I like this, it could use a bit of polish but otherwise I enjoyed it.
I like it, and was glad no AWCY reference appeared.
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I still have a problem that it just kills people.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
Should I edit it to amplify the ambiguity of whether or not the victims D-89786 saw were all dead? Obviously most of the people that are partially disemboweled and then "rescued" are probably toast, but it may or may not be just eating all the people/things that it attacks, at least not immediately.
Question: Where did you find this street art. I'd like to go there just so that I could nope the fuck out and nerd out lol.
Anqxyr helped me a lot with the tone and phrasing, and is the reason this doesn't suck a whole lot more.
May edit in a different picture later, I have a friend that offered to edit it to be creepier and less well-composed.
The idea is kind of meh and reminiscent of 106. I did like the detail about being able to see with the removed eyes. The tone could use work, and its/it's confusion almost caused me to downvote on the spot.
If you wanted to make it more interesting, I would suggest that it's some manner of malevolent consciousness that acts through graffiti rather than being a graffiti monster.
edit: Also, Imperial units towards the beginning = D:
its/it's mixup corrected. Well spotted, sir.
Any specific advice about adjusting the tone? I've been trying to nail the clinical detachment down, but it's definitely no 450. Plus I have a tendency to be excessively verbose, and always admire the way that some of the better articles can paint a detailed picture with a few broad strokes.
Similarities to 106 are trickier. Did my best to be original, but they're both fundamentally predatory intangible creatures focused on body horror and the difficulty of containment. I guess switching it to being any graffiti rather than the picture I found would be a way to further differentiate them. I'll mull it over.
What happens if you hit it with paint thinner or something?
The first paragraph of the containment procedures can be split in two, somewhere after "should be notified immediately." part.
in situations where this cannot be affected in a timely fashion
I am not sure that this usage of the word "affected" is a correct one.
The paragraph explaining how and when the entity relocates should be in the description, not in containment procedures. Specifically, everything from "Approximately every 2-4 months," and to "prevent visual contact.". "SCP-1155 cannot be permanently contained by any known means." could be removed altogether, because 1. it is obvious from the rest of the article and 2. while it might be true, the Foundation is too arrogant to openly admit its own failure. They will keep trying to find a way until they found one, and if there isn't one they will keep trying forever.
which included humanoid forms of unknown species
This is a plot hole. If the thing hunts on other planets or in other dimensions, it should disappear from Earth for long, irregular intervals of time. Or you could just remove that part, it isn't expanded into anything interesting anyway.
Also, less to this article and more to everyone who writes about other sapient species: not every sapient extraterrestrial/extradimensional liveform has to be humanoid. Right now, the ratio of humanoid sapient species to non-humanoid on the site is something like 50 to 1.
The incident logs should either be each labeled as an addendum, or the current "Addendum:" headline be renamed into "Addenda:"
I am upvoting this mostly for interesting territorial behavior the entity shows in the first incident log. The nest and the way it becomes obsessed with the ones it tasted give it enough of an unique personality to differentiate it from other "X that kills you by Y".
I'm not in love with the core concept here, as in "monster that eats you". However, the execution is very, very good here, and my suspension of disbelief was maintained throughout. The picture was nice, and the note at the end gives it a nice creepypasta-ish finish without being stupid.
I have two quibbles: I don't know that this thing is Keter; it's very difficult to contain and kills people, but the danger it represents isn't threatening on a macro-level, beyond the prospect of any SCP that becomes publicly known if it breaches containment. Also, the skip attacks in a manner "consistent with a wild animal" or some such, but then is described as very methodically butchering its prey in a specific manner. This is internally inconsistent in my view.
Nevertheless, deftly done and well written. This has my upvote.
This must be a major threat to reality as we know it because it craves attention and can't be concealed, making it a real headache to contain. Birds do seem to be programmed to start with the eyes, I believe, so this isn't too much of a problem.
I like how this is Keter not because it's a major threat to secrecy, reality, civilization, etc., but because it's just straight-up really difficult to contain and annoying when it gets out.
if your reading this your gay
Thirding. About time we had a Keter that didn't destroy everything in sight.
This is pretty much exactly why I upvoted this, plus decent writing.