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Item #: SCP-???
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-??? is to be kept in a standard metal container according to its current measurements in an anomalous object storage site. The container used must be hermetically closed in order to avoid contact between SCP-??? and any animal species outside of testing purposes.
Description: SCP-??? consists of a rectangular woven wool tapestry, currently measuring 9,8 meters wide and 11,3 meters tall when fully unrolled. Analysis of the wool has confirmed the tapestry's age does not exceed 15 years.
SCP-???'s design consists of three colors of wool: beige, navy blue and red. On the upper and lower borders of the tapestry lie a number of beige tassels (nearing 180 on each side at the time of this writing), of 15 centimeters long each. The design of the tapestry itself shows numerous animal species woven in red wool over a beige background. The borders of this scene are navy blue, as well as some fine details of the animal pictures.
The graphic style of these depictions is rather simplistic and all figures are sideways. It has been noted that the represented figures are not necessarily up to scale with one another. Researchers are currently looking to discern a pattern in the various animal's size discrepancies.
SCP-???'s anomalous properties manifest when a creature possessing muscular tissue makes physical contact with it, however brief or superficial. At that moment, the creature is quickly and completely absorbed into the tapestry in a quick and violent fashion. Any traces of blood, organs, bone or skin separated from the body during these process is quickly absorbed as well.
Once the absorption process is complete, the tassels on each end of the tapestry begin secreting a viscous fluid composed mostly of blood, water and substances composing bone, skin, sinew, hair and all other tissue originally belonging to the absorbed body, except for muscular tissue.
Once the fluid is completely secreted off the tassels (a process of which duration depends on the size of the absorbed creature), a picture of the absorbed individual's species is added to the tapestry's design. It has been confirmed that the corresponding image fits not necessarily the absorbed individual, but the general "idea" of how an individual of its species should look, foregoing notable physyical deviations of the individual, such as a short tail or a missing limb.
Among the many species identified within the tapestry are: Homo sapiens, various canines and felines (including the common housecat and dog, a male Panthera leo, Canis latrans and Vulpes vulpes), a male Loxodonta africana (through testing) a species of the Pongo genus, Lemur catta, Dipodomys californicus (thorugh testing), numerous mustelids, numerous rodents, nine amphibian species, four shark species, seventeen bird species, about tewnty three species of bony fish and numerous species of insects (suspected to be due to accidental contact with the fabric).
Once a creature of a determinated species is absorbed within SCP-???, other members of said species are safe to touch the tapestry and no anomalous properties whatsoever manifest. Due to this effect, SCP-??? is safe to handle by human beings without the need of safety equipment, which is nonetheless utilized for protocol reasons.
The method used by SCP-??? to determine the species of creatures touching it is currently unknown. It has been theorized that the tapestry is somehow able to analyze the DNA stored in the muscular tissue it has absorbed from every captured individual and is able to immediatley compare it to that of future creatures.
Another theory is that SCP-??? is aware of the animal taxonomic system and only absorbs creatures of previously unencountered species. If this were true, testing would be needed in order to determine what would happen if a previously absorbed species would change its nomenclature or identity in the animal taxonomic system, and if previously rejected creatures would be absorbed, due to belonging to a newly recognized, different species.
Regardless of the particular method, both theories hint at possible conscious activity within SCP-???. Further testing is required to evaluate if class recategorization to Euclid is necessary.
Exposure to water has no apparent deleterous effects on SCP-???, regardless of temperature. However, the tapestry can be damaged by normal means, such as cutting or burning.
The size of SCP-??? expands to provide space for the figures of newly absorbed creatures whenever needed. At the time of its discovery, SCP-??? measured 5,2 meters wide and 6,34 meters tall when fully unrolled. Since then, after on-site testing allowed SCP-??? to absorb a male african elephant, the tapestry has expanded to accomodate the new figure. The absorption and subsequent integration of the elephant figure to the tapestry's design took an estimate of 11 seconds.
Addendum: SCP-??? was discovered after investigating a rumour of numerous pets dissapearing one after another in the rural town of [DATA EXPUNGED], near the border between USA and Canada.
Investigation led to the discovery of the tapestry on the garage of a recently abandoned house by Foundation agents T██ and B█████. The anomalous preperties of SCP-??? were first witnessed when agent B█████ initiated contact with the tapestry and was absorbed and assimilated to the design in roughly 6 seconds. Afterwards, agent T██ requested backup and proceeded to take SCP-??? to the nearest Foundation site.
After the extraction of SCP-??? from the house, extensive searching was done for any other possible anomalies in close proximity. While no more anomalous objects or entities were found in the area, signs of violence such as broken plates, bloodstains on numerous walls and unhinged doors on the upper floor were noted. The search for the house´s last inhabitant, Mr. J██ C███████, has thus far been unsuccesfull.
