Before returning, subject realized that the possibility of shifting back 
to our reality so far underground might cause it to be displaced in 
solid rock, and spent its remaining time frantically searching for a 
way back to the surface. When subject succeeded, it discovered that 
the sink holes were much more widespread than what had been 
visible from below ground. 


« Request: Diving Lessons. Denied. 


2UU-519-Q3D 

Retrieval: Upon seeing Foundation personnel in , , subject 
approached them and requested to be recontained, showing 
knowledge of SCPs that were of Level 3 clearance. 


The length of time the subject was absent from our reality was 
notable, being roughly three months in length. However, during this 
time, it made several notable discoveries, including several SCPs 
uncontained by our reality's SCP Foundation but contained by 
Universe 2UU-519-Q3D's equivalent. These SCPs have now been 
contained. 


Date: 20 June, 2012 

Interviewer: NTF Sigma-58 Agent Christina Hess 
Interviewee: SCP-3896-03 

Interviewer equipped with chest camera, sidearm, and 
high-strength steel recall reel attached to safety harness. 


(Agent Hess approaches SCP-3896-03 in full MOPP 
gear. SCP-3896-03 scoffs.) 


SCP-3896-03: Ah. Look at you, child. Defenses raised. 
You have little to fear from me, provided you possess 
strength of blood. 


Agent Hess: You'll forgive a woman for being cautious. 


SCP-3896-03: | suppose | shall. The weak are well 
served by vigilance. 


Agent Hess: What are you? 
(SCP-3896-03 laughs.) 


SCP-3896-03: There are a number of answers to that 
question, my little flower. Do you ask a name? 


Agent Hess: That would do for a start. 


SCP-3896-03: | had one, but | gave it up. When one 
becomes restless, one loses a number of things. But the 
mother is fair, and some things are given in exchange. 


Agent Hess: Like getting fused to the wall of a cave, for 
example. 


(SCP-3896-03 laughs again.) 


SCP-3896-03: You have a bite. That's good. Please, 
continue your line of inquiry. 


Agent Hess: You're... unexpectedly forthcoming. 


SCP-3896-03: Perhaps. We know who you are, 
Christina. | can read the sparks in your skull like tea 
leaves at the bottom of a cup. We know your allegiance, 
and we know about your lockmaking, keyturning 
consortium. We have made battle with one another for 
quite a long time. You do an admirable job of throwing 
wrenches in the works, as it were, but to put it simply, we 
aren't afraid of you. 


(SCP-3896-03's ribcage spreads slightly, the individual 
ribs cracking and undulating independently.) 


SCP-3896-03: | could crack your limbs and dine upon 
your marrow any second if | wished, but what's the 
point? Whether by jaw or claw or plague or blade, you'll 
come to know us intimately someday... so | must admit 
that there is little sense in beating around the proverbial 
bush. Ask your questions. | am eager to please. 


Agent Hess: Hm. If that's your stance, perhaps you 
could elaborate upon the skirmishes that take place in 
the reef just off the coast, there? You're very nearby, I'd 
wager you know something about it. 


SCP-3896-03: Your wager pays out. It is from that spot 
that | release my scions, crafted from the finest chosen 
dead, to test the will of the bearers. Their strength has 
diminished, and | have broken through here. They are 
beginning to struggle underneath all that weight, ahaa. | 
expect | will break through you quite soon. Time, as 
always, is our ally. 


Agent Hess: What purpose are you serving, 
specifically? 


SCP-3896-03: | am the tender of this node, one of 
hundreds throughout the body of our planet. We are the 
many canals through which Mother's wrath is made real 
upon the surface of the world. | minister to this section of 
Mother's body, with all its fertility, given to one that 
shares a portion of her ferocity and will. 


(The organic material adhered to the walls of the cavern 
begins to undulate, the waves' origin point being 
SCP-3896-03. Agent Hess places a hand upon her 
sidearm.) 


SCP-3896-03: | am proven, | have shown my strength. | 
am the first of my kin to shatter the armor of the bearers, 
and thus | am exulted. In time, | will brush your warships 
aside as well. In time. 


Agent Hess: Who are the bearers? 


SCP-3896-03: Ugh. It would take more effort than they 
warrant to tell the story in full. Suffice it to stay that 
they're a ragged band of miserable bores. They prevent 
us from accessing our true potential. When they're not 
making a nuisance of themselves they generally just 
stand around and watch us, barely able to keep upright 
with all that hilarious equipment they carry, and probably 
moan about how sad they are and how their chronically 
depressed king is so noble and brave and... et cetera. 
They're not very interesting. | have broken them here, 
and soon so will the others. Then we can be about the 
true business. 


Agent Hess: That business being? 


SCP-3896-03: My dear. Our aim is simple and effective, 
where yours is fettered and weak. The fisherman is 
tiring, and we are closing in upon him. The liberty doesn't 
care enough to stand against us, content with chasing 
the moon and howling like a dog. And the sorrow's 
strength is waning with each passing day. Mother will 
make us all as strong as she, and we will finally fear 
nothing. Humanity will be strong, through her love. 


Agent Hess: I'll bring your criticism of our operating 
practices to my supervisor's attention. And I'm sure you 
know that now | have to ask: who is Mother? 


SCP-3896-03: Oh, child. Mother is she who births and 


devours all. Who sows and harvests, who grants 
sickness and health. She is without rest. She hears your 
question, my dear. And she wants to meet you. 


(A large mass of organic tissue resembling a set of jaws 
lined with jagged, blade-like structures rises from the 
cavern floor and engulfs Agent Hess. A gout of blood 
erupts from the aperture. Backup team activates recall 
reel, the end of which returns cleanly sheared. Camera 
feed lost.) 


Addendum: After the loss of Agent Hess, SCP-3896-01 instances 
have begun to display tactical adaptations. Alterations have included 
deliberate targeting of individuals in command positions within the 
blockade, attempts to disable critical ship combat systems as 
opposed to generalized assault, and rudimentary stealth tactics 
similar to those currently described within NTF Sigma-58 operational 
field manuals. SCP-3896-01 entities have also altered their attack 
patterns to facilitate the capture and bodily assimilation of additional 
Foundation personnel, as opposed to dispatching SCPNF 
combatants via trauma as before. 


Global investigation to locate all other SCP-3896 instances has 
commenced. Increased experimentation with SCP-3898 for the 
purposes of initiating contact with Gol-089 "The Bearers" is now 
underway, to attain greater information concerning the scope and 
current status of this conflict. 


Investigation into SCP-3897, SCP-3983, and all associated 
anomalies is being expanded at Level 4 priority under Operation 
Marduk executive command. 


SCP-3897: Mother's Eye Is Upon You 


Item #: SCP-3897 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Physical containment of 
SCP-3897 is not currently possible. Information Task Force 
Omega-08 “Radio Corsairs” are to continually monitor global 
Foundation listening network PANOPTICON for all radio waveforms 
consistent with SCP-3897 transmissions. Mobile Task Force 
Delta-45 “Rolling Thunder” will engage SCP-3897 upon 
manifestation, whereupon MTF Sigma-66 “Steel Veil” will be 
deployed for the purposes of disinformation and public 
amnesticization. 


All materials jettisoned by SCP-3897 are to be collected for 
examination. All public records referencing individuals taken by 
SCP-3897 are to be deleted, and all associated family members and 
social contacts amnesticized. 


Description: SCP-3897 is an aggregate of fused human corpses, 
with an estimated mass of 250,000 kilograms. Via an unknown 
mechanism, SCP-3897 is capable of levitation and directed aerial 
locomotion at observed speeds of up to 55 km/h. SCP-3897 typically 
maintains an average altitude of 3,000 meters. 


SCP-3897 possesses a number of barnacle-encrusted, limb-like 
structures, the largest of which is approximately 70 meters in length. 
It will infrequently descend from its average altitude and utilize these 
appendages to capture humans, integrating them into its mass. It 
will generally avoid large population centers, preferring to select 
targets in isolated locations. SCP-3897 will most commonly extend 
its limbs through the windows of private domiciles during evening 
hours, capturing individuals while they are asleep. 


Victims of SCP-3897 share a number of broad commonalities. 


Among these are mental illness, diminishing financial situation, 
recent loss of employment, poor physical health, divorce, recent 
suicide attempts, or other recent personal tragedy. SCP-3897's 
reason for seeking individuals displaying these traits, if one exists, is 
unknown. 


SCP-3897 occasionally ejects objects from its central mass. To date 
these have at separate times included various deceased fish, 
assorted molted insect exoskeletons numbering in the thousands, 
whole and partial human corpses, clusters of live human fetuses 
interlinked via their umbilical cords, and several hundred gallons of 
algae suspended in whale oil. Each of these deposits is either 
coated in or otherwise accompanied by a viscous fluid, which upon 
examination has been determined to be a mixture of seawater, 
human serous fluid, saliva, endometrial mucus, semen, and gastric 
acid. Genetic analysis of these deposits has been consistently 
inconclusive. 


Attempts to collect samples of SCP-3897's tissues via aerial drone 
have been successful. Each sample thus far has returned 

spectrochemical results typical of human flesh at varying stages of 
decomposition, albeit with novel combinations of various microbial 
organisms, algae, seawater, and inconclusive genetic information. 


While SCP-3897 does not react in any noticeable way to samples 
being taken from it or to other forms of invasive testing, it will 
demanifest if it is threatened via the application of force. SCP-3897 
will rapidly emit an opaque cloud of gas from an array of orifices on 
its surface. This is principally comprised of various toxic compounds 
(including variants of sarin, phosgene, and mustard gases), 
atomized human blood, carbon dioxide, and water vapor. It will then 
vanish, reappearing in another region of the upper troposphere 
elsewhere on Earth. 


SCP-3897 constantly emits radio waves, in a wide range of 
frequencies. These transmissions typically consist of varying levels 
of characteristic noise, assorted recordings of disparate subject 
matter, and messages spoken in a variety of languages and voices. 
The subject of these spoken messages varies and is occasionally 
incoherent. Notable examples follow. 


Date 


04 April 2010 


22 February 2011 


02 July 2011 


2/ November 2011 


Location 


Cork County, Ireland 


Southern Pacific 
Ocean 


Easter Island, Chile 


Lapland, Finland 


Content of 
Transmission 
Transmission consists 

of an amalgam of 
various recordings, 
including the sound of 
a running waterfall, 
ocean waves, 
birdsong, sounds 
resembling high- 
volume borborygmus, 
whalesong, and 
children laughing. 
Female voice 
speaking in Dutch, 
interspersed by 
periods of static. 
"Unfamiliar... lack of 
hunger... none 
observable... results 
satisfactory... 
defenses estimated to 
be minimal... 
Unknown... 
Affirmative... sorrows 
inducted currently 
number... Yes... 
integrity nominal...” 
Male voice, speaking 
in an unknown and as- 
yet untranslated 
language bearing 
phonetic similarities to 
Latin. 

Child's voice, 
indeterminate gender. 
"The liberty has not 
exceeded its chosen 
domain. Interference 
currently within 


acceptable bounds. 
Conversion of 29 
prospective bearers 
underway, a further 46 
located. None 
significant. Praise the 
mother, she who 
births and devours all, 
who sows and 
harvests, who grants 
sickness and health. 
Praise she who is 
without rest. Flesh 
integration nominal. 
Our bodies unto the 
mother. We await the 
edict. Our waters unto 
the mother. We shall 
never rest. Our hearts 
unto the mother." 


Addendum: Continued observations of SCP-3889 have revealed 
that SCP-3897 has appeared within 15 kilometers of every 3889- 
TEHOM event recorded since 2012. When questioned about this, 
SCP-3889 commented, "Yep. They're gettin' worse. And now she's 
watchin' me." SCP-3889 declined to elaborate before vanishing. 


The advent of this information has led to the discovery that 
SCP-3897 is either capable of existing in multiple places 
simultaneously, or that there are multiple iterations of this anomaly. 
Investigation into SCP-3897's correlation to SCP-3983, SCP-3889, 
and all related phenomena is currently underway. 


SCP-3898: The Burden 


Item#: SCP-3898 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3898 is to be stored in the 
center of a locked standard hazardous object containment unit no 
smaller than 15x15x15 meters. 


Under no circumstances are Foundation personnel permitted to 
enter SCP-3898's effective radius. If exposed, personnel are to be 
detained and kept under psychological observation until such time 
that they are determined to be healthy and not a danger to 
themselves or others. 


SCP-3898's enclosure is to be equipped with a remote-operated 
restraining and pacification apparatus for subject retrieval, as well as 
an automated cleaning system for the purposes of removing bodily 
fluids, seawater, corpses, and other detritus resultant from testing. 


Description: SCP-3898 is an iron Admiralty pattern ship's anchor, 
2.5 meters in length and weighing approximately 350 kilograms. 
SCP-3898 shows signs of corrosion and deterioration consistent 
with exposure to seawater for an extended period of time, estimated 
at 140-150 years. It has displayed no material or chemical 
abnormalities and yields to sampling and destructive testing as 
expected. 


Humans that enter an area approximately 5 meters from 
SCP-3898's surface will experience a range of anomalous 
psychological effects, varying between individuals. These effects are 
divided into two broad subsets, immediate and lasting, according to 
their duration and required proximity to SCP-3898. 


Immediate effects of SCP-3898 exposure are only exhibited while 
the subject is within SCP-3898's effective radius. These include 


psychotic episodes, auditory and visual hallucinations, syncope 
accompanied by SLUDGE syndrome, and active suicide attempts, 
with varying degrees of probability and intensity. 


Lasting effects of SCP-3898 exposure persist after the subject has 
been removed from SCP-3898's presence. Subjects invariably 
display symptoms corresponding to major depressive disorder, and 
may further exhibit suicidal ideation, nonlethal self harm, manic 
episodes, chronic malaise, and weakened immune system with 
varying probability. The duration and intensity of these effects 
worsens in proportion to the subject's closest proximity to SCP-3898 
and total time of exposure. Therapy, antidepressant medication, and 
amnestics have proven effective in lessening these symptoms, as 
well as decreasing their duration. 


Physical contact, defined as touching SCP-3898 with an uncovered 
body part, results in a wide range of dramatic anomalous effects, 
described in greater detail in the testing logs below. 


+Proximity Test 06/20/2014 
Subject: D-3898-01 


Procedure: Subject instructed to approach the 
object.