CiC-005: Alberto's Despaoofo Spider.

`CiC ID: CiC-005.`

`Codename: Alberto's Despaoofo Spider.`

`Threat Level: ███: LECALIS.`

`Special Containment Procedures:`

`All instances of CiC-005 are to be kept together in a 3m x 2m x 3m room. The curfew will be applied at 11 PM EST every night until 6 AM the next morning. Security should consist of 4 armed guards trained in crowd suppression. The main dispatch must be kept in isolated rooms not connected to the secondary containment area.`

`Nevertheless, reports of CiC-005-2 instances in the wild are to be taken seriously. Instances are to be located and captured as soon as possible.`

`All staff members working directly with instances of CiC-005 are to maintain the highest level of information not counting executives or higher. No mention is to be made of Foundation staff names, project information, or containment procedures about CiC-005's containment area. Verbal communication with CiC-005 is to be kept to an absolute minimum unless authorized by Dr. Everbleed. No clothing or equipment used when interacting with CiC-005 can contain any identifying information. Personnel, including members of ETF, are instructed to carry only digitally encrypted forms of identification when involved in containment or study of CiC-005.`

`Description: CiC-005 appears to be an oversized spider, with its torso being two pill-like heads, one yellow, one red. Its legs are that of a spider, although they are far too small to carry CiC-005 weight while crawling on walls, making it unable to climb on vertical surfaces. It possesses greater durability, strength and stamina than a spider of average size and does not appear to be deterred by bullets or melee weaponry. It has been demonstrated to have an extremely adverse reaction to open flame, however.`

`Although CiC-005 can briefly subsist on small animals such as grasshoppers, cricket and flies, its primary and preferred food source is prepubescent human children. Each time it successfully consumes a human child, it enters a state of torpor and its form changes over the course of 10-12 days to be reproduced and create a new spider.`

`CiC-005's preferred habitat is lightly wooded areas such as parks or undeveloped land near moderately populated human settlements. Once it has settled into a new territory, it uses local vegetation, wood and other available materials to create between 1 and 5 "nests", designated CiC-005-2. CiC-005-2 are generally simple, crudely built spiders of average size, placed in the lower limbs of a tree or on low rises of land.`

`Once 005 has produced at least one instance of CiC-005-2, it will seek to lure a group of between 2 and 5 prey subjects to CiC-005-2 by entreating them to follow it to the structure in order to play. SCP-974 will participate in simple, physical play activities such as hide-and-seek or tag with the subjects, allowing them to leave and return at a later time. This behavior pattern can last up to a week before CiC-005 invites a single prey target to play with it alone. At this point, whether the target accepts or declines the offer, CiC-005 will subdue the target and [REDACTED], leaving the clothing with only minor damage and fluid staining. 005 will typically abandon CiC-005-2 after this, although it will remain in its territory until the local population of children is depleted.`

`CiC-005 displays a heightened "fight or flight" reaction to the presence of post-pubescent humans and will immediately attempt to flee to an instance of CiC-005-2 if it is aware that it is visible to such an individual. If retreat is not an option, CiC-005-2 becomes highly aggressive and will attack all known post-pubescent individuals. Due to its increased strength, 005 has been known to dismember the targets of its attacks before being dissuaded through standard containment procedures.`