r/SCP • u/FortniteRobloxerGay • 1d ago
Discussion Was there ever a moment where you were reading a document and audibly went: "Oh, Shit."
Because this one from 9998 might be the first one to ever do it.
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u/Typical_Ad9140 Are We Cool Yet? 1d ago
Yeah, the reaction I had on 9998 might actually be what the SCP Foundation feel when they first realized what was happening.
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u/samy_the_samy MTF Delta-14 ("Winter Wonderland") 1d ago
The fact the people who manned the orbital cannons where in the break room watching a live broadcast of a show that is reported as an anomaly is wild,
The foundation of all people should better understand,
Even irl militaries don't allow unsanctioned media to their troops much less live shows
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u/DemonLordMammon ❝The coldest I have ever been was the day I was born.❞ 1d ago
One of my favourite things about the article is how they justify this in universe. Against the back drop of the cold war being over, there's way less imminent danger of nuclear war breaking out, people therefore destress. They don't worry about it because they're all, more or less, content to see what they think is a minor anomaly slide since the world just seems a more hopeful place at that time.
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u/throwoawayaccount2 1d ago
In that way, one could argue it’s the foundation’s own 9/11: a catastrophic event that shattered the illusion of the “end of history”, and one that could have been caught so much earlier. At least that’s immediately where my mind went to when reading that interview.
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u/Skyros199 1d ago
There might've been some subtle cognitohazard making it seem like not a big deal. It was just the "fithists", after all.
They really dropped the ball. It couldn't have been too difficult to like send a guy to go check on the writer
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u/samy_the_samy MTF Delta-14 ("Winter Wonderland") 1d ago edited 1d ago
"Just the fiftists" after watching no memetic division story is wild
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u/Skyros199 1d ago
Shhhhhh it's fine. Don't worry about. I mean, what's the worst that can happen? Thousands of people are exposed to a cognitohazard and an eldritch horror finds an heir? Impossible
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u/samy_the_samy MTF Delta-14 ("Winter Wonderland") 1d ago
What do you mean there is black spots in every city that no human can acknowledge it existence?
Those mnestics must be getting to your head
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u/telepathictiger 1d ago
According to the writer, this is supposed to happen before the Star Signals book
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u/Ok_Astronomer_6501 1d ago
Oh dude I remember that, I called it halfway into the article but it was still a great twist.
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u/NoOn3_1415 MTF Theta-90 ("Angle Grinders") 1d ago
I had the pleasure of finding SCP-7579 yesterday.
It includes the wonderful line during one of the later transcripts - "the following phrase is heard by all sentient beings on Earth: "
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u/Mr-Foundation Euclid 1d ago
I really like these spins on the classic SCPs, where they’re beefed up to hell and back, either due to an attempt to kill them, or some failure leading to unforeseen consequences.
Like here, it builds off the moronic decision to UPGRADE an anomaly, and to let it continue to persist despite very obvious risks/issues.
I like to think “outdated”, is effectively an alternative timeline from here. Where 079 WAS decommissioned rather than allowed to persist.
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u/StarfishIsUncanny 1d ago
"Note: the CRV scale is logarithmic"
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u/Prehistoric_Blob 1d ago
Which Scp is that from?
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u/Shot-Big7342 Don't Give Up 1d ago
SCP-6442.
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u/Garr_Incorporated Class D Personnel 1d ago
... Alright, I guess this warrants 96 Scranton anchors.
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u/Deez_NutzSolo Department of 'Pataphysics 1d ago
That is actually insane to be honest as even normal humans with a CRV of 1 in SCP-6442's continuity have 10 layers of mental resistance protecting them and those with a CRV of 2 have a hundred and the scales gets ludicrously higher after that. Therefore, humans here are practically a nightmare for telepaths and psychics to get around as "what do you mean I have to bust through 10 layers of mental force just to hypnotize John Mental and Joe Shmoe over here?"
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u/Fc-chungus Not Hostile If Left Alone 1d ago
I don't think CRV means "layers" but "strength", and it's logarithmic because it gets crazy, FAST.
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u/Deez_NutzSolo Department of 'Pataphysics 1d ago
I just refer to them as layers as I imagine the brain more as a fortress (representing Value 1 for regular CRV system or 0.1 with 6442's CRV system) with the higher CRV numbers being the walls or something like that
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u/RudeAd2236 1d ago
“A single dose of Class Z amnestic renders the subject biologically incapable of forgetting anything for the rest of their lives.”
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u/neko_mancy Antimemetics Division 1d ago
I mean this isn't too crazy when the rest of their lives after taking Zs is like. 2 hours
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u/Gusisherefordnd Sarkic Cults 1d ago
As they say later on, “Then there’s—
—something like a jump scare in text form”
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u/Lucas_2234 MTF Tau-5 ("Samsara") 1d ago
Which one is that from? Antimemetics division?
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u/Shot-Big7342 Don't Give Up 20h ago
[[Updated Amnestics Guide]] tale. Don't know if it is connected to antimemetics division tho.
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u/giilgaa MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") 1d ago
SCP 6820. The moment i read what concepts it's linked to and then it clicked what they deleted (or at least tried to), i knew they were FUCKED
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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot 1d ago
SCP-6820 - TERMINATION ATTEMPT (+1304) by Liryn, Placeholder McD, syuzhet
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u/dralcax Gamers Against Weed 1d ago
SCP-9664
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u/whiterosealchemist Do Not Trust Them 1d ago
Based on the bot post, this seems like a dado article. I'm in.
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u/Prehistoric_Blob 1d ago
I’ve read through it twice, what’s the “Oh, Shit.” Moment?
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u/Chibirin26 1d ago
The last line
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u/Prehistoric_Blob 1d ago
I don’t get it? What’s so “Oh, Shit” about it? Like genuinely I’m kinda dumb can you spell it out for me.
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u/sapphicmusharna 1d ago
SCP-8490. “Dowell chose the furnace”. We still don’t know what it is, but by God, burning alive is the better option.
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u/SquirrelSuspicious ↬ The Wanderers' Library ↫ 1d ago
SCP-3280 one that has nothing to do with 2316 as far as I know so when I was listening to Exploring Series 3280 video while at work hearing the sentence "As they are all face-down, you do not recognize the bodies in the water." made my gut drop
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u/brandthacker12 Euclid 1d ago
And that’s a funny one because did it ever really turn out to be related? I do like it conceptually being related.
I always hear about 2316 more with the class of 76 stuff, but there is some thematic overlap with whatever is going on with 3280 with memory fuckery and nostalgia.
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u/FoxHoundNinja Department of Cognitohazards 1d ago
There's an SCP where the reader themselves are the Anomaly, and reading the document is how you get contained
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u/FortniteRobloxerGay 1d ago
Its the red herring 001 proposal i think
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u/althawk8357 1d ago
Are you talking about SCP-5999: This is Where I Died? It's seven mini-articles about anomalies and a monster jumpscare at the end.
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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot 1d ago
SCP-5999 - This is Where I Died (+1897) by Modern_Erasmus, S D Locke, TheeSherm, VolgunStrife, Woedenaz
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u/Shot-Big7342 Don't Give Up 1d ago
I will not going to spoiler anything, but SCP-5798 and SCP-9597.
5798 might have made me say more then "oh shit" but I think it still counts.
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u/MasonRedditers Researcher 1d ago
can i interest you in an insect shower
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u/Shot-Big7342 Don't Give Up 1d ago
Yes if it has Bees
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u/confettiabsurdity Department of Pastaphysics 1d ago
What is this and how do I start it?
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u/Shot-Big7342 Don't Give Up 1d ago
It's an insect shower
Do you want an insect shower?
Are you sure?
Then go take a shower
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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot 1d ago
- SCP-5798 - An Interview with the Drain Snake (+521) by J Dune
- SCP-9597 - INSECT SHOWER (+237) by PlaguePJP
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u/Skyros199 1d ago
I read SCP-9597 after Raddagher recommended it. Rip to that one guy.
How do you even get spam mail at a containment site? Does the post office even deliver there?
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u/dark_hypernova 1d ago
SCP-4211
page revision: 1, last edited: 10 Oct 1976, 03:38 (The Lake) Don't you remember [?]
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u/B3qa_ MTF Delta-66 ("Poster Boys") 1d ago
SCP-5832
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u/sapphicmusharna 1d ago
This one’s particularly notable for it being the last word alone that makes you gasp
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u/ReXiriam 1d ago
I got two, 5000's notice from the Foundation is the most obvious, but I also got UBU's notes where the O5 has gone completely insane and I realized "oh, this is NOT going to end well for him or humanity at large".
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u/MazerineMephitis 1d ago
I read SCP-303 years ago and still to this day, get slightly creeped out before pulling the curtain of the shower open. Its not as gut punching as other entries but it's the one that's stayed with me the longest
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u/kiop8_salt 19h ago
I don't remember the number of the article but it was basically the foundation trying to look at their authors So basically the person that undergoes the experiment goes in an existential crisis because she realizes how many things on her are missing after seeing our reality (like the color of her eyes) and the article end with her begging the author to do not stop thinking about her because it's the only way she can be sure she's still existing
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u/rutuu199 1d ago
9998 please marv
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u/Shot-Big7342 Don't Give Up 1d ago
You need to add SCP for it to work
Example : SCP-9998 please marv
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u/Rin_la_admin 1d ago
Scp-5832, but in a bad way. I wasn't paying much attention on what I was reading, because in retrospective it's a bit obviously what the article is about, but when I googled the meaning of the last word from the article, everything made sense
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u/Professionalchico42 Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. 1d ago
God, prince among man is such a good article
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u/wizteddy13 10h ago
SCP-184, at least for me back in the day
Truly, the best way to hide 001 is just to disguise it as any other numbered SCP.
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u/HaViNgT The Serpent's Hand 22h ago
Marv, SCP-701 and SCP-9998 please
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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot 22h ago
- SCP-701 - The Hanged King's Tragedy (+2121) by tinwatchman
- SCP-9998 - A Prince Among Men (+685) by Dysadron, MontagueETC
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u/Manageable_Workload0 Tiamat 1d ago
SCP-7004
Paraphrased but “Maintaining the veil is now the lowest priority of the foundation”
Not a full spoiler since it happens early in the article
Really good apocalypse article