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By unanimous vote of the O5 council, this object has entered decommisioning proceedings.

Object will be eligible for deletion vote in:

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Thaumiel

Special Containment Procedures: Further direct testing of SCP-XXXX has been discontinued as of 08/11/2018. This includes all outstanding test plans, regardless of filing or approval status; exceptions cannot be made other than by unanimous vote of the O5 council.

As disclosure of SCP-XXXX's existence or nature represents an existential threat to the reader the Foundation consensus reality (edit: see addendum), traditional collaborative research methods have been abandoned. Electronic messaging, telephony, and written communications regarding SCP-XXXX are forbidden. Verbal communication may only occur off the record, in an infosecure chamber purged of recording equipment.

Due to the extreme difficulty these restrictions place upon communication, research staff are permitted, but not encouraged, to communicate via footnote on this article.

In order to track SCP-XXXX's activity and consequences, one field agent with absolute loyalty to the Foundation must be stationed in a causally unconnected universe with a complete copy of the SCiPNET database, stored on an encrypted thumb-drive. Suitable universes are to be free of temporal dilation, have a Braxton-Thiel consistency score of 88 or better, and contain an Earth bearing an ordinary, early 20th century society without anomalous influence or the presence of any incarnation of the Foundation.¹²

To avoid SCP-XXXX affecting desirable segments of reality, the recommendations made in Addendum 9 must be followed at all times.

Description: SCP-XXXX designates a phenomenon which conceptually erases anomalies, triggered when Foundation personnel redact containment procedures³⁴⁵ a novel, previously unknown form of ontokinetic an omnipresent, reality-warping force capable of deleting people, events, and concepts from existence. Although SCP-XXXX is not traditionally infohazardous, and knowledge of SCP-XXXX does not itself cause anomalous events, sentient entities aware of SCP-XXXX may use this knowledge to trigger permanent, retroactive shifts in reality.

SCP-XXXX was discovered in 2014 1982 1█60 the past 1979, while debriefing field agents involved in the first Foundation-controlled intranarrative exploration. Returning personnel reported inconsistencies in observed subjective reality upon their return from other narratives, particularly in terms of the nature of certain catalogued items, number of catalogued items, and even longstanding Foundation policy.

It has been determined that these personnel are not insane, duplicates, from an alternate universe,⁶⁷⁸

In most situations, SCP-XXXX has no effect, and SCP-XXXX is perpetually active, and has resulted in the ontological destruction of a currently unknown number of anomalies, researchers, field agents, MTF personnel, and civilians.

SCP-XXXX appears to attach itself to the conceptual envelope⁹ of Foundation-controlled anomalies logical pseudonarrative clusters matching some or all of the criteria outlined in Document XXXX/402-A, altering subordinate narremes until the cluster no longer meets the criteria, an effect designated a XXXX-PURPLE event.¹⁰¹¹ In some cases, particularly those where more of the criteria are met, the concept and related nodes will simply be expunged, resulting in a cascading, catastrophic loss of events.

► SCP-███ Incident Log ██22/A

Incident Log ██22/A9, Dr. Sherman Merriweather
CLEARANCE LEVEL 5/XXXX

10/02/1979
BY ORDER OF THE O5 COUNCIL, THIS DOCUMENT IS SEALED.

Dr. Merriweather: Good to be back, Agent Sloan?

Agent Sloan: It's decent, man. Feels like forever.

Dr. Merriweather: According to your mission timer, it was closer to two months. But it's only been one, here, so it looks like there are some temporal mechanics at work. This is incredibly promising.

Agent Sloan: Can I get something to eat? You wouldn't believe the crap they ate in there.

[Dr. Merriweather laughs, but stops himself quickly.]

Dr. Merriweather: Sloan, you'll get fed soon enough. We're recording, so some decorum, if you would. Can we get this debriefing done?

Agent Sloan: Alright, alright. Hit me.

Dr. Merriweather: According to the report you put through, there was an entity called the "Land-lord". Tell me about him.

Agent Sloan: Oh, boy. That guy was terrifying. You mind if I smoke?

Dr. Merriweather: Yeah, sure.

[Agent Sloan can be heard lighting a cigarette. When he resumes talking, his voice is slightly muffled.]

Agent Sloan: So, he's about three meters tall. Stank of sulphur. Sort of vaguely, I don't know, almost humanoid. Claws, too many arms. Horns on his head.

Dr. Merriweather: Sapient?

Agent Sloan: Likely. Bloodthirsty as hell, too. Like a smaller, gray 517. Think it's related?

Dr. Merriweather: Come again?

Agent Sloan: It looked a lot like 517, that's all. But it was a bit shorter, smaller head. Gray.

Dr. Merriweather: You must be mistaken. There is no such object in the catalogue. 517 isn't even biological.

Agent Sloan: You're joshing me.

Dr. Merriweather: I am not. What are… uh, what do you have clearance for? What are 063? 581? 728? 1978?

Agent Sloan: Toothbrush, horse thing, deer, I don't know. Respectively. Why?

Dr. Merriweather: Miss Salino, can you send security in here?

Agent Sloan: Hey! Calm down, what-

Agent Sloan is sedated and subjected to enhanced debriefing techniques. On investigation, some 12% of his responses regarding anomalous objects are determined to be incorrect and resemble no known anomalies. Approximately 8% of his responses regarding Foundation staffing, policies, and operational structure are similarly inaccurate.

As no immediate cause could be discovered, and control personnel tested to determine a baseline scored below 4% in these same tests, it was determined with high confidence that Agent Sloan had been exposed to cognitohazardous information while inside SCP-████, and he was fully amnesticized and placed indefinitely in administrative detention.

► Document XXXX/665: Cloister Protocol

O5/10, 11/9/1980 [LAST REVISION: 2/4/2013]

This document lays out the Cloister Protocol in plain english; you'll get the technically written one later from Rebecca, as usual.

As we've learned, anyone in a sufficiently different, disconnected pseudonarrative space is not affected by SCP-XXXX's reality shifts. We're calling this effect "cloistering", and as of three days ago we've decided to keep an agent cloistered at all times, emerging every 30 days to compare notes.

The rules are as follows:

• Cloister agent is not to be informed of SCP-XXXX's nature or implications.
• Cloister agent to carry a printout¹² digital backup of the entire Foundation database SKiPNET on dot matrix paper in a locking suitcase archival tape backup two redundant usb drives
• Agent to dial *XXXX and then tell the operator their personal code type in their access code on the keypad on the nearest Foundation phone from their egress point from their encrypted Foundation handset.
• Agent to comply with instructions given by phone and proceed to the designated SCP-XXXX infosecurity chamber.
• After debrief and reconciliation of carried records with local records, an updated backup set will be generated.
• Agent will enter cloistering with updated set.

Current Cloister agent: Dan Polina Joan DeMarco Katie Hammersmith Ronald Peridis Derek Potsmouth Rafael Vilmas Phoebe Cateson Alan Sloan Martin Peckford Delilah Green Toby Markle

► Document XXXX/920: Observed Inconsistencies

Document XXXX/920: Observed Inconsistencies

► Document XXXX/402-A: Qualifying Narremetic Features

Document XXXX/402-A: Qualifying Narremetic Features
(maintainers: Dr. Eleanor Wegmann, Dr. Jackson Strauss, Dr. Barry Hayes)

This list is fairly controversial, because it hasn't been demonstrated that SCP-XXXX really exists the known pseudonarrativistic elements linked with SCP-XXXX as

• Foundation discovery or acquisition of overtly uncontainable anomalies
• Acquisition of anomalies possessing straightforward, easily-described effects
• Anomalies which have been poorly documented by research staff during intake
• Foundation staff behaving contrary to protocol, inculding particularly with regards to humanoid skips anomalies
• Approval of cross-test experiments or addenda involving certain skips SCP objects, including [REDACTED]¹³¹⁴
• Excessive termination of D-class personnel
• Highly specific object classes
• [DATA EXPUNGED]¹⁵¹⁶
• Revelation of closely guarded secrets, such as the names of [[DATA EXPUNGED]]¹⁷

► Addendum 9/Research Recommendations for preventing iteration

Research Recommendations for preventing iteration
O5-9, 10/18/2002

• All existing Foundation protocols regarding workplace professionalism must be followed at all times, particularly those pertaining to fraternization with anomalies (SKiPNET:policy/containment/fraternization, SKiPNET:policy/containment/speech)
• Individuals found repeatedly submitting cross-testing plans devoid of legitimate scientific merit are to be discouraged, and if necessary, relieved of employment
• In general, patterns of repeated and flagrant violation of social norms, should be investigated and not subject to typical Staffing Department 3-Strikes policy (SKiPNET://policy/resources/discipline/steps-to-success)
• When actions must be taken contrary to these instructions, all communication and decisionmaking must take place orally, with measures taken to prevent any kind of recording, transcription, or other means of generating a documentable record.

► (O5) Handling Guidance 03/25/2010

O5 Council Handling Guidance for the SCP-XXXX Project

Ladies and gentlemen of the Overseer Council, and Level 4 researchers attached to the SCP-XXXX project, we are at a curious place. We, or former iterations of us, have been analyzing this anomaly for anything between six hundred, and negative four years. By any instrumentation we have at our disposal, it has culled us mercilessly, ceaselessly, so thoroughly that we do not know that we have each died a thousand deaths at its hand. And what do we know about it? The list is short.

We know that it is a force, or forces, beyond our comprehension, but we do not know from where or how it affects our universe. We know that it is sapient, because it only affects aspects of reality which pertain to the Foundation's influence. And there, I think, lies the crux.

Because there is one more thing we know: it is interested in us, and what we do. For better or for worse, SCP-XXXX will act to destroy anything that threatens the continued, tenuous equilibrium we have fought so hard to achieve. As long as it watches us, as long as we interest it, we will live to fight another day. If we cannot contain SCP-XXXX, then perhaps we can use it.

If we could kill the unkillable by redacting three paragraphs of its containment procedures, why should we not? And why stop there? And that is only the beginning. Or, at least, it could be.

As of today, we are reclassifying SCP-XXXX to Thaumiel, and integrating it with our plans for the defense of consensus reality. I know that many of you disagree, but let me be perfectly clear: we have already on many occasions weaponized anomalous science. Every one of you has relied on amnestic drugs, on Z-Dimensional communications systems, on Kant counters and resometrics.
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This idea has courted controversy on the Council, and, I am told, among you in the research staff – but make no mistake: this is the start of the greatest, and last step: taking hold the reins of the universe itself.

I trust you will be part of this new, better tomorrow.

O5-11, 03/25/2010

► Object SCP-XXXX-S22

Object SCP-XXXX-S22

Attached to the Foundation database entry for SCP-XXXX returned from DISCNAR/RURAL/8287 by Agent Markle on 7/22/2018.¹⁸¹⁹ It is a paper note, handwritten using a fountain pen, with several ink smudges. Handwriting analysis confirms the author as Dr. Julia Wynn, Level 4 researcher assigned to SCP-XXXX.²⁰

to my friends and colleagues,

i read the latest digest from the cloister and i thought i had seen the face of God. i've always been afraid to learn that he exists, but not as afraid that he doesnt. but we didnt find God, we found the hole where he is supposed to be. there isnt judgment, there isnt right or wrong, there is no arbiter of some great code. whats really there is worse.

do you understand? we are looking for this thing we call scp-xxxx. we dont see the face, we see the results. nothing more than the hammer marks on the anvil of fate. we cant see the hammer, until it is bearing down on us, and then it is too late. because the hammer has struck the iron, and whatever the iron was before, it isnt now.

we were wrong. its not about the containment procedures. its not about employee behavior. its not about the anomalies. its about disappointment. when we disappoint the eyes, they change us. when we disappoint the screamers, we are unmade.

i dont know. i cant fix it. we can't escape it. we will be revised until the eyes are happy. inevitably, i wont be me anymore. someone else will be julia wynn, and she will have to make do.

remember when we tried to stop XXXX? no, fuck all that. lets give researchers running dangerous skips orders that will make them draw its attention. let's just delete the parts of the universe that don't agree. did you know i was married? i didnt. but i'm here looking at the file photo wondering why someone decided they had to be erased. we can't do anything. i cant do anything. he's made that very clear. O5-11, [[DATA EXPUNGED]], you have made that very clear.

but this me can do one thing: she can die on her own terms. i'm sorry, eleanor, but i will not meet the hammer with my head bowed and tears in my eyes.

fuck this universe. and fuck the people writing it. i am dr. julia wynn. i lived, and i died, and i never stopped being me.

please know i loved you all.

-jw

► (O5) Handling Guidance 08/15/2018

O5 Council Handling Guidance for the SCP-XXXX Project

To those who it may concern,

As of today, the Overseer Council is revising the guidance given eight years ago on the topic of SCP-XXXX.

I suspect that at this point, all of you know the following: last month, materials returned from cloistering revealed a significant narratemetic shift occurred, in the SCP-XXXX research corps. You will know that Senior Researcher Wynn, in a prior iteration, destroyed herself and the immediate narrativist cluster of her reality. Our own Dr. Wynn has been severely traumatized by the note, and is currently on mandatory psychological leave.

What you may not appreciate is that this incident proved something new: not only can SCP-XXXX's effect be weaponized, so too can the cloistering procedure. This was done using information which, when digested in the next iteration, causes an immediate narremetic event. Though I cannot disclose to you the results of this attack, I am disappointed to tell you what we have decided: there is no way to maintain operational security, and know about SCP-XXXX at the same time.

The Council has revised SCP-XXXX's containment procedures thusly: A full page deletion for SCP-XXXX has been ordered, and every single person with knowledge of SCP-XXXX's existence has been scheduled for mandatory amnesticization coinciding with the time of deletion. Yes, that includes the Overseer Council. SCP-XXXX's infosecure debriefing and research chambers are to be smelted in place.

Though it pains me to say, we are better off not knowing about SCP-XXXX and trusting that it remains more or less favorable to us, than we are waiting for another disgruntled researcher to reach through the veil and commit the unthinkable.

Please co-operate with the security officers when they arrive. They have been instructed to shoot you if you resist, or speak prior to treatment. This is for the best.

O5-9, 08/15/2018

Footnotes

1. These narratives may not include the ASCI, UIU, Unforgettables, or similar.

2. It has been determined that fantastical or minimalist realities are unsuitable, despite their apparent benefit in presenting minimal danger to embedded operatives.

3. I thought we decided this was actually linked with specificity? -Dr Hayes

4. No, we ruled that out. Remember ████?

5. Please put your name in the footnote, Angela, it's exhausting to read the changelog every time you reply. —Dr. Strauss

6. Researcher Neumann's belief that a splined frame of narrative reference constitutes an alternate universe is controversial.

7. Christ, Julie, can you stop crossing things out without talking to us first?

8. It is currently believed that these Neumann universes can be considered as fifth-dimensional expressions of a single, traditional universe, as only one can exist at a time from a four-dimensional frame of reference.

9. I wish we could have kept this. It's so much more descriptive than "logical pseudonarrative clusters". -Wynn

10. Dr. Strauss believes these are happening incredibly often and we can't perceive it because we can only see the resolved state of events. But how does that work?
Is the idea of a resolved state even coherent? How can there be a resolved narrative state if our agents keep coming back from the narrative anchor reality and reporting inconsistencies?

11. Dr. Wynn, you are correct — "resolved" is naive. I am not convinced we're actually observing iterative shifts. There's no reason to believe we're observing these "in order".

12. we've gone digital! hello from 1994!

13. Dr. Stiles, why have you deleted this information?

14. Barry, for christs sake, reread your own bullet point and ask again. I want to exist tomorrow morning, don't you? Angela.

15. We've observed this twice now, as far as we know. Is it possible to control with social engineering?

16. Maybe HR could write a policy. We do not need to explain our reasoning.

17. bit of an own goal there?

18. Was it July? According to our records, Markle returned in June. -e.w.

19. For fuck's sake, Wegmann, I could not give a shit. Did you read this thing? Wynn

20. I told you, it is NOT from me. not in any universe. Wynn