SCP-559 - "Birthday Cake"

As good a time as any to issue a report on an SCP object. Since it's under the Foundation's control and is secured impenetrably, this document can be issued, although it doesn't exist in any of their databases as they have yet to construct this report.

Scratch that. It's up.

Item #: SCP-559
Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-559 is to be stored appropriately for any object it has taken the form of, within a secure safe containing 3 (three) other baked items inaccessible to those below Level 3 security clearance. Usage of SCP-559 is only to be done under the supervision of Level 4 or higher personnel with prior approval.

Description: As of the time of writing, SCP-559 is a round vanilla birthday cake. However, its powers have been known to exist in other baked items like rolls, puffs or cupcakes. Whichever item SCP-559 has subverted in this manner is easily identified by the words "Birthday Time!" marked out in green icing. Materials testing has returned this icing to be regular green icing with no unusual traits.

When lit candles are placed into SCP-559, they cannot be extinguished by any means by someone who is not celebrating their birthday. However, they can be put out by people whose birthday falls on that day, upon which the subject will have their age changed to the equivalent of the number of candles on SCP-559. This effect lasts for 24 (twenty-four) hours before the subject reverts to their original age.

Testing has revealed several other properties. SCP-559 seems to regard anything burning as a candle, regardless of its size or orientation. Matchsticks, fireworks and even high explosives have been used, and have all shown identical properties when inserted into SCP-559. Tests have been conducted with a number of candles from 1 (one) to above 900 (nine hundred.) Such a high age surprisingly brings about no directly related health problems, and the effects of existing health conditions (weak heart, asthma, etc.) are reduced when "aged" in this manner. In fact, 87% of those who were aged to above 500 years old survived the full 24 hours, although were physically weakened in their aged state.

If SCP-559 is cut or used in the above manner, or the green letters smudges, its current "host" will cease to exhibit the above unusual characteristics, and the nearest intact baked item will gain the powers instead. It has been observed to "travel" in this fashion over 25km (twenty-five kilometres) of sea, and this property led to difficulties during location and retrieval of the object.

Cross-testing with other time-based SCPs, SCP-006 and SCP-224 is pending approval.