♒♒ Cognitohazard, Notification ♒♒
The following file, has anomalous, cognitohazards, affecting its text. As such we have to, ensure personnel, viewing this file have, enough CRV, the threshold being, fourteen and a half. If the CRV, test reports that your, CRV does not, meet required levels, you should remain calm, and avoid moving. Medical experts, have just been dispatched, to your location.
Please repeat the phrase, to the microphone, slowly and clearly:
Three one twenty-five
[✔] Verification, successfully done. User CRV, confirmed as within, acceptable range.
Item Numbering: SCP-CN-, 00122
Classification: Item is Euclid
Special Containment, Procedures are thus: SCP-CN-, 122-1, is contained within, an Euclid chamber, located at Site-, CN-51. Personnel without, Level 3 clearance, cannot access it. A Mobile Task Force, 甲寅-02, ("The Fifth Collectors"), has been assigned to, erasing online, manifestations, tracing origins, before doing so. Infected subjects, must at the least be, amnesticized with, Class C amnestics; infected contents, are to be archived, and originals, incinerated. New information, is to be given, to the project lead, Dr. Yuan Mengyao.
Object Description: The object is an, anomalous meme, with no way to be, normally described. Attempts to describe, the object always, result in phrases, of five syllables. It is infectious; infected content, has the same effect. Humans who see it, become infected; victims describing, this state are also, likewise infectious. Describing other, things or orally, communicating, or using hand signs, are unaffected,This affects every, tongue similarly.
In experiments, infected report: when writing content, the changes in form, are unconscious and, if resisted cause, inability, to write anything. It is suspected, it is compulsive, and subconsciously, affects the subject.
Affected content, when stored alongside, ordinary text, begins infection. This can take these forms: Digital storage, printed and written.
Of note is that when, infecting new text, there may be changes, to fit things in fives. Handwritten content, when infected will, be identical, in handwriting to, the original. In a few cases, meeting classical, poetry it will, make each line have five, syllables without, changing the meaning, or breaking the rhymes. It is suspected, that the object has, some kind of sapience, understanding art, culture and other, relevant topics.
Object discovered, September the tenth, 2015. Strange short sentences, surfaced on the net. Agents took notice, and reported it, with affected speech. They were treated with, Class C amnestics, and returned back to, normal speech patterns. The Mobile Task Force,"The Fifth Collectors", were then established, to quickly erase, infected content, search for infected, and track the source of, the anomaly, but with no results.
SCP-CN-, 122-1, is an infected, SCP-14, 25 instance. [DATA RELATING, TO OPERATION, STARGAZER EXPUNGED] it was then obtained, it was observed that, its contents were split, as five syllables, per phrase with no more, abnormal effects; to prevent attempts, at restoration, contents were not saved. Plans to destroy it, are under debate.
Experiment Log, CN-122
Test Serial Number CN-122-, 00003
Test Person-in-Charge: Dr. Yuan Mengyao, Zone 3 Project Head
Date and Time of Test: October 20, 2015
Subject of the Test: Paper with object, written down on it, to be specific, an infectious part, excerpted from it. One Class D called D-, 49952, 33 years old, of the male gender. All staff equipped with, counter-memetic, vaccine (effective, temporarily).
Objective of Test: Determine effects, of the object and, how to avoid them.
Procedure of Test: 49952, is brought inside room, Dr. Yuan Mengyao, directs the subject, talking to him to, get information. Visual recording, was taken and parts, erased where needed.
Visual Recording, CN-122
Total Content Length: 3m51s
Interviewer Name: Dr. Yuan Mengyao
Test Subject Involved: One D-Class called D-, 49952
[Video Playing ▼]
00:00:00 The camera is facing towards a room; a table is in the center of the room with an envelope placed on it. At the left of the room is a door, and on the side of the table near the door is a chair.
00:00:03 The door opens. A male subject enters the room; the door is then closed from the outside.
Female voice D-49952, please sit down.
00:00:08 The subject looks in the direction of the camera, then sits in the chair.
Female voice Do you see the envelope on the table? Open it.
00:00:13 The subject opens the envelope and takes a few pieces of paper out of it.
Male voice (Pause) What is this?
Female voice Please read out what is written on the paper.
00:00:18 The subject takes one of the sheets of paper, raises his eyebrow, and reads its contents out.
Male voice Uh… "What is happening? Why is everything, I say coming out, in these groups of five?"… Is this some sort of… strange word game?
Female voice Not really. How do you think these words should be written in normal speech?
Male voice Um… (pause) "What's happening? Why is everything I say in groups of five?" Or something like that.
Female voice I have prepared paper and pen for you. Please try writing what you think is correct down.
Male voice What's the point of this?
00:00:58 The subject takes a pen from the envelope and attempts to write on another piece of paper, but quickly stops.
Male voice (Confused) Huh? Why is it…
Female voice What's happened?
00:01:04 The subject displays confusion and attempts to start writing again, but quickly stops.
Male voice (Confused) What's going on? Why can't I write?
Female voice Could you describe what you are experiencing?
Male voice (Confused) The words… I can't write them normally, what comes out is… like the one just now? Like—
00:01:24 The subject brings up the paper and shows it to the camera. At this point, the screen suddenly becomes black, but audio is unaffected.
Female voice Stop! D-49952, drop the paper now!
00:01:29 Screen reverts to normal. The subject is still sitting in the chair, displaying visible confusion and unease.
Female voice You don't have to show us, you just need to read out what you wrote.
Male voice Umm… okay, I don't know what happened, I could only write it like that: "What's happening here? Everything I write, is in groups of five?"
Female voice The contents can change… alright, let's try something else. (Pauses) What do you think the weather is like today?
Male voice Um… does this relate to the test?
Female voice No, it's just a simple question. Answer however you want.
Male voice Alright… To be honest, I don't know. It's been forever since I've seen the outside world.
Female voice Alright, now write what you just said on the paper.
Male voice Alright…
00:02:10 The subject raises the pen and once again begins writing on the paper. After a while, he raises his head and speaks.
Male voice This time it's fine, it didn't change… What was that just now? (Shocked) Wait, no, what? What's this?
00:02:35 The subject looks back at the paper and a shocked expression appears on his face.
Female voice What happened?
Male voice (Shocked) The thing I wrote… it just changed! Right before my eyes!
Female voice Changed? What changed?
Male voice Um… the thing I just wrote, it changed into something else! "Alright… Honestly, I don't know at all. It's been forever, since I've seen outside." What's going on?
Female voice Calm down, D-49952, this is normal. Can you try fixing those two lines you wrote?
Male voice This is "normal"? (Sighs) Alright, I'll try.
00:03:10 The subject once again begins writing, pauses for a while, and speaks.
Male voice … Alright, looks like there are no problems, it doesn't appear to be changing.
Female voice How did you fix it?
Male voice I crossed out some parts, then added in the right words. (Pauses) Hm, looks like it really worked.
Female voice Alright, let's end it here.
[Video Ended▲]
Content written by, the test subject has, been placed in storage. Analysis shows, transcribed speech also, can be infected, and change in format. 49952, amnesticized with, Class C amnestics, and shows no lasting, anomalies and, has been reassigned.
Conclusion of Test: Test has proven that, fixing written text, apparently works.
Object Addendum:
Personally I, think the object is, not significant, in terms of threat posed; it has been contained, and not transmitted, for quite a long time. As such I suggest: revise Object Class, downgrade it to Safe.
— Suggestion raised by, Mr. Wislarm Touwn, Senior Researcher
I cannot approve, as this object is, deeply linked to the, "Fifth Church" GoI, and has been used by, other GoIs. For safety reasons, I cannot downgrade, its Object Class now.
— Dr. Yuan Mengyao, Site Vice-Director
