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Item #: XXXX
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: All buildings noted to experience SCP-XXXX's effects are considered protected. Related locales should be watched for negative anomalous occurrences. Entry permits to all of these should remain as limited as possible. Interface with affected objects and persons is self-deterring.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a barren garden path leading to a gated mausoleum. Bouquets of flowers have been found to manifest in inconsistently patterned arrangements toward the back of the structure, the shelf-life of which are significantly longer than non-anomalously sourced equivalents. Arrangements may be monocultural or multicultural in floral composition, but tend towards monocultural. Incidentally, individual floral varieties from within multicultural manifestations soon proliferate into the surrounding garden. Proliferating varieties should be harvested and retained for further inquiry.
In seasons with high ambient pollen, the mausoleum at the end of SCP-XXXX has been found to manifest proportionally high incidences of offerings. Instances appearing under these conditions are also increasingly monocultural, and genetically identical. At high enough pollen levels, single varieties of flowers have been noted to fill the room, and at a high enough manifestation rate for collection without entering the mausoleum. During this time, the garden will be barren.
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The pictured instance originates from an especially virulent year of observation, being the only contiguous year on record to have remained entirely monocultural. Following its preservation in herbarium, the instance has failed to rot. The air-tight seal of the frame is notably of greater efficacy than those created through conventional means. All attempts at replicating this effect have failed.
For a period following the creation of the herbarium, manifestation of the contained instance's species was entirely limited to multicultural arrangements. This pattern ceased after a month span wherein each newly manifested arrangement contained only one of the like-flower variety. This pattern has not coincided with proliferation of the species within the surrounding garden. This pattern ceased along-side a noticeable downturn in local prospects. An uncharacteristic flooding pattern has been connected, with a death toll below ten.
Singular like-flowers have been noted to manifest in mono-bouquet. Such instances manifest rarely and only under the condition that no other like-flower remains within the mausoleum. The mono-bouquet is held upright with a small vase, tied by a ribbon, and is overflowing with water. Manifestation period for these cases is approximately 6 months. This period is accelerating.
Presently, the only known period absent of the like-flower monoculture was a three month span following the herbarium instance's removal, whilst it was held in storage locker Alpha-B. During this time no manifestations of any kind were recorded. Following its removal, manifestations reoccurred.
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Locker Alpha-B is presently under air-tight seal, and has been relocated to an undisclosed deep-storage reticulum. Absent the herbarium, it is known to contain only the adjacent painting, which was captured for the record before time-of-seal. It is unknown if the object was suspected of inheriting anomalous properties from the herbarium, the mausoleum by proxy, or was already known to have possessed anomalous properties. Either case could have reasonably prompted relocation of the herbarium. Containment measures are known to have been taken, but all related records have been lost.
The framed picture was first placed into Alpha-B following its collection from a Termina-Deprecated Class Location of Interest, classified as such as it longer exists. Lacking provenance, there was no reason to relocate the painting; though the herbarium was. It must have been re-sealed to limit potential cascading effects, though these are presently limited to uncharacteristic flooding, as depicted.
The mill seen in the picture resides at the top of a hill. The waters surrounding it pool from rain. The presence of wind is suspected, but cannot be confirmed. Cloudy weather has found to connect to manifestations of fewer offerings within the mausoleum.
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Though left ambiguous, further exploration of the non-existent and deprecated Location of Interest, which allegedly serves as the provenance for the painting, includes the following grounded millstones. Amongst other stones, they were long abandoned for use and were not collected due to a lack of properties, which may be understood to be a mistake at present. Presently, the failure to collect these properties limits the understanding which may be derived from their physical failure to exhibit properties, but these have now been collected. Success in attribution is attributed to the cessation of the property which does not exist and has been classified as a Termina-Deprecated class Location of Interest, though this cannot be confirmed.
Debris from the deprecated Location of Interest was discovered through tracking of microscopic ground seeds littering the Location. Discovery of these has been connected to the discovery of the grounded millstones. Active use of these, though it does not occur, correlates to additional manifestations of mature instances within mausoleum, as seeds litter the ground. The presence of seeds within the mausoleum has not historically been a matter of distinct notability, but from this point onward becomes so.
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High-priority seed-based allocation methodologies have rapidly eclipsed non-seed-based methodologies as the discovery of new ground millstones and their products grinds to a halt. Further evidence has been discovered further away from the millstones, though still on the ground, and resembling ground seeds visually if not practically, prompting wide-spanning deployment of collection protocols.
Following the initialization of ground protocol, active personnel noted the allusion of seeds in active process to be similar to those noted across multiple observation locales implicated in the death toll implicated by the offerings to the mausoleum, which were not presently occurring.
Simultaneously with the ground effort, observations of the saturation of the ground surrounding the garden path were made; specifically regarding the failure of rain to take root in the soil of the mausoleum garden, without which plants may not grow. It is notable that plants may not grow from ground seeds, but instead seeds in the ground. Often, sand is an unsuitable ground, but may resemble ground seeds, and may be caused by desaturation and oversaturation both, though the latter would be a semantic conflation of erosion due to proximity. Nonetheless, this describes the barren nature of the soil, but not the sustenance of the green bordering the path to the mausoleum, which is SCP-XXXX. This is significant.
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When found able to take root, relevant seed samples include seedlings that grow from and into arboreal varieties. The capacity for growth of these samples are limited, though not as limited as the shrubbery that is within the garden whose path leads to the mausoleum. Failure of these samples to propagate is deeply concerning, evidenced by the alarm provoked in researchers when repeatedly made aware of the fact. This sense often propagates, contrary to the barren nature. A deep saturation of the groundwater would not be conventionally sufficient to sustain the prior noted barren nature of the garden forthcoming of complete loss of foliage, but does so in times of mass panic. Complete loss of foliage is yet to occur, though has been historically connected to the prior connected implications.
Unbound by the confines of the garden at the end of the path, large poles of wood may grow from the bottom of the sea, seeded by what runoff may draw from the land; which leads to the mausoleum. In times of flooding, less is seen than more, but may not be dominated by the entirety. The mausoleum, sitting at the end of SCP-XXXX, has never been entirely noted to be underwater, but may comprise an airtight seal. Fully submerged instances are lost.
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Wood poles that grew are sinking.