I have read the version from the sandbox before and I have to say it has become a lot more refined then before (I had the same question about the sleep part).Great alteretion of the draft.
Great idea,Great tone,Great SCP.Upvoted.
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Thanks! I was quite attached to the log but it does work without and getting rid of it's resolved quite a few plot holes.
I have to admit it was well worked on but it mixed things up a bit and unnecesarry.By the way you had an other idea I cant remember?
The idea behind this is cool, but the killer flow issues prevented me from enjoying it.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Any pointers? This was quite severely hacked down from its original length, so quite possible it could be made to read smoother.
I can probably go through it with a fine toothed comb when I'm not on a road trip.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Thanks - just gone through and made some light amendments to try and get back the original flow. Added a para in the recovery log so it no longer seems to leave the situation hanging - originally that's where I put the para about it having crossed over from France and that priority should be given to redirecting it to an SCP facility - and rewritten parts of the description for more consistent terminology.
Interesting SCP, not too "Big", but that's ok - not everything needs to be a indestructible lizard. It reminded me of the Bermuda triangle and as such, one of the SCPs more explainable to the public in case of containment breach. Then again, still very dangerous and startling if it would get out.
I do so like movable/sentient phenomena. My one suggestion is that the last part of the description, about how they're directing their efforts, belongs in the containment procedures.
I just really don't get any interest out of this object. The only thing it really does is give me one more reason to avoid roundabouts.
I originally had a wider backstory for it as a teleporting buried gibbet containing the corpse of a highwayman that lured travellers to their deaths; I was advised to nuke it in feedback :( Commentators charged that it was trying too hard to creepify something that wasn't particularly intrinsically horrifying, which is probably accurate.
I have tentatively reinstated a rewritten version of the log and a brief reference to the buried item that is believed to be causing 1251, as originally I conceived this as being a fairly mundane concept that set up the story of the containment team trying to follow a teleporting SCP through the road network through months of torrential rain while keeping up their cover story as a road maintenance crew. If it's really not well received I'll get rid of it again.
You know, I was apathetic about this before, but the supplementary log is so good that I can't help but like it! Is it the most interesting SCP ever? No, but unfortunately only one SCP can be 789-J, the butt ghost.
This is absolutely my new favourite SCP. The SCP itself is interesting, noteworthy for finally not being in North America, and the supplementary log is brilliant. As I said over there, the Foundation is so big that there's bound to be adminstrative problems. And the Foundation cannot afford them. It especially cannot afford its employees to know about them. So… wow. This changes everything.
How many of these articles are lies and coverups?
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