Oversimplified SCP - Ch. 129 - SCP-1152

[mekrabbat]

How do you tell if a raccoon is depressed, and who the heck makes antidepressants for raccoons?

Bah, it's the SCP foundation. They probably have a vending machine that takes quarter-sized bone coins and dispenses raccoon drugs.

 

[hiroy_raind]

Category: Safe
Escaped anyway

 

[Valespark]

This is the power of mimetic effects. Despite every sign to show that this scp is more than just a smart raccoon, and the indications of it being a specific agent, the mimetic effect forces them to believe that it is just a slightly strange raccoon.

 

[strider_01]

Good ol' memetic hazards, some of the most low-key terrifying stuff in SCP lore.

 

[Eden89]

I love SCPs that look like a normal animal, but this is pretty lame.

Only a common but smart raccoon, come on.

 

[alannondarklord]

I'm not sure this media format is the best for this SCP. Visually, it makes the Foundation seem extra dumb.
"All signs point to not-racoon but let's just ignore that. Infohazard? Cognihazard? What are those? Are they tasty?"

 

[Siti]

whats the phone screen read ?

 

[Waymastah]

@Siti "yome", or bride I think. I can read these moonrunes but I don't really know the meaning.

 

[mister_nobody]

Poor guy

 

[Broken25]

The foundation should recruit the racoon

An intelligent racoon would be a great agent, and he has shown capacity to infiltrate human installations

 

[Torappu]

It's not that the foundation is dumb in this instance. They're definitely dumb and incompetent very often, but the entire nature of this SCP is that no matter what it does, you can't help but see it and think of it as a raccoon.

 

[XShrike]

So what happens if he writes something?

 

[alexandergc]

Phone screen reads "yome", which literally means "bride", but can sometimes be used to refer to a person's wife in a romantic way.
It kinda translates contextually into "you will always be my bride".
I'm still learning my runes though, so it's not 100% accurate.

 

[LoLyeah]

Ah, just your usual smarter racoon, nothing outrageous.

 

[Kaiser92]

smart racoon, wonder what happened to the Agent though

 

[onihikage]

@mekrabbat Correct, that's SCP-294. It takes normal American quarters, though.

 

[AgentKuga]

poor agent, wonder what happened to him

 

[KuroeNekumi]

@alannondarklord TBH I felt the complete opposite: because you can visually see it's a person, yet the Foundation insist that no matter what happens he's a racoon, even with the amount of people that are resistant to cognito and infohazards there, I feel even more dread.

It's such a powerful anomally he's fallen prey to that everything and anything that he does, he'll just be taken as a common racoon.
Previously you could maybe say "oh, he's just a human that was turned into a racoon, with some characteristics from his humanity that he somehow still has". Now it's "oh shit, it's just a normal person that can't, under apparently any condition, be identified or it's actions understood as a surprisingly able common racoon".

Yeah, the ambiguity of the text version certainly has a charm of it's own, in trying to understand just what happens and having to decide for yourself how it all works, but for me, just the sheer despair of the situation in here makes the story work as well.

 

[MrKawaii]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-AAAH-AAAAAAAAAH-AAH-AAAAAAH! HOOCKED ON A FEELIN'!

 

[duy0699kat]

"treated as decreased"
so that explain the 99.87%