Nethesis

Item #: SCP-66466

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Dark-web trawls are to be conducted continuously to detect new instantiations of SCP-66466. Once an instance has been identified, quarantine procedures are to be immediately applied to the affected resources. Actions may range from repeated edits, to denial of service attacks, to identification and neutralisation of any site owners.

Description: SCP-66466 is a reality-altering dark-web site, accessible only through the use of a TOR browser. The precise URL of the site is not fixed; approximately every three (3) months, new links to the site will appear on various “hidden-wiki” sites. These URLs replace links to various other sites, from the legal to the quite-illegal, with a seeming preference for the latter.

Upon navigation to the site, approximately half of potential users will find themselves arriving at an innocuous website entitled “The Onion Router”, where one can find information about the history of the TOR browser and onion-routing more generally.

The other half will find themselves at a plain black website, unadorned, with the exception of a text box in the centre of the page, a picture of an onion above it, and a dropdown list with various adjectives such as “large”, “foul”, and “aesthetic” appearing as options.

If one enters the full name of a person known closely to the user, and chooses an entry on the list, the person named will find themselves turned into an onion of breed appropriate to the adjective within 48 and 72 hours.

The user will then feel a compulsion to ingest the onion - without exception, they will find the vegetable appealing, but will cry profusely while eating. Interestingly, this occurs even with onions not usually known to produce tears.

Addendum 66466-01: Dr Opus’ Test Log

User: Personnel D-922, male, 24 years old.
Subject: Personnel D-925, male, 25 years old.
Adjective: “Basic”.
Result: Approximately 52 hours after selecting the adjective, personnel D-925 vanished, and was shortly replaced by a generic Ebenezer yellow onion. Personnel D-922 exhibited a negative psychological reaction to the change, the two having been sharing a room at the time.

User: Personnel D-922, male, 24 years old.
Subject: Personnel D-884, female, 21 years old.
Adjective: “Crunchy”.
Result: User at first refused to enter the subject’s name, but changed their mind upon threat of termination. User was kept in containment for 64 hours, at which point the subject was replaced by a red onion of the “Red Wethersfield” variety.
User ate the onion immediately upon being exposed to it, and continued crying for several hours afterwards. At first this was thought anomalous, but it later became apparent that the user and subject were romantically involved.

User: Personnel D-922, male, 24 years old.
Subject: Personnel D-044, female, 49 years old.
Adjective: “Sweet”.
Result: User refused to enter the subject’s name, even upon threat of termination. User was placed in a Mk-42 Coercive-class exoskeleton, which then forced the user to enter the name and adjective. Subject was replaced by a Visalia onion 49 hours later, which was consumed with reluctance.
Note: User later self-terminated. It is recommended that users not be related by genetics to their subjects in future.

User: Personnel D-1012, female, 27 years old.
Subject: Personnel D-1019, female, 26 years old.
Adjective: “Perfect”.
Result: Subject was replaced by a leek. Testing of SCP-66466 suspended following re-evaluation of SCP-66466’s judgement.