IndigoIGW - The Continuum Book

Item #: SCP-~

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedure: SCP-~ is stored within a subterranean clean room located at Site-█, 852m below sea level in order to minimize background radiation exposure. SCP-~ itself is to be housed within a 0.5m3 hermetically sealed and UV / Infrared shielded bulletproof glass container.

The containment cell is climate controlled at all times and airflow controlled via a four (4) turbine, high efficiency, laminar flow based Ultra Low Particulate Air (ULPA) filtration system capable of achieving compliance with a Class 1000 standardized clean room. Light fixtures must use low light LED bulbs fitted with further UV / Infrared filtration to minimize degradation of SCP-~.

The entrance to SCP-~’s containment cell is also climate controlled and fitted with a dual action air lock and decontamination system. Access to the containment cell is restricted to research personnel holding Level 2 Level 3 clearance. All personnel entering SCP-~’s containment cell are required to outfit themselves with a fresh and complete cleanroom suit prior to entering air lock compartment two. Cleanroom suits are located within air lock compartment one and are to be replaced with new suits daily, irrespective of state of usage.

Description: SCP-~ is a dark brown, leather bound notebook, slightly smaller than typical A4 size and of indeterminate age and origin.

The front cover is embossed with what appears to be two distinct images overlaid atop one another. The background image resembles a clockface bearing eight (8) unique symbols uniformly distributed at the outer edges of the face. Five (5) of the symbols have been identified to originate from individual extinct languages with the remaining three (3) still yet to identified. No correlation between the languages has been found to date in either geographical or historical origin. The foreground image is of a simple compass with the four key directions denoted in standard English letters. The back cover has a simple floral pattern and has been determined to serve only for decorative purposes.

When opened, SCP-~ contains only four (4) pages of parchment like material, all of which are blank during SCP-~’s inactive state. The inside front and back covers of SCP-~ are covered with a single page respectively while a double-sided page is held in the middle that can be flipped freely. Approximately two to eight seconds after being opened by a human subject, SCP-~ enters its active state and will begin to present a range of anomalous properties. The subject that has most recently activated SCP-~ will feel compelled to begin writing immediately and exclusively on one of the four available pages (see Test Log-003). If a writing utensil is not available, the subject will begin to feel anxious; becoming progressively more distressed until a means of writing is provided or a third party closes SCP-~, thus returning it to an inactive state.

When writing within SCP-~, a subject will enter a state similar to that of an individual experiencing an extreme form of hypergraphia. Test subjects will continue to write until completion of their work at the expense of all bodily functions and needs, including sleep, food and water; on rare occasions, the level of detail and time required to produce the work has resulted in the death of the subject due to extreme fatigue and stress related heart problems.

The writing produced by the subject is written in a currently unidentified language. The produced writings are intricate, compact and have been observed to make use of more than approximately 85% of all available space on a single page. Direct translation is possible via the subject using SCP-~, despite this, individual test subjects have been shown to make use of drastically different stylizations; this has greatly hindered any attempts at cataloguing words or letters. While reading directly from SCP-~, a subject is able to directly read and elaborate upon the text they have produced; however, approximately two to four hours after SCP-~ has returned to its inactive state the subject will be entirely unable to recall any aspect of the text they have previously produced.

Test results have shown that SCP-~ allows a subject to detail events from their past, recent present / ‘near present’ and distant future; each page corresponds to one of the four (4) possible periods of time, from left to right, respectively. While initial testing focused solely on the subjects’ perspective, it was quickly discovered that SCP-~ provides the subject with the means to write in vivid detail regarding the experiences of a third party, this remains possible even if the subject has no prior knowledge of the third party aside from a minor description of the individual (see Test Log-027).

Once SCP-~ has been closed and returned to an inactive state, all text will be removed from SCP-~ prior to reactivation; however, it should be noted that degradation persists and has been found to be uniform across all pages. Due to the potential information gathering properties of SCP-~, preservation has been deemed a high priority during containment.

Recovery Log: SCP-~ was first brought to the attention of the Foundation by Agent Johnson who had been operating undercover as a Detective Constable with Scotland Yard in London, UK. SCP-~ had been recovered as part of an investigation into the suicide of a 36 year old man in ██████, ████, South East England; a collection of handwritten notes were also found alongside SCP-~ (catalogued L-01 through L-12) which range in date, origin and author, the earliest of which was found to be dated 4/13/1865. Agent Johnson recovered SCP-~ on ██/██/1999 along with the accompanying letters after reading the suicide note left by the man (see L-01). These were both brought into containment, initially at Site-B1 before being moved one month later to the current containment site.

+ Test Log-003
+ Test Log-027
+ Test Log-128
+ Accompanying Letters L-01 & L-12
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