Equipping the gas mask also allows the player to hide from any roaming hazards that may have been near them inside the facility. However, any damage inflicted to the player by an SCP-1499-1 instance will linger once SCP-1499 is removed. Removing the gas mask will return the player to the location where they initially equipped it, regardless of how far they travel in the landscape. Upon equipping SCP-1499, the player will be transported to the landscape. SCP-1499 can be found inside a wooden box in its containment chamber. Upon removing SCP-1499 from their head, the subject will reappear in the same location they were in when they put it on. The victim is then transported to a barren and inhospitable landscape, with tall black towers filling the area. Approximately one second after SCP-1499 is fully secured on the subject's head, the subject vanishes from view, and is no longer detectable. The anomalous effects of SCP-1499 activate when a human places SCP-1499 on their head.
