Given the political difficulty in directly acting in the People's Republic 
of China, efforts are to be focused in disinformation and in indirectly 
influencing and/or negotiating with the PRC's government. 
Continuing procedures to dissuade from further public interest in the 
archaeological history of the Orogen Autonomous Banner! are to be 
carried out. Periodically, specialist papers denying the possibilities of 
any prehistorical civilization in the wider area are to be published, as 
are rebuttals to any thesis proposing such ideas. Agents and 
contacts inside the PRC's government are to lobby for the 
constitution of nature preserves and for the obstruction of 
archaeological excavations, further development, and inhabitation 
expansion in the area. 


The highest priority is the location of the missing items and, if 
possible, their retrieval; otherwise, a strengthening of the measures 
preventing human activity near the location. For that end, satellite 
observing and, if feasible, aerial drone exploration, are to be carried 


on in search for remains of IJA/UAMEA activities. Human 
exploration in the area where the missing items are supposed to rest 
is to be avoided. 


If any object with typological similarities with the SCP-2937 items 
appears in private/public collections/markets it is to be acquired. In 
the case of discovery in archaeological contexts, a obfuscation and 
disinformation campaign is to be carried on and the object is to be 
retrieved. 


In the case of the discovery of any number of corpses with 
blackened sclera and iris but otherwise unidentified cause of death 
inside the territory of the PRC, the opening of talks with the PRC's 
government is authorized and Protocol 2937-Yomi is to be carried 
out. 


Recovery of further information on Operation Izanami is a top- 
priority effort, as is the discovery of the fates of Professor Shimobe, 
General Okakura, and General Kurata. 


Description: SCP-2937 consists of a set of brown to reddish-brown 
earthenware pottery. The total number of items is unknown; there 
are currently 113 items under control of the Foundation (39 full 
pieces and 74 shards; SCP-2937-1 through SCP-2937-113). These 
items range in size from a 173 centimeters tall jar to a 5 centimeters 
long shard. Stylistical analysis show the 113 items to belong to a 
single archaeological culture, termed Xing'an culture. Typological 
studies have established a continuous succession of 10 styles, 
divided into Early-Middle-Late Xing'an2. It has also been pointed out 
the presence of stylistical elements also seen in the Jomon and 
Chulmun pottery styles’. Thermoluminiscence dating has dated the 
items to a period from to years before present. 


12 of the items (the shards SCP-2937-23, -48, -57, -65, -66, -67, 
-81, -89, -94, -103, -105 and -111) show illustrated motifs painted 
with black pigment. The fragmentary nature of the pieces makes 
their interpretation difficult. Since retrieval, these motifs have been 
shifting inside their corresponding shard at an irregular pace but 
averaging around 1 centimeter/year, the pattern moving until a 
certain point in the shard and then back; every motif seems to have 
its own fixed pattern of movement. Analysis of the pigment have 


turned out mostly inconclusive/contradictory results; it is only clear 
that it doesn't correspond to any known substance. 


Recovery: The items composing SCP-2937 were discovered in the 
northeastern part of the then Xing'an province of Manchukuo 
(current Orogen Autonomous Banner) during 1937-1945 by the 
Imperial Japanese Abnormal Matters Examination Agency 
(IJAMEA). After the end of the Second World War and the 
dissolution of the IAMEA, SCP-2937 (along with a majority of the 
anomalous objects under IJAMEA control) was transferred to 
Foundation control and stored in the newly built Site-50 in Kyoto 
prefecture. 


Recovered Documents 2937-1: Correspondence concerning the 
Hsingan Culture and the Project Izanami 


The following documents were recovered alongside SCP-2937 on 
1945-10-17. Translated from Japanese. 


October 12, 1937 
Dear General Kurata 


As per your directives, the gentlemen from the Abnormal Matters 
Examination Agency have arrived. They immediately started 
examining the retrieved pottery pieces. Professor Shimobe S. is 
certain that they are related to the Stone Age pottery from the 
homeland, but is also convinced that these pieces precede the 
homeland ones in antiquity. He says that this is proof of the 
existence of a prehistorical Pan-asian civilization; it may be worth 
investigating more so as to get more supporting evidence against 
those who doubt the legitimacy of our Co-Prosperity Sphere (of 
course, the official line will be that these remains were produced by 
ancestors of the Yamato race). 

Prof. Shimobe has tentatively classified these pottery pieces under 
the "Hsingan" style. 


Sincerely, 
General Okakura K. 


July 5, 1940 
Dear General Kurata 


Last week several large jars with painted motifs were excavated‘. 
According to Prof. Shimobe, the design of these motifs shows 
remarkable similarity to the homeland's prehistorical designs. This 
should be taken as further proof of the continuity between the 
Hsingan people and the Yamato race. Of interest is also a jar with a 
motif interpreted by Prof. Shimobe as a Hsingan king subduing 
conquered people. | attach to this letter a rough sketch of this last 
motif. 


Sincerely, 
General Okakura K. 


December 19, 1942 
Dear General Kurata 


We have been periodically unearthing more painted examples of 
Hsingan pottery. Several of them show what Prof. Shimobe says 
was some kind of ritual. I'm attaching a rough sketch of what is, 
according to him, one of the more interesting motifs. 

These paintings are truly remarkable: they shift and move around 
the surface of the vessel, like they were reenacting the rituals they 
are supposed to illustrate. With those reenactings as reference, and 
his own ethnographical background, Prof. Shimobe is certain he can 
eventually reproduce the ritual. He has confidence this ritual may 
become a powerful weapon for the Yamato. 


Sincerely, 

General Okakura K. 
September 3, 1943 
Dear General Kurata 


Prof. Shimobe was right: this ritual is truly outstanding. Just by 
reenacting it upon the subject (a local we had drafted from a nearby 


village), the subject's eyes turned completely black and, he just 
dropped dead. Furthermore, we got reports that at approximately the 
same time several locals from the surrounding villages (including 
people with whom we had had no contact at all) also died of 
mysterious reasons, their eyes totally black. 

Prof. Shimobe has hypothesized that thanks to this ritual the 
Hsingan people carved a far-reaching empire; indeed, though there 
haven't been full excavations yet our troops have found pottery 
similar to the Hsingan as far south as Chekiang. Further research is 
needed. I'm attaching an initial draft with several possibilities of 
weaponizing this effect (I'm tentatively calling this project as Project 
Izanami), were Prof. Shimobe's theories proven true. For the 
moment he can only execute the ritual on a couple of individuals per 
day, but he says that with practice he will be able to expand the 
effect. 

Additionally, one of the colleagues of Prof. Shimobe has shown 
concern that the Hsingan pottery remains seem to disappear 
abruptly in the archaeological record, as if the Hsingan civilization 
had at some point suddenly died. Prof. Shimobe says that it is just 
an artifact of the shortage of data. 


Sincerely, 
General Okakura K. 


June 26, 1944 
Dear General Kurata 


I'm distressed to hear about these sudden deaths cases in the 
homeland. This confirms one of Prof. Shimobe's hypothesis, and it 
also confirms my fears. 

Since of late, the painted pottery had been become more active, the 
designs being in movement all day; and two weeks ago the ritual 
was enacted by itself, without input of Prof. Shimobe or of anyone 
else. Immediately not only some of the drafted locals but even our 
own troops fell dead, their eyes black. This have been happening 
once every one or two days since then. 

And the fact of these sudden deaths in the homeland has made 
Prof. Shimobe certain of another of his hypothesis: that this effect 
determines its victims by race. According to him, when this effect 


kills a victim, it also kills a number of individuals of the same race, 
sometimes considerably far away. Reports of cases of these sudden 
deaths as far south as Shanghai show that the geographical range 
of the effect is indeed considerably broad (if there is any range at 
all). 

Prof. Shimobe is continuing his research and his practice of the 
ritual. He may now affect as much as a dozen of individuals at once, 
and the associated effect may be killing as much as ten times that 
number. 

| think it's safe to say that carrying out Project Izanami is a realistic 
possibility. We should hurry, however; the tide of war gets more 
unfavorable to us every day. 


Sincerely, 
General Okakura K. 


June 12, 1945 
Dear General Kurata 


We are running out of time. These painted pieces have been 
becoming exponentially more active these last few months. Now the 
ritual is being reenacted constantly, and had we kept these pieces 
on our possession every day several dozen of the drafted locals and 
of our troops would be dying. Even after temporarily burying them 
and retreating over 50 kilometers, everyday about a dozen persons 
on our base die. Furthermore, this effect is not only growing 
stronger; it's also expanding its coverage. There are reports of the 
associated deaths all over China and the homeland, and they 
number over twenty times the number of deaths among our troops. 
Prof. Shimobe says that not being able any longer to practice can 
hurt the efficiency, but is confident that if given enough and 
appropriate human material he can reproduce this effect on a scale 
without precedents (and without affecting the Yamato people). 


Sincerely, 
General Okakura K. 


September 7, 1945 


Dear General Okakura 


You are authorized to carry out Operation Izanami. All of our 
prisoners of war will be sent to your location; you are to use them in 
their totality. lf wnat Prof. Shimobe says about the results of this 
ritual of his is true, this should become an attack to dwarf this new 
weapon of the Americans. 


Sincerely, 
General Kurata M. 


Note: Letter L-2937-7 was discovered in the office of General 
Kurata and is thought to have remained unsent. 


Notes: Professor Shimobe S. was a professor from Tokyo 
University attached to the ISAMEA. Records show him being sent to 
the 79th Infantry Division of the IJA, based in northern Manchukuo, 
in 1937. General Okakura K. was a general in charge of a 
unidentified regiment of the 79th Infantry Division. After September 
1945 there are no more records concerning him and his final fate is 
unknown. General Kurata M. was an official in the government of 
Japan from 1934-1945, and is thought to have been a high-ranking 
officer of the ISAMEA. His fate after September 7, 1945 is unknown. 


Addendum 2937-1: On 25/04/2012, Junior Researcher lijima 
suddenly died during lunch in Site-50. Her sclera and iris had turned 
black, and no cause of death could be found. At the same time, 

, a Clerk in , Fukuoka Prefecture, also died of unknown 
causes and with black sclera and iris. After this incident, inspection 
of SCP-2937 showed that the painted motifs in the corresponding 
items were shifting at a pace of around 1 centimeter/hour (the 
remaining items showed no change). Following this incident, the 
items with painted motifs were transferred to Area-30. 


Footnotes 

1. Hulunbuir Prefectural City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 
People's Republic of China 

2. Shimamura T., 1977, "A Reexamination of the Stylistical Evolution 
of the Hsingan Pottery",Journal of the Department of Eastern Asia 
Archaeology and History, 15:2 

3. Takabe H., 1982, "The Hsingan Culture in the Eastern Asia 


Context",Quarterly Asian Archaeology, 47:3 
4. No complete piece with any painted motif was present in the set 
of items retrieved by the Foundation. 


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SCP-2938: Unpredictably Reactive Substance 


Item #: SCP-2938 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2938 is kept in an opaque 
airtight container in a vacuum chamber at Site 37. Personnel are to 
have no direct exposure to SCP-2938 outside of testing protocols. 


Description: SCP-2938 is 1.7 kg of a clear, colorless substance. Its 
shape, density and composition are variable and reactive to ambient 
environmental conditions. When exposed to different testing 
conditions, SCP-2938 transforms into a variety of other substances 
by unknown means. There is no distinguishable pattern to the 
transformations. 


Test parameters Result 
5 g sample placed in 250 mL SCP-2938 initially separated in 2 
beaker distinct masses, which then 


operated according to an 
unknown force to rejoin. 

5 g sample injected with 0.5 mL| Dye rapidly diffused into sample 

radioactive dye. and was unretrievable, although 
radiation was still detectable. 
Sample acquired faint coloration. 

5 g sample consumed by Subsequent vivisection revealed 

laboratory mouse. that all bodily fluids were primarily 
composed of SCP-2938 with 
contaminants. 

5 g sample consumed by Long-term monitoring revealed 

laboratory mouse. that most biochemical processes 
and organ functioning were 
dependent on the presence of 
SCP-2938. No adverse health 
effects were noted prior to 


disposal of mouse. 


5 g sample subjected to Converted into unidentified liquid 

increasing pressure at stable substance with maximum density 

temperature of 25°C. of 997 kg/m3. Reverted to 
SCP-2938 once pressure was 
decreased. 

5 g sample heated to 75°C. At 50°C, converted into a liquid 


suspension containing large 
amounts of oxidane. 

5 g sample cooled to -25 °C. At 0°C, converted into a 
crystalline solid composed of 
hydroxylic acid. No further 
changes noted. 

5 g sample dissolved in 10 mL | Admixture converted to liquid 

water. DHMO! upon stirring. When 
allowed to come to rest, entire 
mass reverted to 15 g of 
SCP-2938. 


Given that SCP-2938 appears able to convert other substances into 
more of itself, combined with its inherently corrosive nature and the 
unpredictable nature of its transformations, it is estimated that the 
introduction of any quantity of SCP-2938 to an uncontrolled 
ecosystem would potentially result in an HK-class environmental 
conversion scenario. 


Addendum: Supervisory review revealed test data irregularities 
consistent with active cognitohazardous effect. Testing was 
independently replicated under CH-corrective protocols and returned 
the same results. Upon further review, SCP-2938 has been marked 
as free of cognitohazards by the Department of Memetics & 
Cognitohazards. 


Footnotes 
1. Dihydrogen monoxide 


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SCP-350 begins to add new amendments and terms starting from 
the second page, most of which demand a minor service of some 
form from the signatory. However, the complexity of the terms and 
demands increases with the number of amendments fulfilled, 
eventually reaching extremes including but not limited to: the murder 
of staff members, the removal of SCP-350 from Foundation 
containment, and even [DATA EXPUNGED].