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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is currently held at a satellite facility in ██████ under the supervision of Dr. Hemper. Dr. Hemper is to be allowed the use of any containment procedures he deems necessary so long as SCP-XXXX does not leave the facility. Motion sensors placed on all known points of entry are to be monitored at all times. Personnel currently involved in direct research of SCP-XXXX are not allowed to exit the facility. Personnel that exit the facility, with the exception of Dr. Hemper, are to be terminated immediately. If Dr. Hemper exits the facility he is to be returned to the facility as soon as possible. If SCP-XXXX is taken out of the facility, it should be recovered and immediately returned. Persons recovering SCP-XXXX are not to touch SCP-XXXX direcly.
Food and supplies should be delivered to the facility on a bi-weekly basis. Requests for additional equipment unrelated to current procedures ongoing in the facility are to be ignored.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a three foot length of rope recovered in lake REDACTED. It bears a striking resemblance to ropes used in the rigging of 12th century Norse exploratory vessels. The ends of the rope are frayed, and besides some slight discoloration the rope is preserved remarkably well.
SCP-XXXX was initially recovered as part of the wreckage, but was later discarded as litter. SCP-XXXX came to the attention of the Foundation after several members of the crew that recovered the rope were reported missing. The subjects were later found at their place of work, huddled around SCP-XXXX. The subjects dismissed family members and first responders in the room, refusing to do anything other than look at and touch the rope. The subjects were forcibly removed and taken to separate psychiatric facilities.
Three weeks after the events with the search and rescue workers, the deputy that recovered SCP-XXXX was found exhibiting similar symptoms while locked in a supply closet at their department. It was at this point that the Foundation took notice and recovered SCP-XXXX.
SCP-XXXX was assigned to Dr. Hemper. Shortly after SCP-XXXX was assigned to Dr. Hemper, colleagues in the facility noticed a marked increase in effort and time spent on research. Two after research began, Dr. Hemper reported that three D-class personnel had stolen SCP-XXXX and were attempting to measure the “viscosity” of the rope by taking turns holding the rope while standing on a bathroom scale. The D-class personnel were terminated and replaced. Two weeks after that, Dr. Hemp was found with two D-class personnel and another researcher attempting to carbon date SCP-XXXX. This was considered strange due to the fact that SCP-XXXX had already been dated to the 12th century conclusively six times. The dating procedure was also being performed at three o'clock AM.
Dr. Hemp and the other subjects exhibited extreme resistance to being seperated from SCP-XXXX. Rather than being forcibly separated from SCP-XXXX, the subjects were moved to a satellite facility in REDACTED. The subjects were supplied with equipment consistent with Foundation standards and allowed to continue their “research” under observation. Several D-class personnel have been added to the team at varying points.
SCP-XXXX possesses two anomalous properties. The first is that it decays at a remarkably low rate. Despite being submerged in a lake for several hundred years, SCP-XXXX appears to have only aged a few decades.
The second anomalous property that SCP-XXXX possesses is that it causes people who come in contact with it to become obsessed with it. There is a clear line of progression to the obsession that can be reversed only up to a certain point. Subjects in the same room as SCP-XXXX will develop a mild curiosity about it. This effect lasts only as long as the subject and SCP-XXXX are in the same room. If a subject comes into contact with SCP-XXXX they will immediately become convinced that SCP-XXXX is important. No subject has yet been able to articulate why they think that SCP-XXXX is important.
Subjects continuing to come into contact with SCP-XXXX will slowly develop a nagging paranoia that SCP-XXXX is in danger of being stolen. No subject has yet been able to articulate who they think is going to steal SCP-XXXX. If a subject continues routine contact with SCP-XXXX for approximately two weeks the obsession will escalate to a degree that it cannot be reversed. The subject will then permanently be convinced that SCP-XXXX is of the utmost importance, putting the investigation of SCP-XXXX above anything that does not involve basic survival.
Subjects reaching this level of obsession will do everything in their power to investigate SCP-XXXX. Subjects will investigate SCP-XXXX to the best of their ability. Less educated subjects resort to primitive methods such as tasting and touching SCP-XXXX. Subjects with a higher level of education will use whatever methods they are familiar with to investigate SCP-XXXX. When subjects have exhausted all known methods of investigation, they will repeat previously used methods.
