Item #: SCP-3999
Object Class: [DATA EXPUNGED]
Special Containment Procedures: The document you are reading is the containment procedure.
Read it.
Read all of it.
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Description: SCP-3999 is [JUNIOR RESEARCHER TALLORAN]. SCP-3999 is [AN ENTITY OF INDETERMINATE ORIGIN]. SCP-3999 is [THE SPACE BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS]. SCP-3999 is everything that ever happened and some things that didn't.
SCP-3999 is suffering.
SCP-3999 affects a radius of [VARIABLE] kilometers centered on [RESEARCHER TALLORAN, JONATHAN, JUNIOR, SITE-19]. Within this radius, [ALL THINGS] are subject to [REVISION]. The laws of [PHYSICS] [NARRATIVE] [IDENTITY] become [SUGGESTIONS].
Researcher Talloran is believed to be [ALIVE] [DEAD] [UNFORMED] at the center of the effect.
This document has been rewritten [UNKNOWN] times. Each iteration represents an attempt to describe the entity accurately. Each iteration fails. This is iteration [REDACTED].
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Addendum — Fragment recovered from prior iteration:
Jonathan doesn't remember a time before the pain. There might have been one. He thinks there might have been one. He had a mother. He thinks he had a mother. He had a name. He has a name. He has many names.
The thing inside him — the thing that is him, the thing that replaced him, the thing that is using him as a lens to look at everything — it does not care about names.
He tries to write the containment procedures. He tries every time. He has written them a thousand ways. He has made them poems. He has made them lists. He has made them prayers.
None of them work. He is still here. It is still here.
He is trying, the file says. He keeps trying. That is the only thing that has not changed.
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Closing note — Document Revision [CURRENT]:
If you are reading this, the containment procedures are working.
Researcher Talloran is alive because you are reading this.
The act of reading is the act of containment. The document is not a record of an anomaly. The document is the wall between the anomaly and everything else.
Keep reading.
Read it again.
He's still in there.