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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.

Description: SCP-2834 is 35 milliliters of India Ink contained in a glass inkwell.

Subjects who write or draw with SCP-2834 on a physical surface will produce a product (SCP-2834-A) that is only visible to the subject. Should more than one subject participate on the same product, SCP-2834-A is visible to all collaborators. SCP-2834-A cannot be observed by any other means. All descriptions of SCP-2834-A obtained in testing are secondhand accounts.

A selection from SCP-2834 experiment logs is reproduced below:

Subject: D-41562
Procedure: Subject is instructed to draw a cow.
SCP-2834-A: Subject describes three cars flying over a starry landscape with faces of people he knew in cow bodies. Requests made by the subject to utilize SCP-2834 to produce more SCP-2834-A are pending approval.

Subject: Researcher Eigen
Procedure: Researcher Eigen is instructed to rewrite SCP-2834's document.
SCP-2834-A: Researcher Eigen describes SCP-2834's document in full.

Subject: D-41563, D-40341, and D-49081
Procedure: Subjects are instructed to draw freely.
SCP-2834-A: Subjects describe a mural of a playground made as an amalgamation of their children, depicted as living in domiciles with family members and adoptive parents. They are allowed to view SCP-2834-A for several hours before they are escorted back to their cells.

Acquisition: In 1990, Byberry Mental Hospital (in Pennsylvannia) was investigated by embeded field agents after flagging reports of anomalous behavior in inmates. The hospital was shut down under the guise of ethical concerns via the state. When investigating CCTV footage, agents noticed that a small group of inmates would stare at sheaves of paper daily (later identified as SCP-2834-As). SCP-2834 was located in a cell belonging to a deceased prisoner; forensics revealed that significant portions of the hippocampus and ventricle cavities were missing. The exact cause of death is unknown.

Miscellaneous possessions found by agents included a collection of blank notebooks, a photograph (pertaining to the deceased's fiance), a clay ring, several used needles, and a crudely melted pen connected to a wire (used for creating tattoos). While coroners busied themselves with hauling the cadaver away from the cell, inmates who viewed it became highly agitated and hysterical. Thereupon, interrogation revealed that all inmates had received tattoos drafted in SCP-2834. It is unclear what was bargained for in return for this service.

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