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Carya ovata, |
aka shagbark hickory. |
SCP-437-A are numerous trees common to North America. Each instance has several cankers, atypical interior structures (see below), and β rather than sap β contains significant quantities of human blood. |
SCP-437 was discovered by the Foundation in 2011, twenty years after the summer camp's closure. Employment records for Camp Lakewood have not been found. All persons who attended Camp Lakewood during the summer of 1991 are Persons of Interest, and are still currently at large. |
Addendum 437.1: Interview |
PoI-437-15 was brought in after genetic analysis of blood samples from an instance of SCP-437-A led to a match in Foundation hospital records. |
AUDIO LOG |
DATE: 2014/09/15 |
INTERVIEWER: Agent Bennet |
SUBJECT: PoI-437-15 (Samantha Blanchette) |
[BEGIN LOG.] |
INTERVIEWER: Did you attend Camp Lakewood in 1991? |
P-15: Is that what this is about? Uh, yeah β that wasβ¦ wow. Two decades ago? Wow. I was fifteen, I think. That really takes me back. |
INTERVIEWER: What do you remember from your time there? |
P-15: Best summer ever. (laughing) It was an amazing place. I was so sad to go, especially when we found out it was closing. I made so many friends there β so many great memories. I thinkβ¦ yeah, it's even where I had my first kiss. |
INTERVIEWER: Did you ever see any strange trees to the south of the camp? |
P-15: Huh? |
INTERVIEWER: 2 kilometers to the south, there's a grove of trees. Are you familiar with it? |
P-15: I mean, sure. We all were. |
INTERVIEWER: In what sense? |
P-15: (laughing) I mean, it was goofy kid stuff, y'know? Stories the counselors would tell around the campfire. Spooky trees down the southern trail. Something trapped inside of them. Go there at night, press your ear against the bark, and you can hear it singing. |
INTERVIEWER: Singing? |
P-15: Yeah. Like I said, goofy kid stuff. |
INTERVIEWER: Did you ever go there yourself? |
[Silence.] |
INTERVIEWER: Mrs. Blanchette? |
P-15: Huh? Oh, sorry. No, I never went there. Too scared, I guess. Heh. That was a pretty crazy summer, y'know? Sometimes I really miss that place. |
[END LOG.] |
NOTE: Shortly after the interview, PoI-437-15 escaped custody via unknown (presumably anomalous) means. Subsequent investigations found all PoIs associated with SCP-437 have been recently reported as missing. |
Addendum 437.2: Email update |
βΊΒ ACCESSΒ SCP:/437/emails/medical_findings.log |
βΌΒ CloseΒ File |
Quercus macrocarpa, aka bur oak. Identified as Samantha Blanchette. |
DATE: 2016/07/20 |
FROM: Dr. Weiss <noitadnuof.pcs|ssiewt#noitadnuof.pcs|ssiewt> |
TO: Site Director August <noitadnuof.pcs|tsuguaj#noitadnuof.pcs|tsuguaj> |
SUBJECT: Recent Findings |
Radiographic and ultra-sound imaging determined the presence of humanoid skeletal structures and soft tissue in each instance of SCP-437-A. Organs are 'woven' into the trees themselves, and appear to be semi-functional. Although severely deformed, most of the bones are consistent with adolescent humans between the ages of 13 and 16. |
In several cases, deformation of the jaw has been minimal β this allowed us to identify certain instances via dental records taken before 1991. |
I don't think your PoIs are the campers, Jeremiah. I suggest we sub-designate them as part of SCP-437. As for the SCP-437-A instances themselves β I want to look into the possibility of euthanizing them. |
They've been in there for twenty years. When you press your ear against the bark, you can hear them. |
It's low and muffled, but you can hear them just fine. |
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[ Title: SCP-442 is a gold-plated pocket watch three (3) centimeters in diameter with hands showing the hour and minute.; Genre: Scientific; Tags: 3rdperson; Style: Dark ] |
*** |
Item #: SCP-442 |
Object Class: Euclid |
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-442 is to be kept away from its current owner in a secure container until being used for testing. The current owner must have a will leaving SCP-442 to a D-class personnel. The owner is granted a suspension of termination. Should the D-class listed in the current owner's will be terminated or otherwise invalidated for ownership of SCP-442, a new will is to be written at the next available opportunity. |
Description: SCP-442 is a gold-plated pocket watch three (3) centimeters in diameter with hands showing the hour and minute. Along the edge of the watch an inscription reads, "To my good friend, a helping hand." While no apparent seams allowing SCP-442 to be opened without damaging it have been found, scans of the interior of SCP-442 have revealed nothing unusual in its workings. |
As long as SCP-442 is wound it will set itself to the correct time. Crossing time zones or winding SCP-442 while it displays an incorrect time results in SCP-442 making rapid motions to adjust itself. The owner of SCP-442 is granted intrinsic knowledge of the time and can recite the precise time to an arbitrary precision as long as SCP-442 is on his or her person. Additionally, the owner of SCP-442 will never be late as long as the watch remains wound and on their person. Attempts to force the owner to be late have never succeeded while SCP-442 is wound. When SCP-442 is left unwound or removed from the owner's person, the owner will be incapable of being on time. The severity of incidents causing this increase as SCP-442 is left unattended, invariably becoming fatal within a week. Ownership of SCP-442 passes through normal means, and can be sold or gifted to another party. SCP-442 has never been left unowned, death of the previous owner results in SCP-442 instantly transferring to a new owner. A will leaving SCP-442 to someone close to the previous owner upon their death has never failed to surface; attempts to prevent a will from coming into being have met with the same failures as attempts to make the owner of SCP-442 late. The new owner is instantly aware of the existence of SCP-442 and is drawn to it, although the effects of owning the watch only manifest after initial contact with SCP-442. |
SCP-442 was brought into Foundation control by Jββββ Sββββ, a junior technician working at Site 19 when he inherited it as a family heirloom. Sββββ's superiors noticed an immediate change in work habits after he received SCP-442; Sββββ had a prior reputation for his lack of time management skills and was regularly written up for being late to his station. When questioned by Dr. Jββββββ, Sββββ showed SCP-442 to Dr. Jββββββ and said that it was a "lucky charm." He then told Dr. Jββββββ pieces of family lore attached to SCP-442 which later experimentation would reveal to be mostly true. Testing was performed to confirm SCP status, after which its history of harmlessness was cited and Sββββ was allowed to maintain possession of SCP-442 on the condition he willed it to the Foundation on his death. Sββββ was subject to observation and regular psychological evaluation during his possession of SCP-442, during which further effects of SCP-442 were discovered. |
Extended ownership of SCP-442 slowly rewrites the subject's personality. Within two years, regardless of previous attitude, the owner exhibits unusually high self-control and reacts to situations in a timely manner. Sββββ's motor control increased dramatically during this period, scoring in the 99 percentile of every test at the two-year mark. During this same time the owner will become increasingly annoyed at tardiness; Sββββ broke ties with several friends over increasingly small infractions. After a decade of owning SCP-442, Jββββ Sββββ had completely changed. While Sββββ displayed a level of professionalism commendable of any member of the SCP staff, his private life had suffered tremendously. Unable to tolerate tardiness, Sββββ had pushed away all his friends and had been diagnosed with clinical depression. After Sββββ committed suicide, O5-β reported ownership and had it transferred to him. A D-class personnel was then chosen for experimentation and given SCP-442. |
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[ Title: SCP-443 is a mostly complete 16-piece set of Crayola crayons, numbered SCP-443-01 through 14.; Genre: Scientific; Tags: 3rdperson; Style: Dark ] |
*** |
Item #: SCP-443 |
Object Class: Safe |
Special Containment Procedures: Due to its nature and relative fragility, SCP-443 is kept in a locked drawer in Dr. Ziegler's office (Sector 28). Access to Level 1 personnel and higher is freely granted at the discretion of Dr. Ziegler, or his assistant, upon request, with limitation applied at their discretion. Due to wear, the original packaging is filed in the archives record as 6-ββββββ. All drawn material is to be handed back to the person who authorized the use. |
Description: SCP-443 is a mostly complete 16-piece set of Crayola crayons, numbered SCP-443-01 through 14. The set is a model (BS0366) which was produced between 1997 and 1999, although the serial number on the packaging is outside the range of the product. Two crayons ("Blue Green" and "Violet/Purple") are missing. SCP-443-05 is snapped in two pieces (05a and 05b), while SCP-443-09 had its non-writing end damaged in a nibbling incident involving SCP-529 which, for this reason should be kept away from the items. |
SCP-443 was recovered from βββββ βββββ, California, after βββββββ βββββ, an amateur artist, noticed its effects and asked for help from a paranormal investigator. The crayons had originally belonged to βββββ's daughter for several weeks. βββββ was adamant that he never bought them, and that they were not given to her. All works produced by βββββ and his daughter were confiscated and are listed as record 6-ββ of the archives. |
When drawing is attempted with SCP-443, what is produced is actually a "stream of thoughts" emanating directly from unknown people. The user is entirely unaware of this until they stop using the crayons, at which time they become aware that they have written or drawn something completely unrelated to what they were intending to. Even with the full knowledge of what the item does, the user is entirely incapable of seeing what it is they are tracing until they actually stop doing so, which they can willingly do at any time. They will answer questions as to what they are drawing (though most of the time they describe it as "mindless scribbling", particularly if they are aware of the SCP's effect). |
Most of the time the result is a written stream of thoughts, occasionally interrupted by small icons or simplistic drawings. The nature of what is written adapts depending on the user: text will appear in the native language of the user, and in an alphabet the user can draw. Drawing quality varies depending on unclear factors, and appears unrelated to any artistic skill of the user. Writing, on the other hand, is mostly the user's, though emotions expressed in the thoughts written may distort it. |
The expressed thoughts appear to be a form of real-time "stream of thought" transmitted from real persons, as current simultaneous events (such as electoral results) have been referred to. Each crayon represents a specific person, and a user may switch between crayons to represent more than one person involved in a situation at a given time. So far, the equivalent of 10-15 hours of thought processes have been compiled. Given that the crayons were already somewhat worn when recovered, this has left SCP-443-08, which is most frequently used, as little more than a stub. |
No identifying information has been collected so far (all names are rendered as unidentifiable symbols), but enough data is present to assess that the involved persons form a loose network of friends, family, and coworkers, each individual being fairly close to at least one other. All the involved persons are from the Portland, Oregon area. See addendum for details. |
Addendum: |
List of colors included, their classification number and details: |
SCP-443-01 Black β A dancer obsessed with his weight. Friend of "Orange". |
SCP-443-02 Blue β An old snappy woman. Landowner of "Red" and "Brown". |
SCP-443-03 Blue Violet β A mildly hypochondriac patient of "Yellow". Friend of "Red Orange" |
SCP-443-04 Brown β A seven-year-old girl. Daughter of "Red", friend of "Yellow Orange", enemy of "Carnation Pink" |
SCP-443-05 Carnation Pink β A classmate of "Brown" and "Yellow Orange". Harbors a deep hatred of "Brown" for unclear reasons. |
SCP-443-06 Green β An engineering student and regular lover of "Orange" |
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