 Item No. SCP-077 Object Class, Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-077 is to be kept in Research Sector 861 on top of a 0.5-meter steel pedestal in a 3-meter by 3-meter by 3-meter chamber with 0.5-meter thick steel reinforced walls. The reinforced steel hatched door to the chamber is to comply with AH-37 protocol and is to be guarded at all times by two level one personnel. A boom mic connected to a speech recognition system should verify that all pronunciation is within standards. A camera is to be mounted within the chamber to record any changes. Every eight hours, a minimum of two, but preferably three trained D-class personnel are to enter the containment area and, in a loud, clear voice, read the runes etched on to SCP-077 in unison. The reading must be performed by individuals who understand the full meaning of the runes being read, who are able to pronounce the entirety of the inscription correctly and who are no more than 30 centimeters away from SCP-077. All personnel must undergo a one-week training session with Foundation linguists for pronunciation, reading, and dialect coaching. A minimum of 20 D-class personnel are to be trained or undergoing training at all times. Trained D-class personnel are exempt from termination until such time as they have been replaced. Foundation linguists are to remain on call in case of an unexpected rune change. Every new set of runes is to be transcribed into phonetic English and provided with literal and idiomatic translations as quickly as possible. Seat document 077 ██████ through ██████ for archived translations. The cafeteria menu for Research Sector 861 must not include any potatoes or potato-based ingredients. Description SCP-077 appears to be the top half of a human skull in gray with runes, each filled with an unidentified black resin. The runes change every lunar month, defined by the full moon rising above the horizon in Ireland, as well as at the winter and summer solstices, the spring and autumn equinoxes, and whenever a partial, annular, or total solar or lunar eclipse is visible from Ireland. If these engravings are not read aloud at least once within a 24-hour period, the eye sockets and nasal cavity of SCP-077 will emit SCP-077-1. SCP-077-1 is a luminescent green vapor whose precise nature remains undetermined. It is to be noted that, although SCP-077-1 behaves as a normal gas in all other ways, it only occupies those spaces which are within SCP-077's effective line of sight, and does not flow into the space behind SCP-077 unless confined. Opaque impermeable barriers with no biological content can provide temporary protection from SCP-077-1. However, attempts to permanently contain SCP-077 within opaque containers have failed, due to the artifact production of sufficient quantities of SCP-077-1 to explosively rupture these containers. All biological material, with the obvious exception of SCP-077 itself, which comes into contact with SCP-077-1, is instantly transformed into a viscous, malodorous ooze. The ooze has been identified as the rotted flesh of potato tubers, solinum tuberosum, which have been severely infected with the potato blight, phytophthora infestums. One cubic centimeter of SCP-077-1 transforms upwards of 800 grams of biological material. Reading SCP-077's engravings has notable if transient effects on the health of the readers. These effects include nausea, cramps, headache, dizziness, incontinence, fever, skin rashes, nosebleeds, and fugue stakes. This intensifies as the time between readings increases and can become cumulative for individuals who read the engravings too many times consecutively and or too frequently. Readers have a 60% chance of developing an allergy to potatoes. Addendum 077-01 The artifact was recovered from ██████████ in the village of ████████, Ireland. Individuals had built a shrine around the artifact, where upwards of ██████████ participants would engage in a nightly ritual. Fragmentary historical documents retrieved from the renders of the village church, C-R-077-1576, and library, C-R-077-1582 indicated the artifact existed as early as 1848, at which point in time it is described in highly positive terms, including protector and ████████. By 1869, however, references to the artifact are fearful, resentful, and couched in euphemism.