NatVoltaic for their term 'ontohazard.'
Lt Flops for their critique
Jekeled for their critique
- Calibri Bold does not match any existing user name for being a beta-reader
Crashington for their critique
BlueJones for their critique
- and many other various peoples
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: A fence has been erected around the perimeter of SCP-XXXX. Civilians seeking out SCP-XXXX are to be amnesticized and, if applicable, their maps confiscated.
All subterranean construction projects in a 10-kilometer radius of Keygrain, Illinois must be approved by the Area-153 director to ensure they do not converge with any SCP-XXXX cavern systems.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a field located at the site of Keygrain, Illinois, a fictitious paper town1. Once an individual descends one of the many small pits throughout the field, they will manifest within one of SCP-XXXX's numerous subterranean cave systems.
All organisms within said cave systems have been reported to be made of numerous flat, textureless surfaces2. Said organisms include the following:
- large spiders, snakes, and scorpions.
- humanoid entities wearing brown sacks over their heads.
- identical copies of a single human woman wearing a red dress. If an instance notices a person it will attempt to convince then to 'rescue' it from the caves. To date, the instances have always expired no matter what preventative measures have been taken to assure their survival.
To date, all explorations into SCP-XXXX have ended in fatality or loss of communications with Area-153. Upon expiring, the exploration subject wakes up next to the pit they had entered, which collapses before re-manifesting in another area of the field.
Addendum:
INCIDENT LOG XXXX-1
In the afternoon of August 12th, 2019, an unconscious woman in a red dress, later classified as SCP-XXXX-A, was ejected from a newly formed pit in SCP-XXXX. Upon transport to Area-153, SCP-XXXX-A awoke in a frenzied state before being sedated and restrained by Area-153 personnel.
After regaining consciousness in a much calmer state, SCP-XXXX-A was interviewed by Dr. Emily Williams as follows:
Dr. Williams: Hello, SCP-XXXX-A. Are you doing alright?
SCP-XXXX-A: No.
Dr. Williams: I see, are—
SCP-XXXX-A: Where is he?
Dr. Williams: …who are you referring to?
SCP-XXXX-A: The man in the orange suit. With the number. Uh, 248… I can't remember, exactly.
Dr. Williams raises up a sheet displaying headshots of the D-Class SCP-XXXX exploration team.
SCP-XXXX-A: Everett! The one with the long hair! Where is he?
Dr. Williams: I'm not sure. You were alone when we found you. You saw him down there?
SCP-XXXX-A: Of course! Dozens of times. He'd always do his best to… to save me, and then… oh God.
Dr. Williams: Did something happen?
SCP-XXXX-A: I was being attacked by a snake, and… and he dived in front of me, and… I saw him getting bit. I don't remember anything else. He looked like my husband. I couldn't even see his face down there, but…
Dr. Williams: Your husband?
SCP-XXXX-A: He had bought the land over the caves. For me— no— for us. We were going to make our own village. Build ourselves something new that would span generations! Hell, he even got his friend to put a little 'Keygrain' on the maps! But then he started digging, lookin' for a well, and h- he never came back up. So I went down there to try and find him, and… and I don't know. I remember hugging somethin' that looked like him before it g- got—
SCP-XXXX-A covers its mouth.
SCP-XXXX-A: It was stabbed. By this… hooded guy. I saw it die, and then the man stabbed me too, and… and I woke up right in those caves. Every time I died, I'd end up right there.
Dr. Williams: Did you ever try and escape? Our exploration team—
SCP-XXXX-A: That's just the thing! I kept seeing people! I kept asking for help! And nobody even tried until Everett. He sacrificed himself for me, even if I still died. But I'm here. And there's nothing I can do about it.
Shortly following the interview, a D-Class team was sent into the caves of SCP-XXXX, in which they found D-24851 begging to be rescued— the same behavior SCP-XXXX-A had previously displayed. As such, D-24851 has been classified as SCP-XXXX-B.
No more explorations into SCP-XXXX are to be carried out at this time.