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[[>]] [[module rate]] [[/>]] **Item #:** SCP-ZH-002 **Object Class:** Keter **Special Containment Procedures:** The item is currently uncontained. When a record of witness of item occurs, The Foundation should activate **Protocol MT. JADE**, along with the reacting procedures of natural disasters in The Foundation, and the extensive concerns toward the datas of Central Weather Bureau of Taiwanese Government. Details of **Protocol MT. JADE** are limited to personnel with clearance 4 or above. Personnel with the clearence below 4 should follow the Type IV and Type VII Response Code of Anomalous Entities and inform the associated Security Director of the nearest Site under the circumstance of witnessing the item. **Description:** SCP-ZH-002 is an anomalous biological entity which presents basic thaumaturgic ability and divine radiation. SCP-ZH-002 has been confirmed, under morphological examinations, to carry at least 13 compartments and features of Taiwanese zoologic species. These characters include: * The antlers of Taiwanese Sika Deer[[footnote]]//Cervus nippon taiouanus//[[/footnote]] * The feet and hoof of Taiwanese Sambar Deer[[footnote]]//Rusa unicolor swinhoei//[[/footnote]] * The V-shaped white streak of Formosan[[footnote]]"Taiwanese" in Dutch.[[/footnote]] Black Bear[[footnote]]//Ursus thibetanus formosanus//[[/footnote]] * The fur prints of Formosan Clouded Leopard[[footnote]]//Neofelis nebulosa brachyura//[[/footnote]] and Leopard Cats[[footnote]]//Prionailurus bengalensis chinensis//[[/footnote]]. * The feather of Formosan Blue Magpie[[footnote]]//Urocissa caerulea//, a well-known crow-like bird with indigo feathers.[[/footnote]] grows out of the skin around scapula, along with the long tail feathers of Mikado Pheasant[[footnote]]//Syrmaticus mikado//[[/footnote]] * The scales of Taiwanese Pangolin[[footnote]]//Manis p. pentadactyla//, a kind of mammal with scales, residing among southeastern Asia area.[[/footnote]] covering the hips and ankles * The eyes of Taiwanese Macaque[[footnote]]//Macaca cyclopis//, a kind of monkey majorly living in islands of Taiwan and Japan.[[/footnote]] * The ears of Taiwanese Flying Fox[[footnote]]//Pteropus dasymallus formosus//, a kind of huge bat with long snout like fox.[[/footnote]] * The fang that matches the morphological traits of the ones on Taiwanese Wild Boar[[footnote]]//Sus scrofa taivanus//[[/footnote]] * The streaks and spots of Sakura Hooked Salmon[[footnote]]//Oncorhynchus masou formosanus//[[/footnote]] show at the sides of torso of the item with significant humid surface. * The coccygeal traits similar with the extinct species //Balaenoptera taiwanica// (Taiwanese Whale). * The incisors of Taiwanese Field Mouse[[footnote]]//Apodemus semotus//[[/footnote]] * Six forked tongues of serpents from unknown species. Apart from the characters above, the item also has a transparent, straight, blue crystalline horn lengths 30cm on the forehead. The horn is confirmed to be the organ used to demonstrate thaumaturgic ability. The item also carries the divine radiation in the range of 130~533 akivas, and is classified into the category of Natural Divine Entities under the standard of Thesiologic Division. SCP-ZH-002 has been witnessed for numerous times since 17th Century. The recorded date of emerge of the SCP item always corresponds to the date of one critical catastrophe in history of Taiwan. Currently, The Foundation has retrieved several documents associated with the SCP-ZH-002 entity from several historic groups of interest among different colonizing eras in history of Taiwan. It is highly suggested that the emerge of SCP-ZH-002 entity could be regarded as a sign, or at least strongly related to the occurrence of local catastrophes. **Addendum ZH-002-1：An Extract of Retrieved Documents** [[collapsible show="[3/CLEARANCE ACQUIREMENT]" hide="-VISIT IS PERMITTED-"]] > **Incident：** Approx. 17th Century. A landslide event occurred in Yujing, Tainan. Casualties unknown. > **Literature Resource：** Department of Anthropology, The Foundation > > **Extract:** The fractals of local documentation suggested that the ancient indigenous people: Taivoan People was aware of one kind of "strange beast with antlers and long sapphire tail". They also implied that the creature somehow induced a massive landslide event by the bank of Ho-Ku River, causing casualties of the tribesmen. The disaster forced the Tapani Tribe of Taivoan People to migrate to where Yujing Township currently locates. Whether the unidentified entity was SCP-ZH-002, and whether the entity indeed induced the landslide event, are still under investigaion. > **Incident：** 1653.7.13. Earthquake of Mattau Tribe, 422 deaths > **Literature Resource：** Special Investigations Board, Council of the Dutch East Indies > > **Extract:** "......over ten employees are hurt. Howls cover the Mattau Tribe and Backloun Tribe[[footnote]]The mentioned Sirayan tribes was located in the present Tainan, Taiwan. The Siraya natives were enslaved by European(Dutch) colonizers during 1624 to 1662.[[/footnote]]. Our cannon shooter witnessed a creature with antlers, colorful skin and feathers appearing at the rock platform of River Soulang. It glared at us with the eyes of monkey, then it flew into the sky and vanished. The hunting team cannot find it any longer since the witness. This file should be delivered to the council site in Batavia[[footnote]]The present Jakarta, Indonesia.[[/footnote]] in prevention of the risk that monsters also exist on the Isle Formosa[[footnote]]"Taiwan Island" in Dutch.[[/footnote]]..." > **Incident:** 1792.8.9. Earthquake in Chiayi County, 617 deaths > **Literature Resource:** Chinese Abnormality Institute > > **Extract:** "Institute members visit the village in one night of the late summer. We saw a bizarre beast in the bamboo woods at the Dalivoe Village[[footnote]]The present Dounan Township at central part of Taiwan.[[/footnote]]. It glows blue, wearing rainbows, having antlers, leopard spots, scales, five to six long feathers, and rage looks of monkeys. The priest exhorted us to leave the village and inform the villagers to be aware, that the catastrophe is coming. While we ask for the reason, the priest replied: 'The creature being uni-horn beast, a symbol of the disasters from the heaven, we cannot defy it but refuge.' > "At the third night, lights emerged at the orion with the sounds of thunder. Shock waves attack the village soon, bringing countless toll. Fortunately, the priest had told us not to stay indoor at that night, hence the accident didn't occur on our fellows." > **Incident:** 1845.7.11. Tsunami at the coast of Yunlin, approx. 3000 deaths > **Literature Resource:** Bureau of Mystery, Taiwan Province, Qing Dynasty[[footnote]]A historic GoI, which later became part of the foundation of ZH-Branch.[[/footnote]] > > **Extract:** "......according to a fisher of Xiluo Town, a tsunami attacked the port at 1845 and killed 30 hundred people. Villagers were devastated and leave the hometown. Then the rumors spread among the fishers that a demon had standed at the middle of sea, witnessed by a family at the gulf. It has antlers, a forehead horn, and tail feathers, glaring at the fishing boat for hours. The land growls at the evening, and the flood follows soon after. The survivors never stop grieving when recalling the nightmare......" > **Incident:** 1906.3.17. Earthquake of Plumpit(Meishan), Chiayi County, 1258 deaths and 2385 injured > **Literature Resource:** ShuShu-In[[footnote]]蒐集院, means "College of Collecting", a GoI-JP whose ideal is similar with The Foundation.[[/footnote]] > > **Extract:** "......few people were collecting bambooshoots in the mountains. They suddenly witnessed a strange animal, which has seven to eight characteristics on its torso, check them at the first addendum. Takahisa Yukei, the local judger wants to send subordinates to search the mountain. He however noticed the strange cloud signs at the evening, halting the action. > > "On the next dawn, animals fled away from Plumpit, living stocks rioted. The land growled in a sudden and destroyed the buildings. ShuShu-In lost twelve personnels in the disaster, and Takahisa was punished. The creature seemed to be an ancient Yokai[[footnote]]Japanese supernatural creatures/existence. A synonym of "ghost, demons and monsters".[[/footnote]] in Taiwan area. It usually shows up before big disasters and never be caught or tammed." > **Incident:** 1935.4.21. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935_Shinchiku-Taich%C5%AB_earthquake Earthquake of Shimizu(Qingshui)]，3276 deaths and over 11,000 injured > **Literature Resource:** IJAMEA > > **Extract:** "...... the office of IJAMEA in Taichu Perfecture[[footnote]]corresponds to the present west-central Taiwan.[[/footnote]] received a telephone call that suggested a yokai appearing at Shimizu Street, which has antlers, leopard spot, colorful tail feathers, the v-shaped striation of black bear, pangolin scales, and a single horn on its body. It moves so swiftly as if it's flying. As we noticed the description corresponded with the anomaly in Meishan Earthquake in Meiji-39th[[footnote]]Year 1906 C.E.[[/footnote]]", we soon informed Perfecture Hall to prepare for the coming of earthquake......The mayor didn't see it as a thing, however. > > Two days later, terrible quake demolished the Taichu and Shinchiku[[footnote]]corresponds to the present east-north part of Taiwan.[[/footnote]] Perfecture, leaving the toll of thousands. Though the Empire strongly helped Taiwan after the disaster, IJAMEA was busy on the affairs of expansion at South Asia[[footnote]]Here it refers to the Southeast Asia and Pacific area that Japanese Empire progressively expanded during 1930s to 40s.[[/footnote]], leaving no attention on capturing this Taiwanese anamolous animal. The plan is on hiatus until today." > **Incident:** 1959.8.7. Eight-Seven Flood, 1075 deaths and 942 injured > **Literature Resource:** Republic of China National Security Bereau 8th Division (NSB-8)[[footnote]]A GoI of ZH-branch. It no longer belongs to the ROC(Taiwan) government but an independent martial organization that strongly conflicts with GOC and the Foundation.[[/footnote]] > > **Extract:** "......in the action of hunting down the communist thaumaturgist on Aug. 5th, our agents witnessed an anomalous animal with the features of eight or nine species in Taiwan Province. Two teams tried to chase it down but turned out to gain nothing. All approaches of detecting the signals of the creature failed......" > > "on Aug. 7th 1959, severe flood attacked the western part of Taiwan Province. NSB visited the civilian area for the detection of suspected communist. One agent reported the anomaly of previous days emerged at Yangminshan[[footnote]]A famous mountain series near Taipei Metropolitan Area.[[/footnote]] and vanished in a flash of lightning. The authenticity of the information are under inspection." > **Incident:** 1999.9.21. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Jiji_earthquake 1999 JiJi Earthquake], Magnitude 7.3, 2415 deaths, 29 missings and over 11305 injured > **Literature Resource:** Site ███, The Foundation > > **Extract:** The Foundation received several reports from civilian at the Monument of Taiwan Geography Center, Puli Township on Sep. 20th. The reports all mentioned one anomalous organism carrying several features of Taiwanese animals. The Foundation sent out MTFs to arrive the witness spot in 2 hrs and blocked down related news. Class C amnestics are deployed on the area. The massive earthquake of the next day caused 4 containment breach in sites of central Taiwan. The disaster and containment breach caused by the earthquake lead to 3 deaths and 17 injured among the Foundation employees. > **Incident:** 2009.8.8. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Typhoon_Morakot_on_Taiwan Flood of Morakot Typhoon], 699 deaths and 33 injured. > **Literature Resource:** ZH-Branch, The Foundation > **Extract:** [LIMITED TO PERSONNELS OF CLEARANCE 4] > **Incident:** 2016.1.12. Extreme Cold Wave of Northern Hemisphere on Jan. 2016, 122 deaths > **Literature Resource:** ZH-Branch, The Foundation > > **Extract:** The item appeared in the mountainous area of Ximbei City[[footnote]]New Taipei City[[/footnote]], reported by civilians doing mountain hiking. The following amnestic process are completed. No media mentioned the witness event. > **Postscript:** This sample of record has specificity for it being the first time of item SCP-ZH-002 to show up before the **predictable** natural disasters. [[/collapsible]] **Incident Log ZH-002-13:** on 201█/██/24, the item is witnessed in a nearby forest field by an agent of Site-ZH-██. Site security directors send out MTFs in attempt to contain the entity, with few armed behaviors displayed during the action. The item demonstrated thaumaturgic ability and fled, failing the capture soon. It has been the █th time failure of ZH Branch to capture the item. On the next day of the incident, explosive accidents occurred in two separate chemical industrial factories within a 3km radius of the incident location near Site-ZH-██. The 22th Containment breach of SCP-ZH-███ also happened on the same day. 47 deaths and 133 injured are recorded as a total toll number from these three "misfortunes". On 201█/██/05, an unknown message is sent to Site-ZH-██ with the vessel being a piece of handmade, natural paper. The text is speculated to be manually written with the same fonts of Kangxi Dictionary. The author of the message is currently unknown. The contents of the message has been translated as below: > [[=]] > {{//FOUNDATION, Thy[[footnote]]speculated to be an ancient term of "you"[[/footnote]] want to imprison the descendant of the deity of mountain, forest and vital souls.//}} > {{//The spouse of Pong-Lai[[footnote]]a mythical land in Ancient Chinese folktales, which is an mysterious island located in the East China Sea. Pong-Lai could be a poetic synonym of Taiwan as it also locates east to China.[[/footnote]] has remembered. The karma circulates among all souls, and arrogation leads to only cruelty.//}} > {{//Thee[[footnote]]supposed to be a pronoun of deity beings.[[/footnote]] shall return, thy shall never forget. Thee is the spouse, until the day when the terra sinks.//}} > {{//— ████████//}} > [[/=]] The necessity of containment of the item is currently under re-discussion of Command Three Enclosures[[footnote]]Command Three Enclosures, short of Three Enclosures, is the highest administrative group of ZH Branch, with the clearance equal to O5.[[/footnote]].[REDACTED]