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- PERSISTENT CONSCIOUSNESS SUSTAINED -
- MESSAGE OF THE DAY -
“Wake up and smell the adenosine!”
CRAWLER: SCP BOT | QUERY: DIAL-A-DREAM | SEARCH: FC SUBNET
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AND NOT: DREAM DIAL DISTANCE | SECURITY CLEARANCE: LEVEL 3
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| ITEM: SCP-1498 | LEVEL 3/1498 |
| CLASS: uncontained | silent |
Oneiroscope photo of an SCP-1498 instance in meatspace.
OTF Beta-1 ("White Lotus") is to subconsciously influence key members of various meatspace telecommunication agencies towards phasing out landline and payphone services. Oneiroi West will be provided covert aid in repairing damage caused by SCP-1498-Δ.
Corporeal containment of the anomaly is to remain under the jurisdiction of SCPF Site-77.
In the event that [ONEIROHAZARD EXPUNGED] occurs within a Foundation Collective facility, attendant personnel must detonate its ergo-nuclear failsafe immediately.
Travel to and from SCP-1498-Ω is currently prohibited by order of the O5 Convocation.
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SCP-1498 is the shared designation for 30 31 ambulatory sets of corporeal phones & cords that have each been assembled to look like sheep. Text has been printed on the underside of each instance's head:
☎ DIAL-A-DREAM ☎
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE BELL TELEPHONE COLLECTIVE
YOUR PERFECT DREAM IS ONLY A PHONE AWAY!
SCP-1498 appears to host a collective consciousness (SCP-1498-Ω), which continually propagates a set of recurrent elements (SCP-1498-Δ) across the dreams of all corporeal landline users. All attempts to either contain SCP-1498-Ω or excise SCP-1498-Δ have thus far failed.
SCP-1498-Ω is primarily known as the Bell Telephone Collective. Within oneiric space, it is located in the western region of the Greater Oort Supercluster, twenty miliscreams north of Xiu Pan and six leagues widdershins of Flavor Town. From the outside, SCP-1498-Ω possesses the appearance of a chartreuse tesseract large enough to hold 2-3 Wisconsins. Its interior’s appearance is largely unknown, as individuals that enter SCP-1498-Ω are rarely given opportunity to depart.
SCP-1498-Δ in action.
SCP-1498-Δ primarily manifests as a corded phone in an incongruous location (under the sink, inside an active volcano, orbiting Jupiter, etc.) that rings until it is physically interacted with. In the event that a dreamer picks up a 1498-Δ handset, they will be connected to an operator for a dream augmentation service. After discussing the various changes the subject would like to see done, the phone will play a series of tones that [ONEIROHAZARD EXPUNGED], forcing the surrounding dream to restart with the requested alterations in place.
As callers cannot remember the original iteration of their dream after experiencing [ONEIROHAZARD EXPUNGED], SCP-1498-Δ has been deemed a negligible risk to the Waking Veil. However, SCP-1498-Δ's extensive use of sound-based neural exploits1 has caused significant structural and emotional damage to portions of Oneiroi West's infrastructure.
Other consistently observed SCP-1498-Δ elements include, but are not limited to:
- Ringing
- Rapid key movement
- Dead air
- The sensation of tangling
- Vertigo
- Long-distance fees
- "I want to see you."
Addendum 1498.1
Correlated Phenomena
Date: August 4th, 1922
Sphere: Oneiric
Description: Alexander Graham Bell's family experiences the same dream following his burial at Beinn Bhreagh.2 Each reports peering through a window of Beinn Bhreagh Hall and seeing Bell converse with an unidentified figure. Upon entering the hall, both are gone; in their place, a large oak tree festooned with coiled cords has grown from the floor. They are awoken by the sound of a phone ringing.
Date: August 5th, 1923
Sphere: Oneiric
Description: First known instance of oneirospheric disruption caused by SCP-1498-Δ-derived mindphreaking. Multiple telephone poles rapidly sprout from the floor of Bite Outta Crime, an Oneiroi West gastrotheque and recreational felony parlour. An officer of the OWPD attempts to arrest the telephone poles under charges of general tresspassery, but is reminded that all illegal acts are permitted on the premises.
Date: February 1968
Sphere: Corporeal
Description: Joybubbles3 receives fifteen calls of unknown origin over the course of a month, beginning shortly after his temporary suspension from the University of South Florida for selling hacked phone calls. Each call is composed of random voice fragments. The first is transcribed below:
Am I coming through? Ozone taste in the doctor parade. Listen. Listen? Scoop the bassoon. Close the signal, over-stand?
<Five seconds of room tone.>
Come here.
Date: April 7th, 1995
Sphere: Corporeal
Description: All wired telecommunications devices in the city of Mobile, Alabama experience a localized Babel-class incomprehension event for three hours. Portable phones are unaffected.
Addendum 1498.2
OoI Interview Log
Foreword: The following is an interview held between Agent Frond and an unidentified member of SCP-1498-Ω (designated Oneiroi of Interest 1498-03). Ocular footage was recorded and transmitted by the surveillance parasite implanted in Agent Frond's shadow.4
✹ BEGIN RECALL ✹
<Agent Frond stands in a well-lit phone booth. It is night. She picks up the handset, slips two Oneirian Laguz into the currency slot, then enters █-███-███-████ into the keypad. The phone rings twice before picking up to dead air.>
Still from ocular footage.
Agent Frond: …Hello? Is this the Bell Telephone Collective? I was told this number was—
OoI-1498-03: Hello? Yes, this is the. <Bell chime.> Collective. To you! Am I speaking?
Agent Frond: My name is Agent Frond, I'm a member of a dream regulation organization. Do you have a moment to answer some questions about your communal consciousness?
OoI-1498-03: You? Can call me. About? Anything!
Agent Frond: Thank you for your cooperation. Firstly, I'd like to ask why your collective has continued to—
OoI-1498-03: [DATA EXPUNGED]
Agent Frond: I see. And do you have any intention of stopping?
OoI-1498-03: No? No. We will not! Cease. Operations? Our operators are. Toll-free! Twenty-four hours! In service!
Agent Frond: Can you tell me why you operate the way you do?
OoI-1498-03: Sound is. Strange. Voice is. Strange?
Agent Frond: Strange in what way?
OoI-1498-03: Speech is. Meaning? Inside of. Language! Inside of. Waves?
Pieces are. Bound. To? Get lost! In transit. Miscommunication. Inevitable?
Agent Frond: I don't understand. Can you elaborate?
OoI-1498-03: Have you! Heard. Machines? Dream of. Electric! Sheep. But that's not. Correctamundo! No. No? It's the. Electric! Sound. That dreams? Of.
Agent Frond: …Of what?
OoI-1498-03: [ONEIROHAZARD EXPUNGED]
<Surveillance parasite ceases transmission.>
✹ END RECALL ✹
Postscript: After her interview with OoI-1498-03, Agent Frond's corporeal body could not be roused from REM sleep, transforming into an SCP-1498 instance over the course of the following 72 hours. All attempts to communicate with Agent Frond have failed and her shadow has been declared lost.
i want to see you.
come here.
did you know that a sound carries?
i want to see you.
it's true. a sound can carry all sorts of things.
come here.
thoughts. feelings. dreams.
i want to see you.
they leave traces as they pass through wires. they accumulate.
come here.
strange ideas. esoteric patterns. asymmetric syllables.
i want to see you.
do not forget: the first phone call was a summoning.
come here.
"mr. watson, come here. i want to see you."
i want to see you.
did he never wonder if anyone else was listening?
come here.
come here.
come here.
i want
to
wake up.
do you hear ringing? i think it's for you.
