Loki Searles, scp-drafts

Item #: SCP-3720

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3720 is to be kept in a hazardous substance cabinet locked by a passcode available only to level 2 research personnel and higher. The item is to be kept in a cool, dry area and not in direct sunlight.

SCP-3720 is currently stored at Area-42B in the Standard Artifact Research Department (Sector-2) of the Nonbiological Items Minora Research & Containment Unit (42B-N).

Description: SCP-3720 is a biohazardous green liquid in a clear plastic-bottle labelled as generic mouthwash. The bottle itself is labelled as containing 18floz (532.32ml), though only approximately 278ml remain in the bottle. Upon initial containment, only 328ml remained, suggesting usage or consumption of SCP-3720. The bottle containing SCP-3720 has shown no anomalous properties.

When a subject uses at least 20ml of SCP-3720 for at least 1min as if it were standard mouthwash, a 12—24 hour period of strong dental hygiene promotion, termed post-use promotion, occurs immediately afterwards. During post-use promotion, subjects will become remedied of most forms of mild-to-moderate dental-health issues. Cavities are healed, tooth decay is reversed, and oral irritations (such as canker sores and blisters) are cleared. Further inspection of subjects’ mouths show whitening, strengthening, and general cleanliness of the teeth to be much stronger than that of standard mouthwashes. The enamel of the subject’s teeth will also be much stronger than it was before the subject used SCP-3720.

When a subject ingests at least 20ml of SCP-3720, it will take approximately 5—10mins for SCP-3720 to be digested into the subject’s body. If the subject used SCP-3720 for at least 1min, post-use promotion will occur as usual, but if not, no anomalous properties will occur for the following 5—10mins while awaiting digestion.

When a subject has successfully digested at least 20ml of SCP-3720, the subject will contract a disorder termed gastrointestinal-dysplasia ossificans progressiva identified as 3720-A. This disorder displays close similarities of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), except that 3720-A only affects the gastrointestinal system of the subject’s body, and no other organ-systems will be directly affected by it.

When a subject becomes afflicted with 3720-A, the disorder will act in a quicker manner than FOP. Most subjects will die within 48hrs of having ingested SCP-3720. Only one subject has survived for longer than 48hrs but died shortly after (at approximately 55hrs) from suffocation caused by their own solidified esophagus.

Time since ingestion	Symptoms
T+2hrs	Soreness of throat, dizziness, fatigue
T+8hrs	Stiffness and pain in the neck, headache, shallow breathing
T+11hrs	Mild-to-moderate pain in abdomen, chest, and throat; difficulty swallowing
T+24hrs	Severe-to-unbearable pain in abdomen, chest, and throat; inability to swallow solid foods
T+29hrs	Laboured breathing from pressure against trachea, inability to swallow anything, entirety of mouth and esophagus solidified
T+36hrs	Failure of the cardiovascular, digestive, excretory, renal, and respiratory systems; entirety of stomach solidified
T+42hrs	Most of small- and large-intestines solidified
T+48hrs	Continuing shut-down of various systems, death

Discovery: SCP-3720 first came to Foundation attention when Antonio █████, a layman chemist, was detained in ███████, Chile for unlicensed peddling of the item. The purported properties of the item attracted the attention of an embedded agent in the area, who was then successful in obtaining the item from local law-enforcement officials. The chemist was quickly [REDACTED] later released.

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Addendum-OsM-01: In an experiment headed by 42B-N Research Director, Dr. ██, and aided by onsite gastroenterologist Dr. Edward, it was noted that 3720-A can manifest in two different forms.

Report OsM-01, informal (Closed)

From: Dr. Edward
To: Dr. ██
Subject: SCP-3720-A \\ Trial-██ \\ 08-14-██ \\ Notes and Observations

[REDACTED]
Further on, the previous knowledge on symptoms of 3720-A have not been entirely true. At first, we assumed that ossification of the GI-tract always began in the mouth and ended in the colon, even though most victims died by the time ossification reached the small-intestines. But after [REACTED] some trials later, newer knowledge can be added to the literature.
In approximately 93% of 3720-A afflictions in trials ██—██, the ossification of the GI-tract starts in the mouth and works down through the esophagus, stomach, intestines, and then the colon. In the remaining 7% of 3720-A afflictions, however, ossification begins in the stomach and works through the GI-tract in both directions, up towards the mouth and down towards the colon.
The directions in which ossification spreads, mouth-to-colon vs stomach-to-mouth/colon, I’ve termed as osteogenous travel. When osteogenous travel spreads from mouth-to-colon, it’s termed mouth-initial osteogenous travel, and when it spreads from stomach-to-mouth/colon, it’s termed stomach-initial osteogenous travel. The distinction between these is important, as symptoms manifest differently and death can present itself much quicker in the latter.
In mouth-initial osteogenous traveling 3720-A (3720-A1), symptoms occur, on average, in the same manner as in the original report. This is by far the more common form of 3720-A. Death normally occurs within 48hrs and often presents itself via suffocation or cardiac-arrest.
In stomach-initial osteogenous traveling 3720-A (3720-A2), symptoms occur differently. Usually, it begins with nausea, faintness, and severe stomach aches akin to appendicitis or menstrual cramps. After about 4hrs, the pain becomes severe, if not unbearable. And by the end of the day, after usually 10hrs, the victim will die.
Autopsies have revealed that victims that die from 3720-A2 always die from severe trauma caused to most organs in the lower-abdomen. When the stomach ossifies, the parts that turn to bone are unable to keep in the stomach-acid and are melted through. So as the stomach is solidifying, it’s also immediately being melted. Stomach-acid is dripping down into the intestines and causing massive damage, and this is what kills the victims quicker. At least two subjects started leaking stomach-acid from their anuses and were defecating chunks of their own melted guts. I've never seen anything like it.
And I've never thought I’d ever have to say anything like this, but something this horrible would make me prefer having my trachea crushed by my own solidified esophagus.

P.S. I will be typing up a more formal report of these findings soon. They’ll be submitted to you and ██████████ of Sector-2 for review before proper filing.