Alex Sylvian

Item #: SCP-MUSI

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: All mentions of SCP-MUSI on the media or the internet are to be supressed. Any recovered bodies of SCP-MUSI-1, 2, and 3 are to be incinerated immediately. Survivors of SCP-MUSI events are to be given Class-C amnestics, and any interviews given are to be discredited. Pictures of the SCP objects are to be dismissed as hoaxes. Vanished people are to be given Class-B amnestics.

Description: SCP-MUSI refers to an anomalous event that occasionally occurs on aircraft traveling over the mainland United States at least 2 hours after departure. When SCP-MUSI begins, three men¹ will vanish from the aircraft, and be replaced by 3 male Class-4 Humanoid Apparitions. These men have been identified as Charles Hardin Holley,² Richard Steven Valenzuela,³ and Jiles Perry Richardson Jr..⁴⁵ Replacement is instantaneous and has not been observed to have any adverse effects on the vanished persons. The entities will then attempt to enter the cockpit, and/or warn the passengers that the plane is about to crash. In the case that the pilot is unable to fly the plane, SCP-MUSI-2 will attempt to fly the plane to safety.

In every instance of an SCP-MUSI event, the aircraft involved will either suffer a complete structural failure, or disappear entirely. Whether SCP-MUSI causes this, or occurs because of this, is unknown. Attempts to prevent these incidents from occurring have proven unsuccessful, and in one instance, caused additional loss of life.

After loss of the aircraft, persons who have vanished from the aircraft will reappear in their airport of origin, completely unharmed, and remembering only that they missed their flight. In cases where the bodies of SCP-MUSI-1, 2, and 3 have been recovered, the bodies have not shown any anomalous properties. DNA testing has has proven these bodies to be the same as the originals.

Addendum MUSI-A: On 03/06/20██, Foundation spacecraft Nerrivik-3 was launched with three members on board. Mission Control was directed by Senior Researcher ████ Sylvian. The aim of the spacecraft was to investigate anomalous behavior on 90377 Sedna. At 2 hours and 37 minutes after launch, a commotion was heard on the spacecraft. This was later revealed to be an SCP-MUSI event. The following is the recorded log after the event occurred.

[Nerrivik-3 Audio Log 03/06/20██]

SCP-MUSI-3: WOO! I ain't ever been in a real spaceship before! And I thought these were just hokey!

SCP-MUSI-2: Calm yourself, Jape. Wouldn't wanna cause an accident, now would ya?

SCP-MUSI-1 and SCP-MUSI-3: [Laughter]

CONTROL: Agent ██████! Please respond! What is the status of your team?

SCP-MUSI-1: Sorry, fellas, I'm afraid the status of your team is currently nonexistent. Call back in a couple hours. In the meantime, we are commandeering this vehicle. Sorry about that.

SCP-MUSI-2: You don't have to apologize.

SCP-MUSI-1: Ain't no harm in being polite.

CONTROL: Who is this? What have you done with…. the people who were there before?

SCP-MUSI-1: Your people are fine. Don'tcha worry 'bout a thing. You're just lucky they were all gents. They'll prolly show up in an hour or so.⁶ Might be longer, but I can only hope-

SCP-MUSI-3: But I doubt it.

SCP-MUSI-2: What happened to bein' optimistic, Jape?

SCP-MUSI-3: Well, we ain't had any luck landin' planes, have we? What makes ya think our luck's gonna run any better with a goshdarn spaceship? Especially since it ain't even headed to Earth? It's headin' to- hey, ATC,⁷ where's this tin can headed?

CONTROL: Please identify yourselves.

SCP-MUSI-3: We'll tell you ours if you tell us yours.

CONTROL: [Silence as Researcher Sylvian confers with others] …..The spacecraft you have boarded is currently en route to 90377 Sedna.

SCP-MUSI-1: The heck is that supposed to be? Is that a new planet? They sure didn't have that one when I was a boy.

CONTROL: It was only discovered by the outside world in 2003. It's a dwarf-wait. Waiiiiiiit. You're them, aren't you? SCP-MUSI? The ones that are always trying to save the planes?

SCP-MUSI-1: [Silence for 20 seconds] ……Yeah, that's us. Tryin' to save the planes.

SCP-MUSI-1, 2, and 3: Uh-huh.

CONTROL: Oh, wow, um, uh, I'm a huge fan! Did you really-wait,wait,wait,stop!

[At this point, Dr. Lazarus replaces Researcher Sylvian at Mission Control]

CONTROL: Are you capable of returning Agent ██████ and his team to the spacecraft you are currently on?

SCP-MUSI-2: Pretty sure you wouldn't want that to happen. All sorts of nastiness tends to happen when two bodies try to be in the same place at once. Can't really recommend it. Really nasty. The insides end up on the outside, and-

CONTROL: I'm aware of the nature of spatial anomalies, thank you. Are you capable of flying the spacecraft to 90377 Sedna?

SCP-MUSI-2: Well, damned if we ain't gonna try our very best to fly this hunk of garbage to wherever the hell that is.

SCP-MUSI-3: [Muttering] After all, we're probably only gonna have to fly about halfway-OW! What? We were all thinkin' it!

SCP-MUSI-1: Yeah, but you said it out loud.

SCP-MUSI-3: Well, how about I-

CONTROL: Why are you doing this?

SCP-MUSI-1: ……….. What do you mean?

CONTROL: All of this. Any of this. Why are you taking control of our spacecraft? Why do you manifest on aircraft that are going to crash? Why do you replace other people in order to do this?

[All SCP instances are silent for 5 minutes.]

SCP-MUSI-1: Maybe it's our fault. For killin' music. We're really not tryin' to bother anyone, y'know. We're just tryin' to land, is all. Haven't had much success so far, but who knows, maybe this time……

[At this point, communication between the Nerrivik-3 and Mission Control was terminated. It is unknown whether this was accidental or intentional.]

Note: Six hours and thirty-three minutes after the events above, Nerrivik-3 was struck by a meteoroid. The spacecraft was completely destroyed.

Item #: SCP-KATO

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: All known instances SCP-KATO are to be kept in secure lockers 6-9 on Site-77. Foundation web-crawlers are to updated to search for any combined instances of "Manacles", "Chains", "Evil", etc. Foundation spies in Japan and Korea are to keep a look out for any incidents involving the sudden murder of christians, or any sign of the effect of SCP-KATO. All recovered instances of SCP-KATO are to be shipped to Site-77 through secure Foundation shipping.
Following Incident KATO-Naraka,⁸ thorough background checks are to be made on all D-Class and researchers before touching the manacles.

Description: SCP-KATO is the designation given to eighty-three sets of manacles showing anomalous properties. The manacles are made of iron, lack chains connecting one to the other, and weigh approximately 4.5 kilograms each. Despite this, wearers report not feeling any additional weight when made to wear SCP-KATO. Instances of SCP-KATO and are inscribed with various Kanji translated as Strength and Honor; Loyalty; Courage; [Indecipherable]; [Indecipherable]; and Katō. The indecipherable Kanji have as of yet no recognizable counterpart in the Japanese language, though translators have reported similarities to the kanji for evil, virtue, and ḍākinī. The manacles have not rusted, despite being over 400 years old. Carbon dating suggests the manacles come from early Edo-period Japan. Only one key has been recovered, and is assumed to have not had any anomalous properties. Nevertheless, duplicate keys were easily made.

When SCP-KATO is applied to a human being, said human being becomes incapable of performing any seditious or injurious acts. Attempts to accomplish these actions typically result in some sort of injury to the wearer, depending on the attempted action.⁹¹⁰ Range of possible injuries has not been fully explored, but common elements are:

Extreme cold.
Extreme heat.
Fire or exposed flames.
Enforced screaming.
Appearance of entities visible only to the wearer¹¹ to exact pain on the wearer. These entities appear as blue humanoids, approximately 2.3 meters high. They hold weapons in their hands, though they rarely use them to inflict pain, generally using specific tools. These entities appear in 28% of instances.

A secondary anomalous effect of SCP-KATO will appear whenever someone under the effect views a human they know or suspect is a member of the christian faith¹². The viewer will attempt to terminate the christian by any means necessary, ignoring all risk to themselves and all bodily harm. These attempts will typically stop as soon as the christian leaves their view. Those affected will will typically profess complete ignorance of any compulsion towards christianity, before and after these events occur. Those who are unaware of what Christianity is will still attempt to carry out these actions.

Addendum KATO-1: Senior Researcher Sylvian expressed interest in testing the SCP as a possible deterrent for D-Class upheaval. Permission for testing was granted on 04/11/██.

Experiment Log of SCP-KATO

Experiment Log: Tests were performed over a two week period overseen by Senior Researcher Sylvian.

Test A - 04/12/██

Subject: D-11518

Procedure: Subject was ordered to wear an instance of SCP-KATO for 24 hours. At 0600 hours, D-11518 was ordered to attempt to inflict a minor wound on D-11094.

Results: No anomalous behavior observed. D-11518 was able to injure D-11094 without any disturbance. D-11518 described his time wearing SCP-KOTA as "Pleasant" and "Calming", and expressed enthusiasm to wear them again.

Analysis: It would seem that any orders from a superior overrides SCP-KATO's punishment protocol.

Test B - 04/14/██

Subject: D-16834. Subject is a white male, convicted of six murders caused during an armed robbery.

Procedure: Subject was ordered to wear an instance of SCP-KATO for 48 hours. Subject was closely monitored during this time.

Results: At 5:37 hours into the experiment, subject attempted to steal an extra portion from his bunkmate's lunch. Subject was unable to carry out the attempted action. Blisters then grew on 80% of the subject's skin. The skin was revealed to be -150 degrees Celsius and tore off skin when touched. Approximately 15 minutes later, the blisters began to burst, revealing that the blood and pus in the blisters had frozen solid. The blood shattered in the subject's skin, causing multiple lacerations in the inner body. These lacerations then froze over, and the blisters began forming again. Despite his body being approximately 190 degrees lower than the normal temperature for hypothermia, subject was unable to become unconscious. These events repeated for approximately six hours. Subject did not stop screaming for the entire duration of the event, even after his vocal cords had been cut. Following the final blisters bursting, subject lapsed into unconsciousness. Subject later made a full recovery.

Analysis: It seems SCP-KATO is either incapable or unwilling to cause clinical death. Further experimentation is required.

Test C - 04/16/██

Subject: D-18888

Procedure: Subject was ordered to wear SCP-KATO for 48 hours. Having seen the effects of SCP-KATO on D-16834, subject was made to do this under duress. Subject was told to refrain from performing any "evil" acts.¹³

Results: At 3:27 hours into the experiment, subject viewed D-50759 wearing a cross on a chain around his neck. Subject then attempted to terminate D-50759 through strangulation. Subject ignored all warnings and injuries received during his attempt, and could only be physically restrained by four men in unison. Following D-50759's removal from the subject's vision, all hostilities ceased. Subject was notably confused and attempted to strike one of the men holding him. Subject was unable to complete the attempted action. Subject then became highly distressed. Black lines spontaneously formed on the subject's skin. Subject claimed to see "Blue Demons" rise up from the floor. Subject's individual limbs and appendages became bloody and raw, followed by severance from the body. A "Spear" made of flame was projected through the subject's body, resulting in the body being scalded from the inside. Flames were observed to come out of the subject's eyes, mouth, and nostrils. Approximately two hours later, the subject's body was reconstituted completely. At no point did the subject stop screaming. The process then repeated another █ times, after which the subject was reconstituted again, and no further injury occured. Subject made a full recovery, but suffered significant psychological damage.

Analysis: It seems SCP-KATO doesn't like christians. Possible signs of intelligence?

Test D - 04/18/██

Subject: N/A

Procedure: N/A

Results: N/A

Analysis: See Incident KATO-NARAKA below.

Test E - 04/21/██

Subject: D-50759. Subject is known to be a devout catholic.

Procedure: Subject was ordered to wear SCP-KATO for 48 hours.

Results: N/A; Subject was unable to touch SCP-KATO. Attempts to force them onto the subject were futile. Testing was suspended.

Analysis: It seems SCP-KATO really doesn't like christians.

Test F - 04/23/██

Subject: Senior Researcher Sylvian

Procedure: After expressing frustration with contradictory D-Class testimony and inconclusive reports, Researcher Sylvian elected to undergo the effects of SCP-KATO himself. Following the attachment of SCP-KATO, he then attempted to lethally shoot D-57510.

Testimony of Researcher Alex Sylvian 11/19/██: Well, I tried to pull the trigger, right? But nothing happened. It didn't feel like it was stuck. It felt like I was stuck. But before I could do or say anything, these black lines start being drawn on my body. Yeah, like with D-18889. All of a sudden, two of these creatures just come up through the floor. They're huge, they're tall, they're blue, and they have trimmed beards, which is a little funny. It becomes less funny when they grab my arm. One of them produces this evil-looking saw, which is on fire, by the way, which they start cutting at the black line. Yeah, like "Cut at the dotted line." Hilarious. So they saw off my arm, I'm screaming, it's painful, you all saw the video. But here's something that doesn't show in the video. I could still feel it. Even though my arm had been completely severed, I could still feel all the pain. And there was a lot of it. I wonder, maybe my nerve endings were still attached through psychic connections? Anyway, I'm getting off topic. So these blue things start sawing off all my limbs, and then my torso, and my head, and then my limbs into smaller parts. And I can still feel the entire thing. Then all of a sudden, I'm whole again. But the creatures are coming for me again. So I run. Except now the ground is on fire. and my feet are burning. So I try to run out of the testing room, screaming and screaming. I don't even know if I had a choice in the screaming. It felt sort of like a base instinct, something I was unable to stop doing. And it hurt. So I see this cave-like thing in middle of the room¹⁴ where there isn't fire, and I run inside. But then the door slams shut, and everything's on fire. I'm on fire, the room's on fire, all the people are on fire. I slowly and excruciatingly burn away to ashes, becoming a pile of dust. But I could still feel everything! I had no senses, no sight, so hearing, nothing, but I could still feel pain in every individual granule of ash. And I was still screaming. Then, just like that, I was reconstituted into a living, breathing human being. Only naked. That was unfortunate. Then it started again. And again. I really have no idea why I'm still alive. Maybe the manacles knew I never actually intended to kill D-57510. So it only gave me the punishment for manslaughter instead of murder. Man, what would the punishment for murder be?

Analysis: All experiments have been suspended while Researcher Sylvian recovers.

Test G - 11/20/██

Subject: D-73085, an African-American male convicted of twelve murders. Psychological profile shows D-73085 as likely to commit a murder within one year.

Procedure: Subject was ordered to wear SCP-KATO indefinitely. Subject was unaware of SCP-KATO's effects.

Results: On 02/09/██, subject attempted to kill D-69045 with an improvised knife. Subject was unable to complete the attempted action. Subject then began to scream, but was otherwise unable to move. Attempts to move the subject proved pointless. The subject's skin then began to slowly turn a light shade of blue. Approximately one hour later, the subject's skin began to visibly lacerate itself from the inside, and the subject's bones began to reject the body. Subject claimed there was a blizzard in the room. Approximately two hours later, the subject's body fell onto the floor, and shattered into an estimated 500 pieces. Intestines and inner organs were broken into a similar amount as well. At this point, subject's body temperature was theoretically measured as -290 degrees Celsius.¹⁵ Over the next three days, the subject's remains shattered into progressively smaller pieces, until it was unrecognizable as anything other than a pile of ice. Approximately 51 hours later, the last of the ice melted, and the screaming subsided. D-73085 did not reappear and has been tentatively designated as terminated.

Analysis: Testing is henceforth forbidden by order of Site Director J████

Addendum KATO-2: On 09/29/██, 20 new instances of SCP-KATO were discovered in ███████, South Korea, following an investigation of a massacre of christian missionaries. All involved parties were given Class-A amnestics and released to local authorities. All instances of SCP-KATO were confiscated and shipped to Site-77. Agent Sun Il-Seong was dispatched to the town to search for more possible instances of SCP-KATO and to find out where those had been found were coming from. Locals had reportedly been using the anomalous manacles to pacify criminals. Townspeople directed him to Sasaki Yohachi, locally known as the village idiot, who they claimed had unearthed the objects in question, and sold them to the townspeople for 500 won each. The following is the recorded conversation between the two.

Interview Log 07/07/██

Interviewed: Sasaki Yohachi

Interviewer: Agent Sun Il-Seong

Foreword: Agent Sun Il-Seong found Mr. Sasaki wandering the streets of ███████, in an extremely inebriated state. Mr. Yuk was showing clear signs of mental degradation. Agent Sun could only coax Mr. Sasaki into being interviewed with promises of alcohol.

Agent Sun: Mr. Sasaki, locals have said you were the one who found these. [Agent Sun shows Mr. Sasaki a photograph of an instance of SCP-KATO] Can you tell me where you found them?

Sasaki Yohachi: Them, them, them, them, them, them, theeeeeeeem. Found them where I left them, didn't I? Do you want more? No more! No more! Me! I-I-They were mine, weren't they?

Agent Sun: Please calm down. [Mr. Sasaki takes a drink] No, Mr. Sasaki, they were not yours. But it is important that you tell me where you found them.

Sasaki Yohachi: Tooooooold youuuuu……… Found them where they were. They was. In between. No one moves them. They were booooored. I'm bored. Are you bored, Mister Agent?

Agent Sun: Answer the question, Mr. Sasaki. Where did you find the manacles? Do you know what they are? If you tell me where they were, I'll buy you another bottle of Soju.

Sasaki Yohachi: What are they? Wh-wh-wh-wh-w-w-we put them in the hole. Didn't need them anymore. They worked just fine. Not my fault. Twenty sinners. Twenty holes. Except for the grave offenses. Didn't need holes for those. Bad karma. Very bad. Very, very, very bad, Soju. Can I have Sake instead?

Agent Sun: If you take me to this hole, you can have whatever you want.

Sasaki Yohachi: Come! [Mr. Sasaki begins to walk away. Agent Sun follows.] The hooooooole. I 'member putting them in the hole. Together with the samurai. Katō's samurai. Back when I was……different? Not my fault. Not even a little bit. But he brought me with to make sure they worked. And they did! Not my fault! Not my fault! Too many sinners! Not enough good buddhists. Kiyomasa thought he was a good buddhist. Yes he did. But he waaaaasn't. Nooooo. No! No! Why won't the body listen to me anymore?

Agent Sun: Wh-what?

Sasaki Yohachi: So rebellious. Used to be better. Sake. Soju. Soju helps. Sake is better. Body used to be better. By the hole.

Agent Sun: What do you know about these manacles? Do you know why they were here?

Sasaki Yohachi: They were here? Katō was here. Katō's samurai did a bad thing. Sinners! SInners! Came to me, gave himself to the chains, find the sinners. Found the sinners, easy. Stop the sinners, easy. Not my fault. NOT MY FAULT!!! I thought that Kiyomasa was good. But he was the worst sinner of all. [Mr. Sasaki stops walking.] They lived here. [He points at a house.] They were heretics. But the Buddha loved heretics and all people in the world. Wished to show them the proper path. Katō had only one path for heretics. One of the heretics had a child in her belly. Katō seized the child. He cut her so he could have the child. Then he cut the child so he could have the head. Then he discarded the head. What would the good and righteous Katō Kiyomasa want with a child's head? Just like that, he doomed me away from the other ḍākinī. From Japan. To walk in the bodies of men. In Joseon. No peace. Not for me, not for him, either, is there? And he doesn't even get Sake! [At this point, Mr. Sasaki begins laughing.] Not my fault. Sinners should be punished, not just found. I made them punish. And the sinners go far, far, away, past the diamond mountain range. Into the dark. One day, I will join them. Only Yama should punish the sinners.

Agent Sun: A-are you saying you used the chains to-"

Sasaki Yohachi: Sinners came looking for the chains before, too. Also for Sasaki. [Mr. Sasaki becomes audibly agitated.] Wait! You're them, aren't you? Come to take my soul! To fight in your little war?! WELL, YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!!! I'LL TAKE YOURS!!!

Closing Statement: At this point, Mr. Sasaki attacked Agent Sun. Agent Sun attempted to physically restrain him, but Mr. Sasaki began to show anomalous behaviour.¹⁶ Agent Sun was forced to terminate Mr. Sasaki. No holes matching Mr. Sasaki's descriptions were found anywhere in the area. Testing of Mr. Sasaki's corpse has not shown any anomalies.

Addendum KATO-3 - Regarding Incident KATO-Naraka: During the testing of SCP-KATO's properties, a pair of SCP-KATO was to be handled by Junior Researcher Dinah Schiller. Upon physical contact with SCP-KATO, Junior Researcher Schiller disappeared. A subsequent background search revealed Junior Researcher Schiller had been accused of killing her father at the age of 14. Dinah Schilller was found not guilty for reasons of justifiable homicide.

Update: Personnel report that there is still an audible scream in Testing Lab 7-B ████ days after Junior Researcher Schiller's disappearance.

Footnotes

SCP Sandbox III

Sandbox III: Revenge of the Sandbox