 Item No. SCP-604 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-604 consists of a set of objects which all exhibit the same properties and are contained together. Access is restricted to authorized personnel, and anyone attempting to access the containment area without authorization will be immediately detained. All interaction and testing must be cleared with Site Command. Any staff interacting in SCP-604 must submit to psychological testing before and after interaction. Experts for reports on testing events, subject reactions, and audio video recordings must be cleared with central records, and may not be removed from the record viewing area. Description SCP-604 is a set of tableware and dishes consisting of 19 plates of various sizes and designs, and 21 goblets, champagne flutes, and other wine glasses. Several are innately gilded, studded with diamonds and rubies, or made out of fine materials such as porcelain, china, and crystal. Most are extremely heavy because of the weight of the rich metals. The cutlery, cloth, chairs, tables, and other items that made up the banquet where SCP-604 was discovered have no anomalous properties and are not contained. Whenever an edible solid is placed onto one of the plates or a liquid is poured into one of the drink vessels, the food will transform into human flesh, or the nearest equivalent organ, body part, or fluid. The change from one product to another seems to be based on the similarity between color, smell, and composition, although vague symbolism and mental associations seem to be occasionally involved as well. For example, fleshy steaks will turn into cuts from the thigh, and red wine or juices into human blood. This can vary between subjects, and the process of the how a change is determined is still in her investigation. Because most of the plates are not large enough in diameter and circumference to create the entire form, most pieces manifest as human infant parts. Human wings as tiny burnt infant arms, chicken breast as filleted infant pictorial muscle, or tissue from the buttocks, and so forth. However, tissues from adults does appear occasionally, often when the meat is placed vertically, sticking into the air. Based on the analysis of the captured videos and logs, this is how longer and more mature parts were designed, although the plates products seem only to be able to project beyond the surface straight up to a limit of 1 meter, around 3 feet. People in non-animal matter can be affected, however it is often selective and will only affect the main dish. This means prepared meat will retain the herbs, spices, toppings, sauces, and garnishes as it is transformed into human flesh. More than one piece of meat can be placed on SCP-604, but the results are varied, either creating separate pieces, incorporating them all together into one body system based on similarities and appearance, eggs and thin slices of beef turning into a female reproductive system, a pile of pig intestines, and a cow's stomach melding together to form a human digestive system, or choosing one to focus on, and leaving all the others untouched. Duck stuffed with Kobe beef, becoming an infant torso stuffed with Kobe beef. The other unique ability of SCP-604 possesses as any living creature placed on its surface or submerged inside liquid contained within a goblet will metamorphize into a moving human body part. It will be capable of kinetic activity, such as flexing, as in the case of a starfish that turned into a six-fingered baby's hand that opened and closed, and grasped at touch or look of motion no matter how awkward and slow it is. Severed areas do not bleed, and tendons and muscles still function in normal ways regardless of damage. Tissues will move by whatever means available, such as inching and crawling forward by curling and extending their body, as the moving finger with an extremely long nail generated from a lobster did, or the floating penis in a large goblet did to swim, its tip jerking up and down to allow it to propel forward. If no form or locomotion is possible, the flesh will simply squirm and jiggle, remaining slightly warm to the touch. A pulse can be detected even when the object in question is not attached to the heart. Transformed items will continue existing as human tissue until consumed, removed from play for a long period of time, or expiring from shock and pain, as many seem to freeze and go into a cantonic state similar to shock when stabbed or bitten into, in the case of living tissues. Testing of stomach contents showed that transformed items remained human if consumed. Acquisition SCP-604 was acquired by Marshall Carter in Dark Operatives on ████████, according to seized records it was removed from a secluded Abbey Indy ██████, countryside. The monastery in a surrounding village practiced the rites of communion with SCP-604 and consumed human flesh and blood, said by priests to be that of Jesus the Nazarist, by placing wafers onto the plates situated on the main altar and drinking blood from the goblets. The wafers were described to have a light spongy taste, and both manifestations caused extreme religious ecstasy when eaten in hallucinations of the smiling Christian God lovingly offering his body, quoting relative scripture pertaining to the event, and speaking intimately of their sins and tribulations. It is believed that this experience is based on the individuals, as testing with identical properties had not reproduced its effect. Addendum 01 C Supporting Document SCP-604-XCH Extract from Document SCP-604-XCH Page 9 General Carter and Dark employed SCP-604 as some of the more exotic auctions, performances, functions, and dinners during the meal portion. The likely reasoning behind it, supported by direct quotes, was that it was a once-in-a-lifetime event, and those attending were urged to partake into cannibalism for experience's sake to safely test the waters of the forbidden, in much the same manner that adventure clubs offered bizarre meals such as caramelized insects. The taste and novelty of the flesh was so popular that it was declared an exhibit by the directors of Marshall, Carter, and Dark, and installed in a subsidiary restaurant in a member's only section. The highly exclusive restaurant where it was located was called The Cannibal's Banquet and ██████ excerpt from Supporting Document SCP-604-XCH Page 32. As living foods were in great demand, Marshall, Carter, and Dark owned many specialized cooking and zoological facilities. Kittens, puppies, and breeds of tiny monkeys were used for child tissue creation. When larger parts were desired, guillotines were situated directly over SCP-604 as most parts continued vital signs a few seconds after removal. Certain specimens were also raised from birds in special cages, causing their bones to grow in a certain way and kept alive while crushed in Pacific outlines and fed via feeding tubes so Marshall, Carter, and Dark could dictate exactly what size and shape the results would be. Addendum 02 C-LOG SCP-604-02 LOG SCP-604-02 A camera is pointing at a long table in a dim, crowded room. A waiter brings in a pig's head on a platter and then slides it on the SCP-604-04. The pig's head turns into a human's that of an approximately 50-year-old man with pinkish skin, fatty cheeks, thick lips, and an apple in his mouth. It tastes like pork. Why does it taste like pork, just because they used a swine? Well, this really isn't official, is it? Head server. No, sir. I assure you that is what human flesh tastes like. Male one. But are you sure? Maybe it's just being contaminated or mimicking the flavor or something. Female two. Honey, don't whine. Male one. I just mean, how do you know what human flesh actually tastes like? This could be completely wrong, has anyone actually tried real? Head server. Don't worry, we have… specialists. Male three. To the women. Besides, all the peanuts that you've been eating would taste like cucumbers then. Rockets laughter. Addendum-03 C-LOG SCP-604-03. LOG SCP-604-03. Recovered from a handheld camcorder. Man wearing cooking whites. This is ██████, and I am performing Test 12 on Curio B-26. Full guests find the resemblance between the food's original form and its final human product repulsive, and I have been tasked to find a way to make the flesh look as appealing and realistic as possible, avoiding the bloody or red hue that it occasionally acquires. To do this, I have chosen several foods that can be easily colored and sculpted look like a head. Test 12 will consist of me baking a cake and carving into the aforementioned shape and then frosting it with a hairstyle and skin tone. Cook. Bring it over. This is camera on the cake. Well there we go. Man in suit. The eyes are especially excellent. ██████ Cook. Well thank you. I used a dropper to get the blue just centered. Ahem. Okay, place it on the plate. The cake is placed on the plate, automatically it sags and appears to melt, covering and dripping off the sides. Cook. Well what the bloody hell just happened? Man in suit. If I were to venture a guess, I would say it turned into a pile of fats and sugars. Yup. You can see some soluble lipids right there, and the yellow. Addendum 04. See log SCP-604-04. Log SCP-604-04, audio and video. Cook 1. Okay, sausage is wrapped around the front and the other slabs of steak are held together with gristle. Three cooks have put together some sort of meat sculpture in the shape of a human head. Cook 2. Dabs of blood running down raw meat parts with handkerchief. Cook 3. Just cover the ear area with the bologna. Cook 2. Are you sure it then slides the turkey pastrami wouldn't be better? Cook 3. Positive. Gestures with knife. Pastrami would have to be pinned here. This way it lets me slice off the top like this so I can pour the brains in. Cook 2. It's the attention to little details that can make the difference. Cook 1. Okay. 1, 2, 3. They lift up the meat sculpture and place it onto one of the plates. It turns into a perfect replica of a human head. Cook 2. Nice. Cook 1. Yeah, great work, guys. Cook 3. Needs hair, though. Guests like to see that. Rip it off. Maybe put some tendrils of… Cook 2. Bloody hell! ████ Leave it be, man. It's fine. Hahaha. Addendum 05. See Log SCP-604-05. Log SCP-604-05. Man in suit. Log SCP-632 and Curio B-26, we've shoved various slugs together into a wireframe of a human head. Couple keep following out, but let's see what happens. Place the slugs on plate along with Cook. Slugs all drop at once. Cook. Bloody hell. Man in suit. Seem to be little twitching gallbladders, and I would say that's an appendix. Cook. That one looks fucking gross. It's oozing. Man in suit. Um, dual denim, I believe, but yes, I don't think it should be bursting like that. Addendum 06. See Log SCP-604-07. Only audio on a tape cassette. Log SCP-604-07. Unidentified voice. Note, it is unknown if Curio B-26 could create sapient creatures. When we finally successfully do get a living head, the mouth and eyes could simply start opening and closing randomly, and it would drool all over itself, or maybe, just maybe, it would be perfectly intelligent. I know some of our clients are definitely hoping for the second option, and I have been instructed by the directors to bring it about as best I can. I would like to remark that when we placed a snake upright on plate 7, it did manifest as a human throat in the bottom part of a mouth, tongue intact and began screaming and shrieking, but it was all incoherent, even though extremely loud and piercing could hear it all across the building, so I just don't- Addendum 07. See Log SCP-604-10. Only audio. Log SCP-604-10. Cook 1. Voice sounds strained and upset. The pile of leeches did not completely turn to a human head. The surface remained the same, but deeper down a human head was generated. Underneath the first two layers. Cook 2. Help me get these things off before it scares a guest. Head. Oh Jesus. Oh God. God. God. They're all over. It has been determined by analysis at this point that the head either began choking on some of the leeches or its tongue was covered and drained of blood. Addendum 08. See Log SCP-604-21. Log SCP-604-21. A waiter comes in pushing a cart with a wooden box on top. The box has several slots and holes opened in it and tubes trailing out, connected to IV bags and tiny batteries. A mulling comes from within. The box is lifted up over a plate, put on it and pulled off. There is a flash of some kind of twisted, shaved animal, but then a human head appears. The human head is of a man around 35, with thick black hair and sideburns. He has extremely pale skin and dark circles under his eyes. He is severed at the neck, which reveals muscle in a bloody hole. Head. Where am I? Who am I? What the hell is going… Begins looking around and turning up, down into the sides. Everything seems at a weird angle. Hey! What are you doing? Get that knife away from me! Waiter! Bon appetit, gentlemen! The head begins screaming.