SCP Foundation

1) The piano
This piano essentially ruins the musical experience for anybody who plays it. Although this piano gives one the ability to recreate any musical piece from memory, this piano also causes any person who plays it to be unable to compose new work or listen to any music that they don't create with the piano itself.

Those who play the piano report that any music heard after that point sounds unstructured: they report hearing random tones and rhythms instead of what is normally heard. It effects everything from a commercial jingle to a person singing by themselves to full in person orchestras - after playing the piano, one can no longer listen to music.

Those who listen to others play the piano report the player is simply playing in some random, unstructured fashion, however the player will report that they recreated a composition perfectly from memory.

While the piano has no direct effects other than that which was described, many exposed to the piano develop psychotic and obsessive symptoms surrounding the piano. It is thought that the stress of constantly hearing unstructured music is what causes psychotic reactions, not interaction with the piano itself.

This effect is independent of musical fluency, however those with technical musical knowledge are able to describe their experience in more detail, revealing details such as the ability to create non 12 tone songs on the obviously 12 tone keyboard of the piano.

The piano was recovered with a human female after reports of noise complaints. The female shows intense signs of paranoia, psychosis and obsessive behavior. Any attempts to interview the female result in her continually demanding to be allowed to play the piano. No information about the piano, nor the subject herself, has been extracted from the female.

With this I plan to get very technical and scientific; there will be many attached studies and experiments. I also plan to expand greatly into the technical explanations of what the piano is capable of, which will basically be anything, with careful attention given to examples that make no physical sense considering the construction of the piano (for example, being able to play 24 tone songs on the 12 tone keyboard). I also plan to go into detail on the physical experiments on the piano, such as taking it apart, replacing parts etc…

2) The Priest of Augustine
Much simpler than the piano, the priest is a human male in early christian vestments with a crimson red vale covering the face. The human reports himself to be a priest of saint augustine, although gives very little other details. He does not give his name or age, and when asked of his motivations he reports he is a priest who specializes in using guilt to heal sin.

The priest is extremely charismatic, and often encourages those he interacts with to discuss their sins with him. The priest offers confession services under two conditions: no attempts be made to record the confession in any way, and that it be done in private. This includes anything from recording with cameras to logging the conversation as it happens.

The priest exhibits supernatural knowledge: he is aware of any surveillance at any time, to include eavesdropping. He also expresses knowledge of personal sin any person he interacts with has committed, however he will not expose any sin outside of private conversation.

Those who participate in confession develop extreme suicidal tendencies. After confession, interviewees will immediately express immense guilt surrounding christian sins and attempt to seek any source of suicide. There are no other physiological effects other than untreatable depression

When questioned about his techniques or any confessions, he refuses to answer. When confronted with the fact his confessions cause suicide, he expresses no guilt.

This will probably be dialog heavy with many interviews with the priest. He'll need a personality so some rough dialog or character sketches would help.