Item #: SCP-3911
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3911 is to be kept locked in a mechanical safe and is to be kept at least 5 meters away from all types of computers and electronics. The safe in which SCP-3911 is kept is accessible by a passcode only available to level 3 research personnel and higher. This passcode will be changed to a new random passcode at the end of each week.
In the event of a containment breach that does NOT result in any of the four possible types of a 3911-1 instance, is simply to be placed back into its safe with no actions taken.
In the event of a containment breach that results in an instance of 3911-1, all personnel affected are to be confined. Further, three methods of remedy exist depending on the type of 3911-1 instance that occurs.
- In the event of an instance of 3911-G, the affected individual is to be confined and kept to a rigorous rehabilitation schedule. Only after symptoms of 3911-G have extinguished, and stay extinct for at least two consecutive weeks, can the individual be released.
- In the event of an instance of 3911-B, class C personnel and lower are to be confined until their deaths. Class B personnel and above are to be confined and administered class C amnestics. If after two weeks, 3911-B symptoms still persist, they are to continue being confined until their deaths. All recorded instances of 3911-B that prove to be unaffected by class C amnestics have also proven to be unaffected by anything stronger.
- In the event of an instance of 3911-O or 3911-N, psychological confinement is to be enforced for at least two weeks with daily psychological assessment. If no abnormal mental processes develop during this time, the affected individual is allowed to released but under close surveillance for at least 1 month following release.
SCP-3911 is currently stored at Area-42B in the Cognitohazardous Object Containment Block (Sector-8) of the Nonbiological Items Minora Research & Containment Unit (42B-N).
Description: SCP-3911 is a cognitohazardous artifact identical to a hard-copy disc of the ‘Brave New World’ expansion pack for the historical turn-based strategy video-game 'Sid Meier's Civilization V'. SCP-3911 is consistent in its appearance with the artwork and details of an otherwise non-anomalous copy of ‘Brave New World’, so to avoid potential containment breaching, a label has been applied to SCP-3911. No case for the disc was found, and SCP-3911 is currently assumed to consist exclusively of the disc itself with no case.
SCP-3911 only displays its anomalous properties when installed to a computer. When not being used, or even when placed in a computer but not installed, SCP-3911 fails to display any anomalous properties. Because of this, SCP-3911 may be handled without special procedures when not around computerized electronics.
When installed to a computer capable of running an otherwise non-anomalous copy of ‘Brave New World’, SCP-3911 triggers an instance of 3911-1.
Four different types of 3911-1 instances exist:
- 3911-G: When a subject installs SCP-3911 onto a computer that already has the base-game 'Civilization V' installed onto it, an instance of 3911-G (colloquially termed the ‘Good-type’) is triggered. Upon a completed installation, 3911-G immediately begins to project a video resembling a low-quality home-recording. The video will be an assortment of childhood memories that the subject always regards to be their fondest. In every observation, 3911-G has always been noted as being exactly 2 hours and 45 minutes long. After ending, the subject (regardless of how much of 3911-G they watched), will report feeling very optimistic and happy. Within 2—6 hours of viewing 3911-G, the subject will enter a hypomanic state that lasts for approximately a week. When this hypomanic state ends, the subject will start to display symptoms of addiction and withdrawal. The subject will go to inordinate lengths to regain possession of SCP-3911 and may resort to violence to do so. After approximately one week, the addiction will be broken, and the subject will be able to reintegrate into their normal lives.
- 3911-O: When a subject installs SCP-3911 onto a computer that has a previous 'Civilization' title that is a predecessor to the fifth installment of the series (i.e. titles I, II, III, and/or IV), an instance of 3911-O (colloquially termed the ‘Old-type) is triggered. Upon a completed installation, whichever title is installed onto the computer will run as normal, and the game itself will be completely playable and functional. The instance of 3911-O will affect the title’s game-play as if the ‘Brave New World’ expansion pack was developed specifically for that game. In other words, all the added features and game-play elements featured in the expansion pack will be implemented into these earlier installments of the series. However, these changes will only be implemented within the limiting parameters of the game itself (e.g. graphical/audio effects will not be changed, but features found on the expansion pack will become present in the title in as long as they do not exceed the title’s processing parameters). No hazardous affects have been observed to affect any personnel who has interacted with an instance of 3911-O.
- 3911-B: When a subject installs SCP-3911 onto a computer that has no 'Civilization' titles installed onto it, an instance of 3911-B (colloquially termed the ‘Bad-type’) is triggered. Upon a completed installation, 3911-B immediately begins to project a video resembling a low-quality home-recording (one of even lower quality than an instance of 3911-G). The video will be a single viewing of whichever memory the subject regards to be their most traumatic childhood experience. In every observation, 3911-B has always been noted as being exactly 45 seconds long. After ending, the subject (regardless of how much of 3911-B they watched), will report feeling unbearably terrified and melancholic. Within 30 minutes of viewing 3911-B, the Player will enter a depressive/psychotic state. The depressive/psychotic state does not end and will affect the subject until they enter a permanent vegetative state, or until they are effectively treated with amnestics. Otherwise, the subject will be driven to kill themselves and will resort to extreme measures to do so. After approximately 3-6 days, if the subject has not been able to kill themselves, they will collapse dead. Inspection of the corpse after death shows that the subject’s cause-of-death is always a combination of extreme exhaustion, stress, and fatigue. Further inspection shows severe damage in the heart and the medial temporal lobe of the brain. The extent of the damage usually resembles that of intense blunt-force trauma and it is believed that [REDACTED] it is unknown how these injuries occur within the victims.
- 3911-N: When a subject installs SCP-3911 onto a computer that has a 'Civilization' title that is a successor to the fifth installment of the series (i.e. title VI), an instance of 3911-N (colloquially termed the ‘New-type') is triggered. Upon a completed installation, the computer running SCP-3911 will immediately shut-down. When the computer is turned back on, all files on the computer will be replaced by instances of 3911-N, including whichever ‘Civilization’ title was already installed onto the computer to begin with. Because of this, the 'Civilization' will no longer be installed onto the computer. So if the subject attempts to reopen SCP-3911, the lack of any preexisting titles will trigger an instance of 3911-B rather than 3911-N.
Currently, only this single disc has been identified as an instance of SCP-3911, and no other hard- or digital-copies of 'Brave New World' have been identified as having anomalous properties.
Discovery: SCP-3911 was discovered at the scene of a triple-suicide in █████, Brazil just two weeks after the official release of the ‘Brave New World’ expansion pack’s commercial release.
Good-type, Test-03
Subject: D-1171g, a 37 year-old Asian male of average physical and mental aptitude and a mundane background.
Procedure: D-1171g is placed by himself in an empty room with one small desk, one high-end computer with 'Civilization' already installed onto it, and SCP-3911. D-1171g is equipped with a headset for audio communication with researchers, and he is allowed a single bottle of drinking water.
Results: D-1171g reports seeing a video of his father and himself fishing near █████ County River. At the 1hr-32min mark, he then sees a video of his father and himself having a snowball-fight. This video lasts until it ends at 2hrs-45mins.
Aftermath: D-1171g displays hypomania after approximately 3 hours. He displays symptoms of addiction to SCP-3911 after 6 days, going as far as bribing the researchers with oral sex and [REDACTED]. After 15 days, he is clean and no longer hypomanic.
Analysis: After 3 months of surveillance, D-1171g displays no long-term, adverse effects, though he still remembers the experience itself vividly, claiming it was ‘an interesting experience’.
Good-type, Test-09
Subject: D-1188g, a 19 year-old Caucasian female of athletic physical aptitude, average mental aptitude, and a long history of petty-theft and burglary.
Procedure: D-1188g is placed by herself in an empty room with one small desk, one high-end computer with 'Civilization' already installed onto it, and SCP-3911. D-1171 is equipped with a headset for audio communication with researchers, and she is allowed a single bottle of drinking water.
Results: D-1188g reports seeing a video of herself in a fun-house with a large group of people. She identifies some of the members as various family members, but cannot remember a few of the members. She assumes them to either be family-friends or distant-relatives. At the 2hrs-11mins mark, she then reports the video changes but does not detail further. After prodding her, she admits that the video has switched to a funeral of a woman. After further prodding, she admits that the woman in the video is her mother. This video lasts until the 2hrs-45mins end mark, and D-1188g claims that her mother was ‘very emotionally abusive’.
Aftermath: After approximately 1 hour, D-1188g displays hypomanic symptoms. After one week, she becomes violent and begins scratching holes into her skin. When security personnel enter her room to restrain her, she tries to grab one of their guns.
Analysis: Security personnel were forced to terminate D-1188g.
Good-type, Test-12
Subject: D-1196g, a 60 year-old Caucasian male with feeble physical and mental aptitude and a history of paranoid-schizophrenia.
Procedure: D-1196g is placed by himself in an empty room with one small desk, one high-end computer with 'Civilization' already installed onto it, and SCP-3911. D-1171 is equipped with a headset for audio communication with researchers, and he is allowed a single bottle of drinking water.
Results: D-1196g reports seeing a video of himself sitting in a blank room, staring at the wall and not moving for the entire 1hr-59mins. Then he reports the feed cutting to static. At the 2hr-42mins mark, he reports that the video is no longer static, and says he can see himself ‘engaging in normalcy’. When asked what he means by this, he incoherently rambles in non-sequiturs.
Aftermath: D-1196g almost immediately becomes hypomanic when removed from the presence of SCP-3911. After 2 hours, he is fully manic and begins displaying delusions of grandeur. After 4 days, he displays severe addiction and manages to bite through his bottom lip, but he is successfully restrained after this incident. For 8 days after this incident, he screams until his voice goes out and he is unable to continue screaming. For the remaining 3 days after that, he continues trying to scream but cannot. After the total 15 days, D-1196g is clean and returns to his regular mental disposition.
Analysis: D-1196g has displayed a worsening of his already severe paranoid-schizophrenia since his interaction with 3911-G, and he was much quicker to enter the hypomanic/manic and addiction episodes than the average victim. This suggests that Good-type instances of SCP-3911 can have long-lasting and more potent effects on individuals with preexisting mental ailments. Further testing is required to elaborate on this hypothesis.
Bad-type, Test-08
Subject: D-2943b, a 32 year-old Black male with average physical aptitude, superior mental aptitude, and a history in teaching advanced calculus.
Procedure: D-2943b is placed by himself in an empty room with one small desk, one high-end computer no games installed onto it, and SCP-3911. D-2343b is equipped with a headset for audio communication with researchers.
Results: D-2943b reports seeing a video of his father beating his mother with a broken mop handle for the first 42secs. The last 3secs of the video is a close-up shot of his father sodomizing his mother with the same broken mop handle.
Aftermath: D-2943b is inconsolably agitated for approximately 10mins after the experiment and suffers a mild panic-attack. He claims that he ‘had completely blocked all that shit’ and had forgotten it even happened. After 30mins, his disposition suddenly shifts from panicking to expressionless. So that he cannot kill or harm himself, D-2943b is put in a straight-jacket and locked in a padded-cell. After 4 days of being confined in this way, D-2343b manages to bite his tongue off and choke to death on it.
Analysis: Victims of SCP-3911 are driven to kill themselves at great lengths, regardless of the difficulty, pain, or improbability that their method-of-choice entails.
Bad-type, Test-09
Subject: D-2944b, a 19 year-old Caucasian male with average physical and mental aptitude, and a history of cocaine abuse.
Procedure: D-2944b is placed by himself in an empty room with one small desk, one high-end computer with no games installed onto it, and SCP-3911. D-2344b is equipped with a headset for audio communication with researchers.
Results: D-2944b reports seeing the preacher from his hometown ‘whipping the sin’ out of him with a long silver chain-necklace. He says he sees lacerations across his body, and his parents are standing aside, watching, and encouraging the preacher to continue his abuse. This video lasts for the full 45secs.
Aftermath: D-2944b is visibly unfazed until 30mins after his interaction with 3911-B, when he suddenly takes on the previously observed depressive/psychotic mood. For the rest of the day, he simply sits in a corner of his room and does not communicate with anyone. Then later that evening, he physically assaults one of the security personnel, forcing them to terminate him immediately.
Analysis: No new knowledge or insightful observations gained.
Bad-type, Test-21
Subject: D-3000b, a 20 year-old Black female with average physical and mental aptitude, and a mundane history.
Procedure: D-3000b is placed by herself in an empty room with one small desk, one high-end computer with no games installed onto it, and SCP-3911. D-2344b is equipped with a headset for audio communication with researchers. She is told to only watch the first second of the video and then to look away and wait for the video to end.
Results: D-3000b claims to have seen an entity in the first second of viewing. Further reviewing of her description of said entity strongly implies a childhood encounter with SCP-████. However, no records of SCP-████ being in that location at that point of time exist.
Aftermath: After 3 days of being restrained, [REDACTED], being reinforced with protective restraints, and [REDACTED], D-3000b repeatedly tried to hold her breath to suffocate herself, but passed-out every time before being able to die. She repeated these fruitless attempts until she died of a massive heart-attack after 6 days. Researchers noted her heart look as if it had been ‘smooshed with a sledgehammer’.
Analysis: Because of D-3000b’s possible childhood encounter with SCP-████, that particular object has been reclassified as ‘Keter’ until otherwise noted. Currently, no connections between that particular object and SCP-3911 are known, but the possibility has not been ruled impossible. If a connection between SCP-3911 and SCP-████ is discovered, SCP-3911 should immediately be reclassified as ‘Euclid’.
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