SCP-8000 contest entries abridged daily
S D Locke's entry - The Age of Endless Night
One collapsible, a few crosslinks (SCP-3125 and SCP-2316 mentioned in passing, SCP-999 and SCP-096 are... featured? They're not a 1:1 representation, but the links are there), and there's no GOIs or well-known SCPF characters
The document isn't structured like a standard SCP file, as in, it doesn't have containment procedures, per se. In fact, the anomaly in question is to be stolen - the opposite of contained - and delivered to the local equivalent of O5 council. The clinical tone is mixed together with a fantasy victorian-esque style writing, and while there are some general strokes in common, it's unclear where and when things are taking place, as well as how the universe of TAoEN connects to the SCPF we know and love. Subjectively, it feels similar to a mix between Bellerverse Canon, Daybreak 001 proposal and one of the SCP-6500 paths (of note, the latter two are written/co-written by Locke)
The anomalies detailed are four items belonging to one Lady Hylda. In order of appearence (and presumably importance), there's a moonlight scepter with healing properties, a circlet of eyes with telepathic abilities, a vestment with a unknown powers but a notable five-pointed star emblazoning, and a piece of scale of remarkable durability against physical and magical threats. All four are located in the castle that once belonged to aforementioned Lady Hylda. Local O5 equivalent ideally wants all four, but the most important is the scepter.
A great majority of the article consists of what would be, in SCPF terms, probably dubbed a Retrival Log - an unnamed mercenary is tasked with breaking, entering and stealing the artifacts. With him is a beastmaster - a man capable of projecting his senses onto animal familiars, namely, a bat. It is through the eyes of this bat that the log is percieved, with the beastmaster themselves writing things down as they happen.
The retrival log is interspersed with various files surrounding anomalous phenomena in the vicinity of the castle. First of these is of the Radiant, a type of immortal flesh creature that feels rather familiar to those found in Daybreak canon, though this time the source seems to be the scepter and not the ever-present sun. The Radiant are all over the castle and are plenty around it. The mercenary sneaks on the roads when they are ambushed by one of the flesh monsters. A short scuffle happens before it is intervened by a man with a sack on his face. Crosslink suggests him to be the Shy Guy, or at least a version of him, and neither the mercenary, the bat or the flesh creature fancy looking at him, choosing instead to simply run past (I don't blame them)
Several more flesh cretures are fought off and/or escaped by the mercenary before he gets into the castle walls, where he finds the next anomaly - SCP-999, known here as Monkling, an innocent-looking sentient orange growth with devious mind and illusory abilities. Notably, while 999 is strictly benevolent in SCPF universe, Monkling in 8000 file is depicted as growing on corpses, which probably isn't a good sign. Monkling attempts to chat with the mercenary, but the latter pays it no mind and explores the castle tunnels by themselves for an hour before stumbling onto another Monkling. The orange goop successfully tricks the mercenary into activating a trap and almost kills him, but the bat-familiar of the beastmaster manages to save his companion.
Final addendum break describes Lady Hylda - a healer of royal status, who has kept the entire land healthy by herself. The addendum details Hylda's kind and generous personality, her achievements and most importantly, her relationship with a mer-kin member called Mirlethe, the latter falling in love with Hylda, the two marrying and subsequently getting attacked by other mer-kin. Prejudice and stuff
On the courtyard of Lady Hylda's castle, the sight isn't pretty - literal bloodshed, signs of violent struggles, if not an outright siege. Most bodies were claimed by the Radiant and taken away, although one remains - suspended by a fishhook is the mutated radiant body of Mirlethe.
As the two intruders explore the grand hall of the castle, more carnage can be seen, mostly dried blood and weapons both mer-kin and human. No sign of the lady herself in the halls or the throne room, so the mercenary makes their way to Hylda's personal chamber, where they find a body, laying on the bed, with a sheet covering it fully. Weeping.
Mercenary attempts to remove the sheet, the weeping stops and in a moment all hell breaks loose. Hylda's misshapen body attacks the thief, revealed to be fused to the four items initially detailed at the start of the article. The mercenary is attacked again and again, and while they fend off Hylda with a sword and a shotgun, the serpentine body of Hylda crashes the mercenary through a wall and they both fall out on the courtyard, where Hylda's eyes are drawn to the corrupted corpse of her groom.
Overwhelmed by emotion, Hylda lifts down the undying remains of Mirlethe and "heals" him with the moonlight scepter... except it doesn't go well. The two are fused into a toad-like creature, which immediately attacks the mercenary with renewed vigor, but the thief gets lucky and strikes down the beast, severing off the healing scepter with his sword, then cleaving the creature's head in half. The thief and the beastmaster take the scepter and depart.
Except the mercenary doesn't fancy going to the O5 equivalent and runs off with the scepter. Their fate is presently unknown
Tl;dr: Four magical items and a story of how a mercenary retrieves them, with narrative style similar in vibes to When Day Breaks and SCP-6500. The story features some anomalies, but not in a way you remember them, which suggests some shenanigans, but I'm not certain which exact kind I'm looking at here
