Snail

A solitary snail

A solitary **snail**, responsible for some of the biggest mass genocides in the Panaverse. It is also known as SCP-003(Z).

### Special Containment Procedures

The snail is to be contained within a 4 m3 container, that is constructed with bulletproof glass. within the glass container there should be a small amount of soil, and some regular houseplants, as well as a sprinkler system.

The subject is to be provided with food, such as celery, tomatoes and other vegetables, at regular intervals. **Starvation of the subject is** **strictly forbidden**. Any and all personnel in charge of SCP-003 (Z) are to bring a mobile device with Augmented Reality functionality on it.

### Description

The subject is a snail of the *Helix Pomatia* species, having a brown, conch-shaped shell. It has no distinct features that would separate it from any other type of snail, so it has been marked with an AR tag to keep track of it.

### Anomalous properties

The snail seems innocent at first glance, but it has four increasingly dangerous anomalous properties.

1. The Snail is intelligent and capable of communication. It has displayed abilities to hold conversations with personnel and D-Class subjects. It frequently attempts to convince them to let the snail go free, to little success.
2. The Snail is immortal, or at least invulnerable (with an increased lifespan). It is currently unclear which of the two scenarios it is, but no matter the case, the Snail cannot be destroyed. It can, however be wounded, and will cause the snail to enter a state of self regeneration. Any and all other functions cease during this period of time.
3. The Snail has the ability to cause potentially world-ending scenarios with minimal input. These happen in one of two ways.
	1. **Intentionally**: *The snail constantly attempts to cause world ending scenarios by physically taking itself to a location where it can do so, such as a nuclear powerplant.*
	2. **Butterfly Effect:** *The snail has the ability to influence small scale decisions of humans nearby, which often cause a domino effect, resulting in world ending scenarios.*
4. The snail, once having completely eliminated an entire universe, will briefly be capable of transporting itself to the next universe it's planning to destroy.

### Test Log 1

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**Date**: 1/9/20
**Subject:** Senior Researcher Joe, Senior Researcher Klim and SCP-003 (Z)
**Protocol**: Testing on if the snail will attempt to change it's ways.

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**Transcript**:
JOE: "Excuse me, mister snail? Or... Well... What are your pronouns?"
SNAIL: "I am but a solitary snail. I have no use for these "pronouns" that you youth have."
JOE: "... Uhhhh... Alrighty then. I'm one of the Researchers for this organization. I'm in charge of protecting this world from threats... like you, I guess? The guy over there is Mr. Klim, he's also a researcher here."
SNAIL: "..."
KLIM: "We would like to ask you to stop destroying universes."
SNAIL: "That will not be possible. I am set to my ways."
JOE: "Can I ask why- Why do you try so hard to destroy universes?"
SNAIL: "My motives are complex. You would not understand."
KLIM: "Oh you and your **MOTHERFUCKING** COMPLEX MOTIVES!"

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**Results**: Nothing of value was gained, other than the fact that we now have to restrict access from Dr. Klim to SCP-003 (Z). - Dr. Joe

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**Notes**: "*I'd say that we did in fact learn something valuable. The snail seems to be quite old, or at least politically conservative.*" - Dr. Luna

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**Notes**: "*The snails political ideologies mean nothing to the Foundation, but could be an interesting insight into the motive for the destruction of the universes. Personally, I think the age of the snail is incredibly important. If we can figure out how long it has been destroying things, we can infer more about not only its motives, but the multiverse itself.*" - Dr. Lime

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## Season 1

### Episode 25 - The Snail

The snail makes its first appearance in episode 25 of season 1, and is the main antagonist for the final two episodes, with its goal being to destroy the Gizemverse, and then move onto the Panacord Show universe.

### Episode 26 - Code 26

As the snail reaches the top of Gizem tower, it nears the nuclear detonation switch. Just as it is about to detonate it, Dr. Zaido rushes into the room, shooting it. This results in the snail being captured by the foundation as it couldn't regenerate in time. The snail has since been held in SCP Site 26.