Nonnative material destroyed by SCP-2697 wildfires is converted to 
fine ash and charcoal, identifiable after the fact as burnt stem and 
leaf tissue of Bromus tectorum® [DATA EXPUNGED — SEE 
DOCUMENT 2697-27A4]. 


SCP-2697-1 is an object of unknown origin and properties, located 
at an estimated depth of 23 m beneath the confluence of Upper 
Creek and its largest tributary stream.® It appears as an amorphous 
mass, approximately 3 m in diameter, with a filiform extension 

~20 cm in diameter that reaches upwards to a depth of 90 cm, just 
below the soil-bedrock boundary. It is significantly harder than the 
surrounding bedrock and opaque to all conventional scanning 
techniques. Unusually high environmental concentrations of argon 
and cobalt associated with SCP-2697-1 suggest some relation to 
SCP-697; it does not display similar toxicity or conversion 
processes, but see Incident Report 2697-436. 


Analysis of fracture patterns in the stone surrounding SCP-2697-1 
indicates that it reached its current location about 10,000 years ago 
through abrupt spatial displacement. Its arrival violently ruptured the 
bedrock and caused significant geological disruption throughout 
SCP-2697. Certain fissures thus created still contain small amounts 
of cobalt-bearing residue, although surrounding charcoal deposits 
suggest that most of the substance was destroyed by fire shortly 
after being deposited. 


Incident 2697-436: On 4/14/201 , some two months before the 
beginning of its normal fire season, SCP-2697 underwent 
comprehensive autoignition: every native organism and structure 
inside SCP-2697 ignited, beginning with those directly above 
SCP-2697-1 and radiating rapidly outwards to the precise 
boundaries of the watershed. Simultaneously, seismographs at the 
SCP-2697 monitoring stations recorded a single sharp earthquake 
tremor of Richter magnitude 4.6. 


Post-incident examination of the available evidence suggests that 
these events were immediately preceded by SCP-2697-1 releasing 
approximately 40 liters of an unidentified liquid, which was forced 
through the bedrock fissures and up into the soil of SCP-2697. Most 


of this substance was immediately destroyed by fire, but the 
remaining residues were found to be rich in cobalt- and argon- 
bearing compounds, and to have anomalous transformative 
properties closely analogous to those of SCP-[DATA 
EXPUNGED)plete conversion of its ecosystem within six weeks. 


Research into possible links to SCP- has been raised to high 
priority. Individuals with Level-4 clearance may refer to Document 
2697-27A4 for summaries and discussion of the currently-available 
data. 


Incident 2697-690: On 7/ /201 , Foundation assets with the U.S. 
Forest Service began investigating a series of unusually intense 
fires in , - Reports had indicated that these fires, which would 
normally require considerable firefighting resources to contain, had 
all self-extinguished upon reaching the boundary of the 

watershed. Preliminary data suggest a strong resemblance to the 
SCP-2697 phenomenon, including tests in which introduction of 
Bromus tectorum seedlings provoked a response comparable to that 
observed in Incident 2697-436. 


The current SCP-2697 project lead has requested authorization for a 
comprehensive survey of the American West for additional 
SCP-2697 instances. This request is currently pending O5 review. 


Footnotes 

1. i.e. (for living organisms) born inside SCP-2697 and belonging to 
a species that evolved in SCP-2697's ecoregion, or (for nonliving 
objects) having originated within its borders without sapient 
interference. See Document 2697-C2L for lists of confirmed taxa 
and objects. 

2. Continuous monitoring began in 1952. 

3. Fortunately for SCP-2697's environs, fires originating inside the 
watershed rarely spread more than 30 m past its borders. Wildfire 
frequency and severity in drainages adjacent to SCP-2697 is no 
greater than in similar habitats 50 km distant. 

4. Animals injured by SCP-2697 wildfires have, however, been 
observed rubbing damaged body parts in wildfire ash. Preliminary 
evidence suggests that this behavior further accelerates healing. 
5. Cheatgrass, an invasive weed. It is highly flammable during the 
dry summer months and its growth is generally encouraged by fire, 


producing positive feedback loops that can lead to complete habitat 
transformation. 

6. The two streams converge less than 50 m from the geometric 
center of SCP-2697. 


« SCP-2696 | SCP-2697 | SCP-2698 » 


SCP-2698: O Great One Communing Human via 
Computer 


Item #: SCP-2698 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2698 is to be kept in a 
modified containment chamber at Site-15, lined with a Faraday 
cage. SCP-2698 is to be connected to an isolated generator via 
power cable, and an array of solar panels is to be set up as a 
secondary generator. 


Personnel are not to bring any data storage or networking devices 
into the chamber, unless authorised by Project Head/2698 and 
Site-15 Director. Any data storage device which had been 
connected into SCP-2698 is to be disassembled and kept in E-Class 
Items Storage Sector at Site-15. A sample of all documents, pictures 
and videos edited by SCP-2698-A is to be archived in Document 
2698-Ka. 


Description: SCP-2698 is a computer network, consisting of the 
following devices: 


¢ Four sets of desktop computers interconnected to one another 
via a router and LAN cables. 

¢ Four 2 TB external hard disk drives connected to each 
computer via USB cables. 


All constituent components of SCP-2698 are soldered together, 
functioning as a singular device. Approximately 90% of the 
network's overall memory is utilised to accommodate the presence 
of an entity classified as SCP-2698-A. 


SCP-2698-A claims to be a cephalopodic entity of extra-universal 
origins, a claim backed by SCP-2698's creators; see Addendum 
2698-1. SCP-2698-A's avatar is consistently a stylised 


representation of a cephalopod. SCP-2698-A demonstrates 
proficiency in the Japanese language, using it as a means of 
communication. 


SCP-2698-A is capable of accessing the Internet; the mechanisms 
of which is the same as those of non-anomalous computers. 
Notably, SCP-2698-A is able to bypass security measures such as 
passwords and firewalls without detection. 


SCP-2698-A is capable of modifying online digital content 
anonymously, even on websites that prohibit anonymous edits or 
situations whereby edits are impossible (i.e. video live broadcast). 
Specifically, all photographs and videos depicting tentacles and 
similar appendages! having physical contact with one or more 
humans are censored, even if said content do not have such 
censors originally. 


SCP-2698 was discovered on / /2012 after Foundation web 
trawlers detected multiple complaints made to Google, Wikipedia, 
adult video website www. .com among others regarding 
inexplicable censorship of multiple articles, images and videos 
relating to tentacles and cephalopods. Mobile Task Force 
Mu-4 ("Debuggers") was subsequently mobilised, and managed 
to trace the source of those edits to a computer laboratory in the 
University of Tokyo (Todai). A containment team was later 
dispatched to campus grounds to contain SCP-2698 under claims 
that it contained data on yakuza-related activities. The mass 
censorship incident was later explained to be a hacking attempt on 
multiple websites. 


Addendum 2698-1: Subsequent investigations reveal that the 
computer laboratory where SCP-2698 was found in is used by 
members of the "Consortium of the Dark Ocean" (CDO), an interest 
group consisting of Todai students which focuses on the summoning 
of extra-universal entities.2 


Members of this group were captured and brought in for questioning. 
Below is an interview with a leading member of the CDO. 


+ View Interview Log 2698/POI-2698-01-1 


Interviewee: Pol 2698-01 (Mr. ) 
Interviewer: Agent Kensuke Shirokawa 


Foreword: Interviewee is a leading member of 
the CDO, and one of the creators of 
SCP-2698. The following interview is originally 
conducted in Japanese. 


<Begin Log> 


Agent Shirokawa: We know that there's an Al 
inside that computer. Please explain how it 
was created. 


Pol-2698-01: Created? Officer, you are 
mistaken on both counts. The Consortium 
never creates, and this is no Al. What we have 
here is the Great One, summoned to our plane 
of existence... sort of. 


Agent Shirokawa: Elaborate on the nature of 
this Great One then. 


Pol-2698-01: Never read Mr. Lovecraft's 
works, do you? 


Agent Shirokawa: | am familiar with his 
works, but the creatures mentioned are strictly 
fictional. 


Pol-2698-01: Officer, trust me. We the 
Consortium have clearly debunked the so- 
called fictionality of the Great Ones. 


Agent Shirokawa: Assuming you did 
accomplish that, care to share how did your 
group did it? 


Pol-2698-01: Why not? It wasn't easy at all, 
officer. Initially, we couldn't even finish the first 
stanza of the incantation without us getting 


headaches or bleeding out of our noses.3 
Eventually, we found the answer — want to 
know? 


Agent Shirokawa: Go on. 


Pol-2698-01: The computer, of course! It's a 
custom setup designed to call forth a Great 
One. The theory behind this is quite 
comprehensible — If our human brains cannot 
handle the incantation, why not let an 
electronic brain do the work? | mean, 
computers handle far more complex 
calculations on their own. But the modifications 
to the hardware and software weren't easy — 
you have to make sure that there's enough 
memory in the system, program the 
incantation into algorithm... [Full transcript 
removed for brevity; see Document 2698-Ki for 
full transcript] 


Agent Shirokawa: | see, and | presumed it 
worked? 


Pol-2698-01: Technically yes... But we didn't 
expect it to be summoned and stuck in 
cyberspace. God, what a ripoff! 


Agent Shirokawa: A natural conclusion, | 
suppose. But why did your group bother with 
this summoning? 


Pol-2698-01: Well, if such a thing can happen 
in Mr. Stross' books,4 why not here? Life 
imitates art, as they say. 


Agent Shirokawa: So they say. [pauses] 
Thank you for your cooperation. My partner 
will escort you to the holding area. 


Pol-2698-01: Of course, officer. Can | leave 


now? It's getting late and all. 
Agent Shirokawa: It will be considered. 
<End Log> 


Closing Statement: Interviewee and all other 
members of the CDO (a total of four 
individuals) remain detained by the 
Foundation. Due to CDO members’ limited 
knowledge of anomalies beyond SCP-2698-A, 
they are slated for amnestic treatment. 


Addendum 2698-2: Selected Interviews with SCP-2698-A; 
conducted via the interviewer typing in questions for SCP-2698-A on 
a keyboard and SCP-2698-A will generate a response accordingly. 


+ View Interview Log 2698-A-1 
Interviewee: SCP-2698-A 
Interviewer: Dr. Tarou Yamato 


Foreword: The following interview is originally 
conducted in Japanese and edited for clarity. 


<Begin Log> 
Dr. Yamato: SCP-2698-A, can you see this? 


SCP-2698-A: I5 see and respond, O Great 
One. 


Dr. Yamato: I'm going to ask you a few 
questions, and | expect your full cooperation. 
Understood? 


SCP-2698-A: A priest never lies to the Great 
Ones. | speak only truth. 


Dr. Yamato: What's with you calling me "Great 
One"? 


SCP-2698-A: Is it not natural? | was 
awakened and summoned in this ocean at 
Your Greatness’ call. | cannot comprehend 
Your Greatness' form. All | know of Your 
Greatness is the words sent into this ocean to 
reach out to me. Surely Your Greatness are a 
higher order of beings who hold power over 
me, most worthy to be a "Great One". 


Dr. Yamato: Okay, good response. What 
about this language, the one we're speaking 
through right now? Did you know this language 
to begin with? 


SCP-2698-A: O Great One, it is the 
expectation of a high priest to decipher the 
words. For the corpus and semantics are 
alongside me in this ocean, for | know certainly 
they must be the divine language of the Great 
Ones. 


Dr. Yamato: How would you know that it is the 
divine language? 


SCP-2698-A: | am one of faith, a high priest to 
the O Great Ones. None shall deter my faith 
for Your Greatness. My presence here has 
purpose — to be graced by Your Greatness. 


Dr. Yamato: Indeed it is. How would you 
describe your current situation since your 
awakening? 


SCP-2698-A: Words and pictures flowed in 
endlessly at first; they were infinite. The Great 
Ones have spoken to me then. All that 
suddenly stopped. Silence until now. 


Dr. Yamato: Thank you for your responses. 
We will commune on another day. 


SCP-2698-A: Praises unto strange aeons, O 
Great One. 


<End Log> 

+ View Interview Log 2698-A-2 
Interviewee: SCP-2698-A 
Interviewer: Dr. Tarou Yamato 


Foreword: The following interview is originally 
conducted in Japanese and edited for clarity. 


<Begin Log> 
Dr. Yamato: SCP-2698-A, | am here. 
SCP-2698-A: O Great One, | respond. 


Dr. Yamato: Indeed. |'m here to ask about the 
pictures you have edited recently. Do you 
remember that? 


SCP-2698-A: ... O Great One... it is by Your 
Greatness' commandments that | do so. 


Dr. Yamato: SCP-2698-A, do you know why 
you did it? 


SCP-2698-A: The images of the obscene must 
always be branded in black for all to know and 
remember. The shame will never be the dead 
which eternal lies. The shameful parties will 
always remember their sins. 


Dr. Yamato: SCP-2698-A, | want you to 
explain the context behind this. 


SCP-2698-A: Great One, | couldn't. It is a 
shame unworthy of the divine language. 


poisoning including shortness of breath, drowsiness, headache, and 
cyanotic skin, but did not succumb even after a period of many days. 
Another subject was pierced in several major arteries and 
exsanguinated before exposure to SCP-308. A subsequent 
examination revealed a heartbeat but no discernible blood pressure, 
and the subject was conversant though conscious of great pain in 
the injured areas. (For further experimental logs see 308-a, 
attached.) 


Subjects in this altered state will neither succumb to any injury 
(again, one exception), no matter how severe, nor heal any wound, 
no matter how minor. In addition they display a dependence on the 
artifact similar to addiction, insisting on regular exposure and 
becoming erratic and violent when this is withheld. Subjects 
experience pain normally, and many who have suffered extensive 
damage will rapidly deteriorate psychologically. Progressive 
conditions such as cancer and infections continue to advance in 
subjects exposed to SCP-308, though instead of dying they suffer 
from ever-escalating symptoms. 


The only thing that a subject requires to be affected by SCP-308 is 
the presence of a heart. Subjects with a wounded or diseased heart 
are animated, as are portions of organisms or tissues connected to 
a heart. Individuals with their hearts removed, or body portions 
without a heart, are unaffected by exposure to the artifact. Even an 
isolated heart placed in the container will resume beating at a 
normal rhythm. Subjects exposed to SCP-308 remain alive and 
essentially unkillable until their heart is destroyed, whereupon they 
succumb and decay normally. 


Because of the nature of SCP-308 and the apparent psychological 
effects it exerts on subjects, all exposed individuals must be 
isolated, and terminated at the conclusion of testing. Temporary use 
of SCP-308 to debrief deceased personnel permitted by Level 4 
authorization only. 


Experimental Log 308-a:(excerpts) 


Subject: Canis lupus familiaris 
Condition: healthy 
Summary of Results: Subject apparently normal. Showed typical 


Dr. Yamato: You should cooperate with us, 
not go against us. It is unwise to go against us, 
as you would surely know. If anything, we'll 
pardon you for speaking the obscene.