SCP-4514

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SCP-4514: The Thing That Kills You

Please, just let me rest.

Author: Captain Kirby

SCPs

SCP Number	Rating
SCP-3393	1077
Captain Kirby's Proposal	691
SCP-4514	557
SCP-5552	535
SCP-3448	518
SCP-3844	456
SCP-3388	448
SCP-5003	406
SCP-3866	390
SCP-3305	390
SCP-3449	348
SCP-4877	342
SCP-4321	323
SCP-016-J	232
SCP-3123	206
SPC-1057	199
SCP-3511	197
SCP-3393-EX	188
SCP-7100	183
SCP-3633	180
SCP-6007	175
SCP-4925	171
SCP-4479	162
SCP-3767	158
SCP-4316	142
SCP-4775	137
SCP-4034	129
SCP-3650	95
SCP-5877	94
SCP-5448	79
SCP-5779	63
SCP-3203	62
SCP-3405	50
SCP-3481	46

Tales

Title	Rating
Impossible-To-Destroy Reptile	424
In The Clutches Of Life	328
Numbers, Like Stories, Never Die	280
Excerpts From The Societal Census Programme ΩK-Class Report	203
With The Reaper On Retirement	196
Tales of the Ethics Committee: 5 Reasons The Foundation Wants A Robot Army	191
The Tombstone of Alto Clef	174
Do You Remember Funerals?	148
Don't Get Used To It	136
The Many Portraits Of Jack Bright	131
Where Death Used To Live	130
Group Date	130
From The Clutches Of Life	125
Project Damnerung	125
Monochrome	123
Hello, My Name Isn't	117
Hundred-Year Favor	108
Even The Most Masked Of Men Become Themselves Behind Closed Doors	96
You Have 18 Unread Messages	93
Everyday Is Somebody's Birthday	81
The Shape of a Noose	67
A Failed Two Weeks Notice	63
Rocks And Trees Are Not Good Company	60
Pink Cracks in a Digital Wall	57
'Til Death Do Us Part	57
Poky And Pal Scheme Together	52
Is Anybody Home?	51
Poky And Pal Arm Themselves	47
Carnivores	45
A Eulogy In 11/8 Time	44
Tears of a Neon God	40
Virtue	39
I Felt Numb	39
When It Rains, It Pours	38
It's A Nice Day Out	36
I Am Wonderful	33
God-Knows-Where	31
Attempts To Salvage Thought	31
They Are Not Laughing With You	28
Outrun	25
What Is There To Do With A Pot Of Gold?	22
Containment's A Beach	20

GOI Formats

Title	Rating
Captain Kirby's Proposal, Or Something	178
My Head Is On Fire And I'm (Not) Ok	91
Project Proposals 2004-013/2014-114/2024-072: "Losing Your Cool"	67

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SCP-4514

Item #: SCP-4514

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4514 is to be held in a standard Safe-Class container. SCP-4514 is only to be used with the approval of the O5 council.

Description: SCP-4514 refers to a standard switch knife. SCP-4514's anomalous properties are known to manifest should it:

• Injure an individual such that they lose 40% of their blood
• Injure an individual to cause significant damage to the brain
• Injure an individual to cause significant damage to the heart
• Injure an individual such that they are incapable of respiration

Investigation is underway to discover additional ways to trigger SCP-4514's anomalous properties.

Should an individual be injured by SCP-4514 in such a way that activates its anomalous properties, that individual will die.¹

Discovery: On 5/14/2130, SCP-4514 was recovered following a violent altercation between two inebriated individuals. The quarrel resulted in SCP-4514 being used to kill one of the involved persons. Foundation personnel were alerted after the local paper published a story covering the event, who administered amnestics to all witnessing parties. A disinformation campaign was run thereafter to discredit the news agency.

Experiment Log:

Experiment #: 1

Subject: D-3314, 36-year-old caucasian female, healthy

Procedure: Subject is to be given a minor incision (0.125cm deep, 3cm long) into her arm with SCP-4514.

Result: Subject survived.

Experiment #: 2

Subject: D-3314, 36-year-old caucasian female, healthy

Procedure: Subject is to be sedated and given a major incision (1cm deep, 10 cm long) into her leg with SCP-4514. Afterwards, the wound is to be stitched together.

Result: Subject survived.

Experiment #: 3

Subject: D-8833, 93-year-old asian male, inhibited cerebral function

Procedure: Subject is to be sedated, and then punctured with SCP-4514. The puncture is to target the brain, and occur as swiftly as possible.

Result: Subject expired.

Experiment #: 4

Subject: D-11424, 131-year-old caucasian female, suffering from muscle spasms and numbness due to complications arising from neck surgery.

Procedure: Subject is to be sedated, and given a major incision (1cm deep, 10 cm long) across her midsection. If the subject is still alive after 50% of the subject's blood has left her body through the incision, the wound is to be stitched together, and an adequate amount of blood is to be siphoned back into the subject.

Result: Subject expired after 40% of her blood left her body.

<Additional Tests Hidden For Brevity>

Experiment #: 47

Subject: Researcher George Haus, 132-year-old caucasian male

Procedure: A small portion of SCP-4514 is to be removed, and melted. It is to be fused with a standard 45-caliber bullet. The subject is to be sedated and then shot in the head with the bullet.

Result: Subject expired.

Experiment #: 48

Subject: Researcher Tanya Luvoi, 89-year-old caucasian female

Procedure: Subject is to be sedated. Pressure is to be applied to the subject's throat using the handle of SCP-4514 such that the subject suffocates.

Result: Subject expired.

Experiment #: 49

Subject: Site Director Charles Panthe, 149-year-old caucasian male

Procedure: Subject is to be sedated, and then punctured with SCP-4514. The puncture is to be performed by a mechanical arm.

Result: Subject expired.

NOTICE: You have (1) new message(s)

Foundation Network Inter-Site Comm Service v.3.155

===MESSAGE FROM ETHICS COMMITTEE RECEIVED===

Dr. Young,

We have reviewed your experiment logs, and deemed them excessive, and unwarranted.

However, if we are to be honest, we noticed your undue testing of SCP-4514 a while ago. It's rare to have D-Class actively line up for experimentation. Testing actual employees was only inevitable.

We needed to discuss what the next step should be: create a standardized process for choosing SCP-4514 test subjects, offer this service to the public, etc.

In the end, as you can tell, we returned to our core principles as an organization. The world has forced us to redefine the status quo, but it is not our job to change it back. No matter how much we want to be at eternal peace, normalcy dictates that we can never achieve it.

Officially, you are hereby removed from the SCP-4514 project.

Unofficially, we get it. Life's a bitch.

- Dr. Violet Mesmur, Ethics Committee

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End of Death

Do You Remember Funerals?

Footnotes

1. Caused by the cessation of neurological activity.