Item #: SCP-011
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures:
SCP-011 is to be stored in a reinforced secure locker at Site-19. Access requires Level 3 clearance and Ethics Committee approval for experimental use.
Testing may only be performed under controlled conditions with D-Class personnel. Any writing conducted with SCP-011 must be recorded in full, and entries are to be reviewed by two senior researchers prior to execution. Unauthorized attempts to use SCP-011 will result in immediate disciplinary action, up to and including termination.
Pages of SCP-011 are photographed daily to ensure no spontaneous additions or anomalous changes occur.
Description:
SCP-011 is a black, leather-bound notebook measuring 19 cm x 14 cm, containing 98 lined pages. The object resists aging, fire, tearing, and liquid damage.
When a human subject writes a full legal name in SCP-011 while visualizing the face of the individual, the named subject will die within approximately 40 seconds of sudden cardiac arrest. If a cause of death is specified within 6 minutes and 40 seconds of writing the name, the death will occur as written, provided it does not contradict known physical laws.
Observed Properties:
Entries lacking a full legal name fail to trigger anomalous effects.
Entries listing multiple names affect only the first written.
Impossible causes (e.g., "death by turning into stone") default to cardiac arrest.
Pages torn from SCP-011 lose anomalous properties immediately.
Distance is not a limiting factor; SCP-011 has demonstrated efficacy across international distances.
Unlike other lethal anomalies, SCP-011 exerts no compulsion on its wielder. Users describe no unusual psychological effects, no external voices or visions, and no sense of being influenced. Without deliberate action, SCP-011 remains inert.
Discovery:
SCP-011 was recovered in █████, Tokyo, in an abandoned apartment linked to a university student responsible for a string of unexplained deaths. Foundation agents located the subject deceased of apparent suicide, with SCP-011 beside the body.
Inside the cover of SCP-011 were multiple pages of handwritten "rules" describing its use. Many of these are redundant, misleading, or unnecessary (e.g., "The human whose name is written shall die" — confirmed, but other listed restrictions have proven false). Analysts suspect these rules were written by a previous wielder.
Several notes reference the involvement of a "death spirit" or "god" once associated with the notebook. No such entity has manifested since SCP-011's recovery, and no anomalous entities have been detected in proximity. Foundation researchers theorize SCP-011 was once tied to an external entity, but this entity no longer exists.
Addendum 011-1: Experiment Log (Excerpts)
Test 011-A: D-1013 writes the name of a random civilian (selected from census). Civilian, located 5,000 km away, dies of sudden cardiac arrest 38 seconds later. Confirmed long-range efficacy.
Test 011-B: D-994 writes "John Smith" without visualizing the subject. No effect recorded. Requirement of facial recognition confirmed.
Test 011-C: Researcher writes "D-774, struck by car at 14:05." At 14:05, a Foundation transport vehicle malfunctioned, resulting in D-774 being fatally struck. Probability manipulation suggested.
Test 011-D: Attempted entry: "D-209, immortal life." Text vanished within 2 minutes. No anomalous effect.