Bobbing for Onions

Three Idiots Standing

Item #: SCP-

Object Class: safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP- is currently housed in a standard humanoid containment cell stripped of all furniture and fitted with one CCTV camera. The unit is adjacent to another, similar cell connected via a glass acrylic¹ window with a remotely activated shade to enable testing. The door to the cell is to remain locked at all times, barring a containment breach. The integrity of the locks are to be checked bi-hourly by on site staff, and any attempt to open the door to the subject's cell, (even if it is "just for a prank" ) is grounds for immediate and permanent removal of security clearance and reassignment to maintenance. Installation of thumb-print or voice activated locks is being considered by site director Dr. ████████.

On site personnel are instructed to not directly observe SCP- under any circumstances. Remote observation is to be conducted from a distance of at least 15m away from any one subject. Outside of testing, individuals exhibiting signs of exposure are to be allowed entrance to the cell, and the subject released by SCP- is to be sent to the medical bay for psychiatric evaluation, interviewed, amnesticized and sent to their previous place of residence and reinstated to their prior position in the foundation if deemed mentally fit for service.

Description: SCP- is believed to be an anomalous performance art piece titled "Three Idiots Standing". Originally located in the Alberta Arts District of Portland, OR, the piece consists of three individuals standing within 2 meters of one another. These individuals, referred to as SCP-A-1, A-2, and A-3, stare at a point equidistant from their feet, hands held to their sides and mouths agape. SCP-A instances require no sustenance, but are still vulnerable to environmental hazards. In cases where the instances have taken high amounts of physical damage the subject will expire upon release

Individuals who directly observe² any of the three SCP-A instances and are within a roughly 10-12 meter range immediately become verbally abusive and confrontational, shouting insults meant to degrade self worth or question the morality of SCP-A and moving closer to the subject as they do so. Affected individuals will become violent if impeded, and also show no signs of expiring from natural causes such as hunger or thirst while pursuing the subject. As they move closer, the insults intensify until they have come within 2 meters of the other two individuals, after which they immediately cease all vocalizations, turn toward the center point of the group, and are considered instances of SCP-A. The subject of the harassment is then "released" from SCP-, and is no longer considered an instance of SCP-A.

Released individuals have no recollection of events happening around them while trapped, but have full memory of the verbal harassment preceding their release. In the majority of cases this has a disproportionately profound psychological effect on the subject, often developing some form of depression upon release. In a large minority of cases, however, the subject develops traits associated with anti-social personality disorder. Individuals who exhibit this pattern consistently dismiss the new instance of SCP-A as naive and "too dumb to understand how the world works" in their post-release interview. Psychological changes as a result of SCP- exposure persist through application of amnestics.

Recovery Log:
SCP- was discovered approximately 1.5 km from its theorized point of origin, on the campus of Concordia University at 11:00 am PT on ██/██/20██ . The path the crowd had followed as individuals joined and left the effective range of SCP- was determined to have moved East and West down ██████ st. before travelling North to Concordia relatively rapidly, as evidenced by the relatively few injured and deceased people along ██████ avenue. In total, 159 people were injured and 76 people were killed including 2 foundation personnel. The anomaly was secured via drone after the area surrounding the anomaly was isolated by Foundation Agents posing as campus police officers and SWAT agents. Foundation agents waited until the vast majority of affected individuals had been trampled by the surrounding crowd or escaped before determining the source of the incident and subsequently securing containment. All known participants were amnesticized, and the media was told the event was an incident of mass hysteria. Discovered at the believed site of origin was a trampled sign that read, "THREE IDIOTS STANDING, come see how easy it really is".

Test #: =====-1:

Subjects: SCP-123-A1; Johnathan ██████, theater and performing arts student at Concordia University, SCP-123-A2; Sarah ██████; Ph.D in Spanish language and lecturer at Concordia University, SCP-123-A3; Abraham ██████; Bartender at ██████'s bar and grill, D-4584
Procedure: D-4584 is instructed to observe SCP-123-A1:3 through the installed window in the adjacent cell, and is to be observed until the subject expires
Results: Dr. ███████ and Dr. █████ were observing the experiment from a room across the hallway from the cell. The two of them turned on their monitors, approached SCP-123's cell and entered, replacing subjects A1 and A3. Former A1 and A3 subjects wandered the site for 10 minutes before being found by maintenance personnel.
Note from Site Director Dr. ████████ : It seems as if even remote viewing can trigger the effects. Interesting. Dr. ███████ had the right idea but he was a young kid and a bit too careless. I'll be giving control over this project to Dr.█████████ from now on, I believe he will be far more cautious.

Test #: =====-2:

Subjects: SCP-123-A1; Dr. ███████ , SCP-123-A2; Sarah ██████; Ph.D in Spanish language and lecturer at Concordia University, SCP-123-A3; Dr. █████, D-4584
Procedure: D-4584 is instructed to observe SCP-123-A1:3 through the installed window in the adjacent cell, and is to be observed until the subject expires
Results: Dr. ███████ and Dr. █████ were observing the experiment from a room across the hallway from the cell. The two of them turned on their monitors, approached SCP-123's cell and entered, replacing subjects A1 and A3. Former A1 and A3 subjects wandered the site for 10 minutes before being
Note from Site Director Dr. ████████ : It seems as if even remote viewing can trigger the effects. Interesting. Dr. ███████ had the right idea but he was a young kid and a bit too careless. I'll be giving control over this project to Dr.█████████ from now on, I believe he will be far more cautious.

Babel Box

Item #: SCP-4863

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: The box containing SCP-4863 is to be kept in an alarmed and locked storage container at site ██. The room containing the object is to be guarded by at least one member of security staff with all lethal weapons concealed. The object is not to be removed from its container without permission from the site director (research has been prohibited by order of the O5 council following incident 4863-17). In the event of a containment breach, MTF Theta 63 ("fuck off chaos insurgency") is to be deployed in order to assist with guarding the object. If it is discovered that any sapient entities within site ██ know of SCP-4863 or its properties, the object is to be transported to another site immediately in an armored vehicle with at least five accompanying security personnel. Any personnel found to be under the effects of SCP-4863 are to be detained and terminated immediately. The foundation has considered using the object to silence those who prove resistant to strong amnestics; however the additional cost of termination was deemed negligible and the risk of exposing staff and civilians too high.

Description: SCP-4863 is an object of currently unknown physical properties currently confined to a 50 x 30 x 30 cm cardboard box partially sealed with packing tape. Tactile examinations of the object have revealed that it is approximately the size of a grapefruit and roughly conically shaped, with a mass of roughly two kilograms. Looking at the object converts all humans sapient entities into instances of SCP-4863-1. The current hypothesis is that upon becoming an instance of SCP-4863-1, an entity becomes unable to intentionally convey information of any kind. Instances have tried to communicate with staff through various means, including written and verbal communication, and although these communications were received, they were indecipherable by the recipients. The use of voice transcription software on audio recordings has also failed, with systems unable to recognize patterns in the speech of affected individuals. Instances have been determined to be non-contagious through physical means; however, approximately 1/2 of initial instances have tried to present others the object, with the most extreme case resulting in a conversion of ███ staff members at site ██ (Incident 4863-17). It is unknown whether or not the urge to show the object is anomalous, but it should be noted that all known instances exhibiting the behavior attempted communication nearly immediately after their exposure to the object. All known instances have either committed suicide within a period of four to twelve days after exposure or attacked site staff and were terminated, nearly always after attempting large scale communication. This behavior has manifested even in cases where multiple instances were created, leading researchers to infer that infected individuals are unable to communicate with each other.

Footnotes

1. See testing log SCP-6000-6

2. see testing log SCP- -01