Someone just had to make a portable hole. I'm just relieved it wasn't me.
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Hm, I guess it is. But it ain't your Player's Handbook's portable hole - storing things in it makes you lose them forever, getting in drives you mad, likely maims you, and takes a lot of effort to get you out.
It's more like a Carnivorous Bag - but a little deeper. And more liquidy.
Ben
Madness aside, these are features of SCP-552, which almost guarantees maiming.
SCP-133 is our portable hole. This is a portal to a dark netherworld in liquid for. It is far less convenient.
First readthrough, I read something similar. The image looks like an eye, first of all - the "window to the soul". I got the idea, somehow, that this may be the completed Broken God's will. Like, what it wants to be. This is probably because I don't really want another "Dimensional portal to where something bad happened" SCP. 093 comes to mind. Then again, if it WAS Broken God, wouldn't the D-Class that lost its bits be infected with the Clockwork Virus?
However, this also brings to mind SCP-543 "Noise". Infinite space with something in it noone wants to describe because they're too busy being enthralled in it? The two are QUITE distinct, but still have similarities.
I didn't read it as a bottomless pit, though. It's definitely not a pit. Whatever's there is contained in the pool. Bigger on the inside, but still contained.
I like this. Barely enough to upvote, but upvote nonetheless.
The Description says that objects left in the portal are worn away after 5 minutes. It also says that propelled objects were obscured, until they had traveled to the distance about 3000 km. It means that those objects had passed 3000 km for less than 5 min, and their speed was to be minimum 3000 km per 300 sec = 10km/second. That is equal to orbital velocity on Earth, so propelled object must be a space rockets launched inside the portal.
As we see, effective diameter of the pool is less than 7 meters. We may imagine that such a little rockets to be able to get through that hole are exist, but should not their jets do enough 'stir' and 'motion' to disable all SCP's abilities?
Maybe Organization has to reveal its ninja-rockets for further researches?
(Sorry if I did mistakes, I'm not English)
I second that. We're talking space propulsion here - air-to-air rockets don't cut it. Neither does X-51A.
Also we have a pool 7 meters across. Hence, the objects we launch must be smaller than 7 meters in width.
It will take a really powerful telescope to see an object like that at a distance of 1000+ kilometers. The International Space Station is far bigger and floats at about 350 kilometers above our heads, yet we need powerful optics to see it.
I wouldn't be opposed to reducing the order of magnitude to 3 km. I was rather scale-insensitive when I wrote this a few years back. Unless you guys like the idea of the Foundation using rocket and optics technology to figure this one out?
Should we send 682 through the portal to destroy/get rid of it? I understand people's reluctance to get rid of one of the "mascot" SCPs, but in-universe, the Foundation wants to. And I've been trying to think of a reason why 682 would come back, or why it would be too risky, but nothing comes to mind.
The only think I could think of is that 682 would be able to generate enough force to escape, but no matter how strong it is, it wouldn't help because there's nothing to push against. Unless it can violate Newton's Third Law?
Not bad. I like it, but the part where you state that it is indeed a portal could be a bit more suggestive. I wouldn't have it there at all. It woul probably be a bit more exciting if it were to be the readers' job to figure out what it is… Or was. My English is not what it used to be. Other than that I enjoyed it and it's a + from me.
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