An anomalous grove of flora that continuously regrows and can’t be permanently destroyed, but is easily contained with salt. Every so often, it produces anomalous thaumatological items that are then ‘stuck’ to it- they regrow there if damaged significantly or destroyed.
It creates most of the other SCPS in these tabs, and now they’re dumping salt if it tries anything. Connected to a narrative of two witches, Strawberry and Catmint.
Euclid, due to it being the kind of thing that could easily keep growing forever, but relatively easy containment via lots of salt.
Intended to evoke wonder & curiosity.
Proposed ACS Classifications
Level: 2 Restricted or 3 Confidential
Containment Class: Safe or Elucid
Disruption Class: Dark or Vlam
Risk Class: Notice
SCP-XXXX - ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe Elucid
Special Containment Procedures: The site containing SCP-_ is to be blocked from civilian entry under the guise of a hazardous waste cleanup [Cover story 3935.18 “Hazardous Waste Disaster”?], with a 4 meter tall barbed wire fence & 6 meters of concrete footing surrounding the 10 meter wide buffer zone. There must be a well-maintained 2-meter-thick line of salt around the entirety of the foliage of the site, checked daily for breakages. Paths of salt 1 meter thick to areas of interest are recommended due to thickness of foliage making navigation difficult. The site must have a basic security & maintenance team at all times, and regular drone flyovers are to be performed every 6-12 hours to check for anomalous growth patterns.
Following Incident xxxx-۞, a well-maintained, tracked loader must be on site & loaded with salt at all times, to interrupt any active-phase anomalous growth patterns. Any exceptions must be approved by 3-5 level 4 researchers and monitored by on-site security. In the event of a catastrophic breach, MTF Theta-4 ("Gardeners") may be deployed in order to re-contain the site.
Description: SCP-_ is a # by # acre anomalous grove located in [REDACTED]. It was discovered after
MTF Sigma-3 ("Bibliographers") associated agents confirmation of the anomalous nature of the site, following interview of an associated researcher [See Personnel Profile Catmint]
Navigating the site is often difficult as it is heavily inundated with anomalous flora, sometimes up to 1.5 meters in height. While new species are being recorded every day, the primary species is as follows:
- An unknown genus of Betula superficially resembling Betula papyrifera (Paper Birch).
- Several unknown and apparently mutualistic variety of Fragaria plants, superficially resembling several different species in the genus, notably Fragaria daltoniana (Himalayan Strawberry).
- A large number of fruiting vines of unknown genus superficially resembling a cross between Hedera helix (English Ivy) and some form of Vitis labrusca (Fox Grape) cultivar.
- Several different varieties of an unknown, bioluminescent type of Polypore (Shelf Fungus), presumed to be mutualistic with the Betula.
For a full list of all recovered species & their genetic information, see document-_-A.
SCP's anomalous attributes, aside from genetic divergence form the norm, consists of
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Active phase of SCP-_ is generally understood to begin when an item or entity associated with it is heavily damaged or destroyed.
1 month for items, 6-12 months for organics
An animate, apparently sentient mass of strawberry plants from the aforementioned grove. So far displays nonhostile animal-like behavior, beyond tripping or pouncing on those it dislikes, but very worrying because it could easily asexually reproduce itself OR possibly spread the aforementioned groves effects.
Currently being burned & Salted every time it’s about to fruit to prevent that, which it obviously dislikes and shies away from those it remembers doing this. Also considered to present a biohazard/safety risk with the pouncing & its pollen, so it’s being heavily monitored. Currently showing signs of reduced activity & listlessness due to lack of social stimulation thanks to its containment procedures.
Euclid, due to its potential dangers but easy containment and consistent behavior.
Intended to something that's both cute and slightly unsettling.
Proposed ACS Classifications
Level: 2 Restricted or 3 Confidential
Containment Class: Safe or Elucid
Disruption Class: Dark or Vlam
Risk Class:Caution
A piece of Opal Butte opal that will transport people holding it to various different ‘oceans’, taking place over 4 phases as follows:
-Inactive, it’s a pretty rock that sometimes looks like things are moving or swimming in it
-Passive, it’s a viewing port that can ‘change channel’ based on various poorly understood factors, including knowledge, will, personality, ect.
-Active, it’s a transportation device to the selected ‘channel’
-Post-active, it’s a 3rd person window to the main person who was transported.
Once someone transports, they seem to have their own copy of the stone. Other people & even big items can be transported as long as the primary transport subject is touching it. desire to transport and knowledge of what all their bringing with them seems to variably effect this, but it’s very inconsistent. Upper-size limit seems to be around small motorboat to small cabinboat size (so bigger than a car, but smaller than a semi).
As long as the person in question is there while the stone is, they’ll breathe just fine and won’t be affected by things like pressure, temperature, or other hazards (including the anomalous, though viewers are not protected from things like say, memetic effects).
They’ve got from Nautical Dawn that day to Nautical Dawn the next to explore before they’re transported back none the worse for wear bar wet clothes (or whatever was touching them). The stone then takes the same amount of time to ‘recover’ before being usable again, and its ‘channels’ can be changed to previous ones if someone knows and wants to go back enough.
Unfortunately, if the person who was transported drops their copy of the stone and doesn’t get it back before the stone ‘returns’, those effects fade over the same period of time. This USUALLY means they die, horribly, but this can be avoided via careful planning and an emergency extraction team on standby. sometimes.
Would probably have a lengthy experiment/exploration log, probably open to public contribution.
First classified as Safe due to ease of containment and relative safety of retrieval of explorers but switched to Euclid following some incidents involving things taking advantage of that transportation loophole. The higher ups are probably considering sending MTF Gamma-6 ("Deep Feeders") in there in the event that something like 835 or other dangerous aquatic scps show up.
Proposed ACS Classifications
Level: 3 Confidential
Containment Class: Elucid
Disruption Class: Vlam
Risk Class: Warning
A molted black, dark blue, and dark purple velvet bag with silver & gold embroidery in the shape of stylized stars, constellations & cloud designs, closed with a ornate ‘kiss clasp’ closure with stylized zodiac symbols along its length.
The bag remains in an empty ‘passive phase’ most of the day, during which it cannot be closed even by mechanical means. Every 24 hours the will enter 5 ‘active phase’ intervals at Midnight, Astronomical Dawn, the middle of the Astronomical Twilight that follows, Astronomical Dusk, & the middle of the other Astronomical Twilight that follows, respectively.
During this time, the bag cannot be opened, even by mechanical means, and 5 sets of varying containers filled with anomalous liquids (referred to collectively as SCP-XXXX-#? instances) will appear in the bag, numbering from 1-5 depending on fullness of bag and other unknown factors, giving a total range of 5-50 ‘potions’. Names are affixed to each in a variety of fashions, and users can place a paper with the potions name on it during the bags passive phase in order to ‘order’ more, to varying success.
If the instances contained within are not removed by the next active phase it will inhibit the number of instances in next phase, until the bag reaches full capacity at 50. After this, the older instances will be pushed out of the bag by a full set of 50 instances behind them.
This will also likely have a semi-public contribution page. Euclid, since potions are inherently risky. I don’t know if there’s a specific class of objects that SCP 261, SCP 294, or the like belong to, but if there is this is definitely in that category.
Intended to evoke curiosity & inspire weird & wonderful potions.
Proposed ACS Classifications
Level: 3 Confidential
Containment Class: Elucid
Disruption Class: Vlam
Risk Class: Caution
A type blue researcher with explicit ties to the serpents hand, inducted via sigma-3 after her s/o disappeared under anomalous circumstances. Snakelike, disoriented by anomalous sensory input & memetics, and on the constant end of mental trauma via reoccurring death and reformation, shes a case study for amnesiac treatments as supplemental psychological treatment. Compassionate, anxious, and conflicted, but firmly believes that you have to work with the foundation if you hope to change anything for those imprisoned by them.
Catmint, the grove, and the patch were all heavily tied from conception, with the grove and patch being tied to 'Strawberry', a curious and excitable witch. Strawberry found some sort of pan-dimensional being and insisted on going with them, but Catmint let go for just a moment and got left behind, psychologically worse for wear. The grove was where they spent most of their time, and everything from it is echos of Strawberry, or in the case of the patch, a failed attempt to come back and get Catmint.
Catmint is an experiment in compassion- the foundation has so many hardened people who have to view even sapient beings as objects, so i wanted to make a character that was highly compassionate and explore that. How does someone who encourages their toaster react to the potential sapience of 261? how does the foundation react to someone adding encouraging notes when working with 914?
Compassionate people don't last long here, but the solution presented itself in the form of a question: how does someone cope with being part of the grove? Dying is scary no matter how many times you do it, especially if you don't remember it every time. Not dying might be worse. In the choice between an encounter with 106 and waking up remembering the cyanide pill, which would you choose?
Catmint, on her part, prefers strawberries to pocket dimensions.
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Yes, my last name really is Gingersnaps, sue me.
Name: Disa Machina Gingersnaps - ‘Catmint Lamiaceae’
Pronouns: She/They
Personnel Classification: Security Clearance Level 3*, Class C
*[See Addendum 424-GM-1]
Professional Occupation: Researcher, Specialized in Thaumatology, Anomalous Mechanics, and ‘Sapiolgy’
Profile:
Researcher Catmint is a dark-skinned woman of indeterminate race & age, presumably in the range of her early-to-mid 20s. She indicates she spend early childhood being communally raised in an anomalous commune in an unknown area, before leaving in her teens to join her romantic partner in explorations of the ██████ ███████. She is unsure of her exact age or race, but indicates she is ‘probably at least drinking age’.
Following (apparently traumatic) events that separated them, Researcher Catmint was detained by the Foundation at her request after several agents noted her anomalous nature & ongoing connection to several since-contained SCPS.
Later interviews demonstrated she was both highly motivated and extremely sympathetic to foundation perspectives on the containment of the anomalous, having been made aware of various malicious anomalous entities through her contacts within certain GOIs.
Presently acting as Thaumatological Research Specialist and Behavioral Consultant on potentially sapient mechanical SCPs. Currently being administered amnesiac treatments upon request, see ‘Classified History’ section of document.
Classified History:
Researcher Catmint is a type blue that was inducted into the Foundation via MTF Sigma-3 ("Bibliographers") agents, after she requested psychiatric assistance & containment of several potentially dangerous anomalous items following contact with a presumed dimensional anomaly.
Subject refuses to comment on specifics of the event but showed symptoms of anxiety and depression regarding the separation from and possible death of her romantic partner ‘Strawberry’ during the event. Subjects requests for amnesiac treatment were approved following standard quarantine period.
Subject indicates she and her romantic partner were both previously member of the Serpent’s Hand, but broke off after coming into disagreement with members of the hand that permitted malicious entities and worshipers in the group, such as ‘Death Cultists’ and [REDACTED].
‘The Serpent’s Hand’s hearts are in the right place, but the fact of the matter is, some of these things are dangerous. They have to be contained, for everyone’s safety. I just think there’s more room for compassion in that model.’
Addendum 4269-GM-1: Due to her status as an anomalous entity, history, and high Compassion Index Score, it was determined that she poses a minor security risk when working with certain sapient, mechanical, and/or thaumatological SCPS. Recommended that she be accompanied by a security personnel during research rounds & have tests approved by a level 4 researcher.
Anomalous Traits:
- Nonhuman Biology: Eyes & tongue resemble that of genus Serpentes, Subjects skin inundated with occasional patches resembling small scales. Occasionally engages in ectothermic behaviors. All bodily hair is permanently colored blue, though dyable.
- Memetic Resistance: Subject has difficulty perceiving & demonstrates confusion and disorientation upon exposure to anomalous sensory input & memetics. Subject can still be damaged by these effects, and may be capable of spreading them unintentionally.
- Connection to SCP-4XXX: Subject, if fatally damaged, with reform consistent with SCP-4XXXs active phase over a period of 6-12 full lunar phases. Subject will awaken with minimal knowledge of death & no previously received injuries will be present. Subject has expressed distress and requested further amnesiac treatments following these incidents, which are to be approved following standard interview procedures. Subjects anomalous items also reform if damaged, over the period of a full lunar phase.
Subjects ability to reform and regenerate damage via reforming after fatal injuries lends potential to data gathering of dangerous anomalies that other researchers could not provide, but a psychiatric & ethic review proves this to be largely non-viable. Post reformation, subject is to be considered Class E personnel until re-approved for duties, as per standard anomalous exposure protocols.
Subject is to be fitted with a standard issue Remote Detonation Implant & Cyanide Capsule on reformations, to ensure less psychiatrically detrimental deaths and possible anomalous cross-contamination. If heavily injured or maimed, subject reserves the right to termination at any time and is considered to have a permanent DNR order in place, but may consent to further study if exposed to anomalies that cause bodily modification or damage.
Anomalous Items: All items were present on induction to the Foundation and are to be contained in On-Site Anomalous Items Storage outside of approved wear times, as they may pose a potential security issue due to their anomalous nature and obvious connection to GOI [REDACTED].
- 1 Silver Pendant, Garnet Stones, in the shape of the [REDACTED] GOI symbol. Snake is animate and continuously coils around the tree. Entire pendant has minor blue luminescent effect visually contestant with generic glow-in-the-dark novelty items.
- 1 Golden Earring, Garnet Stones, resembling an unknown genus of Serpentes with characteristics of both Thamnophis (Garter Snake) and Viperidae (Vipers). Earring is animate when not worn or separated, and displays behaviors consistent with various snake species.
- 1 Gold & Garnet Earring, in the shape of the ‘Venus’ symbol. Earring is internally luminescent and produces a soft ‘chiming’ sound with a subtle ‘reverb’ effect.
Projects:
- SCP XXXX – ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’
- SCP XXXX - ‘Sentient Strawberry Patch’
- SCP XXXX – 'Potionmaker’s Freebie Bag'
- SCP XXXX – 'Ocean Stone'
And then there's Strawberry, the second half to the Strawberry-and-Mint story. Fondly remembered, apparently powerful, member of the serpents hand, and an apparent contact of sigma-3. but no one knows anything about her or where she went, as if she never existed. why?
Catmint says a pan dimensional entity, Strawberry would say her core. As it turns out, theres a reason no one can track these two's birth-names or home down. They're the grove- creatures from another multiverse bubble entirely, originally here to scout out if it'd be good to spread their physics here and fold this world into theirs, like some sort of multiversal mutualistic organism.
But it turns their plane found The foundations multiverse not to its tastes- too many other entities, or perhaps too different physics, like a parasite that prefers a different pH. Maybe you just can't fit round pegs in square holes. Regardless of the reason, Strawberry's core called her back, and off she went with Catmint in tow. But going native means you forget to be calm in the face of the unknown, and all it took was a slip of the hand for Catmint to be stuck on the wrong side of the line.
Odd, though, that Catmint insists on going with the Foundation and encourages compassion when the things they contain are terrifying too. Perhaps her insistence on 'introducing more compassion into The Foundations model' has some interesting implications? Maybe her instance on amnesiacs too?
a collection of anomalous play tubes that when entered & exited from a specific side will result in you entering a cross-demsional playstructure conglomerate that goes on for miles and miles. some tubes windows show watery depths, some sky, others are clouded with rust or blood. some tubes have bones, some blankets and farms. there might be a tribe of children in there.
Proposed ACS Classifications
Level: 3 Confidential
Containment Class: Elucid
Disruption Class: Vlam
Risk Class: Caution
an amorphous entity that takes various appearances dependent on the observer, though all mildly horrifying due to the fluxing appearance. causes various memetic auditory hallucinations, & a visual memetic effect that makes subjects either attempt to expose others to the entity's effects, ritually kill people for the entity to take, or ritually kill themselves. people killed this way cannot be resurrected by any means, those exposed insist they need to leave & that the things are beautiful. entity was recovered after a mass-suicide by a death cult focused on a rapture-esque dogma, surviving cult members insist its benevolent. its heavily implied the entity is benevolent, trying to get people to follow it to some sort of heaven-type afterlife, but the memetic effects & rituals are so horrific the foundation cant risk it.
might be too derivative of other scps?? highly inspired by my joke theory that the monsters in 'birdbox' are angels and the apocalypse is just How The Rapture Works.
Proposed ACS Classifications
Level: 3 Confidential or Level 4 Secret
Containment Class: Elucid or Keter
Disruption Class: Keneq
Risk Class: Danger
a box containing a vhs case (empty), a badly damaged pamphlet (fire, water), and a kazoo that seemingly randomly displaces itself. when blown it doesn't make any sound and displaces again, and the next time you sleep your mouth is replaced with a kazoo.
this could be an actual scp depending on if i play up the 'i have no mouth' aspect
maybe connection to that one anomalous toy company?? was it dr wondertainment? check.
Proposed ACS Classifications
Level: 3 Confidential
Containment Class: Elucid
Disruption Class: Vlam
Risk Class: Caution
memetic that makes you speak in 'owo'. later it expands to other bad movie versions of various accents (terrible french, vampire transylvanian, absurdly stereotypical russian, new jersey, new yorker, minnesotan/canadian, ect). supposedly has a memetic effect that causes violence in unaffected subjects but really its just people getting sick of hearing you. this then begins to affect text too and is upgraded from elucid to keter
Proposed ACS Classifications
Level: 4 Secret
Containment Class: Elucid, then Keter
Disruption Class: Ekhi
Risk Class: Warning
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