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SCP-1499 is an inanimate object from the mythos of the SCP Foundation website. Its debut story, SCP-1499 — The Gas Mask, was posted in 2012 by a writer known as Trasknari.

SCP-1499 is a GP-5 (🇷🇺: Гражда́нский Противога́з-5 Grazhdanskiy Protivogaz-5 "Civilian Anti-Gas #5"), a model of civilian-issue gas mask distributed by the Soviet Union from 1962 to 1990. Like all GP-5, SCP-1499 is a "helmet-style" mask that encompasses the wearer's head and comes with a single-filter ShM-62, which vacuum chamber testing indicates should function as standard when worn. Instead of functioning as a normal gas mask however, approximately one second after SCP-1499 is fully secured on a wearer's head, the wearer will be teleported to another location and will only return to their original location upon removal of SCP-1499.

Wearers teleported by SCP-1499 describe arriving in a barren landscape interspersed with tall black towers and populated by monstrous humanoid entities (designated SCP-1499-1). SCP-1499's wearers are capable of two-way radio communication with their original location such as by wearing a headset under the mask. Wearers can return with an object acquired from the traveled location, such as if they were to hold a human heart.

SCP-1499's landscape was initially assumed to be an extradimensional location, but is now presumed that it instead teleports wearers to somewhere in the Soviet Union's former territories, and the realm and entities perceived are in fact ordinary humans and civilization distorted through SCP-1499's lenses; this was postulated following the events of an exploration where an agent went rogue, which coincided with an unidentified gunman with the same equipment committing a mass shooting at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia.

External Links

• SCP Foundation Wikidot
• SCP-1499 — The Gas Mask