This is my entry for the Delicious round of JamCon 2020! Thanks to swords, H0dari and Henzoid for their feedback!
Hmm, I like the implication of some twisted anomalous effect at the end (besides the apparent desire to propogate more of them) that makes it A-OK to eat your still-motile chocolate colleagues' living eyes.
I wonder why six dolphins worked, but twelve didn't? I've gotta puzzle that one out.
One thing, though—are you sure it should be all organisms that turn into -5695s? Surely we would've seen experiment logs detailing the chocolatization of bacteria and yeasts. If it were animals I would understand it better.
Also, when you say other aquatic organisms become instances of SCP-5695, I assumed it meant more chocolate goldfish, as the opening line referred to SCP-5659 as a chocolate goldfish rather than a phenomena or item that makes animals into chocolate replicas. By the time the guy at the end got Medusa'd by chocolate, he was a humanoid statue rather than a goldfish. Is this intentional, or are the previous instances of -5695 all goldfish and this is the exception?
+1 as always. One of my favorite entries of the contest so far, alongside -5031.
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just some chocolate?
Christopoulos has already said something, so I ll not repeat it. But a project that only turns something into chocolate seems less exciting.
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Hang on… "autocannibalistic puncture of the jugular."
Does that mean he bit his own neck? HOW?!?
Aaaaayyyy, it's the chocolate goldfish.
So the Foundation has the ability to get a tank full of dolphins, and was willing to do it twice, the second time for no reason whatsoever, yet they still consider it is a reasonable course of action to infest a natural body of water with something they know is highly infectious, and has shown inconsistencies in what it infects?
Am I supposed to believe nobody considered the possibility of a bird or mammal or reptile being "aquatic enough" (eg. a beaver, or a snake) to be converted and walk off to the next patch of water? What about aquatic insects like dragonfly larvae or other small crustaceans like water-fleas?
Even if it was absolutely exclusive to fish, it would be a really dumb thing to do still, considering how rain-caused flooding isn’t rare in Mass, and it’s littered with rivers, lakes and ponds, or how any air- or land-based predator (including humans) could just carry a fish off and drop it somewhere else.
How is this item classified "Safe"? This qualifies without a doubt for "Keter". Employees were able to just carry instances out the front door and may have distributed them to god-knows who, and the Foundation’s never going to be able eradicate them from the waters they deliberately infested with any confidence. It is clearly uncontainable at this point.
Regards,
~~k