Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be contained within a stainless steel box with a key lock mechanism at Site-19. The key is to be kept on Researcher ███████ person at all times. A spare key is to be kept with the Site Director currently on premises.
Due to events transpiring during the Bombardier Incident, the lockbox must now be stored in a mechanical combination safe. The combination must be changed quarterly throughout the year and only known by the Site Director on premises.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a cotton cloth measuring 254 millimeters square. A tag sewn into one corner had been torn off prior to the Foundation's acquisition. Thusly, the manufacturer is, as-of-yet, unknown. SCP-XXXX was obtained by the Foundation after reports of an unknown entity was discovered by urban explorers in the ███ ████ ████ subway station in New York City.
Though the Task Force failed to find the entity in question, they did discover SCP-XXXX in a pool of glowing viscous fluid near a shoe-shine station.
The urban explorers that first reported the sighting of an unknown entity were detained by the Foundation and interviewed. The interviewers determined that the entity described by the explorers was a hoax and given Class B amnestics.
SCP-XXXX remains in a dormant state unless in direct contact with a biological organism that possesses a functioning salivary gland. Upon contact, the organism's salivary gland will begin to overproduce seromucous secretions.
Chemical analysis of the seromucous secretion reveals that the inorganic salt normally found in an organism's mucous more closely resembles sodium salicylate. The water content of the saliva decreases from the normal 99.5% to 96.3%, with the 3.2% difference being replaced with an unknown fluorophore.
The combination of the of the saliva and mucous in the seromucous secretion results in the release of photons. Test subjects report a warm, but not uncomfortable sensation in the buccal mucosa.
The effects of SCP-XXXX increases with prolonged contact. Tests reveal that the peak of exposure results in saliva production of approximately 59.15 milliliters per minute with a luminance flux of approximately 37,861 lumens.
The effects of SCP-XXXX gradually degrade within 15 hours after contact.
The effects of SCP-XXXX gradually degrade within 15 hours if contact with the object ceases before 24 hours has elapsed. In the event a subject is in contact with SCP-XXXX for 24 hours or longer the subject undergoes a metamorphose stage. The metamorphosis reaches completion within 37 hours resulting in SCP-XXXX-1.
See "The Silkworm Phenomenon."
SCP-XXXX-1 is an entity emerging from the larval stage of a subject under the prolonged effects of SCP-XXXX. After contact with SCP-XXXX for 24 hours, the subject will begin to use their saliva to form a cocoon around their body. Once the cocoon is complete the subject will enter a dormant stage that can last up to 37 hours.
The entity that emerges from the cocoon, dubbed SCP-XXXX-1, resembles the humanoid that initially made contact with SCP-XXXX. However, the entity will have doubled in height up to approximately 3.6 meters and possess an auxiliary set of arms and legs.
The entity motorizes itself by balancing itself on the palms and heels of all eight appendages, walking the leg appendages forward until the body is bent in half vertically, and stretching forward with the arm appendages.
A cleft appears in the lower mandible that allows the entity to open its mouth width-wise on a hinge. The salivary glands found inside the oral cavity of SCP-XXXX-1 produces an enzyme that has proven very effective in dissolving proteins in organic tissue.
The entity's primary purpose appears to be to feed. After leaving the cocoon, SCP-XXXX-1 immediately seeks out the nearest source of organic tissue. Once the entity has captured its prey, it will use its mandible to incapacitate its victim before secreting the enzyme that will begin to break down the tissue. Once the tissue has liquified, SCP-XXXX-1 will consume the prey.
After SCP-XXXX-1 has consumed its bodyweight the entity engages in a gestation period. The length of the gestation period depends on how threatened the entity feels. Gestation lasts as long as two weeks to as short as six hours.
After the gestation period SCP-XXXX-1 gives birth to an entity heretofore referred to as SCP-XXXX-2. The amount of SCP-XXXX-2 that SCP-XXXX-1 births directly correlates to how much SCP-XXXX-1 has eaten, with the most on record being eleven.
SCP-XXXX-2 is a direct clone of SCP-XXXX-1 one-third the size of SCP-XXXX-1 and with the addition of four more sets of arms that line the sides of the body. Locomotion is of SCP-XXXX-2 is similar to that of a millipede. SCP-XXXX-2 exhibits considerable strength, being able to lift many times its bodyweight.
Neither SCP-XXXX-1 nor SCP-XXXX-2 exhibit aggression unless provoked. See "Project Anthill."
Test XXXX-A
Subject: SCP-XXXX removed from containment and given to D-Class 8173.
Procedure: D-Class 8173 was asked to hold SCP-XXXX for five minutes.
Results:
Minute One: Subject reported that his mouth "was watering" [sic] and tasted foul.
Minute Two: Subject requested a receptacle to spit into. An aluminum waste receptacle was provided. Subject projected a viscous substance into the receptacle.
Minute Five: Researcher ███████ measured the contents of the waste receptacle with a photometer.
Analysis: SCP-XXXX returned to containment. D-Class 8173 held for observation. Anomalous effects ceased after thirty minutes.
Highest Luminance Flux: 102 lumens
Test XXXX-B
Subject: SCP-XXXX removed from containment and given to D-Class 2551.
Procedure: D-Class 2551 was asked to hold SCP-XXXX for thirty minutes.
Results:
Minute One: Subject reported that his mouth "tasted like a trash bag and felt warm." [sic]
Minute Five: Subject began drooling and spitting directly on the floor.
Minute Twenty: Subject became visibly irritated at amount of saliva in his mouth. Subject had difficulty speaking due to amount of saliva being produced.
Minute Thirty: Researcher ███████ measured the saliva on the floor with a photometer.
Analysis: SCP-XXXX returned to containment. D-Class 2551 held for observation. Anomalous effects ceased after five hours.
Highest Luminance Flux: 1,256 lumens
Test XXXX-C
Subject: SCP-XXXX removed from containment and given to D-Class 0963.
Procedure: D-Class 0963 was asked to hold SCP-XXXX for sixty minutes.
Results:
Minute One: Subject reported a "disgusting taste" [sic] in their mouth.
Minute Two: Subject visibly worried about amount of saliva being produced, but did not project or request a receptacle.
Minute Seven: Subject swallows saliva and imLediately begins to gag. Subject enters a state of dry heaving.
Minute Nine: Subject vomits on floor.
Minute Twenty-Three: Subject has remained kneeling on floor in front of pool of vomit. Subject has kept their mouth open and is allowing all saliva to disperse in one continuous flow.
Minute Thirty-Eight: Subject begins weeping and repeatedly stating that they "have forgotten how to swallow." [sic]
Researcher ███████ reassures subject that "prolonged refusal to swallow can dry out the throat" and "the body will remember how if you try." [sic]
Minute Sixty: Researcher ███████ measured the saliva and vomit on the floor with a photometer.
Analysis: SCP-XXXX returned to containment. D-Class 0963 held for observation. Anomalous effects ceased after ten hours.
Highest Luminance Flux: 8,043 lumens
Test XXXX-D
Subject: SCP-XXXX removed from containment and given to D-Class 5501.
Procedure: D-Class ████ was asked to hold SCP-XXXX for ninety minutes.
Results:
Minute One: Subject reported that they had "been feeling sick all day with a headache and nausea." [sic]
Researcher ███████ asks subject about the taste in their mouth. Subject responds that "they've tasted nothing but vomit all day." [sic]
Minute Eight: Subject requests a chair. Researcher ███████ provides a standard folding chair to the subject.
Minute Twelve: Subject observes that their mouth "feels wetter than usual" [sic] and requests a waste receptacle. Researcher ███████ provides subject with an aluminum waste receptacle.
Minute Twenty: Subjects reports that their headache is gone.
Researcher ███████ believes this may be a result of the increase of sodium salicylate found in the analysis of previous test subject's saliva.
Minute Forty-One: Subject hangs head over the waste receptacle and allows saliva to drain until end of test.
Minute Ninety: Researcher ███████ measured the saliva in the waste receptacle with a photometer.
Analysis: SCP-XXXX returned to containment. D-Class 5501 held for observation. Anomalous effects ceased after fifteen hours.
Highest Luminance Flux: 37,861 lumens
Test XXXX-2A
Subject: SCP-XXXX removed from containment and given to D-Class 1102.
Procedure:
1. D-Class 1102 was asked to hold SCP-XXXX and provided a measuring cylinder.
2. Subject was told to place the measuring cylinder against the bottom lip and allow all saliva to fill the void.
Results:
Saliva production before contact with SCP-XXXX: 0.5 mL/minute
Saliva production after one minute with SCP-XXXX: 0.65 mL/minute
Saliva production after ten minutes with SCP-XXXX: 3.2 mL/minute
Saliva production after thirty minutes with SCP-XXXX: 19.7 mL/minute
Saliva production after sixty minutes with SCP-XXXX: 31.05 mL/minute
Saliva production after ninety minutes with SCP-XXXX: 59.15 mL/minute
Analysis:
SCP-XXXX returned to containment. D-Class 1102 held for observation.
Researcher ███████ concluded that 59.15 mL is the maximum production of saliva per minute.
Test XXXX-2A-1
Subject: SCP-XXXX removed from containment and given to D-Class 1102.
Procedure:
1. D-Class 1102 was asked to hold SCP-XXXX and provided a measuring cylinder.
2. Subject was told to place the measuring cylinder against the bottom lip and allow all saliva to fill the void.
Results:
Saliva luminance flux before contact with SCP-XXXX: 0 lumens
Saliva luminance flux after one minute with SCP-XXXX: 29 lumens
Saliva luminance flux after ten minutes with SCP-XXXX: 372 lumens
Saliva luminance flux after thirty minutes with SCP-XXXX: 1256 lumens
Saliva luminance flux after sixty minutes with SCP-XXXX: 8,043 lumens
Saliva luminance flux ninety minutes with SCP-XXXX: 37,861 lumens
Analysis:
SCP-XXXX returned to containment. D-Class 1102 held for observation.
Researcher ███████ concluded that 37,861 lumens is the maximum production of luminance flux.
Test Object: SCP-XXXX
Test Subject: D-Class 6829
Researcher: Researcher ███████
Test 1: Baseline
Researcher: Good morning. Would you please state your name for the record.
D-Class 6829: [REDACTED]
Researcher: Thank you. Please remove the lockbox from the safe and bring it to the table beside you. You'll find a key on the table. Use it to open the box.
Subject does as asked without incident.
D-Class 6829: Hey, man. What is this? A rag?
Researcher: Please remove the item and hold it in your right hand.
Subject hesitates before complying.
Researcher: Thank you. You may sit if it pleases you. All I want you to do is hold the object and relay to me anything that you experience. Understood?
D-Class 6829: Uh .. yeah. Alright.
Subjects sits at the chair beside the table.
D-Class 6829: Yo, dude? Do you got a breath mint or some shit? My mouth tastes like an ass died in it.
Subject begins moving his tongue around his mouth and sucking in his cheeks.
D-Class 6829: For real. This is straight-up nasty.
Subject begins to clear throat.
D-Class 6829: Do you have a … is there, like … a trash can or something? I need to spit.
Researcher: You'll find a waste receptacle around the side of the table. How are you feeling?
Subject retrieves waste receptacle and clears throat before spitting.
D-Class 6829: Holy shit.
Researcher: I repeat. How are you feeling?
D-Class 6829: I … uh … I feel fine. But this shit is, like, glowing.
Subject spits into his hand. The saliva is visibly glowing and viscous. The subject lets the saliva drip and stretch between his fingers before wiping his hand on his trousers. The stain continues to glow.
Researcher: Could you please describe your mood?
D-Class 6829: Uh. Confused, I guess. But, you know … that's normal for this place.
Researcher: Do you feel any tendencies towards anger or aggression?
D-Class 6829: No. I feel fine.
Researcher: Do you feel dizzy or nauseous?
D-Class 6829: Dizzy? No. Nauseous? I don't think so. My mouth tastes sick, but I don't feel sick-sick, you know?
Researcher: Thank you. Could you please refrain from spitting and begin to swallow your saliva.
Subjects complies and gags. Subjects begins to cough for several minutes before regaining composure.
Researcher: How do you feel now? Any nausea?
D-Class 6829: No. No nausea. But it's like … if you picked up a dead fish and covered it with snot to make it easy to swallow … and then you actually swallow it. It tastes like that.
Researcher: Thank you. We are through here. Please return the object to the lockbox and approach the door. You will be held for observation and then escorted back to your cell.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: It appears that whatever is causing the saliva to undergo this conversion also causes a uniformly unpleasant taste. There has not been any discernible olfactory changes.
Test Object: SCP-XXXX
Test Subject: D-Class 3250
Researcher: Researcher ███████
Test 2: Lux
Subject is lead into the test chamber by security personnel and sat in a chair beside a table. The lockbox containing SCP-XXXX is already on the table and unlocked. Security personnel handcuff D-Class 3250 to a bracket welded onto the surface of the table. A polished metal dish is placed on the table before the subject.
Researcher: Good morning. Please state your name for the record.
D-Class 3250: [REDACTED]
Researcher: Thank you. For the duration of this experiment you will be in complete darkness. I assure you no harm shall come to you and you are being monitored with an infrared camera. Do you understand?
Subject nods.
Researcher: Would you please vocalize your understanding
D-Class 3250: I understand.
Researcher: You'll find an object inside the lockbox that I want you to hold for the duration of the experiment. This object will cause you to salivate. It is my understanding that the flavor is … unpleasant. What I want you to do until the end of the experiment is not swallow. Allow all of the saliva you produce to fill the metal tray. Do you understand?
D-Class 3250: I understand.
Researcher: Throughout the experiment I may ask you questions. You can respond by nodding or shaking your head as to allow your saliva to continue collecting in the tray. I will be able to see your answers on the monitor. The lights will be turned off in sixty seconds. Once they are off, retrieve the object from the lockbox and the experiment will begin.
Subject nods.
The lights shut off and the subject retrieves SCP-XXXX from the lockbox before hanging their head over the tray with their mouth open.
Researcher: Are you comfortable?
Subject shrugs before nodding.
Researcher: It has been three minutes. Are you noticing anything out of the ordinary?
Subject coughs and nods.
Researcher: Are you experiencing a foul taste?
Subject nods.
Researcher: Can you see anything?
Subject nods.
Researcher: Very good. Please continue.
Ten minutes into the experiment the subjects face can be seen dimly lit in the center of the room without the use of the IR cameras.
Researcher: You're doing very well. I can see you now. Please continue.
Thirty minutes into the experiment the subject's upper body is fully lit as well as an area around them.
Subject gags occasionally, but remains otherwise still.
Researcher: Not much longer to go. Are you feeling okay?
Subject nods.
Researcher: Are you feeling any dizziness or nausea?
Subject shakes head.
Researcher: Very good. Carry on.
Sixty minutes into the experiment the subject is fully lit by the saliva reflecting off of the tray.
Researcher: Just thirty minutes more.
Subject nods.
Ninety minutes into the experiment the subject and all surrounding areas are well-lit.
Researcher: Thank you. This concludes the experiment.
The lights in the test chamber are turned back on.
Researcher: Please return the object to the lockbox.
Subject complies. Security personnel release the subject and escorts them to the observation room.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: The luminesce flux this SCP creates is fascinating. By ninety minutes a subject's saliva is producing a light similar to a 400 watt metal-halide lamp. This could prove to be very beneficial to the foundation. Provided we find a way around the taste. Everything else is looking very promising.
Test Object: SCP-XXXX
Test Subject: D-Class ████
Researcher: Researcher ███████
Test 3: Miracle
Subject is seated at the table in the test chamber. The table holds the lockbox containing SCP-XXXX and a dish containing one ██████ Brand Miracle Berry Tablet.
Researcher: Good afternoon. Would you please state your name for the record.
D-Class ████: [REDACTED]
Researcher: Thank you. Please remove the tablet and consume it.
Subject picks up the tablet and rolls it around in their hand.
D-Class ████: What is it?
Researcher: It is a tablet derived from the Synsepalum dulcificum plant. Or miracle berry.
D-Class ████: What's it do?
Researcher: It makes things taste sweet. Specifically, it makes sour things taste sweet.
D-Class ████: Oh. Okay.
Subjects consumes the tablet.
Researcher: Now, please, open the lockbox and take hold of the object and keep it in your hand for the duration of the experiment.
Subject holds SCP-XXXX.
Eight minutes pass without incident.
D-Class ████: Something isn't right.
Researcher: How are you feeling?
D-Class ████: I feel like I'm going to be sick.
Subject falls from chair onto their knees and begins vomiting. The glow from the saliva is red instead of the standard white.
Researcher: This isn't good. This is bad. This is very bad.
Subject continues to vomit as security personnel enters the chamber and remove SCP-XXXX from their hand. Subject is removed from test chamber and transported to the infirmary. Subject did not cease vomit of red-glowing saliva for the duration of transfer.
Researcher: Fuck. This is not good.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Evidently trying to make the flavor SCP-XXXX creates better with traditional means is going to be harder than I thought, if not impossible. I will have to see if there is maybe something within the Foundation that we could benefit from in our experiments.
Addendum: D-Class ████ stopped vomiting approximately two hours after SCP-XXXX was removed. The subject was left dehydrated and remained on a saline drip for forty-eight hours. Other patients complained that their rest was interrupted because D-Class ████ was "glowing like a goddamned glow stick all fucking night." [sic]
Test Object: SCP-XXXX
Test Subject: D-Class 7210 (Subject 1), D-Class 2133 (Subject 2)
Researcher: Researcher ███████
Test 4: Touch
Both subjects stand in the center of the test chamber.
Researcher: Good afternoon. Would you please state your names for the record.
D-Class 7210: [REDACTED]
D-Class 2133: [REDACTED]
Researcher: Thank you. Would Subject One please put on the gloves provided and open the lockbox on the table.
Subject One complies.
Researcher: Very good. Please hold the object until further directed.
Fifteen minutes pass without incident.
D-Class 2133: What kind of bullshit is this? Why are you wasting our time holding some dirty-ass rag?
Researcher: Subject One would you please make contact with the rag and Subject Two's neck.
D-Class 2133: Oh. Hell no. Get the fuck away from me.
D-Class 7210: Come on, dude. Be cool. Just let me do this so we can be done here.
D-Class 2133: Be done here and go where? Do what? Nah. No way.
Subject One sighs heavily and approaches Subject Two.
D-Class 7210: I'd rather be back in my cell than standing here holding a rag for this old pervert.
Researcher: Subject One. Please apply the object to Subject Two's person.
Subject Two approaches the viewing window and moves intimidatingly toward Researcher ███████.
D-Class 7210: Come do it yourself, old man. Huh? You some kind of big important chickenshit or something?
Researcher: Subje—
Subject One approaches Subject Two from behind and wraps SCP-XXXX around Subject Two's throat. Subject One pulls back on the cloth to pull Subject Two away from the window, inadvertently choking Subject Two. Subject Two wrestles away from Subject One and retreats to the far corner of the test chamber.
D-Class 2133: The fuck is wrong with you, dog? Fucking choking me?
D-Class 7210: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, man. I didn't mean it. I just was trying to get you away from the window so we could get this shit over with.
D-Class 2133: Bullshit, yo. You want to throw down? You and your little piece-of-shit rag?
Subject Two spits on the ground while assuming a threatening position. The saliva is slightly luminous.
D-Class 7210: I don't want to fight you.
D-Class 2133: Don't matter.
D-Class 7210: I'm not going to fight you.
D-Class 2133: Good. Makes it easy for me to kick your fucking ass, then.
Subject Two runs toward Subject One. Instead of dodging Subject One attempts to block the attack. The two Subjects collapse to the floor and begin to wrestle.
Security Personnel █████: Should we intervene, sir?
Researcher: No. No, █████. Just let this resolve itself?
Subject One manages to wrap SCP-XXXX around Subject Two's throat again and begins to choke him as they lie on top of each other on the floor. Subject Two frees himself enough to abstain from losing consciousness, but is visibly producing more saliva. Subject Two begins to cough violently.
Seven minutes after the fight begins the experiment is aborted and Subject Two is pronounced dead. Cause of death is respiratory impairment from immersion in liquid.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: Well, we learned one thing at least. SCP-XXXX needs to make direct-to-skin contact to have any affect.
PENDING LEVEL 5 DECLASSIFICATION
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Note from Researcher ███████: Look. I understand that the results from our experiments with SCP-087 were less than desirable, but I can find no feasible reason why the data should be expunged. You can redact the hell out of it for all I care, but there are things we've learned that could finally [EXPUNGED].
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