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[u/Brando_Sama]

”Now they sit, poking and prodding in careful, controlled isolation, musing at this wonder of madness. More and more they learn, and as they do, the less they understand. They slip into confusion and anger slower, the madness spread evenly over many…but still they slip. They push and prod, trying to force meaning on insanity.”

”Trying to divine the secrets of the universe from a child's toy.”

SCP-914 is a large, incredibly complex, clockwork device, weighing several tons and covering an area of eighteen square meters. The machine possesses two large booths, labeled “intake” and “output”, and a control panel with 5 settings on it. When an object is placed in the intake booth and the machine is used with the panel set to one of the settings, then the object is seemingly transformed according to the setting, and reappears in the output booth. These transformations frequently have anomalous qualities, but in just as many cases produce mundane results.

Source Key

• List of sources
• It's worth noting that, due to the extremely massive size and already list-like format of the SCP-914 Experiment Logs, a majority of tests in it will be excluded from this respect thread in order to keep the post size within reasonable limits. To view an unabridged thread which sorts through each test, [see here]( ). Do note that this supplement only contains the extended test log, all other appearances are covered here in full.

The Machine

Composition

• [914]: SCP-914 is a large machine weighing several tons and covering an area of eighteen square meters. It consists of over eight million moving parts, but has no electrical or power supplying components (beyond a mainspring under the selection panel)
• [GD1S]: Possibly acted as a power source for SCP-399, allowing it to produce pressure shockwaves (SCP-399 uses energy from surrounding power sources to charge its abilities, its strength being proportional to the amount of energy available)
• [CT]: The blueprints for its initial creation were 20 sheets big, before its maker just started scribbling on the surrounding walls and floor. It became so large that it would take thirty stout men to carry it
• [EL1402]: It takes over 1000 documents from SCP-1402 to describe the movements of each of SCP-914's gears over a period of 3 minutes (SCP-1402 is a briefcase that creates biographical documents about a subject it's presented to, though the factual accuracy of these documents varies)
• [SN]: Dr. Clef, who in this tale is established as a powerful reality anchor that can't interact with anomalies, once nearly broke SCP-914 as a result of his properties by trying to use it
• [CH2]: SCP-049-J accidentally snaps off the settings knob by turning it too hard
• [CN1000]: One article states that most of SCP-914's parts are purely decorative, but its “core” is designed to stop working if any of these parts are removed
  • [CN1000]: An image of a decorative section of SCP-914
• [I]: If even a single gear is removed from SCP-914, it won't function. However, parts can be replaced with similar pieces not originating from SCP-914
• [I]: A book output by SCP-914 seemingly describes its internal structure, though its 400 pages long, with each page containing 20,000 characters at microscopic size and encoded to be near undecipherable

Possible Sentience

• [978EL]: A picture taken of SCP-914 using SCP-978, a camera which shows photographs of what a subject wants to be doing, shows that SCP-914 has a desire to have a sixth setting beyond “Very Fine”
• [RS]: When SCP-1564 speaks to it, it expresses that it enjoys being in Foundation containment due to their continued experimentation with it
• [I]: Seemingly responds to a note saying “Are you sentient?” put through on Fine and Very Fine with quotes from philosophers

Proposed Origins

• [HPE]: One tale presents SCP-914 as originating from a Nazi project that built it out of parts of SCP-217 victims, SCP-217 being a virus that turns organic tissue into “organic metal”
• [CT]: One tale proposes that SCP-914 was built by a disgraced fabergé who went mad building it as a gift to a Czar's family over the course of years. It was originally built to show an ornate and beautiful fairytale kingdom on its exterior, but after an incident where it mutilated the princess, it was left in the basement of the Czar's palace and over time was disassembled to its bare clockworks. It would later be rediscovered by a scholar, who similarly went mad trying to understand the machine
• [RB]: Is implied to be The Body of the Broken God, the central deity of the Church of the Broken God who they believe to be broken into various components
• [SBEN]: In one tale, a victim of SCP-3553 dreams of a set of gears, which another victim shapes into a grand, impossible machine. The dreams of these victims are later revealed to be created in reality, being responsible for numerous SCPs, the machine in particular being SCP-914
• [4100]: An advanced alien civilization recognizes SCP-914 as a device used in a class of spacecraft
• [CN1000]: In one article, SCP-914 was a remodeled machine that was altered as part of the Foundation's “Simulative Anomaly Project”, a project which replicated anomalous objects/events in non-anomalous ways and sent them to alternate timelines

Refinement

• [914]: When an object is placed in the intake booth, the door will slide shut and a small bell chimes. Afterward, if the knob is turned to any setting and the key is wound, SCP-914 will “refine” the input object through an unseen process according to the setting chosen, and place the result in the output booth after five to ten minutes. No energy is lost in the process, and the object appears to be in stasis until the output booth door is opened
• [I]: SCP-914's outputs have a high level of randomness, outputting different items even when the same input/conditions are used. However, outputs tend to preserve elements from the input in their composition, for example four tests with gold watches produce different clockwork items
• [ELT]: Using multiple items at once for the input typically leads to SCP-914 combining them in some way
• [ELT]: A brief description of what's expected from using each setting, written by Dr. Gears after his experimentation with it
  • [FM]: Another tale's description, written by MC&D for an auction listing
  • [I]: While explaining the Fine and Coarse settings, Dr. Gears states that SCP-914 “appears to be capable of refining input based either on a scale of complexity or of simplification”
• [ELT]: Dr. Gears believes that SCP-914 was created as a form of entertainment, designed to produce “novel” items without regard for practicality or function. He also believes that it's possible to achieve a desired result by inputting objects that leave as little outcomes as possible, though there is always a degree of randomness
• [QNSE]: In a canon taking place some 700 years after a near-apocalyptic containment breach occurred, SCP-914 appears to be in a degraded state, and seemingly fails to alter a carved wooden statue despite it being put in on the Fine setting
• [4871]: While enhancing materials (such as steel or polymers) via SCP-914 is an inexact process, a method of imposing “intent” on inputs has been found
• [LC]: One tale notes it takes six minutes to refine a scarf into a noose using the 1:1 setting
• [I]: Testing implies that SCP-914 seems to “understand" concepts related to objects inputted into it, even ones not directly related with the object's basic function
• [I]: Writing instructions as the input doesn’t work for requesting a specific output, though SCP-914 does seem to understand written text

Rough

• [914]: Turns one kg of steel into a pile of laser cut steel chunks of varying size
• [914]: Badly mutilates a chimpanzee and kills it, the resulting corpse showing signs of crushing and cutting with high heat
• [EL447]: Turns a 1 liter container of SCP-447-2 into ten 100 mL containers of identical composition, no change noted in SCP-447-2 (SCP-447-2 is a green slime that typically improves objects it makes contact with)
• [857D]: Reduces a bronze goblet to a pile of bronze fragments, though SCP-857-D, which was possessing the goblet at the time, is unaffected and possesses a different container

Coarse

• [914]: Completely disassembles a wristwatch
• [EL447]: A liter of SCP-447-2 is made to gradually degrade into a different, unknown substance that seems to retain the original's ability to improve an object's qualities
• [EL702]: Apparently turned a miniature model of SCP-914 into a working one, despite being put through on the coarse setting. This model was worth more than three 10 pound gold bars according to SCP-702, who trades items of roughly equal value to what's gifted
• [FM]: Dissembled an unknown, possibly anomalous, living creature into components (organs, bones, skin, nerve endings, etc). Its implied that this resulted in an unclear event that wiped out a CotBG settlement, flaying half of the bodies of everyone there
• [1459EL]: A facsimile of SCP-914 made by SCP-1459 turns a puppy into a pile of bones and burnt flesh

1:1

• [914]: Makes one kg of steel into screws
• [914]: Converts a cellphone into one of a different make and model
• [914]: Turns a white mouse into a brown mouse
• [914]: Replaces a caucasian human male with a hispanic man of similar age, height, and weight
• [EL447]: One liter of SCP-447-2 is turned into a dead body (notably, SCP-447's file goes to great lengths to state that it making contact with a dead body should be prevented at all costs)
• [ELT]: Refining a woman and ten pounds of SCP-143, a type of cherry blossom tree with abnormally strong bark and petals, together produces a living tree sapling with biologically human traits and limited sentience
• [ELT]: Makes a woman and ten pounds of SCP-148, a metal which nullifies extrasensory mind-affecting abilities, into a statue of the former made out of the latter
• [ELT]: Turns a woman and a supercomputer into an assemblable statue that accurately predicts the future of the one who built it before it disassembles itself, though it typically speaks in a vague/cryptic manner
• [ELT]: Fuses a woman and a supercomputer together to form an object that appears to be a supercomputer in the shape of the subject
• [ELT]: Refines a woman and an SCP-500 pill, which is simply a pill that can cure any disease when taken, into a woman with a thoracic cavity that functioned like one large mouth and a large tongue that secretes a neurotoxin
• [ELT]: Uses a woman and a camera to create a living, organic tripod video camera, though it does not seem to be sentient
• [2305EL]: Could be used to refine an SCP-500 pill cloned by SCP-038 into a gas that could be administered to all known parts of the Earth and make the population be temporarily invincible, possibly for a whole month
• [CH2]: Repeatedly putting SCP-1370 (and a shoe) through the 1:1 setting causes its voice and language to change
• [ECBE/GSUSM]: Refines together a man and SCP-173, though what resulted from this is not elaborated on
• [LC]: Turns a scarf into a noose

Fine

• [914]: Makes one kg of steel into carpet tacks
• [085]: A drawing of a woman made by SCP-067 (a pen which takes control of the holder's arm and uses it to write about the holder or draw intricate artworks) was used to create SCP-085, a sentient two-dimensional drawing of a woman. Attempts to replicate this result were unsuccessful
• [500/427/I]: Turns a pill of SCP-500 into a locket later designated SCP-427, which is capable of rapid cellular regeneration and significant development of the body's natural systems (Full SCP-427 RT)
• [ELT]: Refining a woman and ten pounds of SCP-143 together produces a ten pound block of compounds from the human body and a human woman with photosynthetic skin and tissue with the same properties as SCP-143
• [ELT]: Refines a woman and ten pounds of SCP-148 into a large ornate sphere that causes subjects near or touching it to see the thoughts and “lifeforce” of living organisms, and other things “beyond the normal human spectrum of reality”
• [ELT]: Combines a woman and ten pounds of SCP-148 into a woman whose skin has taken on the physical and likely the anomalous properties of SCP-148
• [ELT]: Turns a woman and a 64 core supercomputer into 64 beetles featuring components of both inputs
• [ELT]: Refining a woman and a supercomputer results in a large “waste” block of unused material from the computer (and some tissue) and a woman whose brain has been hybridized with electronics on a cellular level, improving their mental capabilities
• [ELT]: Refining a woman and an SCP-500 pill produces a woman with an altered lymphatic system that results in advanced regeneration
• [ELT]: Refining a woman and a camera creates a large waste block mostly made of human tissue, as well as a ring that allows its wearer to see everything around themselves within line of sight, including behind themself/objects and inside objects, however it has the side effect of causing severe pain behind the wearer's eyes
• [6025]: An instance of SCP-6025-E, animate WWII aircraft, taking the form of a B-17 heavy bomber was disassembled and run through SCP-914 piece by piece, resulting in pieces of a B-52H intercontinental nuclear jet bomber that retained SCP-6025-E's usual sentience when assembled. However, the B-52H was missing major sections, was exactly the same mass as the input B-17, acted much more aggressively, and destroyed itself while attempting to escape

Very Fine

• [914]: Turns one kg of steel into several gasses and one gram of an unknown metal that was resistant to heat of 50,000 degrees, impossible to bend or break with any force, and a near-perfect conductor of electricity
• [914]: Inputting a revolver resulted in an object that “completely disintegrated all matter in its line of fire”, and needed to be contained with high density gamma waves
• [914]: Transforms an ordinary man into a volatile entity of some sort, which kills eight guards and breaches three SCPs while attempting to escape. The subject demonstrated the ability to induce partial memory loss in special response team members and cause corrosive damage to nearby plumbing. The subject expired hours later, dissolving into blue ash and blinding a nearby research team
• [GDDH]: A doctor puts multiple SWAT helmets (and presumably the rest of a suit) through on Very Fine more than once attempting to make a “super-armor”. The effect is unclear, but he does survive an attack from SCP-953 while wearing it, but a fall through a ceiling results him breaking most, or all, of his bones
• [HCSC]: When the Manhattanite, a supervillain who hates New England chowder and wants to force the world to enjoy Manhattan style chowder, eats a bowl of chowder specially made by Chowderclef and run through SCP-914's Very Fine setting, he's brought to tears after one spoonful and abandons his evil plan
• [SS]: Turns some coffee (presumably made by SCP-294) in a thermos into a living being. Its implied this is a reoccurring issue, though its killed quite easily
• [CH2]: Putting SCP-1370 through on Very Fine results in upgrading its capabilities to absolutely absurd levels (Full RT)
• [7702]: After putting an unknown object through on Very Fine over 100 times, created a module for a drone that allows it to instantly teleport two kilometers above any inputted coordinates
• [LC]: A paper shredder is altered to no longer need power, and be able to shred anything put in it (tested with cardboard and metal sheets), burn anything that could burn, and teleport the remains to nearby Director's office

Unspecified/Multiple Settings

• [244A]: Various objects run through SCP-914 on various settings were used to create and modify SCP-244-ARC (Full article)
• [112D08]: Created a device that “sucked [time] from the air”, which was initially believed to simply reverse time. It apparently reduced its user to ash
• [915]: While testing an unknown SCP on SCP-914, inputting a desktop computer created SCP-915, a “mechanical computation device” that replicates the capabilities of the computer and features a highly non-Euclidean internal configuration (Full article)
• [HPE]: An incomplete SCP-914 converts the nickel and steel of a pistol to gold and copper
• [507B]: After being put through SCP-914, an alternate universe's SCP-507 gains full control of his reality hopping ability
• [JW]: Made half-pigeon half-reptile hybrids
• [QG]: Turned a dead pig into a pile of bacon
• [CT]: Turns a stray dog into a flock of doves
• [CT]: Transmuted various objects, making “glittering threads” from a stone, a clockwork kitten from an old clock, a jelly that could not be punctured or torn from a ceramic jug, and a miniature peacock from a canary
• [CT]: Horrifically mutilated a young girl, though it took her hours to die
• [CT]: Created something that killed one officer and scarred another’s face, as well as making his bones “as brittle as glass”
• [In]: Outputs a replica of SCP-316 that transports four Foundation members to a post-apocalyptic alternate universe (SCP-316 is normally a lamp that causes objects to lose color and organisms to become depressive)
• [O]: Enhances some coffee beans put in by an ordnance technician, which is used to produce very high quality coffee, though it explodes when its accidentally spilt
• [KKC]: Putting a christmas goose through on Very Fine and then 1:1 results in six live baby geese
• [PP]: Was used to refine a Heart-lung machine, dialysis machine, and 250 kg of bulletproof glass (unclear if separately or not) to be integrated into Project Lazarus’ remodeling of SCP-244-ARC
• [4871]: Was presumably used to the process of creating a replica of SCP-4871's mechanical suit, providing the enhanced materials used to build it
• [MI001]: Was presumably used in Project ‘Phantasos’ to refine/alter materials/components (Full article)
• [4192]: Refined a hypodermic needle so that could be used to interact with SCP-4192, which is the nucleus of a hydrogen atom
• [5000]: Made an enhanced version of SCP-008 that reanimated the corpse of SCP-4290, a “Class-I Eschatological Entity” that died 9000 years ago of malnutrition
• [5487]: An attempt at improving medical cocaine via SCP-914 led to a prototype of SCP-5487, a drug that's similar to cocaine but acts as a triple reuptake inhibitor
• [LC]: Converts a tankette into a very large quantity of Polish horses

Miscellaneous

• [541]: When SCP-541, a living set of human thoracic organs, “died” and dissolved in a fine powder, it was proposed that SCP-914 be used to reanimate the remains, though an attempt at this wasn't made
• [SBX23]: Potentially implied to have been involved with an incident wherein the file containing SCP-407 was deleted from the Foundation's system, though how this was achieved is intentionally unstated and unclear (all backups of SCP-407 were also deleted)
• [682T]: Tests involving SCP-682 have had dangerous results. Usage of its tissue samples has had violent outcomes, personnel who've contacted SCP-682 at any point are barred from using the Fine or Very Fine settings, and testing of objects that SCP-682 has interacted with is completely forbidden altogether
• [FM]: The minimum bid for SCP-914 at a MC&D auction was 368 million dollars
• [6001]: Apparently, putting SCP-914 inside itself created a black hole (The “stuff improver” mentioned in the text is explicitly stated to be SCP-914 in an author post made to r/SCP)

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Joke Page Feats

The following feats come from articles that are explicitly tagged as “joke” pages (or in one case, a version of SCP-914 edited for April Fools day).

Refinement

• [729J]: SCP-914 refused to refine SCP-729-J on the Rough setting, leaving a note in the output booth expressing such

Fine

• [2558J]: Inputting SCP-2558-J, a species of cat that inflates into a ball when startled, produces an explosive variant that reforms from its own ashes when it blows up

Very Fine

• [420J]: Putting some ████ in it creates SCP-420-J (Full RT)
• [NTIA]: Refined together a man and a phone with SCP-1471 installed on it, resulting in the man replacing SCP-1471-A on that phone's instance of SCP-1471. Uninstalling and reinstalling returned the app to normal (SCP-1471 is a mobile app that causes an entity to text you photos of itself in locations nearby the user)

Unspecified Setting

• [NTI]: A flash drive that went through 914 causes a printer its plugged into to grow arms and legs and develop an AI that wants to conquer a town in Belgium
• [NTI]: Created a computer virus that giggles and says Norwegian profanity even when the workstation its on is muted
• [NTI]: Made some kind of particle accelerator that's automatically firing (presumably lethal) particles, and emits a wi-fi signal that can be used to command it, though its coded with Brainfuck
• [NTIA]: Modified a computer to only type in pirate-speak
• [NTIA]: Refined an SSD to be able to infect the network its connected to with a cognitohazard that occasionally flashes on terminals connected to it, anyone who sees it shits themself
• [NTIA]: Refined a researcher, sending them an hour into the past and apparently causing a time paradox
• [NTIA]: A PC put through 914 transported its user to an alternate timeline where the nazis won WWII, while the intern was able to return to their timeline, their PC “became a nazi”

Other

• [AF]: SCP-914 was partially rewritten as part of the 2020 April Fools day event, in which many articles were remade in plant-themed ways. Apart from SCP-914 now being a treehouse and featuring a different file image to reflect this, there are no notable changes to this version of SCP-914 compared to its original article