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🔴 - Failed/Cancelled
⚪ - In Progress
✅ - Approved/Posted

Overactive Mnestic ⚪

Item#: XXXX

Level2

Containment Class:

euclid

Secondary Class:

none

Disruption Class:

ekhi

Risk Class:

caution

link to memo

Image taken of a pack of SCP-XXXX issued to MTF Zeta-9 before the recall

Special Containment Procedures: All samples of SCP-XXXX must be contained in properly labeled vacuum sealed packaging in their containment vault on Site-45. Samples of SCP-XXXX are no longer permitted to be used in the field, and experimentation can only be authorized by staff assigned to SCP-XXXX with level 4 clearance with a reason given for experimentation. Any staff involved in SCP-XXXX, even inadvertently, without Level 2 clearance must be administered Class-C amnestics before experimentation is concluded and the incident will be added to their hidden permanent record.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a drug which acts as a mnestic¹ until taken in excess, at which point the drug begins to create new memories. These new memories do not merely exist in the subjects head, but the events occurring within the memory appear to have been retroactively perpetrated.

These pills originated from a order of ██████ USD in mnestics, when reports came out that a particular batch² of these pills had several adverse effects, all of them bearing the engraving "W". Following incidents XXXX-0, -1 and -2, the O5 council has issued a recall of all samples of the mnestic from the batch, and designated these pills SCP-XXXX. Of the ████ individual samples of SCP-XXXX that were distributed by the Foundation, only ████ have been returned or accounted for. Further experimentation and research into SCP-XXXX has been, and is expected to be, documented and logged.

Addendum XXXX.1: Action log transcripts of all MTF missions confirmed to have been affected by SCP-XXXX

+ View D:/MTFs/Z-9/logs/████-c.txt [Level 2 clearance required]

Action Log Date: ██/██/████

Mission Objective: Recontainment of SCP-████

Deployed Team: MTF Zeta-9 "Mole Rats"

Team Member Aliases: Z9-Cap, Z9-1, Z9-2, Z9-3

Redactor Notes: This log begins 2 minutes before SCP-XXXX is believed to have taken effect. Names/callsigns of Zeta-9 members have been redacted and replaced with aliases (seen above) in brackets for the privacy of those alive and out of respect for those MIA.

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[BEGIN LOG]

Z9-Cap: Everybody good? count off.

Z9-1: 1

Z9-2: 2

Z9-3: 3. What the fuck was that?

Command: We're analyzing the footage now, but our initial guess is that you just made contact with an instance of SCP-████-2. Our best advice for you right now, with Z9-3 injured and the serious dangers of this particular scip, is to evac as soon as you can, a medevac helo will be waiting for you at the mouth of the cave in approximately 20 minutes.

Z9-Cap: Make sure you pop your mnestics.

Z9-1, -2, and -3: Yes sir!

(Silence as the Zeta-9 team members ingest the mnestics)

Z9-Cap: [Z9-2] Scout a way ahead.

Z9-2: 10-4

Z9-Cap: Alright command, we'll stay here and stabilize [Z9-3]. We'll make sure to leave as soon as we're ready.

(Silence)

Z9-1: Hey [Z9-Cap], d'you have any QuikCl—

(All video feeds cut to static)

Command: [Z9-Cap], Are you still there?

(Static)

Command: Do any Zeta-9 members copy?

Z9-2: Yeah we're still here.

Command: Oh thank god, we thought we lost you, hang on, we'll just reset the video connection from our side.

Z9-Cap: Wait, [Z9-2] what the fuck are you doing here? Weren't you scouting ahead?

(Video feed comes back on)

Z9-2: No, I was staying here to stabilize [Z9-3], [Z9-1] is up ahead

Z9-Cap: [Z9-1] is dead.

Command: What are you talking about?

Z9-Cap: Caught in the crossfire, you got it on the helmet cams, didn't you?

Command: [Z9-2] Was moving with you before our signal got disrupted, did something else happen during that time?

Z9-Cap: She went down hours before the disruption. Do you still have a connection to her helmet cam?

Command: She's– I can't see, we haven't restored connection to her cam just yet. Before we lost connection, she was stabilizing [Z9-3], so we're not sure what happened.

Z9-3: Fuck whatever's behind us, can we just get out of here?

Z9-Cap: He's right, something must have happened, and we're not sure how widely the effects have spread. Let's get out of here while we can, [Z9-2] help me lift [Z9-3] and carry him out to the medevac.

(Z9-Cap leads the other two to the North entrance)

[LOG REDACTED AFTER THIS POINT]

[END LOG]

Addendum XXXX.2: Experiment Log XXXX-5C

+ View D:/S-6/SCP-XXXX/Logs/E-5C.txt [Level 3 credentials required]

Experiment Objective: Determine the ability of a subject to control the outcome of a SCP-XXXX event.

Redactor Notes: The name of the senior researcher involved in this experiment has been altered during the course of the experiment and is now identified in Foundation files prior to the event detailed below, including logs, and all other records by his current name. Both his current name and past name will be redacted for all but one letter.
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[BEGIN LOG]

Dr. J██████: Hello Mr. ████, (Test Subject) my name is Dr. J██████ would you mind taking a seat in the chair and we'll wrap this up as soon as possible.

Test Subject: I was told that I'd get a raise for taking part in this, is that true?

Dr. J██████: That's true, (muttering) assuming you survive

Test Subject: What was that?

Dr. J██████: Oh, nothing. Let's get started, could you just take this pill before we begin please? There's a glass of water on the table beside your chair. While you're taking the pill, I would like you to imagine a sandwich right on this table beside me.

Test Subject: Alright.

(Subject ingests SCP-XXXX and washes it down with a swig from the glass of water. This is followed by a short 1 minute silence.)

Dr. J██████ (speaking to assistant): Note that the instance has had no structural change to the subject or the environment, and sigh there is unfortunately, no sandwich.

Test Subject: Uh, Dr. J██████, is that "instance" what I just swallowed?

Dr. J██████: Yes, although it is important that you remain calm, we don't experiment with this often and it's usually difficult to tell what will happen. Also, my name is Dr. M████.

Test Subject: Is this part of the experiment? I remember you telling me your name was Dr. J██████, it's even right there on your nametag!

Dr. J██████ (looking down at nametag): Oh fuck. (speaking to assistant) Well, I found out what changed. Thank you Mr. ████, but I believe our test is concluded for today, you can collect your commission on the way out.

[END LOG]
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Experiment Result: SCP-XXXX appears to have an influence over more abstract concepts, particularly names, but potentially also age, gender, branding, etc.

Addendum XXXX.3: Post action interview regarding the use of SCP-XXXX by hostile actors

+ View D:/S-6/SCP-XXXX/Logs/I-██.txt [Level 4 credentials required]

Interviewer: Could you describe the role you played in the raid that took place on 13/8/20██ please

C-56815 I was an assistant machinegunner for [REDACTED], I was providing them with ammo boxes.

Image taken during Foundation raid on Serpent's hand before SCP-XXXX was used

Interviewer: Alright, could you describe what happened which turned the tide of the raid?

C-56815: We were moving in on the target compound when all the sudden we started taking HMG fire to our backs. My squadmates started dropping like…

Interviewer: Did anything else of note happen around that time?

C-56815: Well, I called on the radio to one of our friendly squad leaders from the deployed GOC unit, but there was no response, they just vanished.**

Interviewer: Did you see them vanish? Or—

C-56815: No, there wasn't even a trace, not even footprints, they were there one second, and then they were just gone.

Interviewer: (sigh) [Interviewee's name], according to the GOC's official report, they hadn't deployed anyone in that mission. In fact, they have no record of a joint anomaly-recovery operation with the SCP Foundation on that date.

C-56815: They're lying

(Silence)

C-56815: They have to be…
[END LOG]

Addendum XXXX.4: Update on the containment status of SCP-XXXX

Due to recent security breaches, all documentation of SCP-XXXX will now become open knowledge to any and all involved MTFs, including Gamma-5, Lota-10, and Epsilon-11, as well as any Foundation agents deployed in the field that is expected to come into contact with any groups of interest. Procedures and Protocols on how to handle a SCP-XXXX event will now come standard in all Foundation field manuals.

To be clear, the Foundation is not currently in a Broken Masquerade scenario at any level. However, SCP-XXXX is one of the highest intelligence risks currently facing the Foundation because of its unpredictable effect and scope.

other drafts coming soon

Hopefully, I can come up with more ideas.

Footnotes

1. Rather than erasing memories, a "mnestic" will restore memories lost through anything from cognitohazards or memetic agents, to amnestics.

2. packaging containing these pills can be identified by their product id extension -55XX