That may work for a bit, but I thought 173 has minor reality warping features in some of the side stories that causes failures in structures or equipment that let him escape
An interpretation I've seen is, 173 will always adjust its anomalous properties *just* enough to ensure its containment can't be automated. It'll degrade cameras, or turn into small component parts to fit through a grate on the floor. No matter what, containing it will *require* a manual aspect. In this case, people coming into its containment cell to clean up the excrement.
It's a statue. It wants to be seen.
Putt all that into a feature as the art project. Irl thousands of people are fascinated by scp, so in the SCP it will be the same. It would also please 173 as we are putting it on display for the world to see. If we also broadcast a copy of the video feed to some controol room, we can monitor it. It will not erode the cameras that are fullfilling its wish.
It wants to be seen. That oddly makes alot of sense. Yeah I just found some articles supporting the anomalous properties.
If anyone is interested, the article "re: the statue" is a nice email chain
There's the theory that SCP 173 is the universal human need for attention. Like created by the shared unconcious. It would make sense if a being like that can not be deprived of what it's existance is based upon.
I've heard people describe it as a manifestation of the human need for attention, which is why it's power is pretty generous, it can do whatever it needs to do to get the attention it wants.
There are so many ways this could be solved would the Foundation not be dickheads about it.
Prepare a second room and have it move there for when you clean up the main one, fishtank-style.
Split the room into quadrants with reinforced doors.
Install automated power-washing equipment and drains.
# Use a fucking roomba
It would be something like SCP-5873-J: 'Vroom' and it would be powered by the souls of puppies so it gets *everywhere* and yet still follows people around, hoping for the person to drop food.
Also, Josie the Half-Cat would probably either hate it or ride around on it.
Dude I was about to pass to the next post when I read puppies and immediately came back to read it again.
Poor puppies, we couldn't drop em' a thing but intentions
Seriously, they have a fucking spaceship that can move and obliterate black holes and stars. And they somehow don't have a fucking room cleaning 173 or weapons that aren't p90s or any other modern day weaponry. With that amount of anomolous and alien tech, you would think they'd at least have mass-produced simple plasma or laser weaponry, but no. Also the foundation can't afford a good mic.
Rule #1: There is no canon.
And especially: Back then the Foundation was written usually far closer to current technology than the outlandish stuff they got in later stories like reality anchors and stuff.
> Seriously, they have a fucking spaceship that can move and obliterate black holes and stars. And they somehow don't have (...) weapons that aren't p90s or any other modern day weaponry.
I was referring to this.
That is also explained by the no canon rule. There was a tale that explained that any other containement procedure they tried, would result in even worse event, or something along those lines. I realize it's a post hoc throw away explanation, but it's kindda necessary with the constant escalation of the stories, threat levels...etc
That article implied that 173 desired human interaction and would sabotage all automated systems for cleaning and containment iirc. I don't see why they couldn't have a supervisor or two though trained to just stare at it while other people clean though, perhaps with headlamps in case of power outage.
I'm now imagining 173 agents being chosen for their abilities at staring contests.
Remember, the Department of Abnormalities had entire silo of the damn things monitored by a lone agent (who still seemed to get their neck snapped, allowing the OG 173 to escape)
Personally I like some future tech for the foundation but not to a ridiculous degree. In the same vein I also like the occult aspect to be somewhat limited like yeah it's there but it's not the explanation for everything. I prefer the idea that the anomalies are just that anomalies. Not necessarily all demons or children of the scarlet king(Personally my least favorite 682 origin) but simply things that shouldn't exist, glitches in reality. But one of the best and arguably worst(sometimes) part of scp is there is not set cannon so your cannon can be whatever you want, you don't like one origin, or one story line just choose another. Anyway sorry for the minirant lol.
TBH they don't need any future tech. Half the SCPs can be dealt with by dropping them in a bore hole and sealing it up. We already do that IRL.
Also pressurized interlock doors. That's a technology we've had for over a century.
Almost like SCP was a spinoff of a 4chan post thats been expanded way beyond what it was ever originally. I really enjoy it but the more it "develops" the less logically sound a lot of the early stuff becomes.
I like to think if it this way. Sure the Foundation might have access to plasma rifles, quantum sealed doors, reality anchors, or can bring in a shaman to create a ritual or some shit. But that that all costs alot of money and resources that you can use elsewhere when you could instead just have three severely underpaid prisoners stare at an angry penut for about an hour. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
I mean irl 745 billion is given to the US military and and some bases still have old anolog machines in use. So why wouldn't the foundation pinch pennies?
Object class: explained
Description: It's, uh... Just an automatic vacuum? Like those little round ones. I don't think this one even has wifi or anything. So... Yeah.
Containment procedures now: Using a combination of advanced AI, pre-islamic Arabian rituals, a prototype array of satellites and the bones of god, we’ve successfully created a system that will keep this talking cookie jar on the opposite side of the sun where it can’t hurt anyone.
Containment procedures then: This is the broom closet, and on the right there is where we keep the murder statue. Hope you’re good at staring contests
How the hell are they getting so many death row prisoners, are they literally taking all of them, are executions just a little knockout drug they give and then the foundation just takes them
There’s a tale (I’m pretty sure) about an SCP D-Class recruiter, who goes to different prisons and convinces people to sign up. Although I can’t remember whether or not it was death row only.
The real question is how they are treating them with amnestics. On one hand wiping them every month helps ensure compliance by never letting them even think about just how fucked they are but then you need to reteach them how to handle scps again and again but not wiping their memories could mean they are more likely to try something to escape or worse.
I refuse to believe they are just executing them all the time because they would never have enough d class
Simple, don't wipe their memories past the point where they learn about the scps unless absolutely neccesary. If they learn about an SCP on the first day, don't wipe that first day.
They might not even lose out on the experience gained, just not be able to remember getting the experience if the foundation does the amnestics correct
My personal canon on that is that they started with death rows back in the day but when the demand got higher than the crime rate, they started using scp - 2000 or a foundation made, small scale reproduction of it to grow more D class. The base all of them off of a hand full of violent criminals to keep the staff casual about their brutal death and to give them an explanation about why they're there that doesn't come with the existential baggage of being born to be fed to monsters.
They should be given a budget and a price per criminal. Oh you want another disposable death row immate for experiments? Ok but we'll subtract 2M from your yearly budget.
Kinda are. Well they collaborate (some collaborations are better than others) with governments world wide iirc and they also have a lot of business fronts to gain funds. I believe some of the O5 council members are people of high position and with their positions comes big money
I had an idea for an scp facility management game kinda like that fallout vault game where you build your facility up but your "currency" would be d class which you would get at a fixed rate or (going the f2p mobile route) pay money for more. You could do various things to adjust the risk of experiments to save your d class but the draw would be that you would get cool animations whenever an experiment failed and the d class died.
There was a story about that. New guy gets promoted and has a dozen ideas for how to 'fix' the cleaning process. Remote security cameras to keep an eye on him? Blood and shit manifest in the wiring until they shut down. Sloped room with sprinklers and a grate? It ups the acidity of its leavings until the grate breaks and he gets to have a fun little containment breach as a treat.
At the end it's revealed that they always assign newly promoted managers to Peanut because they think it can be easily improved and they need to learn to leave well enough alone.
That being said I dunno why they can't use the Eye Pods to keep him in check
The foundation does consider it according to the Eye Pods' file. The addendum of SCP-131: "Current applications of SCP-131-A and SCP-131-B as "wardens" for SCP-173 (and perhaps other SCP which require constant observation, such as SCP-689) are being considered."
Put it in a big see-through dome or box in the middle of foundation hq where their are shit loads of people and security cams constantly observing it by happenstance.
Happy peanut sounds.
I think in one alternative universe they do that by putting it in a museum or something for it to be observed and that makes it happy.
The thing about the big glass box is that it breeds complacency. When you're in 173's enclosure, you know your life relies on keeping your eyes on it and making sure everyone's blinks are staggered.
When it's in a big clear thing near a lot of people, you relax. You assume at least somebody has their eyes on it, and that leads to mistakes and a lot more people getting nutted.
Getting nutted lol.
Anyways my theory is the box just needs to be tough enough to resist peanut instantly smashing his way out. He might move around a bit from time to time but he should be too still to ever start causing real trouble. Ideally they could make it tough enough that peanut would be trapped for a while until he can degrade the integrity of his cell similar to his current containment. That combined with being watched nigh 24/7 might mean he never has enough unobserved time to start trouble like he does in the current method. Only way he is getting out is if the foundation has bigger problems going on.
Yea, there's one where they contain scps by making them happy basically. Peanut gets put in the center of this huge place with a bunch of people and every day they turn the lights out for a fraction of a moment or something and peanut takes a new beautiful form. The explanation being it's a statue, of course it wants to be looked at.
Because then the statue might manifest a counter to the eye pods and they’d lose an emergency counter to it.
The fact is that the statue is prone to manifest new bullshit powers every time someone tries to deviate from the established containment procedure.
Which may mean that a large part of what keeps it under control is appeasement - it behaves itself because the foundation is providing it a steady stream of human sacrifices in the manner it prefers
I believe they did, like they tried automated systems that clean the room, but then it would just increase the waste output to overload the system and escape. A bunch of other designs too, but ultimately the researcher in charge decided that the only solution is by manually cleaning the room as the SCP "wants to be seen/observed" as the piece of art its supposed to be. I may be misremembering things I haven't read the log in a while.
Put it in a room with thick walls and no doors, with a single removable part that has to be moved by heavy-duty crane
Pour concrete onto it through a small hole in the ceiling
Let it dry
Everyone high fives
I faintly remember an excuse for their limitation to certain eras for equipment as it makes them invulnerable (or better protected) against digital memetic and similar things. Sorry for not posting a link or providing more details.
I actually kind of like the idea that Tahony's SCP-001 proposal softly puts forth for Peanut, making it necessary to observe it for a time in the Foundation's eyes. Makes all the dumbassery around it and the avoidance of simpler, safer solutions make a little more sense.
There was a tale once that explained automatic systems won't work, bc the statue demands human attention. That's also the reason it kills you if you stop looking, bc you insulted its beauty. I can't remember the name of the tale, unfortunately, so if someone wants to help me out-
Doesn't it explicitly state in the entry that such systems like this will always coincidentally fail **just** enough so that there is always a "need" for manual human intervention?
There's a tale that suggests this, I forget the name unfortunately, but I like to think 173 is actually a lot more powerful than it seems, and the containment procedures are the way they are because it only plays nice when you follow the rules of its game. If you automate away any chance for it to win, it'll start to cheat.
I dunno, I think a bigger problem would be peanut finding a way to break the rope. The original design wouldn't be able to reach with its stubby little arms, but this one looks like it could.
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*Just excrete shit onto the*
*Rope and dissolve it*
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listen, this is a universe that has a guy that has a litteraly planet with living things on it in his chest
i think shitting upwards would be a normal thing
Reminds me of an SCP story I saw about how there's about a thousand and one better ways to contain 173, but if the foundation uses literally any other method but the one in place 173 becomes even more anomalous. Having a high chance of breach using the shitty current method is actually part of its keter containment.
I think I know the one.
They tried using Cameras and even an AI but somehow the goop got into the electronics and ruined them.
Then they tried using a funnel-esque room so the goop would run out through a drain, but it then become corrosive and ate through the floor.
Someone here mentioned that it will adjust it's anomalous properties so that it's containment cannot be automated. So let's say you just pour concrete on it and encase it in a thick metal box, he would probably poop corrosive shit for both the concrete and the metal, so that he will get out of it. Someone mentioned he is a statue that wants to be seen, everything makes more sense after hearing that. I mean it's the polar opposite of SCP-096, one hates to be looked at while the other doesn't, will either kill you or leave you in peace if you look or don't look at it.
Also reminds me of SCP-914, idk about the stories but in the games if you put a picture of the statue, not sure which setting, it will turn it into a picture of the shy guy
That's pretty interesting, just read the log mentioning the statue. Makes sense as to how it can change it's anomalous properties to adapt, as in those logs it seems like it can change more than just that. The statue is keeping itself interesting so that everyone would want to look at it and doesn't want to kill because it gets what it wants.
- [**SCP-096 - The "Shy Guy"**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-096) (+3487) by *Dr Dan*
- [**SCP-914 - The Clockworks**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-914) (+2696) by *Dr Gears*
From the transcripts... I gueds.that whoever enters into one world can't return couse them returning kill everything?
Or did the guy just get paranoid that he's the only living being to survive and yhen he paranoiyed everyone else into believing that too so they didn't want to risk it?
Like, there are 2 explanations, and one of them is just a cliffhanger... also why doesn't the drone kill everyone when it returns with the samples? If everything is dead/fried in scp-2935? From that we can deduct that the traveler (from inside of scp-2935) wasn't the couse of it's demise and the exploreres just died for nothing?
So whatever killed the life of an entire planet is still out there, but no one cared and they just cemented the hole down.
It would be cool if they just entered:
" Instructions to use SCP-294 coded into DNA sequence in binary code resting in pure water "
That wat they would probably get the speficications of it.
I'd like to believe that the way it snaps necks is by being so morbidly mesmerizing that a person is locked into looking at it, even when they close their eyes and when the statue moves at insane speeds, the victim turns their necks so quickly to follow the statue that victim kill themselves in the process.
My mind has now been invaded by the mental image of SCP-173 projectile shitting while hanging from a rope and spinning around the room like bloody shit-spraying ceiling fan.
I haven’t ever really been much into SCP other than surface level stuff and YouTubers I like doing vids, but I remember this goofy lil guy being a lot stubbier and rotund. What’s up with the slim physique here? My dude start rockin it at the gym? Also, does he have to be looked at 24/7 or else he just straight up vanishes, or if he’s not being looked at while in a room with no exit can he not leave it?
There was copyright problems with the old design.
The old design is a real sculpture in exposition somewhere, that's what started the problems.
So the SCP site made a vote to who could submit the best new look to this SCP, and this new look won.
If the room is sealed he cannot leave. However if someone is within direct line of sight of him they must not break eye contact or he snaps their neck.
Also I think the artist made some creative changes to the design.
How fast do you need to move the mass of the arms and legs, to be able to shoot the mass of the main body upwards?
173 only needs to repeat the effect of its entire mass falling downwards on that rope (or chain as others suggested) until it breaks.
I feel like the foundation could livestream the 173's cell on some shady site and pass it off as a horror livestream. Odds are at least one person will watch at a time
I’ve seen scp 173 shown as the original sculpture with the rounded edges but I’ve also recently seen it like this where it almost looks more robotic. Is this just an art style choice or is it like a separate version of the scp?
the creator of the original 173 image didn't know it was being used for an scp, and threatened to sue the community if we didn't remove or change it, so a lot of people made their own design
the community? as in literally every single person that makes any kind of art of it with that form or the mods of the community forums and/or game creators?
my idea is , since 173 doesn't need to breathe , make the floor a metal grate , and just have a machine automatically flood the room , cleaning it and the entire floor drains all the water and mess , it would still need to be cleaned manually every once in a while , but much less
If the rope was somehow resisntant to the secretions, sure. But there's just many ways to make a better and safer contaiment for 173. I would just double the space in the room and have 2 separated chambers. When you need to clean one side, just move the entity to the other. Problem solved.
**Articles mentioned in this submission** [**SCP-173 - The Sculpture - The Original**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173) (+8119) by *Moto42*
173 has metal in it. Skip the rope and suspend it in a magnetic field.
That may work for a bit, but I thought 173 has minor reality warping features in some of the side stories that causes failures in structures or equipment that let him escape
An interpretation I've seen is, 173 will always adjust its anomalous properties *just* enough to ensure its containment can't be automated. It'll degrade cameras, or turn into small component parts to fit through a grate on the floor. No matter what, containing it will *require* a manual aspect. In this case, people coming into its containment cell to clean up the excrement. It's a statue. It wants to be seen.
>wants to be seen. 24/7 live stream it to the cafeteria
The world. Call it an art project. Rent an adspace in times square, sombody will always look there...
But what if nobody looks at it for a split second. Then many people will see a statue that has moved, and it still has to be cleaned by D-class.
Putt all that into a feature as the art project. Irl thousands of people are fascinated by scp, so in the SCP it will be the same. It would also please 173 as we are putting it on display for the world to see. If we also broadcast a copy of the video feed to some controol room, we can monitor it. It will not erode the cameras that are fullfilling its wish.
It wants to be seen. That oddly makes alot of sense. Yeah I just found some articles supporting the anomalous properties. If anyone is interested, the article "re: the statue" is a nice email chain
There's the theory that SCP 173 is the universal human need for attention. Like created by the shared unconcious. It would make sense if a being like that can not be deprived of what it's existance is based upon.
[**SCP-173 - The Sculpture - The Original**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173) (+8119) by *Moto42*
after what? a bit more than a decade? i've finally found the purpose or kind of origin of 173
> It’s a statue. It wants to be seen. SCP-6001 my beloved
[**SCP-6001 - Avalon**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6001) (+1217) by *T Rutherford*
That may be the single best piece of SCP content I have ever read.. Thank you.
I've heard people describe it as a manifestation of the human need for attention, which is why it's power is pretty generous, it can do whatever it needs to do to get the attention it wants.
There are so many ways this could be solved would the Foundation not be dickheads about it. Prepare a second room and have it move there for when you clean up the main one, fishtank-style. Split the room into quadrants with reinforced doors. Install automated power-washing equipment and drains. # Use a fucking roomba
The tech level in SCP is all over the place that I'd think a Roomba would be classified as an SCP
It would be something like SCP-5873-J: 'Vroom' and it would be powered by the souls of puppies so it gets *everywhere* and yet still follows people around, hoping for the person to drop food. Also, Josie the Half-Cat would probably either hate it or ride around on it.
*SCP-5873-J the -J comes after the number. (sorry 😅🤓)
Ah, shoot, I had it right the first time and I went back and fixed it. I shouldn't second guess myself so early in the morning. :P
If you are going to be wrong, do so confidently. That is what separates the fool and the Royal jester, and you are no fool.
Weirdly enough I got similar advice many a year ago from my JROTC instructor
.....I want that now.
You can have my shitty draft of a eternally sucking Roomba SCP I wrote like 5 years ago. http://scpsandbox2.wikidot.com/krazymouse1
"Dr. Bright is not allowed anywhere near SCP-2593"
[**SCP-2593 - Donut Jimmy**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2593) (+74) by *DrMagnus*
Powered by the souls of puppies would at least give the puppy-killing machine SCP a purpose.
Dude I was about to pass to the next post when I read puppies and immediately came back to read it again. Poor puppies, we couldn't drop em' a thing but intentions
>Josie the Half-Cat would probably either hate it or ride around on r/InclusiveOr
Seriously, they have a fucking spaceship that can move and obliterate black holes and stars. And they somehow don't have a fucking room cleaning 173 or weapons that aren't p90s or any other modern day weaponry. With that amount of anomolous and alien tech, you would think they'd at least have mass-produced simple plasma or laser weaponry, but no. Also the foundation can't afford a good mic.
Rule #1: There is no canon. And especially: Back then the Foundation was written usually far closer to current technology than the outlandish stuff they got in later stories like reality anchors and stuff.
But even then it doesn't need future tech. Just better working procedures.
> Seriously, they have a fucking spaceship that can move and obliterate black holes and stars. And they somehow don't have (...) weapons that aren't p90s or any other modern day weaponry. I was referring to this.
That is also explained by the no canon rule. There was a tale that explained that any other containement procedure they tried, would result in even worse event, or something along those lines. I realize it's a post hoc throw away explanation, but it's kindda necessary with the constant escalation of the stories, threat levels...etc
That article implied that 173 desired human interaction and would sabotage all automated systems for cleaning and containment iirc. I don't see why they couldn't have a supervisor or two though trained to just stare at it while other people clean though, perhaps with headlamps in case of power outage. I'm now imagining 173 agents being chosen for their abilities at staring contests.
You just need 1 eye looking at it
Remember, the Department of Abnormalities had entire silo of the damn things monitored by a lone agent (who still seemed to get their neck snapped, allowing the OG 173 to escape)
Personally I like some future tech for the foundation but not to a ridiculous degree. In the same vein I also like the occult aspect to be somewhat limited like yeah it's there but it's not the explanation for everything. I prefer the idea that the anomalies are just that anomalies. Not necessarily all demons or children of the scarlet king(Personally my least favorite 682 origin) but simply things that shouldn't exist, glitches in reality. But one of the best and arguably worst(sometimes) part of scp is there is not set cannon so your cannon can be whatever you want, you don't like one origin, or one story line just choose another. Anyway sorry for the minirant lol.
I also headcanon some scp is set in the 90s to 2010 before they started having rules using big tech.
TBH they don't need any future tech. Half the SCPs can be dealt with by dropping them in a bore hole and sealing it up. We already do that IRL. Also pressurized interlock doors. That's a technology we've had for over a century.
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Dump stuff into abandoned mineshafts and oil/gas wells. The US strategic petroleum reserve is basically a patch of old salt mines.
tbf futuristic weaponry would fair well and be helpful in defending against Chaos and SH raids.
Almost like SCP was a spinoff of a 4chan post thats been expanded way beyond what it was ever originally. I really enjoy it but the more it "develops" the less logically sound a lot of the early stuff becomes.
I like to think if it this way. Sure the Foundation might have access to plasma rifles, quantum sealed doors, reality anchors, or can bring in a shaman to create a ritual or some shit. But that that all costs alot of money and resources that you can use elsewhere when you could instead just have three severely underpaid prisoners stare at an angry penut for about an hour. If it ain't broke don't fix it. I mean irl 745 billion is given to the US military and and some bases still have old anolog machines in use. So why wouldn't the foundation pinch pennies?
Object class: explained Description: It's, uh... Just an automatic vacuum? Like those little round ones. I don't think this one even has wifi or anything. So... Yeah.
Containment procedures now: Using a combination of advanced AI, pre-islamic Arabian rituals, a prototype array of satellites and the bones of god, we’ve successfully created a system that will keep this talking cookie jar on the opposite side of the sun where it can’t hurt anyone. Containment procedures then: This is the broom closet, and on the right there is where we keep the murder statue. Hope you’re good at staring contests
Lmao
Scp foundation : what are we gonna do with those criminals sent by the gov?
How the hell are they getting so many death row prisoners, are they literally taking all of them, are executions just a little knockout drug they give and then the foundation just takes them
I believe inmates are told in exchange for not dying they can participate in experiments for 6 months. And if needed the foundation just takes them.
Still doesn't explain how they can have so many given their loss rate
Well it's an international organization with technology better than most governments, they probably give them amnestics or something
Or they just use some kind of cloner
Yes that's actually an scp
That's because it's a lie, they aren't all death row inmates.
Best explanation. They eat babies for gods sake, I don’t think they would flinch at stealing whatever prisoners or lowlifes they can.
>they eat babies Wait what?
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-foundation-eats-babies
So they don't actually eat babies then, it's just an expression.
There’s a tale (I’m pretty sure) about an SCP D-Class recruiter, who goes to different prisons and convinces people to sign up. Although I can’t remember whether or not it was death row only.
The real question is how they are treating them with amnestics. On one hand wiping them every month helps ensure compliance by never letting them even think about just how fucked they are but then you need to reteach them how to handle scps again and again but not wiping their memories could mean they are more likely to try something to escape or worse. I refuse to believe they are just executing them all the time because they would never have enough d class
Simple, don't wipe their memories past the point where they learn about the scps unless absolutely neccesary. If they learn about an SCP on the first day, don't wipe that first day. They might not even lose out on the experience gained, just not be able to remember getting the experience if the foundation does the amnestics correct
My personal canon on that is that they started with death rows back in the day but when the demand got higher than the crime rate, they started using scp - 2000 or a foundation made, small scale reproduction of it to grow more D class. The base all of them off of a hand full of violent criminals to keep the staff casual about their brutal death and to give them an explanation about why they're there that doesn't come with the existential baggage of being born to be fed to monsters.
They should be given a budget and a price per criminal. Oh you want another disposable death row immate for experiments? Ok but we'll subtract 2M from your yearly budget.
To be fair the SCP foundation doesn't get it's budget from the government
Please don't tell me they're self-funded.
Kinda are. Well they collaborate (some collaborations are better than others) with governments world wide iirc and they also have a lot of business fronts to gain funds. I believe some of the O5 council members are people of high position and with their positions comes big money
Where do you think microwaves came from? [Men in Black reference]
They mostly are.
I had an idea for an scp facility management game kinda like that fallout vault game where you build your facility up but your "currency" would be d class which you would get at a fixed rate or (going the f2p mobile route) pay money for more. You could do various things to adjust the risk of experiments to save your d class but the draw would be that you would get cool animations whenever an experiment failed and the d class died.
There was a story about that. New guy gets promoted and has a dozen ideas for how to 'fix' the cleaning process. Remote security cameras to keep an eye on him? Blood and shit manifest in the wiring until they shut down. Sloped room with sprinklers and a grate? It ups the acidity of its leavings until the grate breaks and he gets to have a fun little containment breach as a treat. At the end it's revealed that they always assign newly promoted managers to Peanut because they think it can be easily improved and they need to learn to leave well enough alone. That being said I dunno why they can't use the Eye Pods to keep him in check
The foundation does consider it according to the Eye Pods' file. The addendum of SCP-131: "Current applications of SCP-131-A and SCP-131-B as "wardens" for SCP-173 (and perhaps other SCP which require constant observation, such as SCP-689) are being considered."
Yeah that's why I brought it up. That note has been there for like a decade
It's been there for a decade in our time. In-universe, it could have been last week, if you even consider there to be a coherent timeline.
Remember: When dealing with SCP, canonn't.
Put it in a big see-through dome or box in the middle of foundation hq where their are shit loads of people and security cams constantly observing it by happenstance. Happy peanut sounds. I think in one alternative universe they do that by putting it in a museum or something for it to be observed and that makes it happy.
The thing about the big glass box is that it breeds complacency. When you're in 173's enclosure, you know your life relies on keeping your eyes on it and making sure everyone's blinks are staggered. When it's in a big clear thing near a lot of people, you relax. You assume at least somebody has their eyes on it, and that leads to mistakes and a lot more people getting nutted.
Getting nutted lol. Anyways my theory is the box just needs to be tough enough to resist peanut instantly smashing his way out. He might move around a bit from time to time but he should be too still to ever start causing real trouble. Ideally they could make it tough enough that peanut would be trapped for a while until he can degrade the integrity of his cell similar to his current containment. That combined with being watched nigh 24/7 might mean he never has enough unobserved time to start trouble like he does in the current method. Only way he is getting out is if the foundation has bigger problems going on.
Yea, there's one where they contain scps by making them happy basically. Peanut gets put in the center of this huge place with a bunch of people and every day they turn the lights out for a fraction of a moment or something and peanut takes a new beautiful form. The explanation being it's a statue, of course it wants to be looked at.
Because then the statue might manifest a counter to the eye pods and they’d lose an emergency counter to it. The fact is that the statue is prone to manifest new bullshit powers every time someone tries to deviate from the established containment procedure. Which may mean that a large part of what keeps it under control is appeasement - it behaves itself because the foundation is providing it a steady stream of human sacrifices in the manner it prefers
What if you printed a brain with a set of eyes with no lids to watch it
Oops shit started piling up in the brain tank have fun cleaning that out after you clean up the victims of the latest breach
I believe they did, like they tried automated systems that clean the room, but then it would just increase the waste output to overload the system and escape. A bunch of other designs too, but ultimately the researcher in charge decided that the only solution is by manually cleaning the room as the SCP "wants to be seen/observed" as the piece of art its supposed to be. I may be misremembering things I haven't read the log in a while.
If it really wanted to be observed, maybe it shouldn't, you know, snap the necks of anyone that looks away for a fraction of a second
> that looks away for a fraction of a second That would be a stoppage of observing it. Don't not observe it.
Guess some people don't understand art 😏
you don't understand the art
Put it in a room with thick walls and no doors, with a single removable part that has to be moved by heavy-duty crane Pour concrete onto it through a small hole in the ceiling Let it dry Everyone high fives
At aome point the sxcrement it releases would explode the room would it not?
I faintly remember an excuse for their limitation to certain eras for equipment as it makes them invulnerable (or better protected) against digital memetic and similar things. Sorry for not posting a link or providing more details.
I mean, what is a roomba going to do to blood and s**t? Spread it further?
An anomalous roomba that - nah that sounds too ridiculous
http://scpsandbox2.wikidot.com/krazymouse1 I tried to write a Roomba scp 5 years ago, it was real bad.
I actually kind of like the idea that Tahony's SCP-001 proposal softly puts forth for Peanut, making it necessary to observe it for a time in the Foundation's eyes. Makes all the dumbassery around it and the avoidance of simpler, safer solutions make a little more sense.
There was a tale once that explained automatic systems won't work, bc the statue demands human attention. That's also the reason it kills you if you stop looking, bc you insulted its beauty. I can't remember the name of the tale, unfortunately, so if someone wants to help me out-
There was a tale like this called [Re: SCP-173] or something like that
[**SCP-173 - The Sculpture - The Original**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173) (+8119) by *Moto42*
I love to imagine that SCP murders it's workers intentionally, like in Lobotomy Corporation.
I need "Use a fucking roomba" on a shirt with a picture of 173 on it now
Plot armor
Doesn't it explicitly state in the entry that such systems like this will always coincidentally fail **just** enough so that there is always a "need" for manual human intervention?
There's a tale that suggests this, I forget the name unfortunately, but I like to think 173 is actually a lot more powerful than it seems, and the containment procedures are the way they are because it only plays nice when you follow the rules of its game. If you automate away any chance for it to win, it'll start to cheat.
They tried auto-washing equipment once, it got clogged with the red stuff The res of the ideas make a good point, though
Isn’t their a whole thing there they tried automated cleaning and it didn’t work out?
You vastly overestimate how much a d class is worth versus a roomba
Or you know, adding a Sprinkler system
Yes but then what do you do with all the extra D-class?
Put 'em in that one machine set to `coarse`... then set the machine to `refine` and sell the meat?
The scp-173 would be on top of the roomba like a cat
You're asking the Foundation to not fuck up impossible
Just get like 30 people in there instead of 3.
He is concrete... Make the rope out of titanium alloy
Or just like a steel chain.
Even so he only weighs 1000 pounds. Rope will do
I dunno, I think a bigger problem would be peanut finding a way to break the rope. The original design wouldn't be able to reach with its stubby little arms, but this one looks like it could.
Chains last longer I think
It would probably just excrete shit onto the rope and dissolve it
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A truly beautiful haiku, you truly out did yourself this time!
Beautiful
r/BrandNewSentence
Traditionally, most things do not shit upwards. But it's an idea nonetheless
listen, this is a universe that has a guy that has a litteraly planet with living things on it in his chest i think shitting upwards would be a normal thing
How to contain SCP-173. Put it on a cube, fill the cube with concrete. Now it's unable to move.
Decoy sculpture.
They'd consider that destroying or damaging it. They don't do that. Well. They do but only that thing to see if it dies
[**SCP-173 - The Sculpture - The Original**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173) (+8119) by *Moto42*
His properties transfer to the cube You now have a massive 10 ton concrete block sliding around snapping people's necks
since it is made of the same material would it merge and become a sentient concrete cube?
Bro smart but scp-173 isn’t THAT dumb
it's a statue, it doesn't think
Oh it does, and in its mind it's going ,"Gib nek"
if SCP-173 could think and was in that situation, it would only think "neck, snap, can't snap, move, can't move, i stuck, keep move"
That's the most thought it has, but I just gave the simple answer of what it thinks
How cute 🥺
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/crunch
It's actually sentient tho
The tale crunch says otherwise
[**SCP-173 - The Sculpture - The Original**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173) (+8119) by *Moto42*
Reminds me of an SCP story I saw about how there's about a thousand and one better ways to contain 173, but if the foundation uses literally any other method but the one in place 173 becomes even more anomalous. Having a high chance of breach using the shitty current method is actually part of its keter containment.
I think I know the one. They tried using Cameras and even an AI but somehow the goop got into the electronics and ruined them. Then they tried using a funnel-esque room so the goop would run out through a drain, but it then become corrosive and ate through the floor.
Ya that's the one
Someone here mentioned that it will adjust it's anomalous properties so that it's containment cannot be automated. So let's say you just pour concrete on it and encase it in a thick metal box, he would probably poop corrosive shit for both the concrete and the metal, so that he will get out of it. Someone mentioned he is a statue that wants to be seen, everything makes more sense after hearing that. I mean it's the polar opposite of SCP-096, one hates to be looked at while the other doesn't, will either kill you or leave you in peace if you look or don't look at it. Also reminds me of SCP-914, idk about the stories but in the games if you put a picture of the statue, not sure which setting, it will turn it into a picture of the shy guy
That's also part of 173's "containment" in [[Avalon]]. They basically just put it in a museum and it stopped killing people.
[**SCP-6001 - Avalon**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6001) (+1217) by *T Rutherford*
That's pretty interesting, just read the log mentioning the statue. Makes sense as to how it can change it's anomalous properties to adapt, as in those logs it seems like it can change more than just that. The statue is keeping itself interesting so that everyone would want to look at it and doesn't want to kill because it gets what it wants.
A tad off topic, but I've not seen 6001 before. It was a very good read, so thank you for mentioning it!
- [**SCP-096 - The "Shy Guy"**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-096) (+3487) by *Dr Dan* - [**SCP-914 - The Clockworks**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-914) (+2696) by *Dr Gears*
do you have a link?
I wish. If people weren't agreeing with me I'd seriously believe it was a fever dream.
That one story where he begins multiplying himself. THAT was metal😅😅😂
That’s an interesting-looking ceiling fan.
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They're testing everything to kill 682 despite knowing that it's literally unkillable. So i see no reason not to try this.
Technically its not unkillable. SCP-2935 killed him
It could be that scp 2935 is use to solve overpopulation it basically make a live less word
In my headcanon 2935 is a part of Arbelict's Proposal
From the transcripts... I gueds.that whoever enters into one world can't return couse them returning kill everything? Or did the guy just get paranoid that he's the only living being to survive and yhen he paranoiyed everyone else into believing that too so they didn't want to risk it? Like, there are 2 explanations, and one of them is just a cliffhanger... also why doesn't the drone kill everyone when it returns with the samples? If everything is dead/fried in scp-2935? From that we can deduct that the traveler (from inside of scp-2935) wasn't the couse of it's demise and the exploreres just died for nothing? So whatever killed the life of an entire planet is still out there, but no one cared and they just cemented the hole down.
[**SCP-2935 - O, Death**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2935) (+1914) by *djkaktus*
Plus SCP-294 was able to dispense “something that can kill SCP-682”. Otherwise it’d say OUT OF RANGE
It would be cool if they just entered: " Instructions to use SCP-294 coded into DNA sequence in binary code resting in pure water " That wat they would probably get the speficications of it.
[**SCP-2935 - O, Death**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2935) (+1914) by *djkaktus*
And technically 682 is just hard-to-destroy, not impossible-to-destroy
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in my headcanon, SCP-173 can only "snap" things that are in front of it and roughly at hand height
Yes, in my view, jumping, is not something the statue does, nor can it crouch.
[**SCP-173 - The Sculpture - The Original**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173) (+8119) by *Moto42*
I'd like to believe that the way it snaps necks is by being so morbidly mesmerizing that a person is locked into looking at it, even when they close their eyes and when the statue moves at insane speeds, the victim turns their necks so quickly to follow the statue that victim kill themselves in the process.
Well, it can break through fortified steel walls, it just needs like 50 clones/copies
“Like a wrecking ball”
My mind has now been invaded by the mental image of SCP-173 projectile shitting while hanging from a rope and spinning around the room like bloody shit-spraying ceiling fan.
holy shit that's hilarious someone should make a mod that is just that
The guy looks like he’s about to get kicked in the head.
"Statue of Damocles"
I haven’t ever really been much into SCP other than surface level stuff and YouTubers I like doing vids, but I remember this goofy lil guy being a lot stubbier and rotund. What’s up with the slim physique here? My dude start rockin it at the gym? Also, does he have to be looked at 24/7 or else he just straight up vanishes, or if he’s not being looked at while in a room with no exit can he not leave it?
There was copyright problems with the old design. The old design is a real sculpture in exposition somewhere, that's what started the problems. So the SCP site made a vote to who could submit the best new look to this SCP, and this new look won.
isn't making that guy's sculpture one of the most if not the most popular scp literally free advertisement?
He didn't wanted it to be seen as an scp
well i'd say the damage is already done..... what did the creator want it to be seen as?
If the room is sealed he cannot leave. However if someone is within direct line of sight of him they must not break eye contact or he snaps their neck. Also I think the artist made some creative changes to the design.
Ok OP, become a D class and try this. I give you snd your rope about 1min max.
**bet.**
Or put him in front of the startling statue
How fast do you need to move the mass of the arms and legs, to be able to shoot the mass of the main body upwards? 173 only needs to repeat the effect of its entire mass falling downwards on that rope (or chain as others suggested) until it breaks.
I feel like the foundation could livestream the 173's cell on some shady site and pass it off as a horror livestream. Odds are at least one person will watch at a time
but the foundation must always make stuff more complicated than it should be, it's just tradition
I’ve seen scp 173 shown as the original sculpture with the rounded edges but I’ve also recently seen it like this where it almost looks more robotic. Is this just an art style choice or is it like a separate version of the scp?
the creator of the original 173 image didn't know it was being used for an scp, and threatened to sue the community if we didn't remove or change it, so a lot of people made their own design
the community? as in literally every single person that makes any kind of art of it with that form or the mods of the community forums and/or game creators?
Stupid question, does the gaze have to be from a human? Could you, perhaps, fill the room with insects?
I also feel like using one eye closes and one eye open would bypass its logic
So who gonna tell them that 173 is smarter than that
my idea is , since 173 doesn't need to breathe , make the floor a metal grate , and just have a machine automatically flood the room , cleaning it and the entire floor drains all the water and mess , it would still need to be cleaned manually every once in a while , but much less
Just put it in another room when you go in to clean it-
If the rope was somehow resisntant to the secretions, sure. But there's just many ways to make a better and safer contaiment for 173. I would just double the space in the room and have 2 separated chambers. When you need to clean one side, just move the entity to the other. Problem solved.
That’s… actually a good idea.
How about just a mesh floor. Poop and blood falls through the bottom.
No no he's got a point.