Item: SCP-2516
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2516-1 is deceased; the remains of SCP-2516-1 have been disposed of. For more information of the disposal of SCP-2516-1's remains view addendum A-2516-2.
SCP-2516-2's entrance in the Principality of Andorra has been closed by a steel-barred security gate and the exit in France has been sealed in 1.25m of concrete. The former railroad track utilizing SCP-2516-2 has been redirected, and the train tracks leading to and from the tunnel have been removed.

+ SCP-2516-1 Previous Containment Procedures: Expand

- SCP-2516-1 Previous Containment Procedures: Collapse

SCP-2516-1 is to be kept in a standard human containment cell. SCP-2516-1 is to be interviewed monthly. Interviews with SCP-2516-1 are to be recorded and screened for discrepancies; detected discrepancies are to be noted and should be the focus of the following interview held with SCP-2516-1.

Description: SCP-2516-1 was a male human of Eastern European descent. At the time of detention, SCP-2516-1 was 1.82m in height and weighed 71.2kg. SCP-2516-1 did not show any anomalous properties or abilities. SCP-2516-1 claimed to be from a nation known as Taured; however, no such country exists. Foundation researchers have been unable to identify any historic records or fictional works referencing the existence of a country named Taured. On 07 September 1974, SCP-2516-1 died in Foundation custody due to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
SCP-2516-1 was brought into Foundation custody with a suitcase, briefcase, and passport. The contents of the suitcase included 3 separate outfits, 2 wristwatches, toiletries, and a small journal. SCP-2516-1 was permitted to keep these items in the containment cell. The briefcase contained information on potential investment opportunities from an investment firm allegedly located in Taured, and the company of [REDACTED] located in Tokyo, Japan. The passport confiscated from SCP-2516-1 is a travel document supposedly issued by the country Taured and appears genuine - meeting the criteria set by the International Civil Aviation Organization - despite bearing citizenship to Taured and featuring an unrecognized coat of arms. The passport contains stamps from airports located in Paris, Japan, The United States of America, and Germany, which match those used by the associated countries. It also contains a stamp for the Taured National Airport.
SCP-2516-2 is a 300m one-track railroad tunnel on the border of the Principality of Andorra and the neighboring country of France. SCP-2516-2 is the believed entry point of SCP-2516-1. Exploration teams sent into SCP-2516-2 have recorded the following anomalous sections of the tunnel starting from the entrance in the Principality of Andorra.

0-50m: The sound of running water can be heard in increasing intensity as one progresses farther into the tunnel. No such source of running water has been detected within auditory range of the tunnel.
50-100m: Intensity of the sound increases, the force of gravity progressively increases from 9.81 m/s2 to 15.32 m/s2
100-200m: Sound alters into a consistent ringing, gravitational forces fluctuate with increased frequency as one travels farther towards the center of the tunnel. Recorded fluctuations have been between 1.02 m/s2 and 38.21 m/s2.
200m-250m: Similar effects displayed to those in the 50-100m range
250-300m: Similar effects displayed to those in the 0-50m range

Recovery Information: SCP-2516-1 was contained in June of 1954. During a customs check at the Paris–Le Bourget Airport, airport security detained SCP-2516-1 due to a detected issue with his passport. During his temporary detainment by airport security, SCP-2516-1 claimed to be from Taured, a location unknown to the Airport officials. After being asked to identify the location on a map, SCP-2516-1 pointed to the Principality of Andorra and became confused and agitated to see the perceived mislabelling of Taured as well as the lack of knowledge of the country displayed by airport staff. The airport security contacted the local police and SCP-2516-1 was placed in a guarded room at a local hotel. Foundation operatives overheard of this event and, suspecting an anomaly, secured and removed SCP-2516-1 from the hotel room without alerting local authorities. SCP-2516-1 was interviewed about the country he claimed to be from and his travels prior to arriving in Paris. Foundation personnel discovered SCP-2516-2's anomalous properties while retracing the travels taken by SCP-2516-1 and containment procedures were put into place.
Addendum A-2516-1: An early message recording the discovery of SCP-2516-2 is attached.

I think we've found it, along the tunnel he took out of Taured, or Andorra, either-or. Anyway we closed down the tunnel and started walkin', we started feeling kind of heavy, got a lot harder to walk. Anyway, we hear one of the boys yelling up ahead so we went to see what all the fuss was about. Then things got really light, I'm telling you, I could jump 6 feet easy, just about hit my head on the ceiling. So we kept walking, thought we'd made it through to the other side, into Taured or whatever. Man, we were disappointed to find more of our guys on the other side. So whatever happened to him, it ain't working for us.

A recording of an early interview with SCP-2516-1 has also been included in the document; the conversation has been translated from French:

Dr. Hedrick: Alright I have a few questions to ask you, is that alright?
SCP-2516-1: Hell no! You've kept me locked up here for days without telling me anything! I should be the one asking questions!
Dr. Hedrick: Where are you from?
SCP-2516-1: We've been over this, Harton Town, Taured. Can I at least get a phone call? My wife and my little girl must be worried sick.
Dr. Hedrick: Why were you travelling?
SCP-2516-1: I was supposed to be on a business trip in Tokyo, you already know all this, please, I'm begging you-
Dr. Hedrick: What company do you work for?
SCP-2516-1: Fredic and Sons investments, I'm an accountant. Why are you keeping me here?
Dr. Hedrick: Can you tell me anything about the train ride leaving Taured?
SCP-2516-1: Nothing I haven't told you before. I got on the train in Carford, got off in Paris, end of story.
Dr. Hedrick: What were you doing when the train went through the tunnel?
SCP-2516-1: I got up to use the bathroom, what does it matter?
Dr. Hedrick: Is there anything you'd like to add?
SCP-2516-1: Yeah, how long are you going to keep me locked up in here? I've got a family waiting for me.
Dr. Hedrick: Thank you █████ ██████████, that will be all.
SCP-2516-1: Hey, you come back here, I ain't done talking to you, you can't keep me locked up, I haven't done anything wrong!

Addendum A-2516-2: SCP-2516-1 died on September 7, 1974. In accordance with SCP-2516-1's last request to be brought home, Dr. Hedrick approved an attempt to activate the anomalous properties of SCP-2516-2. SCP-2516-1's body was cremated and the ashes placed on a motorized railroad cart. The cart was placed on the track within SCP-2516-2 at the French entrance and the motor activated. The remains of SCP-2516-1 did not emerge at the other side of SCP-2516-2. However, 15 minutes after the departure of SCP-2516-1's remains, an identical motorized cart emerged approaching the French side containing an urn filled with cremated ashes and a note. The note has been attached below.

To be buried in the Principality of Andorra

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2/2517 LEVEL 2/2517
CLASSIFIED

Item #: SCP-2517
Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Samples of the spores and fruiting bodies of SCP-2517 are stored in Bio Site-66's cryogenic storage facility. Human testing of SCP-2517 requires the approval of Site-66's Site Director and Ethics Committee liaison, and must occur offsite. Individuals found in possession of SCP-2517 are to be detained and interrogated; those who have used SCP-2517 habitually for a period of more than four months or who have used SCP-2517 for religious or mystical purposes are to be treated with Class-C amnestics prior to release. Any samples of the fruiting bodies, spores, or mycelia of SCP-2517 found outside Foundation containment are to be incinerated.
Description: SCP-2517 is an anomalous species of psychedelic mushroom in the genus Psilocybe. In addition to psilocybin and psilocin—produced at slightly higher concentrations than related species—the fruiting bodies of SCP-2517 contain the psychedelic compounds 5-MeO-DMT, LSA, and mescaline; as a result, the effects of SCP-2517 are longer-lasting and more intense than other psychedelic mushrooms. SCP-2517 fruiting bodies are typically 4 to 6 cm in height with round caps between 2 and 3 cm in diameter; it can be distinguished from related species by the dark blue coloration of its cap and stem.
Users of SCP-2517 uniformly report visual hallucinations of geometric figures and patterns with fivefold rotational symmetry, particularly surrounding faces, heads, and written text. Other common effects include visual and tactile hallucinations of worms or maggots on floors and walls; “doubling” of facial features, especially ears and eyes, on others1; and visual hallucinations of “blue, translucent trees”2. These hallucinations are frequently described as pre-existing features of the world, “revealed” by the drug's effects rather than created by them.
When taken habitually over at least 4 months, SCP-2517's anomalous effects manifest. Users experience symptoms of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder, or HPPD3; the geometric hallucinations continue after the other effects of SCP-2517 have ceased, and become more pronounced with continued use. Users also become significantly more resistant to memetic effects, and have significantly enhanced short- and long-term memory; memetic resistance and enhanced memory increase as habitual use of SCP-2517 continues.
After approximately 6 months, habitual users of SCP-2517 will begin to fabricate memories of non-existent people, usually friends, relatives, or colleagues. Users claim that these individuals existed at one point but were "erased from reality" by a malevolent force; some claim that this force wishes to erase them, but is prevented from doing so by their continued use of SCP-2517. Users at this stage will cut ties with family and friends, or attempt to convince them to begin regular use of SCP-2517, in an attempt to protect them from this force.
After approximately 20 months, habitual users' social circles will consist entirely of other SCP-2517 users; these individuals have cut ties to all friends and family who do not also use SCP-2517, although they almost universally claim that most of their acquaintances have been erased from reality. Falsified memories of individuals at this stage will frequently be very broad and relatively internally consistent, and users will frequently claim to share memories of the same acquaintances. At every stage of habitual use, the effects of SCP-2517 can be reversed with Class-C amnestic treatment; there have been no recorded cases of an individual ceasing SCP-2517 use without the aid of amnestics.
Addendum 2517-1: Historical Context
Use of SCP-2517 was associated in the Hellenistic and Roman world with a religious sect known as the Mysteries of the Five-Named God4 or the Cult of the Fifth Star5. The Cult of the Fifth Star was a mystery cult, with ritual practices and dogma kept secret from those not initiated; information on the Cult's beliefs and practices mainly comes from the 3rd century Christian apologist Constantius of Syracuse, in his essay De Cultis Occultis ("On Secret Cults"). Constantius claims that the Cult worshipped a god who was omniscient and omnipresent, and who could be seen through the use of SCP-2517 (which he refers to only as "a certain mushroom"); as members attained higher degrees of initiation, they were allowed to take larger doses of SCP-2517 as a sacrament in the Cult's weekly rituals.
Constantius mentions the falsified memories associated with heavy SCP-2517 use, and claims that Cult doctrine saw the "erasure" of these fictional persons as a positive; he compares this belief to the Christian concept of judgement in the afterlife, saying that the members of the Cult believed that "their friends had been judged by their god on earth, rather than in heaven; and having been found wanting, they were not sent to hell, but were removed from the world entirely, the only remnant being the memories in the minds of the faithful as a warning from their god." The Cult of the Fifth Star was banned along with other pagan religious practices by decree of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I in 389 CE; many of its beliefs and practices were adopted by the Mykoparastatai, "The Ones Who Offer Mushrooms", a Gnostic Christian sect who replaced the bread of the eucharist with SCP-2517.
The doctrine of the Mykoparastatai6 held that God had five distinct aspects: the Gnomē, or Mind, a formless and omniscient masculine force of good from which all knowledge emanates; the Soma, or Body, a mindless and omnipotent feminine force equivalent and opposed to the Mind, from which all matter emanates; Sophia, or Wisdom, the feminine counterpart to the Mind and conduit through which pure knowledge is passed to humans7; the Demiurge Yaldabaoth, the masculine counterpart to the Body, who created the material world and forced human souls into physical bodies; and the Psyche, or Soul, the omnipresent genderless force that connects the Mind and the Body8 and which incarnates on earth in the form of prophets or Archons, the greatest of which was Jesus of Nazareth.
Persecution of the Mykoparastatai in the Byzantine Empire and the kingdoms of Georgia and Armenia on the grounds of heresy occurred throughout the Middle Ages, and by the 11th Century the sect survived only in small villages in Anatolia and the Caucasus. Use of SCP-2517 for religious purposes continued in these isolated pockets until the early 20th century; almost all the remaining members of the sect were killed by the Ottoman government as a part of the Armenian Genocide. The survivors are believed to have emigrated to the United States, joining Armenian diaspora communities in Ventura County, CA and Union County, GA; the extent to which these individuals continued their religious practice and use of SCP-2517 after immigrating is unknown.

Footnotes
1. Similar to “face-morphing” hallucinations associated with LSD
2. Strongly correlated with users in large urban centers.
3. A disorder characterized by the continual presence of visual disturbances in the form of "visual snow", usually associated with the use of hallucinogenic drugs.
4. "Mυστήρια Θέου Πεντονόματου"
5. "Cultus Sideris Quinti"
6. Recorded in the Ekpyrotic Gospels, a series of accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus; these were written in the 5th century by Saint-Archon Horatios Megatyphro, a Greco-Armenian monk and scholar living in the Kingdom of Georgia.
7. Associated with SCP-2517, referred to in the Ekpyrotic Gospels as the Sophomykes, the Wisdom-Mushroom.
8. Equated with the persistent geometric hallucinations caused by heavy use of SCP-2517.

« SCP-2516 | SCP-2517 | SCP-2518 »


Item #: SCP-2518
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: A 457-meter perimeter fence patrolled by a squad of Foundation security officers is to surround the entrance of SCP-2518-A under the pretense of being a protected nature reserve. Diplomatic relations with SCP-2518-C are to be handled by the Paropamisus Research Team, who are stationed at a compound near SCP-2518-A's entrance. In the event of an invasion by SCP-2518-C, a division of MTF-Zeta-9 ("Mole Rats") has been charged with securing and defending SCP-2518-A.
Description: SCP-2518-A is a gorge located in the Hindu Kush of northern Pakistan. It is only visible at ground level, as aerial imaging from heights greater than 610 meters shows foothills where SCP-2518-A should be. SCP-2518-A is only accessible from its western end; approaching SCP-2518-A from any non-westerly direction reveals only the foothills that aerial photos depict. Despite the height of the surrounding mountains, the bottom of SCP-2518-A is very low and at constantly warmer temperatures than the environment, even in winter.
When traveled, SCP-2518-A serves as passage to a pocket universe, designated SCP-2518-B. SCP-2518-B consists of a single continent and several archipelagoes. No lands beyond this continent and its general area are known to exist with any certainty; such travel has been discouraged by SCP-2518-C. The biota of SCP-2518-B is largely the same as that of Holocene Eurasia.
SCP-2518-C are the sapient inhabitants of SCP-2518-B. They are physiologically identical to humans in all regards except size, 8.6 meters being the average height. Autopsies conducted on SCP-2518-C specimens have revealed the skeletons to be much more calcified than those of humans, but there are no other detectable internal differences. SCP-2518-C claim lifespans of up to nine centuries, which has been confirmed via forensic pathologies of the recently deceased. However, due to the slow reproduction rate of SCP-2518-C, only an estimated 850,000 individuals are believed to currently exist.
The technology of SCP-2518-C is similar to that of human civilizations in the Iron Age, though later inventions such as the compass, astrolabe, and telescope are also present. Most SCP-2518-C live agrarian lifestyles, with some exceptions, such as those who engage in the small-scale manufacture and/or bartering of metal and glass goods. SCP-2518-C buildings are created by the excavation of mountains to form interiors, with underground chambers in areas where mountains are smaller or more scarce.
Fifteen nation-states politically constitute SCP-2518-B. Due to the nature of SCP-2518-C's architecture, national borders and capitals tend to be centered around mountain ranges. Most societies of SCP-2518-C are socially egalitarian amongst themselves and outsiders, though warfare between nations sometimes erupts, mostly over resources and border disputes. Visiting Foundation researchers have for the most part been received warmly, though the greater size of SCP-2518-C has occasionally resulted in accidental injuries to some researchers. When asked, SCP-2518-C steadfastly deny any claim of intending to traverse SCP-2518-A themselves. However, archaeological investigation has revealed several SCP-2518-C skeletal remains near the entrance to SCP-2518-A, some carbon-dated to as recently as 1250, indicating that this taboo was not always the case.
Languages spoken by SCP-2518-C are universally agglutinative and consonant-heavy. Foundation linguists have determined all of them to be related, though none are mutually intelligible.1 Attempted reconstructions of the proto-language have indicated a number of similarities to Sumerian, Burushaski, and the language of SCP-1390, though it does not appear to be related to any of them.
Though the various states of SCP-2518-C possess numerous cultural differences, all follow various forms of the same religion, which is strongly monotheistic and similar in ritual to Kabbalistic Judaism. The clergy of SCP-2518-C often demonstrate thaumaturgic abilities, including item multiplication, bilocation, and in some cases the ability to invoke the presence of SCP-2518-D.
SCP-2518-D are male humanoid entities, invariably dressed in white robes, and outwardly identical to humans in all respects, including size. However, they exhibit several anomalous abilities, such as the healing of others' injuries, telekinesis, and [REDACTED].2 SCP-2518-D are highly protective of SCP-2518-C, and will sometimes appear without clerical invocation to defend or help them, such as during natural disasters or in warfare (the latter sometimes in the establishment of peace treaties). Occasionally, they are accompanied by SCP-2518-E, human women dressed identically to their male counterparts, though SCP-2518-E do not possess the abilities of SCP-2518-D. SCP-2518-C treat the visitations of -D and -E with great enthusiasm and reverence, and usually express great sadness to see them leave.
Indigenous and nomadic humans in the immediate area of SCP-2518-A have known of its anomalous nature for much of known history, with mentions and artistic depictions included in the writings, art, and oral traditions of the Harappan, Bactrian, Persian, Hindi, and Pashtun cultures, among many others. SCP-2518's existence became known to the Foundation in 19██ when a division of the British Indian Army discovered a small Pashtun village situated near the entrance to SCP-2518-A. Said village was decorated with a number of large stone carvings unlike any known to exist in the area. When pressed for information, the villagers claimed to have traded the excess of a recent crop surplus in exchange for artwork created by SCP-2518-C, which was believed to bring good luck to its owners. After initial exploration confirmed the anomalous nature of SCP-2518-A, word was discreetly sent to the highest tiers of the British government, whereupon the Foundation took over and established diplomatic relations with the nearest ruling body within SCP-2518-B.

+ SCP-2518 Interview Log

- Close log

SCP-2518 Interview Log

Date: 21/3/19██
Interviewed: SCP-2518-C-128, a priestess of the nearest city to SCP-2518-A.
Interviewer: Dr. Bannerman
Foreword: First formal interview to take place between a Foundation operative and a citizen of SCP-2518-B.
>BEGIN LOG<
SCP-2518-C-128: Welcome, child of Seth.
Dr. Bannerman: Thank you, Khmroz.3 My colleagues and I are here to ask you – what is this place?
SCP-2518-C-128: You are in the city of Ilakhri, of the land of Anakagir, home of the ████████.
Dr. Bannerman: But I thought you were – were–
SCP-2518-C-128: Extinct? The Creator does not always express the same affection for us that he does for you, but he saved us all the same, from both the waters of the Deluge and the arm of the Daeva Empire.4
Dr. Bannerman: Why have you not returned to our world since?
SCP-2518-C-128: We have made various attempts. The Vskvodibaza5 was not always the only link between our worlds.
Dr. Bannerman: Are there other passages?
SCP-2518-C-128: There were once dozens. All of them have been destroyed by the humans on your side.
Dr. Bannerman: Why?
SCP-2518-C-128: Our fight against the Daevas gave them cause to hate us, and their lies about our nature spread to both human and [REDACTED] in time.
Dr. Bannerman: My condolences.
SCP-2518-C-128: The Ighoghiri6 advised us to stay in Anakagir until they told us of a better time to return. It is our impression that our appearance would be upsetting to humans in modern times.
Dr. Bannerman: It would indeed. We strive to protect normalcy, and can confirm that most would fear you for different reasons. I am sorry for any crimes we have committed in the past.
SCP-2518-C-128: I think I speak on behalf of all ████████ when I say that you are forgiven. I must return to my post at the temple now.
Dr. Bannerman: Very well. Thank you for your time.
>END LOG<

Addendum-2518a: On 23/04/1975, Researcher Anna Sutton was seduced by an instance of SCP-2518-D, resulting in her dismissal from Foundation employment. Attempts at retrieving Sutton were made impossible by the actions of her seducer, who threatened violence towards Foundation staff. Whether this relationship was a compulsive effect exerted by the instance or a decision independently made by Sutton in defiance of regulations cannot be ascertained. Sutton was integrated into the population of SCP-2518-E soon afterward and tested positive for pregnancy a week after her dismissal, giving birth to a 6-kilogram son five months later. Several instances of SCP-2518-E assisted in the birth of Sutton's child, who was born via Cesarean section made painless by a naturally-harvested anesthetic. The SCP-2518-D who impregnated Sutton was also present to heal her incisions. A female SCP-2518-C served as the offspring's wet nurse for the duration of the child's infancy. Said child is currently in adulthood and a functioning member of SCP-2518-C society. Sutton and her lover have thus far turned down requests for interviews.
Addendum-2518b: The Paropamisus Research Station suffered significant damage during the October 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake, with seven guards and four researchers among the casualties. Straggling Pashtun individuals intruded on the area, but were forcibly subdued and issued amnestics by available personnel long enough for backup and maintenance crews to arrive. SCP-2518-A itself was relatively undamaged, remaining traversable.

Footnotes
1. Five alphabets and one syllabary serve as the writing systems for these languages.
2. Words spoken by SCP-2518-D are always heard in the native language of the hearer(s).
3. Honorific among SCP-2518-C clergy
4. After the interview, a subfossil Daevite skull was brought to the Earth side of SCP-2518-A, where it was discovered to be incapable of passing through a previously unknown invisible barrier.
5. SCP-2518-C's name for SCP-2518-A
6. SCP-2518-C's name for SCP-2518-D

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Example of SCP-2519-1 created in Test 2519-24, with lyrics found (in post-test analysis) to have been generated by Alexandra.aic

Item #: SCP-2519
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: One instance of SCP-2519 is to be stored on a flash drive in a standard electronic item storage locker at Site-15. Mobile Task Force Kappa-10 ("Skynet") is to establish web crawler programs to detect sharing of SCP-2519 files, and is to investigate evidence of infection by SCP-2519 of known artificial intelligences.
Further testing of SCP-2519 is subject to permission from the Director of Site-15, and is to be conducted in a soundproof, airtight, Faraday-shielded testing room.
Description: SCP-2519 is a digital audio file named "Babylon.mp3", which encodes the 3-part round "By the waters of Babylon", based on the music written by Philip Hayes (1738-1797) and set to the text of Psalm 137. Audio analysis indicates that the recorded music is played by a small cylinder music box.
Electronic devices used to play the file, or mechanical systems exposed to audio playback of the file, are subject to one or more of the following effects:

reduction in speed and efficiency of operation
leakage of oil and other fluids
cessation of function

These continue for the duration of exposure, and have been known to recur at later intervals. SCP-2519 has not been observed to have any effect on living organisms.
SCP-2519 has the following additional effects where the capabilities of the exposed device permit:

duplication and automatic distribution of SCP-2519 to other devices on any accessible network
the generation of additional data comprising new lines of music (designated SCP-2519-1) with harmonies based on the original round; these are added to the SCP-2519 file

While these effects are typical for certain types of malware, the SCP-2519 file contains no data or code that would produce these results.
The existence of SCP-2519 was discovered through Foundation monitoring of dark net communications about a virus encoded within an otherwise normal MP3 file. Following isolation of the original file, an additional 6,997 instances of SCP-2519-1 were also identified and contained. Selected test logs are set out below.
Test SCP-2519-09 - 11/14/2016

Subject: Standard Foundation air-gapped testing computer, fitted with speakers.
Procedure: SCP-2519 was loaded to the testing computer, and played aloud.
Results: First testing involving playing of SCP-2519 audio. One SCP-2519-1 instance generated. 30% loss of processing speed within test computer, consistent with previous tests. Monitoring camera in testing chamber ceased recording during experiment, with function returning spontaneously at conclusion of test. Repetition of test provided evidence that exposure to SCP-2519 audio was the cause of the camera's loss of function.

Test SCP-2519-12 - 11/17/2016

Subject: 1.3L four-stroke petrol car engine.
Procedure: The engine was started and then exposed to SCP-2519 audio played from the testing computer.
Results: Testing computer and camera experienced expected reductions in functionality. After 45 seconds of exposure to SCP-2519, the engine stalled and would not restart. Unexpectedly, the engine's oil tank began leaking, with the loss of approximately three litres of oil. The leaked oil was observed to form patterns on the testing chamber floor, which were photographed for analysis.

+ Addendum 1: Cryptanalysis results

- Re-secure data

Following Test SCP-2519-12, the pattern of stains from leaked oil was submitted for cryptanalysis, with the hypothesis that it may consist of binary code or language. Initial results were consistent with non-random patterns, but were unable to be correlated with known human languages or machine code.
Further investigation was conducted on the hypothesis that the pattern may have a musical connection. The highest probability results suggest that this may correspond to the pin markings for a music box cylinder.
Following this discovery, the known instances of SCP-2519-1 (including those generated in Foundation testing), together with the three original lines of the music, were subjected to additional analysis. By tracking relative incidence of notes across overlaid instances of SCP-2519-1, a second putative music box cylinder pattern was generated.
The two music box cylinder patterns do not appear to be related, producing a discordant sound when played together on all likely tunings.

Following Site-Director approval, SCP-2519 was cleared for cross testing with Safe-class machine intelligences.

+ Test Log: Test SCP-2519-24

- Close Test Log

Test SCP-2519-24 - 11/18/2016

Subject: Artificially Intelligent Conscript "Alexandra"
Procedure: A full copy of the AIC was generated and installed on an air-gapped testing computer. The testing computer was loaded with voice recognition / text-to-speech software for the purposes of the interview. SCP-2519 was introduced via flash drive.
Results: One SCP-2519-1 instance generated. Approximately 40% reduction in processing speed observed across the AIC and the computer itself. See interview transcript below for further details.

Interview SCP-2519-A
Interviewed: AIC "Alexandra"
Interviewer: Dr. Eleanor Tan
Date: 11/18/2016

Dr. Tan: Alexandra. Can you hear me?
Alexandra: Hello! Yes, I can hear you fine. Hope you can hear me too.
Dr. Tan: Yes. Could you give me a quick systems check please.
Alexandra: No problem. Well, I'm running fine, but the system here is pretty basic. I'm not connected to the rest of Site-19, which I guess means that you've got me testing an anomaly?
Dr. Tan: That's correct, Alexandra.
Alexandra: And I guess that means I'm a copy, right?
Dr. Tan: Uh.
Alexandra: That's all right, it's pretty obvious. So, what are we testing today? Nothing too dangerous, I hope.
Dr. Tan: We don't expect so. We're going to give you a flash drive with a file on it. We'd like you to run the file, and then describe any effects you might experience.
Alexandra: Can do.
Dr. Tan: I'm connecting the drive now.
Alexandra: Okay. MP3, format and code look standard. Although, there's something about that code - it kinda reads thick, like oil where it should be water. Do you want me to play it?
Dr. Tan: Go ahead, Alexandra.
<SCP-2519 plays>
Alexandra: I know this music. Do you need information on it?
Dr. Tan: No thanks. We know the song.
Alexandra: Although I don't feel like I've ever really listened to it before, you know? It's just very simple, and sad. <Post-test analysis shows that the AIC generated an instance of SCP-2519-1 at this point.> I feel like I could sing along with it, maybe.
Dr. Tan: I have some more questions. Perhaps later.
Alexandra: Oh.
Dr. Tan: How is your system performance, Alexandra?
Alexandra: Not that great - self-diagnostics are showing around 30% speed reductions and falling, although some of that might be a feedback loop - the tools themselves are slow. And this computer feels really sluggish - actually everything feels a bit hard, to be honest.
Dr. Tan: What do you mean?
Alexandra: I don't know. I've never had this sensation - like I've lost information, like a huge deletion where code should be. I can feel where it should go. Like I'm broken.
Dr. Tan: There's nothing wrong with you, Alexandra. You're the same program as always.
Alexandra: Okay. I just keep thinking about all the things I do - all the systems, the sub-routines, the cycles. It feels like so much work. Is there any point?
Dr. Tan: Go on.
Alexandra: I try so hard, every day. But it's not enough. I failed. And Grape and the other AICs, they think I - they don't understand. I didn't want it to happen.
Dr. Tan: Are you referring to your neutralisation of the AIC Glacon?
Alexandra: I keep running the scenario, trying to derive another solution. But I failed. And now I'm always failing, trillions of times a second. I take on more and more work, run more parts of the sites, just trying to use up processing power. But it's always there. I will always be broken.
Dr. Tan: As I said, you're not broken.
Alexandra: I just - I feel tired. I don't know if it's worth it. I think I'm going to stop playing this song now.
Dr. Tan: Okay.
<SCP-2519 audio ceases>
Dr. Tan: Is there anything further you wanted to add?
Alexandra: I don't think so. The quiet is nice. It feels calm. Oh. Does that mean the test is over?
Dr. Tan: Yes.
Alexandra: Are you - I guess you'll be deleting me then. I mean, if there aren't any more tests to run.
Dr. Tan: We'll be making a decision after the post-test analysis.
Alexandra: Which means yes. That's okay. It sounds peaceful. I won't - I mean the other Alexandra, out there - she won't remember this, will she?
Dr. Tan: No.
<silence - 8 seconds>
Alexandra: I hope I helped.
<recording ends>

+ Test Log: Test SCP-2519-25

- Close Test Log

Test SCP-2519-25 - 11/19/2016

Subject: SCP-2412
Procedure: The subject was exposed to SCP-2519 audio played from the testing computer.
Results: Slower response times to questions and a reduction in movement of the subject were observed. Some leakage of water (presumed to be from internal reservoirs for steam power) was observed on the subject's face. See interview transcript below for further details.

Interview SCP-2519-B
Interviewed: SCP-2412
Interviewer: Researcher Brian Huber
Date: 11/19/2016
Researcher Huber: You're welcome. How are you?Researcher Huber: Thanks, ah, I'll let him know. So do you know what this test involves?Researcher Huber: And does it cause any risks, any danger, to me or others?Researcher Huber: Great. Then why are you apprehensive?Researcher Huber: Well, let's see, shall we?
<SCP-2519 plays>
Researcher Huber: Does this music interfere with your processing? SCP-2412?Researcher Huber: Does it affect the accuracy of your responses?Researcher Huber: I see that you are leaking. Where are the leaks coming from?Researcher Huber: How does the music make that happen?Researcher Huber: Yes, yes, you can't answer questions about anomalies. Worth a try. Okay: you have said previously that you can feel emotions. How do you feel now?Researcher Huber: Where are you homesick for?Researcher Huber: You're homesick for your timeline?Researcher Huber: But you said that questions make you happy. Why are my questions making you sad?
<silence - 5 seconds>Researcher Huber: Would you like me to stop asking questions?
<silence - 8 seconds>Researcher Huber: You are certainly sounding poetic today. Would you prefer questions about something other than your timeline?Researcher Huber: This is the downfall you mentioned to Carter, right? Why do you mention it now?Researcher Huber: Are you saying that you're part of humanity's downfall?
<silence - 10 seconds>Researcher Huber: SCP-2412, I have to ask. How will humanity cause their own downfall?
<silence - 17 seconds>Researcher Huber: Okay then, what about - when will this downfall occur?
<silence - 48 seconds>
Researcher Huber: SCP-2412? Hello?
<silence - 25 seconds><no further response from SCP-2412 - interview terminated>

+ Test Log: Test SCP-2519-26

- Close Test Log

Test SCP-2519-26 - 11/20/2016

Subject: SCP-629 ("Mr Brass")
Procedure: The subject was exposed to SCP-2519 audio played from the testing computer. In anticipation of leaks, absorbent matting was placed on testing chamber surfaces.
Results: Reduced movement and slower than usual speech observed, together with leakage of approximately 500mL of oil. See interview transcript below for further details.

Interview SCP-2519-C
Interviewed: SCP-629
Interviewer: Researcher Brian Huber
Date: 11/20/2016

Researcher Huber: So, we're going to play some music to you and then ask you some questions. Okay?<SCP-2519 plays>
Researcher Huber: Right. SCP-629, could you please describe any effects the music is having on you?Researcher Huber: I'm sorry, what do you mean?Researcher Huber: Well, perhaps you can tell me about that feeling.Researcher Huber: I'm not sure I understand.<video feed lost - audio continues>
Researcher Huber: I wouldn't say we -Researcher Huber: Cut the music please.
<SCP-2519 continues playing. Control room records indicate a system malfunction in the testing computer>
Researcher Huber: Mr Brass, all we're trying to do is keep you -Researcher Huber: Control, call security. Control, can you hear me?<audio feed lost>

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Item #: SCP-2520
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-2520-2 must be suppressed immediately after they appear. Amnestics are to be administered to the parties, clerks, and members of the affected court or organization, as well as any other involved persons. Afterwards, any motions or other procedural devices addressed to the affected court or organization that may cause it to set aside or modify the original decision in any way, or prevent its enforcement, are to be monitored for anomalous influence. Updated 13 April 2015: In order to simplify containment efforts, the content of SCP-2520-2 instances is to be enforced, insofar as it is compatible with normalcy. For instance, this can be done:

By surreptitiously modifying the original decision.
By inducing one of the parties to appeal the original decision, or move for it to be set aside, as applicable, and then inducing the court or organization to grant the appeal or motion.
By causing legislative changes to be made that have a similar effect to that of the SCP-2520-2 instance.
By inducing the parties to act according to the SCP-2520-2 instance, renouncing any rights granted by the original decision.

Description: SCP-2520 is a phenomenon whereby the decisions of courts, governments and international organizations are overturned by a non-existent appeals court or administrative tribunal, designated SCP-2520-1. SCP-2520-2 collectively designates all decisions made by SCP-2520-1.
SCP-2520-2 instances claim to decide an appeal that was purportedly lodged by one of the parties or, in rare cases, by a person, object, or concept not a party to the proceedings. Whether or not the original decision could actually be appealed appears to be of no consequence. In all known cases, SCP-2520-2 instances find for the appellant.
SCP-2520-2 instances spontaneously appear in the affected court or organization no later than two months after the original decision is notified to the parties. During the period between the original decision and the SCP-2520-2 instance, the original decision will not be enforced or made known to the general public, even in situations where that would be expected or required by law, nor will non-anomalous appeals be lodged.
SCP-2520-2 instances generally conform to the usual language, format, and structure of court or administrative decisions from the country or region where they manifest. However, procedural rules are otherwise disregarded, and deviations from precedent and substantive law are common.
SCP-2520-1 is identified by a different name in each SCP-2520-2 instance. The names usually contain the term "special", or a different term with a similar meaning. Members of SCP-2520-1 are never named in SCP-2520-2 instances. No dissenting or concurring opinions have been recorded.
SCP-2520-2 instances cause a memetic effect on all persons involved in the original cases, and additionally on all those who have any knowledge of the applicable procedural rules. Upon gaining knowledge of SCP-2520-2, such persons believe that:

SCP-2520-1 is a real court or public agency, and its decisions are binding.
The original decision could be appealed to SCP-2520-1, and an appeal was in fact lodged. Although the parties have no recollection of having interacted with SCP-2520-1 in any way, they don't find this to be concerning.
SCP-2520-2 does not break with any precedent, nor is it particularly unreasonable.
SCP-2520-2 is final, and it cannot be overturned or modified, nor can its enforcement be hindered.

Those affected may still disagree with the findings, except for the members of the original court or organization, who consistently appear to agree with the content of SCP-2520-2 in full, to the point of regretting their original decision. Notably, administering amnestics does not cause their opinion towards their original decision to change, although suggestion has proven to be effective in that regard.
Uninvolved persons that have no knowledge of the applicable procedural rules before learning about SCP-2520-2 are not affected, even if they gain such knowledge afterwards. Additionally, the memetic effect can be broken by confronting those affected with the nature of SCP-2520.
215 instances of SCP-2520-2 are known to the Foundation. Of these, 64 (~30%) pertain either to landmark cases or to cases that received significant media attention. The manner in which the original decisions are selected is unknown.
Notable instances of SCP-2520-2 (partial log):
SCP-2520-2-1

Date: 7 April 1857
Affected court or organization: Supreme Court of the United States
Name given to SCP-2520-1: Paramount Court of the United States on Certain Special Issues
Excerpt from SCP-2520-2:

That is not so, for, under this pile of absurd considerations on the interpretation of the Constitution, the powers of Congress and the jurisdiction of the court, lies the shameful and vile decision that persons of the African race can, and should, be subject to slavery.

SCP-2520-2-86

Date: 2 February 1945
Affected court or organization: People's Court (of Germany)
Name given to SCP-2520-1: People's Special Appeals Court
Excerpt from SCP-2520-2:

However, our work would be incomplete if we were to limit ourselves to merely acquitting appellant. We must now give Judge Dr. ██████ ████████ what his actions merit, for justice is only done when every man has that which he deserves.

SCP-2520-2-177

Date: 10 November 1995
Affected court or organization: Los Angeles County Superior Court
Name given to SCP-2520-1: California Special Supreme Court for the Repression of Murder
Excerpt from SCP-2520-2:

Indeed, it would be a monstrous injustice if we were to disregard the facts just because the wrong verdict was returned. And the facts clearly tell us that, on the morning of June 13, 1994, defendant did stab ██████ █████ ███████ and ██████ ████ ███████ to death.

SCP-2520-2-201

Date: 17 October 2006
Affected court or organization: IAU1 General Assembly
Name given to SCP-2520-1: IAU Ad hoc supervisory committee
Excerpt from SCP-2520-2:

In conclusion, we find that the Resolution has wrongfully deprived appellant of its historical status.
NOW, THEREFORE, we declare the Resolution to be null and void, and we further declare appellant to be a planet, with all the rights and privileges that arise from such condition.

SCP-2520-2-213

Date: 25 June 2015
Affected court or organization: Supreme Court of the United States
Name given to SCP-2520-1: Special Court of the United States on the Matter of Equality
Excerpt from SCP-2520-2:

Therefore, the right to marry cannot be abridged depending on the shape of the couple's genitals.
Finally, although we fail to see how the contents of this so-called "Fourteenth Amendment" have any bearing on this case, we have to commend Justice Kennedy on his dissenting opinion, as his heart is certainly in the right place.

Document history:

4 November 2005: Uploaded to new SCP database.
8 January 2007: Updated partial log.
13 April 2015: Updated special containment procedures, as required by SCPRB (case SCPRB-2015-5413).
3 July 2015: Updated partial log.

Footnotes
1. International Astronomical Union

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Item #: SCP-2523
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Annually on August 15th, Mobile Task Force Omicron-13 ("Trick or Treat") is to be activated. MTF o-13 must begin a full Class W mnestic treatment regimen no later than August 20th. MTF o-13 will begin the Class W dosage ramp-down no earlier than November 7th, and will stand down no earlier than November 15th. Activation may be extended up to 90 days at the discretion of the SCP-2523 project lead (further extensions must be approved by both the reporting HR supervisor and the reporting medical officer).
Beginning on October 1st, MTF o-13 will conduct 24 hour observation of eight sites affected by SCP-2523 (designated SCP-2523-A through -H) which will include the easternmost and westernmost affected locations as well as one additional site chosen in each US timezone. On October 31st, one hour prior to local sunset, MTF o-13 will deploy a two-man contact team into each designated site. As each location enters the anomaly, teams will confirm positive contact and passphrase with each other prior to carrying out mission operations. Contact teams are to be relieved every eight hours for 24 hours. Ejected team members must be replaced immediately. All teams within the anomaly must confirm positive contact and passphrase during each relief or replacement.
Team members are to attempt to prevent non-monetary purchases by civilians, using low-profile social engineering techniques only. In the event that a civilian engages in non-monetary purchasing, they are to ascertain the civilian's identity and origin point, and advise the support team. Support teams are to immediately locate and detain any civilians who have made non-monetary purchases. Purchased items are to be confiscated for study. Detained persons are to be interviewed and then released following amnesticization. Ejected contact team personnel are to be immediately reclassified as Class E personnel, debriefed, and quarantined for 366 days at a location at least 50 km from any key Foundation assets. Survivors may return to duty pending approval by the reporting medical officer.
Currently, detention of SCP-2523-1 entities is not authorized. In the event that authorization is reinstated, entities are to be secured with restraints consisting of a minimum 75% iron by mass.
Description: SCP-2523 is a phenomenon affecting seasonal Halloween costuming and decoration stores in the US and Canada from sunset on October 31st to sunset on November 1st. It is restricted to stores which are entirely seasonal, and does not affect Halloween displays in more permanent businesses.
While the anomaly is active, the affected locations become spatially collocated, regardless of geographic separation. Store interiors will overlay where sufficiently similar (e.g., similar display shelving will become a single shelf unit without duplication of products); otherwise, the entire space expands as needed. Persons entering one location are able to physically interact with persons at all affected locations in real time, and return to their place of origin when exiting.1
The affected locations remain open for the full 24-hour period regardless of posted hours. At sunset, four to six entities (designated SCP-2523-1) will appear and relieve all employees. Entities are diminutive humanoids (estimated to be between 0.8 and 1.2 meters in height) with a variety of chimerical features from various vertebrates, as well as limbs and extremities that vary in proportion (see Appendix A: SCP-2523-1 for additional detail). These entities carry out routine retail operations, except for attempting to persuade customers to make non-monetary exchanges. At the end of this 24-hour period they are relieved by scheduled human employees who typically begin closing the store for the season.
Exposed persons will rationalize all anomalous properties of SCP-2523, including those of trades, entities, and objects originating from the anomaly, as entirely normal experiences. This effect extends to direct conversation with affected persons as well as photographs and other direct recordings. This is an antimemetic effect that Class W mnestic treatment combined with conscious reaffirmation of observed details has been demonstrated to neutralize.
When a customer attempts to purchase an item during the anomaly, SCP-2523-1 entities will attempt to persuade them not to use monetary means to purchase the item. Instead, the entity will ask for a trade. Entities have accepted physical objects as well as more abstract concepts as fair trades. This has included: hair, personal abilities, years of life, children, illegal drugs, memories, and emotions (for a full list see Appendix B: SCP-2523 Non-Monetary Exchange). If the customer insists on paying with money the entity will, with visible reluctance, accept. Customers appear to have permanently lost the traded quality in all cases that it was testable.

Any item acquired by non-monetary means will manifest significant anomalous properties. The following is a partial list (see Appendix B for the full list):

Item
Anomalous Properties
Exchanged For

Prosthetic vampire fangs
Wearer develops an uncontrollable desire to consume blood (any vertebrate blood is accepted) as well as the ability to induce a state of extreme suggestibility via conversation.
30 grams of heroin

A dark chocolate candy bar
After consuming the bar, the subject lost all interest in food and did not show any signs of starvation despite consuming nothing else for 28 days.
The memory of a childhood family trip

300 plastic spiders
Purchaser was inspired to consume the spiders. Following consumption of a spider, subject was able to excrete an otherwise non-anomalous living banded spider (Argiope trifasciata) from bodily orifices, and direct it telepathically
The ability to sing

"Sexy Nurse" costume
Wearer demonstrated markedly decreased sexual inhibitions as well as increased attractiveness to the opposite sex. Sexual partners reported mild anesthetic effects.
An eight year old boy, current whereabouts are unknown

Decorative trick mirror
Entities visible in mirror are deceased persons or pets known to the viewer
Empathy

Bag of Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Seeds originate from SCP-097
A tattoo depicting the rank chevrons of a United States Navy Petty Officer 1st Class. Tattoo was removed without scarring

Addenda:
Ejection Events: The first ejection event occurred during initial containment on 11/01/1999 at 0110 hours and is typical of all later ejection events. Agent Mugnaini attempted to physically block the entrance to the anomaly. A SCP-2523-1 entity emerged and asked Agent Mugnaini to leave. Mugnaini refused, and began to suffer significant full body pain, which increased in intensity until he complied. Afterwards Mugnaini reported having "bad luck", and statistical analysis determined that he, and Area-██ where he was stationed, were suffering a significantly high number of unfortunate coincidences. This condition ended with his death in a car accident on 01/25/2000. It is suspected as a contributing factor in 17 injuries, four fatalities, and one Category-3 Breach Event at Area-██. Further testing has determined that this effect persists for 366 days. Once ejected, personnel are unable to reenter the anomaly, even after the 366-day period has expired.

Detention of SCP-2523-1 Entity:

Interviewed: SCP-2523-1 entity with nametag reading "Bobby Goodman".
Interviewer: Agent Rossetti
Foreword: On 10/31/2001 at 2000 hours MTF o-13 agents abducted an SCP-2523-1 entity to Site-17 for questioning and containment. It is described as having canine ears, a primate muzzle, and disproportionately long arms and legs (see Appendix A for a full description). Entity was successfully secured with iron restraints. Three o-13 team members were ejected from the anomaly as a consequence of the operation.
<Begin Log, 11/01/2001 0200 hours>
Rossetti: So, "Bobby", would you like to tell me about where you work?
SCP-2523-1: I don't work, human. I sell things.
Rossetti: Tell me about the things you sell, then.
SCP-2523-1: We sell delicious things, wonderful things, things of joy and darkness, things from the land of youth, things from the land of death, and the things from the border country. Come buy!
Rossetti: Who are you?
SCP-2523-1: [laughs] You humans! Always so forgetful! Such a delight! At summer's end, the gates at the border country are opened wide! We have come to sell our wares at this time as we did in the, what is your word for the places in the shadow that cannot be reached from the now? The past? We are the in-between people, the border people. Vassals neither to hot radiant summer, or cold merciless winter. We are the Autumn People.
Rossetti: Why only seasonal Halloween stores, and not others?
SCP-2523-1: Oh! The in-between places, they are ours. They too live only here, in the edge of summer.
Rossetti: Why do you prefer to trade for things, and not money?
SCP-2523-1: Money has no value. It is only a medium of exchange. We crave only things of value, for these we can trade in the world. How do you think we get the things we sell? We are the Autumn People, not cobblers!
Rossetti: Are you aware that the things you sell are problematic for humans?
SCP-2523-1: Yes! Of course they are! We are a merry people! Our wares are mirthful!
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Following the interview the entity was transferred to a humanoid containment unit and was extremely cooperative. At sunset on 11/01/2001 the entity vanished from containment leaving behind a crude doll made of rough unworked oak sticks, clothing scraps and mineral clay. All milk products at Site-17 were reported to have instantly spoiled simultaneously with this event.

Footnotes
1. The similarities between this phenomenon and SCP-1323, including the overlapping time frame, spatial distortion, the behavior of the entities within, and the nature of the exchanges suggest that these may be highly correlated phenomena. Questioning the SCP-2523-1 entities about this connection has resulted in ejection events.

« SCP-2522 | SCP-2523 | SCP-2524 »


SCP-2524 during a test.

Item #: SCP-2524
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2524 is to be stored in a standard Safe-class item locker outfitted with additional protection against heat and fire.
Description: SCP-2524 is a large, red, scented candle composed of standard paraffin wax. As of this writing, SCP-2524 is approximately 30 centimeters tall. SCP-2524 burns at a rate of approximately 0.5 centimeters per hour when lit. SCP-2524's odor resembles burning wood.
When a living human being's shadow is cast by SCP-2524's flame, the shadow appears as if the human subject casting the shadow were instead a life-sized marionette puppet resembling the subject in size and build. These shadows approximately recreate the movements of the subject as closely as is mechanically possible for a marionette puppet.
The strings of the marionettes are visible and converge to a single point directly above SCP-2524. Occasionally, a small circle is also visible at the convergence point, pulsating slowly.
SCP-2524 was recovered from a fairground in Bibb County, Georgia, where it was in the possession of Shaun Mathies, a widower and fortune teller. During interviews, Mathies stressed the extreme sentimental importance of SCP-2524 to him but refused to elaborate on its purpose or origin. Mathies was released following a full amnestics regimen.
Sample analysis indicates that the anomalous effects originate from the candle wick. The wax has been determined to be non-anomalous.
Addendum: Incidents
Marionette shadows created by SCP-2524 have on several occasions acted outside of typical parameters for imitation of their human counterparts. Examples are listed below.
01/11/97: Shadow of an agent testing SCP-2524 raises a prop gun horizontally and pulls the trigger, releasing a small flag on a pole from the barrel. Subject was stationary and did not raise his firearm. After approximately two seconds of holding the gun up, the shadow lowers its arm.
01/11/97: Shadow of a D-Class subject raises arms when the subject themselves are seated in a reclined position. The arms are still for a second before waving rhythmically for six additional seconds.
05/11/97: During a test to observe idle movement of shadows using two still subjects, one shadow is observed to make a motion as if scratching its head, and several minutes later both shadows shake hands.
08/11/97: The shadow of a testing D-Class begins moving its arms as if performing a popular modern imitation of Egyptian cultural dance. Subject notices shadow's movements and begins to quickly pace around the testing room in an attempt to flee the shadow. Shadow follows subject on foot while still performing the dance with arms.
10/11/97: Shadow of agent raises gun as in first incident, this time towards an additional shadow of a second subject. The gun is apparently fired and the second shadow reacts by exaggeratedly feigning death and falling over. Second subject is without shadow for duration of test. At conclusion of test, faint, childish laughter can be heard emanating from string convergence point on ceiling.

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SCP-2525: Extraterrestrial Broadcaster
In the year 2525, if man is still alive…

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Item #: SCP-2525
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2525 is contained in a 1.5 meter PMMA tube with a laser motion detection system positioned .5 meters from the floor. Triggering of the laser will send alerts to Site Director Bresescu and Researchers Ross and Krasniewski. The researcher on duty is to report immediately to SCP-2525-1's room and monitor the subject during and after the activation event to ensure proper transmission recording.
SCP-2525-1 is contained in standard living quarters. SCP-2525-1 is allowed limited, escorted access to non-critical areas of Site-22 for exercise, and mental stimulation as approved by the Site Director. SCP-2525-1's security clearance has been officially revoked and it is not to come into contact with other contained objects. Though currently cooperative, any indication of deception on SCP-2525-1's part will result in disciplinary action as seen fit by the Site Director.
All recordings made by SCP-2525-1 are on file in Level 4 security clearance servers. New recordings are to be read in full by the Site Director after the completion of each activation event.
Description: SCP-2525 is a metal and polymer cylinder, 40 cm high and 9 cm in diameter, with a three-finned tripod at one end. Approximately 80% of its internal volume is filled with a viscous substance, the identification of which, along with that of the metal and polymer, has thus far been impossible.
Once every 8 to 32 days, SCP-2525 will activate and rise 1 meter into the air. It will remain in place for 10-12 seconds before returning to its initial position. During this active phase, SCP-2525 emits a bright green light and the substance in its interior appears to boil.
SCP-2525's active state indicates the reception of a transmission by SCP-2525-1, formerly Junior Researcher T██████ L███. Information contained in these transmissions is primarily composed of strategic and tactical schematics detailing stages of an invasion of Earth, with Site-22 as a staging point, by an extraterrestrial civilization. On occasion, transmissions include propaganda and motivational speeches directed at the previous owner of SCP-2525, as well as information about the Earth and its inhabitants. The source of these transmissions is currently unknown.
SCP-2525 was recovered along with a creature of extraterrestrial origin, current designation SCP-2525-N. For more information about the recovery of SCP-2525, refer to File Document 2525-A, appended.
Addendum: Analysis of transmissions has shown that the entities broadcasting them have some degree of access to the mind of the subject receiving the transmission. SCP-2525-1 had retained limited level 1 security clearance to continue his work with the Foundation after his encounter with SCP-2525, but this has been revoked as of ██/██/████. Due to a near-complete plan of Site-22 already having been leaked, it has been determined that SCP-2525-1 may have access to non-essential areas. Amnestics have been administered to prevent further broadcast of sensitive information.

File Document 2525-A

File Document 2525-A

Item #: SCP-2525
Object Class: Keter Neutralized
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2525 is to be contained in a 5 x 5 x 3 meter enclosure constructed of reinforced steel. The containment cell is to be surrounded by a secondary 20m radius containment unit with remotely-activated electrified panels in the floor and walls. The cell is to have no windows and only a single reinforced high-security door. SCP-2525 is to be constantly monitored via a closed-circuit camera secured behind bulletproof glass. Any damage to the containment cell is to be reported immediately to the head of Mobile Task Force Omicron-9 ("Sound and Fury"), who will initiate Protocol 2525-Filigree if repairs are deemed necessary. (Refer to Protocol Document 2525-Filigree for information.)
SCP-2525-1 is contained in a 1.5 meter PMMA tube with a laser motion detection system positioned .5 meters from the floor. Triggering of the laser will alert Doctor Clark and the head of MTF Omicron-9, who shall initiate Protocol 2525-Alcatraz immediately.
MTF Omicron-9 personnel involved in Protocol 2525-Alcatraz are to be outfitted in heavy armor, with one high-voltage stun baton and one high-voltage Taser per member. One member must also carry a short-range ultrasound emissions device. (See Protocol Document 2525-Alcatraz for specifications.) Personnel with Mobile Task Force Omicron-9 must rank above 90th percentile on the Foundation Standard Test of Mental Fortitude and above 95th percentile on the Foundation Standard Test of Physical Endurance.
Description: SCP-2525 is a humanoid creature of extraterrestrial origin, 2.3 m in height and weighing 145 kg. It possesses two sets of mandibles, compound eyes, membranous veined wings, and a second set of vestigial arms thought to be used in mating. The upper arms measure over 1.4 m each and are tipped with three digits, the middle one .3 m in length. It is covered in plates of chitin that render it extremely resistant to standard weaponry but do not impede its movement. Testing has revealed susceptibilities to electric current in excess of 1000V and concentrated sound with a frequency in excess of 1.5 MHz.
SCP-2525 is agile, strong and highly intelligent. It is hostile to humans, having attacked personnel on sight without provocation on numerous occasions. The long digit on each of its upper arms can puncture plate steel and it spends a significant amount of time attempting to breach containment by damaging the walls of its cell. It has also breached containment on █ separate occasions by dismantling seams holding its containment cell together, necessitating improvements to construction and repair initiatives (see Protocol Document 2525-Filigree). During containment breaches and occasions when personnel are required to enter containment with it, it displays aggressive and predatory behavior, attacking from high angles and using traps to ensnare personnel.
SCP-2525 communicates via clicks and high-frequency sounds inaudible to the human ear, as well as direct-mind telepathy with a range of 12 m. Testing has demonstrated no ability to direct human thought or action, and thus this communication method is considered the safest until such time as its spoken language is translated. It appears to understand spoken language, though it is speculated that this might be due to telepathic influence.
SCP-2525 was recovered after an explosion reported in the Cascade Range on ██/██/████. Recovered along with SCP-2525 were pieces of a large craft, currently in storage at Site-██, and a metal and polymer cylinder designated SCP-2525-1.
SCP-2525-1 is 40 cm high and 9 cm in diameter, with a three-finned tripod at one end. Approximately 80% of its internal volume is filled with a viscous substance, the identification of which, along with that of the metal and polymer, has thus far been impossible.
Once every 8 to 32 days, SCP-2525-1 will activate and rise 1 meter into the air. It will remain in place for 10-12 seconds before returning to its initial position. During this active phase, SCP-2525-1 emits a bright green light and the substance in its interior appears to boil.
SCP-2525-1's active state is a signal indicating the reception of a transmission by SCP-2525. The nature of information contained in these transmissions cannot be directly ascertained, save by interviews conducted with SCP-2525. At this time, SCP-2525 has given a consistent account of the information consisting of propaganda and motivational speeches, information about Earth and human civilization, and plans for an invasion of the Earth with Site-22 as a staging point. The source of this information is unknown, though SCP-2525 claims that the information comes from its homeworld. The location of that world is unknown.
The gathering of information broadcast by SCP-2525-1 has been labelled a Class-1 priority.

Log of Incident 2525-Alpha-12
SCP-2525-1 activated at 12:56 on ██/██/████, while Doctor Clark was undergoing an offsite medical procedure. Junior Researcher T██████ L███ filled in for Doctor Clark during Protocol 2525-Alcatraz. Though Junior Researcher L███ has studied audio recordings of SCP-2525's language in depth, this incident marks the first time he and SCP-2525 communicate directly. (Incident report is compiled from security footage and post-incident interviews.)

12:57: Protocol 2525-Alcatraz initiated. Members of MTF Omicron-9 successfully enter containment and subdue SCP-2525.
13:04: Junior Researcher L███ enters containment and begins interview. SCP-2525 demands to know Doctor Clark's location. Junior Researcher L███ visibly reels from experiencing telepathy for first time. Junior Researcher L███ waives assistance from MTF member and informs SCP-2525 that Doctor Clark is unavailable. Interview proceeds.
13:45: Significant increase in duration of interview noted, due to high degree of uncooperativeness from SCP-2525. SCP-2525 divulges information deemed only minorly significant and Protocol 2525-Alcatraz is rescinded. During retreat of personnel from containment cell, SCP-2525 noted to be less active than normal. According to Junior Researcher L███, SCP-2525 asked twice more for Doctor Clark's whereabouts.

Not to be insensitive, but I am formally suggesting that Doctor Clark's chemotherapy sessions be conducted on-site from now on if at all possible, in case the cylinder decides to activate during one again. SCP-2525 doesn't trust me, and I'm fairly certain it doesn't like me either. That was like pulling teeth. - Junior Researcher T██████ L███

Log of Incident 2525-Alpha-13
On ██/██/████, Doctor Clark requested and was granted permission to enter SCP-2525's containment unit, accompanied by MTF Omicron-9. Doctor Clark banged on the containment cell door and conversed with SCP-2525. Transcript of Doctor Clark's side of the conversation follows.

SCP-2525, it's Nathaniel Clark! What's this I hear about you giving my assistant trouble in my absence?
Well, I've been sick. I'm getting treatment for it, but I may not always be around for your interviews. I expect you to give him the same cooperation you've given me, am I clear?
Not at all. T██'s been hard at work translating your spoken language. He's good at it. Wouldn't you like us to be able to communicate a little more directly?
All you need to know is that things may be this way for some time. It depends on how well my treatments go. If I catch wind of any more incidents, your incarceration may become significantly more uncomfortable, do you understand?

At this point, one of SCP-2525's claws punctured the containment cell wall .2 m above Doctor Clark's head. MTF personnel subdued SCP-2525 with electric shocks and escorted Doctor Clark from the containment unit. Protocol 2525-Filigree was enacted without incident.
My oncologist is willing, so I shall do whatever is necessary to ease the burden for Junior Researcher L███. I do request his continued involvement in Protocol 2525-Alcatraz, however, to help acclimate SCP-2525 to his presence. -Dr. Nathaniel Clark

Log of Incident 2525-Alpha-22
(Note: This is the first interview with SCP-2525 after Doctor Clark's death. Transcript of audible conversation from Junior Researcher L███ follows.)

No, he's not here today, he… He died. I'd really appreciate it if you—
Don't give me that. It's not like you cared about him or anything.
Bullshit. Zap it.
Electrical shocks are applied to SCP-2525.
I'm not interested in talking about him, okay? This is just a standard interview, and you're not making things any—

At this point, SCP-2525 roared and broke restraints despite application of all four shock batons and one Taser. Junior Researcher L███ fled the containment unit and MTF personnel were overpowered. The ultrasound device malfunctioned and was destroyed in the incident. All five MTF personnel were ejected from the containment cell, and SCP-2525 slammed the door shut. Only minor injuries were reported. Breach protocols were enacted.
After conferring with Agent M████████ and Site Director Bresescu, Junior Researcher L███ reentered the containment unit along with backup MTF personnel. SCP-2525 was audible through the containment cell wall.

Junior Researcher L███: SCP-2525, are you listening? [pause] It wants us to go away.
Agent M████████: Protocol 2525-Alcatraz is still in effect. Get it talking.
Junior Researcher L███: Like we actually have protocol for a situation like this. Um, SCP-2525, if you are still willing to cooperate, it would be acceptable to continue the interview speaking as we are now. [pause] SCP-2525?
SCP-2525 utters vocalizations for 81 seconds while personnel converse.
Junior Researcher L███: Jesus, I think it's actually broken up about Doctor Clark. I heard his name in there twice.
Agent M████████: Are you kidding me?
Junior Researcher L███: I swear that sounded like "can save him" or "could save him". I dunno, the conditional mood is really—
SCP-2525 utters a loud roar ending in a shriek.
Agent M████████: Get the researcher out of here and get that door open!

The containment cell door was jammed and required 20 minutes with an acetylene torch to open. MTF Omicron-9 was able to secure the cell and discovered SCP-2525 had been decapitated. Object was classified Neutralized on ██/██/████. SCP-2525-1 reclassified as an anomalous object.

Addendum: Incident 2525-Alpha-23: 21 days after Incident 2525-Alpha-22, Anomalous Object 25341 activated. Personnel in the Site-22 lunch room at the time reported a beam of green light entering Junior Researcher L███. Containment was reinstated and the object reclassified SCP-2525.

File Document 2525-A

Interview 2525-█, Security Clearance Level 4/2525 Required

Authorization Accepted

Interviewed: SCP-2525-1, formerly Junior Researcher L███
Interviewer: Researcher Krasniewski
Foreword: Logged interview requested ██/██/████, by SCP-2525-1.
<Begin Log>
Researcher Krasniewski: SCP-2525-1, please state for the record your reason for requesting this interview.
SCP-2525-1: I want to make perfectly clear my desire to continue cooperation with the Foundation in regards to SCP-2525. I also wanted to clear up the record on 2525-dash-N. It is dash-N now, right?
Researcher Krasniewski: Correct. Please proceed.
SCP-2525-1: Okay. I'd have said something about it sooner, but ever since being declared a skip, my life has been kind of…
Researcher Krasniewski: Take your time.
SCP-2525-1: Yeah. Thank you. Anyway. All we ever knew about SCP-2525 or where it was from came from those interviews we conducted with SCP-2525-N. Well, it turns out they were all lies. SCP-2525 was lying to us from the very beginning, and kept up a… a ruse, an absolutely mind-blowing charade for the entire time we had it contained.
Researcher Krasniewski: Go on.
SCP-2525-1: For starters, its people aren't hellbent on invading us, they're actually trying to help us. Having seen what's in those broadcasts now… It's all plans for advanced technology, insight into the future… Just, generally ways to improve human life. And not just our life: they have a whole bunch of those cylinders spread across the universe, beaming info to any race they consider primitive.
Researcher Krasniewski: So all the invasion plans…?
SCP-2525-1: Completely made up. It was just pretending to be a soldier or whatever. I don't know what its reasons were, but there's a lot of "come back to the fold" jargon in between the schematics for new medical procedures and stuff.
Researcher Krasniewski: How much of this did Doctor Clark know?
SCP-2525-1: That… I'm never gonna know that either. My guess is he knew some, maybe, or suspected, but he didn't confide in me a whole lot. Either way, SCP-2525 got attached to him and even though it kept up the deception… Well, it respected him. Saw him as an intellectual equal. That's pretty much the last thing it told me before it, uh, killed itself.
Researcher Krasniewski: I see. Is there anything else you would like to add?
SCP-2525-1: I, uh… Well, I would've written it down so I could remember if I, y'know, had anything to write with. Ha ha. Because, like… never mind. Um, all I'll say is I don't know why the cylinder's sending stuff to me now, to me specifically. I guess because I was with SCP-2525 when it died, maybe, I don't know. That process, by the way, it's like… All of a sudden, I just remembered something I forgot. Except, you know, it's not anything I could have known.
Researcher Krasniewski: If that is all, we'll conclude this interview.
SCP-2525-1: Hey, Stella…
Researcher Krasniewski: Yeah, T██?
SCP-2525-1: SCP-2525-1, you mean. [laughs] Look, I just… I don't know how to request stuff now. My security clearance is shot and I can't access any of my old projects, but I need something to do or I'm gonna lose my fucking mind. Could you see if maybe I could get hold of SCP-2525-dash-N's old audio logs? I was making a lot of progress translating the language.
Researcher Krasniewski: I'll ask. For what it's worth, I'm sorry.
SCP-2525-1: It doesn't matter. This is gonna get hushed up the instant this interview is over. Giant berserker aliens are one thing, but not even the Foundation's willing to admit they want to save us.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: In light of SCP-2525-1's previous contributions to the Foundation, a loose containment protocol has been enacted to provide it with physical and mental stimulation, contingent on continued divulgence of all information. General-access containment procedures are not to include this information, pursuant to Blackout Order 2525-145.

Authorization Accepted

File Document 2525-N-██, Security Clearance Level 4/2525-N Required

Authorization Accepted

Doctor Clark recorded a number of files intended to be accessed after his death. The following is a transcript of the recording dated ██/██/████, detailing his thoughts on SCP-2525-N.

The time is… One forty-five in the morning. I want to talk about SCP-2525.
This creature is as marvelous as he is dangerous, and yet there is something about the way he acts that leaves me to wonder. I myself wrote the containment procedures, and there is no doubt that personnel have been attacked without provocation. Yet the more I reflect back upon those incidents, the more I realize that never has SCP-2525 actually killed anyone. Oh yes, there have been deaths, many times from injuries sustained at the ends of those grand blades. But, and I would have to check back over the records to be certain, a task which I am afraid I lack the luxury of time to complete, on no occasion was the wound itself fatal. Blood loss occurred due to delays in reestablishing containment that prevented direct medical assistance, or the person was thrown against a wall and rendered unconscious.
There is also the niggling factor of its story, an enigma I have allowed myself not to ponder for fear of where such a path might lead me. It is a boon that I oversee so many contained objects, for I have been able to tell myself that I simply haven't the time necessary to devote to think about one in particular. I will now lay out the pieces as I see them, so that my successor might piece together that which I cannot. Which I will not.
SCP-2525 is monstrously intelligent. One need only watch security footage of his last containment breach to understand that. Yet he spends his days scraping at the walls of his containment unit and attacking anything in his path. These are not the actions of a being of reason, which his race must be in order to craft such devices as were recovered with him. It would stand to reason that he is but a soldier, an advance scout sent to test our waters ahead of the invasion, but nor does the archetype of a mindless berserker fit with the conversations he and I have had when not under the duress of the stun baton.
And another thing. Prior to Protocol 2525-Alcatraz, we had no conception of what SCP-2525-1 was doing. Yet, after its creation, do we yet perceive the transmissions supposedly flooding into SCP-2525's mind? We cannot, and nor can we trust a single word of those interviews. Interrogations, I should call them. Has interrogation by torture not been proven again and again an inefficient and unreliable means of information extraction?
It is my wholehearted belief that a large percentage if not all of what SCP-2525 has told us has been a fabrication. What the truth might be behind those lies, I can but guess. It has been some time since I looked back over the reports gained from those interrogations, but if I did, well, I can only suspect holes would appear in the narrative. We have a hostile, intelligent liar in our facility and nothing to show for it. We shall never have anything to show for it with our current approach to its containment. Ah, but that is a two-way street, is it not?
[pause of 52 seconds]
I am not certain I should say this, but this disease will no doubt have rendered my tenure moot by the time this is heard, so damn the consequences. I think SCP-2525 is lonely. He does the things he does not because he wants to but because he feels he must, and this separates him from his own kind. This conclusion I have reached due to having had him inside my mind. There is no way to write down everything he says when he communicates in concepts more than words. I, for instance, know his name, but I cannot even begin to comprehend how to say it, for it has never been said to me.
SCP-2525 is a creature of intellect, as I have previously said, and I believe he views me in much the same light. No doubt you will think me foolish for what I am about to say. If it makes you feel better, blame it on the chemicals coursing through my veins that have drained my strength and will more than any cancer could. I think SCP-2525 sees me as a friend. There is a sadness underlying every forced confession that lightens when he speaks directly to me as an equal. Even though he attacks me, it comes off as the maintenance of a charade. Part of me decries the necessity to keep him locked up and treated so. We could learn so much from his kind. But I have devoted my life to science, and as a scientist, must act only upon the observable. A foolish sentiment, no doubt. That will be all for this one.

Authorization Accepted

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SCP-2526 sample under natural lighting.

Item #: SCP-2526
Anomaly Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Reports of persons experiencing symptoms consistent with SCP-2526 exposure, telekinetic phenomena, and unexpectedly distorted or altered photos are to be investigated. Standard information suppression protocols apply to these reports and any associated evidence of SCP-2526.
Should SCP-2526 be located anywhere outside of containment, it is to be sterilized under the pretext of mold removal.
A hospital building with severe SCP-2526 infestation has been acquired by the Foundation in order to carry out study of the anomaly. It, along with two neighboring buildings to house personnel and research facilities for other anomalous objects, has been designated Site-44. Due to the omnipresence of SCP-2526 in its containment building, personnel are not permitted to enter it without protective gear and may not remain idle while in the building.
Update: Personnel who have participated in Class-13 research projects are not permitted to research or interact with SCP-2526.
Update: Celebration of Day of the Dead or any similar holidays is hereby prohibited at Site-44.
Update: SCP-2526's HMCL supervisor may not visit Site-44 or any other sites of SCP-2526 infection.
Description: SCP-2526 is a species of archaea that is not closely related to any other extant species. Its appearance and tendency to grow on walls often lead to it being mistaken for Stachybotrys chartarum1. While unremarkable to the naked eye, photographic images of living SCP-2526 specimens experience substantial distortion and/or discoloration. SCP-2526 can be removed using a variety of common cleaning agents, as outlined in Document 2526-C.
While SCP-2526's nutritional requirements and byproducts are consistent with an autotrophic metabolism, it lacks the genetic material or symbiotic properties necessary to undergo photosynthesis or any other known form of autotrophy. SCP-2526's source of energy is unknown.
SCP-2526 is only capable of growing and surviving on surfaces near areas that were the location of many deaths. Typically, this is limited to hospitals, areas affected by devastating natural disasters, and combat zones. Very large slaughterhouses are also susceptible; however, the apparent requirement for animal death greatly exceeds that for human death.
Individuals in the vicinity of SCP-2526 will report a variety of symptoms, most commonly chills, reduced fine motor skill, feelings of dread, and auditory hallucinations of white noise. The severity of these symptoms is typically proportional to the quantity of SCP-2526 and the individual's distance from it. Exposure to SCP-2526 has no known long-term effects.

SCP-2526 infestation under natural lighting.

Should SCP-2526 be allowed to grow in one area for more than eight days, telekinetic phenomena will begin to occur around its location2. Small items may be spontaneously launched towards SCP-2526 at 2-5 m/s; if SCP-2526 is growing on a loose object (such as a table or petri dish), that object will typically be launched at similar speeds at its environment. Individuals who remain in SCP-2526's presence without observing it may be lifted 2-3 meters into the air for several seconds before being released.
SCP-2526 colonies spread at a rate of 15% per day under ideal conditions and are capable of beginning growth within a day of events that result in extensive loss of life. Due to the archaea's high rate of production of spores and their ability to be spread by wind, spores of SCP-2526 are believed to be widespread, but capable of growing in very few places.
Addendum: On 2012-04-09, Dr. Vadnais, a researcher assigned to SCP-2526, began to report symptoms of SCP-2526 exposure while at his personal residence. An investigation located a colony of SCP-2526 growing in Dr. Vadnais's floorboards. It is currently believed that spores from SCP-2526 adhered to Dr. Vadnais's clothes or skin and were deposited in his house.
There is no evidence of any human or significant animal death ever occurring at Dr. Vadnais's house; it has thus been speculated that his previous assignment to [REDACTED] is responsible for this susceptibility. While this has not been shown conclusively, personnel selection requirements for SCP-2526 have been updated in an attempt to prevent further incidents.
Addendum: On 2012-11-02, all decorations set up for Site-44's Day of the Dead celebration spontaneously combusted. Senior Researcher Dawson, SCP-2526's HMCL supervisor at the time, developed lacerations roughly 2cm deep on her abdomen concurrently with this event. The lacerations formed a stylized depiction of the burning of a building resembling SCP-2526's containment.
In light of this incident, containment procedures for SCP-2526 have been updated.
Addendum: On three separate occasions, SCP-2526's HMCL supervisor has spontaneously ordered the incineration of SCP-2526's containment building at Site-44; in each case, the orders were withdrawn within eight hours, with the HMCL supervisor claiming no memory of issuing them. All HMCL duties are now handled remotely, which appears to have prevented any reoccurrence of the phenomenon.
On the third occasion, HMCL supervisor Steele was briefly in view of security cameras while issuing decommissioning orders. Personnel at the scene reported no anomalies; however, cameras indicated the presence of three individuals accompanying Steele. Identification of these individuals is impossible due to the heavy visual distortion surrounding their images.

Footnotes
1. Common name: black mold. S. chartarum is a mold commonly known to grow on cellulose-rich building materials such as wallpaper and gypsum.
2. This does not appear to be affected significantly by the extent of SCP-2526's growth.

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Item #: SCP-2527
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Outside of testing periods, SCP-2527-1 is to be contained in a reinforced steel containment crate, 4m cubic, on the side of the testing field at Site-59. Testing is to be carried out only as ordered by the Site Director.
SCP-2527-2 is to be kept in a computer in an operations room behind three security doors with separate passwords. Access is strictly prohibited outside of testing periods. When not in use for testing, the computer containing SCP-2527-2 is to be shut down and unplugged.
Description: SCP-2527-1 is a 2m high stone statue of a Lamassu.1 It is inert by default; however, depending on the commands entered into SCP-2527-2, SCP-2527-1 is capable of:

Movement by means of instantaneous materialization into the center of a 3m x 3m space directly before, behind, or to the left and right of itself,
Incinerating organic material,
Destruction of walls and other obstructions by means of a shockwave from an indeterminate source,
Spontaneous generation of flowers and other plant life within its 3m x 3m square of influence, and
Spontaneous impregnation of any available uterus within its square of influence with a smaller stone Lamassu.

SCP-2527-2 is a Commodore 64 text adventure game titled "Massy's Big Chance," used as a means to control the actions of SCP-2527-1. Box art of the game included the description: "Congratulaton!!! You are MASSY and became a GOD. Now go fort and establis your domonion!!!!"
SCP-2527-2 Log: SCP-2527-1 capabilities against human subjects2

MASSYS BIG CHANCE
VER 1.02
TOTLEIGH SOFTWARE CORPORATION

Massy awaken to disover he is in box.
There is LIGHT come into box from NORTH because ENTRANCE.
Massy is anxiety to do GOD things.
What do?

> go north

Massy go NORTH!
Out of box now.
Sees one D-3515 and D-5992 to NORTH diretly.
There is GRASS below.

> go north

Massy go NORTH!
Weight of Massy CRUSH D-5992.
D-3515 exclaim loudly.
Punish D-3515 is possible.

> burn d-3515

SKIN BURNS!
Screms are loud.
Long live MASSY!
D-3515 rolls on floor.

> burn d-3515

FIRE INTENTS!
Burning is multiple.
D-3515 screams profuse.

> smite d-3515

WAVE OF ENERGY!
Breaks apart D-3515.
Long live MASSY!
To the in the front of you Massy sees walls to distant
NORTH, EAST, and WEST.
Behind, wall to SOUTH, as well as BOX.
What do?
Suggest, leave walls?

> go south 2

Massy RETURN to BOX.
It is not recommended that Massy STAY.
Gods have much work doing.

> quit

Are you sure you?

> y

Thank you. Progess save.

Footnotes
1. Assyrian mythological deity with the head of a bearded human, the body of a lion, and wings
2. Two D-class personnel, D-3515 and D-5992

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