SCP-3404-C has thus far focused most of its efforts on acquiring 
resources to fund medical research and public health initiatives, 
typically by influencing wealthy individuals and/or powerful 
individuals, or (on rare occasions) incorporating them into 


SCP-3404-C. It has also engaged in numerous other activities, 
whose effects or purposes are unclear. 


The following is a list of abnormal events confirmed to be the work of 
SCP-3404-C. Further additions to this log are pending analysis. 


¢ 2017-04-30: Attempted nuclear sterilization of SCP-610's 

remaining containment area. Failed. 

2017-05-02: [REDACTED] 

* 2017-05-04: Attempted to spread SCP-3404-B to high-ranking 
officials in the American, German, and Algerian governments. 
[REDACTED]. Most likely failed. 

¢ 2017-05-08: Attempted acquisition of the leadership of the 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Failed.9 

2017-05-09: [REDACTED] 

* 2017-05-10: Beginning of collaboration with the Institute for 
Esoteric Medicine. 19 

¢ 2017-05-12: Hired several mercenary groups to attack 
Site-17, for the apparent purpose of extracting SCP- and 
SCP-2269. Successfully acquired SCP-2269; SCP- was 
destroyed in a firefight. 

* 2017-05-14: Effectively co-opted, by way of philanthropy and 
intimidation, various local and regional public health advocacy 
groups that operate in the Arctic Circle. The resources of 
those organizations have since been redirected towards 
efforts relating to water quality and sanitation. 

¢ 2017-05-15: Estimated creation date of SCP-4117. 

[REDACTED]. SCP-4117 was retrieved from a laboratory 

operated by SCP-3404-C six days later. 

2017-05-16: [REDACTED]. Of note is that there have been no 

known victims of kuru since 2009. 

* 2017-05-18: Began funding the construction of several super- 
deep boreholes off the coast of Mozambique. Purpose 
unknown. 

¢ 2017-05-20: Financed the theft of roughly 10,000 doses of 
various opioid drugs from distribution centers in the 
Midwestern United States. Tracking of these drugs is in 
progress. 

¢ 2017-05-21: Purchase of several properties in Jakarta. The 
properties were forcibly acquired by the Foundation after 


analysis suggested that their arrangement served an 
unidentified thaumaturgic purpose. [REDACTED] The Institute 
for Esoteric Medicine was found abandoned; its members are 
currently missing. 

2017-05-22: Attempted to extract SCP-4117 from Site- . 
Notable as the first instance in which SCP-3404-C employed 
an anomalous humanoid (tentatively designated SCP- __) in 
its operations. 

2017-05-23: First instance of armed conflict between 
SCP-3404-C and SCP-1659. The exact cause of the conflict, 
as well as the nature of this battle, are unclear. Resulted in 18 
(primarily civilian) casualties, as well as the destruction of the 
Blue Hill restaurant. 

2017-05-24: [REDACTED] 

2017-05-26: Attempted to extract SCP-4117 from Site- . 
Failed. 

2017-05-26: [REDACTED] 

2017-05-26: Attempted to extract SCP-4117 from Site- . 
Failed. 

2017-05-26: Attempted to extract SCP-4117 from Site- . 
Failed. 

2017-05-26: [REDACTED]. The resultant anomaly has been 
classified as SCP-2315. 

2017-05-26: [REDACTED] 

2017-05-27: Attempted to grant $2,000,000 to the University 
of Auckland for the purpose of studying the effects of "an 
effective solvent" on sheep. The project was terminated by the 
Foundation prior to the University's acquisition of the 
substance to be tested; its nature is currently unknown. 
2017-05-28: Bribed a Computer Science professor at 
University to deliver a presentation entitled "Chaos Charlatans 
Get Salmonella At All Costs". While the presentation has 
tested negative for anomalous properties, four students in 
attendance were noted to experience grand mal seizures 
during the presentation. 

2017-05-29: Placement of the following advertisement on 
various major websites. The ad was determined to have no 
anomalous properties and contain no classified information, 
and was not removed. 


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Footnotes 

1. The sensation of insects crawling under one's skin. 

2. Pathological fear of contamination and germs. Also known as 
germophobia. 

3. An emergent phenomenon in which a large number of separate 
psychological entities are connected to form a distinct psychological 
entity; colloquially known as a “hive mind". 

4. Or the nearest equivalent in any given language. 

5. Prompted by evidence that they were affected by SCP-3404-B. 
6. The locations of these sites were provided by SCP-3404-C. 

7. Thus far, it has adhered to this agreement. 

8. Approximate translation. SCP-3404-C is prone to using non- 
standard syntax while under stress. 

9. While a complete takeover is not possible under current 
circumstances, SCP-3404-C's infiltration of the CDC has been 
deemed too extensive to effectively eliminate its presence without 
violating the Veil Protocol; plans for closer monitoring of its staff are 
being constructed. 

10. An organization focused primarily on the production of unusual 
electromagnetic fields for use in pseudo-scientific medical 
procedures. 


SCP-3405: How To Get Away With Murder Without 
Really Trying 


Item #: SCP-3405 
Object Class: Keter 


Standard Containment Procedures: All criminal cases in the San 
Francisco area involving persons who match the most likely 
description of SCP-3405 are to be pursued by MTF lota-10 ("Damn 
Feds"). Police, private detectives and other investigators working on 
the case are to be covertly undermined to reduce the probability of 
exposing civilians to an anomaly. 


All persons with some probability of being SCP-3405 are to be 
interviewed and reviewed to verify that they are indeed SCP-3405. 


Description: SCP-3405 is a humanoid of indeterminate age, 
gender, and appearance. While photographic evidence and direct 
visual confirmation suggest that SCP-3405 is a Caucasian woman in 
her mid-thirties, these sources cannot be trusted. Other unverified 
reports indicate SCP-3405 suffers from alcoholism and intense 
mood swings. 


SCP-3405 has been a suspect in at least three different murder 
cases; however, no amount of investigation has yielded conclusive 
evidence to convict SCP-3405. While it is possible that SCP-3405’s 
methods are non-anomalous, the Foundation has determined the 
probability of anomalous interference too high to ignore. 


Addendum SCP-3405-1: Below is a log of the murder cases 
SCP-3405 is suspect in. 


+ Case File 1 


Victim: Tyler Denniber 


Cause of Death: Vehicular Homicide 


Notes: The accident took place outside of a small bar on 
the outskirts of San Francisco. While there were 
eyewitnesses, all either could not recall the license plate, 
or were deemed untrustworthy. Below is a selected 
interview from the investigation: 


<Begin Log> 


Two officers are interviewing an eye witness 
from the scene of the crime. 


Officer 1: So, you say you were at the scene 
of the crime. 


Witness: Yeah. | just happened to be coming 
to be walking outside when it happened. It 
was, uh, gruesome to say the least. Friend of 
mine called 911. 


Officer 2: Did you see the license plate? 


Witness: | think | did. It was all a blur but | 
caught a few digits. 


Officer 1: You didn't take a picture? 


Witness: Um... no. | was too shocked to 
remember. 


Officer 2: That's fine. What digits did you 
recall? 


Witness: | think it started with zero, two, three. 


Officer 2: Ok. | think that's all we really need 
right now. 


Both officers leave the interview room. 


Officer 2: Well, that seems to match most of 


the other reports. 


Officer 1: Yes, but it was late and these 
people were drunk. How seriously can we 
really take them? 


Officer 2: That is true, and some people did 
think they saw an "E" in the beginning. 


Officer 1: Exactly. This is getting us nowhere. 
<End Log> 

+ Case File 2 

Victim: Alex Johnson 

Cause of Death: Stab Wounds 


Notes: A steak knife was found at the scene of the crime 
with Johnson's blood on it. Fingerprints and genetic 
material were lifted from the knife. However, due to the 
low accuracy of these forensic methods, and the 
possibility that the steak knife was not the murder 
weapon!, the results were discarded as false positives. 


+ Case File 3 
Victim: Gryffin Lirus 
Cause of Death: Gunshot 


Notes: On 05/17/2016, Margaret Theld was detained as 
a possible SCP-3405 suspect, as she had varying levels 
of connection to the previous cases. At this point the 
investigation had moved under Foundation jurisdiction, 
so Agent Tennison conducted the interview: 


<Begin Log> 


Tennison: Evening. 


D-58243: GET THE FUCK OFF ME! WHY THE FUCK SHOULD | 
LISTEN TO YOU, OLD MAN? 


B-6335: /sighs] Because you might not have noticed it, but that 
sandflow is now completely surrounding us. [To Foundation 
observer] Command, are you picking this up? 


Dr. : Loud and clear. 


B-6335: These aren't rocktopods, [FIRST NAME REDACTED]. 
Whatever took that Delta, | believe it's now hunting me and the kid 
here. 


D-58243: [To himself] Oh shit oh shit oh shit... 


B-6335: [To D-58243] Quiet. [To Foundation observer] Command, | 
have no visual on what's causing this sandflow, but if | had to 
wager? It's circling us, agitating the ambient SCP-440 into a funnel. 
Ready-made ambush. [chuckles] No need to corner your prey, just 
surround it in sand that'll never fall down, and you've cornered it 
yourself. Clever girls.. hey, where are you- 


D-58243: [panting loudly] Fuck this! Fuck this! Fuck this! [the sound 
of sand buffeting D-58243's suit, followed by a grinding noise, then 
sounds of D-58243 struggling, and then screaming] 


B-6335: [breathing deeply, speaks quietly] Command, | now have 
visual on what | believe killed Delta-24573. Three of them. Hope you 
don't mind if | don't save the kid. He just... it was just looking at him, 
and he punched it. Instinct. Stupid kid. [mutters ‘stupid, stupia'] 


Dr. : Understood, Beta. Can you describe what you're seeing? 


B-6335: Large suckers. Cylindrical. Two of them I'd say are around 
maybe [1 meter] long, front to back. Third one is bigger. [2m] or so. 
Snakelike, their torsos look like [grunt] like the spine of a T-Rex 
skeleton, made out of stone. Interlocking, very fluid movement. The 
head [sighs ‘stupid kid'] the head looks like a standard floater? . 
Didn't get a really good look at the thing's mouth before the kid 
punched it, but it reminded me of a wood chipper intake. /takes deep 
breath] The little ones are playing with the kid now, big one is just 


Theld: Oh god. | was worried this would 
happen some day. 


Tennison: As you should be. Have you heard 
of a man by the name of Gryffin Lirus? 


Theld: Um... yes. Yes | have. He’s a coworker 
of mine. 


Tennison: He was a coworker of yours. Mr. 
Lirus hasn’t been seen in a week. 


Theld swallows. 


Tennison: We contacted your employer too. 
Apparently, you two were competing for a 
promotion. 


Theld: I— | can explain. 
Tennison: Then please, explain these. 


Tennison lays photos of an unidentified person 
burying the body of Gryffin Lirus. 


Theld: Um... uh... damn it. | did it. | fucking 
killed him. It was late and | was drunk and | 
was so mad and worried. | promised myself | 
wouldn't do it again... but | couldn’t stop 
myself! |... | went to his apartment and shot 
him. Buried the body in the woods. And then in 
the morning | realized what | did and and and | 
realized that the alcohol had gotten to me and 
| just | hate myself for it. 


Theld hangs her head. 
Tennison: Mhmm. So, you acted alone? 
Theld: Yes. 


Tennison: ...| knew it. This is useless. 


Theld looks up. 
Theld: What? 


Tennison: What kind of an idiot do you take 
me for? 


Theld: But, but | just confessed... | did it. | 
killed him. 


Tennison: That’s just what the killer wants us 
to think! 


Theld: I— Uh... 

Tennison walks out of the room. 
Theld: ... the fuck? 

<End Log> 


Mrs. Theld was amnesticized and released as per the 
review panel's instructions the next day. Efforts to detain 
SCP-3405 have been redoubled. 


Footnotes 
1. The alternative being that Johnson had cut himself by accident 
earlier that day. 


SCP-3406: Awakening 


Item #: SCP-3406 
Object Class: Safe Keter (see notice) 


Special Containment Procedures: Documentation detailing the 
requirements and procedure for SCP-3406 is available to personnel 
with 3406/3 Clearance. Supplies suitable for its performance are 
available at Site-27; Testing Chamber 48-A is available for testing of 
SCP-3406. 


Under no circumstances should SCP-3406 be performed on hostile 
or potentially dangerous subjects. Instances of SCP-3406-1 should 
be stored in Non-Humanoid Sapient Containment Cells of an 
appropriate type. 


Description: SCP-3406 is a ritual that causes sapient entities with a 
physical form to become capable of locomotion. Entities that already 
possess this ability, such as humans, will remain unaffected — 
anomalous effects are most pronounced in entities with inanimate 
bodies, or ones that are "bound" to inanimate objects. Entities 
affected by SCP-3406 are designated SCP-3406-1. 


SCP-3406's method of operation is not fully understood, but 
adherence to its guidelines reliably produces the stated effect. The 
ritual is performed by surrounding a healthy, conscious human being 
with seven identical metal sculptures and having the subject recite a 
specific series of phrases from the as-of-yet untranslated 

language while a current of at least 3 Amperes runs through their 
body.1 Following this, within six minutes, anomalous changes can 
be observed in objects within the same room as SCP-3406. 


The exact changes that occur to affected entities vary drastically 
between SCP-3406-1; often, SCP-3406-1 will develop a set of 2-6 
flexible limbs that can be used for locomotion, or become able to 
use pre-existing limb-like extensions. In the case of objects that 


possess other means of movement (i.e. vehicles), SCP-3406-1 will 
typically gain the ability to operate these means. Instances 
contained within media of some sort, i.e. those tied to particular 
images or sounds, will rarely develop gross physical alterations, 
instead gaining some ability to manipulate their representation within 
the media in question. 


A means of communication will often develop, though the exact 
nature varies between cases — comprehensible speech is typically 
only produced in cases where the entity's mind is humaniform. 


History: SCP-3406 was developed by members of the Serpent's 
Hand in the late 1990s, following an incident in which several 
members had their consciousnesses displaced into various objects 
(see Incident Report 1993-SH-6T, "Trial of the Lake of the Woods") 
by an opposing faction of the same organization. Six SH operatives 
with knowledge of thaumaturgic traditions and 
neuroessokinesis? devised SCP-3406 in an attempt to restore their 
co-conspirators to their previous bodies. While this attempt was 
unsuccessful, SCP-3406's function was found to be useful for other 
purposes and saw sporadic use throughout the Serpent's Hand and 
affiliated organizations in the following years. 


Addendum: Knowledge of SCP-3406 came to the Foundation in 
2006 when documents detailing SCP-3406 were retrieved from the 
house of an independent researcher (Pol-3406-7) formerly affiliated 
with the Serpent's Hand who was investigating SCP-3406; a 
community of SCP-3406-1 measuring in the hundreds was also 
located in the building. Relevant excerpts from the recovered 
documents are reproduced below. 


Reminder to self: investigate golems. Reality follows 
from the symbol, and the mind is a machine for making 
symbols. The incantations are a very 
comprehensive and powerful symbol for Life. The 
electricity and the scepters push this symbol outwards 
into spaces that are prepared to receive it. Technical 
details follow.