Some losses you cannot recover from.
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Item #: SCP-LO13
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-LO13 and its related documentation are to be stored on a standard airgapped containment server at Site-88. In order to present data relating to SCP-LO13 in an unencrypted form, the data will be displayed alongside an encrypted version of the work.
SCP-LO13 related encryption spread is possible if the work itself is reproduced in full or in part by anyone who has viewed the original work. Class 5 containment rituals are to be performed daily inside SCP-LO13's storage server room.
By excluding certain sensitive elements relating to SCP-LO13, the encryption effect has been prevented on SCP-LO13's containment procedures. This has required some non-critical but otherwise important details that would otherwise be included in the containment procedures of such an object to be excluded from this section.
These procedures are still under revision, and may expand in the future as more information is gathered as to what does or does not trigger SCP-LO13.
Description: SCP-LO13 is a data encryption effect that occurs any time SCP-LO13 or its descriptions are presented for viewing or are read. SCP-LO13 applies to both digital and physical presentations of the material. Cognitive understanding of the text is not required to cause SCP-LO13 to trigger, but if SCP-LO13 has not yet occurred on a particular piece of text for any reason, it will trigger once the piece is read. SCP-LO13 will not trigger when the work is presented alongside an already encrypted version of the work, as long as those two presentations are on the screen or page at the same time.
SCP-LO13 in its original form was a journal detailing various entries relating to the original creator's mother's stay in the hospital for a medical issue. The anomalous effect that caused this was originally a class 1 effect, which should be easily dispelled through standard thaumaturgical workings. However, the effect appears to have been amplified through the emotional state of the original caster, and is now considered a class 5 effect, affecting not just the work itself but also the reprinting or even digital presentation of the work. It is also not able to be dispelled except through the expenditure of extremely high amounts of energy. Given that fact, and that a workaround has been devised to allow its presentation mostly intact, it is believed that dispelling is not necessary at this time.
The following are samples from the journal that originated the SCP-LO13 effect.
Jprsqcmtcki: RSM-LO13 cr l jltl pisqymtcki pggpst tblt kssuqr liy tchp RSM-LO13 kq ctr jprsqcmtckir lqp mqprpitpj gkq vcpwcia kq lqp qplj. RSM-LO13 lmmfcpr tk oktb jcactlf lij mbyrcslf mqprpitltckir kg tbp hltpqclf. Skaictcvp uijpqrtlijcia kg tbp tpxt cr ikt qpnucqpj tk slurp RSM-LO13 tk tqcaapq, out cg RSM-LO13 blr ikt ypt kssuqqpj ki l mlqtcsuflq mcpsp kg tpxt gkq liy qplrki, ct wcff tqcaapq kisp tbp mcpsp cr qplj. RSM-LO13 wcff ikt tqcaapq wbpi tbp wkqe cr mqprpitpj lfkiarcjp li lfqpljy pisqymtpj vpqrcki kg tbp wkqe, lr fkia lr tbkrp twk mqprpitltckir lqp ki tbp rsqppi kq mlap lt tbp rlhp tchp. jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj
RSM-LO13 ci ctr kqcacilf gkqh wlr l dkuqilf jptlcfcia vlqckur pitqcpr qpfltcia tk tbp kqcacilf sqpltkq'r hktbpq'r rtly ci tbp bkrmctlf gkq l hpjcslf crrup. Tbp likhlfkur pggpst tblt slurpj tbcr wlr kqcacilffy l sflrr 1 pggpst, wbcsb rbkufj op plrcfy jcrmpffpj tbqkuab rtlijlqj tbluhltuqacslf wkqeciar. Bkwpvpq, tbp pggpst lmmplqr tk blvp oppi lhmfcgcpj tbqkuab tbp phktckilf rtltp kg tbp kqcacilf slrtpq, lij cr ikw skircjpqpj l sflrr 5 pggpst, lggpstcia ikt durt tbp wkqe ctrpfg out lfrk tbp qpmqcitcia kq pvpi jcactlf mqprpitltcki kg tbp wkqe. Ct cr lfrk ikt lofp tk op jcrmpffpj pxspmt tbqkuab tbp pxmpijctuqp kg pxtqphpfy bcab
Journal Entry 690: My mother went into the hospital yesterday. She's having open heart surgery today. My dad isn't taking it well. I assume my little brother's struggling with it. I just can't bring myself to care. She hurt me. Physically and not. And I can't forgive her. As an adult she hasn't gotten any better. I remember when I moved back home, after a failed relationship with someone frighteningly and embarrassingly too much like her. And she thought I couldn't hear her, but she was talking to my dad. He was telling her she should treat me better. He was asking her if she cared about me as a son. And she said "He already hates me. That won't change so why should I?". Like, the only reason for her to treat me like a son she loves is if I'll eventually forgive her and let her have her way. It was an unusual amount of honesty too. She likes to think about herself as a good person. But that's not how a good person answers that question.
I'm not a good person either. Guess that's another thing she gave me. I have a little bit of guilt about that going on right now. Guilt about guilt even. Like I feel guilty for not feeling guilty? Me and my brother were talking about mom. Because I'm still trying to be there for him and my dad. And we were finishing up and he sort of threw away a line as he left "I hope mom gets better" and I started saying "yeah me too" but I stopped halfway through. He closed the door and I said to myself "Why am I lying?" and now I need to sit with that for a while.
Dkuqilf Pitqy 690: Hy hktbpq wpit citk tbp bkrmctlf yprtpqjly. Rbp'r blvcia kmpi bplqt ruqapqy tkjly. Hy jlj cri't tlecia ct wpff. C lrruhp hy fcttfp oqktbpq'r rtquaafcia wctb ct. C durt sli't oqcia hyrpfg tk slqp. Rbp buqt hp. Mbyrcslffy lij ikt. Lij C sli't gkqacvp bpq. Lr li ljuft rbp blri't akttpi liy opttpq. C qphphopq wbpi C hkvpj olse bkhp, lgtpq l glcfpj qpfltckirbcm wctb rkhpkip gqcabtpiciafy lij pholqqlrrciafy tkk husb fcep bpq. Lij rbp tbkuabt C skufji't bplq bpq, out rbp wlr tlfecia tk hy jlj. Bp wlr tpffcia bpq rbp rbkufj tqplt hp opttpq. Bp wlr lrecia bpq cg rbp slqpj lokut hp lr l rki. Lij rbp rlcj "Bp lfqpljy bltpr hp. Tblt wki't sbliap rk wby rbkufj C?". Fcep, tbp kify qplrki gkq bpq tk tqplt hp fcep l rki rbp fkvpr cr cg C'ff pvpitulffy gkqacvp bpq lij fpt bpq blvp bpq wly. Ct wlr li uiurulf lhkuit kg bkiprty tkk. Rbp fcepr tk tbcie lokut bpqrpfg lr l akkj mpqrki. Out tblt'r ikt bkw l akkj mpqrki lirwpqr tblt nuprtcki. jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj jplj
C'h ikt l akkj mpqrki pctbpq. Auprr tblt'r liktbpq tbcia rbp alvp hp. C blvp l fcttfp oct kg aucft lokut tblt akcia ki qcabt ikw. Aucft lokut aucft pvpi. Fcep C gppf aucfty gkq ikt gppfcia aucfty? Hp lij hy oqktbpq wpqp tlfecia lokut hkh. Opslurp C'h rtcff tqycia tk op tbpqp gkq bch lij hy jlj. Lij wp wpqp gcicrbcia um lij bp rkqt kg tbqpw lwly l fcip lr bp fpgt "C bkmp hkh aptr opttpq" lij C rtlqtpj rlycia "yplb hp tkk" out C rtkmmpj blfgwly tbqkuab. Bp sfkrpj tbp jkkq lij C rlcj tk hyrpfg "Wby lh C fycia?" lij ikw C ippj tk rct wctb tblt gkq l wbcfp.
Journal Entry 699: I realize that my default response to trauma is humor. I don't know how healthy that is because therapy is too expensive. But I've been writing these thoughts down in order to organize them and sort of externalize them? Like if they're on paper they're not in my head anymore. Or not as much in my head. But I find the idea of someone else reading these inner thoughts a frightening prospect. So I put a lock on it. A little incantation I picked up on the same message board that said journaling would be healthy in the first place.
It's amazing what you can find on the internet these days. Basically no one can read this without a particular keyword cipher. They said the parts not about mom's death won't be encrypted. Not sure what the rules are but it's magic, I'm sure it'll work out. They said that the thing will take the form of the cipher itself. I don't know what that means either but I thought I'd pick something funny. Just in case.
Also I don't know shit about encryption. If you're reading this I guess I screwed up.
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