-09-21 27:- -:- -: There are planets filling 
the sky now. Dozens, hundreds. The gas 
giants are looming over the horizon. It’s hard 
to tell the moons from the worlds. They're so 
close... it's breathtaking. We should probably 
be afraid, but we aren't. | think we can go to 
them, if we want. | think we have to. There's 
nothing here for us anymore. Goodbye, my 
friends, | don’t think we'll be back. 


Footnotes 

1. The discipline of quantifying forces acting upon an object in 
equilibrium, typically used to examine or teach idealized versions of 
engineering problems. 

2. Site- was not otherwise damaged. All involved containment 
specialists were indefinitely reassigned to SCP-2477. 

3. 11% of the speed of light. 


« SCP-2476 | SCP-2477 | SCP-2478 » 


SCP-2478: Ordinary Japanese People 


Item #: SCP-2478 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: All live instances of SCP-2478 
are held in individual Type L humanoid containment cells at 
Biological Containment Area-519. Three deceased instances of 
SCP-2478 are to be held in Area-519 morgue. No personnel of self- 
acknowledged Japanese descent are to be in visible proximity with 
SCP-2478 instances, unless for approved testing. Approval may be 
sought from Project Head/2478. 


SCP-2478's freedom of religious practice is acknowledged under the 
Eugenio II Protocol. See Document 2478-Bu for necessary 
provisions w.r.t. SCP-2478's religious ceremonies. Personnel are to 
monitor religious ceremonies conducted by SCP-2478 instances. 


Description: SCP-2478 refers to an alternative phenotype of Homo 
sapiens sapiens (human). Distinctive physiological features include 
14 legs arranged around the lower torso, and 14 arms and seven 
heads scattered around the torso arbitrarily. Locomotion is possible 
through a combination of multi-legged movement in metachronal 
rhythm, muscular contraction of its lower torso and mucus secreted 
from underneath its body. Average height and mass are 2.8 m and 
400 kg respectively, while torso circumference is 1.5 m. SCP-2478 
instances uniformly demonstrate fluency in the Hida dialect of 
Japanese, and can comprehend Standard Japanese. 


A single SCP-2478 instance possesses seven sets of most internal 
organs (e.g. heart, lungs, stomach). However, only one brain exists 
for a given SCP-2478 instance. It is located along its torso and has 
an average mass of 10.5 kg. As such, a given SCP-2478 instance 
possesses a single consciousness and all seven mouths will speak 
in unison. Although male or female reproductive organs or a 
combination of both have been found in SCP-2478, they are non- 


functional. The number of reproductive organs in a given SCP-2478 
instance is consistently seven. 


SCP-2478 and images depicting it impose an anti-memetic effect on 
humans of Japanese descent (hereon referred to as 'subjects’). 
Subjects will ignore any sign of SCP-2478's anomalous physiology 
and perceive them as non-anomalous humans identified with 
gigantism. Subjects will consistently dismiss any evidence 
suggesting SCP-2478's anomalous nature. Non-Japanese 
individuals who have been made to believe they are of Japanese 
descent (e.g. falsified memories) are susceptible to this effect. 
Below is a translated excerpt by the Imperial Japanese 
Abnormal Matters Examination Agency (IJAMEA): 


For some platoons fighting in China, bayonets and 
katanas levitated on their will and surrounded the 
soldiers from __in the Hida Mountains.! They fought on 
our side and killed many Chinese. The ancestors of 
these men, we speculate, must be on our side. After all, 
the folk of | claimed lineage from the chaos of the 
Warring States. 


Subjects of partial Japanese descent (e.g. half-Japanese) 
experience this partial anti-memetic effect to a lesser degree. 
Subjects unaware of their Japanese descent (e.g. ignorance on the 
subject's part, amnesia, dementia) are unaffected by this anomalous 
effect, and fully recognise SCP-2478's physical appearance as non- 
human. 


The earliest known sightings of SCP-2478 were from eyewitness 
accounts in Dairen? since 1926, where they were deployed by the 
Kwantung Army. Documents from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) 
described SCP-2478 instances as soldiers conscripted from __, Gifu 
Prefecture under Japan's Conscription Law and denied any 
anomalous traits attributed to SCP-2478. Instead, IJA officials 
claimed they were non-anomalous humans with gigantism. 


Supplementary documents and personnel from Japan-based 
organisations such as the Bureau of Onmy63 and IJAMEA did not 
regard SCP-2478 to be anomalous. That being said, the Bureau of 
Onmyo did record an extra-normal event related to ‘Village. A 


24 hours. Once twelve SCP-274-2 specimens reside inside one 
SCP-274-1, further cases of SCP-274-2 will leave SCP-274-1 and 
find a new building to spray with SCP-274, while avoiding any 
people they may encounter. Once a building at least two kilometers 
away from another SCP-274-1 is found, the SCP-274-2 will spray 
SCP-274 onto the building until it has completely dehydrated itself of 
SCP-274, and dies, resulting in another instance of SCP-274-1. If 
left unchecked, it is estimated that SCP-274 could cover a large city 
within 20 days. 


Addendum-274: 
[+] SCP-274-1 Appearance Log: 


Date found: Appearance 

01/ /2001 SCP-274-1-1 is painted to 
resemble a large bus with 
the number _ onits side. 
The front of the bus has 
been replaced by a human 
like face, and the back is on 
fire. Bus patrons all look 
towards the front of the bus, 
and do not seem to react to 
the fire. 

04/ /2006 SCP-274-1-2 is painted to 
look as if it's crumbling 
apart. At the base, people 
are illustrated to be running 
away from SCP-274-1-2, 
and a face can be seen 
forming from the falling 
rubble. 

03/ /2010 SCP-274-1-3 depicts a 
beach with three sharks in 
the water, and several 
people running from the 
shore. This scene is 
illustrated behind a large, 
cartoon tiki statue, which 


translated excerpt of said event is as follows: 


On August Meiji 12,4 the etaS of in the Hida 
Mountains mysteriously vanished. Cause unknown, but 
there was little need to be concerned over the loss of 
gravediggers and butchers. Some days before, a foreign 
preacher was said to have entered .Whereabouts 
also unknown. Without the eta, —_is no longer an 
etamura.® 


That day onwards, _ was inhabited by another group of 
countrymen. They were unlike the eta, who previously 
dwelled in those lands. They were giants, standing taller 
than the men of America. But appearances are 
deceiving. These new residents embody the Yamato 
spirit as any fellow countryman would and are clearly 
worthy of being fellow subjects to His Imperial Majesty. 
They demonstrate great efficiency in the production of 
rice and rearing of livestock, truly exemplary of the 
nation. 


Initial attempts to acquire SCP-2478 instances were met with 

resistance from the Japanese government, condemning the 

Foundation's violation of the rights of the Empire's subjects. This 

was believed to be one of the contributing factors leading to the 

expulsion of all Foundation assets in the Japanese Empire on / 
/1932. 


During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese military and 
Foundation intelligence had reported SCP-2478 instances among 
IJA forces. IJA sources indicated that the entire SCP-2478 
population in Japan have volunteered for conscription, operating in 
the China-Burma-India theatre. Notably, SCP-2478 instances were 
not conscripted under the Youkai Battalion’ in IJAMEA sources. 


After Japan's surrender in 1945, the Japanese government 
permitted the relocation of the surviving SCP-2478 population in 
Japan to Area-519. A majority of text regarding the history of 
SCP-2478 was confiscated, although some remained 
unaccounted for. Since containment, seven live specimens of 
SCP-2478 have been held by the Foundation, all of which have 


served in the IIAMEA as enlistees. The remaining specimens 
(~50) were executed under charges of war crimes and autopsied, 
after which they have been cremated following one year of 
postmortem study. 


Addendum 2478-1: Interview Log 2478-01-1 
+ View Interview Log 2478-01-1 
Interviewer: Researcher James Chiang 
Interviewee: SCP-2478-01 (Bakatachi Wion) 


Foreword: The following interview is originally 
conducted in Japanese. 


<Begin Log> 


Researcher Chiang: How would | address 
you? 


SCP-2478-01: Bakatachi Wion, from _. Why 
do you keep us here, Chinese? 


Researcher Chiang: Bakatachi, we know 
what you are. Seven heads, fourteen arms and 
legs... hardly the average person. Yet the 
Japanese think of you as one- 


SCP-2478-01: We are an ordinary person! 
Only wish to be accepted as countrymen, but 
we were defiled, non-human. The Imperialists 
deny us that, as did the Shogun. For one of us 
is worth one-seventh of an ordinary person. 
We were cursed. 


Researcher Chiang: How did you end up like 
this? 


SCP-2478-01: We received a miracle from our 
bodhisattva, Wion.8 He came to our village 
and took pity on our plight. Praised the craft 


that our countrymen mocked, the parting of 
skin from flesh and feeding of the dead to the 
earth. Wion tore our flesh in groups of seven 
and remade us to become an acceptable 
Japanese person. 


Researcher Chiang: And how do you feel 
about it? 


SCP-2478-01: If we can be part of the in- 
group, nothing else matters. We will be the in- 
group for both this world and the next, so says 
Wion. 


Researcher Chiang: Excuse me. What do 
you mean by this world and the next? 


SCP-2478-01: Wion spoke of the True Pure 
Land that is to come, and that we could have a 
place in it for our shared practice. Until then, 
we have to get by the trials of this world. 
Surely he is Miroku.9 


Researcher Chiang: Do you know where is 
Wion now? 


SCP-2478-01: Wion returns to his throne, the 
womb of the deceased god. Wion will return 
within our sevenfold lifetimes, bearing his 
intolerable force upon all. 


<End Log> 


Addendum 2478-2: The Wion Matsuri is a traditional festival 
celebrated by SCP-2478 instances during late August, observed 
solely by them. A distinctive ritual of Wion Matsuri is the skinning of 
animal carcasses. The skin would be made into leather and placed 
as decorations before a statue representing Wion. At the conclusion 
of Wion Matsuri, the skin, flesh and bones used would be buried into 
a single grave. 


Due to the non-anomalous nature of Wion Matsuri, the O5 Council 
has approved for the facilitation of SCP-2478 instances’ practice of 
the festival to maintain long-term compliance of their containment. 


+ Level 4/2478 Clearance Required 


Due to its non-anomalous nature and superficial 
resemblance to Sarkic rites, observation of 
SCP-2478's religious ceremonies will be permitted to 
gather additional information on Sarkic ideology. 
However, if there is concrete evidence that these 
religious ceremonies possess anomalous side-effects, 
abort said ceremonies and deny future incidents. 


Footnotes 

1. This statement refers to SCP-2478 instances, who were known to 
hold weapons on all fourteen hands during battle. 

2. Currently Dalian, Liaoning Province, China. 

3. Sometimes mistranslated in European languages as the 'Holy 
Emperor's Council on Unearthly Matters’, due to mistranslation of 
the wordTennd(‘heavenly sovereign’) as 'Holy Emperor’. Despite 
that,some documentsstill utilise the term 'Holy Emperor's Council on 
Unearthly Matters’. 

4. Equivalent to 1879 CE. 

5. Also referred to as the burakumin; an outcast group at the bottom 
of the Japanese social order that has historically been the victim of 
severe discrimination and ostracism. 

6. "Eta village". 

7. An IJA battalion which comprises entirely of anomalous entities. 
8. Said figure has no known parallel in Shinto, Japanese Buddhist, 
Ryukyuan or Ainu pantheons. 

9. Japanese name for Maitreya, a bodhisattva who will appear on 
Earth in the future, achieve complete enlightenment, and teach the 
pure dharma. 


« SCP-2477 | SCP-2478 | SCP-2479 » 


SCP-2479: Animaland! 


Item #: SCP-2479 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: The two major roads leading to 
and from SCP-2479 are to be permanently roadblocked by 
Foundation personnel. Non-Foundation vehicles from Sherwood, 
Oregon that attempt to travel along these roads are to be withheld 
from approaching SCP-2479. Any non-Foundation vehicles passing 
the roadblock will be regarded as trespassers. 


All public knowledge of SCP-2479 prior to Foundation acquisition is 
to be eradicated by Foundation media outlets and relevant 
censorship protocols!. The area around SCP-2479 is to be kept in a 
perpetual state of lockdown under the guise of a demolition 
organisation preparing for the demolition of a miscellaneous 
abandoned theme park. 


Small containment cells are to be constructed alongside 
SCP-2479-1 through -16 to facilitate the containment of SCP-2479-A 
instances. Site-2479 is to be established a few kilometers from 
SCP-2479's active zone and used for research and surveillance. 


The area around SCP-2479 is to be monitored at all times by 
Foundation personnel. Any unauthorised personnel found in the 
vicinity of SCP-2479 or Site-2479 are to be captured and detained 
as quickly as possible so as to prevent a possible classified 
information breach. SCP-2479-A instances are to be similarly 
monitored and prevented from leaving SCP-2479's active zone 
under any circumstances. 


Outside of testing, no personnel should enter SCP-2479's active 
zone at any time without permission from Site Director 


Description: SCP-2479 is a defunct amusement park consisting of 


an area of roughly 128 acres (52 ha) located several miles east of 
Sherwood, Oregon. Two (2) major roads which lead to and from the 
parking lot of SCP-2479 serve as the only means of direct entry or 
exit, and a series of ridged concrete walls along the width and 
breadth of SCP-2479's active zone restrict access unless physically 
scaled. SCP-2479 is covered in thick shrubbery and vegetation as a 
result of long-term abandonment. 


At the time of Foundation procurement, SCP-2479 was marked on 
public maps and road signs as "Animal Land Amusement Park". The 
original park was commissioned to be built by , but 
was abandoned shortly after its initial opening for currently unknown 
reasons. 


As of recovery on 11/05/ , SCP-2479 possesses sixteen generic 
amusement park attractions: 


* four roller coasters, each styled after a unique farm animal 
(SCP-2479-1 through -4). 

« two bumper cars tracks with cars resembling dogs and cats 
(SCP-2479-5 and SCP-2479-6 respectively). 

¢ two carousels with horse statues (SCP-2479-7 and 
SCP-2479-8). 

* an octopus ride (SCP-2479-9). 

* two drop towers styled after various species of birds 
(SCP-2479-10 and SCP-2479-11). 

* achair swing ride modeled after a starfish (SCP-2479-12). 

a Ferris wheel marked with fox patterns (SCP-2479-13). 

two "fun slides" styled after caterpillars and butterflies 

(SCP-2479-14 and SCP-2479-15 respectively). 

¢ a"House of Horrors" styled after arachnids of various species 
(SCP-2479-16). 


SCP-2479's only entrance is a large gateway located in the northern 
end of the parking lot. The gate is accompanied by a smaller ticket 
booth, a large storage shed and a series of green ropes designating 
a space for visitors to queue. Upon entry, a large sign overhead 
reads "Animaland!"2 and several statues of cartoon humanoid 
animals line a walkway that leads through SCP-2479's active zone. 
An SCP-2479-A instance is always present in the ticket booth.