 SCP-198 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-198 is located in a secure room of sight with armed guards posted outside to prevent any unauthorized access. SCP-198 is to be stored under 24-hour video surveillance in a sealed and locked case, 0.5 meter by 0.5 meter by 0.5 meter, and the key kept at a secure location accessible only to those with level 3 clearance and above. There are no circumstances or any Foundation personnel to handle SCP-198. All handling of SCP-198 is to be done via remote robotic means or by D-class test subjects only. In line of Incident 198-A and Incident 198-B, Object Class has been elevated to Euclid and Containment Protocol 198 has been established. SCP-198's case must now be kept on a digital scale attached to an alarm system with redundant back-ups for power in a secure room. Many deviations in weight will indicate a breach, and sight supervision was immediately enacted in Containment Protocol 198 detail below. Description SCP-198 has taken numerous forms since coming into Foundation possession in 19-██. Since acquisition, SCP-198 has been observed to have had dozens of different forms including a Styrofoam cup, a brand-glass beer bottle, and a brand-aluminum soda cans, an oversized shot glass that reed 1 tequila, 2 tequila, 3 tequila, 4, a plastic water bottle with a ██████ label partially peeled off, and ██████ these forms always appear partially filled with the expected liquid of vessel of that type would contain. Currently, SCP-198 appears in an ordinary white porcelain coffee mug with blue vertical stripes evenly spaced around its exterior. There are no visible manufacturer markings or otherwise remarkable details about its appearance in its current form. The object have resisted all attempts of destruction or sampling for further analysis. When an active SCP-198 can hold the expected 240 mL or 8 fluid ounces of liquid that any standard coffee mug would hold. Anomalous behavior does not manifest until a live human being grasps SCP-198 to hold it. Approximately 2 to 5 seconds after the cup is held, it will instantly bind itself through unknown, albeit painful, means to the handler's hand or hands. Subjects have reported the pain of bonding with SCP-198 as a searing or fiery sensation, though no heat can be detected by outside observers or instruments. The use of gloves or other barriers between the object and the hand does not prevent the bonding process, so long as the subject is still grasped SCP-198. Extensive testing has revealed the bond appears to be of the Lechler level, and is permanent until the death of its holder. To date, no means have been found to break the bond, including cutting or severing the fingers or hands of the holder, as any wounds below the wrist of the test subject heal instantaneously. Further proposed testing of the range of healing up to the handler's arm is pending approval. Once bonded, any liquid inside SCP-198 would disappear and the container would inexplicably begin to fill from the bottom up with a fluid or a semi-solid material, stopping only once it reaches the top of the container. The liquid or semi-solid are different for each holder, but it has to date been a bodily fluid or human excretion in each test instance. Such instances have included human saliva, sweat, blood, bile, mucus, urine, feces, and ██████, as well as combinations of two or more of these. Once SCP-198 is filled, the holder will undergo rapid dehydration and or emaciation, becoming increasingly malnourished to the point of death, which usually occurs within 24 hours if nothing is done to prevent it. Ingestion of standard foods, liquids, or IV-supplied nutrients does nothing to reverse or slow this process. Anything has revealed the only means by which the subject can gain nourishment is by consuming the contents of SCP-198, however the constant rate of dehydration and emaciation remains the same, forcing the test subject to consume vast quantities of the excretions almost constantly to remain alive. As the contents are consumed, or as is often the case, dumped out of the container, SCP-198 will continue to refill itself automatically. Test subjects have lasted a long as 70 hours by consuming the excretion before finally succumbing to exhaustion or refusing to consume any more of the contents, which invariably leads to death. Upon exploration of the handler to bond with SCP-198 is broken and the object can once again be manipulated. In approximately 75% of test instances, SCP-198 would disappear once the bond is broken and reappear almost instantly on a nearby flat surface, seemingly with a preference for table or shelf within the same room and take on a new form. The 90% of these reappearances of SCP-198 is within the general vicinity of the now deceased handler, but several times the object had been observed to reappear in nearby containment rooms, observation rooms, and in one case ██ due to the catastrophic nature of that incident extreme care is to be taken when in proximity to SCP-198's containment or testing room. Foundation personnel are urged to not bring with them any beverages or containers within a 100 meter of SCP-198's containment room, even when the object is not being actively researched. SCP-198 was acquired by the Foundation from an underground bunker in ████, Germany, after the bunker's accidentally discovery by construction workers. Reports of strange activity and deaths among the construction company regarding this bunker brought the object to the Foundation's attention. Agent ████ upon responding to the location discovered several deceased and grossly emaciated corpses, both recent and some quite old. Unaware of the nature of their deaths or the SCP in question, Agent ████ sealed off the area and awaited backup. It was in that the nature of the SCP object revealed itself as the agent mistakenly grabbed what appeared to be an unopened bottle of water from a table at the construction site. Back up arrived to find an extremely agitated agent ████ vomiting and struggling to remove from his hand a cup full of fresh ████ agent ████ later self-terminated during a location cleanup. Incident 198-A, Date ████, Location, Site ████, Description At approximately 2.15 pm, researcher John ████, who was working in an observation room adjacent to SCP-198's containment room, reached for what he thought to be a thermos of iced tea only to discover that he was firmly bonded to what appeared to be SCP-198. Immediately, researcher ████ notified Site Supervisors who, upon inspection of a containment room 198, discovered a SCP-198 was indeed missing from his case. At least 3 months had passed since the last experiment had been conducted in SCP-198 without incident. Researcher ████ was interviewed by Site staff and kept alive by consuming the contents of SCP-198 for 31 hours before finally refusing to drink the contents any longer. Incident 198-B, Date ████, Location, Site ████, Description At approximately 8 am, Security Guard Albert ████ stopped to get a cup of coffee from a break room later determined to be located three floors underneath and two holes over from SCP-198's containment room. The guard found himself bonded to SCP-198 when he attempted to grab a bottle of dairy creamer from the break room refrigerator. Once again, Site Supervisors were notified of a potential containment breach and discovered SCP-198's case to be empty. Guard ████ was interviewed and chose to self-terminate rather than consume any of the contents of SCP-198. Immediately after Incident 198-B, the Site Supervisors determined that the object class should be raised to Euclid, and the containment protocol 198 was created to handle future containment breaches. Containment Protocol 198 Containment Protocol 198 should be executed immediately by a Site Supervisor after a containment breach of SCP-198 is detected. In the event that the alarm attached to SCP-198's scale is sounded, Site ████ is to be locked down in all personnel or to immediately avoid any beverage containers and evacuate the facility until SCP-198 can be located and properly secured. Experiment Log ██-198-A Experiment Log of Dr ████ On SCP-198, testing various manifestations of his anomalous properties. Notes. Testing on SCP-198 should be done outside of his containment room in a secure experimentation room. SCP-198 should be placed via robotic means on a plain table in the center of the otherwise empty room. During experimentation, all Foundation personnel should remotely observe either via surveillance camera or adjacent observation room behind a secure plastic glass window. At no time should any Foundation personnel enter the experimentation room while experiments are being conducted. Arm guards and cleanup crews will be posted outside the experimentation room and will not enter until this test subject has expired. Experiment ██-198-A-1 Date ████ Procedure. Object is observed to have taken the form of a small glass of water. Class D personnel instructed to enter room and touch SCP-198 with his finger but ordered not to hold or pick up the object. Result. No bonding takes place and Class D personnel is unaffected. Experiment ██-198-A-2 Date ████ Procedure. Same Class D personnel was instructed to pick up SCP-198. Results. Class D personnel screams in surprise as the bonding process takes place. Test subject immediately begins to try and pry SCP-198 from his hand. Test subject ordered to calm down and describe the contents of SCP-198. Doctor ████ Please describe the contents of the object in your hand. Test subject. What the ████ is going on? I can't get it off. Liquid is seen spilling from SCP-198 as the test subject flails around. D-class personnel is seen to consciously sniff the contents of SCP-198. Is that ████? Oh god, that's disgusting, man. Test subject stumbles slightly and falls to 1 knee at this point. Doc, I don't feel so good, man. Please describe what you're feeling right now. I feel weak, tired, thirsty too. What's going on? Can I get some water, man? I'm sorry, I cannot do that, but perhaps the contents in your hand? Are you ████ kidding me, man? No ████ way. Suit yourself. Approximately two hours into the experiment, the test subject is observed to curse loudly before gulping down the contents of SCP-198. Test subject periodically drinks from SCP-198 until finally succumbing to exhausted and expiring 29 hours into the experiment. The subsequent autopsy determines the content of the test subject's stomach to be mostly human urine. DNA profiling the urine came back inconclusive and was no known match in our database. Upon death of the test subject, SCP-198 unbonded disappeared and returned to the table in form of a large half-filled plastic picture of what appears to be ice and lemonade. Experiment 198-A-3 Date ██ Procedure Class D personnel instructed to enter room and don surgical gloves placed on the table next to SCP-198. Once the test subjects were in the gloves, the subject is instructed to pick up SCP-198, still in lemonade pitcher form, and pour herself a glass. Results Test subject is observed to use both hands to lift the pitcher to pour a drink. Once again, Class D personnel shouts in surprise if the bonding process takes place, despite the gloves and appears to have both hands bonded to SCP-198. Test subject is highly agitated and clearly in pain. Ow, ow, ow, it burned me. It would appear that both your hands are stuck to the container, is that the case? Yeah, does it look like I'm not stuck? Test subject is visually straining to pull her hands apart from SCP-198. Can you remove your hands from the gloves? No, they're stuck to this damn thing. Test subject pauses mid-sentence to stare into the pitcher in her hands. Seconds later, test subject is seen vomiting violently and falling to her knees. A brownish semi-solid mass spills onto the floor from SCP-198. Can you please describe the content of the pitcher, please? ██ Test subject continued vomiting for approximately 10 minutes before collapsing to the floor. Test subject became uncooperative at this point and would not respond to the research requests. Security guards are instructed to enter the experimentation room and terminate the test subject. Testing concluded that the substance in question was human feces. Again, the DNA profile of the substance was inconclusive and matchless in our database. Upon death of the test subject, SCP-198 unbonded and remained in its lemonade pitcher form. Once again, half-filled with what appeared to be lemonade and ice, but did not teleport back to the table surface.