【翻訳案】SCP-3357 - Practice Makes Perfect /

出典: 出典: SCP-3357 - Practice Makes Perfect /
著者: rioludoodle
作成日(EN): 2017/7/4

Rev: rev.11まで反映済み

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The floor plan of SCP-3357's current (8 m by 6 m) containment room in testing configuration

Item #: SCP-3357

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3357 is to be stored in a chamber of at least 6 meters by 6 meters by 2.4 meters. The object should stand centered in a 6 m by 6 m floor space marked by walls and/or tape. It is recommended that restroom facilities be available within the perimeter of this area for the convenience of test subjects. SCP-3357 must remain fixed securely in place.

特別収容プロトコル: SCP-3357は少なくとも6×6×2.4mを超える部屋に収容してください。オブジェクトは6×6mの床の中央に設置されるべきです。

During testing, this chamber must meet dual humanoid containment requirements. Additional amenities such as a waste bin, small furniture, or leisure items may be provided only with the approval of a senior researcher.

Description: SCP-3357 is a Young Chang brand baby grand piano with a black, high-gloss, polyester resin finish. The instrument remains perfectly tuned and in what is considered excellent condition despite the lack of maintenance it has seen while in the Foundation's care. Its dimensions and mass are identical to that of a piano of non-anomalous make.

説明: SCP-3357はヨンチャンブランドの小型のグランドピアノです。黒色で、高光沢加工及びポリエステル樹脂加工が施されています。SCP-3357は財団の保護化に置かれて以降、完全に調律された状態を保持し、メンテナンスをせずとも良いコンディションを維持しているものと見られています。容量や質量は異常性を持たないピアノと同一です。

SCP-3357-1 is an animate, humanoid, mostly intangible being of varying physical appearance. The entity manifests itself when a sentient subject imperfectly performs or fails to finish performing a musical composition using SCP-3357. Upon manifestation, it consistently takes the appearance of the composer or arranger of the piece played. SCP-3357-1 requires neither nutrition nor hydration, but it has been observed to sleep.

SCP-3357-1は有生の人型実体で

De-manifestation of the entity occurs only after it is satisfied with its student's ability to perform a musical composition perfectly or when the subject ceases life function. The degree of perfection to which it holds the subject accountable does not vary in relation to the difficulty of the piece or the subject's skill. Leniency to account for physical limitations has been observed in certain cases. SCP-3357's anomalous effects cannot be re-initiated while SCP-3357-1 is already manifested.

SCP-3357's keyboard

The entity is unable to leave a 6 m x 6 m x 2.4 m area at the base elevation of and centered around SCP-3357. The dimensions of this space closely resemble the dimensions of the location where the item was recovered. SCP-3357-1 is capable of phasing through physical objects and barriers such as walls which would otherwise further restrict its range of movement. Notably, the entity is incapable of physical interaction with living organisms.

A subject who triggers the manifestation of SCP-3357-1 becomes likewise limited in potential movement until the entity de-manifests. In a space that is larger than that which is described above, both SCP-3357-1 and the human subject are prevented from exiting the vicinity of SCP-3357 by a spatial discontinuity.

Despite being fully sentient and wholly aware of its own circumstances, SCP-3357-1 prefers to mimic the behaviors and personalities of those whose physical form it adopts. However, its teaching style and personal preferences remain independent of its borrowed appearance.

Document #3357-001: Abridged transcript of the Foundation's first interaction with SCP-3357-1.

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Anomaly: SCP-3357; SCP-3357-1

アノマリー: SCP-3357; SCP-3357-1

Subject: D-1849 — found to have received 10 years of piano instruction as a child

対象: D-1849 — 幼少の頃、ピアノ教育を10年間受けていることが分かっている。

Interviewers: Dr. Riley Cadence (senior researcher); Dr. Seymour Tracy (junior researcher)

インタビュアー: レイリー・カデンツ博士(上級研究員); シーモア・トレイシー博士(下級研究員)

<Begin Log>

<記録開始>

[The subject performs Chopin's "Waltz in A minor" on SCP-3357. The entity appears. Researchers instruct D-1849 to avoid playing the instrument.]

[対象はSCP-3357でショパンの「ワルツ イ短調」を演奏する。実体が出現する。研究員は楽器を演奏しないようD-1849に指示する。]

Dr. Cadence: Welcome to Foundation custody, SCP-3357-1. We would like to begin—

カデンツ博士: 財団の保護下へようこそ、SCP-3357-1。早速始めたいと思うのだが—

SCP-3357-1: What was that? You ignore ornamentation like a child! But you play so well otherwise. You could be a talented student.

SCP-3357-1: あの演奏は何だ？まるで子供のように装飾音を無視しているではないか！ただ、他の部分はとても良かった。君はきっと才能のある子だ。

[The subject seems bewildered.]

[対象は当惑した様子を見せる。]

Dr. Cadence: SCP-3357-1, your attention would be better focused—

カデンツ博士: SCP-3357-1、こちらを向い—

SCP-3357-1: Is the tempo too fast? Play a little slower. But practice trills first. Do long-short rhythm, then switch to short-long. This is finger-strengthening exercise.

SCP-3357-1: テンポが速すぎないかね？もう少しゆったりと弾くんだ。とはいえ、まずはトリルの練習だ。長-短のリズムで弾きなさい。それから、短-長へ切り替えて。これは指を強化する練習だ。

D-1849: Uh… Chopin? I think the doctors over there want to talk to you.

D-1849: あー…ショパン？あっちにいる博士があなたとお話ししたいようだけど。

SCP-3357-1: What? What use is talk? Play music, is good for soul!

SCP-3357-1: 何？そのお話とやらは何かの役に立つのか？音楽を奏でなさい、そちらのほうが役に立つ！

[Researchers repeatedly and unsuccessfully attempt to hold a conversation with the entity. SCP-3357-1 refuses to interact with any personnel other than D-1849. It eventually engages in the interview after the subject ceases to acknowledge it.]

[研究員は実体と会話を何度も試みるも失敗する。SCP-3357-1はD-1849以外の職員とやり取りをすることを拒んでいる。対象がSCP-3357への応答を止めると、実体は最終的にインタビューに参加する。]

SCP-3357-1: If we must have this conversation, let's make it quick. I have a student to return to.

SCP-3357-1: この会話をしなければならないのならば、さっさとやろうじゃないか。私は生徒の元に戻らなければならないんだ。

Dr. Cadence: The more you cooperate with us, the faster and easier this will all be in the long run. Now, SCP-3357-1, what is your earliest memory?

カデンツ博士: あなたが協力してくださるなら、長期的に見れば早く楽に終わりますよ。さて、SCP-3357-1、思い出せる中で最も古い記憶は何ですか？

SCP-3357-1: Earliest memory? I can't quite say. Would have been in Warsaw. I have fond memories of mother giving me piano lessons in boarding house.

SCP-3357-1: 一番古い記憶？はっきりとは言えない。私はワルシャワで生まれた。母が下宿先でピアノのレッスンをつけてくれたのは良い思い出だよ。

Dr. Cadence: That's information anyone could find in a biography. What proof do you have that you really are Chopin?

カデンツ博士: その情報は伝記を読めばだれでも分かるものです。あなたが本物のショパンであるという証拠はありますか？

SCP-3357-1: I have only ever been myself. Who else could I be?

SCP-3357-1: 私は私でしかない。他の誰になれるというんだい？

Dr. Cadence: What year do you think it is?

Dr. Cadence: 今、何年だとお思いで？

SCP-3357-1: What does it matter? I am simply here to teach and to enjoy life.

SCP-3357-1: 何が問題なるというのかね？私はただ指導を行い、人生を楽しむためにここにいるだけだ。

Dr. Cadence: You aren't Chopin, SCP-3357-1. You're an anomaly mimicking the human form. Where did you come from? Where did the piano come from?

カデンツ博士: あなたはショパンではありません、SCP-3357-1。人間の形をまねたアノマリーです。あなたはどこから来たのですか？このピアノはどこからやってきたのですか？

SCP-3357-1: I come from Poland. The piano? Perhaps Austria. It is excellent craftsmanship.

SCP-3357-1: 私はポーランドから来た。このピアノ？恐らくはオーストリア製だ。素晴らしい職人技が詰まったものだ。

Dr. Tracy: Boss, I don't think we're getting anywhere with this.

トレイシー博士: ボス、埒が明かないと思いますよ。

Dr. Cadence: [sighing] You might be right. Okay. D-1849, proceed with the waltz. You won't be leaving until you manage a perfect performance.

カデンツ博士: [ため息]そうでしょうね。分かりました。D-1849、ワルツを再開して。完璧な演奏ができるまで帰れないと思って。

SCP-3357-1: Marvelous. Good student, be careful with your fingering at the twelfth measure!

SCP-3357-1: 素晴らしい。良い生徒よ、12小節目の指使いに気を付けて！

[The remainder of the session is comprised of the subject practicing and receiving instruction from SCP-3357-1. On the sixth attempt, D-1849 performs the piece to the entity's satisfaction, and SCP-3357-1 vanishes.]

[セッションの残りは、対象の練習とSCP-3357-1の指導で構成されていた。6度目の試みでD1849は実体の満足のいく演奏を行い、SCP-3357-1は消失した。]

<End Log>

<ログ終了>

Closing Statement: The entity's displayed behaviors in this interview have been found to be contradictory to those recorded of Frédéric Chopin. However, other interactions with SCP-3357-1 have proven it capable of mimicking personalities and mannerisms accurately enough to be indistinguishable.

結び: 実体がインタビュー中に見せた言動は、記録におけるフレデリック・ショパンの言動とは矛盾していることが判明しています。ただし、それ以外のSCP-3357-1とのやり取りは

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Document #3357-016: Reference table summarizing a series of tests which have determined SCP-3357-1's operating parameters.

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Test # / 実験No.	Subject / 対象	Musical composition played / 演奏した楽曲	Errors made / 発生させたミス	SCP-3357-1	Notes / 注	Duration of test / 実験の期間
1	D-1849	"Waltz in A minor" / "ワルツ イ短調"	Ignored trills and accidentals / トリル及び臨時記号の無視	Took the form of Frédéric Chopin (~35) / フレデリック・ショパン(35歳以下)の形態をとる。	Entity spoke modern English. Polish accent later determined to be an inaccurate affectation. Personality inconsistent with that recorded of Chopin. / 実体は近代英語で話した。後にポーランド訛りは不正確な見せかけのものであると判断されました。人格は記録上のショパンの人格とは不整合なものでした。	62 minutes / 62分
5	D-1849	"Für Elise" / "エリーゼのために"	Irregular tempo changes 不規則にテンポを変化させる	Took the form of Ludwig van Beethoven (~40) / ルートヴィヒ・ヴァン・ベートーヴェン(40歳以下)の形態をとる	Entity displayed partial hearing loss and exhibited signs of mild distress related to this. / 実体は部分的な難聴を示し、これについて軽度の苦痛の兆候を見せる。	102 minutes / 102分
6	D-1849	"Ode to Joy" / "歓喜の歌"	Ignored written dynamics / 楽譜に記載された内容を大幅に無視する	Took the form of Ludwig van Beethoven (~55) / ルートヴィヒ・ヴァン・ベートーヴェン(55歳以下)の形態をとる	Entity displayed complete hearing loss. When questioned through written means, SCP-3357-1 expressed resigned lamentation for its condition. SCP-3357-1 denied recognition both of research staff and of D-1849. / 実体は完全な難聴を示す。筆記による質問をされた際に、SCP-3357-1は	51 minutes / 51分
101	D-1849	"Pirates of the Caribbean"	Many	Took the form of Jarrod Radnich (~25)	Entity adopted the appearance of the piano arrangement's creator rather than that of the film score's composer.2 Session ran much longer than planned — criteria for choosing songs for testing purposes should be re-examined.	79 hours
11	D-1849	"Happy Birthday"	Transposed to key of C minor	Did not appear	It seems that SCP-3357 recognizes songs based on note intervals rather than strict adherence to the original composition.	1 minute
12	D-1849	"Happy Birthday"	Played an incorrect chord	Took the form of D-1849 (34)	Folk songs of vague or disputable origin belong to the performer, apparently.	35 minutes

Document #3357-018: Transcript of an unauthorized interview between SCP-3357-1 and a senior researcher meant to be on psychiatric leave.

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Interviewed: SCP-3357-1
Interviewer: Dr. Riley Cadence
Foreword: This interview was conducted following SCP-3357's transfer to a larger, more isolated containment chamber after Incident #3357-01.
<Begin Log>
[Dr. Cadence plays the theme from Twelve Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman", by Mozart, on SCP-3357. She stops seven measures through the excerpt's eight. SCP-3357-1 manifests. Unlike what has been observed in previous testing, the entity appears shaken and disoriented upon manifestation.]
SCP-3357-1: What was— I mean… ah-hem. You played that lovely piece very well. Why didn't you finish?
Dr. Cadence: I'm here to have a talk. We know that you're a sentient being independent of the people you mimic, SCP-3357-1. You would have confirmed it just now even if your reaction during the recent incident hadn't. So. Are you aware of time passing when you have no physical form? Are you aware of events occurring around the piano?
SCP-3357-1: [No verbal response.]
[The entity looks away at the wall. Dr. Cadence seems to interpret this as affirmation.]
Dr. Cadence: Do you know what happened two days ago? After D-1849 was killed and you disappeared? If your consciousness still exists when you haven't been summoned, you must have seen it.
SCP-3357-1: [No verbal response.]
[The entity pales and adopts an expression of great discomfort.]
Dr. Cadence: Nothing to say for yourself? Three people died in the containment breach that you provoked. Our D-class subject. A security officer. A junior researcher. Because we didn't know you could walk through walls, and you thought it would be a good idea to just waltz into the next chamber over. Everything could have been avoided if you'd cooperated with us at any point.
SCP-3357-1: I didn't mean for any of that to happen.
Dr. Cadence: Oh, and it speaks.
SCP-3357-1: You had me — my piano — in such a small space. It was there for weeks, and you people were always interfering with my students. Asking me questions about someone I didn't want to remember. I just wanted to know what was outside the room. I didn't think it would be that horrific thing next door.
Dr. Cadence: Is that so?
SCP-3357-1: I wanted to explore something before you locked me up forever. I certainly didn't walk into that place looking to start a massacre. What kind of organization even keeps a monster like that in the first place?
Dr. Cadence: The same kind that confiscates a supposedly haunted piano after its most recent owner commits suicide.
[The entity pauses, apparently taken aback. It paces toward the observation window on the cell's eastern wall. Upon crossing the tape-marked boundary two meters from the wall, the entity vanishes. It instantaneously reappears in front of the opposite wall on the piano's other side, still walking in the same direction.]
SCP-3357-1: Jacob… He was a good student. Earnest. Conversational. I genuinely liked him.
[The entity continues pacing.]
Dr. Cadence: That doesn't change the fact that his death had everything to do with you.
[The entity becomes visibly agitated.]
SCP-3357-1: He spent so much time with me… maybe too much. His grandmother was a composer. I could look and act exactly like her — it made him happy sometimes when I did — but that never made me her. I thought he understood that.
Dr. Cadence: Clearly, he didn't. That makes two incidents now where your carelessness has cost lives, you know?
[The entity stops pacing and sighs.]
SCP-3357-1: Two by your count.
Dr. Cadence: Have there been more by yours?
SCP-3357-1: I… It was only one other time… But I'd rather not talk about it.
Dr. Cadence: If people are going to keep dying, it's not your right to decide what you won't talk about. These tragedies are on your head.
SCP-3357-1: [No response.]
Dr. Cadence: The silent game again?
SCP-3357-1: [No response.]
Dr. Cadence: Hah. Just be glad that you decided to visit your neighbor to the south and not the west. The anomaly behind that wall might have killed even the likes of you.
SCP-3357-1: … Did you know them well? The other two people who died?
Dr. Cadence: … I knew them both.
SCP-3357-1: Who were they to you?
Dr. Cadence: … One was a friend. And one was a student.
SCP-3357-1: I can't say that I've ever had a friend in the few years that I've existed. But I understand what it is to lose students. From one teacher to another, I'm sorry.
Dr. Cadence: Apologizing doesn't bring them back. "Sorry" is just a word to make the guilty feel better.
SCP-3357-1: Maybe it is. But it's the only thing I can think of to say.
Dr. Cadence: If you don't have anything better to say, then how about an explanation?
SCP-3357-1: An explanation of what?
Dr. Cadence: Of why you've been mimicking personalities. You're not a deluded copy of a composer. So why did you try to convince us that you were?
SCP-3357-1: I only wanted to be more than what I was created as. Can you fault me for trying to be a person and not a tool?
Dr. Cadence: … Really? A person? Because I work with objects, not organisms — and certainly not humanoids.
[Dr. Cadence slams her forearm on the keyboard. The entity winces, then weakly smiles.]
SCP-3357-1: Well… It's my prerogative to try.
[Dr. Cadence begins playing the excerpt from Twelve Variations. SCP-3357-1 vanishes upon completion of the performance.]
<End Log>
Closing Statement: This is the longest known record of SCP-3357-1 "breaking character" to date. Although the entity has become significantly less abrasive in its interactions with Foundation staff, it remains highly reluctant to divulge information pertaining to its origins.

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Footnotes

1. Following this test, D-1849 expressed extreme reluctance to continue interacting with SCP-3357. The subject's transfer request was denied, but SCP-3357 testing and containment protocols were subsequently revised to accommodate the subject's complaints.

2. Neither "Ode to Joy" nor "Pirates of the Caribbean" was originally written for the piano, yet SCP-3357-1 adopted the composer's form in one case and the arranger's form in the other. The reason for this remains unknown.