For those that aren't familiar with the music
Somehow I don't think this SCP will do so very good. We'll see I guess.
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I barely know anything about the Grateful Dead aside from the time I saw them in 2004 after winning concert tickets on the radio (and most of the songs they played were covers anyway), so i'm in no position to really judge this SCP on its merits.
It's well-written, though, and it's damned weird, and interesting, and somehow I think Jerry Garcia would approve, so +1.
If you get a chance to, you should check out some of their albums. They grow on you.
I can't help thinking that, among Foundation personnel, "they grow on you" is probably not intended as a recommendation :)
see Addendum 1398-01a.
Addendum 1398-01a: [REDACTED]
Hey, yo. :(
Although I don't know the band itself, I gave a listen to some of the songs and yeah, if they had lyrics changed, they would, in fact, be pretty creepy. Looks like another "satanic music"; it reminded me of a certain SCP that was very similarly written, although I can't seem to find it, I think it was a Ozzy Osborne LP, not sure though.
Thrilling read. I love it when a great SCP has long addenda, as your does.
It puts me in mind of…Stephen King's The Stand and The Dark Tower….maybe this pressing of the record
comes from The Wasteland where The Dead were the minstrels of The Crimson King.
And of course, I was ensorceled at reading this one
Song directed at the sun, urging it to enter a supernova state.
The idea of (in very deadpan fashion) writing that a song is exhorting the Sun to commit suicide, well, I could live a thousand years and never come up with anything better
I regret I have but one vote to …. you know the rest.
I must ask, is this your first SCP? If not, would you point me to your others?
Signed,
Avid Fan
Kiiiinda. This is my first new SCP in quite some time. I was originally part of the SCP thing when it wasn't on wikidot, then came back a little while ago.
Recently I attempted two rewrites of my old scps that were (rightfully so) universally hated (the re-writes, that is.) They basically served as the "crash and burn and learn" phase that a lot of new writers go through here, albiet with much unneeded drama caused by me.
If you want to check the SCPs I had a hand in they are scp-071, which has since undergone a great re-write by Raven Mackenzie and the much contested scp-579 which underwent a re-write by Sophia Light in my absence.
You know, it's a record that drives you crazy, but for some reason I really like the way this is written. One of the few times that I really want to know what's behind some of the redaction. Nice work.
if your reading this your gay
Sorry if this sounds too nitpicky, but this sentence:
The anomalous properties of SCP-1398 manifest when SCP-1398-1 is played in the presence of individuals capable of perceiving the anomalies.
Reads sort of clunkily to me. Seems like it would just make more sense to mention that some people can't perceive the anomaly immediately or at all.
Might just be me though.
Still upvoting because it's a neat/weird article.
I wrestled with that line; I couldn't figure out a way to word it and keep the meaning that wouldn't make it clunkier. I considered putting "perceptive individuals" but for it mentioning that for the first time in the article it sounded like they have to roll a d20 to see if they can hear it.
That would be kinda kickass, IMO. Not here, but somewhere, people should have to beat a DC to not be affected by an SCP.
if your reading this your gay
I was actually thinking along those lines for an SCP-J I wrote up some notes for; it's basically a Foundation maintenance personnel who always gets +20 to his psychic throws.
Maintenance Log 234927
J: Cut it out man, I gotta fix this camera you broke.
SCP-███ begins vibrating and humming audibly, coils of an unknown energy arcing from it's base.
J: Listen guy, I don't care what happens in strange eons, I'm not going anywhere near you. Cut it out.
I took this paragraph to mean that the more familiar a listener was with the original album, the more likely they would consciously notice the anomalous lyrics. So, if you (somehow) hadn't heard the songs before, you wouldn't hear anything out of the ordinary. If you're a deadhead on the other hand, you'd first think "hey, that doesn't sound like Sugar Magnolia", and then you'd tune into the lyrics… I thought that was really neat, and didn't notice that maybe it was phrased a little weirdly.
By the way - I'm not saying this was the best SCP on the site or anything, but it was the article that finally pushed me over the edge to join. You're my first upvote.
Thanks much for the upvote; also glad you've joined us.
Thanks. The fact that Bright immediately knew where my handle came from is yet another confirmation I'm in the right place.
So, I'm thinking you change this:
The anomalous properties of SCP-1398 manifest when SCP-1398-1 is played in the presence of individuals capable of perceiving the anomalies.
Which is kind of tautological, to this:
The probability of an individual being susceptible to the anomalous properties of SCP-1398-1 is in direct proportion to that individual's familiarity with nonanomalous recordings of the same material.
Edit: Of COURSE probability is the right word here. Much more clinical than "chance".
Good stuff.
A few minor nitpicks:
I'm not sure there's a reason to black out the Site. Personally, I don't really mind, but that does get frowned upon at times.
Discoveries where Agents just happen to stumble across anomalies bug me. Just a bit too convenient.
Class 1
If you mean staff, it's usually Level 1.
And this:
standard 12-inch (30 cm) LP record
This I'm not sure about. I'm a record collector from a metric using country and I've never heard of centimetres being used when describing vinyl records. Vinyl is always referred to in inches. Not a problem really, but that just read a bit weird to me, because I'm not used to that. Doesn't mean that the Foundation wouldn't still put it in, though.
All of these are of course minutiae and don't hold me from upvoting. The reason I'm pointing these out, is that reading small things like these make my mind wander and distract me from an article. More a problem of mine than of the article.
Fixed, with the exception of the site part. I'll probably fix that later. The reason I blacked out the site is because I didn't want to step on anyone's toes or create a site just to house this.
Is there a "everything that's easy to contain goes here" site?
Have you checked this list http://www.scp-wiki.net/secure-facilities-locations ?
I really like this - it's much better than I expected. It's coherent, thematic, and the redaction actually works.
I'm kinda hoping there's an anomalous copy of Steal Your Face out there, somewhere… D:
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