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you will not.
Like my other SCP, this is basically in two parts: the SCP, and Audio/Telemetry Log Epsilon-12-1555. This may be a trend with me. Read both of them if you haven't already!
The biggest question is… what is it all FOR?
And why MICE!?
I guess it's just a big play on the "the mountain gave birth to a mouse" idiom.
ooh! Does that one exist in russian, too?
(in slovak it's "Zahucala hora, porodila mys" - pretty much just what this one does)
It does. Maybe the idiom is so ancient it exists in almost every language.
It's originally Greek, supposedly from one of Aesop's fables.
I haven't heard an English equivalent. I like it, though. Pithy.
Wait, why is thing Keter? Is it going to destroy the world with a flood of mice?
(account deleted)"In the event of containment breach, MTF will approach with cats and plungers"
"In light of the containment breach wherein cats were fired from the howitzer in the mountains, MTF will approach with dogs and bigger plungers."
"God help us all when we need to use the gorillas."
I wondered that too, but given the fact that A) they can't stop it from shooting shells and B) even if it's not shooting molten lead or radioactive buffalo, the shells have a tendency to land in unexpected areas, it's dangerous and technically uncontainable. It's not end of the world scenario Keter, but it's still a hazard.
Mouse cannon. Fucking brilliant.
It's definitely a sticking point. I don't think Euclid would be too little.
I was deliberating this myself; thinking about it more, it's more of a euclid (despite what happened to the MTF).
As long as you don't go in, you're fine, and as long as 50km is the max range of the cannon, everyone else is fine too. It just keeps doing stuff while contained, so yeah, Euclid.
SCPs have a tendancy to bend there own rules. Perhaps it fires a satelite into orbit one day. With this thing, we don't fucking know.
Be that as it may, an Euclid makes more sense for the moment. Though the fact that it fires other things than mice too (A friend of mine described this, I haven't read it all yet. Forgive that if it's worng) it coud be devistating.
reading this now, after everything i've seen, inside i groan at another "lol look at all the random stuff this thing does" SCP article. it's not that hard to make these, and theyre not that great.
that said though, if i were NEW to SCP i would have totally loved this one. and i cant see that as a bad thing. if this was the first SCP i read i would have been drawn in to read more. so upvoted.
HOWEVER. i do think you need to tone down the random. having it change and do various weird things is fine really, but you really went a bit too far on some of those, plus that list is a good bit longer than you need it to be.
specifically, i recommend removing at least half of these entries:
■Shell pushed out of the end of the muzzle by compressed air; landed in front of tube and released one mouse.
■Shell contained tangled mass of PNP bipolar transistors instead of mice.
■Muzzle device manifested in the form of a squeeze-bore adapter. Shell contained remains of eight mice, mashed into pulp
■Steel girder fired instead of shell.
and ALL of these entries:
■Shell contained $144 in Series 1998 $1 bills.
■Stream of coffee released from barrel instead of shell.
■SCP fired one pre-cut Christmas tree, compressed into cylinder and set on fire from propellant. Resulting fire extinguished by MTF Gamma-49.
■Shell contained one Intel Pentium II microprocessor.
■Shell intricately carved from ivory in shape of an elephant; remained intact and released twelve mice.
these take it away from "cool and potentially extremely dangerous Keter SCP" to "lol ISNT IT SO RANDOM GUYS THIS IS SO FUNNY". it's not that fun and randomness isnt fun, but going this far out really doesnt work for this article specifically. the pandimensional vending machine makes sense to make weird random things. the clockworks changing things from one thing to any number of other things makes sense to make weird random things.
while this making weird random things does add an element of "WTF", that isnt what makes it a good article. the mice aspect takes care of that part all on its own.
likewise i recommend removing the reference to a pipe full of mayonnaise in the audio log. everything else in that was pretty good but that really robbed from the story i felt.
I dunno, I liked all of those. By the end of the article I was laughing; by the end of the survey log, I was sucking in pained breaths through clenched teeth. I think the tonal whiplash is very effective in this article. At the very least, it is a goddamn mouse cannon and that's pretty crazy all by itself; that it doesn't always work leaves it extra spooky.
that's kinda my point. it's a mouse cannon. it's already zany and funny enough on its own without having the cannon fire out birthday balloons full of cottage cheese or whatever. i think the thing that killed it for me was when it shot out a stream of coffee.
*edit* also, for clarification: "By the end of the article I was laughing; by the end of the survey log, I was sucking in pained breaths through clenched teeth." this is usually only a good thing if it's a -J. is it funny? yes it is. is that what makes a good SCP article? not particularly. same as it's not that great when people have the staff leaving wacky notes or doing weird things to each other.
The reason I disagree is that it isn't just a mouse cannon. Rooms full of helium without division from previous environments, burning liquids, high radiation danger etc. are much more interesting than if every FUCKING PIPE was holding mice or mice related accessories. If all that was ever shot out was mice, then I go into the log expecting an explanation that involves them. Maybe Frisby and NIMH on steroids. Maybe the waste of an extra planar extermination agency. Whatever. The current notes are more interesting to me.
i had no problem with the burning liquids, high radiation danger, etc. things that actually make this scary, surreal, etc. i wasnt arguing that it needs to be "mice and nothing but mice". i'm saying that turning it into, like, a secondary output vent for SCP-261 is not a good thing.
No, at the moment 25 people have upvoted, myself among them. This does not mean that all those people are in agreement as to the articles good/bad points.
However there's the time honoured rule of don't fix what ain't broken.
I've cut down the lolrandom entries, and removed the mayonnaise. It does work better now; thanks for the help!
no further objections. would upvote again if i could :) it's a good one.
The huge laundry list of tags was completely unnecessary. I've cut it down to the relevant ones.
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