(account deleted) 03 Aug 2008 08:22
dude i love these things, they're so freakin nasty and evil. A very nice job, and the pics are superb
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(account deleted) 03 Aug 2008 08:22
Call me simple, but I love it when these things have lots of pictures.
yes, images make an SCP seem more realistic and maintains the illusion of reality-a key part of Sci-Fi writing
Sheesh, it is just a sand dune. I've seen it before in Arizona. Nothing living about it.
As I've said in a lot of SCPs I'm butting my head in…
Why did they capture it, rather than destroy it outright?
The same reason we keep samples of deadly viruses in quarentined labs.
One day we might come across something similar, and we'll need
experience and experiments to be able to fight it.
The mite picture is just a yellow mite, from wikipedia; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Yellow_mite_(Tydeidae)_Lorryia_formosa_2_edit.jpg
The other pictures are obviously abandoned buildings somewhere.
Still, very well done, and the images work very well in the context.
To be added to SCP-165 following approval.
"Document 165a:
(submitted to the Overseers)
"Things like SCP-165 do not evolve naturally in isolation without a geographic barrier. This suggests (not exclusively) that these things may be much more prevalent and have heretofore gone unnoticed because the members of SCP-165 are in a "swarm" behavior mode due to their large numbers.
These things could be… well, terrifyingly prevalent in deserts sands, but beneath the threshold of population density required to swarm. However, due to the increasing desertification of many regions of the planet, we NEED to come up with rapid and effective countermeasures.
We can only hope these things are confined to North America.
I propose two further paths of study:
1) We need to answer some questions about SCP-165's origin. Why that particular town? Was it special? Could we looking at something much stranger then a normally evolved aracnid swarm?
2) We need to come up with effective ways to control swarms of these things. Suppose a dust storm should lift these creatures into a metropolitan area… The loss of life could be disastrous.
I propose that we reopen active investigation and experimentation on SCP-165, and further that funding to SCP-165 be increased to reflect this status. We classified it as Ketel, and we should damn well act as if it were.
-Dr. Snorlison"
Perhaps I'm being dense, but why is this considered a Keter hazard? It's a swarm of mites! Granted, it's a big swarm, but it's still just a swarm of mites. Anything that kills mites would presumably kill these things, or at least drop the population density too low for swarming behaviour to continue. Frankly, I'd call the anopheles mosquito more dangerous.
These mites are carnivorous and WILL EAT PEOPLE ALIVE. Even if you can escape, that's pretty keter-class to me.
Keter class means it's a serious threat to the continued existence of humanity, or civilization, or the planet, as I read the entry. There are cases on record of wolves depopulating entire villages in Germany and France, but wolves wouldn't count as Keter class, so far as I can tell. Have I misunderstood the object classes?
The way I understand it, Euclid stuff is weird, freaky stuff that has a not-insignificant chance of doing bad things to you if handled without proper safety measures, but probably won't kill you if you're smart about how you interact with it. Keter stuff is stuff that kills and maims pretty much by default, often intentionally (or that, like you said, threatens the world). The wolves in your example, assuming they possessed some abnormal trait that separated them from normal wolves, could very well be classed as Keter if they went around depopulating villages.
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