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Item #: SCP-000
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-000 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell furnished with a bed and appropriate medical equipment, and assigned two guards at all times. SCP-000's nutritional regimen may require an IV feed, as SCP-000 will occasionally refuse to eat or drink.
No personnel are to come within 0.5 m of any instance of SCP-000-01. Guards are to be armed with ISIS-XIV 'sticky foam' weapons. All instances of SCP-000-01 are to be immobilized, retrieved, and incinerated upon separation from SCP-000, except when requisitioned for experimental purposes.
Description: SCP-000 is a thirteen-year-old human female. SCP-000 periodically displays symptoms of brain damage, including aphasia, various monothematic delusions (particularly the Cotard delusion, believing it is not dead or does not exist), problems with movement, and difficulty comprehending or interacting with its surroundings.
Every 20-120 minutes, one to three autonomous creatures will bud from SCP-000's body. These creatures, referred to as SCP-000-01, have the appearance of deformed dolls, usually patterned after the form of a human infant. They possess a small body, oversized head, and two to four limbs.
Despite appearance of artificiality, SCP-000-01 are composed of biological material that is genetically similar to that of SCP-000 and possess a variety of nonfunctional internal organs. Instances of SCP-000-01 typically either lie still or crawl about their environment at a slow pace with no apparent aim, changing direction only when colliding with an obstacle.
SCP-000 does not demonstrate control over SCP-000-01 instances, nor their generation process. SCP-000-01 instances do not demonstrate awareness of SCP-000's existence.
If SCP-000-01 comes within range of any living human, it will attempt to attach itself to the creature's body via its mouth. Instances of SCP-000-01 without mouths will attempt this attachment process but are unable to successfully complete it. Once attached, SCP-000-01 is very difficult to remove except by its destruction.
Once SCP-000-01 is attached to a host, certain of the host's physical abilities steadily increase. Host skin becomes harder to pierce and bones become harder to break. As a side effect, skin gains a rubbery plastic quality. When fully transformed hosts are wounded, blood flow stops immediately in the area of the injury, preventing major blood loss. In addition, hosts undergo the following changes:
- Group A: 60% of hosts. Improved reaction time and visual acuity. Form discoloration on back of neck in rough shape of rifle.
- Group B: 30% of hosts. Improved strength and speed. Form discoloration on back of neck in rough shape of a knife.
- Group C: 10% of hosts. No further changes. Form discoloration on back of neck with no distinct shape.
Effects increase for 36-48 hours if SCP-000-01 remains attached to the host, and can reach superhuman levels. The host remains mentally unaffected until the end of the process, besides natural psychological disturbance. SCP-000-01 will remain inert during this process, besides blinking and occasional chewing.
Removal of SCP-000-01 from a host is typically fatal after transformation has completed. Fully transformed hosts demonstrate increased levels of obedience and slower brain function in social situations, but retain most of their original mental characteristics.
Retrieval Log: SCP-000 was retrieved in [REDACTED], Texas, a small town deserted after an apparent SCP-000-01 outbreak on ██/██/████. SCP-000 was discovered unconscious in a bed in a deserted house near the center of the town. SCP-000's parents and siblings were discovered dead with signs of torture and their throats torn out. Foundation personnel have been unable to extract any information about this event or its surrounding circumstances from SCP-000. See Addendum 000-1107.
Addendum 000-107: Further interrogation of SCP-000 indicates that SCP-000 was created by a distinct entity tentatively labeled as SCP-000-02. According to SCP-000, SCP-000-02 told it that it was to be offered to the Foundation as a gift, and that "gifts" were "put inside" SCP-000's body (presumably but not explicitly SCP-000-01). SCP-000 has been unable or unwilling to provide any further information or description regarding SCP-000-02. It is not currently known if this entity possesses other instances of SCP-000.
Addendum 000-113: [DATA EXPUNGED] have not yet been identified. Remains consist of at least six dead female children, ranging in age from 12 to 16. Investigation indicates that this is one of several such 'shelters'. Five of the corpses exhibit signs of apparently cancerous deformities, including massive fleshy growths. In two cases, these growths are bigger than the body of the child itself. A third growth appears to have begun decomposing while the child was still alive. In addition, three other female children [DATA EXPUNGED] snippet reads "we must reach out to [REDACTED] repeated instances of the words "try again" and another instance of the word "ingratitude". The remainder of the text is mostly obscured due to water damage. Investigation is ongoing.
Works In Progress: Other (Includes deleted SCPs and SCPs I've worked on that have not broken +15.)
(for reference…
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-682
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-140
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-231
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-017 )
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Item #: SCP-000
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-000's growth process must be delayed or halted by any means possible. Currently, the only known means of delaying SCP-00's growth process is exposure to type 08-07935 M-class radiation. Research is high-priority and ongoing.
SCP-000 must be contained in a closed chamber measuring 250 square meters, lined with reinforced steel plate. A minimum of six M-class radiation generators are to be placed in equidistant locations surrounding the chamber. Generators must remain powered on at all times.
SCP-000 must be kept under observation at all times in case of activity or growth acceleration. Twenty (20) D-class personnel must be kept on hand at all times in case early execution of Procedure Saratoga-821-K is required.
SCP-000-1 (referred to as "lure" for clarity purposes) must be kept alive by any means possible, short of risk of cross-SCP contamination or direct human contact. Remote devices MRD-000-01 - MRD-000-12 are to be kept outside SCP-000's containment chamber, ready to attend to the lure's medical and dietary needs at all times. Containment chamber must be kept as sterile as possible.
Instances of SCP-000-2 (referred to as "animates" for clarity purposes) are to be discouraged from attempts at breaching containment by any means necessary, so long as the lure is not put in physical danger and SCP-000's central mass is not affected.
Every XXX-XXX hours (XX-XX days), SCP-000's central mass will increase activity, followed quickly in an increase in interaction between the animates and the lure. These interactions will accelerate for the following two to three (2 - 3) hours, or the following four to six (4 - 6) hours if SCP-000 is being directly observed, before the lure is terminated and SCP-000 breaches containment. Termination of the lure must be avoided at all costs. As soon as animate-lure interactions increase in frequency (rise above one 20-minute interaction per 3 hours), Procedure Saratoga must be executed immediately.
Rapid Response Task Force Omicron-28 ("Red Rabbit") is tasked with locating and containing SCP-000 as soon as possible on breach of containment. Task force must be on standby during Procedure Saratoga-821-K, and must be alerted immediately if SCP-000 exits containment.
Procedure Saratoga-821-K: One (1) D-class personnel must be placed in the sealed entrance chamber to the containment area. This D-class subject must be allowed full view of animate-lure interactions. This D-class personnel must have a moderate to high degree of empathy, and is to be instructed that he or she will be released to "save" the lure as soon as possible, though it may take hours. Personnel should be provided with a weapon if possible to further this fiction; weapon must not be capable of breaching entrance chamber.
Once animate-lure interactions have increased to the point where the lure is in danger of termination (usually after 4 - 6 hours of observation), the D-class personnel is to be released into SCP-000's containment area immediately. Five (5) D-class personnel are to be kept on standby in adjacent chambers in case initial D-class refuses to enter SCP-000's containment area; any personnel refusing to enter are to be terminated immediately and replaced with the next in line.
Description:
SCP-000 is a large, amorphous, non-locomotive "blob"-like entity of unknown nature, which coats everything in its field of influence (including itself) with a mercury-like substance that has a transformative effect on biological material and is resistant or impervious to almost all forms of damage. This substance is monochromatic, with a color that varies between SCP-000 configurations.
Any animal that enters SCP-000's field of influence is immediately enveloped by SCP-000's secreted substance and transformed into an animate. SCP-000 appears to target humans, and the process works fastest for humans, but any animal is vulnerable, and any moving mechanical device will also be partially enveloped (but not transformed) if it remains still in the field of influence for more than 6 minutes. SCP-000 appears to derive sustenance for growth by this incorporation, even though victims are not physically consumed and have been retrieved intact (if altered) twice. Animates have taken different forms in each of SCP-000's catalogued configurations, but forms are typically related to the animal's original form, with human animates displaying the most variation.
SCP-000 also incorporates one to three animals into its form that it does not transform into animates; these are referred to as lures. These lures are not physically altered in any way, though if it is badly injured, SCP-000 will coat the lure's injured body part with its excreted substance and heal the wound through unknown means. Additionally, the lures are incapable of leaving SCP-000's field of influence just as animates are. SCP-000 has always incorporated lures before creating animates.
SCP-001
Animates spend most of their time (60-80%) standing or sitting still, either within SCP-000's area of influence or attached to SCP-000's central form. The rest of their time is spent interacting with the lure
an effort to entice more human subjects to enter SCP-000's field of influence. Lure-animate interactions are detailed in the Configurations section.
SCP-000 is steadily growing, and has increased its mass and its field by [REDACTED] respectively since initial Foundation containment. SCP-000 currently measures 60 m in diameter and weighs approximately 12 kg as of ██/██/████. SCP-000's field of influence is 239 square meters and is increasing at a rate of [REDACTED] as of ██/██/████. The field's extent has only been successfully decreased once, during Incident 000-1211XA-D. SCP-000's current rate of expansion is projected to result in an NK-class "grey goo" end-of-the-world scenario or potentially [DATA EXPUNGED]
As of ██/██/████, SCP-XXX has incorporated:
- 26 humans (not including an additional 2 which have been retrieved, and [REDACTED] eliminated in Incident 000-1211XA-D; see Addenda)
- 4 dogs
- 3 cats
- 2 birds
- multiple insects, spiders, and other small life forms
SCP-000 has demonstrated [REDACTED] known configurations so far.
Previous Configurations
SCP-000 is currently contained in Auxiliary Site-5676-A, built around the location it has currently infested. This location is a house located in a former suburban neighborhood of [REDACTED], a large U.S. city. Since SCP-000 cannot be moved to a specific location, area residents have been relocated and given amnesiacs.
Addendum:
[Interview Log]
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| A photograph of SCP-000 approaching New York. |
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Item #: SCP-000
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-000 must be tracked and monitored by activity by three separate Mobile Task Force teams at all time. Any civilian person or persons not associated with the Foundation that become aware of SCP-000 must be administered Class-B amnesiac AMN-000-08 as soon as is feasible. Any person or persons associated with a current or defunct Group of Interest who demonstrates awareness of SCP-000 must be taken into Foundation custody if at all possible.
Description: SCP-000 is a large spherical planetoid with the approximate surface area of a large city (for current estimated measurements, see Document 000-033-D). The surface characteristics of SCP-000 superficially resemble a typical planetoid, including apparent meteorite craters and signs of minor tectonic activity. SCP-000 maintains an unpredictably varying orbital trajectory around Earth, varying from 1 to 15 kilometers (0.5 to 9 miles) in orbital height. It orbits Earth approximately once every 10-15 hours.
Humans typically cannot observe SCP-000 by any means. The mechanism for this is currently unknown, but appears to be an affect on the human brain, as experiments have demonstrated that other species are able to observe SCP-000 normally. The only way for a human to be able to observe SCP-000 is to simultaneously witness SCP-000 (either in person or through photographic media), and perceive SCP-000 being referred to by any generally accepted term for SCP-000, including the term "SCP-000" itself. For instance, reading this report and seeing the attached photograph of SCP-000 labeled "A photograph of SCP-000" is sufficient to permanently gain the ability to perceive SCP-000. After this, the affected human can observe SCP-000 with no difficulty, just as any natural object. This effect is permanent unless reversed via amnesiac or brain damage approximating the effect of an amnesiac.
The Foundation has been aware of SCP-000 since 18██, but [REDACTED] indicates that SCP-000 has been orbiting Earth without the knowledge of the majority of the human populace since [DATA EXPUNGED]
SCP-000 has so far not used it mass to destroy buildings, with the exception of [DATA EXPUNGED]. However, SCP-000 often decreases its orbital height drastically around centers of human population, for unknown reasons. Records recovered from [REDACTED], a cult circa 18th century, have indicated SCP-000 is of non-extraterrestrial origin (contradicting the so-called "alien observer" hypothesis), and is not sentient, but is capable of being influenced by and attracted to human thought. Investigation into the nature of SCP-000 is ongoing.
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| SCP-472 |
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Item #: SCP-472
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-472 is to be kept in the center of an empty, locked cell of dimensions 9.3 m2 (100 ft2). All personnel wishing to enter for research purposes must undergo a psychological evaluation and submit a research request before being permitted entry. Personnel should not remain within 18 m (60 ft) of the stone for more than five (5) minutes without being directly monitored by security personnel.
Once every two (2) months, one or more D-Class personnel must be exposed to SCP-472 for a period of ten (10) minutes or longer.
No personnel exposed to SCP-472 through stage 6 of its effects may be allowed more than five (5) consecutive minutes of further exposure without direct approval of Site Command.
Description: SCP-472 is a cut and polished 7.9 carat Burmese ruby. The phrase "For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart" has been engraved in 2 mm (0.08 in) high lettering on the surface of the ruby.
When any organism possessing a heartbeat passes within an 18 m (60 ft) radius of SCP-472, that subject will begin to hear the distant beating of a heart within their head. The heartbeat heard directly corresponds with the subject's own heartbeat, with the frequency of the palpitations increasing or decreasing with the pulse of the subject. Prolonged exposure causes a variety of additional psychological effects.
Stage 1: Onset 5-7 minutes: Low-level feelings of unease and anxiety. Effects cease immediately on vacating area.
Stage 2: Onset 6-21 minutes: Gradually increasing feelings of anxiety and paranoia. Effects decrease on vacating area and cease within 5 minutes.
Stage 3: Onset 18-34 minutes: High-level feelings of anxiety and paranoia. Subject begins to hallucinate, reporting seeing the world around them tinged with red and hearing vague whispering noises. 27% of subjects also report strong feelings of guilt. Effects decrease within 20 minutes of vacating area and cease within 60 minutes.
Stage 4: Onset 34-59 minutes: Previous symptoms increase. Hallucinations become more vivid and visual; frequent hallucinations include rivulets of blood trailing down the walls, images of dead bodies, thumping, screaming, and ambulatory corpse-like figures. 65% of subjects rendered mentally incapable of leaving the influence of SCP-472. Effects decrease within 60 minutes of vacating area and cease within 3 hours.
Stage 5: Onset 55-69 minutes: Previous symptoms increase. 100% of subjects rendered mentally incapable of leaving the influence of SCP-472. 38% of subjects exposed enter a state of catatonia; this state has a 76% fatality rate if subjects are not removed from SCP-472's area of influence. Effects decrease within 6 hours of vacating area and cease within 24 hours.
Stage 6: Onset 361-723+ minutes: Surviving subjects now capable of leaving the influence of SCP-472, though many do not realize this unless prompted. Previous symptoms vary in degree of intensity and become sporadic, alternating with periods of lucidity indefinitely until subject leaves or is removed from the area. Effects cease within 24 hours of vacating area.
Subjects previously exposed to SCP-472's effects experience a cumulative 10-20% increase in the speed of onset of certain of SCP-472's effects with each additional exposure. Eventually, subjects will immediately begin experiencing symptoms at Stage 2 levels, with Stage 3 occurring within 5-10 minutes. Stages 4-5 then occur as normal. Time of onset of Stage 6 is not affected and continues to occur no earlier than 361 minutes after initial exposure.
When no subjects have been exposed to SCP-472 for more than five (5) minutes within a period of two (2) months, its area of influence begins increasing by a rate of 0.5 m (1.6 ft) per hour. Expansion is temporary, reverting back to the original 18 m (60 ft) area of effect once a subject undergoes exposure.
Testing with exposing subjects multiple times to SCP-472 has shown that once subjects have been exposed to one full cycle of SCP-472's effects and leave of their own accord, they consistently [DATA EXPUNGED]
SCP-472 was recovered from the mansion residence of [REDACTED], a wealthy man living in [REDACTED]. Foundation investigators were alerted by local reports of hauntings by domestic staff after [REDACTED] was hospitalized by a fall. Several days of investigating narrowed down the origin of the anomalous effects to SCP-472, which had been prominently displayed in [REDACTED]'s jewelry collection. Questioning revealed that [REDACTED] had believed the ruby to be 'haunted', but kept it in his collection due to its high value.
For further information, see Interview 472-0165-b.
Interview Log 472-0165-B
Interviewed: Janice Erickson
Interviewer: [Redacted pending unrelated evaluation, referred to as "Interviewer" throughout log]
Foreword: Interview held after recovery of SCP-472. Subject was part of household staff at the residence from which SCP-472 was recovered. Subject aware of SCP-472's existence and affects, but had to be informed that SCP-472 was specifically a ruby formerly located in [REDACTED]'s jewelry collection.
<Begin Log>
Interviewer: Tell us how you first became aware of the ruby's properties.
Janice Erickson: The ruby? Or what the ruby does?
Interviewer: The ruby's properties. What the ruby does.
Janice Erickson: Well, I - alright, I'd always heard stories from people about how [REDACTED] Manor was haunted. But you know, I never believed in ghosts or haunting or any of that tripe. I still don't, I guess. I don't really know what to… never mind. I wouldn't have taken the haunting stuff seriously anyway. Big old mansion with an old rich white dude who lives alone? Of course people are going to say it's haunted. People think everything's haunted.
[Subject pauses, requests glass of water. Request approved.]
Janice Erickson: Anyway, I was right. The house was never haunted. It was just that room. Or I guess the ruby.
Interviewer: How did you first enter [REDACTED]'s employment?
Janice Erickson: One of my friends told me about the job posting. Mr. [REDACTED] is kind of creepy, okay, but he paid… the job offer was like three times what you can get anywhere else. My friend Elizabeth got hired with me. My sister Maddie was supposed to apply too, but she had a friend who was one of Mr. [REDACTED]'s old staff, before he went and fired everyone the time before, and they warned her not to go. She tried to talk me out of it, but I'm a single mom, okay? You don't pass that kind of thing up.
Interviewer: You said Mr. [REDACTED] has previously fired all members of his household staff?
Janice Erickson: Oh yeah, he did. I guess he did that every few months. Just fired most of the new people. He only kept a couple people for longer than that, before me, but the last one of them died a few months after I was hired. Carla, her name was.
Interviewer: What do you know about the cause of Carla's death?
[Subject pauses.]
Janice Erickson: I don't know. She was old. Maybe it had nothing to do with the, um, haunting, I don't know. Maybe she was just old. Anyway Mr. [REDACTED] hired me right away, I think he liked me. All the rest of the staff were new, too, except for Carla.
Interviewer: When did you first encounter the ruby's effect?
Janice Erickson: I didn't for a while. We were all assigned to clean different parts of the house. Carla wouldn't let us talk to each other in the house, said Mr. [REDACTED] didn't like it. But you know, some of us talked outside of the house. They mentioned a creepy feeling about the third floor atrium - the atrium is where Mr. [REDACTED] kept all his best things on display. There were hundreds of things in that room, you know - all these jewels in display cases and swords hanging on the walls. The whole room was kind of creepy, though. It had these big glazed windows and this big glass roof that Mr. [REDACTED] kept totally covered up by black cloth and there weren't many lights in there. You know, shadows everywhere. There was just no reason that room had to be so creepy. I think he did it because of the ruby.
Interviewer: Because of the ruby?
Janice Erickson: Yeah. I think it had opinions. I mean I have no idea if this is true. But I don't think it liked being in such bright sunshine. I think it wanted… I don't know. I'm sorry. What were we talking about?
Interviewer: Your first exposure to the ruby's effect.
Janice Erickson: Oh. Right. It was month or two after I started working. Carla made me go find Margery, who'd been assigned to clean the atrium that week. As soon as I got into the room I heard this sound in my head. Like thump-thump, thump-thump. I couldn't tell if it was far away or coming from inside my head. I was pretty creeped out by that, but what was I gonna do? I told myself I was imagining it and went through the atrium to find Margery. I call for her and she doesn't respond. The lights were all low, like I said, and the room was like a maze with all the display cases and old things with curtains over them. Finally I find her slumped over in back of one of the display cases. She looks at me but it's like she doesn't really see me. She keeps muttering something about blood on the walls, but I look around and everything seems normal. Creepy, but normal. I'm still hearing the thump-thump nose and it's going faster and I realize it's my own heart.
[Subject pauses for breath and takes a drink of water.]
Interviewer: Continue, please.
Janice Erickson: I dragged Margery out of there as fast as I could. I wasn't in there for very long and I felt fine after. I even felt a little silly. Margery got better after a while, said she just had a bad day and she was sorry and it wouldn't happen again. She was never a friend of mine so I didn't ask her any questions about it.
[Subject pauses.]
Janice Erickson: After that she took a week off from work. When she came back, she didn't want to go back to the atrium. Said it was a bad memory. Carla made her go back. Mr. [REDACTED]'s orders apparently. After like thirty minutes or so we hear her just… screaming. Like she was being murdered. She came rushing down the stairs babbling about seeing dead bodies and they were looking at her, and she could see more blood on the walls and she wasn't imagining it this time. Carla made her calm down and took her into a room and ordered us out. They spent a while in there. When they came out, Margery left without speaking to us. Carla told us she'd quit and was given severance pay. Later on one of the other maids told us Margery was paid to keep her mouth shut and move away. Later on we heard she killed herself. I don't know if that's true or not. [Pause] Is it true? Do you know anything about that?
Interviewer: I'm sorry, that is classified information. Please continue.
Janice Erickson: Oh. Okay. Well I don't know who was cleaning the atrium after that. Maybe nobody. I didn't really get on much with the other maids. None of them seemed to like me. A couple were friends with Elizabeth, and she kept telling me things about the third floor atrium. Her friends said they'd heard from other people that the atrium was haunted because of everyone Mr. [REDACTED] killed to get all those valuable things on display in there. There was this creepy looking tapestry in there with skulls on it, African I think. Covered one of the windows. Elizabeth and her friends were convinced this was haunted by the ghosts of some dead slaves or something.
Interviewer: Where did they get that idea?
Janice Erickson: I don't know, it was just something they heard. A month later, Elizabeth finally married her out of town fiancee and moved away to [REDACTED]. After that, the other staff didn't talk to me. I never got assigned the atrium, but every so often I thought I heard the heartbeat when I got to close to that part of the third floor.
Interviewer: You informed our agents that you'd had prolonged exposure to the ruby yourself. How did that come about?
Janice Erickson: Well first off I didn't know it was the ruby. I thought it was the tapestry, or just the room. One day Mr. [REDACTED] went on one of his rampages - he did that now and then, walked around the house yelling at all the maids and then going into empty rooms and yelling at no one. Then he fired everyone. Everyone except me, Carla, and some ridiculously young girl with big tits who worked in the kitchen.
Interviewer: Why do you believe he didn't fire you?
Janice Erickson: I don't know. I wish I knew. Maybe it was because none of the other staff talked to me. Maybe just coincidence.
[Subject pauses.]
Janice Erickson: I ended up taking on most of the others' duties. Then Carla assigned me to clean the atrium. I wasn't happy about it, but I was now getting paid even more because I was doing so much more, and I didn't want to get dismissed. So I go into the atrium again.
[Subject pauses again, takes another drink.]
Janice Erickson: And I heard my heart beating, of course. Again. I saw the tapestry with the skulls on it and I felt like they were watching me. I spent five minutes dusting in there and started freaking out. I thought maybe I'd end up like Margery and I just ran out of the room. I felt better pretty quick. But I had to go in again, you know? Apparently Carla hadn't been making anyone clean up in there since Margery left, so there was dust settled over everything. I didn't want to get fired and I didn't want to quit and I didn't want to make the stupid teenager in the kitchens clean haunted room all by herself. So I had to go back.
[Subject pauses.]
Janice Erickson: This happened… a few times. I couldn't stay in there long without freaking out. Sometimes everything would turn red and I'd feel like I was suffocating. I'd hear whispers everywhere, though I couldn't understand what they were saying - I kept thinking they were the ghosts noticing I was there, telling each other someone was here. I remembered Margery talking about blood on the walls and she'd only been in there half an hour. I couldn't stop looking at that goddamn skull tapestry. Eventually I figured… well… Mr. [REDACTED] doesn't even come in this room anymore. He's so old and sick and really, if the tapestry was haunted by dead slaves I'd be doing him a favor. It wasn't even that big and couldn't be worth that much, you know? So one night I …
[Subject pauses.]
Janice Erickson: You aren't going to tell him any of this, are you?
Interviewer: That is extremely unlikely. Please continue.
Janice Erickson: Like I said, I had no idea it was the stupid ruby making all this happen. So I took the tapestry down - when I took it down, I saw blood on the walls behind it and I really freaked out. I was just going to hide somewhere but after seeing the blood I took the goddamn thing out back and I burned it. It really stunk when it burned. When it was gone, I felt better. I stayed out of the atrium for a week, just in case.
[Subject pauses.]
Janice Erickson: When I went in there again, of course I felt the heartbeat again. I was pissed. I told myself I was imagining things and I felt really guilty about burning the tapestry. Like… guiltier than you can imagine, guiltier than I'd ever been since I was a kid and accidentally killed my pet goldfish. I spaced out in the room and just kept cleaning and crying.
[Subject pauses, attempts to compose self.]
Janice Erickson: Then I heard faraway screaming and I stopped dusting and saw the blood trickling slowly down the walls. My eyes were all blurry with tears and I tried to wipe them away and my hand came back bloody. I saw … bodies. Naked dead rotting things, mostly half-hidden behind display cases. There was this dead dog and it was almost completely rotted and covered in maggots but was still trying to move and looked so horrible I couldn't even scream. I tried to run, I really did, but I couldn't make my legs move. I kept trying to yell for help but I couldn't. I was so sure I was going to die. This lasted … hours. I think I passed out and woke up a couple times. After a while I saw this corpse standing around, staring at the walls. Then out of nowhere he was staring at me. I think that was as close as I got to screaming because I really tried then. He never got close to me but he kept staring. He'd disappear and then reappear somewhere else in the room, staring at me again. I saw others, too, but they were on the other side of the room doing… I don't know. Something horrible, probably. And the blood never stopped leaking from the walls. Sometimes I thought I was covered in it. Sometimes it disappeared and then it would come back with new corpses. The thumping and screaming from faraway never stopped.
[Subject pauses.]
Janice Erickson: After a long, long time the corpses kind of faded and the room stopped seeming so red. It felt like being half woken up. I realized I could move my legs again and I got out of that room as fast as I could. I'd spent a little over twelve hours in there, alone.
Interviewer: Did you return?
Janice Erickson: No, I never I did. The next day I went directly to Carla and told her I quit. But she immediately offered me double the high salary I was already being paid. Said Mr. [REDACTED] liked me, liked how quiet I was, and probably wouldn't be hiring anyone new for the next few weeks. I tried to tell her about the room and she clammed up and said something about 'fumes' and that she'd look into it. I went home and held my daughter for a long time and thought about what kinds of jobs I could get somewhere else. But the money … it was just too good. I convinced myself that I must have inhaled something weird, maybe some kind of delayed reaction from burning the tapestry, or maybe that was the revenge from the tapestry for burning it and everything would be fine now. So… I went back. I told Carla I'd take the offer if I didn't have to go in the atrium again. She wasn't really happy about it but agreed. And you know what? Everything was fine for the next two and a half months.
Interviewer: What happened after two and a half months?
Janice Erickson: I was taking a nap on a couch on the second floor at the end of my shift before going home. I'd gotten… comfortable, I guess. I was having anxious dreams and woke up to hear whispering. Familiar whispering, just like I'd heard in the atrium the other nights. I couldn't believe what was happening - I thought maybe I was still dreaming. Then the walls started bleeding and I couldn't walk again. That's when they… appeared.
[Subject pauses a long time.]
Interviewer: Please continue. Who appeared?
[Subject appears to be fighting back tears.]
Janice Erickson: The corpse from before. Staring at me. He was with my sister. She didn't look hurt, but there was something off about her. I was sure she was dead. And then they started talking to me.
Interviewer: What did they say?
Janice Erickson: They said I'd made it to the other side, that I only needed to take another step and then I'd know everything. My sister kept repeating something. - "God looks on the heart." "God looks on the heart." Then I felt like I was hallucinating or dreaming and they kept disappearing, coming back, saying the same things. Then I kept seeing the corpse-man from before staring and then laughing. Saying "You don't mean anything, this doesn't mean anything, you are going to die and nothing you are will matter." Then I saw him with Carla, and Carla looked half-rotted. He was back to saying what he was saying before, how I only needed to take another step and I'd know everything, and trying to promise me something but I couldn't make out what over the thumping and screaming which kept getting louder and louder. Carla didn't say anything, just looked at me with a blank face. She started mouthing something as the room got redder and redder. I'm bad at reading lips but eventually I figured out she was trying to say "It wants the foundation. Don't let them feed it." I don't -
Interviewer: Wait. Repeat your last sentence.
Janice Erickson: Carla was mouthing "It wants the foundation. Don't let them feed it."
Interviewer: Do you know what she meant by that?
Janice Erickson: I have no idea what any of them meant by any of that. Why?
Interviewer: Disregard that. Proceed.
Janice Erickson: Okay. Well, after that I managed to make myself move and I got the hell out of the house. By the time I got home I felt okay, just really shaken. I called my sister and told her that I'd had a really bad dream. I really expected her to be dead but she was perfectly fine and she's still fine. But Carla… I found out that Carla was dead. They say she passed away in her sleep, in her quarters [REDACTED] manor. So maybe that wasn't really my sister I saw, but it really was Carla? Maybe it killed her, or maybe she died and it took her… soul, I guess, and then came after me. I just don't know. Mr. [REDACTED] fell and ended up in the hospital the very next night. So is that a coincidence? I don't know. Maybe he'll say something to you - he sure hasn't said anything to anyone else. And… that's all, really. After that, you guys came along, so you know the rest better than me.
Interviewer: Thank you for your time, Ms. Erickson.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Subject given amnesiacs and released.
Significant comments:
pooryoric
This is really more of an anomalous item than an SCP. The effect is compelling, but really just seems like the setup for an SCP piece rather than a completed article.
Enma Ai
'Tis pretty decent, and I think you got the tone very well for a first article. I feel, however, that the three addendums are kind of unnecessary; the first one, while well-written, simply repeats information already given on the main description, but in the form of a history, and you could just mention those two effects described in the other two addendums (animals react to it, and recording devices do not record anything near the item) in the main description.
Mimi_42
I'd like for there to be more to the idea. May be just me, but even cliche points (provokes insanity, whatnot) can make a SCP completely awesome when there's more of a rhyme and reason to when they make people go insane. SCP-342 makes people act crazy because they see themselves on a train ride to hell. 882 makes people go insane in order to make itself larger, for whatever purpose it may have. 804's apparent mental compulsion stemmed from the fact that the people who made it actually wanted to put an end to the human race.
This is a rock that makes you see stuff.
Quikngruvn
It makes people crazy as a primary effect. Bleah.
Drewbear
Although the "beating to the tune of your own heart" aspect is mildly interesting, the "crazy to death" really is kind of dull.
Sorts
The whole heartbeat and hallucination thing was cool to me, drew me in.
I don't have any ideas for re-writing this. Except maybe taking out the dialogue, I tend to not like dialogue.
BLAH. I like this. It has charm. It does what it does and the description of the hallucinations seem just right.
There is room in my heart for one Makes You Go Crazy thing and this is it.
Your re-write isn't bad at all, but the only differences jumping out to me is the MC&D connection and the guy who abused the ruby's power and I don't really like that angle. But let's hear what the others think.
Further as to why I don't like the MC&D addition: It's not needed, and it doesn't seem logically congruent. As an item it doesn't seem like it would be very useful for MC&D or its clients, especially not so much that they would try to reclaim it. The guy who used it for interrogations and "sexual assaults" — eeesh.
This is really little more than a thing that makes you go crazy. Everyone else hates it for that reason, but I like it because to me it is a good example of the genre, so it doesn't need to do anything else but sit on its pedestal in containment and make the occasional D-class guinea pig see blood dripping from the walls.
The object itself hardly matters, but making it a blood red gemstone helps to tie it into that whole thumping heartbeat, melting reality thing. If I'd change anything it would just be to strip it down and get rid of the dialogue and leave the reader to imagine what it would be like to be stuck in a room with this thing in it.
I guess the scariest thought of this item would be if it was on display in a room somewhere and no one knew IT was the source of the problem. Slowly over a span of days anyone entering that room would hear the thumping, start seeing things… they'd flee, but sooner or later they'd have to go back. Maybe they were a maid who had to clean that damn room for some rich dude who never visited it.
Maybe if you can bring that kind of feeling to this other people would come around, like if you did a recovery log at the end that discussed the last victim's slow breakdown or reports of hauntings that they finally isolated to this one object.
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NOTES: Here's some potential additional images:
http://www.genustraithandbook.org.uk/images/sized/min500/glycera_jpg.jpg
http://www.corbisimages.com/images/42-25131154.jpg?size=67&uid=21821d11-c87b-40e2-ae8b-1ae400d8f91c&uniqID=3388dd43-917d-4dd7-8670-e13c90462150
http://www.sfu.ca/~fankbone/v/glycera.jpg
(can photoshop edit any of these)
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Item #: SCP-046
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-046 is to be kept in a lighted, environmentally sealed plate steel enclosure. Handlers of SCP-046 must wear Class-6 Biohazard suits to prevent containment breach.
SCP-046 cannot be surgically removed from a host without killing it. SCP-046 will burrow deeper into a victim's flesh and organs in an attempt to avoid wounds that pierce the skin (whether accidental or surgical) and will not exit the host until the host dies. In its 'egg' stage, SCP-046 may be removed surgically, but such operations run a 67% risk of premature release of SCP-046 larvae.
SCP-046 may be removed from a host using [REDACTED] this electromagnetic stimulation causes SCP-046 to enter a seizure state in which it rapidly chews its way out of the host body. This procedure is required for all personnel exposed to SCP-046.
SCP-046 is unusually resistant to standard means of destruction, but may [REDACTED] or disabled through special application of electromagnetic force. Handlers are to be provided with appropriate equipment and are instructed to disable, not destroy, any instances of SCP-046 when possible.
Description: SCP-046 is a synthetic organism approximately 5 cm in length, with a segmented bright red body that visually mimics the Glycera bloodworm (commonly used for fishing bait). It is composed of microscopic robotic structures encased in a flexible plastic epidermis. SCP-046 acts a parasite/parasitoid of mammals, displaying a strong preference for primates [DATA EXPUNGED].
In isolation from mammals, SCP-046 remains inert. When any mammal comes within a ███-meter radius, SCP-046 will immediately seek it out, moving with a speed and efficiency not indicated by its appearance, climbing over or chewing through obstacles if possible. There is no known means of preventing SCP-046 from sensing the proximity of mammals.
SCP-046 feeds by extending a large proboscis that bears four hollow, unusually strong tooth-like jaws connected to poison sacs. These jaws are composed of an unknown inorganic material and have disproportionate bite power for their size, allowing them to chew through most common materials. When in contact with a potential host, SCP-046 uses its jaws to breach host clothing and skin and enters the body, its poison completely numbing the bite area on contact. Most commonly, SCP-046 will move underneath the host's skin until it finds a blood-rich area such as the heart, brain, or genitalia. SCP-046 then burrows into the affected organ or area and slowly feeds.
After █ to ██ days, SCP-046 transforms into a soft, black, spherical structure. After an incubation period of █ days to ███ months, this structure produces between ██ and ███ larvae of SCP-046, which consume the flesh of the host on emergence. Each new 'batch' of larvae shows slightly different qualities from the original instance of SCP-046, including [REDACTED].
SCP-046 subsists on an unknown source of energy, and has never been observed to naturally run out of power. Contained instances that are not viewed remotely will constantly attempt to escape and attack any nearby mammal(s). Several instances have been attempting escape with no cessation of high physical activity since initial containment (in excess of 10 years), necessitating regular repair of enclosures.
Multiple mature instances of SCP-046 in close proximity [DATA EXPUNGED] Refer to Addendum 064-2.
Addendum 064-1: Discovery: SCP-046 was identified by Task Force Delta-5 in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Brazil (00°07′48″S 67°05′20″W) on April 15, 2000 at a local hospital. A patient, identified as █████ ██ ████████, a 23 year-old male, was brought in suffering from severe ocular trauma. He was declared dead on arrival. Upon removal of the patient's right eye, doctors noted that the sphenoid bone had been completely shattered, and that a large portion of the patient's frontal lobe had been breached. Inside the breached portion of the frontal lobe were several soft, black, spherical objects, around 7 mm in diameter of unknown origin. Hospital staff contacted local authorities.
The spherical objects hatched while the patient was in the morgue on the morning of April 16. A mortician noticed this anomaly and quickly sealed the room containing the patient. These 'eggs' hatched ████ worm-like organisms. By the time Task Force Delta-5 arrived in the late evening of April 16, the organisms had grown to the standard size of SCP-046 and had eaten a large portion of the patient's flesh, internal organs, and bone material. Instances of SCP-046 attempted to parasitize the agents by burrowing through their protective suits. Agents [DATA EXPUNGED].
Another victim, █████████ ███████, a 47-year-old female, was discovered in the area two days after the incident. The victim was severely injured in a car accident, apparently prompting an instance of SCP-046 to eat its way further into her body to avoid the wounds. The victim later died from shock and blood loss. The bodies of multiple other victims were later discovered; refer to attached documentation.
Addendum 064-2: Origin and Traits of Interest: Analysis of SCP-046's components has shown [DATA EXPUNGED] particularly due to the exponential effect on energy production of multiple instances of SCP-046 in close proximity. Each new 'generation' of SCP-046 creates energy fields of distinctive qualities when separated from the parent generation in the parent's parasitoid stage, leading to SCP-046 being contained in multiple separate Foundation sites for research purposes. Proposals to allow SCP-046 to further multiply under controlled conditions to allow extended study have been approved on a probationary basis.
Researcher Note: Yes, I understand we don't want to encourage spread of this thing, but it's already out there, isn't it? This could be the Holy Grail of energy production if we can reproduce how it works. This is what D-class personnel are for. Further, no, we can't talk about who may have created these things or why. Rumors about this so-called Factory didn't come from us. -Dr. ███████
Addendum 064-3: Spread: [DATA EXPUNGED] As of April ██, 20██, [REDACTED] uncontained instances of SCP-046 have been found, in [REDACTED] other locations worldwide.
// Hmmm, I'm really neutral about this one. But hey, give it a try. I can definitely see potential in it.//
-Sal
Other Stuff
Unofficial Collection of Previously Used K-Class Scenarios
SCP-1000 in Simple English
Projects I've worked on so far:
SCP-003: Major rewrite
SCP-046: Major rewrite with Research Assistant Corbette
The Manager: Interview with a Factory representative
Future WIPs List
SCP-507: work on further expeditions to other worlds
SCP-303: Needs edits, unless someone else gets to it first.
Maybe SCP-987 (window)…?
SCP-974, a stupid memetic thing: a maybe rewrite
SCP Watch List
SCP-023 Black Shuck: Author requested edits a year ago, may be promising.
SCP-057: Hm.
