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Sacrilige

Instances of SCP-XXXX-a during a roaming period.

Item #: SCP-X

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Any location deemed to be possible for an activation event of SCP-X is to be accessed and foundation agents will be planted in the surrounding area for information. During an active period, any entrance into the area of SCP-X is to be cleared of citizens and those already inside must be escorted away if possible. Class-C Amnesiacs will be administered to surviving victims and an MTF of personnel with varying faiths of resounding strength are to be sent inside. There is no unifying theme towards the buildings or areas that cause an SCP-X event, though it has not activated in an area with a human population of more than 20,000. SCP-X now activates on a bi-yearly cycle, with events lasting from two and a half to three days.

All visual and audio recordings of SCP-X are to be examined under the discretion of the active head of containment, while written work is to be examined for possible memetic effects and may be available for viewing if no threat is present; otherwise, destruction of documentation is imperative. In the event of a memetic breach of SCP-X text, class-C amnesiacs are to be administered to the affected individual(s) with a 90% success rate; though personnel are prohibited from interacting with SCP-X in the future. If a foundation personnel outside of SCP-X is named, afflicted individual will be given class-C amnesiacs, monitored for anomalous activity; and if applicable will be removed from containment of SCP-X. Any instances of SCP-X-B seen outside of the area of SCP-X are to be neutralized.

Description: SCP-X is a spacial phenomenon that occurs in various places of worship and organized religion; resembling an active spiritual congression with no known faith corresponding to it. SCP-X has no actual basis in any religious organization that it has activated inside; though it has been seen to involve rituals that might be seen as blasphemous by the church it is currently occupying. Any recordings of the area inside an SCP-X event are heavily distorted and rendered unusable for information-gathering, while written work related to SCP-X proves more complicated. During an activation event, multiple entities resembling humans with various features such as empty eye sockets and moss covering their skin appear and begin to perform actions in the context of the religious organization, the classification for these entities is attached for further information. There is no known limit on the number of entities inside SCP-X; or the space inside SCP-X, as the area has been seen to grow exponentially even when the effect of SCP-X remained located in a single story ancient praying hut.

SCP-X events are all completely different in context and activities; though a timeline of events has been established for the phenomenon. While entities that are seen inside the area take on multiple instances; designed SCP-X-A through SCP-X-D though there are multiple instances that have only appeared in single instances. A choir will sing through the activated area during its opening period, lasting anywhere from twenty to thirty hours. This chorus can influence humans to enter the activated instance of SCP in which case their mental capacities will be overwritten and they will become an instance of SCP-X-C, though specific situations have occurred where citizens were transformed into uncategorized entities inside; and this can be prevented by strong willpower and "faith" in a religion outside of SCP-X. This has resulted in the current containment procedures involving MTF of strong religious faith and background. Before the activation of an SCP-X event the region surrounding the area of SCP-X's effect will become infested with SCP-X-B. A timeline for an SCP-X event is attached at the end of the description.

SCP-X also appears to be a memetic agent; as any written text describing the experiences or activities inside the anomalous region can alter without any known reason, often times using the descriptive language of the text to obfuscate and render the text almost meaningless. This can be countered by using basic signifiers for every element inside SCP-X, and while the text is memetic in its action, it does not compel readers towards activities related towards SCP-X. However, material found inside SCP-X has much more active function, and can force people who read it to [DATA EXPUNGED]. After Site-██'s breach and ████████████ material found inside SCP-X is to be destroyed on site.

Descriptions of the entities within SCP-X1 are as follows:

Nuns

SCP-X-A during final moments of E-X-██.

SCP-X-A: Referred to as "Vestals". SCP-X-A are seen as harvesting and security units and appear wearing various religious clothing throughout the world and indeed human history. SCP-X-A will often group up in numbers up to twenty-two. Though similar in appearance to a normal member of the Human species at least within the first 24 hours; SCP-X-A has features that immediately reference their place in the caste system; and anomalous abilities that warrant SCP-X-A as a threat during activation periods. Vestals will attempt to collect materials for rituals involving SCP-X while speaking in an unknown language amongst themselves. SCP-X-A will often bend the area of effect to their will; bending rooms from stone walls and raising far-reaching pillars. Though they have exceptional abilities that far exceed that of a normal human; SCP-X-A do not have any increased survivability, and have been proven to be taken down with man-made arms. As the SCP-X event continues, Vestals will change appearance drastically; slowly beginning to take on insectoid features such as eye stalks and outgrowths capable of flight and chirping similar to an American grasshopper. Slightly increased durability and greatly decreased sentience has been noted in these stages of growth.