Agent __: Yeah. Yeah, | can hear you. 
Dimaccio: So | heard what happened. | had to 
come right over here. They won't fuckin’ let me 
in, though. You know how it is. 

[pause] 

Agent _ : Appreciate it, man. 

Dimaccio: How do you feel? 

[no audio for several seconds] 


Agent _ : Like I'm covered in freakin’ worms. 
Dimaccio: Hah! Seriously, man. How do you 
feel? 

Agent’: Uh... | can't feel much on my.. | 
mean, like, where my skin used to be. Kinda 
numb. 

[pause] 

Agent :Howcome|can siill talk? They're 


not on my lips or nothin’? 

Dimaccio: They, ah, they they mostly left your 
mouth alone. We don't know why yet. Maybe 
‘cause it's a different kinda skin. 

Agent — : Why don't they get squished? 


Dimaccio: Sorry, man, what? 

Agent __ : Like, the ones on my back and shit. 
They don't get squished from lyin’ on em. 
Dimaccio: Well, | don't know. | guess that's 
what we have to find out, right? 

[no audio for several seconds] 

Agent _ : Paulie? 

Dimaccio: Yeah? 

Agent — : Why don't they get squished? 


2. 
Time since infestation: One (1) week 
Interviewer: Dr M. Xiao 


Dr Xiao: Agent ? 

[pause] 

Dr Xiao: This is Dr Mei Xiao from the biocon 
analysis group. 

Agent _ : Sure you ain't Jenny from the 


block? 

[several seconds of Agent _ 's laughter] 
[pause] 

Dr Xiao: Um. Sorry, Agent __, I'm afraid not. 
Agent _ :1|bet you got some questions for 


me, huh? Now | turned into my very own skip? 
Dr Xiao: Well, | do have some questions. But 
you should know that we haven't classified 
you, personally, as an SCP object. 


Agent _ :1| knew that already. Know why? 
[pause] 

Agent —_: | can read your mind now. Thanks 
to this shit. 


Dr Xiao: Can you tell me— 

Agent _ : Jeez! I'm just screwin' with ya! 
[several seconds of Agent _ 's laughter] 
Agent _ : Ah, jeez... Okay, doc. Fire away. 
[pause] 

Dr Xiao: Okay. Let's start with simple things. 
How's the temperature in here? Do you feel 
cold or warm right now? 


Agent : Uh, it's kinda... so, | mean, | can 
feel that, but it's all... numbed. | don't get it, 
‘cause when they were... 

[pause] 

Agent _ : When they got me, it sure as hell 
wasn't numb then. 

Dr Xiao: Can you feel? | mean, do you still 
have a sense of touch? 

Agent ~_: Kinda. Same thing. It's numb, but | 
can still sort of feel somethin’. | don't even feel 
anythin’ much when | lie or walk on 'em. 
[pause] 

Agent —_: So, when are you gonna get these 
things off of me, anyway? Paulie told me you 
were gonna work it out with some D's. 

Dr Xiao: Well, we're getting there. We need 
more time to understand how to remove the 
infestation safely. I'm sorry it's not as fast as 
we'd like. 

[no audio for several seconds] 

Agent _ : Yeah. Well... yeah. You just keep 
tryin’, though. 

[no audio for several seconds] 

Agent _ _: You keep tryin’. 


oh 
Time since infestation: Two (2) weeks 
Interviewer: Researcher P. Dimaccio 


Agent —_: So, | mean, it's been nice to get a 
freakin’ real bed in here, even though | can't 
really feel much difference. 

Dimaccio: Glad you like it. | told 'em to give 
you a king-size for your fat ass, but they 
wouldn't. 

Agent — : Hah. 

[pause] 

Agent _ : Should be a lot fatter. 
Dimaccio: How do you mean? 

Agent _ : You know how much | got to eat 


now? 

Dimaccio: Something like or calories a 
day, right? 

Agent _— : You know how much that is? 
Dimaccio: Uh... a few days’ worth of field 
[rations]? 

Agent _ : It's a fucking ton of food. Even with 
all the high-calorie shit they got me eatin’. 
Dimaccio: Yeah, | guess it's 'cause of the 
skip. 

Agent — : Noshit, genius. 

[pause] 

Agent _ : They figured out a way to get this 
shit off me yet? 

Dimaccio: Not yet, man. Sorry. 

Agent :Howmany D's they gone through? 
[pause] 

Dimaccio: Uh... | don't know. 

Agent _ : Yeah, | fucking bet you don't. Don't 
shit me, Paulie. | know your ass. 

Dimaccio: Seriously, __, | got no input into 
that.6 

Agent — : Whatever you say, man. 


4. 
Time since infestation: One (1) month 
Interviewer: Dr M. Xiao 


Dr Xiao: Agent ? 

[no audio for several seconds] 

Dr Xiao: Agent __, are you awake? 

[no audio for several seconds] 

Dr Xiao: Let the record show that Agent 
appears to be asleep. This is the third 
interview attempt in which he has— 

Agent __ : You know why | pretend to be 
fuckin' asleep? 

Dr Xiao: |, uh, I— 

Agent __ : Because, an’! don't know if you 
Nobel Prize winners noticed this, but fuckin' 


look at me! And you assholes keep wanting to 
fuck with me but it's as fuckin’ simple as this: | 
got... this shit, instead of fuckin’ skin! There's 
no other shit goin' on around here! How come 
you fuckin' geniuses can't figure that out? How 
come you can't just fuckin’ take this shit off of 
me and put some skin from some D-class on 
me or fuckin’ whatever? 

Dr Xiao: Well, uh, first we have to make sure 
there are no secondary effects and— 

Agent : Yeah, well, how about this fuckin' 
secondary effect: I'm a fuckin’ freak! 


by 
Time since infestation: Six (6) months 
Interviewer: Researcher P. Dimaccio 


Dimaccio: ? 

[no audio for several seconds] 

Agent — : Skip-1707-5. 

Dimaccio: What? 

Agent _ : That's me now, right? That's me. 
Ess See Pee Seventeen Oh-Seven Five. | 
heard some asshole callin' me that the other 
day when they left the comm open on 
accident. 

Dimaccio: Bullshit. You're Field Agent 

from the fuckin’ Grinders. | don't give a fuck 
what those assholes think.” 

Agent — : So... what are one, two, three an’ 
four? 

Dimaccio: Oh... a buncha animals. Listen, _, 
we need— 

Agent — : We need, we need, we need. 
Lemme tell you somethin’, Paulie, and it's what 
/ need, and what / need is for that fuckin’ 
magical miracle fuckin’ cure you assholes are 
workin’ on to actually come true one of these 
fuckin’ days, except that's never gonna 
happen, because six months like this an’ 


you're probably a lifer, right? Right? Stuck in 
this fuckin’ cell forever, right? Bein’ fucking 
studied? Long term study? Don't even shit me. 
Don't even try to shit me. | Know. | know how 
we fuckin’ do things around here. How many 


D-class? 

[pause] 

Dimaccio: Listen, __, it's— 

Agent =: How many D-class? How many of 


‘em do we got in here with this shit on 'em? 
Why do we gotta keep me around? 
Dimaccio:: Come on, man, | told you this last 
time. We ain't got a way to remove it yet 
without killin’ you. 

[no audio for several seconds] 

Agent __: Yeah. | remember. 

[pause] 

Dimaccio: Aw, come on, that ain'tthe | 
remember. You— 

Agent _ : Yeah? Yeah? Maybe that's 
because the fuckin’ you remember 
wasn't a fuckin’ skip! Maybe that's because | 
never used to be a fuckin' freak! Get the fuck 
out of here! Stop bullshitting me! Get the fuck 
Out! 

[At this point, Agent picks up achair from 
his cell and attempts to strike Researcher 
Dimaccio. Security rush into the cell. 
Researcher Dimaccio exits the cell.] 


6. 
Time since infestation: Seven (7) years 
Interviewer: Dr M. Xiao 


Dr Xiao: SCP-1 707-5, this is Dr Xiao. Can you 
hear me? 

[no audio for approx 30 seconds] 

Dr Xiao: I'm not going to be here for long. | 
have just a few short questions. 

[no audio for several seconds] 


SCP-1707-5: [muffled indistinct vocalization] 
[pause] 

Dr Xiao: First of all, have you noticed any 
change in sensation over the last six months? 
[no audio for approx 30 seconds] 

Dr Xiao: 1707-5? 

[no audio for approx 30 seconds] 

Dr Xiao: Okay. Have you experienced other 
effects of SCP-1707? Any other symptoms at 
all? 

SCP-1707-5: [indistinct, unintelligible] 

Dr Xiao: I'm sorry, what was that? 

[no audio for approx 30 seconds] 

Dr Xiao: Okay... okay. This interview is 
concluded at 15:44 local time on / /20 . The 
next interview will be in four— 

SCP-1707-5: Where's Paulie? 

[no audio for several seconds] 

SCP-1707-5: | want Paulie. 

Dr Xiao: He... you know he transferred out. 
He transferred out three years ago. 

[no audio for approx two (2) minutes] 

Dr Xiao: [sighs] Interview is concluded. 

[Dr. Xiao leaves the containment cell.] 


Footnotes 

1. Research has shown detection range to be a function of size of 
target, with a maximum effective range of approx 700 m. 

2. Human hosts report that this agent rapidly and totally inhibits 
voluntary movement for a period of at least 15 minutes. There is no 
associated anesthetic effect. 

3. For more details, see Document SCP-1707-6-E, experiments 1 
through 23. 

4. While still a Field Agent, Researcher Dimaccio served as team 
leader in Agent __'s MTF, Theta-90 ("Angle Grinders"), for a period 
of five years. 

5. Researcher Dimaccio designed Agent _ 's nutrition regimen. 

6. At this time, Researcher Dimaccio was acting project lead of 
Experiment Series SCP-1707-6-E. 

7. Researcher Dimaccio was responsible for the classification of 


SCP-1707 and subsequent designations of its experimental hosts. 


« SCP-1706 | SCP-1707 | SCP-1708 » 


SCP-1708: The Hollowed 


Item #: SCP-1708 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1708 is located at 
Containment Site- in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado. SCP-1708 
should be contained within a chamber lined with padded material. All 
requests for communication must be approved by at least two (2) 
Level 3 personnel. 


Description: SCP-1708 is an entity of unknown origin, measuring 
3.7 meters in height and weighing approximately 25 kg. The subject 
is bipedal with fourteen (14) thin limbs: two located at the bottom, 
each splitting into two tentacle-like appendages; two located at the 
upper end of the torso ending in points; and four protruding from the 
back between the shoulder-blades. These four limbs appear to have 
suffered heavy burn damage, with no observable signs of healing. 
The remaining six limbs are hollow appendages with numerous 
orifices throughout located on the upper chest, three down in a line 
in rows of two. Medical analysis indicates that these limbs are 
attached to the subject's respiratory system and are used primarily 
for communication purposes. 


SCP-1708's flesh is a pale, metallic color and is composed of a 
combination of alkaline metals. SCP-1708 exhibits muscular 
strength and speed that is far inferior to that of an average human's. 
This weakness results in a distinct muscle twitch whilst the subject 
makes gross motions, giving it a stride of sharp, sporadic 
movements. The head of SCP-1708 is oval in shape and devoid of 
features, excluding four holes in the subject's face, located on the 
upper half of the cranial area forming the shape of a rhombus. 
Approximately 2 cm beneath these holes is a black, glass-like 
membrane. 


SCP-1708 is capable of understanding orders given to it. However, 


SCP-1708 does not seem to be capable of communicating using 
any known language and does not, under most circumstances, 
respond to external stimuli of any other kind. 


SCP-1708 is frequently observed sitting in a crouched position in the 
center of its cell. The subject moves only when it is prompted to 
move by Foundation personnel, although does so cooperatively. In 
the presence of religious artifacts, ornaments or textiles, SCP-1708 
enters a state of confusion causing it to be less cooperative and 
more prone to self-harm. Sedatives do not have an effect on this 
behavior, therefore physical restraints may be used during testing. 


Placing the subject under emotional distress results in the subject 
emitting high-pitched screeching noises. When exposed to its own 
reflection, for example, the subject begins to emit sounds that have 
been observed to exceed a volume of 110 db. See Test Log 1708-C. 


The subject shows an apparent affinity for music and can be found 
playing the same musical number at almost all times while 
undisturbed in containment. The subject uses the six frontal limbs to 
make these musical sounds, blowing air through its front limbs 
causing its own bodily fibers to vibrate, creating a reverberated 
humming sound, whilst also plucking at metallic strings attached to 
its chest. See Audio File 1708-1. 


Asof // ,SCP-1708 has made _ attempts at its own life. 
Foundation personnel are required to keep any weaponry off-site at 
all times in order to prevent the loss of potentially critical data. Sharp 
objects are to be contained in locked storage. 


Addendum 1708-A: Notes on Recovery: 


The Foundation took an interest in SCP-1708 after reports of 
unidentified flying object activity in , Brazil. Reports described a 
large, reflective entity with wing-like appendages falling through the 
sky at approximately km/s before crashing into an uninhabited 
building. An unidentified reflective substance was located on site, 
but the Foundation did not find anything else of interest and 
abandoned the project. 


On // ,Dr. , whom had taken an express interest in the 

Project, recovered evidence that Horizon Initiative forces had 
an anomalous entity under their possession somewhere in __, 
Brazil. A squad composed of six (6) Foundation agents were sent to 
investigate, andon // it was discovered that numerous 
members of Project Malleus were in transit with the anomalous 
entity in containment. Stealth operations and espionage took place 
between Foundation and Horizon Initiative forces for weeks before 
Foundation forces located and intercepted the Project Malleus cargo 
on //_ , resulting in armed combat lasting approximately hours. 
Foundation forces recovered the anomalous entity after facing great 
resistance and suffering deaths and casualties. The subject was 
placed in containment shortly thereafter. 


Addendum 1708-C: Test Log 1708-A 


Testing Procedures: The subject was placed in a 3 m x 
5 m cell composed of reinforced steel and lined with 
mirrors, for increasing amounts of time, in order to 
observe the subject's response. 


Test 1708-A-1: 
Date: / / 


Timeframe: Subject was contained in cell for thirty (30) 
seconds. 


Results: Subject began emitting high pitched sounds at 
approximately 60 db. Subject was removed without 
resistance. Subject showed signs of distress. 

Test 1708-A-2: 

Date: / / 


Timeframe: Subject was contained in cell for five (5) 
minutes. 


Results: Subject began emitting high pitched sounds at 


approximately 90 db. Subject was removed without 
resistance. Subject was deemed unconscious shortly 
after removal. 


Test 1708-A-3: 
Date: / / 


Timeframe: Subject was contained in cell for fifteen (15) 
minutes. 


Results: Subject began emitting high pitched sounds at 
approximately 120 db after ten minutes in containment. A 
quiet humming noise was observed emitting from the 
entity's chest for the remaining five minutes. Subject was 
removed with little resistance. Subject was deemed 
unconscious shortly after removal. 


Test 1708-A-4: 
Date: / / 


Timeframe: Subject was contained in cell for one (1) 
hour. 


Results: Subject began emitting high pitched sounds at 
approximately 120 db after ten minutes in containment. A 
quiet humming noise was observed emitting from the 
entity's chest for another ten minutes, before returning to 
a high pitched sound emitted at approximately — db. 
This resulted in the destruction of the chamber. Subject 
was found unconscious within the remains of the 
mirrored chamber shortly thereafter. 


Test 1708-A-5: 
Date: / / 


Timeframe: Subject was contained in cell for six (6) 


hours. 


Additional information: Chamber was replaced by a3 m 
by 5 mcell composed of Class-1 reinforced alloy 
located meters within the Rocky Mountains at 
Research Site- .