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| Assigned Site | Site Director | Research Head | Assigned Task Force |
| Site-881 | Dir. David Cornwell | Dr. Mikheil Stefanchuk | MTF Delta-19 "My Alchemical Romance" |
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a humanoid containment cell. The walls and furnishings of the cell are to be engineered from materials which are difficult to manipulate via alchemical means, the full specifications of which are outlined by the Department of Alchemy in Document XXXX.3A. SCP-XXXX is to be provided with three meals per day and pain medication as needed, composed only of ingredients approved in Document XXXX.3B, and is permitted to use the Site's exercise yard under the supervision of security personnel.
Amenities such as reading material may be provided on condition of good behaviour and cooperation with Operation Stregheria, at the discretion of senior staff members the Site Director.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a Caucasian male, approximately 40 years of age, answering to the name of John Moore. Subject has extensive practical knowledge of alchemy, but is currently incapable of using this knowledge to perform alchemical workings successfully.
This is a result of a set of complex thaumaturgical wards, which have been branded into the right forearm of SCP-XXXX. When SCP-XXXX contemplates the process of performing an alchemical working, or attempts to do so, the wards cause the subject to experience debilitating physical pain and nausea, preventing them from employing its alchemical knowledge1. The nature of the wards also prevents the skin surrounding them from fully healing, which SCP-XXXX reports is a cause of chronic pain.
Despite this, it is the unanimous recommendation of research staff that SCP-XXXX be considered a potential threat, due to the extent of its knowledge of alchemy. This risk factor is further exacerbated by its prior involvement with GoI-8256 ("KGS Gerstmann AG"), a conglomerate linked to the production and trafficking of anomalous alchemical weaponry, primarily across Europe.
Addendum XXXX.1: Discovery
On 15/08/2017, MTF Delta-19 ("My Alchemical Romance") conducted a raid on a warehouse in Ukraine owned by a front company of GoI-8256. MTF Delta-19 had received intelligence that the warehouse, apart from containing anomalous weaponry, was also an informal meeting site for members of GoI-8256.
Entering the warehouse from a back entrance, operatives discovered a meeting of GoI-8256 members in progress. This meeting served as a "trial" of SCP-XXXX (already incapacitated with thaumaturgical brands) for supposedly betraying GoI-8256. Attendees of the "trial" discovered the presence of the operatives, leading to a firefight in which the warehouse was almost completely destroyed, with significant casualties on both sides.
SCP-XXXX was discovered in the vicinity of the warehouse, having attempted to flee despite being severely injured during the firefight, and was transported to Site-881. The subject's mental state was unstable and depressed as a result of learning that it could no longer perform alchemy, and made two attempts at breaching containment. Research staff advised that psychiatric treatment be provided following the second escape attempt. Site psychiatrists report that, by February of 2019, SCP-XXXX has responded surprisingly well to treatment.
Addendum XXXX.2: Operation Stregheria
In September 2019, the Foundation officially declared GoI-8256 an urgent threat to its operations in Europe. This was on the basis of its rapidly growing reach, as well as its sale of anomalous weaponry to non-anomalous criminal organizations, and their subsequent use in armed conflicts which repeatedly threatened civilian populations and the maintenance of the Veil.
On 22/10/2019, Site Director David Cornwell received approval to attempt negotiations with SCP-XXXX, in order to acquire intelligence regarding GoI-8256. Within a week, Site Director Cornwell had finalized a quid pro quo with SCP-XXXX. In exchange for this information, it would be rewarded with luxuries such as a containment cell with facilities for cooking (under the supervision of armed guards).
As part of this quid pro quo, which Site Director Cornwell titled Operation Stregheria, SCP-XXXX provided the location of a major arms production facility in the vicinity of the Black Sea, a claim corroborated by further Foundation surveillance. On 14/01/2020, a raid on the facility was completed successfully and with no casualties, significantly disrupting GoI-8256's supply chains in the region. Site Director Cornwell subsequently requested, and was granted, sole discretion over amendments to the containment procedures of SCP-XXXX, in order to further the goals of Operation Stregheria.
Addendum XXXX.3: Additional Email Transcripts
DATE: 09/08/2020
FROM: Dr. Katherine Liebig - Assistant Researcher, SCP-XXXX
TO: David Cornwell - Site Director, Site-881
Director,
I've been concerned about SCP-XXXX for quite some time. To be sure, the threat posed by KGS Gerstmann is a significant one, and Operation Stregheria has been successful in combatting it. However, my belief is that we're overlooking something vital by taking what SCP-XXXX gives us at face value.
Firstly, topicality is always suspect. The Foundation was getting hamstrung by KGS Gertsmann's arms sales in the Black Sea region: surely there's something odd about the fact that SCP-XXXX provided, unprompted, information that helped us resolve said threat. Its success rate is just too high: every time it opens its mouth, it gives us exactly what we need.
More importantly, in your 26/07/2020 interview with SCP-XXXX, the anomaly identified sixteen members of the Hand it claimed to be arms dealers for KGS Gerstmann, all of whom you neutralized under the auspices of Operation Stregheria.
However, the only evidence for the idea that those Hand members were threats is what SCP-XXXX said. According to our surveillance, seven of them were avowed anti-capitalists and anarchists who'd rather die than work with a firm like KGS Gerstmann. And all were important members of local Hand chapters, with extensive knowledge of alchemy.
This is what I fear is happening: "John Moore", far from being a traitor against KGS Gerstmann, is still working for them. He baited the hook with good information at first, knowing how desperate we were for any leads against his old employers. But, now that we trust him, he's free to feed us false information—or even turn our guns against people, like the Hand members you killed, who were potential dangers to KGS Gerstmann. And instead of being contained as he should, "Moore" is sitting pretty in a cell that's more comfortable than my flat, cooking boeuf bourguignon.
I know that Stregheria is your proudest achievement, and that I'm no expert on espionage. But if I'm right, it might be papering over a massive breach in our security. I hope you'll find it in yourself to listen.
- Katherine Liebig
DATE: 10/08/2020
FROM: David Cornwell - Site Director, Site-881
TO: Dr. Katherine Liebig - Assistant Researcher, SCP-XXXX
Liebig,
You're damn right you're not an espionage expert. No, you're an assistant researcher who's going against the chain of command and interfering in a field you know nothing of. The information that SCP-XXXX provides is almost solely responsible for diminishing the threat of GoI-8256, and I will not throw that away because you've got the deaths of some Hand members on your conscience. Be thankful I haven't written you up for an official censure; for now, I'll let Stefanchuk decide how to deal with your insubordination.
Site Director David Cornwell
DATE: 15/08/2020
FROM: Dr. Katherine Liebig - Assistant Researcher, SCP-XXXX
TO: Alison Eustace - Senior Researcher, Dept. of Alchemy
Alison,
I know this is a huge breach of the chain of command and all that, but I am begging you to take a look at this. There's something off about SCP-XXXX, but I don't know a shred about alchemy, so I can't pin it down. Enclosed are all the files I thought might be relevant, everything down to the amenities that SCP-XXXX requested in its cell. Remember, you still owe me for what happened in Croatia. Please do see what you can do.
- Katherine
DATE: 18/08/2020
FROM: Alison Eustace - Senior Researcher, Dept. of Alchemy
TO: Dr. Katherine Liebig - Assistant Researcher, SCP-XXXX
I have a lead. I wish I didn't, because if we're right, we're looking at a catastrophe.
Alchemy is all based around combining different substances and mystically manipulating them to become something else: a shard of iron can be made into a bomb, water and honey into a poison, and so on. An old grimoire by the Earl of Northumberland provides a recipe for what he calls "Copper Mites": they're essentially alchemical nanomachines, minuscule scraps of metal which can be manipulated to move through the air and collect information.
The ingredients to make them are salts of wine (an alchemical compound that any novice can derive from red wine with a certain mineral content) and copper. The only hitch is that they require an unbelievable degree of focus to produce; the Earl writes that only the mystics of "Alagath" (likely meaning Alagadda) can manipulate matter finely enough to use the recipe in practice.
The location of SCP-6000.
Item #: SCP-6000
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-6000 is contained at its location of discovery. Undercover Foundation personnel, in cooperation with Death Valley National Park rangers, are to maintain a containment zone of 500 m around its base. No personnel are permitted to come into direct skin contact with the surface of SCP-6000. Individuals who have come into skin contact with its surface are to be detained for evaluation by research staff and provided with amnestic treatment.
The inherent antimemetic properties of SCP-6000, which extend to photography and video depicting it, render it imperceptible except to those who have been administered appropriate mnestic treatment. As such, mnestics are to be supplied to containment and research personnel at the discretion of the Antimemetics Division. Foundation information security assets are to monitor web traffic for online discussions potentially describing SCP-6000; a web crawler bot capable of identifying photos and videos depicting SCP-6000 is currently being trialled.
Description: SCP-6000 is a monolith composed of a single piece of black basalt, measuring approximately 50x50x150 m, located in the badlands east of Death Valley National Park, within walking distance of the Amargosa Range. It is anomalously durable, exhibiting no evidence of weathering. SCP-6000 possesses antimemetic properties which render it imperceptible to the senses and inhibit the forming of memories relating to SCP-6000, except to those treated with Class-W mnestics. All surfaces of the monolith are carved with detailed, highly stylized reliefs of plant life, except a circular panel on its westwards face. This panel contains a concentric pattern of hieroglyphs or symbols, which can be depressed.
Direct skin exposure to the surface of SCP-6000, with the exception of the aforementioned circular area, causes a comatose state lasting between one to twelve hours. During this state, all subjects report highly vivid hallucinations, which they will recall with an unusual degree of clarity, and require intensive amnestic treatment to eradicate fully.
Addendum 6000.1: Discovery
SCP-6000 was discovered in June of 1971 by Raoul Acosta, an amateur occultist involved in the 1960s counterculture movement, during an experiment with psychedelic compounds (later discovered to have moderate mnestic properties) in the Death Valley region. Following this, Acosta rented a motel room in Baker, a town within driving distance of Death Valley, conducting research into its properties until his suicide in November of 1971. His journals, documenting his research in detail, were acquired by the Foundation.
Addendum 6000.2: Excerpts From Recovered Journals
6/30
current formula consists 20mg DMT, 100mg harmaline, 20mg oil of moksha—I can see the tower for ~3 hours, w/ the moksha regulating the hallucinations from the ayahuasca itself. Wouldn't want hallucinations getting in the way of examining the invisible ancient stone tower. Eat your heart out, Timothy Leary.
reminder: get a fan that works+call Weisinger2 when in town next, get him to send a care package of moksha oil. I may be here a while.
7/2
the tower does NOT cause hallucinations: they're not some pointless pattern of psychedelia, but clear, specific, vivid. Current theory: each vision is a memory, collected from some mind at some random point in time.Weisinger got me the book from the Library—it says similar pillars, cities of them, exist across the world, remnants of the "Oblitus". The last memorials of an ancient civilization wiped out by its own weapons3. I remember the line from Shelley, "look on my works ye mighty…"
the west circular panel has to be a control mechanism; the symbols are buttons. System for retrieving the stored data. Somewhere in there, amongst all the random memories, is something of VALUE.
7/16
the letter says Bunny Hopkins and his platoon got ambushed, 6 killed. I remember when the poor bastard got shipped out, he was practically sobbing, wiping those big coke bottle glasses of his, saying it must've been a mistake he got drafted, the letter must've been for someone else.
we go on about peace and love but where does that get us? Kent State, just more blood spilled and more blame laid on us. The shouting, picketing, sit-ins, WHERE does that get us? Where did all that sobbing and running get Bunny? Vietnam ate him alive, with no body to bury, glasses sunk in the jungle muck.
all that about man being loving? Our nature—to kill, to pick up the broken jawbone and crush the skull of the rival ape.
7/17
the Oblitus had it right. weapons of the mind, spreading as a killing idea.
is that what the tower holds? the weapon that killed them, or something like that, hidden within it? it may take years to brute-force it, sifting through however much information is in there, but I don't have anything better to do. My friend is dead, the planet's dying, and I have nothing to do.
11/8
I've seen a dozen civilizations die. Did you know that the world bloomed all over with flowers every time it happened? Colors like I'd never seen, and the air thick with sweetness. There were beautiful memories—I remember one where I think I was a father, holding my son as we watched an eclipse, and a hush growing as the sun went dark. But the ones I remember the most were the wars. In the trenches of the Somme, I hummed a lullaby as a friend held my hand and the morphine took away the pain, and at Mylae I buried the Roman dead, because even though I was a friend of Carthage, they deserved to return to their ancestors.
there is no weapon.
the tower is a repository of memory, without distinction or discrimination. I am sure that if I waited long enough, I'd come across every memory I ever had, preserved like a fly in amber. I have died a thousand times in a thousand wars, and received just as many gifts of compassion.
11/10
I've been thinking about Bunny again. All of those Romans and Greeks he used to read and talk about. There was one book, De Rerum Natura, On The Nature Of Things, that he gave me before shipping out. I dug it out of the suitcase and began reading. The author says that death is like a vessel shattering, its contents falling everywhere. The dead don't suffer, because they're gone, scattered in the deepest of sleeps. It's a good idea. I hope it's true, that Bunny's just asleep now.
All those memories are weighing on me. I'm barely ninety pounds, haven't slept in days because when I do, all I see are the memories. Or dreaming of Bunny, gunned down or bleeding in a trap. I might take a walk tomorrow morning. Because I know that if I keep going on, I'll go mad.
Yesterday I found a plaque, buried in the sand—it must have been attached to the tower at some point. I transcribed its inscription, and I think what it says makes a lot of sense.
Addendum 6000.3
On the 11th of November, park rangers discovered Raoul Acosta on a plateau near Zabriskie Point, having committed suicide by gunshot. He carried a note in his pocket, believed to be the inscription of the aforementioned plaque, which has been transcribed below. A metal plaque was recorded amongst the possessions in Acosta's motel room by the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, but its location is currently unknown.
Forgetting is a necessity. The scientist who experiments on a laboratory mouse must forget that it lives or suffers. The soldier who must kill, first kills the humanity of their foe. The tyrant, building an empire, must forget that joy or compassion exists, and tell themselves that the suffering of those under their care is just another obstacle.
The Oblitus knew this. That is why this tower exists, built to remember their culture even as they died. It precedes us, and we are the heirs to its purpose.
We may die in the darkness, shattering into lifeless atoms, and this may be rationalized as being for the greater good, or as punishment, or as a reward. Human nature is a strange thing. We teach ourselves that man is but a monster, to be disciplined and caged, and build great things from this foundation. But this foundation is a lie, or at least is not the whole truth.
That there is more than one side to man will seem like a monstrous abnormality to those used to seeing the nature of things in a simpler way. That is the abnormality we protect. Our duty: to memorialize, not only your crimes, but the true nature of man, at any cost.We will remember you.
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