Henstuff/Darkzoid

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class:

Special Containment Procedures:

Description: Only one thing can be known about SCP-XXXX.

ADDENDUM

Notes:
Alright, they said to use the addendum space as a place to keep my notes, so I guess that saves me from making a Google Doc.

This is Researcher Richard Colle, taking notes for the completion of the SCP-XXXX file. Along with the assignment, I was given a box with the label "SCP-XXXX?" and an envelope that says "open this, read the phrase on the interior, write it down in your notes, and then throw it away". Cryptic.
Here's the phrase they want me to write down:



Nothing can be known about SCP-XXXX.

Ok so before I even continue, obviously that can't be true, since if you know that you can't know about something, you know something about it. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it rules out SCP-XXXX not even existing, but then again, I do have this box. I figure I should probably look in the box, since it might have some sort of information.

Opened the box, inside there appear to be a number of tools, like pliers, wrenches, a screwdriver, and some other stuff. No note or clues or anything.
I'll just list them, in case it's important
List of stuff in the box:
- Allen Wrench
- Hammer
- Screwdriver
- Pliers
- Staple Gun
- Hot Glue Gun
- Level

So, I have a bunch of tools, like for manual labor.



From what I can gather, SCP-XXXX is one of these tools.

After rereading my notes several times, it seems like there's nothing else to gain. But it can't just be a tool?

Something's wrong, clock says it's been a couple hours, I can't have been here that long. I'm going to get a drink.
Okay, I think I took shitty notes, we're going to try to start from the top. Just list things I know.
First:

  • Nothing can be known about SCP-XXXX

There should be a second bullet point, I swear there is.



This hurts my head. Maybe I should take the 'nothing can be known' thing seriously. But it's so clearly not true! I know about SCP-XXXX's existence, I know it's in this box. SCP-XXXX is in the box on the table. Isn't there something else? Wait let me try this again.

  • SCP-XXXX is in this box

Oh my god, there's more, I know there is! Hold on, let me reread my notes.

Okay, I’m losing more time. Tricky bastard this one is.

<TIME:TIME>

I'm going to start putting timestamps with my words, make sure it's blindingly obvious that I'm being led astray.

<TIME:TIME>

So, from what I can gather, SCP-XXXX is some sort of antimemetic anomaly. Of course, if it's antimemetic, I shouldn't be able to think about it, or write about it, but other than not being able to write about it— wait, I'm writing about it right now. Okay, I can write about it, but other than that, how can I possibly learn more about it? Knowing I can write about it is a pretty useless fact, since it's true of almost everything in existence (well, everything we know about, that is).

<TIME:TIME>

Okay, so I lost a BUNCH of time since that last note, and I don't know why. I can't even remember what's written in it, let me go back and check.

<TIME:TIME>

Epipheny! Epipheny! I lost time again, and it happened right after I read the note. Something I wrote in that note must be antimemetic, or something.

I think I need a way to highlight all the things that cause me to lose time. I'll go through all of my notes, and keep track of what time it is on my watch. Then, whenever I learn something new, I'll check the time again. If the time since I last learned something new is weirdly long, I'll highlight it, and in the future, I won't read highlighted bits unless I have to.

Of course, I suppose that confirms that SCP-XXXX is antimemetic, since I seem to be able to replicate its effects in writing.

ENDING:

<TIME:TIME>

Ugh, this is fucking ridiculous, I keep losing hours, days at this point, on nothing! Why do… huh… why DO I keep looping? How have I not asked myself that yet? Well, maybe I have, but I feel like I haven't.

I'm not full on blacking out, it's not leaving my mind, I'm losing time, what makes that happen?

<TIME:TIME>

I've copied the end of one of the loop sections without looking at it (it took a couple tries), and plugged it into Ctrl+F

Took some trimming, but the same words are at the end of a couple of the looping sections. Actually, here, I'll paste the words into a collapsible below. I uhhh… really hope they don't reset my progress.

here are all the words that kept repeating in the loops

And when I read the post it note, I'm back at the beginning. I have no knowledge of the dangerous, looping sections, but I can remember everything else I wrote.

Now I can stop looping, it's so deeply ingrained in my brain that if I'm reading the first lines again something went wrong.

<TIME:TIME>


Okay, time to set a trap:

I'm now about to learn something about SCP-XXXX. Time to open the box, and figure out which one it was. I'll write my finding here:

  • SCP-XXXX is a screwdriver.

Colle. I know you're confused, but DON'T, WHATEVER YOU DO, GO BACK AND READ FROM THE TOP. It's your first instinct, but follow my instructions. Carefully. Get up. Go out your door. Go downstairs. Have a sandwich. Get Karen, the lunchlady, to write you a note. She's gonna be weirded out, but if you don't do this you could fucking die. The note must read: "Rubber ducky kiddy pool". Bring it back here. Put it on the desk. Then read from the top.

<TIME:TIME>

It took lying to myself, but I now know that the first bit of information RESETS me. When I'm in a "looping" state, that is only triggered by relearning the beginning. I'm actually capable of being a free agent while knowing… something else about SCP-XXXX. It's not just erasing itself from my brain when I learn it. I'm doing that. Myself.

Also, isn't Karen nice?

<TIME:TIME>

Ok so going back to the list of loop words, if I assume that it's not true that I can't know anything about SCP-XXXX, then maybe these common words actually describe SCP-XXXX somehow, and knowing that is what sets me back

I forget everything I've learned by learning more…

So I'm replacing information— OH

OH OH OH

Everytime I learn something, it replaces itself in my mind!!!

It isn't that you can't know anything about SCP-XXXX, it's that you can only know ONE thing

NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION
DEPARTMENT OF MISCOMMUNICATIONS

Upon completion of the SCP-XXXX file, and a review of the methods used to ascertain its properties, the Department of Miscommunications is proud to accept Dr. Richard Colle into a position of Communicative Antimemetics research and containment.

Welcome to Site-λ, Richard. You start Monday.
—Eli Forkley, Director, DoMc