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Item #: SCP-4110-EX
Object Class: Explained
Special Containment Procedures: Since the publication of Bonnie Recommendation, proactive effort to contain objects not anomalous except for being SCP-4110-EX has been abandoned. Instead, personnel selected for a special mission are to supervise enforcement of the Bréanainn Protocol.
Description: SCP-4110-EX is an anomalous species of animals belonging to Carnivora. One of major anomalous properties of SCP-4110-EX is ability to mind-control several species including Homo sapiens; It is thought that SCP-4110-EX preserves characteristics from its ancestral species strongly compared to other group-oriented domestic animals like Canis lupus familiaris or Equus ferus caballus, though the object practices social behavior too. Likewise, its intellectual ability is thought to be relatively low. Nevertheless, SCP-4110-EX has been successful in controlling a subject's action to a certain extent, leading to actions that are desirable to SCP-4110-EX with high frequency. Likely by this property, SCP-4110-EX has been actively introduced to the human milieu as a domestic animal in many cultures without much genetic change from its wild form in spite of its clear uselessness, and/or fed and cared.
Although SCP-4110-EX often behaves violently especially when a specimen is not accustomed to humans, and is a carrier species of infectious disease that is suspected to promote multiple mental and nervous disease, due to its small size, it rarely poses a serious threat to healthy adult humans physically. But, this anomalous property affects destructively physiological and social needs of humans in non-negligible frequency (see below; further examples is available in Appendix: Case Examples).
Moreover, probably as a secondary property of this, concepts regarding SCP-4110-EX result in bearing a strong memetic tendency. It has been theorized that this fact partly explains why many SCP-4110-EX instances that have anomalous properties in addition to being SCP-4110-EX have been identified, in addition to that it helps widening influence of said mind control easily in turn.
The second anomalous property is a sudden occurrence of a massacre case among a community which has accepted SCP-4110-EX widely. Alleged motives are varied from "just for fun" to religious frenzy to superstition to animosity toward owners of SCP-4110-EX and so forth(see below; further suspected cases is available in Appendix: Suspected incidents).
Many attempts have been made to explain this phenomenon without interpreting it as a SCP-4110-EX's primary property; a visceral backlash against SCP-4110-EX's brainwashing ability, "mishap" stemming from SCP-4110-EX's low intelligence and social communicating skills, residues from unclear containment protocols by organizations before the Foundation, etc. Either way, since existence of SCP-4110-EX is too widely disseminated already as a part of normalcy in human civilizations, the massacre is deemed enough to be a forming factor of a local IK Class Civilization-demolition scenario, and its relative impact is growing more and more with diffusion of the knowledge about animal rights.
In the light of these risk, immediate after SCP-4110-EX was classified as an Euclid class in 195█/██/██, the Special Task Force was formed with Senior Researcher Rensburg as a leading role. The Task Force immediately proceeded scientific and field research, as well as review of internal historical record, which revealed a large number of incidents with with varying degrees of seriousness.
Archived incident record 4110-1138: "A memorandum about a strange case," Imperial Commission on Transgressive Occurrences, 189█
Researcher's note: This is a note about one of a series of cases where Imperial Commission on Transgressive Occurrences tried to contain highly hostile entities that is believed to belong to/imitate GoI-████. The main document about this incident is available at the Foundation Historical Document Archive, RUV-1894-A439 (authorization from Sitra Achra Joint Command is required for full access to original documents).
We, the Bohemian Division of Reichskommission, searched a village north of Olomouc, Moravia, and successfully apprehended a peculiarly old man who might be responsible for at least 8 kidnapping and murder of factory workers, and countless cattle-rustling. The man is perfectly hermaphroditic, and alleges himself to be Mary, a daughter of Nicolas of Olomouc, which epitomizes his untrustworthiness.
However, further strangeness happened after his apprehension. Our exploration went into the deep of his den, in hope of finding any survivors, only to find appalling sights of murders and heathen ritual. But there, they found one peculiar thing; it was another alter, but only with and for the corpses of '█████████.'
Any other bodies found inside the den, whether they are human or cows, are basically devoured, or used for abominable acts, or both of them. But, these poor creatures looked only executed like criminals, nailed to the alter and left to decay there intact expect their fatal scars.
The respectable Dr. Reimer, then perfectly sane, was assigned to interview him — required to call himself 'Pimadoruomimija' — to collect possible further information about his same kind. It might at that time that the poor doctor learned about '█████████,' and was infused some kind of insanity by Pimadoruomimija, since he reported that he indeed stole and killed those little animals all by himself, and he and his followers calls them '█████████.'
After about two weeks, one morning, Dr. Reimer's young coachman ran into the office of the Division in great confusion, telling his master was determined to break into the house of Capt. Kanizsa, his comrade and best friend. When the local authorities and Division staff found Dr. Reimer, he was driving the coach himself, about to reach the house of the Kanizsa family. Upon apprehension, he utterly refused to speak to police, and it was only when just the Division personnel was around him that he talked about his intention; he was trying to steal '█████████' from the house!
According to the mentally deranged doctor, he knew for a long time that the little beasts were in the uninformed Oberst's house. According to Pimadoruomimija, those merciless animals are the worst of every creature; he might as harmless as a small butterfly stealing a paucity of honey from a flower in the farmer's garden, compared to that furred calamity, and he confirmed that he told it to Dr. Reimer. They both refused to further elaborate.
Dr. Langen, an able neurologist from Bayrischen Verein auf Antialchemie examined him, decided he became mentally unbalanced by an influence of Pimadoruomimija, and recommended to isolate the poor doctor as mentally ill and incinerate Pimadoruomimija alongside his makeshift prison. And under his recommendation, this document was duplicated but the word '█████████,' and the original pages were burned too, for those might be the exact mental contaminant that have derailed Dr. Reimer. It was also decided to furnish the family of Dr. Reimer with full benefit for sickness. His Majesty deigned to send his sympathy for the family.
In accordance with the Debrecen Agreement of 1990, the Russian Government and ex-GRU-P personnel submitted three (3) specimens of the creature in question to the Foundation, and they have been determined to be SCP-4110-EX. All of them were not anomalous except being polluted by multiple infectious agents that are thought to be originated from Pimadoruomimija's den.
Although exact number of victimized entities were unclear, it was estimated to be >30 by the size of the 'alter' inside the ruins of the den. It was thought that while traditional farming residents have had been resigned to losing SCP-4110-EX for Pimadoruomimija and its followers, newer industrialized population didn't give up recovery easily, leading them to encounter with Pimadoruomimija and, ultimately, capture of it.
Archived incident log 4110-10479: grave incident record from New York Secure Containment Initiative, 1903
Researcher's note: This is one of standard formats of the American Secure Containment Initiative (ASCI)'s internal containment breach report. The New York Secure Containment Initiative (NYSCI) is one of ASCI's fractions spawned after financial crisis after the American Civil War, and this log is from its final days.
Record was made in the form of real time transcript by the hand of a human assistant, during the basic assessment of the item that has been classified as low-risk/potentially-useful.
<Begin Log>
Dr. Reperant: So, now we see this painting of lovely little Indian moths. This painting brings lookers with migraine diathesis to have fits of it. It was recovered at a unsuspecting family's house in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Participants are I, Dr. Andrew Reperant, Miss Emma Chernin, Assistant Researcher and my secretary, and Mr. Bruce Bardsley, the stenographer. Now, let's begin. Finish it as soon as possible and play tennis or something.
Dr. Reperant: Dr. Lauder and his mates believe this could be used to mitigate severe migraine attacks by artificially causing small, benigner ones using this, Artifact number 504.
[note later added by the stenographer: About this moment, Nada has already entered the experiment chamber and was walking around the artifact and staff.]
Dr. Reperant: First, checking with non-human animals. Drew the curtains to hide the painting, the artifact, from our eyes. Here's a mouse with her head fixed inside a glass tank so that she looks at the artifact straight. A Welch's box.
[Dr. Reperant pushes a Welch's box into a slit of the curtains and exposes a mouse to the artifact. We waits approximately fifteen minutes.]
Dr. Reperant: Fine. It seems now that doesn't affect a non-human subject.
[note by the stenographer: At this stage, Nada has climbed to a shelf that kept some unidentified artifacts collected from a group of bequests which has had belonged to a deceased anart collector. Artifacts were covered by a piece of cloth, but it got under it and directly exposed to many of artifacts. Miss Chernin seemed to notice this.]
Dr. Reperant: What's wrong, Emma? Are you afraid of the artifact?
Dr. Reperant: Huh, you seemed to dislike Nada. It's unprofessional as a scientist, isn't it? You'd better conquer your distaste for benign animals, or you'd end up with a lifelong career of an assistant less than a picayune. Don't think twice, show your spirit.
[note by the stenographer: A figurine, an unidentified big cat-like form made of wood inscribed 'for the king of Mitanii,' fell and Nada followed it mowing down some other artifacts.]
Chernin: Doctor, a figurine has fallen.
Dr. Reperant: Huh, I know. I have good ears, thank you. Now we're going to use the Granieri rod, assessing the Legault…
[Dr. Reperant turned back and took a Granieri rod out from the toolbox.]
[note by the stenographer: At this point, Nada jumped to another shelf, pushed a small venetian goblet off the shelf board, and jumped off again. Then, it began to toy with the figurine. When the goblet hit the floor and shattered, the floor beneath and ground structure around its pieces vanished, only leaving little trace of earthy dust. The hole was at a depth of approximately twenty feet, and Miss Chernin immediately fell inside it. However, Dr. Reperant somehow remained unaware of this, and he kept standing and walking as if there was still firm floor structure under his feet. At the same moment, the curtain covering Artifact #504 partly fell losing at least some support of the curtain rail. Nada pushed the figurine and made it face to the painting, causing it to emanate white light. It then moved in the form of a small cloud of light, contacted Dr. Reperant and covered his entire body before disappearing. He seemed not to notice this, too. All of these anomalous event took only under 2 seconds, happening almost simultaneously.]
Dr. Reperant: Nah, we should be stingier about this. Not using this today, postponed after testing of number 550 and reuse it if the reaction will be under the threshold level.
[Dr. Reperant dropped the rod, as if Miss Chernin was receiving it.]
[note by the stenographer: The rod shattered in the hole. Miss Chernin apparently injured at least one leg, and seemed not to be able to stand, as well as to escape the hole by herself.]
Dr. Reperant: Emma, bring me my notebook.
<End Log>
Due to loss of objects include the SCP-4110-EX instance, it is impossible today to determine what were essential phenomena regarding this incident. There was a plan to sell the building and the land it was on to a civilian organization/individual and move to smaller one to fund the organization to carry on its operation at the time, but it was rendered impossible by the incident, eventually putting an end to its activity as an independent entity.
In the immediate result of the incident, Dr. Reperent, who is considered to be SCP-4110-EX-po2 or -po3 (see Bréanainn Protocol-Beta) in view of today's guideline, became totally unable to interact with the hole, and couldn't recognize the events caused by existence of it, acting as if it never existed, though he could persuade himself by logical reasoning.
After it was made possible to cure the cognitohazard effect by Class-B amnestics, he expressed a desire to join the Foundation as a memetics specialist. However, in spite of 'a certain amount of practical knowledge nurtured during the long service at NYSCI,' his lack of basic understanding about handling of potentially cognitohazardous materials and 'incompetent modus operandi, especially bringing a pet animal in test chambers' were deemed not negligible. Eventually, he was reemployed as the regional manager at the front company, "Settee and Campos Publishing," in 1905.
Incident log 4110-235: Illinois, 1987/3/19
This raid was carried out under supervision of MTF Iota-10 ("Damn Feds") as a part of the Special Task Force's regular field observation for review of its containment effort.
The potential SCP-4110-EX-po4 subject, designated as PoI-17136, has before associated herself with a heretic expelled from GOI-004B ("Cogwork Orthodox Church"), designated as PoI-17130, and been known as one of several female followers who has supported operation of a doomsday cult in 1970s. The cult has alleged activity of the Tevatron would compromise the already dysfunctioning 'Broken God' further, and using a forged medical license obtained during his days in GOI-004B, he and accomplices with legal nurse licenses has treated at least 56 patients with malfunctional implants and prostheses in a clinic one of his follower originally owned. The cult has drawn attention of the Foundation when family members of patients complained about expensive, non-functional prostheses.
Although PoI-17136 has had no anomalous physical augmentation yet, she has owned several animal model that has been impossible to duplicate with any orthodox measure as of today. The objects have been confiscated, and she has been administered amnetics after short detention under the excuse of arrest by illegal firearms possession which has been a actual offense. She has then returned to her then-separated husband's house, but later divorced. The house was left to her as a result of distribution of property.
Earlier this day, three local collage students visited the PoI-17136's house as they have applied an advertisement for a job to help an old woman moving from the house two weeks ago. They were met by an 'old lady who might be different from the one who they has talked on the phone before,' and she threatened them off, implying she had a gun. PoI-17136 has been known to obsessively hoard SCP-4110-EX shortly before the divorce, and interception of 911 call by the students was flagged as one of candidate cases for field observation.
Foreword: This is transcription of audio and video logs of the raid team, which consisted of Agents Hoskins, Faller and McFadzean. The house was then thought to be resided by Melinda Forkner (PoI-17136) and at least 15 instances of SCP-4110-EX, as well as Joann Phillimore, PoI-17136's sister who has moved from New York City, New York to live with her about two years ago after her husband's death.
<Begin Log>
(Agents arrived in front of PoI-17136's house. Agent Hoskins approaches the front door and rings a door bell.)
Hoskins: Hello? Is anyone here?
(Nobody answers. Agents remain silent for about four seconds.)
Hoskins: (In a louder voice) Police officers! Is anyone in the house?
(A loud cry of SCP-4110 and a crash of ceramics or glassware, probably from the second floor.)
Faller: Shit.
McFadzean: Now let's go in, no need to wait.
Hoskins: Hello, Madam! Are you okey?
(Silence for about six seconds. Agent Hoskins tries to turn the door knob. The front door is not locked. Agent Hoskins enters the house, and rest two follow.)
Hoskins: Go, go.
(The entrance hall and several rooms connecting to it seems empty, except various litter and three SCP-4110-EX instances running from agents. Agents remain silent about seven seconds.)
Faller: Meow, mee-ow.
McFadzean: Hey, stop it.
Faller: Don't get edgy, Faz, there's no 511 in Illinois now. (chuckles)
McFadzean: I meant stop goofing off, Faller. Don't talk unnecessarily when mics are on.
Hoskins: Be quiet, haven't you heard a noise of something somewhere just now?
(Agents continues search of the ground floor in silence. No apparent noise was recorded during the search but slight calls of SCP-4110-EX. They can't find any person in the ground floor, expect one room with excessive litter disabling agents from opening the door. Agents decide to go upstairs.)
Hoskins: Ugh, this smell.
McFadzean: Apparently 4110's urine. And feces.
Faller: Look, those stains on the wallpaper!
(Agent Hoskins' body camera shows upstairs is clearly more devastated, damages done by SCP-4110-EX looking newer. As agents approach, loud hiss and wail of multiple SCP-4110-EX instances are heard, but soon subside.)
McFadzean: Hello, is anyone there?
Hoskins: Three doors. I and Faz to the right. Faller, go straight.
Faller: Okey.
(While Agent Faller searches a room in front of the stair, Agents McFadzean and Hoskins enter a large bedroom, and find PoI-17136 sitting on a sofa beside a stove surrounded by at least five SCP-4110-EX instances. One of two beds is unnaturally placed in an oblique angle to other objects in the room.)
McFadzean: Miss Forkner? There was a call that someone in this house had a gun. Do you have any permission?
PoI-17136: What… you think I have a gun?
(Agent Hoskins enters the adjoining bathroom, and finds a bathtub beside the window. The sun is shedding light over most part of it. At least eleven SCP-4110-EX instances are seen resting on it. Agent Hoskins approaches to the bathtub to see something under instances. It become apparent to be a woman's body.)
PoI-17136: Hey, don't touch my babies.
Hoskins: Oh fuck, fuck.
(Agent Faller rushes in to the bathroom as PoI-17136 shouts inaudibly. Most of SCP-4110-EX instances run and try to hide from agents, while some still remain.)
Faller: (Trying to scare instances away from the body) Go, go away, you son of a bitch, go!
(Agent Hoskins' body camera shows an old woman in nightclothes with several stains of excretion. There are many scars on visible part of her skin, apparently by SCP-4110-EX. The body seems to have been dead for some days.)
<End log>
Notes: The coroner decided the body was Mrs. Phillimore. The cause of death was non-anomalous pneumonia, although contribution by SCP-4110-EX was unclear. Most of scars were made after her death, perhaps since PoI-17136 moved the body from the bed to the bathtub, a she could not stand its stench, which was attracting many SCP-4110-EX during the daytime of cold seasons because of sunlight.
An extensive search at the house found 59 SCP-410-EX instances in total along a mock firearm made from pipes painted in black, which was deemed not capable of firing any sort of bullet. Charges of illegal firearm possession and threat are dropped, but she was instead accused for not giving proper care when Mrs. Phillimore has became terminally ill and discarding her body inside her house.
In her trial, it was revealed PoI-17136 has been notorious in her neighborhood about hoarding of SCP-4110-EX at least for three years. It is unclear whether Mrs. Phillimore had any ill feeling about hoarding, but PoI-17136 had no knowledge about her plan to move out. She implied the general practitioner the family used to see once advised her to 'abandon' SCP-4110-EX for hygienic concern, and thereafter she quit to see him, though the record suggests it has been at least one year before her sister moved in.
PoI-17136 claimed to comprehend well and give enough care to all the SCP-4110-EX instances, but there were eight newborn instances that she didn't know existed. Moreover, police officers and volunteers found two terminally ill instance hiding inside a cupboard and a closet, both ultimately underwent euthanasia, and some remains in various degrees of decay.
PoI-17136 was administered amnestics, and it was effective to prevent her from suing the state and federal governments to recover confiscated SCP-4110-EX instances. However, she soon returned to compulsive hoarding behavior on parole, emphasizing the already-known point that hoarding of SCP-4110-EX should be treated with modality for other kinds of compulsive hoarding rather than according to a standard procedure for low-risk cognitohazard, namely, by one to three dose of amnestics.
The Special Task Force also attempted to take a chance to legislate against animal hoarding in the United States, but due to its stern low priority and budget, lobbying effort was hardly done. In addition, the Foundation's disinformation about its agents' activity made the case obscurer. Eventually, actual legislation must wait until other high-profile hoarding cases raise a enough concern among authorities, and most states in the US have legislated against it yet.
In response to these situations, Researcher Wasylycia, one of external observers of the Task Force, wrote in 1987/3/24:
I think we already passed the point to seriously consider the annihilation plan, or abandoning the entire effort to contain SCP-4110. Actually, due to the almost-nix money, we can only go erase number 4110 from the database and say "hey, who said 4110 is a thing? It's just a cute animal, that's all, fine."
I don't mean it shouldn't be treated as anomaly, though I'm extremely skeptical about SCP-2608 naiads dying globally in relation to deviation of SCP-4110's population change. Instead, what I mean here is that considering exact magnitude of influence SCP-4110 supposed to have, we're allocating too less resources for it.
Take the Forkner case as an example: The raid team didn't know she had more than 25 SCP-4110. Neither did researchers. Neighbors knew. Local police officers knew. In turn, (some of) Iota-10 knew. This means, not just that they were insufficient in the standard procedure for field agents, they had no time to hear from other staff and neighbors ahead of the raid. And I know it's literally true. I even wonder they have chance to read this within a week.
If they climb a winter mountain or hunt grizzlies, they'd be cautioned it'll be suicidal. You may think "surely SCP-4110 is more harmless, right?," but they're carrying the weight of whole humanity on their shoulders (I'm not a big fan of this idea, too, but it doesn't matter now) by doing this, because SCP-4110 is pandemic. And they have no room to ask neighbors how many animals in that house. It's just nonsense.
Later, official recommendation to reinforce the Special Task Force was made, and reflected in next yearly budget and HR plan. However, an essentially underfunded situation of SCP-4110-EX-related projects persisted.
About Bréanainn Protocol
In 195█/██/██, the Task Force submitted the Bréanainn Protocol, and it was approved by the O5 council (7 in favor, 5 against, 1 abstaining). Thereafter, it has been performed under regular review to practice effective "containment without containment" within the permissible range, and add new points of view based on state-of-art scientific standpoint.
Archivist's Note: These excerpts are based on the content at the time of reclassification of this document as Explained. For the newest protocol, be sure to always refer to ⦿/Procedures/Global/Breanainn.ftml (Level 2/Bréanainn authorization required).
Precondition: In this section, personnel are to conduct evaluation as quantitatively as possible about the SCP-4110-EX's mind controlling function. The human contaminated by SCP-4110-EX memetically or mind-control wise is regarded as SCP-4110-EX-po. For example, every person hails from a culture area SCP-4110-EX and/or its imagery commonly exists is deemed as SCP-4110-EX-po. Thereafter, based on observable ill effects emerged as a result of contamination, they are classified by five (5) grades of 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. In addition, discussion about new scientific findings, irrespective of that by general organizations or people or that by anomalous organizations including the Foundation, and validation and trial for improvement of the Alpha and Beta steps as stated below are also included in this step.
Bréanainn Protocol-Alpha: It is an trial to suppress ill effects of human exposure to SCP-4110-EX within the permissible range. Specifically, separating people reached the stage of SCP-4110-EX-po3 or more from (often typical) life sharing living zones with many SCP-4110-EX, suppression of chaotic reproduction by SCP-4110-EX, especially individuals not under the care of any person, isolation to "safe houses" for the purpose of eradicating the environment that prompts massacre, improvement of legal environment to discourage animal cruelty and etc. are to be tried.
After the Christie Recommendation, it is regarded that indirect containment by supporting civilian or front organization-managing protection organizations and influencing regional legislation and civilian awareness is favorable.
Bréanainn Protocol-Beta: To prevent excessive exposure to SCP-4110-EX by humans and occurrence of the massacre event, an aversive conditioning program to humans of SCP-4110-EX to be administered in a certain rate. A sensitive and discreet attitude is required about enforcement of Bréanainn Protocol-Beta; The conditioning, to the utmost, should be motivation to avoid excessive contact with SCP-4110-EX, and must not be an inducer for aggression against SCP-4110-EX or SCP-4110-EX-po. The rate of subjects for conditioning should be established flexibly based on regional and individual subject profiles. Audits by the Ethic Committee on status of enforcement of the program is set as Priority ב. In addition to this, revision of the program requires advice from the Ethic Committee and the Task Team made up of independent psychologists, psychiatrists and ethologists.
Addendum 2009/7/17: In the light of discovery of anomaly by civilian researchers, the Special Task Force requested reclassification of SCP-4110-EX to Explained retroactively to the date of publication of the paper, and it was accepted on the same day.
To whom may concern:
As most of you've already known, I'm retiring in July 20th, 2009. Last few days, my reputation in the zoological divisions went from 'who's that old guy, what he's doing here anyway?' gazes of doubt and a bit of curiosity to 'holy hell, what kinds of cruelty the Foundation was trying to do and who's this crazy dude?' eyes of disbelief and distaste. Hard luck for remaining ones, but soon matter will be better, I guess. At least, I did my best for this world, and it would be actually the best way possible. I have no remorse about my career, except I'm still not sure why SCP-2608 reacts to SCP-4110-EX so irritably, but I'd happily leave it to younger researchers.
Like many staff here who was employed from civilian fields, I have started as one of just plain epidemiologists specialized in epidemics. It was when I just shed a word of 'Junior' from my title and yet still was indecisive between two carriers, statistics and rat or insect control in metropolitan areas, that Dr. Crossman invited me to one project that would be a 'big data' thing nowadays.
I played with figures purposelessly for a time. Some are publicly available, some are ones only the Foundation and GOC know. Then after a little while, I noticed something malefic and cannot be ignored. I recalculated and recalculated, only to confirm it was at least not miscalculation. Then I asked a doctor in a zoological division to perform some tests with idle assistants. The result was more than enough. Dr. Crossman advised me it needed to be pinged to O5 because it's a global phenomenon, and I followed his instruction. Soon, I found some books I used to calculation were missing from the archive. Apparently, someone was trying to duplicate my finding. That was all. I thought.
Some days later, however, I noticed the immense consequence my finding had. It'd change the faces of our societies forever. Not a society, but all societies. In the past and the future. It couldn't be like, as now we see, some civilizations are ok with it but others are not. Apparently, the world without SCP-4110-EX would be healthier, saner, safer, richer, more hygienic, more efficient, and more productive. On top of that, many other precious species would be saved. I came to fight against creatures no humans have ever seen, or really can see at all, but suddenly I found myself struggling with a common animal. For the better world, really.
And then, I thought of the union activity people in my native town once a while practiced; choosing no firing and healthy workplaces over more payment. So, why not choose a live-and-let-live attitude, instead of ultimate efficiency?
And I chose.
First, I applied for the Special Task Force. The clerk said I was the first one from zoology divisions to apply for that, but whatever. It gave me a 48 hours extension for O5 to vote on the matter. Second, I invited the man I worked with for testing, the late Dr. Bonnie, and together we wrote up the earliest version of the protocol, and it became first recommendation from us. It was finished just 15 minutes before the vote. I believe that swayed at least two votes. Anyway, I made my point to majority of O5.
In the meanwhile, the world is still full of misery. And my colleagues would keep fighting against inconceivable horrors till the end of it. Some gossipmongers even loved to discuss my post as a graveyard for a career. Yet, I'm satisfied with my little work's result. I've never regretted sacrificing my career.
Well, I'm really loathe to close. But it's not because I grudge my chair; Dr. Estela Morata, my successor, has a career as a psychiatrist specialized in compulsive hoarding over eight years, beginning in her postdoctoral researches. She also double-majored behavioral psychology, especially in economical decisions. Moreover, working in a civilian institute, she has dealt with public servants and legal communities as well as patients and families. I doubt the Foundation can find more suitable person for this position than she is.
Finally, I'd like to show sincere gratitude to everyone, especially those who'll find this letter on gloomy Monday morning. And good luck to you all.
Sincerely,
Dr. Dawid Rensburg
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Photo gallery
NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
After the reclassification to Explained, information about SCP-4110-EX is no longer deemed as an anomalous meme nor a cognitohazard, so there is no access restriction beside censorship concerning standard information security and privacy on the Bréanainn Protocol documents.
Meanwhile, browsing history of every document is basically recorded by RAISA, and most providers of these photographs are civilian with exposure level of SCP-4110-EX-po1 or more. It should be noted that frequency of access and browsing time can be ground of reassignment choice regarding the Bréanainn Protocol.
— Maria Jones, Director, RAISA
A therapy cat "Agent Persimmon" making an inaugural walk with assistance by his senior Agent Nikki around one of Site-19 dormitories. This is what happens when an Euclid document about a garden-variety animal species requires level 4 clearance. |
A Manx with no tail('rumpy'). Some attempts were made to popularize a breed with a lethal gene in its trait with the aim of ceasing a population explosion (failed). |
Tailless mutation that concerns bone formation and potentially lethal. Comparison with a ragdoll (left). This also contrasts a long hair breed with a short one. |
Two young individuals of Bengal. Attempts were made to spread breeds which were removed or weakened the anomalous property by mating with wild species very cautious of the human, only to find unfavorable results. |
Mummies of SCP-4110-EX on display at Moyse's Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds, England. It is thought that the custom to treat a corpse of SCP-4110-EX as a fetish continued for the seventeenth century at earliest.
Although killing of SCP-4110-EX based on religious or magical motives are usually done by the negative feelings, for enjoyment or based on a belief that it does harm, killing based on the idea of usefulness as a fetish is done too. Though it would not likely tied to immediate massacre, it may tend to be institutional and deep-rooted. |
"Cat repellent" PET bottles in Japan. While this method have no special effect to harm SCP-4110-EX actually, it can be deemed as an important sign that local residents are getting nervous about existence of feral or free-range SCP-4110-EX. |
Currently, TNR(Trap, Neuter, Return. In some case, add Vaccine and makes TNVR) by civilian organizations is mainly adopted as tactics to prevent SCP-4110-EX not under the care of humans from chaotically reproducing. A nick in the right ear of the instance in the forefront is one of popular ways to mark the instance has been neutered by the civilian group. |
Veterinarians of U.S. Air Force enforcing TNVR on a feral SCP-4110-EX individual caught inside their base. |
Myriad maneki neko offered to Gōtokuji (豪徳寺) as rewards for fulfilled wishes. The memetic property of SCP-4110-EX has produced a variety of its imagery by human from ancient times. |
Merchandise lined up inside a shop in Taichung (台中市). Imagery of SCP-4110-EX is expressed in varied degree of déformer. |
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