I like that you went with a night-light for this.
It's sort of like They Might be Giant's "Birdhouse in Your Soul" only it's evil.
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I've got a secret to tell
From my electrical well
It's a simple message
And I'm leaving out
the whistles and bells.
I'm going to kill you.
So the room must listen to me
Filibuster vigilantly
My name is shooting star
One note spelled D-I-E!
My story's infinite
Like the canteen that's been tipped
It doesn't rest
(though it does necropost, apologies)
I had moved this from Site-19 to Area-02, because I don't think anything Keter would be kept at Site-19. Another one I don't think I need to revert before the Mass Edit (but, hey, I could be wrong).
Dunno how it escaped notice for so long, but fixed the lead-that-should-have-been-led.
Apparently the domain of the original image expired recently and the picture is unavailable. So…unless somebody has an extra copy, we'll need a new nightlight photo. (Thanks to Kens for bringing this up).
That's the right pic, then?
I wasn't certain.
Never mind.
I question the 'Keter' classification, it seems that keeping it powered and away from sleeping people effectively contains it.
When someone is asleep within the radius of SCP-122
I assume that is the radius of illumination, perhaps it should be quantified, although I like the rule of 500 meters. If the light does not shine on the sleeper will the shadow appear?
I am also confused over a minor point,
It was presumed that an attending nurse removed SCP-122 from its socket after the death of the child, leading to the release of radiation…Removal of SCP-122 to prevent SCP-122-1 from breaching containment is performed remotely, to avoid further deaths by radiation poisoning. Inevitably, SCP-122-1 will attempt to sabotage this device
Does the shadow guard the nightlight after it kills the sleeper, or does it attempt to breach containment? Doesn't removal of the nightlight start the radiation? Can't the guards simply have a switch to turn the light off, then back on?
At first I thought the shadow unplugged the light to cause the radiation, but otherwise it has to stay near it to protect its own existance.
- If you don't plug it in, it radiations until you plug it in. This may or may not kill everybody ever.
- If you plug it in and go asleep, it turns your shadows into your dreams which are super-strong and then they kill you.
- Crosstesting.
Yeah, I'm really not feeling the appeal here.
if your reading this your gay
(account deleted)Critique in response to the call for review:
Object Class: Keter
Doesn't seem like this should be Keter. Euclid more like. "A Keter classification indicates that not only is this subject capable of inflicting devastating harm to human life and civilization, but that containment protocols must be extensive, involved, and precisely followed in order to prevent it from doing so." This one doesn't seem to fit the bill.
A security team of no fewer than eight (8) are to be present at all times, and O5 authorization will be required for any direct access.
This seems waaaay over the top. If you keep this think plugged in and people don't sleep near it, you're good. And why would we need to pester O5 every time someone wants to to touch it?
Analysis of the gaseous substance within the bulb has found similarities to the phenomenon of ectoplasm.
This is completely meaningless.
The bulb itself is inseparable from the body of the device.
Pointless indestructibility/inability to take it apart.
SCP-122 lets off a modest degree of light
We can actually measure how much light something produces. A precise reading would look a lot better than "a modest degree", which is unscientific and means nothing.
a long harsh shadow
What the hell does a "harsh shadow" look like?
SCP-122 will release gamma radiation exponentially
So it releases a level of gamma radiation that increases exponentially over a given period of time? If so, there has to be a less clumsy way of phrasing this.
Removal of SCP-122 to prevent SCP-122-1 from breaching containment is performed remotely, to avoid further deaths by radiation poisoning. Inevitably, SCP-122-1 will attempt to sabotage this device, and both incidents where it was successful led to over ██ casualties among staff.
How often are people falling asleep right next to this thing?
massive radiation poisoning
Is this even a thing?
Addendum 122-A: A request to attempt to use SCP-781 to control SCP-122-1 is currently pending approval by O5-█.
This is a horrible fucking idea, and anyone with two braincells could have told you something bad would happen. No way the Foundation approves a test like that, seeing as how they're not stupid. Also, the whole "exposing crazy reality-defying objects to each other" thing.
This article has lots of problems, and the "scary thing what kills you/fucks with you while you're sleeping" trope feels overrepresented on this site to the point where there's other articles that pull off this schtick far better.
-1.
EDIT: Oh yes, and this also has a self-upvote.
Goddamnit. I was gonna try my hand at a long crit, see if I could pull it off, but Safari ate it and crashed my phone. Suffice it to say that I had a more.elaborated version of Scantron's opinion, and would like this more if the cross-test was gone, the bullshit radiation effect got removed, and 781 didn't do the Elm Street bit much better. -1
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