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SCP-6093: Tongue Troubles

NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS & INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

Following Incident-6093-034, this file is being updated. Edits are marked in blue.

— Maria Jones, Director, RAISA

Item No: SCP-6093

Containment Class: Euclid Skótos1

Special Containment Procedures (Archived): Foundation personnel are to undergo an oral examination every 10 days. Should they be found to be infected by SCP-6093, the infected tissue and bone is to be surgically removed and incinerated. If this is not possible, personnel are to be euthanised and their corpse incinerated.

Foundation AICs2 are to monitor hospital admissions for mouth-related issues. If the reported symptoms are a match for SCP-6093 infection, the affected subject is to be transported to a Foundation hospital for removal of infected tissue and bone. The subject is to be supplied with Class-C amnestics and returned with a cover story of oral cancer.

All discovered SCP-6093-1 instances are to be transferred to Biological Containment Area 07 for containment.

Special Containment Procedures (Current): Following Incident-6093-034, Special Containment Procedures for SCP-6093 have been revised.

All persons who have previously undergone surgery for SCP-6093 infection are to be located and terminated. Their corpses are to be immediately incinerated.

Foundation personnel are to undergo an oral examination daily. If they are found to be infected by SCP-6093, they are to be immediately terminated and incinerated.

All currently contained SCP-6093-1 instances are to be incinerated. All uncontained SCP-6093-1 instances are to be incinerated upon discovery.

The creation of any future SCP-6093-2 instances is to be avoided at all costs.

Description (Current): SCP-6093 is an anomalous medical condition which causes the transmutation of a person's teeth and bone into muscle. This process begins in the mouth, with the subject's teeth transmuting into muscle. The process is believed to be painless. SCP-6093 is believed to be non-transmissible. The method of transmission of SCP-6093 is unknown. Immediately following the onset of SCP-6093, subjects will become unable to speak. Approximately 12% of infected subjects will lose the ability to speak.

If the subject's tongue and transmuted teeth are removed at this point, no further anomalous effects will be felt. Removal of the infected tissue at any stage does not effectively treat SCP-6093 infection.

If the tongue and transmuted muscle is not removed then, Over the next 12 days 36 hours, the entirety of the subject's skeletal system will transmute into muscle. Following this, the infected subject is designated as SCP-6093-1. All SCP-6093-1 instances have a bright red colouration. Approximately 7% of SCP-6093-1 instances have a bright red colouration.

SCP-6093-1 instances are human beings who have had the entirety of their skeletal system transmuted into muscle. SCP-6093-1 instances will move in an abnormal, jerky manner in random directions. SCP-6093-1 instances move in a wide array of mannerisms towards an unknown destination.

SCP-6093-1 instances are not believed to be sapient. SCP-6093-1 instances are to be treated as sapient enemy combatants.

SCP-6093-2 instances are large structures created when large numbers of SCP-6093-1 are present in the same area. Further information is unknown.

Incident-6093-034:

On 2013-08-12, all SCP-6093-1 instances contained at Biological Containment Area 07 attempted to escape containment. Instances carried out a series of kinetoglyphs3 in unison, despite having being separated from each other for the entirety of their containment. This caused the destruction of several storage areas, resulting in a severe containment breach, during which 85% of contained instances escaped.

On 2013-08-19, large groups of SCP-6093-1 instances were noted to be gathering together at three locations worldwide: the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India, the Chihuahuan Desert in Texas, USA and the Kalahari Desert in Kgalagadi District, Botswana. Approximately 800,000 instances were counted, of which 500,000 were previously unknown to the Foundation. The instances proceeded to amalgamate into three large, rectangular objects, retrospectively designated SCP-6093-2.

Upon being approached by Foundation staff, the SCP-6093-2 instances proceeded to rise from the ground and undulate in unison with each other. Due to the danger to secrecy protocols, and the difficulty of maneuvering the SCP-6093-2 instances into containment, the decision was made to decommission the instances via incineration.

During decommissioning, a wide variety of noises were noted by staff. Following analysis by the Department of Extradimensional Linguistics, the noises were found to be a message, roughly translating to:

"MUMMY, MY MOUTHS HURT!"

Following Incident-6093-034, the number of known cases of SCP-6093 has increased to over 2.5 million. Current projections are that cases of SCP-6093 will number over 10 million by 2014-01-01.

Footnotes

1. Research and documentation is still in progress or severely lacking.

2. Artificially Intelligent Conscripts.

3. Physical or mental anomalous effects that occur when an entity performs specific motions or gestures.