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Because its hard to post and not to lose eyesight of the statue.
What a wonderful scientific break through, we should study this creature. So who wants to put on a red shirt and go in there?
When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"
i nominate the new guy who keeps responding to ancient posts.
Indeed he is a wise gentlemen but surely a strong man like yourself should go in
When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"
Joystick Hero: I'm really tempted to revert your edit. It's a good one, but this is, you know, 173, the ORIGINAL. Adding something to it kinda feels like… I dunno, improving the Venus de Milo by adding an alarm clock to its torso. Maybe you could put it in an experiment log instead?
The problem with that is it appears as though now we can easily stop it just by putting a security camera in its enclosure.
What I've always loved the idea of is that if you take a picture of it, nothing unusual will happen. When the film is developed, however, you won't see it. It'll be as if there's a hole in the picture.
I've also always loved the idea that if you put a security camera in its enclosure, then it seemingly coudn't move… but within a few seconds the camera would be broken.
'Course, then it'd need be explained why everyone who's looked at it hasn't gone blind…
Because viewing it by proxy only makes it appear to stop, and makes it destroy the proxy.
Viewing it directly actually stops it.
I am reverting this. Also, I am blocking this from further edits. I will PM Joystick's edits to him so that he doesn't lose them: it's good stuff, but it doesn't belong on the 173 article.
Some things should be left timeless.
We could always make a log of unusual incidences revolving around 173 since I think I've counted around 3.
I'm putting what little weight I have behind this suggestion. Couldn't we add that link to the page, right at the bottom? Something like the following…
References: Please consult the file [[SCP-173 Incident Reports]] for further information. (WARNING: SCP INCIDENT REPORTS ARE CLASSIFIED LEVEL 4 SECURITY)
If we have anything to add to this file, we can put it there instead of here.
Also, a RL friend of mine was considering making a storyline happen where one of his SCPs caused 173 to escape.
Asking seriously, what is this thing? More precisely, what is the actual object whose photo was used for the illustration?
A humanlike statue made of concrete and rebar.
Thank you. It's so weird I have to wonder why it was made.
I gotta say. In my opinion the picture is the creepiest part of this entire SCP.
I mean, holy fuck, just LOOK at it.
Apologies for jumping right in here and asking this without introducing myself, but I'm surprised nobody else has yet.
Why's it classified Euclid rather than Keter?
Probably for historical reasons. As the first SCP ever, the entry is stored in its original form, even the bits that don't quite match the standards that have since been established.
My question is why it's Euclid rather than Safe. It doesn't seem to be able to break out of its containment, and on the off chance it does, it won't get too far before getting in view of two people.
Well, this is the very first instance of Euclid anything, and I'd strongly argue against the idea of redefining the original that started it all.
But as for WHY this is Euclid, it is because the statue itself has something resembling a mind of its own. One of the original definitions of Euclid was "like a wild animal, unpredictable and reacting to stimuli in different ways"
We know it is hostile, but it might express that hostility in different ways. For example, if it got the opportunity to attack, it might go for a victim that was farther away in favor of an easy kill because it reeeeeaaally hates that other bastard. But who knows the true motives of an ugly, animate, murderous hunk of concrete and rebar? Hence, Euclid.
To go for the more current definition, what would happen if we locked this up in a room and ignored it? We don't know! We don't know where the filth that fills its cell comes from. Who knows what would happen without regular cleaning and maintenance? Maybe something worse than a pile of bloody shit.
edit: removed redundancies that needed removal
I would argue that it is the combination of a Euclid rating, as well as the explicit directive that "The enclosure must be cleaned on a bi-weekly basis." is, in itself, an evocative bit of story telling.
The clues are there to indicate that the Foundation knows more about this object then it's telling. Though the secretive elements of SCPs would be later codified in the form of explicit [REDACTED] there are more then a few subtle instances of the fingerprints of the Foundation's secrecy, as you see here in 173 as well as through out the Foundation's catalogue.
I'm having an amusing mental image of D-class personnel running from the chamber yelling "She's gonna BLOW" followed by the chamber door bursting with shit, blood and a very pissed and smelly SCP-173, just because nobody had the guts to clean it for a month.
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