At sometime after midnight, however, a wild rabbit will appear (they hadn't seen any wild rabbits before, only the daisies and the mistletoe) and it will curl up and go to sleep in the grove. Several more animals will enter the grove and lie down to sleep, at which point the statue head will begin to cry. The tears will stream down the side of the pedestal and seep into the ground. The agents will be stunned by this and, the following morning, attempt to discover some kind of pipe system connected to the head. Instead, they will discover that the head is fully movable although very heavy, and so is the pedestal. Upon consideration, they decide to bring the two objects back with them for testing. Once they remove the two items from the grove and walk away, the grove will never be seen again, even when the area with the exact coordinates is searched.
Once they begin to test the head and the pedestal, they will make several observances. First, that the head appears to have been broken off of a larger statue thousands of years prior. Second, that the pedestal was not actually carved from the rock but was apparently naturally formed through weathering and erosion, apparently as a result of the tears flowing down it. Third, the statue does not cry at random and seems to only cry during the night time when there are people in the vicinity. Fourth, the statue does not cry when not mounted on the pedestal. Once the last observation is made, the item is classified as safe and stored with minimal precautions.
However, it is soon found that the fourth observation is wrong and the third is underdeveloped. This is discovered when a staff member who had recently been divorced goes to a large storage room of safe SCPs where the head and pedestal are, and, after crying to herself, finds that the safe containing the head and pedestal is leaking. She calls in security, which finds that not only was the safe leaking, but the water has turned to stone. They open the safe to find that somehow the head had gotten back on top of the pedestal.
Several more tests are conducted on the objects which reveal several things. One, the statue does not cry when not on the pedestal, but if the statue is triggered, then, one way or another, it will end up on top of the pedestal. Two, through lab testing, it is discovered that unless the tears from the statue soak into soil that is rich in nutrients that are constantly cycled by plant and insect life, the tears will turn to stone. As a side note to this, it is found that for some reason the pedestal also never allows the tears to solidify on it. Three, the statue cries as a response to either very desperational sadness or very moving hapiness within a human or animal that is within a certain radius of the statue. When the statue is left without any triggers for a very long time, this radius may temporarily increase as seeming act of desperation from the statue. Four, if more than one person is experiencing high levels of emotion, or one person is experiencing extremely high levels of emotion, the crying of the statue may start to spread this emotion to other people within the statue's effect radius. The people who are affected by this also expand the radius of the effect. This may trigger a feedback loop which in one incident, would almost encompasse the entire building. The effect at this point could only be stopped by forcefuly removing the statue from the pedestle, which would require the strength of several people. These people would have to get the radically solidying tears surgically removed from their skin, which then would have to be replaced with skin grafts. The statue would know about this and "feel guilty" about it, causing a cessation of activity for a short period of time.
At this point, the objects classification would be raised to euclid because of its resistance to storage, but it would not be a keter object because it wouldn't technically be too hard to make the head stop. To prevent the disaster that had happened before, the head would be placed in special containment with soil, grass, daisies, trees, mistletoe, and wild rabbits to mimic its natural setting, and it would be ensured that no emotional personnel would be allowed near it. Further testing by the researchers will reveal that the statue connects to people's emotions through sound patterns that it creates through unknown methods. The connection would be greatly accelerated through eye contact with the statue (despite the fact that its eyes are closed). In events where it starts an emotional feedback loop, humans and/or animals also begin to emit the sound patterns that the statue does. The sounds, when amlified to a pitch audible to humans, would sound like running water and stone carving. Recordings of the sound will have no effect.
The staff at this point will decide to create an elaborate sytem in which the head and pedestal are placed at the center of a grove like the one observed at the begining, but without any animals. Only worms will be included, to keep nutrient cycling in the soil. The walls around this enclosure woul be soundproof, and there would be some sort of sound airlock to make sure that no sound can escape the room. Every week or so, several personnel would enter to check on conditions and maintain the enclosure. These staff would be wearing extremely potent noise-cancellation headphones. After several weeks of doing this however, sounds emitted by the statue will become more and more erratic, and finally, one day without warning, the statue will begin to cry even though it made no emotional connection. The tears will radically solididy despite the inclusion of healthy soil, and the entire chamber will begin to fill with stone. Upon realization of whats happening, researchers will send in leftover wild rabbits. These rabbits will all immediatley begin to shiver and stomp their feet (something rabbits do when their emotional), and they will appear greatly disturbed. However, the statue's crying will subside, and, surprisingly, the stone will begin to turn back into water and drain into the soil.
After this incident, the enclosure will be rebuilt, but with the inclusion of animals, and all excperimentation will cease. Staff will still come in every week to maintain the enclosure, keeping on their noise cancellation headphones, and the enclosure will continue to be observed through cameras. At this point, the SCP will be considered to be well contained.
Sorry this is so long, I had an idea of what I was writing but I added alot as I went. I don't know wether or not I was supposed to put this in some kind of collapsible thing, but I couldn't figure out how to.
(side note: I was also thinking maybe I could add that in the forest, the statue is smiling slighlty, but then when they take it, its smile fades and slowly turns into a slight frown, and then when they try to keep it from connecting with anything and also when they rip it off the pedestal, it turns into a very clear frown, almost angry, but then once they finaly restore it to its natural state, it turns back into a slight smile.)
