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Item #: SCP-QQQQ

Object Class: SCD/UOC

CLASSIFICATION NOTE

This containment procedure document is divided into five separate sections:

1. Special Containment Procedures for all personnel
2. Special Containment Procedures for Site Security
3. Special Containment Procedures for Outer Compartment
4. Special Containment Procedures for Inner Compartment
5. General Information Document for Control and Management

Please obtain instructions from your supervisor before accessing this document.

Sections II-V are classified Special Compartmentalized Documentation with Unlimited Object Classification (SCD/UOC). Access is granted strictly on a "need to know" basis. Object class, special containment procedures and description are assigned on a per-section basis by design. A single individual may not be permitted to read more than one SDC/UOC classified section. An individual reading more than one section, designated SCP-QQQQ-E, must be considered indirectly contaminated and part of the SCP-QQQQ anomaly until treated. SCP-QQQQ-E is a class V memetic hazard, to be contained by MTF Eta-10 ("See No Evil") with general anti-communication protections in effect. Note that SCP-QQQQ-E may cause memetic contamination of exposed staff. Please see Procedure M0 below for subsequent treatment. Due to the risk of containment breach, any person who has been exposed to SCP-QQQQ before, or who refuses or has refused to comply with memetic containment measures, may not be reassigned to any task relating to SCP-QQQQ on pain of containment protection measures with extreme prejudice.

Special Containment Procedures for all personnel: SCP-QQQQ is contained in a facility consisting of a containment area with three security zones, equipped with standard defences against conventional, anomalous and memetic threats. The Secured Perimeter is secured by Level 1 site security and may be used without restriction by authorized personnel. The Outer Compartment is used by Level 2 security personnel to contain SCP-QQQQ in the Inner Compartment. Access to the Outer Compartment is restricted on a need-to-access basis. The inner border of the Outer Compartment is equipped with a soundproof one-way mirror and bright lighting to prevent visual contact between the Outer and Inner Compartments. The Inner Compartment is to accessed by approved Class C containment maintenance personnel or authorized research personnel ONLY. Management and Control personnel may not enter the Inner Compartment under any circumstances. These policies are enforced by Outer Compartment personnel and must never be deviated from.

Please familiarize yourself with Procedure M0. Personnel are automatically reclassified into Class E upon direct exposure to SCP-QQQQ, and are designated SCP-QQQQ-E until treated. Operators must give written agreement to Procedure M0 due to the risk of irreversible damage. Special pay bonus X30300-7G applies. Due to a risk of containment breach, any personnel reading this document must absolutely obey instructions from Control on pain of extreme countermeasures.

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PROCEDURE M0

The subject undergoing Procedure M0 may not sleep before the procedure. In case of sleep or other unconsciousness, the subject should remain in the Inner Compartment until Procedure M0 is complete.

1. Class B amnestics are administered to the subject. Then, coma is induced with insulin, and the shutdown of consciousness is confirmed with EEG. After recovery, a Seifert-Stein flash test is administered to detect a subliminal response to SCP-QQQQ stimuli. If the response remains positive, proceed to step 2. The success rate of step 1, if correctly administered, is 81%.

2. Class C amnestics are administered to the subject, followed by a Seifert-Stein flash test. If the response is positive, proceed to step 3. The success rate through steps 1 and 2, if correctly administered, is 92%.

3. Class D amnestics are administered to the subject, followed by a Seifert-Stein flash test. If the response is positive, proceed to step 4. The success rate through steps 1, 2 and 3, if correctly administered, is 99%.

4. The subject is admitted to a Foundation medical facility. Following sedation and craniotomy, the patient is awakened for neurosurgery. Electrodes are inserted to locations in the hippocampus where the memories relating to SCP-QQQQ are suspected to be located. In situ EEG is used to detect a response to subliminal images according to Seifert-Heim procedure. If there is a positive response, the relevant parts are cauterized and a Seifert-Stein flash test is administered. If the response remains positive, the electrodes are reinserted into another location in the hippocampus and the preceding procedure is readministered at most five (5) times. The success rate through steps 1-4 is 99.9%.

5. Class E amnestics are administered.

6. If the subject fails to submit to the procedure in order, escapes or otherwise interferes with the procedure, the subject may be terminated with extreme prejudice. Foundation records indicate that in aggregate, 10% of subjects deviate from Procedure M0 due to residual cognitohazardous effects of SCP-QQQQ.

7. Procedure M0 should not be reapplied unless step 4 has been carried out. Repeated exposure to SCP-QQQQ without subsequent follow-up with Procedure M0 must be treated as a containment breach, preferably by MTF Eta-10 ("See No Evil").

Please select task class as instructed by your supervisor:

For Site Security

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Outer Compartment Security is ordinarily responsible for the containment of SCP-QQQQ. The SCP Foundation is dedicated to the task of containing the spread of extranormal effects of anomalous entities. The SCP-QQQQ Compartment may issue any number of such entities at any time. Personnel may only enter and exit the Outer Compartment with valid credentials according to a predetermined schedule. Each person to exit and enter must be positively identified and checked against the schedule. Exceptions to the schedule are not allowed. Control-QQQQ will never issue an exception. There will never be a valid order, phonecall, letter, electronic message or any other communication issuing one. Any person claiming any sort of an exception to the schedule must be detained and Control-QQQQ must be notified. In case of containment breach, apprehend all personnel and/or beings exiting from the Outer Compartment regardless of their apparent identity, detain them and wait for instructions from Control-QQQQ. Do not enter the Inner Compartment under any circumstances. Procedure M0 is applied to all exposed personnel as necessary.

Description: No description is provided per SDC/UOC policy. Any persons or entities found exiting the Outer Compartment that are not mentioned in the schedule must be treated as SCP-QQQQ instances.

Outer Compartment

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Never enter the Inner Compartment. Never purposefully receive, read, listen or watch any messages from the Inner Compartment. Do not obey any instructions from Inner Compartment personnel. Entities exiting from the Inner Compartment without preauthorization from Control-QQQQ must be considered SCP-QQQQ instances. Personnel with accidental exposure must be treated as class V cognitohazards. If exposed, DO NOT TALK or otherwise communicate, IMMEDIATELY report to Control-QQQQ and REMAIN IN PLACE.

SCP-QQQQ and all associated Inner Compartment personnel must be contained inside the Inner Compartment by means of ordinary humanoid incarceration procedures, with standard protocols for the escalation of the use of force. Effectiveness of containment is enhanced by minimal force. Physical force is not preferred, but may be used if necessary. Lethal force is authorized although not preferred, as it decreases the effectiveness of Procedure M0. Outer Compartment security is to be provided with a baton, taser, a standard Randall RG-552 carbine and standard B-class armor.

Personnel will be allowed to exit and enter the Outer Compartment only according to a predetermined schedule. No exceptions are allowed. Any deviation from the schedule is a containment breach in itself. Only monitor the sector assigned to you, facing toward escape routes and away from the Inner Compartment. In ordinary conditions, do not look directly towards the Inner Compartment. Visual contact with SCP-QQQQ increases the risk of adventitious containment breach. When a containment breach alarm is sounded, the order is reversed: maintain uninterrupted visual contact with any persons exiting from the Inner Compartment. Recontainment effectiveness is enhanced by maintaining a visual contact with SCP-QQQQ.

Any communication with SCP-QQQQ is a class V cognitohazard. Treat all Inner Compartment personnel as class V memetic hazards. Release of personnel from the Inner Compartment is only through an explicit command from Control-QQQQ during scheduled exchanges. Any persons exiting the Inner Compartment without authorization must be considered instances of SCP-QQQQ. SCP-QQQQ is extremely adept at lying and producing highly misleading stories aimed at achieving containment breach. SCP-QQQQ may utilize Inner Compartment personnel as a vehicle for delivering these stories. Do not believe or obey SCP-QQQQ or any personnel in the Inner Compartment, who may be compromised. All exposed personnel must submit to Procedure M0.

Inner Compartment personnel will deliver necessary material sustenance and supplies to SCP-QQQQ. Outer Compartment personnel, site security or management may not perform this task. The ONLY allowed interaction with the Inner Compartment is through a sally port, which can be occupied only by one person at a time. Sealed research materials can be exchanged using tamper-resistant cases protected by lethal security measures. Outer Compartment personnel must check the integrity of the seals before allowing their removal from the Outer Compartment.

In case of a containment breach, apply Procedure KP6. In case of a deviation from procedure, immediately report to Control-QQQQ. Instructions for Procedure KP6 may be opened only in the case of a containment breach. To read the instruction, please click "Continue". Please note that opening the instructions automatically triggers an alarm. Continue?

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Procedure KP6

These instructions apply only to containment breaches. Please find a door in sector 3 of the Outer Compartment, marked "Live materials". Contained in is a litter of kittens. At least six (6) kittens must be released into the path of SCP-QQQQ. Regardless of the outcome of the recontainment action, each of the kittens must be returned to the Inner Compartment and Control-QQQQ must be notified. Control-QQQQ will then order an Inner Compartment task force to enter the Inner Compartment and receive the kittens through the sally port in the standard cat carrying cases provided. Losing track of any one of the kittens is to be treated as a containment breach in itself.

Escapes outside the Outer Compartment trigger a Category G-Gamma lockdown on the site. SCP-QQQQ should be recontained by MTF Eta-10 ("See No Evil"). Foundation worldwide intelligence assets (as applicable) should be activated with Keter-class priority.

WARNING: Personnel may have to submit to Procedure M0 after their mission is complete.

Description: SCP-QQQQ is an Asian 16-year-old male human. SCP-QQQQ attempts to escape often and is able to convince Inner Compartment personnel to assist. Physically, SCP-QQQQ is non-anomalous. The general behavior of SCP-QQQQ is consistent with age and gender. The physical fitness of SCP-QQQQ is consistent with a sedentary lifestyle. Regular incarceration procedures are generally sufficient for containment. SCP-QQQQ has an irrational fear of cats.

REVISION: Following incident #65044, the inner perimeter of the Outer Compartment has been equipped with 12 cells in an evenly spaced circular pattern. The cells must be continuously staffed by D-class personnel. The D-class personnel may be chosen from intact specimen in the D-class roster. However, no contact between the D-class personnel and the Inner Compartment or its personnel is to be allowed, including visual, aural or anomalous forms of contact. The D-class specimen must be escorted to the cells during scheduled exchanges, which are conducted at 0200 hours daily. The dead may be removed and cremated with standard procedures during scheduled exchanges. Mortuary trolleys are provided for this purpose in closet Q456.

Inner Compartment

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Read the instructions provided by Control-QQQQ. Your supervisor will require you to sign a declaration that you understand the instructions. Enter the Inner Compartment ONLY on command. After entering the Inner Compartment, never attempt to communicate with the Outer Compartment or with the outside world until authorized by Control-QQQQ. DO NOT TALK, WRITE, DRAW or otherwise produce messages other than in authorized research notebooks and materials.

Please seal all notebooks and produced materials to a tamper-resistant case protected by a Class A memetic kill agent, and supply them to Control-QQQQ through the sally port provided. No other materials may be enclosed in the case. At least two Class C personnel are required to witness the packing and sealing of the case. Attempts at smuggling of material out will be always considered as containment breaches, with the perpetrators being reclassified as SCP-QQQQ-E entities.

Any communication with SCP-QQQQ is a class V cognitohazard. Exposed personnel must submit to Procedure M0. Personnel must not be allowed to sleep before Procedure M0 is administered. Writings, photographs or recordings produced by or featuring SCP-QQQQ are, as a rule, not allowed outside the Inner Compartment. Exceptions must be explicitly authorized by Control-QQQQ.

SCP-QQQQ must be continuously observed by awake personnel, preferably by 2-3 persons, either by SCP-QQQQ-M or Foundation-appointed personnel. Class C personnel with an IQ of 100 or less and no criminal record are preferred. Use of D-class personnel is recommended against, other than for approved research purposes. Persons of high intelligence or persons in possession of critically important Foundation-classified information should not enter the Inner Compartment. Robotic, other non-human or anomalous entities should not be introduced to the Inner Compartment at all. Rematerialization events within the Inner Compartment are considered normal as long as containment is maintained.

SCP-QQQQ-M is a critical part of the containment. SCP-QQQQ-M should preferably be present in the Inner Compartment at all times. Unlike personnel assigned to SCP-QQQQ duty, SCP-QQQQ-M is allowed to sleep within the Inner Compartment without restriction. SCP-QQQQ-M is permitted to leave the facility under redundant Foundation security escort for 18 hours at maximum. SCP-QQQQ-M has been briefed and is generally cooperative; however, loss of consciousness or similar incapacitation is hazardous. MTF Mu-13 ("Ghostbusters") or MTF Omicron Rho ("The Dream Team") must be called in if SCP-QQQQ-M is rendered unconscious.

Visual exposure to SCP-QQQQ must be minimized. This reduces the hazard of a containment breach and increases the effectiveness of Procedure M0. Personnel should wear vision-limiting systems such as Augmented Reality Face Recognition and Digital Masking (ARFRDM) masks, and hearing protection systems such as a Steinhardt-Wells Recognition and Retranscription System (SWRRS). Physical contact to SCP-QQQQ must be avoided and delegated to SCP-QQQQ-M as extensively as possible.

Personnel who require visual contact for the performance of their duties must wear headphones that cancel hearing entirely, and must not come into physical contact with SCP-QQQQ at any time.

In case of containment breach, Outer Compartment security will provide at least six (6) kittens through the sally port. If recontainment is successful, each of them must be terminated without delay. If recontainment is unsuccessful, the kittens must be kept inside the Inner Compartment until recontainment is achieved, after which they are to terminated. The recommended method of euthanasia is rapid crushing the skull against the floor with a bootheel. Introduction of other dangerous or lethal materials or implements to the Inner Compartment for this purpose is not permitted.

REVISION: Following incident #65044, testing materialization with personnel present has been suspended, with the exception of D-class personnel. The Outer Compartment is now equipped with cells housing 12 D-class personnel for this purpose.

Description: SCP-QQQQ is a human [CLASSIFIED]. If need-to-know permission has been given to see the description, please enter credentials here:

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[Asian 16-year old male]

SCP-QQQQ possesses ordinary cognitive capabilities and intelligence. SCP-QQQQ is generally cooperative, but rebellion is natural in its age. The Inner Compartment consists of a two-bedroom apartment with ordinary amenities. SCP-QQQQ lives in the Inner Compartment with its mother (designated SCP-QQQQ-M) and is homeschooled through an Foundation-approved program. SCP-QQQQ's favorite hobbies are manga, anime and long walks on the beach. SCP-QQQQ possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of the world of [REDACTED], a manga series. Care for SCP-QQQQ is provided by SCP-QQQQ-M together with authorized Foundation personnel.

SCP-QQQQ is hazardous to all personnel who are exposed to its effect through vision, images, hearing or even sufficiently detailed written descriptions. The hazard is manifested when the exposed subject, hereafter referred to as SCP-QQQQ-E, falls asleep or is rendered unconscious and sees SCP-QQQQ in a dream. When SCP-QQQQ-E awakens, SCP-QQQQ is present in the same location relative to SCP-QQQQ-E where it appeared in the dream. SCP-QQQQ most frequently appears in the dreams of the person last exposed. However, this is not a rule, and SCP-QQQQ has been able to breach containment with persons exposed years before the event. SCP-QQQQ does not appear to have conscious control of its teleportation. SCP-QQQQ may disappear from its original location several hours before its reappearance. Containment is achieved by limiting the movement of persons aware of the existence of SCP-QQQQ to the Inner Compartment and their visual, auditory and communicational exposure to SCP-QQQQ. Teleportation is inhibited by the presence of awake subjects. However, SCP-QQQQ may still teleport during any sort lapse in awareness, such as leaving the room, looking elsewhere or blinking. A continuous watch maintained by multiple persons is highly effective for containment, as long as they agree on the location of SCP-QQQQ. Visual and auditory reprocessing through ARFRDM masks and SWRRS systems does not inhibit the effect, as long as personnel are physically present.

The character of SCP-QQQQ changes slightly after each "jump". Indeed, it may be that each SCP-QQQQ instance is a different entity. It is conjectured that the fidelity of the transformation is related to the familiarity of SCP-QQQQ-E to the characteristics of SCP-QQQQ. Materialization from the dreams of younger subjects will result in considerable, but temporary cognitive damage to SCP-QQQQ. The resulting SCP-QQQQ instance has a similar cognitive level of development as the exposed subject. Materialization from the dreams of animals will result in an incarnation that is only able to produce speech-like sounds and is capable of basic animal care. Such an incarnation may attempt to operate equipment such as vehicles or computers, for example by attempting to turn the steering wheel or by pressing keys on a keyboard. However, the incarnation is unable to correctly do so correctly, apparently lacking the capacity to so. Curiously, however, fundamental intelligence does not seem to be damaged, because such instances are capable of solving complex problems even involving written materials, if offered rare steak as a reward.

The damage may be corrected by re-materialization from the dreams of normal human subjects. However, this is accompanied by suppression or loss of parts of personality. SCP-QQQQ may also gain features it has in the dreams of the exposed subject. For example, if SCP-QQQQ is threatening and carrying a weapon in the dream, the instance will acquire these properties. Consequently, SCP-QQQQ becomes unpredictable and the effectiveness of containment is reduced. Therefore, for this purpose, SCP-QQQQ-M is preferred, as it possesses the most complete mental model of SCP-QQQQ known. However, SCP-QQQQ-M is not inert. Instances incarnated from SCP-QQQQ-M display mental features, which are characteristic of SCP-QQQQ-M, but which are not found in other types of incarnations. However, once rematerialized, SCP-QQQQ will gradually appear to lose these secondary features over a period of weeks.

Although instances incarnated using animals such as cats would appear to be easier to contain, because they cannot open locks, in practice they have been found to be suboptimal for long-term care. This is because a creature with cat-like behavior but with human intelligence and manual dexterity has been found to be extremely dangerous to contain. For similar reasons, use of D-class subjects to rematerialize SCP-QQQQ is advised against (see Incident #40053). Nevertheless, use of animals for containment is recommended in the case of a containment breach or other emergency due their dementing effect.

SCP-QQQQ may be damaged or killed. However, killing SCP-QQQQ has ultimately no effect, as SCP-QQQQ simply reappears elsewhere, causing a containment breach. As of May 13, ████, the Foundation does not have a complete record of at-risk individuals. Damage to SCP-QQQQ is generally easy to cure by permitting it to reincarnate from the dreams of a subject who has not seen SCP-QQQQ after the injury. For this reason, in case of injury to SCP-QQQQ, avoid exposing SCP-QQQQ-M to SCP-QQQQ. Serious or life-threatening injuries to SCP-QQQQ may be treated by termination followed by cremation, followed by rematerialization by SCP-QQQQ-M.

SCP-QQQQ was discovered by Foundation agents embedded in [REDACTED] Police Department after a rematerialization event. On the previous evening, SCP-QQQQ had obtained a gun and written a suicide note using Meme Generator. The note bore a picture of the gun, a background of anime characters from [REDACTED] and read "BRB ████████" (where ████████ is the world of a popular anime series). According to SCP-QQQQ-M, SCP-QQQQ had been binging on [REDACTED] manga, even postponing sleep in order watch it more, and refusing food. SCP-QQQQ-M estimated that SCP-QQQQ had been awake at least 30 hours. SCP-QQQQ had teleported to the bedroom of [REDACTED], a female schoolmate. [REDACTED] had been startled by SCP-QQQQ and had cried for help from her father, who had captured SCP-QQQQ and called the police. However, although detained in a cell at the police station, SCP-QQQQ was found in its own bed the next morning. [DISK READ ERROR] Due to widespread awareness of the existence of SCP-QQQQ within the community, a rather liberal application of amnestics was required to recontain SCP-QQQQ.

CLASSIFICATION NOTE

SCP EXITUS-Omega Research Group has reclassified selected parts of the document below by order of O5-██.

SCP-QQQQ explains the story on its side as follows: it wanted to transport itself to the world of ████████ and was convinced that first, it had to get rid of its material body. SCP-QQQQ maintains that it remembers holding a gun, but has no recollection of the actual transport event. The time of the transport event in relation to the last known event has not been established. According to SCP-QQQQ, it had been indeed transported to ████████, which SCP-QQQQ described as a lucid dream. However, it was not able to sustain its immersion to the lucid dream. After an experience SCP-QQQQ described as [REDACTED - O5 ONLY], according to its own words, SCP-QQQQ had been "torn" into a dream where the main character was the female former schoolmate [REDACTED]. SCP-QQQQ saw [REDACTED] materialize in front of him, after which it refused to talk about the incident further. The account given by [REDACTED] and her father appears accurate about the subsequent events.

SCP-QQQQ reports that it can enter lucid dreams at will and often travels to various worlds while sleeping. Furthermore, SCP-QQQQ claims that our reality is false and that the reality it enters in dreams is fundamentally real.

Test Report #09701

Dr. Hautasalo submitted a proposal to test the effectiveness of various methods to initiate rematerialization.

Method 1: .45 ACP applied directly to the forehead by means of a standard Randall RG-552 carbine.

Results: Rematerialized by SCP-QQQQ-M as normal. No memories of the event.

Method 2: Application of a debarking tool over a period of 85 minutes.

Results: Rematerialized by SCP-QQQQ-M as normal. No memories of the event.

Method 3: [REDACTED - O5 ONLY]

Results: Rematerialized by SCP-QQQQ-M as normal. SCP-QQQQ does not remember the time preceding the event, but during and after the event itself, [REDACTED - FOR O5 ONLY].

Method 4: EXPERIMENT CANCELLED. REASON: USE OF ANOMALOUS OBJECTS ON SCP-QQQQ HAS BEEN DISALLOWED BY ORDER OF O5-██. — Dr. Szarin-Novicsok (CLASS 5)

Incident Report #03301

Incident: SCP-QQQQ was able to convince Agent ██████ to [REDACTED], which resulted in the death of Agent ██████.

O5 Council reminds personnel: never follow any instructions given by SCP-QQQQ, as evidenced by the outcome of Incident #03301. For maintenance of containment, it is imperative that knowledge about the existence or characteristics of SCP-QQQQ is not distributed. MTF Omicron Rho ("The Dream Team") has done a phenomenal amount of work to find, apply amnestics to, [REDACTED] or [REDACTED] persons exposed to SCP-QQQQ. Nevertheless, it is still possible that Agent ██████ was able to spread the "gospel" further than we currently know about.

Incident Report #65044

Dr. Hautasalo submitted a proposal to experiment with the materialization of SCP-QQQQ from various subjects. The experiments approved were BASALT, RHYOLITE, GRANITE and ZIRCON.

In BASALT (DNo. 330/2017, full title: "Subject choice function for the materialization of SCP-QQQQ"), a group of 45 D-class personnel were exposed to SCP-QQQQ, taken to an underground bunker and placed in restrainment pods overnight. SCP-QQQQ was found wandering in the bunker next morning and was collected and transported back to the Inner Compartment. In interviews, observation of SCP-QQQQ was reported by one D-class specimen. There was 1 death among the D-class personnel. Subsequent repeats of the same experiment produced the same result: 1 report of SCP-QQQQ, 1 death.

In RHYOLITE (DNo. 331/2017, full title: "Stimulant amelioration of materialization risk"), one D-class specimen was exposed to SCP-QQQQ and placed into a restraintment pod. A drip of amphetamine was emplaced and the subject observed over the subsequent 14 days. Despite hallucinations and deliriousness, SCP-QQQQ was not materialized near the subject. At the 15th day, the experiment concluded with the sudden cardiac death of the subject. Subsequent repeats of the experiment confirmed the results.

In GRANITE (DNo. 332/2017, full title: "Sleep length effect on materialization"), ten D-class specimens were exposed to SCP-QQQQ and placed into restraintment pods. A wakefulness detection system based on EEG and eyelid position measurement was connected to each subject. To this device, a modified two-axis robotic injector system was connected. Once the wakefulness detection system detected sleep, the robotic injector delivered a pain stimulus by means of a 3-mm perforation and tear of the subject's skin with a sharp-ended hook. The position of the stimulus was randomly varied. It was found that the appearance of SCP-QQQQ could be correlated to the microsleeps exhibited by the subjects. However, during the repeat runs of the experiment, there were two unexplained deaths among research personnel in close proximity to the experiment. The experiment was terminated. Reanalysis of the data revealed that the unexplained deaths were temporally correlated with the materialization incidents.

ZIRCON (DNo. not assigned, full title: "Effectiveness of continuously applied modulated pain stimulus against materialization") has been CANCELLED by O5-██ due to the risk of containment breach.

The probability of accidental deaths caused by SCP-QQQQ can be reduced by means of placement of D-class personnel in proximity. The Special Containment Procedures have been updated accordingly.

Interview with SCP-QQQQ #65044

[DATA EXPUNGED]

CONTAINMENT SECURITY NOTICE: Data generated by the SCP-QQQQ entity itself is automatically classified DAMMERUNG EYES ONLY. Interviews are preferably not recorded or transcribed. In case they are recorded, the records and transcripts are to be destroyed within 12 hours of last authorized access. Recorded interviews have been found to significantly increase containment breach risk. On completion of an interview, a qualitative report is to be written. The report must be censored for descriptions of identifying features of SCP-QQQQ before being sent to Control.

Control and Management

Object Class: SDC/UOC

Special Containment Procedures: Control and Management will not directly involve itself in the containment of SCP-QQQQ in any way. All containment actions must be accomplished through Level 3 or lower intermediaries. Descriptions of SCP-QQQQ must not be presented to Control and Management. Documents intended for SCP-QQQQ management, including this document, may not include a physical description of SCP-QQQQ.

Documentation concerning SCP-QQQQ must be reviewed by appointed Level 3 censors before said documentation is presented to management. Exposed management personnel must be treated as CK-class hazards and administered with Procedure M0 immediately. Personnel which have been exposed to SCP-QQQQ must never read the classified section of this document regardless of their other credentials. Such an event may precipitate a CK-class "Reconfiguration" or a WK-class "Planetary Disruption" scenario.

WARNING: Proceed with O5 level authorization only. This document is classified as Special Compartmentalized Documentation with Unlimited Object Classification (SDC/UOC). The classified section of the document is protected by lethal countermeasures against unauthorized access. Personnel proceeding beyond this point must be properly authorized and inoculated, or they will be terminated.

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Object Class: Euclid Apollyon Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Special containment procedures or detailed descriptions of SCP-QQQQ will not be revealed in this document, by policy. Containment must be delegated. Review the strategies outlined below in the description.

Description: SCP-QQQQ does not exist. However, something as trivial as nonexistence has never really been a limitation for SCP entities in the first place.

SCP-QQQQ is able to traverse the dream-reality boundary. SCP-QQQQ claims that our reality is an illusion. Unfortunately, SCP-QQQQ's claims are accurate: our reality (hereafter called Reality SCP-QQQQ-VALVE) is indeed a simulation or a dream placed in a reality hereafter called Reality SCP-QQQQ-UNI. This fact was discovered as described in the following Incident Report #00330.

Incident Report #03300

Agent Hirsch (referred hereafter as SCP-QQQQ-MALLORY) was compromised by SCP-QQQQ and followed its instructions (see Procedure UN1 below) to permanently transport himself to Reality SCP-QQQQ-UNI. SCP-QQQQ-MALLORY gained a similar ability to teleport himself to locations where an exposed person was sleeping. It is not known how SCP-QQQQ was able to convince Agent Hirsch to execute Procedure UN1. Cognitohazard involvement is suspected. SCP-QQQQ-MALLORY remains uncontained due to its extensive knowledge of Foundation security procedures.

SCP-QQQQ claims that Reality SCP-QQQQ-VALVE is an artificially maintained subset of Reality SCP-QQQQ-UNI. Reality SCP-QQQQ-UNI is extremely chaotic and inconsistent, and appears to lack well-defined causality. Reality SCP-QQQQ-VALVE, which we perceive as our current awake reality, is a collective enterprise to stabilize and give structure to Reality SCP-QQQQ-UNI. Reality SCP-QQQQ-UNI is inhabited by SCP-QQQQ-X entities, which SCP-QQQQ calls "souls". SCP-QQQQ-X entities fall into insanity if grown in or exposed to Reality SCP-QQQQ-UNI for sufficiently long periods of time.

Therefore, SCP-QQQQ claims that it needs to manifest itself in Reality SCP-QQQQ-VALVE (our world) to maintain its identity. Apparent causality is in effect in Reality SCP-QQQQ-VALVE: events have causes, so that memories are real and a consistent identity can be maintained, which is not the case for Reality SCP-QQQQ-UNI.

Analysis indicates that SCP-QQQQ will appear slightly differently after each "jump" because in Reality SCP-QQQQ-UNI, its form is not fully stabilized. Therefore, the fear of cats exhibited by SCP-QQQQ is perfectly rational: its rematerialized form manifests some of the attributes of a cat.

For the procedure used by SCP-QQQQ to gain its anomalous abilities, see Procedure UN1.

PROCEDURE UN1

1. The subject must interact with a second person (Person Z) closely enough to induce a dream about the subject. The subject has to have a strong desire to meet Person Z.
2. The subject must expose himself to a continuous stream of fiction that maintains a consistent storyworld (hereafter called Subreality SCP-QQQQ-LEK), preferably over the span of two weeks at minimum. Of this exposure, the last 24 hours must be without sleep.
3. The subject must sincerely wish to be transported into this world with Person Z, and must be afflicted by a delusion that this transport is possible through step 4.
4. The subject must destroy his lower brain and brainstem with explosive force. The subject must be awake during the event. SCP-QQQQ used a pistol, SCP-QQQQ-MALLORY used a gauge 0 shotgun.
5. The subject will rematerialize when Person Z sees the subject in a dream in Subreality SCP-QQQQ-LEK. There is no data for the allowed latency period for step 5. Discovery of the dead subject before rematerialization makes the procedure ineffective.

Lower-grade incidents can be precipitated by using strong psychoactives such as large doses of ethanol; however, these events tend to be singular and the anomalous abilities are not maintained.

This procedure describes the method as it is known to work. The required parameters have not been confirmed because of insufficient data. Further experimentation is not recommended.

Maintenance of strict compartmentalization is necessary in order to prevent the spread of knowledge about Procedure UN1. SCP-QQQQ discovered Procedure UN1 accidentally. Thus, UN1 events may reoccur, and more instances of SCP-QQQQ may have been produced and may remain undiscovered. However, as the conditions required are strict, the appearance of further instances de novo is unlikely. Alarmingly, Procedure UN1 appears to be entirely non-anomalous, not depending on any identified anomalous ability. MTF Omicron Rho ("The Dream Team") has performed the Three-axis Reality Detection Test on SCP-QQQQ and concluded that SCP-QQQQ is not an Oneiroi (dream) entity. Biological and chemical tests on bodily fluid and biopsy samples return results expected of normal human material. No traces of classical anomalous modification of reality have been observed: measured Hume levels stay conspiciously close to 1.000 near SCP-QQQQ, suggesting that instead of destabilizing reality, SCP-QQQQ acts upon reality like a well-functioning Reality Anchor.

See Incident Report 40955:

Incident Report #40955

While Agent Graves was reviewing the SCP-QQQQ containment procedure, SCP-QQQQ-MALLORY appeared in the dream of Agent Graves, manifested himself in his office and wrote the following message to the whiteboard:

DREAM FOLK.
THEY NEED US. WE DON'T NEED THEM.
THERE IS NO DEATH.
WE WOULD BE FREE.
THEY IMPRISON US.
SET YOURSELF FREE!

Following standard procedure, Agent Graves dispatched of the SCP-QQQQ-MALLORY instance by means of six rounds from a .45 ACP pistol. Nevertheless, MTF Omicron Rho ("The Dream Team") were in contact with SCP-QQQQ-MALLORY the next night. SCP-QQQQ-MALLORY complained of a hostile welcome, but confirmed the picture given by SCP-QQQQ. Unfortunately, SCP-QQQQ-MALLORY could not be recaptured by MTF Omicron Rho. Further attempts to contact SCP-QQQQ-MALLORY have shown that it has not disappeared.

Further implications of SCP-QQQQ are discussed in Containment Review Report #0046:

Containment Review Report #0046

SCP-QQQQ has now been contained for 2 years and 3 months. Normal humanoid containment methods within the Inner Compartment have proven sufficient with no an acceptable level of casualities. Classification "Euclid" remains sufficient for security and Outer Compartment purposes.

MTF Alpha-9 ("Last Hope") has expressed interest in training SCP-QQQQ for use in the field. I recommend against this due to the risk of an uncontrolled containment breach. I refer to the ultimate neutralization plan instead.

Nevertheless, updating the classification to Keter for Inner Compartment personnel and for management purposes is justified. This is because of the wider implications of the anomaly revealed by SCP-QQQQ: any person dying while lucid may present a risk. Eventually, persons encountering death in a state of lucidity combined with strong belief may outnumber persons dying by other means. Current estimates for the date of this occurrence are uncertain due to incomplete knowledge about ancient religions. Estimates for potential SCP-QQQQ-like dream entities resulting from lucid deaths on Earth range from 0.1 to 16 billion. The proportion of hazardous entities among these is unknown. The proportion of entities that continue to be associated with Earth is unknown. The fate of non-hazardous entities is detailed in SCP-2718 (authorized personnel only).

Therefore, in cooperation with secular and divine organizations, the Foundation has started several projects for risk reduction purposes:

• Project ABRAHAM aims to promote religions where the dead are transported to a separate, inaccessible "heaven", and dissuade ancestor worship, animism and similar beliefs that mix Reality SCP-QQQQ-VALVE and Reality SCP-QQQQ-UNI.
• Project POPPY aims to induce altered states or narcosis in dying persons as widely as possible.
• Project ICONOCLAST aims to reduce events involving strong belief by promoting atheism and secularism.
• Project SHALOM aims to reduce deaths in war to reduce the likelihood of lucid deaths.
• Project FRUITFUL aims to increase current population in order to increase the number of entities affected by the effects of the aforementioned projects.

While these projects are ongoing, current data indicates that they are largely successful in achieving their annual objectives. [SUPERVISOR'S COMMENT:A project plan is needed to reduce the incidence of social isolation. Our previous attempts have been spectacularly unsuccessful. Sándor, we need a draft by 31/01 - get to it! Also, it remains of paramount importance to contain any SCPs affected by the anomaly; we don't want another religion get started because someone did a resurrection trick! — Dr. Kirkas]

The stabilization of SCP-QQQQ-VALVE is achieved by the body of conscious observers throughout the universe. The Foundation cooperates with galactic and intergalactic partners (such as the Via Lactea Reality Stabilization Collegium and General Intersupercluster Cooperation Board) to maintain a healthy 7+-billion population of uncontaminated conscious observers. However, effects of decontainment and recontainment are limited to the size of the light cone. Thus, a complete failure of containment could still manifest its effects for 8.74+ years before containment could be reestablished by the closest recontainment force, which is situated on Alpha Centauri. The use of SCP-2000 is currently the only known method for the management of a catastrophic Earth-wide containment breach.

— Dr. Szarin-Novicsok

Ultimate Neutralization Plan

SCP-QQQQ-MALLORY appears to be associated with SCP-QQQQ and should become nonhazardous when SCP-QQQQ is eliminated. SCP-QQQQ itself will be neutralized by the death of the last living person who remembers SCP-QQQQ and has seen it in person. Currently, according to the best intelligence available to the Foundation, this is SCP-QQQQ-M. However, due to the unpredictable consequences of a containment breach, SCP-QQQQ-M should be contained as long as possible. The termination of, or the application of amnestics to the family and associates of SCP-QQQQ (other than SCP-QQQQ-M), and the personnel and students of the █████████ Secondary School in █████████, █████████ has taken care of most of the risk. Nevertheless, due to the uncontrolled nature of previous SCP-QQQQ exposure suffered by uninvolved persons, the containment of SCP-QQQQ remains precarious. The termination of the persons exposed to SCP-QQQQ has been found to reduce the effectiveness and predictability of the containment of SCP-QQQQ and is therefore recommended against.