close

Info

X

+ More SCPs by A Random Day

- Hide list

SCPs

SCP-3220

SCP-2790

SCP-2820

SCP-4780

SCP-3780

SCP-2664

SCP-4950

SCP-2730

SCP-947

SCP-2810

SCP-2350

SCP-3640

SCP-4670

SCP-2490

SCP-2680

SCP-3470

SCP-5430

SCP-5940

SCP-2210

SCP-4710

SCP-3850

SCP-3360

SCP-2910

SCP-2060

SCP-7660

SCP-1750

SCP-2570

SCP-2650

SCP-2143

SCP-6190

SCP-7780

SCP-6880

+ All Tales by A Random Day

- Hide list

Tales

Avatara

Hypervelocity

I Thought You Died Alone

Moonlighting

Zeitgeist

Autoerotic Assassination

T Minus

Terminal Velocity

The Chosen Few

Reboot or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypses

Hard Machine

Loud, Lawless, and Lost

Morphine Machine

The Vice Girls

Truth Is Sin

Deus Vulture

Ecstasy and Exorcism

The Revelation

Nonpareil

Rise and Repent

T Plus

The Ballad of Santa Troy

Prey and Obey

Escape Velocity

Jump the Gun

No One Gets Out of Her Alive

Leather Pig

Contempt

The Man-Machine

Domo Arigato

Mile High Club

Strung Out in Heavens High

Industrial Espionage

Hands

Nothing Human

Fullmusic Astrobiologist

Enasni Si Gnihtyreve

Eight Hours in the ECRG

+ All Hubs by A Random Day

- Hide list

Hubs

Prometheus Labs Hub

Speed Demon

Guns Pointed at the Head of God

+ All coauthored articles featuring A Random Day

- Hide list

Page
Authors

Overheard at Deer
ch00bakka

SCP-150
Decibelles

SCP-3000
djkaktus, Joreth

SCP-4220
The Great Hippo

SCP-4310
The Great Hippo

Chicago Spirit Hub
PeppersGhost

SCP-5555
Rounderhouse, Uncle Nicolini

Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Taffeta

Samsara
TyGently

Death Perception
TyGently

The Powers that Bark
TyGently

A Semi-Comprehensive List of Foundation Facilities

Dr. Desai's Personnel File

Interviewing Icons - A Random Day

Mobile Task Forces

SCP-2350

SCP-2809

SCP-2811

SCP Series 3

SCP Series 3 - Audio Edition

Short Works Contest

User-Curated Lists


Item #: SCP-2810
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Cultures of SCP-2810 are contained in vacuum-sealed glass flasks in the Site-42 infectious materials lab. Captive instances of SCP-2810-1 kept for study should be contained in Level-4 Biohazard Containment Cells, with no more than 1 instance per cell. Mobile Task Forces Beta-7 (Maz Hatters) and Lambda-12 (Pest Control) are tasked with investigating and neutralizing all wild instances of SCP-2810-1.
Description: SCP-2810 is an unidentified pathogen, first discovered in Siberia, that infects multicellular organisms, causing the cells of the organism to transform into cell-sized versions of the organism itself (e.g. a human's cells become cell-sized humans, a sunflower's cells become cell-sized sunflowers). These composite organisms attempt to carry out the bodily functions of the original cells in an analogous manner. For example, human lungs are composed of actual humans that inhale and exhale, while plant leaves are composed of smaller, wilted plants arranged and folded in such a way that only their leaves are exposed to sunlight. Microscopic examination reveals that these cellular-sized composites are themselves composed of exponentially smaller composites carrying out their bodily functions, which in turn are composed of smaller copies, and so on. Composites do not respond to any external attempts at communication despite replicating cell signaling of their host organism. Despite the size of the composites precluding cellular function in many cases (such as gas exchange), infected organisms (termed SCP-2810-1) and their composites are able to survive and reproduce, albeit in extremely poor health.
SCP-2810 is spread by physical contact and transfer of bodily fluids. Organisms do not notice the conversion of their cells, and become fully infected within approximately two months. A cure has yet to be found. Other symptoms of the infection vary in instances of SCP-2810-1.
Infected animals may engage in dermatophagia and dermatillomania, which in turn often develops into autosarcophagy, as well as displaying dramatically reduced cognitive abilities, stamina, and coordination. For example, human instances can recognize their illness until the late stages of the disease, thereafter professing ignorance of the disease. Animal instances also become much more cooperative and social with each other, even in solitary species. Infected plants produce very little fruit, and any fruit produced tends to be a poor facsimile of the fruit of an uninfected plant. Infected fungi and protists have weakened cell walls, and tend to be sterile. However, despite being in poor physical and mental health, instances of SCP-2810-1 become totally immune to all other known diseases, mutagens, and toxins, and have drastically increased lifespans.
Addendum: Incident 2810-2: On ██/██/██, Mobile Task Force Lambda-12 encountered a mosquito with a wingspan of 10 meters preying on a herd of zebras in Africa. It was not deterred by traditional insect-repellant measures, and attempted to feed on the Task Force. Lambda-12 used flamethrowers to kill the creature, which was found to be composed of millions of SCP-2810-1 instances.

« SCP-2809 | SCP-2810 | SCP-2811 »