2. Each member of the AP-3 team was equipped with a SCRAMBLE 
visor unit, which was capable of processing and filtering out known 
anomalous memetic devices in near-realtime. These devices, which 
had been previously tested on other anomalous memes and active 
visual hazards, would passively filter out all Known hazards, and 
could be “activated” to filter out all written language, drawings, 
symbols, diagrams, etc, if they were believed to be a potential 
hazard. 

3. From the Site-13 research file on 86243AR-001 
“Malidramagiuan”, “Study of the activated 86243AR-001 has led to 


the advent of Kinetology, the study of Kinetocism. Kinetoglyphs, or 
kinetohazards, are mental and physical hazards that occur when an 
entity performs specific gestures and motions that interact with 
multiple spatial dimensions simultaneously, often with disastrous 
consequences. An antikinetohazard, designed to negate the effect 
of the active kinetohazard, is typically the “inverse” of the 
kinetoglyph being performed, though this can take the form of 
certain symbols and glyphs, instead of just the inverse of the actual 
gesture (as doing so with entities such as 86243AR-001 would be 
impossible).” See Addendum 1730.9 for more details. 

4. From the Site-13 research file on kinetohazards, “Using seven of 
its hands, 86243AR-001 is capable of producing an advanced 
kinetoglyph named “Aillili” in the Sacred Hratak of Azt, which 
silences all but the most intense sounds in an area. 

5. The Willis Tower, formerly the Sears Tower. 


« SCP-1729 | SCP-1730 | SCP-1731 » 


SCP-1731: An Exercise in Futility 


Item #: SCP-1731 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1731 and SCP-1731-1 are 
to be kept in Containment Locker #324 at Site 23. Until the object's 
effects can be fully understood and activated, all testing with the 
object is to be done in Testing Area #255 outside of Site 23 by D- 
Class personnel. Procedure 701-Raenire is to be attempted and fully 
revealed in order to discover the full anomalous nature of 
SCP-1731. 


SCP-1731 and SCP-1731-1 are to be kept in Containment Locker 
#324 at Site 23. Further testing on SCP-1731 has been deemed 
unnecessary. 


Description: SCP-1731 isa brand refrigerator. The object has 
been colored red with spray paint and has a variety of objects 
attached to its outer surface, including 17 cellphones of various 
makes and brands, the skeletal remains of several species of 
mammals, and an unidentified human foot. The object displays no 
anomalous properties unless Procedure 701-Raenire is completed. 
Otherwise, it functions as a non-anomalous refrigerator of the same 
brand when connected to a power source. 


SCP-1731-1 is a series of three handwritten documents detailing the 
procedure required to activate SCP-1731's anomalous effects, 
hereby designated Procedure 701-Raenire. The text of SCP-1731-1 
is incomplete and damaged; as such, testing is going on currently in 
order to discover the complete process behind Procedure 701- 
Raenire. The entirety of the contents of SCP-1731-1 have been 
revealed through Foundation experimentation. See Addendum 
SCP-1731-Alpha for excerpts from the SCP-1731-1 documents. 


Addendum-1731-Alpha: 


1. Draw a perfect circle with a diameter of exactly 
46.345m in the middle of a barren patch of farmland 
around the fridge and write the words, "Je ne suis pas 
mort" anywhere within it. From now on, the circle will light 
up whenever you successfully complete the next step to 
let you Know you can continue. 

2. Make a man with dirty blonde hair and no left hand 
stand in the middle of the circle. 

3. Make the man drink th[{UNREADABLE]il he can't 
anymore. 


42. Take seven roses, douse them in gasoline, set them 
aflame with a fire used to burn gold, frankincense, and 
myrrh. 

43. Find a Ma[UNREADABLE]sary thrice. 

43. Stick six plastic forks into the ground in the shape of 
a hexagram. 

44. Discern the correct step #43. Read it aloud. 


63. Kic[ UNREADABLE] while pun[{UNREADABLE]ctus. 


97. Spread the ashes of the plant from Step #42 in the 
upper compartment of the fridge. 

98. [UNREADABLE] with the spear. 

99. Recreate Lazarus and kill a man. 

100. Revel in the glory of completion. 


Discovery Log: SCP-1731 was discovered in the desert outside of 

, NV on 01/01/2007 after the Foundation heard reports of a group 
conducting a "fridge ritual" in the area. The group (which membered 
approximately 100 people) was discovered during the apparent 
completion of Procedure 701-Raenire, during which the object 
began opening and closing its doors rapidly and emanating red 
lights. At the time, members of the group were resisting police 
officers from intervening in the procedure through assorted means; 
however, upon the arrival of Foundation MTF -Lambda-13 (aka 
"Occults of Personality") members of the group reportedly 
dismantled various structures of the ritual, which caused the 
cessation of SCP-1731's active phase, and surrendered. All 
members were interrogated by Foundation personnel and searched. 
All information gained from interrogations was inconclusive and 


often contradictory. SCP-1731-1 was confiscated from one of the 
members. All members were administered Class-A amnestics and 
monitored for three months for signs of further involvement with 
anomalous groups. 


Addendum-1731-Beta: Extensive testing has begun to discover the 
anomalous nature of SCP-1731 and the complete process behind 
Procedure 701-Raenire. As stated in Step #1 of SCP-1731-1, the 
drawn circle emanates white light for three seconds upon the 
successful completion of a step detailed in the documents. A 
timeline has been established of notable event occurring during the 


Date Notabie Event 
02/01/2007: Experimentation begins. 
15/02/2007: First accidental death. Personnel 


are to handle [REDACTED] with 
greater care in the future, no 
matter the apparent condition of 


the animal. 
13/05/2007: First personnel presumed dead 
due to spatial anomaly. 
27/06/2007: First researcher death. 


Foundation staff are hereby 
prohibited from entering within 
10m of the testing area during 
experimentation. It is to be noted 
that staff successfully reached 
Step #50 today. 

14/09/2007: Subject resembling D-86753 
appeared in the testing area, 
claiming to have been testing with 
SCP-1731 as of 08/10/2007. 
Subject has been detained by the 
Foundation until further notice at 
Site 46. As of 09/10/2007, 
D-86753 has been returned to 
Site 23. 

08/10/2007: D-86753 was lost during testing. 

01/01/2008: See Addendum-1731-Omega. 


Addendum-1731-Omega-01: On 01/01/2008, Procedure 701- 
Raenire was successfully completed. As observed upon discovery of 
the object, SCP-1731 began rapidly opening and closing its doors 
and emanating red light. This continued for approximately two 
minutes, at which point the object ceased movement. The object's 
doors were closed and a high-pitched noise began. A large, 
amorphous entity began emerging from SCP-1731 while loudly 
vocalizing in an unknown language. Upon the entity's appearance, 
all electronic devices within 100m of SCP-1731 experienced heavy 
distortion and interference. Personnel who observed the affected 
devices immediately displayed violent tendencies towards other 
personnel on-site. Personnel standing within the circle drawn in Step 
#1 of Procedure 701-Raenire lay face-up on the ground and chanted 
in a language resembling the one exhibited by the emerging entity. 
Approximately three (3) minutes after the entity's appearance, part 
of it knocked over the structure built for Step #54, which lead to the 
cessation of all anomalous activity and the demanifestation of the 
entity. 


Addendum-1731-Omega-02: Procedure 701-Raenire was 
repeated. Events identical to those that occurred in 
Addendum-1731-Omega-01 transpired, except that the entity's form 
smudged the symbols drawn during Step #17 of Procedure 701- 
Raenire, which caused the cessation of anomalous activity and the 
demanifestation of the entity. 


Addendum-1731-Omega-074: Procedure 701-Raenire was 
repeated. Events identical to those that occurred in 
Addendum-1731-Omega-01 transpired, except that the entity's 
growth caused SCP-1731 to fall over, leading to the cessation of 
anomalous activity and the demanifestation of the entity. 


Site Director's Note: After repeated successful attempts at 
completing Procedure 701-Raenire with all attempts yielding 
practically identical results, testing of SCP-1731 and SCP-1731-1 
has been stopped indefinitely. -Site Director Langley 


« SCP-1730 | SCP-1731 | SCP-1732 » 


SCP-1732: Septimius Leo 


Item #: SCP-1732 
Object Class: Neutralized (Safe) 


Special Containment Procedures: As SCP-1732's death pre-dates 
the establishment of the Foundation by more than one thousand 
years, direct containment of SCP-1732 is not necessary at this time. 
Current Foundation priorities regarding SCP-1732 are focused on 
information management and on archaeological excavation, study, 
and preservation of SCP-1732's remains and artifacts related to 
SCP-1732. 


All primary historical documents and secondhand histories 
describing the reign of SCP-1732 are to be suppressed, and 
replaced when possible with edited versions describing SCP-1732 
as a non-anomalous human being. Artifacts bearing the likeness of 
SCP-1732 are to be described as portraying non-anomalous 
animals. The Foundation is to liaise with any institutions conducting 
archaeological excavation of Roman sites contemporaneous to 
SCP-1732 and are to monitor their findings for any indication of 
documents, artifacts, or artwork relevant to SCP-1732. 


The remains of SCP-1732 are to be stored in a climate-controlled 
facility at Reliquary 68 upon their removal from the entombment site. 
Following a full physical examination and DNA analysis, a genetic 
study of SCP-1732's species is to be conducted to determine 
whether SCP-1732 has any living descendants, and if so whether 
any anomalous traits exhibited by SCP-1732 are present within the 
population. 


Description: SCP-1732 was a male African lion (Panthera leo leo), 
born in approximately 188 CE, which from 193 CE until its death in 
211 CE was recognized as emperor of the Roman Empire under the 
name Septimius Severus Eusebes Pertinax Augustus (often 
abbreviated as "Septimius Severus"). The identity of SCP-1732 as 


Septimius Severus is attested to in several primary documents and 
histories written during and shortly after its reign, a brief 
autobiography attested to have been dictated by SCP-1732 itself, 
and representations on coinage and in civic artworks found 
throughout Roman territory. 


SCP-1732 was sapient and was able to read and speak fluent Latin 
with an accent described as typical of persons originating in the 
Roman Empire's provinces in central northern Africa. Historical 
accounts indicate that SCP-1732 was acquired by the Roman 
emperor Commodus shortly after its birth as tribute and that, having 
discovered its anomalous properties, ordered it to be given a full 
education and declared it commander of the Empire's military forces 
in the Balkans. Following the assassination of Commodus in 191 CE 
and the subsequent assassinations of several successors, 
SCP-1732 is reported to have consolidated its authority among the 
military and declared itself emperor in 193 CE following a brief civil 
war. 


SCP-1732's reign was marked by a series of military campaigns to 
consolidate Imperial authority in the Roman Empire's provinces, 
increased persecution of Christians, and a brief revival of interest in 
the cult of the Egyptian goddess Bastet. SCP-1732 is documented 
as having faced stiff opposition from the Roman nobility during its 
reign due to its species, and from Roman Christians who identified it 
as an eschatological figure. SCP-1732 died in 211 CE after being 
poisoned by a political rival during a campaign in Scotland, and was 
succeeded by its adopted heir Caracalla. 


Suppression of historical information regarding SCP-1732's species 
and origins began in the mid-3rd century under the reign of the 
emperor Maximinus Thrax, who is reputed in contemporary 
accounts to have faced threats to his regime from sapient lions 
descended from SCP-1732, culminating in a series of hunts 
beginning under Phillip the Arab and ending under Valerian which all 
but eradicated native populations of lions throughout Roman 
territory. After the adoption of Christianity as the state religion of 
Rome in 324 CE, further suppression and destruction of historical 
monuments to SCP-1732 was organized by the early Catholic 
Church, which destroyed most remaining copies of historical records 


directly referring to SCP-1732 as a lion. The Foundation assumed 
information management of SCP-1732 when the Vatican Holy Office 
for Secrets and Prophecies (Secretorum Camerus Prophetias) 
merged with the Foundation in 1964. 


SCP-1732's remains were recovered in 2011 from a previously 
undiscovered tomb located adjacent to the tombs of several 
contemporaneous Roman emperors beneath the Castel Sant'Angelo 
in Rome. Following its death, SCP-1732 had been embalmed in a 
manner similar to classical Egyptian mummification; however, use of 
inferior techniques has resulted in severe tissue degradation and 
has left little original tissue for examination or analysis. Full genetic 
examination of SCP-1732 is pending acquisition of a suitably intact 
DNA sample from remaining bone marrow. 


Addendum: The following excerpts regarding SCP-1732 are 
derived from Caesares, an early 3rd century history of the emperors 
of Rome by an unknown author. All known extant copies are 
currently in Foundation custody. 


...[t came to pass, in the eighth year of his reign, that 
Marcus Aurelius Commodus did pay a call unto the 
consul of Africa, seeking tribute by which to conduct the 
Gallic wars. Gaius Vettius Sabinianus provided him with 
6,000 denari and with spices and perfumes, with jewels, 
ivory, and with live animals, of note a lion cub taken from 
the southern reaches of the Principate. Commodus was 
most enamored with the beast's ability to parrot the 
speech of its keepers, and in a fit of pique proclaimed he 
would make of it a finer student of rhetoric than the 
consul himself; whereafter he named it Lucius Septimius 
Severus, in mocking reference to an Equestrian of the 
consul's court, and proclaimed it a Senator, to the 
consternation of... 


...By the time that Publius Helvius Pertinax was 
murdered in the Year of the Five Emperors, Septimius 
Leo (as his officers were fond of calling him) had become 
an accomplished orator and general in Pannonia. When 
word reached Carnantum of the treason perpetrated by 
the Praetorians who had murdered Pertinax and sold his 


throne to Marcus Didius Severus Julianus, the soldiers 
proclaimed Septimius Leo to be their emperor. Allying 
himself with his fellow African, Decimus Clodius 
Septimius Albinus, Septimius Leo marched to Rome... 


...In the fourth year of his reign, Septimius Leo met with 
a man named Victor, leader of the Christians of Rome. 
Victor had proclaimed Septimius Leo to be an unholy 
beast whose earthly reign was a sign that the end of the 
world, and the coming of the god of the Christians, was 
soon at hand. Having refused to repent of their heresy 
and treason, Septimius Leo ordered the Christians 
executed by hanging from a wooden cross (as was their 
wont); for Victor himself, however, Septimius Leo 
reserved a more ignomious death, challenging him to 
single combat before the masses at the Flavian 
Ampitheatre, where he rent the bishop limb from limb...