SCP-3511: | mean, | always knew | wasn’t 
getting out of here. But it just... | overheard 
someone talking about charity work. Some 
fundraiser for holiday food baskets. And you 
know what | realized? I’m not doing anything. 
I’m just... I’m just here. And I’m barely here at 
that. | can’t even tap someone on the 
shoulder. | mean, they might notice me. But 


they won’t feel me. The world won't feel me. 


Wey: A lot of people go through these kinds of 
thoughts. | have colleagues who worry that the 
world will be no different without them. 


SCP-3511: But are they locked up? Do they 
only see the light of day twice a week on 
escorted walks? | doubt it. I’m just a drain on 
the budget. An hour and a half of your week. | 
want to feel again. If | can’t touch someone 
literally, then I'll take the metaphor. | want to 
feel accomplished, a part of something. But if 
I’m just destined to go numb, just fucking 
euthanize me already! 


SCP-3511 slumps in its chair and holds its 
head in its hands. 


Wey: We're not going to do that because 
you're definitely worth more. If you want an 
opportunity to make an impact on the world, 
we will see what we can do. I'll ask my 
superiors to come up with a program, just like 
last time. All you need to do is ask. But in the 
meantime, since we don’t want your emotional 
state to worsen, is there anything else we can 
maybe do to help? 


SCP-3511: ... A hug would be nice. 
Various options were proposed for how to accommodate Dr. Wey's 
suggestion, however, none were approved before SCP-351 1's 


neutralization. 


Incident SCP-3511-I: On / /20 , SCP-3511 was neutralized. 
SCP-3511 had turned eighteen that day. 


+ Incident Transcription 


SCP-3511 wakes up and reaches to scratch its 


begin to think and talk solely about a need to save Julia from “Him”. 
If given time alone and appropriate materials, subjects write or draw 
continuations of the story, in an effort to provide a continuation 
where Julia survives. Each of these efforts will end with Julia dead 
as before, however. In the event that a subject should make Julia 
survive, through deus ex machina or similar plot devices, they will 
throw away their effort, saying that it does not fit into the story. 


These efforts come to occupy a great deal of the subject’s time and 
effort. % of subjects suffer from severe depression, becoming 
withdrawn and uncommunicative. Higher than normal rates of 
suicide have been observed. Interviews with subjects and study of 
notes left behind show a sense of helplessness and of having failed 
Julia. 


Subjects with a history of [DATA EXPUNGED] undergo an additional 
event. The subject will write themself into the story, claiming to have 
found the perfect way to save Julia personally. Approximately % of 
such subjects are subsequently found [DATA EXPUNGED]. 


Misogynistic or low-empathy subjects display no psychological effect 
and show no interest in the comic or the characters after reading. 


Addendum: In a recent experiment, D-Class personnel with normal 
levels of empathy were instructed to read the comic and placed in 
isolation. After attempts, one subject claimed to have found a way 
to save Julia. He was found dead with [DATA EXPUNGED]. The 
security camera in his room suffered electrical disturbances during 
the event, in which a figure was seen briefly standing in the room. 
No signs of entry were seen. The security team was placed on 
probation. 


« SCP-453 | SCP-454 | SCP-455 » 


shoulder. After a few minutes, it scratches its 
shoulder again, but with a confused look on its 
face. It pulls its shirt back to reveal a small bug 
bite. SCP-3511’s face assumes an expression 
of surprise. 


SCP-3511: |... | got bit. 


SCP-3511 rushes to the door to its 
containment cell. 


SCP-3511: Hey! Hey! Come here! Please! Tell 
the docs I’m normal again. | want to feel 
someone! Please! 


Security personnel walk to the door of 
SCP-3511’s cell. 


SCP-3511: Please! Your hand. Just your 
hand. Please! 


Guard: Sorry ma’am, but we can’t let you out. 


SCP-3511: Then call Dr. Wey! Please! Call it 
an emergency session or something! 


The security guards turn to each other and 
shrug. The calls are made and after 30min Dr. 
Wey arrives at SCP-3511's cell. The guards 
open the door, and Dr. Wey enters. 


Wey: Hello Erica. How have you— 


Before the guards have time to respond, 
SCP-3511 hugs Dr. Wey, and begins to cry. 


Wey: Why... | guess this means we'll have our 
last session then. 


Wey motions to the security guards to stand 
down, and returns the hug. 


Following the event, SCP-3511 underwent additional testing before 
it was deemed neutralized. SCP-3511 was administered Class-C 
amnestics and returned to Greensdale, OH with a reasonable cover 
story. 


SCP-3512: The More You Know 


Item #: SCP-3512 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Persons affected by SCP-3512 
are to be accommodated in standard humanoid containment cells. 
Missing persons information and amnestics are to be distributed as 
necessary. Media reports are to be monitored for evidence of 
SCP-3512 cases, with potential outbreaks investigated. 


The entrance to the cavern system beneath Sagrada Familia is to be 
secured and surveillance established. Mobile Task Force Zeta-9 
("Mole Rats") is to continue exploration of the system, remaining 
alert for the presence of SCP-3512-1 or any other anomalous 
phenomena. 


Mobile Task Force Alpha-4 ("Pony Express") is to conduct a search 
and monitoring operation to identify potential instances of 
SCP-351 2-2 in the pre-publishing or distribution stages. 


Description: SCP-3512 is a phenomenon which leads to significant 
changes in the personality and psychological stability of certain 
women between the ages of 18 and 40. To date, nine such women 
have been identified and contained by the Foundation, and a further 
suspected instance was found deceased in her home. 


Women affected by SCP-3512 score extremely highly on NEO-PI-R 
measures for openness, extraversion and agreeableness. This is the 
case regardless of previous personality indicators, and affected 
women do not appear to be aware of such changes. The behaviour 
of affected women is characterised by high sociability and lack of 
inhibition, punctuated by prolonged bouts of uncontrollable 
screaming. The incidence and duration of screaming has been 
observed to decline over a 4-5 month period. Other personality 
changes appear to be permanent. 


Potential occurrences of SCP-3512 in several countries are being 
reviewed. All confirmed cases of SCP-3512 linked to an initial 
outbreak in Barcelona, Spain, which was investigated by Foundation 
Agents Riley Cooper and Tomas Rey. Agent Cooper's notes are 
included below to provide further description of the anomaly and 
surrounding circumstances. 


+ Agent Cooper - Investigation Notes: SCP-3512 
Investigation Notes 


15 July 2016: Landed 16:15. Hot here - hotter 
than Boston was, and no breeze to speak of. 
Agent Rey met me at the hotel, offered to 
show me the city skyline. | said no, thought 
we'd get going, but he was in no hurry. 
Cultural thing, maybe? Shame if | was rude, 
but | could do with the sleep. 


16 July 2016: Stil/ hot. Rey finally showed at 
10:15. Still, my director says he gets results - 
and he's pretty much the only Foundation 
here. Headed to meet the victims - got coffee 
first. 


Have to admit, Rey does well with the locals. 
Our cover is a mental health survey for the 
WHO, and he plays a convincing doctor. 
Interviews productive - see tapes. 


Observations: families aren't involved. They're 
too genuinely shocked - Rey had to work to 
calm and persuade them. Victims are no help - 
symptoms as per initial report, they have no 
awareness of how changed they are - how 
plastic and unreal. | think that scares the 
families more than the screaming. 


This doesn't feel like a basic coghaz - 
something about their eyes, the change isn't 
superficial. They're so sincere in their delusion. 


So "up for it". 


17 July 2016: More interviews today - not 
much new. The same smiles from the girls, the 
same crying families. We tested amnestics - 
nothing. If it's memetic, it goes deeper than 
memory. 


One possibility: a younger sister mentioned 
something | recognised from yesterday's 
tapes. "Apagada". | thought "cancelled", but 
Rey tells me the Catalan is more like 
"blackout". We ask some of the victims, and 
the screaming starts immediately. A mother 
shakes her head - it's a nightclub, her Teia 
always talked about going, the mother knew it 
was trouble. 


Later, | ask Rey. He knows it. It's open 
tomorrow night. 


18 July 2016: Rey comes to get me at 21:00, 
laughs at what I'm wearing. Not like | planned 
on clubbing. He tells me his sister may have 
something | can use. I'm worried we'll be late, 
but apparently nothing opens before midnight. 
His sister | like - teases Rey about his shirt, 
finds something reasonable for me. Doesn't 
ask why | need it. 


Of course the club is dark. Loud, hot, crowded. 
| feel like | stand out - Rey tells me not to 
worry. He's good - moving around the room, 
talking to people, fitting in. Better for me to wait 
on my own, see who approaches. 


Plenty do, but no-one interesting. Until around 
2:00. Blond guy, tall, slides in next to me at the 
bar, and offers to buy me a drink. He asks me 
my favourite star, and | think it's the start of a 
bad pick-up line, then realise he's serious. 


Something about him - confident, charming, 
but too much eye contact. Speech too precise. 
Not drunk enough. 


My eyes flick over to see where Rey is, and 
the guy spots it. Suddenly he's leaving, 
pushing through the crowds. By the time | get 
outside, he's gone, but | get lucky. 20 euros 
and the doorman tells me he's a regular. 
Another 20 gets me a name - Josep Oriol. 


19 July 2016: Oriol is now officially a Pol. Rey 
used a contact, turned up an address. Oriol 
wasn't home, looks like he didn't come home, 
but the flat is full of incriminating stuff. Rey is 
submitting full photos, but three things stood 
out. 


First, a bunch of architectural plans - buildings, 
utilities, railway tunnels. Oriol is a software 
developer - what does he need those for? 


A book sitting on the kitchen table, free of 
clutter: used regularly. Looks like a publisher's 
proof - plain cover, simple type. Didn't open it 
without coghaz screening, but it just had that 
feeling. 


And next to the book, some kind of fucked-up 
sculpture lying on a dishcloth. Like a blob of 
candle-wax, carved into points and with - well, 
it looked like legs stuck into it. Pieces of Lego 
and Meccano, rose stems, a crab claw, a 
corkscrew. What | think was a skeleton key. 


Rey called me into the bedroom, and there 
were boxes full of the same kind of stuff. 
Bodkins, quills, doll’s limbs, wire. Syringes. | 
pulled him into the kitchen to show him the 
sculpture - and it was gone. 


20:30: Back at the hotel. I've been reading the 
book - started by using the filters, but there's 
no coghaz here. Just really weird shit. This 
whole thing feels off. 


23:45: Command just came back with 
information on the architectural plans - the 
majority match up with municipal records, but 
not all. A schematic of the high-speed rail 
tunnel has a side passage that should not be 
there. It seems to lead to a spiral staircase, 
heading downward. I've confirmed with 
Command - we're going tonight to investigate. 
Maybe we'll catch up with Mr Oriol and find out 
how much he knows. 


+ SCP-3512-1 - Information and Recovered Materials 


SCP-3512-1 is the collective designation for a category 
of objects or entities described in Chapter Twelve [18] of 
SCP-3512-2. Each instance consists of a central mass 
composed of carved adipose tissue, with twelve loosely 
attached appendages or limbs used for locomotion and 
other actions. The text describes SCP-3512-1 instances 
with a central mass approximately 5cm in diameter, and 
using simple household objects for the appendages. 


No active instances have been contained, although sites 
of investigation have yielded evidence of discarded 
SCP-3512-1 limbs. 


Of the SCP-3512-1 instances observed by Foundation 
personnel, the largest had a total diameter of 
approximately 3.5 meters, with each of its appendages 
composed of a human spine tipped with a muculent 
gastropod foot. The limbs were regularly distributed 
around the central mass, attached by a loose 
conglomeration of animal ligaments and metal chains. 


Several detached appendages of this instance were 
recovered by Mobile Task Force Zeta-9 ("Mole Rats") in 
explorations of the caverns beneath North-East 
Barcelona, following Incident 3512/A. 


Sentient behaviour of SCP-3512-1 instances has been 
observed, and the text of SCP-3512-2 suggests a degree 
of sapience. The relevant extract of SCP-351 2-2 is 
included in the addendum below. 


+ SCP-3512-2 - Excerpts 


Items recovered from the apartment of Pol-3512-5 
(Josep Oriol) include an advance review copy of a book 
entitled "The More You Know: A Pick-Up Artist's Bible", 
classified as SCP-3512-2. The author is referred to by 
the pseudonym "Enigma"; no publication information is 
included in the copy. 


The book is non-fiction, consisting of 625 pages and 
containing a foreword attributed to hip-hop artist Snoop 
Dogg. Each of the first eleven chapters is based on the 
"seduction community", providing anecdotes, advice and 
techniques for men to influence social groups, and 
attract and seduce women. The remaining twelve 
chapters (each labelled "Chapter Twelve") diverge from 
the main text on a range of esoteric subjects including 
advanced geometric proofs, the interpretation of dreams, 
do-it-yourself surgical techniques, symbolism in 
architecture and anomalous rituals. The book's afterword 
is composed of more than 15,000 anagrams of the 
book's title, laid out in spiral and triangular patterns. 


Excerpts from SCP-3512-2 
Chapter One - The More You Know 


If you're reading this book, you're probably a 
bit of a loser. Don't make that face: you know 


it, and | know it. The whole reason you're 
reading this is to stop being a loser - to get 
more confident in social situations, to feel 
comfortable talking to women, to understand 
the complexities of modern dating. Oh yeah, 
and (let's not kid ourselves) to get laid - like, a 
lot. 


My name is Enigma, and | am going to show 
you how to do all this and more, with my sure- 
fire methods to seduce women. Hot women - 
hotter than you dare dream possible. Trust me: 
| used to be just like you. Now, | drive a 
Lambo, wear a Hublot, and can bang any 
chick | want. Cocky? Sure. But you know you 
want to be a star like me. And with my blend of 
social psychology, neuro-linguistic 
programming and good old-fashioned balls, 
you can be any kind of star you want. Because 
the more you know, the more you score. 


Chapter Four - Hot Women: Our Key 


... what you would normally do in that 
situation. But not any more. Now that you've 
learned the basic rules of the Game, you can 
start on your path to higher things. 


The first thing you need to do is stop thinking 
of hot women as women. In fact, stop thinking 
about them as people. Think of them like 
instruments - before you can play them, you 
need to know how to tune them. This chapter 
will show you how to find the resonance 
frequency of any woman ... 


Chapter Twelve [12]: You Know Theorem 


... which brings us to the small stellated 


dodecahedron, a nonconvex regular 
polyhedron composed of twelve pentagrammic 
faces, with each of the twelve vertices forming 
the meeting point of five pentagrams. Its 
Schlafli symbol is {5/2 , 5}, a fact | have 
dropped into many a flirtatious conversation, to 
great effect.