Ghost Gas Masks

Item:	"Ghost Gas Masks"
Type:	Protective Concealing Headgear
Usage Precautions:	Usage restricted to those with proper clearance (Black-keycard) and approval of 3 BETA-staff
Handling Precautions:	N/A
CAUTION:	Wearing defective masks will lead to termination.

The original gas mask created by Dr. Karl

Usage
Item is issued as the protective headgear of the Insurgency's black ops and special forces. The object is used in sabotage, assassination and espionage missions. Operatives using the item must have the approval of two Beta-level officers and have a Black keycard presented upon request. Damage, loss or destruction of the object will result in probation/termination.

Following Incident 014-SCPF/112, acquisition and usage of the object must be checked to prevent defective masks. Each mask is now outfitted with a remote-activated shock node that delivers 50,000 volts of electricity to the subject in case of a defective item.

Report
The object is distributed and stored at the armories of selected Insurgency facilities. Each instance of the item is stored inside a transparent poly-carbonate case with a Black keycard-activated lock mechanism. At least one additional guard is stationed at each armory containing the object.

The item is a gas mask of 19██ era Allied standard issue gas mask origin. The mask is made of a flexible aramid-like fiber that blocks the effects of chemical and radioactive agents to the user's body. The item's goggles have been outfitted with poly-carbonate viewing lenses.

The interior part of the filter, when put on a subject's face, gives off an aromatic gas that creates a relaxed state for the wearer and alters activity in the Broca's area of the frontal lobe to reduce the wearer's desire to speak. This chemical also alters the eyes and allows it to adjust to blinding or pitch-dark environments. The mask also restructures the composition of the user's body to become semi-transparent.

The filter has been modified into a device that converts the carbon dioxide the user gives off into an as of yet unknown blister-nerve agent that is capable of causing shock and death within 20 seconds of contact. This gas is intermittently given off by the filter and can affect biological organisms in a 2 meter radius.

Some instances of the item are defective and cause permanent psychological abnormalities and facial deformities. Defective items should be reported for proper disposal. Personnel reported to be under the effects of defective instances are to be killed via the shock node.

Access Item Acquisition Report

Appendix
Item was the product of the Allies' OSS FACADE Program, which was dedicated to creating a mass-produced protective gear for the Allied military and civilians. Insurgency agents in the U.S. 2nd Army and the British Secret Service coordinated with defecting OSS agents to locate and retrieve the masks, which were kept at the Black Forest Allied Research Lab in Germany.

Due to the threat of the secrecy of the lab and the Insurgency being compromised, the Insurgency had to infiltrate Nazi divisions for thirteen months to gain access and sabotage their intelligence operations in the region. Upon initial discovery, 2██ instances of the item were recovered, along with a pamphlet belonging to a Allied propagandist newspaper

Access Excerpt from OSS Item Report

ALLIED MAD SCIENTIST CLAIMS TO HAVE CREATED NEWEST WEAPON IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE NAZI REGIME!

Allied toxicologist Dr. Karl ██████ has reportedly created a gas mask capable of protecting Allied forces while creating a nerve agent that can poison enemy forces!

In the words of the doctor himself:
"The First World War was known for being fought in the trenches. The strategy of hiding in dirt ditches in a waiting game with the enemy has taken its toll to Allied morale and safety, especially with the invention of the chemical weapon. Already, poisonous gases, volatile compounds and even the Smallpox virus has been weaponized by the enemy in a cowardly attempt at demoralizing our nations and our people. The distribution and development of gas masks to our citizens itself has not sufficiently progressed enough to ensure their security.

From my own research on toxins, I have taken an ordinary gas mask and turned it into a weapon. Using a revolutionary method that makes use of a new, durable fiber, and a device I myself created by reverse-engineering a Nazi prototype, I present a headgear capable of providing unmatched protection from toxins, poisons and radiation while converting the air you exhale into a deadly nerve agent. What's more, the mask is designed to inhibit speech and create a calm, relaxed effect for the wearer. It makes the soldier inside stealthier, quieter and deadlier. We could create the perfect assassin. With this, we could strike terror into the hearts and lungs of our enemies.

With proper funding, this mask will be mass produced everywhere. Our masked military will overrun Berlin, defile the city with gas and radiation and decay, and turn the Nazi capital into a wasteland of dead Germans and killer gas. This will ensure that our reputation as a formidable superpower on the world stage will be consolidated.

It should be noted that Dr. Karl was erased from official records following the breach of the Black Forest lab.

Incident 014-SCPF/112, Alpha Clearance

Appendix
Reports suggest the raid of the German research lab was known and witnessed by SCP operatives stationed at Black Forest, allowing the Foundation to retrieve vital

Earliest recorded outbreak, 1941

information regarding the operation and kill six operators of Mobile Assault Unit C-6.

This breach of data is suspected to have caused the Foundation's infiltration of four Insurgency armories and the capture of thirty-two (32) instances of the item. However, most instances of the item that were stolen were designated defective by item usage researchers.

The main malfunction of the defective gas masks is a chemical reaction of the gas that alters the function of the user's brain to the deadly gas produced by the filter; test subjects that wore the masks slowly lost the ability to talk, even without the masks on. Repeated usage of the masks caused the Broca's area of the brain to become dormant and eventually become totally inactive. The anesthetic damages most parts of the cerebrum that control personality, individuality and self-preservation. It also alters the subject's facial structure and slowly liquefies them over time. The nose and mouth will gradually disappear and merge with the rest of the face while the eyes remain unaffected.

After approximately 3-6 days after continued usage of the item, all distinctive facial and psychological characteristics of affected subjects are lost, excluding skin color, hair and fingerprints. These subjects will henceforth be called 014-1.

All instances of 014-1 are reported to share a collective consciousness that allows them to efficiently coordinate with each other, as well as sharing information subjects had prior and after malfunction. All 014-1 individuals are mostly dormant or passive, but become hostile when in approximately 2 meters from poisonous, radioactive or contagious details. Hostile instances of 014-1 are capable of creating a corrosive gas inside their abdomen and later explode violently to release it.

ACCESSING FOUNDATION DOCUMENT LEAK 561, ALPHA CLEARANCE NEEDED_

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When the Foundation retrieved the defective items, they theorized that the anomalous properties of the item were useful, and began manufacturing them. The initial testing of the item was considered a success, and several crates containing the item were sent to Foundation-monitored locations. However, when the Foundation's surveillance division in the locations lost contact over the course of two days after initial deployment, teams that were sent to investigate found out that all locations were completely overrun by hostile instances of 014-1. The affected subjects were noted to have gathered in unsanitary locations and interacted in an anarchic-communistic society.

Foundation mobile task force records indicate that considerable purging of 014-1 instances took fourteen weeks and caused 43 Foundation and 162 014-1 casualties. The area where the 014-1 instances congregated was found to be toxic and insusceptible to clean-up operations for the next 40 20 years, with the gases being spread out as far as 2 km away from the area. The Foundation has established a perimeter around the area under the guise of the city being destroyed in a Nazi sabotage operation. Intelligence records suggest that a rogue manufacturer was responsible for the unauthorized creation of more than 400 items. As of now, manufacturing of the defective gas masks is not confirmed to have been stopped, with outbreaks of 014-1 still being recorded as lately as May 2014.

As of November █, 19██, object's class has been heightened to Omega. A smokescreen protocol is to be created wherein non-Alpha personnel will receive a fake object file, with usage procedures and object class have been changed.

As of June 11, 2014, following the OC restructuring, the smokescreen and security protocols for the item have been tightened, with restrictions becoming stricter after the discovery that instances of the item have the possibility of turning defective. Testing to find the factors that provoke this change is ongoing.

As of now, there are 160 safe instances, 54 untested instances and nine defective instances.

It should be noted that a few defective masks are still unknown and in Insurgency custody. Precaution should be done when attempting to use the item, along with an easy, executable and clean termination plan. We don't want any 014-1 to know where we are. - Dr. Martin Caduceus, post-testing analysis of defective masks.