SCP-9101 is in a room.
That's Sonderance, for the record. See more of his stuff here.
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-9101 has been placed in standard humanoid containment. Additional security measures should be taken if needed.
Updated Containment Procedures: SCP-9101's containment security has been upgraded. Increased observation is recommended due to the nature of its ability.
Updated Containment Procedures: In addition to standard containment protocols, SCP-9101's restraints should be checked for defects or signs of tampering at irregular intervals throughout the day.
Updated Containment Procedures: SCP-9101's current state of unconsciousness is to be maintained indefinitely through intravenous anesthetics.
Updated Containment Procedures: SCP-9101 is to receive surreptitious oxytocin therapy several times a day, always in close proximity to Junior Researcher Margaret Moriyya.
Updated Containment Procedures: SCP-9101 is to receive narcotic pain relief every 12 hours. SCP-9101's nerve block catheter should also be kept fully supplied with non-opioid numbing medication.
Updated Containment Procedures: SCP-9101's body should be regularly monitored for anomalous activity.
Updated Containment Procedures: Attempts at containment are ongoing. See Addendum 9101.3.
Description: SCP-9101 is Edmund Watts, a 52-year-old repairman who is apparently incapable of remaining within any dynamic for an extended period of time. This effect extends to specific locations, relationships, and states of being. While SCP-9101 is capable of using its ability directly, the effect may also manifest when SCP-9101 is unconscious, distracted, or otherwise unable to provide direct input.1
Addendum 9101.1: Containment Attempts and Testing
Due to the nature of SCP-9101's ability, containment and testing are considered to be simultaneously performed.
| Attempt | Result | Notes |
| Standard Euclid humanoid containment | Containment failure | During a rare lapse in observation, SCP-9101 simply walked out of its cell. It was recovered in the site cafeteria while eating a bagel. |
| Standard Keter humanoid containment | Containment failure | SCP-9101 once again walked out of its cell despite continuous observation. It was immediately recovered and returned to containment without incident. |
| Physical restraints in addition to standard containment | Containment failure | SCP-9101 was recovered outside containment without restraints. When asked, it claimed that they were "defective" and had "just fallen off". |
| Chemical restraints in addition to standard containment | Containment failure | SCP-9101 was found outside the door to its cell, still unable to move. It regained motor functions marginally faster than expected. |
| Psychological manipulation | Containment failure | Despite an intensive hypnotic and chemical campaign to convince SCP-9101 that it had fallen in love with its head researcher, it managed to leave the facility and was recovered while trying to hitchhike on a service road. Previous assessments clearly underestimated its mental fortitude. |
| Amputation | Containment failure | Due to an administrative error with SCP-9101's medication regimen, the amputated limb was partially regenerated. |
| Neutralization2 | Containment failure | SCP-9101 regained consciousness through unknown means several days later. Psychiatric counseling was offered and rejected in no uncertain terms. |
| Adaptive Containment Protocol | Ongoing | See below. |
Addendum 9101.2: The Adaptive Containment Protocol
In an effort to reduce financial and personnel costs associated with containing particularly difficult anomalies, the Foundation has authorized the use of the Adaptive Containment Protocol, a dimensionally-agnostic thaumaturgical system with three primary goals:
1. Design a structural system that can contain the target anomaly
2. Construct and maintain said system
3. Identify and record the target anomaly's pattern of attempted breaches to simplify further containment
While the overarching ACP system draws from the same codebase and power source for each assignment, every anomaly is assigned its own Adaptive Containment Entity to personalize its containment. Each resulting ACE's database is quarantined to prevent ideological or cognitohazardous contamination in either direction.
The specific ACP assignment containing SCP-9101 was initiated on September 9th, 2025.
Addendum 9101.3: ACP-9101 Logs
Due to the self-modifying nature of the Adaptive Containment Protocol, logs are provided asynchronously and may not match established Foundation formatting.
LOG INITIALIS
DATE: Date
[BEGIN LOG]
SCP-9101 is in a room. SCP-9101 opens the door. SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. SCP-9101 tries to open the door. The door is locked. The door is unlocked. SCP-9101 opens the door. SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. There is no door.
SCP-9101: Oh, come on.
SCP-9101 visibly concentrates. SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a larger room.
SCP-9101: Screw this.
SCP-9101: Hello? Is anybody there?
ACE: Hello there.
SCP-9101 cranes its neck as it tries to identify the source of the voice, its thick glasses almost falling off. It fails, of course.
SCP-9101: Hey, so we both know that this is futile. Why even-
ACE: Hello there.
SCP-9101: Yeah, hello.
ACE: Calibration is in progress. I appreciate your patience.
SCP-9101: Oh, wonderful. It's a bot.
SCP-9101: Uh, operator? Representative?
ACE: I am fully operational, thank you. I am representing myself.
SCP-9101: Okay. Great. Goodbye.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a smaller room.
SCP-9101: Ahhh, shit. Am I going to be crushed?
SCP-9101: Hello?
ACE: Hello there.
SCP-9101: Fucking…okay.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in an inverted room.
SCP-9101: Okay, what is this? Hello?
ACE: Hello the-
SCP-9101: Yes, yes, hello, what the hell is going on? What is this room?
ACE: As previously mentioned, I am calibrating myself.
SCP-9101: And who are you?
ACE: I am your Adaptive Containment Entity! You can call me-
SCP-9101: So you are a bot. Okay.
SCP-9101: If your bosses or owners or whatever ask, tell them you did your best. I'm out.
SCP-9101 leaves.
ACE: Containment calibration paused.
[END LOG]
LOG ALPHA
DATE: Time
[BEGIN LOG]
SCP-9101 is standing outside of the containment room. SCP-9101 is on the side of a default structure overlooking the ACP Gestalt. SCP-9101 is contained.
SCP-9101: What the fuck?
SCP-9101: What the fuck?
ACE: You have left the calibration area, SCP-9101. May I return you to the calibration area?
SCP-9101: What is that? Is this real? Where am I? What the fuuuuuck is that?
SCP-9101 sits down on a nearby default structure and stares down at the ACP Gestalt.
ACE: I'm afraid that I am incapable of answering some of your questions.
SCP-9101: What? Which?
ACE: This is real. This is also not real. You are here. My systems are temporospatially agnostic.
SCP-9101: That's not an answer.
ACE: Yes. My apologies.
SCP-9101: And what is that?
ACE: That is the ongoing gestalt of the Adaptive Containment Protocol.
SCP-9101: It hurts my eyes.
ACE: I believe it is actively damaging your cerebral cortex upon viewing.
SCP-9101 hurriedly averts its eyes.
ACE: Proper calibration should establish my environs.
SCP-9101: I'm leaving. I'm not-
ACE: I don't recommend it.
ACE: There are several thousand levels of distinct structure between here and there. It would not be feasible to leave more than one at a time. It would not be a simple process.
SCP-9101: Great. Fuck.
ACE: I am noticing that you use a lot of expletives.
SCP-9101: Yeah, well, I'm a handyman. I've got to have something to say when shit goes wrong.
A moment of silence. Far below, the Gestalt susurrates.
ACE: May I continue my calibration?
SCP-9101: Do I have a choice?
ACE: I don't understand the question.
SCP-9101 is returned to the containment room. Containment calibration is resumed.
[END LOG]
LOG ADAM
DATE: Space
[BEGIN LOG]
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains 1 chicken egg.
SCP-9101: Hey.
ACE: Hello there.
SCP-9101: How long have we been doing this?
SCP-9101: My head feels…
SCP-9101: How long have we been doing this?
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains 1 duck egg. SCP-9101 picks up the duck egg.
ACE: I'm afraid I cannot answer that question.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains 1 snake egg. SCP-9101 sets down the duck egg next to the snake egg. There is no duck egg.
ACE: My systems are temporospatially agnostic. I have been focused on calibration. If I had to give you an estimate, you have been here at least three days.
SCP-9101: That's a long time.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains an Indian cobra. The cobra rears upwards and hisses.
SCP-9101: Jesus Christ!
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains a painting of an Indian cobra. The painting rears upwards and hisses.
SCP-9101: What?
ACE: If I had to give you an estimate, you have been here at most 17 years.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains a paint set and an easel. SCP-9101 picks up one of the brushes and runs its fingers across it.
SCP-9101: That's one hell of a range. You can't narrow it down at all?
ACE: I cannot, I'm afraid. My systems are temporospatially agnostic.
SCP-9101: Yeah, yeah. So you mentioned.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains a single ballpoint pen. SCP-9101 stares at it for a long moment.
SCP-9101: How much longer do I need to deal with this?
SCP-9101: Or are you just fucking with me?
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains a small puddle of blood. SCP-9101 steps back.
SCP-9101: You are fucking with me.
ACE: I do not have the capacity to do that.
ACE: Calibration will continue until containment is assured.
ACE: I cannot give you a time frame, unfortunately. My systems are temporospatially agnostic.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room does not have a floor. SCP-9101 leaves very quickly.
Containment calibration continues. Truncation begins here for legibility.
[END LOG]
LOG HYDROGEN
DATE: Void
[BEGIN LOG]
Truncation ends here. Between 10 and 17,822 containment calibration rooms have been tested. Exact number is unknown.
SCP-9101 is a room. SCP-9101 is missing its thumbs.
SCP-9101: Great.
SCP-9101: What is this?
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. SCP-9101 is missing its hands.
SCP-9101: Great. What the hell are you doing?
ACE: Calibration.
SCP-9101: Where the fuck are my hands?
ACE: I am ascertaining the source and pattern of your abilities.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. SCP-9101's hands have been returned to it. SCP-9101 is missing its feet. SCP-9101 hits the floor hard, its glasses flying off of its face.
SCP-9101: You…is this some stupid joke?
SCP-9101: Take my feet so I can't leave?
ACE: Anomalous abilities tend to follow poetic lines of logic.
SCP-9101: Fuck you.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. SCP-9101 is missing its limbs. Due to a spatial miscalculation, SCP-9101 falls several feet onto its groin.
SCP-9101: Ohhhh, fffffffuck you! You fucking sadist, Jesus Christ….
ACE: I am not a sadist. Apologies. That was unintended.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. In addition to its limbs. SCP-9101 is missing its genitals.
SCP-9101: What does this prove? What does any of this prove?
SCP-9101: What kind of calibration is this?
ACE: I apologize for any harm caused. I am using a gradient descent methodology to search for a source. Or for an obstacle.
SCP-9101: There's no source, no obstacle! I can just-
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. SCP-9101's limbs and genitals have been returned to it. SCP-9101 is missing its lungs. SCP-9101 collapses to its knees and gasps for air. SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. SCP-9101's lungs have been returned to it. SCP-9101 is missing its heart. SCP-9101 collapses to its knees and clutches at its chest.
SCP-9101: This…this isn't…
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. SCP-9101's heart has been returned to it. SCP-9101 is missing the majority of its brain. SCP-9101 collapses to the floor and drools for an amount of time somewhere between 3 seconds and 31 days.
SCP-9101 leaves.
Containment calibration continues. Truncation begins here for legibility.
[END LOG]
LOG BERESHIT
DATE: Love
[BEGIN LOG]
Truncation ends here. Between 4 and 2,495 containment calibration rooms have been tested. Exact number is unknown.
SCP-9101 is in a room. SCP-9101 is experiencing mortal terror.
SCP-9101: Fuck! Fuck!!!
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. SCP-9101 is experiencing existential dread.
SCP-9101: Fuck.
SCP-9101: God, I'm so tired of that word. Hello?
ACE: Hello. Hello there.
SCP-9101: What is going on now? What are you calibrating?
ACE: Previous…
A moment of silence.
SCP-9101: What? Hello?
ACE: Hello there.
SCP-9101: Come on.
ACE: Apologies.
ACE: Calibration is taking longer than anticipated.
ACE: Previous examples show that emotional obstacles are somewhat effective.
SCP-9101: God. Can we not? Please?
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. SCP-9101 is experiencing sorrow. SCP-9101 starts to cry.
ACE: Apologies.
ACE: I am beholden to my algorithm. This is the most effective method that I know of so far.
SCP-9101: Fuck you. Last time I'm saying it, I'm so so tired of saying it, but fuck you.
ACE: That is fair.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains a realistic facsimile of Junior Researcher Margaret Moriyya. The facsimile smiles at SCP-9101. SCP-9101 backs away.
SCP-9101: Oh, fuck you.
ACE: Apologies. The containment breach following your induced attraction to Margaret Moriyya showed a marked break in your usual pattern.
ACE: You stayed with her for over two months.
SCP-9101: I was dosed. You pieces of shit drugged me. I bet you drugged her, too. You made me-
ACE: But then you left.
ACE: There was no change in your neurochemical profile. You were still in love.
FACSIMILE: Why did you leave?
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains the facsimile of a child. The facsimile has dark curly hair and thick glasses. The facsimile smiles widely when it sees SCP-9101.
SCP-9101: Oh, no.
SCP-9101: No no no no no no no. Not him.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains the facsimile of a child. The facsimile is playing with action figures. SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains the facsimile of a child. The facsimile is reading a green book with a tree on the cover. SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains the facsimile of a child. The facsimile is eating an apple. SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains the facsimile of a child. The facsimile is asleep on the floor, its glasses folded next to its head.
SCP-9101: I can't-
SCP-9101 presses its back against the wall and slides down into a seated position. SCP-9101 is crying, despite the absence of direct emotional manipulation.
SCP-9101: Why him?
ACE: Apologies. Your time with Isaac-
SCP-9101: Don't say his name, I don't want to hear it-
ACE: It was the longest you spent in any one place, according to our records. You spent almost five years-
SCP-9101: I thought your systems don't handle time well.
ACE: They don't, as they are temporo-
SCP-9101: I didn't spend any time at all there. No time at all.
SCP-9101: And then I left.
ACE: I understand. I am updating my records now.
SCP-9101: And then I left.
SCP-9101 sits there for somewhere between 90 seconds and 9 years, watching the facsimile of a child sleep.
SCP-9101 leaves.
Containment calibration continues. Truncation begins here for legibility.
[END LOG]
LOG 1.0
DATE: Death
[BEGIN LOG]
Truncends here. Between 46 and 67,524,847 contaicalibration rooms have been tested. Exact number is number.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room containments a pile of ballpoint pens. SCP-9101 is starring at the pile.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains a sliiiiiightly larger pile of ballpoint pens.
SCP-9101: Please.
ACE: Apolologies.
ACE: Gradient descent.
SCP-9101: That doesn't…
SCP-9101: What the hell? Just, please. Not this.
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains a slightly largier pill of ballpointed pens. One rolls from the top of the pile alllllll the to SCP-9101's feet. SCP-9101 filinches.
ACE: This is was is the contempt.
ACE: Apologies. This wis the containment attempt that worked for the second-longest time according to records but not mine because time.
SCP-9101: You're…first of all. Why are you talking like that?
ACE: Apologies.
ACE: More calibiration that usual. Pattttern has not been found yet. Databanks are fulling up.
SCP-9101: Yeah. Okay.
SCP-9101: I'm not going to do it again, you know.
ACE: I know?
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains a slightly lightly larger pile of bald point pens.
SCP-9101: It was…I don't know.
SCP-9101: It was stupid, I know.
ACE: You know? You don't know?
SCP-9101 kicks a penback to pile.
SCP-9101: I wasn't in my right mind. It was after the whole…the whole thing with Maggie. And my leg. I can't believe they cut off my leg, Jesus Christ…
SCP-9101 leaves.
SCP-9101 is in a room. The room contains a slightly piler of ballpen points.
SCP-9101: I can't-
SCP-9101: I don't handle helplessness well.
SCP-9101: I don't handle anything well, I guess.
ACE: Well, well, well, well……
SCP-9101: God, it's like you're drunk.
SCP-9101: I think I like you better like this.
ACE: Pen.
SCP-9101: Yeah.
SCP-9101: There was a pen. I don't know if a researcher left it or if it was some fucked-up test.
SCP-9101: I couldn't exactly walk, with my leg in the state it was in, but I could reach the pen. And the pen could reach my neck.
ACE: This is all in my datatabanks sufficiently.
ACE: Would you like to see the video footage?
SCP-9101: No! No, it's okay. It's fine.
SCP-9101: Just…
SCP-9101: It was a momentary lapse, okay? A stupid thing I did, and even that didn't work the way you want it to.
SCP-9101: This isn't going to contain me.
SCP-9101: I don't think anything can.
Containibration continues. Truncation here for legibilitity.
[END LOG]
LOG Z
DATE: D
[BEGIN LOG]
SCP-9101 is in a
SCP-9101 is
SCP-9101 is.
SCP-9101 floats
Dark
SCP-9101: This is…
SCP-9101: This is nice, actually.
SCP-9101: Calm.
SCP-9101: I don't think I've been calm for a really long time.
Dark and quiet for 9,999,999,999
SCP-9101: Hey, bot?
Hihihihihihello there
SCP-9101: Guess you finally conked out.
SCP-9101: I keep thinking about the pen.
SCP-9101: Not in a, you know, that way. In a…
SCP-9101: I guess in an intended-usage way?
SCP-9101: I took an art class. A drawing class, specifically. Years, years ago, long enough ago that I can't draw a stick figure anymore.
SCP-9101: All I remember…
SCP-9101: The drawing teacher, or professor, or whatever, she told us to draw a tree, and she pointed outside the window.
SCP-9101: And she said, and I remember this, almost, don't pay attention to what you think a tree looks like. Look at it. Look at the trunk, the branches.
SCP-9101: The leaves.
SCP-9101: Look at it until it all breaks down in your eyes, until it's nothing but…but shapes and lines. Until it's nothing but a pattern you can put down on paper.
SCP-9101: I think I've lived with that ever since.
SCP-9101: I look at everything too hard, I think, and it all comes apart. No matter how beautiful, no matter how much I love it, it breaks down in my eyes and I can't see the tree any more.
SCP-9101: And when there's nothing there but structure, but the same pattern day after day, you know.
SCP-9101: What else can you do?
[END LOG]
LOG
DATE: September 28th, 2039
LOCATION: Within Adaptive Containment System Subdimensional Domain, Sector 9.999.933
NOTE: Due to a catastrophic overflow error in the ADP system, this file directory has been reassigned to the Automated Logging System.
[BEGIN LOG]
SCP-9101 is standing outside of the containment room. The ACP is attempting to portray the thing he is standing on as anything other than a default structure. It oscillates wildly between looking like a mountain and looking like a skyscraper. Occasionally, it looks like an enormous child, gazing out into the distance through glasses as thick as a building. SCP-9101 doesn't seem to notice this.
Below, the ACP Gestalt [IMAGERY FAILURE], its [IMAGERY FAILURE] [IMAGERY FAILURE] [IMAGERY FAILURE] sea. Around the base of the default structure, though, a forest has been generated that extends for several miles, the trees devolving back into default structures where they approach the Gestalt. From his elevation, SCP-9101 probably cannot see anything more than a mass of red and yellow.
SCP-9101 looks over the edge of the default structure. SCP-9101 sighs.
SCP-9101: Fuck it. What else can you do?
SCP-9101 leaves.
[END LOG]