 Item █ SCP-1139 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures By authorization of O5 ██, object is housed at research area ██. Following incident 1139-1, object moved to research area ██. When not being used for testing, object is to be enclosed in a 75 x 20 x 20 cm block of rubber molded into two pieces with a Faraday cage surrounding the block placed on a static-free workbench. The containment room for the object shall be made of unreinforced concrete, minimum thickness of 3 m, and shall be illuminated at all times by gas lamps. The humidity level shall remain between 70% and 80% at all times. The door to SCP-1139's containment room shall be made of non-conductive, high-impact ceramic materials. Following incident 1139-1, access is via three containment doors, the outermost door consisting of steel, with a metallic threshold grounded in case of electrical discharge. The two innermost doors are to be constructed of non-conductive, high-impact ceramic materials. No electrical devices, including pacemakers, watches, or recording devices, are to be brought into the containment room except for testing purposes. In no event may an electrical device capable of producing more than 1,000 watts be introduced to the containment room without written authorization of 205 personnel. In no event may an electrical device capable of creating an alternating current be introduced to the containment room without authorization of 205 personnel. Research area ██████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ shall remain equipped with two lightning rods at all times. Neither of which shall be grounded within 200 meters of SCP-1139. During test 1139-L and by order of 05-███ ████, the staff of each Foundation site must include one Level 3 staff member previously affected by SCP-1206. Description SCP-1139 consists of a metallic gray rectangular block, roughly 20 cm high and 5 cm square at its base. The overall density of the object is roughly double that of iron, and the object is denser near the top. The object has thus far proved impervious to both deterioration and damage, making a determination of the object's age impossible. The sides are patterned with square protrusions and an unrecognized pattern, which can be confirmed by touch. Viewers of the pattern or of photos of the pattern observe the protrusions of black letters in a language they are familiar with, but this is merely a visual illusion. No subject has reported any subsequent change in the appearance of the letters. On the bottom of the object there are four 1 mm by 5 mm crevices, each coated in a copper colored substance. No new effect has been observed with the manipulation of or application of electricity directly to the crevices. Upon application of a direct current, the object affects all individuals within a given radius through unknown means. Any person within the radius of effect begins speaking and writing a new language, though they apparently believe they are speaking their native tongue. Subjects lose the ability to speak or comprehend any prior known languages. Linguistic analysis indicates that the new languages are formally foreign languages, but all attempts at translation have been met with complete failure. Attempts at translation continue. Subjects have proven incapable of learning or relearning any real-world language at their exposure to SCP-1139. Class AA amnesiacs successfully counteract the effect. Those subjects are thereafter of little use of the Foundation, and Class AA amnesiacs are not advised in future testing. See Experiment Log 1139-1 The radius of the effect is exponentially proportional to the wattage applied to it, with a static shock creating a radius of 8-10 meters and a direct lightning strike estimated to create a radius reaching beyond ████████, potentially resulting in a ████████ scenario. Developing practical methods of containing, controlling, or reversing the effect is ongoing, and should be considered a level chief priority. Possible use of the worst-case scenario of planetary defense is under consideration. SCP-1139 was recovered during Incident-98564 forward slash K. Mobile Task Force dealt to five front-runners, rated a Church of the Broken God outpost in Normal, Illinois. A basement contained an apparently demented and violent elderly man holding SCP-1139, who was quickly terminated. In this room were over ████████ handmade documents, including stone tablets over ██████ years old and modern in paper showing minimal wear. Note that the earliest documents predate the Church of the Broken God by over ██████ years. The documents do not appear to be written in any known languages, and ██████ different languages have been identified. SCP-1139-A, regarding Incident-1139-01, at ████████ over ████████ scattered civilian vehicles approached research area ██████ from both access roads. Research area ████ was put on blue alert, and procedure Theta Tau was implemented. The four ground-level Foundation personnel were initially able to maintain their cover identities when speaking with the trespassers, and discovered that the latitude and longitude of research area ██████ was distributed as the location of a youth jamboree. Pursuant to procedure Theta Tau, the trespassers were told that research area ██████ was a hunting lodge and that they had been sent to the wrong location. The departure of the trespassers was stalled due to a constant stream of new arrivals. Approximately ██████ adults and ██████ youths arrived in total. At precisely ██████ approximately ██████ of the adults and █████████ of the children pulled weapons from camping gear and attempted to breach research area ██████ in a coordinated attack. Battle cries consistent with rhetoric of the Church of the Broken God were heard, as well as references to the tongue and the voice. A perimeter breach occurred and lockdown was implemented. Mobile Task Force ██████, Ro5, Beastang, converged on research area countering the assault and contained the fleeing civilians with acceptable casualties. The surviving civilians indicated that revised coordinates were distributed via email a week prior, though the source of such information could not be effectively determined. The survivors were given Class-C amnesics and re-questioned, using known Church of the Broken God secret codes. Three additional members of the Church were detected and terminated. Area Command utilized cover story Beta Zeta, and the remaining civilians were provided grief-canceling. Research area ██████ decommissioned. This is unacceptable. I don't care that the damned Church broke silence first. We cannot allow this much attention to come down on one of our locations. You had better pray this media hype about gun-wielding scouts dies down, and reporters don't find research area ██████, Ro5. Request upgraded to Keeter status. Area Supervisor ████, Request denied, Ro5. Request Log 1139-1 Addendum SCP-1139-C Subject D-02-638 Linguist Dr. ████ Wattage, 200 Watts, or alternating current Subjects exposed to active SCP-1139. Subject grabbed its head and screamed, making a noise at ████, included ████, Foundation staff and Dr. ████ suffered from a broken wrist and persistent headaches. Seeing staff placed in quarantine for fear of emetic properties, no such properties evidenced themselves, and staff were released from quarantine and returned to duty without incident. Containment and testing procedures revised. Addendum SCP-1139-E Subject D-1839-4 Linguist Dr. ████ Wattage, 200 Watts, or direct current Subject is semi-literate prior to test. Subject is told to recite alphabet song during activation of SCP-1139 to confirm exposure. Exposure to SCP-1139 is followed by only nonverbal communication. Subject shows no sign of distress, though displeased by the researcher's silence. Dr. ████, after seeing the mild success and rudimentary nonverbal communication, grabbed the closest thing to a picture book from his office, giving the subject a copy of the Voynich manuscript. Subject ignored the picture and began attempting to read the book, sounding outwards as he went. Notably, he read the book backwards and from the middle of each page outward. All observations indicate that subject understood the book and found it to have a sad ending. Well, this one we have the alphabet for in a text. It should be simple enough to learn how to speak it. Dr. ████, two months after testing, Dr. ████ placed on voluntary administrative leave to distress. Subject D-18394 terminated an all-documentation locked in long-term storage. Addendum SCP-1139-F Subject D-18328 Linguist Dr. ████, Wattage-200W to direct current. Subject asked to write a long, memorized phrase down on paper, followed by the alphabet and numbers from 0 to 50, reading each word or number aloud. While walking to the table, subject exposed to SCP-1139. Subject writes out a text of unknown language, speaking as she does so and showing no notice of her change in language. Subject is incapable of speaking English, and no effort at reintroduction to the English language is made. It is noted the language from SCP-1139-F is different from all prior instances. We have a Rosetta stone for this one. This should be simple to decode or prove as nonsense, Dr. ████. After months of their testing, Dr. ████ placed a mandatory administrative leave due to stress. Subject D-18328 terminated an all-documentation locked in long-term storage. Addendum SCP-1139-K Subject Dr. ████, Linguist Dr. ████ and Dr. ████, Wattage-200W to direct current. Without approval or oversight, Dr. ████ exposed himself to SCP-1139. It is notable that Dr. ████ spoke eight languages fluently prior to the experiment. Dr. ████ took over his language for experiment SCP-1139-K. Dr. ████ exhibits the same symptoms of prior subjects, though he seems shocked by the verbal and written communications of Foundation staff. It appears that Dr. ████ now knows eight new languages, and by pointing at different places on the unlabeled map of the world, each new language has been associated with the language he is trying to speak. Dr. ████ has been unable to communicate beyond non-verbal pantomime and has since lapsed into inactivity and depression. Dr. ████ moved to a long-term care medical facility and kept under suicide watch. From SCP-1139-L, Subject- D-17618 at D-14568, Linguist Dr. ████, Wattage-200W to direct current D-17618 exposed to SCP-1206 prior to standard exposure to SCP-1139, SCP-1139 had no effect on the subject D-14568 exposed to SCP-1206 after standard exposure to SCP-1139, SCP-1206 had no linguistic effect on the subject Addendum SCP-1139-M, Subject- D-18818, Linguist Dr. ████ acting remotely and assisted by Dr. ████ to avoid memetic contamination, Wattage-200W to direct current After standard exposure to SCP-1139, Subject- Infected with SCP-444, SCP-444 infection continued as normal, with Subject able to converge with other SCP-444 infected individuals, Dr. ████ and Dr. ████ cleared of memetic contamination and remained assigned to SCP-1139, further use of SCP-444 in testing approved. Addendum SCP-1139-N, Subject- D-18818, Linguist Dr. ████ acting remotely and assisted by Dr. ████ to avoid memetic contamination, Wattage-200W to direct current Subject- Infected with SCP-444 ████ days prior. After exposure, Subject spoke a new language with no immediately apparent anomalous properties. Subject observation revealed ████ fatalities included ████ Foundation personnel and contamination associated with termination of an additional ████ Foundation personnel. Dr. ████ cleared of memetic contamination and remains assigned to SCP-1139, use of SCP-444 in testing suspended by order of ████ Addendum SCP-1139-Q, Subject- D-29374, D-20375, D-20384, and D-29384, Linguist Dr. ████, Wattage-400W to direct current SCP-1139 activated carefully to affect four of the five subjects. Subjects quickly realized that none of them can understand the others. The unaffected subject acted virtually identical to the others, despite still speaking English. Long-term remote surveillance commenced. Without meaningful external verbal stimuli, Subjects exhibited typical reactions, a novelist of solitary confinement and development of a crude, hierarchy-based society. D-20375 terminated following experiment and corpses incinerated. Request upgraded cater status, Dr. ████ Request denied, and pulled a plug on this sideshow. If you want a long-term test subject, use Dr. ████ ████ O5.