 SCP-089 is a glazed earthenware statue, approximately 3 meters in height, depicting a winged, bull-headed humanoid with an open mouth. On infrequent occasions, sometimes separated by periods in excess of a century, the statue speaks. A demand for Protocol M8 to be accomplished, together with instructions for doing so, and a description of the attendant Type S event. Each Type S event is an epidemic, natural disaster, mass hysteria involving genocide or other massacres, or other event involving extensive damage to property and loss of human lives over a period of time that continues until Protocol M8 is successfully completed.