Director, Site-87 


Footnotes 

1. As of November 2012. 

2. Refer to Department of Science Document 2188-38.b, 
"Resolution of Divergent Findings from Site-41 and Sector G 
Transreality Artwork Research Collective." 

3. "The Scene in .son: Strange Lights in the Prairie." Foundation 
Sector G Transreality Artwork Research Collective; 1997, pp.54-55 
4. By a vote of 13-8 of S-TARC members, Rev. Abernathy's sermon 
was deemed to be a work of art, based on its connection to 
SCP-2188, use of abstract imagery, and audience impact. 


« SCP-2187 | SCP-2188 | SCP-2189 » 


SCP-2189: Clockwork Fruit 


Item #: SCP-2189 
Object Class: Safe Euclid Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Instances of SCP-2189-T are to 
be kept in the low-security greenhouses at Biological Containment 
Site-103, with temperature, humidity and soil resembling the native 
conditions of their biological counterparts. Instances of SCP-2189-F 
are to be harvested when ripe, and the metals recycled. 


Special Containment Procedures (Updated // ): Instances of 
SCP-2189-T are to be individually isolated in climate-controlled 
terraria at Bio Site-103. Temperature, humidity and soil resembling 
the native conditions of their biological counterparts are to be 
provided when instances of SCP-2189-F are required for research. 
At other times, a dormant state is to be induced. Class 6 hazmat 
procedures must be observed whenever entering the terraria or 
handling instances of SCP-2189-F. 


Every 30 days, research staff are to collect dissection specimens 
from insect populations in the low-security greenhouses at Bio 
Site-103, as well as certain animal populations near SCP-2189's 
discovery site (see Document 2189-501 for details). Anomalous 
findings from dissection specimens are to be escalated to the Site 
Director. 


Special Containment Procedures (Updated // ): Revision of // 
is to remain in effect. Instances of SCP-2189-C are to be kept in 
cold storage at Bio Site-103 except during active research. 
Approximately 60% of the land under which SCP-2189-X is located 
has been purchased by Foundation front companies, with the 
remainder located under State Forest, which has been brought 
under effective Foundation control through infiltration of relevant 
parks administration offices. Outpost-103-47 has been established 
in the area for observation and research. Locating Pol-2189-1 has 


been designated an Alpha-level priority. 


Description: SCP-2189 is the collective designation for three items 
superficially resembling specimens of Ma/us domestica (AKA an 
apple tree, designated SCP-2189-T-1), Vitis vinifera (AKA a 
common grape vine, designated SCP-2189-T-2) and Musa 
acuminata (AKA a banana plant, designated SCP-2189-T-3), as well 
as their associated fruit (designated SCP-2189-F-1, -2, and -3, 
respectively). 


The bark, epidermis, and peels of SCP-2189 instances are 
indistinguishable from that of their non-anomalous counterparts, 
including genetically. However, in place of the expected internal 
structures are an intricate network of gears, springs, cams, and 
cranks. Removed components are indistinguishable from non- 
anomalous metals, mostly brass. 


When its internal mechanisms are functioning, instances of 
SCP-2189-T respond to their environment similarly to their biological 
counterparts, except that they are always in growing season, and 
parts do not naturally senesce: leaves never change color and fall 
off, bark never sloughs off, and instances of SCP-2189-F remain 
attached indefinitely and do not become overripe. 


SCP-2189-T instances have the same needs as their non- 
anomalous counterparts in terms of water, sunlight, and soil type. 
When deprived of these, the instance's internal mechanisms begin 
to slow, eventually stopping altogether under circumstances 
corresponding to severe malnutrition. If appropriate exposure to 
sunlight, water, and soil are resumed, the instance resumes 
functioning. The internal mechanisms of an SCP-2189-F instance 
will cease functioning if it is picked before ripe, or once it has been 
separated from the corresponding SCP-2189-T instance for about 
the same amount of time it would take its biological counterpart to 
spoil. 


Functioning instances of SCP-2189-F can be eaten and digested. 
Subjects report that the flavor and texture are typical of the type of 
fruit corresponding to the instance. Juices dripping from an 
SCP-2189-F instance incidental to being consumed are identical to 
non-anomalous counterparts.! Mechanisms that are bitten through 


will continue their normal movement, with portions of the mechanism 
moving from the main mass to the bitten-off piece and back again, 
as if the mechanism were still intact. This spatial anomaly appears 
to continue on an increasingly small scale as SCP-2189-F pieces 
are further broken down in the mouth and digestive tract. 


If the peel of an SCP-2189-F instance is removed, the mechanical 
interior will continue to function. However, if anything other than 
animal mouthparts penetrates deeper than the peel of an 
SCP-2189-F instance, the internal mechanisms of that instance will 
jam. Once this occurs, all portions of the instance will cease to 
function as fruit. The mechanisms can no longer be bitten through, 
and bites already taken will become indigestible. Consequent 
autopsies of animal and D-class test subjects identified either 
gastrointestinal trauma or copper toxicity as the cause of death, 
depending on the stage of digestion. 


Addendum 1: One of the early test subjects of SCP-2189, D-51259, 
was subsequently assigned to be [REDACTED] for SCP- _ , and 
consequently had her termination deferred by three months. When 
SCP- attempted to remove [REDACTED] D-51259 was givena 
detailed autopsy with biopsies of all tissues. This unusually thorough 
postmortem analysis was standard practice for all D-class who had 
been used to test SCP-2189, and the directive remained in 
D-51259's personnel file despite the fact that active testing of 
SCP-2189 had been concluded. 


Microscopic brass gears were discovered in some samples of 
D-51259’s adipose and lymphatic tissue, and her liver was found to 
contain a cluster of five interlocked gears ranging in diameter from 
0.1-0.4mm, the largest of which was attached to a 0.3mm-long 
camshaft. These structures were not found in D-class personnel 
who died during or shortly after testing of SCP-2189. Testing of 
SCP-2189 has resumed and a proposal to reclassify as Euclid is 
currently being drafted by the research team. 


Addendum 2: Subsequent to SCP-2189's reclassification, Field 
Agents Dietrich and Harris conducted a review of public and police 
records to identify deaths and missing person cases potentially 
linked to SCP-2189. They flagged for investigation the 
disappearance ofL RF _ ,aretired aerospace engineer who lived in 


a cabin several miles from State Forest, where SCP-2189 was 
discovered. 


Upon entering R_ 's home, the Agents discovered over three dozen 
clocks and watches. All of those that retained legible manufacturer 
markings were later identified as being of purely mechanical design, 
without electrical components. Approximately two dozen of the 
timepieces were found with their outer components (casings, faces, 
etc.) in a state of extreme corrosion inconsistent with their apparent 
date of manufacture and conditions of storage. These instances 
lacked internal components, and were covered in mold. 


Fourteen instances were found in R's deep freeze. These 
instances had uncorroded exteriors, and contained a multicolored 
biological material later identified as a patchwork of various tissues 
found in Malus domestica, Vitis vinifera, and Musa acuminata. 
These instances were found to be keeping accurate time despite 
their lack of internal mechanisms. 


Agents also confiscated numerous hand-written notebooks 
containing diagrams and arrays of symbols. Analysis of the 
notebooks has been hindered by mold damage, but the legible 
portion of the text includes common equations from mechanical 
engineering with unidentified symbols inserted in place of various 
constants. 


The timepieces have been designated SCP-2189-C, andL R 
has been designated Person of Interest 2189-1. 


Addendum 3: Agents Dietrich and Harris interviewed several of 
Pol-2189-1's superiors and coworkers at Aeronautics, where he 
was employed for 32 years. Pol-2189-1 appears to have been 
socially isolated and regarded as increasingly eccentric during the 
final years of his employment. He was reportedly pushed into 
retirement when he began talking openly about the "engineering 
applications" of various occult practices, most frequently “sacred 
geometry and geography." 


Agents also interviewed the individual who initially reported 
Pol-2189-1 missing, his nephew and nextofkinJd H .H_~ claims 
to have been the only visitor to Pol-2189-1's cabin after Pol-2189-1 


retired there, and that Pol-2189-1 spent the past several years 
constructing an “elaborate contraption covered in drawings." H 
states that he actively avoided discussion of Pol-2189-1's occult 
interests, and is unable to provide useful details about the alleged 
apparatus or Pol-2189-1's activities during this time, other than that 
Pol-2189-1 claimed several times to have selected the location of 
the cabin for reasons of “sacred geometry and geography.” 


Researchers conducted a thorough geological survey of the 
property. Subterranean mapping of the area was hampered when 
standard GPR? was unable to produce clear output. A 
[IREDACTED]] system was employed, which identified a metallic 
sphere approximately min diameter, buried atadepth of m, and 
connected by a curved shaft to a much larger object at the limit of 
the [[REDACTED]]'s range. Probing of the surrounding region was 
conducted under cover of a study by the U.S. Geological Survey, 
and the central mass was found to be connected to similar soheres 
as far away as , ranging in diameter from mto0O. km. The 
overall structure of the object resembles an orrery, buried ina 
vertical orientation roughly along the line of latitude at ° 'N. 


A mineral exploration drilling rig with diamond drill bits successfully 
penetrated the sphere closest to the surface and extracted a core 
sample. The interior layers consisted of tissues found in disparate 
human body parts, including layers made of heart muscle, tendons, 
and neurons. The outer shell was found to be brass. The structure 
has been designated SCP-2189-X. 


Surveillance of J H produced the following recovered voicemail, 
received // 3 and deleted the same day, apparently left by 
Pol-2189-1 in a state of inebriation: 


It works, Johnny-boy! It works. Every part of it works. | 
did as tough a test as | could think of short of the real 
thing. Complex systems, groups of, you know, groups of 
complex systems, one of the earth and one clean and 
mechanical, matching the [unintelligible] function versus 
structure, and it all fell into place, like clockwork, 
perfectly engineered! Smooth and perfect! You do the 
right things, and the right things will happen! You can't 
laugh at the rules of the universe like some political 


middle manager bullshitter [unintelligible] and expect to 
get away with it! It's not a theory, it's not hoodoo, it's 
sacred geometry and geography! [laughs] | really wish 
you were here to see it. Oh, | know you think I'm crazy 
too, Johnny-boy, but you've been the only one to stand 
by me, and | want you to know that in the world to come, 
you and Sherry will be protected. You'll sit at my right 
hand. The Sleeping King will never wake up, Johnny- 
boy. | will. 


Further invasive testing of SCP-2189-X was prohibited and 
SCP-2189 upgraded to Keter by order of O5- . 


| don't need to tell you that we got caught with our pants 
down on this one, or that we might well have remained in 
the dark for far longer if an accidental discovery hadn't 
forced you to take a second look at SCP-2189. The 
simple step of assigning Agents to investigate the SCP's 
origins at the time of containment could have been a real 
game-changer. 


Instead, SCP-2189 spent critical months mis-classified 
as Safe, with no one looking into it, because no one in 
Site-103's chain of command — not your project head, not 
your director of research, and not you — thought that it 
might be worthwhile to study the long-term effects of 
eating an SCP. That kind of incurious attitude is the 
exact opposite of what we pay researchers for. And your 
claim that you couldn't assign investigative resources 
until SCP-2189 was reclassified as Euclid won't fly. You 
have a discretionary budget for precisely this reason. 


We still don't know exactly what R did, whether he got 
what he wanted, or for that matter whether the effects of 
his little dress rehearsal are still working their way up the 
food chain in and your own Site's greenhouses. What 
we do know for certain is that we gave him a three- 
month head start. In light of these events, I've decided 
your talents would be better utilized elsewhere in the 
organization. You are relieved of your duties as Site 
Director, effective immediately. 


— 05- 


Footnotes 


1. Attempting to squeeze or ream an instance to produce additional 


juice will result in jamming of the internal mechanisms, as described 
below. 


2. Ground Penetrating Radar 
3. Three days before the discovery of SCP-2189-T and -F 


« SCP-2188 | SCP-2189 | SCP-2190 » 


SCP-2190: Phone calls from Mom 


Item #: SCP-2190 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Foundation agents embedded 
in regional cell phone manufacturers and distributors are to ensure 
that all phones sold within SCP-2190’s active area included modified 
SIM cards designed to automatically filter calls from SCP-2190. 


Undercover field agents living near POI-2190-2’s place of residence 
are trusted to monitor and ensure the wellbeing of POI-2190-2 and 
her family, as well as dissuade members of the community from 
believing that POI-2190-3 is anything other than a loving husband. 


Description: SCP-2190 is a telephonic entity that manifests in 
communication systems within the country of the Philippines. 
Records of previous manifestations have shown that SCP-2190 
possesses the personality, vocal quality, and financial resources of 
, a deceased Filipino woman designated POI-2190-1. 
SCP-2190 is capable of calling any mobile phone within a 100km 
radius of the home in which POI-2190-2 currently resides. The first 
SCP-2190 phone call took place on 02/05/2007, three days after 
POI-2190-1 passed away at the age of 78 due to heart failure. 


SCP-2190 has complete, irrevocable control over POI-2190-1's 
savings and liquid assets. This encompasses the full breadth of 
resources possessed by POI-2190-1 prior to her death, as 
POI-2190-1 retained complete ownership of these resources even 
after being declared legally deceased. Suspected anomalous 
bureaucratic influence is being investigated. 


All attempts to prevent or limit SCP-2190's access to its financial 
resources have consistently met with failure. Any attempt to close, 
transfer ownership, or edit the balance of POI-2190-1's bank 
account via computerized systems will result in a system error, and 


any alterations to physical documents pertaining to SCP-2190's 
wealth will anomalously revert the following day. Additionally, 
individuals employed at financial institutions will immediately forget 
any instructions to alter or deny transactions from POI-2190-1's 
bank account. 


Every two to three weeks, SCP-2190 places a phone call to an 
individual of its choosing. Records indicate that SCP-2190 makes its 
selections based on the following criteria: 


¢ The recipient must reside in close proximity to POI-2190-2's 
place of living. 

¢ The recipient must possess a reasonable level of physical 
fitness and intelligence.