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Item #: SCP-ITEMNUMBER

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-ITEMNUMBER is to be kept in a secure Foundation facility located in Bir Tawil¹. All workers at the facility with the exception of D-Class are to be stateless individuals² in order to prevent any accidental spread of SCP-ITEMNUMBER's anomalous effects.

Description: SCP-ITEMNUMBER is a large misshapen limestone boulder massing approximately 3000 kg. Its anomalous effects manifest when an individual of a non-sapient species touches it, the species hereon referred to as SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A. At this point, SCP-ITEMNUMBER will become "active" and cannot induce its anomalous effects on another species until it "deactivates." The instance of SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A that first comes into contact will begin to gain sapience, which will be infectious and genetically communicable. This sapience comes with some other changes to SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A, such as:

• Highly increased lifespan
• The ability to speak despite the lack of development of vocal cords
• Omnivorousness

The sapience and other communicable effects are only communicable within the nation of origin of the first instance of that particular SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A. Members of that species from other nations who enter the origin nation may gain the effect, but they also can only spread it within the bounds of the origin nation. After the sapience effects are communicated to most members of the species within the origin nation, the instances of SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A will enter the public limelight within that nation as being able to speak, and will advocate for their own ability to have political power. There is no compulsion of the ruling species to give SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A citizenship, but as a matter of probability, after enough time passes, it is likely they will either be wiped out or will gain citizenship.

The first time an instance of SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A becomes the main leader of the nation, the previous ruling species will start to lose sapience (this lost sapience also being communicable), the new species created by this lost sapience referred to as a type of SCP-ITEMNUMBER-B. The loss of sapience will also induce shorter lifespans and the loss of the ability to speak in SCP-ITEMNUMBER-B. As SCP-ITEMNUMBER-B becomes nonsapient, SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A will likely take away their political power.

Once either all SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A instances are wiped out or all of the previously ruling species have become SCP-ITEMNUMBER-B, SCP-ITEMNUMBER will "deactivate" and can give another species sapience again, with the exception of SCP-ITEMNUMBER-B, who cannot become sapient again within that nation.

[FURTHER INFORMATION CLASSIFIED - INPUT LEVEL 3/ITEMNUMBER CREDENTIALS]

SCP-ITEMNUMBER was discovered on ██/██/18██, when reports of talking hyenas³ surfaced. Foundation personnel investigated and found the reports to be true, and traced their origins back to SCP-ITEMNUMBER. The Foundation built a facility around SCP-ITEMNUMBER and attempted to round up the hyena SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A instances there. In order to hide the presence of this facility, the Foundation negotiated a deal with British colonists to set aside the surrounding area as terra nullius, which the Foundation would have direct, but unrecognized, control over.

An interview was conducted with one of these instances.

<Begin Log>

Interviewer: [speech]

Person: [speech]

<End Log>

Closing Statement: [Small summary and passage on what transpired afterward]

Footnotes

1. An area of land between Egypt and Sudan that neither nation lays claim to.

2. Those who do not have citizenship in any nation of the world.

3. Specifically, Hyaena hyaena, or the Striped Hyena

Super-rope

Item #: SCP-ITEMNUMBER

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: The stock of specialty sex shops are to be monitored for selling lengths of SCP-ITEMNUMBER, and should be bought and taken into Foundation ownership as soon as possible. In tests of SCP-ITEMNUMBER, enough leeway room is to be left in knots tied so that SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A can escape the "restraints" without the knot being altered.

Description: SCP-ITEMNUMBER is a type of braided rope of composition resembling non-anomalous hemp fiber. It has a nominal diameter of 15mm and masses 40 grams per meter of length.

When SCP-ITEMNUMBER is tied around a human being (denoted SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A) in any form of knot, once exactly five (5) minutes have passed since the last alteration of the knot, SCP-ITEMNUMBER's anomalous properties will become active, with it becoming stuck the configuration at time of activation, with untying the knot being impossible. In addition, when it is activated, SCP-ITEMNUMBER will gain resistance to any method of damage, including:

• Rope shears
• Laser cutting
• Flame
• [REDACTED]

The only known methods of deactivating SCP-ITEMNUMBER's anomalous effects are death of SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A or removal of the rope from around SCP-ITEMNUMBER-A without the alteration of the rope, such as by sliding out of a loose knot.

SCP-ITEMNUMBER was discovered on ██/██/20██ in the city of █████████, California, after a woman called local emergency services to help her remove her partner from SCP-ITEMNUMBER, which they claimed to have been using for [REDACTED]. Local emergency services eventually removed the rope from the woman using lubricant, and the reports of the "impossible to break rope" were picked up by a Foundation operative planted in the city's law enforcement. Class-A amnestics were administered and the instance of SCP-ITEMNUMBER was taken.