SCP Foundation

Tale synopsis:
The entire tale takes place within a wedding venue following the gradual emergence of the anomaly. The groom, Trevor, is followed throughout his day as he interacts with his family and friends, all whilst strange occurrences are beginning to happen. Things are disappearing; small things at first, like his glasses and drinks, and he finds them in strange places. This leads trevor to believe that his friends are playing a joke on him, and of course, as the anomaly grows and becomes more apparent, more begins to disappear.

As Trevor is followed from morning to evening, drawing nearer to the ceremony, Trevor begins to loose his patience and begins to investigate who may be moving/taking his things, inevitably being unable to find the suspects. His temper grows as we approach the end of the tale.

The ceremony takes place in a beautiful garden behind the wedding venue, where everyone is seated and waiting for Trevor to stand at the front. The wedding then proceeds as one may expect, until the bride arrives and they turn to meet each other at the front. The bride vanishes before everyones eyes, causing a mass of confusion and panic to erupt; everyone flees, all except trevor, who is stood in shock of the situation.

It doesn’t take long for word to get out about what happened, especially due to a recording on an attendees phone, which successfully caught the foundations attention. The place was soon flooded with foundation personnel, who seized Trevor and swept the venue for any information. They recovered a handful of unconscious people in seemingly scattered locations (These were the people Trevor looked for), experiencing symptoms of extreme motion sickness and dizziness. They also recovered deleted messages between the bride and an anonymous jeweller who was previously suspected to be a member of the serpent’s Hand. A pair of cufflinks that were worn by Trevor are suspected to have harboured anomalous qualities, but from Trevor’s testimony, he doesn’t show any signs of withholding knowledge and is genuine in his ignorance of the anomalous situation.

Important Details To Mention:
At the start of the tale, Trevor marvels at some cufflinks that were custom made and gifted to him by his soon-to-be wife. Gradually throughout the tale, he mentions the cufflinks irritating his wrists, and this gets progressively worse until the ending where they become painful and appear withered and degraded.

Its revealed at the end of the tale, through recovered emails, that the wife commissioned an anonymous jeweller to create a pair of cufflinks that posses certain qualities that will transmit into the person who has contact with them. She also mentions that she needed to escape from something.

Another detail to mention is that throughout the tale, Trevor is somewhat aggressive about how he deals with uncertainty, usually caused by the things disappearing. The readers should be introduced to a likeable Trevor at the start, then slowly begin to dislike Trevor until the end, where readers would sympathise with the wife after the reveal.
EDIT:16 JAN. After reading through this part in my head, I feel that any normal person would be extremely annoyed if unexpected events were to happen, especially ones that may detriment the wedding as a whole. So I feel that I may need to alter this part a little bit to make Trevor have an irrational temper instead of a rational one

At the end of the tale, the people who Trevor suspected to have moved/taken his things were found unconscious in seemingly random locations within the venue.

What is the anomaly?
The anomaly causes anything that Trevor actively searches for to disappear to a new location, to one that is particularly elusive to Trevor. As the anomaly grows, Trevor finds it harder and harder to find the missing things, until he just gives up on them.
NOTE. The anomaly is limited to the space Trevor resides in, but when his wife disappears when they are outside, it is suggested that she may never be found.

Motive of the wife?
At the end, it should be implied that trevor wasn’t the joyous man that the readers began to like, but a tempered, abusive guy. In an attempt to teach Trevor a lesson about his explosive way of dealing with uncertainty, the anomaly is irreversibly soaked into his skin, making him have to deal with the uncertainty for the rest of his life.

I never intended to make the things that go missing impossible to find, just really really really hard. But I like your idea of him hating being inadequate when people choose to help; it gives the dude a realistic irrational trait that some readers may be able to relate to, and may allow for side character developments, but we’ll see.

I love the idea that the dude would need to ask the foundation for help to have a chance at getting his wife back, but some part of me feel like that would be sort of inconsistent with how I’ve read the foundation to be. I could be mistaken, my recollection isn't the greatest.
- I doubt the foundation would waste resources to help the guy out, especially to find a non-anomalous human who would just be amnesticized upon recovery. But then again she may have info on the Serpent’s Hand.
- The dude would still be kept in containment, unless the wife reverses the effects. But I’m not sure what the foundation’s policy on ‘fixing’ anomalies is.

Again, thanks for the crit Zyn! I love your ideas and I do think they add a whole dimension to it. I may write a new summary and then post again. Should I just comment it on this post or create a new thread? Ive already made 3 threads relating to this concept and I feel like I should keep it all in one place, y’know. Or I could start writing a draft to then put up on drafts and critiques. I’m not sure yet.

EDIT:
I was just brainstorming other ways the story could end, and I came up with one I felt most likely wouldn’t work, but would be interesting to see what you think. This would be a twist, but would make the tale too long and convoluted to the max.

Once they find the wife, she asks the agent who found her to let her see her husband and remove the cufflinks from his wrists; and in turn she would give the foundation information about the Serpent’s Hand.

They agree to this deal and bring her over to the site where the dude is. They take precautions to make sure she doesn’t posses any anomalous items on her. They then bring her into the chamber to see the dude, and after an emotional reunion, she proceeds to fiddle with the cufflinks. Every agent currently within vicinity freezes, unable to move, and she then asks the dude to come with her and join the Serpent’s Hand. She then takes a keycard from a frozen agent and leaves the chamber, proceeding to try and get information from the researchers computer. The dude then attacks her from the back and kills her. Everyone unfreezes and sees the dude standing over his wife’s body.