SCP-985-KO - SCP International

SCP-985-KO

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SCP-985-KO: Where we go when we sleep(Title Contest 2 entry)
Author: Dr Sagan
Title Provider: c_bonefish
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Sweet dreams.

A good song to listen together.

Where we slept, where we sleep.

Item #: SCP-985-KO

Object Class: Declassified¹

Special Containment Procedures: Refer to revision.

Description: SCP-985-KO refers to a phenomenon in which human sleep time gradually increases.

The amount of sleep required varies from person to person, but individuals afflicted with SCP-985-KO will sleep longer in proportion to the amount of time that has elapsed since the time they were initially affected. Additionally, all cases of forcibly attempting to maintain an individual's original sleep pattern have resulted in poor health due to the lack of sleep and were not the eventual solution.

As a result of the effects of SCP-985-KO, all afflicted persons who have slept for more than 24 hours per day have not awakened as of the time of writing (37 days have elapsed), and is expected to continue in the future. However, the standard sleep vital signs, such as heart rate and respiration remain, with a clear distinction between death.

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«Begin Log»

(Click.)
(Rustling noises.)

(Silence.)

"If you're listening to this recording, you're either of them."

"You are either not asleep, or have woken up. But neither the former nor the latter seems very likely."

"If you haven't fallen asleep yet, this recording will be at least a calm last lullaby. If you've woken up, then congratulations. There may still be a little bit human luck left. I don't know what kind of world you are going to live in, but this brief recording may help you to reflect on what has happened in the past."

(Silence.)

"I am Dr. Kim Se-rin, a researcher based at Site-21K"

"I was in charge of the research of the well-known SCP-985-KO, and now the last remaining member of the research team."

"The reason why I turned on this recording is because I want to talk about SCP-985-KO."

"There's no point in repeating stories that you've already been told, but humans want to leave traces. And, maybe you will find something in this story."

(Audible sigh, silence.)

"It was somewhere around 2030 that we first learned of the existence of SCP-985-KO. Reports of a new type of sleep disorder were circulating around the world. All new diseases or phenomena were subject to procedural investigation because the cause was likely to be an anomaly. I felt something unpleasant about the report, but I thought it wouldn't be a big deal."

"The content was like this. People fall asleep longer and longer. Then they don't wake up."

"The first case occurred at a general hospital in Seoul, South Korea; the patient showed signs of life could not regain consciousness. It was a person who visited the hospital a few weeks ago with suspected narcolepsy."

"In fact, something similar had happened before that. In one village, people fell asleep one by one for an unknown reason and hadn't woken up for days, and it turned out that carbon monoxide from a nearby mine was the cause."

"But after a little digging, the situation was serious."

"The doctors and nurses who were in charge of the patient's care began to show similar symptoms."

"That's why SCP-985-KO is called the 'drowsiness disease'. It moves from person to person, although we still don't know what it is or what's going through it."

"Anyway, by the time the Foundation started intervening, it was too late."

"People fell down at home, at work, on the streets, too many people slept too long. Little by little, they slept longer and longer until finally… they didn't wake up."

"It went all over the world - Korea, Japan, America, France, Germany, Italy - and we couldn't stop it, because we didn't know what was causing it, and it quickly became an issue. Various false information appeared and scammers who claim to be selling the cure; that it was a newly emerging infectious disease, caused by climate change, or some kind of divine curse, and that we can be saved by taking this medicine."

"Salvation… how good would it have been true if it was true."

"The Foundation experienced a crisis; researchers began to be affected with SCP-985-KO, so research and action had to be taken quickly."

"We first searched through the brain, then the body, and everything imaginable, trying to find something we didn't know what it was, to find a clue to even the slightest anomaly."

"There was nothing. Nothing at all."

(Silence.)

"Is this really… a curse?"

(Silence.)

"Research team members were also - although they do not like this term very much - we're 'infected' with SCP-985-KO, so the research slowed down more and more. We created a small bracelet. It was a device that calculated the sleep time and pattern of the day and showed it numerically. The closer the number displayed was to 24, the less I felt that there were not many days left."

"Everyone I saw struggled to not fall asleep. I was affected relatively later, so I had to watch each and every one of them slowly become powerless."

"Including my daughter."

"When my daughter's bracelet pointed to 24, I went on a vacation and spent the whole day with her during a busy day. I worked two jobs, so I usually felt bad, but I could finally do everything I had ever wanted to do with her."

(Silence.)

"My daughter began to fall asleep. SCP-985-KO is almost impossible to resist. It can be described as someone fainting."

"I pulled the blanket over her and sang a lullaby to her as I did every night. I took off her wrist bracelet, placed it next to me, and said good night. It was supposed to be the last time, but I made an effort to pretend like it was not. As I was slowly leaving the room, the child, eyes closed, called me back."

"Good night. See you tomorrow."

"And then fell asleep."

(Silence.)

"For the past week, I've been working late into the night. At morning, there was no sound on the site, which was quiet and less crowded. At that time, my bracelet was pointing to 19, but I couldn't sleep. I sat at my desk, unable to complete any work."

"After some time"

"The office door opened, and Dr. Park Se-hee came in, another researcher responsible SCP-985-KO's research, a woman who had always been full of energy, but was now seemingly tired. She stumbled over, fell, hung on, and said to me,"

"That she tried. It was so hard. I'm so sorry."

"Tears welled up in her eyes as she told the story. The bracelet on her wrist pointed to 23. Seeing her slender, trembling body, I realized how much she had overworked herself."

"How scared she must have been."

"I hugged her, and I told her that it was okay, that she'd worked hard, that she'd had a hard time, that she could rest now, that everything would be okay once she wakes up."

"Dr. Park Se-hee smiled faintly at this. When I called her again, she had already fallen asleep."

"The Foundation doesn't have a way of putting personnel in separate beds, instead just making room for them to sleep in, like everyone else, believing that one day they'll eventually wake up."

"I moved Dr. Park Se-hee to her room and covered her with a blanket. Someday I'll close my eyes with them, thinking."

(Silence.)

"It's a beautiful sunset out there."

"Ever since I was young, I have loved sunsets. I think it was probably after reading the book The Little Prince. There is a scene where the Little Prince pulls a chair from a small star and watches the sunset over and over again. I tried to imitate it, so I pulled out a small chair and wandered around the town aimlessly. But I ended up getting lost."

"The sunset symbolizes the end of the day, but in a way it is the sun that will come again tomorrow."

"So far, little is known about SCP-985-KO. But I'm trying to put hope on it."

"Even if it's a false hope, it's the freedom of the rest to dream."

"What I want is for all of us to wake up in the morning sun."

"I don't know when,"

"But I believe it won't be an eternal goodbye."

"Because I believe it's a promise to meet again."

"With that kind of faith, we live."

"I've been talking for a long time and I'm tired. Maybe it was a bit too much. "

"In my dreams, I hope to see my daughter."

"Thank you for listening. Sweet dreams."

(Click.)

«End Log»