SCP-XXXX-1 in containment
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX-1 is to be kept in a generic secured locker in Site-15 alongside one phone call recorder, and connected to or near an electrical outlet. Any testing performed on it and any update on the instantaneous or permanent location of SCP-XXXX-1 must be notified to and approved by the researcher in charge. Unless special permission is granted, SCP-XXXX-1's memory chip should never be integrated or read by an electronic device other than SCP-XXXX-1 itself.
Instances of SCP-XXXX-2 appearing on tests must be recorded only with the recorder provided. If any instance is deemed of particular interest, it may be moved into an isolated computer as a .mp3 file and recalled SCP-XXXX-2-X, replacing X by its corresponding position in chronological appearance. Each new instance of SCP-XXXX-2 should be checked with the rest to verify if it shares any common properties. For the sake of this, it is permitted to copy instances into an isolated computer where they can be renamed, classified, and edited as long as the original file isn't altered.
Description: SCP-XXXX-1 is a landline telephone, with little external or internal physical traits that distinguish it from a generic one. The model is very similar to that of a black Panasonic KX-TS500MX, although the name of the brand is absent. It is not known if this is due to degradation of the material or the brand name was never printed, given that all the other printed symbols and numbers are in a good condition. The major difference with a generic telephone is that it lacks a RJ port. All of its components behave normally, except its memory chip. If inserted into or read by another device, either it won't be able to regain any of its content or the device in question will crash. Due to this property, the nature and content of data carried by this chip, if any, is currently unknown. Further research on the chip is yet to be led, but the most plausible hypothesis states that an enormous amount of information is contained within the chip and any device trying to read it will collapse under such high amounts of information being downloaded.
SCP-XXXX-2 designs all sounds SCP-XXXX-1 displays after a one to twelve combination of numbers has been typed in and the calling button has been pushed. These sounds appear to be in all cases recordings of human speech. Testing has showed that no signal is sent or received by SCP-XXXX-1, due to the absence of RJ connectivity, therefore typing in an existing number will not result in a call. Instead, a high-quality voice recording will play, with length generally ranging from one to ten minutes. No interaction seems possible, thus the nomenclature "recordings". The voice heard varies each time a new number is inputted, and so does the language, topic and context of the speech. On certain occasions, it appears as though the speaker talks to themselves while on other occasions they seem to be talking with someone, although only one voice is heard. Calling the same number multiple times will not result on the same recording. Over 100 hours of audio files (roughly 2400 recordings) have been recorded, and no individual message was repeated. Other buttons have no effect whatsoever.
It is estimated that, if voice messages are kept within SCP-XXXX-1's memory chip, its capacity would exceed at least 140 GB.As stated before, the memory chip seems, on the outside, completely identical to that of a generic Panasonic KX-TS500, which couldn't carry such high amounts of information.
Here's the problem we face when studying SCP-XXXX: If a number were to give the same recording each time, and assuming there were to be one recording per number, there would be way too many recordings to fit in any stand-alone device, but at least the number of maximum possible recordings could be determined mathematically, because eventually, you'll run out of numbers to type. Thing is, no matter what you type in, a different recording plays each time. The problem isn't that we don't know how many recordings are there, it's that we don't even know how many could there be. We continue to check for repeated or similar recordings, that's the only way of knowing when we've arrived at the limit. That is, if there's one.
-Dr. Hills, researcher in charge
Addendum:
On ██/██/20██, Researcher Gallie requested "inputting meaningful numbers" into SCP-XXXX-1. Examples given of this were "123456789" or "7777777". Request was approved by Dr.Hills. The majority of SCP-XXXX-2 instances produced were deemed of no particular interest, except for one, classified now as SCP-XXXX-2-2471. Excerpt of experiment log is shown below.
Input: 666
Output details:
Voice: Male. Calm and clear. Accent not identified.
Language: English
Topic: SCP-XXXX
Recording transcription:
"Hello. I bet you're a bit scared. You can probably tell by the quality of this recording that it's not like the others, and since you just typed the devil's number… Don't worry, if you were expecting a jumpscare or some satanic worm coming out of the speaker, I can assure you it's not gonna happen. I just hid this little message here, in this number, in case someone were to use this phone and wonder what it is. Why here, of all places? Well, this way I can be pretty sure that you're not a machine, you're probably a human. A machine wouldn't logically understand why here, why in this number, so simple and easy to crack. It would just overlook it, and wouldn't know of this message's importance. But you typed this in to see if you find a little easter egg, and that's how I know that you're probably a person. That's who I want hearing this.
You'll know by now what this phone does. It generates recordings of human speech. A lot of them. Each one different than the others. You might be asking yourself how this phone can possibly carry such high amounts of information, and well, I can tell you. It doesn't.
You see, I've had a little fantasy, I wanted to explain everything easily. By that I mean an explanation so basic yet so simple that matter itself just understands. A piece of coding, not necessarily in any pre-established language, I could give to anything, and it would understand. Easily. And I did found it, a truth which supports all subsequent information. So I had the idea of making this phone. Just for fun, I only gave it one order, placed on its memory chip: to replicate all speech that could possibly be formed on Earth as we know it. This instruction and this easy truth is all that I programmed, which gives me plenty of space for this one recording.
This phone understands. It doesn't store anything, since it just replicates constantly, forgetting what it has spoken a second ago and only truly knowing what it's saying. And it gets everything from that one thing that just makes it understand.
One last thing. I did all of this for one reason. Ironically, I wanted to know if storing information, if understanding, is the way we have to follow, if that's all there is to us and to everything, and if my very desire of knowing this was of any importance. This has led me closer to my answer, but then again, the answer is not the important thing, is it? Thank you for finding this, and I hope this helps on your way.
Oh, by the way, since this is an actual recording, you can hear it any time you want by calling this number again. Goodbye."
Observations and conclusions: Repeated inputs result in the same output. Quality of the recording is much lower than all other instances. Content of the recording is deemed genuine by research team.
Researcher Gallie and Dr. Hills have requested locating the self-proclaimed creator of SCP-XXXX and investigating the coding contained in SCP-XXXX-1's chip. Approval is still pending.
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