Figure 531-BB-1 shows one hypothetical example of an 
arrangement of ten SCP-531 statues that should create a 
pentagonal "cage" approximately 6 meters in diameter that any 
entity affected by SCP-531 would be unable to exit. This has not yet 
been tested in practice. A hexagonal arrangement is also possible, 
but the experimentally-determined critical viewing angle leaves very 
little margin of error in this case. 


Figure 531-BB-2 depicts a segment of a "fence" of arbitrary length 
using the same angles as the pentagonal cage. A feature of this 
proposed design is that the SCP-531 units are mounted on 


Persian Solar 
systems to an 


effigy of 
SCP-00T. 
17/09/17 The Serpen;'s Largely Attempt was 
Hand unknown; purportedly 


+Phase 2: 'Concrete' 


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Document 4: The following is an interview between Dr. 
Robert Montauk and Pol-3172. 


Date: 14/04/2018. 


Interviewer: Dr. Robert Montauk. 


Interviewee: Pol-3172 


Location: Site 713, Interview Room 2. 


<Begin Log> 


Pol-3172: Hello again, Robert. 


Dr. Montauk: Hello, Dipesh. | looked up your 
laws. | am afraid | am none the wiser. 


Pol-3172: You'll get there. What did you find? 


Dr. Montauk: The "law of blood" is referenced 


a few times in quite a few places. But | couldn't 
find any concrete information. 


Pol-3172: | worried you wouldn't. 


Dr. Montauk: There was only one source of 
real use- a description of something called the 
Battle of the Ghemelleth, written by a defector 
from the Children. 


Pol-3172: Ahh, Hearst. Yes. | read his memoir 
once. The only genuine eyewitness of the 
King's sealing, although a rather unreliable 
one. 


Dr. Montauk: How on earth- 


Pol-3172: Oh, he embellished. He didn't leave 
straight away; | stumbled upon some early 
draft in his things, shortly before he left. | was 
young back then, and | remember how 
passionately he argued after his vision. Said 
we'd got the King all wrong. That he wasn't a 
demon or a monarch, but that he was a voice 
on the wind. When | was older, and figured it 
all out, | was surprised how close he got to a 
fuller understanding. He just wasn't... quite 
there. 


Dr. Montauk: | should have guessed he was a 
liar. 


Pol-3172: He's not a liar, exactly; just a little 
lost. And you only have my word for it, doctor. 
Which the Foundation has made abundantly 
clear it doesn't trust. 


Dr. Montauk: There's no reason to doubt you. 
What do you have to lose? You seem as eager 
for me to learn the truth as | am. 


Pol-3172: True. And on that note, | have a 
question, if | may. 


Dr. Montauk: Shoot. The longer | keep you 
talking, the greater the chance you'll slip up 
and tell me something you shouldn't. 


Pol-3172: Do you know why the Procedure 
110-Montauk actually works? 


There is a pause of several seconds. 


Dr. Montauk: Sorry, Dipesh. | can't talk to you 
about that. 


Pol-3172: It's OK. | think | know the answer 
anyway. Tell me, did you... lose someone? 


Dr. Montauk: | don't know what you mean. 


Pol-3172: I'm sorry to bring back painful 
memories. But | have looked at the Foundation 
archives too, you know. It was necessary, 
back in the day, to check up on what your lot 
were doing to his daughters. | know that your 
brother- 


Dr. Montauk: Stop talking. This interview is 
not about my private affairs. 


Pol-3172: I'm sorry, doctor. | didn't mean- 


Dr. Montauk: Please state for me the meaning 
of this "law of blood". 


Pol-3172: Isn't it obvious? It is the way the 
Scarlet King ruled. There was order, but it was 
through the imposition of an iron will on the 
peasantry, through armies of slaves, through a 
nobility bred to be cruel. The realities of the 
world of his day, in his corner of the globe. 


Dr. Montauk: What does this have to do with 
the Sc- with SCP-001's nature? What are 
these other laws? 


Pol-3172: | suggest you look into the secon- 


Dr. Montauk: | don't have time to play your 
games. Tell me now, Pol-3172, or you will be 
escorted to solitary. 


Pol-3172: Oh, Dr. Montauk. | am sorry. You 
must look for the law of concrete. That is all- 


Dr. Montauk: This interview is terminated. 


<End Log> 


Document 5: The following is a page from the 1891 
report of Agent de Beauvoir on lost Foundation archives 
following the 1889 Snarling Coup. The report was lost 
shortly after de Beauvoir's termination in 1895, along 
with several other documents from the Foundation 
archives. This page was recovered through unknown 
means by Dr. Montauk; no other materials from these 
data losses have been found. 


summary, the documents lost are extremely 
extensive, covering a wide range of data 
concerning the Foundation's early history. In 
particular, several documents related to 
SCP-001 have gone missing. However, my 
investigations have provided me with a great 
deal of information, and | believe that | can say 
with some certainty that the historical record 
as stated in Scranton's Comprehensive History 
remains broadly intact, albeit with some 
modifications | will detail below. 


Scranton's work states that the Foundation 
was founded in 1824, by the merger of thirteen 


worldwide organisations with a particular 
interest in preventing awareness of anomalous 
activities. The most prominent of these were 
the Foundation of the Secure Containment of 
the Unnatural, the Devan-e Jaaduyih, the 
Unified Sites of the Department of 
Unexplained Affairs, the Council of Five 
Overseers and the Commitee of Paranormal 
Ethics. Scranton goes on to tell us that this 
was done in response to the threat posed by 
SCP-001, and that the early Foundation had 
an extensive role to play in that anomaly's 
containment. 


However, the documents | have before me 
present a rather different picture. It appears 
that the Foundation was not founded in 
response to SCP-001 at all. Indeed, | cannot 
find any references to the present SCP-001 
prior to 1826. It appears to have been a highly 
publicised attack by SCP-173 in New York 
which was the initial impetus for the 
Foundation's formation. SCP-173's still- 
unresolved containment breach in 1854 is, | 
believe, the reason for the alteration of the 
record; Scranton's embarrassment at 


Document 6: The following is a table compiled by Dr. 
Montauk. It shows a series of votes passed by the O5 
Council correlated with incidents potentially or certainly 
involving SCP-001. 


Date of Vote Description of Related SCP-001 


Vote Incident 
09/07/1844 Vote to officially | A series of hymns 
standardise devoted to 


documentation SCP-001 heard 
across the SCP | outside Site 001. 
Foundation. 

Passed 13-0. 


01/02/1857 


09/11/1895 


10/10/1902 


Vote to 
standardise 
containment 
procedures for 
SCP-001. Passed 
12-1. 


Vote on the 
termination of 
Agent de 
Beauvoir. Passed 
6-5; 2 Abstentions. 


Vote on the 
implementation of 
the Site system. 
Passed 10-2; 1 
Abstention. 


All members of the 
O5 council 
reported dreaming 
of an unidentified 
man of South 
Asian origin 
weeping. 

A large quantity of 
bloodstained 
sheets of paper 
with the words 
"SCP-001" written 
in blood over each 
sheet 
spontaneously 
manifested in the 
bedrooms of all 
members of the 
O5 council. The 
blood was later 
identified to belong 
to both Agent de 
Beauvoir and an 
unknown species 
Of poultry. 

A location in North 
America saw 
sudden and 
unexplained 
wildfires; residents 
reported seeing 
"dragons made of 
fire" and "a horned 
crown" appear in 
the night sky 
above the area. 
The wildfires were 
found in 2007 to 
have begun at the 
location of the 


23/01/1922 


08/02/2011 


31/03/2018 


Vote on the 
containment 
procedures for 
SCP-2317. 
Passed 4-3; 6 
Abstentions. 


Vote to unify the 


future Site TY. 
Several cracks 
appeared in the 
earth near 
Containment 
Area-179. Red 
smoke was seen 
pouring out of 
each crack for 7 
minutes, before 
the cracks abruptly 
closed. 

A series of hymns 


project purviews ofdevoted to 


SCP-001, 
SCP-231 and 
SCP-2317. 
Passed 10-2; 1 
Abstention. 


SCP-001 heard 
outside Site 001, 
interspersed with 
the sound of 
laughter. 


Vote on the object Several 


class 
reclassification of 
SCP-2317. 
Passed 9-4. 


interdimensional 
rifts open outside 
Containment 
Area-179. These 
rifts alternated 
between opening 
on Universe- 
Kappa-Erikesh 
and opening onto 
an unknown 
dimension. This 
unknown 
dimension is 
characterised by 
the presence a 
large quantity of 
red smoke and an 
unknown number 
of human voices 
screaming from 


within. 


Document 7: The following is an extract from the 1972 
political work Manifesto for Old Order by Children of the 
Scarlet King member Ariadne Cartwright. Cartwright's 
work is only found in unpublished copies among 
anomalous circles and groups related to SCP-001. 
Fragments such as this were recovered by Dr. Montauk 
during the course of his investigation. 


The sin of modernity is vital to understand. It is 
not that we glorify the premodern. The 
suffering was very real and very extant. We 
must not fall into the trap of seeing the past as 
a series of beautiful Arcadias, full of dancing 
around maypoles and shepherds living in 
pleasant anarchy. 


The past was brutal, but it was also real. It 
wasn't really the "premodern", too; that is 
merely how historians have characterised it. 
They are wedded to their theory of 
modernisation and can conceive of no 
alternate mode of development other than a 
singular drive towards the contemporary West, 
with other modes of living seen as being stuck 
in some imagined earlier place on a timeline. 
It's all nonsense. The people of the past were 
capable of seeing the world as it really is. 
Those of us who have joined the King's forces 
can all see this truth; that there is something 
very, very wrong with the world in which we 
live. Our buildings are made of calcifying, 
peeling concrete as we shamble, each day, to 
jobs and lives created solely for the purpose of 
maintaining their own system. 


But there is no other way to live. Socialism, 
anarchism, syndicalism- these are little more 
than constructed pipe dreams, the frail 


thoughts of lesser men trying to impose their 
antiquated prejudices on the world around 
them. No, there is only one alternative way to 
live. To cast down the law of concrete is to 
raise up the law of blood. 


We must learn what it is to die. To be 
enslaved- truly, brutally enslaved, with no 
compassion or compunction from our masters. 
We must learn what it is to be taken towards a 
single purpose, to know and truly understand 
our lack of agency. We must be beholden to a 
world of gods and darkness, the tempest- 
tossed refuse of a race of fools. We must kill 
modernity, postmodernity, with all its analysis 
and sneering observation. There is only one 
rule; the rule of chaos. For humanity! For life! 
For the Scarlet King! 


+Phase 3: "The Howling’ 


Document 7: The following is an interview between Dr. 
Robert Montauk and Pol-3172. 


Date: 29/04/2018. 

Interviewer: Dr. Robert Montauk. 
Interviewee: Pol-3172 

Location: Site 713, Interview Room 2. 
<Begin Log> 

Dr. Montauk: Hello, Dipesh. 


Pol-3172: Hello, Dr. Montauk. | hope that our 
last meeting...? 


Dr. Montauk: | am sorry for my unprofessional 
behaviour. You... touched upon a sore 
subject. 


Pol-3172: Of course. | will try to refrain from 
doing so in future. 


Dr. Montauk: Shall we begin? 


Pol-3172: This time, doctor, | have a question 
for you. 


Dr. Montauk: Indeed? | suppose it can't be 
worse than your last. 


Pol-3172: Well. What do you know of the 
origins of the Scarlet King? 


Dr. Montauk: There are many theories. A 
creature from the abyss, some shambling thing 
of old, a denizen of Alagadda... 


Pol-3172: They are all... | will not say lies. But 
the texts have changed, the knowledge has 
changed, the past itself has been changed by 
what came after. 


Dr. Montauk: He has changed the past? 


Pol-3172: No, his past has been changed for 
him. But now you tell me something. This 
should be a give and take, after all. 


Dr. Montauk: That is not what- 


Pol-3172: Why did you approve the Montauk 
procedure? 


There is a pause here for several seconds as 
Dr. Montauk stares at Pol-3172. 


Pol-3172: | am sorry if | have offended you. 


Dr. Montauk: | thought | made it clear that this 
is none of your business. 


platforms that can rotate 36 degrees, triggered simultaneously along 
the entire length of the fence. Triggering the rotation should cause 
all of the units to simultaneously "switch partners" to the unit 
immediately beside them, opening the entire perimeter. A fence with 
this design will require one SCP-531 unit for every 1.5 meters of 
length (using a maximum unit-to-unit distance of 5 meters). This 
same mechanism of rotating units can also be used with the 
pentagonal cage described previously. 


Figure 531-BB-3 shows a switchable gate arrangement utilizing a 
90-degree rotation of four SCP-531 units. Alternately, a single pair of 
SCP-531 units could be used with retractable opaque barriers over 
the alcoves, much as is used in containment when individual units 
are removed from storage for testing. This alternative leaves the 
SCP-531s unpaired while the gate is open, however, which may 
prove to be a hazardous situation during long term use. 


Figure 531-BB-1: A Figure 531-BB-2: A Figure 531-BB-3: A 
pentagonal cage switchable fence switchable gate 


« SCP-530 | SCP-531 | SCP-532 » 


Pol-3172: See, the thing | don't get is that it 
should not have worked. Not in the way the 
Foundation does- 


Dr. Montauk: This is not under discussion. 


Pol-3172: What happened to Jacob, doctor? 
What happened to your brother? 


Dr. Montauk: This interview is- 


Pol-3172: Oh, alright, alright. | am sorry. | am 
not trying to hurt you, doctor, truly. | just want 
to understand. It's just- it shouldn't have 
worked. The child should have been born. 


There is a pause of several seconds. 


Dr. Montauk: |... was angry. When | drew it 
up. It was unprofessional. 


Pol-3172: Did you think we took Jacob? 


Dr. Montauk: Well, what the hell was | 
supposed to think? | start looking into your lot, 
making discovery after discovery, and then he 
disapp- look, this isn't relevant. 


Pol-3172: Alright, alright. | am sorry | asked. 
But can we agree that it was not a decision 
made scientifically? That it was done ina 
moment of fury, rage, hate? 


Dr. Montauk: | didn't- the girl, | didn't mean to- 


Pol-3172: But you did, doctor. Look, I'm sorry, 
| don't mean to dredge these old wounds up 
for you- 


Dr. Montauk: Why are you, then? 


Pol-3172: Because | just want to understand. 


And now | think | do. 
Dr. Montauk: How? 


Pol-3172: You... | don't know where to begin. 
Let me go back. | don't think your department 
has had very much activity in recent months, 
not after the Hand's attempt to open the gates, 
right?. Your procedure keeps the girl from 
giving birth, the nomads keep fighting their 
endless war, the spears are safely locked 
away by the Bookburners, and the Devourer- 
well, there's nothing you can really do about 
the Devourer now, is there? 


Dr. Montauk: SCP-2317 isn't SCP-001. 


Pol-3172: Wasn't SCP-001. But the thing is, 
you've been telling everyone he is. 
Technically, you're meant to think that he is, if | 
understand Foundation hierarchies correctly. 
You are only a level 4, after all. 


Dr. Montauk: | don't understand.