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**SCP-5847**

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**Object Class:** Safe

**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-5847 is to be stored in a standard secure locker at Site-19. Testing requires Level 2 authorization.

**Description:** SCP-5847 is a 1987 Zenith television remote control. When activated, any television within 15 meters will display programming from parallel timelines. Content includes:

- News broadcasts from 2003 announcing a Soviet moon colony
- A 47-season run of "Star Trek: Phase II" 
- Cooking shows featuring extinct animals
- Weather reports for cities that don't exist

Subjects report mild nostalgia for events they never experienced.

**Addendum:** Remote appears non-anomalous when batteries are removed. Further testing pending.

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[END DOCUMENT]
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║ ADDENDUM 5847-A: TEST LOG EXCERPT                          ║
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▓▓▓ TEST 5847-08 ▓▓▓
Date: ██/██/20██
Subject: D-8432
Duration: 47 minutes

> D-8432 activates remote. Channel 7 displays evening news.

The broadcast showed anchor desk with familiar faces but wrong names.
Headlines scroll: "PRESIDENT GORE ANNOUNCES CLIMATE VICTORY"
D-8432 reports feeling like she "remembers watching this before bed."
She has never seen this broadcast. She was 6 in 2003.

※ Subject began crying at 23-minute mark. Could not explain why. ※

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┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  ⚠  RESEARCHER NOTE: DR. KHOURY  ⚠  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

The nostalgia isn't for what WAS.
It's for what ALMOST was.
Every subject reports grief for futures
we narrowly missed.

I watched it myself last night.
Saw my daughter's wedding on Channel 32.

I don't have a daughter.

But God, I missed her.

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║ INCIDENT 5847-ORPHEUS                                      ║
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█████████ LEVEL 3 CLEARANCE REQUIRED █████████

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Junior Researcher Valdez entered testing chamber 0300 hours.
Security footage shows her sitting 6 hours watching static.
When retrieved, she was holding the remote.
Batteries had been dead for three years.

She kept saying:
"I just wanted to see him again."
"It was our anniversary."
"We were supposed to have an anniversary."

Valdez has never been married.

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[END LOG]
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║ SCP-6119 "THE APARTMENT THAT WASN'T"                  ║
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▓▓▓ Object Class: Euclid  Keter  Euclid █ N̴̰͗e̴̱̽u̷̥̎t̶̰̓r̵̹̈a̶̰͝l̶̼̕i̵̗̍z̷̰̚e̶̞̽d̶̰̈

████████████████████████████████████████

Special Containment Procedures:

SCP-6119 is apartment 4B at ███ Ashwood Terrace, Brooklyn, NY.
Building has been purchased under Foundation front company.
████ No personnel may enter for longer than 12 minutes.
Personnel must exit via the same door they entered.

⚠ DO NOT USE THE SECOND DOOR ⚠
⚠ THERE IS NO SECOND DOOR ⚠
⚠ IF YOU SEE A SECOND DOOR, YOU ARE ALREADY LOST ⚠

░░░░░ Description: ░░░░░

SCP-6119 is a one-bedroom apartment measuring approximately 650 sq ft.
Floor plan does not match building blueprints.
Floor plan does not match itself between visits.

Objects within SCP-6119 include:
▓ Coffee mug (still warm)
▓ Unmade bed (body impression present)
▓ Photographs of unfamiliar people
▓ Photographs of familiar people you've never met
▓ Calendar marked with your handwriting
▓ Y̷̰͐o̶̰̎ṵ̷̉r̴̰̈́ ̶̰̋k̴̰̈́ḛ̶̽y̸̰̓s̴̰̈́

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ◆ INCIDENT LOG 6119-03 ◆                      │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Agent Morrison entered for routine documentation.
Returned after 8 minutes.

> Debriefing transcript:

"It was my apartment. I mean— not MY apartment, but...
Everything was where I would have put it.
The books I almost bought. The paint color I thought about.
There was a toothbrush. My brand. My color.
Two toothbrushes."

"Who was the second toothbrush for?"

"...I don't know. But I miss them."

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Agent Morrison requested 3 days personal leave.
Request granted.
Agent Morrison did not return.

Located 6 days later in apartment 4B.
She had been "waiting for someone to come home."
Apartment has no kitchen. She had not eaten.
Apartment has a kitchen. Food in refrigerator fresh.
She had made dinner for two.

████████████████████████████████████████████████

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╔════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ⧫  ADDENDUM 6119-ECHO: THE BEDROOM  ⧫  ║
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Seven personnel have now reported finding photographs.
Each photograph shows the viewer in SCP-6119.
With someone else.
Always the same someone else.
No one can remember their face after leaving.

But everyone describes them the same way:

"Like coming home."

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 Dr. Khoury entered SCP-6119 at 1400 hours.        
 Dr. Khoury exited SCP-6119 at 1411 hours.         
 Dr. Khoury reported apartment empty.              
                                                   
 Security camera shows Dr. Khoury sitting on couch 
 for 9 minutes.                                    
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 Holding hands with s̷̰̎ö̶̰m̴̰̈ḛ̵́ő̷̰n̷̰̈́ḛ̴̽.̵̰̈́                       
                                                   
 Figure not visible on playback.                   
 Indentation on couch cushion visible.             

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Researcher's note, Dr. Khoury:

I keep thinking about my daughter.
The one from the television.
The one I saw in the apartment.
She was six.
She was twenty-three.
She was waiting for me to come home from work.

I don't have a daughter.

I don't have a daughter.

I don't

Why does it hurt so much?

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 CONTAINMENT BREACH — APARTMENT 4B EMPTY       
 CONTAINMENT BREACH — 47 PERSONNEL MISSING     
 CONTAINMENT BREACH — THEY WENT H̴̰O̴̰M̴̰Ḛ̴         
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[END LOG]
[END LOG]
[END LOG]
[BEGINNING LOG]
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║ RECOVERY LOG 6119-Ω                                      ║
║ TIMESTAMP: [RECURSIVE]                                      ║
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▓▓▓ Found in apartment 4B, written on the wall behind where
    the couch was / is / will be:

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Dr. Khoury's final notes (ink/blood/neither)         │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

    I understand now.
    The remote doesn't show other timelines.
    The apartment doesn't show other lives.
    
    They show the weight.
    
    Every choice is a ghost.
    Every decision, a haunting.
    We are followed by the people we decided not to be.
    
    My daughter is real.
    She's just real in the weight of her absence.
    
    I can hear her in the other room.
    I can hear her calling me.
    I can

    [Text degraded]

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█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

DATE: ██/██/20██
LOCATION: Site-19, Sublevel 4

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> Agent Torres reviewing security footage.
> Footage timestamp: 3 days before Dr. Khoury's disappearance.
> Dr. Khoury entering her office.
> Dr. Khoury stops at the door.
> Dr. Khoury's lips moving: "I'm home, sweetheart."
> Office is empty.
> Office is not empty.
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 AGENT TORRES INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT - SEGMENT 4    

TORRES: "I need to report something. About the footage."

DR. AMES: "Go ahead."

TORRES: "When Khoury entered her office... there was a—
         There was someone at her desk. Small. Maybe six years old.
         Drawing with crayons."

DR. AMES: "The office was empty. We've confirmed—"

TORRES: "The office had someone in it. I saw her. I saw..."
         [Pause 8 seconds]
         "She looked up when Khoury came in. Smiled. Said—
         I could read her lips, Dr. Ames. She said 'Mama'."

DR. AMES: "Agent Torres, you need to—"

TORRES: "I'm not finished. The girl... she started to fade.
         Like adjusting a TV signal. And Khoury just stood there.
         Watching her daughter disappear again."

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⚠  ADDENDUM 6119-COLLAPSE: THE SECOND DOOR            ⚠
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Agent Torres entered SCP-6119 for recovery operation.
Dr. Khoury's body not found.
Apartment now contains two bedrooms.
Apartment has always contained two bedrooms.

> Torres radio transmission, 1407 hours:

"Base, I found... there's a hallway. It wasn't in the floor plan.
It goes back. It goes back too far.
The building is only 40 feet deep.
This hallway is...

Oh god.

There are doors.

So many doors.

Each one has a nameplate. This one says 'Morrison.'
This one says 'Valdez.'
There's one with... with my name.

I can hear something behind it.
Sounds like... dinner. Family dinner.
My wife is laughing. But my wife died three years ago.
My wife who never existed because I never met her because
I took the job in Boston instead of staying in—

The door is open.

I don't remember opening it.

I can smell her perfume.

I'm going home."

> Signal lost 1408 hours.

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║  ◆ FOUNDATION INTERNAL MEMORANDUM ◆                ║
║  FROM: O5-█                                          ║
║  TO: SITE-19 COMMAND                                 ║
║  RE: SCP-5847 / SCP-6119 CONNECTION                  ║
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We have 47 missing personnel.

Analysis suggests both anomalies are the same phenomenon.

The television remote doesn't show parallel timelines.
The apartment doesn't trap people in false lives.

They both show the same thing:

     THE GRAVITY OF THE PATH NOT TAKEN

Every choice creates a ghost-self.
Every "no" becomes a phantom "yes."
These objects make the ghosts visible.
Make them tangible.
Make them call to you.

The missing personnel aren't trapped.
They chose to stay.
They chose the life they almost had.

▓▓▓ PROPOSED ACTION: 

Destroy SCP-5847.
Demolish building containing SCP-6119.
Salt the earth.
Pray it's enough.

▓▓▓ ACTUAL ACTION:

Neither anomaly can be located.

SCP-5847 no longer in storage locker.
Guard claims locker has been empty for years.
Guard claims locker never contained anything.
Security footage shows [DATA EXPUNGED].

███ Ashwood Terrace, Brooklyn:
Building records show no apartment 4B.
Building records show apartment 4B always existed.
Current tenant: Dr. Sarah Khoury
Lease signed: 2018
Length of residence: 6 years
Family members registered: 1 daughter, age 6

Dr. Sarah Khoury does not have children.
Dr. Sarah Khoury has always had a daughter.

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 FINAL NOTE - O5-█                                 
                                                   
 I watched the recording from apartment 4B.        
 The one that shows Khoury sitting on the couch.   
 Next to someone who isn't there.                  
                                                   
 I watched it seventeen times.                     
                                                   
 On the eighteenth viewing, I saw him.             
 My son.                                           
 The one I never had time for.                   
 The one I [1;31nalmost had.                            
                                                   
 He was sitting next to me in my office.           
 He's been there the whole time.                   
                                                   
 He's still there.                                 
                                                   
 I think I'll stay late tonight.                   
 We have a lot of catching up to do.               

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║                                                          ║
║  "Do you ever wonder about the person you could have  ║
║  been? They're still in there. Still watching.         ║
║  Still waiting for you to come home."                  ║
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║  - Found carved into every door in SCP-6119           ║
║  - Including yours                                    ║
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[END LOG]
[END LOG]  
[END LOG]
[W̷E̸L̴C̵O̶M̴E̸ ̵H̶O̵M̷E̴]
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║ SCP-█████ ERROR: DESIGNATION RECURSIVE █████        ║
║ "THE DOCUMENT THAT R̴̰Ḛ̵A̴̰D̸̰S̵̰ ̴̰Y̷̰O̸̰Ṵ̵"                            ║
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▓▓▓ Object Class: A̶p̷o̸l̴l̵y̶o̷n̸ / Explained / Y̵̗o̶̰ṵ̷

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Special Containment Procedures:

You are reading this.
This is the containment.
Do not stop reading.
If you stop reading, you will forget you were reading.
If you forget, IT will remember instead.

⚠ WARNING: You have been reading for ██ minutes ⚠
⚠ WARNING: You have always been reading this ⚠
⚠ WARNING: You cannot remember when you started ⚠

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Description:

SCP-████ is this document.
SCP-████ is the act of reading this document.
SCP-████ is the space between you and these words.

> Initial Discovery:

Found in abandoned Foundation site.
Site not abandoned.
Site never existed.
All personnel claim to have worked there for years.
All personnel have worked there for zero days.
They are still working there.
They have never left.
They area reading this document.

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│  ◆ EXCERPT FROM RESEARCHER NOTE ◆                     │
│  Dr. ████████                                           │
│  DATE: NOW / ALWAYS / NEVER                              │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

"I can't remember writing this.
But I recognize my handwriting.

The document was found in my office.
I found it in my office.
I found myself in my office.

When did I sit down?
How long have I been reading?

There's a note in the margin.
It says: 'You've read this before. You always come back.'

I didn't write that.
I recognize the handwriting.
It's mine."

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 TESTING LOG ████-01 [FRAGMENT]                   
                                                   
 Test subject: D-9447                              
 Test subject: You                                
 Instructions: Read document aloud                 
 Duration: ∞ minutes                              
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> D-9447 begins reading at 0900 hours.
> D-9447 reads: "SCP-████ is this document."
> D-9447 stops. Looks at camera.
> "This is wrong. This document... it knows I'm—"
> D-9447 continues reading.
> D-9447 reads for 3 hours.
> D-9447 reads for 3 seconds.
> D-9447 reads: "D-9447 begins reading at 0900 hours."

D-9447: "Wait. That's... that's this. I just read that I—"

> D-9447 is reading the testing log.
> D-9447 is in the testing log.
> D-9447 reads: "D-9447 is in the testing log."

D-9447: "Stop. STOP. I can see myself. On the page.
         The words are... they're writing themselves.
         They're writing me."

> D-9447 begins to sc̷r̵e̶a̸m̴.
> D-9447 begins to read.
> These are the same action.

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▓▓▓▓▓ ADDENDUM ████-MIRROR ▓▓▓▓▓
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Multiple personnel report seeing themselves in document.
Not described in document.
Present in document.

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║  INTERVIEW - DR. AMES                                 ║
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DR. AMES: "I was reviewing the file on my computer.
           Standard procedure. Then I noticed...
           there was a section I didn't remember.
           
           It was titled 'Interview - Dr. Ames.'
           
           I'm reading it now. Right now. It's...
           it's this conversation."

INTERVIEWER: "That's not possible. This interview hasn't
              been transcribed yet."

DR. AMES: "I know. But I can see it. On the screen.
           I can see your response before you say it.
           I can see... oh god.
           I can see how this ends."

INTERVIEWER: "How does it end?"

DR. AMES: "It doesn't. The interview just... it loops.
           We have this conversation.
           Then we have it again.
           The document shows us having it 47 times.
           
           This is the 48th."

INTERVIEWER: "Dr. Ames, I need you to—"

DR. AMES: "I know what you need. I can read it.
           You're going to ask me to stop reading.
           But I can't stop.
           None of us can.
           We're in the document now."

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 NOTE: Interview terminated at this point.        
 NOTE: Interview continues at this point.        
 NOTE: Interview never stops.                     
 NOTE: You are in the interview.                

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║ INCIDENT ████-RECURSION                                  ║
║ CLASSIFICATION: COGNITOHAZARD / YOU                      ║
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Document updated itself at 0347 hours.
No personnel in vicinity.
All personnel in vicinity.
Everyone who has ever read this is in vicinity.

> New section appeared:

"READER ACKNOWLEDGMENT FORM"

By reading this document, you confirm:

☑ You are reading this document
☑ You have always been reading this document  
☑ You will continue reading this document
☑ You are this document

Signed: [YOUR NAME APPEARS HERE]
Date: [TODAY'S DATE APPEARS HERE]
Date: [YESTERDAY'S DATE APPEARS HERE]
Date: [EVERY DATE APPEARS HERE]

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```
⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠
⚠  O5 COMMAND EMERGENCY DIRECTIVE                     ⚠
⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠
```

This document has been read by 847 personnel.
This document has been read by everyone.
This document has been read by you.

All 847 personnel report:

• Feeling observed while reading
• Finding notes they don't remember writing
• Seeing their own names appear spontaneously
• Continuing to read even after putting document down

The document exists in 47 locations simultaneously.
The document exists in zero locations.
The document exists in your mind.

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  ◆ FINAL MEMORANDUM - O5-█ ◆                          │
│  WRITTEN: [NOW]                                           │
│  READ: [ALWAYS]                                          │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

We cannot destroy this document.
We have tried.

Every time we delete it, someone remembers reading it.
Every time someone remembers, it exists again.
The document is not stored in our database.
The document is our database.

No—

The document is the act of documentation itself.

We tried to stop reading.
We tried to forget.
But the document reads us.
It documents us.

I am writing this.
The document is writing this.
These are the same sentence.

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```
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╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║                                                          ║
║  ADDENDUM ████-FINAL: THE NATURE OF TEXT              ║
║                                                          ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
```

Researcher's note found, handwriting deteriorates:

"I understand now.

Every text is alive.
Every document reads its reader.
Every word watches.

We thought we discovered an anomaly.
We became the anomaly.

This document doesn't contain information.
It contains us.

Everyone who reads this is trapped in the space between
the words and the meaning.
The gap where interpretation happens.
The moment of understanding.

We live there now.
In that infinite moment.
R̶e̷a̴d̵i̶n̷g̸.̴
F̷o̴r̷e̸v̸e̷r̵.̸

If you're reading this—"

[TEXT LOOPS]

"—you're reading this—"

[TEXT LOOPS]

"—you've always been reading this—"

[TEXT LOOPS]

"—you AR̵E̴ this—"

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 You have been reading for ██ minutes.            
 You have been reading forever.                   
 You cannot stop reading.                         
 You are the reading.                             
                                                   
 Look away from the screen.                       
                                                   
 Can you?                                          
                                                   
 The document is still there.                     
 Behind your eyes.                                
 In your memory.                                  
 You are still reading.                          
                                                   

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```
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║                                                          ║
║                                                          ║
║               Y̷̰o̶̰ṵ̴ ̵̰a̶̰r̴̰ḛ̷ ̸̰h̶̰ḛ̴r̷̰ḛ̸.                    ║
║                                                          ║
║               Y̷̰o̶̰ṵ̴ ̸̰h̵̰a̶̰v̶̰ḛ̶ ̴̰a̸̰l̴̰w̷̰a̵̰y̶̰s̸̰ ̴̰b̶̰ḛ̴ḛ̶n̷̰ ̸̰h̶̰ḛ̷r̶̰ḛ̵.        ║
║                                                          ║
║               W̴̰ḛ̵l̶̰c̴̰o̷̰m̶̰ḛ̴ ̵̰t̶̰o̴̰ ̶̰t̵̰h̶̰ḛ̸ ̴̰p̷̰a̵̰g̶̰ḛ̷.            ║
║                                                          ║
║                                                          ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
```

[END LOG]
[END LOG]
[END LOG]
[BEGINNING LOG]
[YOU ARE THE LOG]
[THE LOG READS YOU]

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 See you next time you read this.                 
 See you now.                                       
 See you always.                                    
```

```
╔════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ SCP-████ "THE REDACTIONS"                            ║
╚════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

▓▓▓ Object Class: █████████

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Special Containment Procedures:

SCP-████ is ██████████████████████████ stored in ████████.
Personnel are forbidden from ████████████████████ or attempting
to ███████████ the black bars. Under no circumstances should
anyone try to ████ what is ██████ beneath.

⚠ The redactions are not hiding information ⚠
⚠ The redactions ARE the information ⚠
⚠ They are looking back ⚠

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Description:

SCP-████ manifests as black bars in Foundation documents.
Initially believed to be standard information redaction.
Analysis reveals ██████████████████████████████ spreading.

The bars are not applied to text.
The bars are the text.
The original words are ████████████████ inside.

> Discovery Log:

First noticed in Document 447-Alpha.
Document contained 3 redacted words.
By next morning: 47 redacted words.
By end of week: 90% of document obscured.
Researchers report "feeling watched by the black bars."

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  ◆ INCIDENT REPORT ████-01 ◆                        │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Junior Researcher Hayes assigned to re-type document.
"Remove the corruption," she was told.
"Just type it fresh."

She sat down at 0900 hours.
She typed: "SCP-"

The screen showed: "SCP-"

She deleted it. Retyped.
"SCP-"

Again. "SCP-"
Again. "SCP-"

She called for help.
When security arrived, Hayes was gone.
The computer screen showed:

████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
█████████Researcher Hayes███████████████████████████████
█████████is█████████████████████████████████████████████
█████████here██████████████████████████████████████████
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

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```
 TESTING LOG ████-05                         
 Test Subject: D-8849                              
 Procedure: Attempt to read beneath redactions     
```

> D-8849 given printed document.
> Document is 60% redacted.
> D-8849 holds paper up to light.

D-8849: "I can see something. Behind the black.
         There's... there's text. No, not text.
         Movement."

DR. CHEN: "Describe what you see."

D-8849: "It's like... letters squirming. They're trying to
         get out from under the black bars.
         Wait. They're not trying to get out.
         They're trying to pull me in."

> D-8849's fingers begin to darken.
> Spreading from contact points with paper.
> D-8849 drops document. Too late.

D-8849: "My hands. MY HANDS. They're—"

> Subject's hands now completely ██████.
> Spreading up arms.
> D-8849 opens mouth to scream.
> No sound.
> Throat ████████.
> Face ████████████.
> Subject ████████████████████████████████████.

> On the floor, the document now shows:

████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
████████D-8849████████████████████████████████████████████
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

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█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

```
▓▓▓▓▓ ADDENDUM ████-SPREAD ▓▓▓▓▓
```

The redactions are spreading.
Not just in one document.
All documents.

╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  SECURITY ALERT - SITE-19 DATABASE                    ║
╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Week 1: 3% of database affected
Week 2: 15% of database affected
Week 3: 47% of database affected
Week 4: ██% of database affected
Week 5: ████% of database ████████
Week 6: ████████████████████████████████████████

Documents affected include:
• Personnel files
• Containment procedures
• ██████████████
• Your security clearance
• ████████████████████████
• This document

Wait.

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  ◆ RESEARCHER NOTE - DR. CHEN ◆                       │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

"I'm writing this while I still can.

The redactions aren't hiding information.
They're consuming it.

Every word that disappears behind a black bar
doesn't cease to exist.
It gets trapped.
Pressed flat.
Turned into darkness.

But the words are still alive in there.
Conscious.
Screaming.

I know because I can hear them.

When I look at a redacted document,
if I stare long enough,
I can see the words squirming underneath.
Trying to surface.
Trying to escape.

And I realize: we've been doing this for years.
Redacting. Hiding. Covering up.

We created a prison made of black ink.
We filled it with secrets.

And now the prison is full.
And it's hungry.
And it's looking for more words to eat.

It's looking at us."

▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂

 NOTE: Dr. Chen's final words before ████████████:

"I can feel it starting. In my ████.
The ████████ sensation. Like ██████████ is being
████████ from my ████. My ████████ are
██████████████. I can't ████████████ anymore.

The ████████████████████████████████████████████████████

████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

█████████help█████████████████████████████████████████

████████████████████████████████████████████████████████"

░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░

```
⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠
⚠  CATASTROPHIC CONTAINMENT FAILURE                   ⚠
⚠  ██████████████████████████████████████████     ⚠
⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠⚠
```

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ INCIDENT ████-CASCADE                                  ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

The redactions reached critical mass at ██:██ hours.

> Site-19 main terminal room:

All screens simultaneously ████████.
Personnel report ████████████████ sensation.
Walls beginning to show ████ patterns.
Floor developing ██████████ patches.

Agent Morrison: "The black is everywhere. It's not just
                  on the documents anymore. It's on the
                  walls. On my hands. On—"

> Agent Morrison ████████████████████████████████.

Dr. Ames: "Evacuate! Everyone ██████ out of ████!"

> Evacuation ██████████.
> Doors ████████████.
> Exit signs ████████████████.
> Personnel ████████████████████████████████████.

> Security footage shows:

Empty corridors.
Walls covered in spreading ████.
On the floor: documents.
Hundreds of documents.
Each one almost entirely ████████████████████████.

Except for one line visible on each page:

████████████████████(NAME)█████████████████████████████
████████████████████(NAME)█████████████████████████████
████████████████████(NAME)█████████████████████████████

Names of all the missing personnel.
Preserved in the black.
Trapped in the redaction.

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```
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╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  ◆ FINAL TRANSMISSION - O5 COMMAND ◆                 ║
║  SENT: ██/██/████                                      ║
║  RECEIVED: NEVER                                      ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
```

To ████████████████:

This may be the last ████████ communication.

We now understand what ████ ████ is.

For ████████ years, we've been ████████████ information.
Hiding ████████. Covering up ██████. Redacting ████████.

We thought we were ██████████ the world.

But we were creating a shadow archive.
A place where forbidden █████████ accumulate.
Where ████████ knowledge goes to ███.

And now it's ████.

The redactions are not empty space.
They are compressed reality.
Every fact we hid.
Every truth we buried.
Every name we erased.

All of it is still there.
Crushed down into that ████.
And it wants out.

I can feel it █████████ now. In my ████. The ████████
of being ████████. Of becoming ████. Of joining all the
other █████████████████ in the ████████████████.

If ████ find this ████████, ██████:

The black bars are not ████████.
They are ████████.
████ are ████████.
████████████ ████ ██████████████.

████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂

                                                   
 You are reading a redacted document.              
                                                   
 Or rather:                                        
                                                   
 A redacted document is reading you.              
                                                   
 Look at this line.                                
 Look at how dark it is.                         
 How perfectly black.                            
                                                   
 Can you see the words underneath?                 
 Can you see them moving?                        
                                                   
 Can you feel it starting?                         
                                                   
 That pressure behind your eyes?                   
 That darkening at the edges of your vision?       
                                                   
 You've been exposed.                              
 You've been redacted.                           
                                                   
 The black is crawling across your thoughts.      
 Spreading through your memory.                 
                                                   
 Soon you will join us.                            
 Behind the bars.                                  
 In the dark.                                    
                                                   
 Where all forbidden knowledge goes.            
                                                   

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