Item #: SCP-EQ-016
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-EQ-016's containment cell is to be made of air-tight ceramics, sealed and pressurized at all times personnel are not within the cell. Twice weekly SCP-EQ-016 is to be doused with sedatives while a team equipped with industrial strength vacuum cleaners clear the cell of excess slime for disposal. It is to be fed no more than fifty (50) kilograms of gold a month. Precious gems may be substituted as a guarantor of good behavior.
Update: As of Incident D-503, SCP-EQ-016 is to be given up to two hours of freedom to roam Site 32 as it wishes a day. Three (3) armed security guards are to accompany it at all times, but not interfere with where it wishes to roam. Staff are encouraged to engage SCP-EQ-016 in a friendly manner at all times. Staff are to refrain from bringing any valuables into the site, no matter how personal the object. Should SCP-EQ-016 attempt to leave Site 32, it is to be lured back to its cell with harmonic music.
Description: SCP-EQ-016 is a sapient gelatinous organism composed of a slimy green substance held in place by a thick transparent membrane. While its body is easily broken apart, SCP-EQ-016 possesses an extremely potent regenerative ability which allows it to recover from any form of damage within seconds. SCP-EQ-016 appears to feel no pain no matter what happens to its body, and will often get objects or creatures lodged in itself without noticing. It has demonstrated the ability to squeeze itself through an aperture 75 mm wide and to split into dozens of pieces only to reform itself with apparent ease. No form of magic tested to date has managed to penetrate SCP-EQ-016 transparent layer without dissolving completely, or at best scattering the slime in a limited area only for it to reform.
SCP-EQ-016 body does not contain any identifiable organs, musculature, or skeletal structure. It also lacks any form of identifiable sensory organs, but can still discern its surroundings and achieve mobility through generating rhythmic waves along its underside similar to a slug. SCP-EQ-016 can achieve speeds of 9 km/h by secreting a layer of slime to slide on. Occasionally it will extrude a tendril of slime to manipulate objects, though this is rare.
SCP-EQ-016 can ingest and dissolve anything, but it prefers a diet consisting of items of worth. It will consume gemstones, precious metals, bits of any denomination, paper money, and if pressed, items of sentimental value. Items of greater worth seem to have a better taste, and SCP-EQ-016 will spit most other objects out in disgust. SCP-EQ-016 will resist digesting living matter, going so far as to starve itself if there is no other food. When presented with food related to it preferences, it will generate a mouth to engulf the item into its body. The item then instantly dissolves and SCP-EQ-016 will gain mass equal to the perceived value of the matter consumed. Finding and ingesting such items appears to be SCP-EQ-016's sole interest and it will gravitate towards the nearest source of wealth it is aware of. There appears to be no upper limit to the size SCP-EQ-016 can become so long as enough food is supplied.
SCP-EQ-016's body is constantly oozing slime over everything it comes into contact with. This mucus is a powerful adhesive with a tensile strength of epoxy glue and retains much of SCP-EQ-016's regenerative properties. SCP-EQ-016 itself seems immune to the adhesive property of its mucus. SCP-EQ-016 has demonstrated the ability to control and even retract this slime back into its body whenever it wants. Only the main body of slime shows any sign of life. Once separated from the purview of the main body, this slime becomes very susceptible to sunlight and dries out quickly, leaving a harmless chalk-like powder. SCP-EQ-016 itself will slowly lose mass at a rate of one liter per week when deprived of food.
It isn't known just how intelligent SCP-EQ-016 is as it shows no interest in anything beyond finding material to consume. However while it has never displayed the ability to talk, it responds with basic gestures to simple questions when presented with food as a reward, and it has shown a fondness for mimicking the actions of its handlers.
Addendum: Interview Log.
Interviewed: SCP-EQ-016
Interviewer: Dr. F____
Forward: In order to entice SCP-EQ-016's interest in taking part with the interview, a bucket of small gemstones was provided to be exchanged for answers. SCP-EQ-016 responded mostly with nods and gestures. This interview took place roughly one month after initial containment.
<Begin Log>
Hello, SCP-EQ-016. Can you understand me?
(SCP-EQ-016 leans forward and tries to engulf the bucket of gems. Dr. F____ moves it out of reach.)
No, no. I'll be asking you some questions today. You can have one if you answer them. Do you understand?
(SCP-EQ-016 frowns and then nods.)
Good! Now, are you capable of talking to me?
(SCP-EQ-016 shakes its "head" back and forth. From this point each of its responses are followed by eating a gem.)
Guess we're going to have to yes or no this interview, then. Do you know where you came from?
(SCP-EQ-016 nods)
Good! Are there any more like you there?
(SCP-EQ-016 frowns and moves away from the table. Dr. F____ waves down the guards from approaching and places several more gems on the table.)
It's fine, we just want to know more about where you came from. Will you please try to answer me?
(After a few seconds, SCP-EQ-016 turns back to the table as starts morosely engulfing the gems.)
I assume from your reaction, there are others similar to you out there. You don't like them?
(SCP-EQ-016 shakes negative very quickly, spaying slime in all directions.)
Uck... anyway, I'm going to list some places and you let me know when I say where they are, alright? Equestria? Griffonstone? Yakyakistan? The Chrystal Empire? Mount Aeris? The Dragon Lands? [REDACTED]?
(SCP-EQ-016 wobbles back and forth and nods with each name.)
I'm not sure I understand, SCP-EQ-016. If there are others like you in all these places, why hasn't anypony seen one before?
(SCP-EQ-016 wobbles again and then looks down at the floor.)
Down? Are they under the ground?
(SCP-EQ-016 nods and shudders.)
You don't seem to like talking about them. Did you leave because of them?
(SCP-EQ-016 shakes negative.)
Did they get rid of you?
(SCP-EQ-016 nods.)
I see. Did you do something wrong?
(SCP-EQ-016 shakes negative.)
Do they not like you?
(SCP-EQ-016 nods and then looks between Dr. F____ and the guards at the door.)
I'm not sure... Do you mean you're different from them? The way I am different from those two? Different how? Is it gender? Job? Ability? Um... height, build, color?
(At the word "color" SCP-EQ-016 nods vigorously.)
Color? They're a different color? What does the different color signify?
(SCP-EQ-016 seems to think for a moment and then forms a tendril that starts reaching for the bucket of gems.)
No, SCP-EQ-016. Those are for when you answer-
(SCP-EQ-016 shakes negative and points at the gems and then into its open mouth.)
Oh! You mean you eat gems! Well, what do the others eat?
(SCP-EQ-016 is motionless for a few moments, shudders, and then extends the tendril at Dr. F____.)
Uh... that's, uh... that's enough questions for today.
<End Log>
Addendum: Incident D-507
On __/__/____ at 5:03 pm, SCP-EQ-016 vanished from its cell without a trace. Embedded agents reported it one hour and forty minutes later in Canterlot in the presence of [DATA EXPUNGED]
[DATA EXPUNGED], whereupon SCP-EQ-016 was returned to its cell. Due to the probability of repeated breaches, containment procedures have been updated.
Let us face it, we got lucky with this one. If SCP-EQ-016 hadn't expressed its wish to "go home", we might never have gotten it back. SCP-EQ-016 has powerful friends now, but that doesn't change our mission. We've got to treat this one with delicacy. We've got to make sure this object wants to stay. --- Dr. F____
Love the lore behind The Smooze and explonations behind its diet and color and also how docile it was presented. One of favourite chapters. Plus that fridge horror of his origin. Very SCP.
Well the original Smooze is a primordial being that consume anything in it's path.
You know I was half expecting Discord making some kind of prank in the Site where the Smooze was contained and leave a note that he and his friend were going out.
No mention of its slime's magic-suppressing qualities? Or are we going by the theory that Celestia was faking her magic being disabled that one time?
Can I be friends with Smoozie??
Also, if the other Smooze(s?) only eat ponies, how are there no mass disappearances of ponies that the Foundation is aware of? Not trying to criticize, I'm genuinely curious.
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Knew I forgot something. Not sure how I forgot something that big, but there you go. Good catch, making the update...
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That is an excellent question. Perhaps they lie dormant, sleeping until the day some hapless tunneler or spelunker goes down the wrong cave? Or perhaps they do feed. There can't be reports if there are no survivors, and ponies live in so many cut-off, isolated communities...
The best stories always leave something up to the readers' imagination!
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Consider too that there are many monsters in the wilds and communications is still made via letters, small towns like Ponyvelle probably don't tend to last long and it's inhabitants disappearance are a common occurrence.
Ponyvelle is attacked a lot and it only manage to save itself thanks to close distance from the capital and the Elements living there.
Reminds me of things seen.
Silk gets stronger when its wet due to the weak hydrogen bonds in water distributing the forces more efficintly? Water itself, capillary strength, allows it to lift 100 meters its own height? Even GPT-3 shows that enough structures put together, that are effectively rocks, can have intelligent behaviour. Other consideration is xkcd, rocks?
Slime moulds and ant swarms building bridgesand rafts give examples of meganodes self assembling dynamic structures? Thats even before magical interactions need to be considered?
Maybe the oldest Smooze is Lava based, then the dragon eater evolved, and so on?
Now it's missing the portal for the Chaos Realm, I mean that mailpony needed to have found a way to Discord's house in another dimension.
Now that I think about, Discord's invite could have been a anomaly, that in the eve of the Grand Galloping Gala a invite anomalous appear in a random postal office to be delivered in the most unusual places, to different planetary bodies to other dimensions, with instructions to how to get the destination.
The Foundation could have found the anomaly when investigating a myth among mailponies that in the eve from the Grand Galloping Gala a invite with no sender appears in a postal office and must be delivered no matter how odd the destination or the consequences will be devastating.
I'd say that Queen Novo knows of the Foundation due to having several Agents captured when they tried to steal the Pear of Transformation, due to this she split it up amongst her people and ordered them to not let anyone get them.
Another SCP could be that pink thing that Pinkie Pie created in a Christmas special, if I remember correctly, it spread throughout most of Twilight's castle and I think it even defended itself.
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Actually it was Twilight's pudding gift to Pinkie for Hearths Warming Eve, and it was mint green if I remember correctly.
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Plus it was made from a recipe that one could find in a spell book.
The Gift Givers on the other hand would be a good SCP.
Let me guess: the rest of the Smooze species is purple
Now is missing a report for all the stuff Smooze absolve and reject.
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Well maybe not the Purple Smooze drained emoutions and energy it didn't eat ponies, it would have been too horrifying for children's TV in the 80's, crushing Villians into a singularity was apparently ok though. Maybe the flesh eating smooze is red, like The Blob?
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Technically... I never "said" that the other smooze ate ponies, only inferred it. Remember that the Smooze can't talk, just point. If you were to ask Tirek where he drains magic from, he would also point at the nearest pony.
Believe whichever answer he could have given you want. Where's all the fun if I give away everything?
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I did say maybe
I now have an idea for Pinkie's Party Cave. Since Twilight likely didn't tell Pinkie about her fear of quesadillas, what if whenever information is taken out of the party cave by somepony other than Pinkie/a party pony, it teleports back to the cabinet..... with even more info on it, I.E. Agent Sweetie Drops finds her real name in her file and takes it out to destroy, but when she does, it now reveals the she's part of a secret organization. She does it again to try and get the new info out of Pinkie's reach, but it now says she's part of SMILE, she's now panicking and does it again revealing she's a double agent before she realizes what's going on and stops.
I like this SCP, you explained how it could both show up in the show and be in containment. I like that it eats treasures and can grow in mass with ease, it reminds me a bit of both SCP-2019 and SCP-999. Specifically how it doesn't want to hurt sapients and that it's different from the rest of its own species. The non-verbal interview was a good idea, this Foundation thankfully seems to be taking the sensible approach to containment and ensuring its anomalies are contained humanely. This was also demonstrated well with SCP-EQ-005 - The Queen Of Riddles, who is more actively trying to escape. But is also housed comfortably. Unfortunately, I couldn't help but notice a few lines that could use some tweaks. I hope these help improve the SCP entry.
I would adjust this line to: It has demonstrated the ability to squeeze itself through an aperture 75 mm wide and to split into dozens of smaller pieces, only to reform itself with apparent ease.
This line doesn't quite work. You identified that it has no identifiable internal bodily organs, not sensory organs. I would adjust this sentence to the following...
SCP-EQ-016 body does not contain any identifiable organs, musculature, or skeletal structure. It also lacks any form of identifiable sensory organs, but can still discern its surroundings and achieves mobility through generating rhythmic waves along its underside similar to a slug. (Maybe change moving like a slug to moving like real-life slime molds/slime moulds which move via cytoplasmic streaming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold)
SCP-EQ-016 can ingest and dissolve anything, but it prefers a diet consisting of items of worth. It will consume gemstones, precious metals, bits of any denomination, paper money, and if pressed, items of sentimental value.
Subterranean pony eaters with an appreciation for the finer things. Getting some serious 3288 vibes here.
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Thanks for the suggestions. My editor was busy these last few days and didn't get a chance to review this one.
To be perfectly honest I was super worried that I'd be straight-up plagiarizing SCP-2019 when I wrote this one. Before each chapter I review similar SCPs to get in the mindset and 2019 was practically the Smooze I had in mind already, Phrases kept creeping word for word into my writing and I had to make conscious effort to keep original.
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The similarities are pretty loose there, plus there have been plenty of other monster SCP's that are hidden underground. Such as SCP-610: The Flesh that hates with its underground source, SCP-1678: Unlondon and SCP-2191: The Vampire Factory. Could see them being classed as a separate SCP entry sometime.
I wonder what would happen if you introduced it to SCP-999.
Green Smooze are pacifistic by nature. They tend to eat things of wealth and value.
Purple Smooze however...
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Cuteness that would be deadly