SCP-787-JP

Site-8194, Dr. Sunazawa

Item #: SCP-787-JP

Object Class: None

Special Containment Procedures: Containment of SCP-787-JP is to be primarily focused on bringing SCP-787-JP to the Foundation's attention for its discovery and subsequent control of SCP-787-JP-1. Since SCP-787-JP has not yet been discovered by the Foundation, the establishment of its Object Class is pending.

SCP-787-JP-1 instances are to continue their efforts to be discovered by the Foundation web crawlers expected to be currently operational through their activities on the Internet. They are to constantly search for anomalies reported on the Internet and, if appropriate, take advantage of the reports to bring themselves to the attention of the web crawlers; any events deemed significant should be recorded in this directory. Through the informational entity editing tools of MTF ω-0, SCP-787-JP-1 instances are currently forced to perform this action and is continuing to fulfill their task despite being under the mental influence of SCP-787-JP.

Revising the Description section and Containment Procedures is no longer possible request¹.

Description: SCP-787-JP is a room in the 3rd sub-level floor of Research Site-8194 after 2013/██/██, which contains 26 Foundation-standard computers inside. These computers are updated on an irregular basis to what appears to be the latest universal specification within the Foundation. Electrical systems seem to be maintained at all times. From inside the SCP-787-JP, information can be exchanged with the outside world only through the Internet connection without any special encryption²; information via any other communication is subject to anti-memetic cognitive inhibition. This fact was revealed through interactions with Mobile Task Force Omega-Zero ("Ará Orún").

Humans inside SCP-787-JP are collectively designated as SCP-787-JP-1³. SCP-787-JP-1 instances have lost all physiological needs and are unable to escape outside SCP-787-JP. Such attempts are hampered by unbearable mental confusion⁴ and unconscious movement away from the exit.

SCP-787-JP-1's access privilege to the Foundation network is limited to SCP-787-JP-a. SCP-787-JP-a is SCP-787-JP entry in the Foundation database, which is where this document exists. Since, as noted above, communications not made through the public Internet are affected by cognitive inhibition, SCP-787-JP-a has not received any intervention from the Foundation. In other words, SCP-787-JP has not yet been discovered by the Foundation.

Therefore, this entry⁵ has currently been edited exclusively by SCP-787-JP-1 instances.

SCP-787-JP-1 instances have gained a unique ability to manipulate electronic information directly without using any equipment⁶. This means that the SCP-787-JP-1 can use a computer simply by standing in front of it, without the need for a keyboard, mouse or other input device, and also can create new electronic data, such as images and sounds, with very high accuracy. Regarding this capability, Omega-0 presented the hypothesis that SCP-787-JP-1 has aspects as electronic informational entity.

Each time SCP-787-JP-1 uses the Internet connection on the computer inside SCP-787-JP, its body is observed to gradually fade and disappear⁷. During the fading process, SCP-787-JP-1 does not bleed or lose its vital functions or mobility despite the absence of its brain⁸, sensory organs⁹ or limbs¹⁰. After SCP-787-JP-1 has used an internet connection for about 300 seconds continuously, the fading process ceases as SCP-787-JP-1 becomes an entity with only the lower end of the skull, spine, spinal cord and pelvis¹¹ remaining.

If SCP-787-JP-1 instances continue to use the Internet, they rapidly lose memories about their current circumstances and begin to focus on communicating with other individuals on the Internet. In doing so, SCP-787-JP-1 instances mimic fictional individuals whose backgrounds are partially different from their own¹², or individuals who have already deceased¹³, and attempt to interact with online communities¹⁴ that require some type of user account. After the fading process has ceased, SCP-787-JP-1 uses their ability to manipulate electronic information to produce necessary photos, voices and memetic images which generate false memories for viewers, while posting contents based on very different personalities and styles from their original persona, in order to recreate¹⁵ almost completely fictional/deceased individuals in each communities. This mental influence has had greatly hampered SCP-787-JP-1's efforts to contain themselves¹⁶.

Addendum-1:

Play

[Noise]

Testing. Testing a microphone. …Good.

I don't have much time left so I can't add an addendum to this report in a well-formatted style. I'm providing this audio message to the Foundation personnel who may discover this entry. If I attempted to tell you through the text, there would be extraneous stuff mixed in.

My name is Arihiko Karatani. I've been working at Site-8194 for… 7 years, maybe… Yes, I've already lost some of my memory, but I'm still doing better than others… I was one of the lead researchers of former SCP-787-JP, studying the anomalies on the Internet. First of all, let me explain how SCP-787-JP was discovered.

The anomaly formerly represented by item number SCP-787-JP was discovered when ANTIBEN detected several accounts that were suspected to be victims of SCP-1715. The posts ANTIBEN detects are submitted by apparent dead people. Based on our previous experience, it would have been impossible for SCP-1715-2 instances to publicly post their audio and selfies, much less actually meet with friends in the community.

But, while SCP-787-JP instances were clearly dead, their friends in the community were talking to them on voice calls and showing their selfies to each other. In fact, some even started claiming to have actually met SCP-787-JP instances multiple times — and yet they were definitely dead, and we couldn't find them alive, no matter how much we looked for them.

Then ANTIBEN detected countless such posts. Sometimes there were people who shouldn't exist at all, but were very much alive and participating in the community. As already mentioned, we couldn't find them in the real world, so the communication experiments were repeated.

[Sigh]

After a few attempts, they called us malicious users like they always do, and then said, "We just want to be here, just like you".

It happened while we were working on an addendum to the report for SCP-787-JP entry in the office. Everything around us suddenly felt grim, quiet, and dim without changing its appearance at all. This is the best I can explain in language.

Our research team was twenty people, and now everyone but me is the spines. I wouldn't need to elaborate about the process. I've left visual recordings in the entry so you can freely watch endless footage of the spines keeping motionless in front of the monitors.

I mean, there is really nothing in this room but computers, and we soon found out that the terminals became pieces of shit and the Foundation can't save us. We tried to do something through the Internet and one after another became something else. Those who became something never moved from in front of the computers again. We just observed how the spines were pretending to be fictional people and active in the online communities. Some of us, out of desperation, chose to access the Internet and continue to do so as the spines.
　
MTF Omega-Zero sent a message when we, the non-spine, reached our current headcount. They identified themselves as martyred Foundation personnel manifesting on the database and said they are the only Foundation unit that was able to detect this situation and are experts in combatting informational entities…

[Laughter]

…Yeah, let's not. I have no time for this.

We believed what Omega-Zero said. Of course, we had never heard of such a mobile task force, let alone their identification code. We accepted the information that there are no mortals who can recognize communications from Omega-Zero and therefore we are probably not physical human beings anymore. We had no choice but to believe. We believed everything, including the fact that all the information about Site-8194 has been erased from the Foundation database and no one is aware of it due to some antimemetic cover-up.

They said they have the means to "write" commands into us. That was all we needed.

[Sound of a chair being moved back]

The spines are pervasive on the Internet… and there are a tremendous number of them. Numerous non-existent and dead people are recreated all over the Internet by the spines in this way, and the users believe there are humans on the other side of the monitor. If you step in unwisely, you will end up being a spine just like us.

However, these spines have personalities, and Omega-Zero informed us of the existence of the Counterconceptual and Antimemetic Divisions. Some memetic agents would be effective against them, and the bots our engineers have developed have certainly been able to identify them.

From now on, we will be caught between the mental influence of SCP-787-JP and the memetic commands of Omega-Zero, continuing our appeal to the Foundation web crawlers incessantly. We probably can't afford to keep our personalities as individuals. Omega-Zero seems to have given some warning to the Antimemetic Division, but it will be almost impossible to get here without going through the Internet, so we will lead them to this document.
　
We'll leave it to you, the counterconceptual and antimemetic specialists, whose very existence is ambiguous, to take care of everything after that.

Researcher Karatani

Addendum-2: On 2016/04/18, during SCP-787-JP-1 instances were performing their tasks in accordance with current containment procedures, some of their social networking accounts received a series of personal messages from several specific accounts. Based on investigations of the account information by SCP-787-JP-1, as well as comparison with the database stored within SCP-787-JP, it was presumed that these accounts belonged to SCP-1715¹⁷. SCP-1715 did not respond to subsequent communication requests by SCP-787-JP-1.

Messages received from SCP-1715 uniformly celebrated birthdays and were in the language of each account's native language.

Happy Birthday to You! :)¹⁸

Footnotes

1. We are all together, right?

2. As you know quite well, this is the Internet.

3. They are the spines. I mean, anything else is unnecessary.

4. You've seen enough of that to be disgusted by it. We don't need it. That world is definitely not for us, and you can't go there anymore. And if you were to reach there, what could you get?

5. Of course we are here as well.

6. Because we're there. Because we're here. We don't need anything, we're just there.

7. We don't care what you guys are

8. thinking,

9. feeling,

10. or doing.

11. We just want you to be there.

12. Me

13. Me

14. You know we're there, right?

15. No, we're here. Just connect your line.

16. We continue to exist, we talk, we are recognized, we are here, we are the spines.

17. We learned from him. He agreed that there are too many unnecessary things anyway, and taught us how to solve them. But his way was old-fashioned, and we wanted to be closer to the others. We're there. You're there. You're just here, talking with us.

18. Happy Birthday. Welcome to our Internet!