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This SCP is located in [REDACTED] In [REDACTED].
Further in, this SCP is Euclid class. Which means he is unpredictable and hard to contain.
However, Once he sees that someone looked at his face, picture or video, he will come and kill them with a 100% success rate.
He will even travel across water to get to someone just to kill them and run back. He runs 700 miles per hour on water. Which means your not safe.
He can even jump high, which means you are not safe in the air. There is a possibility that he will miss the airplane. But he won´t give up. Your not even safe underwater in a submarine. He can dive down and get to you. That´s why you shouldn´t look at his face in person, or video or picture. Otherwise you are dead.
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Further information is restricted to The O5 council.
Attempting to view this information will get you terminated.
Class D or not. Do not try to hack into the panel.
It has anti-hacking systems. We will find out you tried to hack into the information
and terminate you.
Just beware about the consequences of your actions. Even a little peek of the restricted information will get you into trouble, not terminated but trouble.
Just do not look at the restricted information only the O5 council can view.
And this information is on a computer guarded by 10 MTFS. You won´t even get close to getting on it to view the information.
Just going into the room will get you terminated.
This is leaked.
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However, SCP-096 has no cameras in his cell. Because for fear if someone looks at his face they will cause a chain reaction. Resulting a loss of human life.
Even looking at a picture causes a reaction from SCP-096 he will go into a agitated state and start crying 1-2 minutes later he will breach containment to kill you at this point no known material can stop SCP-096 progress. Just beware. DO Not look at a video or picture of SCP-096´s face. Otherwise he will come for you.
The point is, do not look at his face at all. Otherwise you are dead. Just do not look at his face. for your own safety we keep him in a container with no >cameras but pressure sensors. That is how we tell his presence is in the cell. However, you can put a bag over his head to make him calm down. BUT DO NOT LOOK AT HIS FACE DURING PUTTING THE BAG OVER HIS HEAD. Otherwise you are dead. But do not worry, he is contained. But if someone looks at a video recording or photograph, he will break containment and come for them. Then he will [DATA EXPUNGED] Them. With a 100% success rate, it means your not safe at all once you look at his face. Just do not look at his face please. For your own safety.
Just a little warning: SCP-049 Has breached containment we need all Mobile task forces to contain him at all costs!
Dr.[REDACTED]: Oh dear. just go re-contain him please. We do not need anymore breaches. It's seriously hurting the foundation when breaches occur.
MTF: Ok sir. *runs off*
Dr.[REDACTED] *sigh* Another day another breach occurs. We need them to be rare.
MTF: We got him re-contained.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Ok good. Good thing it wasn't that bad. it could of been worse.
MTF: Yeah… It could of been worse like that one time. Remember?
Dr.[REDACTED]: Yeah I remember… It was so bad we had to nuke. To bad it destroyed the facility. We had to build a new one which is the one I am in now. It's pretty new. Because the no damages on the wall.
MTF: We will make breaches more rare by putting MTF and guards guarding the outside.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Ok good. That should be good for now. Just so you know, SCP-049 is smart.
MTF: Yeah I know. Which he is so we will make better decisions and find his weaknesses and put more guards and MTF outside the containment. That should make it safer. We will do the same for all SCPS. Except SCP-999. Because he is friendly.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Yeah because Other SCPS Are not friendly. SCP-999 is. He is safe.
MTF: Yeah… Add more guards and add MTF to every SCP except 999.
SCP-008
Security clearance: 4
BY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL
THIS FILE IS SUBJECT TO LEVEL 4 CLASSIFICATION
== LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE IS REQUIRED ==
Item #: SCP-008
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-008 samples have been deemed Class V extreme biological hazards, and all related protocols apply. Incineration and irradiation measures will be deployed in the event of political or military action which may result in the facility being dismantled; a power failure; or zero communications from operatives or outside channels during any given eight hour period.
The quarantine period for operatives leaving the facility is four months. If a breach has occurred, incineration and irradiation measures shall be deployed. It should be the policy of all G2 sites to not prepare an evacuation procedure.
Description: SCP-008 is a complex prion, samples of which are stored in each of the known G2 sites. Research into SCP-008 is highly classified and primarily aimed at preventing research which may lead to the synthesis of SCP-008 in the distant future. Traits of the SCP-008 prion include:
100% infectiousness.
100% lethality.
Transmission through exposed mucous membranes and all bodily fluids.
Not airborne or waterborne.
Symptoms of infection with SCP-008 manifest no more than three hours after exposure, and include:
Flu-like symptoms with high fever, plus severe dementia in later stages.
Coma onset approximately 20 hours after first symptoms appear and 12 hours after noticeable dementia. Coma onset will be considered onset of death.
A period of sporadic cellular necrosis occurs which comes to resemble gangrene. Surviving tissue assumes its original function and is highly resilient.
Red blood cells greatly increase oxygen storage capacity, resulting in slower blood flow and increased muscle endurance and strength.
Nervous and muscular systems are unaffected by total organ failure for several hours.
Metabolism may decrease to extremely low levels, allowing subject to survive for over 10 years without nutrition.
High blood viscosity results in negligible blood flow from gunshot, puncture, and slashing injuries.
Conditioned behavior, motor controls, and instinctive behavioral mechanisms are damaged, and cognitive abilities are severely retarded and erratic. Animals experience excessive brain necrosis and are inactive.
Subject can adapt to its damaged nervous systems but is limited to basic physical activities, including standing up, balancing on two legs, walking, biting, grabbing, and crawling. Subject will energetically move towards sights, sounds, and smells it associates with living humans. Subject will attempt to ingest living humans if physical contact is made.
Neutralizing fully-infected subjects requires significant cranial trauma.
There is strong evidence to suggest SCP-008 itself did not form naturally on Earth, since variants of similar complexity would have displaced much of the ecosystem. In 1959, a short collaborative effort with the USSR to locate G2 sites and eliminate SCP-008 was negotiated following their discovery. The status of SCP-008 in Russian custody since collaboration ended is unknown.
AddItem #: SCP-049
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-049 is contained within a Standard Secure Humanoid Containment Cell in Research Sector-02 at Site-19. SCP-049 must be sedated before any attempts to transport it. During transport, SCP-049 must be secured within a Class III Humanoid Restriction Harness (including a locking collar and extension restraints) and monitored by no fewer than two armed guards.
While SCP-049 is generally cooperative with most Foundation personnel, outbursts or sudden changes in behaviour are to be met with elevated force. Under no circumstances should any personnel come into direct contact with SCP-049 during these outbursts. In the event SCP-049 becomes aggressive, the application of lavender (L. multifida) has been shown to produce a calming effect on the entity. Once calmed, SCP-049 generally becomes compliant, and will return to containment with little resistance.
In order to facilitate the ongoing containment of SCP-049, the entity is to be provided with the corpse of a recently deceased animal (typically a bovine or other large mammal) once every two weeks for study. Corpses that become instances of SCP-049-2 are to be removed from SCP-049's containment cell and incinerated. SCP-049 is no longer permitted to interact with human subjects, and requests for human subjects are to be denied.
Temporary Containment Procedure Update: (See Addendum 049.3) Per Containment Committee Order 049.S19.17.1, SCP-049 is no longer permitted to interact directly with any members of Foundation staff, nor is it to be provided with any additional corpses to be used in its surgeries. This order shall persist indefinitely, until such time a consensus regarding the ongoing containment of SCP-049 can be reached.
Description: SCP-049 is a humanoid entity, roughly 1.9 meters in height, which bears the appearance of a medieval plague doctor. While SCP-049 appears to be wearing the thick robes and the ceramic mask indicative of that profession, the garments instead seem to have grown out of SCP-049's body over time, and are now nearly indistinguishable from whatever form is beneath them. X-rays indicate that despite this, SCP-049 does have a humanoid skeletal structure beneath its outer layer.
SCP-049 is capable of speech in a variety of languages, though tends to prefer English or medieval French. While SCP-049 is generally cordial and cooperative with Foundation staff, it can become especially irritated or at times outright aggressive if it feels that it is in the presence of what it calls the "Pestilence". Although the exact nature of this Pestilence is currently unknown to Foundation researchers, it does seem to be an issue of immense concern to SCP-049.
SCP-049 will become hostile with individuals it sees as being affected by the Pestilence, often having to be restrained should it encounter such. If left unchecked, SCP-049 will generally attempt to kill any such individual; SCP-049 is capable of causing all biological functions of an organism to cease through direct skin contact. How this occurs is currently unknown, and autopsies of SCP-049's victims have invariably been inconclusive. SCP-049 has expressed frustration or remorse after these killings, indicating that they have done little to kill "The Pestilence", though will usually seek to then perform a crude surgery on the corpse using the implements contained within a black doctor's bag it carries on its person at all times3. While these surgeries are not always "successful", they often result in the creation of instances of SCP-049-2.
SCP-049-2 instances are reanimated corpses that have been operated on by SCP-049. These instances do not seem to retain any of their prior memories or mental functions, having only basic motor skills and response mechanisms. While these instances are generally inactive, moving very little and in a generally ambulatory fashion, they can become extremely aggressive if provoked, or if directed to by SCP-049. SCP-049-2 instances express active biological functions, though these are vastly different from currently understood human physiology. Despite these alterations, SCP-049 often remarks that the subjects have been "cured".
Addendum 049.1: Discovery
SCP-049 was discovered during the investigation of a series of unknown disappearances in the town of Montauban in southern France. During a raid on a local home, investigators found several instances of SCP-049-2, as well as SCP-049. While law enforcement personnel engaged the hostile 049-2 instances, SCP-049 was noted as watching the engagement and taking notes in its journal. After all of the 049-2 instances were dispatched, SCP-049 willingly entered Foundation custody.
SCP-049 upon discovery.
The following interview was conducted by Dr. Raymond Hamm during the initial investigation.
Interviewer: Dr. Raymond Hamm, Site-85
Interviewee: SCP-049
[BEGIN LOG]
SCP-049: (In French) So then, how should we begin? An introduction?
Dr. Hamm: (Aside) Is that French? Can we get a translator-
SCP-049: (In English) The King's English! No need for translation, sir, I can speak it well enough.
Dr. Hamm: Good. My name is Dr. Raymond Hamm, and I-
SCP-049: Ah! A doctor! A like-minded individual, no doubt. Wherein is your speciality, sir?
Dr. Hamm: Cryptobiology, why-
SCP-049: (Laughs) A medical man, such as myself. Wonders abound! And here I worried I had been abducted by common street thugs! (Looks around the room) This place, then. This is your laboratory? I had wondered, as clean as it is, and with such little trace of the Pestilence here.
Dr. Hamm: The Pestilence? What do you mean?
SCP-049: The Scourge! The Great Dying. Come now, you know, the, uh… (taps temple furiously) …what is it they call it, the… the… ah, no matter. The Pestilence, yes. It abounds outside these walls, you know. So many have succumbed, and many more will continue to, until such time as a perfect cure can be developed. (Leans back in its chair) Fortunately, I am very close. It is my duty in life to rid the world of it, you see. The Cure To End All Cures!
Dr. Hamm: When you say "The Great Dying", are you talking about the bubonic plague?
SCP-049: (Pauses) I don't know what that is.
Dr. Hamm: I see. Right, well, the entities our agents encountered at that house, they were dead when you encountered them, yes? And you reanimated them?
SCP-049: Hrmm, in a manner of speaking. You see things too simply, doctor! Expand your horizons. Life and death, sickness and health, these are amateur terms for amateur physicians. There is only one ailment that exists in the world of men, and that is the Pestilence. And nothing else! Make no mistake, they were very ill, all of them.
Dr. Hamm: You think you cured those people?
SCP-049: Indeed. My cure is most effective.
Dr. Hamm: The things we recovered were not human.
SCP-049: (Pauses and glares at Dr. Hamm) Yes, well, it is not a perfect cure. But that will come with time. And further experimentation! I have spent a lifetime developing my methods, Dr. Hamm, and will spend a lifetime more, if necessary. Now, we have wasted too much time. There is work to do! I will require a laboratory of my own, one where I can continue my research unimpeded. And assistants, of course, though I can provide those on my own, in time. (Laughs)
Dr. Hamm: I don't think our organization will be willing to-
SCP-049: Nonsense. We are all men of science. Fetch your coat and show me to my quarters, doctor. (Gestures with pointed stick) Our work begins now!
[END LOG]
Interviewer's Note: While SCP-049 is capable of communicating in a very human way, there is a strange sense of unease that one experiences when in its presence. Make no mistake, there is something very uncanny about this entity indeed.
Additionally, we've confiscated that pointed stick that SCP-049 keeps waving around. Part of this was due to standard confiscation protocols for the possessions of anomalies, and part because 049 really is a menace swinging it around like he does. The entity was displeased at first, but after we made some concessions in providing it with "test subjects" (which are, admittedly, more for the benefit of our own research) it warmed up to the idea.
Addendum 049.2: Observation Log
While in containment at Site-19, SCP-049 has spent a considerable amount of time studying and performing surgery on the various mammalian corpses it has been provided. SCP-049 will routinely spend several days performing surgery, and then (regardless of whether or not the corpse becomes an instance of SCP-049-2) spending several more days documenting its findings in a thick leather journal stored within its doctor's bag. SCP-049 will often seek to share its findings with members of Foundation staff.
The following is a log of several occasions during which SCP-049 was observed operating on a mammalian corpse.
Observational Log 049.OL.1 SUMMARY
Subject: SCP-049
Preface: A test subject (D-85123) was introduced into SCP-049's containment cell. The entity expressed sincere gratitude towards all members of the containment and research staff.
Observation Notes: SCP-049 began by asking D-85123 several standard medical questions, as it began removing tools from its bag. Shortly after finishing its preparations, SCP-049 quickly closed the distance between the two, killing the subject with a touch to its throat. Afterwards, SCP-049 made a number of considerable alterations to the basic structure of the subject's corpse, often introducing fluids from within its bag into the subject by way of a hand powered pump and copper tubing.
The resulting 049-2 instance became animated, flailing and grasping at the walls of the chamber with a number of manufactured limbs while moaning out of an oblong orifice now present in its sternum. During this time, SCP-049 was observed taking notes of the instance in its journal, and remarking to the watching research staff about the efficacy of its cure. Security personnel entered the chamber to move SCP-049 back to containment, and were attacked by the instance. The security team dispatched the 049-2 instance, and SCP-049 returned to containment with no resistance, stating that it was pleased with the results.
Observational Log 049.OL.2 SUMMARY
Subject: SCP-049
Preface: SCP-049 was provided the corpse of a recently deceased goat. SCP-049 expressed gratitude at the provision.
Observation Notes: SCP-049 operated on the goat corpse for several days, eventually resulting in an instance of SCP-049-2. SCP-049 expressed pleasure in this outcome, though admitted "the disease was still in its nascent stage. My veterinarian practice is rudimentary, but the patient responded well to the procedure."
Observational Log 049.OL.3 SUMMARY
Subject: SCP-049
Preface: SCP-049 was provided the corpse of a recently deceased orangutan. SCP-049 expressed noted gratitude at the provision, due to the similarities between the orangutan and common human physiology.
Observation Notes: SCP-049 spent several days operating on the orangutan, reanimating it several times. However, SCP-049 appeared to be discontent with the results it experienced, returning to the creature three times after its initial reanimation for additional work. After it was unable to reanimate the corpse a fifth time, SCP-049 turned the corpse over to Foundation staff for incineration, stating "I have learned so much from this, though I fear my early optimism was misplaced. I hadn’t yet come across such a… a stumbling block on my road to the cure. More subjects like this would do a great deal in advancing my research."
Observational Log 049.OL.7 FULL
Subject: SCP-049
Preface: SCP-049 was provided the corpse of a recently deceased bovine. SCP-049 expressed mild annoyance at the provision, though accepted it nonetheless4.
Observation Notes: SCP-049 spent several days operating on the bovine corpse, breaking only to dine on a requested dinner of thin crackers, salted pork, and hard cheese5. Beginning first by embalming the corpse, SCP-049 was observed producing a number of long syringes from its bag, each containing a different dark, viscous fluid. SCP-049 described these fluids as "essences of the humors", and elaborated by saying "the Pestilence may bring about a systemic imbalance. In such a case, before true healing can begin, one must find the humors in balance or the body will reject the cure."6
Over the next few days, SCP-049 spent a considerable amount of time adjusting the organs of the bovine corpse with a number of large metal instruments. After eight days, SCP-049 produced a lightning rod, which Dr. Hamm exchanged for an electric cattle prod attached to an extension cord, and struck the corpse in several locations. This action seemingly had the effect of reanimating the bovine, which once again became ambulatory, despite the inversion of the head and reorientation of its limbs.
Follow Up Interview
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Hamm: We've watched you work for several weeks now, and honestly I'm not sure I understand what you're doing. Can you describe your process in detail?
SCP-049: Oh goodness no, the process is most intensive. As I said to your assistant, the best instruction you will find about my methods are here in my journals, as I have kept exhaustive records of my work7 there.
Dr. Hamm: I see. My concern, doctor, is that we still don't understand what you're seeking to cure, or how it manifests, or how turning these creatures into quasi-living, mindless drones helps in that effort.
SCP-049: You do not understand the Pestilence? Even after all this time? Doctor, it is an unspeakable horror, one that has shown its true face many times before and will again. I find myself blessed with the wisdom and good senses needed to root it out and destroy it, but many like yourself cannot. It is a cruel judgement, I fear, to be at the mercy of a disease you cannot fully comprehend!
Dr. Hamm: That still doesn't answer my question. How is your cure any kind of cure at all?
SCP-049: (Growing suddenly agitated) It is a cure! You may laugh at my efforts if you please, but do not besmirch the good name of scientific progress that has developed this great mercy. What you so shortsightedly see here is a life better than any this creature could have hoped for, stricken as it was with Pestilence. This creature is now clean, unable to spread the Pestilence and free from the terror it would have experienced otherwise.
Dr. Hamm: This is hardly a creature at all, doctor, it's not even-
SCP-049: (Very agitated) Do not jape with me, sir! You and your colleagues are like so many others, unable to look past minor setbacks to see the salvation taking place before your very eyes. Do you wait to remove rotten timbers until the hall collapses on top of you? No. You find them and you pull them out and replace them with those untouched by rot! And most of all, you do not simply mock the structure because it now looks different to you. It is strong! It is free of disease.
Dr. Hamm: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to agitate you. I'm just trying to understand.
SCP-049: (Deep breath) Yes, well, do mind your words in the future, doctor. I am a professional, but even professionals may feel the bite of pride in dealing with criticism of their masterpiece. I will forgive this as an act of good faith between colleagues.
Dr. Hamm: Is there anything else I can help you with?
SCP-049: (Pauses, looking away from Dr. Hamm) No, that will be all. Another test subject, on the usual schedule. You know my preference of subjects with more human anatomies.
[END LOG]
Attending Researcher's Note: SCP-049 does seem to genuinely want to help other humans, though it has not yet been able to provide a concrete example of what exactly it is trying to save us all from. I have watched it now over several weeks, and while the outcomes do not seem to ever change, SCP-049 continues to claim that it is growing closer to its perfect cure. I think the entity may be more aware of the reality of these outcomes than it would like us to think.
Addendum 049.3: 04/16/2017 Incident
Starting shortly after SCP-049's initial containment, Dr. Hamm conducted a number of interviews with the subject regarding its anomalous properties, and over time began to note its displeasure with its subjects and the SCP-049-2 instances. This continued for a period of several months, during which SCP-049 never exhibited any aggressive behaviours.
On April 16th, 2017, as Dr. Hamm was entering SCP-049's test chamber to conduct another routine interview, the entity began to grow anxious and asked Dr. Hamm if he was feeling well. Following protocol, Dr. Hamm reminded SCP-049 that the interview was required, after which the entity became hostile and attacked Dr. Hamm, killing him. Due to a lapse in security protocol, and because Dr. Hamm did not activate the in-chamber emergency system, Dr. Hamm's corpse was not discovered until three hours later, by which point SCP-049 had converted it into an instance of SCP-049-2.
In the aftermath of this incident, SCP-049 was interviewed by Dr. Theron Sherman.
Interviewer: Dr. Theron Sherman, Site-42
Interviewee: SCP-049
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Sherman: I need you to explain yourself.
(No response)
Dr. Sherman: SCP-049, you are being directed to explain your actions, and I will remind you that failure to cooperate will result in further restrictions during your containment.
SCP-049: (Pauses) My actions do not need to be explained.
Dr. Sherman: You killed Raymond Hamm and then butchered him until he-
SCP-049: (Interrupting, angrily) Not dead! No! Not… not dead. He is… he is cured.
Dr. Sherman: Cured? Cured of what?
SCP-049: The Pestilence, sir! I had thought you, at least, would realize what luck it is I detected it before-
Dr. Sherman: (Interrupting) What pestilence? You keep going on and on about this pestilence but you have not once been able to properly identify this "disease". What could you have possibly seen in him today that you had not seen so many times before? That it would be worth his life?
SCP-049: He… (pauses) The Pestilence presents and progresses in unforeseeable fashions, and has a queer way of- of creeping into the unprepared, and… (breathing becomes heavier) call it what you want, doctor. It was a mercy I did to him. He is cured.
Dr. Sherman: He is a vegetable!
SCP-049: (Pauses) I… I would not expect you to understand. You and your… your ilk have proven time and time again to be not men of science, but men of- of emotion. You cannot appreciate the horrors I have seen, those many millions who have succumbed to the Pestilence and been changed, who-
Dr. Sherman: Your cure cost Ray his life!
SCP-049: No good SIR I have saved it! You would allow this world to slip back into the, the- the despair of disease and death, ignoring that I have created a miracle and-
Dr. Sherman: (Talking over SCP-049) What disease? What pestilence? He was a healthy man! He was a good doctor!
SCP-049: -am offering it freely to the afflicted! You are not worth this argument, sir. You are shortsighted and foolish. Dr. Hamm was sick, and I… (breath catches) I cured him. I am the only one who can do this. My work must continue, there is so much still to learn, so much to-
Dr. Sherman: I've had enough of this. Consider your allowances revoked. Welcome to containment, oh-four-nine. (Away from mic) We're done here.
SCP-049: -do, and others can be saved! Even you, though you do not deserve it, might be saved! I can save them all! I can cast down this plague, once and for all. I can do this! Only me! I… I… (labored breathing) I saved… I saved him… Dr. Hamm, I… I cured him… he was sick, I know he was sick, I know he was, and I… you are all sick, but I… I can save you. I can save all of you, because I… I am the cure.
[END LOG]
Addendum 049.4: Post-Incident Report Interview
The following interview is an excerpt from the 4/16/17 049 Incident Report. The interview was conducted by Dr. Elijah Itkin, and took place three weeks after the start of the initial investigation.
Date: 5/7/17
Interviewer: Dr. Elijah Itkin
Interviewee: SCP-049
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Itkin: SCP-049, we are conducting this interview to close out our investigation of your actions taken on April 16th that resulted in the death of a staff member. Do you have any comments to make?
SCP-049: Only that I look forward to the day when you will allow me to resume my work! I have spent the last few weeks compiling my notes and constructing a new theory for how the Pestilence was able to infect someone in such an insidious manner that I nearly couldn't detect it.
Dr. Itkin: Have you experienced any remorse for your actions? For the death of Dr. Hamm?
SCP-049: (Waves his hand) Ah, yes. Well, the death of a colleague is always regrettable, but in the face of the Pestilence we must be swift, doctor, and act without hesitation.
Dr. Itkin: Dr. Sherman noted in his report that you seemed to be mournful during your initial interview.
SCP-049: Mourn- (Pauses) Perhaps. I had not thought that… It is lamentable that a fellow doctor became infected, but the work continues. Regrettable as… as it was, Dr. Hamm's death provided important insight. Living human subjects are the only way to proceed forward, I am decided. My cure is of little use on dead flesh, and I have gleaned all I can from your generous supply of corpses. My desires turn towards tending to those still living who suffer from the disease.
Dr. Itkin: I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed.
SCP-049: (Laughs) Oh doctor, I wouldn't be so sure.
[END LOG]
Footnotes
1. The robes and gloves are identical to a thick hide built up on the skin, while the mask is composed of a kind of chitin growing out of the bones of the face.
2. The entity claims to have originated in 15th century France, though admits that it is "particularly well-traveled".
3. The space within this bag is seemingly anomalously large, as SCP-049 has been observed pulling objects larger than the bag itself from within it in order to operate on deceased subjects.
4. SCP-049 had stated its desire to work on human subjects several times between this occasion and the earlier provision of an orangutan, noting its discontentedness when they would not be provided.
5. SCP-049 has expressed that it does not require sustenance, but enjoys it and feels that the food helps to put it in the right mind to operate.
6. SCP-049 added to this statement by saying "This is, of course, elementary knowledge for the practical physician. I would have thought you would have learned this during your education!"
7. Notably, SCP-049's journals are not written in any known language, and attempts by linguists and codebreakers to decipher them have been unsuccessful.endum 008-1: SCP-500 has been found to be able to completely cure SCP-008 even in the advanced stages of the disease.
We need to terminate SCP-096 as soon as possible. Otherwise, we are doomed. If someone looks at his face, well. they are gonna risk causing a chain reaction. That's if they are in a highly populated area like new york or germany. Or many other populated areas. if they are near a facility, Security personnel will get them inside the facility for safety. However, the person who looked at SCP-096's face is still gonna get killed. There is some cases however, that SCP-096 failed to kill and [DATA REDACTED] His Victim. But once you put a bag on his head, he will calm down. that's why they need to put a bag on his head before he gets to his target and [DATA REDACTED] Them.
We need to re-contain SCP-096 as soon as possible. Before he causes a chain reaction. And kills a lot of people causing a loss of life. One reason he is re-contained now. We strictly have rules of not having video cameras in his cell for fear that someone or some staff will look at his face causing him to breach his containment and kill whoever looked at his face. However, We will make this a alpha 1 priority. WE NEED TO get them before he does and [DATA REDACTED] Them. With a 100% Success rate, he is gonna get to them and [DATA EXPUNGED] them. However, before we do it, we have to be prepared in case someone looks at him again causing a chain reaction. We will not risk another chain reaction from SCP-096. He is too dangerous. Now we have to go before SCP-096 gets to them and ████ █████. We won´t let that happen. Not again. Ok let´s go. *gets on helicopter* We are traveling to the location where this person looked at a picture of SCP-096. Oh shit! He is coming fast! HURRY! Ok. *goes faster* HURRY GET ON! *gets on* Ok go back. Ok. OH SHIT HE IS JUMPING! GO HIGHER! Ok. *goes higher* Ok travel back to the facility. *turns on radio* We got the person. We are traveling back to the facility as we speak. However, SCP-096 is jumping at us. I am worried he might get to us soon. Ok, we are at the facility. landing now. *lands* Hurry! Get in! Oh shit. He is coming fast! PUT A BAG OVER HIS HEAD! *puts bag over his head* Ok we are re-containing him. *re-contains* Ok. That took a while. The person who looked at him is free to go. However, he was warned next time if he does it, he will come here as a Class-D. He said I won´t do it ever again I promise. O5 council said, you could of got █████. he said I didn´t know. I thought he wouldn´t come for me but he did apparently. sorry for looking at his face. O5 said, it´s ok. Just do not do it again.
The person leaves. O5 council said, Let´s not make that happen again. He could of caused a chain reaction. Which would be devastating. Good thing we re-contained him. Otherwise a lot of people could of been killed. Dr.[REDACTED] Said, yeah… Now… You go interview SCP-049 to see what this ¨Pestilence¨ Is all about. Dr.[REDACTED] Said sure.
Dr.[REDACTED]: So SCP-049, What is this disease ¨The pestilence¨?
SCP-049: It´s the scourge! the great dying! Of course I am gonna cure it. For many people will succumb to it and many more will if I do not cure the pestilence.
Dr.[REDACTED]: What is exactly is the ¨Scourge¨?
SCP-049: It´s the pestilence. The same pestilence as the scourge. Or the great dying.
Dr.[REDACTED]: So are you referring the ¨Great dying¨ As the bubonic plague? Because that´s the name of the bubonic plague. And another name for the bubonic plague is the black death. So is the ¨pestilence¨ really the bubonic plague or humans?
SCP-049: I do not know what that is. The pestilence is still killing people and more will die if I do not do anything about it.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Ok. SO you do not know what the bubonic plague is? It´s the disease that killed 70-200 Million people in the 17 century! How could you not know about it? Oh, I forgot. Your a SCP. All you know is the pestilence.
SCP-049: What do you mean by ¨bubonic plague¨? What exactly is it?
Dr.[REDACTED]: Oh my god. You are so dumb.
SCP-049: WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME? DID YOU CALL ME DUMB?! Oh dang it. your behind glass.
Dr.[REDACTED]: I came prepared in case this happened. I knew it would happen.
SCP-049: Smart. I see.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Ok. So you do not know about the bubonic plague? Well, it´s a disease. A disease that actually killed people. Like 70-200 million people. Can you explain what exactly is the ¨Pestilence¨?
SCP-049: I cannot exactly explain because most of my information on the disease is in one of my journals. I share the findings of other stuff, but not my information on the pestilence just because it´s personal.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Why cannot you just explain it to us? It´s simple. Just simply explain the pestilence.
SCP-049: It´s more complex. I cannot just explain it out of nowhere. It has specific tiny details that I cannot miss. Otherwise I will not correctly cure it.
Dr.[REDACTED]: So, you cannot just explain it? Because it´s more complex? How complex exactly? What´s the details?
SCP-049: Woah woah! slow down with the questions! No need for a bunch of questions. Do one at a time. Just slow down…
Dr.[REDACTED]: Ok. I will. But you still need to explain what the ¨Pestilence¨ is.
SCP-049: Well, it is a complex disease that kills people very quickly. And has a unbalance to the human immune system which is why I add these humor fluids to balance the immune system or the body will reject the cure.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Can you explain what these ¨Humor fluids¨ is?
SCP-049: They are in syringes and help balance the human immune system. They help the cure go through the body.
Dr.[REDACTED]: But why do you touch your victims and kill them upon touch? Couldn´t you cure them while they are alive?
SCP-049: No, I cannot. I cannot cure them while they are alive, because most likely they will die anyways.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Ok thanks for finally explaining what the ¨pestilence¨ is.
SCP-49: No problem. May I go back to my containment?
Dr.[REDACTED: Yes you may.
SCP-049: Ok *runs back to containment*
Dr.[REDACTED]: He was helpful this time. Why?
SCP-049: *performs surgery*
Dr.[REDACTED]: So, you are performing surgery on a dead corpse?
SCP-049: Yes, to cure them of the pestilence.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Oh… So you are performing a surgery to cure some dead corpse of ¨The pestilence¨?
SCP-049: Yes. I am. I am trying to cure the world of the pestilence before it kills off humanity. Before it kills me too. Before it kills all of us. Including you.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Oh so you are trying to cure humanity? The way I see it, is that you are trying to kill off humanity instead of curing humanity. I am pretty sure you are not curing this ¨pestilence¨. Instead you are killing humanity. But you cannot cure all of humanity. For there are billions of people. You possibly cannot cure all humans of the ¨Pestilence¨. That´s the way I see it. But you see it in a different way right? Like you are seeing it as a disease? There is like 7 billion people around the world. 7 BILLION. No way you can cure that many humans.
SCP-049: I know there is 7 billion people. That´s why I am gonna cure as many as possible.
Dr.[REDACTED]: I doubt you can cure that many. Besides, we are gonna contain you. Now… Go back to your containment zone.
SCP-049: Ok. *goes back*
Dr.[REDACTED]: No way he can cure that many.
SCP-049: I am gonna break containment. But how?
Dr.[REDACTED]: Oh no you won't. We just added more tougher doors to your cell and more glass. Plus, your containment door is really tough. Oh yeah, we added cameras that you cannot shut down. So you are always watched. No way your escaping this time SCP-049.
SCP-049: God dang it. How will I get out now without getting caught?
Dr.[REDACTED]: You can't. It is impossible to escape now without getting caught by us and getting re-contained. Just stay in there for a while. we will do another interview in a few hours.
SCP-049: Ok… I guess I will stay in here for a few hours.
-few hours later-
Dr.[REDACTED]: You ready for your interview?
SCP-049: Yes. Finally.
Dr.[REDACTED]: First question. How do you feel about your new containment?
SCP-049: I feel watched all the time.
Dr.[REDACTED]: That's the point. To not let you escape. Next question. How do you think your new bedroom in your containment cell?
SCP-049: It's pretty comfortable. Nice and comfy.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Ok, next question. Do you want a corpse? Or something else? Anything but a human.
SCP-49: I want a corpse. But a human. I know I can't, but I still want a human to work with but, I will go with a corpse of a deceased goat.
Dr.[REDACTED]: You can't have a human, but you can have a deceased goat. Here you go. Now don't work on it yet. We have not finished your interview.
SCP-049: When will this interview be finished? I want to operate on this deceased goat.
Dr.[REDACTED]: In a few hours. Ok next question. What do you think of the foundation?
SCP-049: I think they are great! Amazing people. Except for the fact I am contained in a cell. Which makes sense, because I hate The pestilence.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Ok. Next question. How long does your surgeries typically last?
SCP-049: I do surgery on corpses for at least █ days at most. Some ██.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Ok like a few days at least?
SCP-049: Yes. Then I reanimate them. And then they are cured of the pestilence. They are not zombies. Why do you think The cured is zombies?
Dr.[REDACTED]: That's because they are! They do not look human anymore. They are "cured" you say? Well, I think they are not. Hmm…
SCP-049: They are not zombies! They are CURED! Please stop calling them zombies when they are cured of the pestilence.
Dr.[REDACTED]: No wonder it takes you several days to operate on the corpses. You re-animate them into these "cured" people. Tell me why do you think they are cured of this "pestilence". I need a explanation.
SCP-049: They are cured. They do not have the pestilence anymore. Many will succumb and many more will do so, until I make a cure to cure all cures. I will cure the world of the Pestilence! Now, tell me, do you have the pestilence? Be honest with me.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Of course I do not have the pestilence. Why do you think I have the pestilence?
SCP-049: Just checking. Because if you do, I will come for you and cure you of the pestilence. I will.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Ok. I promise you, I do not have the "pestilence". I am sure of it. I am not lying.
SCP-049: I am not saying you are lying. I am saying if you have the pestilence I will come for you and cure you of the pestilence. I will even try to break this new containment. (even though I probably won't because it is a lot tougher and more security cameras.) However, I will probably fail to break this new containment because of the new features added to it. especially the security cameras. I will get caught for sure.
Dr.[REDACTED]: The containment zone you have is a lot newer too. You will never get out. Even in a containment breach. Only way you can get out, is if SCP-079 hacks the door systems. But we put new anti-door-hack systems. The newest version. So you won't get out for sure. And SCP-079 cannot hack the doors and get them open because of the new anti-door-hack systems. The point is, do not even try to escape your containment zone. Just don't. Because you will never succeed breaking your containment zone due to the new features we added. Except they were very expensive, but it was worth it to keep you from breaking out. SCP-049, you will never succeed in getting out of your new containment. Just saying. Well, Good luck. Just do not even try to escape because you won't. And I doubt you can even escape the first part of the underground facility without getting caught by the guard outside. There is a bunch of cameras around the facility. Just do not even try.
SCP-049: Wow, I cannot even escape? What if I try? Hmm?
Dr.[REDACTED]: You won't. You won't even get close to escaping your cell. Due to the doors and the anti-door-hacking systems. It is locked all day. Until a interview. Good luck trying to escape. You won't even get close to escaping the underground part of the facility. The elevator is locked at all times. only Level 4 or higher can go down there. We done this due to the last containment breach. That destroyed the facility. That was a sad day. Well, not that sad because we built a new facility with new technology. Some advanced. Like new containment cells. Especially yours. There is gonna be guards all around the facility. So they will spot you and re-contain you. If they fail, a MTF squad will come to contain you. You will be contained. No matter what.
SCP-049: Dang, so I cannot possibly escape the facility? Hmm, is there MTF and guards outside the facility?
Dr.[REDACTED]: Yes. There is currently MTF units and guards outside the facility. Right now, they are guarding the outside part of the facility. No escaping this time SCP-049. Oh yeah, we put anti-hacking systems around the facility and the anti-door-hacking systems on all the doors. So 079 cannot open the doors. No escaping. And SCP-079 is heavier contained. So just do not even try to escape the facility or your containment zone. You will fail. We done the same with SCP-173. So he cannot escape either. SCP-106 cannot escape and [DATA REDACTED] people. He cannot go to his [DATA EXPUNGED] dimension. Every SCP except for 999. He is friendly. We still have the anti-door-hacking systems on his door. Just in case.
SCP-049: Oh wow. That's a bit excessive. For all the other SCPS too? Dang, that's a lot of defense you put in this facility. Let me ask you a question. How much in total did this cost?
Dr.[REDACTED]: About [DATA EXPUNGED]. Also the fees were [REDACTED]. All the other stuff costed us [DATA REDACTED]. The total cost: [EXPUNGED]. That's the cost SCP-049.
SCP-049: Wow, it [REDACTED] it. Cool, I won't know what the cost of every defense system now. Because it's [REDACTED] Or [EXPUNGED]. Good.
Dr.[REDACTED]: I did it so No one can know the price or cost of the defense systems. Let me just say, our budget is massive. More than you can imagine. We, the SCP foundation, worked for this. We worked to contain you, and the other SCPS that we can contain. You. We contained you earlier on. You were originally at your "House". In your "Basement" Working on a corpse. We caught you. We caught you in your tracks, we seen you do "surgery" on one of our MP'S, you knocked him out and killed him. Now, explain to me why you did that. You will answer this or else we will limit your interactions.
SCP-049: Well, first he came into my basement without permission, second, he knocked really loudly, actually he banged, with made me mad. That's the reason I did that to him.
Dr.[REDACTED]: So you killed a MP just because he went into your "Basement" While doing your "surgery"?
SCP-049: Yes. That's the reason. He was so rude. I mean who interrupts a surgery?
Dr.[REDACTED]: Oh ok. That's a logical explanation. I guess it is rude to interrupt a surgery. But that corpse you were operation on was already dead right?
SCP-049: Well, he was alive at one point. Until I cured him of the pestilence.
Dr.[REDACTED]: So he was alive at one point?
SCP-049: Yes. I cured him.
Dr.[REDACTED]: You cured him? What exactly is this "cure"?
SCP-049: It's a cure. The cure to end all cures!
Dr.[REDACTED]: The cure to end all cures?
SCP-049: Yes. It's the cure to end the pestilence.
Dr.[REDACTED]: Ok. The cure to the pestilence. Well, tell me what the cure to the pestilence actually does.
SCP-049: Well, it's a cure. That's for sure. The pestilence kills people everyday. I put the cure into a needle and inject it into the patient. That's all I will tell you.
