Oversimplified SCP - Ch. 183 - SCP-1440
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If you liked the SCP, I recommend reading the tale Thrice. It's from the perspective of the Old Man
He’s in constant contact with the planet he’s in, yet the planet didn’t get destroyed. Or if we go even bigger he’s in contact with the universe (as everything is in the universe), yet the universe in the story also didn’t get destroyed.
So there is clearly limitations to his “curse” (or simply it wasn’t written that well) as he is “confined” in the planet he is in.
So there is clearly limitations to his “curse” (or simply it wasn’t written that well) as he is “confined” in the planet he is in.
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Well, the curse is on him, not everything. So long as he suffers and knows there is a world he cannot be a part of-so long as he understands that all things must go, and that he wanted to break that rule, that's enough.
From the last few panels, seems it's not really a random unknowable curse, but rather the vengeful Brothers Death who personally destroy things and kill people he's spending some amount of time with. So they aren't going to destroy Earth, but hey he's been spending too much time in this facility, time to blow it up.
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Can you tell me the story where this is in? I'm intrigued by the brothers death, haven't heard that before.
My comment is from the SCP foundation’s PoV (or others that may try to contain him), not from the old man. As in, there is a leeway in which he could be contained, hence he should not be categorized as keter.
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Well metaphorically speaking yes, but no thats not how containment works. He's roaming free out in the world, and can't be contain in the facility. By that logic, that giant lizard is not a keter since he's also stuck on the planet he lives in
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I always have a soft spot for SCPs where the scary part is how miserable the existence of the SCP himself is. And in this case, containment is even more difficult since you'd be risking the security of anything else contained around him....
And remember folks: the main rating system is for "ease of containment", not "how dangerous". If you want to worry about risk assessment that's in the newer system.
And remember folks: the main rating system is for "ease of containment", not "how dangerous". If you want to worry about risk assessment that's in the newer system.
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Sounds... familiar
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I've read through a few of the tales and it's hinted at a few times that he's fearful of death, which the brothers are the embodiment of. The most obvious one is SCP-6462, and you can skip ahead to 6462-C. The section also links to Three Tales About Death, which is the other reference that states it clearly.
That's kind of my point. By taking it to the extreme, if everyone but a bunch of disposable d-class (enough numbers such that they can procreate and be used as fodders for whatever SCP need them for) relocate to another planet, and thus the original planet used as a form of containment facility a number of that was classified as keter are not keter anymore.
That said I'm no expert in the rules that determine the creation of these writings, so perhaps there is a rule that prohibits abandoning/utilizing original planet or dimensions as a mean to contain that I'm not aware of. If so, then indeed they are keter.
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Even in your suggestion which is to relocate the keter class to another planet, is a proof to the difficulties of handling them. Compare the needs to take care of the missing half cat to the cake that can self replicate itself with unkown upper limit, then perhaps you'll understand why the ranking exist
It’s the other way around, everyone else leave the planet and “abandon” the keters that are planet-bound behind while providing minimal resources to placate their natures, assuming they have another planet or dimension to go to, that should be easier than transporting any currently keter classified SCP. This of course doesn’t work with all keters but could redefine some into contained.
Now, I guess my suggestion is more on the realms of “run away and contain the SCP by leaving them behind (that can be left behind), to some extent redefining what containment is”, which in all fairness may not be in the spirit of the SCP stories. Again, I’m not sure if that’s against the rules of the story crafting or not.
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What you described is part of the plot behind SCP-4266. Earth is basically abandoned by humanity and many SCPs are just left behind as means of containment.
Nice, I didn’t know that’s actually acceptable. It’ll be kinda funny to perpetually planet or dimension hop to create means of containment.
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As I understand it, the only hard rule for what is "acceptable" on the SCP wiki is the article vote. If you can spin an interesting enough tale into the article you can get away with quite a range of "lore" changes. After all, there is no canon.
Makes sense, but doesn’t that mean some SCPs, such as this one would need to be reclassified when there is a “lore” change that would in effect contain or make them uncontainable? Though I can only imagine that it would be a lot of work (and discussions) to do so, which makes it unlikely and perhaps unnecessary to do, after all it’s all just for fun.
