More SCPs

Well, I got bored. Here's another one of those SCP things I came up with while I was supposed to be working. Enjoy.

Item #: SCP-829

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedure: SCP-829 is to be kept in a 15 foot by 15 foot contained room at site █. During the regular termination cycle of local class D personnel, one individual is to be placed in 829's containment room for feeding. Two guards are to be stationed in the linked security room at all times to monitor SCP-829 for unusual activity. In the event that one of the three security cameras cease to operate, a single class D subject is to be sent into the room as a distraction while technicians replace the camera. Haste is advised in this endeavour. In the event that SCP-829 escapes, personnel are advised to find suitable hiding locations and make as little noise as possible until the danger has passed.

Description: SCP-829 appears to be a six foot tall male of approximately young-adult age. More precise figures are deemed impossible to determine due to the highly advanced degree of necrosis in SCP-829's body. It is unknown how SCP-829 maintains structural integrity or it's substantial strength, since through the many decaying holes in the subjects skin it is clear the internal organs and structures are experiencing similar decay. Every inch of SCP-829's skin looks like it is in an advanced state of rot, although no leftover skin particles have been recovered from the floor of the containment chamber, implying that the SCP is disintegrating at a molecular, or possibly even atomic level.

SCP-829 appears to be indestructable to common assaults, with its only damage coming from the above mentioned necrosis. Despite repeated attempts during the original containment process SCP-829 appears to be unaffected by fire, and even when doused in petrolium and set alight, the flames only remained present long enough for the fuel to burn away, then dissipated with no obvious damage to the SCP. Large calibre bullets fired at SCP-829 do not seem to impact it. Slow motion cameras showing the bullets ceasing to exist moments before they hit the target. Tests have currently been proposed utilising a melee bladed weapon to see if it can pierce SCP-829's skin, or if it will vanish as the bullets do.

SCP-829 possessed advanced strength, more then capable of applying blunt force powerful enough to break through its containment cell. Of greater interest is what research staff are calling its "decaying touch". If any part of it comes into contact with a human being with a functioning heartbeat, the infected area will begin to decay rapidly. This decay will not stretch beyond the location touched, but touching SCP-829 usually involves it attempting to grapple its intended food, and as such is usually fatal anyway. The use of hazmat and other protective gear either has no effect (for 'thin' protective gear) or very little, as it rips the protection off its target in order to feed. Anything thicker then three milimeters is forcibly removed.

There is no evidence of intelligence beyond that of a very basic animal. When SCP-829 is not feeding, it sits or stands quietly in it's cell, apparently dormant. If an individual enters its cell and it is not already busy feeding it will advance at a moderate walking pace on the victim and restrain them for feeding. If it has not been fed at least once in the previous 43 days (the number was established through unfortunate experimentation) it will attempt to escape from its cell by employing blunt force on the nearest wall until containment is compromised and wandering around in an apparently random pattern until a suitable target has been found. If more targets present themselves after initially feeding it will continue this pattern until no more targets are visible, at which point it will once more fall dormant. If SCP-829 is attacked by an unseen assailant it will attempt to search the area for any sign of targets.

SCP-829's senses are below average for a human being. Tests have determined it can only see things at a maximum of fifty feet away (I would attribute this to the state of decay its eyes are in, but to be honest nothing should be able to see through those eyes - Dr █████), and its sense of smell is about average for a human being. SCP-829's hearing is above average, and apparently it is capable of tracking people to a reasonable degree by sound. This is not supernatural to any extent, as it is about as proficient at this as a reasonable modern day sports-hunter. Unusually, mechanical noises do not bother SCP-829 and it has no reaction to them. For example, the sound of a stick being broken inside SCP-829's cell will attract its attention, but the same sound played through a audio-recorder will provoke no reaction at all. Despite its apparently limited intelligence, current theory is that it is working off learnt behaviour, as is the past few months it has learnt to pay attention when the door of its cell opens (this sound always occurs before feeding).

The feeding process is quite visceral. First, the target is physically restrained by SCP-829's - escape before this point is possible due to the relatively slow speed of 829's pursuit, but after being seized it is considered impossible to escape. Areas where SCP-829's skin touches the skin of its target begin to necrosize immediately, rotting at a highly advanced rate. The second stage involves 829 clamping its jaws down upon the target's neck. It is unknown if this must be done upon the neck, but that seems to be its preference. Once this occurs all systems of the target except the circulatory system and enough of the brain to keep the heart pumping seem to shut down and decay at the same advanced rate. This continues for approximately 20 minutes until the body has decayed to the point it can no longer support the circulatory system, at which point SCP-829 appears to lose interest and discard the remains, which continue their rapid decay. Any attempt to interrupt its feeding process will be ignored. Attacks upon it will be ignored, and attempts to forcibly remove from its target will either be ignored, or result in the hands of the remover suffering advanced decay.

For approximately 40 days after feeding, SCP's rate of necrosis halts, and if it has been fed more then a single human adult in those 40 days it appears to reverse very slightly. Experiments to determine how far this reversal would go were discontinued after forty class-D personnel were used with no results in sight.

SCP-829 was located in the middle of ██████ National Park. Agents were dispatched after reports filtered through of ██ unexplained disappearances in the park over the course of ██ years. SCP-829 was secured with acceptable casualties and transported to site █, where it has remained under the study of Dr █████.