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Item #: SCP-4260
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4260 is to be contained in a steel security box, and stored in High Value Storage locker 20C located at Site-██ when not undergoing testing. Access to this box requires approval from two (2) Level 3 personnel. Only Class-D personnel can handle SCP-4260, all other personnel are not to handle SCP-4260 at any time, except in emergency situations.
In case of a containment breach, the media is to be monitored for stories of missing bodies. During a containment breach situation, if an instance of SCP-4260-1 is located, a Quick Reaction Force is to be sent to locate SCP-4260-2 through the tracking of SCP-4260-1. Upon locating SCP-4260-1 and SCP-4260-2, both entities are to be terminated, and SCP-4260 retrieved.
Description: SCP-4260 is a mask of 3cm thick silver amalgam1, depicting the face of a man smiling. Because of its composition, SCP-4260 is abnormally heavy and often requires outside assistance to put on.
Upon the inside portion of SCP-4260 being placed on a human’s face, SCP-4260 will heat up to ███ °C and melt to the subject’s head. After SCP-4260 attaches to the subject, the subject (SCP-4260-1) will exhibit anomalous properties. SCP-4260-1’s flesh at the site of SCP-4260’s attachment will begin flowing, in a similar fashion of viscous liquid, to parts SCP-4260’s body. SCP-4260-1’s body will elongate, as well as its limbs, SCP-4260-1 typically reaching a height of 2.2 meters after these distortions. Traits shared among all SCP-4260-1 instances include: a large hunchback, hair loss, abnormally long arms compared to the rest of the body, and burn marks and scars all throughout the body.
After the transformation2, SCP-4260-1 will animate, and begin searching out dead bodies of mammals3. If it is daytime or otherwise easy to notice SCP-4260-1, SCP-4260-1 will hide in an uninhabited location that it views as sufficient to wait until nightfall. Upon locating corpses of any mammals, SCP-4260-1 will lift the corpse off the ground and onto its hunchback, upon which the corpse will melt to SCP-4260-1’s hunchback. If SCP-4260-1 is spotted by a human while it is searching, it will attempt to run away, back to its location of hiding. If SCP-4260-1 is directly attacked by a creature, or if a creature enters its domain (wherever SCP-4260-2 is), SCP-4260-1 will engage the subject. SCP-4260-1 will attempt to grab the subject, and restrain them to its hunchback. Corrosion and burning are sustained upon contact with SCP-4260-1’s body. SCP-4260-1 will attempt to restrain the subject long enough to its body to kill the subject, after which the subject will fixate on SCP-4260-1’s hunchback. SCP-4260-1 will treat entities killed this way in an identical manner to any other body that it collects.
SCP-4260-1 will continue until dawn, when it will take the bodies to a location of hiding4 and detach them from the hunchback. SCP-4260-1 will form a pile of corpses, which all conform together in a bulbous mass. Should there be enough flesh within this pile (SCP-4260-2), some of the flesh will move to the heads of individual corpses that lack brains. A brain-like organ will be developed, and creatures within of SCP-4260-2 will regain cognitive function. Creatures within SCP-4260-2 which have brains will regain cognitive function during this process as well. SCP-4206-2 manifests immense amounts of dopamine, but very low brain function otherwise. Upon first forming SCP-4260-2, and when adding to SCP-4260-2, SCP-4260-1 likewise manifests a large amount of dopamine. SCP-4260-1’s abduction of bodies seems to be driven by this dopamine high, which is incredibly addictive to SCP-4260-1.
Limbs protrude from SCP-4260-2, which are animate. Limbs from SCP-4260-2 will flail and attempt to grab onto any creature nearby, to pull them into the pile. Any creature pulled into SCP-4260-2 will begin decomposing, eventually becoming part of SCP-4260-2. SCP-4260-2 seems to function as a single symbiotic collection of entities, reacting to stimuli as a group. In order to locate entities, SCP-4260-2 will periodically spread out on the ground, distorting to cover a large surface area in an attempt to capture other creatures. SCP-4260-2 will die if it doesn’t receive enough growth, typically surviving █ days without sustenance.
Physical contact with either SCP-4260-1 or SCP-4260-2 will raise dopamine levels of subjects as well. SCP-4260-1 and SCP-4260-2 are capable of cooperating efficiently, although it is unknown whether they have means to communicate with one another. If SCP-4260-1 is injured, SCP-4260-2 will spread to SCP-4260-1’s proximity. Portions of SCP-4260-2 will morph onto the body of SCP-4260-1, molding into the area of injury and effectively healing SCP-4260-1.
If SCP-4260-1 witnesses SCP-4260-2 as deceased, SCP-4260-1 will go into a state of extreme distress, assaulting nearby creatures. If SCP-4260-1 is still alive after this process, SCP-4260 enters a state of grief. It is hypothesized that after this state, SCP-4260-1 enters a state of hibernation for an indeterminate period of time.
Addendum 4260.1: Discovery:
SCP-4260 was discovered in September, 19██, in the ██████ Sanatorium in [REDACTED], France. In a nearby cemetery, an undertaker noticed multiple missing bodies, which was concurrent with reports of missing livestock in the area. The Foundation was made aware of SCP-4260 after an instance of SCP-4260-2 was discovered in the basement of ██████ Sanatorium. SCP-4260-1 eventually returned to the basement while Foundation operatives were attempting to control and neutralize SCP-4260-2. SCP-4260-1 went hostile, and the █ Foundation operatives were subsequently killed after attempting to terminate SCP-4260-1. A Mobile Task Force was sent to contain the entity, and SCP-4260 was eventually contained and moved to Site-██ before being moved to Site-██.
Addendum 4260.5: Related Text recovered from ██████
The following is a summary of a text recovered by the Foundation from ██████, dated back to late-medieval France:
In an old town named [REDACTED], townsfolk lived in fear of an entity known as “the Familyman.” The town always cremated its dead to avoid the fate which corpses would endure in the hands of the Familyman. Criminals and outcasts would be thrown outside of the wall upon death, rather than cremated. The town’s conditions became more and more derelict overtime. Eventually, a cult formed in the town, worshiping the indefinite ecstasy that one could experience in the mass which they called “the Family.” Parts of the book are incomprehensible, but the story ends with an angry mob lynching members of the cult and searching for the location of the Familyman. In the mob’s rage, they burnt down multiple buildings, one of which contained the Familyman. The house’s supports collapsed and effectively buried the Familyman, though the townsfolk never discovered its corpse. Since then, a house was unknowingly constructed over the corpse of the Familyman, and the practices of the townsfolk eventually died out.
