Tales of Anomalous Items

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Challenge:

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To quote the challenge thread…

Hello, my name's Westrin¹, and I'm here to give you a hopefully fun challenge! Been bouncing this idea around for a while, and the general consensus is that it should be a challenge thread, so it shall!

Pick an item from the log-of-anomalous-items, and make an interesting tale about it.

Here are the rules:

• As it says on the tin, pick a single item from the log and make a tale about it.² There are no word limits, so go nuts.
• Copy and paste the anomalous object you wish to write about at the top of the page, and then follow up with the tale. This isn't required any more. You can put the AO entry wherever.
• The tale cannot feature any SCPs heavily. It can get minor mentions, but cannot put one onto the spotlight. This is to prevent the "Anomalous object getting empowered by an SCP" route from being taken.
• The anomalous object must show a deeper and important meaning or have deep implications to its setting (Foundation-verse), and not just be a simple anomaly. You have to make it feel like a significant anomaly, despite it just being an anomalous object. Whether it's the unbreakable lamp being Zeus' bedside lamp, or the ranch dressing banana slugs being an endangered species that introduced ranch dressing to the native Americans in the first thanksgiving. It's also encouraged that the deeper meaning makes sense to the object's nature, and is not completely random.
• Please pick an item that most likely isn't going to get pruned. Any new entries are discouraged, but you still can pick them if you want to take the risk.
• HARD MODE: Make the tale for one of the canons in the canon hub. Does not matter which one.
• Have fun. If you disobey this rule, you will be executed. :)

Good luck!

Feel free to format and style your entries however you want, and I'm opening the challenge up to entries from the logs of Extranormal Events and Unexplained Locations — the more tales the better!

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The Tales:

The current responses to this challenge are:

• Time After Time, by MaliceAforethought

• Some Are Born To Endless Light, by Flawed

• Tum-Tum-Tum-TUM-Tum-Tum-Tum-TUM-TUM-TUM, by Tufto

• Shot Down, by Penton

• Tjalla, by Mortos

• Anomalous Incidents, by Roget, admittedly written five years before the creation of the challenge.

• The Lizard in the Mosaic, by Ihp

• ミスター・タトゥーがあるやつ, by EFU on the Japanese branch.

• Charcoal, by Boogey_Man23

• The Scarlet Shadow Saves the World, by Modern_Erasmus

• The Three Bullets of Destiny, by Superblobby

• White, by Varaxous

• Do Not Collect $200, by JackalRelated

• And When He Heard The Clock He Cried, by Azmoeth Jikandia

• Here, We Only Got One Rule: Never, Ever Let It Cool, by HotColes

• Down The Rabbit Wormhole, by plaguebearer does not match any existing user name

• Penny for Your Thoughts?, by Alces_alces

• Big Fish In The Sky, by KirQ

Tales that almost meet the criteria, but either don't fulfil one of the rules or don't utilise a preexisting anomalous object are:

• She Waits, by taylor_itkin

• Addendum to neutralization report KY-2018-DW2, by mayoculpa

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Footnotes

1. The original poster of the challenge. This hub has been created in his stead.

2. Writing your own AO specifically for this challenge doesn't count, as it kind of defeats the point. Otherwise, everything's fair game.