SCP-631 - Nyctophobic Nocturnal Predator

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is Data Specialist Centers of the Data Redundancy Project
SCP six thirty one Object classes Keeter Special containment procedures
extermination procedures for SEP six thirty one are to remain
in effect until further notice. Information regarding civilian disappearances in
SEP six thirty one's environment urban and suburban areas of

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the United States is to be monitored, with particular regards
to the areas outlined in Document six thirty one T.
Disappearances related or believed to be related to SEP six
thirty one are to be filtered. Standard media blackout procedures apply.
Said incidents are to be investigated promptly, and should an

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instance of SEP six thirty one be identified, it must
be terminated immediately. In the event that no SEP six
thirty one are in foundation custody, the instance must be
captured instead. Agents involved in SEP six thirty one recovery
or termination must be supplied with thermal imaging equipment. Mobile

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Task Forces New eleven and Omicron seventeen are to be
regularly deployed to the areas outlined in Document six thirty
one T. The air space of these areas is to
be thoroughly examined via thermal imaging for SEP six thirty
one instances. One instance of SEP six thirty one is
to remain in containment for study and secured in a

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concrete cell. The instance must be restrained at all times
and exposed to artificial sunlight. It is to remain pacified
by Serum six thirty one gamma and delivered sustenance via
IV feeding. Should the organism's status deteriorate, one D class
personnel may be allotted for SEP six thirty one s
natural feeding and reproduction activity. All the produced offsprings save

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for one are to be terminated, and the remaining instance
is to be contained as instructed above. Description SEP six
thirty one is a species of large predatory organism with
a vaguely crustacean appearance. They possess a wing morphology consistent
with the order Chiroptera and a reptilian tail terminating in

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a venomous singer. This tail also contains the majority of
the organism's reproductive systems. Mature instances of SEP six thirty
one are roughly one hundred thirty five centimeters in length
and forty two kilograms in mass. SCP six thirty one
appear to be genderless. SCP six thirty one are rendered
imperceptible in the visual spectrum when exposed to sunlight. The

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mechanism for this remains unidentified. However, testing has revealed that
this response is triggered by heightened levels of vitamin D
three in the organism's blood stream. SCP six thirty one
remain detectable by their heat signature. Because of this, it
is known that they remain almost entirely airborne during daylight hours.
SEP six thirty one do not sleep and remain active

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at night. Furthermore, they demonstrate distress or panic in response
to low light environments. This reaction worsens in intensity over time,
and it appears can only be alleviated by immediate feeding
or exposure to daylight. The organism will subsequently locate the
nearest isolated sleeping human and impale the victim's throat with
its stinger, thus preventing any vocal reaction. Following the injection

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of its paralytic venom. SEP six thirty one will remain
in this position for two to three minutes while the
victim expires. Then it will quickly consume the victim's internal organs,
replacing them with fertilized eggs produced via its tail. Ten
to fifteen minutes following the reproductive act, the original instance
of SEP six thirty one will expire, its body, putrefying rapidly.

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The eggs require approximately one hour to hatch, at which
point the newborn SEP six thirty one will consume the
remainder of the victim's body. After their post berth feeding,
the instances will retreat to secluded locations and begin their
growth period, during which they are inactive immature SCP six
thirty one develop at an extremely accelerated rate, reaching their

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adult size within roughly four hours. Due to these factors,
the life span of SEP six thirty one, including birth, feeding, reproduction,
and death, can be as short as twenty four hours.
Observation of SEP six thirty one's behavior have revealed that
they do not eat during daylight and will only prey
upon sleeping and isolated human beings. In the absence of sustenance.

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Sp six thirty one are capable of surviving on average
for thirty days. Addendum six thirty one one Investigation and findings.
SCP six thirty one has been traced to doctor Allan
Forsyth and subsequently to a facility owned by said individual
and redacted. The investigation of the site determined that it

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had been abandoned into the two thousands and no personnel
were discovered Therein What Fought follows are excerpts of documents
recovered from the site. Rudimentary biological systems are functional, circulatory, respiratory, reproductive, gasteronetestinal.
Still working on some hiccups with neurological and endocrine. The

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subjects have stopped dying from their own venom, which is
always a plus. Through some pheromone manipulation, we've tailored them
to instinctively hunt Homo sapiens successfully, but we've hit a
very troublesome snag. We can get them to hunt the
proper prey, but can't control how and when they do so. Obviously,
this is a problem because we can't have them flying

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around killing people in broad daylight. Electrolocation is working miracles.
We can direct them to subjects in a nram or
rim cerebral state, and some careful tinkering and pheromone activity
also predisposes them toward isolated targets. This should keep them
restricted to the right prey with a roughly four percent

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margin of error. We can't be entirely sure who doesn't
sleep outside at night. The project is nearly ready for
field testing, but there is still one crucial flaw we
need to address. Data expunged solar camouflage is functioning correctly,
but we're having significant difficulty controlling their predatory behavior due
to necessary metabolic alterations. The adults have no urge to feed.

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In testing. Certain methods can be used to force such
a response, but that is impossible in the field. The
following is handwritten and scrolled on a roughly cut piece
of paper. Fight or flight will work, but make it stronger.
Data expunged produce a settled hide, so it should result
in something like a severe hangover. With that pheromone manipulation.

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It should equate physical pain with a desire to procreate.
The rest is easy. The following is also handwritten, but
appears to be a formal letter. Your offer is accepted.
The payment will be transferred upon completion of the project.
Those miserable reprobates are going to destroy any chance of
my reelection if the situation is not handled swiftly. I
don't care what you have to do to take care

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