Cétlaidí is pronounced "kate-ladge-ee."
Edit: Image is a photoshopped New Forest cicada I got from the Wikipedia page. I'll write more here later. Kinda want this to stand on its own for now.
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Sarkics like flesh, broken god dorkos love gears, and papa bug man likes teeth and crosses.
This does a lot of things right (much of the last tab was very enjoyable), but something about it doesn't quite click for me. It might be a lack of precision in some of the description - I kept having to re-read sections - but I'm not sure if the issue is clinical tone or the organisation of ideas. I also didn't find the second tab particularly interesting - for starters, I couldn't work out whether it was meant to be modern or not (and that is an issue of tone and language use, I suspect).
My goal was kiind of to make it seem old but also have a kind of timelessness? I didn't wanna date anything too clearly.
I upvoted. I liked the concept, though I wasn't properly hooked until the last tab. I feel like the archived document maybe shouldn't be first? It was difficult for me to understand what was going on until I read the current document.
Anyway, that's probably more of a 'my reading comprehension' issue than anything to do with you. A good concept which I thoroughly enjoyed. Brings up more questions than it answers, which I always appreciate in an SCP.
a visibly pregnant woman was chosen from the congregation and brought to the altar where she laid and proceeded to give birth to over 60 instances of SCP-3000-2 and a stillborn infant wearing a wooden crown; the crown was burnt, and the body consumed
Wait, was the body consumed by the fire, the congregation, or SCP-3000-2?
I do feel like the general timeline of events on this is a little less clear than I'd like but on the whole I really thoroughly enjoyed this. Really, really fond of the pace and wording of the SIGHTSEE-LUX report, in particular.
I like the historical approach, the first two tabs were an excellent setup, but the third blew it for me. I anticipated, and really did look forward to the Cousin Johnny connection, but the actions taken by the affected weren't enough to differentiate itself from that horror-wise. I probably could have overlooked that if it weren't for the ending.
SIGHTSEE is a cool concept, but I feel like the (in-universe) author's interpretations of its intentions and role came across as pure exposition. I think you could have led the reader around to the implication that it is the one true God more naturally. This aspect, moreso than the similarities to 2852, is what led to my downvote. I think that's an avenue of horror that's not being explored by, well, any of the other entries (to my knowledge), and would have done a great deal set this apart from the pack.
Downvoted for using 'scip' (no not really) :P
Seriously though, I enjoyed this. The first entry I've read that actually gave me chills. Maybe its my own religious background, but this utterly alien impostor trying to BE God and failing (succeeding? shiver) in its own messed up way sealed my upvote. Excellent work.
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