This seems……. silly and over-specific, especially the conditions for symptom appearance. I dunno if it's just me, but they are a little too rare to actually occur with any real frequency. Also, what does "new contact" mean?
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The idea is pretty interesting, but I have some minor quibbles.
1. If inanimate objects are infected, then it's not a pathogen, it's a contagious phenomenon.
2. It says that the cardboard cut outs fall over, but it also says that the cut outs are supported so they don't fall over. Also, this might just be me not getting it, but it seems that the phenomenon transforms the infected into a cardboard cutout that is exactly like the original (besides being 2D) so that the one person who was observing the infected would presume that nothing was wrong with the infected, until they realize that the infected is not moving. So it wouldn't really make sense to have the infected fall over.
And if the whole world is crashing down… fall through space out of mind with me.
1. Pathogen fits better overall as I see it. Good point, though.
2. It says the intended purpose of the easel stand is to support the standee. It can be gathered from the article, then, that the easel stand does not fulfill this purpose.
I really like the idea behind this, but I have a few problems with it that are keeping me from upvoting. It's possible that there might be a reasonable explanation behind these things, though.
1.) "Flimsy" seems to be too subjective and/or colloquial a term for use in official Foundation documentation.
2.) As Thekillerax said, why do the cardboard cutouts always fall over? IF them falling over is part of the anomalous effect, that should be stated more explicitly in the article.
3.) It seems the fax machine should be the SCP in this case, or at least have a designation of SCP-2038-A or something.
Neutral vote for now, but simple revision or justification will make me upvote with ease.
The fax machine isn't anomalous at all, just used to transmit the anomaly, I suppose. I've made some revisions.
Oh, that makes sense, yeah. Since you have addressed my other two issues, I will gladly upvote.
Forgot to say it before, but this reminds me of the subterranean dry cleaner from Doom Patrol.
Article is better now. No vote changed to upvote.
I'm probably just too dense to understand, but why do the symptoms not manifest on weekends?
And if the whole world is crashing down… fall through space out of mind with me.
It seems like it was based on the cartoon trick of leaving an exact cardboard cutout of yourself so people don't think you left.
Until it falls forward a second or two later.
Reading through the article, the implication was that it somehow got started by someone who kept trying to dodge work. Which is why it won't work on the weekends.
And that bit of info secured an upvote from me.
Heh, that makes the SCP even better.
And if the whole world is crashing down… fall through space out of mind with me.
Uncontrolled outbreaks of SCP-2038 are to be contained
Feels a little redundant to me. If the outbreak is contained doesn't that kinda/sorta equate to it being controlled?
"التعدي الظل، وتستهلك الظلام، في بحر من صرخات في القلب المريض.
وجودها هو مجموع، كاملة، الإلهية.
فينا كل ما يجد مكانه، والفراغ هو ملك سباق ديع لدينا ".
(account deleted)If what you were going for was goofy cartoon disease, the waaaay overly specific execution of this undercuts your purposes. I'm not sure I would have really liked this concept to begin with, but the excessive detail made this kind of a distracting slog for me. I'm also not a huge fan of the "Foundation is so bad at being secretive that people fax it anomalies" interpretation you're working with here.
Also:
a spontaneous physical transformation into a two-dimensional cardboard standee
Like, it's literally two-dimensional? Or is it a cardboard standee of a particular thickness?
I really liked the imagery of people just poofing into cardboard cutout versions of themselves, but it really does feel like a slog to get through this. -1
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
The infection parameters are pretty confusing to read through.
Also, the containtment/recontainment procedures seem to imply the objects can be reverted from standee form permanently? How do animate subjects feel afterwards?
What would happen if a standee of non-anomalous origins would be affected?
How does the grip pad incineration mechanism work so that the pads don't infect anything before incineration?
The cardboard/plywood cutout gag has been a trope long before MeeM was a thing. It was used, for instance, in Rock Bottom, an episode of Spongebob Squarepants first aired on 15 MAR 2000.
So I was meh on this until I read that someone specifically sent it to the Foundation. Which makes the question, did someone send it to the Foundation to alert them to its existence, or to screw with them?
By "uncontrolled outbreaks should be contained", I assume you mean something similar to how the cholera outbreak in Soho, London, was uncontrolled until John Snow identified the infected well and contained it by having the pump handle removed.
In my observation, as far as the anomalous community is concerned, everyone and their cousin knows about the organization of "jailers". What they know, and don't, is more important in that context.
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