Arc_Drakius-2
rating: 0+x
Item#: XXXX
Level1
Containment Class:
safe
Secondary Class:
{$secondary-class}
Disruption Class:
dark
Risk Class:
notice
wood-chair.jpg

Image of SCP-XXXX

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be "contained" in a standard 10x10x10m containment chamber. As of 2014/05/06, SCP-XXXX has been relocated to Dr. Brown's office.1 Once a week, Dr. Brown is to write a report on SCP-XXXX, notating any testing or anomalous properties.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a wooden chair of average size and build. It's only anomalous property is causing certain people to insist that it is anomalous, no matter the amount of research to the contrary.

Discovery: SCP-XXXX was first located in a library in Brighton, Colorado when an SCP agent visited to borrow some books. When he saw the chair, he asked to buy it off them, believing it to have some strange properties. He returned to the nearest site and asked to get it tested. No anomalous qualities were found, yet several researchers still insisted it was something other than a normal chair.
After some discussion, it was decided that Dr. M Brown would watch the chair, making sure to do a thorough examination every week.

Weekly Reports:

Week One:

"I can't believe I agreed to this. I took over research of this "SCP" to avoid being transferred to a more dangerous one, but at least then that would be interesting. How am I supposed to come up with a weekly report for a chair? It's a chair. So far all it's done is sit in the containment chamber." -Brown

Week Two:

One D-class personnel was sent into the chamber with a box-cutter to make a small scratch on the leg. The chair made no move to prevent this, and the scratch is still there.
"It's a normal chair." -Brown

Dr. Brown requests assistance. One Dr. J Peterson has been transferred over.
"It's not that I need help. It's just maddening staring at a completely normal chair all day." -Dr. Brown

Week Three:

Brown and Peterson requested that ten D-class personnel enter the containment chamber and record their thoughts about it. Four attested to feeling that something was off about it. The other six believed it to be a normal chair.
"Maybe it's only anomalous property is making some people think it's anomalous?" -Peterson

Week Four:

Over the course of the week, seventeen tests were run. Fifteen to twenty D-class personnel were sent into the containment chamber, and asked to record their thoughts about the chair.
By week's end, 302 data points were recorded.
135 felt that it was a normal chair.
57 suspected that it was an SCP, but didn't see anything odd about the chair.
87 thought the chair was odd or strange in some way, but didn't feel any kind of distress.
28 were wary of the chair and felt that it was pretending to be normal.
5 were frightened of the chair. All five claimed that they would have been killed were they sent in alone.
"I'm genuinely surprised that there's anything odd about this chair. I thought my contemporaries were just being paranoid." -Brown
"There doesn't seem to be anything dangerous about it. I believe it's safe to assume that I was correct."

Research into the D-classes files indicates a link between paranoia or general distrust and believing the chair to be odd. The more distrustful you are, the more likely it is that you'll believe the chair to be strange.
Three of the five who feared the chair had PTSD.

Dr. Brown requested that the chair be moved to his office.
Request granted.

Week Five:

Brown: "Nothing really happened this week. I moved the chair to my office. It didn't do anything, because it's a chair."
Peterson: "After the success of last week's experiment, there's not much else we can do with SCP-XXXX. Perhaps we could let therapists borrow it for first meetings?"
Brown: "…It's a chair. If they want to borrow it, they can. They just have to avoid damaging it, because, and I don't think I can state this enough, it's-"
Peterson: "A chair, yes. However, we've seen that how people react to SCP-XXXX. We have the documentation. It could indeed be a useful tool for therapists."
Brown: "My second week of looking at this thing, I put a scratch on the leg. That scratch is still there, right where I left it. Believe all you want in it's mystical power, at the end of the day it's still a chair."