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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a container in Storage Room [REDACTED] of Site 92. This container is to be locked at all times. At the current time, no testing is allowed to be performed using SCP-XXXX. For past test logs, please see Interview Logs XXXXa through XXXXl-m.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a book entitled “Dr Ensign Tilton’s Guide to Anomalous Guide to Materials Anomalosy [sic]”. The front cover proclaims it to be a guide to “anomalous” research, written by a “Doctor Ensign Tilton”, with the back cover consisting of various sentences, using correct grammar and punctuation, but utilising solely the words “anomalous” and “research”.
SCP-XXXX’s alpha effect displays ten to twenty minutes after reading at least three pages. Subjects appear to have understood what they have read, but begin to have trouble describing it, with these difficulties only manifesting when attempting to speak or write about the book. This reaches its peak approximately five hours after reading the book, with subjects displaying a near complete inability to talk about the book, with subjects universally expressing frustration at this.
Approximately seven hours after this peak, signs of the alpha effect begin to be replaced with SCP-XXXX’s beta effect. Subjects begin to be able to speak and write about the contents of SCP-XXXX, speaking using correct grammar and syntax, though their word choices are incorrect, with the subject apparently not realising. Initially word choices might make some sense, with substitutions appearing as swapped consonants, such as “mock” instead of “rock”, or semantically dissimilar but visually similar ideas, such as “hose” instead of “snake”. Over time, subjects appear to become incapable of properly comprehending others, though this isn’t obvious to the subject. Notably, the beta effects extend to attempts to communicate any subject, not just relating to SCP-XXXX.
Gradually the alpha effect fades entirely and the beta effect reaches a point where subjects are utilising completely nonsensical sentences, though not seeming to understand that anything is wrong.
Addendum:
Interview Log XXXXa was performed by Researcher Wilton with a single Class D personnel.
Wilton: It is approximately half an hour since D-55121 has read through SCP-XXXX in its entirety, in one sitting. How do you feel?
D-55121: I feel okay, doc, yeah. Kind of surprised.
Wilton: So, tell me, what did you think of the book?
D-55121: Well, you know, it was pretty boring, really. It kept talking—um, it was… pauses for three seconds// it was… hard to exhales heavily// hard to read.
Wilton: Are you okay?
D-55121: Yeah, I’m fine. Guess I lost focus there?
Wilton: Let’s move on, then. What was the book about?
D-55121: It was— makes several noises of exasperation// It’s on the tip of my tongue, doc, I swear. It was, like, uhm, it helped ab—no, it spoke about the—the way to const—contain anomalies.
Wilton: Anomalies of what kind?
D-55121: Look, doc, I’m struggling here.
Wilton: Just answer the question, please.
D-55121: exhales in frustration// Okay, it—it’s these, these squa—no not squares they’re th—the noise is heard, later confirmed to be D-55121 scratching at his head in frustration//. Look, so, you have the—
abruptly stops talking and was unresponsive for the rest of the test//
Interview Log XXXXa-a was performed by Researcher Wilton as a continuation of the previous log.
Wilton: It is now two hours and 23 minutes since the previous interview log. D-55121, can you tell me what the title of SCP-XXXX is?
D-55121: I mean, sure. It was Doctor… um, milit—Ensign Tilton’s th—wo—goes silent//.
Wilton: Alright, how about this. Where are we, who do I work for, and how old are you?
D-55121: Site 92, and you work for the SCP Foundation. I’m [REDACTED].
Wilton: Mmhmm. What was on page one of SCP-XXXX?
D-55121: I—work, it worked with—pause// methods. Methods in it.
Wilton: Methods?
D-55121: Yeah, it sor—showed the—the walls. The walls and the make—make out of.
Wilton: Would it be fair to say you’re having trouble with your speech?
D-55121: No! No, I can talk fine, it’s just. It’s like a wall goes up when I try to talk about the hook.
Wilton: Did you mean book?
nods and refuses to speak further//
Suspecting that SCP-XXXX was affecting D-55121’s brain in some physical way, his regularly scheduled MRI was pushed forwards. The results came back showing no degradation, and so interview XXXXa-b was held as the final one of the day.
Interview Log XXXXa-c was performed by Researcher Wilton, as a continuation of the previous logs.
Wilton: Alright, it is now the day after first exposure to SCP-XXXX, approximately… 16 hours. How are you feeling, D-55121.
D-55121: I’m good, doc. I actually feel pretty yellow from yesterday.
Wilton: Yellow?
D-55121: Uh, what about it?
Wilton: You said “yellow”.
D-55121: Oh. Weird. shrugs, and Researcher Wilton continues//
Wilton: Moving on, do you think you can tell me what the title of SCP-XXXX is?
D-55121: Yeah, it’s Dr Ensign Tilton’s Hide to Anomalous Guide to Materials Anomouse.
Wilton: Can you repeat that?
D-55121: What? Why?
Wilton: Just do it, please. Exactly as you said it before.
D-55121: sighs// Dr Enzyme Tilton’s Anomamlous Guide to Water Aerials Anonis.
Wilton: Where are we, who do I work for, and how old are you?
D-55121: Cyst twenty two. You work for the SZP Foundation, and I’m force.
Wilton pauses, which causes D-55121 to speak up//
D-55121: You just spoke me to tell you what I re— [D-55121 is interrupted]
Wilton: Are you certain you feel alright? Are you dizzy? Any shooting pains on one side?
D-55121: apparently visibly shaken, looks behind himself// I don’t see him.
At this point, Researcher Wilton ended the interview abruptly and ordered another MRI, which once again showed no changes to brain structure. Researcher Wilton requested that no more D-class be exposed to SCP-XXXX until he was satisfied with the results on D-55121. The request was eventually granted, though by then four more D-class had been exposed to SCP-XXXX.
Interview Log XXXXa-m was performed by Researcher Wilton, as a continuation of the previous logs.
Wilton: It is now, let me just double check, two weeks and four days since first exposure to SCP-XXXX. D-55121, how are you?
D-55121: I’m pretty, it’s accentuated today so it’s over tonight. In the glous1. [chuckles]
Wilton: Okay, and what day is today?
D-55121: Well, we’re sitting in the room over there, aren’t you, in the room with them?
Wilton: No, what day is it, today. What day?
D-55121: pauses, later said to appear confused and looking through the at the time disabled one-way mirror, before continuing// About 3am, and it was inside at the rain with him, with him, the uh, the hog.
Wilton: Wilton confirmed that during this pause, he too looked through the mirror, seeing a standard month calendar with a dog on it// Did you mean “with the dog”?
D-55121: Yes, and I saw her in the furm2, it was the shoe. laughs here, and Researcher Wilton is heard chuckling too// Tomorrow with the him it’s a frosty house, with uhm, uh, the water? When you see the water it’s in it, it’s him with hims.
Wilton: And wh—Wilton coughs// what was the name of the SCP you read at the start of this?
D-55121: It was, it withed in dog! [//more laughter// We showed it amsting3 with logs, be, it denied!
Wilton: coughing// Okay. D-55121, can you look at me? does so, looking confused// Where are we, who do I work for, and how old are you?
D-55121: Probably, yes. It was a store, the horse, it maked the wall into it, yeah? Yeah, yes inside and doctors. pauses// Are you falsiktimy4?
Wilton: Yeah, okay. We’re going to stop here.
Note from Researcher Wilton:
I don’t care how much or how little we could learn from SCP-XXXX, I’m putting my foot down, and even if I have to use all my weight to do it, we’re stopping testing here. I absolutely refuse to allow people to have their brains scrambled and not even realise it. It’s barbaric. We have so many more SCPs, we can afford to leave one little book in a drawer.
