GoldenGlitch

Item#: 5753

Level1

Containment Class:

safe

Secondary Class:

none

Disruption Class:

dark

Risk Class:

critical

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Item Number: SCP-5753

Object Class: Safe

Special containment procedures: SCP-5753 is to be kept inside of an air-tight greenhouse room with access to ample sunlight. It is to be placed in loam soil with a pH level of 9. Ratoon-18; The anomaly is to be watered every week, fertilized every month by any personnel, and is to be placed inside of a new pot at least once a year. After extensive testing SCP-5753 can be contained with other anomalies without issue.

Description: SCP-5753 appears to be a member of the Nelumbo nucifera, an aquatic flower. However, it prefers to grow on solid loam soil rather than on the water. Rather than normal Nelumbo nucifera, also known more commonly as the sacred lotus, a large-flowered lotus that typically grows 8-15cm tall in shallow water and spreads by thickened rhizomes rooted in mud. The item has thick, translucent petals that emit a purple, bio-luminescent light.

SCP-5753 was obtained by SCP personnel after it was obtained from locals in the United States in Elkhart, Indiana. Locals had reported foul smells emanating from an abandoned structure. HAZMAT was called in to investigate the source. An embedded foundation agent notified the foundation when SCP-5753 was discovered. A deceased male had been found near the item, covered in what had appeared to be small, brown, plastic plants. The HAZMAT team was pulled out under the impression of radioactive material in the area.

When SCP-5753 is maintained according to Ratoon-18's standard botany procedures it will give off the aroma that is the person's favorite smell. If placed in outside air SCP-5753 will emit its aroma for 25 meters. However, if SCP-5753 is not taken care of in accordance with Ratoon-18, it will have an adverse effect. Emitting a stench that the person finds the most repulsive and will continue to emit in a 50-meter radius and will continue to grow in size by half a meter every half hour until the anomaly gets its proper requirements. Once its requirement is fulfilled then this effect will reset. When the anomaly perceives an entity with the intent to harm SCP-5753 it will unleash a mist of spores that will land and immediately begin to sprout an instance on whatever the instance lands on, including human tissues. If the instance is unable to find suitable soil and nutrients then it will expire within an hour of landing, however, the original instance of SCP-5753 will not expire like the separate instances.

Addendum

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Tests with superfluous data have been redacted
The item of interest has been placed in several different types of soil. Most of which had negative reactions and ended with the anomaly changing to a bright yellow color before shifting to purple again. However, one test with placing the anomaly in clay soil with zero percent silt, seventy-five percent clay to ten percent nitrate, ten percent potassium, and five percent calcium, yielded an unexpected result. The light in containment was a standard LED grow light with the humidity of the room at 100 percent. It became the normal yellow color before changing to a bright red and began to spray fine particles after resting on the soil for an hour. The mist resulted in a thin purple cloud after a few seconds of floating in the air. The particles began to land on the iron floor of the containment cell, most of what will now be referred to as SCP-5753-2, landed and nothing further happened. With the rest that “survived,” SCP-5753-2 sprouted and became a full instance of the item within minutes, destroying the floor of its containment cell as what was assumed to be it searching for fertile soil. The instances did not survive and shriveled up after a half-hour to become similar to brittle plastic, the color of which became an amber color.

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It is suspected that SCP-5753 has grown a liking to researchers who routinely interact with the object. Even to go as far as changing its smell and color to be more pleasant to the researcher. It has taken a liking to the Head Researcher Warman as he has spent the most time with the item.

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SCP-5753 has been shown to be able to read the minds of people who are in its vicinity and tell if they are wanting to cause SCP-5753 harm. This came about after subsequent tests revealed that the item would defend itself after multiple D-Class were killed as soon as they were within a radius of 2 meters from the anomaly after they were instructed to attack the item.

Recent Incidents

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D-62861 was instructed to provoke SCP-5753 by attempting to pull off a petal. The one tested was not an instance. An SCP-5753-2 is to be tested at a later date.
The D-class approached the item. Nothing was out of the ordinary. D-62861 touched the glassy exterior of the item. He then tugged at it. The item shifted red and sprayed SCP-5753-2 instances. Of the instances sprayed, some landed on the D-class, and instances were inhaled, most of which sprouted. The D-class screamed in pain, which soon became muted as SCP-5753-2 instances closed up D-62861’s lungs and throat. The mist seemed to move and encircle around D-62861. Awaiting approval for further tests using D-class on SCP-5753-2s apparent hive-mind movement. The current hypothesis is that the instances are used as a self-preservation attempt rather than an attack.

The D-class had stopped moving and had expired after five minutes due to apparent suffocation. The mist had fallen by this point. Most of the instances died as expected as spores. A few survived and were ones that rooted inside of the corpse of the D-class. The surviving instances remained so for an hour until they became like brittle plastic, and the color shifted to an amber color.