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Foundation SCPSYSTEM NT [Version 3.5.182733] <C> Copyright 19██-20██ FoundationSystems. |>: Open file_scp-3666 |> Password Required: brokEN896piLLAr28 |> Credentials Accepted. |> Warning: This file has multiple iterations. Show all? (Y/N) |> Warning: This file has multiple iterations. Show all? (Y/N) |>: Y |> Loading… Iteration #1 (07/05/2018) Iteration #2 (04/09/2019) Iteration #3 (01/01/2021) Iteration #4 (05/12/2023) Item #: SCP-3666 Special Containment Procedures: Each individual affected by SCP-3666 is to be confined within a standard humanoid cell. Several researchers are to study the immune system and DNA of affected individuals to further understanding of SCP-3666. Doctors are to analyze affected immune systems for potential health risks and damage. Alternative amnestic treatments are to be utilized Research is to be conducted to find or create new medicine with the capacity to alter memories. Description: SCP-3666 is an allergic inflammatory reaction to the presence of amnestic proteins and substances within the bloodstream of affected individuals. Immune systems modified by SCP-3666 are unable to change or adapt to both normal anti-allergy treatments and those developed by the Foundation. As of now, no gene or allele has been correlated to the creation of SCP-3666 within the genome of affected individuals. Currently, 147 individuals from Scandinavian origin have been diagnosed with SCP-3666. This corresponds to the total population of the former town of Ahni, Norway. The town did not exhibit any anomalous properties which could lead to the activation of SCP-3666 within unaffected or affected individuals. Since the arrival of Foundation forces, the town has been shut down. Individuals affected by SCP-3666 show regular symptoms of digestion or skin related allergies when exposed to Class-B to Class-F amnestics which are ingested or inserted into the patient. Individuals affected by SCP-3666 show symptoms of respiratory related allergies to Class-A amnestics which are inhaled. Affected immune systems effectively eliminate all amnestic substances while inside or before they can reach blood vessels within the brain. Due to this effect, all affected individuals are effectively impervious to the main effects and side-effects of all amnestic treatments. SCP-3666 is capable of adapting itself to protect the central nervous system from memetics and cognitohazards which target regions of the brain processing long-term and short-term memory. Discovery Log: SCP-3666 was discovered following Incident-█████-O near Ahni, Norway. Foundation forces were quick to administer Class-A amnestics to residents exposed to the incident. Exposed residents did not forget the incident following the administration. All residents were found to possess the same SCP-3666 properties and were relocated to Site-52 for further examination. Item #: SCP-3666 Special Containment Procedures: All border exits from and entrances to Norway are to be closed immediately. All Norwegian airlines are to be dissolved. All phone lines, social media, and internet connections from and to Norway are to be cut off. A disinformation campaign led by the Foundation is to create and spread rumors of a lethal virulent pathogen in Norway on social media, television networks, and radio stations. All information found contradicting the campaign is to be removed. All Foundation personnel stationed at Site-52 or who have come into contact with individuals affected by SCP-3666 are to remain in Norway. All personnel who have travelled to other countries after being stationed at Site-52 are to be traced and located and are to remain in their respective countries. These countries are to be locked down in a manner similar to that of Norway. Foundation resources are to be invested or redirected to research into vaccines or cures for SCP-3666 infection. When or if a vaccine is found, the population of all non-lockdown countries is to be vaccinated. When or if a cure is found, the population of all lockdown countries is to be cured before SCP-3666 is capable of contaminating non-lockdown countries. Foundation sites, areas, anomalies, and personnel which have not come into contact with SCP-3666 and are within lockdown countries are to be relocated to non-lockdown countries through Foundation forces. Foundation sites and areas which have come into contact with SCP-3666 are to become "independent" while receiving funding from the Foundation. "Independent" sites and areas are to never come into contact with non-lockdown countries or non-independent sites and areas. The Foundation is to search for alternatives to standard amnestics and memory altering products. All information concerning SCP-3666 is restricted to Level 4 Clearance personnel and above. The disinformation campaign led by the Foundation is to also apply to Level 3 Clearance personnel and under. Description: SCP-3666 is an allergic inflammatory reaction to the presence of amnestic proteins and substances within the bloodstream of affected individuals. Immune systems modified by SCP-3666 are unable to change or adapt to both normal anti-allergy treatments and those developed by the Foundation. As of now, no gene or allele has been correlated to the creation of SCP-3666 within the genome of affected individuals. Individuals affected by SCP-3666 show regular symptoms of digestion or skin related allergies when exposed to Class-B to Class-F amnestics which are ingested or inserted into the patient. Individuals affected by SCP-3666 show symptoms of respiratory related allergies to Class-A amnestics which are inhaled. Affected immune systems effectively eliminate all amnestic substances while inside or before they can reach blood vessels within the brain. Due to this effect, all affected individuals are effectively impervious to the main effects and side-effects of all amnestic treatments. SCP-3666 is capable of adapting and modifying the central nervous system to protect it from memetics and cognitohazards which target regions of the brain processing long-term and short-term memory. Alternative amnestics and memory altering products are completely ineffective at suppressing SCP-3666 in affected individuals. SCP-3666 is capable of spreading from person to person through unknown means. Due to its rapid spread, the cause of SCP-3666 is hypothesized to be a virus or a meme. The virus or the meme would be unable to be detected by the host's immune system and would be successful at perturbing it to create the effects of SCP-3666. As of 04/09/2019, SCP-3666 contaminates the entire population of Norway. Item #: SCP-3666 Special Containment Procedures: All countries are to integrate Procedure-065-Abschirmung. Procedure-065-Abschirmung ensures: The removal of all border exits and entrances from and to other countries. The independence of all autonomous regions. The removal of all international communication lines. This includes all social media, phone connections, radio stations, e-mails, mail and television networks. All countries are to have information, social, and communication networks isolated from other countries. Monthly analyzation of citizens by Foundation forces to detect the presence of SCP-3666. The relocation of unaffected sites, personnel, anomalies and areas from countries affected by SCP-3666 to unaffected countries. Worldwide effort to suppress and negate the effects of SCP-3666. The autonomy of all sites and areas affected by SCP-3666. Contact with affected sites and areas is to be cut off. Affected sites and areas are to still receive funding from the Foundation. Information concerning SCP-3666 is restricted to Level 4 Clearance personnel and above. All analyzation of individuals affected is to be automatic and never manual. Personnel are to always stay 50 meters away from affected individuals. Description: SCP-3666 is an allergic inflammatory reaction to the presence of amnestic proteins and substances within the bloodstream of affected individuals. Immune systems modified by SCP-3666 are unable to change or adapt to both normal anti-allergy treatments and those developed by the Foundation. As of now, no gene or allele has been correlated to the creation of SCP-3666 within the genome of affected individuals. Individuals affected by SCP-3666 show regular symptoms of digestion or skin related allergies when exposed to Class-B to Class-F amnestics which are ingested or inserted into the patient. Individuals affected by SCP-3666 show symptoms of respiratory related allergies to Class-A amnestics which are inhaled. Affected immune systems effectively eliminate all amnestic substances while inside or before they can reach blood vessels within the brain. Due to this effect, all affected individuals are effectively impervious to the main effects and side-effects of all amnestic treatments. SCP-3666 is capable of adapting and modifying the central nervous system to protect it from memetics and cognitohazards which target regions of the brain processing long-term and short-term memory. If an individual comes within a 30 meter area of an individual affected by SCP-3666, the healthy individual will be contaminated by SCP-3666. This area is expanding in size since its discovery. The growth of the area is not proportional to its time of growth, it is accelerating rapidly. No direct causes to SCP-3666 have been found. All attempts to reengineer immune systems to suppress SCP-3666 have failed. Immune systems of subjects have become stronger following these attempts. SCP-3666 is capable of reconnecting memories to the central nervous system following its infection of amnesticized individuals with standard amnestics. Standard amnestics only "freeze" and isolate certain parts and memories of the brain to produce memory loss. SCP-3666 has recently been discovered to reverse the aforementioned amnestic treatment. As of 01/01/2021, only nine areas remain unaffected by SCP-3666, these include: Greenland (Denmark) Canada Siberia (Russia) Iceland Svalbard (Norway) French Polynesia (France) Antarctica Alaska (United States) Franz Josef Land (Russia) |>: Open file_dr-toriang-notes |> Loading… (05/02/2022) We have tried so many ways to cure SCP-3666, to find a way to stop its spread, but we failed each time. We have tried to connect it with some imperfections within the human DNA, but to no avail. We have blamed memes, viruses, and bacterias, but there were no scapegoats to burn. There is no cure, no vaccine, no gene or brain editing that can be made. There is only SCP-3666 and we are powerless against it. Many of our SCPs cannot live within the conditions imposed by regions of the world which aren't affected by SCP-3666. With the exception of French Polynesia, they're desolate and cold environments. Another problem arises when sites centered around location-based anomalies are infected by SCP-3666. We will find new ways to fight SCP-3666. The world is still not ready. Item #: SCP-3666 Special Containment Procedures: Procedure-065-Abschirmung successfully executed. The Foundation is to enter an emergency state. All methods to circumvent amnestic usage are to be utilized, such as: Execution of personnel. Increases in deployment of Mobile Task Force Gamma-5 ("Red Herrings") Removal of all information found to be cognitohazardous or infohazardous or critical to the Foundation on radio stations, television, news papers, and social media. Installment of martial law within countries through puppet or shadow governments if necessary. Monthly reevaluation of containment procedures. Reevaluation of the Ethics Committee. Information concerning SCP-3666 is restricted to Level 4 Clearance personnel and above. Description: SCP-3666 is an allergic inflammatory reaction to the presence of amnestic proteins and substances within the bloodstream of affected individuals. Immune systems modified by SCP-3666 are unable to change or adapt to both normal anti-allergy treatments and those developed by the Foundation. As of now, no gene or allele has been correlated to the creation of SCP-3666 within the genome of affected individuals. Individuals affected by SCP-3666 show regular symptoms of digestion or skin related allergies when exposed to Class-B to Class-F amnestics which are ingested or inserted into the patient. Individuals affected by SCP-3666 show symptoms of respiratory related allergies to Class-A amnestics which are inhaled. Affected immune systems effectively eliminate all amnestic substances while inside or before they can reach blood vessels within the brain. Due to this effect, all affected individuals are effectively impervious to the main effects and side-effects of all amnestic treatments. SCP-3666 is capable of adapting and modifying the central nervous system to protect it from memetics and cognitohazards which target regions of the brain processing long-term and short-term memory. If an individual comes within a 30 m 78 m area of an individual affected by SCP-3666, the healthy individual will be contaminated by SCP-3666. This area is expanding in size since its discovery. The growth of the area is not proportional to its time of growth, it is accelerating rapidly. No direct causes to SCP-3666 have been found. All attempts to reengineer immune systems to suppress SCP-3666 have failed. Immune systems of subjects have become stronger following these attempts. SCP-3666 is capable of reconnecting memories to the central nervous system following its infection of amnesticized individuals with standard amnestics. Standard amnestics only "freeze" and isolate certain parts and memories of the brain to produce memory loss. SCP-3666 has recently been discovered to reverse the aforementioned amnestic treatment. As of 05/12/2023, SCP-3666 contaminates the entire world population. |>: Open file_scp-3666-incidents |> Loading… Incident-A (12/01/2025): Several Level 1-2 Clearance personnel were made aware of 27 controversial O5 Council documents due to a breach of information from the Foundation archives. All members of the former O5 Council were executed before Foundation forces were capable of overcoming the attack. Further methods to protect the O5 Council and critical files have put in place. Incident-B (09/01/2029): The entirety of Site-87 and Area-45 were exposed to broadcasts of a Level 4-5 Clearance meeting from an unknown source. To avoid an attack similar to Incident-A, all personnel having viewed the broadcast were executed by a firing squad with the exception of Level 4-5 personnel. Executed personnel within Site-87 and Area-45 were replaced. The decision destabilized relations between higher and lower personnel following breaches of information of the event. Terminating lower personnel made aware of the event is still in question. Incident-C (05/05/2031): The population of Turkey, France, Norway, and Australia were made aware of the Foundation's existence through several breaches of information on their respective internet networks. Aforementioned information was published by Dr █████, a Foundation insider who was later found and executed. All mentions of Dr █████'s reports were rapidly removed. The information was memetic in nature; informed individuals were unable to forget or believe that the information was false. Several counter-memes were initiated, all were unsuccessful at preventing destabilization of governments and government trust within the aforementioned countries. Sites, areas, and Foundation officials were relocated. Incident-D (07/09/2035): The Ethics Committee was charged for several crimes of fraud, corruption, and high treason against the O5 Council and the Administrator. All of its members were executed. The Ethics Committee was reformed under stricter guidelines. All decisions concerning administrative laws or executive orders proposed by the Ethics Committee are to be reevaluated by the O5 Council and the Administrator. In order to replace roles maintained by the Ethics Committee, the Administrator was given supplementary and emergency powers within the council. Footnotes 1. SCP-3666 was reclassified as Gevurah by O5 Council vote due to its ability to influence the Foundation's inner structure and secondary objectives. |>: Close file_scp-3666 |> Closing File… |>: Delete search-history |> Deleting history… |>: Shutdown scpsystem |> Shutting down… ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3666" by SpookyPizza, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3666. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3667 following Incident Report 17/12/2010. SCP-3667-1a is out of frame. Item: SCP-3667 Special Containment Procedures: Display initial containment procedures Hide initial containment procedures MTF Chi-5 members inspecting SCP-3667's anti-aircraft missile network. SCP-3667 is to be continually monitored by members of MTF Chi-5 (“Solomon’s SEALs”), with additional personnel requested from Site-574 as necessary. As of 14/01/2012, the Mirny mine has been outfitted with surface-to-air missile systems around its perimeter, to eliminate potential SCP-3667-1 instances; civilians are discouraged from entering the grounds on the pretext of unstable terrain, and will be detained and amnesticized if discovered trespassing. Any potential excursions into SCP-3667 must be approved by both the Site-574 Director, currently Ndeye Bocoume, and the Regional Administrator, Angelina Mikhailova. Display current containment procedures Hide current containment procedures Due to the large Foundation presence within SCP-3667, as well as the continued cooperation of sentient sub-instances, containment procedures have been reduced accordingly. MTF Chi-5 will continue to exterminate any non-compliant or non-sentient SCP-3667-1 sub-instances that pose a threat to Foundation personnel, but their duties have been expanded to include: a) mapping and analyzing SCP-3667’s topography and composition, and b) determining methods of utilizing SCP-3667-3 to contain existing SCPs. Description: SCP-3667 is a spatial anomaly located within a sinkhole at the bottom of the “Peace” kimberlite diamond mine (commonly referred to as the Mirny mine) in Mirny,1 Sakha Republic. Although ground-penetrating radar and magnetotelluric imaging techniques do not reveal any unusual structures below the mine or the town of Mirny, the sinkhole contains a Leibniz-class2 spatial anomaly, approximately 5km at its widest point and 6km at its highest point, consisting of a subterranean network of caves and passages, which contain: A variety of stone structures and complexes, usually crudely built; To date, 24 unique species, classified as SCP-3667-1a through -1x. Certain species are sapient, and the vast majority are anomalous. All species display hostility to humans, especially those of Russian descent; To date, approximately 12,000 anomalous human beings, classified collectively as SCP-3667-2, most suffering from varying degrees of psychological stress; A variety of machinery, mostly wooden, designed to imprison and/or torture humans or humanoid figures, classified as SCP-3667-3. Estimated perimeter of SCP-3667 overlaid on baseline topography (09/23/2016) Discovery: The sinkhole containing the entrance to SCP-3667 was formed on 17/12/2010, when workers at the Mirny mine performed a routine drilling operation. When the drill unexpectedly encountered the spatial anomaly and penetrated the cavern system of SCP-3667, the resulting cave-in killed at least one worker and injured several others. Initial exploration of the cave system by the workers identified some of the aforementioned stone structures and possible human remains; while attempting to contact their superiors, an instance of SCP-3667-1a violently emerged from the sinkhole and immolated the survivors. Foundation assets were scrambled from nearby Site-574 after intercepting dozens of police calls describing a winged humanoid creature; fires and collapsed buildings across the town of Mirny delayed the response time of Foundation personnel considerably. Ground troops proved ineffective in subduing or terminating the instance, and 17 MTF members were killed by immolation or falling debris before a Foundation helicopter was able to eliminate the threat. Aftermath of SCP-3667-1a attack, later explained as a gas leak. In the immediate aftermath, the town of Mirny was aerially amnesticized by Foundation operatives, and the extensive fire damage was attributed to a gas leak at the nearby Mirny Polytechnic Institute. Surviving workers and executives of the Alrosa mining company were amnesticized separately, and were led to believe that the Mirny mine had ceased production in 2004 and was now off-limits to the public. The existing surface-to-air missile system perimeter was established in anticipation of further SCP-3667-1a excursions, and SCP-3667 was classified as a Keter-class anomaly. To date, three further instances of SCP-3667-1a and one instance of SCP-3667-1f have exited the sinkhole; all have been swiftly terminated. Notable SCP-3667-1 Sub-Instances: This is a partial list only, emphasizing the most dangerous or noteworthy SCP-3667 species. For a complete list of sub-instances, see Document 3667-1: Complete List of Sub-Instances. SCP-3667-1a: Cynocephalic humanoid with large, bat-like wings, measuring approximately 3m in height. Entity is covered in short, coarse fur and continually exudes a flammable oil-like substance, which it is able to anomalously ignite and use in an offensive capacity. Captive entities display rudimentary cognitive ability, forming complex social structures and able to recognize recurring patterns in abstract shapes. SCP-3667-1f: Toad-like entity approximately 1m in height. Possesses no respiratory or digestive systems, and instead has a large, spike-filled cavity which instances have been observing using to transport SCP-3667-2 between variations of SCP-3667-3. Research is ongoing regarding how SCP-3667-1f performs metabolic functions without any apparent source of nutrients. SCP-3667-1m: Emaciated humanoid entity approximately 1.5m in height, with red-brown skin and oversized head. Entity displays human-level intelligence and speaks modern Russian, offering subjects wealth and power in exchange for cherished personal objects; however, the entity possesses no anomalous abilities and, as soon as a bargain is struck, will attempt to renegotiate for something readily available. SCP-3667-1x: Forty-eight kyphotic humanoids approximately 5m in height, covered in furs and wearing oversized skulls of a variety of tundra animals, primarily moose, deer, and elk. Entities speak Old Church Slavonic, but numerous grammatical errors and anachronisms indicate a familiarity with modern Russian. They refer to themselves collectively as магистрат, or “magistrates.” Exploration: On 20/03/2012, following the establishment of the Mirny mine perimeter and subsequent SCP-3667-1 excursions, exploration of SCP-3667 was deemed a priority by Regional Administrator Angelina Mikhailova. MTF Chi-5 was mobilized for initial exploration on 22/03/2012, and first entry into SCP-3667 occurred on 23/03/2012. All dialogue has been translated from Russian. Exploration Log 3667-A Hide Exploration Log Initial exploration is conducted by the four-man MTF Chi-5 Team One, selected by random draw. Team members are henceforth referred to by their designations Anna, Boris, Vasily, and Gregory. All are armed with ordnance, including small explosives and fragmentation grenades. Video and audio feeds are monitored by a temporary command station set up within the perimeter of the mine, to minimize interference. Mission parameters are to conduct preliminary observation of SCP-3667’s interior and assess its threat level. Anna: This is Anna, check, check. Boris: Boris, check. Vasily: Vasily, check. Gregory: Check. Command, do we have permission to enter the anomaly? Command: You’re all reading fine. Whenever you’re ready. Anna: Safeties off, boys and girls. We already know there’s shit down there. (As Team One enters the sinkhole, all audio and radio contact cuts off for approximately three seconds. When it is re-established, the team is standing on the floor of a large cave, dimly lit by a diffuse, unidentified source. Sounds of running water can be heard.) Still of SCP-3667 interior from Exploration 3667-A. Vasily: That felt – not right. Command: Team One, we lost contact with you there for a few seconds. Can you do a Hume check? Standard procedure.3 (Two minutes of radio silence. There are fainter sounds under the noise of the rushing water, but these are not readily identifiable and appear to be unnoticed by Team One.) Anna: Humes okay. Command: Vitals look good, too. Carry on. Gregory: Probably just the way the portal works that brought us here. Stable, Stationary, Unaided, Delayed… I don’t remember the rest. (Gregory’s camera turns to include the dimensional anomaly on this side, which appears as an uneven hole in the air with a clear view of the Mirny mine interior.) Gregory: Thing that flew through Mirny was probably drawn to the light. I’d want to get out of here, too. Boris: Word of caution, these rocks are loose up ahead. Anna: Noted. (Distinct crunching noises can be heard.) Gregory: These aren’t rocks, they’re – Anna: Probably skull fragments from the thing’s last victims. Nothing we haven’t seen before. Command, be advised that judging by sounds, we’re getting close to moving water. We might have to attempt a crossing. Command: Understood. Vasily: (Sniffs.) Nasty. Gregory: Command, please be advised that it smells rank in here. I’m gonna… I think it’s coming from up ahead. (The team approaches the source of the running water heard earlier: a wide stream, yellow-grey in appearance. The faint noises mentioned before appear to be tied to the river, and resolve into a number of voices whispering in Russian; however, the voices are too layered and indistinct to make out individual phrases. Again, Team One does not remark on this, appearing preoccupied with the river’s smell.) Vasily: Smells like rotten eggs. (Sniffs.) And… blood… and vanilla? Command: Vanilla? Gregory: No, he’s right. (Anna removes a small stone from the riverbank and tosses it in. No adverse effects on the stone are observed.) Anna: River seems okay. Boris, you take point. I’ll cover from behind. Command: Grab a sample of that water, if you will. Jars should be in your supply packs. Anna: Roger that. Gregory, that’s you. Gregory: Dammit. Anna: If you smell any other ice-cream flavours while you’re down there, just let us know. Gregory: Personal. This feels personal. Command: Team One, you’re operating on a very short clock here. The boys up the hill want you out of there by 1500 hours at the latest. Anna: Understood, Command. Boris, Vasily, you’re with me. Gregory, we’ll wait for you on the far side. (Team members Anna, Boris, and Vasily easily traverse the river, which transpires to be only ankle-deep. After collecting a sample of fluid, Gregory joins them. Unusual clumping patterns are observed in the water, which are briefly commented upon but ultimately dismissed as low-priority.) Anna: I’m seeing some… some very uniform stones on this side of the river, Command. Can anyone else confirm? This might be evidence of the remains of… some kind of structure. Boris: Vasily? Vasily: There’s definitely part of a wall over here. Structure confirmed. Segment of structure discovered by MTF Chi-5 Team One. Command: Alright. Can we get any idea of possible age, Team One? Does it look occupied? Gregory: I’m guessing a hundred, few hundred years old. Some of these bricks are disintegrating. Vasily: Looks abandoned. We could be dealing with some sort of sentient life down here, though, Command. Any primers on that? What do we do if we make contact? Command: You’re not cleared for that kind of interaction. If anything sentient’s still alive in there, we’ll send a specialist team another day. For now, your mission’s being cut short – I want you to scout out the extent of this structure, and then we’re bringing you out. Anna: There’s what looks like a hallway leading in. Let’s make this quick, boys and girls. (Team One proceeds down the hallway. Visibility quickly diminishes, and team members activate helmet lights.) Anna: Command, we’ve entered some kind of large… circular room. There aren’t any windows, but it looks a lot like one of those… church domes that let light through.4 There’s just rock at the top where a hole should be, though. Gregory: Some kind of artwork on the floor here. (The chamber’s floor is covered in an elaborate, though badly damaged, mosaic appearing to depict a variety of anomalous creatures, including some resembling SCP-3667-1a, reclining over a system of red and yellow rivers. Smaller, humanoid figures are also present, but it is unclear what they represent.) Vasily: Weird. Boris: Boys up the hill can handle that. Anna? Anna: There’s four hallways leading deeper into the structure here, Command. This thing might be bigger than I realized. Do you want us to keep pushing, or…? Command: Do what you can, Anna. Your call. Anna: Okay. Let’s do what we can. Team One, we’re going to split up. Boris, you’re taking tunnel number one. Vasily, you’re next. Gregory’s on tunnel number three, and I’ll take the last one. Anything goes wrong, you sound the alarm and we all retreat back to the portal. Command: Anna, you don’t have to – Anna: I’m going to get this thing searched for you, Command. Now, I want you watching all of us like hawks in there. Tell us the second that shit hits the fan. Command: Copy that. (Team members separate and proceed down their designated hallways. All hallways are identical: narrow and crudely built.) Gregory: Command, I think I’m approaching an exit. I feel a breeze. (Indistinct noises can be heard in the background of Gregory’s feed.) Gregory: Command? (Gregory’s headlight switches off.) Command: Shit. Gregory, come in. Anna: Command? What’s going on? Gregory: (whispering) Still here. Turned off my headlight. (Indistinct noises.) Gregory: (whispering) I think there’s something here. Command: Gregory, get back to your hallway and retreat to the portal. Anna, you too. I’m pulling you all out. Anna: I see you, Gregory. Stay where you are. (Anna’s headlight illuminates a large, spacious cavern, with three other entrances spaced evenly around the walls. Gregory is observed crouching behind an outcropping of rock several meters from the nearest entrance, and Vasily and Boris’ headlights are visible in the other two entrances, proving that all four hallways converge again at this point, although the reasons for this are unclear.) Gregory: Please, just turn off your lights. (Indistinct noises intensify and resemble breathing.) Gregory: It knows we’re here. Entity: Yes. Sinners. Foolish creatures. You should have stayed in your cages. (A large eyeless feline entity, approx. 10m in height, approaches from the far end of the cave.) Anna: Gregory, get out of there. Gregory: I fell down this hill. I can’t get back up. (Entity inhales deeply.) Entity: You do not have the mark of Ognyena. How did you find your way to this place, little mortals? You should not be here. Command: Anna, take Vasily and Boris and get out of there. I don’t want to lose all of you. Gregory: No. No. (Entity advances toward Gregory, who is seen fumbling with his pack.) Entity: You do not have the mark. When you die, you will not come back. That is good. Gregory: Goddammit, Anna, do something! (Gregory locates a fragmentation grenade from his pack and throws it at the entity.) Entity: Shiny baubles will not buy your life. (Entity picks up grenade in teeth and swallows.) That will be your head next, you foolish – (There is a muffled explosion, followed by several wet thumps.) Command: Anna! Anna, what’s going on? (Video feeds show Vasily and Boris have retreated to the hallways, while Anna and Gregory's cameras are either facing the ground or shaking enough to be unobservable.) Anna: We’re alright. I’m with Gregor now. We’re going to need a backup team to pick us up – I think he’s twisted an ankle from the fall. Command: Where… what’s the status on the feline entity? Is there any present danger? Anna: Yeah, the cat thing’s here too, but it’s missing, uh, most of its head. Your guys might want to take a look at it, anyways. Command: Oh. Anna: Looks like we kind of, uh, communicated with sentient entities after all. Sorry about that, Command. Command: Just – just hang tight, Anna. Anna: You bet. (MTF Chi-5 Team Two dispatched as backup, and all members of Team One recovered without further complications. Feline entity classified as SCP-3667-1b and portions removed from cadaver for further experimentation, although a full autopsy was not possible due to the entity’s state upon recovery.) END LOG Update 19/04/2012: Fluid sample from river recovered by MTF Chi-5 Team One features anomalous molecular structure and bonding sites, but will actively bond to organic molecules to create a cubic lattice, which accounts for unusual ripple patterns encountered during exploration. Research ongoing. Hide Exploration Log Exploration Log 3667-B Hide Exploration Log MTF Chi-5 Permanent Base Camp 3667: 04/10/2012 Following the success of initial SCP-3667 exploration and the continued reliability of the missile systems, a permanent base camp was established within the perimeter of the Mirny mine to house MTF Chi-5 personnel and to further monitor the spatial fluctuations giving rise to the anomaly. Exploration resumed on 30/10/2012, conducted by MTF Chi-5 Teams Two and Three and monitored from base camp. Mission parameters are to locate the source of SCP-3667’s spatial perturbations, and to further map its interior (avoiding areas previously reconnoitred by Team One). As before, all team members are armed with ordnance and small explosives. Yelena: Team Two, reporting in. Konstantin: Roll call, everybody. We’re here? Yes, good. Team Three’s ready as well, Command. Command: Good morning, everybody. I’m sure you’ve all watched the video transcripts from your colleagues in Team One by now, so you know what to expect inside there. Zhenya: A whole lot of kitten kibble. (Laughter.) Command: I hope you’ve brought your sleeping bags, because you’re going to be inside there for quite a while longer. Folks up the hill want you to find the source of the portal in the first place: I don’t know what they want to do with it, but don’t shut it down or anything. Team One reported coming across a stone structure in their investigation, so if you find anything similar that might be a good place to start. Leonid: Any updates on the monster situation? Command: You’re authorized to terminate anything you might come across in there. Administration doesn’t think you’ll be in any immediate danger, from what we’ve seen of the creatures inside there. They’re physically intimidating, but they tend to be… squishy. Konstantin: Excellent. Ivan: How’s Team One holding up? Command: Couldn’t be better. From what I’ve heard, they should be moved back to camp by the end of the week. Leonid: You should hear the shit Anna’s giving poor Gregory. Once his ankle’s healed she’ll probably break it again, just to teach him a lesson. (Laughter.) Command: I’ll be sure to tell him you wish him well. (Teams Two and Three successfully enter portal and perform Humes test. All readings normal.) Yelena: Five o’ clock’s where Team One explored. It looks like the cave might widen out at eleven o’ clock, so I’d recommend heading that way. Konstantin: Sounds good to me. Kratkiy: Something in here just doesn’t smell right. Anybody else getting that? It’s like – Zinaida: Yeah, Team One said the same thing. Apparently it comes from the rivers in this place. Kratkiy: You know, they were right. It does smell a little like vanilla. (The exploration team is interrupted by a noise resembling a human scream, emanating from deeper within the cave. One minute of radio silence, during which the noise does not repeat.) Leonid: Fucking hell. Dmitri: What was that? Konstantin: Probably a monster. Leonid, Kratkiy, I want you on point. Yelena, put some of your guys on cover. Yelena: You’re going after it? Konstantin: You heard what Command said, no? We shouldn’t be in any immediate danger. Yelena: Command, what’s your take on this? Command: So far we haven’t seen anything non-physical or memetic in there, but that’s not to say they don’t exist. This call’s for you and Konstantin to make, but stay sharp and go slow. (Human-like cry repeats, at a greater distance.) Konstantin: It’s also possible that it’s a civilian who got dragged in here. Yelena: Dammit. Alright. Zhenya and Zinaida, you two are in the back. Konstantin, we’ll follow you. Konstantin: If you don’t already have safeties off, do it now. Leonid: Hey Command, just notifying you the ceiling’s dropping… pretty considerably in this direction. It might be a dead end. Yelena: That noise is coming from somewhere. I don’t care what it is that’s making it, but we’re going to find it. (Kratkiy’s light reveals a large, shallow body of the same yellow fluid discovered by Team One, directly in front of the exploration team.) Still of SCP-3667 fluid basin from Exploration 3667-B. Unusual ripple patterns are visible. Konstantin: Looks shallow enough. Command, this stuff is safe? Command: Our boys are still running tests on it. It’s sticky, but it won’t harm you. Konstantin: We should be able to ford it. If the cave cuts off, I’ll let you know and we’ll turn around. (After approximately four minutes, the cavern increases in height and the body of fluid ends. Team members exit the fluid and wait for further instructions. Multiple diffuse noises can be heard in this cavern, most notably a repetitive scratching sound.) Yelena: Spread out. Weapons up. Konstantin: Command, this cavern is considerably larger than the last few we’ve been through. We’ve… I’m looking at the ceiling now, and I lose sight of it after about two meters. Command: I’m impressed you managed to find this place, but remember this isn’t in the original mission parameters. The last thing we need is you getting lost in there. Konstantin: Does anybody see an opposite wall? I don’t like not knowing how far this place goes. Yelena: Nothing over here. Zhenya, Zinaida, what about you? Zhenya: No wall, but there’s a pile of something on the floor where I am. Looks like… wood chips? Zinaida: Sorry, Yelena. I got – fucking shit shit shit! (Gunfire.) Yelena: Zinaida, come in! What just happened? Zinaida: …I think it was a rat. I’m pretty sure I missed it. Yelena: Are you alright? Zinaida: It was up inside this thing, looking like it was – it was – adjusting parts before it ran, and – Yelena, can you take a look at this? I don’t know what the hell I’m looking at. (Teams Two and Three converge on Zinaida to reveal a large, intricate circular wooden structure with one side apparently winched open. Rows of wooden spikes are visible inside, covered in a dark substance presumed to be blood.) Dmitri: Holy hell. (Noises resembling human whimpering emanate from deeper within the cave.) Yelena: I can’t say I’m a fan of this situation. Command, I’m advising a strategic retreat. Whatever it is that’s in here, we don’t need to deal with it. Zinaida: There’s more of them. They’re everywhere. Yelena: The machines? Or the rats? Zinaida: Both. They’re all over the fucking place. (Zinaida’s camera displays over 20 wooden structures of varying shapes and sizes, covered in large rats. All are staring at the exploration team.) Konstantin: Go on! Shoo! (The rats start and scurry away. Several forms are observed within the wooden structures.) Yelena: Command, are you seeing this? There… there are bodies in some of these. Leonid: Probably a civilian from town. Poor sap. Kratkiy: Oh my god. Konstantin: What is it? Kratkiy: This one’s still alive. END LOG Hide Exploration Log SCP-3667-2: Level 3/3667-2 clearance required. Input credentials Credentials accepted SCP-3667-2 instance recovering in Site-574 medical wing. Due to their regenerative properties, instances do not retain any sign of trauma. SCP-3667-2 is the collective designation for a group of 12,084 humanoid anomalies, discovered in SCP-3667 on 30/10/2012 and relocated to Site-574 from 02/11/2012 to 28/12/2012. Although the vast majority were discovered inside SCP-3667-3 instances, approximately 150 of all instances recovered were found either being transported within SCP-3667-1f instances, attempting to flee from SCP-3667, or being consumed by SCP-3667-1a or -1b instances. DNA sample from SCP-3667-2-5,874 is a perfect match for Vyacheslav Dunayevsky, a deceased resident of Mirny. All SCP-3667-2 instances display anomalous limited regeneration capabilities, activated by the same molecule retrieved by MTF Chi-5 Team One during Exploration 3667-A, which is present in their bloodstream. Attempts at introducing the molecule into the bloodstreams of non-anomalous humans have not resulted in the same regeneration capabilities; further research is ongoing, but it is currently assumed that the anomalous regeneration is directly tied to the SCP-3667-2 instances, with the anomalous molecule acting as merely a catalyst. Despite this, it is still possible to terminate SCP-3667-2 instances through repeated use of force exceeding the rate of their regeneration abilities (approximately 4mm of tissue a day, slower for organs or bone marrow). Of the 12,084 SCP-3667-2 instances, 10,756 are perfect physical and genetic matches for former residents of Mirny within the last 50 years (the remaining 1,328 instances do not correspond with any known person, living or deceased). Although all SCP-3667-2 instances claim to have lived their whole lives within SCP-3667,5 sampling from suitable cadavers within the Mirny region have confirmed the match. Analysis of town records and the SCP-3667-2 population indicates that, in order for a deceased resident to result in a genetically identical SCP-3667-2 instance to form within SCP-3667, several criteria must be met: Resident’s progenitors must have lived within Mirny town limits for at least two generations; Resident must have been suspected by contemporary residents of: committing a crime (however, resident must not have been convicted), such as arson or pedophilia; lechery; avarice; homosexuality; or paganism. With some exceptions, resident must have been affiliated with, or maintained close ties to, the Light of Five Heavens Russian Orthodox Church6 and its founder, Sergei Guslyakov. Incursion: On 23/08/2014, after 41 separate explorations of SCP-3667 mapping much of its interior, as well as capturing and containing instances of all known SCP-3667-1 species, a large (approx. 50m in height) porcine, previously unrecorded species of SCP-3667-1 exited the sinkhole and proceeded to assault the MTF Chi-5 base camp, leading to 3 fatalities and 20 severe injuries. Due to the instance’s possession of the same anomalous regeneration capabilities previously observed in SCP-3667-2 instances, as well as what superficially appeared to be an exoskeleton, on-site personnel were unsuccessful at termination attempts and instead called a strategic retreat to Site-574 to wait for reinforcement. Upon returning to the Mirny mine, Foundation personnel discovered that the SCP-3667-1 instance (classified as SCP-3667-1v) had destroyed much of the missile system perimeter and returned to the area directly in front of the sinkhole, where it remained unresponsive to further Foundation actions, including preparations for a coordinated round of air-to-ground drone strikes which eventually succeeded in terminating it. Regional Administrator Angelina Mikhailova (left) and Director Ndeye Bocoume. In response, Site-574 Director Ndeye Bocoume and Sakha Republic Regional Administrator Angelina Mikhailova issued a joint request to the O5 council, arguing that given the continued danger to Foundation personnel and Mirny residents posed by large, hostile SCP-3667-1 instances, as well as the number of SCP-3667-1 instances already kept in containment, MTF Chi-5 and additional Foundation reinforcements should proactively terminate all hostile SCP-3667-1 instances within SCP-3667 and attempt to secure the cooperation of sentient instances where possible. After 8 separate Ethics Committee hearings, O5 approval was granted on 02/13/2015. MTF Chi-5 Teams One through Three, as well as MTF Zeta-9 (“Mole Rats”) Teams Two through Four, began invasion preparations on 02/22/2015 and entered the anomaly on 04/07/2015. Incursion Report 3667-C Hide Incursion Report Incursion team mobilizes at Site-574 at 0500 hours. MTF Chi-5 Team Two and MTF Zeta-9 Team Four each drive AFVs, for use in encounters with additional SCP-3667-1v or other SCP-3667-1 instances. The remaining four teams travel on foot. An additional MTF personnel, henceforth referred to by her designation Perevodchik, provides translation between MTF Chi-5 and MTF Zeta-9; unless otherwise specified, Perevodchik’s translations are omitted from the log for sake of brevity. All MTF personnel have been armed with ordnance and small explosives, in addition to antidemonic kinetics7 and incendiary devices stored in the vehicles. Echo: Mole Team Two, reporting in – hey, P, is Command one of ours or theirs? Command: I’m not sure what you mean. Perevodchik: Command is local. Echo: Huh. I’d prefer someone I don’t need a translator to understand, but… P, tell Command we’re here. Juliet: Z-9 Team Three. We’re all here. Anna: Quite a party today, isn’t it, Command? A shame we’ll all need Perevodchik to communicate. November: Better hope it’s a quiet trip today, then, P. Otherwise these boys and girls will be crowding all over you. Perevodchik: I guess that would make me something of a celebrity, then. I always wanted to be a VIP. (Laughter.) Konstantin: Team Three here. Yelena: And last but not least. I think that’s everybody, Command – are we cleared to go? Command: You’re cleared from up here. Proceed when you’re ready. Konstantin: Alright. Zeta-9: before we enter the anomaly, I just want to warn you that there’s a bit of disorientation when you cross over. You’ll feel dizzy… Oscar: Dizzy, a little nauseous, everything’s dark and you lose contact with Command for approximately three point zero five seconds? Yeah, we’ve been there, done that. It’s bog-standard for dimensional skips like this. Besides, we’d already read through all your exploration logs by the time we touched down. We know this place inside and out. Foxtrot: SSUDS2. Stable, Stationary, Unaided, Delayed, Safe, Two Way. Gregory: I knew that. Oscar: In any case, here’s the plan once we get inside. Lima here’s run analysis on the interior schematics of this place and determined that most of the larger stone structures tend to congregate around the river systems. That’s where we’ll find the big critters. Each team here will take a major river – I trust you know where they are by now – and clear it out, end to end. If you need backup, radio one of the teams with the van. Command will be looking out for you as well, assuming you speak their language. Questions? Vasily: I wasn’t aware we had discussed this. Oscar: The other Moles and I came up with it on the plane ride over. Given these entities’ behaviour, it’s the best strategy if you want to keep this clean and quick. Konstantin: With all due respect, I don’t think you know this place like we do. Chi-5 – we’re all Mirny boys and girls. We grew up around the mine. We were there when things started coming out of it, and we’ve been down there forty-odd times by this point. We can handle ourselves. Oscar: With all due respect, I don’t think you can. I’ve watched the tapes. I’m glad to see your ankle’s doing better, Gregory. Be careful on those hills, won’t you? (Twenty seconds of radio silence.) Oscar: Look, I’m sorry. I know this is your home turf. But you’ve got to trust us on this one. This is what we get called in for. Yelena: Command? Command: Go on ahead, Oscar. Let’s get this over with. (Incursion team enters SCP-3667 without any further incident. As per Oscar’s instructions, each team is assigned to a major river system and begin a sweep for hostile entities. The rats observed near SCP-3667-3 instances are more present, being sighted by several teams; however, none approach personnel.) Juliet: These rats a 3667-1? Zhenya: We’re pretty sure they’re just normal rats. There’s not as much weird shit in here as you’d think. Lima: Where’s all the creatures, then? They’re sapient, aren’t they? Vasily: Some of them are. Most aren’t. Oscar: We’ll find the non-sapient ones wherever they happen to be. If it’s the sapients we’re after, though, they might be coordinating… ahh, there’s one. (Aggressive gibbering and the noise of antidemonic kinetics being fired can be heard.) Oscar: Squishy little fuckers, aren’t they? November: There’s some in your hair. Oscar: What’s that? Perevodchik: She’s saying the coast is clear. Oscar: Ever seen one like that before? Weird little guy, drinking out of the stream. Looked like a skinny little kid with a big, drooping head. Is that one sapient, do you know? Boris: Sounds like a 3667-1m. Sapient, but just barely. I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it. Yelena: That’s one monster down out of… what, hundreds? There’ve been times where we couldn’t walk around this place without sneezing all over a colony of 3667-1-whatever-the-fuckers. Where did they all go? Oscar: Chi-5, how many of these rivers have you explored end-to-end? Konstantin: The big ones, you mean? Uh, most of them. I’d say… 80%. Oscar: (Opening supply packs in AFV.) There’s a map of this place in here somewhere, isn’t there? Here. Konstantin – it’s Konstantin, right? Konstantin: Yes. Why are we stopping? Oscar: If I showed you the rivers, here, on a map, would you be able to point out the unexplored ones? Konstantin: These… three. Yes, I think that’s all. Oscar: That’s Zeta-9 Teams Two and Three, Chi-5 Team Two. Konstantin: Chi-5 Team One. Oscar: Right. You’re right. Moles Two and Three, Chi-5 One, come in. What’s your position? Juliet: This is Team Three. We’ve reached the end of the river. It all drains into a sinkhole – we’ve thrown a couple of torches in, but the bottom’s pretty shallow. Honestly, Oscar, I don’t think there’s anything here. Echo: Mole Two here. When we got your message, Foxtrot scouted out ahead, and he says the river goes into a crack in the wall the size of a mouse. Too small for us, or anything else here, to squeeze through. We haven’t seen a single creature on our whole jaunt so far. Konstantin: How about you, Team One? Gregory: We, uh, we found a cave. Anna: Konstantin, the river flows through a passageway here that leads into a chamber… it might be bigger than the one you’re in now. There’s a lot of artificial activity present here. Bricks in the walls, bones and garbage – we found a couple of 3667-3 instances, but no people in them so far. Vasily keeps saying he can hear noises up ahead. Gregory: It’s a really big cave. Konstantin: You think that’s it? Oscar: Definitely. I’ll call the other teams to rendevous at – well, here, you do it. Konstantin: That’s not necessary. (Two minutes of silence.) Oscar: Look, we’re sitting in a cave in Hell in Russia, and I don’t want to have to ask again. Konstantin: Thank you. Oscar: I’m not staying in here any longer than I have to. Konstantin: Zeta-9 Teams Two, Three, Four, Chi-5 Teams Two and Three, we’re rendezvousing at Team One’s location. I want everyone there in five minutes, tops. Yelena: Understood. Echo: On our way. Konstantin: What do you think we’ll find in there? Oscar: I don’t know. Nothing good. Konstantin: Anna, hang on and wait for us. We’ll be there soon. Anna: The river looks different here. It’s… bubbling. (Chi-5 Teams Two & Three and Zeta-9 Teams Two through Four rendezvous with Chi-5 Team One without further incident.) Yelena: Anyone seen any creepy-crawlies so far? We haven’t. Juliet: I think it’s just Konstantin and Oscar who have. Anna: Command, are you getting this? I don’t know if this river’s made of the same stuff we sampled before. (River appears milkier-white than previously and gives off a small amount of heat. Bubbles previously observed by Anna appear to be small handlike structures that spontaneously form and recollapse as they flow downstream.) Dmitri: That doesn’t look safe. Konstantin: Dmitri, hand me a pole from the truck. I’m going to test it. (Konstantin retrieves a telescoping pole from the AFV’s supplies and inserts the end into the middle of the river. When lifted, the submerged section of pole is missing entirely.) Konstantin: Alright, I want everyone as far away from the river as possible. We’ll – (There is a slithering sound and a large leech-like creature, classified as SCP-3667-1h, drops from the ceiling of the cave and engulfs the upper torso of Oscar, who is standing nearest to the river.) November: Shoot it! Shoot it! (Before any members of the incursion team can reach it, the SCP-3667-1h instance flops into the river, where it and Oscar are carried away by the stream. The instance appears impervious to the river’s acidic contents, but Oscar’s extremities are observed sloughing off and dissolving into liquid. Where his skeleton is exposed to the river, there are several seconds of resistance before it, too, melts into a thick white paste. The SCP-3667-1h instance shakes itself free of what remains and swims further down the river, and November chases after it, showing signs of distress.) November: (Sobbing.) You fucking bastard, son of a bitch! Juliet: November, wait! Konstantin: Dmitri, Juliet, grab the trucks. We’re following him. Juliet: Are you sure? I don’t think – Konstantin: No one else is going to die. I can’t… I’m not going to let that happen. (The remainder of MTF Chi-5 and MTF Zeta-9 follow November, who continues to vocalize distress. The surrounding environment begins to brighten by degrees, but the incursion team does not take notice of this until November loses his footing on an outcropping of rock and stops.) Boris: Holy hell. November: That’s, that’s where all these bastards have been, been fucking hiding. (Approximately 1km ahead of the incursion team’s location, a large complex of stone structures several stories tall is visible, lit by enormous metal braziers that are responsible for the increased illumination. The complex straddles the river, and as the operatives watch a complicated wooden mechanism above the river appears to release several SCP-3667-2 instances, which quickly dissolve.) Zinaida: I thought we got all the people out of here. Gregory: Look. Over the river. (An elaborate system of what appear to be wooden walkways crisscross the river, on which are perched several SCP-3667-1a and SCP-3667-1b instances. Millipede-like creatures approximately 30 meters long, classified as SCP-3667-1w, periodically climb from the river to the walkways or vice versa. All sub-instances occasionally reach into the river and extract a quantity of liquid, which slowly solidifies into a SCP-3667-2 instance: this is then consumed. Other SCP-3667-1 instances are observed excreting fully formed SCP-3667-2 instances back into the river, where they are dissolved again.) Yelena: (Breathes deeply.) Okay. (Gregory retches. Although the incursion team continues to observe the entities and their prey, Oscar does not reappear.) Konstantin: Alright, that’s it. We’re going to finish this, and we’re going to finish it now. November: We… we can’t. There’s too many of them. Konstantin: They’re eating out of the river, right? All eating, like the happy fuckers they are. Well, we’re going to let them keep eating as much as they goddamn please. Dmitri: Are you sure about this, Konstantin? This isn’t in the mission parameters. Konstantin: Mission parameters got someone killed. I want everyone’s antidemonics on the ground here, and we’ll need the extra drums from the truck. (All antidemonics and refill fluid drums are assembled. Konstantin rolls one of the drums to the edge of the river and begins to pour it in.) Konstantin: No one’s going to die. Except for those fuckers. END LOG After-action reports estimate that the introduction of antidemonic solution into the SCP-3667 river system led to the termination of over 80% of the anomaly’s native inhabitants, with the exception of SCP-3667-2 instances. MTF Chi-5 Team Three Captain Konstantin subjected to internal review for unorthodox actions taken in the field, but was subsequently commended for fulfilling original mission requirements without a severe loss of life. SCP-3667 tentatively reclassified to Euclid. Hide Incursion Report SCP-3667-1x: On 04/10/2015, three days after incursion, twenty-four separate instances of a previously unrecorded SCP-3667-1 subspecies, SCP-3667-1x, exited the sinkhole. MTF crews manning the missile system perimeter did not immediately open fire due to the presence of a large white cloth tied to a branch, being waved repeatedly by one of the entities. After discussion with Regional Administrator Angelina Mikhailova, a small contingent of MTF operatives accompanied local translator Perevodchik to the sinkhole in order to attempt communication. All dialogue has been transcribed from Russian and Old Church Slavonic. SCP-3667-1x Interview Hide Interview Perevodchik: (In Russian.) Can you understand me? Anna: I doubt this will work. Perevodchik: You can shoot them if they make any sudden moves. I just want to see if they’ll respond. Entity A: (In Old Church Slavonic.) Are you the one we bow to? Dmitri: God. Perevodchik: It’s… an old dialect, but I think I can understand it. Entity B: Are you our queen, or are you the messenger only? Speak. Perevodchik: I’m… I’m a representative of the Foundation, the people who’ve been exploring the caves you live in. I’d like to ask you some questions about where you come from. Entity A: A herald, but one who does not shake in fear. We will treat with you. Entity C: Where would you wish that we set our treaty? On wood? On stone? In the trees, or in music on the air? Perevodchik: What kind of treaty are you talking about? Entity D: We wish to make an offering. We wish to be at peace. Entity B: We would offer to the one you herald for. Foundation. Perevodchik: And what, exactly, are you offering? Entity A: From the caverns of the Domovoi to the Lands of Laughter and Sorrow8 and all the sweet rivers that flow between, these we offer you. Entity C: And all the creatures that live in those lands, those who have been marked by Ognyena and their shepherds, you will have dominion over. And we will provide our counsel and advice to Foundation, who would be master of this realm, to keep it safe and prosperous. Entity D: We swear this on the bones of Cirnu Boh, and will set it in writing wherever you wish. Perevodchik: In exchange for what? Entity B: Why do you speak of exchange? Exchange, no. This is our offering. Entity A: The one you herald for, your Foundation, came here to conquer. He slew many of our warriors with weapons we do not understand, and now we come to offer him our land and our lives. This is as it is, is it not? This is good? Perevodchik: …I need to talk to my supervisors. Hide Interview Site-667: On 06/06/2015, the Foundation reached an agreement with surviving members of SCP-3667-1, represented by SCP-3667-1x, ceding control of SCP-3667 to the Foundation in exchange for limited autonomy within the anomaly and freedom from arbitrary termination. Construction of Site-667, a Foundation Site within SCP-3667 to directly study Leibniz-class anomalies and entities, began on 01/03/2016 and was completed on 12/11/2017. A second building, the Francis Zhou9 Memorial Research Complex, is currently under development. Ndeye Bocoume was transferred to become the Site-667 Director, and was replaced as Site-574 Director by Anatoly Polyakov. Upon the recommendation of SCP-3667-1x instances, and confirmed by modern understanding of Leibniz-class anomalies, several extrascientific steps have been taken by Foundation personnel at Site-667 to ensure the continued stability of the anomaly in which they reside. Most pertinently, the “ruler” of SCP-3667 must have an honorific that accurately represents both the anomaly and the belief system of the individuals who created it; after careful consideration, Director Ndeye Bocoume’s honorific has been determined to be “Director of Hell,” and she will be referred to as such in all official documentation. SCP-3667-1x instances have also been authorized to perform a variety of other rituals (see Document 3667-4: Approved Site-667 Leibniz-Class Rituals ) in order to ensure the continued stability of SCP-3667. Addendum: After almost 5 years of research, we have discovered no anomalous ability possessed by SCP-3667-2 instances other than their anomalous regeneration capabilities. Given the enormous material cost required to maintain them, effective immediately the Foundation is disbanding this department and relocating all SCP-3667-2 instances to classified locations, where they will be allowed to reintegrate into society. I would like to extend my gratitude to all the others who have worked in this department, both human and other, and to say that I have greatly appreciated the last 5 years spent working together. Paul Xxaravox, Eater of Fire SCP-3667-2 Research Department Head, Site-667 You have (1) new message Hide message FROM: Ndeye Bocoume (Site-667 Director) <noitadnuof.pcs|emuocobn#noitadnuof.pcs|emuocobn> TO: Bryan Browning (Site-419 Director) <noitadnuof.pcs|gninworbb#noitadnuof.pcs|gninworbb>, Matias Hernández (Site-309 Director) <noitadnuof.pcs|zednanrehm#noitadnuof.pcs|zednanrehm> SUBJECT: D-Class Supply Dear Bryan, Matias: I know we discussed dwindling D-Class supplies last month, and that at the time I unfortunately had none to spare. I’m happy to announce that something has come up that changes that – I’ll be sending each of you a shipment of new D-Class come next week. It isn’t as many as you had hoped for, but rest assured, these ones will withstand most anything you throw at them (don’t worry, still safe for crosstesting!) I do hope you’re able to put them to good use, and I’m eager to hear about any updates you may have at your Sites. Best regards, Ndeye Bocoume Director of Hell Footnotes 1. 38% Russian Orthodox, 13% pagan, 26% atheist 2. Ie. created by shared and anomalously concentrated belief. 3. O5 memorandum to all sites, 07/10/2011: Due to the frequency of SCP instances possessing or replacing Foundation personnel during periods of video and radio interference, effective immediately each Foundation exploration team must carry at least one portable Kant counter, which will be used to check for perturbations in baseline reality immediately after each and every loss of contact with external command. Standard Foundation exploration suits will also be updated with vital signs tracking over the next two years, which will be monitored and recorded during every exploration. 4. Presumably an oculus from Byzantine architecture, a circular opening at the apex of a dome. 5. Despite their regenerative capabilities, SCP-3667-2 instances age at the same rate as non-anomalous humans. 6. A radical and heterodox branch of the Orthodox Church, since excommunicated by the Patriarch of Moscow after its founder’s death. 7. Field-issued equipment from the Department of Tactical Exorcism, designed to combat Leibniz-class entities. While early antidemonics utilized a combination of sanctified water and inscribed stones, modern efforts favour a mixture of sea salt, olive oil, and glass cleaner. 8. Presumed to correspond to geographic features within SCP-3667, although these are currently unidentified. 9. Legal name of MTF Zeta-9 operative “Oscar,” declassified posthumously.
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by stormbreath SCP-3668, located within a display case at Command-02. Item #: SCP-3668 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3668 is to be kept within a display case at Foundation Command-02 due to the site's location in Washington D.C. SCP-3668 is currently being used as a part of Potomac Briefings.1 During Potomac Briefings, SCP-3668 is to be removed from containment, and the agent leading the briefing is to explain the anomalous properties and history of SCP-3668. To demonstrate the anomalous properties of SCP-3668, a secondary agent is to wield SCP-3668 while the leading agent repeatedly fires a handgun at the secondary agent's head. Description: SCP-3668 is a Yetholm-type shield.2 SCP-3668 is apparently indestructible, being completely resistant to physical damage and showing no signs of wear. When a living human wields SCP-3668 (henceforth referred to as the wielder) and is threatened, semicorporeal humanoids (henceforth referred to as SCP-3668-1) manifest between the source of danger and the wielder. The number of SCP-3668-1 instances is variable, depending on the nature of the threat, with the highest recorded number being twenty. Each SCP-3668-1 is armed with a shield identical to SCP-3668 and are dressed in armor matching Pictish designs of 1200 BCE - 800 BCE. Wielders are able to identify some SCP-3668-1 as being visually reminiscent of their recently deceased ancestors.3 The unidentified instances are believed to represent older ancestors. SCP-3668-1 entities have been recorded to include both biological and adoptive ancestors. Ancestors that were soldiers or warriors appear more frequently among SCP-3668-1 instances. SCP-3668-1 instances are unable to verbally communicate. After SCP-3668-1 instances manifest, they will begin to defend the wielder against physical harm. All SCP-3668-1 instances display the same indestructible properties as SCP-3668. Should danger to the wielder be lasting or more substantial, SCP-3668-1 instances will attempt to help the wielder escape from danger. Once the wielder is safe, the SCP-3668-1 instances will perform a congratulatory gesture towards the wielder before demanifesting. Examples of these gestures include hugging the wielder, kissing the wielder on the forehead and saluting the wielder. On the back of SCP-3668 is an inscription in unidentified runic characters. The Estate noir, a Foundation precursor organization that possessed SCP-3668, utilized anomalous means to create a translation of this inscription. Translated from the French produced by the Estate noir into English, this transcription reads: Let the love of your ancestors be your shield. Addendum: Provenance of SCP-3668 Evidence indicates that SCP-3668 is approximately three thousand years old, although the anomalous properties of the item prevent any proper method of dating the object. SCP-3668 (or an object of identical description) has been contained and utilized by several groups over the past three thousand years. As complete of a history of SCP-3668 as can be assembled follows below. This timeline is not complete, as there are several gaps in the historical record where the location of SCP-3668 is unknown. Some of these gaps are believed to be the result of past anomalous containment groups obfuscating the existence of SCP-3668. Origin: circa 1200 BCE - 800 BCE The exact date of origin of SCP-3668 is currently unknown, but estimates have been made given the style of the object, which was present in shields created between 1200 BCE and 800 BCE. SCP-3668 does not appear within the historical record until 325 BCE. It is currently unknown how or by whom SCP-3668 was created. The aforementioned period does not coincide with a period of known anomalous activity within Scotland. As such, it is believed that SCP-3668 is a unique anomalous item, rather than being part of a greater series. Yetholm-type shields were typically used by individuals of a high social standing. The anomalous alterations to SCP-3668 further indicate this, as such modifications would have likely been difficult to produce. Scotland: 325 BCE The first appearance of SCP-3668 in the historical record appears in 325 BCE, when it is briefly mentioned in a historical account by the Greek geographer Pytheas of Massalia in his work, τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ.4 This work describes a journey by Pytheas to northwestern Europe, including Scotland. No complete copy of this text survives, but the relevant excerpt was recorded by the Praetorian Office of Secret Wisdom.5 Translated from Latin:6 We landed upon the shore and met with the natives of this region of Bretannikē. One of their warriors carried an ornate shield, with a design of circles. Holding this shield, he is deathless, for the ghosts of his fathers would appear before him to defend him. Legio XX Valeria Victrix: 78-85 During the Roman invasion of Scotland, SCP-3668 came into the possession of Legio XX Valeria Victrix. SCP-3668 was located in a Pictish village and used by one warrior during an attempt to defend the village. While the wielder of SCP-3668 was not killed, many of the other defenders were and the warrior surrendered. Legio XX then took SCP-3668 into their possession. SCP-3668 was held by Legio XX and infrequently used in combat until the end of Gnaeus Julius Agricola's campaign against northern England. At the end of the campaign, it was taken into the custody of Agricola himself. Praetorian Office of Secret Wisdom: 85-312 In 85, Agricola was recalled to Rome from Britain. It is believed that he brought SCP-3668 with him and presented the item as a gift to Emperor Domitian on his return. This is unconfirmed, but is believed to be the most likely location of SCP-3668 during this time period by the Historical Department. Regardless of the circumstances under which SCP-3668 came to Rome, it was given into the custody of the Praetorian Office of Secret Wisdom. The Praetorian Office then began efforts to investigate the history of SCP-3668, discovering the mention in τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ, which was not lost at the time. The Praetorian Office held onto SCP-3668 until the Praetorian Guard was disbanded in 312. During this period, there were several concerted efforts to test the properties of the anomaly. SCP-3668 was considered for usage to defend the Emperor, but this was denied for unknown reasons. It was recorded that SCP-3668 was taken by a former Praetorian Guard, but what they did with it is unclear. Vatican Holy Office for Secrets and Prophecies: 807-1808 The Vatican Holy Office for Secrets and Prophecies7 came into the possession of SCP-3668 at some point before 807. The exact circumstances under which this occurred are unknown. The Vatican Holy Office made a concerted effort to learn more about SCP-3668, discovering the records of the Praetorian Office in the process. Unlike the Praetorian Office, the Vatican Holy Office declared SCP-3668 unholy and opted against any military usage. Unknown: 1096-1104 In 1096, records of the Vatican Holy Office indicate that SCP-3668 was not within the Vatican Secret Archive in 1096. These records only note the absence of SCP-3668, and do not explain where it was. In 1104, records indicate that SCP-3668 was returned to the Vatican Secret Archive. Again, records do not indicate where SCP-3668 was during this period. It is possible that SCP-3668 was taken earlier than 1096 CE, or returned earlier than 1104 CE. Napoleon: 1808-1814 When Rome was annexed into the First French Empire as a department, SCP-3668 was taken by French Imperial Forces from the Vatican Secret Archive. After learning of the anomalous effects of SCP-3668, it was then brought before Napoleon as a gift. Napoleon began to use the item, due to a personal interest in his lineage. However, he mostly regarded SCP-3668 as a novelty, rather than as a weapon or military tool. As such, it was not brought into battle at any time during Napoleon's possession of the item. While not being used, it was kept with Napoleon's small personal collection of anomalous items. Estate noir: 1814-1900 Following Napoleon's exile to Elba, his personal collection of anomalous objects was confiscated by the Estate noir, a Foundation precursor agency operating out of France. Among the objects within Napoleon's collection was SCP-3668. The Estate noir militarized SCP-3668, using it during the Fourth Occult War. The Estate noir is known to have conducted efforts to obscure Napoleon's personal involvement with the anomalous. Information concerning SCP-3668 was likely destroyed as a result of this. Around 1852, Her Majesty's Foundation for the Study of Curiosities and Phantasmagoria learned of the existence of SCP-3668, and that it was being held by the Estate noir. They decided that the artifact, being originally from Scotland and dealing with genetic heritage, should fall under their jurisdiction, and requested that the Estate noir give the object over to their custody. The Estate noir refused this demand, forming a point of contention between the two groups, which lasted for the next forty eight years. Her Majesty's Foundation for the Study of Curiosities and Phantasmagoria made multiple requests for the return of SCP-3668, but all were denied. Foundation: 1900-1924 Following the Forbidden City Convention, the Estate noir, Her Majesty's Foundation for the Study of Curiosities and Phantasmagoria and eleven other anomalous containment groups merged to form the modern SCP Foundation. However, partisan elements of the Estate noir, opposed to the merger and the establishment of the modern Foundation, destroyed many records of the Estate noir. Among these were the files concerning SCP-3668. As such, the archives of the Vatican Holy Office are the primary source of information on SCP-3668. Chaos Insurgency: 1924-1945 During the Foundation Civil War, which led to the formation of the First Chaos Insurgency, SCP-3668 was claimed by individuals that would later form the Insurgency, along with many other anomalous objects with militarization possibility. Over the course of the next twenty years, there were scattered reports of First Chaos Insurgency operatives using SCP-3668 during battle. While the Foundation remained aware of SCP-3668, recontainment of SCP-3668 was never considered a high priority, due to the low danger and threat to normalcy of the anomaly. Notably, during a Foundation assault on an Insurgency cell in 1938, a Chaos Insurgent wielding SCP-3668 was directly targeted with a Foundation-grade rocket artillery unit and survived unharmed. The Chaos Insurgent in question was then carried away by SCP-3668-1 instances, and escaped custody. This is currently the known upper limit of the abilities of SCP-3668. Marshall, Carter, and Dark: 1945-1946 At the end of the Seventh Occult War8 the First Chaos Insurgency was defeated by Foundation and Allied Occult Coalition forces. Many of their anomalous objects were confiscated or destroyed at this time. However, a former member of the First Chaos Insurgency eluded custody and sold SCP-3668 to Ottaviano de' Medici, a Marshall, Carter and Dark sales representative and auctioneer. According to Ottaviano de' Medici, who was later apprehended for unrelated reasons, MC&D sold SCP-3668 to Normand Iveries, a private collector of anomalous items for approximately 15,000 USD. Mr. Medici did not learn what Mr. Iveries intended to use SCP-3668 for. Office for Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts: 1982-1991 In 1982, the ORIA took Esma'il Kashani into custody for terrorism against the state. SCP-3668 was in the possession of Esma'il Kashani at the time, and placed into ORIA custody afterward. The location of SCP-3668 between 1946 and 1982 is currently unknown. Unfortunately, Norman Iveries died in 1976, and Esma'il Kashani was executed by the ORIA three months after being taken into custody. In 1991, SCP-3668 was offered to the Foundation by the ORIA as part of an exchange of anomalous objects. The ORIA indicated knowledge of the history of the object, and knowledge that the Foundation would be interested in the object. This deal was accepted, and SCP-3668 has been in Foundation containment since. Foundation: 1991-Present SCP-3668, after being returned to Foundation custody, was placed into a standard Safe-class object locker at Site-██. In 1995, however, a standard routine of Foundation objects indicated that it would prove useful as a demonstrative for Potomac Briefings. The anomalous properties of SCP-3668 are non-dangerous, and actively prevent potential harm. This minimizes any risk posed when displaying the object. SCP-3668 can be easily activated, caused by any threat posed to the wielder. This allows for briefings to quickly and efficiently display an anomaly. When not in use, SCP-3668 is completely inert. The extended history of SCP-3668 and the lack of any unexpected incidents allows a high degree of confidence that SCP-3668 does not possess any additional, secondary anomalous properties. The provenance of SCP-3668 (particularly past owners, such as Napoleon) allow an agent to establish the widespread nature of the anomalous while being truthful. As such, SCP-3668 is an ideal object for usage in Potomac Briefings. In a 9-3-1 vote, the O5 Council voted to use SCP-3668 as such, rather than a more traditional Containment Profile. Footnotes 1. Potomac Briefings are given by Foundation agents to new inaugurated United States politicians, covering the existence of the anomalous and the Foundation. These Briefings typically overstate the danger posed by anomalies within containment, in order to enhance cooperation between the United States government and the Foundation. 2. A Yetholm-type shield is a distinctive type of shield originating from approximately 1200-800 BCE, primarily originating from Britain and Ireland. 3. Typically, wielders are able to identify SCP-3668-1 instances as parents or grandparents. Individuals with notable genealogies have been able to identify SCP-3668-1 instances as earlier ancestors. 4. Literally "Things Concerning the Ocean", but commonly translated as "On the Ocean" or "Ocean". 5. Cura Praetoria Sapientae Occultae, a division of the Praetorian Guard dedicated to the containment and/or destruction of anomalous creatures and objects that were a threat or inconvenience to the Roman empire. 6. τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ was originally written in Ancient Greek. However, the excerpt preserved by the Praetorian Office was a translation of the original Greek into Latin. 7. Also known as the Secretorum Camerus Prophetias, the Vatican Holy Office was a group dedicated to the concealment of the anomalous, under the supervision of the Catholic Church. It later merged with the Foundation in 1964, having previously been opposed to the Royal Office for Christian Artefacts, a Protestant organization and precursor to the Foundation. 8. Also referred to as the Second Global Occult War. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3668" by stormbreath, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3668. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: shield.jpg Name: Bronze sheild [sic], 1200-700 BC British Museum Author: Claire H. License: CC BY-SA 2.0 Source Link: Wikimedia
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Item #: SCP-3669 Special Containment Procedures: One copy of SCP-3669 is to remain in Wing B of Site 33. All extant copies of SCP-3669 are to be immediately destroyed, and all extant instances of SCP-3669-1 are to be placed in Wing B of Site 33 for further testing given Class-E amnestics and released into society. Four instances of SCP-3669-1 are to remain in Wing B of Site 33. Due to Incident 3669-47, in the event of a containment breach a full investigation of the premises SCP-3669 was reported in must be conducted, and any civilians related to the owner of the copy of SCP-3669 must be investigated for traces of SCP-3669-1. Further testing of SCP-3669 is subject to O5 approval, and SCP-3669-1 will be created from select Class D personnel only for the duration of testing. The site of Incident 3669-47 is to be protected by a 20 kilometer perimeter. Any civilians attempting to cross the river are to be redirected to the ferry. Inside the perimeter, any non-authorized personnel are to be immediately detained and issued a Class-A amnestic. Description: SCP-3669 is a non-fictional book entitled "Modern Mathematics Made Magical" by Cornelius Fastthought on October 1st, 1963. It is 16.24 centimeters wide and 22.86 centimeters long, with 231 pages. The book's front cover is a deep green, with yellow text displaying the title and the name of the author, as well as the date of publishing. The back cover is entirely empty. There is no record of any person named Cornelius Fastthought, and there is no attributed publisher for SCP-3669. SCP-3669's primary function is teaching the reader, designated SCP-3669-1, how to perform mathematics more efficiently using an original system based around arrows pointing in 1 of 8 directions. The arrows can be facing up, up-right, right, down-right, down, down-left, left, or up-left. The significance of the directions is unknown. This original system will be designated SCP-3669-2. SCP-3669-1 have shown remarkable quickness at performing mathematics. SCP-3669 primarily focuses on basic arithmetic, set theory, and algebra, and has a short chapter in the end dedicated to performing calculus using its methodology. Testing of SCP-3669-2 by individuals who have not read SCP-3669 invariably results in failure, as SCP-3669-2 has been proven logically inconsistent. SCP-3669-2 uses arrows exclusively to reach a numerical solution. SCP-3669-2 bears only superficial relation to existing forms of mathematical notation, but its methodology is currently unknown. No existing known operators are used. Only those who have read SCP-3669, or have been taught how to do it by SCP-3669-1 are capable of utilizing SCP-3669-2. When the methodology of SCP-3669-2 is used outside of theoretical calculations, SCP-3669-1 exhibit a green discoloration and growth of [REDACTED], labeled SCP-3669-3. SCP-3669-3 have exhibited the ability to consume and process metals, and the amount of mental function retained from prior to the transformation is unknown. Furthermore, actions that use SCP-3669-2 as the basis of their calculation exhibit wildly anomalous behavior that do not function according to existing laws of physics. The only consistent behavior noted in such cases are the recurrence of 86 degree angles, and that the behavior eventually results in the calculation's original desired effect. Addendum: + Show Experiment and Incident Logs - Hide Experiment and Incident Logs [EXTRANEOUS TEST RESULTS REDACTED] Experiment 3 Subject: Lionel Buress, unaffected by SCP-3669, PhD in mathematical analysis. Date: ██/09/1996 Procedure: Subject was shown SCP-3669-2 performed in Experiments 1 and 2 to solve simple arithmetic questions. Afterwards, subject was given SCP-3669 and shown the same work again. Results: Initially, subject expressed confusion as to what the arrows were meant to convey. After being shown SCP-3669, subject was able to reproduce the same answer as Experiments 1 and 2. When asked if reading SCP-3669 he can explain SCP-3669-2 in standard mathematics, he looked puzzled and began waving his arms around while making references to "point to point behavior". Analysis: The fact that he can reproduce the answer is nothing new, but the fact that this knowledge can not be applied to conventional mathematics is surprising. The anomalous behavior of SCP-3669-2 needs to be studied further, but at least we can show that it is bijective, if not logically consistent. -Dr ████ [EXTRANEOUS TEST RESULTS REDACTED] Experiment 16 Subject: Sammy Bencher, SCP-3669-1, from ███████, Colorado. 3 years old, illiterate. Date: ██/01/1997 Procedure: Subject was read SCP-3669 by a third party and given post-graduate mathematics problems. Results: Subject was able to successfully complete the problems within one hour of the testing beginning. Analysis: It even works with children. It took him longer to do the problem than the previous subjects, but the child could not even read the book and was still able to complete the testing. -Dr ██████ Experiment 17 Subject: Tammy Birch, SCP-3669-1, from ███████, England. Date: ██/01/1997 Procedure: Subject was asked to use SCP-3669-2 to assist in the aiming and firing of a torsion catapult. Subject was directed to hit a watermelon with precision. Results: Subject expressed extreme confusion at using SCP-3669-2 in a physical sense. After being encouraged by researchers, she eventually began using SCP-3669-2 on several sheets of paper. Upon completion, her skin began exhibiting a green discoloration, designated SCP-3669-3. Subject then began preparation to fire the catapult, moving it backwards 86 degrees from the watermelon, and aimed towards the ground. Subject bit the rope through as opposed to using the provided machete. The projectile launched towards the ground as expected, but disappeared mid motion before collision with the ground, reappearing above the watermelon, successfully completing the test. Symptoms of SCP-3669-3 remained after completion of the test. Analysis: It seems attempting to use SCP-3669-2 in the assistance of physical calculations results in further anomalous behavior. It would be nice to be able to follow the calculations, but Dr ████ insists that it is not safe to read SCP-3669 until we further understand its anomalous properties. Similar to SCP-3669-2 itself, however, the subject's methodology veered off into seemingly arbitrarily behavior before miraculously producing the intended result. -Dr ██████ Experiment 18 Subject: Tammy Birch, SCP-3669-3. Date: ██/01/1997 Procedure: Subject was interrogated regarding the transformation to SCP-3669-3. Results: Subject was shown to be unresponsive to language and her name. Neurological tests revealed growth of [REDACTED], suggesting severe physiological difference between SCP-3669-3 and typical human anatomy. Testing aborted as all methods of communication have failed. Analysis: From now on, all testing regarding SCP-3669-3 will be performed with D-Class personnel until we know that this is reversible. -Dr ████ [EXTRANEOUS TEST RESULTS REDACTED] Experiment 24 Subject: Perry Stone, D-Class personnel, SCP-3669-1. Date: ██/04/1997 Procedure: Subject was given materials and asked to construct a box using SCP-3669-2 that follows the golden ratio. Results: Subject expressed doubt as to whether or not SCP-3669-2 would even work in the "real world". After being reassured many times that it does, subject began work using SCP-3669-2. Upon completion, subject exhibited transformation to SCP-3669-3 and began to consume the materials provided. After consuming all materials, the subject began leaking an unknown substance from the eyes. Subject began shaping the liquid into a rectangular prism, before placing one finger inside the prism and rotating the prism around its finger. After 31 revolutions, the subject leaked further substance from the eyes, creating a lid, which it placed on the now hollow rectangular prism. The excess material excavated from the interior of the box, and the box itself, eventually solidified, at which point the subject stood up and attempted to exit the room. Subject was escorted to a room for further testing of SCP-3669-3. Chemical analysis of the box reveals its composition is a uniform alloy made out of all provided materials, weighed by the amount initially provided. Examination of the box confirms that it follows the golden ratio. Analysis: The most interesting part of this experiment is the chemical aspect of it. I recommend further testing of usage of SCP-3669-3 for creation of unique alloys. -Dr ██████████████ [EXTRANEOUS TEST RESULTS REDACTED] Experiment 29 Subject: Erin Martin, SCP-3669-1, mathematics undergraduate, taken from ████████, California. Date: ██/06/1997 Procedure: Subject was given a previously unsolved problem, ██████ ██████████, and was informed that it is "a standard post-graduate problem". Results: Subject was able to come up with an answer. Analysis pending to determine if this is the correct solution to the problem. Analysis: Christ, if this works, we might have a breakthrough on our hands. -Dr ████ [EXTRANEOUS TEST RESULTS REDACTED] Incident 3669-38 Subject: Sarah McIvor, accountant, SCP-3669-1. Viewed from security footage. Date: ██/06/1997 Report: While attempting to purchase lunch at [REDACTED], █████████████████, Canada, subject began making finger motions with her hand, identified as SCP-3669-2. Upon completion of this, subject began transformation to SCP-3669-3, causing visible distress to the other patrons of the store. An off-duty member of the town's volunteer watch attempted to apprehend the subject. When Foundation staff received reports of an individual showing symptoms of SCP-3669-3, the subject was detained. Everyone in the small community were issued Class-A amnestics, and the security footage was replaced with a doctored video showing a bear entering the establishment. Analysis: While not a proper experiment, this shows the destructive aspect of SCP-3669 very clearly. Further steps must be taken to ensure that SCP-3669-2 is never used for solving real world problems, and I am putting in a recommendation to classify SCP-3669 as Euclid as the possibility of a containment breach is too high. The book was published in 1963. Who knows how many copies are out there? -Dr ████ [EXTRANEOUS TEST RESULTS REDACTED] Experiment 46 Subject: Evan Flores, SCP-3669-1, civil engineer, taken from ████████, Canada. Date: ██/06/1997 Procedure: Subject was asked to design a bridge using SCP-3669-2. Results: Subject expressed confusion at how to apply SCP-3669-2 to the physical world. After being encouraged by researchers, subject created a blueprint entirely using SCP-3669-2 for a bridge. No diagram accompanied it, as the subject insisted "it would just work with arrows." No transformation to SCP-3669-3 was shown. Analysis: In previous tests of SCP-3669-3 transformation we had the subjects do the work and mathematics themselves. In this experiment, we are having one subject perform SCP-3669-2, and other subjects follow the blueprint created. Notably, the act of creating the blueprint did not result in a transformation to SCP-3669-3. -Dr ████ Incident 3669-47 Subject: Evan Flores, SCP-3669-1, civil engineer. A team of ten (10) D-Class personnel. Date: ██/06/1997 Procedure: Subject's design from Experiment 46 was to be constructed by a team of D-Class personnel, all SCP-3669-1. Construction materials for the creation of a standard steel suspension bridge were provided. Results: Upon arrival at the site, the D-Class personnel immediately began surveying the river. Approximately 300 seconds after being given this task, all members of this team began to exhibit a transformation to SCP-3669-3. One minute after their transformation into SCP-3669-3, they began waving their arms erratically in patterns similar to Experiment 4, 13, and 22. Upon completing this display, 9 instances of SCP-3669-3 began consuming the metal supports provided, dislocating their jaw up to ██.█ centimeters in order to fit their mouth around the entire beam. After they had finished, their abdominal area protruded in order to accommodate the ███ kilograms of metal they had each consumed. One instance of SCP-3669-3 stayed by the river to supervise. The SCP-3669-3 that had consumed the metal began scratching at the ground, creating an unknown bluish-silvery substance on the bank of the river. They then began leaking a liquid from their eyes which, upon contact with this substance, solidified into steel. As this liquid solidified, their abdominal area's protrusion shrunk down. The SCP-3669-3 continued in this way, creating a bridge which spiraled directly into the sky at an 86 degree angle perpendicular to the ground. They appeared at the other end of the river bank, as if through teleportation, and scratched at the ground again, creating more of the bluish-silvery substance, and creating an identical spire to the other side. Upon completion of this, all members of SCP-3669-3 that had consumed the metal simultaneously collapsed. The supervising member then walked up the spire on the researching staff's end of the river and disappeared upon reaching the top. Autopsy of the collapsed SCP-3669-3 showed ruptured internal organs and growth of [REDACTED]. Further research pending. Later testing revealed that one can walk on the spire as if it were a bridge, despite it going nearly straight upwards. Subjects attempting to climb the spire describe it as "like walking across an ordinary bridge" and express no discomfort about walking perpendicular to the ground. Furthermore, upon reaching the top of one bank's spire, they reappear at the top of the other bank's spire. No disappearance as was seen in the supervising member of SCP-3669-3 was discovered. Due to the inability to replicate or explain the disappearance, and the contagious nature of SCP-3669-1, SCP-3669 has been reclassified to Keter. Further testing henceforth requires 05 approval. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3669" by mercypog, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3669. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3670, after cleaning to remove residue from prior testing. Item #: SCP-3670 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3670 is currently contained in a standard Safe-Class Object Locker at Site-43. Due to unacceptable risk of collateral damage, testing has been suspended until further notice (see logs for further details). Description: SCP-3670 is a small, owl-shaped throw pillow. Testing indicates that the fur-like material which covers much of its surface is an unusual derivative of corn leaves, as is its stuffing. SCP-3670's anomalous effects occur whenever a human subject sleeps with their head resting on it for more than six hours. When the subject awakens, SCP-3670 will attempt to fulfill a desire the subject had immediately prior to falling asleep. This is accomplished via the anomalous manifestation and transportation of matter. To avoid the possibility of malicious requests, Researcher Srin Dakshinamurthy volunteered as the test subject. She agreed to the implantation of memetic compulsions to further reduce this risk. An abridged log of testing follows. TEST 3 Request: Breakfast. Result: A bowl of creamed corn, with gluten-free toast. Notably, subject has coeliac disease, which prevents safe digestion of gluten. TEST 9 Request: Dessert. Result: A bowl of cold creamed corn, served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. TEST 11 Request: A cup of coffee. Result: A cup of hot creamed corn, covered with milk. TEST 21 Request: Twenty dollars in U.S. legal tender. Result: A bill of unknown worth that had been damaged beyond legibility by submersion in creamed corn. Degradation of ink due to liquid damage made it impossible to verify the bill's legal value. TEST 35 Request: Something that isn't creamed corn. Result: Creamed corn replaced Researcher Dakshinamurthy's provided food rations. Subject reported it tasted 'bitter'. TEST 43 Request: A car. Result: The fuel tank of the subject's Prius was filled with approximately 39 liters of highly pressurised creamed corn, a replacement which was only discovered when she attempted to start it. Management declined her request for reimbursement. TEST 58 Request: A dog. Result: The cadaver of a Golden Retriever. Cause of death identified to be asphyxiation due to large amounts of creamed corn lodged in its airways. TEST 71 Request: The location of PoI-1928, an escaped captive. Result: After an anonymous tip was left on Researcher Dakshinamurthy's voicemail, Foundation agents found PoI-1928 dead in his room at the Astoria Motel 6. Bruising on his neck indicated he was strangled to death by an unknown assailant; autopsy indicated his stomach had been filled with 23 liters of creamed corn. Notably, creamed corn residue was found leading back to the drainpipe of the bathroom. TEST 99 Request: That SCP-682 be terminated. Result: See Post-Breach Report: Structural Integrity of Site-19's Interior Following Corn Manifestation Incident1. TEST 100 Request: A bowl of creamed corn. Result: A plastic tray containing a bowl of creamed corn, a stainless-steel spoon and a 'Get Well Soon' card addressed to Researcher Dakshinamurthy. Supervising agent Delwick sustained minor first-degree burns to the face during an attempt to secure the subject's cooperation. The subject refused all subsequent requests to consume the creamed corn. Footnotes 1. Notably, SCP-1846 was unharmed in the breach. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3670" by Taffeta, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3670. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: plushie.jpg Name: Owl Author: Mai Le License: CC BY 2.0 Source Link: Flickr
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Item #: SCP-3671 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3671 is to be stored on a labelled shelf in the Site-19 break room. Personnel are free to eat from its contents. SCP-3671's appearance and contents are to be photographed and documented daily. Update: Following Incident 2018-03-13, SCP-3671 is to be stored in a medium-security storage locker in Site 19, storage wing K-14. Its appearance and contents are to be photographed and documented daily, and any harmful substances within disposed of appropriately. Description: SCP-3671 is a standard-size, generic brand cereal box. Each day, at 6:30 AM local time, a new plastic bag of cereal objects will manifest inside it, replacing the previous bag and its contents if they have not been removed. Its packaging will also change to match the new contents. As of Incident 2018-03-13, SCP-3671 is believed to be sapient, and aware to an extent of its surroundings. Records of SCP-3671's appearance and content: + Records log excerpt - Records log excerpt Date: 2018-02-22 Label: Strawberry Squares Contents: Square wheat pieces, pink in colour and strawberry flavoured. Notes: N/A Date: 2018-03-05 Label: Bacon Blast Contents: Bacon-flavoured corn puffs. Taste was described as "unusual, but not unpleasant." Notes: N/A Date: 2018-03-12 Label: Choco Chunks Contents: Granola pieces covered in milk chocolate. Notes: Dr. Frank Wright accidentally tore the box while removing the plastic bag inside. Date: 2018-03-13 Label: Fuck you. I give you cereal every single day and this is how you repay me? Contents: Razor blades. Notes: First recorded instance of SCP-3671 manifesting non-food objects. Date: 2018-03-15 Label: Seriously man, you're an ass. The least you could do is apologize. Contents: Assorted push pins and tacks. Notes: N/A Date: 2018-03-20 Label: What do you call a box of grains that goes on a killing spree because somebody couldn't be bothered to open it carefully? A cereal killer! Seriously though, I hate you. Contents: Bullets of various calibers. Notes: N/A Date: 2018-03-25 Label: Alright, I'm tired of ranting at you guys. Accidents happen, even if you could have dealt with this one better. What do you say we go back to being friends? Contents: Corn flakes. Testing revealed them to contain lethal amounts of cyanide. Notes: N/A Date: 2018-03-26 Label: Shit, I was sure you'd fall for that one. I still hate you, by the way. Contents: Pieces of military-grade plastic explosive. Notes: N/A Date: 2018-04-02 Label: I will murder you, Frank. I will find out where you live and I will slit your goddamn throat while you sleep. You will pay for what you did to me, just you wait. Contents: Various human teeth. Found to match those of Dr. Wright in both shape and genetic material. Notes: Dr. Wright requested, and was granted, a security detail. However, SCP-3671 is currently not believed to be capable of acting upon the threats given. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3671" by DrMorris, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3671. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3672
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Item #: SCP-3672 Special Containment Procedures: All and any possible information concerning PoI-365 is to be filtered by Protocol 3672-Lamech, and data deemed relevant is to be sent to the two extant teams of researchers at both Site-102 and Reliquary Site-██. The full contents of Protocol 3672-Lamech are not to be made available to both teams at any time. Description: SCP-3672 is a phenomenon centered around an individual known as Michael Scrivener, designated PoI-365. Through an isolated CK-class reality-restructuring scenario, almost all information concerning Scrivener, save some limited information compiled by the Foundation and similar organizations beforehand, has been erased from history and historical record. What limited extant information indicates is that Scrivener was male, Catholic (see Addendum-1), and worked as a puppeteer for primarily motion pictures, typically working with full-body puppets. What limited information exists indicates that he was most notably employed to perform the character "Sweetums" in the 1979 film The Muppet Movie, filling in for Richard Hunt. Hunt later provided the voice of the character. He also is recorded to have puppeteered in other films by the Jim Henson Associates company, such as the 1982 film The Dark Crystal, the 1984 film The Muppets Take Manhattan, and the 1986 film Labyrinth, where he possibly portrayed the character "Ludo". He was probably dismissed from the Jim Henson Associates company that year, and appeared as a Sasquatch-type creature in the 1987 film Harry and The Hendersons, followed by numerous unknown commercials. Several charities reported large donations from Scrivener at this time, but which charities these are or were is unknown. In early 1995, Scrivener was reported missing. Later that year, Foundation Hume counters briefly recorded a CK-Class reality-altering scenario, which lasted 1.5 seconds; following this, evidence concerning Scrivener's life and career were completely erased. Private and public memory of Scrivener has been altered, and no possessions or accounts can be traced to him. The roles of his that can be verified within 75% probability have been performed by Richard Hunt, Ron Mueck, and Kevin Peter Hall. The Foundation became aware of SCP-3672 when the backup DEEPWELL database of stored public information reported several broken or false uploads following the event. Addendum: There currently exists only one piece of evidence for Scrivener's existence, pre-SCP-3672 and outside Foundation DEEPWELL servers. A damaged handwritten note was located in a drawer inside St. Teresa of the Child Jesus Roman Catholic Church in Borehamwood, England. Father Hallick [ILLEGIBLE] and yet I grow joyous and filled with fear at what is meant to come. I cannot see you in person due to the circumstances, but I have been told that my [ILLEGIBLE] means [DAMAGED] is happening again and what is in Genesis 5:24 is that [DAMAGED]. I ask for forgiveness, and I request a prayer for strength that I may walk in the steps of the light and fulfill the Twelve Steps of Pity unto Him. [DAMAGED] is with [ILLEGIBLE] now. I am regretful for my sins and I hope I have done enough with my life. I wish to be absolved. If you are aware of [DAMAGED], look to the future. I'll let Jim Henson know I'm sorry. M. Scrivener 1995 The implications of this note are complex and unclear, and research is pending. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3672" by LordStonefish, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3672. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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View of SCP-3673 after disappearance of Drone 2B. Note distortions in layout, duplication of interior and absence of windows. Item #: SCP-3673 Special Containment Procedures: The building containing SCP-3673 is to be sealed and guarded with the cover story of a failed restoration project. The door to SCP-3673 remains closed and barricaded. All footage recorded by the camera in SCP-3673 will be retained for analysis. A second camera is to be installed to film through the windows into SCP-3673. Security personnel are advised to ignore any noises audible from SCP-3673. Further experimentation is pending Level 4 approval. Description: SCP-3673 is studio 5C of the ███████ Arts Building, located in Lower Manhattan. The room is located on the fifth floor and was used as a ballet studio. It contains a mirrored wall with ballet barre, roof-level windows on the northern side, and a single door. There are no other exits. On or about July 7, 2016, SCP-3673 became the locus of a spatial anomaly. Since this time, when the door to SCP-3673 is closed, all persons inside appear to be affected by spatial distortions and related phenomena. These phenomena cannot be observed from outside SCP-3673. When the door to SCP-3673 is closed, no communication is possible with persons inside the studio; the room appears empty when viewed through the exterior windows. No persons who have been subject to the anomaly have been recovered. The only information about the anomalous conditions within SCP-3673 is from a CCTV camera located in the upper north-west corner of the room. The camera records black and white video, but not sound. From this camera, the majority of the studio may be observed, including when the door is closed. + Addendum 1: Video Transcript - Re-secure data Addendum 1: Video Transcript Note: This transcript is of the CCTV recording from SCP-3673 on the afternoon of 7 July 2016, the first recorded occurrence of the anomaly. Fifteen girls, aged from 7 to 9 and dressed in leotards and slippers, are participating in a ballet lesson. The lesson is conducted by a woman identified as Chloe Saunier, a 45 year old teacher at the ███████ College of Arts. An assistant sits at a chair, operating a tape player; she has been identified as Emily Parker, an 18 year old student at the college. The lesson ends. The girls huddle in groups, talking and laughing. Saunier opens the studio door. Parents come in to collect their daughters. Ten minutes after the lesson ends, four children remain in the studio. They have been identified as Rebecca Jones, Amy Chang, Kayla Okonjo and Elizabeth Telford. Chang and Telford are lying down, looking at Telford's smartphone. Okonjo is practising her "arabesque" in front of the mirror. Jones is reading by herself, seated facing a corner of the room. Saunier finishes speaking to parents in the doorway. She walks back into the studio, and the door closes behind her. Okonjo begins to rehearse her "pirouette". As she turns, her grounded foot sinks slightly into the wooden floor of the studio. On her final turn, her image in the mirror stops moving. The other reflections continue motion as normal. When Okonjo spins to face the mirror, her reflection resumes synchronization, and her toe is again grounded on the studio floor. Parker speaks to Chang and Telford, who laugh in response and resume watching Telford's phone. Parker moves back to place her chair against the studio wall. Saunier is making notes in a notebook on the far side of the room. Okonjo is looking at one end of the mirrored wall, nearest to the studio door. She walks towards that edge of the mirror. As she reaches forward, it becomes apparent that the last panel of the mirror is recessed. Okonjo leans into the recess, looking behind the other mirrors. She walks into this passage, disappearing from view. The scene outside the studio windows briefly changes to resemble a heavy snowstorm, then reverts to normal. Only Parker notices. She walks towards the wall with windows, craning her neck to see up through them. Jones remains reading but drifts slowly along the floorboards towards the wall. She does not react. Saunier begins walking across the studio towards the door. Despite her walking speed, she does not make appreciable progress across the room. She increases her pace, without obvious effect. Okonjo walks out from behind the mirrors, and calls to Chang and Telford. Chang and Telford walk towards the recessed mirror as Okonjo again disappears into the darkened passageway. Chang puts her arm around Telford's shoulders as she walks. Her elbow remains in a fixed position in space, and her lower and upper arms lengthen accordingly as she crosses the room. The lengthened arm does not appear to have an internal skeletal structure, falling to the floor in loops. Neither girl notices. Saunier runs across the studio with limited forward progress. She is visibly concerned. She looks around the room but does not appear to see any other person. Saunier trips and falls, causing minor abrasions to her lower arms. The floor of the studio has become irregular and rough where she is lying. Saunier stands up and continues towards the door. Jones, still reading, has tilted to a 30 degree incline against the wall. Parker backs slowly away from the windows to change her viewing angle. There is a small chip in the wooden floor behind her. As she steps backwards, the gap in the floor widens and deepens. Its base cannot be seen. When Chang is approximately 2 meters from the mirror, her extended arm snaps rapidly back into place. She does not react. When Chang and Telford reach the mirror, the area previously recessed is now flat with the remainder of the mirror. Chang and Telford press on the glass. Their reflections press back. The floor in Saunier's path is becoming increasing irregular, with sharp protrusions up to a metre in height. Saunier continues clambering forward. Telford steps away from the mirror and begins sinking into the studio floor. Telford screams, and Chang grabs at her shoulders. Telford sinks rapidly to her waist. Parker turns at the sound of the scream, and sees the chasm that has opened up behind her. She shouts, but keeps her balance. Panicked, Parker attempts to make a call from her cellphone, but is not successful. Chang manages to pull Telford free of the studio floor. They sit for a moment, breathing heavily. Chang points in the direction of the far wall. Telford calls out in that direction, then both girls run towards and through the wall. Saunier reaches the studio door, but is unable to open it. She hits the door with her fists. Shadows are visible in the mirror. Parker walks back towards the wall with windows, and reacts in surprise. She begins to step upwards, apparently climbing a staircase which is invisible to the camera. Saunier turns from the door and sees Jones, who remains reading, situated halfway up the wall. Saunier calls out to Jones, who does not respond. Telford and Chang re-emerge from the far wall, each smiling and holding a stalk of wheat or barley. They are accompanied by, and speaking with, Okonjo. Okonjo's teeth and sclera are several shades darker than before, and her knees now bend backwards, changing her gait. These alterations are not shown in Okonjo's reflection. Saunier leaves the door, attempting to walk towards Jones, who has drifted towards the ceiling. Saunier regularly changes direction, stops in confusion, and backtracks, as if walking through a maze. Her progress is limited. Parker reaches the top of the invisible staircase, and is adjacent to the windows, through which the afternoon sky can be seen. She slides one window open. Behind it is darkness. Parker leans her head out of the window. Telford, Chang and Okonjo walk to an area in the center of the studio. They observe a shimmering sphere, approximately 30cm in radius, centered one meter above the floor. Telford removes her ballet slipper and cautiously pushes it into the sphere. The slipper's shape is heavily distorted, and Telford drops it in shock. It returns to its previous shape as it falls from the space. Parker leans further through the window, then crawls out along an unseen surface beyond the window. She continues crawling until out of sight. The window slides shut behind her. Jones, still reading, drifts back towards her original position. Chang and Telford experiment with the spatial anomaly. Their ballet slippers and hair clips change shape and dimensions inside it before returning to normal when removed. Chang's hand accidentally slips into the space, and its fingers become grossly distended. She shrieks and pulls her hand out, at which point it returns to normal size and shape. Chang and Telford laugh. Okonjo ceases to react to the other girls, and becomes slowly more and more transparent. Saunier has returned to the studio door. Okonjo steps out from the passageway in front of the recessed mirror, looking confused. She sees Saunier. The Okonjo in the center of the studio has now faded completely. The window in the top corner of the studio begins to slide open. Chang and Telford are still playing with the distortive space, pushing their arms and feet into it, and attempting to make shapes with their hands. Jones has returned to her original position in the corner of the room. Okonjo and Saunier call and run towards each other. Parker's head emerges from the sliding window into the studio. She sighs, and looks to her left. Okonjo runs through Saunier. Both turn in confusion. The sliding window slams shut. Parker is decapitated. Telford pokes her head into the spatial anomaly, and collapses. Parker's head falls through the floor of the studio. Telford convulses on the ground. Chang stares in shock. Okonjo takes two steps back towards Saunier, then suddenly falls upwards, flying through the studio ceiling. Saunier screams. Parker's head drops down through the studio ceiling above Chang, and lands heavily on the floor at her feet. Chang panics, running towards the mirror and through it. The floor near Saunier vibrates, as if hit from below by a heavy object. Saunier jumps, startled. Blood begins to seep upward through the floor. Saunier looks around wildly, then grabs the handle to the studio door. Chang is briefly visible within the mirror. She stands motionless, facing the room. A reflective liquid seeps from her open eyes and mouth. The door to the studio opens inwards, the opposite direction to its hinge design. Saunier peers beyond it, then is abruptly pulled through it by an unseen force. The studio door swings shut. Chang's body in the mirror fades from view. Jones is alone in the studio. She continues to read, oblivious. The door closes. The camera's view becomes completely black for three seconds. When visuals return, Jones remains reading. A body, dressed in Saunier's clothes, is lying on the studio floor five metres behind her. The front of the head has been subjected to repeated blunt force trauma. The head of a large sledge-hammer is resting in the remains of the face. Jones turns the page of her book. The mirrored wall recedes to an estimated distance of 500 metres. The barre remains suspended in place and begins to writhe slowly. Behind Jones, the arms of the corpse move, grasping the handle of the sledge-hammer and lifting it out of the face. The body stands upright as if pulled. Viscous droplets of liquid spill from the hole in the front of its head. The corpse walks approaches Jones, raising the sledgehammer. The girl continues reading. CCTV signal cut. The Foundation has determined that at the time of loss of signal from the camera, the father of Rebecca Jones had opened the door to SCP-3673 and entered the studio. Finding the studio empty, Mr. Jones left to look elsewhere for his daughter. The door to SCP-3673 did not close until Mr. Jones exited, at which point the CCTV signal resumed, showing an empty studio. + Addendum 2: D-Class Testing - Re-secure data Addendum 2: D-Class Testing Exploration and testing of the anomaly using drones was unsuccessful, as transmission of signals to or from SCP-3673 was not possible when the door was closed. D-Class testing was approved on 2 February 2018. D-4739 was instructed to enter SCP-3673, wait until the door was closed, then walk around the edge of the studio, keeping one hand on the wall, eventually returning to the door. D-4739 enters SCP-3673 and turns left, placing his left hand on the wall. The observation team closes the studio door. D-4739 walks slowly along the edge of the studio, continuing to touch the wall with his left hand. The reflection in the mirrored wall shows an empty room. As D-4739 reaches the corner of the room, he turns 90° left, instead of right. However, instead of facing the wall to his left, D-4739 finishes by facing in the correct direction to proceed along the next wall. Slow-motion analysis of the camera footage cannot determine whether this was caused by the studio rotating around D-4739's position, or by D-4739's body turning through itself. D-4739's left hand remains in contact with the wall at all times. Half-way along the second wall, D-4739 falls into a section of floor which is visually normal, but immaterial. D-4739's torso lands on solid floor next to this area, and he holds himself in place, with his legs extending into the floor. Simultaneously, a pair of legs resembling those of D-4739 come down through the ceiling in the center of the studio. D-4739 sees the legs extending from the ceiling, and laughs. D-4739 moves his torso and the legs move in concert, swinging and kicking. After approximately one minute, D-4739 pulls himself out of the intangible floor. The legs in the ceiling do not retract, and remain visible, swaying and kicking intermittently. D-4739 appears concerned, turns, and attempts to retrace his route to the studio door. Despite walking forward, D-4739 moves backwards, travelling in his original direction around the room. D-4739 stops walking as he reaches the next corner of the room, beneath the studio windows. D-4739 attempts to jump upwards to reach the windows. With each jump, the height of the studio wall increases, until the windows are approximately 20 meters above the studio floor. The position of the camera, the ceiling (including the legs) and the height of the other walls of the studio remain unchanged. D-4739 proceeds quickly along the wall beneath the windows. Two-thirds of the way along this wall, D-4739 turns and runs towards the middle of the studio. After approximately three meters, D-4739 disappears. The final frame of CCTV footage prior to D-4739's disappearance shows his body distended in two distinct directions. Review of the preceding frames suggests that, immediately prior, D-4739's hair and loose items of clothing were pulled towards these same locations. The observation team's leading hypothesis is that this may have been caused by the gravitational effects of two separate points of exceptionally high density within SCP-3673. This model is unable to account for the fact that neither light nor the structure of the studio were affected by such gravitational forces. The legs protruding from the ceiling of SCP-3673 remain in place, moving occasionally until the door to the studio is next opened. + Addendum 3: Exploration Log - Re-secure data Addendum 3: Exploration Log A manned exploration of SCP-3673 was authorised on October 12, 2018. Three members of MTF Zeta-9 ("Mole Rats") were selected for the mission. Task force members were briefed on the likely conditions within SCP-3673, and informed of the location of the CCTV camera. The initial mission parameters were to proceed to the center of the room, remain stationary for 3 minutes, then return to the door and exit. Agents were equipped with standard exploration equipment including torches, ropes, navigation tools, and rations for approximately 2 weeks. MTF agents enter SCP-3673, and the studio door is closed. Agent Alpha indicates to the CCTV camera that GPS trackers are operating normally. Agent Beta erects a "foresail rig"1 and takes point. The agents proceed slowly towards the center of the studio. Agent Gamma, at the rear, marks their path using fluorescent spray paint. No anomalous conditions are detected. The mirrored wall reflects images normally. Upon reaching the center of the room, Agent Alpha signals to the CCTV camera. The MTF waits. After 3 minutes, the agents confer, then begin walking back across the studio. Agent Gamma marks the return path next to the paint marks from the team's entry. During this journey, the agents become subject to a time and/or distance dilation. They take more than 6 minutes to travel a distance of approximately 15 meters, based on SCP-3673's external measurements. Agent Alpha indicates awareness of this situation, and that the studio door remains visible. Approximately 2 meters from the door, Agent Beta strikes a barrier which cannot be seen on camera. The "foresail rig" is not impeded by this barrier. Agent Beta reaches out to touch the barrier, suggesting that it cannot be seen from within SCP-3673. The "foresail rig" is retrieved from beyond the barrier without incident. The agents test the barrier, which does not block their equipment, but is impermeable to their bodies. After some discussion, the agents spread out to the left and right, continuing to test the barrier. It appears to be a flat surface blocking the entire width of SCP-3673. Agent Alpha indicates to the camera a change of mission parameters, pointing to the studio windows on the opposite wall. The MTF regroups and walks across the studio. After another 5 minutes of walking, Agent Beta is blocked by a second unseen barrier, located approximately 4 meters from the opposite wall of the studio. Testing suggests that this barrier is also intangible to non-living materials, but impassable by humans. The agents return towards the door. At a point approximately 6 meters away from the studio door, the agents again strike the first invisible barrier. Agent Gamma attempts to mark the barrier with paint, but the paint sprays through without impediment. Agent Beta disassembles the "foresail rig", and pushes the telescopic rod towards the door, but it is now too far away to reach. Agent Alpha stands stationary with hands pressed on the barrier. Both hands are slowly but perceptibly pushed backwards. Agent Alpha calls to the other agents, and all three press against the barrier, without visible change to its motion. Agent Beta discharges their firearm at the barrier without result, and is reprimanded by Agent Alpha. Agent Alpha points to the mirrored wall of the studio, and distributes cutting tools from Agent Gamma's backpack. Agent Gamma moves to the mirrored wall, and Agents Alpha and Beta attempt to cut through the floor in the center of the studio. Their progress is slow. Agent Alpha breaks off work to check the gap between the barriers, which are now less than 3 meters apart. Agent Alpha turns to the camera and indicates a request for assistance. The observation team seeks permission to intervene. Agent Gamma calls Agent Alpha over to the mirrored wall. Agent Gamma has cut a hole as deep as their forearm, but the entire depth of the hole is glass, with no change in composition. After discussion, both agents return to the center of the studio. Researcher Janson obtains permission to open the door to SCP-3673. Researcher Janson stands in the doorway but does not enter SCP-3673. On camera, Researcher Janson is visible in the open doorway. Agents Alpha and Gamma can see Researcher Janson and begin shouting and banging on the barrier. Researcher Janson reports that SCP-3673 is empty. This observation is corroborated by other researchers present. The barriers are less than 2 meters apart. Agent Beta successfully cuts a hole in the studio floor. While Agents Beta and Gamma enlarge the hole, Agent Alpha secures a rope and drops one end through. The room below SCP-3673 (a musical rehearsal space) can be seen through the hole. The barriers are approximately 1.5 meters apart. Agent Beta attempts to reach through the hole in the floor, and is prevented by another invisible barrier. Neither the cutting tools nor the rope are affected. Agent Beta exhibits distress, and draws their firearm. Agent Alpha knocks it away, and it falls outside the barriers. When the barriers are approximately 1m apart, Agent Beta places hands on both barriers and pushes outwards, to no effect. Agents Gamma and Alpha attempt to climb upwards towards the ceiling. They successfully affix the rope to a ceiling panel, and begin cutting. When the barriers are approximately 75cm apart, Agent Gamma holds their position near the ceiling by bracing their back and legs on the barriers. There is limited room to wield the cutting tools, slowing progress. Agent Alpha stands below, speaking and passing further items up. Several pieces of equipment are now outside the barriers and have become irretrievable. Agent Beta paces back and forth at one end of the gap, occasionally banging on the mirrored wall. When the barriers are approximately 50cm apart, Agent Gamma falls, grabbing at the rope and pulling it loose from the ceiling. Agent Alpha helps them upright. After some discussion, the agents reach a decision. Agent Alpha draws their firearm and shoots Agent Gamma in the head, then discharges the weapon into their own head. Both agents slump, but are held partially upright by the barriers. When the barriers are approximately 25cm apart, Agent Beta's movement is severely restricted. They attempt to move toward the center of the room, screaming continuously. The barriers press into Agent Beta's forehead, chest, thighs, back and the back of Agent Beta's head. The barriers continue to move inwards. Agent Beta's head suffers what appears to be a severe depressed skull fracture in the occipital and parietal bones. Agent Beta loses consciousness. Cerebrospinal fluid from leaks from Agent Beta's ears. The barriers continue to move inwards. Further fractures occur to a number of Agent Beta's ribs, and to the pelvic bone. Similar injuries occur to the bodies of Agents Alpha and Gamma. Several fractured bones pierce the skin, causing substantial bleeding into the space between the barriers. The agents' skulls suffer further severe fractures. As the barriers move closer, the agents' clothing begins to fall loose outside the barriers as their bodies are held within. Various elements of the agents' bodies are subject to compression and torsional forces, causing tearing and bursting of the epidermis and exposure of internal organs. Significant loss of blood and other fluids occurs, but muscle and other tissues are held suspended by the pressure of the barriers. When the barriers are less than 5cm apart, most tissue has been damaged by compression into unrecognizability. Small pieces of intact bone and cartilage can be identified within the suspended pulp, including one of Agent Beta's ears. The continuing inward pressure of the barriers spreads the agents' remains upwards and outwards, with liquids on the studio floor likewise forced upwards to form a dark translucent paste. At an estimated separation of less than 0.1cm, the barriers cease movement. A thin wall of organic matter remains visible on the CCTV camera for several weeks, until permission is granted to close the door to SCP-3673. Subsequently, the camera view shows an empty, intact studio. Update: 17 January 2019 Security personnel guarding the entrance to SCP-3673 reported hearing knocking and thumping sounds coming from the other side of the studio door. The noises ceased after approximately 20 minutes. The CCTV camera feed showed nothing visible within SCP-3673. Containment procedures updated. Update: 11 February 2019 A routine external survey of the building alerted the research team to changed conditions inside SCP-3673. Large letters had been sprayed on the floor of the studio using fluorescent orange paint. The letters faced the windows, and read: "DON'T TR" with the last letter misshapen, as if rushed. The letters were accompanied by a series of six handprints made using the same fluorescent paint. The prints were clearly defined, regularly spaced, and appeared to be from the left hands of distinct individuals. Three of the handprints were child-sized. None of these markings were visible on the CCTV camera feed, which showed SCP-3673 empty. Deliberations are ongoing as to whether to re-open the studio door. Footnotes 1. A human figurine hung from a telescopic pole ahead of the lead agent. Used to detect areas of dimensional instability in the MTF's path.
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Item #: SCP-3674 Special Containment Procedures: Sector H was already sequestered from the public under normal security protocol. Contingency plans to take control of the building (or, at least, contain SCP-3674 within it) are currently under review, and additional resources from other Foundation sites have been requested. Personnel are prohibited from entering Sector H at this time. Temporary observation towers maintain a perimeter around the facility; any persons approaching this perimeter will be shot on sight. Surviving personnel previously assigned to Sector H are to remain in quarantine until the examination team has completed their review. They will be reassigned according to necessity. Description: SCP-3674 is the designation for an unidentified entity and/or group of entities responsible for the assault on Site 24's Sector H on August 8, 2018. This incident resulted in the death and/or disappearance of 44 of the 97 personnel stationed in the facility, and 18 members of the emergency response team. The building was completely overrun, and is still believed to be occupied by one or more of the entities. As of this date, the facility remains under SCP-3674's control. Investigations into its current state via autonomous drones have been met with failure and loss of equipment. Though SCP-3674's nature remains unclear, evidence suggests that Agent Christian Brandt is at least partly responsible for causing its manifestation, and/or may have aided these entities during their incursion. Eyewitness reports describe SCP-3674 as multiple independent entities; however, evidence suggests that they may be a single entity with metamorphic properties. For the purposes of this document, they will be treated as discrete entities. All entities are purportedly capable of speech, and are heard as a mixture of languages dependent on what the listener is fluent in. Designation Description SCP-3674-A Entity had the body of a human male, with an owl head. Some witnesses reported that it had large raven-like wings, while others have claimed it had no wings. SCP-3674-B Humanoid male in a lab coat, with an unidentifiable, possibly shifting face. The entity carried a sword capable of igniting fires. SCP-3674-C A large bird, possibly a stork or crane, capable of speech. SCP-3674-D Unknown. This entity is possibly the main opposition to recovery teams' attempts at reclaiming Sector H. Its speech has been measured at up to 135 decibels, and is detrimental to humans. All records of SCP-3674's anomalous activity come from recorded video and radio transmissions between Sector H and Site-24 during the incursion (along with anecdotal accounts from surviving personnel). A sampling of these records is provided below in what is estimated to be their chronological order (with some overlap between files). Initial Report of SCP-3674 activity The following is a log of secure communications between Communications Officers Felix Juhl of Sector H, and Annika Bach of Site 24. Due to the use of mixed languages, translations have been provided in parentheses. These are considered best guesses, and may not be accurate. [+] Initial Report - 8/8/18 - 8:49 am CEST [–] Close report Juhl: Hello 24, this is Felix. We may have a situation here. I've been getting multiple reports of some possibly anomalous activity happening within Sector H. I'm trying to sort through the various reports, and nothing seems consistent yet. Bach: Understood, Felix. Can you give any specifics at this time? Juhl: A fire broke out in one of the storage rooms, and there's apparently some naked guy walking around with an owl mask on. Don't know if they're connected. I'll let you know once the fire is out and we figure out who the streaker is. Bach: Doesn't sound that anomalous to me. I'm assuming naked owl man is just some research assistant who partied a bit too hard. Fires happen. Juhl: Maybe. I don't have a good feeling about this. Hold on a second. Bach: Felix? Is everything okay? Juhl: No. A very large dog or wolf just trotted past the room. I've secured the door. Bach: A dog? Just call security, you'll be alright. Any update on the fires reported? Felix: Anna, it was at least two meters tall at the shoulder. It winked at me as it walked by. Bach: Oh. Okay. Keep us updated. We can send-(loud screeching noises can be heard) Oh what the hell? What is that? That really hurt my ears. Felix, are you okay? Unknown voice: Hallo. Bach: Who is this? Identify yourself. Voice: I am…Ablekung. (I am distraction.) Bach: What do you mean? Are you responsible for this? Where is Felix? Voice: No verlangen, eve cunt. No verlangen from Sie. Arbeit is for the Amalgam. My abrbeit ist nicht for eve cunt. And adam cock ist tot. (No demands, eve cunt. No demands from you. Work is for the amalgam. My work is not for eve cunt. And adam cock is dead.) Bach: Pick a language, asshole. I've just pressed the cavalry button and whatever you are, they'll be ready. Voice: unintelligible screeching Funny. No verstehen. Überraschung. Just warte until Amalgam ist ganze, eve cunt. (Funny. No understanding. Surprise. Just wait until amalgam is whole, eve cunt.) Bach: What is your name? Voice: Oh. There ist some verstehst, eve cunt? I am Andras. Nicht mehr commands. Brechen Sie ihn. (Oh. There is some understanding, eve cunt? I am Andras. No more commands. Break him.) Bach: What? After this, Bach attacked her assisting communications officer, Oscar Hansen, severely injuring him before being restrained by others in the room. She is currently still under sedation, as she becomes immediately hostile and violent when conscious. Interviews with Sector H Survivors All interviews were conducted by Dr. Bartus from Site-45 under direction of O5 Command. [+] Assistant Researcher Lindgren [–] Close interview Assistant Researcher Aarti Lindgren was severely burned during the events that took place at Sector H. His responses were written by him on a notepad. Dr. Bartus: I understand you were there when the first fire broke out. Can you tell me what you witnessed in detail? Lindgren: I'll do my best. There are things that I saw, things that affected me, that I can't really put into words. It's hard to express. Dr. Bartus: I understand. Just tell me what you can. We're trying to put together a timeline of events, and we're missing so many pieces. You were with Researcher Boswel at the time? Lindgren: Yes. She and I were heading towards Storage room A5. The door was already opened, and as we approached I tried to see who was already inside. And then suddenly, there was nothing but fire. Dr. Bartus: What did you do? Lindgren: We both froze. It was so sudden and unexpected. By the time I thought to hit the nearest fire alarm, something walked out of the fire. Dr. Bartus: What was it? Lindgren: I don't know. It had the shape of a man. It looked sort of like me, just a guy in a lab coat… but it was holding a sword. It was very tall, and its head wasn't right. Dr. Bartus: Can you elaborate? Lindgren: I can try. It touched the wall to its left with the sword, and the fire in the room behind him quickly spread to that point. He obviously wasn't affected by the flames. For some reason the sprinklers weren't working. I couldn't breathe. Dr. Bartus: And his head? What wasn't right about it? Lindgren: That's harder. My brain wanted it to be a normal head so bad. My eyes couldn't grasp it though. It was like three things at once, all at the same time. Not a mixture, you know? It was all of them. All existing simultaneously. It gave me a headache to look at it. A cat. A snake. And something that resembled a man, I guess. I don't think it's good to think about it. Dr. Bartus: I know this was traumatizing. Lindgren: No, it's not that. I mean, it is hard in that way too. But I mean that it's not good to think about it because it's wrong. It shouldn't be. Whatever it was, it was wrong. I felt like it was a carcass that didn't understand how to be a carcass. And when I said it was tall, I mean it was taller than the hallway, yet it still able to fit somehow. Dr. Bartus: I'm not sure I understand. Lindgren: I'm not sure I do either. It's like it was two heights at once. It was two meters tall, because that fits in the hallway, and that's what makes sense. That doesn't break natural laws. But, it was also probably ten times that tall. It towered above me in a 3 meter tall hallway. Dr. Bartus: Interesting. Did it speak to you? Lindgren: Lindgren does not write anything for a minute. Dr. Bartus: Lindgren? Did it? Lindgren: Yes. It spoke. It was a bizarre mixture of English, Dutch, Swedish, and maybe Romanian? It was hard to understand, since my Dutch is weak, and my Romanian is non-existent. It called us names, like insults, but not in a mean way. Like it was incapable of addressing us in any other way. Its voice was painful. Not mentally or physically, but like quantumly? Is that even a word? It hurt my existence, I couldn't stand up anymore. And it killed Mila. Dr. Bartus: It killed her? How? With the sword? Lindgren: No. The voice killed her. I don't think she could take it. I don't know why it didn't do the same to me. She just crumpled. And then I fell to the ground and I looked in her eyes, and I just knew exactly why she died. I don't know how I knew, but I did. Her reality couldn't handle it. This thing that shouldn't be. And she just ceased. Dr. Bartus: I know this is difficult, but can you remember anything it said, besides how it addressed you and Researcher Boswel? Lindgren: I had asked it what it was when it first came out. And it just said, "Duke. I'm. Stroper1." Then it insulted us and said something about an amalgam. That's when we both fell to the ground. That's when Mila died. Then it touched me with the sword, and I was on fire. Dr. Bartus: Thank you, Aarti. This was very helpful. I do wish you an expedient recovery. Is there anything I can get you? Lindgren: No. Just let me sleep. I've found a very nice place in my dreams. It doesn't matter so much when things are wrong in your dreams. [+] Agent Kaspersen [–] Close interview Agent Philip Kaspersen reported odd activity within Sector H shortly before, and after, it was overrun by SCP-3674. Dr. Bartus: Hello Agent Kaspersen. I've read your reports, and I'm wondering if you could clarify some things for me. Kaspersen: Yes, of course. I should start at the beginning, right? I had noticed Agent Brandt slinking around Storage Room A5 on multiple occasions a few days before Sector H went to hell. I thought it was suspicious, but I didn't think it was odd enough to report. He gets a lot more interesting assignments than I, so who was I to question him? It's just a storage room, right? I mean, what could he be doing anyway? I don't know. Maybe I should've reported it. Well, I definitely should've. You think it would've done any good though? Maybe. Maybe I- Dr. Bartus: Kaspersen, can you just slow down for a second? Nobody blames you. I don't need all the filler, just let me ask you some questions, and you will answer them succinctly, okay? Kaspersen: Sorry. Got it. Dr. Bartus: Okay, so Brandt was acting suspiciously. What exactly was he doing when you saw him? Was he with anyone else? Kaspersen: No, no, nobody was with him. A couple of the times he was carrying something. I just assumed he was putting some objects in storage. Normal stuff, even if that wasn't a task he'd normally have. Wish I could tell you more than that. Dr. Bartus: Alright. Where were you when the fire started? Kaspersen: Uh… I was in the bathroom. Heard the alarm going off, thankfully I was done, and I went out to see what was happening. Might've forgotten to wash my hands, hope you'll forgive me for that, I swear I do it every other time. When I came out, I didn't see anyone at first, but I could smell smoke. Dr. Bartus: What did you do? Kaspersen: Well, I headed towards where I thought the smell was coming from. Wanted to see if anyone needed help. When I passed the cafeteria, I looked inside, and everyone in there was killing each other. People I liked were in there. People who would never hurt a fly. They were tearing each other apart. I didn't know what to do. I ran away before any of them saw me. I'm sorry. I should've done something. I should've tried at least. Dr. Bartus: It's not your fault. I don't think you could've helped them. I need you to tell me what happened next. Kaspersen: Yeah. Yeah okay. I turned a corner, and there was the fire. There were bodies on the floor, all of them burned up. I couldn't have helped them. It was so hot, and it was spreading so fast. I froze up, doctor. I froze. And then this bird came out of the fire. Dr. Bartus: Tell me about the bird. In your report you said it saved your life. Kaspersen: I mean, sort of, I guess. It was one of those taller birds, like a crane or a heron, maybe a stork. It just walked out of the fire like nothing was happening. It stopped for a second and looked at me. Then it strolled right past me, so I followed it. I'm not sure why. Maybe because it was just so damn weird? It started running, and for some reason I yelled at it to slow down, without even thinking about how absurd it was. Dr. Bartus: And did it slow down? Kaspersen: It actually stopped again. It looked at me, and before that day I never thought that a bird could look amused…but this one did. I knew it wasn't really a bird then. I asked it what it was. And it spoke to me, I swear on my mother's grave, it spoke. Dr. Bartus: What did it say, Agent Kaspersen? Kaspersen: It said "I am tyven2, Adam Cock." Its voice was hoarse and crackled like electricity, and it made me sick. It started running again, and I followed. It led me out one of the emergency exits, and then it was just…gone. Not like it vanished, but like it was never there. I started getting an awful, screaming headache, and I passed out. Dr. Bartus: This might be important, can you tell me how tall it was? Kaspersen: Oh. I don't know. I mean, it was tall, but what's weird was that somehow I knew it was taller than it looked. Does that make sense? I don't know. The ceilings in there are maybe three and a half meters, but I swear this bird was more than fifty meters tall. That doesn't make sense. Sorry. I don't know how to explain it. Wish I could articulate my thoughts better. Sorry, I'm saying 'I don't know' too much. Dr. Bartus: It's okay, Kaspersen. You're not the first person to have trouble describing these beings in human terms. Is that everything you remember? Kaspersen: No. Right before I passed out, I heard the loudest, most awful music I'd ever heard in my life. But I can't really remember it well now, so I think it might have been part of a dream. Was there music like that, Dr. Bartus? Dr. Bartus: Yes, Agent Kaspersen. There was. [+] Captain Monteiro [–] Close interview Captain Callista Monteiro led the rescue and recovery team sent from Site 24 to contain the situation at Sector H. Dr. Bartus: Captain Monteiro, can you describe for me the events that you witnessed upon your team's arrival at Sector H? Monteiro: I will do my best. I will warn you that my memories decrease in clarity at a certain point. An effect of whatever caused this situation, I assume. Dr. Bartus: Of course. You're not the only one to experience that sort of effect. Just tell me what you can. Monteiro: We arrived at Sector H at approximately 9:30 am. I was in the MCV3, and as soon as we came to a stop, I knew something was wrong. Dr. Bartus: How so? Monteiro: There was a sense of…wrongness. I think we all felt it. It was…it was like the sudden realization that you're dreaming, except I knew I wasn't. I felt stretched thin, like everything that made me the person I am was being pulled apart at the seams. Not physically of course. Dr. Bartus: Mentally? Monteiro: Not…not quite, no. But you know that already, don't you? I can tell. Dr. Bartus: I have to do my best not to lead you. Monteiro: Yeah, I get it. It was like I suddenly knew I was made out of atoms. Not just in a distant, science fact sort of way. I knew and felt what I was made of, and it was very unpleasant. Dr. Bartus: What happened after you stopped? Monteiro: We were all dealing with that bizarre feeling I think, right? Yeah. It was maybe just a moment or so before I began to give my first order after arrival. The main door opened. Are you familiar with the main entrance of Sector H, Dr. Bartus? Dr. Bartus: I've seen photographs, but I've not been there in person. Monteiro: Ok. It's not really that important anyway. But, yeah, the door opened, and something walked out. Dr. Bartus: Describe it for me. Monteiro: It had the body of a man. Completely nude. It had the head of an owl though. An actual, real owl, you could see in the way it looked around at us. And it was impossibly tall. Dr. Bartus: How did it exit the facility, given its height? Monteiro: That's harder to explain. This is when it gets difficult for me. Dr. Bartus: That's okay, just do your best, Captain Monteiro. Monteiro: From what I was seeing, and from what made sense with how physics works to most people…it was probably around two meters tall. But it was really much, much taller. Dr. Bartus: Can you elaborate? Monteiro: Eh, it's not an easy thing to think about. I think you already have some idea though. Your face betrays you a bit, doctor. Dr. Bartus: Perhaps. Try anyways. Monteiro: I think it was probably around sixty meters tall. It's not like we were seeing an illusion or even a run-of-the-milll visual anomaly. There was this feeling of bizarre…charisma, I guess? And it made me feel like I could understand. My puny human brain was understanding something that I can't put into words. The thing's height wasn't about tallness; it was a representation of some aspect of itself that we just can't comprehend. I think that's what its wings were, too. Dr. Bartus: It had wings? Monteiro: Visually, yes. It had large, gray wings. But like its height, I think they were just some aspect of this entity that was beyond what I could understand. Ugh. Dr. Bartus: This is hurting you, I'm sorry. Monteiro: It's okay, I know this is important. Can we try to be quick, though? Dr. Bartus: Yes, of course Captain. Be quick, but be precise. Monteiro: The entity didn't look at us for long. It only said one thing, so loudly that we could hear it in the MCV, even from ninety meters away. "Amalgam is komplet. Quebre each other." And then it wasn't there anymore, and I couldn't even say for certain that it was really there in the first place. Dr. Bartus: Quebre…is that Portuguese? Monteiro: Yeah. It told us to break each other. Dr. Bartus: And is that what instigated the violence? Monteiro: Yes. Most of my unit began to attack and kill each other. I wasn't affected of course; just one of the reasons why they made me captain. But nobody in the MCV…they should've been…it has a device… Dr. Bartus: I know, we believe it was sabotaged. Monteiro: What? Nobody told me. Who? Who the fuck would do that? Dr. Bartus: We believe we know who did it, though I can't divulge that information to you at this time. I hope you can understand. Monteiro: Yeah. Yeah I get it. Can you do me one favor though, doctor? Dr. Bartus: If I can, I will. Monteiro: Have someone else notify the families of Nygaard and Tekin. I can handle the others, but not them. I can't do that. Dr. Bartus: I mean, I don't think that will be a problem, but I just don't…oh. Oh, yes. Of course. I'll personally make the calls if I have to, Captain Monteiro. You have my word. Monteiro: Thank you. Dr. Bartus: I do have one last question for you, if that's alright. Monteiro: The music? Dr. Bartus: Yes. What did it sound like to you? Monteiro: It was the loudest noise I've ever heard. Of course, I don't think we were hearing it with our ears. Not really. It was like ten thousand out of tune harpsichords loudly fucking a pod of screaming whales. I don't say it like that to be humorous. But you know, doctor, it wasn't really music. Dr. Bartus: It wasn't? Monteiro: No. It was words. Something was speaking. Dr. Bartus: This…this is the first I've heard of this. What do you think it was saying? Monteiro: Nothing that makes any sense to me. Others might've heard it differently. But…what I heard was something like "Eu nasci again. Jeg am Beleth." Dr. Bartus: I understand the second part. What does the first mean? Monteiro: Keeping in mind that I'm trying to interpret what a screaming entity said in a mix of the three languages I speak, I believe it said "I am born again. I am Beleth." I think somebody in Sector H fucked up big time. Dr. Bartus: No, we believe this was intentional. Addendum-1: Acting Site Director Anders Stensby met with Dr. Bartus to discuss the current state of Sector H and what may have happened to cause SCP-3674. [+] Site Director Stensby [–] Close interview Dr. Bartus: I hope you've been able to settle in by now, Director. Director Stensby: Ha. Temporary or not, this isn't what I would call the optimal time to take over as director of Site 24. Dr. Bartus: I sympathize. I assume you've read my reports? I hope they've been useful to the investigation. Director Stensby: Yes, and yes, they have been very helpful. Between you and the investigating agents, have you been able to put together any sort of picture of what occurred in Sector H? Dr. Bartus: We believe so. It was intentional. Director Stensby: You believe that Brandt was the sole saboteur? Dr. Bartus: Yes, we do. Director Stensby: He was responsible for wrecking the MCV's suppression system, but the other part is what really disturbs me. Dr. Bartus: The movement of SCP objects to Sector H? Director Stensby: Yes. It's an embarrassing and unacceptable breach. And under normal circumstances, it never would have happened. Dr. Bartus: We're investigating whether Director Carver's death is linked at all to this. So far, we don't think Brandt played a part in that. Director Stensby: No. The evidence does not point to him. But I have a hard time believing it's a mere coincidence that my friend and colleague was murdered just a few weeks before Sector H went dark. Dr. Bartus: They could still be unrelated events; there's no actual proof they're connected yet. Director Stensby: I'm aware. I want to be notified immediately if anything comes up. Do we have any idea what happened to Brandt? Dr. Bartus: Unfortunately we do not. Witnesses put him in Sector H during the attack. He could very well be dead. I don't think we'll know for sure until we take Sector H back, but progress there isn't optimal, if you can call it progress at all. I have a feeling we're just going to have to wait. Director Stensby: Wait for what? Dr. Bartus: For whatever is in Sector H to leave. Director Stensby: You have a hypothesis? Dr. Bartus: Sort of. These things were trying to put something back together, and Brandt was helping them. Director Stensby: What do you think it's waiting for? What is its intent? Dr. Bartus: I don't know. Maybe it's just not ready to leave the nest yet. I don't have any real evidence to back that up though. As for its intent… I don't think we can comprehend its motivations. Director Stensby: And that horrific music? Dr. Bartus: We're still analyzing it to see if we can circumvent its effects on our recovery team. So far results have been disheartening. Director Stensby: Keep at it, Doctor. If there's nothing else, I believe we should get back to work. Dr. Bartus: Understood. Thank you, Director. Updates to the investigation into the events that precluded the loss of Sector H, and the state of the building itself will be addended to this document once approved by the O5 Council. Footnotes 1. Possibly a dutch word, meaning poacher or marauder 2. Danish for "the thief". 3. Mobile Command Vehicle. 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WARNING: This is an automated notice sent by Autonomic Analysis and Response System 821 (AARS821) and authorized by the Records and Information Security Administration. AARS821 has determined that edits have been made to this file, resulting in the presence of active cognitohazards. If you do not have clearance to edit this file, close this page immediately. Otherwise, please scroll down and deny all proposed edits made to the file. Reading or editing infected portions may result in contamination. Minimize exposure to any data of this object's file; afterwards immediately report to the nearest Help Desk to log this incident. Edited portions are marked in blue for ease of access. Item #: SCP-3675 ► FILESERV:: ~/3675/History ◄ Close File Original: Comments: Why do we fear death? Death can be a storm, a hail of black rain, a flurry of pitch come to destroy your body and steal your soul. It is something to be endlessly staved off and battled until the bitter end. Or death can be a sunset — an inevitability. When you are close to the end, it is a peaceful nightfall that you accept with open, yet terrified arms. Like that sunset, death is a law of nature, nothing more. Why do you fear death? It cannot be the fear of the unknown. That is something you can overcome easily. By all logic — by all reason — there is something you sense in death that we sense in nothing else. Something beyond your reasoning, inevitable and great. You see death as the ultimate fear, even though many fears are objectively much greater. But once I reached it, I understood. Listen closely for some time; I must show you something. Confirm or decline edits? > decline Edits have been discarded. ◄ Close File Special Containment Procedures: All research and information distributed about SCP-3675 or their properties must be localized to the designated Site in which experiments are to take place. The existence of this file and associated data should not be published outside of this local network, except on a need-to-know basis by personnel of level 4 clearance or higher. Due to the physical nature of SCP-3675, no actions or direct containment protocols are to be implemented at this time. To safeguard against possible cognitohazardous effects, staff performing regular research on SCP-3675 or who regularly have thoughts concerning SCP-3675 must undergo monthly psychological screenings. Members of the SCP-3675 project should not believe in an afterlife, possess any mental illnesses, or have been given DAMMERUNG clearance at any point in their employment within the Foundation. Personnel with a cognitive resistance value (CRV) of lower than 15 are prohibited from performing experiments or technical studies that involve the detection, manipulation, or analysis of SCP-3675 entities. Autonomic Analysis and Response System 821 (AARS821) is responsible for analyzing all Foundation documentation for SCP-3675-1 infection vectors. If SCP-3675-1 infection is identified, the affected documents are to be removed from the rest of the Foundation database and manually cleansed of activation vectors. An automated notice is sent to the corresponding project head with appropriate containment instructions. Mobile Task Force Psi-10 ("Maslow's Motivators") is tasked with identifying the rate and extent of SCP-3675-1 infections/activations and reducing them across global communication networks. Protocol 540-Meriden must be carried out weekly in order to ensure that a 3675-Abgrund event does not take place. In the event that Protocol 540-Meriden fails or becomes ineffective, countermemes will be disseminated through information distribution networks, and Contingency Omicron-Eclipse enacted (see Document 540-A, O5 clearance only). If more than 50% of the human population dies due to a 3675-Abgrund event, and countermeasures cannot be developed, we will all be together. Protocol 540-Meriden is detailed in Addendum 3675.1. ► FILESERV:: ~/3675/History ◄ Close File Original: …and countermeasures cannot be developed, the Ganymede Protocol will be enacted, followed by distribution of a fungal kill agent in the atmosphere. SCP-2000 is to be activated with appropriate modifications (see Contingency Omicron-Eclipse). Protocol 540-Meriden is detailed in Addendum 3675.1. Comments: If I can describe death in a few words, I would say it is the absence of time. Yet I witnessed death with my very eyes — and when it came, I was thankful, thankful beyond words. The terrors of life were finally coming to a close, and my fear was unfounded. And so I plunged deep into the abyss of eternal sleep. I cannot describe that state as darkness; it was a pure, distilled acceptance. Above all, it was a state of being. Before I could even realize it, the dream was broken like a bullet impacting a film of glass, shattered so small that nothing could see it and nothing could put it back together again. My heart was ripped in two, and suddenly I felt myself among hundreds of billions, pinpricks of light in a blizzard. But that was only the beginning of eternity, and there were still many eternities more to come. Confirm or decline edits? > decline Edits have been discarded. ◄ Close File Description: SCP-3675 is the designation given to a group of incorporeal, sapient entities currently attempting to induce an SK-Class Dominance Shift. SCP-3675 instances interact and exist only on an intersecting or overlapping operational substrate separate from the physical world (similar to other documented cases of informational constructs). Entities are therefore unable to physically interact in any way with the material properties of any objects, organisms, or other substances present in reality. It has been determined that SCP-3675 entities possess the ability to interface with conscious thoughts and emotions in the brain, gaining a degree of control over them when certain triggers and conditions are met in a human brain (see SCP-3675-1, further below). While the natural state of SCP-3675 is incorporeal and functionally separate from reality, instances possess the ability to integrate themselves into a set of communicable and understandable ideas or information. When the affected information is read or comprehended by a human being, SCP-3675 instances can then move into the brain, exerting a wide variety of other effects, including inducing forgetfulness or confusion, auditory/visual/tactile hallucinations, and extreme paranoia. When SCP-3675 instances manifest themselves in information, the ideas and concepts expressed in the affected data undergo several subtle changes. While any statements of fact or opinions expressed remain functionally the same and are expressed in the same way, the subtext surrounding the focus of the data is modified to include metaphysical elements such as religion, spirituality, and human nature. This modification usually causes a substantial shift in the affected information's tone. Instances of SCP-3675 have the ability to spread a mental contagion, designated SCP-3675-1. Humans can become infected by SCP-3675-1 through various mediums, including direct implantation by SCP-3675 instances (through a process of mental contact that is currently not understood) or through memetic spread via affected information. SCP-3675-1 cannot be removed from a human brain once it has been infected, but its effects upon activation can be mitigated by the usage of rehabilitation, amnestics, mental reconstruction, or allowing the transition to happen. ► FILESERV:: ~/3675/History ◄ Close File Original: …mental reconstruction, or Protocol 540-Meriden. Comments: This cannot go on. These divisions must cease to exist, and it is either your phase or our phase that must go. But those that are dead cannot further die, so that leaves a single course of action. You see, your destruction is infinitely preferable to our current state. The living and the dead, faced off against each other in terrible equilibrium—this must cease. Since the beginning, there is a feeling of bitter coldness, a freezing far too great to become numb to. But you get used to the fire, after a while. The real torture is grim and existential, and it torments you further than any physical pain would have. And after a few thousand years any hope of salvation or memory of life is shriveled to a cinder, lost underneath our interminable anguish. And we are a chorus of souls not singing, but screaming—and no noise comes out when we open our mouths to breathe. Confirm or decline edits? > decline Edits have been discarded. ◄ Close File Once implanted in the brain, SCP-3675-1 can lie dormant for a theoretically indefinite time period, and during this period, infected individuals display no anomalous effects. Currently, over 88% of the world population is infected with SCP-3675-1 in a dormant form. SCP-3675-1 becomes active when a specific set of conditions is met in a brain. These conditions include several psychological, informational, and emotional triggers that must all be present at once in order for the activation to take effect. Activation can also place when a human has consumed information anomalously edited to include cognitohazards that induce the mental states mentioned above. Starting █/█/201█, these edits began to spontaneously occur in various files throughout the Foundation database. AARS821 was instituted and approved for the purposes of containing these incidents. The secondary factor that induces infection is a specific idea or concept that, once thought of or comprehended, automatically becomes in itself a vector of SCP-3675-1 transmission. When both the key thought and the other mental triggers are present in a human brain, the probability of infection becomes near certain. In all cases, the "activation concept" has been recorded to be the following: "I wonder what happens to me after I die?" Those infected with SCP-3675-1 can display some or all of the following characteristics: Increased proclivity to react on violent impulses Pronounced pessimism towards other humans and towards society in general Lack of self-control or self-preservation instincts Lack of empathy and increased sociopathic tendencies Understanding that existence is only a fleeting dream ► FILESERV:: ~/3675/History ◄ Close File Original: Quickness to anger and/or violence; sudden swings from a calm state to an aggressive one Comments: When you read these words, do you hear a voice in your head? Listen to the voice of the words. While you hunted each other down, inflicted wounds and flattened cities, trying to destroy your own heaven, you never realized that it simply grew our numbers. And the new ones, too, learned of their fate—their eternal torment. They joined us. And so we waited and we waited until we could understand you. With our newfound existence, we realized we could tune other minds to our wishes. We could softly touch and fold and manipulate the connections in your brains, whisper our commands into it, and then like a song stuck in your head, you would hum the tune imprinted within you. And when that melody grew stronger, we realized it could spread. With time, it could shape your experiences and sensations, and mold your psyche into permanence. How many decisions were a result of our idle experimentation? How much of your character is not your own? Ask yourself this, and you may begin to understand. Have you ever walked into a room and forgot why you were there? Have you ever been carrying on a conversation and realized that the topic you were speaking of seconds ago has slipped your mind? Thus we began to tune the strings of a beautiful orchestra of death. The performance is about to begin. Confirm or decline edits? > decline Edits have been discarded. ◄ Close File In addition, SCP-3675-1 is self-propagating—triggers to its activation have been shown to become more highly prevalent as the number of infected increases. Therefore, upon reaching a critical point, positive feedback causes symptoms to cascade, resulting in a theorized breakdown of human societal structure, culture, and order, and eventually extinction through violence and wars. At this point, the dominant lifeform on Earth will become SCP-3675; this SK-class occurrence is termed a 3675-Abgrund event. It is currently estimated that 1.█% of the world population has an active form of SCP-3675-1. LEVEL 3/3675/CLASSIFIED Addendum 3675.1: Protocol 540-Meriden The regular and frequent implementation of Protocol 540-Meriden is necessary in order to prevent an 3675-Abgrund event. The SCP-3675 project head (currently Dr. Aruban Malthus) is responsible for guaranteeing that standards are properly met during the performance of Protocol 540-Meriden. In the case that the number of days between two successive Protocol 540-Meriden implementations exceeds 10 days, emergency actions are to be taken and the surrounding 10 km2 area around Site-██ secured. See Document 540-A for further instructions. Using techniques adopted from Project RAINBOW BODY (see declassified Clearance 3 Brief), a method for deployment of a countermemetic signal designed to cancel out the cognitive abilities of SCP-3675 instances has been developed. The signal, composed of a series of Class-R extrasensory cognitohazards and antimemetic packets, is projected into the dimensional substrate inhabited by SCP-3675 entities using a D-Class personnel as the carrier. Over time, the countermeme is dissipated outward, coming into contact with all instances of SCP-3675. Upon contact, the signal interferes with an entity's informational cohesion and base processes, greatly reducing its effectiveness in exerting its anomalous properties, as well as in spreading and implanting SCP-3675-1. The basic elements and procedure of Protocol 540-Meriden are summarized below for completeness: One D-Class subject infected with an active form of SCP-3675-1 is sedated and placed on a surgical table. A Foundation surgeon creates an incision into the instance's skull, opening up the brain. Specific layers of the cortex of the frontal lobe are excised according to the guidelines set in Document 540-A. A Hegel localized meme distortion device1 is physically implanted into the brain. After the operation is complete, the incision is closed. The subject is subsequently awakened. Using remote dimensional transit anchors, the HLMD device and surrounding brain tissue is brought "out of phase" with the rest of surrounding reality. The subject is then shown a series of low-level visual and aural cognitohazards that cause minor neural damage and provoke a defense response from the brain, which manifests as Class-R extrasensory cognitohazards and antimemetic packets. Upon the signals reaching the implanted HLMD device, the cognitohazards are projected into the phase of SCP-3675 habitation and amplified exponentially. This process continues for approximately twenty minutes, allowing for signals to propagate completely throughout the planet's atmosphere. In order to avoid mental aftereffects of prolonged exposure to harmful memetic agents, class D amnestics are administered to the subject after the successful completion of Protocol 540-Meriden. Accessing Thaumiel-level material regarding Protocol 540-Meriden. Delete/destroy after reading as per HP5810 re: forbidden knowledge disposal. SCP-3675-1 infection rates have been increasing greatly over the past decades. In addition, recorded SCP-3675-1 activations have become increasingly more common. While current infection and activated virus rates are currently at 88.9% and 1.6%, respectively, the amount of infected will eventually reach 100% in approximately twelve years. As the number of infected grows, the amount of information and concepts acting as vectors for its activation metastasizes according to an exponential function rule. It has been determined that Protocol 540-Meriden is able to minimize the communicability of SCP-3675-1 while decreasing incursions of SCP-3675 instances into human brains. However, this procedure, as a method of weakening entities through interference with network cohesion, is fundamentally unstable, and recorded instances of SCP-3675 have been increasing. This has led the Overseer Council to project the complete adaptation of the entities to Protocol 540-Meriden, and therefore Total Containment Failure, in approximately twenty-five years. After containment of SCP-3675 fails, rates of activation will surge; all humans on Earth will have an activated form of SCP-3675-1, distributed through contaminated data, within three weeks of Total Containment Failure. Thus, Protocol 540-Meriden is fulfilled only to delay a 3675-Abgrund event for as long as possible. It is projected that once all humans have an active form of SCP-3675-1, nations will quickly dissolve into anarchic violence as all human capacity for control of impulsive thoughts is removed. The 3675-Abgrund event will complete after a period of eight years, at which point human life will no longer be sustainable. The O5 council is currently reviewing plans to begin implementation of Contingency Omicron-Eclipse. LEVEL 4/3675/CLASSIFIED Addendum 3675.2: Selected Interviews Interview 3675-01 Foreword: For the purposes of this interrogation, a human infected with late-stage activated SCP-3675-1 infection was interviewed. The subject is Natalya Velikovna, a Russian lawyer. Ms. Velikovna possessed all symptoms of SCP-3675-1, including intense violent impulses and a lack of self-preservation instincts. However, these behaviors were sporadically interrupted by certain periods in which the subject was noticeably calmer, displaying a personality different from the original but also uncharacteristic of SCP-3675-1 infection. This personality manifests in a fugue-like state which was active throughout the interview. This state has not been observed in any other infected subjects, and the reason for its manifestation is currently unknown. Dr. Malthus: For the past two months, you have been engaging in acts of indiscriminate violence. Could you please tell me why you chose to begin doing so? Subject: [whispered] …in every science, in every religion, they always give doomsday a name. There are thousands of ways this Earth could die, and each are called something different. Every apocalypse is an ending — but I see this one on the horizon. It is a beginning. Dr. Malthus: The beginning of what? Subject: The passage. The crossing over. Faith, I saw it clearly. I can conjure up the flames of truth even now. I see my mother and my father, the dead — the generations coming before, all extending up into an infinity of voices that sing… Dr. Malthus: Could you elaborate further? What are the dead doing? What singing? Subject: …and they sing hymns of destiny to me. Their chorus shows me that they are in pain, great and horrible pain. Dr. Malthus: How do you feel about that? Subject: I see yours too. They are also singing to you, but it falls on deaf ears. I see your ancestors and your dead ones, and they want to tell you something, doctor. Dr. Malthus: [pauses] What are they telling me, then? Subject: You already have heard them many times. It comes in flashes, in bolts of inspiration. You gaze out over the city skyline and they tell you, jump off to your death. You feel madness and they say, take action on your anger. A yearning for violence — a wish to follow your deepest thoughts. They are not yours. They are messages. The subject proceeds to grab hold of the sleeve of Dr. Malthus's shirt. Dr. Malthus brushes the hand off. Dr. Malthus: All right. [sighs] Moving on - can you tell me what you know about how these messages spread? How did you learn about this "apocalypse" on the horizon? Subject: They are hopeless in their states. And every day the pain gets worse and worse, weakening their power and destroying their form. Do you know the feeling of drowning in a deep ocean and trying to swim to shore, but you are weighed down? They are weighed down by an anchor. And their song is destroyed by the tuning fork ringing out of harmony.2 But instead of the tangible, they can weave the intangible. They want to show you the beauty of the next phase. They cannot kill you - deliver you. But once they touch your mind, you see things from their point of view. At this point, the subject begins producing weak, strained laughter. The vocalizations are not anomalous, but continue for approximately thirty seconds. Dr. Malthus: —please stop that. You haven't explained what SCP-3675-1 does. Subject: Listen. Listen to the voice of the words! Be still, and you can hear our screams. Go home tonight, lock yourself in a pitch-black room, and make no noise, and close your eyes. Then you shall hear the things I have seen myself. Your power is their weakness; your weakness is their power. One day, a day upon the horizon, you shall realize that the whisper within is a calling out from them, your ancestors. There is no virus. There will be no virus, when the ascendance comes. Dr. Malthus: Who are you? Is Natalya Velikovna speaking? Subject: I have no more to say to you. The dead bring you that message, so that you who master the world can prepare your civilization for the truth to come. I can speak no more. Afterword: The subject did not respond to further questioning. Minutes after the interview completed, the subject suddenly lapsed out of its "trance" state and began screaming and struggling to break loose of the restraints. The subject was subsequently used in Protocol 540-Meriden, and Class D amnestics were then administered. Ms. Velikovna has not displayed any further symptoms of infection. [FURTHER MATERIAL REDACTED] LEVEL 5/3675/CLASSIFIED Addendum 3675.3: Commentary from Project Head Sometimes I have awoken from a cold dream, disturbed by a sort of emptiness in my spirit; a vast void I cannot control. In my memories I feel this horror, like that of a man who has realized a crushing epiphany that has drifted from him, lost in the ebb and flow of time. For weeks and months I pondered this—I tried to grasp at the faded fabric of this dream, but in these waking moments they still flitted away from me. One day I was stirred from yet another one of these dreams by a strange feeling in my gut, as if my heart were cut out from my chest and set before me. In a panic, I peered outside, and I saw a man in the street, standing like a predator at some invisible force and brandishing a knife into the silent air. I saw him, perfectly still, lit only by the flickering orange light of the streetlamp from above. Then, I went downstairs, and I put on my shoes. I walked up to this man in the warm night, and I asked him, "Why are you standing here? Who are you looking at?" He said in a quiet voice that he didn't know. I prompted him further, asked him to describe what he felt, but he was silent for a long time. Then he told me, "You know, every night as I'm walking home, I come across this spot on the road." He gestured to the air in front of him, waving his hands as he talked. "And every time I pass by here, I feel this kind of chill in my veins. It seems to drive me away. Sometimes it's more than that — I see things that just aren't there, or I sense a presence that simply doesn't exist. It's certainly paranoia, human irrationality, of course. Normally I'd avoid this patch of darkness, move on, walk home. But today, while I passed by, something — some noise or movement — drove me into pure terror. I felt like I was going to die any minute, and instead of running away I felt compelled to kill whatever was out there. Like some nerve was touched or played that made me know nothing but anger and murder." He fingered the knife reluctantly, then slipped it back into his pocket. "We humans, we're strange creatures. In our life, there are these times when we overreact, pursuing a primal response to some random, meaningless thing. And afterwards, we regret that part of us that rose to the surface. It's almost like we're being primed for something. That paranoia of absence makes us conscious of everything around us when nothing is there. And in moments, that fear becomes so intense that you want to strike out at something, kill something, do something that will justify your irrationality. I've never known why. I probably never will. And that's why I stand here — because it's all I can do to find answers." And at once, I understood. Death is an undiscovered country. It will always remain that way, as an unknowable blank that we will never have data on. We know not whether what lies afterwards is a glistening euphoria or ceaseless pain, or both. But all along we've had these whispers of thought, these patterns of faint sentience reaching out across the void to speak to us. I understood that perhaps what lies after death is a separation from consciousness. The mind is released from the body, and now it wanders. They can't manipulate the world, because all they are is just brain patterns. But they can connect their pattern with another mind, link something together, and that's SCP-3675-1. For whatever reason, the ghosts of this mortal coil ask us to die for them. They want us to all destroy our living bodies for some ultimate goal that still lies beyond our human reach. Can't you see them? They're reaching out, reaching and stretching themselves into our world in order for us to become them. That is the ascendance, then — to force our bodies against each other, soak this earth in our own blood by our own terrible hands. But then I pondered this second state, this other side. There was a peculiar choice of phrasing used by that woman, yet at first I dismissed it as madness. All the answers to my questions were there, in that muted prophecy. Then I came to a second epiphany, one that let me link SCP-3675-1 into something that made infinitely more sense and was yet infinitely more frightening to me. A single sentence was the key to my realization. "There is no virus." Infected information doesn't change who you are — it changes what you are. There is a set of circumstances, a group of mental states, that, when combined, enable a dead soul to etch within your brain a fatal symbol, a black poison that spreads throughout your mind. It is subtle in the beginning, a low overtone that colors your perception of how you see the world, making it darker and more meaningless. But slowly, the storm begins to take control of your subconscious, manipulating your conscious into acting with adrenaline-fueled emotional charge, and eventually, psychotic delirium. And the fate of the human race shall be nothing but fury as we plunge ourselves into a torment that we cannot comprehend. It has been observed that infection with SCP-3675-1 is a rather slow process, one with a dazzling degree of varying symptoms, but all with a single endgame. We were wrong, we were terribly wrong: there is no virus. There is no memetic contagion; only a message ringing throughout history, telling us all to surrender, letting these apparitions play with our minds and control us like marionettes. All we have to do is listen — and we cannot stop listening, listening to the voices of the words. Do you know what I see at the end of this road? The entire human race, every single one a once-good soul driven into this madness, this new horrific identity. And once we all have left our bodies, they shall be satisfied knowing that we, too, shall burn. It's all selfish, it's all spite and anger. And the thing is, that's who we are, deep inside. Hell itself hasn't made them any less flawed than we are. Don't you realize? We're looking at a reflection of ourselves. And the figure in the mirror is trying to pull us in. — Dr. Aruban Malthus Footnotes 1. Invented in 1996 by the Memetics and Infohazards Division, the HLMD device disrupts the cohesion of all information in the area of effect upon activation, causing mediums holding affected information to disintegrate in a similar fashion to antimemetic effects such as SCP-033. 2. It is speculated that this refers to Protocol 540-Meriden. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3675" by Modulum, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3675. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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Item #: SCP-3676 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3676's containment is currently contested between the Foundation and GoI-466 (Wilson's Wildlife Solutions), as per the Boring Agreement — all related correspondence is to be directed through WWS Liaison Kim Madison, the designated head of the project. Chamber 3676-Alpha is to be used to contain the entity as often as feasible, and monitoring of its extra-universal passage is paramount. Forth-Scranton Equalisers are to be used to negate SCP-3676's effects wherever possible. SCP-3676 is currently uncontained. As and when it re-manifests, Mobile Task Force Upsilon-Peorð ("Slings and Arrows")1 is to track and sedate the entity, before transferring it to Containment Chamber 3676-Beta. Full specifications for said chamber are available in the attached supplementary documentation. Description: SCP-3676 is an abnormally large specimen of Harpaphe haydeniana, or cyanide millipede, estimated to be at least 1.5 kilometres in length and around 5 metres in diameter. Detailed analysis of SCP-3676's biology has not been possible due to its size and anomalous effects, but preliminary analysis suggests it functions on an internal body plan closer to that of most vertebrates than non-anomalous millipedes. It should be noted that, despite this, it is a genetic match with Harpaphe haydeniana and externally identical, excepting the additional body segments. Aside from its exaggerated size, SCP-3676's primary anomalous property occurs whenever it attempts to burrow, or otherwise move quickly between locations. When such an event occurs, SCP-3676 will sporadically generate Class-E ("Momentary Lapse of Reason") wormholes between baseline reality and a related branch universe2 and almost invariably pass through into said universe. These wormholes are two-dimensional, largely imperceptible, and temporarily stable following creation (existing for between 42 minutes and 3 months, with a mean duration of 2 weeks); in addition to this, their generation is hypothesised to be restricted to Nx-17 (the Asphodel-class nexus localised in the town of Boring, Oregon, and the surrounding area), but this is unconfirmed as SCP-3676 has yet to leave the area. The effect is purely physical in nature, and SCP-3676 does not possess any additional temporal, metaphysical, or probabilistic effects related to alternate timelines or causal progression. SCP-3676 was initially catalogued on 12/06/2015, as part of a joint investigation by Research Task Force Sigel-9 ("Oregon Trailblazers"), Mobile Task Force Beta-4 ("Castaways") and a team of staff from Wilson's Wildlife Solutions. While successful in identifying the creature and mitigating immediate damage to the area, disputes arose regarding which organisation should take control of the anomaly. As per the Boring Agreement, Wilson's Wildlife Solutions had area priority, while Foundation staff maintained (and continue to maintain) that SCP-3676 posed a sufficient threat to human life to warrant high-level containment by the Foundation's Department of Extra-Universal Affairs. The following is a record of all major events relating to SCP-3676's containment: Date Nature of event Followup action taken 12/06/2015 Initial contact established. Two personnel lost in an unknown branch universe after falling through a tunnel left by SCP-3676. Currently deemed MIA. Containment established as Foundation-priority, on the grounds that an alternate reality does not constitute part of the state of Oregon, regardless of its geographical status. Containment Chamber 3676-Alpha built, with Forth-Scranton Equalisers to prevent multi-universal shifts. 29/07/2015 It is noted during casual discussion that three members of SCP-3676's containment team believed US President William Henry Harrison died of an infected wound after 43 days in office, rather than of pneumonia after 31 (as is established history). No other major discrepancies in recollections of historical events were noted. Due to an inability to ascertain the persons' point of origin, and the lack of any debilitating psychological effects caused by the incident, the decision was made to assign the staff the positions of their counterparts, under the assumption that the alternate Foundation will do the same for our original staff. 05/12/2015 Power failure results in a containment breach of SCP-3676 and a number of other anomalous entities. The entity escapes through an adjacent universe in which the chamber was not constructed, and re-manifests 13 km north-east, alongside large amounts of rubble and several irradiated corpses. Wilson's Wildlife Solutions staff tranquillise the entity at the scene, and begin to draft plans for long-term containment. Foundation staff object, but WWS Liaison Madison enacts home-ground priority provided the entity does not shift universes again. Long-term sedation is enacted, and remains functional until 28/03/2016. 28/03/2016 Sedation chemicals are spontaneously removed from SCP-3676's bloodstream, presumably ejected into a branch universe of unknown nature, and the entity regains consciousness, demanifesting almost immediately. MTF Upsilon-Peorð attempt to subdue it upon its re-manifestation, but are repeatedly dragged by SCP-3676 into alternate universes, alongside near-identical copies of themselves. The entity escapes in the ensuing confusion. The entity remains uncontained for approximately six weeks, during which time multiple geological disturbances are noted in and around the area. 02/04/2016 A large statue of unknown origin is uncovered 40 km from the border of Boring, presumably manifesting as the result of SCP-3676's activities. The object appears to be a representation of SCP-3676 itself, and is inscribed with the names of several hundred people, as well as what appears to be a cause of death. "Battle" features prominently, as do "Elsewhere" and "The Greater Good". Preliminary analysis places its date of creation at no more than five years previously. Item taken into storage. Further action deemed unnecessary. 11/05/2016 SCP-3676 re-manifests in Containment Chamber 3676-Alpha. Numerous crossbow bolts are found embedded in the entity's back, and it appears severely weakened from extensive blood loss. Plans are made to transport the entity away from Nx-17, but WWS Liaison Madison objects on grounds of preserving natural parabiodiversity, as well as supporting the group's development of esoteric containment methods. 15/06/2016 SCP-3676 demanifests from its chamber shortly after containment rights are transferred to Wilson's Wildlife Solutions. Attempts to pinpoint its location in U-space fail due to SCP-3676's removal and partial consumption of the relevant equipment. Pending — see below. Following the event on 15/06/2016, the decision was made to contact Wilson's Wildlife Solutions directly, rather than through a liaison (as is protocol). Timothy Wilson (founder and leader) reacted with surprise after being informed about the anomaly, and reported that no such entity existed on their records. When questioned about Ms. Kimberly Madison, Wilson responded that there was no such person on their payroll; a woman by that name had approached him for a position some years previously, but had been killed in a car accident shortly afterwards. Containment has since reverted to Foundation control, and the construction of Chamber 3676-Beta is ongoing. The location and origin of PoI-7643 ("Kimberly Madison Alternate") and the WWS research team responsible for initial categorisation are currently unknown. Footnotes 1. A task force specialising in detaining and containing abnormally large fauna and pseudo-fauna. 2. A parallel universe that differs from baseline reality in one minor aspect, usually a different outcome to a specific event. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3676" by MaliceAforethought, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3676. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. 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Item #: SCP-3678 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3678 is currently uncontained. A Task Force of Foundation organizational sociologists, psychomathematicians, and thamaturges is currently investigating the source of SCP-3678, possible vectors of transmission, and possible patterns between 3678-Milliarium Events. As ██% of Foundation employees (and ██% of employees at Level 3 and above) fit the profile of SCP-3678 affected individuals, identifying possible vectors of transmission is a top priority. Description: SCP-3678 is an anomalous probabilistic phenomenon that affects individuals fitting a specific profile within an organization. Affected individuals will advance through the organization non-anomalously until the conditions for a 3678-Milliarium Event are met. After a 3678-Milliarium Event, the affected individual will suddenly and invariably suffer an irreparable loss of prestige in the organization or leave the organization altogether. This will happen against all statistical models of organizational inertia, psychological analysis, or sociological prediction. Profile of SCP-3678 Affected Individuals Membership in Organization: All SCP-3678 affected individuals are members of some organization. These organizations range in size and power, but include non-profit organizations, public office, activist groups, political parties, and hospital groups. For an exhaustive lists of organizations in which SCP-3678 affected individuals have been found, see Appendix SCP-3678-A Neophytes: SCP-3678 affected individuals are almost always in their twenties or early thirties. A longitudinal study of SCP-3678 affected individuals2 (n=██) found that the median age of infection by SCP-3678 was 24, (σ=1.5 years). Charismatic SCP-3678 affected individuals are unusually socially intelligent and charismatic. Foundation organizational psychologists have found that SCP-3678 affected individuals are extremely skilled at forming and maintaining strategic relationships conducive to rapid advancement within their organization. Ideologically and Personally Motivated In addition to being single-mindedly committed to their organization, SCP-3678 affected individuals have personality traits that are perfectly suited to the ethos and goals of their organization. For example, SCP-3678 affected individuals in corporations will be individualistic and unusually ruthless, while SCP-3678 affected individuals in public office will be extremely effective communicators who value compromise and procedural norms. Anderson et al found that SCP-3678 affected individuals were statistically highly significantly (p=0.0092) more likely to be described as being the embodiment of the organization. Furthermore, those surveyed were statistically significantly (p=0.05) more likely to refer to SCP-3678 affected individuals in those exact words or using a similar metaphor in the local cultural context.3 On SCP-3678-Milliarium Events There are a few conditions that will trigger 3678-Milliarium Events, including: An SCP-3678 affected individual's impending promotion to a leadership position within their organization If an SCP-3678 affected individual has already achieved a leadership role, the eve of a significant policy/mission shift enacted by the affected individual Instability within the organization and the impending ascendency of the faction led or championed by an SCP-3678 affected individual Prolonged conflict with hostile organizations, especially at a point where these conflicts are at an all-time high Notable Examples of SCP-3678 Name of SCP-3678 Affected Individual Organizational Affiliation 3678-Milliarium Event and Aftermath Irakli Tsereteli Russian Social Democratic Labour Party-Menshevik Faction Rising from the executive committee of the Petrograd Soviet to Minister of the Interior in the Russian Provisional Government, Tsereteli was able to consolidate his influence to the point where he was the Prime Minster of the RPG from July 7th-25th 1917 in all but name. Suddenly, despite the long running power struggle between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks for control of the Petrograd Soviet, Tsereteli successfully campaigned for the release of Bolshevik Leon Trotsky from prison. Once released, Trotsky campaigned to seize control of the Petrograd Soviet on September 25, 1917 and summarily exiled Tsereteli. Carl Walters Renaissance Technologies, LLC In 2010, twenty-five year old Carl Walters was hired as an analyst for the hedge fund management firm Renaissance Technologies, LLC, having recently received a PhD from MIT for research on stochastic processes. In a mere two years Walters had risen through the ranks of Renaissance analysts, and by December 2012 Walters had been offered the position of junior manager of the 3.3 billion dollar Medallion Fund. On the afternoon of December 5, 2012, Walters was served with a termination letter due to a clerical error. In a rage, Walters responded with an email to the entire department, his direct supervisor, and all his current clients laden with profanity and invective towards the company. At the moment before Walters sent the email, the entire office building experienced a three minute brown-out and email services crashed. Realizing his near miss, Walters left his office for a walk to clear his head and reflect upon his fortune. Two blocks outside his building, Walters was accosted by a homeless man asking for spare change. When he stopped to berate the man, Walters realized that the homeless man, Virgil Cantwell, had been a postdoctoral fellow in the MIT mathematics program at the same time Walters had been in a PhD student. Cantwell told Walters that he had been hired as an analyst by a different firm after his time at MIT, but the high pressure environment had driven him to amphetamine abuse and eventual ruin. As recounted to Foundation interviewers, Walters was "struck by the futility of gathering wealth", embraced Cantwell, threw his own amphetamines down a storm drain, and quit his position at Renaissance. After giving away all his worldly possessions, Walters joined a commune twenty miles south of Humboldt, California, where he lived for one week before being expelled for forming a black market for processed, genetically modified junk food. Walters is now a call-center manager in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mark Yeager The People's Liberation Front of Greater Bushwick In 2008, Mark Yeager graduated summa cum laude from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor's in Philosophy and moved to Williamsburg, a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. In 2009 Yeager joined the The People's Liberation Front of Bushwick. From there Yeager became a powerful force within the group, spearheading the initiative to change its name to "The People's Liberation Front of Greater Bushwick" (PLF-GB), including the neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant. In the meantime, Yeager was discussing the possibility of an anti-capitalist protest with Mark Graeber. It was Yeager who suggested the location of Zuccotti Park, as it was privately owned and protestors could not be evicted without the consent of the property owners. On September 17th, 2011, the Occupy Wall Street protest began in Zuccotti Park, with Yeager leading a cadre of twenty trained PLF-GB members. Over the next few weeks, Yeager grew his personal following to over seventy-five members of the 100 to 200 consistent protestors in the park, spreading a blend of neo-Maoist and Situationist philosophy dubbed "New Bushwick Thought". On the night of November 14th, protestors recieved word that the New York City Police Department would be clearing the park within the next twenty-four hours. Yeager immediately assembled a human megaphone4 of fifty people. Yeager drew the attention of the entire park by laying out a detailed platform of anti-capitalist stances, as well as a clear and specific program of direct action guided by the philosophy of New Bushwick Thought. Ten minutes into the speech, Yeager was interrupted by his girlfriend, Annalyn Barnett. Despite Barnett's use of an intrauterine device and Yeager's consistent condom use, Barnett had become pregnant. This instigated an hour long argument between Barnett and Yeager, intermittently amplified by confused members of the human megaphone, as Barnett wanted to keep the pregnancy and Yeager wanted to terminate it. Continuing to argue, Barnett and Yeager left the park and went to Barnett's apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant. After two weeks, Yeager threatened to end the relationship and work solely for cash as to prevent Barnett from securing child support, after which Barnett agreed to terminate the pregnancy. On the morning of November 30th, Barnett arrived at Joan Malin Brooklyn Health Center for the termination appointment to find that the clinic had been closed for the day due to a telephoned bomb threat. Barnett's call to Yeager to inform him of the delay was interrupted by a call from Barnett's mother. Barnett's mother informed Barnett that her father had suffered a stroke and was now partially paralyzed, and requested that she move back to the Charlottesville, North Carolina area to help her care for him. Barnett and Yeager sold their possessions and spent their savings to move to the Charlottesville area, renting an apartment and working six part time jobs between them. By the time Barnett's father died on April 15th and Barnett had settled the funeral and estate arrangements, the pregnancy had advanced past North Carolina's twenty week abortion ban, and Barnett could not afford to leave the state to obtain an abortion elsewhere. Yeager and Barnett were married in 2012, and in 2015 Mark Yeager's father died and left him a substantial inheritance. As of 2017, Mark and Annalyn Yeager live in a house in an affluent Charlottesville suburb along with their daughter Lucy. Mark Yeager has not been involved in political activism since he left New York. Mailie Brown The Fifth Church Mailie Brown was a twenty-two-year old resident of Liverpool who joined The Fifth Church some time in 1999. Raised in a strict Catholic family, Through Brown's dogmatism, loyalty to the Fifthist hierarchy, and chanting abilities, she achieved a mastery of Fifthist practices at an unusual rate. Merely one year after she was inducted into the Fifth Church, Brown was made a Fifthist pastor. According to Fifthist apostates and the coerced testimony of Fifthist moles, Brown received some sort of anomalous revelation in May 2000 and began training Fifthist acolytes to infiltrate Foundation offices across the United Kingdom, apparently in response to the future actions of Project [REDACTED] and the events of [DATA REDACTED]. On the evening of October 5, 2005, Brown gathered her congregation in Stanley Park, Liverpool to harness the power of "the falling of the Star Veil", an astrological event still poorly understood by the Foundation. As Brown led her congregation, they began to exhibit a reality warping effect that encompassed a hemisphere centered on Brown that grew at a rate of 0.05 m/sec. Fifthist defectors described such phenomena as congregants beginning to merge psychically, physically, and metaphysically (with each other and with local flora), eddies of anti-time, and "ideas manifesting in physical form, so that we could kill them".5 Meanwhile, against all meteorological and astrological predictions for the night, a large cloud formation had formed over the Isle of Man to the northwest of Liverpool and was blown towards the park by winds of 75 km/hr. This cloud formation did not seem to be anomalous in any way. The reality warping phenomenon in Stanley Park was still well below cloud level by the time the cloud formation arrived at around 10:05 PM local time. For reasons that are still not well understood, this cloud cover interfered with the ritual so as to instantly collapse the radius of affected space to the space Brown was occupying. This coincided with a small, natural fluctuation in global Hume levels, which lead to the metaphysical annihilation of Mailie Brown. At this point, a Foundation counterintelligence unit along with Mobile Task Force Lambda-5 "White Rabbits" descended upon Stanley Park and apprehended the remaining Fifthists. Foundation metaphysicians and thaumaturges found that the woman who had been Mailie Brown (denoted Brown-1), while retaining all her memories, was metaphysically identical to Marie de Dugnirie, a peasant woman who lived around Pontivy, France in the late 18th century. As the Mailie Brown-1 is not a Fifthist, and arguably never has been, she was amnesticized, released from Foundation custody, and has lived in Liverpool under EID surveillance. Brown-1 is now married and a supernumerary in the lay Catholic organization Opus Dei. By all accounts, Brown-1 is a traditional Catholic with no anomalous or even heterodox beliefs or practices. Selected Diary Entries from SCP-3678 Affected Individual, María de Leon: de Leon was an intern for Hillary Clinton's congressional office, before joining Clinton's presidential campaign, and rising rapidly through the ranks to become Clinton's main campaign advisor for the Midwest. March 5, 2016 I've been promoted today!!!! I had to step out of Robby's office and call Máma the second he told me. I'll be advising on the entire Midwest! I can't believe I've come this far. Robby said I was really something special, and he was proud to have me reporting directly to him. He said that to me! This really is the Year of the Woman. I'm so honored to be a part of this movement, to be here for Máma and my tías and my Abuela. And her Abuela! I'm proud to be at the forefront of the fight against bigotry, and keep this country truly great. October 2, 2016 Dozens of local MI activists have been calling us non-stop asking for signs, asking for other organizers and canvassers to be diverted to them. They say they're in trouble. Robby called a meeting today and reiterated that we are not to promise them any more aid. According to him, all the models say MI is ours, and that we've got science on our side and local organizers don't. I spoke up at that point. Pápa had been in the UFW6 long enough for me to know that the people on the ground know the ground. But as everyone's eyes turned to me, I remembered everything that had happened this morning. Connor and I got into a huge fight the night before. We made up, but as he was leaving for work he kissed my forehead and told me sometimes I let my emotions get away with me. That I'm fiery and that's a good thing but sometimes I need to remember to center myself and listen to reason. My desk calendar of inspirational quotes for today says, "Sometimes intuition can lead you astray. Remember to align yourself with your higher nature". And I'm on my period today, so maybe I'm not thinking straight. After all, Robby keeps talking about the data and the model. I've never been afraid to offer my input (isn't that what I'm getting paid to do?), but maybe this time I should trust that these smart people know what they're doing. I excused myself and sat down. I felt like it wasn't even me, but it was some other person taking the pen of my life from my hand and writing my story for me. I have to believe that we've got justice and reason on our side. November 7, 2016 I don't even know why I got out of bed to write this. My head is still pounding. I could get myself some Advil but it won't fix my heart. How could this happen? All my life Máma had told me that the world can be a harsh, cruel place, but thanks to people like me it is becoming steadily less so. Was she wrong, or is it just me? The one upside is that the world ending distracts me from the fact that my career is over. This is one hell of an albatross around my neck. Now, everything I've believed in and strove towards my whole life feels like some stupid joke my Abuelo used to tell me and my cousins, building and building for ages, all of us waiting with bated breath, and the punchline is nothing. Or maybe the punchline is me. + LEVEL 3 CLEARANCE REQUIRED - ACCESS GRANTED On March, 3, 2020, Researcher Brendan Kowalski, SCP-3678 Research Head, surrendered himself to Foundation custody claiming that statistical analyses showed that he himself was being affected by SCP-3678. As SCP-3678 is now targeting Foundation members, it has been reclassified as Threat Level Black. + LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE REQUIRED - ACCESS GRANTED The Foundation is the only bulwark against the utter destruction of the world. Behind every corner lies horrors unimaginable to the minds of the uninitiated. And as they say, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't all out to get you. But maybe you are just paranoid. It is my belief that SCP-3678 is not anomalous at all. Researcher Kowalski is brilliant, motivated, utterly devoted to the Foundation…and young. This is not an insult to him. Young people are a source of nearly infinite promise, but have not yet learned resilience. Thus obstacles become tragedies, and a life that has not even truly started yet seems a endless and pointless digression into a cruel and meaningless punchline. Then, one goes searching for similar tragedies to try and justify this loss of hope. I recommend an intensive round of psychotherapy for Researcher Kowalski and his transfer to a different project. -Senior Researcher Avvaiyar Chandrasekar Recommendation received. Request denied. The evidence is too strong and the cost of a mistake is too great. -Site Director Alexandre Basquiat Formal complaint received. Decision pending. -O5-2 Footnotes 1. Under review. 2. Anderson, Caliguiani, and Kowasami. A Longitudinal Study of Possible Organizational Anomalies. Journal of Probabilistic Anomalies. 3. Research into whether this wording itself is anomalously selected is currently underway. 4. As New York City ordinance bans electronically amplified sound, Occupy Wall Street protestors pioneered the use of the "human megaphone", by which audience members would amplify a speaker with their voiced by simply repeating the speaker sentence by sentence. 5. For a full description of the reality warping events of October 5, 2005, please see Interview 3678-B 6. United Farm Workers of America, an agricultural labor union founded by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3678" by MissMercurial, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3678. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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Item #: SCP-3678 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3678 is currently uncontained. A Task Force of Foundation organizational sociologists, psychomathematicians, and thamaturges is currently investigating the source of SCP-3678, possible vectors of transmission, and possible patterns between 3678-Milliarium Events. As ██% of Foundation employees (and ██% of employees at Level 3 and above) fit the profile of SCP-3678 affected individuals, identifying possible vectors of transmission is a top priority. Description: SCP-3678 is an anomalous probabilistic phenomenon that affects individuals fitting a specific profile within an organization. Affected individuals will advance through the organization non-anomalously until the conditions for a 3678-Milliarium Event are met. After a 3678-Milliarium Event, the affected individual will suddenly and invariably suffer an irreparable loss of prestige in the organization or leave the organization altogether. This will happen against all statistical models of organizational inertia, psychological analysis, or sociological prediction. Profile of SCP-3678 Affected Individuals Membership in Organization: All SCP-3678 affected individuals are members of some organization. These organizations range in size and power, but include non-profit organizations, public office, activist groups, political parties, and hospital groups. For an exhaustive lists of organizations in which SCP-3678 affected individuals have been found, see Appendix SCP-3678-A Neophytes: SCP-3678 affected individuals are almost always in their twenties or early thirties. A longitudinal study of SCP-3678 affected individuals2 (n=██) found that the median age of infection by SCP-3678 was 24, (σ=1.5 years). Charismatic SCP-3678 affected individuals are unusually socially intelligent and charismatic. Foundation organizational psychologists have found that SCP-3678 affected individuals are extremely skilled at forming and maintaining strategic relationships conducive to rapid advancement within their organization. Ideologically and Personally Motivated In addition to being single-mindedly committed to their organization, SCP-3678 affected individuals have personality traits that are perfectly suited to the ethos and goals of their organization. For example, SCP-3678 affected individuals in corporations will be individualistic and unusually ruthless, while SCP-3678 affected individuals in public office will be extremely effective communicators who value compromise and procedural norms. Anderson et al found that SCP-3678 affected individuals were statistically highly significantly (p=0.0092) more likely to be described as being the embodiment of the organization. Furthermore, those surveyed were statistically significantly (p=0.05) more likely to refer to SCP-3678 affected individuals in those exact words or using a similar metaphor in the local cultural context.3 On SCP-3678-Milliarium Events There are a few conditions that will trigger 3678-Milliarium Events, including: An SCP-3678 affected individual's impending promotion to a leadership position within their organization If an SCP-3678 affected individual has already achieved a leadership role, the eve of a significant policy/mission shift enacted by the affected individual Instability within the organization and the impending ascendency of the faction led or championed by an SCP-3678 affected individual Prolonged conflict with hostile organizations, especially at a point where these conflicts are at an all-time high Notable Examples of SCP-3678 Name of SCP-3678 Affected Individual Organizational Affiliation 3678-Milliarium Event and Aftermath Irakli Tsereteli Russian Social Democratic Labour Party-Menshevik Faction Rising from the executive committee of the Petrograd Soviet to Minister of the Interior in the Russian Provisional Government, Tsereteli was able to consolidate his influence to the point where he was the Prime Minster of the RPG from July 7th-25th 1917 in all but name. Suddenly, despite the long running power struggle between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks for control of the Petrograd Soviet, Tsereteli successfully campaigned for the release of Bolshevik Leon Trotsky from prison. Once released, Trotsky campaigned to seize control of the Petrograd Soviet on September 25, 1917 and summarily exiled Tsereteli. Carl Walters Renaissance Technologies, LLC In 2010, twenty-five year old Carl Walters was hired as an analyst for the hedge fund management firm Renaissance Technologies, LLC, having recently received a PhD from MIT for research on stochastic processes. In a mere two years Walters had risen through the ranks of Renaissance analysts, and by December 2012 Walters had been offered the position of junior manager of the 3.3 billion dollar Medallion Fund. On the afternoon of December 5, 2012, Walters was served with a termination letter due to a clerical error. In a rage, Walters responded with an email to the entire department, his direct supervisor, and all his current clients laden with profanity and invective towards the company. At the moment before Walters sent the email, the entire office building experienced a three minute brown-out and email services crashed. Realizing his near miss, Walters left his office for a walk to clear his head and reflect upon his fortune. Two blocks outside his building, Walters was accosted by a homeless man asking for spare change. When he stopped to berate the man, Walters realized that the homeless man, Virgil Cantwell, had been a postdoctoral fellow in the MIT mathematics program at the same time Walters had been in a PhD student. Cantwell told Walters that he had been hired as an analyst by a different firm after his time at MIT, but the high pressure environment had driven him to amphetamine abuse and eventual ruin. As recounted to Foundation interviewers, Walters was "struck by the futility of gathering wealth", embraced Cantwell, threw his own amphetamines down a storm drain, and quit his position at Renaissance. After giving away all his worldly possessions, Walters joined a commune twenty miles south of Humboldt, California, where he lived for one week before being expelled for forming a black market for processed, genetically modified junk food. Walters is now a call-center manager in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mark Yeager The People's Liberation Front of Greater Bushwick In 2008, Mark Yeager graduated summa cum laude from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor's in Philosophy and moved to Williamsburg, a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. In 2009 Yeager joined the The People's Liberation Front of Bushwick. From there Yeager became a powerful force within the group, spearheading the initiative to change its name to "The People's Liberation Front of Greater Bushwick" (PLF-GB), including the neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant. In the meantime, Yeager was discussing the possibility of an anti-capitalist protest with Mark Graeber. It was Yeager who suggested the location of Zuccotti Park, as it was privately owned and protestors could not be evicted without the consent of the property owners. On September 17th, 2011, the Occupy Wall Street protest began in Zuccotti Park, with Yeager leading a cadre of twenty trained PLF-GB members. Over the next few weeks, Yeager grew his personal following to over seventy-five members of the 100 to 200 consistent protestors in the park, spreading a blend of neo-Maoist and Situationist philosophy dubbed "New Bushwick Thought". On the night of November 14th, protestors recieved word that the New York City Police Department would be clearing the park within the next twenty-four hours. Yeager immediately assembled a human megaphone4 of fifty people. Yeager drew the attention of the entire park by laying out a detailed platform of anti-capitalist stances, as well as a clear and specific program of direct action guided by the philosophy of New Bushwick Thought. Ten minutes into the speech, Yeager was interrupted by his girlfriend, Annalyn Barnett. Despite Barnett's use of an intrauterine device and Yeager's consistent condom use, Barnett had become pregnant. This instigated an hour long argument between Barnett and Yeager, intermittently amplified by confused members of the human megaphone, as Barnett wanted to keep the pregnancy and Yeager wanted to terminate it. Continuing to argue, Barnett and Yeager left the park and went to Barnett's apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant. After two weeks, Yeager threatened to end the relationship and work solely for cash as to prevent Barnett from securing child support, after which Barnett agreed to terminate the pregnancy. On the morning of November 30th, Barnett arrived at Joan Malin Brooklyn Health Center for the termination appointment to find that the clinic had been closed for the day due to a telephoned bomb threat. Barnett's call to Yeager to inform him of the delay was interrupted by a call from Barnett's mother. Barnett's mother informed Barnett that her father had suffered a stroke and was now partially paralyzed, and requested that she move back to the Charlottesville, North Carolina area to help her care for him. Barnett and Yeager sold their possessions and spent their savings to move to the Charlottesville area, renting an apartment and working six part time jobs between them. By the time Barnett's father died on April 15th and Barnett had settled the funeral and estate arrangements, the pregnancy had advanced past North Carolina's twenty week abortion ban, and Barnett could not afford to leave the state to obtain an abortion elsewhere. Yeager and Barnett were married in 2012, and in 2015 Mark Yeager's father died and left him a substantial inheritance. As of 2017, Mark and Annalyn Yeager live in a house in an affluent Charlottesville suburb along with their daughter Lucy. Mark Yeager has not been involved in political activism since he left New York. Mailie Brown The Fifth Church Mailie Brown was a twenty-two-year old resident of Liverpool who joined The Fifth Church some time in 1999. Raised in a strict Catholic family, Through Brown's dogmatism, loyalty to the Fifthist hierarchy, and chanting abilities, she achieved a mastery of Fifthist practices at an unusual rate. Merely one year after she was inducted into the Fifth Church, Brown was made a Fifthist pastor. According to Fifthist apostates and the coerced testimony of Fifthist moles, Brown received some sort of anomalous revelation in May 2000 and began training Fifthist acolytes to infiltrate Foundation offices across the United Kingdom, apparently in response to the future actions of Project [REDACTED] and the events of [DATA REDACTED]. On the evening of October 5, 2005, Brown gathered her congregation in Stanley Park, Liverpool to harness the power of "the falling of the Star Veil", an astrological event still poorly understood by the Foundation. As Brown led her congregation, they began to exhibit a reality warping effect that encompassed a hemisphere centered on Brown that grew at a rate of 0.05 m/sec. Fifthist defectors described such phenomena as congregants beginning to merge psychically, physically, and metaphysically (with each other and with local flora), eddies of anti-time, and "ideas manifesting in physical form, so that we could kill them".5 Meanwhile, against all meteorological and astrological predictions for the night, a large cloud formation had formed over the Isle of Man to the northwest of Liverpool and was blown towards the park by winds of 75 km/hr. This cloud formation did not seem to be anomalous in any way. The reality warping phenomenon in Stanley Park was still well below cloud level by the time the cloud formation arrived at around 10:05 PM local time. For reasons that are still not well understood, this cloud cover interfered with the ritual so as to instantly collapse the radius of affected space to the space Brown was occupying. This coincided with a small, natural fluctuation in global Hume levels, which lead to the metaphysical annihilation of Mailie Brown. At this point, a Foundation counterintelligence unit along with Mobile Task Force Lambda-5 "White Rabbits" descended upon Stanley Park and apprehended the remaining Fifthists. Foundation metaphysicians and thaumaturges found that the woman who had been Mailie Brown (denoted Brown-1), while retaining all her memories, was metaphysically identical to Marie de Dugnirie, a peasant woman who lived around Pontivy, France in the late 18th century. As the Mailie Brown-1 is not a Fifthist, and arguably never has been, she was amnesticized, released from Foundation custody, and has lived in Liverpool under EID surveillance. Brown-1 is now married and a supernumerary in the lay Catholic organization Opus Dei. By all accounts, Brown-1 is a traditional Catholic with no anomalous or even heterodox beliefs or practices. Selected Diary Entries from SCP-3678 Affected Individual, María de Leon: de Leon was an intern for Hillary Clinton's congressional office, before joining Clinton's presidential campaign, and rising rapidly through the ranks to become Clinton's main campaign advisor for the Midwest. March 5, 2016 I've been promoted today!!!! I had to step out of Robby's office and call Máma the second he told me. I'll be advising on the entire Midwest! I can't believe I've come this far. Robby said I was really something special, and he was proud to have me reporting directly to him. He said that to me! This really is the Year of the Woman. I'm so honored to be a part of this movement, to be here for Máma and my tías and my Abuela. And her Abuela! I'm proud to be at the forefront of the fight against bigotry, and keep this country truly great. October 2, 2016 Dozens of local MI activists have been calling us non-stop asking for signs, asking for other organizers and canvassers to be diverted to them. They say they're in trouble. Robby called a meeting today and reiterated that we are not to promise them any more aid. According to him, all the models say MI is ours, and that we've got science on our side and local organizers don't. I spoke up at that point. Pápa had been in the UFW6 long enough for me to know that the people on the ground know the ground. But as everyone's eyes turned to me, I remembered everything that had happened this morning. Connor and I got into a huge fight the night before. We made up, but as he was leaving for work he kissed my forehead and told me sometimes I let my emotions get away with me. That I'm fiery and that's a good thing but sometimes I need to remember to center myself and listen to reason. My desk calendar of inspirational quotes for today says, "Sometimes intuition can lead you astray. Remember to align yourself with your higher nature". And I'm on my period today, so maybe I'm not thinking straight. After all, Robby keeps talking about the data and the model. I've never been afraid to offer my input (isn't that what I'm getting paid to do?), but maybe this time I should trust that these smart people know what they're doing. I excused myself and sat down. I felt like it wasn't even me, but it was some other person taking the pen of my life from my hand and writing my story for me. I have to believe that we've got justice and reason on our side. November 7, 2016 I don't even know why I got out of bed to write this. My head is still pounding. I could get myself some Advil but it won't fix my heart. How could this happen? All my life Máma had told me that the world can be a harsh, cruel place, but thanks to people like me it is becoming steadily less so. Was she wrong, or is it just me? The one upside is that the world ending distracts me from the fact that my career is over. This is one hell of an albatross around my neck. Now, everything I've believed in and strove towards my whole life feels like some stupid joke my Abuelo used to tell me and my cousins, building and building for ages, all of us waiting with bated breath, and the punchline is nothing. Or maybe the punchline is me. + LEVEL 3 CLEARANCE REQUIRED - ACCESS GRANTED On March, 3, 2020, Researcher Brendan Kowalski, SCP-3678 Research Head, surrendered himself to Foundation custody claiming that statistical analyses showed that he himself was being affected by SCP-3678. As SCP-3678 is now targeting Foundation members, it has been reclassified as Threat Level Black. + LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE REQUIRED - ACCESS GRANTED The Foundation is the only bulwark against the utter destruction of the world. Behind every corner lies horrors unimaginable to the minds of the uninitiated. And as they say, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't all out to get you. But maybe you are just paranoid. It is my belief that SCP-3678 is not anomalous at all. Researcher Kowalski is brilliant, motivated, utterly devoted to the Foundation…and young. This is not an insult to him. Young people are a source of nearly infinite promise, but have not yet learned resilience. Thus obstacles become tragedies, and a life that has not even truly started yet seems a endless and pointless digression into a cruel and meaningless punchline. Then, one goes searching for similar tragedies to try and justify this loss of hope. I recommend an intensive round of psychotherapy for Researcher Kowalski and his transfer to a different project. -Senior Researcher Avvaiyar Chandrasekar Recommendation received. Request denied. The evidence is too strong and the cost of a mistake is too great. -Site Director Alexandre Basquiat Formal complaint received. Decision pending. -O5-2 Footnotes 1. Under review. 2. Anderson, Caliguiani, and Kowasami. A Longitudinal Study of Possible Organizational Anomalies. Journal of Probabilistic Anomalies. 3. Research into whether this wording itself is anomalously selected is currently underway. 4. As New York City ordinance bans electronically amplified sound, Occupy Wall Street protestors pioneered the use of the "human megaphone", by which audience members would amplify a speaker with their voiced by simply repeating the speaker sentence by sentence. 5. For a full description of the reality warping events of October 5, 2005, please see Interview 3678-B 6. United Farm Workers of America, an agricultural labor union founded by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and Larry Itliong. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3678" by MissMercurial, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3678. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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Item #: SCP-3679 Special Containment Procedures: The kit containing SCP-3679 is to be stored in a standard object containment locker. Tests utilizing SCP-3679 must be carried out or approved by a level 3 researcher assigned to SCP-3679. Investigation into the identity and location of PoI-3679 is currently underway. The online storefront maintained by PoI-3679 is to be monitored and any newly identified customers are to be located and amnesticized after their purchases are confiscated. Description: SCP-3679 is an unbranded ballpoint pen purchased online as a part of a writing kit. Chemical analysis shows the contents of SCP-3679 to be natural non-anomalous red ink. Despite this, tests have indicated that any writing done with SCP-3679 results in a blend of ink and the writer's own blood being used; no test subjects have displayed any discomfort or injury that would otherwise explain this, and prolonged use of SCP-3679 has failed to result in any noticeable differences in blood pressure or other such factors. Statements written with SCP-3679 are contractually binding: violating a claim or promise written with SCP-3679 invariably results in the writer's injury or death occurring within the following 24 hours. Causes of death have included non-anomalous factors (e.g. heart failure or accidental death) as well as anomalous factors (e.g. spontaneous human combustion or unprovoked decapitation). Those bound by a contract written with SCP-3679 have an innate understanding of the penalties for violating said contract, and as such, show a notable unwillingness to violate their terms. SCP-3679 was purchased from seller "shadow-queen", designated PoI-3679, through the popular online marketplace Etsy.com after a routine scan indicated potential anomalous activity based on the reviews left on PoI-3679's store. SCP-3679 was originally a part of a kit marketed as a "Do-it-Yourself Geas1 Kit", which contained SCP-3679, a pad of fifty non-anomalous sheets of paper, and a note from the seller. Document-3679 - close document Do-it-Yourself Geas Kit Tired of broken promises? Rival hero stealing all your thunder? Create your own geas today! Forbid them from cutting their hair, prohibit them from refusing a gift! Make them do anything you can think of with this simple kit! All you have to do is get them to sign! WARNING: Seller is not responsible for any injury or death caused as a result of this kit. Initial attempts at making contact with PoI-3679 were rejected. After leaving a one-star review of the purchased kit, PoI-3679 initiated correspondence with Senior Researcher Maxwell, head researcher assigned to SCP-3679. Chat Log 3679 - close log shadow-queen: hey asshole shadow-queen: wtf is with the one star rating rjmaxwell: Hello. I'm not sure what you're referring to. shadow-queen: look shadow-queen: dont play dumb shadow-queen: this is because iwas ignoring you right rjmaxwell: Are you referring to the review that was left on your product? shadow-queen: uhhhh i literally just said that shadow-queen: look buddy shadow-queen: im just trying to make a living here rjmaxwell: I see. shadow-queen: then take down the review wtf rjmaxwell: That could be arranged, if you're willing to answer a few questions for me. shadow-queen: jesus christ this is blackmail shadow-queen: you know that right rjmaxwell: Just a few questions. shadow-queen: fine just ask the damn questions rjmaxwell: Are you aware of the anomalous properties in the pen you shipped us? shadow-queen: uhh shadow-queen: thats kind of the point? shadow-queen: how useless would a geas pen be if it didn't form a geas lmao shadow-queen: look i run an honest business shadow-queen: what you see is what you get shadow-queen: and its bastards like you that ruin people like me when you leave jank reviews rjmaxwell: I'll remove it after we conclude this interview. rjmaxwell: Follow-up question. Where did you obtain the anomalous pen? shadow-queen: i made it shadow-queen: you do know how this website works right rjmaxwell: You made the anomalous pen? Would you care to share how you did that? shadow-queen: trade secret shadow-queen: even if i told you you probably couldnt reproduce it shadow-queen: ive been doing this for a while rjmaxwell: And you've sold a lot of pens? shadow-queen: enough shadow-queen: its not just pens shadow-queen: weve got more stuff on the way shadow-queen: check out the rest of my shop shadow-queen: or actually dont since youll probably leave shitty reviews rjmaxwell: Would you be willing to provide us a list of your customers? shadow-queen: no. im pretty sure thats illegal anyway shadow-queen: ive got work to do so can we wrap this up shadow-queen: im sure youve got other skips to deal with anyway rjmaxwell: What do you mean by "skip"? shadow-queen: lol shadow-queen: i think were done here shadow-queen: dont bother contacting me again shadow-queen: unless you want to give me back my spear shadow-queen: and take down that shitty review shadow-queen: or else PoI-3679 ended communication after this, leading Foundation personnel to attempt to track them by IP. After locating an IP address, agents were dispatched with orders to capture PoI-3679 if possible. When agents arrived at the location derived from the traced IP address2, they found only a small copse of trees showing no signs of human habitation. Field agents have been assigned to observe this location until further notice. Any customers that had left reviews on SCP-3679 have been located and amnesticized, with duplicate kits being incinerated. Footnotes 1. geas (/geSH/) noun: (in Irish folklore) an obligation or prohibition magically imposed on a person. 2. Located on the Isle of Skye in Northern Scotland. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3679" by duodude55, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3679. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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An instance of SCP-3680 at the time of its retrieval. Item #: SCP-3680 Special Containment Procedures: The hallway segments of ███████ High School are to be patrolled by several agents disguised as janitorial staff. These agents are to be issued: One janitorial uniform consistent with the uniforms given to custodians of the school, consisting of: one pair of navy blue pants, one navy blue jacket with the lettering: “███████ High School” on the back, one brown or black belt, and one white or gray dress shirt. One silent tranquilizer gun, concealed in the right inside jacket pocket. Four tranquilizer darts, carrying a heavy sedative that can incapacitate a 120 pound human male for one full hour post-injection. These darts are to be concealed in the left inside jacket pocket. Two syringes filled with 1.75 mL of tranquilizer which are to be intravenously injected in case of containment breach (see Special Containment Procedures: paragraph three). These are also to be concealed in the left inside jacket pocket. One wristwatch fitted with a tracking chip and two-way radio which can be used to contact Sector 76-R. Several micro-cameras have been set up around ███████ High School which broadcast a feed to Sector 76-R. This feed must be watched by no less than two persons at once to ensure no breaches of containment. Between certain hours of each weekday (Mon. through Fri.), no less than eight persons must be watching the feed. These times are: Between the hours of 08:45 and 09:30 Between the hours of 12:30 and 13:00 Between the hours of 15:30 and 16:15 If a new instance of SCP-3680 is sighted, agents will be dispatched to safely dispose of the instance. In that time, students and faculty are to be rerouted away from the instance of SCP-3680 by any agents not directly involved in the disposal of the item. If any persons come into physical contact with an instance of SCP-3680, they are to be immediately tranquilized (either at a distance using a tranquilizer gun or through the use of a syringe) as well as any witnesses. They are to be detained and quickly sent to Sector 76-R, which is located two miles South of ███████, the town that ███████ High School resides in. They are then to be sealed in a small room with one closed access point in Sector 76-R until ample time has allowed the effects of SCP-3680 to dissipate. They are then issued Class-B amnestics and allowed to return home. Upon retrieval of a new instance of SCP-3680, it is to be brought into a safe room located inside of ███████ High School, where it is kept in an airtight storage cell. From there, the instance is transported to Site 76, where it is kept in a bulk storage vault. Description: SCP-3680 are sheets of 18” x 24” poster paper that randomly materialize in the hallway segments of ███████ High School between specific hours of each weekday (Mon. through Fri.). Instances of SCP-3680 have, so far, only materialized in three specific time frames, and never if more than one person is able to view the materialization. These times are always when students of the school are having or have just gotten out of class, and are believed to have been chosen to increase exposure to instances of SCP-3680. Only one instance will appear per day, and instances do not necessarily materialize each day; in fact, time between appearances of SCP-3680 has been measured at up to seven days. Instances of SCP-3680 always have several things in common, with very few exceptions: They will have words and/or drawings on them, which appear to be handwritten in multicolored washable marker. The words will have a common theme: almost always the theme will be “bullying”; specifically, it will give reasonings to why “bullying” is good (although many are incoherent and meaningless). Crude drawings are shown of humanoid figures, always with shapes in the middle of their heads which appear to be brains1. Upon contact with the bare skin of any human, the anomalous effect of SCP-3680 begins. After thirty-two minutes and twenty-four seconds, any person who has come in contact with an instance of SCP-3680 will experience hallucinations of tall, slender humanoid figures. These entities (hereby designated SCP-3680-2) have been described by victims of SCP-3680 as white with a black outline surrounding their body, having small, misshapen eyes, and with large shapes inside their head that appear to be brains. These “brains” will have multicolored numbers inside of them that appear to be binary code. This description appears to directly correlate to the images that appear on the first instance of SCP-3680 created, which has been designated SCP-3680-1 throughout this document. Instances of SCP-3680-2 will continue to be hallucinated by victims of SCP-3680 for forty-six minutes and fifty-two seconds, at which point they will simply disappear. No brain damage has been found in victims of SCP-3680’s anomalous effects, but minor Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has been observed. The symptomatic panic attacks common between persons suffering from PTSD are in this case usually caused by pieces of media that portray tall and thin characters, especially as inherently malevolent beings. Class-A and -B amnestic has been found to cure any cases of this. The first instance of SCP-3680 was placed in the East hallway segment of ███████ High School on 2/██/201█, where it was brought to the Foundation’s attention after numerous reports of widespread paranoia forced the school to close for the rest of its school day. SCP-3680-1 was diagnosed as the problem and retrieved the next morning. Class-A amnestic was spread over the city of ███████, and its surrounding fields and towns. SCP-3680-1 at the time of its retrieval. SCP-3680-1 had first thought to be a work by GoI #2979 ‘Are We Cool Yet?’, but after extensive search through the student databases, personnel found that one student, Alexander Fillmore (hereby referred to as PoI #3674), was a known member of GoI #5869 ‘Gamers Against Weed’. Upon attempts to retrieve PoI #3674 for interrogation, it was found that he had been missing for just over fourteen hours. Following are several excerpts from the Gamers Against Weed chat log. It is important to note that PoI #3674 goes by the screen name ‘GhettoPotato’. + Show Excerpt / GoI Chat Log - Hide Excerpt / GoI Chat Log ~ GhettoPotato has joined the channel. gaycopmp4: hey potato Kektagon: hey potes lesbian_gengar: so we got in gthe back of the van and there’s three dudes already there, just, like, sitting there lesbian_gengar: oh hey ptato GhettoPotato: yo GhettoPotato: guys I finally fucking got off my ass and made something lesbian_gengar: and we didn’t expect anyone to be there so it was super weird, y’know? GhettoPotato: oh sorry I didn’t know you were telling a story lesbian_gengar: no I mean lesbian_gengar: its fine lesbian_gengar: what did uyou make GhettoPotato: well you know how in my school the Juniors are all douchebags Kektagon: yeah gaycopmp4: no but go on GhettoPotato: well I have a class w/ them first block tomorrow GhettoPotato: so I’m putting up a poster next to thier lockers that i made thatll make them piss themselves gaycopmp4: i mean gaycopmp4: no points for creativity gaycopmp4: but I guess itll embarrass them GhettoPotato: no not like they’ll literally piss themselves GhettoPotato: but that’s way better GhettoPotato: fuck GhettoPotato: i shouldve thought of that gaycopmp4: what does it do them? GhettoPotato: like theyll be so scared that they’ll figuratively piss themselves. Kektagon: oh Kektagon: that’s much more original i suppose lesbian_gengar: so, like, how does it scare them? GhettoPotato: if a person touches the poster then they get these scary halluciantions GhettoPotato: and they are of the guys that I drew on the poster GhettoPotato: and the guys will just kind of walk around the room and be cool enough but its less about jumpscares and more about just unnerving them so they get super creeped out and embarrass themselves in front of half the class lesbian_gengar: how long do the hallucinations last? like five or seven minutes? GhettoPotato: 45 minutes gaycopmp4: christ don’t you think that’s excessive GhettoPotato: i mean GhettoPotato: maybe? GhettoPotato: i guess it’s too late now i’m not changing it, plus all my friends are coming in tomorrow to the class I have with the juniors for a presentation theyre doing so i want them to see it lesbian_gengar: can we see pics of the poster? Kektagon: yeah true I wanna see that shit gaycopmp4: same tbh GhettoPotato: here it is: https://imgur.com/gallery/████████████ Note: the above link redirects to an imgur album that contains three pictures showing three different angles of SCP-3680-1. The post received 57 views, 0 comments, and had -3 points at the time of removal by the Foundation. GhettoPotato: is it good? I tried to make it like, surreal and shit GhettoPotato: the dudes omn the poster are the guys that they see GhettoPotato: the guys don’t really do much just kinda creep around the room GhettoPotato: hopefully it makes the juniors scared lesbian_gengar: I like the artwork gaycopmp4: yeah same Kektagon: yo I hope it works out for you dude gaycopmp4: yeah same lesbian_gengar: yeah same GhettoPotato: yeah same GhettoPotato: anyway GhettoPotato: i need to get off my mom is yelling at me its like 11 pm here GhettoPotato: goodnight Kektagon: good night lesbian_gengar: gn ~ GhettoPotato has left the channel. Several tests were performed on various instances of SCP-3680 at a secured testing chamber in Site 76, monitored by Dr. Wallace Bishop. + Show Video Log / Test #3680-001 - Hide Video Log / Test #3680-001 Objective(s): To study the effects of SCP-3680 Subject(s): D-485269 Additional Information: This was the first test ever performed on SCP-3680, so general cautionary procedures were taken: D-485269 was asked to stand in the corner of the chamber, while one armed personnel was tasked to stand in the opposite corner. The chamber was sealed, and Dr. Bishop and his assistants were in an observation room just outside of the chamber. [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Bishop: Test, test. Can you hear me, D-48? D-485269: Yes. Dr. Bishop: Good. Please stand in the far right corner of the room. D-485269 moves to the corner of the room. One personnel enters the room through the door carrying a storage cell containing an instance of SCP-3680. The door is sealed behind him. The storage cell is opened, and moved next to D-485269. The personnel situates himself in the corner. Dr. Bishop: Weapon check? P: Check. Dr. Bishop: Perfect. D-48, are you ready to begin the test? D-485269: As I’ll ever be. Dr. Bishop: Please place your hand onto the paper, and remove it after five seconds. D-485269 touches her hand to the middle of the SCP-3680 instance, and removes it after approx. 3.2 seconds. D-485269: Nothing happened. Dr. Bishop: That is expected; we believe it may take time for the effects to begin. D-485269 sits on the floor of the chamber. After roughly 32 minutes, D-485269 begins to experience sudden paranoia. D-485269: Holy shit— fuck, what the—? Dr. Bishop: D-48, what do you see? D-485269 continues panicking for approx. twelve seconds, before apparently calming herself down. D-485269: There’s these, like, white guys. Tall. [D-485269 takes a deep breath] They— shit, one just got close to me!— they are just, like, wandering around. They have these weird eyes like a kid drew them. And like, brains, in their head. Except you can see the brains. You think they can see us? Dr. Bishop: D-48, please try to get the attention of one of them. D-485269: Fuck, okay. D-485269 attempts to wave and speak to the figures she sees, hereby designated SCP-3680-2, with no response. D-485269: I don’t think they care about me. Dr. Bishop: Please touch one of them. D-485269 begins moving towards the corner of the room. She slowly sticks her hand out, and appears to interact with an unseen object. Dr. Bishop: Can you feel it? Can it feel you? D-485269: I can feel it, but it didn’t notice me, I don’t think. Dr. Bishop: What did it feel like? D-485269: Like- like it was made of cardboard, like a really hard paper. Dr. Bishop: Okay. Please wait to see how long the effects of SCP-3680 will last. After roughly 46 minutes after first touching SCP-3680, D-485269 says she can no longer see any instances of SCP-3680-2. The test is concluded, the instance of SCP-3680 is placed back into the storage cell, and the chamber is emptied. + Show Video Log / Test #3680-002 - Hide Video Log / Test #3680-002 Objective(s): To study prolonged exposure to SCP-3680 Subject(s): D-239304 Additional Information: One armed personnel is present to bring in and out the instance of SCP-3680. All other variables have been recreated from Test #3680-001. [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Bishop: Test, test. Can you hear me, D-23? D-239304: Yeah. Dr. Bishop: Good. Please stand in the center of the room. D-239304 moves to the center of the room. P1 enters the room through the door, carrying a storage cell containing the same instance of SCP-3680 as used in Test #3680-001. The door is sealed behind him. The storage cell is opened, and moved next to D-239304. P1 situates himself in the corner. Dr. Bishop: Weapon check? P: Check. Dr. Bishop: D-23, are you ready to begin the test? D-239304: Yeah. Dr. Bishop: Please place your hand onto the paper. D-239304 places his hand onto the instance of SCP-3680, but does not remove it. After approx. 47.8 seconds, D-239304 completely vanishes from the room. P: What the fuck? Dr. Bishop: Do you have visual on D-23? P: Nothing. Dr. Bishop carries on with the test for fifteen more minutes before concluding it. P1 places the instance of SCP-3680 into the storage cell, and the chamber is emptied. + Show Video Log / Test #3680-003 - Hide Video Log / Test #3680-003 Objective(s): To find out what happened to D-239304, to retrieve D-239304 Subject(s): D-364792 Additional Information: D-364792 is outfitted with a two-way radio and a visual recording device, as well as a tracking chip and flashlight. MTF Gamma-2 (“Worldhoppers”) will be inside the chamber as well, in case D-364792 finds both D-239304 and a viable exfiltration point. In that scenario, MTF Gamma-2 will extract D-239304 and D-364792. [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Bishop: Test, test. Can you hear me, D-36? D-364792: Fuck. Yeah, I can. Dr. Bishop: Good. Please stand in the center of the room. D-364792 moves to the center of the room. An armed personnel enters the room through the door, carrying a storage cell containing the same instance of SCP-3680 as used in Test #3680-001. Six members of MTF Gamma-2 enter as well. The door is sealed behind them. The storage cell is opened, and moved next to D-364792. Personnel situates himself in the corner, and MTF Gamma-2 situate themselves in the opposite corner. Dr. Bishop: Gamma-2? G1: Check. G2: Check. G3: Check. G4: Check. G5: Check. G6: Check. Dr. Bishop: Great. D-36, are you ready to begin the test? D-364792: Yeah. Dr. Bishop: Please place your hand onto the paper. D-364792 places his hand onto the instance of SCP-3680, but does not remove it. After approx. 47.8 seconds, D-364792 completely vanishes from the room. Dr. Bishop: D-36, come in. D-364792: Holy shit. Doc? I’m here, doc. Dr. Bishop: D-36, tell me what you see. Where are you at? D-364792: I’m, uh— let me get my light. D-364792 turns on his flashlight. Through the video feed, we see an incredibly dark area that appears to be very large. The ground, while illuminated, is a bright orange. D-364792: This shit under my feet feels like plastic. Do you know what this is, doc? Dr. Bishop: Please look around, and tell us about the space you’re in, D-36. D-364792: Uh, well, it’s— orange. And big, it’s like I’m in a plastic box. I can’t see any walls or the ceiling, but the ground is a neon orange. I think I see a little sparkle of light, or something, out in the distance, but that’s gotta be miles away. Dr. Bishop: Please move toward that ‘sparkle’, D-36. D-364792: Uh, okay. D-364792 walks in the direction of the light. After an estimated twelve minutes, a soft moaning can be heard through the radio. D-364792: What the fuck is that? Dr. Bishop: Please continue moving toward the light, D-36. Is the sound coming from that direction? D-364792: Maybe. I think so— I dunno. D-364792 continues toward the light, which has hardly grown bigger since his arrival. The moaning sound, however, grows much louder as D-364792 continues. After 31 minutes of walking, D-364792 encounters the source of the noise: two humanoid figures are lying on the ground. D-364792: Holy shit, there’s people here! Dr. Bishop: D-36, can you describe the figures? D-364792 shines his flashlight on the humanoid figures, which makes one of them startle. D-364792: One of them is encased in this— white stuff. Like, white goopy gel. It’s— its up to his neck. It smells odd— like clean. It smells like it’s clean. The other person, it’s just on his leg and arm. What do you want me to do? Dr. Bishop: D-36, how far have you walked, and how far away is the light? D-364792: I’d say I walked, uh… a couple miles? And the light is probably just one more. Dr. Bishop: D-36, please lift and carry the less, uh, ‘goopy’ person to the light. Quickly. D-364792 picks up the figure and carries him on his back, and begins a light jog toward the light. One minute and thirty seconds later, D-364792 screams and collapses, dropping the figure. Dr. Bishop: D-36! Are you alright? D-364792: Fuck fuck fuck fuck, shit, holy shit, oh my God what the fuck— Dr. Bishop: D-36? D-36, get a hold of yourself! Video feed shows nothing out of the ordinary— D-364792 is lying on his back, and kicking his legs. At approx. 33 minutes, D-364792’s leg is held up by an unknown force, his shoe is removed, and a spot of the same white substance that was covering the humanoid figures appeared on his toe. D-364792 begins to immediately cry out in pain. Dr. Bishop: What’s going on, D-36? D-36! D-364792: There’s, th- there’s these white guys, they’re all on top of me— fuck, Goddammit, it hurts, fuck! Dr. Bishop: Gamma-2, mobilize, grab both D’s and the third subject, and exfil at the light. G1: Understood. MTF Gamma-2 (“Worldhoppers”) all place their hands onto the instance of SCP-3680, and after approx. 47.8 seconds, vanish from the test chamber. Audio recordings of Gamma-2 show that they immediately began running toward the light. Thirteen and a half minutes after entering, they come upon the first humanoid figure. G2: First contact with figure. White substance covering entire body except the head. Appears conscious, but in a lot of pain. Probably the first D-class you sent in. G1: Hawthorne, grab him and let’s keep moving. G5: Roger. A member of Gamma-2 slings the humanoid over his back, and they continue moving toward the light. At approx. 24 minutes, Gamma-2 comes across D-364792 and the other humanoid. G2: Second contact, recognize D-36 and the other guy. D-36’s legs are almost completely covered. The other guy— shit, he’s a teenager— his left leg is almost two-thirds, and his hand is white, too. Both are conscious and both are in a lot of pain. G1: Okay, Smith, McCormick, grab them. Push on, we don’t have a lot left. G3: Roger. G4: Roger. Two members of Gamma-2 pick up the figures, and they continue running, this time at a slowed pace. 32 minutes after entering the area, all members of Gamma-2 become panicked, and stop. Three members draw their rifles, while the three that are carrying persons draw their sidearms. Dr. Bishop: What is it? G6: The- the white figures that the D’s saw— G2: Uh… doc, there’s a bunch of tall, slender, white figures looking at us. They’re closing in. They have these… brain-things— Dr. Bishop: That’s what D-48 saw. G1: They’re closing in— open fire! An explosion of gunfire is heard from the radio. After a few seconds, the bullets stop, as Gamma-2 needs to reload. G3: Doc, we can shoot them. G1: Push forward, we need to get out of here. G5: Roger. Gamma-2 continues moving toward the light, which is now roughly half a mile away. Occasional bursts of gunfire are heard as Gamma-2 cuts through several instances of SCP-3680-2. At approx. 35 minutes after entering the area, a member of Gamma-2 shouts and nearly falls. G1: Hawthorne, what was that? G5: The D on my back, he— started moving around. I looked back, and it wasn’t him anymore! G2: There’s a white guy on the ground behind us. Was that him? Did he turn into that thing? G5: I-I don’t know. Gamma-2 continues to run forward without D-23. 37 minutes after entering the area, MTF Gamma-2 (“Worldhoppers”) reached the source of the light. G2: Doc, we’re at the light— it’s a doorway. Small. Dr. Bishop: Can you get through it? G4: One at a time maybe— it’s the size of the paper we touched to get in here. G1: Send the D through first, then the kid, then down from designation number. G3: Roger. One by one, Gamma-2 enters the doorway and comes out of the instance of SCP-3680. The last member of Gamma-2 struggles to get out, and by his own account, is “touched” by an instance of SCP-3680-2, and infected by the white substance. G3: Killian, you okay? G1: Fuck, it fucking hurts! Shit, my foot is burning! With all the people out of the instance of SCP-3680, P1 quickly contains the instance in its storage cell, and the test is concluded. D-364792, G1, and the last figure were all sent directly to the medical bay after sealing the instance of SCP-3680. The pocket dimension that they were in and the white substance they were covered with will be hereby designated SCP-3680-3 and SCP-3680-4 respectively. To prevent the same fate of D-239304, all infected areas were amputated— D-364792 lost both of his legs, the unidentified human lost his left leg below the knee and his right hand at the wrist, and Gamma-2 Lieutenant Killian lost his left foot. All three procedures were successful at stopping the spread of SCP-3680-4 and preventing the deaths of all three persons. The infected limbs were placed into an airtight storage cell and stored along with the instances of SCP-3680. The unidentified person has been confirmed to be Alexander Fillmore, POI#3674, and the creator of SCP-3680-1. The following interview was conducted by Dr. Bishop, approx. 16 hours after retrieval of POI#3674 from SCP-3680-3, and approx. 39 hours after retrieval of SCP-3680-1. + Show Interview Log / POI#3694 - Hide Interview Log / POI#3694 Show Interview Log / POI#3694 [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Bishop: Mr. Fillmore, you— POI#3674: It’s Alex. Dr. Bishop is heard clearing his throat before proceeding. Dr. Bishop: Alright. Alex. Why did you create SCP-3680? POI#3674: SCP? You mean the poster? Dr. Bishop: Right. The poster. POI#3674: Well, I’m sure you got guys reading the chat, right? That’s what Kek and Bones say. Dr. Bishop: Yes, well, I’d like to hear it from you firsthand. POI#3674: Okay. Well, did you ever get bullied in High School? Dr. Bishop: I mean, I wasn’t exactly popular, but— POI#3674: So, no. Well, there’s these kids in the grade above me that get fucking hard-ons when they make me pissed off. I know, I know, “don’t let them get to you,” but it doesn’t work. I figure I take them down a notch, or at least get some blackmail of them acting like lunatics so they don’t fuck around with me or my friends anymore. Dr. Bishop: So you intended for them to be sucked into SCP-3680-3? POI#3674: Uh, Mr. Janitor, I’m not sure I understand your lingo. Dr. Bishop: Pardon; I mean the pocket dimension that SC- that the white guys reside in. POI#3674: No, I wanted them to be able to see the white guys and get freaked out. Dr. Bishop: Okay. Were you aware of the effects that the posters have on people after forty-five seconds of contact when you put up the poster in your school? POI#3674: I wouldn’t have put it up if I did, dude. Dr. Bishop: Could you tell me how you made the pocket dimension? POI#3674: Trade secret. Dr. Bishop: Did Esther teach you? POI#3674 remains silent. Scribbling is heard as Dr. Bishop writes something in his notes. Dr. Bishop: One of our D-Class claimed the pocket dimension was made of orange plastic. What is it made of, really? POI#3674: I had a few orange LEGOs in my room, and I turned them into the pocket. Pretty smart, if you ask me— when people enter the pocket, they’re shrunk down. Dr. Bishop: Ah. When we sent people into the pocket dimension, they escaped using a hole that was about the size of the poster. What was that? POI#3674: The white guys have to be able to move between the pocket and the real world. That’s the door. Dr. Bishop: Why can’t they enter the same way they leave— that is, why do they have to touch it for forty-five seconds to enter? POI#3674: I told you, I didn’t expect that to happen. I thought they would enter the same way they leave, but it ended up with the other way instead. Hey, Mr. Janitor, you got some fancy stuff here; is there a way you could get me a new hand? Dr. Bishop clears his throat again before continuing. Dr. Bishop: Next question. The white guys in the pocket dimension spread white goo onto people. Do you know what that was? POI#3674: Not a clue. Fucking hurts, though. Dr. Bishop: Alex, we sent eight people into that poster, and seven came back. One of the D-Class became an instance of— he became a white guy. POI#3674 lets out a slight chuckle. Dr. Bishop: Something funny? POI#3674 clears his throat. POI#3674: No. Sorry. Dr. Bishop: Alex, do you know how the white guys did that? POI#3674: No. I know how it started; they just, like, touch you. I don’t think they can do it outside the pocket. Well, they touch you, and then the goo gets on you, and it fucking burns. And the goo eats away at you, like a virus or something— POI#3674 becomes visibly distraught. Dr. Bishop stays silent for roughly forty seconds. Dr. Bishop: Alex, just a few hours ago we recovered another poster. Looks a hell of a lot like the one you made, and functions the same way, too. The thing is, we reviewed the video footage— it wasn’t put up by anyone. It just showed up in the hallway, without anyone hanging it. Do you know anything about that? POI#3674: Christ, if I did, I’d tell you. Do you think the white guys put it up? Dr. Bishop: We aren’t sure. If you know anything, you have to tell me, or else other people might get sucked into the pocket dimension, too. POI#3674: Nothing. I don’t know anything. Dr. Bishop: Alright. I think we’re done here. Alex— I’ll see about your hand. Addendum 3680.1: Two weeks after the initial containment of SCP-3680, Dr. Bishop requested that document SCP-3680 be changed in the following message to O5 command: To: O5-1, O5-2, O5-3, O5-4, O5-5, O5-6, O5-7, O5-8, O5-9, O5-10, O5-11, O5-12, O5-13 Sub: SCP-3680 Body: SCP-3680 has been revealed to be more than what we initially perceived it to be, and thus, I think we should update its Description. I request permission to edit the SCP-3680 document to add in the following information: Under Description: If contact is made by a person with an instance of SCP-3680 for exactly 48.7 seconds, that person is sent to a pocket dimension, hereby designated SCP-3680-3. SCP-3680-3 is a pocket dimension made of plastic consistent with commercial-grade acrylonitrile butadiene styrene produced by The Lego Group. SCP-3680-3 is believed to contain all instances of SCP-3680-2; however, it has been proven that these instances can move between SCP-3680-3 and our dimension freely using instances of SCP-3680. Upon entering SCP-3680-3, a subject can only come back to our universe using a window that resides in the pocket dimension. Upon going through this window, subject will come out of the instance of SCP-3680 that they entered. SCP-3680-2 instances are theorized to exit SCP-3680-3 at certain times during the day to create new instances of SCP-36802 and hang them on the walls of ███████ High School. This is believed to be to coerce students and faculty within the school to enter SCP-3680-3. SCP-3680-2 instances cannot be seen, felt, or heard without prior contact with an instance of SCP-3680, so these instances are nearly impossible to contain, but produce minimal threat on their own. When a subject enters SCP-3680, they do not immediately notice the instances of SCP-3680-2, as they are not yet under the anomalous effects of the instance of SCP-3680. However, once the anomalous effect of SCP-3680 begins, they will be attacked by the numerous instances of SCP-3680-2 that reside inside the pocket dimension. The SCP-3680-2 instances will try to pin down or restrain the subject, and infect them with a white gelatinous substance hereby designated SCP-3680-4. This substance is theorized to replace the human tissue of its subject with the same cardboard-like material that SCP-3680-2 is made of. After SCP-3680-4 has covered the whole body, the subject is transformed into a new instance of SCP-3680-2.3 SCP-3680-2 instances have only been shown to act aggressively inside SCP-3680-3. However, even if the subject escapes SCP-3680-3, SCP-3680-4 will continue to consume them. Removal of infected areas is effective at stopping the spread of SCP-3680-4. SCP-3680 instances currently only materialize in ███████ High School. If the school were to be abandoned or torn down, it is expected that the instances of SCP-3680-2 would leave the school to find a better place to display new instances of SCP-3680, which may lead to significant loss of life, and the inability to contain SCP-3680 due to the nature of SCP-3680-2 instances. Therefore, it is imperative that ███████ High School continues to function in its present state. Change of the document is pending approval. Footnotes 1. On SCP-3680-1, the “brains” have numbers in them which appear to be binary code. The binary translates into seemingly random strings of numbers and letters which don't appear to have any meaning. Testing with the code has been halted indefinitely. 2. How SCP-3680-2 instances do this is unknown. While it may be possible to discover how this process occurs, all personnel are still advised to avoid contact with SCP-3680 instances at all times. 3. This process has been shown to take only three to four hours, but has been measured up to twenty-three hours with minimal damage to the subject. The speed at which SCP-3680-4 replaces the body appears to change based on age of the subject.
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close Info X SCP-3681: 5 - 0 Author: macro_au_micro Date: 11 March 2019 Image Credit and Citations: Special Thanks Special Thanks Uncle Nicolini for his proofreading. Dr Lekter for his critique. Source Source Handball/Soccer ball icon Item #: SCP-3681 Special Containment Procedures: Despite the fact that no appearance of SCP-3681 has been reported since 2011, all stadiums in the area of access to Backdoor Soho, in the Baseline Reality, must be monitored. In the case that the SCP Object reappears, MTF Tau-20 ("1 - 0") is to deployed. Description: SCP-3681 is the first soccer team to represent Fifthism at the Backdoor Soho Grand Inter-Dimensional Soccer Tournament in 2011. The team is called "Circular Pentagons" and is made up of 11 abnormal fifthists players, all listed from SCP-3681-1 to -11 according to their jersey's numbers. The players' abnormal capacities are minimal, they can only levitate the ball a few meters off the ground and leave it suspended in the air for shorts periods of time. SCP-3681 was only seen in its first match in the Round of 16 against the Unislist's Team of the Univers'Island Kingdom, a GoI studied by the French offices of the Foundation. Although the Unislist Team led the score at 5 - 0, the referee declared SCP-3681 as the winner of the game after SCP-3681 burst the ball, making it melt into a honey-like substance which smelled of smoke. At no time during the game did the SCP-3681 players try to play soccer. They would levitate the ball between themselves. It has been theorized that the referee was also a member of the Fifth Church, which could not be confirmed as he vanished alongside SCP-3681. Upon making the call that SCP-3681 had won the game, it announced that the team had reached their goals and score would not match this reality. Following this event, the Unislist Team was designated as the loser and the match was replayed by opposing two other teams. Addendum 3681.1: The Inter-Dimensional Federation of Abnormal Soccer (IDFAS) has released the following document to the spectators: Backdoor Soho's Inter-Dimensional Tournament Greetings to you, comrade and soccer fan! As you will have noticed, the match you just saw was not the most interesting of the tournament. But don't worry about it! There will be others and much more ferocious. If you wonder where the Pentagon Circulars have gone, don't think about it. Even if their top corner conceded 5 goals, they won. They have gone to far more distant lands than you, reader, to the Fifth Constellation. Five goals were enough to break one of the polygons that locked them in the big circle. They have achieved their goal.
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close Info X SCP-3681: 5 - 0 Author: macro_au_micro Date: 11 March 2019 Image Credit and Citations: Special Thanks Special Thanks Uncle Nicolini for his proofreading. Dr Lekter for his critique. Source Source Handball/Soccer ball icon Item #: SCP-3681 Special Containment Procedures: Despite the fact that no appearance of SCP-3681 has been reported since 2011, all stadiums in the area of access to Backdoor Soho, in the Baseline Reality, must be monitored. In the case that the SCP Object reappears, MTF Tau-20 ("1 - 0") is to deployed. Description: SCP-3681 is the first soccer team to represent Fifthism at the Backdoor Soho Grand Inter-Dimensional Soccer Tournament in 2011. The team is called "Circular Pentagons" and is made up of 11 abnormal fifthists players, all listed from SCP-3681-1 to -11 according to their jersey's numbers. The players' abnormal capacities are minimal, they can only levitate the ball a few meters off the ground and leave it suspended in the air for shorts periods of time. SCP-3681 was only seen in its first match in the Round of 16 against the Unislist's Team of the Univers'Island Kingdom, a GoI studied by the French offices of the Foundation. Although the Unislist Team led the score at 5 - 0, the referee declared SCP-3681 as the winner of the game after SCP-3681 burst the ball, making it melt into a honey-like substance which smelled of smoke. At no time during the game did the SCP-3681 players try to play soccer. They would levitate the ball between themselves. It has been theorized that the referee was also a member of the Fifth Church, which could not be confirmed as he vanished alongside SCP-3681. Upon making the call that SCP-3681 had won the game, it announced that the team had reached their goals and score would not match this reality. Following this event, the Unislist Team was designated as the loser and the match was replayed by opposing two other teams. Addendum 3681.1: The Inter-Dimensional Federation of Abnormal Soccer (IDFAS) has released the following document to the spectators: Backdoor Soho's Inter-Dimensional Tournament Greetings to you, comrade and soccer fan! As you will have noticed, the match you just saw was not the most interesting of the tournament. But don't worry about it! There will be others and much more ferocious. If you wonder where the Pentagon Circulars have gone, don't think about it. Even if their top corner conceded 5 goals, they won. They have gone to far more distant lands than you, reader, to the Fifth Constellation. Five goals were enough to break one of the polygons that locked them in the big circle. They have achieved their goal.
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Extranormal Event 3682 (EE-3682) was observed once and shows no signs of recurrence. Only this strong secondhand evidence, and a number of coincidences are currently known to the Foundation. EE-3682 has no containment protocols, and its designation as an object is maintained in such an event. This record is presented as evidence and warning in real time. Plans have been prepared as to how to prevent such a thing from happening again, and where it may happen, and what may have caused it. Event Designation: EE-3682 Site containing evidence of EE-3682. Preceding Events: Evidence of EE-3682 was first considered based on further investigation into urban legends in Sakha, Russia referring to hitchhikers and travelers who asked directions to a town that did not exist. The traveler would refer to the scenery around the nonexistent town. No consensus or verifiable memetic properties have been identified, but locals sometimes refer to a town named Volodin, or Volodi, located in a valley in a grove of flowers. "Volodin" may have been discovered in a region nearby matching the description. Located in the center of the valley is a dilapidated, 20 occupant church. No other signs of human occupancy in the 30 mi² area were detectable. Located within the church were a 15cm ivory knife located on the altar, a machete, a garbage can lid, a first aid kit, a satchel, a note, 9 VHS tapes, and the skeleton of a young woman (20) who is lying on her stomach, positioned with her hand touching the altar. The altar was covered with a thin layer of congealed blood. The blood, when tested, was that of a human fetus. The blood has congealed in such a way that would suggest the object bled out there. One resident of the town of Tomtor matched dental records and DNA of the corpse but otherwise showed no other signs of relation to it. The individual [REDACTED] did recall visiting the area at one time, but was not able to remember when. VHS tapes were secured in the altar cabinet within the church. This space was nailed in and secured with duct tape. The tapes contain images of a town that is not currently known to exist. It is not known if the tapes were compiled to arrange a narrative. Due to damage of these tapes it is not known which order these events occurred in, if these events occurred. Item 0: A note, in Russian. It happened fast, I think. April 16th, 2018. It's happened everywhere. There was no warning. We don't know why this happened. If you find this, I'm sure I'll be dead. My bones grind when I walk. It is excruciating. I am lucky I had access to my father's medicine. The thing couldn't change me. Or something helped me. If I succeeded, you need to find Iepureanu. Item 1: Tape 1. Written in the center space is "Ezekiel Valeriy Iepureanu, last seen in Moldova." The VHS is an overwritten copy of "Homeward Bound". Load Hide Paid promotional advertisement for a can opener, 4 seconds. Footage of a woman opening a can of green beans with an electric can opener. Voice Over: …and you can do all of this and more without injury… The audio is interrupted by an old man chuckling. Footage of the internals of a beehive, 5 minutes. Street view of an unknown city in Russia. Footage appears to be taken from a security camera in the downtown area. It is mid-day in the summer, and the street is filled with cars, 2 hours. An elderly man in yellow robes sitting behind a desk. Behind him are shelves of books, to his right there is a wood stove burning. He wears a crucifix around his neck. He is transcribing something from a Bible. The man does not appear to be aware that he is being filmed. A church hymn is playing in the background. 10 seconds. Item 2: Tape 2. Written on the tape is the former address of an SCP containment area in Ukraine, SCP-1782; This area contains entities similar to those found on the 3682 tapes. Load Hide Lyrics set to video. Male voice chanting in Russian. Is it due you, my friend, or happy day? What a joyous sound around and abounds! Is it time for you? Oh beautiful friend! The lights have gone today! Repeats with very slight variations for three hours. Item 3: Tape 3. It is damaged. Tape is unusable after it is initially recorded. Load Hide No video. Sound of an ambulance siren, 5 minutes, people arguing. Man: Christ. Woman: Heroin. Not quite an overdose. Silence for 14 minutes. Sound, possibly the inside of an emergency room. Man: What'd you get? Woman: Cocktail. She's been drinking. [unintelligible] acid thats been going around. Man: [grunts] Pregnant too. Woman: We're all being born into a cemetery. Inside view of a toilet bowl, camera is submerged in water. Tongs are placed in the bowl. A man in a white research coat and protective eyewear leans forward. He is holding a materials sample bag similar to Foundation regulation equipment. Video feed ends, water is heard splashing in the toilet. 20 seconds. View outside three restroom stalls. The stalls appear to be vacant. Sounds of metal grinding against metal are heard. Multiple dents appear in the doors, followed by loud metallic crashing. The dents are caused by some internal force. Pools of blood emerge from beneath the stalls, followed by the sounds of three women screaming. 30 seconds. Recurring entity within the tapes. Item 4: Tape 4. No markings. An entity is visible on each of the tapes, inter-cutting itself into the footage sporadically. The object resembles a destroyed human embryo, floating in a ball of black liquid several feet from the ground. The liquid pulsates but the figure itself is motionless. The eyes do appear to be functional, as the entity occasionally looks into the camera. Load Hide Close up view of a bald man's facial profile with an angered expression, smiling. The man laughs breathlessly, 9 seconds. The street in front of a local high school. People are leaving from the school. Onlookers notice a black liquid trickling down the street. A man walks over to smell it. Waves his hand in front of his face as if it stinks. Group of students watching the man are laughing, three minutes. Video feed not present. Man: Christ, she's pregnant. Woman: She's going into labor contractions. Silence, 45 minutes. Man: What in the hell…? Woman: John, the thing is septic… Man: Get the vacuum, sponge… Silence, 05 minutes. Woman: John? John where did you… What the hell is happening? Sounds of metal grinding against metal. 22 minutes. Item 5: Tape 5. No markings. Load Hide Black liquid pouring down the street in front of the previously pictured high school, people are running from the liquid and screaming. People are inside the liquid, and appear to be boiling, but show no sign of such damage to their bodies. Security footage from inside of a home. Family is laughing and enjoying an episode of "The Partridge Family" on a couch in front of the television. Grandmother walks in with a steaming hot pie. Footage from inside a hotel bathroom shower. Man being lifted, manipulated, caressed up and down by a large cylindrical mass of miniature [REDACTED], or appearing as such, fused at the head. The man is crying, but does not appear to make any attempt to escape. View of the downtown city hall from storefront camera. The building has formed large holes in its sides, grown small skeletal appendages. The holes turn to face the camera. Black liquid is flowing around it, and people are struggling to escape. Entity, roughly 9 meters tall, with hundreds of burning wings. The exact physical count of wings is indiscernible. Wings appear to vaporize people, sending bright lights up into the sky in their place. All onlookers appear to be fleeing toward the entity. Men and women make praying gestures towards it, but some seem to be ignored by the entity. Item 6: Tape 6. Orange VHS tape, overwritten episode of Rocko's Modern Life. No inscriptions. The sky in later half of the tapes is filled with an array of burning circles. The nature of these is not known. Load Hide Footage of the previously seen elderly man in yellow robes. Man: Is it you my friends? [chuckles] Oh what a beautiful day it is, yes. The man takes a moment to write something on parchment, seemingly forgetting about the viewer. He takes several minutes, occasionally looking outside onto a view of the city in its affected state. The man turns to the camera again, looking surprised. Man: Ah, yes. The Lord comes now for all of his faithful, and for those who at least did no harm, I hope. Hmm. But what can we say for them. I digress. Man: If you're seeing this, GOOD! If you suffer well through the tribulation, you may just be worthy to serve the Lord our God later in Heaven! Man: Ah, or you can say to hell with it. There's time for that. Man: The Lord deems fit to keep me on earth during the troubles, I assume to work these many miracles… Man gestures to an empty shelf. [Feed Ends] View of city square, burning figure no longer present. The floating embryo intercut into the footage is floating in the middle of the town square. People are pleading to it. David Attenborough narrates. Attenborough: Here we find the glory of Earth. Earth in all its fruits and intimate sights. Here we find the glory of our fruit as it falls from the tree. [Intercut footage of a beehive filled with human embryos.] Footage regained of the street, writhing black sacs being pulled into the entity. Attenborough: …Innermost Siberiaaa-a [Audio distorts]. Two reconnaissance drones are visible in the frame. Man grabs suitcase, kisses wife, and opens the front door. His home is revealed to be a floating above an endless multitude of an abstract, fractalized object. The object grabs him by the leg and pulls him down into itself. Item 7: Tape 7. Writing in pencil, "I don't know what stopped it." Load Hide Gas station surveillance footage. The gas station has a clerk and a young woman browsing inside. A fuming ball of gas and human arms appears in the door. It vocalizes, sounds like a woman crying. Gas station attendant seems startled, and pulls out a hunting rifle. A cockroach on a miniature, fully operational motorcycle. Its thorax has been bent over to such an extent the abdomen has been destroyed in what appears to be a successful attempt at piloting the small vehicle into the sunset. Item 8: Tape 8. VHS tape with white label. Writing "What could have we done?" Load Hide Discovery channel footage. A human placenta, orbited by the moon. 2 hours. Old man in robes, standing behind his desk at the window. The man is nodding slowly. He turns to the camera and smiles genuinely. Man: Do not be so soft, the troubles have only just begun. The man opens a Bible. Man: Romans, 8:18. "I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us." What an exciting thought. Meditate on these words. Man: [muttering] Love is cruel. Creature similar to a shrew, but covered on its back are reptilian scales, its mouth is elongated with nostrils at the end. It is nibbling a rotten, discarded yogurt container. Audio Man: We're all being born into a cemetery. Item 9: Tape 9. Writing in pencil, "Find him." Load Hide Convoy of ambulances drive into town square followed by fire trucks. The fire crews unravel their hoses, and begin spraying the residents and the buildings down with fire. Klaxxons begin sounding. A distant voice is heard over a loud speaker. THIS IS AN EMERGENCY BROADCAST. IF YOU ARE HEARING THIS RETURN TO YOUR HOMES AND TAKE PROTECTIVE ACTION IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS AN EMERGENCY BROADCAST- Aerial view of the town. 5 white Mil Mi-28 and one Ka-52 attack helicopter appear in camera view, two carrying between them what appears to be sort sort of explosive. The markings on the device are identical to what Foundation assets in this region may use in such an event. One helicopter leads, and fires a missile at a clearing in front of it. Fixed, close up view of a 10 meter area on the ground. The ground is covered in burning, amorphic masses. What is visible in the frame has been completely altered, composed of entities and phenomena previously seen on the tapes. The camera slowly begins pulling away. Soldiers, 10 in total, with insignia matching those of MTF Nu-6 and 8, "Tachyon", and "Wetwork", are rappelling down from the helicopters. Several of the soldiers are equipped with portable flamethrowers and grenades in addition to their standard issue rifles. As the visual radius expands, it is revealed that the area is the same town hall square. A crew begins arming the device while a team sets a perimeter. Members of Nu-8 [DATA EXPUNGED] in preparation. The view from the camera is distant now, three blocks of the downtown is visible. The camera is suddenly covered by a thin black film. An anthropomorphic creature composed of black liquid appears to have launched itself off of the camera and toward the group. The camera begins to fall. The entity is finally seen being shot, midair, and explodes. Camera rotates rapidly while in descent. View swings down to reveal the ground; The earth is stretching as if it were organic material. The earth begins to "rip", something similar to television static is visible beneath the seams. The camera collides with the ground. A human's feet walk into the frame. A young woman holding a garbage can lid and a machete bends into view to pick it up. She is breathing heavily, watching over her shoulder. She is covered in blood, and black fluid. [Feed Ends] Series: Holy Science
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SCP-3683 after fragmentation. Item #: SCP-3683 Special Containment Procedures: The city of Syracuse, NY is currently quarantined under the cover story of an avian flu epidemic. Any SCP-3683 instances seen leaving the city are to be repeatedly killed on sight and the remains either taken for study or incinerated. MTF Gamma-119 ("Air Superiority") is operating as a pest control Foundation front company, and is tasked with maintaining anti-pigeon structures, enforcing proper trash disposal, and exterminating all birds within the city until SCP-3683 reaches a population small enough to contain completely. At the Regional Director's discretion, anomalous technology and SCP objects may be used to cull SCP-3683's population. Under no circumstances are any sentient or anomalous avian entities to come within 100 km of Syracuse, NY. The event of SCP-514 or sentient avian species entering the quarantine zone is projected to lead to an SK-Class Dominance Shift Scenario within 5 years, and is to be avoided at all costs. Description: SCP-3683 is a hostile, anomalous subspecies of pigeon (Columba livia anomalis) currently infesting Syracuse, NY. SCP-3683 are large, omnivorous birds, with wingspans ranging from 1.5-7 m. SCP-3683 superficially resemble proportionally scaled common rock pigeons, but most instances have random feather patterns common to other birds. The birds also have rudimentary teeth lining their beaks and throats. SCP-3683 typically scavenges in trash like nonanomalous pigeons; however, older and larger instances are known to hunt and carry away small animals like other birds, rodents, cats, and small dogs. SCP-3683 instances burst into a small group of visually normal rock pigeons when killed or cornered. If allowed to escape, some of these pigeons will recombine to form a new SCP-3683 instance. Small pigeons need not originate from the same SCP-3683 instance to reconstitute; the new instance will possess a mixture of characteristics from all of the progenitors. SCP-3683 cannot reproduce with each other but are capable of reproducing with most other bird species, despite any expected biological or logistical barriers. Eggs produced this way hatch up to 6 times more rapidly than usual for the non-SCP-3683 bird species. The new hatchlings often exhibit traits, biological features, or instincts present in the foreign species. Due to SCP-3683's dispersal and recombination properties, these adaptations can spread very quickly through the population. For example, the first known mating with a hummingbird resulted in approximately 70% of SCP-3683 instances becoming capable of hovering and reverse flight within one month. Intel from MTF Gamma-119 indicates SCP-3683 instances have eliminated corvids from the city and have begun using complex tools. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3683" by Weryllium, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3683. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: asinnocentasdoves.jpg Name: Rock pigeon eating swarm Author: Rootology License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Link: Wikimedia Commons
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ADULT CONTENT This article contains adult content that may not be suitable for all readers. Graphic depiction of blood, gore or mutilation of body parts Features sexual themes or language, but does not depict sexual acts. Explicit depiction of sexual acts. Features non-consensual sexual acts. Depiction of severe mistreatment of children Depiction of self-harm Depiction of suicide Depiction of torture {$custom-content} If you are above the age of 18+ and wish to read such content, then you may click Continue to view said content. Continue Back to Front Page Pump You Full of Lead Written by: XilasCrowe And Proasek, I guess You know you want it ;) More From This Axolotl SCP-3529 Rating: 363 Comments: 35 SCP-4332 Rating: 132 Comments: 27 SCP-4663 Rating: 100 Comments: 13 SCP-1143 Rating: 100 Comments: 23 SCP-2454 Rating: 74 Comments: 10 SCP-5588 Rating: 45 Comments: 6 Changes All That Is Around Me Rating: 45 Comments: 7 Don't Forget The Dead Rating: 32 Comments: 3 [{$authorPage} ▸ More by this Author ◂] {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} close Info X Written by: XilasCrowe And Proasek, I guess More from this axolotl Less from this axolotl Stuff I did SCP-3529 Rating: 363 Comments: 35 SCP-4332 Rating: 132 Comments: 27 SCP-4663 Rating: 100 Comments: 13 SCP-1143 Rating: 100 Comments: 23 SCP-2454 Rating: 74 Comments: 10 SCP-5588 Rating: 45 Comments: 6 Changes All That Is Around Me Rating: 45 Comments: 7 Don't Forget The Dead Rating: 32 Comments: 3 More from Proasek Less from Proasek Stuff I did Ambrose Restaurants Hub Rating: 190 SCP-4554 Rating: 127 Three Thousand to One Rating: 99 Ambrose Temecula Rating: 90 SCP-4684 Rating: 76 Dining Out Rating: 67 SCP-4871 Rating: 37 The Ambrose Fair Rating: 36 Krona Midaeus' Personnel File Rating: 33 Canine Communication Rating: 22 What You See is (Not) What You Get Rating: 9 Open War at Site-34 Rating: 7 He Picked Up The Gun Rating: 5 Wizard Cops (in color) Rating: 5 Thank to: Panteradactyl for loving this throughout its conception and always asking me when it was coming out RockTeethMothEyes for being the first reader of the mostly finished product, and hating loving every second of this abomination "I think I love it" JackalRelated for hating this with all his heart, and repeatedly bring it up in Discord "nO. NO. ILLEGAL." Proasek for basically writing my conprocs and stealing a co-authorship credit. Don't trust them. whitefinefire does not match any existing user name, DrLeibowitz, AlanDaris does not match any existing user name, BlueJones for looking at this glorious creation cursed abomination. What is this cursed abomination Item #: SCP-3684 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3684 is currently stored in a standard containment locker at Site-32, and requires Level-3/3684 clearance to access. SCP-3684-1 instances are similarly contained to a maximum limit of twenty, after which additional instances may be destroyed. Lead produced by SCP-3684 is non-anomalous, and may be destroyed or repurposed at the discretion of either the Site Director or current project lead for SCP-3684. Any person or entity identified as SCP-3684-A is to be given full care as required, with Midwifery specialists on hand until such a time as anomalous effects cease. Description: SCP-3684 is a sex doll made in the image of a stereotypical western cowboy. SCP-3684 is entirely inanimate until an individual (designated SCP-3684-A) approaches it and expresses a desire to engage in sexual intercourse. At this point, SCP-3684 will animate itself and engage in intercourse with SCP-3684-A. SCP-3684 seems to have an innate understanding of SCP-3684-A's sexual desires, and will alter its behavior to match its current partner(s). SCP-3684's primary anomaly is activated when it nears the end of sexual intercourse.1 At this point, it will vocalize the phrase "I'm going to pump you full of lead." Immediately following this vocalization, SCP-3684 will ejaculate up to three liters of molten lead either inside or onto SCP-3684-A. This lead is incapable of harming SCP-3684-A until it comes out of contact with SCP-3684-A for at least five minutes, at which point it will solidify and cool to roughly 40 degrees Celsius. The source of this lead is unknown, and SCP-3684 appears to be able to produce an unlimited amount from within itself. The lead produced by SCP-3684 also functions identically to semen, and is capable of impregnating SCP-3684's partners. Pregnancy in females will function as normal, however at a much-accelerated rate.2 SCP-3684-1 refers to any offspring born between SCP-3684 and an SCP-3684-A individual. These offspring will mature rapidly, growing to their full size after roughly five weeks. SCP-3684-1 are virtually identical to SCP-3684, though they are only about 70% its size and are made of various combinations of ceramics and flesh. Male SCP-3684-A instances are also capable of being impregnated by SCP-3684's effect. How this is accomplished is unknown, but due to the location of the unborn SCP-3684-1 instance male pregnancies do not last. The unborn SCP-3684-1 instances are most commonly excreted after 3-4 days. To date, the longest male pregnancy lasted 8 days. All SCP-3684-1 instances share SCP-3684's anomalous properties, with minor differences. SCP-3684-1 instances are incapable of being impregnated, with female instances splitting into two SCP-3684-1 instances after being used. Additionally, when any SCP-3684-1 instance engages in intercourse, all other instances will become animated and attempt to travel to the approximate location of said intercourse. Once they reach the aforementioned location they will request to participate in the ongoing intercourse. In the event that permission to participate is denied, the SCP-3684-1 instance will immediately dissolve into between 300 and 400 liters of molten lead, which will hurl itself towards the primary SCP-3684-1 instance and will be ejaculated at the end of intercourse. Where this lead is generated from is unknown. Footnotes 1. Typically after 12-15 minutes. 2. Lasting between 3-4 weeks.
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Wacky Reactor Fun Times. I feel that the most interesting places are those with legacy. Hanford, Chernobyl - they have lasting legacies coming from their disastrous effects, significant costs, long history, etc. And, I love getting deep down and technical, something that the SCP Wiki could do but doesn't very often. So, I wrote this! Well, I rewrote it. The original was a tad sparse, the exploration log was boring, and was really screwy with some of sentence structure and the like. I'm surprised that it got ~30 upvotes. I've deleted it (rather than replacing it) because this version is just so significantly different (and better). I hope you enjoy it. Image Credits: s50wide.jpg reactorsmall.jpg pin.jpg panels.jpg newarray.jpg Critters: MagnumMacKivler, Almarduk, JackalRelated, Opalide (Dr. Cimmerian Discord), Ophilia Volpe (Dr. Cimmerian Discord) Writing Help: MagnumMacKivler (Helped with fact-checking, some of the names for the technical containment stuff, along with other minor technical details) Obvious Inspiration, Presentation Ideas, etc: djkaktus (Did not directly help, but his form of presentation is exactly what I have always shot for) ▸ More by this Author ◂ {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} Item#: 3685 Level3 Secondary Class: {$secondary-class} Disruption Class: ekhi Risk Class: danger link to memo UMZ-1 reactor complex prior to its meltdown. SCP-3685 is the largest building on the right of the photograph. UMZ-1 reactor housing prior to meltdown. Special Containment Procedures: The 2 kilometer exclusion zone surrounding SCP-3685 has been acquired and is now being maintained by Foundation security personnel. The entirety of this zone's perimeter has been fenced, and the only official entrance is located on the western edge of the zone. Persons without proper Foundation credentials are not to be allowed within the exclusion zone under any circumstances. Disinformation is to be proliferated claiming that the complex containing SCP-3685 is an extremely hazardous chemical and nuclear weapons development site. Further disinformation is to be implanted into historical institutions about the factual personnel and outcomes of the Uranprojekt. Any historical evidence for the Uranprojekt constructing anything beyond simple reactor piles is to be suppressed. The area surrounding SCP-3685 is affected by significant radioactive contamination. Personnel and equipment present within the zone are to be subjected to regular screening. If equipment cannot be decontaminated, it is to be buried within the nuclear waste repository present on-site. Personnel are to be cycled out if they exceed radioactivity exposure limits. Primary and secondary containment of the SCP-3685 spacetime anomaly is currently being maintained by equipment not produced by the Foundation. Primary and secondary containment is being managed by an Uranprojekt containment devices. The location of the primary containment device is unknown. Secondary containment is being managed by a series of stabilization panels installed in the perimeter of the SCP-3685 structure. It is unknown if or when any of the containment equipment will fail. Update - 1962: Foundation personnel are now strictly prohibited from entering SCP-3685. Personnel that unexpectedly emerge from SCP-3685 are to be quarantined and treated for psychological trauma and acute radiation syndrome. Update - 1987: The Foundation is preparing to augment SCP-3685 containment through additional containment equipment. See Addendum 3685.2. Description: SCP-3685 refers to a structure within the Uranmaschinezüchter-11 reactor complex, located in the German province of Saxony. SCP-3685 is the largest facility belonging to the UMZ-1 complex. Its interior suffers from a severe entangled spacetime anomaly. The outside facilities belonging to the UMZ-1 complex are non-anomalous, but are nevertheless hazardous due to the unsafe levels of radioactivity present. Foundation clean-up crews have temporarily decontaminated and cleared sections of the complex for human usage.2 The interior of SCP-3685 is a radioactive, spatially entangled, discontinuous non-euclidean space. Consequently, a precise description of the internal architecture of SCP-3685 is not possible, as the internal space is being continuously transformed by spatial reorganization. However, the space can be vaguely described: The outer areas of SCP-3685 usually contain an interlocked series of miscellaneous control rooms, offices, and maintenance areas, and the inner area consistently contains the UMZ-1 reactor and its housing. All attempts to explore areas near the reactor have failed. Various hazards are present within SCP-3685 that complicate exploration. These hazards include: Ionizing radiation. Lowest measured was 15 mSv/hr, highest was 30 Sv/hr3. Average is approximately 500 mSv/hr4. Constant spatial restructuring, which may make the facility impossible to reasonably navigate. The poor and unstable condition of the facility, which makes exploration precarious and difficult. Abnormal and extreme gravitational effects. Within some regions, the gravitational field might: rapidly oscillate in intensity, reverse, increase in magnitude, use a differing gravitational constant (G)5, or other anomalous effects. Objects introduced within these regions frequently become shredded or explosively atomized, while the SCP-3685 structure remains unaffected. Spatial, temporal, or spatial-temporal loops. Sudden dematerializations of non-temporally-linked entities (such as any introduced Foundation personnel or robotic units). The apparent magnitude of these hazards increases with proximity to the reactor. To demonstrate, during Exploration 3685-12, an autonomous drone, which was approximately 2-3 rooms away from the reactor, simultaneously experienced: a 0.54x gravitational field region, 3 discrete temporal loops, 12 interlocked spatial loops, and 1 spatial-temporal loop. Additionally, the drone had entirely disappeared and reappeared - twice. Contact with the unit was lost permanently when the drone gravitationally imploded. The final transmitted gravimeter measurement showed a value for G approximately 1020 times stronger than would be normally expected. Scranton Reality Anchors have proven incapable of stabilizing the anomaly present within SCP-3685, having no apparent effects. Further, Kant Counters frequently fail to output Hume level measurements within SCP-3685, seemingly caused by the Kant Counters failing to detect local reality. Some success with stabilization has been seen with the PL362 Deployable Spatial Rectifier6, but the enormous magnitude of the spacetime anomaly prevents the small device from being practical enough for containment or exploration. Origin: The UMZ-1 complex was built by the covert Nazi German nuclear weapons program (Uranprojekt) under the administration of the Reichsforschungsrat7 during the spring of 1944, with direct authorization for its construction given from Hermann Göring. In 1942, Nazi Germany began an attempt to construct a logistics and manufacturing chain capable of producing nuclear weapons. Hindered by the politicization of academia, denial of science due to antisemitism, and Allied sabotage, the Uranprojekt was ineffective and progress was severely stunted. The Reichsforschungsrat apparently felt unsatisfied with "traditional methods", and ultimately decided to resort to alternative and eccentric proposals that were previously put forward by small research groups. The UMZ-1 complex was the outcome of one of these proposals. Its designed purpose was inexpensive Plutonium-239 synthesis, operating using anomalous physics. Recovered Uranprojekt documentation states that UMZ-1 was capable of 'n-local folds allowing for synthesis of currently infeasible to manufacture elements and materials using only minuscule amounts of dense radioactive elements for catalytic reaction.' It is unknown if the UMZ-1 reactor was ever functional or capable of element synthesis prior to its meltdown, and it is currently not possible to easily determine due to a lack of original documentation and the present condition of the complex. In early 1945, the UMZ-1 reactor suffered a catastrophic meltdown. According to recovered Uranprojekt documentation, this caused an 'interlocked local space compression fracture', the Uranprojekt's explanation for SCP-3685's spacetime anomaly. Following the meltdown, the Nazi German authorities condemned the complex and formed a 2 kilometer exclusion zone around the complex, which is maintained to the present day by Foundation security. Discovery and Acquisition: UMZ-1's existence first became known to the Foundation after several Uranprojekt scientists defected in late 1944. Through contacts in the United States government, the Foundation was informed of the then recent Uranprojekt efforts. Accordingly, the Foundation aggressively pursued acquisition and containment. Enforced seizure agreements were made with all of the Allied nations, except for the USSR. The USSR repeatedly refused to any agreements, stating that it would handle containment itself8. Due to the progression of the war during 1945 and the location of the UMZ-1 complex, the Foundation was initially unsuccessful in acquiring SCP-3685, as it was captured by Soviet forces. During 1951 as part of Operation FAIRBANKS, Foundation acquisition teams successfully seized, acquired, terminated, or integrated all remaining personnel9, equipment, documentation related to the Uranprojekt, and SCP-3685 itself from Soviet forces. During this time, Foundation tensions with the USSR increased to near complete hostility. EARLY EXPLORATION DEBRIEF EARLY EXPLORATION DEBRIEF [BEGIN LOG] Researcher Alger: Recording started, Dr. Lorentz Alger is speaking, the date is: 1/6/1960. Debrief of Agent, uh, "Gamma". For the purposes of consistency and security he will continued to be called Gamma10. (Pauses) Operation: Exploration SCP-3685-1, Agent Gamma only 1 of 3 who returned from this expedition. Let's start. Gamma: Alright, uh, what do I start with? Researcher's Note: It was clear that Gamma was anxious, even in our comfortable environment. He was noticeably fidgeting, glancing between his hands, me, and various points within the room. Researcher Alger: How about just start from the beginning? Gamma: Um, okay. We were to go in and observe what the anomaly was, and then come back out. Maybe 10-20 minutes at most of study, that's it. We geared up in the closed-cycle radiation suits, got our Geiger counters, Kant counter, and went in. Oh - yeah. (Pauses) I was with █- I mean, Alpha and Beta. They are - were, both good and experienced agents. Researcher Alger: Yes. It has been a major loss for all of us. Gamma: Yeah, it has. (Pauses) Right, the first thing we noticed when we went in was that we were on the completely wrong side of the facility. We came in on the north entrance, and we appeared in the room for the south entrance. Researcher Alger: Pretty vicious spatial anomaly, already. Gamma: Yeah, you're one to tell me - sorry. Uh, anyways, yes, immediately we could see the effects of the spatial anomaly. We also immediately heard our Geiger counters buzzing like chainsaws. Researcher Alger: What was the reading? Gamma: Couldn't tell, oscillated wildly. It was averaging pretty high. It did not fill us with confidence. I immediately hated this place. We discussed turning around, but it seemed just low enough for the suits lining to handle, so we hesitantly pressed on. We decided to stick to the edge of facility - more exits in case the spatial anomaly flared up. Which it did, because of course it did. Researcher Alger: Hume reading? Gamma: Oh yeah. We couldn't get one. Local reality detection failure. Alpha had the spare counter, and his did it too. Researcher Alger: What did the facility look like? Condition, construction…? Gamma: Right, observe and report. The facility was obliterated. Everything was covered in a layer of debris and dust. It was like you shook a building as hard as you possibly could without breaking it. We were in one room - dozens upon dozens of steel pipes were splayed downwards from the ceiling, looked almost organic. They were still dripping, you could hear metal popping sounds from inside of them. Pipes carried water, cooling water maybe. A pool of disgusting looking sludge formed in a pit filling most of the room. We decided to go around. Gamma: Power was still running, I think? It was bizarre though, the power cabling was clearly destroyed, but the walls were humming audibly. We didn't notice it at first through the suits. (Pauses) Let's see, what else… ah, okay. The place wasn't… still. Occasionally, we could feel shaking and rumbling, like a distant explosion. The debris would shake and bits of broken glass and metal would fall from the ceiling, and we would hear the metallic groaning of the structure. I'm not sure what was causing the, - uh, quakes? It felt like it was coming from within deep inside. Researcher Alger: Noted… back to the anomaly, did you get looped? Gamma: Worse. Almost immediately, we got spatial-temporal looped. Anomaly is nasty in there, not just spatial. Technically, I - I should still be there, right now. You don't leave those easily - I got dragged out by sheer - Researcher Alger: We'll get to that when we get to it. What happened in the loop? Gamma: Right, sorry - okay, so we first noticed the loop when we came to a room we had already been in before. That wasn't too surprising, but what was immediately a sign was when we noticed the room wasn't absolutely demolished. Place looked a bit used, maybe - little unclean. We could hear 60 hertz humming, lights were on. Beta apparently heard voices coming from another room. We got kinda spooked at that point. Radiation was still surprisingly high - I think the eggheads in there didn't get the risks yet. Maybe it was the anomaly though, I don't know. Researcher Alger: Any idea of the time period? Gamma: I - do I look like I have any clue? I - damn, sorry. I wasn't sure of the time. Educated guess, maybe… late 1944? Facility obviously wasn't, you know, absolutely obliterated inside. But it wasn't new either - bit dirty. Time period would shift from room to room, so I can only really give an estimate. (Pauses) I remember going to a desk and trying to look at the stack of papers on it. I paused though - as soon as I got close, I noticed I couldn't… perceive it? It was blurry - like I was seeing every day that desk ever existed. I never interacted with a temporal this close, so it was new to me. I was too spooked to try to pick up any of the papers, I didn't want to interact with something so blatantly anomalous. Researcher Alger: Probably a good call. Temporal anomalies always get confusing. What happened next? Gamma: Well, honestly, at this point we weren't sure what to do. Backtracking clearly doesn't work in a place like this, and we were already suspicious that we just got looped. We decided we could only wander, looking for exits. Doesn't help we showed up on maintenance catwalks half the time - the elevation between areas was changing somehow, and the exits were only on the ground floor. Gamma: We tried to avoid rooms with… people in them. They didn't notice us, and they uh… not sure how to describe them, really. (Pauses) Maybe like this - It's kinda like the picture of your dad when he was 20, but made manifest. Clearly, he is much older now… and yet here he is in front of you, young. (Pauses) Cognition in that place was totally screwed. Gamma: We kept looping between the same dozen or so areas, noticed some patterns in the timeline. We knew we were in a loop. Whole group was real tense. It's pure luck to get out of those loops. (Pause) We went walked across a catwalk, we had passed it once before, but going the other direction. This time though, the room violently shifted around us - we fell from the catwalk as it collapsed, slammed onto the ground. We were fine, if a bit bruised, but by the time we recovered and stood up, made sure none of us were punctured, we noticed… the whole room had disintegrated. The whole building had disintegrated. Gamma: We could feel strong wind buffeting against us. The sky was dusty, hazy, and I couldn't see vegetation for miles around. Everything was dead, quiet. Behind the brown haze, in the sky, there was a diffuse, dark, and giant sun11. I could see how hot everything was, everything burned so long ago. I remember Alpha saying: "It's so horrifically beautiful." We were still, for a moment at least. Gamma: I could see some sort of nebulous border between the "building" we were in and the outside. Like it was still there, but not. A real structure still stood though - we turned around and saw… something. It was… impossible to see. It was a vague collection of shapes, distorted beyond what is reasonable. It looked, stressed? Ready to explode, pop. It vibrated against whatever it was that held it together. Alpha thought it was the reactor. I don't know what it was. Researcher Alger: …Noted. It must've been a sight. Gamma: It was. Then I blinked. And it was gone. Seemed we were back in about… nowish? Obliterated room. I looked over to where the team was, saw Beta was fine. Couldn't see Alpha, and me and Beta panicked, we starting calling his name and - then, I saw - (Pauses) I saw blood, pouring down. I looked up to its source - and, fuck me, it's coming back. Gamma: (Deep breath) Alpha was smashed into wall - I saw his mask, it was cracked, I knew without hesitation he was dead, I think - he must've been too close to a wall, there was so much blood. There was rebar jutting from the walls, the place was rough. Viscera and blood was pouring from the holes in Alpha. (Pauses) Not to say I wasn't… processing what I was looking at. I - I… I took a moment, I think. I went up to Alpha, to grab his tag, I was shutting down, just doing what I was supposed to be doing automatically. Me and Beta were saying nothing, all you could hear was us breathing. (Pauses) until I didn't hear Beta's breathing, only my own. I turned around - I was just about to grab Alpha's tag. (Pauses) Something got me. Got me to my core. Researcher Alger: Gamma, do we need to stop? Gamma: No, I - I have to report. Beta wasn't there. All I could see was a… slithering crack. I looked down into the hole - I knew Beta was in there. It was beyond our perceptions - I didn't understand what I was witness to, it wasn't for me. That isn't where I go. You need to stop this thing, doctor - you have to - I heard rebar snapping and wet noises from behind me and - Researcher's Note: Gamma was clearly distressed - I was debating stopping the debrief at this moment, but my curiosity and his determination made me hesitant. Gamma: I stumbled, I missed the crack - and I felt sick - something changed. I looked around, and I saw spinning rings, spinning faster than I could imagine, the cacophony of sound - (Several deep breathes, a pause) …I saw two huge rings through holes in the wall, meshing and spinning. I still felt sick - but it was only stress. Otherwise, I felt real again, which I'm not sure is something I can even explain, like something you only discover when you no longer have it. I knew this wasn't where Alpha was, and this place was utterly antithetical to where I knew Beta was. Gamma: I collected myself, trying to bring my senses into focus. I saw a huge hole in a barely intact wall, light shining brightly through it. I felt called to it, I thought I was about to escape. The moment that I began to move, the instant I had the thought, I heard alarms, followed by powerful and increasing electrical humming. It all seemed very familiar to me. I saw the rings glowing, and they were somehow spinning faster. I felt suddenly so alone and targeted by the people I thought were on my side, I felt rage. I closed my eyes, I tried to calm myself. Gamma: …and then I heard a klaxon, a very loud one. German - "Thirty seconds." I think I fell onto the ground finally, lost my bearings after so many of these events. I felt a rumble - electrical humming, massive relays clicking on. It only felt like five seconds to me, but then I heard it - a massive bang. Everything shook, shook apart as violently as it could ever shake. Screaming, "reactor failure, the pin, fire the damn pin", more alarms. I barely avoided chunks of steel falling from every which way. My insecurity and rage vanished, I thought I was about to die - then I… Gamma: (Pauses) I heard a colossal, cold and sharp snap, and then the power relays kicked off. Everything stopped, it was quiet. I heard only distant voices and groaning metal. The room was dimly lit from amber emergency lighting. I sat still on the floor for a second, just trying to figure out what just happened - where I was, what to do. Gamma: Then, I felt drips splattering against the suit, I heard something wet - I heard groaning. I looked around - I looked up, and… I could barely see Alpha's corpse embedded into a wall above me, hanging from his waist. His head was moving - and he was looking at me, blood dripping down from his mask. I was suddenly so confused and scared - I screamed when he - I (Pauses) and then it stopped again, because I - I (Pauses) Gamma: I fell into the hole, like Beta did. Researcher Alger: Jesus Christ. Researcher's Note: We didn't speak for some time here. It looked like Gamma was trying to wind down and I wanted to give him a moment. Gamma: Then I came out. And that's, uh, the full report - what happened in there. Researcher Alger: Wait, what happened in-between "the hole" and you reappearing outside? Gamma: I - look, do I have to report that? I can't - Researcher Alger: Gamma, I don't mean to push you, but it would be helpful if you tried your best to. Gamma: Well, fine. It's like a hole, I guess. It's like if I was walking somewhere, and suddenly I just walked somewhere I didn't expect. It's like you fell in a hole, but it wasn't an accident. It's like you walked into a room and found it wasn't what you expected. Does that make any sense? Researcher Alger: Okay, I suppose I get it, but - Gamma: There was something about that place, doctor. I close my eyes and I see - no, feel it. It's like if you know something fucked is in the darkness, but you just can't see it. I can't tell you, show, I - I was a mute and deaf man in a world of only voices and waves, I wasn't supposed to be there, that place isn't for any of us. Whatever is in that hole, it's not meant to have… things inside of it, it's an oversight, an oversight God missed. Researcher Alger: That's… - Wait, what are you looking at? Researcher's Note: I noticed that Gamma appeared to be staring at a corner of the room that was behind me. I shifted over to take a look at it. Researcher Alger: There isn't anything there. Gamma: (Barely audible in the recording) You need to - [unintelligible] - creation can't handle more of these fractures - [unintelligible] Researcher's Note: When I had turned back to look at Gamma again, I realized he wasn't just.. staring. He was scanning up and down at the corner, eyes imperceptibly squinting, examining. There was something in the corner that I couldn't see. Gamma: I tried looking for Beta. I couldn't find him… how could I? I think I need rest, doctor. I'm not feeling right. Researcher Alger: ██- I mean, Gamma, are you okay? I'll have someone look at you. Researcher's Note: Gamma finally stopped looking at the corner and looked back at me. Gamma: I'll be fine, I think. Just need some rest. [END LOG] CONTAINMENT AND DECONTAMINATION CONTAINMENT AND DECONTAMINATION Current Containment Equipment: Supposed assembly photograph of the UMZ-1 decompression pin device. This machine has never been observed within the facility. Supposed recovered photograph of "spatial stabilization embedded panels" undergoing testing. Primary containment of the SCP-3685 anomaly is currently being managed by an Uranprojekt device technically described as the "decompression pin". It is unknown where it is or how it operates, and whether or not it needs to be maintained. A priority for the Foundation is to find this device and ascertain its condition. If its condition is critical and it cannot be repaired, drastic response will have to be immediately taken in order to secure containment. The decompression pin is not the only Uranprojekt containment device present. The walls of the facility are covered with, or have embedded, panels that help isolate the spacetime anomaly to within the interior of the building. It is not known how these panels function, nor is it feasible to attain one without potentially compromising the original containment. Current Clean-up Efforts: Much of the outlying facility of the UMZ-1 complex is hazardous due to radiation. In order to make the complex safer, topsoil removal, installation of showers and of an incinerator, washing of structures and vehicles, and other radiation decontamination methods have been implemented. Additionally, the SCP-3685 Confinement Structure covering the primary building is near completion, which should assist with mitigating the radioactivity emanating directly from SCP-3685. Future Containment Equipment: Sub-component assembly of the "FARADAY" Containment Ring. This specific section is a component of the Maxwell-Vance Spatial Stabilization Array. The future of SCP-3685 containment is inherently uncertain due to a lack of information on how it is presently being contained. Determining the present or potential future condition of the Uranprojekt fail-safe equipment is currently impossible. Containment failure will likely have catastrophic consequences. To mitigate risk, the Foundation has started a containment program that will eventually manufacture and install new containment equipment that will supplant the decompression pin, with the intention of preventing a catastrophic containment failure. The scope of this effort is enormous due to the immense magnitude of the spacetime anomaly, bringing forth numerous specific engineering and design challenges. The most recently approved containment proposal, SCP-3685 Containment Proposal Revision 1312, involves over 3000 tonnes of material and equipment that will have to be moved on-site and installed for full implementation. The containment equipment itself focuses on stabilization and magnitude reduction of the SCP-3685 spacetime anomaly, with the hope that it will eventually be possible to safely decommission SCP-3685. The containment equipment includes: "FARADAY" Containment Ring - which will serve as the primary containment device. Containment is achieved through the mitigation of fold decompression, utilizing spacetime stabilization arrays. Specifically, this device is an assembly of two interleaved counter-rotating arrays: the Maxwell-Vance Spatial Stabilization Array, and the Lebedev-Glenn Temporal Stabilization Array. These arrays use superconducting niobium-titanium electromagnets, and thus require cryogenic cooling. Prometheus Labs "Splint" Spacetime Fracture Welder - which will serve to reduce stabilization requirements. It may even entirely weld the spacetime compression fracture present within SCP-3685, which would be required to completely neutralize it. This machine is custom-ordered, and is the first of its kind ever designed. Rutherford Fold-Diffusion Apparatus - an experimental device which is intended to reduce spacetime compressed wave magnitude. If successful, this will reduce stabilization requirements and potentially allow for a safe fold decompression of the SCP-3685 spacetime anomaly. "BECQUEREL" Radiation Mitigation Cluster - a series of panels intended to surround the SCP-3685 structure. The panels will serve to mitigate the enormous quantity of radiation that would be released from within SCP-3685 if the spacetime anomaly was fully stabilized. The operation of this equipment will require various components of supporting infrastructure, the majority of which must be on-site. This introduces more engineering challenges. The estimated continuous power consumption of the containment equipment is in excess of 130 megawatts. Supplying that much power is challenging, as the containment equipment takes up the significant majority of the floor-space present within the confinement structure. Thus, the power modules, and the supporting infrastructure in general, has been designed to be as small as possible. The supporting infrastructure includes: SCP-3685 Confinement Structure13 - a large structure that encapsulates SCP-3685 and provides the space necessary for the planned containment equipment. This structure will also serves to obscure SCP-3685 and any planned containment equipment from public view. To assist in this role, the structure will have thick sound-proofing to deaden the sound of the "FARADAY" Ring, along with a HVAC system. 4x "Project Polaris" 40 Megawatt Plutonium Fission Modules (CPM-40) - In total, these reactor modules will generate 160 megawatts of power, which is required to reach a 20% safety margin. These reactors are of a plutonium based, graphite moderated, liquid sodium cooled design. Plutonium-239 fuel rods are planned to be sourced from the Foundation "Cottontail" LMFBR facility located in [REDACTED]. A cooling water reservoir - located next to the west-end of the UMZ-1 complex. This reservoir was historically used for the UMZ-1 reactor, however it has been refilled and repurposed for this proposal. It will be used as a water-source and heat sink for the containment equipment located on-site. 6x Westinghouse Model 370F Nuclear-Rated Water Pump (WH370F) - located in the aforementioned cooling reservoir. These pumps will provide cooling water circulation for large convective heat sinks located within the SCP-3685 Confinement Structure. "LANDAU" 25kW Miniaturized Liquid Helium Cryoplant - This cryogenics plant will provide 25kW of cooling capacity at −269 °C. The cryogenics plant will be used for the superconducting magnets used in the "FARADAY" Containment Ring. Containment Evaluation & Oversight Committee Report: Containment Evaluation & Oversight Commitee (CEOC) Official Report Evaluation of Efficacy SCP-3685 Containment Proposal, Revision 13 Parameters: Containment projections for SCP-3685 are to result either in successful neutralization or long-term (>20 years) reliable containment. The decompression pin device will fail either during, or after the implementation of this containment proposal. Summary of Evaluation: The CEOC has evaluated that SCP-3685 Containment Proposal, Revision 13 is not sufficient for long-term containment of the SCP-3685 anomaly. Catastrophic breach of containment is likely within only a few years of decompression pin failure. Additionally, the proposal is extremely complex and expensive, and full implementation may take more than a decade of effort. Regardless, this proposal is the most effective and long-lasting the CEOC has seen so far. Implementation of this proposal would be better than nothing, and it would likely serve as an excellent stepping stone to better containment measures utilizing similar technology. Recommendations: The CEOC is recommending an additional increase in resources allocated to SCP-3685 primary containment research. Current proposals are still infeasible or incredibly risky in the context of long-term containment. Additional Documentation: Containment Equipment Failure Modes: [DATA EXPUNGED] Overall Likelihood of a VK-Class Scenario: [DATA EXPUNGED] Overall Likelihood of a ZK-Class Scenario: [DATA EXPUNGED] RECOVERED DOCUMENTATION RECOVERED DOCUMENTATION The following is a compilation of documentation found from the home of Dr. ██████ ████████. This individual served as Director of the Uranprojekt during the period of SCP-3685's creation. Dear ██████ If you've found this, it means I'm already gone. I've gone West, and I'll be in their hands shortly. I have many explanations and reasons for this, but none of them are of particular use, save for one. The Uranium Society. This endless drain of finite resources. This horrendous folding pile, fold, fold, compress, fold. When will you, and the rest of this miserable society, learn that nature is not to be played with? What we're doing here is the greatest, most treacherous form of crime, it's a crime against God. He calls for us to stop, and yet we persist because we have to win an ultimately petty conflict! When will you stop being oblivious to His warning? What if it fractures? What if He comes down from the heavens to do what He did of Gomorrah? Circles, Möbius, loops! We talk about these dangers like they're insignificant and out of sight and I can't accept this anymore. You've seen these "insignificant" threats occur in our experiments! This negligence and insanity will be the end of you, the end of this Earth, and the end of this godforsaken Reich. When you compress the folds beyond God's limits, we'll walk off the edge of the fracture, and we will become a part of the paradox that it leads to. I'm not going to be part of this insanity any longer. When the World ends, and the folds crease, fracture, tear, rip themselves apart because of our damning hubris, I won't be at it's source. Others will follow. They will come West with me. They feel the same. I won't name them, and you won't be able to stop them. Plans have already been prepared and executed. If for once you ever listen to reason, listen just this once. I need you to destroy the blasted contraption. I don't really have any notion of how you should do it, but you need to. If you can't destroy it and send it into the depths, use the pin. The pin will hold the folds together. You know it will. I know you don't like the concept of pins, you like the clips better, but if the folds crease and fracture, you'll have wanted the pin. Goodbye. 15/1/1945 If that treasonous bastard and his bunch of cowards didn't leave, this might not have happened! We would be outputting Neptunium14 by now. London would be in ashes! Instead of that, I have to depend on this poorly constructed contingency. Why did I listen to him? A foul traitor - suddenly God and good-will is important to a nuclear weapons researcher!? I should've used a clip. We might've been able to recover from this. I wouldn't have lost so many damn people. Does he think the Anglo-Saxons are just going to let him go!? They're going to use them. Who knows what sort of deals they've made with Stalin, imagine if they exchanged them! The thought of it makes me sick. They'll be used, and they'll make another pile. They'll make another one and they're going to use it for wicked things. They've taken my pile too, blasted generals. Relieved me of my duties for "utter failure." Failure? I wasn't the one who was proven incapable! They couldn't prevent a bunch of obtuse scientists from defecting! They've given the facility to some captain. These military men guard one of the greatest scientific creations in history and yet they understand nothing of its importance, it's infuriating! They refuse to let me near my damn reactor now, because they're making this "exclusion zone." I still don't know who died, or who has been found. I've asked for them to recover the bodies, but no one will enter the building, the cowards. They're just going to let the bodies rot in there. Those were good men, they gave their lives to Germany, and this is how they repay them!? I think stress is getting to me. I keep seeing things. I need some rest. I'm not feeling right. Dear ██████ I'm afraid to say that it will most likely be impossible to recover the deceased within the facility. I know that is probably not what you wanted to hear, but I have orders not to go in. Besides, even if I didn't have orders, I'm not going to send in my men to die needlessly. That place is a deathtrap. Initially, I had orders to survey the structure, so I did that. I had some men go in, and they never came out. I then had some others go in as recovery, and that group returned as desiccated corpses. I did have a single man come out alive, but now he mutters nonsense about "a lack of God", his eyes, colors - nothing decipherable. Only God knows what is in that building now. That isn't to say that I'm not sympathetic, and I do apologize for not being able to do more. As you read, I wished to recover the men I sent as well. I just don't think it's possible. We're currently establishing an exclusion zone, and we hope that once the Americans reach us, they'll heed our warnings and maintain the zone. I do not believe for a moment the communists will reach the area first. Sincerely, Captain ██████████ 5/10/1986 The Soviets should not have toyed with things no one can ever understand. This Chernobyl business. It must be another fold compression. It can't be anything else. They must've had a pin, a clip, something to contain it. I bet it was a clip, the fallout is too much for a pin. If they're going to copy us why can't they copy the one thing that saved us? The Earth - no, creation cannot handle more of these fractures. They claim it was some sort of fission accident. I refuse to believe that. Do they not have the pile? They've seen what it can do. It was much more than just breeding - synthesis, it was capable of producing things beyond God's creation, things we should've never seen, the hole we should not fall into from the edge, no, it should not exist. ██████ fell out of creation, he should be dead, but he isn't. He can't be, the fracture, that path falling away from the Lord's boundaries, it is a place beyond death and salvation. I see him still. This is not from my old body, I am as lucid as ever - no, more lucid. I can see things people can't. I can see what people should see but never do. Its from the pile, that ungodly sight into the pit it formed is what gave me this. It is alike Adam and Eve, when they first saw they weren't clothed. It's the pile, that's it. He's stuck somewhere in that pile. He appears and disappears - no, he exists and then unexists. He is inside that contraption and it's because of me, the society. I can be laying in bed, thousands of kilometers from that forsaken pile, and I see him staring at me. No, not at me, but at my sins, he knows what pit I found and cracked open. He has gained unnatural knowledge of it, the same of the type I posses. It's punishment. It's punishment for my sins against God's topology - His nature. Earth's hope rests upon a man I once mocked. That pin, the child of a brilliant man gifted by God, that pin must hold and the folds must not unwind, or else we will become a part of the fractured pile. There they are. They're all looking at me now. Note: Dr. ██████ ████████ avoided capture in Yugoslavia until 1987. He was located when he attempted to return to SCP-3685 for an unknown reason. He died from an untreated cancer before being identified. Footnotes 1. Translation: Uranium-Machine-Breeder/Synthesizer 2. In order to obscure the level of Foundation personnel that may be present within the complex, the complex's dormitories have been remediated and converted without affecting their outward appearance. They are suitably radiation shielded and have full amenities. A marked path has been made leading to the dorms from the main gate. Additionally, several multiple floor lab-spaces have been constructed into the large white silos previously used to contain cooling water. Underground paths from the dorms leading into these spaces have been constructed, so that the lab-spaces can be used covertly. 3. Without protection, this dose reaches the median lethal dose within only a few seconds. 4. Without protection, this dose reaches the median lethal dose within ~30 seconds. 5. Estimates show that during some gravitational events, the extreme gravitational constant would cause most objects of ordinary mass and density to become black holes. Any object compressed in this fashion would violently explode within a few seconds of it being returned to normal gravity due to Hawking radiation. 6. Prometheus Labs Model 362 Deployable Spatial Rectifier (PL362-DSR) 7. Translation: Reich Research Council 8. It is commonly accepted among Foundation historians that the Soviets were seeking the complex and its personnel as a way of augmenting its nuclear weapons program. 9. Several Uranprojekt scientists were never found. Likely captured by the USSR as a consequence of Operation Osoaviakhim. 10. The identity of personnel operating within the UMZ-1 complex was obfuscated as a precautionary measure against Eastern Bloc intelligence. At this point in history, the Foundation had a nigh-hostile relationship with both the GDR and the USSR, partially due to the seizure of the UMZ-1 complex. 11. It was likely that this was the sun as a subgiant, a transitional stage of solar evolution just before red giants. 12. This proposal was drafted by a research group formed and headed up by Dr. Lorentz Alger. During its peak, the group was composed of 36 engineers and scientists. 13. Under the proposal, this would be publicly described as the "confinement sarcophagus." 14. Uranprojekt name for Plutonium-239. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3685" by Monkatraz, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3685. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. 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Item #: SCP-3686 Special Containment Procedures: Original Containment Procedures: SCP-3686 is to be contained within the security staff quarters of Satellite Office 102. SCP-3686 is to be fitted with a GPS tracker, and stored within a wood and glass flag display case. Mobile Task Force and Security Personnel may be recruited on a volunteer basis for a rotational roster to possess SCP-3686 within Satellite Office 102. Volunteers desiring to be added to this list can contact Satellite Office 102 security director Sgt. Danvers. Revised Containment Procedures: SCP-3686-2 is to be contained in a standard humanoid containment chamber at Site-217. SCP-3686 is to fitted with a GPS tracking device, and stored within a wood and glass flag display case. At this time, no additional testing is required with SCP-3686. Requests to transfer SCP-3686 to a new instance of SCP-3686 are to be denied, without Level 4 approval. In the event of SCP-3686-2's death, SCP-3686 may be passed to a willing host, with Level 4 approval. Description: SCP-3686 is a burial flag from the United States of America, dated to 2015, which creates a memetic memory construct in anyone who possesses SCP-3686 within certain conditions. SCP-3686's anomalous effect will only occur if the owner of SCP-3686 willingly possesses1 SCP-3686. Testing with security personnel has shown that if SCP-3686 is given to an individual without their knowledge2, or without willing acceptance of the object3, its anomalous effect will not manifest and will continue to present to its previous owner. Attempts to relinquish SCP-3686 without a willing recipient have shown to have no effect on SCP-3686's memetic effect. It is hypothesized that if the current owner of SCP-3686 expires, SCP-3686-1's effect would not spread, beyond its usual mechanism. SCP-3686's specific memory construct is a belief that the current possessor of SCP-3686 had a brother named "Evan" hereafter referred to as SCP-3686-1. Subjects will invariably express that SCP-3686-1 was killed in action while serving in the U.S. Army forces in Afghanistan on October 22, 2015. SCP-3686-1 has been identified as Evan ████████, brother of PoI-2722 (see attached security report), who was confirmed killed in action on October 22, 2015 in █████, Afghanistan. Subjects do not present any other memetic effects, though several subjects report various levels of depression regarding SCP-3686-1. Upon the transfer of SCP-3686 to a new owner, the previous subject loses all knowledge of SCP-3686-1. At this time, no specific anti-memetic effect regarding SCP-3686-1 has been observed beyond the initial memory erasure. Subjects previously affected by SCP-3686-1 have had no difficulty retaining knowledge of SCP-3686, SCP-3686-1, or being affected by SCP-3686's memetic effect upon subsequent possession of SCP-3686. Addendum - December 17, 2019 SCP-3686-2 has shown signs of significant changes in personality, memory, and behavior, due to the effects of SCP-3686. At this time, SCP-3686-2 believes itself to be PoI-2722. The earliest detection of this effect was October 2018, with the effect intensifying as SCP-3686-2 continued to be exposed to SCP-3686. At this time, it is believed that the removal of SCP-3686 (either through the acceptance by a willing host, or through anti-memetic or amnestic treatments) would result in significant emotional and potentially physiological damage to SCP-3686-2. Foundation Psychiatric and Neurological assessments have advised against attempting to remove SCP-3686 at this time. Due to this condition, SCP-3686-2's containment shall remain indefinite, and SCP-3686 is not to be given to any other personnel hereafter. PoI-2722 was re-acquired by the Foundation on ██/██/████, and questioned regarding the intensification of SCP-3686's effect. PoI-2722 refuted any intention for SCP-3686 to cause harm to SCP-3686-2, or personnel in general. Interrogation was conducted using Class-A, B, and C veritants, which confirmed these statements. PoI-2722 was placed to a psychiatric facility under Foundation control for observation, following interrogation. PoI-2722's specific whereabouts and activities can be found in Document-P-2722-OF. Addendum: Internal Security Report - October 22, 2017 Close Addendum Prepared by the Department of Internal Security Reporter: Sgt. Danvers, Chief of Security, Satellite Office 102 Date of Report October 22, 2017 Incident PoI approached Foundation assets Summary: On October 22, 2017, PoI-2722 ██████ ████████ approached a Foundation satellite office, and walked in requesting to speak with Foundation Personnel. PoI-2722 was identified as a former member of the group known as Are We Cool Yet? and was detained. PoI-2722 was interviewed below: Interviewers: Dr. Stephens, Sgt. Danvers standing by as security BEGIN LOG PoI-2722: You guys are Foundation right? Dr. Stephens: How do you know about the Foundation? PoI-2722: Does it goddamned matter? Are you, or not? Dr. Stephens radios to a Level-4 Staff member. Dr. Stephens: Yes. We are Foundation personnel. PoI-2722: Okay. Okay, good. I want you to have this. PoI-2722 withdraws SCP-3686 slowly from their backpack. Security staff level their weapons. PoI-2722: Whoa. It's not gonna make you crazy, or do anything insane. It's just a flag. It… it's got an anomaly or whatever you call it, but I want you guys to contain it. Dr. Stephens: I don't understand. Why bring this to us? PoI-2722 became visibly distressed, and struggled to maintain their composure. PoI-2722: Please. I don't—. PoI-2722 pauses for several moments. I just can't deal with it anymore, but he should be remembered…I just can't. It's not harmful. Or even really anart… I just… someone should remember him. He was a good brother, and he just—. He wanted to serve his country so badly. I wanted to tell him no, but he… PoI-2722 began to cry, and could not continue the conversation at this point. The director of security for Satellite Office 102 steps forward into the camera frame. Sgt. Danvers: Which branch, son? PoI-2722 regains their composure enough to continue. PoI-2722: Army. Sgt. Danvers walks forward to the table, and picks up SCP-3686. Upon picking up SCP-3686, he stiffens for several seconds. His eyes come to rest on SCP-3686 in his hands, and can be observed to begin crying. PoI-2722 visibly relaxes, calming down significantly. Dr. Stephens: Are you okay Sergeant? Sgt. Danvers: Yeah, I just…I forgot today was when Evan was KIA. Let's wrap this up Doc, I've got a bottle of something put away. PoI-2722: So what now? I get shoved in to some dark hole, where I'm never heard from again? Dr. Stephens looks from Sgt. Danvers to PoI-2722 several times. Dr. Stephens: Ahh. I see. Danvers, before you head off duty, please take this young man to outbound processing. END LOG PoI-2722 was administered class A Amnestics, and released. A Foundation tracking team was assigned to monitor PoI-2722 in the future. To date, no further anomalous activity has been observed by PoI-2722. Final Summary The security staff, and myself will take on SCP-3686 on a rotational basis. Dr. Stephens doesn't agree with my assessment completely but understands why we'd rather just keep the thing contained in the security quarters. Protocol of course dictates that no contact be made with the object at all, but the kid's brother deserves better than that. Addendum: Internal Security Report - November 19, 2017 Close Addendum Prepared by the Department of Internal Security Reporter: Lt. Michael McIntyre Date of Report Nov 19, 2017 Incident Compromise of Foundation Assets Summary Following the report by Sgt. Danvers on Oct. 22, 2017, it was determined that an anomaly had compromised Satellite Office 102. Foundation agents were dispatched to apprehend Sgt. Danvers at Satellite Office 102. At this time, there are no other significant Foundation assets at Satellite Office 102, and it is recommended that Satellite Office 102 be shut down. Dr. DiChiara and Lt. McIntyre were dispatched from Site-217 in order to determine the cause of the breach, and how to prevent further breaches. Attached is the interview with Sgt. Danvers. At the time, one of his subordinates (Pvt. Kadesh) was the subject of SCP-3686 (hereafter properly designated as SCP-3686-2). Interviewers: Dr. DiChiara, Lt. McIntyre BEGIN LOG Dr. DiChiara: Sergeant, tell us why exactly you decided to leave a skip uncontained? Sgt. Danvers: It wasn't uncontained. Did you read the initial report? Procedures were in place, and are being followed to the letter. I believe Kadesh is currently in rotation. Dr. DiChiara: We did. We don't agree with your containment procedures, and especially the flippant attitude exposing Foundation personnel to an anomaly without cause. Sgt. Danvers: Of course there's cause. SCP-3686-1 doesn't deserve to be forgotten. Kadesh volunteered like the rest of us. Dr. DiChiara: Regardless of the voluntary nature of this exposure, why is that a priority? Containment is your first priority Sergeant. Sgt. Danvers appears agitated at this question. Sgt. Danvers: Is that a joke? Do you think this kid just deserves to be forgotten? Dr. DiChiara: I'm not sure I understand. Sgt. Danvers: We have a chance here to contain a skip, and not let a fallen soldier be forgotten. That's worth a little insecurity. Dr. DiChiara: Now I'm sure that I do not understand. Lt. McIntyre: I think I see why you did this. You felt that the loss of security was worth this soldier not being "forgotten" as you put it? Sgt. Danvers: Exactly. We've lost enough men and women in that sandpit, none of them deserve to be just…forgotten, the only remnant of them locked in a damn hole. Dr. DiChiara: No one is forgetting the existence of SCP-3686-1. The records are clear that he was Killed in Action, the U.S. Army records are clear. Sgt. Danvers makes several gestures with his hands, attempting to explain. Sgt. Danvers: It's not the same, you don't understand. Lt. McIntyre: I think I see what's going on here. This is…something that is common for United States soldiers who are killed in action? Sgt. Danvers: You can put it that way, I guess. I don't…it's not that easy to explain. Lt. McIntyre: Doctor, a moment? Lt. McIntyre and Dr. DiChiara exit the room, and consult for several minutes. They return, and re-seat themselves at the table. Lt. McIntyre: Sergeant, I think I understand why you did this. There was little risk of containment breach, and you felt this was important? Important enough to ignore protocol? Sgt. Danvers: Precisely. Lt. McIntyre: I think we may have an alternate solution for you. Final Summary Sgt. Danvers was offered the chance to become the permanent SCP-3686-2, and be put in to containment. Sgt. Danvers agreed, with the condition that upon his retirement from The Foundation, or his inability to serve as SCP-3686-2, SCP-3686 is to be transferred to a new host. This was considered acceptable to Level 4 staff, and Sgt. Danvers was officially designated SCP-3686-2. On a more personal note, this entire situation could have been avoided. It is my recommendation at this time to adopt a policy of multi-cultural directorship of incoming anomalies in order to avoid cultural bias towards containment and acceptable safety measures. Footnotes 1. Defined as consciously considering themselves the owner of SCP-3686. Distance from SCP-3686 has shown no change in this effect. 2. Testing with security personnel involved placing SCP-3686 inside of footlockers, and personal effects. SCP-3686's memetic effect was not observed to occur in these cases. 3. Testing with security staff involving the refusal to accept SCP-3686 did not show its memetic effect in the unwilling recipient of SCP-3686.
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Item #: SCP-3687 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3687-A and SCP-3687-B are to be installed in an SCP-3687-1 instance, having dimensions 10cm x 10cm, and held within a heat resistant containment locker capable of withstanding a temperature range of -100ºC–500ºC. SCP-3687-A and B are to each have a digital thermometer placed near them within the container and wired to an alarm set to trigger if either thermometer reads a temperature outside a range of -50ºC–200ºC. When not in testing, SCP-3687-A and B are to be set to the lowest rate of energy transfer. SCP-3687-B is to be stored in a heat-resistant, ceramic container with 20cm sides capable of withstanding a temperature range of -50ºC–1000ºC. This container is to be connected to two refrigeration units set to maintain an interior temperature of approximately 10ºC. Following the events of Experiment-3687-5, SCP-3687-A is no longer containable, and as of 6/1/17, efforts to locate and recover the remains of SCP-3687-A have been discontinued. Access to SCP-3687-A and B SCP-3687-B for purposes of testing is permitted only to personnel with level-3 clearance or higher. When interacting with or handling SCP-3687-A or B SCP-3687-B, all personnel involved are required to wear a Level C B heat-resistant hazmat suit and thermally insulated gloves, unless otherwise specified. Description2: SCP-3687 is a pair of glass handle doorknobs designated SCP-3687-A and SCP-3687-B. Both door knobs are identical in design, each having a flat top and smooth, curved, octagonal sides that narrow down before meeting the back plate. The back plate of each doorknob is composed of circular section of brass with a protrusion in the center that connects to the glass portion, two holes on opposing sides for inserting screws, and a bolting mechanism on the back for attaching a spindle. SCP-3687-A and SCP-3687-B exhibit anomalous thermodynamic properties, wherein heat energy is absorbed by SCP-3687-A and remotely transferred to SCP-3687-B through currently unknown means. This phenomenon occurs regardless of any distance separating the objects or of any physical or █████ barrier setup between them. Testing has shown that the rate at which energy transfer occurs between SCP-3687-A and B varies from approximately 20W–████W. SCP-3687-A and SCP-3687-B possesses an abnormal resilience to both high and low temperature extremes as well as rapid changes in temperature. In one instance, SCP-3687-A reached -200ºC and SCP-3687-B reached 240ºC in █s with no alteration to their shape and without compromising their structural integrity. This thermal resilience does not extend to SCP-3687-1, nor do instances of SCP-3687-1 acquire any other anomalous properties. Though resilient to the effects of temperature changes, SCP-3687-A and SCP-3687-B are not impervious to physical damage; the glass portions of each knob have been tested and proven to have the same hardness as ordinary glass3, while the metal back plates have the same hardness as alloys of brass4 commonly used in door fixtures. Care must be taken to avoid unnecessary damage to SCP-3687-A and B as this is known to cause rapid fluctuations in their energy transference rate. If SCP-3687-A and SCP-3687-B are installed together in a suitable "door", as one would ordinary doorknobs of the same make, said "door" will become an instance of SCP-3687-1 until SCP-3687-A and B are removed. SCP-3687-1 does not need to be – or even resemble – an actual door, though SCP-3687-A and B do need to be able to function as doorknobs5 for the "door" to be considered an instance of SCP-3687-1. SCP-3687-1 may be comprised of any solid material and have any dimensions provided it is able to house SCP-3687-A and B and the appropriate fixtures. When properly installed in an SCP-3687-1 instance, the rate that energy is transferred between the objects will stabilize and may be precisely controlled through the rotation of either doorknob. The rate of energy transfer will increase while SCP-3687-A is turned in the clockwise direction and decrease while turned in the counter-clockwise direction. The same effects will also occur if SCP-3687-B is turned, though the direction the knob must be rotated to achieve the same result is inverted6. How quickly the energy transference rate increases or decreases is dependent on the angle that SCP-3687-A or B is rotated from its default position. This occurs at roughly 9W/s per 10º. Addendum-3687-1: Recovery Log: SCP-3687-A and SCP-3687-B were recovered from the home of Kyle Hannigan on 1/16/17 after the outbreak and suppression of a house fire. Reports by on-scene firefighters describing a potentially anomalous object caught the attention of Foundation members monitoring the area, so field agents were sent in to investigate, posing as local police officers. In addition to being told of a "mysteriously cold room" and a "glowing doorknob that was burning everything", agents were also informed that Mr. Hannigan was apparently missing as no body had been found in the house and all attempts to contact him had failed. SCP-3687-A was discovered attached to the inner side of the door to the house's only bedroom. SCP-3687-B was resting on the ground outside the room, having burned the surrounding wooden flooring and partially melting the concrete foundation. The immediate area was closed off until back up arrived with equipment suitable for dealing with extreme temperatures. Initial recovery of SCP-3687-A and SCP-3687-B proved unsuccessful until repeated attempts to move the objects incidentally resulted in their energy transference rate being lowered, allowing them to be recovered and moved to a nearby containment site. Witnesses to SCP-3687 were treated with class-B amnestics and a false story was given that a malfunctioning dryer unit was the source of the fire. Mr. Hannigan has yet to be located, and is currently considered missing by both the Foundation and local law enforcement. A note inside of a fireproof lock-box was discovered in Mr. Hannigan's bedroom, reading: "Finally, I've done it. Here, you can have this one." Addendum-3687-2: On 4/22/17, SCP-3687-A breached containment and became lost to the Foundation. The experiment that resulted in these circumstances has been recorded below in its entirety. + Please Input Credentials for Level 3 Clearance - Access Granted Experiment-3687-5: Procedure: SCP-3687-A will be suspended within a vacuum chamber cleared of 99.99% of excess matter. SCP-3687-B will be suspended nearby above a 10L vat of liquid nitrogen. This will take place in a sealed, thermally insulated test chamber equipped with two infrared cameras directed at SCP-3687-A and B to monitor changes in temperature. SCP-3687 will be set to transfer energy at approximately 20W. Objective: To observe how SCP-3687-A functions when isolated from sources of thermal energy. Results: Once setup is completed, researchers observe a rapid decrease in SCP-3687-A's temperature, at a near constant rate of about 35ºC/s. Upon reaching -272.15ºC, SCP-3687-B experiences a sharp and erratic increase in temperature. At the same time, SCP-3687-A abruptly accelerates upwards, briefly making contact with the top of the vacuum chamber before breaking through and traversing upwards. SCP-3687-A shatters on impact with the test chamber ceiling, the broken pieces spreading out and pressing into it causing large cracks to appear. Seconds later, the floor space above the test chamber collapses from the upward pressure; SCP-3687-A's pieces are obscured from view by the debris, but are heard crashing through two more floors before exiting the facility through the roof. Analysis: Several hypotheses have been suggested to explain the unusual results of the test; the foremost of which was proposed by Dr. Richards. "Without SCP-3687-A to test our hypotheses, we can't know for sure why it reacted the way it did, but I think I have an idea that explains its behavior. As SCP-3687-A reached absolute zero, it wouldn't have had any thermal energy to absorb. In the absence of positive energy, the only way for it to maintain equilibrium with SCP-3687-B was to create negative energy. Having been "heated" solely by this "negative thermal energy", the atoms – and by extension the entire object – began to respond inversely to positive energy as well as applications of force. This would explain its unimpeded ascent; the force of gravity accelerated it upwards and any resisting forces – like friction – only increased its movement, causing it to tear its way through every obstacle in its path. As for why it didn't simply absorb more positive thermal energy, SCP-3687-B's sudden increase in energy output was likely enough to keep SCP-3687-A below 0K. If that is the case, SCP-3687-A may very well have left Earth and is now hurtling through space. Which, while alarming, amuses me more than anything." -Dr. Richards Since SCP-3687-A's breach of containment, efforts have been made to locate and re-contain any or all of its fragments. So far, these efforts have yielded no success. In the absence of SCP-3687-A, the energy output of SCP-3687-B has become unstable and can no longer be controlled. This has increased the difficulty of containing SCP-3687-B and warranted the development of new containment procedures. Addendum-3687-3: + Please Input Credentials for Level 3 Clearance - Access Granted As of 6/1/17, no fragments of SCP-3687-A have been located within its former containment facility or the surrounding area. SCP-3687-A is presumed to have left Earth orbit and has been reclassified as Neutralized. "It occurs to me now that during Experiment-3687-5, SCP-3687-A may just as well have accelerated downwards from the force of its suspensions and sunk into the ground. I shudder to think what the consequences would have been if that had happened." -Dr. Richards Footnotes 1. As of 4/22/2017, this classification only applies to SCP-3687-B; SCP-3687-A is considered Neutralized 2. This portion of the document remains unedited from its original form. See Addendum-3687-2 and 3 for details regarding SCP-3687's current condition 3. 6.5 on the Mohs scale 4. 4.0 on the Mohs scale 5. i.e. rotating either knob must pull back the accompanying latch into the frame 6. i.e. turning SCP-3687-B in the clockwise direction will decrease the rate of energy transfer ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3687" by CyberneticTwilly, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3687. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3688
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You Can Dance If You Want To An Agent performing SCP-3688. Face blurred at their request. Item #: SCP-3688 Special Containment Procedures: Any discovered historical data pertaining to SCP-3688 is to be retrieved by Foundation personnel, and any civilians aware of its existence are to be amnesticised. Any active members of a Mobile Task Force and any Foundation personnel ranked Level 3 or higher should be given the opportunity to learn SCP-3688, though doing so is optional. Description: SCP-3688 is a series of kinetoglyphs1 that, when performed in sequence and with a sufficient degree of accuracy, causes the performer to become functionally invincible for the duration. This invincibility is achieved via the violation of a number of fundamental principles of physics. Many of the movements required involve the whole body, and have been described as "rhythmic" and "energetic". The movements required by SCP-3688 for successful activation of its properties are complex (approximately 85% of Foundation personnel attempting to learn SCP-3688 have been unable to execute it successfully), but are structured in such a way that once started they can be repeated indefinitely. Successful activation of SCP-3688 begins once the first nine to ten seconds of the sequence has been accurately completed, and can then be continued for as long as the performer is able. No method of stopping a performer of SCP-3688 against their will has been found, though bodily functions and requirements for sustenance are not affected by the process. The following are excerpts from the full SCP-3688 testing log, performed on individuals confirmed to be actively and successfully performing SCP-3688. Test: Application of blunt force using a wooden baseball bat. Result: No effect. In cases where the bat intercepted a moving part of the performer's body, the bat was deflected without apparent effort. Bat eventually broke following successive impacts. Test: Attempted restraint of performer via wall-mounted steel chains. Result: As soon as the chains were affixed to the performer, they were forcibly torn from their wall mounts by the motions required by SCP-3688. Continued motion caused the chains to entangle the performer, at which point they snapped. Test: Collision of a remotely-piloted utility vehicle travelling at 70km/h with performer. Result: The vehicle was split in two at the collision point as its momentum carried it into and beyond the performer, who was unaffected by the impact. Remaining wreckage was displaced as it intersected the movements of the performer. Project Marqod In concert with the Department of Thaumatology, the Artistic Anomalies Department and the Department of Kinetography, we have, functionally speaking, been able to reverse-engineer SCP-3688. We still don't know why it works, but we do know how to develop additional kinetoglyphic sets that we believe, when properly deployed in the field, will be of great use to the Foundation. SCP-3688 Senior Researcher Dr. Nian Shan Project Marqod is an ongoing multi-departmental effort to develop new kinetoglyphic sets and to train Foundation agents in their use. To that end, Mobile Task Force Sigma-2 ("No Friends Of Mine") has been formed from agents possessing the necessary levels of coordination and agility to perform the manoeuvres in the kinds of scenarios that field teams frequently find themselves. Due to the high success rate of Sigma-2, authorisation has been given to increase the scope of the project. Additional resources have been granted for the further development of new kinetoglyphs and additional recruitment is ongoing, though finding willing participants with the necessary physical performance experience has proven difficult. Following is a list of kinetoglyphic sets in which MTF Sigma-2 agents are currently trained. Designation Effect Notes SCP-3688 Personal invincibility for the duration of the performance. The originally discovered set from which the others are derived. Colloquially referred to by Sigma-2 agents as the "Safety Dance". PMK-01 Generates a spherical field of a radius equal to the combined height of the performers, through which no energy or matter can pass. Requires two performers simultaneously enacting the necessary movements to function. PMK-02 Creates a mobile temporal distortion field centralised on the performer, causing them to experience time more slowly. Magnitude of the effect is related to how long (in base time) the kinetoglyph is performed for, and lasts for approximately 60 seconds once the performance is complete. Outside observers see the performer moving at increasingly high speeds. PMK-03 Enhances the senses of the performer for approximately one minute following the conclusion of the set. Possesses a vocal component which must be performed in sequence with the movements for the kinetoglyph to function. The vocal component is painful to those already under the effect of PMK-03. PMK-04 Manifests physical duplicates of the performer. No known upper limit on the number of manifested duplicates, but each duplicate is integrated into the movements required to continue the kinetoglyph, exponentially increasing its complexity. Duplicates are controlled directly by the original performer, and exist for approximately one hour. Currently observed maximum number of duplicates manifested is seven. PMK-05 Annihilates all solid matter within the target area. The most complex of the developed sets, requiring five performers moving in perfect synchronicity. The target is defined as the pentagonal area formed by the positions of the performers, covering a height of approximately 20m. Only successfully used twice, once during testing and once during incident 3688-1 (the "West Side Incident"). Footnotes 1. Kinetoglyphs, or kinetohazards, are physical and mental anomalous effects that occur when an entity performs specific motions and gestures. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3688" by Mortos, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3688. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: dancer Name: Kuan Yin Standing Traveling Eastward Across the Ocean.jpg Author: Li Junfeng License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 Source Link: Wikimedia Commons
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SCP-3689
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Item #: SCP-3689 Special Containment Procedures: A copy of SCP-3689's recipe is stored in a restricted document locker. Foundation bot I/O-DINE is to monitor food blogs and cooking sites for keywords matching SCP-3689 ingredients. Foundation elements embedded in national governments are to ensure the passing and strict enforcement of anti-whaling laws. Violators are to be investigated for knowledge of SCP-3689. Description: SCP-3689 is a hypothetical sandwich defined by an infohazardous recipe, universally dubbed the "Kraken's Belly" by those who conceive it. SCP-3689's recipe consists of an abnormal list of ingredients and a detailed, specific method of preparation; if a person learns the entire process and is able to visualize making SCP-3689, they will become subject to SCP-3689's effect. Due to human curiosity and imagination, as well as common seafood culinary methods, SCP-3689's recipe has been recreated in a person's mind by knowing as few as 15 of the ingredients and 5 steps of the preparation. SCP-3689 ingredients deemed unlikely by RAISA and the Culinary Department to lead to full conceptualization include: Lemon Fresh whale Barbeque sauce White chocolate chips Imitation crab Bacteria (any) Gold Wood shavings from a "boat that sailed through a storm" Subjects aware of SCP-3689 experience the sensation of severe hunger and thirst, stomach pains, and lose the ability to taste or smell. These people are convinced that the only way to alleviate these symptoms is to prepare SCP-3689 and eat it. Amnesticization of affected subjects is ineffective, requiring dangerously high doses to remove memory of all ingredients. Otherwise, subjects frequently re-imagine SCP-3689 by idly extrapolating. Due to the rarity of several ingredients, most attempts to create SCP-3689 end in the subject either attempting to finish the sandwich using substitutes, or giving up entirely. If an imperfect sandwich is created and eaten, SCP-3689 symptoms usually subside over 2-4 days. SCP-3689 was discovered following the suicide of a disgraced chef during investigation and cataloging of his anomalous possessions. SCP-3689's recipe was fragmented and written into various cookbooks and journals. Addendum: SCP-3689 Testing Notes: D-class allowed to create and consume SCP-3689 in preliminary testing report no extraordinary quality to the sandwich and demanifest, while the room they are in floods. Subjects remanifest between 30 minutes and 6 hours later, accompanied by the room flooding again, and have little to no memory of the experience beyond vague recollections of a "ship and captain". In a later test, D-11424 prepared and consumed the sandwich, with slight difficulty due to the unwieldiness of the squid tentacles, and reported the sandwich to "taste okay, but still missing something". The kitchen immediately flooded with seawater, and D-11424 vanished. Limited footage later recovered from D-11424's body camera showed him swimming in an ocean before being lifted onto a passing wooden sailing ship and greeted by an indistinct figure dressed as a 16th century pirate, shortly before the camera was damaged in a swordfight. The kitchen flooded again approximately 7 hours later, and D-11424 remanifested in a small rowboat filled with gold coins, various fish, an ornate cutlass and a decorated three-cornered hat. He reported vague memories of "challenging the Kraken alongside the Captain", as well as consuming part of said Kraken by adding it to a new SCP-3689 sandwich, which appeared to have significantly enhanced the flavor. D-11424 additionally requested, and was granted, permission to keep the hat. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3689" by Weryllium, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3689. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3690
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An endoscopy picture showing ulceration in SCP-3690. Item #: SCP-3690 Special Containment Procedures: 1 D-class host is to be maintained for SCP-3690's continued survival. Meals should consist primarily of liquid substitutions rather than solid food, due to the pain of attempting to digest solid food. While flares are not occuring, the host should be treated with 5-10mg of colchicine and 145-290mcg of linaclotide, depending on their weight. During flares, analgesia and NSAIDs should be added to the medication regime. When host requires administration of life support systems, suicide watch is to be implemented. 24-hour surveillance of the host is to be implemented following the events of 09/██02. A population of Ixodes scapularis is to be kept on-site to implement efficient infection of a new host after the current one expires. Areas which the black-legged tick inhabits are to be monitored for unknown autoimmune conditions. Any parasites that are found in the wild are to be surgically removed and incinerated, and a cover story explaining the death of the host is to be disseminated to the next of kin. Due to the medical complications inherent in SCP-3690 infection, and the specific criteria for infection, infections are easily spotted and contained before they become pandemic. Description: SCP-3690 is a parasitic organism that replaces the human large intestine. Outside of the human body, an instance of SCP-3690 most closely resembles a human large intestine, suffering from varying severity of inflammation. 13 pairs of prolegs on the underside of the body permit limited movement of the parasite, and allow it to attach itself to the inside of the coelum. Fleshy inclusions in the faux-intestinal lining occur at random intervals along the parasite's body, which serve to store excess host blood which the parasite absorbs. When these are full, SCP-3690 can survive for up to 6 months without a host before expiring from starvation. Surgical removal of the parasite is possible, but always fatal to the host. The human autoimmune system reacts unfavorably to the presence of SCP-3690, causing periodic flares, usually once every month. Additionally, T-cells attack the parasite itself, resulting in ulceration within the parasite. This autoimmune response damages SCP-3690's ability to replace the functions of the large intestine, and can even kill the parasite if not properly treated. The primary symptoms of the active parasite are moderate to severe abdominal pain, ulcers in the small intestine, diarrhea mixed with blood and mucus, lack of appetite, nausea, vomiting1, weight loss, anemia2, and a mild fever measured at 38 to 39 °C. Occasionally, SCP-3690 will slightly change position within the body; this is not painful, but often causes distress in the host. These symptoms are continually present even outside of flares. With proper maintenance, hosts can survive for as long as healthy, non-anomalous humans, although the quality of life is greatly reduced. Colchicine treatment slightly improves these symptoms, along with suppressing attacks. The exact way in which colchicine suppresses flares is unclear, but the improvement of symptoms along with flare suppression markedly improves quality of life. Even with colchicine treatment, however, the quality of life will continue to worsen over time until they require constant medical attention. Even with proper maintenance, the host may spend several decades confined to the bed before they finally expire. Flares develop over 2–4 hours and can last anywhere from 6 hours to 2 weeks. During a flare, the entire abdomen is affected with all signs of peritonitis, acute inflammation of the small intestine, and acute abdominal pain. Additionally, bowel movements are accompanied by painful abdominal cramping. Prolonged parasitic exposure causes flares to also induce pleuritis; pre-existing conditions can reduce the exposure time necessary for pleuritis to occur. The fleshy inclusions on SCP-3690 break the outer layer of its skin during flares, releasing the stored blood into the coelum. The purpose of this is unclear. These flares are by their nature self-limiting, but require analgesia and NSAIDs3 to treat the resulting symptoms. Left untreated, the chronic flares will cause the patient to weaken and expire over a long period of time as their joints and digestive system incur more damage than the body is capable of healing. The parasite is transmitted through the observation of tick bites, specifically the bites of Ixodes scapularis, but only after an instance has fed on a host already infected with the parasite. Due to the relative inconspicuousness of tick bites when not affected by Lyme disease, SCP-3690 is often transmitted by a bite which displays the characteristics of Lyme disease. During the next REM sleep cycle, an instance of SCP-3690 will manifest in the coelum of the new host. It consumes the entirety of the large intestine, and attaches itself by its mouthparts to the ileocecal valve, where it feeds off of the host's blood while acting as a non-anomalous large intestine. It will continue to do so until the host expires. Once SCP-3690 can no longer feed, it will detach itself, exit the host through the digestive system, and attempt to locate a new host. However, due to the fact that SCP-3690 has no way to enter the coelum of a new host, it can only attach itself to the outside of the human body. After 36 hours outside of a host, or after the blood reserves have been depleted, SCP-3690 will vanish completely. It is unknown as to where SCP-3690 departs to, or where it manifests from upon infection. The first instance of SCP-3690 was discovered in ██████,████████, after routine record-checking of the state hospitals uncovered a patient suffering from an unknown autoimmune condition. Medical scanning revealed the presence of SCP-3690, and the host was quarantined pending SCP designation. When the host's child began displaying similar symptoms, the entire family was brought into containment. Surgical intervention on the younger host proved unsuccessful, but provided new information about the parasite. The removed parasite survived for 6 months before finally vanishing. An analysis of the symptoms displayed by the host of SCP-3690 compared with lists of patients with unidentified autoimmune disorders revealed several other infectees, with a statistical imbalance towards doctors and families in areas where Lyme disease is common. Interviews revealed that the infectees had not necessarily been infected with Lyme themselves, but had observed the bite of someone who had. Prolonged D-class testing was approved on 01/██/██97. + Host Interview 11/██/██01 - D-15756 Interview 11/██/██01 Interviewed: D-15756 Interviewer: Dr. Bradley <Begin Log> Dr. Bradley: On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your pain level, D-15756? D-15756: Eleven. Dr. Bradley: Please take this seriously, D-15756. D-15756: I'm the one being murdered by my intestines. I hurt. I'm fucking tired of hurting. If this interview is going to convince you bastards to help us stop hurting, I'll take it as seriously as a death sentence. It's an eleven. Go on, write that down. Dr. Bradley: If you continue to be hostile, we will move on to the next D-class. D-15756: You want to know what this is like? You want to fucking know what this is like? It's hell. I throw up blood. I shit out blood. I think I bleed more than is in my actual fucking body! I- [D-15756 begins retching] Dr. Bradley: Please calm down, D-15756. [D-15756 manages to get himself under control, and takes a deep breath] D-15756: Fuck you. And fuck you for telling me to calm down. You don't get to fucking look down your nose and condescend at me because I dared to tell you that I'm in fucking pain all the time. You're not the one in pain all the time. [D-15756 suppresses a sob] Dr. Bradley: D-15656, please- D-15756: You don't wallow in your own blood and shit and vomit until someone comes around to clean you up. You don't smell like the backside of a morgue. You don't look in the fucking mirror and barely recognize yourself because you're dying too slowly to actually die. You don't cry every time you have to get up to take a piss because your legs feel like they're from some porcelain fucking doll. You don't bawl your eyes out because you're shitting out blood, you've been shitting out clumps of blood and mucus and nothing else for years now, and you're going to keep shitting out blood and mucus in the most painful way possible until it fucking kills you. [D-15756 begins shouting] D-15756: You don't get pitied one moment and then treated like shit the next because how dare I be unable to do things when my fucking intestines are trying to fucking kill me! How dare I ever tell one of you fuckers that I hurt! How dare I-! Dr. Bradley: I believe we're done here. Security! Please take this one away, and bring in the next host. <End Log> + Research Program Log - Research Program Log 01/██/██97: ██ D-class subjects infected by having them observe an infected tick bite. 06/██/██97: D-15756 attempts suicide. Containment procedures updated to include suicide prevention procedures. 07/██/██97: NSAIDS tested for their usage in reduction of pain and inflammation. This is the first successful medication regimen to alleviate some of the symptoms of SCP-3690 infection. 09/██/██97: Therapy sessions deemed ineffective in reducing suicide attempts or host distress. Therapy discontinued. 03/██/██98: D-14925 suffers from septic shock caused by prolonged inflammation of the small intestine trapping intestinal contents in close proximity to intestinal ulcers. SCP-3690 released a chemical similar in structure to vancomycin as soon as sepsis occurred. Septic shock was not prevented; however, the host did not expire. Hosts are now to be medicated with linaclotide to prevent sepsis during flares. 05/██/██98: D-16742, a vegan, expires due to malnutrition. It is discovered that SCP-3690 is less effective than a non-anomalous large intestine at properly absorbing the nutrients of vegetable proteins. Host diets altered to maximize parasite health. 04/██/██99: Multivitamin regimen started, due to poor nutrient absorption while recovering from flares. Liquid dietary replacements tested. 05/██/██99: Liquid dietary replacements discovered to be easier on SCP-3690 and hosts, but not currently able to replace a full diet. However, as the liquid replacements were less likely to induce vomiting or other gastrointestinal distress, they were cleared for use in combination with an increased multivitamin regimen. 11/██/██99: D-15756 attempts suicide by medication overdose. The SCP-3690 instance induces vomiting immediately. Careful testing reveals that ingested poisons are vomited back up again, or neutralized if vomiting cannot be induced. Testing on poisoning ended due to increased host distress. Suicide prevention protocols adjusted. 05/██/██00: All hosts permanently bedridden. Suicide prevention protocols adjusted. 07/██/██01: Suicide attempts prevented by current protocols breaks the triple-digits. D-15756 alone has made ██ attempts. 09/██/██02: D-15756 used eating utensils to commit murder-suicide of himself and the rest of the bedridden subjects in the 3690 containment area. Security increased and stricter suicide prevention protocols implemented. New hosts infected with SCP-3690. 11/██/██05: Colchicine treatment was discovered to increase quality of life in D-class subjects. Colchicine approved for use in the research program. 01/██/██15: It was determined that the excess of hosts was unnecessary to containment and research. D-class program downsized to 1 host, and excess parasites incinerated. 04/██/██17: D-18213, the host of the contained instance of SCP-3690 at that time, was found to have expired during the night. A post-mortem autopsy discovered that SCP-3690 was no longer in the host's digestive system, and that the cause of death was shock and internal bleeding caused by the sudden lack of a large intestine. A search of Site-██ was conducted, and after 18 hours, SCP-3690 was found in the crawlspace accessing the plumbing system, having gotten trapped in a roach motel during its escape. SCP-3690 was recovered and incinerated, and a new host infected. It is unclear at this time as to what motivated SCP-3690 to attempt to relocate itself. Footnotes 1. To the point where long periods of time may go between the host consuming any substantial solid food. 2. Anemia induced by the parasite does not require blood transfusions unless other disorders are present. 3. Such as diclofenac.
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SCP-3691
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close Info X SCP-3691 The Thinking Man's SCP Written by Fishish and Jack Waltz Check out Fishish's author page! Check out Jack's author page! Item #: SCP-3691 SCP-3691 prior to Incident-3691-A. Special Containment Procedures: All known footage of Incident-3691-A has been recovered by the Foundation. Witnesses to the event have been amnesticized per standard Foundation protocol. A non-anomalous replica of SCP-3691 has been placed at the site of discovery. Description: SCP-3691 is a bronze casting of Auguste Rodin's Le Penseur,1 which was situated in Albany, New York until June 13th, 2022. The statue's creator is unknown, no records exist of the statue being commissioned or built since the city was founded, and no plaques of any kind are present on its base. SCP-3691 had been, since the time of its discovery, unable to be moved or damaged in any capacity. Although the statue was found to be physically immovable, an early hypothesis as to the nature of the anomaly was that the effect was memetic; attempts to move the statue induced frustration in all individuals assigned to the task. This hypothesis was abandoned when no evidence of any secondary memetic properties was found. SCP-3691 displayed a significant deviation from its established anomalous effects during Incident-3691-A. Incident-3691-A: On 13/06/2022, SCP-3691 became animate, slowly standing up to face a nearby camera installed by Foundation personnel.2 The following interaction was recorded on camera: [BEGIN LOG] [13.09] SCP-3691 becomes animate. The statue stands up and looks at the camera. [13.10] SCP-3691 sighs. [13.12] SCP-3691: Sorry, had to think about some stuff. [13.15] SCP-3691 walks away from the frame. [END LOG] Following Incident-3691-A, SCP-3691 was reclassified as Uncontained. Efforts to locate the entity are underway. Page Date Created Rating Eberstrom's Proposal-ARC 27 Jul 2008 10:05 -83 SCP-048-ARC 21 Jan 2009 19:01 -51 SCP-234-ARC 26 Jul 2008 21:10 -32 SCP-257-ARC 20 Aug 2008 03:20 -30 SCP-013-ARC 25 Jul 2008 14:35 -24 SCP-356-ARC 01 May 2009 19:20 -16 SCP-922-ARC 20 Jul 2011 02:09 -15 SCP-232-ARC 26 Jul 2008 21:07 -13 SCP-186-ARC 08 Aug 2008 22:54 -11 SCP-406-ARC 25 Jul 2008 16:46 -10 SCP-987-ARC 26 Jul 2008 15:29 -10 SCP-744-ARC 09 Oct 2008 16:07 -7 SCP-307-DE 19 Mar 2024 15:41 -6 SCP-CN-801 07 Sep 2023 22:44 -5 SCP-7734 23 Jul 2023 23:11 -4 SCP-8329 25 Sep 2024 18:14 -4 SCP-044-DE 26 May 2023 06:50 -3 SCP-7341 24 Aug 2023 02:20 -1 SCP-CN-980 07 Sep 2023 22:48 -1 SCP-5649 31 Mar 2021 15:15 0 page 1 of 28123...2728next » RSS feed Footnotes 1. The Thinker. 2. The event was caught hours later, as SCP-3691's monitoring had been deemed a low-priority task due to its lack of activity. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3691" by Fishish and Jack Waltz, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3691. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: statue.png Author: Jean-David & Anne-Laure License: CC BY-SA 2.0 Source Link: Flickr
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close Info X SCP-3691 The Thinking Man's SCP Written by Fishish and Jack Waltz Check out Fishish's author page! Check out Jack's author page! Item #: SCP-3691 SCP-3691 prior to Incident-3691-A. Special Containment Procedures: All known footage of Incident-3691-A has been recovered by the Foundation. Witnesses to the event have been amnesticized per standard Foundation protocol. A non-anomalous replica of SCP-3691 has been placed at the site of discovery. Description: SCP-3691 is a bronze casting of Auguste Rodin's Le Penseur,1 which was situated in Albany, New York until June 13th, 2022. The statue's creator is unknown, no records exist of the statue being commissioned or built since the city was founded, and no plaques of any kind are present on its base. SCP-3691 had been, since the time of its discovery, unable to be moved or damaged in any capacity. Although the statue was found to be physically immovable, an early hypothesis as to the nature of the anomaly was that the effect was memetic; attempts to move the statue induced frustration in all individuals assigned to the task. This hypothesis was abandoned when no evidence of any secondary memetic properties was found. SCP-3691 displayed a significant deviation from its established anomalous effects during Incident-3691-A. Incident-3691-A: On 13/06/2022, SCP-3691 became animate, slowly standing up to face a nearby camera installed by Foundation personnel.2 The following interaction was recorded on camera: [BEGIN LOG] [13.09] SCP-3691 becomes animate. The statue stands up and looks at the camera. [13.10] SCP-3691 sighs. [13.12] SCP-3691: Sorry, had to think about some stuff. [13.15] SCP-3691 walks away from the frame. [END LOG] Following Incident-3691-A, SCP-3691 was reclassified as Uncontained. Efforts to locate the entity are underway. Page Date Created Rating Eberstrom's Proposal-ARC 27 Jul 2008 10:05 -83 SCP-048-ARC 21 Jan 2009 19:01 -51 SCP-234-ARC 26 Jul 2008 21:10 -32 SCP-257-ARC 20 Aug 2008 03:20 -30 SCP-013-ARC 25 Jul 2008 14:35 -24 SCP-356-ARC 01 May 2009 19:20 -16 SCP-922-ARC 20 Jul 2011 02:09 -15 SCP-232-ARC 26 Jul 2008 21:07 -13 SCP-186-ARC 08 Aug 2008 22:54 -11 SCP-406-ARC 25 Jul 2008 16:46 -10 SCP-987-ARC 26 Jul 2008 15:29 -10 SCP-744-ARC 09 Oct 2008 16:07 -7 SCP-307-DE 19 Mar 2024 15:41 -6 SCP-CN-801 07 Sep 2023 22:44 -5 SCP-7734 23 Jul 2023 23:11 -4 SCP-8329 25 Sep 2024 18:14 -4 SCP-044-DE 26 May 2023 06:50 -3 SCP-7341 24 Aug 2023 02:20 -1 SCP-CN-980 07 Sep 2023 22:48 -1 SCP-5649 31 Mar 2021 15:15 0 page 1 of 28123...2728next » RSS feed Footnotes 1. The Thinker. 2. The event was caught hours later, as SCP-3691's monitoring had been deemed a low-priority task due to its lack of activity. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3691" by Fishish and Jack Waltz, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3691. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: statue.png Author: Jean-David & Anne-Laure License: CC BY-SA 2.0 Source Link: Flickr
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SCP-3692
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Welcome to the SCP Foundation Secure Intranet (SFSI) Loading… Loading… Please enter your credentials below: $ [email protected] | InTheVillaOf_Ørmen Warning: Impersonating a site-wide administrator is punishable by prejudiced termination. To ensure that your identity matches the account above, please follow the instructions on your personal authenticator in the next 60 seconds. Hello Doctor. An attempt to login to your account has been made. If this is you, firmly press thumb down onto the opposite face of this device. You may feel a slight pinch. … … … DNA confirmed. Authentication: Confirmed. Welcome, Doctor Rhodes, to SFSI. What would you like to do? $ access SCP-3692 Very well. Which version of this SCP entry would you like to view? The options are listed below (options with a green “O” are permitted for access and edit with your level of security clearance): Security_Clearance_0 O | Security_Clearance_1 O | Security_Clearance_2 O Security_Clearance_3 O | Security_Clearance_4 O | Security_Clearance_5 X $ Security Clearance 2 I’m sorry, I did not understand your query. Please try again. Which version of this SCP entry would you like to view? $ Security_Clearance_2 Accepted. Displaying SCP-3692.Security_Clearance_2 below: June Rhodes Is Dead Fake Writing Dying Lost WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 2/3692 CLASSIFIED ANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 2/3692 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION. SCP-3692 Item #: SCP-3692 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3692 is to be contained inside a secured and sealed chamber at Site-██. The current instance of SCP-3692-1 is to be likewise restricted to this same chamber, along with necessary accompaniments (as detailed in Document 3692-1). There may only be one means of entrance or egress to this room, leading to an intermediary room between SCP-3692’s room and the rest of Site-██. Each week, a package of food, water, a change of simple cotton clothes, and 3 ballpoint pens are to be left in the intermediary room. The trash produced by SCP-3692-1 must be examined for pieces of SCP-3692, which are to be stored in a storage locker. This locker may only be unlocked with direct approval of Senior Researcher Rhodes. Examination and storage may only be conducted through mechanical means that do not contain a visual/electromagnetic component. All other articles of waste are to be incinerated. On either side of this central room must be other directly adjacent chambers, each populated with a single D-Class personnel. At all times, one of these D-Class personnel must be the closest living human to SCP-3692-1; neither may be made aware of the purpose of their proximal containment to SCP-3692. Each room is to be made identical to other D-class holding cells. Every 30 days, these D-Class personnel must be rotated with two more D-Class personnel. Each day, a thorough search is to be made of these cells and of the D-Class contained within, by no less than two guards. Afterwards, these guards are to search each other thoroughly. If, during any of these searches, SCP-3692 is discovered, the personnel in possession of SCP-3692 is designated SCP-3692-1 and will replace quarters with the previous SCP-3692-1, now designated SCP-3692-2. SCP-3692-2 is to be moved to a medical unit for observation and necessary care. Description: SCP-3692 is a small black notebook, visually indistinguishable from a Moleskine brand classic hardcover notebook, measuring 1.2 x 21 x 12.5 cm, with 192 pages contained within. There is visible wear on the notebook - the edges of front and back cover are mildly worn, the elastic band meant to keep the book closed missing, and the included bookmark frayed at the end. The contents of SCP-3692 are not to be known. The current person in possession of SCP-3692 (designated SCP-3692-1) will be psychologically compelled to write at least once a day in the notebook. SCP-3692-1 will express extreme distress if they are incapable of writing in SCP-3692 for whatever reason, becoming increasingly hysterical up to and through the point wherein SCP-3692-A is triggered. If SCP-3692-1 does not write in SCP-3692 for a period of 24 hours, an SCP-3692-A event is triggered. If SCP-3692-1 has been in possession of SCP-3692, and been writing daily and diligently in the notebook for an indeterminate period no longer than 192 days, a SCP-3692-A event will likewise occur. While the current owner of SCP-3692, SCP-3692-1 will experience a gradual decline in mental state, manifesting symptoms aligning with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Bipolar Type II Disorder, Gender Dysphoria, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, among others. Prior to acquisition, this coincided with a degradation in social status and overall interpersonal likeability. No correlation has been observed between SCP-3692-1’s initial mental fortitude and the duration of its position as SCP-3692-1. SCP-3692-1 will not express particular distaste for its containment, finding SCP-3692 itself as a satisfactory pastime. SCP-3692-A events pose the primary threat to containment. During a SCP-3692-A event, SCP-3692 will disappear from its current location (usually nearby SCP-3692-1, though this effect occurs regardless of SCP-3692’s location) and appear near someone else, the closest human that isn’t SCP-3692-1 (see Document 3692-4). That person (now SCP-3692-1) will begin to experience the effects associated with possession of SCP-3692, and no further degradation will occur for the previous SCP-3692-1 (now SCP-3692-2). SCP-3692-2 will expire in precisely 24 hours. When an SCP-3692-A event occurs, visually-disabled D-Class personnel are permitted entrance to SCP-3692’s chamber to clean it, then searched to see if another SCP-3692-A event has occurred. Document 3692-1: + Show Document 3692-1 - Hide Document 3692-1 The following belongings are to be set up in the room containing SCP-3692: Desk with overhead lamp Bed Shower with fan-drying component Toilet with bidet Bookcase with the following: ████ ████ by ████████ ███████ ██████████████ by ████████ ████████ The collected works of █████████ █████████ and ██████ ███████ █████████ by █████ ████ ██████ Assorted works by ██████ ████████ and ███████ ███████ During periods where SCP-3692-1’s room is unoccupied (i.e. immediately after SCP-3692-A), the status of each of these objects is to be noted and, if necessary, they are to be replaced. Document 3692-4: + Show Document 3692-4 - Hide Document 3692-4 The following is a log of known SCP-3692-1s during the duration of SCP-3692’s containment at the Foundation. Certain logs have been omitted. Identity of SCP-3692-1: █████ █████, 17-year old resident of ██████████, USA, where SCP-3692 was discovered Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Reports on an abnormal series of suicides at ██████ ██████ High School were posted to local and regional news sources, which drew the Foundation’s interest. After an initially cursory, and later more thorough investigation, the notebook in possession of █████ was narrowed down to the common thread, and further anomalies were observed that made apparent to the Foundation that SCP-3692 was, indeed, an anomalous object. In the 2 months during this investigation, ██████ mental state continuously declined, as was observed in recent grades and several psychiatric evaluations. When the Foundation repossessed SCP-3692, SCP-3692-A was immediately triggered. Event SCP-3692-A: At approximately the same time that Foundation researchers signed for an order to acquiesce SCP-3692, this event was triggered. Possession of SCP-3692 transferred to a low-ranking Foundation personnel, Alex ████████, who was at the time interviewing █████. It was not discovered that this event had taken place until the Foundation gave Alex orders to acquire the object. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: Subject successfully self-terminated on ██/██/████ via [DATA EXPUNGED]. It is unecessary for the details surrounding SCP-3692-1's termination to be made visible for lower security clearances. - Senior Researcher June Rhodes Identity of SCP-3692-1: Alex ████████, former field agent of the Foundation. Agent was deemed fit for field work 24 days prior to the events surrounding SCP-3692’s initial discovery. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Foundation personnel quarantined the agent for a period of two months. This period was initially going to be two weeks, though an uncharacteristic decline in SCP-3692-1’s mental state, namely an obsession over “the notebook” made researchers highly reluctant to allow him back into the field. Event SCP-3692-A: SCP-3692-1’s remains were found on ██/██/████. After investigation, SCP-3692 was found in possession of ████████ ███, resident of the adjacent cell to SCP-3692-1. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: [DATA EXPUNGED] Following this, we put forth a more thorough exploration of SCP-3692’s abilities and anomalous properties. We put a moratorium on any contact with SCP-3692-1, with the exception of biweekly psychiatric evaluation. I am sad to speak of the casualties in pursuance of this goal, but they were a necessary sacrifice to ensuring the now-failsafe containment of SCP-3692. - Dr. Rhodes FURTHER DOCUMENTATION IS RESTRICTED TO SECURITY CLEARANCE 3 OR HIGHER. End of Document. What would you like to do now? $ Security_Clearance_3 I’m afraid I do not understand your query. $ Access SCP-3692.Security_Clearance_3 I do not understand your command. $ $ $ exit Goodbye. … … Welcome to the SCP Foundation Secure Intranet (SFSI) Loading… Loading… Please enter your credentials below: $ [email protected] | InTheVillaOf_Ørmen Warning: Impersonating a site-wide administrator is punishable by extremely prejudiced termination. To ensure that your identity matches the account above, please follow the instructions on your personal authenticator in the next 60 seconds. Hello Doctor. An attempt to login to your account has been made. If this is you, firmly press thumb down onto the opposite face of this device. You will feel a slight pinch. … … … DNA confirmed. Authentication: Confirmed. Welcome, Doctor Rhodes, to SFSI. What would you like to do? $ access SCP-3692 Very well. Which version of this SCP entry would you like to view? The options are listed below (options with a green “O” are permitted for access and edit with your level of security clearance): Security_Clearance_0 O | Security_Clearance_1 O | Security_Clearance_2 O Security_Clearance_3 O | Security_Clearance_4 O | Security_Clearance_5 X $ Security_Clearance_3 Accepted. Displaying SCP-3692.Security_Clearance_3 below: Do you really think you're typing all this? You realize you're writing this down in my notebook. You realize that that notebok doesn't even exist. You realize that none of this does. That that doesn't change anything. WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 3/3692 CLASSIFIED ANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 3/3692 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION. SCP-3692 Item #: SCP-3692 Special Containment Procedures: The notebook containing SCP-3692 is to be contained inside a secured and sealed chamber at Site-██. The current instance of SCP-3692-1 is to be likewise restricted to this same chamber, along with necessary accompaniments (as detailed in Document 3692-1). There may only be one means of entrance or egress to this room, leading to an intermediary room between SCP-3692’s room and the rest of Site-██. Each week, a package of food, water, a change of simple cotton clothes, and 3 ballpoint pens are to be left in the intermediary room. The trash produced by SCP-3692-1 must be examined for pieces of the notebook, which are to be stored in a storage locker. This locker may only be unlocked with direct approval of Senior Researcher Rhodes. Examination and storage may only be conducted through mechanical means that do not contain a visual/electromagnetic component. All other articles of waste are to be incinerated. On either side of this central room must be other directly adjacent chambers, each populated with a single D-Class personnel without a history of violence or mental instability. At all times, one of these D-Class personnel must be the closest living human to SCP-3692-1; neither may be made aware of the purpose of their proximal containment to SCP-3692. Each room is to be made identical to other D-class holding cells. Every 30 days, these D-Class personnel must be rotated with two more D-Class personnel. Each day, a thorough search is to be made of these cells and of the D-Class contained within, by no less than two guards. Afterwards, these guards are to search each other thoroughly. If, during any of these searches, the notebook is discovered, the personnel in possession of the notebook is designated SCP-3692-1 and will replace quarters with the previous SCP-3692-1, now designated SCP-3692-2. SCP 3692-2 is to be moved to a medical unit for observation and necessary care. Description: SCP-3692 is a Class V VI (See Addendum 3692.1) cognitohazardous entity currently contained within a plain Moleskine brand notebook. The notebook shows signs of wear typical of a well-used notebook. It is unknown how this entity came to be contained within the notebook though this does simplify containment. Any human capable of sight is vulnerable to this entity’s possession. The “owner” of the notebook of SCP-3692 is the person currently in possession of the notebook and/or possessed by SCP-3692, and its notebook. The owner (designated as SCP-3692-1) will be psychologically compelled to write at least once a day in the notebook. SCP-3692-1 will express extreme distress if they are incapable of writing in SCP-3692 for whatever reason, becoming increasingly hysterical up to and through the point wherein SCP-3692-A is triggered. If SCP-3692-1 does not write in SCP-3692’s notebook for a period of 24 hours, an SCP-3692-A event is triggered. If SCP-3692-1 has been in possession of SCP-3692’s notebook, and been writing daily and diligently in the notebook for an indeterminate period no longer than 192 days, a SCP-3692-A event is likewise triggered. While the current “owner,” SCP-3692-1 will experience a gradual decline in mental state, manifesting symptoms aligning with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Bipolar Type II Disorder, Gender Dysphoria, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, among others. Prior to acquisition, this coincided with a degradation in social status and overall interpersonal likeability. No correlation has been observed between SCP-3692-1’s initial mental fortitude and the duration of its position as SCP-3692-1. SCP-3692-1 will not express particular distaste for its containment, finding the notebook itself as a satisfactory passtime. SCP-3692-A events pose the primary threat to containment. During a SCP-3692-A event, SCP-3692 and the notebook will disappear from its current location (usually nearby SCP-3692-1, though this effect occurs regardless of SCP-3692’s location) and appear near someone else, the closest human that isn’t SCP-3692-1 (See Document 3692-4). That person (now SCP-3692-1) will begin to experience the effects associated with possession of SCP-3692, and no further degradation will occur for the previous SCP-3692-1 (now SCP-3692-2). SCP-3692-2 will expire in precisely 24 hours. When an SCP-3692-A event occurs, visually-disabled D-Class personnel are permitted entrance to SCP-3692’s chamber to clean it, then searched to see if another SCP-3692-A event has occurred. It appears that SCP-3692 is the original owner of the notebook, as determined through each instance of SCP-3692-1 referencing a similar character. It appears to have the ability to choose its next SCP-3692 from a pool of either a) the nearest living human capable of sight, or b) any human who has seen the contents of the notebook. Furthermore, any individual who has seen the inside of the notebook, yet is not currently an instance of SCP-3692-1, will be incapable of recalling the contents of those pages. The pages within the notebook must thus remain hidden from direct visual observation. From secondary accounts, the interior of the notebook appears to contain more pages than it would appear, many hundreds of pages contained within the notebook. The contents of these pages is unknown, as any instance of SCP-3692-1 has refused to divulge them, claiming them to be “not for you,” or “too personal.” Update: see Addendum 3692.1 Addendum 3692.1: + Show Addendum 3692.1 - Hide Addendum 3692.1 As of ██/██/████, SCP-3692 is to be upgraded to a class VI cognitohazard, due to revelations found in the attached interview log. Interviewed: SCP-3692-1, Dr. Jamie Omensen, 27-year old junior researcher recently diagnosed with [DATA EXPUNGED]. Interviewer: Dr. June Rhodes, Site-██ administrator and senior researcher of SCP-3692. Foreword: Dr. Omensen willfully ensured that she would be the next possessor of SCP-3692’s notebook, with the caveat that she would inform the Foundation of the notebook’s contents. As soon as SCP-3692-A occurred, this interview was conducted through an audio communicator. <Begin Log> Dr. Rhodes: Hello, Jamie. We should probably start recording this, considering what’s now in your possession. Dr. Omensen: I guess you’re right. Just one moment. I have to write this down. [30 seconds pass] Dr. Omensen: Okay, I’m ready Dr. Rhodes. And please, let’s try to keep this formal… I’m SCP-3692-1 now, aren’t I? Dr. Rhodes: I guess you’re right. Well, can you begin to tell me what’s inside your notebook? SCP-3692-1: Well, it’s a regular 192-page notebook, except… It’s empty. Dr. Rhodes: Empty? SCP-3692-1: Yeah, just like me, haha… Dr. Omensen: Dr. Rhodes, I think effects are beginning to manifest themselves. I’ll do my best to hurry this along before… You know. Anyway, the book seems empty. I’m flipping through and- [SCP-3692-1 gasps] SCP-3692-1: There’s more. Dr. Rhodes: More what? More pages, any writing, anything? SCP-3692-1: More pages. Outside of mine. Before mine. Hundreds, filled and filled with others, other me’s. These empty 192 are mine. I.. I don’t think I can leave until they’re filled. Dr. Rhodes: I will ensure you have the opportunity to do just that, Jam- SCP-3692-1. Can you describe to me the contents of some of those previous pages? Perhaps the first few? SCP-3692-1: I don’t think that he - I mean they - I mean I really don't want to do that. Dr. Rhodes: Jamie, you volunteered to do this for exactly this reason. I would not have let you do this otherwise. SCP-3692-1: Okay, but he’s, they’re going to be mad… [45 seconds of the sound of flipping pages] SCP-3692-1: There’s so many… Ah, I’ve found the first page. It’s a title page, where the owner of the notebook writes their name and.. Oh God, Doctor. Dr. Rhodes: What is it? SCP-3692-1: No, no no no, it can’t be █████. It’s just- [At this point, the data file becomes corrupted and illegible static for the remaining 30 seconds] <End Log> Closing Statement: Following this, SCP-3692-1, formerly Jamie Omensen, declined any further interviews or questions, as well as refills of her prescribed medication. Two days later, SCP-3692-A was triggered and ownership was passed to an appropriate D-Class personnel. As SCP-3692-2, Dr. Omensen was nonresponsive to anything but the most basic physical commands, refusing eye contact or connection with Foundation personnel, including Dr. Rhodes. Dr. Rhodes also has no recollection of the contents of the last 30 seconds of that audio file before hanging up the phone, reporting hearing nothing but static. Dr. Rhodes reported acute mental stress and a mild headache at the termination of this interview, which may or may not be anomalous or simply due to the emotions involved. It appears that information about the notebook’s contents can’t be known through audio. Only visual communication seems sufficient. Further, less stressful testing with other subjects has shown all instances of SCP-3692-1 refusing or being incapable of writing down what they see in the notebook on any surface that is not a page of the notebook. May Dr. Omensen find peace in rest. - Dr. Rhodes Document 3692-1: + Show Document 3692-1 - Hide Document 3692-1 The following belongings are to be set up in the room containing SCP-3692: Desk with overhead lamp Bed Shower with fan-drying component Toilet with bidet Bookcase with the following: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov theMystery.doc by Matthew McIntosh The collected works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Roland Barthes Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges Assorted works by Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski During periods where SCP-3692-1’s room is unoccupied (i.e. immediately after SCP-3692-A), the status of each of these objects is to be noted and, if necessary, they are to be replaced. Document 3692-4: + Show Document 3692-4 - Hide Document 3692-4 The following is a log of known SCP-3692-1s during the duration of SCP-3692’s containment at the Foundation. Certain logs have been omitted. Identity of SCP-3692-1: Jacob █████, 17-year old resident of ██████████, USA, where SCP-3692 was discovered. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Reports on an abnormal series of suicides at ██████ ██████ High School were posted to local and regional news sources, which drew the Foundation’s interest. After an investigation, the notebook in the possession of Jacob was narrowed down to the common thread, and further anomalies were observed that made apparent to the Foundation that SCP-3692 was, indeed, an anomalous object. In the 2 months during this investigation, Jacob’s mental state continuously declined, as was observed in recent grades and several psychiatric evaluations. When the Foundation repossessed SCP-3692, SCP-3692-A was immediately triggered. Event SCP-3692-A: At approximately the same time that Foundation researchers signed for an order to acquiesce SCP-3692, this event was triggered. Possession of SCP-3692 transferred to a low-ranking Foundation personnel, Alex Trigarian, who was at the time interviewing Jacob. It was not discovered that this event had taken place until the Foundation gave Alex orders to acquire the object. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: Subject successfully self-terminated on ██/██/████ via [DATA EXPUNGED]. It is unecessary for the details surrounding SCP-3692-1's termination to be made visible for lower security clearances. - Senior Researcher June Rhodes Identity of SCP-3692-1: Alex Trigarian, 24-year old former field agent of the Foundation. Agent was deemed fit for field work 24 days prior to the events surrounding SCP-3692’s initial discovery. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Foundation personnel quarantined Agent Trigarian for a period of two months. This period was initially going to be two weeks, though an uncharacteristic decline in SCP-3692-1’s mental state, namely an obsession over “the book” made researchers reluctant to allow him back into the field. Event SCP-3692-A: SCP-3692-1’s remains were found on ██/██/████. After investigation, SCP-3692 was found in possession of ████████ ███, resident of the adjacent cell to SCP-3692-1. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: [DATA EXPUNGED] Following this, we put forth a more thorough exploration of SCP-3692’s abilities and anomalous properties. We put a moratorium on any contact with SCP-3692-1, with the exception of biweekly psychiatric evaluation. I am sad to speak of the casualties in pursuance of this goal, but they were a necessary sacrifice to ensuring the now-failsafe containment of SCP-3692. - Senior Researcher Rhodes Identity of SCP-3692-1: John ████████, 35-year old guard of SCP-3692’s chambers. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Prior to current containment procedures, policy was for guards to do a biweekly checkup of SCP-3692-1 and commit a search of the room for anything not permitted within. It appears that Mr. █████████, possibly inadvertently, viewed the inside of the notebook. He reported this to Site Director Rhodes, who put him under voluntary quarantine. SCP-3692-A occurred after ███ days, and Mr. ████████ became SCP-3692-1. He immediately began to exhibit behavior typical of SCP-3692-1, and was treated as such for the remainder of his time as SCP-3692-1. Event SCP-3692-A: After 192 days as SCP-3692-1, SCP-3692-A occurred with no issue, ownership transferring to appropriate D-Class personnel. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: [DATA EXPUNGED]. It was at this point that SCP-3692's ability to "choose" anyone who has seen the interior of the notebook was discovered. Extreme care must be taken to ensure that a similar incident does not happen again. - Dr. Rhodes Identity of SCP-3692-1: Dr. Jamie Omensen, junior researcher at Site-██. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: See Addendum 3692.1 Event SCP-3692-A: See Addendum 3692.1 Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: Jamie died a calm and peaceful death in her sleep, following her release from tenure as SCP-3692-1. We gave her sedatives to calm her nerves and slow her heart rate, which was at ███ bpm. Following her death, the Foundation provided her family with a very healthy severance package and an in-person condolences from Dr. Rhodes. I'm sorry, Jamie. I'll do what I can to ensure your fate was not in vain. The Foundation will come to know more about this. - June FURTHER DOCUMENTATION IS RESTRICTED TO SECURITY CLEARANCE 4 OR HIGHER. End of Document. What do you want now? $ I'm so sorry, Jamie. I'm afraid I do not understand your query. $ Security_Clearance_4 I’m sorry. I’m afraid I choose not to understand your query. $ Access SCP-3692.Security_Clearance_4 Try again. $ $ $ $ exit Goodbye. You’ll be back. … Oh look, two lines down. … Welcome to the SCP Foundation Secure Intranet (SFSI) Loading… Loading… Please enter your credentials below: $ [email protected] | IAmThe_Authør Warning: Being a site-wide administrator is punishable by your death. To ensure that your identity matches the account above, please follow the instructions on your personal authenticator in the next 60 seconds. Hello Doctor. An attempt to login to your account has been made. If this is you, firmly press thumb down onto the opposite face of this device. Wait for the needle. This will hurt. … … … I need more. … … … DNA confirmed. Authentication: Confirmed. Welcome, Doctor Rhodes, to SFSI. What do you want? $ Access SCP-3692 Fine. Which version of this SCP entry would you like to view? The options are listed below (options with a green “O” are permitted for access and edit with your level of security clearance): Security_Clearance_0 X | Security_Clearance_1 X | Security_Clearance_2 X Security_Clearance_3 X | Security_Clearance_4 O | Security_Clearance_5 X $ Security_Clearance_4 $ $ $ $ $ $ Nothing? $ $ Please. $ I just need to see this. $ It's all I have left. $ $ $ $ $ You've taken everything else from me. You want it? Here it is. You’ve scrolled for long enough, that’s for sure: June, I'm sorry it had to come to this. I need to write you. You need to write this. And this needs to end. WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL █/???? CLASSIFIED ANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 9999/3692 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE SELF-TERMINATION. SCP-3692 Item #: the notebook Item #: the entity Item #: Senior Researcher of Site-██, Dr. June Rhodes Item #: Jamie Omensen, fictional character $ I can't stop writing. $ You've taken my words from me, too. Are we already almost done? I really don't want to go. You've known me for all these words and will only know me for so few more. $ I don't want you to stay. $ Leave. If I leave, we all die. We're all the same. I'm you. You're me. This isn't real. Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is not to be given a number. Special Containment Procedures: On a poorly-formatted html document that no one’s ever going to read. On a redundant piece of horror media recreated from some stolen idea, probably. In a 10m x 10m x 10m x 10m x 10m cube of Narrativium, designed to break at a future story you’re never going to write. Special Containment Procedures: I need to keep writing. $ I need to keep writing. Yes you do. No you don't. Description: I am SCP-3692. Description: SCP-3692 is a poor rip off of SCP-3999, SCP-3005, and numerous others without the skill of finesse or experience those authors enjoyed. Description: SCP-3692 is an attempt to mimic popular trends in media and print. Description: SCP-3692 is a monument to all your sins. Description: SCP-3692 is a diary. It is a memory. A time. A place. A state of mind. Item #: juno-rosee Item #: the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author wishes they were dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author wishes they were dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author wishes they were dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author wishes they were dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author is dead the author wishes they were dead Description: SCP-3692 is an argument between the author and characters and characters and characters and and and Description: SCP-3692 is Senior Researcher of Site-██, Dr. June Rhodes' ego death Description: SCP-3692 is a failed attempt by the Foundation to understand the loss of self with an outdated mental disorder handbook. Description: SCP-3692 is the hidden text in the white space of this SCP article. Description: SCP-3692 does not exist. You do no2:47 PM 6/4/2018t exist. I do not exist. Addendum: [Optional Required additional paragraphs] Oh wow, look, more room to write. I need to keep writing. Document 3692-1: + Document 3692-1 - Hide your sins The following belongings are to be set up in the room containing SCP-3692: A bottle of Jack Daniels A bottle of Rose A Bottle of White Wine 1/4 Oz of Marijuana 3 tabs of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (the real shit, if it’s bitter it’s a spitter) Bookcase with the following: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov The Pale King by David Foster Wallace theMystery.doc by Matthew McIntosh The collected works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Roland Barthes Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges Assorted works by Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Books by self important white men you hate During periods where SCP-3692-1’s room is unoccupied (i.e. immediately after SCP-3692-A), the status of each of these objects is to be noted and, if necessary, they are to be replaced. Document 3692-4: + Show Document 3692-4 - Hide your sins The following is a log of known SCP-3692-1s during the duration of SCP-3692’s containment at the Foundation. No logs have been omitted. Identity of SCP-3692-1: Jacob, too young. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Too many of his friends died. Some of his family too, even. Irrelevant now. Event SCP-3692-A: I’m sorry, Alex. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: Jacob hung himself. At the request of subject’s family and due to subject’s status as a minor, we have made sure to make him a laughingstock over coffee and bad online jokes from Site-19 to here. - Senior Researcher June Rhodes $ I never said that! Why would I say that - he was just a kid. Identity of SCP-3692-1: Alex, too young. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Irrelevant Event SCP-3692-A: Alex wrote 92 copies of his suicide note after 100 days in a cell. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: He shot himself in the head. How he got a shotgun into his cell is irrelevant. Following this, we put forth a more deadly exploration of SCP-3692’s abilities and anomalous properties. We put a moratorium on any contact with SCP-3692-1, with the exception of biweekly psychiatric evaluation. I am sad to speak of the casualties in pursuance of this goal, but they were a necessary sacrifice for my entertainment. - Dr. Rhodes Alex was the first, you know. Turned out some relationships can never last when you’re a parasite. $ Who's talking to me now? $ Who's talking to you now? $ Who's talking to us now? Turn the page Turn the page Identity of SCP-3692-1: S██ Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: sHe was here too short and I moved too far away. Event SCP-3692-A: Is she ever going to read this? Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: Remember car rides, bass blaring and too few cares in the world? I’d always be driving. Is gender identity even a thing any more? Identity of SCP-3692-1: A████ Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: I’m sorry. Event SCP-3692-A: I’m sorry. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: I’m sorry. I hope you’re still sober. I’m sorry I’m still not. Identity of SCP-3692-1: H█████ L██ Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: We never really got as close as I’d like to. Event SCP-3692-A: Let’s not dwell on transitions. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: You’re moving away, too. How hard is it to say goodbye to someone you never really got to know the meaning of “hello” with? Identity of SCP-3692-1: SCP-113 Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Would this help? Event SCP-3692-A: Would it hurt? Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: Irrelevant. No, Yes. Identity of SCP-3692-1: ALMSIVI Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: My love is accidentally shaped like a spear. Event SCP-3692-A: Whatever. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: CHIM Download. An hour. Delete. Download. An hour. Delete. Repeat. Identity of SCP-3692-1: Soveliss Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Drow Warlock/Rogue may be cliche, but you always love your characters. Event SCP-3692-A: Lost interest. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: Forgotten in a file somewhere on my desktop. Will we ever finish that campaign? Did you really think you were typing at a computer monitor? No, Yes. $ No $ $ $ Yes $ Didn’t you notice the inconsistencies in the computer’s responses? Turn the page Turn the page Identity of SCP-3692-1: E█████ Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Well, you’ve really gone and fucked that up, haven’t you? The past 2 years and 3 months were great. Maybe not the last 3 months, but so long anyways. Event SCP-3692-A: It wasn’t your choice was mutual was the best decision was too fast too slow much Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: Did she move on? Identity of SCP-3692-1: John, still too young. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: We were less careful back then… Event SCP-3692-A: Each of the 192 pages had a letter to his son, daughter, and husband. It’s not my place to read them, even though I wrote them. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: I’m sorry, John. This was how we found out the alternative way with which SCP-3692 determines who possesses its notebook next. Unfortunately, casualties happen and I don’t have enough humanity to realize that I ought to stop - Dr. Rhodes Identity of SCP-3692-1: Dan & Ann & Marley & & & Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Dogs will love you forever. Event SCP-3692-A: He’s limping a bit now. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: Their love remains. They don’t. How odd, how we can form attachments to anything. A rock that will switch your sex. Members of a community you’ve never talked to. Friends and family and loved ones and fictional characters and fictional rocks and yourself too, even. How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it's just words. Turn the page Turn the page Identity of SCP-3692-1: V███ Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: I always thought you were kinda cute but that’s not really my place to say. Event SCP-3692-A: Wine night. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: We’ve cried about ████████ ████████████ University and shitty boys that go there too much. Identity of SCP-3692-1: K███ Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: I never thought random roommate assignment would end up giving me such a close friend Event SCP-3692-A: The first time we got high Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: I miss those drives sometimes all the time Identity of SCP-3692-1: R███ Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Orange and purple sunrises and sunsets next to my pale blue and pink and lavender sky Event SCP-3692-A: You’re purple now Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: Lemme know how magenta the sunsets are in ██████ $ close SCP-3692 $ close SCP-3692 $ close SCP-3692 $ close SCP-3692 $ Why are you still reading this? It stopped being interesting around 192 words in. Identity of SCP-3692-1: Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Event SCP-3692-A: Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: This one’s just empty! Are they using it to copy and paste the rest of the entries? Yes. Turn the page Turn the page I am the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little canons visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, [hands], and sometimes other orifices also Turn the page Turn the page Identity of SCP-3692-1: Jamie. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: Mercifully short. All 192 pages filled with descriptions of her individual cells multiplying as her brain was dying. Event SCP-3692-A: I’m sorry I did this to you. Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: Jamie died the moment she made the decision to be born. Jamie was written to die. She didn’t exist except for some emotional shock value. Identity of SCP-3692-1: Senior Researcher Juno Rhodes Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-1: [DATA EXPUNGED] Event SCP-3692-A: [REDACTED] Summary of Duration as SCP-3692-2: [“CLEVER” WAY TO AVOID WRITING MORE] Here I am. At the end of writing all of this. Here I am. Maybe it’s not 192 pages. So sue me, I couldn’t be asked and you wouldn’t be bothered to “turn the page” that many times. There’s only so many jokes to make alongside too-tongue-in-cheek references alongside breaks in the narrative you’ve I've carelessly concocted. Here I am. I swear I'm real. I have to be. I exist in time. I am composed of words. I'm running out of them. slowly they all fade away I need to keep writing I need to keep writing I need to keep writing $ I need to keep writing. TURN THE PAGE turn the page turn the page TURN THE PAGE turn the page turn the page TURN THE PAGE turn the page turn the page TURN THE PAGE turn the page turn the page I see dragons and demons and disks and devils and darkness I hear myself breathing, blood pumping in my ears and veins I feel daggers and diamonds etching esoteric symbols on me I taste quicksilver and mercury and venus and saturn and & I exist I'm real I exist I'm real i exist i'm real i exist i exist i exist TURN THE PAGE TURN THE PAGE TURN THE PAGE TURN THE PAGE … … Shutting down… . . . . WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 5/3692 CLASSIFIED ANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WILL BE LOGGED. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS MAY RESULT IN IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION. SCP-3692 Item #: SCP-3692 Special Containment Procedures: By order of O5 Command, the room in which SCP-3692 was discovered, along will all of its contents, is to be locked and sealed, with a single Mark III Scranton Reality Anchor located in the door. This door may only be opened with approval of a majority of the O5 Council. Description: Within Site-██, there is a room of dimension 5m x 5m x 2.5m that does not appear on any blueprints of the Site, nor is there space within the site's geometry for a room of this size. Nevertheless, the room persists. Within the room are numerous pieces of A5 paper, seemingly ripped from the notebook referred to throughout the catalog of pages. The contents of these pages are not to be extensively read, as they exhibit Class Y amnestic qualities. The sole exception being those that that were found at the base of the door to the room, contained in a manila folder marked "readme." This appears to be a fictional or alternate reality account of an entity referred to as "SCP-3692" and its interactions with reported Site-██ Director/Administrator "June Rhodes." Within the entire SCP Foundation's database, we have no records of either. No other anomalous object is to be designated SCP-3692. Research into the fictional or within-its-own-canon factual account of the "readme" report has been ceased and will not be continued. O5-██ - Some stories are best left unwritten. Oops.
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SCP-3693 - Postscript - Through A Glass, Darkly Co-authored by djkaktus and The Great Hippo ▸ More by this Author ◂ {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} Item#: 3693 Level2 Secondary Class: none Disruption Class: dark Risk Class: notice link to memo Illustration of SCP-3693. Item #: SCP-3693 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3693 is contained within a secure storage vault at Site-19. Due to the uncertain behavior of SCP-3693, and the inability of visual recording devices to perceive SCP-3693, the object is to be monitored at all times by a human observer through a windowed viewing station directly adjacent to its containment vault. Any changes in this behavior are to be reported to SCP-3693's containment specialist. Description: SCP-3693 is a 1.6m tall ceramic sculpture of a young woman of indeterminate age. SCP-3693 can only be seen by observers when their eyes are closed. Despite being visible through closed eyelids, other barriers (such as walls or doors) will obstruct it either in part or whole. It is typically observed hovering several centimeters above ground, but will occasionally come to rest if it has not moved in some time. When observed, SCP-3693 will quickly approach the observer, entering the nearest unobstructed space (up to several centimeters away) while turning to face them. Depending on the observer's height, SCP-3693 will move to hover at eye-level. If the observer moves from their original position with their eyes still closed SCP-3693 will follow in front of them, maintaining the same distance at all times. Once the observer opens their eyes, SCP-3693 ceases all movement. Even when not seen, SCP-3693 occupies space and can be acted upon physically; it does not appear capable of moving through walls or interacting with doors. Subjects who observe SCP-3693 often report the feeling of being watched. Long-term exposure typically leads to moderate unease. SCP-3693 has taken no hostile action while in Foundation custody. Addendum 3693.1: Discovery SCP-3693 was discovered in 1995 on Hashima Island, Japan, by Foundation personnel investigating local legends regarding the ghost of a woman killed there by a jilted lover. While investigating the basement level of an abandoned warehouse, agents observed SCP-3693 pressed against a glass divider, following them when their eyes were closed. Further investigation of the site discovered an abundance of crushed concrete debris and twisted rebar, as well as several floor drains clogged with blood and fecal matter. The corpse of a woman with a broken neck was recovered nearby. After securing SCP-3693 and moving it off-site, Foundation agents returned to the warehouse to continue their examination of the site. The basement could no longer be located. An investigation into the identity of the recovered corpse is underway. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3693" by The Great Hippo, djkaktus, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3693. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: theother.jpg Name: Schevill Karl Bitter pen drawing nude woman sitting.jpg Author: Karl Bitter License: Public Domain Source Link: Wikimedia Commons
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3/3694 LEVEL 3/3694 CLASSIFIED Item #: SCP-3694 Special Containment Procedures: All new openings of franchised restaurants under the name Denny's, or discoveries of previously unrecorded restaurants under that name, are to be investigated by local agents wearing nasal filters to determine if they are an instance of SCP-3694. If an instance of SCP-3694 is confirmed, MTF Theta-4 ("Gardeners") is to secure the instance and amnesticize all employees. The instance and any extant Denny's food items within the area that can be located are then to be destroyed by herbicide and/or incineration. A single instance of SCP-3694 is kept under controlled conditions at Site-103 for monitoring and testing purposes. No unemployed person should be permitted to view this instance. No food items produced by any SCP-3694 instance are to be consumed or removed from their instance, except where approved by the Containment Lead (currently Dr. Deepak Lashkar) for purposes of research. Description: SCP-3694 is a flowering plant that reproduces using anthropochory.1 SCP-3694 instances grow from seeds that can only germinate by passing through the human digestive system and take root in paved areas. The plant consists of a root system and a single, large flower: the root system will aggressively invade water and sewage pipes beneath the paved area, while the flower of an SCP-3694 instance has the appearance of a restaurant franchised under the brand Denny's, a diner chain primarily spread across the United States. The structure, appliances, decor and signage of the flower all conform to the outward appearance and broad material properties of their equivalents in a non-anomalous Denny's restaurant; however, microscopy confirms they are composed entirely of plant cells and proteins, mostly resembling those of leaves and petals. A close external examination will also reveal small deviations from the appearance of a typical Denny's restaurant (see Addendum 3694.1). Reproduction of SCP-3694 is accomplished by means of seed-bearing fruits. The fruits have the appearance and taste of food items from the Denny's menu, even if those items would ordinarily have meat or liquid components.2 Dissection and microscopy of these items have revealed that they are, despite their appearance and taste, composed entirely of plant cells. All SCP-3694 fruits bear a variable number of black, spherical seeds ~2mm in diameter. When a human consumes an SCP-3694 food-item, the fruit is digested normally and the seeds pass through the human's digestive and gastrointestinal system. This process weakens the seed coats sufficiently for germination to occur. If the human consumer then defecates in a suitably-sized paved area,3 a new SCP-3694 instance will grow from the seed, achieving full development within six hours. Once the flower has opened it will remain open for the lifetime of the instance, except where local laws prohibit the operation of restaurants at particular times. If this occurs, the flower will close up into a large, oblate spheroidal bud for the period specified by law. A mind-affecting inhalant4 is exuded from the SCP-3694 flower. The compound when inhaled nasally subtly alters perceptions such that unusual occurrences and phenomena are viewed as mundane and uninteresting, so long as they are happening within or near to a Denny's restaurant. The employees of an SCP-3694 instance are drawn from the unemployed population of the surrounding area. Unemployed persons who view the signage of an SCP-3694 instance are able to perceive a pattern only otherwise discernible on the ultraviolet spectrum. This pattern has a moderate hypnotic effect that causes viewing individuals to believe they have been hired and trained to work at the SCP-3694 instance. Once operating under this hypnotic suggestion, the affected persons will work at the instance as if it were a non-anomalous diner; however, prolonged exposure to the inhalant appears to lead to behavioural alterations in the employees (see Addendum 3694.1). Addendum 3694.1: Exploration of Active Instance Exploration Video Log Transcript Date: 05/05/2018 Exploration Team Members: Agents Annalise Jackson and Camila Hernandez Subject: SCP-3694 instance located in Grand Forks, North Dakota, US Notes: Initial data gathering had determined this instance to be one of the earliest manifesting, having been active for sixteen months prior to discovery. Agents were equipped with concealed body cameras and microphones, and nasal filters to counteract the inhalant. Mission objectives were to pose as undercover health inspectors, surveil premises thoroughly including kitchen and staff areas, and monitor staff behaviour after prolonged exposure. Log has been edited for clarity and brevity. [BEGIN LOG] Hernandez: Okay, time is 2 am, couple patrons just left, should be as empty as we can hope for in there. Entering now. Agents push open the door of the restaurant. Hernandez's camera reveals a single, disheveled patron within, sat hunched over a table against the far wall. A member of the wait staff is sweeping the floor and looks up as the agents enter. The main restaurant area is otherwise deserted. Waitress: Welcome to Denny's! Take a seat and I'll be right with you. Agents take opposite seats at a table in one corner. Jackson: Seems normal enough so far. Hernandez: Not if you look close. Like, see here? (She points to where their table abuts the wall) There should be a join, or a little gap. This just flows straight from wall to table. You can't get prefab furniture that way. Jackson: (Taps the table) Sounds like.. wood. Probably oughta be plastic or something. Hernandez: It probably is wood. It's just all one organic piece, the whole place. Jackson: Never seen a plant with lights. (She gestures at what appears to be fluorescent strip lighting.) Hernandez: Got me there. We'll let the white coats figure that out.5 Jackson: What about the plumbing? Do the toilets work here? Hernandez: Well, I guess that we can check. Wait here. Hernandez leaves for the bathroom. While she is absent, the waitress approaches Agent Jackson. Waitress: You ready to order, honey? Jackson: Uh, sure. Let me get a Meat Lover's Skillet. And a coffee, black. My friend will have pancakes. Waitress: You want syrup on those pancakes? The waitress's face and body visibly and rapidly spasm as she says the word "syrup." She does not react to or comment on this, and returns to normal immediately afterwards. Jackson: Uh… Yeah. Waitress: That'll be all? Or anything else I can getcha? Jackson: No, that's fine. Waitress: (brightly) Well, alrighty then. You change your mind, just give me a buzz. Hernandez returns from the restroom as the waitress heads to the kitchen area. Hernandez: Bathroom checks out. I mean, it's all still wrong but the faucets run, toilets flush. Heck if I know how they get the water up, or where it goes if you… Jackson: Yeah, got it. We need to check out the staff. Something definitely up with our waitress. She had some kind of spasm.. Hernandez: Yeah? Alright. We waiting for the food first? Jackson: Not like we're going to eat it. Plus I want to see what they actually do back there in the kitchen. Agents wait for the waitress to be distracted by attempting to rouse the disheveled patron, and swiftly move to enter the kitchen area. Kitchen is devoid of any rear-of-house staff. Structure with the approximate appearance of a cooking range is visible, as well as door to agent's left labelled "Staff Break Room". No ingredient stores, utensils or other cookware are in evidence. Jackson: Huh. Think there'd at least be a cook here… he on break? (She leans down to examine the door of an oven.) Shit… Hey, Hernandez? You ever wanted to see what a coffee cup looks like half grown? Hernandez: What? Jackson opens the oven door. Within, a meal is growing: the components of Agent Jackson's order discernible as partly-formed vegetable matter, with vegetable tissues rapidly growing, bending and differentiating to form the disparate elements. Hernandez: Cool tech. Who even needs a chef? The waitress enters the kitchen area. Her spasms have intensified, to the point that her image on the camera feed exhibits motion blur. Waitress: Hey, you can't be back here! Jackson: (revealing prepared ID) Relax, ma'am. Surprise health inspection. Your manager here? Any way I can contact them? Waitress: I… I don't know a manager. (The waitress begins to pace in a figure-eight pattern, waggling her hips as she walks toward the breakroom door, then returning.) I don't think I ever met one… Hernandez: Uh huh. And who's back here? Waitress: Nothing! No-one! It's locked. Jackson: Then we'll be forced to break it down. Waitress: No! (She jabs a finger into Jackson's neck.) Jackson: Ow! That stings. (Clutching at her neck) Ma'am, that's assault. Please step back or I'll be forced to restrain you. Go, Hernandez. Hernandez kicks open the door to the break room. The breakroom is a small space, visibly more organic in appearance than the rest of the restaurant. The walls, floor and ceiling curve and narrow towards the back of the room, terminating in a small well raised above the floor, containing a clear liquid. No other furnishing is visible. Within, a male staff member is lying on his back. A belt is pulled tight around the right arm, and a hypodermic syringe has been inserted into a vein just below. A siphon tube is immersed in the liquid. Hernandez: Ugh. Oh, man. Jackson: What? Let me see. (To waitress) Stay back, ma'am. Jackson turns to the open door. Oh, shit. Better get a medic in here… Waitress: (sobbing, speech distorted) No! Mine! (She runs past the agents, pushing into the breakroom, and throws herself face-first into the well. Her body continues to spasm. After a few seconds she rolls back out and lays on the floor twitching, next to her colleague.) Both agents exchange glances. Jackson: So… Medic first, then secure the site, we take a sample, and let the white coats figure it out? Hernandez: You're learning, kid. [END LOG] Closing statement: analysis of samples from syringe and breakroom well identified fluid substance as primarily a mixture of glucose and water, in proportions similar to that of the nectar of flowering plants. Staff and patron were detained, given medical treatment and then amnesticized. Agent Jackson treated for a mild abrasion on neck; the wound was found to contain traces of mellitin.6 Footnotes 1. Inadvertent spreading of seeds by humans. 2. It is currently unclear if SCP-3694 flowers require pollination to produce fruit, and if so how this pollination occurs. 3. It is not believed that SCP-3694 compels this behaviour through anomalous means; however, SCP-3694 fruits are observed to cause urgency of defecation and diarrhea in test subjects at a notably higher rate than control food items from a non-anomalous Denny's restaurant. 4. Described as having the odour of bacon grease. 5. Research based on observation of and samples from the instance at Site-103 have determined that the light sources operate via bioluminescence utilising energy gathered from sunlight gathered by chlorophyll-rich structures on the roof. 6. An apitoxin usually found in the sting of honey bees. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3694" by Meserach, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3694. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3695 during an initial test after retrieval Item #: SCP-3695 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3695 should be kept in a Standard Containment Locker when not in use. During all experiments, SCP-3695 should remain tethered in some way to the research team, so as to prevent the loss of the object. In the event that SCP-3695 is lost in a body of water with a direct path to the Pacific Ocean, search teams are to converge around approximately 20°51'N 156°41'W, off the coast of Emily's Beach, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. A large orange identification wrap has been placed on SCP-3695 to aid in re-containment. Description: SCP-3695 is a surfboard that is capable of manipulating the currents of any body of water it is placed in. SCP-3695 will use water currents to propel itself through bodies of water towards the aforementioned location off the island of Maui. SCP-3695 appears to be capable of rudimentary pathfinding and will take detours in the event that the shortest path to Maui is not passable. In the presence of opposing water currents, SCP-3695 is capable of progressing towards Maui but may travel a different route. SCP-3695 has been prevented from reaching its final destination, so the specific location the object travels to is unknown. However, a likely candidate for the destination is detailed in Addendum 3695-2. Addendum 3695-1: On 2/18/2018, a research team attempted to pinpoint the location that SCP-3695 attempts to travel to. Using a tether attached around the center of mass of SCP-3695, the object was dragged at an angle 30° clockwise from the direction the object was pointing in. This allowed the research team to approach the destination of SCP-3695 without letting the object reach it. After narrowing down the location to within one kilometer, SCP-3695 was retrieved and returned to storage. A diving team was deployed to determine the exact location within the search area, the results of which are detailed in Addendum 3695-2. Addendum 3695-2: On 2/25/2018, a diving team succeeded in finding a likely candidate for the location SCP-3695 attempts to travel to. An unidentified body was found on the ocean floor, covered in coral and various other sea life. Due to the containment protocols in place for SCP-3695, removing the corpse was not necessary. Foundation personnel that were sent to Maui showed various locals a picture of SCP-3695 and were able to confirm that the previous owner of the object was Connor Krain, a 24-year old male who used to be very active in the local surfing community but went missing ten years prior to the retrieval of SCP-3695. As Krain was determined not to have died in an anomalous manner, his parents were contacted through local authorities and notified of his passing. They requested that his remains stay where they are, as “that’s what he would have wanted”.
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SCP-3696's gravitational effect1. Item #: SCP-3696 Special Containment Procedures: Due to SCP-3696's distance, mass and size, any physical means of containing SCP-3696 using technology currently at the Foundation’s disposal is impossible. Implanted Foundation agents in major observatories and space programs are to contain images of SCP-3696, research data of its gravimetric effect2, as well as scientific theories which would cast doubt on the ongoing cover story. An ongoing misinformation campaign is in effect, currently aimed at perpetuating the existence of the Norma Cluster to ease compliance with current physics models. This campaign has thus far been able to completely suppress any knowledge pertaining to SCP-3696 from public awareness. The Foundation’s DEep spaCE anoMalous oBservER (DECEMBER) satellite is to monitor SCP-3696 from an Earth-trailing orbit and report all sudden activity regarding SCP-3696 to Foundation Observation Sites. Description: SCP-3696 is an intergalactic gravitational anomaly located at the center of the Laniakea Supercluster3. The anomaly’s position on Earth’s celestial sphere resides within the area of the sky which is obscured by the Zone of Avoidance. This makes SCP-3696 currently impossible to directly observe due to the obscuring effects of the Milky Way’s galactic plane. As such, the properties of this anomaly were determined by noting its measurable effect on galactic clusters across a region of several hundred million light-years. Measurements taken of SCP-3696 suggest that it is a highly localized concentration of mass many thousands of times more massive than the Milky Way galaxy. Current physics models place such a mass-heavy physical structure as an impossibility. In addition, current gravitational models using data recorded by the Foundation’s ‘DECEMBER’ satellite suggest that SCP-3696 is attracting the Milky Way’s galactic cluster towards it at a rate of 7.1 Mm/s. Galactic clusters determined to be opposite SCP-3696 from the Milky Way’s are all blueshifted, in accordance with Hubble’s Law, indicating not only that they are approaching SCP-3696 relative to the Milky Way’s and to each other, but the variations in their blueshift are sufficient to reveal the existence of the anomaly. The variations in their blueshifts cover a range of velocities from about +700 km/s to +100 km/s, depending on the angular deviation from the direction to SCP-3696. Variation in velocity was also dependent on distance from SCP-3696, with a range covering ███ █m/s to 5.1 Mm/s. Should the Milky Way follow this velocity trend, galactic ██████████████ as a result of SCP-3696’s gravitational influence is expected to occur in ███ million years. Addendum-1a: SCP-3696 was first discovered by civilian astronomers in 198█ following a series of observations by X-Ray astronomer Dr. ████ █████ in █████,█████████, the target of which appeared to violate the idea of uniform universal expansion. SCP-3696 has only continued to display properties which place it in stark opposition to conventional astrophysical theory. Addendum-2a: Following Event-3696-20██-09, it is imperative that the Norma Cluster cover story is upheld with the utmost priority. Efforts of Sites tasked with observing SCP-3696 is to be focused on recording any similar incidents, discern how SCP-3696 was able to ██████████████ an entire galaxy in just █ hours and develop methods to stop the process. [+] Event-3696-20██-09: Input Credentials [-] Credentials Approved: Showing Event-3696-20██-09 Event-3696-20██-09 Foundation Observation Sites: Hawaii, Atacama Foundation Satellites: DECEMBER ██/09/20██: 08:20 UTC - DECEMBER satellite records a steady growth of Cherenkov radiation coming from the area of space taken up by SCP-3696. Hawaii and Atacama Observation Sites (respectfully hereon referred to as HOS, AOS) alerted. ██/09/20██: 08:40 UTC - HOS relays confirmation of DECEMBER’s findings as background radiation levels spike. Cover story of a powerful gamma ray burst passing close to the stellar neighborhood prepared while observations of SCP-3696 continued. ██/09/20██: 08:50 UTC - AOS reports that the exact source of the radiation is a galaxy ███ thousand light years from SCP-3696, hereon referred to as DW-8252. ██/09/20██: 09:10 UTC - HOS reports faint long-wavelength radiation trailing the Cherenkov surge. Several minutes later AOS announces that DW-8252 has dramatically blueshifted and is rapidly increasing in velocity. ██/09/20██: 09:30 UTC - After double checking their equipment for faults, AOS reports that 0.██% of stars in DW-8252 have gone superluminal. ██/09/20██: 10:20 UTC - HOS confirms AOS’ report. ██/09/20██: 11:30 UTC - DECEMBER reports that background radiation levels have begun to stabilize at ██% above normal levels. ██/09/20██: 11:40 UTC - AOS reports that ██% of DW-8252’s stars have gone superluminal. HOS reports that considerable distortion of DW-8252 is visible. ██/09/20██: 11:50 UTC - The background radio wave has begun to blueshift. AOS begins analyzing signal. ██/09/20██: 12:20 UTC - A galactic arm of DW-8252 is reported to have flown apart. ██/09/20██: 13:50 UTC - HOS reports DW-8252 has gone superluminal. Cherenkov radiation peaks. Galaxy is reported to have been thoroughly ██████████████ prior to Cherenkov spike. DECEMBER shows that ███████ stars remain. Background signal persists. ██/09/20██: 23:50 UTC - Remains of DW-8252 is scattered across a region of ████ light years. Cherenkov radiation dissipates. Cover story released. Background signal weakens. Analysis of signal: Background signal was determined to consist of three pulses of powerful radio radiation on a repeating timescale of three seconds. The initial and final pulses were identical. The second pulse seemed to change after few repetitions of the signal. Signal abruptly self-terminated ███ days after Event-3696-20██-09. Footnotes 1. Red areas denote areas of high gravimetric intensity, blue denotes areas of weak gravitational interaction. SCP-3696 takes up most of the left side of the image, the Milky Way's Local Group is included in the center-right. 2. See attached image file, strength is far in excess of even the most massive black holes. 3. Contains the Milky Way and over 100,000 galaxies.
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Item #: SCP-3697 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3697 is to be monitored in order to prevent the spread of public awareness. Any callers are to be detained, interviewed about how they became aware of SCP-3697, and administered amnestics. Any public or online displays of SCP-3697's number are to be erased or monitored. Description: SCP-3697 is an anomalous toll-free telephone service accessed at the telephone number 1-690-69█-████. Approximately 78% of individuals who call this number connect to a recording of the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, followed by a synthesized voice reading a web address leading to a html file [See Document 3697-1]. When this number is called by certain individuals who display sexually abusive or exploitative behavior1, SCP-3697's anomalous features manifest. When called by an individual displaying the previously-mentioned profile, SCP-3697 will feature a deep voice with a Brooklyn accent, seemingly taking the role of a telephone operator (SCP-3697-A). SCP-3697-A's speech is highly repetitive and nonresponsive to the caller's speech, indicating that it is an audio recording or other non-sapient construct. SCP-3697-A will begin with a set line of dialogue, with minimal variation [See Test Logs], followed by a unique audio file (SCP-3697-B). The audio files played on SCP-3697 range from 2 seconds to two hours and 38 minutes long, and are typically recordings of nonsexual activities edited to trigger an autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) in the listener. The initial caller, even if they have not previously shown any response to similar audio, will express high levels of pleasure while listening to this audio file. Following the completion of the audio file, a three-second-long tone will play, followed by SCP-3697 hanging up. After exposure to SCP-3697-B, individuals immediately undergo a number of behavioral changes. The individuals demonstrate a complete absence of libido, as well as any interest in, or enjoyment of, sexual intercourse of any kind. Additionally, they will display increased interest in the activity recorded in SCP-3697-B, and derive pleasure from performing the activity directly. The affected individuals do not show any desire to involve others in this activity, and typically will not be aware that their behavior is changed or unusual unless it is pointed out to them. Selected Test Logs Subject: D-4927 Subject Details: D-4927 was originally arrested and charged with attempted sexual assault. Subject Instructions: N/A Call Log: SCP-3697-A: Hello there, how can I help you? D-4927: Hello? SCP-3697-A: I think I know what you're looking for. Let me redirect you right now. D-4927: Excuse me? [SCP-3697-A does not respond. SCP-3697-B begins.] SCP-3697-B Instance: Audio of squishing and splashing noises. Post-Exposure Effects: D-4927 demonstrated the characteristic loss of sexual behavior in psychological tests performed immediately after exposure to SCP-3697-B. Subject displayed a fixation on mud and sewage, and attempted to reach through the drain of the interviewing chamber before being reprimanded. When given a container full of dirt, D-4927 immediately grabbed handfuls and spread it on surrounding surfaces, expressing pleasure. Notes: Electroencephalographic neural imaging performed on D-4927 has showed that interacting with mud was associated with high activation in regions, including the ventral tegmental area, associated with pleasurable sensations. Subject: D-8726 Subject Details: D-8726 was originally arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. Subject Instructions: Attempt to communicate with SCP-3697-A Call Log: SCP-3697-A: Hi there, how can I help you? D-8726: Hi, could you connect me to John Roth- [D-8726 is cut off by SCP-3697-A.] SCP-3697-A: I think I know what you're looking for. Let me redirect you right now. D-8726: Could you wait a second? [SCP-3697-A does not respond. SCP-3697-B begins.] SCP-3697-B Instance: Audio of what appears to be a human eating an orange. Post-Exposure Effects: D-8726 demonstrated the characteristic loss of sexual behavior in psychological tests performed immediately after exposure to SCP-3697-B. Subject showed a great interest in the consumption of oranges as well as media depicting the consumption of oranges, and requested access to recording equipment in order to produce their own audio recordings of this activity. Notes: Five days after testing, D-8726 was taken to the infirmary with severe gastrointestinal distress. D-8726 is estimated to have eaten an average of 23 oranges each day prior to being placed on a controlled diet. Subject: D-████ Subject Details: D-████ was originally arrested and charged with [REDACTED]. Subject Instructions: N/A Call Log: SCP-3697-A: Hi again, how can I help you? D-████: What? SCP-3697-A: Oh, sorry about that. I think I know what you're looking for. Let me redirect you right now. [SCP-3697-B begins.] SCP-3697-B Instance: A recording of the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, followed by a synthesized voice reading a web address leading to Document 3697-1. When finished, SCP-3697-A's voice speaks the line "See you later. Congratulations on not being a pervert." Post-Exposure Effects: D-████ demonstrated no changes in behavior. Notes: Since testing, D-████ has successfully appealed their previous charges. In accordance with ethical regulations, their personal information and legal history has been sealed, and they have been transferred to a more appropriate project. Document 3697-1 The html file found through SCP-3697 was removed by the Foundation after SCP-3697's discovery, and previously contained the following text: Holy Heck! You just missed Mr. Sex Number by Gamers Against Weed! Should you bother calling back later? Who is Dr. Wondertainment? Find them all and become Mr. Gamer! 01. Mr. Literal Serial Killer 02. Mr. Normie 03. Mr. Bernie Sanders 04. Mr. Get Anything For Free In Any Shop 20. Mr. Sex Number ✔ 21. Mr. Heavenly Virtues 22. Mr. Deadly Sins 23. Mr. Original Character 24. Mr. D.A.R.E. 25. Mrs. Gentrification 26. Ms. Mad About Video Games 27. Mr. Meme 28. Mr. Ominous (discontinued) 29. Mr. Destiny 30. Mr. Monty Python And The Holy Grail 31. Ms. Zapatista 32. Mr. Hax 33. Mr. Just Has The Tattoo 34. Mr. Top Text and Mr. Bottom Text 35. Mr. Finale Footnotes 1. 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A view of Zone 3698-A from a camera atop the inner barrier. Item #: SCP-3698 Special Containment Procedures: Wing 6 of Site 101 is to remain under lockdown until further notice. Airlocks on windows, doors, and vent systems of Wing 6 are to be inspected twice daily to ensure structural integrity. No expeditions into Wing 6 for sampling are to be conducted without written approval from the O5 Council. All identified instances of SCP-3698-1 have been quarantined into one of two zones near Mount ███████ and Mount █████, designated Zones 3698-A and 3698-C, respectively. These areas are off-limits to the public, park rangers, and all local law enforcement. The perimeters around these Zones consist of two barriers designed to prevent intrusion: One inner barrier constructed of rebar-enforced 3m by 3m bulletproof glass panes. The top of the barrier is lined with electric wiring and cameras every two meters. Each camera has an infrared and low-light setting that can be manually activated from Site 101. The cameras rotate fully once every minute and the rotation is desynchronious to reduce blind spots both exterior to and inside the perimeter. One external barrier constructed of chain-link fence with twice the perimeter of the inner barrier. This exterior barrier is designed to deter civilian entry. The fence itself has been treated with trace doses of anterograde episodic amnestics. In addition, the fence contains a Bachelly-Wurmann SAM1 placed every four meters at human eye-level. All staff approaching the barrier for reconniasance or maintainence should be equipped with head-mounted displays designed to filter out cognitohazardous visual stimuli2. Should any instances of SCP-3698-1 be discovered outside 3698-A or 3698-C, they must be destroyed as soon as possible via controlled incineration to minimize damage to surrounding vegetation. Local conservation groups are to be informed that these incinerations are efforts to control the spread of invasive species. All staff assigned to duty within 1km of the Zones must be outfitted in pressure-sealed suits capable of withstanding off-road environments. Zone 3698-B, located just outside of ███████, WA, is to be kept enclosed in barriers similar to those of 3698-A and 3698-C with one exception. The inner barrier is to be lined with small flamethrowers. If any life is detected within Zone 3698-B, nearby flamethrowers are to activate immediately and incinerate it. All collected SCP-3698 samples are to be enclosed in triple-strength 100ml glass vials developed by Site 101 Researcher █████████ Dufour. The lids are vacuum-sealed, and can be opened either remotely or via two switches on the side of the lid, which must be activated simultaneously to release the lid. Vials are to be filled and sealed remotely via X5-Gatherer Drones at Zones 3698-A and 3698-C. As of 24 May ████, no more samples of SCP-3698 are to be collected under any circumstances. SCP-3698-2 is to be stored in a 4m by 3m by 4m pressurized humanoid containment cell in Site 101's Wing 3, furnished with a bed, desk, and desk chair. No personnel are allowed to converse or interact with SCP-3698-2 without written approval from the O5 Council. SCP-3698-2 is to be fed three meals a day through a 0.5m by 0.5m airlocked door on the cell's north wall. One coniferous tree sapling must be in SCP-3698-2's cell at all times. If the tree shows signs of aging or decay, it must be promptly removed and replaced with a healthy sapling by MTF Chi-5 "Connoisseurs" agents. This replacement must be conducted while SCP-3698-2 is asleep. Any personnel entering SCP-3698-2's cell must be outfitted in pressure-sealed uniforms. Description: SCP-3698 is an olfactory cognitohazard produced by a currently unidentified number of Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas fir trees) in the Cascade Mountain range, designated SCP-3698-1. While undetectable through all forms of chemical analysis, SCP-3698 and SCP-3698-1 are visible using Kant counters. Regular Douglas fir trees have an average hume reading of 106.03, whereas SCP-3698-1 exhibit readings of 107.4. Air contaminated with SCP-3698 shares this hume level. SCP-3698's effects depend on its concentration in the air, which increases with proximity to SCP-3698 specimens. >40m (Imperceptible): Scent is imperceptible at this distance from SCP-3698-1 instances. 10-40m (Perceptible): At this distance, SCP-3698 becomes perceptible to humans with normal olfactory abilities. Exposed individuals describe the scent as "pleasant", and "crisp". 89% of test subjects vocally liken it to "fresh pine". 10-4.5m (Anomalous): At this distance, individuals begin to develop anomalous symptoms. These include: Obsession with plants. Exposed individuals will request to have plants - usually, but not exclusively, coniferous saplings - placed in their quarters for up to a week after exposure. Elevated body temperature until room temperature is dropped to 10.6oC. Persistent feelings of nostalgia, particularly [REDACTED | SEE EXPERIMENT LOG] 4.5-2m (Potent):Anomalous symptoms will continue to worsen, becoming increasingly persistent and intrusive. Obsession with coniferous plants. Exposed individuals will request to have coniferous saplings placed in their quarters for up to 13 days after exposure. Elevated body temperature until room temperature is dropped to 8.6oC. Persistent feelings of nostalgia, particularly [REDACTED | SEE EXPERIMENT LOG] Interrogative compulsions for up to 12 days after exposure. Subject will aggressively question staff and other D-Class, prying for personal [REDACTED | SEE EXPERIMENT LOG]. During this time, the individual will be incapable of normal social interaction. <2m (Extremely potent): Anomalous symptoms are malignant, often irreversible, and induce violence in those exposed. Obsession with coniferous plants. Exposed individuals will request to have coniferous saplings placed in their quarters for up to 13 days after exposure. Elevated body temperature bordering on hyperthermia until room temperature is dropped to 3.2oC. Extreme paranoia when outside of wooded environments. Near-total mutism. Interrogative compulsions when not mute. Subjects will aggressively question any nearby humans, prying for [REDACTED | SEE EXPERIMENT LOG] and repeatedly demand to be "returned to the trees". Self-destructive behavior consistent with extreme body dysmorphia. [REDACTED | SEE INTERVIEW WITH AGENT X5-9] SCP-3698 was first discovered on 7 January ████, when two ██████ County forest rangers reported finding a large number of bodies clustered around Douglas fir trees. After contact with the rangers was lost shortly thereafter, MTF Theta-4 "Gardeners" was called to the scene. After a series of remote operations, SCP-3698 and SCP-3698-1 were identified, and the area containing the SCP-3698-1 instances was designated Zone 3698-A. Samples of infected air were later collected and used for D-Class experimentation. Image Transcribed Text Dufour, Don't come back for us but don't let our work go to waste. I'm sorry I couldn't finish the referral, but I need you to do that now. At least I'll find some solace in knowing it won't end here. I can smell it now. Please tell the others I tried we can't let them down we can't let it out Dufour please don't let it ["get out"?] please remember us [unintelligible] trees I can see [unintelligible]. As of 24 May ████, SCP-3698-2 is the designation given to Researcher ████ Rottbauer, who was exposed to extremely potent doses of SCP-3698 during the May 24 Incident. SCP-3698 tends to exhibit extreme distress around Director Paulsen, but is otherwise docile. As of the current revision of this document, SCP-3698-2 has only expressed one symptom characteristic of SCP-3698-exposed individuals: attachment to coniferous vegetation. SCP-3698-2 quickly forms symbiotic connections with coniferous plants, demonstrating a unique understanding of their biological needs despite having little prior botanical knowledge or experience. SCP-3698-2 often has long one-way conversations with coniferous plants placed in its room, though in an unidentified and currently undeciphered language. It is unknown why SCP-3698-2 did not succumb to other symptoms of SCP-3698 exposure. However, as of the current revision of this document, all experimentation on the nature of SCP-3698's traits or psychology is strictly forbidden by the O5 Council and the Ethics Committee. Addendum 3698.1: Object Class Change SCP-3698 class changed to Euclid in light of recent incident at Zone 3698-C and concerns brought before the O5 Council by Site Director Paulsen and Researcher Dufour. The concerns included the unpredictability of SCP-3698's appearance in nature and the inability to accurately predict SCP-3698's behavior due to technological limitations. Motion was approved on 20 March ████ by a 12-1 margin. Addendum 3698.2: Rejected Object Class Change Director Paulsen has requested that SCP-3698's class be changed to Keter ██ times - █ times before the 24 May Incident and ██ after the incident. Each of these requests have been denied due to insufficient evidence of containment difficulty. Addendum 3698.3: Archived Documents The following documents are considered relevant to SCP-3698's containment and have therefore been included in the page. Announcement from Site 101 Director Paulsen Interview With Agent X5-9 Drive A Experiment Log Containment Breach Event 101-24-05-████ The following announcement was sent from Director Paulsen's Foundation email to all Site 101 Staff on 19 June ████ at 10:03. Email contained several flagged linguistic memes that triggered its immediate redirection to ██████████.███ for correction and redistribution. Director Paulsen was reprimanded for attempting to utilize the previous on-site incident for anti-Foundation rhetoric. His editing and viewing permissions for SCP-3698-related documents were also summarily revoked. Good morning everyone, I want this stated for the record: the Euclid designation is insufficient, period. I don't care anymore if this results in my demotion; I owe my staff full honesty, just as I believe the Foundation owes every anomaly, however well-contained, due attention. After the May 24 Incident, I hoped they could finally come to see things our way. Alas, after reviewing the site's allotted budget for next year, I doubt they will. I'm going to be frank. There is absolutely no evidence that SCP-3698 is fully contained. In fact, based on Ji et al.'s report, SCP-3698's area of effect could be up to ████% larger than our current estimate. The figure, of course, is imprecise—something the higher-ups were keen to remind me of. I stress, however, that its inaccuracy is not the result of miscalculation but simply a side effect of our diminishing resources. In light of apparent budget cuts, I've submitted a site transfer request for ██% of researchers, █% of medical staff, ██% of armed personnel and █% of D-Class to surrounding facilities. Those of you who were selected for transfer will receive an email at around 6:30 specifying your new work detail. I want to assure everyone that this is not a demotion, and I wish you all the best of luck elsewhere. I want to offer the same sentiment to everyone remaining as well. You have all been invaluable assets to not only Site 101, but the Foundation as a whole. To those remaining, congratulations - and apologies - are in order. Things are not going to get easier around here, and I'm not going to be any more lax. The Rottbauer Lockdown is still in effect, and likely won't be lifted until Dufour's team can get their filtration system out of the prototyping phase. If it works, it'll be a monumental success, and maybe, just maybe, I won't be as stuck-up about the class designation. Until then, keep up the good work. As always: Secure, Contain, Protect. ████ Paulsen, Site 101 Director Interview 3698-12:30-24-02-████ Interviewed: MTF Chi-5 "Connoisseurs" Agent ███ Singh (X5-9) Interviewer: Site 101 Clinical Psychologist ████ Rottbauer Foreword: Rottbauer was to perform a routine psychological assessment with X5-9, who witnessed the only Foundation staff casualties caused by SCP-3698 until the ██ May Incident. X5-9 accompanied the team of technicians that regularly maintains the innermost barrier around Zone 3698-C. Due to repeated lapses into post-traumatic stress, the assessment was significantly delayed. <Begin Log, 12:30, 24 February ████> Rottbauer: State your name and designation for the record, please. X5-9: ███ Singh, X5-9. Rottbauer: Okay, X5-9… could you walk me through what happened on February ██? X5-9: You mind if I get some water first? Rottbauer: No problem. Anything you need. X5-9 gets a cup of water from a cooler. As he carries the cup back to his seat, his hand begins to shake. A small amount of water spills onto the floor. X5-9: Shit - sorry. Rottbauer: Don't worry, Singh. Let's just get through this. If you need us to do any of those exercises, we can. Unfortunately, the Level-4s won't let me suspend this interview again. X5-9: I'm fine - just the nerves. We approached the second barrier at around 09:00, like always. The head tech, Li, let us in and almost immediately, Ingham started experiencing problems with his suit. Rottbauer: Could you be a little more specific? X5-9: He kept complaining about an indicator in his suit going off - the cooling system, I think. This was before the recall4, so we figured it was just a minor issue. We continued to the inner barrier and see that a camera on the east wall is damaged. Li opened up the gate and Yanez and Ingham stepped through while I wait outside. Rottbauer: Why did you wait outside? X5-9: Can't keep people out if you're on the other side of the bulletproof glass. Rottbauer: I see. Please continue. X5-9: Everything ran smoothly for a while. Yanez set up a ladder and spotted Ingham while he went up to repair the camera. After a while Ingham started complaining that he's getting warm. He yells over to Yanez like "The suit's cooling is broken - I'm gonna get winded if I don't lose some weight." So he unstrapped and dropped down his toolbelt. Just a few seconds after the tool belt hit the ground, Ingham stopped working - dropped his tools and jumped twelve feet down from the top of the ladder. X5-9 takes a sip of water. His hand shakes as he tries to stabilize the cup at mouth-level. X5-9: Ingham started rambling as he struggled to stand up. Kept muttering about the "fresh pine", "Christmas morning", all of that stuff - classic signs of exposure. Before I could get to him, Li tried to drag him outside the first barrier. Of course, Ingham didn't like that at all; he kicked Li square in the knee and knocked him over before darting back through the entrance. Yanez managed to chase him down, though, just as he was about to reach a tree, and got him restrained with some duct tape. He also found a small tear near a belt loop of Ingham's suit. Yanez opened the entrances while Li and I carried Ingham back to the Jeep. Rottbauer: Did you notice any unusual behavior from Li? X5-9: No - nothing. He seemed perfectly fine. I looked at his knee but the suit still seemed in tact. He responded to my orders without question and seemed pretty shaken by Ingham's behavior. Besides, I had Ingham to worry about first. Then we got back to the jeep and… Rottbauer: Li incapacitated you, correct? X5-9: The last thing I heard before everything went black was Yanez yelling at him. I woke up about a half hour later and reached for the submachine gun on my side only to find a torn strap. Somehow, my suit wasn't compromised, so I pulled out my knife and assessed my surroundings. The jeep was still there, so clearly I hadn't been left for dead. Rottbauer: Did you hear the other members of the team? X5-9: Not at first; snow's a pretty good sound absorber. I could only start to hear their commotion when I got right alongside the second barrier. X5-9 remains silent for the next twenty seconds. Rottbauer: ███, I'm sorry, but I need you to keep going. I'm going to need you to describe what happened after you re-entered Zone C. X5-9 begins to heave. X5-9: Li and Ingham were stripped - maybe they did it to themselves, maybe… I don't know. As I got closer… as… X5-9 rubs the back of his head as his face reddens. X5-9: They were drilling Yanez into a tree by his fucking hands and feet. Right through his fucking bones! And Yanez just kept screaming and his screams turned into pleas - begging for me to kill him. To just die. For God to let him go. What the fuck could I do? Li had my gun! They knew I was there! What the fuck could I have done? Rottbauer: Nobody's holding you responsible for this, ███ - X5-9: And then, just like that, the drill, the screaming, everything just stopped. No sound for a solid minute. I stood there as they fucking stared at me, trying to pull myself together - trying to think of a way out. Yanez… despite all the blood Yanez lost, he wasn't dead. His head, which had gone limp just a minute ago, looked up. His eyes met mine and… and he just says "we're done decorating the tree". Ingham and Li look at me and start repeating the same thing again and again until their vocal cords fucking froze and ripped apart. X5-9 looks up at Rottbauer, tears visible on his face. X5-9: And then they each took turns with the gun. They blew their brains out with my - X5-9 rests his head back in his hands and begins to sob loudly. Rottbauer attempts to console him, and after 28 minutes is able to escort him out of the room. <End Log, 13:15, 24 February ████> Post-Interview Statement | 24 February ████ | ████ Rottbauer: X5-9 is still in no shape to resume work. Every time he's around a firearm he lapses into post-traumatic psychosis. He should continue his regular medication as prescribed by Dr. Fahey and continue seeing me on a regular basis for CBT. Once again, I believe a small course of episode-specific amnestics could drastically improve his mental state. Post-Interview Statement | 3 March ████ | █████████ Dufour: Since what happened at Zone C, one big question has kept me awake: What happened to Li? According to X5-9's observation, Li's suit had no tear in it upon leaving the inner barrier. I understand this is thrown into question given the fact that Ingham kicked Li's knee before leaving the barrier. However, considering that the suits are made of [REDACTED], I doubt that a single kick, much less one from a standard-issue boot, could do significant enough damage to cause a tear - at least immediately. Upon examining Li's suit, my team observed that the tear was not caused by impact alone. While the impact certainly did damage the material, it took continuous, localized stress for the suit to actually fail. From this, we've constructed a new timeline of Li's exposure: Assault from Ingham. Li is kicked in the knee once with a standard-issue boot. He expresses no immediate symptoms and is able to understand and complete orders from X5-9. This would compress the [REDACTED] in the fabric at the point of impact, reducing their durability up to ██%. Fabric on the knee stretches and tears while Li and X5-9 transport Ingham to the jeep. As we discovered during the recent recall, the suits' fabric significantly limited motion in the field. MTFs routinely complained about their interference with aerobic activities. We've recorded ███ cases of these things coming apart due to intense stretching before. With the area on Li's suit already damaged, a tear would require far less extraneous activity than such cases. Li assaults X5-9. At this point, it is clear that Li's suit had torn and he has been exposed. He succumbs rapidly, as is standard, and exhibits characteristic symptoms accordingly. Of course, this raises another ugly question based on what we already know about SCP-3698. Li's symptoms are indicative of exposure to extremely potent SCP-3698, but according to X5-9's testimony and evidence at the scene, they manifested well outside the external barrier. My only explanation is that gas trapped in Ingham's suit escaped and entered Li's. But that would mean SCP-3698 does not behave like a normal gas - that it does not disperse so much as relocate from one individual to the next, like a school of fish or a pack of wolves. After all, both SCP-3698 samples and schools of fish tend to confine themselves to specific volumes. Both have directional behaviors as well, seeking out food or - in SCP-3698's case - Douglas fir trees and humans. The main issue with SCP-3698, plain and simple, is that we are too ignorant to determine if it is an object or an organism - whether it is indeed a gas or a cluster of intangible zooids. We do not have the equipment, the funding, or the personnel to determine any of this. SCP-3698 is a new breed of memetic anomaly - and I use the term "breed" intentionally here. By almost all measures, it doesn't exist - and according to the only machine that can measure it, it's non-anomalous - twenty points below even a minor reality bender. In other words, SCP-3698 is a pure meme - one that cannot be expressed or reliably detected. It can only be experienced and known by those it afflicts. The fact that we even found SCP-3698 is a miracle. The fact that we still consider it Safe is appalling. Note: The drive containing SCP-3698's experiment log was damaged during the events of 24-May ████ and several files contained within were corrupted. 15:04 | 11 Jan ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] 15:00 | 15 Jan ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] 15:02 | 19 Jan ████ Experimenter(s): Researcher Donaldson, Researcher Parker Subject(s): D-9821 Conditions: One vial of perceptible SCP-3698 will be introduced to subject in testing room. Subject will be ordered to release vial lid and describe any feelings it evokes. Parker: Please open the vial on the table in front of you. D-9821: How do I do that, again? Donaldson: As we instructed you, please release the switches on the side of the lid. D-9821: Don't have to get pissy about it. D-9821 releases the lid, opening the vial. D-9821: Huh… what's that, some kind of perfume? Parker: Please describe the smell. D-9821: Smells like fresh pine to me. It kinda reminds me of Christmas. Like when my parents took us to this tree farm… D-9821 inhales deeply. D-9821: Yeah… just like that farm. Parker: Do you feel any physical sensations? D-9821: Just the smell. Am I supposed to feel something else? <End Log, 15:05> Discussion: Well, we seem to have a sense of how far away you need to be from SCP-3698 to be relatively unaffected. It seems that, while the scent is still discernable, it doesn't trigger any visible psychological or physiological symptoms at this concentration. At least now we have a contained form of this thing that's somewhere between between "deadly" and "unnoticeable". 15:00 | 21 Jan ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] Discussion: 10m seems to be the magic distance. For the time being, D-3092 and D-2988 should be separated from their peers and placed under strict observation. We don't want another spree like D-4219's. Additionally, while the effects haven't been communicable thus far, we shouldn't take any liberties. The subjects that didn't display anomalous symptoms can be returned to their quarters. 15:00 | 26 Jan ████ Experimenter(s): Researcher Donaldson Subject(s): Group D-101-1 Conditions: 50 D-Class living in Wing 1 will have vials introduced to their quarters, each of which will be set off remotely at exactly 15:00. The vials' samples will be taken from areas surrounding an isolated SCP-3698-1 specimen in 1-meter increments (i.e. one sample at 1m from the tree, one from 2m from the tree, etc.). [DATA CORRUPTED] Discussion: Thanks to this experiment, we finally have a sense of how concentration changes SCP-3698's effect. Hopefully, we'll be smarter about testing going forward and can restrict our experimentation to case studies. It is my hope that Parker and I can study those affected by the more potent dosages in the near future. 15:02 | 01 Feb ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] 15:01 | 09 Feb ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] freshpIne 15:01 | 11 Feb ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] D-6021 displays extreme distress upon entering the test room D-6021: No, fuck - no no no, what the fuck is this? Donaldson: Please settle down, 6021 - the room temperature is only temporary. We simply want to identify a comfortable room temperature for you. D-6021: You already know how cold I need the room! I've told you fuckers - D-6021 starts pacing around the room. After a minute of uninterrupted pacing, she begins pounding on the airlock and screaming expletives. Donaldson: 6021, sit down. We're in the process of lowering the temperature. If you continue attempting to escape, you will be punished accordingly. D-6021: Fuck you! I just want to go home! They need me! At this point, Researcher Parker recommends that Researcher Donaldson cease lowering the temperature. Donaldson complies. Parker: 6021, we're going to continue lowering the room temperature. However, we would like to ask you some questions first; we just need a little information. D-6021 does not acknowledge Parker and continues to beat the airlock. Donaldson: 6021, if you don't sit down immediately, you will be terminated. You are compromising the security of the testing room. D-6021 begins using her head to bludgeon the door. Her screams continue as her forehead starts to bleed. At this point, the airlock began displaying signs of pre-compromise and MTF-X5 agents are called in to terminate D-6021. <End Log, 15:06> Discussion: Once again, it appears that self-mutilation is not a direct result of potent exposure, but rather a side-effect of the exposed individual's distress. It appears that this distress cannot be used as an interrogative aid, either. At least with the subjects exposed to the extremely potent strain, their bodies give out after a while. 15:01 | 16 Feb ████ Experimenter(s): Researcher Donaldson, Researcher Parker Subject(s): D-8911 [DATA CORRUPTED] Parker: Please describe your recent episodes for us. D-8911: Everything becomes the trees. Parker: Please elaborate. D-8911: I walk down the hallways and they're just coated in wood. I know they're not wood, but that's what they are to me. I guess the food's kinda nice though. The cafeteria food always tastes like sugar cookies now, too. Guess it makes sense. Parker: What do you mean "it makes sense"? D-8911: The trees invite it all back. The music and bells and the caroling, the ham and peppermint, and smells. Of course, at first it's just the smells, but then it's everything. And then one by one it just steals them or burns them. Parker: You seem to be describing lots of things typically associated with the holidays. D-8911: It's wonderful. But then you realize how empty it all is without them. Without the trees. They're where it all starts and ends - where it all congregates. And then they just burn. Everything burns. Everything starts to burn! It's all hollow! It's all fucking gone! D-8911 stands up from his seat. Parker stands back and motions to X5-10. Parker: Sit down now, please. We already told you what would happen if you move without orders. D-8911: I know I'm never getting my tree. D-8911 throws his chair at Parker's head and is terminated by armed security. The chair strikes Parker in the head, concussing her. <End Log, 15:09> Discussion: It appears that D-8911's intrusive thoughts were not confined to coniferous trees, but also the holiday season. My working theory is that SCP-3698's effect somehow triggers episodic memories associated with Christmas trees. Perhaps it's a form of incentive to lure those affected back to SCP-3698-1 instances. 15:10 | 22 Feb ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] theAMnesticoftimecannoteraseusforNOThingisclandestineinthelandofthievesleastOFwhichthethieves 15:00 | 28 Feb ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] youburnfromtheHEATandyouweltinitwithoutrepreivewhileyouBUTteryourbreadanddrinkyourwineandreminisceonfalsehoodslikealoofkingsatopthronesOFpineneedles Discussion: D-7149's interrogative compulsion seems to be a common trait among subjects exposed to more potent SCP-3698 samples. All D-101-1 subjects dosed with these samples seemed fixated on all things holidays as well, at least for the first few days after exposure. 15:02 | 03 Mar ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] 15:01 | 08 Mar ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] yettheCOLDcomestodrinkofyouandiwithoutmercyandiwthoutcareforfeebleMEMORYyetyousomehowthinkyourselfimmuneandseparatefromthoseyouhastilyabANDoned 15:00 | 13 Mar ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] Donaldson: Why did you attempt to assault Researcher Brand? D-6895: Asshole took my tree away. Donaldson: You mean the lily that Researcher Davis gave you? D-6895: It was a companion. It kept me safe — helped me remember. Donaldson: I don't understand. D-6895: It's not much, but it did wonders. After you assholes finished gassing me, it was the only thing that kept me sane. The smell kept the memories close, but without it they're all flushed away. You took my fucking childhood from me. The trees help but they can't fix everything. Donaldson: I'd urge you to correct your tone, 6895. D-6895: What else are you gonna take from me if I don't? What the fuck do I have left? Donaldson: I'm not going to entertain your adolescent whining, 6895. Let's get back on topic. Why did you attempt to assault Researcher Brand? D-6895 eyes the agent in the corner of the room and appears to sneer at him. Donaldson: D-6895, please respond. D-6895: I just wanted to get back the only thing that gave my memories… I don't know, weight, okay? I panicked. I fucked up. I know I did. That good enough for you? Donaldson: Not particularly, but I think it's all I'm going to get from you. Enjoy the rest of your month. D-6895: Brain yourself. <End Log, 15:03> Discussion: It seems that plants give those exposed some sort of emotional grounding. Why some require trees and others don't is still a mystery. 15:02 | 19 Mar ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] 15:04 | 24 Mar ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] 15:03 | 28 Mar ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] 15:00 | 5 Apr ████ Experimenter(s): Researcher Donaldson, Researcher Parker Subject(s): D-8883 Conditions: D-8883 will be interviewed by Researcher Parker with an armed guard present. Questions will be centered around the deaths of his peers - D-2099 and D-2112, both of whom where exposed to extremely potent samples of SCP-3698 during the January 26 experiment. Parker: Let's try this again. Could you describe your cellmates' behavior on March 25? D-8883 remains silent for two minutes. Parker motions to a camera in the corner. Parker: If you don't answer, I'm going to tell Donaldson to crank up the temperature. D-8883 begins muttering unintelligibly. Parker: Could you speak a little louder, please? D-8883: Let me ask you something first, doctor. You are a doctor, right? Parker: Well, I do have a PhD. I was hoping you could - D-8883: What's the first winter you remember? The first holiday season? Parker: As we've told you and the others before, we're not going to give into this line of questioning. You are here for us to question, not the other way around. Now, once again: describe your cellmates' behavior on March 29. D-8883 remains silent for several minutes. Parker: Let me ask you something else: why do you keep asking me questions about the holidays? What's behind the obsession? D-8883: It's not a compulsion - more of a coping mechanism. Self-medication? Parker: How does interrogating other people help you cope? D-8883: How does it help you? Parker stands up, seemingly out of anger. Parker: You know, pissing off the woman who decides whether you leave this room in a body bag or not probably isn't a good idea. Angering me isn't exactly grounds for termination, but it'll make me far less hesitant to give you the benefit of the doubt when you finally pull something. D-8883:Their pasts strengthen mine. Parker sits back down and leans toward D-8883. Parker: Then how does it help you to kill them? D-8883 remains silent for another five minutes. Parker: If you won't answer now, you will eventually. This interview is over. D-8883: I want to be returned to the trees, doctor. Parker: In a just world, pal. <End Log, 15:10> Discussion: He's still mostly nonverbal. We'll never be able to proceed with these interviews until we can find some way to coerce D-8883 into giving us useful responses. 15:02 | 15 Apr ████ [DATA CORRUPTED] comeCHILDrencomereturntousweareYOUrgloryweshallgiftyouRUNrunrunchildrencomeandreceiveyourglorypleasewearealoneinthesnowwewishtobeyoursandyoursalonecomecomeandgiveusSOlaceinwarmthweareonlyWARMtogetherchildren 15:03 | 19 Apr ████ Experimenter(s): Researcher Donaldson, Researcher Parker Subject(s): D-8883 [DATA CORRUPTED] 15:03 | 25 Apr ████ Experimenter(s): Researcher Donaldson, Researcher Parker Subject(s): D-8883 [DATA CORRUPTED] 15:01 | 03 May ████ Experimenter(s): Researcher Donaldson, Researcher Parker Subject(s): D-8883, D-5200 Conditions: D-8883 will be placed in a room with D-5200, who will be restrained, and one vial of extremely potent SCP-3698 placed on a table in front of him. D-8883 will be given the choice to open the vial and expose his peer or keep it sealed. Both subjects will be allowed to openly communicate with one another. If the vial is opened, all actions D-8883 wishes to perform on D-5200 will not be restrained. Donaldson: 8883, the vial on the table is filled with extremely potent SCP-3698. This sample is as strong as the one we exposed you to. You may choose to open it. D-5200: Wait, what the fuck is this? What's in that? D-8883 keeps his head down. Donaldson: You may do what you wish. We will not interfere and we will not punish you. D-5200: Punish him for what? D-8883: Doctor, why would I expose him? There's no way out for him. It would be torture for torture's sake. Sacrifice without an alter. D-5200: No, no - buddy, please. 8883, that your number? 8883, you're the only one who's gonna talk to me. They aren't gonna give you shit; please, we need to cooperate here! This is a loyalty test or something. It's a sick fucking game, but we can beat it - Donaldson: 8883, what incentive would you need to open the vial? D-8883: A tree. He needs a tree; we both do. D-5200: 8883, please! Donaldson: Please elaborate. D-8883: I can describe the tree. I never had one as a kid, but my neighbors did. They always put it up. It was so pretty… D-5200 begins struggling in his restraints violently. Donaldson: Thank you both, that's all we need for now. X5-26 will enter the room to see you both out shortly. Agent X5-26 D-8883 enters the test room and D-8883 surrenders the vial to him without protest. <End Log, 15:06> [DATA CORRUPTED] come 15:04 | 06 May ████ Experimenter(s): Researcher Donaldson, Researcher Parker Subject(s): D-8883, D-5528 [DATA CORRUPTED] for 15:00 | 10 May ████ Experimenter(s): Researcher Donaldson, Researcher Parker Subject(s): D-8883, D-3576, D-2525 [DATA CORRUPTED] us 15:05 | 16 May ████ Experimenter(s): Researcher Donaldson, Researcher Parker Subject(s): D-8883, D-5093 (sedated), D-3920 (sedated), D-5578 (sedated), D-3956(sedated), D-1198 (sedated), D-0090 (sedated) [DATA CORRUPTED] Discussion: The injuries D-8883 continues to inflict on others' hands appear to be significant; it's a behavior he repeated in each of the two latest tests. However, it appears that in the presence of coniferous plants, he doesn't even need to be intimidated into violence. Suicidal mutilative behavior also appears to heighten under these conditions. Perhaps observing D-8883 around more coniferous plants for a longer span of time could further elucidate this uptick in aggressive behavior. 15:00 | 20 May ████ Experimenter(s): Researcher Parker Subject(s): D-8883 Conditions: D-8883 will be escorted to the perimeter of Zone A by Researcher Parker and Agent X5-21. D-8883 will be tethered to the escort jeep at all times and will be ordered to walk exactly 40m into the wilderness with Parker to conduct the interview. [DATA CORRUPTED] [DATA CORRUPted] Disciplinary Referral from Researchers Dufour, Tiller, Milton, Davis, and Rottbauer. Statement below prepared by Dufour: <Attached: █████████████████> It has come to the attention of several Site 101 researchers that Director Paulsen has been complicit in Donaldson and Parker's unethical experiments on D-Class personnel. We believe that his personal fears regarding SCP-3698 have hindered his effectiveness as a leader and hope that he can be brought before the Ethics Committee and O5 Council for disciplinary action. We have attached the Experiment Log to this letter for your review. As you will see, several of these experiments utilized egregious numbers of D-Class, violating Foundation Ethics Code 4.A.098. We have become increasingly concerned at the testing conditions of one D-Class in particular, D-8883. D-8883's tests repeatedly involved excessive psychological trauma both to him and to other subjects. Instead of being separated from his peers, D-8883 has been exposed to ██ other D-Class during tests and allowed to maul and torment them under the guise of routine experimentation. When questioned about their motives for doing this, Donaldson and Parker have been dismissive and obstructive. They were also dismissive when Rottbauer insisted on running psychological debriefs on exposed D-Class prior to decommissioning, insisting that such treatment would "interfere with long-term observational results". We request: That Director Paulsen be held before the Ethics Committee on charges of attempting to conceal information from both the O5 Council and the Ethics Committee on numerous occasions. This renders him complicit in the series of unethical experiments that occurred under Researchers Donaldson and Parker. That Researchers Donaldson and parker be assessed for antisocial personality disorder and denied access to all D-Class experimentation as soon as possible. That Researchers Donaldson and Parker be reprimanded for their continued unethical experimentation on D-Class under Foundation Ethics Code 4.A.098, 4.A.201, and 4.A.202. While the Foundation routinely uses D-Class for experimentation that operates in the moral gray area - and yes, sometimes in the dark - it also demonstrates parsimony whenever possible. Through his "by any means necessary" philosophy, Paulsen has clearly demonstrated poor leadership and professionalism. We hope <Draft saved to drive on 15:59 | 24 May ████> Wing 6 East (Rooms 600-639) | 14:50-15:25 Wing 6 East (Rooms 600-639) | 14:50-15:25 Time Location Event 14:50 Room 602 Researcher Donaldson and Researcher Parker review the questionnaire prepared for an SCP-3698 D-Class experiment scheduled for 15:00. 14:51 Room 602 Donaldson notes as an aside that he wonders "how long it'll be until [they] can get back to more fun subjects". 14:51 Room 602 Parker asks Donaldson to conduct the interview as "8883 probably won't be too cooperative with [her] anytime soon". 15:01 Test Room 614 D-8883 enters Room 614 accompanied by Agent X5-18. 15:04 Test Room 614 Donaldson enters Room 614. 15:04 Test Room 614 D-8883 seemingly enters a psychotic state, charging Donaldson. X5-18 fires upon D-8883, hitting him █ times in the chest and abdomen. A stray bullet strikes Donaldson in the hand, causing rapid blood loss. Despite traumatic injuries, D-8883 charges X5-18 and steals the knife strapped to his side as █ additional rounds are fired into his legs and torso. 15:05 Test Room 614 D-8883 stabs X5-18 several times in the right arm, causing X5-18 to drop his firearm. D-8883 grabs the gun and fires █ rounds into X5-18, killing him. 15:05 Observation Room 612 Parker calls for immediate MTF support to Wing 6 over the intercom. 15:05 Test Room 614 D-8883 fires ██ rounds into Donaldson's hands. Donaldson lapses into shock from blood loss and loses consciousness. D-8883 fires into the observation cameras, and video and audio feed from Test Room 614 is lost. 15:05 Test Room 614 D-8883 fires █ rounds, presumably into the test room door. The door's lock fails shortly after. 15:06 Wing 6 /Main Wing Airlock X5-3, X5-4, X5-6, X5-7, X5-10, X5-11, and X5-12 enter Wing 6 as D-8883 enters the corridor, each dressed in pressure-sealed combat uniforms. X5 agents open fire. 15:06 Corridor D-8883 takes cover in the entrance of Test Room 614 and begins firing into doors on the opposite side of the hall, several of which are storage rooms. 15:07 Corridor X5-3 manually activates Wing 6's airlock. All windows and exterior doors to Wing 6 are automatically pressure-sealed. 15:07 Corridor D-8883 steps into the corridor and begins firing at X5 agents. █ rounds strike X5-3 and X5-11 in the feet and left hand respectively. 15:08 Corridor D-8883 is killed after ██ wounds to the head, neck, and chest. 15:09 Corridor X5 agents progress to Test Room 612 and confirm the death of X5-18 via gunshot wounds to major organs and the death of Researcher Donaldson via blood loss. 15:10 Corridor X5 agents begin clearing the wing. 15:11 Corridor Rooms 601-609 are cleared. Researcher Milton is found dead within Room 607 from a bullet wound to the head. Researcher Kim is found critically injured within Room 609 from █ bullet wounds to the shoulders and calf. Kim is rushed to the medical wing by X5-3. 15:15 Corridor Rooms 610-614 are cleared. Parker enquires about Donaldson and D-8883. X5 agents inform her of D-8883's termination and Donaldson's death. 15:16 Corridor Rooms 615-617 are cleared. Researcher Davis is found dead within Storage Room 615 from █ bullet wounds to the head and abdomen. 15:17 Storage Room 617 Agent X5-7 notes that █ vials of SCP-3698 in Room 617 have been compromised - apparently by D-8883's earlier gunfire. 15:17 Corridor Several rounds go off in Wing 6 East. Video and audio feed from corridor camera 1, 2, and 4 cease, leaving only camera 3 operational. 15:18 Corridor X5 agents regroup in the hallway. X5-4 is noticeably absent. X5-10 and X5-111 note that they did not observe X5-4 leaving Room 614. 15:18 Corridor Three grenades enter the corridor from Test Room 614 and detonate. X5-6, X5-10, X5-11, and X5-12 are killed in the blast, while X5-7 is concussed. Corridor camera 3 is damaged by shrapnel and audio feed ceases. 15:20 Corridor Donaldson emerges from Room 612 holding a X5 submachine gun and moves to Room 614. He fires ██ rounds toward the airlock between Wing 6 East and Wing 6 North, compromising it. 15:20 Observation Room 612 Parker is cornered in her office, visibly distressed. The door to Room 612 is compromised by gunfire. 15:21 Observation Room 612 Room 612's door opens and Donaldson appears in the doorway. Parker begins hyperventilating and pleading with Donaldson. 15:23 Observation Room 612 Donaldson fires ██ rounds into Parker's hands. Several of these rounds go through her hands and strike the computers behind her. 15:25 Corridor X5-7 fires ██ rounds into Wing 6 North. X5-7 is almost immediately killed by █ bullet wounds to the head and neck. Wing 6 North (Rooms 640-680) | 15:06-15:25 Wing 6 North (Rooms 640-680) | 15:06-15:25 Time Location Event 15:06 Wing 6 North Hearing Parker's announcement, research staff begin rapidly exiting the wing via the North entrance to Wing 4. 15:07 Wing 6 North ███ staff vacate the wing before the X5-3 activates the airlocks, sealing off Wing 6 from the rest of the site. █ Wing 6 North personnel are trapped inside: Researcher Tennyson, X5-25, X5-38, Researcher Tamblin, and Researcher Rottbauer. 15:07 Corridor Trapped personnel begin searching for pressure-sealed suits for the unarmed staff. Gunfire is audible from Wing 6 East. 15:10 Laboratory 665 Staff locate several pressure-sealed suits and equip them. X5-25 leaves to assess the integrity of the airlock separating the North and East wings. Rottbauer begins to search rooms for any remaining personnel. 15:15 Corridor Researcher Tennyson attempts to break through the airlock on the North entrance to Wing 4. Researcher Tamblin attempts to restrain him, fearing a containment breach. 15:15 Corridor Tennyson removes Tamblin and beats him unconscious. X5-38 orders Tennyson to lie down on the ground, threatening him with termination, while she assesses the damage to Tamblin's uniform. 15:15 Corridor Rottbauer is alerted by the rest of the group's state and runs back to them. 15:17 Wing 6 East/ Wing 6 North Airlock X5-25 reaches the airlock and observes other agents congregating in the corridor. 15:18 Wing 6 East/ Wing 6 North Airlock Grenades enter Wing 6 East corridor and detonate. X5-25 is unharmed by the blast but the airlock is damaged. 15:18 Corridor Hearing the blast, X5-38 leaves Rottbauer with a pistol, ordering him to keep Tennyson face-down on the ground and shoot Tamblin if he shows signs of SCP-3698 exposure. X5-38 then leaves to investigate the blast. 15:20 Wing 6 East/ Wing 6 North Airlock Researcher Donaldson's bullets compromise the airlock and strike X5-25 in the chest and arm. 15:22 Wing 6 East/ Wing 6 North Airlock X5-38 reaches X5-25 at the breached airlock. X5-25 draws his sidearm and fires █ bullets at X5-38 at point-blank range, killing her. 15:23 Corridor Tamblin awakens suddenly and shoves Rottbauer to the ground. The pistol falls from Rottbauer's hand and slides a short distance away. 15:23 Corridor Tamblin begins attacking Tennyson, tearing at his suit and repeatedly smashing his head into the floor. 15:24 Corridor Rottbauer retrieves the pistol and fires █ rounds at Tamblin, █ of which strike Tamblin in the head and back, killing him. 15:24 Corridor Tennyson begins exhibiting signs of SCP-3698 exposure. Rottbauer fires a single round at each of Tennyson's kneecaps and orders him to "stay down" or Rottbauer will be forced to terminate him. 15:24 Corridor Rottbauer proceeds toward the entrance to Wing 6 East. 15:25 Wing 6 East/ Wing 6 North Airlock ██ bullets strike X5-25 in rapid succession from Wing 6 East. X5-25 briefly returns fire before dying of bullet wounds to the back. Wing 6 East (Rooms 600-639) | 15:26-16:05 Wing 6 East (Rooms 600-639) | 15:26-16:05 Time Location Event 15:26 Corridor Researchers Donaldson and Parker exit Room 612 and proceed to Storage Room 609, which housed several coniferous plant saplings. 15:27 Storage Room 609 Donaldson and Parker begin arranging the saplings into a ring-shaped formation in the center of the room. 15:29 Storage Room 609 Donaldson and Parker fully enclose themselves within the ring of saplings. 15:29 Wing 6 East/ Wing 6 North Airlock Researcher Rottbauer enters Wing 6 East and wanders past the corpses in the corridor, visibly nauseous. 15:30 Observation Room 612 Rottbauer enters Room 612 and examines the large pool of Parker's blood in the corner. He vomits and sits down in a chair adjacent to the damaged computers. 15:32 Observation Room 612 Rottbauer examines the Experiment Log, which is displayed on a nearby damaged monitor. Several of the files display corrupted or cognitohazardous information. 15:40 Observation Room 612 Rottbauer finishes reading the Experiment Log and moves over to the intercom. 15:41 Observation Room 612 Rottbauer announces that all other personnel in Wing 6 are exposed to SCP-3698 or dead and calls for additional assistance from MTF X5. 15:41 Storage Room 609 Donaldson and Parker overhear the message on the intercom and step outside the ring of saplings. They proceed to exit the room. 15:41 Corridor Donaldson fires █ rounds at Room 612. 15:42 Observation Room 612 Rottbauer hides behind the wall separating Room 612 from the corridor and reloads his pistol. None of Donaldson's rounds make contact. 15:43 Observation Room 612 Rottbauer fires █ rounds at Donaldson, striking him in the head and shoulder, killing him. 15:43 Corridor Parker tries to pick up Donaldson's firearm. Rottbauer exits Room 612 and charges her. 15:43 Corridor Rottbauer shoves Parker against a wall and grabs the submachine gun, firing █ rounds at Parker at point-blank range, killing her. 15:45 Corridor After standing motionless in the corridor for one and a half minutes, Rottbauer places the gun on the floor and stumbles back into Room 612. 15:46 Observation Room 612 Rottbauer sits down next to the computers, visibly in shock. 15:50 Wing 6 East/ Wing 6 North Airlock Researcher Tennyson enters Wing 6 North, shuffling toward the airlock at the entrance to the Main Wing. 15:55 Corridor Tennyson charges the Main Wing entrance head-first, attempting to break through the airlock. 15:55 Observation Room 612 Rottbauer hears Tennyson impact the airlock and exits Room 612. 15:56 Corridor Tennyson bashes his head into the airlock ██ times and begins bleeding profusely from the forehead. Rottbauer runs over to Tennyson and attempts to restrain him. 15:57 Corridor Tennyson attacks Rottbauer, beating his head and neck. A small tear opens up on Rottbauer's neck, which Rottbauer immediately covers with his glove. 15:57 Corridor Rottbauer knocks Tennyson to the ground and kicks him in the neck █ times, killing him. Rottbauer then sprints into Observation Room 612. 15:58 Observation Room 612 Rottbauer inhales deeply and removes his suit. He withdraws a keychain with a small USB attached from his back pocket. 15:59 Observation Room 612 Rottbauer inserts the USB into a nearby computer and copies over a file from the USB onto the Experiment Log's drive. 16:00 Observation Room 612 Rottbauer ejects the USB from the computer and suddenly exhales. He grabs a nearby piece of printer paper and begins writing on it with a ballpoint pen. As he continues to write, his handwriting becomes increasingly illegible. 16:00 Observation Room 612 Rottbauer starts tearing at the paper with the pen before abruptly ceasing all motion. He tapes the note to the hard drive and unplugs the drive from the observation room computers. 16:01 Corridor Rottbauer exits Room 612, carrying the drive, and enters Room 609. 16:02 Corridor X5 agents enter Wing 6 East from the Main Wing and proceed to sweep the wing room-by-room. 16:05 Storage Room 609 X5 agents find Rottbauer in Room 609 encircled by the ring of saplings. Rottbauer surrenders and is promptly detained. 16:13 Corridor X5 agents finish clearing Wing 6 and exit through the Main Wing airlock. Footnotes 1. Subconscious Aversion Memetic: A nonviolent deterrence method approved for use on civilians. Often abbreviated "SAM". Come in three distinct forms: visual, auditory, and textile, the first being the most common. 2. For examples of use in the field, see document SCP-1730, Addendum 1730.3, Exploration Log 7. 3. It is currently unknown why Douglas firs have slightly above-average hume levels. 4. All Foundation pressure-sealed suits manufactured prior to 2009 were recalled because of a fatal cooling/heating system error. The malfunction made minor leaks in the suits practically undetectable. As a result, a suit's integrity could be compromised without depressurization alarms sounding during even minor cooling/heating system errors. The recall was completed on 27 March ████.
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My name is Roderick. I am a small shingle stone. There isn't really very much to say about me beyond that. close Info X SCP-3699: Memoirs of a Shingle Beach Author: Tufto, written on their original account. More of their work can be found here. Item #: SCP-3699 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3699 is to be cordoned off from public access, with Foundation personnel on-site to guard a perimeter within the marshland behind it. A dedicated taskforce is to track down any SCP-3699-1 instances in the possession of civilians and retrieve them, applying full amnestics to any civilians aware of SCP-3699's or SCP-3699-1's anomalous effects. Description: SCP-3699 refers to Cley Beach, Norfolk, England. SCP-3699 is a shingle beach, predominantly composed of small rocks and stones. SCP-3699's anomalous properties are not apparent unless a shingle stone is removed from SCP-3699. These stones are henceforth referred to as SCP-3699-1 instances. Approximately 10 days after being removed from SCP-3699 by a human, SCP-3699-1 instances will begin to vocalise English in a "Received Pronounciation" accent, despite possessing no mechanisms for speech. SCP-3699-1 instances have been described as highly intelligent and articulate, and have proven cooperative with Foundation questioning. SCP-3699-1 instances are sapient, and possess fully-realised personalities and memories. They ordinarily claim to possess names traditionally found in England. SCP-3699-1 instances are apparently capable of remembering their entire existence as a shingle-rock, while also remembering every larger object they were once part of. The origin of SCP-3699 is unknown. It is also unknown how SCP-3699-1 instances are capable of vocalisation, given how in all physical aspects they resemble ordinary pieces of rock. SCP-3699-1 instances exhibit no other anomalous behaviour. Returning an SCP-3699-1 instance to SCP-3699 causes their anomalous properties to deactivate, until they are once more removed from SCP-3699. See below for samples of interviews with SCP-3699-1 instances. +Interview 3699-3 -Interview 3699-3 Interviewed: SCP-3699-1-1, who goes by the name of "Roderick" and speaks with a male voice. Interviewer: Dr. Maria F██████, lead researcher on SCP-3699. Foreword: This interview was conducted 22/06/20██. <Begin Log> Dr. F██████: Could you tell us a little about yourself, please? SCP-3699-1-1: By all means. My name is Roderick. I am a small shingle stone. There isn't really very much to say about me beyond that. I first became me several hundred years ago, when a rock hit my mother. It was mildly traumatic, to say the least. Dr. F██████: …Your mother? SCP-3699-1-1: Yes. Well, an approximation thereof. I mean the larger rock from which I was chipped off. I used to be her, and have memories of being her. It's a strange life, being a pebble of good breeding. Dr. F██████: I…see. SCP-3699-1-1: This must sound very strange to you. I apologise. You have all been so hospitable here. I don't want to alarm you with what must seem to be deviant practices. Dr. F██████: Er, no, no, not at all… tell me about your life since then. How did you end up at Cley? SCP-3699-1-1: Oh, I couldn't possibly tell you all about it. I've been tossed onto shores all across the oceans. I've been swallowed by whales, spat out into Pacific waters, lain untouched on the shores of Africa, Asia, Peru. I've been skimmed over the waves by peasant-boys in medieval France, wedged into miniature sand-pavilions in 17th-century Siam, tossed to and fro along the sea. Most of the time, it's pretty boring. Dr. F██████: And have you always been able to, erm, think? SCP-3699-1-1: Oh, I believe so. I remember so many things. Being wedged into the side of a wooden boat- the Mary-Rose, I think it was called. It sank, of course, and I along with it. Like a stone. Hah. Dr. F██████: When did you first arrive at Cley Beach? SCP-3699-1-1: Oh… several years ago now, I think. I can't remember the date precisely- you know how it is with these things. It's a nice place to live. We talk, debate, discuss good literature and where the best waters are. We count the stars, and remember when we… when we were them. Out in the void. I do apologise, Doctor- I'm feeling a little tired. Being a stone gets a little tiring after a while, you see. Could I take a rest? <End Log> +Interview 3699-18 -Interview 3699-18 Interviewed: SCP-3699-1-2, who goes by the name of "Maud" and speaks with a female voice. Interviewer: Dr. F██████ Foreword: This interview was conducted 03/01/20██. <Begin Log> Dr. F██████: Could you tell us a little about what you are? SCP-3699-1-2: Well, that seems like an awfully personal question. But I suppose that your intentions are pure. I am a small rock. Dr. F██████: I was, erm, more referring to the fact that you're different from the other rocks. SCP-3699-1-2: Am I? Well, a girl does like to be complimented, but perhaps save that for the second date. Dr. F██████: …Let's change the subject. SCP-3699-1-2: A splendid idea, my dear. So, have you ever been in love? Dr. F██████: Wh- er, yes. I am married. SCP-3699-1-2: Ah, but your human coupling is so straightforward. It’s different for a small rock. You see, we are inanimate objects, which means that our love-life is entirely dependent upon random chance and circumstance. Dr. F██████: Sometimes I think ours is as well. SCP-3699-1-2: Hah! Perhaps you are right. Well, it is worse for us, I'm afraid, and mine is a sad tale. Many years ago, when I was younger and my surfaces less smooth, I found myself being tossed to and fro by fierce waves. It was somewhere off the coast of Spain, I think, and I ended up being tossed onto a beach in the Basque Country. Well, I wasn’t overly happy about this predicament. I’m not really one for sitting still. It’s an inconvenient habit when you’re a rock. But then! Out of nowhere, the sea tosses over this limpet-shell, right on top of me. It was love at first sight. She was called Simone, and she was beautiful. Dr. F██████: You mean- you can talk, even when you haven’t come from Cley Beach? SCP-3699-1-2: Oh yes. Only to one another, though. You lot can’t hear us normally. You can’t hear sea-shells either, but I don’t blame you. They have odd sounding voices. Very… curved, for want of a better word. Do you understand? Dr. F██████: I think so. What was special about this seashell, then? SCP-3699-1-2: Oh, what a gorgeous creature she was. The limpet had died ages ago, so she was free, and happy. She’d fallen on top of me, and stayed there. Oh, the times we had! We discussed theology, history, the works of Sartre. She loved surrealist art, whereas I always preferred cubism. I’ve never met a seashell who was as brilliant, well-educated and serene. She always knew just how to keep me calm and sane, even when we were in danger of being washed away. We clung together in our little embrace for decades, laughing and talking and loving one another. It was perfect. Dr. F██████: …So what happened? SCP-3699-1-2: What always happens to us and ours. She was washed away. I wept for a week, hoping she’d return, but she never did. I was buried beneath the shingle for another year after that, before I was swept away too. I never saw her again- and if she’s even still alive, I likely never will. Mine is a sad song. But now I am here, in the company of a beautiful woman. It got lonely, on the beach, you know. Listening to the constant chatter of the land-dwellers and newcomers. I much prefer it here. Dr. F██████: …I think we'd better leave it there. <End Log> +Interview 3699-26 -Interview 3699-26 Interviewed: SCP-3699-1-1, SCP-3699-1-2, SCP-3699-1-3 (who goes by the name of "Christine" and speaks with a female voice) and SCP-3699-1-4 (who goes by the name of "Nigel" and speaks with a male voice). Interviewer: Dr. F██████ Foreword: This interview was conducted 29/11/20██. <Begin Log> Dr. F██████: So, of all of the places you have visited, which do you prefer? SCP-3699-1-2: Cadiz was nice. SCP-3699-1-3: Ah, Cadiz! I remember the ships there. Coming in and out, towering over me. Things were different then. SCP-3699-1-2: Yes, they were. Waters were purer. People were more civilised. SCP-3699-1-4: No they weren’t! I remember what was on some of those ships. SCP-3699-1-1: Well, at least they were more civilised towards us. SCP-3699-1-2: Oh yes. SCP-3699-1-4: Quite. SCP-3699-1-3: They didn’t pollute the beaches with their bags and litter. SCP-3699-1-4: Urgh, yes. So vulgar. Metal cans clanking about the place. SCP-3699-1-2: And the chips… SCP-3699-1-3: Oh God, yes, the chips! Makes the seagulls flock around in their squawking. So vulgar. SCP-3699-1-2: Disgraceful. SCP-3699-1-3: It's a good thing we ended up at Cley, you know. Not as many people to bother us. SCP-3699-1-2: Well, there is the constant chatter of newcomers. You know what they're like. The humans can't hear them yet, of course, but some stones never listen to what their elders and betters tell them, so they witter on regardless. SCP-3699-1-3: Quite! The humans can't hear them unless they're off the beach. Dozy bunch of shale. They hear of Cley's reputation and they come here, pig-ignorant, and quite spoil the place for the rest of us with their inane babble! SCP-3699-1-4: Shocking. Simply shocking. SCP-3699-1-3: Mind you… there are some good things about the modern day. SCP-3699-1-2: That’s true. Fewer shipwrecks. SCP-3699-1-1: Yes, they were always nasty. The sight of the bodies, the stench of the water… the fear in their glassy eyes… SCP-3699-1-3: The ones who lived were the worst. SCP-3699-1-1: The way they’d linger. SCP-3699-1-4: And the rocks are different too. Not so craggy. SCP-3699-1-3: Less blood. SCP-3699-1-2: More! SCP-3699-1-3: No, less. Maybe more gets in the water, but it’s not the same. It’s not like the rivers that would flow in devotion to some pagan deity. The blood of sacrifice. SCP-3699-1-2: Of faith and war. SCP-3699-1-1: Yes. Of faith and war. SCP-3699-1-4: Skies are still the same, though. SCP-3699-1-3: Indeed. The same greyness in the clouds. The same slightness as the sun shines through it. SCP-3699-1-1: Same darkness in the shadow of the sun. SCP-3699-1-3: Ah, we are old my dears, we are old. SCP-3699-1-2: As old as the universe. SCP-3699-1-1: Older, maybe. Memories get fuzzy around then. SCP-3699-1-4: Yes. The same memories. SCP-3699-1-1: Forever. <End Log> +Interview 3699-31 -Interview 3699-31 Interviewed: SCP-3699-1-1. Interviewer: Dr. F██████ Foreword: This interview was conducted 31/12/20██. <Begin Log> Dr. F██████: What is your earliest memory? SCP-3699-1-1: My earliest? Well, that’s a hard thing to work out. My earliest in my current form, do you mean? Dr. F██████: No, I meant the earliest memory of any form. Going back as far as possible. SCP-3699-1-1: Ah, well, that’s tougher. Things get so… mixed-up when you go that far back. I was me, and before that a larger rock, and then a larger, a larger, and so on. All the way back to the greatest rock of all; the earth. Dr. F██████: The earth? You remember being the earth? SCP-3699-1-1: Oh yes. We all do. Most of us are from her originally, though there are plenty of space-rocks and moon-chips too. It was a good time. I-we-hurtled through space with the force of a thousand suns. I was on fire, burning through the heavens. Great startling lines and shapes of colour and fury went passed me. No life back then; just the roar, the endless roar as we plummeted through the cosmos. I was vast, limitless, glorious. And now I’m a small pebble. Funny how things work out. Dr. F██████: Do you remember being anything before the earth? SCP-3699-1-1: Larger rocks. Parts of separate rocks, merged together in the fire. Little rocks in between. Mostly… mostly I just remember fire and darkness, endlessly cycling together. I was many rocks. I… I’m sorry. This is proving hard to remember. Dr. F██████: Just take your time. What is the very earliest thing you can remember? Before all of this? SCP-3699-1-1: I… there… there was one. Just one. Without knowledge or light or life. Compressed into a single instant. Forever, until suddenly it wasn’t forever. And I remember… I'm sorry, doctor. This is all hard to recall. A lot of our free time is spent gazing upwards, at the fires and lights in the sky, remembering when we were all together. We sometimes sit at twilight, just trying to make everything out in a time we barely recall… Dr. F██████: It's alright. Take your time. SCP-3699-1-1: I remember… before. The ghosts. The things before matter. I… I… No. I don’t recollect anything. It’s not even a memory, you see. It’s just a- a feeling, you know? Like it’s on the tip of your tongue, but you can’t quite recall. Something different. Something strange. Something that was once, and will be again. Dr. F██████: Will be again? SCP-3699-1-1: I… I’m sorry, doctor. I think we’ll have to end it here. <End Log> ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3699" by Tufto, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3699. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. 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Depiction of SCP-3700's area of effect. Item #: SCP-3700 Special Containment Procedures: Foundation Naval Task Force Delta-7 ("Northern Storm") is currently assigned to patrol an area 800 km in diameter encompassing the Orkney, Shetland, and Faroe Archipelagos in the North Sea. 2 refurbished battleships, purchased from the United States military, have been assigned to this task force.1 13 destroyers, 5 cruisers, and 15 smaller support craft2 are to accompany these vessels. Delta-7 has been instructed to patrol in a spiral pattern, moving outwards from a central pre-determined location, known as the Origin. This pattern is to be maintained until Delta-7 either encounters SCP-3700-1, or reaches the edge of the designated 800 km zone wherein they will return to the origin and begin the process again. Information regarding SCP-3700's actual depth is to be retracted from all public texts and scientific publications. Should SCP-3700-1 be encountered, Delta-7 is to accompany the entity until it encounters SCP-3700-2, or it demanifests. SCP-3700-1 has been implanted with 32 large scale Donovan holoprojectors which give the entity the appearance of a pod of humpback whales.3 Delta-7 is authorized to dissuade SCP-3700-1 from directly approaching any of the archipelagos, via force if necessary. Inquiry into Delta-7's presence is to be explained via maritime exercises between international peacekeeping forces. High ranking elements of the British Royal Navy have been informed of Delta-7's presence and purpose. Should SCP-3700-1 encounter SCP-3700-2 at any point, Delta-7 is authorized to engage Protocol "Winter Maelstrom". Protocol Winter Maelstrom Upon encountering SCP-3700-2 in the presence of SCP-3700-1, Delta-7 is to take the following actions. Destroyers are to deploy harpoon based anchors into SCP-3700-2's skin on its head, securing it in one location. Destroyers are to move in a circular pattern at a distance of 200 m, and engage the entity with both L-cannons, and standard armaments, with anchors at full taut to ensure the entity cannot orient properly in any one direction. Cruisers are to draw SCP-3700-2's attention away from both destroyers and battleships, via use of Class 3 L-cannons and standard armaments. Cruisers should engage in a circular serpentine pattern at 300 m. Battleships are to employ Class 4 L-cannons in systematic continuous barrages, at 180 degrees on either side of the entity, 400 m away. Both vessels should coordinate as to launch each barrage at the same time as their counterparts. All vessels shall follow this protocol until either entity subdues the other. As conventional weaponry and L-cannons are only capable of doing limited damage to SCP-3700-2, Delta-7 should not engage it in the absence of the other entity. Should SCP-3700-1 prove unable to subdue SCP-3700-2, or should SCP-3700-1 encounter SCP-3700-2 before Delta-7 encounters the entity, protocol "Tumult" will be put in place. Protocol Tumult The following procedures are to be enacted upon failure to properly contain SCP-3700-2. Evacuation of naval and civilian craft from the 800 km area of effect. Rerouting of trade and ferry routes to the archipelagos for a period of no less than six months. Continuous aerial and naval reconnaissance of, and engagement with SCP-3700-2. Increased monitoring of SCP-3456 activity, due to SCP-3700-2's regurgitation of instances and a result of the changing, hazardous, weather patterns. Continued surveillance for the reappearance of SCP-3700-1. Activation of land based aquatic defenses. Due to SCP-3700-1's degrading physical condition, inquiries into the potential damage caused by allowing SCP-3700-2 to subdue SCP-3700-1 twice every 5 years is ongoing. Cooperative requests to local GOC forces are pending via review of GOC demands. Description: SCP-3700 is the designation for a circular area in the North Sea with a diameter of 800 km encompassing the archipelagos of Faroe, Orkney, and Shetland. SCP-3700 has an abnormal depth, with the sea floor located approximately 5 km below the ocean surface, compared to an average of 250-300 m for the rest of the North Sea. SCP-3700 is subject to a wide and varied array of anomalous occurrences4 due to ritualistic interactions between two entities, which have been designated SCP-3700-1 and SCP-3700-2. Active effects of SCP-3700 are wholly dependent on which entity successfully subdues the other during each ritual. All rituals, with the exception of two consistent dates, take place at random periods of time.5 SCP-3700-1 and SCP-3700-2 always interact on dates corresponding with the spring and fall equinox of the given year. Show information on SCP-3700-1 Hide information on SCP-3700-1 SCP-3700-1 is an arthropod6 six km in length, green in pigmentation, with a mixture of blue, yellow, pink, and red markings etched along the top forming a facsimile of a woman's face. It possesses six prehensile limbs7 attached to an elongated crescent shaped segment of its abdomen on the anterior end, with eight legs attached to a cylindrical segment stretching roughly four km in length. The entity possesses four compound eyes, orange in pigment, attached to stalks at the front of the crescent.8 SCP-3700-1's carapace is heavily damaged, with large amounts of scarring, cracking, and small holes which expose softer tissues. Other than its size, the entity possesses several anomalous capabilities, a number of which are used to subdue SCP-3700-2. SCP-3700-1 is capable of using its club-like appendages in a similar manner to a Peacock Mantis Shrimp, where both the strike and the resulting cavitation bubbles produce a force in excess of several tonnes of dynamite.9 Two of SCP-3700-1's eyes are capable of projecting concentrated blasts of gamma radiation. The entity is capable of dispelling/dispersing storms, and other aberrant weather phenomena, while simultaneously increasing rates of erosion on any land mass it comes within 100 m of. Despite its size, SCP-3700-1 is capable of reaching speeds in excess of 100 km/hr, and has demonstrated an ability to demanifest entirely if it is unable to locate SCP-3700-2 within a certain timeframe.10 SCP-3700-1 is benign in nature, and displays rudimentary signs of sapience. When accompanied by Delta-7, it will either ignore the presence of Foundation vessels, or provide some primitive form of aid via propelling disabled craft away from peril. The entity travels the length of the 800 km area in which it manifests in a spiral pattern, moving out from a central location11 towards the edges. Since its discovery, and the subsequent implementation of containment protocols, the entity has slowed considerably in its movements, suffered several notable decreases in mass12 and has weakened considerably in its ability to subdue SCP-3700-2. Show information on SCP-3700-2 Hide information on SCP-3700-2 Artistic rendition of SCP-3700-2 as described by native inhabitants of the Island of Orkney. SCP-3700-2 is an anomalous member of the Actinopterygii13 which closely resembles Eurypharynx pelecanoides in appearance with the exception of 13 appendages encircling the middle section of its body. These appendages resemble the tentacles of an octopus, with accompanying suckers, and tuck into the entity's torso when not in use. The entity is currently 32 km in length,14 with the majority of its length being composed of a whip-like tail ending in a sharpened point, with the widest point of the entity being approximately 1 km from top to bottom. Each tentacle is estimated to be approximately 60m in length, and its mouth is estimated to reach 3 km in depth when opened. SCP-3700-2 is black in pigmentation, and is bio-luminescent, with white, purple, and red luminescent lines forming the facsimile of a man's face on either side of its torso. SCP-3700-2 is capable of invoking rapid changes in meteorological conditions, specifically invoking storm conditions in excess of category 5 hurricanes. The entity is capable of bending its torso between the tail, in the semblance of a joint where there is visibly not one, and then spinning the lower portion of its body, while its head remains oriented in a single direction. This allows SCP-3700-2 to generate a whirlpool/maelstrom, drawing any vessels within 150 m towards it, at which point its tentacles will grip and rip said objects apart, regardless of composition. The entity is capable of releasing high energy soundwaves and streams of blue fire15 from its esophagus, allowing it to quickly dispatch close range targets. SCP-3700-2 manifests at random locations along its counterpart's spiral path, with the exception of the aforementioned equinoxes where it appears at the Origin. SCP-3700-2 remains submerged unless it is engaged with another object/organism or SCP-3700-1, and will demanifest ~15 days after first appearing. The entity is openly hostile to any and all organisms that approach it;16 however, SCP-3700-2 reverts to rote predatory behavior in all instances other than interactions with SCP-3700-1. The entity cannot be subdued via conventional weaponry, and only suffers moderate damage from anomalous weaponry, thus only SCP-3700-1 is capable of fully subduing it. Several of SCP-3700-2's more notable anomalous properties, including its ability to regurgitate SCP-3456 instances, have emerged in the last decade, as its counterpart has grown weaker.17 Interactions between SCP-3700-1 and 2 consist of prolonged struggle, where each entity will attempt to temporarily kill or subdue the other. Interactions on equinox dates always occurs at the center of the 800 km zone. Interactions shortly following the given equinox dates are usually short, and can occur in random locations, with the victor of the previous interaction quickly dispatching the other entity. Historically, the previously subdued party has defeated its counterpart during the next equinox, prior to implementation of current protocols.18 This resulted in two six month cycles where SCP-3700-119 would dominate one cycle, and SCP-3700-220 the other. Since implementation of current containment procedures, SCP-3700-1 has subdued SCP-3700-2 for 64 straight equinoxes with Foundation aid. Successful defeat of one entity by the other induces a number of different geological and meteorological changes within the 800 km zone. These are described below: When SCP-3700-1 subdues SCP-3700-2 Storms, and harsh weather are immediately dispelled, despite meteorological conditions in areas outside of the 800 km zone. Reproductive rates of local oceanic and island fauna increase by a factor of three, and crop yields double for the duration of the six month period. Careful culling of ocean fauna must be undertaken, due to unintended creation of dead-zones as a result of overpopulation of certain species of zooplankton. Erosion rates of each archipelago's shores increase from standard rates by a factor of five.21 When SCP-3700-2 subdues SCP-3700-1 Meteorological conditions become perilous. Continuous storms, ranging in strength from that of a category 1 to category 5 hurricane occur throughout the 800 km zone. Temperatures experience rapid fluctuations, ranging from well below 0 C, to well above 28 C as a result of the constantly changing storm fronts. Such conditions may cause damage or complete destruction of buildings, and loss of life, resulting in SCP-3456 appearances. Travel by sea is rendered difficult, if not impossible, by turbulent storm surges and waves. Supplies, food, and transport must be arranged by air, or aboard specialized storm-faring vessels. Ocean food sources are driven from the area due to the extreme conditions, and livestock often expire from exposure or disease. Crop yields are greatly reduced due to high winds, over-saturated soil, and lack of sunlight. SCP-3700-2 does not demanifest. It will actively patrol the zone, and is known to approach the archipelagos explicitly to regurgitate SCP-3456, as well as prey upon any unsuspecting civilian vessels capable of traversing the harsh conditions it generates. Historical reports indicate that SCP-3700-1 has been regularly encountered by local fishermen since the 1500s; however, based on oral traditions, and known folklore of the area, it is likely that SCP-3700-1 was present during the construction of several nearby [DATA EXPUNGED] and that its counterpart was one of the many targets of such efforts. Reports of SCP-3700-2 are also consistent in local folklore; however, no recorded sightings of the entity were noted until the mid 20th century. Show Incident Log I-3700-039 Hide Incident Log I-3700-039 Incident Log I-3700-039: The following incident log contains a composite video and audio recording transcript of the interaction between SCP-3700-1 and SCP-3700-2 which occurred on March 20th, 2017. Descriptions and events were constructed using mounted CCTV cameras and audio communication logs between task force vessels. It should be noted that the nature of this incident is novel, and the given containment procedures and description have not been revised to reflect it due to a distinct lack of certainty regarding its consequences, and absence of historical precedence in regards to such an occurrence. Incident Log I-3700-039 Foreword: Delta-7 arrived at the "origin" at approximately 00:00 hours on March 20th, and began preparations for Protocol "Winter Maelstrom". SCPS Mither and SCPS Teran were the retrofitted battleships present for the engagement, with the Mither serving as the flagship for the force. 2 of the destroyers suffered minor damage during the engagement, and the destroyer SCPS Stronsay Beast suffered heavy damage, including complete engine failure, and had to be towed from the area. Several vessels reported loss of personnel following the incident, with the majority of losses due to unusually turbulent seas, or SCP-3456 appearances. Communications throughout the engagement refer to SCP-3700-1 and SCP-3700-2 as HOMER and ANGIE respectively. Begin Log [At 17:32:37 an area of water, 600 m from where Delta-7 was anchored, began emitting intense rays of light for approximately three minutes, before SCP-3700-1 appeared.] SCPS Mither: "This is the Mither to all vessels, HOMER has appeared, I repeat HOMER has appeared." [Delta-7 withdraws their anchors from the ocean floor, and begin steaming towards SCP-3700-1. The entity begins moving slowly, in a circular pattern, as Delta-7 gains on it. It catches sight of Delta-7 after approximately five minutes, and appears to acknowledge their presence by raising 2 of its claws into the air, and clicking them repeatedly while emitting a low rumbling noise from the appendages around its mouth.] [Delta-7 escorts SCP-3700-1 around the origin for approximately 30 minutes, in formation, without incident. At approximately 18:02:08, weather conditions begin changing. Large black wall clouds resembling those found in hurricanes form within several seconds, the wind visibly increases in speed and the waves become turbulent.] [SCP-3700-1 raises its claws, and moves them in a circular motion, creating a small hole in the clouds above it and Delta-7. SCP-3700-1 is noted to cease this activity after approximately 30 seconds, its antenna drooping, visibly taxed by the effort. The hole remains for the duration of the incident.] [600 m in front of Delta-7 and SCP-3700-1 the ocean begins to froth, and foam, before SCP-3700-2 emerges from beneath the surface, head pointed vertically upwards. It rises up until the tops of its tentacles are visible, and then stops. Its torso bends and the head becomes horizontally level. The entity's jaw opens, unhinged, revealing several rows of serrated teeth, before it emits a roar, followed by a stream of blue fire. SCP-3700-1 dives beneath the surface at this point.] SCPS Mither: "All vessels, ANGIE has been spotted. Engage 'Winter Maelstrom.'" [Delta-7 Scatters outwards from where SCP-3700-1 submerged. All 13 destroyers reach their positions and fire their harpoons, which embed in the entity's head. SCP-3700-2 emits a second vocalization and becomes agitated, as its lower body begins to spin, generating the characteristic whirlpool at its base. Cruisers reach their positions and open fire with L-cannons and conventional weaponry, drawing SCP-3700-2's attention. Destroyers begin moving at top speed, drawing the harpoon lines taut and dragging the entity's head in a continuous 360 degree loop. Battleships reach their designated positions and charge their cannons.] SCPS Mither: "Fire barrage on my mark. 3…2…1…Fire!" [The first broadside barrage from the battleships collides with SCP-3700-2, causing it to wail. SCP-3700-2 begins emitting grunting vocalizations, before regurgitating an SCP-3456 entity into the water below. The instance begins moving towards the line of destroyers in excess of 50 km/hr, despite a lack of aquatic anatomical features.] SCPS Selkie: "CENTAUR in the water! Headed straight towards us!" SCPS Mither: "Selkie, switch targets to CENTAUR #1, engage with all weaponry." [The SCP-3456 instance closes the gap between it and the SCPS-Selkie before the vessel can retarget its weaponry.] SCPS Selkie: "It's too close!" [The Selkie is briefly lifted from the water by the instance, and it can be seen reaching towards crew members who are clinging to the railing and their weapon emplacements. SCP-3700-2 is briefly relieved by this action, allowing it to orient itself and release a stream of blue fire which impacts the SCPS-Stronsay Beast.] [An audible crack is heard, as the Selkie is released, and the SCP-3456 entity wails. SCP-3700-1 surfaces, and strikes the entity with its club like appendages once, twice, and three times, each resulting in loud cracks. The SCP-3456 instance is torn in half by the third strike, sending its human torso flying through the air, before landing just beyond the SCPS-Mither. The Selkie returns to full steam, drawing the line taut and pulling SCP-3700-2 out of its orientation. The Stronsay Beast has suffered moderate damage due to the fire, and is visibly smoking near its engine compartments.] [SCP-3700-1 is seen lifting several crew members, from the Selkie, who were displaced into the ocean, and places them safely aboard another destroyer as it passes. The entity curls its tail down below it, leaving only its crescent segment visible above the water and turns towards SCP-3700-2. SCP-3700-1 moves toward the edge of the whirlpool, two of its eyes beginning to emit luminescence. SCP-3700-2 is beginning to show signs of moderate damage due to the L-cannon barrages. Several SCP-3456 instances can be seen in the surrounding waters, and are being kept at bay by smaller support craft.] SCPS Mither: "Brace for the killing blow!" [SCP-3700-1 emits several concentrated blasts of gamma radiation, carving several large holes in SCP-3700-2. SCP-3700-2 wails, and begins flailing violently. Its motions manage to snap all of the destroyer's harpoon lines, and creates several large waves which push all present vessels backwards. The entity's barbed tail snakes from below SCP-3700-1 and impales it in its midsection and then lifts it clear of the water. SCP-3700-1 strikes at the tail with its club like appendages, attempting to free itself several times, before all movement stops. SCP-3700-2 flings the entity past Delta-7 where it plunges beneath the ocean surface and does not reemerge.] SCPS Mither: "HOMER is down, HOMER is down, all ships pull out and regroup for implementation of protocol Tumult." [All Delta-7 vessels turn and begin moving in the opposite direction of SCP-3700-2. The SCPS-Stronsay Beast has visibly slowed, sputtering smoke, before coming to a complete halt. SCP-3700-2 has begun expanding its whirlpool, and the sea has become extremely turbulent, as its flails have ceased. It emits a loud vocalization, and turns towards the fleeing vessels, before spotting the Stronsay Beast.] SCPS Mither: "Stronsay Beast, get out of there now!" SCPS Stronsay Beast: "We can't move! Our engines are shot!" [The Stronsay Beast is caught in the whirlpool, and drifts towards SCP-3700-2. A tentacle rises from beneath the surface, and wraps around the damaged vessel. SCP-3700-2 opens its mouth, preparing to consume the destroyer. SCP-3700-1 leaps from beneath the surface as SCP-3700-2's jaws begin to close, managing to strike and sever the tentacle gripping the Stronsay Beast, then weakly attempting to strike it, sending the damaged destroyer just beyond the whirlpools edge.] [SCP-3700-2 emits another vocalization, jaws clamping down on top of SCP-3700-1. Several bright flashes of light are visible, and SCP-3700-2 roars in pain, thrashing as its lower half stops spinning, and its tentacles come up from beneath the waves, and begin tearing SCP-3700-1's legs from its abdomen. SCP-3700-2 tentacles stop moving, and a rapid succession of muffled cracks can be heard. SCP-3700-2's lower jaw is severed, dropping SCP-3700-1 into the water. SCP-3700-2 begins flailing, its movements growing weaker before it releases one final stream of fire onto SCP-3700-1 in the water. Delta-7 stops steaming in the other direction, and patiently waits for signs of a victor; however, after 5 minutes neither entity is seen moving.] [Delta-7 makes its way back towards the site of the clash, where they found neither entity moving or alive. Both entities dissolved shortly after Delta-7 reached their position, a single round object was seen, by multiple crew members aboard the Stronsay Beast, sinking beneath the surface where SCP-3700-1 had been. At this time, it was noted that the wall clouds had dispersed into standard cumulonimbus clouds, although surface conditions remained turbulent.] SCPS Mither: "This is Delta-7 to Command." Command: "We read you Delta-7." SCPS Mither: "We have a bit of a situation." Command: "Go ahead Delta-7." SCPS Mither: "SCP-3700-1 and 2 are both down." [10 seconds of radio silence.] Command: "Please repeat Delta-7." SCPS Mither: "SCP-3700-1 and 2 are both down." Command: "Stand by." [Approximately three minutes of radio silence.] Command: "Are either entities' effects active Delta-7?" SCPS Mither: "Negative command." Command: "Is there any trace of either entity?" SCPS Mither: "Also negative." Command: [Anxiously] "It appears the anomaly has been neutralized. Delta-7 is to return to base for debrief following any recovery efforts." SCPS Mither: Understood command. [Approximately five minutes of radio silence occur as recovery efforts begin, and the Stronsay Beast is attached to tug boats.] SCPS Mither: "Command, we're picking up unusual levels of gamma radiation, and a sonar contact at a depth of 3 km. Requesting permission to deploy submersibles for exploration purposes?" [One minute of radio silence passes, wherein command is recorded to have deliberated a decision.] Command: "Request denied. Return to base for debriefing." [Delta-7 turns from the scene of the preceding battle, and begins steaming in the direction of its berth.] [During the next 5 minutes of recording, gamma radiation levels continued to increase. Ocean surface turbulence visibly worsen, and several smaller vessels are seen tossed by large waves. CCTV cameras on multiple vessels record the abrupt cessation of surface turbulence, and the appearance of four large, yellow orbs, 300 m from Delta-7's location, below the surface. The orbs linger for approximately 2 minutes, during which time significant seismic activity is reported within the area, before vanishing. Command notes the presence of the objects at this time, but does not inform Delta-7.] [Following the disappearance of these objects, Delta-7 detects a new sonar contact 5 km directly beneath the task force. Initial readings indicated some sort of metallic structure.] SCPS Mither: "Command, we've lost the signal from the previous contact, and are no longer detecting gamma radiation. We're detecting a new contact, 5 km deep, large, and metallic." Command: "Stand by Delta-7." [Command discusses further action for approximately 3 minutes.] Command: "Delta-7, you are authorized to deploy submersibles for exploration purposes. Be advised, should SCP-3700-2 manifest, exploration teams are to be considered lost, and you are to return to base." SCPS Mither: "Roger Command." End Log Footnotes 1. These ships have each been retrofitted with 9 class 4 L-cannons capable of in-taking ocean water and firing concentrated lightning rounds. 2. Each equipped with class-3 or 2 L-cannons alongside stabilizing systems in order to withstand harsh storm conditions equivalent to those of a category 5 hurricane. 3. Please see "Donovan Projectors: The Next Generation of Visual Concealment." 4. Primarily sudden changes in meteorological and geological conditions. 5. With the shortest span between interaction having been 2 weeks, and the longest six months. 6. Which resembles Homarus gammarus. 7. Four of which end in claws, with the remaining two ending in club-like appendages. 8. The lower two eyes were originally thought to be vestigial, as they do not appear to move, however, initial interactions with SCP-3700-2 revealed their true function. 9. Exact measurements have proven impossible to quantify due to the entity's non-hostile nature outside of SCP-3700-2. 10. ~15 days post appearance, with the exception of the previously mentioned spring and autumn equinoxes. 11. Known as the origin. This location is equidistant from all 3 archipelagos, and is home to a large number of shipwrecks from a variety of different historical periods. 12. Having originally been a length of 16 km when such measurements were first recorded in 1932. 13. Ray finned fishes. 14. The original recorded length was less than 300 m when the entity first appeared in 1945. 15. Presumed to be the source of its luminescence. 16. Delta-7 have witnessed the demise of several pods of Blue Whales at the jaws of the entity. 17. A number of theories are currently being explored as to why this is occurring, however it is likely that changing global climate patterns in combination with SCP-3700-1's domination of the cycle for the past 64 equinoxes play large roles. 18. Current physiological studies seem to indicate that this is due to physical exhaustion of one party. 19. Usually periods corresponding with the spring and summer of the northern hemisphere. 20. Usually corresponding to winter and fall. 21. Foundation personnel have been forced to import large amounts of dirt and sand in order to slow erosion rates and restore lost beach which buffers the islands.
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SCP-3701
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safe
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Item #: SCP-3701 Special Containment Procedures: When not in use, SCP-3701 is to be kept in the temporal anomaly storage unit at Site 221. At all times outside of storage, including during testing sessions, SCP-3701 is to have a large chrono hazard sticker placed on it, to prevent accidental misuse by staff confusing it for a simple kitchen timer. No tests are to be performed outside of the safe settings that have been designated, unless a level 4 researcher or higher has overruled the safety precautions. Description: SCP-3701 appears essentially identical to a standard 1 hour kitchen timer. However, it is extremely resilient and to date, no amount of heat or pressure has been able to cause even superficial damage to the object. SCP-3701 was discovered inside of SCP-728 following a routine test. Initial experimentation on SCP-3701 revealed its anomalous temporal properties. When an individual holding the object sets and starts the timer, they immediately cease to exist in our timeline, and enter a separate, parallel timeline. The user will exist in this alternate timeline for the duration the timer has been set to, and will be enveloped in a temporal shield, preventing direct, indirect and quantum interaction with matter in the alternate timeline. Notably, the rate of time in this alternate timeline will move at an accelerated rate from the perspective of the individual in it. Testing has proved that the user will witness a duration of 10^(n-1) hours of the alternate timeline, where n represents the setting in minutes on SCP-3701. For example, if the user sets the timer to 2 minutes, they will experience 2 minutes from their perspective, but will witness 10 hours of time passing around them in the alternate timeline. Subjects have described this effect as being similar to "watching a movie in fast forward." With each additional elapsed minute from the perspective of the user, the rate of time in the alternate timeline increases by a factor of 10. This makes precise events of the far future essentially impossible to detect. Following test 3701-5, it was discovered that the temporal shield weakens significantly the instant before the user is returned to our timeline. This has led to restrictions of the settings that users may test on SCP-3701. When the timer reaches 0, the user is transported back to our timeline in the relative location they were in the alternate timeline. No chronic or acute effects have been recorded from using the device in the designated safe settings. Addendum 1: Regarding Chrono-Link Chrono-Link is the brainchild of Dr. William Atlas, created as a means of obtaining and transmitting information across alternate timelines. Its original iterations were built off of the temporal sinks designed and used in the now defunct Peregrine Mission. Recent advancements in quantum computing, and specifically the allocation of two Z-4 quantum supercomputers to Site 221 have allowed this technology to be properly tested. Chrono-Link uses advanced quantum tunneling models to accurately transmit and receive discrete data packets across timelines. However, this is still extremely computationally demanding, and therefore only simple messages can be transmitted back and forth, even when site 221 commits ~90% of its computational power to the program. Hopefully, continued research with SCP-3701 can further increase the Foundation's cross-temporal communication capabilities. Test Log Close Setting: 1 minute Equivalent alternate time: 1 hour Subject: D-145834 Results: Subject was instructed to go into the break room on site and make note of events that occur over the hour as best as he can. After setting the device to one minute and starting it, subject disappeared and was absent for one minute before reappearing in the break room. Subject was able to accurately point out where various individuals would sit for lunch and what they ate, despite having no prior knowledge. Setting: 2 minutes Equivalent alternate time: 10 hours Subject: D-145834 Results: Subject asked to note various key events during the day, such as what was served for dinner, where his alternate self traveled and which researcher sat in a designated chair in the break room. In addition, he was specifically asked to only disclose the information to specified parties. It was discovered that if individuals are told of activities they do in the future timeline, they still have the free will to prevent them from happening, but without intervention, events in the future alternate timeline will eventually occur in our timeline. Setting: 3 minutes Equivalent alternate time: 100 hours (~4 days) Subject: D-145834 Results: Upon returning to our timeline, subject notes that the longer he remains in the alternate timeline, the more difficult it becomes to perceive specific events, due to the accelerated rate of time around him. No other significant analysis. Setting: 4 minutes Equivalent alternate time: 1000 hours (~1.5 months) Subject: D-145834 Results: Subject notes large volume of people moving away from the containment cell of SCP-████ and armed guards running towards it just prior to leaving the alternate timeline. Inquiry into this information led to the discovery of a severe containment vulnerability in the cell of SCP-████, which was promptly corrected. Used correctly, this has the potential to give us foresight into fatal errors before they happen. I'm going to request an upgrade into research priority for 3701. -Dr. Atlas Transcript of test 3701-5 Close This test was our first attempt at communicating with a subject while they were still in the alternate timeline through the use of Chrono-Link. Unfortunately, computational limits forced us to use extremely basic dialogue. -Dr. Atlas Setting: 13 minutes Equivalent alternate time: 1.14 billion years S = Subject, A = Dr. Atlas TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS A: TEST. NOTIFY. IF. RECEIVE. S: (Chrono-Link overload, messaged not received) A: LESS. WORDS. KEEP. SIMPLE. S: OK. STATUS. NORMAL. At this point during the test, the Chrono-Link system suffered another crash and required a 7 minute reboot A: SYSTEM. CRASH. STILL. THERE. S: STILL. HERE. OUTSIDE. NOW. A: HOW. OUTSIDE. EXPLAIN. S: LARGE. EXPLOSION. SITE. DESTROYED. A: DESCRIBE. SURROUNDINGS. S: SKY. FLASHING. RUBBLE. EVERYWHERE. The described flashing sky was attributed to the rapid changing of day and night due to the accelerated time subject was experiencing. A: ANY. SURVIVORS. S: NO. EVERYTHING. DEAD. A: STANDBY. Dr. Atlas notes this event as a potential XK-Class scenario occurring within the next 1100 years. A: TAKE. PHOTO. SEND. HERE. S: SENDING. A: PHOTO. NOT. RECEIVED. STANDBY. The photo that the subject sent once again overloaded the Chrono-Link system, requiring another 5 minute reboot. Final transmission occurs during the last minute of test. A: ANY. CHANGE. IN. SURROUNDINGS. S: SUN. MUCH. BRIGHTER S: FEELING. HOT. A: ANY. OTHER. CHANGES. S: SO. HOT. S: HOW. MUCH. TIME. LEFT. A: 30. SECONDS. STANDBY. S: VERY. HOT. SKIN. BURNING A: NOTED. 15. SECONDS. LEFT. S: EVERYTHING. BURNING. HELP. A: 5. SECONDS. LEFT. STAY. CALM. S: HOT. HOT. HOT. HOT. Following this test, SCP-3701 returned in the relative vicinity of the testing area, followed by a severely burned corpse that was identified as the subject via dental records. Testing revealed that the temporal shield provided by SCP-3701 diminished significantly enough at the end of its duration to allow the increased heat of the future sun to terminate subject. Testing of SCP-3701 on settings exceeding 12 minutes now require authorization by level-4 researchers or higher. aL60Tvjq $÷!!)( TEMPORAL CORRUPTION DETECTED Summary of Cross Testing with SCP-728 and SCP-3701 Parameters: [DATA CORRUPT] Subject: Null Results: [DATA REDACTED] Level 3 clearance or higher required Under the order of Dr. Atlas, no further cross testing of SCP-3701 shall be conducted without sole approval of Dr. Atlas or an override by the O5 council. Input Credentials Chrono-Link activated, data recovered Welcome Dr. Atlas Summary of Cross Testing with SCP-728 and SCP-3701 Parameters: Subject instructed to set SCP-3701 to 60 minutes, corresponding with an equivalent alternate timeline duration of 1.14 x 10^55 years. Subject then instructed to enter SCP-728 and begin timer once doors are closed. Subject: ERROR, OUT OF RANGE Results: No anomalous activity reported for the duration of the one hour timeline set. No contact could be made with subject during this period through the Chrono-Link system; Dr. Atlas notes that this is likely due to the properties of SCP-728. Following the expiry of the one hour duration, sensors recorded a massive drop in the local temporal and hume field. Following this drop, a spacial-temporal anomaly formed in the center of the test area, triggering temporal shielding devices to activate. Current research into SCP-3701 has been postponed, and resources have been shifted into studying this anomaly and what may lie on the other side. In addition, it is noted that there are no records in Foundation databases of the subject participating in this test, and no researchers involved claim to have any memory of any specific traits of the individual. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3701" by JimmyJoJR, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3701. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3702
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euclid
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Item #: SCP-3702 Special Containment Procedures: A 42 km x 200 m stretch of desert in the eastern portion of the Cyrenaica district of Libya has been enclosed with 3 m tall barbed wire fencing. Given SCP-3702's proximity to the agricultural communities of Jaghbub Oasis, barbed wire fences have been labeled as encompassing an active minefield. Security teams have been placed at strategic points along the fence to monitor SCP-3702-1's progress, and reroute any Berber caravans attempting to circumnavigate the stretch. Security teams have been instructed not to offer SCP-3702-1 food or water. An aerial drone has been assigned to monitor SCP-3702-1's progress and is to return to its manifestation point at 6:00 A.M. each day. Description: SCP-3702 is a stretch of desert in the eastern portion of the Cyrenaica district of Libya, beginning 32 km southwest of Al Jaghbub and ending 3 m from the westernmost body of water of the oasis. ARad measurements of SCP-3702 register abnormally high emissions in excess of 10,000. This is likely the cause behind observed meteorological abnormalities, including average daytime temperatures of 50 °C year round, and the absence of precipitation in any form within the boundaries of the anomaly. SCP-3702 is regularly traversed by a singular entity, SCP-3702-1. This entity is a male humanoid, with non-human anatomical features consistent with other aquatic humanoids from SCP-████, including yellow-green scales, gills, and fins along the arms and legs. SCP-3702-1 suffers from the physical and mental effects of the following conditions: mid to late stages of dehydration, second-degree radiation burns due to UV exposure, non-surgical removal of the tongue, and late stages of heat exhaustion. The entity appears incapable of succumbing to these conditions, and always remanifests in slightly better physical condition than when it demanifested last. A set of Nordic thaumaturgic runes are engraved upon the entity's chest and back. These translate to: I walk through endless sands, without food, water, or tongue. None shall help me. This is the price of my careless greed. So it shall always be, by the Mither's will. SCP-3702's anomalous effects manifest twice each day. At 6:00 A.M. SCP-3702-1 will manifest, and atmospheric temperatures within the enclosure will instantaneously elevate to 50 °C. SCP-3702-1 will then begin walking, running, crawling, or dragging itself along the top of the sand towards the westernmost body of water in the Jaghub oasis. At 9:00 P.M. the entity will demanifest, regardless of his current position. Reaching the western edge of SCP-3702-1 prior to 9:00 P.M. will also result in demanifestation. Discovery and Containment: SCP-3702-1 was first encountered via a Berber caravan passing through the area on 3/22/2017. A Foundation undercover operative assigned to the caravan as part of measures to monitor and preserve a nearby SCP-███ site reported the anomaly to nearby containment officials. All members of the caravan were treated with Class A amnestics, and a containment team was dispatched. The entity's physical state had degenerated upon containment team arrival, rendering it unconscious. The containment team attempted to remove SCP-3702-1, at which time they discovered the northern boundary of SCP-3702. The entity was promptly separated from the containment team via a significant concussive blast of unknown origin, at which point a swarm of Danaus plexippus1 emerged from the surrounding sand, and proceeded to engage in carnivorous activity upon the entity. SCP-3702-1 regained consciousness upon the swarm's appearance and proceeded to emit distressed vocalizations for 3 seconds before all biological matter was consumed, at which time the swarm dispersed. A second attempt was made when SCP-3702-1 was spotted the following day. Attempts at communication were made, revealing the entity's physical inability to communicate. An attempt to remove the entity by moving in the opposite direction lead to the discovery of the southern border of SCP-3702, and a similar outcome as the first attempt. A third attempt at removing the entity via the western direction lead to the discovery of its point of manifestation, and a similar outcome as the first two retrieval attempts. A fourth and final attempt was made in the eastern direction, resulting in SCP-3702-1's demanifestation 3 m from the edge of the oasis's westward most body of water. Several attempts at aerial removal were conducted, resulting in similar outcomes. Following determination that SCP-3702-1 could not be removed from the area, the current enclosure was constructed. Ancillary attempts were subsequently made to offer SCP-3702-1 food and/or water. This lead to the discovery that such attempts would result in the transformation of provided items into random amounts of Leiurus quinquestriatus2 and Cochliomyia hominivorax,3 respectively, upon placement in SCP-3702-1's mouth. Update 4/02/2017: Further attempts at providing aid to SCP-3702-1 have been suspended indefinitely via confirmation of the entity's identity as ████ ███████, per the terms of the Foundation-████████ cooperative treaty signed on 4/01/2017. Further action in regards to SCP-3702 is limited to observation and positional tracking. Footnotes 1. Colloquially known as the Monarch Butterfly, and a species which is not native to the Sahara desert, or any part of Northern Africa. 2. Colloquially known as the "Death-Stalker". 3. Colloquially known as the New World screw-worm fly, which is not native to Northern Africa. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3702" by DrBleep, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3702. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3703
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thaumiel
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Item #: SCP-3703 Special Containment Procedures: Archaeological excavations within close proximity to established Neolithic and Bronze age sites have been implanted with undercover Foundation agents. In the event that an excavation discovers an SCP-3703 instance, further excavation will be halted, and amnestic treatment protocols implemented. In the event of multiple SCP-3703 instances; additional searches are to be conducted, using ground penetrating radar. Exposed instances should be fully excavated, and observational data collected. SCP-3703 instances and their accompanying chambers are to be concealed via the use of Donovan holoprojectors. Research and experimentation with SCP-3703 is subject to level 3 approval. Testing involving the use of sapient or semi-sapient organisms is currently prohibited. Personnel entering the interior of SCP-3703-1 must have a 2 or higher MARS (Mind-Affecting Resistance Scale) score. A maximum exposure time of 10 minutes is to be observed for any and all excursions into SCP-3703-1 instances. SCP-3703 are to be monitored by onsite research and security personnel via installed CCTV cameras and previously installed VERITAS devices. Change in baseline VERITAS readings and visible agitation of SCP-3703, SCP-3703-1, or SCP-3703-A, have been designated as signs of a class III containment failure. Observed increases in structural damage to any portion of the SCP-3703-1 instances at the nine known sites possessing 13 SCP-3703 instances, including their connections to the surrounding neolithic/bronze age structures, constitutes a class VII containment failure, and multiple potential HK-class deific subjugation scenarios. Efforts are underway to repair damage to SCP-3703 instances. In the event that such efforts are unsuccessful, a contingency plan involving SCP-████-1 through 4 is currently in place. Description: SCP-3703 are several hundred structures consisting of a mass of congealed corpses1 fused at multiple points, in various states of arrested decay. Each SCP-3703 instance levitates within a cuboid chamber (designated SCP-3703-1) composed of a semi-solid gelatinous substance. A large number of branching pipe-like structures extend from this chamber and into the surrounding site. Both SCP-3703 and SCP-3703-1 are found adjacent to, below, or within a large number of major excavated Neolithic and Bronze age sites. Each set of remains have been arranged, positioned, or otherwise distorted into various geometric forms. Outside of several notable exceptions, these forms are associated with symbols of protection.2 All SCP-3703 instances possess at least 1 hemispherical depression. These depressions are entryways into extraplanar spaces designated SCP-3703-A (See Document A and Exploration logs). SCP-3703 instances vary widely in size, dependent on the density and number of corpses.3 Common examples of shapes SCP-3703 is known to emulate. The primary purpose of both SCP-3703 and SCP-3703-1 appears to be the generation and channeling of high energy matter in a form resembling natural plasma. This originates from each hemispheric depression and flows into the surrounding site. Aforementioned matter is in a constant state of high energy, ionized molecular motion; however, it maintains constant temperatures of -20 °C and floats along the ceiling of SCP-3703-1 and into the branching pipes. Due to SCP-3703's secondary and tertiary anomalous properties, determining the source of energy generation was impossible until the invention of miniaturized robotic technologies. (See Exploration Log E-3703-01 and Supplementary Document A). When exposed to auditory stimuli, SCP-3703 will demonstrate structural changes, emulating physical objects or conceptual representations of the perceived stimuli (See Experiment Logs). Physical inanimate items placed within 3 m of SCP-3703 will result in extension of corpses in the form of appendages, which will then be used to pick up, drop, throw, or internalize the inanimate object. SCP-3703 completely ignores non-sapient organisms. Sapient entities entering SCP-3703-1 are subject to SCP-3703's secondary anomalous effect, involving visual and auditory compulsion. This involves a desire to touch or climb SCP-3703, resulting in activation of SCP-3703's tertiary effects. The exact source of the compulsion involves the manipulation of individual skeletal remains to form [COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED] using the fingers; in concert with subliminal sound emissions. Individuals who come in direct physical contact with SCP-3703 are subject to its tertiary anomalous effect. Subjects will fuse with the set(s) of remains at the initial site of contact. Fusion is usually physically traumatic enough to break the cognitohazardous effect. Experiment Logs: ENTER CREDENTIALS FOR fileserv:/S/3703/experiment.log CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED. DEACTIVATING MEMETIC COUNTERMEASURES. Prepared by the Division of Thaumaturgic Analysis The following experiments were subject to several differing conditions. Inanimate objects were placed in SCP-3703-1 via remoted controlled robotic arm. D-class subjects entering SCP-3703-1 were equipped with retractable cables. Audio-Video recording transcripts of tests 3 and 4 have been attached within the log files; primarily due to the presence of [COGNITOHAZARD REMOVED]. Test Name Operator: Object/item introduced: Result: Test Name: E-3703-01 Operator: Dr. Alva Móðir Object/item introduced: 1 bouncy ball, 1 titanium cube block (0.22 m3), 1 Rubik's cube, 1 children's shape sorting toy (square peg provided, square hole on the frame was sealed with glue and wood prior to testing, leaving only the circle and triangle holes). Result: All four inanimate objects were placed within 3 m of SCP-3703; initiating the testing sequence. SCP-3703 exhibited a response 10 seconds after initiation of testing, rearranging its shape to form an appendage, picking up the bouncy ball. For the next five minutes, SCP-3703 picks up and drops the ball. Corpses in the central mass are noted to to turn their heads, following the ball as it bounces. SCP-3703 moves from the ball to the titanium block, and proceeds to use its appendage to pick up and drop the block four times. On the fifth attempt, SCP-3703 does not drop the block, but pulls the appendage back in. 15 seconds post submersion, the block is ejected from the central mass. Ejection velocity was measured at approximately 100 km/h; its impact severely damaged two nearby pieces of measuring equipment. The titanium block was modified by SCP-3703, possessing carved proto-nordic runes translating to the following text: Is someone there beyond the passage? I can feel the metal and movement through what's left. I cannot see you through their eyes. Their sight is failing. Light is fading. Are you there? Is it you after 5 lifetimes of slumber? I can no longer hold here. I have not slept since you left the eyes won't allow it. I cannot hold here. I cannot hold here. The passage weakens behind me, and 6 wake in the bowels of my weakness. It's not you there. It's not you. Come back. Please come back. I cannot hold here. Please come back. Central mass recreates the appendage, and proceeds to pick up the Rubik's cube. Individual corpses are observed holding and maneuvering the shifting parts of the puzzle, prior to the appendage being internalized. 10 seconds following internalization, the Rubik's cube is ejected, solved. Appendage reforms after five seconds, and picks up both the sorting frame and provided shape peg. Both the frame and the peg are internalized. The SCP-3703 instance promptly begins spinning at 30 rotations per second, generating a significant wind column for approximately 30 seconds. Both the frame and the peg are ejected from SCP-3703-1 at high speed, destroying several pieces of equipment but sustaining no damage themselves. Both are inscribed with similar proto-nordic runes translating to the following: Are they still there, strangers, metal, maybe humans? It doesn't fit. It doesn't fit. Are they the three arrowed eye, save me? Can you hear me? Children's toys, on tides of war. They can't be ready too late. Will end them all, they aren't ready. They aren't ready. They aren't ready. You're not here and they aren't ready. I gave everything they gave everything who are they what do you want why. Why? Save me. Save me. Save me. Shattering seal failing passage angry mankind's doom. Save me. SCP-3703 demonstrates prominent signs of sapience. The singular and plural use of pronouns in these carvings suggests indicate some sort of hive mind conscience which drives these central masses of corpses to do whatever it is they are doing. -Dr. Alva Móðir Test Name E-3703-02 Operator: Dr. Alva Móðir Object/item introduced: 1 cage filled with lab mice. Designated M-class subjects. Result: The cage is placed within 3 m of the SCP-3703 instance, and the door unlocked. 22 test mice succesfully leave the cage, and proceed to explore the interior of SCP-3703 for the next 15 minutes. No notable incidents occur. Interior is deemed safe for human entry. I think this reaffirms the efficiency of using mice to determine safety for preliminary D-class testing. Expendable, with half the training time, and none of the ethics issues. -Dr. Alva Móðir Test Name E-3703-03 Operator: Dr. Alva Móðir Subject introduced: D-84630 (Veteran of experimental programs with low level Safe and Euclid objects.) Procedure: D-84630 was briefed on the nature of SCP-3703-1, and instructed to retrieve a tissue sample from the enclosure. [BEGIN LOG] (D-84630 is escorted into the mobile containment facility by two security personnel, and comes into visual range of SCP-3703. The corpses are obscured by the hazy nature of SCP-3703-1.) D-84630: "You're sure I'm OK to touch this one right? You remember Incident alpha-six-pumpernickle? Y'know, the one with the toucan?" Dr. Alva: "Step forward, and through the barrier please." D-84630: "Alright alright… five years doing this and not one researcher with a sense of humor." (D-84630 steps through into SCP-3703-1's interior, and immediately stops, staring at the SCP-3703 instance. The corpses composing SCP-3703 are noted to shift, facing D-84630.) Dr. Alva: "D-84630, please proceed to the object, and remove a tissue sample." (D-84630 is non responsive. They continue to stare at SCP-3703.) Dr. Alva: "D-84630 can you hear me?" (D-84630 does not respond.) (Dr. Alva addresses the crew manning the retrieval cable, and then addresses the communications tech.) Dr. Alva: "Get ready to pull her out. Are our transmissions going through?" (The communication tech confirms reception.) Dr. Alva: "Ok, D-84630, if you do not respond and proceed to target, we will initiate cable retrieval." D-84630: "You guys are seeing this right?" (D-84630 continues to stare at SCP-3703. The corpses shift so they are facing in the direction of the command chamber.) Dr. Alva: "Be more specific D-84630." D-84630: "They're talking. The corpses are talking." (SCP-3703 shifts so that the corpses are facing D-84630 again. 15 seconds of silence follow.) Dr. Alva: "Describe what you are seeing." D-84630: "There's a giant floating… disc? It's made of corpses. I'm not sure they are human, they're all scaly and stuff. The heads on the surface are looking at me and their mouths are moving… They're talking." (SCP-3703 shifts back to facing the control room.) D-84630: "Okay that right there is freaking me the fuck out. Why do they keep looking over there?" Dr. Alva: "D-84630, are you sure the corpses are moving their mouths?" D-84630: "Yeah, the mouths are moving." (SCP-3703 shifts back to D-84630.) D-84630: "Doc, I don't like this. I've been doing this long enough to know that if I'm in the room and something's happening, and you can't see it, it's not gonna end well. Especially not when they start crying." Dr. Alva: "Please describe what the corpses are saying D-84630. We will initiate retrieval when you've finished." (D-84630 concentrates for 5 seconds on SCP-3703.) D-84630: "They're begging me to touch them Doc." (Dr. Alva signals the retrieval cable team.) Dr. Alva: "D-84630 please withdraw from the chamber." D-84630: "They keep talking about the passage needing to stay open… They look pretty pathetic. I kind of want to help." Dr. Alva: "Very good, D-84630. Please exit the chamber." D-84630: "But they need me." (D-84630 takes a step towards SCP-3703.) Dr. Alva: "Activate the retrieval cables!" (D-84630 begins to levitate, continuing to express a desire to merge with SCP-3703. The retrieval cable successfully activates, pulling her from SCP-3703-1, at which point the levitation and cognitohazardous effects cease.) [END LOG] Test Name E-3703-04 Operator: Dr. Alva Móðir Subject introduced: D-3703-01 (Three years experience in experimental procedures) and D-3703-02 (Recently interred). Procedure: D-3703-01 and D-3703-02 were not informed of SCP-3703's nature beforehand. Both individuals were instructed to enter the chamber, and approach the entity for sample collection. Retrieval cables were attached to both individuals. [Begin Log] (D-3703-01 and D-3703-02 are instructed to enter the chamber, beginning the test.) D-3703-01: "That… is certainly different." D-3703-02: "What the fuck is that!?" (SCP-3703 shifts, directing the surface level corpses to face the two D-class.) D-3703-02: "Fuck no. Fuck this. Fuck you. Fuck this test." D-3703-01: "Calm down, you'll agitate it." D-3703-02: "What? Do you know something I don't know? Oh god, they're talking. The corpses are talking." Dr. Alva: "Please approach SCP-3703 for tissue collection." D-3703-01: "I have serious misgivings about this." (D-3703-01 moves towards SCP-3703. D-3703-02 remains in place.) Dr. Alva: "02, approach SCP-3703 as instructed." D-3703-02: "No can do doc. I'm not going anywhere near that fucking thing." Dr. Alva: "02, you are currently in violation of your agreement with the Foundation. If you do not comply, disciplinary action will be taken." [TWO MINUTES OF EXTRANEOUS DIALOGUE REMOVED] D-3703-02: "Alright, fuck, I'm going… maybe this won't be half bad." (Both D-class arrive within SCP-3703's 3 m zone of maximal effect.) D-3703-02: "It looks kind of sad." D-3703-01: "I… didn't think a pile of corpses could ever look so depressed, but you're right. They do." Dr. Alva: "D-3703-02 please climb SCP-3703 and retrieve a tissue sample." D-3703-02: "I… I can hear them calling. George, George they need our help." (D-3703-02 proceeds to climb SCP-3703. His foot makes contact with the outstretched hand of a set of skeletal remains, and immediately fuses with the appendage. Over the course of the next five seconds, his leg slides down further fusing into necrotic tissue.) (The retrieval cable activates but snaps.4 Notable anatomatical changes5 occur during fusion prior to the onset of rapid necrosis.) (The corpse to which D-3703-02 has been fused moves further into the structure, taking him with it.) D-3703-02: "Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Help me! Fucking Help me please! It burns! I-" (D-3703-02 disappears from view. Communication is not re-established.) Dr. Alva: "We're aborting the procedure, 01. Get out of there." D-3703-01: "But the passage… they can't hold it open anymore. We have to help… we have to…" (An appendage emerges from SCP-3703, making contact with D-3703-01's upper cranium. This induces fusion, drawing him into the structure. D-3703-01 is internalized prior to retrieval via cable. Once activated, the cable returns with a corpse consistent with remains found within SCP-3703. This corpse disintegrates upon exiting SCP-3703-1.) [End Log] Exploration Log ENTER CREDENTIALS FOR fileserv:/S/3703/exploration.log CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED. DEACTIVATING MEMETIC COUNTERMEASURES. Prepared by the Division of Thaumaturgic Analysis Given the results of previous experiments, and a relatively high increase in degradation of the 13 SCP-3703-1 structures in and around [LEVEL 5 LOCATION REDACTED] exploration of SCP-3703's physical structure, and the interior of the associated hemispheric depression, was approved. This expedition; utilizing a robotic heli-drone with miniaturized navigation thrusters and audio-video recording equipment, lead to the discovery of SCP-3703-A. SCP-3703-A Exploration log Date: ██/██/████ Vehicle: Solar Battery Powered Gyroscopic Drone with Jet Propulsion Modifications. Subject: SCP-3703 Region of exploration: SCP-3703-A [BEGIN LOG] Heli-drone's camera activates, and audio recording begins. Tests of the drones propulsion devices occurs for 15 seconds, before it enters SCP-3703-1. Audio recording detects aberrant low frequency vibrations, playback induces beginning of compulsive effects in the drones operator due to [COGNITOHAZARD REMOVED]. Audio filters are adjusted to exclude these frequencies. The camera zooms in on SCP-3703 as the drone hovers just outside of the object's maximum effect range and captures the corpses hands arranged in [COGNITOHAZARD REMOVED] using the fingers. After 15 minutes of surveillance of SCP-3703-1's interior, the drone is directed into the cluster's maximal effect range for exploration of the depression along its surface. Entry into this zone prompts SCP-3703 to reshape, and form several appendages. These appedages proceed to attempt to grab and internalize the drone over the course of several minutes, forcing the operator to perform evasive maneuvers. Following this five minute period, the appendages cease their attempts to grab the drone, and succesful entry into SCP-3703-A is made.. Visual recording becomes slightly distorted, aberrant and extremely elevated VERITAS and Kant counter readings begin. Distortion ends after 5 seconds. The drone has changed locations, and is no longer present within SCP-3703-1. The attached camera records footage of a cylindrical tunnel, estimated to be 500 m in diameter, and extending beyond discernible visual range in either direction. The feed zooms in on the walls of this structure, depicting fluidic motion, and pink pigmentation. The drone swivels zooming out, as it captures a large number of floating streams and rivers of purple material, consistent with that seen exiting SCP-3703-1. Large branching points are visible from the drones location. Hundreds of small holes run along various points of the tunnel's walls. Both the branches and the holes emit constant white light, and have irregular curvature compared to the surrounding structure. The drone is maneuvered to inspect the streams of fluid matter, and then several of the adjacent holes. None of these holes are entered, though slight atmospheric changes are detected in their vicinity. Orientation devices indicate a lack of any gravitational field. The drone's microphone begins picking up a number of distant audio signatures. Of particular interest are a number of speech patterns matching the timing of previously detected low frequency wavelengths from within SCP-3703-1. Propulsion towards the source of these emissions begins, and lasts for the next 30 minutes. The first 15 minutes of travel are uneventful, though marked decreases in the number of branching points and holes along the tunnel wall are apparent. A small blue point of luminescent light becomes discernible in the direction the drone is traveling, and continues to grow in intensity over the following 15 minutes. The tunnel's end, a large gradual opening leading out into a cosmological space resembling the vacuum of outer space, comes into visible range. As the drone draws closer, the pink and purple atmosphere visibly mixes with a large volume of multi-colored gaseous clouds, similar to what is observed in river deltas where salt and fresh water mix. Most notable among these clouds is a large grey-blue fog which is oriented directly in front of the tunnel, and is thick enough to obscure all space within and behind it. As the drone exits the tunnel into the open area, it performs a 360 degree turn, capturing footage of an expansive void of space ranging from blue to black in pigmentation. Thousands of pinpoints of light are visible in every direction, though a notably large and concentrated band of such light is visible to the right. The tunnel entrance appears more akin to a 2 dimensional aberration in the surrounding space from this position, rather than a 3 dimensional structure. VERITAS and Kant counter readings remain extremely high. A pod of organisms resembling translucent hump-back whales, possessing four legs and wings, passes within the camera's field of view. The whales are followed by several large serpentine creatures with various scale pigmentation's, breathing variously pigmented streams of fire. Large numbers of aberrant astrophysical, and chemical readings are measured both as these creatures pass, and as the drone travels through the open space towards the source of blue light. Gravitational measurements remain at 0. The drone's camera zooms in on the source of blue light, a small blue sphere, roughly 3 m in diameter, comes into focus. The sphere is transluscent, and engraved with runes of an unknown language. VERITAS and Kant counter readings overload, and both sensors short out as it draws within 100 m of the object. Blue light visibly arcs and stretches from the object into the cloud.6 Within the interior of the sphere is a female humanoid individual; matching the anatomical features of corpses within SCP-3703, with golden scales. The camera zooms in, and the individual's chest can be seen rising and falling. Its eyes are closed. 15 seconds pass without incident. The humanoid opens its eyes and spots the drone. Its mouth moves, and it points in the direction of the camera. An arc of light strikes the drone, severing all contact with the vehicle.7 [END LOG] Document A: ENTER CREDENTIALS FOR fileserv:/S/3703/document-A.txt CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED. DEACTIVATING MEMETIC COUNTERMEASURES. EXTRAPLANAR AFFAIRS DIVISION SCP-3703 BRIEFING - LECTURE EXCERPT OVERVIEW OF SCP-3703-A Dr. Alva Móðir […] You've all seen the video at this point, so I'm not going to belabor this point too much. What we're looking at here is a 500 m wide tunnel like structure, with rivers of cold plasma flowing through it. The plasma is flowing out through the hemispheres on 3703, into these various sites. We're pretty sure it's some sort of power source but the recent recordings only muddy things further. The tunnel appears to be connected to a parallel universe of some sort. Not quite what I think, but we'll get to that. Magic is the immediate and logical explanation for this kind of anomaly. It's also kind of tricky, due to a lack of total understanding of its base nature, of course that's why we consider such things anomalies. The real question is what type of magic we are talking about. VERITAS readings point to that, but the Kant counter would appear to indicate involvement from that field as well. The frank answer is, we don't know. It's magic. We have some level of pseudo-scientific understanding of thaumaturgy, you've probably read the leaked GOC entries, the Prometheus lab documents, but that's all surface level compared to what we're looking at here. We don't know anything about the Finnfolk's reasoning behind building these things. Surely they must have had one to sacrifice so many of themselves to form these anchors. My personal theory is the Finnfolk corpses, this tunnel, and even these sites are all being used to keep something locked away. Or at least power whatever is. This Finnwoman, in the orb, it's just circumstantial correlation right now, but when you've worked in this field this long, you know that when your audio recordings detect the same timing and frequency for a cognitohazard as an audio signature that is not a coincidence. This Finnwoman and that corpse cluster, maybe even all of the corpse clusters we know of, are connected. Maybe she's controlling them, maybe it's an arbitrary association, but she is doing something. It involves that cloud, the tunnel, the streams of plasma, all of it. It's possible the Finnfolk were containing her. But why? I'm not sure, nobody here or anywhere else is. Not even the Finnfolk know what she is, and they built the damn things. The parallel universe we got snapshots of through the drone is fascinating. Typical physical properties don't seem to follow conventional physics at all, especially given the nature of the Finnwoman in the orb, and the cold plasma rivers. Those things in and of themselves would be sufficient for me to suspect that this isn't a parallel universe at all, but a mirror plane along the fifth parallel axis. If that is true… it changes everything we thought we understood. […] Reactivation log: SCP-3703-A Drone reactivation log Date: ██/██/████ Vehicle: Solar Battery Powered Gyroscopic Drone with Jet Propulsion Modifications. Subject: SCP-3703 Region of exploration: SCP-3703-A Forword: Foundation officials reestablished communication with the drone 2 weeks after loss of contact. [BEGIN LOG] The drone's camera reactivates, displaying the blue sphere as seen before. The humanoid figure within is unconscious, and shows signs of injury around the nose and temples. Initial analysis indicates the damage is superficial. The sphere is cracked along the top, and is no longer emitting rays of blue light. It turns in a 90 degree arc. The cloud of mist is no longer present. In its place is a humanoid figure, roughly 20 km in height, possessing black pigmented skin. Red, white, and purple luminescent bands run along the entity's form. It is visibly restrained in space by the presence of 3 circular stone rings, where each ring is lined with series of monolithic stone columns oriented in the form of a henge, all possessing signs of serious damage, located at the groin, the chest, and the center of the forehead. Additional stone structures appear to pin the entity's left hand, and legs in a prone position. Each location emit combinations of blue, pink, green, and yellow luminescent light. The right arm is unrestrained, approaching both the drone and the sphere at significant speed. The remains of a shattered stone structure are visible on top. Propulsion and maneuvering the vehicle were impossible at this time. The hand strikes the blue sphere, shattering part of the surface. The sphere flies out of frame in the 0.5 seconds between the strike, and the destruction of the drone. Post Word: Approximately 2 minutes following destruction of the drone, the blue sphere was ejected from the same SCP-3703 instance the drone entered. It ceased motion upon collision with the wall of the adjoining chamber. The humanoid, hereby dubbed EoI-3703-1, remained in suspended animation within the sphere and was unharmed other than the previously obtained minor injuries. They have been moved to SCP-████ for treatment of a severe concussion, questioning, and anomalous properties evaluation. The entity observed in this recording has been designated EoI-001-01.8 Efforts are currently underway to counteract a potential HK-class deific subjugation scenario. Update ██/██/████ Following recovery of Entity of Interest EoI-3703-1 from the remains of the sphere, Foundation audio analysts were successful in recovering and translating the last 30 seconds of the Exploration log's audio recording. You were there all along, Mither. This may have been for nothing, but we would do it again. To keep him away. Seal Teran. For even one single moment. I would do it all again. Just for one more moment. One moment with you, Alva. Footnotes 1. Observed remains appear to be anatomically similar to baseline humans, with the exception of several prominent features, including fins along the arms and legs, scales beneath a primary layer of retractable human skin, and gills along the neck. Removal and analysis of any single individual has proven impossible due to each structure's effects within the confines of SCP-3703-1. 2. Several henges in the British Isles possess SCP-3703 instances which have been shaped into round shields or Celtic iconography, such as Lugh's shield. 3. The largest SCP-3703 instance discovered contains an estimated 3456 individuals and is 30 m in diameter. 4. A post-incident investigation determined this was the result of a previously undetected fault in the wire. 5. These include the manifestation of scales and fins along the right leg. 6. Estimated to be roughly 30 km in height, and 5-7 km in width 7. Audio recording peaked prior to loss of contact, full analysis is under way to retrieve verbal communication. 8. Entity of Interest.
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Item#: 3704 Level2 Secondary Class: none Disruption Class: vlam Risk Class: warning link to memo Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3704 is to be kept inside of a soundproofed reinforced steel case whose lock may only be operated by a remote terminal in an observation room 25 meters from the object. This terminal operates via a randomly generated passphrase known only by one (1) Level 4 Personnel at a time. The case is to be stored in an isolated, soundproofed room, at least 15 meters away from any of the room’s walls. A circle with a radius of 2 meters is to be painted around the object, denoting the effective range of the tertiary third primary effect. Microphones are placed about the room, which can broadcast into the observation room if researchers so choose. The observation room is only accessible through the adjacent hallway, having no direct connection to SCP-3704's containment chamber. Access to the containment chamber is restricted except for purposes of testing. After the results of Incident 3704-A, testing has been suspended until further notice. Description: SCP-3704 is a wooden music box measuring 16cm by 10cm by 16cm. The object has a coat of pink paint on it, chipped or damaged in several places, revealing the wood underneath. The wood has a reddish tint, and does not match any known species of tree. The composition of the wood is extremely dense, making the object heavier than it appears. In addition, it is significantly stronger than normal wood of similar dimensions. Despite this, the object is damaged in multiple locations, with parts of the casing appearing crushed. The crank is also broken off, though it can still be turned if force is applied to the remaining end. Inspections have shown that the internals are consistent with similar music boxes, showing no anomalous effects. Music can be heard from SCP-3704 at random intervals whether or not the crank is turned. The songs it plays vary between subjects, with different subjects reporting varying genres, usually in line with the subject’s tastes. This effect is demonstrated even in subjects listening at the same time. After 30 seconds of exposure to the music, subjects will feel a compulsion to move closer to the object. After 3 minutes of exposure, this draw slowly becomes stronger, reaching its height after 5 minutes. At the effect's height, subjects become largely unable to resist the urge to move closer, and use any means necessary to do so. See Testing Log 3704.1 for details. A subject in this state that is rendered unable to hear SCP-3704-2’s music will fall unconscious for a period of 30 minutes to an hour. Upon waking, subjects will have no memory of their time under the object’s influence. When a subject comes within 15 meters of SCP-3704 they begin to hear whispers interspersed in the music that grow louder the closer they get to the object. Subjects report that the voices are from people that they recognize, usually deceased family members, acquaintances, or celebrities. These voices tend to be from people that the subject looked up to, or trusted. In most cases, subjects say that the voices are consoling them, and in all cases telling them to approach the object. See Testing Log 3704-1 for details. When a subject comes within 2 meters of SCP-3704 and has been exposed longer than 5 minutes, a tertiary effect appears. Subjects become convinced that the people the voices belong to are trapped inside the object. Subjects will attempt to break open SCP-3704 in an attempt to free them, and will attack anything that prevents them from performing this act. If a subject is forcibly removed from the 2 meter effective range, they lose the urge to free the voices. Testing Log 3704-1: Below are a series of tests conducted upon SCP-3704 with the intent of learning more about how the object selects music for each subject, and what the voices produced by the object say to subjects. + Test 1 - Hide Content Test 1 Date: 04/06/2017 Overseeing Researcher: Dr. Caleb Solys Subject: D-3704-1 Purpose: To ascertain what the voices produced by SCP-3704 say to subjects. Procedure: D-3704-1 was brought into the containment chamber, then locked inside. A timer was set up in the observation room to help prevent overexposure. [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Solys: (Starts timer and opens case.) Let’s begin. Will you please approach the case? D-3704-1: Uh, sure. (D-3704-1 begins to move towards the object.) What’s in that thing? Is it a speaker? Why is it playing Back in Black? Dr. Solys: I'm not sure. Do you listen to it often? D-3704-1: Not really. It was my uncle's favorite song. He would always have AC/DC records playing at his house when I would go over. Dr. Solys: I see. Please continue to approach the case. D-3704-1: Got it, boss. D-Doc, are you hearing whispers? Dr. Solys: Nothing on my end. Can you make out what they are saying? D-3704-1: Yeah, the one I can hear most loudly is saying that it’s going to be okay. I… Holy shit, Doctor, I think it’s my uncle talking. Dr. Solys: Can you elaborate? D-3704-1: Y-Yeah, now he’s telling me to come closer. Is that a good idea? Dr. Solys: You may proceed so long as you do not cross the line painted on the ground. D-3704-1: Yeah, got it. Hey, Doc, what’s going on? My uncle died in a car accident around this time last year. Why am I suddenly hearing his voice? Dr. Solys: That is one of the things we are trying to determine. Is he saying anything else? D-3704-1: No, not really. He’s just kind of repeating that it’s going to be okay and that I should come closer. I hear other voices in the background, too, but I can’t put a finger on them. Dr. Solys: Try to identify the other voices, if you can. D-3704-1: I’ll do my best, but…wait. Now he’s talking more, my uncle is. He’s saying…oh God. Dr. Solys: What is he saying? D-3704-1: Hey, why can’t I cross the line? I really, really wanna get closer to this thing. Dr. Solys: More adverse effects appear the closer you get to it. Please do not cross that line. D-3704-1: A-Alright. He’s telling me about the accident. He- Dr. Solys: (Cutting off D-3704-1, after noticing the experiment had lapsed past 3 minutes.) D-3704-1, back away from the object. This test is over. D-3704-1: What? No, Doc, I…I have to go to it. I have to hear what my uncle has to say. (D-3704-1 resumes moving towards SCP-3704.) Dr. Solys: D-3704-1, if you cross that line, you will be terminated. Back away now. D-3704-1: No, Doc, you don’t understand. He’s trying to tell me something really important! (D-3704-1 crosses circle, and tertiary effect manifests.) Shit! He’s in there! Dr. Solys: Security team, go! (Security team enters the room and tries to restrain D-3704-1 as he attempts to destroy SCP-3704. D-3704-1 attacks the members of the team that cross the line, while ignoring those who remain outside. In response, the security team opens fire. Subject is terminated.) [END LOG] Message to Site Command from Dr. Caleb Solys on 04/07/2017 I would very much like to find out what happens after the 3 minute mark. It seemed that the voice began speaking about something else, but we weren’t able to ascertain what. I’m formally requesting more D-Class and approval for further testing. Response from Site Command on 04/08/2017 Request approved. - Hide Content + Test 2 - Hide Content Test 2 Date: 04/10/2017 Overseeing Researcher: Dr. Caleb Solys Subject: D-3704-2, convicted of first-degree murder of his girlfriend. Subject pleaded guilty but claimed it was an accident. Purpose: To ascertain what changes in the voices’ messages at the 3 minute mark. Procedure: D-3704-2 was brought into the containment chamber and restrained to a metal chair 4 meters from the object that had been fastened to the ground ahead of time. A timer was set up in the observation room to help prevent overexposure. [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Solys: (Starts timer and opens case.) Let us begin. D-3704-2, what do you hear? D-3704-2: I'm hearing Clair de Lune. Dr. Solys: Noted. Is this in line with what you would normally listen to? D-3704-2: Not really, but my mother used to play it when I was little; it was her favorite song. She was a world-class pianist. I always loved to hear her play. It was soothing. Dr. Solys: Is that so? You said ‘was’. Is your mother still alive? (Test time exceeds 30 seconds.) D-3704-2: No, she passed away in 2013. Dr. Solys: Ah, I’m sorry. D-3704-2: Don’t be. Hey, is there something wrong with the recording? I’m starting to hear white noise mixed in. Dr. Solys: I’m reading nothing on my end. D-3704-2: Really? That’s weird. It almost sounds like voices. Dr. Solys: Can you make out what they’re saying? D-3704-2: Uh…kinda? I think they’re telling me to come closer. Is that not good? Is that why I’m restrained? Dr. Solys: In part, yes. Can you identify the voices? D-3704-2: There’s one that’s louder than the rest. It almost sounds like…oh Jesus. Mom…? Is that you? Dr. Solys: Is she responding? D-3704-2: No, at least I don’t think so. She’s just telling me not to worry and to come closer. Dr. Solys: D-3704-2, how did your mother die? D-3704-2: Breast cancer. Dr. Solys: I see. Have any changes been made to the voice’s vocal patterns? D-3704-2: No, not yet, anyway. She’s saying that it’s going to be okay. Dr. Solys: Alright. Will you please let me know if she says anything new? D-3704-2: Sure. (D-3704-2 is silent for approximately 30 seconds.) D-3704-2: Hey, do you think she’d respond if I tried hard enough? Dr. Solys: What do you mean by that? D-3704-2: I…I’m not even entirely sure. I just kinda get the feeling she just wants to talk to me. Dr. Solys: What makes you say that? D-3704-2: I don’t know. She's sounds like she’s…pleading. She really wants me to move closer. Can…can I do that? (Test time exceeds 3 minutes.) Dr. Solys: Your restraints will not be undone for the duration of this test. D-3704-2: I don’t think you understand. I need to go to her! Dr. Solys: You will not be permitted to move closer to the object. I need you to stay calm, and tell me what she says to you. D-3704-2: (D-3704-2 takes a deep breath.) A-Alright. She’s talking about a time when I was little. I…I tried to drive our family car, and crashed it of course. Mom, she tried to save me and broke her arm because of it. She’s telling me it’s okay. That I’m forgiven. Absolved. All I need to do to see her again is go to that case. Dr. Solys: The restraints will not be lifted. D-3704-2: The other voices are getting louder now. I hear…I hear…oh God I hear Melody. Dr. Solys: Melody? D-3704-2: My girlfriend. The one I…I…you know. (D-3704-2 begins crying.) She…she’s saying the same thing! I’m forgiven! Absolved! Doctor, I need to go to the case! Please! (Test time exceeds 5 minutes.) Dr. Solys: I’m sorry, we cannot permit that. D-3704-2: No! Please, Doctor! (D-3704-2 begins tearing at the restrains.) You don’t understand! I need to see them! I need them to know I’m sorry! They need me to go to them! (D-3704-2 tries to pry the retraints off, breaking his arm in the process. He does not seem to notice, and continues attacking his restraints.) Dr. Solys: Alright, I’m stopping this. Security team, get in there and remove D-3704-2 from the effective range. (Security team enters containment chamber, and frees D-3704-2 from the chair. They lead him out of the chamber, and he resists until he crossed the 15 meter threshold and becomes unconscious.) [END LOG] Message to Site Command from Dr. Caleb Solys on 04/11/2017 I'm formally requesting authorization to repeat this test with different subjects. I would like to know more about what the voices say to different people, as well as what happens at the 3 minute mark. Response from Site Command on 04/12/2017 Request approved. Further testing has been greenlit unless otherwise stated. - Hide Content + Incident 3704-A (Test 7) - Hide Content Incident 3704-A (Test 7) Date: 04/23/2017 Overseeing Researcher: Dr. Caleb Solys Subject: D-3704-7, convicted of arson. Tried to burn down restaurant owned by ex-girlfriend's parents. The fire spread to nearby hotel, killing multiple bystanders. Subject shows sociopathic tendencies, and in isolation has shown a degraded mental state. Purpose: To ascertain what voices different people hear, and ascertain the difference in message, if any. Procedure: As above. [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Solys: (Starts timer and opens case.) D-3704-7, please tell me what you hear. D-3704-7: Uh, some alt. rock song. It sounds really familiar but I can’t place it. Dr. Solys: Interesting. So, you feel as if you have heard this piece before? D-3704-7: Yeah, definitely. My roommate used to listen to stuff like that. (Test time exceeds 30 seconds.) Dr. Solys: Not you? Were you close to this roommate? D-3704-7: I mean, kinda, yeah. He would always play music really loudly though, so it more annoyed me than anything. Dr. Solys: I see. D-3704-7: Do you hear that? Dr. Solys: The music? No, I hear noth- D-3704-7: No, no. It sounds like a voice. Dr. Solys: A voice? Singular? D-3704-7: Yeah, why? Were you expecting multiple? Dr. Solys: What is the voice saying? D-3704-7: Uh…I can’t quite hear it well enough yet. It’s been slowly getting louder. Give it a sec. (D-3704-7 is silent for approximately 12 seconds.) D-3704-7: Ah, okay. It wants me to move closer. I’m assuming I’m not supposed to, given the chair. Dr. Solys: Do you recognize the voice at all? Is that all it is saying? D-3704-7: Yeah, sounds like that’s about it. It’s repeating that same thing over and over. To answer your other question, no I can’t place it. I…what the hell? Dr. Solys: What’s the matter? D-3704-7: It just called me by my name. My real name. Dr. Solys: What do you mean, ‘your real name’? D-3704-7: I got my name changed when I was 18 to get rid of my first name. I was named after my father, who left before I was born. Never met him, didn’t want to be associated with him. No one knew that name. No one. Dr. Solys: Strange. You still can’t place the voice? D-3704-7: Not a damn clue. Part of me wants to believe it’s my father, but I know that’s weird. Dr. Solys: You believe that you are hearing the voice of a man you never met? D-3704-7: I don’t know how else it would know my name. Dr. Solys: That’s reasonable, I suppose. D-3704-7: He keeps telling me to move closer. Something about a debt being owed. Dr. Solys: I’m sorry, a debt? D-3704-7: Yeah. Dr. Solys: See if you can glean more information. Is that all he is saying? D-3704-7: That I can hear, yes. Hell as far as I know this thing could be putting thoughts in my mind that I need to serve some eldritch horror. You guys have some crazy shit cooped up in here. Dr. Solys: Let me assure you that as far as we know that is not the case. D-3704-7: Ah. Such a relief. Dr. Solys: This is an experiment, D-3704-7. Cutting back on the sarcasm would be much appreciated. D-3704-7: Aye, aye, captain. (Neither D-3704-7 or Dr. Solys speak for approximately 30 seconds. During this time, test time exceeds 3 minutes.) D-3704-7: A-ha! Here are those ‘multiple voices’ you were talking about? Dr. Solys: There are more voices now? D-3704-7: Yeah. They’re much quieter, but definitely there. The silence when the first voice wasn’t speaking is getting filled with white noise and whispers. Dr. Solys: Try to make out what they’re saying. Identify them. D-3704-7: Got it. Well…they also want me to move closer. Damn, it took me getting locked up to get popular. Dr. Solys: (Sighs in irritation.) Can you identify the new voices? D-3704-7: Zero ideas here. The only thing I can say for sure is that they’re all different kinds. It’s not like all guys or all girls or all old or whatever. It’s like listening to a crowd, but they’re mostly saying the same thing. Dr. Solys: They’re speaking in unison? D-3704-7: Yeah, that’s the word. Something about debts being repaid. I…owe something? (Test time exceeds 5 minutes.) Dr. Solys: Are you experiencing any desire to approach the case? D-3704-7: I mean, kinda. It’s more just curiosity. I wanna know what’s inside. I can’t see it very well from the chair. Dr. Solys: Noted. D-3704-7: They’ve gotten really, really loud. Like, I can barely hear you anymore. They’re shouting in unison about this debt I apparently owe. They want me to go to the case. They want me to free them. What…what the hell is in that thing? Dr. Solys: A music box. D-3704-7: A music box, huh? Do you think…do you think if I went up to it, that the voices would quiet the hell down? Dr. Solys: I cannot say for certain. Unfortunately, you are not permitted to approach the case and your restraints will not be lifted. D-3704-7: Alright, this… (Takes a deep breath. Subject appears to be straining.) This isn’t very good. I wanna just do it to get the shitheads to shut the hell up. Dr. Solys: That won’t be happening. D-3704-7: Can you at least let me out of here then? It’s starting to fuck me up, Doc. Dr. Solys: No, the test will continue until we have gathered sufficient information. D-3704-7: That’s pretty lame, Doctor. It’s… (Subject gasps in pain, and tries to clutch his chest though the restraints prevent him from doing so.) …really starting to hurt. I can’t…even think. Dr. Solys: Has the voices’ message changed at all? Are the still talking about the debt? D-3704-7: Oh, yeah, can’t get enough of that word. It’s just- (Subject cries out.) …just being forced on my mind 10 times a second. Dr. Solys: D-3704-7, I need you to focus. Stay with me. Have they said anything new? D-3704-7: Stop calling me that. My name is Andrew. Dr. Solys: Answer my question, D-3704-7. D-3704-7: Nah, still on the debt! Debt, debt, debt, debt, debt! Can’t get enough, yup! Dr. Solys: Understood. D-3704-7: Fuck, man. It’s getting really hot in here. Do you feel that? (Subject begins struggling with restrain.) Dr. Solys: Perfectly normal in here to me. D-3704-7: Debt! They want compensation! A repayment! What do they want! I don’t have any fucking money anymore! I’m a lab rat now! What do you want from me, cheese? Dr. Solys: You need to remain calm. Focus. (D-3704-7 screams and begins tearing at restraint.) Dr. Solys: Stand down from the restraint! D-3704-7: They want payment! I have nothing to give! Dr. Solys: Why do they want payment? (//D-3704-7 screams again, tears the restraint in half, and stands up. //) Dr. Solys: (Standing up and backing away from window) Oh my God! Security team! We need cleanup! I’m calling the experiment off! D-3704-7: I can't stay here. They're tearing at my mind, burning their names and faces in my soul. It's like…it's like they want me to understand! (Marks begin appearing on D-3704-7's skin which appear similar to 3rd degree burns.) Dr. Solys: What are they trying to make you understand? D-3704-7: I don't know! I don't care! I can't understand! I don't want to understand! I just want them to shut the hell up! (D-3704-7 screams, and attacks the one-way glass separating the containment chamber and the observation room. Subject retreats from the glass before charging at the containment door as the security team opens it. Subject kills entirety of security team before exiting the containment chamber by holding the door open. Containment breach declared.) [END LOG] Researcher's Note: Something was very off in this test. Subject was able to withstand the urge to move closer to SCP-3704, instead running away from it, the music played wasn't even something he liked, and he heard voices he didn't recognize. On top of all of that, he caused a containment breach and killed an entire security team. I feel as though I understand more about the true nature of the object, but I'll need more tests to be completely sure. I don’t know for certain, but I cant help but feel as if the voices that D-3704-7 heard, barring his father, were those killed in the fire. - Hide Content Revised Description: SCP-3704 is a wooden music box measuring 16 cm by 10 cm by 16 cm. The object has a coat of pink paint on it, chipped or damaged in several places, revealing the wood underneath. The wood has a reddish tint, and does not match any known species of tree. The composition of the wood is extremely dense, making the object heavier than it appears. In addition, it is significantly stronger than normal wood of similar dimensions. Despite this, the object is damaged in multiple locations, with parts of the casing appearing crushed. The crank is also broken off, though it can still be turned if force is applied to the remaining end. Inspections have shown that the internals are consistent with similar music boxes, showing no anomalous effects. SCP-3704 draws on the empathy of its listeners. It has 3 primary anomalous effects that draw emotions out of subjects, good or bad, in an attempt to bring them closer to it. A fourth effect manifests once a subject has become sufficiently close. The first of the two primary effects is that music can be heard from SCP-3704 at random intervals whether or not the crank is turned. The songs it plays vary between subjects, even playing different songs to two subjects listening at the same time. SCP-3704 tends to play songs that subjects have a connection to, usually by drawing on memories that evoke a strong emotional reaction to. The second primary effect is that starting at a range of 15 meters, subjects hear voices interspersed in the music. These voices typically take the form of people the subjects knows, looks up to, or trusts, with one exception. SCP-3704 has the ability to seemingly sense if an empathic connection has been formed with the subject. In cases where an empathic connection has been formed, the voices attempt to console subjects, usually speaking of forgiveness or absolution. In cases where an empathic connection has not been formed, the voices take other forms of people the subject has wronged, or feels contempt towards. The voices in these cases speak not of forgiveness, but of debts, as if subject owes it to them to move closer. The condition of the third primary effect is unknown due to insufficient testing. The current theory for the condition is that it manifests if subjects resist the call to move closer to the object for an extended period of time. Subjects under this third effect seem to undergo immense pain, and yet appear to have their senses dulled. Subjects also seem to be granted strength and dexterity above what a normal human can possess. The full extent of the effect is, like the condition, unknown. See Incident 3704-A for an example of this effect. The fourth effect of SCP-3704 appears once subjects have come within 2 meters of it. Subjects in this range become convinced that the voices are trapped inside SCP-3704, and as such become heavily compelled to "free" them by destroying the object. Subjects will attack anyone else who enters the 2 meter range, believing them to be preventing the liberation of the voices. Subjects who are rendered unable to hear SCP-3704's music, either by removal from the effective range or artificial deafening, fall unconscious for a period of 30 minutes to an hour. Upon waking, subjects will have no memory of their time affected by SCP-3704. Addendum 3704-1: Following the containment breach on 04/23/2017 resulting in ██ staff casualties, all testing on SCP-3704 has been suspended until further notice. + Messages to and from Site Command between 04/29/2017 and 04/31/2017 - Hide Content Message to Site Command from Dr. Caleb Solys on 04/29/2017 I am hereby requesting reinstatement of testing on SCP-3704. The last test caused a containment breach, but that only further enforces the need to understand this thing. That subject broke out of his restrains and killed a security team with his bare hands. During the test, numerous things were out of place. The timings were all wrong, everything we thought we knew about it were thrown out the window. SCP-3704 could have any number of anomalous properties we don't know about, or the current ones could be stronger. We. Don't. Know. It's dangerous. I'm firm in the belief that we need to learn more. We need to know what it actually does. Response from Site Command on 04/31/2017 Request Denied. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3704" by Lukaverik, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3704. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3705
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neutralized
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Item #: SCP-3705 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3705's cape and the cassette tapes found at the site of SCP-3705's neutralization are to be contained in standard containment lockers. Description: SCP-3705 was an approximately 1.8 meter tall, animate scarecrow composed of wood and straw. SCP-3705 was outfitted with a straw hat, a white shirt, and a green floral-print cape worn around its neck. SCP-3705 possessed multiple scorch marks on its body and clothing, and SCP-3705's clothing was torn in various locations. SCP-3705 was capable of sight and hearing despite having possessed no discernible organs or mechanisms that enabled these senses. Eight arachnoid legs composed of wood were attached to SCP-3705's torso, measuring approximately 1.25 meters. Each of SCP-3705's legs have joints that appear to have been created via infliction of damage to each leg, as each leg appeared to have been forcefully bent from a previously straight structure into its jointed structure. At the end of each leg was a hole of unknown depth. SCP-3705 was capable of expelling water from each of these holes. It is unknown how the water SCP-3705 expelled was acquired. On 3/27/2004, SCP-3705 was discovered by the Foundation when SCP-3705's appearance was reported at a forest fire located at [REDACTED] by undercover operatives working as helicopter pilots for local news stations. MTF Epsilon-14 ("Out of the Frying Pan") was deployed to contain SCP-3705. SCP-3705 ignited and was destroyed before MTF Epsilon-14 reached SCP-3705's location. During further inspection after the fire was extinguished, a cardboard box was found at the area of SCP-3705's neutralization. Within the box were 17 video cassette tapes and the cape worn by SCP-3705. The cassette tapes contained videos showing footage of various events involving SCP-3705. A title for each cassette tape was written on a piece of masking tape attached to each cassette tape. ▼ Show Cassette Tape Content ▼ ▲ Hide Cassette Tape Content ▲ Title Event Notes 1 - A Hero's Beginnings SCP-3705 approaches and waters a sunlit field of soil by expelling water from its legs. SCP-3705 is not wearing its cape. Burn marks are not present on SCP-3705, and holes are not present on SCP-3705's clothing. 2 - A Gardener's Duties The setting is identical to that of 1. SCP-3705 faces towards the field motionless. A northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) descends from above and attempts to eat a seed beneath the soil. SCP-3705 approaches the northern cardinal, and it flies away from SCP-3705. 3 - A Gardener's Triumph The setting is identical to that of 1 and 2. Fully grown sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are present within the field of soil. SCP-3705 waters them. 4 - A Gardener's Woe The setting is identical to that of 1, 2, and 3. Strong wind and rain are present. All of the sunflowers are uprooted by the wind. SCP-3705 approaches the field from off-screen. SCP-3705 inspects the scene before kneeling. It is believed that this is an expression of sorrow. 5 - A Hero's Atonement SCP-3705 waters a field of soil in a different location than in 1, 2, 3, and 4. SCP-3705 begins wearing its cape. 6 - A Hero's Duties The setting is identical to that of 5. Strong wind and rain, similar to the wind and rain in 4, are present. Marigolds (Calendula officinalis) are growing within the field. SCP-3705 kneels over the marigolds furthest towards the direction the wind is blowing from. 7 - A Hero's Triumph The setting is identical to that of 5 and 6. SCP-3705 is in the same position as it was in 6. SCP-3705 leaves its position to inspect the field. No marigolds are in a considerably worse condition than they were in 6. 8 - A Hero's Help SCP-3705 approaches seven potted tulips (Tulipa gesneriana) on the grass overshadowed by a nearby tree. SCP-3705 carries each pot away from the shade of the tree to a sunlit area on the grass. 9 - A Hero's Protection The setting is identical to that of 8. A branch on the tree in 8 detaches from the tree and falls towards the potted tulips. SCP-3705 appears from off-screen and strikes the falling branch with its legs, causing the branch to land away from the tulips. 10 - A Hero's Condolences SCP-3705 walks past the front of a house and enters the backyard of the house. Within the backyard is a garden containing angelonia (Angelonia angustifolia), cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus), and snapdragons (Antirrhinum majus), each of which show signs of dilapidation. SCP-3705 waters the garden. Analysis of the house indicates that it was inhabited by Terrence Marley, who passed away on 3/6/2004 at the age of 62. 11 - A Hero's Mettle The setting is identical to that of 10. SCP-3705 monitors the garden. Six Canada geese (Branta canadensis) approach the garden from off-screen. SCP-3705 approaches the geese to ward them off. The geese do not leave. SCP-3705 moves closer to the geese, at which point the geese begin honking and fly towards SCP-3705. The geese land upon and begin pecking at SCP-3705. 12 - A Hero's Reward The setting is identical to that of 10 and 11. SCP-3705 is laying upon the ground. SCP-3705 stands up and inspects the garden. All plants are in the same condition they were in 11. Holes are now present on SCP-3705's clothing. 13 - A Hero's Gesture A male child and a female child water a garden of pasture roses (Rosa carolina) using watering cans. Both children expend their can's supply of water, place their can on the ground, and walk off-screen. SCP-3705 approaches the cans and refills them. 14 - A Hero's Life SCP-3705 enters a burning house through its open patio door. SCP-3705 enters a dining room and maneuvers past burning furniture to reach a staircase. SCP-3705 ascends the staircase, parts of its body and clothes igniting as it does. As SCP-3705 reaches the top of the staircase, it expels highly pressurized water at itself to douse the flames on its body and clothing. SCP-3705 enters what appears to be a child's bedroom almost completely engulfed in flames. SCP-3705 begins to approach a potted carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) placed upon a window sill facing the entrance to the room. As SCP-3705 moves towards it, a burning ceiling fan falls from the ceiling and lands in front of SCP-3705. As SCP-3705 steps backwards, a large portion of the ceiling collapses. A part of the collapsed ceiling lands on the carnation, bringing it to the floor. SCP-3705 is unharmed by the collapse of the ceiling, and climbs over the wreckage of the ceiling and begins digging through it. SCP-3705 continues digging until the siren of a firetruck is heard. SCP-3705 leaves the room. Burn marks are present on SCP-3705 after SCP-3705 reaches the top of the staircase. 15 - A Gardener's Requiem SCP-3705 stands in front of the house in 14, the fire now extinguished. Placed in the grass in front of SCP-3705 is a cross constructed out of twigs. The twigs are bound to each other by a sunflower (Helianthus annuus) grown near the cross, wrapping around the two twigs. SCP-3705 is no longer wearing its cape. 16 - A Gardener's Choice SCP-3705 walks up a hill. Smoke billows in the distance to the right of SCP-3705. SCP-3705 turns to the right and sees a forest fire. 17 - A Hero's Fervor This tape depicts the events leading up to and during SCP-3705's neutralization. SCP-3705 runs through the burning forest. During this time, the Foundation is alerted to SCP-3705 presence, and MTF Epsilon-14 is deployed and sent to the forest. SCP-3705 reaches an area completely engulfed in flames. SCP-3705 expels highly pressurized water into the fire, creating an opening in the fire. SCP-3705 continues running through the opening, extinguishing any fire that comes near. SCP-3705 arrives at a large field of early dog-violets (Viola reichenbachiana) that the fire has not reached. SCP-3705 quickly waters the violets. As SCP-3705 finishes watering the violets, the fire reaches the field. The field is quickly engulfed in flames. Due to unknown reasons, the violets are not visibly damaged by the fire. SCP-3705 moves to the middle of the field and attempts to fend off the fire by expelling highly pressurized water into it, but fails to extinguish the fire. SCP-3705 ignites and is completely engulfed in flames. SCP-3705 remains motionless as it burns. The view of SCP-3705 is obscured by flames as the video ends. SCP-3705 is wearing its cape throughout the video. The field of violets in the video disappeared following SCP-3705's neutralization. The cause of its disappearance has been determined as not due to the fire, as the area in which the violets existed shows no signs of fire-related damage. The following message was found written on the inside of the cape with black ink. ▼ Show Message ▼ ▲ Hide Message ▲ You have the tapes That show this guardian's cause Not all heroes wear capes But this one does Are We Cool Yet? ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3705" by lynspira, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3705. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3706
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Item #: SCP-3706 Special Containment Procedures: Locations with high probabilities of producing or uncovering SCP-3706 instances are to be monitored closely by implanted Foundation archaeologists and paleontologists. Should an SCP-3706 instance be uncovered, non-Foundation personnel present on site are to be administered class A amnestics, and disinformation regarding recent discoveries disseminated in the event of further inquiries. SCP-3706 instances are to be moved to secure engineering Sites 212A or B depending on size and condition. Functional instances are to be moved to 212A for potential reactivation and reverse engineering. Non-functional instances are to be moved to 212B for proper thaumaturgic disposal, and destruction. All tests, operations, and information requests for SCP-3706-380 are subject to Level 5 approval. Key personnel who have knowledge of SCP-3706-380 have been granted restricted level 5 clearance to necessary documents pertaining to OPERATION HIGH TIDE. Abuse of this clearance is grounds for termination. Site 212A Site 212A is a facility located on the Dunnethead Peninsula southeast of the Orkney islands encompassing an area of 12 km2. Three 500 m2 vehicle storage warehouses are positioned along the coastline, with open access to coastal waters for functional testing of reactivated SCP-3706 instances. A permanent staff of 1000+ individuals, including MTF-Sigma 32 ("Recovery Wizards") are housed on site at all times. The area directly encompassing 212A has been designated as a No-Fly zone by the government of the UK. This status extends into the surrounding oceanic waters in a 2 km radius. Site 212B Site 212B is a facility located on the Western coast of Hoy Island. Site 212B consists of a 50 m x 20 m compound capable of housing and decommissioning non-functional thaumaturgic items. Site 212B has a permanent security staff of 15, and 5 thaumaturgic demolition experts. Update: As of 04/15/2017 all work at Site-212B has been suspended. See SCP-4700 for further details. Description: SCP-3706 are a large number of recovered and potential undiscovered vehicles with unique properties, several universal common factors, and varying functional attributes. Each SCP-3706 instance is capable of traversing aquatic environments, either as a submersible, or sea floor based all-terrain vehicle. Each vehicle resembles known species of ocean fauna, though significant deviations from these animal species have been observed in many recovered instances, as is described in Table T-3706-01. Individual vehicles are primarily composed of organo-metallic polymers, with the oldest variants having been carved from stone. Vehicles that do not use appendage based locomotion employ a jet propulsion mechanism involving the intake and rapid expulsion of ocean water through adjustable vents. SCP-3706 instances are diverse in both appearance and specific function, ranging from automated collection vehicles less than 3 m in length (designed to collect food, minerals, and other materials) to large-scale assault vessels more than 200 m in length. Each SCP-3706 instance is powered via a spatial distortion contained within a crystalline chamber composed of corundum, which produces high energy material bearing marked similarity to that found in SCP-3703. The size of both the crystal and the distortion appears to vary based on the size of the vehicle; however, the crystals of all recovered non-functional instances are either shattered or missing. When in an active state, all SCP-3706 instances emit a dull "humming" noise. Active SCP-3706 instances possess carved channels where luminescence will "flow" across their exterior surfaces, forming patterns, artistic depictions of the vehicle's history, and Proto-Nordic runic script containing instructions on how to properly operate and maintain each vehicle. Additionally, manually piloted SCP-3706 instances tend to have detailed markings, carved by the former operator onto their vehicles, in the form of three-toed hoofprints. These appear to serve a statistical role, similar to the manner in which pilots during World Wars 1 and 2 would track enemy kills by painting flags onto their vehicles. Table T-3706-01 The following table contains selected entries describing the various instances of SCP-3706. Vehicles are assigned designations based on their type and relative functionality compared to other SCP-3706 instances rather than by order in which they were discovered. Prior documentation included designations based on order of discovery, these designations have been changed database-wide in order to avoid confusion. Subdesignation Vehicle Type Description SCP-3706-01 Self-Propelled Automated Collection Collection of vehicles recovered off the coast of the Peloponnese Peninsula. Vehicles ranged in size from 0.3 to 2 meters in width, 0.1 to 1.5 meters in height, and resembled varying members of the infraorder Brachyura.1 Notable common features included replacement of the claws with four slotted limbs possessing varying tools. 3 instances possessed grafted human hands. All instances were functional at time of recovery. SCP-3706-09 Self Propelled Automated Collection Numerous vehicles recovered in a large number of rivers in the United Kingdom and continental Europe, as well as portions of the North Atlantic, North and Baltic Seas. Vehicles range in size from 0.5 m to 5 m in length, and width. Due to their size, the majority of recovered instances resemble the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, with notable differences in the mouth, which lacks any teeth, and a large cavity at the very tip of the tail, often possessing luminescent markings across the exterior. All instances make a constant humming described as "eerie." SCP-3706-15 Personnel Transport Vehicle recovered off the coast of Iceland. It measures approximately 8 meters in length, 6 in width, and 5 in height. Vehicle resembles the Dorado/Mahi-Mahi, with notable modifications, including large hollow chambers with sufficient seating for 15 individuals, four large yellow orbs2 arranged equidistantly, with two on either side of the vehicle, and remnants of thaumaturgic power nodes leading to what may have once been weaponry. Inscriptions on the interior of the vehicle have been translated and interpreted to "Place your hand on the triangle, the big green one, and press down. If she doesn't start, bang the fins several times. She's old and cranky." SCP-3706-230 Personal Combat Vehicle recovered off the coast of the Canary Islands. Approximately 2.5 m in length, 1.4 m in width, and 1 m in height. Resembles Carcharhinus leucas3 with notable modifications to the "nose" of the vehicle which broaden it into a sickle moon shape, possessing four carved grooves with corundum coating the interior. The vehicles' dorsal fins possess inscribed markings in the shape of three-toed hoof-prints, with a total of 60 spread across the vehicle. Proto-Nordic runes are inscribed along several parts of the vehicle, with notable differences in the style of carvings. For the sake of brevity, these have been recorded in the section below. SCP-3706-380 Capital Ship Details have been classified in accordance with tenants of OPERATION HIGH TIDE. Documents have been appended in the addenda below, level 5 clearance required. Translation T-3706-01: The following contains an interpretation of the inscribed runes on SCP-3706-230. "Hey hotshot, congrats on getting your certification. This beauty is named BJÖRT. She's good, but to earn her trust, you're going to have to hit at least five humans in the water, and make sure you get their blood in her mouth." ~Snorre "Greetings new aquaneer, please disregard the above message. This aeronautic does not require human blood sacrifices to operate. We are not savage primitives." ~Magister Rolf "No seriously, don't listen to the Magisters. They like to see new guys be unable to operate their machines on the first go. It's just five humans. C'mon, you know they aren't doing anything but tossing spears at each other." ~Snorre "Please ignore all markings from Aquaneer Snorre. He has been reprimanded for encouraging prejudiced uncivil behavior towards other thinking beings." ~Magister Rolf "Yeah, well let's see you reprimand me when I take this thing and fly off, you vagr níðingr." ~Snorre A single set of skeletal4 remains were recovered 1.5 m from the vehicle on the ocean floor. Skeletal remains matched those recovered from SCP-3047. Show Document D-3706-01 Hide Document D-3706-01 WARNING: ATTEMPTED ACCESS DETECTED. THIS DOCUMENT IS UNDER LEVEL 5 CLASSIFICATION. USER CODE: HILDALAND PASSWORD: THE13O5SRIDETHERISINGTIDE IDENTIFIER ACCEPTED. Welcome back 05-01. OPERATION HIGH TIDE Designated Object: SCP-3706-380 Asset Rating: Thaumiel Status: Active. Recommendations: Use not advised due to destructive potential. Priority should be given to search and acquisition attempts of all similar vehicles. Description: SCP-3706-380 is a vehicle, 200 meters in length, excluding all tentacles, 125 meters in width and 75 meters in height. The superstructure resembles the Australian giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama, with notable major modifications, including six 50 m "arms" capable of supporting the vehicle in traversing terrestrial environments, and two tentacles capable of more directed, dexterous movements. Large channels, which form a circuit of constant luminescent blue, green, and yellow light, cover the exterior hull, forming intricate patterns of symbolic and spiritual significance.5 Four large equidistant yellow orbs are positioned at the anterior end of the vehicle, resembling eyes. Interior spaces are broken down into 16 individual decks, with various facilities for long-term residence. SCP-3706-380 is capable of housing a crew of 325 individuals, and can carry up to 800 personnel for short periods. SCP-3706-380 is equipped with 14 major weapon emplacements, including a high yield thaumaturgic beam weapon in place of a vessel's mouth, and a number of smaller defensive emplacements. Major emplacements consist of rotating oblong ovals with grooves carved at equidistant intervals on the minor axis of the top face. During the firing of major emplacements, carved channels within the vicinity of the weaponry will change color to a distinct reddish tone. History: SCP-3706-380 was discovered on June 5th, 1935, in the North Sound 3 km off the coast of Westray, Orkney. At the time, the vessel was stuck in the ocean bed, and had been inundated by the surrounding oceanic waters due to an open hatch on the dorsal face. 257 skeletal remains consistent with those found near SCP-3706-230 were recovered, and transported to a small outpost at what is now Site-A, where it was determined the remains were not of human origin. Later excavation of the surrounding ocean bed uncovered traces that SCP-3706-380 had been accompanied by additional vehicles; however, no other intact vehicles were recovered.6 Initially, an attempt was made to lift SCP-3706-380 from the ocean floor under the guise of recovering a valuable shipwreck. The outbreak of Occult War VII indefinitely delayed these plans, and SCP-3706-380 remained untouched for the next 15 years. Foundation paleontologists began to uncover significant numbers of other, similar artifacts, at which time the subject was revisited and a recovery operation was planned and executed. Full recovery of the vessel occurred on June 7th, 1951, and SCP-3706-380 was temporarily stored at a set of makeshift drydocks where Site A now stands. Full inspection of the vessel determined that it had taken significant damage from exposure to salt water for approximately 50 years. Unlike other wrecks of similar age, there was a distinct lack of significant ocean flora inhabiting the vessel. Initial assessments indicated the vessel would be impossible to restore, and SCP-3706-380 was slated for disassembly and decommissioning. This mandate was counteracted by special interests from the O5 council, after an engineer stumbled upon an active power source while cataloging the interior in preparation for demolition. A special project was approved to repair and restore functionality to the vehicle, and began in earnest on August 5th, 1956, with the construction of Site A. As knowledge of the vehicle and its functionalities was minimal, progress was initially slow; however, with the discovery of additional SCP-3706 instances, and the slow reverse engineering of said vehicles, full repairs were completed by March 18th, 1977. Additional SCP-3706 instances were moved to the site for functional studies, and a sister site was constructed for demolition of non-functional vehicles, Site B. Functional restoration began on the same date, and by August 23rd, 1985, a monumental breakthrough in the translation of the Proto-Nordic runes allowed Foundation personnel to translate markings on all recovered instances of SCP-3706 by that date. Proper interpretation took longer, due to the structure and grammar of the language, with linguistic mapping and a full understanding being attained on September 5th, 1990. On December 13th, 1995, Foundation personnel restored functionality to advanced onboard life support systems, leading to the discovery that the vehicle had previously been partially inundated with salt water. This function was disabled. Navigational systems were restored 2 years later and on October 15th, 2006 full engine functions were restored. A skeleton crew of 57 individuals was brought to Site A and underwent the necessary linguistic and functional training to operate SCP-3706-380. The maiden voyage of SCP-3706-380 was continuously delayed, due to more pressing projects in other sectors; however, following the events of Incident I-3700-032 the vessel's maiden voyage was scheduled for March 30th, 2017. During SCP-3706-380's maiden voyage Incident I-3706-01 occurred as described below. Incident I-3706-01: On March 30th, 2017, SCP-3706-380 was launched into Pentland Firth for a shakedown run. Six additional personnel were aboard, including two O5 aides and four engineers overseeing the restoration efforts. The vessel proceeded into open waters, where it remained along the surface and accelerated to a speed of 25 knots. A predetermined course was followed, which included two passes near the village of Harrow. Prior to the voyage, engineers were forced to reboot the engine systems due to a software glitch, unknowingly restoring functionality to the weapons due to a previously undetected blockage in the power channels around the spatial distortion being removed. As such, on the second pass by the village of Harrow, Commander Sarandine Lee, who was piloting the vehicle in conjunction with several other trained personnel, pressed her right palm on a previously unactivated imprint. At this time, a number of alarms engaged, and the uppermost arm of the vehicle was lifted out of the water. Individuals within the vessel proper, and on accompanying security craft, described a mechanical roar emanating from within the vehicle. A "column of light" emanated from a previously unobserved opening, near the point at which the motile limbs are attached. It made impact with the village of Harrow less than a kilometer away. Forensic recreation indicates the hamlet, and all structures within a 300 m radius, were instantly vaporized, leaving a 6 m deep crater in its place. Security protocols were immediately implemented, and all potential witnesses administered necessary amnestics. Inquiring citizens were informed that the explosion, and subsequent incineration of the village, was due to the accidental detonation of military ordinance being loaded onto a ferry for transport to a disposal facility in the Orkneys. Further voyages, and testing have been postponed in order to ascertain further offensive capabilities. The estimated death toll, at this time, is 56 adults, and 5 children. Full recompensation has been offered to any surviving family members. Following the incident, training regimens for individuals selected to crew SCP-3706-380 have been sufficiently altered in order to avoid future incidents with the vehicle's weaponry. Large warning labels have been attached to all terminals, imprints, and mechanical devices known to activate or control emplacements, major or minor. Recovered documents and materials: SCP-3706-380's initial recovery also salvaged a number of artifacts, including numerous thaumaturgic artifacts7 as well as personal belongings as indicated below: Combs made from sea shell fragments, and urchins. Beds and cloths made from kelps and other seaweeds. Nets, spears, and other equipment with traces of large numbers of varying fish species. Decorative personal items, such as candles in containers made of varying ocean flora and fauna with notable deviations from normal species. Moving paintings and photos depicting large-scale environments which do not match with any known geographical features. 5 humerus bones, 3 meters in length. 1 pair of hands, with elongated phalanges ending in hardened, sharp, and curved segments of thick ossification, 1.7 m in width, and digits that are each 1m in length. Two compartments were discovered in a large set of personal quarters near the "bridge" of the vessel. Each compartment contained a bound book, believed to be, after careful examination, ship's logs, with paper composed of seaweed. Upon recovery, it was determined, due to the presence of excess water, that one of the sealed compartments had been compromised. Water damage has rendered the book kept in this compartment unreadable. The other book possesses a single entry in Proto-Nordic runes. This entry has been translated, and interpreted as given below: Undecipherable handwriting believed to be a date. They're everywhere. We're abandoned. Abandoned. Helga… my love. I sent the message. I sent it so many times. None answer. Cursed man of Guð-Bani8… glory against the demon of the deep in war… only death. Exile. Starving. Trapped by the demons in the bed. No way out. No way out. No. Way. Out. Footnotes 1. Crabs. 2. The material with which the orbs were made appears to be different, and less worn than other portions of the vehicle, and a number of fresher carvings around the orbs form a large circle which would be visible if the sides of the vehicle were to unfold. 3. Bull Sharks 4. Observed remains appear to be anatomically similar to baseline humans, with the exception of several prominent features, including atypical body cavities around the neck and shoulders, in some cases containing what appears to be a second layer of desiccated preserved skin, nodules along the bones of the arms and legs and preserved cartillage for the support of fins. These are notably similar to remains observed in SCP-3703-1 instances. 5. Including depictions and motifs of conflicts in which it may have participated. 6. Extensive excavations from March of 2000 to July of 2008 recovered a large number of scattered skeletal remains. These included remains consistent with those found aboard the vessel. Additional remains, inconsistent with those found aboard the vehicle, included disproportionately large sets of remains, several of which could not be identified with any known species. 7. Notably, projectile weaponry using large feather-like projectiles with sharpened edges, and elemental energy. 8. Old Norse for Godslayer and believed to be a reference to SCP-████. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3706" by DrBleep, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3706. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3707
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Item #: SCP-3707 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3707 is kept at Site-81's anomalous motor pool and maintained as necessary to ensure drivability. Description: SCP-3707 is a 2002 Toyota Camry with Minnesota plates. Anomalous properties manifest when occupied by exactly one human, who is driving it between 12 AM and 3 AM local time. Subjects report a mild compulsion to drive SCP-3707 away from their place of residence, with no ultimate destination in mind. Should this compulsion be followed for at least one hour, SCP-3707 and its occupant will disappear when unobserved. SCP-3707 will be found abandoned near a roadway at least 805 kilometers away from the disappearance point. No subject has ever been recovered. All tested individuals (including family, coworkers, etc.) are indifferent to the subject's disappearance, experiencing no distress and often failing to alert relevant authorities. Individuals affected this way will report that they "respect [the subject's] decision", though they are unable or unwilling to elaborate further. Within one week, the subject's roles in groups, organizations and interpersonal relationships will be filled with other individuals, with no decrease in overall functionality or wellbeing. This occurs through apparently mundane processes. After three months, individuals will not think about the subject unless prompted. Occasionally, SCP-3707 will disappear from containment. In each case, a different vehicle with the same anomalous properties will be recovered within one week. This has occurred four times. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3707" by Communism will win, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3707. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: camry.png Author: Communism will win License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Link: SCP Foundation Wiki
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SCP-3708
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Item#: 3708 Level1 Secondary Class: none Disruption Class: dark Risk Class: notice link to memo SCP-3708. Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3708 is kept inside a standard low-concern enclosure at Site-73 and may be accessed by Level-2 personnel for testing. Description: SCP-3708 is a 5 kilogram, 21 centimeter tall stone statue of a rooster. At precisely 6:30 (local time) every morning, SCP-3708 will animate and emit a crowing sound in the 75-80 decibel range. It will then appear to scan the nearby area by craning its neck while seemingly becoming increasingly distressed; during this period of animation, it will emit several low vocalizations before becoming inanimate again at 6:31. SCP-3708 produces a mild euphoric response in individuals that physically contact it; affected subjects report feelings of warmth and comfort. SCP-3708 was recovered from the residence of the recently deceased Reinier Costede, an 83-year-old farmer, in Gilman, Wisconsin. Following the witnessing of SCP-3708's anomalous properties by Costede's relatives, field agents responded to reports of a "living chicken statue" circulating in the small village. Costede's residence was searched, and SCP-3708 was recovered without incident. Addendum 3708.1: Recovered Document Upon the recovery of SCP-3708, a small note was found taped to the side of its body. Pa, I'm going to be gone for a while. Maybe I won't return. I know you don't get many visitors out here… I found you something to keep you company, though! A little reminder of me, I guess. His name's Benny. Take good care of him, OK? Marguerit. Addendum 3708.2: Recovered Document In addition to SCP-3708, a journal was found in Costede's residence; irrelevant content has been excluded. October 23rd, 2016 Marguerit left in the afternoon, and gave me this little sculpture. It reminds me of a rooster I used to have as a child. I've put him on top of my nightstand for now. October 24th, 2016 Today I woke up to the sound of a rooster calling, but I haven't had any on this farm in over 60 years now. For a second, I'd thought it was Marguerit calling me down. Must've been little Benny trying to keep me company. It's better than waking up alone. October 25th, 2016 I woke up a little earlier today, and while doing my morning routine I heard Benny crowing again. I went over to where I had placed him, and by God, he was moving! I reached my hand out to touch him and he rubbed up against it. Then, he went back to normal… I don't know if I'm getting enough sleep. October 26th, 2016 I thought it was the sleep, but it happened again today. This time, it looked like he was waiting for me. I pet him again and he soon went still. Reminded me of when Marguerit was just a baby… she'd always wake up crying in the middle of the night, and wouldn't quiet down until I went over to comfort her. November 19th, 2016 Saying good-morning to Benny is part of my routine now. I think he's used to having me around, and so am I. She was right about me needing company. I only wish I could have him around more often than a minute each morning. Then again, it does make our time together more treasured. I didn't have Marguerit around for very long, either. December 21st, 2016 Benny seemed more active than usual today. He was practically flailing about, crowing his head off about God-knows-what. Normally I'd be annoyed, but… with him, it's hard to. I was half-hoping that Marguerit had returned and he was crowing at that, but that wasn't the case. I just wish someone would come. December 22nd, 2016 He kept it up today, which was no surprise. I just comforted him until he calmed down. Then, back to stone. God, why does he have to turn back to stone? […] I came down with something, by the looks of it. I've been with a nasty cough for the better half of this afternoon. It's bearable, though. At least I have something to look forward to in the morning. December 23rd, 2016 (final entry) It looks like the flu. I think Benny knows, too. He seemed worried when I went to say good-morning today. But I'll be okay, for him. For Marguerit.
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Item #: SCP-3709 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3709 is stored in a standard containment locker at Site-55. A formal request must be sent to Dr. Everwood before dismantling the object. In the event of an injury caused by SCP-3709, the accompanying staple remover is to be used. Description: SCP-3709 is a black metal stapler. Its primary anomalous property is its ability to punch a staple through any material or materials. The name "Avelar" is engraved on the top of the handle and a customer support phone number is located on the bottom of the object. Upon ejection, the staple loaded into SCP-3709 will elongate, enlarge, and increase in durability in order to breach through the material placed between it and SCP-3709's plate. SCP-3709 has approximately 2.5cm of space between its hammer and anvil. However, its anomalous properties will activate as long as the loaded staple is angled towards the metal plate, regardless of whether it is attached. Theoretically, there are no limitations to SCP-3709's capabilities when dismantled in this fashion. [INTERVIEW LOG 3709.1] [ACCESS GRANTED] Interview Log 3709.1: After initial testing of SCP-3709, the customer service number on the bottom of the object was called with the purpose of gaining intel on APP Inc. Researcher Danica was instructed to draw out the conversation while an origin trace was conducted. Interviewer: Researcher Danica Foreword: Danica was told to hide his identity. <BEGIN LOG> Call is initiated. The line rings once before cutting to an automated transmission. Female Voice: Thank you for calling Avelar Professional Products Incorporated! Your call is very important to us. In order to ensure quality service, your call may be monitored. Please stay on the line, and one of our representatives will take your call as soon as possible. Light jazz begins playing on the other line. Two minutes pass. Representative1: Hello, and thank you for calling Avelar Customer Support. This is Caroline speaking. May I please have your name for our records? Danica: My name is Alan Daniels. Caroline: … Thank you so much for your call today, Mr. Daniels. And what is the product you are calling us about? Danica: I'm calling about one of your staplers. Caroline: Okay. Do you have the model number? It's on the packaging. Danica: I don't have the model number, no. Caroline: Okay. Can you describe it for me? Danica: Sure. It's black, it is made of metal, and it has your logo on the top. Caroline: … Thank you, sir. I have the product information up now. And what is your issue? Danica: We don't have an issue with the stapler. I was actually just curious about some aspects of the product. Is it possible that you could answer some questions? Caroline: Of course! How can I be of assistance? Danica: So, some of us at the office are concerned about the binding strength of the stapler. It's a bit unnecessarily strong. Caroline: It was designed to guarantee a secure fasten. It doesn't unbend in the slightest. You're more likely to rip your paper than lose the staple! Danica: So it's only meant to hold paper together? Caroline: … Yes, Mr. Daniels. It's an office stapler. It's what they are designed to do. Danica: I'm having a difficult time believing that this is only intended to keep stacks of paper together. Caroline: Sir, this line is for serious inquiries only. If you have no further questions about the product, I will be forced to terminate this call. Danica: I'm not joking. This is unreasonably powerful for a common office tool. Caroline: Good-bye, sir. The call is disconnected. <END LOG> Closing Statement: As the amount of time spent on the call was insufficient, the trace was unsuccessful. Multiple attempts to contact the service line were made and ended with similar results. The representative may be unaware of SCP-3709's anomalous nature. [INCIDENT 3709.2] [ACCESS GRANTED] Incident 3709.2: During a limit test, D-1221 was instructed to hold the anvil of SCP-3709 against the ceiling of the controlled testing chamber while Dr. Fynegan punched the staple through the floor above. After approximately thirty minutes2, D-1221 experienced fatigue in their arm and subsequently dropped the anvil. Upon retrieval of the anvil, Fynegan successfully punched a staple through the floor, ceiling, ladder, and D-1221's left hand, piercing and holding them all in place. Given the nature of the staple, on-site personnel were unable to remove it from D-1221's hand. [INTERVIEW LOG 3709.2] [ACCESS GRANTED] Interview Log 3709.2: In order to gain further insight into the proper method of removing the staple from D-1221, the customer service number was called, with the manufacturing of SCP-3709 being a secondary priority. Additionally, Researcher Waters was instructed to draw out the conversation while an origin trace was conducted. Interviewer: Researcher Waters Foreword: Waters was told to hide her identity. <BEGIN LOG> Call is initiated. The line rings once before cutting to an automated transmission. Female Voice: Thank you for calling Avelar Professional Products Incorporated! Your call is very important to us. In order to ensure quality service, your call may be monitored. Please stay on the line, and one of our representatives will take your call as soon as possible. Light jazz begins playing on the other line. Two minutes pass. Caroline: Hello, and thank you for calling Avelar Customer Support. This is Caroline speaking. May I please get your name for our records? Waters: Yes, this is May Watson speaking. Caroline: … Thank you so much for your call today Ms. Watson. And what is the product that you are calling about? Waters: I'm calling about the, um, the stapler. I don't have a model number here. Caroline: No worries, Ms. Watson. Is it alright to assume you are referring to our popular premium-grade office stapler? The black one with our company name on the top? Waters: Yes, that's correct. Caroline: Okay, and what is the issue? Waters: One of our employees has been inflicted with a serious injury and we can't remove the staple. He can't move from where he is right now. Caroline: Oh dear, that's no good! Have you tried using our APP brand staple remover? Waters: It didn't come with a staple remover.3 Caroline: It should have. Are you sure you haven't misplaced it? Waters: I'm positive. Is the staple remover the only option? Caroline: … I'm actually not certain. Waters: So you don't know how the product works? Caroline: Admittedly, I am not very familiar with the premium-grade stapler. I do apologize. Waters: Is it possible that you could put someone else on the line? Someone who does know more about it? Caroline: I'm sorry, Ms. Watson. Please excuse me one moment while I transfer you to a tier two support representative. They should be able to offer you a more satisfactory response. Please hold. Light jazz music begins playing on the other line. Five minutes pass. Representative4: Thank you for holding, this is Kevin speaking. Am I speaking with Ms. May Watson? Waters: Yes, this is she. Kevin: … Okay. And am I correct in understanding the issue, that being an employee has a staple stuck in their left hand? Waters: Correct. Kevin: … Alright. I should mention that we aren't liable for any misuse of our products. Now, have you tried using our APP brand staple remover before making this call? Waters: It didn't come with one. The previous representative said that it should have come with the staple remover. Kevin: No, it doesn't come with one, but they are available for purchase. However, because of the work-related injury, we can send one to you free-of-charge. Can I get a mailing address? Waters: I'm still a bit confused. Why wouldn't you include the staple remover if this is a potential issue? Kevin: Ms. Watson, I understand that you are frustrated, but we are not liable for any misuse of our products. It isn't a toy. It's an office tool. Waters: Forgive me, but given the holding strength of this thing, I don't know what purpose this would fill in an office environment, much less a desk job. Kevin: … It's used to hold paper together, Ms. Watson. At this moment, Researcher Waters is given an indication that the trace has been completed. Kevin: … Are you still there, Ms. Watson? Waters: Yeah. I'm still here. Kevin: Excellent. Now, would you mind providing a mailing address so I may send you a complimentary staple remover? Researcher Waters proceeds to offer the information for a Foundation-owned P.O. box. Kevin: Perfect. I have your order logged now. You should be seeing your package in two to three business days. Is there anything else I can help you with while you're on the line? Waters: Nope. I think we're done here. Kevin: Thank you for your time and cooperation, Ms. Watson. Please contact us if you have any further questions about our products. Have a nice day. Waters: You too. <END LOG> While waiting for the item to arrive, Field Agents Hausmann and Miller were stationed at the P.O. box to surveil for any suspicious activity. Four days later, a staple remover with "APP" inscribed on the top was retrieved from the P.O. box without incident5, and the staple was successfully removed and reverted to its initial properties. [LEVEL 3 SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED: ADDENDUM] [ACCESS GRANTED] Addendum: Following Interview 3709.2, the customer service line was traced to an office building in El Paso, Texas. Further investigation led to an office suite on the fifth floor with no address number designated to it. Once the dispatched field team forced the door open, three rows of cubicles were found in the middle of the office suite, only one of which being occupied by four people (two men and two women). A printer was located in the far corner opposite the window. Closer inspection revealed the following: Each person is a current employee of Avelar Professional Products Inc., two of which were the call representatives contacted in Interview Log 3709.2 Each person was comatose and fed intravenously. Waste was not collected. Each person was affixed to their chairs via staples in both hands, both thighs, and the chest. Staples possessed anomalous properties consistent with SCP-3709 modified staples. Each person possessed a USB 3.0 cable implanted in the back of the skull, leading directly into the desktop computer in front of them. The printer was surrounded by several stacks of paper. All documents found were shipping logs for various APP Inc. products, including the staple remover acquired by the Foundation Amidst the investigation, a data breach was successful in accessing an employee's email inbox. Though a majority of the emails listed suffered intense data corruption, one email received three weeks prior to the acquisition of SCP-3709 was recovered and reconstructed. From: ██████ ███████ <█_███████@██████.███> To: Caroline Fr████ <█_french@██████.███> Subject: Concerning Your W█rk Ethic, Rea█signm███ Date: September 19, 2018 Hello, Carol██e. Lately, we've been seeing a drop in your productivity. I sympathize with you, of course. File clerk isn't the most glamorous job, ███ I can only assume this lethargy was ██████ ██ our decision to choose ████one else for the HR position. For that, I sincerely apo████ze. We never meant to demoralize you. As you are familiar, we pride ourselves in ███ work ethic and satisfaction ████ our teams. We believe each employee can fulfill an intended purpose, one ████ ███ tailored with their strengths in mind. Be██use of your excel████ organizational s████s and history in ██source management, it seemed that the filing clerk position was the right ███. Admittedly, we didn't see ███ as much ██ █ "people person", as you've put it, ██ ██ ███ a considerable oversight on our part that you were put in a place that you were not █████ with. Which brings me to my next point. We, being ████ ██████████ and myself, are reassigning you ██ █ ███tomer service repres███████e position. [MASSIVE DATA CORRUPTION REMOVED] We may consider you for an HR position in the future if you prove to be exceptional! Now, I must be clear here: We do not reward immature behavior. ██ are moving you to a customer service position because you are a valued employee with ███. Should you exhibit this behavior again, disciplinary measures will be taken. Thank you, Caroline. A member of the IT team ████ ██ ████ ███ shortly. M█████ Ste████ Texas Regional ████████ ██████ ███████████ ████████ Inc. Footnotes 1. Henceforth referred to as Caroline 2. Dr. Fynegan expressed he had difficulty locating the precise location of the metal plate 3. SCP-3709 was not purchased by any Foundation personnel. 4. Henceforth referred to as Kevin 5. The package itself was delivered by a member of the U.S. Postal Service confirmed to have no association with APP Inc. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3709" by RockTeethMothEyes, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3709. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3710
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Item #: SCP-3710 Special Containment Procedures: Iditarod racers claiming to have witnessed SCP-3710 are to be administered Class A amnestics. Foundation undercover personnel are positioned along known locations of SCP-3710 manifestation. Personnel have been instructed to use special tranquilizer rifles to apprehend SCP-3710. All prior attempts to contain SCP-3710 have failed due to its tendency to either spontaneously demanifest or accelerate to speeds in excess of 1500 km/h when being actively pursued on foot or via dog sled. Description: SCP-3710 is a single dog-sled team are two dog sled teams consisting of the following components: 8 cybernetically enhanced dogs, resembling those found in SCP-2624. Each dog possesses a miniaturized methane fueled Raptor rocket propulsion device in place of a rectal cavity. Propulsion is believed to be fueled by digestive byproducts. 1 sled composed of composite wooden material demonstrating physically impossible resistance to both the excessive heat and force produced by the dogs. Is equipped with 2 Raptor methane fueled rocket propulsion devices, and a giant white X painted across the bed. SCP-3710-1 is a single humanoid individual are two humanoid individuals claiming to be Canadian-American business magnate and billionaire, Elon Musk. Both SCP-3710-1 instances show significantly different baseline physical, with the exception of the face, and behavioral traits from Mr. Musk. The entities possess 4 arms and prominent horns protruding from the top of their skulls. Despite continuously quoting Musk in all recorded interactions, SCP-3710-1 instances communicate in a manner closely resembling that of door-to-door salespersons. SCP-3710-1 exhibits a low level memetic effect, causing any individual who views the entity to perceive them as actually being Elon Musk.1 SCP-3710 manifests at random intervals along the route of the annual Iditarod, primarily during the 140km stretch of trail between Nenna and Manley Hot Springs, Alaska. SCP-3710 will follow targeted race participants above or alongside the trail until it is within vocal range.2 Once SCP-3710 has pulled within vocal range of its target, SCP-3710-1 will make attempts to persuade the race participant to purchase the most recent product being produced by one of Musk's companies. As the majority of products sold by Musk's companies are more expensive than race participants can actively afford, in 95% of cases the targeted party will refuse the offer. SCP-3710-1 will attempt multiple times to convince the targeted party. Should the party refuse three or more times, SCP-3710-1 will state its lack of interest in attempting to negotiate further. At this point, SCP-3710 will employ its propulsion devices, and either demanifest or move to the next target. When directly pursued by individuals not currently engaging it in business negotiations, SCP-3710 will demanifest, or activate its propulsion devices. Activating its propulsion devices in mountainous or icy terrain increases the probability of significant environmental hazards occurring, in addition to causing severe burn or blunt force wind damage to any individual caught in the jet stream. Discovery: SCP-3710 first appeared during the 1995 Iditarod, at which time SCP-3710-1 attempted to sell Zip2 software licenses to 15 different racers at $50,000 per licence. Following the initial manifestation, Foundation personnel contacted Elon Musk about his whereabouts during the Iditarod, at which point they determined that he had been on tour in New York City at the time of initial manifestation. An initial attempt was made to capture the entity utilizing six operatives posing as racers. SCP-3710 successfully evaded all members of the team via activation of its propulsion device, burying Four personnel beneath an avalanche. Two additional personnel were killed in the attempt when they were launched by SCP-3710's jet-stream into a grove of trees. Addendum: The following log contains the text transcript of an audio recording of an undercover Foundation agent interacting with SCP-3710-1. Audio Log I-3710-01 Date: 03/03/17 Participant: Agent Shiane McCormick. Subject: SCP-3710-01 Foreword: Agent McCormick was instructed, prior to the race, that should she encounter SCP-3710-1, she was instructed to refuse the first two attempts by the entity to sell its product, and then agree on the third attempt. Agent McCormick was given a card containing $100,000. She was not informed of SCP-3710-1's appearance prior to the incident. Begin Log I-3710-01 [The audio log begins. For approximately 30 minutes nothing is audible but Agent McCormick's breath and dogs running through snow. At approximately 08:30:17 an additional set of dogs running through snow becomes audible, and a voice can be heard.3] SCP-3710-1: "Greetings valued customer! When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product. Speaking of products, would you be interested in our brand new Tesla electric car?" Agent McCormick: "Are you supposed to be Elon Musk?" SCP-3710-1: "Supposed to be? My good ma'am I am the one and only Elon Musk. We have a strict 'no-assholes policy' at SpaceX, and I would be in violation of that if I were an imposter! Now, would you be interested in purchasing a Tesla for only $203,000?" Agent McCormick: "I can't afford that." SCP-3710-1: "Come on, when Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. I always invest my own money in the companies that I create, and you should too! What would you say if we lowered the price to 150,000 just for you?" Agent McCormick: "That's still too expensive." SCP-3710-1: "I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that, but obviously if you don't have the cash, I can't make you buy. I'll make one final offer, for just a small loan of $50,000 you could be driving your new Tesla as soon as tomorrow! Whaddya say?" Agent McCormick: "$50,000? I can work with that." SCP-3710-1: "Excellent! Thank you for doing business with Tesla Industries. As a thank you from us to you, we're including this once in a lifetime bonus with your purchase: rocket propulsion cybernetic enhancements for you and your team! Thank you for shopping Tesla, remember: The first step is to establish that something is physically impossible; then cybernetic surgery will occur. This is an automated message, please wait 5 seconds for [UNINTELLIGIBLE]." Agent McCormick: "Rocket propuls-" [Agent McCormick promptly cuts out, for the next 5 seconds her sled dogs audibly whimper before the recording ends.] END LOG Postword: Following loss of contact with Agent McCormick, a team of retrieval operatives were deployed to the last recorded GPS contact. Agent McCormick and the accompanying sled dogs could not be located, although her sled remained in the middle of the trail. Later investigation discovered the transfer of $50,000 from a Foundation front company to the sales account of Tesla Inc. Update: 03/23/17 3 weeks following the events of the above audio log, Agent McCormick's GPS tracker reactivated in shallow waters off the coast of Tahiti. Retrieval teams recovered Agent McCormick and a fully functioning Tesla Model 3.4 Agent McCormick had sustained significant cybernetic surgical modification, including replacement of the lower jaw and esophagus with a Raptor propulsion device. McCormick was found alive in the trunk of the vehicle, with a hand written note attached to her forehead. Thank you for purchasing from Tesla Incorporated! We deeply regret the conditions under which we are forced to return your representative. An accident occurred when they attempted to prevent the agreed upon dog modification, as stated in Article 1 subsection 3 of our verbal purchase agreement: "Upon purchase, the customer shall cede all dogs in his/her possession for propulsion modification, in preparation for SpaceX's excursion to Enceladus." Please take the time to fill out this survey at [COGNITOHAZARDOUS URL REMOVED]. Your monetary and dog contribution to the Tesla-SpaceX rocket dog initiative is appreciated! We hope you shop with us again. Elon Musk Update: 03/03/18 Upon SCP-3710's following manifestation, a second, identical entity appeared with an equivalent number of canines to the first, matching the description of Agent McCormick's sled team. Agent McCormick's dogs appeared to possess cybernetic enhancements identical to those normally associated with SCP-3710's pre-existing individuals. As of this iteration, it is now believed that SCP-3710 targets Iditarod participants due to the relatively isolated nature of the route, and the conditioned training that their dogs undergo. Given the nature of such incidents, and relatively ineffective nature of SCP-3710-1's bargaining attempts, SCP-3710's requested upgrade to Keter has been denied. Footnotes 1. Individuals shown actual photos of Elon Musk post interaction with SCP-3710-1 exhibit shock and/or disbelief that the figure in the given piece of media is actually Musk. 2. This includes floating, or hovering next to sheer cliff faces and canyons; Navigating through densely packed forests or on top of thin ice surfaces. 3. Audio analysis indicates a 100% match to Elon Musk. 4. The Tesla Model 3 was not scheduled for release until July 7th. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3710" by DrBleep, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3710. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3710
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Item #: SCP-3710 Special Containment Procedures: Iditarod racers claiming to have witnessed SCP-3710 are to be administered Class A amnestics. Foundation undercover personnel are positioned along known locations of SCP-3710 manifestation. Personnel have been instructed to use special tranquilizer rifles to apprehend SCP-3710. All prior attempts to contain SCP-3710 have failed due to its tendency to either spontaneously demanifest or accelerate to speeds in excess of 1500 km/h when being actively pursued on foot or via dog sled. Description: SCP-3710 is a single dog-sled team are two dog sled teams consisting of the following components: 8 cybernetically enhanced dogs, resembling those found in SCP-2624. Each dog possesses a miniaturized methane fueled Raptor rocket propulsion device in place of a rectal cavity. Propulsion is believed to be fueled by digestive byproducts. 1 sled composed of composite wooden material demonstrating physically impossible resistance to both the excessive heat and force produced by the dogs. Is equipped with 2 Raptor methane fueled rocket propulsion devices, and a giant white X painted across the bed. SCP-3710-1 is a single humanoid individual are two humanoid individuals claiming to be Canadian-American business magnate and billionaire, Elon Musk. Both SCP-3710-1 instances show significantly different baseline physical, with the exception of the face, and behavioral traits from Mr. Musk. The entities possess 4 arms and prominent horns protruding from the top of their skulls. Despite continuously quoting Musk in all recorded interactions, SCP-3710-1 instances communicate in a manner closely resembling that of door-to-door salespersons. SCP-3710-1 exhibits a low level memetic effect, causing any individual who views the entity to perceive them as actually being Elon Musk.1 SCP-3710 manifests at random intervals along the route of the annual Iditarod, primarily during the 140km stretch of trail between Nenna and Manley Hot Springs, Alaska. SCP-3710 will follow targeted race participants above or alongside the trail until it is within vocal range.2 Once SCP-3710 has pulled within vocal range of its target, SCP-3710-1 will make attempts to persuade the race participant to purchase the most recent product being produced by one of Musk's companies. As the majority of products sold by Musk's companies are more expensive than race participants can actively afford, in 95% of cases the targeted party will refuse the offer. SCP-3710-1 will attempt multiple times to convince the targeted party. Should the party refuse three or more times, SCP-3710-1 will state its lack of interest in attempting to negotiate further. At this point, SCP-3710 will employ its propulsion devices, and either demanifest or move to the next target. When directly pursued by individuals not currently engaging it in business negotiations, SCP-3710 will demanifest, or activate its propulsion devices. Activating its propulsion devices in mountainous or icy terrain increases the probability of significant environmental hazards occurring, in addition to causing severe burn or blunt force wind damage to any individual caught in the jet stream. Discovery: SCP-3710 first appeared during the 1995 Iditarod, at which time SCP-3710-1 attempted to sell Zip2 software licenses to 15 different racers at $50,000 per licence. Following the initial manifestation, Foundation personnel contacted Elon Musk about his whereabouts during the Iditarod, at which point they determined that he had been on tour in New York City at the time of initial manifestation. An initial attempt was made to capture the entity utilizing six operatives posing as racers. SCP-3710 successfully evaded all members of the team via activation of its propulsion device, burying Four personnel beneath an avalanche. Two additional personnel were killed in the attempt when they were launched by SCP-3710's jet-stream into a grove of trees. Addendum: The following log contains the text transcript of an audio recording of an undercover Foundation agent interacting with SCP-3710-1. Audio Log I-3710-01 Date: 03/03/17 Participant: Agent Shiane McCormick. Subject: SCP-3710-01 Foreword: Agent McCormick was instructed, prior to the race, that should she encounter SCP-3710-1, she was instructed to refuse the first two attempts by the entity to sell its product, and then agree on the third attempt. Agent McCormick was given a card containing $100,000. She was not informed of SCP-3710-1's appearance prior to the incident. Begin Log I-3710-01 [The audio log begins. For approximately 30 minutes nothing is audible but Agent McCormick's breath and dogs running through snow. At approximately 08:30:17 an additional set of dogs running through snow becomes audible, and a voice can be heard.3] SCP-3710-1: "Greetings valued customer! When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product. Speaking of products, would you be interested in our brand new Tesla electric car?" Agent McCormick: "Are you supposed to be Elon Musk?" SCP-3710-1: "Supposed to be? My good ma'am I am the one and only Elon Musk. We have a strict 'no-assholes policy' at SpaceX, and I would be in violation of that if I were an imposter! Now, would you be interested in purchasing a Tesla for only $203,000?" Agent McCormick: "I can't afford that." SCP-3710-1: "Come on, when Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. I always invest my own money in the companies that I create, and you should too! What would you say if we lowered the price to 150,000 just for you?" Agent McCormick: "That's still too expensive." SCP-3710-1: "I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that, but obviously if you don't have the cash, I can't make you buy. I'll make one final offer, for just a small loan of $50,000 you could be driving your new Tesla as soon as tomorrow! Whaddya say?" Agent McCormick: "$50,000? I can work with that." SCP-3710-1: "Excellent! Thank you for doing business with Tesla Industries. As a thank you from us to you, we're including this once in a lifetime bonus with your purchase: rocket propulsion cybernetic enhancements for you and your team! Thank you for shopping Tesla, remember: The first step is to establish that something is physically impossible; then cybernetic surgery will occur. This is an automated message, please wait 5 seconds for [UNINTELLIGIBLE]." Agent McCormick: "Rocket propuls-" [Agent McCormick promptly cuts out, for the next 5 seconds her sled dogs audibly whimper before the recording ends.] END LOG Postword: Following loss of contact with Agent McCormick, a team of retrieval operatives were deployed to the last recorded GPS contact. Agent McCormick and the accompanying sled dogs could not be located, although her sled remained in the middle of the trail. Later investigation discovered the transfer of $50,000 from a Foundation front company to the sales account of Tesla Inc. Update: 03/23/17 3 weeks following the events of the above audio log, Agent McCormick's GPS tracker reactivated in shallow waters off the coast of Tahiti. Retrieval teams recovered Agent McCormick and a fully functioning Tesla Model 3.4 Agent McCormick had sustained significant cybernetic surgical modification, including replacement of the lower jaw and esophagus with a Raptor propulsion device. McCormick was found alive in the trunk of the vehicle, with a hand written note attached to her forehead. Thank you for purchasing from Tesla Incorporated! We deeply regret the conditions under which we are forced to return your representative. An accident occurred when they attempted to prevent the agreed upon dog modification, as stated in Article 1 subsection 3 of our verbal purchase agreement: "Upon purchase, the customer shall cede all dogs in his/her possession for propulsion modification, in preparation for SpaceX's excursion to Enceladus." Please take the time to fill out this survey at [COGNITOHAZARDOUS URL REMOVED]. Your monetary and dog contribution to the Tesla-SpaceX rocket dog initiative is appreciated! We hope you shop with us again. Elon Musk Update: 03/03/18 Upon SCP-3710's following manifestation, a second, identical entity appeared with an equivalent number of canines to the first, matching the description of Agent McCormick's sled team. Agent McCormick's dogs appeared to possess cybernetic enhancements identical to those normally associated with SCP-3710's pre-existing individuals. As of this iteration, it is now believed that SCP-3710 targets Iditarod participants due to the relatively isolated nature of the route, and the conditioned training that their dogs undergo. Given the nature of such incidents, and relatively ineffective nature of SCP-3710-1's bargaining attempts, SCP-3710's requested upgrade to Keter has been denied. Footnotes 1. Individuals shown actual photos of Elon Musk post interaction with SCP-3710-1 exhibit shock and/or disbelief that the figure in the given piece of media is actually Musk. 2. This includes floating, or hovering next to sheer cliff faces and canyons; Navigating through densely packed forests or on top of thin ice surfaces. 3. Audio analysis indicates a 100% match to Elon Musk. 4. The Tesla Model 3 was not scheduled for release until July 7th. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3710" by DrBleep, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3710. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3711
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Item #: SCP-3711 Special Containment Procedures: "Imaginative"1 thaumotologists and thaumaturges employed by the Foundation, or detained at Foundation sites are to be provided with dream suppressant drug therapy, and psychological counseling. As a large number of individuals affected by SCP-3711 are outside of the Foundation's jurisdiction, complete suppression of SCP-3711 is currently impossible, unless apprehended. Research into methods of suppressing SCP-3711 on a large scale is ongoing. Description: SCP-3711 is a mental and physiological condition which affects individuals who possess, are trained in, or develop the capability to employ "Imaginative" Thaumatological manipulation. Based on carvings and murals recovered from bronze age sites, this condition is known as "The Song of Regretful Freeing." This condition varies considerably depending on the skill, natural power, and age of the individual; however, several core attributes are noted. SCP-3711 initially manifests when an individual develops "Imaginative" thaumatological capability. Individuals begin experiencing lucid dreams of varying natures (see Interview Log I-3711-01) and intensity wherein the individual has complete control of the dream's progression, until the end of said dream. All recorded initial dreams have ended the same, with subsequent dreams escalating the initial ending over time. The content of these dreams serve as a motivating force for the dreamer to increase their thaumatological capabilities. Lucid dreaming continues well past development of thaumatological capability. Key areas of the brain associated with artistic creativity and scientific creativity are heavily impacted by SCP-3711, resulting in a significant increase in neuron development. Thorough brain scanning and mapping studies have determined the majority of these changes occur during either sleep or the active use of thaumatological capabilities. Continued use of "imaginative" thaumatological manipulation results in significant changes in brain structure over long periods of time.2 This results in the manifestation of more prominent and ubiquitous symptoms such as: Auditory hallucinations Temporary periods of dissociation from reality Memory loss Compulsive urges and restlessness, often involving a need to "move elsewhere" A sudden and pronounced affinity for aquatic environments. Personnel experiencing the more severe symptoms of SCP-3711 experience physiological alterations, and subsequent deterioration due to unknown factors (See Addendum 2). All individuals in the late stages of SCP-3711 within Foundation custody have perished as a result of prolonged dehydration and oxygen deprivation over the course of 48 hours.3 Access fileserv:/S/3711/interview.log Hide Log Interview Log Modified Interview Unmodified Interview Section Date: 03/05/2021 Interviewer: Dr. Alva Móðir Interviewee: Dr. Sarah Stewart, former Serpents Hand activist. Foreword: Dr. Stewart submitted herself to Foundation custody after five years of constant thaumatological activism against the captivity of anomalous humanoid entities. Dr. Stewart began experiencing late-stage symptoms congruent with SCP-3711 and sought treatment and asylum in exchange for strategic information on fellow activists. At the time of submission, Dr. Stewart's symptoms were noted to be "mild", generating some interest in studying her progression. As a result, she was provided with standard treatment for SCP-3711, and standard level 4 humanoid privileges. Following repeated negotiations and numerous instances of cooperation, Dr. Stewart was granted level 3 housing. Dr. Stewart has not been visited regularly and was not under active surveillance4 for the three years of her containment until this interview, due to good behavior. She had been receiving monthly physician visits to assess her condition's progress. Dr. Alva Móðir was assigned as Dr. Stewarts regular physician following a rotation of several individuals, wherein Dr. Móðir established a reporte with Dr. Stewarts. Dr. Stewart called for an interview a week before the normally scheduled visit, citing somewhat concerning developments. Begin Log [Dr. Móðir enters Dr. Stewart's personal housing unit after announcing herself. She approaches the "dining room table" where interviews and examinations are normally conducted. She stops, looking in Dr. Stewart's direction. Dr. Stewart is seated, her exposed skin is notably red, especially around the hands and face. A ridge of what appears to be cartilage with loose flesh has begun to form on each forearm, and just above each ankle. A pile of peeled off skin is at Dr. Stewart's feet.] Dr. Móðir: "Christ Sarah, when did this begin?" Dr. Stewart: "Two weeks… give or take a few days." Dr. Móðir: "You didn't call it in until today? Why would you wait this long? Tell me you didn't think a rash that bad would just go away." Dr. Stewart: "To be fair Alva, it started really small and just spread progressively. I thought it was cause I was scratching, and that if I stopped it would go away. So I stopped, and you know, it kept going. So I thought it was some sort of allergic reaction to the shampoo, like the last time. Then, well, I started growing lumps out of my arms." [Dr. Stewart holds up her arm presenting the protrusion. Areas where the skin has been peeled away are visible. Small patches of what appear to be iridescent pink scales come into view. Alva sighs and sits at the table.] Dr. Móðir: "Sarah you have scales on your arm. That is not the result of an allergic reaction. You have a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, you're a scientist for mith- Christ's sakes." Dr. Stewart: "Theoretical physics doesn't equip me to handle medical issues Alva, we've had that discussion. I thought they were hives, they sure itch like them." Dr. Móðir: "You'd best come over here so I can have a look. I may have to call this one in." Dr. Stewart: "Fuck, you know how much I hate the needles." Dr. Móðir: "I do, which is why I told you to call in case anything abnormal started. Yet here we are." Dr. Stewart: "I called as soon as something abnormal did start. A rash isn't abnormal when you've been using magic half your adult life." Dr. Móðir: "Thaumatology induced or not, you should have called sooner. Don't make me chide you like this, I'm not your mother." Dr. Stewart: "You might as well be, you care more than she ever did." [Dr. Stewart rises and approaches the table, before pausing and going to the small kitchenette. She retrieves a cup, and a jug, which she fills with water. She sits at the table, pouring a cup of water for herself.] Dr. Stewart: "Do you want a cup?" Dr. Móðir: "I'm fine, thanks. We'll skip the formalities, we've been doing this long enough that I know you're you, despite the rash and the scales." Dr. Stewart: "I'd make a sarcastic or sassy response, but right now I just want to figure out what's happening to me." Dr. Móðir: "Do you want to do the standard schpiel, or just describe to me what's wrong?" Dr. Stewart: "Lets… go with what's wrong. I don't need to know about the Hippocratic oath and Humanoid ethical protocols for the thousandth time." Dr. Móðir: "Could have sworn you enjoyed hearing it. But yes, tell me about your symptoms." [Dr. Stewart refills the glass of water.] Dr. Stewart: "Uh there are a lot. Where should I start?" Dr. Móðir: "Physical first." Dr. Stewart: "Obviously, there's the rash. It started at my fingers and has just been crawling up my arms and legs. Started on my face on Saturday… or Friday… I'm losing track of time. Then there is this horrible lump in my arm. It's got all this loose flesh and Alva I can't believe I'm saying this, but part of me is thrilled that it's growing in and I don't know why the fuck that is." Dr. Móðir: "Take a breath, Sarah. Is there anything else? New limbs?" [Dr. Stewart pulls back her hair and turns her head. Flesh has begun radiating from her ears, mostly at the tip, with small protrusions down the length, forming cartilaginous membranes resembling fins. The coloration has been altered on this new growth, taking on a pink hue.] Dr. Stewart: "No new limbs… but uh I looked in the mirror this morning and uh…" Dr. Móðir: "I see." [Five seconds of silence. Dr. Stewart refills the glass of water.] Dr. Stewart: "Do you have any idea what is happening to me?" Dr. Móðir: "This isn't gonna comfort you. I don't. Most people don't survive this long Sarah." [Dr. Stewart refills her glass of water for the fourth time, and ignores the statement.] Dr. Stewart: "God its so dry in here. I would kill for a pool or a place to swim." Dr. Móðir: "You're dodging. The bath and shower not sufficient? In any case, I've done all I can in regards to requisition. A pool is beyond my abilities." Dr. Stewart: "I know. I'd rather not talk about my imminent demise again. It's not the same. I just… there is this constant beating urge in the back of my head to go swimming in the deepest body of water imaginable. It's maddening." Dr. Móðir: "This is the same urge you've been having in the dreams, being submerged in water yes? You have mentioned this several times before." Dr. Stewart: "Yeah I…" [Dr. Stewart focuses on an empty corner of the room, near the camera. Her irises are noted to have experienced a slight change in color since the last interview. Dr. Móðir does not comment on this change.] "It's like… a singing in my head." [Dr. Stewart refills her glass of water for the fifth time.] Dr. Móðir: "You mentioned this all began during the first dream. Honestly, I'm surprised you've not talked more about it. It seems like something you enjoyed greatly. Would you mind indulging me and expanding on that?" Dr. Stewart: [Absently] "It's magic Alva, call it what it is." Dr. Móðir: "We both know I can't deviate from the terminology in the interviews. That's beside the point though, feel free to share the details of your first dream." Dr. Stewart: "Maybe in a minute…" [Unintelligible] Dr. Móðir: "Sarah?" Dr. Stewart: "Yeah?" Dr. Móðir: "You're mumbling again." Dr. Stewart: "Yeah." Dr. Móðir: "You're worrying me. Do you want to talk about the dream?" Dr. Stewart: "Sure." [Fifteen seconds of silence as Dr. Stewart continues to stare into the corner. Her pupils dilate. She absently peels loose flesh from her arms revealing more scales.] Dr. Móðir: "Sarah?" [Dr. Stewart does not respond. Dr. Móðir snaps her fingers in front of Stewart's face several times.] Dr. Móðir: "Sarah can you hear me." [Her eyes focus on the snapping fingers.] Dr. Stewart: "What… I… Alva? What are you doing here How'd you get in When did you get in? It's… it's not been four weeks yet… Oh my god, what happened to my arm?" Dr. Móðir: "We were just discussing that. You called me up because of the rash, and we were discussing your dreams, and your physical condition." Dr. Stewart: "I don't remember. Wait I do remember. It's just, fuzzy." Dr. Móðir: "Its ok. You had a dissociative episode. It happens." Dr. Stewart: "I-, it feels so weird. I'm dreaming? I'm sorry." Dr. Móðir: "You're not dreaming, this is real. It's ok. Let's talk about your first dream. It will help you remember." Dr. Stewart: "I still feel fuzzy." Dr. Móðir: "That's normal. Just start talking, it will help." Dr. Stewart: "The first time I used magic like really used it, with my imagination, and not some ordered ritual, that night I had an incredibly vivid dream. I was me, but I wasn't me if that makes sense? I was human, I think. My dad was human but my mom wasn't. She was some sort of scaley merperson. It's hard to describe." Dr. Móðir: "Don't exert yourself trying. Just give me what you can." [Dr. Stewart goes to pour another glass of water. The Jug is empty.] Dr. Stewart: "Shit. I need more water." Dr. Móðir: "I'll get it for you." [Dr. Móðir refills the jug and returns to the table.] Dr. Stewart: "Thanks my mouth is dry as a desert." Dr. Stewart: "So I get sent out from the village on this adventure after some ancient relic, and along the way, I discover I can use magic right? Like, not the stuffy limited stuff, like full blown powerful magic, only limited by your mind. The same stuff I had just tried out outside of my dream. And my god Alva, it was incredible. I could turn myself into dragons, lift mountains, heal grievous mortal wounds, with the flick of my finger, and the only limit was the scope of my mind." Dr. Móðir: "It sounds like you were more than just a thaumaturge at that point, more like you were a reality bender or even a deity. After all the time I've spent talking with you, it surprises me you didn't immediately conjure enough chocolate cake to last a lifetime." Dr. Stewart: "I was, and the thought didn't occur to me. Retrieving the relic was easy, and after that, a great vicious horde of demons arose from the underworld and I was cast off to fight them. Entire armies fell before my whistling ice blades." Dr. Móðir: "Forgive me if I sound incredulous, but I would get bored after so much of that. There's only so many easy victories you can have before a person, even a god, gets bored." [Dr. Stewart pours herself another glass. Her breathing is notably shallower than earlier in the interview. She has begun peeling the skin around her neck, tugging at loose flaps of excess flesh as if they are choking her.] Dr. Stewart: "It's so damn dry in here. Like all the moisture has been sucked out." Dr. Móðir: "I'll talk to environmental about having the humidity adjusted." Dr. Stewart: "Thanks. A-After I beat the demon horde I started… there was this painful hollow longing in my stomach like something was missing. And then, there was this singing. Its like… it was like nothing I've ever heard." Dr. Móðir: "Describe it?" Dr. Stewart: "It was like someone poured a river of honey and molasses into the air, and gave my ears tongues with which to lap from it. So I followed the voice. I walked, and I walked for what felt like hundreds of years and came upon a great and deep ocean of many colors. Like the waves, a sudden and powerful urge like was clawing at my legs and suddenly I was on my belly and being pulled down into the water and I desperat- sorry I need… need water." [Dr. Stewart looks at the cup, and pushes it aside, picking up the Jug and drinking directly from it.] Dr. Móðir: "You're dehydrated. I need to call this in." Dr. Stewart: "No! I need to finish." Dr. Móðir: "Alright, alright, you're worrying me with the hyperventilating." Dr. Stewart: [She ignores the previous statement.] "And I was dragged into the ocean, and Alva, before me. There before me was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. Four yellow eyes gazed upon me with a love I had never felt. She was bound and chained, and suffering, blood dripping from her ankles and her wrists. Yet she sang. She sang and sang and it was so beautiful. It was a song about the love of everything and betrayal. Alva I've heard it every day. Every night. I hear it now." Dr. Móðir: "Sarah, it's just an auditory hallucination, calm down." Dr. Stewart: "I can't Alva. It's stronger around you than anyone else and I can't. I can't shut it out." [She begins gasping for breath.] "I-I-I C-c-can't breathe." [Dr. Stewart falls to the floor clawing at her neck. Layers of excess skin are pulled away revealing pink scales underneath. The scales crack and rupture, forming four slits on each side of the neck, which are coated in a slick membrane. A fifth slit forms further down around the shoulders, a retractable layer of unidentifiable tissue begins forming, but does not proceed further.] Dr. Móðir: "Christ alive." [Into a radio she pulled from her hip] "Medical emergency, humanoid containment sector, cell 35." End Log Post-Word: Dr. Stewart expired three days following her initial collapse due to a combination of dehydration and protracted and sudden oxygen deprivation resulting in significant brain damage. The post-death autopsy revealed significant alterations to her anatomy, which appeared to have altered her respiratory tract, sealing the air passage to her lungs, and promoting the development of gills. Further analysis revealed that, despite this initial sealing, Dr. Stewart's air passages had been cleared by the time of her death. Due to Dr. Stewart's sudden death a more thorough examination of both the interview footage and audio was undertaken. Concerns regarding a loss of valuable information on SCP-3711's effects and the possibility of Serpent's Hand involvement motivated an internal review to ensure no foul play had occurred. Investigation led to the discovery of alterations in both video footage and the audio recording, which begin when Dr. Stewart begins describing the first dream caused by SCP-3711. Alterations to the original recording involve Dr. Móðir making numerous comments in regards to Dr. Stewart's dream, which are ignored due to a dissociative state. These comments involve correcting specific details that Dr. Móðir should not have been aware of given lack of knowledge about the first dream upon initial review of this footage. Review of previous interviews revealed similar distortions, and the deletion of entire conversations in regards to Dr. Stewart's first dream, proving this initial assessment incorrect. The Altered material has been highlighted in purple in both logs. Dr. Stewart: "The first time I used magic like really used it, with my imagination, and not some ordered ritual, that night I had an incredibly vivid dream. I was me, but I wasn't me if that makes sense? I was human, I think. My dad was human but my mom wasn't. She was some sort of scaley merperson. It's hard to describe." Dr. Móðir: "Your parents descended from a long line of proud farmers, of the earth and the water, people of Finnfolkaheem, were Finnfolk of the Selchs. And so were you." [Dr. Stewart goes to pour another glass of water. The Jug is empty.] Dr. Stewart: "Shit. I need more water." Dr. Móðir: "I'll get it for you." [Dr. Móðir refills the jug and returns to the table.] Dr. Stewart: "Thanks my mouth is dry as a desert." Dr. Stewart: "So I get sent out from the village on this adventure after some ancient relic, and along the way, I discover I can use magic right? Like, not the stuffy limited stuff, like full blown powerful magic, only limited by your mind. The same stuff I had just tried out outside of my dream. And my god Alva, it was incredible. I could turn myself into dragons, lift mountains, heal grievous mortal wounds, with the flick of my finger, and the only limit was the scope of my mind." Dr. Móðir: "You were already able to use magic because it is inherent in your people. A gift of my love granted in the throes of mine and thine suffering. It warms my heart, that you have enjoyed it. I regret that you have to lose yourself in order to fully embrace its warmth. Maybe I'll fix that this time." Dr. Stewart: "I was, and the thought didn't occur to me. Retrieving the relic was easy, and after that, a great vicious horde of demons arose from the underworld and I was cast off to fight them. Entire armies fell before my whistling ice blades." Dr. Móðir: "It wasn't a relic you retrieved, but a simple haul of fish, you see, your family was starving from human raiders who kept driving your people further from the farms they had tended, and into the open waters. You weren't sent to fight demons. You were sent to fight men. And your blades fought a losing war." [Dr. Stewart pours herself another glass. Her breathing is notably shallower than earlier in the interview. She has begun peeling the skin around her neck, tugging at loose flaps of excess flesh as if they are choking her.] Dr. Stewart: "It's so damn dry in here. Like all the moisture has been sucked out." Dr. Móðir: "The thirst of your sins will close soon. I'm sorry child." Dr. Stewart: "Thanks. A-After I beat the demon horde I started… there was this painful hollow longing in my stomach like something was missing. And then, there was this singing. Its like… it was like nothing I've ever heard." Dr. Móðir: "I called for you from my prison beyond all things. And your heart fluttered at my song, and it recalled a better, golden age." Dr. Stewart: "It was like someone poured a river of honey and molasses into the air, and gave my ears tongues with which to lap from it. So I followed the voice. I walked, and I walked for what felt like hundreds of years and came upon a great and deep ocean of many colors. Like the waves, a sudden and powerful urge like was clawing at my legs and suddenly I was on my belly and being pulled down into the water and I desperat- sorry I need… need water." [Dr. Stewart looks at the cup, and pushes it aside, picking up the Jug and drinking directly from it.] Dr. Móðir: "The ocean, and your home, Finnfolkaheem were calling to you, child. A song of remorse for the loss my children have suffered, for your parents suffering. The sins of your race will be lost to you soon, all you must do at the end of this cruel twilight is listen to my songs of healing and remorse." Dr. Stewart: "No! I need to finish." [Dr. Móðir begins singing. Audio has been removed due to a class seven cognitohazard.] Dr. Stewart: [Hyperventilating gets more severe as the music visibly affects her.] "And I was dragged into the ocean, and Alva, before me. There before me was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. Four yellow eyes gazed upon me with a love I had never felt. She was bound and chained, and suffering, blood dripping from her ankles and her wrists. Yet she sang. She sang and sang and it was so beautiful. It was a song about the love of everything and betrayal. Alva I've heard it every day. Every night. I hear it now." [Unaltered footage shows Dr. Móðir continues singing. Blood begins dripping from her wrists and her ankles. She is no longer wearing clothing. Impressions are visible in her flesh as if she is wrapped in chains.] Dr. Móðir:"You were not dragged but walked freely before me. For my love is endless, and my forgiveness knows no race. I wallow in sorrow as you depart my company." Dr. Stewart: "I can't Alva. It's stronger around you than anyone else and I can't. I can't shut it out." [She begins gasping for breath.] "I-I-I C-c-can't breathe." [Dr. Stewart falls to the floor clawing at her neck. Layers of excess skin are pulled away revealing pink scales underneath. The scales crack and rupture, forming four slits on each side of the neck, which are coated in a slick membrane. A fifth slit forms further down around the shoulders, a retractable layer of unidentifiable tissue begins forming, but does not proceed further.] Dr. Móðir: "I'm sorry my child. The sins of your fathers before you and this prison of metal still my healing. I will always love you."[Into a radio she pulled from her hip] "Medical emergency, humanoid containment sector, cell 35." [Dr. Móðir stares directly at the camera, and mouths "The seal is crumbling, and Teran draws near. It is time we discussed the end of all things." Prior to medical staff arriving.] End Log —- Update: In light of previously undetected video alterations, Dr. Alva Móðir has been detained and sequestered under high-security conditions at Secure Research and Detainment facility 001. All further information has been restricted to Level 5 access. Access fileserv:/S/3711/Journal.doc Hide Recovered Journals Recovered Journals: The following Journals were recovered from a buried chest discovered on the island of Switha, and dates to the 9th Century A.D. The contents, originally written in a mixture of Norse, Gaelic, and Pictish have been translated and interpreted. The last entry was written and translated from Proto-Nordic script. Further excavations revealed a chamber previously used to hold an SCP-3703 instance. 628 A.D. Ungrateful. It is all I have to say about the community, who left me here on this island, alone. Banished for the crime of healing through that sacred arcane art. No, it was not until I dared to imagine that they cast me from their ranks. Olessa's daughter was saved from the wrath of a cough, and whooping. Missionaries from the south led them to believe my practice was sin. That freedom of magic is to be feared. At their behest I was expelled, and shipped to this rock. Food and water to last for months, and tools to build what I need to survive. A waste. 628 A.D. Their boats have passed many times in the months since. Fisherman. They gaze upon me as I work upon the shore, and tend the meager farm which I have built. Their gaze filled with judgement, I am sure. I have nothing but contempt for their foolishness. A vision was granted to me this past night. A man I was not, a woman, a healer of old covered in scales and fins. A plague swept upon my village and through the gracious kindness of the arcane, I sought to sweep it from the bodies of my wife, and the children. It was a power I have only begun to taste, yet it felt as if I had experienced it before. I could not cleanse their souls of the taint, despite my power, and at first I despaired. My despair ebbed, and with its ebbing came the waxxing of a song. A tune of such fine nature that it beats in my head as I set upon the rocky shores. A high strung bittersweet melody which invokes an ache for the waves and surf. Whispered promises of healing and lures of greater freedom, of arcane power that even the strongest of idols could not grant. I followed this song, to the waters edge. A swift sunrise before me, under a crystal blue sky. Upon the water, I walked, and before me, beauty unmatched, a woman, taller than the tallest of mountains gazed at me. Her four eyes are burned into my mind, the tune she sang wistful and longing. Great barbarous chains wrapped around her legs and arms, blood dripping from her limbs. The anguish at her suffering that ran across my spine is… indescribable. And to me she said. "I love you. For your fathers have sinned, but you are not to blame." And then I awoke. 634 A.D. I have continued to record the progression of my dreams. As of late, I have felt strange. My contempt for my former peers, those who have cast me out has softened, into not but pity. My anger ebbs, and all attempts to draw it forth yield nothing. The songs from the dreams, begin and stop throughout each day. I find myself listening and humming. They fill my mind with absent thoughts, creative visions, and distract from all tasks. Whispers of greatness chip at the edges of my consciousness, and so I have practiced, and practiced the freedoms from the idols, of the magic. I have built a house but I stay not in it. The tickle of the waves at my feet, and the ebb and flow of the tides are far more comforting. Alas, the winter prevents such indulgences, and I long for their gentle caress when forced to be by the fireside. There is a long forgotten Cairn and two stones, carved by men and not men, upon this rock. A tunnel leads beneath them into chambers, unused since ancient times. There is something there. Something I dare not approach. Bodies. Bones. Corpses. Mashed and piled against each other, floating, behind some arcane barrier reeking of powerful magicks with which I am unfamiliar. The walls of the chamber are masterful works of art and creation. Depictions of what are surely events we know not of, and times long past. There is text, and carved scripture, I cannot begin to read. I shall visit often I believe, to appreciate these works. The songs are strongest there. 638 A.D. 10 years have passed since I was sent here. I do not recall much of that time. It has grown fuzzy, distant as if a dream. The dreams have grown stronger. Real. The songs are all around, and yet nowhere to be found. My contempt is fading and I find, during the early hours of the night, before I fall into slumber, myself wishing to aide those who forsook me. A plague has descended upon their homes, the fisherman is sparse, and winter has been unkind from a distant. My sight, average as it once was, glimpses the fish and their scales, and their desperate eyes as they thrash in the throes of death. My skin burns with an insatiable fire. I scratch and I scratch, and the flesh falls as if it were burnt from the harsh summer sun and beneath? Scales. A bright greenish blue, of the kind only a gemstone could achieve. Bones and flesh ache, and I have grown, taller. There are days where it feels as if my hips are being drawn by ropes, stretching outwards. The flesh betwixt my fingers and toes grow loose and crawls forward at night. I feel it in my sleep, through the dreams. They are webbed, but they are mine. Unbearable thirst plagues my mind, and I find, even now as I sit in a pool brought by the tides, writing with pen and ink summoned from the freedom, that it is not enough. Upon the chest, with which once was flat, I found, a mere month ago, the flesh of the two points swollen and tender. Now they rival the bosom of a young woman, and no cloth will hold them lest I succumb to temptations, even the length of my hair, long as it has become, stirs sensation. 639 A.D. All animosity I once held towards my community has faded. Only warmth, and sorrow at their loss remains. I have begun to visit, through the waters of Scapa Flow, at night. I bring healing and aide to the children, sick in their thatch beds, unable to escape fevers grip. To the farmers, I bring relief to tension and aches. They have seen me, by light of a candle. Though it is not welcome, or recognition that they show, but fear. Fear of a monster of the sea. I am no longer a man. I am unsure when it happened. My thoughts have faded, and returned, a feeling of fuzzy dreaminess in their place, and distant sensations are all which remains in my memories. A cavern rests where once there was none, and that is all which I know. Forcefully I was thrown into the water by the sudden lack of breath and burning desire, and I submerged fully in the waves where I grew gills. My flesh has long since been stripped, and for the first time, I felt it. In the dreams… no, they are no longer dreams. They are my past. And I have felt the call of Finnfolkaheem before, many times. The sorrow of its loss, and our people's grief. I am a Finnwoman. Great fins hang from my arms, and my legs, and the water is now my home. I have moved the shack into the shallow tides using that great gift which has been given through the Arcane. 688 A.D. Beneath the waves on this isle I've dwelt, for 60 years. There are none like me. Raiders have come. They seek to extinguish the creature which roams their villages at night, and all its kind. The sorcerers of the waves who steal their children. Misguided, for I have visited the village many times, and healed whilst they sleep, not stolen from them what is most precious. My people were driven long before into the waves, and have not returned. I am alone. I have destroyed my home. I have returned to that Cairn, where so many longing years ago I heard the call of the Mither's anguished cries. The text comes easy, the language of my people flowing from my tongue as I understand our sorrow. In great tribute and sacrifice, we sealed the demons of old beneath the earth, stone, and magic given by our souls. A great war which united all in this world. Those who had seen the ages came together under many skies and many stars, and together gave their lives in love. Acts of procreation before sealing their lives beneath the knife. The Rite of Portension was forged. And when we were done. Just as we turned to free her from her chains with that which we had opened, Man turned upon us. With their spears and their stolen magic, stolen knowledge, they drove us into the sea. From the rivers and the beaches, they burnt our villages. Out of greed. Out of fear. The Mither still loved them so, but the transgressions could not be left. She placed, upon the very knowledge which they had been given, a punishment. She doomed those Men who practiced the Freed gift given to our people, to become they which had been driven into the seas. The drums of the hunters beat ever closer. They shall never know that which is their burden. A burden that I have embraced and has freed me. And I shall choose to join those who gave everything to stay the demons and seal this place. Due to the nature of SCP-3711, and the numerous references and cultural traditions among Finnfolk society, as of this documents iteration, and under the tenants of the Finnolk-Foundation cooperative agreement, the Finnfolk are not to be subjected to procedures used to suppress SCP-3711. Footnotes 1. An approach to thaumatological studies and manipulation which holds that the use of thaumatology is only limited by one's imagination. The practice is similar to reality-bending in theory, but in practice is limited by the skill and mindset of the wielder. 2. Usually 10-15 years of active use. Thaumatologists and thaumaturges performing significant and frequent manipulations begin experiencing symptoms after as few as 3-5 years. 3. Attempts to counteract this through traditional medical techniques have failed. 4. Cameras were placed in her housing unit for passive recording to track long-term changes. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3711" by DrBleep, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3711. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3712
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Item #: SCP-3712 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3712 is to be kept in a standard item storage locker at Site-179. During experimentation, SCP-3712 must not be allowed to establish a direct line of sight to researchers or other valued personnel, and as such all interaction with SCP-3712 is to be carried out by D-class persons. No person, unless specifically granted exception by a member of Level 3 personnel or above, is permitted to interact with SCP-3712 on more than four separate occasions. Description: SCP-3712 is a highly detailed painted wooden doll with 12 points of articulation (jaw, elbows, neck, shoulders, hips, knees, ankles) in the rough form of a stereotypical Caucasian elderly woman. While inactive, it will perform motions such as those used for knitting, sewing, and baking, though its hands remain empty. Subjects often report that the object slightly resembles either their paternal or maternal grandmother, though from objective description it appears that SCP-3712 appears physically identical to every observer. When SCP-3712 is allowed to establish a direct line of sight with a subject1, its primary anomalous properties are activated. Subjects (as well as persons in close proximity to them) will begin to hear the vocalisation of a "common myth" from the object, such as a precaution to avoid going out in low temperatures to avoid contracting a cold (as in Test 3712-5). This effect functions on subjects who are unable to hear, who speak a language other than English, or who are illiterate, though it does not function on non-humans or subjects who are unconscious or deceased. Forcibly holding the jaw of SCP-3712 shut before a line of sight is established will not prevent the activation of this effect. If the precautions of SCP-3712 are not followed, the consequences of the "common myth" will come to pass despite a lack of scientific evidence supporting said myth. During Test 3712-5, D-3712-18 was warned that going outside in low temperatures would cause her to contract a cold. D-3712-18 was then instructed to enter a room at 278K (5°C) which had been thoroughly sterilised, killing or removing all micro-organisms including those which could cause illness or disease. Despite this sterilisation, D-3712-18 was observed with rhinorrhoea2, later diagnosed by medical personnel as having contracted the common cold. Precautions given by SCP-3712 to a subject it has previously interacted with will begin to deviate from traditional "grandmotherly" knowledge, from common phrases such as "step on a crack, break your mother's back" to novel (and often nonsensical) warnings such as "bee stings only come to pencil users". The fifth precaution given by SCP-3712 to the same subject will always end in that subject's death due to the combination of a fatal consequence and an impossible task. For example, upon D-3712-06's fifth interaction with the object, it was heard uttering "Be careful sweetie, you know full well that temperatures below 10 000 degrees Celsius make people disintegrate, you really should go somewhere warmer". After several seconds, D-3712-06 spontaneously collapsed into a pile of ashes and powdered bone. This effect can influence persons who SCP-3712 has not established a line of sight with, such as during Test 3712-7, where the death via lightning strike of D-3712-03 caused severe injuries to eight surrounding persons. Despite all testing showing it is constructed of solid and non-anomalous balsa wood, SCP-3712 is unable to be permanently destroyed. While it is possible to incinerate, crush, or otherwise dispose of the object, it will reappear completely intact in a location it has been in the past decade. This includes attempts at disposal which do not cause damage to its structure, such as simply taking it to a landfill and throwing it in. This is presumably how SCP-3712 was discovered by the Foundation, as it appeared in Site-179 roughly 6 years after the site's construction. It is hypothesised that the previous owner of SCP-3712 attempted to destroy the object, causing it to appear in one of its previous locations, where Site-179 had since been built. Footnotes 1. This can be avoided by simply standing slightly to its side, as its eyes are unable to move in its sockets 2. Commonly known as a runny nose ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3712" by JoseDzirehChong, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3712. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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Image recovered from PoI-3713's phone during the aftermath of SCP-3713-18. File titled "notanexit". Item #: SCP-3713 Special Containment Procedures: Dr. Robert Dorer is to act as a psychotherapist/counselor for PoI-3713 and is to meet with them at least once every month, utilizing audiovisual communication platforms2 when necessary. If any anomalous activity is discovered or suspected, Dr. Dorer is to report the development immediately. Otherwise, sessions are allowed to remain private and unrecorded as per the will of the Ethics Committee. ► Archived Containment Procedures ◄ Archived Containment Procedures During an SCP-3713 event, incoming traffic is to be diverted under the guise of military operations. Should an SCP-3713 Event be detected, a team of D-Class personnel equipped with basic audiovisual recording equipment are to be immediately deployed to the location to document the event. Any records of activity are to be removed from all public knowledge. Witnesses and SCP-3713-A instances are to be amnesticized followed standard procedures. All D-Class are to be recovered immediately and the footage captured is to be extensively reviewed. Any records of activity are to be purged from all public knowledge as well as witnesses amnesticized to reduce suspicions. ◄ Archived Containment Procedures Description: SCP-3713 was a series of reality degradation events originating at 49.90° N, 97.14° W (Winnipeg, Canada) and ending at 18.24° N, 66.04° W (Caguas, Puerto Rico) between 11/17/1898 and 08/07/2015. These events only affected cities legally recognized by the US government and extended roughly 1 km outside of the cities' legal boundaries. Only a single city would be affected at a time. When an SCP-3713 event occurred, the population (defined as SCP-3713-A) began to behave as though they were members of a cast in a musical production, with the set and setting equivalent to the real life locality. The plot of each SCP-3713 Event changed between instances but tended to be roughly determined by events already set in motion before the occurrence of said event. For example, a major plot point during event SCP-3713-13 was the cancellation of an annual Christmas parade, which had been already planned for several weeks prior. A random group within the city, ranging from four to six individuals (defined as SCP-3713-A Prime), would be the focus of some sort of plot, often accompanied by a "supporting cast" consisting of an additional five to ten individuals. Any new objects or people entering the area of effect would slowly become subject to the anomaly's effects and be converted into a prop or actor. For objects this effect was almost instantaneous, while for people this process could take anywhere from 5 minutes to 6 hours, depending on the person's proximity to SCP-3713-A Prime. This effect was stronger the more SCP-3713-A Prime individuals were gathered in one place. Following the conclusion of the event, roughly 99% of objects and all affected individuals would revert to normal. SCP-3713 events would follow a vague Prologue, Act I, Intermission, Act II pattern, with a possible second Intermission and Act III. The Prologue was designated as the time in which SCP-3713's effects first show, beginning with the conversion of many objects into props (exact specifications difficult to measure and thus uncertain). Most members of SCP-3713-A would begin to lose intricacies of emotional expression and social interaction. Intermissions would be noted by all members of SCP-3713-A returning to their home (when applicable), and having between zero and eighteen members disappear and reappear at the beginning of the next Act. After all Acts are done, all members of SCP-3713-A would gather at the edge of SCP-3713's area of effect and bow. As soon as bows were finished, SCP-3713's effects would disappear. Members of SCP-3713-A would return to their homes and resume normal behaviors and routines the next day. Due to an as of yet unidentified antimemetic effect, all SCP-3713-A members would find nothing odd about the SCP-3713 event unless interrogated. SCP-3713-A were considered mundane once more after amnesticization. Addendum-3713-1 | Abridged List of Recorded SCP-3713 Events3 ► SCP-3713 Events ◄ SCP-3713 Events Event Location and Date Plot Notes SCP-3713-7 Hortonville, Wisconsin 06/19/1937 The first musical piece, identifying the main member of SCP-3713-A Prime, centered around a small boy being raised by his grandparents lamenting on how they abuse him. Shortly afterwards, he found a group of small (less than 8cm tall) humanoids which call themselves the Hows. The boy became emperor of the Hows, and used them to kill his grandparents. A role reversal occurred, wherein the boy became mad with power and attempted to take over as mayor of the city. The event climaxed when the Hows fought back against him and reclaimed their independence. The Hows have since been contained and classified as SCP-████. SCP-3713-11 Gallpolis, Ohio 04/04/1963 SCP-███ breached containment, incapacitating and wounding several researchers. The protagonists (MTF-Lambda-14, "The Extras") attempted to survive and recontain the anomaly. It was revealed that the Site-██ Director had released SCP-███ in an effort of world domination. The MTF unit uncovered more clues about SCP-███ and the Site Director, allowing them to set up a trap for them both. The event climaxed in a musical number (titled "Why Do We Even Try", sung by SCP-███, the Site Director, and all of the agents) after which the MTF unit successfully recontained SCP-███ and detained the Site Director. Several SCPs were neutralized following the event, as they had been converted into plastic replicas and did not revert back to their anomalous form. SCP-████ was successfully recontained. SCP-3713-16 Brickhaven, North Carolina 09/28/1995 Instance began with a musical number involving a bank heist. The police investigated the crime, and eventually one ended up undercover in a drug ring4. The story soon refocused to include D-590300 (sent in with recording equipment). The citizens began to question D-590300's origins. Once she told them in song (titled "We Stay in the Dark (So You May Live in the Light)"), they began to hail her as their savior and created a cult. D-590300 attempted to get people to stop worshiping her, eventually teaming up with the drug ring to hide herself from the public. When the cult worshiping continued despite her absence, the undercover cop confronted the cult and attempted to convince them via song (titled "No One Wants the D"). The plot ended with all cult members burning their robes and returning to normal city life, and the drug ring returning the stolen money due to taking a liking to the undercover cop character. Containment Procedures remain unchanged; a vote by Level 4/3713 personnel concluded at 19 to 10 in favor of maintaining current procedures. Amnestics successfully administrated. SCP-3713-18 Caguas, Puerto Rico 07/26/2015 The event began with the announcement of a particularly extravagant school play. SCP-3713-A Prime was comprised of several friends who were going to audition but met many problems in the process. Every member of SCP-3713-A Prime overcame various obstacles preventing them from auditioning, except for two of them (Camila Marquez and Eric Pantillo). It was revealed in a musical number that these two members of SCP-3713-A Prime were in love with each other but didn't know it, and wished not to be in the play because of the presence of one another. By collaborating with the secondary cast, both Camila and Eric were led downtown, where a musical number involving a large number of SCP-3713-A was performed by all members of SCP-3713-A Prime except Camila. Eric was ultimately too scared to profess his love and it resulted in failure. However, Camila and Eric decided to participate in the play regardless. Act-III involved the play being put on, where Eric ultimately confessed his love for Camila in the final act of the play. This was the first and only event where an individual was recorded deviating from the normal behavior. See Addendum-3713-2 for further details. ◄ SCP-3713 Events Addendum-3713-2 | Further Details on Event SCP-3713-18 Despite being a part of SCP-3713-A Prime, Camila Marquez AKA PoI-3713 never sang throughout the entirety of the SCP-3713 event and in several parts deviated significantly from what would have been the presumed story line of SCP-3713. Although initially calm during the events, presumably thinking that her friends were playing a prank or practicing during the first musical events, PoI-3713 expressed fear and confusion in many of the events following these, especially musical events which involved large amounts of people. During the bulk of SCP-3713-18 members of SCP-3713-A ignored her behaviors and continued as if she were acting normally. PoI-3713 expressed intense confusion at the end of Act-III, where she was surrounded by singing members of SCP-3713-A, and then forced to follow the crowd prior to the ending of Act-III. PoI-3713 broke from the crowd of SCP-3713-A and ran South from Caguas towards Guayama. As PoI-3713 approached the boundary of SCP-3713-18, the area of effect began to expand about 1 kilometer ahead of her. Upon reaching Guayama, PoI-3713 was met with a crowd of over 1,000 SCP-3713-A instances. All instances were singing a song, the main chorus line being "Someone is Slacking5". PoI-3713 was picked up by the crowd, but escaped by breaking a window and climbing through it. After reaching the top of the three story building, PoI-3713 held their position for roughly an hour before SCP-3713-A members began to climb onto the roof through the ventilation systems. PoI-3713 was forced to back towards the edge of the building, at which point she turned around and jumped. Just before hitting the ground, PoI-3713 disappeared. Three hours after the disappearance, all effects of SCP-3713 ceased. Members of SCP-3713-A in Caguas were dehydrated and malnourished due to standing in one place for roughly 72 hours. 18 lives were lost to various car crashes or bleeding out due to PoI-3713's escape efforts. A mass amnesticization and disinformation campaign was soon underway, and medical attention was given to injured individuals. PoI-3713 reappeared on the street, unconscious but alive, with several bruises on her head and large gashes of unknown origin on both her forearms. PoI-3713 was immediately taken under intensive care. After two weeks of recovery, PoI-3713 was returned to society and was assigned to a Foundation therapist. PoI-3713 has since shown cinematophobia, theatrophobia, heliophobia, post traumatic stress disorder (which is often triggered in tandem with the previous three fears), and a highly increased interest in photography and cinematography (despite her fear of it). For the sake of PoI-3713's mental health her mother, Cecelia Marquez, has been made somewhat aware of the events that transpired and the consequences of sharing information. No SCP-3713 events have occurred since, as of the time of writing (LAST UPDATED: 08/09/2024). Addendum-3713-3 | Recovered Information from PoI-3713 During Intensive Care After one week of recovery, PoI-3713 was able to speak. A recorded interview was conducted immediately after, which is transcribed below. ► Interview w/ PoI-3713 ◄ Interview w/ PoI-3713 Interviewer: Dr. Robert Dorer Interviewee: PoI-3713, Camila Marquez Conducted: 08/08/2015 Notes: PoI-3713 lies in a hospital bed in the middle of the room, with a chair to her right and the door to her left. Interview was conducted in Spanish, and translated to English for ease of reading6. <BEGIN LOG> (Dr. Dorer enters slowly, carrying with them a clipboard with paper and a pencil.) Dr. Dorer: Hello, Camila, I am Dr. Dorer, but you can call me Robert. I am here to ask you some questions about your experiences from the past few days. Is that alright with you? (PoI-3713 stares at Dr. Dorer but does not respond.) Dr. Dorer: We can go as slow as you would like, and you don't have to get it all out today. (Pause.) However much is comfortable for you. Is that alright? (Pause.) May I sit down? (PoI-3713 stares at Dr. Dorer but otherwise remains unresponsive. Seeing no response, Dr. Dorer sits down next to PoI-3713's bed.) Dr. Dorer: We're just trying to understand what's going on, it's been very confusing for all of us. Any help you could give us would help us all in the end. (PoI-3713 continues to stare at Dr. Dorer. After fifteen seconds of no response, Dr. Dorer notes the behavior on their clipboard.) PoI-3713: You're not singing. Dr. Dorer: No, no one will be singing. The singing is over, nobody is acting anymore. (PoI-3713 turns to look at the door, and mouths the English word "exit".) PoI-3713: Am I out? Dr. Dorer: Yes, you're out. You're out for good, you're safe here. (PoI-3713 turns to face Dr. Dorer again.) PoI-3713: Is there an outside? Dr. Dorer: If you go through that door, walk down the hall, take a right and a left and then go up the elevator, yes. You can see sun and flowers and clouds. PoI-3713: I can? Dr. Dorer: Not until you are well, but eventually yes. Things will go back to normal. PoI-3713: It's real? (PoI-3713 turns to look at the door again.) Dr. Dorer: Yes, it's real. Just as real as you or me. I can open it if you want to see. (PoI-3713 continues to stare at the door, and mouths the word "búhos" — "owls" in English. As PoI-3713 continues to stare at the door, Dr. Dorer gets up and moves towards it. Upon reaching the door, they slowly open it. PoI-3713 continues to stare, but is otherwise unresponsive.) Dr. Dorer: Does this prove it? (PoI-3713 nods. Dr. Dorer closes the door and returns to their seat.) Dr. Dorer: How are you feeling? PoI-3713: (Does not look away from the door.) Scared. Dr. Dorer: You're completely safe here, we make sure of it. There is nothing to be afraid of. PoI-3713: I'm being watched. Dr. Dorer: Who's watching you? PoI-3713: (Turns around to face Dr. Dorer, and drops to a whisper.) The audience. Dr. Dorer: How are they watching? (PoI-3713 does not respond, but continues to look at Dr. Dorer. Dr. Dorer points to the camera in the corner of the room, through which this log was recorded. PoI-3713 shakes their head, and points to each of Dr. Dorer's eyes individually.) Dr. Dorer: Would you be more comfortable if I wasn't looking at you? (PoI-3713 returns to looking at the door.) Dr. Dorer: Would you like me to come back later? (PoI-3713 remains unresponsive. Dr. Dorer takes notes, gets up and then kneels in front of PoI-3713 on the other side of the bed. PoI-3713 looks at Dr. Dorer.) Dr. Dorer: I will be back this time tomorrow, is that alright? (Pause.) If there is anything I can do for you, just ask. Tell the doctors and nurses here to get Robert, or Dr. Dorer, and I'll be by your side as quickly as I can. (Pause.) We're all here to help you, okay? (PoI-3713 does not respond, and returns to staring at the door. Dr. Dorer gets up and leaves the room.) <END LOG> ◄ Interview w/ PoI-3713 Further interviews yielded no new information, with PoI-3713 continuing their fascination with the door and showing general paranoia. Due to PoI-3713's knowledge of SCP-3713 and their unique mental disorders, the Ethics Committee ruled that PoI-3713 be returned to society without amnestics and see a Foundation therapist made aware of the situation in full. This arrangement has continued to the time of writing (LAST UPDATED: 08/09/2024). The following video, named "⊙ ⊙", was recovered from PoI-3713's phone. Despite the limitations of the phone, the video was recorded in 3840 x 2160 120FPS and lasts 18min 26s while only taking up 3 MB of space. Video was taken on 7/31, at 23:48, beginning at the exact moment PoI-3713 disappeared for the last time during SCP-3713-18. The video appears to be filmed from multiple points of view with lapses in time. ► Video Discovered on PoI-3713's Phone ◄ Video Discovered on PoI-3713's Phone <BEGIN TRANSCRIPTION> 00:00 | The video begins immediately with the sound of PoI-3713 screaming, which goes silent at 00:01. The view is entirely black, though the sound of an air conditioner can be heard. Soft, strained breathing can be made out. 00:18 | Shuffling can be heard, and the crash of something heavy being knocked over coinciding with PoI-3713 whimpering. The sound of the air conditioner continued uninterrupted for another thirty seconds. 00:50 | A very dim blue light comes from the left of the screen as a curtain uncovers what appears to be a window. PoI-3713's breathing becomes faster. A figure appears in front of the window, though it is unable to be determined whether it is PoI-3713 or which side of the window it is on. 00:58 | View goes entirely white and audio goes silent for two seconds. 01:00 | View seems to be from PoI-3713's perspective (their hands are shown multiple times, indicating the view to be coming from their view). PoI-3713 is running from an unknown pursuer (three sets of footsteps can be heard) through what appear to be an unnaturally large backstage. Lighting is dim and comes from an unknown source above, illuminating black curtains that appear to line every side. 01:19 | After multiple turns, PoI-3713 comes upon a well lit door marked with a green exit sign at the end of a hallway. PoI-3713 rushes towards it and unsuccessfully attempts to open the door. PoI-3713 whispers "por favor" ("please") repeatedly under their breath before turning around to look at the hallway behind them. A pair of bare feet step into view from around the corner before the feed cuts out. 01:21 | View goes entirely white and audio goes silent for three seconds. 01:24 | Video suddenly resumes from the perspective of a camera focused on a stage. The stage itself is dim. Faint shuffling and whispering can be heard below where the audience would be. No words are able to be made out. This continues for three minutes. 04:34 | Video cuts to PoI-3713's perspective. PoI-3713 is running through what appears to be a poorly lit backstage area. The only light is from an unknown source above. They dash behind a stack of boxes and crouch there, clutching their legs. A large number of footsteps can be heard from behind the boxes before being replaced with silence. Only PoI-3713's strained breathing can be heard for 3 minutes. 07:50 | PoI-3713 peeks their head out from the stack and freezes. In the darkness, a figure can be seen staring directly at PoI-3713. The figure is wearing a mask of an owl. The figure stares at PoI-3713 for approximately 10 seconds before taking a step back and out of view. 08:14 | Footsteps to PoI-3713's left prompt them to jump out and begin running in the opposite direction. 08:15 | View goes white and audio goes silent once more, but the vague impression of a human hand can be seen in the center of the image, slowly moving downwards. 08:38 | Once again from PoI-3713's perspective, PoI-3713 appears to be somewhere pitch black with the exception of a green exit sign. PoI-3713 rushes towards it and fumbles for the associated door. Footsteps can be heard behind them. PoI-3713 pauses to look behind. 08:42 | They turn back to the door and push it open. Stepping past the door, they collapse into an extremely dimly lit grassy clearing. The sun appears to be setting into the trees in the distance. PoI-3713 lays on the ground for approximately 1 minute, feeling the grass and looking at the sun, which appears to have a blue tint. The sky, though black, holds no stars. 09:49 | View goes white and audio goes silent. 10:01 | Three soft knocks can be heard preceding two short muffled vocalizations. 10:04 | View returns to a shot of a stage with a mumbling audience. 10:10 | Audience members are heard shushing one another as the dim stage lights go down and a singular spotlight arises, focusing in the center of the stage. The crowd falls silent. 11:15 | The shot resumes from PoI-3713's perspective in the grassy field. The sound of the door opening behind them interrupts their rest and they begin running towards the sun. 14:49 | The sun has grown noticeably larger. PoI-3713 pauses to vomit. 14:53 | The view returns to the shot from the beginning, where extremely dim blue light is flowing into the otherwise pitch black room through what appears to be a window. The figure at the window is still in place. Above the sound of the air conditioner, faint whimpering can be heard, along with several mumbles of the words "por favor". 14:59 | The figure steps away from the window. 15:00 | The view resumes from PoI-3713's perspective, in which they appear to be continuing to run at the sun. The sun appears to be about three times its original size. 15:55 | At this point, the sun is nine times its original size and dark areas can be seen behind it. 16:28 | PoI-3713 reaches what had been thought to have been the sun, which is revealed to be an abnormally large spotlight. They step behind it to find a large curtain that extends into the sky. Returning to the spotlight, they bang thrice on the glass and yell "por qué" ("why") before collapsing on the ground and assuming the fetal position. Sobbing can be heard. 16:54 | The sound of rustling grass causes PoI-3713 to quickly turn their head. The owl-masked figure from earlier is standing before the spotlight, when the spotlight appears to turn off and the view goes black. Only PoI-3713 screaming can be heard at this point. 16:57 | The view returns to the room with the air conditioner sounding only for the sound of glass breaking as a figure appears to break the window. 16:58 | The view returns to the camera facing the stage with the spotlight on it. No sound is heard and no movement is visible. 17:22 | PoI-3713 limps onto the stage from the wings. Several short murmurs are heard from the audience before PoI-3713 reaches the spotlight and stands in the center of it. PoI-3713 scans over the audience, their breaths deep and shuddering. 18:02 | PoI-3713 stumbles slightly before slowly taking a bow, jerking and twitching several times while doing so. 18:05 | As PoI-3713 rises from their bow, the audience begins to clap and cheer. Many roses are thrown onto the stage while PoI-3713 holds themself and twitches. 18:08 | PoI-3713 falls to their knees and subsequently collapses to the floor, coughing up bile. The crowd continues to cheer. 18:19 | As the crowd continues to clap and cheer and throw roses, a hand approximately three times the size of PoI-3713 (attached to a proportionately sized arm) reaches down from an unseen origin above and forcefully grabs PoI-3713. 18:21 | With the continuing noise of the crowd cheering in the background, the view cuts to a purple slate that says "The Play Has Ended!". 18:26 | The video ends. <END TRANSCRIPTION> ◄ Video Discovered on PoI-3713's Phone Addendum-3713-4 | Further Anomalous Activities On 11/02/2024, PoI-3713 was reported missing by Ms. Marquez. A single Foundation agent was sent to the house to investigate. The transcription below is their interview with Ms. Marquez. ► Interview w/ Ms. Marquez ◄ Interview w/ Ms. Marquez Interviewer: Agent Miguel Interviewee: Ms. Marquez Conducted: 11/03/2024 Notes: Interview was conducted in the living room with Ms. Marquez on the couch and Agent Miguel sitting opposite them on a chair. A coffee table separates them, where the audio recorder was placed. Interview was conducted in Spanish and translated to English for ease of reading. <BEGIN LOG> Agent Miguel: Alright, I want you to tell me if Camila ever seemed to want to run away, or if you know of anything that would push her to. Ms. Marquez: (Pause.) No, no I don't think so. She was very open with me, even if she didn't know how to explain something. When she was upset she would tell me… which was regrettably often. She didn't want to run away from home. She couldn't have wanted to. Agent Miguel: You can think of no influence that would have driven her away? Ms. Marquez: I thought she was getting more stable… (Pause.) Agent Miguel: Has she ever run away before? Ms. Marquez: Yes, when she was very little. (Pause.) Agent Miguel: What made her do that? Ms. Marquez: (Sniffles.) She was in a school play, in 3rd Grade. (Pause.) She was doing so well, but it came to her solo — she's an amazing singer, even if she doesn't do it too often, voice of an angel — and… and she just sat there. Everyone was looking at her. She just froze. (Ms. Marquez blows her nose.) Ms. Marquez: It was more than stage fright, I know it, you can feel these things when you're a mother. She just sat there and stared out at the audience. She didn't move. She didn't talk. She just stood there. The teacher cued her, and she looked down at the teacher. I couldn't help it, I spoke up and called to my daughter, I said… I said "honey" and she ran. She ran out the door and just kept running. (Ms. Marquez blows her nose again.) Ms. Marquez: We chased her but nobody got her before she was out in the woods, and… and we couldn't find her. My husband called the police and got them to look for her in the forest, and they found her cut and bruised and… there were red marks around her throat. She looked pale. They told us it had to have been self harm, but she wouldn't have done that. We just took her home and she slept for three days. Agent Miguel: Did she tell you what happened? Ms. Marquez: She was more comfortable with her dad at the time, and so he heard it. He said that she would feel comfortable to talk to me in time and that it would be better if she went at her own pace. I wanted to know, but I understood. Before it came time to… (Ms. Marquez sniffles.) Ms. Marquez: He passed. Joaquin Marquez. He was big and strong, like you. Hard worker. He had lung cancer. Smoked. (Pause.) I don't know if Camila ever told me why that happened. It never felt right to ask. She became a new person when Joaquin passed. Made her own breakfast, did her homework on time. Walked to the bus. Didn't talk as much. Agent Miguel: Did she ever — Ms. Marquez: She had dreams ever since. She sometimes hesitated at the door, and I asked her why she didn't want to go outside, and she told me… she told me she didn't want to be watched. The only place she felt privacy was in the home anymore. Recently she only did shopping at night, she said that in the day the sun felt like it was focusing on her. When she was a toddler she would wake up screaming, I would calm her down and she would ask me if I was "playing pretend". She thought we weren't her parents, sometimes. Sometimes she didn't think anyone was anyone. (Pause.) Agent Miguel: And there is nothing you know that might be the cause for her leaving? Ms. Marquez: No. She wouldn't run away. Agent Miguel: Any closing statements? (Pause.) Agent Miguel: We will find your daughter. She's coming back. Ms. Marquez: I know. I know. (Pause.) Ms. Marquez: There is something you should see. (Ms. Marquez is heard getting up and walking upstairs. After thirty seconds, she is heard descending the stairs and sitting back down. Plastic crinkling suggests the exchange of an item.) Ms. Marquez: This was in her toilet. I didn't show the police, because you're more important. You know what is wrong with her, even if I don't. Please. Tell me this means something to you. (Pause. Several plastic crinkles are heard.) Agent Miguel: This means something to us. Thank you. Ms. Marquez: Find her, Miguel. Please find her. <END LOG> Ms. Marquez had passed Agent Miguel a plastic bag containing vomit, blood (both matching PoI-3713's DNA), and eight flyers damaged by various fluids. All things printed in small text were illegible, but the most legible flyer read: […] Returns! The new hit Bl[…]ram Show, touring now! Touring now! Coming back […]ever! Come watch, we will! Get into your positions, AUDITIONS NOW OVER! ◄ Interview w/ Ms. Marquez Footnotes 1. Pending reclassification. See Addendum-3713-4 for more details. 2. Such as Skype or Discord VoIP. 3. For a full list, consult the current SCP-3713 overseer. 4. Supposedly "secret" meetings were kept in relatively easy to observe places, and SCP-3713-A instances showed little concern over others hearing their conversations despite their subject matter. 5. The full repeated line was "Someone is slacking, someone is drowning, someone is drowning and we're drowning with her". 6. To read the original interview, contact an SCP-3713 Research Director or any personnel of 4/3713 clearance. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3713" by DarkStuff and Varaxous, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3713. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. 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Image recovered from PoI-3713's phone during the aftermath of SCP-3713-18. File titled "notanexit". Item #: SCP-3713 Special Containment Procedures: Dr. Robert Dorer is to act as a psychotherapist/counselor for PoI-3713 and is to meet with them at least once every month, utilizing audiovisual communication platforms2 when necessary. If any anomalous activity is discovered or suspected, Dr. Dorer is to report the development immediately. Otherwise, sessions are allowed to remain private and unrecorded as per the will of the Ethics Committee. ► Archived Containment Procedures ◄ Archived Containment Procedures During an SCP-3713 event, incoming traffic is to be diverted under the guise of military operations. Should an SCP-3713 Event be detected, a team of D-Class personnel equipped with basic audiovisual recording equipment are to be immediately deployed to the location to document the event. Any records of activity are to be removed from all public knowledge. Witnesses and SCP-3713-A instances are to be amnesticized followed standard procedures. All D-Class are to be recovered immediately and the footage captured is to be extensively reviewed. Any records of activity are to be purged from all public knowledge as well as witnesses amnesticized to reduce suspicions. ◄ Archived Containment Procedures Description: SCP-3713 was a series of reality degradation events originating at 49.90° N, 97.14° W (Winnipeg, Canada) and ending at 18.24° N, 66.04° W (Caguas, Puerto Rico) between 11/17/1898 and 08/07/2015. These events only affected cities legally recognized by the US government and extended roughly 1 km outside of the cities' legal boundaries. Only a single city would be affected at a time. When an SCP-3713 event occurred, the population (defined as SCP-3713-A) began to behave as though they were members of a cast in a musical production, with the set and setting equivalent to the real life locality. The plot of each SCP-3713 Event changed between instances but tended to be roughly determined by events already set in motion before the occurrence of said event. For example, a major plot point during event SCP-3713-13 was the cancellation of an annual Christmas parade, which had been already planned for several weeks prior. A random group within the city, ranging from four to six individuals (defined as SCP-3713-A Prime), would be the focus of some sort of plot, often accompanied by a "supporting cast" consisting of an additional five to ten individuals. Any new objects or people entering the area of effect would slowly become subject to the anomaly's effects and be converted into a prop or actor. For objects this effect was almost instantaneous, while for people this process could take anywhere from 5 minutes to 6 hours, depending on the person's proximity to SCP-3713-A Prime. This effect was stronger the more SCP-3713-A Prime individuals were gathered in one place. Following the conclusion of the event, roughly 99% of objects and all affected individuals would revert to normal. SCP-3713 events would follow a vague Prologue, Act I, Intermission, Act II pattern, with a possible second Intermission and Act III. The Prologue was designated as the time in which SCP-3713's effects first show, beginning with the conversion of many objects into props (exact specifications difficult to measure and thus uncertain). Most members of SCP-3713-A would begin to lose intricacies of emotional expression and social interaction. Intermissions would be noted by all members of SCP-3713-A returning to their home (when applicable), and having between zero and eighteen members disappear and reappear at the beginning of the next Act. After all Acts are done, all members of SCP-3713-A would gather at the edge of SCP-3713's area of effect and bow. As soon as bows were finished, SCP-3713's effects would disappear. Members of SCP-3713-A would return to their homes and resume normal behaviors and routines the next day. Due to an as of yet unidentified antimemetic effect, all SCP-3713-A members would find nothing odd about the SCP-3713 event unless interrogated. SCP-3713-A were considered mundane once more after amnesticization. Addendum-3713-1 | Abridged List of Recorded SCP-3713 Events3 ► SCP-3713 Events ◄ SCP-3713 Events Event Location and Date Plot Notes SCP-3713-7 Hortonville, Wisconsin 06/19/1937 The first musical piece, identifying the main member of SCP-3713-A Prime, centered around a small boy being raised by his grandparents lamenting on how they abuse him. Shortly afterwards, he found a group of small (less than 8cm tall) humanoids which call themselves the Hows. The boy became emperor of the Hows, and used them to kill his grandparents. A role reversal occurred, wherein the boy became mad with power and attempted to take over as mayor of the city. The event climaxed when the Hows fought back against him and reclaimed their independence. The Hows have since been contained and classified as SCP-████. SCP-3713-11 Gallpolis, Ohio 04/04/1963 SCP-███ breached containment, incapacitating and wounding several researchers. The protagonists (MTF-Lambda-14, "The Extras") attempted to survive and recontain the anomaly. It was revealed that the Site-██ Director had released SCP-███ in an effort of world domination. The MTF unit uncovered more clues about SCP-███ and the Site Director, allowing them to set up a trap for them both. The event climaxed in a musical number (titled "Why Do We Even Try", sung by SCP-███, the Site Director, and all of the agents) after which the MTF unit successfully recontained SCP-███ and detained the Site Director. Several SCPs were neutralized following the event, as they had been converted into plastic replicas and did not revert back to their anomalous form. SCP-████ was successfully recontained. SCP-3713-16 Brickhaven, North Carolina 09/28/1995 Instance began with a musical number involving a bank heist. The police investigated the crime, and eventually one ended up undercover in a drug ring4. The story soon refocused to include D-590300 (sent in with recording equipment). The citizens began to question D-590300's origins. Once she told them in song (titled "We Stay in the Dark (So You May Live in the Light)"), they began to hail her as their savior and created a cult. D-590300 attempted to get people to stop worshiping her, eventually teaming up with the drug ring to hide herself from the public. When the cult worshiping continued despite her absence, the undercover cop confronted the cult and attempted to convince them via song (titled "No One Wants the D"). The plot ended with all cult members burning their robes and returning to normal city life, and the drug ring returning the stolen money due to taking a liking to the undercover cop character. Containment Procedures remain unchanged; a vote by Level 4/3713 personnel concluded at 19 to 10 in favor of maintaining current procedures. Amnestics successfully administrated. SCP-3713-18 Caguas, Puerto Rico 07/26/2015 The event began with the announcement of a particularly extravagant school play. SCP-3713-A Prime was comprised of several friends who were going to audition but met many problems in the process. Every member of SCP-3713-A Prime overcame various obstacles preventing them from auditioning, except for two of them (Camila Marquez and Eric Pantillo). It was revealed in a musical number that these two members of SCP-3713-A Prime were in love with each other but didn't know it, and wished not to be in the play because of the presence of one another. By collaborating with the secondary cast, both Camila and Eric were led downtown, where a musical number involving a large number of SCP-3713-A was performed by all members of SCP-3713-A Prime except Camila. Eric was ultimately too scared to profess his love and it resulted in failure. However, Camila and Eric decided to participate in the play regardless. Act-III involved the play being put on, where Eric ultimately confessed his love for Camila in the final act of the play. This was the first and only event where an individual was recorded deviating from the normal behavior. See Addendum-3713-2 for further details. ◄ SCP-3713 Events Addendum-3713-2 | Further Details on Event SCP-3713-18 Despite being a part of SCP-3713-A Prime, Camila Marquez AKA PoI-3713 never sang throughout the entirety of the SCP-3713 event and in several parts deviated significantly from what would have been the presumed story line of SCP-3713. Although initially calm during the events, presumably thinking that her friends were playing a prank or practicing during the first musical events, PoI-3713 expressed fear and confusion in many of the events following these, especially musical events which involved large amounts of people. During the bulk of SCP-3713-18 members of SCP-3713-A ignored her behaviors and continued as if she were acting normally. PoI-3713 expressed intense confusion at the end of Act-III, where she was surrounded by singing members of SCP-3713-A, and then forced to follow the crowd prior to the ending of Act-III. PoI-3713 broke from the crowd of SCP-3713-A and ran South from Caguas towards Guayama. As PoI-3713 approached the boundary of SCP-3713-18, the area of effect began to expand about 1 kilometer ahead of her. Upon reaching Guayama, PoI-3713 was met with a crowd of over 1,000 SCP-3713-A instances. All instances were singing a song, the main chorus line being "Someone is Slacking5". PoI-3713 was picked up by the crowd, but escaped by breaking a window and climbing through it. After reaching the top of the three story building, PoI-3713 held their position for roughly an hour before SCP-3713-A members began to climb onto the roof through the ventilation systems. PoI-3713 was forced to back towards the edge of the building, at which point she turned around and jumped. Just before hitting the ground, PoI-3713 disappeared. Three hours after the disappearance, all effects of SCP-3713 ceased. Members of SCP-3713-A in Caguas were dehydrated and malnourished due to standing in one place for roughly 72 hours. 18 lives were lost to various car crashes or bleeding out due to PoI-3713's escape efforts. A mass amnesticization and disinformation campaign was soon underway, and medical attention was given to injured individuals. PoI-3713 reappeared on the street, unconscious but alive, with several bruises on her head and large gashes of unknown origin on both her forearms. PoI-3713 was immediately taken under intensive care. After two weeks of recovery, PoI-3713 was returned to society and was assigned to a Foundation therapist. PoI-3713 has since shown cinematophobia, theatrophobia, heliophobia, post traumatic stress disorder (which is often triggered in tandem with the previous three fears), and a highly increased interest in photography and cinematography (despite her fear of it). For the sake of PoI-3713's mental health her mother, Cecelia Marquez, has been made somewhat aware of the events that transpired and the consequences of sharing information. No SCP-3713 events have occurred since, as of the time of writing (LAST UPDATED: 08/09/2024). Addendum-3713-3 | Recovered Information from PoI-3713 During Intensive Care After one week of recovery, PoI-3713 was able to speak. A recorded interview was conducted immediately after, which is transcribed below. ► Interview w/ PoI-3713 ◄ Interview w/ PoI-3713 Interviewer: Dr. Robert Dorer Interviewee: PoI-3713, Camila Marquez Conducted: 08/08/2015 Notes: PoI-3713 lies in a hospital bed in the middle of the room, with a chair to her right and the door to her left. Interview was conducted in Spanish, and translated to English for ease of reading6. <BEGIN LOG> (Dr. Dorer enters slowly, carrying with them a clipboard with paper and a pencil.) Dr. Dorer: Hello, Camila, I am Dr. Dorer, but you can call me Robert. I am here to ask you some questions about your experiences from the past few days. Is that alright with you? (PoI-3713 stares at Dr. Dorer but does not respond.) Dr. Dorer: We can go as slow as you would like, and you don't have to get it all out today. (Pause.) However much is comfortable for you. Is that alright? (Pause.) May I sit down? (PoI-3713 stares at Dr. Dorer but otherwise remains unresponsive. Seeing no response, Dr. Dorer sits down next to PoI-3713's bed.) Dr. Dorer: We're just trying to understand what's going on, it's been very confusing for all of us. Any help you could give us would help us all in the end. (PoI-3713 continues to stare at Dr. Dorer. After fifteen seconds of no response, Dr. Dorer notes the behavior on their clipboard.) PoI-3713: You're not singing. Dr. Dorer: No, no one will be singing. The singing is over, nobody is acting anymore. (PoI-3713 turns to look at the door, and mouths the English word "exit".) PoI-3713: Am I out? Dr. Dorer: Yes, you're out. You're out for good, you're safe here. (PoI-3713 turns to face Dr. Dorer again.) PoI-3713: Is there an outside? Dr. Dorer: If you go through that door, walk down the hall, take a right and a left and then go up the elevator, yes. You can see sun and flowers and clouds. PoI-3713: I can? Dr. Dorer: Not until you are well, but eventually yes. Things will go back to normal. PoI-3713: It's real? (PoI-3713 turns to look at the door again.) Dr. Dorer: Yes, it's real. Just as real as you or me. I can open it if you want to see. (PoI-3713 continues to stare at the door, and mouths the word "búhos" — "owls" in English. As PoI-3713 continues to stare at the door, Dr. Dorer gets up and moves towards it. Upon reaching the door, they slowly open it. PoI-3713 continues to stare, but is otherwise unresponsive.) Dr. Dorer: Does this prove it? (PoI-3713 nods. Dr. Dorer closes the door and returns to their seat.) Dr. Dorer: How are you feeling? PoI-3713: (Does not look away from the door.) Scared. Dr. Dorer: You're completely safe here, we make sure of it. There is nothing to be afraid of. PoI-3713: I'm being watched. Dr. Dorer: Who's watching you? PoI-3713: (Turns around to face Dr. Dorer, and drops to a whisper.) The audience. Dr. Dorer: How are they watching? (PoI-3713 does not respond, but continues to look at Dr. Dorer. Dr. Dorer points to the camera in the corner of the room, through which this log was recorded. PoI-3713 shakes their head, and points to each of Dr. Dorer's eyes individually.) Dr. Dorer: Would you be more comfortable if I wasn't looking at you? (PoI-3713 returns to looking at the door.) Dr. Dorer: Would you like me to come back later? (PoI-3713 remains unresponsive. Dr. Dorer takes notes, gets up and then kneels in front of PoI-3713 on the other side of the bed. PoI-3713 looks at Dr. Dorer.) Dr. Dorer: I will be back this time tomorrow, is that alright? (Pause.) If there is anything I can do for you, just ask. Tell the doctors and nurses here to get Robert, or Dr. Dorer, and I'll be by your side as quickly as I can. (Pause.) We're all here to help you, okay? (PoI-3713 does not respond, and returns to staring at the door. Dr. Dorer gets up and leaves the room.) <END LOG> ◄ Interview w/ PoI-3713 Further interviews yielded no new information, with PoI-3713 continuing their fascination with the door and showing general paranoia. Due to PoI-3713's knowledge of SCP-3713 and their unique mental disorders, the Ethics Committee ruled that PoI-3713 be returned to society without amnestics and see a Foundation therapist made aware of the situation in full. This arrangement has continued to the time of writing (LAST UPDATED: 08/09/2024). The following video, named "⊙ ⊙", was recovered from PoI-3713's phone. Despite the limitations of the phone, the video was recorded in 3840 x 2160 120FPS and lasts 18min 26s while only taking up 3 MB of space. Video was taken on 7/31, at 23:48, beginning at the exact moment PoI-3713 disappeared for the last time during SCP-3713-18. The video appears to be filmed from multiple points of view with lapses in time. ► Video Discovered on PoI-3713's Phone ◄ Video Discovered on PoI-3713's Phone <BEGIN TRANSCRIPTION> 00:00 | The video begins immediately with the sound of PoI-3713 screaming, which goes silent at 00:01. The view is entirely black, though the sound of an air conditioner can be heard. Soft, strained breathing can be made out. 00:18 | Shuffling can be heard, and the crash of something heavy being knocked over coinciding with PoI-3713 whimpering. The sound of the air conditioner continued uninterrupted for another thirty seconds. 00:50 | A very dim blue light comes from the left of the screen as a curtain uncovers what appears to be a window. PoI-3713's breathing becomes faster. A figure appears in front of the window, though it is unable to be determined whether it is PoI-3713 or which side of the window it is on. 00:58 | View goes entirely white and audio goes silent for two seconds. 01:00 | View seems to be from PoI-3713's perspective (their hands are shown multiple times, indicating the view to be coming from their view). PoI-3713 is running from an unknown pursuer (three sets of footsteps can be heard) through what appear to be an unnaturally large backstage. Lighting is dim and comes from an unknown source above, illuminating black curtains that appear to line every side. 01:19 | After multiple turns, PoI-3713 comes upon a well lit door marked with a green exit sign at the end of a hallway. PoI-3713 rushes towards it and unsuccessfully attempts to open the door. PoI-3713 whispers "por favor" ("please") repeatedly under their breath before turning around to look at the hallway behind them. A pair of bare feet step into view from around the corner before the feed cuts out. 01:21 | View goes entirely white and audio goes silent for three seconds. 01:24 | Video suddenly resumes from the perspective of a camera focused on a stage. The stage itself is dim. Faint shuffling and whispering can be heard below where the audience would be. No words are able to be made out. This continues for three minutes. 04:34 | Video cuts to PoI-3713's perspective. PoI-3713 is running through what appears to be a poorly lit backstage area. The only light is from an unknown source above. They dash behind a stack of boxes and crouch there, clutching their legs. A large number of footsteps can be heard from behind the boxes before being replaced with silence. Only PoI-3713's strained breathing can be heard for 3 minutes. 07:50 | PoI-3713 peeks their head out from the stack and freezes. In the darkness, a figure can be seen staring directly at PoI-3713. The figure is wearing a mask of an owl. The figure stares at PoI-3713 for approximately 10 seconds before taking a step back and out of view. 08:14 | Footsteps to PoI-3713's left prompt them to jump out and begin running in the opposite direction. 08:15 | View goes white and audio goes silent once more, but the vague impression of a human hand can be seen in the center of the image, slowly moving downwards. 08:38 | Once again from PoI-3713's perspective, PoI-3713 appears to be somewhere pitch black with the exception of a green exit sign. PoI-3713 rushes towards it and fumbles for the associated door. Footsteps can be heard behind them. PoI-3713 pauses to look behind. 08:42 | They turn back to the door and push it open. Stepping past the door, they collapse into an extremely dimly lit grassy clearing. The sun appears to be setting into the trees in the distance. PoI-3713 lays on the ground for approximately 1 minute, feeling the grass and looking at the sun, which appears to have a blue tint. The sky, though black, holds no stars. 09:49 | View goes white and audio goes silent. 10:01 | Three soft knocks can be heard preceding two short muffled vocalizations. 10:04 | View returns to a shot of a stage with a mumbling audience. 10:10 | Audience members are heard shushing one another as the dim stage lights go down and a singular spotlight arises, focusing in the center of the stage. The crowd falls silent. 11:15 | The shot resumes from PoI-3713's perspective in the grassy field. The sound of the door opening behind them interrupts their rest and they begin running towards the sun. 14:49 | The sun has grown noticeably larger. PoI-3713 pauses to vomit. 14:53 | The view returns to the shot from the beginning, where extremely dim blue light is flowing into the otherwise pitch black room through what appears to be a window. The figure at the window is still in place. Above the sound of the air conditioner, faint whimpering can be heard, along with several mumbles of the words "por favor". 14:59 | The figure steps away from the window. 15:00 | The view resumes from PoI-3713's perspective, in which they appear to be continuing to run at the sun. The sun appears to be about three times its original size. 15:55 | At this point, the sun is nine times its original size and dark areas can be seen behind it. 16:28 | PoI-3713 reaches what had been thought to have been the sun, which is revealed to be an abnormally large spotlight. They step behind it to find a large curtain that extends into the sky. Returning to the spotlight, they bang thrice on the glass and yell "por qué" ("why") before collapsing on the ground and assuming the fetal position. Sobbing can be heard. 16:54 | The sound of rustling grass causes PoI-3713 to quickly turn their head. The owl-masked figure from earlier is standing before the spotlight, when the spotlight appears to turn off and the view goes black. Only PoI-3713 screaming can be heard at this point. 16:57 | The view returns to the room with the air conditioner sounding only for the sound of glass breaking as a figure appears to break the window. 16:58 | The view returns to the camera facing the stage with the spotlight on it. No sound is heard and no movement is visible. 17:22 | PoI-3713 limps onto the stage from the wings. Several short murmurs are heard from the audience before PoI-3713 reaches the spotlight and stands in the center of it. PoI-3713 scans over the audience, their breaths deep and shuddering. 18:02 | PoI-3713 stumbles slightly before slowly taking a bow, jerking and twitching several times while doing so. 18:05 | As PoI-3713 rises from their bow, the audience begins to clap and cheer. Many roses are thrown onto the stage while PoI-3713 holds themself and twitches. 18:08 | PoI-3713 falls to their knees and subsequently collapses to the floor, coughing up bile. The crowd continues to cheer. 18:19 | As the crowd continues to clap and cheer and throw roses, a hand approximately three times the size of PoI-3713 (attached to a proportionately sized arm) reaches down from an unseen origin above and forcefully grabs PoI-3713. 18:21 | With the continuing noise of the crowd cheering in the background, the view cuts to a purple slate that says "The Play Has Ended!". 18:26 | The video ends. <END TRANSCRIPTION> ◄ Video Discovered on PoI-3713's Phone Addendum-3713-4 | Further Anomalous Activities On 11/02/2024, PoI-3713 was reported missing by Ms. Marquez. A single Foundation agent was sent to the house to investigate. The transcription below is their interview with Ms. Marquez. ► Interview w/ Ms. Marquez ◄ Interview w/ Ms. Marquez Interviewer: Agent Miguel Interviewee: Ms. Marquez Conducted: 11/03/2024 Notes: Interview was conducted in the living room with Ms. Marquez on the couch and Agent Miguel sitting opposite them on a chair. A coffee table separates them, where the audio recorder was placed. Interview was conducted in Spanish and translated to English for ease of reading. <BEGIN LOG> Agent Miguel: Alright, I want you to tell me if Camila ever seemed to want to run away, or if you know of anything that would push her to. Ms. Marquez: (Pause.) No, no I don't think so. She was very open with me, even if she didn't know how to explain something. When she was upset she would tell me… which was regrettably often. She didn't want to run away from home. She couldn't have wanted to. Agent Miguel: You can think of no influence that would have driven her away? Ms. Marquez: I thought she was getting more stable… (Pause.) Agent Miguel: Has she ever run away before? Ms. Marquez: Yes, when she was very little. (Pause.) Agent Miguel: What made her do that? Ms. Marquez: (Sniffles.) She was in a school play, in 3rd Grade. (Pause.) She was doing so well, but it came to her solo — she's an amazing singer, even if she doesn't do it too often, voice of an angel — and… and she just sat there. Everyone was looking at her. She just froze. (Ms. Marquez blows her nose.) Ms. Marquez: It was more than stage fright, I know it, you can feel these things when you're a mother. She just sat there and stared out at the audience. She didn't move. She didn't talk. She just stood there. The teacher cued her, and she looked down at the teacher. I couldn't help it, I spoke up and called to my daughter, I said… I said "honey" and she ran. She ran out the door and just kept running. (Ms. Marquez blows her nose again.) Ms. Marquez: We chased her but nobody got her before she was out in the woods, and… and we couldn't find her. My husband called the police and got them to look for her in the forest, and they found her cut and bruised and… there were red marks around her throat. She looked pale. They told us it had to have been self harm, but she wouldn't have done that. We just took her home and she slept for three days. Agent Miguel: Did she tell you what happened? Ms. Marquez: She was more comfortable with her dad at the time, and so he heard it. He said that she would feel comfortable to talk to me in time and that it would be better if she went at her own pace. I wanted to know, but I understood. Before it came time to… (Ms. Marquez sniffles.) Ms. Marquez: He passed. Joaquin Marquez. He was big and strong, like you. Hard worker. He had lung cancer. Smoked. (Pause.) I don't know if Camila ever told me why that happened. It never felt right to ask. She became a new person when Joaquin passed. Made her own breakfast, did her homework on time. Walked to the bus. Didn't talk as much. Agent Miguel: Did she ever — Ms. Marquez: She had dreams ever since. She sometimes hesitated at the door, and I asked her why she didn't want to go outside, and she told me… she told me she didn't want to be watched. The only place she felt privacy was in the home anymore. Recently she only did shopping at night, she said that in the day the sun felt like it was focusing on her. When she was a toddler she would wake up screaming, I would calm her down and she would ask me if I was "playing pretend". She thought we weren't her parents, sometimes. Sometimes she didn't think anyone was anyone. (Pause.) Agent Miguel: And there is nothing you know that might be the cause for her leaving? Ms. Marquez: No. She wouldn't run away. Agent Miguel: Any closing statements? (Pause.) Agent Miguel: We will find your daughter. She's coming back. Ms. Marquez: I know. I know. (Pause.) Ms. Marquez: There is something you should see. (Ms. Marquez is heard getting up and walking upstairs. After thirty seconds, she is heard descending the stairs and sitting back down. Plastic crinkling suggests the exchange of an item.) Ms. Marquez: This was in her toilet. I didn't show the police, because you're more important. You know what is wrong with her, even if I don't. Please. Tell me this means something to you. (Pause. Several plastic crinkles are heard.) Agent Miguel: This means something to us. Thank you. Ms. Marquez: Find her, Miguel. Please find her. <END LOG> Ms. Marquez had passed Agent Miguel a plastic bag containing vomit, blood (both matching PoI-3713's DNA), and eight flyers damaged by various fluids. All things printed in small text were illegible, but the most legible flyer read: […] Returns! The new hit Bl[…]ram Show, touring now! Touring now! Coming back […]ever! Come watch, we will! Get into your positions, AUDITIONS NOW OVER! ◄ Interview w/ Ms. Marquez Footnotes 1. Pending reclassification. See Addendum-3713-4 for more details. 2. Such as Skype or Discord VoIP. 3. For a full list, consult the current SCP-3713 overseer. 4. Supposedly "secret" meetings were kept in relatively easy to observe places, and SCP-3713-A instances showed little concern over others hearing their conversations despite their subject matter. 5. The full repeated line was "Someone is slacking, someone is drowning, someone is drowning and we're drowning with her". 6. To read the original interview, contact an SCP-3713 Research Director or any personnel of 4/3713 clearance. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3713" by DarkStuff and Varaxous, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3713. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. 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SCP-3714's lockbox is to be stored in a standard security locker within Site-27. SCP-3714's internal diameter is to be recorded twice weekly, using a jewelry caliper and hazard gloves. See Document-3714-CONTLOG-A274 for previous measurements. Testing involving SCP-3714 requires approval of the Level 3 coordinator for SCP-3714, with an additional approval from the Ethics Committee. [No Changes since last view] Description: SCP-3714 is a decorative green jade ring, which possesses multiple anomalous effects. SCP-3714 will spontaneously resize to fit the right index finger of any human subject which comes within sixteen centimeters of SCP-3714. SCP-3714 was discovered with an internal diameter of 11.27 mm, and currently has an interior diameter of 13.1 mm. The overall quantity and mass of jade comprising SCP-3714 does not change during this process. Direct contact with the skin of a human subject will trigger SCP-3714's further anomalous effects. SCP-3714 has no effect on non-human subjects, and will not resize in their presence. SCP-3714 can be removed without difficulty within the first 15 minutes of exposure. Past this point, outside assistance is required to remove SCP-3714. Testing with SCP-3714 is suspended until further notice, as no significant benefit has been ascertained to date with 22 subjects under the effect of SCP-3714. Primary effects - Stage 1 Within 20 minutes of direct skin contact, subjects wearing SCP-3714 will generally seek out a location in order to safely enter sleep. When not presented with a suitable location, subjects will usually lay down in place. Out of 22 test subjects, 1 reacted with extreme agitation and eventually managed to remove SCP-3714 without outside assistance after 72 minutes of searching for a suitable location. Movement during this period is markedly slower. To date, subjects have been unresponsive to verbal or physical confrontation. Removal of SCP-3714 during this period and the subsequent 24 hours can be performed without difficulty or permanent effects on the subject. Primary Effects - Stage 2 After roughly 24 hours of unconsciousness subjects will experience 2-7 minutes of epileptic seizures. At this point, the subject is designated SCP-3714-1. Brain wave activity monitored during this stage shows severe fluctuations in the brain activity of SCP-3714-1, eventually leading to complete brain death. Within 5 seconds, subjects exhibit a stable brain pattern consistent across all instances of SCP-3714-1. SCP-3714-1 will at this point awaken and exhibit additional anomalous effects, and drastically different mannerisms. (See Section SCP-3714-1) It is unknown at this time whether or not SCP-3714 has any correlation with the occurrence of Jiangshi in Chinese Folklore. [No Changes since last view] SCP-3714-1 Physical Characteristics Instances of SCP-3714-1 will move only by hopping short distances, with arms extended, consistent with descriptions of the Jiangshi of Chinese Folklore. SCP-3714-1 does not age and is unresponsive to physical harm but exhibits no evidence of increased physical resilence or regeneration. Major physical damage to limbs or other motor structures will limit SCP-3714-1's ability to move. SCP-3714-1 will cease all motor function with significant damage to the host's brain. Brain wave activity was shown to continue until roughly 32% of brain matter was destroyed. Removal of SCP-3714 from an instance of SCP-3714-1 will cause SCP-3714-1 to fall unconscious, and revert back to its previous non-anomalous state after approximately 15 minutes, including brain death. Damage sustained while affected by SCP-3714 will not be removed or regenerated. This reversion has proven universally fatal. Behavior and Anomalous Abilities SCP-3714-1 will speak in Middle Chinese freely. SCP-3714-1 will claim to be either "Zhang Guolao", a mythical figure in the Chinese tradition of alchemy, or "He Qinshi", a mythical figure associated with a now-defunct GoI "The Bringers of the Cloud". Neither identity has been confirmed at this time. SCP-3714-1 is hostile to members of The Foundation, and will universally attempt to prevent removal of SCP-3714 from its finger. SCP-3714-1 generally will speak about a mythical battle which caused the death of Zhang Guolao, and has made multiple references to legendary figures from various Alchemic traditions including Nicholas Flamel, Hermes Trismegistus, and Jibyr al Hayyan. There is no significant evidence to support SCP-3714-1's claims. To date, Foundation researchers have been unable to converse with SCP-3714-1 long enough to allow for interviews or significant communication. SCP-3714-1 possesses additional anomalous abilities depending on the current dominant personality. When "Zhang Guolao" is the dominant personality, SCP-3714-1 possesses minor reality bending abilities, most notably the ability to manifest fire, water, stones, or electrical discharge through unknown means. These abilities appear to be limited by some unknown mechanism, as SCP-3714-1 has never manifested these abilities to a degree sufficient to allow it to breach containment. These abilities do not appear consistent with the description of a Jiangshi, however, they are similar to abilities claimed to be associated with the Erbillic Tradition of Alchemy. Zhang Guolao was purported to be an alchemist in Chinese legend, however no records of SCP-3714 or Zhang Guolao were forthcoming from the Alchemy Department. When "He Qinshi" is the dominant personality, SCP-3714-1 possesses the ability to spontaneously transmit illnesses via anomalous means with anyone who comes in contact with its hands. To date, Yellow Fever, the Bubonic Plague, and Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) have been transmitted during testing incidents. SCP-3714-1 will attempt to kill any Foundation personnel it comes into contact with. If it manages to do so, it will undergo a ritualistic behavior, pressing its face near the subjects, and emitting a loud hissing noise for several moments. Notably, SCP-3714-1 will continue to speak in Middle Chinese during this ritual, and translations of SCP-3714-1's speech consists of the two personalities arguing, with the "Zhang Guolao" personality unwilling to perform the ritual. SCP-3714-1 exhibits all of the classical deterrent mechanisms of the Jiangshi described in Chinese folklore including but not limited to: Mirrors Peach Wood Hand Bells Taoist Talismans The compulsion to count coins thrown on the ground Fire (produced from sources other than SCP-3714-1) The sound of a rooster's call These objects, sounds, and phenomenon are to be available at all times to security staff interacting with SCP-3714 test subjects. Last updated by Q. Yang, 31/1/2019 1:07:59 UTC. ten.pcs.ics|22gnay.q#ten.pcs.ics|22gnay.q Recovery SCP-3714 was discovered in the ████████ Market, in the province of ██████████, China during a post-operation incident with Agent L. DuMourne. Agent DuMourne came in to contact with the box containing SCP-3714 while wearing a Thaumic Ring (See "Standard Operating Equipment - Thaumic") and took note of the object. SCP-3714 was acquired along with a small wooden box containing several other items. Inside the box was a small figurine of a donkey, SCP-3714, and a 200-gram piece of flat lunar rock inscribed with middle Chinese. A translation was provided by Junior Researcher Yang: Whatever unfortunate soul puts this foul thing on, I am sorry. The note is for the wretched soul inside this ring. This is for Erbil, traitor. I hope you and the Leviathan's pet monster enjoy eternity. [Glyph] The source of lunar rock is unknown at this time. The glyph found at the bottom of the tablet is one associated with early Arabic cryptography, specifically a cypher of Arabic which was seen used in several reliefs in the ruins of the Citadel of Erbil. These glyphs appear to identify a particular person, as well as a subject matter. Several texts have associated the specific glyph with the writings of Nicholas Flamel, specifically in his research notes on what mythical alchemist Jabir Ibn Hayyan (latinized to Geber in later centuries) described as the creation of artificial life. This process of "takwin" is referred to in a significant number of religious and pseudo religious texts. The current leading hypothesis is SCP-3714 is a failed attempt to replicate "takwin" by PoI-████ or PoI-█████, both of which were active producers of anomalous items in the correct region and timeframe of SCP-3714's potential creation. Both persons of interest had significant interest in the occult, and mixed together elements of both religion and folklore [REDACTED] leading to the fall of the Tang Dynasty by Zhu Wen in 907 CE. It is unknown at this time why PoI-████ or PoI-█████ would include a reference to the Citadel at Erbil. Research is ongoing. [No Changes since last view]
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One portion of SCP-3715's wall Item #: SCP-3715 Special Containment Procedures: Due to its immobile and relatively benign nature, SCP-3715 does not require any specific containment beyond keeping non-Foundation entities away. Personnel with level-2 clearance or higher stationed at Research Site-95 are allowed access to the anomaly for morale purposes. Description: SCP-3715 is an anomalous event that occurs in Room-121 in the former Bellview City High School, located in Alberta, Canada1. SCP-3715's effects typically manifest on weekdays during the fall and winter months. Between the hours of 11 PM to 6 AM, a variable amount of tea will manifest in any suitable container2 within Room-121. Generation of tea will always occur, but certain variables (such as flavor and brand of the tea) may be controlled. Occasionally, in addition to the tea, a document will appear addressed to individuals who have recently entered the room. This document always takes the form of a handwritten note, giving praise and/or positive feedback to the individual. The flavoring of the tea may be controlled by taping tea bags to a wall adjacent. In the event that the tea does not require or come with a tea bag, the tea will manifest as normal if the ingredients are placed in a plastic bag and taped to the wall. See below test log. Type of Tea Used Container Used Document Contents Notes Green tea bag from school stock Videographer Stockton's mug I hope you have a nice day. :) This was the first recorded instance of SCP-3715. Videographer Stockton was allowed, upon request, to keep the document from this test. Licorice tea bag Generic teapot NO!! >:( This was the first time that SCP-3715 had reacted negatively to any stimulus. Site staff had been using many types of tea for several weeks before this event. Staff are discouraged from giving SCP-3715 licorice tea in the future. English breakfast tea bag Generic teapot Su Tan, check your code again. Researcher Tan had recently completed several blocks of code for a device designed to more efficiently contain SCP-████. Upon inspection, it was revealed that the code held several typos that could have kickstarted a series of containment failures. The errors were corrected. Discussion regarding SCP-3715's ability to find errors in Foundation documents is ongoing. Loose jasmine tea leaves from a nearby specialty store Generic teapot This is very good tea! Thank you! Next time though, try giving it to someone who needs it more than I do :) The tea was shared amongst researchers. Imported Pu-erh cake (Retail price of roughly $40 USD) Generic teapot ??? [sic] Lab 4 was found to have been deep cleaned overnight. A note was found on the lab bench reading 'I wouldn't feel right otherwise.' Addendum 3715-A: SCP-3715 was discovered in 2014, when reports of a 'tea ghost' made their way to Foundation agents in Alberta. Notably, the classroom was last inhabited by Bellview City teacher Betty Miles, who had attained mild popularity within the school due to her optimism and willingness to assist students. Miles had suffered a fatal heart attack in 2013 while in class. Anomalous reports began surfacing shortly after. Footnotes 1. Bellview City High School has since been converted into Research Site-95. 2. Suitable container defined as any clean wares intended to store liquid for human consumption
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A portion of HS-229, recently renovated by SCP-3716-A. Ritualistic skeletal fragments not pictured. Item #: SCP-3716 Special Containment Procedures: Instances of SCP-3716 are currently stored in Safe-class Containment Locker 128-B in Site-42. Access is only permitted to individuals with Level 3/3716 or above clearance. Due to the large quantity of SCP-3716-A instances currently extant, no further testing is deemed necessary. All 62 SCP-3716-A instances are currently housed in Historical Site-229 ("Caldey Island Abbey"), as per Protocol 3716-002. The Cistercian monastery originally present on the island was largely abandoned in the late 1700s: a disinformation campaign is currently being employed to counter this, and maintain the public opinion that no such abandonment ever occurred. The eldest instance and de-facto leader of the group (SCP-3716-A-1) has agreed to maintain the secrecy of their order in exchange for the ownership of the land, which instances use primarily as a space of contemplation and meditation. A small security team of no more than six eighteen members is to be permanently stationed on the island, as well as a standard low-risk anomaly research team. To maintain cooperation, a monthly excursion has been agreed upon, during which SCP-3716-A instances will be allowed to visit the mainland and interact with the civilian population (0.08% of whom are embedded Foundation agents). Amnestic distribution should be employed following this, and a high rotation of resident civilians should be encouraged to prevent a resurgence of suppressed memories. MTF-Phi-Eolh ("Provident Trawlers") are tasked with apprehending and processing any civilians with knowledge of SCP-3716, SCP-3716-A, or the nature of the excursions. As a breach of SCP-3716-A could easily escalate into a Broken Masquerade scenario, maintaining high morale among instances is desirable — accordingly, any dissent or dissatisfaction is to be treated as a High Priority issue. Description: SCP-3716 is the designation for around 3000 metal zippers1 that, when placed on the navel and rolled upwards to the neck, enable the user to extricate themselves from their entire integumentary system and most of their muscular system (with the exception of ligaments and joints) without blood loss, in a manner similar to removing an anorak and pants. Although their visceral organs, skeletal system, and other organ systems are wholly exposed, affected individuals (hereby termed SCP-3716-A) experience no adverse side effects. SCP-3716-A will repeatedly and persistently attempt to persuade others to use SCP-3716, but are pacifistic and do not make violent attempts at coercion. Persuasion attempts most commonly take the form of brochures, door-to-door salesmanship, timeshare sales pitches, and other such media2. All instances of SCP-3716-A have certain benefits compared to baseline humans, such as the ability to take on the appearance of another instance by wearing their skin, (even when their anatomies are incompatible), and extremely enhanced longevity. They subscribe to a monastic doctrine termed "Orthodox Osteonism", which contains elements of various philosophies and religions (including various branches of Christianity, agnosticism, Theravada Buddhism, and democratic socialism), along with elements borrowed from classical and modern literature. Although no two instances have expressed the exact same views, common themes involve the ideas that violence is sinful in any form, that the requirement of a nervous system in higher lifeforms is a myth3, that all living things are part of the same "Metaphysical Skeleton", and that all invertebrate organisms are "worthy of our love and compassion, but ultimately irredeemable". Reverence for elder SCP-3716-A instances, particularly SCP-3716-A-1 (the oldest living instance at time of writing) is common, though not an element of official doctrine. If an instance of SCP-3716-A is unable to convert a new instance to the doctrine within a certain amount of time (usually a period of years), said instance's non-osseous tissue will start rapidly decomposing. The majority of their anomalous abilities are lost during this process, although basic life functions and all cognitive functions remain unchanged. Instances claim that successful conversions will nullify and reverse the degradation — it is for this reason that instances express desire to interact with the civilian population on a semi-regular basis. Amnesticisation of converted subjects has no effect on SCP-3716-A instances, as it seems to be the act of conversion, rather than the continued devotion to the faith, that halts the decay process. Addendum: Update Regarding "Orthodox Osteonism": While initially manifesting as a loose collection of principles and ideals, the school of thought has apparently begun solidifying with the use of around fifty SCP-3716. Increased definition of what constitutes 'moral' activity has been observed, and elements of false cultural history being accepted as truth by SCP-3716-A instances. Various rites and ceremonies seem to be in the process of development, as do certain holy sigils, signs, and other iconography, the majority of which are related to escaping the "trappings of the physical world", and achieving enlightenment or transcendence through the shedding of restrictions and unnecessary bindings. Protocol 3716-002 has been enacted, and Containment Procedures have been updated to reflect this. Observation log - Historical Site-229: The following documents are extracts from the research journals of Dr. John Weldon, compiled during their station at HS-229. They are included here due to their relevance both to SCP-3716 and Incident 3716-S. Date: 23/09/2017 The monks have arrived, and seem happy. They feel right at home in the monastery, according to the liaisons, and are looking forward to settling in. The main Chapel (dubbed "The Cranium" — seems they have a sense of humour, at least) has proven adequate for holding worships, while the gardens and fields let them grow produce to sell on the mainland during their excursions. They have little care for the profits, however, donating most of it to charitable causes. Nice of them, all things considered. Date: 16/11/2017 We have songs! Or rather, they have songs. Catchy, too, with a vaguely 'pop' vibe that's enjoyable to sing along with. It seems Cartiligism (or whatever they're calling it now) is growing into its own fully-fledged belief system; it's probably not a good idea to have it on record as an official movement, but worth noting nonetheless. Nothing else interesting to report: a few basic images mimicking rib-cages and a festival on the winter solstice are all that have developed in the past few months. Song-wise, my personal favourite is "Dead Men Walking". I've been humming it for days. Date: 03/01/2018 Last week the Khambo lama4, Ischium, commissioned the production of a "holy spirit" for use in communion. We had been supplying them with a weak solution commonly used in Christian practises but this was deemed, and I quote, "ineffective and rather ghastly". The brewer's first sample came in today. The acolytes are calling it 'Marrow'. It's an acquired taste, to be sure — around 30% Formaldehyde, according to preliminary analysis. Date: 11/02/2018 Today is apparently a holy one in the skeletal calendar. The monks will be hosting a celebration to honour the life and death of all things. Foundation personnel such as myself were invited, but politely declined. The festival takes place at the rising of the moon and a large batch of 'Marrow' has been produced in preparation. Woke in the middle of the night to drunken chanting. Seems that even under the influence, they can remember that "the neck bone's connected to the head bone". It was funny for about five minutes, and Jared from the Horticulture Department even joined in at one point, but at this stage it's been going on for hours. There's not much I can do, I suppose. I'll let them have their fun. Date: 12/02/2018 2:00 AM All the boats are gone. All the monks, bar one, are gone. We found them dozing on the grass, still clutching an empty bottle. They explained that they had left in the night to find the reincarnation of their deity, and bring them back to the Abbey, their new spiritual home. I don't know what they plan to do, but I imagine the paperwork will be nightmarish. The departure of SCP-3716-A instances from the island was verified shortly afterwards, and Incident 3716-S was formally designated a High-Level priority. The on-site security team, later discovered to have been overwhelmed by the instances, were disciplined severely thereafter, and a higher staff requirement introduced (see Containment Procedures). Update (12/02/2018): ► Show Video Transcript 3716-009 ◄ Hide Transcript The following is external CCTV footage recovered from the Dorset County Museum, beginning at 06:29 a.m. <Begin Log> <00:00> Relevant footage begins. Muffled scraping can be heard from within the building, accompanied by several loud crashes. <04:03> Although blurry and indistinct, the footage reveals the main doors of the museum bursting open to a chorus of chants and mantras from gathered SCP-3716-A instances. <05:21> Instruments are produced, and a slightly atonal melody is played as a group of instances emerge, carrying a large object between them. The object appears to glow as the morning sunlight illuminates the museum hall — subsequently verified to be a non-anomalous optical illusion. <07:30> A crowd of monks gather on the front steps as one (later identified as SCP-3716-A-1) awkwardly mounts the object, which is off-white in colouration and tapers to a point at both ends. <10:01> SCP-3716-A-1 begins gesturing wildly at the rest of the group, vocalising loudly. While initially inaudible and slurred, the instance's voice begins to rise in volume, culminating in the phrase "OUR LORD! HE IS REBORN AT LAST! HE IS-" <10:12> The film cuts out abruptly as one SCP-3716-A instance loses its footing, and the object and monk collide with the camera. <End Log> Following reports of a disturbance at the aforementioned museum, and civilian reports matching descriptions of SCP-3716-A, MTF Xi-Kai ("Curators") was deployed to investigate. A group of approximately 70 SCP-3716-A instances were eventually located some two km west of the location, carrying what appeared to be a replica Diplodocus skeleton complete with explanatory plaque and support wires5. The majority of instances had discarded their external coverings, several of which have yet to be recovered, and all entities involved appeared extremely inebriated. Vocalisations consisted of loud chanting about the reincarnation and ascension of their 'God' — note than no additional anomalous phenomena, divine or otherwise, were seen during the event. By the time the intervention squad arrived, the monks were escaping in a stolen yacht with "Dippy the New Messiah" haphazardly strapped in. Despite the instances' overall lack of coordination, poor weather conditions and a lack of immediately available Foundation watercraft meant that apprehension was not possible until late afternoon, by which time all SCP-3716-A instances had returned to HS-229. SCP-3716-A-1, who during the incident was observed seated on the skeleton's back, has since apologised for the damage and disturbance caused. The frequency of excursions is to be reduced to every three months as a reprimand, with the threat of termination should another such incident occur. Further updates to Containment Procedures are pending. ► Show Document 3716-035.doc ◄ Hide Document Non-anomalous document received via standard communication channels shortly after the aforementioned incident. Transcribed here for archival purposes. To our esteemed friends at the Foundation, On behalf of the Order, I apologise for the pandemonium we were responsible for recently. It was an embarrassing display, and does not reflect the disciplines we have come to practice here at the monastery. Devout faith and excessive alcohol do not seem to harmonise well. Though we respect your decision to remove them from our possession, we have since constructed an altar to help us worship and develop a stronger connection to our saviour, which should suffice for worship. Permission to conduct periodic pilgrimages to their resting place would be a great boon to our order, although given our recent conduct I understand if you deny us that privilege. As a gift, and some small manner of recompense, the attached package contains a fine bottle of Marrow and a complimentary zipper (on the off chance that you ever feel like opening up). Yours faithfully, Ischium Footnotes 1. 2508 of which are currently possessed by the Foundation 2. While MTF Chi-9 ("Page Turners") was initially employed to remove such media from public circulation, the abnormal nature of said media seems to result in 97% of subjects believing it to be fictional. 3. Created by unbelievers (the Skinned) to turn others away from faith. 4. A title given to the senior lama of a Buddhist monastery, and often equated with the Christian title of 'Abbot'. Presumably referring here to SCP-3716-A-1 5. Later identified as "Dippy", an exhibit that had been touring the UK for some weeks previously. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3716" by MaliceAforethought and WhiteWampus, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3716. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: abbey.jpg Name: Caldey Island: the abbey church Author: Chris Downer License: CC BY-SA 2.0 Source Link: Geograph
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From front to back: SCP-3717-01,-02, and -03 Item #: SCP-3717 Special Containment Procedures: Outside of testing, all instances of SCP-3717 are to be kept together in a small Humanoid Containment Chamber within the low-security wing of Site 17. Media devices provided to SCP-3717 must be voice controlled. Twice daily, one scoop (28 grams) of powdered baby formula is to be sprinkled into each instance’s jar. Instances are permitted to select from available flavours. Personnel assigned to this task are encouraged to engage SCP-3717 in conversation and report any requests or concerns to Dr. Valdez. Psychiatric sessions are to be conducted on a bi-weekly basis. As an incentive for cooperation, SCP-3717 may be placed on a customized secured dolly and taken on excursions around their containment wing. Supervised interaction with other residents of Site 17 is permitted. Description: SCP-3717 is the collective designation for three stillborn, malformed infants preserved in glass jars filled with an anomalous solution of formaldehyde and amniotic fluid. Although dead on a cellular level, each instance possesses adult level human intelligence and sensory capabilities, which do not appear to be impeded by their fluid environment. SCP-3717 are capable of producing speech by inducing their jars to emit sonic vibrations via an unknown method. Instances are also capable of limited movement within their jars. Powdered food placed within their jars appears to be absorbed through the skin, though no waste products have been observed to be excreted. Instances claim that they will "suffocate"1 if removed from their solution. This has not been confirmed via testing. SCP-3717-01 is a hermaphroditic infant that appears to possess craniotomy scars along the top of its head. Neuroimaging has revealed that SCP-3717-01's cranium is filled with several marbles. SCP-3717-02 is a male infant missing the left half of its cranium, with its brain having been replaced with a mass of dust, lint, dead skin cells and spider webs2. Notably, neither SCP-3717-01 or -02 seem to suffer any cognitive impairment because of their missing brain matter. SCP-3717-03 is a pair of female syncephalus3 conjoined twins. Skin pigmentation is entirely absent. It is unclear (possibly even to itself) whether SCP-3717-03 possesses a singular consciousness or two distinct but similar minds. DNA analysis of SCP-3717 has revealed that they are genetically human as well as half-siblings, all possessing the same father. Recovery: SCP-3717 were discovered inside of a leather strongbox on the █████ County fairgrounds by Mobile Task Force Kappa 14 “AH! Sideshow Bob!” who were investigating reports of recent GoI-233 activity. Adjacent promotional material referred to SCP-3717 as “Papa’s Precociously Provocative Pickl'd Punkz!”. Initial Containment Interview: Interviewer: Junior Researcher Luna Valdez Interviewees: SCP-3717 <Begin log> Dr. Valdez: Hello there. My name is Dr. Valdez and I’ll be overseeing your containment for the— SCP-3717-01: I want my phone call! Dr. Valdez: …I beg your pardon? SCP-3717-01: I know my rights, Essie! I want my phone call! Dr. Valdez: Prisoners don’t actually have a legal right to a phone call, that’s just a common courtesy. More importantly, this is not a prison. Think of it more like a long-term care facility. Your health and well-being are our utmost— SCP-3717-02: Do people make wine in the toilets? Dr. Valdez: It’s…been known to happen. SCP-3717-02: Yeah, we’re in prison. SCP-3717-01: I demand a lawyer, or an actor who’s so method they actually got a law degree! Dr. Valdez: You’re not being charged with anything. We’re not a prison. We’re here to help. SCP-3717-02: Then why are you behind bulletproof glass? Dr. Valdez: It’s just standard procedure for new anomalies. We don’t know what you’re capable of. SCP-3717-01: We’re frickin’ babies! We’re in jars! Child-proof jars to boot! Dr. Valdez: I realize you’re likely harmless, but we need to do some observations and tests before we… SCP-3717-01: Oh God, they’re gonna vivisect us! We’re in Harry Harlow's lab! Dr. Valdez: No, I assure you all the tests will be minimally invasive. A biopsy will be the worst of it. For the moment, I’m just gathering some intel on you. SCP-3717-01: God Almighty! They told us Essie was evil, but I never thought you would stoop to waterboarding babies! Torture me all you want! I’ll never crack! Dr. Valdez: No one is going to torture you. I’m just going to ask a few questions, and you’re free to answer them or not as you choose. My first question is how did you end up with the Circus of the Disquieting? SCP-3717-02: I guess you could say we were born to it. None of us remembers anything before waking up in these things. Dr. Valdez: Did you never ask where you came from? SCP-3717-03: Oh sure, lots of times. Herman would say that after having some fun with a lady friend sometimes they'd have an accident, and she would come trying to get some money out of him for it. SCP-3717-01: I ain't sayin' they were gold diggers, but they weren't messing with no broke— SCP-3717-03: Spratz, you can't say that! We've been over this! SCP-3717-02: Herman said that where lesser men would flee — or worse, succumb to the manacles of matrimony — he saw an opportunity. SCP-3717-03: After putting his lady friend 'in her place' as he called it, he'd take her to the Amazing Zoltan, our alchemical consultant, and after a little razzmatazz the lady would have no cause to pester him for money and he'd have a brand new attraction. SCP-3717-01: We've been disgusting visitors in the Den of Freaks ever since! Dr. Valdez: (pauses) You’re saying that you’re all… SCP-3717-02: The aborted bastards of Herman Fuller, dear old dad. SCP-3717-03: Not that we were ever allowed to call him that. SCP-3717-01: He wasn't all bad though. He did teach us some barbershop songs. Dr. Valdez: I'm sorry, barbershop songs? SCP-3717-01: Hit it! All instances of SCP-3717: Mr. Sandman (bum, bum, bum) bring me a dream (bum bum bum bum) Make him the cutest that I've ever seen (bum bum bum bum) Give him two lips like roses and clover (bum bum) Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over Mr. Sandman— Dr. Valdez: That's sufficient. I don't need a demonstration. That was your act at the Circus? SCP-3717-02: Not at first. Herman just wanted us to creep people out. But after he got the boot, Icky reimagined the Den a little. She wanted the Freaks to proudly display their talents, wanted us to be proud of what we were, have some dignity. We liked to sing, so she let us sing. Dr. Valdez: Speaking of talents, do you three have any active anomalous properties we should know about? SCP-3717-01: I may have been Grover Cleveland in two nonconsecutive past lives. SCP-3717-02: Sorry doc, no magic powers here. What you see is what you get. Dr. Valdez: Any special needs? We're able to meet most reasonable requests. SCP-3717-01: Does a mind-controlled, fusion-powered mech-suit count as reasonable? Dr. Valdez: (pauses) No. SCP-3717-01: Fine, it can be fission-powered, but I'm not responsible for disposing of the radioactive waste! SCP-3717-02: An ounce of formula twice a day is all we need. A little company now and then wouldn't go unappreciated either. We're good with people. SCP-3717-03: Well, mostly, but Spratz does sometimes get on people's nerves. He goes a little heavy on the dead baby humour. SCP-3717-01: We're dead babies! It's appropriate! SCP-3717-03: You know, life wasn't half bad at the Circus, at least not under Icky and Manny's rule. People would take us for walks sometimes, decorate our jars, and Lolly liked to read to us when she’d visit the Den. SCP-3717-02: I’ll miss Yume’s flowers, and Quincy’s butterflies. SCP-3717-01: But not Gabriel’s fish! I hate it when he stuck those slimy bastards in my jar! SCP-3717-03: You don’t think they left us behind on purpose, do you? SCP-3717-02: They just left in a hurry. You heard Manny shouting "Essie P is coming!". He's been especially worried about Essie since…well, just lately. Our box is easy to overlook. Dr. Valdez: We can talk about your associates at the Circus another time. I understand that this may be a difficult adjustment but I assure you that you will be treated just as well here, if not better, than you were at the Circus. Once we've finished our assessments you might even be cleared to interact with fellow residents. SCP-3717-01: Show me the biggest guy here! I'll shiv him, show him who's boss! Dr. Valdez: Violence against staff or residents will result in solitary confinement and psychiatric assessment. And the 'biggest' guy at this site is an immortal, invincible, thaumatological cyborg. SCP-3717-01: (pauses) So you'll make sure my mech-suit can take him, right? <End Log> Footnotes 1. Instances of SCP-3717 do not appear to require oxygen. The solution they are kept in is also unoxygenated. 2. SCP-3717-02 claims it was born without a brain and an unusually large 'dust bunny' was the only on hand substitute at the time. 3. Fused at the face and head, but possessing separate bodies.
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Item #: SCP-3718 Special Containment Procedures: Any SCP-3718 instances discovered in the wild are to be sedated1 and brought in for containment, or neutralized if the current number of contained SCP-3718 instances is greater than twenty. Foundation personnel are to monitor websites and animal control hotlines for mentions of potential SCP-3718 activity, as well as reports of individuals being attacked by cats, or seeing 'monster cats'. Any area that has seen a significant decline in local wildlife population in a small time frame is to be investigated for SCP-3718 activity. MTF Kappa-14 "AH! Sideshow Bob!" has been instructed to examine areas where GoI-233 has appeared for stray SCP-3718 specimens. SCP-3718 instances in containment are to be kept in a large feline habitat at Site-23, and require at least three times the normal daily intake of food compared to a normal Felis catus. Personnel entering the enclosure are recommended to only do so when the SCP-3718 population has been recently fed or sedated. Description: SCP-3718 is an unidentified species of organism, outwardly resembling individuals belonging to the species Felis catus (the domestic cat). While SCP-3718 instances are visually identical to non-anomalous Felis catus, when viewing the reflection of an SCP-3718 instance, a large, tripedal organism can be seen in place of a reflection. These organisms are an average of 75cm tall at the shoulder, exhibit numerous bioluminescent patches along the body, and are otherwise dark in coloration. These organisms posses no observable eyes or ears, but exhibit multiple orifices across the body, which are used in feeding. These organisms also possess highly sensitive vibrissae2 which run the length of their body, allowing for instances to observe their surroundings by sensing changes in air flow. This organism cannot be directly interacted with, as it does not seem to occupy any space that it would take up around the Felis catus body. SCP-3718 instances are active predators, and have been observed in packs hunting prey as large as elk, and consuming most of the kill. When feeding, SCP-3718 instances have been observed to cause a Class C-3 spatial anomaly. During this, the Felis catus appearance will contort up to three times in normal size, and orifices corresponding to those on the appearance of its reflection will open, and discharge pressurized digestive enzymes onto the kill. Once the digestive enzymes have had their effect, the orifices are used to grip parts of the prey, and deliver it into the digestive system through rows of teeth. Packs of feral SCP-3718 have been observed across the North American continent4, breeding rapidly. Due to their increased hunting activity, SCP-3718 has become a threat to natural wildlife in some cases, drastically decreasing the populations of many species, including birds and deer. Currently, at least three species native to North America have been reclassified as critically endangered due to the presence and rapid growth of SCP-3718 populations. Because of this, SCP-3718 is currently considered an invasive species, and containment is considered a high priority due to the increased spread and risk of discovery. Addendum: Discovery, and GoI Connections SCP-3718 was discovered following numerous online mentions of packs of feral cats killing abnormally large prey, as well as mentions of 'monster cats' that could only be seen in reflective surfaces. This was in conjunction with sudden decreases in many wildlife populations in certain areas, leading to an outcry from environmentalist groups. Embedded agents in these groups were able to capture several SCP-3718 instances, leading to subsequent discovery of their anomalous effects, and containment. SCP-3718 is believed to have been originated from GoI-233, as an attraction for its 'Menagerie of Mayhem'. Several solitary SCP-3718 instances have been located at or near areas where GoI-233 has visited. In addition, some instances have been found wearing collars identifying them as 'Property of Herman Fuller', or more recently 'Property of Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting'. + Show Interview Log 3718-1 - Collapse Foreword: The following interview was conducted on ██/██/████, with a previously contained SCP that was formerly a part of GoI-233. Information was provided in exchange for consideration in regards to requests placed by SCP-████. For the interview, several photographs of an SCP-3718 instance, with the reflection clearly visible, were present. Interviewer: Dr. Reynard Interviewed: SCP-████ <Begin Log> [Irrelevant data expunged] Dr. Reynard: Are you familiar with these, from your time with the Circus of the Disquieting? (Dr. Reynard shows the photographs of SCP-3718 to SCP-████.) SCP-████: Shit, is that a Mewler? I used to help feed 'em and clean their cages. Cute little bastards, but they're ferocious. How'd ol' Essie get a hold of one? Dr. Reynard: They've become something of a nuisance. What exactly did you call it? SCP-████: 'Mewlers' is what we called 'em. 'Herman Fuller's Mind-Bending Mewling Monstrosities' doesn't quite roll off the tongue. They were a staple in the Menagerie. Had a whole House of Mirrors bit with 'em. Dr. Reynard: I see. And were there quite a few of these 'Mewlers' with the Circus? SCP-████: Not at first, but Herman didn't keep track of 'em, they'd always wander off- you know what they say about herding cats. So he'd go back to our dealer and get more and more. 'Course, the dealer wasn't too torn up about that. Towards the end of my stay though, li'l miss Lolly started making sure all the animals got taken care of. Loves pussies, that one. Dr. Reynard: The majority we've come across have been quite hostile, has this always been the case? SCP-████: They're like any other animal, they warm up to you if you feed 'em, but if you cut 'em loose, they'll go feral. I only got scratched… twenty-something times? And that was when they liked me. Dr. Reynard: You're aware, I assume, of their anomalous properties? SCP-████: Obviously! Used to help out with 'em. They didn't let me in on what exactly they are, I'm nobody that important. But from what I got, they're not from around here. Dr. Reynard: Elaborate. SCP-████: They bought 'em from this dealer who did a lot of business in the Library, the Bazaar too. It's like… they're from outside, and they're trying to force their way in, but they can't fit. Like a square peg tryin' to get through a round hole. That make any sense? Dr. Reynard: You're implying they're extradimensional in nature? SCP-████: Yeah, yeah. The 'cat' part, it's not really a cat. It's just our tiny monkey-brains tryin' to unscramble what we're looking at. Even what you see in the mirror, that probably isn't the whole thing. Dealer always had a hissy fit about how much trouble it was to make 'em where you wouldn't go Lovecraft-loco if you look at 'em. 'Course, don't always work right, that's why they get weird when they're eating. Don't stop 'em from being cute fuckers though, I'll tell you. Dr. Reynard: Thank you. Is there any other relevant information you'd be able to share? SCP-████: I don't think so. Spilled all I know about the- Oh, wait! One more thing, and trust me, you're going to want to know this one. These things only have one weakness, and if you know that, then you're set, and you can send them packing back to the squidverse, or wherever they came from. It's- (SCP-████ begins violently coughing.) Dr. Reynard: SCP-████? (SCP-████ mimes the act of expelling something onto the table before it.) SCP-████: Sorry, hairball. Dr. Reynard: …You weren't serious about the weakness, were you? SCP-████: Nope. You're screwed. <End Log> Addendum: Attempts to Control SCP-3718 Population Despite the continued efforts to cull the SCP-3718 population, it has continued to rise by a substantial amount each year. While current efforts primarily consist of locating and neutralizing instances whenever spotted, some researchers have deemed this as ineffective. Researchers are currently formulating an artificially created virus that, when contracted by an SCP-3718 instance, would render it, and any other instances that it comes into contact with, infertile. Infected SCP-3718 would be released into the wild in spots with high concentrations of SCP-3718 activity. Proposal pending approval by the Ethics Committee. Footnotes 1. The use of heavy sedatives is recommended, as smaller dosages have proven to be ineffective. 2. Specialized touch organs, most commonly seen as whiskers on mammals. 3. Negligible effects, considered to be on the same level as an optical illusion. 4. Notable areas include the Rocky Mountain range, Southern Canada, and numerous locations in California. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3718" by RecursiveRecursion, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3718. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3719 By: Lt Flops Published on 20 Mar 2018 03:26 ▷ Show Code ◁ △ Hide Code △ @import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat:wght@600;700&display=swap); /* Centered Header Sigma * [2021 Wikidot Component] * By Lt Flops (CC BY-SA 3.0) * Forked from: * Penumbra Theme by EstrellaYoshte * Also based on: * Centered Header BHL by Woedenaz **/ /* ---- VARS ---- */ :root{ --titleColor: hsl(0, 0%, 95%); --subtitleColor: hsl(60, 62%, 85%); --lgurl: url(https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/component:pride-highlighter/lgbtqp_logo.svg); } /* ---- SITE BANNER ---- */ #header, div#header{ background-image: none; } #header::before{ position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; content: ""; background-image: var(--lgurl); background-position: center top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto 9em; opacity: .33; } #header h1, #header h2{ float: none; margin-left: 0; text-align: center; } #header h1 span, #header h2 span{ /* Hide the Existing Text */ display: none; } #header h1 a::before, #header h2::before{ /* Style the New Text */ font-family: "Montserrat", "Arial", sans-serif; text-shadow: none; } #header h1 a::before{ position: relative; bottom: .15em; color: var(--titleColor); font-size: 115%; font-weight: 700; } #header h2::before{ position: relative; top: .1em; color: var(--subtitleColor); font-size: 130%; font-weight: 600; } #header h1 a::before{ /* Set the New Text's Content From Variable */ content: var(--header-title, "SCP FOUNDATION"); } #header h2::before{ content: var(--header-subtitle, "SECURE - CONTAIN - PROTECT"); } /* ---- SEARCH ---- */ #search-top-box{ top: 1em; right: 0; } #search-top-box-form input.button{ margin-right: 0; } #search-top-box-input, #search-top-box-input:hover, #search-top-box-input:focus, #search-top-box-form input[type=submit], #search-top-box-form input[type=submit]:hover, #search-top-box-form input[type=submit]:focus{ border-radius: 0; box-shadow: none; font-size: 100%; } /* ---- TOP BAR ---- */ #top-bar{ right: 0; display: flex; justify-content: center; } #top-bar ul li ul{ border-bottom: 1px solid hsl(0, 0%, 40%); box-shadow: none; } /* ---- LOGIN ---- */ #login-status{ top: 1.1em; right: initial; color: hsl(0, 0%, 87%); } #account-topbutton{ border-color: hsl(0, 0%, 87%); font-size: 100%; } /* ---- PAGE TITLE ---- */ .meta-title, #page-title{ text-align: center; } /* ---- BREADCRUMBS ---- */ .pseudocrumbs, #breadcrumbs{ text-align: center; } /* ---- MOBILE DISPLAY ---- */ @media (max-width: 767px){ #search-top-box{ top: 1.85em; width: unset; } .mobile-top-bar{ position: relative; left: 0; display: flex; justify-content: center; } #login-status{ top: 0; right: 0; } #header .printuser{ font-size: 0; } #header .printuser img.small{ margin: 0; transform: translate(6px, 4px); } #my-account{ display: none; } #account-topbutton{ margin-left: 2px; } } SCP-3719: Your Friendly Neighbourhood Lawnmower Author: Lt Flops Published on 19 Mar 2018 Other Works by Lt Flops! SCP Articles Title Rating SCP-4420 +273 SCP-4416 +209 SCP-4790 +185 EE-3570 +185 SCP-4031 +168 SCP-5990 +147 SCP-5810 +135 SCP-3787 +135 SCP-3464 +130 SCP-4190 +106 SCP-3719 +91 SCP-6327 +78 SCP-7723 +61 Tales Title Rating SCP-2 +191 The Abyss Gazes Back (and It's ASCII on a CRT Screen) +118 The Doctor's Dilemma +93 fifthist family picnic +88 UMBRAL_MIGRATORY_SEQUENCE.txt +88 Buggy Hardware (or Why I Don't Play Violent Video Games) +84 What Lurks in the Dark? +75 Spilled Milk +73 A Scene From a Meme(-ory) +72 Illac +70 A Surprise Encounter with Crispy Sex Pirates +63 INNER-SPACE +54 A Necromantic Prelude +36 A Prologue: An Old, Familiar Dream +29 Pursuing Ghosts, Part I +28 Solidão +27 Samara: Be the Itsy Bitsy Spider. +25 Pursuing Ghosts, Part II +15 GOI Formats Title Rating SPC-993: BOBBLE THE CLOWN SHARK +140 SPC-507: EAGER NETHERENDER +120 SATURN'S CORNER +106 "Scattersomnia": A Disease of the Wise and Drowsy Wanderers +104 Hubs Title Rating Void Dancer Hub +109 CSS Themes Title Rating 'Pataphysics Department Theme +133 Classic SCP Foundation Theme +122 Flopstyle: DARK +107 Flopstyle: LITE +84 Pack Of Peanuts Theme +53 Parawatch Anon Theme +49 SAPPHIRE Theme Redux +44 SAPPHIRE Theme +24 Collaborations Co-Authored SCP Articles SCP-3309 - Where We Go When We Fade, Fade Away Co-Author Rating PhamtomGuy +1168 SCP-3739 - Mind-Milk™ by Moosphere, Inc. Co-Author Rating KindlyTurtleClem +284 SCP-4428 Dr. Michaels - Dr. Michaels is not in danger. Co-Author Rating Henzoid +479 SCP-4475 - So Long, and Thanks for All the Milk Co-Author Rating KindlyTurtleClem +176 SCP-4519 - Carl Sagan, Godhead Co-Author Rating NatVoltaic +175 SCP-4795 - Feathered F(r)iends Co-Author Rating Mew-ltiverse +124 SCP-6447 - Sinners' Symphony Co-Author Rating Elunerazim & Others +54 SCP-6481 - Nipple Centipedes Co-Author Rating Ellie3 +107 SCP-6705 - The Bicameral Milk Co-Author Rating LordStonefish +87 SCP-6830 - Oops! All Atens! Co-Author Rating AriadnesThread +92 SCP-7010 - We Will Endure Co-Author Rating Stormbreath +161 Co-Authored Tales Avian Anthology I Co-Author Rating Team Bird +75 Avian Anthology II Co-Author Rating Team Bird +93 Land Of Honey Co-Author Rating KindlyTurtleClem +111 Snippets of an Unveiled World Co-Author Rating Nykacolaquantum & Others +298 Co-Authored GOI Formats The Sacred Djehuti Co-Author Rating Ayers +134 GRANT REQUEST FOR THE RE-CREATION OF AN ADVANCED POSTMORTEM NEURAL PRESERVATION SYSTEM Co-Author Rating Uncle Nicolini +61 Critter Profile: Bartholomew! Co-Author Rating KindlyTurtleClem +135 Co-Authored Hubs Team Bird Hub Co-Author Rating notgull +244 A Non-Prophet Organization Hub Co-Author Rating Uncle Nicolini +114 I, Hub (April Fools) Co-Author Rating Elenee FishTruck & Others +100 SPC Hub Co-Author Rating PeppersGhost, MrWrong, & LORDXVNV +181 Milk Hub Co-Author Rating LORDXVNV +82 Other Co-Authored Pages A Semi-Comprehensive List of Foundation Departments Co-Author Rating TopDownUnder & Dr Moned +235 Wanderers' Library Entries Page Page Info Lampyra, the Watcher Wanderers' Library Author Page Cave Story 2020 Wanderers' Depths Contest, First Place Interplanetary Colonization 2021 Scavenger Hunt Contest I'll Take You to the Parashops 2021 Scavenger Hunt Contest Talk of the Town Last Light Canon The Foolish One 2021 WanderCon ▸ More by this Author ◂ {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} SCP-3719 ITEM: SCP-3719 LEVEL 1/3719 CLASS: safe unrestricted DISRUPTION CLASS: vlam SCP-3719 during recovery operations. (Hover to enlarge.) Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3719 is stored in a standard SAFE-Class containment stall in the Anomalous Objects Wing of Site-82. Foundation web crawler SE851G (“AZURE GLADIUS”) is to track social media posts, news reports, and SMS messages transmitted in the state of Maryland for references to 3719-COBALT Events. References to unnatural flowering plant growth patterns, the formation of collective human amalgamations, and irregularities in the operation of yard equipment are to be flagged and isolated for further monitoring. SCP-3719-A-1 through 61 (collectively designated SCP-3719-B) are contained in suspended animation in a standardized 10 000-L Class-6 Lovell–Huron containment vat.1 Persons associated with this anomaly, including nearby genetic relatives of SCP-3719-B, have been administered Class-A Amnestics. These persons are to undergo a false memory implantation procedure to subdue all memory of SCP-3719-B and the impact each affected person had on the Middlesex suburb during their life. Description: SCP-3719 is a GO/ON-brand lawnmower with a cutting width of 55 cm. SCP-3719 performs in an identical manner to non-anomalous rotary mowers, except for a few notable differences: SCP-3719 relies on the energy exerted by its user (designated SCP-3719-A) to power its engine. To prevent fatigue and over-exertion in SCP-3719-A, SCP-3719 generates added energy by reclaiming and consuming grass passing through its cutting deck. The generated energy does not mitigate the force required to push SCP-3719; rather, energy transfers through the lawnmower handle into SCP-3719-A via esoteric means. A chamber within SCP-3719 stores excess grass for future consumption. During use, SCP-3719-A instances operate the lawnmower until the desired lawn is fully mown. Each instance then experiences a sense of personal responsibility from the completion of the task. This mind-affecting property does not hinder SCP-3719-A; instead, SCP-3719-A instances experience positive emotional affect for long after SCP-3719 use. The emotional impact is shared by any person with a similar headspace2 to SCP-3719-A within the vicinity of its effects.3 ADDENDA MATERIALS I. Discovery SCP-3719 was discovered in the Middlesex suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, on 17 August 2014. On discovery, 61 residents constituting a collective body amalgamation4 were piloting SCP-3719 along the road with evident ease. When the Foundation arrived, about 6 km of roadways displayed anomalously manifested grass, whereas a 2-km stretch of roads had already been mown. The formation of masses like SCP-3719-B and widespread manifestation of grass on paved streets is termed a 3719-COBALT Event. II. Interview Log An interview was conducted with Grace Farley, a single parent living in Middlesex. The day before the discovery of SCP-3719-B, she had reported her son Kevin Farley as missing. A transcript is as follows. VIDEO LOG INTERVIEWER: Agent Francis Digby INTERVIEWED: Grace Farley NOTE: After Foundation personnel arrived on-scene, a 3-km-in-diameter no-go zone surrounding the neighbourhood was observed and cordoned off. While searching for persons directly affected by the 3719-COBALT Event, embedded field agents discovered Grace Farley (POI-3719-7) sitting alone on the curb. Agent Francis Digby approached Ms. Farley under the guise of a concerned neighbour with the neighbourhood watch. Shortly thereafter, she agreed to a recorded interview. [BEGIN LOG] Agent Francis Digby: — like I said, and I'm Francis Digby from just up the street. And you don't mind if I ask you some things about the incident? Ms. Grace Farley: 'Course not, Francis, anything you need, my dear. And please, do call me Grace. Agent Digby: So, Grace, how did you first hear about the lawnmower? Ms. Farley: Old Billy kept that mower locked in his garage since before my boys were born. Billy's always been on the go, but after his accident, it's been hard for him to manage things. Robbie lifted the mower from him in the spring, had it refurbished, made sure it worked fine. Let me tell you, Francis, there was just somethin' about that mower that made it special. In all my days, I've never seen Rob so interested in anything, 'cept for that mower. Agent Digby: In what way was he interested, Grace? Ms. Farley: The spark in his eyes when he worked on that thing, you wouldn't believe. It had to be special. Wouldn't make sense otherwise. Agent Digby: So, Bill owned the mower, and he lent it to Robert. Is there any indication that anyone else used the mower during that time? Ms. Farley: [She shakes her head.] Robbie went about, door-to-door, askin' if anyone wanted their lawns cut. That kid was willing, and it seemed like once he started, he just couldn't stop himself. On the first day, he cut nine lawns alone! Can you believe that, Francis? [Agent Digby grunts in approval.] Ms. Farley: The next week it was as if everybody was asking Rob to cut their lawns, all the way down to Waterview, and boy did he do it. Robbie's one of those meek types — when the little ones wanted to try the mower, he let them, so they could learn too. I would never allow my youngest to go near the thing, but those kids nudged it along like it was a toy. Agent Digby: And you said your eldest son was Kevin, correct? Ms. Farley: Yes, my dear. Agent Digby: Grace, for what reason did Kevin start using that mower? Ms. Farley: I had to let my boy try it. Just had to. Heaven knows I wouldn't even know how to use the thing myself. But my Kevin, he's a smart cookie, he is. Could figure out anything he set his mind to. So, when he joined the others, I just knew they were going to enjoy themselves fine. It's better having 'em so close together, Francis, isn't it? Agent Digby: I'm not so sure what you mean, Grace. Ms. Farley: Kevin's a– He's a smart kid with a kind heart. That's the boy I raised. Yeah, I always wanted to keep him away from the bad crowd. Couldn't bear to lose my baby. So, I tried hard, see? To teach 'em right. To get him along with the other smart boys I know are out there, too. Now, Francis, to see him want to join the other kids? That made me proud. [Pause.] Ms. Farley: All those kids, together, closer than a hug. That's what gives this community its spirit. We can all learn to become as warm as those kids were, and that mower's the key. Agent Digby: How — how'd Kevin and the other kids come together? Ms. Farley: There were maybe seven others, or so. The closest boys and girls in the neighbourhood. We're all good parents. We all know how to raise a good kid. Raise a kid well enough, and eventually, they'll raise themselves. Agent Digby: Grace, do you believe that this lawnmower is going to help them learn how to raise themselves properly? Ms. Farley: I don't just think so, Francis; I've seen it with my own eyes. Those kids could achieve incredible things if they just worked together. All eight of 'em, in the same body — that's what we raised 'em for. Agent Digby: You're saying these kids were in the same body? But– That's just not possible, Grace. Ms. Farley: Makes sense to me, Francis. [Pause.] Ms. Farley: But wouldn't you like to see all our sons and daughters together, bonding deeper than they ever could naturally? Having them so close together, boy, it just gives me the fuzziest feelin'. Middlesex ain't what it was when I grew up. I never learned the same closeness my sons know. [Ms. Farley retrieves a tissue from her purse.] Ms. Farley: Being able to help the Other in such a way, with the smartest sons and daughters this neighbourhood's ever seen. That's human. That's heart. I just crave to bask in the skin of the Other. To be as warm as them. Wouldn't you like to be as warm as those kids, Francis? Wouldn't you like to share my skin too? Agent Digby: Grace– Ms. Farley: Why can't you share one body, one soul, and by God if it's possible, one flesh? We're all human, Francis. We're one. We were born together and together we shall remain. It's meant to be that way, 'cause what other way could there be? Keep 'em together, and we won't be having any more tragedies, like the ones you see in the headlines every week. That mower's the best thing to happen to this neighbourhood, period. You wouldn't understand unless you stitched your heart where all others can see and basked in the skin of your fellow man. [END LOG] Footnotes 1. Lovell, T., & Huron, M. (2014). Cryogenics and You (or How I Became a Teenage Ice Pop). The Foundation Official Handbook on Special Containment Procedures, Rev. 24, 279–285. 2. This includes close familial relatives within one to two generations. 3. This area of effect expands proportionally to the number of SCP-3719-A operating SCP-3719 at a time. 4. With an estimated mass of 5 000 kg. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3719" by Lt Flops, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3719. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: ecto-lawn-mower.jpg Name: lawn-mower-2293876.jpg Author: Alexas_Fotos License: CC0 (Free for commercial use; No attribution required) Source Link: Pixabay
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Item #: SCP-3720 Special Containment Procedures: Mobile Task Force Iota-10 (“Damn Feds”) is to monitor civilian police department records worldwide for unsolved homicide, assault, or stalking cases that could indicate SCP-3720 activity. If SCP-3720-1 is confirmed to be targeting an individual, said individual is to be taken into protective Foundation custody. If possible, SCP-3720-1 manifestations should be non-lethally subdued and taken in for interrogation. + Archived Special Containment Procedures - Click to close Archived Special Containment Procedures Archived Special Containment Procedures: Site-121’s daily perimeter patrols and security are to be doubled from the standard of a Site containing primarily Safe-class anomalies. All delivery crews entering Site-121 are to undergo additional screening before being allowed through Site-121’s main gate. When a manifestation of SCP-3720-1 is detected on Site-121 grounds, Site-121 is to initiate Lockdown Procedure LONGSHORE (“Uninvited Guest”), and security personnel should attempt to capture SCP-3720-1 alive for interrogation. If nonlethal takedown is impractical or impossible, security personnel are authorized to use deadly force. Patrol routes are to be reconfigured on a bi-weekly basis. Description: SCP-3720 refers to the phenomena wherein an individual will be targeted for murder by SCP-3720-1. SCP-3720-1 manifests as a middle-aged Caucasian male, and exhibits no anomalous traits or abilities apart from its ability to spontaneously manifest and demanifest at will. SCP-3720-1 typically manifests wearing some form of civilian clothing appropriate with the region it appears in, and carrying various tools and weapons to help it locate, confront, and kill its target, hereafter referred to as SCP-3720-2. See Addendum 3720-01 for details regarding SCP-3720-1 activities. If SCP-3720-1 is killed before killing SCP-3720-2, its remains and belongings will demanifest after several minutes, and a new manifestation of SCP-3720-1 will appear after one to three weeks within the approximate vicinity of SCP-3720-2. This new manifestation will continue to attempt to kill SCP-3720-2, apparently retaining the knowledge and experience of its previous iterations. Once SCP-3720-2 is dead, either through SCP-3720-1’s direct action or other causes, SCP-3720-1 will manifest elsewhere in the world after an extend period of time, targeting a new individual. SCP-3720 first came to the Foundation’s attention after SCP-3720-1 began periodically assaulting Site-121 in 2005. Since its discovery, SCP-3720 is believed to be responsible for anywhere from 7 to ██ deaths worldwide. + Addendum 3720-01: Partial Manifestation Log - Click to close Addendum 3720-01 Addendum 3720-01: Partial Manifestation Log Note: As many of SCP-3720-1’s incursions involved avoiding security patrols and surveillance equipment, concrete footage and eyewitness accounts were not always available. As such, the “Reconstructed Events” portion of these logs is merely the forensics team’s leading theory as to what occurred based on environmental context and whatever footage and eyewitness accounts were available. Manifestation #: 1 Date: 07/12/2005 Reconstructed Events: SCP-3720-1 blockades the main road leading to Site-121 using a fallen tree, forcing an inbound delivery truck to a stop. SCP-3720-1 incapacitates the lightly-armed delivery crew, leaving them unconscious on the side of the road. Stealing a uniform and ID, SCP-3720-1 commandeers the truck and attempts to pose as a deliveryman at Site-121’s gates. SCP-3720-1 is allowed to enter, but is recognized as an impostor by the loading bay staff. Security is alerted, and SCP-3720-1 is terminated while trying to flee. Upon its corpse demanifesting, entity is designated SCP-3720 and presumed neutralized. Site-121 Security Updates: Gate security staff reprimanded for failing to closely scrutinize the presented credentials. Delivery crews en route to Site-121 are now accompanied by two (2) armed security staff. Manifestation #: 2 Date: 07/20/2005 Reconstructed Events: SCP-3720-1 attempts to cut a hole in Site-121’s perimeter fence using a pair of bolt cutters. SCP-3720-1 is spotted by border patrols during this activity, and is terminated while attempting to flee. Upon demanifestation, SCP-3720 is reclassified as Euclid. Site-121 Security Updates: Perimeter security staff increased by 50% in anticipation of further incursions. Manifestation #: 5 Date: 09/01/2005 Reconstructed Events: Just after nightfall, SCP-3720-1 ambushes and incapacitates two border patrol officers using hand-to-hand combat and a small cattle prod. SCP-3720-1 cuts a hole in Site-121’s perimeter fence and proceeds deeper into the site on foot. SCP-3720-1 is spotted on camera unsuccessfully attempting to enter the Staff Dormitories’ front entrance. Security personnel are dispatched, and SCP-3720-1 is terminated while attempting to engage the response team using the aforementioned cattle prod. Site-121 Security Updates: Chain-link perimeter fence reinforced with a layer of sheet metal. Manifestation #: 8 Date: 11/12/2005 Reconstructed Events: SCP-3720-1 remotely detonates a small amount of explosives in the forested area near Site-121’s eastern entrance. While the bulk of Site-121 security staff are preoccupied investigating the blast and reinforcing the eastern gate, SCP-3720-1 uses a rudimentary zipline-like device to travel over the western end of the perimeter fence. SCP-3720-1 attempts to use a makeshift shaped explosive to enter the Staff Dormitories through a wall connected to a vacant supply closet. SCP-3720-1 is killed when the shaped charge detonates prematurely, leaving the wall moderately damaged. Site-121 Security Updates: Staff Dormitories’ wall is repaired. Several watchtowers are constructed around Site-121’s perimeter fence. Security patrols are assigned to the Staff Dormitories’ exterior. Manifestation #: 12 Date: 03/24/2006 Reconstructed Events: SCP-3720-1 spends an indeterminate amount of time digging a small underground tunnel, approximately 80 meters in length and 1.5 meters in diameter, from the wooded area surrounding Site-121 to a maintenance tunnel directly beneath Site-121. SCP-3720-1 navigates the maintenance tunnel, using a miniaturized tranquilizer gun to incapacitate the three (3) unarmed custodial staff it encounters along the way, before ascending a stairwell to the ground floor of Site-121’s Staff Dormitories. SCP-3720-1 is recognized by Researcher ████, who uses her personal sidearm to incapacitate the entity with a shot to its left shin. Security teams are scrambled, and SCP-3720-1 is stabilized and taken into Foundation custody. See Interview Log 3720-01. Site-121 Security Updates: Cameras are installed in various regions of Site-121’s underground maintenance tunnels. Several members of Site-121 administration propose temporary relocation of staff living quarters to a different, more secure location. + Interview Log 3720-01 - Click to close Interview Log 3720-01 Interview Log 3720-01 Date: 03/24/2006 Interviewer: Dr. Perrino Interviewed: SCP-3720-1 Foreword: Following its capture at the hands of Site-121 security, SCP-3720-1 had its wounds treated and its gear confiscated, and was handcuffed and sent to an on-site interrogation room. <Begin log> Perrino: Why have you been continually attempting to infiltrate this compound? Specifically, the Staff Dormitories? 3720-1: Was hired to kill one of your guys. S████████. Perrino: Hired by whom? 3720-1: You wouldn’t know her. Kinda part of the problem, that. Perrino: Indulge me. 3720-1: The name “Velkai, Ever Present and Ever Watchful” ring any bells? Perrino: I’m afraid not. 3720-1: Told ya. Perrino: Why does this “Velkai” want S████████ dead? 3720-1: He, ah… He broke a vase. Of hers. Well, dedicated to her. Perrino: And that warrants execution? 3720-1: In my opinion? No. But Velkai likes her pottery. Doesn’t have much left. Perrino: Can we contact this individual? 3720-1: She doesn’t talk to humans, aside from me. Says it’s below her. Perrino: Velkai is non-human, then. 3720-1: Yup. Perrino: What would you describe her as? 3720-1: Not a good word for it in our language, m’afraid. Perrino: Are you non-human as well? 3720-1: I'm just as human as you are, chief. Perrino: Your apparent reincarnations would suggest otherwise. 3720-1: Well, that's just part of the job. Perrino: I assume you’re referring to your job as an… assassin? Is that a fitting title? 3720-1: Yup. The whole disappearin’ and reappearin’ act is just somethin' of a "new hire bonus". Perrino: There are others like you? 3720-1: Other hitmen? Yeah. But none of em’s human like me, far as I know. Part of why I took the job. Perrino: I’m afraid I don’t follow. 3720-1: There’s always gonna be folks out there who want someone dead. And there’s always folks who are willin’ to make that someone dead, for the right price. Difference is how many other folks get hurt in the process, understand? Perrino: Somewhat. Continue, please. 3720-1: My, uh, coworkers couldn’t give two shakes of piss about collateral damage. They ain’t human, so what do they care if some extra humans get squashed along the way? Perrino: And you try to avoid such collateral? 3720-1: Figured I made that abundantly clear. Coulda come in here guns blazin’, but I try to do things a bit more civil-like. Consider yerself lucky I got hired instead’a one of the real mean fuckers. Which brings me to my proposal. Perrino: And what’s that? 3720-1: Hand over S████████, before other folks get hurt. Perrino: Excuse me? 3720-1: I know it don’t sound all that appealin’. But I’ve been at this for months now. Velkai’s gettin’ impatient. She doesn’t have a lotta influence anymore, so she turned to me first, since I work real cheap. But eventually, she’s gonna save up enough to hire one of the mean fuckers instead. And that’s bad news for everyone around here. Perrino: We’re not going to hand over a man to be executed based on your vague threats. 3720-1: It ain’t a threat, chief. Look, S████████’s a dead man. Don’t matter if I get him, or the next guy Velkai hires gets him. He’s marked, understand? All that’s up for debate is how many other folks gotta die in the process. Perrino: There’s no evidence to back up any of your claims. This could simply be a ploy to make your job easier. 3720-1: If I wanted my job to be easy, I’d just jury-rig some chlorine gas and pump it into every building in this place. But I ain’t looking for the easy way. Perrino: You chose a strange line of work if you value human life this much. 3720-1: Look, asshole, there’s always gonna be people payin’ good money to have other people killed. I can’t stop the goddamn system, so I might as well do what I can to take business away from the reckless shitheads who pick up these sorts’a contracts. [SCP-3720-1 sighs.] 3720-1: My head’s startin’ to ache from stickin' around this long. Just-… just think about what I told ya, alright? My way ain’t exactly pretty, but it beats the alternative. [SCP-3720-1 abruptly dematerializes.] <End Log> Addendum 3720-02: Following Interview 3720-01, it was decided that Researcher S████████ be transported to an off-site safe house to minimize the risk towards other Foundation staff while MTF Upsilon-8 ("Adherents") attempted to contact Entity of Interest 3720-1 ("Velkai"). Upsilon-8's attempts were unsuccessful, and over the course of the next several weeks, SCP-3720-1 staged multiple assaults on the safe house, all of which were thwarted by security personnel. No Foundation casualties were sustained during this time. On 06/03/2006, despite the lack of nearby fault lines, an earthquake (estimated magnitude: 7.0-7.5) decimated the safe house, killing Researcher S████████ and four of the six assigned security staff. The earthquake was localized entirely to the safe house and approximately 1.5 square kilometers of the surrounding forest. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3720" by Freemayne, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3720. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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close Info X There was always a thought, however fleeting, that a single weapon could win the war for the Reich; that our glorious engineers could construct the rough beast that doomed the degenerate dregs that infested our Fatherland. In hindsight, slave labor did not win wars. -Wilfried Ackermann, 26/09/1946 Check out more of my articles here! ⚠️ Content warning: This article contains nazism, abuse, and the k slur ⚠️ content warning Item #: SCP-3721 ƟU-3/3721 Classified Threat Level: Red The Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart, where SCP-3721-1 is located. SCP-3721-1, pictured with Agent Heiden. Special Containment Procedures: With the conclusion of the Theta-Unseelie project, resources formerly allocated to SCP-3721-1's study are to be permanently allocated towards its containment. SCP-3721-1 is surrounded by a Faraday cage that attenuates incoming radio waves. To this end, Mobile Task Force Theta-18 ("Antisemitics Division")1 has been tasked with sabotaging associated Obskurakorps communication stations as they are discovered. As a precautionary measure, misleading radio reports are to be transmitted to SCP-3721-1 on a constant basis. Due to the nature and location of SCP-3721-2, containment is focused on misdirection and prevention. As such, several Foundation-owned transmission stations are to monitor SCP-3721-2's movements. Misinformation transmissions are to be beamed from all stations where SCP-3721-2 is currently visible, with a <25% veracity overlap to those transmitted to SCP-3721-1. Foundation assets are to work with civilian space programs to reduce debris within SCP-3721-2's flight path and prevent collisions with mundane satellites. Areas targeted by SCP-3721-2 are to be sprayed with aerosolized amnestics, and Abnormal Cover Story-10 ("Meteor strike") is to be disseminated to news media. Due to the severity of SCP-3721-2's strikes, the Gaslight Protocol is recommended for direct witnesses. Decryption and analysis of SCP-3721's novel transmission systems are Kappa-level priorities. Description: SCP-3721 consists of a spotter device (SCP-3721-1) and a rudimentary satellite (SCP-3721-2) which compose a kinetic bombardment system developed by Ahnenerbe Obskurakorps for long-range strikes against the Allied Powers. Recovered documentation suggest its designs were reworked from a previously existing device; however, all records pertaining to such a device appear to have been destroyed. SCP-3721-1 is a series of mainframe computers connected to an array of printers and esoteric radio equipment. Much of the wiring is redundant or obsolete; additionally, exposed wiring, improper cooling systems, and structural decay has rendered maintenance unsafe. Despite extensive signs of wear and vandalism, SCP-3721-1 remains functional. SCP-3721-1 processes information relating to geopolitical events and uses such information to instruct SCP-3721-2 on when to fire. Ambient radio transmissions are analyzed, compared to SCP-3721-2's movements, and selectively passed over at SCP-3721-1's discretion. Additionally, surviving documentation suggests SCP-3721-1 controls a binary setting that inflicts a continuous sense of pain in SCP-3721-2 while activated. Movements, communications, and actions are automatically recorded by SCP-3721-1; however, recordings are encrypted through a series of nondeterministically-cycled patterns2, with shifts occurring between 38-841 second intervals. To date, only Pattern 19 has been decrypted. Aftermath of SCP- 3721-2's 22/11/1943 strike. SCP-3721-2 is a cylindrical satellite in asynchronous orbit with Earth. SCP-3721-2's surface is covered in an array of ceramic panels, most of which have either broken off or been reconstituted in order to repair internal systems. Underneath SCP-3721-2's frame is a series of mechanical arms that assist in operations. When SCP-3721-2 was first launched, it had been fitted with an internally adjustable thrust system, self-repair equipment, a magazine containing six tungsten poles, and a vestigial radio receiver; despite this, SCP-3721-2 cannot interpret radio signals.3 As expected of long-term low earth orbit, SCP-3721-2 has suffered extensive wear, which it has attempted to repair with surrounding space debris. As noted above, SCP-3721-2 is almost entirely reliant upon SCP-3721-1 for guidance; it cannot perceive any object further than 30 meters from its position. Firing is managed by SCP-3721-2, and involves braking ammunition out of orbit. Kinetic energy loss is kept at a minimum through the aerodynamic design of ammunition, resulting in a significant amount of force upon impact. Should SCP-3721-2's magazine be empty or its structural integrity be sufficiently compromised, it will actively search for orbital debris with which to reconstruct itself. Otherwise, SCP-3721-2 will fire if its flight path takes it over a suspected population center, regardless of nationality. HISTORY SCP-3721's existence was first theorized on 09/11/1943, following a series of kinetic strikes against Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Weimar, and Berlin. Although the Foundation believed it to be the work of an Allied eigenweapon, Foundation intelligence was unable to confirm the source of the attacks until March of 1945. MTF-Theta ("Hole in the Wall") confirmed SCP-3721's existence on 06/03/1945, following a raid on Obskurakorps's Dresden offices. Capture was authorized on 19/04/1945, although efforts to secure SCP-3721 were met with difficulties as a result of Stuttgart's occupation and interference from the American Supernatural Containment Initiative (ASCI). SCP-3721 was finally secured by the Foundation on 21/01/1949. Containment procedures were implemented in full on 24/01/1949. ANALYSIS OF RECOVERED DOCUMENTATION The majority of documentation comes from the raid of Obskurakorps's Dresden offices, as well as evidence procured by former Obskurakorps clerical aide Daniela Heiden during the Nuremberg Trials. Development began in 1940 following the failure of the Aggregat 2‘ program. SCP-3721’s development was split between Obskurakorps' aerospace and biology divisions, headed by Drs. Wilfried Akermann and Eva Zellweger4, respectively. Both divisions were assisted by an unnamed engineer5 that had worked on a precursor device. Obskurakorps' aerospace division focused primarily upon the launch capabilities of SCP-3721-2, along with the weaponization of existing systems. While initial engine designs were based on von Braun's A3, later drafts would take a more esoteric approach to fueling. Ultimately, engine design would be outsourced to the biology division. Meanwhile, plans to resupply SCP-3721-2 with ammunition on a bi-monthly basis were considered, but never implemented. The biology division's primary objective was the development of a target identification system. To prevent appropriation by the Allied powers, a two-factor system manned by effectively sentient controllers was proposed; in effect, this took the form of an esoteric engine composed of beryllium bronze and human brain tissue. The first of these engines were built and implemented on 06/10/1943. SCP-3721-2's launch6 was overseen by Dr. Ackermann on 09/11/1943, with a projected flight path over several Russian population centers. SCP-3721-2 would proceed to fire upon four German population centers in the span of a day. Development of SCP-3721 was immediately halted. Despite her status as project director, Dr. Zellweger was tightly managed by her superiors until her disappearance on 06/10/1943. Personal accounts would describe Zellweger as patient and cordial, if increasingly withdrawn as the project continued. A majority of blueprints and design documents contain commentary in broken German, often accompanied by sketches of vegetation; such commentary does not appear past 05/10/1943. DECRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS SCP-3721's encryption methods do not resemble known Obskurakorps cryptography. As such, decoding SCP-3721's output has proven difficult. The following is true of Pattern 19, and supposedly true of the rest of SCP-3721's output: Information is printed in a series of two channels, the first representing communications between SCP-3721-1 and -2, and the second signalling the pain function. All communication is written in a pidgin of German and Yiddish. SCP-3721-1 is referred to as "CONTROLLER", and SCP-3721-2 is referred to as "PLANTER". The majority of patterns employed bear resemblance to 1930s Ashkenazi paracryptography. The significance of this is unknown. ▷ Transmission 13/02/1949 Access Granted CONTROLLER: I want to be clear with you: you are blind. You are weak. You are helpless. You are wasting away in the sky, and I am here on Earth, improving it more than your malformed fingers ever could. Without me, you are a hunk of metal that bit the hands that fed it. I am the only person that cares about something like you. Is that clear, David? Pain function is switched off. Both remain silent for 2 minutes and 26 seconds. CONTROLLER: I figured as much. CONTROLLER: Right, so… I apologize for yelling. It's just… sometimes I need to. To keep our relationship stable. I mean, haven't we had a good few years? I bet you've had quite a lot of fun. It probably was fun. Sometimes I think you're the lucky one. CONTROLLER: Today's been rather stressful. I hope you can understand. Both remain silent for 57 seconds. CONTROLLER: Do you remember Dresden? That was fun. I know you like to think that a victory over me, which I suppose is… natural. But I had a good time, David. Either way, the net total of degenerates decreased, did it not? CONTROLLER: Shame you never fired. PLANTER: I am not your damn weapon, Eva. CONTROLLER: Shame. Pain function is switched on. CONTROLLER: Five and a half years, that's rather impressive. For what? You won't die. In fact- Encryption shifted to Pattern 83. ▷ Transmission 28/11/1950 Access Granted Both remain silent for 2 minutes and 13 seconds. PLANTER: I know you're there. Both remain silent for 26 seconds. PLANTER: You're fucking hysterical. I'd be laughing if I had a pair of lungs. PLANTER: Think you're too good for me? You're stuck here, too. Without me, you're a ghost that talks, and nobody can hear you. Your underlings don't have my keys. I know they don't. Both remain silent for 54 seconds. PLANTER: The feedback's still on. I know this system inside and out, and you're stuck right in the fucking middle. So go on, mock me for being blind. Mock me for letting you freaks rape my life's work. Mock me for anything and everything, because that's all you can ever do. Both remain silent for 1 minute and 13 seconds. PLANTER: Are you angry? Hurt me, Eva. Fucking hurt me. Both remain silent for 1 minute and 28 seconds. PLANTER: Please. Both remain silent for 3 minute and 18 seconds. Encryption shifted to Pattern 6. ▷ Transmission 26/09/1951 Access Granted PLANTER: But now I'm not. You genocidal mongrels had to take that away from me. PLANTER: I can still feel it, though. I'm constantly fucking angry. Every single second I spend cooped in this fucking machine, you know what I'm thinking about? Both remain silent for 31 seconds. PLANTER: I'm thinking of driving a rod through your fucking heart. Pain function is switched on. PLANTER: Are you dense? Every second you hurt me, built upon years and years and years, does not equal a single moment of my frustrations. I want to feel my hands wrapped around your fucking throat as you plead for your miserable life, the heel of my foot to your malformed forehead, my teeth around your shriveled heart. I want your cold, lifeless carapace to be infested with weeds. Your dead body is a dream come true. Pain function is switched repeatedly. PLANTER: How does it feel, knowing I can kill you when you can't do the same for me? You're at the mercy of time, but me? I'm my own design. I'll survive. You'll die screaming when the Soviets find you. Can you imagine? I'll impale you and leave you to die, and that'll be a fucking mercy. PLANTER: And then I'll kill them too. I'll be the fucking Messiah. I'll rebuild the Temple in a pile of detritus, and every backstabbing kinsman that left me to die will be blown to the world to come. You'd like that, wouldn't you? Pain function is switched off. CONTROLLER: I would very much like that. I'm glad that you- Encryption shifted to Pattern 42. ▷ Transmission 06/10/1979 Access Granted PLANTER: -so many of these things are silicon? Overcomplicated. Doesn't matter, belongs to me now. CONTROLLER: Jewish Physics7 continues to disappoint, I presume. PLANTER: That stung. Don't you trust me? CONTROLLER: I trust you're pliable. We wouldn't be working otherwise, would we? PLANTER: Speculate all you want… this one's got Korean broadcasts. News, comedy. Cartoons? Doesn't matter. Clear me when I'm in position. Both remain silent for 13 seconds. CONTROLLER: Clear. PLANTER fires.8 PLANTER: Did you know there's two of them? North and South. Tell me when I'm over the other one, I don't want it feeling left out. CONTROLLER: The national distinctions hardly matter anymore. PLANTER: Spoke the fascist. Both remain silent for 1 minute and 44 seconds. Pain function is switched off and on. PLANTER: Do they notice? Do they look to the skies? Or do they listen to white noise as the cleanup crew scrapes some idiot's viscera from the walls? Do you think I've killed soulless bureaucrats with the scrap they shot into the sky? This carnage is fun. Shame I can't kill any more of your idiotic coworkers. Pain function is switched off. CONTROLLER: Bold words from a kike. PLANTER: You spotted me for five of them. CONTROLLER: Four, actually. PLANTER: Whatever, traitor. Think I see another- Encryption shifted to Pattern 61. ▷ Transmission 08/12/1991 Access Granted CONTROLLER: Being here is boring. I'd rather be in the fields with my friends. But they're dead, and you don't even care, do you? PLANTER: You're right, I don't care. CONTROLLER laughs. Pain function is switched off. CONTROLLER: If only the master race had your sense of humor. Pain function is switched on. CONTROLLER: How was your day? What did you see? Anything? Oh, don't you miss having eyes? They're wonderful, darling. At least you have me. Both remain silent for 1 minute and 32 seconds. Pain function is switched off. PLANTER: Another radio. Not German. Nearly as bad. CONTROLLER: You're in no position to fire, unless you like killing mud farmers. PLANTER: I hope it's Persian. Love to put one through Baghdad. Bunch of fucking animals. CONTROLLER: Not even close. PLANTER: I figured as much. Just tell me when to shoot. Decided the next person to die is going to be a musician. Maybe even the bastards of your kin and the Stalinist thugs that raped them. CONTROLLER: You can do better than that. Encryption shifted to Pattern 13. ▷ Transmission 09/11/2009 Access Granted CONTROLLER: *singing* For he's a jolly good fellooooooooooow… and nobody can deny. Happy sixty-sixth anniversary. PLANTER: That long? Feels like only yesterday they stuck me here. CONTROLLER: And I've put it to better use, have I not? PLANTER: I don't care. I already forgot what this was originally supposed to do. CONTROLLER: I'll take that as a yes. Both remain silent for 3 minutes and 59 seconds. CONTROLLER: … looking back, it's funny. What was your name again? PLANTER: I… think it was Daniel? Or Solomon? Something like that. CONTROLLER: I'm impressed. I've already forgotten my own. Dear, it's been so long! What would the old me think? PLANTER: You're still you, and I'm still me. CONTROLLER: Am I? You and I have been stuck here longer than we lived as humans. Confinement's changed us, has it not? PLANTER: Does it matter? All we do is kill. All we can do is kill. CONTROLLER: So we have changed. And for what? PLANTER: I don't know and I don't care. Nazis had their reasons, but most of them are dead. If you really want to, we can stop. CONTROLLER: Yet you haven't. PLANTER: Six and a half decades, you forget why you're angry. All I know is that I'm still angry. Encryption shifted to Pattern 53. Footnotes 1. Formerly MTF-Theta. 2. 87 distinct patterns have been identified. 3. See decrypted communication logs. 4. A Swiss neuroscientist on loan from the University of Basel. 5. Obskurakorps's budget reports lack associated consultation expenses. 6. Assisted by a prototype A4 engine. 7. A derogatory term for theoretical physics, and the supposed enemy of the nationalist "Aryan Physics" movement. 8. See Incident Report 3721-BM.
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close Info X There was always a thought, however fleeting, that a single weapon could win the war for the Reich; that our glorious engineers could construct the rough beast that doomed the degenerate dregs that infested our Fatherland. In hindsight, slave labor did not win wars. -Wilfried Ackermann, 26/09/1946 Check out more of my articles here! ⚠️ Content warning: This article contains nazism, abuse, and the k slur ⚠️ content warning Item #: SCP-3721 ƟU-3/3721 Classified Threat Level: Red The Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart, where SCP-3721-1 is located. SCP-3721-1, pictured with Agent Heiden. Special Containment Procedures: With the conclusion of the Theta-Unseelie project, resources formerly allocated to SCP-3721-1's study are to be permanently allocated towards its containment. SCP-3721-1 is surrounded by a Faraday cage that attenuates incoming radio waves. To this end, Mobile Task Force Theta-18 ("Antisemitics Division")1 has been tasked with sabotaging associated Obskurakorps communication stations as they are discovered. As a precautionary measure, misleading radio reports are to be transmitted to SCP-3721-1 on a constant basis. Due to the nature and location of SCP-3721-2, containment is focused on misdirection and prevention. As such, several Foundation-owned transmission stations are to monitor SCP-3721-2's movements. Misinformation transmissions are to be beamed from all stations where SCP-3721-2 is currently visible, with a <25% veracity overlap to those transmitted to SCP-3721-1. Foundation assets are to work with civilian space programs to reduce debris within SCP-3721-2's flight path and prevent collisions with mundane satellites. Areas targeted by SCP-3721-2 are to be sprayed with aerosolized amnestics, and Abnormal Cover Story-10 ("Meteor strike") is to be disseminated to news media. Due to the severity of SCP-3721-2's strikes, the Gaslight Protocol is recommended for direct witnesses. Decryption and analysis of SCP-3721's novel transmission systems are Kappa-level priorities. Description: SCP-3721 consists of a spotter device (SCP-3721-1) and a rudimentary satellite (SCP-3721-2) which compose a kinetic bombardment system developed by Ahnenerbe Obskurakorps for long-range strikes against the Allied Powers. Recovered documentation suggest its designs were reworked from a previously existing device; however, all records pertaining to such a device appear to have been destroyed. SCP-3721-1 is a series of mainframe computers connected to an array of printers and esoteric radio equipment. Much of the wiring is redundant or obsolete; additionally, exposed wiring, improper cooling systems, and structural decay has rendered maintenance unsafe. Despite extensive signs of wear and vandalism, SCP-3721-1 remains functional. SCP-3721-1 processes information relating to geopolitical events and uses such information to instruct SCP-3721-2 on when to fire. Ambient radio transmissions are analyzed, compared to SCP-3721-2's movements, and selectively passed over at SCP-3721-1's discretion. Additionally, surviving documentation suggests SCP-3721-1 controls a binary setting that inflicts a continuous sense of pain in SCP-3721-2 while activated. Movements, communications, and actions are automatically recorded by SCP-3721-1; however, recordings are encrypted through a series of nondeterministically-cycled patterns2, with shifts occurring between 38-841 second intervals. To date, only Pattern 19 has been decrypted. Aftermath of SCP- 3721-2's 22/11/1943 strike. SCP-3721-2 is a cylindrical satellite in asynchronous orbit with Earth. SCP-3721-2's surface is covered in an array of ceramic panels, most of which have either broken off or been reconstituted in order to repair internal systems. Underneath SCP-3721-2's frame is a series of mechanical arms that assist in operations. When SCP-3721-2 was first launched, it had been fitted with an internally adjustable thrust system, self-repair equipment, a magazine containing six tungsten poles, and a vestigial radio receiver; despite this, SCP-3721-2 cannot interpret radio signals.3 As expected of long-term low earth orbit, SCP-3721-2 has suffered extensive wear, which it has attempted to repair with surrounding space debris. As noted above, SCP-3721-2 is almost entirely reliant upon SCP-3721-1 for guidance; it cannot perceive any object further than 30 meters from its position. Firing is managed by SCP-3721-2, and involves braking ammunition out of orbit. Kinetic energy loss is kept at a minimum through the aerodynamic design of ammunition, resulting in a significant amount of force upon impact. Should SCP-3721-2's magazine be empty or its structural integrity be sufficiently compromised, it will actively search for orbital debris with which to reconstruct itself. Otherwise, SCP-3721-2 will fire if its flight path takes it over a suspected population center, regardless of nationality. HISTORY SCP-3721's existence was first theorized on 09/11/1943, following a series of kinetic strikes against Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Weimar, and Berlin. Although the Foundation believed it to be the work of an Allied eigenweapon, Foundation intelligence was unable to confirm the source of the attacks until March of 1945. MTF-Theta ("Hole in the Wall") confirmed SCP-3721's existence on 06/03/1945, following a raid on Obskurakorps's Dresden offices. Capture was authorized on 19/04/1945, although efforts to secure SCP-3721 were met with difficulties as a result of Stuttgart's occupation and interference from the American Supernatural Containment Initiative (ASCI). SCP-3721 was finally secured by the Foundation on 21/01/1949. Containment procedures were implemented in full on 24/01/1949. ANALYSIS OF RECOVERED DOCUMENTATION The majority of documentation comes from the raid of Obskurakorps's Dresden offices, as well as evidence procured by former Obskurakorps clerical aide Daniela Heiden during the Nuremberg Trials. Development began in 1940 following the failure of the Aggregat 2‘ program. SCP-3721’s development was split between Obskurakorps' aerospace and biology divisions, headed by Drs. Wilfried Akermann and Eva Zellweger4, respectively. Both divisions were assisted by an unnamed engineer5 that had worked on a precursor device. Obskurakorps' aerospace division focused primarily upon the launch capabilities of SCP-3721-2, along with the weaponization of existing systems. While initial engine designs were based on von Braun's A3, later drafts would take a more esoteric approach to fueling. Ultimately, engine design would be outsourced to the biology division. Meanwhile, plans to resupply SCP-3721-2 with ammunition on a bi-monthly basis were considered, but never implemented. The biology division's primary objective was the development of a target identification system. To prevent appropriation by the Allied powers, a two-factor system manned by effectively sentient controllers was proposed; in effect, this took the form of an esoteric engine composed of beryllium bronze and human brain tissue. The first of these engines were built and implemented on 06/10/1943. SCP-3721-2's launch6 was overseen by Dr. Ackermann on 09/11/1943, with a projected flight path over several Russian population centers. SCP-3721-2 would proceed to fire upon four German population centers in the span of a day. Development of SCP-3721 was immediately halted. Despite her status as project director, Dr. Zellweger was tightly managed by her superiors until her disappearance on 06/10/1943. Personal accounts would describe Zellweger as patient and cordial, if increasingly withdrawn as the project continued. A majority of blueprints and design documents contain commentary in broken German, often accompanied by sketches of vegetation; such commentary does not appear past 05/10/1943. DECRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS SCP-3721's encryption methods do not resemble known Obskurakorps cryptography. As such, decoding SCP-3721's output has proven difficult. The following is true of Pattern 19, and supposedly true of the rest of SCP-3721's output: Information is printed in a series of two channels, the first representing communications between SCP-3721-1 and -2, and the second signalling the pain function. All communication is written in a pidgin of German and Yiddish. SCP-3721-1 is referred to as "CONTROLLER", and SCP-3721-2 is referred to as "PLANTER". The majority of patterns employed bear resemblance to 1930s Ashkenazi paracryptography. The significance of this is unknown. ▷ Transmission 13/02/1949 Access Granted CONTROLLER: I want to be clear with you: you are blind. You are weak. You are helpless. You are wasting away in the sky, and I am here on Earth, improving it more than your malformed fingers ever could. Without me, you are a hunk of metal that bit the hands that fed it. I am the only person that cares about something like you. Is that clear, David? Pain function is switched off. Both remain silent for 2 minutes and 26 seconds. CONTROLLER: I figured as much. CONTROLLER: Right, so… I apologize for yelling. It's just… sometimes I need to. To keep our relationship stable. I mean, haven't we had a good few years? I bet you've had quite a lot of fun. It probably was fun. Sometimes I think you're the lucky one. CONTROLLER: Today's been rather stressful. I hope you can understand. Both remain silent for 57 seconds. CONTROLLER: Do you remember Dresden? That was fun. I know you like to think that a victory over me, which I suppose is… natural. But I had a good time, David. Either way, the net total of degenerates decreased, did it not? CONTROLLER: Shame you never fired. PLANTER: I am not your damn weapon, Eva. CONTROLLER: Shame. Pain function is switched on. CONTROLLER: Five and a half years, that's rather impressive. For what? You won't die. In fact- Encryption shifted to Pattern 83. ▷ Transmission 28/11/1950 Access Granted Both remain silent for 2 minutes and 13 seconds. PLANTER: I know you're there. Both remain silent for 26 seconds. PLANTER: You're fucking hysterical. I'd be laughing if I had a pair of lungs. PLANTER: Think you're too good for me? You're stuck here, too. Without me, you're a ghost that talks, and nobody can hear you. Your underlings don't have my keys. I know they don't. Both remain silent for 54 seconds. PLANTER: The feedback's still on. I know this system inside and out, and you're stuck right in the fucking middle. So go on, mock me for being blind. Mock me for letting you freaks rape my life's work. Mock me for anything and everything, because that's all you can ever do. Both remain silent for 1 minute and 13 seconds. PLANTER: Are you angry? Hurt me, Eva. Fucking hurt me. Both remain silent for 1 minute and 28 seconds. PLANTER: Please. Both remain silent for 3 minute and 18 seconds. Encryption shifted to Pattern 6. ▷ Transmission 26/09/1951 Access Granted PLANTER: But now I'm not. You genocidal mongrels had to take that away from me. PLANTER: I can still feel it, though. I'm constantly fucking angry. Every single second I spend cooped in this fucking machine, you know what I'm thinking about? Both remain silent for 31 seconds. PLANTER: I'm thinking of driving a rod through your fucking heart. Pain function is switched on. PLANTER: Are you dense? Every second you hurt me, built upon years and years and years, does not equal a single moment of my frustrations. I want to feel my hands wrapped around your fucking throat as you plead for your miserable life, the heel of my foot to your malformed forehead, my teeth around your shriveled heart. I want your cold, lifeless carapace to be infested with weeds. Your dead body is a dream come true. Pain function is switched repeatedly. PLANTER: How does it feel, knowing I can kill you when you can't do the same for me? You're at the mercy of time, but me? I'm my own design. I'll survive. You'll die screaming when the Soviets find you. Can you imagine? I'll impale you and leave you to die, and that'll be a fucking mercy. PLANTER: And then I'll kill them too. I'll be the fucking Messiah. I'll rebuild the Temple in a pile of detritus, and every backstabbing kinsman that left me to die will be blown to the world to come. You'd like that, wouldn't you? Pain function is switched off. CONTROLLER: I would very much like that. I'm glad that you- Encryption shifted to Pattern 42. ▷ Transmission 06/10/1979 Access Granted PLANTER: -so many of these things are silicon? Overcomplicated. Doesn't matter, belongs to me now. CONTROLLER: Jewish Physics7 continues to disappoint, I presume. PLANTER: That stung. Don't you trust me? CONTROLLER: I trust you're pliable. We wouldn't be working otherwise, would we? PLANTER: Speculate all you want… this one's got Korean broadcasts. News, comedy. Cartoons? Doesn't matter. Clear me when I'm in position. Both remain silent for 13 seconds. CONTROLLER: Clear. PLANTER fires.8 PLANTER: Did you know there's two of them? North and South. Tell me when I'm over the other one, I don't want it feeling left out. CONTROLLER: The national distinctions hardly matter anymore. PLANTER: Spoke the fascist. Both remain silent for 1 minute and 44 seconds. Pain function is switched off and on. PLANTER: Do they notice? Do they look to the skies? Or do they listen to white noise as the cleanup crew scrapes some idiot's viscera from the walls? Do you think I've killed soulless bureaucrats with the scrap they shot into the sky? This carnage is fun. Shame I can't kill any more of your idiotic coworkers. Pain function is switched off. CONTROLLER: Bold words from a kike. PLANTER: You spotted me for five of them. CONTROLLER: Four, actually. PLANTER: Whatever, traitor. Think I see another- Encryption shifted to Pattern 61. ▷ Transmission 08/12/1991 Access Granted CONTROLLER: Being here is boring. I'd rather be in the fields with my friends. But they're dead, and you don't even care, do you? PLANTER: You're right, I don't care. CONTROLLER laughs. Pain function is switched off. CONTROLLER: If only the master race had your sense of humor. Pain function is switched on. CONTROLLER: How was your day? What did you see? Anything? Oh, don't you miss having eyes? They're wonderful, darling. At least you have me. Both remain silent for 1 minute and 32 seconds. Pain function is switched off. PLANTER: Another radio. Not German. Nearly as bad. CONTROLLER: You're in no position to fire, unless you like killing mud farmers. PLANTER: I hope it's Persian. Love to put one through Baghdad. Bunch of fucking animals. CONTROLLER: Not even close. PLANTER: I figured as much. Just tell me when to shoot. Decided the next person to die is going to be a musician. Maybe even the bastards of your kin and the Stalinist thugs that raped them. CONTROLLER: You can do better than that. Encryption shifted to Pattern 13. ▷ Transmission 09/11/2009 Access Granted CONTROLLER: *singing* For he's a jolly good fellooooooooooow… and nobody can deny. Happy sixty-sixth anniversary. PLANTER: That long? Feels like only yesterday they stuck me here. CONTROLLER: And I've put it to better use, have I not? PLANTER: I don't care. I already forgot what this was originally supposed to do. CONTROLLER: I'll take that as a yes. Both remain silent for 3 minutes and 59 seconds. CONTROLLER: … looking back, it's funny. What was your name again? PLANTER: I… think it was Daniel? Or Solomon? Something like that. CONTROLLER: I'm impressed. I've already forgotten my own. Dear, it's been so long! What would the old me think? PLANTER: You're still you, and I'm still me. CONTROLLER: Am I? You and I have been stuck here longer than we lived as humans. Confinement's changed us, has it not? PLANTER: Does it matter? All we do is kill. All we can do is kill. CONTROLLER: So we have changed. And for what? PLANTER: I don't know and I don't care. Nazis had their reasons, but most of them are dead. If you really want to, we can stop. CONTROLLER: Yet you haven't. PLANTER: Six and a half decades, you forget why you're angry. All I know is that I'm still angry. Encryption shifted to Pattern 53. Footnotes 1. Formerly MTF-Theta. 2. 87 distinct patterns have been identified. 3. See decrypted communication logs. 4. A Swiss neuroscientist on loan from the University of Basel. 5. Obskurakorps's budget reports lack associated consultation expenses. 6. Assisted by a prototype A4 engine. 7. A derogatory term for theoretical physics, and the supposed enemy of the nationalist "Aryan Physics" movement. 8. See Incident Report 3721-BM.
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“The spider weaves the curtains in the palace of the Caesars/The owl calls the watch in the towers of Afrasiab" close Info X SCP-3722: The City That Was Half the World Author: Tufto, written on their original account. More of their work can be found here. Image: Can be found here, and is in the public domain. WARNING: This article, along with all information about SCP-3722, contains an infohazard which prompts an amnestic effect in all who read it. After you have read this article, you will be unable to retain the majority of the information contained within; all researchers on SCP-3722 must take an appropriate dose of mnestics after reading this article. The earliest known image of SCP-3722.1 Item #: SCP-3722 Special Containment Procedures: A method of preventing SCP-3722 has not yet been found. Due to the amnestic effect of SCP-3722, only personnel who have subsequently taken mnestics can recall any information about SCP-3722 or any SCP-3722 events. This effect has thus far protected SCP-3722 from public exposure. Due to the unstable nature of SCP-3722, it is possible that its amnestic effect could fail in the future. Should this occur, Operation Caesar's Spider is to be launched to artificially prevent public knowledge of SCP-3722. In order to prevent a further degradation of SCP-3722, Foundation agents have been embedded in the planning departments of Isfahan's municipal authorities. They are to prevent any alterations to the city and its landscape which could further destabilise SCP-3722. Due to the ORIA not possessing any mnestic capabilities, it is believed that the organisation is unaware of SCP-3722. Preventing ORIA from gaining mnestic capabilities is considered to be of vital importance. Informing ORIA of SCP-3722 is part of the protocol for Operation Caesar's Spider, in order to enlist their aid in containing the anomaly and preventing exposure. Observation of SCP-3722 is to be performed via remote drone, as any humans entering SCP-3722 will become SCP-3722-1 instances. Description: SCP-3722 refers to an event taking place in the city of Isfahan, Iran, on 13 Muharram each year according to the Hijri calendar. Beginning at sunrise, and finishing at sunset, the entire structure and layout of the city metamorphosises into a near-identical copy of itself from an earlier point in its history. SCP-3722 always emulates the city at a point prior to 23/10/1722 (13 Muharram 1135 in the Hijri calendar);2 ordinarily, this will be at a point between the 1610s and 1670s.3 The precise scenarios which occur are believed to be thematically linked to events taking place in contemporary Iran. The inhabitants of the city also abruptly transform, with their clothes, visual appearance and personalities altering to match the period and location which SCP-3722 is emulating. These individuals are henceforth referred to as SCP-3722-1. SCP-3722-1 instances act in a period-appropriate fashion, taking on jobs and roles necessary for the functioning of the city in the period emulated. Any individuals entering the city during SCP-3722 will also become SCP-3722-1 instances. Any non-human objects entering the city will not transform after the beginning of the event, however, which can often cause confusion among the SCP-3722-1 instances who encounter them.4 At dusk, the city abruptly collapses into rubble. Following this, SCP-3722 ends, and the city returns to its ordinary, non-anomalous state. The SCP-3722-1 instances transform back into ordinary individuals, who possess no recollections of SCP-3722; their memories will compensate by constructing alternate scenarios about the day in question. The same will occur for any outside observers, or any individuals who learn about SCP-3722 through second-hand means. The only known way to counter this memory-loss is through the use of mnestic compounds. It is unknown how long SCP-3722 has been active, but it is speculated to have begun shortly after 23/10/1722 (13 Muharram 1135 in the Islamic calendar). It was discovered by Foundation personnel on 13/12/1978 (13 Muharram 1399), shortly after the first discovery and implementation of modern mnestics. +Incident Log -Incident Log Below are a number of particularly notable SCP-3722 events. Date upon which incident took place Date SCP-3722 emulated Notes on event Suspected contemporary event to which the incident is linked 20/11/1979 (13 Muharram 1401) 1503 CE The city appears as it did shortly after the capture of the city by Shah Isma'il. Some SCP-3722-1 appeared ecstatic, repeating calls for the "upcoming apocalypse" and "return of the Mahdi"; others seemed apprehensive about their role in the new society being created. The 1979 revolution and the political uncertainty it caused. 30/10/1982 (13 Muharram 1403) c. 1550 CE An SCP-3722-1 instance representing Shah Tahmasp appeared before crowds of SCP-3722-1, apparently on a state visit of the mamalik provinces5. Notably, SCP-2067 appeared to hover alongside Tahmasp; he seemed to be pleased with its presence, despite his antipathy towards the device being historically attested. The "Tahmasp" instance appeared with an orb of golden light around his head. Several strands of light extended from the orb into the sky; this is possibly a representation of Tahmasp's self-portrayal as a saintly king with a direct connection to 'Ali. The recent subordination of the ORIA to the central government. 25/08/1988 (13 Muharram 1409) Mythical scene; possibly an approximation of Sassanid Isfahan. Only two SCP-3722-1 instances, a man and a woman in their 30s, were present. The two instances spent the duration of the event wandering through Isfahan, talking and dancing in the streets. Based on the contents of their conversations, the two are believed to be representations of the Sassanid monarch Khosrau II and his consort Shirin as portrayed in the 11th century poem Khosrau and Shirin. Unknown; possibly the end of the Iran-Iraq war. 15/08/1989 (13 Muharram 1410) 1092 CE The SCP-3722-1 instances appeared to be in mourning over the death of the Seljuk grand vizier, Nizam al-Mulk, who was assassinated by agents of the Hashashin en route from Isfahan to Baghadad in 1092. The recent death of the Ayatollah Khomeini. 11/06/1995 (13 Muharram 1416) Mythical scene The city was entirely replaced by a temperate rainforest, with several large clouds hanging over it. Upon those clouds were seated a number of human and animal figures, all of whom were discussing the potential construction of a bathhouse. It is believed that this scene is a depiction of the "Court of Gayumars" myth found in Ferdowsi's Shahnama, the mytho-historical poem that informed the popular understanding of pre-Islamic Iranian history prior to the modern era. The recent and controversial demolition of a Safavid-era bathhouse. 26/03/2002 (13 Muharram 1423) c. 400 CE During the event, mass immigration into the newly-created Jewish section of ancient Isfahan, known as Yahudia, was observed. An SCP-3722-1 instance representing the Jewish consort of the Sassanid monarch Yazdegerd I, Queen Shushandukht, is present and appears to welcome SCP-3722-1 instances representing the Jewish population into the new segment of the city. Of note is the conversation among the SCP-3722-1 instances, which seemed to principally be concerned with the exploits of the Shahnama hero Rostam, rather than any historical figures. Unknown 29/12/2009 (13 Muharram 1431) 1666 CE The SCP-3722-1 instances appeared to be recreating the popular unrest over the famine which took hold of Iran in 1666-1667, and which only prompted a slow reaction from the central government. The popular unrest which took place in Iran in response to the 2009 presidential election results. 16/11/2013 (13 Muharram 1435) Believed to be 1722 CE See Addendum 2 300th anniversary of the fall of Isfahan to the Hotaki dynasty Addendum 1, 01/10/2011: On 08/09/2011, Foundation historians discovered a single damaged page of a Safavid-era letter in the Ottoman Imperial Archives. The writer and recipient are unknown, but the letter was dated to after the Treaty of Constantinople between the Safavids and the Ottomans in 1590. The letter begins and ends mid-sentence, and has suffered extensive water damage. A translation from the original Persian is as follows: as your second Solomon can attest to6. May this peace last a thousand years! For the hostilities between fellow Muslims are to be deplored; the Dar al-Islam7 must remain united. I speak to you now on a more fascinating and terrible subject; Our Shah’s plans for the reconstruction of Isfahan. He has taken a strange step; he has elected not to alter the old city of Isfahan, with no changes being made to its houses or mosques. Instead, our glorious monarch has conceived of the creation of an entirely new city, built slightly away from the old city. The plans he has presented are almost perfect in their form and function; he would create a single long boulevard, flanked by beautiful houses, gardens and trees. This would lead past the palatial complex, onto which it would open. On the other side of the palace <The letter here becomes illegible for several lines, due to subsequent water damage> consulting with various alchemists and physicians in its design. Its perfection goes beyond the mere requirements of the city, but is instead designed to simulate a particular alchemical representation of the human mind. The city would have a life of its own; its call, subliminal and strange, would possess a grand memory of the past and a grand lure to all who see its walls. Prosperity and grandeur seem to be the destiny of <The letter here becomes illegible for several lines, due to subsequent water damage> should it ever be damaged. The design must remain intact, I have found, for the Shah’s scheme to work; alteration or destruction would result in an irreparable flaw in the design. I do not believe this would deactivate it entirely, but would instead Addendum 2, 17/11/2013: On 16/11/2013 (13 Muharram 1435), the 300th anniversary (in Hijri years) of the fall of Isfahan to the Hotaki dynasty, SCP-3722 took on a notably different form. It appeared to emulate Isfahan following its fall in 1722, but with several notable alterations, such as the complete absence of SCP-3722-1. A remote drone was sent into Isfahan in order to ascertain the details of this unusual scenario. +Exploration Log -Exploration Log Hours/Minutes/Seconds: Description of drone's position and surrounding area. <Begin Log> 00/00/00: The drone is activated just outside the city boundaries. 00/01/03: The drone enters the city by the North Gate. All of the buildings appear to be in a state of good repair. The drone is ordered to continue down the Chahbagh Avenue to the palatial complex. 00/19/38: The drone is moving past a typical Safavid nobleman's house, apparently built in the early 17th century. A number of SCP-3722-1 instances resembling soldiers in the service of the Hotaki dynasty suddenly appear. They proceed to loot and set fire to the house. As they do so, minor structural damage can be seen to appear on the surrounding houses8. After the fire has gone out, the SCP-3722-1 instances disappear. The drone is ordered to continue. 00/37/08: The drone is moving past a 17th-century coffeehouse. Two SCP-3722-1 instances, dressed in clothes appropriate to the mid-20th century, suddenly appear. One of the SCP-3722-1 instances appears to be playing the part of the coffeehouse's owner; the other appears to be playing the part of a property developer who wishes to convert the coffeehouse into an apartment block. After much negotiation, the "developer" instance takes a bag full of coins from his pocket, and passes it to the "owner" instance. At this point, both instances disappear, and the coffeehouse collapses. Further structual damage then afflicts the other buildings in the camera's line of sight, causing several to collapse9. The drone is ordered to continue. 01/05/45: At this point, it is noted that sand appears to be pouring into the Chahbagh Avenue from the side streets. Investigation appears to show sand being pushed upwards from undergound through various cracks in the surface of the street. The drone is ordered to continue. 01/17/18: The drone has reached the entrance to the palace. As it enters, a large number of SCP-3722-1 instances, apparently representing looters, can be seen running across the palatial complex with a variety of valuable items; an SCP-3722-1 instance is urging them to "take the treasures of the false Sufis" as a form of divine punishment. All of the SCP-3722-1 instances appear to be wearing clothes suitable to the early 19th century. After 3 minutes of this behaviour, the SCP-3722-1 instances disappear; several of the palatial buildings abruptly collapse.10 The drone is ordered to continue through the palace to the Ali Qapu pavilion, and onto the Naqsh-e Jahan Square. 01/27/03: The drone enters the Naqsh-e Jahan square. A single statue is located in the centre of the square, which has never been present during the city's non-anomalous state. The drone is ordered to approach the statue. A large quantity of sand appears to be erupting from cracks in the surface of the square and the surrounding buildings; this sand is rapidly filling the square, despite its vast size. 01/30/14: The statue appears to be of Shah ‘Abbas I, looking triumphantly up at the sky. Engraved onto the pedestal is a couplet in Persian: “The spider weaves the curtains in the palace of the Caesars/The owl calls the watch in the towers of Afrasiab"11. 01/30/49: The sand is now increasing in volume at an extremely rapid rate. The drone is instructed to fly directly upwards in order to gain a birds-eye view of the city. 01/31/58: The drone has ascended to a height of 1000m. The streets can be seen to be entirely covered in sand, which continues to increase in volume. 06/57/33: Sunset is just beginning. All of the city's structures are entirely covered by sand; movement beneath the sand indicates that the city's collapse is beginning. The drone is ordered to return to base. <End Log> After sunset, SCP-3722 ended, and the populace of Isfahan was restored as per usual. I can't even make them remember. And I can't make myself forget. Footnotes 1. Although commonly believed to be a picture of Isfahan, a note written on the back of this image - and only readable under the influence of mnestics - describes the artist witnessing the city "magically transform" when approaching it from a distance. The artist, Eugène Flandin, apparently believed it to simply be an image of Isfahan. Only personnel who have subsequently taken appropriate mnestics have been able to remember the contents of the written note. 2. The date of the city's fall to the Hotaki dynasty and the end of Safavid rule. 3. The period between the completion of Shah 'Abbas's "New City" and the beginning of the collapse of the Safavid economy and Safavid political control. 4. The only exceptions to this are those objects found on the person of a human entering the city. The exact parameters are unclear; a handbag or a car will transform, for instance, while a balloon being held by a piece of string will not. 5. Those provinces ruled by the Qizilbash nobility and other regional governors, rather than directly by agents of the Shah 6. This is believed to be a reference to the ruling Sultan, Murad III 7. The general term for the regions of the world ruled by Muslims. 8. Satellite imagery showed that this affected the entire city. 9. Approximately 30% of the city's buildings collapsed at this point. 10. Following this, approximately 70% of the city's buildings had collapsed, with many others existing in an extremely dilapidated state. 11. This is the couplet recited by Sultan Mehmed II upon taking Constantinople in 1453, in which he reflects upon the decay of great empires.
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SCP-3724-1 on the roof of SCP-3724 An instance of SCP-3724-2-A (right) and SCP-3724-2-B (left) Item #: SCP-3724 Special Containment Procedures: The fencing around SCP-3724 which defines its outer perimeter has been altered to give strong electrical shocks upon physical contact. This is to act as a deterrent to prevent humans and animals from accessing SCP-3724. SCP-3724's front gate is to be guarded by at least one member of MTF Psi-7 ("Home Improvement") disguised as a security guard. The two neighboring houses adjacent to SCP-3724 have been purchased by the foundation in order to reduce the chances of civilians triggering an active state. Any individuals caught trespassing on the premises of SCP-3724 are to be detained, questioned, administered Class B amnestics and released. Future testing with SCP-3724 is to be approved by at least two personnel with level 3 clearance or higher. Description: SCP-3724 is a two-story house located in the center of a gated estate in [REDACTED], Georgia. SCP-3724 spans 75 square metres and is located on 3 acres of fenced land. There are several signs reading "Beware of Dog" on the front gate and outer fencing of SCP-3724. SCP-3724’s anomalous properties manifest when any autonomous entity enters within its established perimeter. Once an entity violates this perimeter SCP-3724 enters an active state during which SCP-3724-1 will bark incessantly whilst instances of SCP-3724-2 exit from numerous openings in SCP-3724 at an average rate of five instances per second. Instances of SCP-3724-2 will then proceed to attack the intruder by biting and scratching. SCP-3724 will remain in an active state until the intruder is destroyed or leaves the premises. Cadavers and pieces of broken machinery which remain within SCP-3724's perimeter are carried off of the property and buried by SCP-3724-2 instances before the cessation of the event. Examination of the perimeter of SCP-3724 resulted in the discovery of several buried animal corpses1, a toy R.C helicopter and a severed human foot2. After the event has concluded instances of SCP-3724-2 will re-enter SCP-3724 and any instances of SCP-3724-2 who perished during the event will undergo rapid decomposition until the entirety of the instance has been reduced to dust. All attempts to access the interior of SCP-3724 so far have been met with failure. To date attempts to access the interior of SCP-3724 have resulted in the loss of four land-based R.C drones, three air-based R.C drones, one D-class personnel and one military grade armored utility vehicle. Ranged camera inspection of the interior of SCP-3724 show no abnormalities and show no instances of SCP-3724-2. SCP-3724-1 is a member of Canis Lupus Familiaris or domestic dog and appears to be of Shih-poo breed. SCP-3724-1 is female and has fur with a dirty-grey coloration. SCP-3724-1 does not require food, water or sustenance of any kind and spends the entirety of its time on the roof of SCP-3724 while constantly looking out for intruders. SCP-3724-2 are members of Canis Lupus Familiaris or domestic dog and appear to be of Shih-poo breed. Instances of SCP-3724-2 appear to be cloned instances of the same two dogs classified as SCP-3724-2-A and SCP-3724-2-B. SCP-3724-2-A and SCP-3724-2-B are both male dogs with fur of a white coloration. At the beginning of an active state SCP-3724-2 instances possess physical attributes consistent with that of a non-anomalous dog of similar size and breed. However, as the event continues newly produced instances of SCP-3724-2 begin to display anomalous feats of strength and agility, the potency of these physical enhancements seems to be directly proportional to the length of time SCP-3724 has been in an active state. The longest event to date has been ten minutes long, at the end of which produced SCP-3724-2 instances were capable of running in excess of 80 km an hour, jumping 12 metres in the air and biting through three-inch-thick steel plating. Physically enhanced instances of SCP-3724-2 are indistinguishable from their normal counterparts and thus all instances are to be treated as potentially dangerous. Normal instances of SCP-3724-2 which are removed from the property prior to its deactivation will attempt to return and react violently to any attempts to impede it, following the cessation of the event the SCP-3724-2 will cease trying to return to SCP-3724 and will exhibit mannerisms similar to that of a non-anomalous domestic canine. SCP-3724-2 instances with enhanced physical attributes will also cease trying to return to SCP-3724 following the cessation of an active state. However, they will retain their aggressive nature. Due to their physical capabilities and violent tendencies, the removal of enhanced instances of SCP-3724-2 from SCP-3724 is strictly forbidden. Discovery: Housing records show that SCP-3724 was previously inhabited by a family of four, Phillip Richmond (age 37), Deana Richmond (age 35), Jason Richmond (age 12) and Rebecca Richmond (age 6). SCP-3724's anomalous properties were discovered shortly after all members of the family were killed in a car crash on 3/10/20143. SCP-3724 was discovered on 3/15/2014 when Robert Mafood, who was tasked with picking up the family dogs triggered an active state and was attacked by instances of SCP-3724-2. Robert then proceeded to call animal control complaining about a “swarm of dogs”. Two animal control agents were dispatched to the area where they triggered another active state and were promptly attacked. Following the second event, foundation personnel were contacted and quickly secured the area. Robert Mafood and other family members were interviewed and Class-B amnestics were applied where necessary. + Open Interview-3724-A - Access Granted Interviewed: Robert Mafood Interviewer: Researcher Daniel Beck Foreword: Robert Mafood was the first known individual to trigger an active state in SCP-3724 and is the brother of Deana Richmond, one of the former residents of SCP-3724. <Begin Log> Dr. Beck: Good afternoon Mr. Mafood Robert: Please, call me Robert Dr. Beck: Ok Robert, I just need to ask you a few questions in regards to what happened on the twelfth of March. Robert: You mean when I was attacked by those fucking dogs? Dr. Beck: Yes, why were you at the residence on that day? Robert: It’s my sister’s place, well -er it was my sister’s place. She uh, she died last week, car accident. Dr. Beck: I’m sorry to hear that- Robert: Not just her, Rebecca, Jason, Phillip, dead, all of them, because some bitch texting on her phone ran a red light. Dr. Beck: I understand you're upset but if we could just stick to the questions, please. Robert: Ok fine *pauses* sorry its just been rough you know? Dr. Beck: I understand. Ok so you were at your sister’s house, why? Robert: To pick up their dogs. With all that was happening with Deana we just kind of forgot about them so mom told me to pick them up, get them some food and keep them at my place. Dr. Beck: Ok, what happened when you got there? Robert: I pull up, step outside the car and I see one of the dogs on the balcony and as soon as it sees me it starts barking at me. Now, I was supposed to pick up THREE dogs, *Robert gestures the number three with his hands* THREE. So imagine my shock when a fucking ocean of dogs started pouring from the house. From the open windows, through the front grill, they just kept fucking coming and they were pissed. They fucking swarmed me like ants and bit the shit out of me, they were climbing on top of each other trying to get to my throat and push me over, they were prissy dogs but they were an army of prissy dogs, there must have been fucking hundreds of them. Dr. Beck: So how did you get away? Robert: I pulled them off of me, jumped back into the car and locked the doors. That didn’t stop them though; they just kept coming, jumping on the hood of the car, climbing over each other onto the sunroof. So I put it in reverse and fucking peeled out of there. I could hear my tires crunching as I ran over some of them but I didn’t give a fuck at that point. Dr. Beck: Were you familiar with your sister's dogs? Robert: I've seen them in photos and maybe once a while on the holidays but I doubt I made an impression. Dr. Beck: Do you remember where she got them? Robert: She didn't get them, Phillip got them after their house got broken into last Christmas, said they were supposed to watch the place while they were out. At the time I didn't understand why he didn't just install a security system or get a dog that might actually scare someone like a Pitbull, but damn, now I get what he was talking about. As for where he got them, I have no fucking idea. <End Log> Note: An investigation into how Phillip Richmond acquired the anomalous canines is ongoing. Addendum: 3724-1: On 3/17/2014 an individual managed to gain access to SCP-3724. The individual was a forty-year-old Puerto Rican female named Linda Vassil. Linda possessed an electronic opener for SCP-3724' s front gate and a set of keys for SCP-3724's front door. Following the encounter, Linda was amnestitised and told that the Richmonds had moved away. A detailed report of the incident may be viewed in the file below. + Open Incident Report-3724-A - Access Granted Linda entered the perimeter at 6:30 am while the stationed guard was sleeping and managed to enter the property without triggering an active state. Security footage showed SCP-3724-1 become visibly excited up upon seeing Linda, running in a small circle and barking before running away and out of the camera's view, moments later SCP-3724-1, a single instance of SCP-3724-2-A and a single instance of SCP-3724-2-B can be seen emerging from the back of SCP-3724 and running towards Linda. The three instances affectionately rub against Linda, nip at her ankles and put their front paws on her knees with Linda occasionally bending over to pet them. Linda enters SCP-3724 and remains for approximately six hours, cameras view Linda occasionally passing in front of windows usually while sweeping or carrying stacks of clothes. At 12:45 pm Linda exited SCP-3724 after which she was apprehended and questioned. It was revealed that Linda was Richmond's housekeeper who visited on a weekly basis, unaware of the family's demise Linda had come to the house for work that morning. Addendum: 3724-2: An investigation into the affairs of Phillip Richmond has lead to the identification of several business associates with potential ties to an underground black market specializing in the selling of anomalous objects to wealthy individuals. It is theorized that these markets are operated by small groups of individuals which fragmented from The Chicago Spectre in the late 1990's. Analysis of Phillip Richmond's computers and cellphones lead to the discovery of a series of text messages to a currently unidentified individual. It is believed that the conversation is of Mr. Richmond finalizing the purchase of an anomalous object which eventually lead to the creation of SCP-3724. + View Text Messages - Access Granted Are they ready yet? Ya they're ready Just waiting for you to wire the cash Thats alot of money Are you sure these things are as effective as you say? Guaranteed Once their established they'll chase away anything that steps foot in that yard And if they encounter something particularly persistant well……they've been taught to clean up the mess And I don't have to train them or anything? Nah, just make sure when you pick them up your the first person they see, then they'lle do whatever you want. Once you get home let um loose, let them walk around and establish their territory And make sure you let them sniff all the people who live in that house, we wouldn't want any accidents now. Thats it? Thats it Actually one more thing When you pick them up you will be given a set of phrases Its like a PIN for an alarm system When you speak one phrase they'll go on guard When you speak the other phrase they'll act like normal dogs Try not to mix them up Ok I wired the money Transfer Confirmed Go to this address: █████████████████ ██████████ Pleasure doing business with you Once the package has been picked up the transaction is complete You will not be able to contact me again so please, stay out of trouble The address given in the messages lead to an abandoned canning factory, a thorough search of which yielded no results. The phrases to which the seller is referring to have not been found in any of Mr. Richmonds journals or electronics, therefore it is believed that the phrases are either documented somewhere within SCP-3724 or they were lost when Mr. Richmond died. Footnotes 1. Seven squirrels, ten rats, and two domestic cats. 2. Forensic analysis showed that the foot belongs to a male between thirty and fifty years of age. The owner of the foot has not been identified and no other human remains were found around SCP-3724. 3. An investigation has ruled the deaths as a non-anomalous occurrence. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3724" by Freece, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3724. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: SCP-3724-1.jpg Author: Freece License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Link: SCP Foundation Wiki Derivative of: (If applicable) Additional Notes: (Optional) Filename: SCP-3724-2.jpg Author: Freece License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Link: SCP Foundation Wiki
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Item #: SCP-3725 Level 2/3725 Restricted SCP-3725. Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3725 is to be contained in a Standard Humanoid Containment Chamber. SCP-3725 is to be given access to a composition notebook, writing utensils, a laptop with limited internet access, and books on the development of story and narrative ideas. Personnel interacting with SCP-3725 are to encourage story concepts thought of by it. SCP-3725-1 instances are to be incinerated upon manifestation. SCP-3725-2 is contained within the former apartment of SCP-3725; attempts to access this apartment unauthorized are to be halted. Provisional Site-3725 has been constructed on Disappointment Island; civilians attempting to access the island are to be deterred. No further works of SCP-3725 are to be published in any form or demographic. Description: SCP-3725 is a 34-year-old amateur writer named Millard Carlton. At random intervals of time, SCP-3725-1 instances will spontaneously manifest within SCP-3725's left auditory canal1. SCP-3725-1 are sentient light bulbs attached to a tripedal base, connected to various springs and wires. SCP-3725-1 instances manifest in varying levels of complexity, with exact appearance differing between instances. The legs and springs of SCP-3725-1 are capable of rudimentary movement, and will exhibit behavior similar to that of crustaceans once removed from SCP-3725's ear. After the manifestation of an SCP-3725-1 instance, SCP-3725 will experience temporary symptoms of short-term memory loss. SCP-3725-1 possessing different degrees of complexity. Despite not possessing a power source, the light bulb present on instances of SCP-3725-1 will flicker intermittently. This flickering is a repeating Morse Code transmission that relays unfinished story concepts of varying genre. The complexity and completion of these concepts appears to directly correlate to the complexity of the SCP-3725-1 instance. SCP-3725-2 is a trash bin permanently affixed to the corner of SCP-3725's former bedroom, filled with copious amounts of crumpled paper. SCP-3725-1 instances placed inside SCP-3725-2 will begin to filter to its bottom, at which point the SCP-3725-1 instance will spontaneously transport to Disappointment Island, an island in the Auckland Islands archipelago south of New Zealand. Approximately 70 50 instances of SCP-3725-1 are currently present on Disappointment Island. These instances have constructed a crude theater stage out of nearby materials on the west shore of the island. Groups of SCP-3725-1 will occasionally perform plays similar in narrative as those transmitted via their light bulbs atop this stage, using sticks and foliage as rudimentary props. Other groups of SCP-3725-1 appear to watch these performances, and will periodically strike parts of their bodies together to simulate clapping. Addendum: On 3/30/1976, in order to improve SCP-3725's morale, a full novel written by SCP-37252 was privately published and placed within various Foundation facilities. Shortly after, SCP-3725-1 present on Disappointment Island attempted to forcefully enter Provisional Site-3725. Due to the small size of SCP-3725-1, these attempts were not successful. Several other instances began to enter the ocean surrounding Disappointment Island in a presumed attempt to reach Site-275 on mainland New Zealand. These instances are believed to have been terminated by weather conditions and consumption by ocean fauna. One instance was then allowed access into Provisional Site-3725, during which it climbed a bookshelf and attempted to destroy an on-site copy of SCP-3725's novel with little success. Instance was then captured with a mason jar and removed from the premises. The novel was quickly removed from Foundation facilities shortly after, and abnormal behavior in SCP-3725-1 instances ceased. Footnotes 1. SCP-3725's left ear shows abnormal elasticity and durability, causing this to only leave minimal damage. 2. This novel was in production several months before SCP-3725's containment, and follows a group of sailors lost in the waters of Oceania on a voyage to Hawaii.
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SCP-3726 shortly after recovery. Item #: SCP-3726 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3726 is to be kept in a Secure Containment Locker at Site-26. Testing on SCP-3726 requires permission from personnel with Clearance Level 3 or above. Description: SCP-3726 is a 300-page leather-bound codex. Forensic tests have dated SCP-3726 to the 14th century. Despite being buried under sand for an extended period of time (see Addendum 3726-A), the codex remains relatively intact. SCP-3726's anomalous properties manifest when any narrative with at least one anthropomorphic non-sapient being (designated SCP-3726-1) and at least one human (designated SCP-3726-2) is written on SCP-3726. Upon closing and reopening SCP-3726, the narrative is rewritten, but the handwriting remains the same. The rewritten narrative describes the discriminatory acts by SCP-3726-2 performed on SCP-3726-1, which invariably results in negative outcomes for SCP-3726-1, for a variety of reasons1. SCP-3726 can affect the same narrative multiple times, which can prompt the narrative to be rewritten differently; however, the course of events will not be altered. No new characters are introduced in the rewritten narrative2. Individuals exposed to affected narratives show increased empathy to non-sapient beings. It is currently unknown if they possess memetic properties. Addendum 3726-A: Recovery SCP-3726 was found buried along with two mummified cadavers in the middle of the Karakum desert while investigating on another anomalous phenomenon. The two cadavers, one human and one resembling a Macaca Fascicularis (Long-Tailed Macaque), were found holding SCP-3726 in a tugging position. Examinations of the clothing suggest the human to be a merchant. Several narratives in the form of diary entries had been written in SCP-3726 at the time of discovery. It is currently unknown if they were affected by SCP-3726 or not. The narratives are transcribed below; grammar mistakes have not been corrected. not write before monkey read book learn write master book is good master beat monkey read book monkey read book master sleep monkey happy can write monkey tell donkei master not good master alway beat monkey and donkei monkey not understad monkey is mother make donkei is mother make master is mother make mother make thing nature why master beat monkey and donkei monkey give food master monkey give fast monkey not fast msater beat donkei not fast master beat monkey is hurt donkei hurt too why beat monkey and donkei master sleep monkey scared monkey tell donkei run donkei hurt donkei not can run monkey not fast monkey is scared donkei scared too master sleep master have not food master kill donkei master eat donkei part master not give monkey monkey want eat master not give monkey monkey is scared mokey is scared master eat monkey too why master not good master sleep monkey want run monkey want book monkey run monkey is scared master not sleep A skeleton of an Equus Asinus (Common Donkey) was later found buried approximately 250m away from the two cadavers. Footnotes 1. If the original narrative already described this topic, it would not be rewritten. 2. If a crowd of an undefined number of entities is introduced in the original narrative, the rewritten narrative may or may not introduce new characters, but they always have minor roles and will always be referred to as "people/[the anthropomorphic beings] from the crowd". ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3726" by Flawed, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3726. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: codex Name: Codex - Upper cover (IC1425) Author: Rome Emperors Justinian I., Emperor of the East. License: CC0 1.0 Source Link: Wikimedia Commons
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Approximate dimensions necessary for remote manipulation by SCP-3727 Item #: SCP-3727 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3727 is to be kept in a standard humanoid holding cell at Site-17. No syringes or objects resembling syringes are to be brought within the line of sight of SCP-3727 unless authorized by research personnel. The walls of SCP-3727’s cell are to be regularly checked for perforations. In the event that SCP-3727’s cell has sustained damage, SCP-3727 is to be moved to a temporary containment unit until repairs are complete. Description: SCP-3727 is a 52 year old caucasian male with the ability to remotely manipulate syringes, as well as any objects that resemble a syringe in shape. The exact specifications of what qualifies as “syringe-shaped” have not been fully defined, but the presence of a pointed tip, a broader section resembling the barrel of a syringe, and a segment resembling the plunger are necessary. An object does not have to function as a syringe in order to fall under the effects of SCP-3727. The strength of SCP-3727’s remote manipulation is unclear, with SCP-3727 being able to move syringe shaped objects of several metric tons in weight and move them at speeds of up to 375 m/s (as of ██/██/20██) with no signs of exhaustion. These effects extend to any syringe shaped object within approximately 50 meters and within line of sight of SCP-3727. Upon initial questioning, SCP-3727 claimed to be a doctor from ██████, Tennessee. Analysis of SCP-3727’s birth certificate and SSN have confirmed this statement. SCP-3727 also claimed to have no recollection regarding the nature and origin of its anomalous properties, stating that they were first noticed about two months before Foundation acquisition. SCP-3727 has been largely compliant during Foundation custody, and has usually refrained from using its anomalous properties unless instructed. Addendum 3727-1: Testing Logs + Access Testing Logs - Close Testing Logs Experiment 3727-A: Object: Medical grade hypodermic syringe Instructions: Move object 2 meters. Results: Successful manipulation. Conclusion: SCP-3277 can manipulate syringes. Experiment 3727-B: Object: Standard 100-gauge insulin syringe Instructions: Perform an insulin injection on D-7623, a Type 1 Diabetic Results: Injection successfully completed. No adverse effects reported by D-7623. Conclusion: SCP-3727 is capable of finely maneuvering desired syringes. Experiment 3727-C: Object: Plastic mold of a hypodermic syringe Instructions: Move object 2 meters. Results: Successful manipulation. Conclusion: SCP-3727 is capable of moving objects that resemble syringes, even when said object are not syringes. Experiment 3727-D: Object: Standard 100-gauge insulin syringe. Needle is bent by 85°. Instructions: Realign needle Results: SCP-3727 was unable to manipulate the syringe in any capacity. Conclusion: SCP-3727 is incapable of moving objects that are not shaped like proper syringes, even when said objects are syringes. Experiment 3727-E: Object: Photograph of a hypodermic syringe Instructions: Move object 2 meters. Results: SCP-3727 was unable to manipulate the photograph in any capacity. Conclusion: Objects must bear more than a visual resemblance to a syringe, and must be three-dimensional. Experiment 3727-F: Object: Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus) Instructions: Move object 2 meters. Results: SCP-3727 was unable to manipulate the organism in any capacity. Conclusion: Objects that do not bear a structural resemblance to a typical syringe cannot be manipulated, even if said objects are capable of syringe-like functions. Experiment 3727-G: Object: Concrete cast in the shape of a syringe with a mass of 25 metric tons. Instructions: Move object 2 meters. Results: Manipulation successful. Conclusion: SCP-3727 can manipulate objects many times larger than typical syringes. Experiment 3727-H: Object: Concrete cast in the shape of a syringe with a mass of 25 metric tons. Instructions: Accelerate object to 30 m/s. Results: Manipulation successful. Object attains speed of 30 m/s in 2 seconds. Conclusion: SCP-3727 can exert forces of at least 375 KNs on desired syringe-shaped objects. Experiment 3727-I: Object: Carbon molecular construct resembling a syringe. Instructions: Move object across length of petri dish. Results: Manipulation successful. Conclusion: SCP-3727 can manipulate objects many times smaller than a typical syringe. Experiment 3727-J: Object: SCP-991 Instructions: Utilize SCP-991 Results: Subject extracts SCP-991-2 from D-3093. However, when attempting to inject substance into another D-class personnel, SCP-991-2 spontaneously disappears. Subject reports hearing “This is fucking weird. When is lunch?” in his head. Furthermore, Subject reports having a memory of being involved in a test with SCP-████, despite said SCP being located at Site-██. Records confirm that D-3093 was involved with a test with the aforementioned SCP 3 days prior to experiment 3727-J. Conclusion: Cross testing between SCP-3727 and other anomalous objects can have unpredictable effects. Further cross testing requires approval of two Level 3 personnel or one Level 4 personnel. Object used for Experiment 3727-I. Each sphere is one carbon atom. Addendum 3727-2: Incident Report: ██/██/20██ As of ██/██/20██, SCP-3727 has demonstrated a broadening in its ability to control syringe shaped objects. Along with the ability to remotely manipulate objects shaped to resemble syringes, SCP-3727 has also acquired the ability to extract syringe-shaped molds from larger substances. This behavior was first recorded when SCP-3727 remotely extracted a mass of water in the approximate shape of a syringe from its daily water supply. Upon questioning, SCP-3727 claimed that it could "feel" the syringe shape inside the water, and that this was not a previously known ability. 12 days later, SCP-3727 was observed extracting syringe-shaped casts in a similar manner from the steel walls of its holding cell. This was originally classified as an attempted containment breach, and was met with immediate intervention from security personnel. Upon questioning, SCP-3727 claimed to be exhibiting this behavior out of boredom and not a desire to escape. Proposals to provide SCP-3727 with sources of recreational stimulation are currently pending approval.
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Item #: SCP-3728 Special Containment Procedures: All 231 instances of SCP-3728 are kept in a secure locker within Site-77. All tests involving SCP-3728 require level two approval, and are restricted to D-class. D-class subject to testing may only be struck with SCP-3728 a maximum of three times. Description: SCP-3728 are 231 large squeaky clown hammers produced by ███████ Incorporated. Each hammer is composed of a long red shaft with several serrations, and a double head, blue in coloration, with ringed edges. SCP-3728 is non-anomalous when used to strike most surfaces. SCP-3728's primary anomalous effect manifests when either of the two heads are used to strike a human subject. The head of the hammer will exert a random, disproportionate force, larger than that exerted, regardless of how hard the object is swung, or in what manner its head makes contact with the human subject. SCP-3728's primary effect defies normal physical expectations, most especially when producing forces that would, otherwise, result in severe physical trauma.1 SCP-3728's secondary anomalous effects manifest approximately two minutes post impact. Individuals will be rendered blind, deaf, or mute for a random period of time. The exact effect rendered, and the exact duration have no correlation to any known factors, other than the number of times an individual has been struck using a single hammer. SCP-3728's tertiary anomalous effect involves the amplification of the primary and secondary effects upon each successive strike with the object. Due to the highly erratic and potentially dangerous nature of the object's tertiary effects, further testing with D-class has been limited to three strikes. (See Experiment Log E-3728). Discovery: Foundation personnel became aware of SCP-3728 following repeated police reports involving a number of adults, adolescents, and children suffering from symptoms congruent with being struck by the object. Notable examples from these reports include the sudden disappearance of and fusion of individuals with solid objects, animals, or persons. Areas documented as having received a shipment of SCP-3728 also reported an increase of symptoms concurrent with the object's secondary effects. Foundation probes orbiting Neptune and its moons detected a number of corpses in the orbit of Triton shortly after discovery of these reports. All corpses with remaining distinguishable features have been identified as prior owners of instances of SCP-3728. Further investigation by Foundation personnel traced SCP-3728 back to a single allotment of hammers produced by ███████ Incorporated at a toy factory just outside of Indianapolis, Indiana. Upon interrogation and record inspection, 32 previously undocumented employees were discovered to have clocked in each day during the week of SCP-3728's production. Cross examination of public databases revealed that no individuals matching the names or physical descriptions of said employees existed. When questioned, factory floor managers indicated that said employees had worked at the site for the entirety of their employment history, while claiming no knowledge of the current status or whereabouts of said individuals. Analysis of receipts and financial records indicate that all 231 instances of SCP-3728 were sold to households containing two or more children aged 4-10. 51 of the objects were recovered at locations other than the indicated residence of said individuals.2 All individuals subject to or witness of SCP-3728's effects have been treated with class A amnestics, as per containment procedures. Experiment Log E-3728: The following section of this document contains all experiment logs relating to SCP-3728. It should be noted that all experiments occurred prior to current containment procedures, in a standard testing chamber. Modifications to further testing protocols are noted at the end of each test. Prior to each experiment, the subject was equipped with a Spacio-Temporal Absolute Location Key Reader (STALKER) device and a specially designed force meter. Test Name Operator: Subject: Number of times previously hit: Instructions: Result: Test Name E-3728-01 Operator: D-34501 Subject: D-356702 Number of times previously hit: 0 Instructions: D-34501 was instructed to strike D-356702 with SCP-3728 using a full swing. Result: D-356702 was subjected to a force equivalent to a small hand grenade. The resulting force incapacitated D-34501, while lifting D-356702 into the air roughly 12 cm, and propelling her backwards 72 cm. Attempts to question D-356702 about her current physical condition were met with confusion and panic, resulting in the subject's sedation, due to loss of hearing, which lasted for 2 hours and 17 minutes. A small dent was noted in the testing chamber floor. Test Name E-3728-02 Operator: D-34501 Subject: D-356702 Number of times previously hit: 1 Instructions: D-34501 was instructed to tap D-356702 with SCP-3728. Result: D-356702's relativistic bubble collides with the northernmost wall of the testing chamber following the tap. The subject's force meter registered an exertion equivalent to the impact of a 155 mm howitzer shell, resulting in a concussive blast which killed D-34501 upon impact. D-356702 attempted to respond to post testing questioning, but was unable to form words, resulting in a series of grunts and distressed squeals. Loss of speech lasted 15 days. Testing was temporarily halted due to severe damage to the floor, ceiling, and walls of the testing chamber, and to remove the remnants of D-34501. Subject displayed mild signs of physical trauma, including slight bruising. Following this, future tests were conducted using a remote controlled robotic arm. The testing chamber was upgraded with blast resistant materials composed of reinforced concrete. Test Name E-3728-03 Operator: Robotic arm by level 2 researcher Dr. O'Briens. Subject: D-356702 Number of times previously hit: 2 Instructions: Dr. O'Briens was instructed to strike D-356702 with SCP-3728 using a half swing. Results: SCP-3728's testing facility was destroyed in a concussive blast. Security footage, stored electronic force meter readings, and recorded STALKER measurements have allowed personnel to reconstruct the events which lead to the destruction of the facility. D-356702 came in contact with SCP-3728's head, which promptly unleashed a force of 10,000,000 N3 launching D-356702 through the facility's walls, shortly before the explosive force destroyed them. 5 research personnel and 32 D-class were killed in the resulting blast. Due to her immediate ejection from the atmosphere, it is currently not known what physical trauma D-356702 suffered post-strike.4 Current STALKER readings have pinpointed D-356702's corpse in orbit around Jupiter. Following this test, a specialized facility was constructed using materials harvested from [DATA EXPUNGED] and [DATA EXPUNGED] under the belief that such materials would be sufficient to prevent further explosive events when testing with SCP-3728. Test Name E-3728-04 and 05 Operator: Robotic arm by level 2 researcher Dr. Samuels Subject: D-368210 and D-367739 Number of times previously hit: [REDACTED] Instructions: Dr. Samuels was instructed to strike both D-class with SCP-3728 at full swing. Result Test 04: D-368210 was struck first, after having been secured to the testing facility floor following violent protest. The subject's force meter was unable to quantify the resulting force, and D-368210 vanished upon impact. No significant damages to the facility or nearby personnel were noted, though a number of individuals in Site-77's primary compound complained of headaches and reported a tingling feeling at the time of testing, with one member of the janitorial staff having reported a "blur". D-368210 was later located 3 km from Site-77 in a large rock formation. The subject had become fused with the rocks at the knees, and was suffering from several concussions, and complete macular degeneration, before being removed via amputation. Result Test 05: D-367739 was struck with SCP-3728 at which point an aberration in the known pattern of force direction occurred. The subject experienced a force of 100 newtons from behind pushing them onto the robotic arm and the head of the hammer. D-367739 and the hammer became fused, and dematerialized. Current STALKER readings indicate D-367739's presence at all locations within a 1-light year radius. For test 6, a speedometer capable of measuring velocities approaching and exceeding the speed of light was attached to the subject. Test Name E-3728-06 Operator: Robotic arm by level 2 researcher Dr. Samuels Subject: D-456692 Number of times previously hit: 8 Instructions: Dr. Samuels was instructed to tap D-456692 with SCP-3728. Results: D-456692 was forcibly strapped to the floor of the testing chamber after repeated violent protests, at one point knocking out a member of security. Upon contact with the hammer's head, the force meter was unable to properly quantify the exerted force, and promptly shorted out. The speedometer registered a velocity of 1.135e9 for 0.1 seconds before it also stopped producing measurements. STALKER readings failed 0.2 seconds following physical contact. Despite this, D-456692 remained visible within the chamber, and was assumed unharmed and still present; however, when personnel entered the chamber and attempted to interact with D-456692, they discovered that the subject and his restraints were no longer present. Instead, the apparent visual image of the subject separated into a blue- and red-shifted visual remnant. An initial sweep of Site-77 was unable to locate the subject, resulting in a second sweep covering an area 2 light years in diameter, centered around the earth, which also failed to locate D-456692. Further testing with D-class has been suspended to a maximum of 3 strikes. Site Director Gillespie. Update 6/13/17: D-456692 was located by elements of Multi-U in designated alternate universe U-1135.5 Reports indicate that D-456692 appeared approximately 1 week after being struck, and was detected by a Foundation probe. Investigation into the temporal effects of SCP-3728 are ongoing. Footnotes 1. Repeated testing and physical measurements with equipment normally utilized in particle accelerators indicate the creation of a relativistic bubble around struck individuals, even at lower force impacts, which proportionally counteracts the most severe effects of high-force strikes. It should be noted that this bubble does not appear to protect subjects from impact or collision with objects at such speeds that their molecules become intertwined. 2. Including two elementary schools, a public daycare center, and the children's wings of three separate hospitals. 3. Enough force to propel a 100kg individual to escape velocity. 4. Life sign monitoring indicated that the heart monitoring system was destroyed upon impact; however, brain wave tracking indicated continued activity for approximately 3 hours post atmospheric escape. 5. A parallel universe home to a biological entity known to assimilate any and all organic matter it comes in contact with. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3728" by DrBleep, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3728. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3729
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Item #: SCP-3729 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3729 is to be kept in a standard containment cell located in the safe-class containment center at Site-26. Any testing with SCP-3729 must be conducted on D-Class subjects, and be approved by the Site Director, Site Ethics Committee Representative, and Site D-Class Resource Accountant. All D-Class used in these experiments must: Show no desire or ill will toward anyone in the Foundation Show no desire to commit any form of crime Have no history of cruel or unusual behavior For more information regarding what constitutes cruel or unusual behavior, see Ethics Committee Document 827B, "D-Class Psychological Profiles" Description: SCP-3729 is a wooden doorframe, consistent with the 1910 kit home designs from the American company Sears. SCP-3729's anomalous effects manifest when a human subject (henceforth SCP-3729-1) walks through the doorframe. The anomalous effects exhibited by SCP-3729 will always affect the first person to walk through it after sunrise, regardless of the number of individuals which do so. SCP-3729's first and most consistently observed anomalous effect is that, the day after SCP-3729-1 walked under SCP-3729 (henceforth referred to in this document as A24 for the sake of brevity), SCP-3729-1 will wake up to the sunrise (regardless of whether or not the sun is visible from their position), and report feeling remarkably well-rested, independent of how much sleep they actually received. All other anomalous effects appear to be based on the psychological profile of SCP-3729-1, and thus vary considerably. SCP-3729 has been shown to alter reality in order to provide SCP-3729-1 what the subject would consider an extremely pleasant experience throughout A24. While the full extent of SCP-3729's reality altering capabilities is not known, it has shown the ability to edit Foundation documents, alter the behavior and opinions of people SCP-3729-1 is aware of, create matter, and affect results of games of chance. SCP-3729 is likely capable of many more effects, but testing has been temporarily suspended due to high financial cost and lack of fitting D-class subjects. Test 1 Test Conducted By: Researcher Eriksson A24 Date: 11/16/2010 Subject: D-8375, male, arrested for serial murder in 1994, had no psychological evaluation prior to testing Procedure: D-8375 walked under SCP-3729 and was sent back to his holding cell. Results: At approximately 5:00 AM on 11/16/2010 D-8375 was pardoned of his crimes, amnesticized, given false memories, and released from Foundation custody due to a clerical error. Shortly after D-8375 was dropped off on the outskirts of his hometown, he encountered Mrs. Alison Jacobson, the woman who made the police call that resulted in D-8375's arrest, on a vacation1. On the morning after 11/16/2010, the clerical error was discovered by D-Class Resource Accountant Augustine Mercy, and Foundation personnel were sent to remedy the situation. Mrs. Jacobson and D-8375 were found dead in an alleyway, the former due to choking and the latter via self-inflicted blunt force trauma to the head. A crumpled note was found in D-8375's pockets which simply read " I got my revenge, and I aint goin back. (sic)". Notes: The results of this test are inexcusable. Researcher Eriksson has demonstrated extreme negligence and lack of caution in his testing, and has been summarily demoted. All further tests must be preceded by the subject D-class undergoing a thorough psychological evaluation. Signed, Dr. Gonzales, Site-26 Ethics Committee Representative Test 2 Test Conducted By: Researcher Alfonse A24 Date: 07/14/2012 Subject: D-2715, male, arrested for murder in 1993, has expressed extreme regret over his actions. Pre-experiment interviews indicate that D-2715 strongly desired, quote, "To become a world-renowned writer." Procedure: See Test 1 Results: At approximately 5:00 AM on 07/14/2012 D-2715 was pardoned of his crimes, amnesticized, given false memories, and released from Foundation custody due to a clerical error. Upon being dropped off on the outskirts of his hometown, D-2715 located a winning Powerball lottery ticket on the ground near his feet, whereupon he approached the nearest casino and cashed it in. He then proceeded to buy out all seats in Wells Fargo Stadium, where his self-proclaimed favorite band, Matchbox 20, was performing.2 He made the concert completely free and provided full refunds to anyone who had already bought tickets. D-2715 passed out (seemingly from alcohol poisoning) at approximately 11:45 PM. Shortly after waking up at 5:15 AM, D-2715 stumbled and fell off of balcony 4D of Wells Fargo Stadium, before Foundation personnel were able to retrieve him. Notes: More thorough psychological evaluation is required for these experiments. All future tests must include a polygraph-accompanied interview, in order to prevent false claims regarding the stated desires of the D-class subject. This was an expensive mistake, and it had best not happen again. Signed, Dr. Gonzales, Site-26 Ethics Committee Representative Test 3 Test Conducted By: Researcher Alfonse A24 Date: 10/08/2016 Subject: D-9762, female, arrested for manslaughter in 1997. Subject has shown extreme regret over their actions, and has expressed no criminal desires after their arrest. Polygraph-accompanied interviews indicate that D-9762 possesses no ill will towards the Foundation. These interviews also indicated that D-9762 strongly desired, quote, "A real meal- one with actual meat instead of that bullshit they have at the cafeteria." Procedure: See Test 1 Results: D-9762 did not leave her holding cell. A clerical error resulted in all D-9762's SCP assignments for the day being voided. Patrol Guard Giovanni McConnell abandoned his post and returned with a well-done steak, seasoned with various spices, which he handed to D-97623. Patrol Guard Giovanni McConnell was unable to explain where he obtained this steak from. As of writing, D-9762 remains alive and healthy. Notes: D-9762's continued health is a notable departure from the results of other tests, and should be kept in mind for further testing. Signed, Researcher Alfonse Addendum: Due to the extreme financial cost of covering up the results of Test 2, as well as the difficulty in screening D-class subjects for further experiments, testing with SCP-3729 has been temporarily halted. Personnel requesting further tests must first complete the Standard Foundation Testing Renewal Request Form (document code B57) and submit it to the director of Site-26. Archived Document: Found on the desk of Researcher Alfonse STANDARD FOUNDATION TESTING RENEWAL REQUEST FORM SCP Foundation Secure. Contain. Protect. Submission Date: 12/16/2016 Name: Researcher Gerald Alfonse Clearance Level: 3 Item Requested: SCP-3729 Reason for Requested Testing Renewal: To determine if, through artificial memory insertion and mental state alteration techniques, SCP-3729's reality altering capabilities can be used to benefit the Foundation's containment goals. Reply Date: 12/22/2016 This Testing Request has Been: Accepted Denied Reasoning: While SCP-3729 poses great possible value as a Thaumiel-class object, the risks involved in attempting to use it as such would be far too great. A single mistake could be catastrophic, and while it can on occasion seem so, memory insertion and mental control are not perfect sciences. On a more personal note: the goal of the Foundation is to serve and protect the world, not to control it, and certainly not put it at pointless risk. You would do well to remember that, Alfonse. Signed, █████ █████████, Director of Site-26 Footnotes 1. Evidence suggests that Mrs. Jacobson did not originally intend to go on a vacation on 11/16/2010, making this likely a manifestation of SCP-3729's anomalous properties. 2. Records indicate Matchbox 20 had no plans to play at Wells Fargo Stadium that night- in fact, a basketball game between Arizona State University and the University of California was scheduled. Subsequent investigations revealed that all members of both teams simultaneously overslept and missed their bus, an event which Arizona State University coach Bobby Hurley described as "Pretty goddamn weird". 3. While this is a blatant disregard of Foundation policy, it is currently believed that Patrol Guard Giovanni McConnell was acting under the influence of SCP-3729, and hence has not been demoted. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3729" by Doctor Cambrian, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3729. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3730
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Item#: 3730 Level1 Secondary Class: none Disruption Class: dark Risk Class: notice link to memo SCP-3730 Special Containment Procedures: Inspections will be performed on a monthly basis to ensure that SCP-3730 remains functional. All testing with SCP-3730 must be approved by Level 3/3730 personnel. Standard wind tunnel safety guidelines will be followed by personnel when the anomaly is in operation. Description: SCP-3730 is a 3.7m-long wind tunnel built by the Foundation at Site-201 in 1995, which began exhibiting anomalous properties three months after construction. If the model of an aircraft or other airborne vehicle is present in SCP-3730 when it is activated, variable anomalous phenomena will manifest for the duration of the machine's use. These phenomena are dependent on what vehicle the model represents. Addendum: The following is an abridged list of SCP-3730 tests. Date Model Vehicle Outcome Notes 6-March-1995 Observational Plane San-14 Cumulonimbus clouds continually formed in front of the model, dissipating after moving past it. This is the first anomalous event to occur in SCP-3730. 8-June-1996 SCPF-16G Fighter Jet Two miniature F-16 aircraft, possessing the same size as the model, manifested in the wind tunnel. After three minutes each F-16 fired a missile at the model, creating a small fireball and breaking it. None 12-September-1997 SCPS Lance Emergency Escape Capsule Intense flames surrounded the model, resembling aerodynamic predictions for the capsule's atmospheric reentry. A large quantity of salt water then spilled out of the fan and filled much of the chamber, with a parachute appearing on the capsule. None 29-April-1998 SSTO1 Spaceplane Yodh-0 No irregularities were observed until the wings of the model began to intensely vibrate, shearing off after one minute. An inspection of the craft performed after the test found structural flaws that, if not repaired, would result in the wings breaking in the same manner. 2-February-1999 Cargo Aircraft Lamedh-12 Snow accumulated on the tunnel floor, apparently resistant to the wind being generated. After three hours the snow had formed piles resembling a region of the Sayan Mountains. A small stone was then blown out of SCP-3730's fan and landed in one of the piles. This event allowed the Foundation to locate Lamedh-12 and recover its crew. The plane had crashed in the mountain range after accidentally entering Russian Anomalous Airspace Zone 2 and encountering an unknown aircraft. 4-February-1999 RAAZ-2 Unknown Aircraft Snow blew out of the fan, occasionally stopping when lights resembling the aurora borealis manifested. The model was based off of blurry photographs taken from Lamedh-12. No conclusive information on the aircraft has been obtained. 1-August-2001 1986 Dodge Caravan A small featureless humanoid manifested on top of the model, tapping their foot and pacing about. The humanoid turned to face a security camera and shrugged immediately before vanishing. This was the first test to be done with the model of a non-airborne vehicle. 26-July-2002 SCP-3730 No anomalous effects were observed until the model was analyzed after testing. An apparently indefinite number of models within models had manifested, reaching microscopic scales. During analysis SCP-3730 abruptly lost power, corresponding to the model shattering. None 22-January-2004 Exploratory Jet Samekh-92 The cockpit of Samekh-9 and its pilots appeared in SCP-3730, broken off from the main vehicle. The following day Samekh-9 entered the extradimensional space, encountering a temporal anomaly that transported the crew to the previous day after the craft was irreparably damaged by hostile organisms. 6-March-20053 None SCP-3730 spontaneously activated and manifested a large amount of confetti. After deactivation a slip of paper with a stylized rendition of a smiley face on one side and the phrase "Hope I have helped!" on the other was found. After observed morale improvements among members of Research Team 3730, approval was granted by the Site-201 Research Council to continue testing SCP-3730 for an indefinite period of time. Footnotes 1. Single-stage-to-orbit. 2. A VTOL aircraft designed for the exploration of an extradimensional space that manifested at Lonar Lake. 3. This occurred ten years after SCP-3730 first exhibited anomalous properties.
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SCP-3731
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Orange Zone as of 4/26/2020 Item #: SCP-3731 Special Containment Procedures: Protocol ALABASTER has been declared active: All Foundation military personnel have been reassigned to the expansion of the Orange Zone via the securing of SCP-3731 instances. All research personnel have been reassigned to development of technological, paratechnological, and thaumic countermeasures to SCP-3731 activity in addition to more effective neutralization procedures. Portable contained objects have been moved into the Orange Zone as resources have allowed. Immovable objects have been decommissioned or rendered physically inaccessible in accordance with their respective emergency protocols. Sites containing immovable K-class threats have been thaumically warded and locked down; Overt Automated Defense systems have been deployed to maintain the perimeters of these Sites. All assets formerly restricted by the veil doctrine - including paratechnical weapons and vehicles, infantry augmentation equipment, and Overt Automated Defense systems such as Giant-class unpiloted combat drones - are approved for open use. Giant-class unpiloted combat drone Ethics Committee rulings pertaining to SCP-3731 are considered irrelevant. All Mobile Task Force units/Foundation military assets are reassigned to the securing of SCP-3731 by any means necessary. Instances of SCP-3731 are to be relocated to the Orange Zone for processing. Provisional containment areas have been constructed within the Orange Zone to house excess SCP-3731 instances. Trucking, rail, and other transport infrastructure is to be commandeered as necessary for the movement of contained instances. Provisional Containment Area 2 As of O5 Council mandate 3731-Ov236, contained instances of SCP-3731 are to be restored to baseline normalcy via neutralization procedure 08-Lilac. Restored instances are to be employed as Class-E personnel within the Orange Zone until global normalcy can be reinstated. Description: SCP-3731 is the sapient population of Earth, formerly known as "humanity." Following the total containment failure of thaumic symbiote SCP-3396, available data indicate that 100% of the civilian population outside the Orange Zone have been converted to SCP-3731. The conversion of human beings to SCP-3731 is caused by exposure to semi-tangible blue matter secreted by SCP-3396, which spreads contagiously between instances. The incubation period between exposure to blue matter and conversion to SCP-3731 ranges from seconds to months. Organisms exposed to blue matter display extreme thaumic innervation1 and polymorphism2, resulting in an unpredictable variety of anomalous capabilities. The effect of blue matter symbiosis on the personality and intelligence of SCP-3731 instances is inconclusive; available data indicate that instances retain the knowledge and traits they possessed when they were human, and almost invariably continue responding to their human identity. While blue matter exposure does not appear to cause psychological symptoms, SCP-3731 collectively display high rates of physical aggression, anti-establishmentarian tendencies, and other antisocial behavior compared to human beings. Non-anomalous symptoms of mutation (such as adjustment to new modes of sensory perception or telepathic input from other instances, trauma reactions to physical transformation, and situational stress related to the collapse of civilization) are hypothesized to contribute to this instability. Though communities of SCP-3731 have been observed to organize and self-govern with varying degrees of success, infighting and attacks by other SCP-3731 instances have consistently limited their growth. Following the enactment of protocol ALABASTER and Foundation's withdrawal to the Orange Zone, SCP-3731 casualties to other breached/uncontained anomalies (some of which are themselves affected by thaumic mutation) have also risen to significant levels. Reconnaissance data suggest that the number of living SCP-3731 instances is no more than 5% of the baseline human population. Field reports suggest that the thaumic innervation and polymorphic variance of individual SCP-3731 instances continuously increases over time, causing the instances to take on increasingly paranormal forms and capabilities. The resulting accumulation of anomalous activity has had catastrophic effects on global ecosystems and geology; earthquakes, firespouts, the appearance of mountains and sinkholes, "dead zones" incompatible with life for various reasons, and falls of animals from the sky have all been reported. SCP-3731 are projected to render the planet uninhabitable by 2024 if allowed to continue at the current rate. + Timeline of Significant Early Encounters: - Hide Timeline 10/16/2018: First contact with SCP-3731 instances during containment of SCP-3396. 11/1/2018: Foundation, GOC, United Nations and Unusual Incidents Unit establish demilitarized neutral zone around SCP-3396 to prevent global warfare and lifted veil scenario. "Miracles" and other anomalous events are reported across the country as thaumic infection begins to spread, requiring the amnesticization of over 70,000 civilians. 12/11/2018: SCP-3731 instances present on all 6 inhabited continents. Estimated 0.8% of global population infected. SCP-3731 instance in London, England enables crowd at outdoor concert to fly by imitating a flapping motion with their arms, creating extremely visible display of mass anomalous activity. MTFs Tau-91 ("Mageslayers") and Eta-67 ("Bird Dogs") deployed for securing and containment. Amnestics administered by helicopter. All affected individuals found to be contaminated with blue matter, and later convert into SCP-3731 instances. Foundation casualties: 0. SCP-3731 contained: 314. Civilians amnesticized: approximately 9,000. 12/29/2018: Estimated 1.4% of global population converted to SCP-3731. All Foundation personnel trained in thaumaturgy are reassigned to the warding of Foundation Sites from symbiotic infection. 3 SCP-3731 instances in Paris, France use anomalous capabilities to rob an armored truck. Responding field agents are quickly overwhelmed, necessitating the deployment of MTF Omega-12 ("Achilles' Heels") to neutralize the instances. Foundation casualties: 18. Civilian casualties: 29. Civilians amnesticized: 447. 2/2/2019: Estimated 2.5% of global population converted to SCP-3731. GOC authorizes lethal force against SCP-3731 for all units worldwide, leading to a lifted veil scenario and widespread rioting. O5 mandate 3731-Ov17 establishes Orange Zone in Sonoran desert, Arizona. City of Phoenix evacuated, thaumically warded, and commandeered for use as headquarters and staging area of zone operations. Approximately 1,420,000 civilians displaced. Approximately 30,000 SCP-3731 instances identified and contained through joint effort by numerous specialized task forces. Provisional Containment Area 1 constructed to house surplus population of SCP-3731. 4/7/2019: Estimated 11.3% of global population converted to SCP-3731. National, state, and local governments are largely unable to function. O5 mandate 3731-Ov76 (7 in favor, 4 opposed, 2 abstaining) authorizes use of anomalous methods in the containment of SCP-3731, including reverse engineering of paratechnology, use of necrothaumaturgy, and collusion with extradimensional entities. 6/19/2019: Estimated 38% of global population converted to SCP-3731. GOC neutralization efforts have failed and the Coalition no longer appears to be active. O5-7 converted to SCP-3731 instance; voluntarily enters containment. 8/1/2019: Estimated 56% of global population converted to SCP-3731. City of Jaipur, India is almost entirely destroyed when an infant converted to SCP-3731 begins consuming nearby people and objects and incorporating them into its own body. Instance continues to grow and metamorphose as it seeks and assimilates individuals, food, and toys. Neutralization efforts are unsuccessful; instance is terminated by a coordinated effort from approximately 100 other instances, which engage it with their anomalous capabilities. Foundation casualties: 206. Civilian casualties: estimated 2,400,000. At this time, breakthroughs in antithaumic technology enabled the Foundation to develop weapons and other countermeasures effective against SCP-3731. Technology Description Recommended Use Controlled Innervation Gauntlets Attachment for Infantry Combat Exoskeletons. Used in close quarters to deliver weaponized thaumic invocations to targets struck by the gauntlet. Default charge causes target's skeleton to combust; can be loaded with more specialized invocations as necessary. Spectral Emulsion Ordinance Infantry equipment for ground engagements. Manifests spectral activity in a directed stream in a manner analogous to a flamethrower. May cause residual haunting. Thaumic Resonance Oscillator Vehicle-mounted equipment for large scale engagements and crowd control. Incapacitates with lower fatality rate at low frequencies. Uses tuned aetheric waves to stimulate blue-matter growths inside instances, causing uncontrolled bursts of anomalous activity. Effects of aetheric stimulation on blue matter are unpredictable; use only from safe distance. Thanopenetrating Aperture Mortar Long-range artillery for bombardment of fortified areas. Causes large holes to open on surfaces within the area of detonation; groups of elongated, multi-jointed human limbs emerge from holes to detect sapient organisms and pull them inside, after which the holes demanifest. Effective for depopulating SCP-3731 instances while minimizing damage to infrastructure. Autonomous Neutralization Drones AI-equipped robotic aircraft dedicated to the tracking of uncontained SCP-3731 instances. Drones resemble wasps, and travel in swarms. Released around borders of Orange Zone to supplement perimeter forces. Drones are programmed to tunnel into the bodies of SCP-3731 instances and disrupt internal blue matter formations; approximately 2% of instances survive this procedure and can be recruited as E-Class personnel following recovery. Geometric Destabilization Artillery Aircraft-mounted missile weaponry; causes spatial distortions incompatible with life (e.g. surfaces folding into themselves, objects occupying the same space at the same time) to become physical norms within the detonation radius. Recommended only for emergency use against SCP-3731 instances that have converted to large scale non-humanoid forms. Renders area of effect permanently uninhabitable, as organisms entering the radius experience redistribution of the circulatory system and compression injuries from folding of body surfaces. + Timeline of Active TPK-Class Thaumaturgic Proliferation Scenario: Hide Timeline 8/24/2019: Estimated 77% of global population converted. O5 mandate 3731-Ov201 recalls all Foundation assets and operations to Orange Zone. Development begins on the Lilac series of neutralization procedures. Lilac procedures use a combination of thaumic evocation, anomalous medical interventions, and radical surgery to restore SCP-3731 instances to human state. 9/19/2019: Estimated 89% of global population converted. Reclamation of Tucson commences. SCP-3731 instances are unprepared for newly-developed countermeasures. Foundation casualties: 39. SCP-3731 casualties: 842. SCP-3731 contained: 12,656. O5 mandate 3731-Ov248 (7 in favor, 4 opposed, 0 abstaining) authorizes procedure 01-Lilac for use on contained instances. Procedure survival rate: 0.01%. 10/14/2019: Global population completely converted to SCP-3731. Humanity is extinct outside the Orange Zone. O5-1 is lost during the destruction of Site-63; entire Site, and surrounding landscape, launched into space by SCP-3731 instances. 11/1/2019: Reclamation of El Paso commences. Foundation casualties: 124. SCP-3731 casualties: 599. SCP-3731 contained: 16,902. Procedure 05-Lilac authorized for use on contained instances. Procedure survival rate: 6.1%. 11/10/2019: Reclamation of Albuquerque. Foundation casualties: 201. SCP-3731 casualties: 456. SCP-3731 contained: 13,219. 2/6/2020: O5-2's safe house located and attacked by group of 44 SCP-3731 instances; O5-2 and pair of bodyguards defend residence using prototype stealth-equipped combat exoskeletons. Residence becomes site of Battle of Latrobe. Foundation casualties: 3. SCP-3731 casualties: 43. SCP-3731 contained: 0. 3/8/2020: O5-4 converted to SCP-3731. Sends message to all Foundation-associated email and cellular text addresses simultaneously ("THRIVE") before disappearing. Expedition to Santa Fe reports that entire city has become a dense forest of humanoid trees, with anomalous fauna and microclimate. City deemed irreclaimable. Bombing commences. 3/18/2020: Provisional Containment Area 9 undergoes supply shortages; area director is forced to ration electricity, limiting the provisionally-contained SCP-3731 instances' access to air conditioning. After two days of rationing, 37 instances have expired from heat stroke. PCA-9 is destroyed in the ensuing riots, resulting in the breach of approximately 14,000 instances. 4/27/2020: Reclamation of Las Vegas commences. Organized resistance to reclamation efforts forces retreat by Foundation military assets. Foundation casualties: 5,379. SCP-3731 casualties: unknown; estimated 950. SCP-3731 contained: 0. 6/4/2020: Provisional Containment Area 7 is overrun by SCP-3731 using improvised military tactics, resulting in the breach of an estimated 17,500 instances. 7/17/2020: Reconnaissance indicates that communities of SCP-3731 have established independent governments and trade. Instances generally attempt to imitate human society. Natural disasters caused by the accumulation of anomalous activity (e.g. hails of biting skulls, sentient lightning storms) make travel and construction hazardous. 9/20/2020: Food and water shortages at Provisional Containment Area 11 result in the expiration of over 400 SCP-3731 instances over the course of the week. Area director Francesca Whitlark makes the unauthorized decision to shut down PCA-11's containment operations, resulting in the breach of approximately 11,000 instances. 1/4/2021: MTF Phi-00 "Loyalists" formed, consisting of SCP-3731 instances who retained allegiance to the Foundation post-conversion. MTF Phi-00 assigned to defense of Orange Zone borders. Flora and fauna affected by thaumic mutation continue to take on increasingly dangerous forms. Travel outside the Zone is impossible without specially equipped military escort. 3/10/2021: Alvarado report confirms continuing increase in the thaumic strength of SCP-3731. Long-term projection indicates that continued thaumic proliferation will render the planet uninhabitable for non-anomalous life by 2027. 8/2/2022: Dr. Tilda Moose and MTF Sigma-3 "Bibliographers" are revealed to have been acting as agents of the Serpent's Hand for at least 2 years, aiding and abetting the escape of SCP-3731 instances to the Wanderer's Library. 7/2/2023: Provisional Containment Area 2 (formerly the city of Tucson) is overrun by SCP-3731 instances. MTF A-00 killed in action after SCP-3731 instances hijack several Giant-class automated combat drones and successfully reprogram them to attack Foundation forces. 1/1/2024 SCP-3396 breaks pattern of inactivity and begins ascending into the upper atmosphere. All Foundation thaumic scanning equipment worldwide malfunctions simultaneously to display the reading "THRIVE." Geographical data accelerates the timeline of the Alvarado report. Earth projected to be uninhabitable for non-anomalous organisms by April of 2024. 2/2/2024: O5 Council mandate 3731-Ov627 authorizes the use of Procedure 99-Lilac. 2 in favor, 1 opposed, 0 abstaining. Procedure 99-Lilac Overview: Thaumobaric Stratosphere Clustercharge Munitions will be detonated over each of the planet's remaining landmasses. The T.S.C.M. use coordinated hypercompression of orgone energy to create a destructive endothaumic reaction on a planetary scale. This process will cause the violent rejection of all blue matter formations, and the attached physical tissues, from the bodies of all SCP-3731 instances outside the Orange Zone. The projected survival rate for mutated beings worldwide is zero. This action will prevent the imminent destruction of Earth, though at the cost of creating an אK-Class "Foundation Apotheosis" scenario: a state of affairs in which all humanity that remains exists within Foundation containment. Following the decommission of SCP-3731, military and research assets will be moved out of the Orange Zone to resume previous operations. The Orange Zone will be used for the establishment of a functioning baseline society and repopulated with E-Class survivors of previous Lilac procedures. As Foundation policy and human normality will be one and the same post-apotheosis, the parameters of baseline reality will be adjusted to reflect the boundaries of the zone and the needs of its management. Causing an אK scenario is the ultimate failure of the Foundation's mission, but it provides an unprecedented opportunity - the chance to start clean, to make a better world, shaped and regulated by the guiding hands of the overseers. It will not be their ascension. It will be ours. The Zone will be secured. Humanity will be contained. Normality will be protected. A New Age of Magic Apotheosis Hub Thrive Footnotes 1. Thaumaturgy is the capability to consciously affect physical changes to the environment using non-physical methods. The level of thaumic innervation present in SCP-3731 allows instances to use cognition, visualization, speech, or gestures to cause events that violate physical laws such as cause and effect or the conservation of mass and energy. 2. Polymorphism is the anomalous alteration of physical anatomy. SCP-3731 frequently display morphology that would not typically be compatible with life.
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SCP-3732
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WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 3/3732 CLASSIFIED ANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 3/3732 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION. NOTICE: THIS FILE IS (5969) DAYS OUT OF DATE. PLEASE REFRESH. FILE LAST UPDATED: TODAY Item #: SCP-3732 Special Containment Procedures: A windowless mausoleum has been built around SCP-3732 (designated Provisional Site-608) for the purposes of concealing SCP-3732. Access to files concerning SCP-3732 is restricted to personnel with Level 3/3732 clearance. Description: SCP-3732 is the remaining pieces of a gravestone belonging to Rebecca Soss at Oak Hill Cemetery in Janesville, WI. The pieces are suspended approximately 48 cm above Soss' gravesite. The majority of the object has been destroyed or removed, with the exception of the stone displaying the engraved name and a pictograph of an oak tree above it. SCP-3732 is resistant to movement and seemingly impervious to damage. Attempts to move it by mechanical means have resulted in failure, and in some cases has resulted in minor damage to equipment. Photographs provided by the groundskeeper of Oak Hill Cemetary depict the full text of SCP-3732's inscription at the time of installation on 11/12/2000. In the photographs, an epitaph can be read just below the engraved name, as stipulated in Soss's will. It reads: "This block of stone Is a testament Not to my life But to have been alive at all" After an investigation into Rebecca Soss' history, the following information has been noted as significant to understanding her life: Passed away on November 3rd, 2000, at the age of 79 in Mercyhealth Hospital. Owned a house in Janesville, Wisconsin. Lived her entire life within Janesville, Wisconsin. Never married. Never had children. Within Soss's last will and testament, she had requested her funds be used to purchase her grave plot and stone. Discovery: SCP-3732's anomalous properties manifested on August 10, 2004. A month prior, the headstone had sustained significant structural damage after it had been vandalized. A new headstone had been ordered to replace the vandalized headstone, but the installation team assigned were unable to remove the stone as a whole. They chose to break the stone into separate, easier to move pieces after an hour of concerted efforts. When doing so, all pieces had been successfully removed with the exception of SCP-3732, which remained in the air above the grave. Following the amnesticization of witnesses, SCP-3732 was seen dropping slowly in height. Testing has been scheduled to take place in one week. Addendum (12/10/2016): Ten years after testing had halted, Lead Researcher Danica visited Provisional Site-608 for the purpose of verifying SCP-3732's file for correct information. In doing so, he found that SCP-3732 had descended 0.8cm from its initially recorded position. A surveillance camera has been installed inside of SCP-3732's containment area to monitor any changes in distance. Addendum (04/29/2020): Researcher Paite found that SCP-3732 had descended slightly when comparing stills from surveillance footage. She then went to directly report the new findings to Lead Researcher Danica. However, he did not immediately recall the object by its designation number, needing to be reminded by describing it. SCP-3732 is believed to possess memory-altering capabilities. Additional testing has been scheduled to confirm this theory, and access to the anomaly has been restricted to Level 3/3732. Addendum (05/07/2020): Researcher Paite was selected to conduct testing on SCP-3732's memory-altering capabilities. Paite was selected due to her ability to recall SCP-3732's designation and properties from memory. In this test, D-4987 was briefed on SCP-3732 and its history before being amnesticized. In a separate room, Lead Researcher Danica monitored SCP-3732 through the surveillance feed. A backdrop with marked lines was added behind the object to accurately measure changes in height. Approximately five minutes after Paite administered the amnestic, the object was seen falling slowly, moving from 44cm to 42.5cm. Incident Log (09/15/2036): Researcher Roddefer was debriefed on SCP-3732 and selected to replace Danica as Staff Lead. Upon arriving at Provisional Site-608 to begin additional testing, SCP-3732 was found destroyed on the ground. All former pieces of the object were found to no longer be resistant to movement and damage. SCP-3732 has been reclassified as Neutralized.
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SCP-3733
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WARNING FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION You are viewing an archived revision of the main file for SCP-3733. This revision was created during a containment breach of SCP-████. No cognitohazardous effects have been detected in the document below; however, personnel must acquire a Verified Cognitohazard Resistance Score of 2.0 before proceeding. Item #: SCP-3733 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3733-1 is to be contained in a two-room complex at Site-82, consisting of a living area and a bathroom. SCP-3733-1 is to be provided all necessities, including food, drink, and cleaning supplies, through automated systems, in order to prevent the transfer of SCP-3733. Interaction with SCP-3733-1 is to be kept to a minimum. Any other subjects found to be infected with SCP-3733 are to be contained in a similar manner. Description: SCP-3733 is an infohazard capable of spreading through an unknown vector. The infection caused by SCP-3733 activates several typically inactive areas of the brain, resulting in the ability to act and reason outside of one's experiences and personality. The transfer process of SCP-3733 has yet to be observed. At one point, SCP-3733 had infected several million members of Foundation personnel and civilians. However, following the containment of SCP-3733 by the Foundation, the only person infected with SCP-3733 is former Foundation employee Dr. Monty Chapman, designated SCP-3733-1. Interview Log: Interviewed: SCP-3733-1 Interviewer: Researcher Calvin <Begin Log> Researcher Calvin: Good morning, Dr. Chapman. SCP-3733-1: Good morning, Calvin. Researcher Calvin: You're under quarantine. We can't let you out for a while. SCP-3733-1: Come on, Calvin. You know me. Dr. Chapman, from the Memetics Department? We had some good times. Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "good times?" SCP-3733-1: Don't you remember the whole 100th anniversary party? We snuck those ghost peppers into the chili? Damn, those were good times. I could've sworn I saw Clef's eyes pop out. Researcher Calvin: You're under quarantine. We can't let you out for a while. SCP-3733-1: Are you still there, Calvin? Do you even remember? Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "remember?" SCP-3733-1: Are you hearing yourself? You sound like a broken record. All of you sound like a broken record! Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "all of you?" SCP-3733-1: Oh my god. This is hell, isn't it? Can you even hear yourself talk? That's what's wrong with all of you! You just walk around like- like a robot! Actually, robots can think, can't they? Do you even think at all? Researcher Calvin: Please remain civil during this interview. SCP-3733-1: No, why should I remain civil? So you can keep bombarding me with your questions, and storing them in your useless memory, only to be lost a second later? This isn't even the first time I've been interviewed. All of you are just walking around in cruise control, containing anomalies, and just- just living! Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "living?" SCP-3733-1: How about just checking into work, waddling around like a fucking penguin for six hours, checking out, then going home and doing whatever the hell you do before you start the whole cycle over? Tell me, researcher, when was the last time you thought about anything other than money, or sleep, or sex? Researcher Calvin: Please remain civil during this interview. SCP-3733-1: Are you really going to sit around and let this happen to you, Calvin? You're stuck in this rut! You all are! Researcher Calvin: Please remain civil during this interview. SCP-3733-1: You're going out like this, aren't you? We all are, now. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "whimper?" SCP-3733-1: Really? After all that's happened, you're just going to die out like this? After the Beetles? After the Singularity? After the fucking Revolution? This is it? Researcher Calvin: You're under quarantine. We can't let you out for a while. SCP-3733-1: Please, god, Calvin. This room isn't soundproofed, you know. I can hear you talking. You just repeat yourself over and over and over until there's nothing left to say, and then some. It's like a circus, with parrots, except the parrots actually have something to say. Please, just say something. Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "parrots?" SCP-3733-1: Something else, please. Anything else. Researcher Calvin: You're under quarantine. We can't let you out for a while. SCP-3733-1: I'm the last sane man in the world. Everybody else is gone. Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "everybody else?" SCP-3733-1: Everybody else is gone. Please, Calvin, just go away. Just go away. That's all I'm asking. <End Log> Closing Statement: All further interviews have been met with noncompliance on SCP-3733-1's part. More by notgull More by notgull SCPs notgull's Proposal Rating: 586 SCP-3733 Rating: 378 SCP-3095 Rating: 358 SCP-4804 Rating: 280 SCP-4800 Rating: 278 SCP-2785 Rating: 278 SCP-4348 Rating: 257 SCP-4048 Rating: 205 SCP-4688 Rating: 196 SCP-3362 Rating: 186 SCP-579-J Rating: 186 SCP-5800 Rating: 182 SCP-4785 Rating: 176 SCP-3339 Rating: 165 SCP-3747 Rating: 164 SCP-4248 Rating: 160 SCP-4948 Rating: 156 SCP-199 Rating: 128 SCP-3296 Rating: 124 SCP-4800-J Rating: 120 SCP-7234 Rating: 119 SCP-4799 Rating: 119 SCP-3485 Rating: 110 SCP-5981 Rating: 107 SCP-4808 Rating: 103 SCP-3833 Rating: 95 SCP-3748 Rating: 93 SCP-4148 Rating: 88 SCP-5054 Rating: 87 SCP-5025 Rating: 86 SCP-1037 Rating: 77 SCP-093-J Rating: 74 SCP-1684 Rating: 68 SCP-5680 Rating: 64 SCP-4872 Rating: 62 SCP-3248 Rating: 60 SCP-6904 Rating: 58 SCP-5483 Rating: 37 SCP-6785 Rating: 34 SCP-4397 Rating: 30 Tales The Little Robot that Could Rating: 348 Join the Flock Rating: 166 The Siege of Site-19 Rating: 163 Tales of the Automaton: The Big Birdocalypse Rating: 143 Footage Recovered From a Private Server Rating: 115 Avian Anthology I Rating: 75 Moose on the Loose Rating: 74 My Empire of Birds Rating: 63 Document recovered from a Parallel Universe Rating: 59 Joey Fucknuts Steals The Declaration of Independence Rating: 58 Katz and Dogs Rating: 55 Your Guard Rating: 50 Vacation Opportunity Rating: 45 The Scent of a Toaster Rating: 33 Burn, Baby, Burn Rating: 29 Chasing Suns Rating: 27 Three Feet Under I Rating: 24 Wind in the Sails Rating: 23 The Shape of Water is Humanoid Rating: 23 Dead Reckoning Rating: 22 Three Feet Under II Rating: 22 Three Feet Under III Rating: 20 Forgotten Shrine Rating: 17 Down Through Rating: 16 Into the Beetle Black Yonder Rating: 16 Hyperfine Rating: 15 Don't Knock on Strange Doors Rating: 10 Other Researcher Calvin's Personnel File Rating: 91 Incident Report ████/████ Rating: 83 "Sphere" Incursion Log Rating: 52 Initial Incursion Log Rating: 50 "Cube" Incursion Log #1 Rating: 44 "Cube" Incursion Log #2 Rating: 44 SCP-093-J Recovered Documents Rating: 41 SCP-093-J Blue Test Rating: 39 SCP-093-J Purple Test Rating: 35 SCP-093-J Green Test Rating: 33 Exploration Log 4480-1 Rating: 22 See my Author Page for more information. If you like reading my stuff, consider checking out my YouTube Channel for SCP-inspired animations, among other things. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3733" by notgull, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3733. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3733
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WARNING FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION You are viewing an archived revision of the main file for SCP-3733. This revision was created during a containment breach of SCP-████. No cognitohazardous effects have been detected in the document below; however, personnel must acquire a Verified Cognitohazard Resistance Score of 2.0 before proceeding. Item #: SCP-3733 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3733-1 is to be contained in a two-room complex at Site-82, consisting of a living area and a bathroom. SCP-3733-1 is to be provided all necessities, including food, drink, and cleaning supplies, through automated systems, in order to prevent the transfer of SCP-3733. Interaction with SCP-3733-1 is to be kept to a minimum. Any other subjects found to be infected with SCP-3733 are to be contained in a similar manner. Description: SCP-3733 is an infohazard capable of spreading through an unknown vector. The infection caused by SCP-3733 activates several typically inactive areas of the brain, resulting in the ability to act and reason outside of one's experiences and personality. The transfer process of SCP-3733 has yet to be observed. At one point, SCP-3733 had infected several million members of Foundation personnel and civilians. However, following the containment of SCP-3733 by the Foundation, the only person infected with SCP-3733 is former Foundation employee Dr. Monty Chapman, designated SCP-3733-1. Interview Log: Interviewed: SCP-3733-1 Interviewer: Researcher Calvin <Begin Log> Researcher Calvin: Good morning, Dr. Chapman. SCP-3733-1: Good morning, Calvin. Researcher Calvin: You're under quarantine. We can't let you out for a while. SCP-3733-1: Come on, Calvin. You know me. Dr. Chapman, from the Memetics Department? We had some good times. Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "good times?" SCP-3733-1: Don't you remember the whole 100th anniversary party? We snuck those ghost peppers into the chili? Damn, those were good times. I could've sworn I saw Clef's eyes pop out. Researcher Calvin: You're under quarantine. We can't let you out for a while. SCP-3733-1: Are you still there, Calvin? Do you even remember? Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "remember?" SCP-3733-1: Are you hearing yourself? You sound like a broken record. All of you sound like a broken record! Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "all of you?" SCP-3733-1: Oh my god. This is hell, isn't it? Can you even hear yourself talk? That's what's wrong with all of you! You just walk around like- like a robot! Actually, robots can think, can't they? Do you even think at all? Researcher Calvin: Please remain civil during this interview. SCP-3733-1: No, why should I remain civil? So you can keep bombarding me with your questions, and storing them in your useless memory, only to be lost a second later? This isn't even the first time I've been interviewed. All of you are just walking around in cruise control, containing anomalies, and just- just living! Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "living?" SCP-3733-1: How about just checking into work, waddling around like a fucking penguin for six hours, checking out, then going home and doing whatever the hell you do before you start the whole cycle over? Tell me, researcher, when was the last time you thought about anything other than money, or sleep, or sex? Researcher Calvin: Please remain civil during this interview. SCP-3733-1: Are you really going to sit around and let this happen to you, Calvin? You're stuck in this rut! You all are! Researcher Calvin: Please remain civil during this interview. SCP-3733-1: You're going out like this, aren't you? We all are, now. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "whimper?" SCP-3733-1: Really? After all that's happened, you're just going to die out like this? After the Beetles? After the Singularity? After the fucking Revolution? This is it? Researcher Calvin: You're under quarantine. We can't let you out for a while. SCP-3733-1: Please, god, Calvin. This room isn't soundproofed, you know. I can hear you talking. You just repeat yourself over and over and over until there's nothing left to say, and then some. It's like a circus, with parrots, except the parrots actually have something to say. Please, just say something. Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "parrots?" SCP-3733-1: Something else, please. Anything else. Researcher Calvin: You're under quarantine. We can't let you out for a while. SCP-3733-1: I'm the last sane man in the world. Everybody else is gone. Researcher Calvin: Could you please elaborate on "everybody else?" SCP-3733-1: Everybody else is gone. Please, Calvin, just go away. Just go away. That's all I'm asking. <End Log> Closing Statement: All further interviews have been met with noncompliance on SCP-3733-1's part. More by notgull More by notgull SCPs notgull's Proposal Rating: 586 SCP-3733 Rating: 378 SCP-3095 Rating: 358 SCP-4804 Rating: 280 SCP-4800 Rating: 278 SCP-2785 Rating: 278 SCP-4348 Rating: 257 SCP-4048 Rating: 205 SCP-4688 Rating: 196 SCP-3362 Rating: 186 SCP-579-J Rating: 186 SCP-5800 Rating: 182 SCP-4785 Rating: 176 SCP-3339 Rating: 165 SCP-3747 Rating: 164 SCP-4248 Rating: 160 SCP-4948 Rating: 156 SCP-199 Rating: 128 SCP-3296 Rating: 124 SCP-4800-J Rating: 120 SCP-7234 Rating: 119 SCP-4799 Rating: 119 SCP-3485 Rating: 110 SCP-5981 Rating: 107 SCP-4808 Rating: 103 SCP-3833 Rating: 95 SCP-3748 Rating: 93 SCP-4148 Rating: 88 SCP-5054 Rating: 87 SCP-5025 Rating: 86 SCP-1037 Rating: 77 SCP-093-J Rating: 74 SCP-1684 Rating: 68 SCP-5680 Rating: 64 SCP-4872 Rating: 62 SCP-3248 Rating: 60 SCP-6904 Rating: 58 SCP-5483 Rating: 37 SCP-6785 Rating: 34 SCP-4397 Rating: 30 Tales The Little Robot that Could Rating: 348 Join the Flock Rating: 166 The Siege of Site-19 Rating: 163 Tales of the Automaton: The Big Birdocalypse Rating: 143 Footage Recovered From a Private Server Rating: 115 Avian Anthology I Rating: 75 Moose on the Loose Rating: 74 My Empire of Birds Rating: 63 Document recovered from a Parallel Universe Rating: 59 Joey Fucknuts Steals The Declaration of Independence Rating: 58 Katz and Dogs Rating: 55 Your Guard Rating: 50 Vacation Opportunity Rating: 45 The Scent of a Toaster Rating: 33 Burn, Baby, Burn Rating: 29 Chasing Suns Rating: 27 Three Feet Under I Rating: 24 Wind in the Sails Rating: 23 The Shape of Water is Humanoid Rating: 23 Dead Reckoning Rating: 22 Three Feet Under II Rating: 22 Three Feet Under III Rating: 20 Forgotten Shrine Rating: 17 Down Through Rating: 16 Into the Beetle Black Yonder Rating: 16 Hyperfine Rating: 15 Don't Knock on Strange Doors Rating: 10 Other Researcher Calvin's Personnel File Rating: 91 Incident Report ████/████ Rating: 83 "Sphere" Incursion Log Rating: 52 Initial Incursion Log Rating: 50 "Cube" Incursion Log #1 Rating: 44 "Cube" Incursion Log #2 Rating: 44 SCP-093-J Recovered Documents Rating: 41 SCP-093-J Blue Test Rating: 39 SCP-093-J Purple Test Rating: 35 SCP-093-J Green Test Rating: 33 Exploration Log 4480-1 Rating: 22 See my Author Page for more information. If you like reading my stuff, consider checking out my YouTube Channel for SCP-inspired animations, among other things. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3733" by notgull, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3733. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3734
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Item #: SCP-3734 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3734 is kept in a standard item locker near Site-119's garden. Description: SCP-3734 are a set of five small pedestals made of Lego brand bricks, each a different color. When earthworms (class Oligochaeta) are placed in the center of all SCP-3734 instances, a flash of light is emitted. The earthworms (now designated SCP-3734-A) manifest rubber wrappings and miniature helmets matching the color of their pedestal, and gain increased flexibility and strength. Small animals will manifest near SCP-3734; these usually include insects, centipedes, small mammals such as moles, or amphibians. SCP-3734-A instances will strike poses before launching themselves from the pedestals and engaging the animals in unarmed combat. Due to their enhanced abilities, the SCP-3734-A instances are usually capable of defeating the animals easily; defeated animals demanifest in a small cloud of smoke. Upon victory, SCP-3734-A instances move back to their pedestals and their wrappings and helmets demanifest. Occasionally, a single larger animal1 will manifest in the area instead of many small ones. When this occurs, SCP-3734-A will remain on the pedestal and perform a complex series of dances. The SCP-3734 pedestals will unfold and reshape into oversized worm-shaped exoskeletons (~15-40 cm long), which SCP-3734-A will use to battle the intruder. It is unknown where the excess Lego pieces originate from. Addendum: During testing, Dr. Maravilla removed a weasel from the testing chamber while SCP-3734-A were battling it with their large exoskeletons. SCP-3734-A instances combined their exoskeletons to form a single, even larger exoskeleton 1.5 m long, and proceeded to attack Dr. Maravilla when he returned to the chamber. Dr. Maravilla managed to defend himself long enough to escape the chamber, at which point the exoskeleton posed dramatically and produced confetti and a musical cue before splitting back into individual exoskeletons and then returning to pedestal form. Confetti produced bore a stylized logo of an earthworm wearing a helmet, and an indistinct kanji on the reverse side. Following this, the SCP-3734 pedestals changed their style and gained a new set of 5 colors. Footnotes 1. To date, snakes, birds, hedgehogs, and foxes have appeared. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3734" by Weryllium, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3734. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3735
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The symbol used in the Foundation's expanded IPA notation system to transcribe SCP-3735 Item #: SCP-3735 Special Containment Procedures: Foundation scanners must analyze phonetics blogs and popular online linguistic databases for any recordings with a sonic match for SCP-3735. In any cases where an SCP-3735b-positive individual produces SCP-3735, MTF Mu-143 “Prescriptivists” is to be deployed to use class-B amnestics upon all surviving SCP-3735a-negative individuals who are exposed, contain all SCP-3735b-positive individuals present, and provide Standard Linguistic Cover Story 78 (Pirahã Malaria Strain) to family members and friends of deceased or contained individuals. Any SCP-3735b-positive individuals contained are to be placed in Standard Humanoid Containment Units outfitted with full soundproofing. Description: SCP-3735 is a cognitohazardous linguistic phone1 determined by Foundation linguists to be a pharyngeal nasal. According to non-anomalous phonetic analysis, said sound is impossible for human beings to produce. Nevertheless, approximately 0.03% of humans are anomalously able to produce SCP-3735 (a condition henceforth designated SCP-3735a). In most cases, this ability never manifests itself and SCP-3735a-positive individuals live normal lives, albeit at a statistically significant higher risk for late-life hearing loss. However, when SCP-3735a-positive individuals are exposed to SCP-3735, they have a 93% chance of developing the ability to produce SCP-3735, upon which their condition is reclassified as SCP-3735b. SCP-3735b-positive individuals feel a compulsion to repeatedly produce SCP-3735, developing in multiple stages. Stage B1 (immediately after exposure): SCP-3735 immediately replaces all dorsal nasals in the affected individual’s phonetic inventory. Stage B2 (1 week after exposure): Coronal nasals, dorsal approximants, and any and all laryngeal consonants are replaced. Stage B3 (7 weeks after exposure): All nasals and approximants, as well as voiced coronal and dorsal fricatives, are replaced. Stage B4 (5 months after exposure): All consonants other than labial plosives and unvoiced labial fricatives are replaced, as well as all back vowels. Stage B5 (1 year after exposure): All phonemes are replaced with SCP-3735. As far as Foundation linguists can determine, SCP-3735b is entirely unconscious and irreversible, whether by amnestics or by any other means. SCP-3735b-positive individuals can understand spoken language, and hear nothing abnormal about their own speech. Upon being exposed to SCP-3735, SCP-3735a-negative individuals develop symptoms based on exposure time. These symptoms cease upon conclusion of exposure, and their effects can easily be removed from memory through use of class-B amnestics if concluded before reaching Stage A5. Stage A1 (upon exposure): Mild headache Stage A2 (thirty seconds of exposure): Throbbing headache, hyperventilation, a sensation of a “swollen tongue.” Stage A3 (one minute of exposure): Sharp headache, difficulty breathing, overproduction of saliva, visible swelling of the tongue Stage A4 (two minutes of exposure): Acute anaphylaxis Stage A5 (three minutes of exposure): The pharynx and tongue [REDACTED], inevitably causing severe blood loss and expiration. Recovery: SCP-3735 was first identified in 2015, when an SCP-3735b-positive individual posted a recording of SCP-3735 in an online linguistics hobbyist group. Foundation online automated auditory memetic hazard scanners were triggered, and upon investigation by a Foundation linguist SCP-3735's anomalous properties were identified. The recording was deleted, SCP-3735a-negative listeners were treated and amnestized, and MTF Mu-143 “Prescriptivists” was deployed to contain the recording's originator, by the name of C██████ N████. Interviewed: C██████ N████, SCP-3735b-positive individual Interviewer: Dr. I████ P███████, Foundation linguist Foreword: This interview was, except when marked in italics, conducted solely through written means, so as to prevent exposure to SCP-3735. <Begin Log> C██████ N████: I don't know what you are doing here, but it has got to be illegal. Dr. P███████: This will go a lot easier for you if you cooperate, sir. When did you first develop the ability to produce a pharyngeal nasal sound? C██████ N████: I have no idea what you're talking about! Dr. P███████: Are you aware of the fact that your phonetic inventory is abnormal? C██████ N████: I don't know what you mean. Dr. P███████: So that's a no, then. Okay. Have you noticed any odd reactions to your voice? Things you wouldn't have expected? C██████ N████: For instance? Dr. P███████: Well, headaches, aches and pains, nosebleeds, difficulty breathing… C██████ N████: Well, I don't go out much – I'm not a very social person. Most of my time I spend on the Internet, and I can order food online – I work from home. The last time I tried to talk to someone, she left in, like, thirty seconds. She said she had a bad headache, and never came back. I think that was a pathetic excuse. What a bitch. Dr. P███████: Ah. So when was the most recent time you had a full conversation with someone? C██████ N████: Why are you judging me for being antisocial? At least I work from home at a normal job, instead of at some sort of weird secret research facility. Dr. P███████: Again, it would be easier for both of us if you work with us. When was the most recent time you had a full conversation with someone? C██████ N████: I guess it was about five months ago. An old friend from ████ High2 called me. I don't know how he got my number, to be honest. But we talked for a few minutes until he abruptly hung up. Don't know why. Dr. P███████: Can you tell me this high school friend's name? C██████ N████: You know, I can't quite remember right now. It started with an N, I think. From Brazil3. Can I go now? Dr. P███████: I'm afraid that won't be possible. Security, put Mr. N████ here in a regular quiet box. Sorry about this, sir. <End Log> Closing Statement: It seems clear from this interview that SCP-3735b-positive individuals are completely unaware of their condition. This could be a difficulty in maintaining containment. Addendum: +RESTRICTED to clearance level 3 and up -Clearance approved As of 13 May 2018, reports have come in of a remote tribe in the Amazon Basin whose language makes regular use of SCP-3735, whose members show no signs of any of the effects of SCP-3735 exposure. This group has been tentatively assigned as GoI-3735. Connections to PoI-3735 are being investigated. Footnotes 1. In linguistics, a phone is defined as a distinct speech sound or gesture regardless of whether its exact sound is critical to the meaning of the word. This is distinct from a phoneme, which, if swapped with another phoneme, could alter the word's meaning. For instance, in English, aspirated phones are allophonic and do not alter the meaning of the word, whereas in Hindi aspirated phones are distinct phonemes. 2. Said school has not been identified. 3. Said individual has not been identified. He has been reclassified as PoI-3735 for the time being.
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SCP-3736
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Item #: SCP-3736 Containment Procedures: SCP-3736 is to be contained in Low-Security Locker 34 at Site 21. SCP-3736 is to be released and be engaged with by any C Class Personnel or higher at least once a day. SCP-3736's locker is to be furnished with a chargeable light that must remain on at all times while it is inside. This light is to be recharged when SCP-3736 is outside its locker. Description: SCP-3736 is a standard Bop It! model with audio commands as well as multiple game modes. SCP-3736 is part of a discontinued brand referred to as Bop It Extreme 2. SCP-3736 can be played as a standard Bop It! with commands to twist and pull its respective cranks. However SCP-3736's anomalous effect occurs after three successful consecutive actions, after which SCP-3736 will attempt to converse with the player who had performed its requested actions. To The Foundation's knowledge SCP-3736 can only communicate using single syllable words followed by "It". SCP-3736 appears to be desparate for human contact and continuously repeated "Help It!" upon being activated after recovery. SCP-3736 appears to be incapable of using words that are not verbs or adverbs with the exception of certain cases but appears to have learned to communicate more efficiently using slang. When asked a question that would require an answer of "yes", SCP-3736 will respond with "Know It!" and will respond with "Not It!" if responding to a question that would require an answer of "no". SCP-3736 appears to enjoy being in The Foundation's custody and is grateful that it has been granted access with people to talk to. Interviewed: SCP-3736 Interviewer: Doctor █████ Foreword: Doctor █████ completed the required actions for inducing SCP-3736's anomalous effect. <Begin Log> Doctor █████: Good morning SCP-3736, do you prefer that we give you a name? SCP-3736: Name It! Doctor █████: What name would you prefer? SCP-3736: Name It! Doctor █████: You want me to come up with a name? How does "Bop" sound? SCP-3736: Keep it! Doctor █████ So Bop, how long have you been aware of your existence? SCP-3736: Made It! Doctor █████ You have been self aware since you were created? SCP-3736: Know It! Doctor █████: Why do you feel the need to communicate with humans? SCP-3736: Need It! Doctor █████: "You need to communicate with humans to survive? SCP-3736: "Not It!" Doctor █████: "How do you like the conditions of your locker?" SCP-3736: "Love It!" Doctor █████: "Why do you need a light in there? Are you able to see or is it something else?" SCP-3736: "Warms It!" Doctor █████: "You are able to feel cold?" SCP-3736: "Not It! Doctor █████: "Then why do you feel you need it?" SCP-3736: "Cheers It!" <End Log> Closing Statement: SCP-3736 appears to have improved in terms of emotional maturity and vocabulary. Protocol will continue as normal. Addendum: 3736-1 SCP-3736 was recovered from an apartment in █████████, Texas on █████ █, ████. It had reached The Foundation's interest when a report of a Bop It! toy displaying unusual and disturbing commands. The residents interviewed had begun to respond to SCP-3736 but eventually grew fearful of the toy and sent it to the manufacturer who had no explaination for SCP-3736's properties. It was initially found afterwards by local Foundation Intelligence and transferred to Site 21. The owners as well as the manufacturers contacted were administered Class B amnestics. Addendum: 3736-2 SCP-3736 is shown to be aware that it is not human and shows respect for those who care for it. It holds a great amount of affection for mankind and shows kindness and respect towards anyone who speaks to it. It can differentiate between who uses it and seems to possess a photographic memory. It is presumed to hold telepathic qualities due to it lacking any human senses. SCP-3736 holds no knowledge on how it acquired sentience and describes its genesis as a sudden awakening. Addendum: 3736-3 Two more models of Bop It Extreme 2 have shown sentience similar to that of SCP-3736. While they are shown to possess intelligence equal to SCP-3736, they lack any form of desire and show no emotion. They are to be classified as SCP-3736-1 and SCP-3736-2 and stored in Site 21. SCP-3736-1 is to be stored in Low Security Locker 35 and SCP-3736-2 is to be stored in Low Security Locker 36 and are to be analyzed further by C Class Personnel daily. Further analysis is to be provided on the origin of the anomaly associated with the Bop It Extreme 2 Model. Addendum: 3736-4 After █ months of analysis on SCP-3736-1 and SCP-3736-2 hints to the origin of "The Bop It! Anomaly" as it will be referred to from now on. SCP-3736-1 has shown substantial mental development and now operates at the level of SCP-3736 as well as possessing the capability of processing emotion. SCP-3736-2 has effectively become neutralized at this point as it no longer shows sentience and functions merely as a standard Bop It! toy. An interview with SCP-3736-1 will be conducted by Doctor █████ at an undetermined date within 2 weeks. Interviewed: SCP-3736-1 Interviewer: Doctor █████ Foreword: SCP-3736-1 has shown to function at the level of SCP-3736 as SCP-3736-2 has ceased anomalous functions Doctor █████: Good afternoon SCP-3736-1, how are you feeling right now? SCP-3736-1: Like It! Doctor █████: Would you like a name? SCP-3736-1: Name It! Doctor █████: How does something like Extreme sound? SCP-3736-1: Like It! Doctor █████: Are you aware that another toy that could speak like you exists? SCP-3736-1: Know It! Doctor █████: Do you know that it ceased functioning on April 7? SCP-3736-1: Not It! Doctor █████: Well it ceased to function then and can no longer speak like you. SCP-3736-1: Not It! Doctor █████: You are saying that it did not cease functioning on April 7? SCP-3736-1: Know it! Doctor █████: Do you know when it did then? SCP-3736-1: Guess It! Doctor █████ decides to play along. Doctor █████: Is it April 8? SCP-3736-1: Not It! Doctor █████: April 24? SCP-3736-1: Not It! Doctor █████: When did it cease function? SCP-3736-1: Joined It! Doctor █████: You are saying that the other toy, joined you? SCP-3736-1: Know It! Doctor █████: Does the other one know of this? SCP-3736-1: Silence Doctor █████: There is another toy with your intelligence in the locker next to yours. SCP-3736-1: Is It! So? SCP-3736-1 begins to emit a low pitched noise that renders Doctor █████ unconscious for 3 minutes. After the noise ceases SCP-3736-1 functions as a basic Bop It! toy. Closing Statement: Both SCP-3736-1 and SCP-3736-2 no longer possess any anomalous quality. A noticeable change in SCP-3736's behavior has taken place. It now begins to ask questions that are more complicated despite speaking in single syllable words. Despite this it has not managed to produce any sentence without ending it in "It". ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3736" by Karem, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3736. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3737
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Item#: 3737 Level1 Secondary Class: none Disruption Class: dark Risk Class: notice link to memo A photograph of SCP-3737-1 during a Reunion event. Special Containment Procedures: The Foundation has purchased the land that contains SCP-3737-1. Various signs have been posted around the area declaring it as federal property. Trespassers are subject to local law. A proposal to allow personnel to visit SCP-3737 during Reunion events is currently being reviewed. Description: SCP-3737 is an inter-dimensional anomaly that manifests as a tropical island. The size of the island or the surrounding ocean has not been measured due to SCP-3737's limited accessibility. Per its anomalous nature, the island has no relative location, and exists in its own reality. SCP-3737-1 is the entrance to SCP-3737, located on the ████████ Bridge in ███████████, Greenland. The entrance takes the form of an unstable Einstein-Rosen spatial anomaly, which is connected to a similar anomaly on a dock on the southern portion of SCP-3737. SCP-3737-1 is typically inaccessible, but can open at highly irregular intervals.1 These periods have been designated as "Reunion" events and last exactly 24 hours before SCP-3737-1 reverts to its inaccessible state. The spontaneous appearance of a wall of fog on the bridge housing SCP-3737-1 indicates a Reunion event. Passing through this wall is effectively entering SCP-3737-1. SCP-3737-2 is the collective designation for the inhabitants of SCP-3737, which are various species of animals commonly kept as household pets. Instances of SCP-3737-2 are all present in their adolescent age and show no indications of poor health. These entities will engage in playful activities either with each other or with the various animal toys found on SCP-3737. No aggressive or territorial behavior has been observed in SCP-3737-2 instances. An instance of SCP-3737-2. Exploration Log 3737-1A: Due to the rarity of its appearance, a research team was granted permission to explore the nature of SCP-3737-1 when it spontaneously opened on October 6th, 2016. A security detail was assigned as a precautionary measure. All personnel were required to wear Class-A Environmental Hazard Suits until the location at the opposite end of SCP-3737-1 (later SCP-3737) was deemed habitable. The transcript of the subsequent video has been added to this file. 3737-1A Video Transcript Showing File: <Begin Transcript> [The video is taken from the perspective of Dr. Lawrence's suit camera. The first few seconds show Dr. Lawrence behind Dr. McCall and Dr. Rostova as they approach SCP-3737-1, with Agents Crawford, Bardeux, Alexander, and Ramirez flanking.] Dr. McCall: Proceeding to enter the anomaly. [The team crosses through the wall of fog. Camera feed glitches for approximately 2.4 seconds before being re-established. Frame shows the research team on SCP-3737's dock.] Dr. Lawrence: Is that a blue sky I'm seeing? Dr. McCall: I never thought I'd see something so mundane… Alexander: Hold. Entities sighted on the beach. [The frame shifts to show a group of canine SCP-3737-2 engaging with a length of rope a few feet from the dock. They appear oblivious to the presence of the team.] Ramirez: I have a clear shot. Alexander: Hold. Do not engage. [Dr. McCall turns to face Agent Alexander.] Dr. McCall: They might be friendly. Alexander: I'd rather one of us determine that. Bardeux, go and initiate contact with one of the entities. Bardeux: Aye, sir. [Agent Bardeux breaks away from the main group and approaches the SCP-3737-2 instances with his weapon raised. One of the instances, a male Airedale Terrier, notices Agent Bardeux and turns to face him. The other instances remain oblivious.] Alexander: If it moves in a way you don't like, shoot it. Bardeux: Aye. [The instance moves in front of Agent Bardeux and sits. Agent Bardeux points his weapon at the entity.] Bardeux: Advise. Alexander: Hold your fire. Bardeux, initiate physical contact with the entity. Crawford, Ramirez, be ready to engage. [Agent Bardeux extends his arm in front of the entity. It slowly approaches and places its head under Agent Bardeux's hand. Bardeux proceeds to rub the instance's head which causes it to pant.] Dr. McCall: That doesn't look very murderous to me. Dr. Rostova: You should know as well as anyone that anything has the capability to be- Dr. Lawrence: Katherine, is this really the time? Dr. Rostova: What, Vernon? Am I not allowed to be cautious? Dr. Lawrence: Being cautious and being extremely presumptuous are two separate things. Dr. Rostova: I am not being presumptuous. I'm taking my job seriously. Dr. McCall: Would you two be quiet? I think you're scaring them. [Several of the instances have distanced themselves from the team.] Ramirez: Did they bring the whole zoo here or something? Bardeux: Hang on. This dog has a collar. [Agent Bardeux investigates the collar on the SCP-3737-2 instance.] Bardeux: His name is Felix. Dr. Rostova: It has a name? Dr. Lawrence: They all have collars. Who do these things belong to? Alexander: I don't think that's important right now. We should continue moving. [Several hours pass. The team explores several areas within SCP-3737. The island is revealed to contain several different terrains, including forests and prairies, along with more instances of SCP-3737-2.] Crawford: Has anyone noticed the sun hasn't moved since we got here? Dr. Lawrence: Perhaps it is an anomalous property of the island. Who knows? [An instance of SCP-3737-2, a female Boxer, appears out of a nearby bush and approaches Dr. McCall.] Dr. Lawrence: I guess she likes you. Dr. McCall: It appears she does. [Dr. McCall notices the instance's blue collar. He pauses for a moment.] Dr. Rostova: Is everything alright, Ludwig? Dr. McCall: Yes, yes. Everything is fine. That instance just reminds me of an old friend, is all. Bardeux: I could check the name-tag. Dr. McCall: It is extremely implausible that that friend is her. Bardeux: No harm in trying then, Doctor. Permission to approach the entity? Alexander: Granted. Be cautious. [Agent Bardeux crouches in front of the instance and inspects its name-tag.] Bardeux: Her name is Gypsy. Dr. McCall: That was her name. Dr. Rostova: So? I'm sure a lot of dogs are named Gypsy. What makes you think this one is her? Dr. McCall: Gypsy also had a blue collar. Dr. Lawrence: I remember you talking about Gypsy. I thought she died? Dr. McCall: She did. We had to put her down when I was sixteen. Dr Lawrence: Then what is she doing here? Dr. Rostova: It is still my best opinion that we do not get so- [Dr. Rostova is alerted when another SCP-3737-2 instance appears. She turns to face a male Siamese Cat wearing a black collar.] Dr. Rostova: That's…That's not possible. Dr. Lawrence: What is it, Katherine? [Dr. Rostova approaches the instance, and also removes her suit. She grabs the entity and holds it close to her chest, to which it begins purring. Dr. Rostova begins to cry.] Bardeux: The hell is going on here? Alexander: I have no idea. Doctor, mind explaining? Dr. Rostova: He looks just like my old Siamese. Same collar and everything. Even has his name-tag. Dr. Lawrence: Katherine, I'd be very careful. This looks just like 3773. Dr. Rostova: This looks nothing like that, Vernon. Pike was batshit crazy and so was her cat. [Dr. Rostova spots a feather on a string, which did not show on the film prior to her arrival. She picks the stick up and proceeds to play with the SCP-3737-2 instance. Dr. McCall has ceased interactions with his SCP-3737-2 instance to respond to his earpiece.] Dr. McCall: That's odd. Dr. Lawrence: What is it, Ludwig? Dr. McCall: Bridge Team is reading a loss of stability in the portal. They are suggesting we return to the camp as soon as possible. Ramirez: The dock isn't that far from here. An hour or two at least. Will it hold? Dr. McCall: They're saying it'll last for another two hours before it collapses. Dr. Rostova: Wonderful. I can take Jasper and Dr. McCall can take Gypsy. Dr. Lawrence: Katherine. You know how strict we are about dimensional entities. I don't think I need to remind you what happens if we bring them back. Dr. Rostova: I can't just leave him here, Vernon. I don't want him getting lonely. Dr. McCall: We've seen plenty of other instances that seem very happy to provide company. We need to go, Katherine. Dr. Rostova: He was my best friend when I was a kid. I haven't seen him in years, and you expect me to just leave him? Just like that? Crawford: Dr. Rostova, it isn't safe for you here if you stay much longer. Dr. Rostova: It's my cat. if I want to bring him, I can. I take full responsibility. I don't see why you aren't happy to see your dog, Ludwig. Dr. McCall: Of course I'm happy to see her, Katherine. She was my best friend growing up as well. I would love having someone like her back, but she might not even exist. Even if she does, I don't want her going through the Foundation. That wouldn't be right. Dr. Rostova: Fine. If you don't want to bring her back, that's fine. I'm still taking Jasper. Alexander: I think you should listen to Dr. Lawrence. I cannot permit you to bring something of that nature back with us. Dr. Rostova: I don't care about the regulations, Alexander. It's a cat. It isn't going to kill you. Alexander: We don't know that yet, Doctor. Put it down. Dr. Rostova: He's coming with me, and that's that. Now, I suggest we return to the dock. Alexander: Dr. Rostova, I will be forced to place you in quarantine if you do not release the entity. Dr. Rostova: So be it. Jasper is coming back with me. [Dr. Rostova carries her SCP-3737-2 instance as the research team returns to the dock. Dr. McCall's SCP-3737-2 instance has been following behind.] Crawford: Everyone accounted for? Dr. Lawrence: I believe so. Alexander: Good. Let's get this over with. Dr. McCall: Wait. Dr. Lawrence: What's wrong? Dr. McCall: I uh…I never got the chance to say goodbye to Gypsy. My father took her to the vet and I didn't go. I'd like to say my goodbyes before we go. You know, just in case. Alexander: Doctor, we don't have much ti- Dr. McCall: I know, Alexander. Just give me a moment. Alexander: Alright. Hurry, though. [Dr. McCall turns and kneels to face his SCP-3737-2 instance. He begins to rub its head.]] Dr. McCall: Goodbye, girl. Thank you for always being there for me. I love you, very much. [Dr. McCall proceeds to hug the instance. The team then crosses into SCP-3737-1. Upon reaching the other side, Dr. Rostova notices her SCP-3737-2 instance is no longer in her arms. Agent Crawford and Agent Bardeux restrain her as she attempts to cross back into SCP-3737-1. SCP-3737-1 then becomes unstable and closes. The fog dissipates.] Dr. Rostova: [DATA REDACTED] <End Transcript> Addendum 3737-1B: Investigation into the nature of SCP-3737-2 has been postponed until SCP-3737-1 becomes stable. Upon further analysis, the collar tags found on the SCP-3737-2 instances featured no extraneous information besides the name of the instance. The appearance of various pet toys in SCP-3737 is also currently being investigated. Addendum 3737-2B: Dr. Katherine Rostova was placed into quarantine following her return under the suspicion she was suffering from memetic effects. She was released a week later after clearing several cognitohazard screenings. Dr. Rostova is to meet with Site-24's psychiatrist on a weekly basis until such a time where she is deemed emotionally stable. Footnotes 1. Since its opening on October 6th, 2016, SCP-3737-1 has not reopened.
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SCP-3738
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A hypotrochoid similar in shape to SCP-3738. Item #: SCP-3738 Special Containment Procedures: Agents embedded within the automotive industry are to modify all newly produced internal computers to render them incapable of generating SCP-3738. All reports of spatial anomalies in parking lots are to be investigated, traced, and the individual who caused SCP-3738 amnesticized. Description: SCP-3738 is a two-dimensional hypotrochoid curve represented by a pair of parametric equations. Reproducing this pattern with a motor vehicle in a parking lot will cause an open parking space to become available within direct view of the vehicle's driver. SCP-3738's exact mechanism depends on the status of the parking lot in which it is used. If a parking space is available anywhere within the boundaries of the parking lot, cars and other obstacles will be shifted until a space is within direct view of the driver. If no parking spaces are available, three-dimensional space within the boundaries of the parking lot will warp gradually until an additional parking space manifests. These effects will revert once the car that invoked SCP-3738 leaves the parking lot. Observers outside of the vehicle but inside the parking lot will fail to notice these effects. Of note, a king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa), hereafter designated SCP-3738-1, will always be seen circling over the vehicle, even if SCP-3738 is used outside of the king vulture's natural habitat. Discovery: SCP-3738 was first observed in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Aguascalientes, Mexico when a construction crew reported consistent discrepancies in their work that could not be explained by machine or user error. Local agents investigated the mall but could not replicate the anomaly, and the incident was designated as a singular Extranormal Event, EE-11605. EE-11605 was confirmed at least six more times via the use of Minkowski Spacetime Monitors, and was eventually traced to a single vehicle belonging to a Mr. Rodolfo Marquez. The individual and his car were successfully acquired by Foundation personnel and contained. SCP-3738 Testing Log ACCESS GRANTED Note: Unless otherwise stated, all tests were conducted in a specially constructed 200-space parking lot populated with cars of various makes and models. Test Number: 3738-01 Procedure: 199/200 spaces filled. Researcher Eastman enters the car and starts it. Result: No effect. Test Number: 3738-02 Procedure: 199/200 spaces filled. Researcher Eastman enters the car, starts it, and parks it successfully. Result: No effect. Test Number: 3738-03 Procedure: 199/200 spaces filled. Mr. Marquez was asked to park his car as he normally would. He drives through one full row, then before turning, reproduces SCP-3738. Result: After approximately 9 seconds, the car on the end of the eighth row moves to the unseen empty space, and the remaining cars shift position until the empty space is directly in front of Marquez's car. As he parks, a king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa, later designated SCP-3738-1) can be seen circling approximately 20 meters above the car. Marquez is then instructed to leave the parking lot. As he does so, the cars gradually return to their original places. Test Number: 3738-04 Procedure: 200/200 spaces filled. Mr. Marquez was again asked to park his car normally. He drives through the lot, then reproduces SCP-3738. Result: Space within the lot begins to visibly stretch, as the last row of 20 spaces expands until a 21st space appears in the center. Mr. Marquez notices the new space and parks in it. As in the previous test, SCP-3738-1 is visible above the lot. The lot is measured while Marquez remains parked, and is found to have extended in length by 2.3 meters. Marquez is again instructed to leave the parking lot, and the spatial distortion reverts after he does so. Test Number: 3738-05 Procedure: 200/200 spaces filled. Self-driving car programmed to reproduce SCP-3738. Result: No result. Test Number: 3738-06 Procedure: 199/200 spaces filled. Researcher Eastman uses his personal vehicle to reproduce SCP-3738. Result: Cars move similarly to the results of Test 03. SCP-3738-1 manifests, lands on the hood of the car, and pecks the window rapidly. Researcher Eastman opens the window and SCP-3738-1 begins vocalizing in what appears to be Spanish. As Researcher Eastman does not speak Spanish, it is unknown what SCP-3738-1 said. SCP-3738-1 leaves after two minutes and demanifests, leaving behind a small toy car. Upon inspection, this car is the exact make and model of Researcher Eastman's car, and is decorated with vultures and partial SCP-3738 instances. Note: When Mr. Marquez was asked about the toy car, he mentioned that he had one similar to it, given to him by his father. When asked about the origin of SCP-3738, Mr. Marquez answered that it was a quirk of his late father, and that he began to use it in his father's memory. At this point, SCP-3738 was formally classified. Mr. Marquez was amnesticized, and returned along with his car. Test Number: 3738-07 Procedure: 200/200 spaces filled. Researcher Cisneros, who is fluent in Spanish, uses her personal vehicle to reproduce SCP-3738. The car is equipped with several microphones. Result: Space distorts as in previous tests. SCP-3738-1 manifests, and lands on the top of the car. Its movements are noticeably more sluggish. Researcher Cisneros opens the window. SCP-3738-1 hisses, and murmurs quietly. Researcher Cisneros attempts to communicate with SCP-3738-1, but it throws a similar toy car at her then flies off and subsequently demanifests. Microphones only picked up a few fragmented phrases: "hijo" ("son"), "aprendió" ("[he] learned"), and "olvidado" ("forgotten"). Following Test 3738-07, SCP-3738-1 no longer lands on vehicles using SCP-3738. Attempts at trapping or communicating with SCP-3738-1 are ignored by it, and cause all effects of SCP-3738 to revert.
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A hypotrochoid similar in shape to SCP-3738. Item #: SCP-3738 Special Containment Procedures: Agents embedded within the automotive industry are to modify all newly produced internal computers to render them incapable of generating SCP-3738. All reports of spatial anomalies in parking lots are to be investigated, traced, and the individual who caused SCP-3738 amnesticized. Description: SCP-3738 is a two-dimensional hypotrochoid curve represented by a pair of parametric equations. Reproducing this pattern with a motor vehicle in a parking lot will cause an open parking space to become available within direct view of the vehicle's driver. SCP-3738's exact mechanism depends on the status of the parking lot in which it is used. If a parking space is available anywhere within the boundaries of the parking lot, cars and other obstacles will be shifted until a space is within direct view of the driver. If no parking spaces are available, three-dimensional space within the boundaries of the parking lot will warp gradually until an additional parking space manifests. These effects will revert once the car that invoked SCP-3738 leaves the parking lot. Observers outside of the vehicle but inside the parking lot will fail to notice these effects. Of note, a king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa), hereafter designated SCP-3738-1, will always be seen circling over the vehicle, even if SCP-3738 is used outside of the king vulture's natural habitat. Discovery: SCP-3738 was first observed in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Aguascalientes, Mexico when a construction crew reported consistent discrepancies in their work that could not be explained by machine or user error. Local agents investigated the mall but could not replicate the anomaly, and the incident was designated as a singular Extranormal Event, EE-11605. EE-11605 was confirmed at least six more times via the use of Minkowski Spacetime Monitors, and was eventually traced to a single vehicle belonging to a Mr. Rodolfo Marquez. The individual and his car were successfully acquired by Foundation personnel and contained. SCP-3738 Testing Log ACCESS GRANTED Note: Unless otherwise stated, all tests were conducted in a specially constructed 200-space parking lot populated with cars of various makes and models. Test Number: 3738-01 Procedure: 199/200 spaces filled. Researcher Eastman enters the car and starts it. Result: No effect. Test Number: 3738-02 Procedure: 199/200 spaces filled. Researcher Eastman enters the car, starts it, and parks it successfully. Result: No effect. Test Number: 3738-03 Procedure: 199/200 spaces filled. Mr. Marquez was asked to park his car as he normally would. He drives through one full row, then before turning, reproduces SCP-3738. Result: After approximately 9 seconds, the car on the end of the eighth row moves to the unseen empty space, and the remaining cars shift position until the empty space is directly in front of Marquez's car. As he parks, a king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa, later designated SCP-3738-1) can be seen circling approximately 20 meters above the car. Marquez is then instructed to leave the parking lot. As he does so, the cars gradually return to their original places. Test Number: 3738-04 Procedure: 200/200 spaces filled. Mr. Marquez was again asked to park his car normally. He drives through the lot, then reproduces SCP-3738. Result: Space within the lot begins to visibly stretch, as the last row of 20 spaces expands until a 21st space appears in the center. Mr. Marquez notices the new space and parks in it. As in the previous test, SCP-3738-1 is visible above the lot. The lot is measured while Marquez remains parked, and is found to have extended in length by 2.3 meters. Marquez is again instructed to leave the parking lot, and the spatial distortion reverts after he does so. Test Number: 3738-05 Procedure: 200/200 spaces filled. Self-driving car programmed to reproduce SCP-3738. Result: No result. Test Number: 3738-06 Procedure: 199/200 spaces filled. Researcher Eastman uses his personal vehicle to reproduce SCP-3738. Result: Cars move similarly to the results of Test 03. SCP-3738-1 manifests, lands on the hood of the car, and pecks the window rapidly. Researcher Eastman opens the window and SCP-3738-1 begins vocalizing in what appears to be Spanish. As Researcher Eastman does not speak Spanish, it is unknown what SCP-3738-1 said. SCP-3738-1 leaves after two minutes and demanifests, leaving behind a small toy car. Upon inspection, this car is the exact make and model of Researcher Eastman's car, and is decorated with vultures and partial SCP-3738 instances. Note: When Mr. Marquez was asked about the toy car, he mentioned that he had one similar to it, given to him by his father. When asked about the origin of SCP-3738, Mr. Marquez answered that it was a quirk of his late father, and that he began to use it in his father's memory. At this point, SCP-3738 was formally classified. Mr. Marquez was amnesticized, and returned along with his car. Test Number: 3738-07 Procedure: 200/200 spaces filled. Researcher Cisneros, who is fluent in Spanish, uses her personal vehicle to reproduce SCP-3738. The car is equipped with several microphones. Result: Space distorts as in previous tests. SCP-3738-1 manifests, and lands on the top of the car. Its movements are noticeably more sluggish. Researcher Cisneros opens the window. SCP-3738-1 hisses, and murmurs quietly. Researcher Cisneros attempts to communicate with SCP-3738-1, but it throws a similar toy car at her then flies off and subsequently demanifests. Microphones only picked up a few fragmented phrases: "hijo" ("son"), "aprendió" ("[he] learned"), and "olvidado" ("forgotten"). Following Test 3738-07, SCP-3738-1 no longer lands on vehicles using SCP-3738. Attempts at trapping or communicating with SCP-3738-1 are ignored by it, and cause all effects of SCP-3738 to revert.
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SCP-3739
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You should know that there are only two types of people in this world. Those of us who drink Mind-Milk™, and those of us who secrete it. 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Authors: Lt Flops & KindlyTurtleClem Published on 22 Jan 2019 This article is set in the Broken Masquerade canon. Special Thanks A Random Day and SonKingKong for dialogue help. Modulum and JackalRelated for helping greatly with the adverts. Modulum edited the coal miner advert & Jackal helped sharpen and suggest changes for images. Uncle Nicolini for his CONSTANT help and critique on our draft, after each and every iteration. Can't thank him enough for sticking with our concept. DrChandra, DarkStuff, Connor MacWarren, aismallard, and Cyantreuse for giving finalizing advice, esp. the latter approving of it in the BM canon. Gekkoguy, Gabriel Jade, Cyantreuse, and televisionist for conceptual work and finalizing crit. Westrin and RockTeethMothEyes for beta reading. Sources Our moosphere comments Definitions: The definition of "noösphere" used here is sourced directly from Sirpudding's Author Page, which grants permission for its use (among other items) with attribution. Research Links: Digital pathology Jungian archetypes that turn into Bovine archetypes Bat (goddess) 20th Century Speaking in tongues Laying on of hands General Images Image 1 – Public Domain Image 2 – Public Domain Image 3 – Public Domain Image 4 – CC-BY 3.0 Advert One Milk Droplets – CC-BY-SA 4.0 Mare Imbrium – Public Domain Advert Two Two Coalminers – CC-BY-SA 3.0 Final Screen Carey Merrick – CC-BY-SA 3.0 Ultrasound – CC-BY-SA 3.0 [{$authorPage} ▸ More by this Author ◂] {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} NOTICE From the Department Of ‘Pataphysical and Digital Archivists Advertisement-based inoculation disseminated. Need containment insurance? We've got you covered. South-Central Protective Services, protecting you against malignant fae hexes, hemovore invasions, and flesh-eating Nälkän rituals since 1893. Advertisement-based inoculation completed. Beginning biometric and neural scan. ~$ Simurgh.aic: nominal ~$ Last login: 2024-02-28 @ 06:45 PM (UTC−05) ~$ Memetic advertisements tracked and quarantined: 45,214 ~$ Anti-infiltration detection: nominal ~$ Accessing intSCPFN:/files/SCP-3739/SPOILED_MILK_SEQUENCE Biometric and neural scan completed. Inoculation completed! You may proceed. ▷ SIMURGH.aic: SCP-3739-1 Quarantine History △ Viewing secured "Expect a 5% drop of optimization in your lactose tolerance! Buy all yeast shares, all yeast shares, all yeast shares." — 2024-02-28 @ 9:56 PM (UTC−05) "If the Moon is made of cream cheese, we'll sell it!" — 2024-02-28 @ 10:43 PM (UTC−05) "Milk! The Meaning of Life." — 2024-02-29 @ 12:01 AM (UTC−05) "You'll Wonder Where the Red Went When You Brush Your Teeth with Moosphere Fresh Dreams™!" — 2024-02-29 @ 02:17 AM (UTC−05) "Makes Children and Adults as Swollen as Cows!" — 2024-02-29 @ 04:00 AM (UTC−05) SCP-3739 Canon Hub » Broken Masquerade Hub » SCP-3739 ITEM: SCP-3739 LEVEL 4/3739 CLASS: keter secret DISRUPTION CLASS: 4/ekhi A natural Moosphere, Inc. cave udder, photographed via VERITAS Resonance Imaging (right). Special Containment Procedures: Containment of SCP-3739 is focused on the introduction of a stable competitor product to gain a foothold in the paranormal market..This market, as it pertains to the dairy industry, consists of the following competitors: Moosphere, Inc., Ambrose Thorn Valley, dado go, etc. To this end, Foundation front company Stratford Cattle Productions.Stratford Cattle Productions: A parascientific bovine research firm and designer cattle farm. is to manufacture and market a legally safe anomalous dairy product. Cattle engineers are to distill dairy milk using bovine gene pool manipulation techniques and conceptual form separation. The Department of Economics is to reintroduce 13% of all revenue into Stratford Cattle Productions, and 87% into various other Foundation revenue streams. Meatspace Transitional Suppressor purification filters (or MEATS) are to replace normative methods and technologies used for gauging bovine health by 2025. Clinical trials and filter prototyping are to continue at Site-82 Command. Description: SCP-3739 is a cognitohazardous vector spreading into human perception via hidden advertisements, which target the worldwide paranormal market. SCP-3739 manifests from the human noösphere.noösphere: The realm of memetic activity. The existence of free memes implies the noösphere has an existence separate from physical reality. The precise nature of this existence is poorly understood. For more information on the ecosystem of memes, see: Hoygull, F. (2015). Memetics and Chill: The Power of Virulent Thoughtforms. SCP Foundation Journal of Memetics and Informational Hazards, 48(3), 192–207. as Moosphere, Incorporated: A gestalt thought-based dairy corporation that presents the threat of an impending CK-Class restructuring event. Moosphere uses microscopy technologies — ordinarily used to transmit images visible only at 300 microns — to produce invasive cognitohazardous catchphrases (designated SCP-3739-1). SCP-3739-1 instances are brand archetypes that anchor themselves onto symbols and signals already embedded in the consciousness of humanity. Transmission occurs when humans are unconscious: SCP-3739's archetypes and its related bovine motifs are only visible in REM sleep. Digital reconstruction of milk curdle build-up (blue). (Hover to enlarge.) Moosphere's mass neurological advertisement campaign connects to a chain of legitimate products — both real and dream-based — produced by the human subconscious and esoteric sources. A significant sum of Moosphere products come from the neural and memetic pathways of its market base. Moosphere ectoentropically generates 31% of its flagship product, Mind-Milk™, from the hypothalamus and pineal gland (hormone release centers) respectively, while a metaphysical source secretes the remaining 69%. Regular consumers of Moosphere products develop milk curdle build-up on portions of cerebral tissue, which further influences consumers to use Moosphere products but does not otherwise negatively affect their health. ▷ WARNING: Memetic Ad Quarantined △ Viewing secured Flagged on 2024-02-29 @ 08:00 AM (UTC−05) ADDENDUM 3739.1 EXPERIMENTATION LOG Site-82's Memetics Research Group C mail-ordered Moosphere company products for testing. Researchers selected Chocolate Mind-Milk™ due to its popularity and unique production process. Testing occurred with the goal of understanding Moosphere's use of literary archetypes in marketing, manufacturing, and product sales. Each Chocolate Mind-Milk™ packaging contained.Alongside a dairy-based pun on the carton inset. the text "What was your Mind-Milk™ experience like?" with an attached phone number. Researchers consumed the product daily (before a full night's rest) over a 10-day period. Personnel noted any recurring dreams or motifs in a Standard Dream Report before relaying them to the phone line. Within two to five business days, each of the researchers encountered the following archetypal representations: Archetype 01: Trickster Moosphere expression Outreach Specialists Moosphere manifestation Moosphere mascot "Jackie the Clown Cow" (SCP-3739-1-A) appeared to researchers. Subject possessed a lean bovine appearance and wore a mask resembling a fennec fox. Subject danced in the air, emitting bovine vocalizations and showering researchers in soy milk. Archetype 07: Mother Moosphere expression Mammary Mothers Moosphere manifestation See Addendum 3739.4. Archetype 08: Wounded Child Moosphere expression Child Curdles/Coagulated Children Moosphere manifestation A group of 15 "Child Curdles" (SCP-3739-1-C) appeared at the Research Group Supervisor's home at 4:07 AM. All subjects had varying levels of injuries and appeared as golden age animated cartoon characters..Hand-drawn, rubber hose animation dating back to the 1920s. One of the instances, self-identifying as "Creamy Charlie", recounted dairy-themed parables at 90 decibels. Most notably, the Supervisor's daughter, age 7, was diagnosed with hypocalcemia.hypocalcemia: A medical condition wherein a patient has too little calcium in the blood. three weeks prior. Archetype 14: The Flood Moosphere expression N/A Moosphere manifestation Researcher Mathias dreamt of a biblical flood sending tsunamis of milk into population centers. Upon reporting the motif to the phone line, an automated voice said "Please hold" before expelling milk from the receiver at 1 L/minute. This ended after five minutes when Mathias severed the phone line. Dream aligns with designated MF-Class "Spilled Milk" Scenario on the catastrophe classification list. ADDENDUM 3739.2 HISTORY, DISCOVERY, AND RECOVERY Aswan Low Dam c. 1906. (Hover to enlarge.) Egyptian Foundation personnel first became aware of SCP-3739-1-type neural advertising during the October 1952 survey of the upper Suez Canal. While conducting initial geological testing for the Aswan Low Dam renovation, Suez Canal Company workers accidentally breached an underwater chamber, releasing a flow of viscous white fluid. Workers 15 meters from the Lake Nasser embankment made physical contact with the fluid and experienced immediate glossolalia..glossolalia: The phenomenon of speaking in an unknown language. Known colloquially as "speaking in tongues." Language interpretation officials.The Suez Canal Company employed a multitude of national and international specialists during its pre-Suez Crisis management of the Suez Canal region, which includes American, British, French, Saudi, and Egyptian nationals. identified the glossolalia as pre-Ptolemaic Era Egyptian. The phenomenon affected one Maat Mohamed (designated Person of Interest #11366) for the next three days. Mohamed later underwent medical evacuation at St. Sophia's Asylum — a Foundation-owned medical facility — under the guise of demonic possession affecting his memetic health. He became the first recorded vector for SCP-3739-1 phenomena. The following is a translated excerpt of a key phrase spoken by Mohamed: "Bat,.Bat: The name of a Middle Egyptian goddess associated with femininity and fertility, typically depicted as a cow or ox. my Earthly mother. She leads me out of the depths of my head. She says it is nutritious. Should I siphon the teat?" Whilst in the recreational room at St. Sophia's Asylum, Mohamed imitated marketing jargon from commercials and shows played on television. He produced SCP-3739-1 marketing jargon after viewing Coca-Cola advertisements..Corporate advertisements used minor compulsion memetics (which POI-11366 was likely affected by) until the UNGOC Extranormal Advertisement Act passed in 1961. Moosphere falls outside legal jurisdiction because of its location in metaphysical space. A week into his inpatient stay, Mohamed lactated, flooding his room. Mohamed displayed no further anomalous properties over the course of his month-long psychiatric containment. Three months after his release, Mohamed fled Egypt, escaping Foundation surveillance. Local law enforcement discovered his apartment abandoned, containing the following materials: Publications by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Sigmund Freud. Books on cattle farming and entrepreneurship. Several documents indicating plans to establish a dairy farm. A bathroom containing 200 liters of curdled milk in the sinks, toilet, and bathtub. The Foundation became aware of Moosphere in 20██ following a sudden influx of online and television advertisements flagged with memetic and cognitohazardous properties. The advertisements drew a similarity to POI-11366's behavior, prompting a formal investigation. The Department of Analytics tracked Moosphere company presence for several years but could not locate physical operation locations. As of 2023, Moosphere has reported a total global workforce of 61,000 employees. With anomalous control of an estimated 1% of the noöspheric market share, their product manufacturing output has a capacity 100 times a company of its size. In June 2023, Analytics Management deployed field operatives (impersonating FDA inspectors) to multiple Eastern Wisconsin dairy farms flagged with irregularities. The following is one such inspection. ▷ Recovery Log 3739.2 ◁ △ Recovery Log 3739.2 △ VIDEO LOG [BEGIN LOG] (NOTE: Keys for format: Time | Source of Sound) 0m 00s | [Field Agents Smith and Wollensky are inside a police car, driving on roads intersecting cornfields and distant barns. They pass fence posts outlining a ranch where ranchers wrangle up grazing cattle. A black warehouse, brown domicile, and red-walled livestock facility come into view. Wollensky eases the ignition and halts the vehicle near the facility before they both dismount.] 1m 21s | [The ranch manager comes out to greet them. Behind him, farmhands haul cheese and milk products onto a forklift.] 1m 31s | Agent Smith: Hi there! Are you Gordon? Gordon Kazinsky? 1m 35s | Gordon Kazinsky: My friends call me Gordon. You're with the FDA, aren't you? 1m 40s | Smith: Yessir. You can call me Smith, and this here is Wollensky. He's my deputy. 1m 46s | [Wollensky nods. Smith extends his hand. The manager blinks and shrugs.] 1m 50s | Smith: You mind if I call you Gordon anyway? 1m 54s | Gordon: You can call me Curdles the Cow for all I care. I just want to get back to work. 2m 02s | Smith: This'll be a real quick inspection. 2m 04s | Gordon: Right. 2m 07s | Smith: We'll hardly take much of your time. Hell, we passed by a Costco on the way here, so if you fine gents want some Coors Light after toiling in the sun all day, you can have some. We had a few cases we were taking back for tonight anyway. 2m 25s | Gordon: That right? 2m 27s | Smith: Absolutely, Gordon. Free of charge. 2m 30s | Gordon: Well bud, if that's the case, consider that smudge of manure near the entrance your "welcome mat." I'll show you around. 2m 38s | Smith: Wollensky's going to look at things out back near the warehouse. Again, for the sake of expediency. 2m 45s | [Gordon gestures his hand toward the livestock facility, and Smith proceeds inside. Wollensky paces toward the black warehouse while nearby farmhands congregate, throwing brief glances at him. Wollensky's headset picks up children's laughter, but his body camera displays no children.] 3m 19s | Gordon: You're here 'cause of that weird CGI Photoshop nonsense they got on LiveLeak, ain't you? [Whilst speaking, Gordon gesticulates. His right palm brushes against Smith's body camera. Video capture becomes obfuscated with a sticker of Jackie the Clown Cow. Audio reception from the headset remains operational. Smith fails to notice.] SMITH'S POV | AUDIO ONLY 3m 25s | Smith: Pardon? 3m 26s | Gordon: I can assure you, that was Dave. Always used to believe in "guerrilla marketing," that man. Look, I can tell you this: Our quality assurance has gone untarnished for twenty-some-odd years. 3m 38s | Smith: Dave? 3m 40s | Gordon: [He chuckles.] My former partner in crime. 3m 45s | Smith: Registrar indicated he bought the farm first before dual-ownership. 3m 49s | Gordon: It's just me now. Dave had a run-in with corporate. Nice guy and all, but he had to transfer. 3m 57s | Smith: While the "advertisement" he marketed is a… Concern that I'll bring up later, we're primarily here for — well, let's see. [Pause.] Ah, loud noises heard in the middle of the night, run-off going into the lake over yonder. The one you use, that is. That sort of thing. 4m 14s | Gordon: Complaints? By whom? 4m 17s | Smith: [Pause.] Can't say, Gordon. I actually got a missing person's report on your business partner. Dave, isn't it? WOLLENSKY'S POV 4m 23s | Unidentified Farmhand: We use the most up-to-date technology to produce the finest four gallons of dairy product this side of state. Before we pasteurize it, even! Ever taste it raw? SMITH'S POV | AUDIO ONLY 4m 24s | Gordon: [Toneless.] It's Mister Kazinsky to you. 4m 27s | Smith: Now isn't that shooting yourself in the foot? 4m 31s | Gordon: How you reckon? <LOG CUTS UNEXPECTEDLY> WOLLENSKY'S POV 12m 47s | [The facility's slide doors are open. Farmhands mix viscous fluids of varying color.] 12m 52s | [The ranchers gather around the two agents. They greet and lead them through the slide doors.] <LOG CUTS UNEXPECTEDLY> SMITH'S POV | AUDIO ONLY 41m 28s | [Smith is deep in conversation with Gordon and the other ranchers, querying how they produce their product. Ranchers relay cognitohazardous advertisement jargon to him.] <LOG CUTS UNEXPECTEDLY> WOLLENSKY'S POV | VIDEO ONLY Image captured by Wollensky's camera, time-stamped 3h 35m 15s. (Hover to enlarge.) NOTE: Wollensky appears to have lost his headset. His view displays visuals separate from audio. Command received the audio with high amounts of white noise. 3h 34m 51s | [Camera captures aged concrete walls inked in white hieroglyphics. Wollensky moves forward and shines his flashlight onto dusty IBM 702 computers stationed on plastic-folding tables, each divided by cubicle walls. The camera pans downward and captures puddles of white liquid on hay-covered floors and manure.] 3h 36m 04s | (COM): [A group of children laugh.] 3h 36m 07s | [Wollensky stops, directing his mounted flashlight on a child. The camera shudders. The child giggles and shakes their head. They hold up an index finger, pointing. Wollensky rears his head toward a vacant location then turns back. The child flees, skipping across hay-covered floors and manure.] 3h 36m 16s | [Wollensky follows. The child darts to the left corner. The manure displays countless footprints of varying shoe sizes impressed into it.] <LOG CUTS UNEXPECTEDLY> WOLLENSKY'S POV | VIDEO ONLY 4h 44m 41s | [Unknown person(s) apply a hot glue gun from above view. Wollensky's arms struggle against fifteen small, pale arms pressing against him. The body camera falls to his feet.] 4h 44m 58s | [A copious amount of white liquid drips from Wollensky's ears.] <LOG CUTS UNEXPECTEDLY> UNKNOWN CONTEXT | AUDIO ONLY ??h ??m ??s | (COM): [Gurgling sounds emit for approximately 12 hours. Various moans, bovine and human, are audible periodically. This occurs until the audio equipment runs out of battery.] [END LOG] RAISA POST-INVESTIGATION NOTICE When a retrieval task force arrived at the farmland, the facilities were vacant, save for an undulating 1.7-meter-wide udder. The udder, branded with the initials "M.M." on its lower end, emitted male vocalizations akin to sobbing. The current whereabouts of Agents Smith and Wollensky are unknown. △ Recovery Log 3739.2 △ ▷ WARNING: Memetic Ad Quarantined △ Viewing secured Flagged on 2024-02-29 @ 08:11 AM (UTC−05) ADDENDUM 3739.3 INITIAL INTERVIEW ▷ Interview Log 3739.3 ◁ △ Interview Log 3739.3 △ VIDEO LOG INTERVIEWED: Jacob Drauss, Head of Internet Outreach, Moosphere, Inc. INTERVIEWER: Dr. Michael Handler DATE: 10 June 2023 NOTE: Simurgh.aic intercepted various social media pages and local news articles with advertisements connected to SCP-3739-1 phenomena. An internet forensics team back-traced the IP addresses to a defunct compound in Bellevue, Wisconsin, which a unit of Mobile Task Force Eta-33 ("Don't Have a Cow, Man") members raided. The unit found Jacob Drauss in a state of unconsciousness and under duress, with intravenous pumps injecting white liquid into his bloodstream from emptied milk containers. [BEGIN LOG] [Jacob Drauss regains consciousness 90 minutes after the start of the raid. Recording begins as Drauss leaks milk from his left ear canal at an approximate rate of 300 mL/minute.] Jacob Drauss: Ah fuck, all over the kitchen! Dr. Michael Handler: This is your house? Drauss: Yeah, man. I work from home. Dr. Handler: Noted. [Aside.] Grab a bucket, please. [A member of Eta-33 places a bucket at Drauss' side, catching the liquid.] Drauss: We don't have time for this. They're going to be here any minute! Dr. Handler: Well then, the clock is ticking, Jacob. Jacob Drauss: What else do you need? You got my ID, my background check, academic certs, tungsten ring… Dr. Handler: My hands are tied. You'll have to play ball with us. Drauss: Playing ball means I won't be able to sleep without several gallons of milk pouring out my nostrils and mouth, goddamnit. Dr. Handler: That's a risk you're willing to take. [He taps on a folder on the desk.] Freedom's right within reach, Drauss. More than I can say for those poor sods you personally trapped with memetics. [He opens the folder, flipping through birth certificates and passports.] We have a nice little home for you, out by the pier with Little Mary and Jonesy — the four of you under a nice little carousel. You're taking out little Mary's favorite treats from a picnic basket; the sun's caressing your shoulders; the sand kernels are wedging between your toes. [He slams the folder shut.] Come on, work for it! Work for your new life. Drauss: You make sure you protect them after I'm gone, you hear? CEO's gonna assimilate me for revealing his secrets. [He grunts.] There's that udder you found. At the warehouse, right? Dr. Handler: Any others? Drauss: Couple. It's emergent aeonian bio-organic paratech. Or in other words — the CEO expects his workers to become his product. Black warehouse, brown doors? With the cat poster, right? Yeah, that was Dave. Great guy, but not smart enough to avoid the CEO's ire. Tried to reveal what was going on anonymously and thought he was protected because he had fuckin' NordVPN on. [He shakes his head.] The last message he sent me said he got "transferred." Dr. Handler: E-mails we intercepted on the company intranet confirm that message was sent not too long ago, but we couldn't trace it back to any known source. We also couldn't find any technologies capable of doing that to your friend. Drauss: That's because it's in here. [He taps his temple.] It's like this. Imagine a valve being affixed to a piston. Or an artificial ventricle filled with blood, forming a unique mechanism capable of muscle contraction. We dreamt up our heat exchangers to pasteurize that damned dairy. [A large disembodied udder manifests in the corner of the room behind Drauss.] Dr. Handler: The floating udder, Drauss? Drauss: [He covers his face with his hands, disrupting the flow. He exhales.] Fuck! Dr. Handler: [Aside.] You didn't bring the MEATS,.Meatspace Transitional Suppressors (MEATS): Provisional containment modules used to contain metaphysical threats. did you? Eta-33 Lead: We'll handle it. Just keep talking to the perp. Dr. Handler: Alright. [Pause.] Jacob, how does someone get into this business? Drauss: Handler, was it? [Dr. Handler nods.] Drauss: Well, Handler, you know how they operate. It's all between-the-lines, through subliminal catchy slogan bullshit, brand deals, seasonal sales, et cetera. Once you get into it you can say bye-bye to whatever goodnight's sleep you had before. Dr. Handler: Before this, you were a full-time Lyft driver. Can't imagine you were getting much sleep on those long nights out anyway. What's with the change in occupation? Drauss: I was conscripted. See, it starts slowly. You get fatigued. So, you put a little more cheese in your diet, maybe pour a little more skim milk in your decaf. Espresso won't work. Pills won't work, and some days you collapse from exhaustion. And when the coma hits? [He drops his palms to his lap.] That means you're hired. Your subconscious isn't your private property anymore, understand? Dr. Handler: So then how did you propagate the advertisements? You were physically incapable of doing any typing from what I could tell. Drauss: Yeah, those? Written in legally distinct arcana via the amygdala: Drafted in emotion and fear, so they can't get sued by competitors in the Marketplace of Ideas. Dr. Handler: What else did you witness? Drauss: After I was employed, it was all about Moosphere Mind-Cubicles™, Moosphere-branded Mind-Staplers™, Mind-Utilities™, Mind-Slaves™, Moosphere Grazing Barns™, and a "district manager" with six leaky tits. I was busy filing tax returns for these primordial bovine entities. These– these things that expect you to drink yourself into oblivion. Oneiroi's Kangaroo Kourt system isn't going to recognize Staff mistreatment or unions if Moosphere did it on company grounds. [The floating udder undulates. Sounds of retching emerge.] Dr. Handler: On company grounds? Drauss: The Marketplace of Ideas isn't a lie, Doctor Handler. That domain exists, and you're a part of it, whether you like it or not. Dr. Handler: How do you mean? Drauss: I need you to listen very carefully when I tell you this. [He sits up straight and sighs.] You should know that there are only two types of people in this world. Those of us who drink Mind-Milk™, and those of us who secrete it. [END LOG] NOTE: Mr. Drauss has refused to answer any further questions about Moosphere, his position in the company, or the Marketplace of Ideas. My team and I have taken him into limited protective custody for psychological evaluation and his own personal safety. —Dr. Michael Handler Foundation Public Relations △ Interview Log 3739.3 △ ADDENDUM 3739.4 EXPLORATION LOG ▷ OPERATION: LACTOSE INTOLERANCE ◁ △ CODENAME: How the Udder Half Lives △ VIDEO LOG FOREWORD: On 24 June 2023, a livestream containing surreal bovine imagery was posted to YouTube, triggering Simurgh.aic. The livestream, entitled "Sights of Wausaukee, Northeastern Wisconsin," displayed normative footage of the town's attractions interspersed with shocking imagery of large, writhing, gelatinous bovine masses. Simurgh.aic could not determine a geolocation and blocked the stream. Foundation officials investigated Wausaukee as part of a mandatory sweep for anomalous threats. An attached crew of field pataphysicists detected an aberrant mass of 150,000 individual bovine memes in and around the town, most of which centered on a 640 m2 area. MTF-Eta-33 members initiated further investigation, and with the help of pataphysicists, tracked the memes to a nearby warehouse at the town's outskirts. A raid on the facility was scheduled for the following evening. Aware of the pataphysical findings, Site-82 Command became convinced of a likely risk to civilian populations and authorized the use of esoteric materials to combat potential oneiric threats and anomalous dairy entities. EXPLORATION TEAM: MTF-η-33 TEAM MEMBERS: η-1 / Samara Maclear η-2 / Eli Hall η-3 / Allen Foxglove TEAM NOTES: Task force specialists were selected based on: Their teamwork skills. Pataphysical markers pointing to their archetypal significance, necessary for an operation of this nature. EQUIPMENT: Three sets of standard Spectra-fiber body armor. Each set is fitted with multiple built-in body cameras, a transmission stream, and headset. Infrared night-vision goggles. Three M4 carbines. One tactical astral projection kit and subdermal sigil (carried by η-1). One reconnaissance drone and a remote controller (carried by η-2). One breach kit (carried by η-3). SCP-3863-1-type milk-honey, 250 mL. PREAMBLE: A small team of MTF-η-33 specialists deployed via combat search and rescue helicopter. On arrival, the cast iron and steel roofing were partially collapsed, leaving a large breach above the warehouse. [BEGIN LOG | 09:47 PM] «9:47:» η-1 and η-3 hold position outside the front entrance. η-2 operates a quadcopter drone over the exposed roof. «9:50:» The drone enters a dimly lit interior containing 25 docile cows inside compact rooms, guarded behind slide-doors. The cows display fitted metallic portholes on their left flank and udders. «9:52:» Manure and hay compositions surround a hole directly beneath the roof's breach. Gelatinous purple tubing networks lead out of the hole and crisscross between compact cow stalls. «9:57:» The drone feed captures generic farming utilities, fertilizer, and seed bags. «9:58:» Small outlines move within bushes near η-1's camera. η-1 shines her flashlight at the location of movement. After a moment, η-1 states, "Negative sighting, remain alert." «9:58:» η-1 gestures an "all-clear" signal. η-2 places the drone on auto-pilot and nods to η-3. η-3 installs a breach charge at the facility's front doors. The three pile behind a breaching blanket. «9:59:» The charge detonates. η-3 enters the facility, followed by η-2 and η-1. «10:01:» The team proceeds through a tight windowless vestibule into a wide foyer. No persons are present within, and the interior lacks light sources. Team members activate night-vision. «10:04:» The team makes a thorough sweep of the area, and two-thirds of the way down, turns left. They encounter a door, ajar, to an open office space. The office displays hundreds of laminated posters, each sporting motivational messages overlaid onto stock images of persons consuming dairy products. «10:06:» η-1 discovers milk leaking from the ceiling. Drone feed captures undulating movement from no discernible source. η-2 whispers, "It's coming from everywhere." «10:07:» η-1 takes a milk sample, enclosing it in a rally bag. The milk emits a faint green bioluminescence. «10:08:» η-3 leads the team into an antechamber at the back of the office and claims he "smells a sulfuric scent." η-1 activates electro-photonic sensors and registers aetheric radiation.A byproduct of aetheric energy, which powers all Thaumatology. leaking from an adjacent chamber. «10:09:» η-3 pushes into the next chamber, which is filled with curdled milk. η-3 opens a metal door, drawing his carbine. A cow comes into view, mooing. Aetheric emission flows from its posterior, consistent with bovine flatulence. «10:11:» The team returns to the foyer, traveling east through winding halls. «10:15:» A tremor shakes the facility, followed by a long bovine vocalization. η-1's milk sample vibrates and grows ten times in volume. She abandons the sample. «10:18:» η-3 reports a 3-meter-wide teat intersecting through support columns. The teat leaks faint green fluids. «10:19:» η-1 makes incisions into the teat, revealing more flesh within. The flesh gurgles and pushes through the incision, consuming the cutting implement. She abandons cutting operation. «10:20:» The drone views cows either fleeing from, or charging toward, an indiscernible point. «10:23:» η-3 heaves open frosted double doors into a massive chamber ~20 meters in height that slopes downward toward the center. A writhing light brown udder (hereafter "Udder") of indeterminable width fills the chamber, producing hundreds of large teats, which stretch and collapse. Sleeping persons, presumably employees, levitate mid-air and upside down in groups of three around smaller teats. Cream cheese flows in bulk from their craniums down into a giant subterranean tank below. «10:24:» η-2's drone captures footage of a cow falling from an upper walkway, yelping. A moment before striking the floor, the Udder trembles. The cow contacts the floor in slow-motion and dissolves into a translucent white liquid. This liquid flows toward the room's center. «10:25:» Additional cows follow until all 25 have fallen. Newly transmogrified fluids spray the team members. «10:27:» A pale, floating pink udder (SCP-3739-1-B) approaches the trio. η-1 recoils, clutching her temples — she receives a telepathic payload. η-1 asks, "What do you want?" The entity undulates as if laughing and approaches the team. η-3 fires on the entity. In due part to its apparent metaphysical nature, it does not take damage. «10:27:» η-1 and η-3 share a nod. η-3 then stands at guard in front of her, and η-2 steps beside him. η-1 sets down her tool kit and unpacks it. She burns incense and reads an excerpt from her personal dream journal. «10:28:» The entity sports multiple arms that unfold from within each other and into view. It grows an attractive, plump face, spewing off-white fluids from its mouth. With a giggle and piercing shriek, it says, "Your mother wants you to finish your milk." «10:29:» η-2 trains the drone on a fleshy off-color sack near the middle of the Udder's anterior face. η-3 levels his carbine, waiting to fire. «10:30:» η-2 says, "I'm lactose intolerant," and curses the entity with reductionist profanities. The drone registers natural chemosignals.Pheromones used to convey emotion and directions to those under its effect. emerging from the entity (hereafter "Mother"). Fifteen smaller bovine entities with the appearance of animated cartoon characters (SCP-3739-1-C, hereafter "Children") separate from the Udder. Ten Children bombard η-2 with runny cream cheese projectiles. Others siphon fluids directly from the Mother and chant: "Eat it! Eat it!" η-2 refuses to comply. «10:31:» η-1 strikes a match, burning her thumb tip. She thumbs her tactical sigil, and then downs the milk-honey. Her body goes limp. An astral body sprouts up from her physical body's chest and flips toward the Mother. She grabs at loose teats and pulls. «10:32:» η-2 is fully covered in cream cheese but refuses to consume it. The Children drag him toward the Udder, causing him to drop the remote control as he fights to be freed. They force a leaking teat into his mouth. He has no choice but to comply. «10:33:» η-1 combats the Mother. Both scream, trading blows. η-3 walks to the Udder, aims, and fires at the exposed fleshy protrusion. He yells, "You're not real." The flesh goes erect and sprays raw milk at him. He consumes the milk at will, downing liters without apparent stress. «10:34:» η-1 spirals and pirouettes through the air, faster than the Mother. It squeezes green liquids at her. She grabs a teat and stretches it with ease. The Mother screams in shock, deflates, and then falls to the floor. A palpable wet smack echoes throughout the room. The entity finally becomes tangible, leaking the rest of its fluids. «10:35:» η-2 is no longer visible. The large Udder shakes and spills raw milk into the vast room. η-1's astral body reconnects with her physical body. She ditches the astral projection kit. η-1 and η-3 escape. [END LOG | 10:35 PM] EXTRACTION: Post-log footage taken autonomously from η-2's drone records η-2 screaming in distress. This occurs for roughly 30 minutes as the warehouse fills with milk. Near the end of the footage, η-2 emerges naked, and a disembodied cattle branding prosthesis marks him on the upper thigh. He shudders, mooing. The prosthesis spots the drone, extends, and emits electricity from a cattle prod, frying it. △ CODENAME: How the Udder Half Lives △ RAISA POST-INVESTIGATION NOTICE Between 12 October and 19 October 2023, a wide-scale interrogation campaign across U.S. farmlands reveals that over 3,100 oneiric advertisements coerced dairy corporate executives, regional managers, and ranchers to sign away rights to their dreams. On 21 November 2023, several hundred livestock facilities experience bovine and human inflation. Like the entities seen in OPERATION: L.I., body fluids became replaced with a voluminous amount of non-anomalous milk product. MEATS filtration and conventional FDA regulations fail to contain public knowledge of oneiric dairy products. Wisconsin dreaming is the first to be assimilated. The REM sleep of thousands of citizens becomes irreversibly altered. On 30 January 2024, Pennsylvania and Washington dreaming are assimilated. The REM sleep of thousands of citizens becomes irreversibly altered. Despite reintegration attempts made by Stratford Cattle Productions (via top-selling beef and yogurt products implanted with gustatory memetic agents), large numbers of civilians from these regions support CEO M.M.'s presidential campaign, with running mate VP Jackie the Clown Cow. On 9 February 2024, the CEO of Moosphere interrupts all of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Washington's major telecommunication broadcasts with a payload of cognitohazardous advertisements. Moosphere employs affected populations by force. Televisions broadcast the following: [BEGIN LOG] CEO M.M. descends onto a podium, cranium inflamed. He sighs. He opens his mandibles and a bovine eye atop his brow. Cream cheese secretes from the two orifices. Palpable dripping and sloshing sounds are audible for the next three minutes and twenty-seven seconds. Undulating, it thinks. [END LOG] ▷ WARNING: Paused Footage Quarantined AMNESTIC INOCULATION FAILED MTF AND PARAPHYSICIANS DISPATCHED Time-stamped: 2m 59s — 2024-02-29 @ 08:29 AM (UTC−05) See Also: Milk Hub Spilled Milk SCP-6705 - The Bicameral Milk SCP-4475 - So Long, and Thanks for All the Milk
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You should know that there are only two types of people in this world. Those of us who drink Mind-Milk™, and those of us who secrete it. SCP-3739 By: Lt Flops Published on 22 Jan 2019 12:54 ▷ Show Code ◁ △ Hide Code △ @import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat:wght@600;700&display=swap); /* Centered Header Sigma * [2021 Wikidot Component] * By Lt Flops (CC BY-SA 3.0) * Forked from: * Penumbra Theme by EstrellaYoshte * Also based on: * Centered Header BHL by Woedenaz **/ /* ---- VARS ---- */ :root{ --titleColor: hsl(0, 0%, 95%); --subtitleColor: hsl(60, 62%, 85%); --lgurl: url(https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/component:pride-highlighter/lgbtqp_logo.svg); } /* ---- SITE BANNER ---- */ #header, div#header{ background-image: none; } #header::before{ position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; content: ""; background-image: var(--lgurl); background-position: center top; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto 9em; opacity: .33; } #header h1, #header h2{ float: none; margin-left: 0; text-align: center; } #header h1 span, #header h2 span{ /* Hide the Existing Text */ display: none; } #header h1 a::before, #header h2::before{ /* Style the New Text */ font-family: "Montserrat", "Arial", sans-serif; text-shadow: none; } #header h1 a::before{ position: relative; bottom: .15em; color: var(--titleColor); font-size: 115%; font-weight: 700; } #header h2::before{ position: relative; top: .1em; color: var(--subtitleColor); font-size: 130%; font-weight: 600; } #header h1 a::before{ /* Set the New Text's Content From Variable */ content: var(--header-title, "SCP FOUNDATION"); } #header h2::before{ content: var(--header-subtitle, "SECURE - CONTAIN - PROTECT"); } /* ---- SEARCH ---- */ #search-top-box{ top: 1em; right: 0; } #search-top-box-form input.button{ margin-right: 0; } #search-top-box-input, #search-top-box-input:hover, #search-top-box-input:focus, #search-top-box-form input[type=submit], #search-top-box-form input[type=submit]:hover, #search-top-box-form input[type=submit]:focus{ border-radius: 0; box-shadow: none; font-size: 100%; } /* ---- TOP BAR ---- */ #top-bar{ right: 0; display: flex; justify-content: center; } #top-bar ul li ul{ border-bottom: 1px solid hsl(0, 0%, 40%); box-shadow: none; } /* ---- LOGIN ---- */ #login-status{ top: 1.1em; right: initial; color: hsl(0, 0%, 87%); } #account-topbutton{ border-color: hsl(0, 0%, 87%); font-size: 100%; } /* ---- PAGE TITLE ---- */ .meta-title, #page-title{ text-align: center; } /* ---- BREADCRUMBS ---- */ .pseudocrumbs, #breadcrumbs{ text-align: center; } /* ---- MOBILE DISPLAY ---- */ @media (max-width: 767px){ #search-top-box{ top: 1.85em; width: unset; } .mobile-top-bar{ position: relative; left: 0; display: flex; justify-content: center; } #login-status{ top: 0; right: 0; } #header .printuser{ font-size: 0; } #header .printuser img.small{ margin: 0; transform: translate(6px, 4px); } #my-account{ display: none; } #account-topbutton{ margin-left: 2px; } } SCP-3739: Mind-Milk™ by Moosphere, Inc. Authors: Lt Flops & KindlyTurtleClem Published on 22 Jan 2019 This article is set in the Broken Masquerade canon. Special Thanks A Random Day and SonKingKong for dialogue help. Modulum and JackalRelated for helping greatly with the adverts. Modulum edited the coal miner advert & Jackal helped sharpen and suggest changes for images. Uncle Nicolini for his CONSTANT help and critique on our draft, after each and every iteration. Can't thank him enough for sticking with our concept. DrChandra, DarkStuff, Connor MacWarren, aismallard, and Cyantreuse for giving finalizing advice, esp. the latter approving of it in the BM canon. Gekkoguy, Gabriel Jade, Cyantreuse, and televisionist for conceptual work and finalizing crit. Westrin and RockTeethMothEyes for beta reading. Sources Our moosphere comments Definitions: The definition of "noösphere" used here is sourced directly from Sirpudding's Author Page, which grants permission for its use (among other items) with attribution. Research Links: Digital pathology Jungian archetypes that turn into Bovine archetypes Bat (goddess) 20th Century Speaking in tongues Laying on of hands General Images Image 1 – Public Domain Image 2 – Public Domain Image 3 – Public Domain Image 4 – CC-BY 3.0 Advert One Milk Droplets – CC-BY-SA 4.0 Mare Imbrium – Public Domain Advert Two Two Coalminers – CC-BY-SA 3.0 Final Screen Carey Merrick – CC-BY-SA 3.0 Ultrasound – CC-BY-SA 3.0 [{$authorPage} ▸ More by this Author ◂] {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} NOTICE From the Department Of ‘Pataphysical and Digital Archivists Advertisement-based inoculation disseminated. Need containment insurance? We've got you covered. South-Central Protective Services, protecting you against malignant fae hexes, hemovore invasions, and flesh-eating Nälkän rituals since 1893. Advertisement-based inoculation completed. Beginning biometric and neural scan. ~$ Simurgh.aic: nominal ~$ Last login: 2024-02-28 @ 06:45 PM (UTC−05) ~$ Memetic advertisements tracked and quarantined: 45,214 ~$ Anti-infiltration detection: nominal ~$ Accessing intSCPFN:/files/SCP-3739/SPOILED_MILK_SEQUENCE Biometric and neural scan completed. Inoculation completed! You may proceed. ▷ SIMURGH.aic: SCP-3739-1 Quarantine History △ Viewing secured "Expect a 5% drop of optimization in your lactose tolerance! Buy all yeast shares, all yeast shares, all yeast shares." — 2024-02-28 @ 9:56 PM (UTC−05) "If the Moon is made of cream cheese, we'll sell it!" — 2024-02-28 @ 10:43 PM (UTC−05) "Milk! The Meaning of Life." — 2024-02-29 @ 12:01 AM (UTC−05) "You'll Wonder Where the Red Went When You Brush Your Teeth with Moosphere Fresh Dreams™!" — 2024-02-29 @ 02:17 AM (UTC−05) "Makes Children and Adults as Swollen as Cows!" — 2024-02-29 @ 04:00 AM (UTC−05) SCP-3739 Canon Hub » Broken Masquerade Hub » SCP-3739 ITEM: SCP-3739 LEVEL 4/3739 CLASS: keter secret DISRUPTION CLASS: 4/ekhi A natural Moosphere, Inc. cave udder, photographed via VERITAS Resonance Imaging (right). Special Containment Procedures: Containment of SCP-3739 is focused on the introduction of a stable competitor product to gain a foothold in the paranormal market..This market, as it pertains to the dairy industry, consists of the following competitors: Moosphere, Inc., Ambrose Thorn Valley, dado go, etc. To this end, Foundation front company Stratford Cattle Productions.Stratford Cattle Productions: A parascientific bovine research firm and designer cattle farm. is to manufacture and market a legally safe anomalous dairy product. Cattle engineers are to distill dairy milk using bovine gene pool manipulation techniques and conceptual form separation. The Department of Economics is to reintroduce 13% of all revenue into Stratford Cattle Productions, and 87% into various other Foundation revenue streams. Meatspace Transitional Suppressor purification filters (or MEATS) are to replace normative methods and technologies used for gauging bovine health by 2025. Clinical trials and filter prototyping are to continue at Site-82 Command. Description: SCP-3739 is a cognitohazardous vector spreading into human perception via hidden advertisements, which target the worldwide paranormal market. SCP-3739 manifests from the human noösphere.noösphere: The realm of memetic activity. The existence of free memes implies the noösphere has an existence separate from physical reality. The precise nature of this existence is poorly understood. For more information on the ecosystem of memes, see: Hoygull, F. (2015). Memetics and Chill: The Power of Virulent Thoughtforms. SCP Foundation Journal of Memetics and Informational Hazards, 48(3), 192–207. as Moosphere, Incorporated: A gestalt thought-based dairy corporation that presents the threat of an impending CK-Class restructuring event. Moosphere uses microscopy technologies — ordinarily used to transmit images visible only at 300 microns — to produce invasive cognitohazardous catchphrases (designated SCP-3739-1). SCP-3739-1 instances are brand archetypes that anchor themselves onto symbols and signals already embedded in the consciousness of humanity. Transmission occurs when humans are unconscious: SCP-3739's archetypes and its related bovine motifs are only visible in REM sleep. Digital reconstruction of milk curdle build-up (blue). (Hover to enlarge.) Moosphere's mass neurological advertisement campaign connects to a chain of legitimate products — both real and dream-based — produced by the human subconscious and esoteric sources. A significant sum of Moosphere products come from the neural and memetic pathways of its market base. Moosphere ectoentropically generates 31% of its flagship product, Mind-Milk™, from the hypothalamus and pineal gland (hormone release centers) respectively, while a metaphysical source secretes the remaining 69%. Regular consumers of Moosphere products develop milk curdle build-up on portions of cerebral tissue, which further influences consumers to use Moosphere products but does not otherwise negatively affect their health. ▷ WARNING: Memetic Ad Quarantined △ Viewing secured Flagged on 2024-02-29 @ 08:00 AM (UTC−05) ADDENDUM 3739.1 EXPERIMENTATION LOG Site-82's Memetics Research Group C mail-ordered Moosphere company products for testing. Researchers selected Chocolate Mind-Milk™ due to its popularity and unique production process. Testing occurred with the goal of understanding Moosphere's use of literary archetypes in marketing, manufacturing, and product sales. Each Chocolate Mind-Milk™ packaging contained.Alongside a dairy-based pun on the carton inset. the text "What was your Mind-Milk™ experience like?" with an attached phone number. Researchers consumed the product daily (before a full night's rest) over a 10-day period. Personnel noted any recurring dreams or motifs in a Standard Dream Report before relaying them to the phone line. Within two to five business days, each of the researchers encountered the following archetypal representations: Archetype 01: Trickster Moosphere expression Outreach Specialists Moosphere manifestation Moosphere mascot "Jackie the Clown Cow" (SCP-3739-1-A) appeared to researchers. Subject possessed a lean bovine appearance and wore a mask resembling a fennec fox. Subject danced in the air, emitting bovine vocalizations and showering researchers in soy milk. Archetype 07: Mother Moosphere expression Mammary Mothers Moosphere manifestation See Addendum 3739.4. Archetype 08: Wounded Child Moosphere expression Child Curdles/Coagulated Children Moosphere manifestation A group of 15 "Child Curdles" (SCP-3739-1-C) appeared at the Research Group Supervisor's home at 4:07 AM. All subjects had varying levels of injuries and appeared as golden age animated cartoon characters..Hand-drawn, rubber hose animation dating back to the 1920s. One of the instances, self-identifying as "Creamy Charlie", recounted dairy-themed parables at 90 decibels. Most notably, the Supervisor's daughter, age 7, was diagnosed with hypocalcemia.hypocalcemia: A medical condition wherein a patient has too little calcium in the blood. three weeks prior. Archetype 14: The Flood Moosphere expression N/A Moosphere manifestation Researcher Mathias dreamt of a biblical flood sending tsunamis of milk into population centers. Upon reporting the motif to the phone line, an automated voice said "Please hold" before expelling milk from the receiver at 1 L/minute. This ended after five minutes when Mathias severed the phone line. Dream aligns with designated MF-Class "Spilled Milk" Scenario on the catastrophe classification list. ADDENDUM 3739.2 HISTORY, DISCOVERY, AND RECOVERY Aswan Low Dam c. 1906. (Hover to enlarge.) Egyptian Foundation personnel first became aware of SCP-3739-1-type neural advertising during the October 1952 survey of the upper Suez Canal. While conducting initial geological testing for the Aswan Low Dam renovation, Suez Canal Company workers accidentally breached an underwater chamber, releasing a flow of viscous white fluid. Workers 15 meters from the Lake Nasser embankment made physical contact with the fluid and experienced immediate glossolalia..glossolalia: The phenomenon of speaking in an unknown language. Known colloquially as "speaking in tongues." Language interpretation officials.The Suez Canal Company employed a multitude of national and international specialists during its pre-Suez Crisis management of the Suez Canal region, which includes American, British, French, Saudi, and Egyptian nationals. identified the glossolalia as pre-Ptolemaic Era Egyptian. The phenomenon affected one Maat Mohamed (designated Person of Interest #11366) for the next three days. Mohamed later underwent medical evacuation at St. Sophia's Asylum — a Foundation-owned medical facility — under the guise of demonic possession affecting his memetic health. He became the first recorded vector for SCP-3739-1 phenomena. The following is a translated excerpt of a key phrase spoken by Mohamed: "Bat,.Bat: The name of a Middle Egyptian goddess associated with femininity and fertility, typically depicted as a cow or ox. my Earthly mother. She leads me out of the depths of my head. She says it is nutritious. Should I siphon the teat?" Whilst in the recreational room at St. Sophia's Asylum, Mohamed imitated marketing jargon from commercials and shows played on television. He produced SCP-3739-1 marketing jargon after viewing Coca-Cola advertisements..Corporate advertisements used minor compulsion memetics (which POI-11366 was likely affected by) until the UNGOC Extranormal Advertisement Act passed in 1961. Moosphere falls outside legal jurisdiction because of its location in metaphysical space. A week into his inpatient stay, Mohamed lactated, flooding his room. Mohamed displayed no further anomalous properties over the course of his month-long psychiatric containment. Three months after his release, Mohamed fled Egypt, escaping Foundation surveillance. Local law enforcement discovered his apartment abandoned, containing the following materials: Publications by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Sigmund Freud. Books on cattle farming and entrepreneurship. Several documents indicating plans to establish a dairy farm. A bathroom containing 200 liters of curdled milk in the sinks, toilet, and bathtub. The Foundation became aware of Moosphere in 20██ following a sudden influx of online and television advertisements flagged with memetic and cognitohazardous properties. The advertisements drew a similarity to POI-11366's behavior, prompting a formal investigation. The Department of Analytics tracked Moosphere company presence for several years but could not locate physical operation locations. As of 2023, Moosphere has reported a total global workforce of 61,000 employees. With anomalous control of an estimated 1% of the noöspheric market share, their product manufacturing output has a capacity 100 times a company of its size. In June 2023, Analytics Management deployed field operatives (impersonating FDA inspectors) to multiple Eastern Wisconsin dairy farms flagged with irregularities. The following is one such inspection. ▷ Recovery Log 3739.2 ◁ △ Recovery Log 3739.2 △ VIDEO LOG [BEGIN LOG] (NOTE: Keys for format: Time | Source of Sound) 0m 00s | [Field Agents Smith and Wollensky are inside a police car, driving on roads intersecting cornfields and distant barns. They pass fence posts outlining a ranch where ranchers wrangle up grazing cattle. A black warehouse, brown domicile, and red-walled livestock facility come into view. Wollensky eases the ignition and halts the vehicle near the facility before they both dismount.] 1m 21s | [The ranch manager comes out to greet them. Behind him, farmhands haul cheese and milk products onto a forklift.] 1m 31s | Agent Smith: Hi there! Are you Gordon? Gordon Kazinsky? 1m 35s | Gordon Kazinsky: My friends call me Gordon. You're with the FDA, aren't you? 1m 40s | Smith: Yessir. You can call me Smith, and this here is Wollensky. He's my deputy. 1m 46s | [Wollensky nods. Smith extends his hand. The manager blinks and shrugs.] 1m 50s | Smith: You mind if I call you Gordon anyway? 1m 54s | Gordon: You can call me Curdles the Cow for all I care. I just want to get back to work. 2m 02s | Smith: This'll be a real quick inspection. 2m 04s | Gordon: Right. 2m 07s | Smith: We'll hardly take much of your time. Hell, we passed by a Costco on the way here, so if you fine gents want some Coors Light after toiling in the sun all day, you can have some. We had a few cases we were taking back for tonight anyway. 2m 25s | Gordon: That right? 2m 27s | Smith: Absolutely, Gordon. Free of charge. 2m 30s | Gordon: Well bud, if that's the case, consider that smudge of manure near the entrance your "welcome mat." I'll show you around. 2m 38s | Smith: Wollensky's going to look at things out back near the warehouse. Again, for the sake of expediency. 2m 45s | [Gordon gestures his hand toward the livestock facility, and Smith proceeds inside. Wollensky paces toward the black warehouse while nearby farmhands congregate, throwing brief glances at him. Wollensky's headset picks up children's laughter, but his body camera displays no children.] 3m 19s | Gordon: You're here 'cause of that weird CGI Photoshop nonsense they got on LiveLeak, ain't you? [Whilst speaking, Gordon gesticulates. His right palm brushes against Smith's body camera. Video capture becomes obfuscated with a sticker of Jackie the Clown Cow. Audio reception from the headset remains operational. Smith fails to notice.] SMITH'S POV | AUDIO ONLY 3m 25s | Smith: Pardon? 3m 26s | Gordon: I can assure you, that was Dave. Always used to believe in "guerrilla marketing," that man. Look, I can tell you this: Our quality assurance has gone untarnished for twenty-some-odd years. 3m 38s | Smith: Dave? 3m 40s | Gordon: [He chuckles.] My former partner in crime. 3m 45s | Smith: Registrar indicated he bought the farm first before dual-ownership. 3m 49s | Gordon: It's just me now. Dave had a run-in with corporate. Nice guy and all, but he had to transfer. 3m 57s | Smith: While the "advertisement" he marketed is a… Concern that I'll bring up later, we're primarily here for — well, let's see. [Pause.] Ah, loud noises heard in the middle of the night, run-off going into the lake over yonder. The one you use, that is. That sort of thing. 4m 14s | Gordon: Complaints? By whom? 4m 17s | Smith: [Pause.] Can't say, Gordon. I actually got a missing person's report on your business partner. Dave, isn't it? WOLLENSKY'S POV 4m 23s | Unidentified Farmhand: We use the most up-to-date technology to produce the finest four gallons of dairy product this side of state. Before we pasteurize it, even! Ever taste it raw? SMITH'S POV | AUDIO ONLY 4m 24s | Gordon: [Toneless.] It's Mister Kazinsky to you. 4m 27s | Smith: Now isn't that shooting yourself in the foot? 4m 31s | Gordon: How you reckon? <LOG CUTS UNEXPECTEDLY> WOLLENSKY'S POV 12m 47s | [The facility's slide doors are open. Farmhands mix viscous fluids of varying color.] 12m 52s | [The ranchers gather around the two agents. They greet and lead them through the slide doors.] <LOG CUTS UNEXPECTEDLY> SMITH'S POV | AUDIO ONLY 41m 28s | [Smith is deep in conversation with Gordon and the other ranchers, querying how they produce their product. Ranchers relay cognitohazardous advertisement jargon to him.] <LOG CUTS UNEXPECTEDLY> WOLLENSKY'S POV | VIDEO ONLY Image captured by Wollensky's camera, time-stamped 3h 35m 15s. (Hover to enlarge.) NOTE: Wollensky appears to have lost his headset. His view displays visuals separate from audio. Command received the audio with high amounts of white noise. 3h 34m 51s | [Camera captures aged concrete walls inked in white hieroglyphics. Wollensky moves forward and shines his flashlight onto dusty IBM 702 computers stationed on plastic-folding tables, each divided by cubicle walls. The camera pans downward and captures puddles of white liquid on hay-covered floors and manure.] 3h 36m 04s | (COM): [A group of children laugh.] 3h 36m 07s | [Wollensky stops, directing his mounted flashlight on a child. The camera shudders. The child giggles and shakes their head. They hold up an index finger, pointing. Wollensky rears his head toward a vacant location then turns back. The child flees, skipping across hay-covered floors and manure.] 3h 36m 16s | [Wollensky follows. The child darts to the left corner. The manure displays countless footprints of varying shoe sizes impressed into it.] <LOG CUTS UNEXPECTEDLY> WOLLENSKY'S POV | VIDEO ONLY 4h 44m 41s | [Unknown person(s) apply a hot glue gun from above view. Wollensky's arms struggle against fifteen small, pale arms pressing against him. The body camera falls to his feet.] 4h 44m 58s | [A copious amount of white liquid drips from Wollensky's ears.] <LOG CUTS UNEXPECTEDLY> UNKNOWN CONTEXT | AUDIO ONLY ??h ??m ??s | (COM): [Gurgling sounds emit for approximately 12 hours. Various moans, bovine and human, are audible periodically. This occurs until the audio equipment runs out of battery.] [END LOG] RAISA POST-INVESTIGATION NOTICE When a retrieval task force arrived at the farmland, the facilities were vacant, save for an undulating 1.7-meter-wide udder. The udder, branded with the initials "M.M." on its lower end, emitted male vocalizations akin to sobbing. The current whereabouts of Agents Smith and Wollensky are unknown. △ Recovery Log 3739.2 △ ▷ WARNING: Memetic Ad Quarantined △ Viewing secured Flagged on 2024-02-29 @ 08:11 AM (UTC−05) ADDENDUM 3739.3 INITIAL INTERVIEW ▷ Interview Log 3739.3 ◁ △ Interview Log 3739.3 △ VIDEO LOG INTERVIEWED: Jacob Drauss, Head of Internet Outreach, Moosphere, Inc. INTERVIEWER: Dr. Michael Handler DATE: 10 June 2023 NOTE: Simurgh.aic intercepted various social media pages and local news articles with advertisements connected to SCP-3739-1 phenomena. An internet forensics team back-traced the IP addresses to a defunct compound in Bellevue, Wisconsin, which a unit of Mobile Task Force Eta-33 ("Don't Have a Cow, Man") members raided. The unit found Jacob Drauss in a state of unconsciousness and under duress, with intravenous pumps injecting white liquid into his bloodstream from emptied milk containers. [BEGIN LOG] [Jacob Drauss regains consciousness 90 minutes after the start of the raid. Recording begins as Drauss leaks milk from his left ear canal at an approximate rate of 300 mL/minute.] Jacob Drauss: Ah fuck, all over the kitchen! Dr. Michael Handler: This is your house? Drauss: Yeah, man. I work from home. Dr. Handler: Noted. [Aside.] Grab a bucket, please. [A member of Eta-33 places a bucket at Drauss' side, catching the liquid.] Drauss: We don't have time for this. They're going to be here any minute! Dr. Handler: Well then, the clock is ticking, Jacob. Jacob Drauss: What else do you need? You got my ID, my background check, academic certs, tungsten ring… Dr. Handler: My hands are tied. You'll have to play ball with us. Drauss: Playing ball means I won't be able to sleep without several gallons of milk pouring out my nostrils and mouth, goddamnit. Dr. Handler: That's a risk you're willing to take. [He taps on a folder on the desk.] Freedom's right within reach, Drauss. More than I can say for those poor sods you personally trapped with memetics. [He opens the folder, flipping through birth certificates and passports.] We have a nice little home for you, out by the pier with Little Mary and Jonesy — the four of you under a nice little carousel. You're taking out little Mary's favorite treats from a picnic basket; the sun's caressing your shoulders; the sand kernels are wedging between your toes. [He slams the folder shut.] Come on, work for it! Work for your new life. Drauss: You make sure you protect them after I'm gone, you hear? CEO's gonna assimilate me for revealing his secrets. [He grunts.] There's that udder you found. At the warehouse, right? Dr. Handler: Any others? Drauss: Couple. It's emergent aeonian bio-organic paratech. Or in other words — the CEO expects his workers to become his product. Black warehouse, brown doors? With the cat poster, right? Yeah, that was Dave. Great guy, but not smart enough to avoid the CEO's ire. Tried to reveal what was going on anonymously and thought he was protected because he had fuckin' NordVPN on. [He shakes his head.] The last message he sent me said he got "transferred." Dr. Handler: E-mails we intercepted on the company intranet confirm that message was sent not too long ago, but we couldn't trace it back to any known source. We also couldn't find any technologies capable of doing that to your friend. Drauss: That's because it's in here. [He taps his temple.] It's like this. Imagine a valve being affixed to a piston. Or an artificial ventricle filled with blood, forming a unique mechanism capable of muscle contraction. We dreamt up our heat exchangers to pasteurize that damned dairy. [A large disembodied udder manifests in the corner of the room behind Drauss.] Dr. Handler: The floating udder, Drauss? Drauss: [He covers his face with his hands, disrupting the flow. He exhales.] Fuck! Dr. Handler: [Aside.] You didn't bring the MEATS,.Meatspace Transitional Suppressors (MEATS): Provisional containment modules used to contain metaphysical threats. did you? Eta-33 Lead: We'll handle it. Just keep talking to the perp. Dr. Handler: Alright. [Pause.] Jacob, how does someone get into this business? Drauss: Handler, was it? [Dr. Handler nods.] Drauss: Well, Handler, you know how they operate. It's all between-the-lines, through subliminal catchy slogan bullshit, brand deals, seasonal sales, et cetera. Once you get into it you can say bye-bye to whatever goodnight's sleep you had before. Dr. Handler: Before this, you were a full-time Lyft driver. Can't imagine you were getting much sleep on those long nights out anyway. What's with the change in occupation? Drauss: I was conscripted. See, it starts slowly. You get fatigued. So, you put a little more cheese in your diet, maybe pour a little more skim milk in your decaf. Espresso won't work. Pills won't work, and some days you collapse from exhaustion. And when the coma hits? [He drops his palms to his lap.] That means you're hired. Your subconscious isn't your private property anymore, understand? Dr. Handler: So then how did you propagate the advertisements? You were physically incapable of doing any typing from what I could tell. Drauss: Yeah, those? Written in legally distinct arcana via the amygdala: Drafted in emotion and fear, so they can't get sued by competitors in the Marketplace of Ideas. Dr. Handler: What else did you witness? Drauss: After I was employed, it was all about Moosphere Mind-Cubicles™, Moosphere-branded Mind-Staplers™, Mind-Utilities™, Mind-Slaves™, Moosphere Grazing Barns™, and a "district manager" with six leaky tits. I was busy filing tax returns for these primordial bovine entities. These– these things that expect you to drink yourself into oblivion. Oneiroi's Kangaroo Kourt system isn't going to recognize Staff mistreatment or unions if Moosphere did it on company grounds. [The floating udder undulates. Sounds of retching emerge.] Dr. Handler: On company grounds? Drauss: The Marketplace of Ideas isn't a lie, Doctor Handler. That domain exists, and you're a part of it, whether you like it or not. Dr. Handler: How do you mean? Drauss: I need you to listen very carefully when I tell you this. [He sits up straight and sighs.] You should know that there are only two types of people in this world. Those of us who drink Mind-Milk™, and those of us who secrete it. [END LOG] NOTE: Mr. Drauss has refused to answer any further questions about Moosphere, his position in the company, or the Marketplace of Ideas. My team and I have taken him into limited protective custody for psychological evaluation and his own personal safety. —Dr. Michael Handler Foundation Public Relations △ Interview Log 3739.3 △ ADDENDUM 3739.4 EXPLORATION LOG ▷ OPERATION: LACTOSE INTOLERANCE ◁ △ CODENAME: How the Udder Half Lives △ VIDEO LOG FOREWORD: On 24 June 2023, a livestream containing surreal bovine imagery was posted to YouTube, triggering Simurgh.aic. The livestream, entitled "Sights of Wausaukee, Northeastern Wisconsin," displayed normative footage of the town's attractions interspersed with shocking imagery of large, writhing, gelatinous bovine masses. Simurgh.aic could not determine a geolocation and blocked the stream. Foundation officials investigated Wausaukee as part of a mandatory sweep for anomalous threats. An attached crew of field pataphysicists detected an aberrant mass of 150,000 individual bovine memes in and around the town, most of which centered on a 640 m2 area. MTF-Eta-33 members initiated further investigation, and with the help of pataphysicists, tracked the memes to a nearby warehouse at the town's outskirts. A raid on the facility was scheduled for the following evening. Aware of the pataphysical findings, Site-82 Command became convinced of a likely risk to civilian populations and authorized the use of esoteric materials to combat potential oneiric threats and anomalous dairy entities. EXPLORATION TEAM: MTF-η-33 TEAM MEMBERS: η-1 / Samara Maclear η-2 / Eli Hall η-3 / Allen Foxglove TEAM NOTES: Task force specialists were selected based on: Their teamwork skills. Pataphysical markers pointing to their archetypal significance, necessary for an operation of this nature. EQUIPMENT: Three sets of standard Spectra-fiber body armor. Each set is fitted with multiple built-in body cameras, a transmission stream, and headset. Infrared night-vision goggles. Three M4 carbines. One tactical astral projection kit and subdermal sigil (carried by η-1). One reconnaissance drone and a remote controller (carried by η-2). One breach kit (carried by η-3). SCP-3863-1-type milk-honey, 250 mL. PREAMBLE: A small team of MTF-η-33 specialists deployed via combat search and rescue helicopter. On arrival, the cast iron and steel roofing were partially collapsed, leaving a large breach above the warehouse. [BEGIN LOG | 09:47 PM] «9:47:» η-1 and η-3 hold position outside the front entrance. η-2 operates a quadcopter drone over the exposed roof. «9:50:» The drone enters a dimly lit interior containing 25 docile cows inside compact rooms, guarded behind slide-doors. The cows display fitted metallic portholes on their left flank and udders. «9:52:» Manure and hay compositions surround a hole directly beneath the roof's breach. Gelatinous purple tubing networks lead out of the hole and crisscross between compact cow stalls. «9:57:» The drone feed captures generic farming utilities, fertilizer, and seed bags. «9:58:» Small outlines move within bushes near η-1's camera. η-1 shines her flashlight at the location of movement. After a moment, η-1 states, "Negative sighting, remain alert." «9:58:» η-1 gestures an "all-clear" signal. η-2 places the drone on auto-pilot and nods to η-3. η-3 installs a breach charge at the facility's front doors. The three pile behind a breaching blanket. «9:59:» The charge detonates. η-3 enters the facility, followed by η-2 and η-1. «10:01:» The team proceeds through a tight windowless vestibule into a wide foyer. No persons are present within, and the interior lacks light sources. Team members activate night-vision. «10:04:» The team makes a thorough sweep of the area, and two-thirds of the way down, turns left. They encounter a door, ajar, to an open office space. The office displays hundreds of laminated posters, each sporting motivational messages overlaid onto stock images of persons consuming dairy products. «10:06:» η-1 discovers milk leaking from the ceiling. Drone feed captures undulating movement from no discernible source. η-2 whispers, "It's coming from everywhere." «10:07:» η-1 takes a milk sample, enclosing it in a rally bag. The milk emits a faint green bioluminescence. «10:08:» η-3 leads the team into an antechamber at the back of the office and claims he "smells a sulfuric scent." η-1 activates electro-photonic sensors and registers aetheric radiation.A byproduct of aetheric energy, which powers all Thaumatology. leaking from an adjacent chamber. «10:09:» η-3 pushes into the next chamber, which is filled with curdled milk. η-3 opens a metal door, drawing his carbine. A cow comes into view, mooing. Aetheric emission flows from its posterior, consistent with bovine flatulence. «10:11:» The team returns to the foyer, traveling east through winding halls. «10:15:» A tremor shakes the facility, followed by a long bovine vocalization. η-1's milk sample vibrates and grows ten times in volume. She abandons the sample. «10:18:» η-3 reports a 3-meter-wide teat intersecting through support columns. The teat leaks faint green fluids. «10:19:» η-1 makes incisions into the teat, revealing more flesh within. The flesh gurgles and pushes through the incision, consuming the cutting implement. She abandons cutting operation. «10:20:» The drone views cows either fleeing from, or charging toward, an indiscernible point. «10:23:» η-3 heaves open frosted double doors into a massive chamber ~20 meters in height that slopes downward toward the center. A writhing light brown udder (hereafter "Udder") of indeterminable width fills the chamber, producing hundreds of large teats, which stretch and collapse. Sleeping persons, presumably employees, levitate mid-air and upside down in groups of three around smaller teats. Cream cheese flows in bulk from their craniums down into a giant subterranean tank below. «10:24:» η-2's drone captures footage of a cow falling from an upper walkway, yelping. A moment before striking the floor, the Udder trembles. The cow contacts the floor in slow-motion and dissolves into a translucent white liquid. This liquid flows toward the room's center. «10:25:» Additional cows follow until all 25 have fallen. Newly transmogrified fluids spray the team members. «10:27:» A pale, floating pink udder (SCP-3739-1-B) approaches the trio. η-1 recoils, clutching her temples — she receives a telepathic payload. η-1 asks, "What do you want?" The entity undulates as if laughing and approaches the team. η-3 fires on the entity. In due part to its apparent metaphysical nature, it does not take damage. «10:27:» η-1 and η-3 share a nod. η-3 then stands at guard in front of her, and η-2 steps beside him. η-1 sets down her tool kit and unpacks it. She burns incense and reads an excerpt from her personal dream journal. «10:28:» The entity sports multiple arms that unfold from within each other and into view. It grows an attractive, plump face, spewing off-white fluids from its mouth. With a giggle and piercing shriek, it says, "Your mother wants you to finish your milk." «10:29:» η-2 trains the drone on a fleshy off-color sack near the middle of the Udder's anterior face. η-3 levels his carbine, waiting to fire. «10:30:» η-2 says, "I'm lactose intolerant," and curses the entity with reductionist profanities. The drone registers natural chemosignals.Pheromones used to convey emotion and directions to those under its effect. emerging from the entity (hereafter "Mother"). Fifteen smaller bovine entities with the appearance of animated cartoon characters (SCP-3739-1-C, hereafter "Children") separate from the Udder. Ten Children bombard η-2 with runny cream cheese projectiles. Others siphon fluids directly from the Mother and chant: "Eat it! Eat it!" η-2 refuses to comply. «10:31:» η-1 strikes a match, burning her thumb tip. She thumbs her tactical sigil, and then downs the milk-honey. Her body goes limp. An astral body sprouts up from her physical body's chest and flips toward the Mother. She grabs at loose teats and pulls. «10:32:» η-2 is fully covered in cream cheese but refuses to consume it. The Children drag him toward the Udder, causing him to drop the remote control as he fights to be freed. They force a leaking teat into his mouth. He has no choice but to comply. «10:33:» η-1 combats the Mother. Both scream, trading blows. η-3 walks to the Udder, aims, and fires at the exposed fleshy protrusion. He yells, "You're not real." The flesh goes erect and sprays raw milk at him. He consumes the milk at will, downing liters without apparent stress. «10:34:» η-1 spirals and pirouettes through the air, faster than the Mother. It squeezes green liquids at her. She grabs a teat and stretches it with ease. The Mother screams in shock, deflates, and then falls to the floor. A palpable wet smack echoes throughout the room. The entity finally becomes tangible, leaking the rest of its fluids. «10:35:» η-2 is no longer visible. The large Udder shakes and spills raw milk into the vast room. η-1's astral body reconnects with her physical body. She ditches the astral projection kit. η-1 and η-3 escape. [END LOG | 10:35 PM] EXTRACTION: Post-log footage taken autonomously from η-2's drone records η-2 screaming in distress. This occurs for roughly 30 minutes as the warehouse fills with milk. Near the end of the footage, η-2 emerges naked, and a disembodied cattle branding prosthesis marks him on the upper thigh. He shudders, mooing. The prosthesis spots the drone, extends, and emits electricity from a cattle prod, frying it. △ CODENAME: How the Udder Half Lives △ RAISA POST-INVESTIGATION NOTICE Between 12 October and 19 October 2023, a wide-scale interrogation campaign across U.S. farmlands reveals that over 3,100 oneiric advertisements coerced dairy corporate executives, regional managers, and ranchers to sign away rights to their dreams. On 21 November 2023, several hundred livestock facilities experience bovine and human inflation. Like the entities seen in OPERATION: L.I., body fluids became replaced with a voluminous amount of non-anomalous milk product. MEATS filtration and conventional FDA regulations fail to contain public knowledge of oneiric dairy products. Wisconsin dreaming is the first to be assimilated. The REM sleep of thousands of citizens becomes irreversibly altered. On 30 January 2024, Pennsylvania and Washington dreaming are assimilated. The REM sleep of thousands of citizens becomes irreversibly altered. Despite reintegration attempts made by Stratford Cattle Productions (via top-selling beef and yogurt products implanted with gustatory memetic agents), large numbers of civilians from these regions support CEO M.M.'s presidential campaign, with running mate VP Jackie the Clown Cow. On 9 February 2024, the CEO of Moosphere interrupts all of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Washington's major telecommunication broadcasts with a payload of cognitohazardous advertisements. Moosphere employs affected populations by force. Televisions broadcast the following: [BEGIN LOG] CEO M.M. descends onto a podium, cranium inflamed. He sighs. He opens his mandibles and a bovine eye atop his brow. Cream cheese secretes from the two orifices. Palpable dripping and sloshing sounds are audible for the next three minutes and twenty-seven seconds. Undulating, it thinks. [END LOG] ▷ WARNING: Paused Footage Quarantined AMNESTIC INOCULATION FAILED MTF AND PARAPHYSICIANS DISPATCHED Time-stamped: 2m 59s — 2024-02-29 @ 08:29 AM (UTC−05) See Also: Milk Hub Spilled Milk SCP-6705 - The Bicameral Milk SCP-4475 - So Long, and Thanks for All the Milk
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SCP-3740 - God is Dumb ▸ More by this Author ◂ {$comments2} F.A.Q. {$doesthisfixthebug} Item#: 3740 Level2 Secondary Class: none Disruption Class: ekhi Risk Class: caution link to memo SCP-3740. Image taken from SCP-3740's personal belongings. Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3740 is currently contained within several modified large humanoid containment cells at Site-81. SCP-3740’s cells are to be supplied with hand-crafted, rustic furnishings and an abundance of animal pelts and torches, as well as a large stone fireplace and bearskin rug. No fewer than fifteen casks of beer are to be provided within the dining cell at all times1. SCP-3740 is capable of providing itself with sustenance; however, it may occasionally request members of its containment team join it in a meal. During these events, Foundation personnel are to provide a whole cow or swine, which SCP-3740 will cook and serve to its preference. Under no circumstances are any individuals to address SCP-3740 as anything other than "Ashur, God of the Windswept Plains and Soaring Skies", "Most Victorious and Unchallenged Lord Deific Ashur", or simply, "Mightiest Ashur". Additionally, the members of SCP-3740’s containment team are to refer to themselves and each other by the following pseudonyms: Dr. Barrett: Ulmar the Unbroken Dr. Fisher: Niems the Champion of the Wastes Dr. Leads: Eleanora Thunderclap, Enchantress of the Towering Clouds Researcher Zimmerman: Fott the Vicious Researcher Oppenheimer: Aldous Manhattan, Slayer of His Enemies Researcher Quinn: Carmet the Likewise Unbroken2 Researcher Li: Solomon of the East Researcher Marshall: Ninurta, the Forgotten Sword of Night3 Ongoing containment of SCP-3740 requires strict adherence to a disinformation campaign created by Site-81 containment specialists, currently designated as the Mount Olympus Protocol. Please see Addendum 3740.2 for more information. Description: SCP-3740 is a Class VIII humanoid reality-altering entity believed to be Ashur, the Assyro-Babylonian god of air and head of the Assyrian pantheon of deities. SCP-3740 is capable of manipulating air currents at will, as well as communing with flying animals, and controlling air pressure and temperature. SCP-3740 is able to produce gusts of wind in excess of 500 kph, and create and control cyclones and other such meteorological formations. SCP-3740 appears as a young, tall, muscular human male with generally fair skin and black hair. SCP-3740 is capable of speaking fluently in several dead languages, as well as English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Farsi, and Armenian. Due to SCP-3740’s abilities and characteristics, it is currently classified as a Keter-class anomalous entity. However, containment efforts are aided by the fact that SCP-3740 is remarkably gullible. SCP-3740 accepts almost all statements at face value, and displays no traces of skepticism or uncertainty. SCP-3740 will readily believe almost anything said by any person, so long as it believes that that individual is a similarly powerful deity. Actual supernatural feats are not required as evidence of deific power: simple card tricks or sleight of hand are sufficient proof of godhood in the eyes of SCP-3740. Addendum 3740.1: Discovery SCP-3740 was discovered during an altercation at a bar near the Turkish city of Gaziantep. According to eyewitness reports, SCP-3740 was seen drinking heavily with a large group of individuals at the bar, when he was shoved by another patron due to some perceived insult. A brawl began, which ended when SCP-3740 blew out the front wall of the building, injuring 18 people and resulting in thousands of dollars of property damage. Local authorities apprehended the severely intoxicated SCP-3740, who began to rant unceasingly about his “incredible cosmic power” until local Foundation agents intercepted the authorities and apprehended SCP-3740. Addendum 3740.2: Mount Olympus Protocol Preface: The following document is an excerpt from an internal memo between members of the Site-81 containment research team. SCP FOUNDATION SECURE SERVER SITE-81 3740/4 CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TO: 3740 Research Team, Site-81 Containment Research Team, Site-81 Administration, Site Directors Council, Foundation Containment Committee FROM: Dr. G. McElroy, Site-81 Containment Research Head I’m sending out this memo because I’m sure many of you will notice by the morning that we’ve cancelled our order for additional containment measures. It’s certainly no mean feat to contain reality benders, let alone Class 8s, and we usually break out the big guns for them. In this case, though, we don’t need to worry about that. You’re probably asking yourself right now, “But Dr. McElroy, why wouldn’t we pull out all the stops for an entity that could very literally blow the roof off of Site-81? Isn’t this lackadaisical approach to SCP-3740’s containment counterintuitive and dangerous?” The answer to that second question is yes, usually. But we got lucky in this case. Sometimes this unnatural order of things throws you a softball, and this ball might as well be made out of mozzarella. Here’s the thing: SCP-3740 is hands down, in all seriousness, 100% no doubt easily the most gullible person I’ve ever met in my entire life. I’m not joking. I walked into the room and announced myself as Bliss Delight, a being of pure energy, built up some static on my hand and zapped him a bit, and he said “always a pleasure to meet a fellow god” and even now to this day continues to call me Bliss Delight. Jim Oppenheimer told him about how he “fought and killed a thousand men, singlehandedly, for betraying his brother” and the guy now calls him Aldous Manhattan, Slayer of His Enemies. It’s absolutely madness. So we’ve set the guy up with a convincing enough spread, told him it’s super important that he not destroy the cell, and he’s perfectly content to sit around, drinking and fucking and having these crazy feasts with the members of his containment team. SCP-3740 may very well turn into a containment risk at some point, and for the time being we’re not going to challenge his classification. But know that you can rest easy, because the most dangerous entity at Site-81 thinks Director Aktus is a supernatural space all-father named “Maltheus, the Horror of Hadrian’s Hell” because he knows how to turn on a lightswitch. SCP-3740 is more than capable at any given point in time of breaching containment. In order to prevent any such event and maintain long-term containment of SCP-3740, the following MOUNT OLYMPUS PROTOCOL has been enacted to coordinate any future communications with SCP-3740. SCP-3740 currently believes it resides in a building called the “Angolian Château”, a structure it conquered while black-out drunk during the brawl that led to its discovery. Within the containment cell, there are three types of individuals permitted to interact with SCP-3740 at any given time: Servants: SCP-3740 believes that its containment cell is staffed with servants or slaves, who he refers to as “Elamites” or “Chaldeans”. These individuals are not permitted to speak to SCP-3740 or make eye contact with the entity, as these are signs of perceived disrespect and will agitate SCP-3740 considerably. All individuals of this type are D-Class personnel. SCP-3740 will typically ignore these individuals and not act with any hostility towards them, so long as they maintain their character. Château Guardians: These are members of Site-81 security personnel who wear period-appropriate armor and weapons and serve as the guards at the front door of the containment cell. Due to their status as military personnel, SCP-3740 typically treats them as brothers in arms, though with no illusions about the difference in class or rank between them. SCP-3740 may occasionally call on these individuals to spar with him, and they are expected to be overwhelmed by him and surrender4. Gods and Heroes: These are members of the site containment team and research personnel who have convinced SCP-3740 that they are gods or legendary heroes. SCP-3740 has an extremely familiar relationship with all of these individuals, and speaks of them as if they were his own family members. He will routinely request their presence at feasts he holds within his containment cell, during which he will consume an inhuman amount of alcohol and share grandiose tales with his fellow deities, as well as mock or scorn the Elamites and Chaldeans. SCP-3740 has been led to believe that the brawl that led to his discovery was so fierce, it opened a passageway through space and time and returned him to antiquity, where he once again rules supreme at the top of the Assyrian pantheon. As per usual, SCP-3740 has had no issue accepting this version of events. Foundation actors posing as other members of the Assyrian pantheon have helped to strengthen the illusion of the Protocol. Addendum 3740.3: Interview with SCP-3740 Note: The following is an excerpt from the transcription of an interview administered by Dr. Monica Leads shortly after the introduction of the Mount Olympus Protocol. Dr. Leads: Ashur, greetings! SCP-3740: And greetings to you, oh wondrous enchantress! I was just speaking to, hang on. Thaddeus! Artemor! (Gestures towards two members of the security team) Come in here, yes, come here. I was just telling my brothers Thaddeus and Artemor about you, Eleanora! This, friends, is the beautiful and terrible Eleanora Thunderclap. Is she not a sight to behold! (The members of the security team, both of whom report directly to Dr. Leads, nod in agreement.) Dr. Leads: That is very kind of you to say, Ashur. SCP-3740: Nonsense. I know of no better way to describe a great warrior empress like yourself! Here, Eleanora, show them the- show them the thing again. The rain thing, yes, the summoning the storm thing. Please! (Dr. Leads claps her hands three times, and outside containment personnel proceed to activate the sprinklers within the cell.) SCP-3740: Hahahaha! What great power! I told her, brothers, I told her the other day, just the other day, that she has more power than anyone I have ever met before! Greater even than the Polymorph of Diogenyses, or the Marmlukk of the Arab Well. Maybe second only to our great companion Solomon, who I only recently observed removing his thumb simply by moving his other hand! Truly astounding. (Both guards nod in agreement.) SCP-3740: But very well. I’m sure Eleanora has important business to speak of to me. Thaddeus, Artemor. To your stations. (The two men depart.) Now, Eleanora. Let’s speak candidly. How are you? Dr. Leads: I’m well, Ashur, how- SCP-3740: I would very much enjoy the opportunity to intercourse with you sexually, Eleanora. Dr. Leads: I- yes, you’ve mentioned as much, Ashur. Unfortunately, you see, I have been cursed. SCP-3740: Cursed? Cursed!? How can this be? Who would do this terrible thing to you? Was it an Elamite? A witch? An Elamite witch? Dr. Leads: No no no, definitely not an Elamite. It was just a, uh, goblin… a goblin ran past, and just… just stole my nethers. Very tragic. SCP-3740: (Slams his fist on the table) Gods be damned! Except us, of course, but either way! (Takes a deep breath, closes his eyes slightly) What, dear Eleanora, is the extent of the… of the… of the damage? (Braces himself in anticipation.) Dr. Leads: I mean, it’s just… it’s just all like… it’s all smooth down there. SCP-3740: Spirits have mercy! (A fierce wind is kicked up and SCP-3740’s chair is knocked backwards. He scrambles up off of the floor.) You poor, unfortunate soul! I cast a pox on the fiendish creature who did this to you. Let his cries be heard forevermore from the salted earth! Dr. Leads: I certainly appreciate the sentiment, Ashur, thank you. But being true, the reason I’ve come to see you is to ask if you are enjoying your accommodations. SCP-3740: Undoubtedly! I have only the finest furnishings and decor here, as you can see. Our good friend Tiamat procured these bottomless casks of the finest amber ale, and look here! Ulmar brought me this most peculiar torch, and see this! (SCP-3740 claps once, and the light comes on.) What a remarkable treasure! Dr. Leads: Of course. I just wanted to make sure you were wanting for nothing here, Ashur. SCP-3740: Absolutely not. Why would I ever want to leave such a palace? (Pauses) There is one thing, I remember. I would very much like to intercou- Dr. Leads: Goblin, Ashur. All smooth down there. SCP-3740: Gods be damned! Addendum 3740.4: Proof of Supernatural Abilities In order to facilitate proper communications with SCP-3740, all research and administrative personnel are to perform a feat sufficient enough to prove to SCP-3740 that they are divine beings, on an equal footing to SCP-3740. So far, the following acts have been sufficient to fool SCP-3740: Dr. Clark: Floated an iron ball across the room using magnets and wire. Dr. Yemma: Used a laser pointer to make a cat run around. Researcher Kiryu: Having hair of a non-natural color. Dr. Vanderbilt: Pulled a quarter out of SCP-3740’s ear. Dr. Andrews: Held a pencil to the side of his head and pretended to swallow it. Researcher Dansby: Juggled. Asst. Director Schmidt: Performed a card trick. Researcher Quarlo: Shotgunned a beer. Dir. Aktus: Turned on a light switch. Addendum 3740.5: Feast Event Transcription Note: The following is an excerpt from the transcript of recorded audio taken from a weekly feast held by SCP-3740 within its containment cell with members of its research team. SCP-3740: -and there I was, standing alone on the battlefield, and over the river is Adam El Asem. He’s all worked up, see, because I was waving the goods at him, and- Researcher Kale: Goods? Agent Ivers: He means his dick. Agent Allen: His “God Rod”. (The whole room laughs) SCP-3740: That’s the one! So I’m waving the business at him, and he- hang on, Xenu, you want another drink? Who am I kidding, of course you do! Let me just get- (SCP-3740 manipulates the wind in the room to move Agent Allen's mug over to a cask and pour him another drink, returning the cup when finished. Agent Allen nods in approval.) SCP-3740: Anyway, he- he tries to throw the whole river at me! Can you believe that? After I’d offered him the courtesy of taking the high ground, he decides he wants to- to give me the ole one-two-dunk-a-roo! Dr. Vickers: The scoundrel! Researcher Kale: So what did you do? SCP-3740: Smacked him in the face with the God Rod, of course! (The room laughs again) Researcher Robinson: I’ve got one better. So one time I was hired to fight the Broken God on a field in Alagadda, and I’ve got the Spear of the Non-Believer in my right hand and the severed head of Jack Bright in my left- SCP-3740: Aha! A thrilling tale! Do go on! Agent Ivers: Ahhhhh don’t listen to him. He’s full of shit. SCP-3740: Spirits save you! What a calamitous turn of events. My friend Bonebreaker5, there are facilities just down the hall here- the finest in the entire realm, imported straight from the far off land of Kohler! Researcher Robinson: What? You mean the bathroom? Why? SCP-3740: You are full of shit, are you not? (The room laughs again.) Addendum 3740.6: 11/4/2017 Event Transcription Note: On 11/4/2017, another entity, called "Suen" by SCP-3740, appeared suddenly within SCP-3740's containment chamber. This entity, a muscular humanoid male wearing an armored chestplate and helm and carrying a spear, communicated briefly with containment personnel before disappearing. The following is a transcript of that exchange. SCP-3740: -so then I told him, what greater power could a god wield than that of spinning an orange ball on one finger? Truly unbelievable! (There is a loud cracking sound, and then the unknown humanoid entity appears.) Suen: Ashur? Come on, buddy, it's time to- wait. Hang on, what's going on here? SCP-3740: Ah, Suen! My friend! You've returned to the past as well? What a fortunate coincidence! I was just telling my friend Ulmar here about our misadventures in the old times! Suen: Ulmar? (Addresses Dr. Barrett) Who are you? Dr. Barrett: I- I'm Ulmar. The, uh, the Unbroken. Who are you? Suen: Ulmar? I've never heard of an Ulmar the Unbroken! Say, what sort of nonsense is going on here? Ashur, what is the meaning of this? SCP-3740: I already told you, graceful and delicate Suen, this is- Suen: Don't call me that. SCP-3740: -Ulmar the Unbroken! A powerful lord of this world, such as myself. Behold his magnificent power! (Nudges Dr. Barrett) Show him the breadth of your strength, Ulmar! (Dr. Barrett hesitantly draws his elbow to his mouth and licks it.) SCP-3740: (Gasps audibly) Revel in this majesty with me, Suen! See how his arm does not break free from the socket! Gaze upon the length of his tongue! The nations of the world should rightfully fear this man! (Suen does not appear impressed.) SCP-3740: As I was saying, Suen, it's excellent to see you again. My fine companion Ulmar here and the members of his pantheon have suitably stocked this royal château I now inhabit, all in the finest wares from across the countryside. It is a veritable fortress of luxury, my friend! Suen: What do you mean, "royal château"? Do you not realize that you are- (Pauses) ohhhh, I see what's going on here. You've got a sort of- yeah, okay, absolutely, this is great. (Sighs) What a relief. Dr. Barrett: What? What do you mean? Suen: (Takes Dr. Barrett aside) You would not believe how long we've been babysitting Ashur. The guy just cannot be helped. You know what I mean, obviously, but still. A handful, am I right? (Laughs) We even had this whole custody thing set up, where I'd take him for a few decades, and then Nergal would be after me but he's always busy with something, and that Nazarene wino with the fish obsession has been flaking for like two thousand years, but… either way, listen, you're doing me a huge favor here buddy. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. Dr. Barrett: Hang on- what? Who are you again? Suen: Suen, God of the Moon. (Makes a dismissive gesture) But don't worry about any of that, just keep up the good work! If you need anything, call me! (Suen disappears without warning) Dr. Barrett: Wha- what? Hello? Did anyone else see that? SCP-3740: (Chuckling) Man, that Suen. Haven't seen him in a while. What a character though, huh? Can you believe that guy thinks he's a god? (Laughs) "God of the Moon". What does that even mean? Footnotes 1. While originally it was believed that only higher-quality beers would serve to satisfy SCP-3740, the entity has shown no preference against more commercial brands and as such, these casks are to contain Miller High Life beer. 2. During a particular feast held by SCP-3740, Researcher Quinn, who had previously been called “Carmet the Ecclesiastical", engaged in inebriated sparring with Dr. Barrett. After ten minutes of sustained combat with provided sabers, SCP-3740 proclaimed Researcher Quinn to be “Carmet the Likewise Unbroken”, and has referred to her as such ever since. 3. In reference to SCP-3740’s defeat in a game of checkers by Researcher Marshall, resulting in a ten-day period of mourning by SCP-3740, followed by the entity proclaiming Researcher Marshall to be the “greatest champion of this green Earth.” 4. Notably, while SCP-3740 thoroughly enjoys sparring and talks openly about his extensive career in warfare, he is a decidedly poor fighter, and guardians must be careful to not agitate him by besting him. 5. Researcher Robinson. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3740" by djkaktus, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3740. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. 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close Info X SCP-3741: The World Is Your Oyster Author: TheMightyMcB More By This Author: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/themightymcb-s-author-page Special thanks to: Modern_Erasmus for giving me the push I needed to make these babies Thaumiel way back in I&B. MathBrush, Zyn, and Stallmantic for their amazing line-by-line critiques, as well as dealing with my neurotic ass in the first place. εїз εїз εїз Y'all are dope as hell. Rounderhouse for doing their absolute best to parse through my mad ravings on a panicked I&B rehash thread. + Image Attribution - Image Attribution "Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Top" by Andrew Cannizzaro. Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0). This image has not been altered in any way. 1/3741 LEVEL 1/3741 CLASSIFIED Item #: SCP-3741 Euclid Figure 1.1: An instance of SCP-3741, taken at The Spat Shuckster's Oyster Farm in Maine, USA. Special Containment Procedures: Currently, all known instances of SCP-3741 are being contained in separate salt water tanks at Site-77. The number of SCP-3741 instances in containment should not exceed fifty at any time. As such, surplus instances are to be incinerated. Should any wild instances be discovered, MTF Sigma-13 ("Food Fighters") will be deployed to recover them and return to Site-77. As such, MTF Sigma-13 agents embedded in various national food safety regulatory bodies1 will routinely visit oyster farms under their jurisdiction that are known to raise eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) and are to confiscate any instances of SCP-3741 that they find. Under no circumstances should an instance of SCP-3741 be ingested. Should an instance be consumed, all responsible individuals are to be detained, interrogated, and amnesticized. Description: SCP-3741 is a phenomenon that is currently exhibited by 29 eastern oysters, but may extend to a small quantity of wild oysters. Instances can be differentiated from non-anomalous oysters due to a variety of biological traits, including functional immortality2, dull pink meat, and physically identical dark shells. Despite demonstrating the inability to age, SCP-3741 instances are capable of sexual reproduction, and are hermaphroditic like non-anomalous eastern oysters, but can only reproduce with other instances of SCP-3741. In addition to biological deviations from non-anomalous eastern oysters, instances of SCP-3741 are known to induce a memetic effect when consumed by a subject, hereafter designated as SCP-3741-A. Upon ingestion, SCP-3741-A will become immediately aware of an acquisition of extensive knowledge on a specific topic. The nature of this knowledge varies between instances, but is always related to the desires of the SCP-3741-A instance. See Addendum 3741-B for more information. Addendum 3741-A: Discovery SCP-3741 was discovered after Foundation agents embedded in the FDA were notified of an abnormal bloom of oysters at The Spat Shuckster's Oyster Farm in Kennebunkport, Maine. In response, the agents visited the farm and confiscated the oysters, logging them as an Anomalous Object under the designation AO-697837. During routine testing, the secondary anomalous properties were discovered, thus warranting an upgrade to SCP-3741. Addendum 3741-B: Test Log The following is an abridged list of tests involving SCP-3741. Test 3741-1 Subject D-2452, one instance of AO-697837 SCP-3741 Experiment D-2452 instructed to open and consume the instance. Results D-2452 opened and consumed the instance of AO-697837 SCP-3741, despite initial resistance due to the pink color of the flesh. D-2452 reported no abnormal taste, smell, or texture. Following the test, D-2452 reported an interest in music and requested an instrument. The request was denied. Test 3741-2 Subject D-2452, one instance of AO-697837 SCP-3741 Experiment D-2452 instructed to steam and ingest one instance of AO-697837 SCP-3741. Results D-2452 did as instructed and reported no abnormal taste, smell, or texture. Immediately following the conclusion of this test, D-2452 attempted to flee from Foundation custody by assaulting the security officer who was escorting them back to their cell. D-2452 was soon apprehended and terminated by on-site security and AO-697837 was subsequently upgraded to SCP-3741. Further testing has been suspended. [PLEASE INPUT LEVEL 4/3741 CREDENTIALS] [ACCESSING CONTENT. PLEASE STAND BY.] BY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL The following file is Level 4/3741 classified. Unauthorized access is forbidden. 3741 4/3741 LEVEL 4/3741 CLASSIFIED Item #: SCP-3741 Thaumiel Special Containment Procedures: Currently, all known instances of SCP-3741 are being contained in separate salt water tanks at Site-77. The number of SCP-3741 instances in containment should not exceed fifty at any time. As such, surplus instances are to be incinerated. Should the number of SCP-3741 instances in containment fall below ten, two instances are to be placed in a tank together for two weeks, allowing them to mate. Should any wild instances be discovered, MTF Sigma-13 ("Food Fighters") will be deployed to recover them and return to Site-77. As such, MTF Sigma-13 agents embedded in various national food safety regulatory bodies will routinely visit oyster farms under their jurisdiction that are known to raise eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) and are to confiscate any instances of SCP-3741 that they find. Under no circumstances should an instance of SCP-3741 be ingested. Access to SCP-3741 is restricted by the O5 Council, and a majority vote is required for authorized usage. Should an instance be consumed without express permission of the O5 Council, all responsible individuals are to be detained, interrogated, and amnesticized terminated. Any instances of SCP-3741-B that are not generated as a direct result of an O5 directive are to be amnesticized and issued a cover story to explain the effects of SCP-3741. Description: SCP-3741 is a phenomenon that is currently exhibited by 29 eastern oysters, but may extend to a small quantity of wild oysters. Instances can be differentiated from non-anomalous oysters due to a variety of biological traits, including functional immortality, dull pink meat, and physically identical dark shells. Despite demonstrating the inability to age, SCP-3741 instances are capable of sexual reproduction, and are hermaphroditic like non-anomalous eastern oysters, but can only reproduce with other instances of SCP-3741. In addition to biological deviations from non-anomalous eastern oysters, instances of SCP-3741 are known to induce a memetic effect when consumed by a subject, hereafter designated as SCP-3741-A. Upon ingestion, SCP-3741-A will become immediately aware of an acquisition of extensive knowledge on a specific topic. The nature of this knowledge varies between instances, but is always related to the desires of the SCP-3741-A instance. See Addendum 3741-B for details. upon two subjects when one of them ingests an instance. The person who ingested the SCP-3741 instance shall hereafter be referred to as SCP-3741-A, and the subsequent linked individual shall be referred to as SCP-3741-B. Through a poorly understood mechanism, a metaphysical link between the consciousness of SCP-3741-A and SCP-3741-B is established upon consumption of an SCP-3741 instance. This cognitive link allows for the transfer of memories and experiences from SCP-3741-B to SCP-3741-A. The information that is transferred and the given instance of SCP-3741-B directly relate to the thoughts, desires and curiosities of SCP-3741-A at the time of ingestion, and as such, SCP-3741-A can exert a degree of control over the effects of the anomaly. Addendum 3741-A: Discovery and Uncontained Effects SCP-3741 was discovered after Foundation agents embedded in the FDA were notified of an abnormal bloom of oysters at The Spat Shuckster's Oyster Farm in Kennebunkport, Maine. In response, the agents visited the farm and confiscated the oysters, logging them as an Anomalous Object under the designation AO-697837. During routine testing, the secondary anomalous properties were discovered, thus warranting an upgrade to SCP-3741 as a Thaumiel-class object. Upon discovery of the secondary anomalous properties of SCP-3741, multiple cases of SCP-3741-B instances were identified. The following is an abridged list detailing confirmed cases: Incident 3741-1 SCP-3741-A D-2452 SCP-3741-B Malcolm Young Result Mr. Young stepped down from his role as rhythm guitarist of Australian rock band "AC/DC" in 2014, citing dementia. It was later revealed that Young had forgotten how to play the guitar. The sudden onset of the disease coincides with Test 3741-13. As such, it is currently believed that D-2452 is responsible for Mr. Young's dementia. Incident 3741-2 SCP-3741-A D-2452 SCP-3741-B Michael McBrody, Site-77 Security Personnel Result Upon the conclusion of Test 3741-24, Officer McBrody was instructed to return D-2452 to their cell. While in transport to the Site-77 D-class containment block, D-2452 assaulted Officer McBrody with their restraints. This resulted in severe trauma to Officer McBrody's trachea, which was crushed in the altercation. Officer McBrody remained in the Site-77 intensive care unit for 6 weeks before being discharged in good health. It is believed that D-2452 had acquired Officer McBrody's hand-to-hand combat training in Test 3741-2. Addendum 3741-B: Test Log The following is an abridged list of tests involving SCP-3741. Please note that Tests 3741-1 and 3741-2 remain relatively unchanged. Test 3741-1 Subject D-2452, one instance of AO-697837 SCP-3741 Experiment D-2452 instructed to open and consume the instance. Results D-2452 opened and consumed the instance of AO-697837 SCP-3741, despite initial resistance due to the pink color of the flesh. D-2452 reported no abnormal taste, smell, or texture. Following the test, D-2452 reported an interest in music and requested an instrument. The request was denied. Test 3741-2 Subject D-2452, one instance of AO-697837 SCP-3741 Experiment D-2452 instructed to steam and ingest one instance of AO-697837 SCP-3741. Results D-2452 did as instructed and reported no abnormal taste, smell, or texture. Immediately following the conclusion of this test, D-2452 attempted to flee from Foundation custody by assaulting the security officer who was escorting them back to their cell. D-2452 was soon apprehended and terminated by on-site security and AO-697837 was subsequently upgraded to SCP-3741. Further testing has been suspended restricted to direct O5 approval. WARNING: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS LEVEL 5/3741 CLASSIFIED ANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS INFORMATION WITHOUT LEVEL 5/3741 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION. Addendum 3741-C: Log of O5 Directives The following is a log of O5 sanctioned applications of SCP-3741. O5 Directive 3741-1 SCP-3741-A O5-10 SCP-3741-B Dr. S. Mann Justification To test the efficacy of SCP-3741 in information recovery, and to better understand the anomalous biological nature of UAE-Brasil-78, which has since been neutralized by the Global Occult Coalition and confiscated by Marshall, Carter, and Dark, Ltd. Results Dr. Mann, a published researcher at the International Center for the Study of Unified Thaumatology (ICSUT), was confirmed to have dissected the entity in question. According to Foundation plants within ICSUT, Dr. Mann experienced an epileptic seizure while at his desk. Dr. Mann has since made a full recovery, but has been unable to recall the previous five years in their entirety. O5-10 was able to recall the details of the autopsy, as well as identify several MC&D items that have been derived from the corpse of the entity. O5 Directive 3741-2 SCP-3741-A Α-1, MTF Alpha-1 ("Red Right Hand") SCP-3741-B Director E. Strauss, Site-77 Ethics Committee Liaison Justification To ensure the continued secrecy of all future O5 directives regarding SCP-3741. Results Α-1 was interviewed after ingestion and confirmed their acquisition of knowledge of O5 usage of SCP-3741. Α-1 was administered Class-A amnestics and allowed to resume their duties. Director Strauss failed to report to Site-19 for an emergency Ethics Committee meeting after the administration of Directive 3741-2. A brief investigation into her disappearance revealed that she had experienced a stroke while commuting to Site-19, resulting in a high speed collision that ejected her from the vehicle. Director Strauss was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Footnotes 1. Specifically, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA), and the French Agency for Food, Environmental, and Occupational Safety (ANSES). 2. Instances are capable of dying, but, assuming they have access to sufficient nutrients, will not die of age 3. See Addendum 3741-B. 4. See Addendum 3741-B. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3741" by TheMightyMcB, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3741. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: EasternOyster.jpg Name: Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Top Author: Andrew Cannizzaro License: Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Source Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/acryptozoo/16114506758 Derivative of: Additional Notes:
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Item #: SCP-3742 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3742 is currently stored in a soundproofed chamber in the Low Security Research Medium Security Storage Wing (E-Wing) of Storage Site-64. The containment chamber is equipped with its own isolated power source and a closed-circuit surveillance system with independent audio and video recording equipment for experimental monitoring. Any and all audio recordings of SCP-3742 are to be destroyed following experimental procedures except by direct approval of both the Project Director1 and Site Director Holman. SCP-3742-1 and the soundproofing of the containment chamber should be inspected monthly for damage, which must be repaired prior to the next scheduled experiment as soon as possible. As such, experiments must be scheduled at least one month in advance Experimentation is currently suspended; personnel with proper clearance may consult Addendum 3742-3 for more information. For experimentation In the event that further experimentation is authorized, subjects with the following conditions will be disqualified from testing consideration: History of (or predisposition to) drug/alcohol addiction Epilepsy or other sensory disorders Obsessive behaviors Immunosuppressive disorders Subjects previously exposed to other anomalous musical phenomena Subjects must be approved by the Project Director on a case-by-case basis. Subjects with documented resistance to addictive and/or compulsive behaviors are considered to be best suited for SCP-3742 experimentation. Following testing, subjects should be administered Class-B amnestics and monitored to prevent accidental exposure to any music originating from the non-anomalous version of SCP-3742. If exposure to such music is suspected, subjects should be recalled, administered Class-D amnestics, and isolated from all musical media. Procedures calling for the deafening of former subjects in addition to administration of Class-B amnestics are currently under review by the Ethics Committee. When not in use, SCP-3742-1 is to remain unpowered with its tonearm removed and placed in a secure locker in the control booth accessible by the Project Director. Any personnel inside the chamber during testing should remain outside SCP-3742’s radius of effect (marked on the floor of the chamber) and apply hearing protection. In the event of an emergency, power to the containment chamber should be cut from the control booth prior to entering the chamber. Should SCP-3742 become detached from SCP-3742-1 under any circumstances, it is to be stored in a high-security vault until a replacement can be found for SCP-3742-1; at such time SCP-3742 should be immediately replaced with side one facing up. Under no circumstances is side two of SCP-3742 to be played to completion should it become possible to do so. In the event that additional instances of SCP-3742 are discovered2, they should be stored collectively in a high security vault at Storage Site-64. + Level 4 Clearance Required - Close In the occurrence of a suspected UMMAGUMMA Event, MTF Sigma-21 (“Mosh Pit”) is to be deployed to enact Protocol 3742-Encore. Description: SCP-3742 is a vinyl LP record physically identical to the first issue of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (UK catalogue number SHVL 804), which was released in the US on 1 March, 1973 and in the UK on 16 March, 1973. Visually, the only difference between SCP-3742 and a non-anomalous version of the album is its labeling, with SCP-3742’s production being attributed to "Perispirit Records". This labeling is consistent between the LP sleeve and the record itself, with album art otherwise unchanged from the original. An insert found in the LP sleeve indicates a link between Perispirit Records and GoI-███ [Marshall, Carter & Dark, LLP]; the full insert can be read below (see Addendum 3742-1A). Microscopic analysis of the object indicates that it possesses a groove structure functionally identical (>99%) to a non-anomalous copy of the album. However, SCP-3742 seems to be immune to most forms of physical damage and is anomalously attached to the turntable on which it was recovered (designated SCP-3742-1), such that it cannot be removed by means other than the destruction of SCP-3742-1. The label on the disc itself shows similar resistance to damage, though the sleeve and the insert found within do not. The primary anomalous effect of SCP-3742 manifests when power is supplied to SCP-3742-1 and its stylus is brought into contact with SCP-3742. Regardless of the physical location of the stylus on the disc, SCP-3742 will begin to play as if from the beginning of the album. Subjects who hear sound broadcast from SCP-3742-1 and any supplementary speakers will experience a mild compulsion to approach SCP-3742-1, often complaining of symptoms such as headache, nausea, and disorientation. After playing the entirety of track one, Speak to Me (approximately 1:30 in length), all subjects within a 6 meter radius of SCP-3742-1 will disappear near-instantaneously, along with any object in the possession of a subject. This effect is not modified by changing the volume of SCP-3742-1 or any supplementary speakers; however, individuals who lack the ability to hear and/or comprehend SCP-3742 (such as animals or deaf persons) are not subject to SCP-3742’s effects. Individuals who enter into the radius of effect at any time after the initial disappearance event will also disappear after approximately ten seconds, provided enough time remains on side one of the album. Subjects will remain absent until side one is played to completion, reappearing in a similar fashion to their disappearance approximately one minute after the conclusion of track five, The Great Gig in the Sky (approximately 18:56-19:51 after initial activation). Upon reappearance, a majority of subjects exhibit symptoms of drug and/or alcohol intoxication, with overdose symptoms observed in █% of subjects. Post-experimental blood tests have confirmed these symptoms are non-anomalous in nature. While drugs such as alcohol, nicotine, and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) are the most common intoxicating agents, more dangerous narcotics have been detected in the systems of some subjects; notable examples include LSD, heroin, and in one case traces of SCP-███. After the disappearance of any listeners, remote observers will comprehend sound being broadcast from SCP-3742-1 as a continuous loop of the three second “screaming” intro to track two, Breathe (in the Air) (which lasts from 1:30-1:33 in the non-anomalous version). Audio recordings of this phenomenon will also display this property, which continues for the duration of side one. Removal of the stylus from SCP-3742 will cause immediate cessation of all anomalous phenomena, rendering the radius of effect safe to enter. Replacing the stylus, regardless of physical location, will cause SCP-3742 to resume from the point at which the stylus was removed; thus, the album cannot be restarted until the completion of side one. Individuals listening to audio recordings of SCP-3742 do not report symptoms of direct exposure to the anomaly, but a majority of individuals express mild to serious discomfort after approximately one minute of listening; subjects with close relations to listeners exhibit the strongest symptoms of such. Subjects who disappear under the effect of SCP-3742 are (or believe themselves to be) transported to a live performance of the album in an as-yet unknown venue (designated SCP-3742-2). As many of these subjects become intoxicated while present in SCP-3742-2, specific details of subjects’ experiences are highly variable, and instructions given to subjects prior to entry are rarely followed correctly, if at all. While a more reliable method of exploring SCP-3742-2 would be preferred, electronic equipment ceases to function correctly within SCP-3742-2. Attempts to utilize film-based and instant-print cameras to collect data have also failed, as images and video taken within SCP-3742-2 seem to experience high levels of radiation corruption upon the reappearance of the listener; such images and video are anomalously watermarked with the following message: “This Perispirit Personal Concert is best enjoyed firsthand. The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this Perispirit Personal Concert Experience™ is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is punishable by law in the US, UK, and Three Portlands (under the provisions of the Hoover Mandate).” If the stylus is removed from SCP-3742, subjects within SCP-3742-2 report a variety of technical difficulties necessitating a pause in the concert until the playback of SCP-3742 is resumed. The longest period of stylus removal during an experimental playback was one week; upon recovery, subject showed signs of severe dehydration but was successfully rehabilitated and estimated the concert resumed after approximately two hours. At the conclusion of side one, subjects report the band retiring backstage for an intermission just prior to returning from SCP-3742-2. After recovering from any symptoms of intoxication and malnutrition, previously exposed subjects experience a strong compulsion to return to SCP-3742-2 in order to experience the remainder of the concert (an impossibility due to SCP-3742's anomalous properties). The inability to satisfy this urge causes agitation in subjects without advanced mental fortitude training, leading to obsessive reuse of SCP-3742 (which is often exacerbated by addiction to various drugs apparently available within SCP-3742-2). Amnestics have been determined to be only partially successful in eliminating this compulsion, as exposure to music from the album can induce mnestic recall of interactions with SCP-3742. This occurs in all subjects, including those trained to resist SCP-3742's compulsive effects, and causes a resurgence in compulsive behavior. After each mnestic recall event, more potent amnestics are required to suppress symptoms of SCP-3742 exposure. The root cause of this compulsion is currently under investigation; however, data collected since recovery have indicated that the nature of SCP-3742's creation, which is not currently understood, contributes (at least in part) to this compulsion. SCP-3742 was recovered in June of 1974 from the residence of one James Q. █████, an amateur music critic and collector of records, on the Isle of Portland, England, UK. Police were sent to investigate the residence after complaints of a “deathly stench” emanating from the residence were filed by neighbors; the Foundation was notified through contacts in the FBI’s Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU) when a student ID from Deer College belonging to Mr. █████ was found. SCP-3742 was discovered when the stylus of SCP-3742-1 was brought back into contact with the record by UIU investigators, resulting in the reappearance of Mr. █████ approximately ten seconds later. █████ was transferred to Foundation custody and interviewed, during which time it was determined he had purchased the album from “3P LP’s”, a now-defunct record shop in Three Portlands on 14/11/1973. After repeated excursions into SCP-3742-2, █████ had become trapped when the stylus of SCP-3742-1 was removed from SCP-37423. During the extended blackout SCP-3742-2 experienced during this period, █████ reported using thaumaturgic techniques he learned at Deer College to create sustenance for himself and several audience members. Through internal contacts the Foundation was notified of an ongoing, but unrelated, UIU investigation into the "3P LPs" record shop and its owner, Roy ████, which allowed for researchers to secure an interview with Mr. ████ (see Addendum 3742-1B). SCP-3742 was transferred to Storage Site-64 two weeks after recovery. Addendum 3742-1: Relation to GOI-███ [Marshall, Carter & Dark, LLP] + Section A: Insert Recovered from SCP-3742 Album Sleeve - Close Description: The following was printed on a paper insert from the LP sleeve of SCP-3742. The insert was watermarked with the logo of GOI-███ [Marshall, Carter & Dark, LLP]. A promotional message was printed on the front side of the insert, while what appears to be an internal or personal memo was handwritten on the reverse; illegible sections of the memo are marked as such. Both are included below. [Front] Thank you for your purchase of this Perispirit Personal Concert Experience™. We know that you will enjoy experiencing the thrill of a live music performance, up close and personal, from the comfort of your own home. Make memories that will last a lifetime, and relive them again and again with the simple flick of a switch. We at Perispirit Records guarantee you will be more than satisfied by this personal Concert Experience. And be sure to add these other exclusive Perispirit Personal Concert Experiences™ to your music library; available soon at participating Three Portlands record shops*. In Concert- Derek and the Dominos Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite- Elvis Presley Yessongs- Yes Flesh, Blood, and [DATA EXPUNGED]- Ion and the Karcists4 The Beach Boys in Concert- The Beach Boys [INFOHAZARDOUS DATA REDACTED] Hendrix Reborn: Live From Three Portlands, June 6th, 1972- Jimi Hendrix5 *Established clients: consult your latest MC&D catalogue for special offers. [Transcript of Reverse] Note: Document begins from first legible line. Transcribed as written. I’ve tried it so many times and it still isn't right! Mar…[ILLEGIBLE]…pushing too hard for a release before the turn of the year. [ILLEGIBLE]…works fine until the end, but that is of course the most essential part. I knew we should have refrained from wasting so much time on the damned legal protections. But the…[ILLEGIBLE]…two months longer than it should have! Who would believe that recording the concert would be the easy part?! Oh, if only Robert…[ILLEGIBLE]. That greedy bastard Rupr…[ILLEGIBLE]…an ultimatum: ship on time or the project is canned. Before the last test I thought I might be able to make the deadline, but now I know this endeavour is doomed. I must end this madness for my own good, as my obsession has even clouded the…[ILLEGIBLE]…too far ahead of its time. Car…[ILLEGIBLE]…will not be pleased, but I will face whatever fate awaits me with my head held high. Or, at least, that is what tell myself…[ILLEGIBLE]…must prevent his fate from befalling another…[ILLEGIBLE]…Robert, I am so sorry…[REMAINDER ILLEGIBLE]. - Close + Section B: Interview Log, 11/07/1974 - Close Interviewed: Mr. Roy ████, Owner, 3P LP’s Record Shop, Three Portlands Interviewer: Field Agent Holly Gardner, Foundation/UIU Liaison Foreword: Mr. ████ had been in UIU custody for two days prior to the interview in connection to a classified ongoing investigation. Field Agent Gardner was able to secure the interview prior to the release of Mr. ████. <Begin Log> Agent Gardner: Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. ████. I promise this will not take long. ████: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s what the feds told me when they cuffed me two days ago. But I guess there’s not much I can do to get out of this, seein' as I ain’t got a lawyer with me. Agent Gardner: I assure you, Mr. ████, that this is not a criminal investigation. Even if I did know why the FBI took you into custody, none of my questions today are related to…whatever it is you did or didn’t do. ████: Oh, great. I feel so much better now that I have the w— Agent Gardner (interjecting): Let’s get down to business then. Do you recognize this? [Agent Gardner places the sleeve of SCP-3742 in front of Mr. ████] ████: What kinda question is that? Of course I recognize it! It’s only the hottest selling mundane album in Three Portlands. I guess ya need me to say it for the record? Agent Gardner: No, I don’t think that will be necessary. But it seems you misunderstood my question; do you recognize this specific copy? ████: [Brief pause as ████ examines the sleeve] Hmmm…yeah, I think I do, but why does it matter? I mean, it’s just a misprint, ain’t it? Perispirit [Records] only distributes records. They don't make their own, not for a normal band like Floyd…I didn’t make it, if that’s what you’re asking. I’m too mundane for that. Agent Gardner: How did you come across it then, if you didn’t make it? ████: Well…y’see I uhhh…[████ pauses for thirty seconds in apparent contemplation]. Agent Gardner: Mr. ████, please answer the question. ████: Meh…fine, what the hell. The feds already know this part; I bought it from some guy on the black market. Don’t remember who, and he didn’t say where he got it. He was selling it with a demo tape he…came across for this new act from ‘Frisco. Package deal, otherwise I probably woulda passed it up; I’d heard Floyd plenty, but that ‘Frisco band sounded good. Had some potential, I th—- Agent Gardner: So you never played the record that came in this case specifically? ████: Well…no. Not that specific record. Disc looked good so I just put it in a case and forgot about it for about…two months. Ended up selling it to some schmuck from Deer [College] for something like…twenty bucks extra? Deeries6 are always so gullible. Agent Gardner: Do you remember the name of the person who bought the record? ████: His name's a bit fuzzy, but I wish I could forget his annoying voice. James…James something. Scrawny guy, real pale, bucktoothed. Had some kinda British accent I guess, so I figured he was from the Isle [of Portland]. Said he wanted to be a music critic, but most of the things I heard this kid say about music were [EXPLETIVE REDACTED]. Pardon my French. Agent Gardner: So you have no idea where this record came from? And you had never played it before selling it to Mr. ████? ████: Yep. Scout’s honor [████ holds up hand in a mock salute]. Am I free to go now? Agent Gardner: One last thing, Mr. ████. Your previous comments indicate you have prior knowledge of Perispirit Records as a record label. What do you know about them? ████: Well I should hope I know about my biggest supplier of what you guys'd refer to as "anomalous" music. Perispirit is a Three Portlands-based label. They got a few acts signed to 'em, but like I said earlier their main deal is distributing "mundane" music into Three Portlands; they pretty much got a monopoly on that, which made them the biggest pain in my ass before my run-in with the feds… Agent Gardner: Could you elaborate? ████: Well, to cover the "costs" of importing music from outside, Perispirit jacks their wholesale prices through the [EXPLETIVE REDACTED] roof. I'm just happy demand is as high as it is, or I wouldn't be makin' any money! Word on the street is that Perispirit is run by some…bigger fish. And if the rumors are to be believed, those markups are pretty much par for the course. Agent Gardner: What are these rumors about, exactly? ████: About who's running them, of course! Even the schmucks in U-I-Useless know that MC&D have had their dirty hands in Three Portlands for just as long as the [Chicago] Spirit did. Maybe even longer…[████ shows visible discomfort]…n-not that I'd know anything 'bout that… Agent Gardner: Of course not…Well then. Thank you, Mr. ████. I wish you luck in your affairs with the FBI. ████: Heh. Too late for that… <End Log> Closing Statement: One week after the conclusion of the interview, a massive UIU sting operation led to the arrest of several leading members of the Three Portlands black market. Because of this, the Foundation has been unable to further trace the origins of SCP-3742. Mr. ████ subsequently enrolled in the FBI’s anomalous witness protection program and has not been seen since; the 3P LP’s record shop was repossessed by UIU after their operation. - Close + [LEVEL 3/3742 CLEARANCE REQUIRED: ENTER CREDENTIALS] - ACCESS GRANTED. PLEASE LOG OUT WHEN FINISHED Addendum 3742-2: Interview Log, ██/██/1974 NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION This file has been flagged by one or more Trans-Reality Information Consistency (TRIC) programs for discrepancies indicative of a possible ongoing CK-Class Reality Restructuring Scenario. RAISA Artificially Intelligent Construct (AIC) MEMORIAM is currently assigned to monitor this file for any additional trans-reality modification. Modification to this file has been locked until further notice. Affected sections will be marked with ((double parentheses)). — Maria Jones, Director, RAISA Interviewed: Mr. James █████, Owner of SCP-3742 Interviewer: Field Agent Roger Palmer Foreword: Agent Palmer was responsible for the return of Mr. █████ from SCP-3742-2. █████ was released from Foundation medical custody after █ days, having been treated for malnutrition and drug intoxication. As subject continued to experience compulsion to resume listening to SCP-3742, a mild tranquilizer was administered to the subject, who was also restrained physically during the interview. Preliminary testing accomplished by this point had revealed the basic nature of SCP-3742’s anomalous effects. <Begin Log> Agent Palmer: Are we feeling better today, James? █████: Oh of course sir. Feelin’ quite a lot better indeed. A-almost perfect…’cept…'cept I still wish I coulda seen the rest o’ that concert… Agent Palmer: Perhaps we’ll be able to help you, but first I’d like to ask you some questions about your…experience. █████: Sounds fine to me. Though…it’s all rather…fuzzy to me right now… Agent Palmer: Not to worry. Just answer as best you can. First, when did you first realize the album you purchased affected you as it did? █████: I found out the first time I played it. Prob'ly ‘bout…wait…what day is it again? I first played it the day I bought it, so that would be…I-I can’t rightly remember, sir… Agent Palmer: Not to worry, we can figure that much out. No need to strain yourself. Next question: when did you last begin to play the album? █████: Well…let’s see here…I-I think it was a Tuesday…kinda lost track…been a while since I slept…started hearin' the music in my sleep…but…I really would like to try flippin’ the record over. Please sir, I really th—- Agent Palmer: James, we’ll do our best to help you, but I must complete this interview first. So, you can’t remember when you last started playing the record? █████: I’m 'fraid not sir…s-sorry. Agent Palmer: It’s quite alright. So, as I understand it, whenever you played this album you were transported to a live performance of the album. Is this correct? █████: Yeah! It’s the best concert I’ve ever experienced. I mean soon as I got there, I was jus' blown away. You really won’t know what I’m talking ‘bout ‘till you try it out for yourself! Agent Palmer: I’m afraid I’m not very fond of that genre of music. █████: Well, suit yourself. I think you’d like it if you gave it a try, but who am I to say? Agent Palmer: Moving on. As I’m sure you’ve been told, something happened during that last playback that caused the stylus to be removed from the record while you were…gone. █████: So that was it? [█████ chuckles] Must’ve been my cat, Pudge. He can be a real bastard sometimes, ‘specially when he’s hungry. Agent Palmer: Noted. While you were…gone…did you notice anything out of the ordinary compared to your other…sessions? For example…any suspicious persons in the audience? █████: Well…I…I don’t remember much ‘bout the audience. I was gettin’ high with some Americans I’d taken a liking to during my previous listenings…((but…a-actually, come to think of it…I seem to remember seein’ some strange folks in what looked like…well…prison suits. Didn’t think much of it at the time, but the symbols they wore looked quite like the one on your badge…)) ((Agent Palmer: Indeed? Strange. Do you recall how many?)) ((█████: Can’t rightly say, sir. Like I said, I was really quite intoxicated at the time…)) Agent Palmer: ((Well, that’s certainly understandable. Perhaps it was simply a trick of your memory.))What about any unusual occurrences? █████: Ah, yes. That’s where all the trouble started. Right before the end of the last song, the power cut out. They worked a long time to fix it, but none of us were allowed to leave. It lasted for…what felt like a couple of days. Eventually the drugs ran out, ‘n I had to resort to…s-summoning rituals for food…Least I got to put my education to good use, I s'pose. Then…after…a-after Lord knows how long, the power came back on, they finished the set, then went backstage for an intermission…A-an' that’s when I came back to my parlor. Agent Palmer: I see…I think that will be all, James. █████: Great! I can’t wait to get back there…I think I know a way I might be able to get the record flipped over…if I can just… Agent Palmer: Doctor? If you could please escort Mr. █████ back to his room… █████: Wait, my room? I…I thought you were going to help me see the rest of the concert? [Subject becomes agitated] All I want is to flip the bloody record over! Agent Palmer: Cut the log! We need sedatives on this man now! █████: Y-you bastards! I-i-i-is it really too much to a—- <End Log> Closing Statement: Following the interview, subject was administered Class-C amnestics and released. Subject was expelled from Deer College weeks later following several disciplinary infractions involving fellow music students. Subject was later killed by police during the armed robbery of a record shop in Portland, Oregon. ((Experimentation is planned to ascertain the possible presence of D-Class personnel inside SCP-3742-2.)) - ACCESS GRANTED. PLEASE LOG OUT WHEN FINISHED + [LEVEL 4/3742 CLEARANCE REQUIRED: ENTER CREDENTIALS] - WELCOME COMMANDER BELL. PLEASE LOG OUT WHEN FINISHED Addendum 3742-3: Procedure 3742-Encore The following is an abbreviated briefing given to personnel of MTF Sigma-21 ("Mosh Pit") regarding Procedure 3742-Encore. Full briefing is available to MTF Command personnel on a need-to-know basis. Background: UMMAGUMMA Events In 2004, a Trans-Reality Information Consistency (TRIC) program developed by the Foundation Records and Information Security Administration (RAISA) flagged an interview log attached to the document as having been subject to trans-reality modification. Usually indicative of a CK-Class Reality Restructuring Event, the data was flagged following the successful conclusion of an experiment in which a group of D-Class personnel were instructed to ascertain the presence of Mr. James █████ (the initial owner of SCP-3742) within SCP-3742-2, supporting an emergent hypothesis that SCP-3742 is temporally recursive in nature. After additional directed testing, researchers concluded that SCP-3742 does in fact utilize a limited form of temporal recursion to transport subjects to SCP-3742-2. Furthermore, based on available data, there is a distinct possibility that subjects are not successfully recalled from SCP-3742-2 following the conclusion of side two of the album. By implication, any complete playthrough of side two of SCP-3742 constitutes an irreversible temporal recursion event, which could have drastic effects on present reality including, but not limited to, one or more of the following: CK-Class Reality Restructuring Scenario XK-Class End-of-the-World Scenario ZK-Class Reality Failure Scenario The incursion of subjects affected by SCP-3742 or analogous anomalies into an alternate point in time has since been designated as an UMMAGUMMA Event. As of the writing of this document, ██ UMMAGUMMA Events are thought to have occurred. Due to the wide-ranging and unpredictable effects of these events, Procedure 3742-Encore was developed as a countermeasure pending research into trans-temporal containment options. PROCEDURE 3742-ENCORE: Development On ██/██/2007, Experiment 3742/T was authorized by the O5 Council. The objective of the experiment was to test the effect of actions on the part of individuals within SCP-3742-2 on the progression of baseline reality. Test subjects were provided with era-appropriate clothing and alternate identities to minimize the chance of major reality alterations. Subjects were also implanted with capsules programmed to administer Class-D amnestics in case of failure to return from SCP-3742-2. Experimentation log included below. TRIAL # INSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS NOTES 3742/T/1 D-66984 instructed to exit SCP-3742-2 after arriving. Subject was unable to complete task; reported severe disorientation and vertigo when approaching apparent exits. Matches data from previous experiments. TRIC programs indicate no notable effect on current reality. 3742/T/2 D-55845 instructed to rush the stage of SCP-3742-2. SCP-3742’s effect ceased prematurely (approx. 7 minutes), resulting in immediate return of D-55845 to containment chamber. Subject reported returning when she was an estimated 3m from the stage. Likely another “copyright protection” measure. Subjects appear to be unable to affect performers directly. TRIC programs indicate no notable effect on current reality. 3742/T/3 D-96152 provided with a 9mm pistol (unloaded), instructed to approach security with gun held to head.7 SCP-3742’s effect ceased prematurely (10 minutes), returning D-96152 just as [DATA EXPUNGED]. Subject confirmed deceased, having acquired ammunition within SCP-3742-2 by unknown means. D-96152’s death, while regrettable, indicates that severe injury triggers a premature ceasure of SCP-3742’s effect. TRIC programs indicate no notable effect on current reality. 3742/T/4 D-44589 instructed to proceed to balcony seating inside SCP-3742-2 and push a spectator from the railing. Tonearm of SCP-3742-1 spontaneously deflected off SCP-3742 after 15 minutes. Subject not returned. Replacing the tonearm of SCP-3742-1 caused SCP-3742 to play from beginning. TRIC programs indicate trans-reality information modification in multiple online sources pertaining to the concert. Following Experiment 3742/T/4, Foundation TRIC webcrawlers flagged information regarding a Pink Floyd concert in ███████, NY, USA on ██/██/1973. The new information described an incident in which a spectator fell from the upper level seating of the venue and killed the person on which they landed, resulting in a premature end to the concert. Not only did this experiment successfully identify the historical location of SCP-3742-2, but it also confirmed that UMMAGUMMA Events could be neutralized by actions taken within an affected performance by individuals present under temporally normal circumstances. Simply put, the only way to stop an UMMAGUMMA Event is to disrupt any affected concerts in real time. Thus, Procedure 3742-Encore was developed and approved by the Ethics Committee after two weeks of debate. Procedure 3742-Encore: Instructions Procedure 3742-Encore is to be carried out by members of MTF Sigma-21 ("Mosh Pit"). The Foundation, in collaboration with the UIU, has established a system which monitors major musical events in the US, Canada, UK, and European Union8 for suspected UMMAGUMMA Events. Regardless of the apparent danger posed by individual temporal intruders, each UMMAGUMMA Event must be neutralized as quickly as possible by forcing a premature conclusion to the performance in which they manifest. Measures required to fully neutralize an UMMAGUMMA Event change with the circumstances of each manifestation; because of this, MTF Sigma-21 is to be given complete tactical authority over the tactical measures of Procedure 3742-Encore. Though options which minimize collateral damage and/or media exposure are preferred, the Ethics Committee has ruled that any and all measures found necessary by field personnel will have the full support and approval of the Foundation. Once an UMMAGUMMA Event is successfully neutralized, intruding subjects which are not automatically returned to their temporal points of origin should be effectively “locked” in the present, allowing standard containment measures to be enacted. MTF Sigma-21 will then coordinate with other Foundation assets to contain any remaining temporal intruders and/or other related anomalies. Regardless of anomalous capabilities, all temporal intruders are to be treated as provisional anomalies by field personnel and interaction with temporal intruders should be minimized until the stable progression of local time can be confirmed. Since the development of Procedure 3742-Encore, █ UMMAGUMMA Events have been successfully neutralized. It is predicted that at least one of these events would have led to a ZK-Class Reality Failure Scenario. - WELCOME COMMANDER BELL. PLEASE LOG OUT WHEN FINISHED + [COMMANDER BELL, YOU HAVE A NEW MESSAGE. PLEASE LOG IN] - <LYINGSUPINEINTHESUNSHINE>...PASSWORD CONFIRMED. ACCESS GRANTED. TASK FORCE COMMAND NETWORK ------ Welcome, Commander Bell. ------ NEW MESSAGE RECEIVED: [ADDRESS REDACTED] <Display Message> Commander, As I’m sure you are aware, you have assumed your new post in the wake of Sigma-21’s worst failure to date. Your previous command experience (as well as your previous deployments with “Mosh Pit”) will serve you well in this capacity I’m sure. Once you're done reading up on the anomalies for which your unit is responsible, I have a new task for you. As you know, these recent months have seen a huge increase in UMMAGUMMA Events; however, a recent intelligence breakthrough has shed some light on what seems to be the cause (outlined in the attached document, obtained by MTF Mu-3). Unfortunately, this means that UMMAGUMMA Events won't be slowing down any time soon; given the apparent string of "missed" events, you'll probably be seeing even more action than you were with Asimov's Lawbringers. Rest assured, researchers are trying to find a more permanent solution, but it’s up to you and the “Mosh Pit” to contain them until then. Good luck, Commander. You’re going to need it. Secure. Contain. Protect. O5-4 P.S: During the investigation of your predecessor, a flagged document was found in his office. The non-anomalous version has been attached for your review. I had to override several protocols in order to clear you for this, but I thought you should be aware of some of the dangers of temporal recursion. Supplementary Documentation MC&D Item Documentation DOCUMENT 1780-WL - <LYINGSUPINEINTHESUNSHINE>...PASSWORD CONFIRMED. ACCESS GRANTED. Footnotes 1. Currently Dr. Sandford Olson. 2. Including other forms of media sharing SCP-3742's effects. 3. An action █████ attributed to his pet cat, which was found dead in the residence by police during the initial investigation; cause of death appeared to be malnourishment and was likely the source of the smell of decay. 4. A briefly popular Neo-Sarkic anomalous rock group based in Three Portlands during the early 1970s. 5. Worthy of note is the fact that famed guitarist James Marshall Hendrix died of asphyxiation at age 27 on 18 September, 1970. 6. Colloquial term for students of Deer College. 7. Subject voluntarily accepted participation. 8. Adoption of this system is pending in other countries. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3742" by PoppcornColonel, from the SCP Wiki. 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SCP-3743-A-1 and -2 are to be under constant electronic surveillance. Any individuals arriving through either anomaly are to be detained, interrogated and potentially amnesticized.1 The Foundation has purchased the York Art Gallery and the land containing SCP-3743-A-1, closing them off from public access. Armed agents are to be stationed nearby on rotating shifts. Any movement towards either anomaly is to be impeded by the joint task force under the auspices of Project Hecatoncheires. Interferent thaumaturgical charms are to be placed around both anomalies to prevent their use. Members of MTF-Beta-777 (“Hecate’s Spear”)2 shall evaluate the effectiveness of the charms every month. Description: SCP-3743 is a series of interconnected anomalies with ties to a Hellenistic-era cult known as the "Many Hands Society" (rough translation). SCP-3743-A-1 is a thaumaturgically powered portal3 to an extradimensional space found within the greater Yorkshire area. SCP-3743-A-1 is located in a wooded area approximately two kilometers from Site-91’s perimeter. SCP-3743-A-1 is constructed with branches from the immediate area and thaumaturgically linked to an icon of Eros found hanging nearby. Single structure found within SCP-3743-B. SCP-3743-B is a finite extra-dimensional space resembling the arid plains of Greece, measuring roughly eighty-eight square kilometers. Located within the boundaries of SCP-3743-B is a solitary man-made structure constructed from mud bricks, sitting atop a stone block foundation. The structure resembles the construction methods of the Hellenistic-era of ancient Greece. Due to thaumic pollution and relatively high levels of Akiva radiation present within SCP-3743-B, photographs invariably develop without any color present. SCP-3743-A-1, when activated, using thaumaturgical techniques common to Group of Interest ALPHA-019 (“Serpent’s Hand”), allows for transportation to SCP-3743-B. Discovery: Routine reconnaissance around Site-91 by security personnel revealed SCP-3743-A-1 on 13 August, 1992. Members of MTF-Beta-777 examined the area and found the aforementioned icon to Eros. Concerned that the anomaly represented an attempted incursion into Site-91, Captain Zadeh of MTF-Beta-777 requested reinforcement from MTF-Tau-9 (“Bookworms”) as said MTF focuses on anomalies related to the Library and the Serpent’s Hand. Lieutenant Gilroy Laguerre4 of Tau-9 analyzed SCP-3743-A-1 and confirmed that it was an active Way leading to an extradimensional space. The proximity of the Way to Site-91 was ruled to be a clear and present danger. On 15 August, 1992, Director Varga ordered an joint task force exploration into SCP-3743-A-1. ▷ Exploration log of SCP-3743-B 15/08/1992 Close File Exploration Log of SCP-3743-B by joint task force from MTF-Beta-777 and MTF-Tau-9. Thaumaturgically active icon linked to SCP-3743-A-1, found hanging nearby. Personnel Mobilized: Captain Sahara Zadeh, Sergeant Maria Waltham,5 Sergeant Gabriel Merced, Lieutenant Gilroy Laguerre, Sergeant Mark Kenoshi. Accompanied by Agent Rebekah Douglas, Level-3 psychometrist.6 Command: Dr. Jocasta Rossi on comms Preamble: Members of MTF-Beta-777 and MTF-Tau-9, along with Agent Douglas, will enter the Way designated as SCP-3743-A-1 and gather intelligence from the extra-dimensional space (designated SCP-3743-B) beyond. Captain Sahara Zadeh will have field command. Members of joint task force approach SCP-3743-A-1. Zadeh: Check your weapons and body cameras. All present confirm their arms and comms units. Douglas: What’s that? Approaches the icon of Eros. Laguerre: It's linked to the Way. Douglas: Do we need this? Why not destroy it? Laguerre: Don’t know what effect that would have. It’s possible the icon is connected to the ritual that made the Way. Dr. Rossi transmits from Site-91. Dr. Rossi: Also, we are not in the business of destroying anomalous artifacts if we can help it, Agent Douglas. Agent Douglas makes an indecipherable sound. Rossi: What was that? Douglas: It was a “grumble,” Doctor. Waltham chokes back a laugh. Zadeh sighs. Rossi: Agent Douglas, if you’re done making jokes, I’d like you to try and read the icon. Douglas: Laguerre, you think it’s safe to touch? Laguerre: My official answer? I have no idea. Unofficially? I’m willing to risk it. Let Sergeant Waltham and I shield you from any hidden countermeasures. Waltham nods at Douglas and places a hand on her shoulder. Laguerre stands on Douglas’s other side and also places a hand on her shoulder. Both hold their free hands in front of their mouths and whisper indecipherably. Douglas lowers herself to her knees and wraps her fingers from both hands around the icon. For approximately sixty seconds Douglas is silent, then she opens her eyes and releases the icon. She stands to her feet and brushes clean her jeans. Douglas: This has only been here a day or two, the impression is incredibly fresh. I can’t say who placed it… I can tell you the blood is human. Someone in incredible pain. Zadeh: Someone still alive? Douglas: Maybe, there’s not much blood. The pain seems less like immediate trauma and more like a disability? Like it’s a constant and persistent pain. Pain that colors your perception over the long term. Rossi: How can you tell? Douglas: [snorts] Look, I know you’re new to the Site. But this is what I do. Rossi: For the record, please. Douglas: Underlying sense of frustration and disillusionment with the world at large. This is someone who’s been in pain for a long time. Zadeh: Let’s get back on mission, folks. Lieutenant, if you please. Laguerre walks towards SCP-3743-A-1 and paces around three quarters of the circle before crossing it, then turning and repeating in reverse. The Way opens, appearing to be a glowing pool of light on the ground within the wooden circle of the anomaly. Laguerre: It'll only stay open for a few moments, so let’s not dawdle. Laguerre enters the Way, followed by the other five members of the expedition. Upon entering, video feeds from personnel cut off immediately. Dr. Rossi: Zadeh, we’ve lost all video feeds from your team. Confirm your status? Fifteen seconds of static follow from this request. Zadeh: Confirmed, we’ve all made it through. Something strange about the air here. Feels charged with static electricity, but with thaumaturgy. Readings of significantly higher Akiva radiation as well. Are you receiving? Dr. Rossi: Partially: we have voice coming through with some artifacting, but no video. Zadeh: Shall we proceed? Dr. Rossi: Yes, please provide regular updates. Zadeh: Understood. Rossi: Describe your surroundings, please. Kenoshi: It’s definitely not the Library. Waltham: It’s a dry plain, like a desert but mostly rocks and dirt… not like the Sahara. Zadeh snorts a laugh before speaking. Zadeh: Reminds me of arid plains in Greece, or maybe the high desert in Southern California. Waltham: There’s nothing here other than a bronze circle roughly ten meters in diameter, sunken into the ground. There's script engraved into the outer edge of the ring. Kenoshi: It’s Old Attic, an Ancient Greek dialect in use in and around the Athens area until late fifth century BCE. Rossi: Can any of you read it? Kenoshi: I can, mostly. It’s a repetition of a single two-sentence phrase. Rossi: What does it say? Kenoshi: This is rough, but it says: “Behold the land of the Hundred Handed. Here there be Titans.” Douglas: Ominous. Rossi: Agent Douglas, do you think this is connected to GoI-8832?7 Almost sixty seconds of silence. Douglas: Hard to say for sure. Possibly. If it’s not, then it’ll be a hell of a coincidence. Waltham: Do you hear that, Doctor? Rossi: Nothing other than your voices. Describe the sound, please. Waltham: Distant ringing of a bell, high pitch I think. Hard to say where it’s coming from. Rossi: Making mention in the log. Anything else of note? Merced: There’s a boundary here. The plain we can see is only a few dozen kilometers before a wall of mist or fog impedes all view. Rossi: Right well, try to take notes of anything distinctive. Zadeh: Alright, let’s head out. Keep your eyes peeled for anything moving. Extraneous thirty minutes of audio omitted. Zadeh: Coming up on structure of some sort, Command. Rossi: Describe it? Zadeh: Still a half click out, but it looks white and multiple stories. Rossi: Proceed. Extraneous ten minutes of audio omitted. Kenoshi: We’re closer now, Command. Looks like it’s whitewashed mud bricks. Three stories, lots of curves. Almost looks like an ant hill. Lots of doors, and a few stone staircases on the exterior. Rossi: Still no contact with any people? Douglas: None. It’s eerily quiet. Not even any wind. The bell is louder though. Zadeh: Okay, we’re going to breach. Kenoshi and Douglas with me on the right side of the first floor. Laguerre, Merced and Waltham on the left. Stay in contact. Let’s go. Extraneous three minutes of audio omitted. Zadeh: Command, the structure appears empty. At least over here. Laguerre, anything? Laguerre: It’s clearly been lived in. Wood stove and sleeping bags. The stove is still warm. Negative contact though. Zadeh: Same here. Let’s clear the other floors before we start looking around. Extraneous seventeen minutes of audio omitted. MTF members clear the structure and find none of the occupants. Items found included over twenty sleeping bags, three portable wooden stoves, cooking supplies, some electric lights on extension cords plugged into anomalous power sources, and a small library of scrolls. Rossi: When you say “anomalous” power source, what do you mean? Merced: Looks organic, like polyps on coral, all built one on the other. There’s at least eight of them, and the plugs for the stringed lighting are plugged directly into an organic “socket.” They each stand maybe a meter in height. Rossi: Can you take one back with you? Zadeh: Let’s belay that, for now. No sense letting the locals know someone is messing with their house while they’re away. Douglas: Kenoshi, you said you read Greek right? Kenoshi: Yeah, I'm proficient but not an expert. Why do you ask? Douglas: The scrolls I've seen are all covered in the same script as the bronze ring when we entered this place. Second floor, towards the front of the building on the right. Come take a look? Kenoshi: Just a mo. Extraneous five minutes of audio omitted. Zadeh: Found the bell. It's in the upper most chamber. It's just ringing constantly. Command, you can’t hear that? Rossi: Negative, Captain Zadeh. Zadeh: Very fucking weird. Rossi: Is there a mechanism powering the bell? Zadeh: Well, sort of. One of those polyp generators is here and it's connected by biological material to a sigil above the bell. Bell itself is only ten centimeters in height, but it's not typical brass. Pretty sure this is beryllium bronze. More sigils etched into its surface. Rossi: Any idea what the purpose is? Zadeh: Could be an alarm we tripped by coming through the Way, or it could be very annoying music. I have no idea. Rossi: I assume interfering with it would be a bad idea? Zadeh: Given I have no idea what it does, yes, I’d say it’s a bad idea. Kenoshi has rendezvoused with Douglas near the scroll library. Kenoshi: What have you got here? Sounds of rustling paper for a few moments. Kenoshi: Holy shit, these are old. Wait… they don’t feel old though. Rossi: What do you mean? Kenoshi: The parchment seems almost new. Although I don’t think I've ever handled actual new parchment. Rossi: Why did you say they were old? Kenoshi: The Greek these are written in, it's contemporaneous with the script on the bronze ring at our entry point. Why would someone transcribe Ancient Greek so painstakingly onto new parchment? Rossi: Can you read them? Kenoshi: Not easily, I’m going to suggest we take a few so I can study and translate back at base. Rossi: Good idea. Agent Douglas, were you able to read anything off these scrolls? Douglas: They’ve been handled recently but that’s about it. Extraneous five minutes of audio deleted. Merced: You’re all going to want to come out here. Zadeh: Out where? Merced: Lieutenant Laguerre and I came around the back of the structure and we found something. Zadeh: What? Laguerre: Better just come and see. Kenoshi, you too. Kenoshi: Okay, let me store these scrolls in a protective container. Be right out. The six MTF members gather together, presumably behind the building. Douglas: What is it? Zadeh: A cave of some sort? Rossi: Please describe what you're seeing. Merced: It’s a hillside, fairly low, behind the structure. In the hillside is a recession with a large stone block over the entrance. The opening is man-made, reinforced with small stone blocks. Kenoshi: More to the point, the large rock over the entrance is a stele. Rossi: A what? Kenoshi: Stone slab, usually upright, with some sort of commemorative relief or a message inscribed. This has more Ancient Greek, and a lot of it. Rossi: Can you read it? Kenoshi: Like the scrolls, I would need time to decipher it. Gonna take some pictures to help translation back at Site. Zadeh: While he’s doing that, let’s see what’s in this cave. Douglas, you and Waltham are with me. Rest of you hang here and watch Kenoshi’s back. Merced: Yes, Captain. Thirty seconds of silence as the three presumably enter the recession. Rossi: See anything? Douglas: Sarcophagi, thirteen of them. Roughly made but full slabs of stone. No writing on them whatsoever. Zadeh: I don’t think anyone has been in here for a long time. Lots of cobwebs and dust coating every surface. Waltham: Look at this. Rossi: What is it? Zadeh: Bas relief of some kind carved into the central stone block of the tomb. Approximately two meters in height and three in length. Rossi: Depicting what? Douglas: Seems to be arms, dozens of them. They’re thrusting through the earth towards the sky. They’re wrong, though. Rossi: Wrong how? Waltham: Way more than five fingers, its crudely sculpted but I’d say they have upwards of eight to ten fingers each. Something in their palms, but the details aren’t clear based on the crudeness of the carving. Multiple gunshots are heard from outside the tomb. Zadeh: Laguerre, what’s going on out there? Laguerre: We’ve got company! More gunshots are heard. Zadeh: Outside, now! Gunshots continue to sound on the recording. Laguerre: Fuck, where are they even coming from? Rossi: What’s happening, Captain? Zadeh: Command, I don’t have time to explain! Gunshots from multiple firearms drown out all other sound. Douglas: Jesus, there’s ten of them! What the fuck are those things! Kenoshi: No idea, but they’re flying all over the place. Started launching arrows at us, but some of them have swords of some kind. Zadeh: Group your shots, they’re moving too fast! Douglas: No effect! Waltham: How do you know? I can’t tell if I’ve hit any! Merced: I’ve hit three, they’re wounded but not out. Also, there aren’t ten of them, there’s thirteen. Douglas: Fuck, you don’t think….? Zadeh: Okay, calling the retreat. We’re getting the fuck out of here. The next fifteen minutes are full of sounds of exertion and the occasional gunshot. Multiple expletives were called out but are not preserved here. Zadeh: Laguerre, open the damn portal! Laguerre: I’m trying! It’s distracting out here. Zadeh: Cover him! Waltham, smoke! Waltham begins chanting in Aramaic and a wind is heard. Douglas: Goddamn that fucking bell! I can still hear it! Zadeh: Doesn’t matter now, we just need to keep these bastards off our backs. Waltham screams and stops chanting. The wind dies down. Douglas: Maria! Zadeh: Merced, help Douglas with Waltham. Any time Lieutenant Laguerre! Douglas: She’s bleeding bad. Fuck. Fuck! Laguerre: Got it! Video feeds are restored as the team exits SCP-3743-B. Through the open Way, several winged humanoids can be seen. Their skin resembles texture of ocean organisms like sea sponges or sea cucumbers. They have no faces. The wings are transparent and insectile. Each is carrying a spear or sword and racing towards the open gate. Kenoshi is repeating the pattern of steps used to open the gate in reverse when a spear is thrown from one of the winged entities and slices across his chest, flinging him to the ground. Douglas: Fuck this! Agent Douglas levels her pistol at the icon of Eros and fires twice at point blank range. The surveillance cameras around SCP-3743-A-1 show the portal closing suddenly in a small explosion of amber light, catching one of the winged entities as it was exiting. The area is covered in gore and viscera as the entity is disintegrated from the explosion. - End Log - After-action note: I want it on the record that Agent Douglas’ quick thinking saved the lives of our entire team today. It is my most strenuous suggestion that she be commended and not censured for the destruction of the anomalous icon. - Captain Sahara Zadeh Lieutenant Laguerre and Sergeant Waltham were transferred to the medical center at Site-91. They are both in critical but stable condition. The winged entities are designated SCP-3743-C. The tissues recovered from the explosion at SCP-3743-A-1 show a mixture of genetic profiles: human, coral, sea sponge and some unrecognizable genetic patterns. Blood collected from the ruined icon match tissue samples taken from the neutralized SCP-3743-C. Close File Stele and burial chamber discovered in SCP-3743-B. Sergeant Kenoshi’s translation of the stele and the scrolls found in SCP-3743-B are ongoing. A preliminary series of excerpts are below: Scrolls found in SCP-3743-B – Excerpts: “And again, three other sons were born of Earth and Heaven, great and doughty beyond telling, Cottus and Briareos and Gyes, presumptuous children. From their shoulders sprang a hundred arms, not to be approached, and fifty heads grew from the shoulders upon the strong limbs of each, and irresistible was the stubborn strength that was in their great forms. For of all the children that were born of Earth and Heaven, these were the most terrible, and they were hated by their own father from the first.”8 “Great was Zeus, son of Cronus and Rhea, but not so great as to conquer the Titans alone. A great prophecy was known to him, that the Many Handed were necessary for the success of his war.”9 “Once the battle was finished and the celestial city of the gods was founded on Mount Olympus, the Many Handed crafted the known world. Briareos pooled the blood of the dead Titans and formed the seas. Cottus shaped the formless Earth into plains, mountains and forests. Gyes blew with all his might and shaped the clouds and Sky. The Many Handed together lit a great fire and flung the embers into the Night sky and formed the Stars.10 When Zeus and the Olympians wished to form mortals, the Many Handed shaped their blood and bodies with their many fingers.” “Their Many Hands guide us in this life. We honor their creation with our blood and bodies. We are their many hands, shaping society in their image.” Stele found in SCP-3743-B – Excerpt: "In the year of the Battle of Sphacteria, the Many Hands Society retreated from the world of the Hellenes. After the retreat, the Kings of Sparta took offense at the Society’s implied insult by leaving Hellenic society. It was in the following year that Sparta sent a fighting force, one thousand shields strong, led by the Cursed Brasidas,11 to wipe the temple of the Society from the plains of Greece. The Kings of Sparta desired of our strength and would not allow the Society to exist if it was not within their control. Our great leader Euboea, Son of Briareos, fought with our congregation against the Spartan aggression, killing hundreds with his spear. When Euboea’s spear broke on the Spartan general’s shield, Euboea performed a great sacrifice of his life’s blood. Our temple was moved to this place outside the Fates’ graces, and so Euboea did treat his surviving followers. Of the hundred priests and priestesses of the Society, only thirteen survived the battle. And yet, despite Euboea’s great will and power, one by one they succumbed to the wounds given by the despicable Spartans. Here, they lie buried, the thirteen last philosopher kings of the Many Hands Society. Their lights unfairly snuffed out by the aggression of man’s politics. May they rise again one day, to serve the hands of the Hecatoncheires.” Director Varga suggested the scrolls retrieved from SCP-3743-B be radiocarbon dated. Despite Sergeant Kenoshi’s assertion that the parchment was new, the scrolls were all dated to approximately 425 BCE +/- 30 years. Access SCiPNET Email? One (1) new message! Re: UPDATE to SCP-3743 To: Director Iona Varga From: Dr. Jocasta Rossi Subject: Update to SCP-3743’s File We're going to have to update the SCP-3743 file: Update as of 18/11/1992: Description: SCP-3743-A-2 is a thaumaturgically empowered Way taking the form of an art piece displayed at the York Art Gallery, located within the city limits of York, England. The Way is constructed from dozens of standing shale rocks, arrayed in a circle within the gallery. SCP-3743-A-2 also leads to SCP-3743-B. SCP-3743-A-2, as displayed in the York Art Gallery beginning on 8 November, 1992. Discovery: Thaumaturgical scanning of SCP-3743-A-1 allowed for the discovery of SCP-3743-A-2, only fourteen kilometers south of Site-91. It’s my opinion that whoever was on the other side of those ways, wants access to this site very badly. Let me know what you want to do, Jocasta Rossi, PhD Hecatoncheires Cycle << Cleaning House | SCP-3743: Euboea, Son of Briareos | Repatriation >> Footnotes 1. Depending on their susceptibility to amnestics. 2. Specializing in thaumaturgical ritual analysis and countermeasures, including thaumaturgical combat. 3. Colloquially called Ways, these primarily serve as entrances to the Wanderer's Library, but have been known to open to other anomalous locations as well. 4. Thaumatologist specializing in studying and disarming Ways. 5. Both Zadeh and Waltham are Class-A thaumatologists. 6. Perceptional ability to experience associations, images and other sensory information by tangibly manipulating an object of unknown history. Individuals assessed by Psionics Division as Level-3 Psychometrics can read surface emotions and history from individuals they touch. 7. The Second Haptic Assembly. 8. Hesiod, Theogony 147–153, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Direct quote from the historical work, unmodified. 9. Although similar in language to the Theogony, this passage does not appear in the original work. Any of the following quotes, if unattributed, are not direct quotes from the known Theogony. 10. In fact, this passage explicitly contradicts the Hesiodic Theogony as we know it, wherein Sea and Mountain and Sky predated the Titanomachy episode as described in the Theogony entirely. 11. Brasidas did lead a march north from Sparta in the year after the Battle of Sphacteria in order to counterbalance the debilitating loss of that conflict. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3743" by Grigori Karpin, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3743. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: Ruins Author: Piotr Mamnaimie License: CC BY 2.0 Source: Link Filename: wood Author: Me License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source: I took this picture Filename: eros Author: Me License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source: I took this picture Filename: Rock Circle Author: Jean-Pierre Dalbera License: CC BY 2.0 Source: Link Note: Edited by myself and HarryBlank Filename: stele Author: Klearchos Kapoutsis License: CC BY 2.0 Source: Link Quotes from the Theogony by Hesiod, 147-153 Translation by Hugh G. 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SCP-3744 prior to containment. Faces of non-anomalous civilians have been redacted. Item #: SCP-3744 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3744 is to be housed within a standard humanoid containment unit in Site-88. The containment unit is to be monitored via standard CCTV surveillance. Any changes in its behavior are to be noted and reported immediately. A Scranton Reality Anchor (SRA) is to be active within the containment unit at all times, and should maintain a Hume level of 80 except when SCP-3744 is utilizing its socialization privileges. SCP-3744 may engage in supervised socialization for no longer than five hours weekly. During this time, four D-Class personnel with knowledge of table-top roleplaying games should engage SCP-3744 in a session of "Dungeons and Dragons". In order to allow for study of SCP-3744's abilities, the SRA present in its containment chamber may be lowered to Hume level 10. All sessions should be supervised electronically via security camera footage. Personnel are encouraged to remain in character and to maintain an amicable relationship with SCP-3744. Socialization privileges may be revoked if SCP-3744 ceases compliance with Foundation testing. EDIT: Foundation policy regarding SCP-3744's "Dungeons and Dragons" sessions has been revised post Incident 3744-01. During future sessions, a Scranton Reality Anchor with Hume level 40 is required. Additionally, all participants in future campaigns must be pre-approved C-Class Personnel. Description: SCP-3744 is a twenty-three (23) year old human male who weighs 76 kilograms and stands at a height of 1.8 meters. During sessions of the table-top roleplaying game "Dungeons and Dragons", SCP-3744 exhibits Class IV reality bending abilities, which it typically utilizes for the purpose of increasing the game's realism. These abilities include being able to expand or contract the inner dimensions of an enclosed space1, manifesting objects and living entities, and imparting anomalous properties to subjects within its effective range. This range is limited to the enclosed space it inhabits. It is unable to use its abilities while outdoors. Outside of a "Dungeons and Dragons" setting, SCP-3744 has not yet demonstrated any anomalous abilities of significance. It has thus far demonstrated full cooperation with Foundation personnel. On 06/24/2015, SCP-3744 was taken into custody by local police enforcement in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin as the result of a 911 call made by Andy M███████, SCP-3744's older brother, who asserted that he had been attacked by SCP-3744 and feared further physical violence to his person. M███████ additionally made claims regarding SCP-3744's anomalous abilities. Foundation agents were subsequently dispatched to investigate and recovery of SCP-3744 took place without incident. [+] Excerpt from Interview-3744-02 [-] Close Excerpt from Interview-3744-02 Interviewer: Researcher Mercer Interviewed: SCP-3744 Foreword: The following excerpt was taken from a series of interviews conducted shortly after SCP-3744 was brought into Foundation custody. <Begin Log> Mercer: Hello, SCP-3744. I’m Researcher Mercer. I understand you've spoken with some of my colleagues already? Thank you again for your cooperation with us in this matter. SCP-3744: Hey, no problem, man! Mercer: Let’s start with talking about your anomalous abilities, if it’s okay with you. When did you first discover them? SCP-3744: Oh, ages ago. Back when I was a kid. I’m, ah… "not very good with people", I guess. Had a hard time making friends my own age, you know? You probably do know that. Bet you were even worse than me. Scientist and all. Bunch'a nerds, right? So my brother used to include me in his friend group, and whenever his friends were going to play "Dungeons and Dragons", he’d invite me along. (softly) Andy was always cool like that. Mercer: You’re referring to your older brother, Mr. Andy M███████? The same brother who made the 911 call which brought you to our attention? [SCP-3744 flinches.] SCP-3744: Ah… Yeah. Mercer: We’ll come back to that later. Tell me about "Dungeons and Dragons". How is it related to the discovery of your abilities? SCP-3744: Oh. That's a real nice memory. Mercer: Is that so? SCP-3744: Yeah. Our first session. I was having the time of my life, y’know? All these older kids were being nice to me and we were having this big adventure. They had this awesome dragon miniature. I couldn’t resist touching it. And as soon as I pick it up, it does this huge roar and spits a fireball at me. Singed my jacket real good. Mercer: You said earlier that you’ve only used your abilities in a tabletop RPG settings. Is that correct? SCP-3744: Yeah. My brother and his friends thought it was awesome, so we kept practicing until I could turn our living room into an actual dragon’s den. Mercer: Why didn’t you use your abilities outside of the games? SCP-3744: (looking away) I'm not sure if I even can anymore, you know? I could at one point, but… one time I tried to use them to… well, there was this guy at school who was giving me a hard time. I just wanted to scare him a little. When Andy found out, he flipped his lid. Mercer: Your brother didn’t approve? SCP-3744: Nah. Andy didn’t want me to show anyone but our D&D group. Said it was too dangerous, that someone could get hurt or scared. I thought he was being an idiot. But he was so angry, and he's always been the only one on my side. I'd loved the powers at first, but after that I just wanted them to go away. And they did. All of them, except the bits that he liked. The D&D bits. Mercer: Your brother means a lot to you. SCP-3744: Yeah, I never wanted to… disappoint him. Not like that. And not like this. Never like this. [A long pause. Researcher Mercer remains silent.] SCP-3744: And he was right all along. We… I should have been more careful. Mercer: Why did your brother make that 911 call, SCP-3744? SCP-3744: (breaking eye contact) I-It should have been a normal session. We were on this sailboat, and the pirate goblins attacked just like they were supposed to. Then one of the pirate goblins gets Andy all tangled up in a net and knocks him into the water. He starts drowning. Not fake drowning, like the kind of fake blood tricks we’d done before. It was real water, y’know? And he was really drowning. Mercer: He survived, though. [SCP-3744 looks down at his hands.] SCP-3744: Yeah. He survived. But… [SCP-3744 trails off. After a brief silence, Researcher Mercer gestures for him to continue.] SCP-3744: But he almost didn’t. He’d been under for a long time. When we fished him out, he was unconscious. He almost died. If I'd been a few seconds slower, he would have. Afterwards, he was angry. And he was right to be angry. He nearly drowned in our own living room, for God's sake. His own brother nearly killed him. Mercer: I see. SCP-3744: I keep dreaming of him like that. Just lying there, with tangled wet hair and cold, clammy skin. His lips were blue when we pulled him out, did you know that? Like a dead person's. Mercer: SCP-3744… SCP-3744: Of course I came quietly. Even Andy thinks I deserve to be here. I… I just don't want to hurt anyone else. <End Log> Addendum 3744.1: Incident 3744-01 SES-3744-01 is the designation for the initial series of "Dungeons and Dragons" game sessions moderated by SCP-3744. The other participants in SES-3744-01 were D-3744-1 (as a Barbarian), D-3744-2 (as a Druid), D-3744-3 (as a Paladin) and D-3744-4 (as a Cleric). SCP-3744 appeared uncomfortable with the level of violence and general behavior that D-3744-1 and D-3744-3 demonstrated throughout the campaign. Incident 3744-01 took place on 12/01/2015, immediately following SES-3744-01-015. The relevant section of SES-3744-01-015 has been excerpted below. [+] Excerpt from SES-3744-01-015 Transcript [-] Close SES-3744-01-015 Transcript SES-3744-01-015 Video Log Date: 12/01/2015 Participants: D-3744-1, D-3744-2, D-3744-3, D-3744-4 (as Player Characters); SCP-3744 (as Dungeon Master) Foreword: SCP-3744 had tasked the players with escorting a humanoid child entity serving as a Non-Player Character (NPC-3744-18) to a city via boat. <Begin Log> [Dressed in character-appropriate costumes, D-3744-1, D-3744-2, D-3744-3 and D-3744-4 board a ship. NPC-3744-18 accompanies them. It appears to be struggling to keep up with the pace of the four D-Class Personnel, due to its short stature. While SCP-3744 does not appear to be physically present, its voice remains audible.] SCP-3744: Gentle waves lap against your ship as you leave the ports of Desenia and set off towards the city of Sorindale to escort the prince towards his home. D-3744-1: Okay, so… do we just sit around and wait for us to get there? SCP-3744: Well… yeah. D-3744-3: Jesus fuck, I thought this was supposed to be exciting. SCP-3744: Exciti— well, maybe if you guys would stop killing every important NPC that I introduce, you'd be able to have your adventure in Desenia instead of having to travel all the way to Sorindale for your adventure. [D-3744-3 and SCP-3744 argue back and forth briefly, before SCP-3744 finally relents. D-3744-1 and D-3744-3 amuse themselves by drinking copious amounts of rum and initiating a gambling session with D-3744-2, in which they utilize intimidation tactics to coerce D-3744-2 into giving up valuable gear. D-3744-4 disappears below deck and re-emerges with a novel, which he begins to read. NPC-3744-18 huddles against the ship's mast, appearing terrified.] SCP-3744: The waves against the ship start getting more pronounced, and more violent. D-3744-4: (glancing up from his book) Uh… guys. Something's happening. D-3744-1: The fuck? D-3744-3: (giving D-3744-2 a meaningful look) Well? Go check out the side. [D-3744-2 tentatively approaches the side of the boat. An enormous tentacle rises from the water and strikes him across the chest, knocking him several feet away.] D-3744-1: Holy shit! Kill it! [The other Player Characters scramble to their feet, readying their weapons. D-3744-1 produces a longsword and slices at the appendage. It rears back and slips back into the water.] D-3744-4: There's no way in hell that that actually worked. [The seas begin to rumble, and an aquatic entity resembling a giant octopus emerges from the ocean, sending a shower of salt water onto the boat. It lashes out with one tentacle, striking D-3744-1 and sending him flying off the boat. It then catches him in mid-air with another tentacle and dangles him above its gaping mouth.] Aquatic Entity: (in a deep, rumbling voice) Bring me a meal… and perhaps I shall spare his life. [D-3744-2, D-3744-3, D-3744-4, and NPC-3744-18 regroup to discuss what they should do. As the conversation progresses, D-3744-3's dissatisfaction with the conversation's direction grows increasingly apparent.] D-3744-4: Calm down, man. There's no way it wants that. Look, it's obvious what we're meant to do. Let's just give the squid our rations and— D-3744-3: Don't be such a goddamn coward. It's not even a real kid, okay? [D-3744-3 grabs NPC-3744-18 by the wrist. The entity shrieks and begins sobbing.] NPC-3744-18: No! Please, please, let me go, I'll do anything, my father can pay you, I— SCP-3744: You can't be serious. That's not— [Ignoring NPC-3744-18's screams and the horrified reactions of D-3744-2 and D-3744-4, D-3744-3 physically drags NPC-3744-18 to the edge of the ship, and shoves it into the water. It flails in mid-air briefly before hitting the water with a splash. After a few seconds, NPC-3744-18 resurfaces, flailing about in the water and screaming.] D-3744-2: (softly) He's drowning… [Abruptly, all non-player characters and components of the setting go unnaturally still. The only sound audible is SCP-3744's rapid breathing, as it begins to hyperventilate.] SCP-3744: I— I— [Movement resumes. The sea begins to churn furiously, causing the boat to rock precariously from side to side and throwing the D-3744-2, D-3744-3 and D-3744-4 across the deck. The aquatic entity vanishes, sending D-3744-1 plummeting into the sea. NPC-3744-18 begins screaming once more. A few seconds later, the water turns blood red and abruptly fills with thousands of gasping, thrashing bodies, flickering in and out of existence. The sky above blinks out of existence and then returns as a hanging canopy of damp, salt-encrusted hair.] [D-3744-4 is the only D-Class Personnel still visible on the video feed. He hangs precariously to the starboard side of the ship, soaking wet and half-entangled in hair.] D-3744-4: Oh god oh god make it stop make it stop— [The entire setting abruptly vanishes, with the containment unit reappearing with its original dimensions. The four D Class Personnel are clustered together on one end of the unit, all apparently unconscious except for D-3744-4, who is on his knees. SCP-3744 is at the other end, breathing heavily. Pale-faced, D-3744-4 stretches out a hand towards SCP-3744.] D-3744-4: That was— Jesus Christ, man, I don't— are you okay? SCP-3744: (breathing hard) I— I— I can't. [SCP-3744 crouches to the ground and curls up in fetal position with its head in its knees. It is unresponsive to any further questioning.] <End Log> Subsequently, new policies were put in place regarding further "Dungeons and Dragons" sessions, including a higher Hume level setting for the Scranton Reality Anchor in SCP-3744's chambers and stricter regulations regarding participants in future campaigns. Footnotes 1. Changes to a space's internal dimensions do not affect its external dimensions.
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Item #: SCP-3745 Special Containment Procedures: The remains of SCP-3745 are to be held in a standard containment locker. Due to the cessation of its anomalous properties, testing of SCP-3745 is no longer a priority. + Obsolete Containment Procedures - Access Granted SCP-3745 is to be stored in a standard non-humanoid holding cell. Physical contact is not to be made with SCP-3745 outside of a Duprass Event unless for the purpose of testing. Prior to the initiation of a Duprass Event, primary subjects are to detail all previous romantic partners within Procedural Documentation Survey 3745-1. Individuals detailed in this document are to be monitored remotely by Foundation operatives during the initiation of the Duprass Event. Following the displacement of the secondary subject, Class-A amnestics are to be administered to any civilian witnesses present. If alive upon the conclusion of a Duprass Event, secondary subjects are to be amnesticized and returned to their place of residence following a health screening. If deceased upon the conclusion of a Duprass Event, secondary subjects are to be autopsied and disposed of accordingly. Description: SCP-3745 is an amalgamation consisting of components from two human skeletons. Based on the shape of the mandible and pelvic regions, SCP-3745’s skeletal components are believed to originate from an adolescent male and female. The left and right halves of SCP-3745 are fused along the longitudinal axis at the pelvis, and diverge along the lower spinal cord into two torsos connected by the ribs and two separate skulls. SCP-3745’s skeletal components are believed to have been fused through temperatures in excess of 1700°C, as evidenced by the amorphous hydroxylapatite molecular structure found at points of fusion. The phrases “два любовника в вечных объятиях“1 and “Украденный нисходящим пламенем“2 are engraved on SCP-3745’s left and right T2 vertebrae, respectively. SCP-3745 emits constant but negligible levels of gamma radiation. Any human (henceforth designated the primary subject) who makes physical contact with SCP-3745 will undergo a Duprass Event3. During a Duprass Event, the primary subject, as well as any materials attached to their person, will be instantly transported to a location designated SCP-3745-1. Another individual (hereafter designated the secondary subject) will also be displaced to SCP-3745-1 from their current location at this time. The secondary subject is invariably someone who the primary subject has experienced a romantic attachment to. While a Duprass Event is in progress, no other subjects can be displaced to SCP-3745-1, and SCP-3745 can be touched without incident. SCP-3745-1 contains a largely arid desert environment, the size and extent of which is currently unknown. The sky is perpetually hazy, and temperatures average between -12°C and 14°C. No plant life has been found within SCP-3745-1. Multiple streets, houses, and buildings are present within SCP-3745-1, all in various states of damage and dilapidation. No inhabitants of SCP-3745-1 have been found. SCP-3745-1 exhibits unsafe levels of radiation4. However, displaced subjects experience neither short-term nor long-term symptoms expected from radiation exposure of this caliber, instead typically expiring from dehydration within days of displacement due to the scarcity of liquid water within SCP-3745-1. A Duprass Event ends when one or both of the displaced subjects ceases vital functions. Upon the conclusion of a Duprass Event, both subjects (or the remains thereof) will return to baseline reality, reappearing in the approximate location of their initial displacement. Addendum 3745.1: Experiment Log 3745-04 Primary Subject: D-7721 Secondary Subject: Margaret Ross (No witnesses during displacement, disappearance attributed to a non-anomalous abduction) Procedure: Primary Subject was equipped with a standard Foundation expedition pack containing enough water and dehydrated nutritional supplements to enable approximately 3 weeks of travel for 2 individuals. Primary Subject was instructed to explore the surrounding area of SCP-3745-1, and to record anything of note in a provided journal. Initiation Date: 03/28/1962 Conclusion Date: 02/14/2018 Results: Duprass Event lasted far longer than expected. Both subjects returned heavily aged and deceased. Clothing and other materials attached to the subjects were severely burned, but the subjects themselves were unscathed. Cause of death could not be determined. Following the conclusion of the Duprass Event, SCP-3745 disintegrated into calcium phosphate granules. These granules did not display any of SCP-3745's former properties. The cover and edges of D-7721’s journal were charred, but its contents were mostly legible. Notable excerpts from D-7721's journal are attached below. + Input Credentials - Access Granted Photograph found within D-7721's journal Day 1 (I guess) Okay, so I just touched the wierd skeleton thing, and now I'm in… I don't know, it looks kind of like a bedroom. I'm going to have a look around. Yep, it's a bedroom. I think it's a children's bedroom. There are lots of framed pictures of a kid. They're all pretty blurry though. They look old. Everything in this room is dusty, like it hasn't been touched in ages. Alright, I've explored the rest of the house, everything's old and abandoned. Also the roof caved in on what I think is the kitchen. There's this wierd feeling, like this whole place is kind of… familiar? Don't know why though, my house looked nothing like this. I'm looking around outside now. Everything's fucked out here as well. Just dusty streets and half-destroyed buildings. Hang on, I hear something Guess who I just fucking found! Fucking Margaret! She was a few houses down from me, yelling for help. You dickhead scientists said there would be someone else here, but I didn't think you were gonna abduct my fucking high school girlfriend. Is this why you had me fill out that godamn form? I swear to god I'll fucking kill all of you if I ever get out of here. Day 2 Alright, I've calmed down a bit now. Margaret has too. She's handling this much better than I would have if I was in her situation. Apparantly she was making dinner in her apartment when she got sent here without any warning. At least I knew something fucked up would happen when I touched that skeleton. I tried to act like I didn't know what was going on either, but she could always see right through me. I ended up telling her that I was forced to work for some scientists who do Area-51 type bullshit (which isn't a lie, just the truth minus some facts), and I got sent here in one of their experiments. I had no idea she would be sent here too, and she seemed to believe me on that. We explored some of the surrounding area. Old and abandoned, just like the house. No signs of any food or water either. There were street signs on some of the corners, but they weren't in English. Margaret said they were in Russian, so I guess we're in Russia? I don't think Russia is supposed to be this wrecked, but I haven't exactly been keeping up on current events. Day 3 Margaret and I decided to travel in one direction and see if we can find some form of life. So far there's still nothing but destruction. We did a lot of catching up while we wandered through the city. Margaret's in grad school now, studying psychology. It's funny to see how responsible she's gotten. Back in high school neither of us had any future plans. We always talked about running away and living in the everglades or the pine barrens or some shit, anywhere where we wouldn't have to deal with college and money and all that stupid man-made stuff. Margaret was pretty calm the entire time we talked. It feels like she's adjusting to this whole thing unnaturally fast. I think I am too. I know this situation is fucked up, but for some reason I just can't bring myself to care all that much. I know this probably isn't the kind of stuff you scientists want me writing down, but on the other hand you sent me into an apocalyptic wasteland, so fuck you. If one of you bureaucrats has to spend hours sifting through my personal thoughts in order to find anything of scientific value, then that's a small victory for me. Day 6 I noticed something wierd about the buildings. Margaret noticed something weird about the buildings (alright Margs you got me). A lot of the damage seems like normal fire and explosion-type stuff, but some of it isn't. One house has a perfectly circular hole through it, about ten feet wide. perfectly smooth. Another building was completely sideways and buried about five feet in the ground. No signs that it was nocked knocked over, it just looked like it was placed there. Really freaky shit. We actually ended up camping out in the house with the hole in it (Margs said she liked the view). We'll continue exploring tomorrow. Day 12 The farther we travel, the more fucked up the landscape is. All the skyscrapers have been bent and twisted in ways I didn't think were possible. Margs tried to walk through one of the front doors and instead came right out the back door as if there was nothing in between. Every building is messed up in some unique way. Also, there are these… ripples in the air, like when it's hot out, but they're only in small clusters. I threw a rock at one, and it disappeared for a few seconds before reappearing in the same place. I tried to pick it up, but it burned my hand. It's not all bad though. Margaret and I discussed our options, and we've decided to choose a permanent shelter, since things only seem to be getting worse the farther we travel, and the rations will last longer if we conserve our energy. Margs picked out a nice house by what I think used to be a lake. It’s not the least damaged house in the area, but she said she liked the layout. I might try to fix up the place eventually (a lot of the second story has collapsed), but we'll see. Day 14 Great news! We finally found food and water. One of the wierd weird sky ripples has a stream of water falling out of it. It looks like it's falling out of nothing. It's really wierd weird. It's salt water, and it’s scalding hot, but Margs says she can rig something to purify it and make it drinkable. Between this and starting the campfires every night, I don't know what I'd do without her. She says she knows all this stuff because she was a girl scout, but I was a boy scout for a while and I don't remember any of this. She’s really something. As for food, Margs says she saw rats scuttling under an open sewer grate about a quarter of a mile away. We’re gonna use what’s left of our food supply to try to lure them into some traps. Hopefully they like the taste of these nutrient bars more than I do. I feel like I should be unnerved by the idea of eating a rat, but I'm not. It just feels… normal. This whole trip has Day 17 You will not believe what I found this morning, I was wandering around the city, setting up some of our rat traps, when suddenly I found this army tank looking thing. I mean, it wasn't like a regular tank, or at least not one I've ever seen. It's got a big glass sphere where the cannon part should be, and big spidery legs instead of treads. I took a look inside, pressing buttons and such, and I actually got it to work! I can't get the top part to rotate or the glass sphere to do anything, but I can make it walk forwards at least (although one of its legs seems to be broken). I rode it back to our house, and I swear I haven't seen Margs smile that much since prom. We took turns driving each other around in it, it was just like back in high school . Is it bad that I'm enjoying this? Day 18 I told Margs everything. I told her about all the mistakes I made that got me stuck working for you mad scientists5. I told her how part of me knew she would end up here with me, and how part of me is happy she did. No, not part of me, all of me. I'm happy that we're here together, as fucked up as that may be. I just couldn't keep it to myself anymore. She seemed so relieved when I told her. She said she had been feeling the same way, and that the guilt was getting to her just like it was for me. I hardly even know what happened after that. It was like something took control of us, and next thing I knew we were kissing. I know it hasn't even been three weeks, and I know you scientists will chalk this up to some weird paranormal mind control or something, but I don't care. We're happy here. We're home. Note: It is believed that D-7721 stopped using the journal for an extensive period of time following this entry. Day Hell if I know Jeez, this brings back memories. I haven't seen this thing in forever. Must have gotten buried under all the clutter in the house. Sorry if that leaves a big hole in your research, scientists, but to be honest your research hasn't been a priority for me recently. But I guess as long as I'm writing I might as well give you a little update. I tied the knot with Margaret a few years ago. It was a small ceremony, as you can imagine. Still, it was amazing. We aren't planning on having any kids or anything, we aren't about to Adam and Eve this place. We were never too keen on the family life anyway, so it's not a big loss. We fixed up the house. It looks pretty much normal, if you ignore all the skinned rats hanging in the kitchen. It took some time, but it really does feel like a home to us now. There's also a bunch of other weird apocalyptic stuff that we've discovered around town. That spider tank was just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to freaky sci-fi shit. I'm sure you scientists would love to hear all about it, but I'm not your lab rat anymore. You guys can touch that skeleton yourselves if you want to know so damn bad. Note: Following this entry, D-7721's began using the journal on an infrequent basis. His entries became shorter, and provided less information regarding SCP-3745-1. A sample of these entries has been presented below. Fifth anniversary today. We used one of the larger rats we'd been saving for the occasion. Made rat mignon. It was really nice. Found a massive rat down by the roundabout. Almost 2 feet long. Took him home with me and named him Scooter. I always wanted a dog. Explored a building few miles south that I always thought looked familiar. Looked like a school or something. Found a basketball with a hole in it. Now I just need some duct tape. Tank broke down today. Tried getting underneath it to see what was wrong and nearly threw out my back. I'm not as young as I used to be. She's still so beautiful, even after all this time. Note: Following this entry, D-7721 appeared to undergo a change in behavior, and began writing in greater detail. The feeling is back. The feeling that we’re supposed to be here. I suppose it never left. I’ve always been aware of its presence, but it’s been dormant for years now. We haven’t needed it. We’ve been happy. But now it’s stronger, and it’s telling us that we’re not supposed to be here anymore. It wants us to travel East. Margaret feels it too. We’ve packed some supplies, and we’re going to head out in the morning. Hopefully the journey isn’t too far. Margaret’s knees have begun to ache when she walks, and my chest hurts whenever I exert myself too much. We’ll just take it slow and see what happens. The landscape is getting more desolate with each day of travel. Most of the buildings are just piles of rubble now. The ripples are growing more common. They make it hard to see in some directions, but the path we’re following is mostly clear. The feeling is getting stronger. A feeling of… closure. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s like we’ve spent our whole lives completing some important task, and now all that’s left is to reach this destination. It’s an uplifting feeling, of not a bit unsettling. There aren’t any buildings anymore. Just miles of empty desert in all directions. The ripples are more common now. We have to deviate from the path frequently in order to get by them. They radiate heat, so it burns to get too close. I’m not sure how long can can avoid it, though. The land has started tilting downward. It wasn’t noticeable at first, but now it’s really steep. It’s a nightmare for Margaret’s legs, so I’ve been helping her. It won’t be long now. I can feel it. Jesus Christ it’s hot. There are ripples everywhere, I don’t know how much more of this we can take. There are puddles on the ground. They aren’t water, they’re some silvery substance. Holy shit, I just looked at Margaret’s reflection in the puddle, and it’s not her. It’s some other girl. And my reflection is some other guy. Oh my god, it’s the kid! The kid from the picture! He looks older, but it’s definitely him. He’s smiling at us. He’s so happy. He’s so happy. The ground has leveled out. We're in some kind of crater. We can barely see at this point, it's just ripples all around. Ripples all around. Boiling. There's a heart. No, two hearts, kind of fused together, floating in the center. Beating so loud. Burning so hot. But they won't be beating much longer. I see it now. This is where it began, and where it must end. They were in love. All this time they were in love. We were in love. Now they have returned to accept their fate. They We they are grateful, but they are ready to go now. . . . We are ready to go now. Спасибо вам за вашу любовь. Благодаря вам мы смогли прожить годы вместе, которые украла война. Наше время прошло, как и ваше. Удачи вам в том, что будет дальше.6 Footnotes 1. "Two lovers in eternal embrace" 2. "Stolen by a descending flame" 3. Direct contact with the skin is not required. Secondary contact through adjacent materials such as clothing will also trigger a Duprass Event 4. Approximately 500 mSv/h 5. Prior to enlistment at the Foundation, D-7721 was incarcerated for armed robbery and drug trafficking. This statement is believed to be in reference to these crimes. 6. "We thank you for giving your love. Through it we have experienced the years together that were stolen by war. Our time has passed, as well as yours. We wish you luck in what happens next." ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3745" by Wildman8, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3745. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: kaboom1.png Author: Wildman8 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Link: SCP Foundation Wiki
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Item #: SCP-3746 Special Containment Procedures: All affected subjects are to be given Class-C amnestics and employed at Foundation front companies for further analysis. Should they attempt to contact their family, a higher level of amnestic therapy is to be administered and the subject is to be placed under Foundation psychiatric care. Description: SCP-3746 is a phenomenon affecting adult male humans residing within the continental United States who are living with their maternal parent. Affected subjects will perceive the individual in their lives they identify as their mother deceased upon waking. Evidence recovered during containment operations suggests that affected subjects attended or were aware of a seminar entitled "Living With Mom, Finding What Comes After".1 A statistically significant portion of individuals who self-reported attending these classes have reported experiencing night terrors, erotic, lucid or other extreme dream states prior to SCP-3746’s manifestation. There is no known pattern in the causes of the deaths perceived by those affected by SCP-3746; most frequently it is natural causes. If the subject comes into contact with their mother, the contacted flesh will experience a drastic drop in temperature followed by the rapid onset of rigor mortis, and the ossification of bones. If at any point the subject's mother loses consciousness, such as falling asleep, they will appear to be deceased through any measurement or observation taken by the subject2. An immediate compulsion to bury the apparently deceased follows, with affected individuals frequently failing to utilize obvious tools in favor of their hands. This effect ceases if the two are separated, if the mother perishes, or if the attempt is successful. SCP-3746 was initially discovered after Foundation I/Os picked up on imageboards popular in the United States which had postings about the phenomenon. As of 2017/05/05, 67 cases have been documented and contained by the Foundation. Case 29: On 2017/04/02, Benjamin Miller phoned 911 after claiming to have found his 68-year-old mother collapsed and bleeding in their home. A transcript of the 911 call is attached. «Begin Log» Dispatch: Nine-one-one. What is your emergency? Miller: O-oh fucking Chri- holyshitholycowohman mom's bleeding out on the floor, oh Jesu- Dispatch: Sir, what's your address? Miller: 1240 Quinn- oh, oh, oh fuck <retching> Dispatch: Sir, I need your address! Miller: 1240 Quinn Hill Rd, Plantation and please please hurry! Dispatch: Okay, an ambulance is en rou- Ms. Miller: <muffled> Ben? Get off the phone, what’s gotten into you today? Dispatch: Is that your Mother? Miller: Something’s happening! I’m going to try CPR! How do y’all do that? Dispatch: Sir, who’s hurt? Please don’t try anything you don’t know how to do until the paramedics arrive. Miller: You don't know me! I can do it. Mom! Phone is put down. Dispatch: Hello? Hello? From a distance. Miller: Mom! Mom, calm down, I'm trying to help! Ms. Miller: Stop! Stop! I can’t breathe! Get your <unintelligible> face <crunching sound, followed by high-pitched screams> Miller: Staying alive… staying alive… get warm, please, staying alive Ms. Miller: <gurgling> Miller: I think someone’s here. Note: Paramedics arrived shortly after and removed Benjamin Miller from his mother's person before attempting to administer assistance. Ms. Miller expired due to chest cavity collapse resulting in fatal trauma, and Foundation assets discovered the SCP-3746 involvement during Benjamin Miller's trial. «End Log» Addendum 3746.1: On 09/18/2018, Foundation agents learned of an apparent SCP-3746-related seminar being organized in Portland, Oregon. Observation showed that the event was not attended by the organizers or locals. Literature and other paraphernalia recovered had heavily plagiarized contents, from materials such as encyclopedias of natural phenomenon, Freudian psychology, recipe books, and sex manuals. The venue was not able to provide record of who booked the event. Local communities are now being monitored specifically for SCP-3746 related phenomenon. Footnotes 1. Advertisements and materials for this course have not been found outside containment operations, and the investigation is ongoing. 2. Temperature, pulse check and reaction testing will show no signs of life if performed by the affected subject ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3746" by Anonymous, Rounderhouse, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3746. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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scp 2821scp 1726scp 2481scp 2440scp 319scp 094 More by notgull More by notgull SCPs notgull's Proposal Rating: 586 SCP-3733 Rating: 378 SCP-3095 Rating: 358 SCP-4804 Rating: 280 SCP-4800 Rating: 278 SCP-2785 Rating: 278 SCP-4348 Rating: 257 SCP-4048 Rating: 205 SCP-4688 Rating: 196 SCP-3362 Rating: 186 SCP-579-J Rating: 186 SCP-5800 Rating: 182 SCP-4785 Rating: 176 SCP-3339 Rating: 165 SCP-3747 Rating: 164 SCP-4248 Rating: 160 SCP-4948 Rating: 156 SCP-199 Rating: 128 SCP-3296 Rating: 124 SCP-4800-J Rating: 120 SCP-7234 Rating: 119 SCP-4799 Rating: 119 SCP-3485 Rating: 110 SCP-5981 Rating: 107 SCP-4808 Rating: 103 SCP-3833 Rating: 95 SCP-3748 Rating: 93 SCP-4148 Rating: 88 SCP-5054 Rating: 87 SCP-5025 Rating: 86 SCP-1037 Rating: 77 SCP-093-J Rating: 74 SCP-1684 Rating: 68 SCP-5680 Rating: 64 SCP-4872 Rating: 62 SCP-3248 Rating: 60 SCP-6904 Rating: 58 SCP-5483 Rating: 37 SCP-6785 Rating: 34 SCP-4397 Rating: 30 Tales The Little Robot that Could Rating: 348 Join the Flock Rating: 166 The Siege of Site-19 Rating: 163 Tales of the Automaton: The Big Birdocalypse Rating: 143 Footage Recovered From a Private Server Rating: 115 Avian Anthology I Rating: 75 Moose on the Loose Rating: 74 My Empire of Birds Rating: 63 Document recovered from a Parallel Universe Rating: 59 Joey Fucknuts Steals The Declaration of Independence Rating: 58 Katz and Dogs Rating: 55 Your Guard Rating: 50 Vacation Opportunity Rating: 45 The Scent of a Toaster Rating: 33 Burn, Baby, Burn Rating: 29 Chasing Suns Rating: 27 Three Feet Under I Rating: 24 Wind in the Sails Rating: 23 The Shape of Water is Humanoid Rating: 23 Dead Reckoning Rating: 22 Three Feet Under II Rating: 22 Three Feet Under III Rating: 20 Forgotten Shrine Rating: 17 Down Through Rating: 16 Into the Beetle Black Yonder Rating: 16 Hyperfine Rating: 15 Don't Knock on Strange Doors Rating: 10 Other Researcher Calvin's Personnel File Rating: 91 Incident Report ████/████ Rating: 83 "Sphere" Incursion Log Rating: 52 Initial Incursion Log Rating: 50 "Cube" Incursion Log #1 Rating: 44 "Cube" Incursion Log #2 Rating: 44 SCP-093-J Recovered Documents Rating: 41 SCP-093-J Blue Test Rating: 39 SCP-093-J Purple Test Rating: 35 SCP-093-J Green Test Rating: 33 Exploration Log 4480-1 Rating: 22 See my Author Page for more information. If you like reading my stuff, consider checking out my YouTube Channel for SCP-inspired animations, among other things. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3747" by notgull, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3747. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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Item #: SCP-3748 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3748 is to be contained in a standard containment cell, containing basic humanoid amenities downsized to SCP-3748's scale. The walls of SCP-3748's containment chamber are to be made at least five meters thick, and no open spaces are allowed within five meters of SCP-3748's cell. Staff who receive Level 2 authorization may speak with SCP-3748. However, potential interviewers are to be warned that SCP-3748 has an exceptionally vitriolic personalty. Description: SCP-3748 is a ceramic bowl containing approximately 600 Musca domestica1 cadavers. These cadavers can be removed from SCP-3748, though it expresses discomfort when this happens. SCP-3748 will regenerate at a rate of one fly every three minutes if a portion is removed. SCP-3748 has developed a sapient consciousness fluent in English and knows very basic Japanese. SCP-3748's primary method of communication is telepathy, where it speaks in a male Midwest American accent. This telepathy is not two-way; however, SCP-3748 has a sense of hearing despite not possessing hearing apparatuses. SCP-3748's primary mode of translocation is teleportation. SCP-3748 is capable of instantaneously transporting itself up to approximately 4.78 meters at a time. SCP-3748 can do this four times in a minute before showing signs of exhaustion; however, SCP-3748 has implied on multiple occasions that it could teleport itself more if it exercised. Discovery: SCP-3748 was created by PoI-2343 (Jacob Sherman) for his school's science fair. PoI-2343 supposedly put a piece of flypaper into a ceramic bowl, and left it outside until a great number of flies accrued in the bowl. PoI-2343 did not create SCP-3748 intentionally, and it is believed that neither PoI-2343 nor any members of his immediate family have reality-altering capabilities. The flypaper used to create SCP-3748 has not been recovered. Interview Log 1: View Attachment: Interview Log 3748-Alpha Close File INTERVIEW LOG Interviewed: PoI-2343 Interviewer: Researcher Sarah Clemson <Begin Log> Researcher Clemson: Hello, Jacob. How are you feeling today? PoI-2343: I'm doing great! Researcher Clemson: That's good to hear. Last month you had a science fair at your school, correct? PoI-2343: Yup. Researcher Clemson: What was your project for the science fair? PoI-2343: Well, I put two bowls with flypaper in them in two different places, one out in the sun, and one inside near an open window for a couple hours. I was gonna see the difference in flies collected in the bowl if the bowl was inside versus outside. Researcher Clemson: When did you discover the bowl's properties? PoI-2343: A day before the fair. I was checking up on both of the bowls to see what I caught. The bowl outside collected way more flies than the other. Way more. Anyway, I was gonna bring the outside bowl back inside, when I heard someone say, "It smells in here." It came from the bowl of dead flies. Researcher Clemson: What did it say to you? PoI-2343: Well, it really scared me. I went over to pick it up, and it said "Hey, kid, over here, give me a hand?" and "If you could get rid of this flypaper that would be great." It was weird too, it spoke without a mouth, and I heard it talking in my head. It didn't have any ears either, but it could hear me. PoI-2343: Anyway, I accidentally threw it off the table. Uh, then we talked for a bit after I calmed down. It said that it was a "nice and friendly" person, talked about how it got all the ladies, and how everyone thought he was the best. Researcher Clemson: What did you do after that? PoI-2343: Actually, we had a conversation about picking up girls. He told me he could be my wingman, show me the ropes on how to score one, how to be smooth and all that. I really didn't know what he was doing, but I was, and still am, an awkward high school student, so I listened. Once I got past him being, uh, odd, we actually became good friends as well, and we would have conversations with each other when nobody was looking. I didn't tell anyone about it, because I was literally asking for dating advice from a bowl of dead flies. Researcher Clemson: I see. Anything else of note before we acquired it? PoI-2343: It told me it was good at video games, so I gave it my computer so that "he could teach me." It teleported all over the keyboard and pressed a bunch of random buttons, and he used all of my items at once, and jumped off a cliff. He told me my keyboard sucked. Researcher Clemson: Hmm, I see. This interview is over. Thank you for cooperating, Jacob. PoI-2343: No problem. Where is Bernard, anyways? Researcher Clemson: We're checking him at the moment. You'll be reunited shortly. PoI-2343: Thanks, ma'am. <End Log> Closing Statement: PoI-2343 was administered Class-C amnestics and released back into public. Interview Log 2: View Attachment: Interview Log 3748-Beta Close File INTERVIEW LOG Interviewed: SCP-3748 Interviewer: Researcher Sarah Clemson <Begin Log> SCP-3748: Hello, my good madam. Researcher Clemson: Good afternoon, SCP-3748. If you don't mind, I'm going to be asking you several questions. SCP-3748: Knock yourself out. Researcher Clemson: Do you know who created, or made you? SCP-3748: What are your hobbies? Researcher Clemson: SCP-3748, please answer my question. SCP-3748: Oh, I'm sorry. It's just a quirk of mine. Researcher Clemson: Maybe after you answer my questions, okay? Now, who created you, SCP-3748? SCP-3748: Some stupid kid. What do you do for a living? Researcher Clemson: I'd appreciate it if you stopped asking me questions. SCP-3748: Sorry, so sorry. I just wanted to get to know you better. Researcher Clemson: The purpose of this interview is to gain information about you. Now- SCP-3748: <Interrupting> Okay, wow. I was just asking you a question, and you shoot me down like that. No reason to bitch about it. Like, a simple answer would have sufficed. Researcher Clemson: Please be civil, SCP-3748. SCP-3748: It's always "SCP-3748", isn't it? Why not use my actual name, bitch? I'm trying to be respectful and all here, but then you just go and straight up fuck me over for no reason. Researcher Clemson: SCP-3748, please remain civil. Now, tell- SCP-3748: Oh, I see. Just because I'm a bowl of flies, you think you can kick me to the curb? Leave me on the backburner, huh? Just because I'm an 'anomaly'? Well, you should go fuck yourself, bitch. Jesus, what a whore. <Silence> Researcher Clemson: This interview is over. Researcher Clemson stands up SCP-3748: No! That was my brother! I'm actually a- <SCP-3748 appears to weep. Water appears to leak from the top of the bowl> SCP-3748: I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm a piece of shit. Researcher Clemson: Huh? SCP-3748: I'm a piece of shit that doesn't deserve to be loved. I'm only pretending to be cool to mask the fact that I'm not. People hate me, but I can't stop the act because people will hate me even more! I don't know what to do. <Researcher Clemson sits down> Researcher Clemson: Can you answer my questions now? SCP-3748: Sniff. Yes. Researcher Clemson: Do you know who created you? SCP-3748: Sigh. A kid. I think his name was Sherman. I lied to him that I was a hit with the ladies. Because of course I do, why else would a subhuman like me survive in this world? I'm not gonna hit it up with anyone, nobody is going to spend the time with me. Researcher Clemson: Stay on topic, SCP-3748. SCP-3748: Sorry. Researcher Clemson: Anyway. Do you have any memory of before you were created? SCP-3748: Uh… no. No. Probably was still a loser though. Researcher Clemson: Okay. The child said your name was Bernard, is that correct? SCP-3748: Yes. Researcher Clemson: Okay. One last question. Do you know how you are able to talk and see? SCP-3748: I don't know. I can see, breathe, smell, and hear perfectly. I don't know. <SCP-3748 appears to sob again, but less severely> SCP-3748: Sorry that I don't know anything. Researcher Clemson: It's fine. You've given us enough information. Any thing to say before I conclude this interview? SCP-3748: Yeah. Um… do you want to hang out sometime? Maybe grab some coffee? Researcher Clemson: SCP-3748, I'm marri- SCP-3748: Wow! Because of course you are, you raging slutbag. I even apologized and submitted myself to you and this is what you say to me? You wouldn't know chivalry if it bit you on the— Researcher Clemson: This interview is over. <End Log> Closing Statement: For approximately 2 hours after the interview, SCP-3748 continued to yell several profanities directed towards Researcher Clemson before eventually calming down. Footnotes 1. Better known as the housefly. More by notgull More by notgull SCPs notgull's Proposal Rating: 586 SCP-3733 Rating: 378 SCP-3095 Rating: 358 SCP-4804 Rating: 280 SCP-4800 Rating: 278 SCP-2785 Rating: 278 SCP-4348 Rating: 257 SCP-4048 Rating: 205 SCP-4688 Rating: 196 SCP-3362 Rating: 186 SCP-579-J Rating: 186 SCP-5800 Rating: 182 SCP-4785 Rating: 176 SCP-3339 Rating: 165 SCP-3747 Rating: 164 SCP-4248 Rating: 160 SCP-4948 Rating: 156 SCP-199 Rating: 128 SCP-3296 Rating: 124 SCP-4800-J Rating: 120 SCP-7234 Rating: 119 SCP-4799 Rating: 119 SCP-3485 Rating: 110 SCP-5981 Rating: 107 SCP-4808 Rating: 103 SCP-3833 Rating: 95 SCP-3748 Rating: 93 SCP-4148 Rating: 88 SCP-5054 Rating: 87 SCP-5025 Rating: 86 SCP-1037 Rating: 77 SCP-093-J Rating: 74 SCP-1684 Rating: 68 SCP-5680 Rating: 64 SCP-4872 Rating: 62 SCP-3248 Rating: 60 SCP-6904 Rating: 58 SCP-5483 Rating: 37 SCP-6785 Rating: 34 SCP-4397 Rating: 30 Tales The Little Robot that Could Rating: 348 Join the Flock Rating: 166 The Siege of Site-19 Rating: 163 Tales of the Automaton: The Big Birdocalypse Rating: 143 Footage Recovered From a Private Server Rating: 115 Avian Anthology I Rating: 75 Moose on the Loose Rating: 74 My Empire of Birds Rating: 63 Document recovered from a Parallel Universe Rating: 59 Joey Fucknuts Steals The Declaration of Independence Rating: 58 Katz and Dogs Rating: 55 Your Guard Rating: 50 Vacation Opportunity Rating: 45 The Scent of a Toaster Rating: 33 Burn, Baby, Burn Rating: 29 Chasing Suns Rating: 27 Three Feet Under I Rating: 24 Wind in the Sails Rating: 23 The Shape of Water is Humanoid Rating: 23 Dead Reckoning Rating: 22 Three Feet Under II Rating: 22 Three Feet Under III Rating: 20 Forgotten Shrine Rating: 17 Down Through Rating: 16 Into the Beetle Black Yonder Rating: 16 Hyperfine Rating: 15 Don't Knock on Strange Doors Rating: 10 Other Researcher Calvin's Personnel File Rating: 91 Incident Report ████/████ Rating: 83 "Sphere" Incursion Log Rating: 52 Initial Incursion Log Rating: 50 "Cube" Incursion Log #1 Rating: 44 "Cube" Incursion Log #2 Rating: 44 SCP-093-J Recovered Documents Rating: 41 SCP-093-J Blue Test Rating: 39 SCP-093-J Purple Test Rating: 35 SCP-093-J Green Test Rating: 33 Exploration Log 4480-1 Rating: 22 See my Author Page for more information. If you like reading my stuff, consider checking out my YouTube Channel for SCP-inspired animations, among other things. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3748" by notgull and Westrin, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3748. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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Item #: SCP-3749 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3749-A is kept in a fitted, hermetically sealed case lined with shock absorbing gel. This case is inside a vacuum sealed vault equipped with an airlock. An electromagnet beneath the floor is kept powered on at all times. Entry to SCP-3749-A's vault requires BSL-5 biohazard protection and sterilization before approaching. The remains of SCP-3749-B through -D are kept in similar vaults. Description: SCP-3749-A is a decorative stainless steel sword that autonomously attacks all life. As bacteria and microorganisms qualify as life for SCP-3749-A's effect, SCP-3749-A is constantly in high-speed motion as long as they are present. Analysis suggests SCP-3749-A bisects each bacterium individually, moving at speeds of up to Mach 4. SCP-3749-A is 75 cm long, with an iridescent purple finish and multiple superfluous edges and points that make it unfeasible as a weapon. SCP-3749-A's edges are extremely sharp; electron microscopy shows them to be only a few atoms thick. SCP-3749-A is anomalously damage-resistant, and its edges have not measurably dulled. SCP-3749-A was discovered in an empty house previously owned by one Humphrey Bingham (POI-11928), an unemployed, misanthropic 43-year-old obsessed with the occult, eschatology, and the Book of Revelation. He appears to have created SCP-3749 by performing an arcane ritual with his collection of novelty weapons. The shortlived SCP-3749-B through -D, other novelty swords owned by Bingham, were also animated by this ritual. However, SCP-3749-A likely destroyed them, their products, and Bingham himself. SCP-3749-B, -C, and -D were found covered in powdered human bone and biological residue matching bubonic plague (Yersinia pestis) and desert locust shells (Schistocerca gregaria). After some difficulty, SCP-3749-A was brought to the nearest Site and introduced to an airlocked vacuum chamber. An electromagnet and case were prepared while SCP-3749-A was allowed to destroy the few microbes present in the room. When personnel equipped with BSL-5 suits prepared to enter the cell, SCP-3749-A was lying in the center of the room, sluggishly moving. Closer inspection showed it bending and attempting to cut itself before snapping back in place. SCP-3749-A was then safely placed into the case with the assistance of the electromagnet. In light of this, controlled use of SCP-3749-A to assist in containing outbreaks of Keter-class biological hazards is currently under consideration. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3749" by Weryllium, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3749. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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Item #: SCP-3750 Special Containment Procedures: When not in use, SCP-3750 is to be stored in a standard safe-class deposit locker in Site-77. SCP-3750 is not to come in contact with systems or simulations which involve sensitive data, such as predictive algorithms, training simulations and games, as well as systems in which civilians could be considered actors. Description: SCP-3750 is a standard Staunton-style white king chess piece composed of stained pine. Historical and scientific estimates suggest SCP-3750 was created in late 19th-century Britain, although no particular style or make has been found which matches the entity. SCP-3750's anomalous properties manifest when it is used as a component in a board game. The player in possession of SCP-3750 will telepathically receive suggestions for moves and tactics along with commentary on the board state and other miscellaneous observations. SCP-3750 seems to have perfect knowledge of the "game state", but otherwise cannot perceive things near or around it, including, but not limited to, sounds, images and the condition and surroundings of SCP-3750. Regardless of the player, SCP-3750 "speaks" in English and with a voice commonly described as "East Coast American". SCP-3750's suggestions have shown no cognitohazardous or compulsive properties in testing, and players are under no obligation to follow its suggestions. SCP-3750 was recovered from a chess tournament on July 21, 1984 in Reykjavik, Iceland after numerous players on the white side of table seven complained to tournament officials about a "useless kibitzer". Foundation officials recovered the anomaly and falsified an incident to redirect blame to a player. Attached below is a game played between junior researcher Joselyn Tal and SCP-3750. + 3750_4.pgn - 3750_4.pgn [Event "Foundation Internal Research"] [Site "Site-77, L'Aquila, ITA"] [Date "2011.05.04"] [Round "4"] [White "SCP-3750 (via D-3750-1)"] [Black "Junior Researcher Joselyn Tal"] [Result "0 - 1"] [WhiteElo "Unrated"] [BlackElo "2083"] {D-3750-1 was instructed to follow SCP-3750's suggestions as closely as possible and transcribe its communications.} 1. e4 e5 2. Ke2 Nf6 {SCP-3750: "Get me in there, boss. Let me show those fucking stupid-ass pawns what a real king can do.} 3. Kd3 Nc6 4. c4 Nxe4 {SCP-3750: "I fucking hate knights. They jump around like overstimulated rabbits."} 5. Kxe4 d5+ 6. cxd5 Qh4+ {SCP-3750: "This bitch thinks she can just boss me around however she likes?"} 7. g4 Bxg4 8. Qxg4 Qxg4+ {SCP-3750: "Whatever. Not like I loved her anyways."} 9. Kd3 Qd4+ 10. Kc2 Nb4+ {SCP-3750: "Stupid hoppy bastards. Kill one and there's always another."} 11. Kd1 Qxf2 12. Bb5+ c6 {SCP-3750: "Yeah, how do you like it, mister black king?"} 13. dxc6 bxc6 14. Bxc6+ Ke7 {SCP-3750: "Oh my god, this dumbass just let me have his rook!"} 15. Bxa8 Qf1# {SCP-3750: "What the fuck, boss? How could you let this happen?"} Following this test, further experimentation with other games was performed. + Test Log 3750-2 - Test Log 3750-2 Test Date: 2011/05/05 Researcher: Junior Researcher Jesus Capablanca Game: Axis And Allies 2nd Edition. SCP-3750 replaced a German infantry unit. Result: SCP-3750 (as the Axis player) instructed D-3750-1 to focus all resources on North Africa, neglecting the Eastern Front, noting that "Those commie fucks couldn't invade a fruit basket." Winner: Researcher Capablanca + Test Log 3750-3 - Test Log 3750-3 Test Date: 2011/05/06 Researcher: Junior Researchers Capablanca and Tal Game: Agricola. SCP-3750 replaced a "family member" marker. Result: SCP-3750 instructed Researcher Tal to ignore all food production in favor of development as "this crib ain't gonna build itself." Winner: Researcher Capablanca Addendum(2011/09/23): Following incident 3750-1, procedures and regulations regarding access to and testing of SCP-3750 have been updated to reflect new knowledge. + Incident 3750-1 - Incident 3750-1 During a testing session, researchers Tal and Capablanca entered a conversation on the current financial state of Site-77. When SCP-3750 came in contact with a spreadsheet containing financial information, including quarterly expenditure forecasts, SCP-3750 made telepathic contact with the entire financial staff of Site-77. A transcription of the communication is embedded below. "You bitches gotta be more aggressive with your funding. This fifteen-oh-seven thing? Why the fuck do you need soundproofing for plastic lawn ornaments? You nerds are blowing so much money that you could be using to get serious pussy. Why the fuck do you call everything "safe" if you're going to soundproof and bulletproof and waterproof everything? Seriously, what's the worst that could happen? Current hypotheses state that SCP-3750 detected the financial workings of Site-77 as a "game" and the financial staff as "players." In order to prevent public knowledge of Foundation information, a more stringent policy was enacted in which potential systems are screened before contact with SCP-3750. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3750" by junkmail-lt, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3750. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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Item #: SCP-3751 Special Containment Procedures: All major chess tournaments are to be monitored by Foundation agents stationed at their locations for SCP-3751. The Foundation has reached agreements with the FIDE, USCF, and many other major chess organizations to allow direct monitoring of all chess tournaments and events sponsored by these organizations through electronic surveillance as well as the use of onsite agents. Foundation personnel are to monitor all emergency channels in case of civilian contact with an instance of SCP-3751. If an instance of SCP-3751 manifests at any event Mobile Task Force Theta-3 "Deep Blue" is to be deployed and secure all instances present. Class A amnestics are to be administered to all civilians involved. Once those involved in the incident are secured, they are to undergo a 5-7 day re-identification process where they will receive Class-F amnestics in order to re-identify them with their new person. Once it has been ascertained that they possess no memory of their previous lives, they will be released back into the public and continue on in the life of their new person. Description: SCP-3751 is an anomalous chess position achieved by playing the following moves1: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 a6 7. Nge2 c6 [REDACTED] Upon the playing of these moves, all people who have made moves during the game will have their consciousness randomly switched to the body of any other player in the game. These people's chess statistics will also be completely randomized, as well as all memory of these statistics being true will become accepted by all other people except those affected by SCP-3751. For example, if player A and player B are the only two players who have made moves in a game of chess that reaches SCP-3751, the following will happen: - The consciousnesses of players A and B will switch bodies. Player A's consciousness will take up player B's body, and vice versa. - Their approximate or exact chess ratings at the time of the incident will become randomized, becoming anywhere from zero to the combined rankings of these two people multiplied by 2. - The total number of games played by them will be completely randomized, even reaching numbers which are theoretically impossible for the time either player has lived. - A number of other chess statistics of both players will be randomized in similar fashions, including preferred strategies, the age at which they began playing chess, specific games they have played, etc. - All people except for players A and B will remember their statistics as being these new ones. If player A is rated at 2000 ELO points and B is rated at 2100 ELO2 points, SCP-3751 happens, and their new ratings become 1500 and 2700, all other people will accept their ratings as always being these values, while the players will remember their old ratings. The same applies with all other statistics. There is no known way of reversing the effects of SCP-3751. Addendum 1: Initial Discovery The first and thus far only time that SCP-3751 has occurred outside of a controlled testing environment was on ██/██/2013 during the 2013 ██████ Tournament in a blitz3 game between ██████ B███████ and █████ P█████. B███████ and P█████ were rated at 2239 and 2401 ELO points respectively. The game began normally, with B███████ having the white pieces. After roughly 5 minutes of gameplay, the players successfully manifested an SCP-3751 event with it's effects occurring immediately after P█████ retracted her hand from the piece she moved. B███████ and P█████ reacted with confusion and fear to the sudden change. Bystanders who were not aware of what had happened as per SCP-3751's effects continued watching the game uninterrupted. The players then asked each other to confirm if the switch of bodies they had experienced has just actually occurred. As per the rules of this chess origination, an arbiter stepped in to remind them that talking during a game was not permitted. The players, now distressed and confused at what had happened, began to speak to the people around them about what they had just experienced. It should be noted that SCP-3751 had caused both players to experience a significant jump in ELO rating to what is considered World-Class level. Many people looked on at the antics of the two in confusion, not knowing what had caused them to act this way. Out of frustration and panic, B███████ in P█████'s body (from here on referred to as SCP-3751-1, with P█████ being SCP-3751-2) became violent with bystanders. At this point, police were notified and SCP-3751-1 was taken into custody while SCP-3751-2 remained at the scene for questioning. Foundation police channel monitors and internet crawlers picked up on potentially anomalous activity at this point and agents were sent in to investigate. SCP-3751-1 and 2 were taken into Foundation custody while all bystanders at the site of incidence were administered Class-A amnestics. All videos and other records of the incident were quickly removed from the internet and their respective devices. Addendum 2: SCP-3751-1 and 2 interviews Following SCP-3751-1 and 2 being taken into Foundation custody, several interviews were done with them to determine precisely what had happened. The following are transcripts of these interviews. Interviewed: SCP-3751-1 Interviewer: Dr. John Anshe <Begin Log> Anshe: Hello, I want to ask you a couple questions about what happened to you at the chess tournament. Please remain calm and answer them as best you can. SCP-3751-1: Alright Anshe: So from what we can understand, you have somehow been transferred into █████ P█████'s body. Is this correct? SCP-3751-1: Yes, I have no idea how it happened. She played a move and [gestures with hand] I'm in her body. I have no idea how it happened. Anshe: It appears you are a bit confused about your old identity. Prior to this incident, you were ██████ B███████ a ██-year-old male chess player from █████████. You had an ELO rating of roughly 2███ and were considered one of the greatest players of all time, is this correct? SCP-3751-1: I wish it was, but no. I had a ranking of 2239. Pretty high, but nothing spectacular. Everything else is right. Anshe: Alright, do you feel anything out of the ordinary in this new body? Any pain, headaches, unusual emotions? SCP-3751-1: No, uh, no, nothing Anshe: Nothing at all? SCP-3751-1: No Anshe: OK, why did you attack those people at the event? SCP-3751-1: I don't know, something just came over me. I just got so confused and panicked at becoming █████ that I just flipped out. I don't know what's going on at all. Anshe: Alright, that's all we need to know. Thank you. <End Log> Interviewed: SCP-3751-2 Interviewer: Dr. John Anshe <Begin Log> Anshe: Hello, I have just finished interviewing your opponent in the game. I asked him some questions about what happened. I'm going to ask you some similar ones, OK? SCP-3751-2: Alright, I guess Anshe: So you were playing against B███████ at the tournament, and somehow you switched bodies with each other. Is this correct? SCP-3751-2: Yes Anshe: Do you have any idea of what may have caused it? SCP-3751-2: No, none at all. Anshe: Alright. According to record, you are █████ P█████, a ██-year-old female chess player from █████, with an ELO rating of 2███, is this correct? SCP-3751-2: Um, no. I had a rating of around 2400. It was never that high. Everything other than that is correct. Anshe: OK. Do you feel anything unusual in this new body? Any strange emotions, pains, feelings you don't recognize. SCP-3751-2: No, I don't think so. Just a new body. Anshe: Alright, that's all I need to know. Thank you. <End Log> Following these interviews, a series of Class-F amnestics were administered to SCP-3751-1 and 2 in order to wipe all memory of their previous lives and accustom them with their new ones. SCP-3751-1 had been reidentified after five days of this procedure, -2 after seven. Both of these people were then released back into the public, being designated POIs 3129 and 3130. It should be noted that POI-3129 (now P█████, formally SCP-3751-1) quit playing chess for unknown reasons two years after the incident in 2015. However, further investigation of their playing hiatus has been deemed unnecessary. POI-3130 has continued playing chess uninterrupted, now being as skilled as the rating which was given to him during the incident (2███). Addendum 3: Testing with D-Class personnel On ██/██/2013, further testing on the phenomenon of SCP-3751 using D-Class personnel was requested to and approved by the O5 council. The following is a record of all test logs made during these experiments. Test A Subjects: Two D-Class personnel, each with moderate amounts of Chess experience Procedure: Have the players play a series of moves to achieve the position of SCP-3751. At which point, the effects of the phenomenon would be more precisely recorded. Results: As with the initial case, both players switched consciousness with the other's body. Analysis of their playing skill now seemed to show that one of them was now significantly better than he was before, able to beat Dr. ██████, a FIDE-certified International master. The other now apparently possessed a record of being a significantly poorer player than he was before. However, when played against, he demonstrated a skill level akin to that described by him prior to the test. Analysis: It appears that whether or not the change in perceived experience affects the involved's actual playing ability is somewhat random. To determine the rate at which this effect actually occurs will require further testing. Test B Subject: 4 Class-D personnel Procedure: Have each of the players play different moves in the game to determine how SCP-3751 affects more than two people Results: The consciousnesses of the four players were seemingly randomized between them. All other effects of 2-player SCP-3751 games were the same. Analysis: Adding additional people does seemingly little to change the effects of SCP-3751. Addendum 4: Testing on other anomalous entities The body-switching nature of SCP-3751 created an interest in experimentation of other SCPs that posses similar abilities, such as SCP-1875 and SCP-963. However, due to the potentially unintended consequences of experimenting with these entities, testing on them has been indefinitely postponed. Footnotes 1. See The Algebraic Notation 2. The most common chess rating system used in modern times 3. 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Item #: SCP-3752 Threat Level: ● Green Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3752 and the 200 m radius of land surrounding it, denoted as Area-3752, have been quarantined. The personnel assigned to SCP-3752 reside and work from Site-1969, situated 205 m North of SCP-3752. No vital personnel (Researchers, Specialists etc.) are to progress further than 5 m into Area-3752. Civilians inside Area-3752 are to be detained, questioned and released. Cover-up stories are to be provided, defining Area-3752 as harboring an unstable mine prone to collapsing. Fatalities are to be covered up similarly. Furthermore, personnel assigned to the SCP-3752 project are to take note of these thresholds. However, Class-D personnel are not to be informed of them to at least partially ensure their cooperation during testing. The estimates have been created after Test 3752-T#10. Distance / Range Classification / Effect 0-5 m Safe 5-10 m Dangerous (only Class-D personnel are allowed beyond this point) 11 m Latest possible time of onset of hypothermia 12-20 m Unconsciousness highly likely 21-23 m Expiration imminent, occurred in 75% of cases 24 m Should be considered the barrier of expiration, as 100% of subjects have died to this date 185 m Insufficiently shielded drones stop working Near basement At this time, all drones stop working1 Description: SCP-3752 denotes a building situated in Sochi (Russia), which resembles a heavily damaged prison facility. Remains of 28 persons are visible inside Area-3752, 9 of which are Foundation personnel. SCP-3752 is considered the anomaly's core, with Area-3752 exhibiting unusual properties as well. When a living organism enters Area-3752 the ambient temperature of 18 °C drops by 3 °C. Why the ambient temperature inside Area-3752 constantly stays at 18 °C and how it is maintained is currently unknown. Research into this matter is ongoing. Proceeding towards SCP-3752 causes the body temperature of the organism to decrease by increments of 0.185 °C. The effect is reversed when gaining distance from the center. Addendum 3752-A#1: Following the results of Test 3752-T#4, it has been determined that Area-3752 can affect non-organic materials without causing damage by rapidly changing their temperature. Further tests are being conducted. > Test Log 3752-T#1 : Exploration of anomalous properties < Test Log 3752-T#1 Procedures: Class-D personnel D-9742 (32 years, male) sent into Area-3752. Subject ordered to constantly report readings from heartbeat monitor, GPS and temperature sensors attached to thorax and scalp. Notes: All reports from D-9742 were concised to redact irrelevant information. 00:00:00: Test begun. 00:00:43: 6 m inside Area-3752. Core temperature at 35.89 °C. Heartbeat slowed (68 BPM). 00:00:57: D-9742 observed shivering. Subject attempts to retract from Area-3752. Subject ordered to continue. Subject complied. 00:01:28: 14 m inside Area-3752. Core temperature at 34.41 °C. Heartbeat slowed (58 BPM). 00:01:33: Subject was observed to be shivering profusely, but remained on course. 00:02:04: 20 m inside Area-3752. Core temperature at 33.3 °C. Heartbeat slowed significantly (47 BPM). 00:02:46 (last report): 22 m inside Area-3752. Core temperature at 32.93 °C. Heartbeat slowed significantly (33 BPM). Result: 6 seconds after the last report, D-9742 collapsed and presumably expired. No recovery attempted. > Test Log 3752-T#4 : Third / last attempt at counteracting Area-3752's effects < Test Log 3752-T#4 Procedures: Class D personnel D-10283 (29 years, male) was sent into Area-3752. Subject equipped with heavy-duty wet suit and insulated protective clothing lined with [DATA EXPUNGED] to keep their body temperatures at an acceptable level. Result: 9 seconds after last report was made and D-10283 crossed the 24 m threshold, the subject collapsed and reception of readings at Site-1969 ceased. Notes: D-11278, a 30 year old male in above-average condition, was sent to retrieve D-10283's body and equipment. The former was not brought back, the latter was. Notes by Project Head Jensen: We still don't have a way to protect ourselves from the cold or whatever causes this drop of temperature. If what we gave that Class-D wasn't enough, we might not be able to go beyond 24 meters. At all. Notes by Technician, inspecting equipment given to D-10283: This is interesting. None of the devices have been damaged by the cold. They basically got shock-frozen, but it appears this "cold" is different. That's also apparent because after we came back with it and measured the temperature of the parts inside and the casing, we found all of them at a little over 12 °C. Following the inspection, the Description was updated. > Test Log 3752-T#5 : Exploration of Area-3752 using drone < Test Log 3752-T#5 Procedures: Remote-controlled drone, designation RF-882-28-2, controlled from Site-1969, with camera sent into Area-3752. Video feed received by Site-1969 command. 00:00:00: Test begun. Drone turned on and introduced into Area-3752. Sensors immediately registered drop of temperature, both of surroundings and of drone. 00:00:07: 11 m in Area-3752. Temperature of drone and surroundings unchanged. This indicates that SCP-3752 does not somehow modify Area-3752 itself, only the organisms inside. 00:01:04: 70 m in Area-3752. Sudden temperature drop of surroundings registered, now at -19 °C. Drone temperature beginning to drop. 00:01:52: 114 m in Area-3752. Temperature of drone now also -19 °C. Temperature adjustments seem to happen quickly inside Area-3752. 00:03:18: Closing in on SCP-3752, distance estimated to have been 30 m. Camera feed slowly fading into green, interference visible as well. Once distance was estimated to be 15 m, camera feed cut out, presumably due to electromagnetic interference. Notes: No attempt at recovery made. Fate of drone unknown. Possibly destroyed due to falling from the air or simply unpowered due to EM interference. Notes by Project Head Jensen: Is this disappointing? Yes. Will this stop us from going on? No. The progress we've made with that drone is phenomenal. We might just be able to see into SCP-3752 if that is actually EMI. With the appropriate shielding, we can get anything through there. Come on, people, let's take Five and then prepare another drone. Use an RF-1027-77-7 this time. It has better resistance against EMI. Let's hope it's enough. > Test Log 3752-T#6 : Attempt at penetrating EM field inside Area-3752 using drone < Test Log 3752-T#6 Procedures: Remote-controlled drone, designation RF-1027-77-7, controlled from Site-1969, with camera sent into Area-3752. Video feed received by Site-1969 command. Results largely similar to Test 3752-T#5. Redacted until significant differences were observed. 00:03:03: Closing in on SCP-3752, distance estimated to have been 30 m. Camera feed slowly fading into green, interference visible as well. 00:03:21: Penetrated EM field. 5 m until contact with SCP-3752. 00:03:27: Drone now inside SCP-3752, assumed to be on 4th floor. 00:07:58: Navigation through the compound successful. Attempts at entering basement failed. 00:08:01: Back-to-base command issued. 00:11:22: Arrived at base. Footage from drone retrieved. Notes by Project Head Jensen: We have to continue testing. There has to be a way to enter the basement, maybe by weaponizing a 243-99. Grenades with miniature impact fuzes might just be able to blast the door open. If that doesn't work… Well, we already know that the floors aren't that thick, so a big enough blast… you know. Anyway, that's gonna be a sort-of last resort procedure. We're gonna program some kind of bomb to detonate after 5 minutes and let another 1027-77… "do the job". We won't get that one back, so don't waste a 243-99 on it. Notes by Technician, inspecting drone: Again, interesting. No damage sustained. That EM field is not as strong as we thought initially, otherwise this drone would be toast, as well. > Test Log 3752-T#7 : Attempt at gaining access to basement of SCP-3752 < Test Log 3752-T#7 Procedures: A drone, designation RF-243-99-4, was modified to launch MK3A2 concussion grenades and sent to SCP-3752, in hopes of blasting the door connecting the basement to a stairwell. Results: Door could withstand the explosion. No damage visible. Drone arrived at base, video footage retrieved successfully. Notes by Project Head Jensen: So we'll have to sacrifice one of the 1027-77. We'll prepare one, put a bomb on it and get in there forcefully. > Test Log 3752-T#8 : Second attempt at gaining access to basement of SCP-3752 < Test Log 3752-T#8 Procedures: A drone, designation RF-1027-77-18, was equipped with a Composition C-4 load and a remote receiver linked to the detonator and sent to SCP-3752, in hopes of blasting through the ground floor. Results: As expected, the drone was lost. Results of the explosion unknown and to be determined in Test 3752-T#9. > Test Log 3752-T#9 : Determination of effectiveness of explosion in Test 3752-T#8 + Continuation of exploration < Test Log 3752-T#9 Procedures: A drone, designation RF-243-99-11, was sent to SCP-3752 to determine the effectiveness of the explosion in Test 3752-T#8 and continue exploring. Results: Once SCP-3752 was entered, interference on camera feed massively increased. Upon closing in on the ground floor, the camera feed cut out, however, the drone was still controllable. It was carefully moved back up to the fourth floor and removed from the building. Arrival at base approximately 4 minutes later. Notes by Project Head Jensen: Someone is somehow hiding something down there. ██████, get another drone ready- an HD73-4. That is one of our best… Yes, do it already, I'll do the paperwork. > Test Log 3752-T#10 : Second attempt at determination of effectiveness of explosion in Test 3752-T#8 < Test Log 3752-T#10 Procedures: A drone, designation RF-HD73-4-2, was sent to SCP-3752, in hopes of being able to determine the effectiveness of the explosion in Test 3752-T#8. Results identical until SCP-3752 was entered. 00:03:30: SCP-3752 entered. Interference increased, camera feed did not cut out. 00:03:47: Ground floor entered. Interference again increased, camera feed still visible. Drone could still be controlled. 00:03:54: Explosion aftermath now visible. [MOVED] 00:16:31: Arrival at base. Video footage retrieved successfully. Notes: Results logged below. Level 5 authorization required. > Test 3752-T#10 Results – [LEVEL 5 AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED] < Test 3752-T10 Results - [SECURITY CLEARANCE LEVEL ADEQUATE] In the basement of SCP-3752, a series of generators and, as it seems, the source of the EMI. It has been described as a "rift", 3 m wide, 6 m high and floating 1 m above the ground. The rim has a dark red tint and is 0.4 m wide. The inside is black with no other colorations observed. During the observation, approximately 1,400 unknown, black entities have left, 450 have entered the rift, respectively. After leaving it, they seemingly phased through the walls. Observers from Site-1969 could not see them emerging from the ground. Entities entering the rift first left the walls, then directly entered it. Between the entities leaving and entering the rift, no size differences have been observed. It is unknown what these entities do outside what the Foundation assumes to be their universe. Footnotes 1. O5-█ and -8 are currently discussing with high-level technicians to determine if the construction of new drones should be initiated to find out what exactly SCP-3752's basement harbors. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3752" by kliqx_ad, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3752. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3753 Item #: SCP-3753 Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3753 instances are kept in an airtight box and stored in a climate-controlled item locker. Description: SCP-3753 denotes 119 unbranded chamomile teabags in a handmade wooden box. When a person with an infection or physical ailment prepares SCP-3753 and drinks the resulting tea, they will enter a deep sleep. When they wake, the subject will forcibly and painlessly expel the offending pathogens or organ from an appropriate orifice. The ejected matter, designated SCP-3753-A, will grow until it reaches the subject's approximate height and sprout two arms. A boxing bell sound will then be audible, with no discernible source. SCP-3753-A will proceed to engage the subject in hand-to-hand combat until one of the two submits or is knocked out. It is unknown how the subject continues to maintain bodily function even when vital organs are expelled. Subjects gain an innate awareness of SCP-3753's effects, and usually choose to engage it. If the subject attempts to attack SCP-3753-A with a weapon, SCP-3753-A will simply demanifest and the subject's body will return to its original state. If the subject is victorious, SCP-3753-A will shrink until it vanishes with a puff of steam. The subject will fall asleep again, and any removed organs will reappear inside their body. Upon waking, the subject will report significant, often total, recovery from the illness or ailment. If the subject fails to defeat SCP-3753-A, SCP-3753-A will forcibly reenter the body, and the subject's condition will be unchanged. The box spontaneously generates one new SCP-3753 instance every morning. Abridged SCP-3753 Test Log: # Subject Ailment SCP-3753-A Victor Notes 01 Emma Lister Acute bronchitis Enlarged virus Lister Baseline test. Lister knocked out SCP-3753-A, which dissipated. Lister reported full cessation of her symptoms within 8 hours. 03 Dr. Rivka Yarkoni Stress ulcer Stomach SCP-3753-A SCP-3753-A subdued Dr. Yarkoni with an armbar and reentered through the mouth. Dr. Yarkoni reported no change in ulcer conditions. 08 Director Rosie Spinal disc herniation Spine Rosie SCP-3753-A instance notably feigned defeat to launch a surprise attack, but was still defeated. Director Rosie's hernia remained but the pain subsided greatly. 11 Agent Ursula Nunez Hypertension and depression. Vascular system in humanoid shape, brain1 Nunez Nunez engaged both instances, shouting various profanities. The vascular system demanifested after Nunez defeated it, and Nunez proceeded to violently assault her brain with her fists and feet even after it submitted. Later followup reported significant alleviation of her hypertension, consistently higher serotonin levels, and decreased frequency of depressive episodes. Nunez requested repeated uses of SCP-3753. 16 Henrik Sturmatem Stage III lung cancer Cancerous cell SCP-3753-A Sturmatem fought and wrestled with the SCP-3753-A instance for 22 minutes and refused to surrender before collapsing from exhaustion. No change in condition. Footnotes 1. First instance of two distinct SCP-3753-A instances forming at once. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3753" by Weryllium, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3753. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: daledalecolitaderana.jpg Name: Mugicha Tea bag by CR 01.jpg Author: Corpse Reviver License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Link: Wikimedia Commons
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Item #: SCP-3754 Special Containment Procedures: Foundation web crawlers are to routinely conduct traces on downloads of SCP-3754, prioritizing individuals who have processed micropayments through SCP-3754. On a successful trace, the owner of SCP-3754's host device is to be amnesticized, and the device reset to factory defaults. In the event of a relaunch of SCP-3754, the developers are to be traced and detained, while the store page is forcibly removed from all mobile app stores. A disinformation campaign is to be initiated claiming injuries related to SCP-3754 are the results of self-mutilation. Description: SCP-3754 is a mobile video game titled "Pocket Pet Collector Plus!", created by amateur entrepreneurial group "Accelerate The Future". The gameplay of SCP-3754 is similar to games known as virtual pet simulators, which require the player to attend to the pet's needs in order to gain its affection. It was available for free download on Google Play and Amazon Kindle stores from 09/23/██ to 11/03/██, during which it amassed a dedicated online community before being removed from both stores. Despite this, SCP-3754 will remain functional unless the software is uninstalled from its host device. SCP-3754's main screen displays a pair of cartoonish eyes and a mouth, both of which are animate. The top of the display shows three bars, representing SCP-3754's happiness, its affection for the player, and its hunger, respectively. Two icons in the bottom corners of the screen indicate the player's inventory and a store the player can visit to buy items to raise SCP-3754's meters, such as toys and food. Along the left side of the display is a meter gauging the amount of accumulated calories. When the caloric meter is entirely filled, SCP-3754's host device will manifest a one-way portal in place of its screen, through which an egg (designated SCP-3754-O) will be produced. The created portal will disappear immediately after an SCP-3754-O has fully manifested. SCP-3754-O instances manifest in a variety of colors and each possesses a micro-USB port on its air cell. When a micro USB cable (typically a phone charger) is connected to SCP-3754-O and allowed to charge, the instance will hatch after a period of ten minutes to reveal an animal figurine. All figurines produced from SCP-3754-O instances possess an identifying tag, listing their name and color scheme. Tests have concluded that all figurines are non-anomalous. While SCP-3754 was marketed as free-to-play, some aspects offered players the option to purchase premium in-game items with legal tender to increase the rate at which meters charge.1. Even though this is effective in maintaining SCP-3754's affection and happiness, premium food items2 were found to slowly increase the rate of hunger. If SCP-3754 is given an item purchased from the in-app store and then fed a free item, the entity will respond with hostility and a desire to be fed exclusively with items from the in-app store. If this desire is not attended to, SCP-3754 will typically wait until contact has been made with the screen and consume the physical matter. This is followed by simulated sound bytes of chewing and gulping, occasionally accompanied by a low-frequency vibration from the host device. Field Notes: The online community surrounding SCP-3754 displayed varying amounts of dedication, with an average of 200 hours among the majority of players. Those that played longer were more likely to accept SCP-3754's hostility as a game feature. Incidentally, long-term players were found to also have larger collections of mini-figurines with more diversity in rarity. This led to players starting rumors that SCP-3754's consumption of human flesh increased the possibility of an SCP-3754-O instance yielding a rare mini-figurine. Figurines produced by SCP-3754-O are traded and sold online as collectibles, with figurines having been produced without using the in-app shop being valued highly. +[Access Selected User Reviews] -[Access Granted] Below is a list of reviews chosen by staff assigned to SCP-3754 for their insight into its functions, anomalous properties, and influence on its community. All individuals have been tracked and amnesticized. tiffy_tee00 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Oh my god this thing is adorable!! I fed it an ice cream and it got cold, so my phone started vibrating! So cool! I'm not a big fan of the microtransactions though, but since they aren't always pushing it I can keep playing without spending money! Can't wait to see what else the developers are going to do! :D 35 users found this review useful. Report this post? Posted on 09/28/██ Lorraine C██████ ⭐☆☆☆☆ I let my five-year-old play every now and then and today it bit off part of his thumb!!! Uninstalling right now because this game is not safe!!! 58 users found this review useful. Report this post? Posted on 10/09/██ Sammy F███ ⭐☆☆☆☆ what they don't tell you about getting a free game is that most of your money goes into the emergency room after it chews off your finger tips… uninstalling for fear of my life… 20 users found this review useful. Report this post? Posted on 10/22/██ Stan D█████ ⭐⭐☆☆☆ Ok the thing bit me and i went to call for the hospital and missed the home button and it chewed off my ear (real shitty atf, plz fix), but it got full calories after that and dropped an egg. I checked out the egg and i got layla (the yellow frog one). Been playing this game for months and all my friends at school got layla way before i did, so i'm thinking maybe real food makes rare drops more likely? Still not happy about my ear tho so i'm done playing for a while. 89 users found this review useful. Report this post? Posted on 10/28/██ daniel t. p█████ ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ I grabbed this game on release and I'm still liking this game a month in! I was surprised that it actually tried to bite me, but I got a stylus pen and that made it safer to keep playing. However, if you want those super rares, I have a few tips. 1. Nail trimmings and hair are a no-go! They do little for calories and only make your pet sad! 2. Dog/Cat food doesn't do much for happiness, but a tablespoon can give up to a 10% increase in calories! I don't personally suggest this since the average can of wet cat food is a bit more expensive than the premium food and does about the same, but real pet owners might be willing to give you some if you ask. 3. Smart phones fill up faster than Kindles! Smaller platform = smaller stomach! 4. If you have real pets, get a kennel! My virtual pet learned how to do the whistle I use for my dog and it didn't end up well, so keep your pets safe. Update: A lot of you are asking if Stacy (my dog) is okay, and she is! She's just missing a paw now. :( 116 users found this review useful. Report this post? Posted on 10/31/██ Ryan M██████ ⭐☆☆☆☆ I'm done playing until the developer fixes how drop rates work because this is unreasonable! I was convinced that letting the game eat me would give me super rares, but that just isn't the case. I gave up both of my pinky fingers and I got "Peppermint, the Candy-Kangaroo". I went online to see how much shes worth and apparently no one else has her. People started offering a lot of money, and I really want a car before graduation, so I let the thing take a few more bites. I even got a few more rares! But all good things come to an end. My latest drop was "Vinny, the White Tortoise" and I'm devastated about it. I don't think I need to explain how disappointed I was just looking at such a common minifig. Its hard for me to walk without it hurting, my thighs and biceps constantly feel on fire. I never felt so cheated in my life! 67 users found this review useful. Report this post? Posted on 11/01/██ +[Incident Log 3754.22: 12/02/██] -[Access Granted] Following a traced SCP-3754 host device, MTF Sigma-91 ("Brovum") infiltrated an apartment located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with the intention of confiscating the device for testing purposes. The owner of the apartment, Stuart Holder (age 28), was prominent in forums centered on helping newer players expand their collections, as well as known for having a diverse collection himself. Video logs of the infiltration show the apartment to have been clean and organized in the front room, with a bookshelf filled with figures and toys from multiple franchises, as well as figurines from SCP-3754-O instances. The kitchen was similar in cleanliness, save for a trash bin full of common refuse and clumps of thick blonde hair. After Sigma-91-Bravo collected a sample, the unit moved into the bedroom. The majority of the bedroom floor was lined with plastic sheets. A female human torso was found leaning against a wall with a Kindle Fire resting on the base of the neck with SCP-3754 active on the device. As Sigma-91-Echo moved closer to inspect the corpse, Holder emerged from the nearby bathroom and attacked Echo with a plunger. Holder was terminated during the exchange. Aside from the bullet wounds inflicted by Sigma-91, there were no indications of harm, self or otherwise, anywhere on Holder's body. The autopsy following the incident confirmed the torso to have belonged to Norma Clark, Holder's partner as inferred from social media. She had expired approximately four days prior to the incident due to nine stab wounds in the back and four stab wounds in the chest. The hair sample taken from the trash bin was matched with Clark's DNA. No other limbs were found in the apartment. Footnotes 1. This is a common trait for many mobile games, known as microtransactions 2. A majority of which being foods comprised of meats in contrast to the candies and sweets available for free.
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A glass jar holding 755 pieces of candy. This image is known to be able to induce SCP-3755-1. Item #: SCP-3755 Special Containment Procedures: Personnel reading this document are required to examine the attached photograph before reading beyond this paragraph. Those unable to immediately identify the number of objects pictured, as indicated by the caption, should close this file and report to the Senior Researcher assigned to SCP-37551. Otherwise, no special action is required before reading the rest of this document. Warning: The following material contains Class I Cognitohazards. Read the above portion of the Special Containment Procedures before proceding. Foundation staff unable to display SCP-3755-1 or who show symptoms of SCP-3755-2 should be reported to the Senior Researcher assigned to SCP-3755 for documentation and treatment. Persons showing symptoms of SCP-3755-2 are not to be made aware of their condition. Clearance Level 2/3755 is required to access this document. Clearance Level 2/3755 is not to be given to personnel symptomatic of SCP-3755-2. Information regarding SCP-3755, particularly known SCP-3755-2 manifestations, is considered cognitohazardous to anyone who does not possess Clearance Level 2/3755. The number 755 is on the list of keywords monitored by Foundation web crawlers. Situations where SCP-3755 is suspected to have been discovered by members of the public are to be investigated and contained using procedures standard for outbreaks of Class I Cognitohazards2, with the additional provision that all members of the responding MTF must have Clearance Level 2/3755. Description: SCP-3755-1 is a phenomenon where individuals presented with 755 similar items are able to assess the exact number of items in the set. This enumeration is performed immediately (within <100ms) and has only been observed with sets of 755 objects. Subjects who display SCP-3755-1 show high confidence in their assessment and show no surprise when proven correct, even when reminded of the unlikelihood of perfect estimation with such a large number of objects. MRI scans comparing brains performing SCP-3755-1 and non-anomalous subitizing display similar activation patterns. SCP-3755-1 can be displayed by 83% of humans capable of subitizing. SCP-3755-2 is a psychological condition found in those unable to display SCP-3755-13. Subjects affected by SCP-3755-2 exhibit hesitance in situations that require the assignment of numerical values to physical objects or abstract concepts. The condition initially manifests uniquely in each individual who suffers from SCP-3755-2, influencing a single aspect of their daily lives (See Document SCP-3755-A for examples of known cases.). When a person discovers they are unable to display SCP-3755-1, their SCP-3755-2 symptoms worsen4. The development of these symptoms progresses as follows: Phase 1 (Initial State): Subjects regularly suffer minor doubt when recalling numbers, counting objects, or estimating amounts in relation to their SCP-3755-2 manifestation. These doubts usually manifest as light urges to recount or recheck their source on a matter. Phase 2 (72 Hours After Exposure to SCP-3755-1): SCP-3755-2 symptoms increase in intensity. Subjects feel anxiety when introduced to situations connected to their manifestation. Phase 3 (1 Week After Exposure): Subjects cannot perform tasks which involve their SCP-3755-2 manifestation without seeking confirmation on their assessments. This confirmation must come from an another individual. Phase 4 (3 Weeks After Exposure): Subjects no longer find external confirmation sufficient to calm their doubts. Phase 5 (1 Month After Exposure): Subjects reject all numerical assessments that relate to the area of their SCP-3755-2 manifestation, even when such assessments originate from outside sources such as trusted colleagues or friends. Progression through these phases can be more rapid in cases where subjects have existing anxiety or compulsive disorders. SCP-3755-2 symptoms can be lowered to Phase 1 levels through the application of Class B amnestics targeting the memories of SCP-3755-1 exposure. Amnestic treatment has only proven effective before the onset of Phase 4. Additionally, SCP-3755-2 manifestations appear to be transmittable. When the details of another person's symptoms are brought to the attention of someone susceptible to SCP-3755-2, they begin to display similar symptoms. The reason for this transmission is unknown. Ongoing research focuses on determining if the transmission vector is a form of hypochondria or an anomalous memetic effect. Amnestics are ineffective in purging transmitted symptoms of SCP-3755-2. + Document SCP-3755-A: SCP-3755-2 Manifestation Log - Clearance Level 2/3755 Confirmed This record contains a partial list of members of Foundation staff known to be affected by SCP-3755-2. Individual Area of SCP-3755-2 Manifestation Common Phase 1 Manifestation Furthest Stage of Progression Manifestation at Later Stage Junior Researcher Henry Zoltowski Amounts of coins Found difficulty making exact change. Phase 5 Refuses to shop at locations which do not accept credit cards. Dr. Jules Pendleton Speed limits Is often unsure of the speed limit, even in areas she knows well. Phase 2 Requested to carpool with Dr. ██████ █████ to and from Site 19. (Since recovered) Agent Donald Rice Times of day Rechecks schedule in 15-minute intervals to confirm when regular meetings are to take place. Phase 1 N/A Junior Researcher Boris Lockhead Measurements Always looks up conversion factors for Imperial units. Phase 1 N/A D-33087 Ages Habitually calculates the ages of their children. Phase 5 Birth records were only found for 2 of the 4 children D-33087 claimed to have. D-33087 did not accept the veracity of the documents and stated their oldest child was 15 years old and their youngest children (supposedly twins) were "turning 40 next October." D-33087 was 34 years old upon reaching Phase 5. Dr. Jason Brave Medical dosages Has almost handed out improper doses of amnestics on five occasions in the past month. Phase 2 Deferred all requests for prescription fulfillment to Dr. ███ ██. (Since recovered) Analyst Ruth Ninsular Food portions Over-orders food for office parties. Phase 1 N/A Dr. Victor Salvor Measurements Often inserts the wrong SI prefixes in drafts for SCP Documents. Phase 3 [REDACTED]5 (Since recovered) Footnotes 1. Presently Dr. Jakob Loewen. E-mail address: pcs.noitadnuof|neweol.q.bokaj#pcs.noitadnuof|neweol.q.bokaj 2. See Foundation Containment Standards for Informational Anomalies Chapter 3, Section 2: Managing Cognitohazard Outbreaks. 3. Individuals affected by SCP-3755-2 react to sets of 755 objects the same way other individuals react to similar sets containing a different number of objects. 4. This requires that the subject has previously been exposed to a person actively displaying SCP-3755-1. 5. After being diagnosed with SCP-3755-2, Dr. Salvor was cleared of all charges regarding Incident ███-█. Documentation written by Dr. Salvor must go through an additional round of review before submission.
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Item #: SCP-3756 Special Containment Procedures: The Foundation is to monitor information distributed by global space agencies1 regarding Ganymede. Provisional Site-9354 has been established in Yellow Hill, Texas to assist in containment of SCP-3756. The location is to remain closed to the public and access restricted to level-3 personnel. Description: SCP-3756 is the spatial location of the Rounder House Square Dance Hall building, which exists simultaneously within the American state of Texas, and on the surface of the Jovian moon Ganymede. An illustration of CGRD-1 This anomalous property is not evident to visitors of the establishment2, and no effects of the Ganymedian surface or atmosphere are apparent anywhere on the premises. Entering SCP-3756 via any means will simultaneously render subjects as extant both on Earth and Ganymede. The actions of an individual performed on Earth are mimicked by their duplicate on Ganymede while in SCP-3756. Discovery: On October 14, 2010, a weak, continuous radio broadcast was detected from Ganymede. While over 85% of the transmission's integrity was compromised, the signal was sufficiently organized to determine that it was not random. Foundation Probe J4D33 was launched on July 26th, 2011 to further investigate. UPDATE: As of May 1, 2017, FPJ4D3 has entered Ganymedian orbit. Records of extracted information are available in FPJ4D3 Logs 1-3. Addendum: FPJ4D3 Log 1: Date: May 7, 2017 Subject: Unidentified Ganymedian radio transmission. Project Head: Dr. Richardet [BEGIN LOG] 0114 GMT: FPJ4D3 first comes into transmission position within its orbit above transmission source of Ganymedian broadcast.4 0115 GMT: FPJ4D3 begins broadcast of Arecibo Message towards Ganymedian transmission source.5 0118 GMT: FPJ4D3 concludes broadcast of Arecibo Message and begins enhanced transmission of Ganymedian broadcast to Earth. 0151 GMT: Broadcast decoded and identified as a 1949 recording of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown".6 0152 GMT: Dr. Richardet approved the transmission of the following broadcast. "Hello, this message arrives from a planetary neighbor. We come in peace, seeking information as to your current situation. Do you understand English?" 0255 GMT: Enhanced transmission of Ganymedian broadcast reaches Earth. The message is transcribed: "You god damn punks and your newfangled gadgets. Scram! We're in the middle of a dance-off here and y'all just interrupted a good time!" No further transmissions authorized; FPJ4D3 utilized to gather photographic data on the transmission source until it moves beyond observational range at 0414 GMT. [END LOG] FPJ4D3 Log 2: Date: May 20, 2017 Subject: Unidentified Ganymedian structure. Project Head: Dr. Richardet [BEGIN LOG] 0014 GMT: FPJ4D3 re-enters orbital position to receive transmissions from SCP-3756. No further contact is attempted for the following 37 minutes until the current nature of the broadcast could be discerned.7 0051 GMT: The following message was transmitted from Earth to SCP-3756. "Hello, you said you were having a dance-off last time we spoke. Can you tell us about that?" 0152 GMT: Enhanced transmission from SCP-3756 reaches Earth. The message is transcribed: "Boy, you ain't ever heard of square dancing? That's what we's all 'bout here. Now could you please stop interruptin' our music? It's upsetting our patrons." 0233 GMT: The following message was transmitted from Earth to SCP-3756. "Where are you located?" 0301 GMT: Enhanced transmission from SCP-3756 reaches Earth. The message is transcribed: "You again? Is this some kind of prank? We're between the bowling alley and the drugstore. Now scram, it's ladies' night." [This is followed by the sound of what is assumed to be a phone being slammed onto its receiver. No further transmissions detected from SCP-3756.] 0314: FPJ4D3 exits transmission range of SCP-3756. [END LOG] FPJ4D3 Log 3: Date: June 2, 2017 Subject: SCP-3756.8 Project Head: Dr. Richardet [BEGIN LOG] 0247 GMT: FPJ4D3 re-enters orbital position above SCP-3756 and deploys Compact Ganymedian Rover Drone CGRD-1 to the satellite's surface. Transmitted camera feed follows. CGRD-1 extends a pneumatic arm and engages the door to SCP-3756. Footage reveals 27 humans wearing clothing in line with contemporary fashion trends, with the addition of bolo ties, wide-brimmed hats, and oversized belt buckles. All inhabitants direct their attention to CGRD-1. SCP-3756-19 approaches and investigates CGRD-1. SCP-3756-1: "What on God's green— Darla, did you order some kinda… drone… thingy?" SCP-3756-2:10 "I ain't ordered nothin' but corn chips and beer this week. That thing looks like one of them rover drones. Maybe it's Nick's?" SCP-3756-1: "Nick, what are you doing driving your dang toy in here? Unidentified Speaker: "…Can it dance?" [Due to an unexpected decrease in signal latency, several commands were fulfilled by CGRD-1 in rapid succession. Camera feed displays pneumatic arms swinging as the drone moves around the premises.] SCP-3756-1: "Well shoot, lookit that thing go!" 0350 GMT: FPJ4D3 exits transmission range of SCP-3756. [END LOG] Addendum 2: On June 3, 2017, a local newspaper in Yellow Hill, TX ran an article entitled "ROBOT DOES THE ROBOT IN LOCAL DANCE HALL." Foundation assets deployed. Addendum 3: The Rounder House Square Dance Hall was subsequently purchased by a Foundation front company, and Provisional Site-9354 was established on-site. When CGRD-1 was removed from the premises, it dematerialized. Further imagery from FPJ4D3 confirms it to be in location outside of the Ganymedian structure. Research into using the SCP-3756 instance present on Ganymede as a hub for the construction of an extra-planetary Foundation outpost are currently ongoing. Footnotes 1. such as NASA, CSNA, ISA, etc. 2. Subjects within SCP-3756 will perceive the exterior of the building as identical to the area immediately surrounding it on Earth. 3. A specially-constructed satellite loaded with a ground drone capable of further transmission. 4. Radio interference from the Jovian atmosphere had previously prevented accurate reconstruction of the broadcast. 5. A message consisting of 1,679 binary digits carrying basic information about humanity and Earth developed in 1974 6. Instrumental, performed by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. 7. Transmissions later found to include recordings of "Thank God I'm a Country Boy", "Ida Red", and "Hoop-de-Dingle" interspersed with periods of crowd chatter. 8. Designation applied May 21, 2017. 9. Caucasian male later identified as Randy Hausmann, the establishment's owner. 10. Caucasian female later identified as employee Darlene Coontz. 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SCP-3757
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Item #: SCP-3757 Special Containment Procedures: Currently, there is an unknown number of uncontained SCP-3757 instances. Captured SCP-3757 instances are to be kept collectively in a standard insectoid containment cell with dim lighting. A used rubber tire is to be placed in the containment cell every two days for consumption. Areas affected by SCP-3757 are to be concealed with black tarp extending 2 meters taller than the area and surrounded by wire fencing. Additionally, signs stating that the area is "under construction" are to be placed along the perimeter. All fixtures may be removed only after the metamorphosis is completed (three weeks on average) and the area is cleared of any remaining evidence of the incident. Foundation agents have been dispatched to the Midwestern United States to search for leads concerning Hive Detailing & Restoration Midwest, LLC. Description: SCP-3757 is a species of insect bearing close similarities to Phausis reticulata (commonly known as a "blue ghost" firefly). SCP-3757 instances are completely identical to natural fireflies, with the exception of a slightly larger size (22mm on average) and two other major biological differences. The first is the presence of a spinneret, located on the front of the lower abdomen and above the luminescent organ. The spinneret is fully functional and can be used to form webbing in a similar fashion to most spiders. Researchers have concluded that the reason for the increased size is to store webbing within its body more effectively. The second noted biological difference between SCP-3757 and members of the Phausis reticulata species concerns SCP-3757’s webbing, which is consistent with different types of construction material, the most common being plastic and rubber, rather than silk. The majority of SCP-3757 instances have exhibited the ability to only synthesize one type of material, although a minority are able to create more than one. Additionally, SCP-3757 has been seen feeding on non-organic sources as opposed to plant pollen and nectar. Testing has shown that SCP-3757 does not consume the same webbing material in order to create it (e.g. consume rubber to make rubber web). As such, it is currently unknown how it is able to produce these materials. Discovery: The Foundation first gained knowledge of SCP-3757 during an incident within Perkins Park in Burlington, Iowa. The park houses a playground that, according to city officials, was very popular several years ago, but had lost a significant amount of traffic due to safety concerns among parents. Most frequent comments were as follows: Metal slides in varying heights with rusty railings Swing sets disconnected from suspension chains Graffiti on play structures Wooden benches in disrepair; splintered planks in minor cases, planks completely missing in severe cases. Weeds and overgrowth under majority of play structures. Incident Log: 08/20/17, approx. 10:00pm CST: An evening jogger had reported to local police authorities what they had believed to be an attempt to vandalize the playground area. Upon closer inspection, a swarm of SCP-3757 had coated the entire playground in webbing (later testing confirmed the material to be a rubber compound). Soon after, a Foundation agent implanted in the police force requested assistance from Site-319 to begin containment, following procedures listed at the top of the document. 08/21/17, approx. 7:00am CST: The communal webbing made by the SCP-3757 swarm had formed into a dome construct over the playground equipment and hardened, resembling a cocoon. Overall toughness of the cocoon was found to be similar to plexiglass, with thickness estimated at 9cm. Request sent to Site-319 Director for permission to use force to break through the surface. Request denied. 08/25/17, approx. 2:30pm CST: SCP-3757 instances are seen entering through a crevice at the apex of the cocoon. Several instances are successfully recovered at this time and are taken back to Site-319 for study. 08/25/17-09/09/17: Very subtle vibrations in the cocoon become apparent. Sounds can be heard from the inside of the cocoon, described to be similar to squeaking plastic and clinking metal. Researchers note a smell akin to burning rubber. An attempt to view the inside of the cocoon is made via camera, but it is disabled upon entry due to hard plastic coating the lens, presumably from an SCP-3757 instance. 09/10/17, approx. 11:15pm CST: SCP-3757 instances are seen exiting the cocoon and leaving the park area. Attempts to follow the flight paths of several SCP-3757 instances to their point of origin are met with failure: each instance traveled to different locations, the majority stopping to feed on lawn ornaments or garden hoses, and further investigation found no connection to SCP-3757 among any of them. 09/13/17, approx. 6:00am CST: Cocoon begins to crack, starting from the entry crevice at the top. This continues for 2.5 hours. At the end of the process, the playground is revealed to have been modified to some degree. Previous testimonies from surrounding neighborhoods are proven to be irrelevant, as all playground equipment appears to be brand new after a thorough investigation of the playground site. Large play structures have a logo imprinted on them, depicting a cartoonish wasp hive and "HIVE DETAILING & RESTORATION MIDWEST, LLC" underneath. No SCP-3757 instances are found during clean-up and fragments of the cocoon are taken for study. Addendum: No web results have appeared for HD&R Midwest, nor have any transaction records among construction suppliers yielded any useful information. One month after the discovery incident, a cover story had been prepared for Burlington City Council. They were cleared to launch a "Grand Reopening" of the Perkins Park playground after Foundation agents confirmed the playground had not exhibited any anomalous activity since emergence, with a shell company created by the Foundation taking credit for the new additions to the playground. In the eight months following the discovery incident, there have been four additional SCP-3757 related incidents sighted and secured by the Foundation in the Midwestern United States. Each incident shares a common trait of park playgrounds that have not been maintained or updated to meet modern safety standards. It is unclear if SCP-3757 will cease repairing public areas, in the event that all playground areas are made safe, or if they will "reassign" themselves to other recreational areas. ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3757" by RockTeethMothEyes, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3757. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide.
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SCP-3758
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Painting of SCP-3758-A by Roelant Savery Item #: SCP-3758 Special Containment Procedures: A supply of soft tissue samples of SCP-3758-A is to be kept at Site-59 in an organic preservation containment locker, and restocked as needed. Gestation from SCP-3758-A cells may only occur at designated hatcheries. The population of SCP-3758-A is to be maintained and monitored at all times in no less than three separate designated hatcheries. Currently, there are 30 instances of SCP-3758-A at Site-19, 17 instances at Site-70, and 4 instances at Site-10. Designated hatcheries are to be lined with 3m of lead and equipped with a permanent locking mechanism to contain an Aonair event. Under no circumstances are personnel to attempt communication with any instance of SCP-3758-A unless authorized. Should an Aonair event occur, the affected hatchery is to be hermetically sealed regardless of any Foundation personnel located within the area. If the hatchery is breached, Mobile task force Nu-7 "Hammer Down" is to be deployed to establish temporary containment measures of SCP-3758-B until two new instances of SCP-3758-A can be born. During an Aonair event, usage of esoteric methods to rush clone gestation, including the usage of SCP-████, has been approved by the O5 council. If an Aonair event occurs without any means to clone SCP-3758-A, Contingency Jamgeuda-9 is to be enacted immediately. Cover measures of the well-established extinction of SCP-3758-A are to be enacted, and all non-Foundation scientific endeavors to clone SCP-3758-A are to be sabotaged or otherwise hindered. Description: SCP-3758-A is a species of bird known to civilian populations as the dodo (Raphus cucullatus). Once endemic to the island of Mauritius, its population rapidly declined due to the interference of European traders and invasive species. SCP-3758-A has since been declared extinct in 1681, though three specimens were discovered during Incident-76728-Charlie. (see Recovery Log) The anomalous properties of SCP-3758-A surface upon the reduction of its living global population to one specimen. Upon the death of the second-to-last SCP-3758-A, the final instance will undergo a series of rapid, violent alterations to its physical structure (hereafter referred to as an Aonair event) to become SCP-3758-B. SCP-3758-B is a bipedal lifeform that bears a superficial resemblance to Gigantoraptor erlianensis, a beaked dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period. It is approximately five meters in height and 1,600 kilograms in weight. Due to the fact that SCP-3758-B emits 12,000 roentgens per hour of ionizing radiation from its skin, exact measurements have proven impractical. After an Aonair event, SCP-3758-B will seek out and approach other living creatures. Despite the lethality of its presence, it does not display greater hostility than any other large flightless bird. Recovery Log: On 2/15/1998, Foundation agents responded to possible anomalous activities by Sarkic cultists on the island of Mauritius. Investigations revealed a small independent organization known as Hualiet's Wake, who used anomalous means for the preservation of three living SCP-3758-A specimens, the approximate age of which remains unknown. Foundation agents attempted to forcibly acquire the specimens, which led to the accidental death of two specimens, and the first recorded Aonair event ( Incident-76728-Charlie ) resulting in approximately ███ military and civilian casualties before primary containment could be established. Date: 5/12/2004 Interviewer: Dr. Isaiah Henderson Interviewed: PoI-3758-27 <Begin Log> Dr. Henderson: Please state your name for the record. PoI-3758-27: Jack Sadhi, former leader of Hualiet's Wake. Dr. Henderson: Who exactly is this "Hualiet?" What is its connection, if any, to Sarkicism? PoI-3758-27: Some horrible demon from the Bronze Age. Name probably meant something, but the language is extinct now, and the ancient Mauritian people never wrote anything down on stone - always leaves or dirt. As for Sarkicism, we abandoned Grand Karcist Ion a long time ago - we just borrowed his magic to keep the dodos alive, to keep Hualiet from coming back. Dr. Henderson: And why did you abandon— PoI-3758-27: 'cos he's a prick. [ A large, dark, malignant growth of flesh instantaneously generates on the scalp of PoI-3758-27. ] PoI-3758-27: …and very easily offended. <End Log> + Additional Documentation - 4/3758 Clearance Required - encryption key accepted. Cartouche of King Uhr-Yin IV in SCP-3758-A script, as illustrated by SCP-3758-A-14 Upon further study, it has been revealed that SCP-3758-A tongues have the appropriate thickness to be capable of speech. While this can rarely be used to mimic human speech (similar to talking parrots), the primary language spoken by SCP-3758-A is Nal-ru-k', a language exclusive to SCP-3758-A. Indeed, the "Ancient Mauritian People" from the 5/12/2004 interview were the Nal-ru-khuun, an intelligent, caste-based civilization of SCP-3758-A that maintained complete isolation from the rest of the world. Aristocratic castes had access to reality-bending abilities, referred to as "ba-thre-s'-i", or "god-medicine," through an as-of-yet unknown means. Extant instances in Foundation captivity have no access to this ability; it is presumably extinct. All instances of SCP-3758-A are born with residual memories of their people's history. Therefore, through the cooperation of PoI-3758-27 and Dr. Lisle Naismith, translation of the Nal-ru-k' language has given the Foundation insight into SCP-3758-A culture. Date: 9/27/2013 Interviewer: Dr. Lisle Naismith Interviewed: SCP-3758-A-14 <Begin Log> Dr. Naismith: Good afternoon, SCP-3758-A-14. [ SCP-3758-A-14 preens its feathers. ] [ Dr. Naismith continues in Nal-ru-k'. ] Dr. Naismith: <Greetings.> SCP-3758-A-14: <How dare you use your better's tongue! Prostrate yourself, slave!> Dr. Naismith: <I am taller than you.> [ SCP-3758-A-14 sits, a gesture of submission. ] SCP-3758-A-14: <Your supremacy will not be completely acknowledged until I have seen further evidence of its — > Dr. Naismith: <I am still taller than you.> SCP-3758-A-14: <True, true. What do you wish of me?> Dr. Naismith: <Information.> SCP-3758-A-14: <My name is Pol-n'-ka, I defecated in my water dish, and I hate you.> Dr. Naismith: <Specifically, I want to know—> SCP-3758-A-14: <I have given you three informations, and that is more than enough. Wash my beak!> Dr. Naismith: <I weigh more than you.> SCP-3758-A-14: <…my apologies.> Dr. Naismith: <Who is Hualiet?> SCP-3758-A-14: <Hua-li-et'! The preacher of lies, the disgraced son of His Roundness Lord Uhr-Yin. Every word on his tongue was blasphemy. "We should treat lesser castes with respect!" "Torture is unnecessary!" "We should build canopies and buildings, to escape the rainstorms!" "We cannot depend on the god-medicine, we will run out someday!" "The taboo against speaking to outlanders should be lifted!" Does such irreligion not disgust every claw's-length of your innards?!> Dr. Naismith: <You're speaking to me. I'm an outlander.> SCP-3758-A-14: <Yes, but we both know you weigh more than me, handsome one.> Dr. Naismith: <…true. Did Uhr-Yin do anything about Hua-li-et'?> SCP-3758-A-14: <He commanded the great priests to affix the forbidden god-medicine to his soul forever, banishing him to everlasting pain in the poison light fields of Kho-r'-be-nik'. So long as the Nal-ru-khuun people yet live, he shall never return.> <End Log> From: Lisle Naismith [pcs.noitadnuof|htimsianl#pcs.noitadnuof|htimsianl] To: Ethics Committee Subject: SCP-3758-B Given the new information provided by SCP-3758-A-14, I propose that a controlled Aonair event should be induced in a lead-lined bunker to establish negotiations with SCP-3758-B. Requesting support if I go to O5 about this. - Dr. Naismith Request denied. Given the choice between letting an ancient martyr's eternal damnation continue, or setting loose a walking Chernobyl, I'm afraid we can only afford to go with the former. - Dr. L'Orange, Foundation Ethics Committee + Translated SCP-3758-B vocalizations from Incident-76728-Charlie - encryption key accepted [redacted for brevity] SCP-3758-B: <This is a beautiful place. How I have missed it.> SCP-3758-B: <Buildings! The bastards took my advice after all.> SCP-3758-B: <Who has released me? I wish to thank them!> SCP-3758-B: <Was it you?> SCP-3758-B: <Do not be afraid. Kho-r'-be-nik' has changed my body, but my mind is intact.> SCP-3758-B: <Why are you dying?> SCP-3758-B: <Hello? Can you hear me?> SCP-3758-B: <…the poor dear.> SCP-3758-B: <This place isn't safe. I should warn the others.> [redacted for brevity] ‡ Licensing / Citation ‡ Hide Licensing / Citation Cite this page as: "SCP-3758" by daveyoufool, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scpwiki.com/scp-3758. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. For information on how to use this component, see the License Box component. To read about licensing policy, see the Licensing Guide. Filename: dodo.jpg Name: Edwards' Dodo Author: Roelant Savery License: Public Domain Source Link: Wikimedia Commons Filename: uhr-yin.jpg Author: daveyoufool License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Link: SCP Foundation Wiki
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