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the numbers all line up

Weryllium 25 Jul 2017 19:27

The official unofficial 'sequel' to SCP-2829. Like any sequel worth its salt, it's bigger, flashier, has nothing in common with the original, and the fans didn't really ask for it in the first place. Although of course you don't need to read 2829 to enjoy this.

Big thanks to Hippo, Varaxous, Modern_Erasmus, and DrBleep for helping out.

CHUBS

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NatVoltaic 25 Jul 2017 20:32

This is fucked up in all the right ways. While some of the terminology went over my head, I was able to understand what was going on. The idea of being eaten and having your consciousness exist inside a literal fat monster is also wonderfully freaky.

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Weryllium 26 Jul 2017 16:43

Added a couple footnotes for the more technical parts.

Genshed 25 Jul 2017 21:15

Prescription strength squick. Something hideous and disturbing, described beautifully.

DrBleep 25 Jul 2017 22:03

It is Site-234's pleasure to host such a disgusting abomination.

Weryllium 26 Jul 2017 16:45

Thank you for providing it with a good home :) I wonder if they use this to scare the new employees…

"Oh man, did they tell you about what we have in the basement?"

(account deleted) 26 Jul 2017 06:00

Biopsy of the outer mass of SCP-3839 has shown that it possesses genetic material from 36 humans, 9 of which match to former Prometheus Labs personnel, most notably Dr. ███, Dr. ████, and Dr. Javier Pineda.

OH MY GOD! THIS REMINDS OF THE CREATURE FROM INSIDE! SHIT THIS IS AWESOME! HERE'S YOUR REWARD FOR BRINGING ME NOSTALGIA…

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DalaiLlama 26 Jul 2017 06:09

I know it's unintentional, but I think it's a funny coincidence that the earlier SCP-2829 evoked the Adipose from Doctor Who for a lot of people, while this SCP reminded me a lot of Abzorbaloff.

Buttfranklin 26 Jul 2017 09:01

No-vote. The central idea is scary and interesting, although I feel that I've seen slightly too many stories about people being absorbed into a squicky hivemind against their will: INSIDE, SCP-835, and SCP-093, to name a few. I also have two main problems with the structure: 1) the logs have far too many entries and are repetitive, which cripples the pacing, and 2) some of the narrative elements seemed a little contrived, especially that Dr Pineda figure at the end that, usefully, is capable of saying words like "oh no, my fate sucks!" Additionally, the Eglah events and the description demonstrate that 3839 is violent, intelligent, and views Pineda as a hostile entity, so it seems implausible that it would let him strut this avatar around just feet away. Unless Pineda was able to inflict critical damage to the central cluster or something similar; if so, that wasn't immediately clear.

Well-written and -executed aside from the above.

Weryllium 26 Jul 2017 16:35

Fair enough, absorption is a rather common trope here, though I feel this puts enough of a different spin on it.

As for your two points, 1) there's only 8 logs in the first table. I could see the possibility of removing maybe two or three of them if need be, though. 2) Everything after the final Eglah event is somewhat ambiguous by design.

Choose Your Ending:

There's at least two possibilities after event 602, though I intended to show that the 'decisive battle' had a winner and a loser.

3839 wins: 3839 successfully either killed, assimilated, or subjugated Pineda, and has decided to try a new tactic to get out of containment.

Pineda wins: Pineda wrests control from 3839 but is still stuck in its body, and attempts to communicate.

Scorpion451 26 Jul 2017 17:26

+ I actually read in a third ending:

3839 won… and then gets bored out of its gooey mind and starts trying to bring Pineda back just so it has something more interesting to do than count cracks in the ceiling all day. Beta is a mix of what's left of Pineda and 3839 doing the blob equivalent of talking to a Pineda sock puppet.

Weryllium 26 Jul 2017 17:41

I… hadn't thought of that initially, but I like that interpretation a lot.

Wils 26 Jul 2017 16:51

Feel the same way as buttfranklin. I would upvote but it's a well worn trope and the Dr bit doesn't really gel.with the rest of it. I too find it a little illogical and internally inconsistent.

Butter Matress 25 Apr 2018 23:48

Why not simply call SCP-3839-ALPHA and SCP-3839-BETA -A and -B instead?

Weryllium 26 Apr 2018 00:46

Honestly, because I felt like calling em ALPHA and BETA.

Jim North 28 May 2018 15:25

May I suggest a forth possible ending?

Or maybe . . . 

The way I read it, ALPHA and BETA are actually the same entity, that being the Doctor. After his final, disastrous attempt to violently take out the Mass, he decided to try a different tactic, that being creating copies of himself to communicate with the outside world. The Mass has become more docile as a result because the conflict is no longer internal and it doesn't give a damn how many clones the Doctor makes. It either isn't fully aware that the cloning is going on or it believes that the Doctor's efforts won't amount to much, and thus far it would appear to be right in thinking so.

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