SCP number: SCP-023
Nickname: Black Shuck
Real Name: Seeing as SCP-023 is incapable of speech, it is to be referred by it's number and nickname.
Rank: Euclid, pending to be moved to Keter.
SCP-023 is a large, sexless dog with shaggy black fur and empty sockets (to be stuffed with hard rubber inserts that must be replaced as they are worn/burned out after sunset) that is contained at an unnamed Site. It formerly possessed bright orange eyes and prominent teeth until they were removed in an attempt to cease its death-bringing effect.
Powers: The creature demonstrates both pyrotic and death-bringing abilities. As it phases through solid material, it leaves behind incinerated remains. When a person makes eye contact with SCP-023, they or a member of their immediate family will die exactly one year after eye contact is broken. It has been found that the victim selection is random, and that those who make eye contact have a higher chance of survival if they have a larger immediate family. These victims die in a disturbing manner where they appear unscathed on the surface, but are revealed to be filled with highly compact ash as a result of internal combustion.
Personality: It has an instinctual desire for travel and will effortlessly walk through walls in order to reach another location unless it reaches crossroads in its path. Thus, its current containment procedures require that it be secured in a walled-off intersection of the aforementioned Site that are designed to ensure SCP-023 travels in a constant loop and can be monitored by security cameras. Experimentation with the creature has since been suspended.
Bio: SCP-023 gained the SCP Foundation's attention when it attacked a church and murdered several members of its congregation (along with a [REDACTED] effect listed as a result of eye contact). The Foundation immediately captured SCP-023 and administered Class-B amnesiacs to witnesses and survivors. The cause of the incident was attributed to arson as SCP-023 was carried out.
Incident Report 023-26 describes a researcher's attempt to cut off 023's death-cursing ability by removing its eyes and teeth. 023 vanished immediately and was recaptured from an Interstate. D-class personnel finished the removal of its teeth and the researcher in charge was demoted to D-class for the incident. Even more unsettling, an unlisted number of victims matching the description of SCP-023's effect were found a year later, thus confirming that it was sighted during its escape. It's also noticeable that SCP-023 vanished while the sun was visible in the sky outside the Site.
The other, Incident Report 023-27, lists the results of an attempt at cutting off SCP-023's ability by putting glass eyeballs into its sockets. The glass eyes assumed a bright orange-red glow akin to the creature's previous eyes and melted in the course of three hours. Suddenly, [DATA EXPUNGED] manifested on all lenses, windows, mirrors, monitors, and glass surfaces at the Site, prompting an immediate evacuation. SCP-023 vanished once more and was retrieved some time later imprisoned in its current Site. Several Foundation personnel perished in the same manner as SCP-023's typical victims one year later. As a result of this, all reflective surfaces are not allowed 30 meters of the creature's cell.
Shouldn't there be a Class section for SCPs? Listing in Keter, Euclid, Safe, etc?
