Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: [Paragraphs explaining the procedures]
Description: SCP-XXXX is a phenomenon whereby a random unoccupied house in the Appalachian region of the United States becomes spontaneously adorned within and without with large numbers of colored lights and Christmas-themed decorations. SCP-XXXX is only active between October 11th and December 26th of each year. After December 26th, the instance of SCP-XXXX becomes inactive, and the house resumes its abandoned and non-anomalous form.
During periods of activity, 3-9 humanoids (hereafter SCP-XXXX-01) identifying themselves with the surname "Lomax" will take up residence in SCP-XXXX.
Members of communities in which SCP-XXXX is active become spontaneously aware of the decorations in the SCP-XXXX-affected dwelling, regarding it as a seasonal local attraction. Between approximately 18:00 and 23:00 each night, SCP-XXXX-01 instances will lead guided tours through the house. Guided tours include 3-5 people and take roughly 15 minutes, excepting cases of XXXX-Tau-16 events. Guided tours that do not conclude in XXXX-Tau-16 events are non-anomalous, and SCP-XXXX does not behave in a violent fashion unless attempts are made to harm SCP-XXXX decorations or disrupt tours of SCP-XXXX houses.
During approximately 0.03% of all tours given, SCP-XXXX-01 instances will diverge from the typical route. SCP-XXXX-01 instances will to lead tour members down a hallway (hereafter SCP-XXXX-02) that is not indicated in floor plans of the building, marking the initiation of a XXXX-Tau-16 event.
Addendum XXXX-03-L: Transcript of videotaped XXXX-Tau-16 event
Found ██/█/1985 at ███ █████████ Ln., Pollensbee, GA.
00:01
Shot of ███ █████████ Ln. from sidewalk, mid-day. ███ █████████ Ln is a single story, ranch-style house, apparently affected by SCP-XXXX. Records indicate that prior to SCP-XXXX inhabitation, ███ █████████ Ln. had been vacant for six years. Exterior covered in strands of white lights, with three unlit displays of Santa Claus and eight reindeer in the yard and on the roof. In the rear leftmost window of ███ █████████ Ln, a humanoid individual can be seen standing upright and facing camera. Further features are impossible to make out.
00:05
Voice 1 And… rolling.
Voice 2: Okay, uh, let's see. "This small home on ███ █████████ Lane is not much to look at during the day, but for the past 23 years, it has illuminated each holiday season each night. Visitors from across the state come to marvel at the beautiful displays, both inside and out."
Wallace: Good, alright. Got it. Then we'll get another shot tonight when it's all lit up, around 8. I think a wipe cut might work, if we got the time. If not, I'll just do a jump.
Garland: Do I need to be here tonight? Can't I just edit my voice in?
Wallace: Hell, no! If I have to do interviews, they better start paying me like a reporter. Just think of those sweet overtime hours.
Garland: I'm salaried.
Wallace: Oh, then just lie back and think of England, I guess.
Garland: Goddammit, an entire night cooped up with these hicks, just for a human interest story no one's going to watch.
Wallace: It'll look nice at least. And it should only be an hour.
Garland: Hmm.
Wallace: I'll buy you a beer afterwards.
Garland: Yeah, that sounds better.
During the entire time of the shot, individual has not moved from spot in rear leftmost window.
01:37
Exterior shot of ███ █████████ Ln. from approximately the same position, this time at night. A line of people snakes from the front door past the driveway. Large numbers of lights are visible through all windows of the house, except for the leftmost rear window visible, which is completely unlit.
Wallace: "-dog'd bite you!"
Garland: Yeah, I heard that one before.
Wallace: Okay, got the exterior shot. Let's roll.
02:01
Interview with a caucasian woman in a red down jacket, identified as █████ ██████████, standing outside of ███ █████████ Ln. When questioned by Foundation agents, Ms. ██████████ recalled the interview, but claimed to not have noticed anything unusual during her time at ███ █████████ Ln.
Garland: So, how long have you been coming here?
██████████: Ever since I was a little girl. They've been doing it every year and never missed one.
Garland: Do you have a favorite part?
██████████: They change it every year, but last year, they had this entire room that was just strands of white lights. There must have been a speaker hidden somewhere, playing "Silent Night." It was just beautiful.
Garland: Do you see the Lomaxes much outside of this?
██████████: I don't think I have. They mostly keep to themselves except for this. But if this is the one thing they do every year, I think it makes up for it, y'know?
03:05
Interview with a young adult caucasian male wearing a blue flannel jacket. Identity unknown, but presumed to be an instance of SCP-XXXX-01.
Garland: So, what made you want to do this?
SCP-XXXX-01: It's just what we do. We've always done it, like a tradition.
Garland: Do you know how it started off?
SCP-XXXX-01: pauses It gets darker every day until there's almost no light. We want to keep the light on. So everyone can see it.
Garland: So you lead tours through your house, then?
SCP-XXXX-01: Yessir. It's not light if no one can see it.
Garland: So how long do you take to set it up?
SCP-XXXX-01: Oh, it just comes together. Less time than you'd expect.
Garland: And what do you do when not showing people around or setting up?
SCP-XXXX-01: I don't remember. It's not important anyway.
05:17
inc
SCP-XXXX-01 instance from previous shot leads a tour through a small bedroom with blue shag carpeting and white walls. Walls and ceiling have been covered with merchandise related to country music singer Hiram King "Hank" Williams. All merchandise appears to contain lightbulbs or otherwise emit light. None of the decorations match any catalogue of authorized or unauthorized merchandise of Williams. A bed frame with no matress is positioned in corner of the room, surrounded by lit votive candels.
Second interview
Things go wrong
05:33:00
15:09
Burst of static before tape momentarily washes out to fully white.
This time of year, it's dark. Night starts too soon. We want to bring people the joy that comes with the light. We want them to love it. Love everything.
Wallace: Where's Elliot?
Guide: He fell behind.
The light. The light's good. It gives everything meaning. You talk about God, what you say is light. Some day, that'll be all there is. Some day, there will just be us and the light and nothing else. And then there will be only light.
The light the light the light the light
17:04 vezaz and even the deletion stuff doesn't seem anomalous, because a normal channel could just keep re-uploading
17:04 vezaz i think you should lean into the idea that these vampires are making youtube videos
17:05 vezaz so don't say "the vampires are attracted to losers who watch their videos"
17:05 vezaz say "the vampires are using hypnotic vaporwave to identify the losers they like to eat"
17:05 vezaz i think there's the bones of a really good scp in here but the stylistic problems need work and the relationships between the elements need to be better defined.
16:52 vezaz gaffsey surely it's not necessary to explain what youtube is
16:52 ch00bakka “commentariat”
16:52 Gaffsey I will have commentariat engraved on my fucking tombstone
16:52 vezaz especially considering you don't explain what vaporwave is
16:52 Gaffsey and fair enough
16:53 ch00bakka “If questioned, Foundation personnel, masquerading as ISP employees, are to make vague claims of "piracy complaints" as a reason for the cessation of internet access. Personnel are to discourage attempts to remedy the situation by providing unhelpful information, putting on hold, and repeatedly re-asking questions” why not just have a real fake piracy complaint
16:53 Gaffsey vaporwave[1] [1]A genre for lame-ass dorkwad weebs who have at least once tried to buy a scorpion jacket"
16:53 ch00bakka And just get their internet turned off
16:53 vezaz also: I would rather you say it just shows scenes and images from properties people have nostalgia about, real shows from the past
16:53 vezaz not, "unknown videos"
16:53 Gaffsey fair enough on both
16:54 vezaz hmm i would not label the sad loners they prey on as SCP-Bs
16:54 vezaz i like to minimize the number of designations
16:54 Gaffsey I tried it without, and it was a fucking nightmare
16:54 ch00bakka “who exhibit low degrees of socialization and human interaction5, who have repeatedly viewed or commented on an instance” id slap an “and” between interaction and who
16:54 vezaz hmm
16:54 vezaz well if you tried it.
16:54 vezaz here's another missed opportunity for description: what does barely humanoid mean?
16:55 Gaffsey it was just "subject" "subject" "subject"
16:55 vezaz "Despite their abnormal appearances, individuals not already aware of their anomalous nature will discount the unusual appearance of SCP-XXXX-02-A instances, and will frequently find it difficult to recollect interactions with an instance beyond generalities."
16:55 vezaz i hate this sentence
16:55 vezaz break it up, be clearer, use real words instead of instance, individuals, appearance
16:55 vezaz be more specific
16:55 Gaffsey kk
16:56 vezaz you're still saying instances way too much
16:56 vezaz why not just say victims or prey
16:56 ch00bakka “significant tr[REDACTED]e reason” god you’re doing Those redactions
16:56 ch00bakka Who was it who did those all the time? Was it yorick?
16:56 Gaffsey yea
16:56 vezaz yes
16:56 Gaffsey I will carry on his legacy for unspecified reasons
16:57 vezaz "significant TRILOBITE reasons"
16:57 Gaffsey and as for victims, maybe. I'll try it and see how it goes
16:57 ARD The lazy redactor is the worst character yorick ever invented
16:57 Gaffsey but I look forward to getting other people bitching about how it's unscientific
16:57 Gaffsey lol
16:57 vezaz like it's really hard right now
16:57 Gaffsey just one person
16:57 ARD Yoricspungement doesn’t even make sense in universe
16:57 vezaz i mean ignore those fucks
16:57 vezaz just listen to me
16:57 ARD Like damn I could understand if it was blackboxed
16:57 Gaffsey it's that they're printed otu and hand expunged
16:57 ARD Because then you’ve got the scanned marker excuse
16:58 vezaz you used the word instance 26 times
16:58 Gaffsey like, redacted is better than [FIVE PAGES OF BLACK BOX]n Leguizamo's throbbing heart
16:58 Gaffsey lol, shit
16:58 ARD then just redact the n
16:58 vezaz After an average of three weeks, SCP-XXXX-02-A instances will begin to periodically begin to scratch at XXXX-02-B instances.
16:58 ARD I HAVE COME TO SAY THE [EXPUNGED] WORD
16:59 vezaz you used begin twice
16:59 ch00bakka Anyway I like it
16:59 vezaz and instances twice, for that matter
17:00 vezaz hmm
17:00 Gaffsey ch00baka beyond stylitsic stuff, anything I can fix?
17:00 vezaz cut the thing about Deputy Dan not existing. This will be better if the reader can have real nostalgia along with the character
17:00 ch00bakka Hmmmmmmm
17:00 Gaffsey I think I'm gonna remove the scratching shit
17:00 ch00bakka Yeah what Vezaz said about deputy dan
17:00 vezaz " Despite being incapable of vocalization, instances of SCP-XXXX-02-A make their desires and wishes known to XXXX-02-B instances through the use of empathic telepathy. " <— why is there a despite here?
17:00 ch00bakka Make it like
17:00 ch00bakka Spongebob
17:00 ch00bakka Courage he Cowardly Dog
17:01 ch00bakka Candle Cove
17:01 ch00bakka You know, one of those classic cartoons we all watched as children
17:01 vezaz Just say "are incapable of vocalization and make their desires known through"
17:01 Gaffsey all the weeb channels get their A E S T H E T I C shit from purple pictures of like tenchi muyo
17:01 vezaz ch00bakka oh man i loved candle cove
17:01 Gaffsey "then children's series sonic.exe"
17:02 * Leveritas quit (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity)
17:02 vezaz so gaffsey are the soul suckers the ones posting the videos?
17:02 * Tufto quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)
17:03 vezaz like, what's the connection between the monsters and the youtube channel
17:03 vezaz in fact, is the youtube channel even anomalous
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: All comments on SCP-XXXX-01 videos are to be logged in Foundation database XXXX-K-47. IP addresses of commentariat are to be logged in a similar fashion, with internet activities remotely monitored for indicators of potential SCP-XXXX-02 infection. As of 18/09/2021, the above measures are to apply to all viewers of SCP-XXXX-01 content.
Upon location by Foundation web-crawlers, instances of SCP-XXXX-01 are to removed by Foundation personnel embedded in YouTube.
Any monitored civilians found to exhibit more than 40% of at-risk behaviors for SCP-XXXX-02 infection are to have internet service to their residence cut off. If questioned, Foundation personnel, masquerading as ISP employees, are to make vague claims of "piracy complaints" as a reason for the cessation of internet access. Personnel are to discourage attempts to remedy the situation by providing unhelpful information, putting on hold, and repeatedly re-asking questions.
Description: SCP-XXXX-01 is an account on the popular video-sharing website YouTube, entitled "shadowhands". Attempts to remove SCP-XXXX-01 from YouTube servers been only temporarily successful, with complete video content typically being re-uploaded within 12 hours. Since its inception in 2017, SCP-XXXX-01 has accumulated a following of more than 750,000 subscribers.
Of the videos posted on SCP-XXXX-01, all but three are music compilations of ambient, instrumental hip-hop, and vaporwave genres. Each video begins with a black screen instructing the viewer to "LOVE THE ARTISTS," before transitioning to lightly-distorted still images of unknown films and animated programs. Viewers of SCP-XXXX-01 will identify the background image as belonging to a television program that was of great importance to them during their childhood.
In isolation, neither backgrounds nor audio tracks on SCP-XXXX-01 videos appear to have any anomalous properties.
SCP-XXXX-02-A is the collective designation a species of humanoid entities capable of manipulating and feeding on human emotions. The process of feeding is unclear, but instances appear drawn to feelings of isolation, shame, and nostalgia.
SCP-XXXX-02-A instances are predominantly attracted to individuals (hereafter SCP-XXXX-02-B) between the ages of 18 and 35 who exhibit low degrees of socialization and human interaction, who have repeatedly viewed or commented on an instance of SCP-XXXX-01. SCP-XXXX-02-B instances do not appear to be able to conceptually distinguish between XXXX-01 and XXXX-02-A.
Instances of SCP-XXXX-02-A are highly variable in appearance, ranging from passably human to barely humanoid. Most instances have at least one notable physical abnormality.
All recorded SCP-XXXX-02-A instances wear masks or other facial, obscuring its upper face. Masks are typically fashioned from silicon or burlap, curving to a point just above the mouth. Approximately 85% of instances will have crude approximations of human facial features scrawled over the masks. Beneath the mask, all SCP-XXXX-02-B instances lack facial features, except for a crude mouth which generally appears to have been cut or carved.
Despite their abnormal appearances, individuals not already aware of their anomalous nature will discount the unusual appearance of SCP-XXXX-02-A instances, and will frequently find it difficult to recollect interactions with an instance beyond generalities.
SCP-XXXX-02-A instances are entirely mute. Despite being incapable of vocalization, instances of SCP-XXXX-02-A make their desires and wishes known to XXXX-02-B instances through the use of empathic telepathy. SCP-XXXX-02-B instances describe the wishes of XXXX-02-A as admonitions to relax, "let go," and provide emotional comfort to -A instances
Typically, a single instance of SCP-XXXX-02-A will feed on a human, although cases of up to three instances feeding simultaneously have been observed (see Incident Log XXXX-049-R). Attempts to physically separate bonded instances of SCP-XXXX-02-A and -B will elicit negative reactions up to and including physical violence.
As exposure to SCP-XXXX-02-A continues, XXXX-02-B instances will become increasingly apathetic, shunning any non-XXXX-02-A interaction or activities. Surveillance of SCP-XXXX-02-B instances indicates XXXX-02-B spending hours on meandering one-sided conversations, presumably with the XXXX-02-A instance responding non-verbally. Typical subjects include recollections of childhood or young adulthood, feelings of worthlessness or self-loathing, isolation from peers or family, and gratitude for the presence of SCP-XXXX-01 and XXXX-02-A.
After an average of three weeks, SCP-XXXX-02-A instances will begin to periodically begin to scratch at XXXX-02-B instances. As time spent with SCP-XXXX-02-B continues, scratches will grow in intensity, eventually drawing blood and causing significant tr[REDACTED]e reason for this behavior is unknown.
Prolonged interactions between SCP-XXX-02-A and XXXX-02-B inevitably end with the expiration of the latter, with a mean time to death of two months. The most frequent causes of death include starvation, dehydration, an[REDACTED].
Following the expiration of SCP-XXXX-02-B, XXXX-02-A will dematerialize over a period of 15 minutes. The bodies of SCP-XXXX-02-B instances will similarly vanish 1-3 days following expiration.
Addendum XXXX-F-09:
On XX/XX/XXXX, Danielle Moutree
Dr. Ellis: What first caused you to visit this channel?
Moutree: I think a friend suggested it. Wait, no, it was just floating around my recommendations for forever and I finally clicked it. That was probably it, I think.
Dr. Ellis: And what caused you interest in first commenting on the videos on this channel?
Moutree: Like how?
Dr. Ellis: Was there any feeling of compulsion, or your will not being your own? Some of these comments are very unusual for a public space.
Moutree: No, no compulsion. I wanted to say those things, I guess. They're all true, anyway. Other people were doing it, and it was just this, like, place where you could say these things and no one would say you were dumb. There was an understanding.
Dr. Ellis: Between whom?
Moutree: The other users, I guess. But really, between me and the channel. The songs and the frames from Deputy Dan and everything showed it loved me. It knew that sometimes all you can hope for is comfort before you die.
Dr. Ellis: How do you mean?
Moutree: It loved me, and told me it understood and talked about other people like me. All I could give it was secrets. Little bits of myself I never told anyone before. Thoughts, feelings, idle ideas, dreams I used to have, that sort of thing.
Dr. Ellis: Indicating SCP-XXXX-02-A Isn't it a bit unsettling? Do you ever wonder why it's with you?
Moutree: You said read my comments, right? I said they were all true, and they were. Like, no prospects, no reasonable way to get out of my life. You know the term "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" was supposed to refer to something impossible, right? It's like that. Just stop being like this, just stop having those thoughts, just stop. It's just one straight path to the end without any change or possible deviation. The stuff in there, it's always been with me, and it's always going to be with me. It's all that I am.
Dr. Ellis: So you're happy with this?
Moutree: In a way? All I can really hope for is this. Some sensation of love and, like, the idea something understands me. Or someone. Just, unconditionally. Even if it's distant or mediated or whatever this is, it's still something, and it's more than I could ever really hope for. Out there.
Item #: SCP-XXXX-J
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: [Paragraphs explaining the procedures]
Description: SCP-XXXX-J the collective designation for an e-mail chain on an indeterminate topic, with the subject line "FWD: RE: Rate Increases". It has continuously circulated through the Foundation intranet, FoundationNET, since the mid 1980's, and has received 47,382 replies. No single e-mail in isolation is considered to be anomalous; it is only when taken in its entirety that SCP-XXXX-J attains its anomalous effects. To date, no single query that has been posed in SCP-XXXX-J has been successfully answered, each leading to further inquiries and references to previous emails in the chain. It has been speculated that SCP-XXXX-J has a mildly compulsive effect to both respond to the email, and to include others in it as well.
Attachment XXXX-12-f-19: Topics of SCP-XXXX-J emails, by incidence:
| Subject |
% |
| Inquiries about Foundation financial regulations (current) |
19.8% |
| Requests for follow-up on previous emails (previous addressee deceased) |
14.9% |
| Notifications about updates on previous information |
13.4% |
| Inquires about why sender was included in previous e-mails |
13.1% |
| Requests for follow-up on previous emails (previous addressee still alive) |
11.1% |
| Requests to be removed from email chain |
6.5% |
| Inquiries about why sender was not included in previous e-mails |
6.2% |
| Requests for context found in previous emails |
5% |
| Inquiries about Foundation financial regulations (obsolete) |
4.1% |
| Non-anomalous memes (Other) |
2.5% |
| Other |
2.3% |
| Non-anomalous memes (Minions) |
1.1% |
On 09/01/2009, Foundation somnogenetics specialist Dr. A.P. DeLeon accidentally included an instance of SCP-███ into SCP-XXXX-J, leading to the inadvertent propagation of a powerful memetic anomaly that spre[REDCATED]zards throughout the Indian sub-continent.
After years of analysis, Foundation researchers have determined that the original email was an inquiry about internal billing for shipping between sites classified as "non-visual". The entirety of the message is seen below.
Attachment XXXX-489-G-314:
Date: September 20, 1986
From: ten.noitadnuof|nosivadd#ten.noitadnuof|nosivadd
To: ten.noitadnuof|ybniuqb#ten.noitadnuof|ybniuqb, ten.noitadnuof|rewerbh#ten.noitadnuof|rewerbh, ten.noitadnuof|aer#ten.noitadnuof|aer, ten.noitadnuof|jnuahs#ten.noitadnuof|jnuahs, ten.noitadnuof|ofnignippihs#ten.noitadnuof|ofnignippihs, ten.noitadnuof|19volemakila#ten.noitadnuof|19volemakila
CC: ten.noitadnuof|teilvvd#ten.noitadnuof|teilvvd, ten.noitadnuof|htimssf#ten.noitadnuof|htimssf, ten.noitadnuof|htimslp#ten.noitadnuof|htimslp, ten.noitadnuof|tseuqerqer#ten.noitadnuof|tseuqerqer, ten.noitadnuof|lloryap#ten.noitadnuof|lloryap
BCC: ten.noitadnuof|elootkj#ten.noitadnuof|elootkj, ten.noitadnuof|hcihclabiklv#ten.noitadnuof|hcihclabiklv
Subject: Rate increases
Dear Shaun,
Per the earlier telephone conversation regarding your fax to Site 383 (auxiliary containment to Non-Visual Site 712), I wanted to clarify what the internal reimbursement rates for the shipping of potentially anomalous visual media was, starting in October. I was under the impression that the rate was scheduled to increase to 1.025 x normal rate of pay for potentially anomalous material, and 2 x for Safe or otherwise Anomalous materials. However, having spoken with Dr. Quinby, it sounds as though this might only be the case for shipments done in the pay period before the change in October, but not afterwards, as, from what I understand, we'll be transitioning to the pneumatic system then.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we use Standard Time Evaluation Sheets for these, rather than AGUF's. Let me know.
Best,
Dr. Derrick Davison
Foundation Researcher, Site 414
"Not all those who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkein
Attempts to decipher the original conversation alluded to in Attachment XXX-489-G-314 have proven fruitless, as the last surviving participant, Dr. Ali Kamelov, died in 2006, a full decade before SCP-XXX-J's classification.
Addendum: [Optional additional paragraphs]
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