minor" on SCP-3357. The entity appears. 
Researchers instruct D-1849 to avoid playing 
the instrument.] 


Dr. Cadence: Welcome to Foundation 
custody, SCP-3357-1. We would like to begin 


SCP-3357-1: What was that? You ignore 
ornamentation like a child! But you play so well 
otherwise. You could be a talented student. 


[The subject seems bewildered. ] 


Dr. Cadence: SCP-3357-1, your attention 
would be better focused— 


SCP-3357-1: Is the tempo too fast? Play a 
little slower. But practice trills first. Do long- 
short rhythm, then switch to short-long. This is 
finger-strengthening exercise. 


D-1849: Uh... Chopin? | think the doctors over 
there want to talk to you. 


SCP-3357-1: What? What use is talk? Play 
music, is good for soul! 


[Researchers repeatedly and unsuccessfully 
attempt to hold a conversation with the entity. 
SCP-3357-1 refuses to interact with any 
personnel other than D-1849. It eventually 
engages in the interview after the subject 
ceases to acknowledge it.] 


SCP-3357-1: If we must have this 
conversation, let's make it quick. | have a 
student to return to. 


Dr. Cadence: The more you cooperate with 
us, the faster and easier this will all be in the 
long run. Now, SCP-3357-1, what is your 


earliest memory? 


SCP-3357-1: Earliest memory? | can't quite 
say. Would have been in Warsaw. | have fond 
memories of mother giving me piano lessons 
in boarding house. 


Dr. Cadence: That's information anyone could 
find in a biography. What proof do you have 
that you really are Chopin? 


SCP-3357-1: | have only ever been myself. 
Who else could | be? 


Dr. Cadence: What year do you think it is? 


SCP-3357-1: What does it matter? | am simply 
here to teach and to enjoy life. 


Dr. Cadence: You aren't Chopin, SCP-3357-1. 
You're an anomaly mimicking the human form. 
Where did you come from? Where did the 
piano come from? 


SCP-3357-1: | come from Poland. The piano? 
Perhaps Austria. It is excellent craftsmanship. 


Dr. Tracy: Boss, | don't think we're getting 
anywhere with this. 


Dr. Cadence: [sighing] You might be right. 

Okay. D-1849, proceed with the waltz. You 

won't be leaving until you manage a perfect 
performance. 


SCP-3357-1: Marvelous. Good student, be 
careful with your fingering at the twelfth 
measure! 


[The remainder of the session is comprised of 
the subject practicing and receiving instruction 
from SCP-3357-1. On the sixth attempt, 


D-1849 performs the piece to the entity's 
satisfaction, and SCP-3357-1 vanishes. ] 


<End Log> 


Closing Statement: The entity's displayed 
behaviors in this interview have been found to 
be contradictory to those recorded of Frédéric 
Chopin. However, other interactions with 
SCP-3357-1 have proven it capable of 
mimicking personalities and mannerisms 
accurately enough to be indistinguishable. 


Document #3357-016: Reference table summarizing a series of 
tests which have determined SCP-3357-1's operating parameters. 


+ Show Document #8357-016 


Test # SubjectMusicalErrors SCP-335%tes Duration 


1 


5 


compositade of test 
played 
D-1849 "Waltzlgnored Took | Entity) 62 
in A) trills | the spoke minutes 
minor"and form of modern 
accidentaigdéricEnglish. 
Chopin Polish 
(~35)| accent 
later 
determined 
to be 
an 
inaccurate 
affectation. 
Personality 
inconsistent 
with 
that 
recorded 
of 
Chopin. 
D-1849 "Fur, Irregulartook | Entity); 102 


6 


101 


Elise" 


D-1849 "Ode 
to 
Joy" 


D-1849 "Pirat 
of the 
Caribb 


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changegorm of 
Ludwig 
van 


displayenhinutes 
partial 

hearing 

loss 


Beethovand 


(~40) 


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written the 

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Ludwig 
van 


exhibited 
signs of 
mild 
distress 
related 

to this. 
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displayenhinutes 
complete 
hearing 
loss. 


Beethoviéthen 


(~55) 


Blany| Took 
the 
form of 
Jarrod 


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questioned 
through 
written 
means, 
SCP-3357-1 
expressed 
resigned 
lamentation 
for its 
condition. 
SCP-3357-1 
denied 
recognition 
both of 
research 
staff 

and of 
D-1849. 
Entity) 79 
adoptedhours 
the 
appearance 


Radnichof the 


(~25)| piano 
arrangement's 
creator 
rather 
than 
that of 
the film 
score's 
composer.2 
Session 
ran 
much 
longer 
than 
planned 
criteria 
for 
choosing 
songs 
for 
testing 
purposes 
should 
be re- 
examined. 

11 D-1849 "Happy TranspoBed not It 1 
Birthdayto key, appeeér seems minute 

of C that 

minor SCP-3357 
recognizes 
songs 
based 
on note 
intervals 
rather 
than 
strict 
adherence 
to the 


original 


composition. 
12 D-1849 "Happy Played Took} Folk | 35 
Birthdayan the songs minutes 


incorrectorm of of 
chord} D-1849 vague 
(34) or 

disputable 
origin 
belong 
to the 
performer, 
apparently. 


Document #3357-018: Transcript of an unauthorized interview 
between SCP-3357-1 and a senior researcher meant to be on 
psychiatric leave. 


+ Show Document #3357-018 
Interviewed: SCP-3357-1 
Interviewer: Dr. Riley Cadence 


Foreword: This interview was conducted 
following SCP-3357's transfer to a larger, more 
isolated containment chamber after Incident 
#3357-01. 


<Begin Log> 


[Dr. Cadence plays the theme from Twelve 
Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman", by 
Mozart, on SCP-3357. She stops seven 
measures through the excerpt's eight. 
SCP-3357-1 manifests. Unlike what has been 
observed in previous testing, the entity 
appears shaken and disoriented upon 
manifestation.] 


SCP-3357-1: What was— | mean... ah-hem. 


You played that lovely piece very well. Why 
didn't you finish? 


Dr. Cadence: I'm here to have a talk. We 
know that you're a sentient being independent 
of the people you mimic, SCP-3357-1. You 
would have confirmed it just now even if your 
reaction during the recent incident hadn't. So. 
Are you aware of time passing when you have 
no physical form? Are you aware of events 
occurring around the piano? 


SCP-3357-1: [No verbal response.] 


[The entity looks away at the wall. Dr. 
Cadence seems to interpret this as 
affirmation.] 


Dr. Cadence: Do you know what happened 
two days ago? After D-1849 was killed and 
you disappeared? If your consciousness still 
exists when you haven't been summoned, you 
must have seen it. 


SCP-3357-1: [No verbal response.] 


[The entity pales and adopts an expression of 
great discomfort.] 


Dr. Cadence: Nothing to say for yourself? 
Three people died in the containment breach 
that you provoked. Our D-class subject. A 
security officer. A junior researcher. Because 
we didn't know you could walk through walls, 
and you thought it would be a good idea to just 
waltz into the next chamber over. Everything 
could have been avoided if you'd cooperated 
with us at any point. 


SCP-3357-1: | didn't mean for any of that to 
happen. 


SCP-433: A Ritual 


Item #: SCP-433 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedure: Only one copy of instructions for 
performing SCP-433 is permitted to exist at any given time. As well, 
the complete procedures may never be placed in an electronic 
document, in order to reduce the risk of containment breach. Dr. 
Severe and Dr. have each read half of document SCP-433-001. 
They may not transcribe or share the contained information with 
anyone, including each other, without O5 approval. 


In the event that information regarding the procedures necessary for 
SCP-433 is leaked, a disinformation campaign is to be undertaken 
immediately. As well, all facilities capable of producing 
Plutonium-238 are to be closely monitored for thefts or increased 
production. 


All testing must be performed in a sealed chamber with solid steel or 
concrete walls existing at minimum 13 m from the center of the 
ritual. Any personnel in the test chamber after the ritual is complete 
are to remain in quarantine for two (2) weeks following its 
completion. Any organisms transferred are to be quarantined and 
studied. 


See Addendum 433-001. 


Description: SCP-483 is a ritual described in document 
SCP-433-001. The ritual, when performed, results in the wholesale 
replacement of all matter within 11 m of the center of the ritual. All 
people, objects, terrain, and even gas is apparently removed and 
replaced with matter of unknown origin. See Test Log 433-031 for 
details on matter replacements. 


Document SCP-433-001 is contained within a large tome found in 


Dr. Cadence: Oh, and it speaks. 


SCP-3357-1: You had me — my piano — in 
such a small space. It was there for weeks, 
and you people were always interfering with 
my students. Asking me questions about 
someone | didn't want to remember. | just 
wanted to know what was outside the room. | 
didn't think it would be that horrific thing next 
door. 


Dr. Cadence: Is that so? 


SCP-3357-1: | wanted to explore something 
before you locked me up forever. | certainly 
didn't walk into that place looking to start a 
massacre. What kind of organization even 
keeps a monster like that in the first place? 


Dr. Cadence: The same kind that confiscates 
a supposedly haunted piano after its most 
recent owner commits suicide. 


[The entity pauses, apparently taken aback. It 
paces toward the observation window on the 
cell's eastern wall. Upon crossing the tape- 
marked boundary two meters from the wall, 
the entity vanishes. It instantaneously 
reappears in front of the opposite wall on the 
piano's other side, still walking in the same 
direction.] 


SCP-3357-1: Jacob... He was a good student. 
Earnest. Conversational. | genuinely liked him. 


[The entity continues pacing.] 


Dr. Cadence: That doesn't change the fact 
that his death had everything to do with you. 


[The entity becomes visibly agitated. ] 


SCP-3357-1: He spent so much time with 
me... maybe too much. His grandmother was 
a composer. | could look and act exactly like 
her — it made him happy sometimes when | 
did — but that never made me her. | thought 
he understood that. 


Dr. Cadence: Clearly, he didn't. That makes 
two incidents now where your carelessness 
has cost lives, you know? 


[The entity stops pacing and sighs. | 
SCP-3357-1: Two by your count. 


Dr. Cadence: Have there been more by 
yours? 


SCP-3357-1: |... It was only one other time... 
But I'd rather not talk about it. 


Dr. Cadence: If people are going to keep 
dying, it's not your right to decide what you 
won't talk about. These tragedies are on your 
head. 


SCP-3357-1: [No response.] 
Dr. Cadence: The silent game again? 
SCP-3357-1: [No response.] 


Dr. Cadence: Hah. Just be glad that you 
decided to visit your neighbor to the south and 
not the west. The anomaly behind that wall 
might have killed even the likes of you. 


SCP-3357-1: ... Did you know them well? The 
other two people who died? 


Dr. Cadence: ... | knew them both. 


SCP-3357-1: Who were they to you? 


Dr. Cadence: ... One was a friend. And one 
was a student. 


SCP-3357-1: | can't say that I've ever had a 
friend in the few years that I've existed. But | 
understand what it is to lose students. From 
one teacher to another, I'm sorry. 


Dr. Cadence: Apologizing doesn't bring them 
back. "Sorry" is just a word to make the guilty 
feel better. 


SCP-3357-1: Maybe it is. But it's the only thing 
| can think of to say. 


Dr. Cadence: If you don't have anything better 
to say, then how about an explanation? 


SCP-3357-1: An explanation of what? 


Dr. Cadence: Of why you've been mimicking 
personalities. You're not a deluded copy of a 
composer. So why did you try to convince us 
that you were? 


SCP-3357-1: | only wanted to be more than 
what | was created as. Can you fault me for 
trying to be a person and not a tool? 


Dr. Cadence: ... Really? A person? Because | 
work with objects, not organisms — and 
certainly not humanoids. 


[Dr. Cadence slams her forearm on the 
keyboard. The entity winces, then weakly 
smiles.] 

SCP-3357-1: Well... It's my prerogative to try. 


[Dr. Cadence begins playing the excerpt from 


Twelve Variations. SCP-3357-1 vanishes upon 
completion of the performance.] 


<End Log> 


Closing Statement: This is the longest known 
record of SCP-3357-1 "breaking character" to 
date. Although the entity has become 
significantly less abrasive in its interactions 
with Foundation staff, it remains highly 
reluctant to divulge information pertaining to its 
origins. 


Footnotes 

1. Following this test, D-1849 expressed extreme reluctance to 
continue interacting with SCP-3357. The subject's transfer request 
was denied, but SCP-3357 testing and containment protocols were 
subsequently revised to accommodate the subject's complaints. 

2. Neither "Ode to Joy" nor "Pirates of the Caribbean" was originally 
written for the piano, yet SCP-3357-1 adopted the composer's form 
in one case and the arranger's form in the other. The reason for this 
remains unknown. 


SCP-3358: Anomaly Apartments Site-316 


Item #: SCP-3358 
Object Class: Thaumiel 


Special Containment Procedures: A wire fence has been built in 
the area immediately encompassing SCP-3358. Signs denoting the 
area to be a refuge for endangered plant life have also been placed 
within a 1km radius of SCP-3358 to reduce the probability of 
civilians entering the area. In the event of non-Foundation personnel 
entering SCP-3358, intruders are to be immediately apprehended 
and administered Class B Amnestics before being released at the 
nearest population center. 


SCP-3358 is to be treated as a Foundation held site focusing on the 
containment of low to medium risk anomalies, and is subject to all 
regulations and procedures set by the O5 Council. SCP-3358 may 
also be referred to as Site-316. 


SCP-3358-1 through SCP-3358-10 are to be held in standard 
humanoid containment chambers within Site-316. 


Description: SCP-3358 is a former apartment complex located near 

, Washington. SCP-3358 encompasses an area of about 33300 
square meters, making everything within it invisible, inaudible, and 
otherwise undetectable from the outside. SCP-3358 does have 
mass, however, and can be physically contacted. SCP-3358 also 
reflects electromagnetic radiation aside from wavelengths on the 
visible spectrum, making it visible to infrared cameras. 


Close proximity to SCP-3358 can result in the neutralization of 
anomalous effects possessed by humans. The process of 
neutralization is not instant. Time until full neutralization varies 
depending on the anomaly!. However, removal from SCP-3358 will 
cause any prior anomalous properties possessed to return at a 
higher intensity than what subjects possessing them refer to as 


‘normal.’ 


SCP-3358 has been converted into Site-316 due to the relative ease 
of concealment as well as its ability to temporarily neutralize 
anomalous humanoids. At the time of writing, Site-316 holds 139 
medium to high-risk humanoid anomalies, including SCP-3358-1 
through SCP-3358-10. See Addendum-3358-1 for details on the 
acquisition of SCP-3358. 


NOTICE FROM SITE-316 DIRECTOR A. DOUGLASS 


It should be noted that transfer to Site-316 should only be used as 
an absolute last resort. Once an anomaly is contained within 
Site-316, relocation becomes nearly impossible. Building more 
containment units is simply not an option, as doing so would pose 
heightened security risks. If we keep accepting transfers we will 
soon be facing a catastrophic overpopulation problem. | ask my 
fellow Site Directors to fully explore their options before 
considering transferring an anomaly to Site-316. 


— A.D. 
SCP-3358-1 through SCP-3358-16 refers to the original 16 


occupants of SCP-3358 at time of discovery. Below is a table listing 
their designation and anomalous properties. 


Designation Anomalous Description 
Properties 
SCP-3358-1 Class IV Reality 50/Female 
Bender 
SCP-3358-2 Reptilian physical 21/Male 
properties 
SCP-3358-3 Cognitohazardous 30/Female 
voice 
SCP-3358-4 Class II Reality 16/ Female 
Bender 
SCP-3358-5 Self-duplication upon 44/Female 
sneezing 


SCP-3358-6 Class II Reality 75/Male