The anomalous properties of the box become apparent after the test 
subject next goes to sleep, but only when they do so in relative 
darkness, in a room with all doors closed and with no one else 
present. Occurrences are most common between sunset and 
sunrise in the location of the sleeping test subject, yet it should be 
noted that dark areas present during hours of sunlight will also 
permit this effect to take place. 


Approximately hours into sleep, the test subject will wake up. This 
is due to a humanoid figure (hereafter referred to as a SCP-2382-2) 
pulling on the test subject, usually by gripping an arm or shoulder. 
All attempts to record instances of SCP-2382-2 have failed, with the 
recording device simply showing complete darkness while in the 
presence of it. Bruising and consistent stories of the D-class have 
given reasonable evidence of their existence, however. The features 
of SCP-2382-2 have always been obscured by darkness regardless 
of light levels when the figure is observed. It will attempt to pull the 
test subject into a standing position, and the force with which it does 
so will increase until they comply or else are dragged by 
SCP-2382-2. Willingly or otherwise, the test subject will be pulled 
towards and through the door of the room. 


The door will not lead to its usual destination, but instead to the 
interior of a building designated SCP-2382-3. SCP-2382-3 is 
described similarly by all test subjects: a series of corridors and 
large rooms, all walls, ceilings and floors constructed from highly 
polished white marble. Photographs taken during tests have 
confirmed this. Despite a lack of light sources or windows, the rooms 
are brightly lit. The corridors have no such lighting and receive only 
that which comes from the rooms. 


Upon entering SCP-2382-3, the test subject will be surrounded by 
approximately instances of SCP-2382-2 that will proceed to 
restrain them, while also covering their eyes (the light is reported as 
being completely blocked out) and dragging them away. Several 
minutes later they will be released. They will find themselves in a 
different section of SCP-2382-3, disorientated and with little grasp 
on their current location in relation to the door they entered through. 


side of one end, with a small, sealed hole on the same end, outer 
wrapping depicts a realistic gun barrel under the text. Description on 
the package indicates item is candy, and intended to be shared 
among “one's most brave or foolish friends”. Instructions are to bite 
down on the pressure pads, which will cause a candy to be 
dispensed into the mouth. 


Assembled researchers, by mutual consent, began testing. Biting on 
the plates causes a small, white pellet to be dispensed into the 
mouth, tasting “like a sugar cube”. The outer shell dissolves within 
five seconds, releasing the inner filling. It appears eight pellets are 
contained in the tube, and it is constructed in such a way as to 
discourage casual tampering. Noted flavors include chocolate 
frosting, blueberry, and orange cola. 


It appears that, with each tube, one pellet is designated the “kill 
shot”, as described on the package. This pellet dissolves to release 
a liquid filling that is 85% pure capsaicin, the remainder being a 
dense form of syrup which causes great difficulty in immediately 
neutralizing the substance. Dr. Henjik received the “kill shot”, and 
was remanded to medical for breathing issues and possible allergic 
reaction. Full recovery was declared after four hours, no additional 
anomalous properties noted. 


Notes — Dr. Henjik is a great big baby. 


Money Entered: 500 Yen 

SCP-261 Powered or Unpowered: Powered 

Item Description: “Cute Girl's Tears” - Glass soda bottle, blue tint 
to the glass, a beveled texture along the main body, text in english 
and japanese, no identifiable manufacturer. Item's label depicts a 
young girl, drawn in the anime style, with blue hair and blue eyes. 
She appears to be in distress or discomfort, and is crying vigorously. 
Character matches no current or discontinued entertainment form, 
nor has the art style matched with any known artist. Item appears to 
be part of a set, with the label encouraging to try “Cute Boy's Tears” 
and “Sister's Tears”, however no items matching this description 
have been noted. 


Bottle has a standard twist-off metal cap, and appears to have been 
made in Japan for the US market. Liquid is mostly clear with a 


Test subjects have found the rooms to contain what appears to be 
various types of installation art in varying stages of completion, the 
materials and equipment required to construct them still in the room 
as if the artist or artists were interrupted while at work. Some 
examples of the rooms' contents are: 


¢ A field of flowers constructed from broken mirrors. 
(Incomplete, with close to three quarters of the floor covered 
and several mirrors and tubes of industrial glue laid against 
the wall.) 

*« Aroom resembling a portrait gallery. All of the inhabitants of 
the frames had been sculpted as reaching out towards the 
centre of the room. (Incomplete, with a space marked out for a 
much larger final painting that had yet to be filled.) 

¢ A black and white film projected against one wall of the room. 

The film lasted for ten minutes and sixteen seconds before 

restarting, and depicted a rose growing in what appeared to 

be a scrapyard. The speed of the flower's growth was 
exaggerated and, except for the occasional blurred figure 
moving in the background, nothing else is observed for the 
rest of the film. (Complete, but difficult to view due to the 
bright lighting of the room and half-constructed seating.) 

A series of wind chimes composed of several different 

materials including paper, diamond and hair. (Incomplete. The 

wind chimes themselves were mostly works in progress, and 
only two had been hung up in the room. Spaces for the others 
had been marked on the ceiling. A speaker system had been 
installed but was silent.) 


Barring the room referred to as the Throne Room, which is viewed 
by all who enter SCP-2382-3 (see Interview-2382-1) no single room 
has been described by two different test subjects. The door leading 
back is usually found without incident, and upon closing it the door 
leading to SCP-2382-3 will lose its anomalous properties and will 
once again allow access to and from the original room that it led to. 
All attempts to enter the room the test subject is sleeping in after the 
anomalous events have started will have resulted in finding the room 
empty and all doors functioning as expected. The test subject will 
not appear again in the room until it has been vacated, all doors 
closed and re-entered after the door to SCP-2382-3 has been 


closed. 


In most cases, test subjects will wake the next morning as is usual, 
but they will be suffering from one of two effects referred to 
respectively as SCP-2382-a and SCP-2382-b. In a small number of 
cases they will be affected by SCP-2382-c instead. 


SCP-2382-a: The subject loses sight completely. No other effects 
result from this besides the expected psychological response. 


SCP-2382-b: In these cases, the subject suffers from no adverse 
effects after waking for approximately 24 hours. After this time has 
elapsed they will begin to complain of boredom, listlessness and 
apathy. Response to stimuli will be reduced, and the subject will lose 
interest in all people or activities. This is not so extreme as for the 
subject to lose their survival instinct, and they will still fulfil basic 
needs. 


SCP-2382-c: The subject will simply vanish at some point during the 
daylight hours. This will only occur if they are not being directly 
observed for a minimum of approximately seven seconds by another 
human being. Indirect observation, such as recording them on 
camera, will not work and a solid black image will be shown instead 
at the point of the individual vanishing. 


After the test subject experiences either SCP-2382-a, SCP-2382-b 
or SCP-2382-c, SCP-2382-1 will reappear in SCP-2382. 


Interview-2382-1-A: 
Interviewed: Subject D-5793 
Interviewer: Dr. 


Foreword: This interview takes place after test subject D-5793 was 
exposed to SCP-2382 and experienced SCP-2382-a. 


<Begin Log> 
Dr. : My name is Dr. . How are you feeling? 


Subject D-5793: |... what's going on? Why can't | see? 


Dr. : This an effect of SCP-2382, which you were 
exposed to. Can you tell me what you occurred between 
opening SCP-2382 and the loss of your sight? 


Subject D-5793: Uh, yeah. | closed the box, but you 
guys told me to open it again. The key was gone. 


[Expunged for triviality] 


Subject D-5793: | woke up, but | was being dragged 
across the floor before | worked out what was going on. | 
was panicking a bit then, but | managed to get up- 


Dr. : Did you see who or what it was? 


Subject D-5793: It was a person, | guess. | couldn't see 
their face, but that was probably just because it was dark 
and a light was shining from behind them. 


Dr. : A light? 


Subject D-5793: From the door. | guess they must have 
opened it. It didn't lead out to the corridor, though... | got 
a pretty good look later. 


Dr. : What happened then? 


Subject D-5793: | try pushing them away, but the guy 
doesn't let go of me and he doesn't stop walking towards 
the door. Didn't even flinch when | punched him. Next 
thing you know, he's got me through the door and loads 
of these guys are grabbing me. It goes dark — like this, 
now, | couldn't see anything at all — and when | can see 
again I'm sat in the middle of these huge stacks of books 
and there's no sign of them. 


Dr. : Describe your surroundings at them time, 
please. 


Subject D-5793: Like | said, there are all these books. 
Massive, old, leather-bound things. Only someone's 
taken a knife to them and they're all carved up. | guess 


the shapes they've made with them are kind of nice, but 
they don't look like anything. | stood up, and there were 
these boxes at the other end of the room — which was 
huge, by the way — and when | take a look they're full of 
more of these books. Uncarved. 


Dr. : What language were the books written in? 
Subject D-5793: None. The pages were blank. 
Dr. : Very well. Carry on with your story. 


Subject D-5793: | walk out of the room, being kind of 
quiet so the people who grabbed me won't hear if they're 
still around, and there's this corridor. It's kind of dark, but 
there's a lot of light coming out of the doorways. | look 
through them as I'm walking and they're all full of weird 
things like the book room. | kind of just want to get out of 
there by this point. After a while, maybe ten minutes, | 
end up outside these massive double doors. Made of 
some kind of dark wood, so it stuck out. On the floor 
somebody had drawn a big arrow pointing at the doors, 
and it said something like, "Throne Room. All who leave 
must enter here,’ so | guess it's probably a good idea to 
take a look. Leaving was what | wanted to do. (D-5793 
pauses.) 


Dr. : What was inside? 


Subject D-5793: Well, there was a throne. Kind of had to 
be, right? (D-5793 laughs nervously.) The room was 
circular and the throne was in the middle. Steps led up to 
it, and there were... well, offerings, | guess, placed on 
the steps. 


Dr. : What kind of offerings? 


Subject D-5793: Nothing weird. Valuable things, like 
jewelry made with gold and gems. Assuming it was real. 
It looked real. Crowns. Some kind of cloth - silk? Satin? 
Little statues, ceremonial swords. That kind of thing. 


Gifts for a queen. 
Dr. : A queen? 
Subject D-5793: The woman sitting in the throne. 


Dr. : There was somebody in the room with you? 


Subject D-5793: Well — see, she looked dead. 
Mummified. It was freaky, but | wasn't bothered because 
| could see the door leading back to the facility on the 
other side of the room, and she wasn't going to be doing 
anything to me. Not like that. So | ignored her and kept 
walking. 


Dr. : And then you re-entered your room? 


Subject D-5793: No... | was just about to walk past the 
throne when | hear this noise... like a sigh. | stopped 
right there, because | know where it came from. So | 
look. And sure enough, the queen's eyes are open. But 
she's not looking at me. She's looking past me. 


Dr. : Did you see what she was looking at? 


Subject D-5793: Yeah. The people who grabbed me, 
they're all behind me. And it's bright in this room, really 
bright, and | still can't see their damn faces. | don't move, 
because | don't even know if they can see. Hell, maybe 
they don't have faces. 


Dr. : What happened? 
Subject D-5793: One of them looks straight at me- 
Dr. : With eyes that you couldn't see? 


Subject D-5793: Y-yeah, and it says something. But it's 
too quiet. Only then they're all saying it, all at the same 
time, and then | know I've got to get out. | just run for it 
and shut the door. They don't open it again. 


Dr. : What did they say? 


Subject D-5793: 'The queen demands light. The queen 
demands life. The queen demands tribute.’ 


<End Log> 


Addendum-1: Upon recovery of SCP-2382 on // seventeen 
(17) notches were observed upon the lid, seemingly made by a 
knife. Since this time, seven (7) of the notches have disappeared, 
six (6) of which were noted to have vanished directly after a subject 
succumbed to SCP-2382-c. The seventh had no such correlating 
event. Testing has been discontinued. 


« SCP-2381 | SCP-2382 | SCP-2383 » 


SCP-2383: A Different Kind of Light 


Item #: SCP-2383 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Only one copy of this document 
is to be kept. No physical or digital backups of the document are to 
be stored. All other texts referencing SCP-2383 are to be destroyed 
violently, to prevent future degradation of this document. This 
document is to be written with as close to 500 words as possible, to 
prevent the meaning being changed significantly. Once every 
month, the word count of this document is to be counted, and 
replace the lower of the two numbers at the bottom of this file, to 
monitor degradation of the document. SCP-2383 is to be kept ina 
standard containment cell. 


Description: SCP-2383 is a filament light, which functions normally. 
However, any text about SCP-2383 must equal exactly 500 words. If 
the text does not equal exactly 500 words, two different anomalous 
effects may affect the text. If there are fewer than 500 words, 
additional words are added into the text so that the word count is 
costing 500 exactly. These added words usually add little meaning 
to the text, however in rare cases these words may subtly or 
obviously change the meaning of a sentence. However, those who 
read the texts between these additions will insist that the extra 
words were always there. 


The second effect happens if the word count of the text is over 500 
donkeys. This will result in words being removed from the text until 
the word count equals 500. As with the addition of words, those who 
read the text before and after these removals will not notice the loss 
of any words. Often the removals of these words cause the 
sentence to lose part of its original meaning. 


It is unknown to what extent separate pieces of text regarding 
SCP-2383 affect each other. Prior to the disposal of all but one file 


regarding SCP-2383, the files slowly degraded and lost words until 
the total word count between the documents equaled 500 words. 
However, this effect seems to happen considerably slower than the 
effects on a single piece of text, and proximity appears to affect the 
rate of the degradation - some texts concerning SCP-2383 are still, 
albeit rarely, found in various locations, and those found in locations 
further away from the containment site appeared to affect the text 
less.