THIS WAY." 
Dr. : "| hope it doesn't come to that." 


SCP-1171-1: "OH, SURE, NO ONE DOES. | MEAN, 
THEY CAN'T HELP BEING WHAT THEY ARE. BUT 
THEY KEEP COMING IN. | MEAN, | DON'T MIND 
HAVING A FEW AS NEIGHBORS, SO LONG AS THEY 
MIND THEMSELVES, BUT WOULD YOU WANT YOUR 
SPAWNSIB TO MARRY ONE? 


Dr. : "| suppose not." 

Interview Log SCP-1171-1-13 

SCP-1171-1: "DOC, YOU THERE?" 

Agent __: "He's out. I'm watching his house for him." 
SCP-1171-1: "WHO ARE YOU?" 

Agent :"My name's John Doe. | am a human." 


SCP-1171-1: "OH. | DIDN'T KNOW DOC KNEW ANY 
HUMANS." 


Agent  : "Is that a problem?" 


SCP-1171-1: "NO, NO, NO. IT'S ABOUT TIME DOC 
GOT SOME HUMAN FRIENDS. GREAT TO SEE THAT 
HE'S MEETING NEW PEOPLE." 


Agent —_: "Glad to hear that." 


SCP-1171-1: "VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE, 
THAT'S MY MOTTO. HOW ARE YOU? IS YOUR SKIN 
NICE AND FLEXIBLE? INSIDES FULL OF FLUIDS?" 


Agent =: "Everything is satisfactory, thank you. I've got 
to go." 


SCP-1171-1: "YOU TAKE CARE, JOHN DOE!" 


Interview Log SCP-1171-1-14 
SCP-1171-1: "DOC! DOC! ARE YOU THERE?" 
Dr. : "I'm here, Beauremont." 


SCP-1171-1: "DID YOU KNOW THERE WAS A HUMAN 
IN YOUR HOUSE?" 


Dr. : "Yes, he moved here recently." 


SCP-1171-1: "WELL, | HAD SOME WORDS WITH HIM. 
HE WAS A BIT LIPPY, BUT | PUT THAT GAMETE IN 
HIS PLACE." 


Dr. : "| see. He didn't give you too much trouble, did 
he?" 


SCP-1171-1: "NOTHING | CAN'T HANDLE. YOU GOT 
TO KNOW HOW TO TALK TO THEM, IS ALL. LET 
THEM KNOW WHO'S BOSS. THAT'S THE TICKET." 


Dr. : "I'll Keep that in mind." 
« SCP-1170 | SCP-1171 | SCP-1172 » 


SCP-1172: Double Word Scare 


Item #: SCP-1172 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: The item may be stored in any 
standard low security storage room with sign in/out protocols in 
place. Testing may be performed in situ; if the item is to be 
transported the bag should be tightly closed using the drawstring 
and a sealing clip, and the bag be placed upright into a foam lined 
case to prevent risk of the tiles becoming separated from the bag. 
Strong sealing clips are to be left in the nearest guard's office to 
secure the mouth of the bag during transport. 


In the event of any or all of the tiles becoming separated from the 
bag protocol requires that the area is cleared to a radius of at least 
10 metres in all directions, and an automated robot is used to bring 
any spilled tiles in contact with the bag. Once this is done and 
SCP-1172 is complete the cleared area may be re-entered safely 
and the bag secured. 


Description: SCP-1172 is a linen bag made from thick flax fibres, 
rendered green by dye derived from the skin of Pachycereus, a 
cactus plant. It contains 100 white plastic tiles, 98 of which are 
marked with letters of the Roman alphabet. The letter distribution is 
identical to that of a shop-bought Scrabble set. The remaining two 
‘wildcard’ tiles, usually blank or marked with a single dot in the 
commercial set, are slightly darker and marked with a drawing of an 
eye, rendered on the plastic by the same embossing and paint used 
for the lettering. These two tiles feature no score numbers. Attempts 
have been made to photograph the design; in each case the tiles 
have appeared on film as being standard blank tiles. Drawings of the 
tile are successful, however. 


Removal of the tiles from the bag must be performed in accordance 
with strict protocol: 


* Removed tiles must not be taken more than 30cm from the bag. 
Absolute safe limit has been recorded at 54cm. 

* Once a tile is taken from the bag at least six others must also be 
removed. They must in turn be placed to the immediate right of the 
previous tile. 

* No more than ten tiles are to be removed per use, after which all 
tiles must be returned to the bag. 


These criteria were established during testing by using an 
automated robot to remove the letters and then retreat slowly from 
the bag until anomalous effects were noted. Any breach of this could 
result in serious injury. 


When tiles are removed from the bag and placed in left-right order in 
96% of situations (166 of 173 tests) the tiles placed formed English 
words. These words were often found to have relevance to the test 
subjects, but in some cases the relevance was not apparent until 
events after the test transpired. D-Class personnel for whom the 
resulting words were not relevant are to be excused from 
termination procedures until said relevance is observed. 


The remaining 9 subjects drew the tiles containing the eye symbol 
during the test. In every case once the eye symbol had been drawn, 
the next time the subject attempted to retrieve a tile they 
experienced the sensation of being touched on the fingers from 
inside the bag. The same occurred for subjects attempting to 
remove more than ten tiles. 


Recovery Log: The bag was brought to the attention of a 
Foundation researcher on periodical duty. The following letter was 
published in the January issue of Fortean Times: 


Supplemental Materials 1172-3A: Fortean Times 
Issue , page 


Fortean Times, 


| know this sounds crazy, but | was at a party at a squat 
the other night, and after we’d indulged in quite a lot of 
*ahem* ’recreational substances’ one of the hosts led me 
up to the loft and showed me a dusty pile of board 


games they’d found up there. He opened a copy of 
Scrabble and took out the bag and told me a creepy 
story about it having been found in Crowley’s 
possessions at the time of his death. He then started 
chanting and told me to take tiles out of the bag and they 
said some creepy stuff, all true! After I’d pulled a few out 
he shouted at me to stop and told me to go back 
downstairs, and | didn’t see him for the rest of the night. 
Has anyone else ever experienced this kind of thing, or 
was it a trick inflated by my drug-addled mind? 


FortFan, Derby. 


The researcher located the writer of the letter who divulged the 
location of the squat. Agents and - were sentto , 

in Derby to collect information and if possible retrieve the item for 
examination. The house was deserted but showed signs of recent 
habitation. On gaining entry to the loft the Scrabble box was quickly 
located. In the box along with the board, bag of tiles and the 
rulebook was a note: 


Supplemental materials 1172-3D: Letter found in 
Scrabble box: 


‘| hope nobody finds this, | sealed the loft hatch shut for a 
reason. Do not open the bag. Do not use the bag. It’s 
told me so many horrible things. She cries out for me 
now, her war cry keeps me awake at night. She is Alala. 

| am her slave. Don’t use the bag.’ 


‘Alala’, in Greek mythology, is the female personification of the high 
pitched ululation used as a war cry. This sound is heard at volumes 
exceeding 120DbI when tiles are brought more than 54cm from the 
bag. During this time the area around the bag is perforated with 
boreholes around 2mm in diameter, travelling through any material 
up to a distance of 315cm from the bag at approximately 3-5 bores 
per second. These bores appear between frames using high-speed 
video capture and no physical means for producing them has been 
observed. The ululation and appearance of the boreholes continues 
to occur until all of the tiles are within 54cm of the bag, at which 
point the tiles are pulled back into the bag by means that are at this 


point unknown. Use of IR cameras have proved inconclusive. 


SCP-1172 Test Logs: 


Experiment 1172-A: 

Test Subject: D-2532 

Letters removed: TOHATETHEM 

Relevance to subject: D-2532 was incarcerated in 1993 for a 
series of racially motivated murders. Subject was a member of 
several far-right groups and was a vocal neo-Nazi. 


1172-A Interview Log- : to 
Dr. : What did the letters Salle 


D-2532: [INAUDIBLE] 
Dr. : Could you repeat that? 


D-2532: It’s bullshit. You’re trying to make me regret it. | 
don’t regret shit. 


Dr. : What did it mean? 
D-2532: It means | did the right thing. 


Experiment 1172-B: 

Test Subject: D-6634 

Letters removed: C T [Eye tile] 

Relevance to subject: Subject claimed to have no knowledge of 

any relevance. Four weeks later the subject had a grand mal seizure 

and died, autopsy revealed a clot on the brain that appeared to have 

been present for at least two years and had not been diagnosed. Dr. 
suggested that it could have been treated if diagnosed via a CT 

scan. 


1172-B Interview Log- : to 
Dr. : Take another tile. 


D-6634: What’s that? That’s not a Scrabble tile. “Subject 
reaches in the bag* What the fuck was that? What the 
fuck? 


Dr. : What did you experience? 


D-6634: What did | experience? Something touched my 
goddamn hand! Felt like a wet fish! 


Dr. : Try again. *Subject reaches into the bag 
again* 


D-6634: Jesus! It felt like something was stroking my 
fingers. I’m not doing that again. No way. 


Dr. : Try again. 


D-6634: No way. No way. There's another hand in there. 
That ain't right. 


“Despite several requests the test subject refused to 
touch the bag again. Experiment curtailed.* 


Experiment 1172-C: 

Test Subject: D-3155 

Letters removed: ALSOTAPER 
Relevance to subject Not known at this time. 


Experiment 1172-D: 

Test Subject: D-4514 

Letters removed: SOC OLD [Eye Tile] 

Relevance to subject: Subject claimed to have no knowledge of 
any relevance. Three days after the testing D-4514 was found in a 
shower cubicle suffering from severe hypothermia and facial 
contusions. The subject’s body temperature was taken as 32.8° 
Centigrade and the subject expired within minutes of discovery. It 
appears that a coolant leak in a pipe near the shower area had 
cooled the water down to near freezing, and the shock of immersion 
caused D-4514 to slip and knock himself out. 


Addendum: It appears that the results of testing are highly varied 
depending on the order of tiles removed. If the Eye tile is removed 
from the bag then the prior letters appear to have some sort of 
predictive nature as to the test subject’s demise. If the Eye tile is not 
selected then the phrases are far more vague. More testing is 


required to more accurately establish the limits of its abilities. 


« SCP-1171 | SCP-1172 | SCP-1173 » 


SCP-1173: The Islamic Republic of Eastern 
Samothrace 


Item #: SCP-1173 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Knowledge of the "existence" of 
the IDAS is to be expunged from all databases and sources at 
earliest convenience. This removal is to include online and print 
sources; containment will be considered complete when information 
regarding SCP-1173 is present in Foundation databases 

only. Active attempts to contain SCP-1173 are suspended at this 
time; please consult Addendum SCP-1173-1 for details. Three (3) D- 
class personnel infected with SCP-1173 are to be kept at Site 38 for 
limited testing purposes; any unauthorized use of the operative 
phrase for SCP-1173 transmission outside of testing protocols is to 
result in termination and replacement. 


While the current need to contain SCP-1173 is paramount, under no 
circumstances are Foundation personnel to directly engage in 
hostile action against individuals attempting to spread SCP-1173. 
Efforts to contain SCP-1173 should focus on discovering the nature 
of SCP-1173 and researching methods of eliminating SCP-1173, 
regardless of whatever actions may be required to accomplish this. 
However, all Foundation units are to refrain from attacking one 
another for any reason, including as a part of an attempt to contain 
SCP-1173. 


Document 1173-A is to be deleted at earliest opportunity and all 
affected personnel treated. As per Protocol 1173-Omicron: Until 
such a time as the nature of SCP-1173 can be more definitively 
determined and anti-memetic measures can be carried out, direct 
conflict between affected personnel and standard Foundation 
personnel is to be avoided. Discussion of SCP-1173 in an unofficial 
capacity is strictly forbidden to avoid interpersonal conflict among 


Foundation personnel. 


Description: SCP-1173 is a memetic phenomenon centered around 
a delusional belief in a political entity, Known as the "Islamic Union 
of Eastern Samothrace," "loAauiKr AnuoKpotia tng AvoroAiKns 
Zayo8pakne" (in the original Greek), or "IDAS." Affected individuals 
will possess varying degrees of understanding or awareness of the 
history or culture of the IDAS, but interviews with individuals under 
the influence of SCP-1173 have isolated several key characteristics 
that the political entity is commonly described as possessing. 
Geographically, the IDAS appears to be a primarily Greek-speaking 
nation comprising a small mainland enclave on the Anatolian 
peninsula and a series of islands in the northeastern Aegean Sea. 
As the name would indicate, within the context of the delusion, a 
significant portion of the population practices Sunni Islam, with a 
limited number of Shi'a practitioners and a small group of Syriac 
Orthodox Christians, though the latter group has largely left the 
country due to religious conflict. 


Individuals can become infected with SCP-1173 only by hearing an 
operant sentence spoken aloud in their presence by an infected 
individual; through research, the operant sentence has been 
determined to be "You hear about that thing down in Samothrace?" 
Individuals that have heard this sentence frequently express minor 
interest in the ensuing conversation, which invariably describes 
some sort of internecine military conflict, massacre, famine, drought, 
ethnic cleansing, or other atrocity occurring within the country. 


Uninfected individuals have what Foundation researchers have 
termed a "passive resistance" to information regarding the IDAS; 
such individuals will consistently and without fail ignore or fail to 
observe any data or information regarding the nation unless directly 
ordered to take in information on the subject. After becoming 
infected with SCP-1173, individuals will begin noticing references 
and details to the "current" status of the IDAS in news and other 
print sources; individuals will begin noticing references to older 
versions of the nation (often referred to as "Mahometan 
Saemothras") in works of classic literature dating back to the 
seventeenth century, and will occasionally make casual references 
to Samothrace in the same vein as "Timbuktu" or "Bangkok," 


meaning an obscure backwater of little importance. 


The delusion of the existence of the IDAS is not directly harmful to 
most individuals. However, research into schizophrenia carried out 
by the Foundation for unrelated reasons generated a series of 
connections between SCP-1173 infection and certain previously 
unexplained psychological abnormalities. Specifically, a significant 
number (upwards of 800) of homeless or institutionalized individuals 
diagnosed with schizophrenia have been found to be infected with 
SCP-1173. Moreover, when interviewed as a part of psychological 
therapy, many of them described themselves as veterans of an 
American counterinsurgency force in the IDAS; individuals affected 
in this way frequently describe close encounters with children and 
pregnant mothers as suicide bombers, futile attacks by poorly-armed 
partisans ending in massacres, and war crimes committed by the 
occupying U.S. troops. Particularly lucid instances of these 
individuals make vague references to strained geopolitical relations 
with Russia, which feels threatened by the American incursion, and 
China, which is described as being engaged in large-scale combat 
with a heavily-armed Uyghur revolutionary army inspired by the 
Samothracian resistance.