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D-76683 holds SCP-XXXX caplet up to the camera, see Supplement XXXX-2 for test data

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: All known instances of SCP-XXXX are to be kept in a secure container at Site-23. Test subjects may only be administered more than one dose of SCP-XXXX if due for termination or if a long-term humanoid containment cell is available.

Description: SCP-XXXX is the group designation for a supply of 32 blue pharmaceutical caplets1, 8mm in diameter with the "playboy bunny" embossed on them. On acquisition, the caplets were stored inside a commercially available 8 dram amber vial with reversible cap2 with a laser-printed label3 in comic sans which read: "migraine medicine e by dado take 1 pill not 2 pill u trust dado"

The first time an SCP-XXXX caplet is ingested orally4, it acts as a combination of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) of the propionic acid class and a triptan, except with nearly instant effect and no side effects other than slight pupil dilation. SCP-XXXX relieves migraines, cluster headaches, fever, swelling, and muscle stiffness. If the subject suffers from chronic migraines, intervals between regular episodes will increase from 30 to 180 days.5

The second time a particular subject is administered an SCP-XXXX caplet, in addition to the above effects, the subject's eyes, including the skull's eye sockets and all connective and nerve tissue, painlessly decrease in size by 50%6 over the course of half a second. After the metamorphic change, the subject is myopic (nearsighted)7, similar to some cases of microphthalmia and/or nanophthalmos.8 The subject gains the anomalous ability to focus on objects to a level of detail approximately equivalent to looking through a 10x magnification optical microscope. Subjects describe using this anomalous ability as "like zooming in with a camera."9

Subsequently, each time an SCP-XXXX caplet is ingested, the subject's eyeball decreases in size by another 50%, the myopia becomes more acute, and the possible "magnification" increases tenfold. This process hits a limit when a subject's eyes are 1mm in diameter, providing vision that tests at approximately 6/3010 on the Visual Acuity scale11 and the equivalent of roughly 10,000x magnification. However, from the third SCP-XXXX caplet onward, SCP-XXXX releases anywhere from 40 to ███ mg of MDMA12 into the subject's bloodstream.13 While some test subjects consistently received a relatively safe amount of MDMA, multiple test subjects died from acute MDMA toxicity14 following hyperthermia, hyponatraemia, serotonin syndrome, and multiple organ failure before reaching the limit of SCP-XXXX's other anomalous effects.15

Test subjects may report hallucinations after taking an SCP-XXXX caplet.16 Once experienced, these side effects never abate17 and consist of the following regardless of test subject:

  • Some humans are seen as motile corpses, wet with rot and extensively infested with slow-moving worms or maggots; the worms are described as approximately 0.1 mm thick and never described as longer than 5 mm
  • Some humans, usually authority figures or loved ones, are perceived as human-shaped swarms of insects; swarm organisms are of varying types and no individual insect is ever described as longer than 5 mm
  • Subjects report minuscule humanoids, 2 to 10 mm in height, which attempt to crawl into the orifices of living humans, especially the test subject18

Supplement XXXX-1: Discovery

The bottle of SCP-XXXX caplets was discovered while going through the effects of a minor Person of Interest, Rhonda Clayton, after her death on 2016-11-03 at age 94. Starting at the age of 20, Clayton acquired an extensive criminal record, with charges including fraud, racketeering19, and violation of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act. After being released from prison in 1962, her criminal activities appeared to cease; Clayton had no further negative interactions with the law on public record, even traffic violations. Starting in 2013, Clayton made a small name for herself in the non-anomalous art scene20 carvings toothpicks into miniature sculpture21 using dentist's tools. Clayton came to Foundation attention in 2014 when she started cultivating friendships in the anomalous art scene, including an extensive mail correspondence with Person of Interest █████ ███████.

In addition, Foundation agents found the following email correspondence on a desktop PC in PoI Clayton's bedroom, evidence, in conjunction with the bottle's label, that the SCP-XXXX caplets had been produced by "dado," a Person of Interest responsible for creating several anomalous pharmaceutical products and anomalous businesses.

PoI Clayton died in a head-on collision with a semi truck after driving on the left side of the I-35 highway in her 2002 Honda Civic at a speed of roughly 100 kph, greatly attenuating the length of her vehicle, crushing her corpse and pulping her skull. When PoI Clayton's home in Austin, TX was searched by the Foundation, in addition to the desktop computer and SCP-XXXX, agents discovered a sculpture25 different from PoI Clayton's usual work. The sculpture is nine feet tall, vaguely humanoid, with bovine-like horns, and made of approximately 200,000 interlocking toothpick carvings, each of a maggot with a smiling human face. The sculpture had an attached post-it note, photographed below:

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