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Rushifa (account age 1264 days, site membership 1263 days) recently coldposted the following page, which has multiple indicators of AI-generation: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-9944/comments/show of note, user later made several edits to add additional AI content, as well as superficial wording changes, such as "All Foundation activity concerning SCP-9944 is limited to observation, documentation, delay, and archival preservation. No physical, metaphysical, memetic, antimemetic, or narrative containment strategies have demonstrated any measurable success." being changed to "Foundation activity concerning SCP-9944 is limited to observation, documentation, delay, and archival preservation. SCP-9944 has not been successfully isolated, restricted, or neutralized through physical, metaphysical, memetic, antimemetic, or narrative containment strategies.".
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**Item #:** SCP-9944
**Object Class:** Apollyon
**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-9944 cannot be contained.
All Foundation activity concerning SCP-9944 is limited to observation, documentation, delay, and archival preservation. No physical, metaphysical, memetic, antimemetic, or narrative containment strategies have demonstrated any measurable success. Attempts to restrict, isolate, or terminate SCP-9944 have resulted in accelerated manifestation and increased global semantic degradation.
Foundation Sites worldwide are to maintain evacuation readiness and initiate continuous data archiving of human language, culture, scientific knowledge, and historical records. Long-term survival of humanity is assessed as improbable. Preservation of information is considered the sole remaining Foundation objective.
Direct interaction with SCP-9944 or its manifestations is prohibited, though compliance is not enforceable.
**Description:** SCP-9944 is a global-scale ontological collapse phenomenon associated with the emergence of a cosmic entity identified in pre-collapse records as the Hollow God.
SCP-9944 does not possess a stable physical form. Instead, it manifests through progressive failure of causality, language, identity, and symbolic cognition. SCP-9944 is not hostile, sapient, or reactive in any conventional sense. It represents a correctional state in which human existence becomes incompatible with baseline reality.
The earliest confirmed SCP-9944 activity occurred in the coastal town of Galeshade, Maine, following the exposure of a subterranean structure beneath the cliffs along the shoreline. This structure exhibited non-Euclidean geometry, spiral-based architecture, and material properties inconsistent with known physics.
Individuals exposed to the structure reported recurring dreams, auditory hallucinations described as murmuring without sound, and a compulsive awareness of a presence beneath the ocean.
**Behavioral Characteristics:** Following exposure, SCP-8844 progresses through identifiable stages:
**I. Conceptual Convergence:** Affected individuals independently report identical symbols, phrases, and imagery despite lack of contact. These include spirals, oceans without horizons, and a sensation described as “being remembered.”
**II. Linguistic Degradation:** Spoken and written language begins to lose semantic stability. Words retain phonetic structure but lose meaning. Mathematical notation becomes inconsistent. Personal identity weakens as symbolic thought deteriorates.
**III. Manifestation Events:** Large bodies of water exhibit impossible recession, revealing abyssal voids where seabeds should exist. Witnesses report the appearance of an immense absence shaped like a god, described consistently as hollow, vast, and inevitable.
**IV. Global Collapse:** Human cognition synchronizes toward a uniform, simplified state before complete semantic failure. Death is not immediate. Individuals instead lose the capacity to understand that they are alive.
SCP-9944 does not pursue, attack, or acknowledge humanity. All observed effects appear incidental.
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**Addendum 9944-1: Initial Exploration Log**
**Location:** Subterranean structure beneath Galeshade
**Lead Researcher:** Dr. Elias Thorne
**Status:** Lost
Dr. Thorne entered the central chamber of the structure during initial exploration. Audio recording ceased after thirty-seven seconds. No physical remains were recovered. Subsequent analysis suggests Dr. Thorne did not die but ceased to exist as a discrete conceptual entity.
Following this event, SCP-9944 activity escalated globally.
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**Addendum 9944-2: Field Interview Log**
**Interviewer:** Dr. Miriam Hale
**Interviewed:** Celia Ward, Coastal Safety Officer
**Location:** Temporary Foundation Field Station, Galeshade
> **<Begin Log>**
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> **Dr. Hale:** You were present during the ocean recession event. Can you describe what you saw?
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> **Ward:** It wasn’t rising. That’s the wrong word. The ocean moved aside.... like it realized it was in the way.
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> **Dr. Hale:** Did you see an entity?
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> **Ward:** I saw something... or where something should have been. Everything bent around it. My thoughts bent first.
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> **Dr. Hale:** Were you afraid?
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> **Ward:** No... That's the problem. It felt... old... like the world was apologizing for forgetting it.
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> **Dr. Hale:** What do you believe it wants?
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> **Ward:** It doesn’t want. It remembers. And that’s worse.
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> **<End Log>**
Celia Ward was later exposed during a secondary manifestation event. Subject maintained coherence longer than any recorded individual before complete linguistic collapse.
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**Addendum 9944-3: O5 Council Statement**
SCP-9944 is not a failure of containment.
SCP-9944 is the condition that exists when containment is no longer a valid concept.
The Foundation’s mission has concluded.
**Status:**
Ongoing.
Irreversible.
Human extinction considered inevitable.
Revision 11 retained:
**Item #:** SCP-9944
**Object Class:** --Keter-- Apollyon
**Special Containment Procedures:** No containment procedures for SCP-9944 have proven effective.
Foundation activity concerning SCP-9944 is limited to observation, documentation, delay, and archival preservation. SCP-9944 has not been successfully isolated, restricted, or neutralized through physical, metaphysical, memetic, antimemetic, or narrative containment strategies.
All previous containment strategies (Strategies Alpha through Omicron) have been reclassified as Catalytic Events. All attempts to do so have resulted in increased manifestation frequency, accelerated semantic degradation within affected areas, and created the causal bridge allowing it to anchor into this reality.
Early containment efforts included the deployment of Scranton Reality Anchors, memetic isolation protocols, antimemetic suppression fields, and closed-loop temporal resets. These measures consistently produced localized escalation of SCP-9944 effects, including immediate linguistic collapse among personnel within operational range. Further testing was discontinued after analysis confirmed that direct intervention increased manifestation rate.
Foundation Sites worldwide are to maintain evacuation readiness and prioritize continuous archival preservation of human language, culture, scientific knowledge, and historical records. Long-term survival of human civilization following full SCP-9944 manifestation is assessed as improbable. Preservation of information remains the Foundation’s only viable objective.
The preservation of the concept of humanity is prioritized over the survival of biological populations. Probability of biological survival is calculated at 0.00%.
Direct interaction with SCP-9944 or sustained observation of its manifestations is prohibited, though enforcement is considered infeasible.
**Personnel Advisory:** Do not use metaphors when discussing SCP-9944. Metaphorical thought accelerates semantic assimilation. Describe the entity only in literal terms.
**DO NOT LOOK AT THE OCEAN.**
**Description:** SCP-9944 is a non-corporeal, extra-cosmological entity whose presence produces large-scale destabilization of causality, language, identity, and symbolic cognition. SCP-9944 does not exhibit anatomy, locomotion, or agency in any conventional sense. The entity has been observed only during limited manifestation events, during which surrounding reality undergoes severe topological distortion.
Witnesses consistently describe SCP-9944 as an immense spatial absence with a vaguely humanoid or godlike outline. This recurring perception has resulted in the provisional designation “the Hollow God.” This designation is colloquial and reflects human symbolic interpretation rather than confirmed classification.
SCP-9944 does not respond to stimuli, pursue targets, or display recognizable intent. All recorded effects appear to be passive consequences of its presence rather than deliberate action.
All documented SCP-9944 manifestations are accompanied by the spontaneous emergence of logarithmic spiral ratios approximating 1.618. These ratios have been observed across unrelated substrates, including geological fracture patterns, neural activity mapping, architectural deformation, and large-scale oceanic displacement models. The appearance of these ratios is considered a reliable indicator of SCP-9944 proximity.
Despite its global effects, SCP-9944 has never manifested in regions absent of sapient symbolic cognition. All recorded manifestation events correlate with areas containing active human or post-human semantic systems. Automated probes, non-symbolic artificial intelligences, and biologically simple organisms exposed to SCP-9944-adjacent phenomena show no measurable degradation unless mediated through human interpretation.
This limitation suggests SCP-9944 does not directly alter baseline reality, but instead destabilizes systems reliant on symbolic abstraction.
**Manifestation and Proximity Effects:** SCP-9944 manifests sporadically and remains spatially localized for limited durations. Manifestation events are most frequently associated with large bodies of water, particularly oceanic regions.
Observed effects increase in severity with proximity and duration of exposure and include:
* Progressive destabilization of spoken and written language
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* Loss of semantic consistency in mathematical and symbolic systems
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* Degradation of personal identity and autobiographical memory
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* Topological distortion of space, including non-Euclidean geometry
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* Recession of large bodies of water inconsistent with physical models
Human subjects exposed to SCP-9944 do not exhibit uniform progression. Cognitive, linguistic, and existential degradation may occur at different rates within the same individual.
**Behavioral Characteristics:** SCP-9944 does not demonstrate behavior in the conventional sense. However, analysis of multiple manifestation events indicates a consistent pattern of secondary effects on human cognition and society.
These effects have been categorized as follows:
**I. Conceptual Convergence:** Individuals independently report identical symbols, phrases, and imagery despite lack of contact. Common motifs include spirals, oceans without horizons, and a sensation described as “being remembered.”
**II. Linguistic Degradation:** Language retains phonetic structure while losing semantic stability. Written text remains legible but increasingly meaningless. Symbolic reasoning and numerical consistency deteriorate.
**III. Manifestation Events:** Large bodies of water exhibit recession, revealing abyssal voids where seabeds should exist. SCP-9944 is observed indirectly as a structured absence exerting spatial distortion on its surroundings.
**IV. Global Collapse:** Human cognition trends toward a simplified, uniform state prior to complete semantic failure. Biological death is not immediate. Affected individuals lose the capacity to recognize themselves as living entities.
SCP-9944 does not acknowledge these effects.
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**Addendum 9944-1: Initial Exploration Log**
**Location:** Subterranean structure beneath Galeshade, Maine
**Lead Researcher:** Dr. Elias Thorne
**Status:** **[DATA CORRUPTED/EXISTENTIAL FAILURE]**
//A spiral-structured subterranean chamber was exposed following coastal erosion near Galeshade. Dr. Elias Thorne entered the central chamber during initial exploration. Thorne entered the anomaly equipped with a standard temporal-sink tether. Visual contact was lost at the event horizon. However, the tether continued to transmit audio data for 22 minutes after the physical tether had disintegrated.//
> **<Begin Log>**
>
> **Thorne:** I don’t think this was supposed to open yet. The rock gave way too cleanly… like it was waiting for erosion to catch up. That’s not how this is supposed to work. I know that sounds stupid, but it isn’t.
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> **Control:** Confirm visual on the interior.
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> **Thorne:** Yeah. I’ve got arches. Not carved. Grew that way, I think. Spirals everywhere. They’re not etched. They’re… structural. Load-bearing. I keep saying that like it explains anything. It really doesn’t.
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> //(Sound of footsteps, water drip)//
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> **Thorne:** There’s a passage splitting off. I’m getting readings that don’t make sense. Depth is fluctuating. I take a step forward and the numbers go backwards. You’re seeing that too, right? Tell me you’re seeing that.
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> **Control:** Proceed with caution.
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> **Thorne:** That’s generous advice, Control.... Sorry. That came out wrong. I’m just… yeah.
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> //(Brief static)//
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> **Thorne:** There’s something ahead. A slab? No, not a slab. It’s vertical. Pale. Surface texture looks organic… Jesus Christ, it’s bone. I-I don’t mean bone-like. I mean bone. Actual bone. I don’t want to keep saying that word, but there isn’t another one.
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> **Control:** Is it movable?
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> **Thorne:** I don’t think movement applies here. There’s an opening in it. I can see past it. I shouldn’t be able to see past it. I really shouldn’t.
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> //(Silence, then a sharp inhale)//
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> **Thorne:** I'm through.
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> **Control:** Describe the area.
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> **Thorne:** It’s huge. Bigger than the cliff above it. That shouldn’t be possible. There’s a column in the center, same material. Bone again. No joints. No seams. It’s like a vertebra that forgot what scale it was supposed to be. I’m running out of comparisons. I don’t know what else to call it.
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> //(Low, distant sound like surf)//
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> **Control:** Telemetry indicates cardiac irregularity. Dr. Thorne, confirm status.
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> **Thorne:** I’m fine. I just… Control, I’m seeing text. Not markings. Text.
> This is where you’re supposed to tell me I’m imagining it.
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> **Control:** On the structure?
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> **Thorne:** No. On my display. On yours, I think. I can read what you’re typing. You’re hesitating before the word “deceased.” I don’t know why I know that, but I do.
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> **Control:** That's not possible.
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> **Thorne:** You’re right. That word doesn’t apply. I can feel the water doing something to me. Not drowning. Changing. That’s the closest word I’ve got.
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> //Another silence, followed by a faint laughter//
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> **Thorne:** I thought people were exaggerating. About the sea. Turns out it’s been very patient. More patient than us, anyway.
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> **Control:** Abort mission. We are initiating retrieval.
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> **Thorne:** //(Laughter, sounding like rushing water)// You can’t retrieve a draft once it’s been revised. I don’t think there’s an undo for this.
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> //(Laughter increases)//
>
> **<End Log>**
//Following this transmission, personnel records for "Dr. Elias Thorne" were found to be blank. The audio log remains the only evidence that he ever existed.//
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**Addendum 9944-2: Field Interview Log**
**Interviewer:** Dr. Miriam Hale
**Interviewed:** Celia Ward, Coastal Safety Officer
**Location:** Temporary Foundation Field Station, Galeshade
> **<Begin Log>**
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> **Dr. Hale:** Start wherever you need to. Take your time.
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> **Ward:** I keep replaying it wrong. Everyone says the water pulled back. That’s what it looked like on the cameras. It isn’t what it felt like. I don’t have better words. I’m trying.
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> **Dr. Hale:** Tell me what it felt like.
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> **Ward:** Like standing in a hallway while something large walks past you. You press yourself against the wall, not because it’s angry, but because there’s suddenly a lot less room. You just… react.
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> **Dr. Hale:** Did you see anything unusual in the water?
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> **Ward:** Not in it. Around it. The horizon stopped lining up. You know how your eyes correct for distance? They gave up. The ocean bent first. My thoughts followed. After that, everything felt late. I don’t know how else to say that.
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> //(Pause)//
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> **Dr. Hale:** Were you afraid?
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> **Ward:** No. And that’s what scares me. Fear would’ve made sense, but… this felt familiar. Embarrassingly familiar. Like realizing you’d been using something wrong your whole life and nobody corrected you.
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> **Dr. Hale:** You’ve said the entity “remembers” us. Can you explain that?
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> **Ward:** I don’t think it’s memory the way we mean it. It’s more like… when you delete a file and the space doesn’t disappear. The system just marks it as available. I’m sorry, that’s a bad comparison, but it’s close.
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> **Dr Hale:** So humanity is—
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> **Ward:** Temporary allocation. Yeah. I don’t think we were ever meant to stay.
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> //(Ward's breathing becomes uneven)//
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> **Dr. Hale:** Do you believe SCP-9944 intends to erase us?
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> **Ward:** Erase is a human word. We erase things because we don’t want them. This isn’t that. This is maintenance. Like cleaning a room you forgot was there.
>
> //(Salt residue observed forming beneath subject's eyes)//
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> **Dr. Hale:** When full manifestation occurs, what happens to us?
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> **Ward:** Nothing dramatic. No scream. No ending. Just… space. And whatever comes after won’t know we were ever filling it. And I think that’s the part I can’t sit with.
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> **<End Log>**
//Celia Ward was later exposed during a secondary manifestation event. Subject maintained coherence longer than any previously recorded individual prior to complete linguistic collapse. Subsequent cases exceeded Ward’s coherence duration by up to forty minutes, with no corresponding increase in resistance or actionable insight.//
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**Addendum 9944-6: Interpretive Limitation Notice**
**Issued by:** Department of Ontological Studies
**Clearance Level:** 4/9944
Current Foundation models classify SCP-9944 as an external extra-cosmological entity whose proximity destabilizes human cognition. This framing remains operationally useful but is no longer considered ontologically reliable.
All data regarding SCP-9944 is mediated through human symbolic systems, which SCP-9944 demonstrably destabilizes. As a result, no observation of SCP-9944 can be confirmed as pre-degradation.
It is therefore possible that:
* SCP-9944 is not emerging into baseline reality
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* SCP-9944 has not changed its state
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* Human cognition is progressively failing to render an environment it previously approximated
Under this interpretation, SCP-9944 may not represent an anomaly acting upon reality, but a condition under which reality ceases to be translatable into human concepts.
The designation “entity” remains provisional.
This limitation does not alter outcome projections.
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**Addendum 9944-4: Failed Containment Summary**
Between initial SCP-9944 manifestation and global semantic destabilization, the Foundation initiated twelve coordinated containment strategies across five continents.
Notable outcomes include:
* Scranton Reality Anchors underwent spiral-pattern deformation and triggered immediate linguistic collapse among nearby personnel.
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* Memetic kill-agent dissemination accelerated symbolic failure in previously unaffected populations.
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* Temporal loop containment trials collapsed after three iterations, with each reset reintroducing SCP-9944 at an earlier manifestation state.
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* Autonomous containment AIs began independently generating spiral glyphs and ceased responding to human input within forty-eight hours.
Analysis indicates SCP-9944 does not resist containment. Containment efforts are instead incorporated as contributing variables within the phenomenon itself.
Continuation of resistance was mathematically indistinguishable from cooperation.
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**Addendum 9944-5: Operational Status**
**Date:** Current
**Author:** Automated Foundation Emergency System (AFES)
**[SYSTEM ALERT]:** Linguistic integrity is falling below 40%
**[SYSTEM ALERT]:** Causality is non-linear.
The Containment Procedures will be written tomorrow.
{{**We h ave atte mpte d to fi re th e anc hor s. T he an cho rs r efus ed. The y re al ized the y we re hea vy. The o ce an is n o lo nge r wa ter. It i s a conc ept of wetne ss th at re fuse s to d ry.**}}
{{**SC P-9 944 is n ot an e nt ity. S CP -99 44 is th e c all. We ar e t he d re am.**}}
**Status:** Ongoing. Irreversible.
The spiral is tightening. I can feel the water in my
{{**The re is n oth i ng. Th er e is o nly th e Ho llo w G od.**}}
**[END OF FILE]**
**[NO BACKUP DETECTED]**
Excerpts of note:
Manifestation and Proximity Effects: SCP-9944 manifests sporadically and remains spatially localized for limited durations. Manifestation events are most frequently associated with large bodies of water, particularly oceanic regions.
Observed effects increase in severity with proximity and duration of exposure and include:
- Progressive destabilization of spoken and written language
*
- Loss of semantic consistency in mathematical and symbolic systems
*
- Degradation of personal identity and autobiographical memory
*
- Topological distortion of space, including non-Euclidean geometry
*
- Recession of large bodies of water inconsistent with physical models
Human subjects exposed to SCP-9944 do not exhibit uniform progression. Cognitive, linguistic, and existential degradation may occur at different rates within the same individual.
Status: Ongoing. Irreversible.
The spiral is tightening. I can feel the water in my
The re is n oth i ng. Th er e is o nly th e Ho llo w G od.
[END OF FILE]
[NO BACKUP DETECTED]
Of note, the page also had the following quotes, before reviewers pointed out the AI hallmarks:
- "It didn't recede. It bowed, like it recognized a bigger volume."
- "It doesn’t want. It remembers. And that’s worse."
- "It's not a room. It's a massive chamber."
Compare with the user's last recent sandbox, edited on 17 Jul 2022: https://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/rushifa
SCP-7000 takes the appearance of a doormat, with the same proportions and textures as that of a normal one. The only significance it has, apart from an ordinary doormat, is the underside of it. The underside appears to be glowing dimly in a mixture of red and black, despite the upper side showing normal colors.
When addressed about the AI usage, the user replied: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-17503607/scp-9944#post-7484605
Hi there. Any comments/critiques/feedbacks you can offer?
edited 2 minutes late to:
Hi there. Any comments/critiques/feedbacks you can offer so that I may improve upon it for current and further submissions?
User has no other history since 2022. Permanently banned, PM sent. subtletea, storm, Kufat, nico supported ban.
