Noting that new site member 
KeniMations (account age 1 day, site membership 11 hours) recently posted the following concept thread, which has multiple indicators of AI-generation: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-17162928/seeking-greenlights-penny-for-your-thoughts of note, the thread description is "An Archaic Foundation Procedure From a Time When They Didn't Have Amnestics"
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Seeking Greenlights: Yes
Page Type: SCP Article, Classic Con
Genre: Horror, History,
Elevator Pitch: The article describes SCP-XXXX, a series of highly invasive medical procedures that when performed, function in a similar manner as do amnestics, helping remove and augment the memories of the subject. It was used largely in the late 19th century when the Foundation was still in its infancy. The procedure as a whole is very unprofessional, and the bar to perform it is incredibly low, which invites many ways it can go wrong. The procedure is (officially) discontinued as of 1967, but it is impossible to tell for sure.
Central Narrative: The article is less about describing the procedure itself, and instead the history of its use throughout the Foundation up to its eventual discontinuation. The effects of the procedure are described in the first addendum, through a series of test logs on various people. The effects ranges from mostly harmless to disastrous through way of body horror. The article then continues to describe the later history of the procedure as the Foundation modernizes and attempts to phase out the practice completely.
There is then a section which is restricted to level 3 or above clearance and describes a phenomenon where isolated Foundation sites from the 19th century often fall into disrepair as they are left out of the wider Foundation network. Site-19 receives a letter from one of these sites describing the continued usage of SCP-XXXX. The site is destroyed and the Foundation speculates as to how many of these "dead sites" remain and how many times the procedure has been practiced in them.
Hook/Attention-Grabber: The horror theme focuses on capturing the disturbing world of 19th century medical practices and how brutal/disgusting they could be. It uses this concept to capitalize on the concept of anachronisms (or kind of a reverse Tiffany effect) by delving into the idea of practices that are seen as being a relic of the ancient past not being that far from us today. Such examples in the real world are the last execution via guillotine in France being in 1972, or Alfred Irving being the last slave freed in the United States in 1942.
Excerpts of note:
Elevator Pitch: The article describes SCP-XXXX, a series of highly invasive medical procedures that when performed, function in a similar manner as do amnestics, helping remove and augment the memories of the subject.
Central Narrative: The article is less about describing the procedure itself, and instead the history of its use throughout the Foundation up to its eventual discontinuation. The effects of the procedure are described in the first addendum, through a series of test logs on various people. The effects ranges from mostly harmless to disastrous through way of body horror. The article then continues to describe the later history of the procedure as the Foundation modernizes and attempts to phase out the practice completely.
Hook/Attention-Grabber: The horror theme focuses on capturing the disturbing world of 19th century medical practices and how brutal/disgusting they could be. It uses this concept to capitalize on the concept of anachronisms (or kind of a reverse Tiffany effect) by delving into the idea of practices that are seen as being a relic of the ancient past not being that far from us today. Such examples in the real world are the last execution via guillotine in France being in 1972, or Alfred Irving being the last slave freed in the United States in 1942.
Of note, the user has a sandbox page that also has AI indicators, with a full draft being present in Revision 0: https://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/classic-con-entry-penny-for-your-thoughts
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**Item #:** SCP-XXXX
**Object Class:** Safe
**Special Containment Procedures:** Official Foundation usage of SCP-XXXX has been discontinued circa 11/12/1967. In accordance with this policy, the instructions on how to perform SCP-XXXX have been omitted from all Foundation training courses, seminars, and literature which are intended to be viewed by Foundation medical staff. References to SCP-XXXX in Foundation disseminated media are to be made purely in a historical context. One digital document with instructions on how to perform SCP-XXXX is to be kept for posterity and restricted to Level 4 clearance or higher.
**Description:** SCP-XXXX refers to a series of medical procedures that when approximately applied correctly on a human patient allows the practitioner to remove and augment their memories and experiences. Each requisite step of SCP-XXXX in isolation is non-anomalous, however when each step is intended1 to be performed correctly within at least 10 minutes of each other in a coherent order2, an anomalous effect will manifest that causes a heightened degree of suggestibility in the consciousness of the afflicted individual.
SCP-XXXX was adopted by the Foundation as an official medical procedure sometime in 1877, a few years after the Foundation’s establishment, although records suggest that the procedure itself was practiced as far as 200 years prior. Documents from this period indicate that SCP-XXXX was adopted as an early form of amnestic treatment. Due to the limited resources and funding available to the Foundation in its first decades of existence, obtaining large quantities of amnestics was unfeasible, and their use was relegated to rare large scale instances. SCP-XXXX was favored due to the ease of which it could be practiced, as it only required rudimentary medical tools and could be performed without anesthetic. The skill required to successfully execute SCP-XXXX was far lower than those of even non-anomalous procedures at the time to the extent that medical training was not required for practitioners of SCP-XXXX.
These factors, combined with the “acceptable” risk of injury, disfigurement, or psychosis made it the primary method of memory-altering treatment in the early years of the Foundation. In 1946, the Foundation officially mandated practitioners of SCP-XXXX to have obtained a medical doctorate or equivalent.
**Addendum-XXXX-1: Early Documentation of SCP-XXXX:** Between its first adoption in 1877 and the period wherein usage of conventional amnestics outstripped usage of SCP-XXXX, there has been a total of ████ recorded applications of SCP-XXXX. ██% have been performed successfully. A partial log of applications has been compiled below.
**Patient:** Eliott Farendall
**Required Alteration:** Removal of classified information following a security breach.
**Status:** Successful. The subject had trouble walking the following week.
**Patient:** George McCullen
**Required Alternation:** Knowledge of extended family following their deaths to avoid distress.
**Status:** Successful. Excess bone matter was found and given a proper burial.
**Patient:** Felix Heidenkampf
**Required Alternation:** Removal of traumatic memories.
**Status:** Successful. The subject is reported to suffer from “sleepless dreams”. He was found in a closet 5 days and 3 hours later attempting to consume the tendons in his left arm.
**Patient:** ████ ████
**Required Alteration:** Removal of cognitohazard responsible for mild reality warping effects.
**Status:** The subject was not impeded in such a way that their faculties are not useful to the Foundation. There was more cleanup than usual.
**Patient:** Felicity Burgess
**Required Alteration:** Hysteria.
**Status:** Unsuccessful. The screaming has not yet stopped, even as her remains were recremated.
The last recorded instance of SCP-XXXX being performed was in 19██, whereupon amnestic treatment became more affordable across the wider Foundation. The Ethics Committee later announced a moratorium on the practice, but it was largely unenforced and only served to halt its documentation. The number of instances of its application between then and its official discontinuation as such is unknown.
**Addendum-XXXX-2: Early Documentation of SCP-XXXX:**
Concerns voiced regarding excessive usage of SCP-XXXX peaked in the waning years of the 19th century. As Foundation medical knowledge advanced to a more complex understanding, SCP-XXXX began to be seen as an archaic and dangerous procedure, with the risks associated with it now being increasingly seen as unacceptable. In 1907, the Foundation required medical practitioners performing SCP-XXXX to have not taken or have recanted the Hippocratic Oath due to the degree of invasiveness the procedure entailed. The nonstandardization of the procedure also inhibited attempts to make it safer. By the time a single patent for the Foundation's method of SCP-XXXX was released in 1935, ████ permutations of SCP-XXXX were known to exist.
Following Incident Report XXXX-65-08, the O5 Council enforced an edict which mandated the end of SCP-XXXX as part of official Foundation practice.
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In the early years of the Foundation, expansion attempts prioritized quantity over quality due to the poor infrastructure of the time and the Foundation's limited resources. As a result, the early Foundation was very decentralized in nature, with many sites being isolated and expected to be self-sufficient. As the Foundation centralized and grew in influence, many of these sites began to be interconnected and centralized around Site-19. However, some sites evaded centralization due to their extreme isolation. Subsequently, they were not able to receive annual supply renewals or modern technology, with many sites falling into disrepair. Some remained, however, and continued to function under archaic guidelines and procedures. This would include rampant usage of SCP-XXXX due to a lack of amnestics. Although most of these sites were forcibly shut down after 1955, only 95% of these “dead sites” have been confirmed to be liquidated.
On 1/8/1965, a fax message was sent to the mailroom of Site-19, addressed from the location of an hitherto unheard of dead site. The message is transcribed as follows:
“After the 5,657th time performing the procedure, my tools have worn away and I have resorted to using my hands. May I request a shipment of scalpels?”
The site was promptly located and terminated. It is unknown how many cases of SCP-XXXX have occurred in dead sites.
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Excerpts of note:
Addendum-XXXX-2: Early Documentation of SCP-XXXX:
Concerns voiced regarding excessive usage of SCP-XXXX peaked in the waning years of the 19th century. As Foundation medical knowledge advanced to a more complex understanding, SCP-XXXX began to be seen as an archaic and dangerous procedure, with the risks associated with it now being increasingly seen as unacceptable.
On 1/8/1965, a fax message was sent to the mailroom of Site-19, addressed from the location of an hitherto unheard of dead site. The message is transcribed as follows:
“After the 5,657th time performing the procedure, my tools have worn away and I have resorted to using my hands. May I request a shipment of scalpels?”
The site was promptly located and terminated. It is unknown how many cases of SCP-XXXX have occurred in dead sites.
No action taken as of yet, pending user response to comment query in their forum thread.
