 Item SCP-173 is to be kept in a locked container at all times. Two persons must maintain direct eye contact with SCP-173. The object cannot move while within a direct line of sight. Object is reported to attack by snapping the neck at the base of the skull, or by strangulation. Is this thing on? Is this thing on? Okay, it's broadcasting. This is Dr. Theron Sherman. Is anybody out there? Can you read me? I'm gonna have to risk it. Okay, we are in the middle of a situation. SCP-173 has... Okay, okay. I will do this as professionally as I can. I am going to read from the revised entry for SCP-173. Now, it opens with a transcript of the inciting event. So... What the fuck are you looking at? John Avery, presently known as D-5933, shouted at the other D-class in the cell. SCP-173, what the fuck are you looking at? Came the reply. This worried John, as he was staring intently at SCP-173, and the other D-class was standing behind John, facing the other direction. Then John heard the worst sound any human being had ever heard. A sneeze coming from six inches behind his head. For a second, John remembered an episode of Mythbusters he had seen before being arrested, before coming here, where he tested to see if someone could sneeze with his eyes open. He never saw the end. There was sick, wet, thud, a horrible ripping sound, and a scream that ended too quickly. Fuck! John managed to get out. SCP-173, Addendum 1. On f***ing, SCP-173 appeared to multiply, producing two identical copies. Two D-class personnel were killed. It is unknown how this process occurred. Each instance of SCP-173, now labeled SCP-173-1 and SCP-173-2, is to be moved to individual cells, each following original containment procedures. SCP-173, Addendum 2. On f***ing, a second multiplication event occurred. SCP-173-1 through Dash 4 are to be contained as per original containment procedures. Objects reclassified as Keter. SCP-173, Addendum 3. Security breach occurred on f***ing. Assuming a simple geometric progression, at least 61 copies of SCP-173 are as of now unaccounted for. It is unknown how they replicated so fast, or how they replicated all. Video evidence of the containment breach shows multiple instances of SCP-173 working in unison across multiple cells to achieve the breach. Most of the instances still in captivity appear to have formed a rear guard, blocking Foundation agents from pursuing other instances. It is theorized that SCP-173 has a hive intelligence, where intelligence scales with number of nearby copies. See Revive Security Procedures for containing SCP-173 copies. Revive Special Containment Procedures. All copies of SCP-173 are to be contained in form-fitting metal containers and sent using SCP*** to the now abandoned Foundation facility on the Moon, there to be fitted with tracking collars that will detect if any of them leave the Moon. SCP-173, Addendum 4. SCP-173 has caused a breach of secrecy for the SCP Foundation. Estimates at this time are roughly 500,000 civilian deaths across North America in the last 48 hours due to SCP-173, and hundreds of thousands of sightings and pieces of video evidence. Major television news programs have obtained video of SCP-173, and are providing instructions for avoiding instant death. Dr. Phillips? No, wait, Matthews? Oh god, Clef? That s*** gears! Oh Jesus, Kentucky? Oh f***, Bright, he's in charge of the containment. SCP-173, Addendum 5. SCP-173 has besieged and destroyed four Foundation facilities near simultaneously in the last 24 hours. Each instance shows the characteristic strength exhibited in the original, and thousands working in unison are capable of ripping open concrete bunkers and compromising foot-thick steel doors. Research is ongoing to find a way to combat this threat. Personal log of Dr. Bright, date redacted. I've been killed 37 times in the last week. They can smell me, somehow, regardless of what body I'm in. The majority decision of the remaining 05s is that this is an XK, and they're going to deal with the problem, or the Russians are. They're evacuating the space, which means there won't be a single Foundation scientist anywhere in the New World. They said they're going to try to evacuate the surviving civilians, but I doubt it. There can't be more than a couple hundred people in all of North America. The only good news is that about 150 of the bastards teamed up and ripped SCP-682 apart. Brought a smile to my face. Revised Special Containment Procedures. Containment Zone X-1, formerly North and South America, is to be denied access. Following saturation nuclear bombing on f***ing, number of SCP-173 instances has been reduced. All available Foundation resources are to be redirected to monitoring the ocean to ensure the integrity of Containment Zone X-1. Foundation adjuncts from national navies are to perform around-the-clock patrols and sonar sweeps. Detected instances are to be contained and removed to SCP f***ing for transport to the lunar containment site. SCP-173 Addendum 6. Verified sighting of SCP-173 in f***ing Wales, the United Kingdom. Nuclear bombardment authorized and executed. No survivors. This concludes today's broadcast. Please like, comment, subscribe and hit the bell using your encrypted YouTube account to boost this signal. And support the broadcast at patreon.com.site42. Godspeed, everybody. Shit.