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…huh. It may just be me, but I saw the oblong-shape jutting from the ground to be the 'Sword in the Stone' as it were, and the black-box names are all long enough to fit the words British, Arthur and Mordred.
Well we did....But that's hardly relevant.
I dig this. I thought it was going to be a 2001 star child and I don't think it is. It seems like the kid is very downplayed and not actually that important, like hes maybe just a mouthpiece? I did, however, notice this line, "Reality warping events are typically restructuring, and replace the inside of a chamber with a newly fabricated setting." This seemed a little clumsy to me, it might be better with no comma after "restructuring" and replacement of "replace" with "replacement of", no syntax pun intended. Also, ultrasonography wouldn't work in a vacuum, no air, no medium, no sound. Maybe a PET scan? Finally, its "metabolic rate" not "metabolism rate", and saying that it, and breathing and hearth rate, were "retarded" implies that they slowed from a higher point, not that it is slow compared to a regular humans. Those would be my suggestions, but this totally tastes like Vonnegut, which I like. Also makes me thing of a relation to Clefs 001 proposal.
+1
Alfa—> Alpha, and "[DATA EXPUNGED][DATA EXPUNGED][DATA EXPUNGED]. What more are they hiding from you?" should only have one '[DATA EXPUNGED],' since they're consecutive.
No, because in the NATO phonetic alphabet, it's spelled Alfa, because for non French or English speaker, you wouldn't be able to tell that it's pronounced as an "f" sound with the "ph." Also no, the multiple [DATA EXPUNGED]s are intentional. The document is getting hijacked; it's not supposed to make sense.
First part makes sense. I googled it and looked around, but I could find any examples. Glad I didn't just go and edit it.
I didn't finish reading it, so I didn't know it was being hacked. Also makes sense.
Another great entry! One thing thought…
At 0723 hours, all stealth drones were destroyed.
This is good and all, but you don't mention when the drones were sent in. Why state a time when they were destroyed if you're not going to also say when they went in?
Aside from that, love it!
I didn't really want to clutter up the note with times, but I did add a few words on how long they lasted, so if you subtract, you'll get the time they were sent it.
I really like this. No vote yet because I'm not voting until editing closes, but probably upvote coming. The sense of dread builds nicely throughout, though I'm a little iffy on 2000-1. Why does it look like a human child?
/me shrug. Human-looking aliens. I felt that it'd be just a bit too cheesy if I made it a really obvious tentacled alien, or something. Maybe they can shapeshift and it chose this form to elicit more sympathy?
Ever saw the "old-old" XCOM trailers ? I mean the ones with the old "blocky metal aliens pretending to be humans" design which they, sadly, dropped in favor of more banal one.
There's a lot of fun (and creep) to be had with non-humanoid and pseudo-humanoid creatures.
Yeah, going from malevolent blocks to humanoids… Why not just give up if your aliens aren't going to be interesting?
Well, according to available dev diaries/commentary, they ran into problems during playtesting, because some of the "evil geometry" creatures had no intuitive cues as to their "vision cones", hearing ability, etc., and players could not tell the "shooty side of alien" from the "side you're supposed to sneak up on".
Which says sad things about modern gamers :-).
the people always seem to ignore this:
choose one: [A] [B] [C]
options seem to be a thing industries dont want to give.
for example simcity "needs" online, my dishwasher had hidden buttons, spore has only easy and boring and not the fun we were promised (still fun though)
well, unlike x-com, which i am admittedly not very familiar with, the alien is really not the point in this article.
I'm only distantly familiar with X-com. I just like unconventional aliens! Also, I'm not taking a stab at the article or anything…
(account deleted)A day in the life of the Foundation…
Why isn't the document updated to show its Keter status like Eskobar's submission?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the things you give to people to make them lose their memory called amnestics?
You're technically right, but I use amnesiac anyway, just because it seems pretty ingrained in site culture anyway.
I really like the ending, and the SCP talking to the reader.
(Also, that shouldn't be under a collapsible.)
The rest I wanted to downvote for, because it was that generic. Especially this whole paragraph:
SCP-2000-1 is suspended at the “center” (as denoted by the structure of SCP-2000) of the central chamber. SCP-2000-1 is a humanoid entity that bears visual similarity to a male human child, although x-ray CT and PET scans have revealed several internal anatomical anomalies (see Document-2000-A3 for further details). Telepathic communications, presumed to be from SCP-2000-1, can be heard inside the central chamber. SCP-2000-1's breathing, heartbeat and metabolic rates are extremely slow. Furthermore, SCP-2000-1 has not been recorded to move, suggesting that, while SCP-2000-1 is conscious, its body is in a state of stasis.
Yeah. Whatever. Faminepulse's aborted reality bender was much cooler.
I also find the reality bending events themselves underwhelming — although the picture is very cool.
The exploration logs could be cut entirely — I got nothing out of them whatsoever. They just unfavorably compare to the many awesome logs written elsewhere on the site.
Balances out to no vote. To me, this is half of a good SCP with decently written generic placeholder material filling up the other half. Would be happy to upvote a version where both halves match in quality.
I dunno. It kinda managed to intrigue me, exploration log and all.
Of course, it more or less follows the rails of every single "downed creepy UFO thingie" (Alien franchise included), but still, got me wondering about its origins, in a good way :)
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