A little sad but I can't quite articulate how.
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Wow I felt sad by reading this article as well, at first i was terrified by the skeleton but that last entry seemed like it was more sentient.
Edit: I went through this SCP again and have to give it more props. The author gave the SCP its own character that made it different than other SCP's, the scene where it played with the dog pulled my heartstrings. Its kinda like a child, a stupid skeleton child that wants to fit in with everyone else.
Edit 2: I agree with Tufto although I think the point I agree with him on is I would like to hear how and where (maybe even a hint of how) the skeleton was retrieved and found.
I would also like to talk to the author because I wanted to make fanart for this, but wanted permission.
It should just be a dumb angry skeleton what runs round and fuckin kills you. It should just be that, but no, you made it into this mini melodrama of a dumb angry skeleton what runs round, skins your body, and wears it to fit in with all the cool skeleton kids with their 'skin' and their 'muscles' and what have you.
And that's kind of fantastic. Upvote.
I feel like something is off with the tone, but I never really put my finger on it, so meh.
The subject is top fuckin' notch though.
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I feel like something is off with the tone, but I never really put my finger on it, so meh.
I see it too; the tone feels like that of a newbie article, who understands the basics of clinical tone but winds up with the characteristic short, dry descriptive sentences of an amateur writer.
Considering who the author is, I'm betting it's intentional; you could say that the overal tone is the bare bones of clinical tone and descriptiveness. And what is this SCP about, exactly?
I’m not so sure about this
Yes, it gets the job done of being a spooky skeleton man, but it doesn’t elicit any emotion from me personally. It just feels a little goofy, if anything. (And I don’t think it was meant to be 100% goofy)
I think this is a rare example of an article that succeeds on the strength of the anomaly alone. Even though it could accurately be described as "just a skeleton that kills you and wears your skin," the lovingly detailed weirdness and character development of the skip itself won me over. I can see what Magnus means about the tone, but the only thing that really jumped out at me was "SCP-enrichment objects," which should probably just be "enrichment objects" (and by the way, that's a really cute idea).
It does seem more goofy than scary to me, but that's okay - I was smiling a lot throughout, and I'm so desensitized that there's no way I'd react to a skeleton monster with fear; it seemed like the emotion you were going for is more like affectionate, and it worked. +1 from over here.
Can't say that this hits the mark for me. Maybe it's the tone, or how the test log is structured, but the emotion arc of the article fails to resonate within me. I can see what's happening, but reading the article doesn't make me feel much of anything.
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I guess it's kinda a neat subversion of the traditional Series 1 spooky monsters, but it's perhaps a little too subtle. There's no pathos or emotional engagement with the skeleton because there's something thoroughly unhuman about its actions, even when it displays empathy, interest or positive behaviours.
There's nothing to speculate about regarding its identity, so we're not left wondering if it's the project of some trauma; there's nothing about it that's particularly human, since its actions seem inconsistent and a bit dull. It's an article that uses tired old cliches and never quite succeeds in subverting them, leaving us with an ever-so-slightly more interesting variant of a typical coldpost or S1 monster.
I liked this when you showed it to me in chat, and I like it here.
While it does start off with that "Thing what kills you vibe" that still haunts the halls of Series 1 like a specter haunting an undisclosed continent, the fact that we get such a subtle, if not impactful, glimpse into this thing's goals and mindset offers a certain tragedy that I think is just great.
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Sad scary skeletons send tears down your cheeks.
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