Several instances of SCP-2704 found in [REDACTED]
Item #: SCP-2704
Object Class: Euclid
Special Contaiment Procedure: All instances of SCP-2704 within Foundation custody are to be kept in storage containers located at storage hangar 19A and 19B. Infrasonic detection systems are to be placed within both storage units and kept operating at all times. If a sound at a frequency below 20 Hz is detected in either of these units, all personnel are to evacuate to Observation Site 19A, and are to remain there until the sound diminishes.
Instances of SCP-2704 discovered outside of Foundation custody are to be immediately reported. If said instances are located in a heavily visited or populated location, they are to be replaced by a 1:1 replica. This is necessary due to SCP-2704's current importance in modern Costa Rican culture. Instances found in their original position prior to SCP-2704’s discovery, as well as instances which reside in the Finca 6 archaeological site, are not to be relocated. Implanted Foundation agents have acquired control over administration and security of this site. Infrasonic detection systems are to be kept within all security offices of Finca 6. If a sound at a frequency below 20 Hz is detected, any present pedestrians are to be evacuated to a distance of 92 meters from the premises.
All subjects affected by an activated instance of SCP-2704 are to be apprehended and questioned. Class A amnestic are to be administered to all unnecessary subjects.
Description: SCP-2704 is the collective designation given to an assortment of over three hundred petrospheres predominantly located in Costa Rica, which were initially discovered in the Diquis Delta during the 1930s. These spheres range in size from a few centimeters to over 2 meters in diameter, and weigh up to 16 metric tons.
The anomalous effects of SCP-2704 instances only become activated when they are paralleled with a specific celestial body. This occurs primarily with the planets and moons of our solar system. However, there have been incidents which may have involved celestial bodies outside the milky way galaxy. It is believed that SCP-2704 instances activate in concordance with one another depending on their arrangement, however it is impossible to predict when the majority of instances will become activated, due to the loss of their original organization during initial discovery. Studying the activation of these unorganized instances has not progressed the discovery of a pattern of activation.
Once any instance of SCP-2704 is activated, it will begin to emit a sound at a pitch of about 13 Hz, undetectable by the human ear. This hum has physical and psychological effects on all human beings within a 92-meter radius, and plays continuously for approximately 3 hours after activation. The means used to produce this sound remain unknown, as well as the nature of their activation.
• After 30 minutes of exposure subjects experience mild migraines and discomfort.
• After 1 hour of exposure subjects experience increase in emotional unease and throbbing pain in the temple.
• After 2 hours of exposure migraines worsen, in some cases subjects become incapacitated due to pain. Subjects will begin to receive an influx of information. Complimenting this information, subjects experience visual and auditory hallucinations. This information, as well as the hallucinations, are described as disjointed and unorganized. This activity lasts for approximately one hour. These episodes can cause loss of consciousness in those with a history of medical complication or recent head injury. If these subjects are not removed from exposure radius, they may enter a coma. However, casualties from exposure are rare.
• After 3+ hours of exposure, effects will slowly deteriorate. Subjects retain memories of some information received during incident, but the majority is reportedly forgotten.
Please refer to the Incident Log for further details concerning the effects of SCP-2704 and information received.
Initial discovery of SCP-2704
These spheres were originally found in clusters of up to twenty organized in geometric patterns. They are estimated to have been carved between 200 BC and 1600 CE. Details concerning the method used to sculpt and transport these spheres, as well as their original purpose, are unknown. This is due to the extinction of the indigenous culture of Diquis Delta following the Spanish conquest.
The anomalous properties of SCP-2704 were not discovered by the Foundation until 1947. Due to this, the majority of known instances have been damaged and re-positioned prior to Foundation involvement. These instances of SCP-2704 were relocated to public areas such as tourist locations, , government offices, and several museums, as well as private properties and homes. The majority of these instances have been replaced with exact replicas, and are now under Foundation custody. However, there are still public instances of SCP-2704 that have yet to be located, as well as instances in their original position which remain undiscovered.
Known instances which retain their original order are primarily located in the Finca 6 archaeological site. These instances of SCP-2704 are to remain in this original position to facilitate the observation of activation, discovery of patterns of activation, and investigation of the stone's possible purpose. Public access to these spheres has been scheduled and restricted in order minimize possibility of pedestrian presence during a cluster activation. Since initial containment there has only been one successfully recorded cluster activation. For further details concerning effects of a cluster activation please refer to the Finca6 incidents.
Addendum 2704-A:
Incident Logs
Incident 2704-03
On █/██/19██ undercover field agent Marcelo Ocampo reported single sphere activation at 12:50 outside Costa Rican Center of Science and Culture. ██ pedestrians were affected before Foundation interference. Local task force dispatched to evacuate office building and apprehend all effected parties.
Instance activated during Incident 2704-03. Sphere has since then been replaced and is currently in foundation custody.
Interviewed: ██████ █████
Interviewer: Dr. Carlos Quesada
Foreword: Standard interview conducted 43 minutes after Incident 2704-03. Mister █████ was exposed for approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes before apprehension. Interview was conducted in Spanish and has been translated.
<Begin Log>
Dr. Quesada Would you please explain in your own words the events of tonight.
Mr.█████: Alright. I'm a security guard at the museum. I usually work in the day, but a friend of mine got sick so I did him a favor and took his night shift. For most of the night everything was fine, but then I suddenly started to feel weird at around midnight. Just nervous I guess. Like something was wrong you know?
Dr. Quesada Do you know why you began to feel this way?
Mr.█████: Honestly, no, not really. After a while my head started to hurt. I thought I had caught the flew or something like my friend, but I was starting to feel worse so I decided to get some fresh air and went outside.
Dr. Quesada Did you see anything outside of the museum?
Mr.█████: A few of the other guards were there too. They said they were feeling weird just like me so I started to realize it wasn't just a flew. There was definitely something going on we just had no idea what. My headache was getting seriously worse at this point. It eventually got so bad I couldn't even move cause of the pain. Same thing was happening to the other guys. That's…when I started seeing things, and hearing things.
Dr. Quesada What exactly did you see?
Mr.█████: Its hard to explain. It was like dreaming, but, it hurt. It hurt a lot. I barley remember most of it. I know I saw faces of people. These were people I've never seen before, but for some reason I recognized them. I knew who they were and where they were. I don't remember any of that now though. Whenever I try to think about them my head starts to hurt again. I also saw places. At least I think they were places. Usually it was just stars. My head started to get filled with numbers. A lot numbers. It hurts to think about it. I don't remember anything else just numbers.
Dr. Quesada You said you started to hear things as well?
Mr.█████: A voice I think. I didn't understand what it was saying though. I could hear it clearly, but it was like it was talking in another language.
Dr. Quesada Do you remember anything after these visions?
Mr.█████: Well it stopped and my head stopped hurting. I remember noticing one of the others was on the floor. I was about to call an ambulance, but then men showed up, they looked like police and they took us to the hospital. I don't know, I was really dazed.
Dr. Quesada Thank you Mr.█████, I think we have everything we'll need.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: ██████ █████ was administered with a Class-A amnestic shortly after interview.
Incident 2704-09
At 2:30 pm on █/██/19██ an unknown number of SCP-2704 instances located in storage hangar 19b became activated. This incident occurred prior to the placement of a infrasonic detection system in storage hangar 19b, causing the exposure of 13 members of personnel. Surveillance cameras depict subjects undergoing mild to severe seizures, resulting in 3 casualties. Surviving personnel report hallucinations and migraines similar to those of public incidents, but at a much higher intensity. Investigation suggests this is due to subjects being exposed to many activated unorganized instances at once.
Incident Finca6-1
At 1:30 am on █/██/20██ a group of five spheres began to emit an audible hum at a pitch of 20 Hz. Unlike the activation of a single SCP-2704 instance, the effects of this activation were immediate. All human beings within a 92-meter radius entered a state described similar to intoxication. Surveillance depicts many of the subjects seating themselves around the spheres in a semicircular formation. This activity continued for an approximated 7 hours. All members of personnel present, as well as Finca-6 security officers and pedestrians were interviewed after the incident. The following is an interview with agent Daniel Vega.
Activated instances of SCP-2704 during Incident Finca6-1
Interviewed: Agent Daniel Vega
Interviewer: Dr. Carlos Quesada
Foreword: Standard interview conducted 40 minutes after Incident Finca6-1. Field Agent Daniel Vega has been stationed undercover at Finca 6 as Chief of Security for 13 years. Agent Vega reported cluster activation 7 minutes after Incident Finca6-1.
<Begin Log>
Dr. Quesada: Please describe in your own words the events that transpired tonight, beginning prior to the cluster activation.
Agent Vega: It was just a regular night. I was in the surveillance room at the time, talking with the guys, prepping for tomorrow. The spheres were honestly in the back of my mind, I never really thought I’d be here to see the day something happened. After you've been doing this so long…you forget what your real job is sometimes, and get lost in the cover.
Dr. Quesada: When did you realize the spheres activated?
Agent Vega: The moment I felt like I lost my motor controls. I’ve read up on all the other incidents, I know what’s supposed to happen. This was different. There was no splitting headache, no pain at all really, I just suddenly felt dazed. If I were paying attention to the surveillance equipment I probably would've noticed much sooner, but like I said I wasn't really thinking. That was a mistake on my part. Luckily it was after midnight so we didn't need to evacuate any pedestrians. I dropped everything I was doing and started making my way to the main office so I could report the activation. Though, I never did make it to the office till after the incident. On my way there, I noticed a lot of people moving towards spheres located near the site entrance. I saw the entire staff, even some people who must've come in form the streets.
Dr. Quesada: Describe your experience during the incident.
Agent Vega: At first all I could hear was the sound. Then I started to hear a voice. Not hear like usual though, I heard it in my head, as if I was imagining it myself. It wasn’t just a voice either, I felt it close to me. I could see the things it talked about.
Dr. Quesada: Did this voice sound like a person?
Agent Vega: Hard to say. It sounded…no it felt bigger than us. I've had a hard time wrapping my head around it, but it felt like whatever was speaking was right there, beside us, and far away at the same time.
Dr. Quesada: Did you understand what the voice said?
Agent Vega: Yes I did. It talked about people. Just, people in general. Our problems, but not really all of them, specific problems. Saying we should end war, violence, combat even minor conflicts. I also remember it mentioning unification. It talked about our potential if we were to work together and such. Felt like it was preaching to me. It focused on our possible scientific advancement if we essentially pool our resources, especially space travel.
Dr. Quesada: What exactly did this voice touch on concerning space travel?
Agent Vega: There was so much information I was getting lost in all the numbers and charts. I'm no astrologer, but I know things about space now that I've never known before. I saw the planets and suddenly knew exactly how far away they were from us. I saw moons and objects I didn't recognize and could suddenly calculate our best root to get to them. There was one place that kept coming up a lot. It looked like a planet, but I didn't recognize it. Coordinates keep repeating in my head. I get the idea that it wanted me to go there.
Dr. Quesada: The voice wanted you to reach this location? Do you know why?
Agent Vega: I can't say that I'm sure, but I do have a feeling. It feels like there is something there for us. Something that'll help. An invitation basically. I don't know whats there though, but I definitely didn't feel afraid of it, so I figure that must be a good sign. There were names and faces of people too. Weird thing is I just suddenly knew these people, people I've never seen or even heard of before, but I knew them. The information was cluttering together at this point, like the signal was getting choppy, but one person did especially stick with me, Franklin Chan Diaz. Everything blurs after that, I don't remember much else.
Dr. Quesada: This is when the incident ended?
Agent Vega: Yeah…yeah we snapped out of it after that. Doctor listen there is still one last thing. An image or picture or something, I can't stop thinking about it. Numbers and lines…do you have a pen and some paper?
[Dr. Quesada hands Agent Vega note pad and pen. Agent Vega begins to draw on the notepad. Concluded drawing depicts what appears to be the section of an unfinished blueprint]
Agent Vega: This. I have no idea what it is but I can't stop thinking about it. I hope you can make use of it.
Dr.Quesada: I will take care of that, thank you for the report Agent.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Analysis of coordinates provided by Agent Vega conclude that they belong to the dwarf planet Eris. Blueprints appear to be that of a sophisticated engine. The interior of the engine is inordinately complex, however a full analysis is impossible due to the blueprints only depicting a section of the engine, as well as being incomplete. The name Franklin Chan Diaz reefers to a Costa Rican-American mechanical engineer and former NASA astronaut. All other subjects affected during Finca6-1 report receiving this same information, with varying degrees of assurance.
Contact has been made with Franklin Chan Diaz concerning the incomplete blueprints. Due to his experience as an engineer and current research in the facilitation of space travel, it was believed there existed a connection between him and the information provided by Agent Vega. Dr. Diaz expressed great interest in the blueprints, implying that they had several similarities to experimental designs he has been working on for his current study of plasma propulsion. Dr. Diaz suggested the incomplete blueprints were that of a section of an exceedingly advanced plasma propulsion rocket engine, and that such a device would theoretically cause significant advances in interplanetary travel, as well as be used as a platform to begin studies of interstellar travel. However, human knowledge of this technology is currently insufficient to complete these designs. Dr. Diaz was administered Class-A amnestic after his analysis.
Current theory presented by Dr. Quesada suggests that the purpose of these blueprints is to assist in the progress of human space exploration, specifically that of the dwarf planet Eris, which has yet to be visited by a spacecraft. However, it is currently impossible to make use of this information due to it being incomplete.
Incident Finca6-2
At 9:23 pm on ██/██/20██ a single sphere began to emit an audible hum at a pitch of 23 Hz. The activation of this sphere has been determined to be caused by it's alignment with the dwarf planet Eris. All human beings within a 92 meter radius of the activated instance entered a state similar to that of Incident Finca6-1. However, the severity of the effect diminished with the distance from the sphere. Agent Gabriel Chavez, who was located 2 meters from the sphere during activation, was the only subject to undergo a complete hallucinatory episode. The following is an interview with Agent Chavez after the incident
Instance which activated during Incident Finca6-2.
Interviewed: Agent Gabriel Chavez
Interviewer: Dr. Carlos Quesada
Foreword: Standard interview conducted 25 minutes after Incident Finca6-2. Field Agent Gabriel Chavez has been stationed undercover at Finca 6 as security guard for 6 years. Prior to interview Agent Chavez was notably distressed and desired to report his experience to Agent Daniel Vega.
<Begin Log>
Dr. Quesada: We are ready for your report.
Agent Chavez: Well alright. You want me to start with before it happened?
Dr. Quesada: I don’t believe that’ll necessary, simply explain your experience.
Agent Chavez: Ok…well at first I just saw people. A lot of people. I could tell they were worried.
Dr. Quesada: Did you recognize these people?
Agent Chavez: No, I didn't know them. They even seemed kinda different. I couldn’t tell you how just different.
Dr. Quesada: Did you hear anything?
Agent Chavez: Numbers. Calculations or something repeating over and over and over; I couldn’t tell what it was but then, after awhile I understood what was being calculated. Something was coming towards Earth, the numbers were figuring out how fast.
Dr. Quesada: Please elaborate, what was coming towards Earth?
Agent Chavez: I don’t know exactly, could be a comet or a asteroid, all I'm sure of is that its a astronomical object. They called it the void.
Dr. Quesada: They who?
Agent Chavez: The people I saw. See they figured out the formula, they knew how long it’d take for it to get here next. Cause this doesn’t happen just once, it's on an orbit, it has passed before. And every time it passes it causes a shutdown, like a wave it knocks out everything, lights power across the whole planet. It knocks out everything, for good.
Dr. Quesada: Do you know how it does this?
Agent Chavez: Something about a pulse. If I were to guess electromagnetic. It gets close to the earth and screws with its electromagnetic field and creates a pulse that causes tech to malfunction. That's what I gathered. Anyways, the people figured out it was coming, they knew what was going to happen. It’s happened before, it’d happens again. So they got off. They left. .
Dr. Quesada: These people… left the Earth?
Agent Vega: Well…some of them stayed. They knew what was coming and they knew eventually it'd come again. So they left a warning. No, not just a warning a guide. Something that’d help whoever was next. They knew it couldn’t be electrical or tech based cause the message would get lost. They knew their writing would probably be lost too. So they left messages using much advanced abstract power sources and means…well I think you know where this is going.
Dr. Quesada: The spheres. Do you know how they work, or their original pattern?
Agent Chavez: No. I wasn't shown any of that I’m afraid. Listen, I don’t know if what I saw or what I heard was real or not alright. But I saw the object, the "void". Its on its way back. I had the exact distance in my head, repeating like the other numbers. I don't remember exactly how far anymore, but I do remember that it wasn't too far off and that it moves fast. I wish I could tell you more, because I know there was more, but things get too fuzzy after that.
Dr.Quesada: Thank you agent, that’ll be all.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Interview of other effected subjects resulted in no additional information. Agent Chavez was the only subject to receive information concerning an electromagnetic celestial object.
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