The concept of this one is good, but it needs some editing to sound more clinical.
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A five-meter-long millipede? Is that right, or did a researcher get their units wrong?
oh no. Such a thing could EASILY fit inside an average cantaloupe.
Requesting "bees" or "bee-like insects" be added. See the hatbot chronicles.
Question: why hasn't anyone tried napalming the thing?
Because, as someone stated elsewhere, this is the Special Containment Procedures Foundation, not the Special Destruction Procedures Foundation.
But when something seems so clearly detrimental with no redeeming qualities, "containment" would include destruction (containment of the threat posed).
Er, no, actually, that's not what "containment" means. To contain a thing, that thing has to exist first. ;)
Besides, the Foundation is a bunch of pack-rats. The cases where they'd prefer to destroy rather than contain are very, very rare. Who knows what we might learn from such-and-such a Keter object in the future, to help us guard against other SCPs? Who knows how our attempts at destruction might backfire on us? It's usually safer to keep the thing around than to try blowing it up.
Actually, containment of a THREAT is what I was referring to. Also, that argument just seems a bit…easy. Why not just stop trying to figure out ways to kill SCP-682? You never know when we'll need THAT, right?
Like I said, I like the SCP, but the reasoning is…too easy. "We keep it around because, well, you never know!" There should at least some less-ambiguous reason for keeping it around.
Smallpox still exists in labs so scientists can study it in case there is another outbreak or if there is an outbreak of something similar.
Granted they're trying to kill the lizard, but that's the only thing they're really trying to kill. Mostly, they're doing it to find out HOW inc ase it's mommie decides to come looking for it.
Most (not all) of the other things in there (besides Brights pendant) are probably destructible, and they have a pretty good idea on how.
But why are they trying to kill the lizard? It seems a lot like 076-2 in the fact that it communicates, and although it enjoys killing, it isn't just a machine. Maybe if we tried to fucking /talk/ to it, it could help us. On the contrary, this one is just plain deadly. It is of no use whatsoever, and destroying it would make a hell of a lot more sense than keeping it in case what- another anomalous tree with deadly insects inside it which it produces by magic emerges? I don't think that's the real threat to humanity here.
The fact that all bite victims who are not test subjects are to be terminated should IMHO be plainly stated. The "you'll be euthanised if you ask and killed exactly the same way if you don't" bit sounds like a dumb joke.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see why bite victims are terminated immediately. The SCP foundation doesn't really need to be that brutal does it? I mean sure, no canon and all, but it seems like killing anyone who gets bitten when they might recover completely seems wasteful to me. On the other hand, this foundation has apparently sacrificed enough people to the thing to have statistics about what happens when you get bitten, so I guess obscene brutality is already a part of protocol.
The chance of recovery is listed as so low as to be really negligible since it's most likely a D Class that was bit anyway. The bad side effects of someone being bit and not terminated and incinerated are in contrast much, much worse.
While growing, the plague trees, as they have been dubbed, are vulnerable to being felled, incineration, and conventional herbicides.
That most definitely doesn't go well with the desired tone of a SCP article, methinks.
I'm inclined to agree with others in this thread that it's a solid concept, but it needs tone work (shit, that problem was noted in freaking 2008). Also, the expungement of what happens to half of the victims is pretty classic blue-balls expungement — this could really shine if something cool was put there.
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