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  SCP-2834: Wish-Granting Ink (provisional title)
  Rewrite of SCP-2834: Cursed Ink Jar by ajrmoore
  Authors: aismallard (Author Page) and KindlyTurtleClem does not match any existing user name (Author Page)
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SCP-2834

Item #: SCP-2834

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2834 is to be kept in a high-value anomalous object locker. Testing with SCP-2834 is prohibited.

Description: SCP-2834 is 35 milliliters of India Ink contained in a generic inkwell. Any text written with SCP-2834 immediately alters phenomena or objects associated within the text. Thereupon, a short-term temporal shift occurs, reestablishing the current timeline several hours prior to any interaction with SCP-2834.

Acquisition of the item, along with associated possessions, occurred after a Foundation raid on known anartist Jean Baptiste (PoI-XXXX). Each possession was written in ink matching SCP-2834. Of note, a small text prompt was left near SCP-2834:

I am not really here, I am someone else. Somewhere else.

All items found in PoI-XXXX's posession were subject to routine testing procedures. Prior to testing the India Ink utilizing a fiber-tipped Pitt pen, researchers discovered that 500 experiment log entries had already been uploaded to the database.¹

It was noted that the entries were extremely similar to the first proposed test, save for the exact color of the pen. RAISA analysts reported a Type-8L reality disruption event in DEEPWELL server logs corresponding to each uploaded test entry. The entries were never updated, suggesting the experiments in question were not fully carried out.

A selection from the experiment log is reproduced below:

Subject: D-41562
Procedure: D-41562 was instructed to write that their pen was green (instead of red).
Result: [NO DATA]

Subject: D-41562
Procedure: D-41562 was instructed to write that their pen was blue (instead of green).
Result: [NO DATA]

Subject: D-41562
Procedure: D-41562 was instructed to write that their pen was yellow (instead of blue).
Result: [NO DATA]

Subject: D-41562
Procedure: D-41562 was instructed to write that their pen was red (instead of yellow).
Result: [NO DATA]

The pen provisioned for testing had the color specified in the last experiment entry.

Subsequent tests in the following weeks produced similar results. No other anomalous property was found. Proposals as to the exact nature of SCP-2834 were written by researchers. Protocol was breached when Researcher Patel had finished his thesis, and as a demonstration, uploaded the document in the same manner as previous tests.

Title: "Recognition of Temporal Shifts"

Title: "Recognition of Alternative Timelines w/ SCP-4382"

Title: "Application of SCP-4382 & Development of Ways to Discern Temporal Displacement."

Title: "Acquisition of SCP-4382 & Monitoring Devices"

Title: "Project Dreamcatcher: Anomalous Inking Methods To Tracking SCP-3428"

Title: "Operation Thaumiel: Writing Our Best Option."

Title: "The Great Black Eclipse."

Title: "Recognition of Temporal Shifts"

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During an investigation into a location of interest, MTF-Alpha-1 recovered the following document. It was buried near several anomalous and mundane artifacts in an area lacking in recent human activity. Analysis found its ink matched SCP-2834.

To The Auspicious Marquis of Wuxing, Demon Hunter Zhong Kui.

Four more tesseracts lie in ashes.

Their gargantuan bronze spine and rib span several temples miles apart. A pyroclastic steamwork heart stands stoic, embedded into the statue of our Jade Sovereign.

I and only a few refugees made it past the Nexus entrance. Periodically, we look back and see… nothing. No men, women, children. Nothing but the Sun. The Azure Sky is dead; the False Sun will soon devour the space left behind.

My dear compatriot, I am frustrated. I wish things were plainer. I wish there were a great blindfold over this world. A vast, impervious fortress ought to stand before us, guarding our children's eyes so that they may sleep, never knowing. We are better blind than dead.

Guardian, Jie Wu.

The document was dated as less than a month old.

Footnotes

1. SCiPNET enforces a limit on the number of tests attached to SCP files. Extended experimentation requires approval from a Level-3 RAISA liaison.