2/XXXX LEVEL 2/XXXX
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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
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Performers on the night of SCP-XXXX-0 occurrence.
Special Containment Procedures: One copy of SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a conventional storage locker in Site-19. Any other copies of SCP-XXXX are to be shredded and disposed of. All personnel wishing to test SCP-XXXX must submit a written request to the current project head (as of writing, Dr. Jay Habsburg) before retrieving SCP-XXXX from its locker.
All attendants of SCP-XXXX-0-9 are to be administered Class C and G amnestics. Any memoirs regarding the true events of SCP-XXXX-0-9 are to be discredited or censored by any means necessary.
PoI-XX2XX is to be monitored for any anomalous changes in behavior, especially in relation to memories of SCP-XXXX-0-9 or religious convictions.
Note: PoI-XX2XX is deceased.
PoI-XX3XX is to be placed on temporary leave from the Ballets Russes, and an agent is to form a close personal relationship with PoI-XX3XX to a) determine the cause and/or intent of SCP-XXXX-0-9 and b) ensure PoI-XX3XX never choreographs for the Ballets Russes again. Additionally, PoI-XX3XX is to be monitored for any anomalous changes in behavior, especially in relation to memories of SCP-XXXX-0-9 or religious convictions.
Note: PoI-XX3XX is deceased.
PoI-XX3XX's choreography of Le Sacre du Printemps is to be modified slightly from its original version. Funding is to be given to Millicent Hodson and Chicago's Joffrey Ballet to produce a version of Le Sacre du Printemps that purports to be the original choreography.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a roll of silent film dated 29-05-13. The film is a recording of SCP-XXXX-0, the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, designated PoI-XX3XX. See Video Log XXXX-0 for anomalous contents. The nine following performances of Le Sacre du Printemps are designated SCP-XXXX-1-9.
The fertility ritual and heliolatrous sacrifice of a virgin depicted in Le Sacre du Printemps have no known basis in any historical cult practices and are reported to be purely fictional, despite anomalous effects indicating otherwise.
Three separate anomalous effects have been recorded as a result of SCP-XXXX viewing:
- A significant libido increase in the viewer, with no accompanying compulsion to act on this desire. Effect ceases upon cessation of viewing.
- First-degree burns that appear upon cessation of viewing. Following a hunch by Dr. Jay Habsburg, viewers were told to apply SPF-50 sunscreen prior to viewing. No burns recorded.
- Temporary blindness. In order for this effect to take place, one must view the final section of the ballet, Danse sacrale. Blindness lasts twelve hours. Viewers have reported that their field of vision is covered with a bright light.
Note: It has been observed that viewers who have already experienced SCP-XXXX-induced blindness will suffer none of the listed effects upon viewing SCP-XXXX a second time. However, upon conclusion of SCP-XXXX, each second-time viewer has been recorded muttering "praise the sun" in their native tongue. Viewers have no memory of doing so.
History: On 29 May 1913, the Ballets Russes premiered Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps featuring choreography by PoI-XX3XX. The premiere reportedly drew sharp opinions from the audience, culminating in various fist fights and the pelting of musicians and performers with programs. These do not appear to have an anomalous origin
A tape of the premiere was requested, designated SCP-XXXX, and viewing the tape produced the effects listed above. Following confirmation of the anomaly, Foundation efforts were made to prevent further performances. However, due to lack of resources, nine further performances (SCP-XXXX-1-9) were given. SCP-XXXX-1-8 featured the same anomalous effects and Class A amnestics were administered en masse to the audience. During the final performance, however, PoI-XX2XX made a misstep in her concluding dance. None of the prior effects were recorded that night.
Given the abnormality of PoI-XX3XX's choreography, the silent status of SCP-XXXX, and the apparent effect of PoI-XX2XX's misstep, PoI-XX3XX was designated as such. Efforts were made to understand his motives and influences. No further performances were given.
Following a movement in the 1980s to recover PoI-XX3XX's original choreography, Foundation agents reconstructed said choreography with necessary modifications, as described. The "original" choreography began performance on 30 September 1987 with no anomalous effects.
Addendum 1: Following the isolation of PoI-XX3XX's choreography as the cause of the anomaly, Foundation Agent Romola de Pulszky was sent to monitor PoI-XX3XX and develop a romantic relationship with him in the hopes of gaining access to his secrets. Agent de Pulszky's letters to Foundation headquarters are attached.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
I have met XX3XX on this damn voyage. I recognize my proximity to the company necessitated that I go on this assignment, but could it not have waited until after XX3XX was back in Europe? My time on this ship is consumed only half by my mission; the other half is spent vomiting into the sea.
I have sought for advice on how to woo him from his friends, but they laugh. They say it cannot be done, that I would better lust after some man who is, at the least, interested in women. It is a challenge, but my mother was an actress, and I have inherited her talent.
I will admit that physical wiles have failed me, and I have had to resort to intellectual seduction. Feigning interest in XX3XX's career and passions has done the trick. He is sad, and looking for a friend who does not know his lover Mr. Diaghilev.
I will send word when I have completed my mission.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
IT. WAS. A. FLUKE.
I have spent the past seven years of my life as Mrs. Nijinsky. Vaslav (you can call him that now) is an ordinary man. During our marriage, he has shown no tendencies towards any sort of religiosity, sun worship or otherwise. I have pored over his notes for the choreography of the damn show. I have asked for secrets in the very few throes of passion we have engaged in. I have interviewed my in-laws time and time again. I have borne two children.
Has it occurred to any of you louts to change the choreography?
Vaslav is in an asylum now. Psychosis. He attacked me and my daughter. He cries in the night. I have, perhaps selfishly, tried to woo him out of his taste for men. Our marriage has, in essence, ruined him.
He has been cast out of the Ballets Russes. That was the goal, was it not? I have watched him work all night on new choreography for a show, only to console him when it is rejected in favor of another's. I take him and the children to church, and he cries as the priest denounces the fornicators.
Is that what I have become?
I have written to Diaghilev, begging him to take Vaslav back into his fold.
I am requesting assignment termination. Please send me the Foundation's best lawyers so that I may free Vaslav and myself from this accursed union. Let my sister-in-law take custody of the children. Vaslav and I were never meant to be parents, and the children deserve better.
I am ready for a new assignment.
Mrs. Nijinsky,
Your assignment is terminated. Congratulations. Your intelligence has proven very useful.
We were able to negotiate with Mr. Diaghilev, and a new performance of Le Sacre du Printemps will be unveiled with choreography by the company's current choreographer. Enclosed are tickets for you and your family.
Unfortunately, we will not be able to provide the divorce you requested. You have drawn too much attention to yourself via your scandalous marriage to be of any more use to the Foundation. Your assignment termination corresponds with your employment termination.
You are free to divorce PoI-XX3XX, if you wish, but you will not have the Foundation's legal assistance or financial support.
Finally, if you would like a Foundation-administered course of Class C and G amnestics, you know where to go.
Best Wishes,
[REDACTED]
Je. Sus. Christ. - JH
Note: Records show that Mrs. Nijinsky accepted the Foundation's offer of amnestics and lived out the rest of her life married to PoI-XX3XX.
Note: Dr. Jay Habsburg's request for financial reparation to the descendants of Mrs. Nijinsky is pending approval denied.
Note: Dr. Jay Habsburg's request to christen the locker in which SCP-XXXX is stored "the Vaslav Nijinsky Memorial Locker" is pending approval denied.
Note: Dr. Jay Habsburg's request to christen the locker in which SCP-XXXX is stored "the Romola de Pulszky Memorial Locker" has been approved.
I'm sorry, Vaslav. -JH
Seeking Greenlights: Yes
Page Type: SCP Article
Genre (Optional): Tragedy
Page Layout (Optional): typical, with one video log and a letter
Elevator Pitch: A silent film of the musically-legendary premiere of The Rite of Spring (1913). Viewing tape can increase libido, cause sunburns, and lead to temporary blindness. It is determined that the choreography of the ballet is what causes this, not the music.
Central Narrative: Vaslav Nijinsky, choreographer to the Rite, becomes a PoI due to his choreography's apparent anomalous effects. Foundation efforts cause Nijinsky to be temporarily cast out from his employment, and agent Romola de Pulszky is sent to romance Nijinsky in an effort to learn his secrets. Their marriage further destroys Nijinsky's career due to disrupting the homoromantic relationship between Nijinsky and his employer Sergei Diaghilev. Upon repeated interviews, de Pulszky determines that whatever anomalous effects Nijinsky's choreography had were accidental, and that all that is required is some minor changes in said choreography. Changes are made, and the work is performed without problems.
Hook/Attention-Grabber: The tragedy of Nijinsky being a victim of circumstance, plus the Foundation disrupting an innocent individual's life (and de Pulszky's as well) for what is revealed to be no reason. Basically, looking in to the unintended consequences of containment.
Additional Notes: Video log described will also show audience reaction, and there will be a note saying that all audience members present were located and given either Class C or Class G amnestics. Letter is from de Pulszky expressing regret at disrupting Nijinsky's life and her own.
We destroyed a man's life because of one mistake. -JH
[[collapsible show="Video Log XXXX-0" hide="Collapse"]]
Event: SCP-XXXX-0, the premiere performance of Le Sacre du Printemps.
Date: 29-05-13
Location: Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
<Begin Log, 7:30:00 PM>
7:30:00: The musicians play. Many audience members can be seen turning their heads in disbelief.
7:34:12: The curtain rises, revealing performers in costume purported to be primitive Russian garb.
7:35:01: Audience members begin to express dismay as performers begin dancing in short, hopping movements.
7:53:42: There is a lull in audience clamor as performers begin sexually suggestive choreography.
7:55:38: Audience members are observed making physical contact with each other, even in apparent strangers. Note that this contact does not appear to be sexual in nature.
8:06:12: Audience members, regardless of behavior earlier in the performance, unanimously erupt into cheers during PoI-XX2XX's performance of section titled "Danse sacrale."
8:12:39: PoI-XX2XX is thrust into the air by her fellow performers, concluding the act.
8:13:00: PoI-XX2XX anomalously glows, with brightness intensifying until only she and her light are visible.
8:14:54: Light fades. PoI-XX2XX is laid on her back on the stage. All other performers leave the stage.
8:14:55-8:38:55: PoI-XX2XX lays on stage. Audience stares in silence.
8:40:00: PoI-XX2XX rises. Company joins her for final bows. Audience applauds.
<End Log, 8:40:30>
Viewing the first half of SCP-XXXX, corresponding to the first half of the ballet, has no adverse effects other than a noted increase in libido. However, there is no apparent compulsion to act on this libido.
Viewing the second half of SCP-XXXX causes viewers to suffer first degree burns, which appear uniformly at the beginning of the section titled "Glorification de l'élue." It has been observed that viewers who begin viewing SCP-XXXX at this section do not experience burns until the conclusion of "Glorification de l'élue." Following a theory by Dr. Jay Habsburg, viewers were asked to wear SPF-50 sunscreen while viewing SCP-XXXX. No burns were observed.
Continued viewing of SCP-XXXX results in temporary blindness after its conclusion. This blindness is contingent upon viewing the final section of the ballet, "Danse sacrale." If a viewer stops viewing SCP-XXXX before this section, they will not experience blindness. If a viewer only views this section, they will experience blindness.
Blindness induced by SCP-XXXX-viewing fades after approximately twelve hours. Those who have experienced this phenomenon report that, during the phenomenon, their vision is obscured by a bright light. Blinking or closing the eyes causes a section of this light, corresponding to the center of the subject's vision, to become darkened. The shape of this shadow appears to correspond to that of lead dancer Maria Piltz (designated PoI-XX2XX) in her final pose of the ballet.
Viewers who have already experienced SCP-XXXX-induced blindness can view SCP-XXXX again with no adverse effects, but all who have done so have been recorded muttering "Praise the sun" in their native tongue upon SCP-XXXX's conclusion. Subjects claim to have no memory of uttering this phrase.
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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid, pending Thaumiel
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be employed as a Junior Researcher at Site-██ and given Level 2 clearance. Under no circumstances should SCP-XXXX come into unauthorized contact with survivors or perpetrators of domestic abuse or sexual assault. Experimentation to determine the extent of SCP-XXXX's effects it to take place under the guise of normal conversation. By order of the Overseer Council, no further experimentation is to take place, effective 10/01/12
Description: SCP-XXXX is a psychiatrist who answers to the name "Dr. Heather Sachmis." SCP-XXXX appears to be approximately 40 years old, but cannot produce a birth certificate to ascertain a specific age. The first legal record of SCP-XXXX is a Tennessee court case dated 2007, at which point SCP-XXXX claims it had already obtained its doctorate.
SCP-XXXX's anomalous abilities manifest when a survivor or perpetrator of domestic abuse or sexual assault discloses their history to SCP-XXXX. SCP-XXXX will react to this revelation with concern or disdain, depending on whether the individual is a survivor or perpetrator, but reassure the individual regardless. The anomalous effects will then take place the following evening. Survivors of domestic abuse or sexual assault confessed to SCP-XXXX will lose all memory of the event and the perpetrator. Perpetrators, however, find themselves under attack by "an enormous lioness," designated SCP-XXXX-1. SCP-XXXX-1 has not been captured on camera, nor witnessed by any individual other than its target. Targets of SCP-XXXX-1 suffer wounds consistent with mauling before perishing, regardless of protective measures taken.
SCP-XXXX appears to have very limited control over SCP-XXXX-1, and it does not appear to be consciously aware of SCP-XXXX-1's actions. Given the apparent invulnerability of SCP-XXXX-1, Foundation personnel have been given clearance to attempt to gain control over SCP-XXXX and SCP-XXXX-1.
Experiment Log XXXX:
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| 09/23/09 |
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D-48563 describes a time when her boyfriend, D-48562, intentionally bruised her. |
D-48562 is killed by SCP-XXXX-1, D-48563 loses all memory of D-48562 |
| 09/26/09 |
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D-73420 describes the sexual assault he was convicted of. |
D-73420 is killed by SCP-XXXX-1, despite being housed in a secure location. |
| 09/30/09 |
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D-32098 describes being abused by his girlfriend, but does not give a name or description of his abuser. |
No anomalous effects. |
| 10/05/09 |
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D-32098 describes physically assaulting a high school classmate in a fight. |
No anomalous effects. |
| 10/12/09 |
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D-32098 falsely confesses to sexually assaulting D-48563 |
D-32098 is killed by SCP-XXXX-1, D-48563 loses all memory of D-32098 |
| 10/14/09 |
D-48563, MTF Tau-5 ("Samsara") Agent Moksha
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D-48563 falsely accuses T5-Moksha of sexual assault. |
T5-Moksha is killed by SCP-XXXX-1, D-48563 loses all memory of T5-Moksha |
| 10/16/09 |
D-05937, MTF Tau-5 ("Samsara") Agent Brahman
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D-05937 falsely accuses T5-Brahman of sexual assault, and quickly recants accusation. |
D-05937 is killed by SCP-XXXX-1. T5-Brahman loses all memory of D-05937. |
| 10/18/09 |
MTF Tau-5 ("Samsara") Agents Dharma and Moksha
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T5-Dharma and T5-Moksha stage a domestic dispute that culminates in violence on T5-Moksha's part. |
No anomalous effects. SCP-XXXX is unsurprised to see T5-Moksha alive and well. |
| 10/24/09 |
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D-48563 describes murdering a random old woman. |
No anomalous effects. |
| 10/28/09 |
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D-48563 describes strangling the family cat at age eleven. |
D-48563 is killed by SCP-XXXX-1. |
| 10/28/09 |
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D-13109 describes being abused by his deceased mother, and shows SCP-XXXX his scars. |
D-13109 loses all memory of his mother, but retains scars suffered. |
| 10/31/09 |
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D-13109 describes the abuse his sister D-13124 suffered at the hands of his deceased father. |
D-13109 retains memory of his father, but D-13124 sister loses all memory of their father. |
| 11/02/09 |
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D-13109 accuses D-58468, a D-class personnel he has never met in person, of sexual assault. |
No anomalous effects. |
A series of five seminars at a university culminating in jouissance achievement. Seminars begin by being on Lacan. And then they kinda derail, Fifthist style.
Fiftieth anniversary of Rome Report (2003).
Professor hands out handheld mirrors.
"What is it you hold in your hand?"
"A mirror."
"What is a mirror? What is it, really? It's polished metal, physically, but not everything is physical.
What do you see in a mirror? You see the world and you see yourself, right? But that's not really what you see. You're not in the mirror. Or are you? That's a question for another time.
"Body image issues plague our society. The advent of the camera and the advent of the personal camera kind of fucked us over on that. It's not just that, of course. The images we are shown today are not reality. Those beautiful women are done up with makeup and then stripped and molded in Photoshop. Those muscular men's bodies are starving for nutrients because they're all in those useless muscles. Those images aren't reality. Why should a mirror be any different?
"Many, if not all of you, know what it's like to look in the mirror and hate what you see.
I know I do. We are all intimately familiar with our own faces, and we hate them. We hate our reflections, but not for the reason you'd think.
"Lacan was one of the first to identify that we are jealous of our reflections. Your reflection is not you. It looks like you. But it is not you. And it's better than you could ever be.
"Why is it better? Why do we want to be like it? What does it have that we lack? This is where my own theories come into play.
"Lacan identifies "The Mirror Stage" as a stage in infant development when the infant recognizes that it is a separate entity from its environment. It sees its reflection and both identifies and dis-identifies with it. 'I am like the baby in the mirror, and the baby in the mirror is like me, but I am not the baby in the mirror.' The mirror stage provides the baby with the image of itself necessary to understand its place in the world. The baby sees its full self in the mirror, understanding that it is a body of working parts, and that its hands are connected to its feet and its mouth, and all of those individual units are under its control and form one whole.
"And yet the baby knows it is not the baby in the mirror. It knows it is whole in a way like the baby in the mirror, but not whole in the way the baby in the mirror is.
"Lacan limits the baby's perception of its reflection to just that: its reflection. But anyone that has looked in a large enough mirror knows that you often see more than your reflection in the mirror. You see the floor you are standing on, the wall behind you. The baby looks in the mirror and sees itself on the floor. It sees the wall behind itself. What does the baby in the mirror have that the baby outside the mirror lacks? A union with its environment.
"In the later stages of his theories, Lacan discarded the idea of a literal mirror and decided that the world could be seen as the mirror with which the baby sees and unsees itself. But, by discarding the mirror, he lost that simple awareness. Mirrors are often seen in stories as magical, all-knowing, all-revealing, or the doorway to an infinite realm. We've all wondered about becoming Alice and pushing through the looking glass. What stops us from entering the looking glass, though?
"The baby in the mirror. The baby in the mirror prevents us from entering the looking glass. Push your hand against the mirror. The baby in the mirror's hand stops you. It will always stop you, no matter how hard you try. You can break the mirror, even, and the baby's pieces will prevent your entry.
"Or at least, that is how it appears. But this is where the union comes in. The baby in the mirror shows the baby that it is outside the mirror forever. The baby outside the mirror can never be unified with the baby in the mirror, and so the baby outside the mirror learns that it is a separate entity from the rest of the world. The baby outside the mirror cannot be unified with the baby in the mirror because it is outside the mirror. The baby IN the mirror, however, cannot be unified with the baby outside the mirror because the baby IN the mirror IS the mirror.
Look at your reflection. Capture the reflection of something else in the background. Run your finger along the mirror, along the grown baby, and to the wall behind the grown baby. There is no separation. No difference. The baby in the mirror is and always will be one with its environment. And the baby outside the mirror will always be jealous. The baby in the mirror stole what the baby outside the mirror thought it had, and that is an unforgivable action. But, one day, the baby outside the mirror will steal it back.
Seminar II: The Imaginary
Seminar III: The Symbolic
Seminar IV: Objet Petit A
Seminar V: The Real
capella santa
maledictus carcerem
malebenedetta
viva infirnum
vivet appartenerte
1/5639 LEVEL 1/5639
CLASSIFIED
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Item #: SCP-5639
Object Class: Safe
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Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5639 is to be given historic landmark status, but remain closed to the public under the pretense of compromised structural integrity. Non-Foundation researchers requesting access to SCP-5639 are to be turned away using cover story Kappa-14 ("Holy Hell").
No living creature is to be allowed entry to SCP-5639, though exploration through the use of wireless relay and disposable drones is possible. Researchers wishing to explore the interior of SCP-5639 must provide a disposable drone for Miranda.aic to pilot and a signature of approval from their Site Director.
Description: SCP-5639 is a compound of abandoned buildings surrounded by a seven-meter-high wall located on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. The buildings within SCP-5639 conform to standard fifteenth-century monastic layout, but there are no markers to indicate if SCP-5639 is a true monastery. Vatican archives have no record of a monastic establishment at SCP-5639's location.
SCP-5639-δ is a virus that saturates SCP-5639. SCP-5639-δ infection has a 100% fatality rate in Kingdom Animalia members, and entry into SCP-5639 guarantees saturation and/or infection. Infection is contingent upon inhalation of the virus. However, SCP-5639-δ has an anomalous ability to permeate any membrane brought into SCP-XXXX, regardless of material thickness or chemical makeup. As such, hazmat suits and other protective measures have proven unreliable as protection against SCP-5639-δ.
Symptoms of SCP-5639-δ infection are uniform. Subjects that inhale SCP-5639-δ are immediately subject to haemoptysis. The infected subject will cough up blood continuously before succumbing to exsanguination. For humans, this process takes approximately 30 minutes. Animal death times vary based on size and lung capacity. Additionally, anything infected or saturated with SCP-5639-δ is prevented from exiting SCP-5639 due to what witnesses have described as "an invisible wall."
SCP-5639-1 is a red-cloaked entity that inhabits SCP-5639, and the apparent source of SCP-5639-δ. Miranda.aic has reported an increase in SCP-5639-δ density wherever SCP-5639-1 is present, and new SCP-5639-δ particles manifest in its presence. SCP-5639-1 has an anomalous ability to de-materialize, but is unable to leave SCP-5639. Miranda.aic has attempted interviews and excavations to determine the origin of SCP-5639-δ and SCP-5639-1, with varying degrees of success.
SCP-5639-2 is a leather-bound journal entitled The Gospel According to Sebastian, penned in Italian. SCP-5639-2 claims to be the autobiography of the historical St. Sebastian, transcribed at the request of his wife. It was discovered following an interview of SCP-5639-1 by Miranda.aic. The veracity of SCP-5639-2 is contested, but the existence of SCP-5639-1 suggests that at least some of SCP-5639-2's claims are true. See Addendum 2 for contents.
Addendum 1: Miranda.aic has attempted to interview SCP-5639-1 on multiple occasions, with only two successful attempts. See transcript for the first.
Interviewed: SCP-5639-1
Interviewer: Miranda.aic
Foreword: This interview took place in the apparent chapel of SCP-5639. Although SCP-5639-1 had largely avoided Miranda.aic, it confronted her upon entry to the chapel. SCP-5639-1 spoke in Italian, Latin, and a portmanteau of the two that left some ambiguity in interpretation.
<Begin Log>
SCP-5639-1: You do not [belong/live] here. This is a [cursed/holy] [prison/chapel].
Miranda.aic: Please state your name so that I may properly identify you.
SCP-5639-1: You are not [sick/alive]. How is this so?
Miranda.aic: I am an artificial intelligence and therefore not susceptible to biological diseases. The question of life is deeply philosophical in nature and above my clearance level. I repeat, please state your name so that I may properly identify you.
SCP-5639-1: You must [leave/stay]. [I'm/He's] going to [kill/save] you.
Miranda.aic: I have backed up my data to a cloud. I am not in danger. I can see that you are forming new bacteria particles. Do you control the disease that permeates this complex?
SCP-5639-1: [I/he] [am/is] the disease. I control him. You can leave?
Miranda.aic: I can leave, yes. Why are you unable to leave?
SCP-5639-1: (visibly agitated, minor static in video feed) [I/he] trapped [him/me]! [Cursed/blessed] [is/was] the day! Is… (clamps right hand over mouth, but left hand pulls it away) Isotta! Is she aaaaaaaaaaaaaa (SCP-5639-1 shakes violently. Miranda.aic perceives a spike in Akiva levels. SCP-5639-1 points its left finger at the altar of the chapel.) Un… (SCP-5639-1 de-materializes).
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Following the interview, SCP-5639-1 did not physically manifest for seven hours. Miranda.aic examined underneath the altar where SCP-5639-1 was pointing, and uncovered what was designated SCP-5639-2. See Addendum 2.
Addendum 2: Although unable to remove SCP-5639-2 from SCP-5639, Miranda.aic was able to send translations to Foundation personnel. Relevant excerpts are attached.
1The gospel according to Sebastian, whom the savior protected from death twice. 2First, they shot him with arrows, but the savior did not find fit to bring him unto heaven. 3Filled with fire, he confronted the Emperor Diocletian, preaching in the name of Jesus Christ. 4And Diocletian, filled with rage, had him beaten with cudgels until there were no signs of life left in him, and they dumped his body in the sewer.
5But the savior still did not find fit to bring him unto heaven. And so, he awoke. 6Sebastian was a noble man, and beloved follower of Christ. 7But the Roman arrows and cudgels had pierced his heart with doubt, and so he said,
8"Even my savior did not suffer three executions. Christ asks a surrendered life; I have given mine twice. Surely that is enough."
9And so he appeared before Lucina, telling her he had died and where to find his body. 10But it was not his body, and so Sebastian knowingly sinned. 11And, like Jonah, the savior found a fit punishment for him.
12He fled to Sardinia, pursuing quiet and peace. He lived a meager life, worshiping his savior and praying forgiveness for his cowardice. 13But the savior did not find fit to bring him unto heaven. Years passed, and he did not age. 14Sickness came to Sardinia and he did not fall ill. For one hundred years, he lived on the island. 15And they persecuted him, not in the name of his savior, but for his demonic youth and health. They pummeled him, but he healed. Finally, Sebastian said,
16"It has been decades since Constantine permitted the following of my savior in the empire of Rome. Babies born at the time of my recorded death are wizened. 17The remains believed to be mine had been given their own holy basilica. It is safe to return to Rome."
8And a plague came from Constantinople. 9Sebastian looked upon the wounds of the afflicted, and saw himself in them, for their sores looked like arrow wounds. 10And the savior whispered unto Sebastian, 11"For this purpose I have preserved you. Be my hands and feet to the sick. 12You will not fall ill."
1The Black Death ravaged Rome, and Sebastian found himself helpless. 2The cries of the sick invaded his nightmares. There were too many patients, and the savior had not found fit to bless Sebastian with miraculous healing abilities like his own. 3Sebastian stood at the deathbed of wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, and children, and consoled the grieving. 4The wounds of the afflicted mocked him, saying 5"Why Sebastian and no one else?"
6And in their desperation, the people turned to paganism. 7Those who Sebastian could not treat prayed to Morbus, the Red-Cloaked One, for healing. 8Hoping to glean some medical practice from their rituals, Sebastian attended one. The atrocities witnessed in the ritual would haunt his nightmares for decades to come. 9And yet, Sebastian prayed forgiveness for the participants, that the savior might absolve them of abominations committed in desperation.
10The people cried out to St. Sebastian, protector against plagues, for salvation. 11Sebastian heard their cry and interceded for them, 12but he could not walk the halls of heaven and ask the savior for healing in person as they desired.
13Then Christ whispered once more unto Sebastian, 14"Go into the city and find the men I have sent for you." 15So Sebastian did as He commanded, and found six healers awaiting him. 16They were men of faith, all, and so Sebastian was inspired by the savior to form an order. 17And thus, the Esoteric Order of St. Sebastian was created, 18and the Red-Cloaked One was starved of his worship.
10Now, Sebastian had forsaken the embrace of women since his youth. It did not seem fitting for one such as he to take a wife, 11and the savior had warned him against adultery. 12In time, though, he came to love a woman.
13Isotta Borroni had come from the north, from Venice, seeking aid for her dying brother. 14The Esoteric Order took her in, and it was decided that Sebastian would treat the man. 15And as he worked to heal her brother, the savior blessed him with feelings he had not known. 16When he beheld Isotta, he understood. 17And so he proposed marriage to her, saying
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24And Isotta accepted his proposal, and the marriage day was set. And on the 5th of August, the year of our Lord 1874, Sebastian became Sebastian Borroni, husband of Isotta Borroni. 25For a wedding gift, he presented her with this gospel, 26with the promise to add more pages as their lives went on.
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5After six years of marriage, the savior blessed them with a son, who they named Dante. 6And the boy became sick after birth, to his father's relief, 7for he did not wish to pass on his Christ-given longevity. 8The boy recovered, with his father's healing, and all was well.
1It was at this time Sebastian realized he had been a fool. He had heard of a German proposing that sickness was transmitted through tiny organisms that clung to clothes, but thought nothing of it. 2Dante Borroni died of consumption on the 2nd of December, the year of our Lord 1889. 3His parents cried out in grief to their savior for healing, 4but He did not answer.
5The consumption which took Dante was a virulent strain. Sebastian had taken a patient with similar symptoms before the boy became sick. 6The patient had died via exsanguination. In the patient's death throes, Sebastian sensed something directly at work against his savior.
7Dante was not the last to suffer the strain. 8Every day, Sebastian took more and more patients with the same symptoms. He could not cure a single one. 9The savior did not answer his prayers.
10And so, for the first time in a millennium, Sebastian sought out the old cults again. 11After months of searching, he found an acolyte of the Red-Cloaked One. And he said unto the acolyte,
12"Why does a new form of consumption ravage the city?"
13And the acolyte responded, "Our lord has grown tired of his formlessness. He seeks a human body, 14so that he might walk among mortals again. 15But no corpse is fit to contain him, 16all who have tried have died."
17And Sebastian did not hear the whisper of the savior, 18but he knew in his heart what he must do. So he gathered his Order and his wife unto him, saying
19"My savior was sent as a lamb to free us from the disease of the soul. I have been sent as a lamb to free us from the disease of the body. 20The demon Morbus demands a body, and intends to kill the whole of Rome to obtain it. 21I cannot let that happen. I will offer my own body to the scoundrel."
22The Order and his wife disagreed with him, saying,
23"Surely you cannot give this abomination a way to walk among the living. Who knows how many souls he will take then?"
24And Sebastian calmed them, saying "I do not intend to let this Morbus run free. 25My brothers, our savior is the lord and master of all lesser spirits. 26What our God has bound, no power can unbind. You must bless the walls of the monastery, 27praying that He will not let the monster escape." 28And the brothers were at peace.
29Then Sebastian said unto his wife, 30"My darling, I hope that you will find our son in heaven. 31I pray that once the demon has entered my body, my soul will be freed to join you. But I cannot say for sure. 32As always, I trust my savior for mercy. 33May you live long and prosper." 34And his wife was at peace.
35So the brothers blessed the walls of their monastery, leaving the gates open for the entity to enter. 36That morning, Sebastian entered, gospel in hand, prepared to pen his last thoughts for his beloved Isotta. 37The acolyte of Morbus entered the trap, and agreed to deliver the journal as a last request. 38And the acolyte performed the ritual, [END OF SCP-5639-2]
Addendum 3: Following the translation of SCP-5639-2, Foundation researchers tracked public records on Sebastian, Isotta, and Dante Borroni. All dates recorded in SCP-5639-2 are consistent with public records. However, Sebastian Borroni is recorded as having died in 1890 CE of consumption. After assembling a file on the Borroni family, Miranda.aic attempted contact with SCP-5639-1 again, resulting in the second successful interview.
Interviewed: SCP-5639-1
Interviewer: Miranda.aic
Foreword: Miranda.aic located SCP-5639-1 in the apparent chapel of SCP-5639 and confronted it. SCP-5639-1's speech was more cohesive during this interview, with an inclination towards the usage of Italian.
<Begin Log>
Miranda.aic: Your gospel indicates that you are Sebastian Borroni, or Morbus.
SCP-5639-1: …
Miranda.aic: Which are you?
SCP-5639-1: …
Miranda.aic: There was indication that Sebastian Borroni intended to bind Morbus to his body, but there was uncertainty regarding what would happen to his personality afterwards.
SCP-5639-1: …
Miranda.aic: Why did the book remain in this complex? It was clearly meant to be brought out.
SCP-5639-1: Unimportant. Did you… (SCP-5639-1 appears to struggle with itself briefly) find her?
Miranda.aic: If you are referring to Isotta Borroni, yes, we did find her. (Miranda.aic notes a spike in Akiva levels.) She gave birth to her late husband's daughter Proserpina in 1890. Proserpina went on to have children, and there are descendants of Sebastian and Isotta alive today.
SCP-5639-1: Descendants? How long?
Miranda.aic: I have not been given clearance to reveal the current year to you. However, I am able to reveal that Isotta died in 1920 at the age of 76, succumbing to consumption.
SCP-5639-1: Consumption? (SCP-5639-1 begins to laugh and cry simultaneously. It reaches out and grabs hold of the drone Miranda.aic is controlling.)
Miranda.aic: What are you…
SCP-5639-1: She is gone. No more talk. (SCP-5639-1 smashes Miranda.aic's drone.)
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Following this interview, SCP-5639-1's time spent in a de-materialized state increased. Any attempts by Miranda.aic to communicate with SCP-5639-1 were met with hostility. At this time, no further interviews are permitted.
saying,
18"I have consoled men at the side of their dying wives and children, 19and I have never understood why one would subject himself to that pain, if he had the ability not to. 20Yet, with you, my darling, I want to experience that pain. 21I want to watch you grow old and die, yes, 22but you and my savior have shown me there is more to life than death. 23I want to swim in the sea with you, and discuss the saints, or Dante Alighieri's writings, or the history of Rome, or my savior's teachings. My prayer is that you feel the same, my dear.
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