Pretty sure this is my shortest (real) SCP yet… let's see how it goes. I've been tossing this idea back and forth in my head for a while, only got around to writing it today.
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Was just about to complain about the sweater apparating away from its victims, but I see you've removed that element. Good.
Still a little confused about its predatory cycle, though (assuming that's what is going on here). Seems like the smell would encourage people not to wear it, which means it would rely on somebody putting on a sweater that was found on a corpse within 2 days of expiration.
I imagine that it would either be donated to charity after it was determined not to be evidence of any sort, or picked up by a homeless person. Both of those groups would probably want the sweatshirt enough to ignore the scent, I think.
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Also, what do you suppose would happen if someone wore it in a climate too warm to cause hypothermia? I guess it's counting on nobody wearing a sweater in 90 degree heat?
I guess it's counting on nobody wearing a sweater in 90 degree heat?
Pretty much. Its MO already relies a good deal on human psychology, so it's not a stretch to think that it wouldn't have a contingency plan for being worn in high temperatures.
EDIT: That mistake never even happened. Don't bother looking at the previous version of this post, because I didn't make a mistake. At all.
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Wouldn't the Foundation probably test to see what would happen?
They probably would, but I felt this worked better as a short-and-sweet type SCP. Now, as for what I suppose would happen in high temperatures is that the fibers react the same way, conducting heat through them until the body temperature is the same as the outside temperature.
Thing is, if that doesn't kill you, then you're stuck as a bleary-eyed drunk sewn to your sweatshirt until someone gets around to cutting it off you. But you'll probably die before that, most likely from alcohol poisoning. Or maybe dehydration, since you'd probably be sweating like a pig in that kind of weather. Either way, it's not the best way to go out.
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Hmm, killer stank hoodie. I like this. Upvote from me.
(account deleted)This terrifies me because I'm a college student and therefore practically any of my friends could be the owner of a stinky-alcohol-death-hoody.
This terrifies me because I'm a townie in a college town. this would leave State St. (local collegiate intoxication zone) littered with stench and corpses…. the corpses would be new.
+1 bee-tee-dubs
My inner nerd screams over the fact that second-edition Cloth Mimics are now an SCP…. But, this is actually fairly well done.
second-edition Cloth Mimics
I don't even know what those are.
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D&D, I would guess. The game had this thing where every single object, including the floor, walls, ceiling, and indeed an entire building could be a monster that'll grab you and kill you if you go near it.
More on topic, this doesn't really do it for me. The alcohol bit is mildly interesting, but mostly it's just another innocuous object that kills you when you try to use it. At least it isn't supernaturally appealing. If anything, the opposite.
Anax got it right, the Mimic has been in Dungeons & Dragons since the first release; originally, just as a chest. The old "Oh hey look, there's the reward for clearing out all the OH GOD IT'S EATING MY ARM". Advanced D&D and 2nd edition were known for a proportionately large number of "silly" or "weird" things. Like, a set of clothing that you put on and it started eating you.
Huh, I can definitely see the similarities. That being said, I've never played D&D, nor did I take direct or indirect inspiration from it. In addition, in my mind, it's not a monster acting like a sweatshirt, it's a sweatshirt that does monster things. If that makes any sense, that is.
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Absolutely makes sense, and I'm certainly not claiming you ripped off an obscure monster from a decades-old game edition that I myself only know about because of a recent "Ridiculous monsters in history" posting somewhere ;)
This is bizarre and inexplicable in all the right ways. +1.
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