Doctorwexler

SCP-5074: The Sinister Sign
Object Class Keter
Only D-Class personnel or regulated Mobile Task Force operatives are to enter the containment area of SCP 5074, and they are only to do so with the approval of 3 designation 4 personnel or higher. The containment area is to be supervised by no less than three researchers, each with special training or background in substantiality, quantum physics or reality maintenance. One foundation contracted criminal psychologist will be on standby at all times at site REDACTED Thaumiel testing for this SCP is only to proceed with a majority 05 council vote or with special written approval directly from 05-3. Written approval will be delivered by liaison no less than five days before testing is to begin.
Dr. Jordi, is to have no contact whatsoever with SCP 5074 and is to remain monitored by the ethics committee for the duration of her work at site REDACTED. The designation of this SCP is subject to change by the administrator of site REDACTED due to several groups of interest seeking to acquire it. Any D- Class found interacting with the containment area of SCP 5074 without proper approval are to be administered a sub-lethal dose of amnestics and assigned a new identity with a cover story prepared by site administrator.
If at any time SCP 5074 ever displays the word “RUDEDRAP ST.” Dr. Wexlers is to be removed from her current post and transferred to site REDACTED to assist with the containment and surveillance of SCP 5074. See the “Trap Hazard Event” for additional information.
Description:
SCP-5074 is an anomalous street sign with a stop sign under the intersection sign of two streets. It was previously classified as a reality bender by the group of interest it was acquired from but further testing with reality anchors has shown that the sign’s true form is non-humanoid. SCP 5074 was found to be sentient as well as decidedly sapient through attempts at communications initiated by foundation researchers. The names in its street signs have been observed to change on photographs as well as on its actual surface. It’s speculated that photography somehow allows its influence to spread, although its effects in photographs are far more benign.
It was recovered by foundation agents in the position of an anomalous group of interest known as Operation Manticore and it is believed to either have been kept for military or experimental endeavors but thaumiel testing of this SCP has caused the foundation to conclude that the sign was too fickle and cruel to be used for the goals of Operation Manticore and following the Trap Hazard Event it was seized by the foundation.
The sign has been known to spell out hateful slurs and the occasional pejorative insults specifically toward Dr. Wexler. It also shared a somewhat kind rapport with Dr. Jordi, evidenced by changing the names on its street signs to read words such as “SWEETIE” or “BELOVED” whenever she is near its containment area. SCP 5074 also spells out the name “JORDI” every so often, perhaps as a means of confusing foundation personnel or as a means of demanding her presence.
Following a containment failure during testing at Operation Manticore facilities, SCP-5074 escaped and began insidiously preying on people in the nearest suburban area. By changing the names on it’s signs and confusing travelers it was able to eventually trap hundreds of civilians inside an altered reality zone of unending and strangely named streets.
SCP-5074 owes its Keter classification to two facts. The first is that it’s area of influence expands quickly with each new person trapped in it and the second is that this SCP has an almost infallible understanding of the human mind and nearly limitless understanding of known torture methods, psychological and otherwise.
Forensic pathologists confirm that its final goal is to eventually expand its field of entrapment all over the earth and thus, become immeasurably powerful, perhaps even restructuring the entire planet which would result in an SK-class end of the world scenario without foundation intervention.
The most troubling possibility is that it could have already done this and the foundation would have no way to be certain that they were not already within its altered reality zone.
The sign has lied on many occasions using alarming statements to get the attention personnel observing it, including pretending that it knew what SCP 001 was. This was confirmed by an 05 memo to be a definite lie.
Testing involving D-class, reality benders such as SCP-507 (The Reluctant Dimension Hopper) and SCP 343 have been performed with the following results
Exploration Log:1
A D-class with a history of aggravated crime was inserted into the containment area of SCP-5074, notably objecting on the grounds that he could feel that the sign hated him. The D-class was outfitted with body cameras, emergency food rations, radio equipment and tracking watch that could direct him out of the field of effect.
Upon entry the D-class noted that the neighborhood looked much like a typical neighborhood lined with houses and cars. He was instructed to go further inward. He attempted to open the doors on the houses and most of them allowed entry. In these houses however there was no evidence that had ever been inhabited which could mean that the signs ability to create replicant spaces was limited. The D-class noted that these homes appeared like perfect show homes instead of occupied ones even though everything within them seemed to work, including water and electricity. The D-class moved forward noting that the clouds in the sky make it impossible to tell what time of day it is within the field of the sign’s effect. The D-class also said that the temperature of the region seemed to increase the further he went. Eventually he ran into a thick fog when he was near the sign itself. As instructed he placed the camera directly on the sign and began to demand to leave.
This request was granted and he started to make his way back eventually coming back to the neighborhood that he had previously walked through, but many of its identifying features had changed. The D-class immediately objected, calling the experiment a sick joke as it appeared that he was back in the neighborhood that he grew up in. He noticed that the replica was actually so complete that the basketball court he played on with his friends was still in pristine condition.
It was at this point that the D-class completely stopped taking instruction from researchers and started running in the direction that his watch indicated despite a warning from Dr. Pfiefer Wexler that this would only cause the sign to react as an ambush predator.
Dr. Wexler instructed her team to strengthen the Scraton reality anchors present to assist the D-class with his escape attempt which failed when it became apparent that the sign had absolute control over anything occurring in its effective space.
The D-class had begun running past what appeared to be the same block based on footage from his body camera. The sign appeared at the corner each time displaying a different and out-of-place name. Street names read, Prey St. Death St. Violate St. and progressively vulgar words seemingly intended for the sole purpose of upsetting female staff present. Eventually the D-class collapsed and began swatting at himself as if he were being swarmed by insects, complaining that, “It was eating his soul.”
This was not what worried the research staff present however. What caused them to be the most alarmed was the sign’s apparent partial omniscience as noted by present personnel. SCP 5074 shouldn’t have been aware of being observed much less the identities or genders of the people observing it but as evidenced by its communications it was. It’s action suggested a sinister and manipulative intelligence.
Experiment log:
When SCP 507 (The reluctant Dimension hopper) was introduced to the containment area of 5074 he appeared to see clearly despite the clouds shown on his body camera. He walked through the neighborhood replica undisturbed and called the experience slightly nostalgic. When confronted by the sign itself, a benign conversation ensued with the sign answering most of his questions with its street names.
When asked what it had done to the D-class it responded with “Defecated Rd.” When asked why it ate the D-class it responded with “Making St.” crossed by “Point Blvd.” When asked who it was making a point to it only responded with “Her Rd.” Whether this referred to Dr. Jordi or Dr. Wexler is uncertain. When told to behave by SCP 507 it responded with “Okay St.” at “Handsome Rd.” SCP 507 then hopped dimensions, escaping 5074’s containment without any resistance.
It appeared that SCP 507’s anomalous effects had somehow earned him some measure of respect from the sign. It also might have been a manipulation attempt as the signs developing personality profile was clearly deceptive. It apparently did not have the ability to contain 507 within its field of effect and was unable to “eat” him.
The Hume levels of the area also seemed to approach stable levels when the two were introduced which of course spiked when SCP 507 left the exchange.
Interview Log:
When SCP 343 was asked about SCP 5074 he responded by saying, “He would rather his children stay away from that thing as the being within it should have never been.”
When asked what it did to the D-class introduced to its containment SCP 343 responded with “Something similar to what he did to Brenda Chase but for him it won’t end after 10 minutes. It won’t end ever.” Doctor Wexler informed the research staff in charge of 343 that Brenda Chase was one of the D-class’s victims and her home invasion lasted approximately 10-15 minutes.
Containment: SCP-5074 was first brought to foundation attention when 555 people in a suburban area started searching for sreetnames and directions that didn’t exist in any known map database. It is to be contained in a circular, 100 meter radius non humanoid containment cell, modified to look like a suburban neighborhood with schedule 8 Scranton reality anchors placed around it’s circular containment area not to exceed 2 meters of space between each, It’s containment cell is to have a supply of stored back up power that can last no less than 90 days with periodic checks conducted by foundation staff.
SCP-5074 is to undergo routine psychological evaluation one a four month basis. The criminal psychologist involved is allowed and encouraged to deliberately deceive the sign as it has been shown to comprehend human speech without the aid of ears. A lie that the foundation has the means to permanently destroy it is to be used. Although termination methods for the sign are currently being negotiated with the Global Occult Coalition no permanent reality disruption devices have been created with strong enough yield to permanently dispatch with the sign without causing permanent spatial deterioration. The sign is to never be told this.
Dr. Jordi appears to have some connection with the sign that has caused her to attempt to sabotage its containment. The ethics committee decided against her termination as her understanding of reality benders was deemed too valuable to lose although she was eventually transferred to another project after a brief suspension.
The sign has been proven to provide some benefit in containing other anomalous objects that are not reality bending in nature although as noted by Dr. Wexler this too might be a sophisticated manipulation tactic.