SCP-3718 / Discussion

This is the discussion related to the wiki page SCP-3718.

Feel free to make the meowst of these cat puns

RecursiveRecursion 29 Jan 2018 05:18

A skip for DrChandra's Dread & Circuses series. With this, I tried to tell a story that's been told many times before in real life. Some people bring in a pet from a different place, and it grows out of control and becomes an invasive species!
Special thanks to Zyn, PeppersGhost, and DrChandra for helping me out on this one! Also another round of special thanks to PeppersGhost for giving me their blessing to use Motormouth, which appears in this article as SCP-Blackboxes.

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A Random Day 29 Jan 2018 05:30

Interesting concept, but the interview is mediocre and I feel that the article would have been better served by exploring the Foundation's attempts to cull wild instances of 3718.

Genshed 29 Jan 2018 05:36

"Lovecraft-loco" is a useful term in the Foundationverse.

I liked this more, but I support A Random Day's recommendation about exploring culling wild instances.

RecursiveRecursion 29 Jan 2018 05:44

(In response to ARD as well)
I’ll consider expanding on that in an addendum, or perhaps the containment procedures, but I’m not sure what exactly I could say about it that the containment procedures doesn’t already say now.

DrChandra 29 Jan 2018 05:43

Seconding the above. An addendum detailing attempts to control wild populations would likely enhance this.

In any event, I'm pleased to have these little abominations in the Circus, and assuming this scip makes it through the night I'll be adding it to the hub and then talk to some higher ups about making Dread & Circuses (always spelt with an ampersand, by the way) into a Canon.

RecursiveRecursion 29 Jan 2018 05:53

Update: Using feedback received in the discussion, I've added another addendum to this that focuses on Foundation attempts to control the population. This was inspired by a current real-world project that seeks to control the mosquito population by rendering them infertile, and making that contagious hereditary. Hopefully it will add more to the article, and make it more enjoyable overall!

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jabyrwock 29 Jan 2018 07:36

+1. I really liked everything about this article except the interview, which I really disliked. All it did was take basic information and exposition that could easily be folded into the description and stretch it out with a pretense at dialogue.

TL333s 29 Jan 2018 13:50

I'm completely the opposite: I liked the interview and found the rest to be very standard SCP stuff.

That said, I now want someone to write a crack tale wherein Herman Fuller and Dr. Wondertainment get into a battle of who can give something the longest name possible.

Evonix 29 Jan 2018 18:43

You could have them try to ressurect then conscript Dr.Susse

ResearcherLi 29 Aug 2018 22:58

… I had a dream of creatures that looked almost exactly like these tripedal things, the one and only difference being a slight change of coloration. Before I'd read the skip.

Is the universe trying to tell me something?