SCP Foundation

Okay, so… this was in progress for over a month. I never really was able to write more than a few sentences each time I tried to sit down and work on this. I was originally inspired by a cool person I encountered while driving to work.

Big, big thanks to the chat reviewers who read this over!

• Weryllium for phrasing fixes, word choice, and commenting on the specific good points (ETA: also, providing the name!)
• fieldstone for commenting on the containment and length
• Lixerf for talking about hand signals
• Everyone else who chimed in about GIVA DA PASTA PLS and crab hands

This was an exercise in presenting an essentially completely harmless Keter anomaly that the Foundation thinks they understand… but even with all the data they’ve collected, they really don’t know what they’re up against.

/crab-hand-signal-walks away

GIVA ME DA PASTA +1

I don't know if it was intentional, but I really like how this SCP illustrates Foundation procedure and motivation.
The report is comprehensive and detailed despite the anomaly being so innocuous and abstract. Most SCPs are either highly dangerous or just plain bizarre and so it's easy to imagine the in-universe attention they receive as necessity or curiosity. This is the first one I've read so far (I'm only a few hundred skips into the mainlist) that's made me think of all the Foundation researchers who are just professionals coming in and doing their jobs.

+1 from me, and my first vote ever! Woo!

I love that it's short. I love that it's oddly specific. I love that you eschewed the interview that would almost always show up in these kinds of skips. I love that the Foundation both understands it, and is completely in the dark.

Cute anomaly, with plenty left to the imagination. Good work as usual Zyn, +1

For a second I was unsure about the Keter class, but in the end it all seemed to work out pretty nicely. Short and simple, this SCP reminds me of a lot of series I skips, and I love it! Thanks for the great work Zyn +1

I think this is just Zyn telling us what she does when she’s at an intersection with a pedestrian. No self-inserts Zyn! :P

(+1 for road safety)

Time to test this next time I’m ouside. I dunno, maybe it’ll work.

The driver of the vehicle in question had appeared to be extremely irate, and was also attempting to use a mobile phone and eat from a small container at the same time.

I'm not quite sure why, but this made me laugh. Something about the idea of an angry driver doing everything in his power to drive as dangerously and ineffectively as possible.
+1

+1 to the anti-road rage spell!

I have to admit, my first reaction was "A Keter? From Zyn? Does not compute!"