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SCP-682-A, circa 2011.
Item #: SCP-682-ARC
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-682-A and -B are to be left alone in their respective territories. Attacks should be misrepresented in the media, or suppressed should that prove too difficult.
Trail cameras have been placed in hidden locations along the Tian Shan mountain range. These are to be monitored automatically — and events are to be studied by local employees to identify and handle surviving witnesses. Sightings of SCP-682-A are to be catalogued in Document 682-A. Bodies found along any of the trails going through the Tian Shan mountains are to be left where it leaves them.
The 85 Pitt Street apartment building1 is open to residents, but the door to Room 411 has been covertly nailed shut. Hidden cameras and microphones have been installed along the fourth floor. This floor is to be cordoned off when required for maintenance using whatever cover story is acceptable at the time. Sightings of SCP-682-B are to be catalogued in Document 682-B. Should SCP-682-B begin acting erratically, the building’s residents are to be evacuated and a suppression plan is to be enacted. Witnesses and other obstacles should be dealt with according to their need.
Description: SCP-682 are two predators that possess an apparent fascination with the slaughter of human beings. One of these predators (-A) is located in the Tian Shan mountain range in Central Asia, while the other (-B) is located inside of the 85 Pitt Street apartment building in New York City, New York, United States.
Though they'll use any method, they appear to most enjoy the skinning of the face, the tearing of the scalp from the skull, the gouging of the eyeballs, the flattening of the chest until rupture, and/or the splitting of the spine followed by the tearing of the torso into two halves. They are efficient killers, though their techniques differ in a few key ways. SCP-682-A has a more standard hunting behavior — it will usually spend a half hour tracking and observing its prey before an attack. SCP-682-B, in contrast, attacks in sudden and violent outbursts. Its victims were almost always near the unit it presides in or at least on the same floor, and it is far more brutal in its attacks than -A. In one notable case, SCP-682-B pried open the doors of an elevator shaft, fell seven stories (~30m), crashed through the top of the elevator car, and gored the three inhabitants inside without any apparent injury. This took place over approximately ten seconds.
They resemble lionesses (Panthera leo) albeit with significant differences. They are hairless, save for a line of black fur running from the back of their necks along their back to a short, stubby tail. They are around three meters long, one-and-a-half meters tall, and weigh an estimated 150 kilograms. Their hide is tough and gray in color — similar in color to a corpse or other dead thing, which suggests a lack of blood flow underneath. Their eyes are black. Their claws are short, similar in structure to that of a bear's, and are perpetually stained with blood, even when licking themselves or standing in deep water. Their wounds appear to heal exceptionally quickly. Within hours, deep lacerations will clot, and within days it will heal completely, without scarring.
Notably, neither SCP-682-A nor -B has ever consumed a victim, or anything at all. It is unclear how they keep energy, or if they even require energy at all. While it is possible that they may grow tired during prolonged attacks, no attack has lasted long enough to verify through observation alone. Testing of this quality is too disruptive to conduct and has been placed on an indefinite hold. Attempts to grasp the underlying desires that these anomalies fulfill have been costly and fruitless. There is currently no interest in conducting another investigation on this matter.
A reasonable point of contention could be made in pairing these two creatures together as the same anomaly. There is no direct evidence that they are linked— they are in two different locations, their similarities in 'pataphysical analysis are unclear, they presumably hold different meanings in the eye of God, and their behaviors are quite different. Regardless, it is evident that they are both, individually, anomalous and bear a striking similarity to each other. Therefore, our pairing of them together as a singular SCP is not due to direct evidence but rather due to the overwhelmingly low odds of both of these anomalies appearing independently from chance.
Addendum: Transcripts of Two Recorded Victims of SCP-6822
85 Pitt Street, NY, U.S.