Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Keter
A 198█ photograph of Dome-1's construction
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-7979 is contained within two facilities; Dome-1, a steel structure with an internal height of 69.9m, and a 14m distance between the centers of the upper and lower dome chords. The internal span of the dome is to be 138m, and the external span is to be 145m. The dimensions of the dome were determined by the area of the condensed nuclear power facility; in 1988, upon the discovery of SCP-7979 underneath Cordelia's Nuclear Facility the area required immediate containment. Excessive construction of a second facility has taken place since the discovery of SCP-7979's prolonged growth in 199█, today SCP-7979 has been surrounded, with the Foundation encircling the town in an elaborate system of concrete and Silver-lined thump-coiled tubes.
Dome-1 is to be monitored by a five-person Resonance Team every 15 minutes for instances of behavioral change relating to SCP-7979's consistent agitated state. A total of 8 Resonance Teams are employed, each is to have monitored SCP-7979, 16 times, every 15 minutes for a total of four hours before a breach and swap by the following team; done to ensure 24 hour coverage of SCP-7979. Contingency plans call on all seven inactive teams to remain on base at all times, in the preliminary stages of a neutralization or destruction order for the facility; teams are to be locked in with SCP-7979 in correspondence with the decontamination protocol 3,[DATA EXPUNGED] and [DATA EXPUNGED].
Procedures relating to public contingency protocol are as follows; eight plainclothes enforcers cover State Route 116 at 250-foot intervals for a 1.2 mile stretch, enforcers are given permission to converge on vehicles that turn off at halfway point: Camp Thayer, whilst heading North on Cazadero Highway. Enforcers are to approach any suspect that exits their vehicle between the townships of Cazadero and Sheridan with intent to head West, enforcer is by no means expected to follow nor arrest suspect until they have broken federal law by trespassing on black site Cordelia. It is at this point agents are expected to arrest and subdue the suspect, if plainclothes teams fail to arrest suspects before they reach Gate One; the suspect will be The Foundation's property.
Description: SCP-7979 (also referred to as Cordelia and Manitou) resembles the township of Cordelia, █████ County, California, the SCP is known to be approximately 0.343 sq mi whilst the surrounding black site Cordelia encircles SCP-7979 at 3.532 sq mi. The SCP is maintained at featuring several disheveled houses, a medical center, nuclear power plant and indiscernible amount of structures ranging in shape and heat signature. No attempt has been entirely successful at photographing, visually recording or by means of sonar, capturing the internal structure of Cordelia. Since it's initial containment, SCP-7979 has continued to grow outwards from it's initial location; The Cordelia Nuclear Facility. It will commit to a psychopathic link with all human subjects, eventually as hypothesized by key researcher Dr. ██████; the creature will control and kill any human that submits itself to SCP-7979's company. SCP-7979 is mysterious in its nature of hunting and destroying its victims' bodies, by somehow erasing all physical evidence of Subjects in Encounters, troubling [DATA EXPUNGED] and the Foundation's key figures. In 199█, the Cape Medocino Earthquake led scientists to believe SCP-7979 detested rhythmic thumping after it was recorded to have stopped it's growth, the deduction by [DATA EXPUNGED] and the Foundation was that continuous motion inhibits SCP-7979's roots, which hinders the SCP's ability to grow outwards by a state of confused regression. See addendum 7979-1
Value: SCP-7979 is of high priority to The Foundation, excessive fees in the tally of $120B(USD) have been spent not only on containment and the security of SCP-7979 but overall the protection and mass anonymity procedures to maintain Black Site Cordelia's secrecy. There have been 294 experiments conducted onsite, with ten resulting in first contact with SCP-7979. As of today there have been no survivors of SCP-7979, all evidence is exclusively audio recordings, SCP-7979 possesses the ability to reflect imagining equipment and disables a vast array of electronics, especially those which feature visual recording devices. The value of research and continuation of Encounters with SCP-7979 is expected to answer questions regarding how the creature kills, and how it disposes of the bodies.
First Contact Encounters
"Encounters of individuals at Cordelia were paramount in their promise of a swift death in all emergency circumstances, suffering was always attributed to the SCP's direct actions and The Foundation is not liable to any deaths in accordance with the appropriate conventions; all fatalities were within the breadth of seconds and auditory evidence showed that all cases had similar symptoms of SADS/SUDS/SUNDS-related deaths." - Dr. ██████ of black site Cordelia
Encounter 1 - ██/██/198█
Subject: Suzanne ███████, female, aged 32, employee at facility, no family.
Procedure: Subject is not to eat 24 hours before containment with SCP 7979. Subject is to be placed in quarantine, wearing a size 6 hazmat suit upon entry to Cordelia, stocked with two cyanide pills, heavy-duty torch, Vitals Translating Component, Shure carbon microphone and back up RCA Handheld Receiver. Subject enters Gate 5, expected to head East along the access tunnel before entering Cordelia. No samples are to be taken, subject is to spend no longer than 45 minutes within SCP-7979's company. Subject will turn back due West, exit tunnel at Gate 5 and proceed with quarantine protocol.
Results: Subject was exposed alive to SCP-7979 for 52 minutes and 25 seconds before death, the Subject recounted a faint smell of burnt meat when turning the head and flaring nostrils, up until death all vitals remained in good condition, the Subject spoke of encroaching tendrils with a black material, flickering of access tunnel lights with prolonged blackout periods of 5-7 minutes. Towards the end of audio log, Subject reported hearing indistinguishable voices of varying nature, with mechanical jarring. Encounter progressed to point of Subject's confusion and fear, engaged with Subject to return to Gate 5, Subject resisted, Subject entered an agitated state resolved when vitals stopped abruptly. Log of the Subject's recorded log can be found belowsee audio log 7979-1.
Analysis: The first encounter was a necessary success, as the first evidence of the creature's behavior towards humans could be provided, death was expected by The Foundation and Subject, although the Subject showed high levels of aggression and a compulsive change in behavior at the time of her detailing voices. Subject did not however enter Cordelia, and her recognition of the access tunnel's compromised state led to an update of contingency plans for further encounters. Despite hearing voices, audio did not pick up on any vocal sounds nor a mechanical jarring experienced by the Subject, thus the sounds remain to be scrutinized by Dr. ██████'s team. Body of Suzanne ███████ never recovered.
Encounter 2 - ██/██/198█
Subject: Christopher ███████, male, aged 44, employee at facility, 1 wife, 2 children (surviving).
Procedure: No procedure was set for Subject, Subject had attempted suicide by means of entering facility at Gate 5, entered the facility without any protective wear and was by no means within the testing criteria worthy of quarantine and containment with SCP-7979. Evaded security.
Results: Little retained from Subject's experience, rescue teams sent in by Overseer Petoni despite recommendations for not interfering. Christopher spent 20 minutes in containment with SCP-7979, recounted also hearing peculiar voices and complaining as his gun would not fire within the access tunnel. Subject came into contact with walls before being rescued, complained of a searing heat and began his trek back to Gate 5. Rescue team caught the Subject vomiting severely 400-500 feet from the access tunnel entrance, members of the team recounted the vomit's color as being a vivid hot pink with white streaks. Subject removed from tunnel successfully.
Analysis: The Second Encounter, although the first to be survived, led to severe repercussions in the handling of Black Site Cordelia, Overseer ███████ Petoni was resolved of all duties by The Foundation's board of directors due to his 'selfish' and '████' actions in regards to Christopher ███████'s rescue and the use of company assets. Furthermore within 3 weeks of the encounter, Christopher succumbed to his induced coma and passed away from a brain hemorrhage, two other employees of Rescue Team 4 committed suicide in the year after their encounters. No evidence was found of a correlation between SCP-7979 and the suicides of both members, but the unexplained brain hemorrhage of Christopher ███████ resulted in a thorough investigation by Prometheus Labs, INC and The Foundation in collusion with the Federal Bureau of Intelligence. Scientists hypothesized the searing heat could be a direct link to SCP-7979 draining the abandoned Nuclear Facility's diminishing supply of plutonium to engorge the surrounding land, Christopher showed several symptoms of advanced radiation poisoning despite the fact no trace of radiation could be found on any of the rescue team nor Christopher himself.
[Encounter 3 - ██/██/198█
Subject: Mark █. █████, male, aged 31, exchange from Prometheus Labs, mother and brother (surviving).
Procedure: Subject is not to eat 16 hours before containment with SCP 7979. Subject is to be placed in quarantine, wearing a large hazmat suit upon entry to Cordelia, stocked with one cyanide pills, heavy-duty torch, Sony Camcorder, beaker, scalpel, Vitals Translating Component, Shure carbon microphone and back up RCA Handheld Receiver. Subject enters Gate 5, expected to head East along the access tunnel before entering Cordelia. Select samples of [REDACTED] are to be taken, subject is to spend approximately 60 minutes within SCP-7979's company. Subject will turn back due West, exit tunnel at Gate 5 and proceed with quarantine protocol.
Results: Subject was exposed alive to SCP-7979 for almost a total of 2 hours, 23 minutes and 50 seconds before death, the Subject felt comfortable for the majority of the encounter, a sample of black tendril was taken but no signs of [REDACTED], within 5 minutes of the samples being taken Subject reported a jarring mechanical noise from below and opted to use the camcorder. Severe technical difficulties with the camcorder and microphone interruptions led to the Subject becoming disorientated, Subject began to report hearing indistinguishable voices the further he walked into the tunnel, Subject did not touch the walls. Encounter came to a steady halt at a count of 10 minutes and 2 seconds when Subject failed to respond, although vitals were healthy, Subject resisted with an intense despondence, Nautilus under direction of [REDACTED] and the Foundation locked the tunnel's air circulation system, trapping the Subject. Subject continued prolonged silence, vitals remained healthy despite lack of oxygen in the tunnel. Piercing screams were heard over the radio at 2 hour, 23 minutes and 45 seconds before the Subject's apparent death. Body was never recovered. Log of the Subject's recorded log can be found belowsee audio log 7979-2.
Analysis: The Third Encounter revealed SCP-7979's intense manipulation and subjection of it's own possessive powers on the psyche. Scientists still questioned the evidence as being potholed and misrepresented, they cited radio interference and SCP-7979's disruptive nature as synonymous with the audio provided. Overseer Nautilus was intent on his theory that SCP-7979 was not of value to the Foundation and was far past it's means of containment, he cited several protocols for the destruction of SCP-7979 after Encounter 3 but each meeting with the board resulted in a strict vote of non-confidence in his endeavors. The board however held confidence in Overseer Nautilus' abilities, they signed off two more Encounters under his watch.
Encounter 4 - ██/██/199█
Subject: Adrian █████, male, aged 22, Foundation Property, mother and father (surviving).
Procedure: Subject is not to eat 16 hours before containment with SCP 7979. Subject is to be placed in quarantine, wearing a large hazmat suit upon entry to Cordelia, stocked with one cyanide pills, nine small purpose-built microphones, heavy-duty torch, Sony Camcorder, Vitals Translating Component, Shure carbon microphone and back up RCA Handheld Receiver. Subject enters Gate 5, expected to head East along the access tunnel before entering Cordelia. No samples are to be taken, subject is to spend approximately 30 minutes within SCP-7979's company, Subject will leave behind several recording devices at select places throughout the access tunnel. Subject will turn back due West, exit tunnel at Gate 5 and proceed with quarantine protocol.
Results: The Subject's complacency at first delayed the procedure, initially the trespasser would not stick to quarantine protocol. After Retracing the Subject was willing to comply, entering the tunnel at noon. Within the first microphone to be placed, Subject reported intense migraines but no mention of audiovisual hallucinations, four of the nine microphones had been placed at the time of the Subject's derailing. When asked to enter Cordelia at Dome-1 Subject became disorientated and [REDACTED], Subject became increasingly unresponsive with controllers and began to recount hallucinations in real time. Subject was in the company of SCP-7979 for an approximate total of 5 hours and 25 minutes, when the Subject responded to calls after 3 hours of radio silence, character behavior changed significantly, Subject wished to leave Tunnel and was not hesitant in telling controllers, even when vitals had turned the Subject continued to speak for another 5 minutes. Subject's body was never recovered.
Analysis: The encounter was not as successful as first hoped, The Foundation was intent on studying any possible recordings but could not successfully read the microphones as any captured transmissions were scrambled by radio interference from SCP-7979. This led scientists to hypothesize SCP-7979 scrambled both visual and audio transmissions when not in the company of living material, that living material acted as a distraction for the 'growth' to latch on to. Further tests were conducted such as the Casper Exchange. Nautilus decided against The Foundation's Board decision of animal trials instead of using humans as 'unsolicited bait and SCP fodder', he was promised one more encounter by the board of directors.
Encounter 5 - ██/██/199█
Subject: Mercy █████████, female, aged 53, Ex-agent of the UIU, hired by The Foundation ██/██/197█ , 1 daughter (surviving), 1 husband (deceased).
Procedure: Subject is authorized to eat prior to encounter due to diabetic conditions, subject is to spend no longer than 10 minutes in the company of SCP-7979. Subject is to wear a size 10 hazmat suit, Vitals Translating Component, Shure carbon microphone and back up RCA Handheld Receiver as standard procedure. Aim of encounter is to install a Thumper at the foot of the access tunnel, then is to return to Gate 5 immediately and proceed with quarantine protocol.
Results: Subject entered the access tunnel with no intention of touching the walls, noted the black tendrils had encapsulated well past the original 400ft mark, the Thumper was successfully installed within 5 minutes, 34 seconds and Mercy was given permission to return to Gate 5, upon returning to Gate 5, orders were made to lock Gate 5, Gate 5 was locked effectively trapping Subject inside access tunnel. Subject continued to enter access tunnel, see log below for detailed exchangesee audio log 7979-3. Upon the 30 minute mark the Thumper was engaged, compromising the access tunnel, Mercy's audio recorded a low pitched crackling sound, Subject became aggressive, vitals turned, body was not recovered.
Analysis: Report of autopsy conducted with the Subject can be found here. An analysis of low structural damage and the compromised state of the tunnel by the Thumper's motion was taken, it was at first detested by scientists due to lack of evidence. A chart of Resonance Team recordings showed change in SCP-7979's behavior, especially it's inhibited growth beyond the 1988 Containment Field. The Foundation under the guise of [REDACTED] used it's research from the 199█ Cape Medocino Earthquake to actively design the Thumper and current containment field. The discovery of Prolonged Motion as a means of securing SCP-7979 was heralded as a success in the industry, but the actions of Nautilus were considered incomprehensible and without order. The board convicted the Overseer of hijacking the project and compromising Black Site Cordelia, leading to his redundancy.
See addendum 7979-2
Encounter 6 - ██/██/199█
Subject: Daniel █. █████████ male aged 64, Ex-agent of the UIU, hired by The Foundation ██/██/197█ , 1 son and 1 wife (deceased).
Procedure: Subject is not to eat 16 hours before containment with SCP 7979. Subject is to be placed in quarantine, wearing a large hazmat suit upon entry to Cordelia, stocked with one cyanide pills, nine small purpose-built microphones, heavy-duty torch, Vitals Translating Component, Shure carbon microphone and back up RCA Handheld Receiver. Subject enters Gate 5, expected to head East along the access tunnel before entering Cordelia. Subject will turn back due West, exit tunnel at Gate 5 and proceed with quarantine protocol.
Results: Subject entered the tunnel at Gate 5, recounted no auditory or visual hallucinations, when approaching Thumper Subject felt least in danger, expressed that there was no mechanical jarring but the low pitch rumble remained from below. As Subject passed 300ft further into the tunnel, a sense of dread and confusion overcame the Subject. Subject tried to return to Gate 5 but in dismay turned and ran in the wrong direction to Gate 6 (in construction phase), Subject became despondent and did not reaffirm their status until death. Subject spent a total of 2 hours, 43 minutes and 5 seconds with SCP-7979 before death. Body not recovered.
Analysis: Although the assembly of the Thumper permitted times where SCP-7979 could not infiltrate mind nor body of chosen Subject, it did not persist it's radius of effect across the entire geological map of SCP-7979. The Resonance measurements of SCP-7979 taken during this time show a standard decline in the intensity of growth, and a possible regression See addendum 7979-3 circumstantial to prior measurements at Dome-1. Expectancy is to continue expansion of the facility, the mobilization of a task-force to counter SCP-7979's growth beyond the 1988 Containment Field, contact officials in ██████████ █.█ and move resources from black site ████ and Area 14; crucial to the facility is the use of ███ and ████ vehicles from both ████ and Area 14 to form a new containment field.
Encounter 7 - ██/██/199█
Subject: Jerry ██████████, male, aged 19, Foundation Property, no family.
Procedure: Subject is not to eat 5 hours before containment with SCP 7979. Subject is to be placed in quarantine, wearing a large hazmat suit upon entry to Cordelia, stocked with one cyanide pills, heavy-duty torch, Vitals Translating Component, Shure carbon microphone and back up RCA Handheld Receiver, two caged canaries. Subject enters Gate 5, microphone access not permitted, expected to head East along the access tunnel before entering Cordelia. Subject will wait until canaries exhibit behavior and turn back due West, exit tunnel at Gate 5 and proceed with quarantine protocol, birds to be exhumed on immediate quarantine.
Results: Subject entered tunnel with canaries in healthy state, continued onward past two original Thumpers without concern. Upon reaching Encounter 6's milestone at 300ft past Thumper 2, Subject started exhibiting similar behavior to the original Subjects, bird vitals remained at a nominal level despite this. Subject lasted the shortest of any Encounter, at 18 minutes, 32 seconds before death. The canaries remained alive for up to 16 hours, 23 minutes within SCP-7979's company. Neither Canaries nor body of Subject were located.
Analysis: Perhaps the most interesting encounter since the discovery of constant motion, the hypothesis raised by fellow scientists under the leadership of Dr. ██████ and Dr. █.█ ██████ Casper was that SCP-7979 feeds upon the sapience of creatures and not sentience, advocating for controlled tests with well-trained animals who lacked sapience. Ridicule was drawn from the scientific community at The Foundation due to the hypothesis working upon philosophical terms and not evidence-based. Overseer McConnick's last act before Encounter 8 and his initial retirement was to pass the successful Casper Exchange program under the watchful eye of both Dr. ██████ and Dr. █.█ ██████ Casper's research teams.
Encounter 8 - ██/██/200█
[REDACTED]
Encounter 9 - ██/██/200█
[REDACTED]
Encounter 10 - ██/██/201█
[REDACTED]
Audio Logs
Audio logs of human encounters are currently pending review by The Foundation, new security protocols by the Board of Directors under Overseer Rodriguez have been implemented, if you are at clearance level-3 we recommend entry to the archives for unedited documents, audio logs and level-certified documents. A message from The Foundation.
Mark █. █████: Subject of Encounter 2. See Encounter above.
█.█ ████: Head of control at the current time, under Overseer Nautilus.
We expected the Subject to die quite quickly, given the nature of previous encounters, Nautilus was always hard on Subjects and would not show mercy over the Encounter's results. This was a prominent challenge for me. -█.█ ████
**<Begin Log, 00:00:00 | ██/██/198█ **
██:██ | █.█ ████: This is █.█ ████ commencing Encounter 3 at ██ ██, date is ██/██/198█.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Testing, band one.
██:██ | Mark █. █████: Band one clear.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Testing, band two.
██:██ | Mark █. █████: Band two is clear.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Okay, we need you to enter the tunnel now.
██:██ | Mark █. █████: Entering tunnel.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Lighting?
██:██ | Mark █. █████: Well lit, occasional flickering.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Your mother's birthday?
██:██ | Mark █. █████: █ of █████ 192█.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Proceed.
█ minutes of silence pass
subtle cough from Subject
██:██ | █.█ ████: Subject?
██:██ | Mark █. █████: Coming up on a black solid of tentacle form seeping through wall, possible sample, stenches of rotten meat, sulfuric even, permission to take sample?
██:██ | █.█ ████: Subject report, smell is constant even with respirator?
██:██ | Mark █. █████: That is affirmative, smell is is [sic] through visor now.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Permission for sample Overseer.
██:██ | Overseer: Permission granted.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Subject, permission for sample is granted.
██:██ | Mark █. █████: Affirmative, taking sample.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Subject, permission for sample is granted.
sounds of slicing
██:██ | █.█ ████: Subject, your mother's birthday?
██:██ | Mark █. █████: ██ of ███████ 196█. Wait, I just give me wait a [sic] hang on.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Overseer permission for callback?
██:██ | Overseer: Permission not granted, keep him on course.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Affirmative Overseer.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Proceed Subject.
██:██ | Mark █. █████: Proceeding proceeding [sic] smell vividly permeating now, tendril has been sliced and collected yet no signs of the unidentified reddish substance on walls, permission to return.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Denied.
██:██ | Mark █. █████: Proceeding deeper into Access Tunnel, lights inconsistent, jarring noise below, you picking up on this control?
interior control murmur
██:██ | █.█ ████: Not picking up any such sound on our end, continue.
██:██ | Mark █. █████: Hearing distinct voices now control, control?
Subject is unreachable for 3 minutes, 10 seconds
██:██ | █.█ ████: Do you hear us now Subject, Subject can you hear-
██:██ | Mark █. █████: Where the fuck have you been, voices are real real real [sic] bad now. Can't stop them, getting inside, different people, voices I know-
██:██ | █.█ ████: Subject it is imperative you spend at least the full 60 minutes within SCP-7979's company, can you hold out?
Subject fails to respond adequately, camcorder fails connection twice before losing frequency with control.
██:██ | █.█ ████: Do you hear us now Subject, Subject can you hear us, Subject?
2 hours, 13 minutes, 3 seconds of high frequency static, control is idle
Recording of intense male screaming, paired with deep noise feedback of audio system
██:██:██ | █.█ ████: Subject, Subject can you hear us, Subject?
██:██:██ | █.█ ████: Subject, Subject?
██:██:██ | █.█ ████: Subject?
Log ends: 02:23:50 | ██/██/198█
Closing Statement: Overseer Nautilus not challenged on his actions, no breach of The Foundation's conventions, control manager █.█ ████ resigned shortly after, was given work at [DATA EXPUNGED]See addendum 7979-4, body of Subject nor equipment discovered as of ██/██/201█.
Addendum 7979-1: Further tests indicate that SCP-7979 does not achieve partial or complete regression with Thump Coil procedures, rather it stagnates in it's own current state. There is no further evidence of regression, despite Dr. ██████'s claims.
Addendum 7979-2: Please refer to Nautilus, consequently 'scum' has replaced 'REDACT' excuse mistake as a deliberate act of vandalism to an impervious network, revise this initially.
Addendum 7979-3: False claim, should be updated to halt/stagnation.
Addendum 7979-4: Follow protocol, exterior businesses are not to be disclosed, as par with redundant employees, fully-disclosed dates, black site personnel and surnames of subjects.
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