Special Containment Procedures: According to Russian Anomalous Natality Containment Protocols, SCP-RU-178 and her parents are contained in Vólorovsk, in the Home 47, Block 76.
SCP-RU-178 must remain connected to an Ares-Lang Vital Functions Protactor indefinitely. On July 7th, 2005, a medical report will be written and sent to the Russian Regional Council, which will reevaluate SCP-RU-178's situation and will take the conclusive decisions.
Description: SCP-RU-178 is the 18 year old Valerie Mikhailovna Volkova, 1.7m height, habitant of the underground city of Vólorovsk, Russia. SCP-RU-178 has had Type IV necrokinetic habilities.
"Necrokinesis" is the name given to the capacity of manipulating Class I spectral entities - that is, ectoplasmic residues left by human beings that died in situations of angusty or stress, or those who died with an unfinished purpose. These ectoplasmic residues conserve a part of the subject's mind and memories, inversely proportional to the degree of subject's objectives or projects completion in life, and are intangible and invisible to any subject without necrokinetic capacities.
Necrokinetic capacities are divided in four types:
Type I: Commonly known as "mediums" in popular culture. Are capable of stimulating these residues in such a way that their conciousness and communicative capacities are temporarily restored, as well as sharing their capacities with other subjects in direct contact.
Type II: Their capacities are restricted to manipulation of ectoplasmic residues, without being able to communicate with the remains of conciousness they contain. This manipulation serves a variety of purposes, from energy generation to mind control of other human subjects.
Type III: Popularly known as "nigromants". Capable or reanimating human bodies, although they also posess a wide variety of habilities, such as [REDACTED]. Are considered universally hostile.
Type IV: Can restore vital capacities of ectoplasmic residues, turning them conscious and sapient intangible entities. As long as the Type IV reanimator remains alive, the remains affected by its properties will be visible to other alive beings.
Necrokinetic humanoids do not leave ectoplasmic residues when dying, therefore, they are considered as irrecoverable resources.
SCP-RU-178 was inducted to Vólorovsk in 2000, after the incidental activation of her capacities, inactive untill then, facing the death of her pet, a specimen of Phodopus sungorus, or russian hamster.
SCP-RU-178's psychological state, previously deteriorated, sustantially improved during her stay in Vólorovsk.
Psychological Report [6/4/2001]:
Transcription of Audio Recording
Assistants:
- SCP-RU-178, Type IV necrokinetic
- Viktor Mikhailovich Ivanov
[ BEGIN LOG]
Viktor: Well… Then, how are you, Val?
SCP-RU-178: Good! I'm good. Much better.
Viktor: How about your family? Better?
SCP-RU-178: Much more calmed, at least. My dad doesn't have to deal with the bratva anymore. My mom is less stressed, and she's leaving the cigarette.
Viktor: That is good! She smoked a lot before she came here, right?
SCP-RU-178: Like a chimney.
Viktor: Occupational hazards. Being parent is stressing. (Pause.) Oh, I haven't offered you water. Want a glass or do you prefer kvass?
SCP-RU-178: (Laughs.) No, no thanks. Plus I am underage. I don't drink alcohol.
Viktor: Oh, I forgot it. Very responsible, I see. (Smiles.) Well, a kinda hard question. Try to answer it, but if you think you can't, I'll ask you other day. Ok?
SCP-RU-178: I think I know what question will it be. (Pause.) Ok, yes.
Viktor: Good. How did you discovered your properties, Val?
SCP-RU-178: One day, when I came home, I found my hamster in my bed, dead. (Pause.) I didn't wanted to do a scandal, because I knew my parents were stressed, and when I come from school they are always sleeping. So… Well, I jumped into the bed and hugged the pillow, while I held кошка in my hands.
But, suddenly… Suddenly heard a screech.
(SCP-RU-178 shows discomfort.)
(Viktor takes a pitcher of water and a plastic cup from a furniture next to the interrogation table. Then fills the cup and offers it to SCP-RU-178. SCP-RU-178 takes a sip and leaves it aside.)
SCP-RU-178: I heard a screech, and was something bluish, that standed out from кошка. It was like the shadow of my hamster, and didn't stop shrieking. I got scared and screamed by accident, while it was slipping from my hand. I… I screamed him to leave. (SCP-RU-178's voice breaks.) And when I looked around, my mom was outside and had seen everything. (Pause.) That's it. I took me some hard time to accept my hamster was gone.
Viktor: Just that? Any other… circumstance led you to feel that way?
SCP-RU-178: Well… (Pause.) My uncle. They've killed my uncle some time ago. I really loved him.
Viktor: I understand. Tragedy moves people's life, although not always to good. My mother's death made me try medicine and later psychology, but made my brother an irreparable addict to alcohol. It's a matter of how you lead your life after that. (Smiles.) You are leading it good. You'll be a good person when you grow up.
SCP-RU-178: I don't think so. At most I will become anybody.
Viktor: That doesn't mean you are a bad person. You just lived a calm life.
(Silence.)
Viktor: Tell me then. How has your life changed since you moved to Vólorovsk?
SCP-RU-178: Well… I feel better. I feel I have a purpose. That I'm… That I'm unique. That I have something to do. "The next evolutive step of human race." That's quite a duty, isn't it?
Viktor: (Smiles.) It is. It's the duty of every single human being. Learning to be responsible is part of growing up. That doesn't change for you. Don't let that evoluting the species scares you or makes you smug.
SCP-RU-178: I will! I'll be somebody responsible, and I'll learn to handle my habilities for good.
Viktor: (Laughs.) Well said!
[ END LOG ]
On September 4, 2001, at 18:22, during the first test sessions with SCP-RU-███, he started to feel an anguish, causing the partial dam break of the Amur River, built by the Foundation to feed the nearby Vólorovsk. Due to SCP-RU-███'s properties, the water flow headed directly to Vólorovsk instead of spreading through the surface.
Immediately after SCP-RU-███'s containment breach, there was a sudden and generalized power outage, remedied a few minutes later by the activation of the 8 backup generators that Vólorovsk disposes of.
Foundation's local High Command was soonly notified about the situation, and SCP-RU-███'s sedation was tried to avoid water from reaching the city, potentially causing collapses and irreparable damages. Meanwhile, the east section of Vólorovsk started to flood.
When noticing the failure of the anesthesia, it was decided to execute the бомбардировка Protocol, consisting in the immediate evacuation of Vólorovsk, as well as neutralize or annul SCP-RU-███'s properties.
At 18:46, SCP-RU-178, as well as all her domiciliary blocks, started to evacuate. Notably, Block 76 was near the initial flood zone, being able to only get out through it, make even harder the effort of evacuating.
Subsequent attempts of neutralizing SCP-RU-███'s anomalous properties failed, including the activation of a nearby Scranton Reality Anchor. The responsible team was also unable to calm him. Around 19:11, the flood reached the central section of Vólorovsk, threatening to affect 4 of the 8 backup generators. Habitants of Blocks 76 to 83 couldn't be evacuated, and on 19:23, the main exits were blocked by the water. The flooding of these blocks could be temporarily stopped when closing the reinforced doors that led to the flooded area.
However, these blocks started to flood from different sections shortly after.
The responsible team of SCP-RU-███ decided to neutralize him. SCP-RU-███'s neutralization didn't stopped the flooding. At 19:48, the flood resulted in the inutiliztion of 4 backup generators, and left the isolated section where SCP-RU-178 was without electricity.
A group of twenty eight anomalous humanoids trapped there, including SCP-RU-178, did great efforts to escape, both trough earth and opening the reinforced doors. However, most of this group didn't counted with anomalous properties that could facilitate an escape, and those who had it couldn't use them in a favorable way. Around 20:20, the blocked section was completely flooded.
At 20:23, the flooding stopped, and efforts were made to recover the families and anomalies affected. The blocked section could not be accessed until twenty minutes later.
Out of 110 habitants of the section, 97 resulted dead. However, a few individuals could find a dry zone in the attic of Block 77. SCP-RU-178 had reached this zone, accidentally falling into the water soon before her recovery, and being unable to return.
SCP-RU-178 was recovered in a state of coma due to hypoxia and internee in the general hospital of Vólorovsk, where she'd be connected to a system of prolongation of vital functions. SCP-RU-178 is still in a coma to date. January 7th, 2005, SCP-RU-178's parents opted for being amnestizised and released.
On July 5, 2006, 17 Russian Regional Council top-secret operatives deployed in Ukraine deserted to the Global Occult Coalition, carrying with them a large amount of classified and partially censored documents about the Regional Council's operations.
The leak was immediately reported to the Council, who after a short votation put into operation the пьянство Protocol, destined to modify, obfuscate or invalidate leaked information to rival organizations. 4 MTF Units with double agents were put into operation specifically with this purpose, deliberately leaking fake information about Sector locations in Russia, forged documents of anomalies sharing the designation of true leaked documents, as well as unexisting project reports.
Special emphasis was put into convincing implied Coalition operatives that the forged documents were received before the true ones, creating the illusion that the true documents were counterfeit doubles deployed by the Foundation in response to the leak of the first ones.
However, the operations of MTF Д-17 ("Maski") were compromised, and the Coalition was able to capture 3 of its 8 members, in addition to correctly differentiate the counterfeit documents from the true ones. As a result, the location of Vólorovsk, as well as the nature of 8 anomalies contained inside, were compromised. All three captured members were able to commit suicide before being interrogated.
Over two months multiple similar operations were carried out to obfuscate this information, without much success.
On February 10, 2007, a series of informatic attacks from the Chaos Insurgency to Global Occult Coalition's infrastructure in Germany brought such information into the hands of the Bethany Base operatives, a communication center not yet located of the Insurgency.
During the analysis of the information, it is believed that members of the base came to the conclusion that Vólorovsk was a speciallized Sector in the development of Thaumiel class artificial humanoids for various purposes. Reasoning that it was a vital point of the Foundation operations in Asia, and probably in the world, the finding was communicated to an unnidentified base in the proximities of the Ural Mountains, in Russia.
A series of identical statements belonging to the Insurgency were intercepted on February 17, of unknown origin and destination. A transcript of its content is shown below.
Children are getting bored in the garden.
Lazarus
Three days after the deployment of that note, radical changes were registered in the price and Asian disponibility of products and raw materials required for the operation of Vólorovsk, mainly of the many alloys essential for the construction and repair of Scranton Reality Anchors (ЯРС), which are considered indispensable for the control of the anomalous properties of certain humanoid anomalies contained in there. Note that, due to Vólorovsk's containment conditions, the ЯРС placed there requires intensive maintenance, even compared to the constant maintenance the ЯРС in other places require. It is primarily responsible for these changes to the monetary pressure of PoI-4458, PoI-4875, and PoI-9292, all of them Asian tycoons associated with the Chaos Insurgency.
Although Insurgency operations hindered the Foundation's activity in Asia, especially in Vólorovsk, some essential needs could be met through shipments of materials from other regions.
Over the next three months, the market situation began to normalize. During this period, numerous operations and projects had to be canceled, and several asian Foundation facilities suffered containment breaches attributed to a lack of necessary materials. Overall, the stability in the area is estimated to have decreased by 40%.
These conditions are believed to have been created to facilitate the possibility of an assault on Volorovsk.
On May 25, 2007, Vólorovsk suffered a coordinated attack by the Insurgency. The total of insurgent fighters is estimated at approx. 1200. Although weaponry varies between reports, rocket launchers, rifles, shotguns, and a wide variety of previously unknown anomalous weapons were identified.
The initial assault couldn't be repelled, and insurgent troops were able to penetrate to the central sector of Vólorovsk, reaching Russian Regional Council official's living areas, as well as vital areas, such as the hospital and the electric power plant.
However, when the insurgents reached the Main Square, SCP-RU-178 started to glow in a bluish color, followed immediately by the mass manifestation of ectoplasmic entities with similar colors, which have been provisionally called SCP-RU-178-A
SCP-RU-178-A instances, calculated in 237, had ectoplasmic weaponry, as well as certain anomalous properties, including moderate reality bending.
Although SCP-RU-178-A's intervetion managed to repel the insurgents from the Main Square, it wasn't until the arrival of MTF ѯ-23 ("Mat'-Rossiya") that the situation could be contained. Damage to Vólorovsk is estimated at US $ 2,800,000.
SCP-RU-178's new anomalous properties are currently being studied.
| SCP-RU-178 UPDATE PROPOSAL |
According to MTF Д-4's findings, assigned to test the new anomalous properties shown by SCP-RU-178, the following changes to documentation are proposed;
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-RU-178 must remain connected to an Ares-Lang Vital Functions Protactor indefinitely. Bunker #7, located immediately under the Main Square of Vólorovsk, will be disposed. The use of this bunker will allow SCP-RU-178 to be offered better protection, as well as guarantee her easy recovery.
Bunker #7 is connected to the General Hospital thanks to an armored tunnel, which will allow the maintenance of daily visits to ensure that SCP-RU-178 remains in a good health state.
Description: SCP-RU-178 is the comatose body of Valerie Mikhailovna Volkova, 18 years old and 1.7m tall. SCP-RU-178 is omniperceptive towards the city of Vólorovsk, being able to react immediately to any action she perceives as a threat to the stability of the Foundation in the area.
SCP-RU-178 will only react if she perceives that a hostil group external to the Foundation is overcoming the available countermeasures, and will do throught the mass manifestation of SCP-RU-178-A.
SCP-RU-178-A are 241 animated and sapient ectoplasmic entities, which differ from other similar entities because of their partial tangibility. Each instance of SCP-RU-178-A is extremely hostile to individuals perceived as a threat to the Foundation, and are capable of manipulating weapons. Some entities possess anomalous properties independent of their ectoplasmic nature, some examples of which are shown below.
| Instance |
Property |
| SCP-RU-178-A-5 |
Minor probability manipulation. Affected subjects will have more tendencies to suffer fatal accidents, invariably being terminated by non-anomalous circumstances in a span of three hours. |
| SCP-RU-178-A-73 |
Manifestation at will of non-anomalous firearms. It will attempt to grant weapons to Foundation personnel under attack. These weapons demanifest along with the instance. |
| SCP-RU-178-A-101 |
Manipulation of local plants, frequently modifying them to serve as traps or obstacles. |
| SCP-RU-178-A-110 |
Antimemetic. Specific details are unknown. |
| SCP-RU-178-A-203 |
General bending of surrounding reality. |
All instances of SCP-RU-178-A will demanifest after the conflict that triggered SCP-RU-178's properties ends, or after five hours. Once the instances demanifest, they will not be able to manifest again in the course of 24 to 120 hours.
SCP-RU-178-A instances provoke feelings of nostalgia, guilt or anguish in the nearby Foundation personnel. Affected individuals adduce to "recognize" the instance, refusing to elaborate.
Upon the death of an individual in the city of Vólorovsk, the amount of SCP-RU-178-A will increase by 1, as long as the following characteristics are met;
- The individual in question must have a positive relationship with the Foundation
- It must have positively and abundantly affected the quality of life of other individuals in Vólorovsk
- Must not have killed another human or humanoid being
- Must be between 18 and 35 years old
It is unknown whether the instances of SCP-RU-178-A retain the minds and memories of these individuals, or are representations of them. Individuals who meet these characteristics should be designated RU-178-Positives.
The establishment of SCP-RU-178 as a key defensive mechanism is proposed, as well as the implementation of a temporary program that will make the most of SCP-RU-178's properties, to be named "Heroes of Vólorovsk". This program will seek to maximize the number of RU-178-Positive individuals at all times, and then select those with the greatest possibility of increasing the number of instances of SCP-RU-178-A and [REDACTED FOR LV3 OR LESS VERSION]
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RESULT: [APPROVED]
