You wake up, wipe the rice out the corners of your eyes.
You look out the window, which is rice, at the sun, the rice trees moving in the wind, and the white, fluffy clouds up above. You slip on your rice slippers as you slide out of your bed, leaving your sheets behind in a mess. That's something your rice wife can worry about while you get ready for rice work. As you're getting dressed, you get a message on your rice phone. It's your boss, Dr. Arroz. You open it up and take a quick read.
I think we finally found it.
You can't believe it. After all this time? You knew you were doing important work, but you never thought it would lead to this. This was career-defining. No, era-defining. This was the single most important spiritual breakthrough you could think of.
You speed to work, making a mad dash into the building. As the rice elevator's doors open on the 23rd basement floor, you can see Dr. Arroz surrounded by your colleagues and a rice drill. They are staring at something beneath them, something which keeps spitting out rice.
Inside the hole they are crowded around you see a mysterious object. It doesn't look like anything you've ever seen before. And yet there it is, spiting out rice which is piling up at the side of the hole. No one has touched it, for they fear it might be dangerous. You are entranced by its alluring nature, yet intimidated by the fact that it generates that which you and everything you have ever known is made of.
"That's not all, though." Dr. Arroz gestures a few paces to the right of the object to a second hole. You walk over and take a look inside. There's another mysterious object within. It appears to display some archaic runes upon its surface, as well as an image that's all too familiar.
You lean in to take a look.
SCP-XXXX in its active state.
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be stored in a standard low value containment vault on floor 14 of Site-88. Outside of testing, SCP-XXXX must be handled by personnel who have consumed at least 750 calories within the last hour.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a white ceramic bowl. The exterior's bottom possesses a highly faded and illegible manufacturer's logo.
SCP-XXXX's anomalous properties manifest when the object is within line of sight of any individual. Upon activating, the object will fill with fully cooked white rice. The rice, hereafter referred to as SCP-XXXX-1, compels the subject which first triggered its manifestation to consume it.
Upon consuming the contents of SCP-XXXX, another serving may manifest if the subject's appetite is not sated. Additional manifestations of SCP-XXXX-1 are directly proportional to the subject's appetite, with servings becoming smaller should a subject only desire to consume less. Each serving of SCP-XXXX-1 is estimated to possess a caloric value of 650.
Addendum XXXX.1: The following note was recovered alongside SCP-XXXX following a raid on a suspected Type Green's home in Miami, FL.
Hey chamaco.
I had to go on a business trip again and I don't know when I'll be back. I know rice is boring, but pizza every night is a bit out of our price range.
If you don't eat, you won't feel better, so make sure you dig in. If you start feeling sick again put the bowl away and call your mom.
¡Te quiero!
- Papa
Addendum XXXX.2: On 26/10/2024, SCP-XXXX was accidentally dropped during transit and began emitting SCP-XXXX-1 at an accelerated rate. Containment efforts are ongoing.
"What do you think it is?" Dr. Arroz asks.
"The holy grain." you respond.
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