No comments yet? Wow. This was a great article. It has enough scientific meat to it without drowning out the creep factor of the SCP. However, as a Keter classified SCP, why hasn't the Foundation tried to terminate it? We know we can do that with fire.
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Because OOC, termination attempts ruin articles.
This reminds me a lot of the story The Raft by Stephen King, which can be found in the short story collection Skeleton Crew.
They're both blob monsters. Beyond that, not really, or at least not to me. That was a pretty good story, though.
I like this one. One gets shades that that last one could have ended "Soon, they didn't have reluctance at all to turn flamethrowers upon their friends" as they realized just how badly things had gone. Adding that would surely be superfluous, but I do feel like it ends somewhat abruptly. We know it's contained, but the one incidence report seems to halt early.
I disagree about the use of "friends", as it takes away from the cruel, clinical nature, but I agree it does seem to end quite abruptly. I recommend starting a new paragraph, skipping ahead with a simple sentence or two to conclude how it recoiled into something easier to capture (perhaps dragging a mass of junk or animals into itself in the process).
Apart from that, excellent. The imaginative "spiderweb" element really makes it a facinating SCP.
Quite creepy. At first I thought it is some kind of an animal, judging from the picture, but the touch with the African folklore really improved the article quality. +
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It seems to be well contained, and even if it escapes, 60-80 kg of protein every 4 days means approximately 2-3 people / animals a week. If a nuclear bomb is deemed safe, Keter seems a bit much, no?
The bit about it possibly learning to freeze parts of itself in order to use them as "bones" and become mobile definitely makes this not a Safe, but Keter seems too much. I'd say Euclid would be good here.
Upvoted, if only for,
Members of Epsilon-9 were at first reluctant at using their flame accelerators on team members that had been ensnared by SCP-968.
And the tendrils using snared creatures to spread itself out. Very nice.
Didn't like it much. It's basically just a generic "it catches you and kills you" monster without anything particularly scary or otherwise interesting about it, and I can't shake off the feeling that parts of the article are only here to ad shock value (how it slowly pulls victims appart, Members of Epsilon-9 being "at first" reluctant to use flamethrowers on their teammates. What relelvance does that anecdote even have in an acquisition report?).
Using a fake injured infant seems particularly overdone to me and I can't help but wonder how anyone falls for it seeing how according to the description it's made of tar, can barely move and can't make sounds; it seems it would be rather noticeable that something is amiss here.
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