SCP-2892 / Discussion

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SCP-2892

CooCooCachoo 22 Mar 2017 13:17

Thank you to Tretter for his suggestions and review. Hopefully you will all enjoy this redux of an age-old myth as much as he did.

I've done my best to leave Incident Logs open (by starting beyond 1) so people much more imaginative than me could create additional iterations.

Original image used from: here.

EDIT: As usual, a slew of final "how did I possibly miss that?" edits as well as removal of ill-advised tags. Also thank you to Scorpion451 for his grammar edits.

I've removed number (digit) references as I realized that they are a legal, not scientific form of writing. I am a legal professional, so I'll chalk it up to habit.

Last edited on 23 Mar 2017 14:38 by CooCooCachoo Show more

pastarasta1 22 Mar 2017 17:01

Ghost isn't a Tag, you should remove your tags and let a tag team tag the article for you.

So is ship and ocean

EDIT : thank you

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Last edited on 22 Mar 2017 17:19 by pastarasta1 Show more

Roger44477 22 Mar 2017 20:44

Feels like a pretty solid ghost ship SCP.

In the incident log, the image is overlapping with the text

Petrograd 23 Mar 2017 06:33

Usually I'm very keen on warship SCPs, but I'm pretty meh on this.

The anomalous abilities are that it's a sunken ship that remanifests, is super difficult to sink, and gets violent if you hail it. Plus the weather gets bad and there's a spooky glow. Also it says random slightly spooky stuff in Dutch that doesn't actually hint at a deeper or more interesting story.

That's about as generic as you can get for a sunken warship story. We've got at least two other sunken warships kicking around (SCP-2846 and SCP-1264) with a lot of the same imagery with vastly more interesting stuff going on.

The story about the attack and the pirate ship was rather cool and well-executed, but it doesn't make up for the rest of this being so bland.

-1

CooCooCachoo 23 Mar 2017 12:36

Sorry it doesn't do it for you, thanks for reading.

Moenennbys 23 Mar 2017 13:24

This is exactly how I feel about this.
In my opinion, it just takes the concept of ghost ships and makes it an SCP.
I mean, this is well written, but I would've liked for some sort of spin or new twist.

Scorpion451 23 Mar 2017 15:09

Forgot to say so, but while I don't disagree with Petrograd's assessment, but there's one line that pushes me into an upvote:

My son? ████? Flee, my boy….flee….the [unintelligible] comes. Do not let….let…the sea….take you.

In a sense it's kind of cliche, but it also leaves me with a bunch of questions about who is talking to who. I can't decide if it's more interesting if the voice on the radio correctly or incorrectly recognized someone in the MTF and was trying to protect them, or if something else was trying to get the ship to flee.

Last edited on 23 Mar 2017 15:13 by Scorpion451 Show more

SpencerS145 25 Mar 2017 12:56

*Clap Clap.*

Excellent work. The writing here is quite engaging and paints a clear picture of the ghost vessel.

+1.

Last edited on 25 Mar 2017 12:56 by SpencerS145 Show more

CooCooCachoo 25 Mar 2017 20:44

Thanks for reading!

Travalgar 09 May 2019 05:38

Excellent writing, but weak idea. I believe we already have several "ghost ship" SCP before, and this one does not have anything in particular to make it stand out among the others.

Soultear 11 Jun 2020 05:44

Kind of generic, but very well done. If you put the same amount of effort and thought into a novel idea you would get a hit for sure. I'll upvote anyways because I'm a sucker for spooky ghost-ships.