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I made this as a sort of "worst way to live forever" SCP, but I'm not totally sure I got it down completely. Suggestions are welcome, and if anyone wants to start an experiment log (I recall that Clocks expressed interest in doing so), please feel free.
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
…a pair of falling goats. Isn't that a tad silly?
I guess, but a boulder would have caused a lot more obvious damage to the ground below, so I decided to go with something organic. Goats fight sometimes, and a number of species live in mountainous regions. It's not implausible that a pair of them fell off a cliff during a scuffle.
(EDIT: And as for why it wasn't only one goat, the ball of stuff was mighty big)
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
You sure got the 'cursed with immortality' part down right. However, being a nitpick, if cells won't die in 10 centimeters of the subject, why didn't it have a shell of its mother's cells around her when she was discovered. I can understand the rest of the skeleton, being outside the critical range, but was her mother immune to the immortality-effect, or something?
Also, let's see what it does to the Cancer Garden!
Cells in the range can be separated, so a combination of the mother's own intestinal flora, the subject's intestinal flora, and various growths on the outside, split the soft tissue apart and moved it around. There was probably some of the mother's soft tissues mixed into the ball of stuff, but how much of it would be recognizable is uncertain
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
As for what it does to the Cancer Garden… *goes to look at its article again*
That's a good question. I guess it'd depend on what the "Gardener" is, and what said gardener thinks of having an uncontrolled (and uncontrollable) cancer factory on its turf.
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
Given its obsession with cancer and its love of directing it, I'd say we'd be in for one never-ending activation phenomenon. Site neutralized. If it ever gets tired of it, we should expect some sort of Picasso-esque shape to remain, with its body twined around itself and stuff.
Oh man … I really oughta get in contact with the guy who wrote 329.
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
I suppose it would be bad form to mention Katamari Damacy.
Incredibly, but it brought a grin to my face anyway. :)
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
Elaborated on the "pair of falling goats" line, to make it less silly-sounding.
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
Makes me wonder just HOW a person that's been inside a "ball" of cancer it's entire life thinks. I really think that, if the original author is still active, they should write up a communications attempt, maybe using some telepathic SCP (or do we have telepathically capable personnel? I really don't know if they'd be SCP'd or not.). Anyhow, horrible and cool. Upvoted.
I am indeed still active, and sorry for not finding this post until a month afterward, but it's my opinion that a communications attempt log would detract from the horror of the piece.
I imagine, however, that it'd express pain, fear, and discomfort in regards to its current containment procedures. We keep burning off its familiar comforting growths with harsh chemical solvents and sometimes fire, exposing it directly to the air and forcing it to lie on such a hard, flat floor.
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
Five years later, now that I've fully fleshed out SCP-135's exact origins…
SCP-135 feels what I noted in my original comment, but, additionally, is upset because she can't hear her father/"father" anymore, since the containment site isn't on the mountain. Don't get me wrong — she's fully locked-in and couldn't reply — but it's the difference between hearing a kind voice sometimes and not.
She's a wish-child, granted by one of the old gods of the hills to an otherwise infertile woman, but when she asked for "life, in the form of a child", he thought she meant "Life"-with-a-capital-L, and a mountain's idea of what it means to "survive adversity" is… not the same as a human's, to say the least. It turns out that the abstract concept of Life can't completely "fit" into a human body, but since the other parts of the wish prevent her from turning into, say, an SCP-427-style flesh beast, SCP-135 is instead conceptually leaky. All the excess "aliveness" violently crams itself into any other living cell it encounters, for lack of anywhere else to go, and in the process breaks everything holding that cell back from making more cells for it to be in.
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
This is some serious dedication, revealing your skip's backstory seven years after you published it
+1
Even if you didn't intend "fleshed out" as a pun, I am here to applaud you for it. +1 to your exceedingly creepy article!
So, speaking as a biologist, if you're giving people cancer as a result of exposure to this SCP then any cells you remove from the area of effect should likewise continue growing uncontrollably with a nutrient source. Meaning, this SCP must cause irreversible changes to gene regulation in the cells. The alternative is that cells only grow uncontrollably while in the AoE of this SCP, in which case the cancerous growths would revert to their previous characteristics upon removal from the SCP and all you'd have is a test subject with some really nasty-looking benign neoplasias or maybe a good teratoma or two.
Yes, SCP-135 induces irreversible changes to gene regulation of cells. Being in the AoE additionally removes the need for a nutrient source and causes the cells to multiply at an unnaturally fast rate. When removed from the AoE, the affected cells are still cancerous, but they revert to acting like non-anomalous cancer cells.
Piffy is an SCP Foundation Moderator, Lv. 9001 Squishy Wizard, and Knight of the Red Pen.
Yes, it works in a way other then that of nature. Huh. it's almost like that's the point of this site, creating things that work in ways they shouldn't, unexplainable ways. Weird, isn't it?
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"worst way to live forever" is almost exactly what I thought when I finished reading this one. Very nicely done.
It reminds me of a chapter of Franken Fran in the best way possible. +1'd
