SCP-466-FR : The Cottage Pottage

SCP-466-FR is a hereditary anomaly that affects the descendants of Pierre Murat, a French scientist and occultist born in 1785. The anomaly manifests when an affected individual is asked to recite the recipe for a dish called the "cottage pottage," which they will proceed to do despite having never known or learned said recipe. The outcome of its preparation, still by a descendant of Pierre Murat, is a thick, clumpy soup which will overflow its container before growing into a dozen-meter wide, yellow bubbling puddle. After a few minutes, a bulge will form in the center of the puddle, followed by the disappearance of most of the yellow substance to reveal white wattle and daub walls; the remaining substance will solidify into a thatched roof. The resulting building is referred to as SCP-466-FR-A.

• A bowl of hazelnuts
• A bottle of milk
• The strongest of all peppers
• 100 liters of warm water from a bath (very important)
• Three bricks of jet coal
• A flaming bundle of twigs
• A black bow-tie
• [REDACTED]

Boil until the desired result is reached (clumping is to be expected). Taste-test and add salt if needed. Do not consume.

SCP-466-FR-A has a surface area of 300 m². The inside is decorated with wooden furniture, paintings in the impressionist style and decorative paraphernalia in the First French Empire style. The building can only be present in one place at a time: when a new "cottage pottage" is prepared in a different location, SCP-466-FR-A disappears from where it was and re-materializes at the new location.

The building is inhabited by a woman with an estimated age of thirty years, only known under the name Marguerite, designated Person of Interest 1702 (PoI-1702). PoI-1702 operates SCP-466-FR-A as a tea shop intended for travelers who enter the building. PdI-1702's motivations and connections to the Murat family are currently unknown uncovered during Exploration Mission 466-FR-01.

Addendum: Discovery of the object

The Foundation had suspected SCP-466-FR's existence since the discovery of a human skeleton with bones scattered across a large area with, at the center, traces of a vanished building. A number of similar skeletons were since discovered. It was theorized that these remains belonged to descendants of the Murat family who ingested the "cottage pottage" by mistake, causing SCP-466-FR-A to materialize inside of their stomachs. When a genealogical link was noticed between the victims, an investigation was opened and revealed the SCP-466-FR hereditary anomaly.

The vast majority of those remains were unearthed in the vicinity of Rome, Italy.

Addendum: Exploration Mission Report 466-FR-01

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Born in 1785 to a Parisian bourgeois family, Pierre Murat studied at the Central School of Public Works (later the Polytechnic School) in 1805, where he was noticed by Monsieur de Cramecuzac and offered to join Napoleon I's Singular Imperial Academy, which he accepted. A brilliant and hard-working researcher, he conducted studies on metamorphosis and thaumaturgy with diligence as yet unseen in the young Academy. His high salary allowed him to purchase a cottage in rural Picardy.

Unlucky in love, it was said of Pierre Murat that he drowned his loneliness in science; he had a habit of staying at the laboratory at the end of the work day and working all night on a project whose nature was unknown to all. It was possibly SCP-466-FR. From 1810 on, the researcher was described as happier and more diligent than ever.

In 1814, with the fall of the First French Empire, the Singular Imperial Academy was dissolved and Pierre Murat's equipment was seized, including that of his secret project. This event appears to have profoundly scarred him; he later moved to Brittany and never worked with occult sciences again.

For more information, see Exploration Mission Report 466-FR-01 (Level 3).