Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Keter Neutralised
Special Containment Procedures: [Paragraphs explaining the procedures]
Description: [Paragraphs explaining the description]
Addendum: [Optional additional paragraphs]
(Concept: Small blue man is a faerie creature who can telekinetically move around his own cells. He can use this to fly, but his main thing is that he pilots individual detached cells into the mouths of children, allowing him to consume their souls. He can only survive on the souls of children. If he knows someone's name and can see them, he can issue them magically-compelling commands. He escapes Foundation containment through this name-knowing ability, but an implanted tracker microphone(?) allows the Foundation to record a conversation he has shortly before his death. The unknown speaker is another faerie creature, but her power is to make people believe whatever she says, and she kills him by making him believe he wants to eat bread and providing him a bag of presliced bread torn into crouton-sized pieces. He eats most of it before he expires.
Unknown: [monotone] I am a human. You're friendly to me. You trust me. You want to get in the car. [lightly] Hey! You need a ride somewhere, handsome?
SCP-XXXX: Come to think of it, yeah! Take me to a nice hotel. Somewhere luxurious.
[ambient noise consistent with SCP-XXXX having entered the car through the window, the window rolling up, and the driver continuing down [blackbox] Ave. No further speech occurs for approximately fifteen seconds]
SCP-XXXX: What's your name?
Unknown: [monotone] You know my name already. [lightly] What kind of question is that?
SCP-XXXX: Ah! Right. Sorry, Arbella.
Unknown: [lightly] Are you hungry?
SCP-XXXX: Nah, I just had a big meal!
Unknown: [monotone] I didn't ask you anything just now. You're hungrier than you've ever been. [lightly] Are you hungry?
SCP-XXXX: I'm starving. I feel like I could eat a whole grade school!
Unknown: [monotone] You want to eat bread. You said that you want to eat a whole loaf of bread [lightly] Wow! What a coincidence. Open up that glove compartment. [monotone] The bread inside is your favourite.
Possible hooks:
1) WAS artificially created, but they're evolving. Perhaps was made by a biology professor frustrated that his students were uninterested in reading? Perhaps those afflicted say something like "Reading is fun, once you get started."
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: A living population of at least one hundred (100) SCP-XXXX specimens is to be maintained on a suitable cloth scaffold inside a container made of a breathable non-fibrous material, kept in Anomalous Storage Closet B2 at Bio-Research Area-12. A cryogenically-preserved sample of at least five hundred (500) SCP-XXXX eggs is to be kept offsite to reseed the living population if necessary.
Any individuals exhibiting an apparent change in handedness, pain in the hand unaccompanied by obvious injury, uncharacteristically frequent fidgeting, or saying the phrase "reading is fun once you get started" is to be escorted to the infirmary for treatment. In the case of an outbreak in the wild, the situation is to be treated as a Type C containment breach, and Mobile Task Force Pi-2 ("Montag Guys") is to be mobilised with an appropriate cover story to decontaminate affected locations and individuals as necessary. Confirmed cases of infection should be treated by quarantine and deprivation of language-based stimuli for one (1) week.
Ovicide compound K29-A is to be present in all soaps and hand sanitisers used on-site. Personnel are to be encouraged to wash their hands regularly.
Every two months, one (1) D-class personnel is to be intentionally exposed to SCP-XXXX and quarantined until they have successfully transmitted SCP-XXXX's eggs onto a new scaffold. During this time, a steady supply of non-classified documents should be made available to them on non-fibrous media to ensure SCP-XXXX's successful procreation.
Elimination of SCP-XXXX in the wild is to be facilitated by encouraging the growth of the e-book industry and the phasing-out of book-binding styles that include cloth.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a species of parasitic worm that gains sustenance from proximity to sapient organisms with high activity in Wernicke's Area, the part of the brain responsible for processing written and verbal information. Most specimens range from 1.6-3.9 cm in length and 0.3-0.9 mm in width, and can change their colour and texture to better blend in with their surroundings. They are naturally found mimicking loose thread frayed from the edges of cloth book bindings, or, in some cases, bookmark ribbons, and can live for four months. SCP-XXXX has been known to manually fray cloth edges with small hooks on its head to make its presence appear more natural.
Upon contact with human skin, an SCP-XXXX instance will become active. 92% of specimens will wait until its target is focused on reading before releasing a local anesthetic and burrowing into the skin. The remaining 8% exhibit this behaviour immediately, and are more likely to be noticed and injured before successfully entering the body.
Once inside a host, SCP-XXXX will migrate to the median nerve and begins stimulating the production of dopamine when the host is reading, resulting in the host becoming psychologically dependent on the act, especially with works that they have not read previously. About 90% of hosts infected in their non-dominant hand will begin preferentially using their infected hand over their non-infected one, sometimes even for activities where using their dominant hand would be easier or more advantageous, such as when writing. Approximately half of affected subjects will exhibit increased fidgeting behaviours, such as rubbing soft objects and twirling hair.
Over the first week after the initial infection, SCP-XXXX will grow in length until is ovipositor reaches the epidermis on the tip of of the host's index or middle finger, and begin laying transparent, round eggs 30 to 55 micrometers in diameter. The eggs are easily transferred to the ends of thin fibers, and the host's fidgeting makes transfer to the binding of a book more likely.
SCP-XXXX was first discovered on ██/██/19██ in biology students at the University of [REDACTED]. The school was under investigation for the possible presence of anomalous memes related to a reading encouragement campaign that was having statistically improbable success.
Addendum: Recent outbreaks of SCP-XXXX in the wild seem to indicate that some SCP-XXXX populations have survived extinction efforts by changing their preferred substrate from book bindings to clothes, towels, and, in one case, a dog.
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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Apollyon
Special Containment Procedures: There is a high probability that containment of SCP-XXXX is fundamentally pointless due to events that have already occurred. Current procedures are to be focused around minimising the capacity for further causality-manipulation by SCP-XXXX-1, and preventing the intentional or accidental opening of SCP-XXXX-2 through prevention of its manifestation.
SCP-XXXX-1's hands are to be at all times encased, fingers fully splayed, in solid material at least 20cm thick. Its mouth and nose are to be covered in a sound-cancelling muzzle. Full body restraints are to hold it as motionless as possible, with its hands as distant from each other as it is possible without causing dislocation of the shoulder joints. SCP-XXXX-1 does not require sustenance or medical care.
Any personnel who come into contact with SCP-XXXX-1 or any form of recording or documentation regarding its behavior must be dosed with sufficient Class A amnestics to fully erase all memories of the encounter. SCP-XXXX-1 is not to be considered a reliable source of information, no further analysis of its predictions is to be made, and all existing analyses of its predictions have been fully expunged.
Description: SCP-XXXX-1 is a woman of Greek descent with a high but unknown degree of prescience. It is actively uncooperative, and any conclusions about its precise capabilities are to be considered suspect, due to the unacceptably high probability that SCP-XXXX-1 is tailoring its behaviour to deceive researchers.
[remember that SCP-XXXX-2 only ever appears when in SCP-XXXX-1's hands]
Addendum: [Optional additional paragraphs]
Concept: ridiculously huge mouth that isn't attached to anything (it's just a big skin-covered ball with a pair of lips on it and a mouth inside, no esophageal opening) the Foundation needs to keep its teeth brushed. For some reason. It is conscious and it's possible for researchers to build a rapport with. If it closes its mouth while there are people in it, the people disappear but their clothes and everything else they had with them stays. Except for one time when a D-class made a sexually inappropriate comment and the mouth was disgusted enough to spit him out.
The KGB want try to kidnap it for some reason. It likes the Foundation better because the Foundation has done a good job taking care of its teeth. Proper oral hygiene is all it really wants.
I need to decide what happens when you don't brush its teeth, other than the mouth being unhappy.
Play with me
Come play — I don't bite
Trust this smile
Come stay a while
(You'll be dead by the morning light)
I'm a black cat on a stump in the forest
I'm a flame o'er the muck of the swamp
I'm the creak of the floorboards at midnight
(I'm the spite of the fallen — the lost)
Follow me quickly
Don't mind the path
There's a shortcut this way
(To the place that I may
Draw your blood out for my bath)
I'm a rustling in the brush in the forest
I'm a lantern in the dark of the swamp
I'm a shadow to guide you at midnight
(Follow me and your life will be lost)
I wanted, with all my heart, to have a child who would live.
-Scene with "yet another" city doctor telling Protag there's still no chance of her carrying a pregnancy to term because [find a medical reason]
- - Protag decides to stop hoping for medical science to cure her
-Protag makes the mistake of going to the Old Gods of the Hills with her fertility problems
-Protag doubles down on her mistake by wording her prayer poorly in an attempt to be poetic. The Old Gods of the Hills do not understand metaphor.
- - “I'm trying to have a child. Please bring life to my womb and let her grow strong and survive adversity.”
-She gets pregnant!
- -Around the second trimester, she starts developing symptoms of several cancers, including osteosarcoma, but isn't willing to go back to the doctors yet once she suspects it, because most cancer treatments are incompatible with keeping a pregnancy
- -She starts getting headaches
- - -Narration starts to disintegrate as Protagonist wanders off into the hilly wilderness in a state of confusion. These are her last hours before she succumbs to her brain tumor and dies far from the beaten trail.