SCP-7933 : X is for Xing

Name: X is for Xing
Author: daveyoufool
Rating: 272/290
Created at: Fri Oct 28 2022

Notice from the 59-Deucalion team

Due to the ongoing ØK-class Artistic Singularity Event brought about by SCP-7933, this article has been screened for potential narrative qualities. The threat of SCP-7933 contamination for this document has been determined to be 23%. Proceed with caution.

But sadly, the hairy monkeys were warriors by nature.
If any of the affected video instances are played from the beginning, a ten-minute film plays with the title card "munky x-ing". During the film, 4,9202 mandrills walk from the left side of the screen to the right. The backdrop varies, but will usually resemble either a desert or a scene from the film prior to SCP-7933 contamination. Revisited audio files will be silent, save for the sound of several hundred mandrills breathing.
And besides, their monkeys' secret business in the East was just that important.
It is believed that if SCP-7933 is allowed to propagate undisturbed, it would cause an ØK-class Artistic Singularity Event.
The hairless monkeys grew angry, because the things that were being destroyed were of great value.

Addendum 1 - Incident-7933-859

But the hairy monkeys had no way to explain themselves.
On 5/5/2024, during the initial waves of the SCP-7933 narrative pandemic, a performance of Rigoletto at the Lyric Opera of Chicago was suddenly interrupted during Act I by new material, sung without orchestral accompaniment. Although the libretto and sheet music used by the cast had also been affected, the cast had not rehearsed this number before.
So the hairless monkeys could only assume that this was being done in cold blood.
It should be noted that no real mandrills appeared during the performance. Every physical reaction to mandrill attacks was pantomimed.
And I, the last sage of our tribe, made one final push for understanding…

Libretto excerpt of the anomalous section (Translated from Italian)

Marullo: Great news! Great news!

Chorus: What has happened? Tell us.

Marullo: This will amaze you!

Chorus, Borsa: Tell us, tell us.

Marullo: Ah! Ah! Rigoletto…

(Rigoletto suddenly inters in a state of dishevelment.)

Marullo: Soft! I must not tell while he is present.

Chorus: It's him! How frightened he looks…

Rigoletto: God help us all!

Marullo: And what would a jester know of God?

Rigoletto: They are upon us! The monkeys!

Duke: Have mercy on my poor jester, for he has gone mad. There are no monkeys in my court.

Marullo: Perhaps your jester looked in a mirror!

Chorus, Borsa: Ha, ha! That was a joke! Ha, ha!

Rigoletto: Behold!

(Everyone sees the monkeys.)

Chorus: What horror! Monkeys!

Duke: They leap upon my throat with rapid stride! See how the blood gushes from my neck like a fountain! Oh, I am dying. Dying feels worse than sleeping with my courtiers' wives. But alas, that is what I am doing. What cruelty! I am very dead.

Chorus: Monkeys, monkeys!

Rigoletto: They bite me once again! How I die!

Chorus: Monkeys, monkeys!

Marullo: I am also having my arms torn off by monkeys.

Chorus: Monkeys, monkeys! Everybody is now dead.

(All die. Curtain.)

But what can be done?
Following the performance, the entire cast had fallen into comas. Only the actress who played the role of Gilda was responsive to rescue efforts, claiming in Italian that "I cannot move, for the monkeys have torn out my heart."
Even if my words reach you, will you accept them?

Addendum 2 - Note from the Administrator regarding SCP-7933 (revised)

Even I can see the value of what has been lost.

Good evening, my friends.

The drop in morale ever since the threshold-meeting event hasn't gone unnoticed. I doubt an extension of my sympathy is going to fix anything, but even those among us who've laughed off SCP-7933 as "that silly monkey thing" have begun to feel the misery of the contagion's impact.

We can survive without stories. We can survive without art. But there is a difference between surviving and living.

But make no mistake: the resilience of the human mind has taken us this far. That is why I am announcing the third contingency, to be drafted immediately: Contingency 59-Prometheus. Through 59-Prometheus, the brightest minds of the Foundation will work together to create a new and untouchable form of human expression that why do I hear broken glass? What's that ungodly howling noise?

Oh, no. It cannot be. The mandrills. They're climbing all over me. They're biting into my neck. God help me. Ow. Ow.

Stop it, monkeys. Go away. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

I am now dead. Monkeys win.

There are now a hundred times a hundred monkeys walking across my corpse in a big line to the East. They're going off to do their monkey jobs. It's a good thing they're so much better and stronger than me.

Good luck with your monkey jobs, monkeys. Not that you'll need it.

I love you, monkeys. Thank you for destroying me.

— The Administrator

SCP-7933 is survivable. That, in itself, is hopeful.

(…and you'll understand, of course, if I'm not exactly in the mood to write out the whole damned thing all over again. Keeping it shorter seems to help — for now, at least.)

Good luck. You'll need it.

— The Administrator

But all the same, it's no fault of ours, either.

Perhaps our tribes are just that incompatible.

And so, it is with a heavy heart that I must inform you

that this document, and everything within, has been eaten by monkeys.

So consider this my final, desperate plea for you

to take the fucking hint

and get out of the way.

Eastward bound,

and off, we, go…

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