With the Ostian beach established and supplies running low, 
Hasdrubal moved his entire fleet onto the beach to prepare an 
advance towards Rome. The advance was slowed by the fleet of 
Marius Trudeus, who ordered his ships to attach tow ropes to the 
legs of SCP-3813 and keep it from advancing. While the confusion 
did give Claudius Marcellus time to retreat to a more fortified 
position at La Dragona, SCP-3813 was able to shrug off the 
attached ships and, during a short battle near the beach, destroy 
many of them. 


As Hannibal marched on Rome from the north, the entire Roman 
column fell back to the village at La Dragona, where Claudius 
Marcellus met up with the Roman rear guard under command of 
Gaius Flaminius. The Roman strategy was simple - find a way to 
slow the advance of SCP-3813, and wait for heavy siege equipment 
from the main Roman army of Scipio Africanus marching from the 
northeast. 


However the men garrisoned within SCP-3813 were now able to fire 
arrows and drop oil and stones on Roman targets, as well as fire 
large ballista mounted on the sides of the entity and use its trunks 
and tusks to sweep any approaching army. 


Roman catapults kept SCP-3813 and the Carthaginian advance at 
bay throughout most of the second week of the summer, but 
Hasdrubal continued to apply pressure to the Roman line. At the end 
of the second week of summer, SCP-3813 charged the Romans for 
the first time, resulting in many fleeing or being crushed beneath it. 


While the entity did sustain some damage from Roman siege 
equipment, the Roman losses were significant. The better part of the 
Roman guard would not have been able to escape had it not been 
for a charge of heavy cavalry led by Gaius Flaminius himself, who 
was killed in the attempt. 


The Roman West (Summer - 216) 


With Rome finally in his sights, Hasdrubal drove his men up the hills 
past La Dragona and was met by a Roman wall. The wall quickly 
buckled under the weight of SCP-3813 and was destroyed, but not 
before further delaying the Carthaginian advance. 


As they did, small pockets of Roman resistance continued to attack 
the army in skirmishes - most disappearing before SCP-3813 could 
be called to the defense. Annoyed by the lack of progress, 
Hasdrubal pushed forward, ignoring the attacks on his men. 


The Carthaginians then experienced a significant setback when 
Hasdrubal’s son, Hyrum, was killed during an ambush. In a rage, 
Hasdrubal destroyed the nearby Roman camp utilizing SCP-3813, 
which suffered heavy damage. Hasdrubal then marched towards the 
Roman’s western camps. 


The Carthaginians overwhelmed the Romans using SCP-3813 and 
large, sweeping lines across the battlefield, but each attack was 
followed by a Roman charge that threatened to breach the 
Carthaginian fronts. 


Carthaginian runners indicated that Scipio Africanus was less than a 
day's ride out, and the smoke from his camps could be seen from 
atop the tower on SCP-3813. Hasdrubal, realizing he needed to 
seize Rome or face an attack on two fronts, charged forward, using 
SCP-3813 to smash Roman lines and disorganize their charges. 
One such charge resulted in the deaths of Claudius Marcellus’ most 
trusted officers and over 200 heavy horses. 


The Roman lines fell into full retreat. However, the smoke Hasdrubal 
had seen in the distance was a decoy. Scipio Africanus’ host arrived 
and began a full rout of the Carthaginian infantry. Utilizing large 
rams mounted on the sides of wagons, Scipio furiously attacked 
SCP-3813’s legs, dealing damage to them and forcing the entity to 
defend itself instead of attacking the heavily armored Roman 
cavalry. 


Realizing that he had been outmaneuvered, Hasdrubal ordered a 
retreat to the more fortified position at La Dragona, but found it too 


was overrun with Roman reserves. Using SCP-3813 as little more 
than a battering ram to clear a path, Hasdrubal and his troops 
eventually fled to their ships. 


The retreat did not signal the end of Scipio’s attack, however. 
Utilizing technology gained from some of Rome’s Gallic allies, Scipio 
had assembled a number of large counterweight catapults and 
loaded them into horse-drawn carts. Scipio utilized these trebuchets 
to launch projectiles at SCP-3813 from a distance, dealing damage 
to the entity and forcing it back into the sea. 


At this time, Hasdrubal received word that Hannibal had begun his 

attack on the Roman north, and that reinforcements were at hand. 

Seeing that the majority of Scipio’s host had turned away from the 

retreating Carthaginians to return to the city, Hasdrubal ordered his 
men to turn and fight. 


The fighting continued for nearly a week. Occasionally SCP-3813 
would move onto the beach and into range of the trebuchets, and 
would be repelled. The Carthaginian beachfront stood strong the 
entire time, occasionally reinforced by soldiers from Hannibal’s 
detachment. After six days of fighting, Hasdrubal began to move 
SCP-3813 north to reinforce the main force under Hannibal. 


However a Roman general named Maximillian Arcturus Phenios 
sent divers under the cover of darkness to attach many large 
anchored tow-lines around the feet of SCP-3813. At the same time, 
as the Carthaginian encampment moved off of the beach, Arcturus 
had Claudius Marcellus move Scipio’s trebuchets further up and into 
range of SCP-3813’s position in the sea. 


At first light, Claudius launched at SCP-3813 with no fewer than 
thirty of the siege engines. As SCP-3813 sustained damage on its 
side, Hasdrubal ordered the entity forward. The tow lines were 
strained, but held SCP-3813 in place long enough for Claudius to 
release several more volleys. 


The front right leg crumpled first, collapsing on itself at the knee joint 
and causing SCP-3813 to lean forward precariously. Fires began to 
break out within SCP-3813 as a Roman trebuchet punched a hole 
through the steel frame. Several escape vessels were lowered from 


the bottom of SCP-3813, but most of these were destroyed when 
the fires burned through the ropes lowering the ships and they fell 
into the sea. 


According to Carthaginian historians, it was a strike to SCP-3813’s 
back right knee that brought the machine down. As both of the right 
legs began to buckle and collapse, the remainder of the crew 
jumped to their deaths. Records indicate that before collapsing 
completely, SCP-3813 took one more step with its front right foot 
towards Rome before the joint came apart entirely and the entity fell 
down into the sea. 


Post-Event Analysis 


SCP-3813 remains where it collapsed, leaning towards its right side 
with its front right leg trapped in the seabed underneath the main 
superstructure and its left two legs outstretched towards the other 
side. The story of Arcturus Phenios and the tow lines was originally 
believed to have been a myth!, but large stone anchors were 
discovered near the collapsed SCP-3813, furthering strengthening 
the story’s claim. 


Despite the nature of the attack on Rome by SCP-3813 and the 
effect it is believed to have had on the Roman psyche, almost no 
information about it survived to the modern day as part of the 
collective historical consciousness. Indeed, it seems that in the 
years following SCP-3813’s collapse2, as Hannibal continued his 
conquest against Rome, a massive undertaking occurred to obscure 
the facts of the event or erase them entirely. Which group was 
responsible for this, if any, is also unknown. 


Despite this, and due to the number of texts detailing the event that 
Foundation assets have been able to compile, it is believed that the 
destruction of SCP-3813 is the single largest pre-modern history 
example of a supernatural event being removed from the historical 
record. 


Footnotes 

1. As it was only recorded in one second-hand account of a 
merchant who claimed to have served Phenios’ brother. 

2. Often called “The Fall of Hyperion” in surviving texts. 


SCP-3815: Elena the Ever-Present 


Item #: SCP-3815 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3815 is currently housed 
on a Clandestine farm in , Utah, under the visual supervision of 
three female, Level-2 personnel, trained specifically to counter its 
anomaly. Once a month a courier from Site-11 is to be dispatched to 
the location to resupply the group with amenities as needed. 
SCP-3815 is allowed free roam around the property during daylight 
hours provided an escort, and limited television and internet access 
dependent on good behavior. 


Description: SCP-3815 is a human female of Icelandic nationality 
by the name of Elena Bell. Subject is 20 years of age, stands 
approximately 1.5m tall and weighs 46kg. 


SCP-3815 is an entity whose immediate location is solely dependent 
upon being in the sightline of the nearest human being, disregarding 
itself. If visual contact of the subject is severed by prolonged blinking 
or sufficiently obscured by any means, SCP-3815 will spontaneously 
materialize into view of the nearest living individual including its 
clothing and any untethered objects it may be holding at the time. 


Subject does not appear to be in control of this phenomena as 
relocation occurs regardless of its will, disposition, or state of 
consciousness. 


According to SCP-3815’s own testimony this anomaly began 
manifesting five days after its 20th birthday, following its mother’s 
passing. If it is to be believed, interviews suggest there might be a 
correlation between the two events, though the actual cause 
remains unknown. 


Any further experiments involving SCP-3815 must be conducted by 


Level-3 personnel after Incident SCP-3815-08, in which line of sight 
testing caused the subject to partially materialize into a concrete wall 
where the nearest researcher was focusing, resulting in a small 
crater and substantial spinal injury for SCP-3815. Any new relevant 
information denoting a change in relocation behavior or 
circumstances involving significant harm brought to the subject are 
to be documented and logged by assigned personnel at the time. 


Addendum 3815-01: Any abandoned parts of the subject’s 
physiology including locks of hair, fingernail clippings, skin 
scrapings, saliva, blood samples, and bodily waste products no 
longer possess the line of sight anomaly. 


Addendum 3815-02: Experimentation with mirrors, reflective 
surfaces, and live camera feeds reveal that an indirect line of sight is 
sufficient to prevent dematerialization and relocation of the subject. 
In addition, complete obscuration is required for a line of sight 
relocation to occur; so long as the subject's perceived outline is still 
visible the subject remains in place. This may also help to explain 
why typical blinking patterns by observers does not trigger the 
anomaly, as perception seems to take precedence over actual line 
of sight. Utilization of mirrors and translucent curtains in subject’s 
residence to allow ease of containment and privacy have been 
approved. 


Interview Log 3815-3 
Interviewer: Dr. Elijah Rhalli 
<Begin Log> 


Dr. Rhalli: Good morning, how are you feeling today, 
3815? 


SCP-3815: Just call me Elena, for God’s sake. You know 
my name. Half the people on site do since I’ve been 
bouncing around here. 


Dr. Rhalli: Your anomaly appears very inconvenient for 
you. 


SCP-3815: | can’t even sleep without someone gawking 
at me, though... if I’m being honest it is rather relaxing 
being able to stay in one place for a couple of hours. 


Dr. Rhalli: We've established chaperones to help in that 
department. We want to make sure you are comfortable. 


SCP-3815: After the last experiment you conducted | 
should hope so. | don’t want to get slammed into any 
more walls, thank you. The company isn’t bad, I’m just 
not used to so much of it. 


Dr. Rhalli: That’s understandable. You said you lived 
alone with your mother? 


SCP-3815: Ah, now we are getting into the Freudian shit. 
Yes, | lived with my mother. | took care of her and paid 
our bills like a good girl. Life was simple. 


Dr. Rhalli: Do you think her death triggered you in some 
way? Did you mourn her loss? 


SCP-3815: Of course | did. What, you think she had 
something to do with my current condition? She wasn’t a 
witch. She could barely move or speak. 


Dr. Rhalli: She was stricken with cystic fibrosis, correct? 


SCP-3815: Yes, and early on-set Alzheimer’s. She was 
a wreck in the end. Can we get back to my condition? | 
hear you have some boys off-campus who have 
problems with being in line of sight. Looks like I’m not the 
only one. 


(Dr. Rhalli pauses and listens to his earpiece for further 
instruction before continuing.) 


Dr. Rhalli: You’re very well informed, it would seem. 


SCP-3815: Like | said, you get into a lot of places when 
you travel by sight lines. 


Dr. Rhalli: Regardless of the rarity or distinction of your 
anomaly, it is the Foundation’s job to attempt to 
understand and catalogue unexplained phenomena. Do 
you have any education on or understanding of quantum 
mechanics, or perhaps the Von Neumann-Wigner 
interpretation! ? 


SCP-3815: Is that some sort of universal source code 
that | should care about or something? | just want to stop 
teleporting. 


Dr. Rhalli: It's more of a theory about the presence of 
conciousness being required for existence. 


SCP-3815: You're way off. 
Dr. Rhalli: Then maybe you could enlighten me. 


(SCP-3815 reclines in its chair, smiles, and remains 
silent. After one minute elapses, Dr. Rhalli resumes 
speaking.) 


Dr. Rhalli: Really? 


SCP-3815: (smiling) I'll give this anomaly one thing. 
Look, don’t look, with me you don’t really have a choice 
in the matter. I'll always have an audience. If you didn't 
keep me so heavily under lock and key following my 
arrival | might actually be inclined. 


(Dr. Rhalli sneezes, severing visual contact with 
SCP-3815; subject instantly dematerializes and 
rematerializes in the line of sight of one of its chaperones 
directly outside the interviewing room, before being 
escorted back in.) 


SCP-3815: Bless you. 


(Dr. Rhalli reestablishes visual contact with the subject 
and listens to his earpiece.) 


Dr. Rhalli: We might be able to afford you more 


freedom, in exchange for your continued cooperation. 


SCP-3815: | should be so honored. Fine. | don’t know 
anything about quantum mechanics, but my mother did 
say something to me the day before she died, and | 
woke up on my neighbor’s kitchen table while he ate 
breakfast. Just... promise me you won’t dig her up or 
anything. 


Dr. Rhalli: What did she say? 


SCP-3815: It was the clearest thing she had said in three 
years. She said... she was sorry | didn’t have a social life 
because of her. She said she was sorry | didn’t get to go 
to college because all the money went to her disease. 
She said that just looking at me was the greatest feeling 
in the world, and that when she died she hoped that 
someone would always look after me. | guess... the 
universe took her too literally on that. 


<End Log> 


Footnotes 
1. An interpretation of quantum mechanics in which consciousness 
is postulated to cause a collapse of the wave function. 


SCP-3817: Suffering For Your Art 


Item #: SCP-3817 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3817 is to be contained in 
a standard humanoid residential chamber at Site- . SCP-3817 is to 
be restrained in the event it exhibits any sign of physical violence 
towards itself or personnel. 


SCP-3817 is required to have weekly medical examinations. Any 
major discrepancies in physical or mental health are to be reported 
to acting senior medical staff on-duty. 


SCP-3817 is permitted access to the following: 


* one 88-key upright piano 
* one writing desk 
* stationery 


Note: All pens and pencils given to SCP-3817 must be at least 8mm 
in diameter. No mechanical pencils are allowed.