SCP-214: Hemotopian Virus

SCP-214: Hemotopian Virus SCP-214 used to be a Foundation agent. He was sent to investigate possible cult activity at a public library in Massachusetts. Most of the building seemed ordinary, but people kept visiting a closed section after dark. His team planned to follow them inside. After that, the team and the suspected cultists vanished, and the agent who returned was no longer physically normal. Most of his bodily fluids have been replaced by a silvery substance that resembles mercury. Analysis identifies a mixture of complex compounds rather than ordinary liquid metal. Many of his organs have stopped functioning despite remaining preserved inside him. His brain produces no detectable activity on an EEG, yet he can still speak and interact with people. His injuries do not follow a consistent pattern either. Some heal almost immediately. Others remain long past the point when a normal wound should have healed. He experiences physical injury as pleasure, making ordinary methods of restraint particularly dangerous. Objects also disappear around him, with no known way to recover them. The diary gives a more personal account of the change. His practical notes about the investigation suddenly give way to strange writing about a Library that collects people, stores their identities, and allows them to be borrowed. Later, he regains enough awareness to recognize that something has happened to him. He tries to warn the Foundation, but finds himself unable to complete the call. He can continue writing, and begins to suspect the record is being allowed to exist because it will be found too late. During this period, an attempt to end his own life fails. He later wakes in a different place with staff uniforms nearby and no sign of the people who wore them. The diary never provides a complete account of what happened during the gaps. In the interview, SCP-214 speaks about the Library as something much larger than the original building. He says the missing people have been organized and stored as information. He also describes his current containment site as a new home for the Library. That claim gives the disappearances around him a possible explanation, but the Foundation has not independently established how the process works. He repeatedly calls the researcher Alicia, despite the researcher's objections. As the conversation continues, the questions shift from trying to recover the missing people to wanting to see the Library. The interview ends with the researcher asking to be shown. Afterward, they are found inside the enclosure leaking the same silvery fluid. That is the event that establishes the condition can spread. The Foundation isolates the containment area's air and water, requires protective equipment, and screens people before and after contact. The exact means of transmission remains unresolved in the file. There is a disturbing resemblance between the Library's language and the Foundation's own work. Both talk about collecting, organizing, and containing. SCP-214 uses that resemblance to draw the researcher further into the conversation. By the time the researcher thinks they are beginning to understand the Library, they have become part of its problem. Original Entry: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-214