As someone with OCD, the checking and paranoia is portrayed well. Annoying, life quality inhibiting, but mostly not crippling save for extreme cases. The stuff here isn't exactly scary for me as I live through several of these kinds of things, but the accurate and tasteful portrayal of an anomalous version of a very real problem is enough to earn my upvote.
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It's a first SCP. It's about subitizing and the stress that comes with numbers in the real world.
Thanks to Leveritas, GerrymanderBassist, and Dr0Shadow for their advice on tone and clarity. Also thank you to my sister (not on the site) for taking the picture of the M&Ms and counting them out for me.
I can see the appeal, and I definitely enjoyed some of the minor touches that made it feel very much like an official document (the e-mail address in the footnotes, for instance). But beyond that, the anomaly itself didn't hold my interest. In my opinion, this is one of the rarer cases in which the execution has merit, but the idea isn't fleshed out enough to earn my vote either way.
No vote for now, but I get the feeling people will enjoy this one.
SCP-3755-1 is a phenomenon where individuals presented with 755 similar items are able to assess the exact number of items in the set.
Seeing as practically the entire anomaly revolves around 3755-2, is there even a need to classify 3755-1? The SCP could easily be about people who cannot instantly figure out that there is 755 things in a given set of things.
The whole thing was originally just 3755-1. I was trying to figure out how to make "people can recognize this arbitrary large number of objects" interesting. -2 came from that route. Giving -1 a designation emphasizes it as its own thing that also triggers -2 progression. I wanted the article to be something more than just "anomalous OCD."
In universe, -1 gets designated because it was found first. It'd be "easy" to find out that people can identify this random, large number of objects, and that's weird. You'd only discover it's odd that some people can't when you realize most people can. Without knowing about -1, those who end up being diagnosed as has having -2 just seem to have a regular compulsive disorder. SCP-3755 becomes -1 because research was done specifically into it when it was the entirety of what the Foundation know about SCP-3755, and any documents from that time don't make sense if SCP-3755 now only means the -2 part. Also, researchers would want them to be considered distinct for clarity.
The Foundation discovered that people could see 755 objects and know how many there were. That's weird, so it gets classified, researched, and hidden from the public. They discovered -2 because some of those researching it couldn't recognize sets of 755. Further study found a correlation between those people and what ended up being called -2 symptoms. Junior Researcher Zoltowski was on the research team early on, and he ended up reaching Phase 5 because that connection was unknown at the time he was first exposed to -1. By the time they put the pieces together, his -2 was too far for amnestics to help.
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