SCP-173 is a Euclid class SCP and the very first being captured by the SCP Foundation. No-one takes responsibility for my actions save myself, and even I am unable to speak out against the world. To subsist as I do now is to die a death more potent than that suffered by mortals: I can only dream of having the vitality they take for granted. I am a single object, doomed without purpose, without any source of respite.
~ 'This Is How the World Ends' on SCP-173.Īmongst a web of life, I am a dying prisoner in a shell of clay. What no one knew was that the reverse of this effect was also true the Koitern would not kill any who met his gaze, but none whose gaze he met could kill him. Unfortunately, no one could meet his eyes forever. Few tried it, and they found it to be true.
That some force of mutual defiance stayed the hand of death. It was said that he would not kill you so long as you met his gaze.
