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201█-07-11 7:21 AM The neighborhood of ██████ becomes inaccessible: all access and escape routes are closed off by metallic fences made of steel rebars of the type used for building reinforcements. These fences come out from the walls of the buildings, cross the road between them, and penetrate into the adjoining building.
7:34 AM Although the neighborhood is inaccessible, beyond the fences several corpses are visible. Most of them, despite being in the street, are wearing unsuitable garments for public use, such as pajamas, bathrobes, underwear. The bodies appear pierced by numerous twisted steel rebars, mainly in the cephalic or sternal area, and many have also been traversed in the proximal portion of the legs, particularly in the femoral area. This type of attack is performed by SCP-024-IT, presumably in order to prevent the victim from escaping.
11:41 AM The area is secured by agents of the Foundation. The area is henceforth labeled as locus-024.
11:57 AM Agent P███ S██████ crosses over one of the fences; some bars of the same fence begin to move autonomously with serpentine movements and agent S██████ is pierced by 3 steel bars in the femoral area (2) and in the jugular area (1). The agents who run in his aid are attacked as well, but they are able to dodge attacks that extend for less than a meter beyond the fence; however, they are unable to get close. The self-propelled bars are henceforth labeled as SCP-024-IT.
12:09 PM Agent S██████ stops moving. Later the cause of death will be confirmed as being exsanguination.
12:41 PM Agent G██████ Z████ climbs over a roof and enters the locus-024 avoiding the fences. He is immediately attacked by several instances of SCP-024-IT that are completely free to move and crawl on the ground. Agent Z████ is injured by 4 attacks in the femoral (2), brachial (1) and retrosternal (1) areas, the latter being lethal.
A fence made of instances of SCP-024-IT. Picture taken at a safe distance from within the locus-024 by agent M████.
3:00 PM It is decided to send another agent inside the locus-024 to look for possible survivors and for further exploration of the anomalous area. Agent M██████ M████, equipped with a Kevlar suit and a reinforced integral helmet, climbs over a roof and enters the locus-024. The agent manages to dodge the attacks of SCP-024-IT; some attacks successfully hit the agent in the thoracic and femoral area but they do not result in being invalidated. Agent M████ attempts to use lethal force with her ordinance firearm, which is moderately effective in stopping instances of SCP-024-IT temporarily. Of the dozens of instances hit by the agent, 5 are broken by the bullet, and stop moving altogether; deactivated instances return to being inert and stop producing SCP-024-IT-M. It is not clear whether these instances can be reactivated or not.
3:09 PM Several instances stuck in the victims slip out of the bodies and proceed to search for agent M████. These instances have a higher concentration of SCP-024-IT-M on the surface and appear to be more reddish. They are also faster and more aggressive and they can coordinate with each other. Agent M████ undergoes several attacks in the femoral area by 3 instances that focus on the same spot, succeeding in penetrating the suit and making it impossible for the agent to walk further. Despite the agent's vocalizations of pain, a recovery action is impossible. The evaluation of an emergency plan is immediately put in place before the hemorrhagic leakage results in death for agent M████.
3:13 PM Agent M████ undergoes other coordinated attacks in the brachial area and in the cephalic area, succeeding in penetrating the overall suit and helmet. The cephalic attack results in death.
4:51 PM The SSM-IX "Machinamenta" arrives on site.
5:00 PM SSM-IX sends a drone inside the locus-024. The drone, despite flying at man's height, is not attacked by SCP-024-IT.
5:08 PM The drone identifies a kneeling man in a relatively central area, which is alive and does not appear to be injured. Immediately afterwards the rotors stop working and the drone falls to the ground. This position is labeled as ℒ1.
5:34 PM SSM-IX sends into the locus-024, the gynoid DIVINA which is able to cross over one of the fences without being attacked.
5:44 PM DIVINA reaches ℒ1 and finds the previously identified man. He is wearing work clothes and is identified as Ernesto Moretti, a construction worker employed at a construction site in the area now turned into the locus-024. DIVINA asks Mr. Moretti for explanations about his presence there and why he was not attacked by SCP-024-IT. Mr. Moretti, in tears, only enunciates the phrase «I did not mean it», repeatedly. For the rest, although he interacts with DIVINA, he does not listen to the gynoid's requests.
5:53 PM Upon order of the Command of SSM-IX, DIVINA attempts to recover Mr. Moretti. Several instances of SCP-024-IT twist around Mr. Moretti's body in a non-hostile manner, preventing the gynoid from touching him, but without attacking it. Immediately after DIVINA falls to the ground; the sensors are still active, but the servomotors do not respond; subsequent analyses, performed both on the drone and on DIVINA, revealed the formation of SCP-024-IT-M within them. Once cleansed, the machines started working again regularly.
7:08 PM SSM-IX knocks down a fence with a heavy-duty fixed turret. Agent Gianluca Laudanna, equipped with a powered exoskeleton, enters into the locus-024 before other SCP-024-IT instances are able to arrive and reconstruct the fence.
7:13 PM Agent Laudanna is fiercely attacked by numerous instances of SCP-024-IT. Many attacks are successful, but the exoskeleton is sufficient to protect the agent's body. The agent is able to neutralize several instances by using his assault rifle, whose large aperture allows a higher hit ratio.
7:27 PM Agent Laudanna arrives close to point ℒ1. While approaching the last alley before the location, several instances of SCP-024-IT, presumably formerly part of the reinforced concrete of the two buildings at the sides of the alley, emerge from the buildings and form a fence that prevents access. The agent gets around buildings, but when he comes again close to ℒ1, the same phenomenon occurs.
7:50 PM After repeated attempts, Agent Laudanna is forced to abandon the operation because following the attacks from SCP-024-IT the exoskeleton has been damaged in multiple points and the agent reports that it does not move correctly; successive analyses will reveal that the servomotors were accumulating SCP-024-IT-M inside themselves.
8:14 PM Agent Laudanna exits the locus-024, having suffered several injuries where the armor cracked. The agent reports that he heard the sound of a gunshot as he was about to retire.
9:48 PM SSM-IX starts purge operations of the locus-024. The squad agents are sent hunting for the instances, in a group and equipped with large aperture and explosive weapons, following a spiraling path. Turrets and other agents are positioned to guard all possible exit routes from locus-024 to terminate potential instances attempting to flee.
Post mortem x-ray of agent M████. The instance of SCP-024-IT (neutralized) is clearly visible.
201█-07-12 5:02 AM After all night, locus-024 is now purged of the SCP-024-IT infestation. ██ instances have been acquired still functional and are sent to Site Vulcano.
5:09 AM Recovery operations of the victims are commenced.
5:47 AM The bodies of agents S██████, Z████ and M████ are retrieved.
6:04 AM DIVINA and Mr. Moretti's body are retrieved. Mr. Moretti has a lethal gunshot wound in the occipital-temporal area and holds a drum gun in his hand.
6:12 AM Following the inspection of Mr. Moretti's clothes, a note is recovered. In its smartphone, 4 SMS messages are also retrieved in a format that should not be compatible with that phone model. For details on the finds see the Materials of Interest below.
8:30 AM The clean-up phase of the locus-024 is completed and it is commenced the search for civilian witnesses for the administration of amnestics and confiscation of audiovisual material documenting the existence of SCP-024-IT.
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