Initial hypotheses regarding the object's nature were defining it as 
something akin to a miniature black hole. However, primary analysis 
disproved this point of view and demonstrated the true nature of the 
anomaly. Several methods of containment and/or neutralization, 
such as [DATA EXPUNGED] had been applied unsuccessfully, and 
were followed by a proposal to use “WeiBschatten’s paradox” in 
order to neutralize the object. This attempt was a partial success. 
Neutralization was not achieved; however, it was discovered that the 
paradox’s carrier was not susceptible to the object’s effect, which 
allowed the Foundation to capture SCP-2470 after several 
unsuccessful attempts and to develop the current containment 
protocols. Total losses throughout the whole operation amount to 
employees. 


Excerpt from Dr. __'s report: 


There was a remarkable episode during one of the first 
attempts of neutralization, when, at the suggestion of 
agent , a mirror was placed within the object’s field 
of view. It seemed logical that, after seeing its own 
reflection, the object would neutralize itself. However, 
though the other things reflected in the mirror were 
subjected to its effect to the full, the object itself did not 
undergo any changes. Instead, it destroyed the mirror, 
although this action took it 12 seconds more than it 
usually took for items of similar scale. Also, it is obvious 
that the object has not been self-destructing due to self- 
awareness for years already. This can be rationalized 
by one of the following hypotheses: 


¢ the object is either able to apply its effects 
selectively or is passively non-susceptible to them; 

¢ the object is either unable to perceive itself, or is 
avoiding that; 

¢ the object itself is uncognizable; 

¢ the cognizable nature of the object is actually the 
object itself; any sort of cognition results in the 
object's duplication, which equals to the object 
growing due to its indivisible nature. 


The last hypothesis [DATA EXPUNGED] for more 
precise control. 


According to the data gathered later on, a small village of which 
had been abandoned since at least the late 80s had been situated at 
the initial discovery site. However, a few years before the anomaly 
appeared, it had been occupied with members of an unidentified, 
radical pro-apocalyptic religious community. The evidence of their 
activity is sketchy and inconsistent, though it suggests that [DATA 
EXPUNGED]. 


Addendum 1: 
The O5- ’s memorandum to Area-141 personnel 


Dear colleagues! 
After the command of Area-141 informed me 


descent. DNA samples and medical tests indicate SCP-273 
conforms to human normal in all other respects, despite the 
subject's abnormalities. SCP-273 feels no need to eat or drink, but is 
perfectly capable of doing so. SCP-273 has generally shown willing 
compliance and cooperation with the Foundation's containment and 
requests. 


SCP-273 suffers from what it describes as a "hunger", which 
requires regular feeding every 12 hours. This hunger satiates itself 
through a form of remote combustion. This produces no visible 
flames, instead oxidizing the subject from the outside in until 
reduced to a fine white ash. Metals are not consumed, except under 
special circumstances (see Incident Report 273-03). 


When tested, the hunger demonstrates a preference for meat over 
other organic matter, especially live human subjects. SCP-273 
exhibits no signs of conscious control over its satiation, and 
becomes upset upon consuming live animals. In response to testing 
with D-class personnel, SCP-273 screamed at obse[DATA 
EXPUNGED}Jsed into the corner of its private enclosure and refused 
to enter the front partition for 12 hours. 


Addendum 273-01: In the event of SCP-273's death, the body 
becomes the center of a large conflagration, marked by a central 
pillar of approximately one meter in width and extending far 
upwards. After the initial flames subside, all that remains of 
SCP-273's body is a pile of white ash, with a corona of faint blue 
flame. The flame is not extinguishable through oxygen deprivation 
and requires no fuel. 


Over the course of several hours, SCP-273's body slowly reforms 
from the ash pile by consuming any source of raw material nearby, 
including the surrounding air. In this state, slow consumption of 
inorganic material has been observed. The new body resembles the 
old in all ways, with no signs of injury or illness. When SCP-273's 
body is completely reformed, it awakens, with no memory of events 
after its recent death. 


Incident Report 273-01 
Date: / / 
Location: [DATA EXPUNGED] 


of certain popular perceptions among your 
community, | saw it right to explain certain 
particularities regarding our policy on 
SCP-2470. 


Yes, this object is exactly as dangerous as you 
were told or, probably, even more. Thus far 
Our only salvation was the fact that the 
embryonic state of its mind cannot 
comprehend many of the things we consider 
obvious: that air is not nothingness and exists 
not just when it feels a breeze, that Earth isa 
celestial body of a finite size, that the Sun is 
not a flat shining spot on the horizon, that 
people, despite how different they are, all 
represent humankind as a whole, and so on. 


Yes, it is essential to keep the object in 
complete isolation and to avert any 
transmission of the most insignificant 
information at any cost. It learns very fast and 
we can never be sure which grain of 
knowledge it lacks to be given a nudge to the 
ideas of space, time, infinity and universe. 


Yes, it is both difficult and dangerous to 
contain such an object, and yes, we do 
possess a procedure of its neutralization. Why 
are we not engaging it? 


The reason is because the containment itself 
is of a huge strategic value to us. The thing is, 
according to research on this subject, 
simultaneous occurrence of two ZK-class 
scenarios is fundamentally impossible. 
Therefore, as long as one of them is being 
contained, we guarantee that the others, which 
might not be so easily controlled anyhow, will 
not happen. 


In fact, we were very lucky that this object took 


a form that can be contained at acceptable 
cost, so it would not be sensible to lose such 
opportunity. Therefore, containment will be 
carried out as long as we can manage, with 
neutralization being planned only for such an 
extreme case when the object's direct threat 
will be big enough to negate all of our 
prospects of carrying this policy out in the 
future, along with the future itself. 


Through thick and thin you have to know that 
your work guarantees humanity's continued 
existence. Treat it properly. 


Secure. Contain. Protect. 
Sincerely yours, O5- . 
Addendum 2: 
The list of enactors and the methodology for procedure of the object's 


The procedure is to be performed by two (2) subjects 
possessing confirmed telepathic abilities rated at no less 
than 9 points onthe _ scale, with a satisfactory result 
for 2470-qt spatial awareness test, no history of earlier 
exposure and no impairments (such as color-blindness) 
that affect visual and color perception. In case the list is 
down to 30 positions or less for whatever reason, use of 
SCP-_ for development of telepathic abilities in suitable 
candidates is authorized for the purpose of replenishing 
the list. As of today _ individuals are on the list, namely: 


[DATA EXPUNGED] 


Immediately after protocol 2470-Beta is engaged, there 
is a preliminary measure that consists of building an 
additional shell according to the requirements for inner 
shell breach scenarios. 


The executors must be kept in ignorance of the true 


purpose of the Area; a cover story of it being a telepathy 
research center and the process being a test of their 
abilities is to be adhered to. Additionally the subjects 
must not know about each other’s existence; violation of 
this condition is grounds for immediate termination and a 
selection of new candidates. 


The neutralization procedure is performed using an 
adapted version of “Wei®schatten’s paradox”, divided 
into two subcomponents, both safe to be perceived 
separately. The subjects’ task is to memorize one of the 
subcomponents and to implant it synchronously into the 
mind of the entity, which is located in the center of the 
shell, demonstrated to them using live transmission. The 
active 2470-c telepathy suppression device is to be 
switched off five (5) seconds before the subjects are 
authorized to act, and should be kept offline for at least 
15 but no more than 25 seconds. Trial runs for this 
procedure are conducted at the on-site training complex 
using a Class D test subject; at least three successful 
trial runs in Succession are required before the 
performers are cleared for work. When taking part in the 
actual procedure, the subjects must not know it is not a 
trial run. 


After the procedure is performed, the first inspection is 
conducted by switching off the the inner shell power for 
30 (thirty) minutes. In case the inner shell shows no 
change in its electrical performance and has no other 
signs of structural damage, the inspection is considered 
passed. The second inspection is conducted visually, by 
means of employees entering the central shell wearing 
protective suits with the spatial image filtration system 
turned off. If the procedure is successful, the shell should 
not have anything inside. 


Addendum 3: document 2470-x. 
Medical staff only. 


This document is intended for the medical staff of Area 


147 only. Divulgence of any details contained herein is to 
result in termination. Any other employee displaying 
knowledge of the contents of this document is to be 
(aside from an appropriate disciplinary action) treated 
with an A-class amnestic and transferred to another 
Foundation facility. 


The medical staff of Area 141 are to pay extra attention 
to psychological health assessment of employees during 
periodical personnel surveys. Aside from disorders that 
are natural for conditions of strenuous work, special 
effort must be put into discovering the following complex 
of symptoms: 


* repetitive dreams featuring an abstract pulsing and 
growing black mass, identified as SCP-2470 by the 
examinee; 

total lack of any dreams soon thereafter (in less 
than a week); 

flattening of affects, progressive indifference to 
surroundings, and reactions becoming mechanical; 
repeating episodes in which the examinee looks at 
a common everyday object for a long time with an 
uncommon curiosity. 


A lack of any discernible dreams lasting for two weeks is 
considered a sufficient warrant for a suspension and 
quarantine assessment. The quarantine implicates a 
termination of any forms of communication with any 
personnel not involved in the process of assessment. 


To ensure reliable diagnosis, a trust relationship with the 
personnel is to be set and maintained. It is 
recommended to present the practice of regular 
discussions of dreams as a preliminary phase of 
psychological survey, aimed at distraction from the 
current situation and relaxation. The keen interest in 
nightmares can be explained as a search for hidden 
reasons for nervousness and analysis of suppressed 
fears. 


The aforementioned diagnosis should be given top 
priority for personnel involved in procedures taking place 
inside the containment volume and central shells, and 
especially for those who spent unscheduled time inside 
for whatever reasons. The latter are to be quarantined 
immediately and thoroughly examined for no less than 
two weeks. Everyone who spent more than an hour and 
a half inside the outer shell or more than an hour inside 
the inner shell are to be considered to fail the inspection, 
regardless of observed state. 


All diagnosed cases are to be processed as soon as 
possible. Employees with diagnosed symptoms are to be 
put in an artificial coma under pretense of an insignificant 
surgical intervention, given two complete cycles of D- 
class amnestic treatment, and subsequently euthanized 
by a neurotoxin injection and cremated. The rest of 
personnel are to be given a cover story implicating that 
the employee is dismissed for medical reasons and 
transferred to another Foundation facility. 


You will receive the instructions on covering the above- 
referenced activity from your ISD case officers. 


Footnotes 

1. polyhedron with 20 faces 

2. destruction of the phenomenon of quantum entaglement 

3. a code name; used as a mean of suppression of [REDACTED]. 
4. «a cognoscitive quantum», a quasiparticle, introduced in the 
theory of [REDACTED] as an elementary particle, a model mind 
mediator 

5. a Russian government agency charged primarily with the aerial 
management of forest fires 


« SCP-2469 | SCP-2470 | SCP-2471 » 


SCP-2471: That's the way the cookie crumbles. 


Item #: SCP-2471 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: The bulk of SCP-2471 is stored 
in the refrigerated containment for anomalous food in Site-1 7. 
Requests for samples must be submitted to Lead Researcher Dr. 
Califano. 


Instance SCP-2471-B is to be kept under camera surveillance in 
refrigerated containment and checked daily for changes. 


Description: SCP-2471 comprises a collection of five cases of 
fortune cookies. Each case contains 350 individually wrapped 
cookies, termed instances of SCP-2471, with the exception of one 
case, in which 10 instances were consumed prior to recovery and 15 
instances used in testing. The wrappers depict a caricature of a 
meditating Buddhist monk. The cases list the manufacturer as 
Sugarcomb Confectionery. 


As with regular fortune cookies, instances of SCP-2471 are made of 
wheat flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame oil. Each is folded to contain 
a single strip of paper. The reverse of the paper contains pre-printed 
advertisements and a "Lucky Numbers" section. Once the instance 
is cracked open, the obverse of the paper contains a single 
aphorism or statement of wisdom, tailored to be applicable to the 
subject's current situation. Fiber optic cameras inserted into the 
instance show that the paper obverse remains blank while the 
instance is intact. To date, no actual prediction has been made by 
an instance of SCP-2471. 


No anomalous effects have been observed from consumption of 
instances by subjects. 


Recovery Log: SCP-2471 was recovered from the Site-17 


cafeteria, where they were planned to be distributed during lunch on 
28 January, 2017. Upon consumption of the first instance by Junior 
Researcher Pawlukojc, she noted the first message ("About time | 
got out of that cookie.") and examined the source of the cookies. As 
Sugarcomb Confectionery is a known Group of Interest to the 
Foundation, procurement paperwork was examined. An invoice for 
the same number of cookies from Site-17's normal food supplier 
was found, but product was never delivered on the invoice. A 
second invoice for SCP-2471 with a value of $0.00 was discovered 
to had been spontaneously generated in its place and arrived with 
supplier's regular shipment. The following note was found on the 
invoice: 


We thank you for your business. We would not be where 
we are today if you hadn't gone through so many 
puppies with such innovation. Since you enjoy death so 
much, these cookies should give you hours of wondrous 
contemplation. 


All unconsumed instances were gathered and contained on site. 
Testing Log: 


Based on the retrieved responses of activated instances, the 
following testing protocol was constructed: 


* A list of questions is prepared beforehand. 

* The researcher concentrates on a single question and recites 
it aloud. 

¢ The researcher activates an instance of SCP-2471 and 
recovers the paper. 

¢ The paper's output is recorded. 


During initial testing, Junior Researcher Pawlukojc deviated from the 
question list. Results are below: