Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-5236 - Ethics Committee Inquest
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“You know what’s really scary about this scp?”
“The part where a researcher OD’d so bad she manifested a 4 dimensional object in the 3rd dimension?”
“No, working 80 hours a week. Could you imagine?”
many of my coworkers don't have to imagine, you're lucky you do
@@HARBINGER8752 lighten up
92 hours a week on oil rigs in the gulf I'd rather this fate honestly
Working 80h for someone sucks, working 80h for yourself sucks also, but you have no one to blame, and it feels slightly better.
Best comment
"She asked if any of them WERE Chaos Insurgency Sleeper Agents and 05-10 admitted that yes, two of them were." That caught me!
If they kill them now they'll just be replaced. Better to watch them and kill them when they're activated.
"...she had a nightmare, and it cracked through the noosphere hard enough to leave an exit wound in space-time."
That line goes harder than it had any right to.
Ethics committee in other SCP stories: I'm too weak...
Ethics committee in this universe: *UNLIMITED POWEEER*
How are you doing my glorious overlord
@@Abominable_Intelligences very good
"MORE POWER! MORE POWER ! MAXIMUMMM POWERRRRRR!!!" ~~~~~~~~💥💥
Give me a single story with the ethics committee where they're weak... They're always overpowered
@DeRockProject & the Attack of the Really Long Channel Name it was common In early stories for then to be weak, effectively a joke in the stories thru appeared in. This eventually got backlash so they were made more competent in most more recent stories. This has resulted in some going too far in the other direction.
I LOVE this take on the Black Moon question. It being a security phrase fine and makes sense, but being some kinda cognitohazard trigger for the Ethics committee's work is fantastic.
Also love this idea! And that it's a seemingly taboo thing to do on a whim. Plus that (I think) the O5 was the only person to comment on it so maybe low level staff aren't even aware when it happens...
Such a cool mechanic and so so many questions!
Has the black moon question always functioned like it did in this article? If so, I wanna revisit some other scps.
@@powarless_kinda,_ I did a little skimming as I'm not super familiar and the consensus seems to be that it's a trick question to get people to reveal if they're under the affect of a am-/nestic agent. To normal non foundation folk it's a bizarre question so you'll get a "what?" or similar as the response, but if you're in the foundation/under the affects of am-/nestic agents, you'll get some kind of prophetic prose answer...
But no, the ability to actually analyse the response given and divine meaning from it is wholely new in this article I think
There are however a tonne of articles that feature the black moon in some way if you do a little searching
It sounds like a bit of info not to be used lightly. Imagine if the Insurgency or the GOC learned just how powerful that phrase could actually be.
@@JanusKastin It does, but it depends on the rules of who's asking. Like, if this effect is limited to only Ethics Committee members as indicated by the mention of a Writ of some sort that she was operating under, then they'd just have to be stringent on checking into the person. Reference with Security to ensure it's not a (known) sleeper agent.
One of the very few SCP entries that has a straight up good ending. With the ethics Committee of all departments bringing it… While in other SCP entries they are either intentionally irrelevant to the rest of the foundation or basically a joke. I especially loved the “black moon” story mechanic so to speak.
Yeah the black moon aspect was really interesting! It's like an investigative debug mode to figure out what's going on in a person's head!
Also interesting that it seems to be really taboo to use improperly, and that maybe some people aren't aware of it (the O5 was the only person to comment on it I think) so maybe low level staff won't even remember you asking?
I'd be really interested to have some kind of espionage story at the foundation with this mechanic in it!
Me too! It might be interesting to make that SCP a sort of continuation of this one.
Perhaps someone else is investigating Dr. Mallory who, despite the brush with O5-10, has been throwing around the “black moon” phrase on people. Maybe it turns out she’s been forced to cover up some more corrupt O5 shenanigans as her debt to O5-10 (this could be a new SCP, or an action/inaction that lead to a new SCP) and Mallory’s trying to find out what others know about it. Or something like that. I know there’s not much continuity in SCP universe, but something like that might be cool.
Or maybe an SCP is growing and no one can discover the cause, but they deduce it’s related to people like Mallory using the “black moon” phrase too carelessly, not realizing that by using the phrase, they’re invoking some old curse or fae magic. Or even wilder, it’s somehow tied to a Pattern Screamer trying to rip into our dimension with that phrase.
Sorry, got a bit excited there. But yeah, I feel like looking more into the “black moon” phrase could be really interesting.
@@mariecarie1 write it! Sounds like you've got the spark for it
@@iamdigory Possibly, but I’m not sure my own writing skills are up to snuff. I’m sure something like this would do well in the hands of a more seasoned SCP writer. Maybe I could submit it for a story rather than an SCP entry. Or someone else can!
Every time the Ethics Committee is mentioned, I always hope that they'd bust out the Law's Left Hand
fr they're like the scp foundation's US Marshals
We definitely need some SCPs featuring the LLH. I feel like the Ethics Committee was originally portrayed as something of a corrupt and lax group of pushovers. These days, it’s obvious that the Foundation has undergone a significant shift in its moral ethics
It's even more interesting that one of the Ethics Commiittee members not only personally know O5-10 but invoked the Howl many times to great effect - even knowing the phrase at all. It looks invoking the Black Moon is some sort of objective lie detector without the recepient knowing it even happened
What is the laws left hand?
@@simonstern2572 Well my friend, the law’s left hand is the Ethic’s committee’s own personal MTF. The Law’s Left Hand is the counter to the O-5 Council’s Red Right Hand.
As a former HR rep who tried to put employees' first, the Ethics Committee as a hyper competent HR department is likely my favourite SCP thing now.
*OH BOY! IT’S 3AM!!*
In my timezone it’s 9 in the morning lol 😂
I WOKe UP 20 MINUTES AGO HELP ITS ONLY 2:16 AM
College class inbound, school work levels rising, condition of sleep: deprived.
SCP videos are cleared for go.
12:00 AM!! Ahhh PST
Wussuuuuuuuuup 🫡
"Internal Security is where you want to worry about your chaos insurgency sleeper agents, not drug dealers."
She asks o5-10 if any of them are chaos insurgency sleep agents, and o5-10 admits that "Two of them are, yes."= Icing on the cake.
"Keep your friends close, your enemies closer and your enemies who think they're your friends until they activate and become your enemies again even closer" - O5-10, probably
@@Imperial_Squidlol. Sounds like something they'd say. The o5 council are 3D chess masters.
There's definitely something about these internal investigation or internal workings SCPs that really gets me. Like "Heptaphobia", or "Attempt to Look at What We've Accomplished" or "If You Can Read This". Some of them can be creepy in their own way, but something about the mundanity of it actually being related to the inner workings of the Foundation is fascinating.
"A Death in Containment" also comes to mind as one of these stories. Weird at first but becomes interesting when you realize what it's actually about
My favourite part was when people openly admitted they have known sleeper agents and it was seen as completely normal, to be expected and not even an issue xD
Better the devil you know. Or in this case better to know which of your staff are sleeper agents to prevent future sleeper agents from being harder to spot.
Other sites: A workplace with unusual risks but otherwise possible to live through.
Site-19: *Basically Lobotomy Corporation*
I rather like this version of the ethics committee, some stories write them out to be the Superman above the 05s, but I like that they have their domain and the '05s have theirs
"You can't walk up to your friendly drug-dealer and order some anomalous meth." Sounds like challenge to dado, yes?
I'm a veterinarian and find the fact that there's an ethics committee in the SCP foundation amazing.
In every research that uses live animals (be it rats, rabbits, dogs, cattle...) requires an ethics committee. Sure, many experiments done are inhumane, both in the SCP universe and in real life, but the ethics committee in these situations try to make it the more ethical and humane possible
Tbh it kinda make sense. Foundation does a lot of necessary evil, so there has to be someone that decides when that evil is necessary.
You definitely need to look into Wilson's Wildlife
That sums up the Ethics Committee pretty well. They can rarely do the humane thing, but they try to do the least inhumane thing with the best outcome for the most baseline humans. They also take a lot of amnestics voluntarily, because they learn a lot of things no human was meant to know.
Honestly, I feel that the EC is almost necessary for many of the horror-themed entries to properly land emotionally.
The implication that somedody has to deal with ALL the grisly shit that goes on in the Foundation *and still has to sign off on it* really drives home the terror that it's members experience on a regular basis.
The idea that the bureaucracy of the Ethics Committee is stronger than the O5 mystical capabilities is just awesome.
This idea of "the black moon howls" being an automatic truth syrum phrase is an absolute act of genius by the administrator. Even though it doesn't seem to be working too well, it seems like a great idea.
Bro thought he was Walter white but the ethics committee didn't let him slide
I don't understand how these videos aren't doing as well as they used to. Your narration and explanation is exceptional! It's a damn shame.
Its probably the quality and content of the articles that fails to draw in the older crowd of SCP fans
Also, bullkriffy YT algorithm flaws.
It's because those types of videos are not of the instant hit type, they're in the same category as science videos where they have a much worse instant impact but a much better long run gain
Probably a combination of purists of the old scp articles not enjoying the newer SCPs as well as the youtuve algorithm unintentionally punishing his channel because of him covering multiple genres. His coverage of Warhammer is somehow branching his content out to fans interested in the subject while also hiding his uploads from current fans.
we stan a good Ethics Council
This is a story how a Super-Meth OD was responsible for better labor practices in the Foundation, something they really needed
Nobody expects the Ethics Committee Inquisition!
*cue the *pamming of *pam, *Pam *PAM!!!*
Rare Ethics Committee W for trying to actually improve working conditions for lab techs. You love to see it
I like the idea of the Ethics Committee actually being arguably the most powerful group within the Foundation, given that they have their own MTF to counter the O5 Council's Red Right Hand, and have veto power over any and all decisions made by the O5s, without the O5 Council having any means of overriding an Ethics Committee veto. If the Ethics Committee says they can't do something, even if all 13 O5s say they want to, they have no choice, they just have to come up with something else.
“Jesse, we need to cook thaumaturgic esoteric super meth for SCP researchers”
got so high literally sent her to another dimension
Please keep posting SCP stuff sometimes your videos help me sleep at night and the stories you get to tell are done in such a good way!
I started listening to them to go to sleep too, then the next night I try to find the last spot I remember hearing so I can finish the story LOL
Go watch creepypasta videos.
I too fall asleep to him. His voice is soothing and because it'll take me at least 15 minutes the stories are engaging enough that I don't have to think while lying there which keeps me up. Of course then I have listen to the rest of the story the next morning to see how it's ends.
He could really do well in voice acting I hope he knows.
I wish he would read something classic like the goosebumps books 🤣🤣
He's going to alternate SCP and 40k Warhammer posts every week
I was just looking for a good story at the exact moment you made this public. You're the best
A true statement.
O5-1: I'm sure everything's fine.
Assistant: Uh, sir? The Ethics Committee is on line 1.
O5-1: ............ *shit*.
He wouldn’t be scared of the Ethics committee since they can’t really do anything to the O5 council and O5 council isn’t allowed to do anything to them. They both are equal opposites of one another. The possible outcome would be that both will be having an intense fight and argument but if the Ethics committee gets unlucky and have to do a physical fight then we all know the O5 council will win thanks to their anomalous powers. In authority they can’t do much against each other and they both can basically classify each file for their own group, though it is very rare to do so. They both can’t terminate each other unless given permission from the big bad DADDY himself the ADMINISTRATOR.
@@eclipseplays5151 Usually when the Ethics Committee calls the 05, it's when someone else has shit in the coffee.
@@IntergalacticPirateRadio not really, ethics committee usually calls the O5 council to discuss their methods since ethics committee job is also to oversee containment methods, meaning how an anomaly is contained, they have no word or opinion in how the O5 council leads the foundation unless of course they become corrupt but even if they do become corrupt they have to take permission from the Administrator before they try to kill any member.
According to the movie Cube 2: Hypercube (Hypercube being another name for Tesaract) Hypercubes theoretically not meant to last, so one built to last would be a greater annomally than one that doesn't last. According to the movie the reason it's be unstable is the space and time manipulation requirement to make the Hypercube that makes it unstable.
From my interpretation, having a dimension in space basically means that it just suddenly starts at some point and will suddenly end later (like how if you move along one axis, the object will start at some point as you move along, and will end further along)
That said I think this all is meant to tie into the "just technobabble" review of the proposal 😂
@@Imperial_Squid Well the one in the movie was indeed unstable as in the end it just collapsed into itself.
Only heard of the first (and arguably better) movie, so this fact is new to me.
Lets goooooo. We got an scp one at night. The best feeling ever.
Just started playing Warhammer 40k XD.
SCP-5236 is what happens when you don't get your meth from WALTUH
Wow, this is a really good one. Mallory and O5-10's exchange was top tier stuff
So that's what falling into a (X)K-hole is like 😳
Ayy lmao
oh verrrrryyy funny, VE4RRRRRRRRRYYYYYY funny😂😅😮😅🎉 hehe
So nice to see the Ethics Committee get a story where they get to investigate and show off their skills instead of just reacting to whatever ridiculous breach of conduct the O5 or some other head of a department decides to throw at them. Also, expansion on the howl was cool, although I thought it went a bit far with the Geas explanation.
Geas is actually pronounced "gesh," because Gaelic.
And Halo Expanded Universe, hehe.
Oh the title… this is gonna be a good one, I love ethics committee shenanigans
It is an interesting concept of having the Ethics Committee, O5 Council, and Administrator on equal levels.
The Administrator is not on equal level, he is beyond their level. He must have been allowed to the file since he is the only one who cannot be question or be interrogated by either an O5 or Ethics committee member, not to mention, that if the ethics committee do want to terminate an O5 member or if the O5 council want to terminate an ethics committee member, these both groups have to take direct permission from the Administrator. Both of them serve under the Administrator.
Still the best scp reader out there man, excited for the new content too!
Pretty boss using the term Black Moon as a mental trigger to get hidden information on someone
The last time I was this early, The Terminal Loom(SCP-6937) was still whimsical and nice.
I know what you said last week.. but SCP layouts You do, and for the authors you do or for, are Amazing.
I often put myself and daughter to sleep with the H.P. readings (Cats and Dogs is my fav), you do You, my guy. True fans are here.
Man. I've watched almost everyone of the videos on this channel TWICE. There's comfort creator and whatever relationship I have with your content 😅
Same boat. It's quality.
This is one of my favourite scp articles in a long time.
In a universe getting increasingly esoteric and inaccessable, I appreciate a more simple but deeply compelling story
Wow, the writing of this one was really good! There wasn't that much narrative and it wasn't very long, but it was a great setup to a mystery and a very satisfying unraveling of the details. Also really appreciated the use of the Black Moon motif, the invocation of the fae, the ethics committee in general, and exploring the idea of researchers using anomalous drugs for everyday work (something that would obviously happen but I've never seen written about).
I think this author is one to keep an eye on.
I love the use of containment procedures to enact policy and disciplinary changes. Mallory is very clever, and a very compelling character.
Idk how many more scp videos we might get but it's been a good 4ish years since I became a consistent viewer. It's been fun, I'm glad for however much of it you might post
Yess! Ethics Committee story!!
What a cleverly written article, especially the interview between O5-10 and the investigator. Using the black moon prompts as truth serum is also pretty cool, I hope to see more of that in the future.
I was gonna go to sleep, but I can wait a while longer.
Yes! More SCP. Thank you
The “Does the Black Moon howl?” question triggering an automatic response is so fascinating
Nice different SCP. Pretty good. Quite short though. 8/10.
Edit: after listening again, this has some really clever writing and I love the term esoteric super-meth. Very cozy and interesting SCP. I loved it, brqvo! 10/10
I did enjoy This one a great deal. All too often the Ethics Committee is portrayed as a weak voice that's ignored, or s some kind of twisted joke. What is interesting is how prevalent the phrase 'Does the Black Moon Howl?' is becoming, though could this be a case of content producer bias? Regardless, what was a simple password phrase appears to be evolving into something much more complex and intertwined with the Foundation!
Get the comfy chair!
I'm gonna miss these. You're my favorite scp channel.
This is the moment when a senior researcher becomes Heisenberg
It’s 2:19 am and I can’t sleep. Ik this is gonna help. Thank you for posting!!!
When ever I hear an a SCP agent ask another ANYTHING about when the the BLACK MOON does a damn a thing, i am immediately intrigued.
so glad youre still posting SCP videos thank you
These might be my favorite kind of SCP stories. Fantastic as always, thank you!
Loved this! The SCP stories are absolutely my favorites from TES. ❤
So happy to see a new Video!
This couldn’t have been a more perfect video! I had a 27 minute gap in my playlist and this filled it perfectly! Not to mention it covering the ethics committee and references The Black Moon! What a perfect choice for a video! Great work once again!
NO ONE EXPECTS THE ETHICS INQUISITION!
Glad to get another scp video I know you said that you won't be making as many so I have to appreciate everyone you make.
My god perfect timing!! Love your vids to sleep to man
I’m so glad you’re still posting some SCP’s at least, I thought they might just end 😭❤️
Thanks for doing another SCP video, I loved it
3:48 in the morning, perfect time to turn on some Exploring Series and get some sleep~
I am so glad I have found this community. These stories are the most imaginative , thoughtful, terrifying. In all of social media. Thank you for your hard work!!!!❤❤
I just can't get over the phrase "Esoteric Super-Meth"
This is one of my new favorite stories. I really liked the take on the Black Moon, and the foot work that Mallory did.
I love scp, and you are my favorite scp TH-camr, thank you for making these.
Grand Video thank you so much please keep up the amazing work stay safe and have a wonderful and blessed day❤
Always love you videos. They are the only thing that help my mind give control and help me sleep
Everytime I want to see everything the SCP ethics committee should be I return here and enjoy a listen
Please, don't stop making these videos 😢I really love them
Yay more SCP content! 🎉 Thank you! 🙏
3:30PM Phils time.
An inquest
Front row seat, too😈😈
AHHHHH, yes...yes...we still have more time to adjust...I stayed up just to check in like my favorite new movie released today because I have a soft spot for SCP's lol 😁.
Thank You Mangg
Goodnight folks
(Also can't wait to see what Mang does for WH40K)
So happy to hear it
Loved this one!
oh my god perfect timing
Imagine crashing so hard you open a portal to the fourth dimension.
Great way to start the day
Damn. They did have a good HR/Operational policy response to the situation. Better than anything in real life
Just for the record I just gonna say:
- The ethics committee in the most recent articles it's how the ideal HR would work
- The fire-Suppression-dep it's the painful reality
My bro, was hoping you'd upload today.🤘
Love this channel
I love these sort of spy/detective scp stories. Can someone recommend similar ones please?
This is easily my favorite SCP story in a long time. Would love to hear more like this… it kind of reminded me of SCP 3966 (another one of my favorites)
I'm always glad to see SCP content but if Explorer is going to cover content of other material I suggest a classical well written creepypasta like he already did before or something written by Thomas Ligotti or China Mieville.
Nice to see more stuff showing the ethics committee as competent
So I'm the "viewer" that doesn't get to watch the videos or Like often because my job takes me all over the metro, and I find myself LISTENING to your videos alot. I think I finished the SCP catalogue you've made. Whatever you keep doing in the future, keep on trucking. We want more SCP over here, and those audiobooks you've done are cool too. I've shown colleagues and friends your vids. Love your work,
from a work driver.
Loving this expansion to the role of the ethics committee, and playing w code words and triggers
I like the fact that we are getting more of a background of the foundation from different angles
great video and thank you.
Good stuff, man.