SCP-019

SCP-019 SCP-019 is a ceramic vase large enough for a person to fit inside, standing 2.4 meters high with an opening 1.8 meters across. Its decoration suggests Classical Greece, but the Foundation hasn't been able to date it conclusively. Every known attempt to break its surface has failed. The containment instructions already authorize destroying it if a working method is ever discovered. The reason is the creatures that keep emerging from it. Collectively designated SCP-019-2, they tend to be small, roughly humanoid, and sometimes partly animal-like. They're hostile, physically strong for their size, and attack with claws or teeth. Individual specimens are relatively fragile. Enough of them together would be a much larger problem. Keeping the vase still at zero degrees Celsius reduces its output to approximately one creature an hour. Moving it, threatening it, changing the environment, or exposing it to extreme temperatures affects production. Putting something inside can cause a flood of creatures. Tilting it produces an outpouring as though the vase had been full of them all along, although looking into it from above reveals only darkness. The Foundation keeps it upright over a grate in a reinforced room with an incinerator. For a while, that appears to provide a manageable routine: watch the vase and burn whatever comes out. The research notes complicate that routine. A captured specimen makes sounds resembling ancient Greek languages, although researchers still consider the creatures no more intelligent than animals. It dies within forty-eight hours. Examination reveals unstable supporting anatomy, a barely developed digestive system, and very few other internal organs. Other captured specimens follow similar patterns. These bodies seem poorly equipped for prolonged life outside the vase. Later, a partly transparent specimen escapes the monitoring team's notice long enough to damage containment. Then some specimens become harder to burn. By the final update, most are almost entirely resistant to the incinerator, and the researchers are considering replacing it with an acid bath. The file raises the possibility that the vase is responding to containment, perhaps even showing evidence of sentience. That remains a hypothesis. Still, the progression gives the Keter classification a practical explanation. Containment depends on disposing of a steady output of creatures, and the method used to dispose of them is losing its effectiveness. The vase itself stays in place while the conditions for safely keeping it there continue to change. Original entry: https://t.co/CqX9L2LwxP Based on SCP-019 by Sophia Light, SCP Wiki. Original and this adaptation: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://t.co/TI86Yhe2FC