Please collapse long posts. ~Zyn
Thoughts and such would be appreciated, as I've really wanted to contribute to the site XD
Idea number 1: An object that appears, behaves, and is constructed through normal means. There is nothing anomalous about the object that researchers can detect, yet anyone who comes into contact, seeing it or even hearing about it, immediately get's the feeling it should be classified as a Keter class SCP. Researchers could not accurately explain why they feel this way, will fail to give a reason to classify it as such, and will deny that the SCP's anomalous effect is forcing them to believe it should be a keter class object. Most research would be focused on determining why it deserves the keter classification.
Idea Number 2: A humanoid creature whose body seems comprised of paper and seems to breath out a powerderized gas of graphite, that has the power to pull any object drawn on any surface from the surface, and recreate it into a 3-dimensional object. SCP would draw things by breathing onto a wall, then drawing through rubbing away the graphite. It will then pull these objects out and attempt to use them. Objects quality varies, as crudly drawn objects tend to be unusable, but if the creature draws something enough, it will eventualy draw a perfect version of it and be able to create a true copy of what it was trying to create.
Idea number 3: This is an scp i've been fiddling with for awhile, working on it, smoothing it out, then letting it sit for awhile before bringing it back to try and get new opinions on it. Basically, the SCP would come in two parts. A porcelain egg, and small humanoid entities that would originate from the egg. These entities would be none hostile, and would be drawn to SCP personnel of importance. This drawing would become more and more powerful the higher rank a person was in the foundation. The object would not need any knowledge of the person, and seem to instinctively know a persons rank and importance.
If allowed to make contact with an individual it deemed important enough to approach, they would remain in physical contact. Being small porcelain ball-and-socket dolls, they usually attempt to sit on a persons shoulder, but is perfectly fine maintaining physical contact through other means. These beings would remain in contact without doing much else except following them, until through some precognitive ability, it detected life threatening danger and created a massive fear response in everyone within 30 feet of the person it is maintaining contact with of a certain rank. This fear response would be directed towards the source of the danger, making the person under the effect attempt to put as much distance between them and it.
the warning and induced fear state usually comes within a a timeframe before the danger itself that would be the bare minimum to evacuate the area before the danger could cause harm to the SCP's chosen foundation member and those lucky enough to be close by. This would only activate if the SCP believed that there was a possibility of survival. If there wasn't one, it would simply leave the subject behind to avoid damage to itself.
Any instance of these entities being destroyed would be replaced within a week or two by a new one that would emerge from the porcelain egg previously mentioned.
Thoughts and such would be appreciated, as I've really wanted to contribute to the site XD
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Burdenking, please do not bump ideas threads. That gets spammy fast, and is actually counter-productive, since reviewers here prioritize threads with fewer replies.
Ah, alright then. I apologize.
Mkay, let's take a look.
1. I'm not too sure about this. At the core it's just an object with a memetic compulsion of "this thing should be Keter class". Also, I'm not sure how anyone would have discovered it to begin with, since ordinary people would have no clue what Keter class is, and the Foundation doesn't go inspecting all the ordinary objects for traces of anomalies.
2. Ehhh. What if the surface doesn't allow graphite to adhere to it? What if the surface is sticky? What if the surface has uneven or sharp textures? What would define a "perfect" drawing? Is there anything more to this thing than its ability? Humanoids are actually pretty difficult to write successfully; if you're really set on writing one, then take a look at this writing guide.
3. This one might be your best bet, but keep in mind that the higher-up someone in the Foundation chain of command is, the less contact they'd have with stuff in containment. (btw, it's "Foundation personnel" not "SCP personnel". SCP is an acronym for the (special) containment procedures and the motto; SCP is not the organization itself). Also, keep in mind that as the author, you know the entire story, but the Foundation needs to have discovered what it knows about the SCP through observation and experimentation. How would someone with no prior knowledge whatsoever of the object, using only experimentation and observation, come to all the conclusions you've got planned for this?
Thanks for looking at this man, I really appreciate the feed back.
1: For the first one, It would make any individual feel like it should be classified as a Keter class object, weather or not they understand what that means is irrelevant. Also, I was hoping that people would have to decide weather it was just a memetic thing that was just a false alarm, or rather a warning. Idk how i'd accomplish it, maybe writing stuff in a dead language on the object or something.
2: Well, those ifs you brought up would likely be good ways to keep it contained. As for the perfect drawing, I mean when it made a 3d version of the drawing, it was an exact copy of the object the drawing was based on. Also yeah I know humanoids are hard, so i would wanna get everything done in brainstorming before even trying to fill out anything XD
3: I know it's Foundation Personnel, it's just hard for me to say the same thing repeatedly due to a habit i developed to avoid that. And yeah, they would first discover it's whole thing with important people when it ignored D class personnel and reacted to researchers who went in to test it. and then eventually when they got approval and volunteers, higher ranking personnel would allow the scp to get close to them. This wouldn't go very far, cause at a point the risk is to great. As for their fear response, it would occur during testing as a containment breach or something else dangerous would occur, but the person with the scp would have ran away well before that point. After determining it wasn't an act of sabotage by that person, they would begin testing the limits of the SCP's functions.
higher ranking personnel would allow the scp to get close to them.
It's not so much a trust thing as it is standard protocol. Besides, the higher-ups are the ones who would have additional security at their disposal, plus other safeguards. Why would they bother with an anomalous object that inherently can't be trusted due to its unpredictability?
Two and three are probably your best bets. Two could be very cute if you wrote it right. I would advise changing three so it affects important people in general, not just foundation personnel.
Well for three, I sorta had this thought it was sent from an Alternate timeline where the foundation experienced numerous catastrophies, and then created the scp's and sent them to the main universe in order to prevent that foundation from experiencing the same catastrophies they did.
Fascinating. Would it be anomalous catastrophes, or just regular ones? If they are anomalous, does running away help, or could it make things worse?
Im sure No.1 has been sorta done before. I cant remember it's number, but it's a pump valve that gets detected as a Keter class in every test ran on it.