It's not a bad concept, but I'd like to see more detail on just how impossible it is to remove a person from the pool while 365 is still in the water. Can they not pull themselves out? Can other people not pull them out? Can machines pull them out? What does it do to watercraft? What does do to people who are in the water but not fully submerged? What about bodies of water too shallow to submerge in? What if the pool noodle isn't entirely in the water? Does the pool noodle still enable people holding onto it to float?
In retrospect, I should have asked these questions back when this was still in the sandbox.
Can they not pull themselves out?
The article mentions that no matter how much the submerged person swims, they never move, so I'm guessing no, they can't.
Can other people not pull them out?
Well, the article mentions that other people trying to get them out of the water results in a [DATA EXPUNGED].
What does do to people who are in the water but not fully submerged? What about bodies of water too shallow to submerge in? What if the pool noodle isn't entirely in the water?
Most likely, nothing. People are only affected if they are fully submerged (it says so in the third line of the description), which probably implies that the noodle is also submerged.
The article doesn't mention what happens if we just leave a person underwater indefinitely. Will they drown? Or the "super pure water" somehow provides oxygen to them?
Heh, but I feel the same way and I was also in chat. Sometimes it's better to have these things in comments though, especially if the SCP can already stand on its own feet (as I think the Noodle of Doom can).
Personally, as I said in IRC, I think the 'victim is immobile' thing is overdone in other SCPs. For my money, I'd rather see the victims be movable, but either:
1) trapped in the infinite sea even if removed from the water, until 365 is taken out: they stay wet and keep moving their legs as if swimming, and eventually drown no matter what steps are taken, or
2) they can be dragged around the pool, but not removed from the water. Attempting to pull them out results in:
I think that would make for a more interesting 'can't get out' scenario than just 'can't move the victim by any means', which seems too supernatural and stiff.
"Can they not pull themselves out? Can other people not pull them out? Can machines pull them out?"
This is what the "all other methods of rescue have failed" line was supposed to explain. People using ropes or cables, would have them snap. People who tried to pull them out by hand would [DATA EXPUNGED].
"What does it do to watercraft?"
I should probably add a line that says only humans are affected.
"What does do to people who are in the water but not fully submerged? What about bodies of water too shallow to submerge in?"
The line "completely submerges in said body of water" is supposed to explain that your entire body has to be under the water for you to be affected.
"What if the pool noodle isn't entirely in the water? Does the pool noodle still enable people holding onto it to float?"
I should also add that the pool noodle has to be fully in the water. And since it's physically the same as an ordinary pool noodle, it should have the same properties. So yes, it helps people float.
Is the victim able to use the pool noodle to float in the infinite sea? If so, is the noodle always present in the endless sea or only if the victim is in contact with it?
I'm amazed they haven't sent a D-Class into the pool with a waterproof video camera…
This. I know a lot of people don't like SCP articles to turn into long things with tons of experiment logs unless it's really really good, but the sheer lack of curiosity and testing that this thing really seems to have been put to seems really… well, lame.
As Sorts notes, the interview is poor and could easily be cut, and either replaced with something better or with a transcript of a video made from someone using a camera.
Better yet, if you want to combine the two and throw some real creep factor in there, what I'd do is fit someone with a full-face helmet that had a microphone, as well as a camera on their suit. Do a realtime version of the interview (punched up a bit) with describing what they're seeing and becoming steadily more horrified, while the camera just continues to show the placid, safe pool all around them.
I thought I was going to hate this, but I actually like it and upvoted it.
But that interview is terrible and doesn't add anything to this for me.
So, if anyone who goes under simply swims around in an endless ocean until they drown, how do we, not in the water, know about the endless ocean they saw? Being drowned, I don't see how they were able to describe it to us.
I like it but I wish the interview wasn't there. It's just your old fashion "boo hoo i feel weird and oh—- oh gawd blarf it was so real man" sherlock.
1+ but plz no more interview.
Hit the cymbal!
I can't believe I wrote this thing 6 years, ago, damn.
Well, since the general consensus seems to be that the interview adds nothing, I've removed it.
Oh hey, I remember this. I like it more without the interview for sure. While I think it's simple and effective enough as-is, I definitely would like to see some sort of expansion in some way.
This needs test logs, because this SCP has a whole lot of potential.
Awesome the interview is gone!
TBH this needs a little more something but I still enjoy it!
Hit the cymbal!
This looks potentially good, but like some folks have said, test logs on how far 365's effect goes would elevate the status of this item. I'd rather have like them tests to replace the interview than it having no substitute whatsoever.
I nominate involving a raft test, a scuba diving test, and a test involving a crawler crane to rescue the guinea pig (this last one would be a bit expensive and potentially destructive though!).