Dr. : Alright... very well. So how did you become so 
smart and when did you discover your ability to control 
others? 


SCP-3251: Argh... 'tis a long and tragic tale, and believe 
me, it ain't one that ends in a kiss. I'm gonna go'ed and 
pass on this answar. 


Dr. : Why is it that you stole from all of those 
islanders? 


SCP-3251: A pirate’s no one if he don't steal. Yaseea 
village, ya go'ed an' pillage. If ya want the booty, you'ave 
to looty. I've got half a dozen more phrases, but, ya get 
me point, lad. 


Dr. : So, you're only doing this to acquire metal? | don't 
think silverware is worth quite as much as you think it is. 


SCP-3251: Argh, ya take me for some sort of fool, do 
ya? | know 'ow much the treasure be worth. | steal it 
cause | like to steal. Gotta hunt the bounty, but the 
bounty be in the hunt. There ain't quite a feelin’ like bein’ 
out on the sea, knowin’ that, wha'ever ya want, ya take; 
the rules don't apply to ya. True freedom. 


Dr. : What are your thoughts on SCP-3251-1, do you 
feel bad knowing that you're manipulating your own 
kind? 


SCP-3251: Aye, they be but animals compared to me. | 
love me crew like a man loves an old pair of britches; 


Good, reliable, get the job done, cover me arse. If I'm 
bein'onest, though, I'd love to have someone to actually 
talk to out on the open seas. Like you. You be the only 
person I've sat down an'ad a conversation with in a long 
while. How'd ya like to be part of me new crew? 


Dr. : Well, that's really quite ridi- 


SCP-3251: Aye, aye, Let me finish me proposal, lad. 
You come sail with me, on open waters. No one tells ya 
what to do, anythin’ ya want, consider it yours. I've been 
losin' me mind alone on the sea, not to mention, alone in 
this here cell. Ya seem like the sorta guy who's been 
pushed around quite a bit in your time, so aye'll offer ya 
somethin’ ya always wanted, somethin’ you 'aven't 
thought about since ya be a boy on your father's pricey 
yacht. Aye'll let ya be a pirate. 


Dr. :Howdid you?... Look, you're stuck in this place 
whether you like it or not, so there will be no "new crew". 
| just need to ask you one more question and then this 
interview is over. Why were you going to Madagascar? 


SCP-3251: Aye, been waitin’ for this one. | was goin’ to 
bury me treasure with the rest. Persuaded yet? 


Dr. : No, not in the slightest. No amount of forks or 
knives are going to convince me to quit my job and sail 
the seas with a talking crab. 


SCP-3251: Aye, but it ain't knives | got stashed there... it 
be gold. A whole lot of it. 


Dr. : How... how much? 
SCP-3251: [Unintelligible] 


Dr. : Alright, this is simply ridiculous. This interview is 
over. 


<End Log> 


Closing Statement: See Incident Log-3251-1 


Incident Log-3251-1 

Time: // ,9:36pm 

Event: The night after the events of Interview- 
Log-3251-1, a momentary power outage caused the 
containment breach of several anomalous entities at 
Site-48, one of which was SCP-3251. Investigation of the 
incident led to the conclusion that the power outage was 
caused by a member of staff. The entrance to the 
enclosure of SCP-3251 was found ajar and one of the 
research boats in Bay-13 was found missing after the 
incident concluded. Dr. has not been seen since prior 
to this event. Following his disappearance, Dr. has 
been designated Pol-306249. 


Footnotes 

1. A style of hat that was popular throughout England during the 
18th century, especially among pirates. The style was/is also very 
common in media depictions of pirates in the 20th and 21st 
centuries. 

2. This vessel varies from report to report. Some claim that the crabs 
were Sailing on a large piece of driftwood; while others imply that the 
crabs stole boat(s) from humans. 


SCP-3252: The Permian-Triassic Extinction Event 


Item #: SCP-3252 
Object Class: N/A 


Special Containment Procedures: Information Rehabilitation 
Program Phi-Theta-Rho is ongoing to support mainstream research 
in paleontology. Multiple theories on the causes of the Permian- 
Triassic Extinction Event are encouraged as long as they fall within 
the scope of modern scientific knowledge. Research in several fields 
are monitored regularly, including paleontology, geology and 
astronomy. Any publication of information regarding the true nature 
of SCP-3252 are to be promptly suppressed or discredited and their 
authors investigated for further action. 


Following the discovery of new information as detailed in Addendum 
3252-20 -01, Information Rehabilitation Program Phi-Theta-Rho has 
been expanded in scope to cover all similar anomalies, pending 
further research. 


Description: SCP-3252 is a period of time approximately 61,000 
years in length, estimated to have occurred between 251,941,000 
BCE and 251,880,000 BCE. This period of time coincides with what 
is commonly known as the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event, 
occurring at the boundary between the Permian and Triassic 
geologic periods, as well as the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. 
Paleontologists believe that it is the Earth's most severe known 
extinction event, with up to 96% of all marine species!? and 70% of 
terrestrial vertebrate species becoming extinct.3 


As far as the Foundation can determine, this period of time did not 
exist. Radiometric dating and other chronological dating methods 
have been unable to establish the existence of any fossils, 
geological formation or any other physical evidence dating from this 
period. Astronomical observation has been unable to observe any 
extraterrestrial bodies that are currently 251,880,000 to 251,941,000 


light years away from Earth. Investigation involving the use of SCP- 
[DATA EXPUNGED] to investigate the time period in question have 
failed for unknown reasons. 


Examination of geographical formations and fossils from the late- 
Permian and early-Triassic periods indicate no anomalies. Aside 
from the mass extinction of species, there is little evidence that the 
discontinuity in time had any effect on the physical plane; in fact, it 
cannot be conclusively proven that the Permian-Triassic Extinction 
Event occurred as a result of the discontinuity, rather than simply 
coinciding with it. 


From: Anthony Blast[ | @scp.fo] 

To: Alfred Lysander [ @scp.fo] 

Subject: | know | should have outgrown this by grad 
school but... 


DrL, 


Look, prof, | know I'm going to sound like a teenage kid 
who's read a little too much science fiction, but | just 
can't help thinking...how do we know that anything ever 
existed before this "time gap"? As far as we can tell, 
nothing existed during this period, not even time - 
everything just popped into existence on a certain day, 
251,880,000 years ago. How do we know that those 
fossils that we dated back to the Devonian really have 
been in existence for 400 million years, rather than 
popping into existence 252 millions years ago "150 
million years old"? Perhaps even the concept of time 
itself as well - "Let there be time", so to speak? 


I'm not sure what I'm writing even makes sense to 
myself, but | guess you get my drift. | used to believe that 
| would be atheist for life, now I'm not sure. 


Anthony Blast 
Junior Researcher, [REDACTED], Site- 


From: Alfred Lysander [ @scp.fo] 
To: Anthony Blast[ | @scp.fo] 


Subject: Re: | know | should have outgrown this by grad 
school but... 


Tony, 


Not a problem. You aren't the first researcher to say this, 
and you probably won't be the last. Hold on to that 
feeling - it's not the worst thing to go back to, once 
you've been on board for a few decades and seen 
enough things to turn your world inside out a dozen 
times and back again. 


The best advice | can give you is this: You're never going 
to find out whether it's true or not, so you might as well 
go for the explanation that makes you sleep better at 
night. Occam's Razor exists as much to keep your sanity 
as anything else. Maybe we end up chasing down the 
wrong rabbit hole forever, but that's far preferable to 
driving yourself nuts over something that we probably 
can't ever prove or disprove. 


At the end of the day, it's an academic question, and 
academic questions take the back-burner. It can be hard 
to swallow when the ink's not quite dry on your PhD, but 
the work we do here is ultimately for a practical purpose, 
and we have to think in practical terms. 


Dr. Alfred Lysander 
Project Head, [REDACTED], Site- 


P.S. If you think YOU have an existential crisis, think 
about what the religious support staff had to go through. 
Catch Father Klein at the cafeteria some time. Kind of 
puts things in perspective, no? 


Addendum 3252-20 -01: On 25 July 20 , regular temporal integrity 
examination as part of the SCP-3252 project revealed a temporal 
anomaly that displayed similar characteristics to SCP-3252. Further 
examination of temporal continuity using [REDACTED] exhibited 
identical results to examinations performed on SCP-3252. 
Approximately 0.17 seconds between 15:43:42 and 15:43:43 UTC 


on January 18, 2000 were found to have not existed. The non- 
existence of this time period is correlated by examination of 
Foundation computer records, astronomical observations, and 
[DATA EXPUNGED]. 


Following this discovery, the SCP-3252 project has been assigned 
to identify other similar anomalies. To date, have been discovered. 
Research is ongoing to determine the relationship between these 
anomalies and SCP-3252. 


Footnotes 

1. Benton M J (2005). When life nearly died: the greatest mass 
extinction of all time. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 
0-500-28573-X. 

2. Carl T. Bergstrom; Lee Alan Dugatkin (2012). Evolution. Norton. 
p. 515. ISBN 978-0-393-92592-0. 

3. Sahney S; Benton M.J (2008). "Recovery from the most profound 
mass extinction of all time". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 275 
(1636): 759-765. PMC 2596898 Freely accessible. PMID 18198148. 
doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1370. 


SCP-3253: A Prison of Ink and Flesh 


SCP-3253-A 


Item #: SCP-3253 
Object Class: Euclid Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3253-A is to be kept in a 
standard humanoid containment cell and provided with adequate 
enrichment according to established Ethics Committee Protocol. 
SCP-3253-A is not permitted to come into contact with SCP-3253-C. 
SCP-3253-A may come into contact with SCP-3253-B under 
supervision and for no longer than 60 minutes at a time. SCP-3253- 
A is not permitted any object that can be sharpened to the point of 
cutting or damaging skin. SCP-3253-A is to undergo quarterly 
psychological profiling to avert the formation of suicidal tendencies. 
SCP-3253-A's fingernails are to be kept short to prevent obsessive 
scratching of its skin. 


SCP-3253-B is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell 
on life support. Medical personnel assigned to tend to SCP-3253-B 
are to be kept under supervision during treatment. SCP-3253-B is 
not permitted to come into contact with SCP-3253-C. 


SCP-3253-C is to be kept in a standard Secure Storage Locker and 
may only be removed for testing. 


Description: SCP-3253 is a phenomenon which manifests only 
when SCP-3253-B tattoos an image onto SCP-3253-A's skin using 
SCP-3253-C (hereafter referred to as ‘A’, 'B' and 'C' for brevity). The 
image tattooed must resemble in some way an object, person, time, 
place or phenomenon with which A has come into contact and which 
A can recall without the aid of mnestics or veritants. 


Once B considers the tattooed image to be completed, the object of 
the tattoo will soontaneously cease to exist as an independent 
object, and will instead become part of A. Destroying the image 


SCP-417-1 will unanimously attack anything that moves with 
startlingly painful bites. 


Within the first few minutes, bites sustained from the swarm swell 
into painful red sores with minor puncture wounds. No known 
remedy will soothe the pain of the bites. In 5% of the recorded 
cases, bites have no lasting effect and the swelling and pain reduce 
after a few days. 45% of the time, those bitten will begin to have 
convulsions and suffer from a fatal heart attack within several hours. 
At that stage, their body will rot and dissolve at an accelerated rate. 
In the area where their body had been, a new tree will begin to grow 
over the course of the next few days. 


In the remaining 50%, after an indeterminate period of 2-24 hours, 
those afflicted begin to complain of severe pains and muscle 
atrophy, expelling flesh by [DATA EXPUNGED] appear to coincide 
with the approximate mass of SCP-417-1. 


While growing, the plague trees, as they have been dubbed, are 
vulnerable to being felled, incineration, and conventional herbicides. 


SCP-417 cannot be moved, as all attempts to fell or shift the original 
tree result in severe agitation of the branches, causing all instances 
of the fruit to fall to the ground, splitting and releasing massive 
swarms of SCP-417-1. Thankfully, SCP-417-1 does not seem to 
survive for longer than 1-2 hours, dying with little incident. If the fruit 
of SCP-417 is not picked or shaken off the branches, it simply rots 
on the branches and falls to the ground, with no ill effects. 


Addendum #417-A: Although SCP-417 is currently listed as a 
Euclid class item, its potential for spreading has sparked some 
argument over a possible transfer to Keter class. 


Addendum #417-B: Notable specimens of 417-1: 


* Several dozen creatures resembling black widow spiders, 
except with only four long, cricket-like legs each that allowed 
for them to make astonishingly long, fast jumps. 

« Twenty wasps with red and orange stripes and wings similar 
to those of a butterfly, capable of surprisingly fast flight. 


physically returns the object to existence (see Experiments 08, 10 
and 11). Subjects returned in this fashion appear to suffer a 
sympathetic effect related to the method used to destroy the image. 


SCP-3253-A, previously D-4423, is an Asian male of mixed 
American and Japanese descent in its mid-forties identifying as 
Kimotsuki Tadahashi. 87% of A's body is covered in tattoos of 
varying design. A claims to have obtained the majority of these 
tattoos during its time as an operative of the E(RH& (Ninkyo 
Dantai, or Yakuza), working for the {E42 (Sumiyoshi-kai) group in 
Tokyo. A came into Foundation custody after its arrest in Tokyo in 
20 for the murder of a local businessman and his family. 


SCP-3253-B, previously D-8779, is an Asian male of Japanese 
descent in its late forties identifying as Takuji Matsuda. B has been 
in a comatose state and under necessary life support since Incident 
3253-4. B is Known to have previously been a tattoo artist in Tokyo, 
and came into Foundation custody in 20 after a sting operation 
conducted by the Japanese police implicated B in a series of 
murders. 


SCP-3253-C 


SCP-3253-C is a crudely manufactured tattooing needle created by 
B during its time as D-Class personnel. C is constructed from a 
wooden peg, a sharpened bone needle of animal origin, and twine 
obtained from Foundation stationary. 


SCP-3253 was first noticed by the Foundation after Incident 3253-2, 
in which SCP- vanished from containment at Site on / /20 . 
SCP-3253 was then retroactively identified as the cause of Incident 
3253-1, in which [REDACTED] similarly vanished from containment 
at Site . The inquiry into Incident 3253-2 found that the only 
connection between the two incidents, other than the method of 
containment breach, was that A had been recently subjected to 
testing with both objects. 


A was removed from D-Class habitation and interviewed. Relevant 
sections of the interview logs are reprinted here. 


+ Interview Log SCP-3253-001 


Interviewed: D-4423 (SCP-3253-A) 
Interviewer: Researcher Yuji Tange 


Foreword: Interview originally conducted in 
Japanese owing to D-4423's fluency compared 
to English. Original transcript available on 
request.