First SCP!
I feel that this lacks a solid narrative and the anomaly is pretty subtle. However, it's well written and solid about the anomaly itself, I'd still upvote.
Good job for your first scip!
+1
While this is competently written, the anomaly doesn't interest me a whole lot, and there's no narrative that makes up for that. I feel like it took too long to get to the hook of the article (a virus that makes people sneeze fire), and once that was reached it basically ended.
Novoting.
I'd compare this to a cardboard box covered in glitter. Sure, it's pretty to look at, but at the end of the day it's just a cardboard box. I have to praise you for making a virus SCP work, because that's very hard to do purely from the sheer number of them, but beyond that this is a fairly bland article.
Well-written, but ultimately quite uninteresting and forgettable. -1 from me.
I love articles where the Foundation describes something in an extremely technical and obtuse way because saying it the simple way makes them really, really want an alcoholic beverage.
I didn't find this thing particularly interesting at first, but on later re-reads I could tell that there was genuine effort put into making Virus What Makes You Sneeze Fire seem plausible and realistic. It's also written in a way which builds up to the punchline effectively.
Overall, a simple but good article, very much like a higher-end Series I SCP.
Downvote replaced with upvote.
I like the writing, it's well thought out and works as a scip tecnically.
What I'm missing is a log, report or whatever that grounds this as something more than a technical description and adds nuance, horror or intrigue. A simple suggestion would be elaborating on the origin but still make it suitable vague. So -1 right now.
Several Assessment Team operatives were dispatched by the Global Occult Coalition at the same time as the Foundation, but fortunately SCP-3056-1 instances could be recovered by the Foundation without incident. Infected animals were destroyed with the help of Global Occult Coalition operatives.
This. Specifically the bolded part. Is what I like to see. While I understand where the hate between both the Foundation and GOC come from, I imagine they'd be able to come to terms with something and do this kind of thing.
Sort of like a "Look, we'll contain these and you can destroy the rest" kind of thing. They wouldn't CONSTANTLY be at each other's throats and I can see them working together a lot of the time really.
Aw man, I have had the worst luck with the internet eating my posts lately.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that I just love how you really tried to create a realistic mechanism through which a human being might plausibly sneeze fire. Fantastic.
It might be somewhat bare-bones (for a modern SCP, at least), but everything that's there now is totally solid. I wouldn't change anything, but I think the right acquisition log land/or interview could really make it shine.
Of course, I'm just some stranger whose writing experience over the last 15 years has consisted almost entirely of snarky internet comments, so what do I know?