Era's very first SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) thread: What are your favorites?
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I'm very LTTP with SCP stuff and, predictably, getting into it because of Control.
Is my best bet just reading them on the website? Is there a decent eBook collection or anything? I tried to listen to a few podcasts that read them but they were fairly bad.
Is my best bet just reading them on the website? Is there a decent eBook collection or anything? I tried to listen to a few podcasts that read them but they were fairly bad.
Can just read them from the wiki, and come here if you are looking for any recommendations. If you want someone to read them to you the Volgun channel is pretty good. He even makes his own 3D models for the ones he covers.
Here's his channel:
Volgun
I also like what Tats TopVideos do with their production
Tats TopVideos
Don't pass on the tales as well on the site. Some real amazing ones in there.
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You can also check them out through video series, such as the Exploring Series.
I knew next to nothing about that game when it arrived in my mailbox from Gamefly. Within the first few minutes I was like 'is this SCP: The Game?'
I also suggest r/nuscp and r/scpdeclassfied as they cover a lot of scps that people tend to look over
The Exploring Series is great. It covers the very basics, to the most famous ones, to the best ones, to the really obscure lore ideas like Pattern Screamers.
He does a good job explaining the story, the meaning and any themes. Hes also a fairly good but flowery writer
He does a good job explaining the story, the meaning and any themes. Hes also a fairly good but flowery writer
Don't worry about feeling overwhelmed with this stuff. I've been into this since 08 when someone on the scary image thread in the WoW Burning Crusade forums linked the pic of 173. I've still only read the first 2 series and a bit of the 3rd with a few new entries here and there, and a couple series of tales. Just take in what you want at your own pace.
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I dunno why but the other day I couldn't stop thinking about that really dumb SCP that just yells "MUAHAHAHA... YOU HAVE BECOME... SINISTER!!!!!" if you stick your hand in it (it makes you left handed) and broke when an ambidexterous person tried to use it.
What a great SCP.
What a great SCP.
I actually discovered SCP yesterday randomly and have been hooked. The one that stood out the most in my limited reading was SCP-049, the "Plague Doctor" entity that believed it was singularly suited to rid humanity of a nebulous "pestilence" which it can't be bothered to fully explain. Excellent, creepy read, that story.
So I finally started reading about this universe and familiarizing myself via a little bit of the wiki and YouTube (mostly Exploring series) and I gotta say I am slightly amused by how many world-ending threats there are in this setting.
Someone should troll 682 and tell it how it should "get in line".
Between this universe and Warhammer 40k, I'm not sure which one of them is more doomed.
Someone should troll 682 and tell it how it should "get in line".
Between this universe and Warhammer 40k, I'm not sure which one of them is more doomed.
And some of them are just a slight fuck up of containment and everything is over.
about the sheer number of possible or in some canons, tales and entries ongoing K-class end of the world scenarios i always really liked this part of SCP-2399
Just the probability miracle that allows life on Earth to continually exist even in our reality is already almost anomalous.
Because of SCP-2000, its likely that some things have already done it.
But on the other hand, 2000 only works if theres an Earth or reality left.
Just the probability miracle that allows life on Earth to continually exist even in our reality is already almost anomalous.
Because of SCP-2000, its likely that some things have already done it.
But on the other hand, 2000 only works if theres an Earth or reality left.
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I like to think that it's all just a timey-wimey squirmy mess of a mutiverse and every apocalypse happened in some branch. If some things seems literally incompatible, they probably don't exist together.
It reminds me of how one of the 001 proposals features a researcher noticing the database cannot possibly describe a single coherent universe and when they try to sort things into a coherent canon, shit goes down.
No telling of when or where they came from either. Could be from space, bleed over from another reality, dimension or just some sort of glitch in reality.
My favorites used to be the epic, class ZK Apollyon entries or the ones that hint at bigger things, like the ones related to the Sarkics, but my new favorite is 4999. It's so stripped down and humanly melancholy.
I love antimemetics so much. I want everyone to read it, I want movies made about it. Give me a TV series too.
Nah it was something building up with rooms along the way it think. The person climbing could hear building.
I've learned to love both the sprawling Apollyon and K class stories (although I still dislike the designation and idea of being 1. Uncontainable 2. Actively causing a K class scenario and being so dangerous and encompassing that every other SCP seems to be a mere distraction, and almost requires it's own canon to even exist ) like When Day Breaks or O, Death.
But also I really love the singular and personal stories like Red Reality.
What's great about SCP is it's possible to care about the multiple apocalyptic end wars between Mekhane and Yaldabaoth, the Church of the 2nd Hytoth and the Pattern, the Scarlet King and everything else while also caring about things that effect just one person.
Not a big fan of other classifications other than Safe, Euclid and Keter. Keter already covers hard to uncontainable.
I'm not either. Ticonderoga and Maksur should roll into Keter with a clarification or just be marked as None or unknown
Thaumiel is fine.
Apollyon is used in good SCP articles but it really does turn into a power level showoff and thing of singular important and theres plenty of Keter class things that would match the criteria of uncontainable and actively causing a K class scenario, mostly space related ones like 2399 and whatever the Booted Void is. The author of 2317 which popularized Apollyon even changed the name to just "Irrelevant"
Thaumiel is fine.
Apollyon is used in good SCP articles but it really does turn into a power level showoff and thing of singular important and theres plenty of Keter class things that would match the criteria of uncontainable and actively causing a K class scenario, mostly space related ones like 2399 and whatever the Booted Void is. The author of 2317 which popularized Apollyon even changed the name to just "Irrelevant"
Or even SCP- 505 "Ink Stain" Would convert everything into ink. That would be end of the world all it would take is one drop to get out.
I still think Apollyon should be used in skips where things have already ready gone bad and it's a post mortem entry basically.
Thanks! Maybe once I get a rough draft typed up I'll share for opinions.
I feel like I've been waiting for this forever! Thanks for posting.
You are not alone. I want more of it in any way I can get it lol.
Motherfucker, I have never pressed a notification so fast in my life.
Confinement heck yes
The show came out months ago though. Could've sworn we had a thread about it
Reading a new SCP about an anomalous store that has the term beurocratohazard in it and I'm going to be thinking about that for a while
