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Photo of SCP-3269 taken after discovery

Item #: SCP-3269

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3269 is to be kept in a metal locker at Site-56, with the key to the locker guarded by two level 3 personnel, with personnel switching shifts every 4 hours. All instances of SCP-3269-2 are to be kept shut inside the building at the top of SCP-3269-1, with no other containment procedures necessary.

SCP-3269 should only be taken out for testing by qualified agents, being careful not to grab SCP-3269 by hand. No more testing is necessary.

Description: SCP-3269 is a 1 metre long metal ice pick with "Perseverance" written on it. Any subject who picks up SCP-3269 will be transported to the base of a mountain, designated SCP-3269-1, along with SCP-3269 . Anything touching the subject when he picks up SCP-3269 will be transported along with the subject to SCP-3269-1 Audio devices attached to the subject remain functional, but cameras do not.

Once the subject appears in SCP-3269-1 , they are unreachable, and will become unable to die of hunger, thirst, or asphyxiation, nor will they be able to drop SCP-3269. At this state. If the subject dies on SCP-3269-1, or goes away from the mountain, the subject and SCP-3269 will appear where the subject first picked up the icepick, without any other items carried on the trip returning. If multiple people go into SCP-3269-1 at the same time, they will appear where they last were if they die inside SCP-3269-1.

SCP-3269-1 does not have any wind, even on higher altitudes. SCP-3269-1 currently does not match the data of any given mountain, and is surrounded by walls of ice much taller than SCP-3269-1, even at its peak. SCP-3269-1 is currently inhabited by SCP-3269-2.

SCP-3269-2 are dark, furred, humanoid figures, thought to be about the size of an average 10 year-old child, which will watch any subject on SCP-3269-1. SCP-3269-2 poses no threat, even when touched. Instances of SCP-3269-2 will walk down SCP-3269-1 as long as they aren't watching the Subject. SCP-3269-2 are attracted to anomalies.

SCP-3269 was discovered in an abandoned mining shed in ████, █████, AK, after a man reported grabbing an ice pick, finding himself on a mountain, and falling to his death before waking up inside the shed.

Addendum-819-A: Attached are the Exploration Logs for SCP-3269-1.

+ Open Exploration Log 1 - Close Exploration Log 1 Exploration Log 1 Time: 11:33, 9/6/02 Subject: D-85748 Supervisor: Agent Works and Agent Watt, who switch shifts every 12 hours. Equipment: 2-way earpiece, heavy winter coat. Start Log Subject starts at a park nearby Site-56. Agent Works: Subject, can you hear me? D-85748: Yeah? Agent Works: Great, grab the ice pick on the ground. D-85748: Right on it. Subject bends over and grabs SCP-3269, and disappears from sight D-85748: What the fuck just happened? Why am I on a mountain, why are there giant walls around me, what the hell is that noise? Am I supposed to just climb up this? Agent Works: Please climb up the mountain. D-85748: Fuck this, I don't like heights. Despite this, Subject is heard running up the mountain, and continues for a day. D-85748: What is that weird distortion behind me? Agent Works: That's where you came from. D-85748: Uhhh, okay… Talking about weird shit, I see something. Agent Works: What is it? D-85748: I see something, looks around the height of a small child, but it's a shadow, like, a shadow child. Agent Works: Go over and touch it. D-85748: Are you sure, doc? Agent Works: I'm sure. D-85748: Okay… Subject is heard slowly walking towards the SCP-3269-2 instance D-85748: Ok, I touched it, it seems to have some type of fur. Agent Works: Continue on then. D-85748: Got it. Snow is heard collapsing around Subject's feet, along with the Subject screaming. End Log

+ Open Exploration Log 2 - Close Exploration Log 2 Exploration Log 2 Time: 8:56, 9/8/02 Subject: D-85748 Supervisor: Agent Works and Agent Watt, who switch shifts every 12 hours. Equipment: 2-way earpiece, heavy winter coat, 2 metre long pole. Start Log Subject starts at a park nearby Site-56. Agent Works: Subject, can you hear me? D-85748: I can hear you clearly. Agent Works: Good, now pick up the ice pick on the ground. D-85748: So, does this thing take me to that mountain? Agent Works: Yes. Subject bends over and picks up SCP-3269, and disappears from sight. D-85748: Alright, back here, up we go again. Subject starts climbing up SCP-3269-1, poking the snow with his pole to make sure it's safe. Agent Works: Do you see anything? D-85748: I don't see anything other than mountain. Agent Works: Alright, move on. D-85748: Of course. Next few hours go by with nothing happening. D-85748: I see 10 shadow children thingies. Agent Watt: Just pass by them. D-85748: Got it. Agent Watt: Okay… Right, continue on. A few minutes go by. D-85748: I see something green. Agent Watt: Examine it. D-85748: It's a leaf, that's weird. Agent Watt: Continue on. Next few days go by ordinarily. D-85748: I think I see the top, there's something at the top. Agent Watts: What does it look like? D-85748: A building of some type, I can't really make it out that well since it's so far away. Agent Watts: Continue on then. Nothing noteworthy happens during the next hour, until a loud noise is heard. D-85748: Fuck! I broke my fucking leg! Agent Watts: Subject, are you able to crawl forward? D-85748: Yeah, I can, a bit, thanks. Subject is heard straining himself for the next 4 minutes. D-85748: Fuck me. Agent Watts: What happened? D-85748: I can't climb up this slope. It's way too slippery. Subject is heard trying to climb up the slope, but is unable to. D-85748: I hope to god this works… Subject is heard smashing his head against the slope multiple times, before all communication with the Subject is lost. End Log

+ Open Exploration Log 3 - Close Exploration Log 3 Exploration Log 3 Time: 15:48, 9/10/02 Subject: D-85748 Supervisor: Agent Works and Agent Watt, who switch shifts every 12 hours. Equipment: 2-way Earpiece, Heavy Winter Coat, 2 metre long pole. Start Log Subject starts at a park nearby Site-56. Agent Works: Subject, can you hear me? D-85748: Sure can, miss. Agent Works: Alright, pick up the ice pick on the ground. D-85748: Okay, sure, just like last time. Subject bends over and picks up SCP-3269, and disappears from dight. D-85748: Hey, I can barely see those shadow thingies already, there's like 20 or so a few hundred yards away. Agent Works: We'll note that down, just climb up the mountain. D-85748: "Hip Hop, up the hill we go…" Nothing of importance happens for 5 days. D-85748: I can see the tip again, I think there's some type of house there? Agent Watt: Okay, continue on. Subject continues on for an hour. D-85748: I see a bloody slope, clothes, a pole, and an earpiece here. This is my stuff, isn't it? Agent Watt: That doesn't matter right now, continue. D-85748: Okay. Subject is heard stumbling, before a loud noise is heard. D-85748: Shit! I fell in a hole! Agent Watt: Do you see anything? If not, then kill yourself. D-85748: Uhhh… I see plants, a lot of plants, I see roses, trees, bushes! Agent Watt: Is that all? D-85748: Yeah, that's all, ugh, guess I need to do this again… Subject is heard smashing his head against the wall. End Log

+ Open Exploration Log 4 - Close Exploration Log 4 Exploration Log 4 Time: 15:48, 9/12/02 Subject: D-85748 Supervisor: Agent Works and Agent Watt, who switch shifts every 12 hours. Equipment: 2-way earpiece, heavy winter coat, 2 metre long pole, grappling hook Start Log Subject starts at a park nearby Site-56. Agent Works: Subject, can you hear me? D-85748: Can hear you loud and clear, miss. Agent Works: Pick up the ice pick on the ground. D-85748: No need to tell me, I already know that. Subject picks up SCP-3269, and disappears from sight. D-85748: I see some shadow child thingies, they're a few feet in front of me. Agent Works: Okay… Just continue. D-85748: Right on it. Next few days are spent with nothing of importance happening, other than Subject once falling into a pit, and climbing out with the grappling hook. D-85748: I can see the building more clearly now, it's some type of metal house, like, made entirely out of metal. Agent Watt: Continue towards the building. D-85748: Of course. Subject continues walking towards the building. D-85748: Alright, I'm at the metal house, it's one floor, and about the size of a small cabin, what do I do? Agent Works: Look inside the building. D-85748: Uhhh… I see furniture, a safe, an open cellar, and something that looks like a smoothy mixer. Agent Works: Enter the building. Subject is heard opening the door. D-85748: Well, lemme look around, the lock on the cellar door looks like it was busted open, the safe has a letter code, and the smoothy mixer thingy has a note on it. Agent Works: Read it. D-85748: "Replace the battery if the machine isn't making any noise or light." Agent Works: Replace the battery of the machine. D-85748: Alrighty, tum de tum, what does the battery look like… I think this is it.. Subject is heard opening the machine, and replacing a battery, causing a huge amount of noise. D-85748: What the hell!? It's like there's a bloody miniature nuclear bomb inside the machine! Agent Works: Subject, can you hear me? D-85748:Just barely, this machine is really fucking loud! Agent Works: Try opening the safe. D-85748: It's locked! Agent Works: Try entering "Perseverance"! D-85748: Okay! Subject's voice is incomprehensible at this point D-85748: It's open! Subject exits the building and shuts the door. D-85748: Okay, it's a USB stick. Agent Works: We will review it after this trip, enter the cellar. D-85748: Alrighty. Subject continues down cellar. End Log

Addendum-819-B: After the discovery of SCP-3269's true nature, Procedure-819-Mountain, leaded by MTF-Eta-56 ("Mountaineers"), a plan to seal up every exit of the building at the top of SCP-3269-1 with metal was successfully executed, rendering SCP-3269-2 no longer dangerous.