Archmage Traven

^SCP-XXXX-1.

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX-1 is to be contained in a 1m x 1m x 1m steel container with industry-grade fans installed on each wall. The fans are to be controlled by a monitoring system, which observes SCP-XXXX-1 via two cameras located in the top corners of the container. The system is to power the fans in a way that SCP-XXXX-1 never collides with any of the walls of the container or the cameras.

Description: SCP-XXXX consists of two components: a tumbleweed, specifically of the kali tragus species (SCP-XXXX-1) and variable quantities of sand composed primarily of quartz grains (SCP-XXXX-2).

SCP-XXXX-1 is a yellow-grey colour, and measures 17.4 centimetres in diameter. Upon collisions, SCP-XXXX-1 produces a small clump of SCP-XXXX-2, roughly 90 grams in mass. SCP-XXXX-1 is in a constant state of movement; it naturally maintains a speed of 1.6 kilometres per hour. Furthermore, when SCP-XXXX-1 comes into prolonged contact with SCP-XXXX-2 (typically due to SCP-XXXX-1 filling its containment with enough SCP-XXXX-2 to contain its movement), the sand begins to rise in temperature. This temperature increase spreads throughout SCP-XXXX-2, and has been observed at temperatures exceeding 1800 degrees Celsius. SCP-XXXX-2 will cool via regular thermodynamic processes until it is the same temperature as the surrounding air shortly after being separated from SCP-XXXX-1.

SCP-XXXX-1 was discovered at Site A-91U3, after an abnormal amount of expansion occurred in the area, observed through mandatory geographical log examination over a period of several years. Examination of the site revealed giant sand dunes, completely uninhabited by fauna or flora. Eventually, SCP-XXXX-1 was discovered, and subsequently transported to its current containment with miminal complications.


^SCP-XXXX-1.

It's a marble that naturally moves at a slow rolling speed, and heats things up in its wake. Engraved on it are the words "Samuel".

It was made by a father for his son, Samuel. The father worked at a marble factory, and on his first day, discovered a chunk of some kind of strange material in one of the draws of his desk. The material had a similar composition to marble, but seemed to reflect light in a different way.

Samuel was around seven, and didn't have many friends. His peers were into playing marbles, and while he was also interested in marbles, they tended to stay away from him. He liked marbles for how they looked, and enjoyed sitting down and examining them, rather than smashing them into each other.

Marbles were one of the only things that made Samuel happy, as they reminded him of his caring father.

Samuel's father noticed that Samuel hadn't been his cheery self, and was reminded of the strange marble. That evening, he went down to the factory and spent hours working on the material, to turn it into a marble for his son. Early in the morning, once he had finished, he engraved his son's name into the marble, so that he wouldn't lose it.

The following morning, he told Samuel that he had a gift, making Samuel close his eyes and hold out his hands. He placed the marble into Samuel's hands, and for a brief moment it felt warm. He spoke to Samuel:

"This is for you. It's a special marble, unlike any I've given you before. Take it, and ask the other kids if you can play with them."

Samuel hesitated, thinking of the other kids, but nodded at his father's assistance and kindness. On the way to school he couldn't stop looking at the marble. It was beautiful.

After school, the kids assembled to play marbles as per usual. Samuel wandered over and said "Hi… can I play with you?" The other kids looked at each other, reluctant, but after a moment they let him join in.

Samuel was excited: they had accepted him! He pulled out his marble, and won the first game with ease.

One of the other kids scowled at him. "Hey, that's no fair, you're using a cheater's marble!"

Another joined in: "Yeah, your dad probably made it, it's obviously loaded. Cheater!"

Samuel protested, quickly becoming stressed and afraid. The other kids advanced on him, and proceeded to beat him up. For several minutes they laid into him, then left him on the ground.

Samuel was broken. He screamed, completely shattered. His small, comforting world of marbles, his loving father, in that moment they were lost to him, and all he felt was anger. He was angry at the world.

SCP objects should be Succinct, Consistent and Purposeful.

A thing I have to read.

12:16 <~Echo> Keep in mind that part of the concept of the fiction written here is thus…
12:16 <~Echo> "Dealing with the fantastical through implementation of the mundane"
12:17 <~Echo> Your article is, in essence, showing us a little bit about this object, what makes it odd, and the world it exists in, as well as telling about how us puny humans keep it shuttered away from changing the rest of the world.
12:17 <~Echo> Well, think about it
12:18 <~Echo> One clear example I use springs to mind
12:18 <~Echo> Imagine for a moment you have a device.
12:18 <~Echo> A small little box the size of a jewelry case.
12:18 <~Echo> On top of this box is a red button.
12:18 <~Echo> If you press this button, you know that the world, the universe, and everything will come to an end
12:18 <~Echo> How do you keep the universe from ending?
12:19 <~Echo> It's as simple as not pressing a button.

18:33 <@Soulless> Care_Package: yeah but /what does that add to the article
18:33 <Care_Package> The hospital doesn't make sense yet, because I haven't gotten to the end of the story.
18:34 <@Soulless> Well then why are you getting us to read it if it's noncoherent
18:34 <@Soulless> and you /know/ it's noncoherent

21:28 <Bunton> For us to be invested in a scip, it needs to have something we feel emotion about.
21:29 <Bunton> Fear, disgust, pity, empathy…

+ Marble Info

- Marble Info

Containment
TBA

Description
A green marble with a yellow and a white streak, 2.5 centimetres in diameter with a mass of 32 grams.
Naturally rolls at 0.3 km/h, and attempts to maintain this speed
Heats up surfaces it rolls over

Chat Log
17:39 <archmage84> I think that's a little… that'd be so weird, having a marble head rolling around, setting stuff on fire.
17:39 <archmage84> I thought of an explanation for an ordinary marble.
17:40 <archmage84> Father of a kid works for a toy factory.
17:40 <Crayne> It doesn't have to make sense, as long as you can sell it.
17:40 <archmage84> He makes a special marble for his kid, so he can play with other kids.
17:40 <archmage84> Kid plays against other kids, accidentally burns one or two, they gang up and hurt him.
17:40 <archmage84> He gets mad and tosses the marble away.
17:40 <Crayne> Hell, I have a typewriter with teeth for keys.
17:41 <archmage84> That's why it's perpetually moving, because the kid never wants to see it again.
17:41 <archmage84> Wait, no.
17:41 <Crayne> Ah, so the kid's a reality bender and we're containing the marble when really we should be after the kid?
17:41 <archmage84> It's just a particularly good-looking marble initially, but the kids accusing him and his dad of cheating.
17:42 <archmage84> Good point… the marble itself could be made of a fragment of marble that's special.
17:42 <archmage84> And really rare.
17:43 <Crayne> No no, what I mean is that it's just a regular marble. The Foundation has it contained, but you need to imply that its effects are not inherent, but the result of a kid's reality warping.
17:43 <Crayne> But how to do that.
17:43 <Crayne> Hmmm…
17:43 <archmage84> It's less the kid warping reality and more the marble changing permanently as a result of an overwhelming amount of emotion.
17:44 <archmage84> The "special" marble fragment that it was crafted out of is the source of its anomaly.
17:44 <archmage84> Father has no idea it's special, he discovers it in the desk of the office he moves into when he joins the company or something.

+ Info on Tumbleweed

- Info on Tumbleweed

Containment
Contained in a 30 m x 30 m x 5 m tungsten room
Edges of floor are fitted with grates that lead to a storage room
Containment room is to be swept / airblasted / otherwise removed of sand every eight hours by Level 1 staff, ensuring SCP-XXXX-2 is transported to the storage room
Storage room is to be used for packaging and preparing SCP-XXXX-2 for transport to Location Reterrax (information disclosed on assignment to SCP-XXXX)
In the event of an excess buildup of SCP-XXXX-2, D-class subjects are to enter the containment room wearing heat-resistant suits and equipped with industry-grade vacuum-cleaners with increased capacity and reinforced bags
D-class subjects are to remove as much of SCP-XXXX-2 as is required to reinstate regular containment procedures.

Description
Tumbleweed (referred to as SCP-XXXX-1)
Covered in sand.
Constantly moves.
If movement is restricted, will build up force to overcome any obstructions (i.e. fans securing it in place will eventually fail as it builds momentum)
Produces a small clump of sand every time it collides with something.
Sand is indestructible.
Sand heats up when in contact with tumbleweed.

Destruction Record
Attempts were made to destroy SCP-XXXX-2 in order to simplify the containment procedures
SCP-XXXX-2 has proven resistant to all conventional methods of destruction

Changes to be made
Describe SCP-XXXX-2's composition (i.e. silicon, quartz, etc.) done
Consider changing Site Reterrax to something less… immersion-breaking done, changed to A-91U3
Change "non-solid force" to something less silly done
Reword the part about SCP-XXXX-1's speed to be less ambiguous done
Change SCP-XXXX-2's max temperature to ██ Kelvin done
Reword the "abnormal amount of growth" in the acquisition paragraph done, changed to "expansion"

—22:08 <tahunu> But yeah, with something like this, I would make an enclosed structure with a grating floor, so the sand it made just got sent to a box below it, which got switched out when full.

22:08 <ArchmageTraven> But what happens if the grate gets blocked somehow?
22:09 <tahunu> Make it have holes like
22:09 <tahunu> 4cm wide— nope, probably ditching the sand idea now

Add some kind of hook to make it interesting
Consider writing a transfer log.

17:26 <Crayne> I think your best hook comes from the inherent difficulty in containing something that wants to keep moving. Why not ditch the sand and have it create friction when it touches anything solid. The friction causes the temperature to rise and may ignite stuff. This thing could cause major fires.

** Notes from #Area14 **
Ditch the "resistant to explosions" thing done
Make it able to be contained by a fan (levitating and not producing sand) done
Ditch the acceleration sillyness done
Make SCP-XXXX-2 not indestructible done

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