Hmm. Yeah, just isn't doing it for me.
Doesn't peak my interest at all.
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(account deleted)I like it. You guys would all be goners!
The only problem I have with it right now is the hallucination part. It just adds extra bulk to the SCP. Believe me, you don't have to hallucinate to feel trapped. Being creative and not being able to express your thoughts for long enough can cause great stress. Being in that cycle can also start to make you feel paranoid. It is kind of like when you have a dream, and no matter how hard you try to run, something just weighs you down, and your stuck. Oh, the frustration!
Great, now I made mahself angry.
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To the original author: Please tweak this so it survives and is generally non-fatal - I've got an 050 prank in the works that requires infecting the target with 904!
That little bias exposed, I'd like to assert that a few SCPs like this one add some nice flavor to the SCPF universe. It makes sense that not every SCP is some incredibly dangerous object/being/plague - some should be little more than an annoyance, but still require Foundation involvement because knowledge of such items could start curious individuals poking around for similar stuff, thus putting containment of more dangerous SCPs at risk. Of course, under certain conditions, what's normally just a passing annoyance could turn into something more dangerous and sinister. A good example (with some body horror thrown in) would be scp-366 - normally pretty much a freaky STD, but occasionally a mutation causes someone to die a horrible, painful death. The risk with 904 is somewhat more predictable, but who knows if the seemingly-safe test subject has enough hidden creative talent to spark the darker side of the disease?
Also, I agree with Miniblini that the hallucinations are more than is really necessary - just an ever-escalating feeling of the inability to express oneself and the growing frustration that would result would be enough to drive most people insane after a while.
Also also, the last line of the entry is a nice touch.
You know what? Okay, I'm going to fix this up a bit over the next few days. Maybe some written logs would spice it up? /me considers
Leicontis, did you really just ask an author to remove the horror for an SCP article so that you can use the suddenly less viable article as a plot device for a joke document?
No, I asked her to, first and foremost, edit the article so it won't get deleted. I did express a preference/hope that the result would still be useful to the joke idea, and gave what I felt was a logical justification for it, even citing an example that, by its continued presence, demonstrates that at least some of those performing the Mass Edit seem to agree somewhat. An item can have plenty of creep without being horribly and universally destructive - in the case of 904 as currently written, the creep comes from what happens if it infects someone with a creative mindset. That, along with the fact that such an odd contagion could start people poking into Foundation business were it to become public knowledge, explain why the Foundation doesn't want it "in the wild", so to speak. Add to that the fact that it's a relatively benign memetic SCP, which makes it useful to study for ways of protecting against other memetic SCPs, and it's perfectly reasonable for the Foundation to keep it contained, especially since it's relatively easy to contain.
ffffffffffff
terminate usage
in the how to write an SCP guide
read it
learn it
live it
love it
break up with it
still love it
get the cops called on you after you're caught peeking in a window at the guide's house
have a restraining order placed on you by the state
kidnap it and make it yours
hide the evidence until the investigation blows over
never misuse terminate again
Would it be at all possible to have some parts, if not the entire entry, in rhyme?
"When asked to use a sentence ending in the word ninth"
Oh sweet!
"(a word with no rhymes in the English language)"
Here we go …
"[DATA EXPUNGED]"
… … FFFFFFFFFFF
I'm guessing it looked a bit like this at first.
Then I'm thinking the subject continued to clutch his head and alternate between screaming and asyllabic mumbling1 for the next, oh, five to seven minutes.
Subject then proceeded to bleed from the nose (due to blood pressure) and mouth (due to mastication of cheeks and tongue). This was followed by a four minute seizure, and then a coma which lasted until the subject's end-of-month termination.
That's just a guess, though.
And a Foundation cleaning crew whining about a little blood can't have been doing this for very long.
(Actually, I'm guessing the author meant to imply that the subject's head exploded.)
Footnotes
1. Testing on other subjects has shown that listening to a recording of this induces stress, but no signs of infection.
I actually kinda like the way this is done.
It's a little bit silly, but still, +1
This is what I call "Comically dangerous", like that silly-looking video game boss who you laugh at right up until the point where it violently beats the snot out of you.
Bathroom wall…was this found to reside in a "Here I sit" limerick?
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