Object at the location of discovery.
Item #: SCP-1241-RU
Object class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1241-1 is to be removed from the hull and placed in a secure locker at Site-3, other parts and hull kept separately.
It is highly recommended not to let people with artificial/mechanised body parts near the object in its active state.
Description: SCP-1241 is a Soviet-made GIALA-410 radio receiver, constructed in 1980. The parts show no anomalous properties, with the exception of a stone ring (SCP-1241-1) engraved with the runes █, █, █, and ████, of unknown origin. It is assumed that due to the presence of these runes, the receiver exhibits its anomalous properties.
Connecting SCP-1241-1 to other radios of this specification did not produce any anomalous effects.
At certain intervals (2-4 hours), the object will spontaneously turn on and tune in to the only available radio wave [REDACTED]; attempts to tune in to this wave through a conventional radio did not provide any anomalous effects. The main information broadcast on this radio wave are lectures on existentialism. The text is read by a famous follower of existentialism in Russia, ████ ███████, who died in ████. The Foundation has been unsuccessful in its attempts to trace the source of the signal broadcast.
All objects that are within clear audible range of the broadcast (8 metres) "come to life", starting to transmit the status of their state by making themselves or parts of themselves knocks similar to Morse code. Biological forms are not affected by the anomalous effect.
Cups seemingly "bounce" what they think, flashlights change brightness intensity when turned on, and vice versa. - Dr. ███████.
Subjects of SCP-1241 are able to communicate by recognising human speech in 3 (three) different languages, those being: Russian, English, and French.
Sayings and statuses of subjects lean towards the basic philosophy of existentialism. Additionally, all objects declare that they are alive, are most often in a state of melancholy or existential anguish and try to "find their former self." If the subjects are not provided with any social support (dialogue), they begin to deform and eventually become unusable. In the case of a successful conversation, objects often begin to show signs of metamorphosis, after which they lose their anomalous properties and turn into an object similar to themselves, changing their appearance or purpose.
Addendum 1: Object was discovered at the [REDACTED] event surrounded by deformed objects in the city of █████. Following recovery, SCP-1241 was transferred to the Foundation.
Interviewer: Dr. Hertz.
Interviewee: [REDACTED].
<Start Recording>
Dr.: We need a detailed description of everything that happened that day.
[REDACTED]: Why?
Dr: (silent) You can (pause) prevent a terrorist attack.
[REDACTED]: Heh, thought so. (exhale) Well, I needed money, and I went to the country in order to take this radio in order to sell it later, a rarity. Well, I went, took it, sold it, I didn't have time to take two steps, how is it (pause) A weapon, right? The beginning of broadcasting, which, by the way, it did not do before! And then it started: everything began to knock, ring, turn on and off, full of [REDACTED]. Anarchy is the mother of [REDACTED] order…
Dr: What happened next?
[REDACTED]: [REDACTED]. I just ran away from there. I don't think my grandfather kept this. (pause) [REDACTED] terrorist.
<End recording>
Addendum 2: Interviews with SCP-1241 subjects.
Interviewer: Dr. Hertz.
Interviewee: Subject of SCP-1241. Porcelain tea cup.
<Start recording>
Dr: How do you feel? (pause) Do you understand what I'm talking about?
Subject: How might a cup feel?
Dr.: We have identified (pause) that you can have feelings.
Subject: I can't explain it. It's like being dipped in cold water.
Dr: And…
Subject: (interrupts) Yes, cold water. They poured it into me … Am I not worthy of boiling water?
Dr: Maybe…
Subject: (interrupts) That feeling, feeling… loss. Cold drops break from the throat of that cold vessel and fill you. What should I do after this? Looking for your former self?
Dr: (silent)
Subject: Why so self-absorbed, my interlocutor?
Dr: You see… You are a cup of tea.
Subject: Have you learned all the properties?
Dr: What are you (pause) for?
Subject: You are a bad psychologist. (reports its status as "Grieved Down"), (subject breaks down).
<End recording>
Interviewer: Dr. Hertz.
Interviewee: Subject of SCP-1241. Butcher's cleaver.
<Start recording>
Dr.: We've noticed deformities on your (pause) body. Tell about them.
Subject: I'm chopping up dead meat, right?
Dr: (silent)
Subject: And then I was chopping live meat… My master.
Dr: Yes. You were the main piece of evidence in the murder case.
Subject: [REDACTED] how you comfort, how you [REDACTED] comfort!
Dr: You see, (pause) It's not your fault that you were used.
Subject: (reports his status as "Relaxed") Maybe. But maybe I found the old me?
Dr: What do you mean?
Subject: A good man was killed by me. So why can't I be helpful in killing the bad ones?
Dr: (silent)
Subject: Tanto or drop point?
Dr: I don't get it.
Subject: Blade type. (reports its status "Catharsis") (after three hours it turned into a combat knife, having lost its anomalous properties)
<End recording>
Interviewer: Dr. Hertz.
Interviewee: Subject of SCP-1241. Pistol model "Tulsky-Tokarev"
<Start recording>
Dr: (silent) Any thoughts?
Subject: Girls… And boys…
Dr: (cough)
Subject: Stop! Let me tell, let me tell!
Dr: (silent)
Subject: Don't judge me! Well, I can't, I can't! It's too hard!
Dr: (silent)
Subject: I want to be with girls, with boys! Baby…
Dr: I don't understand, you?…
Subject: Wait, you! Don't judge me just by the fact that I don't work out with men!
Dr: I don't…
Subject: Stop! The kids will be happy, okay? (reports his status as "Calm"). You don't judge me, do you? I just want to live here and now!
Dr: It depends what you mean.
Subject: About light. (reports its status as "Catharsis") (subject turned into a water pistol after 4 days).
<End recording>
Addendum 3: From the unofficial correspondence between Dr. Platonov and Dr. Hertz.
Dr. Platonov: Remember that agent with the obsession to open the graves of our anomalous announcer?
Dr. Hertz: So?
Dr. Platonov: We opened it. That philosopher of ours is missing part of his skull. Apparently, that detail was cut out from him, and then transformed… Into stone?
Dr. Hertz: I have an idea. Meet me at [REDACTED].
Addendum 4: Test log for SCP-1241-1
Foreword: SCP-1241-1 was placed in various environments/conditions before being installed in the main body.
Action: SCP-1241-1 placed in seawater for 12 (twelve) seconds.
Result: The announcer's voice became like the voice of a drowning man - the announcer was constantly choking on water while giving a lecture. SCP-1241-1 was not affected.
Action: SCP-1241-1 placed in fire for 12 (twelve) seconds.
Result: While lecturing, crackling fire was heard in the background, the announcer was constantly coughing and choking. From time to time, clapping blows were heard (the announcer, apparently, extinguished clothes from the fire with his hands). SCP-1241-1 was not affected.
Action: SCP-1241-1 placed in fire for 12 (twelve) seconds.
Result: While lecturing, crackling fire was heard in the background, the announcer was constantly coughing and choking. From time to time, clapping blows were heard (the announcer, apparently, extinguished clothes from the fire with his hands). SCP-1241-1 was not affected.
Action: SCP-1241-1 was subjected to a hydraulic press.
Result: The announcer's voice became much higher and began to resemble a woman's. SCP-1241-1 was not affected.
Action: Twenty-two (22) shots fired from a 7.62mm Dragunov sniper rifle at SCP-1241-1.
Result: The announcer's voice was filled with strong interference and speech defects. The item was not damaged.
Action: SCP-1241-1 was immersed in a container of liquid nitrogen for 1 (one) hour.
Result: The announcer spoke very slowly and indistinctly. The voice "trembled" from exposure to low temperatures. SCP-1241-1 was not affected.
Action: SCP-1241-1 was placed in a room filled with a vacuum.
Result: The speaker, judging by the sounds, was subjected to asphyxiation throughout the lecture. SCP-1241-1 was not affected.
Addendum 5: [PENDING DECLASSIFICATION]
[DATA EXPUNGED]: Speak up.
Anonymous: Druskin, (cough) Sartre, (breathing heavily) Golding.
[DATA EXPUNGED: Last names?
Anonymous: Aliases.
[DATA EXPUNGED]: [REDACTED]
Anonymous: Russian, Frenchman, (cough) Englishman… They were obsessed with this philosophy…
[DATA EXPUNGED]: How did they do what you have in front of you now? [REDACTED] you.
Anonymous: I don't (cough) know…
[DATA EXPUNGED]: What else do you [REDACTED] know about this associated organisation?
Anonymous: Fanatics, they have a lot of that… I'm sure…
[DATA EXPUNGED]: [REDACTED].
