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Welcome. You are now viewing: SCP-CN-1210
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Item #: SCP-CN-1210
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-CN-1210-1 is contained within ██ Shrine, ██, Japan. The Shrine is disguised to appear under repairs, and tourist entry is prohibited. MTF-い-02 "Swordster Miko" is to stand guard within the containment area at all times. Primary member recruitment standards for MTF-い-02 include:
- Female. Those aged under 30 are preferred.
- Having armed training and cold weapon combat training experiences.
- Full hearing ability.
Those who are willing to join MTF-い-02 will be informed of the dangers of the project and possible injuries. Mobile Task Force members will host a drill of the ritual of "vairocana" every day, train for operation and combat in complete darkness, and view the SCP-CN-1210 document once after taking a Class W Mnestic drug.
Contact with SCP-CN-1210-3 shall be made once every hour. If contact with SCP-CN-1210-3 is lost, civilians within a 10km range around the containment area shall be evacuated, and MTF-い-02 shall immediately carry out ritual "vairocana" to generate a new SCP-CN-1210-3. The new SCP-CN-1210-3 shall immediately become the commander of MTF-い-02 and will be in charge of the daily training of the Mobile Task Force. SCP-CN-1210-3 has the right to revise the details of the execution of ritual "vairocana" according to the situation.
Before the sunset of every day, SCP-CN-1210-3 should await orders near SCP-CN-1210-1. SCP-CN-1210-3 is highly advised to be equipped with a cold weapon and a rapid firearm. SCP-CN-1210-3 should use her weapons to attack the SCP-CN-1210-A entities appearing within the item until all SCP-CN-1210-A entities are destroyed. Targets that have escaped should be hunted down, and human casualties due to targets' attacks should be handled according to standard human burial procedures.
Description: SCP-CN-1210-1 is a cuboid box made of birch with pearl decorations embedded on its surface. Its dimensions are about 33cm*22cm*10cm. The item is secured in the Honden1 of the containment facility (██ Shrine), and all attempts to move or destroy the item have failed. Continuous observation of structures and furnishings can cause slight fainting. In accordance with usage conditions for Class W Mnestic drugs, a large number of white paintings can be found throughout the facility.
SCP-CN-1210-2 is a "Ko-omote"2 mask placed inside SCP-CN-1210-1, with two steel needles in the position of the eyes. Historical records have shown that SCP-CN-1210-2 is a ritual prop made by the Shūshū-In, used in the execution of ritual "vairocana." "Vairocana" is a complicated ritual that contains multiple kinds of Shinto elements. The ritual requires 5 Miko3 performers, starts at sunset and finishes at sunrise the next day. The Miko to execute the ritual should be chosen separately from Ise Jingū, Atsuta Jingū, Izumo Ōyashiro, Itsukushima Shrine and Nikkō Tōshō-gū4. They are to stand by at the containment location for long term and receive inspection and training from Shūshū-In. Different tests have shown that only one Miko from each shrine may participate in each occurrence of the ritual.5
The ritual generally consists of the three following elements:
- The imitation of the game “Hide and Seek”, following one or more complicated fixed paths within the Shrine. Its purpose is to escape from SCP-CN-1210-A as much as possible so as to lower casualties during the execution of the ritual.
- An excerpt of the "Dance of Ame-no-Uzume-no-mikoto" used to worship "Amaterasu"6. During the execution of the ritual, the Yata no Kagami7 should be facing East, where the Sun rises, to imitate the legend that the gods used a mirror facing Amaterasu to lure her out of the house, and thus brought light back to the world. Its purpose is to obtain the ability to harm SCP-CN-1210-A through a ritual that contains references to the goddess of the sun.
- A ritual performer will wear SCP-CN-1210-2 at the moment of sunrise. The ritual performer (given the designation SCP-CN-1210-3) will become completely blind due to damaged eyeballs, and her hair will become white within 3-5 days. Its purpose is to sacrifice the sight of the performer so as to gain the ability to observe and remember SCP-CN-1210-A.
Historical records have shown that SCP-CN-1210-2 and its respective ritual are special procedures designed by Shūshū-In members in order to contain SCP-CN-1210.
SCP-CN-1210-A is the general name given to the one or more intangible entities that appears within the confines of SCP-CN-1210-1 after sunset every day. All entities are strongly hostile and aggressive, and have the preference to penetrate and tear the bodies of the victims with their pseudopodia and pedipalps. The eyeballs of the victims are always lost for unknown reasons.
The multiple attempts to imprison or control SCP-CN-1210-A were of no effect. Although the object has the behavioral tendency to avoid direct sunlight, reflected sunlight (such as moonlight) and man-made light do not exhibit the same effect. The objects do not appear to occupy any spacial volume, therefore they are able to pass through any obstacles losslessly (such as attacks from live ammunition firearms). In addition, SCP-CN-1210-A possess a strong antimemetic property. SCP-CN-1210-A itself, its victims and all the information related to either cannot be memorized or understood; Class W Mnestic drugs can suppress the effect, but all information will still be forgotten within 3 hours.
SCP-CN-1210-3 is the only entity capable of remembering SCP-CN-1210-A for extended periods and capable of dealing damage to it. Though all SCP-CN-1210-3 are blind, they can still sense all information and records related to SCP-CN-1210 visually. When a new SCP-CN-1210-3 is generated, the former SCP-CN-1210-3 (if she survived) will lose her anomalous properties.
| Name | Duration of term | Reason of retirement | Number of participants of the ritual (including the Miko) |
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| Saki（さき） | 1772-1788 | [DATA LOST] | 2 |
| Suzu（すず） | 1788-1788 | Dead due to wound infection | 2 |
| Haruna（はるな） | 1788-1789 | [DATA LOST] | 4 |
| Kako（かこ） | 1789-1800 | Dead due to accidental injury | 1 |
| Gen Miyoshi（源 美惠） | 1816-1844 | [DATA LOST] | 5 |
| Akira（あきら） | 1844-1850 | [DATA LOST] | 2 |
| Isanagi Kiku（日奉 菊） | 1850-1877 | Dead due to assassination8 | 3 |
| Kobayashi Ayako（小林 绚子） | 1877-1901 | Dead due to accidental injury | 4 |
| Shimizu Hotaru（清水 螢） | 1901-1945 | Dead due to war9 | 5 |
| Wada Yuki（和田 雪） | 1945-1949 | Recalled | 1 |
| Tsukishima Kaori（月岛 佳织） | 1949-1967 | [DATA LOST] | 5 |
| Margaret·Randall | 1967-2003 | Natural death | 4 |
| Sasaki Airen（佐佐木 爱恋） | 2003-2019 | Retired due to age | 5 |
Addendum: Messages left by past SCP-CN-1210-3:
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The first thing to become the Miko is to know my sisters' death. No, I'm not talking about the obvious fact that we, the previous Miko who had written these messages, have all died.
Did you not find out? There have always been a few missing from the past ritual performers.
The execution of the ritual requires 5 Miko. They must receive daily training to become dexterous and alert enough, such that in the long night of monsters, there is always at least one that could survive and complete the ritual. And those who disappeared, they may have been your closest partners; maybe they have blocked the fatal attacks for you the previous night —— but you probably did not remember them.
If you walk outside now, perhaps you can still see their bodies laying on the ground of the Shrine, with the familiar yet unfamiliar smile below their empty eye sockets, and this would be the last traces of them in this world. You can choose to remember them forever in your heart. Or, to obliviate them like this.
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Sorry, Senpai, I still can't make up my mind even at this stage. There is blood and corpses everywhere in the Haiden10, and there is blood all over Senpai, her own and the enemies'. I'm really afraid of the dark, I've always felt when there are monsters lurking in the shadow of the night, and every night I must light up the light to scare them off. No, I'm afraid to become the Miko, I'm afraid of the endless darkness after losing sight.
How useless I am, for there are no others suitable for it other than me.
"Senpai, what is the world like in blindness?" I asked, as I could feel the time available for me to hesitate was running out. She let me lower my head and close my eyes. "What have you seen, Ayako?" I felt the dim light passing through my eyelids carefully, the sense of pressure that passed on from my eyeballs, and the feeling of blood vessels pulsating. "Total darkness," I shook my head, pretending to not understand it. "Do not be afraid, as this is not the end of darkness," Senpai gently stroke my cheeks, "when you close your second eyelids, you will see the light."
Thank you, Senpai. I did it. I think I have seen the light.
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I had to mention what happened to Ayako specifically. Her god-gifted luck has helped her survive death battles with monsters, but it couldn't protect her from an accidental disaster. She walked too fast and fell off the stairs……when I found her, her chest was penetrated by the plant support, and her life was too weak to hold on any longer.
Eye infection, battles, accidental injuries, Miko have often died of all kinds of reasons. If we must trace the timeline back to one or two hundred years ago, there is much to add to this list and it will become a very long one.
I have to do something for those who come after me. Therefore I have removed all the sharp objects in the Shrine, and started drawing. I have to paint the surface of every wall and every furniture full of portraits of monsters. This way Miko can feel these objects' shapes through our own unique sensitivity, and never bump into them again.
This may take me ten years, twenty years, or even longer than that. But I believe that all this is worth it.
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I'm the only one left again. Please, someone, tell me why?
Every day I can hear airplanes soaring through the sky. Sometimes I will imagine,
how the faces within those cabins look.
Ah, Hotaru, can you hear it? I have fixed the collapsed Torii11. I drew pictures of the gods all over it, just like you did back then……
Can you see it? I have covered your face with white cotton yarn, I have put you inside a wooden box filled with cherry blossoms……can you feel it?
I am going to meet the nameless thing again, it stretched many many hands towards me, maybe it is just too lonely?
Na, my name is Yuki, Yu-ki, when I was born, it was snowing a great great snow……I am lonely, just like you, always a single person……
But someone said it is snowing again from the sky, and they said it was black snow, a swirling, never-ending great snow……
Na, why won't you take my hand? Why? Am I to be killed because I am the bad person? Yeah, Yes, surely I am the bad person……
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Those people from the GOC have come here with guns, flamethrowers and anti-oblivion drugs. The previous Miko was too feeble and refused to cooperate with the experiments, therefore she was recalled. Those people promised to use technology from Prometheus Labs to heal her eyes, and they have kept their promise —— this had given me a slight feeling of hope of relief from this horrific evil spirit. They have high morale and elite equipment; when they load their guns with bullets, the crispy sounds are like intensive raindrops.
No, I should not praise them that much. Their bullets just passed through and enraged the monster. It tore them open, it tore them open, and then the Sun rose from the East. The remaining soldiers cursed with trembling voices, but I picked up my wooden sword, walked into the shadows, and pierced the sword into monsters' heads. And then after three hours —— only after three hours, the fear and anger have faded from their faces, replaced by confusion and oblivion. When they picked up their gun again and looked around for the monsters, I stopped them.
The Shūshū-In is finally incorporated into the Foundation, and the welfare is better than I thought. I met Yuki on the Natsu Matsuri12, and she looked cheerful playing with her new friends wearing Yukata13. She has lost a few years, or over a decade of years of memory, and seemed to not remember me. Somewhat I missed her.
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I have built a small graveyard about a kilometer away from the Shrine. I've made markings on the signs, and you can find it if you follow my markings.
The bodies of the past Miko and the victims, with men and women, elders and kids are buried there. If you are lucky enough, you may be able to bury my corpse yourself. The bodies are rough and shriveled, but not a single sign of decay, as even the insects have abandoned them, and the germs have forgotten them. The residents nearby have asked me why there are extra tableware and baby basket in the house, and why a never-married man has a child of his own.
The good news is that the number of bodies is not increasing anymore, because we have received more and more resources to enhance the containment procedures. The bad news is I couldn't answer their questions. As an American, I have no idea how to be a Miko.
How strange would it be for me to answer them that those were your forgotten relatives, and they have received God's redemption and risen into the heaven?
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This is not the first time you are reading this document. Perhaps all your memories about this all have already been obliviated, but I would not forget you like that. You all are kids I watched growing up, and the training for decades has already engraved deep in your mind that antimemes, however strong they are, cannot deprive you of your instinct.
We have to thank the times in which containment of anomalies can be carried out under carefully revised procedures and detailed protections. Benefiting from long term training and the equipment of submachine guns, since I have taken up the duty till now, SCP-CN-1210 has not experienced even a single containment breach.
This is the 16013th time you are viewing this document. Do not worry, do not be afraid, because you are prepared.
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You have become the new Miko (SCP-CN-1210-3).
If you have any feelings to express, or anything that you want to say to your successor, then please write here.