It… ah… I'm not scared of it. Also, 10mX10m is a hell of a lot of space, and 1.5 m is a hell of a lot of steel, especially for a rot that melts right through anything it touches. But mostly, it doesn't scare or even freak me out at all.
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i'd love to hear what you think might increase the creepy factor. This is my first one, so i'm still getting my sea legs, as it were. Perhaps a faster decay rate, or something similar? Let me know whatcha think ^.^
At least on the technical end, O5s are not fans of mindless destruction. That's the GOC, not the SCP Foundation.
A cursory read would indicate that one of the problems senior staff tends to have with articles like this is that they are artifacts of doom that demand attention and do bad things if you don't please them. Those don't tend to go over terribly well.
O5s are not fans of mindless destruction. That's the GOC, not the SCP Foundation.
Well, not the SCP foundation as a whole. I can think of a few researchers who could write the statement at odds without thinking twice.
Hmm, I think it needs some work on the writing side of things. It's a bit weird to have a researcher, even a senior one, question an O5 like that, but it's not impossible. And yes, the O5s are a bit more pragmatic than that. Also, the second Class D test seems a little unnecessary.
On the whole, try to punch up the writing a bit more.
Well, I think it makes perfectly sense for a discussion basically going:
O5: 2 dang-r-s. Plz nuke it.
Dr.: Will do. Soon as we figure out how to do it without risking XK-class EOW scenario.
To occur on a daily basis at the foundation. This is pretty what's happening here.
But there's really no reason for the discussion at all
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We have to have someone present who can read Ogham runes? Every day?
Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to, I dunno, transcribe the runes into phonetic English?
That assumes we can't just play a recording of the runes being read. Can we?
I bet you can't. Has to be a conscious mind comprehending the meaning, most likely. You know how these things are.
Okay, that's a reasonable excuse for why recordings won't work - otherwise wouldn't it be better to have MagicWords.wav on endless loop, y'know?
Although I'm not impressed with the notion of only sending someone in to read the magic deactivating runes once a day. That's the bare minimum!
Wouldn't it be more prudent to read them… say, every four hours?
And even if a phonetic transcription isn't good enough (and I don't like the idea that it isn't), who says we need operatives who can read Ogham?
All we need to keep 077 inactive is someone who can read one specific passage in Ogham.
"Here are these symbols. Here's a literal translation, here's the idiomatic meaning, and here's how they're pronounced. Take a few hours to practice; we've got a dialect coach on staff to help you with your accent. Go up to the skull, it has the symbols carved on it. Read them out loud; it'll take you about a minute, and we've got a boom mic hooked up to a speech recognition system to make sure you've said the whole thing properly. Then come back out."
edit: upvoted because a) I wanna implement my security measures, and b) I can prolly figure out a way to up the creepy factor if you give me a chance.
Well, when I was writing this I initially wanted the runes to change every day, so as to make that precaution more necessary, but, 'ya know, best laid plans n' such. Anywho, if you wanna fiddle with it, you got my go-ahead ^.^
I did some severe work on this guy. I would appreciate feedback.
If we're having D-class as rune readers, and they have to be trained for a day beforehand, and the runes change every lunar month…
I suggest that D-class who are being trained as rune-readers be given a temporary exemption from monthly termination procedures. Just long enough that we don't run low on rune-readers.
I'd agree with that, particularly considering the high mortality rate readers already experience.
I like the changes quite a bit except for the part about the mist, I think I actually liked something of the form of the previous where it would begin corroding everything in a geometrically expanding radius. The 'gas' thing just seems too, Scooby Do? In addition, if it is a gas, even if it dissolves matter, that they could control it with air movements, if it simply starts decaying everything around it, there is no real remedy.
uhm, it was still described as a gas before? At least, the version right before my edit refers to the gas as a "smoke-like vapor". I removed the smoke-like, and otherwise kept the description mostly the same.
Much better, but I still have two problems with it. One, I can't see any O5 even bothering to look at the D's reports, much less taking the time to hand pick them. Secondly, I would like to see the danger of the runes changing right before the time period ends, without giving the reader enough time to translate the runes played up. That, combined with the fact that mist will obscure the runes, makes this SCP seem like it is always teetering on the edge of destroying us all.
Also, now this eats up at least 700 trained D-class a year. Just saying.
You know, I thought long and hard about the O5 picking the D-Class thing, and I liked it in the sense that, collectively, the O5 look into everything
There are only twelve of them, Paradox. I imagine they have more important things to do.
Well, I'd assume that whenever the runes change, they must be read within twenty-four hours or else all hell breaks loose. So whenever that happens, the rune-reading schedule resets.
And that 57% mortality rate for readers really bugs me. Remember, this thing was being used for nightly rituals by Irish villagers. If it had a 57% mortality rate, they would have had much bigger problems much earlier on.
Hm.
Now I'm thinking about the Great Potato Famine…
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