I Eat Jon, It's What I Do - SCP Foundation

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I Eat Jon, It's What I Do

Garfelf 17 Jan 2019 03:03

Here's my idea:

The SCP is an anomalous Garfield strip. When a person consciously reads it, they begin to eat everything around them, edible or inedible. The effect wears off around an hour, but most of the afflicted die before then, usually due to overeating.

The Foundation intially discovered the SCP after reports of mass deaths in a small town, all of similar nature to what was stated above. I also plan to add test logs so the Foundation can test how far its effect goes.

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Mikey Williams 17 Jan 2019 05:48

If it's inedible, such as metal, does the subject inherit an ability to never break there teeth, or…

I would most definitely read as the idea seems new and interesting!

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Zyn 17 Jan 2019 07:41

I would most definitely read as the idea seems new and interesting!

I'm going to disagree with this, especially since we see this sort of compulsion effect a lot and it's a commonly deleted premise because of how simple and overdone it is.

Author, maybe take a look at the articles tagged with "compulsion". Furthermore, an SCP object's effect forcing someone to do something tends to be a bit of a lame narrative, since things are more interesting if there's a struggle involved, and/or if the people instead do terrible things of their own volition rather than just because the author needs them to for the story to work. Consider reading through the further discussion on the narrative issues of compulsion and addiction effects.

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Zyn, 17 Jan 2019 07:41

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Garfelf 17 Jan 2019 15:57

Thank you for the feedback!

You're right on it being a compulsion, and after reviewing your links, I see why this is a weak idea. But maybe…

Instead of just compelling the afflicted to eat everything around them, it could instead just inflict a psychosomatic feeling of great starvation. While their bodies are completely fine and functioning, the afflicted feels weak, nauseous, unfocused. So they might start to eat to get rid of this hunger, but it doesn't. This would continue until either the effect wears off or the afflicted die of overeating.

I'm just spitballing an improvement, and if this still looks like it doesn't work, I might shelf this idea and try to think up another one.

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Zyn 18 Jan 2019 03:32

it could instead just inflict a psychosomatic feeling of great starvation. While their bodies are completely fine and functioning, the afflicted feels weak, nauseous, unfocused.

This just flips to another overused anomalous effect, hallucinations. I personally would be hesitant to call the change an improvement.

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Zyn, 18 Jan 2019 03:32

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Mikey Williams 18 Jan 2019 04:19

You're kind of a dick, but you're brutally honest Zyn, which I like. You've definitely open a new side for me about SCP writing. I'll will attempt to cut off with psychedelic scps controlling the human to do something, I guess that means you're actually not a dick, I'm the dick lol.

Anyway about this SCP, I do agree with Zyn that it does have some downsides, but if you can make it work, this one SCP could be so dangerous, sending pictures through the web of a simple Garfield comic that makes people inevitably overeat themselves to absolute death, and interesting idea for sure. I hope something comes to idea in the future!

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taylor_itkin 18 Jan 2019 04:27

You're kind of a dick, but you're brutally honest Zyn, which I like. You've definitely open a new side for me about SCP writing.

She's also an admin, the captain of the forum criticism team, and a butterfly.

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Mikey Williams 18 Jan 2019 04:29

Yeah that's why later I said "I guess that means you're actually not a dick, I'm the dick lol." Realizing my mistakes.

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Garfelf 18 Jan 2019 04:22

Yeah, you're right. Didn't think about that until you mentioned it. I'm gonna mull this over a bit longer, but it's probably going to end up getting scrapped.

Again, thank you for the help!

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Garfelf, 18 Jan 2019 04:22

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