Day 26: We can't leave. | woke up this 
morning to find that every door and window 
has been grown over by thick, heavy vines. 
None of the equipment we tried using to break 
through worked. People are missing. Entire 
sections of the base are impossible to enter, 
and Ernie went into the air ducts and never 
came back. We gathered all the resources we 
had, and we're going to try and find an 
alternate means of escape tomorrow. 


Also... we aren't alone. There are creatures in 
the foliage. They watch from the denser 
patches. | haven't been able to get a good look 
at them, but | know they're there. The reports 
said they weren't hostile... | hope they were 
right. 


Day 28: We accidentally killed one today. 
Martin was trying to access the armory...and | 
guess it startled him. We found his body just 
outside the armory entrance, just completely 
mutilated. And the smell... there was the smell 
of a dead body, but not just that. There was 
this thick, musky odor. Nobody but Martin 
knew the access codes to the armory, so | 
guess that plan is out the window. 


| know they're out there still. If they didn't want 
to harm us before, they definitely do now. | 
hope god gives me the strength to protect my 
staff and get us out of this mess safely. 


Day 30: | think | might be the last one left. We 


tried... so hard to get out. But it got all of us. 
Janice fell in a pit, and it was filled with 
bamboo stakes. | still feel nauseous thinking of 
her. Albert got stuck in some vines, and we 
couldn't get him out. After about a day, they 
had grown over him completely. | can still hear 
him crying. Lyra... | don't know what happened 
to Lyra. All | know is that once the lights went 
out, | never saw her again. 


D-0981 is alive. Sometimes he talks over the 
PA system. He rants and raves about how we 
let this happen, we let the base fall and 
become a "pit of weeds and depravity" as he 
puts it. Melodramatic bastard. | Know that he 
knows where | am. I'm not going to play this 
game with him. He wants to play hunter, but 
he's going to be sorely disappointed. 


I'm going to take myself out first. 
The remaining pages are blank. 


Footnotes 

1. Similarity between SCP-1341 andSCP-1513's ability to produce 
fauna from its flora has been noted. Investigation into a shared 
origin of the two anomalies is ongoing. 


« SCP-1340 | SCP-1341 | SCP-1342 » 


SCP-1342: To the Makers of Music 


SCP-1342 at time of initial containment, with sensor booms 


detached. 


Item #: SCP-1342 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1342 is to be stored at 
Site 15. SCP-1342-1 is to be kept within a Faraday cage, measuring 
15m x 15m x 20m, to prevent transmission of telemetry and other 
data regarding SCP-1342. 


SCP-1342-2 is to be stored in a standard electronic components 
locker. One decoded copy of SCP-1342-2 is to be contained in a 
separate locker. 


In addition, monitoring of Gliese 445 by radio telescope is to be 
conducted. As SCP-1342-3 is unlikely to be containable in the near 
future, Project Heimdall is to continue in its Contingency Planning 
Operation. 


Description: SCP-1342-1 is a replica of Voyager 1. Exact 
replication of the original probe extends to sensor packages and 
apparent chemical composition. However, some components 
appear to have been constructed based on incomplete plans or 
parts. As a result, several components were non-functional upon 
recovery. 


SCP-1342-1 was initially detected on 25/09/1982, approximately 
35,000 km above the Earth's surface travelling at a sub-orbital 
velocity. Foundation agents recovered SCP-1342-1 on 27/09/1982, 
after SCP-1342-1 underwent an uncontrolled atmospheric entry and 
splashdown 300 km east of Baker Island, Pacific Ocean. 
SCP-1342-1's detection was possible due to a large burst of 
Cherenkov radiation that occurred upon its appearance. It is 
currently unknown how SCP-1342-1 remained intact during its 


descent, despite appearing to have similar chemical composition to 
the original Voyager. 


SCP-1342-2 is a gold-plated phonograph record, with specifications 
matching the Golden Records carried on the Voyager probes. 
Instructions for playing and decoding remain original. However, the 
pulsar map has been altered to show the star Gliese 445 as the 
origin of SCP-1342. 


When decoded, SCP-1342-2 contains a variety of cultural and 
scientific data in the form of images and audio. Approximately 2 
hours of audio recordings are present, consisting of various forms of 
music and atonal buzzing. Part of the music appears to be an 
excerpt of Cavatina from the String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Opus 
130 by Beethoven. The encoded images vary greatly in content, but 
all contain physical or chemical information on the subject (e.g. size, 
mass and orbital period of a planet), and a string of pictorial 
characters. 


A radially symmetric organism (referred to as SCP-1342-3) is shown 
in various stages of development. Fully grown, the organism is 
approximately 2 m tall, and has three legs and three elongated 
arms, with each hand having three fingers, positioned around a 
central axis on a roughly cylindrical torso. Three snout-like 
protrusions exist in place of a head, each ending in a beak. 82% of 
the encoded images show SCP-1342-3 in a wide variety of 
presumed cultural settings. Scenes identified include agriculture, 
manufacturing, urban crowds and the playing of music on a string- 
and-bow instrument. 


Images of a number of celestial bodies are also included, such as a 
Venusian-type world with high atmospheric pressure and a star 
matching Gliese 445's stellar spectra. One planet shown has a 
partially Earth-like surface consisting of approximately 60% liquid 
water, 4% urbanisation and plant life and 36% apparent desert and 
wasteland. The planet has larger than expected storms and icecaps 
than would be suggested by physical quantities supplied by 
SCP-1342-2, and appears to be undergoing massive ecological 
collapse. An outline of a specimen of SCP-1342-3 is shown next to 
this planet. 


This planet is shown to have extensive orbital infrastructure, not 
limited to spacecraft manufacturing facilities, captured asteroid 
mining operations and space elevators grounded near urbanised 
and wasteland areas. All of these images show the structures to be 
in a wrecked or neglected state. The final encoded image shows a 
vessel heading towards an extremely damaged torus-style space 
station with a 2 km diameter aperture at its centre. 


Documents 1-56: The following message was encoded on 
SCP-1342-2 in 55 different languages matching the 55 in which 
audio greetings were sent on the original Voyager, and is consistent 
in all. The 56th document is entirely composed of pictorial strings. 


English version of SCP-1342-2's message 


This Voyager spacecraft was built in the year 
42,412 AD by the species you come to refer to 
as the Gliscian. We are a community of 
300,000 beings inhabiting Gliese 445-C. This 
is our message to your world. 


Ever since we discovered radio, we have lived 
in your shadow. Decades were spent 
unravelling your signals, searching for answers 
among the tenuous strands of reason. 
Through the static and the chaos, we found 
you. From your small, distant world we found 
your images, your music, your thoughts, your 
feelings and your indomitable science. We 
communicated with your world governments, 
who kept our existence secret from you. To 
prevent a culture shock with their own 
populace, or to reduce your impact upon our 
own species, it did not matter to us. We could 
touch the mind of another and know we are 
not alone. 


We learned from you. The scientific revolution 
following our meeting was miraculous. We 
lived beyond our natural years and we lived 


well. Humans uplifted us into an Elysian state, 
but we could never thank you. From our far 
away place we quietly deciphered your secrets 
and over time our technology became your 
equal. 


Together we went, advancing our mastery of 
the universe. We shared our technology with 
your leaders in secret, to try and re-pay you for 
all you will do. In time, came the Gates. Ata 
great expense of energy, we could obtain 
limitless velocity. With time dilation preserved, 
we could fly to the universe's birth, and its 
death. The entirety of creation was within our 
mutual grasp. 


However, that would not be. Before we 
emerged, the people who live on your planet 
crippled us. From the sky above, in bright blue 
flashes, our lives were ended. We do not know 
their reasons, nor do we know why their hand 
was stayed enough to forestall our extinction. 
But now we live on a dying world. Our children 
are sick. Our water is polluted. We cannot 
maintain our technology. We will not go on. 


To save ourselves, we could have tried to 
destroy you. It cannot be denied that is how 
some of us felt we should act. We could still 
hear your world, unknowing, uncaring. With 
what little power we had left, relativistic 
destruction could reduce your planet to ashes 
as it was forming. It is shaming, but we came 
so close. We hope you can understand why 
we thought what we did. But maybe, if we 
could change what happens, if we could 
destroy you, then you could save us. 


From the stars came Voyager. Your gift. In 
sending your message, filled with your music 
and your joy, you showed such touching 


desperation to find another. We fell in love all 
over again. 


We had but one chance to put things right. | do 
not know if you can save us. | do not know if 
you can change who you one day may be. You 
say you are trying to survive through your time, 
so you may live into mine. | really hope that 
you, you, do. 


But above all else, there is one thing you need 
to know. 


From one maker of music to another, across 

all worlds, all times, no matter what you do or 
what you become: You are nothing less than 

beautiful. 


« SCP-1341 | SCP-1342 | SCP-1343 » 


SCP-1343: Pile Up 


Item #: SCP-1343 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1343 is to be contained 
on location at the abandoned construction site in the northernmost 
tube of the Tunnel Complex. 


Until removal plans for SCP-1343 are finalized, public use of the 
adjacent southern tunnel tubes will continue. On-site staff are to 
monitor all tunnel tubes periodically, and to report unusual 
observations. 


In the event of a SCP-1343-1 sighting, on-site staff will direct local 
authorities to redirect traffic before notifying Overwatch HQ. 


Description: SCP-1343 is a sealed concrete 10 x 10 x 12 meter 
container that municipal construction workers discovered buried in a 
hillside in County, California, in 19 . The container's 
contents are not currently known to the Foundation. 


Initial attempts to drill through SCP-1343 resulted in a series of 
severe traffic collisions in the active tunnel tube adjacent to the 
construction site.1! Construction of the northernmost tube stopped in 
197 when the project was formally halted due to budget shortfalls. 
The Foundation took over the site in 1982, after local authorities 
recorded the first images of SCP-1343-1.2 


SCP-1343-1 appears to be a severely damaged 1955 Ford 
Thunderbird. The vehicle has been sighted periodically in the active 
highway tunnels adjacent to SCP-1343. It appears each year on 
April 7 at approximately 02:45 hours, and it has appeared on other 
occasions after SCP-1343 has been disturbed. 


In a typical sighting, SCP-1343-1 appears when a witness rounds a 


turn approximately meters into the tunnel, at which point drivers 
have described the entity accelerating toward them while engulfed in 
flames. Believing a head-on collision to be imminent, most 
witnesses react by swerving into the tunnel's walls or into oncoming 
traffic. 


The Foundation estimates that SCP-1343-1 has resulted in 
approximately _ civilian traffic accidents, with 93% involving driver 
and/or passenger fatalities. 


Addendum-1: Excerpt from Times, Police Reports - April 7, 
195 


Kk 


Saturday, 2:53 a.m. — An accident involving a gasoline 
truck in the north tube set off a fire in the Tunnel 
Complex. The accident caused major damage, and all 
tubes were closed to traffic while repairs were made. 
During the fire, the tunnels acted as a natural chimney 
venting the smoke, flames and heat toward the east side 
entrance to the tunnel. 


The accident and fire killed seven people. In all, two 
people died in the initial crashes, five were killed by the 
smoke and fire, and two were hospitalized for smoke 
inhalation. All others escaped unharmed. 


Several survivors closest to the initial pileup each 
described an overturned Ford Thunderbird with an 8th 
driver trapped inside, who was last seen struggling to 
free himself from the burning vehicle. However, no driver 
or vehicle matching this description has been discovered 
among the pileup wreckage. 


Addendum-2: Excerpt from Research Log 1348- -1991 
MEMORANDUM 


From: Dr. 


To: On-site staff 


Sonic imaging of the sealed concrete container 
designated SCP-1343 has revealed its interior contents: 


* One 1955 Ford Thunderbird chassis (badly 
damaged) 

¢ Human remains from two individuals: one adult 
male (wedged behind steering column on driver's 
side) and one juvenile female (crushed beneath 
engine on passenger's side) 


Excavation around the container has revealed runes of 
unknown origin covering all sides. No runes were found 
on the exposed side, but testimony from construction 
crew members indicates that markings on this side of the 
container had been chipped off during initial attempts to 
drill through it. 


Analysts have been unable to determine how SCP-1343 
was buried in the hillside. However, anecdotal sources 
indicate a connection to an ecological activist group 
known as "The Sunshine Collective" that fought to halt 
construction of the northernmost tube. (The group 
formally disbanded in 1970, and no living former 
members could be located.) 


As long as SCP-1348-1 sightings are monitored, and the 
tunnel is closed on 7 April each year, we do not believe 
that 1343 poses a significant public safety hazard in its 
current location. The research staff recommends that 
removal plans for SCP-1343 should be halted indefinitely 
until firm evidence is discovered regarding its origin and 
function. 


Footnotes 

1. SEE: Addendum-1: Excerpt from Times, Police Reports - 
April 7, 195 

2. Egilsrud, P., Prevention and Control of Highway Tunnel Fires, 
FHWA report RD-083-32, 1983 


« SCP-1342 | SCP-1343 | SCP-1344 » 


SCP-1344: Eye-Catching Goggles 


Item #: SCP-1344 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-1344 are 
to be kept at Site-44 in a primary inanimate object containment unit, 
with an isolated type S habitation unit situated next to it. Testing 
procedures for SCP-1344 are to be authorized by the Level 3 Senior 
Researcher currently attached to this project, and are to only utilize 
visually impaired D-Class personnel with residual vision below 20%. 
Personnel deemed eligible are to be briefed on the positive effects 
of SCP-1344 on their vision to reduce the chances of an attempted 
removal of SCP-1344 by the subject, and on the permanent nature 
of exposure to SCP-1344. D-Class personnel used in testing are to 
be considered permanently attached to the SCP-1344 project and 
relocated to its attached habitation unit. New test subjects are only 
to be assigned to SCP-1344 upon either the death of previously 
assigned subject, or after the removal of SCP-1344 from an 
assigned subject's face. Currently, no instances of SCP-1344 are in 
use for testing. 


Description: SCP-1344 refers to a collection of five goggles of 
various types, all exhibiting anomalous behaviour when worn by a 
human being. Site-44 currently holds the following instances of 
SCP-1344: