I wanted to run this idea by someone. It's a dictionary that's constantly changing, and it makes you perceive what you read about as the opposite of what it is.
What if a week or so after the Foundation acquired it, a definition appears for "SCP Foundation", hinting that it is sentient and wants to be free?
It sounds pretty original, I haven't heard of anything quite like it before.
It's a good Idea!
it makes you perceive what you read about as the opposite of what it is
- What if it's in a language that a reader doesn't understand?
- What if someone reads a definition of "paradox" or "lie" or "falsehood"?
- Why does this merit special containment and not getting chucked in regular anomalous item storage?
- How would someone discover the effects? (How often do people read dictionaries for more than a few words at a time?)
1. Readers perceive it as being written in whatever language they're most fluent in. Illiterates see blank pages.
2. …Uhh…I'm stumped honestly.
3. It could be sentient and does seem to change it's text based on its surroundings/"feelings" but I don't know if that counts.
4. The definitions are written as their opposites, and readers don't seem to question it. When asked later, they'll still insist that big=small and so on.
Maybe this wouldn't work as an SCP but I figured it was worth a shot anyway. Should I just put it on the Log of Anomalous Objects page?
4. The definitions are written as their opposites, and readers don't seem to question it. When asked later, they'll still insist that big=small and so on.
Yeah, I'm having some trouble wondering how that would become big enough of an issue for the Foundation to notice it.
I wouldn't recommend putting it on the Anomalous Items log, personally. That's supposed to be for interesting objects that aren't really dangerous/excessively strange/complicated enough to merit specific containment, not a dumping ground for ideas that weren't made into an SCP.