Item #: SCP-035-IT
Object Class: Safe Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-035-IT is contained in the Army Depot 5 at Site Vittoria, in a reinforced safe. The combination to open it must be casually-generated by and algorithm and changed on a daily basis. Experiments with SCP-035-IT is reserved to level 3 or higher personnel and only for less than 60 minutes.
As a result of Incident Alpha-12, SCP-035-IT is stored in the Maximum Security Block at Site Deus. Tests with SCP-035-IT are forbidden and all the personnel come into contact with SCP-035-IT must undergo psychological analysis and kept under surveillance for a period of at least 12 months.
Description: SCP-035-IT is a war hammer made of a currently-unknown metal alloy; this material is relatively lightweight and resistant to wear and damage and, at the time of writing, it was impossible to take samples for analysis. The hilt of SCP-035-IT, long around 90 cm, is lavishly decorated with golden geometrical motifs, while the hammer head is a square-section parallelepiped with 15 cm sides and 30 cm of length. It shows a glyph on its impact areas. The style of the decorations suggests a Germanic origin around the XI century A.d.
SCP-035-IT’s effects only manifest when a human being (henceforth the “bearer”) uses it to hit another human being (henceforth the “subject”). The latter does not suffer any kind of physical injury, but completely disappears for a timespan between 12 hours and six months. This time range increases depending on how many times the subject has been exposed to the effect of SCP-035-IT, on past criminal actions and their import according to the bearer. At the end of this time period, the subject will reappear in a 15 meter-range from the point where he was hit. Every subject, independently from the duration of their disappearance, show signs of mild malnutrition and a generally more fearful behavior; panic attacks are not infrequent if he find himself near to the bearer or SCP-035-IT. The effects of SCP-035-IT do not manifest if it is used to beat inanimate objects or if SCP-035-IT is used on non-human entities (e.g. an android) but, in these cases, the subject will suffer damages consistent with a blow from a blunt instrument.
Below are listed the most relevant test conducted with SCP-035-IT:
Test n° 3
Requested by: Dr. Emilio Barba
Purpose: Evaluation of the effects of SCP-035-IT
Subject: D-4355
Bearer: Agent Antonio Bianchi
Effects: The subject completely disappears for 17 hours. He later reappears in the room where he was hit. During the following interview, D-4355 notably assumed a mild-mannered behavior; when asked where he had spent the last hours, he refused to answer.
Test n° 4
Requested by: Dr. Emilio Barba
Purpose: Discover what happened to D-4355 after his disappearance
Subject: D-4355
Bearer: D-3991
Effects: The subject completely disappears for 155 hours. He reappears outside the test room and is immediately brought in the questioning room. He appears visibly shocked, begging the personnel not to force him to undergo similar tests again. When he was asked again about his disappearance, the subject mentioned a “dark place”, but did not reveal further details.
Test n° 12
Requested by: Dr. Emilio Barba
Purpose: Study of the effects of SCP-035-IT
Subject: D-3085
Bearer: Captain Antonio Bianchi
Effects: The subject disappears for 45 days and 16 hours. When he appears back in the test room, the subject tries to escape but is soon sedated by the guards and brought to a security cell. When awake, the subject appears in a catatonic state and does not react in any way.
Test n° 15
Requested by: Dr. Emilio Barba
Purpose: Study of the effects of SCP-035-IT if used by a non-human bearer
Subject: D-4024
Bearer: Gynoid System IAG-IT-001, designation "DIVINA"
Effects: The subject is hit on the left shoulder but instead of disappearing suffers a broken humerus and the laceration of the triceps caused by a bone splinter; after surgical treatment, D-4024 has completely healed in a 4 month time and was moved to other tasks.
Test n° 16
Requested by: Dr. Emilio Barba
Purpose: Study of the effects of SCP-035-IT if used on a non-human subject
Subject: Gynoid System IAG-IT-001, designation "DIVINA"
Bearer: D-1552
Effects: The subject shows light sficial damages but does not disappears and, when questioned, does not reports any anomalous data.
Test n° 17
Chaired and Requested by: S5-09
Purpose: Obtaining data on the place where the subjects are transferred after being hit.
Subject: D-5021, equipped with a minicamera, a GPS system and a microphone.
Bearer: Captain Antonio Bianchi
Effects: The subject completely disappears and is not locatable by the GPS System, nor is able to communicate through provided equipment. The subject reappears after 27 hours in an aisle close to the test room and is brought back to the cell by the guards. When questioned, the subject revealed to have spent this lapse of time in a sort of parallel dimension, completely depleted by light sources and populated by “inconceivable beings”.
Test n° 20
Requested by: Captain Antonio Bianchi
Purpose: Evaluation of the possibility of using SCP-035-IT as a way to detain Euclid- and Keter-class humanoid entities.
Permission denied by Ethical and Moral Regulamentation Committee and Superintendents Council.
Recovery: SCP-035-IT has been found in XIV century by Ordo Iani, in what is now the Province of Grosseto, Tuscany, and moved to a Order Headquarter to be contained and studied. According to the documents compiled by scholars of that time, SCP-035-IT was particularly efficient on criminals, that would suffer its effects for extended periods of time, so they concluded that it was created as a punishment or torture tool. Curiously, no document mentions the entities discovered in Test n°17, so it is possible to deduce that they weren’t discovered at that time. SCP-035-IT was obtained by the Foundation in 2013, following the acquisition of some anomalous weapons contained by Ordo Iani.
Update 10/10/15: SCP-035-IT has a compulsory effect of unknown origin, that manifest itself as a voice audible by the bearer that holds it and urges him to use SCP-035-IT systematically. It manifests especially on subject with low resistance to cognitohazards and is believed to be the cause of Incident Alpha-12.
Incident Alpha-12: On 09/08/15, the Captain of the Protection and Vigilance Team (SPeV) of Site Vittoria, Antonio Bianchi, took SCP-035-IT without the authorization of the Superintendency. During the incident, SCP-015-IT e SCP-023-IT broke containment and caused considerable human and economic losses. Henceforth is reported a description of the footage recorded by Site Vittoria Security Camera System during Incident Alpha-12.
SCP involved: SCP-035-IT, SCP-015-IT, SCP-023-IT.
Date: 09/08/15
Place: Site Vittoria
Hour 15:18: Captain Bianchi is seen entering the armory, wearing a Juggernaut Mk.II exoskeleton and take SCP-035-IT. The unauthorized action triggers the alarm and the guards walk in to check the situation, but they are quickly eliminated. Bianchi exits the armory and heads towards the containment area.
Hour 15:26: Security Teams are mobilized for a possible infiltration of a CFO agent and converge towards Captain Bianchi. Skirmishes follow but, as a consequence of the insufficient caliber of the Teams standard gears, Bianchi manages to advance with scarce difficulties.
Hour 15:35: SSM-IV ("Pugnus Ferri") is mobilized to intercept Bianchi and recover SCP-035-IT.
Hour 15:50: Bianchi engages the Beta Team of SSM-IV and some guards in the corridors of the containment section. After some minutes, he fires the grenade launcher, making a wall and part of the ceiling to collapse in order to flee; the explosion damages the Site electric system, causing a temporary blackout.
Hour 16:54: SCP-023-IT instances breach containment and swarm in the aisles, forcing the security teams to chase them instead of Bianchi. To counterbalance the diversion of the guards, S5-06 mobilizes SSM-III ("Para Bellum") First Division to close the containment breach.
Hour 16:09: Bianchi reaches SCP-015-IT containment cell. After having torn down the door, he quicky advances towards SCP-015-IT and hits its shoulder with SCP-035-IT; SCP-015-IT does not disappears and whispers with pain, before attacking its aggressor trying to wound him with its claws. After a brief fight, SCP-015-IT manages to rip apart some cables on the left shoulder of the exoskeleton, disabling the grenade launcher and eventually flees exploiting Bianchi’s surprise and the ongoing blackout.
Hour 16:11: Bianchi start chasing SCP-015-IT but is repeatedly attacked by the security teams and, in two occasions, by two instances of SCP-023-IT.
Hour 16:29: Bianchi is intercepted by SSM-IV Beta Team and is forced to retreat toward a crossroad.
Hour 16:32: SSM-IV Alpha Team catches Bianchi on the shoulders and disables the exoskeleton shooting knee and left shoulder servomotors. Bianchi is extracted and captured immediately after.
Conclusive notes: The incident caused damaged exceeding 1.6 million euros in Site Vittoria, 37 victims and 54 wounding among the security teams and SSM-IV, researchers and D-Class personnel. 12 people are been victim of the effects of SCP-035-IT, including two Level-4 researchers. SCP-015-IT has been recovered two days after the incident, while all SCP-023-IT instances has been tracked down and eliminated.
On 09/10/15, after the recontainment of SCP-015-IT and SCP-023-IT instances tracked down and destroyed, The Superintendence orders to interrogate Antonio Bianchi. Henceforth is reported the interview transcription.
Interviewer: Cpt. Alessandro Draghi (SSM-IV)
Interviewed: Former Cpt. Antonio Bianchi
Log Beginning
Antonio Bianchi has been handcuffed to a chair in the interrogatory rooms after Incident Alpha-12. Captain Draghi enters the room and closes the door. He seats in front of Bianchi and lays a document folder on the table.
Bianchi: Alessandro.
Draghi: Antonio.
B: So, they sent you to question me? I was lucky. I was expecting Fifth, the lunatic, or Seventh, with his moralist talks.
D: I asked to take care of the interrogatory in person. I wanted to know what brought you to aim your guns towards colleagues and subordinates. Frankly speaking, you were the last one I would have expected.
B: I had no choice. The Superintendence was making a huge mistake and it required an act of force. Should I go back, I’d do the same.
D: What is this “huge mistake” by the Superintendence supposed to be?
B: If you read the documents, you should know I requested many times the permission of using Zero-Thirtyfive as a definitive containment of humanoid entities. The advantages would have be uncountable: we would have saved space to be used with other SCPs which are immune to the hammer’s effect, funds and resources for their sustenance and containment, not to mention the lives of the security agents which are under risk during breaches.
D: I hope you recognize the immense hypocrisy you are showing. You did exactly the same, with the aggravating circumstance of having clearly planned everything. You didn’t attacked jailers, but friends and colleagues loyal to you, trusting you for their safety, considering you a guide to count on.
B: It was a necessary sacrifice, regrettably futile.
D: (upset) What do you mean?
B: My idea was simple but effective: getting the hammer and using it on a potentially damaging humanoid anomaly, in order to show the Superintendence the advantages of my proposal. Unfortunately I made some mistakes that forced me to commit some violent act, but I can guarantee you that that wasn’t part of the plan.
D: Because of you 37 persons died and, among 54 wounded, almost 20 risk of being unable to put a foot on the ground. Do you consider this a simple mistake?
B: Yes. The alarm shouldn’t have ringed since I deactivated it, but clearly someone must have noticed it while I was heading to the armory, and reactivated the alarm. If it all had gone as I wanted, nobody would have been harmed.
D: And tell me, how do you justify Zero-Fifteen breach? Do you remember how deadly that thing is?
B: From my point of view, it was the ideal target: harmful, humanoid and easy to reach from the armory. Its immunity to the hammer and such an hostile reaction have been a surprise, I didn’t expect it: I thought that the explosion had stounded me enough, making gun fire useless to further weaken him. It was a judgement error.
D: Do you justify yourself this way? Don’t you see anything wrong in your actions, aside from “judgement errors”?
B: My actions were keeping with the Ideology with the Foundation, from cover to cover. I acted to guarantee a greater good.
D: Do you hear yourself? You look like the Dictator now, you use that fool’s same rhetoric and the same consideration toward others. Do you realize it?
B: Unlike him, I act for the common good. If there’s some fool here, it’s the Superintendence, that denied the possibility to do what I planned and forced me to use force. The blood of those deaths is on their hands, I have only been an instrument.
D: I don’t recognize you anymore, what happened to you? You weren’t like this, you were reasonable and altruist – what changed?
B: He showed me the truth.
D: "He" who?
B: The hammer, obviously. (pause) Every time I kept it in my hands, it whispered to me. He told me we had the power to change the world, make it more just and eradicate human suffering from by the roots. At first I settled for it, I volunteered for the experiments in order to be able to punish those dirty criminals and free the Earth from their presence, but it wasn’t enough. Every time I looked into the cameras, or I organized the patrols, or when I simply walked in the containment wings I heard those parasites on the other side of the doors infesting our reality. Every one of those… those things butchered uncountable people, and they will do it again if they are allowed to flee. However, looks like the Superintendence thinks that a definitive solution would be “immoral”, while letting our men being killed is not!
D: Antonio, it is not-
B: Talking about Zero-Fifteen itself, you were there when he tore apart ten SSM-IV men, weren’t you? You saw what he can do, you can’t blame me.
D: (remains silent for a few seconds, then speaks with a drawn voice) Zero-Fifteen was scared and it was defending itself against us. He did not point a chaingun to a little boy that used to look at thim as a second father, he did not maul people believing in it. He was a terrified animal that thought we were going to kill him.
B: Exactly! In this I was wrong, I did not realized he was simply an animal! If I could try again-
D: Don’t even think about it. Superintendence already classified you as a E-Class, and today you will be transferred to Site Minerva and there we will try to understand what Zero-Thirty Five did to you.
B: This does make sense! My idea is great, I just made some mistake I can easily fix! I just need one more chance to demonstrate it. Give me the hammer and, who knows, Zero-Six and I will show you how many benefits we will get.
D: (pausa) The interrogatory is over.
End log
Final notes: I was grieved seeing the effects SCP-035-IT had on a men that, until that moment, always had distinguished himself for ability, dedication and valor; however, I am forced to acknowledge that his mind is now compromised by SCP-035-IT, which became an obsession, and that a recover – even partial – is impossible. This tragedy must push us toward a higher caution and suggest us not to underestimate the anomalous behaviors of our colleagues, even the most irreproachable. - S5-1
S5-5 Report on 20/10/15: After extensive researches and careful examinations coordinated by S5-9 and myself, together with our respective Sections, we obtained more information on SCP-035-IT that we deem of significant importance.
First of all, the glyph on the impact areas of SCP-035-IT has a complete esoteric nature, thus it is not related to the compulsory effect that has influence on former Captain Bianchi; this being said, it is fairly similar to a memetic Class XIII memetic agent that represents the concept of “exit” combined with a Class X that represents “punishment”. For this reason, we suppose it to be the cause of the principal effect of SCP-035-IT. The exact mode of operation and the origin of the glyph itself remain unknown.
For what concerns Bianchi instead, the analysis conducted in Site Minerva evidenced the complete absence of any neurological damage and a very limited resistance to suggestion and cognitohazards (memetics or not). Moreover, the attempts to cause amnesia by pharmacological, memetics and antimemetics means have met only a partial success, since the subject kept a vivid memory of the events even after the fourth treatment.
The other subjects involved in the experiment have provided very variable reports about the presence of the “voice” Bianchi perceived and we believe that it can be specifically heard by subject with low resistance to cognitohazards.
In conclusion, I think that a reclassification of SCP-035-IT to Euclid class to be of exteme urgency, as well as the implementation of an evaluation system of the cognitohazard resistance of high-level personnel, to prevent similar incidents in the future.
