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Item #: SCP-0000

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Ritual 0000-Theseus is to be performed no less than twice per year, preferably at six month intervals. No more than ten months should pass between any two Ritual 0000-Theseus occurences. Provisional Task Force " " is to be assembled to perform Ritual 0000-Theseus on such a basis, formed of a consistent but not permanent selection of Site-43 Pursuit and Suppression personnel.

Ritual 0000-Minotaur is to be performed every 54 months1 to ensure that Ritual 0000-Theseus remains at optimal ability. Participants for Ritual 0000-Minotaur are to be drawn from monitored civilian populations based on the factor described in

Description: SCP-0000 is a predatory sophont extradimensional space, typically manifesting as an unexpected roadside location, such as a motel, rest stop or gas station2. SCP-0000 targets isolated travelers (henceforth referred to as the victim), suddenly manifesting in the victim's path. After manifesting, SCP-0000 warps space for its victim so that travel in all directions inevitably leads back to SCP-0000.

SCP-0000 generally resembles an ordinary building of its type, although subtle pecularities and differences are observed. There are few commonalities between these irregularities and they are difficult to summarize, see Appendix 1 for full details. SCP-0000 instances are typically operated by SCP-0000-A instances, which outwardly resemble baseline humans but are universally dull and listless unless repeatedly engaged, at which point they turn aggressive and hostile (although not usually violent)3.

Victims become trapped within SCP-0000 and its surrounding environment until they complete some form of variable task within SCP-00004. These tasks have variable consequences, ranging from inconsequential (such as making verbal pacts with no obvious ramifications) to severely adverse (bodily harm). Tasks are generally made contextually obvious by SCP-0000, with little direct prompting by SCP-0000-A instances, although some instances have had difficult tasks to determine. All known tasks have been within a victim's ability to complete, and while it is not believed that SCP-0000-A is violent, it is believed to be "feeding" on victims5.

Once a task has been completed, the spacial warping effects of SCP-0000 end and victims are able to arrive at their initial destination (regardless of the distance between where they entered SCP-0000 and said destination). Moderate to extreme time dilation has been observed in a minority of cases, with an maximum dilation of weeks within SCP-0000 corresponding to a day in baseline temporality.

SCP-0000 has been known to the Foundation since 1943, and is suspected existed since 1900 BCE or earlier, owing to a Xia Anomalous Culture Group description of a similar anomaly.

After the discovery of intentional methods to attract SCP-0000 and changes in resultant feeding patterns by HISTORICAL CHARACTER in 19XX, SCP-0000's behavior has been reliably controlled by Ritualls 0000-Theseus and 0000-Minotaur. Ritual 0000-Theseus, enacted entirely by Foundation personnel, effectively "feeds" . Annual "feeding" of SCP-0000 through Ritual 0000-Theseus reduces natural predation to roughly once per five to seven years. Ritual 0000-Minotaur provides stimulation and diversity in feeding when necessary, and to maintain Ritual 0000-Theseus efficacy.

Mission Overview

Following the resignation of Site-43 Pursuit and Suppression Chief Gedeon Van Rompay in September 2014, a security audit of the section's portfolio was ordered. Information on SCP-0000 was determined to be requiring review to ensure currency, and a new investigation was ordered. A critical part of this investigation took the place of repeat explorations by Provisional Task Force " " between Fall 2014 and Summer 2015. For the purposes of these investigations, PTF X-XX consisted of the following personnel:

Agent Kane Villisca: Mission lead. A former civilian occultist and Parawatch user, who encountered SCP-████ in the field and became marked by it. Due to a genetic-linked anomaly, Agent Villisca is immune to amnestics and predisposed to developing psychic abilities. SCP-████

Doctor Sigríður Karlsdottir: Primary research specialty in Acroamatic Abatement with field expertise in variable anomalous phenomena. Dr. Sigríður was essential in averting the 1997 thaumonuclear meltdown at Site-72 but was afterwards transferred for low-stress containment duties for SCP-████ with Research Task Force Iota-34 ("History Channel Rejects"). Dr. Sigríður was recruited to Site-43 in 2005 to assist Acroamatic Abatement with SCP-5243, but transferred to full time duties with Pursuit and Suppression in 2009 (although continuing to consult on SCP-5243 in September).

Agent Crown: Recruited to the Foundation from the Global Occult Coalition. After deployment in a Provisional Task force into SCP-1444, Crown was rescued and recruited into Mobile Task Force Zeta-9 "Mole Rats" with experience in intelligent extradimensional exploration and recursive topology. Permanently stationed with Zeta-9 deployment at Site-43. Requested standard name anonymization while entering Foundation service and self-selected a codename.

Researcher Phoebe Abbott: Junior Researcher from Identity and Technocryptography, currently pursuing a doctorate thesis under Doctor Veiksaar. On loan to the Pursuit and Suppression division to assist with the operation and deployment of recording devices during the explorations. First field deployment.

I will need to come up with a prosaic block to fit in here

Mission 1:

September 30th, 2014.

Provisional Task Force was first deployed in the field to investigate SCP-0000 during a period in which it had been traced to a portion of Saskatchewan Highway 16. They were able to enter the environment with a Ritual 0000-Theseus.

Abbott: And recorders are on. This is Junior Researcher Phoebe Abbott reporting. We have entered SCP-0000.

Villisca: Thank you very much, Phoebe. I'll jump in here with the mission aims. This is a baseline test of 0000, trying to establish baseline operating parameters for the new members of the team. I've done this a few times before, and I know that Sigríður has as well, but we haven't together.

Sigríður: Only once.

Villisca: Well, still.

Sigríður: Agent Crown, do you have any initial impressions?

Crown: Nothing unusual to the eye, but the mana plummeted as we entered. The dregs that remain in the aether are being drawn to a single point on the horizon — and so, I suppose, are we.

Villisca: Pulled only in one direction?

Crown: I know what you're thinking, but yes. Only one direction, despite the spatial warping.

Sigríður: And Kane, what about you? Psychically, I mean.

Villisca: Oh my god. Quiet for the first times in years. I can generally tune it out, but there's still this background level of consciousness in the background. But there's something quiet in that silence that I can't quite here. Almost like … hmm. The difference between silence and deafness; between not being able to hear anything after a loud noise vs. there not being anything there.

Crow:, I would say. It isn't ideal that if this realm dampens the mind.

Sigríður: Parasenses frequently interact poorly with strange anomalies — sensory deprivation isn't something that I remember reading in much of the case logs for this one, so I wouldn't attribute it to more than that.

Villisca: None that I recall either, although the logs on this one were extensive. Two weeks was barely enough to get this prospectus together. Well, good enough for that. Phoebe, would you like to be the officer of record for this? Give us the mission pitch?

Abbott: Oh! Uh, yes, I suppose I can. I was expecting to just sit back for the most part.

Sigríður: That won't acclimate you to field work very well, would it now!

Abbott: No, I guess not. Well, Kane, according to the files you sent over, it looks like the premise for this incursion is to test what happens if we don't

Appendix 1 - Known Observations and Irregularities

allude to Ritual-Minotaur several times through, make it seem ominous and dreadful; Minotaur is implied to be necessary to freshen things up for SCP-0000 (mention concerns

Mission 2:

November 18th, 2014.

Abbott: Recorders on. Junior Researcher Phoebe Abbott, here with Provisional Task Force, conducting the second incursion into SCP-0000.

Villisca: Thank you, Phoebe. Our goal on this, uh, what'd you say? Incursion? Incursion is to investigate the degree to which SCP-0000 pushes back on those that resist it.

Sigríður: In other worlds, we're going to intentionally piss it off as much as possible.

[Second Log - This is the one where they refuse to enter and it gets darker and darker; headlights do not shine off the road. Motel; seems to require them to go to sleep (this is common). Doing so gives terrible, terrible nightmares, but otherwise no apparent harm. ]

Appendix 2 - Tasks

[Third Log]

Appendix 3 - Origin of the "humans"

Agent Vilisca stops driving the bus and rises, turning to face the van. Crown, Sigríður and Abbott rise from their seats as well.

Vilisca: I'd like to get everyone's attention. I'm very sorry for what we have just done, but this is necessary to stop some horrible things from happening to people who aren't prepared. None of you are in danger from me or my team, and what we are about to encounter will not hurt you if you listen to us.

Crown: Cooperation will be kindly appreciated.

Vilisca: For thousands of years, there have been legends of a waystop in the road that will prevent you from leaving until you play its game. We work for an agency that contains this legend, and stops it from hunting. But it demands sacrifice.

Sigríður: This is a controlled feeding. Each person here has

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