Item #: SCP-668
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: [REVISED] As of [DATA EXPUNGED], no special containment
procedures aside from standard security are required.
SCP-668 is to be transferred to a locked safe-deposit box at Site 19's High Value Item Storage Facility.
Standard defenses against intrusion (explosive, chemical, biological, and memetic) are to
be in place at all times, according to standard operating procedure.
SCP-668 may only be removed from its safe-deposit box by personnel with Security Clearance 2
or higher.
Individuals wishing to make use of SCP-668 outside Site 19 must first submit a Form-668
Requested Course of Action form to O5-11 and be fitted with an explosive killswitch collar
on a 24-hour timer before taking SCP-668 into the field.
An Auditing Officer with Security Clearance 4 or higher must confirm that SCP-668 has
been returned to its safe-deposit box before the collar is deactivated.
Description: SCP-668 is a 33cm (13in) chef's knife with a rosewood handle and full-tang
construction, crafted at some point from the late 1930s to the early 1940s.
When first acquired by field operatives, SCP-668 was in badly rusted condition, with heavy
pitting from blood stains and other bodily fluids trapped in micro-crevices within the
blade.
Following thorough analysis, these irregularities were removed for aesthetic purposes.
This has had negligible, if any, effect on SCP-668's special properties.
The first recorded appearance of SCP-668 was in the 1960s, during the infamous [DATA EXPUNGED]
case.
[DATA EXPUNGED], a New York woman living alone, was allegedly raped and murdered by subject
[DATA EXPUNGED].
Despite the fact that 38 witnesses reported hearing the attack, none of them attempted
to aid the young woman for over six hours, until her eventual death.
Whether the item received its properties due to this event, or whether it had them beforehand,
is a matter of debate (see Dr. [REDACTED]'s paper re: the Bystander Effect, vs. Dr. [REDACTED]'s
theory regarding psychic imprintation.)
What is clear, however, is its current properties.
When carried by a human or humanoid entity with violent intent towards another human
or humanoid entity, SCP-668 broadcasts a psychic signal that renders all sentient beings with
a Psionic Resistance Index of 97 or lower incapable of assisting the victim.
Affected entities report a sudden sense of apathy while under SCP-668's influence: sensory
input is not affected, and affected entities report feeling revulsion and horror, but are
simply incapable of acting, even indirectly, to assist the victim.
Meanwhile, it renders the victim incapable of defending themselves against their attacker.
Tests using Class-D personnel have shown no upper limit in the number of entities affected
by the psychic resonance.
In one test, twelve Class D Personnel due for first-of-the-month termination were placed
in a room alongside a researcher who was told to randomly select one test subject for death.
The researcher killed all test subjects one by one, despite their professed horror.
Prior incidents have indicated the possibility of hundreds, if not thousands of deaths due
to SCP-668's unique properties (see Incident Report 668 A re: [REDACTED] Mall massacre
and subsequent information blackout operations).
Recovery of SCP-668 in such scenarios is problematic due to the item's psychic properties.
Agents attempting to apprehend the subject during Containment Failure Incidents are often
themselves affected by SCP-668's so-called "Apathy Field," resulting in casualties among
Foundation personnel.
Following Incident 668-A, standard retrieval protocol includes the use of a long-range
sniper rifle, double-blind conditions, and three different agents working in tandem through
carefully coordinated actions to prevent any of them realizing that they are actively opposing
the subject.
Because of the obvious apocalyptic possibilities, it is the recommendation of this panel that
SCP-668 be designated a Keter-level threat and placed in high-level confinement.
Addendum 668-a: Following further testing, it has been determined that test subjects
wielding SCP-668 can be terminated through passive response, so long as the terminating
agent is introduced before the subject takes possession of SCP-668.
The Running Man protocol (see Appendix 668-B: Approved Terminating Agents) is hereby approved
for use with SCP-668, and the item in question is hereby reclassified as a Euclid-type object.
Addendum 668-b: Use of Omega-7 personnel for retrieval of SCP-668 during future Containment
Failure Incidents is to be hereby forbidden due to the danger of SCP-076-2 coming into
contact with the item.
Addendum 668-b is revoked as of [DATA EXPUNGED] due to SCP-076-2's expressed distaste at using
an item that, in its own words "takes all the fun out."
Possibility of using SCP-076-2 as a solo agent for any future Containment Failure Incidents
under review.
With the ending of the Omega-7 project, no further attempts to weaponize SCP-076-2 or
SCP-668 are to be attempted.
Addendum 668-c: Do not, under any circumstances, allow SCP-668 to come in contact with SCP-682.
Note that although average human beings have a Psionic Resistance Index of 24, SCP-682
has been tested with a PsiRI of [REDACTED] placing it above SCP-668's threshold of effect.
The possibilities of a creature inimical to all life gaining possession of something like
this should be obvious.
With the ending of the Omega-7 project, no further attempts to weaponize SCP-682 or SCP-668
are to be attempted.
Addendum 668-d: Request to reclassify SCP-668 under its original designation as a Keter-class
object under review.
Addendum 668-e: Request to reclassify SCP-668 under its original designation as a Keter-class
object denied.
SCP-668 will remain at Euclid classification.
Incident: Retrieval of SCP-668, "13 inch chef's knife"
SCP involved: SCP-668
Personnel involved: [DATA EXPUNGED]
Date: [REDACTED]
Location: [REDACTED]
Description: On ██-██-█████, ███ ████ City police department, Precinct ██, responded
to reports of a man attacking and killing bystanders with a large chef's knife at a
local mall.
Upon responding, officers discovered fifteen casualties, most of whom had been ritually
flensed in a manner described by witnesses as "horrific."
Officers discovered the suspect (an escaped serial killer named ████████ ███████, henceforth
referred to as "Suspect") in the child's daycare area in the process of filleting and consuming
a 9-year old boy.
Officers ordered Suspect to cease and desist.
Suspect did not comply.
Officers then attempted to fire upon Suspect, but discovered that they were unable to pull
the trigger.
Officers then attempted to flee, but found themselves unable to do so after Suspect declared
his intention to "murder every last one of you motherf███ing pigs."
Suspect then proceeded to [DATA EXPUNGED] ending with Cynthia Wallis, a Foundation Operative
embedded as an observer with the ██PD.
Despite being under severe psychic assault, Officer Wallis (a pseudonym) managed to activate
her emergency transponder located in her belt while complying with Suspect's orders to ████████, alerting
the Foundation of the situation.
Mobile Task Force Pi-1 ("City Slickers") arrived on the scene ██ minutes later, disguised
as an "FBI Special Antiterrorist Task Force."
Pi-1 breached the perimeter at ████:██:██, corresponding with the moment that Officer Wallis' vital
signs telemetry ceased transmitting.
Task Force members discovered Suspect standing outside the █████████ department
store on the third floor of the mall.
The police officers' bodies were found suspended from the third floor railing, skin flensed
and arranged in the form of wings, entrails removed and trailing to the floor.
Officer Wallis' body was found [DATA EXPUNGED].
SCP Operatives then attempted to terminate Suspect, only to discover that they too were
unable to fire their weapons.
Team Leader █████████ transmitted a Class 1, Type 73 Memetic Attack Alert to
Command and ordered the team to withdraw: this order failed when Suspect stated his
intention to, "find out what all your insides look like," rendering them helpless to escape.
Involved Task Force members were subsequently remote-terminated using surgically installed
cranial detonators according to standard field protocol following psychic compromise in a
field agent.
Command elements then authorized escalation of force to Tier 2 (Severe Collateral Damage).
Aerial bombardment was attempted, but failed when the pilots were unable to release their
payload over the target.
It was thus determined that the "psychic field" that prevents hostile intent towards Subject
may have an infinite range.
Escalation of force to Tier 3 was considered, but delayed while Dr. Gears suggested an alternate
strategy with a higher chance to retrieve the item intact.
Hypothesizing that hostile intent was required for the psychic controls to trigger, Dr. Gears
suggested using Class D Personnel under mind control by SCP-061.
Previously prepped "sleepwalker" agents fitted with surgically implanted earpieces transmitting
SCP-061 were given the following commands:
D-061-056 was ordered to give the following commands to the rest of the personnel through
radio control.
D-061-056 was not given any indication as to the reason for said commands to prevent
the psychic defenses from triggering.
Agents were able to order D-061-056 to give the following orders, suggesting that the
psychic defense may only be able to function through a certain number of iterations (more
research is required on this issue).
D-061-058 through 070 (12 personnel) were ordered to carry explosive charges to twelve
pre-determined points, opening gas mains along the way.
Explosives were detonated in sequence upon being given the final order by D-061-056.
D-061-099, who fit the profile of the Subject's preferred type of victim, was ordered to move
to a predetermined location at the center of the mall to lure the suspect to the best
location for both ensuring a kill and allowing for easy retrieval of the remains.
Finally, six D-class personnel not under control by SCP-061 were ordered to capture the Subject.
These Class-D Personnel were not expected to complete their mission, and served as a
delaying action while the mind-controlled operatives carried out their mission.
The operation was a success: by utilizing multiple personnel, none of whom were aware
of the significance of their actions, none of the personnel knew that their actions were
related to terminating the Suspect and were thus able to act freely.
Suspect's remains were retrieved from the rubble by a "bomb defusing" robot and placed
in a box lined with SCP-148 before being retrieved by Foundation personnel.
Following confirmation of capture, Command ordered Tier 3 (Nuclear Detonation) elements
to stand down from Ready-5 status and declared the incident contained.
A cover story blaming the attack on terrorists was formulated and disseminated to the public.
Controlled testing has determined that the Suspect's weapon (13 inch chef's knife) was
the active agent in the incident, emitting a psionic command that [DATA EXPUNGED].
Suspect's remains are to be sent to ██PD along with a replica knife.
The original weapon is to be designated a Keter Level SCP (SCP-668) and sent to Site-19
for further testing.
How the suspect acquired SCP-668 is unknown at this time.
It is further noted that the obsessive nature of the Subject's method of killing may have
contributed to the success of this operation: Subject carried out its killings in a ritualistic
manner, maximizing the amount of horror, pain, and suffering inflicted on its victims.
For this reason, Foundation personnel were able to keep him contained within an enclosed
area (the mall) and formulate a plan of action.
Should the Subject have made the decision to leave the mall and continue its killing
spree elsewhere, immediate Tier 3 response by a double-blind operator would have been
the only possible method of containing the incident.