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SCP-3448 con SCP-3448-A en el interior.
Ítem #: SCP-3448
Clasificación del Objeto: Taumiel
Procedimientos Especiales de Contención: SCP-3448 permanecerá activo en el Sitio-2718. El personal debe inspeccionar diariamente a SCP-3448 en busca de mensajes adicionales de SCP-3448-A. El Proyecto Dammerung debe investigar cualquier método de huida propuesto o indicado por SCP-3448-A.
Descripción: SCP-3448 se refiere a la comunicación desarrollada y utilizada por el Proyecto Dammerung. Utilizando tecnología usada en IRM, aceleradores de partículas y rituales anómalos, SCP-3448 es capaz de permitir que un individuo muera mientras permanece en contacto con el mundo de los vivos. SCP-3448 se asemeja a una máquina de resonancia magnética; sin embargo, sus componentes anómalos adicionales se conectan externamente mediante el uso de cables de puente y placas de circuito personalizadas.
SCP-3448 es la principal herramienta utilizada por el Proyecto Dammerung para completar su objetivo: contener el cognitopeligro de clase Dammerung conocido como la muerte.
Los sujetos son introducidos al SCP-3448 a través de su abertura principal. Una vez que el sujeto ha entrado completamente en la cavidad, los componentes anómalos en SCP-3448 lo transfieren a un estado de semi-muerte1 en el cual todas las funciones corporales cesan. Cualquier sujeto que coexista en este estado conceptual se denomina SCP-3448-A. Esto permite que la conciencia se libere del cuerpo después de que haya entrado en el estado de muerte (de ahora en adelante referido como SCP-3448-1). Lamentablemente, se ha perdido la mayor parte de la documentación sobre la naturaleza de SCP-3448-1 (véase el Anexo 3448.1).
Cuando la conciencia sale del cerebro de esta manera, la actividad eléctrica anómala continúa, a pesar de cualquier fuente de energía. Esta actividad se conoce como señales residuales, que simulan cómo reaccionaría el cerebro si se introdujera a SCP-3448-1 mientras estaba vivo.2 Al interactuar con estas señales eléctricas, la Fundación puede establecer comunicación bidireccional con SCP-3448-A.
Para entender mejor las señales residuales, son interpretadas por un componente anómalo adicional de SCP-3448. Este componente generalmente produce una imagen, aunque se han observado palabras individuales.
El Agente Anthony Michaels, el único sujeto exitoso que ha utilizado SCP-3448 fuera de las pruebas preliminares, es el actual SCP-3448-A. Al momento de escribir este documento, SCP-3448-A todavía presenta actividad de señal residual estándar.
Anexo 3448.1: A continuación se muestra una serie de registros del uso de SCP-3448. Debido a la destrucción de la documentación de pruebas formales según las instrucciones de O5-4, la mayoría de los documentos recuperados son notas de laboratorio o informes de comunicación de señales residuales.
Entrevista con el sujeto preliminar para SCP-3448
Young: Por favor, diga su nombre para que conste en acta.
Michaels: Agente Anthony Michaels.
Young: ¿Cuánto tiempo ha prestado servicio a la Fundación?
Michaels: Catorce años.
Young: ¿Cuál es su próxima misión?
Michaels: El que me asegure que no preste servicio por quince años.
Young: … Sabe que esto es para que conste en acta, ¿verdad?
Michaels: Sí, pero ya me entiende. Tengo que contar alguna broma en algún momento. Y ambos sabemos que sólo me sé unas pocas bromas.
Young: Lo sé, lo sé. Pero, volvamos a la entrevista por ahora. ¿Por qué se ofreció como voluntario para esta misión?
Michaels: Lo he hecho por mi familia.
Young: ¿Puede dar más detalles?
Michaels: Bueno, mi padre ha estado en su lecho de muerte por un tiempo. Sin embargo, he hablado con él, y cuando vuelve en sí me habla de las cosas que iba a hacer cuando saliera del hospital. Me dijo que iba a caminar por el sendero de los Apalaches. Eso va desde Georgia hasta Maine. Este hombre crió a tres niños solo y todo lo que quería al final era hacer una buena caminata.
Young: Eso no responde a la pregunta.
Michaels: Sí, supongo que no es una respuesta súper clara, ¿no? [se ríe en voz baja]
Young: Por favor, tenemos que hacer esto para el informe. Tiene que ser más profesional que ahora mismo.
Michaels: Lo siento, lo siento. Quería decir que, bueno… Quiero darle a mi padre otra oportunidad. Claro, puede que no llegue hasta el final del sendero, o hasta las montañas, o donde sea, pero no quiero que muera. Se merece más de lo que tiene, y estoy dispuesto a sacrificarme en su lugar. Prácticamente ha hecho lo mismo por mí.
Young: Y usted reconoce que la Fundación no está obligada a satisfacer su deseo. Esto significa que, en caso de que su misión tenga éxito, se nos permite elegir a su padre para la eliminación selectiva.
Michaels: Correré el riesgo. Si vamos a contener a la Parca, confío en que la Fundación se encargará de que sólo suelte su nueva correa cuando sea realmente necesario. Además, no creo que mi padre sea uno de esos casos.
Young: ¿Tiene algo más que añadir?
Michaels: Supongo que me gustaría agradecerle por darme esta oportunidad.
Young: Bueno, um… Ha sido un placer, Agente Michaels.
Michaels: El placer de colaborar con el Proyecto Dammerung es mío.
Young: De acuerdo. Eso concluirá nuestra entrevista.
Notas preliminares del laboratorio de pruebas de SCP-3448
De acuerdo, abriendo por la primera página del cuaderno de laboratorio. Sólo un montón de garabatos de mis pensamientos durante la prueba oficial para después. Así que, para la futura persona lectora (sí, eso significa tu futura Emily), probablemente deberías echar un vistazo al informe formal en su lugar.
Hemos confirmado que esta cosa funciona tan bien como siempre. Quiero decir, los ensayos con animales de las partes individuales funcionaron. Esa es la mejor confirmación que vamos a tener sin tener que poner a alguien ahí al 100%.
Así que el plan actual es el siguiente - enviar a Michaels y que eche un vistazo. Hacer que investigue y aprenda cómo es este lugar, quién más está allí, etc. Entonces, usaremos nuestro nuevo conocimiento de la Parca para descubrir cómo contenerla. Finalmente… haremos nuestro trabajo, supongo. Es nuestro Moby Dick de Clase Dammerung después de todo. Excepto que sin la parte de matarlo.
Michaels terminó el entrenamiento para usar SCP-3448 hace unos días. No estoy seguro de lo rápido que podrá adaptarse a estar muerto, lo que significa que no sabemos cuánto tiempo pasará hasta que pueda hablar con nosotros correctamente. Pero ahora es un buen momento. En el peor de los casos, me encanta el tipo, pero ya va a estar muerto. Dejemos que el hombre descanse en paz.
Lástima que no podamos usar un Clase-D, pero los de arriba no confían en que escuche las órdenes. No es como si pudiéramos amenazarlo con la eliminación.
Hoy pillé a Tony limpiando sus aposentos. Cuando le pregunté cómo se sentía, hizo una broma como «no es que me vaya a matar dos veces». Y luego tiró una caja de recuerdos personales, incluyendo el osito de peluche que le regalé en el intercambio de regalos de Navidad de la Fundación. No puede estar pasando muy bien. Pero, de nuevo, probablemente esté tan preparado como nunca lo va a estar.
Ese osito de peluche está ahora en mi oficina.
Resultados de las imágenes del día 1 mediante SCP-3448
<08:30 — 09:00> Parpadeos y destellos intensos.
<09:00 — 09:05> La imagen se asemejaba a la de un mar embravecido.<09:05 — 12:05> Parpadeos y destellos intensos.
<12:05 — 12:48> Se forma tres horas después de la imagen anterior. Parece ser una figura humanoide rodeada de cientos de insectos. Esto continúa durante 43 minutos antes de que los insectos se dispersen; el ahora considerablemente hinchado humanoide cae al suelo.
<12:48 — 18:48> Un matiz gris.
<18:48 — 23:52> La imagen de las 08:30-09:00 aparenta ser un mar embravecido, sin embargo, el agua es reemplazada por los insectos de la imagen de 12:05—12:48.
Notas de laboratorio del día 1 sobre SCP-3448
Funciona. No va bien, pero sirve. Dios, ¿qué demonios estaba pensando Tony cuando se inscribió en esta locura?
Sabíamos que la muerte empeoraría a medida que avanzaba. Al menos, así es como la grabación lo describía. Pensamos que preservar el cuerpo reduciría algunos de los problemas de percepción, pero no creo que esté funcionando tan bien como queríamos. Pero es sólo el primer día. Nuestro plan nos da diez días antes de retirarnos y pasar a otro sujeto.
Además, tenemos que trasladar a Jared a un puesto diferente. Vomitó por todo el suelo durante su turno de vigilancia. No lo culpo totalmente, pero podría habernos hecho un favor al resto de nosotros cojeando hacia el baño más rápido. Esperemos que Tony no mande muchas más imágenes como esa.
SCP-3448 Day 2 Imaging Results
<02:00 — 02:03> An emaciated man lying in a desert. There appears to be an oasis far in the background.
<02:03 — 10:03> Static.
<06:00 — 12:00> A man in the fetal position, laying in the corner of a room made of compacted dirt. Various bones and roots can be seen protruding from the walls.<12:00 — 18:00> Insect wings emerge from the walls and begin fluttering.
SCP-3448 Day 2 Lab Notes
Ok, looks like he's calmed down. Not entirely coherent, but it's something. We're going to see if we can talk to him tomorrow. I say talk but I really mean mess with his brain waves in a meaningful way. We know it works, but we have no clue what it actually feels like. Hard to get that sort of feedback from lab rats.
But if these tests work we're onto something. We'll get him to start exploring I guess? I don't think that's the right word. Or maybe it is. We don't know if this is a place or a state of mind or what. The recording that O5-4 showed us makes it sound like he's still here, on earth. Just experiencing things in the most terrible way possible. I'm more picturing a hellscape aesthetic.
SCP-3448 Day 3 Imaging Results
<06:00 — 06:03> A caterpillar crawling up the trunk of a tree.
<08:03 — 08:13> Leaves blowing in the wind. The direction of the breeze alternates rapidly, so the leaves appear to be waving.
<09:13 — 09:15> The caterpillar from the 06:00—06:03 image eats some of the leaves from the 08:03—08:13 image.
<09:15 — 13:15> Various shades of red.
<13:15 — 13:15> An emaciated man punches a wall.
<15:15 — 15:29> Same scene from the 09:13—09:15 image, except the caterpillar has stopped eating, and the leaves have all been replaced by hands of the same size, which continue to wave in the wind. This continues for ten minutes until the wind stops. All hands except for one hang limply. The remaining hand makes an "ok" sign. The caterpillar begins to wrap itself in a cocoon.
<19:29 — 21:03> The hands from the previous image move frantically to swat away insects. Insects do not resemble a single known species. They have stingers resembling those of bees, and legs resembling those of spiders. The caterpillar has fully formed its cocoon, and is undisturbed for the duration of the visual.
SCP-3448 Day 3 Lab Notes
He's finally becoming coherent, so thank god for that. I mean, I use coherent lightly. He's as together as a consciousness floating through space could ever be. He waved to say "Hi" (I think). So this is fine.
In other news, I talked to Tony's sister, Joyce. Apparently she works in the biology department at Site-23. I didn't tell her about what's up with Tony, of course. But, I did manage to bring up insects. Apparently Tony has some sort of insectophobia, but it's not too bad that you'd call it a phobia. Like, they just freak him out.
Either way, it makes for some interesting interpretations of Tony's visuals. I can't tell if SCP-3448-1 is full of bugs, or if it's full of whatever you're afraid of, or if that's just Tony's interpretation of it. I'm leaning toward the last option though. If anything because of an idealogical standpoint. Death being what you make of it sounds kind of poetic. Not that any of my "poetry" will show up in the formal report.
I wonder what I'd see.
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SCP-3448 Day 4 Imaging Results
<10:00 — 14:22> A man searches through a garden. It is unclear what he is looking for. The garden extends indefinitely in all directions, and exploration takes the man through large groves of daisies. For the majority of the trek, the man stays on a path outlined by two hedges that run alongside him. At one point the man stops, looks at a patch of daisies, and steps over the hedges toward the flowers. Image changes after his foot hits the ground.
<14:22 — 17:22> Various shades of green and purple.
<17:22 — 17:27> The man from the 10:00—14:22 image has uncovered some of the dirt, and stares into the ground with a look of awe and terror on his face. What the man is staring at is obscured by daisies. After three minutes, a thin, wrinkled hand is seen reaching into frame, and taps the man on the shoulder.
<17:27 — 18:27> Static.
<18:27 — 18:39> The man is standing behind behind the hedges now. A small girl is covering the patch of land with dirt using her hands. A large quantity of insects swarm around the girl. She appears content. It is unknown if the girl acknowledges the insects or not. The man's left hand appears to be swollen from stinging.
<23:39 — 01:02> The man walks back through the garden the way he came in Image 1. Left hand remains swollen. He is carrying a tulip in his right hand, which he looks at during the walk. No other individuals can be seen. After an hour and eight minutes, the man suddenly looks back over his shoulder, shrugs and continues walking.
SCP-3448 Day 4 Lab Notes:
Exploration started today. And by exploration I mean Tony actively figuring out how to convey this place to us. I don’t think it’s actually all flowers and sunshine. Luckily, he seems to be mostly coherent at this point. Although, I think his communication is still more cryptic than we’d like. I’ll take it over how he acted a few days ago.
We don’t know who the girl is. Can’t tell what she’s supposed to represent. Most of us think that she’s another person caught in this “half-dead” state, but we don’t have any confirmation. Although, on the off chance we’re right, the higher ups started an operation to infiltrate the usual suspects (CI, SH, GOC, etc.) to make sure none of them have beaten us to the punch.
Assuming Tony understands us well enough, we’re going to give him the go ahead to interact more with the girl and report back.
SCP-3448 Day 5 Imaging Results:
<05:00 — 05:20> A sky covered in gray clouds. No precipitation observed.
<05:20 — 10:20> Static.
<10:20 — 10:30> A teddy bear, a stuffed animal crow, and a girl all sit around a table. The girl offers tea to both the teddy bear and the crow. Neither party reacts. She proceeds to pour tea for the two regardless.
<10:30 — 13:30> A warm shade of yellow.
<13:30 — 14:16> Same as the 10:20—10:30 image except the teddy bear somehow has a grip on the tea cup, and the crow is facing the teddy bear. The girl appears to be conversing with the stuffed animals, despite their lack of responses.
<14:16 — 15:16> A light shade of red.
<15:16 — 15:38> Same as the 13:30—14:16 image, except the crow has started to fall apart at the seams. Insects crawl out from between the stitching. Neither the teddy bear nor the girl appear to notice.
<15:38 — 16:38> Flickering between dark red, and black.
<16:38 — 16:44> Formed at 1600. Same as Image 4, except the insects have eaten parts of the teddy bear. The girl appears surprised and upset. After five minutes she glares at the stuffed crow, which is now mostly covered with insects. She then sets down her tea, and leaves.
<19:44 — 20:04> A man in the corner of a room, curled into the fetal position. He rocks back and forth. His body appears to be swollen and covered from small insect bites.
SCP-3448 Day 5 Lab Notes:
I think half of our group is starting to get more and more uncomfortable with the creepy crawlies. I can only imagine what it’s like for Tony. We’re giving him a day to recuperate from whatever the hell today was. No exploration or interviews or whatever.
In other news, we made some progress on the girl today. She looks almost identical to Tony’s younger sister Joyce from when she was eight. Key word – "almost". I can’t tell if it’s Tony not quite getting the image back right, or if this thing actually just looks like Tony’s sister but with slightly elevated cheek bones and a slightly darker shade of brown in her hair. Or maybe that’s how Tony remembers his sister? Or maybe there’s just some kid out there who looks almost like her?
Honestly, those details probably aren't super important. I bet tomorrow our "talk" with Tony will clear things up.
Day 6 Imaging Results:
<10:00 — 10:05> A man sitting with his back against a dirt wall. Plant roots and bones protrude from the wall and ceiling. He appears to be tired and sweating.
<12:05 — 12:08> A single question mark.
<13:08 — 13:14> The man from the 10:00—10:05 image is holding a doll of a small girl, and a doll of a crow. He positions them next to each other, with the girl’s arm around the crow, and the crow’s wing around the girl.
<14:14 — 14:14> The man shrugs.
<23:00 — 23:13> The man is sitting with his back against the wall of the room again. After five minutes, his head jerks to look off screen. He quickly gets up and rushes out of the room through the opposite direction. After three minutes a swarm of insects enters the screen.
<23:13 — 24:00> White.
Day 6 Lab Notes:
Shit. Shit shit shit. He’s fucked Damn it tony
Fuck.
Ok, ok. Breather. Sorry future me, I shouldn’t use these notes for venting. Luckily it won’t show up in the formal report.
Anyways. Tony was… well he didn’t learn much about the girl. At least not much that he told us. I think she’s friends with the bugs? Or with the crow thing at least. Or maybe they’re the same entity? They’re definitely connected.
Now we’re all waiting for Tony to get back to us. Luckily, we’ve got coffee.
SCP-3448 Day 7 Imaging Results:
<16:00 — 16:43> A man running through the garden of daisies. He appears to be limping slightly, and checks over his shoulder at regular intervals.
<16:43 — 19:07> Flashing between bright red and black.
SCP-3448 Day 7 Lab notes:
That was it. He’s just… he’s just still running.
We’ve been trying to think of something to help him. Jared floated the idea of sending him some bug spray. I know he was joking, because Jared can't help himself from bring a wise-ass when he's stressed out, but maybe he's onto something. Going to look into how to send Tony a care package tomorrow.
SCP-3448 Day 8 Imaging Results:
<02:00 — 02:43> A man is running through a garden. After thirty minutes, he passes by a girl, who appears to be planting something. He calls out to her. The girl turns around. She is planting another daisy. The man rushes to the girl, and takes her by the hand. The girl begins to say something, but is cut short as the man pulls her back to the path and resumes running. The newly planted daisy remains the focus of the image for another two minutes before it is overrun with insects.
<02:43 — 10:56> White.
SCP-3448 Day 8 Lab Notes:
Ok, we've got something. It's a little out there. But it's all we've come up with.
So, Tony’s in a half-death state, right? But it’s not like this is a conventional afterlife deal. It was built around a more abstract, conceptual representation of death. So that means that, all “half-dead” things could end up there, right? Well, ok the dead things end up there too but we’re less sure what exactly that looks like.
But, I can't believe I'm even writing this, what if we half kill a thing. Ok, yes that is as dumb as it sounds, but, we want to send something in there to help Tony. We don't have another agent who was as willing as him to take up this assignment, and I'll be damned if we lose our best shot at exploring this place. I don’t know if Tony has things, or how inanimate objects really work on the other side. But we're grasping at straws anyways.
Jared figured if we’re going to send him something, we should send him some form of self-defense. Unfortunately, we're a little short handed in terms of weaponry. So we're going to send him the next best thing - a lighter. Bugs don't like fire, right? I mean, maybe they're not literally bugs, but fire is generally effective against things. Either way it'll work fine to test it.
Procedures:
1. Partially disassemble the lighter.
2. Place lighter in SCP-3448.
3. Activate SCP-3448, and at the same time try to finish disassembling the lighter? (maybe use like a firecracker for this? Or like a mousetrap? I don't know, we'll figure it out)
God, killing a lighter sounds so dumb. But fuck it we’re gonna try.
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SCP-3448 Day 9 Imaging Results:
<04:00 — 04:04> Formed at 0400. A man running through a garden carrying a lighter in one hand, and pulling a girl behind him with the other. As the man runs, he looks confusedly at the device. After four minutes, he pockets the lighter.
<10:04 — 10:29> A teddy bear the size of an average human sits against a door to a room. The walls consist of mud and dirt, with bones and roots sticking out. The girl from the 04:00—04:04 sits at the opposite end of the room with her legs pulled against her chest. She rocks back in forth slowly for three minutes before walking to the teddy bear. She begins to speak as she tugs on the teddy bear's legs. The girl appears to age rapidly the more she begs. The teddy bear does not move.
<16:29 — 16:31> A man is standing in a garden. He is constantly stung/bitten by a thick swarm of insects. A girl screams at him from nearby, ignored by the insects. The man looks at the girl, screams something back, and then reaches into his pocket.
<16:31 — 17:31> Red static.
<17:31 — 17:54> A bonfire.
<17:54 — 20:54> Grey.
<20:54 — 23:54> A girl repeatedly stabs a man lying on the ground with a sharpened femur. They are surrounded by burnt insect corpses.
SCP-3448 Day 9 Lab Notes
Holy fuck.
It worked.
And then he… fuck I don't know what really happened. This entire past week has felt like I've been watching someone's acid trip.
Ok, we still don't know what that girl is, but stabbing Tony means she's hostile, which means we need to do something. I called in a favor and got a handgun delivered here. Same procedure as with the lighter.
SCP-3448 Day 10 Imaging Results
<01:54 — 03:01> An old woman beats a man lying on the ground with a femur. They are surrounded by burnt insect corpses, some of which are moving.
<03:01 — 04:01> A little girl is straddling a man with her arms in the air. The man aims a handgun at her. They are surrounded by teddy bears, all of which are looking at the girl.
<04:01 — 04:03> A cocoon sits on a tree branch where all of the leaves are replaced with hands. The cocoon breaks open, and a moth exits.
<05:00 — 05:02> Same as the 03:01 — 04:01 image, except the teddy bears are all grasping lighters with the flames exposed, and all of the garden is on fire. A bullet can be seen halfway between the handgun, and the girl's head.
<05:02 — 06:00> Bright red.
<06:00 — 06:00> Same as previous image, except the flowers are replaced with chains, which are still burning. The girl has been replaced with a skeleton, but her hair remains. The man has become further emaciated and also resembles a skeleton. A chain wraps itself around both the man and the skeleton of the girl. Teddy bears look on from the darkness.
<06:00 — 07:00> Dark red.
<07:00 — 07:02> The bullet penetrates the girl's head.
<07:02 — 13:02> Static.
<13:02 — 13:16> A man stands in the middle of a garden. All of the flowers that can be seen are blooming. Insect corpses rain from the sky. The girl is no longer present. A stuffed animal crow lies next to Tony with a bullet-sized hole in its head. After thirteen minutes the following words appear at the bottom of the screen: "I hope you enjoy your hike, dad."
SCP-3448 Day 10 Lab Notes
Oh fuck.
What even just.
Shit.
I don't think I've ever been so torn over one of my experiments working twice in a row.
But still he— he shot her. I mean of course he would, we gave him the gun but I can't believe it. Like, I didn't actually think that was going to happen. Again, what else was going to happen? But just… FUCK
Then like, five minutes later the calls started. First it was from Joyce talking about how her father wasn't dying. I'd told her to contact me if anything strange started happening with her family which might be related to Tony but this wasn't a calm informative call. She was just so excited panicked ecstatic terrified I don't fucking know.
After that was the call from O5-4. Only council member that knew about our little project. Signed off on the funding and everything. He congratulated me on our success, and then told me to burn it all. That's probably when it sunk in. It really should've been apparent from the start. It was in our contracts, it's what we told people on their first day: "This project has a single objective - contain the Dammerung Class cognitohazard known as death".
We did it? No, we really didn't do it. All those years of theorizing and studying the data, scouring anomalous burial sites and hauls from MTF raids. And finally, we come face to face with the reaper. And what do we do? We fucking shoot him her. Now all we have is a tombstone reading Rest In Peace: Resting in Peace.
We fucked up.
We didn't contain death.
