 Item No. SCP-743 Object Class Keter Special Containment Procedures No one may enter SCP-743's containment area except for scheduled D-Class personnel. Any activity that must be performed within SCP-743's containment area must be performed remotely by robot. SCP-743 is to be kept in a Level 4 carbide steel-secure container, 1.5m x 75cm x 75.6m No less than 5cm stick. This container will itself be kept in a Level 4 secure room, 10m x 10m, with enhanced hard metal lining. A full array of redundant sensors within the container will remain trained on SCP-743. Another array of sensors will watch the container for any signs of breach. Video, audio, and data feeds from all arrays will pass to a control room manned at all times by at least two personnel. Any abnormal or aggressive activity by SCP-743 must immediately be reported to Level 4 staff. Housing for 24 D-Class personnel, designated Housing Unit 743 or HU-743 must be set up adjacent to SCP-743's containment area. At the first of each month, D-Class personnel who are scheduled to be terminated must instead be moved into HU-743, enough to fill the housing to capacity. If at any time fewer than 8 D-Class personnel are residing in HU-743, at least 16 D-Class personnel are to immediately be transferred to HU-743. In case of containment breach, all D-Class personnel housed in HU-743 are to immediately be exposed to SCP-743. Skeeter-class recontainment protocols apply. Every two days, one D-Class personnel currently assigned to HU-743 is to be locked alive in SCP-743's containment room with several plates of food, at which time SCP-743's container will be remotely unlocked and opened. This D-Class personnel may eat as much as desired of the available food, including the liquid from SCP-743. Under no circumstances is this D-Class personnel to be allowed to exit SCP-743's containment area. SCP-743 may not be transported without O5 approval except under emergency protocols. When transported, SCP-743 must be accompanied by no fewer than 8 level 4 security personnel and no fewer than 8 D-Class personnel from HU-743. As of ██████, SCP-743 is kept to containment annex Delta at Arm Reliquary Containment Area-02. Description SCP-743 is a stainless steel chocolate fountain, 112 cm or 44 inches tall, and 47 cm or 18.5 inches wide, with a mass of 35 kg or 77 lbs. On the base of SCP-743 is a laser-etched logo for CEPHRA, a company that specializes in producing chocolate fountains. SCP-743 usually appears to be in pristine condition, immaculately clean, well polished and completely undamaged. SCP-743 can be disassembled into its component parts, base, auger, cylinder, tears, and crown, but standard examination of the individual components do not reveal any unusual traits. When assembled, SCP-743 exhibits several different behaviors. 1. Resting SCP-743 displays no apparent activity. 2. Flowing SCP-743 appears to operate like a standard chocolate fountain. For example, a heated chocolate flavored dark brown liquid flows from inside the crown, down over the tears and into the base. This liquid smells and tastes like high quality dark chocolate, and in fact its aroma is quite enticing, but does not appear to be compelling. Subjects who consume significant quantities of the liquid typically experience a feeling of warmth and euphoria. Chemical analysis shows this liquid contains many substances found in dark chocolate, though with higher concentrations of many nutrients, particularly sugars and amino acids. The flow of liquid is not affected by the presence or absence of fountain chocolate or anything else in its base. 3. Feeding In regular intervals, when organic material is available nearby, a stream of small, brown-like entities starts pouring out of the crown of SCP-743. These ants, which can number into millions, swarm over available animal, plant, and fungal material, cut small pieces off these materials with their pincers, and carry these chunks into SCP-743's base. SCP-743 seems to prefer consuming live humans, particularly those who have consumed SCP-743's liquid, but will also consume live animals, dead humans and animals, plants, fungi, and even some processed animal and plant material, such as leather, cotton, clothing, and paper. These ants have been known to travel more than ██ kilometers round trip, bringing a carcass piece by piece back to SCP-743. 4. Hunting If sufficient organic material is not readily available to SCP-743, different types of arthropoid entities start to emerge from SCP-743's crown. Many of these entities resemble known arthropods, particularly insects and arachnids, but a large number resemble no known species of arthropod or other animal. These arthropods, which are always the same color as SCP-743's liquid, are usually specialized for a particular task. Types of arthropods that have been observed include Small, winged insectoids used for scouting, observation, and reconnaissance. Insectoids that can bore through most materials, including steel and titanium, although individuals can each only bore out small amounts of the hardest substances before expiring, a seemingly endless stream of insectoids from SCP-743 will eventually bore clean through. Larger, more aggressive insectoids than arachnoids use to hunt down prey in a manner similar to instances of SCP-2031. Again, individually they are nothing more than a nuisance, but SCP-743 has been known to produce swarms of aggressive arthropods, numbering into billions, more than enough to ████████. 5. Maintaining SCP-743 has been known to use arthropods to clean and polish itself. Repair dents, scratches, holes and nicks, and even put itself together when disassembled. SCP-743 doesn't need to be turned on to start flowing, but it can change the positions of its control by itself. Although the arthropods that emerge from SCP-743 are significantly stronger than their normal counterparts, they are not significantly tougher. Stomping an individual arthropod with a heavy boot will usually be sufficient to kill it, at which time it will fall apart into a drop or puddle of SCP-743's liquid and quickly evaporate, its enticing aroma lingering. However, arthropods from SCP-743 are almost never encountered alone. It is not yet known how the arthropods communicate with each other, or even if they are individual consciousness or part of a collective mind. It is also not yet known who or what controls the arthropods of anything, or the organic matter taken into SCP-743's base goes, how SCP-743 can produce a seemingly endless supply of liquid and arthropods, or where all that liquid comes from. SCP-743 does not appear to be invulnerable, however SCP-743 is both highly resistant to damage and will employ its arthropoid army as an active defense system. It is theorized that SCP-743 can be destroyed using ████. However, due to the apparent extra-dimensional characteristics of SCP-743 coupled with its inherent resistance to damage, no termination testing can be performed on SCP-743 without ████ authorization. Note, due to the nature of SCP-743, it is difficult to study the sorts of its abilities. No one can get close to it without risking being eaten. Our instruments don't last longer than a few minutes before being shredded by 743 bugs. Probes set into 743 can't see anything but brown, and the liquid evaporates so quickly most of what we know of it comes from analysis of its gaseous phase. What we do know is that 743 is dangerous. We have yet to see any limit to the amount of stuff 743 can pour out. I firmly believe 743 could breach containment if it's seriously tried. That said, 743 seems to behave itself as long as it gets a steady stream of live people to eat. Thus, I propose that some D-class personnel that will be terminated anyway be fed to 743. Kill two birds with one stone. Dr. Lambert.