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Item #: XXXX
Object Class: Keter/ Archon
Archived Special Containment Proceedures:
No more than 200 individuals may be aware of the existence of SCP-XXXX at any given time. Should individuals outside Site-93 learn of SCP-XXXX, they are to be amnesticised terminated and an investigation into how they learned of it is to be launched.
The village of NAMESTOWN, surrounding SCP-XXXX has been isolated, and it's inhabitants contained for questioning and research into the nature of SCP-XXXX. Site-93 has been established on the site of NAMESTOWN, incorporating existing structures. It is to be stocked with D-Class personnel for testing purposes, a containment wing for manifested sub-anomalies.
Research into artifacts and documents pertaining to SCP-XXXX is to be conducted on site. No ritual activity is to be performed with SCP-XXXX.
No personnel above level 3 Clearance beyond Site Director Pilecki may be involved in the containment of SCP-XXXX.
Ritual activity may be conducted with SCP-XXXX at the discretion of Site Director Pilecki.
Ritual activity is to be performed with SCP-XXXX on a monthly basis.
Ritual activity with SCP-XXXX is to be conducted on an as needed basis.
Site-93 is to withdraw from the Foundation structures, and all lines of communication with SCP Foundation Structures are to be heavily monitored. Outside visitation is prohibited.
Site-93 is to be surrounded by several perimiters for the purpose of preventing Foundation or political access.
Level 4 or above personnel entering Site-93 are to be detained. Should they have become effected by SCP-XXXX they are to be executed.
Special Containment Procedures:
No more than 200 individuals may be aware of the existence of SCP-XXXX at any given time. Should individuals outside Site-93 learn of SCP-XXXX, they are to be terminated and an investigation into how they learned of it is to be launched.
Site-93 has been constructed in and around the village of NAMESTOWN, surrounding SCP-XXXX for the purpose of containment. It is to operate autonomously from Foundation structures with only heavily monitored channels of communication being maintained. Large stocks of amnestics are to be maintained on site, along with a trauma ward and numerous trained psychologists. A containment wing has been constructed to house sub anomalies manifested by SCP-XXXX and those anomalously affected by SCP-XXXX or ritual activity. A total of eight (8) Scantron Reality Anchors have been placed in the middle perimiter wall surrounding Site-93.
Surviving residents of NAMESTOWN have been released and provided training by the Foundation to aid in the containment of SCP-XXXX. These individuals have granted Level 2 clearance, and are to assist in instructing and aiding Site-93 staff in the containment of SCP-XXXX
All records and knowledge of SCP-XXXX, NAAMESTOWN and related information is to be collected, studied and destroyed by Site 93 personnel. Any individuals or anomalies found to possess information regarding SCP-XXXX must be amnesticised terminated.
Foundation1 and O5 investigators are to be captured as soon as they are detected within 10km of Site-93. These individuals will be detained within holding cells within Site-93 and interrogated to determine their level of knowledge of SCP-XXXX. Should they be found to be effected by SCP-XXXX they are to be terminated or integrated into Site-93's staff on a case by case basis. Individuals of a level 4 clearance or higher effected by SCP-XXXX are to be terminated if affected by SCP-XXXX. O5 Personnel, Ethics Committee Personnel, and high ranking members of other GOIs are not exempt.
One ritual procedure must be performed with SCP-XXXX every week, with the most recently received ritual procedure being performed. All personnel must report Ritual Procedure visions and dreams to Site command immediately, with failure to do so being punished severely. to avoid potential X-Class events, failure to perform a weekly ritual must not be allowed, with punitive and incentivizing programs being implemented to aid in this.
Staff assigned to Site-93 must remain there until death. As such, Site-93 has been outfitted with various recreational activities, psychological aid, and amnestic therapy suites. A wing of Site-93 is to be maintained for the purpose of providing counselling, palative care and medical attention to staff following Ritual Procedures.
Description:
Is an old well constructed of black granite in the center of NAMESTOWN, Poland or France. Those aware of the well (via picture, description, or seeing it) are afflicted with an intense fear of the well, and the knowledge of various rituals. should a person ignore these rituals, their fear and paranoia increase, and the area around them becomes anomalously unstable. Performing the ritual they have been given the knowledge of will make things return to normal.
The well is full of anomalous red/black tar. Tests on this tar have proven that it can animate dead tissue, but causes various anomalous mutation. The more time has passed between rituals being performed, the higher this oil rises in the well.
the more people are aware of the well, the more likely complex rituals requiring more people to complete will become. Failing to perform these rituals results in local reality becoming distorted. This manifests through the hill the town is built on swelling in size, with the earth often moving, raining blood, the attraction of vermin, anomalous creatures emerging from dimensional rifts, and spontaneous loss of sanity and mental faculties of people in the area. This grows worse the longer things go without a ritual being performed. The longer the time is between the rituals, the worse the next ritual will be.
Rituals tend to be geared towards the extent of a persons power and resources. powerful people with access to more resources will receive the knowledge of how to perform much more complex, resource intensive rituals.
During times of unstable reality, persons in the area often report feelings of being watched, feeling invisible hands or breath on them while not looking, and visions of [REDACTED] rising from the well.
All people who know about it have bad dreams every night, many of them involving consistent imagery and figures.
Addendum:
Historically, this village has always been remote and independant. The vatican ordered it isolated long ago and purged nearly all records of it from existance. the townsfolk are largely inbred and often low level type green reality benders. The villagers have been performing the rituals for a long time and report that failure to do so shall result in an unknown entity called NAME being birthed into this dimension, causing an XK end of the world scenario.
Addendum:
List of altars and weird crap found in the homes of the villagers. List of anomalous villagers
Addendum:
Vatican account of what was going on in the town.
Addendum:
Initially the foundation was skeptical of these claims (in 1st addendum) and simply contained the area effected by the unstable reality, locking up the villagers. Staff with visions and dreams of rituals and figures rising from the well were ignored and treated with therapy. meanwhile the staff guarding the well and town itself were killed or lost their minds as the effects got worse, and the equipment broke down. by the time the ritual was done, the oil had reached the top of the well and a figure was begining to emerge. the resulting ritual resulted in the loss of the entire site staff and many of the original villagers, and the destruction of 40 square kilometres of land.
Describe what happened.
Addendum:
Use the "Username" gimmick to give the reader a descrition of a ritual they must do to stop it from coming.
Use a script to give them a different ritual each time the page loads. Give a different tidbit of information about the thing in the well with each version of this ritual.
The THING: vaguely humanoid, malevolent, described as more like a missionary than a king or a god. Head is the horned skull of a carnivorous animal, eyes burning with colourless fire, with a writing mane. The body is made of oil and shadows. Carries a staff/ spear hung with the heads of the faithful/ unfaithful. Town has a hidden altar to it, but they do not worship it, rather fear it and were forced to make it as parts of various rituals over time. the staff/ spear has the decapitated head and full spine of a missing person, who can tell vague, hidden things about those it sees?
Seen as a crawling mass of black flesh and ooze full of faces and claws and maws?
Keep it entirely vague?
Evidence of a similar well in Allagadda?
RITUAL IDEAS: cut your own face off while chanting something, and deposit the face into the well. (possibly, be forced to do this to a lover or family member.)
Lay a blanket by the well with a lover. annoit each others bodies with the symbols, and conceive a child by the well. both parties must intone the phrase "Our offspring will live for you, NAME."
Strip, carve runes into your flesh and feel the bottoms of your feet. Dance the special well dance around the well until unconscious.
Place your youngest child in a sack, and fill it with stones. tie the sack up and drop it down the well. chant a chant as it is done.
cannibalism/ autocannibalism.
all those effected must chose a person to hunt and kill, giving them a head start. they may not use weapons in this hunt, and must each consume a certain amount of the hunted person. the remains are to be thrown into the well.
One specific agent has to do something not particularly dangerous at the well, but is required to put on a ring that won't come off. 1 year later they are found in their room covered in human bite marks, mind totally snapped and hysterically crying and laughing. This is how they are now.
Makes a Sarkist perform Mekhanite rituals and a Mekhanite perform Sarkist rituals together.
Basically its an old well in france or poland or something, and anyone who knows about it becomes consumed by the knowledge that there is something awful in the well, and they need to do rituals to keep it from getting out
said rituals are almost always going to be nasty or creepy, and usually done around the well
including human sacrifice and stuff
containment procedures would by necessity have to include these rituals too
when they investigate the area, the well is in the middle of this old medieval town. the town is built in a spiral around the well, so it's both in the middle of the town, and also at the end of the only road
a lot of the houses have altars and ceremonial stuff in them, but no texts as to what is down there, maybe a painting of it, I dunno
and basically, looking down the well, it's full of this black and red oil, that rises the more people know about it without doing whatever rituals come to their minds
Basically the well is a portal
on the other side is something legitimately awful and lovecraftian
the anomalous effect is really a defense mechanism of the universe
people see the well and they are imbued with the knowledge of what to do to stop this THING breaching into our universe
unfortunately, those rituals and rites are awful, as they are tied to this very monstrous THING
and the longer the well goes without the rituals being done, the more the oil inside the well rises, and the closer it comes to breaching
furthermore, I imagine that the closer it comes to breaching, the fuckier the local reality gets
you can FEEL its presence, people slip through the cracks, smaller things slip through
people go mad
become anomalous or are transformed themselves
also, the oil is likely anomalous in itself and could be used for experiments
RogayToday at 2:28 AM
I think that's a really cool idea, I think maybe you could even have the Foundation think it's a hoax at first until it's Almost Too Late
BalthazaarToday at 2:29 AM
I'm always into "Almost too late"
how do you mean tho?
Also, the rituals would be mostly awful
RogayToday at 2:29 AM
Like they don't believe what's going on, it's not awful, they think it's just people being superstitious and try to stop them from doing it any longer
maybe they think it's a more benign anomaly than it really is
"Flay your face off and drop it in the well while reciting something"
Oh I like that
It gives me the chance to describe what happens when things cut it close
I can describe the whole hill the town is built on bulging like a pregnant belly, the insane townsfolk gibbering as some stitch each other together or are meged with the walls
and as tree roots descend from the (permanantly there) clouds
how they can feel a huge presence "Pushing" on their minds
they can feel that something has seen them
rituals I can see being like
sacrifice your child and throw them in the well
concieve a child against the well
do the macarena around the well until you die of exhaustion
Pee in a jar and throw it in the well
Should I reveal what it is down there?
Because atm I'm kind of imagining something like
BIG
not physically big, but like, powerful and gamechanging
231 esque
RogayToday at 2:35 AM
It's always scarier if you don't show your hand
I was thinking maybe they recover SOME stuff from the town
diaries and stuff that vaguely describe it
all we have is a name
which I dunno what it is
Or what it's theme will be
But I imagine containment would be like
1 ritual per week by mandate of the ethics comittee
Obviously you'd want to keep the area as non anomalous as possible, but also with how terrible and cruel the rituals can be the ethics comittee would probably put their foot down and demand that they leave the time between rituals as long as possible
and like
amnestics and counselling for effected people, who will obviously know about it simply by working with it
OH OH OH
what if there's a thing at the end and its a new revision
or an addendum
and it does the old "Refers to the reader by username" trick and tells them that they need to do a certain ritual NOW
Since every time someone ignores a ritual it comes a little closer
would there be a way, scriptwise, to randomize the ritual it tells the user to do
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shaggy notes
"SCP-XXXX is an anomalous process of deductive reasoning, coupled with associative thinking, which provides individuals with the knowledge of the existence of a well in [place], as well as harboring them with the conviction of a hostile intelligence within."
if it's the townsfolk taking care of it, I'd imagine they'd have some odd cultural tidbits. like… idk, some part of the ritual being a coming of age thing, there they get a spoopy body mod.
like, all their fingerprints are spiral-patterned
or, what's that tooth deformity where you have teeth growing in the roof of your mouth?
a percentage of them are born that way… the teeth in the roof of their mouth are arranged in a spiral.
a large percentage have curly hair
despite that not correlating ethnically for the region
town called linia obrony? (defense line)
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