This Christmas my family got me a very thick but helpful book titled "The History of Philosophy". I busied myself reading it, and I soon came to the chapter on Plato. Then for some reason, I began wondering what the philosophers of antiquity would have thought of some of our SCPs (Don't ask me why my mind jumped to this, think I've been on this site too long). Anyways, I thought it would be a good challenge for myself to write a Foundation tale in Plato's dialogue format.
Reptilius / Discussion
Forum
» Per Page Discussions / Per page discussions
» Reptilius
This is the discussion related to the wiki page Reptilius.
Things just got REALLY meta, and we found an ancient SCP wiki.
Military Consultant, SCP Wiki
Next up: Destroyed biblical chapter referring to 173 as "The Hard One"
Please actually be writing this.
Oh I will
I will
Rubbing of hands
I am planning something similar of my own. Not 173, though.
And then Salman and I can have them fight it out.
Actually, as memory recalls I was planning on doing something biblical with you, we just never went through with it.
(account deleted)Nicely done. I have not read any philosphical book in a while, but from what I remember from Plato the tone is well reproduced.
As a bonus, it is a very interesting idea for an origin story.
(guess one of those philosphers also thought about "the perfect warrior" some time later…)
I really can't think of any way this could have been better than it is. Bravo good sir, this is becoming.part of my head canon.
This is far more entertaining than it has any right to be. Well done. +1'ed
(also: "Musinus", huh?)
This formed a lot of my 682 headcanon.
I figure the lizard's primary goal isn't the destruction of all life, simply all life aware of its existence. For instance Blackwood encountered it peacefully lying in the sun, presumably because it believes everyone who knew about it has been dealt with for at least the time being. It also does a lovely job of explaining how the human race survived all this time with this beast on our planet and pretty slow population growth. It wouldn't be in any historical records either because it would make pretty damned good sure of that. So by our current standards, 682 used to be Eulicid. Then we came along. Giant, global shadow organization run by humans who all damn well know of your existence pretty early on into their lifetime careers and you thereby have no way of distinguishing between the humans with knowledge and those without? Gonna have to kill all those slightly clever apes just to be sure.
So yeah. We made 682 Keter.
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal.
All this pain is an illusion.
That doesn't fit 682s MO, if you look at the article 682 is so malicious because it finds our form of life disgusting, it looks at us and sees nothing but horribly grotesque abominations.
I think it became that way after millennia of provocation from us- every time humans encounter it, the first fucking thing we try to do is kill it and both the attempts to do so and the sheer stupidity/arrogance of apes with projectiles thinking they have any kind of a reasonable shot at that would make it one very pissed-off lizard by the time we came into existence.
Using your analogy sir Anaxgoras, it was relatively well-tempered (relative to its present self anyway) toward cockroaches until said cockroaches infested the rock it's stuck on and tried to suicidally eat it to death thousands of times over.
Edit: the Foundation and the Industrial Revolution/subsequent population and technology explosion did come around about the same time in my head.
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal.
All this pain is an illusion.
Yeah, 682 wants to get away from us. It doesn't care about who knows about it. It just wants us to stop offending its alien senses with our existence. The reason why it hasn't been a problem for humanity as a whole is first that it isn't actually that dangerous. Dangerous to any individuals it should encounter, but hardly any kind of existential threat to the species as a whole.
To me, it's kind of the entomophobe who finds cockroaches so disgusting, and just can't himself from smashing them, even though insect guts are even worse and won't those terrible things please leave him alone and he hates this sewer so filled with roaches and…
/forum/t-432216/reptilius#post-
page revision: 5, last edited: 18 May 2020 23:10
