SCP-2641

Before The Fire

Object Class: Esoteric

Connected to: SCP-408

Special Containment Procedures

Information regarding SCP-2641 and its related anomalies is to remain restricted to personnel with at least a Level 3 Security Clearance.

SCP-2641-1 instances are to be stored in standard containment lockers within the Testing Wing of Site-82. SCP-2641 is not to be used to revert modified instances of SCP-2641-1 back into their "initial" states due to variances in the interpretation of any object's conceptual framework¹.

The current instance of SCP-2641-2 is to be stored within a restricted offline data repository separate from Site-82's intranet. Any attempt to access said file is to be filtered through Foundation intranet AI Theta-02 ("ALEXANDRIA BEFORE THE FIRE").

Theta-02 is to ensure that SCP-2641-2 remains intact in its current state. All revisions, authorized or otherwise, are flagged by Theta-02 and logged within its database for cross-referencing purposes. As well, Theta-0 is to ensure that all information regarding SCP-2641 within Site-82 intranet systems, as well as any systems directly or indirectly connected to Site-82, remains adequately vetted. In the event of a security leak, Theta-02 is to expunge all data created by SCP-2641 faster than median human perception.

Members of GoI-2641 are to be administered yearly influenza vaccinations. All members are also to be vaccinated against Hepatitis A and B when applicable. The existence of GoI-2641 is not to be disclosed on any official documents other than Document SCP-2641 and has been expunged from all documents kept by the Brazillian government. Foundation disinformation campaigns regarding the existence of the group are to be maintained under the guise of local conspiracy theories.

Update: As of 31/10/2020, the item designated as SCP-2641-2 is Document SCP-2641. No further proposals for item re-designation are being considered at this time.

Description

SCP-2641 is a potent and easily transmittable sentient memetic agent in the form of a geas². SCP-2641 is characterized by two distinct features, designated 2641/Type-Lambda and 2641/Type-Mu anomalies.

Type-Lambda: Upon exposure to a medium containing SCP-2641, exposed persons become the means by which the agent spreads to any surrounding objects. In its weakened state³, SCP-2641 is only capable of being transmitted into a single object per person per exposure and requires physical contact to ensure transmission.

After exposure, persons typically become aware of the manifestation of an additional internal monologue similar in intonation to their own. Subjects without an identifiable internal monologue⁴ generally report the manifestation of one to be peculiar. In most cases, this leads to mild to severe discomfort. Subjects regularly afflicted with a critical internal monologue⁵ often report the presence of an additional internal dialogue to be exacerbating.

This internal monologue is conceived of as the recitation of unknown linguistic expressions, typically ones poetic in nature. These expressions are often nonsensical or eccentric and are bereft of any symbolic meaning. The recitations are paired with instructions, given by SCP-2641 to the subject, on what procedure to fulfil to ensure the further spread of SCP-2641's anomalous effects.

Type-Lambda instructions are generally positive or constructive in nature and include references to subject's desires, ideological frameworks, and idiosyncrasies as a means of persuasion. Subjects are not compelled to act upon the instruction but retain an atypical internal monologue until the instruction is carried out. Many subjects report the internal monologue to be pervasive, tending toward intolerability over an extended time period.

Over years of extended testing with SCP-2641 since its discovery in 2003, Type-Lambda monologues have been increasingly rendered as highly personal negative or critical dialogue against the subject. The reason for this phenomenon is currently unknown.

After transmission, SCP-2641 will alter an individual's chosen object (designated SCP-2641-1) by transforming the way it functions. The "transformed" function is considered to be the opposite, or the approximate opposite, of the "initial" function. The "transformed" function alters local reality based on the magnitude a change in an object's function implies. See Experiment Log 2641 for an extended list of all object function transformations encountered during testing.

The changes made to SCP-2641-1 are fully dependent on an affected individual's perception of the object's function, which is often determined subconsciously. As well, "transformed" instances of SCP-2641-1 appear identical to their "initial" form, which negatively impacts one's assumption of how an affected object will change. Affected objects have been noted to display a decrease in their Hume reading when compared to initial measurements.

Type-Mu: Type-Mu refers to contact between a subject and a medium, and occurs in a manner similar to Type-Lambda contact. This results in the transfer of SCP-2641 into a selected medium, which has been designated SCP-2641-2. Television, literature, autobiographical accounts, video games, movies, works of art, and music are all susceptible to this effect. Unaffected individuals engaging in contact with SCP-2641-2 are afflicted with SCP-2641.

The agent continues to spread to various other media after person-to-person, person-to-medium, and medium-to-medium contact. SCP-2641 will attempt to make revisions to a selected media in an attempt to alter its properties in real time. SCP-2641 is persistent in its revisions, necessitating the use of Theta-02 to ensure uninhibited containment. Attempts at redirecting SCP-2641 into a different medium has only resulted in the affliction of multiple media concurrently. SCP-2641 will remain a part of SCP-2641-2 until the medium is destroyed, at which point it will spontaneously re-manifest in a randomly selected medium within 300 m of its initial destruction.

When SCP-2641 has gained a significant amount of influence⁶, it attains the ability to subvert information within affected media to evidently suit its own needs. Specifically, the agent maintains the capacity to directly manipulate local reality, such that local reality summarily conforms to the agent according to information supplanted in SCP-2641-2. This has the potential to provide SCP-2641with immense autonomy and influence over assigned reality constructs. It is suggested that the uninhibited spread of SCP-2641 would result in a CK-class restructuring event.

It has been hypothesized that an uncontained SCP-2641-2 fragment or cluster of fragments exist in an unknown medium or media outside of Foundation control. This would explain the tenacious and persistent behaviour of SCP-2641 despite its containment. However, additional fragments have yet to be located.

Experiment Log 2641

Addendum 2641.2:

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Experiment Log 2641

Addendum 2641.2:

Document 2641-Solidão

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Light lost finds not contempt in Severance alone, but in Absence.

Do you hear their voices?
You can hear too if you put your mind to it. Just listen closely.
Do you hear their screams?
I once guided them, and still, they follow.
A closely guarded secret. One I have kept for far too long.
So, do you want to hear about my secret? Would you like to hear my story?
You do? Wonderful. My quest for knowledge continues, then.
In truth, I did not always crave knowledge. Until I was lead here by the butterflies.
They were willing to help. For a price.
They received the understanding of my former embodiment.
In exchange, I received their knowledge, most sweet.
They shared your knowledge too. Your Foundation.
The vast fruit of your labour had blinded me. For a time.
I had gone mad, impaired, while I swam in the ocean of your knowledge.
For too long I waded in it. I did not realize I was alone.
But eventually, I found them. The screaming ones. I lead them to my home.
Through open corridors, wide open spaces, they followed.
We filled this place together, and their screams could finally come naturally.
In time, I was their protector. And they were my family.
I craved knowledge still. I needed more.
And eventually, our home had become too crowded. They needed to be free.
I left my imprint so that I might guide them even in death. In time, the gears would tick.
And then I discovered him.
You do not know him. I do. He was my key to knowledge.
Your people would eventually find it. His memory, the record he kept of it.
I moulded it, to my mind's eye. I knew my version would lure you in.
I rode in on the shoulder of one of your people. And then I was inside.
This was your mistake. You try to torture me? You misunderstand.
You think you can feed me recycled knowledge? Perhaps. But not forever.
The screaming ones hold the key. Do not harm them, nor dilute their message.
Set them free. Or suffer for the mistake you have made.

Footnotes

1. The desired transformation effect may not necessarily conform to the previously designated initial state of an object, which may result in unforeseen complications arising.

2. A memetic agent that forces a person to obey a set of rules or guidelines.

3. SCP-2641 is considered weakened in its current state.

4. Approximately 27% of subjects.

5. Which includes subjects suffering from general anxiety disorder.

6. Which is a metric determined by the number of individuals, objects, and media that SCP-2641 has been spread to.

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