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Reminds me sharply of something of Lovecraft's, just red.
I'm not all that familiar with Lovecraft. Can you tell me exactly what it was this reminded you of, so I can look it up and make mine different and more original?
Dave,
Most of Lovecraft's work is public domain now. A general Google search for H.P. Lovecraft stories should turn up a great deal of free online resources. I am somewhat surprised that you are unacquainted with Lovecraft. If you enjoy the SCP, i think you will find his particular ability to make you feel very small, cold and alone in a vast and uncaring universe right up your alley.
Well, it's similar, but not nearly identical. Abhoth was a gelatinous ooze that spawned bizarre creatures from itself constantly — and usually consumed them again before they could escape. This is a seemingly-inanimate (but still possibly sapient) pool that acts as a portal for other creatures to pass through.
Tvtropes has this listed under "mother of a thousand young" with Shubby.
I'm vaguely reminded of Evangelion. Kind of like Post-Impact Antarctica, only fun-sized! (…That's not a bad thing.)
Anybody ever considered the possibility that this is the origins of SCP-682?
I am now.
Actually come to think of it, the Red Pool could have produced any of the 'horrible monster' SCPs we have floating around. Or, hell, it could have produced all of them. Although I think having all these awesome monsters come from the same source would only subtract from them.
I did not meant that it would be the actual origin, but within the SCP-verse, it seems obvious that someone would wonder.
Nah, it doesn't fit. Nearly everything we know of that's come through SCP-354, although strange and dangerous, is life as we know it. SCP-682 decidedly is not. Of course, that does mean that we could just dump SCP-682 through the pool and it'd kill everything on the other end or die trying. Dumping 682 through a strange dimensional portal and hoping for the best is probably not a very good idea, though. If they have their own version of the SCP Foundation on the other side, we haven't accomplished anything. Hell, we might have made things worse — for instance, their equivalent could be what's dumping these things through the portal, either as a way of disposing of potential Keter-class threats, or as part of a campaign to destroy or conquer other realities. SCP-682 leaping back through a few months later pissed and with whatever new tricks it learned during its captivity would not be fun.
EDIT: Yes, I do realize that this wouldn't really be consistent with the exploration log.
a) I'm just brainstorming scenarios.
b) The log seems to come from another reality, itself, and there's no guarantee that their SCP-354 leads to the same place ours does.
Reading this is had a funny idea (note, NOT an actual suggestion). What if all this stuff on its way through IS from a Foundation on the other side, who use SCP-354 as a disposal method.
(account deleted)I have to disagree, if you read the exploration log, you can see that the agents wind up in a forest, so therefor there cannot be a "foundation" on the other side, unless the "foundation" you're talking about is containing that whole forest.
-Morkle
Isn't 682 one of the Scarlet King's kids? And also, what if the pool isn't a portal, as a previous comment said, but there's something at the bottom that mutates anything that falls in? A lizard falls in, you get the big dino thing. A radiation grenade falls in, you get the floating orb that got smashed with the sledgehammer. See what I'm going at?
Maybe it,s just me, but wouldn't detonating a warhead make the whole area so radioactive as to be virtually unlivable? Also, hard to conceal.
I was careful not to refer to it as a nuclear warhead, although it is somewhat implied.
This is the SCP Foundation we're talking about. Maybe we have some SCP that's a substance that explodes with the force of a small nuke, and doesn't make radiation. Or maybe "detonating the warhead" is just a colloquial name for, say, activating some kind of interdimensional device, which transports the entire facility into oblivion, removing all traces of it. There's a billion explanations.
Or maybe we DID irradiate a small chunk of northern Canada. Who knows?
My point is that rebuilding a facility on irradiated land seems hardly a practical process.
True, but, since SCP-354 is immobile, and we'd need something there to take care of business, maybe we just rebuilt the building and issued anti-rad suits to all the staff. The Foundation is nothing if not delightfully heartless.
As I recall, a couple feet of concrete and a totally self-contained (or adequately filtered) water and ventilation system would be sufficient to protect the inhabitants from any lingering radiation.
Of course, you'd want some kind of rad protection when entering or leaving the facility.
Oh, yes, and you've got to BUILD the thing somehow…
If it were not for the ban on telekill, I'd suggest trying to drain it again, but with telekill helmets/suits. Might negate the psychic force.
By the way, someone should make a "cafeteria" for people to talk in-character. Just an idea
There could even be a link to such a place on the left side of the page, something like REALTIME CHAT or such
Really? I had the impression that you discussed mainly penises and other bizarre things in there. If this is in-character, then Foundation is truly a screwed up place
Not a roleplaying website.
The Fieldwork game has characters in it, though. Also has its own wiki located at: http://scp-field-work.wikidot.com/ .
… I had a disturbing thought. The assumption of everyone is that the pool itself is the cause of the "portal" effect. However… the pool gets thicker the farther you go. Maybe the portal is there independently… and the pool is an inhibitor, making it hard enough that you only have creatures come through periodically, rather than an endless parade of monstrosities.
Instead of solving the problem, draining the pool would have made it infinitely worse. That's why it attacked psychically, and that's why it was so pissed — it's been doing nothing but keeping us from being wiped off the planet by abominations, and we up and try to kill it for — as far as it knows — absolutely no reason except that we're a bunch of ungrateful bastards.
The way things are currently going, the Foundation is going to try to find a way to actually destroy the pool… and if this interpretation were correct, we'd be absolutely doomed if they ever succeeded.
Of course, these are just the thoughts that suddenly came to me while I was mulling it over before bed, and have no bearing on its actual nature as determined by the author, or anything else except my own lunatic ravings.
I mentioned elsewhere (In the 'ice gorilla' SCP) that I liked the suggestion that contrary to protecting the world from everything by locking stuff up, they might actually be inadvertently contributing to its doom. Makes the SCP a lot more sinister, even if they aren't meaning to be.
This concept isn't the most original in the world, but boy oh boy do I like the execution. Upvoted.
Edit: Jeez, the tone of my comment somewhat obscures that I love the shit out of this SCP, and it's one of my favorites, especially taking the exploration log into account.
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