SCP-2635

SCP-2635, also known as Hot Potato, is a Euclid-class object.

Out-of-universe, it is infamous for making an attempt to include almost all Groups of Interest in one singular narrative.

Summary
SCP-2635 is a small red potato. When an organization possesses it for more than one calendar year, half of all members inside (rounded up) die of spontaneous combustion. This effect is anti-memetic as the fires do not cause any significant impact outside of the deaths of affected personnel.

Originally created as part of a six-piece set by an Are We Cool Yet artist, the potato somehow (presumably in an incident involving Neptune Jugend, a Mekhanist Extremist with ties to Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd.) winds up lost in the mailroom of defense contractor Redwater. This incinerates 351 personnel and causes Redwater to fold into MC&D.

Jugend later hands the potato off to a Neo-Sarkic cult, which incinerates 8,300 cultists as an act of terrorism by MC&D. The Foundation later recovers the potato along with several other MC&D artifacts, but gets stolen eight months later by a sect of the Chaos Insurgency. It too falls victim to the incineration effect, with the Foundation surmising that the entire incident was an elaborate set-up by the Global Occult Coalition.

A Serpent's Hand mole within the CI then proceeds to use the potato for their own ends, incinerating heads of state and, oddly enough, Marcus Rose of a Serpent's Hand task force.

Almost three months later, the potato mysteriously appears in the Euclid wing of a Foundation site. Site-58 and the Unusual Incidents Unit's Tamarack Building are constructed to handle the potato's properties, and the two organizations now swap possession of it every ten months.

This containment procedure does not go unnoticed, however. A yam, designated SCP-2635-B, suddenly surfaces on Dr. Nottingham's desk, and burns him due to a constant temperature of 420 degrees Celsius. Taped to the yam is a note from AWCY that accuses the Foundation and UIU of "cheating," while suggesting that the potato is meant to be passed along to more groups like a real game of hot potato, hence the article title.