There is no need to reference another SCP for something as simple as attitude of residents.
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On second though, I still feel noting parallels between very different SCPs would be a crucial part of studying them.
But thats useful in lab logs, not in what is meant to be a brief over view for higher ups. SCPs should be capable of being read and understood entirely on their own basis, not with multiple links elsewhere for simple things.
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What Bright said: imagine this, you're a brand new guy who's just been recruited by a shadowy government agency. You are given a briefing document and told to work on containing this horrible monstrous artifact. You open it up, it says, "It's just like OTHER MONSTROUS ARTIFACT."
What do you say?
Probably put your head between your knees and kiss your ass good bye. I mean, how the hell are you supposed to know what OTHER MONSTROUS ARTIFACT is like when it's your first day on the job?
Now, if there are records involving past interactions with other SCPs, that's different, because even if you don't know what the other one is like, all you need to know is, "If it ever comes into contact with something with this number, you can expect this."
I might like to see a testing log where an Agent is sent to stay in one of the uncharted towns for a while, to see if it's sinister like 599, or benevolent… and if it's benevolent, I'd like to get some sense of how they can interact with the outside world, where they get supplies and materials, it could be interesting, exploring these places.
I was actually surprised something similar did not exist already.
I really like this one.
I wonder what happens if you fail to check the map regularly when you're driving over a nonexistent bridge?
And can you use it to navigate an airplane? (which has IIRC a 20 mile visibility to the horizon)
1) You never just "vanish" (except from the point of view of an external observer) or have random accidents from stopping. (though you could potentially get stuck in an inexistent location should you lose the map, such as probably happened to the Air Malta plane passengers)
2) Any mean of transportation will be affected. Though using it for airplanes is always risky, since road maps and air maps work in totally different ways.
What would be really interesting is seeing how many ghost towns you can get to that are actually occupied by living people while in turn going thru a real town that is marked as a ghost town on this map.
Real towns are missing completely (or become such small hamlets that no map would show them), not presented as ghost town. I'm not clear what you mean, in fact.
When it said it was Canadian, some deep recess of my brain announced, "I put the red pool in Canada…" and I couldn't help but add SCP-354 on your map. Sorry.
If you go to one of the other-world locations using the map, then leave that location without using the map, do you stay in the other-world or do you return to this one?
You eventually return to the real world, though you might do so in an unexpected place (e.g. in the same area you came in rather than the one you exited through). In my mind, the only way to get "lost" in the inexistent locations is if you're already lost, which would be what happened to the Air Malta people.
Do these Canadian towns sell atlases for other parts of the world with similar inaccuracy, or does the weirdness stop at the borders? Because it would be very interesting if you could explore an entire 'other Earth' so long as you could keep finding maps with the wrong information.
I could have sworn the article specifically mentions all maps on location (whether sold or at the library etc.) are normal.
What happens if you kidnap someone from one of the nonexistent towns and bring them out to the real world?
Except for not existing according to government records (possibly complicated by people of the same name and similar personal info), they are just normal people. I'm not sure whether they would be able to return to the location they previously lived in on their own; feel free to add stuff along that line of thought if you got ideas.
If you were to walk down a nonexitent road, then toss the map onto said road. And keep walking, would the road disapear and the map be forever lost?
Copies of the map?
What if you took a rope. Tied it around a pole. And around your waist. 2 people observing from the pole. The guy on the rope takes the map and walks north to the non-existent town 1km away. What would the observers from the pole see and what would the guy see if he looked back?
1) the map would be returned to the "normal Geography"
2) Good point. Copies of the map shows the oddities, but do not have the space-bending abilities
3) Falls straight within the provision of "People actively following a SCP-476 user will be affected normally". Remember that from the point of of the map user, nothing ever actually looks unusual. If the observers lose eye contact, the rope will break or untie itself and the map user and road will seemingly have disappeared.
Pfft. Gander-Glenwood airport. You don't know your Newfoundland geography very well.
Maybe it's just me, but this article has some wonky tone. There's a lot of wording in parentheses that are making the whole thing kind of weird to read.
Upon closer examination, it is revealed to contain a large number of anomalies, showing locations that do not exist (A large dam lake between Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan), missing existing location (Sudbury), misplacing (Ottawa and Gatineau are reversed) or misnaming (Yellowknife is identified as "Burwash") locations. Indices and distance chart are consistent with the anomalous maps.
There's a lot of…that in the article and, to me, that's making the article a lot less coherent than it could be.
I was rereading my old stuff and I actually agree with this. I trimmed/rewrote most of the parentheticals.
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