SCP-5958 / Discussion

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Tanhony 05 Mar 2021 15:56

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MuseofScience 05 Mar 2021 18:25

This reminds me of the psycho children from the Village of the Damned. Superpowered little monsters killing human adults because they hate then. But this scp is more scary than the movie because here the children are the victims of a cruel entity (probably a demon) who use them for its own sick pleasure. Poor children.

+1

Cerastes 05 Mar 2021 19:17

Hmm. Dunno about this one. It's off to an interesting start, especially with the narrative potential of the children's crusade, but it doesnt really go anywhere beyond showing the skip killing people or influencing kids to kill random people.

J Dune 05 Mar 2021 21:11

Crazy good. Disturbing, slightly silly, and surreal. You managed to turn what's essentially just a kid with psychic powers into an entertaining article. Another banger!

Lunamann 21 Apr 2021 20:17

Tbh there's nearly infinite things to love here.

Let me count the ways...

The fact that this immortal psychic kid caused the Children's Crusade, and the tale of the Pied Piper.

Secretorum Camerus Prophetias as a Foundation precursor dating back to the Middle Ages- because of course it stretches back that far if normalcy has been kept for this long.

The fact that said precursor's initials are indeed SCP, which I caught around the third time the name was mentioned. (Though the translation seems a little confusing to me- "Secret room prophesies"?)

The fact that this immortal psychic kid's motivations for being a murderous psychopath are apparently because she assumes that adults are abusive assholes to children. (Or she hunts down and targets abusive assholes?)

And most importantly, the fact that this thing reminds me a crapton of the music video for Midnight City by M83. You'll know what I'm talking about if you watch it.

Edit: wait the latin actually translates to something along the lines of Secret Containment Procedures doesn't it

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GreenRaven 03 Aug 2021 03:39

Eh, this doesn't really work for me. The containment procedures are strong, and the description is pretty solid, but it doesn't have much beyond that. It takes several incidents in history and tries to tie them together by having one entity trigger them all. And… doesn't really do anything else. It doesn't feel like it's a major threat.

Two things I think it's missing:

1) Off the official record events, where the Foundation and its precursors successfully stopped or broke up such events and kept them from entering the public record.

2) Analysis of why its strength is apparently decreasing. The Children's Crusade had possibly upwards of 30,000 children. Hamelin had hundreds. The babysitter murder had two. The police station had it acting alone. Is this a response to increasing media availability and spread, or is it weakening? If the second, why?

It also doesn't explain why the GOC hasn't put a bullet through 5958's head yet. Most of the evidence in the article is stuff the GOC would have access to as well.

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