 Item Number- SCP-4290 Object Class- Keter Special Containment Procedures All available military assets are at the site of SCP-4290's ceiling and are prepared to use any means necessary to neutralize the anomaly. Mobile Task Force Alpha-1 Code Name- Red Right Hand Mobile Task Force TAL-5 Code Name- Samsara And Mobile Task Force New 7 Code Name- Hammer Down Have been outfitted with experimental paratech weaponry and are situated within SCP-4290's containment perimeter. Grids and nuclear mines have been planted in the vicinity of the ceiling site, prepared to detonate if Foundation assets are destroyed. The Degas Break Orbital Strike System has been enabled in the event of a breach past the containment perimeter. Emergency shelters for civilians and selected Foundation personnel are being prepared in the event that containment measures fail. The probability of failure is undetermined. Description- SCP-4290 is a Class-1 eschatological entity that was thomatergically sealed approximately 10,000 years in the past. Its seal is expected to break in the next 7 days. The site of the ceiling, SCP-4290-Lock, is at King High Lake at a depth of 32.8 meters from the surface, and is constructed from 8 beryllium bronze totems. The totems resemble armored humans, engraved with networks of banishing runes and arranged onto the points of an 8-fold fractal pattern carved into the lake bed 20 meters wide. Bursts of red light are periodically released from its center. These have intensified in brightness over the past month. Information on SCP-4290 has been recovered from SCP-1726 and other such anomalous record sources. A translated excerpt on the entity from an unknown writer is below. The child rose its 10 mouths to the heavens, stretched wide 20 arms, and ripped the umbilical cord from the sack on its head. The warrior surged to its legs hoping to tear those newly born limbs before they could move, but from the mouth spilled torrents of darkness and dead geometries. None could flee. The body rippled with the warrior stretching along its folds and the darkness crunched into their skulls with flares of scarlet. The child wheezed, dragging skeletal fingers through the dead and the land around. The fingers retracted, flames burst then subsided, wax reigned then dissolved. Then the island, the warriors, and every soul still left melted into the darkness. For 10 days the child drank it. All the world trembled. Addendum 4291 Repair Attempts On August 2nd, 2022, televisions in King High Province and outlying areas abruptly displayed images of an entity matching SCP-4292 rising over a melting cityscape with an androgynous voice telling viewers to repair the child's locks. This has repeated in frequency with the voice shifting to say there is little time left, repair. Investigation led to the discovery of SCP-4292-Lock. Efforts into finding means by which SCP-4292-Lock could be reinforced were launched. Experts of SCP-1726 undercover excursions into the Wanderer's Library and the ruins of specific far past civilizations found that this is not the first time the seal is needed repairs. Civilizations including the Arrakesians, the Gia Dynasty, and ancient Arathens have strengthened the seal with sacrificial rituals and the engraving of new ruins onto the totems. The last group to have performed this were the Davites shortly before their culture was destroyed circa 270. The Foundation Department of Occult Containment arranged for the rights and engravings to be performed. A submersible containing the ritual set up and remotely operated underwater vehicles with carving equipment descended to the center of SCP-4292-Lock on August 9, 2022. However, halfway through performance of the ritual, a red light burst accompanied with the release of high levels of gamma radiation and heat occurred. Radiation damage caused the Robs to accidentally damage existing ruins and the interruption of the ritual led to only two cadavers and half the heart to vanish as planned. Television broadcasts repeated later that day, its voice now stating, the sacrifice did not reach the Ten Maz, brace. Addendum 4292, August 15, 2022, Defection Incident At 0100 hours, several personnel stationed at King High Lake acted against Foundation orders and fled the area. One of the involved agents, agent Zenovian Marinos, left the following message on a piece of paper in their quarters before leaving. Do we think we can actually stop this? No civilization before us wanted to fight the child, none of them. Hell, Zia had better tech than anything we've gotten, even they were afraid. The sacrifices won't work anymore, it refuses to consume them. They aren't enough to satiate it. Once that seal breaks, we'll have a world of molten darkness and the child will be all that's left eating, drinking, your fools for staying. The activation of waste to extradimensional spaces was detected nearby, tracking is not considered a priority. Addendum 4293, Ceiling Updates, August 16, 2022 Seismometers have detected a series of high energy seismic pulses radiating from directly under SCP-4292-Lock, consistent with models on the effects of dimensional distortion on terrain. Red light now encompasses the entire ceiling site, and the totems are observed to be crumbling. Personnel are advised to wait and prepare. File revised, displaying new additions. Addendum 42904, Scenario 4290 Unlock On August 17, 2022, the totems comprising SCP-4290-Lock disintegrated. Military assets assembled at the shore of King High Lake, and 10 minutes later, a 40-meter long, emaciated humanoid organism matching descriptions of SCP-4290 phased out of the ground and onto the seabed. Orders were sent to only fire once activity was observed. Personnel waited 2 hours. After a further hour of waiting, remotely operated underwater vehicles were sent to SCP-4290, followed by an expeditionary crew, equipped with Lambda Model thematohazard suits. Dozens of human corpses and hearts used in the sacrificial repair rituals rested on the entity's mouths, none having been consumed. No thomic radiation, sci-wave emissions, or any other signs of activity were registered. All life functions in SCP-4290 had ceased. Based on these, the entity is estimated to have died approximately 9,000 years ago. The cause of death was determined to be malnutrition. SCP-4290 has been reclassified to neutralized.