Description: SCP-496 is a humanoid statue composed primarily of 
calcium carbonate in the form of deceased coral. It is 1 meter tall 
and weighs 296 kilograms. Radiocarbon dating indicates that it is at 
least 1,200 years old. Analysis indicates that SCP-496's interior is 
dead with a thin layer of fresh, living coral and other organisms 
coating most of its exterior. These organisms have existed in their 
current state perpetually for the years SCP-496 has been in 
containment. When it was discovered, several instances of 
SCP-1104 were discovered living within it. 


When a human subject approaches SCP-496, their perception of the 
area around them will change. Subjects will report being in a large 
urban area, populated by humanoid figures. The area has been 
reported as being composed entirely out of coral with a large ornate 
pillar in the center of it. An artificial roof made of coral will be seen 
above the subject's head with reflections of ocean water being 
visible. However these reflections may change form to match 
constellations, persons present within the city, or what appear to be 


An entity or force with access to higher energy 
metaphysical dimensions would perceive our 
reality similarly to how we perceive the reality 
of characters in a comic book. And just how 
we are able to, at whim, change the story 
simply by telling it differently, this higher 
energy being would be able to effortlessly 
make alterations to not just local reality, but 
reality as a whole, altering the baseline and 
changing its most fundamental aspects. 


At the 2015 Foundation Summit on Existential 
Threats, Dr. Darius St. John hypothesized that 
such an entity, were it limited to a human 
intelligence without modification to allow for 
the perception of higher levels of reality, would 
suffer from an overexposure of narrative. This 
entity, when faced with this overexposure, 
might attempt to ease itself by collapsing all 
lower energy realities into something 
perceptible. The effect this would have on 
lower energy narratives would be catastrophic; 
as multiple realities became compressed into 
the same meta-space, they would not be 
immediately destroyed, rather, their parts 
would become intertwined in such an 
incomprehensible way that not only would the 
ability for conscious thought be nearly 
immediately annihilated, physical soace would 
become so compressed and broken that the 
boundaries between all lower realities would 
cease to exist completely. 


This chaotic state of all things, described as 
"Existential Pandaemonium", was the focus of 
Dr. St. John's proposal for the description of a 
new K-Class scenario, the "PK-Class "All-in- 
One" Existential Pandaemonium Scenario". 
This proposal was denied, due to the scenario 
in question being purely speculative and one 


that would require too many impossible things 
to occur before its inception. 


Addendum 3812.4: Log of SCP-3812 Alteration Events 
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Note: The following is a log of known events in which 
SCP-3812 in some way altered reality. Due to the nature 
of these alterations, the likelihood of the event having 
actually ever taken place is listed, alongside the severity 
of the alteration in question. Notably, this log is 
incomplete, and subject to change as more information is 


discovered. 
Event Date Event Severity of 
Description Aiteration 
09/13/1997 SCP-3812 is Minor 


observed walking 
across a stretch of 
desert in the 
American 
southwest. A path 
of temperate 
climate is present 
along SCP-3812's 
travel path. This 
climate diminishes 
slowly over time. 
03/01/1998 SCP-3812 passes Moderate 
over a road near 
Blythe, California. 
Three cars 
approaching 
SCP-3812 are 
annihilated within 
12/12/1999 Evidence suggestsSevere 
that SCP-3812 
caused the 
disappearance of 


an entire island off 
the coast of 
California. No 
fewer than 200 
individuals in 
southern California 
have a vague 
recollection of 
such an island 
existing, and 14 
people were 
unable to justify 
the 
disappearances of 
family members 
who lived in the 
area at the time. 
Additionally, a 
single ship, 
moored to a dock, 
is discovered at 
the bottom of the 
sea near where 
the island is 
believed to have 
been. 

02/16/2000 Testing of SCP- | Severe 
determined that 
the entity exuded 
a powerful anti- 
metaphysical field, 
similar to the 
Foundation 
Scranton Reality 
Anchor. This entity 
was brought into 
contact with 
SCP-3812, which 
was located near 
the 


01/01/2002 


05/29/2004 


Hospital in ; 
. The entity 
had no noticeable 
detrimental effect 
on SCP-3812's 
abilities, and 
instead caused 
SCP-3812 to 
become violent, 
resulting in an 
explosion that 
destroyed the 
hospital. The 
remnants of SCP- 
, later 
reclassified as 
SCP-239, were 
later recontained. 
A powerful Severe 
explosion is 
recorded in 
Eastern Russia. 
SCP-3812 is 
present at the site 
of the explosion. 
No other 
information is 
available. 
Evidence suggestsExtremely Severe 
that, for a period of 
three days, the 
country of 
Mongolia ceased 
to exist. While 
public knowledge 
of this event is 
functionally non- 
existent, a 
significant enough 
percentage of the 


09/02/2004 


11/11/2006 


local population 
with fractured 
memories of the 
event have given 
credit to this 
theory. Orbital 
models indicate 
that during this 
period the Earth's 
orbit was 
dramatically 
affected, by as 
much as 1.5%. 
Records indicate) Moderate 
that on this date, 
every human on 
Earth 
simultaneously 
heard SCP-3812 
screaming and 
begging for help in 
their heads. It is 
unknown how this 
event was 
removed from the 
public 
consciousness, 
but no humans 
alive on this date 
appear to 
remember this 
event occurring. 
During routine Moderate 
server 
maintenance, 
Foundation 
Information 
Security teams 
discover 56 
broken employee 


database files, 
consistent with an 
improperly altered 
personnel 
database used in 
testing. The 
contents of these 
files are unknown. 
It is not known if 
these files 
correspond to 
individuals who 
were once 
employed by the 
Foundation. 
02/28/2009 During an attempt Severe 
by Foundation 
personnel to 
contain SCP-3812 
using a newly 
discovered 
anomalous logical 
construct, 
SCP-3812 
became hostile 
towards 
containment 
teams. No fewer 
than 62 
Foundation 
personnel 
disappeared 
across 17 sites, as 
wellas a 
significant portion 
of local wildlife. 
The resulting 
explosion killed 
another 7 
members of 


221221222? 


containment 
personnel, and left 
a crater roughly 
850m in diameter 
in the Canadian 
Yukon. In the 
wake of the 
explosion, 
SCP-3812 had 
disappeared, and 
SCP-2719 was 
discovered within 
the crater. 

A record 
recovered from 4 
Foundation 
deepwell 
information 
security vault 
indicates that at 
some point in the 
past, one or more 
governments? 
discovered 
SCP-3812 
independent of the 
Foundation and 
attempted to 
terminate it. As a 
result of these 
attempts, 
SCP-3812 swiftly 
removed them and 
any memory of 
them from the 
Earth. The record 
indicates that this 
event was 
followed by the 
activation of 


Extremely Severe 


SCP-2000, which 
SCP-3812 
immediately 
severely damaged 
to impede its 
progress. Why 
SCP-3812 was 
unable to totally 
destroy SCP-2000 
is unknown, but no 
other records of 
this event exist. 
Notably, shortly 
after the discovery 
of this record, it 
disappeared from 
the deepwell 
archive10, 


Addendum 3812.5: // Event 
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On //  ,SCP-3812 was detected moving through a 
sparsely populated region in Paraguay towards a more 
populated region on the Argentinian border'!. As 
Foundation personnel moved to intercept SCP-3812, a 
series of unexpected phenomena occurred. These 
phenomena are listed below, in the order they occurred: 


[1935 HRS] - SCP-3812 is attacked by a large number of 
local wildlife. SCP-3812 repels these attacks, but 
appears in some way startled. 


[1941 HRS] - A massive sinkhole appears below 
SCP-3812, extending down an indeterminate distance. 
SCP-3812 falls, but is immediately returned to ground 
level and the sinkhole vanishes. 


[1950 HRS] - A large number of objects fall from the sky 
onto SCP-3812. These are later determined to have 


been tungsten rods, though the origin of them is 
uncertain. The rods appear to pierce SCP-3812’s body, 
but upon further inspection simply disintegrate within a 
half meter from SCP-3812. After the first three rods fall 
over a forty-second period of time, they are accompanied 
by no fewer than 3000 others that fall in rapid 
succession, each having the same result as the 
previous. Despite this being clearly visible from nearby 
towns, nobody outside of Foundation personnel appears 
to have noticed it taking place. 


[2014 HRS] - Multiple incorporeal instances of 
SCP-3812 begin to fall away from the central mass of the 
entity, as if they were dying. SCP-3812 is unaffected. 
Each of the incorporeal instances becomes hostile to the 
main instance and attacks it. SCP-3812 does not initially 
seem to notice the instances, but eventually appears to 
look in their direction, causing them to disappear 
suddenly. 


[2019 HRS] - An explosion occurs at the point in which 
SCP-3812 is standing. SCP-3812 is unaffected. Several 
other larger explosions occur immediately afterwards. As 
with the tungsten rods, this is somehow not noticed by 
the local populace. 


[2039 HRS] - A gravitational anomaly, later determined 
to be a freestanding, stable, naked singularity, appears 
in front of SCP-3812. SCP-3812 passes through the 

singularity unfazed, which dissipates shortly afterwards. 


For a period of 72 hours after beginning, additional 
anomalous phenomena occur around SCP-3812, all of 
which fail to kill SCP-3812. Eventually, local populations 
were evacuated and amnestics were given to witnesses. 


After this 72 hour period, SCP-3812 was observed to 
glow white momentarily, and then shift sideways and 
then disappear. Immediately afterwards, the anomalous 
phenomena ceased. After a period of absence lasting 
eight weeks, SCP-3812 reappeared at its current 


position above the South Pacific Ocean. Shortly 
afterwards, Foundation Overwatch Command received a 
message on a secure server, access to which is limited 
to Overseers alone. The contents of this message are as 
follows: 


A quick explanation in case you haven't caught 
on yet. 


Your world has rules. Physical rules that 
cannot be broken. You call them the laws of 
the universe and they’re what you study in 
physics, chemistry, etc. Those laws create the 
narrative of your reality, the unchangeable 
story that defines your existence. Once the 
laws are established and the ball is set in 
motion, it cannot be changed. 


| wrote the laws of your universe, and as such 
| created the narrative. This isn’t the first time 
I’ve done this, but it was the first time | tried 
something like this specifically. | wanted to 
create something that, by definition, 
superseded everything that superseded it. | 
wanted to see how many layers there are, if 
the stack of narratives really do go on forever 
upward. The mistake | made was when | didn’t 
realize that by making Him supersede 
everything that supersedes him, he’s also 
superseding himself. 


I'm sorry, | think I've fucked up pretty badly this 
time. I've tried everything | can think of, but | 
can't undo Him. | don't really understand how, 
but | think He's above me now, and whatever 
is above me, too, because whoever wrote my 
narrative isn't happy about this. | don’t know 
where he’s at now, but | think he exists in all of 
our realities simultaneously. Eventually he'll 
either reach the top or just keep going, and 
neither option is good. 


godlike’ figures battling large sea creatures. 


SCP-496 is capable of movement, however attempts at 
communication have been limited due to its underwater presence. 
Construction of an underwater interview area has been denied due 
to the expense cost. 


Testimony of D-9987 after being exposed to SCP-496 


There were these big houses... made of shells and stuff. 
They didn't really seem to have any pattern to them, 
looked like they made up the streets as they went along. 
The roads were coral too. | just kept walkin’ through, 
looking for someone to ask where | was. Wasn't 
panicking or nothin’.... which maybe | should've, but | 
didn't feel like | had to. | felt safe. 


There was this big-ass pillar in the middle going waaay 
up to the ceiling. It had a bunch of runes and symbols 
carved into it, there was a staircase that twisted around 
like a nail. People were walking up and down, carrying 
baskets of coral, food, all kinds of stuff. | kinda watched 
that for awhile, before | looked up and saw the ceiling. 
Looked kinda like those reflections you get from water at 
first, y'know? Little white lines and shapes bobbing 
around. But after | looked for a minute, | saw it change. 
There were faces, people. There were warriors fighting 
off sharks and crabs, and there were guys dressed like 
emperors looking powerful. | sat down and watched that 
for a minute, and that was when you yanked me out. 


In addition, subjects report that SCP-496 is positioned at the center 
of a pantheon containing twelve statues, with each statue being 
composed of a different material. Other individuals are frequently 
seen within the city by subjects, performing rituals or leaving 
offerings to specific statues. It is currently theorized that they held a 
moral, religious, or cultural significance. 


SCP-496 was discovered by field agents investigating reports of 
unusual ruins found on the Caicos Islands. During excavations, 
SCP-496 was uncovered as part of the ongoing archaeological 


I'm going to keep looking for some way to fix 
this. You should, too. 


=e! 


Addendum 3812.6: Excerpt from "Supersession and the Echelon of 
Reality" by Dr. Robert Scranton 


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I'm attaching this excerpt from one of Dr. 
Scranton's articles about the nature of reality. 
If SCP-3812 is some higher-level entity, there 
might be something to be gleaned in here. 


-K. Yamamara 


| am often asked by my colleagues, "Dr. 
Scranton, do you believe in gods?" Many 
might feel as if this is a silly question, but | do 
not believe it's a silly question, just the wrong 
question. The idea of a God implies an entity 
that supersedes you in a complete and infinite 
way. Something that holds a power without 
limits, that not only knows the whole story, but 
can write and rewrite that story at will. 


Within our reality, | do not believe that any 
such being exists. There are a number of 
entities that we are aware of, in one way or 
another, that hold tremendous power over our 
universe. Many would call these beings 
"Gods", and while they certainly hold many of 
the characteristics of a "God", they are still 
limited. Their reach and scope is limited to our 
reality just like we are, and though they may 
carry more weight within it they are no less 
bound to it as we are. 


So then, what would truly constitute a God? 
This entity would have to totally supersede our 


reality, to be able to look over our reality not 
like we would look over ants, but like we would 
look over our thoughts and ideas. A being so 
totally separate from our reality that we may as 
well be words on a page to it. This entity, a 
true author of creation, could be considered a 
God. 


But what of that entity? Would it not share the 
same limitations within its reality as we do 
within ours? It may exist within a higher tier 
than us, but surely it must follow the same 
rules we do. But who sets those rules? An 
entity higher than that? One that supersedes 
not only us, but the entity that supersedes us, 
and the one after that as well? Where did the 
echelon originate, then? Who or what was the 
original architect of the architecture?