My third RPC and my first RPC that is a living thing rather than an object. Big thanks to Enkrum for this one.
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(account deleted)This is really spooky, but the whole 'the brains are still alive!' is a little on the nose. How would we be able to tell if they're afraid, and how did this octopus get out of its cell in the first place? Just seems like too much of a leap of logic.
To be fair, real-life octopi are master escape artists. Like seriously, they escape cages specifically designed to hold them.
Classic horror with plenty of originality. I hate how SCP moved on from such themes; this article shows that the content is far from exhausted.
The Directorate warning needs updating to fix the colour-matching issue, and you keep failing to capitalize Site.
considering that the authority didn't cover up the fail-safe incident i see no reason why they'd lock the "true" rating of this anomaly.
Also it's just kinda meh, 1 for now but 2 or 3 if you get rid of the lore breaking stuff
Let’s start off the bat with a very messy tone, it’s all over the place. Second of all, I don’t see why they would hide the RPC’s real rating, it makes no sense, and that file is just infodump that breaks the flow of things in the wrongest of ways, it creates no fear, just makes me go “wuh”: subverting expectations only works when you subvert them in a way that works, otherwise it’s just disappointing.
I will say the concept is very interesting even if it does just play on the whole “Octopuses are smart” stereotype, but the article lacks what it needs to be bearable to me.
Marco Marchi B. Mark
I felt like reading an X00 article and decided on this one. From the title and number, I had expected something larger in scope, but I won't deny that RPC delivers on short surprises sometimes.
Positives first, I like the design of the creature. It's freaky and distinct, yet succinct enough to be conveyed clearly with only a textual description. The article structure is also quite novel, revealing the truth for a moment before sending the reader back to the document of half-truths. I felt the last note exercised this superbly (though the "termination" part is arguably overkill).
There are significant flaws, though. The premise of an unassuming but hyper-intelligent animal is a simple building block, I suppose, but I find that a lot of the articles of this type have the exact same delivery. It's as if they all believe they're the first to use this concept and need to thoroughly introduce it to the reader.
Also, I'm incredibly unconvinced that an entire Authority site could be taken over by one anomaly without anyone noticing. Did none of the other anomalies put up a fight? Did not one person send out some kind of distress signal? Even so, did they never try to get in touch with anybody from that site afterwards or happen to send anybody there?
I wanted to enjoy the titular "assimilation" part, but…
Analysis of the brainwaves emitted from these has shown they are in a considerable state distress and fear. It is also considered likely that RPC-100 is able to control the senses of these brains, sending what could be likened to torture to prevent these lesser brains from assuming any kind of control.
The article harps on this point so hard that it was difficult not to roll my eyes. Missing subtlety is such a common failing on this wiki, but I just can never be forgiving of it.
I like the concepts here, but the exact use of them I think I'll be happier forgetting. This is the kind of article that I think is passable, and I'm glad other readers could rate higher on it, but it didn't work for me. 3/5
(P.S: That code block formatting is really awkward)
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