Borges: Or more effective. 
Sinclair: Then we really need to be open to considering it. 


Elliott: First on the agenda; A quick recap of the dossier as it 
stands. Paperwork at this time is very informal, and | would 
like to make it clear on the recording what the information we 
are working with is at this present time. After which we will 
hold a vote on whether to discuss the matter further or, as 
Tennyson has requested, to close the matter as too extreme 
a solution for the problem. Any objections? 


[A pause of three seconds, absolute silence.] 


Elliott: Very well. The Sowing Circle was found in southern 
Mongolia, and its anomalous effects remain after 
transportation. The Sowing Circle consists of an unknown 
mummified human, who has approximately 3-meter diameter 
of intestines formed into a ritual circle. The genitalia, 
specifically the testes, has seed-pod-like vegetation growing. 
The intestinal tract must be kept coated by wet O+ blood at all 
times for the seeds to regrow after harvest. The intestines exit 
the mummified man, form the loop, then return with no 
apparent breakage or restitching. Does this visual description 
match the images provided in your dossier, and your 
understanding of the Circle so far? 


[Silence] 
Elliott: This will be a recording. They can’t hear you nod. 
[All give various affirmation.] 


Elliott: Good. The effects of the Circle are as follows: If a 
child-bearing female ingests the harvested seeds, first she will 
be wracked with intense, involuntary orgasms for an hour. 
This is the process of insemination. After which there is a 
seven-hour pregnancy period, during which time eight to 
twelve human infants - the paternal half of the DNA being 
Mongolian - will be brought to term. This is analogous to the 
number expected of a litter of piglets— 


Sinclair: Disgusting. 


Elliott: —which is where the Circle is believed to have 
received its name. Sinclair? 


Sinclair: Sorry, | just made the ‘sowing’ connection for the 
first time. | was reading it like ‘sowing’, to sow seeds. 


Elliott: It’s not pleasant, no. 


Borges: | will admit, my first reaction to that was; ‘Ah, yes, the 
other-other white meat.’ 


Tennyson: Borges! 

[Strauss chokes down a laugh.] 

Strauss: Sorry, that got me off-guard. 
Tennyson: | really don’t see the humour in this. 
Elliott: Nor |. May we continue, please? 


Borges: It’s just so... much, though, isn’t it? It's excessive. 
We might not be using it for... sugary reasons? | don’t know a 
good English expression, but the only reason | can think of for 
creating this anomaly is for the mass production of 
genetically-similar children. 


Sinclair: From captured women... 


Borges: Oh, yeah, they were absolutely not asking for 
volunteers for this, from what I’ve read. This seemed like it 
was made to be taken on long campaigns, for repopulation 
purposes. Light, compact, and it still worked after we 
transported it back here. 


Tennyson: We tested it here? | don’t see anything in here 
about authorizing that. 


Elliott: Seed growth continued after the intestines were 
relubricated. Males that eat the seeds experience an hour of 


incredible gastric distress and spasms of the pelvic muscles, 
but otherwise no fertilization. From... what | believe was a 
very constipated D-class volunteer? The seeds are still active. 


Tennyson: Right. Okay. 
Strauss: How’s the constipation? 


Elliott: Treated. And the D-class was rewarded for his 
services with double cafeteria credits for the week. 


Strauss: Worse ways to spend a day in D-class. 
Borges: Beats having to feed the Baba Yaga. 


Sinclair: | feel like we’re getting a little off-topic here. The next 
question should be: Should we be using this? How do we 
minimize harm? 


Borges: How do we get maximum utility? 


Tennyson: And is this really better than any alternative we 
can think of? 


Strauss: At the end of the day, the Foundation’s gotta eat 
some babies to save the world. That’s just the facts. 


Tennyson: He who fights monsters... 
Borges: Saves the goddamn world from monsters, yeah. 


Sinclair: Personally, | think we should discuss harm 
minimization first. 


Tennyson: Shouldn't we vote on whether we should be doing 


this at all before we spend time discussing... the nitty gritty of 
it? 


Elliott: Then we run the risk of dismissing it out of hand, 
based on its broadest possible interpretation. Or, possibly 
worse, agree on it before stumbling upon details that makes 
this far worse than current methods. | agree, it’s better to 


discuss how we would proceed before deciding whether or 
not we should. 


Tennyson: Ah, the ‘shut up and calculate’ school of ethics, 
then. 


Borges: Yeah. So. Shut up and calculate. 


Tennyson: Actually, allow me to play devil’s advocate, if you 
will? Can we all unanimously agree that the current 
methodology is... awful? Truly awful. 


Strauss: Sure. 


Tennyson: When was the last time it was reviewed, or 
refined, seriously? 


Strauss: 1975, when Franco of Spain died. Nearly a 
thousand babies stolen in Spain per year since 1939, we 
could hide in the margins. 


Tennyson: Jesus Christ. 


Strauss: Dictatorships don’t usually get ethics committees, 
no. 


Tennyson: Wouldn't it be better to refine current methods to a 
more... competitive standard? If we’re truly going to vote 
between the devil and the deep blue sea. 


Borges: | guess that makes me the deep blue sea advocate, 
then. 


Tennyson: Sure. I'll try to work that out while you discuss... 
the implications of your proposed use of the Sowing Circle. 


Elliott: I’m in favour of this proposal. Tennyson, you can work 
on that, then. Borges, you seem to have volunteered to 
champion the argument for the anomaly. 


Borges: Alright. So, for us over here in open ocean, that 
leaves us with... well. What does that leave us with? 


Sinclair: When we should use it, under what circumstances, 
how do we select... mothers? Donors? Subjects? 


Elliott: | Know you'll hate to hear this, but we’re really going to 
have to argue over semantics. 


[Borges groans audibly. ] 


Strauss: I’m with Borges. You’re going to have to walk me 
through this one. 


Elliott: If we decide on this, it will have to be written as a 
procedural report. Do we use dehumanizing language or not? 
Is that insulting to the women we subject this to, if we rely on 
volunteers? Does it propagate unwanted misogynistic thought 
processes? Or does it just make the job harder on the people 
who have to monitor and enforce the procedure? What 
balance do we strike? 


Borges: Jesus. 


Strauss: We’re really going to have to argue semantics, and 
it's actually going to matter, isn’t it? 


Sinclair: Welcome to SCP ethics. Where it’s necessary to be 
politically correct about baby-culling. 


Strauss: God damn. We’re really going to have to be careful 
about misogyny? How’s that play into this? 


Borges: People have strange ideas in their heads about 
women’s rights to their reproductive organs and their role for 
‘breeding’, which we might re-enforce by using dehumanizing 
language. We just laughed about a guy volunteering for this, 
too, because it’s... | agree with Elliott. We need to be careful 
when we write this. 


Sinclair: | want to pick up on the misogynism, actually. Or, 
follow on from that. There’s already language in here I'd like 
to protest. 


Borges: Just in the dossier? What do you mean? 


Sinclair: Right here it says ‘wracked with intense, involuntary 
orgasms for an hour’. Do we really need to include this? Do 
we need to say this? It’s beyond puerile and unnecessary. 


Elliott: It’s going to have to go into the formal report, so 
whoever has to follow this procedure knows what to expect. 
We don’t want this to be a surprise, and we don’t want that 
information to be spread by rumours. 


Sinclair: It’s repulsive, and there’s the legitimate concern to 
me that including it in the report will cause some unwanted 
rationalisations; Dare | utter ‘It’s okay, she'll enjoy it at first’. 


[Sounds of groans and sighs around the room. Researcher 
Tennyson audibly gags.] 


Strauss: We can lie on the report about the nature of the 
physical response. Call them seizures. They’re not going to 
be doing this under an MRI. 


Elliott: We could lie. I'm not convinced yet that we should. 


Tennyson: There'll be consequences if we include it 
unnecessarily. Are you willing to hear an internal 
investigations report accusing us of fetishizing 
documentation? 


Elliott: Let the record show that | am willing to take the 
entirety of that responsibility on my own shoulders. If you still 
have legitimate reasons for wanting to omit that detail on the 
report without the bias of being reprimanded for doing so, do 
so. But we are discussing an abhorrent occult fertility rite. 


Tennyson: Let the record show | still hate this. 


Strauss: Agreed, Tennyson. Just stay focused and this'll be 
over quicker. 


Tennyson: Lie back and think of England? 


Borges: Of every innocent child we no longer have to abduct 
just to throw into the meat grinder. 


Tennyson: Instead we're just forcing women to mass produce 
them. 


Sinclair: Let the record show | also hate this. 


Elliott: That brings us to the next issue. Are we forcing 
women into this? Considering the risks involved, would it be 
fair to offer female D-class amnesty for voluntary 
participation? 


Sinclair: There’s implicit coercion there, considering what D- 
class are. It wouldn’t be meaningful consent. 


Strauss: Wouldn't fly. D-class aren’t all idiots. If you don’t 
show them the volunteer at the end of the procedure, they’re 
going to think it’s a discreet execution, that the amnesty is a 
lie to get them to walk into the proverbial gas chamber. 


Tennyson: Christ. They wouldn’t be wrong, either. 


Strauss: The alternative is that we have the surviving 
volunteers do a ‘victory lap’ of the facility on the way to their 
hard-won freedom, so there are enough witnesses in their 
peer group to corroborate. We’d have to be honest about it, 
too, have to be the same people who went in. I’m sorry to do 
this to you folks, but | got a slide of what the best-case- 
scenario of the aftermath can look like. Full gestation of up to 
twelve, in an eight hour pregnancy? It looks like this at best. 


[The click of a slide projector. All but Elliott make loud moans 
of pain and disgust.] 


Strauss: At worst? 


[Another click. Tennyson audibly gags. Sound of Sinclair's 
head hitting the table and pained whimper. Borges wheezes 
loudly.] 


Strauss: This isn’t open-casket material. Volunteer method’s 
out. 


Tennyson: Jesus Christ. This is going to happen to people. 


We're going to make this happen to people. 


Elliott: We can’t give sedatives during the pregnancy. We can 
give epidurals for the delivery, and most of the damage heals 
over time. 


Borges: We can't give sedatives? 


Strauss: It’s in the dossier. The rapid pregnancy is also very 
susceptible to miscarriages from chemical influence. 
Everyone subjected to this will have to do it stone-sober. 


Borges: There goes that plan. 

Sinclair: What do you mean by ‘most’ damage heals’? 
Elliott: The words ‘fourth-degree perineal tear’ come to mind. 
[Tennyson retches] 

Strauss: Excuse me? 

Borges: The internal tissue between the genitals and anus. 


Strauss: Yeah, | don’t think | need to bring the slide back up 
to see what ‘fourth-degree’ means, then. 


[Tennyson vomits into paper bag.] 


Elliott: For God’s sake, Tennyson, show some more decorum 
and a little less lunch. 


Sinclair: I'd like to request a fifteen-minute recess, or I’m 
going to be doing the same. 


Elliott: Borges? Strauss? 
Borges: I’m good to keep going, but I’d love another coffee. 


Strauss: Actually, coffee and a sandwich sounds pretty 
perfect, now you mention it. 


Tennyson: How can you still have any appetite? 


when a sentient being is looking directly at SCP-959. He then takes 
on the appearance of someone or something from that being's past 
memories that was the cause of greatest personal discomfort. This 
reaction seems to be completely involuntary and continuous 
regardless of whether SCP-959 is asleep or awake. Reactions to the 
manifestation have ranged from mild discomfort to [REDACTED]. 
Each D-level personnel exposed during testing reported seeing 
something different exclusive to that individual (see Document 
959-1a). 


The area of effect seems to extend to approximately a 37 meter 
radius in all directions as long as the subject is within a direct line of 
sight. Manifestation does not occur when viewed through a 
secondary electronic source such as a camera. Mirrors, however, 
seem not to be a deterrent to the manifestation as [DATA 
EXPUNGED], even perceived as mocking them. SCP-959 still sees 
a reflection in mirrors as normal at time of this report. 


SCP-959 is a 35 year old Caucasian male with brown eyes, bald 
head, and brown handlebar mustache standing approximately 1.6 m 
tall and weighing 137 kg. These features can only be observed 
through cameras or indirect viewing at range due to the 
manifestation. 


Addendum 959-a: Upon admission to Site- , SCP-959 underwent 
full medical screening. Tests confirmed SCP-959 is currently 
suffering from mild adult onset diabetes and has been prescribed 
oral medications along with a diet and exercise regimen that must 
be adhered to. Application of SCP-500 considered but rejected as 
the condition is considered to be reversible and not life threatening if 
the physician's instructions are followed. Antidepressants have also 
been prescribed as the isolation due to the manifestation is taking a 
negative psychological toll. 


Addendum 959-b: Has been classified Safe after exhibiting no 
signs of the desire to escape. -Dr. 


Addendum 959-c: months after being brought to the Foundation, 
the subject has requested to be involved in Foundation matters, 
claiming, "I want to be of use in some way." SCP-959 believes the 
Foundation to be a positive influence on the world despite 


Strauss: Need to keep the blood sugar up. This is a 
marathon, not a sprint. 


Borges: | really don’t want a caffeine headache on top of all 
this. 


Sinclair: Tea. Lots of tea. Milk and sugar, | think. 


Tennyson: ... Yeah. Yeah, alright. Does the vending machine 
still stock Gatorade? 


Borges: Need to rehydrate, huh? 
Tennyson: Fuck you. 


Strauss: Give us a chance to calm down and come into this 
with fresh heads? 


Sinclair: And permission to bring the kettle back with me? 
Elliott: All granted. Fifteen minutes recess then. 


[Sound of people filtering out, scraping of chairs being pulled 
out from the table, all leave. 

Elliott returns after twelve minutes, Borges and Strauss return 
together after fourteen minutes, Sinclar and Tennyson return 
after seventeen minutes. Transcription continues.] 


Tennyson: Sorry, Sinclair and | were talking over lunch about 
my proposed alternative. 


Elliott: Off the record? 
Sinclair: Sorry. 
Elliott: Well, might as well get it on-record now. 


Tennyson: Twins, triplets. We screen for parents with 
multiple children, tell them it’s one fewer than expected from 
delivery, and have an agent smuggle it out. Mostly the same 
plan as we’re using currently, just the parents are never made 
aware of the loss. 


Borges: Look at you. Stealing babies and fighting monsters. 
Tennyson: You said it, needs must. 


Sinclair: | talked him up to it. He’s putting on a brave face, 
but- 


Tennyson: I’m fine. 
Sinclair: Sorry.