Addendum: Following resolution of Incident 2/77, Experiment 
1383-9 was repeated with a new subject in order to update data on 
SCP-1383 conceptual entities. Termed Experiment 1383-21, the 
initial phase was identical to previous attempts, but the list created 
by the subject is significantly different. (See Experiment Log 
1383-21-A.) The spherical object described in earlier experiments 
was reported to be "broken", although the rest of its physical 
description was unchanged, and descriptions of persons inside 
SCP-1383 were amended with ascribed behavior. Examples 
include: 


¢ beating against the walls or doors 

* scratching at the walls or doors 

* screaming 

* committing violent acts upon themselves and each other 

* lying dead or possibly unconscious 

* writing on the walls or furniture using — ——- —— ——- —— 


OO Wee can't retrieve you 


SCP-1383-contaminated Foundation personnel who have been 
matched to conceptual entities on this and similar registries are 
imagined by prompted staff as exhibiting the recorded behavior. 
These entities are believed to be conscious, but lacking a means of 
egress. 


Reported conceptual written content includes various expletives and 
indecipherable or obscene symbols, as well as a crudely-drawn SCP 
Foundation logo and small notes in Spanish, English, and an 
unknown language, including "COMO ME SALGO DE ESTE 
JUEGO"2 and "CALL CECE DESIGNATE sutoneotthe axes may belineartime. "9 


As of 11/81, two additional autonomous conceptual entities have 
been recorded within SCP-1383. One is identified by test subjects 
as the US Labor Party, a political group which the public believes to 
have disbanded in October of 1979. The second is the only instance 
which has been described by test subjects as located outside of the 
room: an entity which Research Subject 1383-33 described as "an 
ecru man watching from the window". No window is present in the 
layout of SCP-1383. 


Footnotes 

1. For example, one interviewed subject became tearful when 
questioned about her brother, who had been affected by a 2/77 
extranormal event. She described calling her brother once or more 
per day, "to make sure he’s still alive", but was unable to explain the 
source of her anxiety. 

2. "How do | get out of this game?" 


— — —  — —Which would mean just having to wait for 
competition to begin. — —— —— —— —— —— —— —— 


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SCP-1384: Taker of Turns 


Item #: SCP-1384 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: The original entrance to the 
tunnel containing SCP-1384 is sealed with concrete to prevent 
civilian access. A new shaft has been dug under the pretense of a 
public works project. The tunnel must be accesssed and SCP-1384 
interacted with at least once a week by personnel familiar with 
Document 1384-1. All interaction must be recorded and studied 
afterward by Foundation analysis teams. 


Personnel are forbidden to ask for or offer anything to SCP-1384 
outside of cleared testing procedures. This includes seemingly 
innocuous or abstract things such as "the time," or one's name. 
Please see Incident 1384-2. 


Description: SCP-1384 is a sapient entity with a variable 
appearance. It typically appears as a human or human-shaped 
construct ranging from 1.5 to 2 meters in height. It has also 
appeared at other times to be made of materials ranging from 
porcelain to bone to white plastic. Its changes in form take place 
instantaneously. 


SCP-1384 was found inside a tunnel sixty meters under a church in 
Durness, Scotland. The tunnel is approximately sixteen kilometers 
long by three meters across, and constructed of a single piece of 
marble, with three-meter thick walls and ceiling. Notably, true marble 
is not naturally occuring in the British Isles. The method and date in 
which the tunnel was constructed is unknown, but artifacts found 
inside date at least to the 12th century. The floor is tiled with colored 
squares in white, yellow, black, blue and orange. Each square is 50 
centimeters across. 


Artifacts in the cave include carved stones, chalk, weapons, a chess 


board, and numerous chess pieces, checker pieces, and carved 
wooden soldiers. 


As of 14/03/2011, SCP-1384 is 1.2 kilometers from the entrance of 
the tunnel, on an orange square. It is unable to move from this 
square unless certain circumstances are met (See Document 
1384-1). 


SCP-1384 is able to alter reality, though apparently only in response 
to certain stimuli. It claims to be under certain rules that govern its 
abilities and behavior, but refuses to divulge those rules. It is 
otherwise cooperative and genial, though it seems to prefer some 
people to others. For reasons unknown, it prefers researchers to 
agents. 


All attempts to force SCP-1384 to move from the square it occupies 
or to injure it have had no effect. The squares can be damaged, but 
return to an undamaged condition as soon as SCP-1384 moves to a 
new square. 


lts ultimate goal is to reach the entrance of the hallway and leave. It 
is aware that the Foundation seeks to contain it, and is therefore 
unwilling to tell researchers the rules it operates under. 


SCP-1384 was discovered after the death of Father , vicar 
of Durness. His successor discovered a shaft leading to the 
entrance of the tunnel containing SCP-1384. He contacted his 
superiors in the church, who ultimately contacted the Foundation 
through the Fisher Protocols. 


Incident Report 1384-2 
Dr. Houck had the following exchange with SCP-1384: 
Dr. Houck: "What's your name?" 


SCP-1384: "Ah, well, there's a trouble there. You 
couldn't say it. Couldn't even really hear it, not to have it 
spoken rightly. Say, can you give me your name?" 


Dr. Houck: "Certainly. Dr. Houck." 


SCP-1384: "Ah, and thanks for that." 


Shortly after this exchange, everyone who entered the 
hallway became aware that the entity was named Dr. 
Houck. The original researcher was no longer able to 
respond to that name, and people who knew him were 
temporarily unable to think of him by that name. The 
entity expressed a degree of regret, but would not 
relinquish the name, citing its rules. Several days later, 
the situation was resolved by the simple expedient of Dr. 
Ho saying to the researcher, "| name you Doctor Houck." 
The effect on Dr. Houck was no longer evident, though 
the entity is still "known" by that name by those who 
enter the hallway. 


Interview Log 1384-1 
Dr. Ho: "What are you?" 


SCP-1384: "Ah, | couldn't tell you that, Jimmy. | don't 
think on the one hand it'd tell you too much, but it'd be 
more than you know. The less you know, the better my 
position." 


Dr. Ho: "Why is it better?" 


SCP-1384: "You're like the old man. | can see it right off. 
Want to keep me in this old hallway, just as he did. And 
didn't he do better than his predecessors? No, | gave him 
too much of a hint, and look where it got me. I'm actually 
two steps behind where he found me. Not a gambit I'll let 
you try." 


Dr. Ho: "Why don't you just walk out?" 


SCP-1384: "Well, that's the rules, you know. If | could 
just walk right out, I'd have done it a year and an age 
ago. But without rules, well, where would we be? 
Wouldn't know where any of us were, not really." 


Dr. Ho: "It doesn't seem fair if we don't know the rules." 


SCP-1384: "Not my fault either. Look, | have to scrape 
up every advantage | can." 


Dr. Ho: "Who trapped you here?" 


SCP-1384: "It was my own side, actually. Got me out of 
a tighter spot than this, if you can credit it. Sometimes 
you have to play the sacrifice, you know." 


Dr. Ho: "Why are you telling me this?" 


SCP-1384: "You're just a pawn, really, and I'm a big 
softie at heart. Besides, while I'll get out eventually if you 
lot leave, I'm willing to bet you won't be as clever as the 
old man. You can try to keep me here, but | think you'll 
get me out even sooner. Call it our little game." 


« SCP-1383 | SCP-1384 | SCP-1385 » 


Document 1384-1 


Rules currently known or suspected to govern the behavior of 
SCP-1384 


Rule 1: SCP-1384 is able to treat abstract concepts as having real 
existence. 


See Incident SCP-1384-2. 


Rule 2: SCP-1384 is able to take a step forward if it is left alone for 
thirteen days. 


Initial containment procedures were focused on not 
approaching SCP-1384, on the theory that it would be 
unable to advance without interaction. Cameras 
watching showed it move thirteen days after last 
interaction. When questioned, SCP-1384 said, "I told you 
I'd get out eventually without you. It'll take a while, of 
course, but you can't just leave me be. I'm on the home 
stretch now. The bones will roll, you know." 


Rule 3: SCP-1384 is able to affect the passage of time for 
individuals. 


Several statues were found half a kilometer further back 
in the tunnel. When examined more carefully, they 
appeared to be flesh-and-blood humans in clothing 
appropriate for the 19th century. When asked about 
them, SCP-1384 responded, "They asked me for the 
time of day. Well, | gave them the time of a day about 
sixty years from now. Ought to be a nice one. | think 
they'll like it." 


Rule 4: SCP-1384 cannot acknowledge anyone or anything that is 
predominantly yellow. 


When Dr. Ho entered wearing a yellow rain slicker, 
SCP-1384 refused to acknowledge his presence until he 
removed it. Further experiments with maize, yellow 
paper, and pencils had the SCP ignore these objects, 
except as they related to other, non-yellow objects. For 
example, he can acknowledge the pencil as a researcher 
writes with it, but ignores it when presented with it 
directly. 


When asked why, it responded as follows: "Well, it's 
acrosswise, you see, which means it's not at all friendly. 
Not to me, anyway, | suppose my buddy's got no 
problems there, but we can't help where we sit, right?" 


Researchers painted the floor ahead of SCP-1384 
yellow. However, the paint vanished the next time 
SCP-1384 made a move. 


Rule 5: SCP-1384 is able to take a step forward if certain people 
cross its shadow while walking in a clockwise direction. 


Dr. Ho was performing a careful inspection of 
SCP-1384's form when he walked around it. SCP-1384 
stepped forward into a black square. It did not step 
forward when he crossed the other direction, but when 
he moved clockwise again, it stepped forward into a blue 
square. It wouldn't explain the significance. 


Note: Agent Faraday had previously stepped across 
SCP-1384's shadow without incident. It refused to 
explain the significance of Dr. Ho. 


Rule 6: SCP-1384 steps one square to the right when given a coin. 


Dr. Ho was looking through the contents of his pockets to 
find a piece of paper. SCP-1384 watched him fish 
several coins from his pocket, and asked if it could have 
one. Dr. Ho decided, after some discussion with the 
surface team, that it was worth testing. He handed it a 
subway token. It immediately stepped to the right. 
Further coins given to it resulted in right steps, until it 


reached the wall, at which point it stopped. 


Rule 7: SCP-1384 is able to create or summon some objects upon 
request. 


Researcher Dr. Houck was interacting with SCP-1384 as 
part of normal containment protocol, and asked if it 
would like to play a game to pass the time. SCP-1384 
waved its hand, and a table with a chessboard appeared 
in front of it. Researcher Dr. Houck played several 
games with it. He asked if he could take it with him, to 
which SCP-1384 agreed. 


The chess set was made of a cardboard chessboard and 
wooden pieces. They were apparently hand-carved. The 
chessboard had no manufacturer's markings. 


Researcher Dr. Houck reported that SCP-1384 has an 
adequate understanding of the rules, but is not a truly 
proficient player, showing an unwillingness to sacrifice its 
pawns. 


Rule 8: SCP-1384 is forced to take a step back when certain people 
enter the hallway. 


When Agent Lachner reported to duty, SCP-1384 
stepped back from its previous position, back onto a 
black square. However, when she tried to re-enter, 
SCP-1384 said, "Already used your turn, love." 


Agent Lachner was able to enter two more times over 
the next two days, each time driving SCP-1384 back. 
However, it ceased working shortly after. Further 
attempts had no effect on SCP-1384. 


Rule 9: SCP-1384 is unable to step into a yellow square. 


Researcher Dr. Houck inadvertently stepped clockwise 
across SCP-1384's shadow. SCP-1384 started to step 
forward, but stopped halfway, and returned to its original 
position. "Blast. Should've been watching. Could've been 


a bad one, that. Well, I'll get to the side eventually." 


Rule 10: SCP-1384 is unable to change form at will. The trigger for 
these changes is currently unknown. 


Researcher Dr. Houck asked SCP-1384 if it could 
change again after it assumed the form of a skeleton. It 
replied, "Sorry, lad, it's this or nothing for a bit. It's a rum 
card, for sure, but we'll pass again in a bit, and witha 
little luck, you'll like me a bit better, eh?" 


Rule 11: SCP-1384 is able to send people elsewhere, or possibly to 
destroy them. 


A D-Class personnel was brought in for testing 
SCP-1384's indestructibility. It was given a knife and told 
to attempt to cut SCP-1384's arm, which it attempted 
several times to no effect. The following exchange took 
place: 


SCP-1384: "Not that | mind so much, but what's with 
trying to carve me up?" 


D-5350: "They told me to cut you, Dr. Houck. | get to go 
if | do what they tell me." 


SCP-1384: "Well, | do understand that. I'd get out myself 
if | could. Of course, I'll walk out eventually.” 


D-5350: "Wish | could just up and get out of here." 
SCP-1384: "Do you? Well, as you like.” 


D-5350 vanished. When Dr. Ho asked if the D-Class 
personnel was dead, or if it could be brought back, 
SCP-1384 responded, "I didn't kill him. He just went back 
to the start. | might be able to bring him back, if you ask, 
but you probably wouldn't like it. Neither would he. He'll 
be back on his own, eventually. If | bring him back, | can 
tell you right now | won't get it right. That's for free. | get 
no advantage from that deal." 


Shortly afterwards, the pattern of the tiles changed, and 
now contained red tiles as well as the original colors. 


Rule 12: SCP-1384 is unable to touch any person. 


This was previously assumed to be a rule, as SCP-1384 
studiously avoided any direct contact with any person. 
However, when Agent Barnes held out his hand, 
SCP-1384 accepted it and shook. When asked, it said, 
"Oh, | was just being polite, you know. | don't just up and 
prod people. | do have manners. I'm not a Pict, you 
know." 


Actions SCP-1384 is able or compelled to perform, but for 
which the trigger is unknown: 


Step to the left. 

Step forward when no one crosses its shadow. 
Step backward when Agent Lachner is not present. 
Give gifts of chestnuts and bronze knives. 

Remove its own head. 

Change form. 


Know things that it could not learn from conversations that have 
taken place inside the tunnel (current events, cultural references, 
hobbies and interests of researchers and agents assigned to it). 
When Dr. Ho was about to tell it that it had been given a reference 
number, it correctly guessed that it would end in a 4. 


SCP-1385: The Mistake Ring 


Item #: SCP-1385 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1385 is to be contained 
inside a standard Safe-class containment locker at all times unless 
under test conditions. All tests are to be approved by at least one 
Level 3 Senior Researcher. It is recommended that any human test 
subjects interacting with SCP-1385 be screened for shellfish 
allergies, excluding tests involving SCP-1385 and subjects with 
shellfish allergies.