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The first instance of SCP-XXXX on the beach in Cowichan Bay, British Columbia, prior to containment. Note the absence of the activation of SCP-XXXX's primary anomaly due to the use of photographic equipment.
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-XXXX are stored in individual Safe-class containment lockers while inert. Twice monthly on the night of the full and the new moon, all instances of SCP-XXXX are removed from their individual containment and transferred to a communal watertight containment chamber in preparation for a SCP-XXXX-TIDAL Event. This transfer is to take place no less than six hours before moonrise and once it has been completed the chamber is then sealed for a period of 24 hours.
After the allotted time has elapsed and visual confirmation of the recession of the water produced by SCP-XXXX has been made, the instances of SCP-XXXX are returned to individual containment. Foundation custodial personnel under the supervision of the head researcher assigned to SCP-XXXX will then proceed to clear the containment chamber of all detritus and debris. Biological waste is incinerated and notable artifacts are photographed and destroyed. Photographic documentation of notable artifacts is maintained and updated monthly on Site-19’s computer database and are available for view upon request by Level 2 personnel and above.
Description: SCP-XXXX is the current designation for a group of nine driftwood fragments which host an interdimensional viewing aperture. The individual fragments are comprised of an unknown species of wood and vary in size and shape, ranging from 0.7 meters in length to 1.8. While several identifiable features such as rootballs and tree branches can be seen on individual instances of SCP-XXXX, attempts by Foundation arborists to identify the wood have not been successful. This is due in part to the natural degradation process of driftwood and in part due to the unnatural density and relative hardness of the wood. It has been speculated that the species of wood is the same that compromises the tower visible through the viewing aperture, thus placing the origins of the wood in a separate reality from our own, but this theory cannot be confirmed without direct access to the alternate reality in which the tower resides.
While all instances of SCP-XXXX have distinct sizes and shapes, a common morphological feature shared between all fragments of wood serves to facilitate the interdimensional aperture. All instances of SCP-XXXX will possess at least one unbroken arch or loop somewhere along the body of the wood.
When this arch or loop is looked through by the unaided human eye, the interdimensional viewing aperture will activate. The point of view of the viewer remains consistent at a height of roughly 4.4 meters off f the ground, and does not change when the instance of SCP-XXXX is moved in real life.
Instead of the immediate surroundings behind the instance of SCP-XXXX, the viewer will see a landscape consisting of what appears to be a salt marsh that stretches to the horizon in all directions. The sky is grey and featureless, illuminated by an unknown source. Standing water is present and rises and falls in a tidal rhythm that directly corresponds to the lunar tidal rhythm in our reality. Small reedlike plants are prevalent throughout the landscape and do not appear to require natural light to photosynthesize. Foundation botanists have tentatively classed these reeds as a miniature variant of the genus Phragmites.
In the immediate foreground of all viewpoints is a tower made of a dark purplish wood. The tower was severely damaged at an unknown point in time, and only three floors along with the partial remnants of a fourth remain intact. The fourth floor is open to the elements, although the majority is above the line of sight of the viewpoint of users of SCP-XXXX.
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