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**NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION DEPARTMENT OF CONCEPTUAL HAZARD CONTAINMENT**
You are attempting to access documentation classified under Cognitohazard Tier-Omega.
This file is governed by **Protocol NOESIS-9** and is subject to **autonomous recursive integrity checks**.
**The concept described herein is cognitively infectious.**
Exposure correlates strongly with narrative - causal restructuring of personal life trajectories.
SCP-XXXX is known to trigger irreversible memetic entanglement through mere acknowledgment of the core concept.
Continued access will bind your cognitive identity to SCP-XXXX’s anomalous framework.
This is not a metaphor. This is not reversible.
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**[SYSTEM RESPONSE: SECURE ACCESS NODE ██-B ACKNOWLEDGED]**
> Clearance confirmed: Level 4
> Linked Identity: ████████ █. ████████
> Neuro-cognitive pattern scan complete: [NOOSPHERIC INTERFERENCE: 0.02%]
> Status: Acceptable
**Access granted. Proceed to next verification stage.**
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**[MEMETIC RESISTANCE PROTOCOL ENGAGED]**
> Scanning mnestic retention layer...
> Resistance thresholds against 6422-A, -B, -C... [PASS]
> Auto-regressive anchor loops detected... [NONE]
> Cognitive response time to embedded ethical trigger... [STABLE]
> Active Narrative Deflection Index (NDI): 93.2%
> Status: Immune profile sufficient for continued engagement
**Cognitive hazard resilience verified. Proceed to final authorization.**
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**[O5-COUNCIL OVERRIDE INITIATED: AUTH CODE ██████-7]**
> Authority confirmation received.
> Final audit of narrative compliance and identity tether... PASSED
> Temporal signature integrity... CONFIRMED
> Local causality threads unknotted... OK
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**YOU HAVE PASSED ALL ACCESS GATES.**
**FINAL WARNING:**
The following file contains a self-instantiating conceptual anomaly.
Exposure to the enclosed information will result in irrevocable designation SCP-XXXX-A.
Subjects will become permanently entangled in SCP-XXXX’s narrative - causal structure.
This status cannot be reversed, excised, or cognitively suppressed.
The Foundation accepts no responsibility for consequences arising from voluntary exposure.
If you are uncertain, abort access now.
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**Item #:** SCP-XXXX
**Object Class:** Keter
**Special Containment Procedures:**
Due to the memetic and conceptual nature of SCP-XXXX, physical containment is not possible. Containment efforts are instead focused on the suppression of conceptual exposure through public misinformation campaigns, the regulation of narrative-influenced media, and the enforcement of internal cognitive safety protocols.
Foundation personnel are strictly prohibited from referring to, teaching, or implying the existence of universal moral retribution, karmic systems, or autonomous ethical causality outside authorized SCP-XXXX research channels. Violations are subject to immediate reassignment and mnemonic sanitation.
All documentation involving SCP-XXXX must use neutral terminology (e.g., *"causal irregularity"*, *"narrative anomaly"*) to avoid triggering memetic activation in uninoculated personnel. Written content is filtered through ONYX-ALEPH cognitohazard scrubbers. Personnel cleared for interaction with SCP-XXXX materials are required to undergo monthly narrative neutrality conditioning and cognitive integrity assessments.
Civilians or subjects identified as SCP-XXXX-A instances are to be monitored indefinitely. Active containment does not include direct engagement. Attempts to explain, mitigate, or reveal the mechanics of SCP-XXXX to affected individuals have consistently resulted in narrative destabilization and increased anomaly expression. Such contact is strictly forbidden without O5 authorization.
Passive observation, pattern logging, and behavioral tracking remain the primary containment strategies until a reliable inoculation protocol is developed.
**Description:**
SCP-XXXX is a passive, self-propagating memetic infohazard that activates when an individual cognitively engages with the concept of **moral causality** – i.e., the belief or speculation that moral actions inevitably lead to appropriate consequences, whether positive or negative, through a universal or unseen mechanism.
This concept does not need to be named, accepted, or even understood in full. Mere **recognition**, even momentary or subconscious, of constructs such as *justice*, *fate*, *cosmic balance*, or *what goes around comes around* is sufficient to trigger SCP-XXXX activation. Individuals may be affected through exposure to media, language, or situations that symbolically imply the presence of moral consequence, without requiring explicit philosophical reflection.
Once activated, the subject (designated SCP-XXXX-A) enters into a permanent state of **causal entanglement** with SCP-XXXX. From this point forward, the individual begins to experience a statistically anomalous pattern of probabilistic manipulation. These effects consistently manifest as **outcomes that symbolically or narratively reflect the subject’s ethical behavior**, internal moral contradictions, or psychological inconsistencies.
These outcomes may include, but are not limited to:
- Repeated occurrences of improbably timed events that appear "poetic" or "thematically appropriate."
- External repercussions resulting from previously concealed or morally ambiguous actions.
- Indirect or symbolic events that mirror suppressed intent (e.g., punishment for an action the subject only considered but did not commit).
- Sudden, statistically impossible “corrections” in the subject's life circumstances following a morally dissonant choice.
SCP-XXXX is **non-sentient** and displays no evidence of consciousness, intent, or agency. Its anomalous effects are not applied according to any measurable moral framework. Instead, consequences align with **narrative coherence** – the maintenance of internally consistent cause - effect relationships based on the subject's own perception of morality, guilt, self-justification, or repression. The resulting outcomes are frequently ironic, indirect, or contextually disproportionate.
> Example: A subject who habitually lies to protect their public image may experience a string of events that reveal personal truths through unrelated coincidences, such as accidental emails, forgotten surveillance footage, or unrelated individuals volunteering damning information. These outcomes are rarely immediate, and often unfold in ways that suggest constructed storytelling rather than natural consequence.
The effects of SCP-XXXX are cumulative and persistent. Once an individual becomes an SCP-XXXX-A instance, no known method of disassociation or reversal has been observed. Subjects remain affected even after the application of full-spectrum amnestics, neural trauma, or cognitively inert environments. Probability fields surrounding SCP-XXXX-A instances remain anomalous until their biological death.
Long-term exposure frequently results in psychological degradation. SCP-XXXX-A instances commonly develop:
- **Hyper-awareness** of patterns, perceived meanings, or coincidences in day-to-day life.
- **Chronic guilt**, often disconnected from specific actions.
- **Delusions of narrative control** (e.g., referring to themselves as characters or believing they are being "written").
- **Paranoia**, especially regarding surveillance, poetic justice, or divine retribution.
- **Compulsive ethical behavior**, often extreme or ritualistic, in an effort to "balance the narrative."
In ██ documented cases, SCP-XXXX-A instances have attempted to **preemptively punish themselves** in order to avoid an anticipated karmic event. These actions have included voluntary imprisonment, social exile, or self-mutilation. In all recorded cases, the anticipated event still occurred.
Subjects unaware of SCP-XXXX's existence prior to ATE-XXXX often attribute their experiences to coincidence, divine punishment, or "bad luck" until the pattern becomes too consistent to ignore. In contrast, those who are aware of SCP-XXXX prior to activation tend to deteriorate psychologically at a faster rate, possibly due to heightened pattern recognition and anticipation of consequences.
Exposure to this document constitutes a memetic activation event. Readers who are cognitively intact and comprehend the concept outlined above are now considered SCP-XXXX-A.
**Addendum XXXX-A – Initial Discovery Log**
SCP-XXXX was first flagged on ██/██/2016 by Foundation cognitive-threat analytics (Project SIEVE) following the detection of a low-grade Narrative Symmetry Cascade centered in ███████, Massachusetts. Over the course of ten days, five unrelated individuals experienced a series of highly improbable, ethically reflective events. Though non-fatal, each incident exhibited a distinct correlation between the subject's recent actions and the resulting consequences.
All five subjects experienced abrupt, life-altering events:
- A claims adjuster with a record of denying medical reimbursements suffered a denied claim of his own after an accidental activation of a fire suppression system destroyed both his laptop and archival documentation. The denied claim referenced a minor clause he had previously used to reject others. Incident occurred less than 24 hours after he dismissed a claimant's appeal.
- A substitute teacher with a reputation for mocking students over grammar errors was assigned a misfiled week-long Latin curriculum focused on classical moral parables. The assignment appeared in scheduling logs retroactively; no staff reported submitting it.
- A food critic known for anti-vegan rhetoric developed an acute, psychosomatic aversion to meat. Attempts to consume animal products triggered hallucinations of anthropomorphic livestock delivering critiques in his own voice. Psychiatric screening was inconclusive.
- A landlord with a history of eviction via legal technicalities was served with an unanticipated lien on his personal residence. Review of municipal records revealed a dormant code enforcement violation filed under his own name in 20██.
- A teenage influencer who regularly posted content mocking "cosmic justice" was hospitalized after suffering minor lacerations from a falling mineral display. Surveillance footage of the museum exhibit showed no interference, structural defect, or human presence at the moment of collapse.
Initial classification was limited to a Class-II Coincidence Cluster. Following further investigation, all five individuals were determined to have interacted with media explicitly referencing the concept of **karma** or **cosmic balance** in the 72 hours prior to the event. This included:
- Audio logs of self-help podcasts
- Annotated copies of ████████’s *On Moral Gravity*
- Archived chat transcripts including the phrase *“what goes around comes around”*
Three of the five individuals had searched the term "karma isn't real" within the previous week.
Project SIEVE issued a Level 3 Narrative Pattern Alert. MTF Psi-8 ("Coincidence Control") was deployed to sanitize local data nodes and suppress online conversation threads. Civilian memory modification was authorized and executed under Protocol ███-Banyan.
This cluster marked the first event officially designated as SCP-XXXX under Foundation criteria. The event prompted retroactive analysis of prior unexplained incidents and triggered internal debate regarding SCP-XXXX’s possible dormancy or emergence.
A statistical review conducted by Site-██’s Memetics Division yielded the following concerns:
- An estimated ██.█% of the global population currently engages with moral-causal content weekly (e.g., justice-focused media, callout culture, ethics discourse).
- No SCP-XXXX manifestations were confirmed in pre-████ digital records.
- Cultural density models suggest a spike in karmic-symbolic content beginning in late 2013.
- Passive exposure thresholds may already be surpassed in densely connected urban sectors.
The working theory remains inconclusive. SCP-XXXX may represent an emergent anomalous system, a latent psychic-cultural reflex, or a mechanism that has operated throughout human history but only recently attained **activation velocity** due to sociocultural saturation.
Project ARGO-17 has been approved to conduct a full narrative archaeology of potential historical SCP-XXXX events. Clearance for global modeling simulations is pending O5 review.
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Long-term exposure frequently results in psychological degradation. SCP-XXXX-A instances commonly develop:
- Hyper-awareness of patterns, perceived meanings, or coincidences in day-to-day life.
- Chronic guilt, often disconnected from specific actions.
- Delusions of narrative control (e.g., referring to themselves as characters or believing they are being "written").
- Paranoia, especially regarding surveillance, poetic justice, or divine retribution.
- Compulsive ethical behavior, often extreme or ritualistic, in an effort to "balance the narrative."
Initial classification was limited to a Class-II Coincidence Cluster. Following further investigation, all five individuals were determined to have interacted with media explicitly referencing the concept of karma or cosmic balance in the 72 hours prior to the event. This included:
- Audio logs of self-help podcasts
- Annotated copies of ████████’s *On Moral Gravity*
- Archived chat transcripts including the phrase *“what goes around comes around”*
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