SCP-031 - 愛とはなんぞや？

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出典: SCP-031
著者: 不明(DrClefによる改稿)
作成日(EN)： 2021/04/07
SCP-031 - What is Love?
SCP-031 - 愛とはなんぞや？
Tags: _cc _licensebox alive amorphous cognitohazard euclid hallucination hostile maria-jones metamorphic mimetic parasitic predatory rewrite scp sensory sentient visual
タグ: en euclid scp マリア・ジョーンズ不定形変身寄生幻覚感覚捕食擬態敵対的生命自我視覚認識災害

The Ryugyong Hotel, located in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea./柳京ホテル。朝鮮民主主義人民共和国、平壌に所在。

Item #: SCP-031

アイテム番号: SCP-031

Object Class: Euclid

オブジェクトクラス: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-031 is currently contained in the Ryugyong Hotel, located in the city of Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea¹. As the nation it is located in is currently governed by an authoritarian regime with near-complete control of state and national media, the possibility of information regarding SCP-031 being released to the world at large is minimal. As said regime is also cooperating with the Foundation in order to maintain physical security of the site, Foundation personnel are instructed to comply with their directives, so long as they do not interfere with larger Foundation aims.

特別収容プロトコル: SCP-031は現在朝鮮民主主義人民共和国²、平壌直轄市に所在する柳京ホテルに収容されています。同国は現時点で国営含む全国のメディアをほぼ完全に支配下に置く独裁政権によって統治されているため、SCP-031に関する情報が世界に発信される可能性は最小限です。また、先述の政権は該当地点の物理的セキュリティを維持するために財団と連携しているため、財団職員はより大規模な財団の目的に対する妨害がない限り彼らの命令に従うように指示されています。

The structure of the Ryugyong Hotel serves to contain SCP-031 within the central spire. Three secondary spires (located at 120-degree intervals from the central pyramid) house Type-9 Heaven's Blade Restriction Systems³ calibrated to focus a disruptive energy field towards the central spire. Although unable to prevent physical escape of SCP-031, the system serves to prevent SCP-031's psychic energies from escaping the structure and affecting off-site personnel.

柳京ホテルの建物は中央の尖塔にSCP-031を収容する機能を持ちます。3つの小規模な尖塔(中央の三角錐から分岐、120度間隔で存在する)は、中央の尖塔に破壊的エネルギー場を集中させるように調節されたタイプ-9ヘブンズ・ブレード制限システム⁴を収めています。SCP-031の物理的脱出を阻止する機能は持たないものの、本システムはSCP-031の精神的エネルギーが建造物から漏出し、収容施設から離れた職員に影響を及ぼすことの防止に寄与しています。

Reclamation efforts of the hotel are currently underway, with local government forces utilizing hazmat-suited personnel armed with flame projectors and chemical sprayers to decontaminate areas affected by SCP-031. However, due to the slow pace of progress and SCP-031's defensive capabilities, reclamation efforts are drastically behind schedule.⁵

HAZMATスーツを着用した職員を用いて、現地政府軍との協力の下でホテルを奪還する試みが現在進行中です(この際、職員はSCP-031の影響を受けたエリアを浄化するために火炎放射装置および化学物質用噴霧器による武装を行います)。しかし、進行の遅滞およびSCP-031の防御能力を原因として、奪還の試みは予定より大幅に遅延しています。⁶

Personnel who become affected by SCP-031's psychic abilities are to be terminated immediately to prevent their bio-matter from becoming incorporated into its physical matrix.

SCP-031の精神的能力の影響を受けた職員は、その生体物質がSCP-031の物理的基質に取り込まれるのを阻止するため、速やかに終了されます。

Description: SCP-031 is an amorphous organism with a mass of over 7,500 kg that has infiltrated the ductwork and maintenance infrastructure of the building. Tendrils emerging from SCP-031's central mass have spread through the hotel's plumbing and ductwork to all 105 floors of the building. At its peak, over 75% of the hotel's 3,000 rooms were contaminated by SCP-031. Reclamation efforts have destroyed ██% of the initial infestation, but over ███ rooms remain affected by SCP-031.

説明: SCP-031は当該建造物のダクトおよび点検用設備に入り込んでいる、7,500kg以上の質量を持った不定形有機体です。SCP-031の中心となる塊から伸びる巻きひげはホテルの配管およびダクトを通り抜け、建造物の105階層全てに行き渡っています。ピーク時にはホテルが有する3000室のうち75%以上がSCP-031に汚染されていました。奪還の試みにより当初拡散していた汚染の██%が破壊されたものの、未だ███室以上がSCP-031の影響を受けたままとなっています。

SCP-031 tendrils terminate in a pod-like structure (sporocarp) consisting of an ovoid structure approximately two meters in length, with multiple cilia-like structures branching off of the main body. On some occasions, subjects in the presence of an SCP-031 sporocarp will instead perceive it as an individual the subject had a close emotional connection to in their past. The SCP-031 sporocarp will metamorphose into the shape of the person perceived, and attempt to persuade the subject to remain with them for an extended period of time.

SCP-031の巻きひげの先端部分には全長およそ2mの卵型の構造物を主体とし、主体から複数の繊毛状構造物が分岐する鞘状の構造(子嚢果)が存在します。時として、SCP-031の子嚢果が存在する状況に置かれた対象は子嚢果をそれそのものではなく対象が過去に密接な情緒的関係を有していた人間として認識します。SCP-031の子嚢果は認識された人間の形状に変形し、自身の元に長期間留まるように対象を説得しようとします。

The SCP-031 sporocarp will next attempt to make physical contact with the targeted individual with their cilia-like structures. Digestive juices will be injected into the subject's body, and their flesh will be consumed and incorporated into SCP-031's body mass. In the meantime, a secondary flagellum will engulf the subject's cranium and brain, replacing the blood vessels with its own tendrils, which will maintain life support of the affected brain by some yet-undiscovered means. The tendrils will decerebrate the subject and transport the subject's cranium back through the building's ductwork where it is incorporated into the central mass.

SCP-031の子嚢果は続いて、繊毛状構造物で標的となった人間に物理的に接触しようとします。対象の体内には消化液が注入され、その肉は吸収されてSCP-031の肉体を成す塊に取り込まれます。その間に2本目の鞭毛が対象の頭蓋および脳を飲み込み、血管をSCP-031自体の巻きひげに置換します。この結果、何らかの未解明の手法によって影響を受けた脳の生命維持が行われます。巻きひげは対象から大脳を除去して建造物のダクト内に戻り、輸送された対象の頭蓋はそこで中心の塊に取り込まれます。

Footage taken through surveillance drones indicate that there are currently █,███ crainia in the network of tendrils attached to SCP-031's central mass. By all indications, the brains contained within are still alive, and may be conscious.

監視ドローンによって取得された映像は、SCP-031の中心の塊に接続された巻きひげの網状構造の内部には現時点で█,███個の頭蓋が存在することを示しています。あらゆる点から考えて内部の脳は未だ活動している上、意識が存在する可能性もあります。

History

歴史

SCP-031 was recovered on 10/22/1948, following contradictory police records taken after a riot in the city of [REDACTED], where several civilians had gathered around a refugee camp professing love and devotion to a cultlike leader, whom they referred to as "The Beloved." Once initial contact and assessment was made, the civilians were pacified through widespread distribution of inhaled tranquilizers and aeresolized amnestics. MTF-Psi-7 was able to recover SCP-031's central mass and move it into containment.

SCP-031は1948/10/22、[編集済]市での暴動の後に、警察の矛盾した記録を受けて回収されました。この暴動では複数名の市民が難民キャンプの周囲に集合し、「愛しき人」と呼称されるカルト的指導者に対する愛と献身を公言していました。初期接触および評価がなされ、市民らは吸入式の精神安定剤およびエアロゾル化記憶処理薬の広域散布によって沈静化されました。機動部隊プサイ-7はSCP-031の中心の塊を回収し、収容下に移す事に成功しました。

In its initial form, SCP-031 consisted of a single amorphous entity approximately 75 kg in weight, of vaguely humanoid shape. It had not yet manifested the ability to consume and incorporate human bio-matter into itself, or any mind-affecting properties aside from inspiring unusual feelings of love and devotion. As of 11/16/1948, SCP-031 had been classified as Safe and was in containment at Site-██.

初期の形態において、SCP-031は重量およそ75kgの、大まかに人型をした単一の不定形実体でした。この時点ではまだヒトの生体物質を吸収し自身に取り込む能力、および極めて強い愛と献身の感情を発生させる以外の精神影響特性のいずれも発現していませんでした。1948/11/16を以てSCP-031はSafeに分類され、サイト-██に収容されました。

Unfortunately, the Korean Conflict (which began on 6/25/1950) resulted in the destruction of the Foundation containment site at Pyongyang and the loss of all anomalies contained within. By the end of the conflict in 1953, all other anomalies were accounted for (either recovered or confirmed destroyed) aside from SCP-031, which was presumed lost and in the wild.

不運なことに、朝鮮戦争(1950/6/25勃発)により平壌に所在する財団の収容サイトが破壊され、収容されていたすべてのアノマリーが失われました。同戦争が1953年に休戦するまでにSCP-031を除いたすべてのアノマリーの行方が判明した(回収された、もしくは破壊されたことが確認された)ものの、SCP-031については喪失し、野生に放たれたものと推定されていました。

Foundation assets first became aware of the re-emergence of SCP-031 in 1992, when construction on the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang suddenly halted. Personnel liaising with the local regime confirmed that an anomalous effect had resulted in the disappearance of numerous workers employed in the construction of the hotel, and a Foundation Mobile Task Force was dispatched to investigate. All members of the MTF were subsequently lost in action, and the site was locked-down and declared off-limits. All work on the Ryugyong Hotel ceased for over sixteen years, aside from the installation of the Heaven's Blade Restriction Systems on the secondary spires.

財団職員は1992年、平壌の柳京ホテルの建設が突如中断された際に初めてSCP-031の再出現を認知しました。何らかの異常な効果によりホテル建設の際に雇用されていた作業員の多数が失踪したことが現地政府に連絡を取った職員によって確認され、財団機動部隊が調査のために派遣されました。その後機動部隊隊員が全員任務中に失われたことを受けて同地は封鎖され、立入禁止が宣言されました。小規模な尖塔へのヘブンズ・ブレード制限システムの設置を除き、柳京ホテルにおけるあらゆる作業は16年以上にわたって停止されていました。

In 2008, increased infiltration of SCP-031 into the building's infrastructure resulted in the possibility of its discovery by outside persons: the local regime immediately ordered that windows be installed on the structure to hide the existence of SCP-031 from others, resulting in the loss of ███ more construction workers. Unfortunately, this was perceived as the resumption of construction on the building, resulting in expectations that the structure would actually be completed and opened to the public in the future. Reclamation efforts commenced within the year, utilizing flame and solvent-projecting equipment to destroy SCP-031 tendrils and sporocarps, with each team accompanied by a political officer assigned to terminate any personnel who became assimilated into SCP-031.

2008年、建造物のインフラ内においてSCP-031が侵入している部分が増加したことにより、外部の人間によってSCP-031が発見される可能性が浮上しました。現地政府は、SCP-031の存在を他者から隠蔽するため建造物に窓を取り付けるよう即座に命令しました。この結果、さらに███名の建築作業員が失われました。不運なことにこれは当該建造物の建設の再開であると認識され、「建造物は将来実際に完成し一般公開される」という予測が立てられることとなりました。同年中に、SCP-031の巻きひげと子嚢果を破壊するための火炎・溶解液放射装備を用いた奪還の試みが開始されました。この際、各チームにはSCP-031に取り込まれた全職員を終了するために割り当てられた政治将校1名が同伴します。

As of this current date⁷ reclamation efforts are still underway. Foundation personnel are continuing to liaise with the local regime and monitor their progress, which is slow but steady.

Appendix 1: Excerpts from RAISA Email Server

From: RAISA Associate Director Eleanor Jones
To: Records Office 2201
Subject: Incomplete Special Containment Procedures File for SCP-031
Team, I have an issue that needs immediate clarification. I have the Ryugyong Hotel as the location of a mind-affecting stele from the Proto Afro-Asiatic Culture Group. As you can see, that's the same location as this brain-stealing flesh network. Are these two objects related at all? Is this hotel some kind of DPRK containment facility? If so, we should put that into the object's Special Containment Procedures File.
Please reply at your earliest convenience.

From: Records Office 2201
To: RAISA Associate Director Eleanor Jones
Re: Incomplete Special Containment Procedures File for SCP-031
Eleanor,
As far as my team can figure, there doesn't appear to be a link between the two objects. In fact, I'm getting conflicting reports from the Containment Teams regarding whether or not either of these objects actually exist. The 1427 team is insisting the hotel is the site for the Stele and there's no brain-eating flesh network there, and the DPRK government is part of the containment procedures. Then I have the team for SCP-031 insisting that the DPRK government's involvement is purely politically motivated (i.e. we don't want to get involved so long as they're taking care of it) and there's no such thing as a mind-affecting stele located within the building.
Which is concerning, given that we've got two mind-affecting anomalies within the same space, and two teams with two separate stories here. Possible Eastern Samothrace situation?
Gwen

From: RAISA Associate Director Eleanor Jones
To: Records Office 2201
Re: SCP-031 and SCP-1427 Records Conflict (was: Incomplete Special Containment Procedures File for SCP-031)
Okay, someone needs to get to the bottom of this. We can't have a useful database with such blatantly contradictory information. Make it your first priority to resolve this.

From: Records Office 2201
To: RAISA Associate Director Eleanor Jones
Re: SCP-031 and SCP-1427 Records Conflict (was: Incomplete Special Containment Procedures File for SCP-031)
Eleanor,
Will do. Entered into the Tracker as 000-0031-F99ZX, with a sister ticket entered as 001-1427-F99ZX.
Gwen

From: RAISA Associate Director Eleanor Jones
To: Records Office 2201
Re: SCP-031 and SCP-1427 Records Conflict (was: Incomplete Special Containment Procedures File for SCP-031)
Team, can I get an update on this issue?

From: Records Office 2201
To: RAISA Associate Director Eleanor Jones
Re: SCP-031 and SCP-1427 Records Conflict (was: Incomplete Special Containment Procedures File for SCP-031)
Eleanor,
My apologies: I guess I wasn't clear that further updates would be sent out through the Tracker system. We're gathering information and assessing the situation. Will keep you informed.
Gwen

From: RAISA Associate Director Eleanor Jones
To: Records Office 2201
Re: SCP-031 and SCP-1427 Records Conflict (was: Incomplete Special Containment Procedures File for SCP-031)
Team, it's been three days. Can I please get the requested update? Or at least a deadline by which we'll have this issue resolved?

From: Records Office 2201
To: RAISA Associate Director Eleanor Jones
Re: SCP-031 and SCP-1427 Records Conflict (was: Incomplete Special Containment Procedures File for SCP-031)
Eleanor,
As I stated in Tracker Update 22 on this ticket, we've found that the problem is more complicated than we expected, requiring us to physically send a person from HQ over to Pyongyang to investigate. It's taken us some time to get through that North Korean red tape (totalitarian governments, amirite?) and to get the paperwork done to reassign Jenny's responsibilities while she's gone.
Gwen

From: RAISA Associate Director Eleanor Jones
To: Records Office 2201
Re: What's the holdup? (was: SCP-031 and SCP-1427 Records Conflict (was: Incomplete Special Containment Procedures File for SCP-031))
Team, it's been two weeks. Why has there been no update on this issue? This is a highly time-sensitive issue, and your lack of progress is extremely disappointing. We need to get this resolved before Maria has to step in.

From: Records Office 2201
To: RAISA Associate Director Eleanor Jones
Re: What's the holdup? (was: SCP-031 and SCP-1427 Records Conflict (was: Incomplete Special Containment Procedures File for SCP-031))
Eleanor
I can assure you that, per your instructions, resolving this issue has been our top priority. We've been cross-referencing between the documentation, and the only discrepancy appears to be the fact that there are discrepancies. As in, all of the documentation for one project is internally consistent, and all of the documentation for the second project is internally consistent, it's only when you put them together that things don't make sense. We tried talking to the project leads of both teams, but neither of them seems to know the other exists. We tried having them look up the other team's SCP file in the system: they can read it just fine, but it doesn't make sense to them. SCP-031 team has no record of 1427 on site, and vice versa.
We thought there might be some kind of time-space parallel dimensions thing going, so we had a member of each team try to meet up at the same place at the Ryugong Hotel (outside the front entrance). They were not able to find each other, despite confirming that they were both in the same place at the same time (photographs with timestamps attached). We then had the two team members try to meet up at a location outside the Hotel they were able to meet up just fine. When they tried to return to the hotel together, they lost track of each other and ended up not being able to find each other.
We tried sending Jenny over to Pyongyang to investigate (that was a pain in the ass, given visa restrictions into North Korea). They weren't able to meet with both teams simultaneously, but they were able to meet with each team one on one. Both teams gave them a tour of their containment facility, and everything seemed to be in order. 31 team showed them the reclaimed rooms and the cleanup teams, while 1427 team showed them the location of the stele. Neither team was able to allow direct contact with the anomaly, because of the containment procedures, but they were able to confirm its existence through remote cameras. The DPRK team for 31 had no idea about the existence of any DPRK assets being used to contain 1427, and vice versa. This might not be too surprising given information controls in that country.
To make things even worse, Jenny got a call from Eun-Mi at the KR branch asking what the hell a RAISA staff member was doing in the city: she contacted them, and as far as KR is concerned, we do not and have not had any assets in the Ryugyong Hotel! Jenny went so far as to ask Eun-Mi to take her to the hotel and show her around a bit, and when she got there, she couldn't find any trace of SCP-031, 1427, or the teams involved with either.
So in conclusion, after three weeks of hard work, we can conclude, from the evidence, one of the following must be true:
1. SCP-031 exists, and SCP-1427 does not.
2. SCP-1427 exists, and SCP-031 does not.
3. Both SCP-1427 and SCP-031 exist, and there is an anomaly at the Ryugyong Hotel preventing either team from knowing about the other or proving the other exists.
4. Neither SCP-031 or SCP-1427 exist, and there is an anomaly at the Ryugyong Hotel creating the impression that it exists in the RAISA central staff, but the KR branch staff are not affected.
5. One or both of SCP-031 and SCP-1427 may or may not exist, and the KR branch are under a mind-affecting compulsion that they do not. Or we're under a compulsion that it does.
6. All or none or some of the above may be true simultaneously due to multi-worlds theory, parallel universes, or timey wimey fuckery shit and if you have any idea on what we can fucking do to fucking fix that shit ive got
Gwen

From: RAISA Associate Director Eleanor Jones
To: Records Office 2201
Subject: New Directives
Hello, Team,
1. Effective immediately, Gwenevere Kirkpatrick has been relieved of her duties as the project lead at Records Office 2201.
2. All Records Office 2201 staff are to make the resolution of tickets 000-0031-F99ZX and 001-1427-F99ZX their top priority. No other work on any other project is to continue until this issue is resolved.
I want hourly reports until this matter is concluded.

From: Director Maria Jones, Recordkeeping and Information Security Administration
To: All RAISA Associate Directors
Subject: ██-██-████ - A Fond Farewell and Other Updates.
Good afternoon, RAISA staff. Thank you again for all your hard work. Today's email will be a short one.
1. The 3.14 update of SCUTTLE has been updated to snapshot 2207-D. Please remind your team leads to log into the test instance and confirm proper functionality. Send any bug reports to the SCUTTLE team as soon as possible. We know that this involves taking time out of your day for additional tasks, but the sooner we complete this wide-scale stress test, the sooner we can roll out the new version and put some fears to rest.
2. I am saddened to announce that Eleanor has chosen to retire due to health concerns. This announcement came as a surprise to me as well. Due to the sudden nature of her health crisis, she was unable to say goodbye to us before being transferred to ████████ Hospital, where I understand she is convalescing nicely. Please expect a follow-up email with a link to a crowdfunding page for a going-away gift for her, as well as an address where you can send cards, gifts, and other well-wishes. Until we can appoint a new AD to take over her projects, we will temporarily be splitting her teams up between several different existing ADs. Expect an announcement of the new Table of Organization by noon GMT.
3. Please take a moment during your next weekly team meeting to go over Section 22-B (Reporting Inconsistencies in Documentation) of your handbook with your staff, and make sure that everyone knows the proper procedures to follow if and when you end up with an information anomaly.
- Maria