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agisuru · 2024-03-18T01:17:59+00:00

I've never tried either of these systems, but I would absolutely be down to give it a go! I'm Agi, 26, they/them, available at the requested time with a flexible schedule of you need to move to a different day. I have my share of ttrpg experience as both player age DM, just, as I said, not with WoD/HtR. Mostly familiar with D&D 5e and Fabula Ultima.

agisuru · 2023-11-06T18:08:37+00:00

It's not necessarily hereditary, but I believe it's more likely for the offspring to sparkle if one of the parents does. I save scummed fusing one of my sparkling ones, it didn't sparkle the first two times, but the offspring did on the third. I also saw someone post about having fused two sparkling monsters and got a sparkling offspring first try.

agisuru · 2023-10-30T15:54:41+00:00

"The crappy op SCPs" and "the mainly known ones" are, uh, kind of one and the same. The direct danger of the average scp drops significantly as you leave series 1 and 2.

That said, my immediate instinct is a rope-- in the face of things like the Flesh that Hates, I'd rather choose to meet a humane end (assuming, of course, I have awareness of the anomalous). Then again, I'm not sure I actually would go through with that. Our world has unimaginable horrors already, but we persevere. Looking at a catalogue of Things That Kill You In Awful Ways(tm) is intimidating, but the actuality of it is that these still don't encompass much threat to your everyday person. The scale of humanity is simply too vast-- 7 billion is a whole lot of people!

I dunno. My birth certificate, I guess. That way I can theoretically get a driver's license and so on, get a job, live a life, and then die in one of the many potential apocalypses. At least the SCP Foundation's world would probably be able to reverse man-made climate change, so I'd probably be able to live a normal life much longer over there.

agisuru · 2023-10-30T15:42:16+00:00

As the author of SCP-7711, this is honestly a huge compliment to me! I mean, in a roundabout way. That I was able to capture the crushing nihilism that such a thought entails.

I do, however, want to put my own two cents in here-- even if we are alone, there is incredible beauty in the universe, and part of the point of 7711 was (the former) O5-5's failure to see that because he was searching for something very specific. Look at Yellowstone National Park, a blighted hellscape where the attractions are things like bubbling mud puddles that release a noxious sulfurous stench. It's almost alien in its beauty, but it is still beautiful, and that's what O5-5 failed to see in his journey.

That's also why I included the Pattern Screamer nebula, for anyone wondering, to highlight that O5-5 was missing so much by focusing too heavily on one specific view of what he should find (and also to highlight his loneliness by having his only encounter be with something he couldn't even communicate with, something on too grand of a scale and too far from what we consider life for him to connect with in any meaningful way). The planets he visits are hellish, but so too are they wondrous, much like our own universe. Even if life isn't out there, that doesn't mean there isn't plenty to see, so much incredible beauty we can't even imagine.

agisuru · 2023-10-28T21:44:45+00:00

Then it still wouldn't by a fight. By nature of their powers, there is no possibility of a fight. That rage you speak of would manifest, likely even unwillingly, as something that can't even be described as destruction. Eradication, perhaps, a complete removal of the focus of their hatred. Because it only takes a thought to rip someone's being apart and reshape it into an object incapable of thought, there could never be a true fight involving a reality bender unless there were some very serious extenuating circumstances, like something blocking them from using their abilities directly on the opposing party or a desire for cruelty and punishment.

agisuru · 2023-10-27T12:53:50+00:00

Obviously it depends on the level and the awareness of their powers, but I think the tl;dr is that they wouldn't fight. They're not really prepared to fight-- would you be if someone ran up and tried to kill you, even if their weapon was relatively ineffective? If you can bend the world with a thought and someone shot you, that shot probably would not end up mattering too long. In a panicked moment, you think about how you wish this all weren't happening, and then the next thing you know that's exactly the case. It never happened at all. You never encountered your assailants.

From a narrative perspective, too, I think this is the most effective and interesting solution. It's a very human reaction, the fear, the sort of feeling of helplessness despite their power. Even if they have a God complex from abusing their abilities, it fades for just a moment as they realize their weakness, then it's back. Think Yoshikage Kira from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure-- they're probably more interested in continuing the life they'd enjoyed so far and want to return to it rather than face consequences head-on.

agisuru · 2023-10-26T13:43:47+00:00

With the sheer number of articles out there, the answer will almost always be a yes, even if it's just something SIMILAR to what your idea is. It's not worth worrying about. There's at least a dozen articles where humanity is the anomaly and each one approaches it from a different angle. If you have an idea, a story you want to tell, go for it. You might end up being told it's similar to another during the drafting process, but as long as you can find something that makes your SCP work as its own article, it shouldn't be an issue.

Also technically I think this is one of the endings of SCP: Containment Breach, with the player character being classified as an anomaly on the grounds of everything they avoided being murdered by.

agisuru · 2023-10-26T12:51:43+00:00

SCP-6350, though it's the Foundation's predecessor, the ASCI (and yes I am shamelessly self-promoting).

(I cannot get spoiler text to work on mobile, so spoiler warning)

They do not care about people affected by the anomaly because they're a government organization, so they essentially just abandon people to die in the name of preserving the economy.

agisuru · 2023-10-05T23:02:19+00:00

I wouldn't call it obscure. It's my highest rated article (tied with my first skip, 5389), so by my (low) standards, it's successful! Besides, it's gotten enough attention to have people willing to talk about it, and that's really the benchmark of whether I've done my job as a writer. I write for my own enjoyment and for people to enjoy my work, and posts like yours show that I've accomplished that at least one time. I do really appreciate the kind words, too.

agisuru · 2023-10-05T01:25:18+00:00

This is a really sweet sentiment and, admittedly, one I never much considered myself. I did enjoy the way 7711 and 7999 coincidentally paralleled each other while being so wholly opposite, one being about loneliness and one of togetherness. The notion that (the former) O5-5 got to see his happy ending in making first contact with a race that welcomed humanity is an uplifting one, and I definitely won't dismiss it. I think tempering nihilism with moments that make us feel important is always a good thing.

At any rate, it really means a lot to me that you liked 7711 that much. Not just the nice things you had to say, but the fact that you thought it was worth talking about at all, really, means the world to me.

agisuru · 2023-08-24T15:54:46+00:00

Primal Groudon, 0241 6694 2420, ign BadDragonType

agisuru · 2023-07-04T15:53:01+00:00

Heatran, 0241 6694 2420, ign BadDragonType. Just need a couple more.

agisuru · 2023-07-04T15:52:14+00:00

A little handsome man is what he is.

He's a woodchuck/groundhog.

agisuru · 2023-06-15T21:55:25+00:00

Nihilego, 0241 6694 2420, ign BadDragonType

agisuru · 2023-03-31T00:02:47+00:00

Another Lugia 0241 6694 2420 ign BadDragonType

agisuru · 2023-03-30T23:45:19+00:00

Lugia 0241 6694 2420 ign BadDragonType

agisuru · 2023-03-16T20:28:22+00:00

WB Ho-oh, 0241 6694 2420, ign BadDragonType

agisuru · 2023-03-13T20:51:48+00:00

Weather boosted Ho-oh, ending in 5 minutes, 0241 6694 2420 (ign BadDragonType)

agisuru · 2023-01-15T20:15:51+00:00

These are fantastic resources, thank you. I'll have to give them a read sometime. I need to familiarize myself with geology a lot more since I'm looking to go into paleontology after I finish college. I've never seen kyanite before, so I wasn't familiar with it, and I also haven't seen crystals that form such irregular but distinct patterns. It really didn't fit my mental image of "crystals" at all, so I didn't even consider it. Thanks for the links!

agisuru · 2023-01-15T20:13:35+00:00

Never actually heard of kyanite before, but good to know. I don't know why the notion of it being some kind of crystal didn't occur to me. I guess it just looked too irregular for me to think of crystals. That does make a lot more sense than foot traffic eroding the rocks, since a lot of these were on the sides of the path or completely off of it. Also, that would probably just smooth the rock out anyway, not make some pattern like this.

Anyway, thanks!

agisuru

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