 Number SCP-956 Object Class Safe Reclassified as Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-956 is to be kept at the approximate center of an 18 x 18 x 4 meter concrete room at all times. The doors will be locked with an armed guard posted to prevent unauthorized access. Entrance by research personnel into the room is only permitted once SCP-956 has entered a dormant state. An attempt to bring a subject into the room must be cleared by O5 approval to decrease the occurrence of SCP-956-1 as well as ████████. Unless for testing, individuals fulfilling SCP-956 activation requirement are not to be brought within 200 meters of SCP-956's containment area. Surveillance is to be maintained through security footage at all times. Instances of SCP-956-1 are kept in a neighboring room and are to be maintained at a temperature of negative 4 degrees Celsius in order to prevent melting or destruction. Any use of SCP-956-1 is to be authorized by at least one member of O5, and to be carried out in a room identical to SCP-956's containment chamber. Any excess SCP-956-1 created by tests with SCP-956 is to be incinerated unless authorized by personnel with security clearance level 4 or higher, as are any extraneous instances of SCP-956. Description SCP-956 appears to be a common pinata resembling an unknown quadruped. Tests have revealed that, although superficially similar to paper mache, SCP-956 is constructed of various amounts of glue, ██████, sugar, an unidentified fur, and human tissue. SCP-956 has also shown to be highly resistant to any sort of bludgeoning damage, with large amounts of crushing force showing no damage to its structural integrity. Although the use of gunfire, as well as heat and flame, has shown to be effective. By default, SCP-956 remains in a passive state. It shows no sign of locomotion or intelligence and displays no hostility. Scratch that. Sea Addendum 956-A SCP-956 entered its active state when a human under the age of 12 enters within ████ meters of it. Approximately ████ to ████ seconds after entering the active zone, the child becomes unable to move, holding any stance he had at the time. The victim is incapable of motion or speech, although it remains alive, and its rapidly moving eyes suggest that it retains awareness. SCP-956 moves towards the victim and bludgeons him or her until the torso ruptures. Upon breach, the victim's body disturbs a large pile unmarked candy, ranging from ████ to ████ pieces. Instances of this candy are designated as SCP-956-1. SCP-956 repeats this for any other immobilized victim before returning to a docile state. A victim can be removed from SCP-956's activation range to retrieve promptly. Upon moving, the victim ████ meters away from it, SCP-956 returns to its passive state. The victim, however, shows no signs of recovering from it as a mobilized state, and appears to remain in such a state indefinitely. Autopsies of unbroken victims showed their body had severely dehydrated, leaving them brittle. Autopsies also revealed that pieces of SCP-956-1 had begun to grow out of the victim's organs, using the tissue as a component. The amount of SCP-956-1 appears to be directly correlated to time spent in SCP-956's activation radius. SCP-956-1's effect varied depending on the age of the human consuming them. Humans at the age of 12 years or older go into a seizure within ████ minutes of consumption, with a ████ percent possibility of cardiac arrest. There is an approximate ████ percent chance of survival for sub-subjects. Animals suffer similar effects regardless of age. Children under the age of 12 undergo a different effect. They first enter a similar state to the immobilized victim of the SCP-956, although they assume a standing stance, with their arms resting out in front of them. Their body then ████ the process takes ████ minutes to complete. Upon completion, the victim has transformed into another instance of SCP-956. These copies behave identically to the SCP-956. There is a ████ percent chance of survival for the victim. Addendum 956-A. SCP-956 has recently begun to show locomotion outside of testing. It began to wander around its containment, tracing the perimeter of the room. It did this for about an hour before staring at a spot on the wall. Review of footage shows that it faced this wall after deactivating during previous tests. Security has confirmed that SCP-956 is facing directly towards an elementary school. That school is ████ kilometers away. Reclassification to Euclid status requested, doctor ████. Reclassification to Euclid granted. If its effect appears to reach beyond its containment, it is to be transferred to site ████, and should keep it far enough away from potential victims. Retrieve any paralyzed victims or SCP-956-1 and administer Class-A amnesiacs to witnesses and families. We don't need any more of these things around. ████