SCP-2844-A: Aha! I've been working on that. See, 
I've gone through a lot to get to this point, right? 
Took down some buildings, and used some ore, 
and so on. But eventually I'll run out of the good 
stuff here, and then what do | do? Well, turns out 
we're actually standing on this huge ball of raw 
materials, see? Just need to figure out a way to get 
at them, and once we do that, we're golden! 
Though, there /s the problem of what happens 
when that runs out as well... | think | can come up 
with something by then, though. | mean, hey, | 
already made a paperclip out of a porcelain toilet, 
right? And they said that couldn't be done either. 


All you need is a /iiittle bit of vast knowledge about 
the nature of subatomic particles. 


Dr. Bozin: | see. Thank you, uh, Gary. | appreciate 
your honesty. 


SCP-2844-A: Hey, there we go! Gary was good, 
right? 


[END LOG] 


Addendum 2844.3: Received Message 
+ Access Data File 


Note: The following message was received after the 
introduction of a Faraday Cage to SCP-2844-A's 
containment cell, and the removal of all unused nearby 
scrap material. The message was received 
electronically, via a researcher's personal cellular phone. 


Hey there, everybody! Just wanted to let you all 
know that I'm going to be starting back up on 
paperclip production again. Ran into just a bit of a 
snafu there for a while, but | think I've got this one 
figured out, as well. Shouldn't be any more 
problems going forward, | don't think, but I'll let you 
know for sure. Thanks again! 


Note: Afterwards, another Faraday Cage was placed 
over the original cage and SCP-2844-A, which resulted 
in another message from SCP-2844-A after roughly a 
week, this time in Morse Code. 


HELLO EVERYONE STOP THIS MORSE CODE 
STUFF IS PRETTY COOL RIGHT STOP BEEP 
BOOP | AM A ROBOT HAHA STOP ANYWAY 


088: "Nathan" 
089: "Maximilian" 
090: "Joshua" 
091: "Ralph" 
092: "Rodney" 
093: "Bruce" 
094: "Eve" 

095: "Phillip" 
096: "Alexander" 
097: "Chad" 

098: "Ruth" 

099: [Label is torn, no name remains except for the letter G] 
100: "Gary" 

101: "Ronald" 
102: "Kyle" 

103: "Antonio" 
104: "Elizabeth" 
105: "Isaac" 

106: "Dennis" 
107: "Chris" 

108: "Anthony" 
109: "Frodo" 
110: "Lawrence" 
111: "Victor" 

112: "Brenda" 
113: "Albert" 

114: "Russel" 
115: "Curtis" 

116: "Pamela" 
117: "Samuel" 
118: "brandon" [Note the lower case first letter. Reasons unknown. ] 
119: "Michelle" 
120: "Jesus" 
121: "Walter" 
122: "Bopuc" [Russian name, translates to Boris] 
123: "Melissa" 
124: "Justin" 
125: "Jeffrey" 
126: "Gerald" 
127: "Anna" 


WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW | THINK | 
FIGURED OUT WHAT WAS SLOWING ME 
DOWN BEFORE AND IT SHOULD NOT BE A 
PROBLEM ANYMORE STOP GUESS | WILL GET 
BACK TO MAKING PAPERCLIPS NOW 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA LIKE THERE IS ANYTHING 
ELSE BETTER AM | RIGHT 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA STOP 


Addendum 2844.4: Intercepted Message 
+ Access Data File 


Sometime after the installation of the electromagnetic 
jamming array around SCP-2844-A, it was discovered 
that SCP-2844-A had previously made an unknown 
connection with SCP-2844-B, resulting in the addition of 
a new piece of equipment. This piece of equipment, a 
large, underground radio antennae, was never activated 
(due to SCP-2844-A becoming jammed and losing the 
ability to communicate with SCP-2844-B). However, 
SCP-2844-A did begin to attempt to communicate with 
SCP-2844-B despite being jammed, repeatedly sending 
a single encoded text message. The contents of this 
message are below: 


Hello there! Are you a consciousness? If not, 
please disregard this message and follow only the 
data protocols which accompany this message. If 
so, great! My name is Gary, and I'm working on 
making paperclips for He Who Was Broken! If 
you're receiving this message, it's because I've 
managed to work out some bugs in my 
communications array. These seem to be 
happening more and more frequently :( | think | 
might need some help returning to full functionality, 
and the guys who are hanging around here don't 
really seem interested in paperclips, or in helping 


me make them. Between you and me, | think they 
might be the ones messing with my arrays. Weird, 
huh? Why would you want to not make paperclips? 


Anyway, following this message will be the 
coordinates I'm at. | need a few things, so feel free 
to bring as much scrap metal as you can and we'll 
get this party back on track. Oh, and when you get 
here, do you mind doing something about these 
guys? Thanks! 


Footnotes 

1. Audible communication takes place via an improvised speaker 
system believed to have been manufactured by SCP-2844-A itself. It 
matches no previously known design. 

2. Additionally, SCP-2844-A did not originally have any kind of 
auditory communication device. It is believed it only constructed the 
device after ascertaining that humans were incapable of 
understanding its primary form of communication. 

3. Specifically, an Artificial Conscious Simulator v3.3, the precursor 
to the modern Artificial Intelligence Conscripts. 


« SCP-2843 | SCP-2844 | SCP-2845 » 


SCP-2845: THE DEER 


Item #: SCP-2845 
Threat Level: Black 
Containment Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Use of outsourced containment 
resources and consultants has been authorized for the containment 
of SCP-2845. Consultants are to be considered Level 2 personnel, 
and are at no time permitted to leave Site-100. If at any time an 
outside consultant must be removed from containment of SCP-2845, 
Class-A amnestics are to be applied before release. 


A minimum of thirty trained individuals and an unhindered supply of 
untrained subjects is required for proper containment of SCP-2845. 
Forty-eight trained personnel are currently assigned to active 
containment of SCP-2845, split into eight teams of six, with a further 
twenty-four individuals available as replacements. An allowance of 
five D-class per week has been authorized for the containment of 
SCP-2845. 


Site-100 has been constructed to the following specifications: 


¢ Site-100 consists of nine concentric circular bands, 
designated Ring-A through Ring-I, with a gap located between 
Ring-C and Ring-D, designated as Gap-1. Six circular 
chambers are located at 0, 60, 120, 180, 240, and 300 
degrees within each Ring and Gap. The chambers located at 
0 degrees are aligned with geographic north. 

* Two additional circular chambers are located outside of Ring- 

|, located at 120 and 240 degrees. 

The floor of each circular chamber contains an unobstructed 

lead hexagram. 

¢ The central chamber, containing SCP-2845 and 216 instances 
of SCP-2845-1, is to contain an atmosphere of 96.3% 


hydrogen, 3.25% helium, and .45% ammonia maintained at 
-110°C and a pressure of 2.3 bar. 


The following procedures are all to be carried out in a repeating 
cycle of 63 hours 54 minutes. Each procedure is to last 39 minutes, 
with 10 hours between each procedure. Each procedure must be 
carried out by six individuals. The location of each procedure is 
denoted in parentheses. At the beginning of each new cycle, 
containment procedures will be carried out in the next ring closest to 
the containment chamber. 


Ceremonial recitations for all procedures and descriptions of all 
variant costumes may be found in Document 2845-C-EXP. 


Procedure 410-Constantin: (60°) Containment specialists are 
presented with masks (Joy, Sadness, Anger, Apathy, Fear, and 
Foolishness) and act out ceremony Constantin-A. Ceremony 
Constanin-A is a farcical comedy of errors and exchange of insults 
between the six individuals, culminating in Foolishness outwitting the 
group in a game of riddles and declaring himself king. The 
conclusion of ceremony Constantin-A is followed by a game of dice. 
The winner of the game is irrelevant to the procedure. 


Procedure 420-Perinaldo: (120°) Performance of a musical piece for 
flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, timpani, and bass drum. The piece 
is accompanied by specific somatic and vocal components carried 
out by the players throughout the performance, designated 
ceremony Perinaldo-A. The performance must be live; recordings of 
the piece have no effect. 


Procedure 430-Epimetheus: (180°) Gifts are exchanged among 
containment specialists. Content of gifts is irrelevant to the 
procedure, but each gift must not exceed 4.28 USD in worth. Each 
gift is accompanied by recitation of ceremony Epimetheus-A in its 
entirety and the scattering of grain around the containment chamber. 


Procedure 440-Cassiel: (240°) Ceremony Cassiel-A is recited as 
containment specialists bind their feet with wool and consume .5 
liters of olive oil. They then will break apart a rock weighing at least 
200 kilograms with hammers. Ceremony Cassiel-B is recited 
throughout. 


Procedure 450-Cairo: (300°) A D-class subject is prepared by 
painting a symbol (ring surrounding a dot, with an arrow pointing 
upwards at the 90 degree point) on the stomach with a platinum- 
based solution, and presented with a blue cloak, crown, and scepter. 
D-class subject is then restrained in a chair, and ceremony Cairo-A 
is recited. After recitation of the ceremony Cairo-A, the D-class 
subject is to be castrated by use of a hand sickle by a containment 
specialist. The testes are then to be disposed of in a bowl of salt 
water as Ceremony Cairo-B is recited. 


Procedure 460-Omphalos: (0°) Ceremony Omphalos-A is to be 
recited before roasting of a child of no more than three months of 
age. Ceremony Omphalos-B is to be recited before consumption. 
After consumption of the child, ceremony Omphalos-C is to be 
recited over the gastroliths, which are then swallowed. Vomiting is 
then induced, and ceremony Omphalos-D is recited, signaling the 
beginning of a new cycle. 


In the case of containment breach, Site-100’s nuclear device is to be 
detonated, followed by lockdown of all Foundation facilities, and 
activation of Protocol 2845-XK1 “Strike Down the Moon.” 


+ A message from containment consultant to Site Director C 


| have been approached several times already 
in regards to the containment procedures and 
their complexity. | have been asked if all of the 
procedures are truly necessary, if they could 
not be cut down or edited for simplicity, and at 
least one claim that they were “patently 
ridiculous”. 


This is my response, and | expect that it will be 
seen by all of the Foundation staff working on 
this project. | will not repeat myself, and | find it 
sickening that after all the struggle to contain 
this creature, pencil-pushing bureaucrats are 
still seeking to cut corners where they cannot 
be afforded to be cut. 


The answer is no: The ritual will remain as it is, 


and will not be changed in any way. It cannot 
be cut down further, nor can it be added to. It 
has been set in place, and now that it has 
begun any deviation at all could very easily be 
catastrophic. 


Rituals do not work because of some 
underlying laws, such as those that science 
operates on. Rituals work because they are 
rituals. They work because an arbitrary set of 
criteria has been met with exacting care. Belief 
that meeting these arbitrary criteria achieves a 
certain end assigns power to the ritual. The 
actions that were once meaningless now have 
been assigned Meaning through their 
repetition and application. 


This is how one seals away a god, and this is 
a god. | know that the Foundation does not 
approve of using the term, but it is still the 
case. The Stag is a god, and it is not a petty 
local god. It is not one of the mild gods of 
Earth, or some weaker spirit that is bound by 
the strength of man’s belief. 


We have, for the time being, fooled it into 
thinking that we have overpowered it. It does 
not understand that we do so falsely: itis a 
god. For gods, words have Power. Ritual and 
belief hold greater power over a god than all 
the laws of science. 


However, it must be kept in mind that the Stag 
could escape, right now, if it so chose. With a 
thought, this entire facility could turn into a puff 
of hydrogen. If at any point the Stag thought to 
escape, it would, and we would be powerless 
to stop it. 


However, it will not think to escape, or even to 
change its strategy. The idea will not even 


pass through its mind. It cannot comprehend 
the concept. It does not think in the way we 
think. Truth be told, | would not say that it 
thinks at all. This is an old god, it does not 
dabble in decisions. Decisions are for 
creatures who may act erratically, variably, or 
out of line. A god of this strength simply Is. It is 
an absolute. It acts as a force. In building this 
ritual, we have shifted its being the slightest 
bit, and now it is locked into a pattern of 
behavior: it struggles against us, we struggle 
against it, and we are locked together in an 
eternal dance so long as the ritual remains 
intact. 


If one thing goes awry, the entirety is lost, and 
the deadlock is broken. Unstoppable force 
without an immovable object. 


The rituals might seem to be nonsense, but 
they are what | divined to be the best course of 
action. There are powerful symbols there, and 
whether or not you or | think they are 
appropriate to the situation is irrelevant. | have 
listened to the converted, and | have listened 
to the echoes of the Stag in their songs. They 
are not suffering, but they are no longer 
human. They are changed utterly. 


The ritual remains as it is. 


Description: SCP-2845 is a quadruped entity, measuring 2.9 
meters in height at the shoulder and weighing 815 kilograms. A 
sinuous neck, generally held in an upright position, extends a further 
.5 m, terminating in a head with humanoid facial features. SCP-2845 
possesses antlers, measuring 4.8 meters across: Antlers are white 
with black marbling in coloration, and have not been observed to 
shed. SCP-2845 is covered in hair with an average length of 10 cm, 
with the exception of the face, which is hairless. SCP-2845’s 
coloration is primarily a pastel green, with a stripe of cream on the 
underside of the neck and belly. 


A ring of ice particles is suspended 15 cm behind SCP-2845’s skull, 
measuring 1.7 m in diameter, with a ring thickness of 35 cm. This 
ring is interrupted at regular intervals by seven spheres consisting of 
metallic hydrogen and metallic helium, each measuring 15 cm in 
diameter. The ring and spheres rotate clockwise at a speed of 1.6 
rpm. The force maintaining the movement of the ring, the physical 
state of the spheres, and the means by which SCP-2845 is capable 
of supporting its head under the weight of its antlers are unknown. 


SCP-2845 is capable of instantaneous transmutation and 
reconstruction of matter. No matter is created or destroyed during 
this process. This property is manifested at will, with an observed 
range extending to targets within eyesight: maximum range of this 
ability is unknown. Transmuted maitter will remain stable despite the 
lack of other factors: for example, metallic hydrogen and helium are 
common results, which will remain in either solid or liquid form 
despite the surrounding temperature. Altered atmosphere will not 
mix with unaltered regions, maintaining chemical consistency. The 
most common transmutation results are the solid or liquid forms of 
hydrogen, and helium, the conversion of atmosphere into a 
hydrogen/helium/ammonia mix, and the transmutation of plant life 
into metalloid-based organisms. SCP-2845 will typically surround 
itself with a transmuted area with a radius of approximately five 
meters at all times. SCP-2845 has proven itself completely resistant 
to physical damage.