Ms. Marquez: She had dreams ever since. 
She sometimes hesitated at the door, and | 
asked her why she didn't want to go outside, 
and she told me... she told me she didn't want 
to be watched. The only place she felt privacy 
was in the home anymore. Recently she only 
did shopping at night, she said that in the day 
the sun felt like it was focusing on her. When 
she was a toddler she would wake up 
screaming, | would calm her down and she 
would ask me if | was "playing pretend". She 
thought we weren't her parents, sometimes. 
Sometimes she didn't think anyone was 
anyone. 


(Pause.) 


Agent Miguel: And there is nothing you know 
that might be the cause for her leaving? 


Ms. Marquez: No. She wouldn't run away. 
Agent Miguel: Any closing statements? 
(Pause.) 


Agent Miguel: We will find your daughter. 
She's coming back. 


Ms. Marquez: | know. | know. 
(Pause.) 


Ms. Marquez: There is something you should 
see. 


(Ms. Marquez is heard getting up and walking 


upstairs. After thirty seconds, she is heard 
descending the stairs and sitting back down. 
Plastic crinkling suggests the exchange of an 
item.) 


Ms. Marquez: This was in her toilet. | didn't 
show the police, because you're more 
important. You know what is wrong with her, 
even if | don't. Please. Tell me this means 
something to you. 


(Pause. Several plastic crinkles are heard.) 


Agent Miguel: This means something to us. 
Thank you. 


Ms. Marquez: Find her, Miguel. Find her. 
<END LOG> 


Ms. Marquez had passed Agent Miguel a plastic bag 
containing vomit, blood (both matching Pol-3713's DNA), 
and eight flyers damaged by various fluids. All things 
printed in small text were illegible, but the most legible 
flyer read: 


[...] Returns! The new hit BI/...jram Show, 
touring now! Touring now! Coming back 
[...Jever! Come watch, we will! Get into your 
positions, 


AUDITIONS NOW OVER! 


Footnotes 

1. Pending reclassification. See Addendum-3713-4 for more details. 
2. Such as Skype or Discord VoIP. 

3. For a full list, consult the current SCP-3713 overseer. 

4. Supposedly "secret" meetings were kept in relatively easy to 
observe places, and SCP-3713-A instances showed little concern 
over others hearing their conversations despite their subject matter. 
5. The full repeated line was "Someone is slacking, someone is 


drowning, someone is drowning and we're drowning with her". 


SCP-3714: Jiangshi's Ring 


Anomalous Item Entry 


Item #: SCP-3714 


IMAGE RECORD 


Object Class: Safe 


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Special Containment Procedures 


SCP-3714 is to be contained in a commercial ring box, stored within 
a lockbox. SCP-3714's lockbox is to be stored in a standard security 
locker within Site-27. 


SCP-3714's internal diameter is to be recorded twice weekly, using 
a jewelry caliper and hazard gloves. See Document-3714- 
CONTLOG-A274 for previous measurements. 


Testing involving SCP-3714 requires approval of the Level 3 
coordinator for SCP-3714, with an additional approval from the 
Ethics Committee. 


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Description: 


SCP-3714 is a decorative green jade ring, which possesses multiple 
anomalous effects. 


SCP-3714 will spontaneously resize to fit the right index finger of 
any human subject which comes within sixteen centimeters of 


SCP-3714. SCP-3714 was discovered with an internal diameter of 
11.27 mm, and currently has an interior diameter of 13.1 mm. The 
overall quantity and mass of jade comprising SCP-3714 does not 
change during this process. Direct contact with the skin of a human 
subject will trigger SCP-3714's further anomalous effects. SCP-3714 
has no effect on non-human subjects, and will not resize in their 
presence. 


SCP-3714 can be removed without difficulty within the first 15 
minutes of exposure. Past this point, outside assistance is required 
to remove SCP-3714. 


Testing with SCP-3714 is suspended until further notice, as no 
significant benefit has been ascertained to date with 22 subjects 
under the effect of SCP-3714. 


Primary effects - Stage 1 


Within 20 minutes of direct skin contact, subjects wearing SCP-3714 
will generally seek out a location in order to safely enter sleep. 
When not presented with a suitable location, subjects will usually lay 
down in place. Out of 22 test subjects, 1 reacted with extreme 
agitation and eventually managed to remove SCP-3714 without 
outside assistance after 72 minutes of searching for a suitable 
location. 


Movement during this period is markedly slower. To date, subjects 
have been unresponsive to verbal or physical confrontation. 
Removal of SCP-3714 during this period and the subsequent 24 
hours can be performed without difficulty or permanent effects on 
the subject. 


Primary Effects - Stage 2 


After roughly 24 hours of unconsciousness subjects will experience 
2-7 minutes of epileptic seizures. At this point, the subject is 
designated SCP-3714-1. 


Brain wave activity monitored during this stage shows severe 
fluctuations in the brain activity of SCP-3714-1, eventually leading to 


complete brain death. Within 5 seconds, subjects exhibit a stable 
brain pattern consistent across all instances of SCP-3714-1. 


SCP-3714-1 will at this point awaken and exhibit additional 
anomalous effects, and drastically different mannerisms. (See 
Section SCP-371 4-1) 


It is unknown at this time whether or not SCP-3714 has any 
correlation with the occurrence of Jiangshi in Chinese Folklore. 


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SCP-3714-1 
Physical Characteristics 


Instances of SCP-3714-1 will move only by hopping short distances, 
with arms extended, consistent with descriptions of the Jiangshi 
of Chinese Folklore. 


SCP-3714-1 does not age and is unresponsive to physical harm but 
exhibits no evidence of increased physical resilence or regeneration. 
Major physical damage to limbs or other motor structures will limit 
SCP-3714-1's ability to move. 


SCP-3714-1 will cease all motor function with significant damage to 
the host's brain. Brain wave activity was shown to continue until 
roughly 32% of brain matter was destroyed. 


Removal of SCP-3714 from an instance of SCP-3714-1 will cause 
SCP-3714-1 to fall unconscious, and revert back to its previous non- 
anomalous state after approximately 15 minutes, including brain 
death. Damage sustained while affected by SCP-3714 will not be 
removed or regenerated. This reversion has proven universally fatal. 


Behavior and Anomalous Abilities 


SCP-3714-1 will speak in Middle Chinese freely. SCP-3714-1 
will claim to be either "Zhang Guolao", a mythical figure in the 
Chinese tradition of alchemy, or "He Qinshi", a mythical figure 
associated with a now-defunct Gol "The Bringers of the Cloud". 


Neither identity has been confirmed at this time. 


SCP-3714-1 is hostile to members of The Foundation, and will 
universally attempt to prevent removal of SCP-3714 from its finger. 
SCP-3714-1 generally will soeak about a mythical battle which 
caused the death of Zhang Guolao, and has made multiple 
references to legendary figures from various Alchemic traditions 
including Nicholas Flamel, Hermes Trigsmestus, and Jibyr al 
Hayyan. There is no significant evidence to support SCP-3714-1's 
claims. To date, Foundation researchers have been unable to 
converse with SCP-3714-1 long enough to allow for interviews or 
significant communication. 


SCP-3714-1 possesses additional anomalous abilities depending on 
the current dominant personality. 


When "Zhang Guolao" is the dominant personality, SCP-3714-1 
possesses minor reality bending abilities, most notably the ability to 
manifest fire, water, stones, or electrical discharge through unknown 
means. These abilities appear to be limited by some unknown 
mechanism, as SCP-3714-1 has never manifested these abilities to 
a degree sufficient to allow it to breach containment. These abilities 
do not appear consistent with the description of a Jiangshi, however, 
they are similar to abilities claimed to be associated with the Erbillic 
Tradition of Alchemy. Zhang Guolao was purported to be an 
alchemist in Chinese legend, however no records of SCP-3714 or 
Zhang Guolao were forthcoming from the Alchemy Department. 


When "He Qinshi" is the dominant personality, SCP-3714-1 
possesses the ability to spontaneously transmit illnesses via 
anomalous means with anyone who comes in contact with its hands. 
To date, Yellow Fever, the Bubonic Plague, and Fibrodysplasia 
ossificans progressiva (FOP) have been transmitted during testing 
incidents. 


SCP-3714-1 will attempt to kill any Foundation personnel it comes in 
to contact with. If it manages to do so, it will undergo a ritualistic 
behavior, pressing its face near the subjects, and emitting a loud 
hissing noise for several moments. 


Notably, SCP-3714-1 will continue to speak in Middle Chinese 


during this ritual, and translations of SCP-3714-1's speech consists 
of the two personalities arguing, with the "Zhang Guolao" personality 
unwilling to perform the ritual. 


SCP-3714-1 exhibits all of the classical deterrent mechanisms of the 
Jiangshi described in Chinese folklore including but not limited to: 


¢ Mirrors 

¢ Peach Wood 

¢ Hand Bells 

¢ Taoist Talismans 

* The compulsion to count coins thrown on the ground 
* Fire (produced from sources other than SCP-3714-1) 
* The sound of a rooster's call 


These objects, sounds, and phenomenon are to be available at all 
times to security staff interacting with SCP-3714 test subjects. 


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Recovery 


SCP-3714 was discovered in the Market, in the province of 
, China during a post-operation incident with Agent L. 
DuMourne. 


Agent DuMourne came in to contact with the box containing 
SCP-3714 while wearing a Thaumic Ring (See "Standard Operating 
Equipment - Thaumic") and took note of the object. SCP-3714 was 
acquired along with a small wooden box containing several other 
items. 


Inside the box was a small figurine of a donkey, SCP-3714, anda 
200-gram piece of flat lunar rock inscribed with middle Chinese. 


A translation was provided by Junior Researcher Yang: 


Whatever unfortunate soul puts this foul thing on, | am 
sorry. 


The note is for the wretched soul inside this ring. 
This is for Erbil, traitor. 


| hope you and the Leviathan's pet monster enjoy 
eternity. 


[Glyph] 


The source of lunar rock is unknown at this time. The glyph found at 
the bottom of the tablet is one associated with early Arabic 
cryptography, specifically a cypher of Arabic which was seen used in 
several reliefs in the ruins of the Citadel of Erbil. These glyphs 
appear to identify a particular person, as well as a subject matter. 


Several texts have associated the specific glyph with the writings of 
Nicholas Flamel, specifically in his research notes on what 
mythical alchemist Jabir Ibn Hayyan (latinized to Geber in later 
centuries) described as the creation of artificial life. This process of 
"takwin" is referred to in a significant number of religious and pseudo 
religious texts. 


The current leading hypothesis is SCP-3714 is a failed attempt to 
replicate "takwin" by Pol- or Pol- _ , both of which were active 
producers of anomalous items in the correct region and timeframe of 
SCP-3714's potential creation. Both persons of interest had 
significant interest in the occult, and mixed together elements of 
both religion and folklore [REDACTED] leading to the fall of the 
Tang Dynasty by Zhu Wen in 907 CE. 


It is unknown at this time why Pol- or Pol- would include a 
reference to the Citadel at Erbil. Research is ongoing. 


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explain this growth, several genetic samples had abnormally 
shortened telomere strands. Observers also reported an unnatural 
feeling that precluded normal movement whenever eye contact with 
the mutated subject was made, suggest full memetic security 
precautions in place for all future testing. 


Test Number: 02 

Subject Gender: Male 

Subject’s Known Mental Illness: Paranoid personality disorder 
Medication: 

Exposure (Alpha): Subject reported being “quiet in his head”. 
Subject was noted as whirling his head around, exclaiming, “God- 
damn, this is better than the shit you gave me...I can’t hear them 
any more!” Subject was then removed from SCP—482 after 2 hours 
of exposure. Subject then expressed a desire to return to the suit. 
Subject became increasingly agitated and eventually became violent 
when his requests were denied. After 30 minutes, Dr. approved 
the subject's return to the suit. Subject returned to the previously 
calm state for 1 hour and 30 minutes. 

Exposure (Beta): At 3 hours, 30 minutes subject apparently 
reached Point Beta; mutation began manifesting at this point. Visible 
bulges appeared beneath the surface of the suit around the head, 
neck and shoulder area. Since the subject was fully enclosed, it was 
initially impossible to determine the nature of these bulges. 4 
Minutes after bulges appeared subject was heard to exclaim, “Stop 
talking! Get out of my head!” consistent with extreme instances of 
paranoia. Bulges then began to spread down the length of the body 
as well at 15 minutes after mutations began. At this point audio 
recorded at least 7 distinct sounds that analysts indicate could be 
voices speaking an unknown language. Termination order was given 
at 25 minutes after Point Beta had been passed. 

Notes: Autopsy indicates that each bulge that manifested beneath 
the suit was a fully formed mouth at least 6mm across with small 
channels to the lung system and voice boxes so that the mouths 
could speak. Future review of tapes shows small shadows 
appearing and disappearing indistinctly throughout the recording; 
researchers questioned about this confirmed that on review of their 
experience, they remember seeing movement in their peripheral 


SCP-3715: Not So Subtle Tex 


Item #: SCP-3715 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Due to its immobile and 
relatively benign nature, SCP-3715 does not require any specific 
containment beyond keeping non-Foundation entities away. 
Personnel with level-2 clearance or higher stationed at Research 
Site-95 are allowed access to the anomaly for morale purposes. 


Description: SCP-3715 is an anomalous event that occurs in 
Room-121 in the former Bellview City High School, located in 
Alberta, Canada’. SCP-3715's effects typically manifest on 
weekdays during the fall and winter months. Between the hours of 
11 PM to 6 AM, a variable amount of tea will manifest in any suitable 
container within Room-121. Generation of tea will always occur, but 
certain variables (such as flavor and brand of the tea) may be 
controlled. Occasionally, in addition to the tea, a document will 
appear addressed to individuals who have recently entered the 
room. This document always takes the form of a handwritten note, 
giving praise and/or positive feedback to the individual. 


The flavoring of the tea may be controlled by taping tea bags toa 
wall adjacent. In the event that the tea does not require or come with 
a tea bag, the tea will manifest as normal if the ingredients are 
placed in a plastic bag and taped to the wall. See below test log. 


Type of Tea’ Container Use Document Notes 
Used Contents 
Green tea bag} Videographer | I hope you have This was the first 
from school Stockton's mug a nice day. :) recorded 
stock instance of 
SCP-3715. 
Videographer 


Stockton was 


Licorice tea bag Generic teapot 


English 
breakfast tea 
bag 


Generic teapot 


NO!! >:( 


Su Tan, check 
your code again.