SCP-3309

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Sometimes we don't fade until it's too late. Until we've withered, withered, to the bone. And at the end, there's nothing left. It's forgotten. Memories, hopes, dreams; we're all forgotten. How can we know that people even have these memories, these hopes, and these dreams? Who could forget us if there was nothing there to begin with? We fade from the minds of others, but not from our own. We live with it until we can't live any longer. Until we forget there was ever any way we could live in peace. And then, that's when we fade away. Fade, fade away.

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ITEM NUMBER: SCP-3309 LEVEL 5/3309 CONTAINMENT CLASS: keter top-secret

DISRUPTION CLASS: amida

Special Containment Procedures: All documentation on anomalies affected by SCP-3309 is to be preserved in a paraphrased format and kept within the RAISA Archive database. After the containment of an instance, all personnel assigned to the affected anomaly must undergo amnestic treatment and transfer to unrelated projects.

Description: SCP-3309 is a phenomenon in which catalogued anomalies spontaneously disappear. Items affected by SCP-3309 have included anomalous objects, entities, locations, and conceptual structures. Anomalies affected by this phenomenon appear to lack a causal relation; SCP-3309 activity is indicated by a note of unknown origin (designated SCP-3309-1).

Between 24 and 36 hr before the disappearance of an anomaly, SCP-3309-1 appears appended to the item's file. Documents undergoing SCP-3309 become wiped from all known file systems, including Protected Site-01 and RAISA Archives. Afterward, the anomaly itself becomes effectively neutralized or otherwise disappears.

The contents of SCP-3309-1 are as follows:

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SCP-3309 affects backups created for disappearing documents. SCP-3309 also affects the documents of anomalous items encountering SCP-3309; about 71% of disappearing documents are connected to other, unaffected anomalies. This leads to a weakening in the Foundation's anomaly containment network, potentially escalating to an ADK-Class “Complete Anomalous Destabilization” Scenario.

ADDENDA MATERIALS

I. Ethics Committee Tribunal

▷ TS/3309/EYES ONLY Your coming was foretold in the stones. The long circle is nearly complete. Since its prime emergence, SCP-3309 has affected an average of 40 anomalies per month. Researchers assigned to SCP-3309 have identified an emerging pattern and developed a list of criteria: Affected items are documented as having been contained with excessive containment procedures, such as chambers constructed from heavy-duty titanium alloy. This indicates either a misunderstanding of the anomaly's nature or an unprofessional level of care taken to contain it.

The affected item itself is powerful enough to threaten a K-Class “End-of-the-World” Scenario. Documentation outlines only partial consequences of the anomaly, and any Provisional Containment Procedures typically align with that of the first criteria.

The affected item's documentation — including any added supplements — is poorly written, improperly formatted, or filled with logical and grammatical errors. Based on these observations, the containment team has proposed Project: TAPERED SPEAR. TAPERED SPEAR outlines the adaptation of these criteria for use against high-risk anomalies to neutralize them. As this contravenes the Foundation's mission, an Ethics Committee special tribunal has contested the execution of TAPERED SPEAR. The results of this tribunal are as follows: PROJECT: TAPERED SPEAR TRIBUNAL RESULTS FOR: 21

AGAINST: 20

ABSTAIN: 2 OUTCOME: TAPERED SPEAR is authorized. SCP-3309 is pending secondary reclassification to THAUMIEL-Class.

II. Project: TAPERED SPEAR

▷ TS/3309/EYES ONLY The king of jewels has been made a pawn. Preliminary testing of SCP-3309 to determine the suitability of a Thaumiel reclassification has officially begun. Attached is an experimentation log, the results of which will determine a final decision. PROPOSAL EXCERPT PROPOSAL: Use SCP-3309 to neutralize SCP-4463: A complex water-based spatial anomaly capable of flooding North America within 50 years. DESCRIPTION: SCP-4463 is a water-based anomaly affecting parts of the Chihuahuan Desert in the state of Arizona. SCP-4463 describes the gradual transformation of a substantial area of the desert into an equal area of wetlands. Since the 1990s, desertification of southeastern Arizona has occurred at a rate of 2 km2 per month. This desertification increased at a rate of 0.5% per year until 2008, when 1 200 km2 of previously arable land had been rendered incapable of bearing healthy vegetation. In response, the government of Arizona considered this phenomenon an ecological disaster and enacted plans to reverse the spread of desertification. This occurred as a response to mass protests by members of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in the neighbouring Tucson region beginning in November 2006. In August 2008, 60% of desiccated topsoil per square metre began transformatiom into water by an unknown anomalous effect. At present, 45% of the previously desertified area has transformed into wetlands, preventing any native animal or human development in this territory. FURTHER ACTIONS TAKEN: SCP-4463's file was updated to contain heavy grammatical errors and significant inconsistencies among related effects of the anomaly. Various fabricated addenda and an unrelated image depicting a large ocean wave were also added. RESULT: SCP-4463 was erased from all Foundation databases within a 28-hr period. After further research and observation into the former location of SCP-4463, its risk had been nullified, and the area again became desertified. After continued debate and experimentation involving 19 different anomalies, SCP-3309 has passed the second stage of voting within the Ethics Committee special tribunal. SCP-3309 has been additionally classified as Thaumiel and authorized for use in TAPERED SPEAR. The first round of post-reclassification research involving 49 anomalies is under way. RESEARCHER NOTE I don't understand how one round of testing could burden a man like this. I think I saw my first white hair this morning — or an entire patch of white hairs? Fading to dust — how does that feel? Would it burden my senses the way an illness might? Or might it leave me numb? I think, if I had to go out, I would want to continue feeling, even into my final moment. To know I'm still here, as everything else fades away. There's something wrong. I've locked myself in my office. I'm going numb. This isn't what I would have wanted. But the end doesn't much care about one man's wants and needs, does it? There is nothing, nothing. Did we ever find out where those neutralized anomalies went? Surely it can't be so straightforward, to do what we did — to see justice without repercussions. That's unlike us. But it feels like everyone, everyone except me, forgot what happened. Is it that simple? Have we simply forgotten? I don't want to be forgotten. —Researcher Adamo Smalls

Memetics and Infohazards Division

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