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Item #: SCP xxxx
Object Class: Euclid
Special containment procedures: SCP xxxx is to be kept in a locked, airtight box that is to be kept under armed guard by no less than two (2) guards at a time in site 19. These guards are to be stationed just outside of the room that houses SCP xxxx. They are not to be let into the room unless instructed to do so in order to assist with an ongoing test. Doors to SCP xxxx’s containment room are to be kept locked at all times. Only researchers with level 3 clearance or higher are permitted to conduct tests with SCP xxxx.
Description: SCP xxxx is a thick, leather bound book titled “Classical Poetry for the Soul and Mind”. This title is embroidered on the spine of the book in gold lettering. Any and all attempts to damage SCP xxxx have proven unsuccessful (ie fire, gunshots, stabs, shredding, and tearing) (see addendum 2)), and further testing is necessary to prove it’s full capabilities.
Subjects within 20 feet of SCP xxxx begin to feel an urge to open it, and it is necessary to have a bare minimum of two (2) personnel, one inside proximity and one outside, to disrupt all urges whenever in a non testing environment.
If SCP xxxx is ever fully opened, a poem writes itself into the book and continues to write itself on whatever page the subject flips to, until the poem is either finished or the book is closed before the poem can be finished. If the poem is fully read, the subject immediately commits suicide through the nearest and most convienient method (gunshot wounds, hanging, blunt force trauma, and cervical fracture)
However if the poem is not finished, the subject reports seeing SCP xxxx in their peripheral vision for all waking hours in the day, as well as in their dreams (which substantially increases in volume and detail). After a week of not finishing the poem, SCP xxxx disappears from sight and the poem begins to etch itself into the torso of the subject (lacerations measuring ⅛ inch in thickness and ¼ inch in depth). If the subject reads this version of the poem they commit suicide just as quickly as those who read the entirety of the poem on their first viewing of SCP xxxx. The only apparent treatment of the effects of SCP xxxx are class 2 amnestics or higher. However, if the subject does not read the poem on their torso the lacerations increase in width and depth every day until the subject bleeds out.
Additional: SCP xxxx was discovered in - Ohio, in a school library after the suicides of 2 students, 1 teacher, and 2 police officers in the span of 20 minutes. After the suicides, a containment team was called in by an on-site agent and mild amnestics were applied to all school staff and students.
Addendum xxxx-1: SCP xxxx has proven to be able to cause the immediate suicide of anyone who reads it’s contents, following the self termination of a D-class after instructed to read SCP xxxx. This self termination is apparently caused by an outside force, and something seems to possess the body of whoever reads it. This proven by the D-class’ cries of desperation as it bashed it’s head against a wall until death.
Addendum xxxx-2: SCP xxxx seems to be able to cause death, no matter the circumstances of its presence. When a D-class was instructed to read the contents of the book inside a padded room, it placed the book in it’s mouth, walked up to a wall and slammed their head against the wall, causing a fatal cervical fracture. (Note the D-class still voiced it’s desperation and apparent unwillingness to commit the suicide.)
Addendum xxxx-3: D-class was instructed to open and only partially read contents of SCP xxxx, which was completed successfully. D-class has not attempted suicide and was returned to their room to be kept under observation.
Addendum xxxx-3b: Approximately 3 days after initial testing, D-class reports “seeing the damn book everywhere I go”. Note that SCP xxxx was reported to have been safely returned to its case during the duration of D-class’ distress.
Addendum xxxx-3c: Approximately 5 days after initial testing, D-class was seen attempting to break into the holding room of SCP xxxx, stating “please, just let me read it, i need to know”. Subject repeated this phrase for several hours until falling asleep under constraints and a 24 hour watch.
Addendum xxxx-3d: Approximately 7 days after initial testing, the D-class was reported to be screaming in agony. Upon closer inspection, text, following a Shakespearean pattern of grammar and tone, was seen etching itself into the torso of the D-class. These cuts did not draw blood or terminate the D-class, so it was held for further testing.
Addendum xxxx-3e: Approximately 12 days after initial testing, the D-class died of blood loss due to severe lacerations in the torso area. Each day at noon the cuts increased in depth and width until organs were exposed, despite the best efforts of on-site medical teams.
Addendum xxxx-4: Multiple D-class were exposed to SCP xxxx, each with different weapons and poisons at their disposal. It appears after the effects of SCP xxxx take hold, the subject, or whatever is controlling the subject, go straight for the most efficient means of self termination.
Addendum xxxx-5: After a consultation of 05 council members, clearance for destruction of SCP xxxx was approved.
Addendum xxxx-6: After being exposed to flames at temperatures upwards of 1600 degrees celsius, thermite charges, and jet fuel engine flames, there was no apparent damage to SCP xxxx. It has been deduced that SCP xxxx is immune to all types of combustion.
Addendum xxxx-7: A D-class was instructed to attempt to rip SCP xxxx apart and not read its contents, but would only do so one page at a time. When instructed to damage it more efficiently, it responded with “I’m trying, but it feels like I physically can’t”. This process was attempted 19 times with various D-class all to the same effect. Note: even though they were allowed to rip for several hours, the book never seemed to lose any thickness whatsoever, and its weight was the same as it was before the destruction attempt.
Addendum xxxx-8: After various attempts of putting SCP xxxx under heavy machine gun fire and attempted destruction using various melee weaponry, SCP xxxx remains unscathed.
Addendum xxxx-9: All efforts to damage or destroy SCP xxxx were deemed fruitless. Any and all further testing proposals have been immediately shut down and SCP xxxx will remain in it’s holding box for the foreseeable future.
