Deathray

Item#: 001

Level6

Containment Class:

esoteric

Secondary Class:

ignosi

Disruption Class:

dark

Risk Class:

notice

link to memo

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Special Containment Procedures: All newly recruited members of the Overseer Council are to undergo Class-D, -E, and -F amnestic treatments as well as a personality rewrite as supervised by no fewer than 3 members of the Overseer Council as well as a group of no fewer than 5 medical staf hand-selected by the Overseer Council. Members of the Overseer Council are to review this document every day upon waking up and repeat the following words before resuming their regular duties and again before going to sleep:

"I am O5-[NUMBER]. I have no name other than this. I am a member of the Overseer Council for the SCP Foundation. I have no identity other than this. My fellow overseers have no other names and no other identities. We have no connections other than each other. We must Secure, Contain, and Protect. We have no other tasks other than this. I am O5-[NUMBER]. We are the Overseer Council."

A series of unrelated anomalies are to also be given the SCP-001 item number as to reduce the number of individuals who are aware of SCP-001. All documents containing SCP-001 are to be destroyed. Any Overseer who claims to have knowledge of SCP-001 beyond what is stated in this document are to be killed and replaced immediately.

Description: SCP-001 is the collective designation for 47 48 given names.

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from: [VERIFIED O5 ACCOUNT]
subject: Welcome. [Automated message]

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To our latest peer,

If you are receiving this message, three things have happened: One, another Overseer has passed away. Two, you have been chosen as a successor to this Overseer. Three, you were instructed to read the documentation for the coveted "real" SCP-001. I won't mince words. You are cursed. Everyone in the Foundation except us is cursed. SCP-001 is that curse.

Have you ever thought about who you are? Do you think about all the things that make you you? All of your experiences, good, bad and ugly? Do you think about the labels that define you? What about the one that defines you the most; your name? You've done unspeakable things. Everyone that has your clearance did. Obviously I can't tell you what you're thinking, but I predict that you won't deny this fact. What you've done within your career in the Foundation ultimately defines the context of you; most importantly, your name.

Why am I asking you all of these questions? Simple,

Secure. Contain. Protect.
O5-9