SCP Item 8100201437060: "Hannigan."

 Item 8100201437060:  "Hannigan."

Class: Safe

Security Level: 1

Containment:  Minimal.

Description:  Bulky 1980's television set with wheeled stand and top loading Betamax player.  Requires electricity to operate.  Betamax tape winds and plays by itself, as if controlled by some otherworldly entity.  Attempts to replace the Betamax with a DVD or BluRay player, VCR or electronic gaming equipment have resulted in technicians contracting Egyptian plagues, which go away the moment Betamax is returned to the machine.

Displays one program, Hannigan, a plodding formulaic TV movie series which ran from 1968-2006.  Hannigan only has 21 episodes in total, but the anomalous television, according to most recent tabulation, has generated more than 367 variations on those 21 episodes, including several in which the detective is brutally murdered, loses his badge, or makes no appearance in the program whatsoever.

The effect of watching the program appears to be harmless.  Programming continues to play, regardless of whether anyone watches it or not.  The device seems to be merely a self contained universe of fictional characters embued with life through unexplained otherworldly energies.

SCP Item 38053563824: "The Death Collector."

Item 38053563824:  "The Death Collector."

Class:  Euclid

Security Level:  2

Containment:  Lock up.  Do not allow access.

Description:  Black Avaya conference phone with telephone headset and associated monitor and tower.  Object was acquired from the offices of Sunbank Private Label Credit Cards, now protected under bankruptcy, with name changed to (REDACTED).  Equipment uses telephone autodialing system to conduct collections calls with the deceased.  These business transactions sound completely mundane, often involving payments with real bank account numbers, but the person has recently died, and often the volume never rises above a whisper.  Customer audio can only be recorded with special equipment.  Only the operator's voice registers on standard recording devices.   

First recorded incident:  Grant Billington, 28, reported fraud on his grandfather's debit card two days after the man died from Hodgkins Lymphoma.  Telephone operator was subjected to disciplinary action, but management could not explain how the OP could consistently hold 5-10 minute conversations with someone they could never hear on recordings, and somehow acquire payment information, nor could they understand why their automated dialing system always appeared to send OP calls from a pool of live accounts, yet only record conversations between OP and seemingly nothing. 

Upon firing three OPS, Sunbank management decided the phone to be at fault, though no official apologies or reimbursements were sent to dismissed agents.

Sliders: Ruined multiverse part 4

 In "Fever," they land on a world with the plague running rampant. It's actually like the year 2020.  A lot like 2020. 

Multiverse impact: 

1. None of them had fully recovered from the plague. There's still a chance they were carrying. Quinn's girlfriend had to recover in a tent. Although their next slide was a world with widespread cannibalism, normal people could possibly encounter blankets or something containing the plague, and spread it to the rest of the world. Of course nobody cares if all the cannibals die.

It begs the question of what kind of microbes they already carry, and leave on other worlds. Maybe they are patient zero for some covid-like outbreak on a different world.

2. They handed several people wads of money from another world.  This would lead to counterfeiting charges, or some serious scientific investigation.

In the episode following, they stop an asteroid, but they had to help a mad scientist create an atomic bomb in order to do it. The impact is obvious: "If anyone messes with us...BOOM!"

Also there's the time travel/sliding device in the basement that Quinn tinkered with. I definitely seem to remember other sliders following them.

Zelda and the bag of poop

 A little disappointed that the stink bag in Zelda: Oracle of ages isn't more versatile.

For example:

Cat: I'm so hungry. I need food!

Link: I have a bag of s#$$. I think that will fill you up.

Man: This windmill isn't running properly. If only there were some kind of grease I could use to make it go faster.

Link: I have a bag of $###. It can make things slippery.

Man: I can't make my mail deliveries because I don't have a clock.

Link: Will a bag of $### help?