Changes: Canned goods, bottled water, and survival 
manuals were stacked on the counter. The door at the 
back of diner had a hazard sign placed over it. The 
inhabitants looked increasingly anxious over the course 


of the changes. The sky darkened and snow began to 
fall shortly after SCP-2816-2 finished covering the 
windows with metal plates. 


Test 3 

Painting: Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory. 
Changes: SCP-2816-2 reset all clocks to 12 o'clock and 
constructed a simple shack filled with food and medical 
supplies in the center. The entire painting turned white 
for approximately 20 seconds, then displayed only 
smoke and dust for the next hour before showing a 
crater. 


Test 4 

Painting: Vincent Willem van Gogh's Starry Night. A 
brush stroke was made in the middle of SCP-2816-2's 
preparations, halting its progress. 

Changes: SCP-2816-2 boarded up approximately half of 
the town's visible windows and had begun working on a 
bunker in the foreground. 3 days after SCP-2816-2's last 
appearance, a large cloud of smoke blotted out most of 
the sky and snow began falling. Within 24 hours, all of 
the houses whose windows had not been boarded up 
displayed signs of forcible entry. Two (presumably dead) 
bodies could be seen lying on the ground in front of the 
church, but were soon covered by snow. 


Test 5 

Painting: Pablo Picasso's Guernica. 

Changes: SCP-2816-2's only apparent actions were to 
close the eyes of all the inhabitants of the painting and 
place tall stone posts next to them; however, other 
actions may have been performed but obscured by the 
abstract art style. The second effect appeared 2 days 
after SCP-2816-2's first appearance, and all the 
inhabitants were quickly covered by snow, leaving only 
the posts visible. 


Footnotes 
1. The longest recorded timespan has been 8 days, and the shortest 
has been 38 seconds. 


2. Items added have included fire extinguishers, gas masks, first aid 
kits, canned food, sealed water bottles, Geiger counters, educational 
literature on a variety of topics including hydroponics and food 
preservation, and maps of arbitrary locales with large sections 
shaded in and labeled "DANGER." 


« SCP-2815 | SCP-2816 | SCP-2817 » 


SCP-2817: The Carpet King Prosecutes Itself 


Item #: SCP-2817 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2817-1 is to be treated as, 
for all intents and purposes, a standard Foundation D-Class and 
may be used in testing with Safe objects that do not display harmful 
properties, as a way to occupy its time, between performances of 
Procedure-453-Palmyra. At the end of every month, SCP-2817-1 is 
to be escorted with an armed guard to the eastern grounds of 
Wing-3 to complete Procedure-453-Palmyra. During this time, 
SCP-2817-1 is to be handled, referred to, and treated as an SCP 
object according to protocol. SCP-2817-1 is to be granted 
mandatory psychological counseling every week related to Complex 
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, particularly the form commonly 
known as “Stockholm syndrome.” 


SCP-2817-2 is to be contained using Procedure-453-Palmyra, a 
Foundation approved version of SCP-2817, by SCP-2817-1. No 
guards or other personnel are to interfere with Procedure-453- 
Palmyra. Following the conclusion of Procedure-453-Palmyra, 
SCP-2817-1 is to be debriefed, given a psychological counseling 
session, and escorted back to the D-Class barracks. 


Efforts to locate and capture SCP-2817-2 between performances of 
Procedure-453-Palmyra are ongoing. Intelligence provided by 
SCP-2817 indicates that SCP-2817-2 may regularly reside as an 
interstellar entity, and is thus uncontainable. 


Description: SCP-2817 is a complex ritual created and regularly 
performed by SCP-2817-1 and SCP-281 7-2. 


SCP-2817-1 is William Simon Higly, a male human of mixed-race 
descent. Previously known as D-77810, SCP-2817-1 was previously 
serving a life sentence for involvement in a double homicide with his 


‘Zombie cat’ witnessed around Park in , . Agent 
immediately alerted the Foundation of a possible outbreak of 
SCP-008; MTF-. was dispatched and neutralized SCP-331-1, 
whereupon it was transported to Site after no trace of SCP-008 
was detected. Upon arrival research was conducted on SCP-331 
that confirmed its properties. 


« SCP-330 | SCP-331 | SCP-332 » 


brother, Thomas Michael Higly, and both were recruited by the 
Foundation as D-Class in .SCP-2817-1's brother was assigned 
the number D-113, but is now deceased. According to information 
provided by SCP-2817-1, it is presumed that D-113 was also a 
participant in SCP-2817 for years before both were recruited by 
the Foundation. Before D-113's death, SCP-2817-1 alternated 
monthly participation in SCP-2817 with him. SCP-2817-1 has an 
extremely close relationship with SCP-2817-2, to the point where 
both seem to be able to understand each other's complete 
psychological profile through non-verbal communication. 


SCP-2817-2 is a 3-meter tall, hairless humanoid with a deep mauve 
complexion, which constantly emits a low level of mauve light. It 
appears dressed in a crown and ornate robe, carries a crude 
approximation of a scepter seemingly constructed of bone and a 
wooden judge's gavel, and has the ability to appear and disappear 
at will, manifesting of its own accord to participate in SCP-2817. 
SCP-2817-2 is referred to as "The Carpet King" by SCP-2817-1, 
who claims that it comes to perform SCP-2817 to "confess its sins 
and seek a verdict". SCP-2817-2’s personality has been described 
as extremely skittish, introverted, and “high-maintenance” by 
SCP-2817-1, and it has shown consistent hostility towards the 
guards observing SCP-2817. Due to this, known empirical data 
concerning SCP-281 7-2 is low, and most information is provided by 
SCP-2817-1. 


According to SCP-2817-1, SCP-2817 is a method of crude 
containment for SCP-281 7-2. During SCP-2817, SCP-2817-1 will 
don a set of monk's robes, and carry a hatchet! to a meeting place 
SCP-2817-2 has designated beforehand through unknown means. 
SCP-2817-2 will appear, and kneel at SCP-2817-1's feet. It will then 
recite a brief speech in an unknown language, to which SCP-281 7-1 
will respond while gently placing its hands on SCP-2817-2's 
shoulders in a ritualistic fashion. Following this, SCP-2817-2 will bow 
its head, and SCP-2817-1 will decapitate it. The corpse will vanish 
afterwards, and the ritual will repeat the next month with 
SCP-2817-2 apparently unharmed. Following the ritual, SCP-281 7-1 
will inform Foundation personnel of the sins that SCP-2817-2 
requested be absolved, which are usually genocidal or militaristic in 
nature and on a cosmic scale. 


SCP-2817 acts as self-devised punishment for SCP-281 7-2, 
keeping it from continuing its actions. The effectiveness of this is 
unknown. 


+ Addendum-2817-A 
Interviewed: SCP-2817-1 
Interviewer: Dr. Tamar Geffen 
<Begin Log / /> 


Dr. Geffen: Tell me about the first time 
SCP-2817-2 approached you. 


SCP-2817-1: We were very small children. 
Maybe five or six? Tom and | were inseparable 
at that age, we always had a very close 
relationship. At that age we shared a bedroom, 
| remember this vividly, a bedroom. And we 
slept in this very tall bunkbed our parents had 
set up. | always got the top and he always was 
on the bottom and | remember hearing Tom 
shout about "tall legs" besides the bed in the 
middle of the night a few times. 


Dr. Geffen: Tall legs? 


SCP-2817-1: (nods) He was the first one to 
see him. | probably had my first encounter with 
our monster about a month later. | mean 
before, | had only seen Tom's drawings of him. 


Dr. Geffen: Did your brother feel a stronger 
connection with it? 


SCP-2817-1: Not really. He was there for us 
both. We called him The Carpet King because 
he carried that boney scepter around and we 
had a rug in our bedroom that was the same 
color as his skin. We weren't scared of him 
after a while because he never seemed evil or 


threatening, just sort of sad and lonely. He was 
our friendly monster. 


Dr. Geffen: How did you know what it wanted? 


SCP-2817-1: He never talked ever, but we just 
sort of understood what he wanted and why. | 
can't really explain. | remember he gave us the 
axe and robes and was very insistent that we 
take them and we like them. | think in all the 
years I've known him, it's the only time he 
smiled. 


Dr. Geffen: So you never felt like SCP-281 7-2 
wanted to harm you? 


SCP-2817-1: Never. He was just the monster 
in the closet who showed up every month and 
wanted to die. He taught us how to perform the 
ritual and explained why but we didn't really 
understand then, but it seemed to make him 
feel better. | think he trusted us for some 
reason. 


Dr. Geffen: How did you react to its 
personality as a young child? 


SCP-2817-1: It's...um. Well. It's odd, | really 
sort of took to it. You know? Not like that of 
course, but | felt sorry for him. | really can't say 
anything bad for the guy, | mean. Sure, he has 
this tendency to decimate populations, but we 
all have our vices, right? At least he says he 
won't do anything to Earth, maybe. | don't 
know. It's important for me that people around 
me are happy, that's the thing. And, for me 
and my brother, we were taught that the best 
way to make people happy is to do what they 
ask. | mean, the guy is punishing himself. 
Surely that's proof he wants to change? 


Dr. Geffen: But it seems it hasn't changed. It 
still comes to you. Why is that? 


SCP-2817-1: When someone's making a life 
change, you gotta support them. You gotta 
love them and encourage them. And the love a 
caretaker receives back is something special, 
let me tell you. 


Dr. Geffen: Would you consider yourself a 
caretaker to SCP-2817-2? Or a judge? 


SCP-2817-1: (SCP-2817-1 shrugs) Honestly, 
there's no difference to me anymore. 
Punishment is care. Whether you receive it or 
dish it out. It's how you know you're being 
looked out for. It's how you know you need to 
try harder to receive love. That you're not 
ready for it yet. 


Dr. Geffen: Do you consider SCP-281 7-2 to 
be a good person? 


SCP-2817-1: (SCP-2817-1 shrugs again) | 
would never betray him. Just the way he is, 
that's justification for what he does. | just can't 
feel anything less than love for him. 
(SCP-2817-1 laughs.) Maybe it's just me, | 
dunno. Maybe I'm a pushover for monsters. 
(SCP-2817-1 smiles.) 

<End Log> 


+ Addendum-2817-B 
Interviewed: SCP-2817-1 
Interviewer: Dr. Tamar Geffen 
<Begin Log / /> 


Dr. Geffen: Why did you and your brother 
commit the double homicide? 


SCP-2817-1: That was the final event in a long 
string of requests he made. When Tom and | 
were a little older, almost twelve, he started to 
want "evidence". He would request that we 
perform simple tasks to prove him guilty. It was 
around this time that his behavior was growing 
pretty, um, | don't know what the word is but 
anxious comes close. We would do small 
things at first: find a pinecone, steal a piece of 
gum, read a long book on Roman history cover 
to cover. Pretty random stuff. But it seemed to 
help him face his monthly execution more 
calmly. 


Dr. Geffen: So, | presume, these directives 
became more and more complicated as time 
went on? 


SCP-2817-1: | guess when you put it like that, 
yeah. By the time he requested we kill two 
guys together in a brutal way and go to jail, he 
would be almost trashing our apartments in 
self-loathing. 


Dr. Geffen: Did the nature of the crime affect 
you afterwards? Did you have doubts? 


SCP-2817-1: As | said, as | keep saying, 
punishment is care. 


Dr. Geffen: What led you to that mindset? 


SCP-2817-1: You see, when he was getting 
tough, we would complain. | mean, think about 
us, complaining. (SCP-2817-1 scoffs.) 
Complaining about his tasks and things, how 
unreasonable it seems now. Anyway, he would 
beat us. We would show up for visits and see 
each other's bruises. Tom, this one time, Tom 
came over and he had just gotten out of the 
hospital. His whole face was black and purple. 


Nurses thought he was fighting, or something? 
| mean, who knows what people think. 


Dr. Geffen: And did this violent behavior make 
you stop complaining, or did it increase your 
dissatisfaction? 


SCP-2817-1: Well, | didn't ever want to 
complain anymore. You see, when he beat 
you, it was with such great force that he 
smacked something around in your head. You 
felt so ungrateful. So ungrateful and guilty it 
hurt your soul. During the next two months, 
before he appeared again, | had these dreams 
where he arrived ahead of schedule and 
dragged me into the hall and did unspeakable 
things to me. Unimaginable things to my body 
and mind. But the funny thing is, the more 
terrible the dream, the worse the things he did 
to me, the more relaxed | felt. | was sort of at 
peace with it. | didn't feel a need to scream 
anymore, because why scream? It felt right, 
y'know? All natural like. It was right. | felt cared 
for and corrected. It was good. That's where | 
get my philosophy, and that's why we were 
willing to jump on those people, Tom and |. He 
told me he dreamed those things too. 


Dr. Geffen: Did the effect on your life and 
family when you went to jail bother you at all? 


SCP-2817-1: (Pause of several seconds) No. 
It never did. All that mattered was he was 
happy when he died every month. When he 
confessed and atoned for his sins. That's the 
thing, I'm responsible for him. For all of us. He 
has to atone for what he does, and he needs 
someone who won't or can't judge. A friendly 
shoulder. We all desire a friendly shoulder 
more than anything. 


Dr. Geffen: How did you perform the ritual in 
jail? Or here before the procedure was made 
official? 


SCP-2817-1: He got real quiet after Tom died. 
Stopped being anxious. Stopped coming as 
often. But | think he's happier now, | think. 


Dr. Geffen: SCP-2817-1? 


SCP-2817-1: When The Carpet King is happy, 
I'm happy. I'm happy now, so he must be 


happy. 


Dr. Geffen: SCP-2817-1, answer my question 
please. 


SCP-2817-1: (long pause) We were nothing 
without his love. Are nothing. Less than 
nothing. Every day. (SCP-2817-1 ceases 
communication.) 


<End Log> 


Footnotes 

1. SCP-2817-1 claims that D-113 and it were provided these 
implements when they were first approached by SCP-2817-2, and 
that it manifests them only when it needs to be "judgea". 


« SCP-2816 | SCP-2817 | SCP-2818 » 


SCP-2818: A Gun That Shoots People 


Item #: SCP-2818 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: All collected instances of 
SCP-2818-[2-17] are to be kept within a high-security storage locker 
at Site-71. SCP-2818 instances are only to be removed from storage 
for testing purposes. Testing may only be carried out at a suitable, 
modified firing range with specialized lead impact points for 
collection. 


Description: SCP-2818 is the group designation for a collection of 
sixteen firearms resembling Barrett M82A1 anti-materiel rifles. The 
primary physical difference between instances of SCP-2818 and 
standard Barrett M82A1s is the words "H&W Mod #9" in place of the 
standard Barrett identification.