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Note from Area Head Dr. ββββββ: It has been twenty-two months since the last entity emerged from the pool. Before this, the longest period of time between emergences was eight months. I suspect this means one of two things. Either the Red Pool has "died" or "powered down" or whatever the correct term for it is; or it is "charging up" for something big to come through. O5 believes the former is the most likely explanation, and has recalled 30% of our total personnel and cut 25% of our funding. While I can only hope that they are correct, if the latter situation is true, we're soon to face some terrible monstrosity and we won't have anywhere near the force necessary to deal with it. I worry for all of our safety. |
Document 354-4: Event Log 354-20 |
In the morning of [DATA EXPUNGED] the entire staff of Area-354 evacuated the facility. However, the staff also shut down power to the area and took a number of supplies and vehicles from the facility, indicating that the evacuation had not been done due to an emergency. Mobile Task Force Theta-12 was dispatched to investigate the cause of the evacuation and, if possible, make contact with Area's staff. However before MTF Ξ-12 could make contact with Area-354 or its evacuees, the Area's on site warhead was detonated, resulting in the destruction of the entire facility and the deaths of [DATA EXPUNGED]. |
MTF Ξ-12 was ordered to make contact with the evacuated personnel and, in the event of hostility, was given clearance to terminate any uncooperative personnel. A large convoy of vehicles taken from Area-354 was spotted heading southward from Area-354 at high speed. Final audio logs from MTF Ξ-12 indicate that the convoy was made up of Area-354's staff, and that the previous chain of command had broken down in its entirety, with armed D-class personnel and research personnel firing upon MTF Ξ-12. MTF Ξ-12 was annihilated and no further contact with the former personnel of Area-354 has been made since. |
Document 354-5: Following the total destruction of Area-354, the Red Pool Containment Site was constructed in its place. Basic maps of the new facility can be found in ββββββββ-βββ-β and βββ-ββββ-βββββββββ. Unlike the previous facility which was focused on research and neutralization of entities emerging from SCP-354, the new facility is devoted entirely to the containment of SCP-354 and entities which may emerge from it, as well as any unforeseen forces which it may create directly. This is due largely to the advisement of the new Site Head [DATA EXPUNGED] who believes that the events of Log 354-20 were the result of a psychic or mental attack generated by SCP-354 itself. |
Document 354-6: Interview regarding [DATA EXPUNGED] |
Dr. ββββββββββ: Is it all right if I record this? |
Agent ββββ: Yes, go ahead. |
Dr. ββββββββββ: Good, good. (pause) So, let's start at the beginning. What happened at the Red Pool containment site? |
Agent ββββ: Looking back nowβ¦ it seems strange that nobody ever suggested draining the pool. When Dr. ββββ came up with itβ¦ it seemed like such a good idea at the time. |
Dr. ββββββββββ: Exactly what about the idea was so appealing? |
Agent ββββ: It was a way out. That SCP entryβ¦ I've read what it says. It's a joke. It makes it seem like we have the pool under control. |
Dr. ββββββββββ: I take it you do not? |
Agent ββββ: There's a half meter slab of reinforced concrete in place over the pool. And yet every time some beast tries to come through somehow it manages to get loose into the building. People die, every single time. I've seen [DATA EXPUNGED] a man's own intestines. Can you imagine what that looks like, old man? |
Dr. ββββββββββ: So to you, and of course to the other people stationed at the Red Pool containment site as well, draining the pool seemed like a fine solution to the suffering caused by SCP-354. |
Agent ββββ: (chair scrapes as Agent ββββ stands up) Suffering? That thing doesn't just- |
Dr. ββββββββββ: Please, sit down. This is going on record. (pause, Agent ββββ sits) So, O5 approved the draining of SCP-354, and then what happened? |
Agent ββββ: They evacuated the nonessential personnel to a location a couple kilometers away, leaving just basic defense crew and the people who'd run the equipment. Mostly D class, plus a few Agents to keep things going. |
Dr. ββββββββββ: And you were among those Agents. |
Agent ββββ: Yes. |
Dr. ββββββββββ: How did they go about draining the pool? |
Agent ββββ: Tech guys brought in this big pump thing with all these hoses. We retracted the slab, butβ¦ (pause) |
Dr. ββββββββββ: Butβ¦? |
Agent ββββ: Have you ever had a dream, where it seemed so real, but you knew you were dreaming, and it felt like you had to wake up to escape from it? |
Dr. ββββββββββ: I can't say I have. |
Agent ββββ: Yes you have, we all have. That's what it felt like when they put the hose in to try to drain it. Everything stopped being real. It was like we had to escape right now. |
Dr. ββββββββββ: And you were the only one feeling this sensation? |
Agent ββββ: No, everyone had it at the same time. It came from the fucking pool! |
Dr. ββββββββββ: Please, lower your voice. What happened when they activated the pump? |
Agent ββββ: We never did. We couldn't. It wouldn't let us. |
Dr. ββββββββββ: What wouldn't let you? |
Agent ββββ: The pool! |
Dr. ββββββββββ: Please, I ask you to lower your voice. |
Agent ββββ: Up until now it's been content just throwing monsters at us. It's been playing. But now we have it locked up and we just tried to execute it! Now it's angry! |
Dr. ββββββββββ (to PA) Guards, please restrain Agent ββββ. |
Agent ββββ: My buddy measured its banks once and compared them to the photos from its first discovery. You know what he found? (Agent ββββ grabs Doctor ββββββββββ) |
Dr. ββββββββββ: Guards! |
Agent ββββ: It's growing! The pool is growing! It gets bigger and stronger every day and now we've made it angry! Get your hands off- |
Dr. ββββββββββ: Sedate him. We'll continue this in the morning, if he's lucid by then anyway. |
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[ Title: SCP-339 is a group of tendrils extending off a central mass.; Genre: Scientific; Tags: 3rdperson; Style: Dark ] |
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Item #: SCP-339 |
Object Class: Keter |
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-339 is contained at Site-49. The room containing SCP-339 is 5Β m X 5Β m X 5Β m and sound-proofed. SCP-339 is sealed in a sound-proofed container on a 1.5Β m pedestal in the center of the room. The room is only accessible through an outer sound-proofed airlock. |
All personnel entering SCP-339βs holding room for maintenance must maintain absolute silence and wear noise-reducing foam-lined boots, available in the airlock. Regular maintenance of SCP-339 is to occur on the 15th of every month, and consists of replacing the degraded sound-proofed container with a new one. |
No one is to enter SCP-339βs holding room for any reason other than maintenance. |
Description: SCP-339 is a group of tendrils extending off a central mass. It is approximately 50Β cm from tip-to-tip, although this is variable. It appears to be made out of weathered copper, but shows a much higher level of durability and independent mobility. The individual tendrils constantly move as though underwater, continually grinding on the sides of any containment, silently pulverizing it at a gradual but constant rate. Because of this, the sound-proofed box it is currently contained in must be replaced at regular intervals. |
Any noise above 14 decibels will cause SCP-339 to become hostile. During this noise and for a length of time equal to 5 times the duration of the noise, any movement within visual range will result in the immediate reaction of SCP-339. SCP-339 will expand by extruding tendrils at an extremely high rate, ensnaring any moving organisms or objects, designated "targets." Once the movement has been restricted, SCP-339's tendrils begin to vibrate at rapidly increasing oscillations until the target is rendered incapable of movement. Note that once a target is ensnared, SCP-339 appears to be able to determine when the target truly becomes incapable of movement rather than merely when it stops moving. |
SCP-339 will then return to its base shape and size. At this point, secretions of blood and a slurry of bone and muscle tissue from the central mass are to be expected. All movements of SCP-339 are completely silent, even at very high oscillations that should produce noise. |
History: SCP-339 was recovered in Iran in 1953, during Operation Ajax on the part of the Iranian military. It was found in one of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq's private collections. After the deaths of the Iranian soldiers sent to secure this collection, the Foundation was alerted and took control. SCP-339 was found in a velvet-draped room on a pedestal. |
A quote from the Persian poet Saadi was engraved onto the pedestal in Persian: "Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant." |
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[ Title: SCP-340 is a jelly-like mucus, which exudes to cover the lower half of the face, including the nose and mouth.; Genre: Scientific; Tags: 3rdperson; Style: Dark ] |
*** |
Item #: SCP-340 |
Object Class: Safe |
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-340-1, -3, -4, and -5 are to be communally housed in a 10Β m x 10Β m x 2.5Β m tank, with the water temperature maintained between 25Β°C and 30Β°C. Anti-depressants and broad-spectrum antibiotics are to be administered intravenously every twelve hours. Medicinal compounds may not be added to the standard nutritive paste without approval. All waste products must be properly sterilised. Any personnel who aspirate water from the containment tank must report to medical staff immediately. |
Description: SCP-340 is produced by a human-specific virus which preferentially colonizes the nasal cavities. The virus cannot be identified according to the Baltimore classification scheme, leading Foundation researchers to believe it was engineered by parties as-yet unidentified. The presence of genes from both HIV and the SARS coronavirus supports this hypothesis. |
An incubation period, with a mean duration of three (3) days, occurs upon initial exposure to the virus. Influenza-like symptoms will then develop, and will persist for a mean of seven (7) days before clearing up. An increased production of mucus has been observed in all known cases, and will persist after other symptoms have ceased. Virulence is highest during the first five (5) days of infection, but viral particles have been detected up to a month after exposure in Foundation trials. |
Any time after infection, a high blood concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) will trigger production of SCP-340. When initially produced, SCP-340 is a jelly-like mucus, which exudes to cover the lower half of the face, including the nose and mouth. SCP-340 in mucous form will undergo a catalytic reaction when immersed in water and will set into a bioplastic membrane. The chemical composition of the bioplastic facilitates the [DATA EXPUNGED] process; although it causes SCP-340 to degrade, the process allows the host to breathe underwater. The membrane is flexible, and does not inhibit the host's facial movement. Any tears or holes which develop due to mechanical stress or SCP-340 degradation will be regenerated within thirty (30) seconds due to constant production of SCP-340. Virulence is drastically reduced in this stage, but viral particles have been detected in water samples contaminated with SCP-340; environmental contact may still spread the infection. |
When SCP-340 is exposed to air, it dries into a chitinous substance similar to crustacean shells. The water vapour trapped inside an SCP-340-sealed respiratory system is sufficient to prevent premature hardening. The hardening process also destroys its ability to [DATA EXPUNGED], and loss of function is irreversible after approximately two (2) minutes' exposure to air. Once fully hardened, SCP-340 is impossible to remove without inflicting major tissue damage. It is harder than any generally-known organic substance; a standard tungsten-carbide drill bit required more than fifteen (15) minutes of constant use to drill a hole through five (5) mm of dried SCP-340. Research is ongoing into methods for the in vitro culture and harvest of SCP-340 for use in industrial applications. |
Addendum 340-1 - Circumstances of retrieval: On 20ββ/ββ/ββ, twelve students at a boarding school in [REDACTED], United States, began to produce SCP-340 during a swimming competition. Nine died before a Foundation containment team could be dispatched to the site - five suffocated when attempts to clear airways of hardened SCP-340 failed, two suffocated after attempts to open alternate airways induced hardening of air-exposed SCP-340 in the trachea, and two died from dehydration. Upon arrival, the Foundation containment team quarantined the school until the infection's spread could be determined. Four additional cases were discovered who were not yet producing SCP-340; all seven were taken into Foundation custody. The team then distributed Class A amnestics and followed cover-up procedure Gimel-2 (the "tragic fire" scenario). For a brief summary of the seven SCP-340 carriers, now denoted SCP-340-1 through -7, see Document 340-1. |
Addendum 340-2: SCP-340 doesn't kill the hosts' oral bacteria, and the antibiotics can't stave off infection forever. Surgical removal of the hosts' teeth will be safer in the long run than trying to deal with abscesses, bone infection, and sepsis. Do we have a laparoscopic surgeon on staff? |
- Doctor Cairns |
Document 340-1 - Inventory, SCP-340-1 through -7: |
SCP-340-1: Caucasian male |
Age at retrieval: twelve |
SCP-340 production at retrieval: positive |
Notes: housed at Site-ββ |
SCP-340-2: African-American male |
Age at retrieval: twelve |
SCP-340 production at retrieval: positive |
Notes: deceased 20ββ/ββ/ββ, complications from surgical insertion of feeding tube |
SCP-340-3: Caucasian male |
Age at retrieval: eleven |
SCP-340 production at retrieval: positive |
Notes: housed at Site-ββ |
SCP-340-4: Hispanic male |
Age at retrieval: twelve |
SCP-340 production at retrieval: negative |
Notes: Underwent experimental treatment, 20ββ/ββ/ββ; treatment failed, SCP-340 production induced; housed at Site-ββ |
SCP-340-5: Caucasian male |
Age at retrieval: twenty-seven |
SCP-340 production at retrieval: negative |
Notes: Refused experimental treatment; voluntarily induced SCP-340 production, 20ββ/ββ/ββ; housed at Site-ββ |
SCP-340-6: Caucasian male |
Age at retrieval: twelve |
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