item #: scp-455 object class: euclid special containment procedures: object scp-455cannot be moved nor contained in any structure. containment must be made on site. no explorationor testing is to be made on or in scp-455. no personnel are to remain in close proximityfor more than five minutes. all physical contact with scp-455 is forbidden; any personnel breakingthis order are to be quarantined. any hallucinations experienced near scp-455are to be recorded and logged. any personnel experiencing hallucinations are to be transferred.any personnel attempting to enter scp-455 are to be restrained by any means deemed necessary.
description: scp-455 is a large cargo shipcurrently run aground on the southern coast of chile. most of its structure is underwaterand badly damaged, with rust coating 85 to 90 percent of all surfaces. internal structureappears to be significantly larger than external dimensions, and is not flooded despite largeholes visible on outer hull. internal structure appears to be a randomassembly of rooms, halls, and structures. initial salvage teams reported rooms madeof human teeth, an engine with tendon strips for timing belts, a hall extending for 182.88m (600 ft) beyond where the outer hull should terminate, an open "gym" room with steel wallsas pliant as taffy, and numerous audio and visual hallucinations. team was lost afterreporting entry to "central navigation." rescue
team lost after reporting the investigationof "screaming" in a cargo section. dr. ███████████████ hassuggested the use of robots to map the interior of scp-455 after the failure of several mannedexploration teams. experiment log 455 details the attempts toexplore scp-455 and information established despite their failures overall. explorative logs of scp-455 first encounter initial reports of disappearance of a salvageoperation regarding scp-455 led to its classification in our databases. a research team of fivemembers was dispatched to confirm status of
civilian researchers. this team consistedof two field analysts and three security personnel. due to the low threat level initially givento a beached cargo vessel, no direct contact was kept with this team. team orders requiredone contact to their control hq every 24 hours. after three days of uneventful activity teamfailed to report in, and after two days of lost contact a secondary team was dispatchedto investigate lapse in communication. this team consisted of ten standard field agentswith standard gear for confrontation with humanoid aggressors. a search of the vicinity of scp-455 discoveredencampment of the first research team in a condition that suggested an anticipated return.a rice cooker left running for several days
contained heavily burnt food. research laptopswere left on and running, powered by the camp’s portable generator. an analysis of the reportson the laptop indicated minimal activity of note from the site or from scp-455, up untilthe date of ceased communications. the last entry mentions recording of human voices comingfrom deep within scp-455 and a departure of the team to investigate for possible missedsurvivors from the salvage operation. after reporting in the state of team 1’scamp, team 2 was ordered to maintain constant radio contact through the remote system alreadyon camp. what follows is an abbreviated transcript of the audio recorded during team 2’s investigationof scp-455 in search of team 1. hq this is t2l please respond.
t2l this is hq we have you loud and clearover. understood hq, we are above deck on the vesselnow. sun is still up, we can see into the hold but not very far. flashlights also aren’thelping matters much. we’re forgoing direct descent into the hull and are going to usethe stairs to the crew decks and access it from there so we’re not separated. is thisacceptable hq, over? roger t2l you have complete discretion fromhere forward, over. we’ve been out of contact with team 1 for a couple days now already;a few more minutes won’t hurt them. proceed swiftly but cautiously.
hq, this is t2l, we’ve got an anomaly here,over. t2l, this is hq, what’s the situation? we’re on deck three so far of the vesselsir, but it has taken us like, half an hour to get down this far. something not quiteright about the distance between floors for us to spend ten minutes getting between each. understood t2l, we suggest you send one memberback up to the surface and then have him return; please update us to the elapsed time, over. t2l here hq, we sent up a man as advised andhe returned in four minutes. sent him back twice in a sprint, two minutes. we all recordedthirty to get down this far at least, and
we all recorded our scout's return times aswell. there is definitely something inconsistent. proceed as planned t2l, time lapses have beenrecorded but we see no need to abort mission over this. please use precautions when theselapses occur and immediately try to raise us should you suspect one so we can confirmtime since last contact. in addition if radio silence is encountered use utmost discretion. … … … . t2l respond? t2l? fuck.
hq, this is t2l, please repeat? t2l, where the flying fist fuck have you been? um…we… we were just talking sir. how long ago?! s…sir! thi…thirty seconds? maybe fifty?guys? yeah, less than a minute. t2l, please be advised we’ve been out ofcontact with you for sixteen hours, give or take, over. s…sir? that can’t be right, you were just… listen, i don’t know what the shit is goingon out there, but this is what i want you
to do. get to the bottom of those fuckingstairs, search the hold, report back as soon as you get there, and then get the fuck out,do i make myself clear? sir, yes sir! out! sir, we’re apparently at the bottom of theship now, five floors down by our count, standard for a cargo vessel this size. we’re approachingthe hold now and… …t2l, this is hq… and? something is… odd… about the door, sir. details, t2l. define odd. well it’s pristine, sir. the rest of theship is something of a shit hole but this
door looks like it just came out of the metalpress. noted t2l, proceed through using maximum caution,weapons ready. sir yes sir! proceeding to open the door .*backgroundlock system can be heard disengaging* we’re looking into the hold now, sir, and movingforward. remaining silent for now, t2l, focus on searchingthe hold and getting topside. *background sound of door slamming closedand lock system rotating back into place.* the fuck, did you close that? (fainter) no,sir! it did it on its own. (t2l) what the hell… we appear to be locked in now, hq,but we can see daylight above us, so we can probably rappel out if the door won’t…what is that? hq, there appear to be people
down here with us, estimated fifteen or sopeople in the corner huddled together. they look injured, we’re approaching. … … hey, that’s don. don! man! wake up! wake…oh… oh fuck. hq, come in, hq, come in, come in. t2l, this is hq, what is it? we found the salvage team and the first team,they’re here and… i don’t know if they’re alive or not but they’re— t2l? they’re what, t2l? come in!
…wait, where did ramses go? he was right…daniel! vincent?! what the fuck… hq come in we just lost three… no four, four members. t2l make sense, what do you mean lost? i hearno weapons fire. they’re just gone, sir, they were standingbehind us at flank and they’re just gone. .. spencer? what’s… someone shine a lighton spencer… where’d he go? son of a bitch… t2l, what’s going on in there? hq we’ve lost four men apparently, theywere just at the rear of us and now they’re gone.(unknown sound similar to sliding metal) t2l?! t2l respond! respond?! where the helldid he go now—
hq?! come in hq?!t2l we’re here please respond. oh shit oh shit oh shit they responded, guyshq responded! hq this is baker and i’m here with jensen and thomas from team 2 sent to.. we know who you’re with baker, we were justtalking to t2l about ten seconds ago, where is— h..hq, we haven’t heard from you in twoweeks. we’re out of rations, though we found some food in one of the crew rooms. t2l hasbeen dead since we were in the hold. he.. he went to investigate the people in the hold,and as soon as he approached them, that hatch in the back, it flew open, made a huge noise.we all turned to look at it, then back to
t2l and … he was gone, him and those peoplein the corner, just gone, like the others. we searched the ship, up and down, up anddown but never found him… did you return to the surface for suppliesbaker? that ship should only be five floors at mos— we… we never thought to do that. this shipis at least thirty floors hq, at least! but we found a crew quarters with food and we’vebeen… baker our first team reported that ship hadbeen ashore for at least thirty years, maybe more. what exact food did you find there thatwas edible? …..
baker? ….thirty, years? baker, listen closely. i want you, and whoeveris left, to get topside immediately. we are dispatching a rescue team to— (gunshot)(gunshot) baker?!(gunshot) ..baker?! come in?! what the fuck is goingon over there?! a third team of heavily armed recon unitswas dispatched to the scp-455 site and investigated the cargo hold from above deck using highpowered flashlights and flares. no trace of
any life was in the hold, nor was there anytrace there had ever been life there. reports indicate a layer of dust and rust approximatedto be an inch thick as determined by the cloud and dispersal caused by dropping of flaresinto the hold. team three was recalled and a high priority research team deployed toscp-455 for deeper investigation as to fate of all three missing groups. team 3after the failure of the first two teams dispatched to scp-455 a third team was put together andsent. this team was composed of more veteran members with far more experience exploringand investigating sites of interest or risk. this team was composed of five persons andincluded an additional technician who would
remain outside scp-455 at all times to maintaincommunications link to the team. unknown to team 3, a fourth team coded as ‘ripcord,’composed of five members as well, was put on standby on site approximately ten milesaway. their purpose was emergency evac of team 3 should it become necessary, and theywere to proceed to scp-455’s site immediately after team 3 entered it to reduce responsetime. team 3’s issued gear included two separatevideo recording units, one issued to the leader, t3l, and one to a video specialist, t3v. thiswas deemed necessary due to the lapses in time experienced during team 2’s investigation.one member of team 3 was instructed to enter scp-455 through the cargo loading area directlyand would be tethered to land by a pulley
system. hq: t3l, this is hq, we are online and receivingfeeds over. t3l: roger hq, this is t3l. we are preparingto enter the ship via the stairs. evans is in position at the cargo hold. hq: understood. proceed through both entrancesand move directly to the cargo hold to rendezvous with evans. t3v is recording his descent andall flood lights are active within the hold as well as the ones on the deck. team 3's primary force proceeded down thestairs into scp-455 while its secondary unit descended into the cargo hold where team 2disappeared. within three minutes of descending
into scp-455, the primary force's video feedended. the secondary force experienced no issues at all and waited in the cargo holdunder the observation of t3v, who recorded what consisted of five minutes of evans walkingin circles, dancing a brief jig, and waving up at the camera. hq considered sending t3vto investigate the stairs, but it was decided that full attention should be paid to evanswho was within scp-455 and experiencing no anomalous activity. during mounting concernon whether to abort or proceed with the mission, t3l's video feed returned. hq: t3l, respond immediately, over. we lostfeed to you, what happened? t3l: hq?! hq come in! for god… you're there..oh god… th… this is t3l… we've lost
two men… somehow the rest of us are stillalive… this place it's… it's… hq: t3l how much time has passed for yourunit? t3l: t..time? ten hours sir. we came downhere ten hours ago and… hq: now slow down t3l. are you in a safe locationat this current moment? t3l: yes we… we're fine in this room…seems to be food storage… hq: touch nothing in that room, t3l, and listenclosely to me. the mission has been in progress for five minutes. evans is in the hold…apparently doing the hammer now… now listen, i want you to detail to me exactly what hashappened and do not leave that room. do not eat anything in that room. take a breath,secure the entryway, and talk to me.
t3l explained that they had proceeded downtwenty floors within the ship when divers have established that it can't possibly havemore than six from the exterior. during this time t3v was instructed to raise evans backout of the cargo area and secure him topside. t3l: okay… okay… relax… relax… okay…hq. okay… we proceeded down the stairs as normal. nothing seemed out of the ordinaryuntil we noticed we had gone down far more flights than it should have taken to get tothe bottom to enter the cargo area. we sent erik up to retrace our steps and he was onlyable to go up two floors. we had descended at my count at least fifteen. there was nohatch back to the surface, the stairs just went up to the ceiling and ended, we couldhear his every word from his location. erik
then said the hatch to that floor was openand he saw someone in it leaning against a wall. they were well within earshot of usas well, but hadn't reacted to any of our conversation… hq: keep going t3l. t3l: so… erik… he goes through the hatchto try and figure out who this person is… they hadn't moved, hadn't shown any hostility,and according to him they weren't even looking our direction, like we didn't exist to them.suddenly we heard gunfire so the entire team rushed up two flights and just like he said,the stairs just stopped at the ceiling and the floor hatch was open. nobody was in thathallway, not a soul. no erik, no second person.
no bullet shells. nothing… but the walls… hq: the walls? t3l: the walls were… wrong, hazy, like youwere viewing them through a gas leak. they were flowing and fluid, just wrong. i closedthe hatch. i, i don't know why i didn't go in and look for erik but i just… i feltlike i couldn't. i wrote him off as lost immediately. i wasn't going in there or sending any ofmy men in there after him. hq: understood t3l. keep going. t3l: so the rest of the squad, we go backdown the stairs, can't go up, not going in that hallway. all the rest of the floors wereclosed off. we went down maybe… ten more
flights… then the stairs started changing.they were solid metal, like aluminum but now there were holes in the steps, and the metallooked rusted in some places, old. like the rest of the ship. up until now everythinghad seemed rather clean, it didn't dawn on me immediately that the clean parts were actuallystranger than the old parts… t3l: we found a food storage area down here,everything seems in good shape, but we didn't touch any of it yet… i read the team 2 logs.i sent a man out into the hall to see what we could do on this floor. there seems tobe a series of ladders in a group at the far end, but the entirety of this floor is foodstorage… it actually doesn't make sense why there are so many of these rooms. i'mtalking over twenty on this one floor, and
they're all big enough for ten people to standinside and have room to move. some of them are locked… probably for the best. hq: and the ladders? t3l: we haven't gone down them yet. wantedto see if we could get someone from the outside first. hq: down? they go down? what the flaming shitis going… okay… sweet dapper jesus of the gentlemen's club. look, i don't want toput any of you at risk, but we need to find you a way out of there. if you can't go backup, and you can only go down, only send one man. t3v and evans are topside and perfectlyfine. we're sending a diving crew around the
ship exterior to see if we can pinpoint yourlocation inside it using thermal. t3l: understood sir. contact with t3l was lost after this transmissionand remained disconnected for twelve hours. divers around scp-455 could not effectivelyscan the ship wreckage through thermal as the ship exhibited temperatures far higherthan the water surrounding it. at sunrise, t3v and evans were ordered to return to scp-455and re-investigate the ship through the cargo hold. upon activation of the cargo lightsall missing members of team 3 were found within the cargo hold in an apparently catatonicstate; only the member erik whom went missing per the team 3 recordings was unaccountedfor. all remaining members remained in a state
of stasis until removed from the ship andleft undisturbed for approximately an hour. all recall moving down the mentioned laddersin the last transmission, but nothing after that point that would lead to them being inthe cargo hold. team 3 exploration ended and robotic exploration is now a viable option. exploration log record 455 3 central record notation: following documentcontains the whole and entirety of exploration log record 455 – 3. omissions are as follows: key names, as detailed in cr law 18813d – subsection4 key dates, as detailed in cr law 18817e – subsection5-8
0-5 level discretionary omissions, as detailedin cr law 137a requests for omitted data may be remandedto central records for address during quarterly review hearings. emergency recall may be grantedon direct approval from three 05 command members. exploration team personnel consists of threem.t.f. zeta-9 members (mr. a, mr. r, and ms. s), two agents (mr. g, and sir k), and oneclass d subject (d-11). team is equipped with basic foundation equipment package for semi-aquatic/hostileenvironment exploration, in addition to the mark-5 heavy recon (nautilus class) suitsissued to zeta-9 team members. two mobile recon vehicles (commonly called “marvsâ€)are also issued. mission time begins at 0800 hours on ██/██/████. marv1 malfunctions during initial transfer of
team from observation platform to scp-455and is recalled. marv 2 continues normal operation, and remains in the water as the team climbsto the deck of scp-455 g: “holy hell…how is this heap even stayingafloat?†a: “it's not floating, it's grounded out…this is just the part that sticks up.†g: “is it even safe to walk on? what ifit gives way?†s: “oh, relax, big boy… you've been on-deckfor over thirty seconds, you already beat the last team's time!â€
d-11: “oh no, hell no, not a chance. youcan shoot my happy ass, but i am not going down there.†k: “it's not a request. walk, or be strappedto the marv and floated. your choice.†d-11: “…what a bullshit way to make parole…†a: “okay kiddos, masks on. rats, cannedair from here out. r, is your seal still good? let me check…good. g, get those tanks ond-11…â€
marv 2 appears to be working fine…hi guys!†s: “i say left…left keeps us in the shipproper…right seems to be snaking off outside physical dimensions…†k: “we go right. we are under advisementto explore the extra-dimensional segments for possible details.†s: “no, we go left. right will take us downthe rabbit hole of screwed much, much too fast.†k: “this is not a discussion.†s: “listen asshole, i-â€
d-11: “the fuck is-†a: “s, let it go, it's not-†k: “i will-†d-11: “-touching my foo-†r: “guys-â€
g: “a, is there any record of movement in455?†a: “not a one. guys, can you still see us?any movement from 455?â€
is very precise, and can be crossed withoutincident. it's like an invisible force…†s: “christ… the room's so damn blue…it's really bright, almost looks fresh…†r: “dead end, too… looks like we go leftafter all, bu-†g: “the hallway's gone!†a: “the fuck do… shit.†for four seconds after impact. plant matterobserved during the last two seconds of video matches no known species and appears exceptionallyhostile. base team is unable to send transmissions to exploration team.> k: “the, ah, entry hall is now gone…itappears the door now opens on to a shaft, with several ladders going down. the top ofthe shaft is in line with the top of the hatch door…there appears to be water leakage fromseveral seams in the roof, with-†g: “i can't see bottom…i mean at all…thatthing goes down a mile-†k: “with some flaking rust falling as well.the marv appears to have vanished as well.†a: “okay…we go down, and look for thenearest exit point or way up. if we don't find anything in half a hour, i want r ands to start excavation charges on a wall until something opens up.†r: “roger the hell out of that…i'll startnow if ya like…†a: “everyone down the hole…watch yourfeet, if anything feels weak, skip to the next rung. i want safety lines on every-†s: “-is my shepherd, i shall-â€a: “blow the floor for fuck's sake†r: “get ou-†s: “-lly there, it's just a illusion ofa fish, it…oh…oh jesus pl-†g: (laughter) k: (twenty seconds of a single sustained scream) k: “yes!, i ju-†a: “home. i want my home, i don't want tofeel the rust in me anymore. i w-†s: (soft crying, barely audible) g: “-ot it, i shot it, i s-†a: “-ry up, maybe? we haven't tried up ina few days…†s: “i'll eat it, but not beca-†d-11: “it's cold.†< no radio contact with team reported beyondthis point. radio monitoring is ongoing. single report, one month after mission end, of ms.s observed waving from the deck. report filed by single watch guard and not verified byany other sources.>
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