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"Shrinkwrap Syndrome"
1Fig. 1: SCP-XXXX photo circa 1991 post-retrieval, in its glass containment and transport case.
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures:
SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a standard artifact storage unit, accessible only to personnel of level 3 clearance or higher. All personnel requiring access to the object for experiments must wear non-permeable biohazard gloves.
All instances of SCP-XXXX-A and SCP-XXXX-B must be contained in cells suitable for biological subjects; humanoid containment cells for instances originally derived from any sapient subject. All containment chambers should be kept between 23 and 28 degrees Celsius.
Description:
SCP-XXXX is a 7 cm tall and 12 cm long PVC plastic reconstruction of a Tyrannosaurus rex with a disc-shaped base, which is of an outdated model lacking feathers and several significant areas which in a living animal would be filled with soft tissues (resulting in an appearance of pronounced skull structure visible through the skin and a protruding end of the pubic bones which would normally be an attachment area for reproductive organs, tail and hip muscles). The date “1996” and “Republic of Galicia”2 is embossed into the bottom side of the base, contradictory to the first reports of the object by reconnaissance and recovery teams occurring in 1991 in a rural outlying area of Boise, Idaho. Examinations for potential relation to known temporal or extradimensional anomalies have been inconclusive.
Biological subjects coming into direct contact with SCP-XXXX undergo its anomalous effects immediately and are referred to as SCP-XXXX-A. These subjects withdraw from the object with reactions of terror before seizing and falling unconscious, presumably from pain as all of its subdermal fatty tissues recede and vanish and skin is pulled taunt over all underlying structures. In the following hour the subject will lose any and all pelage, feathers, or other surface protrusions (with the noted exception of claws or nails) and the skin and muscles around the lips and jaws, pelvic girdle, and all digits dramatically recedes, often resulting in the loss of cheeks, external genitals, palms and cushioning structures in these areas. SCP-XXXX-A instances do not appear to suffer the degree of functional loss of these areas as would be expected and continue to be able to speak or vocalize clearly, manipulate objects with the hands, eat, and move. However, due to the lack of subdermal fatty layers, these entities are vulnerable to hypothermia. These effects can be prevented by handling only with a non-permeable barrier between the object and a subject; permeable gloves were used in the initial containment attempt which resulted in the current state of Foundation Senior Researcher Carlos ███████ as SCP-XXXX-A1.
Experiments conducted after securing SCP-XXXX have confirmed that the object’s anomalous effect also returns complete fossilized biological subjects to a state very closely resembling that of living subjects effected by SCP-XXXX. A mostly complete fossilized example of a member of genus Microraptor3 partially encased in a block of volcanic limestone was placed in physical contact with the object and immediately fossilized soft tissues and feathers were observed to melt into a gelatinous gray substance before evaporating into nothingness. In the following hour, the subject was freed from the volcanic limestone as the stone was also subjected to dissolving action and ropey strands of tissue were recorded being secreted by the fossilized bone structure, eventually forming a taunt skin layer over top of a newly-living subject. Non-living subjects which have been exposed to SCP-XXXX are to be referred to as SCP-XXXX-B.
Addendum XXXX.1: Experimental and Interview Logs
Following the experiment conducted by Dr. Vandres on 8/2/2012, partial skeletal and fossilized specimens are not to be brought into contact with SCP-XXXX for any reason. Dr. Vandres’s requests that the entity known as SCP-XXXX-B2 be designated as “Section Mascot” and to have it referred to as “Frankie” or similar monikers have also been denied with prejudice.
Experimental Log XXXX.EL.03 Summary
[08.02.2012]—Bio-secure Subject Containment at Area 3
Project Head: Dr. Albert Vandres
Assisting Personnel: Research Dr. Tansy Neuman, D-5575
Preface: SCP-XXXX was moved in a secured non-permeable transport case to Testing Chamber 7-A, where Researcher Neuman was instructed to introduce a prepared specimen of partial Canis lupus familiaris4 skeleton contributed by the project head, with Dr. Vandres also taking record of all observations and D-5575 on standby to secure any potential SCP-XXXX-B instances in harness and/or pet carrier.
Observation Notes: On contact with the object the partial dog specimen exhibited similar reactions to the previous experiment’s fossilized specimen in spite of not being complete remains. The canine specimen, which was limited to skull, vertebral bones, scapula and a 90% complete ribcage, was noted to begin steadily deconstructing and then reconstructing itself into a new body plan, with the complete lack of limbs seemingly resulting in the anomaly's effect considering the majority of the rib bones to be functional as limbs. Muscle tissue reflecting this reconstruction began to interlink between multiple different rib bones, with the eventual result covered in epidermis to resemble an earless, lipless, highly emaciated canine torso with a total of ten paired single-digit limbs similar to skin-webbed spider legs protruding from the shoulderblades and points along the spine. D-5575 was able to easily secure SCP-XXXX-B2 in the pet carrier as the creature’s behavior was very similar to that of a nervous but well-behaved dog.
Notes:
[Internal Document—Area 3 Secure Biocontainment]
[21.02.2012]
Recommendations for Site Manager Viewing—Senior Research Dr. A██████ B████
While Dr. Vandres’s feelings are understandable towards SCP-XXXX-B2 I cannot help but point out that emotional connections like this could be a liability should it show any divergent behaviors from the “normal” SCP-XXXX-As. On top of that, it has been unnecessarily difficult to get him to approve ordinary considerations to the human XXXX-As in containment, such as bothering to note that chronic arthritis has begun to manifest at a higher than average rate among them and that an allowance of basic aspirin tablets and weekly therapy sessions is a much less costly one than deciding to pamper a single horrifying skin-spider-dog and allow it to roam freely in section halls.
I would suggest some time off and referral to a guilt counselor, but I don’t think his problem is an excess of guilt, not after what he allowed to happen in ’91. I think a reprimand is more in order.
—Project XXXX Member, Dr. Tansy Neuman
