SCP-1697: | won't be difficult in whatever it is you’re 
doing here, but there are a few commodities that | would 
appreciate. If you have the time, doctor. 


Holmes: All the time in the world. 


SCP-1697: Hurtful. If | could get a very thick sleeping 
bag with polyester lining, that would be at the top of the 
list. It’s kind of hard to stay warm with the blankets in the 
cell, and also | don’t have skin. Something almost 
nobody knows or, | guess, would have any reason to 
know: cotton tends to stick to the texture of dry muscle, 
and it's simply impossible to fall asleep like that. 


Holmes: [laughs] I'll see to it. Have a good evening, 
1697. 


SCP-1697: Have a good one. 
<End Log, 18:36:49> 


Addendum 1697-2: SCP-1697 status update, as of October 18th, 
2027 

A short while before the death of her husband, Courtney Lexi 
became pregnant. SCP-1697 was not informed of the child either 
before or after its containment. SCP-1697's behavior prior to the last 
few weeks was ideal, save infrequent periods of depressive 
symptoms. Incidentally, SCP-1697 had become relatively close to 
Dr. Holmes, who met frequently with the subject, conducting 
standard interviews and often playing games of chess with it. To this 
date, most requests and discussion went through Dr. Holmes. On 
the 18th of this month, Dr. Holmes reported SCP-1697 having 
become aware of his son, which could not be attributed to any 
security or information breaches. 


Apparently SCP-1697 has experienced irregular visions of his child, 
and has become concerned about him growing up without a father, 
citing perceived delinquent behavior, such as cigarette smoking, 
loitering, and on one occasion having "liberated" a llama from a 


children's petting Zoo. Investigations into these visions have proven 
them to be accurate. During the most recent interview between Dr. 
Holmes and SCP-1697, the subject requested writing a note, dated 
before its death, in the hopes that it would assist its son in growing 
up without a father. Dr. Holmes accepted the letter and filed it, as 
per humanoid-information security protocol Delta-62. SCP-1697 has 
reported fewer visions since then. 


Addendum 1697-3: SCP-1697 Supervisory Personnel Change; 
August 4th, 2028 

As of August 9th, 2028, Dr. Holmes will be promoted to Level 4 
clearance, and be transferred off-site to begin his new Foundation 
duties. Dr. Padover will be taking over his position and 
responsibilities as Area Director and project head, effective 
immediately. 


Addendum 1697-4: Neutralization of SCP-1697; February 6th, 
2029 

Following what was considered to be a severe bout of depression, 
SCP-1697 expired this morning, and is now considered neutralized. 
Investigations into the visions experienced by the subject of its 
progeny have been concluded. 


Footnotes 

1. Amnestic issuance was impossible by the time Foundation agents 
arrived, and a cover story involving the malicious release of 
hallucinogenic drugs was disseminated. For more information, see 
Incident Report 1697-8U. 


« SCP-1696 | SCP-1697 | SCP-1698 » 


SCP-1698: You Can't Get There From Here 


Item #: SCP-1698 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Local disinformation campaigns 
are to be maintained in all cities hosting an instance of SCP-1698, 
with the intent to make all local residents or governmental officials 
believe that the locations are abandoned, closed for renovation, or 
otherwise off-limits. All locations are provided with portable 
generators and sufficient fuel to run them for no less than 30 days, 
in addition to supplies to accommodate up to 20 people for the same 
timeframe. 


Any personnel or civilians trapped by an expansion event are to be 
offered a mercy termination. 


Description: SCP-1698 is a phenomenon affecting 3 buildings: a 
12-story hotelin , ,USA;a2-story boarding house in __, France; 
and a 5-story office building in , Brazil. The phenomenon 
affects these buildings such that none of them can successfully be 
approached by land. Although they can be seen, all attempts to 
reach them by foot or land vehicle result in encountering obstacles 
such as intervening buildings, extensive road damage and attendant 
construction, gridlocked traffic, dead-ends and road closures, and 
thick and impassable vegetation. Of note is that it is possible to 
navigate to locations immediately adjacent to these buildings, but 
invariably some impediment will prevent anyone from actually 
approaching the affected buildings themselves. 


All 3 buildings can successfully be approached by air, and MTF 
Agents introduced by helicopter have discovered that there are no 
discernible abnormalities inside the buildings themselves, aside from 
the expected amount of neglect resulting from long-term lack of 
human presence. They further report that it is possible to exit these 
buildings at ground level, but as soon as they no longer have a 


direct view of the ground floor of the building, it again becomes 
impossible to locate. 


Researchers installed on-site have not been able to detect any 
spatial anomalies or perceptual hazards, and O5 command has 
tentatively approved the usage of these sites for long-term storage 
of infrequently accessed non-digital financial and administrative 
paperwork. 


SCP-1698 was discovered in August 2010 when the Intelligence 
Office identified multiple simultaneous online complaints from 
customers, employees and residents of the affected buildings, all 
reporting the effects of SCP-1698. The Foundation confirmed these 
reports and within 5 months had purchased all 3 buildings and 
surrounding locations via shell companies. 


Addendum: On 2012-04-17, the areas affected by SCP-1698 
expanded, such that it is now no longer possible to locate and 
approach any location within 37 meters of the buildings originally 
affected. Additionally, 2 more affected locations were subsequently 
identified, centered around a small municipal park in , Australia 
and an abandoned warehouse in , Spain. A third location 
which appeared on this date was found to be an instance of 
SCP-2449. The significance of its concurrent manifestation is 
unknown. 


During the expansion event, 131 non-Foundation individuals were in 
the newly-affected areas, consisting of 37 pedestrians, 78 people 
inside buildings, and 16 individuals inside vehicles. All found 
themselves unable to exit the area they were in, due to an inability to 
approach any area that would be considered separate. l.e. 
individuals on roads could not access parking lot entrances, 
pedestrians could walk along sidewalks but not enter buildings or 
step off the curb, and individuals inside buildings could not utilize 
exterior doors. Attempts to evacuate trapped individuals by 
helicopter uniformly resulted in a failure of the individuals to reach 
the ladders due to intervening events such as sudden, extreme 
inclement weather or the ladders becoming entangled in trees or 
power lines. 


SCP-1698 has been upgraded to Containment Class: Keter until 


such time as it can be determined how to predict, prevent, mitigate 
or reverse SCP-1698 expansion events. 


« SCP-1697 | SCP-1698 | SCP-1699 » 


SCP-1699: Inferior Volcano 


Item #: SCP-1699 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Due to SCP-1699's public 
location, containment procedures are to focus on preventing access 
to it. At least 8 guards are to patrol SCP-1699 on all-terrain vehicles, 
with rotations to occur every 4 hours. Any persons found to have 
knowledge of SCP-1699's anomalous properties are to be detained 
for questioning, searched for documents pertaining to SCP-1699, 
and released following a dose of Class-C amnestics. 


Description: SCP-1699 is an inactive volcano located in 
[REDACTED] National park. SCP-1699 has been inactive for the 
past 67 years, with the last major eruption having occurred in 1945. 
SCP-1699 is sapient, and possesses the ability to communicate 
vocally, utilizing steam vents to mimic speech. 


Communication with SCP-1699 centers almost exclusively around 
its desire to become "a more dangerous natural disaster," and 
various means to achieve that end. Conversation participants have 
described SCP-1699's disposition as "melancholy" and "bummed 
out", but note that despite this, it never ceases to try new avenues 
toward its goal. SCP-1699 has been known to speak to personnel 
for prolonged periods of time about these desires, and has 
repeatedly requested assistance with becoming more dangerous. If 
accepted, SCP-1699 will instruct personnel on various activities it 
believes increases the similarities of it and other natural disasters. 


Following instructions provided by SCP-1699 rarely results in 
anomalous activity. However, on several occasions, following these 
instructions has led to activity in the area surrounding SCP-1699, 
including small thunderstorm occurring following an attempt to 
create a hurricane, and a small whirlpool forming in a lake following 
an attempt to cause a tsunami. Anomalous events produced by 


SCP-1699 have not, as of yet, produced a serious threat to 
containment and are usually deemed minor in their intensity. 
Personnel may attempt to assist SCP-1699 in completing its 
instructions whenever it is convenient for them; however, it is not 
necessary. 


+ Interview Log 1699-0 


This interview was conducted during 
SCP-1699's initial containment processing. 


Interviewed: SCP-1699 

Interviewer: Dr. B 

<Begin Log> 

Dr. B_ : Hello 1699, how do you feel today? 
SCP-1699: Useless. 

Dr.B : Why useless? 


SCP-1699: Haven't you been watching the 
news? That hurricane made landfall and killed 
a whole bunch of people. 


Dr.B_ : Yes, a tragedy. 


SCP-1699: Even sports doesn't offer an 
escape anymore; have you heard about what 
happened to the Montreal Volcanoes? Mount 
Royal must think he's hot shit. How do you 
think something like that makes me feel? 


Dr. B_ : Pardon? 


SCP-1699: | could never do damage like that. 
All | can do is spit smoke and slosh a little lava 
in my belly. 


Dr. B_: That's not true, many personnel here 


fear for their lives from the damage you could 
do if you became active. 


SCP-1699: You're just saying that to make me 
feel better. I'm useless. 


Dr.B :1| really mean it. You could destroy us 
in an instant. 


SCP-1699: Don't treat me like a child. | ama 
grown-up and | do not need to be patronized. 


Dr.B :I'msorry. 


SCP-1699: None of you respect me. | hate this 
place! 


SCP-1699 refused to communicate for two 
days following this interview. 


<End Log> 
« SCP-1698 | SCP-1699 | SCP-1700 » 


Articles 1700-1799 


SCP-1700: Debtshop 


Item #: SCP-1700 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: As of 6/17/19 , SCP-1700 is 
considered to be contained. Although instances of SCP-1700-A are 
too numerous and widely spread to be fully containable, their 
relative innocuousness makes a large scale containment effort 
unnecessary and likely impossible. Any instances found may be 
brought into containment or destroyed, as the Foundation already 
possesses adequate samples. Product recalls have been put out, 
but have proven largely ineffective so far. 


SCP-1700-B is to be heavily secured under the guise of a power 
plant. All corpses that appear inside are to be incinerated, along with 
their instance of SCP-1700-A. Personnel assigned to SCP-1700-B 
may request amnestics upon reassignment. 


All SCP-1700-C structures are to be cordoned off, and any member 
of the public found within is to be interrogated and administered 
Class A amnestics. Under no circumstances are any human corpses 
to be brought within any instance of SCP-1700-C. Any found to have 
been affected by SCP-1700-C are to be removed from its area of 
influence and burned. Personnel of level 4 or higher may submit a 
request to use SCP-1700-C for research or information gathering to 
the project director. 


Mr. Anupam Gunawardena and Mr. Tai-Sing Wang are currently in 
Foundation custody. They are to be indefinitely contained in Class 2 
impoundment cells. Mr. Supreeth Chandrasekaran is currently a 
fugitive, and his whereabouts are unknown. The Foundation has 
notified the Indian government that he is a person of interest, and he 
will be remanded to Foundation control should he be captured. 


Description: SCP-1700 is the collective designation for the 


anomalous objects associated with Fashion Sun Fabrics Limited, a 
scarf manufacturer primarily located in India, although with some 
factories located in China and Thailand. Fashion Sun Fabrics 
Limited came to the attention of the Foundation on the request of the 
Indian government, which had noticed the anomalous property of 
SCP-1700-C during a crackdown on sweatshops. Police who 
participated in the raid were issued Class A amnestics and released, 
and two of the three owners were apprehended and remanded to 
the Foundation. 


SCP-1700-A are scarves produced by Fashion Sun Fabrics Limited. 
They are apparently normal, medium-quality silk scarves in a variety 
of colors and designs. They exhibit no anomalous properties until 
the death of their owner. Assuming both the corpse and the scarf 
are reasonably intact, when left unobserved within 24 hours of the 
death, both will, through unknown means, vanish and reappear at 
SCP-1700-B. 


SCP-1700-B is a large warehouse, containing a chute in which 
corpses retrieved by SCP-1700-A appear. Before entering 
Foundation control, they were sorted into trucks which distributed 
them to the various SCP-1700-C structures. Currently, the chute 
leads to a system of incinerators, to prevent build-up of corpses. 


SCP-1700-C consist of a series of sweatshops, which are set up to 
produce SCP-1700-A. There are eleven instances of SCP-1700-C, 
designated SCP-1700-C-1 through SCP-1700-C-11. SCP-1700-C-4 
and SCP-1700-C-10 are located in China, SCP-1700-C-2 is located 
in Thailand, and the remaining instances are located in India. Zoning 
records show that the buildings had previously been operated as 
sweatshops, but there is no indication that they demonstrated any 
anomalous properties before Fashion Sun Fabrics purchased them. 


Any intact human corpse, when brought inside SCP-1700-C, 
becomes animate for so long as it remains within the building. Such 
cadavers retain memories of their life, and fragments of their 
personality. No clear mechanism has been found for this. They do 
not need to eat, drink, sleep, or breathe. 


Addendum 1700-36: Excerpt from an interview with Mr. 
Gunawardena, a week after his capture. Later interviews with Mr. 


Wang corroborated his information. 


Dr. Corman: Why bring in the corpses of people who 
bought your scarves? Wouldn't it be easier to obtain 
them locally? 

Mr. Gunawardena: Perhaps, but that would attract 
attention. Our scarves go out all over the world. Many 
corpses vanishing from just a few provinces is a pattern. 
The same number across five continents? Just isolated 
mysteries. Besides, it appealed to Supreeth's sense of 
irony. 

Dr. Corman: What do you mean? 

Mr. Gunawardena: You people get so high and mighty 
about ethical production and worker's rights. Only fair 
that you should see what you're really talking about. 

Dr. Corman: In what way is that fair? 

Mr. Gunawardena: Fine, funny. Better? 

Dr. Corman: Moving on. In our experiments with the 
sweatshops, the resurrected corpses seem no more 
obedient than they were in life. How did you get them to 
work? 

Mr. Gunawardena: Cattle prods, mostly. And 
occasionally making an example. If worst came to worst, 
we were selling we could just torch the whole lot of them. 
Dr. Corman: The bodies affected by the sweatshop— 
they can feel pain? 

Mr. Gunawardena: Certainly. That's the way we 
designed it. 

Dr. Corman: But controlling them entirely through 
threats of pain... was that effective?