This may well be voted off the site for conceptual reasons, but the most glaring problems with it have been fixed. This actually was written about two years before SCP-1193 and SCP-1272, which were my first two 'official' SCPs. We'll see how this does.
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This is still in input mode. What did you understand this to be, insofar as you understood it?
Not even sure if it fucks up with perception, or with actual properties..
Actually, this reminds me of a very old DOS game. You went around with a fairy, much like manic miner, except she had a wand - you could soak up a single square of anything on the map with one key, and shoot a beam that gave those properties to something else. If you did something specific, you could make hunks of map disappear, too.
Oh. Then you've got it, essentially. Not only you unsure whether it changes perception or properties, so is the Foundation. No one can think clearly enough about objects taken from the zone to treat them like what you, as the reader, clearly know them to be.
You seem to have gotten it — and even the Foundation isn't clear on whether its changing the properties of items or just what they're perceived to be. As the reader, you can think clearly about it. But the author of this piece clearly couldn't.
I do not know if you are still alive and have access to the Internet and the site as a whole, but can you try to remember the name of that game?
Googling "dos game fairy wand properties" sent me results for a game called F. Godmom (short for Fairy Godmother) which seems mostly like what they’re talking about. The only difference is that rather than giving properties from one thing to another, it temporarily transforms one thing into another.
So, what would happen if you put the toaster in there?
I was gonna ask, did somebody at some point store a toaster in there?
This is such a fantastic concept (because I understand semiotics!), but I think it still needs some work. Maybe. I might need to read it again later.
I (think I) get this one, and quite like it.
It doesn't switch properties of things, it switches identities. Of anything. So even though we can correctly perceive that whatsit has all the physical characteristics of a toolbox, including being metallic, having a hinged lid and containing several other objects, whatever is in that room permanently mislabeled it so that everyone identifies it, thinks of it, and treats it as a small spider.
And the confusion of people here in the comments is exactly how the Foundation researchers would be reacting too. Good job! :)
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
How do you make links that hide text within an article like that? I planned to use that in my next SCP article, but I can't figure out how to do it.
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