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ITEM #:
SCP-XXXX
CONTAINMENT CLASS:
PENDING
STATUS:
IN TRANSIT
IAIR1 Flag: LoAI_HC1672
Log of Anomalous Items - Entry HC_1672:
Item Description: Small humanoid skull of unknown species. The rear of the skull possesses an array of bone growths resembling stamens (6) and pistils (2), typically belonging to the reproductive organs of plants. When kept alongside other organic specimens, personnel routinely interacting with the collection will gradually begin referring to the specimens according to their binomial nomenclature.
Date of Recovery: 04-11-1952.
Location of Discovery: The Linnean Society of London.
Current Status: Contained within Site-186’s Cryptoethnology collection. In transit to Site-83.
IAIR evaluation parameters: "Nametag," identified LoAI_HC1672 as suitable for revision and assigned the object provisional Foundation designation number: SCP-XXXX.
Dr. Casandra Lee has been assigned to the revision of LoAI_HC1672/SCP-XXXX.
| ITEM NUMBER: SCP-XXXX | LEVEL 2/XXXX |
| CONTAINMENT CLASS: safe | restricted |
Visual Documentation Awaiting Transfer.
Special Containment Procedures:2 SCP-XXXX is to be contained in an adapted humanoid containment chamber located at Site-62. To ascertain the extent of SCP-XXXX's memetic3 influence, three taxidermy specimens: GLAM-1, GLAM-2, and GLAM-3 have been acquired. GLAM-1 shall be placed adjacent to SCP-XXXX, GLAM-2 located near the entry to SCP-XXXX's containment room, and GLAM-3 in an adjacent, separate containment room. Foundation personal are to monitor verbal and written references to GLAM specimens, to determine the extent of SCP-XXXX's anomalous influence.
Description: Formal description of SCP-XXXX is pending its arrival at Site-62. Foundation personel should consult Log of Anomolous Items - Entry HC_1672 for existing description.
Addendum: Due to IAIR Flag action under evaluation perameters, "Nametag," Dr. Lee (Cassandra) has been tasked with acquiring associated historical and archival information concerning SCP-XXXX. Relevant documents and accompanying annotation have been attached below:
Add-01: Unfinished Letter Transcription
I've been looking through the collection of archival documents the Foundation took in alongside this item, SCP-XXXX now I suppose. We aren't sure how or when it enters Carl Linnaeus' collection, although it is mentioned in what appears to be an unsent and unfinished draft of a letter.
Dear W.,
I apologize that I have not written to you sooner in thanks, I've found myself undertaking that great work we discussed on our voyage to those Northern regions with great earnest and that my correspondence with you, and a great many other dear friends, has waned in recent months. However, I am resolute to not lose your affectionate friendship, so if you will accept my apology, I wish to thank you for this fascinating specimen.
Although, by its appearance and form, I must assume its manufactured nature, it nevertheless appears more real: formed by those organic processes that mould and shape our bodies, than many of the remains I have come to examine. The growths upon the rear I find of particular interest, as they remind me so shockingly of the organs of those flowering plants, of which I so fondly examine. As a curio, it strikes me most shockingly as possessing traits of both living forms: plants and animals, that my research into their classification is both taunted and emboldened. I wish you will write to me in return [Letter Abruptly Concludes]
As I pushed through the foliage, I found myself facing a large clearing draped in golden twilight. At its centre was a towering tree, the most wondrous specimen of the Regnum Vegetabile I can recall. I speak of it as a single tree, although it possessed - most fascinatingly - two trunks that seemed at times to intertwine and break apart. The branches of either expanded into the most dazzling patterns. I could not tell you of its height, as the harder my eyes strained upwards, the more it seemed to grow to the limits of my perception, and yet, upon examining a single branch, its twisted forking paths seemed almost clearer and of greater focus. I know not how long I gazed upon this unprecedented, yet familiar, manifestation of God's creation in rapture. Eventually, I turned my gaze earthward and saw arranged around the near-side of the trunk - or trunks - a series of seven stumps in a semi-circular pattern. At three of them were arranged writing desks of varying make - one I recognized as my own most immediately - but rather than amazement at finding it in this place, my attention was drawn to a man reclining upon the stool, he smiled upon seeing me and rose, making his way slowly to where I was. He appeared both jovial and sombre upon seeing me and wore a long blue coat, despite the summerly warmth.
It seemed as though he knew of me, as he shared with me his fondness for my work upon greeting me warmly. I asked for his name, as I could not place his acquaintance, and offered an apology which he deflected. He introduced himself not by name, but as "The Poet," and in a flash of intuition, I knew that I too, should keep my name to myself while in this place; I introduced myself as "The Botanists," an appellative that seemed suitable to him given continuously cordial reaction.
