Eris Ashwood

SCP-XXXX

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Item #: SCP-XXXX (Mania)

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be contained within a 5 cm thick, 2 m by 2 m by 2 m metal cage coated with at least 3 coats of Telekill alloy, centrally suspended 50cm within a concrete room measuring 3m by 3m by 3m at least 50cm thick. The two holding units must be separated with a vacuum. Energy dampeners and Spacial distortion detectors are to be attached on the floor, ceiling and walls or the room, backup generators must always be checked and ready for a power outage. Personnel assigned in the SCP-XXXX control room must ensure the functionality of the dampeners, detectors and back-up generators and call for a maintenance crew immediately in an instance of a broken dampener or an issue with the generators.

Guards and monitors assigned to SCP-XXXX must score high in the mental strength test and are to be psychologically tested once every week every day for any signs of unusual fanaticism and mental disorders.

Personnel suspected of becoming SCP-XXXX-1 are to be quarantined in a separate site than the one containing SPC-XXXX and for selected personnel to be treated with Class C amnestics. Confirmed instances of SCP-XXXX-1 are to be terminated on site immediately.

In case SCP-XXXX breaches containment, the site director is to report immediately to the O5 Council. Every personnel on-site are advised to flee immediately to commit suicide in order to not become another instance of SCP-XXXX-1 and increase SCP-XXXX's range.

Under NO circumstances must another sentient SCP be brought into the infection radius of SCP-XXXX, SCP-XXXX be relocated, or tested without at least 3/4 votes from the O5 Command.
SCP-XXXX must NOT be contained near public centers or cities. Failure to follow this containment procedure may allow SCP-XXXX to increase its effect radius exponentially and will evoke an AK-Class End-of-the-World Scenario.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a black smoke free floating in space around 1 m in height and 500 cm wide. SCP-XXXX can change it's form, shape, density, and size and can do this even during daytime, therefore, accurate measurements cannot be taken. Some personnel and staff claim to have seen take a female humanoid form with luminous red eyes and a devilish grin, however, no known documentation as of yet has captured this form.

SCP-XXXX in temporary containment.

Reports suggest that SCP-XXXX can and will only move when the sun has set and near the end of the day, its smoke-like form will transform to become more solid and dense. Testing for the mass of SCP-XXXX cannot be conducted because of its incorporeal abilities. SCP-XXXX will start crashing on the walls of its containment area, potentially trying to phase through the titanium walls of its cage.

After Incident XXXX-1a, approximately 200 Energy dampeners and Spacial Distortion Detectors are to be placed inside and outside its containment area to prevent SCP-XXXX from phasing through the walls of its cage, and to swiftly know when it does so.

SCP-XXXX causes insanity and mania to any and every sentient life in a 50m 90m 100m radius from itself. The 'infected' individual, SCP-XXXX-1 (but commonly called 'Excites' by personnel on site) will continue in a mad rage looking for any sentient life and attacking any living creature that it finds until it or its target are terminated.

Stages of Madness:

1. The First Stage - Any sentient life will start to feel unease, paranoia and anxiety. Most animals run away at this point. The following stages will be avoidable if the subject is brought away form the infection radius.
2. The Middle Stage - Unease and paranoia will start to increase in severity. Subjects report feeling uncharacteristic hate or fear towards their companions. Class D Amnestics are to be given to the subject if necessary.
3. Infection Stage - Unease and paranoia stops, subjects report to be "awakened". Subjects will now start the Greek Goddess of Madness and Insanity. They will start to refer to SCP-XXXX as 'Mistress' or 'Goddess' and will try any possible means to get SCP-XXXX out of its containment cell. The individuals within this stage can already be considered as SCP-XXXX-1.
4. Madness Stage - This stage does not occur to all subjects, some only stay in the Infection Stage. Researchers agree that SCP-XXXX and instances of SCP-XXXX-1s relationship are similar to ants and their queen. an instance of SCP-XXXX-1 that is stuck on stage 3 are the workers and harvesters, tasked to follow the queen's commands and fulfill it's needs. Those that are on stage 4, however are the soldiers that are tasked to eliminate any potential threats to the queen. Another striking similarity is that when a worker is killed, it can be replaced by a soldier or vice versa. Individuals within this stage will start to have erratic behavior and murderous tendencies. They will try to kill any human on sight.

Instances of SCP-XXXX-1 have significantly boosted capabilities than most humans, specifically a 20-30% increase for speed, strength, reflexes and endurance. Brain scans show that the amygdala shows significantly more amount of activity within this stage.

Every time SCP-XXXX infects another sentient life, the infection radius rate increases. Increases varies from 10cm and 1m for every SCP-XXXX-1 it creates. Regardless whether the infected individual stays alive or not, the radius does not decrease.

SCP-XXXX is considered to be sentient and sapient. Communication has not yet been established, but the entity shows signs of higher mental function and enhanced problem-solving skills.

Those things were like zombies, Pete! They were damn fast! It didn't even stop coming after me even after both its legs were blasted by a grenade! Sure, it died soon after, but it was hella scary. -Agent Nikita A█████ of MTF MU-13 "Ghostbusters", speaking to Dr. Peter █████ after Incident XXXX-1a

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► ACCESS SCP-XXXX Acquisition Report-A

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07:35—Site-██ received reports that strange radio silence for 3 weeks until present on ███████,█████, Texas.

07:37—The site director dispatched a small armed reconnaissance unit to the target location . Team 1 composed of Agents Mc’carthy (Alpha), Greybloom (Bravo), Hill (Charlie), Marqueses (Delta), and Team 2 composed of 5 other agents.

07:50—Unit arrived at location.

07:52—Agents Charlie and Delta started to show signs of unease and paranoia and promptly reported it to mission control.

07:52—Mission control stated that it was just a normal mental response to the unknown.

07:53—Unit sped up their approach.

07:56—The unit reported seeing an estimated 15 corpses, mostly still in their homes and appears to be brutally murdered.

07:57—Agent Bravo reportedly found a black and smoky entity on the town plaza.

07:59—Loud shouts and gunfire can be heard through the comms. Mission Control could barely understand anything.

08:00—Mission control lost contact of the team after 10 minutes of entry, further communication trials only return incoherent and incomprehensible replies. Unit is assumed to be eliminated.
[End Log]

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► ACCESS EXPLORATION AUDIO LOG TRANSCRIPT

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EXPLORATION AUDIO LOG TRANSCRIPT
Date: ██/██/19

Exploration Team: Unit 1, consisting of Teams 1 and 2

Subject: Reported prolonged radio silence over a town in TEXAS, USA.

Team Lead: Agent Mc'carthy, Team 1 "Alpha"

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[Team 1 is dropped 500m east, and Team 2 was dropped 500m west away from the set target by a ████ helicopter]
Mission Control: Unit 1, have you arrived at the targeted location?

Alpha: Positive, Mission Control. It sounds really quiet here though.

Mission Control: Noted. Please proceed to and investigate. Report other anomalies when you have encountered them.

Alpha:* Copy that.

[After a minute of walking to the town]

Delta:** Hey, Alpha, are we sure we should do this? I’m getting a bad feeling here…

Charlie: Yeah, I think someone’s watching us.

Mission Control: Don’t worry. It’s a normal response since you don’t know what you’re going to encounter.

[Charlie and delta hesitated for a while but continue their walk towards the town.]

[At this point, 3 other people within Team 2 start to feel uneasy, they were dismissed similarly.]

[After rendezvousing with Team 2, Unit 1 begin search of the town]

Alpha: Team 1 how many corpses did you find? Mine’s two.

Bravo: Three.

Charlie: Three… Three as well.

Alpha: Delta, how many did yo—

Bravo: What the hell is that? It’s smoke.

Mission control: Bravo, what do you see?

Alpha: Bravo: Stay put, we’ll arrive at your location.

Delta: She is mounted on her chariot, the queen of sorrow and sighing

Mission Control: Delta, what are you talking about?

Delta: And is goading on her steeds, as if for outrage.

Bravo: [Silence]

Bravo: [REDACTED]

[Gunshots can be heard over the comms]

Alpha: What the fuck has gotten into you Charlie?!

[More gunshots]

Delta: The Gorgon child of Night, with a hundred hissing serpent-heads.

[Mission control add more operators to quickly assess the events]

Mission Controller 1: Bravo, Please explain clearly.

Mission Controller 2: Alpha: What the hell is happening?

MC 3: Charlie! What are you doing?

MC 4: Delta, State your location.

MC 5: Team 2, Please respond!

Delta: Madness of the flashing eyes.

[Gunshots and loud grunting came from Alpha’s comm device]

Alpha: Mission control! Everyone getting crazy! They’r—Fuck!

Alpha: Dammit Mike¹!

[Gunshots]

Alpha: [Pants for a short time] Team 2 is down, I repeat, Team… 2 is down!

MC 2: Please explain further.

Alpha: I said before, they’re all dead!… Delta and Ch… Ch… Charlie… I killed them already [Heavy Laughter from Alpha]. Bravo is… is missing. I don’t know… how long I can keep this. Tell Maria that I… that I’m sorry.

[Last Gunshot]

MC 2: Alpha respond!

[Radio silence from every communication devices held by Unit 1]

[Last radio transmission came 1 minute after from Agent Bravo]

Bravo: She’s coming.

[End Log]

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► ACCESS SCP-XXXX Acquisition Report-B

TIME LOG

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DATE: ██/██/19

NOTE: Task Force is set on High Alert after the previous unit's elimination.

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08:01 — The site director dispatched Task Force Alpha-Q, designed to contain strong and murderous anomalies.

08:20 — Task Force Alpha-Q arrived on the targeted location.

08:22 — Agent Neil M███ of the task force saw Agent Bravo standing on the side of the road. He tried to establish contact, Bravo immediately attacked the Task Force members. Bravo was quickly terminated.

08:30 — Further exploration of the town yielded 5 of the Task Force insane and 1 of the sane Agents was killed. The agents were promptly eliminated.

08:35 — The group found a black smoke free floating in space on the town plaza. Similar to Agent Bravo’s earlier report.

08:40 — The Task Force also found occult markings around the entity and corpses of several robed individuals were found near the markings, whether this is the start of a new cult, or now is still unknown. Greek markings which translates to "One who brings madness" were also found.

08:42 — The team immediately requested a mobile containment cell with telepathy blocking technology.

08:50 — Request Granted

14:55 — The Task force proceeded to bring entity to site-██. It was promptly designated as SCP-XXXX afterwards.

[End Log]

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WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 4/7013 CLASSIFIED

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An electronic device containing an audio file was found in the wreckage's of site-██, held by the site director on one hand. The site director held a Colt Anaconda .44 Magnum in his other hand, investigators suggest, he killed himself to avoid become an "Exite". This is the transcript:

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Okay, umm… to whoever is listening, I, no, we…we have unleashed something that we should never had.

This… This is Site Director, ███ █████, of Site-██. Or at least what used to be Site-██…

3 days ago, reports of strange prolonged radio and communication silence at a town 50km away were received by our agents. A team of researchers and agents were dispatched to identify, control, capture and/or eliminate the entity.

As soon as the unit got there, they were shocked to find that the town was littered with corpses, mostly in homes, as the team went to investigate further, they found no survivors within the town and found that there were every single one of the corpses were killed by murder, they didn't know who killed the townspeople but they knew that whoever it was, they definitely were dangerous. Little did the team know they were killed by their own family members. Just minutes past investigating and some of the agents showed signs of delusion, some became paranoid and insisted that someone is watching their team from the shadows. After a few more minutes, gunfire raged and mission control lost… well, control. The entire unit was assumed to be dead.

I immediately sent a Special Task Force to neutralize the killers of the unit. At that time, I didn't know the effects and abilities of SCP-XXXX, neither of us did.

The whole Task Force came on high alert until they saw what they actually came there for, they had the feeling that the black smoke in the town plaza was the cause of all this, but they couldn’t be sure unless they actually got to study it. When they did find it, some of the agents who seemed a tad bit crazy from a while ago were now full on insane, they were frantically screaming and tried to shoot the other agents, some immediately tackled the normal agents and tried to kill them. The size of the whole team was approximately 20 people and… and 5 of them went bat-shit crazy. I’ll start calling those who became insane as Excites now for the sake of clarity.

The Excites killed another 3 agents before they were neutralized, a message was sent back to mission control to send further reinforcements but to keep them out of a 1 km wide perimeter, just in case the entity could affect them. They also sent requests for an airtight container specialized for containing mind-affecting SCP's.

After hours of grueling sacrifices, they finally managed to encapsulate the entity into an airtight chamber, but the unneutralized Excites never did become sane again, even after removing the entity's presence. After the whole ordeal was over, we lost… we lost about 30 agents just trying to capture an unmoving entity that was somehow… Everywhere… and brought it back to the site.

Now, that was the stupidest thing that we have ever done. EVER. We brought an unknown entity that can turn anyone insane just by being near it into a research facility with a myriad of people and SCP's. This is one mistake the Foundation will never forget, i'm sure. But that's… that's okay. Learn from this.

If you asked, yes, keeping the entity inside an airtight chamber really could stop its effects on the mind, It was coated with Telekill alloy, of course. But it was smart enough to hide its incorporeality.

At first it was subtle, the guards of the containment cell were the first to fall, then the other sentient SCP like SCP-████ and SCP-████. Humans and SCP's alike, within a hundred meter radius, then the whole floor. And that’s all it needed to wreck havoc throughout the whole facility. It was pandemonium, the entity could move, it could phase through matter, and it could make anyone around a 100 meter radius insane. There was no way to stop it,and if there was, we didn't know how.

I… I managed to hide from the hell that was previously site-██. I did manage to hide and record this but I know,I could never… never run.

To the O5 council. Will all due respect, send Mobile Task Force MU-13 "Ghostbusters".They may be our only hope against this nightmare.

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Containment breach photo taken by a CCTV

Promptly after hearing the message, The O% council was reported to have approved sending MTF MU-13 to contain SCP-XXXX. The MTF were geared with special Telekill alloy shielding against the effects of SCP-XXXX (The Task force limited their exposure to the Telekill shielding because of it's side effects). SCP-XXXX was finally contained after enclosing it in a Telekill alloy-coated cage and duct taping 328 Small energy dampeners out of frustration around it after escaping for the 17th time.

"Fucking.. Shitty… Smoke!" -Said by an MTF MU-13 agent while vigorously duct taping the 278th Energy dampener on the containment cell.

Addendum XXXX-1a: Whilst trying to contain the entity, 14 agents were maddened, 4 were killed by the attacks and, 1 was injured, 116 townspeople, and 8 cultists died during the anomaly.

Addendum XXXX-1b: It has been noted that Agent Alpha has showed high mental resistance on an earlier test

Addendum XXXX-1c: It was later found out that Agent Marqueses (Delta) recited an excerpt from "The Madness of Heracles”

Footnotes

1. Mike is Agent Marqueses (Delta)'s first name.