Item #: SCP-42069
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-42069 are to be contained in Antarctic Site Hex-2816 in a climate-controlled habitat simulating a tropical forest, with temperature not to drop below 18°C and humidity not to drop below 75%. Juvenile instances of SCP-42069 are to be fed an omnivorous diet consistent with Document HDD-42069 and monitored on multispectral closed-circuit cameras for signs of entering pupation. All instances of SCP-42069 are to be monitored and accounted for on a minute-by-minute basis, with extreme prejudice towards monitoring adult instances in senescence to maintain containment. All vehicles exiting the facility must submit to thorough multispectral scans before being allowed to leave, and must make a stopover at Antarctic Depot C9 for a secondary scan before being allowed to continue to its final destination.
Site Hex-2816 is to be staffed by Foundation volunteers, preferably with veterans of a Mobile Task Force, most especially persons with experience or talent in childcare, and at minimum persons exhibiting exceptional patience.
Description: SCP-42069 is a species of holometabolous arthropod with an incorporeal adult stage. Instances begin life in an egg, with mean diameter 1cm, and hatch after incubating for about a week. In its larval stage, SCP-42069 has an appearance similar to that of the eurypterid genus Stylonurus, and grows from its initial length of 2cm to a length of 40-50cm within about two weeks, periodically molting as it grows. Juveniles feed on a mixed diet of leaves, fruits, roots, and a wide variety of small prey animals. Juveniles also produce a neurotoxic venom effective at killing small prey but generally resulting in only minor bruising or irritation in bitten humans.
About two weeks after hatching, SCP-42069 will cease eating, climb a tree or wall, and hang motionless for anywhere between 12 and 24 hours, after which it will molt a final time into its pupal stage. The chrysalis is colored and textured to appear strikingly similar to the surface to which it is attached, successfully mimicking tree bark, rock, concrete, metal, and in at least one instance, the text of a warning sign.
Precisely seven days from the time of the final molting, the adult form of SCP-42069 manifests itself by cracking open the back of the chrysalis and becoming visible to the naked eye for a few seconds. In just over 68% of instances, the manifestation will also be accompanied by a loud “bang” and bright flash of light centered on the chrysalis.
The adult form of SCP-42069 has no defined shape, and can mimick the appearance of any object no larger than 5’ cubed, as well as being able to become invisible. It is also incorporeal, able to pass through solid materials with apparent ease, and is capable of flight as well as exerting considerable force on corporeal objects. The adult stage is also sapient, and is capable of vocalizing human speech and laughter.
Adult SCP-42069 enjoy interacting with each other, often vocalizing in patterns not observed in terrestrial organisms. They also most especially enjoy causing emotional distress in humans, and will very commonly leave the climate-controlled habitat in search of equipment to break, documents to destroy, or objects to throw around. Adult SCP-42069 have demonstrated the ability to remember names and faces, and enjoy teasing and insulting staff members to get a reaction. Some adult SCP-42069 will also commonly disguise themselves as inanimate objects such as mugs, pencils, and chairs in an effort to surprise facility personnel.
As the adult ages, it enters senescence, and by about 12 months of age SCP-42069 loses its incorporeality, instead behaving like animate gaseous matter visible through infrared imaging. Senescent individuals move more slowly, vocalize less frequently, and appear to have reduced capacity for exerting force compared with younger adults. About a year from emergence from the chrysalis, two senescent individuals will enter the same physical space, generally against a hard surface, and powerfully compress themselves, becoming visible in all visible, IR, and UV bands, until compression is finished and the senescent individuals have been replaced with a clutch of 3-7 eggs, stuck to a surface such as a tree, a wall, or the ground.
As long as facility personnel keep the SCP-42069 adults placated by playing along with SCP-42069’s “pranks” and continue to provide entertaining reactions, the adult individuals tend to be calm and easy to work with, only causing an average of $█████ USD worth of property damage annually. SCP-42069 has not exhibited any understanding of nor regard for human concepts of respect, friendship, or cruelty, and are extremely dangerous if angered (see Incident Report IR-42069-G18).
Item #: SCP-42069
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-42069 is to be contained on-site at the former ████████ █████ ████ ████ near [REDACTED] Louisiana, United States, hereafter referred to as the “lair” of SCP-42069. All known points of entry and exit are to be sealed with reinforced concrete walls no less than 1.5 meters thick. Two (2) points of access through the concrete walls are to be maintained for purposes of further exploration and testing: the first at the main entrance of the ███████ and the second at the flyspace trapdoor above the main stage. Both doors are to be heavily reinforced and regularly maintained, and locked with a █-digit numerical code to be changed every [REDACTED].
Entry into the lair of SCP-42069 is available to persons of Level 2 clearance or higher, and requires written permission of Dr. ██████████. All persons entering the lair must be able to demonstrate proficiency in jazz improvisation in voice, percussion, or at least one (1) type of portable musical instrument. Proficiency will be tested for variety, inventiveness, ability to adapt to changes in key, tempo, and rhythm, and most importantly for stamina and endurance.
Due to the events of Incident 42069-21 June ██, ████, Foundation personnel are forbidden from employing Musical Phrase MP-42069-1 while in the presence of SCP-42069 or at any time while inside the lair of SCP-42069.
Description: SCP-42069 is a large (~1730kg) skin-covered muscular mass of humanoid limbs, sphincters, patches of hair, eyes, mouths, teeth, and other orifices that continuously morphs and re-forms. The melanin in the skin of SCP-42069 also varies dramatically and continuously, appearing to shift and “blossom” in blotches across the various limbs, facial features, and orifices. It is capable of deforming its body into a wide variety of shapes and configurations, and has been observed flowing around corridor corners, stretching from floor to ceiling, and compressing part of itself underneath a door and breaching the doorway with a slam from the rest of its bulk.
When agitated, SCP-42069 has exhibited considerable strength and aggression, including the ability to break down wooden doors, lift and hurl heavy objects including furniture, boulders, and pianos, and locomote extremely quickly, sometimes upwards of 15m/s.
While SCP-42069 usually possesses a multitude of eyes, it is unclear whether it uses them to see, as it does not exhibit any deficit in navigation or prey detection when in the natural total darkness of its lair.
SCP-42069 also carries a variety of musical instruments in its constantly changing set of appendages, including saxophones, trumpets, clarinets, snare and tom-tom drums, drumsticks, cymbals and other percussion, and incessantly plays these instruments with itself in a style markedly similar to traditional New Orleans-style ensemble jazz. SCP-42069 operates wind and brass instruments with dedicated lipped mouths and a combination of arms, individual fingers, tongues, or other appendages to articulate the notes of the instrument, and employs similar appendages to operate percussion instruments such as drums, shakers, maracas, and castanets. If SCP-42069 approaches a piano, there is just over a 68% chance it will manifest additional limbs and begin to operate the piano, favoring the use of three eleven-thumbed hands to operate the keyboard and one, two or three pseudopod-tentacles to operate the soft, sostenuto, and sustain pedals.
If SCP-42069 becomes aware of the presence of another organism, it will become aggressive towards that organism unless the organism joins in with SCP-42069’s improvisation in some way. Animals are usually engulfed and crushed within 45 seconds of being detected by SCP-42069, though it is unclear whether this response is related in some meaningful way to non-anomalous animals’ deficits in jazz performance proficiencies.
Humans in the presence of SCP-42069 must continuously play along with whatever it is currently performing, termed the “jam,” which occasionally changes key, tempo, and time signature.
SCP-42069 will generally become aggressive towards a musician in its presence if:
- the musician stops playing for longer than 30 seconds.
- the musician fails to modulate to a new key within 15 of the jam changing keys.
- the musician fails to adapt to a new time signature within 15 seconds.
- the musician plays repetitive, simplistic or “uninspired” melodies or rhythms for longer than a minute.
- the musician makes too many technical errors at once, or otherwise disrupts the jam in an undesirable fashion.
- the musician physically attacks SCP-42069 in a way that does not musically contribute to the jam, e.g. firing a weapon out of rhythm.
- the musician plays MP-42069-1 while improvising. This is strictly prohibited due to the extreme level of aggression it induces in SCP-42069 and the risk of containment breach and loss of life such aggression poses.
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