SCP-376-DE

Item #: SCP-376-DE

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: The premises that SCP-376-DE is located on have been labeled as property of a Foundation front company. They are enclosed by a wall equipped with cameras that is being monitored by on-site security staff at regular intervals. Entry to the premises is only authorized for selected personnel who must identify themselves at the gate. Unauthorized individuals discovered on-site are to be detained, interrogated, and subjected to amnestic treatment or arrested in case they work for MC&D.

SCP-376-DE is being managed by personnel who are familiar with farm work or veterinary science1. They are responsible for providing care for the present SCP-376-DE-A instances and are to be housed in the residential buildings of SCP-376-DE, which serves as independent outpost. Both food for the animals as well as comestible goods for personnel and other supplies and materials are delivered by a Foundation transporter every two days.

SCP-376-DE-A instances are to be accommodated in the stables located on-site and cared for. Their husbandry equals that of non-anomalous ponies, while attention should be paid to their individual properties.

At least once per day, the instances are allowed to spend several hours in the adjacent paddock or walk the premises freely under surveillance by security staff. As SCP-376-DE-A instances avoid moving past the premises' borders, a containment breach is to be considered impossible. Transporting them to other sites is currently unfeasible.

Description: SCP-376-DE designates a horse ranch located on a private property which is located near ████████████, Schleswig-Holstein and off limits to the public. The ranch is comprised of four stables with several stalls for the animals residing therein, a fodder silo, one administrative building, two residential properties for local personnel and one for visitors, as well as one spacious horse paddock and a lunging hall. Marshall Carter & Dark Ltd. possessed the property before the Foundation's seizure of it. SCP-376-DE was built to entertain the children of their wealthy regulars. The property was camouflaged as a privately funded nature reserve and secured through concrete walls and checkpoints. Access was solely permitted to MC&D personnel, selected visitors and their children.

Only ponies possessing anomalous properties were created, bred, and kept on the ranch. Said ponies are designated SCP-376-DE-A. Instances of SCP-376-DE-A differ from each other in appearance, breed, character, behavioral patterns, and other anomalous properties. Blood tests showed that the DNA of SCP-376-DE-A instances differs in no way from ordinary ponies. 17 16 instances are living on the ranch at the time of writing.

The anomalous properties are diversified and include, among other things, notably different appearances and additional body parts or physical properties, manipulation of self or surroundings, heightened physical and memetic abilities. Every SCP-376-DE-A instances received a name from the former maintainers and occupies a stall in the stables that is only accessible to its respective instance.2

Most SCP-376-DE-A instances behave peacefully towards humans, as long as they are not provoked in any way. In general, they can be led or sometimes even ridden by staff members like normal ponies. However, some of them are rebellious or even aggressive in response to such attempts. Their abilities justify increased precautionary measures in containment procedures.

All SCP-376-DE-A instances have a special microchip implanted near the back of their heads by MC&D that is directly linked to the subject's skull and cannot be removed. It will activate automatically once an SCP-376-DE-A instance comes within 10 meters from the border wall of SCP-376-DE. At first, it will emit a high audio frequency which humans are not or only hardly able to perceive, but causes extreme head and ear pain, dizziness, nausea, and disorientation in the instances. This frequency will increase in intensity the longer the instance stays near to the wall. After one minute, an explosive charge installed in the chip detonates, causing the subject's head to explode. This is presumed to be a safety by MC&D to prevent a potential breach of the instances.

For this reason, it is neither possible for SCP-376-DE-A to leave the site by themselves nor to be transported out of it. Requests to surgically remove the chip from SCP-376-DE-A were denied by O4, as such an operation would be too hazardous and irreversible injuries or even death of the instances could not be excluded. Additionally, it constitutes an additional containment method that can be utilized without an unnecessary loss of resources.

Discovery: On the 14th of March 2023, the German Foundation received a hint by MTF Mu-3 ("Highest Bidders") of a supposed private base of MC&D at the location of SCP-376-DE. In partnership with them, a raiding patrol of the German MTF managed to infiltrate and secure the premises.

Only deceased members of the MC&D staff working at the property at that time could be found. All perished from cardiac arrest, caused by poison capsules that were implanted into every employee and activated remotely. It is assumed MC&D wanted to prevent information leakage in case of Foundation acquisition.

Agents could secure information about SCP-376-DE as well as the SCP-376-DE-A individuals and customers using the latter in the administrative building. Said customers were all wealthy businessmen who worked together with MC&D and had children aged 6 to 14. SCP-376-DE-A served recreational and entertainment purposes for the children and for the development of business relationships between their parents and the organization. Further research into the clientele are ongoing at time of writing.

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