The SCP Foundation, a secret organization that captures and contains supernatural entities, learns about a creature known as SCP-096, also called "The Shy Guy." This creature is extremely thin and has a grotesque appearance, but what makes it truly deadly is its face. Anyone who sees its face will trigger a violent reaction, causing the creature to enter a state of frenzy and attack.
The Foundation attempts to capture and study SCP-096, but it proves to be a formidable foe. The creature breaks free from its containment and kills many people, including Foundation staff and civilians. The Foundation's researchers, led by Dr. Dan, try to find ways to neutralize the creature, but their efforts are unsuccessful.
Eventually, Dr. Dan comes up with a plan to use artistic representations of the creature's face to detect and scramble its features, making it safe for humans to look at. However, this plan fails, and the creature continues to wreak havoc.
In a desperate bid to stop the creature, Dr. Dan orchestrates a containment breach, allowing SCP-096 to escape and cause chaos. This plan ultimately leads to the creature's recapture, but not before it kills many innocent people.
The Foundation finally approves Dr. Dan's request to neutralize SCP-096, but at a great cost. Dr. Dan's actions are deemed a crime against humanity, and he is terminated by the Foundation.
The story concludes with the Foundation still searching for a way to kill SCP-096, highlighting the dangers of the creature and the importance of being careful when looking at images that may contain its likeness.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. SCP-096 is a creature with a reputation for being dangerous and needing to be feared.
2. The creature was first detected by the SCP Foundation in the frosty mountains of the Yukon.
3. Two retrieval teams, Zulu-9A and Zulu-9B, were dispatched to secure and contain the entity.
4. Zulu-9A took the lead in a heavy-duty chopper equipped with 50-caliber machine guns and an AT4 anti-tank launcher.
5. The team landed their helicopter next to the creature and were shocked to see that it was completely naked despite the subzero temperatures.
6. The creature was unnaturally thin, with bone-white skin and unnaturally long limbs.
7. The team guessed that the creature's arms must have been at least 1.5 meters long.
8. The creature's docile nature and insubstantial body mass gave the impression that it wouldn't prove too difficult to contain.
9. However, when the team saw its face, the creature's behavior changed, and it entered a murderous frenzy.
10. The creature killed the entire team, and no trace of their bodies was left behind.
11. Zulu-9B was able to subdue the creature by placing a bag over its face, which seemed to soothe it enough to move it to a nearby foundation facility.
12. Dr. Dan, a senior researcher, was put in charge of researching and containing SCP-096.
13. The creature has an innate sense of when people are viewing representations of its face, even if they are indirect, such as images or videos.
14. The creature will enter attack mode and hunt down anyone who has seen its face, including through indirect means.
15. Artistic representations of the creature's face are harmless, but the creature can still detect when someone is looking at an image of its face.
16. A d-class prisoner was used to draw an image of the creature's face while in a bathysphere diving bell several kilometers underwater.
17. The creature broke out of containment when a researcher looked at a photograph of its face, causing the release of a nerve agent that killed several foundation staff.
18. The creature then fled the base and began pursuing its prey, with Mobile Task Force Tau-1 in hot pursuit.
19. Dr. Dan had created a secret weapon, Project Scramble, which used artistic renditions of the creature's facial features to detect and scramble its features, preventing the normally deadly effect of gazing upon its face.
20. However, the scramble technology didn't work as intended, and the mission turned into a death sentence, with SCP-096 slaughtering almost the entire task force and several civilians.
21. The SCP Foundation approved Dr. Dan's request to neutralize SCP-096, but at the cost of his own life, as he will be terminated by the foundation for his crimes against humanity.
22. The foundation is still researching ways to kill the creature and is looking for a "silver bullet" to neutralize it.