SirPendragon

Nickname: The Knife

SCP-XXXX exterior.

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX cannot be moved by any physical means. SCP-XXXX is not to be tampered with in any way. SCP-XXXX is to be staffed by no more than 200 Foundation personnel.

200 Foundation personnel are to be taken to SCP-XXXX whilst blindfolded. These personnel are chosen entirely at random. Said personnel are not to be of any religious faith. Upon ending work with SCP-XXXX, said persons are to be delivered Class C amnestics and returned to the original site the personnel worked with before.

Upon usage of SCP-XXXX, all non-Foundation organizations in the vicinity¹ are to be alerted of an impending cryoseism detected on Foundation monitors.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a ██ cubic kilometer large facility housing a previously unknown device (labeled as SCP-XXXX-1). Composition of said device is unknown, and attempts to discern this are strictly banned due to risk of damaging and/or destroying SCP-XXXX-1.

SCP-XXXX's walls are covered in what have confirmed to be protection sigils from most every faith in the world. Please see Document XXXX-1 for more information. Personnel who attempt to enter SCP-XXXX who are apart of any religious sect will become nauseous and highly sick. Reasoning for sickness is unknown.

SCP-XXXX-1 is approximately 500 cubic meters large, that converges in a 10 x 10 centimeter cylindrical tube. SCP-XXXX-1's head is located in a 1 cubic kilometer large chamber. When SCP-XXXX-1 discharges, it will expel a discharge of white light. SCP-XXXX-1's light is 10,000 lumens, and can cause instant blindness if directly observed.²

SCP-XXXX-1 has the ability to cause a "reversion" effect on religious artifacts. Artifacts that come in contact with discharged light appear to lose all religious symbolism.

SCP-XXXX-1 discharge sound recorded in [REDACTED].

SCP-XXXX was discovered after an extremely powerful cryoseism resulted in destruction of an ice shelf near the border of █████ ████ Land in western Antarctica. SCP-XXXX was discovered after an expedition team from the ████ station was sent to investigate. SCP-XXXX was summarily claimed by the United States government for the Foundation.

+ Photographs of SCP-XXXX-1's interior workings.

Chart of SCP-XXXX-1. Black center is an enhanced representation of the tip.

Photo taken in Sector 3-A.

[DATA EXPUNGED].

Addendum 1: SCP-XXXX test log.

+ SCP-XXXX Test Log.

Test A - ██/█/█

Subject: One 10 x 5 x 1 cm aluminum crucifix.
Procedure: SCP-XXXX-1 activated. Sector 3-C apparatus comes online. Beam remains on target for 3 seconds before shutting off.
Results: One 10 x 5 x 1 cm aluminum sheet.
Analysis: It seems that our prediction of a "reversion" process was correct. However, how will the machine react to more than 1 present material in the composition?
-Dr. ██████████

Test B - ██/██/█

Subject: One 1 meter by 2 centimeters native African shaman staff. Crocuta Crocuta head affixed to head as charm. Feathers from a Phaethon Aethereus attached to head.
Procedure: SCP-XXXX-1 activated. Sector 3-C apparatus comes online. Beam remains on target for 18 seconds before shutting off.
Results: One 1 meter by 2 centimeters plank of Aloe Dichotoma wood, two piles of animal tissue.
Analysis: Analysis confirms the two piles of animal tissue are from a spotted hyena and a red-billed tropic bird. More than one present material seems to cause the same affect, but separates the components.
-Dr. ██████████

Test C - █/█/█

Subject: One 20 x 10 x 4 Judaic menorah composed of bronze. 5 x 4 cm paraffin wax candles inserted inside with cotton wicks and open flames on each.
Procedure: SCP-XXXX-1 activated. Sector 3-C apparatus comes online. Beam remains on target for 30 seconds before shutting off.
Results: One 20 x 10 x 4 bronze ingot, 9 5 x 4 cm paraffin wax blocks, 9 piles of cotton thread.
Analysis: As a side note of where the fire went, it seems that the firing chamber of SCP-XXXX-1 had a higher oxygen level when we scanned it post-test. Not even energy reactions are safe from the machine.
-Dr. ██████████

Test D - █/██/█

Subject: One 76 cm × 1.22 m Islamic prayer rug composed of wool and 7 dyes.
Procedure: SCP-XXXX-1 activated. Sector 3-C apparatus comes online, glowing extremely dim. Beam remains on target for 48 seconds before shutting off.
Results: One extremely burnt 76 cm × 1.22 m Islamic prayer rug.
Analysis: See Addendum 4 for more information.
So let's not do that one again, shall we? Had we not released the oxidation from the previous test months ago, we could have blown the entire facility. I'm gonna tan the hide of whatever [EXPLETIVE] [EXPLETIVE] slipped up on the fact a cultist was in the facility.
-Site Director ████████

Test E - █/██/██

Subject: One unknown idol composed of Sequoia Sempervirens.
Procedure: SCP-XXXX-1 activates. Sector 3-C apparatus does not seem to come online. Beam remains on target for 5 minutes before shutting off.
Results: One unknown idol composed of Sequoia Sempervirens.
Analysis: Uh… what?
-Dr. ██████████

Test F - ██/█/██

Subject: Tissue sample of [REDACTED].
Procedure: SCP-XXXX-1 activates. Sector 3-C apparatus comes online, extremely bright. Beam remains on target for 10 seconds before shutting off.
Results: Tissue sample destroyed without a trace.
Analysis: It's just… gone.
-Dr. ██████████

Addendum 2: Chart of SCP-XXXX sectors. Sectors become more dangerous as numerical label progresses.

Sector #	Sub-Sector Letter	Function
Sector 1	Sub-Sector A	Expulsion of particle beam.
Sector 1	Sub-Sector B	Failsafe mechanism.
Sector 1	Sub-Sector C-D	Failsafe braces.
Sector 2	Sub-Sector A	Particle beam charge.
Sector 2	Sub-Sector B	Particle beam adjustment mechanism.
Sector 2	Sub-Sector C	Self defense mechanism (inopperative).
Sector 3	Sub-Sector A	Self-examination data storage.
Sector 3	Sub-Sector B	Staff barracks area?
Sector 3	Sub-Sector C	Unknown black apparatus. Tri-sectored cube. 10 cubic meters large. Becomes active during particle beam expulsion. Purpose unknown.

Addendum 3: Sector 3-C's sole apparatus has begun to fluxtuate during firing of SCP-XXXX-1. As this apparatus begins to dim, SCP-XXXX-1 beam has proven less effective. Certain sections of reverted objects are instead vitrified / burned. Further testing is required to understand Sector 3-C apparatus. Edit ██/██/█

Addendum 4: During Test XXXX-D, one Foundation personnel on site was found to be involved in currently unknown cult activity. Sub-Sector C's apparatus became extremely dim, and the test object in question (an Islamic prayer rug) was burnt. Foundation personnel in question was found mutilated and dismembered by unknown means. Edit ██/█/█

For the love of Christ, it's like someone loosed a hungry alligator with access to a 1216 Shotgun on this guy. We don't have either of those here, so what the hell happened?
-Supervisor █████████

Addendum 5: Several previously unknown cadavers have been found within SCP-XXXX. All appear to have been attacked using a slashing weapon. Flesh around cut wounds has been affected by third degree burns. Edit ██/█/█

Addendum 6: Document XXXX-1: Known religious protection symbols found inside SCP-XXXX.

+ Document XXXX-1

Religion	Sigil/Prayer
Christianity	Latin prayer of protection spelled backwards.
Islamic (Sunni/Shi'i)	Arabic prayer of harm and defiance of God.
Catholicism	See Christianity.
Buddhism	Chinese prayer for long life on to the hog, serpent, and chicken.
Hinduism	Prayer regarding love for Shiva (the destroyer).
Anglicanism	Unknown African language.
Sikhism	Sigils regarding love of pride, lust, illusion, anger, and greed.
Judaism	Yiddish prayer regarding love of another idol.
Zoroarstrianism	Prayer regarding servitude to Angra Mainyu.
Unknown.	Several previously unidentified cuneiform sigils professing love to a "Forest God"3

Addendum 7: Document XXXX-2: Note found in administrative section of SCP-XXXX.

+ Document XXXX-2

What is the common folk to a king? Nothing. What is a king to God itself? Nothing. But the poison of a non-believer runs deep in God.

If a non-believer is poison, then this is the dagger coated in that poison. Whoever finds this, use it to cut deep in to the flesh of God. But if you truly kill God, then what is the world? Maybe we've been living in a lie all this time.

Yes, we probably have. A lie written by God, and this machine will tell us the truth. But God sent his apostle to destroy the dagger. He could never find it. It was our doing. We stopped them. Every last man and woman here gave their life to protect the Dagger and we won.

Bearer of misery, finish our work. Where we did not succeed you shall.

Document was found beside an unknown cadaver, who is thought to have died over ███ years ago⁴ via suicide. Suicide deduced to be caused via self asphyxiation. Note was written in substance verified as blood from an unknown source. Similar in composition to [REDACTED]. Edit █/██/██

Footnotes

1. 10-20 miles away.

2. This light has been found to not produce heat above room temperature. Reasoning unknown.

3. "Forest God" interpreted using a pictograph of a celestial body and a forest (several trees).

4. Date found due to dental records matching one █████████ ██████. Departed for Antarcitca in 18██. Did not return.