Special Containment Procedures: Instances of SCP-2968-A are 
to be stored in bottles in a secure containment locker. Additional 
ones may be destroyed or contained as appropriate. Procedures for 
the manufacture of SCP-2968-A shall be maintained on encrypted 
documents in the Foundation intranet. Additional instances may be 
produced by authorization of the lead researcher for testing 
purposes or at the discretion of the Ethics Committee. To 
discourage further public use of SCP-2968-A, a warning of 
contamination has been released by the FDA at the Foundation’s 
request. 


SCP-2968-B is uncontainable, but due to its very limited influence 
on the world, no direct containment procedures are warranted. 
Containment of SCP-2968-B is to consist of suppressing knowledge 
of it, which may be accomplished by standard discrediting protocols 
for sufficiently high-profile individuals who have contacted its 
inhabitants prior to containment of SCP-2968. 


After Incident 2968-4, the equipment constituting SCP-2968-C is no 
longer functional, and so is to be stored in a low-security 
containment locker. It is possible that anomalous activity associated 
with SCP-2968-A has also ceased. If so, and if a satisfactory 
mechanism of action can be found by Foundation or external 
neurologists, SCP-2968-A will be reclassified as SCP-2968-A-EX. 


Description: SCP-2968 is the collective designation for anomalies 
associated with the Happy Hereafter Organic One-a-Day Afterlife 
Supplements marketed by Natural Vision Supplements, a small 
United States based alternative pharmaceuticals manufacturer. 


Instances of SCP-2968-A are two-part vegetable (hypromellose) 
capsules filled with a mixture of compounds, some herbal in origin. 
For a complete ingredients list of SCP-2968-A, please consult 
Addendum 2968-1. Persons taking SCP-2968-A experience minor 
physiological effects, most significantly lowered blood pressure, 
which can be harmful in individuals already suffering from 
hypotension. As the pills contain approximately eight times the 
recommended daily dose of vitamin A, additional negative health 
effects could result from long-term usage. SCP-2968-A is 


significantly psychoactive, causing a significant attenuation or 
cessation of internal dialog in most users, and producing what many 
subjects describe as a sense of separation from their minds, 
emptiness, and in some cases bliss. Depending on the individual 
and the dosage, this may last anywhere between a day and two 
weeks. 


Natural Visions Supplements claims that anyone who died under the 
effect of SCP-2968-A would receive a pleasurable afterlife, and in 
June 2014, released a service allowing people to contact friends and 
relatives who had died while on Happy Hereafter over a text 
interface. Persons contacted report being bodiless minds in a state 
of constant peace and calm. They retain all knowledge they had at 
time of death and most of their personalities, and report being able 
to communicate with other deceased individuals affected by 
SCP-2968-A. This apparent afterlife has been designated 
SCP-2968-B. 


The equipment used for communication with SCP-2968-B has been 
designated SCP-2968-C after its recovery when containment of 
SCP-2968 was established. SCP-2968-C is similar in construction to 
a satellite television receiver, with a crystal radio component to 
decipher the signal. For full technical diagrams, see Addendum 
2968-20. 


Addendum 2968-12: Dr. Samuel Rudi, who was at the time dying of 
untreatable emphysema, volunteered to test SCP-2968. His 
excellent record, imminent demise, relative lack of sensitive 
knowledge, and congenial relationship with Dr. Wei Lin, the current 
head of research on SCP-2968, made him an ideal candidate. Dr. 
Rudi took one pill each day as instructed until his death on 
September 10, 2014. 


Interview 2968-5: 


Interviewer: Dr. Wei Lin 
Subject: Dr. Samuel Rudi (deceased) 


Dr. Lin: This is Wei. Sam, are you there? 


Dr. Rudi: | hear you. How are things in the land of sun 


and grass? 


Dr. Lin: There’s a lot we need to talk about, but safety 
first. What’s the passphrase? 


Dr. Rudi: [REDACTED]. Same to you. 
Dr. Lin: [REDACTED]. What's it like in there? 


Dr. Rudi: Oh, Wei, it’s wonderful. Happy Hereafter was 
good stuff — if we don’t shut down NVS, the government 
probably will for us — but | still had a body. | could ignore 
it least when it worked the worst. Double H helped with 
that, it helped me grok that | was a thing apart from my 
body, even from my brain, but the pain worked against 
that. | don’t think | have a body in here. | certainly don’t 
have sensory input, though | feel like I’m hearing you. 


Dr. Lin: I’m typing on this end. You hear my voice? 


Dr. Rudi: No, | think | imagine the memory of your voice. 
I’m not really talking either. | think it’s just metaphors. 
They'll fade, the others tell me. 


Dr. Lin: Others? You’re able to communicate with other 
people in SCP-2968-B? 


Dr. Rudi: Yes. It’s much of what I’m doing. 
Enlightenment strips away many things, but curiosity is 
what | am. There’s many, many people here, and 
ordinary barriers of space and language are gone. 


Dr. Lin: Were they all also on Happy Hereafter when 
they died? 


Dr. Rudi: Mostly. But you'll find this interesting — there’s 
some monks and meditation fanatics here too. 


Dr. Lin: Other people who would have been enlightened, 
then. So is this a general afterlife for people in that state? 
I’m not an expert on Buddhism, but this doesn’t sound 
like reincarnation. 


Dr. Rudi: Maybe. Perhaps it’s Nirvana? I'll ask the 
monks. But | don’t think it’s that simple. NVS has been 
making double H for what, five years? 


Dr. Lin: Going on five, yes. They released SCP-2968-A 
in early 2011. 


Dr. Rudi: The longest ago anyone in here arrived was in 
2009. This place, SCP-2968-B — | think it’s something 
new. 


Dr. Lin: That’s very interesting. Or is something 
happening to the oldest souls that they don’t stay more 
than five or six years? 


Dr. Rudi: Could be, could be. Even without the internal 
voice and the external body, there’s still patterns of my 
life clinging to me. | think | may shed those, in time. 
Perhaps people have been coming here for thousands of 
years, but the oldest have found vistas | cannot yet see. 


Dr. Lin: Sam, will you be okay? 


Dr. Rudi: Yes. Yes, of course. | feel clear. Even when 
I’m talking to you, there’s a silence, an emptiness... This 
probably doesn’t sound too good, but Wei, I’m free. | 
don't have that constant chatter in my skull anymore — | 
don’t have a skull — I’m just myself, here, wherever here 
is, and now. I’m free, I’m at peace, and I’m so happy. | 
could go on this way forever. And | think | will. 


Dr. Lin: | understand. But if anything changes, if 
boredom becomes a factor, tell me. | will contact you 
again. 


Dr. Rudi: Wei, | know that we can’t let this go on — 
we're the Foundation, and this is clearly anomalous, 
however good it may be. Though please, try meditation. 
If that can get you to the same state I’ve been in, you 
could come by this without the, uh, using anomalous 
drugs and dying parts. And if this is truly the afterlife for 


the enlightened and not something NVS somehow built? 
Wei, you could join me! 


Incident 2968-4: On November 22, 2014 at 1:25 PM GMT, 
Foundation agents successfully raided and shut down Natural Vision 
Supplements. See Operation Report 2968-3 for further details. 
Relevantly, agents succeeded in establishing a communications 
blackout prior to the raid, and no messages were believed to have 
been transmitted, including through SCP-2968-C. 


At 4:13 PM GMT, Extranormal Event 2014-505 was filed, reporting a 
sizable explosion on the far side of the moon, and what observers 
on the Foundation moonbase described as a large conical object 
covered in lights accelerating rapidly away from the surface. No 
connection to SCP-2968 was realized until Interview 2968-10, 
conducted shortly after on November 22 at 4:30 PM GMT. 


Interview 2968-10: 


Interviewer: Dr. Wei Lin 
Subject: Dr. Samuel Rudi (deceased) 


Dr. Lin: Hello, Sam. We did it. Natural Vision has been 
shuttered. Let’s see if more people join you in there. 


Dr. Lin: Oh, right. [REDACTED]. 
Dr. Lin: Sam? 


Dr. Rudi: And as proof it’s me, [REDACTED]. That’s 
good. 


Dr. Rudi: I’m here. And feeling even better than last 
week. 


Dr. Lin: You’re responding slower than in our previous 
conversations. | don’t think anything happened during 
the raid that should cause that. Are you distracted in 
there? 


Dr. Rudi: Odd. I’m not aware of anything. You do seem 
delayed. 


Dr. Lin: Okay, simple test. Respond with a really short 
message as soon as you see this. 


Dr. Rudi: Peace 
Dr. Lin: Ten seconds. 


Dr. Rudi: | sent that immediately. Time is funny here, 
without a heartbeat or external reference, but I’d know. Is 
there something slowing down the connection? 


Dr. Lin: Sam... | have a worrying thought. What if 
SCP-2968-B is a physical location and it’s moving further 
away? We know that SCP-2968-C is like a satellite dish, 
what if that literally is what it is? 


Dr. Rudi: | have a thought, Wei. Could this be speed of 
light delay? 


Dr. Rudi: Just got your message. Hah. | guess from our 
respective frames of reference, we both had the idea 
first. 


Dr. Lin: This wasn’t what | thought would happen. | 
talked you into this 


Dr. Lin: Sam, I’m sorry. 
Dr. Rudi: I’m okay. I’m beyond fear. 


Dr. Lin: No your not! | don’t know where you’re going. 
Your body may be in Fernwood but the part of you that 
matters can still have 


Dr. Lin: | don’t want to speculate. This is the Foundation. 
I’ve seen enough horrors to know that you’re not dead 
enough to be safe. 


Dr. Rudi: I’m not beyond danger, perhaps. But fear, 
suffering? Those are tricks of the narrative, and I’m free 
of that. Scan the sky for me, find me, but I'll be okay. 


Dr. Rudi: Wei, let’s do the time thing again. | can wait as 
long as it takes. 


Dr. Lin: Please respond 
Dr. Rudi: Promptly! 
Dr. Lin: 38 seconds. 


Dr. Lin: | was the one who pushed for a researcher to 
taek the plunge. We wouldn't be able to control a D after 
death. After the tapes, the first questionings | thought 
these were just people who found something. | have a 
report titled after that LZ song, if you can believe it. Sam, 
you were dying. | thought | could save you. 


Dr. Lin: Not damn you. 
Dr. Rudi: Wei, you did. 


Dr. Rudi: No. | am better than ever. | am calm, | want 
nothing, | have the peace | never had on Earth. Whether 
it's the Happy Hereafter or the bodilessness of this place, 
| am all and only my truest self. Thank you. 


Dr. Rudi: We may not be able to talk for much longer. 
The delay, and the signal may decohere. 2968-C isn’t 
too different from regular technology. 


Dr. Lin: Sam, I'll miss you. When | spoke at your funeral, 
| didn’t think you were gone. | was smiling inside when | 
said you'd gone to a better place. | don’t know where 
you're going now. Please be well. Please. 


Dr. Rudi: Here’s an immediate response. 
Dr. Lin: Five minutes. You're almost to Mars. 


Dr. Lin: There was report of something launching from 
the moon. | guess that’s you. 


Dr. Lin: Sam? 


Dr. Lin: Goodbye 


Over the course of several hours after this exchange, the following 
messages were received by SCP-2968-C. Transmission quality had 
degraded, but they are believed to be the final messages from Dr. 
Samuel Rudi. 


Dr. Rudi: Some of the others have fallen silent. 
Dr. Rudi: Wei, | think we’re rocket fuel. 


Dr. Rudi: Please don't be afraid. I’m not. 


SCP-2969: In Your Own Words 


Item #: SCP-2969 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2969 is held within a 
sealed humanoid containment chamber, located within Site-77's 
sub-basement levels. No subjects should come within 800 meters of 
SCP-2969's containment chamber. The chamber is monitored at all 
times with remote surveillance. A radio link exists between the 
chamber and the perimeter. There is no lighting within the 
containment chamber, and SCP-2969 should be blindfolded at all 
times. 


Once per day, a research staff member should read SCP-2969 a 
literary passage detailing a murder, via the radio. This genre has 
been determined to be the most effective out of all tested. There is 
to be a minimum of repetitious vocabulary between stories. 


In the event of a containment breach, these stories will be read over 
the site PA system. This genre and methodology have been 
selected to ensure SCP-2969's voluntary cooperation with site 
personnel. A complete record of all stories read to SCP-2969 has 
been stored in Site-77's non-anomalous documentation wing. In the 
event that SCP-2969 exits containment, these records will be 
automatically sealed to prevent SCP-2969 from accessing them. 
Currently, all hard copies of SCP-2969's stories are being 
transcribed to an online database, for ease of use. 


Description: SCP-2969 is a monochromatic male humanoid. It does 
not eat or sleep, and spends the majority of its time in containment 
sitting in the center of its containment chamber. SCP-2969 is 
capable of speaking American English, but does not normally 
communicate with personnel. 


When SCP-2969 comprehends language, whether by reading it or 


SCP-355: The Serrated Lawn 


Item #: SCP-355 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: All specimens of SCP-355 are 
to be kept in a 5 metre by 5 metre plot of ground in a small terrarium 
in Site 19 and watered daily. This section is to be kept with minimal 
air movement to prevent accidental release of seeds, and provided 
with Standard Atmospheric Mixture #14. Dim, red light is to be 
maintained in the room. Access to the room is to be granted by Dr. 
Fieswell, and tests are to be performed under his supervision. All 
visitors are required to wear a thick-soled environment suit for the 
duration of the visit. The entrance to the room is to be secured with 
an airlock and fan system to prevent the accidental release of 
seeds. 


Description: SCP-355 is an unknown species indistinguishable to 
the naked eye from ordinary grass, but its nearest known genetic 
relation is the mahogany taxon. A hollow core of cellulose and 
buckminsterfullerene runs through the center of each blade to 
maintain the grass’ vertical structure, and each vein in the leaf is 
sheathed in a similar core, resulting in an unusually inflexible grass, 
sharp enough on the outside to pierce light wood and some plastics. 
The main blade performs photosynthesis and absorbs atmospheric 
nutrients as usual. Root structure is unusually deep for a short plant, 
but otherwise normal. 


However, the species seems to have developed in a low-energy 
environment, as photosynthetic rates under standard Earth 
atmospheric conditions are inordinately high and accelerate the 
species' reproductive cycle, causing rapid generation and dispersal 
of grass seed (each cycle occurring approximately once every two 
weeks). This hypothesis is supported by the passive carnivorism, 
similar to that of the sundew or cobra lily (also from environments 
low in nutrition). Any creature with insufficiently armored feet that 


by being read to, it becomes impossible for any human within a 
limited range around SCP-2969 to use the vocabulary it 
comprehended. Affected subjects use similes, improper grammar, 
and copious usage of hand motions to communicate, if 
communication is still possible. The SCP-2969 effect lasts for 
approximately 70 hours, and affect an approximate radius of 
650-750 meters. 


When reading affected language, subjects always become 
immediately distracted before they can read, or simply display 
apathy towards the writing. If questioned, subjects claim to want to 
read, but being unable to.1