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Page type: SCP article
Elevator pitch:SCP-XXXX was a commercially sold brand of ‘budget’ canned meat products. Despite being marketed as being from different animals, they are all composed of the same unidentified species mixed and formulated in different ways and with different ingredients. In 0.00093% of consumers, prolonged ingestion of SCP-XXXX leads to long-term disturbance of unconscious brain functions, as well as mild skin and muscle atrophy. This is due to mild amounts of radiation within the products.
Central narrative: An immobile humanoid-esque being of meat, muscle, and sinewy tissues, surrounded by protective symbols from a pre-Colombian civilization and fused to the ground, is trapped inside a cavern system somewhere in the Amazon. The meat canning company discovers the being while deforesting land for cattle grazing.
After determining that it can regenerate mass quickly and that it is safe in the short-term to eat for animals and then humans, they begin exploiting it for cheap meat under a new ‘budget’ line of their meats. The Foundation’s automated detection systems run statistical algorithms on the product and symptoms, and flag the products as potentially
anomalous. After monitoring the movement of company vehicles, the Foundation raids their site and secures the entity.
The Foundation, then fabricates false information to suggest that members of the board have been embezzling money from the company. This causes their stock price to drop and eventually the entire company to declare bankruptcy, allowing the Foundation to seize their assets in a way that doesn’t break their secrecy.
Hook: I want to write this because I want to explore how anomalies can be capitalized on by the unscrupulous, not just by selling it, but by directly using its properties, and the consequences of this.
