Item #: SCP-4785
Object Class: Memetic
Containment Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Unfortunately, SCP-4785 is not able to be contained. However, SCP-4785 seems to be limited to Site-31. I will take any action necessary to keep it there.
Some notes:
Description: SCP-4785 is the phenomenon that has affected all personnel at Site-31. For reasons unknown, the only person unaffected by SCP-4785 is me.
SCP-4785 causes slurred speech, slowing of thought, loss of memory, loss of intelligence, loss of personality, and other potential symptoms that I do not know of yet. This phenomena appears to be centered around Break Room 3, as they become uneasy when I bring it up, and defend it with some level of hostility.
Addendum 01: My name is Researcher Jacob R. Dylan. I've been working with the Foundation for eight years, and I've been stationed at Site-31 for two. My clearance level is 2/3662.
I first noticed something was up when I arrived at work and everybody was moving around like the life was drained out of them. It's an office environment, but this was a new level of foot-dragging. Whenever I tried to talk to somebody, they either just shrugged it off or grunted in response.
Later that day, I went to the break room to get some coffee. Dr. Jameston tells me that I can't go into the break room. I ask him why. He just stares me down. When I try to get past him, he pulls a knife, so I defuse the situation, telling him that I'll go to Break Room 2. He puts down the knife, and I walk away.
Now they've done a site lockdown out of nowhere. Nothing's going in, nothing's going out, not even information. The cognitohazard locks are on as well.
I'm gonna try to investigate whatever's happening here. I opened up this file to store whatever I find out in this, and I've locked it under "potential memetic contagion" so I should be the only one who can get in. Unless Director George or RAISA decides to audit the file, I should be safe.
I have a tape recorder that I brought to do interviews with the people who got stuck inside ofSCP-3662 a while back. I'll find it and try to give an example of these people.
Addendum 02: Interview Log
Transcript Generated by TSATPWTCOTTTADC.aic
Researcher Dylan:<Whispering.> Testing, testing… good, looks like it's working. Alright, uh, begin interview log.
<Rustling sound, presumably from audio recorder being placed into Researcher Dylan's coat pocket. Researcher Dylan then approaches another researcher, presumably Dr. Tragall due to corresponding security camera footage.>
Researcher Dylan: Hey there! How's your day going?
Dr. Tragall: My day is proceeding along well. I have contained several SCP objects today.
<It is of note that Dr. Tragall speaks in an unusually monotone voice.>
Researcher Dylan: Great to hear. So, have you noticed anything… different around here, recently? Feels like there's… something in the air, you know?
Dr. Tragall: No.
Researcher Dylan: Hah. Uh, you said you were containing SCPs? What did you do to contain them?
Dr. Tragall: That's classified.
Researcher Dylan: Oh, ok. Anyways, I'm gonna head off to Break Room 3 and enjoy—
Dr. Tragall:<Interrupting.> You cannot enter Break Room 3.
Researcher Dylan: Oh, why not? Isn't it—
Dr. Tragall: It is classified.
<Dr. Tragall speaks with a more agitated tone than before.>
Researcher Dylan: Alright, then. Thanks for talking with me.
Addendum 03: I showed the tape from above to TSAT, the site AIC. He's convinced that there's something going on, and he's going to help me.
There's a way to get into Break Room 3. In Hall C3, there's a broken security camera next to a vent that I could crawl through to the room. I think I might be able to get in there, I'm slim enough.
I don't know why they keep going inside Break Room 3 or why I'm not allowed in, but I intend to find out.
Addendum 04: This goes a lot deeper than I thought.
I crawled through the vent, and the minute I stepped in I felt something wasoff. You know that feeling you get when you see a picture of some abandoned cult house, or watch a movie and feel the creeps even though nothing was happening? It was sort of like that.
Nothing looked out of the ordinary, though. Just the old break room that I remember. Then, I heard a humming coming out of one of the lower cabinets, under one of the tables. Like something was vibrating. I opened it up, and there was a black void in the cabinet. Not a metaphor, just a blackness inside the cabinet, like a curtain.
I stuck my hand in, and it felt chilly, like ice water. So I crawled into the cabinet, straight into the blackness. It was completely dark on the inside, and I was able to stand up. The floor was covered with some kind of slime that smelled like battery acid. I walked until I felt a metal wall on the other side of the room. I walked along the wall, around the room. That place has got to be at least 20 feet by 20 feet. I jumped, but I couldn't reach the ceiling.
Eventually, I found the hole where I came from, and crawled back out of the cabinet. I didn't investigate further; I didn't have a light, and I didn't want to be caught by SCP-4785.
I can't get an MTF to explore the cabinet, so I guess I'll do it myself. They all still sleep in the site dormitories; I can hide in the vent before that happens, and then get into the cabinet. I have a flashlight, and TSAT helped me get ahold of one of the fancy computerized audio recorders, the kind that the MTFs use, so I'll bring that in to make sure I capture everything.
If I don't record in this file again, I died inside of the cabinet. Wish me luck.
Addendum 05: Incursion Logs
Initial Exploration
"Cube" Incursion 1
"Cube" Incursion 2
"Sphere" Incursion
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