SCP-4246 │ The Dreams of the Firstborn │ Archon │ Hive Mind SCP

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• KU

  @kuren1721 · 3 years ago

  Anyone else use some of these to sleep, cause tbh I find it soothing to listen to horrifying and conceptually beyond our basic understanding of reality stories

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• SW

  @swaginton1180 · 3 years ago (edited)

  "they weren't gods, they were cephalopods" sounds like the lyrics you would hear in an educational rap video in biology and I love it

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• LO

  @lordofthewest · 3 years ago

  As much as I love the normal mysterious scps, this style of scp file seems so much more "in canon" since it makes the document look more like an actual scientific document rather than a strange set of clues about a mostly unknown phenomenon.

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• FA

  @Falcon-doing-doodles · 2 years ago

  Ocean nerd here, really cool that whoever wrote this article chose the Pacific Ocean for this. The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean on earth, and rich in oxygen content, which allows sea creatures to get much bigger, especially in the case of cephalopods. One of the larger octopi, the giant pacific octopus, has been recorded reaching sizes of up to 600 pounds and about 30 feet across, and the largest squid has been measured at reaching 1000 pounds and 42 feet in length

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• SU

  @supermintsoda743 · 3 years ago

  Now this is how you write an SCP. No silly dimension teleportation sci-fi tech silliness to break suspension of disbelief, no "Feed it 12,000 class D a week and pray the world doesn't end" containment procedures. A slow logical buildup as the foundation uses standard scientific methods and some questionable morals to study and gleam the truth about an anomoly. Turning it from something that seems otherworldly and magic into something that, while foreign, is understandable and real. Brilliant work on the writer's part. This is what makes SCP such a facinating setting.

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• TO

  @tobilostboy4526 · 3 years ago

  I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I love the world building of the Archon stories. Gaia is still one of my favorites, and I'll always listen to archon files start to finish. Thank u king.

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• DA

  @daniell1483 · 3 years ago

  I like the idea of using this hivemind network as a means of creating a way to preserve their civilization through the KPg extinction event (and presumably to avoid this "Beast", whatever that may be) and find a way to restart their society when they were safe. And clearly, once the network understood what it was doing to humanity as a side effect, they fixed the "glitch" in the system and closed the system off from humanity. Using a hivemind as a form of created "afterlife" seems like something George R.R. Martin would write.

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• ZO

  @zombieranger3410 · 3 years ago

  I love the world building with this one, it uses a ton of science to back up the anomalous nature/history and add to the world, instead of just saying "unknown material" "unidentifiable" or the all too famous [redacted]. I also really liked how the story portrays the Foundation as an evolving institution, one that wasn't very good at its job years prior working with simpler tools and a worse understanding of anomalies. They even got beaten by N*z*s with their research. Each time a researcher figured the puzzle out it felt really satisfying, and it happened multiple times. The ending too was icing on the cake.

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• JA

  @janedoe885 · 3 years ago

  As spooky as this SCP can get, in a weird way the end made it kind of wholesome to me.<br><br>Cephalopods have their own little personalities, sense of mischief, concepts of teamwork and appreciation. Very curious and prone to wild adventures. So while hyper intelligent/longer lived cephalopods could be very, very alien--knowing the zoological stuff wove a more positive/less scary character into the Tethyans imo.<br><br>Enjoyed it a lot (THANKS VOLGUN), but honestly my reaction was prob odd.

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• MI

  @miep3934 · 3 years ago

  I love this SCP. Don&apos;t get me wrong, I dig them when they are scary because they mean to be. Peanut or Shyguy are awesome, but there is just something amazing about an SCP that isn&apos;t hostile but just harms people because it is so beyond us that we just can&apos;t keep up with it. That we are too small or primitive to comprehend them.

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• NE

  @newdayjesus6027 · 3 years ago

  I gotta say, I&apos;ll support the new format but I wasn&apos;t expecting to miss scrolling text. Kinda felt like it fit the aesthetic.

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• JO

  @Jopeth23 · 3 years ago

  &quot;The Thethyans are cephalopods.&quot;<br><br>Me: * looks nervously at my calamari lunch *

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