Seeking Greenlight: Yes
Article type: SCP article
Main Concept: An abandoned store in Olympia, Washington, has some lethal merchandise.
Trigger Warning for themes of s3xual @bus3 near the end of the proposal
Special Containment Procedures: Constant Infrared and Night Vision cameras are to be within the store at all times, and armed members MTF-Pi 6, the Dawnwatchers, are to be within 20 minutes of the location at all times. Any and all instances of SCP-6424-1 are to be removed from SCP-6424 ASAP.
Initial Report:
A 19-year-old girl from Olympia, Washington, posts a Tiktok of a college student bursting into flames inside a decrepit working store. In the video, she screams several times that this makes no sense, all he did was take a drink. This gets the attention of the Foundation’s Media folks, (who, let’s be real, are probably real sick of Berries and Cream tiktok) and a researcher named Sasha Romanov and his assistant, Laura Moon, are sent to Olympia. A meeting with the Tiktoker is conducted, and from it, they find the address of where her friend unfortunately turned into ashes. She describes that her friend took a drink, started coughing and gagging, then threw up a golden liquid on the ground. It glowed, like it was “toxic waste or something,” and it burst into flames as soon as her friend’s hand brushed it. The flames devoured him, and she just managed to get his last moments on video. No editing involved.
It’s a decrepit old store at the very edge of town, with a sign reading “Alemos Medicine” on the sign. Inside, the store is empty, save for one shelf, filled with bottles of dark brown liquid, which resembles wine. Romanov decides to leave a couple men on watch, and they return to Site-36 with every bottle of liquid they can find in the store.
Testing Report:
Testing is conducted on D-class personnel, where it’s found that the liquid does, in fact, burn you from the inside if you drink it! Fun! Every single person who drinks it, even if you remove it from the original bottle, dilute it with water, whatever, throws up liquid gold (Or at least, something like liquid gold, as testing this is impossible), and whenever a human makes physical contact, they burn alive. The liquid within the bottles is classified as SCP-6424-1. The bottles receive no designation, as they have not been shown to have any anomalous properties whatsoever.
Interestingly, though, to people who don’t drink regularly or haven’t ever had alcohol before, this liquid has a memetic effect where it appears as some other beverage, rather than wine. It smells and tastes accordingly.
Incident Report 1:
About two weeks after testing began, researcher Romanov recieves a message that the personnel he left at the store all came down with horrible cases of Influenza in one night, and were unable to guard the store. Anyone else who attempted to do so immdietly fainted and were discovered to have developed a 110 degree fever within five minutes. The cameras placed around the store whited out. Tech said the lenses were all overloaded with light, so no images could be processed. The event was over within 45 minutes, and the next time someone walked in, the shelf had been restocked with the same bottles. This has been happening for as long as the Foundation has had SCP-6424 under containment once a month, and who or whatever does the restocking has been classified as 6424-A.
Incident Report 2:
Another incident occurs about six months after testing was initiated, where a man named Lawrence Alemos walked up to the store and requested entry. Alemos is 77 years old, and speaks with a slight Greek accent. When his request was denied, he claimed that the bank had had his store for 25 years, couldn’t he at least step inside one more time? Again, this is denied. Alemos then hit MTF member Ross with his walker, and was quickly subdued. He is taken in for an interview by Researcher Moon, Romanov’s assistant. In the interview, Alemos says he inherited the store from his father, and he was an alchemist for years until his operation was shut down in the 80s. There is no explentation on the bottles or the restocking. When asked about it, Alemos shows signs of lying, but there is no way to say he knows or doesn’t know how and why this happens.
Final Statement:
Almost 2 years after SCP-6412 is discovered, one D-Class survives drinking an instance of 6412-1. This D Class, designated D-17394, has a through background listing. She is a child of a single mother, from Arlington, Virginia, who ended up on Death Row at age 18 due to killing an sexually abusive step-father by stabbing him repeatedly with a kitchen knife, beating him with a baseball bat, then strangling him with a shower curtain. Before that, D-1793 had a history of petty theft, street violence, and speeding, and a psychological history of Anger Management issues. So, history of violent crime and sexual trauma. The foundation recruited her, and D-17394 was just another D Class until she survived drinking 6412-1. Her reaction to the drink was,
“That’s it? I mean, I don’t feel much different. I sprained my ankle last week, and it doesn’t hurt anymore, but… yeah, that’s seriously it. Why are y’all looking at me like you’ve seen a ghost?” 8 months later, another D Class survived 6412-1. This one, a male 37-year old, only had one thing in common with 17394. They were both children of single parents. While this could be a coincidence, the Foundation has done genetic testing, and on the patrilineal side for both D-Class there have been no matches found, both for ethnicity or direct familial matches. There appears to be a relation between the two like first cousins once removed, but what this means remains unknown.
Please collapse long posts ~ Leveritas
This is not a draft, this is just an idea dump. More detail will be added if/when I post a draft version of this. Please let me know if you have any ideas on how to improve this concept!
