SCP-1296b: Not this again. You just won't give it up, will 
you? You order llamas. We get you llamas. From the top 
of Mount Everest to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, if 
you need a llama, we will get you that llama. Now stop 
being nosy. Yours is the grey one in the back. 


Test Logs: 


Ordered: Three llamas 

Time for Delivery: Three minutes 

Cost: $33 

Result: Two female and one male llama. No anomalies were 
detected in the specimens. 


Ordered: One pregnant female llama, with a brown spot on the left 
side. 
Time for Delivery: Seventeen minutes 


Cost: $50 
Result: One llama matching the description ordered. No anomalies 
were detected in the specimen. 


Ordered: One alpaca 

Time for Delivery: One hour and forty-three minutes 

Cost: $17 

Result: One male llama. Specimen had the hide of an alpaca glued 
to it. Closer inspection revealed that the hide had been freshly 
skinned. 


Ordered: One lama 

Time for Delivery: One hour and twenty-seven minutes 

Cost: $200.02 

Result: , a Buddhist monk. Subject had no recollection of 
events preceding delivery. Subject was administered amnestics and 
released without incident. 


Ordered: One robotic llama 

Time for Delivery: One hour and thirteen minutes 

Cost: $3561.87 

Result: One automaton in the shape of a llama. Behavior was 
identical to that of a biological llama. 


Ordered: SCP-1545 

Time for Delivery: Fifteen seconds 

Cost: None 

Notes: SCP-1545 was observed to vanish from its containment 
locker upon ordering. SCP-1545 was delivered fifteen seconds later, 
containing two deceased individuals, both unidentified; autopsy 
revealed that they had been deceased for at least twenty-four hours. 
Delivery consisted of SCP-1296 driving past the delivery area at 
approximately 150 km/h; SCP-1545 was thrown from the roof by a 
second SCP-1296-b subject. SCP-1296-b-2 was heard to scream 
"Just fucking take it!" before departure. 


« SCP-1295 | SCP-1296 | SCP-1297 » 


SCP-1297: A Jar of Toenails 


Item #: SCP-1297 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: By order of the Temporal 
Anomalies Department, Item SCP-1297 is contained in the center of 
a 10x 10x 5m reinforced concrete enclosure, with one bulk-head 
door accessible via the east wall at floor level. The room is lit with 
natural gas torches, and standard safety protocol for gas leaks and 
lighting failure is to be upheld at all times. A steel catwalk is 
suspended from the ceiling and west walls, two (2) meters from the 
floor, with bulkhead entrances on the north and south walls. At least 
fifty (50) guards are to remain on site at all times in event of 
attempted breach, with no fewer than five (5) security personnel 
stationed on the catwalk at all times. 


No electrical systems are to be employed in the surveillance or 
containment of SCP-1297. Personnel who have been artificially 
augmented or repaired in any way (pacemakers, replaced organs/ 
bones/joints, ocular implants, etc.) are disqualified from working with 
SCP-1297. Security personnel are to receive supplemental training 
on the use of antique firearms and ancient melee weaponry prior to 
arrival on containment site. No effort is to be made to prevent 
SCP-1297-1 manifestation events (See Addendum 1297-1), but all 
instances are to be terminated on sight using whatever means 
remain available. 


Immediately following termination of all active SCP-1297-1 
instances, remains are to be searched for their initiating object 
(precisely one (1) toenail clipping), which is to be returned to 
SCP-1297 immediately. Personnel assigned to this task must wear 
gloves to prevent skin contact. Under no circumstances should 
SCP-1297 be transported by air, nor should it be allowed within 


40 km of the nearest population center of five hundred (500) 
persons or more. 


Description: In its inactive state, item SCP-1297 is a glass jar 
approximately 20 cm in height, with a plastic, screw-on lid.1 
Contents of the jar are apparently human toenail clippings in various 
states of decomposition. The precise volume of the item as well as 
the number, age, and composition of the clippings cannot be 
determined due to the item’s anomalous properties. 


Any time a toenail clipping is removed from the jar, SCP-1297 will 
project a unique temporal displacement field. During experimental 
trials and breach attempts, it has been determined that the 
difference between the year recorded within the anomaly and the 
year recorded by observers outside the anomaly (hereafter ‘At’) 
increases both with duration of activity and number of clippings 
removed from SCP-1297. The active radius of the anomaly also 
increases by the same criteria. 


At initial manifestation, SCP-1297’s active radius is 0.5m, with a At 
equal to ten (10) years. This will increase by a radius 0.5m and At of 
ten (10) years per hour per clipping. Countering this effect requires 
the return of the original toenail clippings to SCP-1297. Each 
clipping returned is capable of reversing both the increase in radius 
and the At for which it is responsible.2 Unlike other localized 
temporal anomalies, the field will allow organisms, persons, 
radiation, and simple objects to pass in and out without harm. 


Anomaly SCP-1297 represents a localized TK-Class Causal 
Restructuring Event, resulting in all temporally local causality 
(roughly the previous 20-50 years) being forced progressively further 
backward along our current world-line. Although sense of identity, 
personal history, and basic situational knowledge remain intact, 
progressively greater levels of technological regress can be 
observed within the active radius.3 Despite minor disorientation 
caused by disappearance and regression of technology currently in 
use, all persons exposed to the effect indicate no knowledge 
anything has changed unless previously informed of SCP-1297's 
unique properties. 


The field is not directly harmful to healthy humans; however, 


subjects requiring the existence of advanced technology to survive 
will either expire or disappear entirely if local At precludes the 
existence of that technology. Items or personnel lost to this effect 
will be restored once the offending clipping has been returned to 
SCP-1297. Collateral damage caused by their temporary 
disappearance is not. 


SCP-1297 employs a unique offensive strategy to increase the 
acceleration of the field’s effective radius and At. Although clippings 
can be manually removed and replaced without triggering this effect, 
SCP-1297 will at random intervals+ open and eject a random 
number of clippings covered in an unidentified viscous, sticky, 
malodorous brown humor (designated SCP-1297-1). Direct skin 
contact with the humor causes intense abdominal pain, nausea, and 
vomiting in 100% of subjects. Olfaction was sufficient to induce 
effects in 13% of those exposed. Incapacitation due to vomiting, 
shortness of breath, and loss of consciousness lasts over twenty 
(20) minutes in all cases. 


In addition, SCP-1297-1 is capable of spontaneous animation. 
Within five minutes of emergence, SCP-1297-1 will solidify around 
any ejected clipping in a radially symmetric pattern similar to an 
invertebrate of class Asteroidea. Resulting animate instances are no 
greater than 0.25 m in diameter, but are capable of two (2) meter 
vertical jumps, leaps at a length of five (5) meters, and movement in 
any direction at speeds of up to 20 km/h, which is employed to put 
as much distance between SCP-1297 and SCP-1297-1 as possible. 
Instances appear to be aware of their surroundings, and have been 
known to remove additional clippings from SCP-1297 before 
attempting escape. Entities similar to SCP-1297-1 have been 
observed in relation to the SCP-3109 anomaly. 


Addendum 1297-1: Containment Notes 


Early containment efforts assumed item SCP-1297 to be non- 
sentient, and were focused primarily upon preventing the 
emergence and manifestation of SCP-1297-1. Automated 
containment using sloped floors, pneumatic rams, liquid nitrogen 
spray, etc. have proven not only ineffective, but shown to increase 
both frequency and volume of manifestation events. 


Methods of permanent containment attempted have also proven 
insufficient, up to and including casting the item in an 80 x 80 x 

80 cm block of solid structural steel. Although SCP-1297 remained 
inactive for four (4) years, prior to breach, the ensuing manifestation 
of instances of SCP-1297-1 caused a local loss of all 
communications and firearms technology within 20 km radius, and 
loss of both written and spoken language within a 40 m radius of the 
epicenter before all instances were terminated. It is theorized that 
another breach of this magnitude or greater may cause several 
simultaneous XK-Class End of the World Scenarios due to 
containment breach of other known SCPs alone. 


As SCP-1297 has demonstrated the awareness necessary to 
recognize increased containment measures, and the ability to 
escalate its response to them, further attempts to prevent the 
activation of SCP-1297 are prohibited. 


The classification of SCP-1297 was upgraded to Keter on 
28/10/1986. 


Addendum 1297-2: Document 1297-A 


Item SCP-1297 was mailed to Site-19, via US post on / /1949. Its 
arrival coincided with a ’-4 level containment breach including all 23 
Euclid-class SCPs housed on site. The following note was 
recovered with the item, sealed in red wax. The note was written 
with a simple charcoal based ink on vellum paper, presumably to 
ensure that it would not be destroyed by SCP-1297's effect. 


Dearest ; 


| have decided, finally, to refuse your offer. Tempting, all 
that control. But the way | see it, if not for your 
Foundation, we wouldn't need your Foundation. 


And you know this, deep down. I'm sure you do. 
Everything is permitted, my friend. And there is nothing 
in this world which is not disposable. Not you. Not me. 
Not our fathers and mothers. Not all the fortunes and all 
the pleasures and all the horrors of all the world. 


Except this little item here. 


Disgusting? Yes. Repugnant? Of course. But you'll never 
be rid of it, not if your Foundation places value in the 
‘status quo’ as we both know it does. | suppose that /s 
what you wanted, isn't it? 


| honestly wish you would just give it up and come along 
for the ride. It saddens me to know that we can no longer 
be friends. Pity. We did make such a good team. 


Until we meet again — unless | see you first — stay on 
your toes! 


The box was damaged in shipping, displaying a small hole on the 
underside where an instance of SCP-1297-1 appears to have 
escaped, and is presumed still at large. A postmark on the upper 
face listed adate of / /2049, suggesting a maximum At per 
SCP-1297-1 of 100 years. Subsequent tests on the packaging 
confirm that it remains unaffected by anomaly SCP-1297. Efforts to 
understand and reproduce this immunity are ongoing. 


Footnotes 

1. Known configurations during periods of activity include a glass- 
topped storage jar with metal clasp, a red ceramic pot, a wicker 
basket, and a small circle of stones inscribed with an unknown runic 
language. 

2. Although a maximum At equal to one hundred (100) years per 
clipping has been established, the radius of effect has no known 
limit and will continue to expand indefinitely so long as at least one 
clipping remains outside of SCP-1297. 

3. The effect includes, but is not limited to, weapons, armor, 
photography, fashion, language, political climate, and medicine. 

4. Intervals range from four (4) hours to four (4) years. The most 
common interval is approximately ninety (90) days. 

5. Number of instances ranges from two (2) to _, with a mean of 
twenty-seven (27) instances. 


« SCP-1296 | SCP-1297 | SCP-1298 » 


SCP-1298: The Doorstep Babies 


Item #: SCP-1298 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: 37 instances of SCP-1298 are 
contained in plastic drawers of the Level 2 Cold Storage unit of Site- 
. Notes are stored in a locked filing cabinet in Site- offices. MTF 

Omega-8 “Babysnatchers” has been charged with recovery of new 
instances, administration of amnestics, and monitoring at-risk cases, 
as well as potential interception of the source. 


Following Incident 1298-a, long term experimentation on active 
instances of SCP-1298 is now strongly discouraged. SCP-1298-5 
has been partially disassembled and placed in long-term cold 
storage pending decommission or reclassification to sapient. 


Description: SCP-1298 refers to a group of animate simulacra of 
human infants, constructed of steel and plastic with rubber skin and 
glass eyes. Instances exhibit mobility, vocalization, awareness and 
reactions consistent with human infants of roughly three to six 
months of age, though they show no reaction to visual stimuli and 
are presumed to be blind. Disassembly has shown no electronic 
components, power sources, or complex machinery, though active 
instances maintain a temperature roughly analogous to human 
norms. Reduction of ambient temperature slows and eventually halts 
activity. Though instances will consume milk or soft foods, they do 
not produce waste and anything ingested will remain inside the 
predominantly hollow interior. 


Instances of SCP-1298 are delivered by unknown means to the 
doorsteps of chosen subjects between the hours of 3 and 5am, 
contained inside a woven basket and wearing a stitched one-piece 
wool garment and a white blanket. Accompanying each instance is 
an envelope containing a handwritten note. Each note is unique, 
containing a collection of common words interspersed with randomly 


selected letters. No consistent code or pattern has been found in 
recovered notes. 


Subjects of SCP-1298 appear to be selected on a fairly narrow set 
of criteria. Most subjects have been upper-middle class Caucasian 
couples located in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who 
have recently lost a child, usually their first. A statistically significant 
number of subjects have been featured on local news regarding this 
loss, which is hypothesized to be the method by which subjects are 
selected. Though most instances are recovered following subjects 
contacting local authorities, several instances had to be forcefully 
removed from the possession of subjects. 


« SCP-1297 | SCP-1298 | SCP-1299 » 


SCP-1299: Drowning Tub 


Item #: SCP-1299 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1299 is to be contained in 
a8x 10 x 4 mconcrete cell. It is to be kept disconnected from all 
sources of water, regardless of its current state. The door to its 
containment chamber is to remain locked at all times unless 
Procedure F-30 is being enacted. All level-2 and above staff 
members on site are to carry keys to SCP-1299's containment cell. 
Once a month, one D-class is to enact Procedure F-30. In case of a 
containment breach, essential personnel are advised to move as far 
away as possible from the containment area, and any available 
female D-class are to be escorted towards the breach site by 
security. 


Description: SCP-1299 is a white porcelain-over-steel freestanding 
bathtub, manufactured in by the Corporation. It was 
discovered when the occupants of ahouse on 75 __—s Street in 

, Ohio experienced an unusually high rate of apparent 
suicides and murders via drowning. A news story on the anomaly 
brought the house to the Foundation's attention. The Foundation 
quickly suppressed all information regarding the crimes and secured 
the house in question. No anomalies were observed until one agent 
turned on the handle to SCP-1299, which activated despite being 
disconnected from the house's water supply, resulting in the agent's 
death. The Foundation quickly secured the bathtub and moved it to 
its current containment.