Mimetic Gargoyle

Item#31: Mimetic Gargoyle			,
Size	4.5 M	Type	Animated statue
Living	Yes	Conscious	Partially
Hazards	Attacks on Insurgency personnel	Gear	Standard Protective Equipment, Biological Protection Equipment
Location	Warehouse for Anomalous Weaponry, Base-7	Anomaly	Anomalous Animation and Camouflage - Anomalous Biological Agent Dispersion

Usage

The Article during the attack on Site-██ during the Foundation Civil War.

The Item must be contained in a 10mm thick 10x7 meter long steel chamber with only one automatic entrance which will contain an adjacent decontamination chamber. The entity does not need any kind of maintenance. Only Beta Level personnel and above may be allowed to remove the entity for release using assigned equipment and carrying out suggested biohazard security measures, including deploying it only during the day. When deployed, it must be transported in a 4x4 meter titanium container with an automatic door that opens by remote control. Containing will be placed in the assigned area¹ and the Article will be released. No Insurgent personnel should be more than fifteen meters and upwind. Any member showing symptoms of FOAS will be considered lost.

Report

It is a humanoid entity in the shape of a classic gargoyle from the Middle Ages, humanoid and bipedal in appearance. She has a feral shaped face with a wide open mouth, sharp claws on both arms/legs, and large bat wings that protrude from her back below the shoulder blades. She is animated and is made of granite as well as various other minerals, including a mixture of solid granite, basalt rock, and other unknown substances; This granite-like substance appears to be able to flex and bend as if it were living tissue. The entity is smart² and is able to understand human speech with a willingness to follow orders, yet is not able to speak.

The Item appears to go into a state of hibernation during the day from which it awakens after nightfall. During this state, the Article enters a coma-like state and its body solidifies until it is practically indestructible. While in condition, staff can touch and manipulate the body, although they react hostilely to any attempt to harm it. His wings are functionally useless despite being able to bend and move. The Item is capable of scaling steep surfaces using its claws, driving them into walls like pegs.

When active and hunting the Item has the ability to stay frozen, to the point of looking like a real statue, when viewed. The Article maintains this form until the observing subject(s) lose sight of it, at which point the Article will attack the subjects with its claws and jaws, preferring to tear its targets by the neck. Despite the consumption of organic matter, the Article never produces waste.

The Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Anomalus Syndrome (FOAS)³ or "Gorgon Virus" is the designation given to the supposed pathogenic strain⁴ in the Article that they manifest as an anomalous disease that is transmitted by an unknown vector that does not depend on any kind of virus or bacteria. It is spread exclusively through the direct ingestion of the pressurized granite in powder form that the Article disperses. This dust is inside the article and its exposure to oxygen for less than twenty (20) seconds destroys its atomic composition. Due to this, direct or indirect contact between exposed subjects does not spread the disease. Infected subjects will undergo a severe transmutation in two (2) minutes in which they will turn into a solidified rock formation made of pure granite. FOAS appears to have no effect on corpses. It has been noted that the Item appears to be aware of the nature of this, rapidly killing its targets and/or quickly consuming them without allowing time for the strain to show effect.

Adendum

The Article was first located in Paris, France, in the Notre Dame Cathedral by the Estate Noir. The entity was discovered behind an iron gate in 18██ during the return of the cathedral to the Church by Napoleon Bonaparte, who appears to have done this after discovering the creature and realizing that only members of the church were able to keep it on the sidelines. Because the French soldiers had broken the thaumaturgical seals that contained the creature, the Estate Noir came to their aid and they managed to contain the entity.

According to the archives of the Estate Noir they discovered various writings in the cathedral that describe that Saint Roman de Condat in 640 A.D. by order of King Clotaire II, tamed the creature by means of a sacred artifact and locked it behind the iron gate behind various magical seals under the cathedral. There is no description of the origin of the creature, but there are several allusions that speak of the possibility that it was man-made and has been used as a prototype for the reanimation of the other gargoyles that surround the cathedral, although it is unknown with what it was finally intended to do this.

The Article became contained by the Foundation during the integration of the Estate Noir with the other precursor organizations under the designation SCP-███. During the Foundation Civil War in 1914 it was one of many anomalies that were brought out of containment with the help of members of the Insurgency staff.

[+] Note from Doctor Enzy

After a long day of research it has been stated that Article #31 not only does not qualify to be part of Corvus Project but it simply does not even qualify to be considered humanoid. Even if you ignore the fact that it is only active for twelve hours, it depends a lot on the indications to the point that it cannot make its own decisions beyond its basic needs, in this case feeding itself. By order of the Delta Command, it has been unanimously decided to keep it under the name of Article for future use. If there are changes in its behavior, it will be published in the updates of this file.

- Doctor Enzy, Articles Specialist

[+] Incident Report

On ██/10/2020 the Item #32 containment chamber breach alarm was activated and security guards and containment personnel were dispatched. When entered the Item was in its active state despite being past midnight. The Article was hitting the walls of his cell and trying to attack personnel who were trying to get close to him. After about twenty minutes he calmed down and returned to his dormant form. The containment personnel noticed that the Article had the phrase "Long live the Revolution" in French engraved on its right shoulder.

Surveillance cameras inside the room show that a subject entered the containment of the Article at 11:45 PM, although the control panel on the door shows no signs of having been tampered with in any way. Because the subject keeps his back to the camera, it has not been possible to identify him. After being there for a couple of minutes looking at the Article, he touches his shoulder and disappears from the place without any explanation.

An exhaustive search inside the containment chamber conducted by the staff resulted in the discovery of a note inside the mouth of the Item, the content of which is presented below.

It is sad how the documentation so cruelly summarizes everything in such simple lines: "With the help of members of the Insurgency supporter staff." It's almost an insult, but at the same time, what else is there to say? We were all young and we wanted the best for the world and ourselves, so when █████, then O5-2, came up with his plan we were more than ready.

It had literally been more than a decade since the last members of Theta-01 "Warhawks" had come together and although the Red Right was still the trump card we were the card under the table. Everything looked so promising. But things don't turn out the way you want them, huh?

The seizure of Site-██ was a pretty big success for us, something that was easy to do when you've been alive since the days of the American Safe Containment Initiative, so you know all its tricks. But keeping it long enough for the other O5 deserters to have time to flee wasn't easy. Doctor ██████ really wanted to use the Entropy Bell to break through his defenses, completely ignoring what it would do to us. I remember Captain █████ said that he had contacts with MacDouglas Bowe, as if somehow the great-grandson of the great General ████ Bowe had any idea what to do with us, the creations of his ancestor. And to think that his last descendant would repeat the same mistake several years later .

Anyway. The fact is that it cost us a lot to maintain the Site long enough and just at the last moment we decided to release the damn thing. He did his job pretty well, and all because ████ ██████⁵ knew how to deal with the anomaly from his time with the Estate Noir. God, we really were old. But it turned out and it was fun to watch the Mobile Task Force flee or die in vain trying to stop him. In hindsight that's when I started to enjoy this. Make the Foundation suffer.

The victory was sweet but the taste did not last long enough. I won't bore you with the details. It was 1924 when the war ended and after four painful years in Project Corvus - because someone had to stay behind to free the humanoids that were still locked up - we were able to escape from the clutches of the Overseers. We met again with ████ who helped us hide as payment for the debt he owed after helping him with his problem with Garnier in 1912. And that's how we were ending being part of L'anomalo. The rest, as they say, is history.

Consider this a requiem on my part. For you and for those who died for our cause. And I say our cause because despite everything, I still don't hate you. Eventually the world will make you see things our way.

- From a former comrade in arms

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Original: Gárgola Mimética
Date: 6 Apr 2021
Author: Yorick1
Translator: Yorick1

Notas al pie

1. Usually by helicopter.

2. Its intelligence is similar to that of a trained hunting dog.

3. Named for the World Parashealth Organization in 19██. This syndrome can also be manifested by abnormal entities through a strange radiation that is scattered by sight. The GOC ended the last of these entities in 1989 in Greece. The Foundation is believed to have at least one of these in contention.

4. To this day its existence continues to be discussed among the paranormal community.

5. PdI-299.