believe that D-14902 is in an anomalous stasis, alive, and aware of his situation. If recovered he might provide valuable information about its interior.
- SCP-4191 should be positioned with Fg being completely perpendicular to -1 and -2. This should, at least, prevent the problem from accelerating.
- SCP-4191 should be contained using extremely viscous fluids, as uncontained liquids and gasses are not effected by it.
- Testing and research on SCP-4191 should continue. Perhaps someone can figure out a way to defuse this thing, or at learn how/why it interacts with biological life the way it does.
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Item#: SCP-4191
Object Class: Safe Euclid
Secure Containment Procedures: SCP-4191 is to be locked in a Secure Storage Vault with a 5 cm coating of tar pitch applied to the entire inner surface. SCP-4191 is to be suspended by the mechanism 4191-FRAME described in addendum 4191-1. When not being tested, SCP-4191 is to be held in a neutral position relative to Fg at SCP-4191's center of mass as follows: Top and bottom edges of SCP-4191 are to be perpendicular to Fg. Side edges and both faces are to be parallel to Fg2.
A mechanism capable of manipulating and holding SCP-4191 in any position, and capable of automatically maintaining any position of SCP-4191 relative to Fg regardless of being stationary or transported. This is accomplished using nested, lockable gyroscopes and servomotors, associated support structure, and user console. The mechanism may appear to sway or shift slightly when Fg around it changes, this is normal and expected. The primary component is a stainless steel frame insulated from SCP-4191 by 5 cm of tar pitch. Said frame is not to be tampered with or removed by testing staff, any damage to it is to be considered a containment breach. Prior to and following each test battery, staff are to inspect 4191-FRAME for signs of wear or damage and forward said reports to the Engineering Department. A technician with level 3/4191 clearance is to preform a complete evaluation on a monthly basis. One set of schematics sufficient to preform operation and maintenance is kept in a labeled compartment attached to the console.
When being tested, all manipulation of SCP-4191 is only to be done via the control mechanism for 4191-FRAME. Any fault in the operation of 4191-FRAME shall be reported to the Foundation Engineering Department immediately. At all times at least one technician with level 3/4191 clearance and training is to be on site and ready to respond to maintenance requests.
Research personnel with clearance level 2 or higher are permitted to submit testing procedures for approval.
Description: SCP-4191 presents as a rectangular piece of gypsum plaster drywall measuring precisely 1.0 m x ϕ m x .015 m. SCP-4191 has a mass of 20.45 kg3. The front face of SCP-4191 is pure white. The narrow edges are the color of gypsum plaster. The rear face is light brown.
The narrow faces4 of SCP-4191 exhibit a coefficient of friction of 0. Attempts to extract material samples from the sides of SCP-4191 have resulted in the extraction tool or method slipping or otherwise failing 100% of experiments, and attempts to extract material from the front or rear face of SCP-4191 have met with anomalous effects in 100% of experiments.5 The edges and vertices of SCP-4191 are extremely thin, able to sever any material excepting liquids and [DATA EXPUNGED]. Subjecting SCP-4191 to shear, compression, and/or tensile forces up 500 MPa have yielded ε of 0 along any dimension.
Security camera footage, no audio available.
Camera_2F_SHELL-SPACE 05/██/201█
09:03: Three D-Class personnel are installing drywall in a standard Foundation office. One male (D-97532) and one female (D-69874) are installing drywall to studs, one male (D-14902) is cutting drywall to size.
09:05: The installers are unable to fit their piece of drywall onto the unfinished wall due to crooked cut. D-97532 is visibly agitated, appears to castigate D-14902. Events henceforth referred to as "Reprimand Incident"
09:07: D-14902 appears sullen. D-69874 approaches D-14902 and seems to offer encouragement, instruction.09:57: Reprimand Incident, D-97532 is more agitated.
11:42: Reprimand Incident, D-97532 is extremely agitated.
12:00: All three D-Class personnel leave the work area.Camera_2F_BREAK_RM 05/██/201█
12:05: All three D-Class enter the break area, begin lunch. D-14902 finds an unoccupied table and sits apart, visibly sullen.
12:07: D-69874 approaches and speaks to D-14902. D-14902 responds with a hesitant smile. Lunch break proceeds without further interaction.Camera_2F_SHELL-SPACE 05/██/201█
12:31: All three D-Class return to the work area, resume working.
16:18:03: D-14902 finishes cutting piece of drywall, henceforth known as SCP-4191. There have been no apparent anomalies thus far. SCP-4191 falls to the floor, face up.
16:18:05: D-14902 bends over and attempts to pick up SCP-4191.
16:18:06: D-14902's fingers slip on the edge of SCP-4191 and he falls forward, attempting to break his fall by throwing his hands out.
16:18:07: D-14902's hands pass through SCP-4191, the remainder of his body follows.
16:18:07: D-14902 appears to become a 2D image on the surface of SCP-4191.
16:18:08: D-14902's image rapidly begins shrinking.
16:18:10: D-97532 appears astonished. D-69874 rushes to SCP-4191, kneels and puts her left hand across it's edge, several fingers are severed and fall into SCP-4191. D-69874 appears to scream in distress, her hand is bleeding profusely. Blood dropping onto SCP-4191 beads off.
16:19: D-14902's image is now too small to see. D-69874 is attempting to apply first aid to herself. D-97532 has run from the area.
SCP-4191 is a recently acquired object with certain known anomalous properties. It is my intention to fully understand and document these known properties via the tests that will follow. Any previously unknown anomalous properties discovered during testing shall be documented and investigated as they arise.
As a result of the extended recovery effort, it is currently known that the edges of SCP-4191 are capable of cutting through any non-anomalous material and several anomalous materials as well. It is currently mounted, with the edges insulated, on a makeshift rolling dry-erase board frame via what I shall politely refer to as improvised methods.
Jr. Researcher ████████
Date: 06/20/201█
Staff: Jr. Researcher ████████, D-53211
Test 4191-1
Test subject: SCP-4191, 1 1000 cm3 cube of Pinaceae Cedrus
Procedure: SCP-4191 in neutral position, cube inserted through the center of the front face using forceps, then removed.Results: Cube appears to pass through the face of SCP-4191. Cube appears to shrink as it is inserted farther into SCP-4191. Cube appears to have no depth. Cube returns to original size as it is pulled out of SCP-4191. Upon extraction, cube exhibits no anomalies.
Notes: As initially theorized based on the conditions of recovery, the front face of SCP-4191 appears to open into some kind of extra-dimensional space.
Test 4191-2
Test subject: SCP-4191, 1 1000 cm3 cube of Pinaceae CedrusProcedure: SCP-4191 in neutral position, cube inserted through the center of the rear face using forceps, then removed.
Results: Cube appears to pass through the face of SCP-4191. Cube appears to grow as it is inserted farther into SCP-4191. Cube appears to have no depth. Cube returns to original size as it is pulled out of SCP-4191. Upon extraction, cube exhibits no anomalies.
Notes: Interesting, reminds me of Through the Looking Glass.
Test 4191-3
Test subject: SCP-4191, 1 1000 cm3 cube of Pinaceae Cedrus, 1 1 m rod of Pinaceae CedrusProcedure: SCP-4191 in neutral position, cube inserted through the center of the front face using attached 1 m rod, then removed. Testing staff are not to touch SCP-4191.
Results: Cube and rod are inserted to maximum length allowable. Cube and rod appear to shrink as they are inserted further, return to original size when removed. Cube and rod exhibit no anomalies.
Notes:
Test 4191-4
Test subject: SCP-4191, 1 1000 cm3 cube of Pinaceae Cedrus, 1 1 m rod of Pinaceae CedrusProcedure: SCP-4191 in neutral position, cube inserted through the center of the rear face using attached 1 m rod, then removed. Testing staff are not to touch SCP-4191.
Results: Cube and rod are inserted to maximum length allowable. Cube and rod appear to grow and deform as they are inserted further. At maximum length, the image measures .27 m square. The front and four adjacent faces of cube appear visible simultaneously. Front face is enlarged, but not distorted. Adjacent faces appear to lens outward. Cube and rod appear to have no depth. When removed, cube and rod revert to original size and exhibit no anomalies.
Notes: Going to need a bigger stick. And, well, the janitor wants his broom handle back.
Date: 06/21/201█
Staff: Jr. Researcher ████████, D-53211
Test 4191-5
Test subject: SCP-4191, 1 1000 cm3 cube of Pinaceae Cedrus, 1 3 m aluminum rod.Procedure: SCP-4191 in neutral position, cube inserted through the center of the rear face using attached 3 m rod, then removed. Testing staff are not to touch SCP-4191.
Results: Cube inserted 1.4 m and stops. Image is deformed as in test 4191-4. The image measures 1 m square, taking up the rear face of SCP-4191 from top to bottom. Pushing on the rod exhibits force onto SCP-4191. Extraction non-anomalous as in previous tests.
Notes: Hypothesis: The rear face opens to a finite pyramidal space with an elongated apex. Basic calculations suggest the apex is 1.61 m from the rear face of SCP-4191.
Test 4191-6
Test subject: SCP-4191, 1 1000 cm3 cube of Pinaceae Cedrus, 1 3 m aluminum rod.Procedure: SCP-4191 in neutral position, rod inserted through the center of the rear face, used to probe the interior of SCP-4191, and then removed. Testing staff are not to touch SCP-4191.
Results: Rod inserted 1.6 m and stops. Image is deformed as expected. The image of the rod measures 1 m in diameter, taking up the rear face of SCP-4191 from top to bottom. Pushing on the rod exhibits force onto SCP-4191. Rod slides along inside surface of SCP-4191 as expected of a pyramidal shape. Extraction non-anomalous.
Notes: Hypothesis 4191-5 confirmed. Further hypothesis: 1. The space within the front face of SCP-4191 is also pyramidal in shape. 2. The face of SCP-4191 renders an image of inserted subjects in scale with the cross sectional area of the depth at which the subject is inserted.
Test 4191-7
Test subject: SCP-4191, 2 1000 cm3 cube of Pinaceae Cedrus, 1 3 m aluminum rod.Procedure: SCP-4191 in neutral position, 1 cube inserted through the rear face to maximum depth and turned so 1 edge is oriented towards the face. 1 cube set 1 cm inside the rear face. Testing staff are not to touch SCP-4191.
Results: Nearer cube appears superimposed over the far cube. Deformation as expected. Extraction non-anomalous.
Notes: Hypothesis 4191-6-2 confirmed. This explains the apparent lensing of subjects, they are not deforming, but being rendered as a scaled 2-D image on the face of SCP-4191 according to their depth and orientation.
Test 4191-8
Test subject: SCP-4191, 2 1000 cm3 cube of Pinaceae Cedrus, 1 3 m aluminum rod.Procedure: SCP-4191 in neutral position, 1 cube inserted through the front face to maximum depth. 1 cube set 1 cm inside the front face. Testing staff are not to touch SCP-4191.
Results: Deformation as expected. Far cube disappears behind the image of the near cube. Extraction impaired when the rod pushed the far cube beyond it's reach. Violating procedure, testing staff reached through the face of SCP-4191 to retrieve the far cube.
Notes: I don't care if they think they "know how it works", under no circumstances are D-class to violate procedure! Requesting immediate termination of test staff D-53211 for insubordination. See test 4191-9 for observations regarding this event.
Request denied. D-53211 has ██ days of service remaining and barring an unfortunate accident is scheduled for [REDACTED].
Test 4191-9
Test subject: SCP-4191, D-53211, 1 3 m aluminum rod, 2 1000 cm3 cube of Pinaceae CedrusProcedure: Test is in-situ. D-53211 has their hand and partial forearm through the front face of SCP-4191. D-53221 is instructed to perform various movements and report subjective observations to research staff.
Results:
- Subject reports the loss of feeling and use of their hand. Subject is instructed to remove their hand.
- Subject is able to remove their hand, reports feeling and use are restored.
- Subject is instructed to insert their arm below the shoulder into SCP-4191.
- Subject complies. Subject reports the loss of feeling and use of their arm.
- Subject is instructed to drop the rod.
- Subject reports they are unable to comply.
- Subject is instructed to drop the rod or be terminated.
- Subject becomes agitated, reports they are unable to drop the rod. Subject begins to extract their arm from SCP-4191.
- Subject is instructed to keep their arm within SCP-4191 or be terminated.
- Subject complies. Subject appears distraught.
- Subject is asked whether SCP-4191 is causing them emotional distress.
- Subject reports negative. Subject reports that they are suffering distress caused by research staff. Subject is informed of their responsibility to follow procedure. Subject is instructed to remain in position until further instructions are given.
- Research staff consider further tests while subject maintains their position.
- Research staff note that subject has been standing several minutes with arm completely extended, holding 3 m of aluminum rod from their hand.
- Subject is asked if their arm is tired.
- Subject reports negative, they are unable to feel or move their arm beyond the face of SCP-4191. Subject requests to know if the test is over. Subject is instructed to not ask questions.
- Subject is instructed to move their arm up, down, left, and right until motion is impeded in each direction, and report if or when this occurs.
- Subject complies, reports motion stops in each direction corresponding to when the image of the rod contacts an outside edge of SCP-4191. Rod and arm deform as expected during movement. Subject reports no difficulty in performing this test despite a lever ratio of 1:35.
- An additional 1 1 m rod, and 1 testing staff (D-57321) are added to the test.
- D-57321 is instructed to hold the 1 m rod and insert it through 4191-CM until the held end of the rod is exactly on the face of SCP-4191. They are then instructed to touch the midpoint of the top, right, bottom, and left sides of SCP-4191 in order, waiting at each point for a measurement to be taken. D-53211 is instructed to move the 3m rod to the corresponding midpoint on the edge of SCP-4191 and move the rod so that the tip of each rod touches. Research staff take measurements at each point.
- No unexpected anomalies encountered. Measurements noted.
- D-57321 is instructed to remove their arm from SCP-4191, return the rod to research staff, and await further instruction.
- Subject complies.
- D-53211 requests to end the test. Subject is informed to follow instruction.
- D-53211 is instructed to remove the the 3 m rod from SCP-4191 and return the rod to research staff.
- Subject complies. Subject appears calmed.
- D-53211 is informed to retrieve the remaining cube.
- D-53211 appears distraught, complies. D-53211 climbs through the front face of SCP-4191. As the subject's body passes through the surface, it is rendered immobile. When the subject's head passes through, the subject appears hesitant, then continues. The subject continues climbing into SCP-4191 until they are unable to continue due to lack of mobility. At this point, the subject's entire body excepting the lower left leg below the knee is through the face of SCP-4191. The subject's left foot is observed to flail about.
- D-57321 is instructed to push D-53211 the remainder of the way into SCP-4191.
- D-57321 complies and is dismissed. D-53211 is entirely within the face, appearing in the position of crawling into SCP-4191. The image of D-53211 is immobile, appearing as a photo-realistic still life image.
Notes: D-53211 will be left inside SCP-4191 until testing resumes tomorrow, at which point they will be debriefed if possible.
As of 6/22/201█
- Jr. Researcher ████████ has been reassigned to SCP-4314. ~ Asst. Director Quincy
- D-53221 interviewed regarding test 4191-9, disciplined as to their responsibility to obey Foundation staff. Administration of amnestics deemed unnecessary. ~ Ethics Committee Liaison
- SITE-77 BULLETIN: Foundation staff are not to circumvent proper disciplinary channels. ~ Asst. Director Guild
- Jr. Researcher Maxwell assigned to SCP-4191. ~ Director Roget
As part of the Ethics Committee investigation into incident 4191-9, D-53211 was asked to recount their experience with SCP-4191. At the request of Site-77 leadership, the following excerpt has been appended the SCP-4191 casefile under the condition that Jr. Researcher ████████ be reassigned and denied all accreditation for research done on SCP-4191.
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D-53211: When I put my arm in, I couldn't feel it, or move it at all. But no, it wasn't gone.
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D-53211: I, uh, the best way I can say it is that it felt more real. You know, like, super real.
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D-53211: No no no! I've been on some crazy highs, but this is, like, way different. Like, I'm sitting here, and you're sitting here, and we are… just, uh… here. Yeah, we're here. But when you go in, you're, uh, like, you just are.
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D-53211: It was way weirder when it was just my arm. It was super weird when I started to climb in, but like, backwards. Like, I got why it felt weird in the first place, too. It's cause what's in there is like, certain, you know? And what's out here isn't. Like, I didn't know if he was going to kill me, or what I should say now. But once I went in, I got it, I just was. And the part of me outside, like, literally, neck down, that was the weird part. Outside, it wasn't real.
D-53211 has a history of abusing hallucinogens, opiates, and alcohol and repeatedly requested to be re-introduced to SCP-4191 permanently. Each request was immediately denied.
Previous coat got axed for hazing, senior staff told me documenting every single damn thing is unneeded. Following is a summary of the results of a a battery of tests on 7/01/201█ the following observations were made w/ regards to SCP-4191:
Observations:
- People can enter SCP-4191 and exit without anomalous physical effects.
Note: D-53211's account of the interior is consistent with descriptions given by my testing staff. While all test subjects report an increased sense of permanence within SCP-4191, they differ on whether they like it or not.
- SCP-4191 does not seem to have any compulsive or cognitohazardous effect.
- Only solid objects can enter SCP-4191.
- Contained liquids or gasses can enter SCP-4191, but won't leave their container and behave as solid.
- Objects inside SCP-4191 appear to be immutable.
- The front side of SCP-4191 opens into a non-euclidean space of possibly infinite volume or area.
- Anything going into SCP-4191 is rendered inert.
- Mechanical and electrical equipment stop functioning as soon as critical parts are within SCP-4191.
- Chemical reactions cease on entering, but will restart when withdrawn.
- Munitions will not work.
Note: That was a damn disappointment, I wanted to see what it would look like if I blew up [REDACTED] in there.
- Living people and animals do not suffer ill effects from partial insertion. Inserting the head doesn't impede the use of non-inserted limbs, inserting the lungs or heart doesn't impede the delivery of oxygenated blood to the same.
- Objects can be thrown into SCP-4191.
- Objects thrown into the back side will bounce back.
Note: At least I can play wall tennis with this thing.
- Objects thrown into the front side will never come back.
- Was able to retrieve Researcher VanSelben's driver by tilting the front side down and it slid out after a bit.
Note: Apparently the inside is also frictionless. Tested this and got the following result:
Test: Tilted SCP-4191 face up and dropped a dime into it. Waited 5 minutes, then flipped SCP-4191 face down.
Result: After waiting about 7 minutes, the coin came back out.
Note: At 4162 m/s. It was basically a kinetic weapon, as I suspected.
Conclusions:
- SCP-4191's anomalous physics are consistent excepting it's interactions with living organisms.
- If SCP-4191 were to fall face down, it would fall straight through the earth's crust until it hit magma. My geology isn't great, but I think a direct tube to the mantle would be problematic. Given that it was discovered in Site-██, we dodged a bullet when it landed face up, instead.
- However, we now have a separate issue. Several pieces of machinery from the initial attempts to lift this thing, 4 partial phalanges, and D-14902 are inside SCP-4191. I've done my best, but I can only approximate the current speed of each item. The worst case, D-14902's 91 kg mass, is currently traveling at 38.1 million m/s minimum. Simply put, if we turned SCP-4191 face down and waited ██ days for him fall out, he would do so with the force of a 15 megaton warhead. Allowing this to happen at a prepared site is feasible, excepting that there is no containment for SCP-4191 that could withstand the blast, and the object would be thrown, landing face up, with debris falling into it, or face down.
Proposals:
- SCP-4191 should be positioned with Fg being completely perpendicular to it's front and back. This should, at least, prevent the problem from getting worse.
- SCP-4191 should be contained using extremely viscous fluids, as uncontained liquids and gasses do not pass through it.
- Testing and research on SCP-4191 should continue. Perhaps somebody can figure out a way to defuse this thing, or at learn how/why it interacts with biological life the way it does.
Iris found it odd to receive a post card. As an operative of Alpha-9, the memoranda and dispatches were unending. This plain, white card was none of that usual bureaucracy. It contained no memetic kill agents, no anomalies, nor was it classified anything at all. It was nothing more nor less than a picture of a blank, white square resting on a table. On the posterior was the simple hand-printed message: "ToIrIS, hold me please" in black ink.
She guessed at how many resources her handlers had thrown at analyzing it before giving it to her. If she added some zeroes to her guess, she might have come close. She wondered why they would even give it to her. The truth was that the actuaries had performed the same cost-benefit analysis they used every time that SCP-105 was to be engaged with on an emotional level. The result of that calculation now rested in her hand. The RAISA agent had told her to use her anomaly on it. When she held it, nothing happened. She had been able to reach through it, the square was soft, a blank canvas. The table was hard and unforgiving. She hadn't been able to move them.
Sitting in containment, she turned the card over in her hands. It was a well made. The card stock was strong, yet pliant. The picture was clean and simple, crisp and tidy, yet somehow forlorn. She looked up at her cell, making the obvious connection. "To Iris, hold me please" she read out loud to herself. It wasn't a meme as the Foundation defined. It was a shared experience, an idea that only someone subject to Special Containment Procedures would understand: 'I know how you feel, I feel the same way too'. Iris's current attire lacked pockets, but she'd been a good girl. Maybe even good enough to get an outfit with one over her heart.
8/1/2019
Read 4001
Really did not like use of religious imagery
SCP overpowered beyond suspension of disbelief (SdB)
conprocs - meh
narrative - good
Read 1030
Liked
interview could be better
read 1040
liked, it's weird
reread 426
I am a toaster
read 1057
interesting
awcy reference seems random, makes me want to learn more about it
reread 1063
oh yeah, I came across wooden robot randomly.
neat. +1
1123
justice
read 1126
British talking horse
+1
read 4119
by weryllium
nitroglycerin girl
+1
8/2/2019
Read 4939 by mewltiverse
sad moon guy
Times like this I wish the voting system were more nuanced than kill it, save it, or leave it.
Dr. Rivas is compelling, but I think he could bear more story. His attachment to the anomalies he cares for isn't believable, rather than seeing it develop, we're handed it as an arbitrary fact. I would have no issue with this except the hook of the skip is that very thing.
I don't like it, as is, but I don't think it should die.
no-vote
Read 4052
sandbox
I like the base concept.
I've read a couple hundred articles by now and haven't come across this supposed 'cliche'. If you're going to downvote, downvote. If you're going to comment, let us know where the trope is coming from.
That said, there's not much done with the concept. The recovery is alright but it feels a bit hollow. I won't try to save this from death but if the author reads this comment, give it some polish and I'd upvote.
read 4137
icosahedron
Have to -1 this, I can't even.
In order of NOPE
minutes before slipping, falling 26 metres and expiring
he doesn't know where up is anymore
NOPE right there. If you can fall, then you know which way is down and which way is up.
made of what appears to be steel
Appears to be [redacted]. Don't appears. This is Science. Make a call.
SCP-4137 is a hollow icosahedron standing on its point with edge lengths of 101cm.
100cm long fluorescent lamps with no known power source
Why the specific measurements?
Why lamps?
What kind of scaffolding?
What does it look like? Never mind, nicolini took out the pictures.
How heavy is it?
Does it get heavier if you put something inside?
Can you pick it up? How is that done?
How do you enter it?
Can multiple people enter at once?
Is it fragile?
Do different sides go to the same origin point?
Can you still see the person inside even if they have moved far away?
Nope nope nope. Don't feed me an interesting object then not tell me all about it.
read 4909
yellow submarine and squid
I don't hate it, but it could be better.
Sadly, I'm going through these and then more S IV, so I can't help much but here.
the prose needs work at points.
I vaguely remember 1485, not really minding that you use it. Other people got to do it, it would be unfair to downvote you for taking your turn.
concepts, historical events, and/or people (most especially ones prominent in popular culture) are retroactively removed from the current timeline and “converted” into anomalous objects/phenomenon.
Neat.
Reshef-Class reality bender is most likely responsible
bleh. yet another eldrich god. Let it be weird cause its weird.
Thinking about it, +1. You made me smile at least one time, and I wanted to finish reading it. Could be better, but let it live.
read 4595
Cobain menthols
You don't give the remaining number of cigs in the carton.
-1
read 4258
The Green Screen of Death
nope
8/3/2019
read 4518
emo crayons
anomalous ability
pls don't. your description needs work.
-65 should be in the box to start, even though the box only has space for 64 crayons.
-1, send it back to me, friend. I'd read an addenda 65 test logs long for this.
read 4004
emperor norton
preachy, revisionist.
But you know what, there's so much 'yet another eldrich god' that gets upvoted, why shouldn't this? It's well written and I wasn't tempted to skim to the end. It's not great, but +1.
read 4421
ghost dog
-1 its just too ruff
read 4251
squids in a tank
this fish story had a good hook
read 4005
end of the world pilgrimage
You had me reading till the end. Its alright.
reread 4000
weird forest
already +1 it
read 4006
massetruthets
another narrative, but +1
read 4007
Japanese soldiers
good narrative, +1
read 4008
daevic tree nuke
another narrative. still alright. +1
8/4/2019
read 4009
brotzart 1984
another narrative. knew where it was going, I've read 1984. still read till the end. +1
read 4010
meta timeline researcher
Since 02-2019 I read the SCP database by clicking random SCP.
Sometimes I followed crosslinks, thrice I went to the respective canon hub and read all of it.
I wrote tried to write a skip but it got deleted cause it was too simple, they said that you can't do that in series 5.
So I started at 4000 and worked forward. This is the first one that made my spine tingle. I never downvote unless there's poor grammar or writing involved. I rarely no-vote, only if the materiel is so antithetical that I can't upvote. I usually upvote articles that can make me read through to the end.
That isn't really fair to you though, as this is one of the best entries I've read since 4000, yet the one upvote you get is the same upvote I gave that one, even if I liked this better.
Your use of meta is quite good. Anyone who says otherwise is most likely fresh out of their 1st semester college literature class.
read 4011
its SCP2000 but its a time machine, also 140
yet another narrative. +1
read 2586
name killer dude
could be good, but abuses irl +0
read 4012
mindscrew forest
I couldn't read through it. I had to skim, so, -1, sorry.
In fairness, the reason is because I knew you were going for some sort of mind screw the minute you started the format screw, and expecting it, the mundane read through the forest was too long.
Then you throw a bunch of crosslinks at me without much context at all. Maybe this is all a brilliant tie together I'm not getting, but until I do, and then come back to this, downvote.
read 4013
SCP 184 but its the ark
I almost always downvote on the use of religious iconography, but you were ambiguous enough about it, and I did read all the way through.
The hook that 'its an anomaly that can only be contained by not being contained' is done well enough to outweigh the pseudoscience babel about 'past and future'.
+1
8/5/2019
read 3799
snow-5 council
its like 4010 but came before 4010 obv. I can dig a skip that says if you give everything order it does bad things.
read djkaktus proposal 1
have read before. now I know about fritzwillie though.
wasn't a member when I read it the 1st time. +1 now.
read 1139
babel tablet, part of the broken god
been here as a non-member also. +1
read 1206
multilingual scenery
also premembership. +1
read 444
docility meme
foundation colder than a polar Bear's tit. simple, creepy, excellent. +1
cancel that, I've read this before and +1 it also, but have forgotten.
read 217
nanovirus
also premembership. +1
I'm working through proposal 2 right now, these are related, I must have been here before.
read 882
broken god's heart
ditto
read 629
Mr brass
been here from proposal 2 and from little misters
read 610
meat virus
its good but leaving the logs to some other time, as I am coming from crosslink 2217 which is in turn from proposal 2. +1
read 2217
the anvil beach
or the time the foundation and the broken god became friends. +1
read 2273
the Russian fly cyborg soldier
have read. +1
read 2273-f
2377 becomes a pious man
+1
read 2399
Jupiter's red spot
been here. +1
read djkaktus proposal 2
machine makes gulf of California
also been here. +1
read 1396
Jupiter's kinetic doomsday device
interesting
+1
read 884
dimension mirror, right?
+1
read the collection
things which do things. the best kind of skips
the tweezers are interesting
+1
read proposal 3
O5 vote to protect against the anomalous and it bites them in the ass
-1 I think, actually. Can't suspend disbelief that the council would be so unwise.
Oh. That's brilliant. Still -1
read 1322
that time the foundation sterilized the other side
+1
read moonrise
addenda to proposal 3
+1 better than the proposal, also probably not a test
8/6/2019
read 993
bobble the clown
been here, came back from 1730 from djkaktus proposal 4 +1
8/7/2019
read 1730
It's pretty good. Despite it's size I read through to the end, along with the crosslinks, and as per my standard, +1.
However, I've been going through skip after skip and as opposed to being a contained anomaly, and upvoted or downvoted based on that, they're all narratives, and are getting my upvote based on their narrative hook.
I keep being told that the current standard (2019) of authorship is superior to series i, I'm doubting that though. The authorship here is excellent, but it's of a different kind. It's comparing apples or oranges. The SCP takes a backseat to everything that happens to, in, or because of it.
Watch me get flamed but in my head, SCP is about containing creepypastas, whereas this is itself a creepypasta.
read djkaktus proposal iii
how it ends
Excellent. I read through the whole thing without skimming, and unless there are hidden offsets I got it all. That would mean a +1…
normally. But I can't here. There are very few things I downvote on, and even then I try and mitigate them but the ones that feature prominently here are:
Overseers are made of stupid. Maybe you're saying that the overseers are incapable of thought or free will, doing exactly the things that would get them killed. I can't imagine a universe in which Green would not have simply executed them. The claim is 'well, she's super evil'. Even if I let that slide, O5-6 does almost the exact same thing, like, less than 24 hrs later?
If O5-1 was indeed so determined to stop Calvin, why is he chillin like Thanos?
Appropriation (or rather, misappropriation) of religions iconography. Since its so ubiquitous I often try to let this slide, as I'd be throwing downvotes at just about everything. But you've got the stigmata here for no apparent reason, comparing Dr. Light to Christ themself, and the Lancea Longini starring as a primary mcguffin. Respect for religion aside, these have been tropes for literally a millennia. You can use this and still get a pass, but telekill is right out?
I mean, it is well written, I cannot deny that. It's just that I find some of the ingredients unpalatable.
-1
8/8/2019
read 2003
industrial park of the future
+1
read Tanhony's proposal
Ethics committee waxes O5 cause they abusing immortality
+1
read never metafictional character I didn't like
Murphy Law
+1
read 2664
pacifist soviet psychics
+1
8/9/2019
read 4289 by beegyoshi
cardboard tokyo. it's a bit flat. -1 for now
read 4698
yet another eldrich god by absentmindednihilist
it should be a tale -1
read tombstone of alto clef
by kirby
clef is dead. +1
read new 577
it is not as good as the original bullet cat
read 1893
fun with offsets
+1
read 3704
forgiveness box
a bit lolfoundationy but still a thing that does thing. +1
read solace
3704 tale. +1
read 4016
twine cowboy. +1
read 4017
yet another eldrich god
I have to agree with, rumetzen.
Sorry, I just couldn't read through it. This really isn't Secure Contain Protect procedures so much as a written record of this god's exploits. -1
read 4018
famous eyeball
I think the -A is the media outlet, not the image itself.
I think that its a thing that makes the owner successful if the -A is successful
I think the monkey's paw is that it also makes everyone who knows about the -A know about the owner.
Obv this is a problem for the foundation should it breach. Brilliant.
-1 cause this was really hard to read.
+1 cause I think you deliberately wrote it that way.
+1 cause its a thing that does a thing (I like things that do things)
read 4020
screaming dr lecroy
+1 so hard on all the redaction haters.
I love redactions. Let my imagination do the work for me, I have no need to be spoon fed the narrative.
Taking out addenda 2, sure, I guess. I went to the history to read it and it doesn't add much, but it doesn't hurt either.
Well done.
8/12/2019
read 4021
buring norse lady makes you write crazy stuff and eat your friends
wut. +1
read 4022
there's a great big nothing
+1
read 4023
the number twenty three OOOOOoooooooOoOoOOOoOOo (ghost sounds)
I read it all the way through, but I can't offer my normal +1 for your time.
Its obv you are going to 23 addenda, that there's some grand conspiracy so there's no surprise regarding anything. I can't tell who is talking to whom, so you're either relying on people knowing a lot of backstory or some format screw.
If I peeled this potato and took it to the core, it's what… a researcher discovering an anomaly that must be retroactively contained. That's fair. But your narrative just doesn't deliver and I can't suspend belief for 'O6 council'.
-1
