Item #: SCP-2317
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: [CLASSIFIED LEVEL 5 — FULL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES AVAILABLE TO O5 COUNCIL ONLY]
The following summary has been cleared for Level 4 personnel:
SCP-2317 is a wooden door, free-standing, located in the Gobi Desert. It opens. Behind it is not the desert.
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Description: SCP-2317 is a standard residential interior door, approximately 2 meters in height, constructed of oak. It stands upright without support in an area of the Gobi Desert that has been fenced and designated as a weather monitoring station. The door does not move in wind. It does not weather. It does not age.
SCP-2317 opens onto SCP-2317-A: a vast, featureless plain under a sky of unbroken gray. No sun. No horizon, exactly — the plain extends beyond visual range in all directions without apparent curvature. The air is breathable. Temperature is constant at approximately 4°C.
At the center of SCP-2317-A stands SCP-2317-B.
SCP-2317-B is alive. It is upright. It has been restrained by a series of chains, the individual links of which are estimated to be between 90 and 130 meters in diameter. These chains are anchored to structures driven into the plain — structures that extend downward, presumably, to bedrock that does not exist in any conventional geological sense. The chains are made of an unidentified alloy.
The chains show signs of stress.
SCP-2317-B has not been fully described in any document cleared below Level 5. Personnel who have viewed it at close range and returned have uniformly declined to provide detailed accounts.
One researcher, upon returning, said only: "It's patient."
Addendum — Recovered internal memo, date [REDACTED]:
The question people keep asking is: what happens if the chains break?
The O5 Council has asked us to stop asking that question.
What I can tell you — what I can tell you without crossing into classified territory — is that there is a containment protocol for SCP-2317-B. It exists. It has designations and procedures and assigned personnel.
The protocol is designated K-Class.
The K stands for nothing. We stopped assigning words to K-Class scenarios some time ago because the words kept being inadequate.
The chains have lost measurable tensile strength in each of the last three inspection cycles.
The door in the desert is still there. It still opens.
We check it every month. Every month it is exactly the same.
Every month the chains are a little worse.