terrorist organization, and is primarily active in Southern 
California and Nevada. Possible member of the secretive 


different subject. The contents and date of the report change when 
more than one day has elapsed since the previous viewing event but 
the subject usually is the same for a given reader. 


The report is meticulous in detailing the purported activities of the 
subject for the previous three days. Without fail, the reader of the 
report finds the details given to be highly persuasive and hugely 
damaging to the professional and personal reputation of the subject. 
After reading the report, readers state that their opinion of the 
subject is markedly worse. In most cases the reader is angered by 
the alleged activities, frequently to the point of aggressive behavior. 
Upon investigation, it is found that the events and actions described 
by the report did not actually occur. Knowing that the report is false 
does not relieve the reader's state of anger. 


The document may be photocopied, in which case the copy contains 
the information which was read by the person making the copy. The 
photocopy text is static and therefore can be used to track the 
disinformation provided by the document. Considering that no 
negative information from the report has yet been confirmed by later 
investigation, making a record of libelous disinformation is not 
considered useful. Video footage of the document produces a blur 
where the text should be. 


Provenance: Further analysis shows that SCP-2533 is printed on 
SCP Foundation letterhead by a laserjet printer consistent with the 
printers in Site 19 offices. The weight and color of the paper are 
identical to that in use at Site 19. No file with keywords matching 
those in the document has been found on any of the office 
computers or local network. At this time it is undetermined whether 
the document was printed at Site 19 or elsewhere. 


Security footage of Dr. Ayers' office shows a person of 
indeterminate gender, medium height with short dark hair 
approaching the secretary's desk and placing the report at 12:53 pm 
on 03/18/20 . No one else is within this camera's field of view. 
Attempts to find the delivery person on other security camera 
recordings within the building failed. A set of fingerprints retrieved 
from the document, presumed those of the delivery person, does not 
match any site personnel. One partial print match was found through 
Interpol records for a suspect in the arson of a suspected 


[REDACTED] safehouse in Barcelona, Spain. Tracking efforts are 
ongoing. 


Given the seemingly intentional manner in which 
SCP-2533 was placed, we should assume that this 
object was created and introduced in an effort to sow 
discord among Foundation staff. All senior personnel 
should be made aware of the existence of SCP-2533 
and instructed to be alert for new instances. 


— Dr Morgan Ayers. 


Addendum 2533-01: Interview with Dr. Morgan Ayers. Dr. Ayers 
discovered SCP-2533 in his office on 03/18/20 . After reading the 
document and discussing its contents with his secretary, he began 
to understand its memetic behavior. 


+ Interview with Dr. Ayers 


Interviewed: Dr. Morgan Ayers, Senior 
Observer, Site 19 


Interviewer: Dr. Phillip Sampson, Senior 
Researcher, Site 19. 


<Begin Log, 10:32am 03/19/20 > 


Dr. Sampson: Dr. Ayers, please tell me how 
you found SCP-2533. 


Dr. Ayers: It was sitting in my inbox on my 
desk when | came back from a meeting around 
two o'clock yesterday. 


Dr. Sampson: Do you know where it came 
from? 


Dr. Ayers: My secretary, Marla, found it on her 
desk when she returned from lunch yesterday. 
She reviewed it and put on my desk. It was 
signed by Marcus Teller, deputy chief of 
security here at Site 19. When | called him 
later in the day, he said he hadn't sent the 
document and also hadn't been running 
surveillance on anyone. 


Dr. Sampson: So you read it. What did the 
document say? 


Dr. Ayers: It was a report on the activities of 


Researcher for the last three days. As | 
read it, | got more and more furious, because it 
seemed that was destroying resources 


and flagrantly endangering the entire site. And 
then the son of a bitch crashed my car. 


At this point in the interview Dr. Ayers is 
noticeably agitated. He is clenching his fists 
and his face is red. 


Dr. Sampson: OK, slow down a minute. You 
know Researcher didn't actually do that, 
right? He didn't steal your car and crash it. 


Dr. Ayers: <Takes a breath.> Yes, | know. 
<Pauses.> It just seemed to make sense. He 
and | have never gotten along, and now 
everything in this report seemed to confirm the 
worst about this guy that | already didn't like. 


Dr. Sampson: What exactly did the report say 
he had done? 


Dr. Ayers: First and most importantly, he — 
sorry, the document alleged he breached 
containment of SCP- on two different 
occasions just in the past three days. And that 
morning he scheduled 14 class D personnel 


for termination for no apparent reason. And he 
totalled my fucking car! Do you know how 
much | paid to get that thing restored? 


Dr. Ayers’ voice rises until he is shouting and 
begins to pound the table with his fist to 
punctuate his shouts. Interviewer attempts to 
calm him with some success. 


Dr. Sampson: Dr. Dr! <Raises his voice.> Dr. 
Ayers! Morgan! Calm down! 


Dr. Ayers appears to regain control of himself. 
His shoulders slump; he takes a very long 
breath. 


Dr. Ayers: Shit. | know, | know. 


Dr. Sampson: Let's move on. Do you need 
something to drink? 


Dr. Ayers: No; | just want to finish this. 


Dr. Sampson: Alright. What did you do after 
reading this document? 


Dr. Ayers: | was about to call the bastard 
down and fire him on the spot and then call the 
police. Then Marla came in to ask why | was 
so upset. | guess | got a bit loud yesterday too. 
| just pointed to the report. Then she said... 


Dr. Sampson: What? 


Dr. Ayers: |'m an administrator now, I'm not 
used to being exposed to these things 
anymore. She said, "Yeah, | never really liked 
Dr. , but | didn't think he was that bad." It 
took me a few seconds to process that. We 
compared our versions of what we thought the 
document said, and figured out pretty quick 
that something strange was happening. 


Dr. Sampson: Did you talk with Researcher 
about the alleged events described in the 
document? 


Dr. Ayers: Yes. But first | went to check on my 
car. When it was just fine, | suspected the rest 
of the document was disinformation as well. | 
wasn't sure | could keep my cool, so | had 
Marla ask him about his activities and he was 
able to answer everything to her satisfaction. 


Dr. Sampson: But you're still angry. 


Dr. Ayers: Intellectually, | know none of that 
stuff was true. | know it. But it's still there in the 
back of my head every time | see the guy. My 
blood boils and my teeth grind when | pass 
him in the hall, and it's not even his fault. 


Dr. Sampson: Where is the document now? 


Dr. Ayers: Safe. | have it locked up. And I'm 
not going to read it again. 


Dr. Sampson: Thank you for your time, Dr. 
Ayers. 


Dr. Ayers: <Lets out a deep sigh.> 
<End Log, 11:07am 03/19/20 > 


Closing Statement: Some time in the 12 
hours after this interview was conducted, Dr. 
Ayers self-administered a class C amnestic. 


Addendum 2533-02: Condensed Viewing Event Log. Testing 
conducted at Site 19 during March and April of 20 under the 
direction of Dr. Phillip Sampson. 


+ Viewing Event Test Log 2533-02 


Test 2 - Date 03/30/20 


D-18233 was a model prisoner, showing no violent 
tendencies previous to this testing event. 


Subject: D-18233. 


Results: D-18233 became very agitated after 
reading SCP-2533. Upon release from the 
testing chamber, D-18233 reported that the 
document contained "a bunch of crap." While 
being escorted back to his cell D-18233 
physically attacked Dr. Sampson causing 
several broken bones and a concussion before 
the security team could terminate D-18233. 
During this violent episode, D-18233 shouted 
incoherently that Dr. Sampson was "doing [his] 
family that way" but gave no specifics. 


Test 5 - Date 04/03/20 
After several more D-Class subjects were reduced to 


violence, Researcher Hansen decided that more rational 


subjects would be better able to handle the memetic 
hazard and report useful information. He volunteered 
himself and his assistant for the next viewing group. 


Subjects: Researcher Hansen and Research 
Assistant Chao. 


Results: Hansen and Chao had not even 
finished reading page 6 of the document when 
Chao attempted to strangle Hansen. The 
ensuing brawl required intervention by three 
security team members. Both researchers 
were given class C amnestics and assigned to 
a different project. 


Test 7 - Date 04/07/20 


Subjects: Researcher Sengupta and 
D-65183. 


Results: Some headway was finally made in 


this test. Sengupta's reading was about his 
wife. He reported that it described her abusing 
their children and leaving them alone to meet 
another man at a hotel. He said he didn't 
believe a word of it, that his wife was a good 
woman, she was devoted to their children, and 
insisted their marriage was happy. With 
Sengupta as a sympathetic partner, D-65183 
was induced to speak about her viewing which 
concerned a man she had worked with years 
before. The report detailed the events of this 
man stalking and killing a woman he currently 
worked with. D-65183 was shaken after 
speaking about this, and asked to be returned 
to her cell. 


Test 8 - Date 04/08/20 

To prevent another debacle such as that with Hansen 
and Chao, and in light of the success of a semi-neutral 
party in Test 7, Dr. Sampson added a third person to the 
next viewing event. This third would not read the 
document, but instead act as a sounding board for the 
other readers. Researcher Sengupta asked to take 
another turn in this group, since he said his faith in his 
wife was unshakeable. 


Subjects: Researcher Sengupta, Researcher 
Bretton, Secretary Li (non-reader). 


Results: Sengupta's reading contained 
different information, this time describing his 
wife again harming their children but also 
burning their house and framing him for both 
crimes. He displayed a more significant 
response to the document today, speaking 
brusquely during debriefing. Researcher 
Bretton reported the document she read was 
about Researcher sneaking into the 
cafeteria each day before lunch and 
adulterating the food. She refused to specify 


the adulterant, but said she was going to bring 
lunch from home from now on. Secretary Li 
was an excellent mediator, able to keep both 
researchers on task with pertinent questions. 
Dr. Sampson asked her to perform in that role 
again if she was willing. 


Test 9 - Date 04/09/20 
Postponed because Researcher Sengupta did not attend 
work today. 


Following Researcher Sengupta's arrest for 
[REDACTED] on 04/09/20 and due to the probable role 
his exposure to SCP-2533 played in his actions, testing 
has been suspended indefinitely. 


Footnotes 
1. See Viewing Event Test Log 2533-02 Test 8 
2.ibid.Test 5 


« SCP-2532 | SCP-2533 | SCP-2534 » 


SCP-2534: Future Pennies 


Item #: SCP-2534 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2534-1 instances that 
have not passed their two-year mark are to be kept in Containment 
Wing 14 of Site-32, individually wrapped in plastic and organized by 
their estimated recovery date. SCP-2534-1E is also to be contained 
in this manner. 

Only D-Class personnel are to handle, sort, and arrange these 
instances, to ensure no personnel are accidentally affected. 


A week prior to an SCP-2534-1 instance's estimated two-year mark, 
it is to be held by a D-Class personnel to ensure ownership is 
transferred, then placed in a smaller temporary containment locker 
until the D-class experiences the anomalous effect. This D-class is 
subsequently prohibited from testing any currency-related SCPs. 


SCP-2534-1 instances that have manifested their anomalous effect 
are considered inert and are to be kept in a standard containment 
crate in Containment Wing 15 of Site-32. Inert instances may be 
used for testing at the consent of one Level 3 or higher researcher. 
Future uses have been proposed and are pending approval. 


Due to unpredictability of SCP-2534 occurrence, retrieval of 
SCP-2534-1 directly from manifestation is not feasible with current 
resources. An advertising campaign under the guise of a US mint 
recall of SCP-2534-1's characteristic "printing error" is ongoing. 
Social media websites and applications are to also be tracked to 
identify SCP-2534-1 instances. Bank owners, government officials, 
US mint employees, and other individuals legally involved in 
handling large amounts of currency are to be closely monitored for 
possibility of SCP-2534-1 acquisition. 


Upon confirming location of an SCP-2534-1 instance, Mobile Task 


Force Rho-7 ("Ford's Theatre") will be dispatched for retrieval. The 
date of original acquisition (or a rough estimate thereof) is to be 
acquired from subject in possession, and Class C amnestics are to 
be administered where necessary. Expanded Eurozone retrieval 
procedures are being prepared should any more instances of 
SCP-2534-1E be discovered. 


Subjects who have experienced the anomalous effects of 
SCP-2534-1 are to be administered Class B amnestics and detained 
in Site-32-B. They are not to come into contact with any currency. 
Current global surveillance systems are to identify possible subjects 
by monitoring unusual circumstances such as cash disappearing, 
strange robberies, or other incidents. 


Description: SCP-2534 is a phenomenon which results in the 
manifestation of SCP-2534-1. 


SCP-2534 occurs only almost always (see Addendum 2) in the 
United States!, and only in areas commonly traversed on foot, such 
as sidewalks, parking lots, or the floors of public buildings. 
SCP-2534 manifestations have never been directly witnessed or 
recorded. 


Instances of SCP-2534-1 are United States pennies, in most cases? 
identical to current pennies. However, the printed minting year of 
SCP-2534-1 instances is always two years ahead of the year of 
original recovery. Instances display limited destructibility3. 


SCP-2534-1's anomalous effect will manifest exactly two years after 
it is first retrieved4. At that time, the coin's current owner will lose all 
United States currency on their person, property®, or otherwise in 
their possession, with the exception of instances of SCP-2534-1 and 
non-physical currency such as bank balances or credit cards. 
Property loss usually occurs via theft, loss, or sudden expenses, 
each of which usually appear non-anomalous in nature. Any new US 
currency acquired by the subject is lost in a similar manner shortly 
after acquisition. 


This effect makes it impossible for an affected subject to handle or 
use any United States legal tender, and does not cease until the 
death of the subject. 


location known as 'The Library’, the main base of the 
Serpent's Hand. 


Name: Unknown, but has consistently given out the first 
name "Jordan" 


Irregularity Cross-reference: Human, Magician, 
Terrorist, American, Serpent's Hand 


Physical Description:2 


Sex Heigl Weigt Ract Hait Eyeslidentifying 
Builc Attributes 

Male |} 72 189 White) Brown Blue | Tattoos 
inches pouncs, depicting 
large a hand 
strangling 

an 

American 

Eagle, 
hammer 
smashing 

a_ five- 

pointed 

Star, 

and 

several 

hands 

tugging 
at a 

logo 

with 

three 

arrows 

pointing 
inwards: 


Capabilities: Suspect is capable of performing offensive 
thaumatic spells. These spells include fire-based 
projectiles, sentient flesh-based creations formed from