Don't upset the Atom, and the Atom won't upset you. 


Footnotes 

1. This has rendered close-approach investigations or exploration of 
SCP-2187-B's interior pending on development of an automated 
zero-gravity survey robot. 

2. Esperanto; translates to "Best Judgement." 

3. Esperanto; translates to "New Judgement." Pronounced /yo0-jo 
no-va/. 


« SCP-2186 | SCP-2187 | SCP-2188 » 


Recovered Materials 2187-A 


Scan of poster found inside SCP-2187-A 


Overview: This is an incomplete log of information discovered in 
SCP-2187-A. Discovered information artifacts are so far of two 
types: hand-written or typed notes or journals, and narrated videos 
continuously looping on mounted displays. 


Mounted Videos 


Numerous displays are mounted around SCP-2187-A that loop 
continuously while powered. Videos recovered feature a narrator 
speaking directly to the camera in front of a brick backdrop. Narrator 
is a black-haired Caucasian approximately 40 years old, speaking 
with a slight Russian accent. Each phrase is spoken in Esperanto, 
Russian, and English in sequence; for the sake of brevity, only the 
English phrases have been included. 


Video 2187-01: 


Video is mounted near tall cylindrical booths and mass of 
wires. 


Narrator: Welcome and congratulations traveler. Do not 
be alarmed. You are experiencing the fruit of greatest 
endeavor and achievement of mankind. Step away from 
the booths and into the hall. Your confusion will be 
resolved in good time. 


Video 2187-02: 


Video is mounted outside room containing equipment, in 
hallway towards SCP-2187-A-1. 


Narrator: Where you are is not of any spiritual 
deception, or tied to any petty nationality; you are here 


SCP-249: The Random Door 


Item #: SCP-249 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedure: SCP-249 is affixed to a wall 
within Site- . Access to SCP-249 is unrestricted, though an accurate 
log of destinations must be kept and submitted to a Level-4 
supervisor every four (4) weeks. No SCPs of any class may be 
brought or kept within one thousand (1000) meters of SCP-249 
without Level-4 approval. 


Description: SCP-249 appears to be a windowless door, covered in 
a faded white paint. It was first found in a house located within the 
small town of . When opened, SCP-249 does not lead to the 
other side of the doorway, but to a random door within eight hundred 
and fifty (850) meters. Items that go through SCP-249 are teleported 
to that other door, regardless of what may be between the door and 
SCP-249. When observed from the destination, the exit door 
appears to open on its own accord, and whatever goes through 
SCP-249 appears out of thin air. When opened, SCP-249 takes on 
the appearance of the door it is connected to. When shut, SCP-249 
is no longer connected to that door, and reverts to its standard 
appearance. 


However, roughly every five hundred (500) uses, SCP-249 does not 
connect to a door within its range, but instead to a random location 
anywhere in the world, even locations with no apparent doors within 
hundreds of kilometers. When the 500-use mark approaches, 
common use of SCP-249 is stopped and tests are done to record its 
exit location. Since its discovery, a log has been kept documenting 
these cases (See Addendum 249-001). 


Document 249-A 
In accordance to O5- , all restrooms have been moved away from 
SCP-249's range. 


as a member of mankind. Be proud to be a human. This 
is Our crowning achievement. 


Video 2187-03: 


Video is mounted near end of passage leading to 
SCP-2187-A-1. 


Narrator: Whatever behooved us to suffer the laborious 
injustice of life? No. As humans, we have overcome. We 


have chosen Jugo Nova. 


Video 2187-04: 


Video is shown on large central display above 
SCP-2187-A-1, as well as on numerous smaller displays 


around room. 


Narrator: Step into one of the scanners and receive a 
ticket to join judgement. Piotr will find your place. 


Video 2187-05: 
Video is mounted above elevator doors. 


Narrator: A final warning: all honest men and women 
have a place in Jugo Nova, but your decisions in the 
previous will place you in the next. Let the glorious enjoy 
glory. Good luck; we hope to see you on the other side. 


Scan of photograph found within SCP-2187-A; 
believed to be an earlier prototype of 
SCP-2187-A-1 


Researcher Notes 


The following are notes found distributed around SCP-2187-A, 
believed to be written by the creators of SCP-2187. Many more 
pieces of paper were discovered, but too severely torn or obscured 
by human waste to be read. 


Note 2187-1: 
Found on floor; hand-written on scrap of lined paper. 
To do 


¢ Write my to do list whoop dee dooo 

¢ Ask Brett if the soular accelerator is working. | 
know it's not. | want him to know that he better get 
it working. 

Finish the mass-pulse receiver 

Decide that to do lists are a bad format to 
articulate my thoughts in. Whoop deee do 


Remainder of page is torn 
Note 2187-2: 


Translated from Russian. Note hand-written on blank 
paper. 


Is it Sunday? Are Sunday's a good idea? 
Note 2187-3: 


Found pressed to window by corpse. Page is torn from 
spiral bound graph-paper notebook. 


17 Jul 19 

For how many centuries have we heard the rhetoric of 
"life's not fair"? As: if it justifies a thing. Should | curl up 
and die, that Adolf Hitler suffered the same fate as the 
torched jews? | sound like a goddamn communist, 
preach of equality and blasphemy. 


Life's not fair. Like it changes a god damn thing. When 
has aman, as a species, endured? | say it separates us 
from the beast. Man does not endure. Man adapts. Not 
us; we stay. We adapt our surroundings to us. So what 
cowers us in the face of the greatest injustice of them 
all? 


Remainder of page blank. 
Note 2187-4: 


Translated from Russian. Note typed on unlined card 
stalk. Found pinned to bulletin board on the side of 
SCP-2187-A-1. 


Slide rules are NOT shared property. It has "Arkady 
Gise" written on it; if you have it, bring it to me 
immediately. 


Note 2187-5: 
Written on unlined page. Found stapled to bulletin board. 


GODDAMN FOOD 

Seriously how didnt we think of this? 

Pulse it up from the planet? pushing back 6 mths for an 
automated agriculture 

Not feed people? | guess worst case scenario. But | dont 
like being hungry, my paradise has filet minyong ming 
mignon. 


Other small portions of paper are stapled to board, 
indicating other notes removed prior to discovery. 


Note 2187-6: 


Found attached to the underside of SCP-2187-A-1. Page 
is torn from spiral bound graph-paper notebook. 


It won't catch Henry, but maybe it will catch the Korean Chinc 
who shot him. 


Remainder of page blank. 


SCP-2188: Life and Times of Joaquin Pablo Izquierdo 
de San Felipe 


Item #: SCP-2188 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Anomalous activity related to 
SCP-2188 has ceased as of 29 July 1998. In accordance with safety 
procedures, SCP-2188 maintains an active Euclid classification until 
the cautionary minimal observation period expires in 2023. In the 
unlikely event of a resumption of SCP-2188 activity, personnel are 
instructed to notify the director of Site-41, as well as the Sector G 
Transreality Artwork Research Collective (S-TARC), immediately. 


While local assets have not been deemed necessary for 
containment of SCP-2188 at this time, Agent Roberto Esquivel is 
currently stationed in Dotson, Nebraska, United States as part of a 
special post-retirement assignment and is available on an as- 
needed basis. 


Description: SCP-2188 was an anomalous relationship between an 
individual in Uruguay and the residents of a town in the United 
States. This relationship comprised the following: 


Joaquin Pablo Izquierdo de San Felipe, a semi-transient person 
residing primarily in Montevideo, Uruguay during his lifetime. Mr. 
Izquierdo is believed to have been born in 1943, in an unnamed 
village in the Department of Treinta y Tres, Uruguay. No reliable 
documentation exists of Mr. Izquierdo prior to 1961, when Uruguyan 
authorities issued him a work permit. 


Mr. Izquierdo came to the attention of Foundation assets based in 
the Buenos Aires Regional Office in 1965, when he was arrested by 
Uruguay's Interior Police for attempting to smuggle live specimens 
of the Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine into Argentina. This 
coincided with a file report of an individual in the United States 


region of Nebraska conducting what was termed a "performance art" 
demonstration of an extended tango dance routine while his partner 
pierced him thirty-three times with porcupine quills. 


Several attempts at containment were made once researchers 
understood the causal effects Mr. Izquierdo's actions had on 
residents of the town of Dotson, Nebraska, United States. 
Observation and several experiments determined that allowing Mr. 
Izquierdo to live a relatively normal life while being protected from 
severe harm (sometimes logically expected from his actions) was 
the most likely course of action to minimize potentially harmful 
actions among residents of Dotson and prevent widespread public 
knowledge of SCP-2188. Agent Roberto Esquivel was accordingly 
assigned as a clandestine overseer for Mr. Izquierdo in 1967. 


Over the next several decades, Mr. Izquierdo lived itinerantly 
throughout the various barrios of Montevideo, becoming known to 
local residents as a benevolent vagrant (as well as a noted 
eccentric), most likely to be involved with the city's more 
impoverished residents, orphaned children, and street artists. 
Between the efforts of Agent Esquivel and Mr. Izquierdo's support in 
the community, containment was preserved until Mr. Izquierdo's 
death in 1998, with minimal negative impacts to the town of Dotson. 


The town of Dotson, Nebraska, United States, a rural farming 
community of 5,137 residents!. From no later than 1965 to 1998, 
significant events occurring in the life of Joaquin Pablo Izquierdo de 
San Felipe would affect the mental state of the town's residents. 
This relationship appears to have ceased with the death of Mr. 
Izquierdo in 1998. 


The effects of Mr. Izquierdo's actions on residents of Dotson 
primarily took the form of impulses towards artistic or creative 
endeavors, though in some cases the extreme nature of several 
artworks could be classed as a form of temporary mental illness@. As 
a sum result of Mr. Izquierdo's anomalous influence, the town of 
Dotson was host to a sophisticated artistic subculture, one that in 
the findings of S-TARC "greatly exceeds baseline levels of creative 
development found in comparable population centers and cultural 
regions®". This subculture has become inculcated in the social 
conventions of the town, and continues to develop subsequent to 


the death of Mr. Izquierdo, albeit in a manner consistent with 
anthropological norms documented in mainstream science. 


SCP-2188 appears to have affected between 15-25% of the 
population of Dotson. Preliminary reports indicated a much higher 
affected population; however, S-TARC studies in the 1970s 
determined that residents’ higher-than-expected receptiveness to 
artistic works (including those of a radical nature) was a natural 
result of exposure to the elevated level of creative activity in the 
town. Despite the noteworthiness achieved by Dotson in local and 
national media due to Mr. Izquierdo's anomalous influence, the 
discovery of the true nature of SCP-2188 was deemed to be a 
minimal security risk. As such, no containment procedures were 
deemed necessary in Dotson. 


In accordance with Directive 2188-03.17, Mr. Izquierdo is interred in 
Misty Veil Cemetery, located 2 km outside of Dotson town limits. 


Addendum 2188.1 - Reports from Agent Roberto Esquivel 


Researcher's Note: Between 1967 and 1998, Agent Roberto 
Esquivel served in Montevideo, Uruguay as the primary source of 
containment for SCP-2188. Agent Esquivel filed a series of reports 
during that time. A representative sample of these reports are 
reproduced here for the purposes of this file. Refer to Appendix A for 
the unabridged record of Agent Esquivel's reports. 


===SYSTEM NOTICE=== PERSONNEL PREFERENCES REFERENCED AND LOGGED. 
TRANSLATING PRIMARY DOCUMENTATION FROM SPANISH to ENGLISH 


Field Report 2188.1 - Introductions 
Date: 17 April 1967 


Summary: Agent Esquivel, per the terms of containment set by the 
Research Director, establishes a relationship with Joaquin Pablo 
Izquierdo de San Felipe. This is intended to facilitate future contacts, 
build trust with the subject, and enable efforts to protect the subject 
from undue harm and therefore ensure relative normalcy for the 
residents of Dotson. 


Result: Successful action 


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Agent Comments: After poring over the dossier for 
weeks, | finally met Mr. Izquierdo face-to-face at Chito's, 
a scummy little bar in Malvin Norte where the students 
like to hang out and the bums drink whenever they can 
scrounge up a few pesos. | resolved to gain Mr. 
Izquierdo's favor in the traditional way. 


"A beer for my friend here," | called to the barman as | 
sat next to the subject. Mr. Izquierdo had none of it. 


"Ah, a generous accountant, you are" he said to me. My 
suit was a poor choice, in retrospect. "No, | shall buy you 
a drink, because this isn't a beer night." He motioned to 
the barman, who brought us a large mate with two 
straws. To my surprise, in a place like this, they were 
silver. 


The subject handed me a straw. "To introductions, my 
new friend." We both sipped the brewed leaves and | felt 
the caffeine rush wonderfully to my head. | admit, | love 
mate, and | didn't question the odd choice for evening 
drinks. 


"You look like a thinker! | like thinkers, they row the other 
side of my rowboat!" he said as we drank together. 
"Night is a good time for thinking!" 


We made small talk for the rest of the evening. | had 
expected to work harder at it, given the dossier, but we 
had much in common, he and I. The mate, dead fathers, 
a distaste for Borges and a great taste for panchos 
(Uruguayan hot dogs -Ed.). It was enjoyable. 


We resolved to meet again for mate the next week. 
Containment is off to a good start. 


S-TARC Listing 
of Related 
Artworks - 


Titie Artists Medium Description 


Tea with Willie John Blues Song Performed for 
Strangers Lincoln the first time at 
Redfeather's 


Tavern by Mr. 
Lincoln, playing 
unaccompanied 
on acoustic 
guitar 

Sunrise: Apolla John Grauber | Mural, oil paint) 6 m tall depiction 
of the Greek 
deity Apollo 
playing the lyre 
with a sunrise in 
the background. 
Painted on the 
side of a barn 
belonging to Mr. 


Grauber's 
employer 
Mount Ararat | Rebecca Short story Unpublished 
Moorad narrative 


concerning two 
archaeologists 
looking for 
evidence of 
Noah's Ark 
trapped together 
at a dig site by a 
freak blizzard. 
The two men, 
Robert and Paul, 
initially wary of 
each other, learn 
to pool their 
resources in 
order to survive. 
The men share 
tea, which both 


have brought in 
abundance, a 
crucial plot point 
in the closing 
paragraphs of 
the story. 


Field Report 2188.4 - Lalo's Elegy 
Date: 23 August 1967 


Summary: Mr. Izquierdo requests Agent Esquivel's assistance on 
an errand in the barrio of La Figurita. 


Result: Minor injuries to Agent Esquivel, two civilians subdued with 
non-lethal weaponry. 


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Agent Comments: At 11 o'clock, | saw Mr. Izquierdo 
appear at the park bench. | have noticed that for a 
person of the streets, he is strangely punctual.