SCP-083 / Discussion

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Safe Classification

Whitewings (guest) 02 Mar 2009 23:42

How does this thing not qualify for Euclid status? As I understand it, that's appropriate for SCPs that blatantly violates scientific law as we understand it, which this one clearly does.

Re: Safe Classification

Peri McGovern 03 Mar 2009 00:44

At the time, I felt the definitions of "Safe" and "Euclid" as used by the foundation seemed a little vague. After all, if everything that "contains mechanisms that are foreign to humans, and display erratic or seemingly impossible behaviours" is supposed to be Euclid, doesn't that include just about every single SCP there is?

But, given that SCP-083 does have special containment procedures beyond simple storage and cataloging, you're right, it probably should be upgraded.

Mulciber 20 Mar 2009 20:48

Although there's an explicitly-stated link between both the primary and alternate interiors (366 square meter floorplan), I can't help but wonder what would happen if the door that provides access to the alternate interior was removed.

Does crossing the threshold (with or without a door) intiate the effect, or is it specifically the door that does so?

Re:

Peri McGovern 27 Mar 2009 23:53

Crossing the threshold triggers the effect. (I thought about making it the door, but felt that would tread too close to SCP-249's territory.)

Quikngruvn 06 Sep 2009 22:05

I had changed the class of this one from "Safe/Euclid" to just "Euclid", based on the OA's edit that approved the change to Euclid. I don't see a reason to revert it (and not just because I'm viscerally anti-slash).

artifacts

Voct 26 Oct 2009 15:03

What happens if we try to extract samples from the house?

What if we try to take furniture?

Or the vacuum cleaner?

What if vandalism is committed?

Does the house have a toilet? What if that toilet is used?

Re: artifacts

Peri McGovern 27 Dec 2009 22:06

These are excellent research questions. Experiments are in development.

Re: artifacts

JJ Smith 22 Apr 2012 13:00

What does happen to an item once removed from the house? Does it remain? Is it made of known material? Does it disappear?

Take out a food item from the fridge in the house and feed it to a subject outside the house. Does it have any special effect on the subject? If not, can this house's fridge be used to stop world hunger? Hehe..

What happens if a wall is taken apart? Does it fix itself or does the phenomena continue without said wall?

I would like these questions answered in experiments also.
Doesn't look to me like the Foundation would just stop experimenting when there's such good questions to be answered.. Because of losing 7 cameras. Really?

I wanted to up-vote this, but it seems incomplete.

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Re: artifacts

Jaquerel 17 Nov 2012 14:59

What if the cameras were, instead of recording to a self-contained drive, wired to a computer in/just outside FP-0?
Would the wire be severed and the feed lost as soon as the house was unoccupied?
If so, where along the wire? What would the video look like just before being cut off?

It would be an interesting experiment regarding the nature of the doors/thresholds of the internal rooms, and the mechanics of the object in general.

Legendary 07 Oct 2011 21:48

I love this SCP. When I first came to this website, I think this was the first one I read that actually intrigued me and made me wonder about what might be behind the [EXPUNGED] and what the answers were to the mysteries the Foundation is facing.

Agent Angus Smith 07 Jan 2012 03:45

I like this one very much. However;

it has been decided to abandon further experimentation of this type on SCP-083, until a way can be found to do it without overdrafting the department's budget in order to replace "disappeared" equipment.

Really? Video cameras?

"disappeared"

Are they quoting a D class?

Crayne 20 Apr 2012 09:38

This SCP provides proof that an SCP doesn't need to involve going insane, getting maimed or torn apart by gibbering forces and can still be an engrossing mystery. The great thing of course being that although up until now no apparent danger has presented itself, there is so much room for it.

Doctor Gentleman 21 Sep 2012 18:29

I just read this, immediately thought of "Betrayal at House on the Hill."

Lumancer 03 Oct 2012 20:04

Blah, this has not aged well. Grammar and tone could both use some touching up. More disappointingly, the article doesn't really do anything interesting with the concept. There are also a few small things that just don't make sense- for example, if the anomalous version of the house has working electricity, why battery-powered cameras? Begrudging downvote.

Ellye 13 Mar 2013 02:53

Every single part that could lead to something interesting is [DATA EXPUNGED].

And its the kind of [DATA EXPUNGED] that makes it feel like not even the author really knows what is being expunged.

Downvote. This is not on par with current standards.

AndarielHalo 29 Oct 2013 01:25

I rather like the article as a whole, but I have to agree with you that the [DATA EXPUNGED] is overused and really kills some of the mystery

Tropxe 13 Jul 2014 09:57

I really like this. It puts me on edge even though there's nothing really malicious or even aggressive about it at all. For some reason, my mind is led to assume the worst. The problem with a lot of the SCPs is that they're either simply something that kills you, putting it on the level of, say, being stuck in a room with a lion or just being hit by a car, or they're merely mysterious without any reason to be scared or intrigued about what the truth is. Oh, a machine with no clear purpose… So basically how an Xbox seems to my grandma. Simply not knowing how something works isn't very interesting, or else most people would be scared of TVs.

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