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i hate to admit this, but that very last bit felt totally unnecessary and slightly cheesy. still, i generally enjoyed this, and i can't resist a pennsylvania shout out. pennsylvania means penn's woods, after all. :-) +1
Yeah, part of the reason why that's in there is because the implied content is meant to be a setup for a sequel article I have planned. In retrospect though, it probably would read better if I changed it and moved it to the sequel.
Thanks for the feedback!
Eh. Not really a fan, I'm afraid.
You spend so much time building up to the big reveal of SCP-U's origins (which could probably have been half as long and still gotten the point across) and then when we get there the twist is just kind of flat. Additionally, I didn't particularly find any of the characters engaging enough to really pull the article through its length.
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The O5 emails criticizing Clarke for being unprofessional made absolutely no sense to me. Maybe this is because I have autism, but I couldn't understand how they were being unprofessional at all? And the fact that it was repeated, even though Clarke was just asking for credit. Like, what was the issue? Did they not format the email correctly? So O5 punished a memory recording of their personality?
Also, there is one grammar error that is getting stuck in my craw, I'll put it here.
It's in the first email, and it's the only truly egregious part of the article. (It pulled me out completely when I was hooked, and I had to force myself to keep reading.)
"We have recently the status of certain properties affecting Senior Researcher Aletha Clarkes, who until two hours ago, was believed to be a victim of Site-06’s destruction."
"We have recently the status" being the offending piece of the sentence. It feels like this might be an artifact of edits (since that happens to me a lot when I edit a sentence!)
Also, the ending smacked me in the face and I kinda liked it.
Good article overall, besides my two criticisms.
Yeah, the intent of the email part was to be very vague about what's going on, but the gist of it is that what Clarkes is essentially doing is drastically breaking the serious tone that was previously used in her journal, hence why the O5s see it as suspicious. Something happened to Clarkes while in the plant entity thing, and while they're not sure what's going on, it seems vaguely serious enough for the O5s that they give her a warning. I brought this in so I could have a follow-up tale on a lot of the vague elements, but that won't be for a while.
I enjoyed the ending here. It was not the way I expected this to go. Good read!
Damn, alright, that was an interesting read. It has a weird tone to it, especially that last mail from the O5 to Clarkes as well as the directive. That C-virus mentioned sure was a wild punch, didn't see that one coming, not gonna lie XD
Nonetheless, this is a really good article. I like that they fought 'nature' with 'nature' (Both being not quite natural in their upbringing but still) and, well, really liked the worldbuilding, especially around Site-06. Nothing felt unnecessary, despite the amount of information poured into this document, all enhancing my enjoyment as I read through it. Just, good stuff all around. Easy upvote.
TBH I didn't really like this article. The format screw is a bitt off putting and makes it a little more difficult to read imo, and the article really drags on. I found the ending twist reveal mildly amusing, but feel like there could have been a better way to get there.
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I found the article engaging most of the way through, although it became a bit of a slog toward the end -not too badly, though. +1 overall
That is how you justify a high MTF body count, by showing just how bad the anomaly is in other ways. By the time it gets to Clarke's retrieval, you know this is going to be a really tough fight.
I was like "seriously?" when I read the source was Venusian seed pods meant to do low-key terraforming, but at least they didn't come to Earth deliberately to invade all the things -that's just where they wound up. I get the impression that when they were initially contained, the original instances were still kind of weak and sort of in shock due to the lower-oxygen atmosphere.
What happened to Site 06 is a stellar example of what happens when you get complacent, even around Safe and low-key anomalies. O5-4's calling 06 the "Vacation Site" perfectly sums up the lack of concern that turned deadly. For one thing, how was anything larger than a gas molecule able to get out of a containment cell via the ventilation shaft? Even lower threat anomalies have been known to put out some stuff that requires filtering, and with plants, it's safer to assume they're doing exactly that. Congrats to author Kensing on a fantastic showing of how complacency can spectacularly screw things up. (I say this in all sincerity.)
This is also a believable case where X big-time action has to be taken to prevent *K scenario. If that hadn't worked, it might well have been the Foundation fighting a rearguard action while firing up SCP-2000 -it looked that bad.
I'm not sure how unprofessional Clarke's tone was, but the middle of a potentially world-ending emergency is not the time to be asking "will I get credit?" -especially since there was a data/paper trail about her finding out the weakness anyway. Definitely unprofessional behavior.
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