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My second surviving SCP. The coal mines just don't want to stop working.
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A simple article, cool to read, and a breath of fresh air among the wonderful, but complex articles of +100 upvotes. I think is cool to have this type of simple articles. Just take care for not making them so simple, that they become bad, okay?
But I think this isn't the case.
Happy is the one who slows down, and learns to live calmly.
And dude, try to stop commenting "reserved" on the SCPs that you write, lol.
By doing this, you can make someone wrong about your intentions, just as I once did. Be careful, okay?
I think people do this to reserve the first post on the forum of their article.
where we landing? not tilted! ッ
Why would the flesh be needed to be transported to a foundation site to reduce cooling costs? How would flesh from a coal mine reduce the foundation's heating bill?
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I've slightly altered that sentence to remove that section. It was a remnant of a previous version of this idea that I didn't notice before.
I really like this. I remember reading the very last sentence and going "oooooh… I get it now!" Maybe Brits figured it out early, but I'm not from 'round there (I also skimmed over the foreshadowing in the containment procedures lol). So there might be things that seem weird to me within the article that have a clear analogy.
I think there are some logical problems that fall outside the realm of fridge logic:
- If it is known that there are 630 of them, why are they "believed" to use scythes-for-hands?
- After the mine was shut down, it continued to output coal. This is already anomalous. Someone is picking up new coal from an abandoned mine and transporting it to power stations that presumably would know that their coal is coming from an abandoned mine.
- They "question SCP-5823" about the flesh coming off the line, but it's brushed off as "normal operations". Who at the mine did they question? How do you brush off an abandoned mine outputting tons of coal and also human flesh?
- Beginning in '83, it is "noted" that human flesh is now being transported to power plants. Very ho-hum. And when by '86 the output is 90% human flesh, now auditors are concerned enough to tell someone about it? They'll take 50% coal/flesh, but they draw the line at 90%!
- It's still outputting coal? Wouldn't the output at this point be 100% flesh?
There's some details I don't think are necessary (23 hour cycle? Scythes for hands?), but I think that's just my personal taste. Who knows! I really like the idea (like, this is my first post ever), but I think its execution could be a bit tighter.
Hey, thanks for commenting. As for answers to your questions:
1) They've done expeditions while the -1 instances have been inactive to count them. However, nobody knows whether these creatures were extracting coal in the 70s and early 80s. It's logical to assume this, but they don't know for certain, so they can't definitively say that the -1 instances used their scythes to extract coal.
2) There's something else going on that the Foundation can't figure out. Someone has been making sure that people don't question what's happening around the mine. In 1986, they stop and let other people clean up the mess.
3) As for coal, it's miniscule amounts. Less than 0.1% of material is coal now but they have procedures on how to deal with it just in case.
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