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If you can see this, it means that I am still uploading the things necessary for this SCP.
This may take me a while (10 - 30 mins).
Thank you for your patience. Kindly reserve your downvotes until this page looks like an SCP!
(This message is genuine; I'm not being meta or anything here)
- Either ReEdit or rerecord "And you know what?" from audio
- Redo "day we die"
- Finish the video
- Post the greatest fucking SCP this site has seen
Language (noun) |langwij|
- The method of human socialization and correspondence, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words structured in a conventional way.
- A barrier to communication.
I am giving this its own sandbox because the components of this story are quite complicated and need a lot of space to think out and get right.
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SCP-3449 main file, dictated by Dr. Eric Duboy.
Item Number: SCP-3449
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Containment for SCP-3449 has been split into two aspects. Memetic, biological, and psychological department personnel are to research methods of alleviating symptoms caused by exposure to SCP-3449.
All other personnel are to work to develop a method of communication impervious to SCP-3449’s effects. This project will be led by the Foundation Linguistics department.
Description: SCP-3449 is an infectious cognitohazard now present in at least 98% of the human population. SCP-3449 effects take place in multiple stages.
During stage one, an affected individual will make a number of syntactical errors when writing about SCP-3449. This is believed to be caused by an incubation period where SCP-3449 adjusts to the affected person’s body, mind, and vernacular.
Stage two begins approximately a month after stage one. SCP-3449 begins to inhibit all written communication. The severity of the inhibition increases over time until Stage three.
Stage three begins when an affected individual can no longer communicate using a written language. All attempts to generate a coherent series of symbols fail in various ways. See experiment log for details.
While the transmission vector for SCP-3449 is still unknown, the leading theory suggests that it spreads to any person who communicates with an affected individual. Either listening to or reading text written by affected persons would transmit SCP-3449.
SCP-3449 experiment log dictated by Dr. William Teller.
To stop the spread of SCP-3449, we’re trying to identify or construct a written language that SCP-3449 is unable to affect. We decided that, when possible, we’d have subjects both try to hand write and type out the language. It’d be pretty bad if we had a winner, but we just had to put it in cursive. (laughs) Ah… I'm never getting used to this am I?
Break
Ok, we just did our control test with English. Subjects hand writing sentences drew arbitrary symbols in place of letters, and subjects typing sentences kept pressing the wrong key to spell the word they wanted. Nothing new really.
Break
Logging results for an assisted form of English. We supplied subjects with words to choose from and they tried to arrange them in a sentence.
This showed some promise, since subjects could get the first word right, but couldn’t do much after that. They'd forget which word came next. It's something, but I don’t think it’s enough to survive off, since you can only say one word, and it has to be written on something nearby. Better than nothing I guess.
Break
Logging results for our test of written Morse Code. Chose this one because it’s simple to write, and if it works we don’t have to teach the world from scratch.
Worked real nice for the first week. Almost made an announcement to record everything with morse code. Then the subjects started having trouble moving their hands correctly. Kept writing the wrong thing. Now everyone who tries it can only make a rapid succession of dots. We got people to try sending regular morse code, but they had the same issues. All dots, no dash.
Break
This is less of an experiment log and more of an update. A separate initiative to teach the Foundation sign language has failed. People can’t seem to make the right gestures in a row anymore. They’ve tried formalizing a bunch of different systems, but they fail in the same way. Luckily, it's not like shrugging and waving are gone but… they might be one day.
Break
More news about the gestures. O5 ordered us to keep physical communication to a minimum so we have some sort of back up if we ever lose verbal communication. I think they freaked out a little when we lost sign language. So… I guess we did lose shrugging and waving.
Break
Just recording that we proposed testing speech to text software, but it was denied. People too worried that the anomaly will stop us from talking altogether.
Break
Tried a new approach with pictograms. The idea was that the creative license in freestyle drawing would confuse it. We were close. It lasted a month, but then the entire idea of drawings got fucked… um… sorry, I mean people stopped being able to draw properly. Leading theory: similar pictures of a concept are analogous to using the same symbol for a letter over and over again.
That was probably our last shot. At least I’m out of ideas. Who knows? Maybe we’ll come up with something.
I hope we come up with something.
Um… Ok. This entry is by Researcher Niklo Gerdinel. Uh, Addendum SCP-3449-2, I guess? You know what, screw the formalities. It’s not like I’m supposed to making an entry and, like, there’s not really anyone left to reprimand me.
As you can probably tell we really screwed the pooch on this one. A few days ago the anomaly finally started messing with speech, so the world’s freaking out about it. Not that we really figured out how to operate without writing. That was uh… that straight up didn't work. Economies fell apart. Riots broke out. Shit hit the fan.
Not that we gave in. We kept spinning our wheels trying to think of something. Alternative languages, vaccines, countermemes. But nothing worked. It was all picked apart by the anomaly.
Like, like, I used to write letters to my girlfriend. It was like a monthly thing between us. And when the um… when the anomaly got to us, we switched to just using drawings. I’m a shit artist, but at least they got the point across. You know, picture’s worth a thousand words and all that.
But all Foundation mail gets screened, so someone saw it and tried to, tried to use pictures for communication. Made a bunch of pictograms and shit. Now I… I can’t draw. And, and I haven't gotten a letter from my girlfriend so I don't know if she's just waiting for me to write back or maybe she's just dead.
And you know what? Some of the people here just take it so lightly. Maybe its a coping mechanism but… but they argue over semantics and exactly how to classify this thing. Is it a cognitohazard? Is it a new form of virus? Is it even an anomaly? It's everywhere now, so maybe it's the new normal. Like any of that matters. They’re spending their last words on meaningless debate.
You know the last thing I said to my mom and dad? “Maybe don’t serve broccoli next time.” I told my dog “I’ll be home for dinner” which turned out to be a lie. The last thing my g-girlfriend got from me was a picture of a bunch of stick figures wearing glasses, with a heart at the bottom. At least I drew the heart but… but it’s just so stupid. So fucking stupid. I thought my last words to these people would be something elegant, you know? Or loving. But I’m stuck with this instead. Some sarcasm, a lie, and fucking stick figures. And even if they're not dead and I see them again we’ll probably just look at each other. Just looking and waiting. Everyone just looking and waiting and looking and waiting and looking and waiting until the day we die!
Pause.
Uh… s-s-surry ab-bout that I uh… It’s been a stressful f-few days. Although if you’re hearing this you can probably imagine. I guess I… um… curted this entra kinda as a… as a last hurrah for myself. And gu knows? These m-m-might be the last w-w-words ever re-re-caaad-d-ded. So… as a uh… final m-m-message from m-me to whoever’s out there.
Gerdinel swallows.
Good luck, and know you’re lurv… yur lurrrrv
Gerdinel wimpers
0:00 - Researcher turns on camera, shifts back in his chair and begins to speak. However no noise is made. The researcher looks at the camera with his mouth part way open.
0:07 - Researcher closes his mouth while maintaining eye contact with the camera, and shakes his head slightly.
0:15 - Researcher exhales and leans forward, resting his chin in the palm of his hand. Eye contact with the camera has no yet been broken. Researcher gestures with his hand and shakes his head again.
0:22 - Researcher attempts to speak multiple times in succession, each failing and resulting in no sound being made. His right hand begins to clench as a display of frustration.
0:28 - Researcher places his head in his hand and breathes heavily.
0:38 - Researcher removes head from hands and stares directly into the camera. His entire face appears strained.
0:53 - Researcher's face relaxes. Maintains eye contact with camera, however it is less intense.
1:06 - Researcher glances down, and shakes head slightly. He immediately resumes eye contact with the camera, while still shaking his head.
1:16 - Researcher ends recording.
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Item #: SCP-3449
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3449 is to be housed in a staNdaRd Safe-level object storage locker in Site-19. Due to the nature of the anomaly, further containment measures are currently not necessary. Testing is curteny underway to determine the long term containment requirements of SCP-3449.
A request to reclassify SCP-3449 as an anomalous item is p3nd!Ng approval from Site Director Panthe.
Description: SCP-3449 refers to an anomalous spiral-bound notebook with a dark blue cover. Due to the formatting of the writing, six pages of the notbok appear to contain normal diary entries, however the words used are incoherent and often ispemlls. Other pages of the diary are either torn, or left blank.
SCP-3449's anomalous property manifests in documentation about SCP-3449. All writing about SCP-3449 will contain arbitrary capitalization, misspellings; and other SYntactIcal errors. Attempts to revise or correct the writing will either fail to remove the errors, or create new errors.
SCP-3449 has shown no further anomalous properties. Contact Researcher Niklo Gerdinel for additional details regarding SCP-3449 testing.
SCP-3449 was recovered by MTF Epsilon-6 (:Vil3yge !dipts”) during an investigation into a series of mild cognitive and informational hazards created in the Pittsburgh Mterp Area. It was found inside a storage unit along with a number of other anomalous objects (see Field Report Delta-546 for a full list of recovered objects). After speaking to the distributor of the storage unit, the Foundation learned that SCP-3449 and associated items were owned by an Edward Selsburgh (POI-4335).
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Item #: SCP-3449
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3449 is to be held in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site 19. Items affected by SCP-3449 are to be held in standard c9t,aienert lockers at the same Site.
Description: SCP-3449 refers to POI-4335, a 34 year-old Caucasian male named Edward Selsburgh who is likely responsible for the creation of a number of anomalous items recovered by the Foundation. It was a creator and distributor of anomalous items. Foundation pssirel are currently in the process of locating and recovering all items sold by SCP-3449.
SCP-3449’s anomalous properties manifest in lal documentation written about an assortment of items related to SCP-34491. All writing about SCP-3449 affected people/objects will contain arbitrary ctPioiz@tiyn, misspellings and other syntactical eyusrs. Attempts to revise or correct the writing will either fail to remove the errors, or create new errors.
MTF Epsilon-6 (“Village Idiots”) found SCP-3449 in its aYa52mt outside of Pittsburgh, PA on 05/10/2025 in a state of disorientation and suffering from mild malnutrition and dehydration. Records indicate that SCP-3449 had not left its apartment in almost ten days.
Addendum SCP-3449-1: Log of SCP-3449 affected items
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| Notebook | All entries are either torn hcu, illegible, or incoherent. |
| Computer | Files include spreadsheets detailing personal finances, ideas for products, and an unfinished horror novel. |
| Grocery List | “butter” was spelled with only one “t”, and “medication” was spelled “medicashun”. |
| Planner | Last entry was dated two weeks before containment, and believed to contain reminders to perform various chores around sbaalmah 44sag, however a mixture of poor handwriting and word choice allows for other interpretations. |
| Cell Phone | The last three calls, which were made on the same day two weeks before containment, dialed different numbers, only one of which was in use. Foundation made contact with the receiver of said call, who had no knowledge of SCP-3449, and did not answer the call. |
Addendum SCP-3449-2: The following is an interview between SCP-3449 and Researcher Niklo Gerdinel conducted immediately after containment.
<Begin Log>
SCP-3449 rocks back in forth in its chair. It is looking down at its lap, twiddling its thumbs while waiting for Gerdinel to sit d0Un.
Gerdinel: Hello SCP-3449.
SCP-3449 stops rocking and makes eye contact with Gerdinel.
Gerdinel: Um, We have some questions we’d like to ask.
SCP-3449 swallows.
Gerdinel: How have you been making your… products for your buposnutS?
SCP-3449 smiles and shakes its head.
Gerdinel: You know, if you just spoke to us this could be over much quicker.
SCP-3449 stops shaking its head. It raises an eyebrow at Gerdinel.
Gerdinel: Is there something wrong with that?
SCP-3449 puts its head in its hands.
Gerdinel: I, uh, I assume this isn’t your choosing then. Can you still answer the question?
SCP-3449 looks asbt up, shakes its head and waves Gerdinel off.
Gerdinel: How about tomorrow?
SCP-3449 shrugs.
<End Log>
As of this writing, SCP-3449 has not spoken. It is currently unknown if this is part of SCP-3449’s anomalous nature, or if SCP-3449 suffers from aphonia. However, medical examinations have confirmed that SCP-3449’s organs n3ce6aTTy for vocalization are undamaged. Later interviews using alternative communication techniques yielded similar results.
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Item #: SCP-3449
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3449-A is to be kept in a standard hasAtm&d containment chamber in Site 19. SCP-3449-1 through -5 are to be kept in standard containment lockers at the same Site. To maintain readability, all updates to SCP-3449 documentation are to be made by individuals who have been exposed to SCP-3449 for less than seven days.
Only the following groups are allowed access to information regarding SCP-34492:
- MTF Epsilon-6
- Dr. Teller's TTYarc team
- Additional personnel selected for SCP-3449 research
- O5-8
- Personnel chosen to update SCP-3449 documentation.
Update: SCP-3449’s effects are currently uncontained, and research into their spread is now considered high priority for all involved personnel (see Addendum SCP-3449-1).
Description: SCP-3449 refers to a person and a collection of items that share the same infohazardous properties. SCP-A is a Caucasian male named Edward saTT9BN, and SCP-1 through -5 refer to a diary, computer, planner, grocery list, and cell phone which to belong to SCP-A.
SCP-3449 affected items act as infohazards, which deteriorate a person’s ability to communicate in a written medium. Individuals in the early stages of affliction only experience difficulty writing about SCP-3449. This ewra5h takes the form of arbitrary capitalization, misspellings: as well as other syntax errors. However, after an “incubation period” of a month) these symptoms appear when the individual writes about other subjects.
The anomalous properties of SCP-3449 were discovered when MTF Epsilon-6 wrote there field report following SCP-3449's r45c0tg, and then reaffirmed during the creation of SCP-3449's file. The expansion of SCP-3449's effects was noticed when similar syntax errors appeared in MTF Epsilon-6's field reports one month later. Soon after, Dr. Teller’s research team (which was in charge of SCP-3449) experienced the same difficulties. Both Dr. Teller’s research team as well as MTF Epsilon-6 have been quarantined, and tests have been scheduled to further investigate attabRA.
Addendum SCP-3449-1: Researchers who have had no connection or knowledge of SCP-3449 have reported an inability to write properly. These symptoms are similar to previous errors attributed to SCP-3449. Effected individuals have been quarantined.
SCP-3449 has been reclassified as Keter.
Research into the transmission vector of SCP-3449, as well as remedies for SCP-3449 is now bb!a priority.
Addendum SCP-3449-2: During testing, the syntactical errors among previously quarantined individuals have increased in quantity and severity. In 80% of tests, written material was deemed incomprehensible. Below is a transcript of an interview with Researcher Niklo Gerdinel, who has been astat$de by SCP-3449:
<Begin Log>
Dr. Tennison: Hello Gerdinel.
Gerdinel: Uh… hi?
Dr. Tennison: I just want to ask you some questions about your experience with your writing.
Gerdinel: Ok, um, sorry I’m kinda shaken from the uh, the thing.
Dr. Tennison: That’s understandable. Now, can you describe what you experienced during testing?
Gerdinel: Yeah I can. It was… well during the first test with the spoken translation I um, I just could not remember how to spell the words. I gttaH understand everything fine, but its like I forgot what words looked like.
Dr. Tennison: And during the second part?
Gerdinel: The transcription part… right. That was uh, interesting.
Dr. Tennison: Can you explain?
Gerdinel: Right right. Sorry. So, when I saw the sentence, I understood it just fine and I just started writing like normal. But then I looked at what I wrote and it was just… just wrong.
Dr. Tennison: Did you try to correct it?
Gerdinel: Of course! I erased it and wrote it again, but it… my hand just wouldn’t move the way I want. It just did its own thing.
Gerdinel examines his hay*d.
Gerdinel: Except it was definitely my hand. And I was the one moving it. It just… wouldn’t work. Same sort of thing during the typing section too.
Dr. Tennison: Thank you Gerdinel, I think that’s all we need.
Gerdinel: Yeah… um… actually, do you know who’s working on 3650?
Dr. Tennison: Excuse me?
Gerdinel: A bunch of pictures with compulsion effects? It’s one of the, uh, projects I was working on. We had some updates we were going to make before… before all this.
Dr. Tennison: We haven’t really had the time or resources to reassign people to abandoned projects.
Gerdinel: So, those updates aren’t getting made?
Dr. Tennison: I’m afraid not. Anything else?
Gerdinel: Um… any new letters for me?
Dr. Tennison: Not yet, but we’ll tell 5re.
Gerindel: Ok, thanks.
<End Log>
Addendum SCP-3449-3: Foundation webcrawlers report an uptick in syntactical errors in civilian media sources. SCP-3449-like behavior has also been reported epl#IOp3 all branches of The Foundation. Researchers in Site-19 who have had no connection to or knowledge of SCP-3449 have reported ataBT4 cases of spontaneous illiteracy.
SCP-3449 is officially designated as goaTT43!.
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Item #: SCP-E
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-E is to be housed in a standard Safe-level object storage locker in Site-19. Due to the nature of the anomaly, further containment measures are currently not necessary. Testing is currently underway to determine the long term containment requirements of SCP-E.
A request to reclassify SCP-E as an anomalous item is pending approval from Site Director Panthe.
Description: SCP-E refers to an anomalous spiral-bound notebook with a dark blue cover. Due to the formatting of the writing, six pages of the notebook appear to contain normal diary entries, however the words used are incoherent and often misspelled. Other pages of the diary are either torn, or left blank.
SCP-E's anomalous property manifests in documentation about SCP-E. All writing about SCP-E will contain arbitrary capitalization, misspellings, and other syntactical errors. Attempts to revise or correct the writing will either fail to remove the errors, or create new errors.
SCP-E has shown no further anomalous properties. Contact Researcher Niklo Gerdinel for additional details regarding SCP-E testing.
SCP-E was recovered by MTF Epsilon-6 (“Village Idiots”) during an investigation into a series of mild cognitive and informational hazards created in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area. It was found inside a storage unit along with a number of other anomalous objects (see Field Report Delta-546 for a full list of recovered objects). After speaking to the distributor of the storage unit, the Foundation learned that SCP-E and associated items were owned by an Edward Selsburgh (POI-4335).
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Item #: SCP-E
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-E is to be held in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site 19. Items affected by SCP-E are to be held in standard containment lockers at the same Site.
Description: SCP-E refers to POI-4335, a 34 year-old Caucasian male named Edward Selsburgh who is likely responsible for the creation of a number of anomalous items recovered by the Foundation. It was the owner and sole employee of Selsburgh Solutions: a small shop which sold anomalous items. Foundation Personnel are currently in the process of locating and recovering all items sold from Selsburgh Solutions.
SCP-E’s anomalous properties manifest in all documentation about an assortment of items related to SCP-E3. All writing about SCP-E affected people/things will contain arbitrary capitalization, misspellings and other syntactical errors. Attempts to revise or correct the writing will either fail to remove the errors, or create new errors.
MTF Epsilon-6 (“Village Idiots”) found SCP-E in its apartment outside of Pittsburgh, PA on 05/10/2025 in a state of disorientation and suffering from mild malnutrion and dehydration. Records indicate subject had not left its apartment in almost ten days.
Addendum SCP-E-1: Log of SCP-E affected items
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
| Notebook | All entries are either torn out, illegible, or incoherent. |
| Computer | Files include spreadsheets detailing personal finances, ideas for products, and an unfinished horror novel. |
| Grocery List | “butter” was spelled with only one “t”, and “medication” was spelled “medicashun”. |
| Planner | Last entry was dated two weeks before containment, and believed to contain reminders to perform various chores in Selsburgh Solutions, however a mixture of poor handwriting and word choice allows for other interpretations. |
| Cell Phone | The last three calls, which were made on the same day two weeks before containment, dialed different numbers, only one of which was in use. Foundation made contact with the receiver of said call, who had no knowledge of SCP-E, and did not answer the call. |
Addendum SCP-E-2: The following is an interview between SCP-E and Researcher Niklo Gerdinel conducted immediately after containment.
<Begin Log>
SCP-E rocks back in forth in its chair. It is looking down at its lap, twiddling its thumbs while waiting for Gerdinel to sit down.
Gerdinel: Hello SCP-E.
SCP-E stops rocking and makes eye contact with Gerdinel.
Gerdinel: Um, We have some questions we’d like to ask.
SCP-E swallows.
Gerdinel: How have you been making your… solutions for your shop?
SCP-E smiles and shakes its head.
Gerdinel: You know, if you just spoke to us this could be over much quicker.
SCP-E stops shaking its head. It raises an eyebrow at Gerdinel.
Gerdinel: Is there something wrong with that?
SCP-E puts its head in its hands.
Gerdinel: I, uh, I assume this isn’t your choosing then. Can you still answer the question?
SCP-E looks back up, shakes its head and waves Gerdinel off.
Gerdinel: How about tomorrow?
SCP-E shrugs.
<End Log>
As of this writing, SCP-E has not spoken. It is currently unknown if this is part of SCP-E’s anomalous nature, or if SCP-E suffers from aphonia. However, medical examinations have confirmed that SCP-E’s organs necessary for vocalization are undamaged. Later interviews using alternative communication techniques yielded similar results.
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Item #: SCP-E
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-E-A is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment chamber in Site 19. SCP-E-1 through -5 are to be kept in standard containment lockers at the same Site.
Only the following groups are allowed access to information regarding SCP-E (as they have already been exposed):
- MTF Epsilon-6
- Additional personnel selected for SCP-E research
- Dr. Teller's research team
- O5-8
Update: SCP-E’s effects are currently uncontained, and research into their spread are now considered high priority for all involved personnel (see Addendum SCP-E-1).
Description: SCP-E refers to a person and a collection of items that share the same infohazardous properties. SCP-A is a Caucasian male named Edward Selsburgh, and SCP-1 through -5 refer to a diary, computer, planner, grocery list, and cell phone which to belong to SCP-A.
SCP-E affected items act as infohazards, which deteriorate a person’s ability to communicate in a written medium. Individuals in the early stages of affliction only experience difficulty writing about SCP-E. This difficulty takes the form of arbitrary capitalization, misspellings, as well as other syntax errors. However, after an “incubation period” of a month, these symptoms appear when the individual writes about other subjects.
The anomalous properties of SCP-E were discovered when MTF Epsilon-6 wrote their field report following SCP-E's recovery, and then reaffirmed during the creation of SCP-E's file. The expansion of SCP-E's effects was noticed when similar syntax errors appeared in MTF Epsilon-6's field reports one month later. Soon after, Dr. Teller’s research team (which was in charge of SCP-E) experienced the same difficulties. Both Dr. Teller’s research team as well as MTF Epsilon-6 have been quarantined, and tests have been scheduled to further investigate the anomaly.
Addendum SCP-E-1: Researchers who have had no connection or knowledge of SCP-E have reported an inability to write properly. These symptoms are similar to previous errors attributed to SCP-E. Effected individuals have been quarantined.
SCP-E has been reclassified as Keter.
Research into the transmission vector of SCP-E, as well as remedies for SCP-E is now high priority.
Addendum SCP-E-2: During testing, the syntactical errors among previously quarantined individuals have increased in quantity and severity. In 80% of tests, written material was deemed incomprehensible. Below is a transcript of an interview with Researcher Niklo Gerdinel, who has been affected by SCP-E:
<Begin Log>
Dr. Tennison: Hello Gerdinel.
Gerdinel: Uh… hi?
Dr. Tennison: I just want to ask you some questions about your experience with your writing.
Gerdinel: Ok, um, sorry I’m kinda shaken from the uh, the thing.
Dr. Tennison: That’s understandable. Now, can you describe what you experienced during testing?
Gerdinel: Yeah I can. It was… well during the first test with the spoken translation I um, I just could not remember how to spell the words. I could understand everything fine, but its like I forgot what words looked like.
Dr. Tennison: And during the second part?
Gerdinel: The transcription part… right. That was uh, interesting.
Dr. Tennison: Can you explain?
Gerdinel: Right right. Sorry. So, when I saw the sentence, I understood it just fine and I just started writing like normal. But then I looked at what I wrote and it was just… just wrong.
Dr. Tennison: Did you try to correct it?
Gerdinel: Of course! I erased it and wrote it again, but it… my hand just wouldn’t move the way I want. It just did its own thing.
Gerdinel examines his hands.
Gerdinel: Except it was definitely my hand. And I was the one moving it. It just… wouldn’t work. Same sort of thing during the typing section too.
Dr. Tennison: Thank you Gerdinel, I think that’s all we need.
Gerdinel: Yeah… um… actually, do you know who’s working on 3650?
Dr. Tennison: Excuse me?
Gerdinel: A bunch of pictures with compulsion effects? It’s one of the, uh, projects I was working on. We had some updates we were going to make before… before all this.
Dr. Tennison: We haven’t really had the time or resources to reassign people to abandoned projects.
Gerdinel: So, those updates aren’t getting made?
Dr. Tennison: I’m afraid not. Anything else?
Gerdinel: Um… any new letters for me?
Dr. Tennison: Not yet, but we’ll tell you.
Gerindel: Ok, thanks.
<End Log>
Addendum SCP-E-3: Foundation webcrawlers report an uptick in syntactical errors in civilian media sources. SCP-E-like behavior has also been reported throughout all branches of The Foundation. Researchers in Site-19 who have had no connection to or knowledge of SCP-E have reported sporadic cases of spontaneous illiteracy.
SCP-E is officially designated as uncontained.
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Author's note: This will eventually be read aloud (except the raisa warning) as an audio file, but for now I just have the script. Every bar across indicates a different audio file.
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SCP-E main file, dictated by Dr. Eric Duboy.
Item Number: SCP-E
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Containment for SCP-E has been split into two aspects. Memetic, biological, and psychological department personnel are to research methods of alleviating symptoms caused by exposure to SCP-E.
All other personnel are to work to develop a method of communication impervious to SCP-E’s effects. This project will be led by the Foundation Linguistics department.
Description: SCP-E is an infectious cognitohazard now present in at least 98% of the human population. SCP-E effects take place in multiple stages.
During stage one, an affected individual will make a number of syntactical errors when writing about SCP-E. This is believed to be caused by an incubation period where SCP-E adjusts to the affected person’s body, mind, and vernacular.
Stage two begins approximately a month after stage one. SCP-E begins to inhibit all written communication. The severity of the inhibition increases over time until Stage three.
Stage three begins when an affected individual can no longer communicate using a written language. All attempts to generate a coherent series of symbols fail in various ways. See experiment log for details.
While the transmission vector for SCP-E is still unknown, the leading theory suggests that it spreads to any person who communicates with an affected individual. Either listening to or reading text written by affected persons would transmit SCP-E.
SCP-3449 experiment log dictated by Dr. William Teller.
To stop the spread of SCP-3449, we’re trying to identify or construct a written language that SCP-3449 is unable to affect. We decided that, when possible, we’d have subjects both try to hand write and type out the language. It’d be pretty bad if we had a winner, but we just had to put it in cursive. (laughs) Ah… I'm never getting used to this am I?
Break
Ok, we just did our control test with English. Subjects hand writing sentences drew arbitrary symbols in place of letters, and subjects typing sentences kept pressing the wrong key to spell the word they wanted. Nothing new really.
Break
Logging results for an assisted form of English. We supplied subjects with words to choose from and they tried to arrange them in a sentence.
This showed some promise, since subjects could get the first word right, but couldn’t do much after that. They'd forget which word came next. It's something, but I don’t think it’s enough to survive off, since you can only say one word, and it has to be written on something nearby. Better than nothing I guess.
Break
Logging results for our test of written Morse Code. Chose this one because it’s simple to write, and if it works we don’t have to teach the world from scratch.
Worked real nice for the first week. Almost made an announcement to record everything with morse code. Then the subjects started having trouble moving their hands correctly. Kept writing the wrong thing. Now everyone who tries it can only make a rapid succession of dots. We got people to try sending regular morse code, but they had the same issues. All dots, no dash.
Break
This is less of an experiment log and more of an update. A separate initiative to teach the Foundation sign language has failed. People can’t seem to make the right gestures in a row anymore. They’ve tried formalizing a bunch of different systems, but they fail in the same way. Luckily, it's not like shrugging and waving are gone but… they might be one day.
Break
More news about the gestures. O5 ordered us to keep physical communication to a minimum so we have some sort of back up if we ever lose verbal communication. I think they freaked out a little when we lost sign language. So… I guess we did lose shrugging and waving.
Break
Just recording that we proposed testing speech to text software, but it was denied. People too worried that the anomaly will stop us from talking altogether.
Break
Tried a new approach with pictograms. The idea was that the creative license in freestyle drawing would confuse it. We were close. It lasted a month, but then the entire idea of drawings got fucked… um… sorry, I mean people stopped being able to draw properly. Leading theory: similar pictures of a concept are analogous to using the same symbol for a letter over and over again.
That was probably our last shot. At least I’m out of ideas. Who knows? Maybe we’ll come up with something.
I hope we come up with something.
Um… Ok. This entry is by Researcher Niklo Gerdinel. Uh, Addendum SCP-E-2, I guess? You know what, screw the formalities. It’s not like I’m supposed to making an entry and, like, there’s not really anyone left to reprimand me.
As you can probably tell we uh… we really screwed the pooch on this one, didn't we? A few days ago the anomaly finally started messing with speech. So uh… yeah. The world’s kinda freaking out about it. Not that we really figured out how to operate without writing. That was uh… that didn’t work out super great. Economies fell apart. People just stopped enforcing laws in some places. Shit hit the fan.
Not that we gave in. No… Foundation’s always got a plan. Even though none of them worked. We haven’t figured out a new language to use. Anomaly picked ‘em all apart. We started getting desperate. Took every method we could get our hands on.
I um… I used to write letters to my girlfriend. It was like a monthly thing between us. And when the um… when the anomaly got to us, we uh… we switched to just using drawings. I’m a shit artist, but at least they got the point across for a while. You know, picture’s worth a thousand words and all that.
But all Foundation mail gets screened, so someone saw it and tried to um… to try to use pictures for communication. Made a bunch of pictograms and shit. Now I… I can’t draw. And I don’t know of anyone who can draw any more. So, they’ve fucked that up for me. I haven’t gotten a letter from my girlfriend since. I’d try calling her but cell lines have been down for months. I hope she’s ok…
But um… changing t-topics… you know what’s kinda funny? Some of the people here have still been arguing over semantics and exactly how to classify this thing. Is it a cognitohazard? Is it a new form of virus? Is it even an anomaly? It's everywhere now, so maybe it's the new normal. Ha! Like any of that matters. They’re spending their last words on meaningless debate.
You know the last thing I said to my mom and dad? “Maybe don’t serve broccoli next time.” I told my dog “I’ll be home for dinner” which turned out to be a lie. The last thing my g-girlfriend got from me was a picture of a bunch of stick figures wearing glasses, with a heart at the bottom. But it’s… it’s just so stupid. So fucking stupid. I thought my last words to these people would be something elegant, you know? Or loving. But I’m stuck with this instead. Some sarcasm, a lie, and fucking stick figures. And even if I see them again we’ll probably just look at each other. Just looking and waiting. Everyone just looking and waiting and looking and waiting and looking and waiting until the day we die!
Pause.
Uh… s-s-surry ab-bout that I uh… It’s been a stressful f-few days. Although if you’re hearing this you can probably imagine. I guess I… um… curted this entra kinda as a… as a last hurrah for myself. And gu knows? These m-m-might be the last w-w-words ever re-re-caaad-d-ded. So… as a uh… final m-m-message from m-me to whoever’s out there.
Gerdinel swallows.
Good luck, and know you’re l—
Gerdinel is unable to speak properly. He keeps trying to speak but it comes out as gibberish. Gerdinel panics, and hyperventilates before screaming.
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Um… Ok. This entry is by Researcher Niklo Gerdinel. Uh, Addendum SCP-3449-2, I guess? You know what, screw the formalities. It’s not like I’m supposed to making an entry and, like, there’s not really anyone left to reprimand me.
As you can probably tell we really screwed the pooch on this one. A few days ago the anomaly finally started messing with speech, so the world’s freaking out about it. Not that we really figured out how to operate without writing. That was uh… that straight up didn't work. Economies fell apart. Riots broke out. Shit hit the fan.
Not that we gave in. We kept spinning our wheels trying to think of something. Alternative languages, vaccines, countermemes. But nothing worked. It was all picked apart by the anomaly.
Like, like, I used to write letters to my girlfriend. It was like a monthly thing between us. And when the um… when the anomaly got to us, we switched to just using drawings. I’m a shit artist, but at least they got the point across. You know, picture’s worth a thousand words and all that.
But all Foundation mail gets screened, so someone saw it and tried to, tried to use pictures for communication. Made a bunch of pictograms and shit. Now I… I can’t draw. And, and I haven't gotten a letter from my girlfriend so I don't know if she's just waiting for me to write back or maybe she's just dead.
And you know what? Some of the people here just take it so lightly. Maybe its a coping mechanism but… but they argue over semantics and exactly how to classify this thing. Is it a cognitohazard? Is it a new form of virus? Is it even an anomaly? It's everywhere now, so maybe it's the new normal. Like any of that matters. They’re spending their last words on meaningless debate.
You know the last thing I said to my mom and dad? “Maybe don’t serve broccoli next time.” I told my dog “I’ll be home for dinner” which turned out to be a lie. The last thing my g-girlfriend got from me was a picture of a bunch of stick figures wearing glasses, with a heart at the bottom. At least I drew the heart but… but it’s just so stupid. So fucking stupid. I thought my last words to these people would be something elegant, you know? Or loving. But I’m stuck with this instead. Some sarcasm, a lie, and fucking stick figures. And even if they're not dead and I see them again we’ll probably just look at each other. Just looking and waiting. Everyone just looking and waiting and looking and waiting and looking and waiting until the day we die!
Pause.
Uh… s-s-surry ab-bout that I uh… It’s been a stressful f-few days. Although if you’re hearing this you can probably imagine. I guess I… um… curted this entra kinda as a… as a last hurrah for myself. And gu knows? These m-m-might be the last w-w-words ever re-re-caaad-d-ded. So… as a uh… final m-m-message from m-me to whoever’s out there.
Gerdinel swallows.
Good luck, and know you’re lurv… yur lurrrrv
Gerdinel wimpers
Author's note: Everything on this page above the bar will be replaced with a video during the final draft. For now I am leaving a description of what I currently plan to have in the video, partly for myself and so you can have some idea of what the video may look like. Yes I know its a mess, feel free to disregard it and skip directly to the collapsible after the bar.
TODO: revamp this to be less… well less. There'll be less active attempts at communication. See what I can pull
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Video consists of 3 cuts, each taken from a different day (as indicated by a date in the upper right hand corner)
First cut consists of the researcher trying to gesture with their hands, but it looks like the hands won't cooperate. Gives up after a while.
Second cut opens with the researcher next to a game of jenga. They remove a load bearing block and watch the tower fall. Still frustrated, they turn off the camera.
During the third cut the researcher just stares at the camera for 30 seconds, and then turns it off.
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What is the End-Of-Story Scenario?
A more full description can be found in the Brain Storming Thread, but in short it is an anomaly that inhibits all communication. As a SCP project, it consists of corrupted text, audio files, and video. All are necessary to convey the horror that is the loss of communication. For the purposes of this document, I will call the anomaly the EoSS.
Story Outline
- First Iteration
- Foundation discovers a diary with unintelligible scribbling in it. Personnel notice that they experience trouble writing about the diary, so they mark it down as an infohazard. This begins the spread of the EoSS.
- After a month of infection, the EoSS evolves to effect the writing of other subjects. The first people who are affected are those with direct knowledge of the diary, so information regarding the anomaly becomes classified and only the original team can work on it (because it is still believed to be an infohazard)
- Foundation personnel without knowledge of the EoSS also exhibit symptoms, and are quarantined. The EoSS has also evolved in strength among the original group, so the writing has deteriorated.
- After this development, all writing becomes essentially unintelligible.
- Second Iteration
- Audio files. First one is professional reading of the SCP updated file.
- Second audio file is less professional recording about theories about the EoSS (which are essentially correct).
- Third audio file details attempts the Foundation has made to circumvent the EoSS
- Once a form of sign language is formalized, people are unable to perform the gestures.
- Attempts to form sentences from choosing the correct words from a dictionary always result in the communicator unable to choose the correct word.
- Last audio file is entirely panicked, and casual, and describes the current state of the world and the Foundation. Tells story of how he used to write letters to his girlfriend using pictures, but after the Foundation took that idea and tried to use it, no one could draw pictures anymore. Person recording the audio succumbs to the anomaly at the end of the recording.
- Third Iteration
- Video recording using general purpose gestures. The researcher is incredibly frustrated and distressed throughout the recording. He attempts to say that no one can effectively speak anymore, or communicate, but has trouble doing so.
- Fourth Iteration
- Show automated SCiP Net messages logging that nothing has been uploaded since the third iteration (maybe just put this at the end of the 3rd iteration).
Assistance
- Modern_Erasmus: Brainstorming
- PeppersGhost: Draft Critique
- TickleTackle: Draft Critique
- OptimisticLucio: Draft Critique
- Feline: Draft Critique
- Shaggydredlocks: Draft Critique (Holistic)
- Jabyrwock: Draft Critique
- DarkStuff: Draft Critique
- TheBillith: Draft Critique (Line-by-Line)
- Recursive Recursion: Video and audio critique
- stormbreath: CSS help
- DrChandra: general crit
- Galaxy-Class: general crit
- ratsy: general crit
- Varaxous: general crit
- weryllium: general crit
Title Ideas (ordered by how much I like them)
- Language Is A Barrier To Communication
- The Things Left Unsaid
- End-Of-Story Scenario
Offers for roles
- LordStonefish (video and voice)
- PeppersGhost (voice)
- DarkStuff (voice)
- Stallmantic (voice)
- taylor_itkin (voice, probs also video)
Language (noun) |langwij|
1. The method of human socialization and correspondence, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words structured in a conventional way.
2. A barrier to communication.
All spelling, grammar, and other syntactical errors are purposeful. Please do not try to make adjustments to these. If you believe that there is an actual error in the article, send me a PM and I will fix it myself if it is indeed not intentional.
If you require a transcript of the audio and video logs, they can be found here (insert link here). However, if you are able, I highly recommend reading the article with the multimedia elements, as that is the intended experience.
After almost four months, its finally finished. And there are so many people I need to thank for helping me out with this.
First my thanks goes out to DarkStuff, and
taylor_itkin for voicing the Duboy and Teller audio files respectively. Not only did they do a fantastic job, but also put up with me bothering them for months about it.
Also thank you to all of the others who tried out for these roles, your enthusiasm and willingness to help was incredibly motivating.
Now I gotta give a shout out to Shaggydredlocks who helped me throughout almost every stage of the process, from the structuring of the article to final touch-ups on the video.
Thirdly, there's just all of the other people who I've bothered for criticism and feedback on this thing. I'm throwing your names in a collapsible not to minimize your contribution, but because there's actually so many of you it would make this post too long:
[[collapsible show="Critics" hide="Thank you"]]
Modern_Erasmus
PeppersGhost
jabyrwock
- TheBillith does not match any existing user name
- Recursive-Recursion does not match any existing user name
stormbreath
DrChandra
ratsy
- Galaxy-Class does not match any existing user name
Varaxous
Weryllium
Croquembouche
LordStonefish
Zyn
If I forgot to list you here please PM me and I will add you.
I hope you enjoyed this article. It's been a wild ride making it.
If you want to read more of my work, you can find it here.
This entire article was inspired by the idea of "what would happen if people stopped writing for the wiki (from an in-universe perspective)?" A lot of articles could be considered possible answers to this question. The Foundation could be destroyed, or anomalies could just disappear, or something like that. This article's answer is none of those really. I think that if people stopped writing for the wiki, people would just stop being able to write in-universe. And then I let the idea grow from there.
Now some fun statistics:
- Number of attempts to record third audio log - 43
- Number of attempts to record final video log - 94
- Number of times I had to borrow my roommate's stuff to look like a scientist - 17
- Number of times I considered cutting the video - 6 (at least)
Other titles I considered for this piece:
- End-of-Story Scenario
- Language is a Barrier to Communication
- A Quiet End
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