Item #: SCP-EQ-012
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-EQ-012 is to be kept under a clear glass cover in the center of a 12 m x 12 m x 8 m reinforced concrete room. Adjacent rooms on all sides cannot be used for sensetive purposes. No door is to be affixed to the lone entryway into the room. Four (4) guards must be on duty around the entryway at all times.
Testers need to have their identities triple checked and possess written permission from at least two (2) Level 4 or higher personnel to enter the containment cell. Due to risk of catastrophic containment breach, all testing must be done within the containment cell. SCP-EQ-012 may not leave its cell for any reason.
Description: SCP-EQ-012 is a large pale blue gemstone, with a rounded head approximately the width of a hoof that tapers to a sharp point. It has a gold band 3 cm thick welded to the upper circumference and a gold ring with two points on it magically suspended around this band. A similar golden cap covers the tip of the gemstone. The gemstone appears to have been expertly carved at some point, displaying a round double cut with eight distinct sides.
SCP-EQ-012's anomalous properties activate when it is brought within five meters of a lock, whereupon the lock will magically distend into a conical cavity. Should SCP-EQ-012 be inserted into this cavity, the lock will instantly disengage on its own.
Testing has shown that SCP-EQ-012 will even work on locks that do not require a physical key to open. Types of locks affected by SCP-EQ-012 include key-in-lever locks, padlocks, combination locks, dead bolt locks, drop bolt locks, magnetic locks, vault doors, barred doors, barricades, knotted ropes (all knots in general), latched boxes, sliding puzzle cubes, code cylinders, entry pads, hoof print scanners, horn locks, binding spells, magical sealing constructs, [REDACTED], and [REDACTED]. SCP-EQ-012 will not react to locks that do not serve any purpose, such as carvings of keyholes or locks that have been damaged to the point of not functioning. Should a surface or object not have enough surface area, it will anomalously gain mass or distend until it can create the cavity. This warping does not have any affect on any object behind the locked surface.
Should SCP-EQ-012 be removed from the area of a lock without using it, the lock will regain its original shape and be usable again. However should it be inserted into the cavity, the hole will retain its new shape and be rendered inoperable for future use.
SCP-EQ-012 must be placed into a cavity by a willing subject. It must be placed by hoof, as all attempts at remote insertion have been unsuccessful. Once it has been used by a subject to open a lock, it will shatter to dust should it ever come into contact with that subject again. The remains slowly reform into its original shape over the course of twenty-four hours. How it remembers which pony has already used it in the past is still being determined.
It was originally assumed that SCP-EQ-012's ability to discern whether an object is locked was due to some type of sentience, but this has been disproved. A latched box was crafted and disguised as a foal's toy where shaped blocks are placed into holes and a D-class with no knowledge of SCP-EQ-012's properties was instructed to use it. The box failed to open when SCP-EQ-012 was placed in its cavity, leading researchers to believe that it only functions if the user recognizes that the lock exists.
Additional Notes: I would like to take a moment to impress upon all staff that SCP-EQ-012 is one of the most potentially dangerous objects the foundation possesses. Not in and of itself, but because of what it could unleash. SCP-EQ-012 can open any cell, undo any containment procedure, and we simply have no way to stop it other than to remove the locks ourselves. What if some enemy were to discover it and use it against us? Even worse, what if it gets on the other side of a door and renders us unable to unlock our own cells? Do not let its apparently harmless nature fool you; SCP-EQ-012 is just as dangerous as any Keter threat in its own way.
So "The vending machine ate my money!" is NOT an appropriate excuse to jeopardize everything we work for! That, and the machine is unusable now. Whoever you are, I hope the peanut butter crackers were worth it.
--- Head Researcher T___ T_____
The classic skeleton key SCP, able to unlock any recognised locks. This concept has been used a lot in fiction, like the Skeleton Key in the Elder Scrolls or the original SCP skeleton key itself. I like this take on the concept. since not only does it open a lock, it renders that same lock inoperable in future. This SCP is a containment breach just waiting to happen, some enemy force using it to unlock and free SCP-EQ-005 or using it to steal other SCP objects like SCP-EQ-006. Worse if they unlock something really dangerous, putting it back in its box is even more troublesome.
And of course someone uses it inappropriately, I can't blame them really. Deep down most of us would be tempted to do the same... Also that Head Researcher, based on the name length, the only ponies I found that seemed to fit were Tall Tale and Top Marks.
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Time Turner?
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All the better to ensure there isn't a Mercer Frey that decides to get a little eager to have that kind of key.
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Do you take recommendations?
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I mean that's the obvious answer. But I was just guessing based on the length of the redaction box/black box. Also it's kinda needless to blot out the names like this, it's very old school Series 01. And not a practice that is actively encouraged anymore. Sorry rambling, it's just one of those things that really bugs me.
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Yeah, I mean I don't think this key can do that. And that kind of testing could be potentially dangerous. Potentially likely to kill or mentally change the pony/sapient affected by it.
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I highlighted the blacked out space and counted the number of missing letters.
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Would that really stop someone with a thief's mindset?
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Yeah I guessed, like I also guessed how many letters their were too, based on what I thought it was lengthwise.
All that's missing now are some Tales.
Say Tempest could be forcefully conscripted by the Foundation for her crimes.
Why do I feel like the creature who did this is basically this foundation's Dr. Bright?
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I am now imagining Trixie as Dr. Bright. I hold you responsible for any nightmares and/or teacup-related phobias.
Of course, someone really crazy genius might even try to use it to unlock the Foundations encrypted database and files?
Hehehe, I can imagine Pinkie Pie and/or Cheese Sandwich as Dr. Wondertainment. And I can imagine the Tree of Harmony not being too happy with the Foundation, likely demanding Twilight and her friends to return the stolen SCP's such as 06..... or face the consequences.
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Cheese already has his own factory. It practically writes itself.
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I dunno if Trixie could reach those levels of Dr. Bright insanity. Or the more morose/down ot the Earth Jack Bright that is sometimes seen. Not that it wouldn't be neat. She even kinda fits given she wore the Alicorn Amulet, Bright wears his own amulet that always revives him.
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Maybe the Flim Flam Brothers would be better suited to this role? As I recall they never really had a redemption, which is fine in my opinion. And they are notable for making various magical contraptions. Just treat their absence/disappearance in show as them going underground to sell their products?
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I'd actually make them more akin to MC&D, Dr. Wondertainment tries to bring joy with it's anomalies. The Flim Flam Brothers are all about the money.
The way I see, Pinkie could be a distant relative of the pony version of the original Dr. Wonderteinement due to her randoness and sometimes reckless actions when come to make ponies happy.
In the Capitalist Adventure you could almost picture Pinkie in the place of Isabela.
Speaking of Pinkie what she does is condirate odd for ponies, so therefpre in some moment in the past the Foundation decided to capture her but every attempt enden in failure and was decided to keep close observation when whe become a PoI.
Hmmm. I'd say that Discord never got redeemed in this universe due to being put under Foundation lock and key after being sealed up for the second time.
Also, I now have the idea of the Tree of Harmony making a GOI in the strange mixture of the Serpents Hand, taking the School of Friendship to its own dimension as punishment for not obeying its request for the stolen Safe class SCPs to be given back, and the Church of the Broken God, when it gets destroyed the Messenger of the Tree sends the students to raid Foundation sites to put it back together. With the Student 6 being leaders of the cult.
Rainbow Dash, who's either Head of Security or just a POI, breaks Fluttershy out of containment when she learns of her kidnapping/containment, and flees to the GOI now dubbed Church of the Broken Tree, formerly known as the School of Friendship.
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The auhor include her title as well, Princess Luna.
What happens if a pony is holding a door shut, will the holding pony physically be forced to turn the door open?
Is the object able to open one-way doors backwards? I'm thinking a fire exit that normally cannot be opened from the outside, because a lot of them are flush with the wall and have no manner of entry.
additional note
O5-1: hey i think this is just like the skeleton key but it breaks