Interviewed: Subject A is a male, late 30s. 
Subject B is a male, early 20s. Subject A 
spoke in modern Turkmen. Subject B spoke in 
an antiquated dialect of Turkmen; each was 
attempting to adapt their patterns of speech to 
better understand the other 


Interviewer: Dr. U 


Foreword: This interview was conducted 
02/09/197 , within SCP-3150-1. The interview 
was begun when Dr. U interrupted a 
conversation between the two subjects. 


‘mature’, and individual instances will begin reproductive behavior 
during this period. During feeding, seven (7) to twelve (12) SCP-400 
individuals will exit the colony through one of its dermal perforations, 
and take hold of any exposed portion of the host mother’s skin for 
approximately 10 min before returning. Host mothers studied during 
this time begin to show increased progesterone production, as well 
as heightened levels of human chorionic gonadotropin, indicating an 
induced pregnancy. After an incubation period of two (2) to three (3) 
days, host mothers will ‘birth’ twenty-five (25) to fifty (50) instances 
of SCP-400 during her next sleep. Instances of SCP-400 have not 
been successfully tracked after birth. Maximum interval of dormancy 
before SCP-400 must initiate another infestation is unknown. After 
breeding behavior begins, the cycle will repeat once weekly for the 
duration of the infestation. No natural limit to SCP-400 infestation 
timeline has been observed. (See Addendum 400-02) 


Of recorded infestations to date, all have occurred in the south- 
eastern United States in rural or mountainous areas, and in some 
cases have gone unnoticed for as long as nine (9) months. 
Improved detection and extermination of SCP-400 instances is 
considered a high research priority. 


Addendum 400-01: Interview 400-25 


Foreword: Twenty-fifth in a series of interviews 
conducted during the , infestation of 2003. Mrs. 

B (hereafter ‘Mrs. B.’) interviewed by Dr. 
Marshall Grant, Agent Fabian Pertucci observing. Mrs. B 
has served as host-mother to SCP-400-A and SCP-400- 
B simultaneously. The advanced state of decomposition 
suggests the colonies had been active for over two 
years. She and her deceased twins are considered 
strong candidates for ‘Patient SCP-400-0’. At the time of 
interview, Mrs. B was isolated from SCP-400 for fifteen 
(15) days. Interview conducted on 10/7/2005. 


Dr. Grant: Good afternoon __, how are we feeling 
today? 


Mrs. B: Where are my babies? What have you done with 
my babies? 


<Begin Log> 


Subject A: ...don't understand is the concept 
of the nation! This is a thing above tribe, above 
religion! You don't just define yourself against 
the Uzbek, you define yourself as one among 
many. 


Subject B: This idea is perverse! | am bound 
to clan and faith as much as you are- 


Dr.U —_: Excuse me. Do you mind if | join 
you? 


Subject A: Yes. 


Subject B: Of course you can. Pay no heed to 
my friend here; he has some very strange 
notions. My name if Makhtumkuli, from Etrek, 
and | am a Gerkez. My strange friend here 
calls himself Aman. He has some very strange 
notions about these things he calls "class" and 
"nation". 


Subject A: Bah! You just don't understand 
didactic materialism. 


Subject B: And you don't understand the 
importance of oral tradition, or the voices on 
the wind when you pray, or the wild frontier. 
But | forgive you. Your poetry is fine. 


Subject A: And yours is legendary, my friend. 
Here, newcomer, get us a drink! 


Dr.U — : Uh, sure. What'll you take. 
Subject A: Qumis! 


Subject B: Alas, | must refrain. My religion 
constrains me. | shall talk to you later. 


Subject A: Ah, | must go to. Have a drink on 
us, my friend. 


Dr.U —_: Happily. Um. You two are poets? 
Subject B: Oh yes. 


Subject A: Look us up some time. We're 
really quite well known, or so I'm told by this 
one. 


At this point, both subjects left the room. 
<End Log> 
Interview 3150-436 


Interviewed: Subject is a female, late 40s. 
Subject spoke in modern Russian. 


Interviewer: Dr. Q 


Foreword: This interview was conducted 
02/09/198 , within SCP-3150-1. 


<Begin Log> 
Dr.Q : Mind if | sit here? 


Subject: Go ahead! Go and do whatever you 
like! Come, take a cup of wine with me! 


Dr. Q : No, thank you. To whom am | 
speaking? 


Subject: Dr. Svetlana Venediktov, 
archeologist extraordinaire! And | am in a very 
good mood, friend! A very good mood indeed! 


Dr. Q : And why is that!? 


Subject: Because | have found it! | have found 
this caravanserai! There have always been 


rumours, since Soviet days, but | have found it! 
The find of the century! 


Dr. Q : Well, congr- wait, what do you 
mean, "since Soviet days"? 


Subject: Since forever, my little friend! Hah! | 
am going to go and get drunk some more! 


Subject then wandered away, singing Russian 
folk songs. 


<End Log> 
Interview 3150-941 


Interviewed: Subject is a male, early 20s. 
Subject spoke in modern Persian, with some 
minor alterations. 


Interviewer: Dr. | 


Foreword: This interview was conducted 
02/09/199 , within SCP-3150-1. 


<Begin Log> 


Dr. | : Hello there. Do you mind if | ask you a 
few questions? 


Subject: No. 


Dr.I : OK, then... Who are you? Where do 
you come from? 


Subject: | am Ali Isma’ili. | am 22. |ama 
soldier. In the army. The army of the Empire 
for the Reclamation of the Islamic Artifacts. 


Dr. | : The- what Empire? Do you mean 
ORIA? 


Subject: This place is strange. It plays tricks 
on you. Are you from the Foundation? Good 
people. Allies. In the war. Old enemies are 
new friends now. 


Dr. | : The war? 


Subject: The only war that's left. The war 
against the Red Shah. These are the 
borderlands. We are losing, you see. | must... 
| must think. Need to think of a way. A way to 
win. 


Subject was unresponsive following this 
exchange. 


<End Log> 


Addendum 1: On 20/06/199 , Dr. | , a Level-3 researcher assigned 
to SCP-3150, entered SCP-3150-1. Dr. | had a particular interest 
in the nature of SCP-3150, and believed that this interest might 
activate SCP-3150-3, hopefully providing fresh insight into its 
properties. During her stay in SCP-3150, Dr. 1 conducted an 
interview with SCP-3150-2, which was unusually lucid; this is 
believed to be a result of a manifestation of SCP-3150-3. 


Interview Log 3150-B 
Interviewed: SCP-3150-2. 
Interviewer: Dr. | 


Foreword: This interview was conducted 
20/06/199 , within SCP-3150-1. 


<Begin Log> 


Dr. | : Hello, SCP-3150-2. | have a few 
questions for you. 


SCP-3150-2: You wish to know about the 
caravansary. 


Dr. I : Yes, l- how did you know that? 


SCP-3150-2: This place. Has a way of getting 
into your head. Makes you know things, after a 
while. Things you shouldn't know. 


Dr. | : So- you weren't always here? 


SCP-3150-2: Oh, no. Not always. | used to be 
like you, once. A seeker of light. 


Dr. | : What does that mean? 


SCP-3150-2: Many things. Ah, those were 
dark days, I'm afraid. | don't much want to talk 
about them. I'm here now, and that's what 
matters. Doing what the seekers have always 
done; protecting the world. 


Dr. | : How are you protecting it? All you do is 
keep this place running. You help people, | 
suppose, but not always in the way in which 
they want to be helped. 


SCP-3150-2: What is a caravanserai, my 
dear? How would you define the word? 


Dr. I : Well, it's like an inn. A place where 
travellers and merchants would rest for a night, 
back in the old days. 


SCP-3150-2: The old days, yes. But they'd 
simply be pausing when they rested, ata 
stopping point between one place and another. 
You see, everyone here is a seeker of 
something. Seekers of truth, in its many forms. 
They are here because they are on a journey, 
between ignorance and enlightenment. When 
they enter, they bear the memories of their 
ignorance. When they leave, they are filled 
with a vision of knowledge, sitting far on the 


horizon. That's what this caravanserai is, in 
one respect; the caravanserai between a lack 
of truth and the gaining of truth. 


Dr. | : Very cryptic. But what do you mean, 
"in one respect"? 


SCP-3150-2: In another respect, it's the last 
rest-stop before oblivion. Before death, before 
nothingness, before the end of the world. 


Dr. | :...What? 


SCP-3150-2: This desert has been many 
things to many people. It has been a wild 
frontier, between the dancing hordes and the 
Sassanids’ grand wall, where brave men kept 
watch for an empire that was doomed to die. It 
has been a meeting-place for the clans of the 
Turkmen, great armies of horsemen riding to 
and fro in frenzied ecstasy, mapping out 
complex politics lost beneath the sands. It has 
been a hallowed refuge for wandering mystics, 
seeking God far from man. It has been a road 
to Samarkand, where the cobalt glimmers 
against the sky, and where the distant spires 
of a new world lie just beyond the horizon. It 
had been a nothing-place, a carefully mapped 
and defined point of land in service to the great 
machine of empire. And it has been, again, a 
frontier, where a ragged alliance fights their 
bitter fight against the Red Shah. 


But | Knew it as my failure. | know it as the last 
refuge from the dark, the dark that never stops 
and ends. The dark that raises the sands 
above all the world, the dark that swallows it 
and makes it forgotten. |... fought it, and failed, 
until this ancient and crumbling inn was all that 
was left. | removed it from time itself, and 
made it a rock that rises from the sands that 


bury time. Here, we are all remembered, 
because we all remember one another, past or 
future. This is the world’s testament, existing 
when all else is gone. 


There are many futures and many pasts, my 
friend. Maybe the dark won’t come here. But if 
it does, then we will still be remembered. We 
will all be remembered, in the caravanserai at 
the end of the world. This is just a stop on 
everyone’s journey towards the truth, a stop 
that will always be when it is needed. And | will 
always be here to help the seekers of truth, the 
seekers of the real, and the seekers of light 
like you and I. 


Following this, SCP-3150-2 became 
unresponsive to Foundation questioning for 
the remainder of Dr. | 's time in SCP-3150-1. 


<End Log> 


SCP-3151: Movie in a Bottle 


Item #: SCP-3151 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-3151 in 
Foundation custody are to be kept in mass storage at Site-22. Any 
testing with SCP-3151 must be approved by at least one member of 
Level 3 personnel. 


As part of Operation Ebert, SCP-3151 instances in the territory of 
Three Portlands are to be located and brought into containment by 
Mobile Task Force Beta-29 ("Just Say No"), working alongside UIU 
forces in the area. Any individuals dealing in SCP-3151 are to be 
interrogated for information regarding SCP-3151 distribution. 
Medical programs are to be established in Three Portlands to assist 
individuals who have become addicted to SCP-3151, as well as 
those who have suffered mental damage as a result of overuse. 


Description: SCP-3151 is the collective designation for an as-of-yet 
unknown number of liquid substances which, when ingested orally, 
cause the user to experience a compressed and immersive 
hallucinatory vision of a popular film. Each container of SCP-3151 
was found upon recovery bearing a label reading ‘Movie in a Bottle - 
the Next Stage in the Entertainment Vision from Westhead Media’ 
as well as the title of the film it causes a vision of. Thus far, 
SCP-3151 has primarily been distributed throughout the city of New 
Portlands through a network of anomalous substance dealers paid 
through intermediaries by Gol-1783 ("Westhead Media"). 


Individuals who have ingested SCP-3151 describe the resulting 
vision as being akin to experiencing the narrative of a popular film 
through a viewpoint shifting between characters from scene to 
scene. While this experience is described as lasting for the full run- 
time of the original film, in reality it only lasts for three to four 
minutes, during which they are completely still and unresponsive to 


all stimuli. 


This experience is generally described as more immersive than the 
original film due to the presence of stimuli relevant to all senses, 
rather than experiencing the film solely through the senses of sight 
and sound. Emotional reactions to the film immediately following the 
vision also seem to be heightened — whether this is inherent to the 
more immersive viewpoint of the viewer or a property specifically 
engineered into SCP-3151 is currently unknown. 


SCP-3151 is highly addictive and evidence suggests this is an 
intentional aspect of the substance. Observation of SCP-3151 use 
throughout Three Portlands has also shown that prolonged and 
frequent use can have an extremely adverse effect on the user's 
mental state. 


As the user ingests more of SCP-3151 and further visions are 
experienced, they gradually lose their ability to discern between 
reality and the narrative shown to them in said visions. This 
condition worsens as the user continues to ingest SCP-3151, 
escalating to a point where they are unable to differentiate between 
themselves and one or several characters in their films. If left 
untreated, this can lead to a complete cognitive breakdown. 
Amnestic therapy has proven to be effective in repairing damage to 
a limited degree by erasing memories of the visions provided by 
SCP-3151. 


As of the time of writing, fifty-three variants of SCP-3151 have been 
found and identified through testing. All known SCP-3151 variants 
grant visions of films that Westhead Media has had some level of 
influence over, whether financially or through other means. Known 
variants of SCP-3151 include: 


* A faintly glowing liquid, bright blue in colouration, that causes 
visions of the 1982 film Blade Runner (US Theatrical 
Release). Described as tasting similar to Coca-Cola. 

* A liquid, light green in colouration, that causes visions of the 
1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Described as having a texture 
similar to that of sand. 

* A liquid, dark brown in colouration, that causes visions of the 
1998 film The Sundering of God, an adaptation of the 


Cogwork Orthodoxy creation myth. Described as having a 
metallic taste. 

* A liquid, red in colouration, that causes visions of the 1974 film 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Described as tasting similar 
to orange juice. 

¢ A liquid black in colouration. Label reads 'The Opening of 
Night, TBA’. Test subject displayed behaviour consistent with 
receiving a vision, but reported no memories of the 
experience. Described as tasteless. 


Addendum 3151-1 (History): The first known incident involving 
SCP-3151 was on 02/10/18, when several noted anomalous film 
critics were brought to the Three Portlands Mercy Hospital after 
being found wandering through the streets, quoting popular films 
and proving unresponsive to all stimuli. Investigation of these initial 
victims' residences by UIU agents revealed the presence of several 
partially-depleted containers of SCP-3151. 


Initial containment of SCP-3151 was handled solely by the UIU. 
However, as the spread of SCP-3151 use throughout Three 
Portlands became more pronounced, it was agreed that a joint 
containment effort ("Operation Ebert") between the Foundation and 
the UIU would be of benefit to both parties. Raids by MTF Beta-29 
on the residences of numerous anomalous substance dealers 
throughout Three Portlands following this agreement resulted in 
numerous instances of SCP-3151 being brought into containment. 
This number has increased as Operation Ebert has gone on, and 
the presence of SCP-3151 in Three Portlands is expected to be 
removed entirely by the end of 2019.