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Item #: SCP-4107
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Should a display and input infected by SCP-4107 be discovered, the room containing them is to be wholly evacuated and put under complete lockdown, with an appropriate cover. All those evacuated, with the exception of foundation staff class-B and above, are to be administered class-A amnesiacs.
Once the room containing a manifestation of SCP-4107 is evacuated, it is not to be re-entered until the infected display and input method are neutralized, or alternate action has been authorized.
Before moving to neutralize an SCP-4107 manifestation, class-B personnel are to be informed of the infected system’s nature. If the particular manifestation is deemed of strategic value to the foundation, await the arrival of an MTF and then take the following steps to bring the infected devices into containment. Upon the arrival of the MTF, destroy as many walls as necessary to create a direct path between the open air and the room hosting SCP-4107. Under MTF escort, have D-class personnel transport the infected display and input to the bed of a hoodless flatbed truck. This flatbed truck is to be escorted to the next unused freestanding office building in the middle of the Site-███ fields. The door is to be closed from the outside and locked by means of an automated system.
In cases where a manifestation of SCP-4107 is deemed of no strategic value, the infected display and input are to be destroyed by either illiterate or blind D-class personnel. If neither are present, foundation staff are authorized to induce temporary or permanent blindness upon D-class personnel, as the situation demands. If using blind D-class personnel, it is safe for an operator to guide them to the manifestation via video and audio equipment. The D-class personnel chosen must have no affiliation with the building SCP-4107 has manifested in. The D-class is to go directly to the infected display and destroy the entire portion rendering the message.
Any individual found communicating with an instance of SCP-4107 is to be given class-B amnesiacs.
Any individual leaving a room of their own volition, after communicating with SCP-4107 is immediately to be taken into custody, and given class-E amnesiacs, pending authorization.
Should SCP-4107 manifest in an anomalous room, contact the appropriate class-B personnel to ensure a viable special containment procedure.
Under no circumstance are two instances of SCP-4107 to be brought together in the same building.
Description: SCP-4107 is an anomalous computer virus. The foundation keeps the first known manifestation of SCP-4107, SCP-4107-01, locked in a freestanding office building comprised of three windowless concrete walls and concrete wall with a one-way mirror in the middle of an open field at Site-███. SCP-4701-01 is comprised of a shard of a cathode-ray display approximately 11 centimeters long, and a bulky keyboard. Both are believed to have come from a prototype of the ██████████ system, circa 19██.
While described as a computer virus, SCP-4107 only requires a display and means of input in order to manifest itself. There is no need for anything else that technology typically requires to run, such as a motherboard or power supply. The display must always be capable of displaying text, and the input method must have at some point been connected to the display. There appear to be no other limitations on the hardware SCP-4107 can infect; documented input methods range from keyboards to microphones to SCP-████. There is no known way to communicate with SCP-4107 beyond the infected input method.
A computer or device infected by SCP-4107 will indefinitely display “What would you like to know?” No other function can be achieved by this device while infected by SCP-4107. After the infected display is destroyed, the input method will become uninfected and the device will return to its exact state pre-infection. This recovery is physical. The display will be restored, and any damage done to the device since it was infected will be undone, as will repairs.
SCP-4107 always manifests in a closed-off room, with at most one individual present at the time of manifestation. SCP-4107 seems to seek out individuals in search of information. The exact nature of the target’s search varies wildly, ranging from the agendas of intelligence officials to the academic interest of professors. Despite this, there does not seem to be any anomalous compulsion to ask SCP-4107 a question. It is not uncommon for manifestations to be reported as issues to IT, or concerns over hacking, with the user never even touching the input device before the foundation gets involved.
Upon someone interacting in any way with an infected input method, they enter into a trance state, and communicate telepathically to SCP-4107. Note that the user must still use the infected input method to submit any answer to SCP-4107. SCP-4107 invites the user to a simple game, wherein SCP-4107 first asks them a question, and gets a true answer, then the user asks a question, and gets a true answer. Very few users have turned down the offer, made vaguely aware of SCP-4107’s vast knowledge stores by the telepathic link. Additionally, the strength of this telepathic link has left the foundation unable to communicate with any subject whilst they are playing SCP-4107’s game.
If a user accepts, the round begins. SCP-4107 always begins with simple questions, such as the name of the user or what their favorite color is. If a user answers truthfully, SCP-4107 holds up their end of the bargain and will answer accurately any question the user has. It is unclear where the limits of SCP-4107’s knowledge lie, but it seems unlikely there is any human knowledge it does not possess.
The first round concluded, SCP-4107 offers the user a second round, of the same rules. SCP-4107 will continue doing this until the user declines continuing or answers a question falsely. As soon as either of these happen, SCP-4107 reverts the room’s timeline to the moment the user activated it. The user is temporally reverted as well, returning to their same physical location, reversing in age and forgetting all they’ve learned except for the answer to the last question they asked. The subject believes themselves to have always possessed this knowledge.
With each new round or temporal reset, time within the host room proceeds at twice the pace of the prior round. There is no known limit to this temporal acceleration. Between rounds, subjects interacting with SCP-4107 will ask it the same questions up until the question they remember, however SCP-4107 never asks the same question twice.
"Tell me something I don't know" is a question SCP-4107 is documented as both asking and answering.
It is uncertain how an individual beats SCP-4107’s game , any individuals leaving an infected room of their own accord and without anyone opening the room to the outside are to be assumed highly dangerous and completely knowledgeable about the foundation and all contained SCPs.
The temporal acceleration of SCP-4107 can only be reset through its neutralization or by expanding its influence (even momentarily) to the boundary of the building it has manifested itself in. Transporting SCP-4107 seamlessly into a closed, portable container such as a vehicle allows the temporal anomaly to be transported without interrupting the temporal acceleration.
While SCP-4107 will never manifest in a room containing more than one individual, it is possible for new individuals to enter the room. If the new subject interacts with the input method while in use by some other subject, the responses given will be treated as responses given by the individual telepathically linked to SCP-4107. If the linked individual is removed from the room, they will lose all memories formed while in the room, both before and during the SCP-4107 manifestation. The person responsible for removing the linked individual for the room will suddenly find themselves with all of the linked individual's lost memories, as well as now becoming involuntary players of SCP-4107's game, continuing at the round where the prior linked individual left off.
Interestingly enough, all wireless signals appear unaffected by SCP-4107. Transmitted video, phone calls, and wirelessly transmitted dates and times all operate according to the timeline of the device they originate from. Video transmissions leaving the manifestation site stream continuously in our timeline, albeit at unintelligible rates and with what we perceive as an extremely short battery life, and any transmission sent into the manifestation site will obey the timeline of the transmitter. The temporal difference caused by SCP-4107 can even be seen through a window, like a movie put on fast-forward, making it an invaluable aid in foundation research on temporal anomalies.
The physical boundaries of SCP-4107 are fluid. Opening a door into a room containing an SCP-4107 manifestation will expand its influence to that room as well. Closing the door will end its influence there. Entering into SCP-4107's timeline is reported as a completely seamless transition. Note that structures such as vents or small holes leading out of the building do not seem to impact SCP-4107’s field or activated status.
SCP-4107 stops interacting telepathically and stops manipulating time when there exists an unobstructed path from the origin device to beyond the boundaries of the building. For as long as this pathway exists, subjects playing SCP-4107's game will lose memories at a rate proportional but not equivalent to the speed of the room before it was opened. At this juncture, players can be removed without the behavior described above occurring. Closing the door again returns the room and player to a round proportional to the time it was left open.
Once a display is infected, there is no known way to remove SCP-4107 or disable the display without completely destroying the portion capable of displaying text. If this is done, whomever destroyed the last piece of text will immediately lose all knowledge attained and memories formed while in the presence of another individual. If the display is destroyed remotely by a device such as a drone, the operator will suffer the effects as though they had done it in person. If no-one is responsible, such as in the case of a natural disaster destroying a display, instead of any individual losing their memories, all individuals within a radius approximately 200 meters wide centered at the destroyed instance of SCP-4107, will have their memories rearranged amongst each other at random. It is possible for an individual to be completely unaffected, have all of their memories transferred to the same recipient, gain no new memories, or even to gain all of the affected individuals’ memories, but each of these scenarios is exceedingly rare.
The origin, purpose, and sapience of SCP-4107 are unknown.
Further Documentation:
Addendum 4107-01: Dr. ██████ is under no circumstance to be granted access to SCP-4107 or any related entity without the express consent of no fewer than █ members of the O5 council, for the sake of preserving foundation assets.
