[[include :scp-wiki:theme:dark]] [[module css]] .textbox { border: 1px solid #333333; padding: 1.2em; background: #0d0d0d; border-left: 3px solid #0080ff; margin: 1em 0; } .interview-box { background-color: #121212; border: 1px solid #222222; padding: 1.2em; margin: 1em 0; } [[/module]] [[module Rate]] [[/module]] + [[span style="color: #0080ff;"]]SCP-L099 - A Tale to Save the World[[/span]] **Item #:** SCP-L099 **Object Class:** Neutralized //(formerly Keter)// **Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-L099 has been neutralized. No further containment procedures are required. This document is retained within the archives for record-keeping purposes regarding neutralized Keter-class anomalies. **Description:** SCP-L099 was a dangerous reality bender/sorcerer capable of locally reducing baseline reality levels (Hume rating) to 0 Hm. Had the anomaly fully unfolded, the entire material world would have been erased. **Neutralization Log:** During a critical containment breach, Overseer O5-L personally intervened to halt the anomaly. Arming himself with an anomalous blade, O5-L engaged in close-quarters combat and heroically slew SCP-L099, thereby completely neutralizing the threat and preserving our world intact. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[div class="textbox"]] [[span style="color:#ff3333; font-weight:bold;"]][LEVEL 5 / O5 CLEARANCE REQUIRED][[/span]] [[span style="color:#00ff66; font-weight:bold;"]]AUTHENTICATION ACCEPTED[[/span]] [[/div]] [[collapsible show="+ Open Classified File: SCP-L099" hide="- Close Classified File"]] ++ TRUE DATA FILE: SCP-L099 **True Object Class:** Keter **True Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-L099 **is not neutralized**. The entity remains an active reality bender that continuously depresses ambient reality levels in its vicinity down to absolute zero (0 Hm). The sole known method of containment is Protocol "Mass Conviction". The intensity of SCP-L099's anomalous manifestations is inversely proportional to the number of conscious minds that genuinely believe in its permanent destruction. The public-facing portion of this document must remain accessible across the Foundation intranet. Complete deletion of this document or compromise of the false neutralization narrative will cause immediate containment failure, resulting in an inevitable end-of-the-world scenario (Class-XK Event). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ++ Audio Log Transcript [O5-AUDIO-L099-01] [[div class="interview-box"]] ||~ Recorded Subject ||~ Role || || O5-1 || Council Member || || The Administrator || Executive Lead || > **[BEGIN LOG]** > > **O5-1:** I've reviewed the public entry for L099. Containment is holding, Hume levels are stable. But explain to me what this nonsense in the neutralization log is supposed to be. > > **The Administrator:** You mean the passage regarding the neutralization? > > **O5-1:** Precisely. //"Overseer O5-L took up a sword and heroically slew the sorcerer."// This is an official Foundation database, not a cheap fantasy novel. Who authorized that line in the public version? > > **The Administrator:** We're auditing the logs, but the actual containment protocol available to us contains no mention of O5-L. Nor any sword. The classified record doesn't state who created that narrative in the first place. > > **O5-1:** So in our top-secret documentation, there isn't a single word about O5-L, yet in the public entry read by the entire organization, he's memorialized as the savior of humanity? > > **The Administrator:** Exactly. Furthermore, if we attempt to edit the public entry and remove the mention of O5-L, the integrity of the memetic anchor decays and Hume levels begin to drop. We are forced to leave this fairy tale about O5-L and his blade intact, because without it, containment collapses. > > **[END LOG]** [[/div]] [[/collapsible]]

style="display: none"]] ===== [[include component:preview | title=Guitar Case | text=SCP-L300 is an empty soft-shell acoustic guitar case. Foundation personnel possess full awareness of its existence, despite the absence of any historical record documenting its initial acquisition. 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[[include :scp-wiki:info:end]] [[include :scp-wiki:component:info-cw]] [[include :scp-wiki:component:image-block-base name=http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/scp-l300/guitar_case.jpg|caption=SCP-L300 prior to Neutralization.|width=300px|align=right]] **Item #:** SCP-L300 (##0080FF|Guitar Case##) **Object Class:** Neutralized (Formerly Euclid) **Special Containment Procedures:** [SUPERSEEDED] SCP-L300 is to be placed within a standard storage crate in Containment Locker 42 at Site-88. Per Directive O5-L, the container holding SCP-L300 must remain permanently open and unlocked at all times. Locking, latching, or otherwise closing the containment box is strictly prohibited. **Current Containment Status:** Following Incident L300-1, SCP-L300 is considered Neutralized due to its complete physical disappearance. Personnel guidelines remain active regarding manifestations of the secondary phenomenon (see Addendum L300-01). **Description:** SCP-L300 was a standard, black nylon soft-shell acoustic guitar case showing minor signs of physical wear. SCP-L300 exhibited no anomalous physical properties, electromagnetic emissions, or structural resistance. Despite comprehensive archival audits, no documentation exists explaining the origin, discovery, or initial reasoning behind the containment of SCP-L300. However, all Site-88 staff and relevant Foundation authorities possessed an innate awareness of its existence, location, and containment requirements prior to its neutralization. @@ @@ [[div class="textbox"]] [[div class="logs"]] [[div class="logs-header"]] ++++ INCIDENT LOG L300-1 [[/div]] **Date:** 11/14/2004 **Involved Personnel:** Junior Researcher Julian Vance (notable for wearing non-standard light pink dress shirts), Site Director Marcus Hayes. **Foreword:** On 11/14/2004, Junior Researcher Vance was assigned routine inventory inspection of Storage Ward B. Upon noticing that the container holding SCP-L300 was open, Vance closed and latched the lid, unaware of or disregarding the specific directive issued by O5-L. Approximately 40 minutes later, Senior Staff noticed the closed container during shift rotation and immediately opened it in accordance with protocol. Upon opening: * SCP-L300 was no longer inside the container. * Junior Researcher Julian Vance could not be located anywhere on Site-88 grounds. * Security camera footage from Ward B showed Vance closing the box, stepping backward, and vanishing instantaneously from frame at the moment the latch engaged. [[/div]] [[/div]] @@ @@ [[tabview]] [[tab Incident Report & Audio Transcript]] [[div style="padding: 1em;"]] [[=]] ++++ AUDIO LOG: SITE DIRECTOR'S PERSONAL DIARY [[/=]] [[div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa9a9; padding: 5px 0px 5px 0px;"]] **Date:** 11/15/2004 **Speaker:** Site Director Marcus Hayes **Note:** Recorded following the initial investigation into Incident L300-1. [[/div]] [[div style="padding: 10px 0px;"]] > **[BEGIN LOG]** > > **Director Hayes:** (Sighs) Log entry... November 15th. We've spent twenty-four hours turning Site-88 upside down. Nothing. Julian is just... gone. The case is gone too. > > **Director Hayes:** It makes no sense. The kid was bright, if a bit eccentric—he always wore that absurd pink shirt, even when HR gave him grief about the dress code. He just didn't read the Directive closely enough. Or maybe he thought it was a mistake. Why would O5-L order an open box? Why keep a containment box unlocked? It feels like a sick joke in hindsight. > > **Director Hayes:** I lost a good researcher over a zipper and a wooden latch. I was talking to Arthur in the hallway outside my quarters just five minutes ago, telling him how sick I feel about losing the kid. How it breaks my heart that I couldn't... > > *(Director Hayes stops speaking. Silence on recording for 8 seconds.)* > > **Director Hayes:** *(Voice trembling)* Wait. > > **Director Hayes:** Oh God. > > **Director Hayes:** Arthur was transferred to Site-19 three weeks ago. > > **Director Hayes:** I wasn't talking to Arthur. He was wearing... he had a pink shirt under his lab coat. I didn't even look at his face. I just kept walking and talking. I was complaining to Julian about losing Julian. > > **[END LOG]** [[/div]] [[/div]] [[/tab]] [[/tabview]] @@ @@ [[div class="textbox"]] [[div class="logs"]] [[div class="logs-header"]] ++++ ADDENDUM L300-01: MANIFESTATION LOGS [[/div]] Following Incident L300-1, SCP-L300 was reclassified as Neutralized due to the complete absence of the physical object. However, a passive manifestation phenomenon has persisted across Site-88. [[table class="dialog"]] [[row]] [[hcell]] Observation 1 [[/hcell]] [[cell]] Personnel across various clearance levels (including Class-D personnel assigned to maintenance) periodically report having casual, brief conversations in hallway corridors with a junior researcher dressed in a pink dress shirt. [[/cell]] [[/row]] [[/table]] [[table class="dialog"]] [[row]] [[hcell]] Observation 2 [[/hcell]] [[cell]] Subjects reporting these interactions never recognize the individual during the conversation. Awareness that they were speaking with the missing Junior Researcher Vance only occurs post-facto, typically after Vance has already turned a corner or entered an unmonitored area. [[/cell]] [[/row]] [[/table]] [[table class="dialog"]] [[row]] [[hcell]] Observation 3 [[/hcell]] [[cell]] Vance does not exhibit hostile behavior and appears unaware of his missing status, routinely discussing mundane administrative tasks or asking for directions to rooms that no longer exist on site blueprints. [[/cell]] [[/row]] [[/table]] [[/div]] [[/div]] @@ @@ [[include component:wikimodule |ratings= --]]] [[div class="footer-wikiwalk-nav"]] [[=]] << [[[SCP-L299]]] | SCP-L300 | [[[SCP-L301]]] >> [[/=]] [[/div]] [[include :scp-wiki:component:license-box]] > **Filename:** guitar_case.jpg > **Name:** Soft Guitar Case > **Author:** Wikimedia Commons Contributor > **License:** CC BY-SA 4.0 > **Source Link:** https://commons.wikimedia.org [[include :scp-wiki:component:license-box-end]]

[[include :scp-wiki:theme:dark]] [[module css]] .textbox { border: 1px solid #333333; padding: 1.2em; background: #0d0d0d; border-left: 3px solid #0080ff; margin: 1em 0; } .interview-box { background-color: #121212; border: 1px solid #222222; padding: 1em; margin: 1em 0; } [[/module]] [[>]] [[module rate]] [[/>]] **Item #:** SCP-L400 **Object Class:** Neutralized *(assigned upon initial containment)* **Special Containment Procedures:** No physical containment procedures, physical chambers, or dedicated security personnel are assigned to SCP-L400. Pursuant to Executive Directive No. 400 issued by O5-L, the database entry for SCP-L400 must remain active, archived under the "Neutralized" classification, and allocated a permanent administrative slot within the Foundation's Central Data Core. Deletion, purge, or modification of the digital record for SCP-L400 is strictly prohibited. **Description:** SCP-L400 is a non-existent object, entity, or phenomenon. There are no physical, spatial, or historical records indicating that SCP-L400 ever existed in reality. No recovery logs, containment breach reports, or physical artifacts associated with SCP-L400 have ever been generated. The object was classified as **Neutralized** simultaneously with its initial database entry, created directly by **O5-L** in 1988. Despite its complete physical absence, SCP-L400 actively consumes administrative memory, automated index cycles, and database registration slots across all regional Foundation network hubs. --- ### Document L400-A: Internal Inquiry Report > **Compiled by:** Director [REDACTED], Site Director (Ref: SCP-L300 Incident Clearance) > **Target:** Audit of Phantom Database Entries (SCP-L400 File) [[div class="textbox"]] **MEMORANDUM TO SITE OVERSIGHT** For over fifteen years, the Foundation's central servers have maintained a designated containment file for SCP-L400. Not a file for an object that *used* to exist and was destroyed, but a file created specifically to register something that was never captured, never observed, and never present in physical space. It is, for all practical purposes, Russell's Teapot logged into the SCP database. Because O5-L's directive explicitly forbids deleting this "Neutralized" ghost-file, it continues to trigger automated site auditing errors and logic loops in our logistical software. To determine why the Overseer forced us to host a phantom entry, I conducted a series of informal interviews with senior researchers and personnel. — *Director [REDACTED]* [[/div]] --- ### Addendum L400-1: Interview Transcripts [[div class="interview-box"]] **Transcript Excerpt 1: Dr. Alton Clef** **Site Director:** Alto, why do you think O5-L forced the system to register a non-existent object as Neutralized? **Dr. Clef:** *(sips coffee)* You ever heard of Russell's Teapot, Director? The idea that there's a porcelain teapot orbiting the Sun between Earth and Mars, but it's too small for any telescope to see? **Site Director:** Of course. A classic philosophical analogy regarding burden of proof. **Dr. Clef:** Right. Except O5-L didn't just propose the teapot—he officially filed containment papers for it. If an Overseer logs a ghost into the system and labels it Neutralized, you can't disprove it. You can't prove it *doesn't* exist if the file says it's already dead. It’s a perfect administrative anchor. Leave it alone before you accidentally prove it *is* real. [[/div]] [[div class="interview-box"]] **Transcript Excerpt 2: Dr. Jack Bright** **Site Director:** Jack, does the database entry for SCP-L400 serve any functional purpose from your perspective? **Dr. Bright:** I looked into the raw data allocation for L400 last year. The file size is zero bytes, yet the network treats it as a massive, immovable block of data. **Site Director:** A phantom placeholder? **Dr. Bright:** Exactly. It’s like booking a seat on an airplane for a passenger who doesn't exist, just so nobody else can sit there. O5-L didn't contain an object—he contained a slot in the universe's inventory. Whatever he was trying to prevent from filling that space, it worked. [[/div]] [[div class="interview-box"]] **Transcript Excerpt 3: Dr. H. King** **Site Director:** Dr. King, did you ever run automated cross-checks on the SCP-L400 database entry? **Dr. King:** *(visibly anxious)* I tried running a deep query on the entry in 1994 to see if any hidden text was buried in the code. **Site Director:** Did the system return any hidden data? **Dr. King:** No! The server's cooling fans malfunctioned, the local drive seized up, and four hundred kilograms of apple seeds ejected straight out of the server rack's ventilation grid! **Site Director:** ...From a digital query? **Dr. King:** I don't know, Director! I don't question the seeds anymore, I just stopped querying files created by O5-L! [[/div]] [[div class="interview-box"]] **Transcript Excerpt 4: Compilation of Junior Personnel (Drs. Aris, Vance, and Agent Miller)** **Dr. Aris:** "I think it's a conceptual firewall. If an anomaly tries to manifest at that index number, it hits the 'Neutralized' status and collapses." **Dr. Vance:** "It's a placeholder for an event that O5-L erased so thoroughly that even the cause of its neutralization vanished." **Agent Miller:** "Honestly? I think O5-L just made a typo while logging his lunch order in 1988 and was too proud to delete the entry." [[/div]] --- ### Addendum L400-2: Administrator Communication [[div class="textbox"]] **FROM:** OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR **TO:** Site Director [REDACTED] **SUBJECT:** RE: Inquiry into SCP-L400 / Directives of O5-L Director, Your formal request to purge the phantom database entry for SCP-L400 and strike the designation from the Lost Series registry has been received. Your observation regarding the absurdity of hosting a digital "Russell's Teapot" is noted. However, recent automated diagnostics within the internal O5-L archive network indicate that the status designation "Neutralized" attached to SCP-L400 was not a historical classification. It was a countdown condition. Notice is hereby given that the Office of the Administrator is initiating an official review and reclassification protocol for SCP-L400, effective immediately. Do not delete or alter the file. *— The Administrator* [[/div]] --- [[include component:preview | title=Phantom Database Entry | text=SCP-L400 is a non-existent object designated as Neutralized upon creation by O5-L. Existing purely as a database file, it consumes system resources like a digital "Russell's Teapot." Personnel interviews suggest it acts as a conceptual placeholder, and the Administrator recently revealed the Neutralized status is actually an active countdown. (380 words) ]]

[[include :scp-wiki:theme:dark]] [[module css]] .textbox { border: 1px solid #333333; padding: 1.2em; background: #0d0d0d; border-left: 3px solid #0080ff; margin: 1em 0; } .quote-box { background-color: #121212; border: 1px solid #222222; padding: 1em; margin: 1em 0; } [[/module]] [[>]] [[module rate]] [[/>]] **Item #:** SCP-L900 **Object Class:** Neutralized *(formerly Safe)* **Special Containment Procedures:** Due to the total loss of the item's primary identifying data, direct containment procedures are currently impossible. SCP-L900's specific telephone number is considered officially lost. All surviving audio logs and experimental transcripts regarding SCP-L900 have been archived and are accessible to personnel with Level 3/L900 clearance or higher. Any attempts to conduct mass-dialing campaigns targeting decommissioned or abandoned Foundation telecommunication lines to relocate SCP-L900 are strictly prohibited without direct authorization from the O5 Council. **Description:** SCP-L900 was an anomalous telephone number previously assigned to a high-ranking member of the O5 Council, designated in internal records as **O5-L**. When an outbound call was placed to this number from any landline or mobile device located within a Foundation facility, the call was invariably routed directly to O5-L. During the connection, the caller engaged in direct dialogue with a male voice identifying himself as "Senior Foundation Executive O5-L." Interacting with SCP-L900 produced a pronounced psycho-emotional effect on the caller. Throughout the conversation, subjects experienced a massive surge in motivation, professional enthusiasm, and mental fortitude. Callers exhibited total readiness to execute any assigned tasks, while signs of burnout, depression, and skepticism regarding Foundation operations vanished completely. **Anomalous Fade Effect:** Exactly 10 hours (±3 minutes) following the termination of the call, the subject experienced complete retrograde amnesia covering the preceding 10-hour window: 1. The subject completely forgot the act of calling SCP-L900 and the content of the conversation with O5-L. 2. The subject lost all memory of any actions, experiments, or decisions made during that 10-hour timeframe. 3. The heightened motivational state reset to the subject's baseline psycho-emotional condition prior to the call. **History of Neutralization:** During a series of authorized tests, a research team led by Dr. [REDACTED] attempted to capture the digital and analog signal codes of SCP-L900 on external media during an active call. As a result of the anomalous fade effect, all participating personnel simultaneously forgot the telephone number itself, as well as the exact routing coordinates of the network node through which the connection was established. All physical and digital logs recorded within the 10-hour testing window were either erased or rendered unreadable due to operator amnesia. Owing to the inability to initiate a new connection and the absence of any registry records of the number within Foundation databases, SCP-L900 was reclassified as **Neutralized**, and its documentation was transferred to the **Lost Series** registry. --- ### Addendum L900-1: Recovered Audio Log > **Note:** The following is the sole surviving transcript, partially recovered from an automated external analog tape recorder operating outside the presence of the research team. [[div class="textbox"]] **[BEGIN LOG]** **Researcher:** ...yes, sir. I understand the weight of the responsibility. But we’ve hit a wall with the project. Resources are depleted, and the team is completely burnt out. **SCP-L900 (Voice of O5-L):** You are looking at this from the perspective of a gnat trying to comprehend a dam, colleague. You are not here to see the entire picture. You are here to hold one specific brick. You are performing work without which this entire structure collapses in a second. **Researcher:** *(pause)* Do you truly believe that? **SCP-L900 (Voice of O5-L):** I know it. Return to your duties. And remember: what we do may be erased from the minds of men, but not from the fabric of reality. Soon, you will forget all of this. That is a normal process. The important thing is—keep building. **[END LOG]** [[/div]] --- [[include component:preview | title=O5-L's Phone Number | text=SCP-L900 was a phone number assigned to O5-L. Dialing it connected subjects to O5-L, granting intense work motivation. Exactly 10 hours later, subjects suffered targeted amnesia, forgetting the call and that period's events. Due to an experimental memory wipe, the number was lost, reclassifying the object to Neutralized. (380 words) ]]