I like this one. It's pretty damn cool.
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(account deleted)Wait. He had his brain removed?
"WELL FOUNDATION. YOU MADE IT SO EASY. SO VERY VERY EASY." - dimensionpotato
Actually, I think I'd like to know how that worked, too.
Wow, I forgot about writing these things. I think my idea with the brain removal was that they didn't quite know what they were doing. Probably had to sever the optic nerves, hypothalamus, and other unnecessary bits rather roughly and just reconnected whatever they could. I forget what I intended the [DATA EXPUNGED] to be, though. Whoops
A perfect human brain at its upper most limits. Releasing massive amounts of adrenaline and rendering the conscious that took hold to be rooted with basic cognitive functions but otherwise a blank slate. As the conscious more than likely relied on basic instincts, it would have been initially scared for its life. its reflexes would have been enhanced along with IQ allowing it to do the damage it did before being subdued.
Sure. That wasn't a blatant misunderstanding of how adrenalin, instincts, or IQ work or anything.
I tried to understand the words of your pen, but a memetic hazard struck again.
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Why in the world would they try Esperanto of all things? I was tickled by the reference, but it seems like an odd thing to try…
It makes artificial organs - why not try an artificial language?
This. Just because it got unsuspecting people killed when it emulated a specific organ doesn't mean it's Euclid; it means you don't friggin write brain on the damn thing and stick it in someone's head. If you did that and it grew arms and started utilizing a hammerspace full of surgical and writing utensils to hop around and insert itself into people's bodies, it still wouldn't be Euclid because you could probably still lock it in a concrete cell and forget about it. As it is, it passes the locked box test, let alone the locked room test.
I have a sudden urge to listen to the Nirvana album In Utero.
What would happen if you wrote something like "heart and lungs" on it
Not entirely sure. Might not have the capability to mimic two organs at once, might make a hybrid organ that does the work of both, might make an organ that doesn't really mimic either function very well. If you have any good ideas, feel free to add additional testing logs, though.
I might be real late to the discussion, but I think I have an answer to this question. Since the description specifically says that SCP-502 will transform into the last organ written and the organ previously written will disappear, I believe it would, in your case, transform into lungs after stopping the transformation into a heart that it started between the time "heart" was written and "lungs" was written. The organ written before "heart" and the word "heart" would both disappear.
However, the fate of the "and" is still unclear; and this is definitely a topic for expansion. Would it disappear, or would it remain there until it was erased by some other, non-anomalous, means?
So I see the original author is still around & paying attention. So I've got a couple questions…
- Why is an O5 specifically interfering with the usage of this SCP?
- This isn't Euclid. As the original author, you can choose to keep it Euclid anyway, but this is Safe in every conceivable way. Keep in mind that a nuke is Safe, despite its devastating capability. Unless that expungment is covering up some way in which this SCP could somehow break free and destroy the world if never ever taken out of containment…
Hey, yeah I'm still around, but very rarely.
The O5 part is in there probably as a result of an O5 seeing the item and deciding it was a relatively safe way to ensure their own health and throwing some regulations at it that no one felt strongly enough about to fight. More of a beurocratic thing than a reasonable containment issue.
Back when I wrote it the rules about what made something Safe or Euclid were less well defined, and I just made it that way due to the sudden unexpected behavior exhibited at the end. I also seem to recall that the injuries may have been due to the way the brain transplant communicated, or possibly what it said, more than a sudden violence on the body's part.
I'm pretty busy with life these days, but if someone feels up to doing it, I have no problem with the SCP being rewritten to match current standards, so long as the general flavor stays consistent.
Finally got around to changing the object class and the documentation. That was much easier than I thought. Should have done that ages ago. Its now a Safe SCP, which makes more sense with the current guidelines on that.
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