| ITEM: SCP-XXXX | LEVEL 4/XXXX |
| CLASS: KETER | secret |
SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES
Foundation webcrawlers are to search the internet for posts referencing SCP-XXXX, its central phrase, or visuals resembling Crooked glyphs. Posts, videos, or communications displaying the phrase are to be removed under standard digital containment procedure and affected individuals administered Class-B amnestics.
All known physical instances of SCP-XXXX are stored within Site-12's archives.
Personnel flagged by the Department of Presumptive Divination for casual drift are to be screened for latent exposure to SCP-XXXX. Confirmed carriers are to be reassigned to non-decisional posts under MTF Iota-9 ("Coin Tossers").
Performance or replication of the ritual components of SCP-XXXX is strictly prohibited without O5 approval.
DESCRIPTION
SCP-XXXX
The central phrase, roughly translates to "Fate, [guide/drag] me [incorrect/false]."
SCP-XXXX is a ritual structure and linguistic memetic pattern originating from an antediluvian sect known as GoI-5627 ("Walkers of the Crooked Path"). The central phrase of SCP-XXXX is a rough approximation from a non-Indo-European proto-language reconstructed via recovered inscriptions, dream fragments, and residual thaumic harmonics in recovered artifacts.
When performed, SCP-XXXX forcibly severs the casters' fate thread. Once severed, individuals are no longer subject to probabilistic causality as expected; their lives diverge sharply from statistically or pataphysically intended trajectories.
Subjects under SCP-XXXX's influence tend to experience:
- Improbable coincidences or outcomes;
- Disassociation from personal goals, values, and emotional attachments;
- Recurring synchronicities
- In advanced cases, casual ambiguity.
SCP-XXXX exhibits limited memetic transmissibility. Verbal recitation of the central phrase by an affected individual to a non-affected listener results in secondary manifestation in 10% of cases.
ADDENDUM.XXXX.1
HISTORY
Fragments recovered from a submerged site near Eridu reference a group "who walked where the gods did not look." Preliminary translation aligns these texts with the Walkers of the Crooked Path, a sect believed to have been opposed by early Mesopotamian religious groups.
The first modern instance of SCP-XXXX occurred in 1946 during the excavation of a site near Eridu. A clay tablet contained the instructions to perform SCP-XXXX, alongside a depiction of twelve figures walking backward through a labyrinth. Inscribed below the depiction was:
"We [laugh at/reject] the design. We walk the crooked [way/path]. Fate's [tool/hand] will not [grasp/choke] us."
More artifacts relating to SCP-XXXX and GoI-5627 during the excavation of Eridu and nearby sites. Instructions for SCP-XXXX would begin appearing on web forums beginning in the late 1990s. Posts containing these instructions were posted by freshly-made accounts, and attempts to find a user behind these accounts yielded no results.
By 2003, phrases similar to SCP-XXXX's instructions had entered several fringe digital occult communities. Foundation analysts noted a pattern of disappearances and identity changes among community members. In multiple instances, forum archives showed threads reappearing after deletion, with timestamps predating the forums' creation.