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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is kept in a standard containment locker in Site-76. Only D Class personnel are authorized to read SCP-XXXX silently. SCP-XXXX is only to be read aloud in a sound proof room containing only expendable personnel. No copies of SCP-XXXX are to be made without the express, written permission of the site director. Any copies produced are designated SCP-XXX-X and stored with SCP-XXXX or incinerated.
Description: SCP-XXXX was recovered from a public library in Florence, Italy. The library catalog listed SCP-XXXX as “One-Hundred and One Tales to Induce Morality, a book of children’s fables from the 1300s”. Radiocarbon dating of SCP-XXXX conducted by Dr. Johnson has confirmed the age of SCP-XXXX.
SCP-XXXX is a leather bound book written in Middle High German. The book contains twenty-two (22) pages of vellum with handwritten text. The first page contains a large illustration of two (2) children playing with the title in a banner across the top of the page. Each subsequent page contains a complete short story. Each page that contains a short story begins with a title written in letters roughly 3cm tall. Below each title is a handwritten short story that fills the rest of the page.
When a subject reads a short story they suffer injuries that mimic those of a character in the short story they. The set of consequences range from the removal of all five digits on the left hand to the disembowelment and dismemberment of the subject. Each short story has its own unique set of injuries that is inflicted each time the story is read.
When SCP-XXXX read out loud all listeners receive copies of the injuries described in the story. The reader themself does not suffer any injuries. The injuries present in exactly the same way on each subject that hears the story.
The injuries present as soon as SCP-XXXX is no longer being read. Reaching the end of a story is not required in order for injuries present. As soon as the first word of the story is read any cessations of reading, even brief pauses, results in injuries being inflicted upon the subject.
Understanding of the story is not necessary for injuries to present. Understanding of the stories in SCP-XXXX is irrelevant to whether or not a subject will sustain injuries. Subjects with no understanding of German suffer the same injuries as those who are fluent in German; any phonetic attempt to read SCP-XXXX results in the same injuries as if the subject read German fluently.
Copies of the text contained in SPC-XXXX exhibit the same anomalous properties as SCP-XXXX. Copies in German and any other language exhibit the exact same qualities. The length of the copied text is also irrelevant, even one words displays the same anomalous properties.
Due to the fatality of many of the injuries induced by either reading or listening to SCP-XXXX it is impossible to catalog the contents of the stories themselves, whoever a list of injuries as well as the stories that they correspond with has been assembled by Dr. Helvetica.