Unbelievable SCP-6661 Trollge Story & Animation!

Burning neighborhoods strings of horrific Axe Murders a burger joint selling human flesh and only one question you mad bro fans of internet memes from the mid 2000s might remember one inescapable image commonly known as Trollface Trollface and his trademark grin symbolized mischief and troublemaking and generally making the

World a more chaotic place over time as is often the case on the internet new variations on the image began to spring up as users created their own spin on Trollface at first it was all relatively harmless but then again this is the internet nothing online stays harmless forever over time more Sinister

Variations on Trollface began to surface memes consisting of joke instructions that took a dark destructive turn this new spin on the Trollface quickly became known as Trolla and often featured disturbing content presented in a joking prankster format still not something to be too concerned about just standard

Edgy posting trying to get a reaction by shocking people right not exactly on December 24th 2020 in Melbourne Australia a college student named Lee Miller received an early Christmas present from her classmate and ex-boyfriend Peter witkins the two had parted on relatively good terms and she

Was glad to receive a gift from him when she opened it she was delighted to see that he had purchased her a jar of expensive French facial moisturizer one she had been interested in trying back when they were together as she prepared to do her skincare routine that night

She thought about how thoughtful the gift was and how sweet Peter was maybe she’d made a mistake breaking things off maybe after the holidays she could reach out and see if they could give things another shot as she unscrewed the jar of moisturizer she didn’t notice that its

Color and smell seemed just a bit a off she just dipped her fingers inside and began to apply the cream to her face all of a sudden she realized what a horrible mistake that was her face began to burn her skin screaming out in a pain like

None she’d ever felt before she screamed clawing at her face desperate for a way to make it stop neighbors heard the screams and called Emergency Services when paramedics arrived on the scene her condition had gotten even worse they restrained her sedated her and took her to the hospital for treatment the face

Cream was brought in for testing and was found to have been tampered with it had been spiked with gimpy gimpy one of the world’s most excruciatingly painful plants Peter was promptly brought in for questioning but refused to explain why he had done it he was charged with assault and officers inspected his home

For anything that might suggest a motive on his computer they found the most recent post he had read before presumably committing the crime it was a troll Jim formatted as a comic and it read want to get back at your girlfriend step one find out her favorite facial

Cream step two procure the facial cream step three obtain urien plant use gloves step four blend the leaves with the cream then repack it step five give girlfriend the gift the meme contained a six step but it was redacted in all official records for reasons that will soon become clear this incident caught

The attention of the SCP Foundation who swiftly looked into the meme as a potential anomaly as they were conducting their investigation it happened again another troia meme another horrible crime with an inexplicable motive on December 28th 2020 in bond AKA Indonesia 15 terminally ill patients were found dead in their

Hospital beds that wouldn’t necessarily be caused for alarm given the nature of their conditions except for the cause of death the patients did not pass away due to their illnesses instead each and every one of them was killed by carbon monoxide poisoning at first the case was a mystery until security footage

Revealed that one of the hospital’s orderly Aziz hiat replaced the patient’s oxygen tanks with tanks of carbon monoxide he was promptly arrested and brought in for questioning during the interrogation he repeated again and again that he was not trying to harm the patients but he was delivering them the

Police officers asked who he was trying to deliver them to but he refused to answer a search through his computer browser history uncovered another troll J meme this one read want to help people step one get a job at a hospital step two make friends with the patients step

Three enter oxygen tank room step four replace tanks with carbon monoxide step five release them from their defective vessels the SCP Foundation had been in the process of formulating a hypothesis but now it was confirmed these variations on the troll shamim contained a cognito hazardous switch that would

Cause a reader to carry out the acts described in the comic the switch appeared to specifically be contained in the conclusive line hence its removal from all official records of any identified anomalous memes an estimated 25% of those exposed to an anomalous meme would be affected by this Cognito

Hazard the phenomenon was given the designation as SCP 6661 and the memes themselves SCP 6661 D1 these first two incidents were nicknamed the pretty girl incident and the sleepy time incident respectively several other notable incidents occurred following the discovery of SCP 6661 on January 20th 2021 the Harvester Valley incident occurred Oliver desens

Of Alberta Canada packed his bags full of camping supplies fresh drinking water a flashlight and an axe he kissed his wife and children goodbye and he drove out to the local tourist Campground after Darkness fell he left his tent Axe in Hand and walked from Camp to Camp

Slaughtering anyone he came across he managed to kill 10 people and injured 14 before he was killed by the authorities everyone who knew Oliver was shocked saying he had no history of violent Behavior he wouldn’t even kill a spider when he found one inside his wife gave the authorities permission to examine

His internet activity and sure enough they found a troia meme left open want to have a good holiday step one pack necessary equipment and items step two say goodbye to family step three drive to the valley campgrounds step four find local Shepherd and his flock step five

Steal a little lamb step six relish upon its flesh for it will be your dying meal step seven data expunged after reading the meme the foundation determined that a nearby farmer was indeed missing one of his sheep the bones of the missing sheep were later discovered near the

Campground where the attack took place this new findings suggested that the Cognito hazardous effects tended to result in a largely ill literal interpretation of the given memes text Oliver himself could not be questioned about his actions due to his death on the scene so there were no more answers

To be uncovered in his case on February 16th 2021 in Bratislava Slovakia a man named Joseph prasa began displaying unusual behavior at around 0200 hours he drove through his neighborhood in his water truck and began using it to spray kerosene upon nearby buildings throughout the area the sound and the

Smell woke several neighbors who attempted to reason with Joseph and make him stop what he was doing he ignored them as if in a trance and carried on with his task frightened for their safety as well as that of their clearly unwell neighbor they called emergency services to the scene Emergency Services

Arrived to find Joseph standing in front of the active nozzle kerosene blasting directly onto him he didn’t even seem to notice as the authorities approached him calling out to him asking him to come with them he acknowledged their presence he smiled broadly and pulled something from his pocket all too late they

Realized what it was a road flare he ignited it and the area was swiftly engulfed in flames 26 people were killed in the blast and hundreds of thousands in property damage occurred as a result that was shocking enough but additional emergency responders who arrived at the scene saw something even more bizarre

Began to rain putting out some of the Flames as the water touched the kerosene soaked bodies and Landscape paramedics were completely taken aback as they saw corpses and bits of rubble begin to float up into the air up into the sky one man later described what he had seen

To the police saying it was as if they were floating on the water that was falling from the sky the authorities dismissed this account but the SCP Foundation knew better this had to be another troia incident indeed it was and on Joseph’s computer they found the guilty meme oil is lighter than water

Step one cover yourself in oil step two feels good step three cover others in oil step four data expunged somehow this particular instance of SCP 6661 had managed to alter the laws of physics to bend them to its will it was a troubling development and not something they cared

To see repeated containment procedures were swiftly put into place web crawlers monitored the internet for any appearances of troia particularly those that seem to have Cognito hazardous properties if they could track these instances and delete them from circulation perhaps they could prevent any more needless destruction during the

Monitoring process some of the web crawlers detected an instance of SCP 66611 with a heavily distorted concluding step before expunging this step Junior researcher Mel Ramirez edited out the Distortion and scanned the image image through a spectrogram generator this was it should be noted without prior authorization the spectrogram generated audio three recognizable

Words Junior researcher Ramirez was reprimanded for breaching protocol but his work proved to be valuable enough to Warrant additional research with the sign off of the 05 Council a spectrogram was constructed with a reply to this question and spread through the internet the foundation’s response was yes yes we

See you who are you and why are you doing this within 24 hours of the foundation’s response another SCP 66611 instance with a similar Distortion was found the Distortion was isolated and scanned through a spectrogram generator once more it Stated people forget two I am that I be weer people now like darkness and exposion embra Shadow chaos CH I exist people see me I life this Revelation gave the foundation a new theory on the nature of SCP 666 one the initial Trollface meme was so popular so widespread and beloved that

The collective energy directed towards it created a thought form able to manifest via the meme when Trollface declined in popularity over the years the thought form became desperate to achieve the same relevance again it gravitated towards darker subject matter toward the shocking and disturbing in order to get attention this resulted in

The creation of SCP 66611 an opportunity for the thought form to feel seen again when it does not feel seen when it is not fed energy and attention the thought form becomes weak and desperate the Cognito hazardous effects may not be deliberate at all but rather an unfortunate side effect of

This particular manifestation an additional theory was proposed the way to limit the effects of SCP 66611 to perhaps even eradicate it is to make the original troll face popular again the troll must be fed at first the foundation was reluctant to put this Theory into practice it seemed patent

Absurd to many of the high-ups but the percentage of susceptible individuals began to increase and more and more incidents occurred in July of 2021 residents of a small Virginia Town began to go missing one by one until over a dozen people had mysteriously disappeared there appeared to be no

Common link between the missing persons until one unlikely thread surfaced tying them all together shortly before their disappearance each person had eaten a meal at Billy’s Burgers the local burger joint police interrogated all employees but no new information turned up they checked security camera footage but only

One of the cameras at the small local business was operational and it only captured the restaurant’s main entrance it was beginning to look like one more Dead lead that is until one of the investigating officers heard his stomach Rumble and decided to grab a burger and

Fries for the road back at the police station the officer sat down to enjoy his lunch taking a big juicy bite out of his Burger suddenly he felt something hard crack against his tooth he reached into his mouth and fished it out at first he didn’t believe his eyes but

Sure enough there was a human finger bone he hopped back in his police car drove back to Billy’s burgers and demanded to investigate the kitchen there wasn’t anything out of the ordinary right away but he trusted his gut and the bite of the burger that he

Had almost put it in he confiscated the freshly ground meat and had it analyzed the results came back and his stomach dropped it was human once more the police officer drove back to the Burger Joint this time his lights were flashing his siren was blaring and he was ready

To make an arrest when he arrived the place was eerily quiet all the lights were off he drew his weapon and crept toward the back where he found the fry cook Jeffrey tombs operating the meat grinder next to the machine he could make out bloody scraps of employee

Uniforms and suddenly realized why the place was so quiet Jeffrey was making his co-workers into Burgers he arrested Jeffrey and brought the young man into custody all he would say over and over again was I’m I made them better the SCP Foundation caught wind of this horrifying case and arrived to conduct

Their own investigation they found another Cognito hazardous meme this one read everyone loves Burgers step one get job at a burger place step two improve on the recipe step three Source your own meat step four profit step five expunged the foundation attempted to interrogate Jeffrey as well but he was still not

Forthcoming he did say one thing however he requested that for his dying meal in prison he be given a burger after this incident the order was given the Trollface experiment would be carried out a team of researchers sociologists and statisticians was assembled and asked to design images and media

Involving troll face now designated SC SCP 66612 the images were then disseminated across the foundation internet attempting to saturate the media with this mimetic agent until it achieved a status colloquially known as dank this team was designated task force hexine meme machine the initial experiment was a success and the incidents began to

Slightly reduce the all clear was given and as SCP 6612 was disseminated across the internet again incident numbers decreased this allowed for standard containment procedures to be put in place procedures still in use today the foundation has established a think tank to observe the trends and popularity of SCP

66612 if its popularity declines the think tank will evaluate the best course of action to take SCP 6612 based mimic agents are to be spread across various social media sites and the internet at large as well as the foundation internet Foundation webcrawlers must consistently scan the internet at large for instances of SCP

66611 and look for active SCP 66611 events if any instances are found the concluding instructions must be redacted whenever possible any Personnel that is going to deal directly with SCP 66611 must be mimetically inoculated before being assigned to the anomaly oh wait it seems as though there’s one more

Mimetically infected comic let’s see here want to see the best videos on YouTube step one log on step two find SCP explained step three subscribe step four ring the bell step five redacted God damn it the comment section on this one is going to be hell do your worst you filthy

Animals now before we begin today’s video let’s clear some things up we know exactly what you’re thinking and among us as CP this sounds ridiculous why would the foundation ever have to deal with an anomaly Rel relating to Among Us of all things is this some kind of sick

Joke dreamt up by our YouTube commenters and look we get it it’s definitely one of the more ridiculous anomalies the foundation has had to contain at least at face value but there are a few things you should take into consideration before things get too a mugus pilled

Around here oh God first this is hardly the strangest anomaly we’ve covered on SCP explained SCP 5981 also known as new nuke City revolved around a mysterious broadcast of a Family Guy episode SCP 4335 a wel in The Crucible had to deal with an entity occupying space inside

The video game Minecraft but there are countless other examples of anomalies creeping into popular culture mutating it and twisting it for their own purposes what may seem silly on paper such as the foundation having to do research on a popular video game like Among Us is all part of what the

Organization does if the brave researchers at the SCP Foundation chuckled and brushed off a Potential Threat just because it had to do with something like Among Us the entire population might be susceptible to a supernatural event of unprecedented proportions the foundation’s entire veil of secrecy could crumble all because

Someone Shrugged off the possibility of allocating resources to deal with a threat millions of civilians could discover these games movies and shows are all immensely popular and in a ly affecting a global phenomenon like among us could spell Doom for not only the foundation but the entire world as well

If left unchecked so if you don’t want to risk termination please try to keep a straight face as we divulge into the weird and wacky story of SCP 5167 an anomaly camed in the foundation’s database as when the impostor is sus oh God I hate ha my job sometimes to begin we

Need to go back way way back centuries before Among Us was even conceived as a concept before video games had been invented and even before electricity itself was discovered back to an Era where the gods of Olympus ruled Supreme and stone marble statues line buildings that would serve as Timeless Feats of

Architecture and where a new school of thought was developing one that focused on logic and reason instead of superstition and heay that’s right we’re talking about ancient Greece a society that for all of its achievements and progression in the fields of Education cultures and logic was still largely

Governed by religion and mythology but of course as you may come to Expect When dealing with the SCP Foundation there’s always a little truth in that which we cannot understand while those who are unaware of the Paranormal might deride the Greeks for being overly focused on a Pantheon of gods they logically should

Have no reason to believe those who know that anything can happen in the world of the anomalous may approach this topic and the subject of religion in general In a Different Light the Greek gods were very real well the myths may not be entirely true and they may not have been

Literal Gods there were a group of anomalous entities who influenced Greek society performing miraculous Feats that left those who observe them in complete wonder and putting together cult of worship surrounding them while most of this was done in secret word of these beings traveled incredibly fast in the

Ancient world and they were heralded as Gods beings of divine might that could do anything in the universe who existed above the Mortal plane and demanded worship from their followers a glance at Greek mythology paints a picture of a group of gods who acted more less like humans they fought they killed they

Argued and they felt human emotions it’s likely that this characterization in the stories emerged from how these entities conducted themselves in actuality there were dozens upon dozens of entities the Greeks worshiped as Divinity and while the stories portrayed the gods as jealous vengeful beings who constantly fought with each other it doesn’t

Compare to the reality of the situation which was much more Cutthroat you see there were 12 gods of Olympus and you probably know most of them they’re remembered today for a reason Zeus Athena Poseidon Aries the list goes on we still remember these beings because of the iconic stories they took part in

And how significant they were in ancient times while for every Zeus god of lightning there were five more Gods who absolutely no one but the most hardcore historical fanatic remember gods of Niche subjects who had small followings who never had those character defining myths to flesh them out and preserve

Them for all of history to remember who would when gree fell Fade Into Obscurity for every Zeus there was a python who was python you ask well if the guy heard you asking that question he’d probably Smite you down before the question even left your lips if he wasn’t engaged in a

Hardcore game of Among Us that is don’t worry we’ll get there all will be explained it’s the name of the channel after all fonus was a god of jealousy and envy mainly in a romantic context do you have a crush on someone who’s already taken thonus knows all about

That do you wish you weren’t trapped in a dead-end relationship with someone who doesn’t love you tonius understands your plight but thonus wasn’t just a reverse Bizarro Cupid he was a literal personification of the emotions of jealousy and envy themselves no matter the context if it was petty and greedy

Thonus knew it all too well you would think that this would make thonus a prime candidate for some mythological drama right after all the Greek gods loved their infighting and who better to stir up some Hara said Zeus said arguments than a literal God of Envy

Well it didn’t quite work out that way for thonus his appearances and myths were infrequent and today he is nearly all but forgotten reduced to a mere three sentences on a Wikipedia page while other figures from his era have taken on an entirely new life in the modern day as cultural icons like

Perseus or Hercules but no poor thonus whose pension for jealousy and envy backfired on him and catapulted him Into Obscurity why did this happen it’s kind of obvious when you think about it while other gods granted their worshippers a good harvest or copious amounts of wine

And partying all thonus had to offer was well the ugly side of humanity his worshippers were far and few between after all no one wanted their entire life to revolve around the jealousy of others anthonius being a personification of Envy had an understandably difficult time getting people to devote themselves

To him thonus was greedy and envied the other gods so while he would accept nothing but absolute worship from his followers he couldn’t offer much else especially not when compared to the Bountiful Boons a great God like Zeus or Hera could offer and so thonus festered an ugly God who wallowed in self-hatred

And and irrelevancy constantly living in the shadow of the pantheon that gave him purpose and his purpose was to remain jealous to remain envious of those who had what he did not a god unfit to be worshiped whose purpose was to embody the feelings of wanting what isn’t yours

Thonus is both tragic and poetic and when the Greeks faded away so too did thonus the Roman Empire who largely adapted Greece’s Pantheon of gods for their own stories left no record of bringing thonus into the mix for centuries he was a god without a home

Attempting to find a place in a changing world thonus was angry jealous envious and tired the forces of the universe would call him forth in every new era thrusting him back into the world and forcing him to search for the sustenance beings that were referred to as Gods fed

Off of devotion but every time thonus would find himself walking the earth once again he would instead discover that there was no place for him mankind was moving on there was less and less room for Gods with every passing Year all the popular ones had established themselves as Everlasting religious

Figures at this point and they would never fade away some took pleasure in living among humans rising to power as people of influence and fame others who could not find a place in the world would Fade Away Never to be revived or worshiped ever again forgotten dead Gods

Who the world long outgrew but thonus is jealous Spirit would never allow him to consign himself to that fate he hated who he was and what he stood for but that nature brought him back so many times before it was his jealousy of the other gods who were somehow managing to

Linger beyond their Greek Heyday that caused him to persevere he needed a purpose one last chance to be remembered he had struggled for centuries and this was his last Stitch effort to be remembered wherever he would wake up in the modern era thonus would have to make

The most out of it and this is where Among Us comes in in late 2020 the SCP Foundation was just as captivated as anyone else by the Among Us phenomenon a game that was sweeping the globe where players took on the roles of crew mates on a spaceship one of which was an

Impostor whose job was to secretly murder the other players well they were busy doing tasks that range from scanning themselves in the medbay OR scanning key cards in the admin room the impostor would be lurking behind every corner sometimes in the ship’s air vents waiting for the proper moment to strike

If a dead body was found a player could report it and the players would then discuss which one of them they suspected to be the impostor the game’s addictive psychological elements and accessible rules made it a Smash Hit but for the foundation they were infatuated with it for entirely different reason reasons

You see when a piece of media attains the level of Fame that Among Us did the foundation has to make sure to keep their eyes on it popular media is a prime target for anomalies the population’s collective attention on it just seems to invite the forces of the

Supernatural world to warp and distort what we know to be familiar and this is exactly what was happening to Among Us for months the foundation was documenting cases of an entity who appeared in games of Among Us and caused havoc in the real World these cases and

Their after effects were so severe that the foundation deemed the anomaly significant enough to get its own file in the database designating it under the name SCP 5167 SCP 5167 would join games of Among Us like any other player they would blend in much like the impostor in the

Game and play just as anyone else would it was what happened after a player participated in a session with SCP 516 7 that had the foundation investigating every aspect of the game those who played with SCP 5167 would find themselves stricken by a severe case of paranoia and capg grass delusion a

Psychological condition in which a victim would come to believe those around them had been replaced with identical imposters the severity of this disorder varied between individuals but some believed the delusions to such an extent that they lashed out at those they believed to be imposters sometimes resulting in a homicide

Naturally the foundation put two and two together which led back to Among Us after several months of police cases relating to completely average individuals suddenly striking out at their loved ones sometimes killing them and showing signs of capg grass delusion the organization knew that something was happening on an anomalous scale at first

It was difficult to make the connection to among us but the foundation eventually learned from interviews with victims and an examination of of their habits over the past few weeks they had all played the game and through analysis of the Among Us community’s various Trends and habits the foundation discovered SCP

5167 an entity that was slowly gaining notoriety within the games Community as an almost mythological figure SCP 5167 tendency to spout long wordy rants at other players during the game’s emergency meeting sessions position them as an inside joke for those who encountered them need to establish a link between these anomalously induced

Bouts of paranoia the foundation set up a group of WebCrawler AIS to track Among Us game sessions until SCP 5167 would appear it was a long shot but it was one of the many different theories on why these victims were undergoing this level of psychosis and if it proved to be true

Then the foundation would have a solid idea of what to do next after weeks of nothing SCP 5167 was spotted in a game and the foundation acted quickly to track down the other players who played alongside the entity naturally they exhibited signs of paranoia and delusion

Some of them only for weeks and others for months that was enough evidence for the foundation would later document several other occurrences of games with SCP 5167 resulting in these psychiatric conditions in other players the foundation did what they do best and established a series of special containment procedures that would wipe

SC P 5167 from the internet as best they could webcrawlers were trained to take down any mentions of the entity and if a potential sighting was discovered the foundation would investigate any and all players involved in the incident anyone affected by SCP 5167 would be held under the guise of receiving medical treatment

For mental health issues and they would be amnesticized completely you might be thinking that the after effects of SCP 5167 are relatively tame compared to what the foundation used usually deals with but look at it this way Among Us is a game played by millions of people if

SCP 5167 affected only a fraction of that population it would spell total chaos for the foundation not only that but the amount of Bloodshed The Entity would cause would be nothing to scoff at as a large amount of cases dealt with victims outright murdering anyone they suspected to be an impostor attempting

To track down the SCP 5167 entity were met with failure All Points of internet access that the foundation was able to get their hands on only led to a series of abandoned home addresses in rural Greece but over time things started to change the foundation began to place

Less of a concern on SCP 5167 it was almost as if the entity was being forgotten why this letter addressed to the SCP 5167 research team from the sites director might clear some things up as requested by head researcher Abrams I’ve had the site 22 analysts look into the progress of SCP

5167 anomalous effects over the period we’ve observed it and the results are much as I expected when we first discovered SCP 5167 for the sake of argument let’s say this is when SCP 5167 first came into existence the impact it had on its victims was severe I don’t

Think I have to remind you of what Billy Heath did to his family’s faces but since then almost immediately really since that first couple of manifestations the potency of its effects have started to decline full Detachment from reality became delusion and delusion has now become paranoia and the intensity of that paranoia is

Lessening in each new case this is all conjecture of course and shouldn’t be taken as gospel but based on what we’ve observed of this anomaly thus far our estimation is that SCP 5167 anomalous effects will become a note by the end of the year whether it’ll keep popping up

In these video game match es is another story though it was just as the Director had explained SCP 5167 cases were becoming less severe they were almost becoming irrelevant so much so that the foundation hypothesized that the anomalies declining potency would lead to its neutralization before long an entity Fading Into irrelevance and

Obscurity once more if you haven’t figured out yet maybe SCP 5167 username will spell it out for you when the entity joined G of Among Us it made sure that everyone knew who it was well everyone would know who it was if the entity had managed to maintain any form

Of popularity over the past dozen centuries or so that’s right SCP 5167 would join under the name thonus the God’s New Life had thrusted into the modern day except this time it was inside the game of Among Us where it was forced to cope with the reality that the

World seemed to be more obsessed with a trendy game than any God or mythological figure while inside the game thonus was one bitter individual during emergency meetings instead of trying to figure out if red was sus or not the God would just yell at the Players around him one

Player asked thonus what they were doing while the rest of the crew was performing their tasks to which thonus poetically responded where was I I was there when the mountains were newborn in the oceans virginal I was there when Gods walked among men and their wisdom

Was cast down like sunlight I was there when mankind was capable of Legends and now I find myself in a world that has forgotten even the taste of life even the very concept of Life Beyond existing from one day to the next mere continuance where all the world is

Wasted away in idle play of emotions that once rang true I am in the world where even the gods are forgotten their bones washed away by time a world where man has moved on where all the Legacy I have left are are three sentences on Wikipedia I thought my time had come

Again I thought this could be the new me but this is nothing let me stay dead this time I’m tired to which the other players responded in typical Among Us fashion that thonus was sus he was promptly voted as the impostor and ejected from the airlock and so the

Tragic tale of thonus came to a close a tired obscure God who never had a place in the World his presence in Among Us grew less and less as the game’s popularity waned and once again he would Fade Into Obscurity but the nature of thonus meant that he would in some form

Return again one day where or how no one could say but as long as there was a situation to reap Envy from a trend to be jealous of thonus would remain eternally doomed to suffer the fate of being nobody’s favorite God and frankly we can’t imagine this video will change

That mobile task force Edna 84 also known by the code name and thus upon his Crucible is on one of the strangest missions they’ve ever been sent on they sit in a darkened room beads of sweat trickling down their brows the lights of computer monitors shine upon their faces

They’re tackling a monster that if it escapes will literally devour all of creation it has no fear it has no remorse and if it isn’t kept contained by 84 it may escape and wreck havoc across the world oh and did we mention it’s trapped in a Minecraft server you

Heard us right SCP 4335 is a Cognito hazardous extradimensional being of pure Terror trapped inside a procedurally generated world in the immensely popular game Minecraft you hear about a lot of horrifying monsters being described as lovecraftian but only this monster is minecraftian there’s a lot that needs is

Explaining here and we intend to get to all of it but let’s start with how the foundation keeps This truly exceptional Beast contained the foundation first discovered SCP 4335 back in 2010 shortly after the Alpha version of Minecraft was released because of the online nature of

The game it’s proven to be impossible to contain 4335 externally seeing as it isn’t confined to any one physical location shutting off the server 4335 is found in is not an effective containment method either as this just causes the entity to Simply hop to a different server the foundation’s greatest fear is

That 4335 will one day make the leap out of Minecraft and cause chaos in our world that’s why it’s imperative to draft containment procedures for SCP 4335 within the game this led to the creation of a containment site unlike any other site M1 the first official Foundation site made entirely out of

Money Minecraft blocks everyone who was originally involved in the server has been removed and amnestied since then Elite SCP Foundation containment Specialists and Gamers have been constructing the perfect prison for SCP 4335 site M1 is a large Stone complex built into the side of a mountain it has

A number of key features including a supply area filled with materials vital for 4335 continued containment chests filled with books that contain CP 4335 containment procedures a few animal farms for the purpose of breeding and killing livestock for their meat the entrance to a mine several chests containing books specifically designed

For civilians to learn about 4335 if they ever breach containment and enter the server and of course the actual containment chamber for SCP 4335 itself which is a little more complicated 4335 is containment chamber is built out of several layers s all made from iron blocks the outermost cube

Is 75x 75x 75 blocks the inner cube is 55x 55x 55 blocks and the innermost cube is 25x 25x 25 blocks creating several levels of Defense finally one layer within all these others which contains the anomaly proper is made from obsidian blocks SCP 4335 is bound into the center

Of the containment chamber with a complex mechanism the uttermost cube is completely filled with water and several dispensers capable of rapidly dispensing large amounts of items in a short amount of time line the cube the cube also contains several mob Farms which are devices that constantly spawn enemies

Into the chamber that drop loot when they die the chamber is essentially designed to funnel a constant flow of items inwards to SCP 4335 there are even contingency measures for if SCP 4335 5 manages to breach containment if Escape is attempted blocks of TNT detonate above the ceiling

Causing lava to pour into the chamber at that point MTF Edna 84 are dispatched into the server to lure 4335 back into its containment chamber to do this they fire a mix of fire resistant potions and ender pearls which have teleportation capabilities interestingly there’s one more basic method of luring SCP 4335

Back into the obsidian Cube taunting and insulting one of SCP 4335 is many anomalous abilities is being able to hear people through the screen and being a proud creature it often responds to insults by charging in to directly Engage The insulter if SCP 4335 still manages to breach the containment that

Has been set up for it then they even expect that it will likely soon hop into another server at that point the goal will shift to finding the monster and recontain it with containment procedures this complex and extensive it shouldn’t come as a surprise that SCP 4335 rests

Firmly in the ker class what exactly is this anomalous entity why does its containment hinge on constantly providing it with items and how did it end up in Mojang’s popular building and survival game in the first place SCP 4335 in terms of physical dimensions appears almost identical to the player

Character with an all black skin it also appears to be constantly shrouded in a cloud of smoke particles and has long black tendrils protruding from its back in some respects 4335 has been compared to two popular Creepy Pasta figures Herobrine and the Slenderman but 4335 is far stranger its physical body behaves

Similarly to most assets native to the game with a few peculiar anomalous abilities we’ll discuss soon handling a SCP 4335 is an extremely delicate process if command blocks creative mode or server commands are ever enabled in a server with SCP 4335 the server will instantly shut down

And SCP 4335 will move to a different server SCP 4335 also uses its tendrils to destroy surrounding blocks before consuming them with each successful consumption SCP 4335 grows and when it reaches sufficient size it hops to a different server as you can see keeping us SCP 4335 contained is an uphill

Battle but luckily there are two factors on the foundation side here the first is that SCP 4335 is immobilized while consuming items and blocks limiting its ability to actively Escape Foundation forces the second factor is that SCP 4335 needs a rest period between consuming blocks in order to grow

Meaning if its consumption is constant and continuous it isn’t able to grow these two factors have informed the entirety of the foundation’s containment procedures around SCP 4335 it’s locked into its chamber and fed items and blocks constantly effectively rooting it in place when SCP 4335 begins to grow the foundation also

Found that the application of Ender Pearls helps reduce it back to its normal size however SCP 4335 does have a method of striking back against its C CH 4335 is a virgin class multisensory Cognito Hazard anyone viewing it without proper training and protection may experience distressing hallucinations

SCP 4335 is also capable of telepathic speech with people playing on its server and as we alluded to earlier it can also hear any noises you make while playing weird is a term thrown around a lot when it comes to scps considering it’s pretty much a requirement for the foundation to

Take interest in you but an all devouring Minecraft demon that can hear you talking through your screen is strange even by Foundation standards MTF Edna 84 first discovered SCP 4335 in the single player server of Minecraft user leaking heart three team members Jason yelen Richard Duchamp and shilia

Freemason covertly entered the game to investigate and potentially apprehend the creature when leaking har first discovered their presence on what he thought was a private server he quickly left a little creeped out by the sudden intrusion thankfully the trio was still able to locate SCP 4335 they discovered the creature hiding

Inside a giant crater as though it had impacted the Earth at considerable speed Richard Duchamp who was the leader of the team at the time made the mistake of looking directly at the entity in that moment he experienced the full force of SCP 4335 Cognito hazardous effects he hallucinated believe beleving that his

Keyboard was melting before his eyes in the aftermath of this incident Duchamp was taken off the case and Jason yelson was promoted to head of the project things were still going to get stranger yelson was able to open a dialogue with the creature after containing it in a

Chamber filled with lava it asked him whether it had landed in the right location meaning our world and yelson informed him that had somehow fallen into the world of Minecraft instead the creature was at first confused and then angry and resentful about its situation it vowed to find its way into our world

Somehow and obtain more sustenance a few months after this The Entity managed to breach containment and hop into another server yelson and two others once again managed to track it down and recontain it but this time two civilians also inhabiting the server were exposed to the anomalous effects of SCP

4335 they weren’t hurt but they did appears strange and incoherent After experiencing 43 35’s Cognito hazards the foundation tracked them down in the aftermath and gave them amnestic treatment 4335 was contained shortly thereafter once again yelson came face to face with his new foe 8 months after being captured 4335 granted yelson

Another interview from containment 4335 admitted that it almost respected yelson and the rest of the foundation for figuring out how to capture and contain it so quickly in exchange it would give the foundation something extremely valuable information first it asked one question of yelson how does he Define creation yelson replied uh something

That is built and brought into this universe by a Sapient being using other things from this universe 4335 agreed it went on to explain that it came from a universe devoid of creation a dark and unknowable Place filled with nothing but violent random chaos its Dimension existed directly above ours and it often

Looked down at us through a dimensional window fascinated by all the creation below it plotted and dreamed to one day infiltrate our reality and yelson finally had the opportunity to ask the magic question why though he wasn’t quite ready for the brutal honesty of SCP

4335 reply I do not like to lie so I will tell you now I wish to suck it dry of the toys of whatever Force controls your Universe destroy the light destroy the Earth and Destroy Humanity it reminded me of me a blubbering mass of intelligence and order it sickens me in

Ways I cannot comprehend I hope you understand as CP 4335 was a connoisseur of creation and it sought to devour all of it in this moment yelson realized what an incredibly dangerous entity he was dealing with the only mystery was why this creature had somehow landed in Minecraft instead of our world which

Appeared to be the only thing that saved us but yelson didn’t have time to think 4335 was about to Stage another daring escape attempt one of its tendrils reached out and attacked yon’s player character in that moment the real life yelson began to hallucinate and panic

Suddenly back in the game a series of abnormally tall slender black figures appeared and began deconstructing the containment chamber around SCP 4335 it had somehow summoned new minions into the game to assist in this Containment Breach Jason yelson entered Cognito Hazard quarantine following this incident and was removed from the

Project and he wasn’t the only one affect Ed by this incident following the first appearance of these long dark figures players across the globe began to experience them appearing in their own games the foundation managed to find a solution they contacted Mojang and had the creatures patched into the game

During the next update as a new non-anomalous entity which seemed to stop 4335 from being able to use them as its own tools they’re now known as the Enderman and are beloved among fans for being one of the creepier enemies to this day containment efforts continue for SCP

4335 but there’s only one question left why did The Entity fall into Minecraft rather than our world the file posits the most likely answer because 4335 defines creation as elements made by Sapient beings in Minecraft the most popular game in the world that the height of 4335 is power everything that

Exists is the product of code made by humans creation is truly abundant there as for our world in SCP 4335 is extra dimensional eyes there is no creation no intelligent design no soothing piano soundtrack just frightening chaotic Randomness which is too unlike its own Dimension so even if SCP 4335 ever did

Arrive in our reality it would likely be disappointed by how little there is to eat the thin pale humanoid anomaly had just found itself in Minecraft of all places the all to familiar whale of a mergency alarms rang out through the corridors of the foundation facility it had happened again another containment

Breach of course the on-site Personnel were more than familiar with the protocols for a situation like this so well versed in what to do during an emergency that it had become second nature whether they were research staff evacuating for their own safety or security teams moving in to recapture

The escaped anomaly and get the situation under control everyone was moving like they had been programmed muscle memory taking over the loose anomaly was none other than scp096 all Foundation Personnel were alerted and reminded not to look directly at the creature there was just one problem they couldn’t look even if they’d ignored

Their order to try nobody could because the shy guy was nowhere to be found well nowhere in the real world at least this whole situation bizarre even by Foundation standards had all started with an experiment involving a member of the Disposable d-class personel yet another dangerous convict serving one of

Several life sentences now being used as an Expendable human lab rat for the foundation’s often Sinister purposes the experiment in question was an attempt to further test the limitation of scp096 abilities by now the foundation had done extensive research into the creature known as as the shy guy they knew its

Particular brand of anomalous qualities were triggered when anyone looked directly at it being observed would instantaneously send scp096 into an uncontrollable rage State causing it to pursue its Observer until they were no longer standing scp096 was known to be able to travel at speed so relentless it

Was pretty much impossible to stop one moment it was sobbing and screeching in its cell having just been observed and minutes later the wide jawed long limed monster was standing behind whoever had seen it making its screaming face the image its victim took to the Grave with them Foundation researchers knew that

Scp096 is Rage State could be triggered by as little as someone seeing the slightest hint of a creature even if the shy guy had been captured as a tiny Speck in the background of a photograph it would come after anyone whose eyes so much as glanced over that Speck it also

Didn’t matter how far away the Observer was scp096 could not be outrun it could track down anyone wherever they were in the world but what if a person who had observed the shy guy was no longer in the world the experiment had taken a lot of trial and error after all digitizing

A human being and transforming their entire Consciousness into code was no easy task but the foundation wasn’t above breaking more than a few eggs to make an omelet especially when those eggs were the brains of a few d-class Personnel actually the first test objects turned out more scrambled or

Fried certainly overdone given the amount of smoke coming from their ears but eventually the research team had perfected the device they dubbed the neural harness a headset that could translate a person’s mind into pure digital code their Consciousness would be extracted from their body leaving their physical form an empty shell while

A digital copy of them was able to Traverse the local on-site computer network of course the foundation wasn’t about to let a digitized d-class run a muck with their systems so their coding experts wrote a number of specialized parameters into their successful test subject now the digital d-class could be

Programmed to follow the foundation directive from his perspective it was like he was floating through cyberspace towards the system that the foundation had directed him to a surveillance camera inside scp096 cell that usually remained inactive but not today the camera blinked to life as soon as the d-class is code-based consciousness

Reached it and through it he was able to observe SC scp096 sitting against the far wall of its containment chamber gently whimpering and walking back and forth that is until the creature felt that same familiar sensation of being watched it stood up enraged wailing uncontrollably as the d-class watched

From within the camera then a split second later scp096 appeared to Blink out of existence it hadn’t work the experiment had failed and the the digital d-class began to panic before the foundation coders could stop him he frantically scoured the local network for anything some kind of Escape Route

Back into the real world maybe he thought if he could get back into his body it wouldn’t count technically his digital self was separate from his physical form so he might get out of SCP 96’s clutches on a technicality but it was impossible his body was already

Burned out by the neural harness there was no way for the d-class to transfer himself back there was only one option left hide and as it turned out someone had forgotten to uninstall a certain building game from a computer in one of the foundation doctor’s offices the DCL

Classes digitized mind zapped him into Minecraft from his point of view it was like he existed within the game itself he did a computerized equivalent of breathing a sigh of relief only to take back all those ones and zeros in a horrified gasp as he noticed a tall wiry

Framed figure before him it hadn’t worked as scp096 had still managed to follow him into Minecraft even in a world of computer code the shy guy was able to dispatch its digital Observer quite easily and what had once been a living human mind in the form of binary

Code was quickly deleted but that’s when scp096 started to take notice of its surroundings but the most recent person to see it gone it had the chance to actually take in where it was the bright rays of warm light coming down from a cube-shaped sun reveal a welcoming landscape all around constructed

Entirely from cubes it fascinated scp096 instilling a kind of childlike Wonder in the shy guy the likes of which it hadn’t experienced since well since it couldn’t remember when rather than leaving instantly reappearing in its containment chamber scp096 made the conscious decision to start exploring there was a mountainous biome surrounding scp096

Stony spires reaching up towards a clear sky with a waterfall cascading its way down the nearest of them at the foot of the mountains was the opening of a cave which the shyy found itself wandering towards the light from the sun while a pleasant and welcoming change to the

Surroundings it was used to was a little harsh on scp096 is sunken eyes so instead it began to gravitate towards the shadowy confines of the caves not unlike the usual darkness of its containment chamber back at the foundation traversing through long winding Cor Doors of Stone as CP 096

Found itself having to bend down to avoid hitting its head on the Cave’s low ceiling obviously this formation of Rocky blocks had informed with someone of the shy guys’s height in mind there was a low Warm Glow coming from the farthest side of the tunnel and the thin

Creature made its way closer and closer despite the stone walls around it feeling like a tighter confinement than its cell approaching the source of the light scp096 was relieved that the cave opened out into a more spacious area the cramp tunnel giving way to an expansive

Chamber that lay within the heart of the mountain the warm orangey glow that had been coming from a flowing stream of boiling hot lava that seemed to trickle down from somewhere above creating a deadly fiery pool directly in the shy guys’s path but just before it could

Turn back and leave the cave through the way he came scp096 sense that familiar feeling of something observing him across the lava pool on the other side was a creature comprised of a green Cube for a head with a long armless cuboid body and four cubed feet if it had been

Present in the real world it might have been made out of leaves like a living shrub it was staring directly at the shy guy from across the lava only for the strange newcomer to disappear a moment later the creeper hissed before it realized that scp096 had leaped up

Behind it to land a fatal blow but little did the infamously anxious anomaly realize that the sentient shrub wasn’t done there was a colossal boom that caused scp096 to stagger backwards whimpering at the sudden loud explosion and the pain that had accompanied it the creeper had blown itself to Pieces but

In doing so had left a lasting injury that caused scp096 considerable discomfort as it began limping towards the cave that led out the opposite side of the mountain despite its injury the shy guy was still able to move with relative ease and the further it went the more it seemed to gradually heal

However it was as it stepped out once more into the sunlight that the creature realized just how hungry it was back in the real world it hadn’t eaten for several hours and surprisingly even while accidentally stuck in digitized form the hunger mechanics of Minecraft were having an effect on scp096 the shy

Guy started searching around for anything that could prove to satiate its hunger there was a Grove of trees not far so scp096 lumbered to take take a closer look it couldn’t be certain but it felt there was at least a slim chance that there were apples growing amongst

The leaves but even at the anomaly’s own elongated height it couldn’t simply reach up to pick them however it was while swiping its arms up at the tree that the shy guy swung its Fist and knocked at the tree trunk to the creature’s surprise it was able to chip

Away at the wood with its hands punching at the tree until the trunk had been reduced to a collection of wooden blocks that the shy guy was able to collect and sure enough some red apples dropped from the leaves above enough to quell the hunger that scp096 was feeling at least

For the time being nearby something was moving through the trees it was yet to lock eyes on scp096 but the second it did the mob would surely have sealed its own fate as it moved around minding its own business the tall figure overheard the sounds of the shy guy eating and its

Attention was drawn to where the creature was standing enjoying an apple sensing that it had been seen as as CP 096 turned and locked eyes with the entity it was perhaps the only other being in Minecraft that was a similar height and stature to the anomaly itself

In fact the pair were strikingly similar before scp096 could carry out its usual method of attack the Enderman suddenly teleported out of view but it was too late now both it and the shy guy had looked at the other’s face both had been provoked and were compelled to react in

Exactly the same way just as SCP Z 96 entered its rage State the Enderman 2 opened its mouth and began to shake making loud lengthy sounds not to similar to the shy guys’s own angered screams but something profoundly strange happened next scp096 and the Enderman kept attempting to pursue one another

Appearing in a new location within the Minecraft world neither one getting close enough to the other they teleport only for the other to teleport away the moment they saw each other each trying to catch one another but always staying one step behind this rapid Chase almost became a strange ongoing sort of

Teleporting dance between scp096 and the Enderman at first the shy guy had been compelled to attack the Enderman like it was with any who looked directly at it but as they appeared and disappeared from place to place the creature started to feel an odd kinship with this shadowy

Fellow it was so used to being frightened and alone to its overwhelming feelings of insecurity and self-loathing that the Simplicity of just traversing the open world with a creature very alike itself in many ways it had all come as a welcome change scp096 found it therapeutic even and before long was

Following the Enderman not out of any intention to do it harm but just to feel for a little while like it had a friend just a little bit longer as scp096 thought welcoming the enjoyment it felt playing this game of Minecraft the year was 2015 Lewis Joseph and Sydney were

Like a lot of kids their age which is to say 11 years old they secretly stay up past their bedtime watching scary videos on the internet when their moms and dads think they’re sleeping they go to school every day and daydream about all the fun things they’re going to do when that

School bell finally rings at the end of the day and of course they play a lot and we mean a lot of Minecraft whenever they’re not at school hanging out at the local par Park and filming goofy Tik Tok videos or watching those AFF forementioned scary videos on the

Internet there’s a good chance that they’ll be online together logging a few extra hours building bases digging big holes or playing survival mode and seeing how long they can last against the onslaught of mobs but there’s one particular Pursuit they have while playing Minecraft together that takes up

The majority of their playtime one ktic Quest that drives them forward despite all the naysayers and doubters tracking down and finding the legendary Minecraft creepy pasta entity Herobrine for those who weren’t around on the internet back then creepy pastas like Herobrine were all the rage like any video game the new

Frontier of Minecraft with all of its procedurally generated Landscapes felt like it held new Mysteries and Mysteries are equal parts exciting and frightening after all who really knows what’s going on behind a closed door herob was a Minecraft specific little urban legend stories told of a default Minecraft skin

With early white eyes manifesting in the game even in Solo matches and terrorizing players one internet sleuth who looked into the mystery of Herobrine claimed it to be the haunted soul of the Dead Brother of Minecraft’s Creator Marcus Pon also known as notch in the years since the legend first started

Notch himself has come forward and disavowed the claim saying that that in fact he didn’t even have a brother and never had so the rumors were completely baseless but as we here at the SCP Foundation know the truth has never gotten in the way of a good story so

Lewis Joseph and Sydney were happy to remain Believers as long as they could keep having fun chasing alleged digital ghosts how could any of these boys know that in the midst of their fun they’d run into a real monster amidst Minecraft’s blocky Vistas it was a school night like any other when they

Made that first fateful Expedition it was 7:15 p.m. and the boys were all in their shared server Lewis had chicken tenders Joseph had chicken nuggets and Sydney who’d eaten his dinner earlier than the others was snacking on a pack of Skittles they’ all outfitted their characters with full diamond armor with

Diamond swords to match because Joseph had somehow convinced the others that diamonds were ghost prooof he read it on the internet he claimed together the three boys had made made themselves an impressive Minecraft castle to be the base of their Herobrine hunting operations a safe haven surrounded by

High stone walls and MOB repelling torches to keep them safe if ever they got a little too spooked while playing though playing was perhaps too mild the word for it in the minds of these three boys they were doing extremely important investigative work after all if they managed to actually find Herobrine

Themselves they would be creepy pasta Legend and wouldn’t that be worth all the hours upon hours of rigorous Mining and crafting they’d been methodical in their search scoping out different corners of the map and canvasing them together searching high and low and then marking said area off their checklist it was a

Level of consideration and thought that their parents and teachers had long wished the boys would put into their home or schoolwork but alas seeing as none of the homework was find Herobrine they really weren’t that interested today they were searching an area deep in the misty forests in the dead of

Night they fought off a few spiders and sword wielding skeletons thankfully no creepers a man and kept foraging on into the darkness it’s so creepy out here L said over his headset why do we have to come out here at night it it’s way more dangerous with all the mobs the night is

Like the perfect time for ghosts Sydney retorted you think a ghost is going to start hanging around in the middle of the day no way it’s got to be at night man and LS simply could not argue with such incredibly Sound Logic they forged on doing their typical methodical search

For any phenomenon that one might generously be able to describe as supernal so you can only imagine the excitement coursing through them when Joseph discovered a strange dark cave that looked as though it had no business being there while each held their own private reservations they all knew what

They needed to do go inside and investigate as they entered the cave a few strange realizations occurred to them such as the the fact that there were seemingly no mobs down here a cave in the dead of night surely there should be some enemies right plus the typical lighting implements like torches and

Lanterns didn’t seem to offer the same kind of Illumination that they normally would it was almost like the darkness was more oppressive here more tangible there was undeniably something Eerie about the whole setup that much couldn’t be denied you guys see anything LS asked no Joseph said sounding oddly cautious

As though he sensed something strange was on the horizon something that perhaps these boys shouldn’t see yeah I haven’t seen anything either Sydney chimed in maybe we should Joseph screamed and the two others turned their Minecraft Avatars to look at him Joseph’s character had bumped into something some stranger in the cave an

NPC design that looked oddly realistic for something inhabiting the purposefully lowii blocky world of Minecraft it seemed to have a dark furry body with a can skull-like face bearing a pair of milky white eyes that seemed to stare off into nothingness was this another mob maybe something added in the

Latest patch if so why wasn’t it attacking what is that thing leis asked over his headset I don’t know Joseph replied it’s so creepy though suddenly a message appeared on the screen as though it had been typed and sent by another player a player with the username Mal o

The message read hey that isn’t very very nice you shouldn’t judge on appearances kid that certainly gave them pause so many things about this didn’t make sense it had all the Hallmarks of an NPC but apparently it understood their voices and could send messages it clearly wasn’t actually another player

In a conventional sense but it didn’t attack like your typical mob none of the boys could really make sense of what they were dealing with here are you a hacker Sydney asked no Mal o tyed back back I’m just lonely and a long way from home it’s nice to have your company down

Here though I don’t get visitors often have you heard of Herobrine LS asked mow typed back is he a friend of yours you should introduce him to me I love making new friends the three boys were in some regards rather mature and polite for their ages and so remained civil with

This bizarre mysterious figure it was curious and inquisitive asking them questions about their school lives and their friends it did seem earnestly happy for their company so it didn’t give any of them the sense that it was a threat as night Drew on and the boys respective parents told them it was time

To log off and get some shed ey mow finally typed I’ve really enjoyed hanging out with you kids come back and visit me again tomorrow if you don’t I’ll come visit you instead none of the kids picked up on the probably rather obvious stranger danger Vibes of this

Message and instead they went to bed excited and curious the next day they met up on the playground for a kind of State of the Union on the strange phenomenon they had encountered the night before do you think it has anything to do with Herobrine leis asked forget Herobrine Sydney replied

Eliciting gasp from the two others all the other people have Herobrine we have something better something only we’ve discovered we’ve got Malo later that night Joseph who was probably the most studious of the group tried to do a little background research on Mal o everything seemed to turn up dead ends

Aside from one slightly Shady looking app called Malo version 1.0.0 its description read never settle for those awkward feelings of being alone ever again Malo is an exciting and interactive experience that will keep you engaged and intrigued the anxiety of social situations can be nerve-wracking

But just after a few hours of Malo you will soon forget all about those painful emotions of disappointment be part of the new cze that is quickly becoming the next social substitute remember the more you participate the more Mal o will engage you your experience is completely

Up to you absolutely no ads enjoy weird so unless the thing they encountered on Minecraft was some kind of weird viral marketing campaign for the app it was probably just a coincidence maybe it was a popular character from Japan or something by the way for the next several days the boys honored their

Promise they’d visit Mal o in the cave every night and chat trying to tactfully get more information out of it though the best they could get on the entity’s origin was the cryptic statement I’m not usually here but everyone wants a vacation once in a while don’t they we

Can’t just spend our whole life on a phone they’d become so acclimated to Mal o over the days that they forgot what the entity had said to them the very first day they met come back and visit me again tomorrow if you don’t I’ll come visit you instead but on the day that

They didn’t come and visit Malo because Miss Grayson had sent a particularly challenging ing piece of English homework they received a frightening reminder that very night they all started receiving strange texts on their phones as you can probably expect they were all photographs each and everyone depicting some regular haunt that the

Boys all liked to frequent with one addition Mal O’s grinning skull face hiding somewhere in the image like some kind of demented parody of where’s Waldo the strangeness of this new development left all the boys shaken and they hopped back onto Minecraft as quickly as

Possible to go find and talk to Malo in its cave however this time the cave was empty and Malo was nowhere to be seen But the Tex still didn’t stop they’d come in so frequently with malow getting closer to home literally in each one the boys thought about telling their parents

But would their parents believe them they probably lump Mal Owen with the same Tall Tales of childhood imagination as Herobrine and write it off as bored kids playing a prank even though in this this case it was anything but more photos arrived in these ones Mal o was

Right outside each of the children’s homes lurking watching in some of the photos they could see themselves in the windows going about their evening business having no idea of the creature lurking just outside none of the boys felt like playing Minecraft that night it wasn’t fun anymore instead they shut

Themselves up in their rooms closed and locked their windows and pulled down the blinds after check under the beds with flashlights of course but still more photos came in all depicting Mal o getting closer and closer and closer right about the time they were wondering whether the scratching on the outside of

Their bedroom door was real or just a figment of their imagination another dark irony had occurred to them all this time trying to find something Supernatural and in the very end something Supernatural had instead found them while want an anomaly of your own check out SCP swag.com for highquality

SCP merch video games have come a long way over the years we’ve gone from the days of Atari and pong to Virtual Reality headsets ps5s and massive multiplayer online games where you can fight horror movie villains or wage war in a fantasy land you can mine virtual minerals and avoid creepers in Minecraft

Compete against people all over the world in fortnite and do whatever it is people do in Roblox blcks games used to be a pixelated hero battling Blobby monsters with no discernible facial features and now they have Graphics so detailed you can see the freckles on a protagonist’s face and each individual

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Or tiny plastic trucks or with boring non-electric violence-free board games well board games are only violence-free if you’re not playing Monopoly but back to 1986 Beverly Harrington was a single mom doing her best to provide for her son Jason and give him the Christmas he deserved she had been picking up extra

Shifts at the local Diner making sure to save up all the extra money for a real Christmas tree from the farm just out of town for a beautiful honey baked ham and of course for presents she knew that though he was a shy kid and would never demand it Jason desperately wanted to

Find an NES under the tree on Christmas morning she got so absorbed in her work so exhausted from the extra shifts and trying to make everything perfect that she forgot to do her actual shopping until the very last minute she woke up the morning of December 24th with a

Start her heart jumping into her throat she hadn’t picked up Jason’s present yet she threw on her coat and rushed out into the snowy streets making her way to the store and saying a silent prayer that they would still have one more NES in stock lucky for her they did less

Lucky two parents were already wrestling for it fighting each other with a raw animalistic Rage of two wolves competing for the same piece of meat if she tried to grab it and join in she could get hurt or the console could break apart she asked an employee if they had any in

The back but she already knew the answer from the exhausted look in his eyes there were no more in the back there were no more in town nor the next town over or the next town over from that not only would she have to get Jason’s

Present at the very last minute but she would also have to get him something he didn’t even want he would smile and thank her but she knew how sad it would make him to go back to school and hear his friends bragging about their Christmases she shoved her hands into

The pockets of her coat and began her slow sad March back through the snow trying to come up with what to do next then something caught her eye a brightly colored sign reading Wonder taining toys beneath it it was a storefront she had never seen before and right there in the

Window a video game console it wasn’t the NES not exactly but it looked so much like it she couldn’t help herself she had to go inside and get a better look the store was filled with toys games and puzzles they were all inviting with Vivid packaging and labels

Depicting children having fun but she had never seen any of them before perhaps it was a new brand and she was one of the first people to happen upon the store it seemed odd for a toy store to open this close to Christmas rather than taking advantage of the shopping

Season and opening earlier in the year but she couldn’t dwell on that not when she was this close to a solution toward the back of the store she spotted the video game console from the window the label read pretendo so the resemblance to the NES was no coincidence this

Console was int Ended as a knockoff of some kind she asked the sales clerk a man with a strangely wide unmoving smile if the console was capable of running Nintendo games you bet your bottom dollar he replied we don’t carry those here though but can I interest you in

Some of our Wonder tainment Originals we have all kinds of games here and they’re just as good or your money back there’s a whole world inside each and every one it wasn’t what she’d set out to buy but this was clearly the best thing Beverly was going to find this close to the

Holiday she paid the man for for the pretendo console and a selection of the store’s most popular video games he even gift WRA it for her in a colorful box with a shiny red bow on top the next morning Jason and Beverly sat in the living room sipping cocoa and opening

Presents together she started small with a classic pair of new wolf socks and worked her way up to the big box in the corner as Jason tore the paper off his eyes lit up with Glee thank you Mom thank you he gave her a huge hug then looked at her with nearly manic

Excitement can I play it now can I she laughed and promised that after he helped her clean up the wrapping paper he could play his new games she was just so glad he was happy with it he didn’t care that it wasn’t the name brand console he knew that this gift was

Special so she was perfectly glad to let him enjoy it and she could get started on that ham for later Jason plugged in his brand new pretendo and looked through the games his mom had picked out for him there was farmtastic Farming Simulator Historical house Hunter magic Wizard Quest super fighter and one

Simply called spooky it was emblazened with the image of a cartoon ghost in front of an abandoned cabin and it piqued Jason’s interest he always loved scary stories and legends about ghosts and Things That Go Bump in the night he decided that this would be the first

Game that he would play he placed the cartridge in the console and hit the power button to turn it on as he clutched the controller in his hands he began to notice something strange his room once decorated in posters of his favorite movies turned dark the light

Green Walls became rotting wood and for lack of a better way to describe it the entire world’s resolution began to shift if the world around him had Graphics they were getting worse he could no longer see the screen depicting the game’s main menu and in fact the console

Itself had vanished somehow he was standing in the Haunted Cabin from the cover of the game he looked down at his hands and found the controller still there so not everything had changed before he could think anymore about this strange new place he found himself in he heard the sound of ominous music

Seemingly coming from nowhere after a moment he realized why the sound of its Melody filled him with dread it was the kind of music that always played in a game when an enemy was getting close he had to move he took a step forward and

Moved through the space as if it was a real house for the time being it was somehow he was inside the game which meant the ghost was coming for him soon he pressed a button on the controller to activate a flashlight and followed its beam through the darkened cabin as he

Walked looking for clues or any object he could interact with he could hear the music getting louder whatever was coming it was getting closer the flashlights beam illuminated a scrap of paper on a small table he moved to take a closer look and could just barely make out what

It said they hide in the darkness find the exit don’t stop moving he heard heard a sound behind him and the music reached a deafening volume he Whirled around and saw nothing but the hall in front of him bending around a corner he knew from the heavy feeling in the pit

Of his stomach and the music that threatened to rupture his eardrums that there was something horrible waiting for him around that corner he froze for a moment then remembered the Letter’s words of warning don’t stop moving he took a step towards the corner then another and another he shown the light

Of the flashlight around around the corner but there was nothing there no ghost no monster nothing and then he felt it a chill on the back of his neck he Whirled around and there it was the Ghost of the cabin it was so much bigger than it had looked before wispy white

Form stretching up to the ceiling from wall to wall its wide dark eyes and gaping ma of a mouth inches from his own face he screamed and instinctively swung the flashlight at the Spirit cutting through it with a beam of light the ghost let out a shriek and shrank away

From the glow that was it he just needed to keep the light on it and the ghost couldn’t hurt him Jason was so thrilled by this little victory that he didn’t even notice the Boss music starting to play again growing louder and louder he didn’t see the movement out of the

Corner of his eye the Silvery pale figure of a woman stepping out of a portrait on the wall all he felt was a sudden overwhelming cold like ice in his veins and then everything went black he opened his eyes back in his bedroom looking at a dark screen with the words

Game over written in dripping red font he couldn’t tell for a moment if that had been real or a dream but either way he only wanted to do one thing tell his mom Beverly listened to her son’s story and couldn’t help but write it off as the overactive imagination of a child

But still she humored him and agreed to try the console for herself and see what happened choosing at random she selected farmas stick and pressed play all of a sudden she felt the heat of the sun on her face heard the mooing of cows and smelled fresh cut hay she was steering a

Tractor through a wide open field where a moment ago she had been standing in her house in the dead of winter Jason shut off the game pulling her back into reality and as Beverly gasped in shock Jason said best present ever unfortunately for Jason word was already

Spreading about the pretendo all the way to the SCP Foundation the console and all other consoles that the foundation could track down were seized and designated SCP 591 SCP 591 is a line of video game consoles originally developed as a counterfeit of the Nintendo Entertainment System before being bought

And distributed by Dr Wonder tainment a toy company responsible for a wide variety of anomalous objects contained by the foundation over the years the console is capable of playing NES titles as well as games from Dr wain’s original lineup of 8bit games many of which the foundation has in its possession as well

Some of the titles in the SCP foundation’s Library include but are not limited to Arcade shooter wam platformer Dusky adventures in stateand survival horror game you can do that on television puzzle game World War I Ace trench digger music racing game lead Zeppelin Air Racers fighting games super

Kit karate and super kit karate 2010 and the educational game Reading Rainbow sit and listen whenever one of the official doctor wondertainment cartridges is inserted into the console and activated it results in a localized CK class reality restructuring scenario which rearranges reality in the immediate area to resemble the game’s setting the

Player inside of the game’s affected radius will take on the role of the game’s protagonist and navigate the events of the game until either they win or the console is deactivated don’t worry this isn’t one of those if you die in the game you die in real life

Scenarios if the player happens to be a less than Adept gamer they will simply respawn or start at the beginning of the game like any video game character would that doesn’t however mean that SCP 591 isn’t dangerous like any piece of vintage technology the components of the pretendo system have degraded over time

Their functionality steadily decreasing for an ordinary game console this would be a simple inconvenience something that would impact the quality of the graphics or responsiveness of the controls it would be annoying and maybe eventually unplayable but otherwise harmless for the pretendo however this degradation has had catastrophic events when a game

Cartridge is inserted into SCP 591 there is now a chance of the CK class reality restructuring scenario going wrong and resulting in a ZK class reality failure scenario instead essentially instead of just transporting the player into the world of the Game reality will crumble in the designated area and the laws of

Time time space and physics will be bent or even broken while the CK class scenarios dissipate as soon as the console is deactivated the ZK class scenarios refuse to play by the rules they remain in place wherever they first manifested seemingly permanently the ZK class scenarios were first observed

During play testing by the research staff assigned to SCP 591 after learning about the nature of the pretendo game system Dr Furukawa has volunteered as a test subject specifically requesting that he’d be given the chance to play the drct wondertainment title The Legend of swordmaster because quote it just

Looks really cool this particular game came with not just the cartridge but a special sword-shaped controller to be used during the sword fight sequences Dr Furukawa stepped into the containment cell where one instance of SCP 591 had been placed with his chosen game cartridge and controller waiting for him

As soon as he inserted the cartridge into the console and pressed the start button the room around him began to transform reality itself warping and reshaping to fit the world of the game fluorescent lights and stark white walls were replaced by pixelated trees and a winding Cobblestone path leading to a

Massive Stone Castle the first enemy a knight in black armor leapt into frame and Dr Furukawa raised his sword ready for combat but before he had a chance to deal the first blow it became clear that something wasn’t right the enemy Knight suddenly disappeared glitching out of sight the Cobblestone slowly began to

Drift into the air and so did Dr frwa just as suddenly as he lifted off he dropped back to the ground with a heavy thud gravity was rapidly fluctuating and he could scarcely keep his balance in front of him he could see random cubic structures popping up out of nowhere

Made of wood Stone and ice and the game he called out desperately pull the plug someone please outside one of the researchers watching The Experiment cut the power to the console but nothing happened the world refused to return to normal security officers entered the area and attempted to remove Dr Furukawa

But found that his body still resembled an 8-bit video game character when they attempted to drag him out of the ZK class zone he cried out in pain as his body began to dissolve into static they had turned off the console but they were unable to pull him out the rest of the

Research team horrified by what they had witnessed began to take measurements of the reality failure scenario from outside of the room the area now displayed a complete absence of naturally occurring radiation including cosmic background radiation there was also evidence of time dilation reduction of light speed and the gravity

Fluctuations that Dr Furukawa had first noticed with no way to remove futakawa from this broken reality the area would have to be sealed off and he would be left inside there was no other option so they constructed a concrete Dome around the testing site and relocated the

Remaining instant es of SCP 591 from that point on testing was only conducted using DCL classes no matter how much research staff loved video games or how vehemently they insisted that they were quote willing to roll the dice they were barred from testing and encouraged to

Pick up a VR headset for a much lower risk immersive gaming experience over the years of testing following the Dr phawa incident four more ZK class scenarios were created and contained some of the individuals survived the incident but were physically altered so greatly that they would not be able to

Survive outside of the ZK class reality failure the only people who survived were unable to readjust to their lives continuing to live as the main character of the game that they were playing at this point testing was officially suspended indefinitely due to not only the loss of human life but also the

Unpredictable and highly dangerous nature of the damage being done to reality on such a grand scale all instances of SCP 591 confiscated by the foundation are kept in a storage containment Vault kept separate from any civilians or their infrastructure by a distance of at least 500 M it is also

Kept separate from other Foundation controlled containment facilities unless it is being used for official approved testing by level three staff it is to remain deactivated at all times any ZK class scenarios created by an instance of SCP 591 will be contained via the construction of a closed concrete Dome

And given the designation of sector W number sectors W1 through W5 the currently existing ZK class scenarios are monitored remotely and kept highly classified any Personnel or test subjects located inside one of these sectors will remain there indefinitely and be officially considered Lost In Action any additional instances of SCP

591 located in civilian stores households or any public place are to be removed and contained indefinitely as the years have gone by testing has indicated a steady increase in the rate of ZK class scenarios being generated from a CK class scenario where it was only a 1% chance there is now a 32%

Chance according to wainman company records seized during a foundation raid of one of their toy factories there are still plenty of SCP 591 instances out there in the world just waiting for some unsuspecting gamer to fire them up and get lost in the story literally if the documents found are accurate there are

Around 243 consoles and 1300 consoles still in circulation these Also may or may not include a pocket pretendo model that was developed as a prototype but never officially released on the market if it was and the chaos of the pretendo system is available in a portable form

Well it’s best not to think about that for too long the foundation is doing its best to track down the remaining pretendo systems but there is no way to know for sure what distant corners of the world they’ve made their way to so when you’re picking up a shiny new game

Console or a nostalgic vintage model to Rel live some of your favorite childhood memories with take an extra close look at the label and make sure you’re getting the real thing because if you’re not careful it just might be game over for many Avid video game fans those who

Just can’t get enough of grinding away for hours on quests battling endless enemies and exploring infinite Virtual Worlds Landing a job as a gameplay tester seems like the perfect opportunity doing your favorite thing in the world and getting paid to do it well that’s the dream plus the added benefit

Of seeing how the sausage gets made of getting access to a game still in development and suggesting ways it can be improved think of all the gaming disasters that might have been avoided with a few more play testers in the room looking at you Fallout New Vegas and your NPCs with the spinning

Heads well One Gamer had the same thought a young man by the name of Danny wheeler when he spotted an ad seeking beta play testers for an in development RPG from an upand cominging indie game Studio he jumped at the chance to apply the pay wasn’t amazing but it was

Definitely a better gig than his current job at the local convenience store Hawking energy drinks to snarky teens and counting down the hours until he could get back home kick up his feet and get away from it all with a controller in his hand but sometimes things that

Seem too good to be true actually are at first Danny had a perfectly enjoyable time testing the game it was standard RPG fantasy F and though he made sure to inform the developers that he found the steampunk aesthetic to be a little bit played out at this point there was

Nothing at all notable about it it was fine but the development team kept going on and on about the Tactical heuristic algorithms and how the game was meant to learn the more the player played so Dany was instructed to log as many hours of this exceedingly average game as

Possible he sat at his desk for hours sipping on an extra- llarge soda and clicking away fighting Orcs SC goblins and more slowly the difficulty began to increase and the game started to grow on him a bit he even developed a favorite character to play as the Rogue with his

Stealth and proficiency for close-range combat the more he played as the Rogue however the more he started to notice the game’s characters behaving differently enemies were attacking him with ranged weapons from far away they were setting traps to ruin his character stealthy approach and catch him in the

ACT then the game started to glitch a lot to the point of becoming nearly unplayable enemies would fall to the ground as if Dead when he hadn’t dealt them a single blow as he started to walk his characters away from them they would suddenly spring back to life and strike

Before he could even think about a defense if he didn’t know any better he could swear the game’s characters were deliberately trying to trick him it only got more frustrating from there with enemies making sudden loud sounds to catch him off guard and startle him out of concentration and other characters

Staring down the barrel of the camera with serious unblinking eyes as if they could see him through his monitor one day he fired up the game to see that its characters somehow had rearranged various torches to spell out you’ll never amount to anything Danny your dad

Was right it took a ton of torches and Danny couldn’t help but take it personally that was the last straw he returned the game to the studio and resigned from his position he got enough insults working in customer service he didn’t need to take that kind of talk

From a video game though he didn’t know it Dany got out not a moment too soon other play testers were not as lucky particularly One Man Who Would sadly lose his life as Danny intuited this was no ordinary video game it was unusual enough to draw the attention of the SCP

Foundation who would go on to designate it SCP 1633 SCP 1633 is an anomalous computer game created by a now defunct independent game Studio the copy currently being held by the foundation is believed to be a beta version of the game while the core gameplay is relatively complete there are numerous

Missing assets the music is largely either missing or placeholder music and the game is plagued by a large number of graphical glitches because of the generally buggy and glitchy nature of the game the foundation considered both Todd Howard and CD project red to be major people and groups of interest in

The case however the discovery of other key suspects eventually absolved them of Suspicion for now this version of the game was compiled 2 days before the foundation raided the office of the studio and is therefore believed to be the most complete version of the game in existence to be more specific about the

Actual nature of the game itself SCP 1633 is a squad-based RPG with a third-person camera perspective the action is seen from an elevated perspective with all characters on screen aesthetically the game world is steampunk and features various fantasy creatures as enemies including including elves dwarves Orcs goblins Etc fitting

With the steampunk style the game’s urban areas are modeled after Victorian era London the four-player characters are a band of Outlaws hired by the Sinister Arch Duke of bodri to investigate a theft however as the game progresses it becomes a battle to save the entire world as an ancient all

Powerful being known as Kar intends to wake from its thousand year Slumber and Destroy Humanity the player controls a squad of four characters with direct control over one character at a time and a command menu to control the other three It is believed that in the game’s finish State a multiplayer option that

Would have allowed four different real world players to cooperate is likely to have been included like many squad-based games each character has a different specialty The Marksman uses longrange weapons The Alchemist has access to potions and chemicals with various effects the Rog can move stealthily and assassinate enemies and the thug has

Greater Health than the other characters and does more melee damage and as is also typical for games of this variety XP earned from completing challenges and killing enemies throughout the game allows for players to upgrade the abilities and stats of their characters while the story and core gameplay

Mechanics are nothing special there is one element that pushes SCP 1633 into anomalous territory and it’s also the element that would have been frontend Center in The Finnish games marketing campaign it’s quote tactical heuristic algorithm these work in a unique fashion whenever a player finishes a session and saves

Their game the game will begin running lengthy background processes when these processes are complete a ptd or player tactical data file is saved on the computer when the save file and by extension the associated ptd file is loaded the enemies and challenges in the game will have become far more effective

Tailoring their methods to the particular skills and tactics of the player the extent to which this happen happened is proportional to the amount of time spent playing the game this kind of Technology may seem theoretically possible but the extent to which the game pushes it causes it to rest in

Anomalous territory the game’s programming is so intelligent that it can tell simply by the tiniest clues in your play style if you’re loading a file that isn’t your own it will then pause the game and make you load your own save file and the tactics employed by the

Enemies in the game as they learn more about the player are nothing short short of frightening at first the enemies will adapt to the players’s preferred weapons strategies and overall play style then they will realize that the player character is controlled by an external Force meaning of course you and begin to

Mount psychological attacks directly on the player through numerous tests the foundation has been able to build a kind of framework for the average player experience through this framework we’re able to track and correlate average play time with the average adaptability of SCP 1633 to the player it is worth

Noting that these effects do not apply if the game is completed in a single continuous playthrough for the purposes of this experiment the game was stopped saved and restarted at regular intervals allowing the game to collect player tactical data during the first 2 hours the game’s AI is abysmal with enemies

Simply charging at the players with no strategy whatsoever and typically being mowed down however from 2 to 5 hours the enemies undergo intelligence growth adapting their play style to the types of weapons they carry and their environments at this stage this combat level is also about equal to an

Untrained human civilian from 5 to 8 hours enemies become considerably more proficient and then begin countering the player on their specific play Styles and techniques for example they will attack a player who uses long-range Weaponry from cover with grenades or Splash damage weapons to force them out into

The open they will also fully utilize their environment for both defensive and offensive purposes laying traps and creating ambushes to surprise and kill players at this point their combat skills are equal to train soldiers from 8 to 12 hours the focus of the enemy shifts from attacking the player

Character to attacking the player directly they engage in behaviors that from an online playing perspective would be considered griefing such as intentionally blocking the player’s view or movement within the game enemies have also been known to exploit player expectations pretending to be broken or glitched to make the player let their

Guard down and then killing them in one play session the enemies begin throwing day flash spells similar to real life flashbang grenades at the player they throw them in a manner that created a strobing effect causing the player to have a grand M seizure Beyond 12 hours the enemies engage in advanced

Psychological tactics against the player with methods that range wildly and tend to be be specific to the player’s mindset and play style for example one player likes to exert a high level of control over all four of their squad members in response enemies used attacks that did little or no damage but caused

The characters to become dazed a state which temporarily disrupts player control however rather than attack the dazed characters enemies simply surround them in a crowd continually using days attacks to prevent the player from doing anything this caused major frustration for the player and enemies may also attempt to induce psychological Terror

Among the players in one example enemies somehow kidnapped one of the four player characters and dragged them off screen when this character was later found they were strapped to a kind of sacrificial altar this caused considerable anxiety for the player it seems that this is the upper limit of the game’s anomalous

Powers in most cases meaning things typically level off after 12 hours unless a specific entity appears to be inhabiting the game which you’ll learn more about later in order to discover the prior information the SCP Foundation performed a series of tests on the game with various different subjects in test

001 Junior researcher Ross an experienced gamer who was pivotal in first discovering the anomaly skipped ahead of the typical preliminary d-class tests seeing as he was already eager for the game’s nonanomalous release he was also eager to be the first in line to try it out on the foundation’s dime

Being a gamer Ross also found a number of glitches and exploits in the game to improve his performance allowing him to run rings around his enemies however as expected the enemies adapted to Ross’s techniques after Gathering his player tactical data first they just began using their weapons and exploiting the

Environments more effectively but they didn’t stop there soon they became aware of the same exploits Ross was using before exploiting them themselves and using it to beat him repeatedly in the end they moved to the psychological stage forcing Ross into a glitch that rendered him unable to move he tried to

Free his character for several minutes until realizing he couldn’t and rage quit the game in test 002 they used a d-class designated D 22930 he was a man with proven anger issues even down to murdering his prior girlfriend in a jealous rage initially he enjoyed the game choosing the thug

Character type and taking out his aggression on the many enemies however as went on the enemies became wise to his tactic and began their psychological attacks they gathered around the DCL class’s player character dropping their weapons but the Swarm became so tightly packed around the character that he

Couldn’t even move this started to cause major frustration when the character attempted to charge through the enemies attacked killing him with their bare hands in test 014 the foundation brought in an agent with special forces experiences with Advanced knowledge in TCT iCal combat however even she was

Worn down and defeated over time as the enemies adapted to and exploited her tactics the foundation even considered using SCP 1633 as a tool for developing effective countertactics in their real life operations in test 021 the foundation used a d-class with vast experience in the world of commercial

Gaming he was told to complete the game in one playthrough taking pauses rather than proper breaks as predicted with no time to run the background processes and create player tactical data files the enemies weren’t able to improve and the d-class was able to complete the game in

Around 13 hours however the game did create a player tactical data file in the aftermath of this playthrough and used it to offer a new game plus mode to the d-class when he began to play this new game the screen displayed a seemingly random pattern of black and white pixels visually similar to

Television static this image appeared to be Neo hazardous as it caused Catatonia and later death for the player and what felt like a decidedly Petty move for SCP 1633 as alluded to earlier the game was first discovered by Junior researcher Ross who was an avid follower of the independent game Studio initially

Producing the game however while frequenting developer fan forums he found that various members of the team were quitting the project for seemingly bizarre reasons well this wasn’t enough on its own for the foundation to intervene it was what first attracted official attention they moved in after

The death of Gregor Tilman a game tester for the company who died not long after joining the project the foundation moved in and after that gained control shutting down the studio and taking everything they had all anomalous elements were isolated secured and contained any loose ends were given

Amnestics and recorded data on the anomalous artifacts were destroyed it’s believed that one classified female member of the dev team was behind the the anomalous nature of the game but she was able to escape and has since attempted to join other development teams she is now considered an active

Person of interest and is being pursued by mobile task force mw6 AKA don’t hate the player some final disturbing details are recorded in a note left by the game tester Gregor Tilman the note seized by the foundation and included in SCP 1633 official file reads as follows I’m

Writing this on paper cuz I don’t think he can learn it he got everything digital real quick but I’ve unplugged the router and broke my phone so I think he’s trapped in here but he won’t stop talking talking talking all the time at the start of this job they told me all

About the Tactical algorithm stuff but man I’ve been playing games all my life and I knew I could beat it I I knew I could handle this when I started playing the game they learned quickly they kept using the sniper rifle and after like an hour they learned how to use cover then

Another couple hours they’d set ambushes then another hour and they started sniping back while having a different Squad flank me after that they figured out how to glitch the physics engine and ride crates at me or duck under the floor they were learning but all that

Was just easy stuff it was Evolution man one bit figures something out so it survives longer than the others it wasn’t directed after act three kraar shows up he’s supposed to be like this Lovecraft Cosmic horror Crazy Monster who can read the players’s mind and corrupt your soul he showed up right

After I killed strict the blood Drinker that big spider monster supposed to have this long speech about how I killed his General on this plane and now he needs to intervene directly or something but instead he talked about how I was a worthy adversary but I was cheating

Because I was on another plane cnar wasn’t like the other enemies because he wasn’t supposed to be he was supposed to be smart he was supposed to know everything so he did he’d been watching his minions fight me the whole time and he knew everything they did it wasn’t

Just random mutations anymore it was planned it wasn’t Evolution man it was actual intelligent design I brought it home I had to know more I’m sorry but I had to I copied the latest compile and installed it on my home box and brought my save game and that other file with me

On a flash drive it was the same there he kept talking to me about how I was keeping him from fulfilling his purpose by keeping him trapped in a glass jar no matter where I went in the game he kept shouting and ranting then he did more at

First it was just slowing down in my other programs the drive chugging when it shouldn’t be then the next time I played the game he started talking about my screen plays all the enemies look like me I guess he could see through the webcam he started needling me about

Jenny reading me bits of her emails acting out the breakup he found the videos of her and started making the enemies talk in her voice then he was everywhere in my computer I uninstalled the game but he was still there he kept opening documents and typing to me

Calling me a foul cheat and a lowly worm telling me to fight him on the same plane as soon as I realized he was outside the game I shut down my router pulled out the network card but I don’t know if I got them quickly L enough

Maybe he got out I turned the computer off but he kept turning it back on I wanted to break it but I didn’t know if that would kill him maybe it wouldn’t maybe it would let him out I tried leaving the house but it was like I

Could still hear him I couldn’t leave him alone because he might get out or do something else I can’t sleep haven’t slept since he came out I’ve been here for 3 days and I can’t leave I can’t leave him he keeps telling me to release

Him but I can’t I want to kill him but I don’t know if I can I I can’t think anymore I have to kill kill kill him before he does anything new he won’t stop talking and I can’t keep thinking I can’t keep going I’m sorry I have to go

Now I’m sorry I’m sorry after studying the note carefully the foundation conducted a thorow investigation for any other manifestations of this cnar entity no mentions of it were found on any of the other devices in Tillman’s apartment nor did a web search on the subject turn

Up any relevant results at this time it is believed that the entity whatever it was or whatever it was attempting to do was destroyed along with Tillman’s computer which he appeared to have taken apart smashed and burned in a metal trash can whatever tormented him during his last days on

Earth is gone now thankfully because the foundation currently owns the only copy of the game and the game’s anomalous effects are only evident to active players SCP 1633 poses no risk of containment breach and therefore it has been given the object class safe one copy of SCP 1633 is stored on a

Standard DVD ROM in a secure storage locker in sight 15 along with all supporting documentation and ancillary materials any playthroughs of the game must be approved by project head Dr burger and all of said playthroughs are to be monitored closely and subject to strict rules after all this is one game

That doesn’t play fair scp096 the shy guy woke up in an unfamiliar Amar room without a thought in its head however one thing quickly occurred to it this was not its containment chamber no the solid steel Cube that had kept it locked up for decades now didn’t have a front

Desk or walls covered in strange childlike murals or tiny party music playing over old speakers wherever scp096 had found itself it certainly wasn’t the place it had come to call home if it could read it would registered the words behind the front desk painted onto the wall ban Ban’s

Kindergarten where Joy Comes Alive little did 096 know something really did come to life here at band band’s kindergarten but it definitely wasn’t Joy scp096 was typically used to a much more confined space so presented with so much strange Freedom its natural instinct was to wander around whimpering

Quietly to itself this place was was certainly peculiar with multiple large reinforced doors each one having a large red button fixed to the wall above them a strange green creature was painted on the wall with an a fixed speech bubble that read jumbo Josh says eat fruits and

Vegetables if you want to be strong like me though 096 paid no mind to such things this place looked like an SCP Foundation containment facility mixed with an off-brand chuckecheese and some tiny part of the shy guys dim and dismal brain wanted to see more of it what

Other Secrets could it hold the shy guy pressed one of the big red buttons causing the doors to open underneath it there was a faint sound of childish laughter somewhere down the distant Hall how had it ever found its way into such a strange place the deeper the shy guy

Wandered the more strange murals it saw on the wall there was one for a large orange cartoon jellyfish with one staring eye where the speech bubble read Stinger Flynn said says having many arms allows me to help a lot of people then a squat blue gorilla likee creature with

Sharp lower teeth had a speech bubble that read Captain fiddles says ooga booga boaa a white feminine catlike creature had the speech bubble bolina says kindness is free so sprinkle it everywhere a misshapen pink bird creature had the speech bubble Opa bird says laughter is the best medicine so

Make sure to SM smile and of course most importantly of all presiding over the creativity room was a mural of a grinning red creature wearing a pair of party hats on its head like horns his speech bubble read band ban says sharing is caring your pancreas is mine a

Whiteboard not far from this mural had the words run for your lives hastily scrawled onto it to anyone but the shy guy who had no point of reference this was clearly not a normal kindergarten G as the shy guy passed into the hallway slowly lumbering along it suddenly felt

An intense Spike of burning pain right through its forehead Rising like a fever pitch the shyu subdued whimpers quickly escalated into horrifying whales of animalistic rage this could only mean one thing somewhere something had made the terrible mistake of gazing at the shy guy’s face in fact not 10 ft away

The unfortunate opela bird had made that very mistake it typically peaked out from behind one of the hallways pillars to get a good look at any potential Intruders or new prey wandering into its midst but this time the beastly Bird’s curiosity had taken it from Predator to prey itself though it wouldn’t realize

This until it was already too late as the mutant bird creature scattered back into the cavernous Hall filled with plastic trees and an underwhelming play area the shy guy came Galloping after it on all fours roaring with fear y y the opela bird was shocked to see the

Creature giving chase this doesn’t make sense I meant to chase you you’re not meant to chase me but things are rarely fair when it comes to the shy guy arguably one of the most dangerous euklid class creatures ever kept in Foundation containment the opala bird flapped desperately towards the boarded

Up escape hatch but the shy guy was so much faster he grabbed hold of the bird gripping it in its iron clutches and began to stretch open its bottom jaw with a blood curdling Roar we’ll spare you the details of what happened next but suffice to say little more than a

Handful of feathers were left after finishing off the opala bird the shy guy reverted from Rage back to pitiful sadness this place was no better than the SCP Foundation there were still creatures here to look at its face and drive it into a state of extreme emotional distress it was horrible the

Shy guy needed to find a way to hide himself away again so he decided to tear away the planks covering up the escape hatch and L down the narrow Hall and there the shy guy actually found something to its liking two platforms one on either side of the room with what

Seemed to be a deep dark Chasm between the two for most there was an electrical lift system for carrying them between the platforms but the shy guy had no interest in the platforms he only sought the darkness below where nobody could see his face that would suit him just

Fine the shy guy jumped over the guardrail and plummeted down below into the dark feeling the air against its cold gray skin as it fell felt wonderful it dared to think that it might even find solace in this deep dark place but as soon as he hid something solid some

Kind of metal lift system alarms went off and flashing red lights soon made everything down there in the darkness visible to be exposed like this while it thought it was hidden was the dreaded Shy Guy’s worst nightmare little did he know he would soon become the worst

Nightmare of a number of other beasts as the shy guy crawled off the metal platform hoping that perhaps it could find another place to hide down here its hands and feet splashed into shallow water had something sprung a leak down here the shy guy began wandering the

Half dark as the water of this flooded sub basement area pulled around him it had no idea that another creature was already sneaking up behind it getting ready to strike before 096 could even react several whip-like orange tentacles wrapped around its Limbs and began delivering an antagonizing shock through

Its body more tentacles came in soon after wrapping around the Shy Guy’s body and face delivering shock After Shock After Shock with its millions of tiny venomous Stinger barbs for a second it seemed like the surprise attack might actually be able to subdue the monster but little did the shy guys attacker the

Monstrous real Stinger Flynn know that but attacking it was just another way to activate its Infamous rage State the second that Stinger Flynn relented even just for a moment the shy guy grabbed him by the tentacles and slammed him into the watery floor again and again and again until the grip of his

Tentacles loosened around the Shy Guy’s body and he was defenseless with stinger panicked and immobilized the shy guy released the full force of his Supernatural Fury striking the Demonic jellyfish with his fists until what was couldn’t be distinguished from the water it used to be floating in Stinger Flynn

Had been completely annihilated the shy guy once again temporarily returned to a state of calm and wandered out of this watery basement into a nearby hallway where everything was bright and dry the walls were painted in garish childlike drawings of a jungle with janky looking

Animals the shy guy paid no mind to any of it all he wanted was to find somewhere that he could actually be alone and away from prying eyes of all these freaks this dream was shortlived because as soon as the shy guy found a new room a wide open Auditorium filled

With inflatable jungle trees like a crude play area he was being stalked yet again a powerful muscular Predator with veins stretching over its bulging muscles and blue skin it knew that this Intruder had already killed two of its fellow Garden dwellers but this time it would put this spindly pale Stranger in

Its place the shy guy heard something rumbling towards it from behind and turned upon hearing the blood curdling war cry of ugaa boaa it was the gorilla like Captain fiddles with strands of saliva hanging from his tusks he leaped onto the Shy Guy and began pounding into

Its hideous face with his huge blue fists Captain fiddles would destroy the shy guy pound him into the concrete until he stopped moving the one thing that Captain fiddles didn’t expect was for the shy guy to start fighting back and he was about to learn the hard truth

That the shy guy could fight a lot harder than him the scp’s spindly but immensely powerful arms grabbed Captain fiddles by the shoulders and threw him into the wall causing huge cracks to crawl up towards the ceiling before Captain fiddles could even think about wrenching himself free the shy guy

Leaped to his feet and bounded over to him the shy guy grabbed Captain fiddles by the ankles and ripped him out of the wall letting his body drop to the floor and then unleashing hell upon him Captain fiddles would have begged for mercy if he wasn’t already dead before

The shy guy could even begin to calm down a trap door opened in the floor beneath him dropping him into a new area a multicolored maze where 096 was trapped like a helpless rat with the body count of an atomic bomb once again the shy guy didn’t need to go looking

For trouble because trouble was already on its way the pure white catlike ban bolina pounced from a sharp corner in the maze claws bared she jumped onto the shy guy latching onto him inclin trying to scratch his nightmare of a face if the shy guy had ever possessed anything

Resembling patience he would have run out long before now he grabbed bambolina shrugging off the pain of her claws and tossing her into the darkness high above she flew off with a catlike yell and hit some distant ceiling with a crunch suffice to say she wouldn’t be back to

Bother the shy guy again tired and angry the pale mination didn’t feel like wandering through a maze instead it just charged straight through destroying colorful wall after colorful wall when it encountered whatever was behind this extremely frustrating afternoon it would destroy it with extreme prejudice that was almost certainty after breaking

Through one more wall the shy guy tumbled out into a strange room where a grinning red creature was waiting for him wearing two party hats on top of his head this was no mere Lackey it was ban ban himself the one behind this nightmarish kindergarten he stared right

Into the shy guy’s face with no fear at all almost like he knew something that the shy guy didn’t and it was true he had no plan to fight the shy guy himself he’d brought a champion with him as the shy guy started to scream and rage all

The boxes behind ban ban tumbled out of the way as a huge figure Rose a behemoth at least 50 ft tall with green skin giant teeth and huge staring eyes it was jumbo Josh and if the shy guy wanted to graduate from this nightmare kindergarten it would need to defeat him

And ban ban the shy guy growled digging its claws into the ground and preparing to charge forward challenge accepted you all know exactly who I am the bald chemistry teacher looked around at the men surrounding him in the desert Cadillacs leather jackets blacked out Shades the gang members shifted

Nervously from foot to foot as the man bragged openly about what he’s done to build his criminal Empire Walter White’s attention turned back to the men in front of him a slight sneer played around his lips now say my name the man took a moment to reply as the desert

Wind blew behind him he seemed to be weighing his options realizing quickly that he had lost all control over the situation you’re you’re Heisenberg you’re G bang Walter White fell to the ground dead the characters all around yeled in Surprise Drew their guns and started wildly pointing them around the

Circle trying to figure out who killed the great Heisenberg but his killer just stared in awe from his couch in the front room as the Netflix show kept playing on the TV had the toy gun in his hand really done that Josh had admitted to himself that he had a problem a long

Time ago but at least being a yard sale addict was cheaper than just a regular old retail addict addict actually in truth he was also an estate sale addict a garage sale addict and a thrift store addict anywhere you could buy people’s old junk for rock bottom prices he would

Sniff it out the Saturday that his life changed forever was just like any other Saturday really in the sweaty heat of the Atlantic City suburbs he hadn’t meant to stop by any sales today but one just so happened to catch his eye there was a box marked nerd stuff and he took

That as a personal challenge was this some old lady’s version of nerd stuff or a veteran dungeon Master’s Treasure Trove the reality was somewhere in between the two there were a couple of seasons of Buffy on VHS a copy of the original deos X and some Legend of Zelda

Plushies it hadn’t really been worth stopping his car for except for a little plastic splash of color that caught his eye Josh reached way down to the bottom of the box and rooted around for it there was no way it couldn’t possibly be the toy he’d spent all his childhood

After asking for and never getting but in fact it was a 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System zapper with an orange grip and Barrel NES gray Bodywork and the Beautiful font printed along the side it was unmistakable he threw a wad of cash at the old lady behind the table

And rushed back into his car quickly as he could it was time to cancel his Day plans he had a childhood dream to fulfill but no sooner that he had got home and flipped on his TV the Dream came crashing down around him his old

NES the one he’d had since he was a little kid had sadly keeled over it refused to power on no matter what he did so that made his zapper pretty much useless the best he could do with it now would be to point it at the TV and make

Pew pew noises with his mouth so Josh opened up Netflix and put on an episode of Breaking Bad little did he know as he raised the zapper to the screen that he was actually in possession session of SCP 674 nobody would know looking at it on the surface even the most hardcore

Gamers wouldn’t have a clue because you can fully disassemble clean and reassemble the zapper and get no indication that it’s anything other than what it appears to be however as soon as the gun is pointed at a television screen or a computer monitor of any kind

It starts to pose a very real threat or at least a very real fictional threat if you shoot at the screen whatever media is playing on it at the time will react and adapt to what has just happened that means characters on the screens will react in accordance with the rules of

Their respective universes in a grounded realistic drama The Gunshot will behave like any other killing or wounding the victim with perhaps enough time for them to give a dying monologue but in an episode of Rick and Morty the shock could manifest in any number of bizarre and creative ways news crews that

Witness the user shooting a person in their live report will continue to cover the incident as if it is part of the ongoing story if you shoot Walter White he falls to the ground dead Josh stared at the screen in utter amazement he didn’t expect the writers to kill off

Their main character just like that wasn’t there supposed to be another Nine episodes what would they do to fill all that time as the episode played out it seemed to mostly just follow Jesse trying desperately to escape with his money before it was too late he kept glancing towards the camera for some

Reason with a slide look of fear in his eyes very strange creative decision there Josh backed out of the show to scroll through his continue watching there was something a little creepy about how he pointed the zapper at the TV pulled the trigger and perfectly at that moment a character had been shot

Time to pick out another show without any guns and murder for a bit you know something safe The Familiar meloda tune filled the lounge as various shots of Dunder Mifflin employees busied themselves shredding credit cards and answering phone calls it never ceased to make his worries go away seeing the

Words the office appear on the screen he settled into the couch watching as the characters all gathered in the conference room for some first aid training the CPR dummy lay on the floor with Michael Scott earnestly explaining to the woman that the victim appeared to have lost their limbs he laughed along

As the scene descended into chaos as none of the employees took the training seriously at all even though he’d seen this episode countless times it never got old absent-mindedly he pointed the gun at the TV and pulled the trigger bang Pam collapsed on the ground all of

The characters Dove out of the way trying to find cover behind their chairs not daring to peek out at the camera only the first aid lady stayed on the scene trying her best to resuscitate Pam it cut to a shot of Dwight talking to the camera sadly he said that it was

Almost funny but there was a real heaviness in the moment his eyes were red like he’d been crying off camera Josh flipped the TV off and stared at himself in the dark reflection was he dreaming he hadn’t just done that had he fortunately for Josh and for the rest of

Humanity he had not killed Jenna friser or Brian Cranston he hadn’t even killed their characters in the shows at least not for anyone other than himself Research into SCP 674 shows that the appearance of characters being killed off on screen only exists in the mind of the shooter for everyone else the office

Remains the Same as it always was unfortunately for Josh however Pam is now dead in that universe and will always be whenever he watches an episode it leaves a real Shadow over the later Seasons but the characters apparently managed to do a good job pivoting into its new darker tone other shows that

Have been tested and research conditions have yielded interesting results like in Star Trek it is impossible to actually kill Captain Kirk instead various red shirts always just so happen to dive in front of him or fall into frame at the pivotal moment with a small Dead Zone on

The right hand side of the screen characters who witness enough shootings have the sense to stick to that side of the frame whenever the shot is on them sometimes going so far as to plead directly with a viewer breaking the fourth wall in their desperation to

Survive when Josh came back from a long walk outside he’d convinced himself that what he had seen earlier was all just some vivid dream a dream he didn’t remember waking up from but definitely wasn’t happening anymore he’d play some video games that’s what he would do he

Had decided he would just play some Super Smash Bros and unwind anyone who has ever said that sentence to themselves will know firsthand how foolish that is not 10 minutes later Josh had definitely forgotten all about his dream from before he was too busy raging and cursing at the screen he

Couldn’t stand playing against King dididi that stupid Hammer move always got him without thinking Josh snatched the zapper from the couch next to him and blasted Didi right in the face in classic Smash Bros style the giant penguin King was launched backwards flying off the screen in a blast of

Colorful smoke but he didn’t respond for a second his character just stood on the screen awkwardly before it kicked him back out to the character’s select screen this time though King Didi’s picture was missing Josh couldn’t help himself he set up a free-for-all match straight away picking all the characters

He hated to fight against Sonic Mario Pikachu Bowser link NES even fit trainer one after the other bang bang bang he felt a strange sense of satisfaction once he’d done his work great now the character list only had the fair balanced ones left they just so happened

To all be his favorite characters too but why stop there Josh jumped across to Elden ring and marched his night up through the gate to Stormville Castle before marget even had gotten through his opening cutscene Josh had shot the boss right in the face this boss battle

That he he’ been stuck on for hours was over before it even started what could he do now he put on an episode of stranger things and shot the demogorgan then moff Gideon in the Mandalorian and some goblins in Hogwarts Legacy the clickers from The Last of Us took a

Couple extra shots but went down easy enough he went over to his PC and killed the Ender Dragon in Minecraft without blowing up any beds he won a game of Rocket League 530 after he shot both cars on the opposing team he played through doors in Roblox without a single

Jump scare he would just shoot any monster that filled his screen what could be better he reckoned it was time for more movies walking back across the lounge spinning the gun around his finger like a western he wondered if now would be a good chance to hunt down all

The legendary animals in Red Dead 2 it would certainly make the job a lot easier if he could kill them all in just one shot he just need to be careful not to shoot Arthur by accident but then Josh sat on the remote the TV flicked

Over to an old rerun of Bob Ross just that he’d been squaring up to shoot he pulled the trigger before he could react the canvas was splattered red from somewhere off camera he heard the artist’s wheezing voice try to comfort him there are no mistakes just happy but he died before he could

Say another word the exposition gun first came onto the SCP foundation’s radar when a strange police report was doing the rounds on an email chain amongst local authorities they were all finding a great deal of value from a man called Josh who had turned himself in at

His local station in Atlantic City for quote killing like everyone naturally the police took his report very seriously for all of about 10 minutes as soon as they realized he was talking about video games TV and movie characters the whole case turned into one big joke they sat Josh down in front

Of a TV and played him episodes of the shows he was talking about pointing out characters still alive in scenes after he’d supposedly shot them them to death but he seemed to just grow more distressed as he realized he was experiencing this phenomenon Alone by the time Foundation agents tracked Josh

Down and took him in for questioning the gun had moved on he marched it straight back to the old lady who’ sold it to him who had then sold it on again Josh’s full account of events and description of the zapper were taken before he was administered Class C amnestics and

Allowed to continue with his yard sale addiction uninhibited SCP 67 4 was found sometime later in the possession of a 33-year-old Caucasian male simply referred to as Mr S A reclusive man in a neighboring City Mr s first gained the SCP foundation’s attention through his extremist political blog in which he

Claimed to have assassinated prominent political figures news anchors and talk show hosts while the truth of those claims was demonstrably false it was clear from the way he described events that he really did believe the delusion after being questioned it was discovered that he had never left his home instead

He stayed on his couch watching news reports and firing at any prominent figures that appeared believing that he was indeed killing them in the real world despite claiming that he was using SCP 674 to prevent a military police state using the device to assassinate so many high-profile figures had the

Opposite effect on his video reality in his blog posts he described an increasingly unstable Global Order martial law and catastroph Ric events consistent with the hypothetical release of two deadly scps his house was barricaded with security cameras set up in every direction the more he had been

Using the gun the more the characters and journalists on TV had threatened him claiming that the SCP Foundation were on their way to apprehend him and that he would face retribution for what he had been doing Mr s’s intended ambush of foundation agents failed while they appeared to be dying on the security

Feeds he had set up the agent experienced no physical harm in reality as they apprehended the man and seized SC SCP 674 while the majority of researchers have deemed that SCP 674 is harmless to all but the mental well-being of the shooter there was a notably Sinister result to Mr s’s time

In Foundation detention alone in his cell Mr s soon started to engage in heated arguments with the security camera set up to monitor him there is no record of any voices in the room other than his own yet seemed to be locked in a fierce argument all of a sudden Mr s

Dropped to the ground Dead with three 38 caliber handgun bullets lodged in his chest the entirety of his holding cell was searched for evidence of a shooter but none was found the exposition gun remains in a locked plastic case in storage site 23 aside from regular cleaning and maintenance it is used

Under controlled circumstances to creatively gather intelligence about further SCP activity in the event of the site being compromised Personnel are allowed to destroy the exposition gun at their own discretion should it fall into the wrong hands rock paper scissors a simple hand game dating back to the Han

Dynasty of Imperial China it is a decisive game between two players with the only outcomes being Win Lose or Draw we’re quite familiar with rock paper scissors here at the SCP Foundation as the guards are often seen playing intense rounds of the game to determine who will be the Unlucky Soul chosen to

Secure one of the various ker class scps during a given week in most cases this use of rock paper scissors is accepted as a largely harmless and Fair Way for defensive Personnel to arrange their shifts the reason for this is that the results of rock paper scissors are

Generally random as there are very few ways for an individual’s skill to influence the game or so one might think in reality rock paper scissors is a deeply psychologic local game and this is mainly because of its origin as a contest between fellow human beings the average human is vulnerable to making

Errors and falling into patterns and with only three options to keep track of it is entirely possible for a season veteran of rock paper scissors to predict their opponent’s Choice before any hands are thrown of course that opponent may also commit an error of their own by misreading the other

Players’s actions and thus there is always a chance for an impulsive decision to swing the results of the game in either direction human limitation is the only skill-based mechanic in the game of rock paper scissors and that same limitation is what in the eyes of some holds the game

Back from reaching its true potential that was the case until someone out there discovered the rules to an anomalous version of rock paper scissors being spread through a mysterious email while all attempts to trace the email back to its original sender have left the foundation with more questions than

Answers we have been been able to learn more about the differences between the rules of standard rock paper scissors and the anomalous version we have given this anomalous version of rock paper scissors the designation SCP 4633 and unlike the classic edition under no circumstances are any foundation Personnel allowed to play a

Game incorporating any of the alternative rules while the ceiling for skill and variety is theoretically much higher in a rock paper scissors match featuring SCP 4633 the risks to the player far outweigh any added novelty here is how SCP 4633 functions during an average game of rock paper scissors well average

Prior to the anomalous properties taking effect rather than being limited to using merely rock paper or scissors as the name of the game implies the players gain access to a series of additional hand gestures which upon the act of being thrown become seamlessly integrated into both players shared

Understanding of the rules this this alone would be bizarre enough but the true harm caused by a CP 4633 is in the nature of the gestures themselves when one of the non-standard gestures Allowed by SC SCP 4633 is used the player’s hands will change shape in ways that under normal circumstances would be

Anatomically impossible each of these non-standard gestures is distinct from the rest with the only commonality being an unusual tendency for the final gesture to resemble biological structures often seen in sea life one particular gesture might cause a player to rapidly grow a ring of additional fingers surrounding a gaping anemone

Like mouth in the Palm while another could result in the player’s entire arm flattening into a fin-like appendage regardless of how severe a departure from a typical human limb the final gesture would be the limbs and on rare occasions the entire body of the player using the gesture will quickly and

Irreversibly mutate into the shape requiring to successfully perform it while these gestures overwhelmingly result in forms that would be distressing to most people the same cognitive effect that causes the participants to accept changes to the rules also appears to apply to the changes affecting their own bodies to

The players of an SCP 4633 augmented match of rock paper scissors the non-standard gestures seem as mundane as the original Three unfortunately the morphic properties of SCP 4633 are practically IR reversible with extreme reconstructive surgery being required in even the best of cases in all instances of SCP 4633 surgical intervention is necessary

To prevent the spread of details regarding the non-standard gestures and their usage because of the immediate shift in cognitive awareness among participants all that is needed for a new instance of SCP 4633 to occur is the faintest hint of knowledge of the alternative rules it’s even been noted

That between different groups of players the non-standard gestures can vary heavily or seemingly be created on the fly as the desire to win at all costs takes hold here are a few examples of anomalous gestures which have been observed during instances of SCP 4633 this list is by no means

Comprehensive but it will provide an insight into how SCP 4633 drastically Alters the existing mechanics of the game as well as the physique of the players the Thor gesture transforms the user’s fingers into Barb tentacles it beats paper and scissors but loses to rock Chava folds the fingers of the hand

Into the palm and causes them to emerge through the back of the Palm it allows the user to throw a second gesture after they’ve seen their opponent’s Choice ashaz splits the hand into a pair of poisonous Stingers which also produce a potent electrical current between them

It has been seen to lose to paper but seemingly of their own will The Stingers lashed at the the opposing player and cause them to fall unconscious three rounds later due to the effects of the poison shaa beats paper and two other anomalous gestures loses to scissors

Rock and a third gesture and morphs the user’s arm into a dactal club similar to the front appendage of a mantis shrimp is zerov simply causes the player to grow three additional thumbs on one hand the final gesture resembles a triple thumbs up is zorov has not been seen to

Beat any gestures and the player who uses it always seems to go on to lose the match pakar causes the middle and ring to recede into the hand while the pointer and pinky fingers extend to resemble the ice stalks of a snail or slug the rest of the hand also becomes

Coated in a thin layer of slime which continues to secrete from within pakar beats scissors and paper but loses to rock in another anomalous gesture known as vianek incidentally Von causes the arm of the player using it to elongate into a wormlike tube that periodically spews a gout of saltwater on the

Opponent when vianek was seen beating pakmar the saltwater appeared to have some adverse effect on the latter gesture causing the I stocks to droop and the hand to shrivel until it was half its original size another anomalous gesture is gatho recognized by the skin muscle and veins of the hand turning

Translucent revealing a pulsing red organ in the interior of the Palm once gathr has been thrown the player who used it may call out the name of one other gesture which can no longer be used in the current match the ukay gesture is a bit deceptive as it

Resembles Rock when first thrown but gradually causes the hand to condense into a lump of inert material not dissimilar to actual ous rock the knuckles as well begin to exude a superheated mineral substance similar to molten lava ukay exclusively beats paper and appears to lose to everything else

Many of the gestures on record have no known name but they function within SCP 4633 is altered rules is clear from the context in which they were used such is the case with one anomalous gesture which caused most of the players hand to withdraw into a siphon likee opening at

Their wrist before the very same orifice shot out a stream of ink into the opposing player’s eyes while there was no lasting harm done to the opponent by this gesture the ink did cause temporary blindness which persisted until they were defeated by way of their Rock losing to paper another unknown gesture

Has been seen beating both urav and ukog this gesture makes the player’s hand resemble the crest and gas filled body of a Pacific Mana War these examples are only scraping the surface of the seemingly Endless Possibilities that SCP 4633 has to offer as you can see the

Anomalous hand gestures can be just as dangerous within the game itself as the permanent changes they invoke in the user while the foundation has done its best to contain all information surrounding SCP 4633 there have been clear efforts by several unknown groups to push the game into continued usage

Over the past 3 decades instances of SCP 4633 have seen increasing popularity in the world of highstakes gambling Perhaps it is because of the inherent thrill of watching two opponents trying to strategically outwit each other with a countless number of non-standard gestures but more likely it is part of

The anomalous effect of SCP 4633 that the game would appeal to the those desperate to risk everything on the slim chance of Victory this neatly brings us to the SCP 4633 related incident which occurred aboard the private ocean liner known as the SS fateful Emma before the incident the Fateful Emma would sail

Into international waters twice a year each time it would bring along a new group of passengers seemingly selected from the underprivileged and downcast sector of society a great many of these passengers were convicts with repeat violent offenses chosen en from supermax facilities the world over the process by

Which these inmates were chosen for a voyage aboard the ship was not dissimilar from the methods the foundation uses to acquire new class D Personnel naturally this was how the research team was able to be tipped off about the Fateful Emma it became apparent soon after looking into the

Ship’s career that the individuals altered by the effects of SCP 4633 had been seen departing from the ship on multiple occasions in remote island Harbors most of the time the individuals would also be to the best of their ability with their metamorphosed forms carrying briefcases filled with hundreds

Of thousands of dollars in cash while Witnesses tend to write off the strange appearances of those affected as being the result of a deformity or injury or in more pronounced instances dismissing the encounters as sightings of creatures from the local mythology it was clear to anyone familiar with as CP 4633 what was

Truly going on these passengers were being made to play Pitch games of rock paper scissors featuring SCP 4633 for massive sums of wealth and what was worse the Grand Prize winners were seemingly being released back into civilization without the knowledge of law enforcement of course what the foundation was most concerned about was

The potential for the large scale leak of detailed information involving SCP 4633 it seemed that the foundation’s latest faceless enemy had revealed itself whatever wealthy group of individual ual was pulling the strings behind the games aboard the SS fateful Emma it was very likely that the ship

Was also well protected by a private Army of trained mercenaries in a display of Swift but necessary initiative the foundation assembled a brand new mobile task force to be dispatched onto the ocean liner mobile task force row 52 with the fitting code name r Shambo the mobile task force would board The Vessel

Secretly and use whatever means necessary to prevent the spread of SCP 463 3 3 and any evidence of the associated non-standard hand gestures before the Fateful Emma’s next Voyage the foundation isolated the port where it would depart from and made sure that the MTF agents were in position the

Operation was co- captained by agent duah and agent Shang both of whom prided themselves on having extraordinarily good luck agent duah would stealthily move the majority of the agents under his command into the cargo hold below deck and await agent jang’s signal agent Jang himself would assume the name and

Identity of one of the criminal passengers who was intercepted before boarding by the mobile task force the wouldbe participant was subsequently detained and brought into the foundation as a Class D personnel as the SS fateful Emma began to leave the harbor agent Jang joined the other passengers who had

Been gathered together in an enormous function hall there was little indication of when the games would begin and Jang made an effort to keep a low profile until more information was available shortly after after the ship had officially arrived in international waters an eccentric man entered the room

On a walkway that overlooked the rest of the passengers he was flanked by a pair of armed bodyguards it was plain from the man’s style of dress and demeanor that he was both absurdly wealthy and completely out of his mind he wore a pure white tuxedo and a scarf that

Seemed to have been made from the fur of a Siberian tiger a pair of Dark Shades with sequin rims obscured his eyes from view but by far the strangest aspect of the rich man was the fact that emerging from the wrist of his right arm was the

Eyeless head of a mo eel where his hand should be the man spoke addressing the entire room welcome passengers new and old to the SS fateful Emma while you aboard this ship your fate is in your own hands over the next 24 hours you will have the rare opportunity to play

The greatest game of chance that Humanity has ever known generations of people from every continent and everywh Walk of Life have given their all to the Mastery of rock paper scissors across no the men proceeded to speak unusual syllables for the next minute straight without even a pause for breath in his

Report agent Jen described the man’s voice as gaining an increasingly loud hum as his speech continued and that some of the syllables didn’t seem to be the product of human vocal cords he soon concluded his string of gibberish and resumed speaking intelligible language as is custom AR we will be utilizing the

Iles toi rules you will Begin by selecting a single opponent and challenging them to a best of two of three match this is a single elimination tournament and any competitors who cannot otherwise continue to engage in matches will also be eliminated by the end of your time here the luckiest among

You will be named the Undisputed champion of these games and will be granted unlimited Freedom along with the cash prize the rest of you will have to determine your own Fates for you all know what awaits you below may your hands be ready your minds be sharp and

Remember winning is everything with a flourish of his Mor eel hand the wealthy man finished his introductions and promptly exited the room aent Jang looked at the passengers surrounding him and saw that they were already beginning to play Rock Paper Scissors with each other a few had already begun using the

Anomalous gestures warping their limbs into hideous subnotica shapes agent Jen gave the signal to agent duah and the rest of the mobile task force to begin the operation their target was primarily the Moray handed man as well as any other Close Associates that he had on board they would capture him alive and

Interrogate him into revealing the mystery behind this illegal gambling Reign once the mercenaries were dealt with agent Dub’s team would further command the ocean liner and navigated to SCP Foundation research site 45 to await further orders as for agent Jang he knew what he had to do to buy time he would

Participate in the ensuing rock paper scissors tournament and eliminate as many of the other players as possible this he believed was the best way to minimize the number of anomalous gestures that would be used aboard the ship of course he himself wouldn’t be using any of the anomalous gestures

Either opting to limit himself to the standard three this could put him at a severe disadvantage over the course of the competition but aent Jang knew better than to tempt fate still being eliminated seemed like something he may want to avoid even though the consequences for elimination were left

Vague in the strange rich man’s speech he still didn’t feel that it would be wise to put himself in a compromised position while aboard the Fateful Emma bracing himself for the worst agent Jang accepted the challenge of a nearby passenger he was off to a promising start when he threw a scissors hand

Against his opponent’s paper because the matches were best two out of three all he needed was to win one of the next two matches and he’d survive this round then he saw the devious look on his opponent’s face and he knew that this match was about to get weird rather than

Admit defeat a and jien prepared to throw scissors again the two challenged their hands and just as jien had feared his opponent threw an anomalous gesture almost instantly the opponent’s hand took on a multim mouthed pene form which began to spit sharp teeth in agent jang’s Direction fortunately the agent’s

Bulletproof vest was able to withstand the impact of the teeth what was even more fortunate was the fact that the opponent seemed to be a good sport scissors be TZ ROK you in said the other passenger before walking away in search of their next match curiously the passenger’s transformed arm continued to

Fire teeth across the room at random intervals occasionally hitting and causing injury to one of the other competitors agent Jang was grateful that the body armor he was wearing had been tested to withstand rapid fire from SCP 127 compared to the raw power of the living gun the teeth launch from azrok

Gestures were practically BB rounds he had succeeded in not being eliminated both from the game and generally excited about his win Jang sought out another opponent to test his luck below deck agent duah and the rest of the mobile task force had just finished facing off against some of the hired mercenaries

When they entered a room presumed to be the ocean liners Sick Bay inside was a Grizzly sight a second rock paper scissors tournament playing out between players that had been so thoroughly transformed by the anomalous gestures of SCP 4633 that they barely appeared to still

Be human was like a scene from a deep sea documentary with strange and unknowable creatures fying for dominance not within a natural food chain or competition for resources but within a seemingly never-ending struggle to win a game of chance it was Purgatory rock paper scissors Purgatory agent duah was

Appalled but he knew better than to attempt to stop these creatures from doing the one thing keeping them all distracted the morh handed man was still somewhere in the ship and capturing him was far more important the research team would decide what to do with these former humans once the ship was Secure

Within the foundation’s custody however what agent Duan didn’t realize is that some of these creatures were advancing on his team in nightmarish and unearthly voices they chanted rock rock paper scissors suddenly one of the Abominations who resembled nothing more closely than an enormous mass of coral produced Four Arms from within its body

And began to throw anomalous hands signs towards the agents one of the arms threw ayag which coated an unsuspecting agent in hot lava causing him to drop to the floor in pain Panic duah ordered the task force to eliminate every living thing in the Sick Bay although not in

The sense of their tournament standing of course meanwhile aent Jang was on a wi streak in the function hall through sheer luck and determination he had managed to avoid elimination while eliminating several other passengers himself he began to notice that those who were eliminated were quietly escorted Away by the bouncers seeming to

Have their anomalous changes treated now it was only down to 12 remaining passengers agent Jen knew that it was only a matter of time before Duba and his team took control of the ship but feeling Reckless he challenged one of the remaining passengers in that moment something came over him as if his

Determination to the mission through was also compelling him to win at any cost his opponent threw pakar and out of instinct Jen threw vyan the agent went on to win the entire tournament but sadly he was unable to collect the prize money as during the Skirmish below deck

The man with a moay hand had escaped with a small fortune in a high-speed submersible his ultimate goals and the scope of the shadowy group he represented would remain unanswered for the time being when the SS fateful Emma finally arrived at sight 45 agent Jen came to his senses and realized that he

Had underestimated the cognitive side effects of SCP 4633 due to the immediately recognizable anomalous state of both his arms agent Jen was later contained on site with minimal security it’s believed that researchers are still searching for a method to reverse the effects it just goes to show that winning isn’t

Everything did you hear that not so long ago a 5-year-old boy went up against 12 of Russia’s greatest chess Grand Masters and do you know what happened he lost every single match that’s because winning a chess dear viewers isn’t easy chess is an ancient game of strategy

Cunning and skill it’s not just about thinking one step ahead of your opponent that’s not going to be enough make a wrong prediction and you could end up sacrificing one of your pieces as well as vital space on the board but thinking two to three steps ahead beating your

Adversaries moves before they even been made now there’s a viable strategy tricky but viable after all if it was easy we’d all be Queen Gambit level chess prodigies Eric Matthews had never been good at the game but he had a pretty substantial reason to keep trying and that reason’s name was Brian

Matthews his father you see for as long as Eric could remember his dad had regarded a high level of skill on the chessboard to be a sign of intellectual superiority intelligence was something that Brian put quite a considerable value on given that he was a professor

At a university in their home country of England some of Eric’s earliest memories were of playing chess with his dad usually on a Friday night when Brian got home after a week of giving lectures to the next generation of Scholars obviously with his son at such a young

Age the professor would take it easy on Eric playing in a much laxer fashion focusing instead on teaching the boy the basics of the game and for a time at least it was good it was a rare time that Eric and his academic father could spend bonding after all with his mother

Gone his dad was all he had but as the years passed the game Changed by the time Eric was a teenager Brian had stopped pulling his punches on the chessboard he hoped his son would build on what he’d learned when they played in the past using those skills to best his

Dad on the board but to Eric playing chess had never been about a purely educational experience it was more about spending time with his old man Time After Time the young man’s pawns fell prey to Brian’s expertly considered and far more competitive moves try as he might Eric couldn’t best his dad he

Tried his best and never stopped putting the effort into every game but thinking too hard about one possible plan of attack left him wide open to a counter strategy from the professor over and over again he landed himself in Checkmate or made illegal moves without even realizing it it every time earning

Criticism and chastisement from his scholarly father every game it got worse it was like Eric could feel his father’s gaze and the weighty expectations behind it with each move he made across the board there were so many nights where he wondered if it would be better to give

Up entirely to knock down his own King and concede but how could he ever find any other shared interests with his dad beyond the two of them playing chess it had become a Lifeline tethering father and son together and to cut it now left Eric uncertain if he’d sink or be able

To swim alongside Brian he had long admired his father his achievements in Academia were impossible to avoid with more framed certificates hung up on the walls than there were photos of the pair of them together but the shadow had cast over him made Eric desperate to keep

This one shred of Common Ground alive Eric wasn’t the type to give up despite how much of an uphill struggle the situation felt like taking a leaf out of his profess her father’s scholarly ways he decided to learn the game inside and out every known move and strategy he

Would research the entire history of Chess itself if that’s what it took to play with the same skill as his dear old dad over the coming weeks Eric checked out every book at his local library on the subject beginner’s guides Advanced Rule books and even a few volumes on notable players throughout the

Extensively long history of the game along the way a chapter of a certain book stood out to Eric it described a chess Prodigy from Russia who had created an early mechanical chess device known as the samurai it had been designed to be a traveling curiosity and would sit playing chess games against

Volunteers taken from a spectating audience each one of them having forked over some of their hard-earned money to watch this man-made wonder the Russian chess Prodigy’s young daughters also had a love for the game seeing that gave Eric a Pang of jealousy wondering if those daughters had as much trouble

Playing their own father as he did with Brian but at least there was an underlying shred of Hope there too if this father and his daughters could bond over chess maybe there was a chance for Eric and his dad too sadly it’s one thing to try and learn all the facts you

Can about Chess it’s an entirely different Beast to put all that information to use and apply it to an actual game despite having read every book he could get his hands on Eric still couldn’t best Brian at the for it was like nothing had changed his father barely noticed when Eric tried to

Replicate move sets he’d read up on and still managed to not only counter those moves but check his Queen in the process so practice Eric thought after all practice was supposedly meant to make perfect right the plan was simple if he practiced his chess moves enough times

And figure out how he could call on what he’d learned then he might stand a chance at winning when he and his dad played each other there was just one hiccup to this Plan Eric needed someone to practice against the only other person in the house was Brian meaning it

Was that hiccup that turned into a problem almost big enough to stop Eric in his tracks that is until he went into his father’s lab it was under the house itself a sort of su LEL maybe used as a basement or seller by the previous owners but since Professor Matthews and

His son had lived there the entire room had been remodeled into an atome laboratory not a terribly Advanced one of course this was the early ’90s after all majority of Brian’s time even when he was at home instead of working at the University was spent on his own

Downstairs in the lab Eric had gone down there in search of his dad to ask him if there was anyone whom he knew who he could practice and develop his chess skills with but instead what he found down there was the last thing he expected to see not that he had any clue

Exactly what it was at first the thing was some kind of bizarre Contraption a collection of components that didn’t seem to be in any logical configuration however it was primarily composed of something that Eric recognized All Too Well a chest table this one was metal steel to be precise and seemed to be

Hooked up to some sort of computer while back in the 9s computers were hardly as common place as they are now Eric had seen a fair few at school and the library although this one was different it seemed old far older than Eric thought computers had been around for as

Far as he knew they’d only really come to prominence in the mid 80s but this computer looked like it predated even that period noticing another part of the contraption a large steam engine with the words manufactured by modlay Suns and field established 1840 engraved on one side made it seemed that this whole

Device had been around since the Victorian era the next part that caught his eyes was the the chest pieces themselves each one standing neatly in its place on the board they looked delicate intricately carved from some smooth substance for a moment Eric toyed with a thought of how they could even be

Made from bone noticing how each Pawn Knight Rook Bishop king and queen were all about the size of a human finger bone he dismissed the idea nobody would ever do something like that Eric grabbed a sheet covering a large component hooked up to the mess lifting it away in a swift pole it

Unveiled what was sitting beneath a full Suite of 18th century Samurai armor Eric to looked closer at the embellishments on the surface of the paldrons he was no expert on feudal Japan but it looked authentic enough to be the real thing if not a very close approximation taking a

Look at the collection of oddies all tethered together in his father’s lab a certain detail of all his chess research came to the Forefront of Eric’s mind the armor that had given it away this was the samurai or at the very least a crude homemade version of it that his dad had

Put together but if it worked it was also something to practice against it didn’t take Eric long to start tinkering with the contraption trying to get it to work all the while the question of why his dad owned such a thing kept drumming up noise in the back of his head had

Brian built it or was this the original made by that Russian chess prodigy was this machine the reason that Eric’s dad possessed such an unbeatable skill at chess and would using it give him the edge he needed to best him at the game and earn his father’s respect after what

Felt like hours upon hours of trial and error with a machine he could barely comprehend Eric seemed to have cracked it as far as he could tell the steam engine powered the whole Contraption and could be set to five different speeds labeled on the side in Roman numerals

The power from the engine was then fed to some kind of C sophisticated mechanism that was within the suit of Samurai armor allowing it to move and what appeared to be a series of electromagnets that moved the chest pieces and kept them on the board flicking it onto the third highest of

The five speed levels the machine word into life the sound of creaking and grinding of metal filled the lab kneeling opposite Eric went to make the first move only to stop himself it wasn’t that he changed his mind about practicing against the samurai but because because of the speed he’d set it

To determining that the settings might have correlated to difficulty levels Eric figured that if he really wanted to get the most rigorous practice to really hone his chest moves he needed to commit fully reaching for the dial he turned the device up to its Fifth and highest

Speed then made his first move he pushed one of the bone colored prawns forward by a single square and waited a split second passed and the arm of the early automaton responded with its first counter move it was quick almost moving with the same natural fluidity and speed

As an actual human being albeit still with a little bit of creaking and some slight Clockwork like stutters but it worked nonetheless the machine could play the tension over the first game was palpable forming a layer of sweat over Eric’s forehead every were and tick of the machine gave the impression that

They were playing with a stop clock timing each of their moves adding to the urgency despite this Eric Matthews tried his best to stay calm this was practice after all a dry run not the inevitable game he’d play against his dad with every move he made his heart drummed

Against his ribs uncertain he’d made the right call each time the robotic hand cruy knocked over one of his Pieces away Eric felt a surge of frustration but told himself to quell it he kept focused using what he’d researched to adapt and respond accordingly to each of the machines moves until Checkmate he’d

Beaten it he might have lost everything everything Sav for a knight a rook his king and queen but he had won trapped without anywhere else to move on the board the metal finger of the automaton conceded the Game knocking over its own King in resignation panting heart rcing

From the sheer excitement of being on The Winning Side of A game Eric hurly gathered up and reset all the pieces he had to go again not just so that he could be certain it wasn’t a fluke but to make sure he had what it took to take

On his Professor father back and forth Eric went with the chess machine over and over again they were fairly evenly matched it seemed Eric won the second game only to be best on the next two but it was sometime afterward he had lost count of exactly how many rounds later

That things started to change maybe it was the age and condition of the Victorian era chess computer the natural wear and tear stopping it from functioning properly But Eric noticed that the samurai started to make moves that were illogical that practically offered him the upper hand with no discernable strategy behind them then

Its movements became Flatout illegal disregarding the directions and number of squares each different piece was allowed to move before long it was moving them erratically around the chessboard refusing to cooperate and forcing Eric to call an end to the days practicing unfortunately it wouldn’t be the end of the unusual things that would

Happen that day did you send me that weird email was the first question Eric’s dad asked him when he returned home looking noticeably under the weather confused Eric said that he had no idea what his father was talking about Professor Matthews then went on to describe what he’d received on his work

Computer it had been an email with a file attached to it named Shak a word in Russian that translates to chess embedded in the email below although it had taken a long time to load being opened on a 1990s computer there had apparently been a photo as well it was

Rather odd Eric Brian went on quite unnerving to tell the truth black and white all sort of distorted and stretched but it looked like two young girls one grinning and the other screaming I’ve been feeling well not quite myself since I saw it with that Brian excused himself stating that he’d

Been suffering from headaches and a high temperature and as a result needed to go and lay down it wasn’t like his father to get ill Eric thought but of course he had no reason to assume it was anything serious probably just a speed of f after

A long day of teaching at the University no cause for concern if only that’s all it was within a few hours Brian was completely restless so unable to sleep that simply taking a nap was impossible he kept calling to Eric complaining of the sound of childlike laughter coming

From somewhere in the house but his son hadn’t heard anything by the time the sun went down Eric was trying to calm his dad down through a rush of intense anxiety that gripped him Brian had been claimed to be hallucinating seeing the Warped faces of two girls that

Frightened him half to death it was getting late long past the time that they usually played chest together but for now Eric’s mind was focused solely on helping his dad for a while he seemed to be able to calm his father down only to realize Brian wasn’t settled at all

He was awake eyes open fully conscious but wasn’t responding at all to Eric asking if he was all right instead the accomplished academic just stared blankly into space Eric had been up all night exhausted worried for Brian’s safety and completely clueless about what was happening to him after a while

Being non-responsive his dad seemed to regain a little bit of Lucidity once more but his behavior was erratic take me back to work I I need to get on my computer Brian demanded of his son when Eric refused that’s when his dad got angry and agitated Professor Brian

Matthews was sadly found dead within the next few months several months later as the sole executive of his father’s estate and last living relative Eric had to be the one to go through his dad’s personal belongings volumes upon volumes of thick academic books his smart scholarly clothes the house was almost

Clear now save for one thing that was left in the basement lab flicking on the light switch Eric looked at the samurai sitting motionless still uncovered after their last practice game he’d sold off the chest pieces to a collector in New York now it was just an empty odity Eric

Placed a king on the board one of the ones that he and his dad had used when they played each other with a gentle flick of his finger he toppled it resigning to the strange automaton and leaving it there in the laboratory he wasn’t sure how but he had some kind of

Gut feeling that this chess machine had somehow been responsible for his father’s fate of course Eric had no idea what the device actually was and what or who lay beneath its woring metal Parts SCP 1875 is the designation given into this machine now and has been ever since

The foundation recovered it not long after Eric sold his father’s house they are able to learn much more about it than young Mr Matthews or even the late professor Matthews ever had not just how to make it work or what its function was but who had built it and who had been

Used to build it although details of his real name eluded the foundation’s top researchers they were able to uncover newspaper articles about the device from all over Russia America and England dating back to the early 1990s the Russian chess Prodigy who’ invented it and toured the chess playing machine

Around had used some interesting components to make his automaton maybe they were what derived its skill at the game and its apparent temperament when the device was made to play at maximum speed for too long he had used his daughters to make the machine deep within the heart of this early form of

Computer the two girls brain tissue had been hooked up to the electromagnets The Machine’s moves were theirs each Pawn or Rook shifting across the black and white squares of the board every rule or strategy their Prodigy father had taught it all determined how the device played their minds taken from their skulls were

Now the analytical engine of their father’s creation the bones of their fingers he’ carved into chest pieces over the coming weeks the foundation naturally ran their usual slew of tests on SCP 1875 playing multiple games of chess against it every time they increased the machine’s five levels of speed until it

Started behaving erratically while on the highest setting shortly after every member of personnel working on SCP 1875 received a bizarre email it contained a file named with the Russian word for chess and a photograph of the stretched distorted smiling and screaming faces of two young girls faces that you might be

Seeing very soon for many Avid video game fans those who just can’t get enough of grinding away for hours on quests battling endless enemies and exploring infinite Virtual Worlds Landing a job as a gameplay tester seems like the perfect opportunity doing your favorite thing in the world and getting

Paid to do it well that’s the dream plus the added benefit of seeing how the sausage gets made of getting access to a game still in development and suggesting ways it can be improved think of all the gaming disasters that might have been avoided with a few more play testers in

The room looking at you Fallout New Vegas and your NPCs with the spinning heads well One Gamer had the same thought a young man by the name of Danny wheeler when he spotted an ad seeking beta play testers for an invelopment RPG from an upand cominging indie game

Studio he jumped at the chance to apply the pay wasn’t amazing but it was definitely a better gig than his current job at the local convenience store Hawking energy drinks to snarky teens and counting down the hours until he could get back home kick up his feet and

Get away from it all with a controller in his hand but sometimes things that seem too good to be true actually are at first Danny had a perfectly enjoyable time testing the game it was standard RPG fantasy fod and though he made sure to inform the developers that he found

The steampunk aesthetic to be a little bit played out at this point there was nothing at all notable about it it was fine but the development team kept going on and on about the Tactical heuristic algorithms and how the game was meant to learn the more the player played so Dany

Was instructed to log as many hours of this exceedingly average game as possible he sat at his desk for hours sipping on an extra- large soda and clicking away fighting Orcs goblins and more slowly the difficulty began to increase and the game started to grow on

Him a bit he even developed a favorite character to play as the Rogue with his stealth and proficiency for close range combat the more he played as the Rogue however the more he started to notice the game’s characters behaving differently enemies were attacking him with ranged weapons from far away they

Were setting traps to ruin his character’s stealthy approach and catch him in the ACT then the game started to glitch a lot to the point of becoming nearly unplayable enemies would fall to the ground as if Dead when he hadn’t dealt them a single blow as he started

To walk his characters away from them they would suddenly spring back to life and St right before he could even think about a defense if he didn’t know any better he could swear the game’s characters were deliberately trying to trick him it only got more frustrating from there with enemies making sudden

Loud sounds to catch him off guard and startle him out of concentration and other character staring down the barrel of the camera with serious unblinking eyes as if they could see him through his monitor one day he fired up the game to see that its characters somehow had

Rearranged various torches to spell out you’ll never imag bound to anything Danny your dad was right it took a ton of torches and Danny couldn’t help but take it personally that was the last straw he returned the game to the studio and resigned from his position he got enough insults working in customer

Service he didn’t need to take that kind of talk from a video game though he didn’t know it Dany got out not a moment too soon other play testers were not as lucky particularly One Man Who Would sadly lose his life as Danny intuited this was no ordinary video game it was

Unusual enough to draw the attention of the SCP Foundation who would go on to designate it SCP 1633 SCP 1633 is an anomalous computer game created by a now defunct independent game Studio the copy currently being held by the foundation is believed to be a beta version of the

Game while the core gameplay is relatively complete there are numerous missing assets the music is largely either missing or placeholder music and the game is plagued by a large number of graphical glitches because of the generally buggy and glitchy nature of the game the foundation considered both

Todd Howard and CD project red to be major people and groups of interest in the case however the discovery of other key suspects eventually absolved them of Suspicion for now this version of the game was compiled 2 days before the foundation raided the office of the studio and is therefore believed to be

The most complete version of the game in existence to be more specific about the actual nature of the game itself SCP 1633 is a squad-based RPG with a third-person camera perspective the action is seen from an elevated perspective with all characters on screen aesthetically the game world is steampunk and features various fantasy

Creatures as enemies including elves dwarves Orcs goblins Etc fitting with the steampunk style the game’s urban areas are modeled after Victorian era London the four-player characters are a band of Outlaws hired by the sin Arch Duke of bodri to investigate a theft however as the game progresses it

Becomes a battle to save the entire world as an ancient all powerful being known as Kar intends to wake from its Thousand-Year Slumber and Destroy Humanity the player controls a squad of four characters with direct control over one character at a time and a command menu to control the other three It is

Believed that in the game’s finished State a multiplayer option that would have allowed four different real world players to cooperate is likely to have been included like many squad-based games each character has a different specialty The Marksman uses longrange weapons The Alchemist has access to potions and chemicals with various

Effects the Rogue can move stealthily and assassinate enemies and the thug has greater Health than the other characters and does more melee damage and as is also typical for games of this variety XP earn from completing challenges and killing enemies throughout the game allows for players to upgrade the

Abilities and stats of their characters while the story and core gameplay mechanics are nothing special there is one element that pushes SCP 1633 into anomalous territory and it’s also the element that would have been front and center in a Finnish games marketing campaign it’s quote tactical heuristic algorithms these work in a unique

Fashion whenever a player finishes a session and saves their game the game will begin running lengthy background processes when these processes are complete a ptd or player tactical data file is saved on the computer when the save file and by extension the associated ptd file is loaded the

Enemies and challenges in the game will have become far more effective tailoring their methods to the particular skills and tactics of the player the extent to which this happened is proportional to the amount of time spent playing the game this kind of Technology may seem theoretically possible but the extent to

Which the game pushes it causes it to rest in anomalous territory the game’s programming is so intelligent that it can tell simply by the tiniest clues in your play style if you’re loading a file that isn’t your own it will then pause the game and make you load your own save

File and the tactics employed by the enemies in the game as they learn more about the player are nothing short of frightening at first the enemies will adapt to the player’s preferred weapons strategies and overall play style then they will realize that the player character is controlled by an external

Force meaning of course you and begin to mount psychological attacks directly on the player through numerous tests the foundation has been able to build a kind of framework for the average player experience through this framework we’re able to track and correlate average play time with the average adaptability of

SCP 1633 to the player it is worth noting that these effects do not apply if the game is completed in a single continuous playthrough for the purposes of this experiment the game was stopped saved and restarted at regular intervals allowing the game to collect player tactical data during the first 2 hours

The game’s AI is abysmal with enemies simply charging at the players with no strategy whatsoever and typically being mowed down however from 2 to 5 hours the enemies undergo intelligence growth adapting their play style to the types of weapons they carry and their environments at this stage this combat

Level is also about equal to an untrained human Z civilian from 5 to 8 hours enemies become considerably more proficient and then begin countering the player on their specific play Styles and techniques for example they will attack a player who uses longrange Weaponry from cover with grenades or Splash

Damage weapons to force them out into the open they will also fully utilize their environment for both defensive and offensive purposes laying traps and creating ambushes to surprise and kill players at this point their combat skills are equal to train soldiers from 8 to 12 hours the focus of the enemy

Shifts from attacking the player character to attacking the player directly they engage in behaviors that from an online playing perspective would be considered griefing such as intentionally blocking the players’s view or movement within the game enemies have also been known to exploit player expectations pretending to be broken or

Glitched to make the player let their guard down and then killing them in one play session the enemies begin throwing day flash spells similar to real life flashbang grenades at the player they throw them in a manner that created a strobing effect causing the player to have a Grand Mall seizure Beyond 12

Hours the enemies engage in advanced psychological tactics against the player with methods that range wildly and tend to be specific to the player’s mindset and play style for example one player likes to exert a high level of control over all four of their squad members in response enemies used attacks that did

Little or no damage but caused the characters to become dazed a state which temporarily disrupts player control however rather than attack the dazed characters enemies simply surround them in a crowd continually using days attacks to prevent the player from doing anything this caused major frustration for the player enemies may also attempt

To induce psychological Terror among the players in one example enemies somehow kidnapped one of the four player characters and dragged them off screen when this character was later found found they were strapped to a kind of sacrificial altar this caused considerable anxiety for the player it

Seems that this is the upper limit of the game’s anomalous powers in most cases meaning things typically level off after 12 hours unless a specific entity appears to be inhabiting the game which you’ll learn more about later in order to discover the prior information the SCP Foundation performed a series of

Tests on the game with various different subjects in test 001 Junior researcher Ross an experienced gamer who was pivotal in first discovering the anomaly skipped ahead of the typical preliminary declass tests seeing as he was already eager for the game’s nonanomalous release he was also eager to be the

First in line to try it out on the foundation’s dime being a gamer Ross also found a number of glitches and exploits in the game to improve his performance allowing him to run rings around his enemies however as expected the enemies adapted to Ross’s techniques after Gathering his player tactical data

First they just began using their weapons and exploiting the environments more effectively but they didn’t stop there soon they became aware of the same exploits Ross was using before exploiting them themselves and using it to beat him repeatedly in the end they moved to the psychological stage forcing

Ross into a glitch that rendered him unable to move he tried to free his character for several minutes until realizing he couldn’t and rage quit the game in test 00 2 they used a d-class designated D 22930 he was a man with proven anger issues even down to murdering his prior

Girlfriend in a jealous rage initially he enjoyed the game choosing the thug character type and taking out his aggression on the many enemies however as time went on the enemies became wise to his tactic and began their psychological attacks they gathered around the DCL class’s player character dropping their weapons but the Swarm

Became so tightly packed around the character that he couldn’t even move this started to cause major frustration when the character attempted to charge through the enemies attacked killing him with their bare hands in test 014 the foundation brought in an agent with special forces experiences with Advanced knowledge in tactical combat however

Even she was worn down and defeated over time as the enemies adapted to and exploited her tactics the foundation even considered using SCP 1633 three as a tool for developing effective countertactics in their real life operations in test 021 the foundation used a d-class with vast experience in

The world of commercial gaming he was told to complete the game in one playthrough taking pauses rather than proper breaks as predicted with no time to run the background processes and create player tactical data files the enemies weren’t able to improve and the d-class was able to complete the game in

Around 13 hours however the game did create a player tactical data file in the aftermath of this playthrough and used it to offer a new game plus mode to the d-class when he began to play this new game the screen displayed a seemingly random pattern of black and white pixels visually similar to

Television static this image appeared to be Cognito hazardous as it caused Catatonia and later death for the player and what felt like a decidedly Petty move for SCP 1633 as alluded to earlier the game was first discovered by Junior researcher Ross who was an avid follower of the independent game Studio initially

Producing the game however while frequenting developer fan forums he found that various members of the team were quitting the project for seemingly bizarre reasons well this wasn’t enough on its own for the foundation to intervene it was what first attracted official attention they moved in after

The death of Gregor Tilman a game tester for the company who died not long after joining the project the foundation moved in in and after that gain control shutting down the studio and taking everything they had all anomalous elements were isolated secured and contained any loose ends were given

Amnestics and recorded data on the anomalous artifacts were destroyed it’s believed that one classified female member of the dev team was behind the anomalous nature of the game but she was able to escape and has since attempted to join other development teams she is now considered an active person of

Interest and is being pursued by mobile task force MW 6 6 AKA don’t hate the player some final disturbing details are recorded in a note left by the game tester Gregor Tilman the note seized by the foundation and included in SCP 1633 official file reads as follows I’m

Writing this on paper cuz I don’t think he can learn it he got everything digital real quick but I’ve unplugged the router and broke my phone so I think he’s trapped in here but he won’t stop talking talking talking all the time at the start of this job they told me all

About the tactical algorithm stuff man I’ve been playing games all my life and I knew I could beat it I I knew I could handle this when I started playing the game they learned quickly they kept using the sniper rifle and after like an hour they learned how to use cover then

Another couple hours they’d set ambushes then another hour and they started sniping back while having a different Squad flank me after that they figured out how to glitch the physics engine and ride crates at me or duck under the floor they were learning but all that

Was just easy stuff it was Evol ution man one bit figures something out so it survives longer than the others it wasn’t directed after act three kraar shows up he’s supposed to be like this Lovecraft Cosmic horror Crazy Monster who can read the player’s mind and corrupt your soul he showed up right

After I killed strict the blood Drinker that big spider monster he’s supposed to have this long speech about how I killed his General on this plane and now he needs to intervene directly or something but instead he talked about how I was a worthy adversary but I was cheating

Because I was on another plan cnar wasn’t like the other enemies because he wasn’t supposed to be he was supposed to be smart he was supposed to know everything so he did he’d been watching his minions fight me the whole time and he knew everything they did it

Wasn’t just random mutations anymore it was plann it wasn’t Evolution man it was actual intelligent design I brought it home I had to know more I’m sorry but I had to I copied the latest compile and installed it on my home box and brought my save game and that other file with me

On a flash drive it was the same a there he kept talking to me about how I was keeping him from fulfilling his purpose by keeping him trapped in a glass jar no matter where I went in the game he kept shouting and ranting then he did more at

First it was just slowing down in my other programs the drive chugging when it shouldn’t be then the next time I played the game he started talking about my screen plays all the enemies looked like me I guess he could see through the webcam he started needling me about

Jenny reading me bits of her emails acting out the breakup he found the videos of her and started making the enemies in her voice then he was everywhere on my computer I uninstalled the game but he was still there he kept opening documents and typing to me

Calling me a foul cheat and a lowly worm telling me to fight him on the same plane as soon as I realized he was outside the game I shut down my router pulled out the network card but I don’t know if I got them quickly enough maybe

He got out I turned the computer off but he kept turning it back on I wanted to break it but I didn’t know if that would kill him maybe it wouldn’t maybe it would let him out I tried leaving the house but it was like I could still hear

Him I couldn’t leave him alone because he might get out or do something else I can’t sleep haven’t slept since he came out I’ve been here for 3 days and I can’t leave I can’t leave him he keeps telling me to release him but I can’t I

Want to kill him but I don’t know if I can I I can’t think anymore I have to kill kill kill him before he does anything new he won’t stop talking and I can’t keep thinking I can’t keep going I’m sorry I have to go now I’m sorry I’m

Sorry after studying the note carefully the foundation conducted a thorough investigation for any other manifestations of this cnar entity no mentions of it were found on any of the other devices in tilman’s apartment nor did a web search on the subject turn up any relevant results at this time it is

Believed that the entity whatever it was or whatever it was attempting to do was destroyed along with Tillman’s computer which he appeared to have taken apart smashed and burned in a metal trash can whatever tormented to him during his last days on Earth is gone now thankfully because the foundation

Currently owns the only copy of the game and the game’s anomalous effects are only evident to active players SCP 1633 poses no risk of containment breach and therefore it has been given the object class safe one copy of SCP 1633 is stored on a standard DVD ROM in a secure

Storage locker in site 15 along with all supporting documentation and ancillary materials any playthroughs of the game must be approved by project head Dr burer and all of said playthroughs are to be monitored closely and subject to strict rules after all this is one game that doesn’t play fair ask anyone who

Has ever lived in a small town and they’ll most likely all tell you the same exact thing the worst part isn’t just being far away from the nearest city or distant from friends and family it’s the boredom that gets you having so little nearby gives you so few options

For things to fill your time with for some they get used to it as they grow old spending their life in the same tiny Community they either learn to make their own entertainment or just get used to the boredom drowning It Out by sitting and watching TV all day but

Others they just can’t stand being bored being stuck somewhere with nothing interesting to do and ultimately they can end up getting so sick of it that there’s only one option leave pack their bags and hit the road up sticks and move to a new place far from the small town

They were born in thing is leaving isn’t cheap moving to a new town a big city or even an entirely different state is a luxury that costs a pretty penny some might work and save their wages until they can realize that dream of moving away but not everyone has that much

Patience some Want to Be Free of the board them as soon as they can maybe they might apply to be a contestant on a game show chance at all and try to win themselves a big cash prize sure it’s a hell of a Gamble and a loss might mean

Humiliation in front of everyone you know and more but winning could be your ticket away from small town living that might be easier said than done though not only does someone looking to move away need to be picked as a contestant they also need to play by the rules and

Actually win the game but as if that wasn’t enough they also have to live to tell about it for as long as she could remember cat had always hated it here her hometown was Tiny too small to include more than the main street with few local stores the one school that

Everyone who had ever lived there had studied at and little else of note and as for things people could do for fun in the town well as you can probably imagine the options were severely limited especially for a group of teenagers like cat and her friends most

Of the time all that she and the others Leo Ricky and Dany could do to pass the time was sit in the back of Ricky’s truck and park in the middle of town watching people and waiting for something even mildly interesting to happen not that it ever did the four of

Them had a name for the rest of the town’s folk everyone that had lived there for their entire lives and never dared to venture anywhere else lifers as in they were imprisoned serving a life sentence in this small town never to escape or move on or make something of

Themselves as much as they likeed to poke fun at those people each of the group knew that every weekend they wasted just sitting around the closer they were getting to One Day become lifers themselves we need to just go cat would say trying to Rally the other three into taking a spontaneous trip

Away as a group just load up the truck one day pick a Direction and drive until we find somewhere Ricky and Leo would nod their heads in agreement and Danny would talk for hours all about the places she might like to go to one day but none of them ever actually made any

Plans to leave nobody knew where to start until they heard rumors about an abandoned TV studio just outside of town apparently according to Danny’s older brother it had been there for years just sitting there completely empty it wasn’t just a small local Studio either one of the big National networks had owned it

And used to film there regularly back in the day why would someone set up a studio here of all places had been Leo’s immediate response look at where we live cat replied it’s the literal middle of nowhere the network must have got the land Dirt Cheap the real question is why

Don’t we go and check it out what for Danny asked cat silently gestured at the cramped Main Street that surrounded them the place that may as well have been the center of the known universe to the four Teenage friends do you see anything else to do around here before long the four

Of them were in agreement Ricky’s truck pulled up in front of their houses in the middle of the night and under the cover of Darkness they drove out towards what was left of the TV studio this was it they were finally going somewhere beyond the choking cramped confines of

Their tiny Hometown although whether or not they’d all make it back was another matter here’s a hard lesson for you kids You Can’t Fight For Life you believe you deserve if you don’t have a little skin in the game with home a few miles in the rearview mirror the truck stopped at a

Chain link fence a pair of signs were hanging from it one welcoming them to the studio while the other simultaneously warned them to keep out that this area was private property ignoring it the four of them stepped out of the truck and started to climb the fence throwing Leo’s jacket over the top

To avoid injury beyond the fence was a huge building almost the size of a warehouse with a door marked Studio entrance that practically invited the Intrepid teens to open it up and have a look inside each one of them carrying a torch in hand the group walked up to the

Abandoned studio and gently PRI open the door trying not to make too much noise even though they knew the whole place was abandoned they still didn’t want to attract too much attention and get caught trespassing the lights were all dead as cat led the group her hand being

Tightly squeezed by Dany next to her the two boys behind none of them had been sure what to expect it wasn’t exactly like anyone in the group had ever set foot inside a TV studio before but they were met with a narrow concrete walled Corridor so underwhelming that it almost

Made it extraordinary in just how profoundly dull it was lifting his torch Leo pointed out some lettering on the wall that read to tmdg set with an arrow pointing the four friends further down the corridor naturally driven by her curiosity and need to be literally anywhere where apart from her hometown

Cat followed the Arrow’s direction to another door pushing it open she stepped inside her torch light immediately being blocked by a thick curtain brushing her hand against the material she started looking for a parting but before she could welcome contestants a voice boomed through the dark coming from somewhere in the space

Beyond the curtain instantly Danny screamed at the sound almost wrenching cat’s arm off in sheer surprise before we Begin The Voice continued I need you all to tell me are you ready cat shot a look back at Ricky the friend furthest behind her fumbling with the door they’d

Entered through it was locked he couldn’t get it to budge he turned and met cat’s gaze shaking his head uh sure we’re ready Leo suddenly piped up calling out to answer the voice before the rest of the group could turn and glare at him the curtain around them

Lifted so much bright light came pouring in that it practically days the four of them each taking a moment to readjust when her vision cleared cat saw they were standing in a huge Sound Stage blinding spotlights pointing at her and her friends from somewhere above with seating area big enough to seat their

Town’s entire population in that case folks you know what time it is came the voice again talking as if there was a live studio audience present despite every chair being unoccupied these four lucky Challengers will go head-to-head each one looking to take on the victory

As well as a huge mystery prize but only if they dare to take on the most dangerous game there was a pause as if this unseen announcer was waiting for a round of applause without warning more lights came on Illuminating the space in front of the four very confused friends

Standing before them was what looked like part of an obstacle course a series of four horizontal beams over an empty space the glare of the light was so intense that even squint hting cat couldn’t tell what was beneath it just looked like a void nothing but total darkness with four narrow beams Bridging

The Gap between where they stood and another platform Beyond well what are you all standing around waiting for the announcer declared almost mocking the 14s urging them the rules of course there was another awkward pause like the voice was waiting for laughter it’s simple the four of you will be competing

To make it through each of our obstacles make it to the end before our timer hit Zer and you’ll be tonight’s big winner but fall behind or cheat and it’s out with you a huge Digital Countdown illuminated on one side of the sound stage telling the group they only had 10

Minutes to play Kat Leo Danny and Ricky barely had a chance to question what was going on exchanging quick concerned looks before the announcer started urgently counting them down 3 2 1 he cheered simultaneously the four teenagers felt felt a presence looming behind them like a figure was standing

Just out of view blocking them from turning back carefully putting one foot in front of the other cat started shimmying along the beam in front of her trying to keep herself steady while also moving as fast as she could without falling out of the corner of her eye she

Could also see Dany on the beam next to her doing the same but finding it a little easier to balance Leo was having no problem at all Sid stepping with enough speed to keep him practically neck and neck with cat but Ricky was wobbling every foot he placed on the beam he felt

Like it might give way beneath him but it was just a game show right sure it shouldn’t even really be running right now but regardless of why or how the worst that could happen was that he would fall his next step missed the beam entirely and Ricky could feel himself

Toppling guys he called out to his friends trying to shift his weight onto his back leg cat Danny and Leo all froze and snapped their heads back to look at him just in time to see Ricky wildly flailing his arms his whole body body toppled to one side and he dropped off

The beam with a loud scream not one of them saw him land or even heard it for that matter it was as if Ricky had just been swallowed up whole by the Dark Void beneath them his scream getting more and more distant until it couldn’t be heard anymore oh tough break talk about

Falling at the first hurdle The Voice exclaimed as if what had just happened was some kind of joke so long Ricky we hardly knew you staying perfectly still but clearly stressed Danny called out Ricky’s name there was no answer cat just stared wide-eyed at the abyss below

Only looking away as she heard Leo jumped the last bit of his beam onto the platform Danny come on cat whispered to her friend who looked back at her with tears streaming down her face the pair of them carefully stepped further along their respective beams trying to stop

Themselves from looking down or at the huge clock seconds ticking away and putting them under even more undue pressure reaching the other side Danny dropped to her knees un able to hold back her sobbing kneeling down to comfort her cat looked up at the sound stage’s bright lights for any sign of

Who was putting them through this bring Ricky back she yelled I’m sorry the announcer replied the game show bravado dropping from their voice but you agreed to play he’ll be fine Leo said bet you anything he just screamed like that to scare us Leo you don’t seriously believe

That cat asked as she helped Danny stand up wiping her friend’s tears away is he dead she sobbed I don’t know cat replied honestly of course he’s not Leo interjected it’s a Sound Stage it’s not like this place is dangerous then why was it abandoned Danny asked Leo didn’t

Give her an answer either because he was distracted by the lights coming up on the next part of the obstacle course or because he didn’t know and wouldn’t admit it ahead of them was a long stretch of the course forming a narrow square-shaped walkway wide portions of

The top side were dropping to the bottom in regular intervals separating the tight space space before opening it up again every time the segments lifted up the three remaining contestants could see all the way to the other side of the walkway where a new platform waited for

Them with Danny under one arm cat looked at the far end of the walkway as it disappeared and reappeared behind the rising and falling segments then she noticed the timer the seconds rapidly ticking down but Leo had noticed it too and turned to look at the two girls with

A determined expression cat shook her head at him but it was too late with all strength Leo shoved Danny and Cat both of them Landing flat on their backs on the platform he bolted towards the walkway as fast as he could managing to dodge between each portion pausing as

They came down only to run into the next one as they lifted back up helping Dany back to her feet cat ran after Leo he already had a head start and would easily make it to the other side of the walkway before the girls so instead cat

Held Danny close and took it slow methodically waiting for each segment to lift back up before they went further into into the next safe Zone they were gaining on Leo who was sprinting to the Finish between the rise and fall of the ceiling’s crushing weight cat watched

Him disappear behind each block only to see his back when it came back up he had made it to the platform opposite panting but otherwise unscathed when she next lost sight of him that’s when the announcer spoke up again now now Leo it said that was hardly fair was it and we

All know what happens when you break the rules as the the segment in front of her and Danny rose again cat caught sight of Leo just ahead but it was what was standing behind him that stopped her in her tracks two huge figures each like a shadow without anything casting it

Towered over Leo one of them reached forward and grabbed him shrouding him in a quo of darkness and he was gone just like Ricky he vanished cat had been so transfixed by what she had just witnessed that she didn’t notice where she was standing right under a block

That was about to drop grabbing her her hand again Denny pulled her out of the path of the descending slab cat felt it brush against the back of her leg just as the pair of them made it out on the other end and onto the platform the last

Two contestants and then their work too the announcer cheered pausing again for a reaction from the empty room we don’t want to play this sick game anymore Danny yelled well you made it this far the Unseen host replied time for our third and final challenge the final

Stretch of the course make it through this and you’re home free but fail Or Break The Rules like Leo and you’ll be disqualified game over it’s okay Danny cat whispered whatever’s next we’ll get through it do you think the boys will come back if we do her friend asked just

Like Leo had cat didn’t answer the lights revealed the last stretch of the course the final platform was overhead a net climbing wall in front of them it was a straight vertical Ascent up with a wall behind the next and holes in it its surface wasting no time both cat and

Danny started climbing up the rungs of the thick rope staying level with each other as they went higher and then they’re off look at them go ladies and gentlemen the announcer commented still speaking as if to an audience but it’s not going to be so easy the sharp sound

Of metal made both girls gasp as long spikes shot forward from the holes in the wall the blades retracted fortunately having Miss Danny and Cat this time what had started as a simple clim up had become something akin to a twisted game of whack-a-mole with each

Of them trying to avoid staying in front of the holes in the wall for too long dodging the spikes as they went in and out they climbed higher and higher until cat Danny screamed she looked over her shoulder only to noticed she was in the lead below her Dany was calling up to

Her with a fear-stricken expression her foot was caught in the rigging of the net kicking and thrashing wildly to try and free it cat looked back up she was almost at the platform close enough to nearly reach it with her fingertips but behind her her friend was stuck and with

No idea when the spikes would come next shooting out of the wall cat threw herself over the edge of the platform and landed on her back just as she heard the gut-wrenching sound of the spikes extending ring out she was beside herself tears streaming down her face it

Wasn’t uncommon for people to be overwhelmed to the point of tears at the end of a game show but cat wasn’t crying with joy we have a winner the disembodied voice declared barely audible to the surviving contestant as she wept after she’d finished explaining what had happened to the police a group

Of mysterious agents flocked to the Sound Stage to lock it down stopping anyone else from getting close to it they’d found a VHS tape in the mailbox at the front office of the studio on it was a recording of a game show a live audience cheering as one by one Ricky

Leo and Dany failed to complete the course one of the SCP Foundation agents had come to interview cat asking her to recount the whole story all over again her account lined up perfectly with everything seen on the tape then the agent asked her what her prize had been

After she won a car cat replied the four of us always wanted to leave home it’s frightening to think about how many people go missing each year approximately 1600 individuals mysteriously vanish each year in National Parks alone one moment they’re there making their way down a hiking

Trail or stopping for a granola bar by a lake and the next they’re gone missing people are an unfortunate fact of life one we all just try to put out of our minds as we silently hope we and those we know and love will be fortunate

Enough to avoid joining the ranks of the lost but some places some very strange obscure places nestled in the quiet Countryside and tucked away under blankets of fog lose so many people that it becomes well anomalous one particular town a seemingly innocuous place place with a thriving tourism industry was the

Sight of so many unexplained disappearances that had drew the attention of the SCP Foundation they dispatched a team to enter the town to gather as many facts and figures as they could and to see what exactly had become of these missing people leading the team was none other than the sometimes

Fearless often Shameless Dr Jack brght how did the infamous Dr brght get here well for many employees of the SCP Foundation leading a task force to investigate a new potentially anomalous location would be a promotion or a welcome diversion from yet another round of testing to see if maybe something

Will finally destroy SCP 682 but in this particular case it was a matter of discipline after Dr brgh was caught giving scp-999 a triple shot of espresso to quote just see what would happen he was assigned to fieldwork as part of his punishment for the record what happened

Was as SCP 999 ricocheting off the walls at such a high speed and intensity that it broke several Windows damaged the ceiling and knocked out the power for half of the site and so Dr Brite found himself with a task force of foundation operatives trudging reluctantly through beautiful but boring rural New England

Toward the town of Interest as he drove down the winding road grumbling to himself and wishing he could be anywhere else he spotted the sign marking their intended destination welcome to Silent Hill up ahead a thick fog rolling off the lake covered the town in the dim gray

Blur he couldn’t make out anything through the unnaturally dense Haze he squinted and turned on the high beams but the light did nothing to cut through the fog bouncing off of it like a billowing curtain of white just as they passed the sign the van began to slow rapidly its engine sputtering and

Grinding as the vehicle skitted to a sudden stop damn it Dr brigh thumped the steering wheel in frustration any of you know how to fix fix a car he looked at the team of operatives in the back seat they all Shrugged noncommittally the only thing worse than wandering into

That fog would be sitting in the broken down van watching Tweedle dumb and Tweedle Dumber try to attend to the failing engine his private joke almost lifted his mood but not quite he popped open the door and stepped out into the cold damp air well figure it out I’m

Going to go look around Dr bride shoved his hands into his pockets and not knowing what might wait on the other side began his walk into silent hill with each step he ruminated on the events that had gotten him here where did those guys at the foundation get off

Disciplining him like an unruly child sure he liked his pranks he enjoyed a good joke and maybe sometimes he took it just a little bit too far but he’d like to see them confront the existential dread of immortality without needing a humorous Outlet every now and then they’d crack under the pressure without

A release of some kind so what gave them the right to put him a brilliant if unconventional mind in some kind of glorified time out he scoffed out loud to himself and the sound echoed in the VAC in streets the sheer emptiness of it all snapped him out of his self-pity and

For the first time he looked up to take in his surroundings the stubborn fog refused to dissipate no matter how far he walked but at least he could make out the shape of the buildings now of parked cars on the side of the road no not parked wrecked abandoned left to rust he

Scanned the fog for human Silhouettes listened for voices for any signs of life but there was no one he approached a building and found it dilapidated rotted wood collapsing in on itself windows cracked door boarded uptight the buildings next to it looked very much the same what the hell he was sent to

Investigate recent disappearances but this town looked as if its entire population had vanished decades ago or he thought with a small shudder all decided to to leave in a hurry what could have driven them out okay that’s it I’m done Dr brigh remarked turning a swift 180° and preparing to go back the

Way he came as he did he froze for there had once been continuous unbroken Road the street now ended in a jagged edge a deep dark Chasm the only thing that waited Beyond it was too broad to jump across and he couldn’t see another road out of town hey guys he called out

Hoping to draw the attention of one of the men he had left with the van a little help over here but there was no response hello he shouted again louder this time when no one answered he repeated to himself again and again with increasing desperation his voice growing

Horse from the effort had they somehow fixed the van and left him there had they fallen into the chasm where the road once was and been killed on impact there was no rational explanation for what was at play here but as the consciousness of a man living inside of

An ancient amulet reminded himself he very rarely encountered rational things in his life there had to be a way out he just had to find it if he could go back well he would just have to keep moving forward on through the winding Labyrinth of the street through the Maze of

Crumbling buildings looking for any signs of life he followed a natural Bend in the road and suddenly found himself wedged between two buildings down a narrow claustrophobic alley it seemed that this place didn’t feel much like playing by the ordinary rules of time and space and while Dr brgh could

Usually appreciate a rule breaker being a little rebellious himself that uncertainty was putting him on edge his breaths came in Shallow gasps his chest tight with apprehension as he turned in a circle looking for the best way out he heard a sound behind him the first noise

He had heard other than his own breathing in quite some time it was the soft plotting sound of uneven footsteps like someone small walking with limp he Whirled around to face the noise and saw what he might have mistaken for a child until he got a proper look at it the

Thing that was steadily approaching him was small and humanoid in shape but that was where the similarities to a human being ended its skin was a pale modeled gray the shade of a body fished out of a river after weeks of bloating and Decay its mouth was a twisted gaping hole more

Like a wound than a mouth and in place of its eyes were a pair of slits in the pale flesh it stumbled as it walked like it was still learning how but the childish ineptitude did nothing to distract from the creature’s Menace as it Advanced towards Dr to right he saw

The glint of something metal in the creature’s gnarled fist it held a rusty knife as it got closer it slashed haphazardly in his Direction and its mouth opened wider to let out a chilling high-pitched giggle this thing was preparing to carve him up and enjoy

Every second of the job as he took in the sight of the horrible gray child in front of him Dr brgh had been frozen to the spot unable to force his legs to carry him away but the sight of the knife the Grim realization of just

Exactly what this thing had in store for him shocked him back to life he grabbed a wooden beam leading up against the nearest wall and threw it at the little monster knocking it onto its back it was immobilized just long enough for Dr brgh to get his bearings turn and run toward

The wider Street as he did he could hear the gleeful laughter as the creature climbed back to its feet and it only pushed him to run faster when he could no longer hear the Little Footsteps or the Warped Giggles of the great child Dr brigh stopped to catch his breath so it

Seemed like there was still life in Silent Hill after all there just wasn’t human life there was silence for a moment nothing but Dr Bright’s heart pounding in his head as he bent over his knees and silently cursed himself for not exercising this body more often then

The shrill Cry of an aid siren ripped through the foggy air and for a moment his heart stopped what the hell did did that sound mean he stood up inspecting his surroundings for signs of danger for what a tornado a bomb he wasn’t sure but nothing could have prepared him for what

He saw next the entire landscape had shifted around him in an instant he was unsure of how exactly to describe it except to say that this world had gotten darker more dangerous where the streets had been lit by dim gray sunlight filtered through the haze there was now

Darkness save for an occas Street Lamp with a flickering red bulb he couldn’t be sure if it was a trick of the light but he could swear there was blood staining the street smeared across the brick walls of buildings on either side the town had been ominous before but now

It was like something out of a nightmare and all the while the siren continued to blare warning of a danger he could not see he needed to find shelter that was it from what he didn’t know but whatever was coming could not be good good Dr brigh ran to the nearest door twisting

The knob trying to yank it open but it wouldn’t budge the hinges were rusted shut and there was no time to try and force them open he tried another door and another and another it was as if the house is new to try and keep him out to

Keep him exposed and vulnerable on the outside finally he reached a two-story house with peeling white paint and a mahogany door one that looked so familiar but that he couldn’t quite place when he turned the knob the door creaked open with ease and he quickly raced inside slamming the door shut

Behind him and longed it as Dr Wright slumped against the door overtaken with exhaustion an intrusive thought made his stomach drop was he alone in this house had he really found shelter or had he just shut himself inside with something even worse than what waited out there in

The silence he could swear he heard the quiet thumping of a pulse but he couldn’t tell if it was his own or The house’s beating heart heart he couldn’t just stay here dreaming up all the horrors that might be waiting he needed to gather data investigate his surroundings and come up with potential

Solutions he needed to be a scientist on unsteady legs Dr brgh began to walk the halls of the house taking in his surroundings properly for the first time it was Dusty and dark a place left vacant for quite some time but there were signs of a life once lived within

The House’s walls a rocking horse in the corner a Shelf full full of well-worn books the titles scratched and itch in his brain memories he hadn’t touched in decades strange that so many of the books in this house would remind him of the pages he once flipped through

Staying inside to read while his brother played in the yard outside his brother Dr brigh swallowed the lump in his throat at the thought of TJ no use going down that path not right now he continued his walk through the house taking in the cobwebs the couch covered

With plastic the coffee table and the TV set along the hall leading to the bathroom there were rows of family pictures hanging in neat little frames he stopped to take a look wondering what sort of family had once lived here as his eyes fell on the first photograph

His blood turned to ice in his veins a boy looked out from within the frame a familiar boy with a mop of red hair a freckled nose and kind smiling eyes no Dr brgh whispered to himself but there was no no denying it it was TJ his brother somehow looking at him from

Inside a photograph in an abandoned house in Silent Hill next there was a photo of TJ and an older man Dr Bright’s stomach turned their father every photograph was of his family the family he would never know again not the way they were and there in one photo in the

Middle TJ and his father were joined by another figure one with the face scratched out of the picture he knew though he couldn’t see for certain that it was him removed from the family photo by force but the bond between them all forever broken TJ’s eyes in the picture

Seemed to be filled with tears heartbroken his father glowed out of the frame at him pure hatred in his gaze he couldn’t look anymore and turned away on the opposite wall another photograph of TJ was waiting Dr brigh fell bile rising in his throat he recognized the photo he

Saw it sometimes when he closed his eyes at night was a picture taken with SCP 978 the desire camera the anomalous camera that reveals its subject’s innermost Desires in the photo TJ’s hands were pressed to the lens like an animal clawing at the boundaries of its cage his eyes were filled with tears

Spilling over and streaming down his cheeks and his mouth was wide open in an endless scream of fear and Agony this Dr brigh knew was the wordless scream inside his brother’s mind at all times after so much testing with the foundation had destroyed him I tried to

Help you he whispered to the picture I did what I could do I did what I could to take the pain away he trailed off the words dying in his throat as the sound of a heavy rattling breath came from the room at the end of the hall it was a

Thick wheezing sound like a death rattle a dozen times over he didn’t want to see what was making the noise but as if in a trance he found his feet carrying him towards it he crossed the thr of what should have been in the kitchen but instead found himself in a dimly lit

Hospital the air smelled of faldy and dried vomit the steady beep of a heart monitor joining the course of heavy agonizing breathing at the end of The Long Hall there was one single room the door standing slightly ajar with slow agonizing steps Dr brght approached the room the breathing grew louder and

Louder the beep of the heart monitor almost deafening in his ears he could barely separate the the strange breathing from his own finding his breaths coming in time with the painful rattling sound he pushed the door open and saw figure lying in a hospital bed

It was once human but it could only be described now as a conglomerate of disease and pain on top of the figure’s head thinning in patches but still recognizable was a lock of red hair no TJ no Dr Brit’s voice broke off in a sob

At the sight the thing that was once his brother turned seeking the sound of his voice though he could not see isn’t this what you wanted a low voice rumbled behind him Dr BR Whirled around to see a dark shadow red eyes glowing in the low

Light it moved like a whsp of black smoke but he knew that voice well enough to tell him just who it was his father you let them do this to him I I didn’t I didn’t mean for this to happen Dr brgh stammered you didn’t care the demon

Father roared and the light bulb above their heads flared and burst sending shards of glass scattering everywhere all he ever did was help people to heal pain and all you ever did was cause it Dr bride found the strength to move running through the doorway sending the

Shape of his father in every direction as the smell of sulfur and blood filled his nose I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry he wept as he ran hearing his father’s agonized cries his brother’s labored breathing as he for back down the hospital Hall as he did hands began to

Reach through the walls the floor the ceiling they were Rotting Flesh gone green and stiff arms followed the hands then shoulders then faces he recognized d-class uniforms lab codes face after familiar face everyone who had ever worn The Amulet he realized with a sudden wave of nausea everyone whose body he

Had taken who he had killed so that he could live this is what what you do he could hear his father’s voice just behind him the curls of black smoke nipping at his heels what kind of creature kills to live something that deserves to die but you can’t can you

You’re a parasite sucking all the good in the life from this world until it’s an empty husk just like you the living graveyard of victims reach for Dr brght tearing at his clothes as he passed them there were so many he never realized how many until he saw them all lined up like

This I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m so sorry he said to every face he passed but there was no forgiveness in their dead eyes his father’s voice fell silent but there was no reprieve instead there was the sound of heavy footsteps pursuing him the gring shriek of a large bladed

Weapon dragging along the ground Dr BR glanced over his shoulder and saw a massive hulking figure like a man but with a jagged metal pyramid covering his head he was cl FL in Blood Stained clothing and approaching Dr Bry with the Casual Menace of something that had killed endless times before and was

Ready to do it again it didn’t care to chase him it knew it would eventually catch up as he looked at the figure it began to warp to change it morphed into something else something he recognized a man with black hair and gray eyes that revealed nothing but cold malice a body

Covered in tattoos of the Arcane and the occult of merciless grinning faces belonging to ancient monsters and in his hand a long bladed weapon a curved sword perfectly engineered for battle it was impossible he should be contained but there he was SCP 076-2 looking at Dr brgh the same way he

Had on the day he had first worn The Amulet the day he became an Abomination the sound of his brother’s breathing grew louder his father’s voice bellowing in his mind and he felt the grasp of the Fallen Foundation employees at his back it was all too much too many reminders

Of every failure every hurt Dr brigh collapsed to his knees and bared his neck to Abel in submission you’re right I I should be punished I’ve done nothing but hurt and kill and destroy everything I touch just punish me please I’m pegging you then something Dr brigh never could have expected the figure

That looked like AEL but couldn’t be began to laugh a Hollow sound no it said in a voice that sounded like a chorus of hundreds we will release you nothing we can do here will ever be worse than the eternity of Torment that stretches before you good

Luck to you Dr bright Jack brigh let out a whale of Agony reaching out to Abel with pleading hands as the entity turned and slowly walked away leaving him there alone with the hell that was his thoughts then everything faded to Black Dr brigh Dr brigh the sound of one of

His team members brought Dr Wright back to Consciousness and he opened his eyes he was lying on the side of the same road he had walked along before right next to the sign welcoming the group to Silent Hill you’re all still here he asked weakly what do you mean the man

Looked puzzled we parked the van you got out you fell down and we’ve been trying to wake you up how long was I out Dr Bright’s Vision swam as he tried to wrap his mind around the information I don’t know about 10 minutes have you ever had

A nightmare that you’re running down a long dark hallway getting chased by something you can’t see the thing behind you isn’t fast but that doesn’t matter you can’t run forever and the thing knows it it is a patient Predator it toys with its food at first you move

With speed and Rhythm the metallic scraping noise behind you grows quieter you run and stumble through the dark your muscles start to ache and your lungs burn your pace slows it’s still coming you can hear the scraping getting louder you start to Panic it’s completely dark you don’t know where

You’re running or even what you’re running from all you know as you bump against the walls and the sharp Corners that Rush towards you is that you can’t run forever you trip fall and pain explodes through your legs as your knee shatters on the concrete ground that scraping is getting louder you can

Barely breathe you can’t run anymore with your injury there’s no way to stop what’s coming there is no escape the scraping is right behind you you scream and then you wake up your heart is pounding like thunder in your chest and your sheets are soaked with sweat but

You’re safe you’re out of those awful dark hallways but what if this wasn’t just a nightmare what if this scenario was real and there was no escape from the horror chasing you in the darkness that’s what it’s like to have a close encounter with SCP 1918 a sadistic sentient object that

Loves playing Twisted games with its prey but this monster never plays fair and even worse it’s always just a simple doorway it may even be hiding behind a door near you right now waiting to start a game with its new playmate but soon you’ll understand why some doors should

Never ever be opened and why some games are better left unplayed SCP 1918 is an anomaly with two parts SCP 1918 itself and SCP 1918 d2e monsters underground layer the duo are a match made in hell as the chambers and hallways of 1918-20 violent Hobbies nobody knows how

Long this anomaly has been operating but it’s probably behind countless disappearances after all 1918 has a habit of breaking its toys the nightmare began in a small town in Maine with a population of only 226 people but that population was about to get lower people in the town began to report strange

Noises at night a droning metalon concrete scraping noise like someone dragging a lead pipe along the ground at first people just ignored the sound it was all in their heads or maybe just a faulty oven or a washing machine on the fritz anything that would allow them to

Forget about the noise and get on with their daily lives but the noises were coming from below they could be heard out on the streets most audibly near manholes and Sewer grates people started feeling unsafe in their homes the noises were spooking animals and children people were losing sleep that scraping

They all tried to ignore was beginning to get to the mall letters emails and angry phone calls to the town Council were piling up something had to be done before the whole town went crazy with fear the mayor authorized four utility workers to investigate the source of the

Noise at a local sewage treatment facility considering the scraping was loudest near the sewer grates everyone just assumed that whatever was causing all this must be connected to the sewers four utility workers were sent to investigate the facility only to find that the Machinery on site was working

Just fine the source of the problems must have been coming directly from the underground sewer lines themselves the four workers equipped with headlamps descended into a long surface tunnel that fed into the sewer system as they passed deeper into the tunnel the darkness around them became thicker it

Was a tangible presence that drowned out the light of their headlamps similar to the anomalous phenomenon exhibited by SCP 087 when the utility workers tried to turn back they discovered another impossibility it seemed that the tunnel behind them had become a solid concrete wall they were trapped but where it was

Too dark to tell confused and terrified the four men stuck together attempting to find a way out it was too dark to see their hand in front of their face so all they could do was navigate Slowly by feeling the walls around them these walls felt old crusty there was a kind

Of faint metallic stench hanging in the air too like old blood something horrible had happened here and something horrible was about to happen again all they could do was keep moving and try to stay calm eventually after hours of pawing at the walls in the dark they

Found an open doorway one by one they filed inside only to feel blinded when bright white ceiling lights suddenly switched on the room was all white and filled with pipes large and small running from wall to wall just then one of the utility workers let out an earsplitting scream and pointed towards

The doorway his his colleagues turned and gasped in shock there was something outside the door and it was staring at them the object filled up almost the entire doorway it seemed like a demonic hobby horse made from a black and white candy striped metal pole with a crude

Plastic head on top the head looked like a clowns with a wide toothy grin but no visible eyes it was SCP 1918 the utility workers were frozen as the object leaned for lowered slightly and slithered into the room the bottom of the metal pipe scraping against the

Ground it was the exact same scraping noise that had been haunting the concerned towns folk up above this was the thing behind it all and as the object moved its metal po started to scrape words into the ground Tick Tac Toe none of the four utility workers

Were ever seen again it didn’t take long for the SCP Foundation to descend upon this quiet main town and pick pick up the pieces all relevant officials were provided them n scks and cover stories were created for the disappearances of the four utility workers the foundation also commandeered the sewage treatment

Facility that held the entrance to SCP 1918-20 was given a uclid classification due to the fixed nature of its hunting grounds and then the real research began the foundation soon made some disturb ing discoveries entrances into the SCP 1918-20 can be entered from almost any location if you’re unlucky enough there

Are currently nine known entrances including five sewage grates three utility shafts located in the sewage facility and one toilet and these are just the ones that the foundation knows about there are a huge number of ways to enter scp1 19182 2 but to this day nothing has ever been able to leave SCP

19182 is contained 20 M below the streets of this unassuming main Town Personnel aside from Foundation approved d-class guinea pigs are refused entrance researchers have mapped out the layout of 198-217 movements there are 18 identical room pairs in scp1 19182 or nine compound rooms rooms are differentiated between a one room and a

Two room by crude carvings on the floors outside of the individual rooms scp1 191 18-2 is symmetrical with half a meter wide path circling each compound room the only deviation to this construction are the location of entrances on the sides of each individual room which vary randomly while the location is active

What exactly does SCP 1918 do in this private little maze it plays games of course it’s two fa favorites as indicated by the words it scrapes into the ground are tick tac toe and memory in tick taaco 1918 moves to each one room leaving behind X markings on the

Floors if the room is not already marked with an o in a manner similar to a game of Tic-Tac toe how a victim is meant to accomplish making a Mark or understanding this process is unknown as no AIDS are given blood is commonly used by victims to make their markings hence

The rusty smell in many of the rooms in memory the trapped victim is rendered unconscious by blunt force presumably from SCP 1918 the subject regains Consciousness in a random section of the facility success is marked by finding a one room identical to the central room this event seems to possess a time limit

As the subject is pursued by SCP 1918 through the halls of the facility the subject wins by marking the correct room with an O what happened happens if you win or lose these games it’s important to note that scp1 1918 is very competitive and doesn’t play fair if you

Win the object will merely accuse you of cheating and start a new game this will happen again and again until eventually you lose and what do you do well take the horrifying encounter d-class Personnel member D 2934 had with SCP 1918 wearing video and audio equipment d2930 before was led into SCP

1918-20 challenged him to a game of Tic-tac-toe and Against All Odds D 2934 won the game but 1918 didn’t take kindly to that it accused D 2934 of cheating carving its accusations into the ground before challenging him to a deadly game of memory after hours of chasing D 2934

Eventually l lost his mind and was backed into a corner by 1918 as the object made its way towards him he panicked ripped a pipe from the wall and began smashing 1918s head as the plastic cracked under the force of the blows Foundation scientists could see real

Brains inside D 2934 screamed and the video feed cut off when the video turned back on sometime later 1918 stared into the camera with a different head mounted at top its metal pole one that just a few hours earlier had belonged to the unfortunate d2930 if there’s one lesson to be

Learned from this terrifying anomaly it’s that there truly Is No Escape from SCP 1918 you’re sitting in the middle of a cheering crowd the arena around you is electric fans hollering from their seats as they watch the basketball game every Point scored every shot missed and every

Skillful pass of the ball sends waves of excit excitement over everyone in the audience Applause shouts and chant fill the air it distracts you for a moment you find yourself swept up in the energy of the game but slowly surely a nagging feeling creeps up on you as your eyes

Follow the ball that feeling turns to a sickening realization as one of the players jumps and dunks the basketball scoring another two points you notice the look on his face the same look on the faces of all the other players on the Court a solemn hopeless expression

It’s the same look of Silent despair worn by all the spectators around you then you remember you’ve watched this exact game of basketball before many many times before and that is when you feel the same hopeless expression appear on your own face realizing just how long you have been here watching this game

Over and over reminded that you will will never ever leave this Arena welcome to SCP 1733 to the untrained eye SCP 1733 seems to be a completely harmless item stored in a digital video recorder it is kept securely in the dusty depths of the SCP foundation’s video archives if any

Researcher is given permission to study SCP 1733 they will find it to be an ordinary VHS tape but what about the contents of said tape does it contain a bizarre disconnected series of black and white video clips that when viewed only give the Watchers 7 days before the

Spirit of a drowned girl comes crawling out of their TV screen to kill them well not exactly but we’re sure that if such a tape exists the foundation probably has it under lock and key too the footage on SCP 1733 is as seemingly benol as the ordinary VHS tape itself

When played the viewer will witness a TV broadcast of a basketball game specifically the 2010 2011 NBA season opener broadcast on television and captured on tape by an unknown civilian the game took place on the 26th of October 2010 in the TD Garden arena in Boston Massachusetts a game where the

Hometown Boston Celtics took on the Miami Heat by now perhaps you are wondering what is so special about this particular game and why the SCP Foundation would be so interested in keeping a VHS recording of it so secure is one of the5 Council secretly a Celtics fan well that’s impossible to

Say for sure what we do know for certain is that SCP 1733 is far more than just a harmless recording of a basketball game the SCP Foundation First caught wind of SCP 1733 is existence the day after the game on October 27th a Boston native that had watched and recorded the game

Made comments on social media about a technical foul that the game’s referee had failed to pick up on according to this individual during the third quarter an instance of unsportsmanlike conduct took place between Ray Allen and Chris Bosch the person making these claims was quickly ridiculed by commenters on the

Same thread but then this person uploaded a clip of this foul from the footage they had recorded the other commenters were dumbfounded during the original broadcast that foul had never happened but the recording showed it clearer as day the footage was quickly expunged and all traces of the clip

Removed from the Internet by Personnel acting on behalf of the SCP Foundation any that had viewed the video on Facebook or been a part of the comments debating this previously nonexistent foul were Tracked Down via their IP addresses all of them including the owner of the tape were given amnestics

To wipe their memories of the supposed infraction and SCP 1733 was returned to the foundation for further analysis researchers at the foundation were determined to understand the anomalous nature of SCP 173 3 and why the footage contained on this particular VHS tape was so different from the basketball

Games original broadcast at first the differences in the game seemed to be only slight changes from the one that actually aired on TV a different fou here a small Point difference there while the recording of the game contained on SCP 1733 was slightly different from the real life game

Perhaps even more interesting was that these differences changed with repeat viewings researchers wouldn’t observe the same differences every time they watched SCP 1733 but would instead spot something different that had been changed each time they restarted the tape and as they continued to watch and rewatch SCP 1733

Is footage the true horror of the video’s anomalous properties became more and more apparent as the footage recorded on SCP 1733 began to diverge more and more from the original broadcast researchers shifted their attention away from the basketball game itself and on to the people watching it

Just like the specifics of the game itself the fans in the arena seemed to also change with every rewatch of the tape and even stranger the people in the crowd seemed to not only be aware of their existence within the footage but also retain memories of every previous replayed Vision each time the

Researchers had watched SCP 1733 the audience trapped within had gained more and more cognizance every man woman and child in the audience of that basketball game began remembering that they had seen multiple variations of the same game over and over again this first became apparent to Foundation researchers when the game’s commentators

Two presenters named Mike and Tommy began to comment on a strange sense of deja vu they were experiencing as they watched the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat play both seemed to share Notions that the game they were witnessing was strangely familiar and in later replays of the tape these two commentator

Personalities were able to recall the events of the game with perfect Vivid accuracy well they never addressed the viewer directly this cumulative effect seems to have extended to every person that was present within the arena at the time that the original broadcast was recorded everyone from the commentators

To the coaches the players to the patrons all remember the diverging versions of the basketball game but seem to have no awareness that they are trapped inside recording on a VHS tape it should be noted that it is still unclear whether the entities are real people or digital copies that solely

Reside on the tape every individual shown to be inside Titi Garden on the 26th of October 2010 seems to be identical to their counterparts in the real world each of the basketball players on both the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat teams have the exact same level of talent as they do in reality

And their individual mannerisms are perfectly recreated in the SCP 1733 footage and the same is true of the fans and the audience each one appearing to be in every conceivable way a living human being but the most unnerving aspect of SCP 1733 was found when the foundation agents were tasked with

Tracking down members of the audience who were seen on the tape and they found nothing unlike the players in coaches who can quite easily be found in our world with many of them still playing or involved with professional basketball Personnel were unable to find a single

Trace of any of the people from the audience not one clue as to their current whereabouts or status it is unclear how but it appears that everyone shown on SCP 1733 especially those watching the game unfold from the stands is a person trapped in digital form stuck watching

Variations of the same match on Loop researchers at the SCP Foundation who were studying SCP 173 33 initially theorized that the tape had been designed to display an infinite variety of different game outcomes given that the tactics utilized by the players were different with each playback of SCP

1733 this seemed to be the case that the tape was showing a whatif scenario each time the tape was rewound and played from the start but the scenario wasn’t resetting each time it was clear that they were learning by the 34th replay of the footage the Boston Celtics and Miami

Heat were so in tune with the opposing team’s Playbook that both sides players were able to perfectly and precisely counter their opponent’s moves and kept the score at 0 for much of the game at this stage in the foundation’s research the players on the SCP 1733 tape had not

Yet become fully aware that they had played the same game already in earlier playbacks but it is possible that weak memories of the earlier versions of the same match manifested as instinctive ways players could counter the moves of their rival team however by the time Foundation researchers had replayed the

SCP 1733 footage 45 times the players their coaches and fans watching the game had become aware of what was happening to them it was at this point that the digital recording from TD Garden changed dramatically realizing that they’d been playing the same game of basketball over and over the players refused to

Participate any longer everyone in the audience began to attempt to escape from the tape they’d been unknowingly imprisoned but not a single one of the Stadium’s doors would budge and neither the fans nor the players seemed to be able to leave through any other exit out of TD Garden over the following

Playbacks of the SCP 1733 videotape attempts at Escape grew increasingly daring in one playback a full-scale riot broke out in another makeshift explosives were built and used by those trapped to try and blast their way to Freedom as their cognition grew and they began to remember friends and family

From outside the videotape the crowd trapped in SCP 1733 grew even more desperate players and their coaches retired to locker rooms withdrawing from the crowd for a Time the rest of the people in the footage began to form factions amongst themselves one of the more prominent calling themselves the faithkeepers these individuals voiced

Their belief that they had been confined to TD Garden as some form of spiritual punishment as a result of the consumerism that is rif in opposed industrial society the faithkeepers began burning offerings in the center of the basketball court phones wallets car keys anything that reminded them of the

Modern world over the subsequent playbacks of SCP 1733 the faithkeepers grew in their numbers indoctrinating more of the crowd into their movement those still trying to escape from the stadium were causing more damage to themselves in their enclosure with three men caught in the blast of another crude

Bomb placed on an exit door unfortunately for them the door barely showed a scratch in the aftermath of the detonation as Foundation researchers continued replaying the tape those trapped with an SCP 1733 descended into depraved AXS and incidences of violence became rampant some even attempted to take their own lives in Acts of

Desperation jumping from balconies in the hopes of ending the loop those that had joined the growing ranks of the faithkeepers did not engage in such Behavior instead creating makeshift curtains to separate themselves from the breakdown that was taking place among the others trapped within the SCP 1733

Tape at some point beyond the 112th playback of the videotape the faithkeepers marched off scream and brought the basketball teams back out onto the main Court they then began a ritualistic sacrifice disbaling the professional athletes for their fellow prisoners to see this had no noticeable effect with the recording of the the

Game resetting as it had done in earlier rewatches in a later playback the faithkeepers then began to call for all the children in the stadium to be sacrificed in the same way testing on SCP 1733 was finally suspended indefinitely after this point and as far as we know the crowd remains trapped

Inside the anomalous recording of this particular Celtic’s Heat basketball game Foundation researchers have been unable to produce the same anomalous effects as those of SCP 1733 even when using the DVR that originally produced the recording the digital video recorder itself does not seem to imprint the same properties onto

Other VHS tapes making SCP 1733 an isolated anomaly however the next time you find yourself at a basketball game it might be worth asking yourself have I seen this game before now check out SCP 1861 the crew of the HMS winter shimer and SCP 133 7 The Hitchhiker for more

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