Jonathx's Sandbox

SCP-JBAA: Carnivorous Tattoo

Concept Summary: A tattoo design that eats people. Hard to contain, but not actually very dangerous to the world at large. Probably an AWCY project, but will leave ambiguous.
Status: Main body fully drafted, addenda in need of more content, pictures (at least 1 photo and 2 drawings) should be made/commissioned for quality.

Item #: SCP-JBAA [Pending Permanent Designation & Approval]

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: One (1) hard copy each of all known SCP-JBAA-A instances and photodocumentation of SCP-JBAA-B remnants are to be kept on file in the low-risk wing of the Site 11 anomalous document sector, cabinet JBAA. Collected samples of SCP-JBAA-B are to be kept in a standard biological samples containment unit at site 11 or incinerated, with no more than 5 active and 10 inert samples retained for study at one time.

Once per week, a member of site staff with clearance level 2/JBAA or higher is to access low-risk anomalous document cabinet JBAA and check that all documents listed as containing an instance of SCP-JBAA-A still do. If any are missing, MTF Kappa-47 (“Petty Crooks”) will be notified of the disappearance and the location(s) where the instance was discovered to narrow the search for the new instance of SCP-JBAA-B.

A network of bots is to be deployed to drag the internet for SCP-JBAA-A images, which are to be logged, copied to Foundation database, and deleted from the web. If questions are raised about the image, agents are to claim the images were stolen and had to be taken down for copyright claims. Any online users found posting or sharing SCP-JBAA-A instances are to be logged and tracked.

Agents briefed on SCP-JBAA will be assigned to each operational zone judged by the Program Director to be at high risk of SCP-JBAA manifestations (a full list of such zones is provided in document JBAA-5) and systematically inspect tattoo parlors for SCP-JBAA-A instances. Additional field agents are to be briefed on SCP-JBAA and held on reserve to assume the inspection schedules of any agents in high-risk zones should they become indisposed, and perform irregular inspections on tattoo parlors in remaining operational zones when not required for that duty.

Upon discovering an instance of SCP-JBAA-A, agents are to contain immediately if possible to do so discreetly. If this is not possible, agents are to notify MTF Kappa-47 and observe and report until the team arrives to assume operational control. Kappa-47 will then perform a standard breaking-and-entering containment operation overnight, preferably 1 hour after all nearby businesses have closed—though this timetable may be advanced or delayed with approval of project lead.

If a customer should show interest in the design between discovery of an SCP-JBAA-A instance and successful containment, all agents on site are authorized to use their discretion to prevent a member of the public from selecting it or applying it to anyone. Agents are authorized to use force and aerosolized class-A amnestics if needed, provided doing so would not raise public alarm. Agents are also authorized to contain the object by procedure JBAA-C-78, but are advised that they do so at great personal risk.

Should a member of the public become a host to SCP-JBAA-B, all agents on site are to observe the host until suitable circumstances can be arranged to neutralize the instance or pacify its host without raising public alarm, at which point the instance shall be excised from the host and transported to containment.

Description: SCP-JBAA is a series of anomalous tattoo designs featuring a toothed or beaked orifice in a diverse range of art styles corresponding to no known terrestrial animal. These always include features anatomically distinctive of a primarily carnivorous diet, and are drawn in such a way as to appear to grow out of any skin to which it is applied.

Instances of SCP-JBAA-A appear spontaneously in tattoo parlor art books and on websites where tattoo designs are shared, and have mild memetic effects on all observers. Such instances manifest at a typical rate of 2 per month, but this rate has been known to increase to as high as 6 per month. All observers of the design, irrespective of whether or not they have interest in tattoos or are aware of its effects, will regard the design as being of markedly high quality and uniqueness, frequently making comments to this effect, but still exhibit their usual preferences in subjective style, showing no statistically significant difference in their likelihood of selecting the design over non-anomalous tattoo designs of similar style or subject matter for their demographic and psychological profile, or in their likelihood to seek a tattoo in the first place.

Furthermore, anyone asked to apply the design shown in an instance of SCP-JBAA-A to living human skin will see no issue with doing so, even if warned of the dangers involved beforehand. Subjects can be convinced to not do so in a specific case if interrupted by outside forces, such as field agents, but will not recognize the design as anomalous of their own accord when such service is requested.

Once the design is successfully applied to living human skin, the tattoo will immediately manifest the properties of SCP-JBAA-B and the subject receiving the tattoo will become its host. All copies of the particular SCP-JBAA-A instance will disappear immediately upon manifestation of its respective -B instance. Memories, written descriptions, metadata tags, and other data referencing the SCP-JBAA-A instance are unaffected, but do not retain any anomalous properties. Likewise, reconstructions of the instance can be produced from this data or the observation of the SCP-JBAA-B instance, and have no anomalous properties.

If the host is not directly visually observed for a period of one (1) minute or longer at any time, flesh will begin dematerializing from the host at a rate of approximately fifty (50) cubic centimeters per second (cm³/s), in discrete, roughly spherical chunks, starting with the region immediately surrounding the patch of skin onto which SCP-JBAA-B was applied and then proceeding to the nearest vital areas. The host is aware of the process, and will respond as if being mauled and devoured by a wild animal. If this process is uninterrupted, death by extreme trauma typically occurs within 30-180 seconds, depending on where SCP-JBAA-B was applied. Full skeletonization of an average adult occurs within 15-20 minutes.

An instance of SCP-JBAA-B can be neutralized by any collection of wounds that destroy 25% or more of the ink outlining the orifice, or severs that same amount cleanly and completely from the remaining 75%.

Addendums:

+ Log of Specimens on File in Cabinet JBAA

JBAA-B-1
Status: Neutralized
Description: Canid jaw structure, with metallic teeth. Upper canine teeth are retroflex hooks and lower canines are loops that mate with these hooks.
Image: [Redacted]
Discovery:
27 March 1986:Report of suspicious corpse flagged in random Foundation audit of Associated Press wire from local newspaper in [Redacted], California.
29 March 1986: SCP-JBAA-B-1 recovered by field agents and returned to site 11 for study.
21 June 1994: Instance neutralized following containment procedure revision 8.

JBAA-B-2
Status: Neutralized
Description: Ophidian jaw structure with 3 injector fangs.
Image: [Redacted]
Discovery:
14 May 1986: Multiple Reports of suspicious corpses reported by informants planted in Central California law enforcement agencies, starting at 0600 hours local time.
14 May 1986, 0900: Mobile Task Force Iota-10 (“Damn Feds”) sent to area for containment.
14 May 1986, 0930: SCP JBAA-B-2 recovered by Iota-10 at [Redacted] morgue.
14 May 1986, 1030: Instance sent to site 11 for study.
21 June 1994: Instance neutralized following containment procedure revision 8.

JBAA-B-3
Status: Neutralized
Description: Four-part Beak, with two outer mandibles having slight serrations, seemingly adapted for grasping like an ant's, one large maxilla adapted for goring and resembling that of a terrestrial raptor, and an inner mandible seemingly capable of sliding against the maxilla for scooping.
Image: [Redacted]
Discovery:
14 May 1986: Multiple Reports of suspicious corpses reported by informants planted in Central California law enforcement agencies, starting at 0600 hours local time.
14 May 1986, 0900: Mobile Task Force Iota-10 (“Damn Feds”) sent to area for containment.
14 May 1986, 1100: Three [Redacted] County Sheriffs injured in altercation over Jurisdiction.
14 May 1986, 1200: SCP JBAA-B-3 recovered by Iota-10 from [Redacted] County Sheriffs' Office.
14 May 1986, 1300: Instance sent to site 11 for study.
21 June 1994: Instance neutralized following containment procedure revision 8.

+ SCP-JBAA Containment Field Manual, Appendix 1

Excerpt from JBAA Field Manual, Revision 8 provided to all Level 2/JBAA-cleared researchers as per Ethics Review Order JBAA-78-2

Appendix 1
What follows is a list of ploys that have been used in the field to successfully confiscate SCP-JBAA-A instances. While you have discretion as a field agent to contain the SCiP by whatever means you deem most prudent, the following examples demonstrate well-thought-out, tried-and-tested gambits that you can fall back on when creativity fails you—and it will fail you—and give you a framework to discover new solutions that won’t get you pulled upstairs. And one last reminder before you get started: you need a copy of the instance, not the original. Don’t risk your cover for a glossy page when a quick doodle and a couple matches will do.

Procedure
Check to see you are not being watched, then just rip it out and pocket

Procedure
Hide book and wait for MTF Retrieval

Procedure JBAA-C-37
Approved on condition of customer interest in SCP-JBAA instance.
1. Trigger building fire sprinkler
2. Radio in a “Red Tape” operation on the building to operational zone field dispatch with authorization code [Redacted]
3. Sit tight. This will divert the nearest available field agent acting in an appropriate bureaucratic or emergency response capacity to frustrate any attempts at reopening of the building before the MTF have retrieved the object.

Procedure JBAA-C-44
Approved for all cases.
1. Surreptitiously photograph SCP-JBAA-A instance.
2. Spill a beverage on design
3. Pocket the page while apologetically cleaning up your mess.

Procedure JBAA-C-62
Approved on condition of customer interest in SCP-JBAA-A instance.
1. Goad subject interested in SCP-JBAA-A instance into Physical Altercation
…

Procedure JBAA-C-78
Approved on condition of immediate risk of uncontrolled SCP-JBAA-B manifestation.
1. Divert attention of subject interested in SCP-JBAA-A instance away from you and from the object.
2. Either quietly and discreetly instruct a tattoo artist to apply a very small copy of SCP-JBAA-A on a part of your body that you can easily see and reach (such as your left forearm) or surreptitiously grab a needle and apply it yourself.
3. Make a continuous incision across the newly manifested SCP-JBAA-B instance, such that there ar
4. Issue the all-clear and instruct MTF reassign their mission objectives to prioritize your extraction.
5. Upon return to site, cooperate with doctors as they surgically excise the inactive SCP-JBAA-B instance and contain it.

Memo from the Ethics Committee, required to be printed with JBAA-C-78 as per Ethics Review Order JBAA-78-2:

SCP-JBAB: Hush Little Baby

Concept Summary: A mother and child. Child produces extremely loud noise when sleeping. If child wakes up, he "screams", muting all sound in an steadily-increasing radius until soothed back to sleep by his mother.
Status: Drafting not started.

Mr. Gabriel Brown, aka SCP-JBAC

Concept Summary: A person, possibly former D-class, information about whom can not be deliberately obfuscated. This is extremely frustrating for redaction-happy researchers. Minor format screw due to power.
Status: Drafting not started.

Person Being Discussed: Mr. Gabriel Brown, aka SCP-JBAC

Object Class: Not particularly dangerous on his own, but containment must be actively maintained and his power could jeopardize the secrecy of anomalies in general if improperly contained, therefore classified as "Euclid"

Special Containment Procedures: Mr. Gabriel Brown is to be imprisoned in an apartment in Chicago, Illinois, designated Gabe's Prison (aka Area 962) and is under no circumstances allowed to be discussed by Foundation personnel outside of a secured site. Under no circumstances is Gabe to be imprisoned at a site or area containing other anomalous objects, effects, or entities, as his anomaly could endanger the secrecy of information about said anomalies.

Description: Mr. Gabriel Brown is a middle-aged man of African American descent from a religious family. It is impossible to discuss Mr. Brown in a way that deliberately obfuscates any information about him, though simply refusing to discuss him at all is possible. This applies to biographical information, such as Gabriel's name, including the ability to refer to him with pronouns when the noun (Gabriel) that the pronoun stands for is at all ambiguous, his current location (ie Chicago),

Addendum:
He was arrested for tax evasion because automated systems typically fail to handle Gabe's particular anomalous qualities.

SCP-JBAD: Naming Glasses

Concept Summary: A pair of glasses that replaces objects with their name. Not sure whether 'true' or colloquial or if affected by wearer's language or level of understanding, but leaning towards true names.
Status: Draft not started.

SCP-JBJA-J: Punctual Youtube Star

Concept Summary: He's just too damn punctual! there's no way he's not anomalous!
Status: Draft not started.

GoI-XXX: The Order of Anastasia

Concept Summary: An monastic/knightly order of the Catholic Church, one of few present day remnants of old Vatican Holy Office of Secrets and Mysteries, and former sister/current rival organization to the Order of Secret Light that helped found the Horizon Initiative. Cooperative with the Foundation, but HATES the Horizon Initiative. Format based on medieval philosophical treatises and Renaissance University lecture formats, particularly the work of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Status: Brainstorming on Google Docs and phone notes app.

Application to form MTF Kappa-47 ("Petty Crooks")

Concept Summary: An MTF team that does fairly standard smash-and-grab containment operations, but makes all evidence point to being the work of unrelated amateur criminals. Formed to reduce the overuse of amnestics in sloppy smash-and-grabs by non-MTF containment teams.
Status: Partial draft on phone.