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Subject Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4234 should be sealed inside a 4 in x 4 in x 4 in glass cube until a method of destruction can be safely carried out. Handling of SCP-4234 during research should only be attempted by voluntary personnel under the age of 7 and only between the index finger and thumb. Observation of SCP-4234 during research must not be discontinued at any stage.
Should failed research require clean up and sterilization due to improper handling, it is imperative that any bio-matter resultant from [REDACTED] be encased in glass until SCP-4234 can be identified and contained. Be aware that the side effect of [REDACTED] witness blindness in Non D-Class personnel can only be treated by the amputation of the [REDACTED] and donation of one of the affected eyes to SCP-4234 as tribute. The donated eye can only be placed atop the glass cube containing SCP-4234. Deviation from this practice previously has always resulted in [REDACTED]. Upon complete decomposition of the donated organ, affected subjects report restoration of sight in their remaining eye, though all subjects confirm similar occlusions causing shadowing in the periphery of their vision. Continued research utilizing [REDACTED] on afflicted subjects confirmed not just a similarity in the shadow caused by the occlusions, but an exact match.
Surviving D-Class Personnel witnesses to improper handling of SCP-4234 must be immediately placed on administrative leave and detained for observation. All witnesses have displayed an insatiable need for self-inflicted amputation. All shared an awareness of the amputation required to restore their sight, but none exhibited any indication of awareness that it had to be the [REDACTED]. Efforts, even over the long term of [REDACTED], to cease self-mutilation in affected witnesses proved unsuccessful. as all previous research suggests subjects will continue attempts at amputation until lucky or deceased.
Description: SCP-4234 is a single grain of dry white rice. It was discovered in the tomb of [REDACTED] encased in a glass cube amongst other items recovered in a ground penetrating radar expedition by [REDACTED]. The containment cube was destroyed in hostile transport to SCP Facility [REDACTED] in [REDACTED], China. SCP-4234's anomolous properties were discovered during the subsequent clean-up efforts.
Outside of its glass encasement, in its native form, SCP-4234 seems to not only show sentience but an ability to detect the human state of attention. Its movement has only been observed after it has relocated itself and appears to be the result of dark intermittently protruding cilia present only during locomotion.
While not encased SCP-4234 will attempt to find its way into a food source for consumption by human host. Once consumed, the cilia observed in movement seem to explode forth from within SCP-4234 in impossible amounts, moving rapidly through the body and fusing with individual nerve endings. This is reported to be extremely painful by affected subject's prior to losing conconciousness and suffering violent convulsions for approximately [REDACTED], after which affected subjects regain consciousness and motor activity and SCP-4234-A is created.
In all reported instances of consumption of SCP-4234, the affected party suffers a kind of parasitic schizophrenia, becoming instantly capable of dual-tone vocalization. Post-mortem research of affected subjects yielded the discovery of an artificial larynx created by SCP-4234's improvised cilia below the subject's [REDACTED]. Attempts at long form communication with subjects who have consumed SCP-4234 and become SCP-4234-A have been as yet unsuccessful due to the continued misidentification of the SCP-4234's language. In all cases consumption SCP-4234 has inevitably proven fatal to host per violent [REDACTED].
See report [REDACTED] for Destruction Protocol results
SCP PERSONNEL [REDACTED] Office of the Administration - Official Notice 11/27/19[REDACTED]: Destruction of SCP-4234 has been deemed a waste of Foundation resources, and the item has been designated for containment with immediate effect. All research is henceforth discontinued until further notice. [REDACTED] KIA of vital personnel is an unacceptable sum.
Addendum 1: Excerpt - Audio Record Transcript of SCP Personnel [REDACTED]// SCP-4234-A Communication Protocol: Attempt 11// 05/21/19[REDACTED] 11:42 AM
*audio contains constant indecipherable low-volume vocalizations throughout*
SCP-4234-A: (unintelligible)
SCP PERSONNEL: I still can't understand you. This… This is your name… or wh-
SCP-4234-A:(unintelligble)
SCP PERSONNEL: Cut the shit, you were just using words. I asked you what is your purpose here? In this form?
SCP-4234-A: My… purpose… has always … been… tributes
Addendum 2: SCP Personnel [REDACTED] //SCP-4234 Destruction Protocol : Attempt 1 Event Log - 09/16/19[REDACTED] 3:42 PM
15:42:07 Laser halving of glass encasement containing SCP-4234 successful.
15:42:09 Rotation of glass to encourage SCP-4234's fall into molten steel successful.
15:42:11 SCP-4234's complete immersion in molten steel successful.
15:42:11 SCP-4234 unobservable by research staff.
15:42:11 SCP-4234 Destruction complete via Protocol Measure 142
Destruction Protocol Attempt 1: Successful
Article Addendum:
09/18/19[REDACTED]
SCP Personnel [REDACTED] was detained for observation as SCP-4234-A at approximately 12:11PM after losing conciousness in Cafeteria Q.
Destruction Protocol Attempt 1: Unsuccessful
