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Hello! This is my sandbox. You can see the drafts of my SCPs, and other stuff maybe. You already know all of this, though. I have no idea why I’m writing it. Whee!
Notice: A first draft of my first SCP is up! It's on the second tab, labelled SCP-Epc01.
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX requires very little for safe containment. It is recommended that SCP-XXXX is stored in an isolated room, with no personnel, flora, fauna, electronics, or wiring within 3.7 meters from the object. If, however, temporary exposure to SCP-XXXX occurs, the object of exposure may be released after cursory examination; no long-term effects of exposure to SCP-XXXX have been observed.
Addendum XXXX-C: Circular objects should be kept away from SCP-XXXX
All instances of SCP-XXXX are to be stored in the exact center of a cubic chamber with dimensions at least three times the instance’s practical area of effect. If the practical area of effect is not listed, contact your supervisor for further instructions immediately. The room within which the instance is contained must be unlit, kept a vacuum of less than 600μPa, and surrounded by a class 5 Faraday shield. All materials used in the construction of SCP-XXXX containment environment must be distinctly polyhedral; spheres, tori, cylinders, cones, or shapes otherwise displaying axial symmetry are not to enter within range of any instance of SCP-XXXX. Any object, item, or component which breaches this criteria must be immediately removed, and placed in an environment with containment procedures identical to those listed above.
Prior to an instance of SCP-XXXX being transported to its containment chamber, the walls, floor, and ceiling must be scanned for both macro and microscopic bubbles, fractures, or other imperfections. If any are found, the wall (or floor, etc.) must be replaced with an unflawed one. It is recommended that the walls be made of sheet metal. To maintain the vacuum environment, these walls must obviously be airtight. In order for the instance of SCP-XXXX to be placed (at the correct height level) in the center of the room, the chamber is to be halfway filled with small crystalline particles (ideally rock salt or graphite for their low cost).
After, and only after these conditions have been met, may the instance of SCP-XXXX be moved into the containment chamber. Each SCP-XXXX containment chamber must then be checked for anomalies weekly using laser interferometry.
During transport, instances of SCP-XXXX should be buried in rock salt or graphite, with their vectors of effect angled so as to be contained within the transport vessel as much as possible. If the instance is too large to transport, a chamber of the aforementioned specifications should be built around it.
Description: SCP-XXXX appears to be a cube, 1.28 meters long on each edge. The object is composed of gabbroic rock. While it appears rectilinear in all visual observations, non-optical measurements, such as sonar, aerodynamic profiling, and [REDACTED] show SCP-XXXX to be spherical. It is worth noting that, aside from its associated optical anomaly, SCP-XXXX is an entirely unremarkable example of a Diquís Sphere, megalithic artifacts present in number in the area where SCP-XXXX was recovered.
SCP-XXXX bends the trajectory of all light which passes near it, causing it to appear cubical. This effect extends beyond SCP-XXXX itself, causing nearby objects to also appear warped, stretching out from SCP-XXXX around its apparent vertices. This effect is, consequently, most pronounced at the “cube’s” vertices, and nonexistent at the center of each face. While the optical anomaly is thought to extend indefinitely, it becomes unnoticeable to the human eye after 2.5 meters (from the objects center), and undetectable by the most precise measurements possible after 5.███ meters.
Discovery: SCP-XXXX was discovered 7.35 kilometers outside of Palmar Sur, Costa Rica, by Dr. Norman Bailey, in June of 1943. Dr. Bailey’s journal reveals that he initially believed it to be an unfinished Diquís Sphere before approaching, and observing the visual distortion it caused. After returning from Costa Rica, Dr. Bailey attempted to contact several scientific journals to publicize his findings. The Foundation intercepted one of these messages, and dispatched agents to administer amnestics to Dr. Bailey, all contacted publishers, and the residents of Palmar Sur.
Addendum XXXX-A:
It has been discovered that the optical phenomenon surrounding SCP-XXXX is capable of spreading to other circular objects nearby. A full log of the relevant experiment is included below.
Experiment XXXX-E25: Testing the effects of long-term exposure to SCP-XXXX
Researcher: Dr. Grisham
Subject: D-26318
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0d 00h 00m: D-26318 placed in a 5m x 5m x 2m room, with SCP-XXXX placed in its center.
0d 00h 02m: D-26318 walks around SCP-XXXX, observing it.
0d 00h 03m: D-26318 places hand on floor beneath SCP-XXXX, where optical anomaly causes the appearance of a divot in the ground. No effect.
0d 00h 04m: D-26318 touches SCP-XXXX. No effect.
0d 04h 23m: D-26318 starts battering the door to the room, demanding to be let out. Behavior subsides after 34 minutes.
0d 05h 02m: D-26318 defecates in northwest corner of the room.
0d 05h 07m: D-26318 urinates in southwest corner of the room.
0d 09h 53m: D-26318 urinates on SCP-XXXX.
0d 09h 54m: D-26318 is evacuated from room.
0d 11h 08m: While examining SCP-XXXX for damage, Dr. Grisham observes that a droplet of urine appears to have become perfectly square, adopting the properties of SCP-XXXX.
0d 12h 37m: Dr. Grisham declares SCP-XXXX undamaged.
The droplet, and the subsequent stain left by its evaporation, have been deemed SCP-XXXX-1.
Addendum XXXX-B: Expirement XXXX-E32 successfully duplicated the adoption of SCP-XXXX’s anomalous optical phenomenon, as seen in Experiment XXXX-E25. A chromium-steel ball-bearing was placed directly in the center of one of the faces SCP-XXXX, and immediately appeared to become cuboid. It is now designated SCP-XXXX-2. Non-optical measurements confirmed that it was still spherical.
Subsequent testing has revealed that the properties of SCP-XXXX can spread to any sufficiently spherical object. Said testing has also led to the creation of SCPs XXXX-3 through XXXX-7
Adendum XXXX-D: Senior Researcher McCarroll was brought in from the memetics department to confirm whether SCP-XXXX is a physical or memetic phenomenon. Experiments XXXX-E27 through XXXX-E31 strongly indicate that SCP-XXXX is a physical effect, as secondary, tertiary, and quaternary effects of the visual distortion are reported by individuals who have never come into contact with SCP-XXXX itself (i.e. In experiment XXXX-29, a sample of Brassica juncea or brown mustard grass, was unable to grow under a hydroponic light which was occluded by one of SCP-XXXX-9's vertices. In experiment XXXX-E31, a 800 mW laser was reflected off of one of SCP-XXXX-2's edges, redirecting the beam to intersect and ignite a piece of paper 200 meters away. This was corroborated by an observing D-class personnel, also 200 meters away, and thus unlikely to be affected by SCP-XXXX-2).
Addendum XXXX-E: Dr. McCarroll has assumed control of SCP-XXXX’s research following Dr. Grisham’s reassignment. McCarroll released the following message to all staff involved with SCP-XXXX:
SCP-XXXX: General Notice
I have been approached several times over the past few days about SCP-XXXX’s reclassification. In service of clarity and safety, it seemed prudent to relay to everyone that, no, the reclassification was not a mistake. No, it was not an overreaction.
SCP-XXXX doesn’t appear immediately dangerous. It hasn’t killed anyone. It likely won’t ever do so. But the “C” in the SCP Foundation stands for “Contain.” This is our duty, even when a containment breach seems unthreatening. And this is precisely the duty which has been neglected with SCP-XXXX. There is no known way to counter or neutralize its effects, and those effects can spread through a process we do not fully understand, and thus cannot fully predict.
For the imaginatively challenged, I’ll point out that an SCP-XXXX containment breach could lead to the Earth itself gaining the anomalous properties of SCP-XXXX. Such a breach would constitute a local CK-class scenario, with the “vertices” of a “cuboid” Earth experiencing disproportionately bright sunlight, leading to widespread droughts and global weather disturbances, which in turn would cause widespread depopulation, though probably not human extinction.
Of course, that assumes that SCP-XXXX affects only light. I’m not a physicist, but I know that electromagnetism is one of the forces that keeps atoms bound together. On a scale as large as the Earth, I wouldn’t be surprised if the disruption of those forces somehow caused the vertices and edges to disintegrate and/or explode. This would qualify as an XK-class scenario.
Suffice it to say that until we understand more clearly how the SCP-XXXX anomaly propagates, it is to be treated with the utmost caution and care. Any personnel who fail to do so will be reassigned immediately.
Senior Researcher Dr. A. F. McCarroll
08/14/20██
Addendum XXXX-F: Expirement XXXX-E37 demonstrated that SCP-XXXX effects all electromagnetic phenomenon. Personnel should be advised that in addition to light, this includes electric current, magnetic fields, some forms of radiation, and minor effects on friction, chemical reactions, thermal convection, and a variety of other phenomenon.
Addendum XXXX-G: Expirements XXXX-E41 - XXXX-E48 have shown that the SCP-XXXX phenomenon can spread to any radially symmetrical object, such as cylinders, cones, domes, vases, etc., not just spheres as was previously believed. Such objects, however, only adopt the optical anomaly in one axis; cones will appear to become pyramids, cylinders will appear to become rectangular prisms. In other words, a cross-section along the axis of radial symmetry will look the same before and after the adoption of SCP-XXXX’s effects, while a cross-section orthogonal to the axis of symmetry will appear circular before, and square after.
Almost all these new instances of SCP-XXXX (i.e. cones, cylinders, domes, etc.) only have radial symmetry around one axis, and consequently only demonstrate the SCP-XXXX optical anomaly radiating in a plane from that axis. That is, while the optical perturbations of the original SCP-XXXX-0 extended above it, the perturbations of these new SCP-XXXX instances stop abruptly at the object’s top and bottom. The only two exceptions to this were XXXX-E41, and XXXX-E46, respectively a sphere and a torus, which exhibit multiple orthogonal circular cross-sections, and thus cause their effects to extend in all directions.
These experiments also led to the creation of SCPs XXXX-15 through XXXX-28, all plastic-molded three-dimensional shapes.
Addendum XXXX-H: Experiment XXXX-E50 demonstrated that the SCP-XXXX phenomenon can spread to dynamic structures, in this case, a standing wave in a dish of mercury. When the wave dissipated, the SCP-XXXX phenomenon also faded to sensors. However, when another standing wave was created in the same dish, the SCP-XXXX optical anomaly returned.
The mercury dish has been designated SCP-XXXX-24, and been isolated in a containment chamber.
Subsequent testing has shown that SCP-XXXX can spread to various other types of waves, including pressure waves, circularly polarized light, shock waves, and [REDACTED].
In order to prevent the accidental spread of SCP-XXXX, all instances of SCP-XXXX, and all experiments on them are to be kept in vacuums.
Addendum XXXX-I:
Site 11 Personnel Request
Director Roberts,
In the months since I took over research on SCP-XXXX, it has shown a frankly alarming ability to spread its anomalous properties. With the discovery that this spread can apply not only to physical objects, but to more abstract phenomena like waves, I’ve grown increasingly concerned about containment breaches. Given that you authorized updated (and much more costly) containment procedures, I must imagine that you share these concerns, at least to some degree.
In light of these considerations, it is, in my view, worth investigating the possibility that the SCP-XXXX phenomenon may have spread unnoticed to items, fluids, or personnel in its vicinity before the modern containment protocols were put in place. I have already reviewed everything I can with my clearance level (rooms previously used to store instances of SCP-XXXX, and all material which I can confirm was stored in those rooms), and found three (3) microscopic instances of SCP-XXXX.
To clarify, it won’t really be possible to ensure that the SCP-XXXX phenomenon is entirely contained. It was stored poorly for decades, and entirely uncontained for probably centuries before that. There’s no way of telling how many items it spread to in that time. And that’s assuming that XXXX-0 was the first instance of SCP-XXXX, which there’s no evidence for. Honestly, our only real saving grace here is the fact that SCP-XXXX seems unlikely, though definitely not unable, to spread to items larger than itself.
That said, it would be monumentally stupid not to do everything in our power to prevent further spread of SCP-XXXX. For that reason, I am requesting your authorization to recall and examine any D-class personnel, SCPs, or other materials which have come in close contact with instances of SCP-XXXX.
Senior Researcher Dr. A. F. McCarroll
11/21/20██
