None of that really matters, though, because 
you've lucked out just like | did. They thought 
they were giving me some really bad disease, 
one that rots your head and makes you crazy. 
You know the one; the one that old people get. 
Old people like me, come to think of it. But | 
was a young man when they put me in here, 
with the intention of catching the crazy off the 
man they had in here before me. Except he 
wasn't crazy, and he told me everything. 


He told me the truth: the disease doesn't exist! 


Maybe it was real, once upon a time. But | can 
tell you this: it's not real here and now, not in 
these cells anyway. They either had it and they 
lost it, or they never had it in the first place. 
Maybe it cured itself along the way. Maybe 
they just got it wrong way back at the start. 
Who knows. Who cares, right? 


So for the last thirty or so years I've been in 
here on my own, perfectly sane. Well, as sane 
as you Can be on your own for so long. Watch 
out for that. Read the books. Watch the 
movies. They've been kind enough to stock 
the place up. Keep your mind working. You 
don't want to get the crazy for real! Thirty odd 
years is pretty good for a guy who was 
sentenced to die, don't you think? 


Whatever you do, don't let them find out that 
you're sane! They don't ever come inside, and 
they're not watching or listening, but they 
move you from cell to cell sometimes (they 
knock you out first), and they come in to clean 
up the place when you die. So don't write 
anything down. Don't leave any marks on the 
walls. Don't trash the cell. Don't do anything 
that makes them think you're anything but a 
man (or woman, | suppose) who has gone 
funny in the head before your time. You owe it 
to us all to keep the ruse going. 


After you've read this, you'll get sent inside the 
cell. You'll meet someone who's probably on 
their way out. They might be in a bad way, so 
do the kind thing and help them along would 
you? There's no medical treatment in here. No 
painkillers, no relief. If the guy's suffering, end 
it for him. And then settle down for a nice, 
long, peaceful life, if you're lucky. 


Good luck, whoever you are! And if you find 
any juicy pictures in the books you find in 
there, be sure to leave them clean for the next 
guy. And have a laugh at those idiots who 
locked you in here! 


Yours, 


Jake Williamson. 


« SCP-1692 | SCP-1693 | SCP-1694 » 


SCP-1694: The Ghosts of Venus 


Item #: SCP-1694 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Cases of SCP-1694 and their 
associated entities currently inhabit the atmosphere and surface of 
the planet Venus, and therefore full-scale containment is impossible 
at present. In order to prevent, or at least hinder, the advancement 
and evolution of the SCP-1694 anomaly, no mechanical or 
electronic material is to be deployed into the atmosphere, or onto 
the surface, of the planet Venus. SCP-1694 harbors extreme 
aggression towards all organic matter, living or otherwise; 
deployment of organic matter is similarly prohibited. Agents within 
NASA and ESA are under instruction to halt, hinder, or sabotage 
any planned missions, manned or unmanned, with the intent to 
explore the Venusian atmosphere or surface. 


Description: Cases of SCP-1694 are the residual remains of an 
extraterrestrial nanotechnological device that was deployed on the 
surface of Venus by an unknown entity at an unknown time; the 
effects of which continue to manifest upon any biological or 
technologically advanced material entering the Venusian 
atmosphere or landing on the surface. A singular SCP-1694 entity is 
a microrobotic construct approximately 2mm in length, capable of 
self-replication, self-improvement, and rapid resource extraction 
from either geological or organic sources. Cases of SCP-1694 are 
distributed evenly throughout the atmosphere and surface in 
numbers between approximately 500 billion and 1 trillion individual 
cases. 


On encountering any flesh-like organic matter, cases of SCP-1694 
will rapidly shred the object and quickly reassemble the matter at a 
cellular level into an interconnected mass of various durable 
appendages and sophisticated organs. Through unknown means, 
cells from multiple sources can be made to function together, and 


even dead tissue or matter can be reconstructed and repaired. 


Due to the fact that SCP-1694 targets biological tissue, it is 
hypothesised that Venus once contained an ecosystem, native or 
otherwise, that was ‘harvested’ by an exterior intelligence for the 
production of simple worker or warrior drones; or possibly Venus 
was host to an advanced civilization that descended into a 
nanotechnological war of mutually assured destruction. Due to the 
aggressive resource extraction of SCP-1694, no traces of civilization 
or life would now remain. It is additionally theorized that this 
resource extraction created the large quantities of greenhouse 
gases responsible for Venus’s present, superheated, state, which by 
extention boiled off any and all water on the surface and killed any 
organic matter SCP-1694 had not already destroyed. Although these 
theories cannot be verified, they go some way to explaining 
SCP-1694's deployment, as in the absence of biological matter the 
SCP-1694 entities serve no purpose. 


Due to the lack of technological constructions for the inhabitation of 
entities created by SCP-1694, SCP-1694 has proceeded to 
cannibalize and enhance man-made exploration probes with 
biological appendages, most notably the Soviet Venera —class 
probes. Venera 12 was among the first successful man-made object 
to land on Venus, functioning for three hours before shutting down 
due to the extreme heat of the Venus surface. The success lead to 
the deployment of five further Venera series probes. However, in 
1984 the Soviet controllers were alarmed to receive radio signals 
emanating from Venera 12, henceforth SCP-1694-A, which was 
now, inexplicably, fully functional. The Venera project passed into 
Foundation hands and probes were dispatched to investigate the 
current status of SCP-1694-A and all other man-made objects 
currently occupying Venus. 


+ Document A1694: Essay On the SCP-1694 Exploration Mission, by 


The Foundation space program was very much in its 
infancy when the SCP-1694-A anomaly was first 
identified, or SCP-1694, as it was then known, since we 
naturally assumed it to be a stand-alone entity. The 
mission would jointly serve to investigate the anomaly, 
as well as jointly testing the limits of our new technology. 


Researchers devised a ‘scattershot’ approach to 
investigating the status of the 8 man-made probes 
occupying the surface, with ten relatively simple 
Foundation probes to be deployed on the surface, each 
with a five hundred-mile scan radius. Search efforts 
would be directed via an orbiting satellite. Launch from 
the Antarctic space center presented difficulties, but 
occurred without fault. 


SCP-1694-A was quickly identified as its constant radio 
messages provided a source to home in on. Probe Delta 
unfortunately crash-landed, but probe Beta was re- 
directed to study the anomaly. SCP-1694-A was 
confirmed to indeed be formerly the Soviet Venera 12, 
and was largely intact with the exception of several 
ruptures around the base, through which a reddish- 
brown tentacle-like mass was being extruded. These 
‘tentacles’ were wrapped firmly around the bottom half of 
the probe, and it appeared that SCP-1694-A had not 
moved for some time. It was sitting- | believe that is an 
appropriate term- in a shallow crater, which was 
smeared with a reddish substances believed to have 
been created by the SCP-1694-A anomaly. Naively, we 
believed that it was perhaps too heavy to move, so upon 
moving in for closer interaction the SCP-1694-A took us 
by surprise, swiftly destroying the probe with its 
tentacles, meaning ultimately very little was learnt about 
the anomaly. 


However, our frustration quickly turned to horror as we 
realized that the same reddish-brown biological matter 
was being extruded by our own research probes. Probe 
Delta, | believe, had its manipulator arm replaced with a 
biological multi-segmented arm and four-fingered hand 
virtually overnight; these revelations were what lead to 
the discovery of the SCP-1694 entities. Although the 
probe remained under Foundation control for a further 
five hours, control became increasingly erratic and was 
finally broken, with contact with the other probes similarly 
lost. Although Probe Epsilon detected another 


anomalous Venera entity before its destruction, no other 
interactions were made. Although the mission served as 
a wake-up Call as to the nature of the SCP-1694 entity, it 
will ultimately be remembered as an expensive failure. 


It is unknown how SCP-1694 acquired the biological matter needed 
to create the SCP-1694-A entity. It has been hypothesised that a 
portion of the original Venusian ecosystem is being preserved by 
SCP-1694, and harvested as required. 


« SCP-1693 | SCP-1694 | SCP-1695 » 


SCP-1695: Circus Contraption 


Item #: SCP-1695 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1695-1 is to be kept ina 
Type 31A storage vault within the eastern wing of Site-18. Any 
testing performed on SCP-1695-1 should be supervised by research 
personnel specializing in items created by Gol-192. Evidence 
discovered at SCP-1695-1's recovery site is to be kept in the 
western wing of Site-18 and is available for examination by any 
personnel with a clearance level of 2 or higher. 


Description: SCP-1695-1 is a large mechanism constructed from a 
black metal alloy of unknown composition.! The material displays an 
anomalous level of durability; consequently, all attempts to 
dismantle the device have proven unsuccessful. SCP-1695-1 is 
irregularly shaped, possessing a 2m by 2.6m rectangular base 
which arcs upwards in a semicircle that stands roughly 1.5m at its 
tallest point. At the rear of the device is a control panel with a 
number of buttons and switches that serve to operate the device; at 
the front end is a circular array of flat metal plates. 


When SCP-1695-1 is activated via its control panel, the circular 
formation at the device's front end will dilate in a manner similar to 
an aperture. Viewing the interior of the device from the opening 
reveals an enclosed chamber walled with the same metal as the 
device's exterior. The interior wall of the chamber bears a number of 
irregularly-shaped indentations. It is believed that when the front end 
of the device is opened, the instruments responsible for 
SCP-1695-1's primary anomalous effects are retracted into the 
inaccessible portion of the device's interior. 


When a human subject enters SCP-1695-1's exposed front chamber 
feet first, the circular array of plates will automatically close around 
the subject's torso. The device will only close far enough as 


necessary for restricting the subject's range of movement and 
preventing escape; subjects typically bear only minimal scarring 
from lacerations caused by the device's closing. Once trapped by 
SCP-1695-1, the subject will undergo a transformation into 
SCP-1695-2. 


The following is a list of stages in the conversion process. As it is 
unknown what transformations—if any—the enclosed lower half of a 
subject undergoes, only the alterations to subjects’ visible upper 
bodies will be listed. 


« The subject's distal phalanges recede into the lower portions 
of the digits, followed by the intermediate and proximal 
phalanges, leaving the subject without fingers. 

¢ What remains of the subject's hands recedes into the arms, 
which similarly recede into the subject's torso. 

¢ Hair, ears, and nose recede into the subject's face, followed 
by any other defining facial features. The exception to this is 
the subject's eyes, which remain fully functional and normally 
sized. Subjects remain capable of making vocalizations; 
however, their capacity for speech is severely impeded by the 
lack of a mouth and facial muscles needed to properly 
articulate. 

« The subject's torso swells and elongates. Muscle and bone 
definition is lost at this phase as the body takes on a more 
rounded shape. 

¢ The neck recedes into what is left of the subject's shoulders. 

At this stage, the subject resembles a fleshy cylinder with two 

eyes on a rounded end. 

The subject expands in size until the cylindrical torso is 

roughly 1m in diameter and 3m in length. The metallic array 

will slowly dilate to compensate for the subject's increasing 
circumference. 

Flat plates of keratin? begin to protrude from the side of the 

subject's body that is angled to the sky. The protrusions are 

always evenly spaced and set at an angle perpendicular to the 
length of the cylinder body. 

The subject's skin secretes an adhesive chemical compound 

of anomalous composition. Once an organism or object has 

been in contact with the compound for longer than one 


minute, it cannot be detached until a counter-adhesive has 
been secreted. 

¢ SCP-1695-1 will play a prerecorded message (see Recording 
Log 1) followed by a selection of popular circus compositions. 


Once this process is complete, SCP-1695-1's control panel can be 
used to elongate SCP-1695-2 further. Testing has shown no 
limitation to the distance SCP-1695-2 can extend. The device also 
allows for control over SCP-1695-2's direction: operators can cause 
SCP-1695-2 to extend at any angle, including upwards at a 
customizable incline without the need for support. If SCP-1695-2 is 
about to collide with a solid surface, it will automatically compensate 
its trajectory to either avoid the obstacle or travel along the 
obstacle's surface. The speed at which SCP-1695-2 elongates is 
adjustable with a max speed of 30 km/h. 


This phenomenon will continue until the individual operating 
SCP-1695-1 chooses to reverse the process, causing SCP-1695-2 
to recede in the same pattern of movements as it had elongated. 
Once this has occurred, SCP-1695-2 will excrete a counter- 
adhesive, releasing any physical matter attached to it. SCP-1695-1 
will temporary cease playing music at this point and play a 
prerecorded message (see Recording Log 2). 


When SCP-1695-1 is deactivated, SCP-1695-2 will be returned to its 
original humanoid state and released. Subjects who have 
undergone conversion into SCP-1695-2 will bear significant scarring 
on the lower body and varying levels of psychological trauma. 


Recording Log: 
Recording Log 1 


Hey there, folks! Hop on Meaty the Meatworm's back 
and get ready for the ride of your life! Please keep your 
backs firmly against Meaty's nail plates to prevent injury. 
For your safety, Meaty's sweat will stick you in place so 
you don't fall off! Don't worry, Moms - it's stain-free! Be 
sure to hold on to your hats, glasses, and any other 
loose items, and enjoy the ride! 


Recording Log 2 


Thank you for riding Herman Fuller's Meatworm Coaster! 
Be sure to stop by the No Mouth And Ice Must Cream 
sweet parlor and pick up a handmade Meatworm figurine 
on your way out! Have a disquieting day! 


Addendum: 


SCP-1695-1 was recovered from the Estevan Fairgrounds in 
Saskatchewan on 05/19/ —_ after Foundation intelligence received 
reports of Gol-233 (Herman Fuller's Circus Of The Disquieting) 
activity in the area. At the time of recovery, much of the fairground 
was occupied by carnival structures that were either ablaze or 
severely fire damaged, presumably due to attempts to destroy 
evidence. Two individuals were discovered on the scene and 
apprehended: Person of Interest 1695-A, who was then serving as 
an instance of SCP-1695-2, and Person of Interest 1695-B, an 
elderly Russian male who claimed to be the inventor of SCP-1695-1. 


+ Interview Pol-1695-A 


Interviewed: Pol-1695-A, found converted into 
SCP-1695-2. Identity unknown.