 Hello, Foundation staff. This is Dr. Theron Sherman, but you can call me Sherman. And today's broadcast is on SCP-5167. This document doesn't contain any objectionable content, so let's begin. Foundation webcrawlers are to monitor online communities for mentions of potential SCP-5167 sightings. In cases where these sightings are confirmed, all direct witnesses are to be apprehended and all secondary evidence removed from the platform in question. Apprehended witnesses are to be held until the symptoms of SCP-5167-8 abate, and are then to be amnesticized and released under a standard mental breakdown cover story. Description. SCP-5167 is an entity known to manifest as a player of the online multiplayer game Among Us, under the username of Thonus. SCP-5167 will randomly join multiplayer lobbies of the game and participate as an ordinary player would, with the majority of its anomalous effects only becoming obvious following the initial encounter. During this initial encounter, SCP-5167 has been observed to communicate using the in-game chat function, although the majority of its speech consists of lengthy diatribes produced at little prompting from other players. Individuals who interact with SCP-5167 in-game will subsequently begin to exhibit symptoms of paranoia and capgrass delusion. The severity of these symptoms varies from person to person, but in initial cases was significant enough to prompt acts of perceived self-defense from those affected. The symptoms persist for a period initially believed to encompass several months, but is less than to one or two weeks as observation has continued. SCP-5167 was initially discovered by the Foundation after a period during which the player Thonus was a minor urban legend in the Among Us community. Although interest in the figure died down fairly quickly, Foundation webcrawlers flagged recorded accounts of player encounters with the entity as potential anomalous phenomena. Learning computer Psy-2, codenamed Melville, was assigned to track sessions of the game until SCP-5167 was encountered, and when the other players in said session were tracked down, they exhibited the symptoms now associated with SCP-5167. Foundation efforts to track the individual behind SCP-5167 have thus far proven unsuccessful. All attempts to locate the internet access point used by the anomaly have led to deserted home addresses in rural Greece. Analysis of impending SCP-5167 neutralization As requested by head researcher Abrams, I've had the Site-22 analysts look into the progress of SCP-5167's anomalous effects over the period we've observed it, and the results are much as I expected. When we first discovered SCP-5167, for the sake of argument, let's say this is when SCP-5167 first came into existence. The impact it had on its victims was severe. I don't think I have to remind you of what Billy Heff did to its family's faces. But since then, almost immediately really, since the first couple of manifestations, the potency of its effects has started to decline. Full detachment from reality became delusion, and delusion has now become paranoia, and the intensity of that paranoia is lessening in each new case. This is all conjecture of course, and shouldn't be taken as gospel. But based on what we've observed at this anomaly thus far, our estimation is that SCP-5167's anomalous effects will become inert by the end of the year. Whether it'll keep popping up in these video game matches is another story, though. Signed, Site-22 Intelligence Director, Michelle Ross. Observation Log, 5167-1 The following is a log of SCP-5167 as observed by Learning Computer Site-2 in a game of Among Us. SCP-5167 participated in the game without communicating, until specifically addressed by other players. Following the game, all participating players were tracked down and treated as containment procedures dictate. Communication is logged below. Begin log. Red, where were you when we were doing Reactor? Where was I? I was there when the mountains were newborn, and the oceans virginal. I was there when gods walked among men, and their wisdom was cast down like sunlight. I was there when mankind was capable of legends. And now, I find myself in a world that has forgotten even the taste of life, even the very concept of life beyond existing from one day to the next. Mere Continuance. Where all the world is wasted away in idle play of emotions that once rang true. I am in a world where even the gods are forgotten, their bones washed away by time. A world where man has moved on, where all the legacy I have left are three fucking sentences on Wikipedia. I thought my time had come again. I thought this could be the new me. But this is nothing. Let me stay dead this time. I'm tired. Red is sus. Yeah, about Red. End the log. This concludes today's broadcast. 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