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Item #: SCP-5000

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5000 is to be contained within a 2 m x 2 m soundproof chamber reinforced with 1 cm steel plating on all sides. Weekly inspections for any breaches are mandatory. Although video surveillance is permitted, camera resolution must not surpass 144p, and audio surveillance is strictly forbidden. All video surveillance is to be cut in the event that SCP-5000 gesticulates for more than 5 seconds, and its location within the chamber is to then be monitored through pressure sensors for the next 12 hours, at which time video surveillance is to resume.

With the exception of a containment breach, absolutely no personnel are permitted to enter SCP-5000's chamber for any reason.

Description: SCP-5000 is a humanoid creature measuring 183 cm in height and 70 kg in weight. All physical features of SCP-5000 are similar to that of an average adult human male, with the exception of the entity lacking skin and eyelids. SCP-5000 appears to wear an ordinary business suit, but inspection has revealed this to be part of its body rather than actual clothing.

SCP-5000 is normally docile, spending most of each day standing, sitting, and occasionally pacing around its cell at a normal walking speed. However, upon visually sighting a human, SCP-5000 will immediately approach the individual and begin speaking to them; as of present, the Foundation has been unable to decipher SCP-5000's language to any degree. The volume of SCP-5000's voice ranges from 80 to ███ decibels.

Despite SCP-5000's speech being entirely unintelligible, any individual spoken to by the entity will appear to understand it perfectly. In the event that an individual is deaf, SCP-5000 will communicate through what is assumed to be sign language, although all signs used are also thus far indecipherable; it should additionally be noted that SCP-5000 will somehow know an individual is deaf even if the individual displays no immediate signs of being disabled. All individuals communicating with or otherwise observing SCP-5000 show no signs of noticing its extremely abnormal physical appearance. From the moment SCP-5000 has begun communicating with an individual, the individual will be designated SCP-5000-1.

After speaking to SCP-5000-1 for 1 to 10 minutes, SCP-5000 will cease vocalizing and walk away. Upon sighting another individual(s), the entity will repeat the process. As of present, the Foundation has been unable to cure or otherwise treat instances of SCP-5000-1 in any amount.

For the next approximately 24 hours after being infected by SCP-5000, instances of SCP-5000-1 will exhibit precisely the same behavior as SCP-5000, and will not eat, drink, sleep, or perform any other basic bodily necessities. At the end of this period of time, instances of SCP-5000-1 will collapse after undergoing sudden and severe cardiac arrest. All attempts at resuscitating instances of SCP-5000-1 have thus far failed.

Addendum 5000: Due to the possibility of SCP-5000 causing a global infection and thereby SK-Class End-of-the-World Scenario, Dr. █████ has submitted a formal request that its object class be upgraded to Keter, with this currently awaiting review by the O5 Council. The O5 Council has denied this request on the grounds that an outbreak sparked by SCP-5000 could be contained without enough difficulty to qualify it for an End-of-the-World Scenario risk.

Discovery: SCP-5000 was discovered in ███████, Kansas on 8 November 1981, after the Foundation was alerted, by an agent embedded in the ████████ County Sheriff's Department, of an encounter with a "skinless thing speaking in gibberish", as well as a sudden and unexplained rise in heart failure related deaths in the town. Foundation personnel, disguised as an FBI task force, were promptly deployed to investigate and contain the anomaly. SCP-5000 was found in a convenience store, with the proprietor reported to be "in a trance." SCP-5000 approached the agents and began speaking to them, at which point all contact was lost. A second, larger task force was immediately dispatched, finding the members of the previous team to be displaying identical symptoms to the proprietor. Correctly suspecting the source of the object's anomalous ability, the agents equipped ear plugs and restrained it; the entity did not resist containment.