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Special Containment Procedures: Foundation webcrawlers are to monitor social media websites for instances of SCP-5196. The websites of allealbums.com, rome-monta.uk, en.lighten.me, mu.siclistener, musikalben.com.de, musix.info.az, and al.lalbums.net are to be deindexed from all search engines.
Foundation personnel shall monitor shoplifting, burglary, and murder cases related to music albums for potential SCP-5196-A instances. SCP-5196-A instances are to be detained and treated with Class-G amnestics. Foundation personnel are also to respond towards any murder attempts on music artists. Perpetrators of such events, if confirmed to be SCP-5196-A instances, should be portrayed as mentally ill and otherwise unmotivated.
Employees are also reminded to avoid downloading music albums from any third-party or illegal sources to prevent exposure of SCP-5196 themselves.
Detained stage five SCP-5196-A subjects should be given a 600 mg dose of desvenlafaxine per day, to mitigate their suicidal tendencies. As of 01/01/2027, 135 stage five SCP-5196-A instances are under Foundation custody.
A custom firewall has been installed to block all access to the website originating from allealbums.com and its mirror sites.
Containment Update 25/04/2021: With Dr. Woodworth being relieved of his duties, it is currently believed that prolonged exposure to its cognitohazardous effects are capable of affecting people with Mind-Affecting Resistance Scale (MARS) scores as high as 5. The current lead researcher, Dr. Reimer, has been assessed with a MARS score of 9, and all personnel assigned to SCP-5196 are required to have passed Class IV cognitohazardous resistance testing.
Description: SCP-5196 is the web domain allealbums.com, purportedly established in 2009 2005 (see Addendum 5196.2 for further information), as a forum for the online sharing of music albums. Anomalous forum threads consist of eight posts by seven forum members, which contains a link that redirects to the registration page of usenet.nl1.
Its anomalous properties surface when a person with a MARS score of 2 or below2 does not successfully complete registration on usenet.nl. In 2% of cases, SCP-5196 would filter out other third-party websites for music downloads, influencing the user in being obsessed with the album material in question. At this point, they are considered to be SCP-5196-A instances. These subjects experience five stages of influence:
- Subjects become increasingly agitated by their inability to look for the material they requested. At this stage, subjects would use their search engines and browse up to page 1000 of their search requests. Most subjects eventually succeed, at the cost of malware infiltrating their computers. Subjects also experience a marked aversion of paying for the album.
- Subjects become prone to mood swings, and attempt shoplifting at stores to acquire their target albums.
- Subjects begin stalking contributing artists and breaking into studios to acquire the master tapes of the album. Should an SCP-5196-A instance successfully acquire the requested album for free at any point in the first three stages, SCP-5196 would cease to exert its effect on them.
- Subjects no longer desire to acquire the album, but instead plan to murder the major contributing artist to stop them from further music releases. As of 2027, five artists have been murdered as a result, and a further nine were injured by the attempts.
- Subjects attempt or commit suicide after the attempt on the artist's life.
Discovery: SCP-5196 first came to the SCP Foundation's attention in 09/07/2015, after two celebrity murders, and nine unsuccessful murder attempts, were linked to allealbums.com despite having no plausible explanation. As its anomalous effects were observed during testing, the domain was designated SCP-5196 on 19/01/2016 with Dr Martin Woodworth assigned as lead researcher. The site proved to be exceptionally resistant against firewalls and DDoS attacks, and thus necessitated constant monitoring.
It was not until 2018 when the effects of SCP-5196 became extensively known. In January 2018, a spike in searches related to the ███ mixtape was noticed, followed by the formation of a cult following rapper ██████ ██████. This culminated in his murder on 18/06/2018.
While under police custody, a confession by ███████ ██████████ indicated that the cult was formed partially as a result of SCP-5196's influence. The resulting investigation by Florida authorities was interrupted by Foundation agents after the evidence pointed at SCP-5196's anomalous effects. As such, information of the cult was expunged from public records, and the cover story of a simple murder-robbery was applied. A DMCA complaint was filed against SCP-5196, taking down the domain for four months.
Between November 2018 and June 2021, four mirror sites were established. As they exhibit firewall-bypassing properties, the likelihood of civilian exposure was increased. During this time, Dr. Woodworth requested upgrading the risk class to Danger, but was rejected on the grounds that exposure of the anomaly had not reached a threshold where mitigation of the effects became difficult.
In 2020, anonymous reports indicated that members of the Group of Interest, Are We Cool Yet?, may be involved in SCP-5196's creation. While the anomaly's properties deviated significantly from AWCY's artistry, the accusations warranted an investigation on the issue. Following an investigation, Dr. Woodworth suggested that AWCY had provided indirect support towards the creators of SCP-5196, but that the creators were left to their own devices.
On 14/07/2021, it was determined that lead researcher Dr. Woodworth had become affected by the effects of SCP-5196. He was thus relieved of his duties, and replaced by Dr. Louise Reimer.
Addendum 5196.1: Incident 5196/DD
Between 14/02/2023 and 23/08/2023, Canadian singer Damhnait Doyle became the target of three murder attempts by SCP-5196-A instances. While the first case was due to the subject viewing a thread on musix.info.az, the then-current mirror of the site, there were no evidence in the latter two cases indicative of a thread viewing, and confessions given by the third assailant indicated that she was inspired by the first two attempted murders.
Date of Interview: 11/03/2024
Interviewer: Dr. Louise Reimer (Lead Researcher)
Interviewee: Emily Greenway[START LOG]
[Dr. Reimer enters the room]
Greenway: Mm? Oh, hello, doc.
Dr. Reimer: Good afternoon, Miss Greenway. I see you're doing well.
Greenway: Uh… right, yes, I’m good. Have you ever noticed? The walls happen to be this particular shade of grey… so dull. They’re going to kill me with how dull they are, doc.
[Dr. Reimer taps the table]
Greenway: Oh. Sorry, I’m rambling again. Go ahead doc. What are we going to talk about today?
Dr. Reimer: Let’s run through the details again, Miss Greenway. Why did you wish to kill Miss Damhnait Doyle?
Greenway: Seriously?
[Greenway throws up her hands while Dr. Reimer nods]
Greenway: I’m already losing track of how many times I’ve told you this before. Wilson and Fredericks inspired me, okay? Sure, there was just a wee bit of spite involved, but mainly I was inspired. Inspiration, okay? They did it, so can I. And Doyle, she had it coming…
[Greenway’s speech gradually becomes less audible and is not heard by Dr. Reimer but is captured on the audio recording]
Greenway: I couldn’t go, why? They attempted to kill her because they couldn’t go too-
[Dr. Reimer interrupts Greenway]
Dr. Reimer: Emily? We know there's something more going on beneath that. Our organisation wants to stop this madness, but we aren't going to get anywhere without your cooperation. Please, do tell me specifically what it was that made you want to attack Doyle?
Greenway: I… I don’t know, doc. I was a fan of Doyle, but I just couldn’t go! Her concerts… I think I became obsessed… with her! After reading about their attempts too.
Dr. Reimer: We’ve established that previously, Emily. But what prompted you to attempt killing Doyle?
Greenway: I don't know! It was an urge, okay? I… how do I put it… it's like that "good soldiers follow orders" thing. I only knew that I had to kill her!
Dr. Reimer: Miss Greenway, please, calm down. Could you elaborate on this… urge?
Greenway: What do you want me to say? It wasn’t me, doc. It felt like I was… I was being encouraged by something outside of my mind.
[Greenway begins to cry]
Dr. Reimer: Thank you, Emily. Please, compose yourself.
[Dr. Reimer passes a box of facial tissues to Greenway]
Dr. Reimer: Are you feeling alright now, Emily?
[Greenway nods]
Dr. Reimer: Okay then, next question. On a Reddit post dated August 21, 2023, you said that you were going to shoot Damhnait Doyle, and attached a link in the post. This link led viewers to a news article on Fredericks' attempt on her life. Was there a reason for doing so?
Greenway: No? Not really. Just… I just wanted to let everyone know where I got the idea from.
Dr. Reimer: The thing is, Fredericks too did something similar before his murder attempt, except that his link led to an article on Wilson's attempt. Normally, we’d treat these two separate incidents as a coincidence, but my organisation suspects that it’s not the case here.
Greenway: Well… what does that have to do with me? Fredericks inspired me, doc. That's all.
Dr. Reimer: Emily, I’d like your opinion on this. Don't you find it odd that the man whom you claimed to be your inspiration was also inspired by someone else, and that your actions were a near-exact copy of his?
Greenway: I… I genuinely don't know. Can we please end this interview now?
[Dr. Reimer nods and thanks Greenway before leaving the room]
[END LOG]
After a thorough investigation, lead researcher Dr. Reimer concluded that SCP-5196 has evolved to a point where direct viewing of the site is no longer necessary for its anomalous effects to be triggered. A case review of the previous incidents also revealed that in twelve murder attempts, the assailant's final social media post contains a link that is related to either SCP-5196 itself, or a previous murder attempt on the artist. Said posts were also shown to have memetic properties which may affect the viewer's judgement, causing them to act irrationally.
Due to a severely increased risk of high-profile, targeted murders, as well as increasingly publicized incidents, Dr. Reimer had requested to upgrade the risk class to Danger. The request is currently pending approval had been denied on 23/05/2024 on the grounds that the anomalous effects of SCP-5196 are still reversible.
On 20/05/2024, Damhnait Doyle was contacted by a front company of the Foundation (Stevens & Cleveland Protection Services). The following excerpt is a conversation between Doyle and a security agent affiliated with the front company.
Date of Interview: 28/08/2024
Interviewer: Security Agent Anthony Graham
Interviewee: Damhnait Doyle[START LOG]
[Extraneous conversation omitted]
Graham: Damhnait, did you know that we are aware of other oddly… similar cases?
[Doyle appears unsettled by Graham's question]
Graham: I think I ought to elaborate. There are celebrities who have suffered similar attempts on their life like you did, by similarly rabid fans who have displayed almost identical behaviour.
Doyle: Anthony… I’ll have to admit, I’m really, really scared. Ever since the first man came after me, I've been so scared. I… I didn’t know whether… if I would even survive the next one.
Graham: Our organisation is working to keep you safe, but we also know that there are external factors in play.
Doyle: What… what do you mean by “external factors"?
Graham: I promised not to hold anything back from you, so I’ll give you a run-down of what we know so far. We’ve currently on the trail of a group who might be behind these attempts on your life.
Doyle: You mean the… those crazy people… they all know each other?
Graham: No. We suspect that they are merely instruments. This group is masterminding the attacks.
Doyle: I’ll admit, I’ve never thought of something like that even being possible… but, why? Why would anyone go through such lengths just to kill me? I’ve never offended anyone, my music is all original, I…
[Doyle trails off]
Graham: It’s okay, Damhnait. We don’t think they’re specifically targeting you. What little evidence we have now shows that the masterminds may be tied to a group of… for lack of a better word, artists, related to an organisation named Are We Cool Yet?, otherwise known as AWCY. Those people are based-
[Doyle interrupts]
Doyle: Hold on. The name, it sounds real familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Tell me more.
Graham: As I was saying, AWCY claims to create art, but always with an accompanying hidden agenda. That's just about what we know about the organisation. Now, regarding you, this particular group of people planning attempts on your life have appeared to deviate from artistry to create music forums.
Doyle: You know what? I think I do know one or two people from AWCY. Not exactly what I'd call friendlies, but… Anthony, why would I be targeted? If these people are who you claim they are, why would a bunch of artists want to murder a singer?
Graham: Well, the thing is, you're not the only one who has been targeted. I’m going to ask you about ████████████, a fellow colleague of yours in the music industry. Do you remember what happened in Florida, back in June of 2018?
Doyle: Huh? He… yeah, I think he was killed in a robbery… June 2018, you say? … hold on. You're not implying that this group of artists are also behind this, are you?
Graham: There is evidence that some of AWCY's members are working behind the scenes, and that the robbers had acted under their instructions. To accomplish what, we aren’t clear, but the fact of the matter is that ████████████ died and we haven’t heard from them until now.
Doyle: What do they want from me?
Graham: That is still an unknown.
[END LOG]
It has since been determined that Doyle had run-ins with members of Are We Cool Yet? in the past. Whether she was intentionally targeted by members from AWCY via SCP-5196's effects, or that the three attempts were a coincidence is disputed, although it is agreed that AWCY itself, in its official capacity, was not involved.
Addendum 5196.2: Document 5196/AWCY
On 06/12/2024, Are We Cool Yet? informed the Foundation that former member Ismail Hudson3, among five others, were involved in the creation of allealbums.com, but was disowned in April 2023.
The Foundation, under the guise of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents from St. Louis, and under the pretext of potential domestic extremism, obtained search warrants to enter his apartment in Florissant, Missouri.
While Hudson was not present in the apartment, a letter, addressed to his sister, was found. Its contents are as below:
Amy,
I know you won't forgive me and my friends, but if you will, please understand what I did.
There was a time when music and movies were respected for its creativity. A time when artists were treated with respect, and not mere tools for objectification and deviation. That era was long gone now. Gone were the divas like Whitney and Aretha, and even the talented have fallen from grace, leaving only mediocre acts in contemporary music.
But that wasn't the worst part. Far from it, in fact. If they were getting paid for their music, no matter how trashy they were, that would still be acceptable. They deserve credit for producing, for trying. But most of the time they aren't.
You have those like Rihanna, who willingly gave up their profits to share music for free, but most don't. Their hard work just got ripped from them. All because of something that existed since the Internet came to being. Online piracy.
So back in 2005, I, collaborating with several like-minded anartists from Are We Cool Yet? (one of which was your high school classmate, Loren Oswald), created a fake forum, designed to lure music "lovers" over, redirect their links to a scam site, and get them killed by an aneurysm because of it. We had hopes then, and the support from AWCY as well, but it didn't seem to work. Those fuckers just kept bootlegging others' music. We may have wasted time, but we didn't give up.
We came up with a solution a few years later: instead of targeting those bootleggers, let's make a lose-lose scenario. The steps are similar, but we'd instead throw them into a whirlpool of obsession and killing. They would still die, but they'll bring down the artists they were looking for, with them. That should knock those [ILLEGIBLE] into place. We also had a singer who decided to assist us, and she proposed making the site more attractive to users.
With the major overhaul in the website's design, we waited, hoping that the new design would work. While the first person who fell for the trap ended up stalking a British singer for several years to no avail, it did prove that we were on the right track. From there, we improved on it, luring more people into the whirlpool. Finally, in 2011, we struck gold. Some idiot from Kingston actually did successfully carry out the killing.
But who would have thought that [TWO ILLEGIBLE LINES OF TEXT] we also created numerous mirrors so that the site could stay live. For every site taken down by DMCAs, a new site takes its place. But nobody thought that even Are We Cool Yet?, our organization, turned their backs on us. I don't know why that happened, but we had to struggle forward and stick to the cause.
I know you also hate me for that side project. I created Adam Sandler Sucks in 2018 because Adam Sandler's entire career was, for lack of a better word, complete bullshit, yet still attracted numerous audiences. I wanted the public to change their uncultured unsophisticated ways. So, I chose to direct a film that is designed to kill the ignorant audience, so we'd have less wastes in society.
It was just unfortunate that your ex-boyfriend happened to fall for both traps two years ago, first to the music, then to a limited rerun of the film (and I already toned the effects down, far from being able to kill them, but more than enough to cause the viewer to become irrational). I warned you two not to be so decadent, but he didn't listen.
By now, it's clear that our message didn't quite hammer through. We wanted to tell the world that piracy kills the artist, but it appears that instead, we proved that pop culture does create idiots out of people who would do anything to get what they want. Some of my friends in the anart circle even said that my actual message was "Following trends is detrimental to everyone".
I give zero fucks to them, but it's you that mattered to me, sister. I really wanted you to understand my cause, and for that, please do forgive me. All I wanted was a world that is more effective, less decadent, and more law-abiding. It is a difficult path, but we are more than determined to set this straight.
With Love,
IsmailP.S. If you ever find that singer, tell her that she was a coward for departing from the project just because the authorities are getting a lead. Is "united we stand, divided we fall" that difficult a concept for people to understand?
Further investigation based on the letter's contents has led to the two conclusions: that Ismail Hudson attempted to reach out to the general public to spread a message against Internet piracy; and that the first celebrity to have been targeted as a result of the website was ████ █████. As it is not known how many celebrities were at one point targeted by the anomaly, capturing Ismail Hudson, Loren Oswald, and any other co-creator of the original allealbums.com are currently of top priority.
Addendum 5196.3: Defection of Lucas Taggert
On 08/08/2027, Lucas Taggert, co-creator of the original allealbums.com, voluntarily went into Foundation custody, claiming that Loren Oswald attempted to murder him. An investigation of his claims were found to be largely true. Through him, the other creators of SCP-5196 have been identified.
Date of Interview: 04/10/2027
Interviewer: Dr. Louise Reimer (Lead Researcher)
Interviewee: Lucas Taggert (Co-creator of SCP-5196)[START LOG]
Taggert: Good day, Louise. I suppose you have questions for me?
Dr. Reimer: Good afternoon, Lucas. And yes, there are some things I need to clarify with you. Previously, you mentioned that Ismail Hudson, Loren Oswald and yourself first came up with this idea in the early 2000’s. Care to elaborate further on that?
Taggert: Online piracy is quite rampant, then and now. Back in 2002, we had a vision! A vision of a world where online piracy could not flourish in mind. Ismail, a fledgling anartist back then, proposed creating a forum for that very purpose. And to that end, we looked for people who might approve of our idea. This led us to Are We Cool Yet?.
Dr. Reimer: But you’re not an anartist yourself. You're a programmer, right?
Taggert: You’re the one with the file, Louise.
Dr. Reimer: Then how did you gain AWCY’s support? From what we can understand, they aren’t exactly open to non-anartists. And their mission, if I could even call it one, is with art that is considered "radical", which certainly doesn’t include the Internet.
Taggert: Ha, well, that stumped me in the beginning too. Ismail was the key. Thanks to him, we came into contact with some of the higher-ups early in 2003. Man, those Parisians, knowing what we were aiming to do, actually agreed with us! They even agreed to provide some measure of monetary support. And since most anartists are obscure even within AWCY, I was able to forge a résumé. With their support, we finally had more resources, and things finally became easier for us. In 2005, allealbums.com finally took shape with the initial goal to wipe out online piracy by eliminating the bootleggers, and therefore send out a warning to all others.
Dr. Reimer: Leaving aside the sheer oddity of your goal, I can basically say that Ismail, in other words, acted as a bridge between you and AWCY. Am I right?
[Taggert nods]
Dr. Reimer: Now, we know that he tried to bridge the gap between the "cool” and the "uncool", but-
[Taggert winces]
Taggert: Please, Louise, for Christ’s sake, don’t try to use anartist lingo.
Dr. Reimer: Look, we didn't understand how he managed to even try to do so with AWCY’s support, even if his attempt was unsuccessful.
Taggert: Look, take it from me. Ismail once told me that he wanted to bridge the gap between the two groups as he believed that the avant-garde cannot enter mainstream society if there is no interpreter in between them. His personal experiences with his sister probably played a part in shaping this perception too.
Dr. Reimer: Well… no wonder AWCY eventually turned their backs on him. His position seems to differ a lot from their norm.
[Taggert nods]
Taggert: To be honest, I didn’t quite agree completely with everything he said too.
[Dr. Reimer and Taggert sit in silence for thirty seconds]
Dr. Reimer: Okay, then. Next question. What compelled you to change SCP-5196 into the monstrosity it is today?
Taggert: Ess-see… ah. That was mainly Loren's idea, so I can't speak for her. However, the deaths of the bootleggers never went on the news, and since there were somehow only twenty deaths. Twenty. Over a span of four bloody years.
[Taggert sighs]
Taggert: The authorities never really managed to connect the dots between those incidents.
Dr. Reimer: To be fair, the Foundation too failed to recognize that your anomalous website was the root of the incidents until 2016, so I'd say you did a great job hiding it. However, I could also interpret that as you guys having barely accomplished anything in the first four years?
Taggert: Yes, Louise. What else? It's precisely because of the lack of success which made us change the website's effects, and at the suggestion of another co-creator, make it more publicized so that more people can be lured into the trap.
[Dr. Reimer visibly recoils in shock]
Dr. Reimer: I see. Why then does the site redirect users toward usenet.nl? Was there a specific purpose to doing that?
Taggert: Really, Louise? We all know that usenet.nl is a scam. During the website's redesign, we decided to piggyback a scam website to further frustrate those damned bootleggers so that they would become more susceptible to the fake forum's effects.
Dr. Reimer: Wait a minute. You mean the emotional state of a person affects SCP-5196's propagation? I… I had thought that the mood swings were a result of the anomaly, not the cause!
Taggert: It's both, silly. The sheer frustration induced allows the site's effects to propagate among more people, which then induces obsession and emotional instability more easily.
Dr. Reimer: Then… why the hell do you want them to kill the artists? Those under influence of SCP-5196 are already emotionally unstable!
Taggert: Heh. Oh, Louise, you’re so innocent. We wanted that effect because we saw their pirating as a desecration of the artists' achievements. Since those netizens just couldn't behave, we decided that if the artist is dead, he or she wouldn't be able to contribute more music and therefore, there would be less opportunities to hear their music. And then maybe they can pay more respect to the artist's music. Also, an unintended bonus was that their emotional state could create a plausible explanation for the murders. After all, it’s all about sending a message, isn’t it?
Dr. Reimer: But was it successful, Lucas? Almost twenty years in, and Internet piracy is still very much alive and kicking. The thing is, SCP-5196 is not the only website that bills itself as a provider of bootleg music. There are many others that do so.
Taggert: That's why the affected would find the other websites unavailable. What good would the effects bring if they have other sources?
Dr. Reimer: I see. But in a way, you can say that you failed.
Taggert: Well, unfortunately, I have to agree with you on that. In fact, AWCY outed us for being too extreme in our methods, so we ended up with no more funding. Really, we had our differences from the start, but we managed to weather through with that sweet, sweet Parisian money. Still, said creative differences eventually formed a wedge between us. Remember when I told you that there were five of us who worked on it from the beginning?
Dr. Reimer: Yes. You said that there was another who joined your group in 2008, but left a few years ago. Who was that?
Taggert: I mean, I don't quite remember. I do know that she was a singer, and probably still is. But what I remember most clearly is that she mentioned wanting to pull out from the project before the authorities could link the murders to her and by extension, us. Damned coward. And also because she fell out with Loren. I mean, you too would run far, far away if you annoyed Loren fucking Oswald.
[Taggert pauses for a moment]
Taggert: Come to think of it… I think I know who she is.
[Dr. Reimer flips rapidly through her notes]
Dr. Reimer: Lucas, this is important. What is her name?
Taggert: Davnet… Damn… I remember calling her Damned-bait a few times… what the hell… something Doyle?
[Dr. Reimer stands up and slams her hands into the table]
Dr. Reimer: Don’t play games with me, Lucas Taggert. The Foundation can and will toss you into a cell and throw the damn key away.
Taggert: Sheesh, okay. I remember now. Damhnait Doyle. Damn it, how could I have forgotten such a unique name? She's an anartist herself!4
[Dr. Reimer collapses back into her chair]
Dr. Reimer: Doyle… Damhnait… she’s involved?
Taggert: Yes. In hindsight, I should probably have mentioned this earlier, but did you know? The first two attacks on her were purposely orchestrated as part of a test by herself! Damned woman had more balls than Loren.
[END LOG]
In light of Lucas Taggert's revelation that Damhnait Doyle was involved in the SCP-5196 project, it is imperative that Doyle be taken into custody of the Foundation and interrogated. We have been fooled into thinking that she was an unfortunate victim of the anomaly, when we had many chances to uncover the truth through her. We cannot afford wasting our time.
Dr. Louise Alma Reimer, Lead Researcher
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I am Dr. Louise Alma Reimer, but many of my coworkers call me Grizzly.
Yes, my eyes are naturally violet in color. Please, stop asking why. You don't want to.
Some basics in my life: I was born in West Jordan, Utah on 06/01/1992, but moved to Bend, Oregon when I was five. While I was raised as a Catholic, I have been an agnostic since my high school years. Studied in Oregon State University from 2010 to 2014, then moved to Tampa, Florida as an accountant.
I was a involved in an incident regarding SCP-3004 in late 2018, but was given a chance to join the Foundation, to which I accepted. Worked as an intern for a few months, then I was assigned to the SCP-914 research team, but transferred out in July 2021 at my request. I was assigned to SCP-5196 thereafter, to lead the research team as the previous lead researcher was removed from his post.
Outside of the Foundation, what are my favorites? In no particular order, guns, making tea, music, alternate history fiction, antiques, and motorcycles.
The name is Dr. Nelson Cleveland, but I usually go on a last name basis. I was born on December 19, 1980 in Little Rock, Arkansas, to a large Anglican family. Grew up with five siblings there until I was 17, then moved out to Nashville, Tennessee. Most of my family committed suicide on January 24, 2001 back in Little Rock, months after a wedding disaster which I and two siblings did not participate in (partly due to a canceled flight the day I was to return from Chicago).
Considered dropping out of the Tennessee State University for some time until my sole surviving brother decided to forgo most of his share of the inheritance to support me. Continued studying in Nashville, got a master's degree and got a Doctorate in education, then moved to Memphis, where I still live when on temporary leave.
I joined the Foundation in November 2016, after I inadvertently witnessed a disrupted White-Level Event in a local church and filmed it. I managed to get it online, but it got taken down for obvious reasons. Eventually they came to me, but rather than amnesticization, they offered me a chance to join them.
The first two years had myself engaging in clerical work, then I was reassigned to the SCP-914 Team. With regards to its current composition, I am among the more senior members despite I myself being a recent induction.
Hi, I am Senior Researcher Grizelle Jacqueline Markham. I was born on March 11, 1990 in Galway, Ireland, to a mixed-faith family, but moved to Salt Lake City when I was nine. I was obsessed with the cosmos since I was young, and much of my money was spent of telescopes and the like. The rest? Music and the occasional pistol.
By chance, during my time at Brigham Young University, I came into contact with a small group of amateur watchers, looking into the night sky as our professional hobby.
Somehow, in 2015, we independently discovered an anomalous phenomenon in Alpha Centauri B. Most of us were later amnesticized, but I (and two others) decided otherwise, and joined the SCP Foundation.
Initially I was assigned to what effectively amounted to a skywatcher team, but later transferred out. Went to conduct firearms research afterwards. On 28/05/2019, I transferred out to join the SCP-914 research team.
Many of my friends from the 914 Research Team are all unique in their own way, and I'm no exception.
