Per 
- original Survive the Night draft, got deleted (asked for permission to rewrite)
- Can You Survive the Night? rewrite
- Dept. of Abnormalities Concept
- A Spreading Rot
- A Spreading Rot (draft 2)
- There --is-- --was-- --will be-- (Never Was?) a Hole in My Floor
- Explaining Hole
- Hole Draft 2
- Sleepless Sleepers Dream Delusions
- To Shift for Your Desires
- A Spreading Rot draft 3
- "I think she's at her job right now..."
- Ten Thousand Dreams at Once
- Discussion
- Ten Thousand Dreams at Once (DRAFT 2)
Item #: SCP-5949
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5949 is contained in a standard safe storage locker held at Site-81. All Foundation personnel with security clearance with level 3 or higher are permitted testing of SCP-5949. SCP-5949 may not be placed near any VHS players at any time other than testing.
Description: SCP-5949 is a VHS tape appearing to be a film with the title Survival Of Halloween. The sticker appears to be scratched off and written over with a black marker. Placing SCP-5949 into a VHS player will send the victim using SCP-5949 into the film through anomalous means. Any recordable devices and people in the room will be taken into SCP-5949, any means of contact will be disconnected, Only after everything gets transported may personnel enter into the room. Once inside the victim will now be trapped and can’t exit the SCP-5949. After 10 minutes being stuck, entities (we will now refer to as SCP-5949-1) will attempt to attack the victim stuck inside mainly by beating the victim to death and then eating the corpse. The film will only end when everyone dies.
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Fill in accordingly after the rest of the article has been written
Description: SCP-XXXX is a series of VHS tapes that were publicly released between August and November of 1981. SCP-XXXX instances appear as standard video cassettes commonly sold by film companies during the 1980s "slasher boom" in the horror genre. SCP-XXXX's cover art depicts a masked individual holding a large knife with the title "Surviving Halloween" in dripping scarlet text.
When SCP-XXXX is watched using a standard videocassette player and the opening credits pass, an activation event will occur. After the credits conclude,1 every human being within 5 meters of the tape player will undergo a Class-II pataphysical shift that will displace them into the setting of SCP-XXXX's story. All subjects displaced into the film will appear onscreen and become active participants in the film's events, taking the roles of the story's protagonists.
SCP-XXXX-1 manifests as the fictional town of Friar, Maine, which serves as the main location for SCP-XXXX events. SCP-XXXX-1 has various sub-locations that vary in relevancy during each SCP-XXXX event. These sub-locations are present in some form during each SCP-XXXX activation event, and also fit into various themes and tropes of the horror genre during the time period of the late 1970s to the late 1980s. These locations include:
- SCP-XXXX-1's town hall.
- The town square, situated directly in the center of SCP-XXXX-1.
- Friar Bay Psychiatric Hospital, which was left abandoned "in the 50s" and is separated from the town proper.
- Multiple graveyards in the town proper, with most appearing disheveled and/or wholly unused.
- Camp Fry, situated on the southwest edge of town in the surrounding forest.
- The large forest surrounding SCP-XXXX-1 that appears to have no end, despite having a main exit road as well as "visiting" instances of SCP-XXXX-2 that arrive from outside of town.2
Within SCP-XXXX-1 reside humanoids that are physically identical to average non-anomalous human beings, hereby referred to as SCP-XXXX-2. Instances of SCP-XXXX-2 are capable of speech, independent thought, and individuality, although their personalities and positions often fit within pre-established character tropes and stereotypes that are common in horror fiction. According to behavioral analyses and prompting by subjects, SCP-XXXX-2 instances are either not aware that they are inside a film, or do not care.3 SCP-XXXX-2 instances often follow subjects throughout their appearance in town, attempting to help them find an escape route. Despite being natives to SCP-XXXX and SCP-XXXX-1, this opens them up to similar attacks from SCP-XXXX-3.
SCP-XXXX-3 are various hostile entities that manifest within the first act of an SCP-XXXX activation event. SCP-XXXX-3 vary during each activation event, but instances usually follow a vague outline of themes and tropes. Typically, SCP-XXXX-3 instances are humanoid4, supernaturally inclined, highly volatile and violent, extremely versatile in attacking methods, and hold an extremely high endurance.
SCP-XXXX-3 instances will attempt to attack and kill all subjects who are transported to SCP-XXXX-1 by any means necessary, with the most common method being bludgeoning to death. After the subjects are killed, SCP-XXXX-3 instances are seen dragging the bodies away.5
An SCP-XXXX activation event concludes when all subjects transported into SCP-XXXX have been killed. After the film is complete, SCP-XXXX's credits will roll, with the subjects' names appearing for their "roles". After the end credits are completed, SCP-XXXX will automatically rewind itself before ejecting itself from the tape player.
Addendum XXXX.1: Testing Logs
Date: 8 September 1998
Test Subject: D-3112
Head Researcher: Dr. William Michaels
[BEGIN LOG]
D-3112 is given a comms headset and is escorted into Chamber A-7. Inside is a copy of SCP-XXXX sitting in front of a standard VCR hooked up to a CRT television.
Dr. Michaels: (over intercom) Hello, D-3112. For today's test, I'd like you to place that video cassette into the VCR and press "play".
D-3112: (scoffing) What is this, a movie night?
Dr. Michaels: Of sorts.
D-3112 shrugs and places SCP-XXXX into the VCR system. Finding no chair in the room, D-3112 sits cross-legged on the floor in front of the television. After approximately 3 minutes, an activation event occurs, with D-3112 undergoing a Class-II pataphysical shift into SCP-XXXX. After the shift is completed, researchers quickly enter the chamber and set up surrounding equipment in order to record the rest of the film.
A title card fades into view from the black. It reads "Surviving Halloween" in dripping scarlet text. A secondary title appears, reading "Prison Escape" as sinister synth music drones in the background.
The title screen fades into a scene that pans down a suburban street in SCP-XXXX-1. The sun is seen on the horizon in the background and the neighborhood appears empty. The music continues as the the shot lingers on a brush-covered gap between two houses. D-3112 pushes his way though the bushes into view.
D-3112:
[TERMINAL UNLOCKED]
[ACCESSING FILE CON-228: "Department of Abnormalities"]
Uggggggggggggh, alright Tom, time to get your writing into shape. So, you want to tackle the Department of Abnormalities, don't you? Well, that means that you're gonna have to attempt to toss together some ideas pronto.
Alright, okay, first you have to list out concepts/themes that make the Department of Abnormalities unique to itself as a concept/GoI:
- The Department of Abnormalities is, in many ways, a precursor to the modern-day Foundation.
- The higher-ups of the modern Foundation do seem to know at the very least a surface-level understanding of the Department's existence (In 4099, the O5 gave the MTF an access code to the elevator in Ukraine. It is not mentioned where they got this access code from or why they know it is the correct access code.).
- The Department of Abnormalities is brutal in its techniques, arguably less humanitarian than the modern iteration of the Foundation.
- The Department of Abnormalities has and/or had access to iterations of anomalies that the Foundation currently contains - see 173 and 231-7.
- The Department of Abnormalities is disturbingly efficient, as shown in how they were able to acquire extremely specific, powerful, and currently unknown items and anomalies, along with how well-kept their secrecy was, and how technologically advanced they were, with it appearing, at this point, to be disturbingly anomalous in and of itself.
- Also of note is how they were able to make a great number of hidden bases without modern Foundation knowledge or written records.
- The Department of Abnormalities consists of these various themes:
- secrecy
- silence
- hidden/sealed power
- an unwillingness to face the past
- the past coming back to haunt you
- quiet violence
- cover-ups
- the "old ways"
- proto-bureaucracy
- i.e. militarism and unethical/juvenile scientific practices and protocol
So, now that you have all of that information laid out for you, how about we hash out some ideas?
[LOG TERMINATED]
| Concept Title | Anomaly Description | Overall Story/Plot |
|---|---|---|
| [DATA SEALED] | An old polaroid camera that consistently has humanoid shadows appear in the photographs the camera produces. | Potentially an older link to the Class of '76. Forge later. |
| [DATA SEALED] | cell-content | Old link to elder Fifthism. |
| [DATA SEALED] | cell-content | cell-content |
What would be an interesting Dept. of Abnormalities concept?
First, how about I summarize all of the already-known Dept. anomalies:
- A subterranean basement in London that has 7 layers. Knowledge of it is restricted to O5 members only, as well as the various objects it holds - archaic, old, and not dissimilar to Series I SCPs.
- The moon being hollowed out and being replaced with a massive site that contains a as-of-now unforeseen cosmic anomaly in the shape(?) of a man. U.S. interference along with mysticism from Jack Parsons and Alistair Crowley leave Crowley's face on the far side of the moon in a state of constant orgasm. Yeah…
- A series of documents pointing to old roots of the department, along with a hidden base in Ukraine. This base holds a series of escaped anomalies, with their documentation each also appearing juvenile and a precursor to the modern Foundation standard SCP file format.
- A panopticon in Japan filled with statues that vaguely move when they are not being watched. One cell is empty, and the watcher in the tower is dead of a broken neck.
- A sealed-off apartment in a complex that has evidence of abuse, along with the remains of a child's room and belongings.
- (Potentially.) Site-5.
Why does the Department of Abnormalities scare you, Thomas?
Because it insinuates that the Foundation is older than itself.
And? There's almost certainly more.
And that even the Foundation does not know or understand its own origins.
And how is that frightening? By any means, there are many, many 001 proposals and articles that delve into the origin of the Foundation with even stranger or darker concepts at play.
Because those articles are different. They are strange or dreamlike or are built on a base that is stable. The Department of Abnormalities hides underneath its own secrecy and blankets itself in layer upon layer upon layer of mystery, and the deeper you dig the more horrible things you see.
Violence, slaughter, massacres, misunderstood importances, the eyes of god locked inside a cardboard box and yet you are still none the wiser of the implications of the things you hold in the cells.
I-It's darkened hallways with flickering flourescent lights, archives underneath Site-19 that hide underneath more archives, sub-units tucked away and files that hold dangerous information, crimes against both the self and the many - power wielded in impossible ways, people, if they can even still be called that, working underneath your very nose, conniving people with great mechanical plans and intentions that stretch out beyond the reaches of newer gods like Mekhane or Yaoldoboath or the Cosmic Starfish - even then it appears that these things are new, things that came after the Department, so what were they hiding at all, and were they working for our interests or were they a part of the Foundation filled with resentment, corruption, shadows, hands reaching out from hellish places, please don't touch me, please go back to your corners I do not want to see you and They Will Pull You In And All I See Is Lies.
…
Exactly, Thomas.
Exactly.
| Concept Title | Anomaly Description | Overall Story/Plot |
|---|---|---|
| Spreading Rot | A room in a nursing home. | The Old Man. |
Oh god.
What have I done?
Item Number: SCP-5806
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Due to its fairly isolated location, SCP-5806 is to be constantly monitored remotely by a single guard stationed undercover within Kenton, OK. The Flowered Acres Nursing Home has been bought by Foundation cover organizations and cordoned off under the guise of a construction site run by Oklahoma state officials in order to avoid citizen scrutiny. Personnel are not allowed to enter SCP-5806 under any circumstances due to concerns of contamination and/or tampering.
Description: SCP-5806 is Room 23 of the Flowered Acres Nursing Home, located just outside the town borders of Kenton, Oklahoma. Underneath the placard listing SCP-5806's room number is another smaller plaque labelled "Department of Abnormalities." Questioning staff revealed no information of when the plaque was placed, despite the nursing home still being in operation upon SCP-5806's initial discovery. Further prompting lead to tangential information regarding SCP-5806's past resident; an as-of-now unnamed elderly man in his late 80s. Records and staff interviews have brought up no new information regarding the patient's identity nor his whereabouts, yet most implied that the patient left of his own accord, not stating any disappearance or abrupt exit of any kind. Nursing staff did not respond to any statements or questions regarding SCP-5806's anomalies, remaining silent when topics regarding its various properties were mentioned. This remained even when staff was placed under duress. It is currently inconclusive whether or not staff refusal to acknowledge SCP-5806's anomalous traits is another anomalous aspect of SCP-5806 itself.
SCP-5806 consists of two rooms - a general lounge room and an attached bathroom unit. SCP-5806's bathroom unit is covered in a thin layer of grime, its tile grout in advanced stages of molding. Every attempt to successfully clean the tiles has failed, as well as every attempt to permanently remove the general accumulated filth.
Any water produced by the bathtub faucet and showerhead appears brackish. Testing showed that these water samples are contaminated with large amounts of silt and clay. When the plumbing was examined, none of the acquired water samples from the rest of the facility contained these elements.
The bathtub drain also appears to be clogged with mud.
There are a series of smudges on the water tank of the toilet. These smudges consist of a dried black substance with the same consistency as dried mucus.
In SCP-5806's main room is a single twin-mattress bed, with the headboard flush against the north wall. There is a bedside table to the right of the bed, a lamp placed on its top. The lightbulb for this lamp is burnt out.
Underneath the bed is a black hardcover journal. Most of the writing inside is illegible, quickly devolving into frenzied, incoherent scribbling. There is a large number of pages removed from the end of the book, and the frayed remains suggest that they decomposed rather than being forcefully torn out. Recovered segments of the journal read as follows:
eeps coat[ing] my ribs, and i find
sometimes i am back there, always i am back the[ILLEGIBLE]
[ILLEGIBLE]n't st[o]p
illing my boots, so i am forced to craw[l]
[f]ills my throat too
[so]metimes it tastes [ILLEGIBLE], absolutely divine
A leather recliner resides in the northeast corner of SCP-5806, angled towards a window on the east wall. The recliner is worn from use, with distinct stretch marks and wearing in the leather along the seat cushion, armrests, and backing. There is also a faded black stain on the recliner's seat cushion, with two smaller matching stains on the front edges of the armrests. The substance that caused this stain appears to be the same as the marks found on the toilet.
Wedged between the recliner's cushions are three human teeth - one first molar (lower jaw), one central incisor (upper jaw), and one canine (upper jaw). These teeth are visibly decayed, specifically within the enamel and dentin.
There is a tall lamp in the northwestern corner of SCP-5806. When turned on, the smell of wet mulch, gunpowder, and iron begins to spread within SCP-5806's limits.
When bare human skin comes into contact with SCP-5806's carpet, it will be sporadically pricked, cut, and/or snagged by unknown forces, typically breaking the skin and causing discomfort and pain.
Various forms of debris can also be found mixed into SCP-5806's carpeted floor. Tests have shown microscopic traces of
- mold particulate
- glass particulate
- metal particulate (specifically forged metals)
- clay
- blood (belonging to upwards of 7 different individuals)
When the curtains for the eastern window are drawn and all light sources within SCP-5806 are turned off, no scattered or residual light is able to enter its borders, completely insulating it from the entire visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
In this state, the temperature within SCP-5806 drops by 5 °C.
In front of the twin-mattress bed is a large dresser unit, flush with the southern wall. A 1971 Zenith Color television set is placed on top of the dresser at approximately chest height. The dresser itself contains multiple threadbare button-ups of various colors, as well as various faded pairs of dress pants. At the very bottom of the dresser drawers, underneath the folded clothing, lies a corroded and slightly tarnished World War I service medal.
Item Number: SCP-5806
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Due to its fairly isolated location, SCP-5806 is to be constantly monitored remotely by a single guard stationed undercover within Kenton, OK. The Flowered Acres Nursing Home has been bought by Foundation cover organizations and cordoned off under the guise of a construction site run by Oklahoma state officials in order to avoid citizen scrutiny. Personnel are not allowed to enter SCP-5806 under any circumstances due to concerns of contamination and/or tampering.
Description: SCP-5806 is Room 23 of the Flowered Acres Nursing Home, located just outside the town borders of Kenton, Oklahoma. Underneath the placard listing SCP-5806's room number is another smaller plaque labelled "Department of Abnormalities." Questioning staff revealed no information of when the plaque was placed, despite the nursing home still being in operation upon SCP-5806's initial discovery. Nursing staff did not respond to any statements or questions regarding SCP-5806's anomalies, remaining silent when topics regarding its various properties or past inhabitants were mentioned. This remained even when staff was placed under duress. It is currently inconclusive whether or not staff refusal to acknowledge SCP-5806's anomalous traits is another anomalous aspect of SCP-5806 itself.
SCP-5806 consists of two rooms - a general lounge room and an attached bathroom unit. SCP-5806's bathroom unit is covered in a thin layer of grime, its tile grout in advanced stages of molding. Every attempt to successfully clean the tiles or general bathroom has failed.
Any water produced by the sink, bathtub faucet, and showerhead appears brackish. Testing showed that these water samples are contaminated with large amounts of silt and clay, and only originate from SCP-5806's faucets.
The bathtub drain also appears to be clogged with mud.
There are a series of marks left on the water tank of the toilet. They consist of a black substance with the consistency of dried mucus.
SCP-5806's main room is carpeted with a single twin-mattress bed, a bedside table with a lamp on it to its right, another taller lamp in the northwest corner, a recliner in the northeastern corner, and a dresser with a television set on top positioned in front of the bed.
The bed's headboard is flush against the north wall. There is a large black stain on the bed's single pillow. The lamp sitting on the bedside table does not function.
When the taller lamp in the northwestern cozener is turned on, the smell of wet mulch, gunpowder, and iron begins to spread within SCP-5806's walls.
Underneath the bed is a hardcover journal. Most of the writing inside is illegible. There is a large number of pages removed from the end of the book, and the frayed remains suggest that they decomposed rather than being forcefully torn out.
The recliner near the northeastern corner is angled towards a window. The recliner is worn from heavy use. There is a faded black stain on the recliner's seat cushion, with two smaller matching stains on the front edges of the armrests. The substance that caused this stain appears to be the same as the marks found on the toilet and pillow.
Wedged between the recliner's cushions are three human teeth - one first molar (lower jaw), one central incisor (upper jaw), and one canine (upper jaw). These teeth are visibly decayed, specifically within the enamel and dentin.
When bare skin comes into contact with SCP-5806's carpeted floor, it will be sporadically pricked, cut, and/or snagged by an intangible force, typically breaking the skin and causing discomfort and pain.
Various forms of debris can be found mixed into SCP-5806's carpet. Tests have shown microscopic traces of
- mold particulate
- glass particulate
- metal particulate (specifically forged and man-made metals)
- ash
- blood (belonging to upwards of 7 different individuals)
In front of the twin-mattress bed is the large dresser unit, flush with the southern wall. A 1971 Zenith Color television set is placed on top of the dresser at approximately chest height. When on, the television set only displays static, with random bouts of loud popping and cracking resembling gunfire.
The dresser itself contains multiple threadbare button-ups of various colors, as well as various faded pairs of dress pants. At the very bottom of the dresser drawers, underneath the folded clothing, lies a corroded and slightly tarnished World War I service medal.
Item Number: SCP-4033
Object Class: Euclid-provisi
Special Containment Procedures: For accuracy and to avoid being altered under its effects, SCP-4033 is to always be referred to in the present tense in all tangible documentation. Documents written in the past tense regarding SCP-4033 will be deemed compromised by SCP-4033's effects and will be placed in Wing B-2 of Site-21.
COMPLETE CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES PENDING_
Description: SCP-4033 is a temporal, historical, and logical inconsistency residing on the second floor of a suburban home in Whitefish, Montana. SCP-4033 manifests as a large hole (approx. 4ft in diameter) in the southwestern corner of one of the bedrooms inside the residential house. While SCP-4033 appears as a hole to those who view it6, there are widespread incongruencies regarding its current and continuous state, specifically whether or not it physically exists (and continues to exist) in this current reality. Tests are ongoing.
Memories regarding SCP-4033 are unable to be artificially altered, rewritten, or removed, which appears to work contrarily to its main properties. It is unknown why or how memories of SCP-4033 exist unaltered when any other recorded media of SCP-4033 ceases reliability upon completion.
Discovery: The Foundation was alerted to SCP-4033's presence during the resulting search parties regarding one Francine Winnoa in the town of Whitefish, Montana in late March of 1983. Winnoa was 22 at the time of her disappearance, and the town had been undergoing extensive search expeditions throughout the local forest and town proper.
The Foundation was alerted of a potential anomaly during a conversation between two townsfolk over the phone in which two civilians were going back and forth regarding potential places for Winnoa to have fled to in the case that she had left of her own volition.
When Foundation personnel arrived at Whitefish and located SCP-4033, they attempted to amnesticize the citizens of Whitefish. All attempts to amnesticize the residence were met with failure, as it appears that memories regarding SCP-4033 are resistant to being artificially rewritten or remived.
Addendum 4033.1: Current Hypotheses Regarding SCP-4033's Existence
…From what is currently known regarding the subject and field of antimemetics is that despite our inability to coherently understand or grasp the anomalies in question, they are still there, they still have a presence within our collective plane of existence. What can be gathered, even without studying them directly, is a hole in the world in the shape of said anomaly, a hole consisting of what the object in question leaves behind (unless, of course, those remaining effects and/or damages are antimemetic in and of themselves).
While the topic of non-existence becomes something rather philosophical at points, it can be said that, again, philosophically, that if something is not perceived by anyone or anything, then it is also functionally non-existent. Despite this being of a general consensus, it appears to be thwarted by the mere "existence" of SCP-4033 - the hole in the floor that can be seen and interacted with, yet every form of record argues otherwise. I personally do believe that if SCP-4033 is antimemetic, than it is in a form that we have yet to see. Further dissecting my own opinion, SCP-4033 is not antimemetic at all, instead, having a quality to it reminiscent of temporal anomalies, specifically in the working field of past and future-occurring works that do not occur in the current present.
Still, even today, I am baffled by what SCP-4033 actually is. Naturally, you can look at an object and, in most ways, see evidence of it being real to you - it casts a shadow, it leaves behind a certain smell, other people can interact with it in turn. Then there's suddenly a contrary to this - an object that can be perceived, can be touched and looked at, yet everything surrounding it points to how it does not exist…
Potential Conclusion: SCP-4033 may not be antimemetic due to how it does not seem to exist within the context of the historical past. SCP-4033 may consistently exist in the present, but not the past nor future.
…The thing is, we do have records about tests done on SCP-4033, but all of those tests immediately either became nullified, or, at worst, they reflected the same effects as the main anomaly. There was one incident in which several Kant counters were lowered into SCP-4033 only for their measurements to be wildly inconsistent. Specifically, one counter registered an error message akin to a null integer - think dividing by zero and that's not too dissimilar to what we received on the device.
Another aspect about this test was that immediately after it had concluded, most documents were immediately flagged by Foundation AI within the database as factually inconsistent. As per protocol, they were summarily archived onto an isolated backup server and deleted from the mainlist in order to prevent potential memetic infection. After being reviewed and scanned for potential dangers, the documents were analyzed only for personnel to find three different variants of the same experiment cyclically encoded into the file's source code.
These differing versions of the article were functionally identical except for specific details. In one of the documents, SCP-4033 is not present as a hole, instead only being the solid wood floor in the corner of the room. Despite this, the test continues, with the Kant counters being lowered until they laid still on the ground, giving average readings for our baseline Hume levels.
In the second document, the Kant counters were lowered through the floor, although the floor remained solid for anything and everything else that interacted with it. The Kant counters were irretrievable, but still, the document continues as if nothing odd has occurred. There is no mention of the Kant counters at the end of the paper.
Potential Conclusion: SCP-4033 exists in a fragmented state, existing in the baseline present while failing to exist in the past. Documents and media will become altered in order to comply with this fact.
Potential Conclusion: SCP-4033 exists in a fragmented temporal state, intersecting various other pasts and futures while currently only being able to exist in our current baseline present.
…more well-noted instance of the Foundation using their own resources for research is in their attempts to discern the exact nature of SCP-4033, a hole in the floor that debatably exists in the present while it ceases to exist in any other context. A series of other tests and hypotheses debated the concept that SCP-4033 could not exist in any other medium or context that wasn't the current moment or human memory. After a series of hellish beaurocratic lines of paperwork and other such-and-such, researchers were allowed the usage of SCP-████ in order to discern whether or not SCP-4033 existed in the future. At the time, they were only cleared for a single test - one round trip, five minutes into the future and back. All possible precautions were taken to not produce a paradox - routes were planned and certain portions of Whitefish were closed off in order to facilitate smooth sailing.
Once the project was initiated, a D-Class was sent off the 5 minutes into the future. When examining the house, he did not see any trace of SCP-4033 in its corner. The D-Class was also prompted to interview at most two residents of the town in order to see if they were aware of the hole in the floor. Long story short, they were able to perceive the hole in the floor and did acknowledge that it existed for them.
(##ffbe33 is yellow)
[TERMINAL UNLOCKED]
[ACCESSING FILE AO443: "A Description of the Hole in the Floor"]
So, what exactly is SCP-4033? Well, first of all, SCP-4033 isn't actually SCP-4033 - I just chose that since it is easier calling it by a number instead of a series of XXXX's or any other placeholder. It gives my mind something to grapple before I slot in a new number for its actual spot in the mainlist (if I ever get to actually publishing it, that is).
Now, for the explanation.
SCP-4033 is a hole in the floor of a bedroom. The bedroom is on the second floor, yet when the hole is viewed, it is obvious that it digs down into solid earth, as if it were on the first floor. That is the first logical inconsistency.
The second logical inconsistency is that past records of the hole do not exist. Photographs, reports, none of it is actually there. Still, people remember the hole and interact with it.
The hole does not show up on any sort of other media. Photographs show the floor is untouched. Reports written about the hole are either missing massive chunks of information or are "rewritten" to say that there is no hole in the floor. I say "rewritten," but truly, they were always written like that to begin with. When artists attempt to draw the hole, all they can really muster is a normal blank corner of a room. The hole does not even appear in people's dreams of it. People's memories of the hole being there are rewritten - they know a hole is there, but cannot picture it.
In 1983, a young woman named Francine Winnoa disappeared in her town of Whitefish, Montana. There is no trace of where she went. Search parties found nothing. Many quietly suspected that the hole took her. Her parents say it was always there, but they don't know the date it appeared.
What is the hole?
The hole is only in the present. When the house is viewed through various time-travel anomalies, the hole is not there in the future. Even in the near-future, like 5 seconds ahead of this very moment, the hole is not there.
The hole is a fractured entropic force that is wearing down at the place around it. It is a form of entropy in both how it exists inside the house (in a present but never past or future) and in how the house interacts with it in turn (it may be debated that the house "absorbs" the hole as, again, there is no hole in the context of the past or future).
Irrelevant. Explain why SCP-4033 fails to exist in the past tense.
Well, the thing is, it doesn’t fail to exist in the past tense, not yet. If it’s referred to enough in the past tense, the entropy that it is will then latch onto that concept and then it WILL be available in the past.
When SCP-4033 becomes available in the past, that's when shit will REALLY hit the fan.
Item Number: SCP-4033
Object Class: Euclid-provisi Keter (see Addendum 4033.X)
Special Containment Procedures: COMPLETE CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES PENDING_ SEE SITE-44 DIRECTOR FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTION_
Description: SCP-4033 is a logical and temporal anomaly located on the second floor of a suburban house in the town of Whitefish, Montana. SCP-4033 manifests as a large hole7 in the southwestern corner of a bedroom inside the house. The inner walls of SCP-4033 are composed of tightly packed soil. The first floor of the home as well as the house's foundation show no signs of damage where SCP-4033 should be positioned should the hole be burrowed through the other floors.
SCP-4033's main effect is that it cannot be documented using photographic or video imagery. Attempts to take photos or record videos of SCP-4033 result in the media in question showing no abnormalities in the floor of the house.
Memories regarding SCP-4033 are unable to be artificially altered, rewritten, or removed, which appears to work contrarily to its main properties. It is unknown why or how memories of SCP-4033 exist unaltered when any other recorded media of SCP-4033 ceases reliability upon completion.
While SCP-4033 appears as a hole to those who view it,8 there are widespread incongruencies regarding its current and continuous state, specifically whether or not it physically exists (and continues to exist) in this current reality. Tests are ongoing.
Addendum 4033.1: Various Hypotheses
| Hypothesis | Description | Consensus |
|---|---|---|
| The Perception Theory | SCP-4033 fails to exist when not being directly observed. | Not applicable. While this does account for 4033's traits such as its failure to be visually recorded, it appears to fall through due to the various reports from the home's inhabitants of sounds coming from 4033 itself. For all intents and purposes, these reports are to be taken as fact. |
| The Antimemetic Theory | SCP-4033 has a strong pervasive antimemetic effect that hides it from visual documentation. | Not applicable. Footage and images of SCP-4033 have no antimemetic influence to them, as proven by Z-Class mnestic tests coupled with memetic program analyses. This may also be disproven through how this hypothesized effect does not fully extend to SCP-4033 itself, and is rendered useless through both visual identification of the anomaly as well as its ability to be adequately memetically transferred. |
| The Temporal Theory | SCP-4033 does not physically exist within the context of the past, as is defined by every moment that precedes the current present. | Proven. See Addendum 4033.X |
Addendum 4033.2: Supplemental References
…From what is currently known regarding the subject and field of antimemetics is that despite our inability to coherently understand or grasp the anomalies in question, they are still there, they still have a presence within our collective plane of existence. What can be gathered, even without studying them directly, is a hole in the world in the shape of said anomaly, a hole consisting of what the object in question leaves behind (unless, of course, those remaining effects and/or damages are antimemetic in and of themselves).
While the topic of non-existence becomes something rather philosophical at points, it can be said that, again, philosophically, that if something is not perceived by anyone or anything, then it is also functionally non-existent. Despite this being of a general consensus, it appears to be thwarted by the mere "existence" of SCP-4033 - the hole in the floor that can be seen and interacted with, yet every form of record argues otherwise. I personally do believe that if SCP-4033 is antimemetic, than it is in a form that we have yet to see. Further dissecting my own opinion, SCP-4033 is not antimemetic at all, instead, having a quality to it reminiscent of temporal anomalies, specifically in the working field of past and future-occurring works that do not occur in the current present.
Still, even today, I am baffled by what SCP-4033 actually is. Naturally, you can look at an object and, in most ways, see evidence of it being real to you - it casts a shadow, it leaves behind a certain smell, other people can interact with it in turn. Then there's suddenly a contrary to this - an object that can be perceived, can be touched and looked at, yet everything surrounding it points to how it does not exist…
Potential Conclusion: SCP-4033 may not be antimemetic due to how it does not seem to exist within the context of the historical past. SCP-4033 may consistently exist in the present, but not the past nor future.
…The thing is, we do have records about tests done on SCP-4033, but all of those tests immediately either became nullified, or, at worst, they reflected the same effects as the main anomaly. There was one incident in which several Kant counters were lowered into SCP-4033 only for their measurements to be wildly inconsistent. Specifically, one counter registered an error message akin to a null integer - think dividing by zero and that's not too dissimilar to what we received on the device.
Another aspect about this test was that immediately after it had concluded, most documents were immediately flagged by Foundation AI within the database as factually inconsistent. As per protocol, they were summarily archived onto an isolated backup server and deleted from the mainlist in order to prevent potential memetic infection. After being reviewed and scanned for potential dangers, the documents were analyzed only for personnel to find three different variants of the same experiment cyclically encoded into the file's source code.
These differing versions of the article were functionally identical except for specific details. In one of the documents, SCP-4033 is not present as a hole, instead only being the solid wood floor in the corner of the room. Despite this, the test continues, with the Kant counters being lowered until they laid still on the ground, giving average readings for our baseline Hume levels.
In the second document, the Kant counters were lowered through the floor, although the floor remained solid for anything and everything else that interacted with it. The Kant counters were irretrievable, but still, the document continues as if nothing odd has occurred. There is no mention of the Kant counters at the end of the paper.
Potential Conclusion: SCP-4033 exists in a fragmented state, existing in the baseline present while failing to exist in the past. Documents and media will become altered in order to comply with this fact.
Potential Conclusion: SCP-4033 exists in a fragmented temporal state, intersecting various other pasts and futures while currently only being able to exist in our current baseline present.
…more well-noted instance of the Foundation using their own resources for research is in their attempts to discern the exact nature of SCP-4033, a hole in the floor that debatably exists in the present while it ceases to exist in any other context. A series of other tests and hypotheses debated the concept that SCP-4033 could not exist in any other medium or context that wasn't the current moment or human memory. After a series of hellish beaurocratic lines of paperwork and other such-and-such, researchers were allowed the usage of SCP-████ in order to discern whether or not SCP-4033 existed in the future. At the time, they were only cleared for a single test - one round trip, five minutes into the future and back. All possible precautions were taken to not produce a paradox - routes were planned and certain portions of Whitefish were closed off in order to facilitate smooth sailing.
Once the project was initiated, a D-Class was sent off the 5 minutes into the future. When examining the house, he did not see any trace of SCP-4033 in its corner. The D-Class was also prompted to interview at most two residents of the town in order to see if they were aware of the hole in the floor. Long story short, they were able to perceive the hole in the floor and did acknowledge that it existed for them.
Addendum 4033.3: History and Discovery
In March of 1983, 22-year-old Francine Winnoa disappeared from her hometown of Whitefish, Montana. The town initiated a number of search parties to comb through both the town proper, nearby communities, and the surrounding forest.
Foundation personnel were notified of potential anomalous activity when linguistic triggers were picked up during a phone call that a Whitefish resident made to a family member in another state. Specifically, the resident referenced the "Callister pit" as a potential reason for why the girl disappeared. When the family member in question inquired about the pit, the Whitefish resident changed the conversation topic before hanging up.
Agents were dispatched to Whitefish under the guise of local officers participating in the search for Ms. Winnoa.
Addendum 4033.4: Recovered Materials
Addendum 4033.5: Expedition 4033-ALPHA (note to self, hide this one behind a Level 4 collapsible)
NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Expedition 4033-ALPHA was the first definite and proven recorded journey into SCP-4033, aided by the help of measured doses of agnostics to both the test subject as well as personnel handling the test. As such, the following transcript may occasionally break standard Foundation formatting, yet remains factual. The following transcript is not to be altered or rewritten as it is factually correct. None of the following transcript is false, misleading, or inaccurate in any way.
— Maria Jones, Director of RAISA
Date: 12 June 2013
Test Subject: D-45116
Head Researcher: Dr. Erin Ziolkowski
[BEGIN LOG]
D-45116 wears a harness that is attached to a mechanism fastened to the ceiling of the home designed to slowly lower them into SCP-4033. Along with this harness, D-45116 is equipped with various recording implements that have been modified by personnel working under the Surrealistics Department. These consist of a camera fastened to their safety helmet along with a standard headlamp.
After a final evaluation, D-45116 is lowered into SCP-4033. Due to close proximity to the surface, there is enough natural light for D-45116 to gauge their surroundings.
Depth reads 3 meters. Theoretically, D-45116 should be positioned in the living room of the house.
Dr. Ziolkowski: D-45116, can you relay to us what you see?
D-45116: (annoyed) Doc, can't you just see what is happening?
Dr. Ziolkowski: Just for the record. We need to make sure that there aren't any incongruencies in the record, scan for any possible cognitohazardous threats - its a safety net.
D-45116: Okay, whatever. It's just dirt, that's it. Tightly packed dirt, none of it looks freshly dug or anything.
Dr. Ziolkowski: We request that you take a few samples of the inner wall for testing, D-45116.
As D-45116 keeps descending, they pull out the sampling vials they were provided with and scratch small amounts of dirt into them. The light from above begins to fade due to growing distance.
Depth reads 7 meters.
[EXTRANEOUS DATA EXPUNGED]
Depth reads 35 meters.
//
Item Number: SCP-0900
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures TO BE DECIDED
Description: SCP-0900 is a 23 year-old female humanoid of Eastern European descent. SCP-0900's main properties is that it is unable to fall unconscious, specifically into an REM sleep cycle.
Discovery: SCP-0900 was discovered on a college campus in Rochester, NY
Item Number: SCP-0203
Object Class: Safe/Euclid
Special Containment Procedure: undisclosed
Description: SCP-0203 is a hallway on the second floor of a home on the outskirts of Rochester, NY. SCP-0203's initial anomalies take the form of random spatial distortions that occur in said hallway. These distortions typically take the form of lengthening or shortening SCP-0203's distance to often abnormal extremes, with the minimum distance reading 3 feet, and maximum equating to approximately 27 miles.
SCP-0203 is located in a suburban home previously owned by the McNelly family, consisting of David McNelly (39), his wife Madison McNelly (36), and their children, Jason (22), Valerie (20), and Kyle (17).
—Interviewer: Dr. Reese Gibson
Interviewed: Kyle McNelly
Dr. Gibson: …so, for the record, you are admitting to creating SCP-0203?
K. McNelly: Yeah. If "SCP-0203" is your name for it, then yes, I made it.
Dr. Gibson: Can you go into your exact reason why you made it?
[Kyle hesitates.]
K. McNelly: I… I'm not so sure now. I mean - now that you're all here and have taken us away, I… I don't know, I kind of regret it to an extent.
[Kyle stares at the table between them, face twisted in thought.]
K. McNelly: I guess it was to prove myself to them.
Dr. Gibson: Prove yourself to your family?
K. McNelly: To an extent. I'd gotten fed up with how they treated me, how they looked at me or talked about me when they thought I wasn't around. I remember this one time I had passed by—
Item Number: SCP-5806
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Due to its fairly isolated location, SCP-5806 is to be constantly monitored remotely by a single guard stationed undercover within Kenton, OK. The Flowered Acres Nursing Home has been bought by Foundation cover organizations and cordoned off under the guise of a construction site run by Oklahoma state officials in order to avoid citizen scrutiny. Personnel are not allowed to enter SCP-5806 under any circumstances due to concerns of contamination and/or tampering.
Description: SCP-5806 is Room 23 of the Flowered Acres Nursing Home, located just outside the town borders of Kenton, Oklahoma. Underneath the placard listing SCP-5806's room number is another smaller plaque labelled "Department of Abnormalities." Questioning staff revealed no information of when the plaque was placed, despite the nursing home still being in operation upon SCP-5806's initial discovery. Nursing staff did not respond to any statements or questions regarding SCP-5806's anomalies, remaining silent when topics regarding its various properties or past inhabitants were mentioned. This remained even when staff was placed under duress. It is currently inconclusive whether or not staff refusal to acknowledge SCP-5806's anomalous traits is another anomalous aspect of SCP-5806 itself.
SCP-5806 consists of two rooms - a general lounge room and an attached bathroom unit. SCP-5806's bathroom unit is covered in a thin layer of grime, its tile grout in advanced stages of molding. Every attempt to successfully clean the tiles or general bathroom has failed.
Any water produced by the sink, bathtub faucet, and showerhead appears brackish. Testing showed that these water samples are contaminated with large amounts of silt and clay, and only originate from SCP-5806's faucets.
The bathtub drain also appears to be clogged with mud.
There are a series of marks left on the water tank of the toilet. They consist of a black substance with the consistency of dried mucus.
SCP-5806's main room is carpeted with a single twin-mattress bed, a bedside table with a lamp on it to its right, another taller lamp in the northwest corner, a recliner in the northeastern corner, and a dresser with a television set on top positioned in front of the bed.
The bed's headboard is flush against the north wall. There is a large black stain on the bed's single pillow. The lamp sitting on the bedside table does not function.
When the taller lamp in the northwestern cozener is turned on, the smell of wet mulch, gunpowder, and iron begins to spread within SCP-5806's walls.
Underneath the bed is a hardcover journal. Most of the writing inside is illegible. There is a large number of pages removed from the end of the book, and the frayed remains suggest that they decomposed rather than being forcefully torn out.
The recliner near the northeastern corner is angled towards a window. The recliner is worn from heavy use. There is a faded black stain on the recliner's seat cushion, with two smaller matching stains on the front edges of the armrests. The substance that caused this stain appears to be the same as the marks found on the toilet and pillow.
Wedged between the recliner's cushions are three human teeth - one first molar (lower jaw), one central incisor (upper jaw), and one canine (upper jaw). These teeth are visibly decayed, specifically within the enamel and dentin.
When bare skin comes into contact with SCP-5806's carpeted floor, it will be sporadically pricked, cut, and/or snagged by an intangible force, typically breaking the skin and causing discomfort and pain.
Various forms of debris can be found mixed into SCP-5806's carpet. Tests have shown microscopic traces of
- mold particulate
- glass particulate
- metal particulate (specifically forged and man-made metals)
- ash
- blood (belonging to upwards of 7 different individuals)
In front of the twin-mattress bed is the large dresser unit, flush with the southern wall. A 1971 Zenith Color television set is placed on top of the dresser at approximately chest height. When on, the television set only displays static, with random bouts of loud popping and cracking resembling gunfire.
The dresser itself contains multiple threadbare button-ups of various colors, as well as various faded pairs of dress pants. At the very bottom of the dresser drawers, underneath the folded clothing, lies a corroded and slightly tarnished World War I service medal.
Item Number: SCP-404
Object Class: AS OF YET PENDING
Special Containment Procedures: AS OF YET PENDING
Description: SCP-404 is a Class-III Self-Fueling Spatial Displacement Complex that is metaphysically fused with SCP-404-A, a 23-year-old female of Irish descent. SCP-404 activates whenever SCP-404-A enters
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Special Containment Procedures: PENDING
Description: SCP-0026 is a layered-level quantum subshift complex that has metaconceptually fastened itself to a humanoid previously identified as a previous and continuous instance of SCP-0019. Through SCP-0026, the subject is able to travel in a downwards pattern through various layers of sub-realities. From the subject's point of view, this travel is consistent with…
The subject has no greater anomalous abilities other than an amorphous knowledge of anomalies at large as well as some of the contents catalogued by the Foundation.
the subject also believes themselves to be dreaming of some sort, and will attempt to end the dream in any way possible, usually by sacrificing themselves to any nearby anomalies.
Addendum 0026.1: Summarized List of Interactions10
| Anomaly Involved | Date of Interaction | Description of Events | State of Human Remains |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCP-1128 | 2.4.1998 | SCP-0026 manifested within Site-22's secure locker facility. After wandering the halls for various hours, they get their bearings on the layout of the facility. They then make an effort navigating to the locker that holds the only contained copy of SCP-1128's description. After attempting to input a passcode and failing twice, SCP-0026 takes a deep breath before attempting a final time. The system override is successful and they attain the description. After quickly reading through it, they place it back in the locker, closing the door. They then begin running through the facility until they discover a bathroom unit. They enter and are not seen exiting. | Partial |
| SCP-2747 | c. March 2006 | There is a significant lack of information regarding this incident, with the main instigator being that on 4 March 2006, Researcher Dennis O'Hara was recorded logging into the database to view records for SCP-2747. Despite the login data, Mr. O'Hara was not seen in the Department of Analytics due to calling in sick. As there is no footage or proof of SCP-0026 manifesting in or nearby the local site, Foundation researchers have hypothesized that SCP-0026 created a stable anafabula after accessing SCP-2747's documentation, thus annihilating themselves from this reality. This hypothesis as of yet has not been disproven. | None |
| SCP-2030 | c. November 2010 | SCP-0026's exact manifestation was not recorded. Dr. Madison Conworth discovered SCP-0026 in the Site-64 archives, sitting on the floor in front of a television connected to a DVD player. SCP-0026 was surrounded by archived box sets of SCP-2030 and had evidently been watching for days. | Bodily waste |
| SCP-096 | 22.3.2007 | SCP-0026 manifested inside SCP-096's airtight cell. Heat and pressure sensors were tripped and an alert was sent to Site-19's containment staff. As a Class-4 containment breach was enacted, SCP-0026 was heard through audio recordings to be breathing heavily while simultaneously attempting to stay quiet. After approximately 5 minutes, SCP-0062 is heard screaming before supposedly viewing 096's face, becoming an instance of SCP-096-1, and being swiftly killed and consumed. | None11 |
| SCP-6XXX | 14.10.2018 | SCP-0026 manifested on Deck 5 of Observation Tower Charlie. Subject was seen appearing in the center of a busy hallway yet no personnel appeared to acknowledge and/or perceive them. Subject approaches an observation deck, surveying SCP-6XXX as a whole. Subject is seen suffering some kind of panic-induced episode, doubling over and covering their face in a fear reaction. Subject then pitches themselves over the railing, plummeting into the depths of the cavern. | Inconclusive12 |
| cell-content | cell-content | cell-content | cell-content |
Addendum 0026.2: Interview
On 2 September 2022, SCP-835 was seen entering an aggravated state, expelling massive amounts of waste into the surrounding waters. As Provisional Site-835 was undergoing breach protocol, SCP-0026 manifested amongst the chaos and was spotted attempting to hijack a submersible, with their intent likely being to attempt to make contact with SCP-835. As the subject was in the process of disengaging the submersible, they were caught and apprehended by several members of MTF Gamma-6 ("Deep Feeders") before being evacuated from Site-835 with the rest of staff. After quarantine and various tests, Dr. Maya Saunders was sent into an interrogation chamber holding SCP-0026, with the interview being monitored by O5-4.
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Saunders: Hello, SCP-0026.
SCP-0026: (Nervously) Y-you have to let me out. You have to get me back to it. Right now.
Dr. Saunders: Well, that's the thing, really. We're here to ask you some questions regarding your interf-
SCP-0026: (Agitated, their voice raising) No, no, NO! You don't understand. I need to go back there, I have to let it grab me, I need to let it rip me to shreds, I need for it to get it over with so I can fucking get back - I need to get it done right now, if I don't then the more scared I'll be, I need to do it now, like pulling off a band-aid, I have to get it done with so the pain isn't as ba-
Dr. Saunders: We know what you do when you get your hands on our artifacts, SCP-0026.
(Silence.)
(Dr. Saunders pulls out a file. She opens it on the table between them and pulls out a series of photographs, laying them all out in front of both her and SCP-0026. They are all photographs of SCP-0026 over the years in various Sites, cordoned-off zones, and containment chambers, with some of the photographs dating back to the late 50s.)
(Dr. Saunders removes her glasses and pinches the bridge of her nose. She sighs.)
Dr. Saunders: You know, its taken me years to collect all of this data regarding your appearances. I never actually thought I'd see the day where you'd be sitting right before me like this. After decades of entering our facilities and taking advantage of breaches and passwords and loopholes in the system… I'm still surprised about how you haven't aged.
(SCP-0026 is silent, staring at the photos before them.)
SCP-0026: (Mumbles something under their breath)
Dr. Saunders: I'm sorry, what was that?
SCP-0026: Time actually passes for all of you here?
Well, yes. Of course it would. How else does time flow?
(SCP-0026 stares at the photographs once more.)
I don't know. Dreams aren't supposed to work like this.
That's something I've actually been meaning to ask you. We've gathered many references and circumstances regarding your appearances and in some, you mention dreams and dreaming. Do you believe that you are dreaming, SCP-0026?
Yes. I know that I am dreaming.
How so? I'd like to think that if I knew I were stuck in a dream, I'd be able to wake up any time, or at the very least attempt to have some fun.
That's the problem. This isn't my dream.
Why do you think that?
If I were dreaming, I would have a sense of control. If this was my dream and my dream alone then I would be able to twist and churn and make it up as I go along. I could give myself superpowers, I could fly, I could wake myself up whenever I would like. But this is not my dream. I have no control over any of it.
If this were my dream, and my dream alone, then I would be able to just… dream of something else. I wouldn't have to go through the cycle of just starting in a new place before throwing myself into the meat grinder.
Do you know who else's dream this is?
Yes.
Would you like to tell me?
You already know, though. If not you, then the ones at the top. It is a gestalt, a story made up of other stories, each story a cell, building up on top of each other until it creates its own electrified mind, and if you're not careful when separating the parts you only see the whole, you become a part of the whole, you get dragged into it and then you are shoved into the inner subconscious of it, dragged in and torn into little tiny parts. I don't- it's-
(SCP-0026 sighs and slumps, appearing exhausted. They lean their elbows onto the table in front of them and place their face in their hands.)
I come back every night. When I do, the date and place is different. Before I break the surface, I hear a voice. It isn't male or female, but it is just a voice, overlayed over itself a hundred times over. It whispers an item number to me, and when I open my eyes, I know I have to get to it. If I don't, I will be stuck here and I won't be able to wake up. If I die by any other reason except the anomaly, the whole thing starts over again, like Groundhog Day. I always try to get it done in one swift motion. Watch as many tapes as I can in a single sitting, sneak the architect into a building until I die of starvation, stare at the painting and step off the curb, all of it.
Sometimes I get stuck, though - I get caught by all of you and I am stuck in a cell to die of old age, or I'm catalogued and live a normal life after getting amnesticized only to pop back up into the same hallway. I have had a "first interview" about thirty times by now and I am beginning to think that it's no use, but I am still fucking desperate!
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Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-0026, also known as "the Gestalt", is a sapient collected thoughtform construct that is partially intersecting our reality as well as the concept of anomalies, the results of those anomalies, and, mainly, the Foundation as a whole. SCP-0026 consists of various vectors of information produced by those that are pataphyisically above us in the stacked nature of both reality and its fictional (as well as perceived fictional) constructs.
While mostly harmless, SCP-0026 is responsible for various shifts in reality both documented and undocumented by the Foundation. This is due to specific parts of SCP-0026 becoming common enough in the upper layers of reality that they produce more and more concepts that build and thrive off of each other.
SCP-0026 is not to be confused with SCP-001, as SCP-001 regards the creators of SCP-0026. It is currently hypothesized that due to the rising number of SCP-001 instances, their collective concepts were eventually able to detach themselves from SCP-001 and thrive of its own accord.
History and Discovery: SCP-0026 was officially discovered in its current iteration on 27 December 1952 when a human being residing in the upper layers of reality was pulled through the Gestalt into one of the sublayers it intersected. This resulted in the subject materializing in a Foundation facility that contained various anomalies. The subject quickly attempted to break into an unguarded cell and succeeded, resulting in their death. The remains were collected and tested and no abnormalities were found.
Months later, the subject was spotted once more, and over time the sightings increased exponentially. Despite the commonality of manifestations, the subject was able to avoid capture due to both the locations in which they manifested and in how they apparently were able to collect valuable information regarding access codes, email logins, and other highly sensitive information surrounding Foundation containment protocol and staff correspondences. After being caught, SCP-0026 was properly interviewed and revealed to be an inactive instance of SCP-00113, which explained their previous insight into the inner workings of Foundation projects.
There's a point where the line between art and artist is blurred to such an extent that the art almost becomes fully untethered from the artist themselves. While aspects of the artist will always live inside the art, the art itself might become something of its own bastion, chugging away farther than the artists can ever see. H. P. Lovecraft was a horrible man, yet his works are beloved by many after his death, even by the kinds of people he would have despised. That's not to compare the authors of the wiki to a racist, not even close.
Its just that sometimes the literature will take on a life of its own, and that is genuinely the most interesting thing about it to me.
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Special Containment Procedures: PENDING
Description: SCP-0026 is a female human in her mid-20s that is able to teleport to various significant locations. These locations must meet a certain criteria in order to be eligible for a potential manifestation event, with the criteria being but not limited to;
- having anomalous properties
- having a history of anomalous occurrences
- containing, storing, and/or surrounding anomalous items, lifeforms, locations, or events
- having a deep history regarding the Foundation and its involvement in the anomalous world.
When SCP-0026 manifests in one of these locations (which are commonly Foundation sites), she will usually be dressed in clothes similar to those worn by Foundation staff, although she will not bear any official documentation such as ID badges, employee records, or other various staff paraphernalia.
SCP-0026 has a series of minor anomalies regarding their perception by other staff members. SCP-0026's identifying traits are unable to be plugged into Foundation security and analysis programs, meaning that despite SCP-0026's many manifestations, identification via avenues such as facial recognition software, DNA testing, and fingerprint scanning are all rendered useless. SCP-0026 also appears to exude a passive antimemetic effect that causes humans to almost wholly disregard them, though this effect can be shattered through condemnable or publicly brash acts, such as actively seeing SCP-0026 steal a keycard or catching her running down a hallway.
Whenever SCP-0026 manifests, she will immediately attempt to find a specific anomaly and will use it to either severely influence or kill herself. If SCP-0026 interacts with a non-lethal anomaly, she will demanifest after an unspecified amount of time14. If SCP-0026 is killed by an anomaly, her remains will lose their passive antimemetic properties and will rot at a normal rate.
SCP-0026 wholly believes that the interactions she is having in our reality is a complex interwoven dream.
Addendum 0026.1: Summarized List of Interactions15
| Anomaly Involved | Date of Interaction | Description of Events | State of Human Remains |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCP-1128 | 2.4.1998 | SCP-0026 manifested within Site-34's secure locker facility. After wandering the halls for various hours, they get their bearings on the layout of the facility. They then make an effort navigating to the locker that holds the only contained copy of SCP-1128's description. After attempting to input a passcode and failing twice, SCP-0026 takes a deep breath before attempting a final time. The system override is successful and they attain the description. After quickly reading through it, they place it back in the locker, closing the door. They then begin running through the facility until they discover a bathroom unit. They enter and are not seen exiting. | Partial |
| SCP-2747 | c. March 2006 | There is a significant lack of information regarding this incident, with the main instigator being that on 4 March 2006, Researcher Dennis O'Hara was recorded logging into the database to view records for SCP-2747. Despite the login data, Mr. O'Hara was not seen in the Department of Analytics due to calling in sick. As there is no footage or proof of SCP-0026 manifesting in or nearby the local site, Foundation researchers have hypothesized that SCP-0026 created a stable anafabula after accessing SCP-2747's documentation, thus annihilating themselves from this reality. This hypothesis as of yet has not been disproven. | None |
| SCP-2030 | c. November 2010 | SCP-0026's exact manifestation was not recorded. Dr. Madison Conworth discovered SCP-0026 in the Site-64 archives, sitting on the floor in front of a television connected to a DVD player. SCP-0026 was surrounded by archived box sets of SCP-2030 and had evidently been watching for days. As Dr. Conworth began calling for security, SCP-0026 demanifested. | Bodily waste |
| SCP-096 | 22.3.2007 | SCP-0026 manifested inside SCP-096's airtight cell. Heat and pressure sensors were tripped and an alert was sent to Site-19's containment staff. As a Class-4 containment breach was enacted, SCP-0026 was heard through audio recordings to be breathing heavily while simultaneously attempting to stay quiet. After approximately 5 minutes, SCP-0062 is heard screaming before supposedly viewing 096's face, becoming an instance of SCP-096-1, and being swiftly killed and consumed. | None16 |
| SCP-6XXX | 14.10.2018 | SCP-0026 manifested on Deck 5 of Observation Tower Charlie. Subject was seen approaching an observation deck, surveying SCP-6XXX as a whole. Subject is seen suffering a panic-induced episode, doubling over and sobbing. Subject then pitches themselves over the railing, plummeting into the depths of the cavern. | Inconclusive17 |
| SCP-3183 | august | scp-0026 entered a hollow city made of itself. | lost |
Addendum 0026.2: Interview
On 2 September 2022, SCP-835 was seen entering an aggravated state, expelling massive amounts of waste into the surrounding waters. As Provisional Site-835 was undergoing breach protocol, SCP-0026 manifested amongst the chaos and was spotted attempting to hijack a submersible, with their intent likely being to attempt to make contact with SCP-835. As the subject was in the process of disengaging the submersible, they were caught and apprehended by several members of MTF Gamma-6 ("Deep Feeders") before being evacuated from Site-835 with the rest of staff. After quarantine and various tests, Dr. Maya Saunders was sent into an interrogation chamber holding SCP-0026, with the interview being monitored by O5-4.
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Saunders: Hello, SCP-0026.
SCP-0026: (Nervously) Y-you have to let me out. You have to get me back to it. Right now.
Dr. Saunders: Well, that's the thing, really. We're here to ask you some questions regarding your interf-
SCP-0026: (Agitated, their voice raising) No, no, NO! You don't understand. I need to go back there, I have to let it grab me, I need to let it rip me to shreds, I need for it to get it over with so I can fucking get back - I need to get it done right now, if I don't then the more scared I'll be, I need to do it now, like pulling off a band-aid, I have to get it done with so the pain isn't as ba-
Dr. Saunders: We know what you do when you get your hands on our artifacts, SCP-0026.
(Silence.)
(Dr. Saunders pulls out a file. She opens it on the table between them and pulls out a series of photographs, laying them all out in front of both her and SCP-0026. They are all photographs of SCP-0026 over the years in various Sites, cordoned-off zones, and containment chambers, with some of the photographs dating back to the late 50s.)
(Dr. Saunders removes her glasses and pinches the bridge of her nose. She sighs.)
Dr. Saunders: You know, its taken me years to collect all of this data regarding your appearances. I never actually thought I'd see the day where you'd be sitting right before me like this. After decades of entering our facilities and taking advantage of breaches and passwords and loopholes in the system… I'm still surprised about how you haven't aged.
(SCP-0026 is silent, staring at the photos before them.)
SCP-0026: (Mumbles something under their breath)
Dr. Saunders: I'm sorry, what was that?
SCP-0026: Time actually passes for all of you here?
Well, yes. Of course it would. How else does time flow?
(SCP-0026 stares at the photographs once more.)
SCP-0026: I don't know. Dreams aren't supposed to work like this.
That's something I've actually been meaning to ask you. We've gathered many references and circumstances regarding your appearances and in some, you mention dreams and dreaming. Do you believe that you are dreaming, SCP-0026?
SCP-0026: Yes. I know that I am dreaming.
How so? I'd like to think that if I knew I were stuck in a dream, I'd be able to wake up any time, or at the very least attempt to have some fun.
SCP-0026: That's the problem. This isn't my dream.
Why do you think that?
SCP-0026: If I were dreaming, I would have a sense of control. If this was my dream and my dream alone then I would be able to twist and churn and make it up as I go along. I could give myself superpowers, I could fly, I could wake myself up whenever I would like. But this is not my dream. I have no control over any of it.
SCP-0026: If this were my dream, and my dream alone, then I would be able to just… dream of something else. I wouldn't have to go through the cycle of just starting in a new place before throwing myself into the meat grinder.
Do you know who else's dream this is?
SCP-0026: Yes.
Would you like to tell me?
SCP-0026: You already know, though. If not you, then the ones at the top. It is a gestalt, a story made up of other stories, each story a cell, building up on top of each other until it creates its own electrified mind, and if you're not careful when separating the parts you only see the whole, you become a part of the whole, you get dragged into it and then you are shoved into the inner subconscious of it, dragged in and torn into little tiny parts. I don't- it's-
(SCP-0026 sighs and slumps, appearing exhausted. They lean their elbows onto the table in front of them and place their face in their hands.)
SCP-0026: I come back every night. When I do, the date and place is different. Before I break the surface, I hear a voice. It isn't male or female, but it is just a voice, overlayed over itself a hundred times over. It whispers an item number to me, and when I open my eyes, I know I have to get to it. If I don't, I will be stuck here and I won't be able to wake up. If I die by any other reason except the anomaly, the whole thing starts over again, like Groundhog Day. I always try to get it done in one swift motion. Watch as many tapes as I can in a single sitting, sneak the architect into a building until I die of starvation, stare at the painting and step off the curb, all of it.
SCP-0026: Sometimes I get stuck, though - I get caught by all of you and I am stuck in a cell to die of old age, or I'm catalogued and live a normal life after getting amnesticized only to pop back up into the same hallway. I have had a "first interview" about thirty times by now and I am beginning to think that it's no use, but I am still fucking desperate!
