Item #: SCP-5038
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Item SCP-5038 is to be kept in a standard containment chamber as it has no apparent sentience nor anomalous effects on outside devices. However, a standard contingent of armed guards is to be present at all times due to multiple attempts at theft by D class personnel along with multiple attempts to simply stay in the chamber until death from starvation or other natural causes.
Description: SCP-5038 is a 1960's television set that works without any apparent electricity or signal, and lacks the labels of any known brand or manufacturer. It's effect, determined by multiple tests, seems to be reading the mind of the person sitting in front of it, and then showing a movie or TV show based on their innermost desires.
SCP-5038 was originally discovered in a worn down old house with skeletons and corpses surrounding it, all with their eyes or empty eye sockets locked on the screen. Were it not for the man who discovered the scene and decided not to turn it on, this object may never have been recovered.
Test logs of various D class personnel indicate that the television manifested the following: A version of Naruto that perfectly resembled a fanfiction a D class test subject had written in fifth grade, A harlequin romance show with lots of X-rated scenes Dr. [Redacted] had been dreaming of her whole life but never told anyone about, an american football game where the players and coaches immediately respond to any yelling directed at the screen, a version of E3 that showed off every video game a D class subject was hyped about, X-rated fanfic versions of various cartoons, various Star Wars movies designed specifically to cater to any D class star wars fans we happened to be testing, a live action version of the fictional "Ball fondlers" tv show from rick and morty, TV shows and movies based on video games that were according to various subjects "Pretty damn good", and so on.
As of yet, the only real danger posed by SCP-5038 seems to be when anyone with poor impulse control watches it. Some of the aforementioned D class tests, for example, had to end with the subject being forcefully carried out of the room by our armed guards, lending credence to the theory that the corpses and skeletons found in front of the television were simply viewers so enraptured by the media properties of their dreams playing out on the screen in front of them that they forgot to eat or drink until they died.






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