SCP-821 / Discussion

This is the discussion related to the wiki page SCP-821.

A Fat Ghost 09 Feb 2009 08:25

I can way dig this idea. Word-bomb, very clever. I'm impressed by your improvement, son.

Only one gripe, eh: If there are no nitrates in it, how is it at all like nitroglycerine? I'm no chemistry professor, but you might need a better comparison.

At any rate, I'm surprisingly pleased by this one. Maybe prepare an experiment log for a seperate page?

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DrBright 09 Feb 2009 08:35

What Ghost said. You're improving Trooper.

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carriontrooper 09 Feb 2009 13:28

… but what to experiment upon? The characters are Latin, but they don't form recognizable word or sentence patterns. Maybe if you're talking about using one of these to replace a random-character generator (monkey typing Shakespeare) it could be a guess… Maybe put an incident log when there were recognizable words or sentences formed by this? Like 'BY JUNG' or something?

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A Fat Ghost 09 Feb 2009 14:25

Experiment for the sake of experimenting, eh.

No way to know that it's truly random until they give it a go a few times. Perhaps they might want to know why it blows the way it does? A precise blast radius? Exactly which characters are included in the blast, and if there are any constants?

Maybe someone wants to weaponise it? Think "secret agent poison pen," but with more oomph.

Not saying any of it is at all necessary, just a neat idea. Stay the course, horse.

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thekit 09 Feb 2009 16:46

might be interesting to expose a sheet of unstainable notebook to it, since it doesn't use liquid phase ink in explosive writing

http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-125034/scp-idea-draft

DrClef 09 Feb 2009 17:35

It might use some later editing for style and clinical tone, but that's it.

InfiniteOracle 11 Feb 2009 09:07

I'd like to point out that a lot of SCPs seem to be found by Agents just happening upon them. This is starting to seem a bit cliched. Perhaps an anonymous donor?

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Agent Peters 13 Jun 2009 02:24

It might be that finding the SCP is why they are agents in the first place. I know that's part of a couple of people's backstories, they found SCPs and their performance in the resulting crisis convinced the Foundation that they might be useful.

Amarth 23 Aug 2009 02:05

Does this produce an actual explosion or just like an explosion of ink?

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carriontrooper 27 Aug 2009 12:42

Imagine an explosion. Desaturate it. Multiply with a bit of dark grey.

Leicontis 17 Nov 2009 15:13

I love the idea, though the article could use a tiny bit of cleanup. The use of the simple conditional tense in the description is a bit awkward - most if not all SCP descriptions are written in simple present ("it detonates" instead of "it would detonate", for example). Also, while the word "acquirement" is usable, "acquisition" might fit slightly better, as "acquirement" usually refers to skills rather than physical objects. Then again, I'm the type that gets really anal about spelling and grammar (side effect of coming from a family of teachers).

And, in case you're wondering, that was not from memory - I looked up the exact definition of "acquirement" and a list of tense names. I'm not that big a grammar freak…

Alias Pseudonym 24 Apr 2010 05:27

>.> This is exactly like nitroglycerin. Literally, the containment procedure is just the safest way to store nitroglycerin. Also it puts words on things. Even if they spelled things, I'd still be bored.

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Scantron 19 Mar 2012 21:17

There are a lot of SCPs with similarly small effects that I despise, but this one is quirky enough for me to like it for some reason.