SCP-XXXX : Conceptual entropy
Item # : SCP-XXXX
Object Class : Euclid
Special Containement Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be stored in a 5m*5m*3m empty room, currently located in Site 14. The door to that room can not connect it directly to the rest of the facility : at the bare minimum, a corridor at least 3m wide and 5m long must seperate the room to the rest of the facility. Any hole in the walls of SCP-XXXX's containement room, including any made to enter it, must be patched in with either bricks or a door in less than 12 hours after the hole was opened. In the event of a hole, access to the safety corridor must be restricted to a bare minimum.
Under no circumstances can SCP-XXXX be stored alongside anything else of value, including but not limited to Foundation equipement, records, personel, or SCP items.
Description : SCP-XXXX is a novelty 23 centimeters tall model of a ferris wheel, presumably meant for desktop decoration. The wheel can rotate around an axis, and two magnets on the bottom of the wheel and in the base of the model allow momentum given to the wheel to be conserved for a limited time.
Any item left in the same room as SCP-XXXX will, over time, loose complexity, characteristics, and details, and will eventually disappear. The exact modus operanti of this effect has not been pinned down, as continuous video coverage is made impossible due to the video equipement being affected by SCP-XXXX's effect. The effect also affect living beings, and the very room it is stored in.
Addendum #1 : Test records
For all tests, the item was placed alone in SCP-XXXX's containement chamber, and results were taken by entering the chamber.
Item : A used ballpoint pen belonging to a senior staff member.
Observations:
T0 : The pen's cap is blue, and has several chew marks on it. The plastic shaft has several scratches. Its ink is blue, and the ink reservoir is half empty. The pen's brand is visible on the shaft, and serial numbers are visible on the bottom of the shaft.
12h : No noticeable differences
24h : The pen's cap no longer has chew marks.
36h : The shaft no longer has scratches on it.
48h : The serial numbers and brand are gone.
60h : The pen's cap is now black. The ink was found to be black as well.
72h : The pen is gone.
Item : The door to the containement chamber.
Obervations:
T0 : A reinforced steel door, slightly curved, with a class 4 card-reader lock. Several traces of rust. The characters "SCP-XXXX" are painted in yellow, with paint slightly dripping from the characters.
24h : No noticeable differences.
48h : No noticeable differences.
72h : The paint drips from the characters are no longer present.
96h : No noticeable differences
120h : The card reader's paint has lost previously noticed scratches.
144h : The door is no longer curved. The surface is now flat.
168h : The word "SCP-XXXX" is now painted in white.
192h : The card reader has disappeared. Closer examination has shown the door no longer has a lock.
216h : No noticeable differences.
240h : The word "SCP-XXXX" is no longer painted on the door.
264h : No rust is visible on the door. When it started disappearing is unknown.
288h : No noticeable differences.
312h : No noticeable differences.
336h : No noticeable differences.
360h : There is no door. The corridor now leads to a wall.
Item : Dr.██████'s smartphone.
Obervations:
T0: The phone is in a custom case depicting a kitten, whose background represents Dr.██████, standing in their cluttered office, holding a very large pumpkin. The phone is password-locked, and contains a variety of applications (mostly games), photos (mostly cats), and videos (mostly of cats). The buttons on the phone show signs of use.
12h : No noticeable differences.
24h : The password, previously indicated to be 9261, has now been changed to 1234.
36h : The buttons on the phone now look new.
48h : No noticeable differences.
60h : In the vast majority of the photos and videos stored on the device, details seem to be missing compared to Dr.██████'s backup. For example, in the background image, Dr.██████'s desk is no longer cluttered, but not to the point the observers would call "clean" either. In the photos, some physical traits of the cats (such as heterochromia, spots of color on fur, or scars) are missing. The videos no longer have a background noise.
72h : The case no longer represents a kitten, and is instead plain white.
84h : Several applications are either missing or have been replaced by search engines or, in the words of Dr.██████, "more basic" games.
96h : The background image has been replaced by the default image for this model of smartphone.
108h : No noticeable differences.
120h : All video and photographic footage on the phone has been deleted.
132h : The phone now fails to boot up.
144h : No noticeable differences.
156h : The phone has dissapeared.
Item : D-Class personnel #805477.
Notes: Food, water and light are provided periodically. Possible memetic effect of SCP-XXXX suspected, so evey observation includes a small dialogue with subject to test the integrity of memory and psyche.
Obervations :
T0 : Subject is female, 46 years old, with a high tendency for profanity and hostility. She has a birth mark on her face.
12h : No noticeable differences.
24h : Several tears and permanent stains on her uniform are now missing.
36h : Subject's hair, once noted to be, in the subject's words, "bronze brown", have lost color saturation.
48h : Subject's vocabulary and attitude have softened. Whether this is caused by the isolation or SCP-XXXX is unknown, but the latter is suspected.
60h : Subject seems to have regenerated a missing front tooth. The new tooth, however, looks as old as the other.
72h : Subject becomes reluctant to talk. Effect of isolation suspected.
84h : Birth mark on subject's face has dissapeared.
96h : Subject is more willing to talk, but has lost several previously-noted language quirks. Faults in memory have been noticed when asked about details of life before the Foundation. Since subject has been quiet for the last 2 observations, when the memory loss started is unknown.
108h : Subject has gone into near-catatonia. She only speaks when answered to, and her answer are kept to a minimum.
120h : Subject has been noticed to go thinner. As weight was not noted prior to exposure to SCP-XXXX, how much has been lost is unknown, but is estimated to be between 5 and 10 kilograms.
132h : Subject's hair has lost all saturation, and is now grey. Her skin has also lost pigmentation. Her eyes, once noted to be chocolate brown, are now pale brown.
144h : Subject is now fully catatonic.
156h : [DATA EXPUNGED]
168h : [DATA EXPUNGED]
180h : [DATA EXPUNGED]
192h : [DATA EXPUNGED]
204h : [DATA EXPUNGED]
216h : Subject has now dissapeared.
NOTE : Test on human exceeding 140h is now prohibited without authorisation from a senior class 4 personnel or above.
Cognitohazard over.
At the 156h observation, the research team noticed subject lost all previous resemblance to herself: she now appeared in her thirties, wore commun street clothes, and has different skin, eye, and hair color. She was describe as "average looking". She was speaking once more, but did not properly answered the team's questions, and constantly diverged to "inane subjects".
At the 168h observation, her appearance had changed again. Results of dicussion were once more inconclusive. In an attempt to find a correlation between the current appearance and subject's original look, a photo was taken.
However, when examined, the photo showed subject to be naked, laking any sort of body features like a face, hair, ears, or genitals. One of the senior researchers pointed out the similarity to SCP-600, and closer comparison of the files confirmed that subject had indeed adopted the same properties.
The subject kept the exact properties of SCP-600 until its disappearance on observation 216h.
As it is not the Foundation's purpose to create more SCP items, reiteration of this late stage experiment was prohibited.
Ideas on improvement :
Effect on humans:
Maybe don't make the whole "go into catatonia", but a more direct "turn into SCP-600-likes". Also, don't make it actually SCP-600s
History:
Ideas on how it was found :
- Found in the locals of a nefarious organisation, put under quarantine by the Foundations after suspected anomalies. SCP-XXXX was the only thing left inside once quarantine was stopped.
- Confiscated from a cult, who was using it to brainwash people through mild exposure.
- Began anomalous properties out of nowhere, used to belong to an employee.
What it is
Basically, "concept", "interest" or "creativity" aren't subjective human constructs : they are objective, tangible properties, just as temperature or mass. The item is just absorbing the concept from its surroundings.
Maybe I should change it to Neutralized. As in, it used to have negative or very low conceptuality, and stole the one from surroundings until it truly became "something".
Anyway, the point is that the real point of wonder isn't as much the SCP as the principle it's based on.
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