Researchers’ confidence in the success of TRAILHEAD was such 
that O5-9 tested its efficacy by ordering a contractor to fire a loaded 
9 mm handgun at his head. Despite being inspected beforehand by 
armory staff, the gun misfired, failing to discharge after numerous 
attempts by the contractor. This process was repeated for five 
different handguns, supplied from numerous Foundation sites, each 
failing to discharge in each instance. 


Nonetheless, O5-9 was documented to have died violently on 27 
April 2018. Why TRAILHEAD apparently failed at that date is 
unknown. 


+ TS/3188/05-11 EYES ONLY 


SCP-3188 Information Fragment C-241 - VIEWING 
APPROVED EYES ONLY O5-11 


Austrian authorities, in cooperation with 
Interpol, the United States Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, and the Ministry of Public 
Security of the People's Republic of China, 
identified fifteen individuals with established 
motives to harm O5-9, primarily deriving from 
competing business interests or counteraction 
of his influence in the affairs of powerful 
interests. 


In all cases, these individuals were established 
to have been elsewhere during the feasible 


time of O5-9's death. None of these individuals 
were within 500 km of Vienna during the 
murder. 


+ TS/3188/05-2 EYES ONLY 


SCP-3188 Information Fragment F-047 - VIEWING 
APPROVED EYES ONLY O5-2 


O5-9 was in his dining room at the time of his 
murder. No defensive wounds were present on 
the body, and no signs of forced entry were 
present. This is indicative that his attacker was 
known to him. 


+ TS/3188/05-7 EYES ONLY 


SCP-3188 Information Fragment B-148 - VIEWING 
APPROVED EYES ONLY O5-7 


Multiple incidents of extraordinary phenomena 
were reported in the five hours before and 
after the murder of O5-9. Several accounts of 
"missing time" within a 5 km radius of the 
residence of O5-9 were allowed to remain in 
fringe media outlets. Other incidents, which 
included three missing persons reports in 
which individuals apparently vanished, 
television programs spontaneously switching 
to an indecipherable language, and reports of 
a comet visible in the daytime sky, were 
suppressed by local Foundation assets. 


+ TS/3188/05-13 EYES ONLY 


SCP-3188 Information Fragment B-148 - VIEWING 
APPROVED EYES ONLY 05-13 


05-9 was shot two times in the head with a .32 
caliber weapon, suspected to be a handgun. 


+ TS/3188/05-1 EYES ONLY 


SCP-3188 Information Fragment A-003 - VIEWING 
APPROVED EYES ONLY O5-1 


TRAILHEAD is believed to have affected a 
different set of pointer conditions than 
intended. Rather than ensuring that O5-9 
would only die from a natural illness, the 
project instead ensured that O5-9 would meet 
a specific demise involving a gunshot(s) to the 
head. 


The failure of the project in establishing the 
proper pointer conditions for O5-9 has led to 
complicating factors. Because of the lack of 
planning for the event that ultimately befell 
O5-9, the current universe in which O5-9 has 
been murdered is inherently unstable at the 
point of his demise. The establishment of sure 
knowledge of the case of his death, along with 
inevitable courses of action to which that 
knowledge would lead, would lead to 
unpredictable forms of waveform collapse, 
occurring outside of the bounds of currently 
understood quantum physics. 


The knowledge of who is responsible for 
O5-9's death is information that is potentially 
catastrophic to the universe as we know it. The 
nature of this informational process prevents 
me from making a formal recommendation 
through official channels, but it is imperative 
that you delete this file, and suppress any 
remaining evidence of the circumstances of 
O5-9's death. 


+ TS/3188/05-4 EYES ONLY 


SCP-3188 Information Fragment D-214 - VIEWING 
APPROVED EYES ONLY O5-4 


Cameras outside the residence of 05-9 


recorded an individual successfully 
disengaging the front door security system. 
Security records indicate that this individual 
had access to that hour's correct access code. 
The individual wore concealing clothing and a 
face mask. Biometric analysis of the security 
footage indicates an individual between 

176 cm - 182 cm in height and approximately 
72-74 kg, most likely male. 


+ TS/3188/05-8 EYES ONLY 


SCP-3188 Information Fragment E-104 - VIEWING 
APPROVED EYES ONLY O5-8 


Foundation Site-45 in Salzburg, Austria, 
upgraded its security alert status to Level 4 on 
April 26, 2018. Heightened security protocols 
were in effect until April 28, 2018. No official 
reasoning is given in Site-45 records. 


Command? 

Input: Credential O5-8 %%ghK*493@ sundown ((9 
Authorized. Welcome Overseer. 

Input: Command 66.5/A execute 


Accepted. This file will be deleted from the central 
database on 1 June 2018 00:00:00 GST. 


Footnotes 

1. This research consisted in part of unauthorized testing and 
deployment of several SCP-listed anomalous objects and 
phenomena 


SCP-3189: For The Man Who Has Everything 


Item #: SCP-3189 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3189 is contained within 
the facility it was originally discovered in. The property has been 
purchased by the Foundation and has been designated Site-76-F, a 
satellite facility to Site-76. Standard security features for satellite 
facilities have been deemed sufficient to prevent unauthorized 
access to SCP-3189. 


In the event that Site-76-F falls into the possession of rival factions, 
on-site explosives are to be remotely detonated by Site-76 
Command, destroying SCP-3189. The original documentation and 
blueprints for SCP-3189 are to be kept on an encrypted hard drive at 
Site-76, along with any pertinent discoveries that may be produced 
by research personnel. 


Description: SCP-3189 is a complex clockwork device contained 
within the central room of Site-76-F. The main body of the device is 
comprised of 13 concentric circles of beryllium-bronze, ranging in 
diameter from 3 to 9 meters. Each circle is capable of moving 
independently along all three axis, as well as rotating clockwise and 
counterclockwise at a rate of up to 90 rpm for the innermost circle 
and 60 rpm for the outermost. 


Each circle is engraved with 1001 ideograms along both the outer 
and inner circumference. After extensive study and comparison, 
Foundation Thaumatologist Dr. Katherine Sinclair found that many 
of these ideograms are composed of base elements from various 
known systems of thaumaturgical glyphs. 


Experiments have revealed that when properly drawn by a verified 
thaumaturge, these ideograms each generate wards, or fields of 
thaumaturgical energy. 


While complex in design, each of these wards appears relatively 
simplistic in function. Most appear to relate to the containment and 
manipulation of elan vital energy (EVE), a force believed to be 
responsible for the Observer Effect in quantum mechanics and used 
to manipulate reality by various anomalous entities and objects. 


At the time of recovery, SCP-3189 was connected to a beryllium- 
bronze aerial on the outside of the facility via a cable of electro- 
thaumically conductive alloy. The aerial itself was engraved with 
warding grids of unknown design, though they appear to serve the 
function of allowing the aerial to harness EVE from the surrounding 
environment and transmitting it into SCP-3189. 


SCP-3189 was originally discovered when it was found to be the 
epicentre of a minor CK-class reality restructuring event. Based on 
experimentation overseen by Dr. Sinclair, and corroborated by 
documentation found within Site-76-F, SCP-3189 is believed to be 
an elanic resonance chamber, intended to focus EVE into a singular 
point where it would eventually reach high enough concentrations to 
cause at least low-level reality restructuring. 


Attempts to replicate this function have so far been unsuccessful. 
The current hypothesis suggests that the thirteen circles of 
SCP-3189 must be continuously reoriented into new warding grids 
to force the EVE into the extreme concentration required to induce a 
reality restructuring event. Dr. Sinclair estimates that devising the 
vast number of necessary warding grids for all possible conditions 
would have taken decades, if not centuries, of dedicated effort. This 
position is supported by the approximately 400 000 pages of 
handwritten wards found within Site-76-F. 


The ultimate objective for SCP-3189 research is to decipher its 
system of thaumic ideograms in the hopes that the device could one 
day be operated and used as a means of reversing reality 
restructuring events. 


Addendum: In addition to the warding grids, multiple journals 
documenting the creation of SCP-3189 were also found inside of 
Site-76-F. Below is a collection of excerpts that have been selected 
to elucidate the origin and intended function of SCP-3189. The 
author has yet to be identified. 


+ Show Selected Journal Excerpts 
Selected Excerpt #1: 


What separates a mere mortal from an 
archmage? Nothing more than the knowledge 
and skill to focus their own Lifeforce into 
magicka. 


What separates an archmage from a 
demigod? Nothing more than the ability to 
create magicka at will. 


What separates a demigod from a full god? 
Nothing but the strength of that magicka. 


Is it not a humbling thought that so little truly 
separates the least of men from the greatest of 
gods? 


Is it not also an encouraging thought? 


It as at the least encouraging enough to finally 
draw me out of my long and idle stupour. Too 
long have | been crippled by my own sense of 
fatalism. The belief that the past cannot be 
undone has kept me in despair, but the more | 
ponder the matter the more it seems to be 
merely a matter of engineering. 


| did not lose them because | dared to dabble 
in the occult, | lost them because | dared not 
go further. 


If all l need to become a god is more Lifeforce, 
then | need look no further than outside my 
window. Spread across all the world, within the 
beating heart of every man, woman and child, 
within every bird and beast and crawling thing, 
within every fish and plant and unseen 
animalcule, there is enough Lifeforce to 


challenge even the direst of the Old Gods! If 
only it could be harnessed and tamed. 


| pray that this idea has some veracity and is 
not merely the delusion of my shattered mind. 
If there is any hope that they could live again, | 
must pursue it. 


Selected Excerpt #2: 


I've been seeking scholars in the Great Library 
who may aid me in my endeavour. Only my 
most recent trip proved productive. Alone in 
the dimmest corner of the Library with scarcely 
enough light to read, | found the Deathless 
Merchant of London. 


Dark they call him, when any dare to speak his 
name at all. | do not fault him for hiding in the 
shadows, for the little | could see of him was 
ghastly. What he lacked in beauty, he more 
than made up for in occult knowledge, 
especially in the runecraft that would be so 
vital in designing the wards. He claims to even 
have knowledge of the Chaos Tongue. 


We spoke for hours about my project, how it 
might be achieved, and why it was that | 
sought such power. | am by most accounts 
extremely privileged, wealthy and educated 
and privy to the secrets hidden behind the Veil. 


But that privilege was not enough in the end, 
not for those | had loved. What good is it to be 
privileged among men when men are 
themselves such pathetic and powerless 
creatures? | desire what one might call ‘cosmic 
privilege’, the privilege of an existence 
unbound by space, by time, by the laws of 
nature, filled with gnosis of the highest truths, 
so that not even the gods themselves may 


deny me what is my right! 


| was pleased to find that Dark was of a similar 
mindset. 


He agreed to become an investor, to fund my 
project! He would grant me his coin, his skill, 
his expertise, in exchange for a single wish 
from the machine once it was ready. | agreed 
readily of course, for what hope have | of 
bringing this mad dream to fruition without 
him? 


Though, it has occurred to me since that | 
perhaps should have asked what he will wish 
for. 


Selected Excerpt #3: 


Dark finally showed up in person today. For 
months he's been sending me cryptic letters 
written in archaic, spidery scrawl and some 
arcane tomes to study, but today he was at my 
door. 


Only, he wasn't as he was before. He looked 
to be an ordinary man. A relative, perhaps? 
But, no, it was Dark. I'm sure of it. 


Whoever this Dark was, he claimed to be an 
expert on the matter of Lifeforce transmission. 
He presented me with plans for a spire that 
would absorb the Lifeforce from everything 
within line of sight. If we can make it a hundred 
feet tall, which seems reasonable, then it will 
have a range of a little over twelve miles. 


That's just far enough to reach [REDACTED], 
a fair sized city. It should provide us with more 
than enough Lifeforce to initiate the reaction. 


Together, Dark and | worked out how this 
power could be amplified by my Triskaidekal 
warding grid, which could then be used to 
extend the spire's range in a feedback loop 
until it was powerful enough to harvest all the 
Lifeforce from every being on Earth. 


| admit, | was so enamoured by the promise of 
unlimited magicka that | did not at first inquire 
if the process may be harmful. When | did, 
Dark merely chuckled and said 'If it is we can 
always wish everything back the way it was!’. 


| think of the city, my city, whose streets | once 
walked with my beloveds and now walk alone. 
| wonder if perhaps those people should have 
some Say in this. It is their lives | will be 
risking, after all. Would those people still smile 
at me, still pity me for my loss, if they knew 
what | was plotting? 


But they could never grasp what it is | mean to 
do. If they could, they would thank me. When 
the project is complete it will not only be able 
to undo my heartache but everyone's. When 
the project is complete, they will thank me. 


Dark is right. No price is too great, for any 
price is temporary. | must begin work at once. 


Selected Excerpt #4: 
After all these years, Dark came back. 


In the form of a woman this time, but | scarcely 
noticed. Her tone, her demeanour, even the 
way she moved reminded me of that ghoul | 
had met in the Library even more than the last 
visitor to call itself Dark. What are these 
things? 


Subject Interview Log. 


The use of Type 3 Disaster Synthesis Quarantine measures are pre- 
emptively approved to contain large-scale SCP-405 outbreaks. 


To date only _ individuals have recovered from SCP-405 naturally. 
They gained sufficient control of their abilities to deal with small 
groups of individuals but are still incapable of dealing with more than 

individuals at a time without exhibiting extreme stress. Seizures 
and other neurological conditions caused by structural brain 
deformities are common. Such individuals are referred to as 
SCP-405-1-A to SCP-405-1- . They have adopted the designations 
for themselves and no longer respond to their original identities, 
perhaps due to the fact that all staff think of them by those 
designations. The potential value of SCP-405-1 to the Foundation is 
unclear at this time. 


Addendum 405-01: Storing SCP-405-1 in the same area was a bad 
idea. | am sure their personalities are gestalting. | observed 
SCP-405-1- tapping the desk in her room yesterday in a manner 
consistent with playing the piano, but only SCP-405-1- has any 
musical talent. Worse, SCP-405-1- reported finding himself 
performing an action unconsciously and wished to know if | 
recognized it. SCP-405-1- was unconsciously field stripping an 
imaginary . None of them have military backgrounds, they 
picked that up from us! If you get any more survivors, don't send 
them here! -Dr.