Was the person who resembled "Dr. █████'s late wife" dressed in Victorian period clothing, or in clothing that his wife could plausibly have worn? The Foundation would note such a detail.
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I got really confused, thinking the first Dr. █████ was the same as the second Dr. █████. I was trying to piece together what actually went down when I realized they had a different number of █s.
Maybe change the first guy to a Mister?
The suicide… kind of bugs me. It just seems really unlikely that he'd end up with a scene of his own dead wife, if everybody else wound up with something from Victorian England.
Necroreply, but this is actually why I like this SCP.
Reverted CurdledBoy's edit because we don't favor either US or UK spelling (though we do like consistently using one or the other in a given article).
Fair enough. Didn't recall seeing it used in any prior SCPs, and looked odd. But then, it would…
Article has undergone a minor rewrite to retcon it as a Professor AW SCP.
Downvoted for Professor AW
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I noticed that there was a lot of convoluted writing when I was reading this. In addition to what anq noted above, these sentences also struck me as off:
When a single drop of SCP-300-2 is extracted from SCP-300-1 and the drop is viewed through a standard optical microscope, anomalous animated scenes are visible.
So far, attempts to analyze the exact chemical components of SCP-300-2 have inexplicably failed
I think you might've been going for a kind of specific type of tone, given the victorian setting, but it just ends up reading kind of weird.
So far, attempts to analyze the exact chemical components of SCP-300-2 have inexplicably failed, with spectrometers reporting wildly variant or false data, thus making attempts at replicating it impossible.
The last part of this sentence seems redundant.
The whole royal SCP thing sounds sort of interesting, but it doesn't really add anything to the article. it's kind of like a little detail tacked on to the end that kinda left me confused, since I'd never seen it references before now.
I kinda liked where the test logs were going, but then they kinda wrapped up in a cliche. I was left disappointed.
Overall, the professor aw link doesn't feel out of place, given that he's a victorian gentleman and these are all victorian scenes… it just feels unnecessary. It doesn't add anything to the article. It kind of reminds me of Flameshirt's pangloss. Only difference is that I like pangloss because he literally is supposed to be just signing his name to random stuff. I think that trying to work in a tiny bit of backstory for him here at the end doesn't work at all.
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I know it's the Foundation, but why does the Doctor have a "sidearm"? He's a doctor. It isn't too far fetched for him to get hold of a gun, but a researcher having a sidearm seems weird. At least to me, that term indicates it was issued to him.
The suicide seems sort of out of nowhere at the end. So the chick looked like his wife… There's been no evidence up until then about memetic or telepathic or whatever capabilities in the thing… shouldn't he have gone to see the Site shrink (surely, every "major" Site has at least one) because something upset him before just going bonkers and offing himself?
To me, that makes SCP-300 look just a bit like a "makes you die/kills you in a round about way" sort of thing. A bit. He could have just been a troubled guy who hid it fairly well until he saw what he saw, and his mind snapped… but that isn't how it reads to me.
Just wondering, what happens if anyone tastes a drop of it?
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