SCP-7991

Item #: SCP-7991

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-7991's current containment is the entirety of Site-13. In the event SCP-7991 affects a victim, the victim is to be transported to Isolated Medical Wing 2, and experimental testing for a prevention to SCP-7991's effects are to be performed following Ethics Committee review. Permanent containment for SCP-7991 is unfeasible. Procedure 833-Boaz (See Addendum) is to be enacted as soon as possible.

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Description: SCP-7991 is an antimemetic neuro-parasitic entity capable of telepathically interacting with its victims. SCP-7991's victim pattern appears random- however, one common factor among victims is the possession of psychological disorders, specifically mood disorders, schizophrenic disorders, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders. Once SCP-7991 has chosen a victim, SCP-7991 will begin to stalk them. During this time, SCP-7991's victim will become immune to SCP-7991's antimemetic effects, thus being able to perceive it, and is here forth referred to as SCP-7991-A.

SCP-7991's appearance is consistent among SCP-7991-A; SCP-7991 is a yellow-colored humanoid approximately 2.4 meters in height lacking any distinct features. SCP-7991's appendages are disproportionate compared to the torso, however, vary in exact length. Over time, SCP-7991-A will describe SCP-7991's color saturation increasing¹.

SCP-7991's primary effects begin roughly 3 hours after the first visual contact². Once SCP-7991-A has made visual contact with SCP-7991, SCP-7991 will begin to follow them, and if prevented from doing so, will appear to manifest in a location nearby the subject. Over the course of approximately 20-30 days, SCP-3991-A will begin to experience a radical configuration of the prefrontal cortex and amygdala, however, no function will be lost, save for the inability to experience negative emotions. This change progresses at a linear rate, and over the allotted time, will induce manic episodes more frequently.

Once 20-30 days have passed, SCP-7991-A will lose the ability to feel sadness, fear, anger, disgust, and, in some cases, empathy³. SCP-7991-A will become increasingly positive over the next few days, and will being to experience manic episodes more frequently until developing a unipolar disorder. Once this has occurred, SCP-7991-A may develop multiple symptoms, believed to be a natural effect of SCP-7991's interference:

• Mania-Induced Psychosis and Insanity.
• Complete lack of moral and/or ethical standards.
• Inability to empathize.
• Mild or major asphyxiation due to prolonged laughing fits.
• Conversion to extreme Type-2 Personality and subsequent possible accidents due to nature.
• Major brain damage⁴.

Currently, there is no method to treat or reverse the affected subject. Roughly 85% of SCP-7991-A die before a two month period has elapsed.

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+ Addendum: Procedure 833-Boaz - O5 and Ethics Committee Eyes Only

Procedure 833-Boaz requires one D-Class personnel with one or multiple psychological disorders (preferably Maniacal Depression and/or suicidal tendencies) to be subjected to mood-enhancement psychiatric drugs in a Keter-Class Containment Unit. Using this, SCP-7991 is to be lured to the D-Class, and thus essentially containing SCP-7991. Experiments prove effects of drugs prolong the victim's life and keep SCP-7991 preoccupied for an extended range of time, from 7 to 9 months.

D-Class undergoing Procedure 833-Boaz are provided standard human rights and an above-average living quarters. Research into more ethical preventions of SCP-7991's effects will be conducted as well.

It should be of note to the Ethics Committee,

The unethical treatment of a D-Class personnel is not an easy decision to make, however, specific violations of the moral code must be conducted in order to improve the overall benefit of humanity. Currently, SCP-7991 is not truly contained at Site-13, rather, it choses to be at Site-13 because the rates of depression and psychological disorders are severely higher than the general populous. It should be of note we have lost 3 senior researchers, 7 high-ranking security officers, and 15 junior researchers to this anomaly.

Should Procedure 833-Boaz be implemented, the number of victims will decrease approximately eight times the rate it is now. This should, in turn, also entirely eliminate the site's casualties due to SCP-7991, and save many faculty lives.

I understand the great conflict in the ethics here, however, a simple solution is comparing this situation to the Trolley Problem. If eight people were lined on a railway and you had the chance to turn a lever and kill one person on a different track instead, would you do it? The most logical option would be to pull the lever and save the 8 individuals' lives. So to, would you subject one person to torture in the place of eight?

It is important to remember we are not debating whether one option is good and one option is evil- rather, we are debating which of the two options is less evil than the other. Do we sacrifice one for the sake of eight? Or do we do nothing and let eight die?

Ultimately, the Council leaves that decision to you.

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Upon review by the Board of the Ethics Committee, Procedure 833-Boaz for SCP-7991 has been approved with the following adjustments. The lives of the affected subjects are not to be prolonged to more than 6 months upon initial infection. Depending on a case-by-case basis and the review of the Committee, additional substances may be administered in the early stages of the contact. Regular interactions with staff are a necessity in order to appease the mental state of the subjects.

VOTE ACCEPTED

1. This is believed to correlate to SCP-7991's primary effects on SCP-7991-A.

2. In the event the subject is blind, they will report audio hallucinations consisting of loud footsteps, doors creaking, and wind blowing.

3. It has also been reported that SCP-7991-A will lose symptoms of their prior psychological disorders, if they possessed one.

4. Has been reported in only 2 cases.