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Okay, I do wish I hadn’t expanded the last bit in the chess machine.
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Yeah, I didn’t see that the first time around. Just scrolled down a bit, got bored and moved on. Thanks a lot.
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OK, I’m liking the coffee machine. A nice reminder that not all of these things are malicious, and some can be quite useful. Though I wonder what it’d deliver if asked for a cup of something almost, but not entirely, unlike tea.
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I’d be more inclined to ask it for a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster.
Oh and Smapti? I want Lord Blackwood’s little slug babies.
I refuse to do it! I opened it and slowly started scrolling down past all the UPLOADING text… and then I noticed it was going to start displaying a grainy black and white image (a distorted image of the girls possibly animated to move and be scary), and immediately scrolled back up! No thanks! Don’t need to see it. I’m sure it’s 100 times worse than whatever I could imagine and I’m imagining something REALLY creepy.
So… was it really that bad?! Because I refuse to look at it. But… morbid curiosity and all.
I’ve been reading through these things from the “most popular” listing, with brief sidequests to read linked entries.
I haven’t found any of them to be legitimately scary (which is good, since I don’t like scary stories very much), though the one about the people trapped in the tape basketball game was excellent. The end of the entry about the guy who randomly teleports to alternate universes was also very good.
What I like about these is the world-building that’s going on. I really enjoy the universe that’s been created as a result of all of these stories. I like the way the Foundation is totally cool with employees making use of the harmless and semi-harmless artifacts, and is also totally cool with murdering the Class D subjects every month.
A friend told me about that site a while back - I haven’t explored it much, but the next time I run a tabletop game with paranormal investigations, it’s going to be a resource.
It’s not quite as fun as the old Warehouse 23 Basement site was, but since that got taken down, it’ll do.
The funny thing is, when I found the SCP, it was written in such a way that it felt real to me, and I didn’t bother to look it up if it was or not. For a while, I thought some of these things were real! :eek: Or at least semi-real. I really thought there was some locked monster somewhere that they were doing experiments on
This strongly reminds me, incidentally, of Robert T. Jeschonek’s short story “Whatever You Do, Don’t Read This Story” from the fan anthology Star Trek: Strange New Worlds III. Very clever and very creepy.
It’s about an alien, very dark fairy tale that insidiously must be told, and eventually creates suicidal thoughts in anyone who hears it. Data prevents Picard and Riker from using the Enterprise’s autodestruct when they hear the story.
Thank you for linking that. The Hanged King is one of my favorite SCPs and I had no idea that the book even existed. I’ve already downloaded it onto my Kindle (for free!). Just from the description it sounds like it influenced Pynchon’s “Crying of Lot 49.”
Not all of the stories relate to the Yellow King theme, but it’s a neat book! And yes, I forgot to mention loving the “Hanged King” story as well in my previous post.
Okay, I’ve been spending way too much time reading these. We saw our resident Creepy Dude when we went down to the canal to run today (he never moves, always bundled way up so all that’s exposed is a little slit of eye, doesn’t speak, etc.) and I had him all written up in my mind. (Obviously, it probably didn’t end well for two female joggers, early 30’s.)
ETA - clearly it doesn’t move while observed, but I am uncertain as to its feeding mechanism.
The Stairwell - A door that leads to a seemingly endless winding staircase, with something living inside
The Red Pool - A pool of blood in the Canadian wilderness
The Architect - A small artifact that, when left inside a closed building or container, creates additional rooms, with each additional room getting weirder and weirder.
The Collection - Hilarious parody that works best after you’ve read the site for a while
I’ll second the notion that it’s a neat little book, but only the first few stories are “weird fiction” and the rest are more like romantic and wistful remembrances of people, places, and things.
These non-weird stories are good too, but I wish someone had warned me about them before I’d started to read the book. I would keep waiting for a twist that would never occur. Kind of a let down when your expecting weirdness.
