Title: Drowned Souls Fit in This Hole
WARNING
All personnel that read this file will automatically become part of Containment Team 3NNN. Members of O5 Command, site directors, Level 4 researchers, and other important personnel must not read below this warning to avoid risks associated with Containment Team 3NNN. To prevent the spread of such risks, do not alert other subjects to the existence of this file.
Do not investigate the deaths of Containment Team 3NNN personnel.
WARNING
An image present in all known iterations of the SCP-3NNN document.
Item #: SCP-3NNN
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Variable. Personnel will learn their procedures open entering SCP-3NNN-B and will complete them.
New members of Containment Team 3NNN must identify themselves in the Containment Team 3NNN Personnel Dossier and will update their status on a daily basis, as well as writing reports on experiences in SCP-3NNN-B. It is recommended that personnel keep track of their time since exiting SCP-3NNN-A, as to know when they will enter SCP-3NNN-B and make adequate preparations. Personnel that fail to update will be considered deceased until further notice. For the best chances of survival, researchers should operate in groups of two or more persons while in the dimension.
The Head Researchers of Containment Team 3NNN will continue their investigation into the anomaly. No other personnel need to be involved in the investigation.
Description: SCP-3NNN is an unknown infohazardous anomaly, suspected to be or to have been an object. Subjects exposed to information regarding SCP-3NNN will experience a localized reality shift (designated SCP-3NNN-A) every 25 hours after exposure, which forms a short lived wormhole that transports them to SCP-3NNN-B, an extradimensional space.
The reality of SCP-3NNN-B appears to be unstable, granting subjects within it significant reality bending abilities. Details consistent across the experiences of all subjects within it is that it resembles a Foundation containment site, flooded and located at the bottom of an ocean. A number of entities have been encountered within this region, tentatively designated SCP-3NNN-C. The only coloration present is with shades of purple, though some SCP-3NNN-C instances possess different coloration.
After 8 hours subjects will enter an SCP-3NNN-A instance and exit SCP-3NNN-B, manifesting in the same position they previously occupied. Alterations that occurred to subjects in SCP-3NNN-B may be present after exiting.
It has been determined by Containment Team 3NNN that actions performed by researchers in SCP-3NNN-B constitute as the containment for SCP-3NNN. The actions required are variable, though a majority involve interactions with SCP-3NNN-C instances and the retrieval of anomalous objects. How containment is exactly achieved is under investigation by Head Researchers.
Discovery: It is unknown when SCP-3NNN was discovered. Although Foundation databases reference an anomaly known as SCP-3NNN as having existed as early as 1999, a majority of all files are heavily corrupted or missing. No current members of Containment Team 3NNN know when the team was first formed, and none know any members that joined before the year 2014 The oldest recovered documentation on SCP-3NNN is the following, created on 31-August-2008:
Item #: SCP-3NNN
Containment Class: Keter
Threat Level: Red
Anomaly Class: Existent
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3NNN will be stored in a Physicality Dampening Safe at Site-91, monitored by at least one member of Containment Team 3NNN at any given time. Water with a salinity of 35,000 ppm will be continually circulated in and out of the safe, with specialized filtration systems removing all unreal detritus SCP-3NNN produces.
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Description: SCP-3NNN is neutralized.
No records of a Site-91 have been found. Although Physicality Dampening Safes were a proposed piece of technology for the containment of reality hazards, they were never constructed due to high costs and potential design flaws that could not be corrected without compromising the machine's functions. This information has been intentionally left in the current file iteration in the event that it becomes relevant or is relevant to current containment procedures.
Addendum:
Below are excerpts from the reports of Containment Team 3NNN personnel involved in the recently completed Procedure 41-Obelisk, the second longest containment procedure to date.
Researcher: Ari Darbinyan
Date: 25-August-2019
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Researcher: Ji Choi
Date: 11-August-2020
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Researcher: Martí Vivas
Date: 1-November-2020
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At least one of the damn ceiling tiles lied to us. We checked the generator, put the severed fingers in, oiled the gears, smoked it, but even when we did that the voice didn't turn on. Darren threw himself into the mouth to see if the vocal chords weren't rusty and the generator started chomping on him. We were too late to get him out so I had to open the upper hatch and spend the next ten hours pulling his guts out in a bloody tug-of-war. Only when we got him all out and patched up did the fucking generator speak to us, telling us that they didn't even have the urchin anymore. Too blind to know where it went as well, just to make it easier on us.
[…]
Researcher: Colleen Darby
Date: 1-November-2020
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…swimming out past the security gate, leaving the site and entering the ocean.
The urchin was scrambling miles above, trying to reach the ocean's surface.
I saw the purple water suddenly light up. A sun had just appeared on the horizon, but I am now so familiar with the scales lining false stars that I didn't think twice before firing my railgun into it. It screamed and some of its blood got lodged in the railgun (luckily this didn't appear when I woke up, it'd give paramedics a heart attack), and after failing to grab me it then reverse fell through the water and went past the surface, vanishing like the others did.
While I was occupied, Ji was swimming to the urchin. When he reached it one of the currents came up to us from below, trying to push us into surface while invisible kept prodding us in its direction. We tried pushing out but we weren't strong enough to overcome. Out of desperation I forced my head through his mouth and into his brain. I forgot what happened after. My last memories are being at the site, handing Ari the urchin while Ji limply drifted.
Ji, I'm sorry.
Researcher: Ari Darbinyan
Date: 1-November-2020
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Secure, contain, protect. The Foundation depends on it.
— Head Researcher Maren Pallesen
We shouldn't be talking to you.
No, we aren't welcoming you back with open arms. Nobody has forgiven you for 2008 and you shouldn't expect it to ever happen. And no, we aren't letting you wholly leave. That'd be stupid of us.
But I digress. Since you've been gone we realized what we needed to do to contain SCP-3NNN. We've understood how malleable SCP-3NNN-B is since its inception, but every attempt we made to strengthen it got more people exposed and more people killed. I only had to give it some thought before I realized what we needed to do. If people believe while in a world where a single thought can tear a man asunder it becomes more than just belief. You write containment procedures, tell researchers that only by following nonsense can containment be achieved, give them a sense of purpose in chaos, and you get a new reality. By 2014 we had a secure reality.
This faith is falling apart. People are noticing the wrongness. Wrongness inherent to this world, yes, but wrongness that has no place in containment procedures. Once one person figures it out the rest eventually will as well—lying and assassinating isn't enough to stop it. You remember what it was like after 2008. It mustn't return to that.
By this point you know we need you. You know more here than anyone else, and we've run out of all other options. The only researcher nearly as knowledgable as you abandoned us when we started the assassinations and was last seen digging a tunnel toward the very bottom of this dimension. We ask that you join us in developing new ways to keep personnel believing in containment. In exchange, you will acquire limited freedom within SCP-3NNN-B. If you decide against this or prove unhelpful, you know where you'll be brought back to.
Now that you have reached this sentence the door will be unlocked. Don't pull any funny business—the other security measures haven't been changed. On the back of this paper is our coordinates (I hope you haven't forgotten teleportation) and our sigil (share it with none). We await your suggestions.
— Head Researcher Maren Pallesen
FROM: Maren Pallesen <noitadnuof.pcs|nesellapm#noitadnuof.pcs|nesellapm>
TO: Containment Team 3NNN <noitadnuof.pcs|NNN3tc#noitadnuof.pcs|NNN3tc>
SUBJECT: Unknown Threat
It has come to the attention of the Head Researchers that many personnel have encountered unusual entities while in SCP-3NNN-B, which appear to be humans just like us. As far as we know no information breaches on SCP-3NNN have occurred, but even if there was a breach anyone affected would likely be flailing or dead. These "humans" watch from a distance and have at times killed people. Yesterday Researcher Martí Vivas tried to interact with one, asking if they were in Containment Team 3NNN. Colleen Darby saw his limbs turned to coral and his body ejected through the surface of water, with the being vanishing immediately after.
Panic and fear over this new danger is not what we must do. The Head Researchers and I have developed a strategy for handling the situation. The next time you enter SCP-3NNN-B, carve a pentagon onto an easily seen portion of your body. This shape will serve as the symbol of Containment Team 3NNN, so if you see a human who lacks this symbol you must attack and interrogate without discretion. Your body may behave in unexpected manners but do not be alarmed: periodic expulsions of smoke are a healthy byproduct of exposure to proper containment protocols.
Secure, contain, protect. The Foundation depends on it.
— Head Researcher Maren Star-Seer
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Secure, contain, protect. The Foundation depends on it.
— Head Researcher Maren Pallesen
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Greetings.
When people believe in a world where a single thought can tear a man asunder it becomes more than just belief. You write containment procedures, tell researchers that only by questing through strange lands can containment be achieved, give them a sense of purpose in chaos, and they birth a new reality.
This faith is falling apart. People are noticing the wrongness. Wrongness inherent to this world, yes, but wrongness that has no place in containment. Once one person figures it out the rest eventually will as well—lying and assassinating isn't enough to stop it. You and I (you more so) know what it was like in there before the new procedures were devised. It won't return to that.
Now, after a month of searching for the right person, we have found just the right person to solve these issues. Welcome to the brain of Containment Team 3NNN, priest. On the back of this paper is our coordinates (teleportation should be simple) and the Head Researcher sigil. We await your suggestions.
— Head Researcher Maren Pallesen
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FROM: Maren Pallesen <noitadnuof.pcs|nesellapm#noitadnuof.pcs|nesellapm>
TO: Containment Team 3NNN <noitadnuof.pcs|NNN3tc#noitadnuof.pcs|NNN3tc>
SUBJECT: Unknown Threat
It has come to my attention that many personnel have encountered unusual entities while in SCP-3NNN-B, which appear to be humans just like us. As far as we know no information breaches on SCP-3NNN have occurred, but even if there was a breach anyone affected would be flailing or dead when found. These humans watch from a distance and have at times killed people. Yesterday Researcher Martí Vivas tried to interact with one, asking if they were in Containment Team 3NNN. Colleen Darby saw his limbs turned to coral and his body ejected through the surface of water, with the being vanishing immediately after.
Panic and fear over this new danger is not what we must do. The Head Researchers and I have developed a strategy for handling the situation. The next time you enter SCP-3NNN-B, carve a pentagon onto an easily seen portion of your body. This shape will serve as the symbol of Containment Team 3NNN, so if you see a human who lacks this symbol you must attack and interrogate without discretion. Your body may behave in unexpected manners but do not be alarmed: periodic expulsions of smoke are a healthy byproduct of exposure to proper containment protocols.
Secure, contain, protect. The Foundation depends on it.
— Head Researcher Maren Star-Seer
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