Due to the immobility of SCP-CN-2153 and its unique geographical location, Area-CN-22 is currently the only Foundation facility with access to the object. The entrance to the object is under construction at present and will be used as Sector-λ, an ancillary facility of Area-CN-22, under the jurisdiction of Area-CN-22-β subsite. The object is still unpredictably and potentially risky, the area is therefore only allowed to contain this object.
Due to the loss of communication with all D-class personnel dispatched into the object previously, Specialized Task Force MTF-CN-Mu-09 ("Netherworld Bamboos") has been established to conduct continuous exploration and rescue within SCP-CN-2153 and has already set up a line of defense around the explored area. All members are equipped with two 75-watt special lighting devices, one portable Scranton Reality Anchor, two miniature waterproof heartbeat monitors, two radios, and two waterproof locators.
Due to the anomolous properties of SCP-CN-2153, members of MTF-CN-Mu-9 are to undergo a weekly memory assessment, in which members with a rate lower than B+ will be replaced. All team members are to recite the names of all team members other than themselves before each exploration of the object, at least two researchers are to verify whether they are incorrect. If any member of the team makes an recitation error, the exploration is to be suspended and postponed immediately. If more than one-third of the team members experience severe memory degradation during the exploration, the mission is to be suspended immediately, and members are to be sent to Area-CN-22-β medical wing for treatment.
▷ Special Containment Procedures-6/7/22 (Current):
Due to the neutralization of SCP-CN-2153 (See Incidet Log 2M4-D), all explorations or research tasks on the object are cancelled. The entrance of the object will be concreted after the object interior is completely emptied and the investigation into the object's neutralization incident is completed. Ancillary facility Sector-λ is permitted to contain additional objects.
▷ Description:
SCP-CN-2153 was discovered during the excavation of section CQC-03 of the Area-CN-22 underground railway network "Nerve" branch.
SCP-CN-2153 is a three-story Foundation secure facility, marked as "Site-CN-36", though no information related to the facility can be found within Foundation database. The first and third floors are inaccessible for unkown reason, the only entrance to the object found as of now leads straight to the second floor. There is space warping effect inside the second floor and at its entrance.
Due to the anomalous light absorption of the internal walls of SCP-CN-2153, lighting equipment with an electrical power lower than 60-watt will not be able to function properly, and this anomalous effect will gradually become significant with the distance travelled by personnel inside the object. Further exploration of the object is not possible due to personnel load limitations. Individuals will experience gradual memory degradation when staying inside the object and around the entrance for a period of time. The effect will vanish approximately fifteen minutes after exiting the object.
Existing documents inside SCP-CN-2153 are majorly relevant to a Foundation department named "Department of Memorization", and again no information about this department can be found in the Foundation database.
Due to Incident 2M4-A, SCP-CN-2153 has lost all anomalous effects and has therefore been reclassified as Neutralized.
▷ Addendum:Incident Log
SCP-CN-2153 Neutralization Event
On 07/02/2023, a violent explosion occurred inside SCP-CN-2153, generating a fierce orange-red flame. The flame quickly spreaded throughout the object and could not be extinguished, lasting for 84 hours. During this period MTF-CN-Mu-9 attempted to enter SCP-CN-2153, but was forced to cancel due to the fact that the fireproof suits worn by the team members did not significant effect.
MTF-CN-Mu-9 and other squads re-entered SCP-CN-2153 to restore containment after the major flames extinguished spontaneously. According to the investigation carried out by MTF-辛申-14 ("Polarized Light"), the explosion of SCP-CN-2153 was caused by human factors. SCP-CN-2513 lost its anomalous effects after the incident.
The orange liquid that remained on the ground after burning was retrieved, and according to the witnesses of the team at the scene, the liquid could burn for an anomalously long time and was not completely burned out after a long period of time, and is believed to be the combustion material that led to this accident. It has been sent to Area-CN-22-β for study. The cause of the accident is still under investigation.
SCP-CN-2153 has therefore been reclassified as Neutralized.
Document Recovered from SCP-CN-2153 #01 (Original Transcript)
SCP Foundation Meeting Summary
Date: 6/30/2023
Notekeeper: Spade，Site-CN-36
Greetings, everybody, I am director ███ of Site-CN-36, most of you are site directors and branch leads from all over the world who travelled thousands of miles to come to this site several kilometers under the ground to meet. You should be able to guess how serious something is that can bring you all together. Let me tell you about the current situation.
First of all, Site-7 is gone — both physically and spiritually. Fortunately, we sent someone to take as many as documents we could. Site-7 completely disappeared from Norton Sound, but no one in the Foundation's entire U.S. area noticed this, which is why Site-CN-36 has been expanded to temporarily replace Site-7.
Site-CN-36 has three floors, covers a total area of 3 square kilometres and does not contain any SCPs. The first floor is the material storage and power supply section, containing a large number of survival necessities and generators driven by SCP-6300. The second floor is the office section, where all the staff and documents of Site-CN-36 are included. The third floor is the security section, all the armed forces and surveillance equipment of Site-CN-36 are there.
With that said, let's talk about the disappearance of Site-7 and all these weird things.
We have decided to combine these phenomena and refer them as ζK-Class "Fading Dreams" scenario, and its reach and speed were far beyond our expectations. We assume that the epicenter of the outbreak was Site-7 — as Site-7 reported over a thousand data errors that day. They thought it was an attack from a hostile organization, but the investigation was fruitless. Nevertheless, they simply fixed the data and see it as a bit of spice to the dull grind of life at the Foundation. Then, we found that the situation seemed out of control. The same thing happened the next day, not just in the United States, but all over the northern hemisphere as far as I know. The O5 Council called an emergency meeting and announced the formation of a special investigation group in each branch to look into the incident. I joined the investigation group of Chinese Branch.
Then, let's talk about how this K-Class scenario affects us.
The first effect assumed is "Forgetfulness". I bet half of you have found yourselves forgetting something when you get to the office, and so have I. What's more, we will become more and more irreversibly forgetful — until I forget that I still exist on the Earth. We've done a simple test: now there is a cake, a total of 10 people memorized — memorized means remembering the cake itself, instead of its name — the existence of the cake. If more than 5 of these people, or 50% of them, forgot the existence of the cake itself, then the cake will physically disappear. It's no use to simply remember the name "cake", you also need to remember its appearence. After the investigation of our agents, some people have already forgotten that they are stepping on the Earth…do I have to explain the consequences of this continuing to languish? It is for this reason that Site-7 was torn up in the lost memories.
The second effect assumed is "Overwriting". I happen to have an example right here. You all know that this place is Site-CN-36, but turn your heads around now, you will find that the iron plaque hanging on the gate has changed from "Site-CN-36" to "Area-CN-58". You can recall what you saw exactly when you walked in the door. This indicates that the K-Class scenario also tampers with all text saved on some medium, including that on computers. This means that we cannot guarantee that the information at our disposal is accurate and valid. The effect can appear as early as 3 hours after the text is written down. That is to say, we can ensure the accuracy of these things by keep writing things down by hand, but 3 hours isn't enough for us to record much, that means we can only memorize the most important things in this way, we still got to keep the rest in mind.
That doesn't sound too bad, right? Anyway we can just use TBD to cross the timeline and avoid all this. Pitifully, these technologies are no longer available. We found that the more complex and high-tech things are, the faster they are forgotten, and the sooner the text that records them is altered. Blueprints and technical secrets of many cutting-edge projects are kept at Site-7 and Site-01. And Site-7 is already gone, O5s can also prove what the files they saw at Site-01 were like. We still have some of the technologies left, as they are stored in underground site which are mostly deep under the ground. This indicates going deep into the ground and being away from the surface can reduce the effect of ζK scenario.
At last, let me talk about how we can do our best and reduce the harm we will face in the future.
First, just like I was saying, being away from the surface can reduce the effect. Second, we found that what's in our heads seem to be undisturbed by "Overwritting". That is, things in our heads are absolutely true. However, due to the effect of "Forgetfulness", those things will be forgotten sooner or later. So we must select the men with the best memories on the Earth — you remember Earth, right — to help us memorize all this, to preserve for us the last human spark. We have selected 31 people in total, and established what will probably be the last department of the Foundation — the Department of Memorization. The technologies, cultures, lives of humankind, those you love, those you want to protect, they all depend on these 31 people, they are just like the servers scattered all over Site-7. This is also why Site-CN-36 is set up in this abyss of darkness: to act as the headquarters of the Department of Memorization.
Besides, do you still remeber how a thing disappears because of ζK scenatio? I'll repeat that: if more than 50% of all human beings on the Earth forget that something exists, it will disappear physically. So we think that if we reduce the population of the planet, leaving only a few people at the key nodes, we can better reduce the potential risk of "Forgetfulness". That means we have to wield a knife towards our own people.
It is cruel, bloody cruel, but there is nothing else we can do. We have to sacrifice for the survival of the human race. This is the purpose of the Foundation — to protect all humanity.
That's all I have to say. We will all be shattered and scattered in the sky. But don't worry too much, maybe we'll meet again sometime in the future.
Document Recovered from SCP-CN-2153 #02 (Original Transcript)
SCP Foundation Department Dossier
Department of Memorization
Revision: 226
Revised by: Spade, Site-CN-36
Department Designation: Department of Memorization
Established Date: 7/1/2023
Department Lead: N/A
Departmental Stationed Facility: Site-CN-36
Departmental Function: Due to the outbreak of the ζK-Class "Fading Dreams" scenario and its impact on humanity, the Foundation cannot currently guarantee that all information in the database is accurate and valid (including this document). The Department of Memorization is therefore set up to record Foundation databases and technological, cultural, and other information of all humanity in real time through human brain memory to prevent important information from being distorted or tampered with.
The Department of Memorization will be permanently stationed at Site-CN-36 to ensure the storage and authenticity of information until the completion of the ζK-Class "Fading Dreams" scenario is confirmed. The sole responsibility of the remaining members of the Department of Memorization will then be to retransmit the remaining information to other surviving sites in preparation for the Foundation's rebirth after the calamity.
Selection Requirements:
- Have worked at the Foundation for less than three years;
- Achieve an A+ level in the memory assessment;
- Achieve an A+ level in the loyalty assessment;
- Has not participated in the development and production of any memory erasure agent;
- Has never participated in experiments involving objects with amnestic effects, such as SCP-055;
- Has never worked for the Antimemetics Division, the Memetics Division, the Department of Abnormalities or the RAISA;
- Has never joined any groups of interest;
- [UNINTELLEGIBLE];
- Has not held an O5 Council or Ethic Committee position；
- Immunize all current Foundation amnestic agents;
Job Precautions:
Even those working in the Department of Memorization are not immune to memory loss, as the ζK-Class "Fading Dreams" scenario has erupted and spread to all of humanity. In order to ensure that the remaining information remains accurate and valid, all the personnel of Department of Memorization should perform their duties according to the following points:
- Daily screening of memory information should be carried out, based on the majority of people (more than 2/3) memory content standards；
- Daily memory assessment should be carried out, and those with large fluctuations in performance within a week should temporarily stop working and be placed by the nursing department for medical observation;
- If you find that your memory of the same thing is more than 5% different from that of your colleagues, suspend communication with anyone else and report it to the security department immediately;
- The use of force is allowed to protect information security in extreme cases;
- [UNINTELLEGIBLE];
- [UNINTELLEGIBLE];
- [UNINTELLEGIBLE];
- Remember everything, with all your might.
Document Recovered from SCP-CN-2153 #03 (Original Text)
Note: The document is recovered from a "Memory Reader/Printer" placed inside the object. Though the rationale for its operation is not yet clear, it is believed that it is able to read words from human memory and transcribe them as they were written. The machine has been sent to Area-CN-22-β for research currently.
7/1/2023 Sunny Saturday
Well, a new part for my diary. Recently I was transferred from Site-CN-51 to a new place called Site-CN-36. They told me the Foundation set up a new department called the "Department of Memorization" which was located here, so I joined it.
We need to pass a memory test first, I got the best grades, cool. After the successful entry, we were sent to a site called Site-7 to carry lots of things back, most of them are documents, the rest are all kinds of supplies, we threw all of them into the warehouse. Then we went to various sites likeSite-81, Area-314, etc. to have meetings.One trip to almost every country I'm likely to visit in my life.
I couldn't help but feel a little disbelief as I took down everything the site director said next to him… were we really going to die in such a ridiculous way? I've only been on the job for a month and I've learnt such terrifying news that I feel it kinda bullshit.
Site-7 disappeared right after I left there. I'd better apply for a transfer before it's too late.
7/2/2023 Sunny Monday
Monday again. I'm busy as hell now and I shouldn't have come. We are no longer allowed to leave Site-CN-36. I shouldn't have come to this fucking place, I shouldn't!
I have to recite lots of things — the pile of documents we brought in. I remember when I was a kid memorizing Bringing in the Wine. The director of the department is a geezer in his fifties who hangs around us every day. Just like a Chinese teacher checking our recitation… I know what the Department of Memorization is for, and I've heard about the previous meeting, but this is way too crazy!?
And my application was returned…can't even run away now.
Speaking of this, what did my Chinese teacher look like?
I don't really miss those painful days of memorization, really.
7/4/2023 Cloudy Wednesday
It's Wednesday. I tripped to Site-06-3 with my supervisors.
I looked at the map of the area of the surface affected by the ζK scenario, and the deeper the impact, the darker the color. The darkest part means that this area is the center of influence, and it radiates out. I guess there's more than one center
I'm so tired. I've even got dark circles, it's hard not to lose my memory. I'm just a document administrator, what am I doing here? This morning a guy got a C+ in the memory assessment and was sent away, never to return. The spread of that K-class scenario shouldn't be that fast. But I notice that the senior employees around me take it seriously.
I just wanna go home from work, lie on my cozy bed and hope this is just a dream.
I just wanna go home.
7/6/2023 Sunny Friday
I studied the effect map again. The level of influence does not diminish, so the color of those "centers of influence" does not become lighter. Coupled with the fact that there are more and more of these "centers of influence" over time, and they seem to be connected by a line, I suspect that there may not be multiple centers of influence, but only one center of influence that moves.
My colleague told that he thought for two seconds before he remembered how to use the coded door at the entrance.
It's getting serious.
7/6/2023 Sunny Friday
Didn't they say that there would be memory losses? I don't feel as though I have the symptom.
I reported my idea to my supervisors and they said that I might be right. We need more research data.
7/10/2023 Sunny Tuesday
We lost contact with Site-CN-51 that originally carry out data analysises for us for unknown reason. They've already sent an MTF. It went wrong at the wrong time, what a waste of time.
The director disappeared. Nowhere in Site-CN-36 could we find him. The authority said he's off to more important work, but we all knew it: he either escaped, or died.
At least we are still allowed to use cellphones. I asked all my classmates I could get in touch with, none of them could remember what our Chinese teacher looked like. This means he probably "disappeared", too.
Why am I asking this for nothing?
7/11/2023 Sunny Wednesday
I think I know why I couldn't reach them.
If we reduce the population of the planet, leaving only a few people at the key nodes, we can better reduce the potential risk of "Forgetfulness".
Damn it.
7/12/2023 Sunny Thursday
It's been almost two weeks, what was 31 people became 28. The supervisors have been unreachable, probably gone, and now that every station has lost command, we have to fend for ourselves.
I can't for the life of me remember who the two missing people actually were, except for the one who was sent away earlier. We all knew that something is wrong, but didn't know when it go wrong. Like dry ice for preservation, in the blink of an eye it blends from milk-coloured foggy ice into colourless, odourless air, never to return in this lifetime.
I don't know whether I've got ways to make me remember them again. Maybe this can pull them out of the void.
There'be benn major catastrophes in many parts of the world, both natural and man-made. The order of humanity is starting to collapse. And that's no weird, as the Foundation is out there killing every living thing on the surface.
Just piles of documents are no use for human's survival, humans themselves have killed most of their own. Besides, it's not absolutely safe here.
7/16/2023 Rainy
Monday again.
We keep having problems connecting with the higher-ups, which seems to portend something.
These days I've been surrounded with death. I heard that the outside world has become a bloody hell — they've forgotten law, forgotten ethic. They are afraid of "disappearing", afraid of being annihilated in the hustle and bustle of the crowd, so they actively forget they're human. The Foundation's presence in the Americas and North Asia has crumbled, as has GOC and other organizations. After all, without technologies, humans aren't more likely to survive than bugs.
I've read the documents in the director's office, they said we should be able to get through this K-Class scenario before we die out. According to their investigations, the anomalous effects of places that have been affected by ζK-Class scenario diminish with the passage of time, and it is still unknown exactly how long it will take for the effects to be completely eliminated.
Before we die out, fuck.
We have to find a way to get out of death's hands. I don't want to hang fucking around and die.
8/7/2023 Rainy
The sixth monday. The world outside is silent, so as the inside one. The only difference between me and everyone else out there seems to be that I have an extra headstone that reads "Site-CN-36". I couldn't help but stomp on the floor to make sure the Earth existed.
I drew a diagram:
With only 24 of us left, we're running out of staff faster than the first director expected, and I'm pretty sure we won't be able to remember everything and get through it before we're all dead. We must find a new way out to save this. We can't just do what they've told us to do, we have to dig deeper into this K-Class scenario to find a new way to break it.
Site-CN-36 doesn't have research capabilities, and I'll have to find an opportunity to send the data I've already analysed to sites that do. At least they kept a few people for some of the major sites.
8/8/2023 Unknown
We downsized the facility a bit. We don't have enough people left to keep the place fully operational.
The station's ground surveillance is damaged and I can't see what's going on out there.
8/14/2023 Unknown
We analysed all the data we could collect and analyse. Let me see which site can it be packed and sent to. More than half of the Foundation's sites should be down or simply "disappeared".
If we can get in touch with any of the sites, I'll have to get a list of their staff so I can remember who they are before they "disappear".
I don't want to see anyone else die.
8/15/2023 Unknown
The communications system is about to go down. There should be at least a few sites left before it goes completely down, like Site-CN-91 and Site-98. I sent the data we've collected about the K-Class scenario to them respectively. I hope they can discover more through their labs.
I hope nothing goes wrong during the transmission, please.
8/16/2023 Unknown
Thank God! Site-CN-91 got our message and is analyzing the data. In addition they told me that they detected the possibility of a crossover between our timeline and another. It's not something that matters though.
A few of us hadn't had this much fun in a long time, and it was as if the long-frozen, icy ground had suddenly been revitalised by a splash of spring air.
At last the seeds of hope have sprouted in the end times, hats off to all the comrades of Site-CN-91!
8/17/2023
Messages with Site-CN-91 are down. I hope it's back up soon or it's all fucking over.
8/20/2023
We failed to keep in touch with Site-CN-91.
We're totally screwed now.
2023
Communications are completely paralysed, and the Dept of Memorization has lost 85% of its staff. There's not much more we can do.
It's hard to imagine that we are likely the only people left on the entire planet.
2023?
I guess I haven't written in my diary for half a month.
I could live for the rest of my life on the life cycle system here (if the K-Class scenario doesn't kill me).
It's only me here. The others either committed suicide or were killed. But why am I still alive? I'm supposed to be dead, too.
It's weird. No one should remember me by now. Maybe there's someone else on the other side of this globe who can remember me?
2023?
I don't know how long it's been. The place was in such disrepair that I couldn't maintain such a large place by myself, so I sealed off the third and ground floors, leaving only the second. Of course, maybe I'll just forget them.
I'm the last human.
I know why I didn't die. I'm the only person left on the planet. I'm the only person that can remember me now. That is to say the number of people that can remember me is 1. Half of 1 is 0.5, and 0.5 person doesn't exist. This means that there is no such thing as "half the population has forgotten about me". Does this prove that what more horrible than "death" is "oblivion"?
I don't even know what to write in my diary.
Would the earth be more beautiful without humans?
Can the fairy Earth provide a place to stay for a lonely man wandering in the void like me?
2023?
There was an explosion outside. It's weird.
I have a feeling something is going to happen. But it doesn't even matter.
The communications system was back up. I accidentally intercepted a message:
Calling Area-CN-22, this is Mobile Task Force MTF-辛申-04 "High Altitude Assembly" Delta Squad, I'm captain Adler, please reply upon receipt.
This is Area-CN-22, report the current situation.
We detonated the explosives and are continuing the engineering dig. However, we have discovered a man-made tunnel running vertically downwards, which is estimated to be around 500 M. We would like to rappel down to see what it is, is that agreeable?
Area-CN-22, do you copy?
I repeat, calling Area-CN-22, this is Mobile Task Force MTF-辛申-04 "High Altitude Assembly" Delta Squad, please reply upon receipt.
Can't we reach them, captain?
Yeah, something went wrong. I'll try again.
Area-CN-22, do you copy? Calling Area-CN-22.
We've lost contact with HQ. Wait a minute, do you guys feel that something's not quite right with the surroundings? I suspect there's a space warping effect around here. Let's get back to HQ first……
There are others on this planet!
Looks like the squad was on a mission around here, but lost contact with HQ. I didn't hear anything after that. The comms were over.
They should have been the ones who made the explosion earlier.
None of the people or sites I remember existed, and they should have "disappeared" a long time ago. So they're either not "people" or they're not from this timeline. Something's not right, it's just not right.
How dumb I am! I remember Site-CN-91 telling me that the experiment caused the overlap of two timelines. They're probably from the other timeline.
I can't let them stay here or they'll also be affected. What they say about "space warping" is mostly because the effect of the ζK scenario makes them forget the way they came. I can't lock down the whole Site-CN-36, I have to find a way to get them to give up and explore it again.
I remember something in the warehouse. A kind of safety coating invented by them not long ago — before the ζK-Class scenario, which can create an effect similar to the one inside SCP-087 to effectively prevent safety hazards caused by lights. I could paint this stuff on the walls and by then their lighting would be completely unusable. They will more than likely know what to do because of this.
I haven't heard from them again. It could be that they didn't come back to explore, or that the two timelines no longer overlap.
Or maybe they died. They didn't make it back.
The surveillance equipment has also been restored, and I can now tell what's going on around Site-CN-36.
The location of Site-CN-36 remained the same, but there are signs of humans on the surface.
I intercepted another message, still related to Area-CN-22, which suggests that the timelines shouldn't have ended up overlapping yet.
Area-CN-22 should have sent a search and rescue team to find the MTF members by now, and by then they'll all be trapped by the effects of the ζK-Class scenario.
I've got to find a way to avoid this.
They're really here.
Two interacting timelines, one for Area-CN-22 and one for me, are assumed to form a whole together for the time being — the current "new" timeline. Whichever occupies a larger part of the whole, the normalcy of that "new" timeline corresponds to the normalcy of the larger timeline, while the normalcy of the smaller one extends only in that one timeline.
I reckon the one from Area-CN-22 is much larger, and according to all the messages I've intercepted, the world out there should be in normal order. The effects of the ζK-Class scenario should be limited to Site-CN-36 and the surrounding parts of it, and is gradually spreading.
I received their message again. They were aware of the ζK-Class scenario, but didn't realize its seriousness. They only see it as a skip. This time it's spreading as fast as usual. It will spread around the world in a few days.
I have to end this. I can't stand by and see another world destroyed.
There's going to be another Spade in this timeline to move on with your life instead.
Site-CN-36 is the hub of the two timelines, and only by destroying it can I avoid the two timelines affecting each other.
Site-CN-36 is powered by something called "Siberia Fuel". As far as I can tell it exploded with enough force to level the surroundings.
It's more violent than I thought my death would be.
I'll find a way to get all this stuff that's supposed to be in my head onto paper. I remember the previous meeting saying that if I write this down I'll be able to keep it straight for at least three hours at least. I need to let them know about the ζK-Class scenario as well. If I don't stop this thing, at least let them know about its effects ahead of time to have as much time as possible to save humanity.
I've always been a good-for-nothing. I guess I can call this a rather meaningful day.
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