infiniplex

Draft 1

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: The land surrounding SCP-XXXX has been purchased by the Foundation and fenced off with a three (3) km radius. Site XXXX has been constructed as a base of operations on the northwestern edge of the perimeter, and has been placed under the foundation front “Santa Fe Construction Projects”. Armed guards disguised as construction workers will be manned in groups of three (3) every 200 m around the perimeter. Research into SCP-XXXX will be approved by no fewer than two (2) level 4 personnel.

All video exploration of SCP-XXXX is prohibited following Incident XXXX-Sekhmet is currently on hold, however personnel may submit a request to Dr. Watterson for a non-video transmission exploration. Upon approval, Mobile Task Force Omicron-10 (Valued Customers) is to carry out the exploration. All items obtained from the explorations are to be added to the Log of Recovered Purchases.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a large shopping complex located approximately █ km southeast of Santa Fe, NM. The title “Infiniplex Shopping Center” (sic) is written in bold black typeface on a large illuminated board above the entrance. The building’s exterior measures 200 m x 175 m, and is comprised primarily of cement and brick. There are two dome skylight windows on its roof, made of blue-tinted glass and a metal frame, that overlook the non-anomalous interior. Ventilation is visible on the roof as well, but appears non functional.

SCP-XXXX is in a state of severe disrepair, and appears as if it has been abandoned for a prolonged period of time. Windows on its exterior have either been boarded up or painted over. There are few functioning lights in and around SCP-XXXX, as most are either missing or broken. SCP-XXXX does appear to have a power supply, though the location is as of yet unknown.

Entering SCP-XXXX through any means other than the eight sliding tinted-glass doors at the front of the complex (e.g. breaking through a wall) will result in the non-anomalous interior of a stereotypical shopping complex in the same fashion as would be constructed in 19██. The anomalous interior of SCP-XXXX, as accessed by the aforementioned sliding doors, is significantly larger than its exterior, with the longest current exploration extending to 108 km. It has been speculated that SCP-XXXX does not possess an end.

SCP-XXXX-1 are a variety of retail and merchandising “outlets” that are common for similar shopping complexes, such as restaurants, clothing retailers, home improvement stores, and movie theaters. SCP-XXXX-1 will be “inactive” for the first kilometer within SCP-XXXX; following this, SCP-XXXX-1 will have an added 5% chance of being “active” for every subsequent kilometer. All active SCP-XXXX-1 have been found to be fully stocked, and all foodstuffs appear not to have decomposed. If a person observes an instance of SCP-XXXX-1, leaves SCP-XXXX, and returns, the previous instance will not be present, and instead have been replaced with a new, previously unobserved instance. How this is achieved is unknown.

SCP-XXXX-1 appear to “degrade”, or deviate from how a non anomalous outlet of the same model would appear outside SCP-XXXX. Examples of degradation include changes in spelling, products, outlet design, and [DATA EXPUNGED]. Distance from the entrance also determines the stability of SCP-XXXX-1, or how anomalous SCP-XXXX-1 may get. Many instances of SCP-XXXX-1 found past █ km appear to possess Class-Juliet cognitohazards.

SCP-XXXX-2 are anomalous humanoid entities located within active instances SCP-XXXX-1. Like SCP-XXXX-1, SCP-XXXX-2 “degrade” further into SCP-XXXX. Entities found closer to the entrance appear to be humans or beings closely resembling humans, while entities found further inside SCP-XXXX are more distorted, vaguely humanoid entities with signs of severe physical alterations.

Upon seeing a human, SCP-XXXX-2 will attempt to detain him or her as well as sell them an object from the outlet in which SCP-XXXX-2 originated. Methods of this include advertisement, sexual enticement, physical imprisonment, and on four recorded instances, severe [DATA EXPUNGED] resulting in the subject’s death 24 hours later. If the subject refuses, or is otherwise incapable of purchasing an item from SCP-XXXX-2, they will be met with hostility. It should be noted that SCP-XXXX-2 tend to lack decent muscular strength, although it has been observed that this is not true for SCP-XXXX-2 located further into SCP-XXXX. To date, 29 personnel have been lost to attacks by SCP-XXXX-2.

Discovery: SCP-XXXX came to the attention of the foundation on 11/19/1997 following multiple reports of missing children in the Santa Fe area. Rumors were picked up from an undercover agent working in █████████ school about students last being seen before setting out to perform a unique form of urban exploration. SCP-XXXX was located and fenced off 3 days later. Class C amnestics were administered to all students and faculty of the school, who were then provided a cover story of an escaped convict capturing children.

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+ Log of Recovered Purchases

Note: This list only contains items deemed noteworthy that were successfully recovered prior to Incident XXXX-Sekhmet. For items recovered following this, please refer to the Extended Log of Recovered Purchases.

All personnel exploring SCP-XXXX must be equipped with the following: one (1) headset with SCRAMBLE technology, one (1) AR-15 standard assault rifle with two spare magazines, one (1) shoulder-mounted flashlight capable of emitting 350 lumens, and one (1) audio transceiver/receiver. Video recording equipment is strictly prohibited from entering SCP-XXXX to minimize damage from visual cognitohazards.

All recovered purchases must be submitted to Dr. Watterson in the following format:

Date: …
SCP-XXXX-1Title: …
Location from Entrance: …
SCP-XXXX-2 Description: …
Item Description: …

Note: Due to the nature of SCP-XXXX, as well as for the purpose of brevity, all SCP-XXXX-1 titles that may be considered typing errors are to be taken at face value as intentional.

Date: January 9, 2002
SCP-XXXX-1 Title: Donken Donuts
Location from Entrance: 1.1 kilometers
SCP-XXXX-2 Description: 1.9 m tall, with abnormally long legs and short torso. Subject grabbed MTF O-10 [4] between it's legs, and dragged her into the outlet.
Item Description: One (1) glazed pastry filled with an unknown green gelatinous substance. Chemical analysis inconclusive. Subject D-81431 consumed said item, and reported it to taste like apple pie. Subject later reported stomach cramps, but no abnormalities reported.

Date: January 31, 2002
SCP-XXXX-1 Title: The Gape
Location from Entrance: 1.9 kilometers
SCP-XXXX-2 Description: 1.8 m tall, subject’s right arm contained three joints. Subject held a sign with an as-of-yet unidentified memetic symbol, causing MTF O-10 [5] to enter outlet.
Item Description: One (1) black chain necklace with Christian cross pendant. Pendant is capable of conducting up to 2000° C when submerged in water.

Date: January 31, 2002
SCP-XXXX-1 Title: Hoot Topic
Location from Entrance: 2.0 kilometers
SCP-XXXX-2 Description: 3.1 m tall, appearance described by a member of MTF O-10 as “a scantily clad human female as if she were stretched in Photoshop.” Several MTF O-10 members described a feeling of attraction to SCP-XXXX-2, and entered the outlet, despite commands to continue onwards by Site Command.
Item Description: One (1) unmarked bottle of what is assumed to be liquid eyeliner. All members who entered the outlet were noted to have copious amounts of the liquid in their eyes, but claimed to not feel any pain and to have perfect eyesight. No member has any recollection of what happened inside the outlet, despite being inside for more than ten minutes.

Date: February 16, 2003
SCP-XXXX-1 Title: Planet Footness
Location from Entrance: 2.7 kilometers
SCP-XXXX-2 Description: 1.4 m tall, blond hair. Subject’s face did not appear to posess eyes. As subject rotated its head as if looking at MTF O-10, MTF O-10 [6] appeared to freeze in place, and move towards outlet without movement from his feet.
Item Description: One (1) blue ball, 3.5 cm diameter. Material analysis remains inconclusive, but item appears to be made of a resilient rubber. Item appears to interchange between visible and invisible when bouncing off of a solid surface.

Date: February 16, 2003
SCP-XXXX-1 Title: Looos
Location from Entrance: 2.9 kilometers
SCP-XXXX-2 Description: 0.1 m tall, appearing to be a human skull with an elongated mandible, attached to a set of eight miniature human legs. SCP-XXXX-2 produced a large metal claw attached to a nylon rope from it’s jaw and latched on to the ankle of MTF O-10 [8], then proceeding to drag him into the outlet.
Item Description: One (1) 3x9x72 cm plank of dark cyan colored wood. The grain of the wood appeared to “throb” for one second with a yellow glow and a low hum, followed by a one second interval of inactivity. When item came into contact with [DATA EXPUNGED] began creating a sound similar to that of human speech, with linguistic analysis remaining inconclusive.

Date: November 12, 2003
SCP-XXXX-1Title: T.J. Marxx
Location from Entrance: 3.3 kilometers
SCP-XXXX-2 Description: 1.7 m tall. MTF O-10 [1] described it as “a wax figure of Karl Marx with severely melted facial features. It seemed like the sound of its voice was melted too.” SCP-XXXX-2 asked politely for O-10 [1] to enter SCP-XXXX-1, and O-10 [1] willingly obliged with permission from Site Command.
Item Description: One (1) small scented candle, smelling similar to Agave amica, with a single handwritten label on it saying “Tuberose”. The candle showed no anomalous properties until post-exploration analysis, at which point candle was ignited and all subjects present in the room immediately fell unconscious. Attempts to wake up the subjects or extinguish the candle were met with failure. Subjects remained unconscious for the entirety of the six hour period for which the candle burned, and regained consciousness upon it burning out. During this period, all subjects reported a vivid lucid dream in a setting similar to the 1982 movie Blade Runner, and had noticably increased serotonin levels following.

Date: April 2, 2004
SCP-XXXX-1 Title: CQHMJ LNQD NUZKSHMD
Location from Entrance: 12.0 kilometers
SCP-XXXX-2 Description: 1.9-2.6 m. Severely emaciated quadrupedal humanoid with a jaw extending 0.3 meters longer than its skull. Movements described as if “its bones were just floating in the ocean without regards to its skin.” SCP-XXXX-2 shrieked and chased MTF O-10, ultimately tackling O-10 [3] and biting down on her neck, followed by dragging her into SCP-XXXX-1.
Item Description: One (1) 13 cm cube of an as of yet unidentified translucent purple material similar to glass. O-10 [3] exited SCP-XXXX-1 with the item, and collapsed due to her injuries. Notably, the item did not appear damaged in any way. O-10 [2] picked up the item following O-10 [3]’s collapse after leaving SCP-XXXX-1, and the item immediately turned into a gelatnous substance of the same color. The substance then proceeded to entirely cover O-10 [2], to his extreme discomfort, at which point it regained rigidity and O-10 [2] ceased all movement. 10 seconds later, O-10 [2] crumpled into numerous small shards of colored glass, in the middle of which was a piece of paper on which was written “XNT CHCM’S CQHMJ XNTQ NUZKSHMD.” Post-exploration analysis revealed the glass shards and the piece of paper to be non anomalous.

Date: August 13, 2005
SCP-XXXX-1Title: Unknown, language similar to Hebrew
Location from Entrance: 27.0 kilometers
SCP-XXXX-2 Description: Appeared to be a disturbance in the exploration’s video feed, but appeared invisible to MTF O-10. Subject [DATA EXPUNGED] all members of MTF O-10 into SCP-XXXX-1.
Item Description: [DATA EXPUNGED] MTF O-10 [1], [2], [4], [5], [8] presumed KIA, testing called off.

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+ Exploration A

Date: 12/13/1997

Explorer: Subject D-86753. Male. 28 years old. 1.9 m tall. 72.5 kg. South East Asian descent. Subject’s background includes gang violence and aggravated assault.

Subject was tasked with walking one kilometer into SCP-XXXX, purchasing an item from the first outlet he saw, and exiting. Subject was equipped with one (1) video/audio transceiver/receiver, one (1) level ii dietary ration kit, one (1) 200 lumen handheld torch with a four hour battery life, one hundred (100) US Dollars (two $20, four $10, three $5 and five $1 bills), and one (1) electronic motion-based distance tracker. Doctor ██████ Xiao observed and recorded at Site Command.

[BEGIN LOG]

Camera activates, angled towards the billboard atop SCP-XXXX

D-86753: (muttering) In-fi-ni-plex? Is that even a word?
Site Command: Please stay focused. Do you remember your mission objective?
D: Yes sir, I need to go inside for one kilometer and buy something. Is that correct?
SC: Affirmative. Please proceed and notify us when you notice anything unusual.

D-86753 enters SCP-XXXX, and the camera fades dark. He quickly turns on the handheld torch. The camera shows a non-functioning fountain in the center of the floor. Two escalators appear to either side, both covered in debris.

SC: Proceed into SCP-XXXX.
D: You got it, boss.

D-86753 begins forward into SCP-XXXX, frequently moving his handheld torch to view his surroundings.

D: I’m getting some sketchy ass vibes from in here.

D-86753 continues for 500 meters before stopping.

SC: Why have you stopped?
D: I’m just taking a break, doc. Jesus, how deep does this thing go?
SC: It is unclear at this time. Please proceed when you feel equipped.

D-86753 drinks a portion of his water, before continuing on in a similar fashion to before. After an additional 550 meters, subject stops and turns to an active instance of SCP-XXXX-1 on his right hand side titled “Old Navu”. SCP-XXXX-2 [1] slowly approaches D-86753 with a butcher’s knife.

SCP-XXXX-2 [1]: I want you to buy some jeans from me, little boy.

D-86753 turns around and begins walking backwards further into SCP-XXXX.

SC: If you feel it is unsafe, proceed away from SCP-XXXX-2
D: (shaken) N-No thank you, I can’t buy anything right now.

D-86753 turns around and begins running away from SCP-XXXX-2 [1].

SCP-XXXX-2 [1]: (audio) You fucking bitch, get back here!

D-86753 runs for 55 meters, frequently looking over his shoulder. He stops to consume a nutrition bar and drink a portion of his water.

SC: For the record, can you describe what happened back there? Are you physically injured?
D: (short of breath) What does it look like happened? The thing came at me with a [EXPLETIVE] knife!
SC: Please watch your profanity. Do you feel equipped to continue?

Pause.

SC: Subject D-86753, do you feel equipped to conti-
D: (loud exhale) Yes, I can continue.

D-86753 continues for 105 meters without incident, before stopping, deactivating his torch and attempting to mask his breathing.

SC: What appears to be the problem? Are you in dan-
D: (hushed) Shh.

The camera shows nothing but darkness. Sounds of metallic clanking can be heard, presumably footsteps on hard tile. The footsteps circle around D-86753 for 30 seconds, growing slightly closer to him until stopping in front of him. Silence other than D-86753’s muted breathing for 17 seconds. D-86753 clicks on the handheld torch, illuminating the face of SCP-XXXX-2 [3] staring at him.

Metal plating covers the left half of the face and the right eye, the other socket empty. SCP-XXXX-2 [3] is illuminated for 7 frames before opening its mouth and emitting a loud, high pitched metallic screech. The camera falls from D-86753’s shoulder and lands with an obstructed view. There is the sound of metal scraping, followed by sobbing from D-86753. A second loud metallic screech, followed by D-86753 screaming. A loud thump is heard.

SC: D-86753? Are you there?

Radio silence for 37 seconds.

SC: Subject D-86753, do you copy?

Radio silence. After 4 minutes 25 seconds, the exploration is marked complete. The camera continues recording with no activity for 1:25:11 before losing power.

[END LOG]

Note from Dr. Watterson: Let the record show that I was not made aware of this experiment being carried out. Sending an uneducated D-Class into a confirmed hostile SCP is beyond breaking protocol. I am suspending Doctor Xiao to Site-37 until further notice, and I would like to have a formal conversation with whoever green-lit this exploration.

+ Exploration B

Date: 12/29/1997

Following Exploration A, a request was sent to have MTF O-10 carry out an exploration of SCP-XXXX. While the request went through review, a single unmanned video drone exploration was approved. Doctor Markkus Watterson observed and recorded at Site Command.

[BEGIN LOG]

The camera activates, showing the entrance to SCP-XXXX. Drone enters. The interior of SCP-XXXX appears identical to Exploration A.

Drone continues for 1 kilometer before stopping at the outlet titled “Old Navu”. Drone enters, and observes SCP-XXXX-2 [1] from Exploration A standing in a non responsive state by a large wooden countertop. No response is recorded for 35 seconds, and the drone exits.

//Drone continues for 200 meters until reaching the last marked location of D-86753 from Exploration A. Drone enters outlet titled “Barnes and Nibbles”. SCP-XXXX-2 [2] is seen standing unresponsive by a pile of books. D-86753 is seen torn in half at the abdomen over a small display case. Attempts are made to draw a response from SCP-XXXX-2 [2] with no success. //

//Drone exits outlet, and continues further into SCP-XXXX for 21 meters before meeting what appears to be a solid black wall. Drone makes contact with wall and immediately loses all contact with Site Command. Attempts are made to put drone in reverse, to no success. //

Exploration is marked complete.

[END LOG]

Note from Dr. Watterson: It appears SCP-XXXX only appears to have an affect on conscious beings. One hypothesis for the black wall observed is that SCP-XXXX only produces more of itself when a conscious being is present to observe it. Further exploration and experimentation is required to confirm or deny this.

+ Exploration C

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+ Incident XXXX-Sekhmet

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Addendum XXXX-A: Following Incident XXXX-Sekhmet, containment procedures have been revised and the perimeter expanded. SCP-XXXX is currently pending an update to Keter class. Video exploration of SCP-XXXX is currently on hold. Personnel wishing to conduct an exploration must submit a formal request to Dr. Watterson.

Addendum XXXX-B: As of 03-07-2006, SCP-XXXX has been denied an update to Keter class. Incident XXXX-Sekhmet was clearly a result of human error, rather than of the anomalous nature of SCP-XXXX. Until someone can bring forth viable evidence as to why SCP-XXXX is inherently and extremely difficult to contain, it is to remain Euclid. -O5 ██

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