+ Transcripts of Selected SCP-186 Documents 


Document 186-3: A flyer advertising a May 1911 lecture 
given by Dr. Durand to the Royal Institute of Chemistry 


TO END ALL WARS 


A presentation by visiting scholar DR. JEAN 
DURAND, formerly of the Académie des 
sciences, on the promise of modern science to 
create weapons of such terrible deterrent 
power so as to render future wars obsolete! 


Dr. Durand shall explain the convergence of 
chemistry, ballistics, alienism and other 
emerging scientific fields of endeavor that will 
enable Mankind to usher in a new age of 
PEACE and MODERNITY. 


To be given on the 19th of May, Derbyshire 
Lecture Hall 


Document 186-11: Opinion piece published in the 
January 2, 1912 edition of the Hungarian newspaper 
Népszava, authored by Matyas Nemes 


To my fellow subjects of His Highness 
Emperor Franz Joseph, 


Truly, the greatest of human glories is the 
unification of a numerous and disparate people 
into a single, unstoppable purpose. That our 
marvelous Kingdom should embody this 
inescapable principle should go without saying 
from Vienna to Budapest. 


But there are those, both within our territories 
and elsewhere on the Continent, that would 
see us splintered into a thousand shards and 
stand in the way of our destiny. What is to be 
done with such agitators and malcontents? 
While traitors and radicals are hung properly in 
the manner of the dogs that they are, there is 
no execution sufficient to quell the embers of 
treachery that burn in the hearts of the 
Balkanites. How are we to demonstrate our 
unity of purpose, our power, our God-given 
place at the head of the European procession? 


By force of arms! The hangman can only strike 
fear into the heart of dozens. A proper army 
can strike it into the souls of millions. Perhaps 
we have the numbers, but in this we are not 
alone. The Russian and the Moslem can rally 
hordes to their banners, but for all of their 
masses are mere unruly nuisances. What sets 
man apart from the animals is not his 
numerical superiority, no, but his superiority of 
mind, demonstrated through quick wit and 
artifice! 


My fellow subjects, | have dedicated my life to 
the construction of such demonstrations of 
artifice that none may stand against my 
weapons save the Almighty! It is through the 
force of superior arms that we will achieve our 
grand design, both within our borders and 
without! Give me the factories, give me the 
manpower, give me the chance to serve our 
Empire through my industries, and | will deliver 
to the people the flaming sword that will light 
the way to a civilized Europe! It is through 
these means, and only these means, that we 
will solve the questions that plague us today! 


Document 186-32: Telegram sent by Jean Durand to 


Matyas Nemes from Paris, April 28, 1912 
HAVE CONSIDERED YOUR PROPOSAL 


MUST DECLINE. METHODS INFERIOR AND 
DERIVATIVE OF OWN RESEARCH 


YOUR AIMS ARE OF CONQUEST. MINE 
ARE OF PEACE. 


REGARDS, J. DURAND 


Document 186-39: Undated memorandum from General 
Felix Graf von Bothmer of the Imperial German Army to 
unnamed subordinates 


Effective immediately, Lt. Nemes is assigned 
to your unit as an advisor. Experimental 
armaments are only to be deployed on Lt. 
Nemes' orders. Despite potential for a 
breakthrough on the Romanian Front, unwise 
to use these ungodly things until more is 
known of their efficacy. Rumors of similar 
developments among the Tsarists remain 
unsubstantiated. 


Document 186-52: Letter from Pvt. Pyotr Avtukhov, 
participant in the Battle of Husiatyn Woods 


Dearest Nadya, 


| have heard rumors of the madness 
happening at home. Be comforted that it is 
nothing like the madness that is happening 
here. We thought that four years of war had 
taught us everything we had to know and then 
more. We learned nothing. 


The damnable Frenchman that the men 
elected to lead them spoke of peace. He 
spoke of weapons so terrible that we could 
make the enemy surrender on the spot. We 


were fools. We had run at trenches with dead 
men's rifles and sticks in our hands. We 
believed him the way we believed anyone that 
has supplies. 


We never thought where this man came from. 
We didn't wonder why he had the weapons he 
did. We didn't care. We wanted to live. 


We never considered that the enemy had the 
same things we did. | do not think the 
Frenchman did either. Or at least | hope he did 
not. | cannot imagine any man who would walk 
into this knowing what would happen. Maybe 
the Frenchman is not a man. Maybe he is 
something else. 


| am sitting now in a hole | have dug in a forest 
somewhere. | should have run the second | 
saw the German take aim at Gilyov. That was 
no bullet fired at him. | could not look anymore 
after his face came apart and he was still 
screaming. | thought | saw hands pulling his 
head apart. 


Somewhere in the distance Volikov is 
screaming that he can see devils roasting his 
children. He has been screaming about the 
same thing for five days. 


| should have run away so many times. The 
Frenchman gave us a new gas weapon. We 
refused at first, remembering what had 
happened in Romania. But he promised us 
that this was different, that this would put our 
enemies down without harming them. Who 
wants any more bloodshed, he asked us. We 
could not argue with that. We fired mortars at a 
position ahead of us. A strange blue gas 
seeped from behind the trees, but the 
Frenchman cautioned us against advancing. 


One more thing, he said. He took one of our 
rifles, and taking aim took a single shot. Before 
we could ask what a scientist could know of 
shooting, we heard a scream. He had hit one 
of the Germans. 


He handed me a pair of field glasses. Take a 
look, he said. | saw the German missing half of 
his head, still screaming. | have seen 
everything in this war, but | have never seen 
faces like those of that German's fellows as 
they watched their comrade. The Frenchman, 
in his terrible calm voice, explained that his 
shot had to have destroyed at least a quarter 
of the soldier's brain tissue. Enough to cause 
instant death, he said. But watch. 


| kept watching through the field glasses. The 
German didn't stop screaming. At least ten 
minutes | watched, unable to move away. The 
Frenchman smiled. He smiled at this scene. 
The gas, he said, ensured that death would 
not come, regardless of injury. The Germans 
were too horrifed by their comrade to notice 
that they were not behind cover, and the 
Frenchman lined up another shot. The rest of 
the soldier's head was now gone, and the 
screaming was replaced by some sort of low 
grunting, the likes of which | have never heard 
from men. 


No, the Frenchman said, no harm at all. | have 
bestowed the gift of life on your opponents. 
Who could possibly stand against that, he 
asked. 


| had to leave and vomit behind some bushes. 
| had not done that since the first trenches. 
Who indeed could keep fighting after such a 
thing? But fight they did. Once a group of us 
were ambushed and chased to a meadow. 


The first men through the trees were hit with 
something that took their skin. | cannot 
describe why seeing men blown apart is not as 
frightening as seeing a neatly flayed corpse on 
a battlefield, but our group scattered. 


We are no longer armies. Not any more. We 
are animals, trapped in a forest together, 
uncomprehending. Sometimes, when Volikov 
sleeps, | hear the Frenchman in the woods, 
yelling in Hungarian, yelling and laughing. | 
would almost rather listen to Volikov. 


| am going to die in this hole. | am too scared 
of what is outside of it to do otherwise. Minkin 
is going to try to brave the horrors in the 
woods to escape. | am sending this letter with 
him in the hopes that he does. As | gave it to 
him, he joked that he will get a civil service 
commission after the war for delivering a letter 
from Hell. | am not certain he is wrong. 


Goodbye, 
Pyotr 
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SCP-187: Double Vision 


Item #: SCP-187 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedure: SCP-187 is to be attended full- 
time by medical personnel, who are to tranquilize or sedate her as 
needed. She is to be kept under a full set of medical restraints to 
prevent her from harming herself; specifically, she is to wear padded 
mittens at all times, in order to prevent her from attempting to 
damage her own eyes. 


If SCP-187 refuses to open her eyes during authorized testing, or 
during site inspections, the use of eyelid speculums is authorized. 
All statements made by SCP-187 during testing and site inspections 
are to be recorded and analyzed. 


SCP-187 is to be prevented from interacting with D-Class personnel 
who are nearing the end of their ‘cycle’. 


SCP-187 is to be spoon-fed; mild tranquilizers are to be added to all 
her meals. 


Description: SCP-187 is a Caucasian female, early to mid 20s, 
180 cm tall, weighing 40 kg (approx 88 Ib). She is suffering from 
severe malnutrition, and must be fed intravenously, as she refuses 
to eat any food given to her. She is recovering from the effects of 
severe malnutrition. 


SCP-187 exhibits a unique form of precognition whereby she sees 
everything in two states simultaneously: as they are, and as they will 
be. She does not see minor changes, only changes to what would 
be considered the 'norm'. For example, in testing, when presented 
with five D-class personnel and asked which of them would change 
their clothes, she couldn't answer, as such a change isn't drastic 
enough. However, when presented with five D-class personnel and 


asked which would be shot, she was able to 'predict' which one, 
every time, as she could see the injury inflicted just by looking at 
him. 


SCP-187 cannot foresee future events or changes to items at which 
she is not currently looking; rather, she can see the future state of 
whatever she is looking at. This has led to some unexpected 
consequences. For example: 


As part of the usual tests performed on new human/humanoid SCP 
acquisitions, SCP-187 was given a standardized IQ test. When the 
results were collated, she was revealed to have an IQ in excess of 
300 (the limits of the tests). This, of course, would have made her 
the most intelligent human being on the planet; however, her 
intellect did not seem that high based on her initial interviews. The 
test was repeated 4 times, and each time, she got the maximum 
possible score, answering every question correctly. When she was 
interviewed regarding this, she revealed that she did not actually 
know the answers to any of the questions; rather, she had seen the 
tests with the answers already filled in. When she was given a 
computerised IQ test, where her input didn't affect the future state of 
where she entered the answers (a keyboard, rather than a pen and 
paper), her l|Q was revealed to be 97, slightly below average. 


This happens with every written test presented to SCP-187 - she 
can see the answers in advance, based on what she herself is going 
to fill in, even if the tests are in a foreign language she does not 
understand. This presents a possible ontological paradox - an 
injection into the present of information from the future. Where this 
information, the correct answers, comes from is unknown, and 
possibly unknowable. 


SCP-187 is suffering from ongoing psychological damage as a result 
of her anomaly: when, for instance, she is in the company of people 
who are soon to die, she simultaneously sees both their living, 
healthy selves, and their dead, sometimes decomposing corpses, 
depending on how far into the future they will die. As a result, 
pharmacological assistance is required to keep her lucid. 


SCP-187 also refuses to eat, again due to her abilities. When 
presented with a plate of food, she will see it as either feces, or a 


semi-digested slop, while a glass of water will appear as a glass of 
urine. This is what is causing her severe malnutrition, and for this 
reason, she must be fed and hydrated intravenously. 


Due to the effect that prolonged malnutrition is having on SCP-187's 
health, and the impact that 187's death would have on the 
Foundation's medium-term emergency planning, SCP-187 is to be 
blindfolded during meals. Mealtimes are to last no longer than 15 
minutes, and must take place in a location for which SCP-187 has 
not predicted any significant changes. 


Remarks and comments made by SCP-187 which turned out to be 
‘prophecies’: 


The divorce of Dr. 


SCP-187: Your ring. 

Dr. : My ring? 

SCP-187: Yes, your wedding ring. 
Dr. : What about it? 

SCP-187: You're not wearing it. 
Dr. : Lam, look, it's right there. 
SCP-187: You won't be. 


Dr. ’s husband filed for divorce the next day. When she returned 
for duty, she was no longer wearing her wedding ring. She had been 
married for 19 years, more than half her life, so wearing the ring was 


considered ‘normal’, and not wearing the ring was enough of an 
abnormality for SCP-187 to see it. 


The deaths of the following D-Class personnel: 
D-16124: 


SCP-187: Why is he so swollen? 


D-16124 was later exposed to the vacuum of space after being sent 
through SCP-120 in order to ‘dial’ it to the next destination. 


D-16198: 


SCP-187: He's cute... 

Interviewer: Who? The man standing outside that cell? 
SCP-187: Yes. What's his name? 

Interviewer: | don't know. Hey, you there. 

D-16198 turned to face them, at which point SCP-187 
gasped and burst into tears, screaming, "He's going to 
die!" 

Interviewer: He will? How do you know? 

SCP-187: He's got a massive hole in the left-hand side 
of his head. 


D-16198 was later terminated by gunfire while attempting to escape 
the site. He may have attempted escape due to SCP-187's 
screaming, implying that she can set so-called self-fulfilling 
prophecies in motion. 


D-16206: 


SCP-187: His legs his legs his legs his legs HIS LEGS 
HIS LEGS WHERE ARE HIS FUCKING LEGS!? 


D-16206 was killed when SCP-__ escaped from its cell and bit him in 
half while attempting to flee the site. 


The attempted escape of SCP- 


While being escorted through Site , SCP-187 stopped 
outside SCP-_ 's cell, staring intently. 

Dr. Klein: What are you looking at? 

SCP-187: How did it break through such a heavy door? 
Dr. Klein: Excuse me? 

SCP-187: That door is nearly a foot thick. How did it 
manage to destroy it? 


17 hours later, SCP- somehow managed to work free of its 
restraints, and did indeed tear through the door to its cell. However, 
Dr. Klein had alerted security due to SCP-187's statements, so an 
armed response team was ready, and managed to subdue SCP- 


with gunfire. 


The cost of keeping a full-time medical team on hand to ensure 
SCP-187's well-being is obviously high; however, the fact that her 
anomaly allowed the prevention of an escape attempt by SCP- ,a 
Keter-class subject, shows that she may be useful for more than just 
pure research. 


A proposal has been submitted to introduce her to seemingly- 
indestructible SCPs, in the hopes that she will 'see’ them as either 
dead or destroyed, and be able to describe the manner of death/ 
destruction. This proposal is pending - the potential temporal 
logistics need careful consideration. She would in effect be seeing 
methods of destruction/termination, which would only be possible 
because she saw them. This has caused concern among several 
higher members of staff. 


Details of further experimentation may be found in Experiment Log 
187-1. 


« SCP-186 | SCP-187 | SCP-188 » 


Experiment Log 187 1 


Experiment Log of: Dr. Gears, testing exposure of SCP-187 to 
other SCP items. 


Date: - - to - - 


Experiment-01: Exposure to SCP-173