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Item No: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Attempts to contain SCP-XXXX have not yet succeeded, primarily due to the Foundation’s inability to predict the time or location of upcoming manifestations. The large number of locations at which SCP-XXXX could potentially manifest makes broad surveillance impractical. As we log further events we will eventually determine whether manifestations are random, thus strictly impossible to foresee, or if it is possible to create a probabilistic model that predicts upcoming targets.

At present, fast identification of in-progress occurrences through emergency service monitoring is our first priority. In cases where foundation assets are unable to arrive during the anomalous event, potential witnesses are to be identified and questioned by interviewers posing as music video producers, talent scouts, club promoters, etc, as is appropriate to the location and circumstances of the manifestation. Witnesses present at the event for purposes of work rather than recreation are more often able to provide detailed observations of SCP-XXXX entity itself (see description). Witnesses who are unaware that they experienced an anomalous event require no further intervention, while any who report trauma or substantial concern about the nature of SCP-XXXX are to be detained and examined, then amnesticized. Media discussion of casualties or published statistics bringing attention to SCP-XXXX are to be justified with fabricated data about proliferation of new or tainted street drugs, unseasonable high temperatures, and any appropriate currently disfavored product or habit panned by the media as unhealthy in the month preceding the event.

Foundation agents en route to an active manifestation must be administered anxiolytic medication such that it is in effect by time of arrival. Low dose benzodiazepines are suitable for this purpose. Agents should then proceed to enter the affected area and approach SCP-XXXX to make contact. Responding agents must be fully briefed on the properties of SCP-XXXX, and made aware that approaching to make contact may be difficult or unpleasant due to apparent cognitohazardous effects, but is possible with determination and self-control. Upon reaching the entity, agents should instruct it to follow them outside of public view for questioning. Ignoring or refusing this command is justification for the use of force to subdue SCP-XXXX.

Update 3/23/19: In light of the recent failed containment attempt, apprehension procedures have been updated. Upon the next successful location of an active SCP-XXXX manifestation, responding agents are to avoid direct observation of any dancing persons. Drones, periscope cameras, or other remote observation techniques should be used to locate SCP-XXXX. An agent should then take action to stop the performance or playback of music while causing minimal disturbance. Foundation forces must enter just as music is confirmed to have ceased. After establishing visual contact with SCP-XXXX agents must initiate evacuation of the venue by fire alarm or other available means. Whether or not SCP-XXXX attempts to evacuate with other attendees it should be approached and contacted. If the entity shows no hostility but ignores agents or attempts to avoid apprehension, physical restraint by multiple agents without the use of deadly force is advised. If the entity shows intent to cause injury beyond shaking off restraining agents, use of overwhelming force is authorized to the point of incapacitation.

Description: The Foundation currently considers SCP-XXXX a corporeal humanoid entity capable of assuming multiple appearances. SCP-XXXX is believed to manifest in an unobserved location of variable distance from its intended target, then travel to its destination by conventional means. Observed means of travel include: walking, taxi, public transportation, commercial ferry, and light rail. Though the entity’s first appearance on security footage during a particular manifestation initiates with the entity walking normally into frame, there is no evidence of its route before this point. This is the case even if all normal routes to its position include other cameras. Physical travel involving flight, phasing through matter, or extensive climbing to reach initial sighting have not been conclusively ruled out. The entity has in one case been observed traveling at for least two hours by several non-anomalous vehicles between first appearance and destination, while consistently displaying purposeful navigation (see incident XXXX - 2). This implies that it manifests with a target selected and a route planned. During travel SCP-XXXX is always unaccompanied, but responds normally to bystanders who initiate conversation.

When addressed before initiation of anomalous activity SCP-XXXX engages in polite conversation and demonstrates familiarity with the language and social customs of the region, though with indications that it is a visitor to that specific area. Its physical appearance always matches the most numerous ethnic group present at the target event. Regardless of portrayed ethnicity, SCP-xxxx manifestations always appear male,~25-35 years old, and ~5’ 10” (177.8 cm) tall. Target event is always some form of celebration or musical performance featuring dancing. Dance need not be the primary purpose of the event, but it is always an acknowledged component. Dances performed for a non-participatory audience, i.e. a ballet recital, do not attract the entity . SCP-XXXX wears high quality clothing, in good condition and demonstrating enthusiasm for its current target event. See addendum XXXX-A for a partial list of targets and associated outfits.

Upon arrival at the target venue, SCP-XXXX will gain entry normally, queueing up, paying a cover charge, etc if such is required. SCP-XXXX will find and stand near the dance floor, observing guests dance for the duration of several songs. Then, presumably when it has observed enough to mimic the dance style demonstrated, it will join. At this point the manifestation is considered active.

Persons who view SCP-XXXX dancing experience a compulsion to do likewise. Though this may be resisted with effort, doing so triggers secondary anomalous effects. Attendees who do not resist (hereafter referred to as “Dancers”) become relays of a visual cognitohazard, passing on the effect to any who then observe them dancing. This relay seems to have a maximum range, as it has not been shown to pull in the entire population of large festivals or settlements even when viewable at a distance by many thousands of people. Dancers do not generally consider their experience anomalous, though sometimes later recognize their behavior as strange or out of character. The compulsion does not affect any musicians, DJ’s, or other persons involved in the musical performance. Other witnesses present for purposes of facilitating the event rather than participating are subject to compulsion, but not to the exclusion of their duties. For example, bartenders are observed to locomote behind the bar by dancing instead of walking, and to dance in place when not serving customers, but move normally when called upon to prepare drinks. Pausing one’s dance to perform paid or volunteer duties for the venue does not trigger secondary anomalous effects. Due to this immunity, employees of the venue are more likely to observe and remember key details about SCP-XXXX than patrons. In the case that any attendees do experience secondary effects, their witness accounts are of high value.

Dancers enter an altered state characterized by euphoria, cessation of internal monologue, and inability to perceive physical exhaustion or pain. While individuals do not gain familiarity with dance moves not previously known, they do generally move in time with the music, even if unable to do this reliably outside anomalous conditions. Dancers have also reported the intuitive ability to perform difficult dance steps with which they were previously familiar but had never practiced. Those dancing immediately adjacent or with SCP-XXXX sometimes remember it, and later describe it as dancing joyfully, passionately, or similar adjective, often mentioning its ability to improvise new steps which fit well into established dances. However, they do not ascribe the entity particular significance, and have never associated it with their own behavior.

Dancers may briefly stop for the purpose of obtaining beverages, using the restroom, administering recreational substances, or engaging in intimate contact, while remaining in a euphoric state and avoiding secondary anomalous effects. Recent witness accounts have confirmed that going to a restroom out of sight of SCP XXXX with the sincere intention of returning, then changing one’s mind and leaving directly through the back exit, allows escape from the ongoing anomaly. This, however, is clearly difficult to arrange for oneself by design. Any Dancer who stops dancing for reasons other than above, or person who resists the urge to begin at all (such persons hereafter referred to as “Wallflowers”), experiences a sequence of related secondary anomalous effects as follows:

1. A much stronger compulsion supersedes the call to dance, instead urging the Wallflower to observe SCP-XXXX. If line of sight is obscured and cannot be easily reestablished, Wallflowers feel compelled to look in the entity’s direction. They then find themselves visually aware of SCP-XXXX’s position and movements behind intervening obstructions. Interviewees describe disorientation associated with this experience. Wallflowers may move freely during this effect but are compelled to remain oriented facing SCP-XXXX. Two subjects have reported backing out of the venue during this effect, both of whom found the anomalous effect to extend for some distance before slowly fading. In one case this allowed a woman to escape the building but still become paralysed just outside, as she had not moved far enough when the secondary effects progressed to that stage (see Incident XXXX-4)
2. Wallflowers viewing SCP-XXXX will at first observe SCP-XXXX to be a playful and enthusiastic dancer in whatever style is appropriate to the music and occasion. Choosing to join the dance up to this point negates secondary effects.
3. Continued refusal to dance leads to a growing impression that SCP-XXXX has an uncanny movement quality, described variously as:
   • • “his weight wasn’t on either foot”
     • “his joints didn’t quite bend in the same place every time”
     • “he wasn’t dancing, something was dancing him, like a marionette”
     • “his arms were on beat, and his feet were on beat, but they just didn’t … it was like a vertical split screen of two people lined up”
     • “His body never moved the direction he stepped. I know the goddamn running man, but he wasn’t doing that fake shuffle step. He just stepped one way and moved the other."
     • Note: Persons observing SCP-XXXX dance on video recordings experience a milder form of this effect, finding its movement coordinated but vaguely unusual. Test subjects viewing footage without prior knowledge of its context often pick out SCP-XXXX and ask whether it is a high quality digital rendering added to the scene, but cannot specify what gave them this idea.
4. After observing physical inconsistencies as above for some time, Wallflowers report increasing primal terror and co-occurring inability to move beyond maintaining balance.
5. Once a Wallflower consciously notices their own apparent paralysis and attempts to overcome it, chronoception becomes unreliable. Wallflowers experiencing altered chronoception hear every beat of the music as differently spaced in time, as if the tempo were randomly and discontinuously changing by large factors. This sound becomes unrecognizable as music, reported as horrible and discordant.
6. Eventually, wallflowers experience a peak in fear and SNS response, accompanied by physical symptoms of sweating, hyperventilation, and hypertension, and an emotional state of existential dread or similar.
7. At some point sufferers regain freedom of movement. Some survivors have implied that enthrallment is ended by certain thoughts or realizations on the part of the subject, but these claims are unverified at this time. 88% of interviewed Wallflowers report fleeing the location immediately once able. The other 12% gave various justifications for remaining and continuing to observe SCP-XXXX, such as unwillingness to walk past SCP-XXXX to exit, or attributing the experience to ingested substances and anticipating ridicule over a visible “freakout”.

Those who continue observing after the compulsion has lifted report alterations in the entity’s physical appearance, many of which are consistent between witnesses and across manifestations. This supports our supposition that SCP-XXXX is in fact one entity wearing multiple anomalous disguises. Most consistently reported observations are:

• Entity wore a crown or circlet studded with gemstones, which emitted light of rapidly cycling colors in a sickening pattern
• Entity’s hair and beard became unkempt and ash-gray or white
• Entity overlapped by an indistinct shadow duplicate, which danced identically to its corporeal body but very slightly ahead of the beat
• Entity’s face showed two facial expressions in superposition, one entirely emotionless and one grinning maniacally
• All of entity’s visible flesh became desiccated and brittle, falling off in flakes and dust clouds while regenerating just as quickly. Those viewing its face during this change report absence or substantial shriveling of lips, nose, and ears
• Entity’s eyes replaced momentarily by flickering light shining from deep within sockets. This change is often but not always observed in conjunction with the previous

When SCP-XXXX stops dancing at the conclusion of the event or for any other reason, dancers are overcome by fatigue and muscle pain setting in over the next hour. Exhausted in the mildest cases, the dancers begin leaving immediately to seek rest. SCP-XXXX blends into the departing crowd. The entity will generally retrace its route and return to the location where it was first recorded. It then becomes untraceable from that point. Locations thought to have hosted its manifestation/demanifestation have exhibited no consistent pattern beyond lack of witnesses, and no remarkable properties of these locations are discernible under physical, metaphysical, or thaumaturgical inspection.

Since the Foundation’s first observation of SCP-XXXX in 2014, 116 total manifestations have been documented and 55 deaths ruled exercise-related dehydration linked to its activity. If including the deaths at these events where narcotics or alcohol are listed as contributing factors, the death toll rises to 163. Nine ill or elderly victims have also died from cardiac arrest while experiencing secondary anomalous effects. These persons likely resisted dancing because they knew their health conditions made it unsafe.

Update 3/23/19: While it is now known that SCP-XXXX is susceptible to physical damage from gunfire, the degree of damage necessary to disable or neutralize the entity has not been established. The entity should be presumed far more resilient to injury than a non-anomalous human, in addition to possessing unknown anomalous capabilities.

+Addendum XXXX-A: Targets and Clothing

Addendum XXXX-A: Examples of events attended by SCP-XXXX, and description of its clothing

Rave: Black bondage trousers and a sleeveless t-shirt, multiple accessories featuring illuminated LEDs including light-up-sole athletic shoes and “lightshow gloves”.

Summer Festival (Sweden): Denim shorts, converse, graphic t-shirt, sunglasses, bandana

Square Dance: Western apparel consisting of dark cowboy boots, fitted jeans, belt with large silver buckle bearing unknown pictograph or glyph (indistinct in camera footage), plaid shirt, fringed leather vest, stetson hat with hatband, bolo tie

ElectroSwing concert: white zoot suit with two tone shoes and white trilby

Fraternity costume party: Roman gladiator (highly historical depiction). An interviewed witness to this manifestation, a professor of Classical Studies, recalled approaching and ironically greeting it with “Ave!”. He reported the entity spoke with him briefly in fluent Vulgar Latin.

Metal Concert (subgenre: folk metal): Black jeans, heavy boots, length of chain worn in place of belt, leather wristbands, T-Shirt promoting Finnish folk metal act Korpiklaani (not performing at target event)

Burning Man: Loose-fitting robe of light material tied with rope belt, sandals made from salvaged rubber tires, hat consisting of bird’s nest and deer antler bound with twine, Rolex

+Incident XXXX-1

Incident XXXX-1: 10/14/2014. At the conclusion of an overnight “lock in” rave in __ , EMS responded to serious illness which suddenly manifested among all attendees. Cameras show the DJ leave the booth and the lights come up as every person on the crowded dance floor simultaneously falls unconscious. Individual now identified as SCP XXXX remains standing and picks its way without visible distress among the victims, jumping between small areas of clear floor to avoid stepping on bodies. Event resulted in 31 deaths. The remainder of attendees were treated for dehydration and associated pathologies, and recovered fully over a period of weeks. Foundation intervened to alter toxicology screenings and incident was attributed to cathinone stimulant “bath salts” in combination with other illicit substances. SCP XXXX has not again visited an event where dancing continues uninterrupted for such a length of time, though whether this represents a conscious choice is unknown.

+Incident XXXX-2

Incident XXXX-2: 07/__ /20__ . SCP XXXX appeared three times over the course of two days at a festival in , Sweden. Each active period lasted only for the length of one artist’s set, minimizing physical danger. However, this event is considered to have the highest number of known affected persons. This manifestation also provided much information on transportation usage by SCP XXXX, which spent approximately two hours in transit after earliest recoverable footage of entity walking under a canal bridge in _. SCP XXXX boarded two busses, a train, and an event shuttle, interacting normally with travelers who commented on its festive clothing. Several of these witnesses were later interviewed and described the entity as a polite young man, reserved despite his gaudy festival attire, who spoke articulately in Swedish with a subtle accent. One witness suggested its accent sounded similar to Swedish-speaking minorities of Estonia and Finland. When asked where it was from, SCP XXXX told one woman it had “lived in the area for some time” and made no reference to an original place of residence. Multiple witnesses reported it giving its name as Karl Magnusson. No person by this name matching SCP XXXX ‘s physical appearance has been located.

+Incident XXXX-3

Incident XXXX-3: 09//20. During a protest against singer _ by extreme religious organisation _ __ ___ Church a counter-protest assembled across the street, with police responding to keep the groups separated. One of the counter-protesters produced a portable stereo and encouraged others to taunt the church group by dancing. SCP XXXX appeared shortly thereafter in a tie-dye shirt and camouflage pants with a bandanna covering its face. Police, presumably in the technical role of “venue security”, were seen to sway or briefly dance in place while maintaining effective crowd control. The church group protesters, whose religious beliefs are known to prohibit dancing, fell under secondary anomalous effects far faster than ordinarily reported. For approximately forty minutes the protesters stood perfectly still, interpreted by police as defiance rather than paralysis. Then the church group members suddenly broke into disorder, most running away in panic. Three men and a woman from the group who remained began screaming about the devil and pointing to the counter-protesters. Two of these men drew handguns on the dancers and fired, injuring four counter-protesters without fatality. Police fatally shot both gunmen. The man with the stereo, immune to compulsion in the role of DJ, stopped the music and fled upon seeing violence erupt. This caused SCP XXXX to end its influence. Counter-protesters scattered and SCP XXXX calmly stepped around one of the wounded to disappear as it came.

The spontaneous nature of this event and the speed with which SCP XXXX arrived have serious implications. SCP XXXX’s appearance at the protest implies that it was either already in the area by chance, or able to foresee the unplanned counter-protest, or even is aware of suitable events occurring worldwide in real time and able to manifest nearby on a whim.

+Incident XXXX-4

Incident XXXX-4: 3/__ /19. A 112 call (local mobile phone emergency number) from a bouncer at ___ nightclub in __ South Africa reported that an intoxicated patron had walked backwards down the hall while ignoring his attempt to get her attention and gone out the door, only to freeze like a statue just outside while staring at the wall. He stated that she absolutely refused to respond or move but was breathing heavily and clearly unwell. Arriving paramedics radioed to report finding the woman as described and placing her onto a gurney, upon which her head rotated “like a rooster’s” to maintain exactly the same orientation. Once removed from the area she began screaming incoherently about evil, judgement, and “the sounds”.

This communication was intercepted by the Foundation. However, due to insufficient training data on this SCP for an AI scanner, the call was flagged for human review as unknown anomalous activity. By the time probable SCP XXXX activity was identified no MTF or heavy militarized forces were within range to reach the club before closing time, at which point SCP XXXX was expected to demanifest. Considering SCP XXXX not dangerous to the life of a healthy adult, three agents currently close enough to arrive before closing volunteered to make contact. The following is the debriefing interview transcript of local agent Zoe Momberg, one of these three responders.

+Interview of Agent Momberg

Interviewer: Dr. Owen Babson, head researcher assigned to SCP XXXX
Subject: Zoe Momberg, Foundation Agent, Gauteng Province South Africa

Babson: This is Senior Researcher Owen Babson, interviewing Foundation agent Zoe Momberg regarding the first encounter between Foundation assets and SCP XXXX. Are you ready, Agent Momberg?

Momberg: Yes sir.

Babson: From your arrival on site, please describe in order the actions you and Agents Tomlinson and Ten Boone took, including any relevant observations about SCP XXXX.

Momberg: (hesitates) We did every goddamn thing wrong.

Babson: Just the events please, agent. Your performance review will come later, and your suggested updates to contact protocol will be considered.

Momberg: Right. I was the first one there. The doorman had stopped collecting money that close to closing. From the outside it just sounded like a club: music, stamping feet, happy shouts. Ten Boone and Tomlinson arrived in one car. They had been out together in a Foundation vehicle, so they had anxiolytics on hand when they got the briefing and had taken them on the way. They gave me a pill to swallow, but the music could end for the night at any time, so we went in before mine could take effect. We saw some people head in and out of the toilets, soaked in sweat but looking ok. Tomlinson peered around the corner into the main room first. He immediately held his hand up for us to wait and warned us that it was trying to make him dance. He kept looking around, with his hands balled up and standing very still, and then he told us he had resisted it, that he knew he wasn’t going to get pulled in. He has experience with memetics, and he promised this wasn’t so bad. Then he suddenly looked in a different direction and said ‘I’ve got the target’ even though he was facing a part of the wall. He sounded ill (Momberg pauses). He suggested we retreat but just after that he walked around the corner onto the dance floor.

Babson: Can you please remember exactly what he said? Take your time.

Momberg: He just said “Oh” to himself, like he was surprised, and then “get out”. But he f*g went in! Stupid bielie … I went right after him, and Ten Boone didn’t have a choice from there, did he?

Babson: After you followed him around the corner …?

Momberg: He only made it five or six meters in and then he just stood there. The dance floor looked normal at first, and I made it to Tomlinson and tried to shake him. Then I really saw the dancers. It was like a scene in a goddamn musical. People were doing their own things, different steps, but they were all perfectly on the beat, huge empty smiles. I wanted to join them. I knew everything would be fine if I joined them. I forgot about Tomlinson, I just tried not to listen to it. It wasn’t a voice in my head, I just knew I wanted to dance. It felt exactly like my own independent idea. But I wouldn’t. It was like ignoring the worst itch. It was a struggle, but it got easier once I resolved I just couldn’t, whether the idea came from within me or outside.

Babson: How long would you say you were completely focused on resisting?

Momberg: Maybe 30 seconds? A minute? It wasn’t long, but it felt longer.

Babson: During that time was Ten Boone behind you?

Momberg: No. He walked past me and went into the crowd. I couldn’t see him. And then I knew where XXXX was. I looked over by the DJ booth, and I saw it, dancing like a happy fool. Every limb was doing something different but it all fit together somehow. There were people between it and where I stood, lots of people, but I saw it perfectly clear anyway. It was like I saw XXXX dancing with my one eye, and I saw all the people standing in between with the other. But I tried covering one eye and it was just the same.

Babson: And from there?

Momberg: I didn’t think to look around for Ten Boone. I don’t know, maybe I couldn’t. Maybe that first try to get us dancing was just a distraction and I fell for it. I focused so hard on ducking the jab that the cross knocked me out cold.

Babson: No one we’ve interviewed has resisted the secondary effects, at least not initially. What
action did you take next, Agent Momberg?

Momberg: Well it’s good that I’m no worse than average then! Bladdy hell we’re supposed to be SCP!

Babson: If you need a moment to compose yourself, agent …

Momberg: No. I’m alright. (breathes) I started pushing toward him. ‘It’, I mean. I didn’t let myself pay attention to how it was moving. I knew that there was something bad in it, that if I really watched hard and caught what it was up to … I wouldn’t be able to handle that. So I looked right at it but ignored it and tried to focus on everything else in my peripheral vision. The other people dancing just got out of the way and let me through. Without bumping each other, either. It was just the sea slowly parting for me until nothing was in the way and I saw it properly. It was spinning in place. It’s one arm swung by its side, the other one thrusting around like Saturday Night Fever but in random directions. Every time it spun it would kick a foot out at certain spots, five kicks every circle. I was like a hardstyle dance, but lopsided, and somehow still balanced … Sorry. I didn’t have much time. I just didn’t want to lose before I even got to it, so I ran the last few steps, and I grabbed it on the shoulder.

Babson: XXXX assaulted you, then?

Momberg: We’ve got no idea what it can …what it does. It didn’t even react to me, but my grip on its shoulder pulled me around with it like I grabbed a spinning airplane propeller. I stumbled to catch my balance and it changed directions fast, way too goddamn fast! It’s arm shot right in front of my face as it whipped around and clotheslined me. It had just been doing a move like that. But I think it knew how I was going to grab it and started doing exactly the right dance move to shake me off a few minutes early, like, it had to know. I set its dance up, and its distance, everything so it could knock me on my ass without breaking step. I went down hard. It didn’t hurt much, but I was laid out. I looked up and it hadn’t lost the beat at all. It just shuffled a few steps away from me and kept doing the same thing. I saw it then, in its feet. The way it moved around it wasn’t … It just wasn’t ok. I didn’t think it was a good idea, what I did then. I didn’t think at all. I could. not. THINK! (her final word strained, followed by deep breathing to compose herself) I had half a second left to do something or do nothing, before I couldn’t make the choice.

Babson: Please, Zoe. Continue when you’re ready.

Momberg: Ok. I’m ok. I drew my weapon, and I put three rounds of 10mm into the thing. Hollow points, not much over-penetration. Yes, I was shooting in a crowd, and I can’t justify that. But I think, even at that moment, I did remember that I loaded hollow points. And I didn’t miss. All three shots landed.

Babson: And then the entity retaliated.

Momberg: Yes. Then it did. The shots made it hunch over like it took a punch to the gut, and when it straightened back up it had a different face. That face it … it wasn’t skeletal, it was rotting leather. I can’t even call it skin, stretched tight with no fat or muscle or anything under it, cracked and gray. I’m not sure there was even a skull under there. Its head was hollow like a pumpkin, and its eyes were gone. Its eyes, its orbital bones, just holes. The whole inside was open but on fire. Like its head was a lantern full of burning pitch or something. Jesus!

Babson: Ten Boone?

Momberg: When he heard the gun, the DJ dove under his board and it got unplugged or something. Music stopped. People started running, screaming. The thing stepped right next to me, about to do something. What it did to Ten Boone, probably. He got it instead, because he shot next. Right through its hollow eye and out the back of the skull, and the fire sprayed out the hole like a blowtorch. It pounced at him without even crouching first. By the time I could sit up the thing had Ten Boone pinned, kneeling on his chest. It tipped its head forward and poured out the fire through its eyes and its mouth. He was screaming so loud. The thing wouldn’t let him budge while he was burning, holding him flat on his back. Tomlinson shot next but I don’t know whether he hit it or not. The thing glanced up at him and back at me on my feet again, and it sprang away. It jumped an easy five meters from being on its knees, right out the little window at the top of the wall, smashed the glass. We both ran over to Ten Boone but he …

Babson: He couldn’t have been saved. Burns went to the bone on almost half his torso. The only choices he had were prolonged pain or quick pain.

Momberg: I know. That’s why I did it. I got that part right damn it!

Babson: And when you went outside?

Momberg: Nothing. No trace of it.

Results of Inquest: Though not in keeping with Foundation protocol, agent Zoe Momberg’s euthanasia of Agent Willem Ten Boone was not found to be cause for reprimand. Her decision to follow Agent Peter Tomlinson into the club after he warned her to retreat, with him by far the most senior of the three responders, was found to be an unacceptable lapse in judgement but short of insubordination. Her decision to escalate the violence of the encounter by use of a weapon when there was no obvious threat to her life was also considered by administrative review, but no consensus on culpability in this matter was reached due to influence of poorly understood cognitohazard. Zoe Momberg has been reassigned to low risk security duties at Site __, effective 4/15/19, eligible for reinstatement after three consecutive cleared psych evaluations separated by two months each.

Post Contact Update: Since attempted containment two SCP-XXXX manifestations have been confirmed, both outside the viable foundation response window. No alteration in behavior or physical appearance noted in aftermath of containment attempt.