Discovery

The Williamsburg Walmart at the initiation of the Berserkir Event.

SCP-3193 was discovered within a song used in a holiday sale promotional by Walmart Incorporated. The song containing SCP-3193 in 30-second radio advertisements to promote the "Holiday Cheer Blowout Sale", at the Williamsburg Walmart department store. This incomplete version of SCP-3193 had no anomalous effect on exposed individuals. On 1995/12/15, the day of the aforementioned sale, the Williamsburg Walmart played several informational pieces over the store intercom with the song containing SCP-3193, in its entirety, as the background music. These were played in half-hour intervals causing a 6-hour Berserkir Event.

The following is the song SCP-3193 was discovered within; key notes have been redacted to negate the cognitohazardous effect:

VIDEO LOG 3193/A

DATE: 1995/12/15

NOTE: This log is a compilation of excerpts taken from the Williamsburg Walmart security camera system during the Berserkir Event, as well as the personal cameras of Jack Doris and Julie Doris, two amateur filmmakers making a documentary on the struggles of deaf individuals in America.

[BEGIN LOG]

+ Video Log 1 - Video Log 1 [Camera shows Julie Doris walking through the parking lot. She turns to face Jack Doris.] Julie: Do I have to wear this camera? It feels weird. Jack: How will we record what I say? Julie: I'll remember and write it down. Jack: You didn't remember the grocery list. Or the bags. Julie rolls her eyes and walks through the sliding doors into Walmart.

8:01 am SCP-3193 begins to play over the store's loudspeakers. All customers begin to indiscriminately attack people nearby. Familiar connections seem irrelevant, as a group of children is seen forcing their mother into a freezer and barring the door. Seven deaths are recorded during this period.

8:36 am: SCP-3193-A instances cease combat and divide into two groups, gathering at opposite sides of the store. This event is also seemingly random. Ten minutes later, each group sends twenty-five people out into the store, where they appear to be gathering materials, such as baseball bats, shelving, and kitchenware. The pharmacy is also raided at this point. Post-incident examination showed that SCP-3193-A instances primarily took narcotics and other painkillers from this sector.

+ Video Log 2 - Video Log 2 [Camera shows Jack and Julie Doris sitting behind the One-Hour Photo Center counter. Blood is visible on Jack Doris' shirt and a gash is present on his cheek. Julie Doris has scratches on her forearms and her hands are visibly shaking.] Jack: You are okay. You are okay. We will be okay. Julie: What happened out there? Everyone just started. I don't know. They were like [rabid] dogs. Jack: I don't know. It's like. [Makes a motion with his hand like he's holding a cellphone. He grimaces.] We need to get out of here. I can see the exit. [Julie does not sign anything to him for several seconds.] Jack: Julie? Julie: We can't. There are children out there. If we leave, they'll die. Jack: If we stay, we'll die. How could you help them? This isn't normal. Julie: Why aren't we affected? [Looks at her shaking hands.] I think we're supposed to be here. Jack: Are you insane? We need to go. Alert the police. Julie: What if they go feral too? They have guns. We need to do something. Anything. Jack: Julie. Please. I can't lose you. Julie: Then don't leave me. Jack: What's your plan?

9:06 am Using the materials recovered, SCP-3193-A instances begin to construct crude weaponry and armor, coating it and themselves in red or blue paint. The East side of the store used exclusively red paint, while the West side utilized blue. After this, SCP-3193-A instances begin to ingest large amounts of narcotics and painkillers and begin to enter a frenzied state.

9:19 am A brief skirmish occurs in the Electronics Department, resulting in the deaths of two people. The Dorises can be seen moving into the Pharmacy Department and taking large amounts of bandages and sleeping pills before grabbing rope from the Hardware Department.

9:30 am: Both teams meet in the center of the store. After several minutes of screaming, they each push forward a combatant, with Blue selecting a middle-aged man and Red selecting an elderly woman. These combatants circle each other before engaging directly. The man is unable to strike the woman with his bat and gets his arm caught in a shelving unit. The elderly woman cuts his hamstrings with two serrated steak knives and repeatedly slams his head into the ground. Blue team withdraws and the Red team surrounds the man. Five minutes later, the man can be seen flayed and hanging over the entrance to the Garden Department with the Elder Futhark Runes for "Coward" written above his head in pieces of his skin. Despite these injuries, he remains alive for the next two hours.

9:45 am: For the next two hours, the SCP-3193-A instances repeat this ritual every fifteen minutes, with the losers being subjected to increasingly horrific torture methods, such as the removal of the entire digestive tract, being force-fed pins and needles, limb centered immolation, removal of teeth and reinsertion into the eye sockets, and forcing one woman to take a bite of her still-beating heart.

+ Video Log 3 - Video Log 3 [Camera shows eleven unconscious children tied to chairs with rope. The camera pans to show the employee break room, when Julie is leaning against a vending machine and drinking a soda.] Jack: Getting tired, hero? Julie: I just never realized how strong kids could be. Or mean. Jack: I've got nine bites. How about you? Julie: Something like that. Only one more, right? Jack: Yeah. I think they're somewhere in Sporting Goods. [Pause.] What are we doing once we get them all? Julie: I… Toss them in carts and roll out a fire escape, I guess. [Jack begins to walk to the door.] Jack: No time like the present.

11:48 am: After completing nine single combat trials, the SCP-3193-A entities moved the shelving units in the center of the store into a circle twenty-five meters in diameter. They then began to engage in combat again, with three people from each group participating. The losing team was skinned by the victors, regardless of whether they were still alive. Any members of the winning team were placed on the shelves, arms crossed over their chest with their weapon over their hearts. The skins were then placed on the floor, ringing the circle. This ritual repeated every thirty minutes.

+ Video Log 4 - Video Log 4 [Jack and Julie Doris are seen crouched and moving towards a child facing away from them. He appears to be distracted by an object in his hands. Jack signals Julie to move in.] [A tin of tennis balls falls off the shelf near them and the child turns abruptly, revealing a drawn bow. He pulls it up and fires, striking Julie in the torso. Jack grabs a baseball bat off the rack and hits the child in the head, rendering him unconscious. He turns to Julie, who has her hands wrapped around the shaft of the arrow. It passed through her ribs on her left side and blood is pooling around the wound.] Jack: Julie! Julie! Are you alright? [Julie points to the arrow and shrugs.] Julie: Been better. Grab the kid, I can walk. Jack: The kid? Why? Julie: Cover our tracks. And we gotta protect him. Jack: He shot you. Julie: Kids are funny like that. Jack: You're going into shock. [Jack grabs the child by their collar and supports Julie with his arm as they move back to the employee break room. After a minute, Jack leans Julie against the shelves and examines the child. He is in a semi-conscious state and blood flows from each ear, suggesting ruptured eardrums. He briefly opens his eyes and looks at Jack.] Child: His… Music… Why can't I… hear His music? Jack: Did he say music? Julie: Yeah, I think so. Jack: Do you think that's what's causing this? This madness. Julie: It would explain why we aren't affected. [Julie slumps over and starts coughing blood.] Jack: Julie! Julie: Get me to the room. I can… fix myself up. You got to shut off the PA system. Jack: I'm not leaving- [Julie grabs his hands.] Julie: Do it. Shut it down and we can call for help. Okay? Jack: I understand. Julie: You won't be alone. Take the bat. You're smart. You can do this. Jack: I… I love you. Julie: I love you too.

12:11 pm: Jack Doris was seen collecting several bottles of cooking oil, two t-shirts, and a can of paint thinner before heading towards the maintenance section of the store.

12:15 pm: A fire in the maintenance area had damaged the building fuse boxes, deactivating the automated loudspeaker announcements and the event concluded 2-hours later.

[END LOG]