Neutrality

I'm just going to write anything that comes to mind.

Biscuit Tin

Go get a biscuit from the tin.

Give Way

If you go past when the signs tell you to stop, you'll never stop again.

Lair's Reality

Lies + 24 Hours = Truth

Good Bookmark

Read faster, better. (Or so they want you to think.)
Event-████-Antigonish

Smiling in the Dark

Isn't the sight of a fading light such a wonderful feeling?

I Love My Family

You never know what you have until it's gone. Work work until you lose it all.

Something Isn't Real

Big setup, bad joke.

Unoriginality

Your contribution is not helpful or appreciated.

The Laundry

It's the worst at night, but things never come back.

The Stone, The Bird

Why kill two birds with one stone? Why not kill infinite birds with one stone? In fact, forget the stone! Kill infinite birds with no stone! Kill no birds or infinite birds with infinite stones!

Not Knowing

You won't know everything. You will never see everything. You can't do everything. And that is simply unacceptable.

Pamphlet Route

I have a better job now. Dogs and cats.

The Message

Remember us. Please. Nuntcarology.

iPod Shuffles

Here's a few to get you through it all, champ. Break my Stride, Mr. Blue Sky…

T-Pins

Fills up with pins. Then it doesn't. Then we all die?

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Biscuit Tin Draft I

Item #: SCP-████

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-████ is to be stored in a standard Class-I Inanimate-Object (C1-IO) type safe within Site-77's safe class storage area. No further testing has been deemed necessary, and as such, no attempt is to be made to open SCP-████ unless given direct permission from two (2) Level-3 on-site researcher personnel.

Description: SCP-████ is a circular biscuit tin measuring 21.5 x 21.5 x 8 cm. According to its labelling, the tin was originally used to store ███████ █████ brand fruitcake, but had since been used to contain various biscuits, according to its previous owner: Connor █████.

SCP-████'s anomalous effects occur if any sentient being attempts to open it, either directly or indirectly, consciously or unconsciously. Upon attempting to open SCP-████, the subject's brain will cease functioning, causing near instantaneous brain death. In this state, the subject is by all means dead, and will react to air and time accordingly. However, if the body is put within earshot of any form of music, it will reanimate. Despite the break-down of neural connections that occurs as expected in the rotting of a corpse, the reanimated corpse will still retain all the memories and cognitive abilities it had before opening SCP-████. Subjects retain no memory of of their death. Loss of major organs or limbs does not prevent reanimation from occurring (though the latter can cause discomfort and issues in movement for subjects) and the subjects can function as though they were alive despite vital areas of the body being absent. For example, if a subject is missing their heart, blood will continue to flow through the body by unknown means. However, if over 78.5%¹ of the body is destroyed, this reanimation will not occur.

An apparent side effect of this reanimation is that the subject is only capable of displaying certain motor (and eventually autonomic) skills to the rhythm of the music they are within earshot of. The number of motor abilities affected by this only increases as time progresses (see Addendum I). Many subjects describe attempting to move their body out of rhythm similar to the effect of sleep paralysis, although others describe their body "tensing up" between the beats of the rhythm, preventing them from moving. fMRI² scans have shown that the areas in the primary motor cortex associated with the areas of the body that subjects attempt to move do show activation upon attempt. The current theory is that the messages sent from the cortex to the skeletal system are lost somewhere in the peripheral nervous system. If the subject is brought out of earshot of any rhythm or music, or if the music stopped, they will again experience instantaneous brain death and continue to rot as expected, although they can be just as quickly re-revived with the introduction of more music. It should be noted that if a subject is killed after being revived and is therefore "alive", revival will not take place, even if more than 78.5% of the body remains.

Addendum I:
Timeline of average progression of motor controls under the influence of SCP-████'s effects.
Stage 1: 0-6 Days after reanimation.
Subjects cannot move any limb or perform certain basic motor skills without moving them to the rhythm of the music. This includes:

• Arm Movement
• Leg Movement
• Neck Movement
• Wrist Movement
• Ankle Movement

Stage 2: 1-3 Weeks after reanimation.
Subjects, along with the symptoms of Stage 1, are incapable performing finer motor movements and smaller appendages out of rhythm. This includes:

• Finger Movement
• Toe Movement
• Ear Movement (If applicable)
• Eye Movement
• Muscle Tensing/Relaxing
• Facial Expression
• Vibration of Vocal Cords
• Jaw Movement
• Swallowing
• Tongue Movement

Stage 3: 3-5 Weeks after reanimation.
During this period, many of the subject's normally automatic bodily functions are now controlled manually as though they were motor abilities via unknown means. As with other motor skills, these new "motor skills" can not be activated out of rhythm. This includes:

• Breathing
• Bladder Control
• Expulsion of Waste
• Salivating
• Blinking

Stage 4: 1-3 Months after reanimation.
Most subjects at this period experience heart failure (regardless of weather or not the heart was previously destroyed or rotted), most likely due to the heart being unable to beat out of rhythm or the subject being unable to manually control their heartbeat.

Addendum II:
Timeline of experiments involving SCP-████. All experiments were overseen by researcher Dr. Jonathan Williams.

Experiment #: EX-████-1
Date: 27/05/200█
Subject: D-████-01
Aim: To confirm SCP-████'s anomalous effects based on recovery accounts.
Method: D-████-1 instructed to open SCP-████ by removing the lid from the container.
Results: D-████-1 collapses upon attempting to open SCP-████ before he could use any significant force to remove SCP-████'s lid, confirmed terminated. SCP-████'s lid remained unmoved. Subject's corpse is introduced within earshot of music. Upon activation of the music, subject's corpse suddenly jolts, and acts as though he has woken up from REM sleep. Heartbeat confirmed. Movement consistent with the rhythm of the song being played, although subject does not seem to notice at the present time. When questioned, subject claims no memory of opening SCP-████ or of his own death. D-████-1 kept in standard humanoid containment cell for later testing. Cell is designed to continuously play the same music as to prevent subject from possible termination.

Experiment #: EX-████-1
Date: 28/05/200█
Subject: D-████-1
Aim: To confirm that a lack a music causes re-termination in SCP-████ affected subjects.
Method: Music playing inside of D-████-1's containment cell is halted, and then restarted.
Results: D-████-1 collapses as soon as the music is cut out. Confirmed terminated. Reactivation of music instantly reanimates subject. Subject shows extreme distress, and has to be calmed by two personnel. Subject spends remainder of the day showing signs of paranoia.

Experiment #: EX-████-2
Date:** 29/5/200█
Subject: D-████-2
Aim: To discover what termination while under the effects of SCP-████ results in.
Method: D-████-2 is exposed to SCP-████'s effects via instruction to open SCP-████. After exposure to music and successful reanimation, subject is terminated via gunshot to the head.
Results: D-████-2 does not reanimate despite exposure to constant music. Changing music, and changing music volume does not successfully reanimate subject's corpse.
Note: D-████-1 has discovered his motor restraints. He seems to be a combination of afraid and annoyed by this discovery.

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Feedback

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I skipped the line-by-line, since smaller issues can be ironed out, while issues with the concept are more of a priority.

This is a well-written, very elaborate report about a magic item. The attention is focused on the wrong areas, namely how exactly it works, while the concept in itself is the actual part that needs attention.

Don't think about an SCP being an object of set of objects. Think of it as a story told through a really weird format. The object plays a role in that story, but it's not the story itself.

Deeper background would be necessary to make this idea work. Don't focus on the object itself - focus on the story. Who made it? Why was it made? Did it work as intended? How did the Foundation find it? Answers to questions like these should be a significant portion, if not most of your SCP. Take a look at Series 3 and after for good examples of SCPs like this.

Definitely look into the story you can tell with this SCP, rather than it just being a thing with X property. Objects can be alike - but stories are almost always different.

Feedback over, good luck!

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The Message Draft I

This article is under the protection of an 04-Controversial Lock. Attempting to edit this article without the direct approval of a majority vote from the Site Director Council may result in:

• Demotion
• Administration of Amnestics
• Termination of Employment with the SCP Foundation
• Detainment

This lock is active effective 20/3/1954 and will remain indefinitely until further notice.

This is the 157th revision of this article. Please contact your closest archival division for information on previous iterations.

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-694203 documentation is to be made available to all members of the Foundation, barring E-Class personal that may negatively affect or be negatively affected by the documentation. All members of the Foundation are to acknowledge and explain SCP-69420 if another Foundation member inquires about it. Project Omega-Apeiron (P-ΩA) and the Neighborhood Committee Council (NCC) are to remain functional within the Foundation until the completion of P-ΩA or the development of a preventable Y-Class Scenario or above, at which point all resources available to P-ΩA and the NCC are to be redirected towards the prevention efforts. P-ΩA can only otherwise be dissolved by a majority vote from the Site Director Council followed by an unanimous vote from the O-5 Council.

SCP-694203 is to be kept in a Safe-Thaumiel-Class Storage Zone, guarded by no less than five (5) facility guards and three (3) representatives from the NCC. When in use, SCP-694203 is to be only handled by personnel specifically trained to handle and use SCP-694203. Level-01 and C-Class personnel may request use of SCP-694203 at anytime, and may attend any session of SCP-694203 use without requesting to do so previously, granted that attending the session does not delay important Foundation research or other Foundation-related engagements.

Edit (20/3/1954): In light of recent events, the documentation of SCP-694203 is to be placed under an 04-Controverial Lock indefinitely, effective immediately.

SCP-694203

Description: SCP-69420 is a Foundation-made digital versatile disc.

I want to state for the record that if I had it my way, every single person involved in this project would have been amnesticized and contractually terminated for emotional instability a long time ago. The methods used here may not have caused any "fatalities", but they have killed what we, the Foundation, represent. Again, just for the record, assholes.
- Dr. Gillett, Director of Site 24

The Message Draft II

This article is under the protection of an 04-Controversial Lock. Attempting to edit this article without the direct approval of a majority vote from the Site Director Council may result in:

• Demotion
• Administration of Amnestics
• Termination of Employment with the SCP Foundation
• Detainment

This lock is active effective 20/3/1954 and will remain indefinitely until further notice.

This is the 57th revision of this article. Please contact your closest archival division for information on previous iterations.

Item #: SCP-694203

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: When not in use, SCP-694203 is kept in a sealed disc wallet and locked in a safe in a high-value containment zone. The safe guarded by no fewer than four on-site security personal on a weekly rotation and one representative from the Neighborhood Legacy Committee (NLC) who is randomly selected biweekly. During use, the object is only to be handled by a trained professional trained in using standard Project Omega-Apeiron (P-ΩA) software and hardware.

SCP-694203

Desciption: SCP-694203 is a Foundation-constructed compact disc-rewritable (CD-RW) of golden colouration.

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Smiling in the Dark Draft I

Item #: SCP-SSSS

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: A coverup regarding SCP-SSSS is to be integrated into the ongoing disinformation programs run by the foundation, designating it the 'Wilson Reflex' and providing vague yet verifiable information regarding the phenomenon to the public. Any civilian research into SCP-SSSS outside of foundation approval and overwatch is to be discontinued immediately after it is discovered, and amnestics are to be administered as nectary.

Further information regarding the coverup concepts for SCP-SSSS may be found in Document-SSSS-MH, and may be accessed at any time by foundation personnel that wish to further their understanding of the coverup to maintain their part in it.

Description: SCP-SSSS is an involuntary muscle reflex found in approximately 0.002% of people with a history of intense nyctophobia in their lifetimes (estimated to be 85% of the human population).

SCP-SSSS occurs when an individual susceptible to the reflex (SCP-SSSS-1 hereon) is exposed to a sudden change in light intensity, dropping from above 150 lx to below 0.05 lx within 0.5 seconds. This immediately causes many of SCP-SSSS-1's facial muscles contract, particularly the zygomaticus major and minor and the risorius, forming a smile. SCP-SSSS remains constant until SCP-SSSS-1 is exposed to a light source of 150 lx or higher, and SCP-SSSS-1 individuals are unable to detect the contraction of their facial muscles or alter their expression for the duration of SCP-SSSS, and usually express surprise when SCP-SSSS is pointed out or shown to them through video recording or by looking in a mirror.

It is of note that, while outside observers that view a smile formed as a result of SCP-SSSS have commonly mentioned that it is 'too wide' or a variant thereof(even when they have not been prompted to comment), all SCP-SSSS-1 individuals are unable to differentiate a smile formed by SCP-SSSS from their natural smile.

There is no explainable cause for SCP-SSSS, however upon the discovery of a fully verifiable biological or psychological cause for SCP-SSSS, the phenomenon will be reclassified as 'explained'.

Discovery: SCP-SSSS was brought to the attention of the Foundation after a series of minor reports of 'suspicious individuals' appearing at night, in clubs and on major highways that included tunnels, all now suspected to be sightings of the effects of SCP-SSSS given the locations and the near-universal inclusion of a smile in every description.

The most widespread incident involving SCP-SSSS was the death Heath Wilson, an SCP-SSSS-1 instance who was beaten to death by 3 young adults between 12:00 AM to 1 AM in Hyde Park, Sydney. The young adults claimed that Mr. Wilson had attempted to assault them, despite him lacking any history of misconduct. Mr. Wilson's body was found and reported by a passerby at around 5:30 AM, and according to both their testimony and the emergency team that responded to the call, the effects of SCP-SSSS continued until the corpse was brought into the ambulance. SCP-SSSS was put under full investigation and classification by foundation media crawlers and researchers 36 hours after this event.

DrAkimoto

Footnotes

1. Estimation based on experiments overseen by Dr. Williams.

2. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging