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Item#: 012-VN

Level2

Containment Class:

neutralized

Secondary Class:

none

Disruption Class:

none

Risk Class:

{$risk-class}

link to memo

The area affected by SCP-012-VN.

+ Archived Special Containment Procedures

Special Containment Procedures: Containment procedures are no longer necessary.

Description: SCP-012-VN is an anomalous phenomenon affecting the isolated ███ village, which belongs to the ███ ███ Province, Vietnam.

This phenomenon results from a thaumaturgical ritual commenced by civilians in this village. This ritual is believed to be beneficial for the aforementioned area and civilians. In most cases, SCP-012-VN will affect all specimens of the Oryza sativa species (commonly referred to as Asian rice) in the area, so that they grow more steadily and yield a successful harvest.

Discovery: SCP-012-VN was first noticed by the Foundation when an unrelated anomalous activity was being investigated at the remote mountainous areas of the ███ ███ Province. Through a comprehensive sweep of the area on 18/09/2013, Foundation personnel have discovered a sudden EVE spike. The Thaumaturgic Activities Tracking Unit was then tasked with discovering and researching said incident. This investigation has led to the Unit discovering the village and the anomalous activities associated with it. The researching unit, disguised as a documentary film crew, has entered the village in order to gather further information.

Addendum 012-VN.01: Interview Logs

▶ INTERVIEW LOG 012-VN.01

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Foreword: The village is believed to be almost totally isolated from the outside world. Most villagers communicate with each other in a language that has not been acknowledged before, and possess little to no common scientific knowledge. Only a few individuals can communicate in Vietnamese, which includes PoI-141— the village elder, who is also a low-level thaumaturgist. The interview was conducted in PoI-141's house, and was recorded by Field Agent Lê Huỳnh Thanh. Of notice was that PoI-141 only allowed one member of the investigating unit to enter the house and conduct the interview.

Subject: PoI-141

Interviewer: Field Agent Thanh

Date of Interview: 18/09/2013

[Begin Log]

Agent Thanh: Nice to meet you, Madam ███. I'm a member of the film crew, and I would like to ask you a few questions for our upcoming documentary. Is that alright, Madam?

PoI-141: [sitting silently in about 10 seconds]. I feel like there's something inside you. Something I can't clearly see. It seems like… you're here for another purpose, aren't you? But let's brush that aside; whatever that is, you and your crew have gone such a long way to reach this place. So I will spare you some answers.

PoI-141.

Agent Thanh: [Startled, but immediately calmed down]. Thank you. So, our first question… Our crew has spotted a very strange flash of light deep in the forest; that was how we found out about your village, and I want to understand more about the lives of everyone here. Is it correct that this flash of light was created by your villagers?

PoI-141: [Chuckled] Oh, so that was how you found this place out. Alright, that is basically correct. We're the ones who created it.

Agent Thanh: So, can you please explain to me what it was actually? Why was there such a flash of light? And how did your people do that?

PoI-141: Calm down, my young man. Don't be so hasty with your questions; are you new to the job? [PoI-141 levitated a cup of tea in the air and directed it to Agent Thanh's direction, while sipping from another cup of tea herself.] Try it, for how much of a good tea it is. So where should I begin? Everything started from a ritual that my villagers held.

Agent Thanh: [Held the cup of tea in his hand.] A ritual?

PoI-141: Yes. We call it [an unintelligible name]. It's probably closest to "God-Summoning Ritual" in the Kinh language.¹ All I know about its history is that the ritual had been commenced by the first people who settled in this land, and it had been passed down from one generation to another.

Agent Thanh: Can you please tell me more about this "God-Summoning Ritual"?

PoI-141: Alright. Every child in this village is taught of this ritual since the day they were born- I myself was one of them. Once upon a time, when our ancestors still had to travel deep inside the forest to expand our territory and make a living, they used to face various difficulties. Despite how kind-hearted and hardworking they were, they still couldn't race against nature's cruelty. Those early villagers couldn't grow any crops, so they were no more than skeletons wrapped inside their skin. They could only rely on wild fruits in the forest, and there even used to be people who succumbed to death from eating poisonous leaves. Either that, or starving. That made the village elder leave his home for three days to look for a magician who knew a way to save his village. When he came back, he created that "God-Summoning Ritual" according to the magician's advice.

Agent Thanh: So that was the ritual's origin. But why was there such a name?

PoI-141: The ritual was exactly what the name implied - the village elder had pledged to… a god for help. I have no idea how He looks like, since He is always surrounded by light. But whenever He descends on our village, all crops will bloom and our harvest will be plentiful. That is why this village still stands prosperously and peacefully.

Agent Thanh: I get it… but… well, your fellow villagers' respect for the god must be immeasurable, am I right? And it's also very costly to show Him that respect, isn't it? I mean, He's a god after all.

PoI-141: That price is nothing compared to what He brings. And everyone is content with the ritual being carried out.

Agent Thanh: Wow, if only we could have been here sooner to observe that ritual.

PoI-141: If you are willing to, you and your crew can stay here for a few more days. We will commence the "God-Summoning Ritual" again in three days' time.

Agent Thanh: Thank you, Madam, for your kindness, but we'll probably get back downtown for now and return when the day comes.

PoI-141: No problem. We will always welcome your crew.

[End Log]

FROM: Dr. Trần Dương
TO: Site-21-VN Director
Subject: RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Since we only possess very little information about the events in this area, we cannot come to a conclusion by ourselves whether that "god" is an actual deity or not. Based on that reason, we propose that amnestic administration for all civilians in the area be put on hold— because they are the only individuals capable of summoning the creature. I understand that this could be harmful to the Veil, but after we have thoroughly researched— it won't be too late.

According to that interview with the village elder, the ritual is about to start in 3 days— therefore, my team will remain close to this area and start to look into it.

Please consider this proposal with care.

- Dr. Dương

FROM: Site-21-VN Director
TO: Dr. Dương
Subject: RE: RESEARCH PROPOSAL

ACCEPTED

Note: Since the proposal has been accepted, the entirety of the research unit has been staying near the village for 3 more consecutive days, but no anomalous activity has been detected. On the day of the ritual, the unit has come back to the aforementioned village for research purposes. This file was recorded by the unit's cameras, and it describes the ritual's process as follow:

Addendum 012-VN.02: The "God-Summoning" Ritual

▶ FULL RITUAL TRANSCRIPTION

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TIME OF RECORDING: 21/09/2013

BEGIN LOG

1030: The unit reaches the village's entry point.

1050: A man leads the unit to the location where the ritual will transpire, which seems to be in the forest behind the village. A small shrine stands at this location.

1053: The camera shows twenty civilians, ten male and ten female, forming a circle around the shrine. Three men stand next to the circle, beating drums.

1100: PoI-141 is presumed to be the person commencing the ritual. Subject stays in the center of the circle, kneeling down in front of the shrine with her head lowered.

1120: PoI-141 stands up and carries out different kinetoglyphs to the beating of the drums. Two of the other subjects— one male and one female, steps outside of the circle. Both of them are holding a knife in their hand. Afterwards, the woman stabs a rooster (Gallus gallus domesticus), and the man stabs a domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) to death; both animals are present at the location from beforehand.

1219: Both subjects use a bowl to catch all the animals' dripping blood, and reenter the circle.

1250: The three men outside stop beating their drums, and drag a maiden from outside into the circle, whose face is entirely covered.

1300: PoI-141 dances around the maiden, chanting.².

1318: PoI-141 splashes the bowl of blood onto the aforementioned maiden. Afterwards, the subject retrieves a knife and stabs into the maiden's abdomen.

1350: All surrounding individuals start yelling, presumably in order to outweigh the maiden's screaming.

1400: After letting the maiden's blood flows outwards from her abdomen, forming a large puddle, PoI-141 starts digging in to the maiden's internal organs.

1410: All subjects exit the circle, advancing inwards and unhesitatingly consume the maiden's internal organs.

1500: After consuming the entirety of the maiden's organs, the subjects kneel in tandem in front of the shrine.

1530: The camera shows a glowing, unidentifiable entity³ directly manifesting on top of the shrine.

1620: The entity exerts a strong light beam, and shoots it into the air. Light rays diverted from this light beam, and falls down into the surrounding environment. When the light rays hit the nearby rice field, all Oryza sativa specimens immediately become more steady.

1658: After the phenomenon ends, the entity demanifests.

1720: The three men return to their drums and beat them three more times. The ritual ends.

END LOG

FROM: Dr. Dương
TO: Site-21-VN Director
Subject: RITUAL COMMENTARIES

Finally, after three days, we have been able to observe the ritual by ourselves. And to be honest, it was indeed gory. If I were to describe it once more, I think it looked like a pride of lions tearing up a small rabbit together— the "small price" that the old woman talked about was… just crazy. But putting that nauseous ritual aside, the entire unit has already observed that entity. We were not sure about its external features, but we could confirm it was not a deity or anything; perhaps its skin was made from a material that reflected light or let light shine through it. And the energy it created, that energy seemed to foster the growth of all surrounding floras— not only the rice. I myself am not totally sure about its purpose, and why it did that. Was that an exchange between a Vietnamese community in the past, which forced the people to do such horrible things in order to receive a prosperous life? There are many other unanswered questions and theories about this. So, if you would allow it— my unit will stay in this area as long as it is needed to figure out the anomaly's origin and nature.

- Dr. Dương

FROM: Site-21-VN Director
TO: Dr. Dương
Subject: RE: RITUAL COMMENTARIES

ACCEPTED

Addendum 012-VN.03: Incident Log

▶ INCIDENT LOG 012-VN.03

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On 05/10/2013, another EVE spike was detected again in the area. The research unit immediately swept the area with drones and discovered that the entirety of the village had been destroyed. The unit moved to the area and discovered many corpses, which were splitted into pieces and scattered on the ground. A variety of fungal species and minor flora was observed to protrude out of the bodies. After approximately 30 minutes searching in the area, Foundation agents have discovered two subjects: Trác Thị Thơm, aged 18 (PoI-142) and Trác Sao Mai, aged 5 (PoI-143), both rendered unconscious and suffering from minor injuries. After both subjects were being brought to the unit base and taken care of, an interview with PoI-142 was conducted to gain more information about the incident.

Foreword: PoI-142 can communicate in Vietnamese. The interview was conducted inside the unit base. Field Agent Thanh was assigned to the interview, since he had been in contact with the subject during the time he spent in the village.

Subject: PoI-142

Interviewer: Field Agent Thanh

Date of Interview: 05/10/2013

[Begin Log]

[Agent Thanh entered PoI-142's room. The subject seemed to have just woken up.]

Agent Thanh: Thơm? Are you there? Do you remember me? I'm Thanh!

PoI-142: [Looked at Agent Thanh, then cried]. Mr. Thanh! I'm here, do you know where my sister is right now? She had run with me, but both of us became unconscious afterwards and when I woke up, I was already at this place.

Agent Thanh: Don't be scared. Your sister is fine, we are just treating her wounds, it's not dangerous at all. Just have a rest.

PoI-142: [Sighed] Yes, I will. But where am I right now?

Agent Thanh: Our base. But there's one more important thing I want to ask you: what happened to the village?

PoI-142: I… I [The subject bursted into tears]. I can't recall anything, but it's terrible.

Agent Thanh: I understand, but I need you to calm down and we will find a way to solve this together, okay?

PoI-142: [Stopped crying] Yes. Earlier today, they commenced that "God-Summoning" ritual again. Our family has not been practicing this ritual for many generations, even if we had to suffer from poverty because of that. You know the proverb, "keep yourself clean even in hunger, keep yourself pure even in rags", right? But it was inevitable. The young girl who was sacrificed today… was me.

Agent Thanh: That was really terrible. Did the villagers kidnap you?

PoI-142: Yes. I only remembered that I was washing clothes by the spring, and then someone put a bag on my head and rendered me unconscious. When I woke up, I saw myself inside the village elder's house, and there were many people guarding from outside. I can't really understand why all of them were so ignorant that they were willing to sacrifice human life for that "god". Gods are supposed to help people, aren't they? Why did that god even want to take away people's life?

Agent Thanh: I understand; maybe it's not a true god at all… But how did you and your sister escape, when you were kidnapped by the other villagers?

PoI-142: The person who saved us… was our mother. When she realized I was already kidnapped to be used as a scapegoat, my mother mingled in the crowd of people who practiced that ritual. She knew some magic, so when the ritual was about to start, [sniffed] she… my mother…

Agent Thanh: What happened to her?

PoI-142: She saved me. When the drums started beating in the air and the people started yelling, she sneaked into the house and rescued me. But in order not to be caught, she has used some magic… She disguised herself as me, told me to run with my sister, and tied herself in my place for… for the ritual to continue.

Agent Thanh: Oh my god— But why hadn't your family run away beforehand? Why did you all have to stay at such a place?

PoI-142: Where one was born as people is where one will die as ghosts; it was another old custom in my village. Even if we ran away, the village elder and the other villagers would always know how to find us. I've heard of a family doing so— but then they were killed and their corpses were hanged on trees as a warning.

Agent Thanh: I got it now. So when you and your sister ran away, did anyone of you see that "god"? Or more precisely, what did it do to the village?

PoI-142: I don't remember clearly, it was very dark. The only thing we could do was try to run away as far as we could, running to the other side of the hill, without thinking about anything. But I took a moment to look back, and the scene was chaotic. The entire village was drowned in flames, each and every person was caught in the fire. They sliced each other into pieces and teared each other apart, just like animals in the wild. And among that fire, I… I saw my mother's corpse. "The god" appeared right on top of her body and shot its light rays into its worshippers, rendering their bodies into pieces. And then, just like when the sun sets, "that god" slowly dissipated in thin air— it left the village behind, burned to ashes.

Agent Thanh: I am really sorry for your mother and your village. This is enough for today. If you have any requests or questions, just tell me, I'll try my best to help.

PoI-142: Yes, please. Can you please… let me see my sister?

Agent Thanh: Of course. Follow me.

[End Log]

Notes: Since the entire area was heavily damaged, as well as all of its civilians — save for PoI-142 and PoI-143 — has deceased, a Task Force have quarantined the area and released a cover story of forest fire. Amnestic were administered to both of the Persons of Interest, and they were delivered to the Child Protection Center of ███ ███ Province. SCP-012-VN-01 has not manifested after this incident, and the research unit has ceased overseeing the area.

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Date: 06/10/2013

To: Site-21-VN Director

From: Dr. Dương

Even when I'm ashamed to admit this, I have to say we did not successfully contain such an entity. The turning of events was so fast that we haven't even got a grasp on how the ritual functioned.

I'm currently thinking about the way we Vietnamese people have been utilizing anomalies to gain benefits in our lives. The Japanese used to think that anomalies are only horror creatures recorded in folk tales, but they have established IJAMEA when they started believing in modern sciences. Looking back at ourselves, I feel like we have only discovered a few anomalies of this land — meanwhile, there are probably hundreds of anomalous activities transpiring each day we live.

Based on this reason, I propose to establish a department dedicated entirely to study such events. Vietnam is a nation of hidden anomalies, and we are destined to look into them.

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