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Draft 1: SCP-XXX1

Draft V 2.0

Item #: XXX1

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXX1 must be stored in a soundproof lockbox in any size containment chamber placed at least 500m away from all sentient entities. the most convenient current option is a chamber directly under a facility accessible by elevator and emergency staircase, however in the case the object is to be moved, aerial transport is preferred and storing the object near entities without access to classified information is acceptable. under no circumstances are personnel with any form of classified information, at any level, allowed within 500m of SCP-XXX1.

Description: SCP-XXX1 is a blank elliptical cutout of pink construction paper, which can be observed to emit a yellow fog through it's edges utilizing a MIMIR-class thaumic distortion filter. the object has also been observed to have telepathic properties, able to forcibly read, replicate, and transmit information stored in the memories of sentient beings. the origin of this object is as of yet unknown, as well as the destination of transmission.

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SCP-XXX1 is an elliptical cutout covered in 18 individual thaumic runes. chemical analysis of the ink reveals it's composition to contain 1.2% gold, and 0.8% human blood. the origin of the blood is unknown. The object's telepathic properties are highly intrusive, and cause permanent brain damage after 48 hours of exposure within 10m it's effects decrease exponentially with distance from the object, becoming ineffective past 500m. symptoms of exposure are as follows (normalised to 10m):

15 minutes: reports of fatigue, rare dull headaches.

30 minutes: rare reports of tactile hallucinations, dull headaches are more common in about 25% of reports.

1 hour: increased fatigue, dull headache noticeable in all subjects.

4 hours: most subjects fall asleep at this point, more noticeable tactile hallucinations, accompanied by mild dysmetropsia.

8 hours: subjects who are not asleep report migraines at this point. sleeping subjects show severe discomfort and occasionally awake to experience onset dysmetropsia.

12 hours: most subjects awake between 12 and 14 hours, headaches reported to have subsided but subjects report discomfort in sleeping.

20 hours: subjects report daytime symptoms of dysmetropsia.

28 hours: headaches begin to return at this time period, subjects report inability to sleep due to dysmetropsia symptoms

36 hours: subjects report sleeping very poorly when waking up (between 36-38 hours), severe night and daytime symptoms of dysmetropsia is apparent, subjects all awake with migraines.

48 hours: all subjects incoherent, no experiments conducted beyond this point.