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INCIDENT REPORT 8000-1


On the sixth of November, 2024, at 15:48, an unknown individual materialized inside an unused Keter-class standard containment cell on Site-19, apparently while attempting to destroy a mechanical artifact of unknown nature. Upon stabbing the artifact with a sword, every Scranton Reality Anchor in the Keter wing of the site experienced a fatal software error and ceased functioning, allowing several anomalies1 to escape their containment cells.

The individual, who appeared to be an adult woman in a black dress and royal garb, ran outside the cell and started casting protective wards on several Keter cells, which seems to have prevented the most violent anomalies to breach containment. After this, the woman seemed to command the anomalies who already breached containment to follow her, before opening a portal to an unknown, possibly extradimensional, location. A total of 79 anomalies, including SCP-███ and SCP-████, are considered lost.

Upon examination of the artifact left behind, it was identified as a missing prototype Scranton Reality Anchor, which disappeared five years ago. The following files were retrieved from the automated logging system of the SRA and are currently under study to determine the true nature of the incident.













RAISA NOTICE

Attached below is a proposed draft for the documentation of the anomalous object that caused Incident 8000-1. The information shown below may be inaccurate or subject to further correction.

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From: Simon Glass <pcs.ygolohcysp|ssalg#pcs.ygolohcysp|ssalg>
To: Amelia Stickbush <pcs.oehtt|hsubkcits.a#pcs.oehtt|hsubkcits.a>
BCC: O5-8 <pcs.reesrevo|thgie#pcs.reesrevo|thgie>

Dear Amelia,

Today I had a routine interview with the co-director of the Department of Mathematics, Mikaela Agnesi. Below is the routine dream report from today's session; upon entering it into the system, the file got flagged by one of the AICs, which recommended me to forward it to your department.

Hopefully you can glean something from this.

-Simon

FORM 66-Y - STANDARD DREAM REPORT
Personnel: Dr. Mikaela Agnesi
Estimated Degree of Recall: 55%
Anomalous Entity Present?: Y
Likelihood of Actionable Intelligence: LOW
Description:


Item: SCP-XXXX

Containment Class: Eparch3

Hazard Classification:
Disruption Class: 3/Keneq
Risk Class: 1/Notice

Object Class: Concept/convention (keywords: mathematics, notation, description, quantity)

Special Containment Procedures: None4. The anomalies whose motifs are derived from SCP-XXXX are to receive individual containment procedures on a case by case basis.

Description: SCP-XXXX is the provisional designation given to the digit 7.

Never retreat, never surrender

Drafts:

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RASIA NOTICE

The file below represents the understanding of Project 001 by a predecessor organization. Please contact High Command for an updated version if so required.

— Maria Jones, RASIA Director

Item#: 001
Level6
Containment Class:
esoteric
Secondary Class:
Níðhöggr
Disruption Class:
amida
Risk Class:
critical

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-001 is a Níðhöggr-class5 narrativohazard, and thus no direct containment procedures have been proposed. However, it is theorized that its ongoing invasion of the current reality can be halted by disrupting its intended narrative; see the Project DEEP STRIKE proposal for more information on indirect containment.

Preparations for the enactment of Project DEEP STRIKE are ongoing; currently, those include devising a way to avoid interference of the associated Groups of Interest, which include GoI-004 (The Church of the Broken God) and several Neo-Sarkic organizations such as GoI-490 (Adytum's Wake) and GoI-432 (The Hunter's Black Lodge).

Preventing the contamination of adjacent realities is the last meaningful action of the Foundation.

Description: SCP-001 is a narrativohazardous, sapient and hostile entity actively trying to alter the narrative substrate of the current reality in order to ensure its own existence. SCP-001 can absorb, integrate itself and alter all narrative components of a reality, including human perception of historical and current events, factual or fictional records of events, and the own internal monologue or self-narration of events from humans and other sapient beings. This, in practice, allows SCP-001 to damage the parasitized reality's causality laws in order to cause or prevent certain events at will in order to fit with its own narrative.

SCP-001 inserts itself into a reality into the role of an "antagonist", usually by subsuming and consuming the narrative of an existing individual or group in the target reality. Its narrative is strengthened by the presence of an active opposition (any person, organization or entity following the "heroic" archetype in public perception, popular culture, etc., and actively opposed to the "antagonist"'s goals) and its interaction with SCP-001; thus, any activity designed to stop SCP-001 activity or directly attack SCP-001 instead strengthens its infection and assimilation of that reality's narrative, making it more aligned to SCP-001's intended narremes.

Thus, once the parasitic relation between SCP-001 and its victim reality has progressed enough, SCP-001 gains complete control over the narrative aspects of this reality; in practice, this gives SCP-001 the ability to control causality to a large degree, albeit still bound by the narrative rules associated to its "role". In particular, despite SCP-001 being a separate, independent consciousness from the consumed pre-existing "antagonist", it is still subject to the rules and public perception associated with the latter, which translates to a difficulty in acting "out-of-character" while maintaining its control of reality.

Addendum 001-1: Known examples of SCP-001 activity.

The following list has been prepared by the Department of Extradimensional Affairs, and collated by representatives from the Department of 'Pataphysics in order to find evidence of SCP-001 interference.

Reality: RMK-5-23-231-6

Role: The Scarlet King

Opposition: The Sevenfold Coalition (see below)

Description: SCP-001 exploited the influence of the Scarlet King mythos over Foundation Researcher [DATA LOST] to maliciously edit a certain file in the Foundation database. This broke the containment cycle of an aspect of the former Scarlet King, allowing it to manifest into this reality. This, in turn, initiated a chain of events, including inducing labor on SCP-231-7 outside of the scheduled time of Procedure 110-Montauk, allowing SCP-001 to fully manifest in reality in the role of the Scarlet King. Seven organizations6 formed a joint alliance to counteract the rise of the entity, unknowingly further instigating the Scarlet King's numerological motifs. All organizations were eliminated in sequence, culminating with the final collapse of the Foundation. For unknown reasons, the slaying of O5-1 by the Scarlet King/SCP-001 amalgamation immediately induced a ZK-Class Reality Failure scenario, causing the collapse of this reality.

Reality: YTI-098-1000-94

Role: Adam El Asem

Opposition: The Children of the Night

Description: YTI-098-1000 was a reality where the SK-Class Dominance Shift scenario that led to the fall of SCP-1000 in favor of mankind never happened. SCP-001 took the role of a human peasant, naming himself Adam El Asem7. SCP-001 secretly formed an alliance with those who came before the Children, and led a rebellion against the SCP-1000 civilization, manifesting reality-bending and narrativohazardous powers. Attempts to contain Adam El Asem by a SCP-1000 organization roughly equivalent to the Foundation instead resulted in his death; the ones who now hide in the forest whose name was consumed used nomenclature-based techniques to preserve Adam El Asem's name, accidentally spreading it across all the human race. The uncontrolled manifestation of reality-bending powers led to a XK-Class "Salted Earth" scenario over the course of three months.

Reality: UAC-988-2016-0

Role: Unknown; believed to be a primitive volcanic deity.

Opposition: Homo sapiens sapiens.

Description: After the eruption of the Youngest Toba supervolcano in what is known now as Indonesia, one of the remaining settlements of humanity was targeted by a physical manifestation of SCP-001 posing as a volcanic deity. SCP-001 demanded increasingly convoluted worship rituals in order to "gather the strength to quell the Earth", up to and including human sacrifice. At some point, humans refused to participate further in ritual worshipping of SCP-001, rebelling against it during the execution of a ritual. The incomplete procedure instead instigated another eruption of the Youngest Toba supervolcano, worsening the volcanic winter conditions and making the Earth uninhabitable by humans in the following fifty years.

Reality: CAB-5-552-1425

Role: Abbadon Technological Payments, LLC

Opposition: Environmentalist groups, the SCP Foundation

Description: Unknown; reality has been automatically sealed by thaumaturgical methods. Fragmentary information recovered from this reality suggests that SCP-001 took the role of a cryptocurrency enterprise and its board of directors, attempting to promote a suspectedly anomalous "starcoin miner". Analysis of internet traffic before the sealing of this reality show that the Foundation attempted to shut down this cryptocurrency mining botnet, being partially successful; this induced a malfunction on the remaining captured devices, leading to the manifestation and spread through the internet of an unknown, but extremely virulent cognitohazard.

Reality: KJD-1-8986-2935

Role: The SCP Foundation

Opposition: The Chaos Insurgency

Description: [DATA EXPUNGED]8

Contextual analysis of known or suspected SCP-001 manifestations has led to the following conclusions:

  • SCP-001's intended narrative relies on narremes ("tropes") of tragedy, futility and failure.
  • A common topic among SCP-001 manifestations is that the defeat and destruction of the party opposed to SCP-001 (the "heroes") is brought upon, directly or indirectly, due to their own actions. Active opposition towards the "antagonist" supplanted by SCP-001, thus, actually accelerates its corruption of reality.
  • Upon reaching total infestation of the narrative substrate and causality of a given reality, SCP-001 becomes an Apollyon-class threat, inducing a K-Class scenario of varying severity.
  • SCP-001 has not been observed to leave a reality before the events that induce the aforementioned K-Class scenario are irreversible and guarantee the end of all narratively-capable observable life (this includes, but it is not limited to all of mankind).
  • SCP-001 has, so far, been unable to directly manifest in more than one reality simultaneously. However, it may exert some degree of influence in causally adjacent realities, possibly as a means to prepare for its future infestation.
  • Realities affected by SCP-001 are causally close to previously affected realities: it cannot jump between two realities whose historical timelines have excessively diverged without passing through intermediate realities with a minor degree of divergence located "between them".

Upon observation of these traits, the DEEP STRIKE proposal has been elaborated and is currently awaiting approval by the O5 Council.

Addendum 001-2: Project DEEP STRIKE

Narrative analysis of the current SCP-001 manifestation suggests that the role it has inserted itself into our reality is the Nälkä deity Yaldabaoth, which would in turn make GoI-004 (all three factions of the Church of the Broken God) the designated "heroes". As both the hostile activities of Neo-Sarkic groups and the response of GoI-004 would be Veil-breaking activities, it is theorized that this would leave the Foundation as a neutral party in this conflict, and that SCP-001 would not attempt to engage the Foundation directly.

Yaldabaoth is widely considered in Nälkä and Mekhanite traditions to be what is coloquially known as "idiot god", that is, a deity with no actual agency or sapiency which acts purely on instinct. Narratively, this would imply that SCP-001's actions in the role of Yaldabaoth do not carry the risk of "breaking character", which is likely to hasten its corruption of this reality's narrative substrate and causality. However, this also means that SCP-001's role is more malleable to collective human belief than usual, due to the absence of a natural self-narrative to structurally sustain this role.

Project DEEP STRIKE intends to disrupt SCP-001's narrative by altering both the perception of its role (i.e. the idea of Yaldabaoth) and of its environment (human society, the role and interaction of involved GoIs, etc.) in collective human consciousness in order to make its component narrative themes (self-fulfilled tragedy, failure and subjugation of all opposing parties, etc.) unsustainable in the current reality, via the introduction of falsified narratives, stories, and so on. Due to the extensively involved nature of these alterations, which involve manipulating the actions and ideologies of virtually every collective on Earth, it is believed that this will result in the end of the "SCP Foundation" as a concept, being replaced by an equivalent that conforms to this altered narrative. This has been deemed to be a necessary sacrifice due to the multiversal threat posed by SCP-001, and thus Project DEEP STRIKE has been unanimously approved both by the O5 Council and the Ethics Committee.

This project is unlikely to result in the neutralization of SCP-001, but it is believed that it will severely slow down its corruption of causality, and make it unable to move on due to the incapability of completing its intended story, leaving it "trapped" in this reality. To this purpose, the O5 Council and the Ethics Committee have authorized experimental usage of several anomalous objects, up to and including Keter-class items, in order to further this purpose, in the following ways:

  • manipulation of the human noosphere ("head space") to introduce spurious associations between Yaldabaoth (and, by extension, members of Sarkic cults) and elements that may appear narratively nonsensical, e.g. animals with no reason to be linked to carnomancy,
  • manipulation of the beliefs and ideology systems of Groups of Interest (including the Foundation itself) which would have an interest on opposing Yaldabaoth, to induce suggestions of ineffectual methodologies, in particular those thematically linked to the aforementioned nonsensical, spurious associations (e.g. attempting the destruction of falsified effigies of Yaldabaoth via inadequate methods such as punching),
  • usage of retrocausal anomalies to alter the known course of history and introduce previously nonexistent historical deviations in order to causally isolate this reality,
  • usage of highly adaptive anomalies to make them conform to the falsified narrative of Yaldabaoth's true nature introduced by Project DEEP STRIKE,
  • usage of anomalies that allow interaction with alternate planes of reality (such as what is coloquially known as the "afterlife") or adjacent realities and introduction of similar narrative elements in order to combat informational and/or narrative aftereffects on these planes of SCP-001's invasion of this reality,
  • collaboration with potentially sympathetic entities linked to GoI-004 and Sarkic cults in order to influence the respective Groups of Interest under the above goals and avoid any interference that would further the narrative of SCP-001.

The absence of direct engagement in Project DEEP STRIKE is expected to make it unable to enact countermeasures via narrative manipulation. As well, the nonsensical narrative elements introduced by Project DEEP STRIKE are believed to be incompatible with themes of tragedy and fatality due to lacking the necessary "gravitas" and thus "breaking suspension of disbelief"9.

Addendum 001-3: A letter from the Administrator

Dear friends:

If you are reading this, this means that Project DEEP STRIKE has been set in motion and there is no turning back. If you understand what this means, I am deeply sorry.

Every one of us has given their lives for what we think is right. You have heard it countless times: "we die in the dark, so that mankind can live in the light". But, even in the dark, you are remembered by all of us. We pretend the D in D-class stands for "disposable", but the exploits of D-11424 are discussed even by the Council. We remember those who have died in SCP-682's rampages. The Foundation's collective memory surpasses even the stronger antimeme or amnestic. We remember Robert, and Marion, and Charles.

That is why we are asking for something so much worse. We gave all of our selves to the Foundantion, and now I am asking you to give up the concept of the Foundation itself. And we won't be able to even promise quiet days; if you are still there, you will keep on fighting, even without the solace of being in our thoughts, nor remembering those who came before you.

And if you're reading this, you know this is necessary. SCP-001 has taken our reality hostage, but we won't play along. We cannot conquer nor subjugate the beast, and facing it head-on would be a mistake. It is what it wants, making us mere puppets in its play-pretend game. So we will have none of it. We will ridicule SCP-001's idea of a plot, make a mockery out of its "tragedy", laugh at its attempts to dictate what we should do and think. We will keep it here, trapped with us, with no way to reach the end of its story. We will bind Níðhöggr to our world, so it cannot keep gnawing at Yggdrasil's roots. And when we are out of options, with no deus ex machina to save us, we will reach the beast and punch it in the face, no matter how meaningless that might be.

But, by God, I swear it will feel that punch.

And if, for some reason, you are reading this after we are naught but a footnote in some forgotten DEEPWELL server, you will know why your world is like this. You know what had to be done, and what you need to do. You will not remember us, but please keep our legacy alive.

Charles Plinth, The Administrator

Project DEEP STRIKE will be put into action as soon as possible. Since this is likely to result in the erasure of the SCP Foundation as a concept, this archive is to be preserved via several redundant methods, including the DEEPWELL Archive and Scranton Box technology.

Those that will come after us deserve to know why.



I seem to come up with a lot of ideas for SCP-001 and never complete them, don't I?

Reality: AOE-2-9994-108

Role:

Opposition:

Description:

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This article describes a Qliphoth-class organizational anomaly whose stability must be kept at all costs. If you keep reading the current documentation without the appropiate innoculation, memetic agents embedded in the text will enforce the belief that any subsidiary files you have been granted access to from this hub correspond to the true and accepted iteration of SCP-001 (which may or may not be the case) and accept the description of events, relevant documents, etc. comprising the archives below as a set of factual events in the current reality. If you are unable to accept the text below as factual documentation, the Fae-class memetic agents are likely to cause irreparable damage to all cognitive processes involved in skepticism and critical thought; this has been deemed acceptable to negate disbelief in the SCP-001 narrative. If you haven't been properly inoculated, stop reading this documentation now.


Item #: SCP-001

Object Class: Qliphoth20

Special Containment Procedures: Complete information about the nature of SCP-001 and its related anomalies is to be restricted solely21 to O5-1. Partial information is to be given to the other twelve members of the Overseer Council, with three separate files to be assigned to teams of four Overseers each. Currently, the clearance assignment for each Overseer is as follows:

  • SCP-001-Σ: O5-3, O5-6, O5-7, O5-10
  • SCP-001-Κ: O5-2, O5-8, O5-11, O5-13
  • SCP-001-Π: O5-4, O5-5, O5-9, O5-12

Information about [NOMENCLATURE HAZARD REDACTED] is to be restricted to O5-1, and it is not to be acknowledged directly in either of the three above mentioned files. Acknowledgement of [NOMENCLATURE HAZARD REDACTED] constitutes in itself a containment breach, and any study of its related sub-anomalies must be restricted to prevent the formation of theories that may lead to deductions about [NOMENCLATURE HAZARD REDACTED]'s true nature.

Description: [DATA EXPUNGED BY O5-1]

» login o5-3 -p "a thOu5& tre;;a$ures h1dd3n in thE dARK, dying dying dying dying dYING in l1ghT"

Welcome, O5-3.

» sudo scp 001.ftml

Please choose the file adequate to your clearance below.


CODE NAME: Sophia Lockhart - Normalcy, Broken

CODE NAME: Gareth Morgan - God's (Not) Dead

CODE NAME: Michael Chaser - Resurrection


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28/01/2018

SCP-yyyy-2: I know you have heard his words, Fundación. My duty is to protect the seas. To preserve nature, and its wonders. And you, humans, are destroying this world. Your filth fills the sea that was once blue, smoke blackens the sky, you die every day without realizing it. And yet, this is not your worst sin. Hundreds of years ago, I tried to punish your ungratefulness, your disrespect for the sea and for the sky, but I was weak. He stopped me, saved you, and told me mankind had learned their lesson. He told me to rest.

I slept. In my slumber, I saw it— something vast and powerful, something too large for a single mind to understand. It was the strength of those who are fit to survive and thrive, the strength of the flesh, those who keep on fighting when the weak are culled. But it was empty, and hollow. There was no mind there, just silence, broken only by the quiet tingling of chains of steel and clockwork binding the creature. A mindless god, powerful and unexplainable, and yet so pitiful.

And then I heard the voice. It was the voice of someone who withstood a terrible force, someone with a strong enough will to bind a god to its whims. An unforgettable voice. "I know why you are here," he told me. "You are here because you can impose your will upon the world. Your mind is strong, and your convictions stronger."

"I was once like that, too. And like you, I found this god of flesh, ready to offer its power to anyone strong-willed enough to take it. I wanted to free my people, to protect them from those who saw us as mere cattle. And I wielded this power against them, and fled with my people. And yet, some of my followers were just as brutal, just as bloodthirsty as our oppresors. Was this strength, or was it weakness? I could not answer."

"I came here again, to understand. And I thought I understood. Humankind is flawed, weak; their will to be better, to improve themselves is insufficient to stop the corruption in their minds. What a simplistic, bleak conclusion! So obviously wrong in retrospective."

"If I was right, I could cull the weak-minded; let those who are not mediocre spirits become stronger, and create a world where we could all be equal. To be as gods. I allowed myself to have hope, to believe we could improve ourselves. And then I saw it. Can you see it? Can you sense the pressure?"

And then I felt it. It was everywhere. Unthinkable madness, the edges of a terrible idea attempting to enter our world. The whole world, dyed in colourless green. The enemy, descending. "There is nothing to do," the voice continued. "It is in the bottom of our minds already, inextricably tied to humankind, the world dying in fives all around them and they are so used to it they don't even realize it."

But my will is stronger. I will save this world; you won't be able to stop me. This is the only way.

Some ideas for a 001 proposal that might never be completed?

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THIS ARTICLE AND THE ANOMALY DESCRIBED WITHIN ARE PROTECTED WITH A FAE-CLASS SUGGESTIBILITY MEMETIC AGENT. THIS AGENT MAY CAUSE IRREPARABLE DAMAGE TO ALL COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN ALL NON-INNOCULATED PERSONNEL WITH MEMETIC RESISTANCE INDEX OF 18 OR BIGGER.

This article describes a Qliphoth-class narrative anomaly whose stability must be kept at all costs. If you keep reading the current documentation without the appropiate innoculation, memetic agents embedded in the text will enforce the belief that this is the true and accepted iteration of SCP-001 (which may or may not be the case) and accept the narreme system induced by the document below as a set of factual events in the current reality. If you are unable to accept the text below as factual documentation, the Fae-class memetic agents are likely to cause irreparable damage to all cognitive processes involved in skepticism and critical thought; this has been deemed acceptable to negate disbelief in the SCP-001 narrative. If you haven't been properly inoculated, stop reading this documentation now.


Item #: SCP-001

Object Class: Qliphoth54

Special Containment Procedures: No interaction with upper narrative layers (in particular, SCP-001-Cygnus) is to be attempted without approval of personnel with Level 5/UNAMUNO PROTOCOL clearance. Any pataphysical anomalies which may assist in keeping the stability of the constructed SCP-001 narrative are to be temporarily reclassified as Thaumiel and used for this purpose, while anomalies that may disrupt this narrative are to be reclassified as Keter and their influence on the pataphysical consistency of the current narrative is to be diminished as much as possible by any means necessary, up to and including neutralization if needed and possible.

The main narrative SCP-001-Aleph has settled on is to be mantained for as long as possible, as it is used as the main anchor point for the general SCP-001 narrative. For this purpose, a separate archive is to exist in the main Foundation database under the designation SCP-682, describing it in terms compatible with this narrative (extremely dangerous, hostile, Keter-class entity slated for immediate termination, having regenerative and adaptative capabilities which have hindered the latter purpose, with reptilian features) while emphasizing the importance of Foundation-instated containment procedures to keep SCP-001-Aleph under control. For this purpose, a partially fabricated termination log is to be appended to the SCP-682 log to emphasize the known adaptative characteristics of SCP-001-Aleph, suggesting (albeit not indicating explicitly) its pataphysical invariance. All actual termination proposals offered by researchers with Level 4/682 clearance and under are to be rejected, unless it can be ensured that they are unable to induce changes in SCP-001-Aleph's narrative; it is known that, due to its pataphysical invariance, SCP-001-Aleph cannot be terminated by any object or entity in the current narrative space, including upper narrative layers.

A dedicated team is to construct narratives containing SCP-001-Apakht and create several redundant copies hosted in extranarrative spaces isolated from this reality's narrative space, then retrieving and copying them back into the current narrative space after their destruction by SCP-001-Apakht. Since the current narrative model suggests that the narrative deconstruction induced by SCP-001-Apakht is sequential in nature, this is believed to slow down the effects of SCP-001-Apakht in our reality, by continuously introducing new narratives susceptible to SCP-001-Apakht's effects into the current narrative space. The construction of these narratives is to be performed until completion of the UNAMUNO PROTOCOL.

Description: INTERNAL SERVER ERROR: Connection to server hosting SCP-001 file lost. Abort, Retry, Ignore?