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Item #: SCP-x
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-X must be contained in a small 27x63X38 centimeters wooden crate, with a standard lock. Only one key may be made available to a single level 3 personnel. SCP-X-1 must be kept in a separate wooden box of appropriate length, locked with a combination lock. This combination must be known by only one level 3 personnel, who may never remain closer than 3 meters from either container for more than 20 seconds. Both the keyholder and the combination holder are never to be allowed in the same room with SCP-X and SCP-X-1 at the same time.
Description: SCP-x is, by all appearances, a normal wooden violin. It was hand carved in ████ by famous luthier ██████ ███ ███████. It is made out of a light wood that resembles spruce, but testing has shown it is from no tree we have on record. It is a 4/4 violin, giving it a total of 35 cm. The strings are normal strings, and all of the other parts are interchangeable with any existing violin. The front has the standard F-holes, only they have been burned into the front on the middle bout, on each side of the strings. This feat has proven noteworthy as extensive testing has proven SCP-x non flammable.
SCP-X-1 is a bow of 75 cm length, and composed of the same material as SCP-x, exhibiting the same fire proof qualities and light hue. As with the violin, any hair for the bow is able to be used or interchanged. When SCP-x-1 is used to play SCP-x, the last song the violinist heard will be flawlessly played, although completely in violin notes. The effect has proved true even for solo vocal performances, although instead of a words or a voice, the violin merely plays the melody. How it achieves this, or the replication of multi-instrument pieces is unknown.
Playing SCP-X will trap the violinist in a constant loop of the last song they heard, unable to stop playing for water or food. The only way to stop is for another person to intervene, most often through physical pain and separation from both objects. Should separation not occur from both subjects, the musician will be compelled to continue from where he last ceased in the song. If successfully separated, neither SCP-x nor SCP-x-1 shall be held by any one individual for more than twenty seconds, as this will cause compulsion in the holder to begin to perform, although it will free the previous holder. As long as a distance of 3 meters is kept, any individuals that have had contact with the violin or the bow will lose their need to play the instrument after 3 minutes. Because of this, it is recommended that at least two people be present when disarming any individual of SCP-x, either to pass the violin or bow to, or in order to assist with restraining the previous victim as they can occasionally become violent.
SCP-x's effect has been shown to be cumulative, with subjects soon developing a need to play SCP-x regardless of distance. If a person uses SCP-x more than five times, said person will begin to feel a mild craving to play another song . If used more than eight times, dreams in which the violin are the main subject are experienced. Once a person has used SCP-x more than ten times, they will begin to experience hallucinations of SCP-x, despite it being in storage or in another room. Every subsequent use of the object afterwards will increase the amount of hallucinations. Testing has shown that D-class personnel that were exposed to SCP-x more than eleven times also began to slowly lose their hearing, with a "ringing" in their ears gradually increasing. At some midway point, reached at different times by different subjects, the ringing began to form into the last song played on SCP-x. While the number at which the hearing problems start is random, any person exposed to the violin twenty or more times will lose their hearing almost completely, save for the previous song played on SCP-x. At this point, subjects begin to see and hear SCP-x where ever they are, and have an unnatural fixation on the SCP and a constant need to interact with it.
note to self: rewrite, violin merges with people's skin. Can only be removed by surgical procedures. People that are stuck playing it continue to play it forever, will not die. Perhaps sit on SCP for later, or trash it.
