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Special Containment Procedures: The entirety of Lake Baikal serves as the containment area of SCP-4850. SCP-4850 has a natural aversion to leaving Lake Baikal, so containment efforts primarily focus on disinformation and concealment of the anomaly. The Russian government has refused to allow a discreet depopulation program, so the Foundation is to avoid lethal interaction with SCP-4850.
MTF Lambda-21 ("Lake Monsters") is to monitor all known pods and are to tag pod leaders. Any reported gatherings of SCP-4850 are to be dispersed. Missing persons statistics around Lake Baikal are to be monitored carefully for SCP-4850 involvement.
Any newly observed abilities are to be reported immediately. If SCP-4850 succeeds in creating an Einstein-Rosen bridge, the area is to be cordoned off until the bridge closes and efforts are to be made in discovering the sister aperture.
Description: SCP-4850 is the collective designation of Pusa sibirica, also known as the Baikal Seal or the Nerpa. SCP-4850 is endemic to Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest lake in the world. SCP-4850 is the smallest true seal and the only known freshwater seal. Adults are typically within 1.1 to 1.4 meters in size and weigh 63 to 70 kg.
SCP-4850 can live to approximately fifty years of age. SCP-4850's diet consists mostly of the golomyanka1 but has been known to also eat molluscs, sculpins and amphipods.
There are between 80,000 and 100,000 SCP-4850 instances.
SCP-4850 possesses the ability to manipulate and warp surrounding spacetime, as well as altering gravity. The ability manifests in various ways and the type of effect is directly proportional to the amount of SCP-4850 specimens in an area2. The ability is fueled by the specimen's blubber3 reserves.
Open SCP-4850 Ability Log History of SCP-4850 Open the Seruuntungalag theory of SCP-4850's Origin Excerpts from Dr. Seruuntungalag's Report Log Incident 4850-1 On 11/28/19 Dr. Seruuntungalag abruptly disappeared. The following note was found on her desktop. Due to mention of SCP-4850, it has been included here.
To whom it may concern, I don't know who could be reading this, but I felt I needed to give some closure. If not for you, then for myself. I've been thinking about my Lake Baikal expedition a lot recently. Too much in fact. It feels like something, a concept or whatever, is weighing my mind down, trapping me in its influence: The more I think about it, the harder it got to think about anything else. I needed to stop it before it started to interfere with my work. I started by looking through my old voice log entries. The archivists did their job well and all the entries were filed away neatly, but something felt off. If I concentrated between the lines, I could see other entries appear, like glitches in the system, flickering in and out of existence. I never remembered saying anything close to them. None of my supervisors had even mentioned them, despite those entries easily being a terminatable offense. I have no idea what happened. There is something I remember though. I never told anyone, not my supervisors, not the fucking therapist, not even the tests they were so sure could drag the truth out of me.
I remember the wormhole. I remember being taken to some unreal reality. I remember what it means to have four dimensions. I remember being part of everything and nothing at the same time and I remember seeing it, that alien presence, like making eye contact with the void itself. I'm sure we have aspects of it under lock and key in our database, but they're mere fragments compared to what I saw. I came out of that experience with those mere fragments of memory. I changed. Now, all those years later, I knew I had to answer to the gnawing need for closure in me. I pretended to go home for vacation, and as soon as I was out of their clutches, I went back. To the lake.
To the spot that SCP-4850 entered from. I stood in front of that puncture in spacetime, desperately searching for an answer. I wish I hadn't found one. As I stared into the abyss, I felt, deep inside me, that same gnawing coldness as the wormhole. It couldn't have connected to the Arctic sea as I thought. This was a remnant of a bridge, the same type of bridge that took me to a higher dimension. The bridge to SCP-4850's origin. This was never about some fucking seals. This is something much bigger. I spent months watching five- dimensional holes in reality pretending to be something of our world. They were watching me right back. Our reality is being invaded. I know that now, so now they know about me. And now they're almost here. This may be the last I'll be able to write. I fear my time here is ending.
As of present day, no body has been found.
Footnotes 1. Comephorus baikalensis and Comephorus dybowskii 2. The area being an approximately 25m2 space 3. A specialized type of adipose tissue, used to store fat and excess nutrients 4. Also known as a Shapiro time delay.
5. A reality mapping instrument, used to measure the strength of reality across large volumes of space.
6. Seruuntungalag, Sarnai "Identifying the Origin of SCP-4850 through use of Reality Mapping" Foundation Cryptozoology Journal 7. The lowest recorded temperature that day was 13 degrees Celsius.
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