PKIV

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: All property owners within SCP-XXXX's influence are to be monitored for late payments on water bills. Those behind on their water bills are to be offered financial aid through a charity front. Should a property owner deny or be misuse the funds, an attempt must be made to either acquire the title of their property or create a scenario that gets them enough funds where further nonpayment would be a result of pure negligence. If the water bills continue to go unpaid for three consecutive months, the property owner is to be terminated in a manner that can be deemed to be an accident.

To maintain a certain level of predictability and minimize retaliation, any operations that hinder the business of Freshest Water Inc. are prohibited. Efforts to dismantle the company through the removal of key figures and the source of its anomalous abilities are instead underway. The company's decentralized and secretive has greatly slowed progress in this respect.

Description: SCP-XXXX is the anomalous phenomenon of distribute liquid water over vast distances. This distribution can be perceived as the sudden dematerialization and materialization of water. This ability is currently under the control of Freshest Water Inc., a decentralized water company operating in the United States. It currently provides its services in thirty-seven cities, five of which with a population over one hundred thousand. Testing has shown the water it provides is not anomalous in its makeup but has no discernible source: the infrastructure exists to pump water from its towers but none to pump it in. Testing of the water reveals a lack of salts and impurities found in local water tables. Testing its water against samples from around the world, a sample from Antarctica proved to be a ninety-seven percent match.

SCP-XXXX has been employed as a weapon, only consistency against property owners with excessive debts towards Freshest Water Inc.; property owners who haven't paid a water bill in three monthly billing cycles will, through SCP-XXXX's ability of instantaneous displacement, be unable to take in any amount of water through any means. Only when the payments are made in full by the property owner will their ability to intake water be reinstated, otherwise they will expire within three to four days due to the effects of extreme dehydration. Other uses include the use supercooled and superheated water to protect it's personnel and property.

The company's use of SCP-XXXX first came to the Foundation's attention on 3/7/2015 after an agent noticed an increase in reported cases of severe dehydration in Denton, Texas. The agent noted that those affected remained dehydrated despite the frequent consumption of water. The Foundation was able to tie these cases to Freshest Water Inc. through late payment letters from the company in almost every address of those affected. The first evidence of Freshet Water Inc. in the area came a year before when they won a contract to provide the city's water. Four months prior to suspect cases of dehydration the company had completed its water tower for the surrounding area.

On 10/7/2015, a team of five agents was sent to investigate the tower and ascertain the source of its water. One member was able to enter through the top hatch and climbed down the interior ladder. They found that water was flowing from one central point ten meters above the tower's pool, coming from 'thin air'. The agent, shortly after their observation, noted a cold feeling in their arms that spread throughout their body, then reported pain, followed by [DATA EXPUNGED] and the presumed expiration of the agent. A layer of ice then formed over the hatch that prevented other members from entering. An unauthorized attempt to cut into the tower to rescue the member lead to [DATA EXPLUNGED], leading to two additional casualties. Human blood could be found in the water supply for a week's time following the incident until a servicing team came to the tower to remove the contamination. Interrogation of the team brought to light nothing; they were a local team usually employed by cartels to clean up crime scenes. The team had all their communications devices reviewed before given Class-A amnestics were administered and released.

A number to a support line for Freshest Water Inc. was found on one of the devices of the team. When called, any mention of SCP-XXXX or the nature of the company's anomalous abilities is met with confusion and/or deflection followed by an offer to transfer to another department. Transfers to other departments have the same or similar results. Attempts to locate support line staff lead to individually contracted persons working from home. Interrogation has shown that these persons know little to nothing about the workings of Freshest Water Inc. and only follow instructions from a provided checklist.

Testing Logs

Format Subject(s):

Duration: DD/MM/YYYY - DD/MM/YYYY *Optional HH:MM:SS

Procedure:

Results:



Subject(s): D-1648

Duration: 13/08/2015 - 02/11/2015

Procedure: A residence is purchased in full under the subject's name. The subject is to inhabit the home for a three-month period and is instructed to not pay a single water bill.

Results: Subject experienced the effects of SCP-XXXX-1 at approx 12:00 am on 01/11/2015, coinciding with the termination of all water facilities in the house.



Subject(s): D-1648

Duration: 01/11/2015 08:30:15 - 10:23:42

Procedure: Subject consumes regular distilled water.

Results: Subject consumed the entirety of a fifty-gallon water container, drinking over twenty-five in one continuous sip due to a wager by one of the testing personal. The subject noted that they can feel the water entering their body despite none being absorbed.



Subject(s): D-1648

Duration: 01/11/2015 10:30:12 - 11:01:48

Procedure: Direct IV line of distilled water into the subject's bloodstream

Results: No water entered the subject. Test cut short due to constant blockage of the IV around the section that entered the subject's arm due to contaminates left behind by the water.



Subject(s): D-1648

Duration: 01/11/2015 12:06:59 - 13:24:31

Procedure: Consumption of food.

Results: Subject was able to consume and get nutrients from cantaloupe, chicken, and spinach but took in no water. The subject had difficulty swallowing both the cantaloupe and spinach until eating the chicken. It is hypothesized that the fats of the chicken assisted in swallowing.



Subject(s): D-1648

Duration: 01/11/2015 08:30:45 - 02/11/2015 2:12:23

Procedure: Consumption of wheat-based alcoholic beverages smuggled in by D-1648.

Results: There was no water intake but their blood alcohol content increased quicker than on average. The discovery of the subject's drinking came when the subject showed signs of intoxication by the midday. A twenty-four pack of beers was discovered in the subject's closet and confiscated. The subject noted that three beers seemed to do the same as eight.



Subject(s): D-1648 and D-5876

Duration: 02/11/2015 09:23:48

Procedure: Through legal methods, transfer the title of the residence from D-1648 to D-5876.

Results: SCP-XXXX-1 symptoms disappeared from D-1648 and appeared in D-5876 following the completion of legally required paperwork. D-1648 showed signs of recovering of dehydration, only a hangover from the previous day persisting.



Subject(s): D-1648 and D-5876

Duration: 03/11/2015 - 03/11/2015

Procedure: Through legal methods, transfer the title of the residence from D-5876 to D-1648.

Results: Upon completion of the required paperwork, D-1648 began to lose all the water in their body until they were reduced to a dried out and lifeless cadaver. The entire process occurred throughout the course of five minutes. In an autopsy, no water could be found down to the molecular level.

Addendum XXXX-01: Through weekly attempts to ascertain information from the company's helpline, a call made its way through to the company's CEO, Mathew M. Haymen. An agent was able to make contact with him under the guise of a charity worker from the Foundation's charity front.

-Call Transcript-

Agent Shaden: Hello, this is Stanley Brown calling for the [REDACTED] Foundation. I'm just calling to ask a few questions about the company you work for.

Mr. Haymen: Silence

Agent Shaden: Hello?

Mr. Haymen: I'd never meant to go this way, you know. All of this- its too much. Too much.

Agent Shaden: I'm sorry, who is that?

Mr. Haymen: I wasn't sure at first, I'd pegged you guys as some kind of last-ditch effort to take us down by those obsolete fucks.

Agent Shaden: Look, I don't really know-

Mr. Haymen: I'd like to talk with who ever's pulling the strings. I'm fairly certain they can do something about this mess.

Agent Shaden: I can call up my boss if you want, he might be more-

Mr. Haymen: Mr. Shaden, I don't know it all, but I know enough. I'm going outside where you met her, three days from now at 12:00pm.

Agent Shaden: I- I, what?

Mr. Haymen: We can talk more there… I know its not much, but I truly am very very sorry for your loss.

Agent Shaden: Wait, you're Haymen! You killed her! You killed my-

-Call Terminated-

Addendum XXXX-02:

The body of Mathew M. Haymen was recovered on 7/12/2015 at 12:09 pm after a team intercepted an ambulance on its route away from a shooting in front of an Italian restaurant in [REDACTED]. The remains of Bartholomew H. Shaden were found at the scene, their complete upper half completely disintegrated, suspected to be the result of superheated water being materialized in their right lung. Although Shaden fired several shots at Haymen, Haymen expired due to injuries sustained from the explosion that terminated Shaden.

The location Agent Shaden intially provided had been across town from the incident. Haymen's cellphone was heavily damaged in the explosion and it's contents are currently being extracted.

Any attempt to call the helpline only comes back to a repeating recorded message: