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Item #: SCP-6000

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-6000 is to be kept in a secure containment locker at Site-XXX. No further containment is necessary, and all testing involving SCP-6000 is permanently and irrevocably suspended.

Description: SCP-6000 is a 8” x 8” x 1” quartzite tablet with an unidentified, indigo jewel set in the center. The tablet is covered in small etchings of various animals, both extant and extinct. Roughly 20% of the animals depicted have been identified. These etchings include depictions of apes, birds, coral, sauropods, theropods, big cats, pterosaurs, mammoths, and fish, as well as a significant number of unidentified species that do not fit into any known terrestrial taxonomic groups.

When activated, the jewel at the center of SCP-6000 will begin to emit a soft glow. The holder, as well as up to three nearby observers, will be transported by unknown means to a location roughly 43,000 lightyears away from our solar system.

Discovery: SCP-6000 was discovered in October 1973 during a Foundation expedition into the former state of Zaire. Researchers were responding to reports of an unknown animal species preying on eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei) in the highland rainforests of Virunga National Park.

During this expedition, Foundation researchers made contact with a native Mbuti tribe who, when questioned, revealed the existence of SCP-6000. The tribal chieftain informed the research team that SCP-6000 was analogous to an “invitation” that grants access to a “strange land” and that, in order to activate SCP-6000, one must hold the tablet with both hands and speak the phrase XXXXXXXXXXXXXX.

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