SCP-3449

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SCP-3449: The Things Left Unsaid

Choose your words carefully.

For those of you who cannot access the multimedia elements on the second to last and last iteration, a transcription of those pages can be found here

Author: Captain Kirby

SCPs

SCP Number	Rating
SCP-3393	954
Captain Kirby's Proposal	610
SCP-4514	481
SCP-5552	476
SCP-3448	461
SCP-3844	424
SCP-3388	413
SCP-5003	382
SCP-3305	366
SCP-3866	353
SCP-3449	317
SCP-4877	309
SCP-4321	300
SCP-016-J	207
SCP-3123	192
SCP-3511	187
SPC-1057	184
SCP-4925	164
SCP-3633	161
SCP-3393-EX	160
SCP-6007	151
SCP-3767	151
SCP-4479	149
SCP-4775	134
SCP-4316	126
SCP-4034	123
SCP-3650	87
SCP-5877	80
SCP-5779	62
SCP-5448	59
SCP-3203	58
SCP-3405	47
SCP-3481	44

Tales

Title	Rating
Impossible-To-Destroy Reptile	380
In The Clutches Of Life	301
Numbers, Like Stories, Never Die	254
Excerpts From The Societal Census Programme ΩK-Class Report	187
With The Reaper On Retirement	182
Tales of the Ethics Committee: 5 Reasons The Foundation Wants A Robot Army	169
The Tombstone of Alto Clef	135
Don't Get Used To It	133
Do You Remember Funerals?	132
The Many Portraits Of Jack Bright	123
Group Date	118
Monochrome	116
Where Death Used To Live	114
Project Damnerung	109
Hello, My Name Isn't	108
From The Clutches Of Life	101
Hundred-Year Favor	92
You Have 18 Unread Messages	87
Even The Most Masked Of Men Become Themselves Behind Closed Doors	82
Everyday Is Somebody's Birthday	70
The Shape of a Noose	60
A Failed Two Weeks Notice	59
Rocks And Trees Are Not Good Company	56
Pink Cracks in a Digital Wall	52
'Til Death Do Us Part	52
Poky And Pal Scheme Together	51
Is Anybody Home?	50
Poky And Pal Arm Themselves	45
Carnivores	39
I Felt Numb	38
It's A Nice Day Out	35
When It Rains, It Pours	32
Attempts To Salvage Thought	30
I Am Wonderful	29
They Are Not Laughing With You	22
Containment's A Beach	19

GOI Formats

Title	Rating
Captain Kirby's Proposal, Or Something	165
My Head Is On Fire And I'm (Not) Ok	82
Project Proposals 2004-013/2014-114/2024-072: "Losing Your Cool"	56

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► Audio Log 1

SCP-3449 main file, dictated by Dr. Eric Duboy.

Item Number: SCP-3449

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Containment for SCP-3449 has been split into two aspects. Memetic, biological, and psychological department personnel are to research methods of alleviating symptoms caused by exposure to SCP-3449.

All other personnel are to work to develop a method of communication impervious to SCP-3449’s effects. This project will be led by the Foundation Linguistics department.

Description: SCP-3449 is an infectious cognitohazard now present in at least 98% of the human population. SCP-3449 effects take place in multiple stages.

During stage one, an affected individual will make a number of syntactical errors when writing about SCP-3449. This is believed to be caused by an incubation period where SCP-3449 adjusts to the affected person’s body, mind, and vernacular.

Stage two begins approximately a month after stage one. SCP-3449 begins to inhibit all written communication. The severity of the inhibition increases over time until Stage three.

Stage three begins when an affected individual can no longer communicate using a written language. All attempts to generate a coherent series of symbols fail in various ways. See experiment log for details.

While the transmission vector for SCP-3449 is still unknown, the leading theory suggests that it spreads to any person who communicates with an affected individual. Either listening to or reading text written by affected persons would transmit SCP-3449.

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► Audio Log 2

SCP-3449 experiment log dictated by Dr. William Teller.

To stop the spread of SCP-3449, we’re trying to identify or construct a written language that SCP-3449 is unable to affect. We decided that, when possible, we’d have subjects both try to hand write and type out the language. It’d be pretty bad if we had a winner, but we just had to put it in cursive. (laughs) Ah… I'm never getting used to this am I?

Break

Ok, we just did our control test with English. Subjects hand writing sentences drew arbitrary symbols in place of letters, and subjects typing sentences kept pressing the wrong key to spell the word they wanted. Nothing new really.

Break

Logging results for an assisted form of English. We supplied subjects with words to choose from and they tried to arrange them in a sentence.

This showed some promise, since subjects could get the first word right, but couldn’t do much after that. They'd forget which word came next. It's something, but I don’t think it’s enough to survive off, since you can only say one word, and it has to be written on something nearby. Better than nothing I guess.

Break

Logging results for our test of written Morse Code. Chose this one because it’s simple to write, and if it works we don’t have to teach the world from scratch.

Worked real nice for the first week. Almost made an announcement to record everything with morse code. Then the subjects started having trouble moving their hands correctly. Kept writing the wrong thing. Now everyone who tries it can only make a rapid succession of dots. We got people to try sending regular morse code, but they had the same issues. All dots, no dash.

Break

This is less of an experiment log and more of an update. A separate initiative to teach the Foundation sign language has failed. People can’t seem to make the right gestures in a row anymore. They’ve tried formalizing a bunch of different systems, but they fail in the same way. Luckily, it's not like shrugging and waving are gone but… they might be one day.

Break

More news about the gestures. O5 ordered us to keep physical communication to a minimum so we have some sort of back up if we ever lose verbal communication. I think they freaked out a little when we lost sign language. So… I guess we did lose shrugging and waving.

Break

Just recording that we proposed testing speech to text software, but it was denied. People too worried that the anomaly will stop us from talking altogether.

Break

Tried a new approach with pictograms. The idea was that the creative license in freestyle drawing would confuse it. We were close. It lasted a month, but then the entire idea of drawings got fucked… um… sorry, I mean people stopped being able to draw properly. Leading theory: similar pictures of a concept are analogous to using the same symbol for a letter over and over again.

That was probably our last shot. At least I’m out of ideas. Who knows? Maybe we’ll come up with something.

I hope we come up with something.

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► Audio Log 3

Um… Ok. This entry is by Researcher Niklo Gerdinel. Uh, Addendum SCP-3449-2, I guess? You know what, screw the formalities. It’s not like I’m supposed to making an entry and, like, there’s not really anyone left to reprimand me.

As you can probably tell we really screwed the pooch on this one. A few days ago the anomaly finally started messing with speech, so the world’s freaking out about it. Not that we really figured out how to operate without writing. That was uh… that straight up didn't work. Economies fell apart. Riots broke out. Shit hit the fan.

Not that we gave in. We kept spinning our wheels trying to think of something. Alternative languages, vaccines, countermemes. But nothing worked. It was all picked apart by the anomaly.

Like, like, I used to write letters to my girlfriend. It was like a monthly thing between us. And when the um… when the anomaly got to us, we switched to just using drawings. I’m a shit artist, but at least they got the point across. You know, picture’s worth a thousand words and all that.

But all Foundation mail gets screened, so someone saw it and tried to, tried to use pictures for communication. Made a bunch of pictograms and shit. Now I… I can’t draw. And, and I haven't gotten a letter from my girlfriend so I don't know if she's just waiting for me to write back or maybe she's just dead.

And you know what? Some of the people here just take it so lightly. Maybe its a coping mechanism but… but they argue over semantics and exactly how to classify this thing. Is it a cognitohazard? Is it a new form of virus? Is it even an anomaly? It's everywhere now, so maybe it's the new normal. Like any of that matters. They’re spending their last words on meaningless debate.

You know the last thing I said to my mom and dad? “Maybe don’t serve broccoli next time.” I told my dog “I’ll be home for dinner” which turned out to be a lie. The last thing my g-girlfriend got from me was a picture of a bunch of stick figures wearing glasses, with a heart at the bottom. At least I drew the heart but… but it’s just so stupid. So fucking stupid. I thought my last words to these people would be something elegant, you know? Or loving. But I’m stuck with this instead. Some sarcasm, a lie, and fucking stick figures. And even if they're not dead and I see them again we’ll probably just look at each other. Just looking and waiting. Everyone just looking and waiting and looking and waiting and looking and waiting until the day we die!

Pause.

Uh… s-s-surry ab-bout that I uh… It’s been a stressful f-few days. Although if you’re hearing this you can probably imagine. I guess I… um… curted this entra kinda as a… as a last hurrah for myself. And gu knows? These m-m-might be the last w-w-words ever re-re-caaad-d-ded. So… as a uh… final m-m-message from m-me to whoever’s out there.

Gerdinel swallows.

Good luck, and know you’re lurv… yur lurrrrv

Gerdinel wimpers

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► Video Log

0:00 - Researcher turns on camera, shifts back in his chair and begins to speak. However no noise is made. The researcher looks at the camera with his mouth part way open.

0:07 - Researcher closes his mouth while maintaining eye contact with the camera, and shakes his head slightly.

0:15 - Researcher exhales and leans forward, resting his chin in the palm of his hand. Eye contact with the camera has no yet been broken. Researcher gestures with his hand and shakes his head again.

0:22 - Researcher attempts to speak multiple times in succession, each failing and resulting in no sound being made. His right hand begins to clench as a display of frustration.

0:28 - Researcher places his head in his hand and breathes heavily.

0:38 - Researcher removes head from hands and stares directly into the camera. His entire face appears strained.

0:53 - Researcher's face relaxes. Maintains eye contact with camera, however it is less intense.

1:06 - Researcher glances down, and shakes head slightly. He immediately resumes eye contact with the camera, while still shaking his head.

1:16 - Researcher ends recording.