gavin-reed
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Item No.: SCP-TBD

Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-TBD must be kept in a container maintaining a temperature lower than 15 degrees Celsius. Higher temperatures have caused SCP-TBD to (attempt to) escape containment. No other criteria applies as of present.

Object Description: SCP-TBD is a 0.48 kg mass of an indeterminate metallic semisolid first discovered within an indeterminate region of the Alps in 1994 by Francis ██████.1 The object is an organism, but does not seem to be sentient. DNA samples prove it is not native to Earth.

When an observer enters a radius of about 2 meters, SCP-TBD ejects a varied number of silver-colored threads similar in texture to a gossamer string towards the entering subject at about 2 m/s. When the strings reach the subject, they apply with a powerful adhesive with which the body uses to pull itself towards the subject. The threads do not inflict any immediate or afterward pain. Once attached to the observer, it uses shorter threads to explore the subject’s body, before detaching and falling to the ground. If there are others present in the room, SCP-TBD will continue the process.

Another instance has been recorded to accompany SCP-TBD, henceforth referred to as SCP-TBD-1. SCP-TBD-1 is the appearance of a cloud-like entity of infrared light surrounding SCP-TBD. The manifestation of SCP-TBD-1 seems to occur while TBD is attached to a warm-blooded organism. Research suggests that SCP-TBD-1 is used to scan the organism that SCP-TBD is attached to for vitals (heart rate, pulse, etc.) TBD-1 dissipates after completion.

Sightings of what could be SCP-TBD date back to 1846 by Swiss biologist Elias Burckhalter, who described (roughly translated) "a silvery shape wandering the mountainside." (Diario di Esplorazione delle Alpi; Volume 1 (1847), page 239.) Another instance of SCP-TBD had been reported in 2005 by Sullivan Dover in the mountains of Tibet. Only metal residue was recovered.

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Addendum A

8-8-2003
Research team MELOTIK found that the pills were created within a gland inside SCP-TBD’s body. It has other organs, including a heat-seeking sensory organ and a retractable syringe containing an abnormal anti-hypothermic medicine, but it does not appear to have any lungs or gastrointestinal apparatus.

Additionally, another instance has been recovered in 2011 in Bhutan. The instance was found dead from being stepped on by an unknown individual. Using its biochemical trail, it seemed to have been heading north, away from a crater left by a meteor earlier that month. It is presumed that the contained instance originated this way as well.

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