RUIN Unit-450
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Item #: SCP-4050

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4050-A is to be contained to standard humanoid containment cell with furnishings able to handle an excess weight of 725kg. The containment area must be connected to an airlock with reinforced steel doors on either end. The room has been constructed with a 10cm thick ballistic proof window for interviews, and camera surveillance has been installed in the interview room, airlock, and containment room. SCP-4050-A must be informed of any personnel entering the testing chamber or airlock with at least one hour notice. SCP-4050-A is to be provided a psychological therapy specialist with training in logic puzzles, and may be visited by said professional once per day for up to one hour via the window in its room. No more than one person may attempt to interact with SCP-4050-A or its containment at any given time in order to minimize threat of containment breach.

While SCP-4050-A appears to have no intention of escaping confinement, the effects of SCP-4050 are unpredictable, and therefore two guards trained in logic puzzles and armed with armor-piercing ammunition are to be posted outside the airlock at all times. No personnel are to enter SCP-4050-A’s containment room at any time, except for performing regular monthly maintenance on SCP-4050-A. Any requests or changes in containment must be authorized by both Dr. ██████, any personnel working with her on experimentation of SCP-4050, and the site Director.

Description: SCP-4050 is the designation referring to a memetic entity possessing the body of a humanoid male with heavy cybernetic augmentation. hereby designated as SCP-4050-A. SCP-4050 shares the body with the consciousness of SCP-4050-A, who is capable of repressing the effects of SCP-4050 for brief periods of time but unable to do so indefinitely. SCP-4050-A physically resembles a Caucasian male in its mid-twenties, though testing of tissue samples has revealed several notable differences between SCP-4050-A's genome and that of a regular human.

SCP-4050-A is fitted with mechanical prosthetic arms and legs, a cybernetic chassis over its shoulders and pectoral region, and a steel mask covering the face from the eyes down, which bears the engraving "RUIN Unit-450". SCP-4050-A speaks fluent English and is cooperative with scientists. SCP-4050-A appears to have little knowledge of the modern world, referring to it only as the “old world”. SCP-4050-A is capable of using its mechanical limbs to perform feats of strength approximately ten times the capabilities of an average human. This includes lifting loads of up to half a ton, punching through solid concrete, bending steel beams, and tearing open reinforced, non-hydraulic steel doors. SCP-4050-A’s mechanical systems are unstable and require regular maintenance.

SCP-4050 and its anomalous effects are only present when both of two conditions have been met: (1), SCP-4050-A is not currently repressing the effects of SCP-4050, and (2), if a human is inside SCP-4050-A’s containment area without a barrier greater than 10cm between them. SCP-4050 appears to have no effect on animals or machines, regardless of proximity or any barriers. The effects of SCP-4050 will immediately begin once both conditions are met and target of SCP-4050 will enter a dissociative fugue state. Affected individuals have reported feeling transported, and often will be temporarily blind for up to 5 minutes while a voice assumed to be SCP-4050 speaks to them. Individuals have reported visibility returning to them as if they were in a new location. Reported locations include; A mine during a cave in, a medical laboratory, an impoverished cabin in a forest, a old, rusting factory, and a dilapidated mansion. Each location is filled with a number of logic puzzles, ranging from jigsaw puzzles to logic grids to memory games.

According to reports, affected individuals find themselves compulsively beginning to attempting to solve the surrounding puzzles, though no physical movement has ever been recorded during their fugue state. If the individual is unable to solve the puzzles within an allotted time, they will experience agonizing pain and receive extreme physical trauma in forms of internal bruising and hemorrhaging, broken limbs, and severe lacerations, at which point they will return to consciousness. The manner of how SCP-4050 causes these effects are currently unknown. To date, no has been successful in solving all of the puzzles provided to them. Whether or not the individual is successful, after being released, SCP-4050-A will have deep and inexplicable knowledge of them, including but not limited to: name, age, gender, sexuality, physical deformation, and past trauma. In the case of the deceased Dr. Tichens, SCP-4050-A also obtained in-depth knowledge of Foundation personnel and policies. It is currently unknown how SCP-4050-A gathers this information.

SCP-4050-A and subsequently SCP-4050 appeared outside Site ██ and requested to be taken into containment on October 17th, 20██.

Addendum SCP-4050-1: Please note that all experimentation with SCP-4050 should be kept in Experiment Log #C-9949-A

Experiment C-9949-1

Name: Dr. Martin Tichens, with Dr. Devon Sanderson in testing booth.

Procedure: D-Class Subject is to enter SCP-4050-A’s containment cell, and determine if SCP-4050-A poses any threat when a subject spends extended time in the same area as SCP-4050-A. Testing area is to be monitored from testing booth and remotely through testing window.

Result: D-117298 (Male, 34) enters the airlock to the test chamber. The airlock cycles, and the door to SCP-4050-A’s containment opens. Subject is ordered to enter the testing chamber. Subject cooperates, and the airlock door behind him is cycled once again, sealing him inside. SCP-4050-A appears agitated, inquiring to subject why he was there. subject explains that he was “just told to come in”. SCP-4050-A states that subject should leave the room. Subject is ordered to remain. SCP-4050-A appears to look into the testing booth and states again that subject should leave the room. Subject is instructed to remain. SCP-4050-A becomes visibly strained. One full minute passes, before SCP-4050-A lets out a vocalization of pain, and subject enters a dissociative fugue state. Fifteen minutes pass. Subject returns to consciousness with a loud vocalization of pain, and a massive laceration appears across the chest, over the heart. SCP-4050-A quickly approaches and catches him, laying him on the ground and using strips of fabric from subject’s jumpsuit to perform first aid on the subject. SCP-4050-A is unsuccessful due to the amount of physical trauma subject has sustained. Subject is instructed to describe what happened. Subject states he went “somewhere else”. SCP-4050-A attempts to comfort subject, telling him “your wife and son are safe.” Subject seems surprised by SCP-4050-A’s statement. Subject expires after one minute of bleeding out. Autopsy on subject shows laceration is similar to tearing, as if the skin itself was pulled apart.

Note: There’s clearly some sort of memetic threat here. I think if we can get medics on hand we might be able to get some good data here. We should continue with testing.

Experiment C-9949-2

Name: Dr. Martin Tichens

Procedure: Subject 1 will be instructed enter SCP-4050-A’s containment cell. Subject 2 will remain in the airlock, and will enter and retrieve Subject 1 immediately once he has returned to consciousness for medical evacuation. No personnel are to use the testing booth at this time.

Event Log:

0:01 Minute(s): D-29881, designated Subject 1, enters SCP-4050-A’s containment cell while D-11913, designated Subject 2, waits in the airlock.
00:04 Minute(s): Subject 1 enters the fugue state.
00:19 Minute(s): Subject one returns to consciousness with screaming and collapses. Subject 1’s leg is visibly mangled.
00:20 Minute(s): Airlock is cycled and door to SCP-4050-A’s containment is opened. Before Subject 2 is able to be instructed to retrieve Subject 1, Subject 1 is pulled by an unknown force into the airlock, colliding with the opposite door. Subject 2 is simultaneously pulled into the containment cell. The airlock cycles automatically. Remote observation cameras fail.
00:21 Minute(s): The medic on hand retrieves Subject 1. Dr. Tichens attempts to access testing booth, but is unable to. Subject 1 is stabilized and taken to medical care. Dr. Tichens reports possible containment breach.
00:38 Minute(s): Airlock cycles automatically for a full cycle. Subject 2’s corpse is seen in the airlock with multiple lacerations by Dr. Tichen. Orders are given to remain outside the airlock until further notice.
00:39 Minute(s): Dr. Tichens gains access to testing booth. Remote surveillance begins functioning again. SCP-4050-A is seen sitting in the corner of the room, staring at the door.

Note: Subject 1 reported that the place visited in the fugue state seemed like a strange mash up of a hospital and a log wood cabin. From what was able to be seen, it had multiple locked doors that led into deeper parts of the location. Subject reported having nightmares of “a shard” of himself was trapped in SCP-4050’s fugue state.

Addendum SCP-4050-A1: SCP-4050-A has been discovered to be an extrovert, and becomes heavily depressed when without regular socialization. When depressed, SCP-4050-A seems to have trouble dampening the effects of SCP-4050-A. Due to this, the Foundation has approved Dr. ██████ as a personal psychological therapist and to replace Dr. Tichens the head personnel on SCP-4050 upon her request. Dr. ██████ has been extensively trained in logic puzzles for this assignment.

Interviewed: SCP-4050-A

Interviewer: Dr. Martin Tichens

Foreword: Interview with SCP-4050-A by Dr. Tichens following his containment, preceding knowledge of SCP-4050.

<Begin Log>

Dr. Tichens: Please speak into the microphone on the desk in front of you. What is your name?

SCP-4050-A: Four fifty.

Dr. Tichens: I'm sorry?

SCP-4050-A: Four fifty. You asked my name. It's four fifty.

Dr. Tichens: I see. That's an interesting name.

SCP-4050-A: My name isn't the one that matters. His name is.

Dr. Tichens: Your creator, I assume?

SCP-4050-A: No. My creator is long dead.

Dr. Tichens: Then who would you be referring to?

SCP-4050-A: His name is Ruin.

Dr. Tichens: Who is that?

SCP-4050-A: A god. In my head.

<Silence for a moment. Dr. Tichens is heard straightening a stack of papers.>

Dr. Tichens: You have a god in your… Head?

SCP-4050-A: My entire body, really.

Dr. Tichens: Would you elaborate on that?

SCP-4050-A: I was built to be a vessel for Ruin. He… Brings you into places. Realms, that he controls. He tests people, and takes a part of them with him. My friends came into his realm. Saved me as best they could. They couldn't get him out, not fully, so I left. I keep him at bay.

Dr. Tichens: What do you mean by that? What are you "keeping at bay"?

SCP-4050-A: I can't explain that to you. Not without drawing you into it.

Dr. Tichens: I see. Where did you come from?

<SCP-4050-A has a strained vocalization>

SCP-4050-A: I can't… Tell you that. You need to leave the room.

Dr. Tichens: This interview will continue until I have my questions answered.

SCP-4050-A: No, Doctor, you need to leave. For your safety.

Closing statement: Begin testing of introducing D-Class personnel to SCP-4050 immediately to determine containment procedures.

<End Log>