her and burn her. 

¢ The farmer will kill his brother. 

* The messengers of the gods will breach 
the city walls. 

* The peoples of Babylon will be scattered 
before the winds. 

¢ The god Marduk will thunder and devour 
the land beneath. The tower will be lost. 


Item 0012: 


Description: A royal inscription on a stone 
tablet removed from the central building of 
SCP-2621. 


Excerpt of translated text: Nimrod, great 
king, mighty king, king of the world, king of 
Babylon, king of the lands, provider for Erech, 


Akkad and Calneh of the Sinai, foremost heir 
of king Cush, the Sumerian, king of Babylon, 
am I. 


Marduk, wisest of the gods, the proud one, 
who is worthy of praise, look favorably (upon 
me). 


At your supreme command, whose command 
is unalterable, may the downfall of the land of 
my foe, the achievement of my successes, 
triumphant victory over my enemies, a just 
rule, a prosperous reign, years of happiness 
and the full enjoyment of great old age, be a 
gift for the son of Cush, King Nimrod, forever. 


May | build a tower to reach to the sun; may | 
create the bridge between earth and heaven. 
May | break your exalted tablet which 

preserves the boundary of heaven and earth. 


Upon this purpose may my days be long, my 
years many; may my throne be secure, and 
my reign lengthy. 


Item 0013: 


Description: A building inscription from a 
tablet removed from the same building as Item 
0012. 


Summary of translated text: The text 
describes a building "24 kush" (Around 8 
meters) wide and "7 nindan" (Around 39.8 
meters) tall. In comparison, the tallest building 
today is 828 meters tall. 


Footnotes 
1. Divinations based on the entrails of sacrificed animals 


« SCP-2620 | SCP-2621 | SCP-2622 » 


SCP-2622: Ambassador from the Mole People 


Item #: SCP-2622 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2622 is to be kept in a 
standard humanoid containment chamber furnished with a bed, a 
dresser of clothes, and a writing desk. Paper and pencil are to be 
supplied to SCP-2622 upon request. SCP-2622 is to be provided 
with 300 grams of Dietary Supplement 2622-Alpha, consisting of 25 
parts protein paste to 75 parts soil, three times daily. SCP-2622’s 
chamber is to remain in near-complete darkness unless research 
access to its cell is desired, in which case the lights may be raised to 
allow low visibility. 


SCP-2622 is generally cooperative with Foundation personnel, and 
is not considered a major containment breach risk. Any personnel 
with Level 2 or higher security clearance are permitted to enter 
SCP-2622’s containment chamber, with no special clearance 
required. 


The personal effects in SCP-2622’s possession upon initial 
containment are to be contained in a locker in Non-Anomalous Item 
Storage. Requests by SCP-2622 for these items to be returned are 
to be summarily denied. 


Description: SCP-2622 is a roughly humanoid creature 
approximately 1.8 meters tall and weighing approximately 85 
kilograms. Subject is male and of unknown age, but is believed to be 
in the middle adulthood range due to several physiological 
indicators, such as greying hair and early-onset rheumatoid arthritis 
in the hands. 


SCP-2622 is a member of an unknown sapient species seemingly 
adapted for subterranean living. Subject’s eyes are approximately 
fifteen centimeters in diameter and are protected by transparent 


nictitating membranes, lacking more traditional eyelids. Subject is 
extremely sensitive to light, experiencing extreme ocular pain in 
brighter than dim lighting conditions. In addition, SCP-2622’s nose 
occupies the entire front of the skull and is ringed with twenty-two 
fleshy appendages. Said appendages are partially prehensile and 
highly sensitive to touch, as well as audio frequencies, electrical 
currents, and vibrations within solid substances. SCP-2622’s hands 
are covered in light grey scales, limiting their touch sensitivity, and 
its fingers are limited in motion and tipped with 5-centimeter-long 
claws; as a result, SCP-2622 examines objects primarily via smell 
and nasal touch. The rest of the subject’s body is covered in fur, 
primarily dark grey-black in color with aging-induced pigmentation 
loss on the head, upper back, and shoulders. Subject is typically 
dressed in Foundation-provided human clothing, with a professed 
fondness for khaki, aloha shirts, and men’s sun hats. 


SCP-2622 speaks fluent English with an affected English accent, but 
denies that its way of speaking is an affectation. Subject claims to 
be an ambassador-at-large to humankind from a civilization that it 
calls “the Terra Interia Empire”. According to SCP-2622, the Terra 
Interia Empire encompasses over 500 million kilometers of tunnels 
and caverns within the Earth’s crust, inhabited by animals, plants, 
and sapient species completely unknown to humankind. Notable 
inhabitants and landmarks of the Terra Interia Empire, as relayed to 
Foundation researchers by SCP-2622, include: 


¢ “Interians”. The species to which SCP-2622 belongs. 
According to SCP-2622, they are a peaceful race with a highly 
advanced culture and technological standard. 

« “Anapsidons”. A race of sapient reptilian creatures, 

described by SCP-2622 as violent, aggressive, and warlike. 

SCP-2622 has given conflicting accounts to interviewers of 

the Anapsidon’s diplomatic status with the Interians. See 

Interview Log for further details. 

“Krystopolis”. The capital city of the Terra Interia Empire, 

located directly beneath the Earth’s magnetic North Pole. 

Buildings in Krystopolis are supposedly constructed from a 

green organic crystal that grows into directed shapes. 

“The Fire Plain”. A cavern located beneath the south-central 

Pacific Ocean, with nearly constant volcanic activity that 


prevents plant life growth. The Fire Plain is supposedly 
inhabited by silicon-based crystalline animals, as well as a 
sapient species of hunter-gatherers called “the Rock Men”. 

¢« “The Great Underland Sea”. A body of water located 
underneath the approximate center of the continent of Africa, 
populated by prehistoric sea life ranging from the Devonian to 
the Cretaceous periods (419 — 65 million years ago) in 
temporal period of origin, as well as a mysterious sapient 
species of fishlike humanoids. 

« “The Savage Country”. A cavern of immense size (given by 
SCP-2622 as “a hundred thousand square miles” 
[approximately 2.6 million square kilometers] in area) located 
underneath the island of Greenland in the Arctic Ocean, 
tropical in climate and supposedly inhabited by dinosaurs. 


SCP-2622 claims that humankind engaged in frequent diplomatic 
relations with the Terra Interia Empire hundreds of thousands of 
years in the past, and that a cataclysmic event — the nature of which 
SCP-2622 refuses or is unable to specify — permanently divided the 
two cultures. Foundation investigations have so far failed to 
substantiate any of SCP-2622’s claims. 


SCP-2622 was discovered wandering the maintenance areas of the 
London Underground, suffering from mild to moderate malnutrition 
and dehydration. After recovering while in Foundation custody, 
SCP-2622 excitedly commented on “how bloody much (humankind 
had) improved”, and repeatedly related its personal history to all 
present Foundation medical and research personnel. SCP-2622 
claims to have been cut off from the Terra Interia Empire since the 
aforementioned cataclysmic event, and has repeatedly requested 
that the Foundation reestablish contact with the Terra Interia Empire 
and allow it to return home. A complete search of the London 
Underground by Foundation field agents uncovered nothing of 
interest save for SCP-2622’s personal effects, detailed in Addendum 
2622-1. 


+ Show Interview Log 


The following interview was taken on / /2013, 
ten days after SCP-2622’s initial containment. 


Interviewer: Researcher Quinan 
Interviewee: SCP-2622 


<Begin Log> 


Researcher Quinan: Good morning, 
SCP-2622. 


SCP-2622: Ah, finally! Room service! | ordered 
my paté two hours ago! And | don’t know what 
you just called me, dear boy, but | suggest you 
address me by my full and proper title! 


Researcher Quinan: There’s no room service 
here, 2622. I’m here to- 


SCP-2622: No room service? What kind of 
hotel is this? The service is bloody 
abominable! See if | ever stay here again! 


Researcher Quinan: This isn’t- |’m here to 
interview you. I’m here to ask you some 
questions. 


SCP-2622: Oh, well... | suppose the lack of 
service can be overlooked. This once! 


Researcher Quinan: Mm-hm. 


SCP-2622: So what would you like to hear, my 
dear boy? 


Researcher Quinan: This “Terra Interia 
Empire” you come from- 


SCP-2622: Oh, great Interia! How | long to 
return to the motherland! 


Researcher Quinan: We've been unable to 
determine any evidence of its existence. 


SCP-2622: Well, of course you wouldn't be! 


Not since the great disaster! | suppose | was 
the first you’d heard of it. 


Researcher Quinan: That's correct. 


SCP-2622: Just as | suspected. Wiped from 
the cultural memory. 


Researcher Quinan: Can you explain how 
this “great disaster” came to pass? 


SCP-2622: Oh, | wasn’t present at the time, 
unfortunately. | was in Terra Exteria ona 
diplomatic excursion, trying to negotiate the 
first inter-layer trade routes. Oh, if we had only 
known the terrible fate that would befall our 
world! 


Researcher Quinan: Do you have any idea as 
to what might have happened? 


SCP-2622: I’d bet you a thousand crystal 
coins it was those dastardly Anapsidons. 


Researcher Quinan: Why do you think that? 


SCP-2622: Always jealous of my people, they 
were, squatting in their muddy hovels and 
gazing up at our glorious crystal spires. | 
suspect they meant to knock us down a peg. 


Researcher Quinan: Yesterday you told Dr. 
that the Anapsidons were, quote, “the 
most valiant and gentlemanly brothers-in-arms 

an Interian could ask for”. 


SCP-2622: You can’t predict those 
Anapsidons, my dear boy, they’re always up to 
something. 


Researcher Quinan: | see. 


Addendum 295d: See Experiment Log 295-1-a 
Addendum 295e: See Experiment Log 295-1-b 
« SCP-294 | SCP-295 | SCP-296 » 


SCP-2622: Ever since the Eighth Battle of the 
Ice Forest, after we turned the tide against 
them in the Great Interior War, they’ve been 
out for revenge. It looks to me as though 
they've gotten it. 


Researcher Quinan: Were you present at this 
“Battle of the Ice Forest”? 


SCP-2622: Indeed | was, my dear boy. Slew a 
dozen Anapsidons myself. 


Researcher Quinan: When did this battle take 
place? 


SCP-2622: [REDACTED]! 
Researcher Quinan: That’s quite impressive. 


SCP-2622: Thank you. Ah, if only | still had my 
medals. 


Researcher Quinan: Can you tell me a little 
more about this “Ice Forest”? 


SCP-2622: It’s beautiful there, when not 
wracked by war. A frozen cavern, a thousand 
miles wide, deep beneath the land you surface 
dwellers call “Korea”. Ice crystals the size of 
cities! 


Researcher Quinan: | thought that was where 
the Thorn Wastes were located. That’s what 
you told Security Officer two days ago. 


SCP-2622: Well, tectonic shifts, you know. 


Researcher Quinan: Oh, of course. | think 
that about wraps it up for now, 2622. Thank 
you for your time. 


SCP-2622: Oh, one thing before you go, dear 


boy. 
Researcher Quinan: Yes? 


SCP-2622: I’d like some materials on which to 
write my memoirs. It might be a long time 
before | can return to my homeland. I'd like to 
tell my story. 


Researcher Quinan: I’m sure that can be 
arranged. 


SCP-2622: Thank you, my good man. You are 
a gentleman and a scholar. 


<End Log> 


Note: Chapters 1 through 17 of SCP-2622’s 
in-progress memoirs, Concerning the 
Adventures of the Eminent and Honorable 
Gentleman-Ambassador to Terra Exteria in the 
Worlds Below, Above, and Beyond, are 
currently available for research access by any 
personnel with Level 2 security clearance or 
above. 


Addendum 2622-1: Personal Effects of SCP-2622 


One backpack. 

One sleeping bag. 

One pillow. 

Two sets of clothes. 

Three packages of snack food, one opened. 

A cardboard cigar box containing eleven facsimiles of military 
medals constructed from assorted detritus, including bottle 
caps, tinfoil, and twist ties. 

Copies of the following books; 


© A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs. 
© Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men, Volume 1, Stan Lee. 
©. Hyperborea, Clark Ashton Smith. 


© Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne. 
© The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells. 


Footnotes 
1. The date given, if correct, would make SCP-2622 approximately 
years old. 


« SCP-2621 | SCP-2622 | SCP-2623 » 


SCP-2623: Distance 


Item #: SCP-2623 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2623 is to be kept in a 
standard humanoid containment cell at Adjunct Site-394. 
SCP-2623-1 is to be contained in a specialized, refrigerated 
containment chamber at Site-394. 


Description: SCP-2623 is a 27 year old human female identified as 
Karen Jones. SCP-2623 is capable of instantaneously transporting 
itself to a single location inside Adjunct Site-394 in New York City, 
New York, at will. Site-394 was, prior to its acquisition by the 
Foundation, a cafe on 52nd street in New York City. 


SCP-2623's ability has shown no limitations with regard to range 
(testing has been performed for distances up to 12,000 kilometers). 
SCP-2623 is capable of transporting both itself and up to 345 
kilograms of material. 


SCP-2623-1 is the corpse of a 29 year old human male identified as 
Thomas Williams. SCP-2623-1 is extensively decomposed. If 
SCP-2623-1 is moved further than 1.2 kilometers from Site-394, 
SCP-2623-1 will be transported to Site-394 in a manner similar to 
that of SCP-2623. 


Discovery: SCP-2623-1's anomalous properties were identified 
after its death. Several attempts by emergency services to move the 
object to a local hospital were stymied by the object's anomalous 
properties, resulting in identification and containment by the 
Foundation (originally as anomalous object 436). 


Following several years of containment, SCP-2623 was discovered 
inside Site 394, past several security locks. SCP-2623 was 
disoriented but cooperative with Foundation staff who identified 


SCP-2623's possible anomalous properties (which were later 
confirmed during testing). 


Addendum 1: SCP-2623 on multiple occasions has claimed to have 
no knowledge of SCP-2623-1. Several followup interviews with 
SCP-2623 yielded no information concerning SCP-2623-1. Despite 
this, SCP-2623 is otherwise cooperative with Foundation staff. A test 
for the previous use of amnestics returned a negative result. 


Addendum 2: The following unopened letter was found in 
SCP-2623's former apartment. It is the only recorded reference to 
SCP-2623's anomalous properties. 


I'm an idiot. You've always known that. | think deep down 
so did I. 


But | don't wanna let you go. 


Don't worry. This isn't me not getting the hint. | saw the 
letter. | know you don't want to see me again. I'm not 
going to try to make excuses for letting you slip away. 
Work was not more important than this. 


If you wanna put an ocean between us, | understand. But 
| would be the biggest idiot in the world if | didn't try just 
One more time to let you know what you mean to me. | 
am in love with you. 


Babe, | am in madly love with you. 


Remember how you crinkled your nose when | blew out 
the candles the first night | told you that? It took me three 
years to get up the nerve. Do you remember when | had 
my wreck over Christmas and you cried and cried but 
never left the hospital room? How about when | 
proposed to you out on the lake and | fell into the water? 
| thought we were gonna have the rest of our lives to 
laugh about that.