The night shift had been going slow for Officer Daniels.
The streets were practically empty and the
police radio had been quiet.
Daniels decided to take one more lap around his patrol area before
ending his shift.
As he drove, his radio came on.
He was being summoned to the other side of town,
where someone had apparently tipped off a location of unusual activity
regarding a number of missing dog reports.
Daniels turned on his lights and siren, and sped to the
scene.
Once he arrived to the specified location, Daniels passed by the
police tape securing the peremiter, and made his way inside the house.
He turned on his flashlight, and followed the other officers down
into the basement.
The horrid smell got worse as they climbed down.
They reached the bottom and illuminated the area with their
flashlights.
What Daniels saw almost made him and the other
officers get sick.
Piled on the ground were numerous dead, rotting
dogs.
Dried and fresh blood covered the floors and walls, and flies
swarmed everywhere.
Daniels spoke up.
"Where’s the owner of the house?"
One of the other officers replied, "We don’t know.
’Person called in and said they heard a loud bang,
looked out the window and saw someone take off like a bat outta
hell in a red truck."
Daniels surveyed the area, shaking his head in disbelief.
Then, he noticed something glimmer as it
caught the beam of his light.
He pushed through the smell of
decaying flesh, and slowly walked
closer to the shining object.
He kneeled down and shone his light
one of the dogs, and the object resting on it.
Daniels found a severed finger, laying in a small
pool of golden blood.
The finger was wrapped in what looked like a
ring made from smaller bones.
Daniels jumped back in shock.
The other officers walked over to see
what he had found.
They all circled around the animal and gazed at the
finger.
"Is that what I think it is?"
"Is that gold blood?"
Daniels looked at the officers.
"I think this just became a FED
problem..."
Thirty minutes later, a Foundation helicoptor landed in the
neighborhood street.
A man in a black suit got out of the carrier
and found Daniels, sitting outside of the house, clearly shaken about
what he had just witnessed.
The Foundation agent walked up to
Daniels.
"Are you the one who found the finger?"
"Yeah, who are you?"
"We believe you and the other officers here may have been
contaminated."
"What?
What do you mean "contaminated"?
You mean from all the dead animals down there?
I think we’re fine."
The Foundation agent pulled a syringe out from inside his suit
coat pocket.
"Officer Daniels, we’re going to need you and the others to come
with us..."
Welcome to SCP Exposed.
Today, we bring you Euclid-class subject
number one seven eight nine, also known as the the irate finger, but
before we begin, be sure to leave a like and hit the notification bell,
so you don’t miss out on any future SCP cases.
SCP-1789 is an enlarged humanoid finger, approximately one meter
long, and severed at the base.
It is sapient and capable of
telepathic communication.
In a number of interviews, SCP-1789 has
demonstrated megalomania and a general hostility towards all
Foundation personnel.
It is capable of movement, but not locomotion,
and convulses rapidly when agitated.
When 1789 communicates, any demands it makes have anomalous
compulsory properties, albeit this compulsion is weak and can be
resisted with very little concentration.
Some of the requests 1789 has made include:
the furnishing of ceremonial incense inside of its containment
chamber.
the provision of a small trough, filled with the blood of cattle.
the provision of a ceremonial piece of gold jewelry to decorate its
fingernail.
the provision of ceremonial rings of varying composition, usually the
spinal vertebrae or rib cages of household animals, to decorate it.
to be bathed in a mixture of sea salt and an unidentified, golden
liquid that hemorrhages from 1789, referred to as 1789-1.
to be transported to a non-specific location, described as a “Cradle
for the Kings".
SCP-1789 expressed the desire to be reunited with what
it described as, quote, “the multitudes of flesh ascendant,
where the scattered remains of the King shall once again establish
their domain over the beasts of this Earth.”
The initial hypothesis that SCP-1789 was referring to the
Valley of the Kings in Egypt was disproven when a Foundation
archeological expedition to the region found no anomalous activity.
However, due to the size of the target area and the ambiguity of
SCP-1789’s statements, it has been deemed impossible to determine the
veracity of SCP-1789’s claims.
While the compulsory properties of SCP-1789’s demands are usually
weak, consuming thhe golden liquid that comes from 1789 drastically
increases the potency of the compulsions.
After consuming a cumulative volume of approximately
six liters of 1789-1, the consumer’s autonomy becomes
irreparably compromised when subjected to 1789’s demands.
SCP-1789 was first retrieved in 2012 from an undisclosed residence.
Local law enforcement had been investigating an abnormal increase
in reports of missing dogs.
After tracing the disappearances, police
presumably discovered SCP-1789 and brought it into their custody.
News of the incident came to the
Foundation’s attention during a routine radio scan of North
American law enforcement.
Everyone involved in the police call were
given Class A Amnestics.
After interrogation, an unnamed law
enforcement officer was given a Class A Amnestics and subsequently
entered Foundation employment as a D Class personnel.
SCP-1789 was found in an unnamed person’s basement.
The remains of several dogs were found throughout
the basement.
Forensics reveals the dogs’ bones had been first
splintered with a sharp object, such as a butcher knife, and then
strung together with twine to form a crude ring, which was found
decorating SCP-1789.
SCP-1789 was resting on the still-decaying body
of one of the slaughtered dogs.
After SCP-1789 was contained in Foundation custody, it began to
undergo superficial necrosis.
The remains found in the unnamed
person’s basement have not displayed any anomalous properties.
The O5 council has elected not to reintroduce the remains recovered
from the basement or any previously constructed ornaments to SCP-1789’s
environment.
SCP-1789 is contained in Storage Chamber 34, located within Site 17.
Storage Chamber 34 is to be equipped with high-quality audio
and video monitoring devices.
SCP-1789 is to be suspended via harness above a collection trough
at all times.
Collected samples of SCP-1789-1 are to be disposed of
within three hours as a biohazard, unless samples are required for
research and testing purposes.
Any personnel found to be engaging in unauthorized communication with
SCP-1789 are to be given a formal written and spoken reprimand.
Any personnel found to be attempting to
carry out one of 1789’s commands are to be terminated immediately.
All changes in 1789’s flow rate of 17899-1 are to be monitored and
recorded.
1789 is to be subject to regularly scheduled interrogation.
Mentions of the “Cradle for the Kings” are
to be immediately forwarded to the overseeing Level 4 researcher.
To this day, SCP-1789 is located in Site 17.
There have been no anomolous incidents involving it
since its time in the Foundation.