SCP Foundation

Gosh, have you, like, done this before? Because this is, like, super-good!

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No, seriously, gave me shivers. Remind me never to go camping with you, ever.

I always did wonder about a macroscopic T4…

I like this one but this: "SCP-371's physiology and behavior appear similar to ordinary microscopic viruses, although with several adaptions that make it a notable marine predator:" bugs me a little bit after all Viruses aren't capable of self locomotion. There is a whole debate about them being alive or not.

Now, a Virus that somehow is capable of self locomotion is ok for me as an SCP. It is the fact that because of that SCP-371 shouldn't have the same "behavior" of normal viruses, after all viruses dosen't have something that could be called "behavior".

I saw this back on September when I first got here, I wanted to edit it. Didn't knew how, and decided no to mention it. Now I know to change that isn't a little change but a major one, so I bring that here.

Oh waoh, that got more long than I thought it would. Beforhand I apologize if there is any kind of grammatical or spelling mystake.

"Viruses don't work like that." Try as I might, that was the only thing I ended up thinking throughout this entire thing. You make them out to be some sort of crawling, self-replicating sea monster when they're not even a mass of goo in a super-tiny lipid sheathe. Not even the basest effort to address the contradictions with standard science/reality.

Having some understanding of biology, this screams bad science at me. Downvoted, unfortunately.

It really doesn't seem that much like a virus… just some sort of sea-spider that likes to lay its eggs in other things.

I mean I get that it's injecting the host with its own patterns and whatnot to create more viruses, but… well, so?

This thing is actually kind of less frightening than some actual animals, with just the scare factor that people don't like viruses and find them scary because it's something that can hurt you and do terrible things to you without you seeing it. Once you can see it, it's actually less scary.

This doesn't really evoke any sort of body horror or anything. Even the vague scariness of "Well we don't have a fish or cow handy, may as well feed it a D-class" doesn't even really carry much punch since there's not much reason for them to do so. There's no indication that these are the only specimens alive or that they're even that difficult to come by, so if important research is being done on them (which isn't mentioned even in passing), they could just as easily be allowed to go hungry or die off and then the collection team could go out and get some more. Well, I guess it depends on how these particular researchers view D-class, but since there's no mention of collecting the specimens being particularly difficult or dangerous, that D-class could probably be better used for something else and the collection team could just go swimming again.

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Eeehhh… this one doesn't do anything for me. It's just a big thing that looks like a virus, and kinda imitates how a virus would be if it were made big. The way the effect progresses is confusingly formatted, and the addenda was kind of narmy. Additionally, I don't like how it's intermittently referred to as "SCP-371" or "the virus" or how the first picture is an illustration.

I could see something cool being done with this idea, especially with the second picture, but as it stands there's absolutely nothing here that makes it worth my time. Downvoted.

This terrifies the crap out of me, mainly because viruses terrify the crap out of me and an enormous one… gah. Could use cleanup, true. I don't mind the illustration (though it could be better justified).

Solid writing, but Voyager made it scarier.

I like this a lot. It targets my fear of bacteria and viruses. This just made me 10x more scared. +1

I think that the first image is unnecessary. But it's creepy nonetheless, so have an upvote.