Provisional Site XXXX
("Uncle Skippy's Truck Stop")
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid Neutralized
Special Containment Procedures:XXXX Road is monitored 24/h by surveillance cameras for possible SCP-XXXX events. Foundation personnel posing as road maintenance staff are to remove SCP-XXXX-1 specimens from the road as soon as it is practicable. The specimens are to be registered and stored in Provisional Site XX's cold storage unit. Trained personnel posing as road patrol agents are to intercept and amnesticize affected civilians before they leave XXXX road.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a phenomenon causing the sudden manifestation of nonhuman anomalous entities, designated SCP-XXXX-1, directly in front of vehicles traveling on XXXX road. All SCP-XXXX-1 instances have been observed to expire shortly after manifestation as a result of the impact received from the oncoming vehicle. Conversely, no occupant of the affected vehicles has ever suffered serious wounds, with most of them leaving the event entirely unharmed.
The estimates available to the Foundation suggest an average of 5-10 manifestation events per week, but the exact relation between the frequency of SCP-XXXX events and road traffic is not well understood.
Addendum SCP-XXXX-A: Sample log of recovered SCP-XXXX-1 instances.
Date |
SCP-XXXX-1 |
Autopsy Results |
Additional Notes |
8/5/1996 |
DATA |
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7/12/1998 |
DATA |
EFFECTS |
NOTES |
10/10/2000 |
DATA |
A two meter long piscine entity resembling a member of the order Selachimorpha. The upper snout of the specimen is uniquely modified to mimic a human face in shape, color and texture, possibly as a hunting lure. The specimen survived the impact, but died of asphyxiation and blood loss before Foundation intervention. |
The specimen's stomach contained a human arm at the time of manifestation. Further tests revealed that the arm is a perfect match for Junior Researcher Blackbox's DNA (Note that at the time, Blackbox possessed all of her appendages). |
5/6/2003 |
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Thirty kilograms of recovered glass shards. On-site analysis revealed traces of silver nitrate and a slightly above average radioactivity, but further anomalous features could not be discerned. Presumed dead on impact. |
The affected driver reported hitting and shattering a "glass giraffe", a statement corroborated by surveillance videos. It is unknown if the instance was alive at the time of the event. |
1/4/2006 |
DATA |
EFFECTS |
NOTES |
Addendum SCP-XXXX-B: Project Frogger
Due to its relatively high maintenance costs, low human risk and high visibility, SCP-XXXX was scheduled for neutralization in 2002.
The termination project, codenamed Frogger, consisted in the planning and construction of several alternative road arteries that would gradually relieve XXXX road of traffic, allowing its closure. Through the efforts of Foundation-controlled lobbies and covert operatives planted in the (insert appropriate governmental authority), the project caused a 70% decrease in traffic and SCP-XXXX events, culminating with the removal of XXXX road from the national road system on 03/07/2006.
SCP-XXXX was declared neutralized on 03/07/2007, after a year of complete inactivity.
Addendum SCP-XXXX-C: Incident-XXXX
On 15/02/2020 Regional Director placeholdersurname, who was Head Researcher on SCP-XXXX at the time of its neutralization, expired in a road accident on the way to his residence. Investigation of of the accident revealed that it was apparently caused by collision with a large, six legged reptilian organism, dead at the time of discovery.
The reclassification of SCP-XXXX is pending.
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Shelf Upward and Further 0761-B, dedicated to the Aesopian Scourge
It may seem strange nowadays, but there was a time when a beloved genre such as the Fable became a grave threat to the Library, to the whole written medium and possibly to reality itself. The phenomenon known as the Aesopian Scourge began when the public demand for fables grew enough to influence all other literature in the Library: most astronomical studies turned into quarrels between astral bodies, encyclopedias felt obliged to add a moralizing maxim at the end of each entry and all the theological works of Thomas Aquinas reattributed themselves to La Fontaine. Sly foxes, prideful stags and foolish monkeys became a common sight between the shelves, causing incalculable infrastructural damage and engaging the patrons in unwarranted, often lethal, moral lessons. Not even the Librarians were safe from the Scourge, as its narrative forcefully included them as the ethical authority of reference.
It was a dark time, and it may have never ended if it was not for the noble sacrifice of a nameless patron. As this anonymous hero was being torn apart by judgmental lions in a reading room, he sorrowfully claimed that he had brought this fate upon himself with his excessive love of moral folk literature. Thus, he unknowingly delivered the aesop of the whole story, ending it and freeing the Library from the invasive fabulistic narratives.
And for this unwanted lesson, we remember the Aesopian Scourge.
Shelf Southwestern 00-MU, dedicated to Amenenope the Almost Glorious
Across the ages and the worlds, many esteemed oracles and pedigreed sibyls unanimously foresaw the coming of Amenenope the Most Glorious, a Figure of Power and Wisdom fated to lead the Universe in a new age of knowledge and prosperity. To determine more accurately the finer details of the Most Glorious’ coming, these seers and sages secluded themselves in the Library for a year and a day. At the end of their retreat they had shaped a perfect likeness of Amenenope and managed to divine His birthday and birthplace with the uttermost precision, down to the second and the centimeter.
In fact, their calculations were so precise that they didn’t take in account the fundamental imprecision of the Universe and most things living in it. On the night of Amenenope’s supposed conception His father drank a little too much after leaving work, and was then unable to find his way home and conceive the Most Glorious. The soothsayers were left with a stained reputation and a useless statue while the mostly uncaring Universe moved on.
And yet, the Library remembers the Almost Glorious, if not for what He was, for what He could have been.
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Foundation Agent Gwynne (fifth from left) provides the established cover story for an active SCP-XXXX-A instance crossing Bonavista Bay, 1961
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class:Keter
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-XXXX refers to an unknown number of residential buildings in the eastern United States potentially capable of independent movement. An inhabited SCP-XXXX instance is entirely indistinguishable from a regular house and begins to exhibit its anomalous properties only after being vacant for more than a year. At the end of this period of vacancy the building detaches from its foundations and becomes capable of motion through anomalous means, leaving its precedent location and any additional outdoor facilities behind.
All active SCP-XXXX instances travel at a cruising speed of 5 km/h and seem to actively avoid human detection by traveling at night and in sparsely populated areas; the specific behavior of each SCP-XXXX entity varies heavily depending on its mconstruction and architectural style
SCP-XXXX instances end their active phase by settling in an undeveloped, abandoned or otherwise neglected building lot on the outskirts of an urban zone experiencing an housing crisis. During the following month, the entities slowly manifest a set of concrete foundations and outdoor facilities befitting their new setting, and therefore cease every anomalous activity until the next activation event.
Addendum 1: Discovery