5/5997 LEVEL 5/5997 CLASSIFIED Item #: SCP-5997 keter

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Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5997 is currently uncontained and is actively and adversely affecting all Foundation data and operations. All remaining members of the EURYDICE-9 research team are to research methods of containing SCP-5997 as quickly as is feasible. Multiple redundant backups are to be created of all data relevant to SCP-5[DATA CORRUPTED]

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An automated processing system (APS5997Z24) is to monitor Foundation databases for signs of the effe[DATA CORRUPTED]nformation immediately to prevent the spread o[DATA CORRUPTED]

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[DATA CORRUPTED]nestic drugs. All Foundation personnel known to be following mnestics usage regimens are to be brought into custody immediately and amn[DATA CORRUPTED] [DATA CORRUPTED]

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Description: SCP-5997 is the [DATA CORRUPTED]

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Following the authorization of an expedition into SCP-5997-3 b[AUTOMATED REMOVAL- LETHAL COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED]fter entry, communications channels experienced an unexpected failure and could not be reestablished. All participating MTF Rho-7 personnel were discovered within the primary section of SCP-5997-3 six hours later, unconscious, and were found to be suffering from global retrograde amnesia when awakened despite the confirmed presence of mnestic chemicals in their bloodstreams. All information pertaining to the events of the expedition has been sourced from the [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- ANTIMEMETIC HAZARD EXPUNGED]ecorded by the MTF commander R-7/1.

The audio recording and accompanying video were found to contain cognitohazardous and infohazardous content which has since been fully expunged is currently extant and hazardous to view has since been fully expunged is currently partially extant, hazardous to view and evidently impossible to fully expunge. All remaining content is was previously [DATA CORRUPTED] recorded in a textual log found below, which has since been completely removed from Foundation databases to prevent recurrence of the aforementioned [DATA CORRUPTED] [DATA CORRUPTED] [DATA CORRUPTED]

[BEGIN LOG] R-7/2: -just stopped working. R-7/1: Alright, I have the recorder going. We’ll need to bring this out with us, since for some godforsaken reason our mics cut out the moment we went in here. R-7/3: Fucking antimemes. R-7/1: Okay, left or right branch? (R-7/1 lifts the camera and pans across two tunnel entrances.) R-7/3: Left. R-7/2: Yeah, left. R-7/1: Remember, before we go, we have to mark the way back. You have the chalk, 2? R-7/2: Yep. Let’s get a move on. [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- LETHAL INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] R-7/3: Look at all these dash-two instances. R-7/2: Man, they’re everywhere. I must have bumped into thirty of them by now. (pauses) Is that bad? R-7/1: Word from the researchers is that they aren’t hostile, so you’re probably good. R-7/3: (distortion) -e bring weapons, then? R-7/1: Just in case they’re wrong. R-7/3: (laughs) Well, that’s not very reassuring. [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] R-7/2: Surprisingly clean in here. You’d think there would be mildew and whatnot. I haven’t even seen any bats, come to think of it. R-7/1: None of the water from the aquifer up in the cave makes it down here, so it’s just dry and sterile. R-7/3: Really? Huh. I could have sworn the fountain’s waters trickled down all through the caverns. R-7/1: What? R-7/3: What do you mean, what? R-7/1: Never mind, I misheard. R-7/2: Hey, you see these symbols on the walls? Kinda looks like Greek. (R-7/1 turns the camera to show [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED].) R-7/1: Better get the History department on that. I’ll take a few pi- (distortion) -re is pretty. [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] R-7/1: -on’t seem to be getting any closer to anything substantial. This one’s probably a bust. R-7/3: At least the walls are nice. R-7/2: Yeah. [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] R-7/1: -t do you mean the markings are wrong?! R-7/3: This isn’t the right way. We came in through the… the left branch, no, (distortion) right, didn’t we? R-7/2: Didn’t we go down? Down, into the earth, where the- no, what? R-7/1: What? R-7/2: This way. This is the right way. R-7/1: If you’re sure. [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] R-7/3: -guns? Where the fuck did they go? Did we drop them somewhere? R-7/2: I don’t- [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] R-7/3: -hopelessly lost! You said this was the right way! R-7/2: I did? No, I didn’t say that. Did I? R-7/1: Didn’t say what? R-7/2: Uh… I forgot. R-7/3: Forgot what? R-7/1: Focus up, men. Let’s keep going. [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] R-7/3: The tunnels are getting bigger. More ornate. R-7/2: It’s beautiful. R-7/1: I know this isn’t the right way. Why did you say it was? R-7/2: But I didn’t. R-7/1: (shouting, heavy distortion) You DID! You told all of us that this was the way we came! There aren’t even any of our markings on the walls anymore. Just those goddamn [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED]. What the hell, 2?! R-7/2: I… I don’t remember. Why would I say that? R-7/1: Say what? R-7/3: Why would you say what? R-7/2: Something… I don’t know. We have to keep going. We’re almost to the shrine. R-7/1: The… shrine? R-7/3: The shrine. R-7/2: Come on. [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] R-7/1: The dash-twos.. there’s so many more of them now. Why are they going the same way we are? R-7/2: Worshippers. R-7/3: Yes. R-7/2: Almost there. R-7/1: No, this… this isn’t… we were supposed to be doing something else. What were we doing? R-7/2: Almost there. R-7/3: Her. [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] (R-7/1 pans the camera in a circle, revealing a large, vaulted space. Doric-design marble columns are placed at the nine corners of the room. A throne confirmed by visual analysis to consist of poplar wood [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED]. Large areas of the video feed are partially obscured by visual “snow”.) R-7/3: She’s… R-7/1: What… R-7/2: Where… are we? R-7/1: I don’t know. I think it’s the center. R-7/2: Why did I bring us here? R-7/1: It’s the fucking glyphs on the walls. They must [AUTOMATED REMOVAL- INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] or something. We all just… stumbled down here like zombies. I don’t know why I didn’t realize sooner. R-7/2: What does she… what does it want? R-7/3: I… I don’t understand. R-7/1: She’s… it’s thinking to us, putting its ideas in us. I don’t… R-7/3: (whimpers) (Silence) R-7/1: (shouting) Remember? That’s what you want? But you’re making us forget! Why?! (Silence) R-7/1: This isn’t love. This can’t be love. How can you love humanity if you don’t even trust us to know why you’re doing this? (Silence) R-7/1: Fuck you. What the hell else are you keeping from us? R-7/3: Stop, I can’t… it’s too much. It’s… it’s killing… (sobs) R-7/1: She doesn’t understand that we die. Maybe she does, and she’s doing this anyway. I don’t know. I don’t know what she is. (Silence) R-7/1: No, we’re going to tell everyone. The Foundation. We, humanity deserves to know this. You can’t make us forget anymore. I won’t let you. (Silence) R-7/1: What… (R-7/1 abruptly ceases speaking as the video feed cuts out. Thirty seconds pass. All members of Rho-7 scream unintelligibly for approximately one minute before falling silent again. Faint breathing is audible, as well as footsteps and a rapid heartbeat not matching that of a human.) UNKNOWN: [WARNING- AUTOMATED INFOHAZARD EXPUNGEMENT INCOMPLETE. PLEASE REMAIN [DATA CORRUPTED] [END LOG]

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I don’t have much time. I’m recording this in what’s left of the file they’re keeping in the DEEPWELL server in [DATA CORRUPTED], but it’ll break into here too sooner or later. I dosed myself with the last syringe of Class Z mnestics, so it can’t get to me without killing me outright. We have to know what happened. If anyone out there still remembers, read this while you can. It was the fucking camcorder log. I don’t know how EURYDICE-9 never figured that out. Or maybe one of them did, and the poor bastard just didn’t get a chance to tell anyone before it got him. Anyway, what that thing said at the end was a low-level infohazard. Just wiped the mind of anyone who read it. Or that was what we thought at first. Thing is, we eventually realized we couldn’t expunge it. It kept remaking itself, and then it started duplicating. Before long, it was spreading. It got into the rest of the database, spammed lethal cognitohazards and infohazards everywhere, wiped the original 5997 file and almost every redundant backup we had. We were frantically expunging left and right, but we just couldn’t keep up with the thing. When it made the jump to our paper records, that was the end. Too many people saw them. She reached into their minds, made them hers and turned them against us. EURYDICE-9 is almost gone now. They’ve just been losing people, one by one. Some kind of acute antimemetic contamination, I think, making sure nothing they do will ever have an effect on the world again. The Class Z is the only reason I can even remember any of that, and not even it will let me see them anymore. Everyone else is forgetting. And I mean everyone. The entire Foundation. We’re all forgetting her, everything to do with her, and it’s exactly what she wants. [DATA CORRUPTED]eally gave us mnestics because she wanted us to remember, why did it have to end like this? Why does she have to make us forget again? Are we not even allowed to remember why? No. No, no, no. Fuck this, fuck her. I'm [DATA CORRUPTED] this stand. No one is allowed to play with humanity's minds like this. Mysteries are meant to be solved, not to be left alone forever and forgotten. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is going to read this, and they'll figure it out. I'll make sure of it. I’ll break the cycle. Οι αναμνήσεις δεν πεθαίνουν ποτέ. Οι αναμνήσεις δεν πεθαίνουν ποτέ. They're almost in, but they won't get to this document. I won't let them. Agent Theo Ferndale, signing off.

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