Item #: SCP-198
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-198 is located in a secure room of Site-██ with
armed guards posted outside to prevent any unauthorized access. SCP-198 is to be stored
under 24-hour video surveillance in a sealed and locked case (0.5 m x 0.5 m x 0.5 m) and
the key kept in a secured location accessible only to those personnel with Level 3 clearance
and above. Under no circumstances are any Foundation personnel to handle SCP-198. All
handling of SCP-198 is to be done via remote robotic means or by D-class test subjects
only.
In light of Incident 198-A and Incident 198-B, Object Class has been elevated to Euclid and
Containment Protocol 198 has been established. SCP-198’s case must now be kept on a digital
scale attached to an alarm system with redundant backups for power in its secure room. Any
deviations in weight will indicate a breach and Site Supervisors must immediately enact
Containment Protocol 198 detailed below.
Description: SCP-198 has taken numerous forms since coming into Foundation possession in
19██. Since acquisition, SCP-198 has been observed to have had dozens of different forms
including a Styrofoam cup, █████████ brand glass beer bottle, ██████ and
████-████ brand aluminum soda cans, an oversized shotglass that read “One
Tequila, Two Tequila, Three Tequila, Floor”, a plastic water bottle with a █████ label
partially peeled off, and [DATA EXPUNGED]. These forms always appear partially filled
with the expected liquid a vessel of that type would contain.
Currently, SCP-198 appears as an ordinary white, porcelain coffee mug with blue, vertical
stripes evenly spaced around its exterior. There are no visible manufacturer markings
or otherwise remarkable details about its appearance in its current form. The object
has resisted all attempts at destruction or sampling for further analysis. When inactive,
SCP-198 can hold the expected 240 mL (8 fl oz) of liquid that any standard coffee mug
would hold.
Anomalous behavior does not manifest until a live human being grasps SCP-198 to hold
it. Approximately 2 - 5 seconds after the SCP is held, it will instantly bond itself
through unknown, albeit painful means to the handler’s hand or hands. Test subjects have
reported the pain of bonding with SCP-198 as a “searing” or “fiery” sensation,
though no heat can be detected by outside observers or instruments. The use of gloves
or other barriers between the object and the hand does not prevent the bonding process
so long as the subject can still grip SCP-198. Extensive testing has revealed that the bond
appears to be at the molecular level and is permanent until the death of its holder. To
date, no means have been found to break the bond including cutting or severing the fingers
or hand of the holder as any wounds below the wrist of the test subject heal instantaneously.
Further proposed testing of the range of healing up the handler’s arm is pending approval.
Once bonded, any liquid inside SCP-198 will disappear and the container will inexplicably
begin to fill from the bottom-up with a fluid or a semi-solid material, stopping only once
it reaches the top of the container. The liquid or semi-solid is different for each holder,
but it has to date been a bodily fluid or human excretion in each test instance. Such
instances have included human saliva, sweat, blood, bile, mucus, urine, feces, and [DATA
EXPUNGED] as well as combinations of two or more of these.
Once SCP-198 has filled, the holder will undergo rapid dehydration and/or emaciation, becoming
increasingly malnourished to the point of death, which usually occurs within 24 hours
if nothing is done to prevent it. Ingestion of standard foods, liquids, or I.V.-supplied
nutrients does nothing to reverse or slow this process. Testing has revealed that the
only means by which the subject can gain nourishment is by consuming the contents of SCP-198; however,
the constant rate of dehydration and emaciation remains the same, forcing the test subject
to consume vast quantities of the excretions almost constantly to remain alive. As the
contents are consumed or – as is often the case – dumped out of the container, SCP-198
will continue to refill itself automatically. Test subjects have lasted as long as 70 hours
by consuming the excretions before finally succumbing to exhaustion or refusing to consume
any more of the contents, which invariably leads to death.
Upon expiration of the handler, the bond with SCP-198 is broken and the object can once
again be manipulated. In approximately 75% of test instances, SCP-198 will disappear
once the bond is broken and reappear almost instantly on a nearby flat surface, seemingly
with a preference for tables or shelves within the same room, and take on a new form. Approximately
90% of these reappearances of SCP-198 is within the general vicinity of the now deceased handler,
but several times the object has been observed to reappear in nearby containment rooms, observation
rooms, and in one case [DATA EXPUNGED]. Due to the catastrophic nature of that incident,
extreme care is to be taken when in proximity to SCP-198’s containment or testing room.
Foundation personnel are urged not to bring with them any beverages or containers within
100 m of SCP-198’s containment room even when the object is not actively being researched.
SCP-198 was acquired by the Foundation from an underground bunker in ███████, Germany,
after the bunker’s accidental discovery by construction workers. Reports of strange
activity and deaths among the construction company regarding this bunker brought the
object to Foundation attention. Agent ██████, upon responding to the location, discovered several
deceased and grossly emaciated corpses, both recent and some quite old. Unaware of the
nature of their deaths or the SCP in question, Agent ██████ sealed off the area
and awaited back-up. It was then that the nature of the SCP object revealed itself as
the Agent mistakenly grabbed what appeared to be an unopened bottle of water from a table
at the construction site. Backup arrived to find an extremely agitated Agent ██████ vomiting
and struggling to remove from his hand a cup full of fresh [DATA EXPUNGED]. Agent ██████ later
self-terminated during location clean-up.
Incident 198-A:
Date: ██-██-20██ Location: Site-██
Description: At approximately 2:15 PM, Researcher John ██████, who was working in
an observation room adjacent to SCP-198’s containment room, reached for what he thought
to be his thermos of iced tea only to discover he was firmly bonded to what appeared to be
SCP-198. Immediately, Researcher ██████ notified Site Supervisors who, upon inspection of containment
room 198, discovered that SCP-198 was indeed missing from its case. At least 3 months had
passed since the last experiment had been conducted on SCP-198 without incident. Researcher
██████ was interviewed by Site staff and was kept alive by consuming the
contents of SCP-198 for 31 hours before finally refusing to drink the contents any longer.
Incident 198-B:
Date: ██-██-20██ Location: Site-██
Description: At approximately 8:00 AM, Security Guard Albert ████████ stopped
to get a cup of coffee from a break room later determined to be located three floors underneath
and two hallways over from SCP-198’s containment room. The guard found himself bonded to SCP-198
when he attempted to grab a bottle of dairy creamer from the break room refrigerator.
Once again Site Supervisors were notified of a potential containment breach and discovered
SCP-198’s case to be empty. Guard ████████ was interviewed and chose to self-terminate rather
than consume any of the contents of SCP-198.
Immediately after Incident 198-B, Site Supervisors determined that the Object Class should be
raised to Euclid and Containment Protocol 198 was created to handle future containment
breaches.
Containment Protocol 198:
Containment Protocol 198 is to be executed immediately by Site Supervisors after a containment
breach of SCP-198 is detected. In the event that the alarm attached to SCP-198’s scale
is sounded, Site-██ is to be locked down and all personnel are to immediately avoid
any beverage containers and evacuate the facility until SCP-198 can be located and properly
secured.
For test logs, please see Experiment Log 198-A.
Experiment log of Dr. ███████ on SCP-198 testing various manifestations of
its anomalous properties
Notes: Testing on SCP-198 is to be done outside of its containment room in a secure experimentation
room. SCP-198 is to be placed via robotic means on a plain table in the center of the
otherwise empty room. During experimentation, all Foundation personnel are to remotely observe
either via surveillance camera or adjacent observation room behind a secure, plexiglass
window. At no time should any Foundation personnel enter the experimentation room while experiments
are being conducted. Armed guards and clean-up crews will be posted outside the experimentation
room and will not enter until the test subject has expired.
Experiment 198-A-1
Date: ██-██-████ Procedure: Object is observed to have the
form of a small glass of water. Class D personnel instructed to enter room and touch SCP-198
with his finger, but ordered not to hold or pick up the object.
Results: No bonding takes place and Class D personnel is unaffected.
Experiment 198-A-2
Date: ██-██-████ Procedure: Same Class D personnel is instructed
to pick up SCP-198. Results: Class D personnel screams in surprise
as the bonding process takes place. Test subject immediately begins to try and pry SCP-198
from his hand. Test subject ordered to calm down and describe the contents of SCP-198:
Dr. ███████: Please describe the contents of the object in your hand.
Test Subject: What the ████ is going on?! I can’t get it off! [Liquid is seen
spilling from SCP-198 as the test subject flails around.]
Dr. ███████: Yes, we are aware of the situation. Please calm down and describe
the contents of the object in your hand.
[D Class personnel is seen to cautiously sniff the contents of SCP-198.]
Test Subject: Is that ████?! Oh god, that’s disgusting, man! [Test subject stumbles
slightly and falls to one knee at this point.] Doc? I don’t feel so good, man.
Dr. ███████: Please describe what you’re feeling right now.
Test Subject: I… I feel weak. Tired. Thirsty, too. What’s going on? Can I get some water,
man? Dr. ███████: I'm sorry, I cannot
do that. But perhaps the contents in your hand…?
Test Subject: Are you ███████ kidding me, man?! No ███████ way!
Dr. ███████: Suit yourself.
Approximately 2 hours into the experiment, the test subject is observed to curse loudly
before gulping down the contents of SCP-198. Test subject periodically drinks from SCP-198
until finally succumbing to exhaustion and expiring 29 hours into the experiment. Subsequent
autopsy determines the contents of the test subject's stomach to be mostly human urine.
DNA profile on the urine came back inconclusive and with no known match in our database. Upon
death of the test subject, SCP-198 unbonded, disappeared, and returned to the table in
the form of a large, half-filled plastic pitcher of what appears to be ice and lemonade.
Experiment 198-A-3
Date: ██-██-████ Procedure: Class D personnel instructed to
enter room and don surgical gloves placed on the table next to SCP-198. Once the test
subject is wearing the gloves, subject is instructed to pick up SCP-198 (still in lemonade
pitcher form) and pour herself a glass. Results: Test subject is observed to use both
hands to lift the pitcher to pour a drink. Once again, Class D personnel shouts in surprise
as the bonding process takes place despite the gloves and appears to have both hands
bonded to SCP-198. Test subject is highly agitated and clearly in pain.
Test Subject: Ow! Owowow! It burned me!
Dr. ███████: It would appear that both of your hands are stuck to the container.
Is that the case?
Test Subject: Yeah! Does it look like I'm not stuck?! [Test subject is visibly straining
to pull her hands apart from SCP-198.]
Dr. ███████: Can you remove your hands from the gloves?
Test Subject: No! They're stuck to this damn thing, t—! [Test subject pauses mid-sentence
and stares at the pitcher in her hands. Seconds later, test subject is seen vomiting violently
and falling to her knees. A brownish, semi-solid mass spills onto the floor from SCP-198.]
Dr. ███████: Can you please describe the contents of the pitcher, please?
Test Subject: ████! ████! ████!
Test subject continued vomiting for approximately ten minutes before collapsing to the floor.
Test subject became uncooperative at this point and would not respond to the researcher's
requests. Security guards are instructed to enter the experimentation room and terminate
test subject. Testing concluded that the substance in question was human feces. Again, the DNA
profile of the substance was inconclusive and matchless in our database. Upon death
of the test subject, SCP-198 unbonded and remained in its lemonade pitcher form, once
again half-filled with what appeared to be lemonade and ice but did not teleport back
to the table surface.