- 1: The Land Before Time
- 2: V-I-C-A-R-I-O-U-S
- 3: Cellular Angels
- 4: In the Countenance of Kings
- 5: Cleanse
- 6: Ring Cycle
- 7: Wandering Stars
- 8: Sweetheart
- 9: Armalore
- 10: Atlantis
- 11: Tanksgiving
- 12: B Flat
- 13: What is a Man?!
- 14: Pants
- 15: Legion
- 16: The Boneshaker
- 17: 360 Noscope
- 18: Walrus Insanity
- 19: Breaker of Things
- 20: Organ Hatchery
- 21: Weevil Knievel
- 22: Chanclas from Beyond
- 23: Murder Fish
- 24: Days of Roaches Past
- 25: Motormouth
- 26: Amber Mosquitoes
- 27: Free Boat!
- 28: Magma Rebirth
- 29: Yggdrasils
- 30: Hag Sag
- 31: Horny
- 32: Apocalypse Over Orphaned Oceans
- 33: Punch Spot
- 34: Wood
- 35: 11424 MPH
- 36: Happy Birthday
- 37: Futility
- 38: All the Rest Are Too Deep For You and Me To See
- 39: Pump It
- 40: The Moon Was All Too Silent
- 41: Brainblast!
- 42: The World That Was
- 43: Bones of the Earth
- Miss Alaneous' Things
Item #: SCP-3912
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: The caverns containing SCP-3912 are to be disguised as private property. Any civilians attempting to enter the caves are to be turned away. Site-729 has been constructed within the caverns to study the anomaly.
All SCP-3912-Omega instances are to be contained in separate Class-III Anomalous Reptile Pens. Detailed information on their diets and other stuff can be found in Documents 3912-B through -F.
Description: SCP-3912 is a large underground formation composed of an unidentified crystalline material, with an estimated radius of 1400 m. It has a high hardness, making sample retrieval difficult. Additionally, any samples removed from SCP-3912 disintegrate into a mass of luminescent fibers and subsequently dissipate completely within 14 seconds.
Attempts at analyzing the bulk of SCP-3912 through the use of X-ray crystallography, SCP-████, and other methods yield inconsistent results, save for the consistent identification of iridium in the crystal lattice.
Once a day, at 5:23 AM local time, SCP-3912 shifts its structure and becomes nearly transparent for 14 minutes. Through SCP-3912, a single location (designated SCP-3912-Alpha) is visible.
The portion of SCP-3912-Alpha visible through SCP-3912 appears as a flat, grassy plain surrounded by large mountains. A circular ring of twenty-seven inscribed stone pillars lies in the center of the plain. Inside this ring are a variety of stone structures inlaid with indistinct metals. The purpose and exact design of these structures is unknown, as the stone pillars partially block them from view.
SCP-3912-Alpha is populated by sapient lifeforms homeologically similar to dinosaurs of the Campanian and Maastrichtian1 ages.
These lifeforms, designated SCP-3912-Beta, have several notable differentiations from the dinosaurs they resemble. These include lack of feathers (for theropods), extra limbs, translucent skin, outgrowths of bone (apparently decorative), multiple mouths, and various body parts replaced by metallic constructs.
Addendum 3912.01: Notes on SCP-3912-Beta
Let me preface this by saying that it is rather outside of my usual methods. It's not easy to glean data on a society through a muted window, 14 minutes at a time.
Still, the population of 3912-Beta is something. They have a rather
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Every 29 days, a large number of SCP-3912-Beta instances converge inside the pillars.
On [date], SCP-3912 underwent a temporary structural shift. For 16 minutes, the surface of SCP-3912 appeared to crack and fold in on itself. Two landscapes other than SCP-3912-Alpha were intermittently seen through the surface. After 19 minutes, the surface began to glow along intersecting lines. These lines opened and three dinosaurian lifeforms, designated SCP-3912-Omega, emerged and were contained by MTF Phi-2 ("Clever Girls") without resistance. SCP-3912 returned to its original state shortly after.
Each SCP-3912-Omega specimen is morphologically similar in structure and size to a Dakotaraptor and similar dromaeosaurs. Notable differences are listed below:
- Near-total lack of body feathers, with the exception of decorative feathers on the head and tail.
- Thick hide with embedded chromatophores
- Greatly increased articulation and range of motion in hands and arms
- Significantly enlarged brain (~80% volume increase)
- Tier II regeneration
SCP-3912-Omega instances are sapient, and are capable of communicating with each other, but their mannerisms and general behavior distinguish them from SCP-3912-Beta instances. They were recovered with clothing matching that of SCP-3912-Beta. DNA analysis has so far been inconclusive.
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Item #: SCP-3132
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Embedded agents in television stations are to monitor and shut down any broadcasts showing SCP-3132 events. Amnestics are to be administered to all civilians affected by SCP-3132 after the conclusion of the event.
All personnel attempting to infiltrate, record, or directly study SCP-3132 events must possess a MARS2 score of 3 or higher, and must be equipped with hearing protection.
Description: SCP-3132 is a phenomenon affecting televised spelling bee competitions in the United States.
Upon the beginning of an SCP-3132 event, contestants will begin to recite the spellings of completely different words than the ones asked. Judges will not note any abnormalities and will always consider these responses to be completely correct, allowing the competition to proceed. Any contestant who recites the original word requested will be marked incorrect, and eliminated from the competition.
When 14 or fewer contestants remain, SCP-3132 will enter Stage 2. During this stage, most parents and guardians of the contestants will tend to leave their seats and congregate behind the judges, although the parents of contestants that have been eliminated will attempt to leave the building, but will be unable to open the doors. Testing has shown that the doors will remain closed even with an arbitrarily large amount of force applied to them from either side. Remaining contestants will stand in a circle, facing inward.
When a contestant takes their turn, they will turn to face the judges. Judges will then recite a passage from a seemingly random book (see file 3132-K for a full list), and the contestant will then speak in a heavily distorted voice, using sounds that do not correspond to phonemes in any known language. Several of these phrases have turned out to be mild auditory cognitohazards; their effects have so far included immediate hair loss, temporary blindness, rapid weight gain, and uncontrollable crying I need to figure out the specific effects. Noticeably, the contestants and judges are not affected by these cognitohazards.
Judges will disqualify at least one contestant each round; however, no consistent pattern has yet been found to explain these disqualifications.
When only three contestants remain, SCP-3132 will enter Stage 3. At this stage, the judges will usually leave their seats and attempt to leave the building. The parents of the remaining contestants will then fill the vacant seats. At this stage, the contestants become unable to speak. The parents will repeatedly prompt the contestants with ordinary English words, before appearing to argue with the other parents. At this point, any contestant that leaves the stage will vanish and reappear directly outside the doors of the building.
Research regarding the conditions necessary to trigger SCP-3132 events has so far been inconclusive.
<Hippo> but, yes! I think like, all the components of that idea are *excellent*: the idea of children spelling words at a spelling bee ending up casting spells/invoking some sort of ritual accidentally
17:28 the idea of it being connected to the children's stress/the narrative theme of parents pushing their children too far
17:28 <%NineVolt> weryllium: I dunno why but the way you said that makes it sounds like your dad lives in the zoo
17:28 <Hippo> I'm not sure I'm sold on the swapping bodies component, but
17:29 <%weryllium> For once in my life I have the core theme before I decide on the specifics of the anomaly
17:29 <Hippo> other than that I like all the components of it — I think though it needs — IDK maybe something different than parents swapping bodies with their children? It depends on the feel you're going for, though; like when you said that my brain immediately thought 'wait so it's the Parent Trap?'
17:29 Like that's almost *humorous*. It sucks, too, but it's going to be hard not to make that just kind of a funny thing
17:29 <%weryllium> I've considered a few effects but I haven't settled
17:30 <Hippo> I mean it wouldn't be funny if it actually happened and you could possibly go in that direction, like
17:30 you could side-blind the reader, make the reader go 'haha, that's funny', then interviews reveal that it's actually pretty fucking heart-breaking
17:30 <%weryllium> No yeah I want it to be like, fucked up conceptually
17:30 <Hippo> conceptually, in practice, or both?
17:30 <%weryllium> Cousin Johnny without the gore
17:30 Is what I'm aiming for in tone
17:30 <Hippo> like in reading the article's summary do you want me to go 'oh god no' right away
17:31 or do you want me to go 'haha, funny' then read the article and go 'oh god no'
17:31 <Hippo> (also is Cousin Johnny the one with the cicadas)
17:31 <%weryllium> I'm thinking it happens in stages and starts off "ok that's weird" abd then descends into "fuck no"
17:31 Yes
17:31 <Hippo> Okay
17:31 <Hippo> Then yeah I, like
17:32 <%weryllium> .sm 1
17:32 <+jarvis> weryllium: SCP-2852: Cousin Johnny (written 2 years ago by kinchtheknifeblade; rating: +246) - http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2852
17:32 <%NineVolt> Ah, the good ol descent into WHAT THE FUCK strategy
17:32 My personal favorite
17:32 <Hippo> I'm gonna try not to railroad you here into your decidsion but I think that's an excellent choice, narratively
17:32 <%weryllium> It's a good strategy
17:32 <Hippo> like I would have the words they're trying to spell grow increasingly fucked up
17:32 until they're not even words
17:33 <%weryllium> That's what I had, actually
17:33 <%NineVolt> weryllium: Based on 3070 the strategy works wonders if executed right
17:33 <Hippo> also hm
17:34 <Hippo> I'm actually thinking like it seems like 'The Hanged King' is kind of your go-to here weryllium? Well, that plus the Cousin Johnny one
17:34 the Hanged King mostly in the sense of its intersection with a school function that goes increasingly off-script
17:34 but doesn't just end in everyone murdering everyone
17:34 <%weryllium> Yeah, pretty much
17:34 <Hippo> I'm trying to think of what would be a good final for this
17:35 something that evokes the visceral horror of pushing your children too hard to accomplish impossible things
17:35 <%weryllium> I've always liked 701's "trapped as some mundane event goes horribly wrong"
17:35 <Hippo> just becoming expressions of their parents' desires
17:35 <%weryllium> Yeah, that's gonna be the lynchpin. It has to hit hard
17:35 <Hippo> like, hm
17:36 <Hippo> there's a couple of ways you can do it. Part of me likes the notion that whatever you do, the children, at the end, are recovered, and, whatever they are now, whatever the result was
17:36 they can spell any word perfectly
17:36 but ehh that might be, IDK
17:37 <%weryllium> No yeah they're probably gonna get the kids back at the end
17:37 <Hippo> I do like that as almost like the Foundation being sarcastic at the end, but not really
17:37 <%weryllium> What shape everyone'll be in at that point, *shrug*
17:37 <Hippo> I think that's my favorite kind of Foundation stinger, where they're like "FINAL NOTE: By the way, the kids can spell perfectly now, good job parents"
17:38 but in a technical way
17:38 that makes it *not* sound sarcastic, even if it is a little bit sarcastic
17:39 also weryllium this is not something I have experience with (parents pushing me too hard, making me feel like shit when I didn't meet their impossible standards) but one of my best friends does, oh man
17:39 (I was raised by my grandparents and, my childhood was all sorts of fucked up but one thing I can legit say is that my grandparents were never the reason why)
17:40 but yeah I'm mostly just saying this because I think that's an excellent source of horror
17:40 parents pushing their children so hard they break everything
17:41 it's also not one I think I've ever seen on the site before — I mean I'm sure there's at least one example, but it's definitely not a source of horror that's typical, so
17:41 *thumbs up!*
<Hippo> weryllium's set up, the props involved — it lets you trick readers who wouldn't consider that horrifying into finding it horrifying? if that makes sense
17:43 <+Decibelle> this was for the Short Works contest
17:43 <Hippo> like you dress up what is genuinely a very banal, very terrible thing in a monster suit
17:43 so people who think only monsters are scary get scared
17:44 whoa
17:45 okay I actually really like that
17:45 I think it needs to be *bigger* than what it is
17:45 but I think that the kicker is an excellent one
17:45 (or maybe not bigger, but would need retooling a little, to make it more concise/clear — hm I'm not sure)
17:45 but like to me that is the skeleton bones of an excellent article
Quick note. Title. "Vicarious. V-I-C-A-R-I-O-U-S. Vicarious."
21:44 <weryllium> Fucking sweet
21:45 <shaggydredlocks> So I would start by drawing from real-world personal experiences. Thoughts and emotions you've experienced as a result of being on the receiving end of this type of behavior. If you have not experienced this, s' time for some discussion and googling for first-hand accounts.
21:46 <weryllium> I have experienced this, but definitely not as intense as many people here.
21:47 <shaggydredlocks> Even before delving into precise anomalous effects. You can draw the anomalous portion from these feelings and emotions - twist them into real-world analogues. Decide then what gets it across without spelling it out (ay) for the reader - and you've got something genuinely disturbing on your hands.
21:49 Off the top of my head: Parents vanishing or maybe going comatose as their consiousness is imposed in their child. Maybe out-of-body experiences - astral projection - sleep paralysis.
21:49 Last isn't anomalous, but whatever lol.
21:50 Jesus fuck.
21:50 <weryllium> I had vaguely considered ending with the parent literally taking over the kids mind/body but was worried it might not be hard hitting enough
21:51 But this is good advice, I really appreciate it
21:52 <shaggydredlocks> OKay. Typically, when people experience such phenomena (sleep paralysis) it's some cultural boogeyman that manifests in the dream state and sits on the sufferer's chest. Back in the day it was gnomes or fae. Nowadays it's stock demons, ghosts, and the like. Could you imagine a child recounting this type of experience, but it's a twisted version of their paren
21:53 Yea, literally taking them over is way too on the nose. I could see it happening, maybe. We can get into that in a bit, but it's the most obvious leap that can and should be explored a bit further than that.
21:56 <weryllium> Hmmm.
22:00 <shaggydredlocks> If you do go with a full-on imprint, then you need to figure - is this some inexplicable thing where the parents are just as much the victims (though their behavior could be the catalyst for it even if they're unwilling) or is it a Being John Malkovich-scenario of life-extension?
22:02 <weryllium> I don't know what John Malkovich is
22:02 <shaggydredlocks> ooo good movie
22:03 <weryllium> The way I've conceived this so far (still very subject to change) is that this phenomenon just happens, with that behavior being the only catalyst
22:03 <shaggydredlocks> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_John_Malkovich
22:04 <weryllium> However, if one triggers it then it'd probably end up affecting most of the families there regardless
22:04 <shaggydredlocks> TLDR Puppeteer finds a portal into a famous actor's head and exploits it for fun and profit.
Item #: SCP-3536
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-3536 is an artificial microorganism. SCP-3536 instances are unicellular and measure ~2 μm, and possess a humanoid shape.
Subjects infected with SCP-3536 possess lower white blood cell counts, as SCP-3536 partially supplants the natural role of the immune system.
SCP-3536 instances instinctively attack all pathogens using specialized organelles(?) in the shape of swords or fists. These organelles are coated in a variety of specialized proteins which allow them to puncture and tear the cell membranes of bacteria, or destroy the capsids of virions.
After successfully eliminating a pathogen from the body, SCP-3536 instances will harvest the remains of the pathogens and reconstitute them in order to form small patches of tissue with messages visible on them.
SCP-3536 cannot be transferred to another individual by any known means save through prayer. All other attempts to transfer SCP-3536 (blood transfusion, ___, [REDACTED], etc) result in the SCP-3536 instances remaining outside the target's body, followed by either returning to the original host or vanishing instantaneously.
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YOUR PLAGUE HAS BEEN SMITTEN
ANOTHER BLESSED CURE FROM
20% OFF FOR NEW CUSTOMERS
1-800-███-████
WWW.[UNKNOWN SYMBOLS].COM
SCP-3536 was discovered during routine medical inspection of personnel exposed to SCP-████ during a containment breach.
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and I cross this with the 'demonic hog infection' skip i never got around to writing
Item #: SCP-3696
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3696 is to be surrounded with a sound-absorbing barrier. The area surrounding SCP-3696 is to be closed off to hikers under the cover story of landslide risk. Foundation agents posing as park rangers are to monitor SCP-3696 for any emergences.
Following Exploration 3696-03, personnel must undergo thorough background checks prior to assignment to SCP-3696.
Description: SCP-3696 is a natural rock formation in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Nevada, United States.
SCP-3696 possesses one small hole, 1.2m in width. Any human that passes through this hole will be instantly transported to another location, designated SCP-3696-1.
The entrance of SCP-3696-1 resembles the rest of Red Rock Canyon in composition, and remains at a constant 31°C despite perpetual sunlight.
Item #: SCP-4594
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: The section of beach containing SCP-4594 has been purchased by a Foundation front company and marked as private property. Two guards are posted to turn away any trespassers.
Description: SCP-4594 is a 2.7 m wide section of Paradise Beach in California, USA that exhibits anomalous properties if entered during rain.
When a human subject enters SCP-4594, the tide will recede and seawater in their vicinity will move away from them. Subjects report auditory hallucinations that increase in volume the further into SCP-4594 they travel; these hallucinations are typically voices of people the subject is close to.
While walking, the sand and rocks on the seafloor will form humanoid shapes
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rain_ot_ocean_beach.jpg
Item #: SCP-3593
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3593 and its debris are contained within an insulated lockbox.
Description: SCP-3593 is a quartz ring.
When a human subject wears SCP-3593, they will demanifest, leaving SCP-3593 behind. The subject is replaced by an amount of rock and ice debris equal in mass to the subject. This debris remains at a constant temperature of -203 °C.
D-11965 was equipped with a STALKER tracking device and was instructed to wear SCP-3593. Shortly after demanifestation, signal was located approximately 25 light years away, near a gas giant.
D-11965 remanifested outside SCP-3593's lockbox 38 years later, showing no signs of aging, and an equivalent mass of rock/ice debris was found to have vanished. D-11965 described his experience as "beautiful". Further attempts to elaborate failed due to spontaneous generation of ice and rock in his mouth upon speaking, and D-11965 attempted an artistic depiction (D-11965 had been an amateur artist and street musician prior to incarceration).
Item #: SCP-4849
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: One instance of SCP-4849 is contained at within a reinforced, pressurized, heat-resistant containment vault kept completely filled with seawater.
The room containing the vault is to be kept in total darkness (<0.01 lumen). In the event of a breach,
Foundation deep-sea submersibles are to monitor Calypso Deep for any new instances of SCP-4849, and ensure their burial beneath the sea floor.
Description: SCP-4849 is a spherical black void, approximately 119 cm in radius.
The nature of SCP-4849's interior is unclear; data from probes amd sensors inserted beyond SCP-4849's boundary suggest that the interior of SCP-4849 is occupied by a white main-sequence star 55 cm in radius.
Item #: SCP-4342
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4342 is contained in a Standard Humanoid Containment Cell. SCP-4342-1 instances are to be contained in standard sealed lockboxes.
Description: SCP-4342 is a human female of Hispanic descent.
SCP-4342's neck, right shoulder, and chest have been wholly converted to solid crystalline sugar; despite this, SCP-4342 exhibits all remaining expected life signs normally. The sugar portions of SCP-4342 are brittle and crumble with relative ease, but can be repaired if the sugar is replaced and pressed by SCP-4342.
Periodically, SCP-4342 will manifest skull-shaped growths (designated SCP-4342-A) from its sugar regions. These growths will gradually increase in size to approximately 10cm in diameter, then fall off. SCP-4342 experiences significant disorientation and distress whenever an SCP-4342-A instance is removed.
Touching or ingesting an SCP-4342-A instance causes vivid hallucinations from the POV of SCP-4342's memories.
SCP-4342's body continues to transmute into sugar at a rate of approximately 8% total body mass per year.
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SCP-4342: I just wanna say thanks.
Dr. Placeholder: I- what?
SCP-4342: It's nice here. Nicer than at home, at any rate.
Dr. Placeholder: I'm glad to hear that?
SCP-4342: So what did you want to talk about.
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SCP-4342: (sighs) Those fucking skulls.
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Item #: SCP-4546
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-4546 is a sentient, animate dinosaur cadaver approximately 30m in length from head to tail. SCP-4546 is in a severe state of decomposition, with an estimated 60% of its original flesh missing and leaving its skeleton visible. Remaining sections of SCP-4546's skin are pitch black, with small, smooth scales.
Comparison of SCP-4546's skeletal structure to fossil records suggests it is most closely related to the family Tyrannosauridae, though the reason for its greatly increased size is unknown.3 SCP-4546 possesses proportionally longer arms than most known theropods, and an opposable thumb on each hand, similar to that of Iguanodon, allowing it to hold tools.
Several portions of SCP-4546's body have been replaced with mechanisms composed of a predominantly iridium-platinum-beryllium alloy, including its lower jaw and throat, part of its spine, left leg, and the last 5m of its tail. Due to its durability, few samples have been taken successfully, but the metal present in SCP-4546 exhibits what resembles a sea-green patina despite being chemically unreactive. SCP-4546 also possesses segmented armor plating of this same metal, implanted directly into its skin, that covers most of its body. Most of these plates are engraved with intertwining lines in a complex pattern.
These implants are bonded seamlessly at the cellular level to what remains of SCP-4546's flesh, and transmit sensations of touch, pressure, and heat to SCP-4546 just as the rest of its body does.
SCP-4546's mandible replacement visually resembles detailed clockwork. SCP-4546 can replicate and adapt any machinery or mechanism by biting and swallowing it; SCP-4546's mandible will then be able to reconfigure itself to match the function of the consumed item. SCP-4546 has absorbed at least 119 configurations to date.
After initial interaction with SCP-████-Omega resulted in successful communication, SCP-████-Omega assisted in developing a translator device. This device was subsequently swallowed by SCP-4546, allowing it to reconfigure its throat to produce English words.
Item #: SCP-4510
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Governments of countries near SCP-4510 are ordered to designate zones of their respective territorial waters in proximity of SCP-4510 as prohibited.
Any and all items emerging from SCP-4510-Alpha are to be catalogued, then destroyed entirely.
If a method of sealing SCP-4510-Alpha without violating causality is found, it is to be enacted immediately.
Description: SCP-4510 denotes a former civilization currently located in the Suakin Trough, 2900 m below the surface of the Red Sea.
SCP-4510 is estimated to have at one point possessed a peak population of 3 million. Structures in SCP-4510 vary widely in design and structure and mostly resemble Babylonian, Assyrian, and Greco-Roman architectural styles, although dating of SCP-4510 indicates an age of at least 25,000 years. Despite this, various buildings and sites near the center of SCP-4510 contain anachronistic artifacts from various cultures stored alongside each other.
All remains of the inhabitants of SCP-4510 are indistinguishable from those of ordinary humans (Homo sapiens sapiens). Carbon dating of these remains gives inconsistent results, ranging from ~200 years to over 80,000 (the upper limit of the testing procedures).
Large (~60 m tall) statues depicting an unknown humanoid male are present around the location of SCP-4510-Alpha. Corrosion and/or heavy coral growth obscure the faces of these statues.
SCP-4510-Alpha is a well, 15 m in diameter, located in the geometric center of SCP-4510 and composed of an unknown, lustrous blue metal. SCP-4510-Alpha was found sealed with a variant of concrete composed of basalt and human bone. This well extends to an indefinite depth of at least 10 km, and violently ejects inserted nonliving objects without warning.
On {date}, Agent Paria was selected to explore SCP-4510-Alpha due to his competence and experience during previous exploratory dives of SCP-4510. A heavy duty winch was set up, and Agent Paria was lowered steadily into the well.
After descending 1400 m, a loud noise resembling a large crowd of people yelling emanated from SCP-4510-Alpha, and the entirety of SCP-4510 flashed with light. Seismic tremors shook the site, and SCP-4510-Alpha grew in size to 90 m in diameter, and manifested glowing symbols all along its base.
Following the cessation of the tremors and light, Agent Paria's recording device was found intact and preserved, embedded in the rock surrounding SCP-4510-Alpha.
Foreword: Agent Paria was provided with an insulated, armored wetsuit, 72 hours of oxygen, redundant lights and cameras, and a knife.
[BEGIN LOG]
Command: Starting the winch on your mark. Ready?
Agent Paria: Yes. Let's begin.
Command: Call out anything noteworthy you see.
Agent Paria: This is not my first rodeo, as they say.
(Agent Paria begins descent.)
Agent Paria: There's deep vertical grooves running down the walls. About ten centimeters deep, maybe more. Lined with something lustrous.
Agent Paria: There's something wedged in one of these grooves. I can't remove it, but it looks like a… macahuitl? Definitely obsidian.
(250 m of descent.)
Agent Paria: There's inscriptions between the grooves. This one resembles Greek, though I'm unfamiliar with this particular dialect.
(470 m of descent.)
Agent Paria: Alright, these grooves appear to be forming a moving picture. Requesting memetic/cognitohazard screening before I attempt to interpret.
Command: We're not seeing anything on our end.
Agent Paria: Strange. Well, pull me up if I begin acting out of the ordinary, then. I see an open field, with crude figures apparently representing people running around. A city forms from the ground, then another, and the figures enter it. What looks like sunbeams shine down from above, and a circle around the entire picture expands. Then it resets.
Command: Noted. Continue with caution.
** Agent Paria:** Of course.
(920 m of descent.)
Agent Paria: (quietly) Do you hear that?
Command: Please speak up-
Agent Paria: Voices. In so many languages. Men and women and children, laughing and singing. Chinese, Spanish, Hindi? Too many to count.
Command: Running cognitohazard scan. (pause) Agent Paria, identify source of sound.
Agent Paria: Everywhere.
Command: (aside) Extract him!
(Winch is activated. Agent Paria reports feeling tension; however, the cable returns empty without any sign of being severed. Agent Paria continues to drift downward at current speed through unknown means.)
(Sound continues, but is cut out intermittently for the next 2 hours and 39 minutes.)
Agent Paria: Is that an Incan settlement? I hear them speaking, feel their strings weave through me. And between it all… every string is tied to the world.
Agent Paria: I'm unfamiliar with this one. An island, of some kind? All of them, living off the sea and sun, and yet, the water is changed once it flows away from them.
Agent Paria: I see now. I feel every city, every home, every family.
Camera cuts out for 20 seconds. Feed returns, but distorted, as if viewed through water. A sunlit field is visible.
Agent Paria: (muffled) One human is nothing special. Yes. But when together…
The camera falls to the ground. Agent Paria can be seen walking into the distance with a crowd of people towards a city resembling SCP-4510. A bright light fills the sky, and the recording ends.
Following this, metallic tubes attached to SCP-4510-Alpha were revealed as the rock covering them crumbled. Attempts to probe these tubes have been unsuccessful; however, identical tubes have been found in at least 119 Neolithic and Bronze Age ruins.
Item #: SCP-4894
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Satellites are to constantly monitor SCP-4894's location. If SCP-4894's projected path brings it within 50 km of a town, the town is to be completely evacuated and staffed with 100 or fewer Foundation personnel who have passed blah blah loyalty test in preparation for a CHAMPION event. If this is not feasible, SCP-4894's direction is to be adjusted with EMP weapons, using decommissioned tanks for bait as needed.
Once a CHAMPION event has begun, a 10 km perimeter around the town's boundary is to be maintained.
Description: SCP-4894 is a humanoid entity resembling a military official, with a miniature, levitating tank replacing its head.
Aside from the tank, SCP-4894's body appears to be similar in composition and mass to ordinary human bodies, as inferred from ranged measurements. Despite this, SCP-4894 is extremely resistant to damage, having withstood __ with no visible effect.
Attempts to contain, destroy, or immobilize SCP-4894 have failed.
When SCP-4894 enters a human settlement, it will walk directly to the geometric center of it and address the inhabitants. SCP-4894 is capable of amplifying its voice to be heard from up to 1 km away during this speech.
Sample of SCP-4894's speech:
Today is your day, people! Are you strong? Are you powerful?! You'd wanna think so, right? But how about when your country, your planet, your goddamn species is on the line? You really wanna be the top dogs in the universe, then you better be ready to fuckin prove it! This is why I'm here, fellow humans! To give you the chance to prove your worth! Prove that you deserve this planet! Prove to us that you're strong enough to defend what's yours! Gather round! Yeah, you too! Get over here! Today is a glorious day for all of you, and you know why? You're gonna see who's the best, who's number one! Which one of you is most worthy of the name "human"? Prepare yourselves, and give thanks! And I will give tanks."
At the end of its speech, SCP-4894 will sit down and "face" straight up, firing a single shell from its head tank. This shell will explode into fireworks, marking the beginning of a CHAMPION event. SCP-4894 will then enter a meditative pose.
When the fireworks detonate, every human within the town boundaries will transform into a living M1 Abrams tank.
These tanks, designated SCP-4894-A, retain their original personalities and memories, and each can vocalize in a robotic voice through their turrets. The interior spaces of SCP-4894-A are filled entirely with muscles, organs, bones, and nerves genetically matching the person, along with additional organs that produce tank shells through unknown means.
On the third night after manifesting, SCP-4894-A will emit another burst of fireworks and make an additional announcement. When it finishes speaking, a large number of hostile creatures (SCP-4894-B) will enter the town, either digging out from the ground just outside down limits, emerging from a nearby waterway, or in rare cases, impacting at the edge of town in meteorites.
Item #: SCP-4979
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: The property SCP-4979 was discovered on and the surrounding land have been purchased and converted to Provisionary Site-4979.
SCP-4979's engine has been disabled as a further precaution against its activation.
Description: SCP-4979 is an immobile road roller with spatial distortion capabilities.
SCP-4979 is indistinguishable from nonanomalous models except for its drum, which is mostly composed of an iridium-iron alloy.
SCP-4979 is unable to move from its current position relative to the ground. Upon starting the engine and attempting to drive SCP-4979, space in front of it will contract, bringing any objects in its path towards it and crushing them with the drum.
If SCP-4979's operator attempts to use it to crush a person, SCP-4979 will instead use spatial distortion to draw the operator towards its drum instead, then autonomously attempt to crush the original target as well.
Objects crushed by SCP-4979 are absorbed into the drum through unknown means; the drum is currently estimated to weigh over 70 tons.
Operating SCP-4979 in reverse elongates space in front of it; through careful maneuvering and use of SCP-3738, Foundation researchers have succeeded in returning the immediate area to within 1% of its baseline spatial topography.
SCP-4979 was constructed by one
Item #: SCP-3749
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3749 is kept in Site-292's warehouse and is to remain unpowered outside of testing.
Potential use of SCP-3749 for posthumous investigations is under consideration.
Description: SCP-3749 is an industrial woodchipper.
When material is inserted into SCP-3749, SCP-3749 will eject a large number of cassette tapes, instead of the shredded material. The tapes ejected are usually equal in mass to the inserted objects. No trace of the original material is found; isotopic tests rule out the conversion of inserted objects into tapes.
These tapes contain scattered audio recordings, usually from the hypothetical "point of view" of the object(s) inserted. Due to the low capacity and large quantity of tapes, sequencing them is tedious and difficult.
Partial SCP-3749 Test Log:Test # | Item(s) | Audio Contents |
---|---|---|
01 | Oak branches. | Mostly ambient nature sounds, interspersed seldomly with indistinct conversation. One tape consists solely of an auditory cognitohazard that causes listeners to hallucinate a pine tree in the center of their vision for approximately 15 minutes. |
03 | Pieces of Researcher Nogales' totaled car. | Sounds of heavy machinery, traffic and engine noises, snippets of Nogales' voice, and a 20-minute, irregular series of honks. Decoding of the series of honks is in progress. |
06 | A broken cafeteria table from Site-292. | Forest sounds, factory sounds, laughter, and distinct conversations between known Site-292 personnel. One voice is indistinct, and does not match any personnel. |
08 | A tape from a prior test. | N/A; tape was shredded as expected for a nonanomalous woodchipper. |
13 | D-10982's recently deceased corpse.4 | A single tape, containing approximately 3 hours of sobbing (matching D-10982's voice) and a single message repeated sporadically. |
I didn't do it
Item #: SCP-4794
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4794 are kept within a climate-controlled locker.
Description: SCP-4794 is a pair of jeans.
SCP-4794's only marking is small sequins in a circle on the back right pocket. When worn, SCP-4794 will adjust and stretch or shrink to fit the subject's body; subjects usually report SCP-4794 as comfortable.
SCP-4794 adheres to skin, with adherence steadily increasing the longer SCP-4794 is worn. Past 50-60 hours, SCP-4794 cannot be removed without intensive surgery, as it begins to weave its fibers under the skin.
Over time, SCP-4794 will induce morphological changes in the subject.
Item #: SCP-3786
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: A local clinic (Site-234-M) has been constructed, through Foundation front companies, specifically for SCP-3786 victims and enclosed in a tight-meshed bird net. The perimeter is to be regularly sprayed with pesticides. Any animal found within the clinic is to be exterminated on sight, and its remains recovered and incinerated by MTF Upsilon-6 ("Red Cross").
MTF Upsilon-65 has partnered with local churches to identify and suppress outbreaks of SCP-3786 near its point of discovery. Due to the nature of SCP-3786, the use of amnestics on patients and their immediate circle is actively discouraged.
SCP-3786 victims are to be subdued using Class 3 restraints and transferred to Site-234-M for treatment.
Any members of MTF Upsilon-6 experiencing a crisis of faith are to immediately alert their superiors and take a leave of absence from their duties.
Description: SCP-3786 is a lentivirus genetically similar to HIV that causes infected cells to become distorted into a pig-like shape. SCP-3786 symptoms include
- Acute aquaphobia and acrophobia.
- Visual hallucinations, usually of indistinct red humanoid or porcine creatures. Victims often identify them as 'demons' or 'devils'.
- Auditory hallucinations of distorted, deep voices.
- Seizures accompanied by temporary anomalous increases in strength.
- Self-harming tendencies.
- An inability to die despite normally catastrophic organ failure or injuries.
Conventional HIV antiviral treatments are ineffective on SCP-3786, and often result in SCP-3786 infection in those administering treatment.
Successful treatment of SCP-3786 requires at least two people of an Abrahamic faith fasting before physically touching the victim and praying sincerely. The victim will thrash briefly, before falling asleep. Analysis shows their bodies to be completely purged of SCP-3786. Any animals in the immediate vicinity will become infected with SCP-3786, and attempt to escape the area.
SCP-3786 cannot be transferred physically between humans. MTF Upsilon-6 agents theorize it spreads via a poorly-understood faith-based mechanism; SCP-3786 is known to manifest within non-religious people who visit or interact with current victims, even when not physically present. Conversely, faith that an infected person will recover appears to 'inoculate' against SCP-3786.
SCP-3786 was discovered following microscopic analysis of the pathogen following a string of infections in [city]. Standard information concealment protocols were used, and initial containment of patients began. Following reports of the first complete curings of SCP-3786, an undercover Foundation agent in the local church investigated further.
SCP-3786's mechanic appeared to work against it once a critical number of people of faith were aware of the phenomenon. The Sunday following the first successful curing, the local pastor mentioned the success of the prayer before the sermon, and preached from Matthew 17. This had the effect of most of the congregation being 'inoculated', and several members bringing infected members to the church in order to receiver prayer.
Following these events, researchers noted that allowing the cured victims to remember their experience drastically reduced infection rates, and the current containment procedures were drafted and implemented.
Item #: SCP-4792
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-4792 is an 1860s-era bicycle, with its frame composed entirely of human bones in place of iron.
When a person attempts to ride SCP-4792, their body will split open vertically and eject a variable number of bones. These bones will arrange themselves on SCP-4792's frame, then SCP-4792 will self-propel. The body of the subject remains alive in a vegetative state until the bones are returned.
SCP-4792 will continue to propel itself at a fast cycling speed. If SCP-4792 strikes another vertebrate during its travel, its bones will also be ejected and added to SCP-4792. As SCP-4792 increases in mass, the various bones attached to it will vibrate strongly. Any bones in SCP-4792's vicinity will be violently attracted towards it and attach to its mass.
If allowed to continue, SCP-4792 will eventually slow and become unable to move under its own weight, at which point the bones will detach from SCP-4792 and return to their original locations.
When ridden downhill, SCP-4792 instead accelerates, coalescing into the shape of larger and larger wheeled land vehicles
Item #: SCP-3659
Object Class: Keter Safe
Updated Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3659 is kept in Site-119 for use by Surveillance and Analysis Department personnel. SCP-3659-A is kept in a standard lockbox and requires O5 permission to use in conjunction with SCP-3659.
SCP-3659 is currently uncontained. Foundation negotiators are to commandeer and intercept national government resources in order to negotiate with POI-3425 through a proxy without revealing the Foundation's existence.
Until Project Smoothstone is completed, negotiations are to be kept amicable and POI-3425's demands met when feasible.
Description: SCP-3659 is a globe that mirrors Earth in real time.
SCP-3659 depicts the Earth to a high degree of accuracy; viewing SCP-3659 with appropriate implements allows features on the scale of buildings to be distinguished.
SCP-3659-A is a gardening glove covered in sigils and paint. If a person wears this glove and directly interacts with SCP-3659, Earth is similarly affected (though the forces applied are not to scale).
SCP-3659 and SCP-3659-A were created by one Clarence Steinbeck (POI-3425), a known anarchist. Upon creating SCP-3659 and testing its properties, he attempted to reach the United States government through various means, considering himself a terrorist.
Foundation agents embedded in the US government intercepted communications with POI-3425 and took over negotiations while posing as government officials; standard coverup procedures were enacted.
POI-3425 communicated with the Foundation through video calls, and used anomalous means to conceal his location. After proving his ability to exploit the connection between SCP-3659 and Earth (see Incident Log-3659/A21), he proceeded to make several outlandish demands, including the immediate resignation of the United States president, dissolution of the United Nations, addition of his likeness to Mount Rushmore, and the abolition of sales tax.
During a later communication with POI-3425, he became irritable and began making more and more ridiculous demands, as well as taunting the agents involved by posing next to SCP-3659 and making offensive comments and gestures, before sitting down and declaring his intention to masturbate on camera.
Researcher Mira Marquez noticed that the portion of SCP-3659 directly facing POI-3425 contained the location of the Palanez-Kumail Array Dish, and contacted personnel from the Orbital Division.
While agents attempted to keep POI-3425 in the same position, Marquez and the Orbital Division quickly redirected the Foundation orbital weapons platform Gomorrah and fired its neutron beam cannon directly at the Palanez-Kumail Array Dish, which reflected it into space. Simultaneously, the miniature version of the Dish present on SCP-3659 reflected a beam into POI-3425's head, killing him instantly.
Item #: SCP-3684
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3684 is kept in a soundproofed aquarium and cared for by blindfolded animal handlers. SCP-3684 is to be fed clams in accordance with Document 3684-E.
Personnel affected by SCP-3684 are to administered amnestics and psychological therapy.
Description: SCP-3684 is a cognitohazardous, aquatic animal of unknown species.
Subjects who view or perceive SCP-3684's presence through other senses become convinced that SCP-3684 is in fact a large walrus. Details of SCP-3684's supposed appearance are constant across affected subjects.
Affected subjects begin to perceive other people, and ultimately animals and inanimate objects, as walruses. No pattern or correlation has been found in the people that subjects do perceive as walruses; additionally, two affected subjects' delusions do not necessarily overlap.
Occasionally, affected subjects begin to imagine a far-reaching conspiracy, usually involving said walruses infiltrating their workplace or home life. Whether this paranoia is a natural outcome or a secondary anomalous effect of SCP-3684 is difficult to determine. Investigations by unaffected personnel consistently fail to uncover any evidence of walrus-related activity.
Attempts to view SCP-3684 using experimental cognitohazard-filtering gear such as SCRAMBLE goggles results in SCP-3684 resembling an indistinct, amorphous mass composed of straw, mud, fat, and walrus tusks.
Notably, affected subjects become completely unable to perceive ordinary, nonanomalous walruses.
Item #: SCP-5253
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5253 is kept in a large, hemispherical pit lined with polytetrafluoroethylene. SCP-5253 is fed 50 kg of precision-cut wooden sculptures, dropped into the pit twice a week.
Should the use of SCP-5253 be requested by senior personnel, trainers are to engulf SCP-5253 in polymer gel #MCN116, and use the on-site magnetic crane to lift the bubble of gel containing SCP-5253 to the designated zone for transport.
Description: SCP-5253 is an incorporeal predatory entity that feeds on the structural integrity of solid objects.
SCP-5253 visually appears as an indistinct, vaguely arthropodic distortion in the surrounding air, with an average refractive index of about 1.19. Heads, toothed mouths, and limbs will surface and disappear irregularly from the central 'body'. Objects and limbs can be inserted into the space SCP-5253 occupies with some resistance, although this causes discomfort to it. SCP-5253's visibility is directly proportional to its hunger; when full (assumed due to its refusal to feed further), SCP-5253 is nearly invisible.
Any object bitten by one of SCP-5253's mouths undergoes catastrophic structural failure and collapses. Despite this, other solid objects that were previously supported by the collapsed object will remain in place, unless subsequently fed on by SCP-5253. After "feeding" on a given object, SCP-5253 can phase through the broken remains with no resistance.
Prior to containment, SCP-5253 preferred live prey, causing cave ins and other terrain hazards to entrap its food. SCP-5253 would then feed on the integrity of their bones, teeth, and other hard structures, and leave them alive to heal partially before feeding again.
Routine testing of SCP-5253 placed it at a 7.3 on the FAITH animal intelligence metric. Accordingly, a team of Foundation animal trainers have proposed the possible use of SCP-5253 as an asset for decommissioning hard-to-destroy structures, and search-and-rescue operations.
Using SCP-3589 as a source of treats with unusual structures (namely, crystalline, metallic, and glassy objects) trainers have successfully retrained SCP-5253 to avoid harming humanoid objects and entities, and to selectively collapse portions of structures to allow for operatives to retrieve trapped people and objects.
Item #: SCP-4279
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4279
Description: SCP-4279 is an operating room in [blah] Hospital that causes metamorphosis of the organs of patients operated on within it.
Organs affected by SCP-4279 (SCP-4279-A instances) are not necessarily the ones operated on; SCP-4279 appears to disproportionately target spleens and hearts.
Over the course of several months, SCP-4279-A instances gradually grow a thick coating of calcium carbonate and protein, and contract into a more rounded shape. After approximately one month, the coating is too thick to be penetrated by ordinary medical imaging. Organs retain full functionality despite their internal structures breaking down. Subjects often exhibit mild osteoporosis as SCP-4279-A instances leach calcium from the bones.
At this point, SCP-4279-A instances detach all connections to the rest of the body, and simply rest freely, moving on their own occasionally.
Item #: SCP-4289
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-4289 is a mechanical species of weevil that infests motorcycles.
SCP-4289 burrow into the fuel tanks of motorcycles and feed on the gasoline.
Item #: SCP-4689
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-4689 denotes three individuals who are repeatedly targeted by airborne sandals at terminal velocity.
Item #: SCP-4189
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4189 is kept in a reinforced steel tank appropriate for its size, and fed one goldfish (or another similar sized fish) daily.
Should SCP-4189 breach containment, Wing 2 of Site-759 is to be sealed and flooded, and treated as SCP-4189's new temporary containment cell while the water is pumped with Sedative RA-431.
SCP-4189 should be kept no less than 50 km from any bodies of water.
Description: SCP-4189 is an extremely hostile and oversized angelfish (genus Pterophellum).
SCP-4189 is 6.8 m long and incredibly dense and hard, weighing approximately 119 tons. SCP-4189 violently attacks any moving object or animal in its vicinity, including its reflection in appropriate surfaces, bludgeoning with its body until the target ceases motion. Subsequently, SCP-4189's mouth will distend as it instantaneously inhales the object and swallows it whole.
SCP-4189 was recovered in the San Diego Bay after being witnessed swallowing a humpback whale.
Since initial containment, SCP-4189 has behaved erratically and self-destructively, attempting to impact its own reflection and swim into walls repeatedly, causing significant strain on containment resources. In a particularly violent episode, SCP-4189 cracked its wall and remained motionless for 4 days.
When SCP-4189 awoke, it convulsed briefly before vomiting a large conglomeration of fish bones and decayed flesh in the vague shape of another angelfish, designated SCP-4189-A. SCP-4189 now continually fights SCP-4189-A instances, swallowing and vomiting a new instance whenever one is destroyed.
Item #: SCP-4887
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-4887 are spherical structures of extraterrestrial origin, buried in various locations worldwide.
SCP-4887 instances are approximately 40 m in radius, and are divided into nine floors. The top four floors contain living quarters and broken machines that appear intended to regulate internal atmosphere composition and pressure. The fifth through eighth floors are laboratories of various specializations, with especially advanced biotechnology. No inhabitants appear in these.
The ninth floor of every SCP-4887 instance to date contains multiple containment cells made primarily of an organic, translucent crystalline material. All cells found have been completely destroyed upon recovery. Feeding structures and remaining functional equipment suggest the entities previously contained within were small, social, and hostile.
Each SCP-4887 instance recovered has several breaches in the hull, presumably caused by the captive entities.
Addendum: On [date], exploration of a newly discovered SCP-4887 instance revealed a single, still-living occupant, designated SCP-4887-A, which had sealed itself within a vacuum chamber and entered a state of suspended animation.
SCP-4887-A is a nonapedal, cephalopod-like organism with crystalline skin. Three large, jointed limbs support and carry the body, while the remaining six smaller, tentacular limbs are used for interaction. The main body has three round, gelatinous red structures, determined to be sensory organs. There is also a central "brain" analog, with extensions of it threaded through the limbs, as well as 15-20 small "mini-brain" structures along the threads. Three of SCP-4887-A's secondary limbs were severely damaged, and appear to have been chewed.
SCP-4887-A's skin exhibits a minor optical anomaly, absorbing infrared-visible light in its vicinity and rereleasing it as ultraviolet, in complex patterns on its skin. Analysis of its body composition is ongoing, though it is mostly carbon-based.
A chamber was setup and the atmosphere and pressure equalized to the approximate settings of the SCP-4887 instance, and SCP-4887-A was placed in this chamber until it regained consciousness.
Item #: SCP-4191
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-4191 is a sentient conglomeration of 119 boat engines welded together.
SCP-4191 floats along the Mississippi river, propelled by a blue children's toy fan attached to several of its engines. Attempting to restrain SCP-4191 results in it revving its engines and accelerating underwater to speeds above 300 km/h before disappearing.
SCP-4191 communicates by revving various engines in a cacophony. Humans within audible range perceive the revving a human voice speaking in Southern American English.
58 of the engines speak in a masculine voice, and collectively identify simply as "Big Earl". "Big Earl" makes exaggerated claims of its exploits hunting alligators in the Louisiana bayou,
Item #: SCP-4795
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-4795 is an anomalous species of mosquito.
SCP-4795 are smaller than ordinary mosquitoes, and are primarily found in dry, rocky areas. Dissections of SCP-4795 instances reveal their internal organs to be composed of hollow sedimentary rock filled with an organic liquid. The compositions of this liquid vary depending on the home location of SCP-4795, but contains various proteins and nucleic acids.
When SCP-4795 bites a human subject, the bite area will inflame and cause delirium and fever in the subject. If the subject sleeps, they will often experience heightened levels of REM sleep.
While the subject is asleep, the SCP-4975 bite will ooze a viscous, yellow liquid visually similar to amber.
Item #: SCP-4393
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-4393 are cognitohazardous advertisements for boats.
SCP-4393 instances are often incoherent in their use of English and other languages, but all contain an image of a boat, a price in US dollars, and contact information such as a phone or email address.
Item #: SCP-4781
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-4781 is a large humanoid composed of lava.
SCP-4781 walks with a [old man] gait and constantly circulates magma through its body, keeping itself at an average 1190 C.
SCP-4781
Item #: SCP-4974
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Standard concealment and disinformation protocols apply for all telescopes viewing the _ Nebula.
Description: SCP-4974
Item #: SCP-4917
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4917 is kept within a pressurized saltwater tank. Personnel attending to SCP-4917 must wear full body protection.
Description: SCP-4917 is a cyclostome fish attached to the inside of the living skin of a human male.
SCP-4917's skin is only attached to the rest of the body at the head, and drapes loosely over the fish's body. A living animal touching SCP-4917 results in the generation of large volumes (>200,000 L) of thick opaque slime from SCP-4917's mouth that engulf the approaching organism.
After approximately 80 seconds, the slime evaporates and leaves behind SCP-4917 and the other organism, both having exchanged their skins.
The other organism will not suffer any trauma from its transfiguration beyond mild discomfort and irritability of the skin, which will usually be either stretched to fit if the organism is larger than SCP-4917, or sag significantly if the organism is smaller.
This process is entirely reversible, though repeated use by the same organism may result in partial necrosis of skin folds. If a different organism touches SCP-4917 in this state, they will both switch skins following the production and evaporation of slime, allowing for an arbitrary number of skin transfers using SCP-4917 as an intermediate. However, SCP-4917 will eventually dry out after 100-150 transfers, requiring a period of rest of about a day to recuperate its slime.
Item #: SCP-4793
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: MTF Rho-10 ("Horny Bastards") are to infiltrate the illegal ivory trade in Africa and Southwest Asia.
Description: SCP-4793 are anomalous white rhinoceros horns.
SCP-4793 exhibit no anomalous properties until after they are separated from the rhinoceros' body. Once transported a distance of 5-21 km from the rhinoceros, SCP-4793 instances will turn inside out and eject a vaguely animalian mass of organs, muscle, bone, and embedded rhinoceros horns, designated SCP-4793-A.
SCP-4793-A will
SCP-4793
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Item #: SCP-4741
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Foundation agents are to influence the rules of organized combat sports to reduce the likelihood of SCP-4741 occurrences. All SCP-4741 occurrences are to be investigated, and the users apprehended, questioned, and amnesticized to remove SCP-4741 from their memory.
Description: SCP-4741 is a specific punching sequence that causes disproportionate destruction to living human targets.
Performing SCP-4741 correctly requires 99 consecutive punches to the fatty area of the back directly above the left hip, followed by a poke. SCP-4741 fails if the striker interrupts with a strike to any other part of the body. To date, SCP-4741 has no known time limit.
A successful use of SCP-4741 results in the target immediately exploding, with approximately 20% more resulting viscera mass than would be expected.
Consecutive uses of SCP-4741 by the same person result in increasingly large explosions.
SCP-4741 was discovered by
Item #: SCP-4894
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-4894 is an anomalous species of oak tree.
Populations of SCP-4894 are found in various locations in the forested portions of California and Nevada, usually in small pockets that form their own biomes.
SCP-4894
Item #: SCP-5579
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Concept.JPG
Description: SCP-5579 is a large, extradimensional cavern underneath Volcano.
SCP-5579 can only be accessed when a sapient being drives a motor vehicle directly into the mouth of the volcano.
Item #: SCP-5253
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Newly discovered SCP-5253 instances are to be covertly removed by local teams, placed in low-priority storage at Site-82, and replaced with ordinary billboards. The individual mentioned is to be monitored until the marked day.
Description: SCP-5253 are billboard advertisements that announce imminent events, most often the upcoming birthday of an individual. Less frequently, SCP-5253 will announce the anniversary of a structure or location's creation.
SCP-5253 instances replace ordinary billboards near-instantaneously at unpredictable intervals. Chance surveillance of billboards at the moment of SCP-5253 conversion suggests the involvement of small, swarming entities, none of which have yet been captured or identified.
Destroying an SCP-5253 instance, or defacing its text to the point of unreadability, causes it to revert to its original state. Meanwhile, the nearest billboard will become an SCP-5253 instance bearing the same text. The SCP-5253 instance will also disappear once the event on it passes.
SCP-5253 instances are tied to causality; in all observed cases, the entity, structure, or object will remain intact until the date on the billboard despite all attempts at interference. In all tests to date, unlikely events or coincidences occur to ensure SCP-5253's announcement is fulfilled.
Additionally, in the cases where SCP-5253 predicts an event of finality such as "last birthday" or "last New Years for [subject]", no method has yet been found to circumvent these announcements or prolong any subject's existence.
Addendum: During the unrelated excavation of a 15 km deep borehole by SCP-6889's containment team, the largest SCP-5253 instance to date (~65 m wide) was found at the bottom.
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Item #: SCP-5749
Object Class: Neutralized
Special Containment Procedures: All remains of SCP-5749 instances are to be placed in cryostorage following retrieval. All objects of value are to be extracted from the C Wing of Site-102 prior to its scheduled decomissioning.
Description: SCP-5749 are biological organisms composed of nonhuman hand, arm, mouth, and claw structures fused into a roughly spherical shape, all growing out of a miniature wrecking ball. The skin present on SCP-5749 instances is uniformly a pale blue, and hands have anywhere from 3 to 8 fingers.
SCP-5749 instances are capable of vocalizing from any mouths present but do not appear to show any notable intelligence.
SCP-5749's mouths are unexpectedly strong, with a bite force exceeding 30 kilonewtons. Mouths possessing teeth are known to chew through metal doors given enough time.
SCP-5749 instances are restless, and constantly attempt to destroy the environment around them and remake it using their appendages. Mouths and arms exude paints, various tools, and decorative items, which they use to destroy and
Item #: SCP-5253
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Foundation webcrawler I/O-POSE is to monitor both academic and informal publications for any keywords matching SCP-5253. Embedded elements in academia and national governments are to prevent investigations of known Precambrian strata and suppress any individuals aware of SCP-5253.
Update: No further expeditions to the oceanic abysses are to be undertaken without notifying the SCP-5253 research team.
Description: SCP-5253 is an infohazardous theory surrounding the primary causes of the Cambrian explosion.
Due to its nature, specific details of SCP-5253 are dangerous to identify. Known safe details include:
- The existence of advanced metazoan oceanic life prior to 1,200 Mya
- The colonization of the hypothetical supercontinent Rodinia by this life
- A large migration of life into the crust (and possibly the mantle) around 700 Mya
- The complete extinction of all non-migrated life in 650-700 Mya
- A massive tectonic event releasing the crust life back to the ocean
- The evolution of this life into the known Cambrian forms
Consideration and acceptance of the SCP-5253 as valid currently appears to be the trigger for further anomalous effects.
Study of D-Class and affected civilians shows a variety of effects. In the majority of cases, the subject eventually dies of instantaneous conversion of their blood and cerebrospinal fluid to seawater, followed by massive hemorrhaging. The seawater contained a high concentration of extinct protozoa and microbes. Upon expulsion from the body, the life forms in the water rapidly divide and grow into larger and larger forms of prehistoric marine animal life that attempt to collectively move towards a single direction. Testing has shown that all movement is directed towards the Atacama Trench in the Pacific Ocean; investigation of the extrapolated location has revealed no abnormalities.
Study of these life forms in containment shows them to progress through various phyla before reaching a final, radially symmetric body plan. These organisms typically resemble eels or worms in composition, and have multiple shells, eyes and mouths. Over 75 varieties have been documented, each with specialized adaptations also seen in nonanomalous Cambrian life.
Addendum 5253-01: Number of recorded SCP-5253 victims: approximately 2000. On 2019/17/03, a gold mining team in Brazil reportedly encountered a 'strange fossil' in an unexplored tunnel. When the miners viewed the fossil, deep-sea worms, lampreys, and molluscs spontaneously erupted indiscriminately from their tissues and orifices. One miner collapsed the tunnel, destroying the fossil and terminating most of the remaining miners.
The unaffected miners and converted anomalies were amnesticized and contained, respectively. The contained specimens continued to vocalize until their expiration. Investigation of the situation revealed that the owner of the mine was aware of SCP-5253; he has not yet been recovered.
Addendum 5253-02: Number of recorded victims of SCP-5253 now exceeds 10,000. On 2024/03/02, a large tremor in the Atacama Trench was detected, corresponding to a higher-than-usual metabolism in the 0.5 kilometer thick layer of living metazoan tissue beneath the sediment floor. Seismographic measurements confirm the formation of an eye or analogous structure near the thickest part of the layer.
Item #: SCP-5455
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5455 is stored in a Low Risk Containment Locker.
Description: SCP-5455 is a CD copy of the 2006 album The Dutchess by Fergie that extrudes animated strings of cotton candy from the device used to play it. These strings move to the tune of the music, forming musical notation, silhouettes of dancing humanoid figures, and geometric shapes.
The bottom side of SCP-5455 is scratched, causing tracks #1 ("Fergalicious") and #10 ("Big Girls Don't Cry") to skip. When either of these tracks are played, the humanoid cotton candy shapes are distorted, and move erratically.
Item #: SCP-5657
Object Class: Neutralized (Formerly Euclid)
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-5657 is a humanoid entity resembling the character General Asilenya from the anomalous animated series Penumbra W.A.V.E.6
SCP-5657 was recovered wearing iridescent, metallic armor over a dark blue underlayer of thick woven fabric, as well as a molded gray helmet covering most of its face. Visible portions of SCP-5657's skin are light purple in color.
Any part of SCP-5657's body that was covered by its original clothing (the majority of its torso, upper legs, upper arms, and face) appears as an indistinct blur akin to static snow.
Item #: SCP-5455
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5455 is kept within a standard Safe lockbox. Contained SCP-5455-A instances are kept in cryogenic freezers on-site.
Reports of attacks matching SCP-5455 are to be investigated.
Description: SCP-5455 is a bottle of Omega-3 fish oil supplement pills.
When consumed, SCP-5455 causes an increase in brain activity and an overall restructuring of neural tissue. Gradually, the brain (SCP-5455-A) breaks down segments of the base of the skull and the cervical vertebrae. Major portions of the brain's blood vessels will rearrange to form a rudimentary, heart-like structure in the center of the brain, while causing the neck muscles to partly atrophy.
Aside from frequent aches, vertigo, and occasional sleep paralysis the subject continues to act normally.
After a variable length of time (ranging between 3 days and 6 years), the subject will convulse wildly and attempt to headbutt the nearest person repeatedly. With the neck structurally weakened due to SCP-5455-A, the impacts cause the subject's head to be torn from the body. The severed head drags itself along with a variety of pseudopods made from the repurposed muscle and bone. The head will grip the victim's body, and attach itself at the neck. Once SCP-5455-A is connected to the victim's bloodstream, a release of chemicals causes the victim to fall unconscious. SCP-5455-A proceeds to extract the brain tissue from the victim and add it to itself, before roughly severing the victim's neck and attaching itself in place of the original head. This process can occur multiple times, with further mutilations becoming necessary to accommodate SCP-5455's progressively increasing mass.
Upon investigation of the factory address on the bottle's label, Foundation operatives discovered a deep, water filled pit. At the bottom were 182 distorted organisms, resembling oversized nautiluses, crabs, or oysters. The "shells" of these organisms were composed of human bone, and the fleshy portions found to be human brain tissue.
Item #: SCP-5657
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Standard Class 3 (Nearby Celestial Object) disinformation protocols and image doctoring protocols apply.
Deactivation of SCP-5657 is delayed pending Ethics Committee decision.
Description: SCP-5657 is a binary pair of rogue planets7 currently located 119 light years from Earth.
- SCP-5657-Alpha is a rocky planet, 1.3 times the mass of Earth. 91% of the planet's surface is covered in a frozen methane/ammonia ocean, with the remaining land forming a singular continent.
- SCP-5657-Beta is a large gas giant, 12 times the mass of Jupiter, covered in massive storms. All of its six moons have been tethered together with nanotube cables, hollowed out and filled with advanced machinery keeping them locked in and pointed towards the north pole of SCP-5657-Beta.
Every 1283 days, the moons will activate, firing beams at the gas giant continuously for weeks. The gas giant will heat up, glowing magenta and then a dull orange as nuclear fusion begins.
Item #: SCP-5455
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures:
Description; SCP-5455 is a bicycle
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Item #: SCP-7000
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Until a method of physically containing SCP-7000 can be devised, hidden sensor arrays are to monitor for SCP-7000 manifestations. Local personnel are to mobilize to deploy amnestics to SCP-7000-A and any witnesses, cleaning up the area if needed.
Description: SCP-7000 are 9-meter-long translucent, spectral appendages resembling distended human hands with six fingers.
SCP-7000 appear near ammunition stores and factories at unpredictable intervals during the night, abducting a lone human (SCP-7000-A) before ascending and disappearing. SCP-7000-A returns alone after a period between 52 seconds and 4 minutes and immediately falls to the ground.
In approximately 80% of cases, SCP-7000-A is recovered with only dizziness and minor injuries from the fall. All instances report the sensation of having been placed within a cold, dark metal tube by SCP-7000 and spun rapidly. Some instances also report mechanical clicking noises, distant incoherent voices, and the odor of alcohol.
In the remaining cases, SCP-7000-A abruptly remanifests in a severely mangled state accompanied by a loud gunshot sound and several hundred liters of non-humanoid viscera and bone. Traces of gunshot residue are also identified.
One unique case resulted in an unharmed SCP-7000-A instance, despite a gunshot occurring in its vicinity. However, the gunshot had a significantly lower volume. Upon debriefing, the instance claimed to briefly glimpse large spectral humanoids after its removal from the metal tube. These humanoids, whose sizes and description are consistent with SCP-7000, allegedly vocalized and discarded a metallic, handheld object.
Item #: SCP-7559
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Until SCP-7559 is sufficiently understood, priority directive is identification and isolation of cases through use of endoscopy on currently contained SCP-7559 hosts.
SCP-7559 hosts are to be housed in Standard Humanoid Containment Cells in Site-159 and monitored routinely by medical staff for signs of sepsis. Radioisotope trackers are to be added to their diets to assist in the identification and retrieval of further linked hosts.
Description: SCP-7559 are wormholes enclosed within muscular sphincters that spontaneously appear within living humans. These wormholes are stable and range from 2 µm to 25 cm in diameter at the widest part, and are seamlessly integrated into the surrounding tissue.
SCP-7559 sphincters usually only link to instances inside other human hosts. This often leads to complications when bodily fluids from one host travels into another, with one notable case involving stomach acid from one host leaching into the cervical lymph nodes of another host.
Extended study of SCP-7559 hosts has revealed that after 6-8 weeks post-7559-manifestation, SCP-7559 sphincters widen into surrounding tissue and are capable of transferring organs either in part or in whole to other hosts. To date, none of these transfers have triggered organ rejection in the "recipient" or loss of bodily function in the "donor", even in extreme cases such as three hosts of different blood types all being connected via SCP-7559 instances in the renal veins.
Addendum 7559.1: On 08/14/23, a SCP-7559 sphincter widened enough to subsume part of the cerebral cortex, essentially moving it midway between two hosts. One host, Sara Linares was rendered comatose, while the other one, one Jaden Jorgenssen, reported symptoms of hallucinations and sleep paralysis to medical staff.
Interviewed: Jaden Jorgenssen
Interviewer: Dr. Monique Velasquez
<Begin Log>
Dr. Velasquez: Hello, Jaden. Please tell me what's been happening.
Jorgenssen: It's everything, ma'am. My stomach has been gurgling for two days now, my hands keep going numb, it's really hard to piss, and I've got this killer headache now, right behind my eyes. My eyes are all messed up, man.
Dr. Velasquez: How so?
Jorgenssen: I know it sounds weird, but I can't see the uh, warm colors anymore. Reds and pinks and oranges are super muted now. Which kind of makes everything blueish now? Hard to describe. The main thing I wanted to tell you guys about is the visions though. (pause) I'm kinda hoping it's the medication, maybe we could switch it out? (Note: SCP-7559 instances are often given placebo pills and told they were medication for "ulcers", "benign tumors", or "immune disorders".)
Dr. Velasquez: Of course, I can see about switching them after we're done here. Please describe the visions in as much detail as you can, though.
Jorgenssen: Okay. So throughout most of the day I keep seeing things in the corner of my eye, you know, like when there's a moth flying around you and you can't quite see where it went? Mostly small things like a bed that's definitely not mine. One time it was like having long hair falling down and covering my eyes. I'm fuckin bald, man.
Dr. Velasquez: That's definitely concerning. How long have these been occurring?
Jorgenssen: Uhh, the last two, three days or so. They've kind of slowed down though- (The pitch of Jorgenssen's voice rises an octave and adopts an Irish accent8.) wait. Wait! Gods, there's something stuck -ack- in my throat!
(Jorgenssen continues to make choking noises for 20 seconds. Notably, his body and neck remain perfectly still for this period. When the noises subside, his voice returns to its original state.)
Dr. Velasquez: Who's there?
Jorgenssen: Who's where? Sorry, I zoned out for a bit there. What was I saying?
Dr. Velasquez: Jaden, I think we're going to need to run a few more tests to figure out what's causing these symptoms, but-
A new SCP-7559 instance appears to manifest in Jorgenssen's left tear duct accompanied by a dull tearing sound. Immediately, approximately 4.5 meters of an abnormally bloated small intestine protrude through the sphincter and spill onto the table.
Dr. Velasquez hits the emergency button and requests medical team.
Dr. Velasquez: Jaden! Can you hear me?
Jorgenssen vomits up one lobe of a lung and collapses to the floor. Medical team arrives.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Jorgenssen was pronounced dead after 12 minutes. The other host known to be linked to Jorgenssen, Sara Linares, had nearly died simultaneously when an SCP-7559 instance drained away her cerebrospinal fluid, but managed to be stabilized.
Dissection of Jorgenssen's cadaver yielded three intact SCP-7559 instances, which were individually preserved in vats. Removal of a fourth was attempted, but during the procedure the attending surgeon, Dr. Moreno brushed the inner lining of the SCP-7559 instance and it closed abruptly, severing two of the surgeon's fingers.
Dr. Moreno was placed under observation and manifested a SCP-7559 instance inside his brachial artery 29 hours later. One of his fingers was recovered in the aorta of a host already in containment; the other has not yet been found.
Addendum 7559.2: The number of contained hosts has surpassed 500. Additionally, 46 hosts whose nervous systems have "threaded" through SCP-7559 instances now report similar hallucinations to Jorgenssen's.
Endoscopic explorations through other SCP-7559 instances present in these hosts has led to inconclusive results. All explorations thread through human flesh for a distance of over 200 m before terminating at an indifferentiated slurry of bodily fluids and membranes. Touching the slurry with the probe often causes unrelated SCP-7559 hosts to bleed from various orifices. Further testing is pending approval.