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Item #: SCP-6000

Object Class: Thaumiel Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-6000 has been moved from its original location to Provisional Site-987, located precisely on the border between the townships of Ohioville in Beaver County, Pennsylvania and Middleton in Columbiana County, Ohio, thereby existing on the border between the three distinct spaces of state, county, and township. Despite it's immobility as a fixed location, SCP-6000 has been moved to Provisional Site-987 by way of SCP-2719, with the Ohioville/Middleton border designated as having became Inside, and SCP-6000 designated as going Inside.

Conceptually, SCP-6000 has not moved from its original location in Florida, and due to security concerns related to Protocol-6000-Byrne, still remains active as a public place of business visited by and staffing thousands of civilians a year all still subject to its effects. However, the conceptual transfer to the relatively "unpopular" environs of Provisional Site-987 ensures that Foundation personnel can visit, observe, and research the effects of SCP-6000 without disrupting its public nature. As it stands, any personnel not assigned to SCP-6000 (or the Department of Analytics, see below) could travel to central Florida and visit or be employed by SCP-6000 and never view the research team located approximately 1, 634 kilometers north. Should visitors or employees of SCP-6000 be able to view the personnel stationed at Provisional Site-987, containment will have considered to be breached and all Foundation personnel worldwide should prepare not only for a Broken Masquerade level breach of the Veil, but a widespread containment breach of <95% of all anomalies contained.

In accordance with Protocol 6000-Byrne, Provisional Site-987 has been demarcated into three distinct concentric zones centering on SCP-6000's "research location," each with their own set of containment procedures.

  • OUTER ZONE: The outermost ring of Provisional Site-897 is to be comprised of ten miles of uninterrupted and mostly unaltered forest. This forested area is to be fenced off and patrolled under the guise of a United States military installation, with appropriate security protocols. Three lines of Scranton Reality Anchors are interspaced at one mile intervals throughout the Outer Zone. Under no circumstances are these anchors to be respaced at one kilometer intervals, the distance must be measured in miles to match the containment requirements of the Central Zone. Every other Reality Anchor has been programmed to fix reality at the exact opposite end of the Hume spectrum as the nearest one. This creates a "checkerboard pattern" of low (.40 and lower) and high (100 and higher) Hume levels, alternating between unstable and extra-stable reality. Additionally, a ring of Brennan Thaumaturgic Reactors, treated as holy objects by various priests of several faiths and emitting over 40 centiakivas of Akiva radiation, are to be placed in a ring in the exact center of the Outer Zone. No personnel may enter the Outer Zone; all maintenance must be conducted with drones.
  • CENTRAL ZONE: The middle ring of Provisional Site-897 is to consist of the municipality of Branford, Pennsylvania. The Foundation is to indirectly cooperate with local architects, city planners, industry leaders, and contractors to ensure that all elements of Branford are both influenced by the Foundation's containment needs and that that influence is subtle and invisible. An example of acceptable influence by Foundation assents would the subtle direction to exclude certain outside industries from the area, such as high-end ethnic restaurants or luxury boutiques. The Foundation cannot directly change Branford's structure to better improve containment, all functionality of the town as a municipal containment chamber must be organically designed by nature. Only 15% of containment staff involved with SCP-6000 are permitted to live in Branford as determined by the Department of Analytics, of which 60% must be personnel posing as military to maintain the Outer Zone. Containment protocols dictate that all elements of a small Western Pennsylvania town must be present, maintained at the acceptable baseline standard for yearly cultural changes, but no churches or places of worship may exist within city limits. The city's Hume field is to be maintained at a precise level of 1 Hume via a large-scale Scranton Reality Anchor tuned to SCP-1915's internal Hume level. Any deviations are to be immediately reported, and MTF Phi-90 ("The Sorcerer's Assistants") are to be dispatched to repair the Anchor. The Anchor is currently fixed to the outer wall of the Inner Zone's sarcophagus. The Loncraine-Eddefield Normality Engine is not to be used to maintain the Hume level under any circumstances.
  • INNER ZONE: The Innermost ring of of Provisional Site-897 is to consist of a spherical concrete sarcophagus covering SCP-6000, located in Branford city limits, with the Ohio/Pennsylvania border directly passing through the middle of the sarcophagus. The walls of the sarcophagus are to be 20 meter thick, with the protective walls 50 meters high. The facility is to be closed under the guise of an abandoned steel factory. A small research facility has been constructed in the Central Zone opposite the sarcophagus for use in studying SCP-6000. Personnel are not to approach the sarcophagus except for authorized D-Class expeditions and authorized repair sessions for the Anchor from MTF Phi-90. D-Class personnel are to be equipped with one eye-mounted camera equipped with a anti-cognitohazardous SCRAMBLE filter which is capable of streaming video and audio back to the facility. D-Class personnel are to enter through a small steel door built into the side of the sarcophagus, and are required to lock the door behind them and knock on it once before entering.

Should the large-scale Scranton Reality Anchor fail, a network of Reality Anchors and Brennan Thaumaturgic Reactors placed on Foundation ships are to briefly activate and gently raise the Hume and Akiva levels across the world until Protocol 6000-Byrne can be reactivated and SCP-6000 can be recontained.

Under no circumstances is the Loncraine-Eddeford Normality Engine allowed to enter Provisional Site-987 or be brought within the State of Florida. Due to the nature of the anomaly, SCP-6000-affected urban locations (Anaheim, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo) are to be considered within the realm of "acceptable distance," and the Loncraine-Eddeford Normality Engine may be stored at a Department of Analytics facility close to any of these locations without triggering a catastrophic breach event of any kind. However, this is not advised unless the primary storage location at Site-03 is compromised and the Loncraine-Eddeford Normality Engine must be evacuated.

Under no circumstances personnel stationed at Provisional Site-987 or the Department of Analytics are to be within the municipality of the Reedy Creek Improvement District.

Description: SCP-6000 is a complex phenomenological structure that is comprised of a pataphysical endoparasitic ascomycete fungus native to tropical regions of southern North America1, a massive-scale interactive anart installation and resort complex located in the Orlando Metropolitan area that radiates a constant level of 35 centikivas of Akiva radiation at all times, and a small extradimensional space also located within the Orlando metropolitan area, and connected to the first two components.

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