Dr. Watkins: (Surprised.) |'m sorry, what? 


Dr. Nakamura: So, you — we're not in any 
legal trouble for selling our fish? 


Researcher Liu: At the moment, no, though 
that may change depending on if you can help 


SCP-319-1 designates 12 anomalous mineral specimens mounted 
on SCP-319. Each instance of SCP-319-1 is nearly fully enclosed in 
a housing made of brass, copper and glass, with a 12mm opening 
pointed at the center of SCP-319-2. Each housing for SCP-319-1 is 
connected to heavy-duty electrical cabling that loops in a closed 
circuit connecting each instance. Measurements indicate a constant 
50 amperes of current in this circuit despite no connection to an 
outside power source. 


SCP-319-2 designates a bubble of vacuum 2.561 meters across 
suspended inside SCP-319. SCP-319-2 appears to be in a lower 
energy state than the surrounding universe. Because of the 
alteration of physical constants within this bubble, any matter and 
energy entering this bubble is annihilated, as their quantum 
structures are incompatible. Current theory predicts that the 
existence of SCP-319-2 should catalyze a vacuum metastability 
event, resulting in the expansion of the boundary of SCP-319-2 at 
the speed of light, bringing the vacuum state of the surrounding 
universe down to its lower energy state.2 The expansion of 
SCP-319-2 appears to be held in check by the precise positioning of 
SCP-319-1 around it. This is supported by the fact that any recorded 
movement of SCP-319-1 allows SCP-319-2 to grow by varying 
amounts. Over the past 50 years, vibrations and thermal expansion 
have moved SCP-319-1 enough to allow SCP-319-2 to enlarge by 
0. meters in diameter, meaning that, at its current rate of 
expansion, in years containment will fail as the outer boundary of 
SCP-319-2 intersects the innermost ring of SCP-319. 


Addendum: Selected excerpts from the journal of Sir Bandon 
Lawhead-Smythe, recovered with SCP-319 


August 12, 1893: | found myself pleasantly surprised 
today when word arrived of a shipment from England. It 
appears my rival was as good as his word, living up to 
the terms of our wager. It seems that day, six months 
ago in the Explorer's Club, Lord was not boasting 
of his accomplishments. Now, if | am not to be made a 
liar, | shall have to make good upon my own claims. 


August 15, 1893: The specimens are exquisite, if one 
could rightly describe such unnerving carvings so. Ten to 


us or not. 


Dr. Watkins: Um, all right... What... What 
particular product are you talking about, 
exactly, then? 


Researcher Liu: In August of last year, it 
appears you were starting up a new line of 
modified fish that would be released during the 
holidays. 


Dr. Nakamura: (Looks up, and appears 
excited.) Oh, the Scenty Fish! 


Dr. Watkins: (Rolls eyes, annoyed.) Marcus... 


Researcher Liu: Would you care to explain 
more about these? 


Dr. Nakamura: Of course, sir! See, our idea 
was to make a tropical-themed fish set, sort of 
Hawaii in December, if you will. And, we 
wanted to introduce these fish as a sort of 
living air freshener... 


Dr. Watkins: Marcus... 


Dr. Nakamura: We were going to go for the 
classic samples. Our plan was for the selection 
to include apple goldfish, strawberry tetras, 
orange clownfish, raspberry and blueberry 
bettas... 


Dr. Watkins: Marcus... 


Dr. Nakamura: ... pineapple puffers, and 
banana pipefish! 


Dr. Watkins: (S/aps forehead with right hand. 
Angrily.) Oh my god, Marcus, will you please 
shut up about your Scenty Fish? | know, | 
know, they were your project proposal, and we 


agreed to go through with them, but Jesus, 
can you please not advertise to this man about 


Researcher Liu: Did you say "banana 
pipefish"? 


Dr. Watkins: Yes, he did. I'm sorry, Mr. Liu, | 
can explain. What is it about this fish you 
wanted to know? 


Researcher Liu: It is possible that one of 
these specimens escaped from your 
company's aquarium some time in September 
of last year. 


Dr. Watkins: ...I'm sorry? 


Researcher Liu: On March 3, a research 
group of ours managed to catch... 
(Researcher Liu produces a picture of 
SCP-2761 in its initially discovered form, which 
resembles a yellow, 2 meter alligator gar with 
early signs of leg development)... this 
organism. Can you identify it? 


Dr. Watkins: What the hell is— 
Dr. Nakamura: Holy shit. 


Researcher Liu: Is it possible that this fish 
could have originally been one you 
engineered? 


Dr. Watkins: (Stammers.) |— |— 


Researcher Liu: It appears that its genome is 
very unstable, and is somehow able to express 
the genes of other animals it eats. Is it possible 
that something could have gone wrong with 
the gene splicing in its early stages? 


Dr. Nakamura: | mean — It... It looks like it 
could possibly be... | mean... it's definitely 
yellow, so— But that looks nothing like a 
pipefish, and ours were only about twenty 
centimeters long — 


Dr. Watkins: Oh, shit 
Researcher Liu: Dr. Watkins? 
Dr. Nakamura: Pearl? What's wrong? 


Dr. Watkins: Son of a bitch. | should've known 
he'd do something like that. 


Researcher Liu: Dr. Watkins, please, explain 
what is going on. 


Dr. Watkins: Higgins. | caught Higgins pulling 
some shit during the first few weeks of initial 
gene splicing. 


Dr. Nakamura: ... Pearl. | thought you had 
Higgins fired after the stunt he pulled with the 
Peanut Jellyfish. You let him work on my 
team? 


Dr. Watkins: He's one of our lead geneticists, 
Marcus, it's not like | could just get rid of him. 
Do you understand how difficult it is to splice 
more than a third of the genes from a 
goddamn fruit to a fish and still make it act like 
a fish? 


Researcher Liu: Dr. Watkins, Dr. Nakamura, 
if you please. 


Dr. Nakamura: | apologize, Mr. Liu. You see, 
our, um, Scenty Fish project. It encountered 
quite a few bumps in the R&D. 


Dr. Watkins: That is a gross understatement. 


There are fifty chromosomes in a pineapple to 
work with and the puffer species we were 
working with only had — 


Dr. Nakamura: So, it seems that, without my 
knowledge, Pearl decided to temporarily hire 
Dr. Gregory Higgins to my research team. He 
has... since been terminated from Aquagene 
for unprofessionalism. 


Dr. Watkins: You see, Mr. Liu, Greg was a bit 
of a wild card in our department. He was 
smart, brilliant, even. But, he... He'd like to do 
his own little side projects, even sometimes 
made unauthorized modifications to our fish 
because he thought he could improve their 
marketability. 


Researcher Liu: | see. Were there any 
incidents leading up to our capture of this 
specimen? 


Dr. Watkins: (Sighs and rubs temples.) 
Unfortunately, yes. In about the fifth week of 
development, | caught Higgins tampering with 
a batch of the baby banana pipefish. He was... 
making them more carnivorous, more yellow. 
He said he thought it would be [EXPLETIVE] 
hilarious if we could sneak a biting banana into 
the local grocery stores. Obviously, it was a 
gross breach of conduct, and not even within 
our main market of interest. So | confiscated 
them. However, Rayleigh wouldn't be in for 
proper disposal till next morning, so | left them 
locked in my office with a note on the door. 


Researcher Liu: If you were able to retrieve 
them, then how did — 


Dr. Watkins: When | came into work the next 
day, the fish were gone. | asked Rayleigh if he 


had gotten rid of them, and he said he hadn't 
even gone around to pick up stuff yet. So | 
went to Higgins. He said he'd disposed of 
them himself, even walked me to the takeaway 
unit to prove those things were there. 


Dr. Nakamura: Pearl, are you saying that he 
made — 


Dr. Watkins: Mr. Liu, is there anything else 
unusual you found in this fish's biology, apart 
from the fact that its genome was highly 
susceptible to change? Particularly, diet? 


Researcher Liu: Yes, actually. We've taken 
waste samples from this organism. It appears 
that it contains a multitude of gut flora usually 
found in people, along with various 
carcinogens. 


Dr. Nakamura: (Si/ent.) Oh my god. 
Dr. Watkins: ... You've got to be shitting me. 


Dr. Nakamura: So... Higgins must have made 
more of those things after he took them back, 
put the originals in the disposal unit and then— 


Dr. Watkins: And then flushed the rest of 
them down the goddamn toilet. 


<End Log, 1350> 


Footnotes 

1. Fruit belonging to the genusMusa(i.e. bananas and plantains) 
have been most successful. 

2. DNA sets includeAlligator mississippiensis(American 

alligator) ,Atractosteus spatula(Alligator gar),Grus 
americana(Whooping Crane), and incomplete fragments ofHomo 
sapiensandCanis lupus familiaris 

3. Examples of brand names include "Neon SplatterblastTM", 


"Galactic SparkleTM", and "Hot Stuff Lava LampTM" 
« SCP-2760 | SCP-2761 | SCP-2762 » 


SCP-2762: Moon Snakes 


Item #: SCP-2762 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2762 is currently 
irretrievable without phenomenal resource expenditure. Until an 
affordable method for locating and retrieving it without compromising 
secrecy is proposed, physical containment of SCP-2762 is to be 
considered unnecessary. 


Containment of 2762 Activation Events and the resulting instance of 
SCP-2762-1 is to be effected by the United States Secret Service. 
Pursuant to the relevant treaties between the United States 
government and the Foundation, Foundation personnel are 
prohibited from interfering with these containment efforts, though 
approved agents and researchers may be present up to twice a year 
in an observational role. The United States government will inform 
the Foundation of any changes to SCP-2762's anomalous 
properties. 


Should SCP-2762 be retrieved and its targeting changed, the US 
government has agreed to cede control of it to the Foundation. In 
this event, SCP-2762 is to be contained in a cubic container no less 
than five meters on a side. It is to be suspended in the middle of the 
chamber, and the remaining space filled with water or some other 
nonhazardous liquid. After each 2762 Activation Event, the container 
is to be refilled. 


Description: Most information in this description has been shared 
with the Foundation in compliance with the Foundation-USA 
information sharing treaty. Independent corroboration has been 
found for most claims within. 


SCP-2762 is a stone carved into the shape of a snake weaving over 
itself into a tight ball, approximately 14 cm in diameter. The snake's 


head is visible near the top, and is highly stylized. It shows moderate 
wear, consistent with an estimated age of five hundred years. 
SCP-2762 is visually similar to other non-anomalous sculptures 
associated with ancient Mesoamerican cultures. The purpose of 
these sculptures is unknown, but they are believed to be associated 
with lunar festivals, celebrating the rebirth of the moon from 
darkness. 


SCP-2762 is covered in carved runes, some resembling simplified 
pre-Columbian Nahuatl and others similar to those found on Minoan 
artifacts. It is believed that these were added after the object’s 
original creation, and that they control its function. 


Testing by groups outside the Foundation's influence has found 
SCP-2762 to be unaffected by intense heat, pressure, corrosive 
substances or proximity to explosions of any magnitude. 


Every full moon at solar midnight for the target of SCP-2762, a 2762 
Activation Event occurs. At this time, SCP-2762 begins to vibrate, 
and a green luminescence appears on the surface. SCP-2762 then 
begins to draw in all nearby matter through an unknown means. The 
vacuum force intensifies until it has consumed approximately ten 
cubic meters of non-gaseous matter. At this point, all matter 
absorbed by SCP-2762 in the activation event is disgorged in the 
form of an instance of SCP-2762-1 via a portal which appears in an 
open space near the current President of the United States. 


Instances of SCP-2762-1 resemble snakes approximately 17 meters 
in length. They demonstrate the material properties of a 
homogeneous amalgam of all substances absorbed during the 
activation event. SCP-2762-1 are fully animate, and attempt to kill 
and consume the President of the United States. They may be 
rendered inanimate by inflicting sufficient damage, and also lose all 
anomalous properties at the dawn after the activation event. Due to 
the location of SCP-2762, all instances of SCP-2762-1 are made of 
cement-like compacted regolith. 


SCP-2762 is currently located on the Moon as a result of a failed 
attempt to negate its anomalous properties by the United States 
Secret Service. It was believed that since 2762 Activation Events 
occur based on the phase of the Moon, removing it from Earth would 


remove phases of the Moon as a valid parameter for activation. 
However, SCP-2762 proved to use the target's location rather than 
its own, so the 2762 Activation Events continued unabated. 
SCP-2762's precise location on the Moon is unknown, due to the 
impossibility of affixing tracking devices to it for an extended 
duration, and its consumption of large amounts of lunar soil every 
month. Recovery is therefore unlikely. 


Interview 2762-16: In early 2009, the Foundation was able to 
contact Boris Vetrov, a former member of the psychotronics division 
of the GRU. Though Mr. Vetrov was living in the United States at the 
time, it is believed the United States government was unaware of his 
involvement in the creation of SCP-2762. As Mr. Vetrov has shown 
no signs of involvement in the anomalous world for the twenty years 
since his immigration to the United States, he has been judged of 
little interest save as a historical consulting source for GRU activities 
during the Cold War. Foundation outreach personnel were able to 
schedule an interview between Mr. Vetrov and Dr. Edward Wilson, 
project head for Mesoamerican History. 


Dr. Wilson: Good afternoon, Mr. Vetrov. 


Boris Vetrov: A good afternoon to you as well, Doctor. 
You may address me as Boris, if you like. 


Dr. Wilson: Thank you. Er, you’re more familiar with the 
menu than | — what's best? 


Boris Vetrov: | would suggest the biscotti. This is not 
Starbucks. 


Dr. Wilson: One minute then. 


Dr. Wilson: All right, Mr. Vetrov, I’d like to discuss the 
artifact with you. You say you were involved in its 
creation? 


Boris Vetrov: Correct. Well, not all of what it is today. To 
begin, we didn't put it on the Moon. But when the 
Directorate held it, it was Alexei, Marat, Iskra, and myself 
who altered it. 


Dr. Wilson: Let’s see... In what ways did you and the 
GRU alter the artifact? Actually, just me asking here, why 
are you comfortable giving your coworkers’ names? 


Boris Vetrov: They’re all dead now. If they are to be 
held to account for their part in this, it is by a judge far 
grander than any in Washington or . Time was not 
as kind to them as it was to me. Neither was the 
collapse. | can tell you how we altered the snakestone. 
But you should know that we were not the first to modify 
it. 


Dr. Wilson: Oh? 


Boris Vetrov: One of our agents — not of the 
psychotronics division, we were researchers. An agent of 
the GRU in Mexico, on some errand | don’t think | was 
cleared to know what it was. He found a cell of 
revolutionaries who had the object. They had been 
intending to topple Mexico and install a true communist 
regime. Which was all very nice, but the agent believed 
that the snakestone, and some unlucky revolutionary, 
would be better off serving the USSR more directly. 


Dr. Wilson: They were targeting Mexican political figures 
then? So you’re saying you just changed the target. If we 
can recover the thing, you mean we could shift it away 
from the President?