An ovoid cavity, approximately three meters long and one meter 
deep, exists at the center of the dorsal side of SCP-3187’s shell. 
The bottom of the cavity is lined with a mucous membrane and 
covered in finger-like protrusions, each approximately 6 mm in 
length and 1 mm in diameter. The interior of each protrusion is 
composed of nervous tissue. When a human being, designated 
SCP-3187-1, comes into direct contact with these protrusions, they 
rapidly fuse with the human tissue, beginning to provide nutrition 
and forming a connection between SCP-3187-1 and SCP-3187’s 
nervous systems. If a sufficient number of protrusions are 
connected, it becomes extremely difficult to remove SCP-3187-1 
without causing fatal injury. SCP-3187-1 has a normal lifespan; 
when it dies, the protrusions retract from its body. When submerged 
underwater, the ovoid cavity fills with a breathable, highly viscous 
liquid, the surface of which hardens to seal the cavity, thereby 
protecting SCP-3187-1. 


Currently, SCP-3187-1 is Moses Kanae, former resident of Kailua, 
Hawaii. Foundation background searches of SCP-3187-1 have 
discovered extensive involvement in the Hawaiian anomalous 
community. Approximately 80% of the tissue on its back is fused 
with SCP-3187. It claims to be able to re-experience events which 
have taken place in the lives of SCP-3187 and previous iterations of 
SCP-3187-1. 


Addendum-3187A: SCP-3187 was discovered by Foundation 
satellite imaging on / /2006. Agent Rezendes was dispatched 
via boat to intercept and landed successfully, moving inwards on 
SCP-3187’s shell until he discovered SCP-3187-1. SCP-3187-1 
possessed several watertight containers, which it stored with it 
inside its cavity. The contents of these containers included several 
laminated photographs, long-range communications devices, 
nautical maps, star navigation reference texts, and 23 notebooks. 


Agent Rezendes conducted an interview of SCP-3187-1 lasting 
approximately two hours. During the interview, Agent Rezendes 
examined the contents of SCP-3187-1’s notebooks and discovered 


that they contained transcriptions of Hawaiian chants, which 
SCP-3187-1 performed upon request. Full copies of these 
notebooks can be found in Document-3187- ; selected translations 
are provided below. 


+ Show Document-3187- Excerpts 


Notebook 1, Page 1 

The turtle has the line in its beak 

The line which draws La’ila’i and Ki’i! back to 
the ocean 

The turtle was the first crawler to meet the land 
First of the crawlers born of the night 

There is the line from the night to the day 
There is the gift from the ocean to the land 
The turtle was the ocean’s first gift to the land 
Vast is the ocean where the turtle swims 
Strange are the shores that it sees 

The turtle remembers the land it was given to 
La’ila’i and Ki’i remember the night 

The turtle has the line in its beak 


Notebook 6, Page 14 

Pimoe who escaped by his tailfin from Maui2 
Maui-a-ka-malo? 

Pimoe the fish who was a king and stirred the 
seas 

Whose daughter was Mahanauluehu, taken by 
Maui 

Sought a way to defeat Maui, his great foe 
Sought knowledge that only the great turtles 
had 

Ah, the chase when Pimoe found a turtle 
Chased it up the leeward islands and back 
Chased it to the farthest shores and to the 
deepest trench 

The turtle would not let Pimoe catch it 

The turtle swam up the Milky Way and to the 
moon 

Pimoe followed and met Hina 


Hina-hanaia-i-ka-malama® 
Who startled at the sight of Pimoe and crushed 
him underfoot 


Notebook 8, Page 7 

| have seen past Kahiki6 in yet stranger lands 
It is the land that catches the sun as it sets 

A chain of islands past which only gods dwell 
In the taro roots at the head of the turtle 

A sword from these lands is stuck 

How did it get stuck there? It fell 

In a great battle in those lands it fell 

The butterflies carried their sword to war 
Flying proudly above the clouds 

But they were strangled by those of the dirt 
The bamboo and the azure flower 

When the turtle passed below their fight 
They threw their sword away’ 


Notebook 12, Page 23 

As the world is born and crawls up the shore 
As the world grows and stands broad- 
shouldered and tall 

As the world dies it forgets 

The children of Papa and Wakea8 

The children on the islands Maui pulled 
together with his hook 

The children remembered through their 
tongues 

Their tongues fell out as the world died 
Where they dropped they sprouted steel and 
poison 

The land and the ocean fell apart as the world 
died 

And the ocean took back its gift 


+ Show Interview Excerpt 3187-2-34 


After SCP-3187-1 had performed the above chants, 
Agent Rezendes continued the interview. An excerpt is 
provided below. 


Interview Excerpt 3187-2-34 


Agent Rezendes was equipped with a video 
camera. The footage shows SCP-3187-1 lying 
in the ovoid cavity of SCP-3187. Its hair is long 
and tangled, its musculature is heavily 
atrophied, and a thin layer of a mucus-like 
residue from the liquid which fills the cavity 
covers its skin. 


Rezendes: My supervisors may have interest 
in freeing you. You’d spend your days with us, 
but better than this. Doesn't it get lonely here? 


SCP-3187-1: No, no. | am right where | need 
to be. And | have visitors. A family, my sister 
and niece. 


Rezendes: You did this to yourself willingly. 
Why? 


SCP-3187-1 points at its notebooks. 


SCP-3187-1: Because of what’s in there. 
Centuries ago, the greatest honor a kahuna 
could bestow upon a storyteller was that of 
riding these turtles. On one, a storyteller could 
hear the history of their kingdom as it was told 
by those who came before them. When the 
turtle passed Hawaii, a storyteller performed 
the chants they had learned to ensure that 
those who came after could hear them as well. 
And when they rode the turtle, the storyteller 
could also hear something more: a story 
transcending and connecting the millions of 
people the turtle remembered, a story of the 
Pacific itself. 


SCP-3187-1: Then our kingdom was ended. 
You know your history. The capitalists and 
plantation owners banned our language to 


prop up their Republic; white occultists 
supported them to stamp out our magic and 
install their own. You say that you protect, 
don’t you? 


Rezendes: That is our stated mission. 


SCP-3187-1: Ah, yes. Back then, they too said 
they wanted to protect. Truly, they meant to 
secure the occult front of the colonization 
effort. 


Rezendes: The occult front? 


SCP-3187-1: They had to break our spiritual 
hold on the islands. When they did, the 
Americans were free to build their military 
bases and resorts. Now our culture is a tourist 
attraction, and our magic is dead. You made 
my people forget. 


SCP-3187-1: The turtles disappeared with 
nobody left to remember them. My family was 
one of the few that did. 


SCP-3187-1: One day, when my sister and | 
were out on the water, we found this turtle. It 
let US approach. It knew our blood and our 
tongues, you see. Perhaps it was the other 
way around, and the turtle found us. My sister 
was afraid and wanted to go back. But |...ah, | 
knew that if we turned away, the turtle would 
not return. So | did what needed to be done. 
And | have ridden the turtle since. 


There is silence for approximately one minute. 


Rezendes: To tell the truth, | was playing coy, 
earlier. It doesn’t matter whether or not you 
consent to a procedure to remove you. 
Containment is containment. And if you and 


the turtle ran, we would catch you, eventually. 


SCP-3187-1: Is that what you will do, 
Foundation man? 


Rezendes: No. That would be interference, 
not containment. It isn’t our policy. 


SCP-3187-1: | see. 


Rezendes: Why do you think the turtle 
returned? A resurgence? 


SCP-3187-1 hums. 


SCP-3187-1: Let me ask you: if it was, what 
would the Foundation do? 


Rezendes: We'd watch you fight whoever 
came to stop you. And we’d clean up what's 
left. 


SCP-3187-1 laughs. 


SCP-3187-1: Call it whatever you want. | won’t 
give it a name. | only know this: my niece can 
speak Hawaiian as well as my great- 
grandmother. She’s memorizing the chants as 
well as | have. As long as the ocean lives, we 
won't forget. 


Afterword: SCP-3187 remained surfaced for 
another day before submerging. 


Footnotes 

1. In theKumulipo, an 18th-century Hawaiian religious chant, La’ila’i 
and Ki’i are two of the four original beings which are born into the 
day after the night. TheKumulipogives three alternate myths for the 
origin of humanity; that they are born from the relationship between 
La’ila’i and Ki’i is one of them. 

2. A trickster figure who appears consistently in Polynesian 
mythologies. 


3. Maui of the loincloth 

4. Hina is a matriarchal figure who takes various forms in relation to 
Maui, sometimes as his wife or his mother, and is often associated 
with the moon. 

5. Hina who worked in the moon 

6. While the term "Kahiki" is sometimes used in reference to a 
generic mythical land, it is believed to refer to Micronesia in this 
case. 

7. It is difficult to connect the events referred to in this chant with any 
in Polynesian culture or mythology. See Document-3187- for 
discussion as to possible connections. 

8. Wakea, a sky father, and Papa, an earth mother, are also 
considered to be the original progenitors of humanity. 


SCP-3188: This Man Must Die 


Item #: SCP-3188 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3188 is flagged for the 
following heightened containment protocols: 


¢ Potential CK-class reality restructuring catalyst 
¢ Infohazardous phenomenon 
¢ Related to one or more members of Overwatch Command 


Knowledge of the existence of SCP-3188 is restricted to personnel 
holding Level 5 security clearance and others who have been 
approved directly by a vote of Overwatch Command. All currently 
serving personnel formerly assigned to Project TRAILHEAD are 
restricted from participating in any activities of ancillary importance 
to the containment of SCP-3188. 


The full account of SCP-3188 has been subject to informational 
fragmentation. Database restrictions have been enacted to ensure 
that no individual receives more than approximately 15% of the 
relevant details of SCP-3188. Specified sections of the account of 
SCP-3188 have been keyed for access only to specific members of 
Overwatch Command. 


The records of Project TRAILHEAD have been expunged. Senior 
personnel associated with the project have been retired, and 
memories of remaining staff deemed to be critical to ongoing 
Foundation operations have been altered to remove knowledge of 
the project. Previous directives ordering research into waveform 
collapse alteration have been countermanded. No information 
concerning Project TRAILHEAD or the possibility of waveform 
collapse alteration is to be made available outside of Overwatch 
Command. 


Extant information on SCP-3188 is to be maintained solely as 
deemed necessary for the safety of remaining members of 
Overwatch Command. Further research into SCP-3188, especially 
attempts to establish a responsible party for SCP-3188 or otherwise 
impose overarching interpretations on the events thereof, is 
forbidden. 


Description: SCP-3188 is the murder of O5-9, occurring 27 April 
2018. Emergency informational protocols have revealed to the 
entirety of Overwatch Command that O5-9 was Helmut Roth, a 
former regional director of the Deutsche Bundesbank and an 
influential international financier controlling assets valued at 
approximately $25.8 billion at the time of his death. 


The following account of SCP-3188 has been approved for 
dissemination to cleared personnel in accordance with infohazard 
security protocols: 


05-9 was found dead by Austrian authorities on the 
morning of April 27, 2018, in the dining room of his 
residence in Vienna. Detectives are certain that a crime 
was committed. 


Addendum 3188.1 - Project TRAILHEAD 


As part of standard post-mortem procedures for a member of 
Overwatch Command, Foundation personnel were granted access 
to the entirety of O5-9's records upon the verification of his death. 
As part of this review process, researchers learned of the existence 
of Project TRAILHEAD, an extensive program utilizing a small 
number of high-level Foundation personnel and a series of outside 
parties under established blind contracting procedures. 


The purpose of TRAILHEAD appears to have been to design a 
sophisticated personal defense system for O5-9. Utilizing research! 
into the nature of quantum decoherence and the possibility of 
establishing passive control over the wavefunction affecting a 
specified number of pointer states in observed reality, Project 
TRAILHEAD ultimately established a limited degree of control 
around O5-9's place in this established plane of existence. 


commonly by inserting a long thin object, such as a pen, into 
their ears until the internal structure is destroyed. Towards the 
end of this phase subjects often experience catatonic 
episodes and begin to suffer from seizures. These are not 
apparently related to the telepathic abilities but rather due to 
swelling in the subject's neural tissues. 


Terminal stage: 28 days after exposure until death, typically 
32 days after exposure. Subjects slip into a coma and begin to 
suffer from persistent seizures caused by significant brain 
deformities. MRI scans taken at this stage confirm audio 
cortex is still processing vast quantities of data. 


Experiments with animals, including higher primates, confirm that 
SCP-405 is species specific. The vector for SCP-405 is the subject's 
final mental vocalisation, identified by most observers as a "Death 
Scream." This vocalisation occurs at the moment of death, 
regardless of cause, and has a range of at least 200 m, although the 
more advanced the disease the greater the range. Individuals who 
hear this telepathic signal are infected with SCP-405. 


Outbreaks of SCP-405 appear spontaneously; there have been at 
least _in recorded history. The ultimate cause of these outbreaks 
is unknown. The earliest believed SCP-405 outbreak was in the 
town of , a famous ghost town, in. The entire population was 
recorded to have died either by their own hands or at the hands of 
deranged residents. Written records retrieved from are 
consistent with the symptoms of SCP-405. The cause of SCP-405 
outbreaks is unknown, although 79% have been traced to some 
form of educational facility. Only 2 cases have occurred outside the 
continental United States. Outbreak occurred at , Canada, and 
Outbreak occurred in , Wales. 


Sufferers in the Primary to early Escalation stages of SCP-405 have 
been successfully treated with Treatment Protocol 405-Alpha. 
Subjects are administered twice the standard dose of Class D 
Amnestics and placed in a chemically induced coma for 3 days. This 
appears to reset brain activity to a pre-infection state and allow 
abnormal development to subside. Success rate is % with greater 
success in the early stages. No treatment for the later stages exists. 
For an examination of disease behaviour please see the Infected 


O5-9 and the Foundation personnel overseeing TRAILHEAD came 
to believe that the project was successful in establishing a state in 
the universal wavefunction in which O5-9 would only die as the 
result of a naturally-occurring, age-related illness. This was seen as 
a bulwark against the possibility of violent death or grievous 
incapacitation on the part of O5-9. Researchers appear to have 
been preparing to reveal the existence of TRAILHEAD to the rest of 
Overwatch Command at the time of O5-9's death, and evidence 
exists that the project was intended as a test case, to be 
implemented for other Foundation personnel deemed to be 
indispensable.