Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX poses no intrinsic threat but must be kept in a locked storage container to prevent unauthorized access. Two copies of SCP-XXXX are to be retained, stored at geographically separate sites, with any additional copies destroyed immediately on discovery.
Staff or test subjects viewing the video data contained on SCP-XXXX must first complete the SCP Foundation training course "HIPAA: Special Containment Procedures for Private Health Information".
SCP-XXXX-CW must not be approached by any Foundation employees. No direct video surveillance of SCP-XXXX-CW is to be permitted, with any surveillance done only by third-party contractors hired through a minimum of two levels of non-Foundation intermediaries.
Once per day, SCP-XXXX should be checked for any new "blooper" or "deleted scenes" content.
Internet video and file sharing sites should be monitored for copies of the SCP-XXXX video data.
Description: SCP-XXXX is the data contained on a DVD entitled "The Story of Chip Wehmiller", being a full video record of the life of Christopher Wehmiller (designated SCP-XXXX-CW), beginning with the subject's birth and continuing until roughly the present moment. Given the amount of video data, the disc contains far more than the 4.8GB nominal capacity of a standard DVD. The data can be copied as an ISO image to other digital media (e.g., Blu-Ray discs; flash storage; 3.5" floppy diskettes), and any full duplicates retain the anomalous properties of the original. The DVD carries an NC-17 rating for Language, Nudity, and Sexual Content, and is encoded for Region 1.
Video appears to be recorded from a variety of sources of wildly varying image quality, including but not limited to: 8mm film, handheld video cameras, cellular telephones, traffic cameras, and a Microsoft XBox Live Vision webcam. The video is divided into named chapters, with lengths varying from just a few minutes to several weeks. In addition to the chapter selection, the menu includes a section of "Special Features":
1. Director commentary featuring cast and crew
2. Blooper Reel
3. Deleted scenes
4. The Story of the Story: Behind the Scenes featurettes
5. Shooting Script
The director of the video is credited as Alan Smithee (Designated SCP-XXXX-AS) and can be heard when any of the videos on the disc are played with audio set to "Director Commentary" mode. It is unclear at this time whether "Alan Smithee" is a distinct entity or simply a feature of SCP-XXXX.
SCP-XXXX-CW is a male human of Western-European descent living in Otsego township, MI and employed in the billing department at Allegan General Hospital. Independent investigation indicates that the SCP-XXXX video is a complete and accurate recording of SCP-XXXX-CW's life. SCP-XXXX-CW claims to have no knowledge of the video and reacted with distress when shown excerpts. Other than having been within the field of view of a video recording device for every moment of his life, SCP-XXXX-CW appears to have no anomalous properties.
The main danger posed by SCP-XXXX is to Foundation security. When Foundation agents have come into contact with SCP-XXXX-CW, both in direct interactions and indirect surveillance, there is a chance that that agent's voice will appear on the commentary track, sometimes divulging classified Foundation information and operational procedures. As all copies of SCP-XXXX appear to be identical and update in real time, and as there may still be extant copies outside of Foundation control, this could pose a serious risk to operational security.
Addendum 1, Blooper Reel and Deleted Scenes: The "Blooper Reel" and "Deleted Scenes" special features of SCP-XXXX are notable in that they contain scenes which do not correspond to actual experiences in SCP-XXXX-CW's life. In particular, the deleted scenes frequently feature events resulting in the untimely death of SCP-XXXX-CW. The blooper reel features SCP-XXXX-CW "breaking character" after making "mistakes" (i.e., deviating from the events depicted in the main video), and often film crew and equipment can be seen, despite no evidence of such when compared to independent observation of the incidents.
Addendum 2, Behind The Scenes featurettes: See documents SCP-XXXX-BTS-1 through SCP-XXXX-BTS-317 for more information on current Behind The Scenes featurettes.
Please note that featurette #1, titled "A Star is Born: The Making of Chip Wehmiller", may not be viewed without prior authorization by a supervisor with Level 4 clearance or higher or by any staff or subjects below the age of 18.
Addendum 3, Shooting Script: Like the main video, the "Shooting Script" special feature corresponds to the events in SCP-XXXX-CW's life, although the text occasionally displays slight variations not present in the video.
Addendum 4, Interview log with SCP-XXXX-CW:
Note: interview was conducted in a secure room. Dr. Blankenship and SCP-XXXX-CW were in the interview room with a copy of SCP-XXXX and video display device; secondary research team was in the adjacent room behind a one-way mirror with multiple copies of SCP-XXXX to monitor changes.
<Begin Log>
Dr. Blankenship: Hello, Christopher.
SCP-XXXX-CW: Um, hi. What is this all about?
Dr. Blankenship: Have you ever done any acting, Christopher?
SCP-XXXX-CW: No. I mean, like, school plays back in grade school, but nothing since then. Am I under arrest or something? Do I need to get a lawyer?
Dr. Blankenship: No, you're not in any trouble. I'd like to show you something.
Dr. Blankenship turns on the display, showing the current video of SCP-XXXX. Video source appears to be from surveillance camera in the room
Dr. Blankenship: Are you familiar with this?
SCP-XXXX-CW: What, like, surveillance cameras?
Dr. Blankenship: This isn't a surveillance camera feed. This is on a DVD.
SCP-XXXX-CW: What are you talking about? It's obviously a live feed. I can see the camera right there in the corner.
Dr. Blankenship stops playback and navigates to chapter selection screen
SCP-XXXX-CW: What the hell? Have you people been spying on me?
Dr. Blankenship: Calm down, Chip, we haven't been spying on you. We'd like to—
SCP-XXXX-CW: Did you just call me Chip? No one's called me that for years. How long have you assholes been spying on me?
Note: Appearance of a new deleted scene entitled "Chip flips out, steals a gun, and kills a dozen researchers" is observed at this point
SCP-XXXX-CW: Give me that fucking remote
SCP-XXXX-CW takes the DVD remote out of Dr. Blankenship's hand and begins looking through the DVD menus
SCP-XXXX-CW: What the fuck. How the fuck. What the fuck is going on?
SCP-XXXX-CW navigates to "Bloopers" special feature, then plays the most recent video, titled "Chip drops the remote"
Dr. Blankenship: We were hoping you could shed some light on that, actually.
On video screen, SCP-XXXX-CW can be seen in multiple "takes" repeatedly attempting to acquire the DVD remote control from Dr. Blankenship but dropping it. Both SCP-XXXX-CW and Dr. Blankenship can be heard laughing and joking about the events
SCP-XXXX-CW: What the fuck
SCP-XXXX-CW begins apparently hyperventilating and sits down against the wall of the interview room
SCP-XXXX-CW: What the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck, what, what, what, fuck, what the, fuck
Dr. Blankenship signals the secondary research team to end the interview. SCP-XXXX-CW is treated with class A amnestics and returned to his apartment
<End Log>
Note: During the interview, secondary monitoring team reported that Dr. Blankenship was featured as a "special guest" on the commentary track. Despite there having been no opportunity for him to record said commentary track, during debriefing immediately following the interview, Dr. Blankenship reported clear memories of having done so, including all of his "out of character" dialog. Dr. Blankenship was unable to provide a clear description of the "director", SCP-XXXX-AS, despite claiming to remember recording and interacting with him, nor was he able to reconcile the experience with observed reality other than to say the "both seemed entirely natural".
Addendum 5, Incident SCP-XXXX/████: On 2006-01-26, a deleted scene was discovered on SCP-XXXX titled "Chip Destroys the World". The scene featured SCP-XXXX-CW discovering an anomaly that lead directly to an XK-class end-of-the-world scenario. Director commentary track explained that this scene had been cut "because surely someone would have discovered that [REDACTED] and properly secured, contained, and protected it, so it's a bit unrealistic that Chip would've just happened to have stumbled across it while visiting the abandoned subway tunnels in Rochester, New York." Mobile Task Force Gamma-103 ("Radium Girls") was dispatched and successfully retrieved the anomaly (now classified SCP-████).
Item#: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: The artifact is to be kept in a standard hermetically-sealed containment box under guard. As this item is a low risk for containment breach or cross-item interaction, it is permissible to store it with other items with similar containment requirements. Under no circumstances is the object to be allowed to come into contact with any deceased animal matter (including human tissue). In the event of such, any resulting SCP-XXXX-A entities are to be immediately terminated via cranial impact followed by immolation. All personnel who interacted with or witnessed an SCP-XXXX-A entity (including termination teams) are to be administered class B amnestics in a dosage calculated to remove all memories of the event plus the preceding 24 hours as safety margin. At this point, testing is concluded and no further testing is to be permitted per the decision of the O5 council.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a small, gray disc 39cm in diameter and 2cm thick. The item is covered in what appear to be symbols of an occult nature which were added by [REDACTED].
When SCP-XXXX comes into contact with a majority of the tissue of a deceased animal, it has the effect of re-animating the deceased animal—designated SCP-XXXX-A—with any major wounds, fatal diseases, and [REDACTED] apparently cured. Initially, the SCP-XXXX-A instance will appear to be unchanged from its formerly-living state; longer-term testing and observation indicates [REDACTED]. People who witness the effects of SCP-XXXX will often feel a strong compulsion to bring the item in contact with deceased loved ones or pets, a compulsion apparently caused by [REDACTED], which can be resolved by administration of amnestics.
SCP-XXXX-A instances can be destroyed via blunt-force cranial impact, followed by disposal of the remains through immolation, as well as [REDACTED]. Testing indicates that remains of terminated SCP-XXXX-A instances are non-anomalous. Re-exposing remains of terminated SCP-XXXX-A instances to SCP-XXXX results in [REDACTED].
Abridged experimental log:
Test #: 3
Subject: Adult male domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris), deceased
Notes: Subject was formerly a pet of Dr. S████████, lead researcher on the SCP-XXXX team, which had recently died of kidney failure. On contact with SCP-XXXX, subject was revived and initially exhibited no adverse effects. Dr. S████████ was strongly resistant to the necessity to terminate subject after the success of the test and had to be restrained, amnesticized, and removed from the project. Subject was terminated without further incident.
Test #: 8
Subject:** D-10923, recently terminated, chosen specifically for psychological profile favorable to this test.
Notes: Following revival, subject was given a variety of psychological and intelligence tests to verify cognitive function. Subject showed no statistically significant loss in intelligence or memory, but displayed signs of antisocial personality disorder [REDACTED], as well as a strong animosity towards Foundation personnel [REDACTED]. Subject attempted to escape containment but was re-terminated without further incident.
Per instructions of the O5 Council, the following redactions shall be made to this document:
- Description ¶ 1: “containment team on orders of O5 council”
- Description ¶ 2: “effects of old age”
- Description ¶ 2: “that this is indeed the case”
- Description ¶ 2: “non-anomalous reactions to loss and grief”
- Description ¶ 3: “any other standard method of termination”
- Description ¶ 3: “the same revivification effect”
- Test 8 notes: “identical to subject’s pre-termination psychological profile”
- Test 8 notes: “due to previous treatment (and termination) as Class-D personnel”
- Dr. Schwedler’s name should be censored
- All test reports other than tests 3 and 8.
All personnel involved in retrieval and testing of this object thus far must be amnesticized.
As this artifact is capable of resurrecting the dead with no apparent downsides whatsoever, knowledge of it represents an extreme threat to the Foundation as well as status quo Normalcy. The risk of theft by groups of interest outside of the Foundation would be enormous (including the chance of collateral containment breaches which generally accompany attempted thefts from Foundation containment sites), especially given that holding SCP-XXXX will make someone functionally immortal and invulnerable.
That being the case, the decision has been made to hide this object “in plain sight” as it were. The text of this document is to be edited to make it appear that revivified subjects come back with serious flaws, and the object itself is to be kept in a relatively low-security containment facility so as not to call attention to it. Imperfect methods of resurrection are common and of low value.
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: As SCP-XXXX can be easily synthesized, no samples are to be retained for testing. SCP-XXXX can be neutralized by mixing with equal parts sodium chromate (Na2CrO4).
Foundation containment teams should be activated in the event that a statistically unlikely concentration of civilians named Trevor is detected in an area. Agents are to be embedded in any commercial laboratories actively working on sweetener technology to ensure they do not produce any samples of SCP-XXXX.
To avoid potential side effects in the event of a containment breach, researchers studying SCP-XXXX should already be named Trevor or be willing to undergo a legal name change before beginning work.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a pale blue fluid with viscosity similar to water and a density of 1100kg/m3 at standard temperature and pressure. It has no discernible scent and a distinctly sweet flavor. It has the chemical composition [DATA REDACTED].
When a named, living organism is exposed to SCP-XXXX, a CK-class reality-restructuring event will be triggered in which the organism's name is changed to "Trevor". This restructuring effects both memories and all written records, but will not affect deeper structural probability; as such, its effects can be detected by inference. E.g., it is vanishingly improbable that all test subjects used to experimentally determine the effects of SCP-XXXX would have been named Trevor to begin with, from which you can infer that the subjects became named Trevor as a result of SCP-XXXX exposure.
The effects of SCP-XXXX only apply to named, living organisms. Nicknames will also be affected if they are based on the organism's first name (e.g., "Mike" would become "Trev"). Designations other than names (e.g., serial numbers, Social Security numbers, code names, etc) appear to be unaffected. Deceased organisms and named inorganic items (e.g., dolls) are not affected.
Organisms affected by SCP-XXXX can have their names changed again through non-anomalous means such as legal name changes, re-training for animals, or brainwashing. That being said, affected organisms will feel the same attachment to the name Trevor as they presumably felt to their original name, and the nature of the reality restructuring event means that there is no practical way to determine what their original name was before exposure.
Discovery: SCP-XXXX was first isolated in the drinking water supply at the Abbey of St. Palaemon in Lewiston, NY. Foundation statistical software installed in computers at the United States Census Bureau detected that all monks in residence at the abbey were named Trevor and flagged it as as a statistical improbability. Mobile Task Force Omicon-23 ("Census Takers") was dispatched to investigate.
MTF-O-23's commanding officer (Agent Trevor Steele) determined that one member of the order had a background in organic chemistry and had been working on developing a new artificial sweetener in his spare time. Unfortunately, it is believed that both Agent Steele and MTF-O-23's second in command, Agent Trevor Lashley, were affected before containment could be achieved.
Interviewed: Agent Trevor Steele, commanding officer, MTF-O-23
Interviewer: Dr. Trevor Blankenship, lead researcher, SCP-XXXX.
Foreword: Debriefing interview conducted after neutralization of SCP-XXXX.
<Begin Log>
Dr. Blankenship: Okay, we're recording. Can you tell me about the retrieval of SCP-XXXX?
Agent Steele: Sure. It went smoother than a lot of retrievals. The monks give tours and run a small brewery to make money, so we showed up a little after 1100 local time posing as sightseers. I had to get a little clever tracking down where exactly the change happens because it literally affects all of reality. I kept a little log where I just wrote down the time, the activity, and whether our tour group — me, Lashley, and about five civilians who just happened to also be there that day — had a statistically normal or statistically unusual number of people named Trevor in it.
Dr. Blankenship: And you noticed you started writing down "statistically unusual"?
Agent Steele: Not exactly. As far as I can remember, I was writing down "statistically unusual" the whole time, because all but one guy in our group was named Trevor. So we're sitting around the table at the end of the tour, we've just had a little tasting of the beers these monks have been brewing, and it occurs to me: Why would I still be writing down "statistically unusual"? If the group had started out with a bunch of other Trevors, what would be the point of the notes? And the only person in the group not named Trevor at this point was the guy who was the designated driver for the civvies, so I figured it must be related to the tasting.
Dr. Blankeship: That's really quite clever. Nice work agent.
Agent Steele: Thank you. Anyway, we sent a bottle of beer to you science guys and they were able to isolate what was causing it and figure out that that yellow stuff neutralizes it. So we came back the next day and quote-unquote revealed that we were actually with the health department and had to shut their operation down due to a contamination threat. The monks were all very cooperative. You know, except that they were all named Brother Trevor, which made it confusing to interact with them.
Dr. Blankenship: Did they have an explanation for why they were all named Trevor?
Agent Steele: God working in mysterious ways. Which is to say, coincidence and self-selection. According to them, there had always been a few Trevors and it just reached a tipping point and became, you know, a thing. If you're named Trevor and want to be a monk, you go to the monastery with all of the Trevors. Of course, when we looked at their records, there was a clear line where members who'd died before about July of 2004 weren't Brother Trevor and members who'd been around after were. That being said, there's a good chance a few of the more recent members *were* named Trevor before joining, for the reasons they gave.
Dr. Blankenship: Can I ask you about your name?
Agent Steele: Yeah, I thought this was coming. It's Trevor. But I'm pretty sure I wasn't affected. I didn't drink the beer, I didn't drink any of the water there, I didn't even wash my hands. I think the Foundation sent my task force specifically because I was already named Trevor, not the other way around. I think Agent Lashley was probably affected, though. It seems real unlikely that both me and my second would be named Trevor on a mission to retrieve a skip that renames people to Trevor, you know?
Dr. Blankenship: The argument could be made that it's already vanishingly unlikely that *you* would be named Trevor.
Agent Steele: Well yeah. That's kind of how I got to where I am, though. Having this name made me pretty tough, and I think it's a big contributor to why I became the leader of a mobile task force. It's like that old song, Boy Named Sue? Gotta admit, I still kind of hate my dad for naming me this, though. Haven't talked to him in years.
Dr. Blankenship: You're the leader of a task force dedicated to statistical anomalies discovered by the Census bureau, and you were in charge of containing an anomaly that causes people to be renamed to your first name. Plus, Ms. Steele, there are almost no women in the country with that first name. I think you may want to accept the likelihood that you've been affected.
Agent Steele: Huh. I… guess I should reconnect with my dad.
<End Log>
Partial experimental log:
Testing performed by Dr. Trevor Blankenship.
Test #: 1
Subject: D-80159, Trevor M██████
Test: Given 1cc dose of SCP-XXXX
Notes: All foundation and prison records list subject's name as Trevor. When asked his name, subject claims to be named Trevor M██████. Pre-experiment interview log corroborates the first name of subject as being Trevor.
Test #: 2
Subject: D-80306, Trevor J█████
Test: Given 1cc dose of SCP-XXXX
Notes: Same result as Test #1. Given that test #1 and #2 were basically identical, it's reasonable to assume that this test was to determine SCP-XXXX's effects on organisms already named Trevor.
Test #: 4
Subject: Adult male golden retriever trained to respond to its name
Test: Given .3cc dose of SCP-XXXX, re-trained to respond to a new name instead of Trevor.
Notes: Subject successfully renamed
Test #: 8
Subject: Nephrolepis exaltata (Boston Fern) plant, given a name by Dr. Blankenship
Test: SCP-XXXX added to water in planter
Notes: Dr. Blankenship reports remembering naming the subject Trevor. Since the basic effect had already been well established, the most likely conclusion is that this was a positive test to determine whether or not SCP-XXXX affects plants as well.
Test #: 17
Subject: D-80605, Trevor J███████
Test: Subject was allowed to legally change name, then given 1cc dose of SCP-XXXX
Notes: Subject was chosen based on self-reported desire to undergo legal name change. Court proceedings indicate the subject's name was legally changed to from Sage J█████ to Trevor J█████. Subject indicated happiness with the results of the name change, saying that she always felt her old name did not suit her.
Test #: 48
Subject: D-80915, Trevor U████████
Test: Short poem written about subject; subject then given 1cc dose of SCP-XXXX
Notes: Poem is as follows:
There once was a D-class named Trevor
Who thought himself frightfully clever
He labeled [REDACTED]
As "Breech-repair stick:
In emergency, swiftly pull lever"