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(account deleted)RPC-390-2: WHAT IS YOUR FIRST NAME?
Dr. █████: John
Uh. If -2 found out in some other way like the Doctor accidentally slips his papers revealing a subsection of his name or if, sometime later, -2 found out through overhearing guards or something. Sure it's believable then. Not entirely sure if I believe some random Authority Doctor would just give in to the -2 entity's demands without bargaining for something in return or something directly, physically imposing held against the doctor as a threat.
I feel like the fecal / urine matter was a good, logical step.
+3. It's in that weird spot where it needs to be short, but critical parts are left too vague for my liking like John and George Boston. Outside of the discord meme. Whereas if I expressed something was a cryptid or… used something by its namesake from folklore, at least that has a history on its own to make the reader imagine what it is.
John just sounds like a random name, for a random person, and that's essentially it.
Well, despite the fact that this article is based on a… joke(? [I wasn't there to witness it anyway]) it's quite well-written. However, I do have a few nitpicks:
two members of site security and one janitor were turned into instance of George Boston.
I feel like it's supposed to be "an instance of RPC-390-2"?
The next nitpick I have and the most irritating for me is:
1 instance of RPC-390-1 is to be contained in an anti-memetic page protector in Researcher Thompson's desk.
Because I feel like it's basically the Scranton Reality Anchor from SCP, a cheap way to effectively contain an anomaly and—dare I say—lazy writing?
Final nitpick:
Film cameras are banned within Site-002.
Just the sector containing RPC-390? Or the whole site? Site-002 is supposed to be 1/4ths the size of Las Vegas, 8 levels down; how are you going to record the happenings within?
For now, I'll give it 3 stars.
Late on this one, but this article is piece of work that truly encapsulates how random and unassuming items,in this case a piece of paper, can be demonstrably a good read without needless world-ending excess.
It's weirdly fun, but I can't help but feel that the concept was left undeveloped.
Seconding this, the article caught my attention immediately with how arbitrary the anomaly is, but then drops that for a generic testing log that doesn’t develop the initial concept.
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