Containment Protocol: Control all access to the building. The lobby must have a minimum of three Foundation agents at all times, posing as building security: the cognitive fuzzing effect only affects individuals.
Current containment protocol: (um, not sure yet). Has to be on the ground floor, though. Entity is able to disguise itself: if the containment chamber seems empty, gas it for one full minute before entering to investigate. Two (2) kilograms of raw ground meat are to be placed into its containment chamber on Mondays and Thursdays.
Description: SCP-XXX is an 11-story office building in [REDACTED]. SCP-XXX-2 is (some sort of entity) which, until Incident XXX-7, inhabited the building now known as SCP-XXX-1. SCP-XXX-2 was captured in the aftermath of Incident XXX-7.
('Inhabited' means more than it would for a human, I think. It somehow… permeated the substance of the building?)
Entity can induce brief 'cognitive fuzz' effect and spatial distortions to get people lost, and keep them that way. It enjoys tormenting people, and eats them.
Incident XXX-7: On [date], D-XXX-12 was sent in to SCP-XXX to explore the fourth and fifth floors (former site of the [REDACTED] Advertising Agency). D-XXX-12 was [REDACTED], a convicted arsonist and rapist serving eight life sentences without possibility of parole. After becoming lost within the Agency's offices and reporting via radio that he was being hunted, D-XXX-12 built an incendiary device from abandoned electrical equipment and office supplies (and "some [EXPLETIVE] I found in some stupid [EXPLETIVE]'s desk drawer"), and set fire to the building despite express orders to continue exploring.
(Traffic patterns were altered?) to delay the arrival of civilian fire crews, and the building was destroyed within two hours; damage to surrounding buildings was minimal. Subsequent exploration of the wreckage revealed (+100) human skeletons with [DATA EXPUNGED] (of which (+10) were identified as D-class personnel lost in previous exploration attempts) and the unconscious, badly-burned entity.
DISCIPLINARY NOTE: Dr. █████████ was chastised for negligence in her choice of D-class personnel; however, since this led directly to the capture of SCP-XXX-2, disciplinary measures have been waived.
Other ideas:
*Glockenspiel of Grief (Marshall Carter Dark) - ideally it would be every 6(?)-note pattern that triggers a memory loop, but we don't have the songbook (except the first two pages). So we do have the deactivation sequence.
*Flashback Knife for decisions - cutting person makes you see every decision they made in their life that led to their being here right now getting cut
*von Neumann's air freshener - once you're affected (by smell? touch?), your pores begin to constantly exude a pine-fresh scent. Which is extremely bad for human health and means you need dialysis, etc. And perhaps the effect spreads to other people from you? Maybe it's a Factory item?
++Lagging door++
SCP-XXXX: the Lagging Door
Object class: Euclid
Special containment procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be contained within a standard doorframe connecting two rooms which are part of a 36-room (6 rooms by 6 rooms) modular labyrinth array; each room in the labyrinth array is to measure 2.5 meters by 2.5 meters, and must have a minimum of two doors in its walls. This serves as primary containment. All doors between labyrinth rooms are to be colored red so that labyrinth users can more easily detect SCP-XXXX; similarly, each room is to be numbered, with its number clearly indicated on each wall.
All doorframes on site-XX which separate public and/or personal spaces from each other are to be of a size compatible with SCP-XXXX; these serve as secondary containment should SCP-XXXX breach primary containment in the labyrinth. In the event that SCP-XXXX is found within secondary containment, it is not to be replaced within primary containment until its misaligned phase has reverted to its standard phase. All doorframes on site-XX which separate public spaces from secure and/or classified spaces, or which separate secure and/or classified spaces from each other, are to be of a size which exceeds, or is exceeded by, that of SCP-XXXX by no less than 20% in every dimension.
During its standard phase, SCP-XXXX is to be used no less than four (4) times per 24-hour period; insufficient use of SCP-XXXX during its standard phase shortens the interval before its phase transition. A video surveillance system is to be mounted throughout the labyrinth, so as to detect the onset of SCP-XXXX's ambulatory phase, and subsequently of its misaligned phase.
Any research into the misaligned phase must be performed within the first 90 hours of the onset of this phase: although SCP-XXXX has never transitioned from misaligned phase to standard phase before spending at least 96 hours misaligned, the transition is instantaneous once it occurs.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a wooden door, painted white on both sides, roughly 2 meters tall, 82 centimeters wide, and 3.5 centimeters thick, with a rounded brass doorknob on each side. When in its standard, non-anomalous phase, SCP-XXXX functions as a normal door, standing in a doorframe as it separates two spaces from each other. After an interval of at least six days (shortest observed interval: 6 days 2 hours 14 minutes; longest observed interval: 22 days 9 hours 51 minutes; see document XXXX-257-HNB for detailed statistical analysis), SCP-XXXX will transition to its ambulatory phase; the duration of the non-anomalous interval can be significantly extended by frequent use (see document XXXX-5K-W93 for parameters of what counts as "use").
Upon transition to its ambulatory phase, SCP-XXXX will animate, unhook itself from its hinges, and begin to hop around its environment. It will not animate while it is being directly observed by humans; however, video surveillance has revealed that it is capable of hopping at least 85 m/s while unobserved, although this speed may have been enhanced by [DATA EXPUNGED]. Thus, it is considered safest to not interfere with SCP-XXXX when it is in its ambulatory phase. During the ambulatory phase, SCP-XXXX will seek out another door within a doorframe; upon locating such a door (based upon criteria which have yet to be determined, except that [DATA EXPUNGED]), SCP-XXXX will instanteously install itself within the new door's doorframe, while simultaneously installing the new door within SCP-XXXX's original doorframe. This marks the transition to the misaligned phase.
During the misaligned phase, the spaces adjacent to SCP-XXXX's current and previous doorframes are conjoined to each other, reflecting SCP-XXXX's prevous location: instead of doorframe A linking rooms 1 and 2, and doorframe B linking rooms 3 and 4 (as is normal), doorframe A links rooms 1 and 4, and doorframe B links rooms 2 and 3. This has been shown to be effective from both sides; further experiments with this phenomenon have revealed [DATA EXPUNGED].
Note: As a result of incidents XXXX-26 through -29, all experiments which involve moving SCP-XXXX to new locations while it is in its misaligned phase are pre-emptively denied. - O5-*
Study of the physical composition of SCP-XXXX has been hindered by the fact that all attempts to remove samples of SCP-XXXX for analysis have instead produced samples of other doors; similarly, attempts to leave markings on the surface of SCP-XXXX have instead left markings on the surface of other doors. This is hypothesized to be a further manifestation of SCP-XXXX's property of warping space towards other doors.
All forms of passive analysis indicate that SCP-XXXX is a normal door, with the exception of [DATA EXPUNGED]. This implies [DATA EXPUNGED], which is considered probable, but for obvious reasons cannot be verified.
