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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is a fixed structure, and thus cannot be fully contained without quarantining the surrounding city. An outpost has been constructed adjacent to SCP-XXXX as a compromise.

SCP-XXXX must be subject to daily surveillance from 8 AM-8 PM local time. At no point are books longer than ███ pages long to enter SCP-XXXX. Instances of SCP-XXXX-1 are to be neutralized on sight, with class-a amnestics administered to surviving witnesses of said instance.

Description: SCP-XXXX is an independently-owned print shop located in [REDACTED], Belarus. Subject is quite small and unassuming, with very little daytime traffic. Subject takes up about 2500 m³. The face of SCP-XXXX is white, with very few distinguishing features.

Anomalous behaviors occur once a book of ███ pages or more enters SCP-XXXX.¹ The book's pages begin dripping with ink, which then coalesces on the floor of SCP-XXXX. The ink then forms no more than four (4) entities (known as SCP-XXXX-1) out of itself.

Instances of SCP-XXXX-1 are tall, jet black, avian entities, closely resembling the extinct Moa (Dinornis Robustus). Instances are extremely hostile, attacking any living being in sight (excluding workers in SCP-XXXX) by [DATA EXPUNGED]. They are easily neutralized, usually requiring one (1) standard .22 caliber bullet anywhere on the body.²

Once an instance of SCP-XXXX-1 is neutralized, it will liquefy and coalesce into a puddle. Tests have proven the liquid to be ink; however, this puddle cannot bring any other instances of SCP-XXXX-1 into existence.

SCP-XXXX was discovered on █/██/19██, when it spontaneously appeared overnight. When interviewed, none of the town's inhabitants knew of its existence prior to its appearance, and none recognized the 6 staff operating SCP-XXXX.³ Anomalous activity was confirmed when a local author entered SCP-XXXX with a typewritten, bound manuscript for one of his novels.

Incident XXXX-A

Subject: Sergeant █████ Edeshko, MTF Phi-19 "Wild Weasels"

Interviewer: Doctor ███████

Foreword: Interviewer and Subject sit opposite each other in a Mobile Command Center. Subject is still wearing MTF uniform, which is coated in ink and viscera.

<Begin Log>

Doctor ███████: So, Sergeant, what, um, happened here?

Sergeant Edeshko: I really can't say, sir. The, uh, the thing you sent me here to secure was just a print shop. Until…

Doctor ███████: Until what?

Sergeant Edeshko: (Subject is visibly distressed)…some local author came in to, uh, get some copies of his latest book printed.

Doctor ███████: And?

Sergeant Edeshko: And he had typed out the manuscript and bound it himself.

Doctor ███████: What does that have to do with anything?

Sergeant Edeshko: Well, when we got to the scene, the guy was, uh, [DATA EXPUNGED] His book was lying on the ground, leaking ink, and those birds were [DATA EXPUNGED] and the workers were just staring at us while the birds approached. So we opened fire. The damn things popped like water balloons. (Subject shudders) I really wanna forget that.

Doctor ███████: You want to forget that SCP-XXXX exists?

Sergeant Edeshko: No, no. I wanna forget what the birds did, were doing to him when we got there. I've seen plenty of shit in my time here, but this was too much. He had his daughter with him, sir.

Doctor ███████: Very well, then. Get yourself cleaned up and come back here, and we'll discuss your amnestic options.

Sergeant Edeshko: (Subject stands up and runs for the door) Thank you, sir!

<End Log>

Closing Statement: Termination order for Sergeant █████ Edeshko and MTF Phi-19 "Wild Weasels" signed █/██/19██. Order carried out on █/█/19██ by [REDACTED].

Addendum: On █/██/20██, SCP-XXXX was shut down by local authorities, citing tax fraud as their primary reason for doing so. When staff of SCP-XXXX were forced out, they immediately started melting into a black liquid, later identified as ink. This startled the officers holding them, who let go, and the staff returned to SCP-XXXX. Process of classifying staff members as SCP-XXXX-2 through -7 underway.

Footnotes

1. Testing shows that the equivalent number of printed looseleaf pages does not activate anomalous activity.

2. Testing shows that SCP-XXXX-1 physically cannot leave SCP-XXXX.

3. Foundation surveillance shows the staff of SCP-XXXX has not changed or left the structure since its initial appearance. Classification of staff members as SCP-XXXX-2 through -7 pending.