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	850
Captain Kirby's Proposal	537
SCP-4514	436
SCP-3448	431
SCP-5552	417
SCP-3388	393
SCP-3844	373
SCP-5003	365
SCP-3305	354
SCP-3866	327
SCP-4877	295
SCP-4321	286
SCP-3449	279
SCP-016-J	192
SCP-3123	186
SCP-3511	180
SPC-1057	177
SCP-4925	155
SCP-3633	152
SCP-3767	150
SCP-3393-EX	141
SCP-4479	138
SCP-4775	129
SCP-4316	120
SCP-4034	120
SCP-3650	85
SCP-5877	71
SCP-5779	55
SCP-5448	55
SCP-3203	54
SCP-3405	44
SCP-3481	42

Tales

Title	Rating
Impossible-To-Destroy Reptile	349
In The Clutches Of Life	268
Numbers, Like Stories, Never Die	231
Excerpts From The Societal Census Programme ΩK-Class Report	172
With The Reaper On Retirement	167
Tales of the Ethics Committee: 5 Reasons The Foundation Wants A Robot Army	156
Don't Get Used To It	130
The Many Portraits Of Jack Bright	121
Do You Remember Funerals?	121
Group Date	114
The Tombstone of Alto Clef	110
Where Death Used To Live	107
Project Damnerung	102
Hello, My Name Isn't	98
From The Clutches Of Life	92
Hundred-Year Favor	84
You Have 18 Unread Messages	82
Even The Most Masked Of Men Become Themselves Behind Closed Doors	73
Everyday Is Somebody's Birthday	64
A Failed Two Weeks Notice	59
The Shape of a Noose	58
Rocks And Trees Are Not Good Company	56
'Til Death Do Us Part	52
Pink Cracks in a Digital Wall	51
Is Anybody Home?	50
Poky And Pal Scheme Together	50
Poky And Pal Arm Themselves	44
I Felt Numb	38
Carnivores	35
It's A Nice Day Out	35
When It Rains, It Pours	31
Attempts To Salvage Thought	29
I Am Wonderful	29
They Are Not Laughing With You	22
Containment's A Beach	19

GOI Formats

Title	Rating
Captain Kirby's Proposal, Or Something	155
My Head Is On Fire And I'm (Not) Ok	78
Project Proposals 2004-013/2014-114/2024-072: "Losing Your Cool"	50

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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.