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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe Keter

SCP-XXXX.

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-xxxx is currently contained in a locked toolbox at Site-73. No personnel should make use of or make contact with SCP-XXXX for any reason. In the event of a containment breach, site-wide searches must take place to recover SCP-XXXX.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a set of pliers approximately 15 cm in length with the brand ██████ written on the handle. When handled, the subject is immediately filled with regret and will begin to cry uncontrollably. After 2 hours, the subject seems to return to a normal state and ceases to cry. After 8-24 hours after handling scp-xxxx, the subject will attempt to commit suicide. If the subject's attempt is unsuccessful, they will begin to desperately end their own life.
Methods of suicide vary from subject to subject, with gunshot being the most common method (See Event Log SCP-XXXX). Death will always occur after handling SCP-XXXX.
Attempts were made to trace the origin of the ██████ company. When files regarding the company were found and uploaded onto Terminal #██, power was cut site-wide and a image with the caption "Tools are the key to the past" displayed on every monitor site-wide. See Indicent Log SCP-XXXX for more details.

+ Event Log SCP-XXXX 

April 17, 195█

Subject: Brodie Bolton
Location: ██████████, Pennsylvania
Description: Bolton was found dead from a gunshot wound. The entrance hole was located in the Muscular Palate and traversed through the subjects Nasal Cavity, entering the brain and impacting with the Temporal Lobe then spreading across the X-Plane of the subjects brain causing immediate death.
Conclusion: This event occurred before containment of SCP-XXXX, and was later found to caused by SCP-XXXX when it was found at Bolton residence. Upon searching the house, SCP-XXXX was found to be laying on his workbench and was confiscated by Officer Philips as evidence.

April 18, 195█

Subject: Officer Philips
Location: ███████████, Pennsylvania
Description: Officer Philips was found dead at his residence from a gunshot wound from his police issued 0.45 Caliber P-227 handgun. The entrance hole was located in the Bony Palate, traversed through his nasal cavity and entering the brain and impacting the frontal lobe causing death instantly.
Conclusion: The death of Officer Philips was announced to be a suicide. His death was flagged as suspicious since he was mentally stable and has no suicidal ideation in the past. The retrieval of SCP-XXX was noted but later dismissed.

July 29, 199█

Subject: Elisha Smyth
Location: ███, Utah
Description: Mrs. Smyth was found, by her husband, dead inside her residence from knife-inflicted wounds. She was found bleeding profusely from both arms and from her neck where there were large cuts. SCP-XXXX was found on the counter in her kitchen. 23 cuts were found on her right arm, with 2 being at least 1 cm deep. 17 cuts were found on her left arm, all of which were only a few millimeters deep. The cut in her neck was █████████████████████. A chef knife was found by her side.
Description: Mrs. Smyth purchaced SCP-XXXX from a public auction for $3.71. No direct contact was made until Mrs. Smyth returned home when she took it out of the bag it was in. The Foundation was notified when a undercover agent found SCP-XXXX was evidence. When he looked into the whereabouts of SCP-XXXX he found 2 other suicides where SCP-XXXX was involved.

SCP-XXXX Taken into Foundation custody.

Adendumn SCP-XXXX-1: After Incident SCP-XXXX, the ██████ company website shall be labeled SCP-XXXX-1 and

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Incident SCP-XXXX

Incident Log SCP-XXXX

Location: Site 73
Incident: While attempting to gain information about the ██████ company, he was taken to the company's web page. As he gained access to this, a site wide power failure occurred. 30 seconds after a image with the caption "Tools are the key to the past" appear on every monitor site wide. Personnel who viewed this image had a urge to retrieve SCP-XXXX. When touched, subjects desperately used SCP-XXXX to [DATA EXPUNGED] and In total, 56 people died. 3 level 4 personnel, 13 level 3 personnel, 31 level 2 personnel, 4 level 1 personnel, 3 D-Class personnel, and 2 Security Officers.