SCP-124 is soil that grows things without the usual waiting, watering or sunlight. Its test log quickly gets stranger than unusually good gardening.

SCP-124 is soil that grows things without the usual waiting, watering or sunlight. Its test log quickly gets stranger than unusually good gardening. Recovered from a Detroit basement where two teenagers were growing marijuana, the Euclid-class soil accelerates organisms toward what the file calls their full potential. Food comes out exceptionally nutritious and tasty. Invertebrates are repelled unless they are themselves growing in it. The early experiments produce ripe tomatoes, a much larger watermelon and an instant lawn. Then two overgrown hedges emerge already shaped, one as a dolphin and one as a skull. A puppy becomes a healthy adult Labrador. A human fetus produces a subject that kills six personnel before being terminated. Hard candy becomes a humanoid candy construct. The fly-larvae result is expunged, but the recorded response is a Level 5 lockdown. Containment is a stone pit covered by a tarp when unused, with biological matter kept at least a meter away and an armed guard outside. The shaped hedges are an important warning before the violent result. Faster growth alone doesn't explain decorative pruning. The candy result goes further, undermining any comfortable assumption that the soil merely accelerates familiar biology. The phrase “full potential” sounds reassuring until the experiments show that researchers don't control what the finished product will be. Successful food production is evidence of one useful application, not proof that every new input is safe. Based on SCP-124, author unknown, SCP Wiki. This spotlight is released under CC BY-SA 3.0: https://t.co/TI86Yhe2FC Original entry: https://t.co/1OPUKtX0VF