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Absolutely splendid. It achieves an almost dreamlike state of confusion and failure to progress, and giving it all the weight of the ark of the covenant, played in the modern day, leaving a truly sublime tone of loosely-coordinated mayhem all throughout.
if your reading this your gay
I'd second this very strongly. More specifically than just dreamlike, it reads like the kind of fever dream that you wake up from with the feeling that there's something monumentally important that needs to be done. The combination of conviction and senselessness is good stuff.
That's great! This is supposed to be a little confusing. Anything I can maybe help clear up for you?
Don't redact or blackbox anything in the special containment provisions.
A hopefully kind critique:
Seems like the containment procedures repeat and bleed over into the description, and the description feels to be a bit lacking because of this. There's a very loose connection made to the Ark of the Covenant, but in a way that leaves confusion in my mind about the writing, not a sense of mystery about the SCP.
Also, "metaphysically-shielded aluminum sarcophagus" feels a bit too much like psudo-techno babble.
Overall, it seems well written, and It certainly leaves me asking questions, though maybe not the right ones.
Possible solution:
Be more specific on the description side (including some real description beyond reference to censored SCPs), removing to some degree the containment procedures that have been mixed in, putting them in their correct section. Leaving only those details pertinent to the description.
As is, it leaves me feeling there is no SCP here, just a big hole where one should be. Everything surrounding that hole is well written, but not enough detail on the SCP to tantalize the imagination. The nature of SCP writing is such that holes exist, but generally do not omit the full description of the real object or phenomenon (exceptions exist in some cases, but then is made clear through other clues). In this case, the tenuous connection to the Ark doesn't feel to be enough.
Thanks for the feedback!
I'm hoping it comes across clearly enough that SCP-4000 cannot have a "final resting place" (or containment), so to speak, and the act of not giving it a specific resting place can possibly be construed as a method of containment. Hence the repetitive and precise (but not concise, as you point out) nature of the article's descriptions.
The connection with the Ark of the Covenant isn't necessarily to imply that the Ark is an anomaly, rather that the Ark can be equated to the circumstances surrounding the aluminum sarcophagus, as does the story of Sisyphus, and the implication SCP-4000 has been in transport to a "final resting place" for quite some time. This plays into time-related confusions.
I hope that helps clear some things up? This isn't a conventional article by any means. If you have any questions I'd be more than happy to answer them.
Well, this is… interesting.
I don't think this is my favourite sort of SCP, but it may be the only intentionally confusing article I've read on the site which managed to pull off being intriguing rather than insufferably annoying, and that deserves a +1.
What I got: It's similar to the ark of the covinenet, existing in several time periods at once and always has to be (or always is) on it's way to containment in every time period. I guess it "cannot be adequately described" because it has to be constantly in a transitional state.
At first, I was rather annoyed by the way this was written, but I think it's actually far more clever than I gave it credit for. That said, it needs some cleanup still and the discovery addendum goes on rather a bit with large paragraphs, making for a bulky ending. There's also probably a little too much Series I-style redaction.
I thought for a bit that the number 4 had significance. Just about everything the Foundation describes itself doing with this comes in fours: four sites a chamber is being constructed, four MTFs, just about everything comes in fours, and you've even got Foresight heading up containment. But after the interview — in which Sidd demonstrates five personalities, if I'm not mistaken — that seems to go out the window, and I was disappointed by that. I don't know if it was intentional, but it's like you were building up to something and then forgot the payoff.
That said, upvote after the contest.
What I got from it was not only "this cannot reach a final resting place or we're screwed" but "we are absolutely following procedure. We'll get to it. Yep. It just…takes time."
If they put into writing that the containment procedures are that this thing is not to be permanently contained anywhere…poof. So they have to skirt procedure by saying they are totally going to contain this thing but it already is contained. Sort of. It's complicated. The procrastination might also be an anomalous effect but I don't actually think so.
Yeah, real cool, enjoyed it, +1.
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