SCP-4489

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= **SCP-4489** - //Apologies//

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Authored by Kain Pathos Crow, rewritten by djkaktus.

I wrote this as a rewrite of SCP-089-ARC. That article wasn't very good, so hopefully this is a little better.
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**Image Credits:**
hobo.png is from [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carving_by_Olaf_Trygg_hobo_Emmett_Kelly.jpg here].
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|text-bottom=The following file is Level 2/4489 Classified
**Unauthorized access is forbidden.**
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[[include component:image-block name=hobo.png|align=right|width=35%|caption=SCP-4489]]

**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-4489 is contained within a low-security item locker at Site-81. Access to SCP-4489 is to be granted only with permission from the Site-81 research authority.

**Description:** SCP-4489 is a small, carved wooden statue of a cartoon hobo. Individuals exposed to SCP-4489 in close proximity will gradually begin to express feelings of guilt, often as a result of minor or non-existent slights they feel that they have somehow inflicted on those around them. Prolonged exposure to SCP-4489 often leads to such inflated feelings of guilt and regret that the subject becomes inconsolable or otherwise impossible to interact with until SCP-4489 is removed. 

Subjects typically return to a baseline behavior after SCP-4489 has been removed, time depending on the length of time exposed.

**Addendum 4489.1:** Testing Log

//For testing purposes, SCP-4489 was set on a table in the center of a standard testing chamber. Subjects were then exposed to SCP-4489 in various scenarios and for various lengths of time.//

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**CONTROL Test Log 4489.1.0**
[[size 80%]]**Site-81**[[/size]]
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**Description:** SCP-4489 is set on a table in the middle of a testing chamber. D-91411 introduced to the testing chamber for a period of 5 minutes.

**Outcome:** D-91411 is removed from the chamber after 5 minutes. Subject apologizes for being such a boring test subject.
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**Test Log 4489.1.1**
[[size 80%]]**Site-81**[[/size]]
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**Description:** SCP-4489 is set on a table in the middle of a testing chamber. D-95641 introduced to the testing chamber for a period of 20 minutes.

**Outcome:** D-95641 is removed from the chamber after 20 minutes. D-95641 weeps openly upon extraction, stating that she "didn't mean to breathe so much in there but it just couldn't be helped".
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**Test Log 4489.1.2**
[[size 80%]]**Site-81**[[/size]]
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**Description:** SCP-4489 is set on a table in the middle of a testing chamber. D-98446 introduced to the testing chamber for a period of 1 hour.

**Outcome:** D-98446 must be physically removed from the chamber and is inconsolable for several hours afterwards. Once D-98446 is sufficiently calmed, he apologizes profusely for "having to pee so bad". 
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**Test Log 4489.1.3**
[[size 80%]]**Site-81**[[/size]]
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**Description:** SCP-4489 is set on a table in the middle of a testing chamber. D-84544 and D-91101 introduced to the testing chamber for a period of 5 minutes.

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**TEST AUDIO RECORDING TRANSCRIPT**
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//D-91101 and D-84544 enter containment chamber. After a few moments, SCP-4489 is brought into the chamber and sat on a table.//

**D-91101:** So what now? We just sit here?

**Dr. Brannaugh:** Yep. You just sit there.

**D-84544:** Got it.

//Eight seconds pass.//

**D-84544:** Hey, buddy.

**D-91101:** Yeah guy?

**D-84544:** Look, I just wanted to apologize for getting all up in your space right now. I shouldn't be doing that.

//Note: D-84544 and D-91101 are currently more than 3m apart.//

**D-91101:** Oh, God, you don't need to apologize to me, man. I'm sorry for making you feel like you were in my space. You're not in my space; if anything, I'm in //your// space.

**D-84544:** No, oh man, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you didn't know what your space was, or whether I was in it, honestly. I hope you can forgive me, please.

**D-91101:** (//Tears begin to form in the subject's eyes//) Oh no, I can't believe I've done this to you. I can't believe I put you in a position where you felt like you needed to apologize to me for an implication that I misread. I'm so sorry pal, I didn't mean to hurt you this way. I'll get out of your space now.

//D-91101 moves to the corner of the containment cell. D-84544 bursts into tears and collapses to the ground.//

**D-84544:** (//Through tears//) No- I- I'm so- I'm so sorry you- you felt like- like you had to walk all that way just- just to satisfy my- my- my unreasonable space needs- I'm sorry- (//sniff//) Please for- forgive me. (//Weeps openly//)

**D-91101:** No! I'm sorry for what I've done to you! It was my actions that reduced you to this! I am to blame! I'm sorry!

**D-84544:** (//Crawling to the opposite corner of the room//) Wh-what? I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over- over the sound of- of- of my own distracting- sobbing.

**D-91101:** (//Shouting and weeping//) OH GOD PLEASE NO WHY DO I DO THIS TO PEOPLE, I'M SO SORRY FOR INCONVENIENCING YOU LIKE THIS BY NOT PROPERLY ARTICULATING. I'M SO SORRY.

**D-84544:** I'm- I'm sorry my- my ears are so- so- (//sobs//) so dysfunctional.

**D-91101:** I'M SORRY MY INADEQUACIES HAVE PUT THIS EAR DOUBT UPON YOU, YOUR EARS ARE FINE AND I AM AT FAULT FOR BEING SUCH AN OBNOXIOUS, INARTICULATE BUFFOON.

**D-84544:** It- it- it was my hideous visage that- that did this to you, please- (//turns to face into the corner//) please let me sp- spare you my horrible face. I'm s-s-sorry I am so hideous.

**D-91101:** PLEASE, PLEASE LET ME APOLOGIZE FOR SHOULDERING YOU WITH THIS INSURMOUNTABLE AND MISPLACED SELF-DOUBT. I AM THE ONE WITH THE HIDEOUS FACE. (//Turns to face corner//) PLEASE FORGIVE ME, MY SOUL CANNOT HANDLE THIS GREAT REGRET I FEEL FOR HARMING YOU IN THIS WAY.

**D-84544:** My entire life exists only to- to- to be a mockery of a just existence. (//Inconsolable sobbing//)

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//After an additional two minutes of D-84544 and D-91101 screaming apologies into the corners of the testing chamber, both subjects are removed and SCP-4489 is returned to storage.//
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> **Filename:** hobo.png
> **Name:** Carving by Olaf Trygg hobo Emmett Kelly.jpg
> **Author:** Trygg grandson
> **License:** CC BY-SA 3.0
> **Source Link:** [http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/file:carving_by_Olaf_Trygg_hobo_Emmett_Kelly.jpg Wikimedia Commons]
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