ADR - Episode 500: SCP-Cember - SCP500/SCP-1788

[00:00:00] I'm Mikey, the. Okay. How dare. I'll recommend it. I liked it. All right. Well, let's let's dive in to the rundown and find out why. SCP-500 is a plastic pill what we can find as a better SCP for our 500 episode. I actually like this one. Okay, well, I also have technically two notes on this one. I guess we could do those first before we go into our next entry.

[00:03:02] So I'm going to read a new preview process?

[00:03:05] Yeah, I think we're going to have to on to what amount they have because it's hard to like duplicate like exactly as it as the originals are. But this one thing that is in exam. He had to be made an example of. It's like, let this be a lesson to you all D class and staff. Yeah.

[00:05:40] Get AIDS before you get it before you try and requisition a a pill from SCP 500.

[00:05:46] Yes. also on Twitter. I also couldn't help but notice that there is an aid drug in the game. Like, like under your under aid category, there's a drug that you can take called panacea. And it effectively cures all conditions. It's SCP 500.

[00:07:01] Apparently, yeah. So I that's my connective, it feels like it's, my take on this is like it's fine as it is, but it's more of a companion piece for all the other SCP things because we're reading like the other SCPs that it's they've used it with and stuff.

[00:08:22] It's basically like horrible, like terminally infectious,

[00:08:27] like bad shit

[00:09:25] and add a lot to the lore overall.

[00:09:27] And that's what I feel this is.

[00:09:32] My one gripe with it is they didn't mention how they found it or when they found it or anything.

[00:09:36] It just we have these.

[00:09:37] This is how many we have.

[00:09:39] Yeah, like that could have been where

[00:09:42] some of the creepiness could have come from

[00:09:43] is like where they found it and stuff at that.

[00:09:46] Yeah, for sure. People have gone back into other projects and added things in or they've altered things and such. Yeah. I also like that one of them, I figure which one specifically, but it basically went, yeah, it worked, but it caused a redacted event, which caused redacted casualties. Yeah. One of these did kill a lot of people when they used it on an SEV.

[00:11:02] Like, it cured them, but're just some weird creature that is like smarter than humans and more resilient than humans. Like you need to do it on the way to kill it is to like hit it with more than a thousand degrees heat to kill it. So like they are and they're using SCP-427 as a light replacement to 500 because it's

[00:12:26] endless. They use SCP-500 as a raw material for a project where the Foundation are trying to use multiple SCPs to create, and I quote, an artificial humanoid to benefit the Foundation. That can only end well. Oh yeah, no, whatever said. Yeah. So I don't know what the fuck that's all about because I only started briefly reading

[00:13:42] it, but yeah, they're trying to make some No, it's not partial. It's just like, you like it but you wanted to be creeped out. Yeah, yeah. Okay, fair. And, uh, Mikey, your recommendation or final thoughts? Wow. Well,

[00:17:40] the thing is this SCP is basically boils down to being a tool. model of of of of a panacea. It was a kind of small hospital I'd say maybe like 60 or so staff. But yeah, I do agree with you on this like you're not you're not wrong like none of us are wrong here So yeah, and because of that I'm still not gonna recommend it Okay

[00:17:41] and gamer I'm

[00:17:43] Personally gonna still recommend it. I agree that there should be a

[00:18:42] because if they could replicate this safely, then there's no diseases anymore.

[00:18:44] You know?

[00:18:45] That's the the metamorphic identity

[00:18:47] is what you're referencing.

[00:18:48] Yes.

[00:18:49] Yeah.

[00:18:51] And yeah, again, I like that.

[00:18:52] It's a rabbit hole of a whole bunch of other SCPs

[00:18:55] and it's been like, even through all these weird SCPs

[00:18:59] with the novel effects of it's curing all of them.

[00:19:01] Except for that one guy who like

[00:19:03] potentially killed other people, but everybody else.

[00:19:06] Yeah.

[00:19:07] It worked quite well.

[00:19:08] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, overall, I really like it. I just wish there was an order to do it. All right, fair. Well, gamer, um, uh, you've got 10 minutes to do the next to read the next one for the

[00:20:20] episode. Okay, gotta refast.

[00:21:26] Well, let's find out why we gave those recommendations and starting with the rundown. So SCP-1788 is an infectious transformative element that occurs in adult humans, where

[00:21:34] they become more than human biologically and psychologically, with an extra set of arms,

[00:21:40] multiple redundant organs, denser musculature, and reinforced metallic bones, making them incredibly territorial and extremely aggressive, but do mate with their own kind, having no sexual interest with regular humans. The a word today. So I'm going to add it to the inquisit the grammar inquisition. So it's from special containment procedures. Um, embedded agents in various governments, including those of redacted redacted and redacted redacted redacted redacted redacted.

[00:25:24] in this containment procedure.

[00:25:26] Yeah. I learned in referencing it.

[00:25:29] Sorry, I don't know if they reference

[00:25:31] like doing an X-ray screening as doing a origin screening.

[00:25:35] You would just say doing an X-ray screen, right?

[00:25:38] Yeah.

[00:25:39] Am I using that wording?

[00:25:40] It's a very weird like, yeah, it's an old word

[00:25:44] and it's very odd to be used.

[00:25:46] I guess like maybe like for this like kind of formal format, So Mikey, these stands for evil. They have a conjunction junction that's mostly dialogue. But when has that ever stopped you? All right. And next stop, conjunction junction. It is extremely difficult to distinguish an instance the use sentences through the story that start with words that they probably shouldn't like it sends your butts because it's always better words to use. Except for when it's fact that it's mostly dialogue because I'm just given the rationing.

[00:28:21] I know.

[00:28:22] And I'm just adding the exam.

[00:28:24] Like I'm giving in the exemplar.

[00:28:26] Yeah.

[00:28:27] Yeah. the right amount of letters, but it could also be a lot of other ones. Meanwhile, this one is very specifically laid out, so it's obviously that. Yeah, it's very clearly the United States of America. But also, yeah, like, I wonder if it's a matter of formatting, like, they use these, like, black blocks. And so, like, maybe they should have, like, added, like, just not had these spaces.

[00:29:42] That's what I'm saying.

[00:29:43] Yeah. Or, because, like, yeah, I know I'm agreeing with you.

[00:30:42] And cranium instead of long bones.

[00:30:47] I know I think long bones in that like, like the forearm, the, like the the arm bones, the leg bones and stuff like that.

[00:30:49] Like I think those are long bones, aren't they?

[00:30:51] Is that a term I forgot to.

[00:30:53] Yeah.

[00:30:54] Long bones in humans.

[00:30:57] Oh, long bones.

[00:30:58] They consist of a long shaft with two bulky ends or extremities.

[00:31:03] They are primarily compact bones, but may have a large amount of spongy bone

[00:32:01] This from the description. SCP-1788 is a present treatment, no, sorry, is a process treatment or other means of biological

[00:32:08] transformation.

[00:32:09] A prepubescent human being subjected to SCP-1788 becomes an instance of SCP-1788-1.

[00:32:19] Currently the creator or discoverer of SCP-1788 is unknown.

[00:32:25] Groups of interest are being investigated. So many like Canadian American UK and New Zealand post apocalyptic shows from around the early 2000s era where that was the premise like an apocalypse wipes out the entire adult population and the oldest survivors are teens and usually no one lives past the age of like

[00:33:40] the 20s or the 20s.

[00:33:42] Yeah.

[00:33:44] But I digress. location where it is subject to the SCP-1788 process and turned into an instance of SCP-1788-1. So, I don't know what that process is, do we? No, we know. It's still unknown. I still like how they infect their

[00:36:23] their abductees and their children, the children and such. is they're gonna shoot them. Yeah, because they don't work If it doesn't work give them the lead pill yes But I'll move on because as we go into the the anatomy of SCP 1781

[00:37:43] from the like that little transcript document At least onto parts of their skeleton structure. Yeah. Yeah, these guys are all kinds of horrifying. And I could see them as a creepy monster to discover and fight or deal with in a Delta green game or an adjacent horror game scenario. Like investigators, they're invested, you have the investigators investigating a string of that where it's just like suddenly they become these large obese beings, but their bone structure and their musculature is much more like metallic and dense. You understand why they're a quarter quarter obese, right? Well I'm getting to that, I am getting to that.

[00:39:02] It's I think it's like two notes down as I go through these descriptions of systems also have two or three redundant backups that can take other, that can take over in the event of the failure of the primary organ or organs. And at this point, I was like, ah, crap, they added a, they had some krogan in there for good measure. Yeah. Yeah, that's over the 5, we get this. Logs of this incident have not been fully cleared. In summary, a team of agents were able to lure

[00:41:40] an SCP-1788-1 instance into the range of for warframe. But it also reminded me of the. Also, it helps with the added horrifying body horror element. If the investigators in the game that like you're if you're running this in the game

[00:43:02] and they manage to blow off the head of the thing and it still comes at them as

[00:43:07] if I'm perturbed.

[00:44:06] the incident log, like the exact specifics aren't fully cleared by the foundation. But here's the gist of what happened or what we can divulge in the DAWS.

[00:44:11] It is important information.

[00:44:14] Yeah.

[00:44:15] And then my next thing here is this is the last thing I have for the for the anatomy.

[00:44:22] The final difference in gross anatomy is the appearance of a secondary pair of arms located

[00:44:27] directly below the difference great. Okay. I'm imagining them as just Yeah, dudes naked. He looks like a human great moving on But then I read the entire story and then by the end. Oh, by the way, he has a secondary set

[00:45:42] Okay, that yeah

[00:45:44] No, no, I have whatever said agree cuz like the entire time I was visual Wow. Hey, as we found out this episode, the SCP Foundation is quite strict and willing to make examples of people. Oh, okay. I thought you meant the writer in real life. No, no, no, God, no. I'm like, dude, make it easy.

[00:47:00] No, I'm being like, I'm in the narrow, like in the setting, like in game.

[00:47:05] Whoever wrote up the document in the lower. Okay, so there's two voices in here. There's director Mandevil and then there's 863. So Mandevil, explain what you mean by that 863. SCP-17-881-863, I'm just gonna use 863. Does not speak. Director Mandevil activates the shock collar.

[00:48:22] 863 does not visibly react.

[00:48:24] 863 laughs.

[00:48:26] And then we get to 863.

[00:49:30] You're stunted, incomplete. You're like the amphibian that grows up to breathe water instead of air. The eggs I watched. They must hatch into us. They need to be finished. Mandeville.

[00:49:38] So you abduct them to complete their metamorphosis? generally use the alien pathogen that mutates and corrupts biological and synthetic individuals, the exergent virus. And they also tend to, tend to, like, see themselves as superior, or even the next step in human advancement and evolution. So like, I was getting some serious

[00:51:01] eclipse phase vibes from just this interview with this creature with the, with the, with 863.

[00:52:04] as well and their whole like their behavioral manner and stuff like that.

[00:52:14] So basically it's like it's sort of like it's it's really it's a really cool and fun creepy reveal here we get in this interview because we get the insight of the SCP's mentality and its viewpoint.

[00:52:21] And it's like it's sort of supernatural but it's also kind of So this creepypasta or SAP was actually creepy. I'm but, but the brain is muscle, which is heavy. Yeah. I know. So and they're, I mean, they have carbon fiber to help lighten the load.

[00:55:06] Yeah. schools because obese humans Are out of place on their own Depends on where you are I mean it does depend where you are Like some places have a higher obesity rate than others That that's true

[00:56:22] But I feel like this is a prime candidate for the

[00:57:23] Like, I know like, don't judge a book by its cover. Like, a person might actually be like somebody

[00:57:27] who's like looking at, or who like has a kid

[00:57:30] at a school and some of that.

[00:57:31] But it's also just not a good look

[00:57:36] by like general viewpoints and such.

[00:57:45] Yeah.

[00:57:46] So it.

[00:58:42] And they rarely like working together. It's like harder for like, it is still like difficult

[00:58:45] for them to infect children on a mass scale.

[00:58:50] Also, every time the SCP Foundation finds out

[00:58:52] about one of them being infected

[00:58:54] and a dash one gets made, they kill it.

[00:58:57] Yes.

[00:58:58] Yeah.

[00:59:00] It's hard for them to, it would populate us basically.

[00:59:04] Yeah, I kinda see it.

[00:59:05] Honestly, I was kinda getting a vampire vibe, the GM side things to basically set up like this guy actually has like a small system of like covertly doing this and it just take unfortunately like part of the there was like a kink in part of the the conspiriment that notified the the investigators to the actual situation

[01:00:27] yeah I'm sure one of those is also Canada to be fair. Yeah. But yeah, it's definitely like, it's also, yeah, like again, like the game, it starts off just like you're reading as like, oh, this is going to be creepy, like, skeevy creepy, isn't it? And then it's like, oh, no, it's, it's a different type of creepy, but also kind of

[01:01:43] dread.

[01:01:44] Yeah.

[01:03:04] But I'll move on. Yeah,

[01:04:03] this pathogen or whatever this thing is that creates that creates these things. That's fine. They said create or I got that. They should have said discover.

[01:04:08] Yeah, you're right. I'm agreeing with you. I'm saying the way you could have just said yes.

[01:04:15] I'm trying to like, I'm trying to like like clarify why like what what was being said.

[01:04:22] Either way. Yeah. I'm fine with not knowing you pick two for two in a row that don't have an origin both of them test me out Sorry to be fair don't like the foundation probably has official references to this sort of thing to have it all so every SCP uses this as their priority system. In this way, I couldn't find it first. They're actually, I looked at priority code.

[01:07:00] And there is actually, apparently,

[01:07:01] there's supposedly a color coding.

[01:07:04] Like low priority is deemed a code green. them in, I can find out what that means. Like, is this top level priority? Or is this just like, yeah, whatever. Well, yeah, I agree with you. Like that help. That is definitely something that maybe, I don't know, if any SCP Foundation like admins or whatever are listening, maybe add that into the guidelines thing. Like when you're like similar to like the object classes,

[01:08:20] like, is there a line of codes for like different priority levels and such? I love the footnotes in this. They're like really easy and clean. You just hover over them for a little bit of extra explanation. It's a much cleaner way to do it compared to just putting brackets all over the place. Yeah. And I really like it. That's my one nice part. I love the footnotes in this.

[01:09:41] They're like really easy and clean.

[01:09:43] You just hover over them for a little bit of extra explanation.

[01:09:46] It's a much cleaner way to do it easily, it's hard to tell the difference. While unclothed, they have an extra set of arms. Yeah, exactly. And the, and there's more changes within them. For example, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. I feel like that would be the natural flow of this realistically, because if someone's reading

[01:11:02] this to get information on dealing with this, what if they don't get to the end? Yeah, that's my long short. Yeah, fair. Oh, that's the, the end of your notes. Okay. All right. Do we say, well, I put my, okay. So I suppose we move on to final thoughts.

[01:12:20] I'm still willing to recommend this one.

[01:12:22] It's a cool and it's just a cool and creepy concept. And they're secretly hiding among us kind of thing. So yeah, I really enjoyed it for that. So that's why I'm still gonna recommend it. Mikey, these stands for you. Yeah, basically I'd like that they can hide among us.

[01:13:46] They're come off as obese humans, which that's when they turn into these things. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:15:00] Yeah.

[01:15:01] So, so they're a threat if they convert to many of them and they actually grow a number, sure. But there's parts of the story that really bug me, namely not knowing how we know about them, how we found out about them and all that. I also hate the mention of them being fat gouroes

[01:16:22] is brought up at the very end of the damn story

[01:16:24] that really annoyed me.

[01:16:25] Like, yeah, I just, I don't know, I prefer other SCPs over this. So I'm gonna give it a partial. Having origin stuff would help.

[01:17:47] Having the Goroness up higher would help.. Or the end part B too. Yeah. So if you like what you heard,

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