scp-049 SCP-049 Test: "The Book of Diseases"

[Cheriti]

Name: Researcher Dmitri Sourkraut

Rank: Researcher

Idea: This is a simple test to see if SCP-049 is affected by SCP-1025's effects, if not, then a interview will be done with SCP-049 in an attempt to identify what the "pestilence" it always talks about is, and if it is a actual disease or some sort of SCP-049's philosophy based around a persons morals when it comes to science and medicine.

Background Research: SCP-049 takes the form of a medieval plague doctor that wishes to destroy an unknown disease it has names the "pestilence", if it is even a disease at all. SCP-049 has had interviews done with it before, on behalf of the late Dr. Raymond Hamm, and it has never actually told of symptoms related to the "pestilence", which this test will hopefully give to us.

Hypothesis: I honestly have no damn clue what will happen here, this is just to see if we can gain any knowledge at all on the "pestilence", but if I had to guess I would say that due to the fact that SCP-049 is a humanoid and can read English that whatever disease it does read it has a high chance to contract.

Observations: A D-Class personnel was used identify a non-lethal, easily cured disease that SCP-049 could read without the worries of being terminated from SCP-1025's effects. After a first D-Class had contracted the well known Stone Man Disease/Syndrome, a second D-Class was able to identify a page with the common cold, and used a bookmark in order to know which page to turn to when given to SCP-049. After the initial identification of a clear SCP-1025 page, MTF escorted me and a Senior Researcher Brigand to SCP-049's Containment Cell. Upon arrival, we simply opened the door and handed the book to SCP-049 with two MTF guns raised up to him so that no breach would happen (We did not need a D-Class for this due to the fact that SCP-049 does not identify researchers as having the pestilence, therefore making it safe to do transactions such as this without D-Class). After reading the marked page in SCP-1025, SCP-049 started coughing and said it had a sore throat, to which common medicine was given to SCP-049. SCP-049 handed the book back through its containment cell door and the test was concluded with SCP-1025 being returned to its containment.

Conclusion: Well crap, I guess we have to try and get information the old fashioned way by interviews and a bit of speculation, maybe even bribery by giving SCP-049 more test subjects if need be. At least we learned that SCP-049 is affected by SCP-1025's effects, and we should be careful of what we expose SCP-049 to in the future, if this was simply done by giving SCP-049 SCP-1025 then telling it to just read pages we would have to be updating its class from Euclid to Neutralized. Thanks to our precautions, we were able to avoid such a fate, however I will say that it is disappointing to see that SCP-1025 can not be utilized in any ongoing research into the supposed "pestilence" SCP-049 keeps talking about, nor what its cure is suppose to do, I will continue testing on SCP-049 until I can get a definitive answer on the subject.

Was your hypothesis correct?: Yes, though admittedly I wish it wasn't, but indeed it seems that SCP-049 is affected by reading SCP-1025.

Extra Note: (Interviews with SCP-049 will be made following this test log, and I will be making and reading out the questions to SCP-049 personally, I don't want anyone else attempting the same thing I am planning in the next day or so.)

[Breen]

assigned for grading

[Illager, Director of Memes]

Score: A-

Grade: Quality

Lore: 20/20

Minus the fact that 049's clothes are part of his body, in-lore his anatomy is just like a normal human's.

Creativity: 15/20

Testing 049 with disease-related SCPs is pretty common.

Presentation: 15/20 

Could mess with formatting more. 

Writing: 40/40

Nothing wrong here. I would normally take points off for unprofessionalism, but those are in the Conclusion and "Was your hypothesis correct" sections, which are personal reflections on the test.