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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-XXXX-A are to be contained in a 25cm x 25cm safe with a simple lock. Access to SCP-XXXX-A for testing purpose is to be granted to personnel with a level 2 clearance only. Instances of SCP-XXXX-B are to be terminated whenever possible to avoid contamination. Instances of SCP-XXXX-B meant to be used for tests are to wear a straitjacket and kept under constant watch to avoid hurting themselves.

Description: SCP-XXXX-A is a collection of various tools: pencils, pens and other objects used to write. Latest experiments showed that electronic devices like keyboards or tablets able to input text are also subject of becoming part of SCP-XXXX-A. Instances of SCP-XXXX-A doesn’t seem to have any physical properties, they can be broken, in which case they cease to be part of SCP-XXXX-A. Analysis on the various models of SCP-XXXX-A show no difference whatsoever with corresponding normal tools.

When handled by a human, SCP-XXXX-A exhibit an abnormal effect. The person (henceforth referred to as target) touching SCP-XXXX-A is compelled to write his current feeling on any material available corresponding to the tool he’s holding (sheet of paper if holding a pen, text file if on a keyboard, etc.). While writing, the target displays a blank expression, appearing to be absent and disconnected from its environment. Attempts to communicate verbally or visually with the target triggers no feedback. Physical contact doesn’t break the effect either, except when separating SCP-XXXX-A from its target. If by doing so, the person interrupting the effect touches SCP-XXXX-A, he becomes the new target (this only works if the previous target is not touching SCP-XXXX-A anymore).

The content of the text written by the target explains his current state of mind. If it’s happy, it’ll explain the chain of event leading to this happiness, if it’s angry, he’ll detail the object of this anger. The level of detail/length of the text/duration of the effect is directly proportional to the intensity of the emotion displayed. If the target that has been just subject to a sudden burst of fear, not related to a well-implanted fear, will describe the event in shorter terms than a target explaining a childhood-rooted phobia.

While the target is writing, SCP-XXXX-A seems to absorb the emotion currently displayed by the person. The emotion in question transfers from the target to SCP-XXXX-A, to the point that the target no longer feels it at all. The text it’s writing reflect this decrease in intensity. First lines show strong implications of the feeling, while last ones seem to show mostly indifference toward the object that triggered the emotion in the first place. At that time, the effect stops, and the target is released from SCP-XXXX-A, stopping contact (dropping the object if appropriate). SCP-XXXX-A visually displays no difference but a thermal analysis indicates some heat emanating from it (which decreases slowly over time afterwards).

A person whose emotion has been totally stolen is never able to feel it again, even in circumstances where it should. While an emotion has not been completely absorbed by SCP-XXXX-A (if a third party broke contact before the end of the effect), the target still seems to be able to feel it, although dampened proportionally to the time it has been under the effect of SCP-XXXX-A. A person who has one emotion stolen by SCP-XXXX-A still understands what one should feel under such emotion. It’s just unable to do so. It doesn’t seem to trigger any panic/distress/unease or any other response from it, however it tends to isolation and depression depending on the emotion that has been stolen.

A person that has once been a target of SCP-XXXX-A also becomes an instance of SCP-XXXX-B. Whenever SCP-XXXX-B is holding a tool that can be used to write, this tool becomes part of SCP-XXXX-A. Moreover, SCP-XXXX-B is increasingly compelled to find and touch such objects, making SCP-XXXX-B a vector of contagion for SCP-XXXX-A. If SCP-XXXX-B is denied access to such objects, it’ll try anything else, like engraving a wood table with scissors (making the scissors a part of SCP-XXXX-A). In the case where no material is disponible at all, and after a period of time varying from target to target, it’ll cut itself using teeth or nails and use it’s own blood to write on the nearest surface, thus becoming itself a part of SCP-XXXX-A (from this point on, it’ll only try to use the same method for writing, not looking for specific writing tool or even using them when available).

As more emotions are absorbed from it by SCP-XXXX-A, SCP-XXXX-B focuses unconsciously on the ones left and begins to trigger events that makes it feel one of the emotions it can still actually feel, contrasting more and more with his original behavior. Higher brain functions diminishes with each session, the urge to write its remaining emotion increasing instead, and the targets isolates itself from the community. When all emotions are gone from it, all higher brain functions have ceased, with only the activity in the brain stem continuing. SCP-XXXX-B no longer responds to external stimuli, nor exhibits any movement beyond basic reflex actions.