interaction with SCP-3989-A has been marred 
by human frailties of fear and mortality. In the 
interests of further discovery based on the 
text4 we've discovered on site since primary 
containment, |, Dr. Farik Ghazalie, will 
personally lead an expedition in search of 
Kythera, and the Orokian temple within. 
Secondary objectives include obtaining live 
specimens of SCP-3989-2A and -2B, 
preferably in utero. | would like to state for the 
record that this experiment is proceeding 
under my own authority, and | accept full 
responsibility for the outcome. Bravo team 
members Gulf, India, and Echo will 
accompany me. 


Dr. Ghazalie: Quick sound check. 
Gulf: Check. 
India: Check. 
Echo: [static] 


T. Dwent: Echo, check your mic, | don't read 
you. 


Echo: How's this? 


T. Dwent: Perfect, that's all of you. Ready 
when you are, Doctor. 


Dr. Ghazalie: Okay, everyone stay close to 
me. It's a rather long walk. Try not to touch 
anything if you can help it. Anything you see or 
hear won't harm you if you don't make the first 
move. 


Gulf: What constitutes a ‘first move'? 


Dr. Ghazalie: We're-uh... we're not quite sure. 
Just keep your hands to yourself. 


Echo: | fear not. 
India: Nor I. 


Dr. Ghazalie: That's the spirit. Come, there is 
much to see. 


Team body cameras capture the transition to 
SCP-3989-A. Unknown entities visible peeking 
from behind trees throughout video feed. Gulf 
can be heard breathing heavily at times as his 
camera whips to view entities, which promptly 
disappear from video feed. Unintelligible 
whispering periodically appears on audio log. 
Team members do not speak for 
approximately 20 minutes. 


Dr. Ghazalie: Amal, status check? 


T. Dwent: Things are going nominally. Have 
you seen the Halkost? 


Gulf: Halkost? You mean we're going in after 
a Karcist? 


Dr. Ghazalie: That is the current plan. Yes, 
Amal, | saw them. | believe they see us as 
pilgrims. 


India: Don't get cocky, Doctor. There is much 
we don't know. 


Gulf: This is a very bad idea. 


Echo: ...Amal, do you know if Gulf has been 
initiated? 


Gulf: Initiated? Into wha— 


Echo, India, and Dr. Ghazalie stop walking and 
turn to face Gulf. India and Echo raise their 
weapons and aim at Gulf. 


Gulf: Oh. Oh fuck you guys. 


Echo and India open fire on Gulf, who does 
not have time to return fire and is quickly 
terminated. The floor of the orchard opens 
beneath him, and a swarm of SCP-3989-1A 
quickly surrounds and begins to consume the 
body. 


India: Shame. | enjoyed working with him. 


Dr. Ghazalie: Do not grieve for the blind and 
deaf. Wonderful sights and sounds await them. 


Team continues to traverse SCP-3989-A. 
Topography of the area is inconsistent with 
previous exploration attempts. No trace is 
found of Agent Harrick's body, or the large 
open valley entered by MTF Z-9. Dr. Ghazalie 
begins to pace and spin, visibly disoriented. 
Audio during this time is sporadic. Intelligible 
portions transcribed below. 


UNKNOWN: Sacrifice. Betrayal. Who brings 
this offering? 


UNKNOWN: The world of man walks in 
ignorance and frailty. Minds of the past cannot 
navigate the labyrinth of the present. 


UNKNOWN: It is ours. 


UNKNOWN: Reap. Reap. Reap. Reap. [ 
continues for 3 minutes | 


Dr. Ghazalie: This is wrong... 
Echo: Explain. 


Dr. Ghazalie: Amal, how long have we been 
walking? Amal? Base? 


India: Doctor. Explain. 


Dr. Ghazalie: There was supposed to be a 
valley and a mountain. | swore they were at 
the foot of the temple when they turned back. 


SCP-3989-4 
Echo: ...India, shoot that man. 


India immediately raises his firearm. Echo 
releases a three round burst into India's head. 
India falls to the ground, terminated. His body 
camera continues to record as he is subsumed 
by SCP-3989-1. 


Dr. Ghazalie: Wh— Why did you do that?! 


Echo: Orok is a patron of betrayal and loyalty, 
yes? Then it stands to reason that we will now 
find his temple. 


UNKNOWN: The Harvest has been fulfilled. 
The Hunt begins. 


Dr. Ghazalie: ...How long? 


Echo: Since Harrick brought back the first of 
the blessed white worm. Perhaps even before 
you. 


Dr. Ghazalie: | wish you hadn't said that on 
record. 


Echo: What record? This stays on site. 
T. Dwenk: Go. Reap. 


Dr. Ghazalie: Heh. Well played, both of you. 
I'm sure he will be pleased. 


India's body camera records emergence in a 


dimly lit black stone hallway. A face with a 
vertical mouth is visible on frame briefly. The 
body is carried down the hallway briefly before 
the feed is interrupted. 


Echo's body camera records a topological 
restructuring event behind Dr. Ghazalie. 
Landmass appears to shift and change until a 
large valley opens below and reveals a black 
stone temple complex (SCP-3989-4). Dr. 
Ghazalie turns and sees the complex. 


Echo: Knock, and the door will be opened. 


Remaining team members proceed down into 
the temple complex. Little activity is visible on 
feed other than various views of the complex. 
Architecture present suggests quasi- 
Mesoamerican and Sumerian influences, but is 
inconclusive. Significant degradation is present 
on several buildings. Writing is absent. 
Numerous examples of SCP-3989-2 are 
present throughout the grounds. Instances 
appear to shift toward Echo and Dr. Ghazalie 
as they approach, and recede as they depart. 


Dr. Ghazalie: Magnificent. This place is truly 
ancient. lon himself may have walked upon 
these stones. 


India's body camera reactivates. Several large 
humanoids are visible from the camera's 
vantage point. Both India and Gulf are visible 
on stone altars in the background. Large 
humanoids with vertical mouths (SCP-3989-3) 
surround them, apparently vocalizing, though 
no audio is recorded. Feed cuts after 15 
seconds. 


Sound of stone falling is heard through Echo's 
microphone. Echo turns quickly, raising her 


03:44 - Agent Ted attempts to damage Storage- 
Building 4-b with combat grenades; aggressively 
drawn into building by exceedingly rapid limbs. 


03:45 - Command contacted; mission failed. 
07:01 - Dawn. 


07:10 - Collective remains of Dr. Meil and Agents 
Matheson, Germain, Teffler, Seile and Ted 
rediscovered. 


weapon. 
Echo: Doctor, did you hear that? 


Dr Ghazalie: Look at these reliefs! Exquisite! 
And after so much time! 


Echo's camera pans back to where Dr. 
Ghazalie was standing, and he is no longer 
present. No interruption or anomalous 
movement was visible through Dr. Ghazalie's 
video feed. 


T. Dwenk: Doctor, can you read us? 


UNKNOWN: A Roman soldier once explained 
to me that warfare is an honorable enterprise. 
Was it not the Roman horde which coined the 
phrase Divide et impera? 


T. Dwenk: Farik, do you hear me? Echo has 


Audio feed from base is cut. 


Dr. Ghazalie’s body camera pans in attempt to 
locate Echo. When he realizes she is missing, 
Dr. Ghazalie breathes rapidly and his pulse 
quickens. Camera picks up several spatial 
distortions in SCP-3989-4. Distances between 
adjacent buildings expand and contract at 
irregular intervals, as does their elevation 
relative to their vantage point. Audio records 
the beginnings of a distressed vocalization, but 
cuts before words can be discerned. Dr. 
Ghazalie moves quickly to a pyramidal 
structure to his right, which appears stable 
relative to his position, and begins to climb it. 
Dr. Ghazalie’s side-arm is visible in his hand at 
this time. 


Echo's body camera captures similar spatial 
distortions to Dr. Ghazalie's, though of lesser 
intensity. Audio feed unresponsive. She 
retreats to a nearby outcrop with rifle at low 
ready and appears to be responding to sounds 
in the environment. Several possible sightings 
of humanoids on record, however spatial 
distortion makes these very difficult to discern. 
A pair of black structures resembling eyes 
appear in the sky overhead and vanish within 
2 seconds. Audio feed resumes. 


Echo: — can hear me, I'm stuck in a small 
mausoleum near the uh... Shit, no compass. 
Ghazalie? Dwenk? 


UNKNOWN: | am here. 
Echo: Wh — who said that? Who are you? 


A loud, low, widely spaced rhythm is heard, 
along with a rushing of air. Air and rhythm are 
seen to correspond to spatial distortions of 
SCP-3989-4. 


UNKNOWN: | live. 


Four instances of SCP-3989-3 emerge from 
the ground approximately 30 m from Echo. 
One instance, standing approximately .5m 
taller than the others on four hind limbs, 
produces a sword from the center of its chest 
and directs it toward Echo. All four instances 
proceed slowly, the three in front extending 
long poles from their forearms, which detach 
and form glaives approximately 2m in length. 
She opens fire, striking two in the skull who fall 
back momentarily before regaining their feet. 
Gulf's body camera reactivates and delivers a 
feed of some location behind Echo. Echo 
continues firing after reloading. The largest 


SCP-3989-3 instance is struck once in each 
shoulder and once in the neck, stumbles, and 
rises again, bleeding but not in any apparent 
distress. Gulf's camera draws closer. A hand 
resembling those of SCP-3989-3, but wearing 
a Foundation security uniform, grabs Echo by 
the shoulder and plunges a dagger into her 
neck, obscuring the camera before the feed 
cuts. 


Dr. Ghazalie reacts in synchronization to the 
sounds of the unknown vocalization, though no 
audio plays through his microphone. He 
retreats into a chamber at the top of the 
pyramid. Interior dimensions of the chamber 
suggests it recedes far further to the rear than 
an external view of the structure should allow. 
Dr. Ghazalie activates headlamp. Dark red 
structures are apparent in the sides of the 
chamber, regularly pulsating in slow rhythm. A 
light is visible ahead. Dr. Ghazalie runs toward 
it. Analysis of playback reveals several small 
(< 0.3m long), light skinned figures running 
along the passage in both directions. No 
reaction noted from Dr. Ghazalie to their 
presence. Far end of hallway opens into large, 
round chamber with stadium seating on all 
sides. Dr. Ghazalie trips and falls 
approximately 3 m into the floor of the 
chamber. Floor is covered in 0.5 m of viscous 
black fluid. Audio resumes. 


Dr. Ghazalie: Oh no... No no no! 


Camera pans upward. Seats are filled with 
innumerable instances of SCP-3989-3, 
chanting in unknown language. A 5 m tall door 
opens on the opposite side of the chamber, 
releasing two instances of SCP-3989-2A. Gulf, 
India, and Echo's cameras all resume 


transmission from various points within the 
upper level, with clear view of Dr. Ghazalie 
below. 


Dr. Ghazalie: No! | am with you! | wanted to 
help you! Don't you understand?! I'm not a 
warrior, I'm a simple pilgrim! Think of what we 
could learn together! 


UNKNOWN: Reap. 


SCP-3989-2A instances drop to all fours, and 
run across the chamber as Dr. Ghazalie fires 
rapidly. SCP-3989-2A throws Dr. Ghazalie 
against the far wall. Video feed ends. 


Afterward: After analysis of the above log, all 
Team members were considered KIA and their 
equipment unrecoverable. Site Director Dr. 

suspended all inquiries into the 
event and seized all related logs for 
information security purposes. 


Addendum: On 21/3/2014, an instance of 
SCP-3989-2 spontaneously appeared in the 
Area-126 atrium, bearing four fruits 
approximately 1 m in diameter. During 
establishment of in-situ containment, all four 
fruits simultaneously ruptured, and four 
individual humanoids genetically identical to 
Dr. Ghazalie, Echo, India, and Gulf were 
recovered. Area-126 records indicate these 
entities were returned to active duty in site 
operations. The above logs were recovered 
buried under the live instance of SCP-3989-2 
during the events of 15/06/2016 containment 
breach. 


Complete list of sub-designations 


+ Expand List of Sub Designations 


Item Designatic 


SCP-3989-1 


SCP-3989-1A 


SCP-3989-2 


Prior 
Observation/ 
Designation 
None 


Description 


Ossified tree 
resembling Olea 
europaea. Leaf- 
like structures 
composed of 
cardiac tissue. 
Fruiting body 
replaced with egg 
sacs containing 
10-15 larval 
instances of 
SCP-3989-TA 


Possible sighting Small worm-like 
as SK-BIO Type |Z organisms 


at related sites. 


No prior 
designation, 
unconfirmed 
reports of 


essential to 
ossification 
process of existing 
olive trees in 
SCP-3989 active 
zone. Limited 
anatomical 
characteristics. 
Consumption of 
wood fiber elicits 
deposit of human 
osteocytes in non- 
anomalous trees. 
Tree-like 
structures 
composed of 
enlarged human 


instances possibly vertebral columns. 


within the active 


zone of SCP-610) 


suggesting prior 


Exhibit branching 
structures 
reminiscent of 


SCP-3989-2A 


successful breach. trees but of no 


Possible SK-BIO 
Type A/ 
SCP-2480-2 


discernible non- 
anomalous 
parallel. Exposed 
lung brachiation 
and cardiac tissue 
in place of small 
twigs and leaves. 
Bears small 
amniotic sacks 
from placental 
tissue along the 
trunk, containing 
developing 
instances of 
SCP-3989-2A and 
SCP-3989-2B 
Large, long-limbed 
humanoids, white 
in color, no 
discernible facial 
features or 
sensory organs. 
First sighted 
during manned 
expeditions in 
SCP-3989-A. 
Behavior is 
restricted to 
observation of 
Foundation 
presence unless 
provoked. 
Apparently tasked 
with guarding 
SCP-3989-A; 
several exploration 
teams lost while 
attempting to 
retrieve live 


SCP-3989-2B 


SCP-3989-3 


No prior 
designation, 
unconfirmed 
reports of 


samples from 
SCP-3989-2. 
Small humanoids, 
similarly lacking 
eyes or sensory 
organs. White in 


instances possibly color with exposed 


within the active 
zone of SCP-610) 
suggesting prior 


vertebral columns 
branching at the 
base, creating two 


successful breach. pelvises. 


Possible SK-BIO 
Type B. 
Unconfirmed 
reports of 
instances present 
during SCP-610 
active periods. 
Relation between 
these two 
anomalies is 
unknown. 


Possesses no 
fewer than three 
hearts and four 
lungs, though 
more have been 
recorded. Retreats 
from interaction 
with Foundation 
personnel or 
exploratory 
vehicles if abie. 
Humanoids 1.5 - 
2 m in height with 
vertical mouths. 
Bodies are 
protected by 
apparently 
chitinous or 
keratinous armor 
plating. No 
samples retrieved. 
Will engage 
Foundation 
personnel on 
sight. Notable 
deviations from 
previously 
encountered SK- 
BIO Type B 


SCP-3989-4 


SCP-3989-V 


None 


N/A 


instances include 
additional hind or 
forelimbs, 
presence of 
horizontal mouths, 
horned craniums, 
or integrated 
bladed and 
projectile 
weaponry. 
Temple complex 
visible at a 
distance estimated 
to be 10 km from 
entry to 
SCP-3989-A. 
Extent unknown. 
Construction 
appears to be of a 
dark stone-like 
material. No 
samples yet 
collected. 
SCP-3989-3 
concentration 
increases with 
proximity to the 
tempie 
Designation of 
unknown 
perception and 
cognition affecting 
vector associated 
with concealing 
the anomalous 
properties of 
SCP-3989 and 
subdesignations. 
Vector appears to 
apply not only to 


SCP-3989-H 


N/A 


live observation, 
but also to video 
and audio 
recordings. It is 
unknown the 
extent to which 
this vector is 
responsible for 
concealing the 
events of 
Exploration Log 
3989-18. 
Subsequent to 
containment 
breach event on 
15/06/2016, 
anomalous effects 
apply to all 
personnel 
exposed directly to 
SCP-3989-A. 
Additional 
cognitive effects of 
auditory and visual 
hallucinations 
have been 
reported in 
personnel since 
recontainment. 
Optional self- 
termination of 
those affected is 
authorized. 

Four entities 
formerly known as 
Dr. Farik Ghazalie, 
Security Captain 
Elize "Echo" 
Faina, and 
Security Agents 


Ghaith "Gulf" 
Kalabi and Aimar 
"India" Terzi. 
Currently 
uncontained. 


Footnotes 

1. Unstable, Stationary, Unaided, Wide Area, Safe, 2 way, Cyclic 
2.Mythical location present in both Broken God and Sarkic 
mythology.