I gotta admit, when I saw the initial idea, I didn't think it'd work. But I'll be damned, it does. Upvoted.
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The punchline is cash, but the note to the Foundation is decidedly not. If PoI-5176 (Medusa?) knows what the Foundation is, then why the hell would she think that they would return the plaque?
TBH, she doesn't. It's a punt. She wants it back there, but even without Foundation monitoring, she's not emotionally capable of handling it herself. It was a spur of the moment decision to write the note; that's why she wrote it by hand, using office supplies that were already in the room. She just wanted out of there ASAP, and to be able to tell herself that it was in someone else's hands.
And you are absolutely correct about her identity.
Sometimes I do a pre-read of these kind of SCPs by reading the conprocs and then skipping to the end to get the twist. Hot damn, seeing "Poseidon: Rapist" definitely hooked me to read the rest of the skip.
All in all, I like it. The testing logs do a good job of building suspense up to the meat of the skip, which is the PoI confrontation. The surveillance log had me riveted, and I like how the last two logs imply that this statue and the situation around it is part of a much greater phenomenon. It's some top-class worldbuilding that I find rare in the get-in, get-out era of SCPs that I think we're in sometimes.;
My primary complaint is that SCP-4725-1 could be described better. I skimmed over it in the Description and I had to scroll back up to give myself a mental image of it. I think you could remove the sub-designation entirely and replace it with just "rapid mutations" or something like that. In addition, although it's a minor complaint, I think that you should at least somewhat imply what the blackboxed skips are in the logs.
This is a very good first skip and I can't wait to read more from you. +1
Thank you!
I plan to follow up on the black-box skips. Consider them a placeholder for now, not actual censorship.
Nice to see all the improvements from the draft I reviewed. You hinted at Medusa quite well, and improved the way the video log flows with the article. I look forward to more articles from you. +1
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I like this one, the punch at the end is great and while something like this would normally bother me, I like how you don't really explain what the 4275-1s are, just that they require a significant bombing campaign to deal with. +1.
Nice to see this from the forums! I honestly love everyrhing about this, a well deserved +1.
The Gorgon sisters are my favorite characters from Greek myth. You have no idea how many times in my lifetime I've experienced media involving Medusa, Poseidon, and Athena that imply that they are tackling the material seriously or completely then gloss over sexual assault. Further, this story doesn't have completely uneccesary ambiguities (a pet peeve).
+1.
I get the impression from the word Poseidon and the comments that this is a mythology reference? But I don't know what, and the article is really uninteresting without that. -1
In Greek mythology, Medusa got her snake hair and petrifying gaze when Athena cursed her for having sex with Poseidon in one of Athena's temples. Problem was, that sex wasn't consensual, but Athena couldn't do anything to Poseidon because he was a god. In this SCP, Medusa has tracked down Poseidon thousands of years later and used her curse to make him pay. The side effects of damaging the statue are associated with Poseidon's divine portfolio - the ocean, storms, earthquakes, and, weirdly, horses.
Actually, that's only Ovid's version of it (big of anti-authority, he was also the main creator of the Arachne Myth). One of other version of it includes Medusa being one of the Gorgon Sisters.
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