darkened_streets

Town With No Outdoors

Exterior of an SCP-XXXX-2 room. Compare with interior.

Interior of same SCP-XXXX-2 room. Exit on the right-facing wall

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Due to the nature of SCP-XXXX, physical containment is unnecessary. Efforts instead focus on infiltrating and studying the human population of SCP-XXXX-2. Until SCP-XXXX-2 becomes self-sufficient, food, clean water, and raw material are each to be sent into SCP-XXXX-2 biweekly. Positive diplomatic standing with the Foundation is to be ascertained through a mix of propaganda, employee relationships, and bribery.

Volunteer personnel are to be “Adopted” into major households and live peacefully among the community. Adopted persons are to report on relevant research, exploration efforts, and the social health of inhabitants.

To reduce the number of civilians entering SCP-XXXX-2, Foundation-staffed¹ “Toll Booths” are to be constructed on all roads leading to SCP-XXXX-2. Toll Booths are to amnesticize visitors. In cases where amnesticization would be impossible, such as civilians born or raised in SCP-XXXX-2, they will be briefed on SCP-XXXX-2’s anomalous properties and sent inside.

As of █/██/2018, residents have been allowed access to a local foundation-controlled set of chatrooms. Monitoring of said chatrooms has proven to be instrumental in gauging general reaction to foundation policies, quieting rebellions, and mapping SCP-XXXX-2.

Standard disinformation techniques are to be applied outside of SCP-XXXX-2.

Description: SCP-XXXX-1 is a spontaneous spatial anomaly affecting an isolated suburb in ██████ County, Oregon (designated SCP-XXXX-2). As of █/██/2016, every door, window, or gateway within SCP-XXXX-2 has been remapped to a certain "partner door" elsewhere in SCP-XXXX-2 - even when this would be spatially impossible. The town is visually identical to its pre-SCP-XXXX-1 self. No doors lead outside.

Addenda:

+ Manifestation Log

Time	Event
12:13	Anomaly manifests.
12:16	Community radio station ██.█ is the first to report SCP-XXXX-1.
12:20	Robberies begin occurring throughout SCP-XXXX-2 while police are unable to respond. The situation quickly escalates into a resource-stockpiling skirmish, with several raiding parties roaming the town and gathering food. Several residents begin to construct barricades. Fourteen are killed during this time.
12:57	The crime wave recedes temporarily. Raider groups begin to recruit. The Foundation becomes aware of SCP-XXXX.
13:07	Spike in criminal activity. Although only three deaths occur, entire stores are emptied. The Foundation succeeds in jamming signals outbound from SCP-XXXX-2.
13:15	Kelly █████ breaks down a wall to escape SCP-XXXX-2. Her body is found several weeks later, buried underneath the floorboards of a local diner.
14:25	Foundation agents arrive.

+ Assorted Exploration Efforts

Test

+ Sociocultural Overview of SCP-XXXX-2

Test

+ Afterword by Dr. Benjamin

Test

Footnotes

1. As a prerequisite, transfers must attend and pass Diplomatic Reasoning II, as Toll Booth employees often act as ambassadors on behalf of the Foundation.

Eve And The Apple

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Thaumiel Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be kept in an isolated onsite greenhouse and watered biweekly. Researchers are encouraged to utilize SCP-XXXX-1 to improve their workflow. Foundation staff are not permitted to enter the greenhouse, except to water or conduct basic maintenance.

Description: SCP-XXXX is an apple tree biologically identical to the Golden Delicious. It bears several apples of wildly varying color - most commonly green and blue - collectively termed SCP-XXXX-1. When an instance of SCP-XXXX-1 is bitten and swallowed, the consumer will acquire a temporary boost to cognitive function and several epiphanies relating to whatever they are currently focusing on. This state lasts, on average, 3 minutes. There are no adverse effects.

Addendum:

+ To_Whom_It_May_Concern.mp4

Foreword: This video was found on the laptop of Dr. Eve █████, who perished under then-unknown circumstances on █/█/2020. It is included for the sake of posterity, as well as to support the revision of SCP-XXXX's containment procedures and object class.

<Playing To_Whom_It_May_Concern.mp4>
[Before you is a droopy-eyed woman with wrinkles etched into her face. Her back is hunched by the weight of the world. Her mouth is set into a grim line; she opens and closes it a few times before she finally speaks.]
Eve: To whom it may concern, we have been poisoned.
[She lets the words linger in the air for a few moments.]
Eve: If you're watching this, you were my colleague, and you bit the apple. Know that your demise is inevitable. It's a cruel thing when one flies too close to the sun you trusted for warmth, when one partakes in the serpent's temptation, when-
[A light blinks from the desk beside her. She pauses suddenly, and clears her throat.]
Eve: