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Item #: SCP-3xxx
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: The two SCP-3xxx items are to be stored in a standard item containment unit in separate plastic containers. They are to be safely locked there indefinitely as testing with SCP-3xxx has been suspended as per overseer ruling 31-423-F4.
Description: SCP-3xxx is the designation given to a blood ritual. SCP-3xxx-1 is a stone tablet with pictograms describing the ritual, and SCP-3xxx-2 is a blueish (Standard Color Hex #bfd2ef) glass knife used in the last step of the ritual.
SCP-3xxx-1 has cognitohazardous effects: even though its pictograms are crude and unclear (typical of pre-historic troglodytic societies), the reader perfectly understands the movements, chants, and cuts to make during the ritual. Additionally, upon understanding the steps of the ritual, the reader is infected with a memetic activator.
The memetic activator is analogous to a password: tests have shown that subjects lacking the activator that were instructed to perform SCP-3xxx through commands issued by someone who had read SCP-3xxx-1 could not activate SCP-3xxx’s anomalous effects. In other words, even though SCP-3xxx1’s instructions can be copied down, one must have read the original to perform the associated ritual.
SCP-3xxx-1’s effects do not include a compulsion to perform the ritual. It simply lets its reader perform it if they so wish.
Except for its strength and durability, SCP-3xxx-2 has no anomalous effects until it is used during SCP-3xxx. The blood shed from a SCP-3xxx-2 cut never dries. It still permeates soft and even hard materials, but the same amount of blood can be found even decades after the bloodlet.
SCP-3xxx involves specific steps. Once the ritual has been initiated, subjects are under a compulsion to perfectly perform these steps. Forcefully altering the ritual has resulted in immediate major blood loss for the subject and the interloper., namely from the eyes, ears, and mouth.
- Subject raises their arms to the skies and chants in an unknown language identified by Foundation linguists to have roots in proto-indo-european. This step lasts for exactly two hours and thirteen minutes.
- Subject stops chanting and dances, smiling and laughing.
- Subject stops dancing and uses SCP-3xxx-2 and cuts one of their major arteries. No difference has been observed between the different arteries. The quantity of blood shed is inconsequential.
- Subject performs the exact same movement used to cut their artery in reverse. This seals the cut.
- Subject is now under the effects of SCP-3xxx and can be considered an SCP-3xxx-3 instance. The surface upon which their blood was shed can be considered an SCP-3xxx-4 instance.
Effects of SCP-3xxx are akin to extremely severe OCD-like symptoms. The subject regards the surface upon which their blood was shed as something to protect. They will become extremely agitated if removed from their SCP-3xxx-4 instance for extended periods of time and will perform rituals they think protects their SCP-3xxx-4 instance.
These rituals have been determined to be anomalous in nature. Contrarily to baseline OCD, these rituals truly protect the object of the SCP-3xxx-3's obsession through unknown means.
Additionally, SCP-3xxx-3 instances becomes much stronger physically in the event of a perceived threat to their SCP-3xxx-4 instance.
Recovery: SCP-3xxx-1 and SCP-3xxx-2 were found in an abandoned cave littered with evidence of prehistoric habitation. Carbon dating of fur rugs found in the cave suggest that it was last inhabited around 500 BC, much later than the end of troglodytic lifestyle in the area.
The two items were found near a small blood pool at the back of the cave. Gashes in the surrounding rock indicated a fight with bladed weapons had happened here. Human skeletons were found clutching the blood pool of the granite boulder behind it. Swords made of the same glass used in SCP-3xxx-2’s construction were found near the remains. The swords can be found in site 19’s anomalous objects locker #4413-5.
Behind the blood pool, a granite boulder painted red with blood was found rolled out of the entrance to an inner chamber. Unidentified primate-like bones were found in the chamber. The bones are approximately twice the size of modern human bones. They are now stored in site 19’s cryoconservation locker #381-4.
It can be assumed that the humans living in the cave were bound to the boulder and blood pool in life through SCP-3xxx.
The larger cave suggested good living conditions for the time, and a stack of sculptures of prehistoric fertility goddesses indicated that the SCP-3xxx-3 instances that were bound to the blood pool and the boulder were of high social status.
Testing of the humanoid bones suggested poor living conditions, anemia, and an extreme lack of melatonin. Testing of the human bones suggested anemia, but a healthy diet.
Testing of the blood pool and painted granite boulder revealed that hundreds of different individuals had bound themselves to the two items. After extensive testing the human bones' DNA could be found in these SCP-3xxx-4 instances.
