SCP-517 Grammie Knows object class safe
Item #: SCP-517
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-517 is to be kept secured within Containment Locker
51164 in Site-66, facing away from the doorway.
A thick sheet is to be draped over the item at all times.
Testing is currently prohibited, as the nature of the manifestation invariably causes a low-level
containment breach.
If SCP-517-01 is triggered, personnel are instructed to report to their immediate superior
to enact Protocol 517-001.
As of Incident 517-1997-M, SCP-517 is to be kept in a dedicated cell at all times.
An opaque black sheet is to be kept bound around the object at all times.
As of ██/██/2002, no more testing is to be conducted on SCP-517 without Site
Director's approval.
Description: SCP-517 is a fortune-telling machine.
Item stands approximately 2 meters tall, containing a mechanical puppet and an electric candle
within a glass and wooden case.
Examination has shown an internal layout consistent with similar machines.
On the top panels the words "Grandmother Predictions" are painted on built-in signage.
The puppet within is in the shape of an elderly woman, with a white blouse and a blue shawl.
Item's power cord has been severed approximately 15 centimeters from its base; it appears to
have been inexpertly separated from its original power source.
No reaction occurs if a coin is inserted into the slot.
The item will energize automatically, once an hour, if an individual (hereafter the "Target")
enters its field of vision.
The puppet will turn to face directly at the Target, dispense a "fortune card" from the
slot on its front, and cease function.
Process is fully mechanical, and item does not show signs of awareness.
See Addendum for a transcript for examples of "fortunes".
The individual who "activated" SCP-517 will become the Target of an entity or number of
entities who will attack at 1:43 AM local time the following morning.
The Entity or Entities (hereby SCP-517-01) appear as a varying number of long, multi-jointed
arms (between ten and three dozen), initially appearing from a single area.
Arms seem to be completely corporeal, and can apparently extend indefinitely.
Entity will immediately rush towards and attempt to grab and capture the Target or Targets.
If the hunt is made sufficiently challenging, additional arms will begin to constantly generate
in close proximity to the victim in order to facilitate an easier capture.
Chosen areas are usually low, cramped, dark areas such as basements or closets, and will
not shift during a given assault.
In all instances, Targets have been captured, rapidly dragged into SCP-517-01's chosen area,
and savagely beaten until sunrise.
Entity has been documented reaching from the ventilation system of an office building,
drawing a Target into a drop-ceiling, pulling a Target under a bed, and drawing a Target
through a sewage grate.
Any attempts to intrude on this event will result in human aggressors being drawn into
the assault.
The remains of victims are reduced to [REDACTED].
To date there have been no survivors.
If more than one individual activates the item in the span of one day, all will become
Targets of the following night's assault.
SCP-517-01 will appear from multiple areas while "hunting" multiple Targets.
However, due to the resultant chaos during the test (517-34c) in which this was discovered,
all measures are to be taken to avoid multiple activations.
Remote viewing of the expected points of origin of SCP-517-01 during testing revealed arms
extending from points around corners and otherwise off-camera, eventually crowding out the video
feed.
Fragmented, unidentified human DNA has appeared in the areas utilized by SCP-517-01; ultimate
origins are still currently unknown.
Addendum - Fortunes Samples from several "fortunes" as read by
SCP-517.
██/██/1993: How many times should somebody be told to be good?
██/██/1994: Your mother raised you better than that.
I'm sorry, but fair is fair.
██/██/1994: You try to be good; you should try harder.
██/██/1994: Some people don't know how to be kind.
You'll know soon enough, won't you?
██/██/1997: People who do terrible things deserve terrible things.
You've brought this upon yourself, my dear.
██/██/1998: You'll find out, soon enough.
██/██/2002: You look like you've made some mistakes.
Some things are unforgivable, aren't they?
██/██/2002: Do you think they've forgotten?
Incident 517-1997-M
SCP Involved: SCP-517 Personnel Involved: Dr. Agusta Meil (deceased),
Site-23 Security Date: 08/25/1997
Location: Storage Site-23.
On 08/25/1997, at approximately 13:56, the late Dr. Meil was targeted by SCP-517 while
supervising the object’s transport to a new storage locker.
Security and Site Director were alerted, and a defensive strategy was devised.
At 23:30, Dr. Meil was loaded into a Foundation UH-60 Black Hawk, five security personnel
assigned as bodyguards.
Helicopter was situated on Helipad 3-8, located on the roof of the then-empty Cafeteria 1.
Non-essential security personnel from sectors 1, 3 and 4 were armed with blades and stun
batons, and select personnel were granted flame weapons and concussion explosives.
Squads were directed to strategic points around Cafeteria 1’s main and second floors, and
instructed to destroy any instances of SCP-517-01 that appear.
As this was the first concerted effort intended to overcome SCP-517-01, all measures were
taken.
As Cafeteria 1 was not constructed with a proper basement, it was expected that SCP-517-01
would manifest in one of the surrounding buildings.
All SCP objects that posed a threat if released by SCP-517-01 were moved to another area of
the Site.
SCP-059’s enclosure is located away from Cafeteria 1 and as such was deemed safe.
Log of Events
23:57 - Dr. Meil and guards board aerial transport 00:05 - Night time illumination augmented
by additional floodlights.
00:36 - Ground squads assigned to interior of Cafeteria 1 in place.
00:41 - Ground squads assigned to exterior of Cafeteria 1 in place.
01:03 - Weapon check called.
01:10 - Dr. Meil expresses an intense feeling of suspense.
Becomes mildly agitated.
Attributed to knowledge of SCP object and subsequent paranoia.
01:20 - Last call for restroom breaks.
01:30 - Site locked down.
All doors and windows capable of being sealed are locked.
01:43 - Approximately 18 SCP-517-01 limbs sighted to the east of Cafeteria 1, generated
somewhere in Storage-Center 4-b, approximately 40 metres away.
Immediately destroyed by concentrated weapons fire.
01:47 - More SCP-517-01 sighted, in the same area.
Additional arms generate to replace those destroyed by weapons fire.
Several seemed tasked to collect pieces left behind.
No hostility towards squads reported.
01:55 - Further instances of SCP-517-01 sighted to the northeast of Cafeteria 1, generating
from within several Foundation- assigned vehicles parked between Cafeteria 1 and Storage-Center
4-b.
Ground squad engages, utilizing flame weapons.
02:10 - Assault continues upon SCP-517-01.
Number of arms greatly increase, between 80 and 100 are estimated to generate at a steady
pace from various points to the northeast.
Fire-damaged or destroyed limbs retract out of sight.
Pieces left behind collected by entity.
No hostility reported directly towards Foundation teams.
02:24 - Squads report some difficulty keeping up with the rate of replacement.
Explosive weapons authorized against origin points.
No hostility reported directly towards Foundation teams.
02:39 - Dr. Meil and aerial squad go airborne.
02:41 - Arms generate “from the walls” within Cafeteria 1, ground floor.
Later examination reveals the arms had formed irregular holes in the drywall consistent
with blunt force.
Ground-floor squad engages, utilizing close-quarters weaponry.
No hostility reported directly towards Foundation teams.
02:49 - SCP-517-01 appears within Cafeteria 1 ventilation system.
Roof squad engages.
Ground-based instances of SCP-517-01 are noted to continue reaching in the direction of Cafeteria
1, even while Dr. Meil has gone airborne within the evacuation vehicle.
200 estimated to have appeared.
03:04 - SCP-517-01 appear on roof of Cafeteria 1, generating from kitchen exhaust ports.
Damage done to structural mesh.
Entity engaged.
03:11 - SCP-517-01 observed to remove the locked fire-escape door on the north side
of Cafeteria 1.
Said instances generated within Cafeteria 1’s ventilation systems.
03:22 - 4 SCP-517-01 limbs, generating from the exhaust system of Cafeteria 1, reach helicopter.
Roof crew alerted, limbs culled.
03:31 - Dr. Meil becomes hysteric, demands that the pilot flee.
Helicopter begins moving to the southeast.
03:33 - SCP-517-01 generate upon helicopter, seemingly from the base of the tail.
Begin attacking the doors.
03:34 - Left-side rear window shattered, onboard squad engaged with bladed weapons.
03:35 - Dr. Meil acquired by SCP-517-01.
Drawn through window, passed towards waiting arms.
Subsequently moved through the air towards Cafeteria 1.
03:35 - SCP-517-01 limb caught in helicopter’s tail rotor; pilot forced to attempt an emergency
landing.
Agent Track severely wounded.
03:36 - Squads report a marked increase in hostility by SCP-517-01.
Entity begins replacing arms at a greatly increased rate.
Number of limbs estimated at a steady 150.
03:37 - Dr. Meil drawn through Cafeteria 1’s kitchen ventilation system.
03:37 - Dr. Meil reappears in kitchen.
Agent Matheson attempts to sever 517-01 limbs; subsequently captured and pulled towards fire
exit with Dr. Meil.
03:37 - Agent Germain, Agent Teffler, and Agent Seile captured.
Defence squads ordered to stand down.
03:39 - Dr. Meil, Agents Matheson, Germain, Teffler, and Seile drawn into Storage-Building
4-b through access door.
Outside limbs retract, disappear.
03:44 - Agent Ted attempts to damage Storage-Building 4-b with combat grenades; aggressively drawn
into building by exceedingly rapid limbs.
03:45 - Command contacted; mission failed.
07:01 - Dawn.
07:10 - Collective remains of Dr. Meil and Agents Matheson, Germain, Teffler, Seile and
Ted rediscovered.