SCP-5999

Item #: SCP-5999

Object Class: null

Laconic Description: An article in which the story of the Foundation's investigation into what's basically a cursed corpse is broken down into eight sections. Each section is headed by an image of candle flames, beginning with seven and losing one flame as the sections progress, until no flames are left and the ending is reached.

The author would like readers to solve the mystery themselves instead of resorting to spoilers. Please give the original article a try before reading the spoilers below.

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In the words of Thatoneanimesnob on r/SCP, this is a sequel to Swann's Proposal. At the end of Swann's proposal it is revealed that the Foundation knows about their authors and has decided to kill them using a memetic kill agent. SCP-5999 is that kill agent. Each of the sections are cliche horror stories designed to pull in the reader and all hide an underlying mystery to make you keep reading. Each of the reports are written by meta characters (Swann, Researcher Talloran, Smalls, etc.). The final jump scare is a powerful entity designed to kill the reader and fullfil the ending of Swann's Proposal.

Additional Context: SCP-5999 was an entry in the SCP-5000 Contest, where it won 2nd place.