Per 
[What is it?]
[How does it work/what does it do?]
[How do we deal with it?] - Containment Procedure
[Support] - avoid dialogues and exploration logs unless they are brief and revealing
[Invert] - anomaly/chronicity/causality
[Review] - take out the most descriptive and useful ("thesis") sentence (breach of immersion is to be handwaved in favor of narrative)
[Prune] - Remove anything that can be
Teletracking: SCP-4432 is a 126 tonne "Class 95" freight locomotive of non-anomalous make and materials that bears eponymous manufacture markings as well as those of █████ ███████ Co. The company has no database recognition of the model or its blueprints and disclaims any part in its production or operation. Furthermore, the manufacturing equipment necessitated by the locomotive’s engineering is not present at the company’s sites of production. The locomotive is unnumbered, and so production history cannot be obtained.1 The wheels are fused, disallowing transportation.
When the horn of SCP-4432 is engaged, a standard dial tone is produced at ~60dB. The source and effect of the dial tone are undergoing empiric investigation. The anomaly was unrecognized for sometime after acquisition of SCP-4432, due to the similarities between a phone's dial tone and a freight train horn.
Additional Documentation
| Event/Observations | Notes |
|---|---|
| Continuous tone of 350 and 440 Hz, per telecommunications industry standard. No anomalous sequelae observed. | Horn engaged. |
| Continuous tone ends, adopting a repeating pattern of short, percussive tones consistent with standard permanent signals.2 | Horn engaged for >18 seconds. |
| No change in tones and no anomalous phenomena observed. | Various attempts at manipulating moving parts, levers, and button displays including the comm terminal/channels on and within the locomotive while the horn is engaged. |
| Continuous tone abruptly ends after an audible blip, followed by silence. Eventually, the standard permanent signal sounds. | An intermodal freight container attached in tow to the locomotive. |
| Continuous tone abruptly ends after an audible blip, followed by silence. Eventually, the standard permanent signal sounds. (No change.) | A sequential intermodal freight container attached in tow. |
| Continuous tone abruptly ends after two audible blips, after is same pattern as one blip. | Two freight containers separated on two different flatcars in tow. |
| An unidentified voice emits from the air horn after seven audible blips.3 | Seven freight containers are placed on seven flatcars, one on each, in tow. |
| See Addendum .1 | Freight containers are placed on seven flatcars in various quantities ranging from 0-9. |
Addendum X.1: The first "numbers" that were input into the anomalous mechanism of the item resulted in telephonic reception on the other line, with individuals commonly answering in the typical, cordial fashion. A pattern emerged with each call, the events of which are summarized below:
- Individual answers the phone.
- Individual either hangs up or repeats their greeting as if not hearing anyone/thing on the other end.4
- Individuals who remain on the phone can become increasingly panicked, particularly in their inquiries to what is occurring on the dialing end of the line.
- Loud and abrasive interference occurs and connectivity is lost.
Follow-up surveys revealed additional information:
- A call can be terminated at any time by releasing the horn.
- Calls outside the local area code can be achieved using three additional initial flatcars in tow.
- The same numbers that enacted the above pattern could be dialed again, but never resulted in an individual picking up the line. A busy tone sounded instead.
- The interference does not occur if an answering machine is engaged.
Addendum X.2: Administration and R&D coordinated more controlled testing designs, utilizing declassified & disbarred Foundation intra-net phone numbers and tele-security passcodes. These lines are equipped with advanced recording paratransmitters5 which provided detailed and real-time analysis of the received audio via Foundation telecommunications equipment. The following are excerpts of the initial reports:
… no traceable features to the instigating end of the communication, including coordinates, satellite or tower pings, or triangulated radio signatures.
… when picked up, emits a faint dial tone that becomes increasingly louder at a rate of ~5dB per second over the course of 18.4 seconds. At a maximum decibel level (92dB), an explosion occurs, the payload of which is localized to any object that is affixed to the phone's receiver. The lethality of this blast for organic objects is inevitable.
… damage observed is consistent with high-velocity impact forces and/or radial blast wave injuries. Neither the immediate environment nor the phone itself are affected by the force. The blast will not occur if the comm is disengaged prior to 18.4 seconds.
If left off the hook in perpetuity, the explosion will re-occur at approximately the same time the phone was taken off the receiver each day thereafter, given that an object is affixed. Otherwise, the noise simply crecendos and decrecendos without event.
Analysis of the swells indicates that after a blast occurs or would otherwise occur, the dial tone decreases in volume and frequency according to the principles of the Doppler effect.
Further testing has confirmed the following physical data:
- Explosion forces delivered to the recipient approach 1.9x 107 N.
- The theoretical velocity of an object exhibiting the average periodicity of the observed Doppler shift would be ~80km per hour, near the maximum of known locomotives.
- The explosion forces measured suggest a theoretical mass of ~1.6x107 kg.
These parameters roughly correlate with the tonnage of the configuration of SCP at the time of testing. Further calculations were consistent with modifications in load weights.
Personnel in police forces and investigatory units near the initially dialed numbers have been contacted and further salvage operations involving in-network coroners and mortuaries are underway.
Solar Rice Caps - A brown-dwarf star 250 light years away found seemingly with ice caps. Upon closer resolution, they are massive fields of what look to be millions of individual, granular matter, "reminiscent of rice" as it is written in the reports. Spectroscopy supports a theory that they may be collections of veins of sintered lithium. The Foundation is consulted by NASA for a sample collection and potential resourcing. A Foundation probe is sent for collection; even with the Foundation's FTL technology, it will take ~100 years to return with a sample, assuming the probe operates within its design point perfectly.
~100 years later, the entry is updated and the researchers open the collection hopper of the fully functioning probe, surprised to discover edible rice. Still good.
Starfish Adonai - entry about a troll-deity who envelopes the entirety of rogue planets, and who's inferior surface is a pon-Euclidean pocket dimension able to plagiarize a set of observational data congruous with the complete perceptual sensorium of the intelligent entities thereon, rendering their epistemology exactly as it would be if they were on a star-bound planet within a not-dysfunctional solar neighborhood.
Anti-ChemoHeterotroph - AWCY entry where an art terrorist pours an anomalous phlogiston into/up/through all orifices of a human that result in the solidification of all lumina extant in their body systems. The concoction is embedded covertly in the food of a variety of species. The digestion of this substance effectively renders the subjects thoroughly solid objects. These are easy to identify because they are fully functioning despite this, and because their skin becomes completely translucent through an unknown process. After study, it is confirmed they derive sufficient energy from specialized cellular structures (made up of millions of micro black holes) that highly concentrate the daily onslaught of 174 pettawatts of solar energy that exists upon a given lit hemisphere.
Jethrop Butterview's Proxemic Data Concierge Service TM - An untraceable information concierge service that is inadvertently subscribed to via landline telephone spam calls. Enrollment is permanent and will last until the death of the subject. A humanoid figure with a heavy French lilt spontaneously manifests in the personal or intimate zones of the subject and offers probablistic commentary on processes and events of everyday life (e.g. "There is a 93% possibility that the count of carbon bubbles on the surface of that soda is between 1300 and 1403."). This individual remains for however long is necessary to articulate the probabilities, solicit financial support, and then vanishes. The totality of his seemingly humanoid body is never fully visualized, as he is always captured by video or photography peering out from the relative posterior side of the subject, most commonly from around the back of the subject, facing the ipsilateral ear to convey his message. He is dressed in a fashion reminiscent of a poker stakes dealer.
The individual repeatedly reminds subjects that his services are technically free, but that donations ("tips") are encouraged. The circumstances that dictate whether or not the individual will appear and provide commentary are initially not well understood.
So the Foundation takes an interest in that the probabilities are seemingly correct by all current and highly specialized models in science and statistical analysis. Thus, the anomaly could theoretically be utilized to provide probabilistic evaluations of containment procedures and their design points, and be classified as Thaumiel.
They submit to the ethics committee a vote to use a terminally-ill D-class to subscribe to the service and get approval for this. They construct containment procedures around the D-class individual and empirically test what spurs the individual to appear and relay probabilities by introducing images of varying objects and events. Eventually, a vague correlation is found between the individual's appearance and the subject's perceived banality of the events the probabilities describe, so use of the anomaly for commentary and possible improvements in containment on other anomalies is aborted.
A clerical employee of the Foundation reads the entry of the anomaly and finally decides to do something more meaningful with her life; be the only one who can provoke the individual to manifest and describe the probabilities of anomalies and their containment procedures (a one Zelda Yolanda Newell), who has read every proposed containment procedure ever submitted on every anomaly and is utterly crushed by the now-boredom she approaches her work (anomalies) with.
It turns out she is correct in assuming that because she is so crushed by her work life, and so enamored with her out-of-work life, that the anomaly rarely interacts with her outside of work.
She is promoted and made pretty rich because of this.
Life Support: The Foundation is assisting an environmental conspiracy regarding:
- the systematically suppressed emergence of renewable resources of the planet
- encouraging the dumping of toxic by products into viable water sources and estuaries*
in order to to keep the planet in a weakened state of malnutrition/frailty/non-vitality/manufactured feebleness to prevent it from shedding its skin destroying humankind (among other things, like flipping the magnetic field, re-enacting a molten surface with renewed terraforming) in the process.
Schrodenger's Curious Prognosis or Ignorance is Bliss: An aggregate metaphysical complex expressed as a medical diagnosis, and subsequently, as a disease. It was discovered in Mayo Clinic Arizona in 2003. Historically, [SCP] has been recognized ex post facto, although implements in omni-grade surveillance have resulted in increased real-time detection. Variable Type-Green Mapping6 has demonstrated that [SCP]'s composition is 42% self-fulfilling, 44% entangled with direct observation, and 14% ante-causal. Retrospective statistical analysis suggests up to 40% of terminal medical diagnoses are enumerations of [SCP].
As a metaphysical complex, [SCP] is divided into three component parts, which are defined with respect to both chronicity and its metaphysiology. [SCP]'s anterior component is a sapient individual of considerable medical expertise coupled with the warrantless deployment of an arbitrary and terminal medical diagnosis. The middle component is a medically-naive patient, also sapient but of varying degrees of intellectual capability, who is the continuation and recipient of the medical diagnosis from the anterior component. The posterior and terminal component is the manifestation of clinical signs and symptoms within the middle component, which can manifest as a wide array of terminal medical conditions.
Physicians and other professional diagnosticians who comprise aspects of the anterior component of the complex have no recollection of their moments, actions, or words while being conceptually incorporated into [SCP]. This amnesia is resolvable by the application of Class-Naught mnestics, suggesting a cognitohazard that is conceptually proximal to the anterior component. However, such a cognitohazard would have to be of remarkably advanced compulsory sophistication, as physicians will admit that they are fully aware that they will not remember any of their actions once conceptually decoupled from [SCP], if asked about it.
The behavioral pattern of [SCP] is as follows:
- A physician or practitioner enters an inpatient's bedded hospital room, outpatient's clinic exam room, or designated conference room.
- The physician tells the patient that they have an intractable & terminal diagnosis, forming the anterior portion of the complex. Possible diagnoses include (listed in order of prevalence): stage-4 cancers, end-stage heart failure, end-stage kidney failure, cystic fibrosis,7 and hyperacute gingival recession8
- The patient has not displayed any prior indications of the stated disease, whether subjectively or objectively — including imaging, laboratory tests, blood samples, or any other tool in the diagnostic armamentarium.
- The anterior component responds to the posterior component's incredulity with appeals to idiopathy,9 even when confronted with objective data arguing against the diagnosis. Further pursuit of rationale results in verbal and gestural condolences which often supplant legitimate medical explanations (e.g. sighs, shaking of the head from side to side).
- The anterior component makes admissions to the seeming outlandishness of the diagnosis yet holds steadfastly to its likelihood and to the necessity of pursuing it further through testing.
- The posterior component reluctantly agrees to commence with confirmatory testing.
- The classic signs and symptoms of the stated disease manifest at the posterior component following initiation of diagnostic testing.
Of note, [SCP] has not been observed to be in more than one place at any given time.
Upon auditory recognition of characteristic and irreducible phraseology,10 Foundation surveillance algorithms are to alert institutionally embedded operatives in hospitals, clinics, or palliative care services. Upon successful occupancy of the identified spatiotemporal coordinates, operatives are to excise the anterior portion of [SCP] and a regimen of the proper mnestic therapy is to be initiated. The posterior portion of [SCP] is to be administered reconstituted Class-B amnestics via IV access and covertly prevented from being in the proximity of a health professional for a minimum of 6 months.
On the Same Frequency: A phenomenon wherein newborns cry in patterns specific in rhythm and tonality to melodies of (Western) musical composition. 98% of the observed melodies are found in works known well to the classical repertoire, including Gregorian style chants of the 15th century and atonal works of the 20th and 21st centuries. These babies are otherwise non-anomalous, featuring no significant advances in intelligence or developmental milestones.
They get this way, it's discovered, by a miniature cast of chamber musicians performing in a pocket dimension that is found within certain wombs — typically a cello, piano, violin, viola, and double bass. When contacted (only happens once), the musicians are very startled and scatter from the observable portion of the pocket dimension. The next day, site headlines are tagged by foundation bots that discuss an anomalous event at a musical performance in Japan.
Classified part: it's found after established surveillance of the babies that their crying can occur in tandem, such that individual infants sound the various components of a work — be it different vocal harmonies, or instrumental parts — and together essentially perform the piece in real-time rhythm.
In the limited study since the Foundation's awareness and data collection, individuals who sing in tandem have exhibited increased incidence, prevalence, persistence, and degree of friendship. Some have gone on to become friends, attend concerts featuring these pieces, perform the musical pieces they demonstrated in infancy together, and in 8% of observed cases, gone on to marry.
