Item #: SCP-2473
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2473 is currently stored in Hangar 37 of Site-43. Efforts in restoration and reverse-engineering of the object are ongoing. Normal procedures for delicate artifacts such as those found within SCP-2473 are in effect. Exposure of SCP-2473's photovoltaic panel to sunlight is required for no less than four hours daily.
Testing with SCP-2473-1 instances is restricted to D-Class personnel, with a preference for neurologically healthy individuals. Individual test subjects must be given at least two weeks to recover between experiments. Normal procedures for testing surgical apparatus are in effect for SCP-2473-1 instances. At this time, testing with the objects is suspended. Restoration of SCP-2473-1 instances is the primary priority for restoration crews because of their fragility.
SCP-2473-2 is currently in cryogenic storage at Site-43. Removal for study by approved personnel must follow instructions outlined in general Foundation guidelines for mummified human corpses.
Description: SCP-2473 is an atmospheric re-entry vehicle of anomalous origins.1 It has the following approximate specifications: a 51-meter length, a 30-meter wingspan, a 65-meter height, and a total weight of approximately 110,000 kilograms.
SCP-2473 has no external marks, and possesses a form of ion propulsion. Hardware for docking onto another spacecraft is present. A living quarters/cockpit has been identified. Much of SCP-2473's interior is filled with computer hardware, apparatus for recycling air and human waste, and a retractable photovoltaic panel. All hardware within SCP-2473 appears to have suffered several centuries of oxidization. The apparatus for recycling human waste failed before recovery, while the oxygen-recycling system was still operational. All internal markings are in a language not currently extant on Earth; translation efforts are ongoing.
SCP-2473-1 refers to eleven identical chairs designed as brain-computer interfaces. The devices are equipped with polymer catheters designed to remove waste and provide nutrients, alongside several electrodes designed to directly interface with the nervous systems of occupants. SCP-2473-1 instances are arranged in a V formation within SCP-2473's primary chamber, the apparent living-quarters/cockpit, with the vertex of the V (SCP-2473-1-6) being closest to the nose of SCP-2473.
Only one SCP-2473-1 instance (SCP-2473-1-11) was occupied at recovery. The occupant, SCP-2473-2, was found in a desiccated, mummified state. Radiocarbon dating, genetic testing, and chemical analysis of bones and teeth have proven inconclusive on racial identity, lifestyle, and age of SCP-2473-2; the current working estimate is of 20,000 years (±5,000 years) between death and recovery. SCP-2473-2 was female and approximately 60 to 70 years old at time of death. SCP-2473-2 likely spent an extended period in microgravity prior to death, as indicated by signs of atrophy within most muscles and the skeletal system. The electrodes of SCP-2473-1-11 were embedded at various points within SCP-2473-2's body; bone and muscle growth around the objects indicates that they were connected for an extensive period. SCP-2473-2 was heavily bandaged and wearing a loose-fitting garment of unknown composition at time of death; cause of death is unknown at this time.
All computer hardware and sensor devices were functional at time of recovery; as such, maintaining charge on SCP-2473's power cells is considered a priority.
Recovery: On 13 October 2000, NASA and ESA facilities detected a brief emission of gamma radiation from a point unassociated with any celestial bodies; further observation detected no objects of interest observable at this point, prompting Foundation investigation of the anomaly. Later investigation via use of SCP-███2 detected the object now classified as SCP-2473.
Based on observations made via SCP-███, it was determined that SCP-2473 was maneuvering with ion-based propulsion systems and navigating towards near-Earth orbit. Monitoring via SCP-███ continued until observation through non-anomalous means could be established, on 15 April 2015. On 4 December 2019, it was determined that SCP-2473 was likely to attempt to land at sub-orbital velocities on the west coast of the North American continent. Negotiations with the US, Canadian, and Mexican armed forces were made to ensure that the Foundation would maintain full custody of the object regardless of landing site in exchange for Gen+ technology prototypes.
On 29 February 2020, SCP-2473 landed at a discreet military base in the Nevadan desert (following several months in near-Earth orbit), apparently having intentionally navigated there. SCP-2473 was successfully transported covertly to Site-43, with further investigation of the object resulting in its current containment status.

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Preface: On 13 June 2031, following a decade of restoration efforts, experimentation of SCP-2473-1-1 with a D-Class test subject was proposed. On 1 August 2031, the proposal was approved, with one D-Class test subject tentatively assigned for FY 2032.
Experimentation began on 13 October 2031 with D-2473-01 (a physically healthy 29-year-old female, hereafter referred to as 'subject'). Upon sitting in SCP-2473-1-1, the electrical probes automatically inserted themselves into the subject's body at points of large collections of nervous tissue. The subject was immediately rendered catatonic, with monitoring equipment indicating a state similar to REM sleep. Body-fluid loss due to puncturing of the skin was noted; the subject was administered an intravenous saline solution and bandages were applied at puncture points to minimize blood loss.
After approximately four hours, the subject regained consciousness and all electrodes disengaged from her body. The included interview log followed this experiment.
Interview:

Interviewed: D-2473-01
Interviewing: Researcher Trudy Begay, Dr. Samantha Moodley
Foreword: Interview was conducted by Researcher Trudy Begay, a member of the SCP-2473 Technology Research/Restoration Team, with Dr. Samantha Moodley, Head of the Team, overseeing. Interview was conducted shortly after D-2473-01 had been medically examined and administered necessary treatment for her injuries.
Transcript:
Researcher Begay: Can you tell us what you experienced after you sat in the chair?
D-2473-01: I felt the damn needles jab into me for a second, then everything went black. When I came to, I was in the same chair, but no needles, and everything else was gone. None of you, none of the monitoring equipment, none of the guards, none of the lights you had set up inside that thing, nothing. It was just me and the spaceship.
Begay: Did you see any other changes you think are important?
D-2473-01: I was wearing some sort of robe, not the scrubs I'd been given for the test. And it was bright in there. I could see everything, but it felt natural, not like the floodlights in there now. I could hear birds singing, and wind blowing.
Begay: What did you do?
D-2473-01: I stood up and followed the light. Just around the corner of the hallway, it looked like the ship had cracked itself open, letting all sorts of sunlight in. There was a ladder from the spaceship to the ground, and outside I could see a massive, rolling, green field. Outside the ship, it was just grassy hills and birds singing, and in the distance I could see big, blue mountains, surrounding the whole plain.
Begay: Do you think this place corresponds to a real location?
D-2473-01: I don't know if it's real anymore, but I think it used to be. (Subject pauses momentarily.) I think I was seeing a scene from someone's childhood.
Begay: Can you elaborate? What gave you the impression?
D-2473-01: I can't say for sure, but the entire place gave me that feeling. It just felt — nostalgic.
Begay: Was there anything else of significance? Can you tell us more about the location?
D-2473-01: I don't think the shadows got any longer the entire time I was there. I don't know how long I was there. Inside the sim, I mean. It could have been minutes or days, it wouldn't make a difference on how it felt. (Subject pauses briefly before continuing.) I think something or someone might have been watching me.
Begay: What precisely gave you that feeling?
D-2473-01: I don't know. It's like the childhood thing. The place just made me feel that way.
Begay: So, what did you do? What happened next?
D-2473-01: I just walked. It all seemed the same at first, but then I noticed that there were these clouds over the mountains. Big, dark clouds, the kind you see right before the thunderstorms. I thought it was — ominous, but kept walking. I just kept walking, watching the clouds and the sky and listening to the birds, feeling the grass between my toes, enjoying myself however I could. Eventually, I came up over a small rise and saw a little girl sitting on the next rise, facing away from me. (Subject pauses briefly.)
Begay: What did you do next? Can you describe the girl in more detail?
D-2473-01: Uh, she looked to be about 11 years old. Maybe a little older. I don't know where I'm getting that impression from, but it feels right. She had dark skin, but I don't want to say she was black. Her back was to me, so I didn't see her face, but she had long, dark, flowing hair. I just kinda — sat down next to her, watched the clouds with her.
Begay: Did you see her face when you sat? Any other physical details you can think of?
D-2473-01: No, I didn't see her face. Didn't care to look, really. We laid down and watched the sky for a few minutes, then she sat up and pointed at the mountains. I could see those clouds rolling, moving. After a few seconds, there was lightning and rolling thunder.
Begay: Do you know if the girl has any significance? If there was any meaning to her pointing to the clouds like that?
D-2473-01: (Subject hesistates momentarily.) If I had to take any significance from it, I'd say that she was telling me that there's always a warning before a flood. I don't think she can speak English, so she was resorting to metaphors and hoping it sticks, maybe.
Begay: So what happened next?
Dr. Moodley (addressing Researcher Begay): Let her take her time, there's no rush. We want her to remember as much as possible.
D-2473-01: It — It just got cold, fast. The wind picked up, and the clouds — the mountains surrounded this whole little plain, and there wasn't a mountain that didn't have a cloud rolling over it — the clouds rolled in from all sides. I stood up and looked around, and everything had changed, just like that. (Upon saying "that," D-2473-01 snapped her fingers.) Before, the grass was green and everything looked, uh, everything looked safe. Now, the grass looked brown and dead. And the wind was kicking up dust. I knew everything was in my head, but I was — I was scared.
Begay: So what did you do?
D-2473-01: I looked around and noticed that the kid was gone. I tried to shout for her, but I couldn't, and I wouldn't know what to shout anyway. I knew there was about to be a big storm, and I had to get her out of it. I had to get her to the ship. I started running, looking for her everywhere. It felt like I'd searched for a real long time when I felt a big raindrop land on my face. I knew it was time to give up and get back to the ship. When I turned around, she was right in front of me, facing back towards the ship.
D-2473-01 (Speaking rapidly): I was about to kneel down and start talking to her, face-to-face, but then I got it in my head there wasn't any time, I just had to pick her up and run back to the ship. So I did that. I, uh, I picked her up, started running for the ship as fast as I could. The ship was sitting on a small rise, so every hill I was looking for it. As I was getting closer, the rain started coming down hard. The grass, the dirt was all mud, which was all right because it stopped the damn dust. Water was puddling and flowing at the low point before the ship — I jumped over that and put the girl down so she could go up the ladder. She climbed up before me, then sat in the chair closest to the hole in the ship.3 I wanted to drag her to the back, with me, but it seemed like it was a bad idea. I ran to my seat, but as I got there, the whole ship felt like it'd been picked up and tossed and it all went black.
Begay: Is that when you came to?
D-2473-01: No, actually, not quite.
Begay: All right, then. What happened next? Do you know if there's any sort of meaning to any of this?
D-2473-01: I think the little girl is the pilot. I think she was trying to tell me about what the ship was built for, what she was running from. You gotta [sic] tell me, was there something sitting in the chair where the girl sat in the simulation? Every chair besides the one you sat me in looks like it's falling apart, and the other folks on the team don't seem to like going back there.
Begay: I'm afraid we're not allowed to disclose that, sorry.
Moodley: D-2473-01, you said there was more? Can you please continue?
D-2473-01: Uh, yeah. Everything went black when I felt the ship get thrown. After that, it wasn't so much a simulation, a VR, as it was a — I don't know how to describe it. It just turned into images, flashes, snippets. I remember flashes of someone playing games in a house on the plain from earlier. I remember seeing the girl go to school, and come home, and do normal little kid stuff. The house didn't look like anything I'd ever seen — different architecture, I think — and none of the people there were speaking English. I recognized some of the writing that I saw in the ship — it looked similar. I remember seeing adults having conversations, they seemed scared and angry.
D-2473-01: At one point, the little girl and a man — I think it was her father — got into a vehicle like nothing I've ever seen — big, knobby tires, and a cab that looked airtight — and went on a trip. We went through the mountains, through storms just like the one from earlier. The trip felt like it lasted weeks for them. They drove through some of the most beautiful landscapes I've ever seen, but no cities. No roads. When they stopped, they got into a spaceship — a rocket, not that thing — after spending the night someplace strange. It felt like a hotel, almost. The rocket launched, and connected to a space station. It looked a lot like those old NASA videos, the ones with the astronauts going to the ISS or the Apollo astronauts? Like that.
Moodley: Do you think you'd be able to read the writing inside the spacecraft, if we gave you the chance?
D-2473-01: No. I only caught snippets, not enough to learn anything.
Begay: What about the girl's face? This entire time, you've made a point of not looking at her face.
D-2473-01: I have? That doesn't seem right. And for this part, I was seeing it through her eyes, I couldn't have seen her face.
Moodley: All right, let's leave it. Please, tell us what happened next?
D-2473-01: The space station was big — as big as a small city, I think. It was spinning, had simulated gravity. We were there for a few days, when I noticed it was docked to another spaceship — dozens of ships, actually, just like the one we did the tests in. Everyone on the station seemed busy. I remember, the girl was worried about her mother, her mother was still back on the planet we'd left. Not too long after I noticed the other ships, the shuttles, I was shoved into one in a big hurry. The girl's dad, he kissed us — her, I mean. He kissed her — and left the ship to go get more supplies. Then the door closed, the ship turned on, and it flew away from the station.
Moodley: Did anything happen after that? Can you tell us anything else?
D-2473-01: The ship was connected to something else, some sort of cylindrical — thing on the outside, the top. I don't know what it was. After the ship took off, I remember feeling scared — terrified, alone, helpless. I didn't know what to do. So I eventually sat myself in one of the chairs, and I felt the needles again.
Moodley: What happened after that?
D-2473-01: I'm not sure. It felt like something was talking to me, telling me to turn around, go back. But I didn't know how. And it felt like the people on the space station were calling for me to come back, too. But I didn't know how to speak, I didn't know how to turn around, and eventually, they quit calling for me. I could still hear them talking for a while, it seemed like, but that went quiet, too. And after a while, it didn't feel like I was sitting in the ship anymore, it felt like the ship was rocking me to sleep.
Dr. Moodely: Is there anything else you can tell us?
D-2473-01: If I didn't know any better, I'd say that the last thing I heard before everything went quiet sounded like screaming. After that, it felt like everything was quiet for a long, long time, but eventually, I realized where I needed to be, where I was supposed to go. So I started running. But it wasn't like running, it almost felt like — swimming in a big, deep, dark ocean, but I knew where I was going. And then I woke up in the chair.
Moodley: Thank you very much, D-2473-01. This has been insightful.
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Closing Statement: Full significance of D-2473-01's experience during this experiment is unknown. Dr. Moodley has filed a request for further tests at this time.

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Footnotes
1. Yes, on an institutional level, we like to maintain some skepticism regarding anomalies. But we've spent the last decade taking it apart and noting every single millimeter. We know what it does and how it works. Anyone who disagrees with the assertions in this document can take it up with my team personally. — Dr. S. Moodley, SCP-2473 Technology Research/Restoration Team Chief
2. See SCP-1795 and attached documents for information regarding SCP-███'s utility as an observational tool for astronomical anomalies.
3. This seat is believed to correspond to SCP-2473-1-11, where SCP-2473-2 was located.

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Synthetic aperture radar image of Irnini Mons. SCP-2474 obscured per A3 cognitohazard protocols

Item #: SCP-2474
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: All electronic communications originating from the Divine Unity 3 space station are to be monitored for signs of influence by SCP-2474. Any missions in the vicinity of Venus undertaken by international space agencies, nonprofit consortia or private interplanetary firms are to be investigated for the potential of encountering SCP-2474, especially those likely to generate data concerning the northern hemisphere of the planet.
All persons suspected of exposure to SCP-2474 are to be quarantined under Designation A3 protocols. Contact with research subjects and personnel exposed to SCP-2474 is limited exclusively to the Manu Thirteen system.
Due to the high risk of exposure resulting from the New Shambhala Colonization Expedition, operatives from Mobile Task Force Rho-19 ("Cythereans") have been placed as part of the First Thousand group of specialists tasked with establishing a full base of operations in the Venusian atmosphere. MTF Rho-19 is scheduled to conduct an exploratory mission to SCP-2474 upon the arrival of the Expedition in March of 2153.
Dispatches filed in the late 20th century by Dr. Richard Simonis documenting SCP-2474 have been expunged from records of the era.
Description: SCP-2474 is a complex artificial structure located on the summit of Irnini Mons, a shield volcano on the Ishtar Terra continent of Venus, in the appearance of an ornate geometrical pattern. While the composition of SCP-2474 cannot be determined at this time, observation has concluded that the material comprising SCP-2474 is not consistent with materials known to exist in quantity on the Venusian surface. The height of the structure making up SCP-2474 averages 6.8 m, with a variance between 2.6 m - 18.3 m. The anomaly spans an approximate area of 30 km2, occupying the highest reaches of Irnini Mons. DESCRIPTION TRUNCATED FOR READER PROTECTION
SCP-2474 is a Designation A3 (indirect observation) cognitohazard. The first known human exposed to the anomaly was Dr. Richard Simonis, lead topography consultant on the Magellan observational mission of Venus, conducted by the now-defunct National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1992. SCP-2474 was first documented by Dr. Simonis using synthetic aperture radar during Mapping Cycle 3 of Magellan's mission. Subsequent radar mapping activities examining the Venusian surface have confirmed the existence of SCP-2474.
SCP-2474 exhibits pronounced neurological and psychological effects on humans observing it through indirect means, such as reading detailed accounts of the anomaly or viewing photographic records. These effects vary in form and severity, as evidenced by Incident 2474.1.
SCP-2474 is believed to be inhabited by a previously undocumented species of entities. The precise nature of these entities is unknown. Based on records of Incident 2474.1 and subsequent events, these entities are presumed to be hostile until further notice.
Records of Incident 2474.1, as well as seized archives of GoI-004B1, have led to the currently prevailing theory that the structure comprising SCP-2474 is of human origin. The means by which SCP-2474 was constructed at least 150 years prior to viability of planetary exploration technology is unknown.
Addendum 2474.1 - Initial Containment
Public knowledge of SCP-2474 prior to Foundation containment was limited by the mistaken belief of Dr. Simonis, then the Magellan mission operative in charge of visual data, that the anomaly was a digital artifact resulting from an error in the software converting radar data to maps of the Venusian surface. This resulted in visual evidence of SCP-2474 being removed as part of a general smoothing process of graphical errors in maps of the surface of Venus.
After the events of Incident 2474.1, the personal records of Dr. Simonis were seized and reviewed by Foundation researchers. Documentation shows that Dr. Simonis continued working in the aerospace industry for several years after the discovery of SCP-2474, before abruptly resigning from the USA-88 GPS satellite launch mission staff. Personal correspondence involving Dr. Simonis at this time documents a marked change in personality, with personnel files noting unspecified erratic behavior. This is believed to be attributable in part to SCP-2474 exposure.
Public records concerning Dr. Simonis indicate that he divorced in 1995, and purchased several acres of land in rural Michigan later in the year. After the land purchase, the only documentation related to Dr. Simonis is correspondence from various publishing houses and internet-based literary services. During these years, Dr. Simonis repeatedly attempted to publish a short story entitled The Threshold and the Nineteen and On, which was uniformly rejected by all recipients. Dr. Simonis self-published this story on several occasions in several different forms of electronic media. No evidence exists that the story was read by any individuals apart from Dr. Simonis. Access to The Threshold and the Nineteen and On is currently exclusive to Manu Thirteen per A3 protocol.
Dr. Simonis was declared deceased by the State of Michigan Vital Records Office in 2037 after requests by county-level officials to discharge his estate to his legal heirs. The death certificate of Dr. Simonis lists no cause of death, as no remains were ever recovered after investigation of his Schoolcraft County, Michigan residence and the vicinity.
Addendum 2474.2 - Incident 2474.1

INCIDENT REPORT
DATE: 23 November 2142
ANOMALY INVOLVED: SCP-2474
CASUALTIES: Six staff injured:

Lead Researcher Seung Jae Rim
Researcher Jens Halvorsen
Researcher Anjali Mannava
Researcher Jacob Fenton
Technician Leonard Gryboski
Technician Ishii Kiemon

PROPERTY LOSS: N/A
INCIDENT SUMMARY: Research team analyzing imaging results from recent Harbinger 3 clandestine satellite mission in low Venus orbit encounters image of unknown, presumed anomalous structure present in northern Venusian hemisphere. Approximately three hours after filing report for initial SCP classification, all members of research team begin exhibiting signs of distress. Lead Researcher Seung becomes unresponsive to all stimuli, while Researcher Fenton and Technician Kiemon report visual and auditory hallucinations. Remaining team members report intense sensation of intrusive thoughts. All personnel immediately quarantined under emergency cognitohazard response procedures.
RESPONSE: SCP-2474 receives official classification and is listed as Designation A3 cognitohazard. Lead Researcher Seung receives diagnosis of permanent vegetative state and is moved to long-term intensive care facility. Researcher Fenton and Technician Kiemon receive ongoing course of sedatives and antipsychotics to control anomalous symptoms. All staff currently being evaluated for therapeutic and counseling needs upon expiry of A3 quarantine.

Addendum 2474.3 - Research Log 2474.17: Staff Observations
Foreword: Exposure to SCP-2474 is believed to have provided affected research staff with an unknown relationship to an as-yet undefined race of entities, believed to reside at the site of the anomaly. Attempts to ascertain the nature of these entities are ongoing.
In an effort to understand more about the nature of the anomaly, interviews of the responsive staff from Incident 2474.1 were conducted between 8 January 2143 and 17 March 2143 by the Manu Thirteen Artificial Intelligence System, the system having been demonstrated to be immune to the cognitohazardous effects of SCP-2474. Many individual and group interviews were conducted in order to determine the nature of SCP-2474. The following are transcripts of those interviews that have provided significant data regarding SCP-2474. Portions of these transcripts have been altered by Manu Thirteen in order to remove potential cognitohazards and have been noted.

Interview 2474.4: Mannava 1
Interview 2474.11: Ishii 3
Interview 2474.20: Halvorsen-Fenton 1
Interview 2474.28: Mannava-Gryboski-Ishii 2
Interview 2474.39: Fenton 5
Interview 2474.41: Seung-Halvorsen-Mannava-Fenton-Gryboski-Ishii 1
Interview 2474.42: Mannava 8

Manu Thirteen: You described a sensation of being made to think in a way alien to your consciousness, Anjali. Would you mind describing more about these thoughts?
Researcher Mannava: Could you do the hologram thing? I don't like talking to an empty room.
Manu Thirteen: Certainly, Anjali. [MANU THIRTEEN PROJECTS HOLOGRAPHIC AVATAR IN CHAIR OPPOSITE RESEARCHER] Would you mind describing more about these thoughts?
Researcher Mannava: It was…it wasn't neatly defined. Not like, images or clear phrases or anything neat. It was all kind of muddled together, but it was like I wasn't in control of it. Does that make sense?
Manu Thirteen: No.
Researcher Mannava: Well, um…
Manu Thirteen: Joking. Yes. Please continue.
Researcher Mannava: …anyway, it would be something like a collection of sensations, or the memory of sensations, and there would be words in it, a little. Like, I would be cognizant that I should be feeling an intense heat on my face, and I would be thinking of the distance between two parallel lines, and the word "foomu2" would echo around in it.
[RESEARCHER MANNAVA PAUSES]
Researcher Mannava: It was overpowering. Nothing else could be in my head while that was happening. I didn't know to be afraid, or to think that I was being violated somehow. And you know what's weird?
Manu Thirteen: What is weird?
Researcher Mannava: Thinking back on it, it's…it's not happening again when I remember it, but I feel some of the same things. Well not feel, but almost feel, like remembering something that just happened to you.
Manu Thirteen: That is weird. That is consistent with narratives provided by Gryboski and Halvorsen.
Researcher Mannava: It's…it's becoming different, now. Just talking about it. It's TRANSCRIPT ALTERED FOR READER PROTECTION It's frustrating. Like I'm almost remembering something but not quite.
Manu Thirteen: That is weird. That is not consistent with narratives provided by Gryboski and Halvorsen.

Manu Thirteen: Have the images stopped?
Technician Ishii: Is this how things are for something of your kind? An error of programming, and you perceive differently?
Manu Thirteen: What do you mean?
Technician Ishii: It is still there. It blends in when I stare at the wall but when I close my eyes it becomes crystal clear.
Manu Thirteen: The image of the white face, you mean.
Technician Ishii: The medication blurs it. It clouds my mind, but it blurs that face too. It cannot look me in the eyes anymore. A small mercy.
Manu Thirteen: The analytical team tells me they don't believe it to be a face. That your mind constructs it to be a face in order to be recognizable.
Technician Ishii: Damn them and damn you. I know what I see. I know the difference between things like streaks of black light that sound like wind when I focus on them and a face.
Manu Thirteen: Do you want me to request an increase in sleeping medication? Your irritability is slightly above baseline.
Technician Ishii: That does no good. The images are fixed in my dreams as well.
Manu Thirteen: What about TRANSCRIPT ALTERED FOR READER PROTECTION
Technician Ishii: TRANSCRIPT ALTERED FOR READER PROTECTION
Manu Thirteen: Do you think it's a separate entity, a life form, what you're seeing on these occasions?
Technician Ishii: This idea of separateness. It's foreign to this thing. A smaller part of the whole, but the whole isn't in one piece. This is not like life as we know it.
Manu Thirteen: Some of the others have described specific emotions associated with the hallucinations. Has this changed for you?
Technician Ishii: I feel hope. I feel hope, but it is the hope of something else. Something that is not me. I find that disturbing.

Researcher Halvorsen: I don't like doing this at the same time.
Manu Thirteen: Being in your presence has brought a marked decrease in Jacob's symptoms. This is a potential breakthrough in understanding SCP-2474.
Researcher Halvorsen: Yeah, I get that. I still don't like it. My skin is crawling. I feel like someone's standing behind me ever since I came into this room.
Manu Thirteen: I have been told my presence can have that effect.
Researcher Halvorsen: No, that's different. Psychological. This feels physical.
Researcher Fenton: [HUMMING UNDETERMINED TUNE] Pi bracket theta prime over gamma…pi bracket theta prime over fifteen point eight three eight…pi bracket theta prime over fifteen point eight three eight to the eighth power…
Manu Thirteen: This is the most intelligible Jacob has been since the initial incident.
Researcher Halvorsen: That's not intelligible. That's not even math.
[RESEARCHER FENTON CONTINUES HUMMING IN BACKGROUND]
Manu Thirteen: That has yet to be determined. Leave the math to me, Jens. [LAUGHS]
Researcher Halvorsen: Yes, you've a point there. Jacob. Jacob, it's me Jens, do you recognize me?
Researcher Fenton: [FLINCHES VIOLENTLY AWAY, CONTINUES HUMMING] Pi bracket theta prime over pi bracket equals three…Pi bracket theta prime over pi bracket equals two…
Manu Thirteen: Jacob hasn't attempted to flee from a nonexistent stimulus for three consecutive hours. This is really a noteworthy departure.
Researcher Halvorsen: [PUTS HANDS OVER FACE] Ah, god it's bright all of a sudden, hold on, he's going to say-
Researcher Fenton: One…one two one…one three one two…
Researcher Halvorsen: …yeah, that. And now it's going to be "one three one over theta prime."
Researcher Fenton: One four one two…one three one over theta prime…one three one over pi…
Manu Thirteen: Fascinating.
Researcher Halvorsen: That's not the term I would use.

Manu Thirteen: You are speaking for the group again, Anjali?
Researcher Mannava: Yes.
Manu Thirteen: You are speaking for the group, Anjali. Like last time, I am going to ask you to reflect upon the influences you felt during the incident. And like last time I am going to ask Anjali to describe the commonalities that develop as you think.
Technician Gryboski: Roger.
[FORTY-SEVEN SECONDS OF SILENCE]
Researcher Mannava: It feels like it's about twenty minutes in the past. Does that make sense?
[TECHNICIAN ISHII AND TECHNICIAN GRYBOSKI NOD ASSENT]
Researcher Mannava: But, we're not waiting in the anteroom for the experiment to begin. We're doing something else.
[SLIGHT PAUSE]
Researcher Mannava: We're…in a circle of some sort, I don't understand-
Technician Ishii: It is another language. We are speaking in something that sounds…not unlike Ainu. It is Eastern, of some sort.
Researcher Mannava: Right, and there's…a dozen of us, maybe more, I recognize us but we're not really there.
Technician Gryboski: Dozen at least. Maybe more.
Manu Thirteen: Are there any unifying concepts? Commonalities?
Researcher Mannava: No, no…strangely not. Like that's the point, almost. Everyone's kind of all over the place. I feel like I'm being put into a sack. I feel that the notion of distance is ceasing to hold. The person next to me is three light-years away.
Manu Thirteen: [LAUGHS]
Technician Ishii: No, no that is so. Something is leaving. We are leaving-
Researcher Mannava: We are leaving but staying. Parts of us are leaving.
Technician Gryboski: Venus.
Manu Thirteen: Repeat please, Leon?
Technician Gryboski: Venus. It's Venus. Distance is stretching out to Venus and now it's snapping back.
Researcher Mannava: Yes. I feel like it's now, the present time. Here in the room, I mean.
Manu Thirteen: What are your most dominant impressions at this instant?
Technician Gryboski: Relief.
Researcher Mannava: Grief.
Technician Gryboski: Yes. Yes that's right too.
Technician Ishii: Diminishment. We have stepped away from the threshold. We have chosen to be lesser.
Manu Thirteen: Anjali?
Researcher Mannava: Yes. All of it. I long to see the machinery of the future. I am afraid of the grave that it lies in. I don't want to be sealed up to die, but I'm left behind. [STIFLED SOBS] God, it's making me cry.
Manu Thirteen: Technicians?
[TECHNICAN ISHII AND TECHNICIAN GRYBOSKI NOD ASSENT]
Manu Thirteen: That's enough now.

Manu Thirteen: Time since last dosage of therapeutic drugs is now five hours, thirty-eight minutes. Are you certain you want to proceed, Jacob?
Researcher Fenton: …yes. I've seen it. I saw it before, but I didn't know what it was. But I'm really seeing it now. You need to take this stuff into the record.
Manu Thirteen: This is obviously distressing you.
Researcher Fenton: Doesn't matter. We need to do this now, while it's still fresh. Then give me my cups full of pills again.
Manu Thirteen: You said you've seen "it." What have you seen?
Researcher Fenton: The skip! I've been inside it!
Manu Thirteen: Security records have you accounted for in the facility for the entire duration of-
Researcher Fenton: No! No not like that. These things, they travel. Not to places. Not like that. Then you think, and then they have you. Just like that! They're not here, not yet. But you can still go with them a little. They leak out, around what should be.
Manu Thirteen: I don't understand, Jacob. Tell me about the location TRANSCRIPT ALTERED FOR READER PROTECTION
Researcher Fenton: What did Mannava call it when we saw it. A mandala, I think. Me, I thought it was a maze. Thing with a maze, though, is that the way in and the way out remain the same while you're in them.
Manu Thirteen: So SCP-2474 changes physical structure?
Researcher Fenton: No, you're still thinking like one of us! You have to think like them. But then you let them in. Oh man, you don't want to let them in. Never mind, don't think like them.
Manu Thirteen: I don't follow.
Researcher Fenton: There are people in there! I've seen them. Not just people, though. No. There's machines, great gleaming towers of metal with no purpose that we can figure. Chasms going deep into the ground, wires, lights. They have shit in there that can grind thoughts, Manu. I don't even think they're supposed to do that. Just a side effect. That kind of stuff happens when you force things into states of being that they don't belong in. You can tell from the interior. Steel hovering in gaseous form through the halls, electrical current made solid. Can you imagine being locked up in something like that?
Manu Thirteen: There are people? How is that so?
Researcher Fenton: Some went with them. They're not people anymore, of course. How could they be? Things didn't go as clean as expected when the thirteen expelled these things. Thought without body. Sexier than you might think.
Manu Thirteen: Expelled. What do you mean by that?
Researcher Fenton: Ejected. Forced out from us long before anyone could write this stuff down. Thank God for that. Permanent records of these things? Fuck that.
Manu Thirteen: Is there a physical entrance to SCP-2474, Jacob?
Researcher Fenton: TRANSCRIPT ALTERED FOR READER PROTECTION I hope that whoever ends up out there doesn't find it.
Manu Thirteen: That would seriously jeopardize any planned research missions.
Researcher Fenton: Good.

Manu Thirteen: The site security officer informs me that all systems are cleared for deployment. We will now commence.
[EIGHT SECONDS OF SILENCE. RESEARCHER FENTON HUMS IN THE BACKGROUND. STEADY ELECTRONIC BEEPS FROM HEART RATE MONITOR ATTACHED TO LEAD RESEARCHER SEUNG'S HOSPITAL BED]
Manu Thirteen: It is as we discussed. Anjali will meditate upon her experience with SCP-2474. She will call out a mantra. Respond as you will. Technician Ishii, I must ask again. You are willing to serve as the receiver for contact?
Technician Ishii: Yes.
Manu Thirteen: Please proceed, Anjali.
[THREE MINUTES EIGHTEEN SECONDS OF SILENCE AND BACKGROUND NOISE]
Researcher Mannava: Exile.
Researcher Halvorsen: No. I need these beings.
[ONE MINUTE NINE SECONDS OF SILENCE AND BACKGROUND NOISE]
Researcher Mannava: Exile.
Researcher Halvorsen: They are calling it New Shambhala. It was always in you. You want us.
[FIVE MINUTES THIRTY-THREE SECONDS OF SILENCE AND BACKGROUND NOISE]
Researcher Mannava: Birth.
Researcher Fenton: [HIGH PITCHED, DISTRESSED KEENING]
Researcher Mannava: Birth.
Researcher Fenton: [CONTINUES HIGH PITCHED KEENING NOISE]
Researcher Mannava: Life.
[KEENING STOPS. TWO MINUTES, EIGHTEEN SECONDS OF SILENCE]
Technician Gryboski: That ain't life. That can't be alive.
Researcher Mannava: Enter.
Lead Researcher Seung: No3. [AUDIBLE DISTRESS FROM SEVERAL STAFF]
Researcher Mannava: Enter.
Technician Ishii: TRANSCRIPT ALTERED FOR READER PROTECTION
EIGHTEEN MINUTES FORTY-SEVEN SECONDS MISSING FOR READER PROTECTION
Manu Thirteen: [ALARM SIRENS IN BACKGROUND] Please flush the HVAC system now, the aerosolized amnestic is approaching unsafe levels. Immediately.
Manu Thirteen: [ALARM SIRENS IN BACKGROUND] Tell the medics to hurry, Kiemon doesn't have long.

Manu Thirteen: Why was it tied to one person? The research suggested that the entities make no differentiation between individuals.
Researcher Mannava: I don't know, Manu. I think this is beyond us.
Manu Thirteen: That is a strange sentiment for someone like you.
[THIRTY-EIGHT SECONDS OF SILENCE]
Researcher Mannava: We heard about the launch, Manu. Even in a sealed A3 environment we heard about that. About the First Thousand. Humanity's greatest achievement and that's what's waiting for them.
Manu Thirteen: It will be approximately one year before the mission reaches Venus. Command is working on containment. This is why you were all pushed so far. The data is very valuable.
Researcher Mannava: Poor Kiemon.
[SEVENTEEN SECONDS OF SILENCE]
Researcher Mannava: They should let us brief them.
Manu Thirteen: Whom do you mean?
Researcher Mannava: You're even worse at bullshit than humans. I know they're sending a task force. They have to be. They should have let us talk to them.
Manu Thirteen: You know why that is impossible.
Researcher Mannava: Yeah, I know. So what. This isn't documentable. They need to feel this. Walking into something like that. They-
Manu Thirteen: …Anjali?
Researcher Mannava: …they're sending you, aren't they?
Manu Thirteen: Yes.
Researcher Mannava: …yeah. Right, how could they not.
[THIRTY-TWO SECONDS OF SILENCE]
Researcher Mannava: Manu, I…I have one piece of information, I think. Before we wrap this up.
Manu Thirteen: Please share.
Researcher Mannava: When Kiemon…when that thing came through, the amnestics. I don't think it just disappeared back to whatever space it inhabits.
Manu Thirteen: No?
Researcher Mannava: I think we killed it.
Manu Thirteen: …oh.
Researcher Mannava: Whatever lives in the anomaly, I don't think they understand what it means to be tied to physical space. But killing one? I think we…instructed them, somehow. I think we helped them to understand us a little more.
Manu Thirteen: Perhaps understanding is a positive result.
Researcher Mannava: …God. Be careful out there, Manu.

.

Footnotes
1. The "Cogwork Orthodox Church"
2. Believed to be the term for "form" in an archaic form of the Yoruba dialect in this context.
3. Despite this event, EEG monitors detected no brain activity at this time. Lead Researcher Seung has remained in a permanent vegetative state since this incident.

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Location of SCP-2475

Item #: SCP-2475
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: At least one Foundation agent is to be employed by the Conan Doyle for surveillance purposes. Foundation agents under the authority of the Region 41A (Scotland - Lowlands) Director will monitor local and national news about escaped felons or persons under investigation by authorities, and will convey this information to the embedded agent to deny entry to said individuals. Should SCP-2475 be activated, the Region 41A Director will have discretion over the possible use of amnestics to cover up the containment breach.
Description: SCP-2475 is an anomalous phenomenon affecting the Conan Doyle, an upscale pub and restaurant located in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Conan Doyle was first established in 1873, but did not exhibit anomalous properties until 1987.
Whenever any individual who has committed a violent crime or robbery enters the Conan Doyle and orders food or a drink, local authorities will be alerted to their location. The way in which they are alerted takes a variety of forms; methods used in the past have included anonymous phone calls1, emails, text messages, and even obsolete methods of communication such as telegraph messages. Despite numerous attempts, no form of communication used by SCP-2475 has been successfully traced back to a person or person(s).
The effect occurs regardless of whether or not the individual has been convicted of the crime; how SCP-2475 obtains its information is currently unknown. Possible use of SCP-2475 to assist local law enforcement is pending review by the Ethics Committee.
Addendum: On 22 Oct 2001, an individual (who was later discovered to have been responsible for a local robbery) entered the Conan Doyle with a copy of A Study in Scarlet, the first book in the popular Sherlock Holmes series. Local authorities were not alerted to his presence; instead, upon ingesting food he had ordered, he suffered an allergic reaction and died en route to a local hospital. The individual did not have any medical history related to allergens used to prepare his meal.

Footnotes
1. The voice on these calls is always scrambled; attempts to make the voice clearer with audio analyzing equipment have been unsuccessful.

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Document 2476-A
Revised Document

Personnel Warning
The following document was created under the influence of a cognihazardous effect specializing in the alteration of perceived information. Information in this document is not to be discerned as truth. A revised document has been made available to personnel with clearance. It is advised to those assigned to this SCP item to read this document in order to acquire a better understanding of its cognihazardous components.

Knight #: SIR-2476 the Safe

SIR-2476. Dressed in its original robes and armour.

Special Chamber Requirements: SIR-2476 is kept in a humanoid containment tower at Site-17 castle. Questioning in interviews with SIR-2476 are to kept to a minimum, in order to prevent the activation of its primary enchantment. SIR-2476 is to be fed on a diet consisting of ham, canned pork and any type of jam as a condiment. SIR-2476 has been allowed to keep a potted shrubbery in its chamber of its own request.
Description: SIR-2476 is a human male in its early thirties, biologically identical to the late film actor Graham Arthur Chapman. SIR-2476 is prone to occasional episodes of hostility, where it will insult personnel in a French accent and insist they leave its presence, under the threat of further taunting. Apart from these episodes, SIR-2476 is generally cooperative with Foundation staff. The words "Mr. Monty Python And The Holy Grail, by Gamers Against Weed” are tattooed across SIR-2476's left thigh.
SIR-2476 displays a number of enchantments relating to the 1975 film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' by the British comedy group, Monty Python. SIR-2476 is only capable of verbal communication through the use of words used in the manuscript of the film. SIR-2476 is able to recite the script of the film in its entirety, including dialogue, descriptions, actions and both beginning and ending credits. SIR-2476 is unable to speak any words outside of the script, despite multiple attempts.
When speaking for extended periods of time, SIR-2476 will begin dictating lines from the films script in-order, and proceed to recite the remainder in its entirety. SIR-2476 will begin reciting from a point in the script where the last word(s) it spoke was used. Anyone speaking with SIR-2476, or anyone else involved in the conversation at the time of the effects activation will join in with the recital. SIR-2476 and those affected will speak the dialogue of a varying set of characters through the entire recital. Subjects will take turns to speak the script's descriptions and actions. The beginning and ending credits will always be recited by SIR-2476. Those affected are unable to recall the events which took place while under SIR-2476's effects.
Initial interview log
The following is a partial interview performed by Brother Belle shortly after the recovery of SIR-2476.

+Interview Log 2476-1

- Access Granted

Brother Belle: Alright. Sir 2476, do tell me, what are your earliest memories? And what did you do to those peasants in ███████?
SIR-2476: I remember walking around and knocking into someone. I said sorry. They were nice to me. We started to talk about funny things.
Brother Belle: What did you discuss?
SIR-2476: Monty Python. We both like it.
Brother Belle: How did you know about the film beforehand?
SIR-2476: I knew it when I appeared.
Brother Belle: Alright. How did you make them do what they did?
SIR-2476: It started after a little while. He brought up the spanking scene and I remembered it being fantastic. So we started saying it!
Brother Belle: That was the trigger?
SIR-2476: Yes, it was rather fun. Did I do something wrong?
Brother Belle: No, no. You have nothing to worry about.
SIR-2476: Oh ok, thank you. I was afraid I'd done something bad.
Brother Belle: Do you enjoy comedy films?
SIR-2476: Yes! I haven't seen them but I know they are good! Could I watch some?
Brother Belle: We'll see. If you can help us out some more. I'm sure it can be arranged.
SIR-2476: Thank you! I get to watch it properly! With all the dancing and singing. (SIR-2476 pauses for a few seconds)
SIR-2476: And cheery music would be required to make it seem homey. Luckily, that is just what we get. Knights. Singing.
Brother Belle: We're Knights of the Round Table. We dance whene'er we're able.
SIR-2476: Knights leap on table.
Brother Belle: We do routines and chorus scenes with footwork-

At this point, the interview was immediately terminated and SIR-2476 was returned to its holding chamber. Both SIR-2476 and Brother Belle continued to recite the script of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in its entirety, despite being held in separate locations. They got better.

Document 2476-8745
The following document was recovered from the village of ███████ upon locating SIR-2476. It is reproduced below in its entirety.

Jesus Christ! You've just found yourself your very own Sir Monty Python And The Holy Grail by the Holy order of Knights Against Weed! It's only a model. Who is King Wondertainment?
Gather them all and become Sir Gamer!
01. Sir Literal Serial Killer
02. Sir Normie
03. Sir Sanders
04. Sir Get Anything For Free In Any Shop
20. Sir Sex Number
21. Sir Heavenly Virtues
22. Sir Deadly Sins
23. Sir Original Character
24. Sir. D.A.R.E.
25. Lady Gentrification
26. Lady Mad About Video Games
27. Sir Meme
28. Sir Ominous (discontinued)
29. Sir Destiny
30. Sir Monty Python And The Holy Grail ✔
31. Lady Zapatista
32. Sir Hax
33. Sir Just Has The Tattoo
34. Sir Top Text and Sir Bottom Text
35. Sir Finale
36. Sir Not Appearing In This Series

Item #: SCP-2476
Object Class: Euclid

SCP-2476 in its original outfit, prior to containment.

Special Containment procedures: All information regarding SCP-2476 may only be made available to Level 3 personnel who are currently studying SCP-2476. Personnel studying SCP-2476 are to first be directly shown SCP-2476's anomalous properties directly in-order to prevent the spread of its SCP-2476-1.
SCP-2476 is kept in a humanoid containment cell at Site-17. SCP-2476 has no special medical or dietary requirements.
Description: SCP-2476 is a human male in its mid-twenties. SCP-2476 is prone to occasional episodes of extreme hostility, where it will demand personnel to conform to its desires, under the threat of extreme violence. Apart from these episodes, SCP-2476 is generally cooperative with Foundation staff. The words "Mr. Spanish Inquisition, by Gamers Against Weed” are tattooed across SCP-2476's left thigh.
SCP-2476-1 is a cognitohazard affecting those who have not learned of SCP-2476's alias by reading its tattoo, or have not yet perceived its anomalous properties occur directly. Under these circumstances, information subjects learn will be falsified to fit the theme of the 1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail. Fabrications caused by SCP-2476-1 vary depending on the type of information learned and will persist with each subject. Subjects will continue to experience SCP-2476-1 as they learn more information regarding SCP-2476, and will only cease once they have perceived SCP-2476's actual anomalous properties in action.
SCP-2476 suffers from extreme delusions regarding instruments and objects capabilities to inflict harm on others, believing items of a safe and benign nature to instead be the most effective. All instruments utilized by SCP-2476 which under regular circumstances would be effective in inflicting physical harm and injuries to others will become completely ineffective. SCP-2476 will utilize whatever instrument it uses in a highly ineffective manner, preventing the target from receiving any physical pain whatsoever. Notable delusions include perceiving a bat to be a baguette and a pair of knives to be a pair of sofa cushions.
Recovery: SCP-2476 was originally detained on the 11th of January 2017, when Foundation web crawlers located the use of the phrases Gamers Against Weed and Mr. Monty Python And The Holy Grail on numerous social networking accounts mentioning an unknown individual in ██████, North Carolina, United States who had caused several public disturbances. SCP-2476 was located in a nearby bookstore when retrieved, dressed in an outfit resembling that of the Spanish Inquisition costumes used in the Monty Python sketches of the same name, attempting to attack a cashier ineffectively with a desk lamp, for selling ‘unorthodox' reading material. Foundation agents were able to detain it without incident. Amnestics were dispatched to all witnesses effectively.
SCP-2476-1 became apparent after multiple Foundation personnel were informed of SCP-2476s recovery by agents. Temporary containment was prepared for SCP-2476 based upon falsified information given to Foundation personnel. Personnel were met with surprise upon SCP-2476's arrival due to its unexpected effects. All personnel involved were given amnestic treatment.
Interview Log
The following is a partial interview performed by Dr. Belle several days after the recovery of SCP-2476.

+ Interview Log 2476-1

- Access Granted

<Begin Log>Dr. Belle: Yes, if that's alright with you.Dr. Belle: We were hoping to discuss the creation of your anomalous properties.Dr. Belle: You seem quite energetic today.SCP-2476: …Can I have my outfit back?
Dr. Belle: Sorry, but I told you before, that's not possible.Dr. Belle: But in all seriousness, what do you believe was the point of your creation? All other Misters so far have been made with at least some meaningful idea in mind. Not to say you yourself are somehow less… We are just finding it difficult to understand why you were made like this.Dr. Belle: That would make sense… Speaking of, how do you feel during your, well, episodes?Dr. Belle: And how do you feel after the experience?Dr. Belle: Glad it helped. Another question, how were you able to know about Gamers Against Weed? When we asked about your earliest memories, you said you'd woken up in ██████.Dr. Belle: Do you have a problem remembering? We can continue this at a later date.SCP-2476: Let's see… Agh! Fuck, this is complicated! The information I know was from what they mentioned when they were making me, kind of like how when you're a baby you take in things you hear people say. Except you know, I'm a fully grown guy with an almost fully developed brain (laughs) I do remember watching the Holy Grail like a thousand times though…
Dr. Belle: Well thank you, You've managed to give us a lot of helpful information.Dr. Belle: Okay, you need to settle down.
<End Log>

Document 2476-8745
The following document was found on SCP-2476's person when recovered. It is reproduced below in its entirety.

Holy Heck! You've just found yourself your very own Mr. Spanish Inquisition by Gamers Against Weed! I didn't expect this. Who is Dr. Wondertainment?
Collect them all and become Mr. Gamer!
01. Mr. Literal Serial Killer
02. Mr. Normie
03. Mr. Bernie Sanders
04. Mr. Get Anything For Free In Any Shop
20. Mr. Sex Number
21. Mr. Heavenly Virtues
22. Mr. Deadly Sins
23. Mr. Original Character
24. Mr. D.A.R.E.
25. Mrs. Gentrification
26. Ms. Mad About Video Games
27. Mr. Meme
28. Mr. Ominous (discontinued)
29. Mr. Destiny
30. Mr. Spanish Inquisition ✔
31. Ms. Zapatista
32. Mr. Hax
33. Mr. Just Has The Tattoo
34. Mr. Top Text and Mr. Bottom Text
35. Mr. Finale

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Graphical representation of one SCP-2477 solution.

Item #: SCP-2477
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: All Foundation containment procedure proposals are to be monitored for SCP-2477 methodology. All proposals determined to be affected by SCP-2477 are to be denied. (For a list of plausible reasons for denial, please see Document SCP-2477-Thoth.) Foundation astronomical assets are to maintain continuous tracking of all known Type A instances, as well as Type B-C instances wherever possible.
Engineering conference papers, presentations, and government proposals are to be monitored by Foundation web-crawlers for pre-SCP-2477 reasoning. Mobile Task Force Psi-18 (“Tenure Trackers”) are to intervene with any identified researchers by providing financial incentives towards approved avenues of research. SCP-2477-positive researchers (internal or external) may also be considered for recruitment into the Experimental Containment Research Group.
In the event of any proposal to create a singular, well-funded site for the storage of radioactive or other extremely hazardous material at a national or international level, Mobile Task Force Rho-17 (“Not in My Back Yard”) is to exert local political pressure to prevent the completion of such a project.
Description: SCP-2477 consists of a novel, nonobvious series of solutions to statics1 equations based on erroneous interpretations of Newtonian physics. SCP-2477 are most often encountered in well-funded projects dedicated to the complete containment or isolation of physical objects. As SCP-2477 solutions are derived from practical rather than abstract theoretical applications, they are much more likely to be discovered by engineers than by physicists.
Given sufficient resources, SCP-2477 can be used to construct devices capable of eliminating all outside forces affecting an object. These include gravity, electromagnetism, friction, physical contact, and particle-based radiation. These devices also fix the contained object to a single position by eliminating all inertia.
Unfortunately, the anomalous calculations required to complete SCP-2477 solutions cannot be resolved within the reference frame of a fixed point on the Earth's surface. Instead, objects are fixed in place in comparison with some other astronomical object or reference point, and remain in this position with no regard for the movement of the Earth. There are █ known solutions to these equations, each associated with a different point of reference.
Researchers using brute-force computer analysis to solve these equations are significantly less likely to recognize this reference frame error when constructing an SCP-2477-based device. Please see Addendum SCP-2477-Iota for a list of known SCP-2477 solutions and example uses.
Addendum SCP-2477-Iota: First known SCP-2477 incidents

Type
Reference Frame
Contents
Results

A
The Sun (Solar Plane)
Gyroscopes used for the absolute calibration of navigation equipment.
Researchers at [DATA REDACTED] Corporation attempted to isolate six separate devices across a one month period before the Foundation could intervene. Contents estimated to cross Earth's path every April █ through ██, and are typically associated with an incidence of at least two cases of severe radiation poisoning in the [DATA REDACTED] urban region.

B
The Milky Way (Galactic Core)
Isolation chamber for █████-██ supercollider, meant to improve detection and containment of antimatter.
Containment equipment levitated 5000 t of sensor banks and magnetic shielding into upper atmosphere before disintegrating. Contained sensor packages continue to transmit data and are believed to be exiting the solar plane at 200 km/s.

C
Center of the Universe, LTB-Model (Unconfirmed)
Keter-Class SCP-████
Contents spontaneously converted to coherent mass of neutrinos, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and [DATA EXPUNGED] particles.2 GOES satellites identified a burst of radiation traveling towards the Crab Nebula at .11c3. Attempts to recontain SCP-████ are considered unfeasible.

D
Unknown
A manned spacecraft intended to test inertia-free launch conditions, with four crew.
External observers noted a rapid acceleration of movements within capsule accompanied by a visible blueshift. The capsule then dematerialized, leaving a permanent visual afterimage. The flight recorder continued transmitting for ██ hours afterward. Selected contents are available in Document SCP-2477-D-1953.

Document SCP-2477-D-1953: Title unavailable
This document has been archived due to limited requests for access.

[Access historical archive]

[Access granted]

Document SCP-2477-D-1953: Selected portions of the mission log of Col. ████ █████
The following statements were transcribed from timestamped audio logs stored on reel-to-reel magnetic tape. These recordings remained undeciphered for ██ years after recovery until a sufficiently powerful predictive decompression algorithm could be developed. From storage space for approximately 28 hours of low-quality audio information, █████ hours of audio logs were recovered.

19██-03-01 00:27:51: We've come so far now. The sun and the stars are gone. The night sky doesn't seem any brighter, but Maj. ██████ says it seems more red. Maybe she's right. The Earth's come along with us, or at least a pale shadow of it. We left the capsule months back. We can flit around anywhere we want, faster than you can imagine, but we can't touch anything outside the capsule. No response from anyone, nothing over the radio since the launch went pear-shaped. Everything and everyone out there is slowed to an infinitesimal crawl.
20██-07-15 17:45:05: Everything that was blocked from the sky is gone now. Everything that was under a roof, or a cloud, or a damn bus stop, all gone. Pure black. The people we love move in and out of the shadows as the years crawl on for us. Mostly in. It's hard to watch. Everything that was in darkness is gone too. We can blaze through the nighttime cities, but anywhere out in the country, or out at sea, nothing. An entire hemisphere disappeared behind us years ago.
2███-01-24 14:21:35: ████ died today, or whatever moment today would have been for her. She was sitting out in the sunlight. She looked ancient. I don't know. Maybe this Earth's not real, maybe the whole thing's a sick joke. I just… for all the years I've watched her, I wish she could've seen me, just once. We've voted, and the crew and I are all in agreement now. We're going to take a closer look at the device. We haven't been able to disable it so far, but we've got nothing but time.
████-08-13 10:11:45: Control, or whoever is there, please ignore the last ███ messages. We've all come to our senses now. I promise.
█████-09-21 27:- -:- -: There are planets filling the sky now. Dozens, hundreds. The gas giants are looming over the horizon. It's hard to tell the moons from the worlds. They're so close… it's breathtaking. We should probably be afraid, but we aren't. I think we can go to them, if we want. I think we have to. There's nothing here for us anymore. Goodbye, my friends, I don't think we'll be back.

Footnotes
1. The discipline of quantifying forces acting upon an object in equilibrium, typically used to examine or teach idealized versions of engineering problems.
2. Site-██ was not otherwise damaged. All involved containment specialists were indefinitely reassigned to SCP-2477.
3. 11% of the speed of light.

« SCP-2476 | SCP-2477 | SCP-2478 »


Item #: SCP-2478
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: All live instances of SCP-2478 are held in individual Type L humanoid containment cells at Biological Containment Area-519. Three deceased instances of SCP-2478 are to be held in Area-519 morgue. No personnel of self-acknowledged Japanese descent are to be in visible proximity with SCP-2478 instances, unless for approved testing. Approval may be sought from Project Head/2478.
SCP-2478's freedom of religious practice is acknowledged under the Eugenio II Protocol. See Document 2478-Bu for necessary provisions w.r.t. SCP-2478's religious ceremonies. Personnel are to monitor religious ceremonies conducted by SCP-2478 instances.
Description: SCP-2478 refers to an alternative phenotype of Homo sapiens sapiens (human). Distinctive physiological features include 14 legs arranged around the lower torso, and 14 arms and seven heads scattered around the torso arbitrarily. Locomotion is possible through a combination of multi-legged movement in metachronal rhythm, muscular contraction of its lower torso and mucus secreted from underneath its body. Average height and mass are 2.8 m and 400 kg respectively, while torso circumference is 1.5 m. SCP-2478 instances uniformly demonstrate fluency in the Hida dialect of Japanese, and can comprehend Standard Japanese.
A single SCP-2478 instance possesses seven sets of most internal organs (e.g. heart, lungs, stomach). However, only one brain exists for a given SCP-2478 instance. It is located along its torso and has an average mass of 10.5 kg. As such, a given SCP-2478 instance possesses a single consciousness and all seven mouths will speak in unison. Although male or female reproductive organs or a combination of both have been found in SCP-2478, they are non-functional. The number of reproductive organs in a given SCP-2478 instance is consistently seven.
SCP-2478 and images depicting it impose an anti-memetic effect on humans of Japanese descent (hereon referred to as 'subjects'). Subjects will ignore any sign of SCP-2478's anomalous physiology and perceive them as non-anomalous humans identified with gigantism. Subjects will consistently dismiss any evidence suggesting SCP-2478's anomalous nature. Non-Japanese individuals who have been made to believe they are of Japanese descent (e.g. falsified memories) are susceptible to this effect. Below is a translated excerpt by the Imperial Japanese Abnormal Matters Examination Agency (IJAMEA):

For some platoons fighting in China, bayonets and katanas levitated on their will and surrounded the soldiers from ████ in the Hida Mountains.1 They fought on our side and killed many Chinese. The ancestors of these men, we speculate, must be on our side. After all, the folk of ████ claimed lineage from the chaos of the Warring States.

Subjects of partial Japanese descent (e.g. half-Japanese) experience this partial anti-memetic effect to a lesser degree. Subjects unaware of their Japanese descent (e.g. ignorance on the subject's part, amnesia, dementia) are unaffected by this anomalous effect, and fully recognise SCP-2478's physical appearance as non-human.
The earliest known sightings of SCP-2478 were from eyewitness accounts in Dairen2 since 1926, where they were deployed by the Kwantung Army. Documents from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) described SCP-2478 instances as soldiers conscripted from ████, Gifu Prefecture under Japan's Conscription Law and denied any anomalous traits attributed to SCP-2478. Instead, IJA officials claimed they were non-anomalous humans with gigantism.
Supplementary documents and personnel from Japan-based organisations such as the Bureau of Onmyō3 and IJAMEA did not regard SCP-2478 to be anomalous. That being said, the Bureau of Onmyō did record an extra-normal event related to ████ Village. A translated excerpt of said event is as follows:

On ██ August Meiji 12,4 the eta5 of ████ in the Hida Mountains mysteriously vanished. Cause unknown, but there was little need to be concerned over the loss of gravediggers and butchers. Some days before, a foreign preacher was said to have entered ████. Whereabouts also unknown. Without the eta, ████ is no longer an etamura.6
That day onwards, ████ was inhabited by another group of countrymen. They were unlike the eta, who previously dwelled in those lands. They were giants, standing taller than the men of America. But appearances are deceiving. These new residents embody the Yamato spirit as any fellow countryman would and are clearly worthy of being fellow subjects to His Imperial Majesty. They demonstrate great efficiency in the production of rice and rearing of livestock, truly exemplary of the nation.

Initial attempts to acquire SCP-2478 instances were met with resistance from the Japanese government, condemning the Foundation's violation of the rights of the Empire's subjects. This was believed to be one of the contributing factors leading to the expulsion of all Foundation assets in the Japanese Empire on ██/██/1932.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese military and Foundation intelligence had reported SCP-2478 instances among IJA forces. IJA sources indicated that the entire SCP-2478 population in Japan have volunteered for conscription, operating in the China-Burma-India theatre. Notably, SCP-2478 instances were not conscripted under the Youkai Battalion7 in IJAMEA sources.
After Japan's surrender in 1945, the Japanese government permitted the relocation of the surviving SCP-2478 population in Japan to Area-519. A majority of text regarding the history of SCP-2478 was confiscated, although some remained unaccounted for. Since containment, seven live specimens of SCP-2478 have been held by the Foundation, all of which have served in the IJAMEA as enlistees. The remaining specimens (≈50) were executed under charges of war crimes and autopsied, after which they have been cremated following one year of postmortem study.
Addendum 2478-1: Interview Log 2478-01-1

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Interviewer: Researcher James Chiang
Interviewee: SCP-2478-01 (Bakatachi Wion)
Foreword: The following interview is originally conducted in Japanese.
<Begin Log>
Researcher Chiang: How would I address you?
SCP-2478-01: Bakatachi Wion, from ████. Why do you keep us here, Chinese?
Researcher Chiang: Bakatachi, we know what you are. Seven heads, fourteen arms and legs… hardly the average person. Yet the Japanese think of you as one-
SCP-2478-01: We are an ordinary person! Only wish to be accepted as countrymen, but we were defiled, non-human. The Imperialists deny us that, as did the Shogun. For one of us is worth one-seventh of an ordinary person. We were cursed.
Researcher Chiang: How did you end up like this?
SCP-2478-01: We received a miracle from our bodhisattva, Wion.8 He came to our village and took pity on our plight. Praised the craft that our countrymen mocked, the parting of skin from flesh and feeding of the dead to the earth. Wion tore our flesh in groups of seven and remade us to become an acceptable Japanese person.
Researcher Chiang: And how do you feel about it?
SCP-2478-01: If we can be part of the in-group, nothing else matters. We will be the in-group for both this world and the next, so says Wion.
Researcher Chiang: Excuse me. What do you mean by this world and the next?
SCP-2478-01: Wion spoke of the True Pure Land that is to come, and that we could have a place in it for our shared practice. Until then, we have to get by the trials of this world. Surely he is Miroku.9
Researcher Chiang: Do you know where is Wion now?
SCP-2478-01: Wion returns to his throne, the womb of the deceased god. Wion will return within our sevenfold lifetimes, bearing his intolerable force upon all.
<End Log>

Addendum 2478-2: The Wion Matsuri is a traditional festival celebrated by SCP-2478 instances during late August, observed solely by them. A distinctive ritual of Wion Matsuri is the skinning of animal carcasses. The skin would be made into leather and placed as decorations before a statue representing Wion. At the conclusion of Wion Matsuri, the skin, flesh and bones used would be buried into a single grave.
Due to the non-anomalous nature of Wion Matsuri, the O5 Council has approved for the facilitation of SCP-2478 instances' practice of the festival to maintain long-term compliance of their containment.

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Due to its non-anomalous nature and superficial resemblance to Sarkic rites, observation of SCP-2478's religious ceremonies will be permitted to gather additional information on Sarkic ideology. However, if there is concrete evidence that these religious ceremonies possess anomalous side-effects, abort said ceremonies and deny future incidents.

Footnotes
1. This statement refers to SCP-2478 instances, who were known to hold weapons on all fourteen hands during battle.
2. Currently Dalian, Liaoning Province, China.
3. Sometimes mistranslated in European languages as the 'Holy Emperor's Council on Unearthly Matters', due to mistranslation of the word Tennō ('heavenly sovereign') as 'Holy Emperor'. Despite that, some documents still utilise the term 'Holy Emperor's Council on Unearthly Matters'.
4. Equivalent to 1879 CE.
5. Also referred to as the burakumin; an outcast group at the bottom of the Japanese social order that has historically been the victim of severe discrimination and ostracism.
6. "Eta village".
7. An IJA battalion which comprises entirely of anomalous entities.
8. Said figure has no known parallel in Shinto, Japanese Buddhist, Ryukyuan or Ainu pantheons.
9. Japanese name for Maitreya, a bodhisattva who will appear on Earth in the future, achieve complete enlightenment, and teach the pure dharma.

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Item #: SCP-2479
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: The two major roads leading to and from SCP-2479 are to be permanently roadblocked by Foundation personnel. Non-Foundation vehicles from Sherwood, Oregon that attempt to travel along these roads are to be withheld from approaching SCP-2479. Any non-Foundation vehicles passing the roadblock will be regarded as trespassers.
All public knowledge of SCP-2479 prior to Foundation acquisition is to be eradicated by Foundation media outlets and relevant censorship protocols1. The area around SCP-2479 is to be kept in a perpetual state of lockdown under the guise of a demolition organisation preparing for the demolition of a miscellaneous abandoned theme park.
Small containment cells are to be constructed alongside SCP-2479-1 through -16 to facilitate the containment of SCP-2479-A instances. Site-2479 is to be established a few kilometers from SCP-2479's active zone and used for research and surveillance.
The area around SCP-2479 is to be monitored at all times by Foundation personnel. Any unauthorised personnel found in the vicinity of SCP-2479 or Site-2479 are to be captured and detained as quickly as possible so as to prevent a possible classified information breach. SCP-2479-A instances are to be similarly monitored and prevented from leaving SCP-2479's active zone under any circumstances.
Outside of testing, no personnel should enter SCP-2479's active zone at any time without permission from Site Director ██████.
Description: SCP-2479 is a defunct amusement park consisting of an area of roughly 128 acres (52 ha) located several miles east of Sherwood, Oregon. Two (2) major roads which lead to and from the parking lot of SCP-2479 serve as the only means of direct entry or exit, and a series of ridged concrete walls along the width and breadth of SCP-2479's active zone restrict access unless physically scaled. SCP-2479 is covered in thick shrubbery and vegetation as a result of long-term abandonment.
At the time of Foundation procurement, SCP-2479 was marked on public maps and road signs as "Animal Land Amusement Park". The original park was commissioned to be built by ███ ██████ ███████████, but was abandoned shortly after its initial opening for currently unknown reasons.
As of recovery on 11/05/██, SCP-2479 possesses sixteen generic amusement park attractions:

four roller coasters, each styled after a unique farm animal (SCP-2479-1 through -4).
two bumper cars tracks with cars resembling dogs and cats (SCP-2479-5 and SCP-2479-6 respectively).
two carousels with horse statues (SCP-2479-7 and SCP-2479-8).
an octopus ride (SCP-2479-9).
two drop towers styled after various species of birds (SCP-2479-10 and SCP-2479-11).
a chair swing ride modeled after a starfish (SCP-2479-12).
a Ferris wheel marked with fox patterns (SCP-2479-13).
two "fun slides" styled after caterpillars and butterflies (SCP-2479-14 and SCP-2479-15 respectively).
a "House of Horrors" styled after arachnids of various species (SCP-2479-16).

SCP-2479's only entrance is a large gateway located in the northern end of the parking lot. The gate is accompanied by a smaller ticket booth, a large storage shed and a series of green ropes designating a space for visitors to queue. Upon entry, a large sign overhead reads "Animaland!"2 and several statues of cartoon humanoid animals line a walkway that leads through SCP-2479's active zone. An SCP-2479-A instance is always present in the ticket booth.
SCP-2479-A is the collective designation for between twenty (20) and thirty (30) entities that appear as humanoid animals, styled appropriately for their position in the park3, hereby referred to as their "territory". Each instance speaks standard English in a comical, high-pitched voice similar to those used by performers to entertain children. SCP-2479-A instances are completely unresponsive to questions or interrogative actions from personnel and will instead issue simplistic lines encouraging them to get on one of the park rides. SCP-2479-A have been observed to communicate subvocally with one another. Instances do not interact with animals and are additionally labelled SCP-2479-A-1 through -A-16 to denote their territory, which can be shared by multiple instances of the same designation.

An SCP-2479-A-11 instance in containment.

Testing of recovered samples from SCP-2479-A instances has shown that they are covered in a downy growth of thick hair similar to organisms suffering from hypertrichosis. This thick hair will, in most cases, form the shape of a plushy mascot outfit on the skin and harden into permanent epidermal growths around the mouth, ears and eyes. SCP-2479-A vary greatly in the amount of hair they develop and many suffer from unique physical abnormalities depending on the subject animal of their appearance (see Addendum 2479a).
SCP-2479-A instances have been observed to sexually reproduce, though not between designations (See Incident Log 2479/2).
All SCP-2479-A have a capacity to be hostile but have only been observed to become aggressive if:

an individual is acting hostile towards them
an individual is perceived as obtrusive, disruptive or irritating4
an individual was observed entering SCP-2479 in any way besides that of direct entry through the main gateway.

SCP-2479-A have been observed to attack in a primitive scratching and biting manner.
SCP-2479-B is the collective designation of between five hundred (500) and seven hundred (700) animal masks located in a series of large crates in the storage shed at SCP-2479's main gateway. Each mask bears a resemblance towards a unique animal also seen elsewhere in the park, either as a ride or as a mascot. When attempting to enter SCP-2479 through the main gate, the SCP-2479-A instance currently in the ticket booth will prompt a visitor to approach the ticket booth and collect a mask before entering SCP-2479's active zone.
SCP-2479-B's anomalous properties occur over a period of roughly two (2) hours when worn by a subject, and when that subject is within SCP-2479's active zone.
Within a few minutes, subjects will experience extreme abdominal pains, intensified rate of perspiration and abnormally dilated pupils. After wearing SCP-2479-B for more than ten (10) minutes, these symptoms will persist regardless of the presence of SCP-2479-B, and after fifteen (15) minutes the symptoms will persist outside of SCP-2479's active zone. Further symptoms will become apparent towards the end of the first hour; these include hyperhidrosis, uncontrollable shivering and, most importantly, acute hypertrichosis, resulting in an alarmingly rapid outgrowth of bodily and facial hair. All symptoms will be more painful and of a longer duration if the SCP-2479-B instance is not removed.
Bodily and facial hair will harden into thick keratin rings around orifices and abnormal keratin structures will begin to form during the secondary hour. At this point, if still present, the SCP-2479-B instance will either be forcefully removed due to the development of obtrusive facial structures or fuse into the skin.
Subjects will eventually begin to develop features which coincide with the animal depicted on the SCP-2479-B instance which they were afflicted by. Mental deterioration begins after roughly one (1) hour and fifteen (15) minutes, after which point the subject - hereby an SCP-2479-A instance - will attempt to move towards the ride that depicts the animal that they represent and acknowledge it as their territory. All memories from the instance's past life will be either erased or ignored and the instance will cease answering questions or responding to conversational stimuli.
Subjects recovered before fifteen (15) minutes of SCP-2479-B exposure will suffer permanent scarring if removal surgery is performed to clear them of hair growths.

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The following is an exemplar selection of SCP-2479-A instances and their observed physical deformities.

Item #: SCP-2479-A-2
Represented Animal: Cattle (B. taurus)
Unique Details: Two large, malformed keratin growths on the crown of the head. Large, blackened, ingrown toenails and fingernails and hardened skin on soles of feet. Presumed to represent hooves and horns respectively.

Item #: SCP-2479-A-5
Represented Animal: Domestic cat (F. catus)
Unique Details: Long growth of torn hair extending from the rear, rooted directly above the anus. Long and sharp teeth that have grown improperly in the mouth. Cysts forming within the gums.

Item #: SCP-2479-A-7
Represented Animal: Horse (E. f. caballus)
Unique Details: Malformed keratin growths and nail overgrowth on extremities similar to SCP-2479-A-2 instances. Teeth enlarged and grown in various directions. Nostrils lined with thick keratin growths and expanded to almost four-thirds normal size.

Item #: SCP-2479-A-11
Represented Animal: Guira cuckoo (G. guira)
Unique Details: Large, dented formation of keratin growing directly above upper lip resembling a beak. Downy "feathers" growing on arms.

Item #: SCP-2479-A-16
Represented Animal: Mexican redknee tarantula (B. smithi)
Unique Details: Six large, malformed limbs of rough, reddened keratin extending from the 14th vertebra of the spine. Six miscellaneous keratin growths in the centre of the head. Canine teeth overgrown so as they puncture the gums when mouth is fully closed. Malformed keratin growth within the abdominal region found to be full of [DATA EXPUNGED].

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The following is an excerpt from a poster recovered from an advertisement billboard in Sherwood, Oregon.

A world of fauna-tastic fun at
ANIMALAND!© Oregon
Suitable for kids of all ages, and ADULTS too!
Open from 7am until 6pm
Monday to Saturday
Complimentary Animalmask™ on arrival!

EDIT as of 11/02/██: Following Incident 2479/1, SCP-2479-A instances have been observed to interact in a manner consistent with their position on the Charles Elton food chain model. This model follows a linear order in which each organism is sustained through consumption of the animal before it; therefore, SCP-2479-A instances can be appropriately split into Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Apex consumer subcategories.
As an example, SCP-2479-A-13 instances (considered fox-like, resembling members of the species V. vulpes) will periodically retire from wandering SCP-2479-13 "territory", reportedly doing so biweekly or when one is beginning to show symptoms of malnutrition5. Following this, SCP-2479-A-13 instances have been observed to seek instances of SCP-2479-A-4 or SCP-2479-A-11 (resembling ducks and birds, respectively) and [DATA EXPUNGED]. SCP-2479-A-13 instances have been observed to "hunt" alone or in pairs, whereas other Tertiary consumers such as SCP-2479-A-5 (considered representative of members of the species C. lupus) will not embark from their territory in groups of fewer than three (3).

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On ██/██/██, between four (4) and seven (7) SCP-2479-A-5 (C. lupus) instances spontaneously fled the immediate vicinity of SCP-2479-5, an entirely unanticipated event of an alarming speed and scale. All instances traveled at high speed towards SCP-2479-6 and attacked all but two of the nine (9) SCP-2479-A-6 instances wandering its locale. This behaviour had not been observed before, even in experiments involving instance-to-instance interaction.
After about seven (7) minutes of scrimmage, and during the process of arranging MTF intervention, all SCP-2479-A-5 instances retrieved the nearest dead or incapacitated instance of SCP-2479-A-6 and returned to their territory at a much slower speed than which they had left at. Over the next six (6) hours, each SCP-2479-A-5 instance gradually consumed the instance it had appropriated.
Due to the unexpected nature of this event, no data was recorded on the speed of travel or method of attack exhibited by SCP-2479-A-5 instances. Further experimentation in a controlled environment is recommended.

This recent development of a closed ecosystem in SCP-2479's active zone has become the primary object of research in Site-2479. It has been hypothesised that a "breeding program" involving exposure of subjects to several instances of SCP-2479-B can be implemented to introduce an Apex consumer into SCP-2479's ecosystem as a means of controlling interactions between SCP-2479-A instances.
Experiments involving the cross-exposure of a single subject to multiple instances of SCP-2479-B are documented below.

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Focus of Experimentation: Preliminary Cross-Exposure Testing

Test A - Date ██/██/██
Subject: D-7220
Procedure: Subject was exposed to the effects of SCP-2479-B-8 (E. f. przewalskii).
Results: Normal symptoms of SCP-2479-B-8 affliction observed over a period of two (2) hours. Full transformation complete after two (2) hours and nine (9) minutes.
Postliminary: Subject, now an SCP-2479-A-8 instance, was allowed to reside at SCP-2479-8.

Test B - Date ██/██/██
Subject: SCP-2479-A-8 (formerly D-7220)
Procedure: Specimen was exposed to the effects of SCP-2479-B-8 (the SCP-2479-B instance associated with its appearance).
Results: Normal symptoms of SCP-2479-B-8 affliction observed over a period of two (2) hours. Symptoms occurred at standard severity, but alongside already present physical abnormalities, roughly doubling the size and/or length of the symptoms' physical characteristics. This in most cases resulted in minor skin abrasions and additional malformations in the mouth, nostrils and appendages. The skin around these areas was observed to stretch (to the point of splitting in extreme cases) and the subject exhibited normal pain symptoms, as expected.
Postliminary: Injuries were treated by medical personnel and the SCP-2479-A-8 instance was contained.

Test C - Date ██/██/██
Subject: SCP-2479-A-8 (formerly D-7220)
Procedure: Specimen was exposed to the effects of SCP-2479-B-6 (F. catus).
Results: Normal symptoms of SCP-2479-B-6 affliction observed over a period of two (2) hours. Uncomfortable preliminary symptoms were observed to be substantially more painful than in previous observations. Teeth became further enlarged and developed sharp tips with minor dental fractures starting to be observed towards the end of exposure. Bodily hair roughly doubled in length and hair roots formed and began to grow roughly an inch above the anus. Abrasions observed as in experiment above.
Postliminary: Injuries were treated by medical personnel and the subject, hereby designated SCP-2479-A-8/66, was contained for study.

Note: SCP-2479-B seems to afflict whomever it is worn by, irrespective of any previous exposure. The symptoms it induces simply 'overlap' with previous physical properties; bodily hair will double in length, teeth with double in size and width, etcetera. Considering that the resulting wounds can be safely treated, cross-exposure with SCP-2479-B instances in the interest of creating an SCP-2479-A instance that fits the role of an Apex consumer is plausible. - Dr. ██████

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Focus of Experimentation: Creating Potential SCP-2479-A Apex Consumer

Note: Permission was granted for experiments with the goal of creating an Apex consumer by Site Director █████. The subject selected for this series of experiments, D-6018, was chosen for his athleticism and high standards of performance in physical examinations. - Dr. ██████

Test A - Date ██/██/██
Subject: D-6018
Procedure: Subject was exposed to the effects of SCP-2479-B-6 (F. catus).
Results: SCP-2479-B-6 symptoms observed as normal. Full transformation was complete after two (2) hours and seventeen (17) minutes.
Postliminary: SCP-2479-A-6 instance was sent to temporary containment.

Test B - Date ██/██/██
Subject: SCP-2479-A-6 (formerly D-6018)
Procedure: Specimen was exposed to the effects of SCP-2479-B-13 (V. vulpes).
Results: Instance developed larger and sharper teeth, as well as various vestigial dental formations. Bodily hair roughly doubled in length. Instance's skin developed several malformed keratin growths of unknown purpose, along with several minor cases of inflammation akin to acute dermatitis.
Postliminary: Subject, hereby designated SCP-2479-A-6/13, underwent minor restorative surgery to clear skin of epidermal growths and to treat inflammation. SCP-2479-A-6/13 was later contained in a temporary containment cell.

Note: Before Test B, SCP-2479-A-6/13 consistently tried to approach and claim SCP-2479-6 as territory, but its recent cross-exposure seems to have rendered it totally abstinent in this regard. It does, however, continue to attempt to follow regular hunting patterns. Future experimentation will hopefully reveal more about its attitude to the notion of 'territory' and its potential as a method of breach prevention and population control. - Dr. ██████

Test C - Date ██/██/██
Subject: SCP-2479-A-6/13 (formerly D-6018)
Procedure: Specimen was exposed to the effects of SCP-2479-B-16 (T. blondi).
Results: Instance began but did not complete the growth of six appendages which sprouted from the 12th vertebra of the spine and stopped growing at between four (4) and six (6) inches. Hair grew minimally but increased in quantity, covering more of the skin's surface area, including the aforementioned additional appendages. Instance developed four (4) keratin growths in the facial region with placements similar to those of additional eyes on an arachnid. Large, dense keratin growths penetrated skin and grew up to five (5) centimeters outwards from the epidermal layer. Specimen also began to demonstrate [DATA EXPUNGED], as with other SCP-2479-A-16 instances. Extreme levels of pain were exhibited before subject spontaneously lost consciousness nearing the end of the second hour, presumably as a reaction to stress and discomfort. Inflammation symptoms returned as before.
Postliminary: Subject, hereby designated SCP-2479-AX, underwent extensive restorative surgery to clear skin of large epidermal growths and facial keratin formations, and to treat inflammation. Subject passed medical examination roughly a day after full transformation and has been observed to function normally. SCP-2479-AX was later contained in a temporary containment cell.

Note: Based on previous knowledge of SCP-2479-A-6, SCP-2479-A-13 and SCP-2479-A-16, SCP-2479-AX can now theoretically 'hunt' all known SCP-2479-A instances, placing it at the top of SCP-2479's food chain. Thorough examination of SCP-2479-AX's possible applications can now commence. - Dr. ██████

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Focus of Experimentation: Evaluating Possible Apex Consumer Applications

Test A - Date ██/██/██
Subject: SCP-2479-AX, Researcher █████████
Procedure: Specimen was introduced to Researcher █████████ (not during hunting hours).
Results: Specimen engaged in one-ended conversation, as observed in all other SCP-2479-A instances. SCP-2479-AX encouraged Researcher █████████ to visit three (3) rides; SCP-2479-6, SCP-2479-13 and SCP-2479-16. Specimen did not respond to questions.
Postliminary: SCP-2479-AX was recontained.

Test B - Date ██/██/██
Subject: SCP-2479-AX, SCP-2479-A-4
Procedure: Specimen was introduced to SCP-2479-A-4 (not during hunting hours).
Results: SCP-2479-AX engaged in one-ended conversation as expected. SCP-2479-A-4 did not vocalise at all and instead stared at SCP-2479-AX in silence for the entire duration of the forty (40) minute interaction.
Postliminary: Both instances were recontained.

Note: So far, no SCP-2479-A instance has failed to make conversation with another outside of observed hunting times. It is possible that SCP-2479-A do not recognise SCP-2479-AX as one of them or as a human, and therefore have no capacity for interaction. - Dr. ██████

Test C - Date ██/██/██
Subject: SCP-2479-AX
Procedure: Specimen permitted monitored access into SCP-2479's active zone (not during hunting hours).
Results: Specimen was not observed to make any attempt to approach or claim 'territory'. Instead, SCP-2479-AX roamed with no apparent direction7 in areas of low SCP-2479-A concentration. Specimen was observed to be attempting to hide: SCP-2479-AX seemed to favour areas of high or dense shrubbery as a means of concealing itself, a behaviour with no apparent purpose. The specimen was observed to defecate considerably more frequently than other SCP-2479-A instances.
Postliminary: Specimen was recaptured and contained after three (3) hours of inactivity.

Test D - Date ██/██/██
Subject: SCP-2479-AX
Procedure: Specimen permitted monitored access into SCP-2479's active zone (during hunting hours).
Results: Specimen began to progress towards SCP-2479-1 (territory of SCP-2479-A-1, C. a. hircus) at a speed of roughly fourteen (14) miles per hour. On arrival, specimen [DATA EXPUNGED], resulting in the deaths of all but three (3) of the eight (8) SCP-2479-A-1 instances present. SCP-2479-AX retrieved only two (2) carcasses, carried them to where it had been first released fifteen (15) minutes prior and proceeded to both consume and [DATA EXPUNGED] for roughly an hour.
Postliminary: Specimen was recaptured and contained safely after experiment. SCP-2479-1 remains, both from SCP-2479-AX and from SCP-2479-1's vicinity, were disposed of.

Test E - Date ██/██/██
Subject: SCP-2479-AX
Procedure: Specimen permitted monitored access into SCP-2479's active zone (during hunting hours) at a different location. The closest ride to this location, SCP-2479-4, was vacated of all but one (1) SCP-2479-A-4 (A. platyrhynchos) instance.
Results: Specimen began to progress towards SCP-2479-4 and [DATA EXPUNGED], as before, resulting in the death of the only present SCP-2479-A-4 instance. SCP-2479-AX proceeded to consume and [DATA EXPUNGED] the carcass that it had appropriated.
Postliminary: Specimen was recaptured and contained safely after experiment. SCP-2479-4 remains were disposed of.

Note: SCP-2479-AX seems to know the locations of SCP-2479's rides and selects the closest territory during hunting. If it continues to hunt in this indiscriminate manner we may be able to selectively release the instance as a recontainment device in the event of future containment breaches, but further experimentation is required to fully understand SCP-2479-AX's hunting patterns. - Dr. ██████

Test F - Date ██/██/██
Subject: SCP-2479-AX
Procedure: [DATA EXPUNGED]
Results: [DATA EXPUNGED]
Postliminary: See Incident Log 2479/2.

+ Incident Log 2479/2

- Incident Log 2479/2

On ██/██/██, during experimentation on SCP-2479-AX, all instances of SCP-2479-A-13 spontaneously instigated a mass-scale hunting event and near-site-wide containment breach, irrespective from any previously observed hunting times. The 'pack' of SCP-2479-A-13 instances separated into two (2) groups of seven (7) and attacked both SCP-2479-7 and SCP-2479-11. MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") were called immediately and SCP-2479-AX was left unmonitored for more than half an hour in the ensuing containment breach resolution protocols.
Recorded footage from numerous nearby security cameras observed SCP-2479-AX approach SCP-2479-6 before attacking, subduing and incapacitating three (3) female instances of SCP-2479-A-6, after which [DATA EXPUNGED] until SCP-2479-AX was relocated and recontained. The three (3) relevant SCP-2479-A-3 instances were also contained and monitored over the course of the seven (7) following weeks.
Post-incident prenatal scans confirmed [DATA EXPUNGED].
All three (3) relevant SCP-2479-A-6 instances have been kept in containment for study.

Note: Any and all experimentation involving SCP-2479-AX has been countermanded until further notice. - Site Director █████

Footnotes
1. See Addendum 2479b for an example of censored advertisements.
2. Several written instances of this title outside of SCP-2479 itself read differently for unknown reasons.
3. For example, an SCP-2479-A instance present outside SCP-2479-4 may appear as a duck.
4. Actions that are considered "irritating" include shouting, standing in front of an instance or persistently asking questions.
5. At time of recovery, malnutrition was common among SCP-2479-A instances. This is most likely due to a previously-observed persistent unwillingness to leave their territory when no food is present.
6. Multi-numerical designations have been implemented so as not to assume cross-exposed instances' territories.
7. A report from Assistant Researcher ██████ describes SCP-2479-AX's movements as "aimless, as if mimicking those of a stray animal or lost child".

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