D. Arnatsiaq: That's from the Book of Bone. | 
don't know the Book of the Sky or the Book of 
the Frost yet, but | know that one all by heart. 
When it was my first knife time, my mama got 
me the full version, not the baby book she 
reads to the little ones. It doesn't even have 


pictures. 


Dr. Hessen: You're a very smart boy to be 
able to know it all by heart! 


D. Arnatsiaq;: It's not that long. Not evena 
dozen pages. 


Dr. Hessen: Still, it's very impressive. 


D. Arnatsiaq: You should have seen the knife 
my daddy got me for my first consumption. It 
was real sharp and nice, and it cuts real 
smooth. It was all nice and long and made of 
bone, wolf's bone. | still like using my teeth, 
though. 


Dr. Hessen: First consumption? You mean... 
I'm sorry. Please, tell me about that. 


D. Arnatsiaq: It's when they let you cut it off 
yourself, instead of cutting it for you. It's how 
you know you're not a baby anymore. | offered 
it up to the Veldt. You're supposed to do it ona 
clear day, so the falcons can get it. The falcon 
soared down and took it, just like he was 
supposed to, and | didn't cry at all. 


Dr. Hessen: | see. And how old were you 
when this took place? 


D. Arnatsiaq: Eight! 


Dr. Hessen stands and turns. After a minute, 
she returns to the desk. 


Dr. Hessen: My apologies. You were saying 
about the falcons? 


D. Arnatsiaq: Yeah! | love the falcons. When 
they fly it's like a fight plane, all rushing 
towards you, talons out. | miss the falcons. 


And the wolves. The neighbour boy tried to 
steal our ball once, and the wolves came 
rushing at him, and... 


The subject leans forward, and lowers his 
voice. 


D. Arnatsiaq: Promise you won't tell? I'd get in 
big trouble with mama. 


Dr. Hessen: Your secret's safe with me. 


D. Arnatsiaq: (giggling) He wet his pants. He 
wet his pants like a baby. | miss the wolves. 
And the falcons. And the foxes, even though 
they stink. | miss the sky. When will | see the 
sky? 


Dr. Hessen: Well, I'm not certain about that. 


D. Arnatsiaq: It smells here. And | can't touch 
the sky, or the ground. How will —_ have his 
first knife time then? 


Dr. Hessen: Well, as long as you're staying 
with us, I'm afraid we can't allow that to 
happen. We need to learn more about - 


D. Arnatsiaq: | can't help him, I'm not old 
enough. But you could do it, couldn't you? | 
could talk to the falcon, and you could bring us 
outside. It wouldn't take long. Please, miss. It 
only hurts for a bit, | promise. 


Dr. Hessen: I'm afraid | can't do that. We're 
not allowed to let this spread. 


D. Arnatsiaq: The wolves were right. They 
told me you'd try to stop me. You want to 
make us into fat, wasting, cudchewers, don't 
you? That's why you've been giving us plants 
everyday. You're trying to poison us. 


Dr. Hessen: Dmitri, please. We're trying to 
make sure you grow and stay healthy - 


D. Arnatsiaq: You're Verdant! Verdant! 
Panling! Mama warned us about people like 
you - she called you filthy, stinking, marrow- 
suckers. 


Dr. Hessen: Security, please - 


D. Arnatsiaq: When the circle is split, you'll 
see. The predator won't chase the prey no 
more. The book says that when it breaks, the 
rabbit will feast until it starves, the fool, and the 
wolf will look on, content. When the real for 
true gods come home to make us free, you'll 
see then. You'll rot forever, you tumor on the 
earth, decaying in the beating sun with your 
old goat. See how you like your lovely leaves 
then. You'll be real sorry then. 


<End Log> 


Afterword: The subject refused to converse 
any further, as did his relatives in custody. The 
animals retrieved from his residence were also 
markedly more aggressive. 


The Arnatsiag children were restrained to keep them from engaging 
in SCP-3240; but they refused to eat any food provided by the 
Foundation. When asked about any foods he and his siblings would 
be willing to eat, Vasily Arnatsiaq told Foundation staff to check the 
animal enclosures. The specimens in captivity had left some of their 
flesh uneaten in piles by the entrance. After some deliberation, the 
use of this meat to feed the Arnatsiaq children has been approved. 


Copies of the Book of Bone and Book of Frost referenced by Dmitri 
were found in the Arnatsiaq residence. The books were in disrepair 
and had been damaged like many of the items of the house, but 
there were several other excerpts which could be salvaged. 


A description of the Veldt entity, from the Book of Bone: 


The spirits and sense and souls of all the stones and 
bones and mountaintops, the owl's cry, and the lynx's 
eye, and the rich grey fur of the wolf in the moon light. 
Tooth and claw and howl we are, and footprints in the 
snow. Predators, they call us, but we will turn our fangs 
inwards, to the bone. 


The Verdant, as detailed in the Book of Frost: 


The sinful overrun life of the oozing, spreading swamps, 
the twisting ingrown forests, the soft and rotting plants, 
and the mouth-breathing beasts that feed on them, all 
ruled by the sinful glutton Pan, who tosses us his sickly, 
aging scraps to make his brood stronger, and expects us 
to be thankful. No more shall we feed on their scraps. 


A passage from the Book of Feather and Fur regarding the animals 
affected by SCP-3240: 


... paragons of independence, of tenacity, of sustenance 
in self-contained tranquility. They are troubled nevermore 
with any thought but the texture of the lichen on the 
rocks, or the feeling of the wind that brings the blizzard. 
They are companions, protectors, mentors - pure 
distillation of a hunter. 


Addendum 6: As of March 14, all major communities of humans 
afflicted by SCP-3240 have been forcibly dissolved by Foundation 
agents, with members being brought into Foundation custody and 
restrained to keep them from engaging in SCP-3240. No public 
displays of SCP-3240 have occurred since March 12th. 
Extermination and breeding programs meant to replace animal 
populations afflicted by SCP-3240 have proven successful, with an 
83 percent reduction in SCP-3240 occurrence. SCP-3240 has been 
deemed Neutralized. 


Addendum 7: As of March 21, 80 percent of all plant life between 
38° N and 38° S has begun growing uncontrollably, at anywhere 
from two to twelve times their normal growth rate. All strictly 


herbivorous mammals in this area have begun to reproduce at 
similarly unnatural speeds, with gestation rates divided into a quarter 
of their former duration. At times, plant growth will produce masses 
of animal tissue on their roots. These cysts develop into herbivorous 
animals over the course of one to three hours. The animals formed 
are often considerably larger and more territorial than their 
counterparts, and prone to deformity. Animals that form this way 
may also develop other plants and other animals, including humans, 
through the tumor generation method, with the likelinood of a 
chained development event growing higher as the equator is 
approached. The region affected is spreading by 30 kilometers per 
day, in the north and south directions. 


Due to the generation of new anomalous phenomena as a result of 
its containment, SCP-3240 has been reclassified as Hiemal. 


The humans afflicted by SCP-3240 no longer demonstrate 
regenerative qualities and have ceased engaging. Those affected 
will not respond to questioning, save for Dmitri Arnatsiaq. When a 
researcher inquired as to what he knew of the recent anomaly, his 
only response was to quote a passage from the Book of the Canyon: 


The green will shut us in, and twist us, and devour us 
alive. There is nothing in the forest that is not hungry, 
everything the trees say is a lie. Farewell to sky and sun 
and wind - farewell, farewell! For Pan is waking! And he 
starves! 


Footnotes 

1. How this location is determined is currently unknown. It should be 
noted that territorial rivalries and interspecies conflict are 
suppressed while engaging in SCP-3240. 

2. over the course of one day 


SCP-3241: The SS Sommerfeld 


Item #: SCP-3241 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: SARC’ is to continue 
developing a safe and effective containment strategy for SCP-3241. 
Until such a strategy exists, procedures to contain SCP-3241 will 
focus on mitigation, observation, and the prevention of outside 
contact. 


Personnel are to cooperate with the JMSDF? and other naval and 
aeronautic authorities to enforce a seventy-five kilometer exclusion 
zone around SCP-3241. Only Foundation-operated vessels are 
permitted to enter this zone. Surveillance drones are to be deployed 
on a weekly basis into SCP-3241 to monitor its rate of expansion; 
should this rate change, SCP-3241's current Containment Director is 
to be notified immediately. 


The use of SRAs? within SCP-3241's exclusion zone is strictly 
prohibited. Pending completion of the inquiry into the events on 
November 5, 2015, no personnel (Foundation or otherwise) are 
permitted to enter SCP-3241 without O5 approval. 


Description: SCP-3241 is an irregularly shaped volume 
(approximately twelve kilometers in diameter) centered upon the SS 
Sommerfeld (formerly SS Chavez). |It exhibits numerous spatial, 
temporal, molecular, and biological anomalies. Although the nature 
and severity of these anomalies fluctuate with no discernible pattern, 
they do not extend beyond SCP-3241. SCP-3241 is currently 
expanding at a rate of approximately four meters per day. 


The SS Sommerfeld is a cargo ship constructed in 1963 by Sun 
Shipbuilding & Drydock Company. It was purchased, refurbished, 
and rechristened in 1995 by DLS4 as part of a Foundation- 
sponsored contract to provide a transport for low-risk anomalies 


from the decommissioned Site-97 to Site-82. 


The ship was believed to have been lost along with its crew and all 
anomalies on-board in 1998. An inquiry conducted by the 
Foundation in 1999 attributed this to a mid-transit containment 
breach followed by the failed deployment of its emergency safety 
system (consisting of six linked SRAs). In 2015, the SS Sommerfeld 
was discovered adrift two hundred kilometers west of Odo Island. 
This lead to the formation of SARC to assess the sudden 
emergence of SCP-3241 and develop a safe and effective 
containment procedure for it. 


In 2018, new evidence came to light regarding possible malfeasance 
on the part of Daniel DeVorn and DLS. A second inquiry was 
conducted into the events of 1998 and 2015. As a consequence of 
this inquiry, all current and future contracts with DLS have been 
suspended. Daniel DeVorn remains at large, and has been 
designated as Pol-3241-347. 


Addendum 3241.1: Loss of the SS Sommerfeld 


On September 17th, 1998, the SS Sommerfeld departed 
Jacksonville, Florida (USA) for Itaguai, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). At 
17:21 UTC, the Coast Guard received a signal from the ship's 
EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) placing it 
near the center of the Atlantic Ocean (33.49°, -54.26°). At 18:06 
UTC, the EPIRB broadcasted another signal placing it in the vicinity 
of the Sikhote-Alin mountain range (46.12°, 136.96°). At 18:55 UTC, 
COSPAS-SARSAT satellites received a final transmission from the 
beacon; its position could no longer be determined. All subsequent 
attempts to establish communication failed. 


Early recovery efforts were hindered by Hurricane Georges, an 
inability to determine the SS Sommerfela's location, and DLS 
representatives who incorrectly insisted to Foundation officials that 
the vessel was not lost but merely delayed on account of severe 
weather conditions. Daniel DeVorn defended this decision during the 
1999 inquiry: 


Her emergency beacon was sending a signal, but the 
coordinates were all over the place. They made no 


sense. We've had distress beacons misfire before — so 
we figured it was malfunctioning. We couldn't establish 
radio contact to confirm on account of Hurricane 
Georges. But after three hours of nothing, we realized 
something was wrong. 


That's when | made the call. | called Jack® myself. | told 
him something was wrong. | told him Sommerfeld had 
gone missing. 


Once the SS Sommerfeld was declared lost, the Foundation 
immediately mounted a joint search-and-rescue operation with help 
from UNDAC (United Nations Disaster Assessment and 
Coordination), the GOC (Global Occult Coalition), United States 
Coast Guard, Air Force, Air National Guard, and Navy. Search 
efforts concentrated on the ship's planned route and the two 
coordinates provided in its emergency broadcast. After an intensive 
six month long investigation, no trace of the SS Sommerfeld was 
found. 


Addendum 3241.2: Initial Inquiry 


During the initial 1999 inquiry, Daniel DeVorn responded to 
questions regarding the possibility that the disappearance of the SS 
Sommerfeld was caused by a fault in its emergency SRA system. 


Look, that's — look, | don't want to be rude, but that's 
nonsense. That's absolute nonsense. Our SRAs have a 
near-flawless track record. They've seen extensive use 
throughout the Foundation. They're directly responsible 
for averting disasters every day. They save lives, every 
single day. And we're developing better, more cost- 
effective SRAs, every single day. 


What happened to the SS Sommerfeld was tragic, but 
had nothing to do with our emergency safety system. 
What happened was — | don't want to blame your 
people. I'm sure their performance was exemplary. I've 
worked with you long enough to know you only hire the 
best of the best. But | do want to point out that you 
consistently refuse to staff DLS technicians on-site to 


SCP-414-1 instance puts a gloved finger to 
their lips. The instance pets Dr. Chuang's head 
and presses its mask against the side of their 
head, accompanying by a kissing sound. 


[6:18] The group of SCP-414-1 produces a 
flash of light and the camera feed cuts for 0.3 
seconds. When the feed is returned, all 
SCP-414-1 instances are missing. Dr. Chuang 
kneels on the floor, head in hands. 


[END LOG] 

Transcript of Interview 414-56 
Interviewed: Doctor Eliza Chuang 
Interviewer: Doctor Alice Ogawa 


Foreword: This interview occurs 35 days after 
Dr. Chuang is confirmed to have entered 
Stage 5 SCP-414-2. 


[BEGIN LOG] 


Dr. Ogawa: Good morning. Dr. Chuang. How 
are you feeling? 


Dr. Chuang: (excitedly) Good morning! Your 
face is so... ah, it matters little! You are here, it 
is good to see you! 


Dr. Ogawa: Could you explain what you were 
about to say regarding my face? 


Dr. Chuang: (calming down) Ah, just. It was 
so... | once knew... a face. | once cared for... 
someone. An assistant, | had an assistant. But 
| don't remember them. 


Dr. Ogawa: | see. How do you feel when you 
remember that you used to remember? 


provide immediate technical support. You wouldn't let us 
put any of our employees on that boat. You also have a 
history of — your procedures have a history of deviating 
from the SRA manual. The manual exists for a reason. 
We wrote it for a reason. If you follow it, they work fine. 


The real tragedy is that this could have been averted. 
Had the Foundation been willing to let one of our DLS 
technicians on-board the Sommerfeld, |'m certain they 
could have correctly deployed the SRAs. Had the 
Foundation paid for — had you been willing to take the 
time and let our technicians just train your employees, or 
even read our manual, I'm certain we wouldn't be having 
this conversation. 


Professor Zora Tschetter (a paraphysicist who left the Foundation to 
work for DLS as a consultant) corroborated Daniel DeVorn's claims: