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Item #: SCP-XXXX

An instance of SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: The Poland branch of the Foundation is currently conducting a nation-wide hunt for SCP-XXXX. Polish political figures of high importance¹ are constantly monitored to prevent becoming SCP-XXXX-4 through SCP-XXXX-1. Civilians of high financial or political standing who have reported repeated larceny within a short timeframe are to be investigated for instances of SCP-XXXX in their proximity. Instances of SCP-XXXX are to be quickly tranquilized, caged and sent to Site-XX in Poland for containment. Instances of SCP-XXXX are held in reinforced cages, each one holding a separate instance. Instances of SCP-XXXX are not permitted to breed unless under strict testing conditions. No member of Foundation staff who is Level 3 or above should come in direct contact with a mature instance of SCP-XXXX.

If an instance of SCP-XXXX is found in the middle of SCP-XXXX-1, it is to be tranquilized, caged and then transferred to Site-XX with its prey. The prey is to be interviewed for information on what was taken during SCP-XXXX-1. If the victim of SCP-XXXX-1 is noncompliant in communication with Foundation personnel, they are to be arrested on suspicion of becoming SCP-XXXX-4. Foundation agents are to investigate the construction of large statues of thrones in public areas. Individuals involved in the construction of these statues are to be questioned to determine if they are SCP-XXXX-4. Polish publishers are to be monitored for attempts to publish SCP-XXXX-1, individuals involved in such publication attempts are to be arrested and interviewed to determine whether they are SCP-XXXX-4. A Foundation web-crawler is utilized in searching for pages containing keywords from SCP-XXXX-2, in particular, the name and title of SCP-XXXX-3, and deleting them. Online authors of pages containing SCP-XXXX-2 or mention of SCP-XXXX-3 are to be investigated. If a civilian is found reciting SCP-XXXX-1 in public, they are to be arrested and assessed and their audience is to be administered amnestics.

Instances of SCP-XXXX-4 are to be contained within a standard humanoid containment cell and are to be put on suicide watch. Upon 2 weeks of emotional stability and regular communication with interviewers, they are to be administered Class-C amnestics and permitted reparations. Former instances of SCP-XXXX-4 are to be closely monitored for 2 months after release for any unknown relapse possibilities.

SCP-XXXX-3 is, in full, contained in a secured file which can only be accessed by personnel of Level 4 or above, or must have the permission of a personnel who is Level 4 or above. All personnel who access SCP-XXXX-3 must be amnesticized once they have finished any permitted activities concerning SCP-XXXX-3.

MTF Lambda-4 (Birdwatchers) has been assigned to watch the borders of Poland for emigrating flocks of SCP-XXXX. These flocks are to be quickly tranquilized, contained and sent to Site-XX.

Description: SCP-XXXX is the collective designation for a subspecies of pica pica². Instances of SCP-XXXX are heavier than other subspecies of pica pica, despite being of a similar size. A fully matured male instance of SCP-XXXX weighs between 300-350g while a fully matured female instance of SCP-XXXX weighs between 210-270g. Under dissection, it has been found that the nuclei of SCP-XXXX contain 23 pairs of chromosomes. Other than differences in plumage³, no other physiological differences to other pica pica subspecies have been found. SCP-XXXX has its only known population in Poland, which is estimated to be between 500 and 1000 in size. Currently, 217 instances of SCP-XXXX are contained.

Throughout its lifespan, an instance of SCP-XXXX follows similar patterns of feeding and mating to other pica pica species and will not exhibit any anomalous behaviors other than SCP-XXXX-1.

SCP-XXXX-1

SCP-XXXX-1 is the designation for a behavioral process, attempted by instances of SCP-XXXX after they have finished maturation. The instance of SCP-XXXX will find its prey, a human being who is of high wealth or of high social standing, and will try to remain within 100m distance of its prey while SCP-XXXX-1 takes place. If the instance of SCP-XXXX stays further than 100m from its prey for more than 2 hours it will cease SCP-XXXX-1 and find new prey. SCP-XXXX-1 resolves as follows:

Stage 1: 10-15 days in length. During this time, items of increasing material value will go missing, stolen by the instance of SCP-XXXX. Currency out of one’s wallet, funds from a bank account, silverware, watches, jewelry and electrical appliances are among the items that are stolen during this stage. The items and currency stolen by instances of SCP-XXXX will be stolen during any period of time the prey sleeps.

Stage 2: 7-10 days in length. During this time, items of increasing sentimental value will be stolen from the prey. Family photos, souvenirs, family heirlooms and gifts from loved ones are among the items stolen during this stage. Similarly to the first stage, these items will go missing while the prey is sleeping.

Stage 3: 5-7 days in length. During this time, the prey will isolate themselves and suffer extensive memory loss relating to that prey's family and friends. It is during this time that the victim will memorize the content of SCP-XXXX-2 and become an instance of SCP-XXXX-4 through anomalous means.

SCP-XXXX-2 & SCP-XXXX-3

SCP-XXXX-2 is the collective designation for a set of 4 poems, which have been individually designated SCP-XXXX-2A to SCP-XXXX-2D, that becomes memorized by the victims of SCP-XXXX during the 3rd stage of the SCP-XXXX-1. Each is in the form of a sestina⁴ and is understood and memorized by the prey regardless of their language. Due to the anomalous effects of SCP-XXXX-3, SCP-XXXX-3 has been censored within SCP-XXXX-2. Since the knowledge of SCP-XXXX-3 has anomalous effects and not SCP-XXXX-2 itself, the censored version of SCP-XXXX-2 is safe for testing by any Foundation researchers. Due to the concerns raised by Researcher Ollis, only Foundation personnel who have the permission of Site Director Nowicki of Site-XX or any higher authority may have access to reading or testing SCP-XXXX-1, even in it's censored state. All researchers of SCP-XXXX-1 are to be given Class-A amnestics once they have recorded results.

+ To access SCP-XXXX-2 (censored version) please insert a Level 4 keycard

SCP-XXXX-2A:
Pretty soul, you have been touched by the abbey,
Embraced by its monks, kissed by its messengers.
Its missionaries have taken your evil,
Cured you of past joys and past laments,
Your sins, that which you covet like gold.
You shall fall to [SCP-XXXX-3], glorious and ancient.

You have been touched by a creed most ancient,
The glory of [SCP-XXXX-3] and his cryptic abbey.
A service more valuable than gold,
Offered to you by its messengers.
Asking your will to abandon the world’s laments,
Asking you to escape it’s evil.

You shall serve in a land without evil,
Your own world, cured with methods most ancient.
Every man and woman cured of their laments,
The congregation of the beautiful abbey.
Such blessed ones shall be sculpted into messengers
Sent out to cure new worlds of the sins of mind and of gold.

The new church shall be sculpted from the wasteland’s mud and gold,
Built by its congregation from schematics devoid of moral evil,
Before they are sculpted into new missionaries, new messengers,
Sent out to a new world to convert new priests with methods most ancient,
To birth a new abbey,
To birth a new congregation and cure a new world's laments.

Many more worlds shall be cleansed of their laments,
Cleansed of past, of memory, of gold.
Planted upon their wastes shall be a new abbey,
A new nest, a new vault, upon a world without evil.
A replica of the first church, blessed and ancient.
Sending out the odes of [SCP-XXXX-3] on feathered messengers.

An endless web of endless priests, endless messengers.
Endless worlds cured of endless laments.
Beauteous echoes of the church most ancient.
Endless blessings greater than gold.
The endless clergy of [SCP-XXXX-3], curing worlds of evil,
Waiting for the Lord’s return, in the endless abbey.

Praise [SCP-XXXX-3] and His cryptic abbey.
Make He write endless blessings and erase mortal evil.
May He reward us with glory more precious than gold.

SCP-XXXX-2B:
The vault of your sins,
In a land long traumatized,
Blessed with the endless expansion,
With only it’s priests, it’s congregation and [SCP-XXXX-3]’s throne,
With the holiest purpose, to cure worlds of history,
And wait for [SCP-XXXX-3] to weave poetry in a new world, blessed and empty.

Your souls of sin shall be made empty,
Stripped of gold and pride and other sins,
Drained of the pollution of history.
You shall be no longer traumatized
And you shall join the congregation at the foot of the throne
And will pray to [SCP-XXXX-3] and His holy expansion.

Your world craves His expansion.
Without its sins, it is cold and empty
It will be blessed by His poetry, His throne
Made anew once cleaned of its sins.
Your world shall no longer be traumatized
By its vermin, its sins, its history.

Your world will be saved by [SCP-XXXX-3] and His church without history.
Your world will be an echo of the endless expansion.
Your minds will be traumatized.
You shall craft your peers into missionaries and make their mortal form empty.
You shall summon the might of [SCP-XXXX-3] and chant his name.
Your pretty souls shall be left to kneel at the throne.

Burned down it shall, the mortal throne,
So shall the mortal palace and mortal history.
All remains shall be locked away in the vault of sins.
All shall be trampled by the infinite expansion.
Mortal gods shall be made cold and empty
The sins of man shall be forever traumatized.

Sinful worlds shall be left traumatized
With nothing but their churches and their throne.
Of sins, they will be cured and empty
Awaiting [REDACTED] to return and write a new history.
He shall reward the endless expansion
For His priest’s dedication to the cleaning of sins.

[SCP-XXXX-3] will replace every world’s sins
He shall purify every world with his endless expansion.
We shall await his arrival until the end of sinful history.

SCP-XXXX-2C:
Your world was once unknown
A pool of mortal sin, little more than nothing
You have been blinded by your elders
That it is pure to follow mortal nature
To worship that which they say are divine
They lie to you, true power awaits, blessings infinite

Blessed be His power, so grand and infinite.
The divine, who is to mortals unknown.
Who shall carve his poetry divine
Upon a sinful world made nothing.
He shall return, cleanse all of mortal nature,
Reward His monks, built from many worlds’ elders

Us holy monks were once old worlds’ elders
Now our hearts and minds have been made infinite
We are pale servants of the church, of cryptic nature,
With undying flesh and knowledge unknown.
our holy minds sculpted from less than nothing.
Sculpted by the messengers who serve He who is divine.

Such glorious monks, praying to He who is truly divine.
No trace of their crimes as elders
Without His blessings, we are nothing
As are you, in a world of sins infinite.
You shall join His congregation, endless and unknown.
In His beauteous crypt, devoid of sinful nature.

You shall serve in his vault, devoid of criminal nature
Serve in the mausoleum church, at the foot of the throne divine,
In the nest of the clergy unknown,
Alongside the priests carved from your elders,
In the wasteland, cold and infinite,
in a world less than nothing.

You shall be born again from nothing
One of the blessed, stripped of mortal nature
Who shall sculpt flesh into missionaries infinite
Your cleansed soul always worshipping the divine
Alongside your peers and your elders
While the missionaries soar out into the unknown.

May the glory of [SCP-XXXX-3] spread through the unknown
May he take swift dominion over each world’s elders
May endless glory come to [SCP-XXXX-3], ancient and divine.

SCP-XXXX-2D:

In the new world, there shall be a new nest
and there the sins of the next shall be guarded.
A new church shall be born under the gaze of [SCP-XXXX-3]
Chant, mortal, these glorious odes
Chant to Him many an exaltation
And in your world will be planted a new church and a new throne

He will return and rest upon his throne
The Father of his clergy’s new nest
Where he will be blessed with many an exaltation.
And will burn away sins long guarded
And he will bless every world with new odes
He shall save us, [SCP-XXXX-3]

Chant to [SCP-XXXX-3]
And you shall have the power to plant a new throne.
Let known to the commoners His blessed odes,
So you may forge a new nest.
Abandon any sins you’ve left well guarded,
And from [SCP-XXXX-3] you shall receive great exaltation.

Preach His name and receive great exaltation.
Summon His power with the name [SCP-XXXX-3]
Convert the mortals with sins highly guarded
And you shall hear His poetry from the foot of His throne.
You shall sculpt messengers in the world’s nest
And will await His return and his blessed odes.

We have converted you under the past world’s odes
We will convert your world and receive great exaltation
As [SCP-XXXX-3] will visit us, he will visit you.
Once you have converted a new world under the glory of [SCP-XXXX-3]
And he shall sit upon that you have sculpted, a glorious throne.
And shall be kept, safe and blessed and well guarded.

You will send new messengers into a world of sins guarded
Convert new priests with your own odes.
Instruct those new priests to chant His name and construct a new throne.
And the power of your missionaries shall grant you grand exaltation
And you shall be embraced by [SCP-XXXX-3]
His might shall flow through your nest.

Once you have embraced him he may enter our nest
As the priests of the past world had said when they spoke of [SCP-XXXX-3]
Become blessed with his exaltation.

THIS CONCLUDES THE CENSORED VERSION OF SCP-XXXX-2. ONCE YOU HAVE FINISHED, PLEASE LOCATE YOUR NEAREST AMNESTICIST AND INFORM THEM OF YOUR NEED FOR A CLASS-A AMNESTICS PRESCRIPTION. IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT YOUR NEAREST AMNESTICIST IMMEDIATELY, ONE WILL BE SENT TO ASSIST YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMPLIANCE.

SCP-XXXX-3 is the designation for the name and title of the main figure within SCP-XXXX-2. This figure is seen as a deity within SCP-XXXX-2, and SCP-XXXX-3 is frequently written in SCP-XXXX-3. It is known that SCP-XXXX-3 has an anomalous psychological effect upon those with knowledge of it⁵, though the exact nature of this effect isn't understood.

SCP-XXXX-4

SCP-XXXX-4 is a collective designation for all individuals who have been the prey in a completed Burglary Event. SCP-XXXX-4 have no memory of family members and friends though they possess full memory of business associates, co-workers and the businesses they work within or with. If they previously had business associates who were family members or friends they will have forgotten this information. SCP-XXXX-4 will isolate themselves for long periods of time and will avoid communication.

SCP-XXXX-4 will hire carpenters or sculptors or will learn to become one in order to construct a throne, the size, and shape of which will vary between SCP-XXXX-4. Upon the construction of the throne, SCP-XXXX-4 will attempt to place it in a place of high frequentation. SCP-XXXX-4 will also attempt to spread knowledge of SCP-XXXX-2, either by posting it online, publishing it in a written medium, or by reciting SCP-XXXX-2 in public.

SCP-XXXX-4 will resort to violence to resist arrest and have previously attempted suicide while under containment. SCP-XXXX-4 are noncompliant in interviews and spend containment without any form of communication. Extensive interrogation procedures have been implemented but have yielded no results. To this date, there have been no examples of an instance of SCP-XXXX-4 communicating with Foundation personnel. After 2-3 weeks of containment, SCP-XXXX-4 will lose all memory of SCP-XXXX-2 and SCP-XXXX-3 and will begin communication with interviewers. SCP-XXXX-4 have no memory of its life between the point it became SCP-XXXX-4 and the point they began communication again.

Addendum 1
On 03/04/2018, Researcher Ollis submitted a report to Head Researcher Nowicki after having researched SCP-XXXX-1 for the previous 3 weeks. The following is an excerpt from that report.

I have theorized that SCP-XXXX-2 has not been censored to a safe extent. I fear that the name and title of SCP-XXXX-3 could still be discerned from the contents of SCP-XXXX-2. I wish to test a series of "keys" to find if the name of SCP-XXXX-2 can be found within SCP-XXXX-2, even if it is still redacted information. In the event I am to perform such tests and find the name of SCP-XXXX-3 amongst what is left of SCP-XXXX-2, I will be immediately amnesticized after recording that the title has been found and SCP-XXXX-2 needs to be further censored. To do this, I will need to know the name and title of SCP-XXXX-3 in full so I can find it, I must know the answer to understand the solution. I am sure that the name of SCP-XXXX-3 could be discerned from SCP-XXXX-2 by a willing individual, even if they could only find the version which has been censored by the Foundation.

Head Researcher Nowicki permitted the experiments of Researchers Ollis to be conducted between 10/04/2017 and 17/04/2017, during which time he would be closely monitored. On 18/04/2017, Researcher Ollis submitted his report on the experiment's findings. The following is an excerpt from that report.

I have tested multiple "keys" yet have not found the name of SCP-XXXX-3, though I am still adamant that the name can be found. I have tested the following keys, all of which have been unsuccessful.

- Testing to see if the end words of SCP-XXXX-2 serve as an anagram for the name of SCP-XXXX-2.

- Using the first letter of each line of SCP-XXXX-2 as a possible anagram for the name of SCP-XXXX-3.

- Checking if each end word that is classified as a noun serve as an anagram for the name and title of SCP-XXX-3, this process was replicated for each end word that was a verb and each end word that was an adjective.

- Using the first letter of each end word from the first stanza of SCP-XXXX-2A, the first letter of each end word from the second stanza of SCP-XXXX-2B, the first letter of each end word of the third stanza of SCP-XXXX-2C, and the first letter of each end word of the fourth stanza of SCP-XXXX-2D.

- 150 computer-generated substitution ciphers implemented in an attempt to find any hidden messages.

None of these methods have worked in producing anything that might resemble the name and title of SCP-XXXX-3. I remain determined that his name can be found and that SCP-XXXX-2 has to be censored further. I ask that this experiment is continued for 1-2 weeks so I can find the solution, find the name. I know I can.

Head Researcher Nowicki denied the extension of the experiment and Researcher Ollis was given limited amnestics, after which he described feeling depressed, this state continuing for several weeks. Just after Researcher Ollis had been amnesticized, passages were found in notebooks belonging to Researcher Ollis consisting of the name of SCP-XXXX-3 repeated many times.

Footnotes

1. As determined by the O5 Council.

2. Common Magpie.

3. See image for SCP-XXXX's plumage

4. Six stanzas, each with 6 lines, followed by a three-line envoi. It is further characterized by the repetition of the ending words from the lines of the first stanza.

5. See Addendum 1 for more information.