Existential Crisis
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Item #: SCP-3741

Object Class: Elucid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3741 Should be contained in a glass box no more or less than 1 (one) meter by 1 (one) meter on a podium in the center of a concrete room of variable size, preferably 5 (Five) meters by 5 (Five) meters to allow space for testing within containment room with an airlock system in place and flame thrower within five feet of the airlock.

SCP-3741's glass box should not be opened while one of the airlock doors is open. If opened while an airlock door is open the person who opened it, if they survive, will be demoted to D-Class.

Description: SCP-3741 seems to be a block of dried green paint. It has been observed to have an active and dormant state. When active the paint seem to grow onto any surface, coloring that surface on the molecular level green. There is currently no known method of clearing the surface of the green color.

When dormant the paint seems to be average died paint, having no properties differentiating from normal dried paint.

SCP-3741 can also be fatal when interacting with a living organism, it seems to act like a virus.
An infection of SCP-3741 has 3 (three) stages.
Stage 1(one): Subject will start to feel very 'Itchy".
Stage 2(Two): Subject will get visibly green and start feeling immense amounts of pain.
Stage 3(three): Subject will terminate and their carcass will slowly turn into SCP-3741.

Each stage lasts about 10 (ten) minutes.

Addendum: "I don't get it, why don't we just burn the thing and stop wasting our resources?"-Dr.████

Denied