SCP-1679-1 is accompanied by between 1 and 3 aides when 
making public appearances, and has a reserved spot at city council 
meetings. Said aides will propel its wheelchair and handle any 
objects which SCP-1679-1 would be normally expected to handle as 
mayor, such as legal documents. Aides will sign documents 
approved by SCP-1679-1 in its own name, and while signatures will 
obviously vary, they are still treated as legitimate and legal by the 
city. 


Television Program: On the first Sunday of every month, 
SCP-1679-1 will be put on television for the local news stations' "A 
Chat With Mayor McMaster" fifteen-minute-long public programming 
block. During this block, SCP-1679-1 will be situated at a slight 
angle, so as to be facing the camera (and thus the viewer), for the 
full quarter hour. No commercial interruptions will occur during this 
block. Citizens do not seem to be compelled to watch SCP-1679-1 
during this time, but if they do, they will usually remark on different 
points 1679-1 apparently makes during this time. 


At the end of this program, the local news anchor will provide a brief 
summary of what SCP-1679-1 discussed during the program. Such 
discussions have been mundane in nature, with subjects ranging 
from parents talking to their children about bullies, to general 
histories of SCP-1679's police or fire departments. All citizenry who 
watch this program will have witnessed the same general discussion 


piece by SCP-1679-1, though with minor differences in phrasing. 


Discovery: SCP-1679 was discovered by a James Rhode, a college 
graduate who had taken a cross-country trip after finishing his 
schooling. According to him, he had stopped at a local hotel to stay 
the night when the aforementioned programming block was shown. 
After confronting several citizens of SCP-1679, he fell into a panic 
and was arrested for public mayhem before he could harm anybody. 


An Agent Matthews embedded in the largest nearby town's police 
force heard of Mr. Rhode's arrest and visited the town, witnessing 
SCP-1679-1 in public at a city council meeting. Agent Matthews 
contacted the nearest Foundation Site and containment procedures 
were enacted. After a short debriefing by Agent Matthews, Rhode 
himself was given C-class amnestics, and was transported to 
Donaldson Memorial Hospital with the cover story of being caught in 
an automobile accident. As of this writing, Rhode has encountered 
no further anomalies. 


A vast majority of outside visitors to SCP-1679 perceive 
SCP-1679-1 as a living being; why Mr. Rhode and Foundation 
personnel are unaffected by this phenomenon is as of yet unknown. 


Notes on SCP-1679: Citizens of SCP-1679 believe that 
SCP-1679-1 is an excellent elected official, with an honest streak 
and an ability to find compromise in nearly any argument. 
Additionally, the current and previous city councils have repeatedly 
claimed that SCP-1679-1 has introduced several bills which have 
considerably improved the economy of SCP-1679 and general 
welfare of its citizens, up to and including an effective tax system, a 
several-year-long overhaul of utilities and roadways, and competitive 
but fair contracts with teacher, city-worker, healthcare, police, and 
firefighter unions. 


SCP-1679 has a 3% unemployment rate, an unusually low crime 
rate, and a small but thriving arts community. Interviews with 
citizenry have consistently shown that the majority of SCP-1679's 
inhabitants have an extremely high opinion of SCP-1679-1, and give 
it credit for 1679's prosperity. 


Bills that have allegedly been enacted by SCP-1679-1 have proven 


to be consistently and unusually effective in regards to improving the 
quality of life for its citizens. Additionally, such bills are usually 
phrased in such a way to benefit SCP-1679 in its own unique 
situation; many would be markedly less effective if enacted in 
neighbouring towns. Due to this, as well as other notable similarities, 
a possible relation to SCP-3088 has been proposed. 


Previous to his death, SCP-1679-1 was a reverend at a local church. 
The citizenry of SCP-1679 rarely if ever remark on this, and it has 
not yet been implied in legal documents or drafts proposed by 
SCP-1679-1. 


« SCP-1678 | SCP-1679 | SCP-1680 » 


SCP-1680: Tyler 


Item #: SCP-1680 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Site 33-B is to be staffed with 
Foundation personnel trained in the reception and processing of 
SCP-1680 instances. Site 33-B is disguised as the dilapidated 
former location of Mission High School; civilians attempting to 
investigate the interior of Site 33-B are to be given amnestic 
treatment and returned to their homes. Processing is to be followed 
by transport to Site 38 Site 33 for relocation as determined by Site 
33-B command or the Department of Human Resources. Any 
individuals inquiring into the anomalous behavior of SCP-1680-A are 
to be given amnestic treatment; when possible, the Foundation is to 
attempt to acquire homes within line of sight of the route of 
SCP-1680-A. 


Addendum: As of 02/11/09, all Human Resources agents stationed 
at Site 33-B are to be of Level 4 rank or higher. Any Foundation 
personnel displaying insubordinate behavior in response to 
SCP-1680 processing and relocation orders are to be given 
amnestic treatment and reassigned. 


Description: SCP-1680 is a collection of identical humanoid 
entities, age estimated at eight years. Instances of SCP-1680 are 
137 cm in height and 38.5 kg in mass upon acquisition. Because of 
their effectively identical nature, this document will discuss 
SCP-1680 as a collective unit. Through genetic testing, SCP-1680 
has been determined to be an exact replica of Tyler Buchanan, an 
eight-year-old boy declared missing on 11/02/07. See Addendum 
1680-1 for acquisition details. Each instance of SCP-1680 believes 
itself to be Tyler Buchanan and possesses identical memories up to 
the day of his disappearance; genetic testing has concluded that 
each instance is genetically identical to one another and to the 
original Tyler Buchanan. Each instance of SCP-1680 demonstrates 


extreme emotional distress when exposed to other copies of 
SCP-1680.1 


SCP-1680-A resembles a Type A-chassis short school bus, bus 
number 216756, license plate 5PWD314; examination of the chassis 
and physical markings suggest it was manufactured by Canadian 
manufacturer Collins Bus Corporation in 2005. No bus matching this 
description has been located at any school, and manufacturing 
information is not available.2 The windows of SCP-1680-A are 
effectively opaque; nothing of the interior of the bus is visible until 
each instance of SCP-1680 crosses the threshold of the door and 
exits the vehicle. No personnel attempting to board the bus have 
been recovered to date. 


With varying frequency, SCP-1680-A appears approximately 150 
meters away from Site 33-B, drives to the site, opens its door, 
permits an instance of SCP-1680 to depart, drives approximately 50 
meters from Site 33-B, and disappears. Attempts to track the origin 
or destination of SCP-1680-A have failed; by all collected evidence, 
the bus comes into existence spontaneously, deposits SCP-1680, 
and disappears shortly thereafter. No individuals living in the 
surrounding area have reported the unusual nature of this to any 
official authorities or made any inquiries to date. To date, all 
instances of SCP-1680 have claimed to have no memory of the bus 
ride itself or of anything between leaving school and arriving at Site 
33-B. 


Addendum 1675-1: Acquisition Log 


Tyler Buchanan was last seen leaving Dresden Elementary School 
in Dresden, TN at approximately 1450 hours on 11/02/07. While he 
was scheduled to be transported by bus #64 to Happy Homestead 
Daycare in Dresden, no individuals interviewed reported seeing him 
board the bus; rather, two teachers claimed he left the building but 
was Called back in by a science teacher to pick up a report card. The 
science teacher in question could not be located. The bus itself was 
never located or recovered. Additionally, upon the disappearance of 
Buchanan and all of the children on Bus #64, interviews suggested 
that all potential witnesses at the school had gaps in their memory 
around the time the bus was boarding. Shortly after the bus was 
reported missing, anomalous activity was reported from the school's 


science lab as well. A cover story reported Bus #64 and all children 
aboard, along with Tyler Buchanan, as the victims of a terrorist 
attack against a rural school. 


The first instance of SCP-1680 was recovered on 11/02/07. The 
Foundation had received reports suggesting that Group of Interest 
Lambda-33 ("Manna Charitable Foundation") was maintaining a 
warehouse for collecting anomalous or potentially anomalous 
artifacts at the former site of Mission High School. Mobile Task 
Force Phi-22 was dispatched to investigate. Upon securing and 
inspecting the area and determining no A-33 presence in the 
building, SCP-1680-A made its first appearance at 1525 hours, 
depositing the first recovered instance of SCP-1680. The instance 
was presumed to be a nonanomalous child, transported to the 
nearest Foundation safehouse, and questioned. SCP-1680-1 was 
administered Class C amnestics and was about to be returned to his 
home using a cover story when SCP-1680-A reappeared six hours 
later at the same location and deposited another instance of 
SCP-1680. Both instances were detained while the MTF requested 
further instructions. By this time, Foundation authorities had 
determined that an undetermined anomalous situation had occurred 
at Dresden Elementary School and that the then-unclassified 
humanoid entities were to be detained until further notice. 


Addendum 1675-2: Relevant Memoranda 


TO: O05 COMMAND 
FROM: SITE 33 COMMAND 


RE: SCP-1680 
08/28/08 


Attached is current documentation regarding SCP-1680. 
We are currently sitting on 2,410 instances of this 
phenomenon. We have most of them in chemical comas, 
spread around half a dozen different Sites. The few that 
have died have been cremated to reduce storage space, 
but containment is becoming increasingly difficult in 
terms of simple quantity of contained instances. Please 
advise. 


—MDJ 


Note: No particular answer was given in response to this 
memorandum. 


TO: ALL SITE COMMANDS 
FROM: O05 COMMAND 


RE: D-Class shortage issue 
10/04/08 


Current attrition rates of D-Class personnel are 
beginning to threaten standard channels of procurement. 
All site command departments are instructed to compose 
a report exploring the possibility of alternate means of 
securing significant numbers of D-Class personnel on 
short notice. 


-05-2 


TO: O05 COMMAND 
FROM: SITE 338 COMMAND 


RE: RE: D-class shortage issue 
10/10/08 


Report attached. Including copy of SCP-1680 
documentation protocols for particular consideration. See 
attached studies regarding trainability and loyalty. 
Instances are physically diminutive but useful for most D- 
class tasks not related to physical strength. Given the 
otherwise nonanomalous nature of SCP-1680 iterations 
(nonanomalous other than the number of identical copies 
of instances), we currently believe the standard concerns 
regarding exposure of SCP phenomena to one another 
are unwarranted under these circumstances. 


-MDJ 


Addendum 1680-2: Dr. Jones, director of Site 33, has been 
promoted to Level 5. Changes in training and orientation for 
SCP-1680 instances put into effect 11/02/09. 


For more information regarding the anomalous event involving the 
school bus, please consult documentation for SCP-1480. For 
information regarding an additional anomalous event connected to 
SCP-1380, please consult documentation for SCP-1380. 


Footnotes 

1. Due to similarities toSCP-3477, a direct link between the two 
phenomena is under investigation. 

2. Information from Collins Bus Corporation suggests the bus was 
stolen from the manufacturing lot shortly after completion. 


« SCP-1679 | SCP-1680 | SCP-1681 » 


SCP-1681: American Idols 


Item #: SCP-1681 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Mobile Task Force Chi-23 
("Eavesdroppers") is to actively monitor spontaneous or organized 
public gatherings of over 1000 individuals in any of the countries 
composing the former USSR, for the presence of SCP-1681. Upon 
detection, operatives are to retrieve individuals suspected of having 
been exposed to SCP-1681, and are to administer amnestics to 
unaffected individuals within a 50 m radius. New SCP-1681-1 
specimens are to be kept in full quarantine at Humanoid 
Containment Site-83 until such a time as a Berliner event is 
triggered. 


Should a Berliner event be initiated in public, clean-up crews from 
nearby field offices are to initiate post-event clean-up procedures as 
further documented in supplemental document 1681/Proc/ 
Postinc:rev1.09. Use of amnestics has been approved. 


SCP-1681 has been cleared for research in printed and digital form, 
as only direct auditory exposure has produced adverse effects. 


Please be advised that due to the length of the transition between 
alpha and beta stage infection, and due to improvement of relations 
between the US and Russia, Berliner events are theoretically no 
longer limited to those countries formerly belonging to the USSR. 


Description: SCP-1681 is an auditory memetic agent exclusively 
affecting human beings. SCP-1681 is spread specifically through 
public gatherings attended by over 1000 individuals in countries 
belonging to the former USSR, and is capable of spontaneous 
outbreaks, despite joint Foundation and Global Occult Coalition 
efforts to eradicate it outside of containment. Documentation seized 
from GRU Division "P" archives after its dissolution shows that 


SCP-1681 was developed by that organization in an effort to 
influence and control public opinion on the United States. SCP-1681 
was first deployed on 10/21/1982 and far exceeded projected 
infectivity. An auditory memetic countermeasure to SCP-1681 is 
mentioned in this documentation, but does not appear to be 
effective. It is unknown whether this is because of flawed design or 
due to SCP-1681 evolving. 


SCP-1681 takes the form of a phrase ("After all, when actors lead 
nations, bears will roar.") appended to the end of an anecdote told 
by individuals (designated SCP-1681-1) in alpha stage of infection. 
These anecdotes themselves are not anomalous and do not show a 
pattern to their subject matter. Regardless of their content, host 
anecdotes eventually begin to lose coherency, incorporating 
references to the United States and corresponding symbolism, 
before terminating in SCP-1681. Exposure to SCP-1681 always 
results in an alpha stage infection. Listeners are fully aware of the 
discordance in SCP-1681-1's speech, but attempts to point it out to 
them results in SCP-1681-1 becoming confused and briefly 
distracted before trying to return to their story. 


An approximate 48% of SCP-1681-1 move on to the beta stage of 
infection, while the remainder stay in alpha stage indefinitely, 
spreading SCP-1681. Alpha stage SCP-1681-1 specimens will 
attend any eligible event to spread SCP-1681, disregarding relative 
financial expense, travel distance or prior commitments. 


Those SCP-1681-1 transitioning to beta stage infection will withdraw 
from society, severing all ties to family, loved ones and associates. 
During this time SCP-1681-1 will lapse into prolonged catatonic 
states, interspersed with brief periods of lucidity. Communication 
has proven difficult, with attempts at conversations derailed by bouts 
of euphoric hysteria. Specimens in this transitory stage appear to 
suffer from mixed aphagia; despite this, the onset of starvation does 
not occur.