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My god this is creepy. The picture looks rabid. I wouldn't touch this with a ten-foot pole.
In summary, upvoted.
Er, how could this possibly not be fatal? The skin is there for a reason. I suppose you could handwave the actual procedure away, but you'd drop dead of associated infection in about thirty seconds.
It's an SCP, if the effect is not fatal, then it's not fatal :p
Not quite, it'd be hours or days - hideously painful hours or days. Also, there's no reason why this SCP couldn't boost your immune system.
Any physical non sterile contact with an organ such as the brain would be fatal. Lifespan, even if a ridiculously impervious immune system was found, would be only as long as nothing touched their head. Hands, water, bumping into object, anything, all fatal… something like this should be added near the end
That photo is hideously cringe-inducing, and the SCP itself is rather freaky. I like it!
This isn't bad, but the last line:
Though rarely fatal, the process is irreversible and is universally reported by subjects to be the worst pain of their lives, even by sufferers of cluster headaches, which themselves are said to be more severe than childbirth or the sting ofParaponera clavata.
Something about this strikes me as overly specific and protesting too much. Comes off silly.
edit: later on I still upvoted though
Of course, then again, it does imply that the Foundation specifically sought out sufferers of cluster headaches just to test with this.
Geeze, you really are in love with the idea that the Foundation is some organization of evil bastards who torture people for shits and giggles, aren't you?
I know there's no canon, but that's not a view that's very well supported on this site. The Foundation does what is necessary. Where possible, it will do the good thing, but it will not shirk from any evil it must commit in the name of that greater good.
Are cluster headaches really common enough that it's plausible that one of them would just randomly come into contact with SCP-309? Hell, why do we need to do any more testing with this thing once we figure out what it does? Can't we just lock it in a box and call it a day?
Indeed. Which is why the conclusion to draw is that that's a bad sentence and should be removed, not that the Foundation hunts down sufferers of an excruciating illness just to torture them further.
EDIT: And that reminds me. This really should be Safe.
Yeah, I'm with you on that. This thing should be safe. It can be locked away safely, and even in the event of accidental exposure, all it causes is a few seconds of mild discomfort.
Apart from that, I like this. It's a bit personal, but It's sadistically interesting, and the images sure help. +1
The Foundation is having people turned inside out, asking them to sayhow much it hurts and you're wondering if it's REALLY worse then a cluster headache…
I may be the only one who recognizes that bottom photo, but knowing it's from the Bodies exhibit makes it hard to believe that would be what a person who's inside-out would like like. Kind of throws me out of it.
The bear is quite creepy.
Damn, what a creepy toy! (source?) Also, the nausea adds at the disturbing qualities of the toy, too. I wonder how would the toy look if it was (maybe robotically?) turned "inside out", as in, in this case, to look "normally".
Also: Hey, it's a guy from the Bodies exhibit!
+1
Weird. I though I readed this before, and then it was mentioned how 309 was discovered by a little girl who pick it up without thinking. Can't find that bit in history nor SCP Classic, guess it's my memory mess-up.
Upvoted anyway.
*shudder*
+1
MUCH later: actually, -1. It's good, but needs an Object Class change.
I randomly opened this one and immediately saw the stuffed animal picture and though, "Woah, that's weird, let's check this out." Started reading about how it makes you feel sick, people can't touch it for very long, etc. Sounds good, creepy even, I continue reading expecting a bit twist/creepy build up. Then I get to the end paragraph and it completely loses me and the read falls flat IMO.
The process of having the entirety of your fleshy bits turned inside out only takes 5-10 seconds? It's an SCP, fine, weirder things have happened much faster on here.
The process is rarely fatal? Again, it's an SCP, adds to the horror I guess, yadda yadda, ok.
This is what kills it for me in the end:
universally reported by subjects to be the worst pain of their lives, even by sufferers of cluster headaches, which themselves are said to be more severe than childbirth or the sting of Paraponera clavata.
You're kidding me right? I don't mean to be rude but this line just sounds extremely silly to me. If I were making a scale of physical pain, I would have stubbing your toe on one side, andhaving your body turned inside out while you are alive on the other! Cluster headaches and child birth be damned, clarifying this seems unnecessary!
Interviewer- "Sir, your entire body has been turned inside out, how do you feel?"
Agent ██████- "Well I feel icky. Like the worst pain I've ever felt. Definitely worse than that time I broke my arm. Maybe even worse than banging my shin against a coffee table in the dark."
Agreed. I'm downvoting because of the loss of clinical tone. I like the idea, but… Also, is it reversible? What happens if someone holds it twice?
Why dont they mention the use of this to study the internal muscle and organ movements of a live subject? Why are the subjects able to respond and live out their lives if their body feels worse then childbirth? Wouldnt they just scream in constant agony? Why is testing limited to small animals, never before in 1-300 has the foundation stopped testing because of the risk to D-class? Why did the testing stop? This article is less than halfway done, needs a lot of work
Well, because it's not like they're really gaining anything. The Foundation isn't a standard medical research center that cares too much about internal muscle movements in a live subject, something which this doesn't even help them study. Seeing as, you know, if someone's turned inside out, it's not reallyinternal muscle movements.
As for the D-class thing, D-class are a hell of a lot more valuable than lab rats, and the Foundation isn't staffed by a bunch of Mengele Juniors. They don't really get any more information from testing with humans, they're losing a rare and valuable resource, and I kind of doubt the researchers are okay with horribly torturing people without a damn good reason.
This is pretty much all I could've said about this one.
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