SCP-988 / Discussion

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Lumineinfinitus 23 Jun 2011 04:26

I'd say.. Fix it up a bit and re-classify as SAFE.

Seibai 23 Jun 2011 04:34

I'd put it as Euclid primarily because the Foundation doesn't know what's in the box. I could see safe too though.

DisaffectedFeline 23 Jun 2011 04:36

Hmm, I like it.
I don't too much like the explanations, but the article itself is awesome.
A possible explanation could be Novikov selfconsistency principle or some variant thereof - probability of an event that would lead to a temporal paradox is 0

Seibai 23 Jun 2011 05:07

You have a point about the theories. I've removed those, cleaned up the language a bit, and reclassified this as safe.

Salman Corbette 23 Jun 2011 05:28

To be honest, I'd actually love this a lot more if it was just like:

SCP-988 is an unopenable wooden chest. Movement of SCP-988 suggests that there is an object inside it. All attempts at opening including mechanical SCP-988, including mechanical, are stopped by seemingly random events. Imaging of SCP-988's interior shows [DATA EXPUNGED]

And then classifying it was Keter. Okay, maybe that would be a little too lazy.

Still, I upvoted. Remember though, brevity can be your friend. You are unnecessarily detailed about the object, which contrasts from the simple concept of it.

Darth Citrus 23 Jun 2011 14:32

If it were classified as Keter I think it would be too reminiscent of SCP-055, where it could be something very dangerous but we have no idea of knowing for sure. Classifying it as safe piques the curiosity.

I think it would be interesting if there were a list of events that occurred with SCP-988's previous owners. Something that hints at why the Foundation is even bothering with it, or even had their attention drawn to the box at all.

DrGuin 23 Jun 2011 05:35

I really like this but it needs cleaned up. I expected it to be indestructible but it's unopenable in probably the most interesting way.

Nintolerance 23 Jun 2011 06:21

It's unopenable because it's a probability-manipulator?

Sounds good, just not sure how original it is. Are there any other Unopenable Boxes on the site?

Kickassfrog 23 Jun 2011 10:18

There was an unopenable maguffin proposed for SCP-001, but that's the only one that springs to mind.
I'm sure there's a few others that only open when certain circumstances have been fulfilled.

DrGuin 23 Jun 2011 15:03

There's that one Keter from the future. I don't remember which one it is.

Seibai 23 Jun 2011 15:09

That's SCP-699.

Bland 23 Jun 2011 17:34

SCP-699 can't be opened.

This one won't be opened. And that actually bothers me more…

Sorts 23 Jun 2011 18:26

Agreed.

Probability manipulators like this have been tried before, and they did not do as well. I like the added detail about actuary tables.

Marr965 23 Jun 2011 14:58

I'm honestly not sure what to say, apart from "Fuck, this is awesome!"

Karrin Blue 23 Jun 2011 15:56

I don't know what to say. It's a box that won't let itself be opened. It's a simple idea, something weird but not really dangerous…

Yeah, it's awesome. Upvoted.

(account deleted) 23 Jun 2011 17:43

…Or, you can have what's in the mystery box.

(account deleted) 23 Jun 2011 18:27

I'm not really sure what to think of this one, other than "sapient pearwood"

Deacon_Blues_117 24 Jun 2011 00:34

…in which case, you don't want to open it. You really, really don't.

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