Ronnie's stone

Item#:SCP-5891

Object class: Eucleid

Description:Sphericon shaped object,composition is nickel,iron,chromites,zymogen cells of new morphology and spores containing liquid oxygen.Scaly in surface with a thin serous film detected toxic to be in nature.Peacock green in colour with three horn like projections.Weight- 35kg.

Discovery background: Discovered first by an Mexican bioprospector, Ronnie Matias,in the deep jungles of Western Ghats region in India. Matias team were finding a new species of Belladona with two locals.They reached to the very core of dense tropical forest,surprisingly found a very cold region of forest with faded sweet smell,which is isolated from the rest of forest by a deforested circular ring path around it.Locals claimed that their village superiors did it long ago in the 1930s to prevent the spread of forest fire,which used to often generate from the centre of isolated forest inspite of being so cold.Matias entered with the team but not locals.Their geothermal equipments showed 5 degree Celsius.On reaching to extreme core of isolated region they saw several human skeletons in some uniform stuck to the trees in thick slime.The waxy covering was everywhere in the forest and the natural flora was mummified in the slimy wax along with skeletons.A specialized team from SCP-Asia reached immediately,sealed the area and emergency investigation was initiated.

Addendum 1: SCP findings-
1)Uniform was of British militants who had colonised India that time.

2)Only tough bacterial spores and anaerobic digestive microbes found,the slime has some unknown digestive enzymes including some alien protease and lipase.No other life forms found.

3)Diary - A diary found from one of militants uniform,named John Atkinson.They were a militant exploration troop searching for new resources.They were encountered by a strange faded sweet smell on account of which they tried to find the source.They reached here and found a deep puddle of white fluid.They managed to pull out a strange looking stone which suddenly began to secrete mucosal secretions.Last entry made upto here!!

Addendum 2: Object extraction-
Extracted through non-contact procedures followed by immediate cryo containment. Area was burned and cleaned with high level disinfection methods.Extracted from the puddle mentioned by John Atkinson in diary.

Special Containment Procedures:
The stone is contained in special formaldehyde suspension in an opaque room with no light source of any wavelength.The room is made of thick layers of PVB with no airway or leakage.The SCP object is weekly inspected by DMSM(Dark Mode Surveillance Method).

Object analysis and maintenance:
1)It's source is of outer space because of its composition.

2)Sphericon shape suggests that it could be mobile in certain favourable conditions.

3)It's having saprotrophic mode of nutrition like fungus.It decays live cells and digest it.

4)Sunlight or Light source of 800nm wavelength acts as an activator of cells to secrete digestive fluid. It was inactive inside puddle due to thick layer of slime which prevents sunlight from entering.As soon as it is exposed out,it began to secrete.

5) Sweet smell was due to a pheromone chemical for luring its prey towards itself.Released from three horn like projections.

6)Slime has two main functions —- digestion and mummification.The stone does not absorb the entire nutrition from the prey at a time,but rather it mummify the prey to take it's nutrition later in unfavourable conditions.

7)Maintenance—- It is supplied by animal carcasses and dead bodies after funeral.Daily Calorie requirement-30Kcal.

8)Cold temperature around SCP object due to endothermic reaction while absorbing nutrients and extreme concentrated heat(forest fire generation) due to exothermic reaction while metabolising the nutrients.Nutrients pass to object from slime through simple diffusion method.

9)The slime ejection rate is 10 gallon per minute.Hence no living organism could escape from thick deadly slime.