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Article: SCP-7216 - 320 Papaloy!
Author:
Agente Shuffle
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María, by Jesse Bowser, licensed under CC0 Public Domain.
SMOG Event, by Fæ, licensed under Public Domain.
SCPiNET
Given the failure of attempts and efforts to capture SCP-7216, its physical containment has been deemed irrelevant and is considered impossible.
Due to the way SCP-7216 operates, concealment procedures other than localized disinformation campaigns are not considered necessary and will not be carried out unless SCP-7216 is successfully neutralized.
The neutralization of SCP-7216 is considered a First Level Priority and, if a SMOG Event is detected, Mobile Task Forces Eta-73 ("Exorcists"), Mu-13 ("Ghostbusters"), Theta-11 ("No Way Out"), and Omega-12 ("Eight o' Five") will be transported to the area as soon as possible to carry out termination attempts.
Additional procedures are not considered necessary at the moment.
SCP-7216 is a 1,7m tall humanoid figure, believed to have formerly been Mexican civilian María Acha Malavasi, composed entirely of a dark dense smog-like gas, presumably anomalous in nature.
SCP-7216 is capable of appearing in several parts of the world through unknown means, its apparition being common in places with high pollution rates. It is currently known that SCP-7216 mainly manifests in India, China, the United States, Mexico, and Japan.
When manifested, SCP-7216 will quickly search for any individual polluting their environment, especially the air, to kill them. SCP-7216's method for killing its victims consists of it entering their respiratory channel and suffocating them to death; however, it has been documented that SCP-7216 can also kill its victim by pushing them to commit suicide through continuous intense stalking that can last up to 4 months.
The events in which SCP-7216 manifests have been designated as SMOG Events.
URA-XXXX
GENERAL INFORMATION
SUMMARY: 'Ghostly' figure sighted in Tlalpan, CDMX, Mexico. Unknown if it possesses agency or sapience.
ADDENDUM A: Witness testimony.
"That's right. I saw over there, far away, a 'shadow'. It looked like a shadow, for it was human-shaped and pitch-black. It wasn't that tall, around my height, but it was strange. I got distracted when a bike passed near me, and when I looked again it was gone. I don't know what could that have been, but it was bad."
"Only God knows what actually happened, but I was sitting out there when I felt a… 'heavy' sensation, like sleep paralysis, but I could move. I felt scared and started looking around. That's when I saw it: a slender dark figure a few squares away from me. It looked like, I don't know— Its shoulders were low, like when you're tired. I stood up quickly and ran away, and I knew nothing else about it."
"Yup. I was eating a sandwich when I saw a dark thing appear in the middle of the street. I didn't know what it was, for I was going to take a picture of it and then it suddenly disappeared as soon as it appeared. I was feeling sick the rest of the day and had dreams about it for a couple of days, but I think I'm feeling better now."
ADDENDUM B: Photographic evidence.
Earliest known photograph of the anomaly. Image edited for clarity.
ADDENDUM C: Possibly related file snippets.
Last Tuesday, the death of a 40-year-old woman named María Acha Malavasi was reported while she was on her way to a nearby store. The unfortunate event occurred around 11 pm when, in the middle of her path, she suffered what appears to be an asthma attack, aggravated by the environmental pollution conditions in which she found herself.
[…]
During Doña Acha's wake, neighbors reported unusual amounts of smoke around the house. The cause of the smoke is unknown, and although it was initially attributed to the burning of garbage on some nearby land, it was soon discovered that this was not the case.
[…]
Shortly before the burial of Doña Acha, it was reported that the body had disappeared, despite the fact that the coffin was still closed and completely sealed. The search for the body by family and friends is still ongoing.
All individuals involved were amnesticized and the event was concealed. No copies of the document shown above exist outside of the Foundation's possession.
TEST LOG CT-1989-MX016/7216
CONTAINMENT AND TERMINATION TESTING FOR SCP-7216
| ATTEMPT #2 | |
|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | A large amount of smoke and industrial smog was generated within a Standard Humanoid Containment Chamber for the purpose of provoking the manifestation of SCP-7216 within the cell, and keeping the smoke constant to prevent the entity from transporting to another location. |
| RESULT | SCP-7216 did not manifest. |
| ATTEMPT #4 | |
|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | 10 Class-D Personnel were instructed to spontaneously release a large amount of pollution into the air, mainly by lighting cigarettes, campfires, small fires, and using damaged or modified cars to release more smoke than usual for the purpose of provoking the manifestation of SCP-7216 and then extinguish the sources of smoke and disperse the present in the environment to 'isolate' SCP-7216 from the rest of the gas and preventing its movement. |
| RESULT | SCP-7216 successfully manifested; however, when the smoke cleared, SCP-7216 dissolved in the air, emitting a slight unintelligible whisper-like sound. |
| ATTEMPT #8 | |
|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | Same as ATTEMPT #4, although a Task Force would be deployed to neutralize SCP-7216 before the smoke cleared. |
| RESULT | SCP-7216 successfully manifested in the area; however, when the Task Force arrived, SCP-7216 vanished. Subsequently, a large amount of smoke was detected coming from the office of Dr. Francisco Cárdenas, author and supervisor of the test, who was found dead by suffocation. Traces of smog and smoke were found in his respiratory channel. |
| NOTES | Dr. Julián Cárdenas, son of Dr. F. Cárdenas, was ascended to Lead Researcher of SCP-7216 and was designated to conduct future tests and termination attempts. |
| ATTEMPT #16 | |
|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | Wait for a SMOG Event to occur in order to send a Task Force that will dissipate the smoke present in the environment to reduce the entity before an attack occurs. |
| RESULT | SCP-7216 manifested in Coyoacán, CDMX, Mexico, and a Task Force was sent to the area to dissipate the smog present. This task was successful; however, it was later discovered that SCP-7216 had manifested immediately after in Bombay, Maharastra, India, and Kyoto, Honshu, Japan, exponentially increasing the usual number of victims killed by the entity. |
| ATTEMPT #32 | |
|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | Wait for a SMOG Event to occur in order to deploy three Mobile Task Forces and two Scranton Reality Anchors in the area with the purpose of stabilizing the reality in the area to weaken SCP-7216 and capture it or neutralize it. |
| RESULT | SCP-7216 manifested in Bangalore, Karnakata, India, and the Task Forces were quickly dispatched to the area. SCP-7216 stood motionless for a while, before making its way to one of the Anchors and entering through one of its side holes; a few seconds later, the Anchor began emitting a considerable amount of smoke, presumably from an internal malfunction, before violently exploding, causing the reactionary explosion of the backup Anchor. Casualties are estimated at 217. Since then, SCP-7216 has become considerably more aggressive, and SMOG Events are becoming more frequent. |
| NOTES | Event properly concealed as a gas leak. Containment procedures updated. Further testing on SCP-7216 has been suspended indefinitely. |
One month after the Bangalore Incident, it was reported that Viktor Zubkov and Alexei Miller, both important individuals in the petrochemical enterprise Gazprom, had died under unusual circumstances.
After carrying out investigations, it was discovered that both individuals presented injuries consistent with victims of SCP-7216, and it was determined the entity had murdered them.
It is unknown how SCP-7216 managed to find Zubkov and Miller.
In the following months, the deaths of more individuals who occupied important positions in industries were reported, such as Houari Djerad, owner of Sonatrach, Octavio Romero Oropeza, owner of Pemex, and Jules Phaserfield, founder of the oil company project Cartazul.
All the deaths could be directly attributed to SCP-7216 due to the way they happened and very specific factors, such as the smoke present in the scenes.
Due to the crisis in multiple countries that these events provoked, the O5 Council, in a verdict of 11 to 2, reclassified SCP-7216 as Apollyon and ordered its immediate neutralization through all available means.
Containment procedures updated.
INTERNAL AUDIO RECORDING TRANSCRIPT
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: Doctor Madrigal.
Dr. Madrigal: Trycer! Come in, come in, please take a seat. Is your SCP-7216 report ready?
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: Yes, it is ready; although I must say the situation does not look very good. Here.
(Sound of shuffling paper)
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: To be honest, the situation regarding the smoke girl's attacks is getting worse. She keeps appearing worldwide and we aren't quick enough to do anything. Not only that, but she's also getting better at it. Her attacks aren't as notorious as they used to be, but they are very discreet and target only one individual at a time; they are always businessmen, but not civilians anymore. If it weren't for the importance of the targets, we probably wouldn't even notice at all.
(Silence)
Dr. Madrigal: Yeah, thought so. Reports from other Task Forces say the exact same thing. She's just getting more lethal with each day that passes and we don't even know why or how, but if we don't do something soon, the situation will keep going downhill.
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: Doctor Madrigal, with all due respect… haven't you thought this might be because, I don't know, we did more than what we should have?
Dr. Madrigal: What are you trying to say, exactly?
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: I'm just saying perhaps we intervened when we shouldn't have, and didn't when we actually had to. Or perhaps it's because we are eating this world's resources at an unbelievable rate.
Dr. Madrigal: Oh, come on, you've been rambling on the idea for a while already. Stop overthinking the situation. Once humanity has broken this world, we will pull them out of the abyss one way or another. Even if they don't deserve it.
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: Because it's easier to think about fixing an issue as we usually do than trying to change an entire system, right? To fix the problem rather than to prevent it?
Dr. Madrigal: It is not our business to intervene.
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: The Foundation's mission is to protect humankind, yet we can't intervene to save people from themselves? I'm sorry but you sound awfully familiar.
Dr. Madrigal: Trycer, cut it out, please. You know our purpose is to conceal and restrain the anomalous threats that endanger civilian lives, such as SCP-7216. It is classified as Apollyon for a reason.
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: Yeah? And what does that Class mean?
Dr. Madrigal: (Sigh) You know it already. It means the item cannot be contained, or is expected to inevitably breach containment, and is able to provoke a K-Class End Of The World Scenario.
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: You see? It's just like us. We just cannot contain our urge to destroy the very planet we're living on.
Dr. Madrigal: That's too much of a stretch and you know it. Our purpose is to protect people from the anomalous, from things that they couldn't possibly face or escape from. We are helping them, Trycer; just not the way you'd expect. Whatever it is that they're doing now to the planet, they can solve it without us.
(Silence)
Dr. Madrigal: What they can't protect themselves from without our help is the Smoke Girl. It is obviously dangerous and irrational; acts without any reason, and allowing it to continue doing what it does would go against our Containment Directives, for we would be allowing it to determine how we contain it. And you know what that means.
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: Trouble, I know.
Dr. Madrigal: Even if— even if the Smoke Girl were somewhat right and we let it "solve" the problem we would be admitting that we need anomalies to take care of problems that we can solve ourselves, and what do you think would happen next? Panacea to cure hangovers? Atomic Milk for, what, terminally ill people? I bet those proposals look great on paper and their intentions are the best, but we work with things that don't quite go well with that. Or have you forgotten what happened when we tried to solve hunger in Mexico with that fucking cake?
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: Hey! It didn't go that wrong! I… that's where I met you.
(Both chuckle)
Dr. Madrigal: We were lucky. But the Foundation can't rely on luck, nor on anomalies. You've always been amazed by how humanity can improve itself and overcome so many obstacles. You said it's like a superpower. If we become dependent on anomalies and stop fending for ourselves…
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: The power will be gone. We won't be special anymore.
(Silence)
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: (Sigh) You're right. Thanks for helping me clear my mind, Chibi.
Dr. Madrigal: Oh, please, we're in working hours, it's "Doctor Madrigal" for now. You can call me that later.
(Dr. Madrigal clears his throat)
Dr. Madrigal: Oh, and please tell Captain Vázquez to get me his report as soon as possible.
Ω-12 Capt. Trycer: (Mockingly) Will do, Miss Doctor Madrigal.
FROM: magnolia@scp.o5command
TO: dcalfine@command.goc.int
SUBJECT: Dangerous anomaly
Greetings, Madam al Fine.
As of recently, our organization has been dealing with a hostile lethal entity, classified as SCP-7216, which has killed already several thousands of people, most notably businessmen and Foundation personnel. A photograph of one of these many attacks is attached below.
Photograph of a SMOG Event in the US.
We have reasons to believe that, if the entity knows the location of several members of the Foundation, it could just as easily figure out where are many GOC Headquarters located. This situation would be deemed unacceptable by both the O5 Council and the 108 Council for the risk it implies.
The motive of this e-mail is to ask for your help in dealing with SCP-7216.
We have knowledge of your "Project Persephone" to build and put on orbit several Geosynchronous Satellite Probes of Targeted Destruction; Ipanema in Brazil, Avante in the US, Montferrer in Spain, and the currently unfinished Navla in North Korea, and while the Foundation has a wide knowledge of other similar projects, it has been impossible for us to properly use against this threat.
We are willing to provide funding and resources for the proper completion of the Project, as long as you allow the Foundation to access it and use it for the neutralization of SCP-7216 as a last-resort measure. That is, we will request complete access to Project Persephone's assets if required in order to complete our mission.
We look forward to a timely response.
— O5-8
FROM: dcalfine@command.goc.int
TO: magnolia@scp.o5command
SUBJECT: Re:Dangerous anomaly
Dear Ms. Magnolia.
Your request to use Project Persephone to neutralize SCP-7216, classified by the Coalition as KTE-1989-Cyan, has been reviewed by the 108 Council and it has been hereby approved.
A meeting between the item's Containment Chief and a representative of each Coalition's Division will take place soon.
With regards,
D.C. al Fine, Global Occult Coalition's Undersecretariat-General
Two months after the Foundation-Coalition alliance was created, and following several unsuccessful attempts to locate and neutralize SCP-7216, an ongoing SMOG Event was reported in Taehŭng, South P'yŏngan, North Korea.
MTF Omega-12 and Eta-73 were quickly deployed in the area to intentionally prolongate the duration of the SMOG Event, and thus the time SCP-7216 was manifested. Meanwhile, Dr. J. Cárdenas ordered the usage of the GOCP Navla Satellite to neutralize SCP-7216, despite it still being under reparations.
When Coalition personnel assigned to the maintenance of Navla refused to operate the Satellite in its current conditions, O5-8 overrode the Coalition's orders and allowed the assigned Foundation personnel to activate and utilize Navla against SCP-7216, ignoring most security measures.
The initial activation of the satellite's Everhart Mega-Resonator proceeded normally, allowing Navla to fire at SCP-7216's estimated location, presumably neutralizing it; however, once the Mega-Resonator had used 40% of its energy, the satellite's Esoteric Railgun System suddenly shut down, even though the Mega-Resonator was still transferring Elan-Vital Energy to it.
Attempts were made to reboot the Rail System multiple times, without success. With no safe way to release the accumulated EVE, the System violently exploded, launching several personnel members into space along with the Mega-Resonator, which headed toward the Earth's atmosphere.
All attempts to activate the Mega-Resonator's self-destruct device failed, as it was damaged during its entry into the atmosphere. The Mega-Resonator finally impacted South P'yŏngan, North Korea, suddenly releasing all its stored EVE provoking an explosion of approximately 400 megatons that destroyed ~82% of North Korea's total area.
SCP-7216's reclassification to Neutralized and the update of its file are pending approval, as concealment procedures for the incident are currently underway.
