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  Article: SCP-227-DE - Moo
  
  Author: Robini
  
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  Notes: I took inspiration to write this SCP from Tanija as one day she simply wrote me "Robin, moray-scp, now".

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SCP-227-DE in it's habital containment

Item #: SCP-227-DE

Object Class: Keter Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-227-DE is to be contained in a size 10 containment cell with integrated habitat adapted to maritime anomalies at Site-DE6. In addition, the cell shall be equipped with an environmental simulation acclimated to the climate of the North Sea zone. Besides the habitat, the containment cell shall also contain a dry area, which shall be used to allow research and maintenance personnel to enter the cell. The containment cell is to be hermetically sealed at all times and is only accessible via an entrance located at the dry area.

SCP-227-DE is to be supplied with at least three liters of bovine or human blood every day. However, it should be noted that the individual phases of the moon have a significant influence on the required amount of blood. In the appendix "Diet plan of SCP-227-DE" the respective regulations can be consulted. Due to the highly cooperative nature outside of a "Blood Night" event¹ is allowed to freely set its diet plan for any day once a month. In order to be prepared for the necessary amount of blood, the moon phases are to be calculated at least two months in advance, so that the necessary amount of blood can be provided. However, besides bovine or human blood, SCP-227-DE does not need other food sources to survive.

► Open appendix 1: Diet plan of SCP-227-DE ◄

Moon phase	Liter/Day	Origin in bovine (R) and human (M)	Notes2
Normal moon phases
New moon (N1)	3	M	Blood group: A Rhesus positive or B Rhesus negative
Waxing crescent moon (N2)	4,5	R
Waxing moon (N3)	5	R
Full moon (N4)	6	M	Blood group: AB Rhesus negative or A Rhesus positive
Waning crescent moon (N5)	5	R
Waning moon (N6)	4,5	R
Special moon phases
Lunar eclipse (S1)	7	R
Solar eclipse (S2)	8	R
Total solar eclipse (S3)	9	M	Blood group: A Rhesus positive and B Rhesus negative
Supermoon (S4)	6	M	This should be 6 liters of fresh human blood.
"Bloodmoon" (S5)	18	M	Blood group: RhNull alternatively 40 L - 0 Rhesus negative

Should a "blood night" event occur, then Protocol 227-DE/1 shall be executed and maintained for a total of 48 hours. Protocol 227-DE/1 involves evacuating and hermetically sealing the sector in which SCP-227-DE has been contained. In addition, the pool containing SCP-227-DE will be separated from the rest of the containment cell with a retractable 2 cm thick steel plate and hermetically sealed at least eight hours prior to the start of the event. In the event of a successful containment breach, the sealed-off sector will be shock frozen to forcibly transition SCP-227-DE from its sublimated state to its resublimated state and allow it to be re-contained.

Upon discovery of SCP-227-DE-1 instances, they shall be contained and temporarily stored in a hermetically sealed size 3 containment cell for humanoid anomalies. Depending on the nature of the SCP-227-DE-1 instance, the project director shall decide whether to terminate the stored instance by any method or transfer it to Site-DE18 for research purposes.

Description: SCP-227-DE is a female entity belonging to the genus Mureana (moray eel) and resembles the Muraena augusti (black moray eel) in appearance. In contrast to the common Muraena augusti, SCP-227-DE has a total body length of 3 m and a total weight of 11.43 kg. By means of several magnetic resonance tomographies, for the determination of the age of SCP-227-DE, it has been determined that it must be at least 1100 years old, which means that its origin can be dated to about 920 BC. In addition, it is capable of extending the pharyngeal jaw found in common Mureana up to 150% further than should usually be possible.

Morphological and molecular genetic analyses suggest that this specimen is a distinct subspecies of Muraena augusti, as previously unknown gene sequences were found. With the discovery of a possibly anomalous species of Mureana, SCP-227-DE's species was given the scientific name "Mureana ne usitatus augusti" and included in the Handbook of Paranormal and Anomalous Marine Species. So far SCP-227-DE is the only specimen of its kind known to the Foundation, but explorations regarding further conspecifics are currently waived. Since SCP-227-DE is a female specimen, mating attempts were made with common male Muraena augusti. Up to the actual fertilization the attempt proceeded without complications, but after the mating it was discovered that SCP-227-DE is considered infertile.

One of its anomalous characteristics is that it can sublimate and resublimate at will and at any time. Should it change to the sublimated state, it appears as a black gas that can move freely. While in this state, it cannot interact with any other life forms. However, SCP-227-DE does not appear to be able to maintain this sublimated state for more than three hours at a time. In addition, it can move as fast as 15 m/s in the sublimated state. When SCP-227-DE is resublimated, it can also re-manifest above water and survive above water for a period of 45 minutes.

Prior to Event 227-DE/1³ the nature of SCP-227-DE was strongly hostile, aggressive, territorial, and it showed no signs of intelligence or empathy. Despite the fact that it was underwater for most of its life, it only hunted humans and other large animals above water or when they were underwater. It should be mentioned here that it attacked the neck as the only point on each of its victims in order to obtain blood. Victims of SCP-227-DE were usually hunted by it until they died by bleeding to death. It used its anomalous ability of sublimation and resublimation to confuse its victims. After event 227-DE/1, however, the nature of SCP-227-DE changed greatly to the opposite. It became calm, moral, intelligent, cooperative, and exhibited almost human-like behavioral traits. Nevertheless, it should be noted that despite this, the individual phases of the moon have a slight influence on the temper of SCP-227-DE. However, this influence is so slight that there is no effect worth mentioning on the nature of SCP-227-DE. It is unknown how exactly event 227-DE/1 could occur, but after interviewing SCP-227-DE, it was theorized that some sort of curse that had been on SCP-227-DE until the event was broken. For more information regarding this curse, see the document "Interrogation Protocol 227-DE" in the Addendum.

Furthermore, it has an additional anomalous effect, which only occurs when one of its victims survives the attack by SCP-227-DE. After about 24 to 144 hours, the victim transforms into a ghoul or vampire. Similar to his diet, the severity of this transformation seems to depend on the phase of the moon. More details can be found in the appendix "Transformation Table/227-DE". Transformed victims of SCP-227-DE inherit most of the abnormal abilities and are classified as SCP-227-DE-1 due to their relationship to SCP-227-DE. SCP-227-DE-1 instances appear to be under the full control of SCP-227-DE and obey it, though SCP-227-DE and SCP-227-DE-1 appear to share some sort of telepathic link, as it is unable to verbally issue commands or other instructions.

► Open Appendix 2: Transformation Table/227-DE ◄

Moon phase	Type of Transformation4	Duration in [h]	Inherited Abilities	Notes
Normal moon phases
New moon (N1)	Ghoul (V1)	12	superhuman strength	development of heliphobia, loss of all higher cognitive abilities, practical "savagery" of the victim, severe physical changes
Waxing crescent moon (N2)	Lower Vampire (V2)	24	Vampirism, superhuman strength	development of heliphobia, loss of most higher cognitive abilities, severe physical changes
Waxing moon (N3)	vampire (V3)	38	vampirism, superhuman strength	development of heliphobia, loss of machner higher cognitive abilities, loss of own will, strong physical changes
Full moon (N4)	higher vampire (V4)	48	vampirism, superhuman strength, sub/resublimation	development of heliphobia, loss of own will, strong physical changes
Waning moon (N5)	vampire (V3)	38	vampirism, superhuman strength	development of heliphobia, loss of all higher cognitive abilities, loss of own will, strong physical changes
Waning crescent moon (N6)	Ghoul (V1)	12	superhuman strength	development of heliphobia, loss of all higher cognitive abilities, practical "savagery" of the victim, loss of own will, strong physical changes
Special moon phases
Lunar eclipse (S1)	"Vampire Baron" (VA)	52	Vampirism, superhuman strength, sub-/resublimation	loss of own will, slight loss of cognitive abilities, slight physical changes
Solar eclipse (S2)	"vampire count" (VB)	60	vampirism, superhuman strength, sub-/resublimation, own, weak, abnormal abilities	loss of own will, slight loss of cognitive abilities, slight physical changes
Total solar eclipse (S3)	"vampire lord" (VΓ)	72	vampirism, superhuman strength, sub/resublimation, own, anomalous abilities	preservation of own will, regards SCP-227-DE as "master" and behaves accordingly, slight loss of cognitive abilities, slight physical changes
Supermoon (S4)	"vampire king" (VΔ)	120	vampirism, superhuman strength, sub-/resublimation, own strong, anomalous abilities	preservation of own will, sees SCP-227-DE as "creator" and behaves accordingly, expansion of cognitive abilities, slight physical changes
"Blood Moon" (S5)	"Pureblood Vampire" (VΩ)	144	Completely separate, very strong, abnormal abilities5	Preservation of own will, regards SCP-227-DE as "mother" and behaves accordingly, significant expansion of cognitive abilities, slight physical changes

Due to its age and ability to transform victims into SCP-227-DE-1 instances, SCP-227-DE is believed to be the origin of most vampires and responsible for their sole creation. While it is unknown how it can transform its victims into SCP-227-DE-1 instances, this is the subject of an ongoing investigation.

Discovery: During a joint exercise dive by the MTF-DE7-𝔏 and the UFDF⁶ SCP-227-DE was accidentally discovered when it attacked the exercise divers. There it exhibited its anomalous sublimation and resublimation capabilities for the first time, causing the death of one MTF diver and severely wounding two others. With the assistance of the UFDF, SCP-227-DE could be tranquilized and confined with great difficulty. The severely wounded were given emergency care in one of the submarines. None succumbed to their wounds and SCP-227-DE was successfully contained for the first time in Site-DE7. After one day, however, it was decided that it would be re-contained in Site-DE6.

After half a day, the physician assistants in the emergency department of site-DE7 noticed that the severely wounded personnel started to change morphologically and behaviorally. At this point, the second anomalous ability of SCP-227-DE could be observed. They went wild and started lashing out, however, they suddenly showed superhuman strength and killed the three physician's assistants on the scene who were trying to fixate them. Due to the quick reaction of the RTF-DE7-ℑ, the two SCP-227-DE-1 instances that emerged were eliminated early on.

Addendum: The following is the interview protocol 227-DE

► View interview protocol 227-DE ◄

Interview protocol no. 1

Subject of the interview: Origin of SCP-227-DE

Interviewee: SCP-227-DE (abbreviated as "227-DE")

Interview conducted by: Dr. rer. nat. Karla Sørensen (abbreviated as "Dr. Karla")

Foreword: Since SCP-227-DE cannot communicate verbally or telepathically with humans, a new communication possibility was developed especially for SCP-227-DE. It presses buttons with its head, which are labeled with the letters from A to Z and the numbers from 0 to 9. With this "keyboard" SCP-227-DE enters words, which are converted into spoken sentences by a text-to-speech program. Dr. Karla Sørensen herself is in the cell with SCP-227-DE and thus asks the questions.

Due to the fact that SCP-227-DE was still learning German at the time of recording, there may be some incomprehensibility, so the text in this protocol has been edited to be more understandable but not too different from the original. Dr. Karla Sørensen herself spoke broken and colloquial German with SCP-227-DE to make the questions more understandable to SCP-227-DE.

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<Log begin>

Dr. Karla: Good morning, Moo.⁷ How are you doing today?

227-DE: Good. Moon is just inappropriate for me again. But other than that, I'm fine.

Dr. Karla: Ah, yes that's right, today we have waning moon…. So, I've come for you to answer questions for me. Alright, Moo?

227-DE: Yeah, sure.

Dr. Karla: Good, tell me, where are you from?

227-DE: I think it is called Norway by you. I'm not sure, though.

Karla: Ah, that's where I'm from. It's a beautiful place. Well, then I ask, why are you here?

227-DE: Actually, I was human, like you, but now I'm weird fish. Can't really remember why I'm here….

Dr. Karla: Can you try to remember for me?

227-DE: Yeah, well, I know how I became weird fish, but I don't know how I got here….

Dr. Karla: That's good too! Why don't you tell me how you got that way?

227-DE: I, like I said, used to be like you. That was a long time ago. I was beautiful and had everything, but then came strange woman with hat and strange clothes. She then made me the way I am. Strange fish. Stupid and hurting… I didn't want to hurt others, but I couldn't help it. Don't know why. So, I know why she made me like that. I hurt her by accident. Hurt her really bad. Then she came to me and told me to…. 1000 years or so also hurt others really big like I did to her and then suddenly I was fish.

Dr. Karla: A woman with a funny hat and clothes made you like that?

227-DE: Yes. I can remember hurting many, but I didn't want to. I couldn't help it though… I wanted to hold back, but I couldn't control myself, only watch. Until suddenly I was here in water under ground. Then suddenly I could control, not just watch. What did you do to make me do that?

Dr. Karla: We don't know either, Moo…. But we're happy you're normal.

227-DE: Normal mind, not normal body…. Can you make that go away too?

Dr. Karla: We will try, but I can't promise anything.

227-DE: I hope so… I was really nice and I want to see [UNINTELLIGIBLE]. And mom, dad.

Dr. Karla: Yeah, I hope so too…. You said that you could remember, but that you couldn't control yourself. Do you know how to use your stuff?

227-DE: What kind of things?

Dr. Karla: Well, how you turn into smoke.

227-DE: What kind of smoke? I stay the way I am, I can only move differently.

Dr. Karla: Well, before we finish our conversation, I wanted to ask you what your life was like before you became that weird fish.

227-DE: Like I said, I was a girl before and I was in Norway, I think it's called. There my life was ordinary for someone like me. I helped mom with harvest, took care of animals and made food for dad when he came home. My dad was for our… village a tree-killer-

Dr. Karla: "Tree-killer"? Could you maybe explain that?

227-DE: He took big axe and hit the trees with it until they fall down. So he killed them.

Dr. Karla: Ah, we call that a lumberjack, Moo.

227-DE: "Lumberjack?" Stupid name. Tree-killer is better.

Dr. Karla: Hmm… I don't know. It sounds good, but lumberjack is better.

227-DE: No taste. Anyway. I'll go on. He was a tree-killer and always came home when the stars were in the sky. Mom had to sleep because she was weak, so I learned from her how to make food, nurse, and everything else. That was life until I was…I don't remember how old I was. I think I was almost an adult at that point. Anyway, this strange woman I was telling you about came to our village looking for a house. My family took her in.

Dr. Karla: Do you mean the one with the funny hat and the funny clothes?

227-DE: Yes, her.

Dr. Karla: Was she maybe with someone else still there or with animals?

227-DE: No, she was alone. Anyway. I'll continue the story. She was with us and said that my mother was dying, but she could keep her alive. In exchange, I had to help her with something. She needed my blood and I gave it to her. It hurt that she took my blood, though, and I flinched. I don't know what it was, but the thing she used to take my blood fell into her leg when I scared her. She got pissed off and turned me into a funny fish.

Dr. Karla: All right, thanks for the explanation…. Well, is there anything else you can remember ahead of time? Something important?

227-DE: I know that all those I bit listen to me. Not all but most. I can remember two that I bit on a full red moon. A strange man in a castle after he tried to eat me…. I think his name was Drak or something. And then a woman like that. They do like me, and they do listen most of the time. But they don't always listen. That's two I remember, but I can talk to more of the same kind. Only I don't remember them so clearly….

Dr. Karla: So how do the ones you bit listen to you if you can't talk?

227-DE: I just think something and they do it. I can also feel what they are doing and see where they are. Don't know why, but it just works.

Dr. Karla: Hmm… Well, thanks for the responses. Hope you are still having a good day.

227-DE: Yes, thanks for talking! And don't forget my cat blood for tomorrow-morning. I've been good!

Dr. Karla: I wouldn't forget that, Moo!

And from here on, no more information of interest will be mentioned.

<Log end>

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Note: This interview more or less shows us what we are dealing with. Apparently SCP-227-DE was cursed a long time ago by a strange person with "a funny hat and funny clothes". Although she mentioned that there were no animals near this person, like the instances of SCP-""-DE, we can assume that this is also a curse of PoI-7066-DE. Unfortunately, we can no longer analyze this curse, as it appears to have been broken. However, SCP-227-DE still retains its form. Whether this is a permanent curse or spell or just a coincidence we can't judge yet, but we will initiate an investigation into this. Perhaps we will be able to change SCP-227-DE back completely.

In addition, this survey showed us that SCP-227-DE is, as suspected, the origin of vampires and ghouls as we know them. We will have to do further research on this, but I am 90% sure but I am certain that SCP-227-DE is the origin mentioned.

— gez. Dr. rer. nat. Karla Sørensen

Footnotes

1. A "blood night" event describes the occurrence of a total lunar eclipse. Also called a "blood moon." During this event, SCP-227-DE's nature changes in such a way that it becomes extremely aggressive and hostile towards any life forms

2. In the case of human blood, it has been observed that SCP-227-DE shows different reactions in its behavior to different blood groups. The blood groups given here are a recommendation only so that the desired behavior can be maintained.

3. Event 227-DE/1 describes a phenomenon that occurred approximately one year after the initial containment of SCP-227-DE.

4. Species in quotation marks were named by SCP-227-DE to "[…] better distinguish the individual species of higher-ranking vampires." For a more understandable designation, an abbreviation has been placed after the species, which is appended after SCP-227-DE-1.

5. Since this is the strongest of all types and has no access to any of the inherited abilities these instances are usually handled as a separate anomaly

6. The submarine fleet of the German-speaking SCP Foundation.

7. The established nickname of SCP-227-DE, which is used by involved research personnel.