 Item number SCP-4501 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures All companies associated with the manufacture of the popular product Kindle Mint Cake are to be obtained as Foundation Assets, after which they will continue to operate, functioning as fronts for the containment of SCP-4501. In further research, at least two major manufacturers must remain actively producing and distributing the product at any time. Directors of these companies will be responsible for ensuring that no metric of performance over time could feasibly result in the production of a line graph matching the form of any linty section of the Trans Antarctic Mountain Range, as viewed from any angle. For the purposes of this procedure, the term linty section refers to a continuous section of at least 2.2 km in length. Directors will be supplied with an extensive three-dimensional image database and custom engineered software. Foundation affiliate distributors are able to place variably sized orders for the product upon request. Should a procedural failure occur, the company is deceased trading immediately. Any resulting alteration to the form of the Trans Antarctic Mountain Range will be explained as a geographically appropriate event, such as a landslide or avalanche, which can be confirmed by falsified readings from affiliated research centers. All packaging and promotional materials relating to Kendall Mintcake are to be closely inspected by quality assurance operatives immediately following the printing stage. Any instances depicting a likeness of SCP-4501 are to be contained in a storage locker within a secure facility. In the event of a procedural failure, any foundation operatives or affiliates active within the Antarctic region are advised to arm themselves with remotely detonatable C-4 explosive charges concealed within bricks of Kendall Mintcake. Description SCP-4501, informally termed Quigan, or Quigan, is a quasi-fictitious entity with an amorphous form featuring many temporary eyes which emerge upon the surface of its body and quickly disappear. The creature appears to be a narratively actuated plagiarization of author HP Lovecraft's creation, the Shagoth, or Shagoth, albeit with a penchant for Mintcake, a feature not envisioned by Lovecraft. It has been posited that SCP-4501 formed the inspiration for author HP Lovecraft's creation, the Shagoth, although it is not known how he could have been aware of this anomaly. It may be a note that the biographer ST Joshy has commented on Lovecraft's voracious appetite for peppermint confectionery while studying at Hope High School. When Kendall Mintcake manufactures performance over time, does not correspond to the form of any Antarctic mountains, SCP-4501 is only capable of appearing occasionally as a stationary depiction on the product packaging and promotional material. When a procedural failure occurs, a sentient instance may manifest upon the corresponding mountain area. Following a procedural failure, the corresponding mountain area may demonstrate topographical alterations, maintaining continuity with the form of the synchronized graph. Whilst the connection between SCP-4501 and Kendall Mintcake remains unclear, it is theorized that the high glucose content of the product might represent an easily digestible energy source for biologically novel lifeforms. Furthermore, peppermint flavoring has previously been demonstrated to be popular with the diverse range of entities of the Phylum Eldridge. This has been demonstrated in tests, following an incident in which tentacles anomalously featured in polo mint advertisements shown on terrestrial television in Wales on May 11, 2002, wherein they would rise from a massive static at the bottom of the screen in order to steal the mint product from distraught children. Additionally, the product is highly popular amongst climbers and mountaineers, indicating a possible cause for its association with the trans-Antarctic Mountains. The plateau and sales figures for Quiggin's brand Kendall Mintcake in the 4th quarter of 1911 has been tentatively implicated within the minds of a team of Antarctic explorers in March of 1912, when an instance of SCP-4501 is believed to have a anomalously manifested on a corresponding plateau and stolen the party's remaining supplies of mintcake, along with their standard rations. The rations were later discovered in a nearby location, still intact, alongside a small heap of novel fecal matter containing partially digested shreds of foiled mintcake packaging. Update In June 2015, an embryonic instance of SCP-4501 was found deceased to the foot of a shared vertical cliff on the new eastern face of the Antarctic Shield Volcano named Mount Terror, having fallen from a great height. The cliff was anomalously terraformed into the landscape when the mintcake manufacturer J.E. Wilson and Sons entered voluntary administration the same month. This was the result of a procedural failure, which caused a lying graph of the company's annual net profit to resemble a lengthy section of the aforementioned Shield Volcano as viewed from the south. The dissolved company would reform into creative confections limited, and further safeguards were implemented to reduce the likelihood of a similar procedural failure occurring.