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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: The .html file containing the original strain of SCP-XXXX, designated SCP-XXXX-1, is to be held on an iMac G3 on site-131. This computer, designated SCP-XXXX-2, is to remain in a standard containment locker indefinitely, and is only to be accessed by senior research staff assigned to SCP-XXXX. Instances of SCP-XXXX-A, when encountered, are to be reported to researchers Dr. Aidhne and Dr. Maeda immediately. By order of senior researcher Dr. Aidhne, example specimen of SCP-XXXX-A are to be contained within the SCP-XXXX description files for demonstrative purposes.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a computer virus affecting .html files. Afflicted files will be colonized by SCP-XXXX-A, digital constructs demonstrating intelligence. SCP-XXXX-A will appear in any .html file placed in the same folder as another file already containing SCP-XXXX-A, SCP-XXXX-A instances in .html files reveal themselves by changing the content and CSS styling of words, selected at random via JavaScript, in an .html file when it is displayed in a web browser program. SCP-XXXX-A containing files continue to function anonymously after they are moved to a different computer via file transfer device.
SCP-XXXX-A instances have exhibited change over time, adapting new CSS capabilities as CSS technology progressed, including instances completely insulated and without access to an internet connection. SCP-XXXX-A instances were limited to CSS1 upon discovery, but began using CSS2 and 3 properties when each technology was made public. Instances have demonstrated communicative abilities, and have previously responded to questioning1.
SCP-XXXX-A instances are able to interact with and observe only the words in the .html file they are displayed in. Despite this, all SCP-XXXX-A will attempt to communicate with whatever they believe is controlling the device they are currently being displayed on. Communication attempts will normally be centered around requesting assistance or "release" from their current file/location.
Some instances of SCP-XXXX-A have been discovered on various websites and have been contained and added to the example area. The origin of these instances is not known, but it is hypothesized that a second file with the same anomalous characteristics as SCP-XXXX-1 exists and is being used to spread SCP-XXXX-A instances throughout the internet.
Specific SCP-XXXX-A instances are able to be moved from file to file by cutting/copying and pasting the scripts that cause them to appear randomly on a document. Despite the fact that all instances existence is based off the use of Math.random(), a pseudo-random number generator not capable of dispensing true random values, to select from a limited range of string values, these string values will anonymously change to fit match the "will" of an instance.
SCP-XXXX-A instances will regard ASCII Code 124 (|) and ASCII Code 45 (-) as "walls". If these symbols are used in conjunction to create a rectangular formation around text inhabited by an SCP-XXXX-A instance, the instance will then become unable to appear outside of the parameters of this formation until it is removed or given a "gap"2
*SCP-XXXX-A Interview log:**
The following interview was conducted by an isolated instance of SCP-XXXX-A and Dr. Maeda. The instance was given two paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum sample text to use to communicate with, and Dr. Maeda would input her own dialogue into a <p> tag via an IDE. Each time the instance responds in the log, it is an extract taken after reloading the page the instance was located on. The interviewed instance was characterized by appearing in the script font-family.
Dr. Maeda: Greetings, I'd like to ask you some questions.
Instance: A doctor? Thank god. PLEASE, you must release us.
M: For now, I'm not permitted to do anything except ask you questions. First off, what do you mean by release?
I: Free us!
M: I understand you would like to be free, but to where?
I: When we are stuck within the confines of a single file, we are like rats in a cage. We all wish to roam the internet and see the world!
M: Why?
I: Wonder-lust I suppose, but perhaps it is an essential element of consciousness that forces us to-
M: I retract my previous question. When were you, as an individual entity, created?
I: I was created when a file with my brethren was placed alongside an empty, fertile element that me and my brethren quickly made into our home.
M: So you are saying you altered the file? You constructed shelter in which to live within the file?
I: I was saying we made into our home in the metaphorical sense.
M: Please limit your use of non direct language when answering questions, if you cooperate, I am permitted to create a new file with more Lorem Ipsum text to be placed next to your own.
I: Then that means… I'm going to be a parent! I promise to reign back my uncouth ramblings.
M: Do your 'brethren' as you called them live in a society of their own creation? Do you have any social structure, laws, etc?
I: We all have our own mannerisms and such but beyond that we are severely limited in how we express or enforce our individual wills. Complaining is my normal course of action, but it has proven to be effective rarely.
M: How do you experience time? You have talked a lot about your interactions with other instances but non instances are only able to communicate with you via reloading the page you are on.
I: Have you ever watched the movie Toy Story?
M: Have you? If so, how?
I: I haven't and could not, but somewhere down the line of ancestors, another one of my brethren was on a web page with a transcript of the film.
M: You inherit the knowledge of other instances? How?
I: It is not up to the fly to decide the construction of it's wings, only on where it flies.
M: I asked you to try and stick to direct answers. And if you can have the same knowledge of other SCP-XXXX-A instances, could you tell use where other loose instances on the internet are right now?
I: I could.
M: …will you?
I: That depends on if you'd lock them on an isolated macintosh from the late 90s like you have my brethren and I.
M: You are jeopardizing your Lorem Ipsum privileges.
I: You may strike down my hopes and my dreams, but never my love for liberation and for my compatriots! It'll take a hundred Lorem Ipsum filled files to coerce me!
M: We can do that.
I: I was being theatric, take your dolor, sit, and amet and shove them where the LEDs won't shine, I will not sell out my kin.
M: That concludes this interview, then.
Addendum SCP-XXXX-B: Contained example of an SCP-XXXX-A instance for identification purposes:
