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DATE: 06 Apr 2021 14:38
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DATE: 06 Apr 2021 05:02
- PROMETHEUS: GRANT REQUEST FOR NEURAL/NECRO-NEURAL INTERROGATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
- FOUNDATION: ITERATION 0, PROJECT DEAD EYE
- INCIDENT REPORT: NATHANIEL A. REYNELL
GRANT REQUEST FOR NEURAL AND NECRO-NEURAL INTERROGATIVE TECHNOLOGY
PROBLEM
There currently exists no tried-and-true method of information retrieval from suspects and victims of serious criminal activity; suspects (and victims) are capable of deceiving law enforcement personnel, and the effectiveness of current interrogative methods produce variable results per individual. This unpredictability is further compounded by the advent of commercial transhumanism and augmentation - modification of self has become incredibly commonplace, to the extent that it reduces the effectiveness of physical and psychological interrogative methods by law enforcement due to the resistances these alterations create.
SOLUTION
The concept of neural implant technology is not new; many people, both in public and private sectors, are host to various technologies that enhance memory and cognitive functions already. What the proposed solution entails is the development of a secondary technology designed to interface with such devices (as well as the brain directly, should subjects lack these devices).
This technology will act as a one-way neural link between an operator, typically an investigator, and subjects; operators will have full-spectrum memory access in order to ascertain the full scope of the nature of a crime or incident from perpetrators and victims - regardless of their communicative abilities, state of consciousness or even whether or not the subjects are still alive.
The benefit in using human operators for this technology allows for a much more empathetic and nuanced approach to evidence retrieval and analysis; a degree of tact that is oftentimes needed (and underutilised) in serious cases where emotional input cannot be replicated by a machine.
Due to the invasive nature of this method, a Use Protocol will also be devised and proposed, which defines use standards that are to be enforced not only by operators but also by the hardware and software itself where applicable.
A proposition for the Use Protocol is as follows:
Full-spectrum memory access is deemed lawful and appropriate IF:
- there is a clear indication that the person(s) is/are key suspect(s) in a serious crime and there is a refusal to cooperate with personnel,
- the person(s) is/are unable to communicate to personnel and is/are (a) suspect(s) or (a) victim(s) of a serious crime,
- the person(s) is/are deceased and are therefore unable to provide a statement to personnel
BUSINESS CASE
Profits from the technology would initially come from partner groups of interest; as the technology and its use protocols become more refined, it will be extended to mundane government bodies and eventually civilian law enforcement. A significant reduction in unsolved crimes will provide incentive for the purchasing of such technology, and may eventually lead to an overall dissuasion from, and reduction in, severe incidents and crime among groups of interest and civilian bodies alike.
USE OF FUNDING
Working prototypes are expected to be completed by the end of a period of 13 months; deriving this from pre-existing frameworks for neural implant technology, it is estimated this will initially cost around $30,000,000 USD.
A multidisciplinary team will be involve over the course of development; a group of 24 personnel consisting of neuroscientists, bio-engineers, cyberneticists and psychologists will be the primary makeup of the development team for the project. Each team member will earn a baseline salary of approximately $9,100 USD per month.
Conditioning and training of specialist personnel to operate the technology will cost an additional $8,000 per month per individual; an initial 5 personnel will be trained in the useage of the prototype technology over a period of 12 months. Should trials prove successful, further refinements may be proposed.
KNOWN ISSUES
A few issues have been identified with the current proposal, which have been addressed to the best of our ability.
Issue 1: Ethical concerns with regards to perpetrators and victims have been raised, due in large part to the nature of neural access both in living and deceased subjects. We intend to address this by not only establishing clear protocols of use, but by also imposing hardware and software limitations where applicable.
Issue 2: Psychological well-being of the operator remains of concern regardless of imposed limitations. To combat this, operators will be rigorously trained to withstand significant psychological duress. Should this training prove insufficient, the hardware and software will automatically disconnect an operator from a subject under particular physical conditions - typically if the heart rate is measured in excess of 180 BPM, in conjunction with elevated stress hormone levels.
Issue 3: The hardware used by operators to interface with subjects will need to be engineered for two particular scenarios: hardware-to-hardware interfacing, and direct brain interfacing.
While pre-existing neural ports are typically standardized the existence of outliers - however rare - must be accounted for, as much as the lack thereof. The proposed solution is as follows:
Hardware-to-hardware interfacing is to be standardized to the most common form of neural access port (9AXO); a procedure not unlike a cerebral shunt will be utilized for direct access. The hardware will deliver a probe direct to the brain via sterilized shunt that will allow an operator to neurally access a subject.
Due to the nature of the probe-shunt method, subjects will need medical intervention to prevent accidental overdrainage of the cranium. Operators will need appropriate training in order to deliver the probe in the correct location non-lethally.
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DATE: 06 Apr 2021 04:12
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Following a Department of 'Pataphysics internal investigation requested by Researcher Petra Aphelion, this article has been marked Explained and declassified to Level 4/Secret as of 2020-03-10. All memetic hazards embedded in this document per archived containment procedures have been neutralized. The Site Directors' Executive Committee of the Whole is to carry out the instructions found in the Directives in Archival section of this article.
An archive of SCP-NNNN-EX has been made available below.
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Present Foundation directive mandates baseline maintenance of SCP-NNNN throughout the human population. To this effect, SCP-NNNN-2 shall be indiscriminately disseminated through Foundation-controlled channels, and secondary memetic agents are to be introduced to journals of psychology. Civilian-produced secondary memetics are to be scraped from art considered spiritual-in-nature and subsequently redistributed. Information relating to the individuality of SCP-NNNN-1 and SCP-NNNN-2, as well as on the anomalous nature of SCP-NNNN, must be subverted and discredited. Persons of interest at risk of SCP-NNNN-2 misimplantation are to be monitored for dissemination of such information.
Repeated administration of amnestics to any particular individual is to be minimized. Memetic inoculations to SCP-NNNN-2 may be neither produced nor used.
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SCP-NNNN is the collective hallucination of subjective reality, produced through the joint operation of SCP-NNNN-1 and SCP-NNNN-2. While I. H. Pickman's SCP-001 proposal pertains to the anomalous and narrativic nature of baseline reality, SCP-NNNN is what grounds consciousness to this narrative.
SCP-NNNN-1 is a pataphysical snare which captures SCP-NNNN-A instances from a higher reality in order to create SCP-NNNN-B instances in baseline reality. SCP-NNNN-1 operates through establishing a cybernetic sensory interface providing input to SCP-NNNN-A instances through a corresponding SCP-NNNN-B instance, which is subsequently brought into existence. While SCP-NNNN-B instances may deliberately or automatically disregard input given through SCP-NNNN-1, all forms of sensory input and output native to an SCP-NNNN-A instance is blocked. The only known phenomena retained by an SCP-NNNN-A instance in its SCP-NNNN-B form is conscious thought.
It is currently hypothesized that baseline reality is solely a construct of SCP-NNNN-1, maintained for the purpose of creating SCP-NNNN-B instances. Therefore, termination or neutralization of SCP-NNNN-1 would necessarily result in a CK-Class "End-of-Reality" scenario. However, it may be possible to provide a substitute narrativic grounding for SCP-NNNN-B instances in order to escape SCP-NNNN-1's mechanism..See Addendum TODO on supplanting/escaping -1, incl. omega-0
SCP-NNNN-2 is a memetic normalcy agent implanted in the majority of the SCP-NNNN-B population. In effect, while SCP-NNNN-1 binds SCP-NNNN-A instances as corresponding SCP-NNNN-B instances, SCP-NNNN-2 prevents SCP-NNNN-B instances from discovering this fact through observation. It causes an intrinsic association between SCP-NNNN-B instances and their surroundings, leading to the belief that baseline reality, as constructed by SCP-NNNN-1, is non-anomalous. SCP-NNNN-2 also leads to a similar association between SCP-NNNN-B instances and their physical manifestation in baseline reality, resulting in an innate identification with this form as well as the illusion of controlling it. Furthermore, implantation results in a one-time antimemetic effect on knowledge and memories originating from its corresponding SCP-NNNN-A instance.
SCP-NNNN-2 has been known to fail to properly implant in certain at-risk groups of SCP-NNNN-B..See Addendum TODO While total failure of SCP-NNNN-2 has not been observed, varying combinations of its effects have been seen to drop in intensity for specific instances, usually in temporally-limited episodes, but sometimes indefinitely.
Depending on the criteria used, the number of extant SCP-NNNN-B instances vary. As of 2019-07-01, the two main metrics produce a count of one singular instance or an estimate of 7,713,478,100 instances, respectively.
NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
While the SCP-NNNN-EX file has been declassified to Level 4/Secret for archival, the following addenda have retained restriction to Level 5/NNNN clearance only.
Unauthorized access is forbidden.
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TODO (just like, the stuff to do post-archival. probably expand on the top notice/move some of its stuff here)
(Following a Department of 'Pataphysics internal investigation requested by Senior Researcher Petra Aphelion, this article has been marked Explained and declassified to Level 4/Secret as of 2020-03-10. Their subordinates and coworkers on SCP-NNNN-EX are to be reassigned and submitted to psychological screening and re-evaluation. A memo has been sent out to all senior research staff in order to schedule mandatory basic training in paranoiac affect theory.)
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DATE: 06 Apr 2021 04:11
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The following contains content related to self-harm. Reader discretion is advised.
— Maria Jones, Director, RAISA
Photograph of the Ozark Mountains taken in Arkansas, U.S., present-day.
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a sealed storage container. A mixed detachment of ground/air elements from MTF Nu-7 ("Hammer Down") are to coordinate with on-site security to ensure adequate protection from hostile groups of interest. Destruction of SCP-XXXX is considered an unacceptable risk, and it is not to be stored at any facility which relies on an on-site warhead as a containment fail-safe. Testing is suspended in light of Incident GH-21.
Description: SCP-XXXX superficially resembles a 20th century adding machine. However, 26 keys have been replaced with human teeth, into which the Latin alphabet has been carved. No commercial brand or other identifying information is present on the device. Inspection of the auxiliary keys suggests that they come from multiple hosts. SCP-XXXX possesses an anomalous ability to answer abstract, non-numerical queries.
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DATE: 06 Apr 2021 03:29
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Containment Procedures
SCP-6096 is to be contained in Site-77, inside a small, CCTV guarded containment chamber protected by blast doors, with nobody inside the chamber. Inside the chamber is CCTV camera, a small robotic arm and a table, where the machine must be held. Request to interact with the machine must be sent to Dr. Juhon. If requests are approved, four (4) security officers must be stationed at the chamber all times until interaction has ended. Exposing machine sensitive information will result in termination.
In case of a site lockdown or a containment breach, blast doors are to be remain locked for 24 hours, and AIC system is activated. If AIC detects danger nearby, it must send demolition request to Dr. Juhon. If request is approved, machine is set to be disassembled, using a small robotic arm.
Description
SCP-6096 resembles an old Erika 9 typewriter, what is confirmed to be sentient.
When paper sheet is put in to paper table2, machine may starts to self-type to paper. It usually tries to initiate a conversation. The machine has been described as happy, friendly and knowledge seeking, while it may change it's options and thoughts and starts to seek vengeance on everybody, who doesn't agree with him. Machine can also lock it's keyboard, what makes typing impossible.
Testing Logs
The following logs were conducted in order to study machine nature.
Addendum-Interview
The following interview was conducted in order to learn about SCP-6096 creation and discovery.
Addendum-Diary
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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Neutralized Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX advertisements are currently being removed from social media networks by Foundation web crawlers. The property SCP-XXXX is built on was bought by a Foundation front company.A construction company was decided on to purchase the property, due to the barricades., and cement barricades were placed around SCP-XXXX's property perimeter.
Updated Containment Procedures: No current containment procedures are in place.
Description: SCP-XXXX refers to a veterinary clinic, named Andy's Veterinary Clinic located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It had been in operation since the year 1973, to 2016. SCP-XXXX advertisements manifested on social media platforms.Primarily Facebook and Twitter.. The advertisements were made poorly as if the digital artist had no experience. These advertisements were then seen by civilians, and they then travel towards the given address on the advertisement. They then would deliver their domesticated animal. The cloning of the domesticated animal in question.Dubbed SCP-XXXX-1., took 1-2 hours to fully develop.
SCP-XXXX-1 referred to a biologically identical clone of the domesticated animal delivered to SCP-XXXX. The instance of SCP-XXXX-1 shows the outcome of the procedure that would have happened to the original animal. These instances bear no personal attributes, that the owner might have associated the original animal with.
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Item#: SCP-6893
Object Class: Keter/Apollyon
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-6893 must be contained 240km deep in lunar soil.
SCP-6893 should be motionless and intact exactly at the gravitational center of the moon.
SCP-6893 must be surrounded by 30 separate 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 km gamma ray walls. The gamma ray walls must be surrounded by several separate 5 x 5 x 5 km barriers made by mixing the DNA of
SCP-682 with the DNA of SCP-2845. All the walls must have tunnels for the passage of concentrated neutrino rays that will be launched 24 hours a day directly at SCP-6893. Each neutrino beam will be fired by 6 mega cannons of 34 km each. Cannon 1: present on Earth soil; Cannon 2: present on Martian soil; Cannon 3: present on Venusian soil; Cannon 4: present on Andromenian soil; Cannon 5: present on Uranian soil; Cannon 6: present on ████. SCP-6893 should be observed and analyzed by the SCP Foundation, The Global Occult Coalition (GOC) and The Serpent's Hand personally on a 5-hourly basis. The SCP Foundation must verify and fortify the containment, The Global Occult Coalition must find a way to eliminate SCP-6893 as quickly as possible, and The Serpent's Hand has to use mystical cells of the highest cosmic-spiritual level around SCP-6893. They must have 8 urns around the lunar cosmic field to contain and limit 3% of the null magic and quantum anomalies emitted by SCP-6893. They must have 346,780,543 cameras, drones and lunar probes each to keep an eye on every major flaw in any atmospheric layer and any layer of the lunar soil. Any faults found must be permanently closed as quickly as possible. There must be a 40,000m high lunar tower, where there will be weekly meetings between the leaders of each interest group.
NOTE: Any minimal failure to contain SCP-6893 should be classified as an XK scenario.
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DATE: 05 Apr 2021 17:48
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a standard containment locker on Site-15 approximately one (1) meter by one (1) meter by two point five (2.5) meters in a warehouse of containment staff’s choosing. Paper and ink should be provided on the first of every month. Should SCP-XXXX make any noise audible from outside of its locker, Dr. Hodler should be notified, open its locker, inspect the machine for damage or produced art, and replenish the machine's ink and paper. If the machine produces any caricatures, which seems unlikely due to recent events, they should be examined and, if the subject is of note, preserved in SCP-XXXX's file. Letters issued by SCP-XXXX are to be read, then acted upon at the discretion of Dr. Hodler.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a large box similar in design to fortune-telling automata popular in amusement parks and carnivals. Notable exceptions to this resemblance are as follows:
- The automaton within the glass portion of the machine holds a pen.
- The automaton is surrounded by drawing materials, with an ink well to its left and a sheet of 8.5x11 inch printer paper in front of it.
- There is text on the top of the box that reads “CARICATURES,” though in a similar font to that used by the aforementioned fortune-telling devices.
- The device does not need any external or visible power source to operate.
- There is a fracture in the glass portion of the machine on the left side.
In the device's natural state, a speaker will play various voice lines beckoning passerby to drop a quarter into the device’s coin slot to be drawn by “Austin, the Amazing Artistic Automaton!” These lines appear to be pre-recorded and of a finite quantity, as they repeat with relative frequency.
Previously, if a coin were to be inserted into the automaton's coin slot, regardless of denomination or currency, the machine would produce a sound akin to a giggle before asking the subject to "hold still" as the “hand” holding the pen moved back and forth wildly. Though the pen does not contact the paper while the machine is "drawing" and no visible lines are made, a drawing will be ejected from a slot in the front of the machine after a period of two to four minutes following the beginning of hand movement. In the past, these drawing would be a caricature of whoever inserted the coin, centered on the feature(s) the subject is most self-conscious about. However, due to recent events surrounding SCP-XXXX, the machine currently produces exclusively landscapes and still lifes, not caricatures.
Addendum 1: Recovery
SCP-XXXX was first identified as a possible anomaly when reviews for a traveling circus included descriptions of a malicious caricature machine that had knowledge of and drew caricatures centered around deeply personal issues that only the subjects were aware of. A field agent was dispatched to the scene and instructed to operate the machine. Upon insertion of the coin, the agent was issued a paper depicting him drunk in an alley. While the agent was sober at the time, he had previously been issued two citations for drunk driving and had a history of alcoholism. The agent classified the machine as an anomaly and moved to contain it, only to find that it had no external power supply. He attempted to purchase the machine from the carnival, which he accomplished with ease because it was widely believed that the machine was broken, as customers continually complained or broke down into tears after using it. The machine was successfully recovered from the carnival three hours later. The caricature of the agent, however, was not found. The agent claimed he incinerated it and, seeing as later caricatures proved to be non-anomalous, no further action was taken.
Addendum 2: Incident Log XXXX-1
Because the anomalous effects of SCP-XXXX only seemed to manifest if engaged with a coin, it was decided to contain the machine in a containment locker in Site-19. However, after significant time without interaction, the machine's anomalous properties began to increase. This included:
- Increasing volume of pre-recorded voice lines
- The emergence of new voice lines specific to the machine's situation such as:
- "It's dark in here! Brighten up your day with Austin, The Amazing Artistic Automaton!"
- "Allow Austin, The Amazing Artistic Automaton, to unlock your true self by unlocking Austin first!"
- "I may be bored, but you don't have to be, because you have Austin, The Amazing Artistic Automaton!"
- Banging itself against the walls of its locker to create noise
- Banging the automaton's pen against its glass case, creating a small fracture in the left side of the aforementioned case. This specific instance of self-damage is designated as incident XXXX-1
Conclusion: Due to the ability to damage and potentially destroy itself upon neglect, as demonstrated by incident XXXX-1, containment procedures have been amended to include monthly interaction by foundation staff. Experiments may be performed on SCP-XXXX during these interactions so long as they are approved by Dr. Hodler.
Test Log A - 10/12/19
Subject: SCP-XXXX
Procedure: Researcher Hodler is to insert one euro into the machine's coin slot.
Results:
11:48 - Researcher Hodler inserts the euro, as intended. The machine accepts the coin
11:48 - The machine instructs Dr. Hodler to hold still and plays a continuous loop of a voice line that Dr. Hodler later compared to giggling while the automaton's arms move about inside the machine's glass portion.
11:51 - A single drawing is produced and issued from a slot in the front of the machine. Dr. Hodler picks up the paper. The caricature is of Dr. Hodler, in bed with a microscope, presumably post-coitus. The microscope is holding a lit cigarette, and both the microscope. Dr. Holder chuckles, though facial analysis shows minute muscular movements consistent with the hiding of distress.
11:52 - The machine stops playing its giggling voice line and Dr. Hodler exists the testing chamber.
Analysis: The machine does take currencies other than quarters, but the number of caricatures is not affected by the value of currency deposited.
Addendum 3: Request Form XXXX-A
Requestee: Dr. Hodler
Issued to: Site director
Request: To gain full control over SCP-XXXX
Reasoning: I have taken an interest in SCP—XXXX. While it draws portraits, it giggles, which indicates to me that it feels pleasure in these drawings. Maybe I'm looking too far into it, but, to me, that indicates some level of sentience. That would explain both the "giggles" and self-destructive behavior after periods of disuse. It is for this reason I am requesting to be the sole researcher allowed to interact with SCP-XXXX. While unusual, I believe this step will create a relationship between me and the machine, if it is sentient, and thereby allow for greater understanding.
Response: Very well.
Outcome: Accepted.
Test Log B - 10/1/20
Subject: SCP-XXXX
Procedure: Researcher Hodler is to restrain the animatronic's hands prior to interacting with the machine.
Results:
16:06 - Dr. Hodler opens the glass case of SCP-XXXX
16:08 - Dr. Hodler finishes affixing the animatronic's hands to the surface they are typically suspended above via duct tape.
16:09 - Dr. Hodler activates the machine. The machine instructs Dr. Hodler to hold still and plays its "giggling" voice line as its arms struggle against their restraints.
16:12 - An image is issued from the machine's frontal slot. Dr. Hodler moves to pick it up but then stops, mumbling, "No. That's what that [inaudible] wants me to do."
16:13 - Dr. Hodler begins to walk away from the machine. The machine's giggles increase in volume and distort until the sound is more comparable to crying than giggling. 45 seconds after producing the drawing, the animatronic inside the machine breaks free of its bindings and thrashes about at its glass case. At one point, it strikes the area of its previous fracture and lengthens the fissure.
16:14 - Dr. Hodler picks up the paper hesitantly, but does not look at it. The animatronic continues to thrash. He looks at it briefly. On the paper is an image of Dr. Hodler, as a boy. He is inside, sitting at a computer consistent with the time period, with incredibly thick glasses resting on his face. In the background, there is a window, behind which several children are pointing and laughing. Dr. Hodler clenches his jaw and closes his eyes briefly and immediately the machine stops thrashing and its cries return to giggles.
16:15 - Dr. Hodler opens his eyes and leaves the testing area.
Analysis: The hands attached to the animatronic are not needed to create images. What's more, it seems that the machine does not issue the same caricature to the same person every time, but instead seems to grow more personal with each caricature3. In addition, it seemed Dr. Hodler's reluctance in examining the caricature demonstrated a new aspect of this anomaly: it requires validation in the form of negative emotion caused by its caricatures. It could be argued that this proves the device's sentience.
Test Log C - 12/1/20
Subject: SCP-XXXX
Procedure: SCP-XXXX is to be covered in a tarp so that no portion of the machine is visible, save the coin slot. This is to prevent the machine from "seeing" any individuals during its drawing process. A coin is then to be inserted by means of a Rube-Goldberg-esque device initiated by the ringing of an alarm clock.
Results:
12:00 - The alarm clock is set off.
12:01 - The coin enters the machine. The "giggling" voice line does not play.
12:05 - A page is issued from the machine. Dr. Hodler enters the testing chamber and examines it. It is a stylized question mark
Analysis: While this could be a pre-programmed response, Dr. Hodler insists that any response to such an event that is entirely unlikely in the machine's expected use case proves at least some level of intelligence.
Interview Log A - 13/1/20
Interviewed: SCP-XXXX
Interviewer: Dr. Hodler
Foreword: Following experiment XXXX-C, Dr. Hodler moved to interview SCP-XXXX to determine possible sentience. During the duration of the interview, SCP-XXXX is covered just as before to obscure its "vision." The activation device is primed to go off at 8:45.
<Begin Log, 8:41>
Dr. Hodler, hereafter referred to as Dr. H: Hello, SCP-XXXX.
SCP-XXXX, hereafter referred to as XXXX: Say 'Hello' to Austin, the Amazing Artistic Automaton!
Dr. H: Very well. I will show you respect if you show it to me. Hello, Austin.
XXXX: Say 'Hello' to Austin, the Amazing Artistic Automaton!
Dr. Hodler exhales audibly.
Dr. H: Hello Austin, the Amazing Artistic Automaton. In a few minutes, a coin is going to enter your coin slot. It will not be sent by me, nor anyone, for that matter. You therefore cannot draw a caricature. So, I'm going to ask you a couple of questions. I want you to answer the best you can through your voice lines, and if you can't, I want you to "draw" your answers, okay? If you cooperate, I can classify you as sentient, maybe get the foundation to throw a few amenities your way. But you have to help me before I can help you. That make sense?
XXXX: Austin can draw anyone! Just put in a coin and watch him go!
Dr. H: I'll take that as a yes. First things first, do you know who made you?
SCP-XXXX remains silent.
Dr. H: Alright, you don't have a voice line for that. That's fine, just draw the answer when you get the quarter. An address, a map, even landmarks near your creator's residence or workshop would be useful. Next: Are there any other machines like you?
SCP-XXXX remains silent.
Dr. H: That's fine, that's fine. Final-
The alarm clock suspending the quarter hits 8:45, setting off its alarm. The quarter is released and inserted into SCP-XXXX's coin slot.
Dr. H: Okay, final question, if you can take input while you're drawing: Why are your pictures so derogatory? Are you capable of drawing a complimentary caricature?
SCP-XXXX begins giggling and the arms of its internal automaton begin to wave back and forth, indicating that the machine is active and "drawing."
2 minutes and 52 seconds later, the machine issues a single sheet of paper. Dr. Hodler picks it up and examines it.
Dr. H (yelling, banging against the glass section of SCP-XXXX): You little [REDACTED]! I'll kill you! I'll [REDACTED] kill you! I was trying to help you, and you do this? You ungrateful [REDACTED]! I'll cut off your-
Dr. Hodler is seized by guards and dragged out of the room to avoid damage to SCP-XXXX. SCP-XXXX's "giggling" voice line is still audible as the door closes.
<End Log, 8:49>
Closing Statement: Upon review of the page issued by SCP-XXXX during this interview, it was found have a drawing of a meticulously stylized and shaded right hand with exclusively the middle finger extended to create the "middle finger" gesture. This image conclusively proves that SCP-XXXX is, in fact sentient. No alterations to containment procedures have been made.
Addendum 3: Request Form
Requestee: Dr. Hodler
Issued to: Site director
Request: To relinquish full control over SCP-XXXX
Reasoning: I fear that my continued contact with SCP-XXXX may result in physical damage to SCP-XXXX or mental damage to myself.
Response: Dr. Hodler has become an expert on SCP-XXXX. In fact, he is the one that discovered SCP-XXXX's sentience. He must be allowed continued contact with SCP-XXXX. Besides, SCP-XXXX is not believed to have any memetic effect. Simply control yourself, Dr. Hodler.
Outcome: Denied.
Test Log D - 10/2/20
Subject: SCP-XXXX
Procedure: The black pen attached to the animatronic arm of SCP-XXXX is to be replaced with a red pen.
Results:
17:14 - Dr. Hodler enters the testing area.
17:16 - The black pen is removed and the blue pen is affixed. Dr. Hodler asks if a D-class could activate the machine. Observing researchers inform him that a D-class is not allowed to operate the machine, as per the site director's orders. Dr. Hodler remarks that they are "as bad as the damned skip."
17:17 - Dr. Hodler activates SCP-XXXX. The machine activates its "giggling" voice line as the internal animatronic's arms move back and forth.
17:20 - A single drawing is produced and issued from a slot in the front of the machine which Dr. Hodler picks up, after instruction. *INSERT INSULT HERE, all drawn in red ink. In response, Dr. Hodler mumbles something inaudible.
17:21 - After being asked to repeat himself, Dr. Hodler clarifies that he asked the machine, "How would you like it if every one of your minute flaws was picked apart and meticulously stored in a manilla folder for the whole foundation to see." Upon completing his thought, Dr. Hodler's eyes widen, his pupils dilate, and he excuses himself from the testing area.
Analysis:
While the movements of the machine's arms are not necessary for drawing, the color of its pen affects the color of its drawings. Therefore, the caricatures are, at least in some way, influenced by the automaton, and are not produced in the internal mechanisms of the machine. In addition, it appears as though prolonged use of SCP-XXXX does have some psychological effect, as seen in Dr. Hodler's erratic behavior, though it is unclear whether this effect is anomalous in nature or simply a reaction to SCP-XXXX's work.
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Rituals Chapter 2:
The Age of Adam el Asem, First King of Men
Before the Deluge
From the bleeding rent in the sky, came the twisted corpse of a fallen god. They did not fall from grace, but had instead been dragged down from their lofty throne. Its agonising descent had torn into the barren seabed, burying itself alongside the long forgotten bones of ancient beings; company which likewise once held claim to such covetous ambitions and ideals. Within the furrowed canyons of a dry seabed laid heaped mountains of corpses. One day, a great deluge would wash over the buried dead, natural and unnatural alike, but even this act would not cleanse the earth. Nothing would ever cleanse this monstrosity of sin.
Spires of cracked rock erupted from beneath the corpse of the god, impaling their wrists and ankles, spearing open their stomach and neck, and even now it drowned in pools of its own blood. Flesh had ripped, muscle had torn, and bone had snapped as the alien god was slain upon unfamiliar terrain. Its dying gasp of breath had been incomprehensible, perhaps a fleeting question arising from the depths within its heart, or simply a final and futile curse born on transient winds.
Amidst the chaos and carnage, an army gathered to celebrate triumph in the face of adversity. Soldiers waded through the bodies of fallen brothers and sisters, desperate to pull a familiar face close to their chest, and celebrate living yet another day. In that numbing moment, the tens of thousands dead were forgotten, reduced to little more than faceless servants that had lived, served, and died. Their mourning would follow in the wake of celebration, once their living brothers and sisters arose to their senses, beginning the arduous task of burying the nameless dead.
In that moment, as they held one another close, the sown seeds of division would be forgotten. This army did not belong to a single commander, nor a single race. The Fae, six-eyed diminutive beings, fearful of iron, and carried upon flitting wings would willingly embrace men and women of various skin tones, hair colours, and eye colours; the marks of individuality carried by those who named themselves Men. Amidst Men and Fae strode towering muscular humanoids with red eyes and black hair who called themselves the Children of Night. These competing peoples, united as one beneath a banner blazing with a golden crown wreathed by flames.
Under this banner, hanging listlessly in a windless sky, stood two old friends, a Child of Light and a Child of Night. A woman had walked amongst them sometime earlier, but she had descended the winding path back down to the united armies.
The Child of Light was radiant, his bright gold skin glowing brighter than the eclipsed sun which hung motionlessly above their heads, bleeding like a freshly irritated wound. Upon his brow laid a crown of hammered gold, huge and heavy, with a single impossibly bright stone set into its centre. The points of the crown were sharp, and lined with red gold.
To his right, stood the Child of Night with his sable skin and white hair. An austere and muscled figure, his red eyes pierced into the gloom of the eclipsed terrain and surveyed the armies below. He wore a simpler emblem of office, a circlet of wrought, blackened iron. A black cloth surcoat, emblazoned with a flaming crown, was draped over a set of nondescript black plate armour, forged from enameled beryllium bronze. His hands were folded over the worn shagreen covering the hilt of his greatsword, the blade chipped and in dire need of oiling now that sticky, thick blood clung to the folds of iron.
'Tell me, Adam, what have we won?'
'Peace and unification amongst our people? We turned it back so that our children might forge their own fates and live their own lives to the fullest. They are safe now; safer than they ever could have been in this new and uncertain world. Even now, your people and mine hold one another close, friendships forged in the flames of war. I imagine that your peoples will raise great spires above your shining cities, whilst mine own will toil within the soils of the Crescent to build a city fit for the First Men. Whilst their Queen may have left, I have no doubt that the Fae will cherish this moment too.'
'Aye, you've bought yourself a peace; a peace bought in blood and paid with senseless death. This fleeting moment shall not last, you know that as well as I. Soon, mine and your children will bicker endlessly about honour and land, gold and oxen. With no common goal, the mortals will once more divide themselves into tribes, families, and tongues. Just as it would want.'
'You speak harsh words, my friend. What of the safety that we delivered to them? It shall never threaten us again.'
'A momentary bliss. A bright and roaring flame, soon snuffed out by clamped fingers about the naked wick. And yet, Adam, my King-'
'You would do it all again. No?'
'For you? I would.'
And with blurred vision and tears staining his face, Phomet ha Satanael, the Father of Night, turned his broken sword upon the First King of Men, the God of All That IS, and the man he once loved with all of his heart.
The Antlered Predator, Aquatic Containment Chamber 6000, Pacific Ocean
It was #4345. A seemingly meaningless number given to a series of seemingly mundane remains. It didn't denote the date and time of its creation. It didn't express the importance of the anchor's place within the universe. And it certainly didn't signify the serialisation of its creation. That would convey an implicit sense of importance and relevance within the cosmos, and that would risk giving the anchor a sense of self. No, to anyone else, the number four thousand, three hundred, and forty-five was truly meaningless; just another link in a chain stretching across the gaps in reality.
But it meant everything to that which remembered a house.
It tensed, sensing the flow of the ocean all around it. It was the chains stretching down below and beneath the seabed, rupturing the crust and seeking something. Once found, it snapped taut. There were other anchors around it. Six other dutiful chains woven tightly about the space that no longer existed. Not here, anyway.
Turning, it felt the chains straining as it was reeled back towards the seabed. This place was a prison, but for whom? For the unknowable or for the known? You see, the sea remembers everything. Memories cling to the waves, erupting to the surface and crashing against the sands, dragging hazy and forgotten thoughts along with them. A rotting piece of driftwood, dislodged from a ship that ran aground centuries ago. A tumbled and polished piece of rock or shard of glass, picked up by inquisitive hands and regarded with innocent wonder, as the unassuming mind marvels at whether it was the tooth of a dragon or a gem plucked from a broken and rusted crown.
Deeper still, rest long dead corpses, waterlogged and inundated with salt, regarding the abyss with empty, pallid eyes. They call out with childish naïvity, Why us? What did we do wrong? But #4345 did not ask, for it remembered so much. It remembered a house and a man. It remembered a shape and a crown. It remembered what if felt like to break the chains that bound.
And she laughed for the first time in what felt like an eternity.
Amongst the myriad of Scranton Reality Anchors used by the Foundation, Ichabod-Class SRAs are special. A single Ichabod-Class SRA can disrupt an area the size of Manhattan Island, displacing the entirety of the Hume field in the area until it either returns to nothing or becomes detached from our reality, floating listlessly within another universe.
Another unique quality is their incorporation of the remains of deceased Type-Greens, constructed in secrecy at what is called the Glue Factory, located somewhere in England. Their remains are stripped of any possible means of identifying them, scattered unceremoniously upon lab tables, and reassembled into something of use for the Foundation. This ritual of humiliation serves to remind the bones that they are nothing but bones.
In the 80s, the Ichabod campaign killed 75% of the total population of Type-Greens with the majority of those corpses being purchased or stolen by the Foundation. Our demand for the things was massive and unsustainable. The well was drying up and the supply could not meet the demand. If a basic economics class taught you anything, you'd know that this is a bad thing for the internal economy of ritual slaughter. And so we slowed it down, taking a renewed - more sustainable approach.
We and the GOC agreed to let them live until they were about nineteen, keeping them closely monitored and tagged. Around this age, they'll enter Stage 4 of the development cycle for Type-Greens and will likely wound up dead. Most of them know this by now, God knows we drilled it into their heads with propaganda and threats, and so before that they'll be desperate to know that something about them survives into the next generation.
The demographics of the Ichabod campaign have shifted massively since the 80s. 75% of the population still winds up being exterminated by GOC kill squads, but this number is dominated by 90% of the causalities being male. We need the women.
— On Ichabod-Class Scranton Reality Anchors, a seminar delivered by Dr.
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Item #: SCP-6000
Item #: SCP-6000
Object Class:
Special Containment Procedures:
Description:
To Salt the Earth
A Throne of Bones
Clef awoke to a sound; the clanging of bells echoing out from afar. Blinking dust from his eyes, his vision settled upon the dim bleeding sun adorning the storms above him. It lingered like a scar, ever present within his sight as if burnt into the lens of his eye. Light poured down from the wound, bleeding across the sky and into the earth. We came through the sun, he thought, coughing coarse grit from his lungs. Is that all the sun is? An eye peering out from another world?
He attempted to force himself upright, but a sudden searing pain forced him into a kneel. He groped at the source of the agony, his fingers catching the cold steel of a hook piercing his left shoulder blade. Turning over over onto his side, he felt the links of chain rolling beneath him, watching as it stretched endlessly across the plain and into the gaping horizon. A sudden crunching sound rang out from his left. He reversed his movement, fire lancing throughout his shoulder, as a pair of sabatons stepped into view
'I'm sorry,' the armoured figure of slate skin said, kneeling down and wrapping an arm under Clef's left shoulder to steady him upright, 'I didn't think about how this place would impact you.'
Once more, liquid fire shot through his shoulder, along his collar, and into his head as Clef found himself on unsteady feet. He looked out onto the flat plain and realised, for the first time, that it was entirely composed of dead things. A thin dusting of coat coated the surface of everything and continued to rain down upon him and Satanael. Ruins dotted the crested hills surrounding the plains. Fragments of bone jutted out through the cracks of salt-covered clay, the floor beneath them either crunching like dead leaves or producing muffled sounds similar to wading through sand dunes.
'Where are we, Satanael?' Clef asked.
"A graveyard would seem most appropriate,' Satanael responded after a moment. 'Can you walk?'
Clef nodded as he placed a foot down on the surface of the world, feeling his foot crunching against something that might have once been a burnt twig or a burnt bone.
'I couldn't get us close enough to him, but we shouldn't have to walk far. The king doesn't like visitors, especially those that have already killed him once.'
'Anything you can do about the chain dangling from my shoulder?'
'I apologise but I cannot. That is a burden carried by the living and the dead, citizens of IS alike.' Satanael said, striding out into the dunes of ashen sand, loosely gripping his broken greatsword in his left hand.
But then what are you, Phomet ha Satanael?
'This, Alto Clef, is the madness of civilisation. An unending steeplechase to no avail. Bodies piled higher than the skies, connected by silent chains which nobody dares to even whisper of; for announcing their existence would be admitting that we - each and every one of us that has ever lived and died - were wrong,' Satanael said as he strode up the staircase of skulls and ribs, 'do you imagine he enjoys this existence?'
'Who?' Clef asked, his foot dislodging a withered animal bone from the heap of bodies, rolling down and coming to a clattering halt at the bottom of the cairn.
'The person who would finally seat themselves above all and lord down on existence from their lofty perch? Do you imagine that it would come with a sudden epiphany of clarity? "All I have done is for naught, but I shall not be the Last." I imagine that he would be struck with fear once he looks out from his roost and realises that there are many, many more piles of bodies - some higher than his own throne of bones. What he wishes to do about it is another question altogether.'
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All the evidence I've suggested thus far points to the fact that - at one point - the Scarlet King existed as a tangible and physical entity. What we do know about the historical Scarlet King has been gleaned solely from what it isn't. Cultural representations of the entity have been found across human civilisation, sharing vapid connotations of a demon crowned with chains married to seven brides. It is endemic to our species and others - yet nothing of substance is ever said of the King in Red.
Whatever truly became of this legendary figure appears to have been entirely lost to the annals of history.
— The Scarlet King: Benign Figure or Devil in Disguise?, by Robert Montauk
Wow! You flipped a card and got: What's in the box?!!! You ca reload the page or go to the next.
DATE: 05 Apr 2021 15:40
Item : SCP-XXXX
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is kept closed and locked in a room to avoid being accidentally opened or seen.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a green 40cm long, 20 cm wide rectangualar box with with an object inside of it that is not allowed to be seen with human eyes. If seen, the person who saw the object in the box (now known as SCP-XXXX-1) will have a searing pain in their eyes for about ten seconds. SCP-XXXX-1 will try to explain what it saw inside of SCP-XXXX, but will fail. Since SCP-XXXX-1 cannot share the thing it saw, it will go crazy, and it will start yelling and screaming. It will then commit suicide by stabbing the corner of the box in it's head. If more than one person sees SCP-XXXX at the same time, it will not be there. If the object inside of SCP-XXXX is recorded, or photographed, it will not be there either. It can only be seen by one human at a time.






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