Misprinted textbooks.

Summary:

Throwing out ideas for SCPs. This one seem good?

Misprinted textbooks.

Curtisimo 01 May 2013 22:12

Ok, this the idea.
It's a series of textbooks with various misprints or inaccuracies. They are: Physics, Mathematics, History, English, and Biology. When someone reads a misprint, (EX: "Gravity is the force which pushes all objects away from the Earth") they instantaneously believe it, despite prior knowledge. Also, everything the reader sees is affected by this misprint. (EX Cont: The person, and all objects they can see, would be pushed upwards by the readers new sense of 'gravity') The effects are spread to everything the reader sees. The are negated if the reader forgets about the affected object, or the reader forgets what they read in the textbook, probably via amnesiac. Does this seem SCP worthy, or is it too mundane?

Re: Misprinted textbooks.

Snowshoe 01 May 2013 22:26

This seems like a less interesting take on SCP-1772. It also seems like taking the effect that an item would normally have in life, and taking it to an extreme. Overall I think it's uninteresting, but there may be another more unique angle you could find. As-is, I am not a fan.

Re: Misprinted textbooks.

Curtisimo 01 May 2013 22:41

Hadn't read that one.
While the basic premise of the idea is the same, I believe they are two unique ideas. And perhaps I could elaborate, provide some more examples. Say, in the Biology book, it read that humans had no bones. The reader would immediately dissolve into, for lack of a better phrase, a pile of meaty goo.
And the History book. If it were to be read from, history would immediately change to fit the textbooks description.
…wait, that's not how time works, is it?
No, you wouldn't be able to tell how history had changed because it's history, and from your point of view, it was always like that, and because history doesn't just affect the reader, it affects the entire world, the entire world would change from what had actually happened, but no one would know because it would seem like there was never anything else, which would make the textbook correct.
…What?

Re: Misprinted textbooks.

Aelanna 02 May 2013 12:48

While the only remaining article that bears any resemblance to yours is SCP-140, this exact idea has been done before many times by many people and deleted each time. It's just not a very interesting idea.