this mad lad is uploading like dozens of hours of content in one month. i hope this goes well and your channel gets a well-deserved boost after all your hard work
I think it would be funny and absolutely well deserved if the door pushed them back into the house then slams shut right after the documents end, trapping them back in their prison, leaving them miserably snarling in their prison when their victory was so close. The keystone then calls them fools for breaking the rules that they’ve built themselves around for so long; the keystone and in essence, their prison itself, now revealing itself as the fourth being: The Warden. The Warden explains that because the three refused to actually use the watch, they broke their end of the deal, so they cannot leave until the watch can be sent back. And even if they do so, they had already broken the rules by removing a fourth life in the beginning; since they technically have not held their end of the deal, nor made a equivalent trade yet with Pyke, it will not set them free as punishment until they actually make an equivalent trade. Either one of them has to trade their life for the fourth- Which, by their own admitting, means they would all die in the process, or they must revive Pyke and give her the fourth piece, which would not only allow Pyke to escape with the keystone, but would make it a one sided deal in *her* favor instead. This poetically leaves them caught in the very same catch 22 deal they tricked Pyke and the team into. To me, that’s the fate they deserve for cheating: now forever stuck arguing with each other with *no hope* of escaping their crumbling prison, because their only options now would be either having to trade all of their lives in exchange for those they took, or bringing back Pyke and allowing her to escape with their only chance of freedom, so either way, they’ll never get their freedom, their own twisted rules twisted back against them.
"K" is for "Keep being awesome, TES". We all greatly appreciate the effort you've been putting in and as someone who's been an SCP fan for the last ten years, your channel has been, short of the actual sources on the wiki, arguably the best place to experience these stories (especially as they've gotten more complex and narrativized in general) as you always go well beyond simple recitation and give us unique insights into the themes and sometimes more subtle aspects within, often going the extra mile to strengthen the author's work with your words in a way that no other SCP related channel does, IMO. That's not to say I don't like a lot of them, as there are many that are quite good, but there will always be only one TES.
When The End was revealing to Pike about the fourth piece, I genuinely went "oh fuck off". I know you can hide things effectively with writing that otherwise you can't with other mediums, but that felt cheap especially when Pike could see all three fragments. Also calling bullshit on the trading as the entities have established that "fair treatment" is equivalent to a human life AND a fragment of the keystone. The fact Pike feels unfairly treated means they've invalidated the first clause.
The treatment is "fair" according to an inhuman order-being's definition thereof. Nowhere is it promised that humans will agree with that definition, and certainly nothing is said about their feelings on the matter, which are not reflective of any reality outside the person's head.
That's a cop-out. It may be a riddle-spinning sphinx, but the "the things together are a new fourth thing" is arbitrary, semantic garbage. With that same definition, two pieces is also a 5th thing, and three is a 6th, and so on. Also, the agent being subsumed by the garden as "assurance" because "there are three of us, so there should be three of you" is bullshit as well since they had four pieces. That would mean that the initial trade of one person for one piece wasn't equitable, because they could each trade a piece for a life, which meant they could lose. So, they cheated. A lie of omission is still a lie, and the King wasn't established as a liar. Ultimately, the writer "subverted expectations" by changing the rules at the last second, acting as if it makes sense and isn't contradictory to the entire premise. They could literally just kill them all if they're willing to cheat. That's not order, that's just pathetic animals gnawing at their leg to get out of a bear trap. It's bad writing disguised as a "you didn't expect the twist? But I left so many clues!" Which, no. They didn't. It's not a satisfying conclusion if I tell you the start of a joke and then slap you in the face. It's a good story ruined by "nah, a bittersweet ending isn't cool to me. I'm just going to use a contrivance to burn away all the goodwill I earned with the reader so I can have my edgy, unearned downer ending."
I feel like the 4th piece twist was foreshadowed by the wierd geometry. This is a world where a circle is made up of 400 degrees, shapes don't work the same, so an object broken into 3 being brought together only to reveal that's there's a missing fourth piece seems fitting.
So far we've got- A: Some fanatical monks Æ: Some really REALLY bad traffic B: Some aliens who tried to become immortal but doomed themselves to becoming a mold hivemind C: A real estate agency that flips haunted houses D: A phantom bug infestation E: An eternal paradise afterlife that eventually becomes a boring hell F: A radioactive dream man G: An alternate reality that gets destroyed by a gigantic fatass eating a burger Ȝ: A bunch of people go nuts over some sneezing H: Phantom Illnesses aka "I diagnose you with dead." I: An anesthetic that allows for more successful surgeries, but makes the pain worse J: Some Spaceship Wreckage K: A really weird alternate dimension
It seems my policy of "Find the creepiest place on the map and make a B line for it" would have actually benifited here. Cause that would have put me in front of "The End" with my team still mostly intact. Another place I would have headed for was the center tower rather than screwing around in the 3 districts. Plus there was an alternate deal that could have gotten everyone out. "We will grant you your freedom in exchange for you granting our freedom". While that would have still released these outter entities from what ever prison the paradox had formed it would have also allowed the team to take the information of their existence back to The Foundation. As opposed to the entities escaping with no one to send the report.
This one was unbelievable. Incredible. Horrible. Ugh. It twisted my heart in all the right ways. I hate it. I love it. It was so rich, and so vivid. The gentle unraveling of realizations as I slowly began to grasp the rules of this world along with the characters was delightfully agonizing.
Yes, the longest SCP that I've ever translated for the ZH Branch(the record is going to break by another SCP soon). Thank you so much for creating this video that takes me back to the 960 minutes of translation.☺
I really liked this one. I do think there's room for interpretation that allows a silver lining. These entities clearly weren't omnipotent, seeking answers. I consider, that perhaps asking the keystone to send them "where the chronology department can't reach them" may not really be escape after all. Placing yourself outside of time seems like a common way for foundation research teams to get stuck in eternity spirals, so maybe containment was restored?
*My Hollywood Ending.* 😄 The Keystone has great value to the SCP & since the tracker was still working & the first squad they sent haven't returned yet the SCP could have sent another squad armed with 'god' killing weapons, & as the prisoners walked towards their freedom they saw thru the doorway, the addional SCP Squad could have been standing outside looking in thru the opened doorway with their weapons pointed at the prisoners heads. ...this is where it was the prisoners turn for the lights to go out after hearing a *"click".*
Damn good story, one of the best ... unlike the one involving barbedwire coming up out of the ground turning people into sheep, that one gave me nightmares.
@@zypalitra8080that must be it. I made a mistake of playing Volgun's video of that article just when I was about to sleep. The exorcism part literally gave me a nightmare.
@@zypalitra8080 maybe, but there is one by SCP that Oneroi Collective made- a set of dial-up phone headed sheep made from phonecords that let you custom make a dream, but if you use it too much you turn into one of these sheep
I'd like to also add that the hallucination sequence in this SCP is incredibly realistic. I actually felt flashbacks to various Salvia, DMT, ketamine, and LSD hallucinations I've experienced while you were reading which was super cool! Don't worry, they weren't like scary flashbacks, just distilled sense memories of the experiences. Whoever originally wrote this nailed that part, which is VERY hard to do. The nonsensical iterative phrasing flows in such a way that it mirrors a powerful psychedelic hallucination in a way I've never seen before. Great writing all around!
2 hours??? This has to be a dream. Couldn't be happier. Thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart... These videos mean the world to me.
I hope you still have the time to take some time for yourself while you're giving us all this great content. Thank you so much for all the work. It's been incredible.
I really enjoyed this one. Feel like they really pulled one over on me. Hopeful, albeit dwindling hope, until the very end only to realize you've been led along like a sheep to slaughter.
My dreams were half the reason I got into SCPs. I've had dreams about the end of the world, eldrich entities, literal concepts all blended into a single sensation (I did not get much sleep those nights), and don't get me started on the sleep paralysis I've gone through. Honestly, I really should write some novels (or maybe just a couple SCPs).
Hot take: In my opinion, these kind of "hopeless" horror stories are cheap cliffhangers that antagonize infinitely more than they disturb. Instead of instilling a sense of sadness or hoplessness, they rather instill a sense of frustration and anger, like the writer couldn't come up with anything better to end the story with than "There was nothing they could do, the end." Horror in general may server to distill the negative cicrumstances found in real life, however, the human condition will drive almost anyone, in the face of utter defeat, to choose the only last choice available: defiance. If any horror can be said to be the end all be all, it is that of mutally assured destruction. No happy ending for either side, no victor, just ash and silence.
I like this hot take, it pretty similar to mine and how I feel that horror media were the villain comes out on top feels cheap and predictable at times.
The ending of the original Saw is one of the most effective endings in horror for that reason. The horror of knowing that there had been a way out there had been escape, makes the ending despair so sweet. I mean, Jigsaw's sick modus operandi in the series is that entire feeling but the ending of Saw 1 is the most effective.
Something about this just disturbs me in a way no other scp has been able to do so far. Its a wrongness that I can't really place, like something that should never have been broken was broken, but not really. Genuinely, thank you.
To this god, our universe is a chaotic hell and we are chaos demons. Arguably it has a point. Wants to make the universe more orderly and "right". And maybe it would really be a happier place then? But this happiness is not for us, as we are part of the chaos to be destroyed.
Honestly, the logic of this one is broken in the end. The entity says they traded the fourth member for a chance of fair treatment (since it's 3v3 then), but then says they traded the chance of fair treatment for ensuring success...which isn't how fair treatment works. Also, you only ever change one thing for one thing, right? They've broken their own logic, and by that the "deals" should be null and void.
This channel has quick become my sleep ritual. I put on a video, I fall asleep during, I wake up in the middle of the night, I hit replay to drive up view time, everybody wins.
EXCELLENT video friend. I loved your ending thoughts on Despair as a theme. I love it so and it's something that many authors or editors seems to shy away from. Owing to the obvious effectiveness of despair as a threat to our consciousness.
For the most part I really enjoyed this one. The story is extremely overwritten in places, unnecessarily belaboring points that have already been made well enough...but I don't think I've heard this high a density of extremely cool ideas begging to be expanded since the first time I read The Red Pool's exploration log! I want so badly to know more about The King, The Interloper, and The End, how exactly these three very different beings became one, and why they follow their own rules while having seemingly irreconcileable concepts of order.
I personally really don’t like the more depressing SCP tales or Tale like SCPs, and this one really is no exception. But I will give credit to this guy for reading this long as heck article for almost 2 hours straight.
My 3rd or 4th time listening because i always pass out at some point but found some neat things. Pyke had 3 pieces of information to help her not get tricked. 1. Blake tapping 4, to hint at 4 pieces. 2. The End attempted to dodge the question on why Blake was taken. It even calls it "unfavourable" 3. Its words were you "We were 3, you were 4" She was so close! RIP Agents 🫡
Yeah, I was just thinking that. I like to imagine that Kelly miraculously survived. From the interloper was saying. It and the keystone were more or less one of the same, and because the interloper stole the keystone piece from Kelly, as well as his identity, then there's technically nothing stopping Kelly from coming back and taking back both the Keystone and his stolen identity. I like to think there's a last minute ending where Kelly Wounds the interloper, steals the keystone piece back and effectively sends himself and the entities to a dimension that serves as a new prison. Either way, if they can break their own rules. So can the team. It's only a fair and equivalent trade.
I love the fact that we keep getting so many SCP's for Halloween, but is anyone else worried about our narrator? Loving all the stuff you put out TES, but remember to take care of yourself. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🙏
I on the other hand found the extremely detailed descriptions excessive. Characters who are fleeing in a blind panic from a darkness blotting out streetlights or a hallucinogenic pollen should not have time to notice every detail of their surroundings, and characters who are concussed and plodding through monotony don't need to extensively analyze and analogyze the symbolism of their surroundings. A lot of the parts of this skip could have been written much more tersely and clearly, rather than seeming like an English college student trying to meet a minimum word count and impress the jaded academics who'll grade its thesis.
@BlindZubat it's looking like I may have to go to the hospital. Some issue with my hip that is also seemingly affecting the muscle nearby. If it gets any worse I won't be able to get up off a couch without crying.
This guy has captivated my mind since i first discovered this channel . I wish you many successful years to come and hope your channel gets a well deserved boost after this action packed month of perpetual content 😁💪👍
Been on youtube for years ofc. Have never subscribed to anything even after years of listening to this and many other channnels, until just now. Hope lots of others do also. Thanks for all you do
Oh shoot, a long one Edit: I don't see what others have found disappointing. The bad guys turn out more wily than the reader (myself, at least) expects, and there is a sense of some small hope until the end, especially right before the end. It fits the despairing horror genre. I thought it was cool
I think what Horror authors forget is that fear is strongest when there’s a sense of hope. Despair to me is not horrific in the slightest. This and all other SCPs with the “now everyone dies the end” are terrible in my opinion because of the way they end. This one had a rather “meh” story to it, but they fall flat on their face when the ending is just “you lose everyone else dies because some deus ex machina on the side of the bad guys the end.”
For some people the futility is more horrifying than the danger itself. Nothing is ultimately worse than knowing your/their best just doesn't cut it. You're talking about this story not having enough contrasting outcomes, but that's not all that horror is (Lovecraft is a great example). Cosmic horror isn't about surviving the odds, but how the odds are unknown and unsurvivable
@@cris8811 and that dead end of a concept is the most boring thing of all, in my opinion. No chance for growth, no reason to even bother when you know the outcome of the story in advance of reading it.
Getting really into this listening on my phone. at the part where characters have to make a decision near the end and im super invested head phones turned up! Someone calls and makes me nearly jump out of my skin breaking my focus and browning my pants.
I wanted to binge watch everything that came out this week. But I think I need a break now. this was on the same level as the Ouroboros cycle thank you TES for making all of this.
This entity has been stuck in suburban hell land so long it's probably just going to get eating by far more terrible mindless eldrich being the second to wanders outside its bubble if we're being honest
Okay hear me out, turn the videos down after three or so seconds then turn them back up and chuckle when they still make sense. This happens because you're a dedicated TES fan and you've got his voice inside your dome.
I've listened to this one a while ago and something that really stuck to me was that definition you gave to "Despair Stories", It's the same feeling I got from that other article about the afterlife tropical island, I like it very much, I think it is my new favorite sub-genre
The triscellion seems innately designed to disorient and confuse the senses, making the team focus on the wrong things. The King Interloper End may have been prisoners, but I have to wonder how much time they spent gilding their own cage
Holy crap, it's a big plate tonight, we eating good! I need to reiterate, thanks for taking this on mangg, i especially appreciate your narrations of SCP files.
This was amazing. Thank you, I think "despair" as a genre is an interesting idea, because there are certainly instances of horror media where the despair is evoked through totally normal, human, real means. There are also movies, novels, short stories, SCP's and more that evoke that sense of dread through supernatural or science fiction means, I believe this is Cosmic Horror which I know you love, having heard your HP Lovecraft readings which are amazing. This gave me a real cosmic horror dread and despair vibe. The entities.... they could be anything. Such an awesome story with such vivid detail.
I just realized why I had a hard time with this one even before the very unsatisfying ending: the characters are written like crap. These are supposed to be professionals who have completed countless missions before, probably many that were as dire and sketchy as this one, yet they act like fresh college grads with no work experience on their first mission. The bickering between Kelly and Pike, Hanrahan's inability to just make a fucking decision, and then Pike acting like a quivering little schoolgirl at the end was all so contradictory to how they should have behaved that it took me out of it over and over. Definitely my biggest gripe with this one by far. Overall just terribly written and honestly I hate that you wasted 2 hours recording this one, Mangg. Appreciating all the others so far, though! Gesundheit, Ærials, and all of the medically related ones were awesome!
I think it's just bloated. I have no problem with long videos from either TES, or any other of my regularly watched creators, but a lot of the fat could have been cut. But, that's true, the characters were just kinda wrong. For me, it was just boring, although, as always, I appreciate TES's work.
I just napped TK this so hard but still could here the entire audio in my damn dream and it was so good I’m now skipping my class restarting it and trying again 💀
I hated this tale, I know the hole point was to be all hopeless or something. But I can't stand stories like this. I feel like I've been taken on a pointless ride and duped. Don't get me wrong this is very well written. Like omg it was sorta glued to it the whole time but I left feeling angry.
Holy Crap. Truly one of the more nervewracking and misleading SCPs I've read up to know, and I must admit that the focus on despair and hopelessness was spot on. One again TES you have done an amazing job of narrating yet another incredible SCP.
Dude, you're a legend. I've been listening to you for years, I absolutely adore your content. There's been many a night I've gotten through work or a long drive with the help of your content. You're absolutely amazing and I appreciate you so incredibly much. Thank you for all you do and the wonderful videos you do.
God! I'm only 40 minutes in, and it just keeps getting better and better! Usually, or at least too often, very long SCP's following the Tale Format even though it's a Database Entry (or, said another way, when an SCP Article is used as a pretext to insert a Tale) end up having multiple similar issues, namely that: - There are lengthy sections that screw up the Pacing. - There is a (partial or total) loss of perspective, the Article becoming too focused on the Tale/Story, with the actual SCP in question getting sidestepped, becoming so low in priority that it ends up being barely relevant when it should be THE Centerpiece of the whole Document, including its Special Containment Procedures, its Properties, how they all came to be discovered and put in place, etc.. It doesn't mean that a Story/Tale is inherently bad and goes against the crucial Elements of an SCP Objet/Entity/Phenomenon, far from it! Just that when a regular SCP Database Entry Fornat is used as the basis of/a Template that is then expanded for a Tale to be inserted, it has to be done with great care so as to be flawless in its execution in order to make the juxtaposition of an Entry & a Tale + the transitions between the two completely seemless. And inserting a Tale, whatever its length, inside an Article, can be extremely beneficial if done the right way, when the Author focuses on the right Elements with a precise purpose in mind! The best (and only at this very late hour with my brain turned to mush) example of how a Tale can ADD a ton to an SCP is when the various parts of the Story are used *to bring context, to make us live through:* - The Events that led up to the SCP's Discovery, - It's "Capture" or Securing, - The Containment Efforts leading to the final version of the Containment Procedures, - The Experimentation to discover its Properties, - The Exploration Logs as part of a bigger picture in a Story, ... etc., AS LONG AS any or all of this done with great care to SERVE the Article and NOT the opposite, which would be to use the Article Format to serve the Story/Tale! ★I must apologize to you. Since I'm exceedingly tired, I have much more difficulty with being *Concise,* which made this Comment drastically lengthier! ★ ~> On an ending note, I want to say that so far, this SCP/Tale Hybrid doesn't suffer from the usual/common problems associated with this type of ambitious endeavor! Even though sadly, we only get to hear an (excessively) Summarized version of the Author's Literary Work, losing SO MUCH in the process, on top of being dumbed down sometimes to an absolutely Absurd & Excessive Level by TES, nothing can change the fact that *a Good Story will always be great, even if retold by someone using its own words!* So, at least at the 40 minutes Mark, so far it's building up into an insanely good SCP/Story!
Identified by Orson Scott Card as "Dread", some of my favorite stories. He has a short story collection called tales of dread, included in the Maps in a Mirror short story collection. The introduction essay on dread is a good read b
This tale feels similar to SCP 6820 in its similar experimentation with things that exist outside of human influence or understanding, which is a bit frustrating because it’s hard to get my head around. The entity seems similar to some biblical depictions of God as three beings simultaneously, while also maybe bundling in portrayals of demonic/evil components as one and the same
this mad lad is uploading like dozens of hours of content in one month. i hope this goes well and your channel gets a well-deserved boost after all your hard work
Shut up, don’t call attention to it! He might realize what he is doing!
Hopefully this doesn't count as the next year of uploads lmao
I couldnt be happier
Don't forget to like and comment on every video this month to show your appreciation and to appease the real SCP, The ALGORITHM.....
@@OmniscientOrangutan1 year 2.5 month worth of TES content
The real SCP was the friends who were brutally murderer along the way...
I like this more than I want to admit
I think it would be funny and absolutely well deserved if the door pushed them back into the house then slams shut right after the documents end, trapping them back in their prison, leaving them miserably snarling in their prison when their victory was so close. The keystone then calls them fools for breaking the rules that they’ve built themselves around for so long; the keystone and in essence, their prison itself, now revealing itself as the fourth being:
The Warden.
The Warden explains that because the three refused to actually use the watch, they broke their end of the deal, so they cannot leave until the watch can be sent back. And even if they do so, they had already broken the rules by removing a fourth life in the beginning; since they technically have not held their end of the deal, nor made a equivalent trade yet with Pyke, it will not set them free as punishment until they actually make an equivalent trade. Either one of them has to trade their life for the fourth- Which, by their own admitting, means they would all die in the process, or they must revive Pyke and give her the fourth piece, which would not only allow Pyke to escape with the keystone, but would make it a one sided deal in *her* favor instead.
This poetically leaves them caught in the very same catch 22 deal they tricked Pyke and the team into.
To me, that’s the fate they deserve for cheating: now forever stuck arguing with each other with *no hope* of escaping their crumbling prison, because their only options now would be either having to trade all of their lives in exchange for those they took, or bringing back Pyke and allowing her to escape with their only chance of freedom, so either way, they’ll never get their freedom, their own twisted rules twisted back against them.
An equal exchange. Betrayal, for betrayal. Deception, for deception.
Oblivion, for oblivion.
"K" is for "Keep being awesome, TES".
We all greatly appreciate the effort you've been putting in and as someone who's been an SCP fan for the last ten years, your channel has been, short of the actual sources on the wiki, arguably the best place to experience these stories (especially as they've gotten more complex and narrativized in general) as you always go well beyond simple recitation and give us unique insights into the themes and sometimes more subtle aspects within, often going the extra mile to strengthen the author's work with your words in a way that no other SCP related channel does, IMO. That's not to say I don't like a lot of them, as there are many that are quite good, but there will always be only one TES.
When The End was revealing to Pike about the fourth piece, I genuinely went "oh fuck off". I know you can hide things effectively with writing that otherwise you can't with other mediums, but that felt cheap especially when Pike could see all three fragments.
Also calling bullshit on the trading as the entities have established that "fair treatment" is equivalent to a human life AND a fragment of the keystone. The fact Pike feels unfairly treated means they've invalidated the first clause.
The treatment is "fair" according to an inhuman order-being's definition thereof. Nowhere is it promised that humans will agree with that definition, and certainly nothing is said about their feelings on the matter, which are not reflective of any reality outside the person's head.
That's a cop-out.
It may be a riddle-spinning sphinx, but the "the things together are a new fourth thing" is arbitrary, semantic garbage.
With that same definition, two pieces is also a 5th thing, and three is a 6th, and so on.
Also, the agent being subsumed by the garden as "assurance" because "there are three of us, so there should be three of you" is bullshit as well since they had four pieces.
That would mean that the initial trade of one person for one piece wasn't equitable, because they could each trade a piece for a life, which meant they could lose. So, they cheated. A lie of omission is still a lie, and the King wasn't established as a liar.
Ultimately, the writer "subverted expectations" by changing the rules at the last second, acting as if it makes sense and isn't contradictory to the entire premise.
They could literally just kill them all if they're willing to cheat. That's not order, that's just pathetic animals gnawing at their leg to get out of a bear trap. It's bad writing disguised as a "you didn't expect the twist? But I left so many clues!" Which, no. They didn't.
It's not a satisfying conclusion if I tell you the start of a joke and then slap you in the face.
It's a good story ruined by "nah, a bittersweet ending isn't cool to me. I'm just going to use a contrivance to burn away all the goodwill I earned with the reader so I can have my edgy, unearned downer ending."
I feel like the 4th piece twist was foreshadowed by the wierd geometry. This is a world where a circle is made up of 400 degrees, shapes don't work the same, so an object broken into 3 being brought together only to reveal that's there's a missing fourth piece seems fitting.
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Thanks for all your work. 👍
So far we've got-
A: Some fanatical monks
Æ: Some really REALLY bad traffic
B: Some aliens who tried to become immortal but doomed themselves to becoming a mold hivemind
C: A real estate agency that flips haunted houses
D: A phantom bug infestation
E: An eternal paradise afterlife that eventually becomes a boring hell
F: A radioactive dream man
G: An alternate reality that gets destroyed by a gigantic fatass eating a burger
Ȝ: A bunch of people go nuts over some sneezing
H: Phantom Illnesses aka "I diagnose you with dead."
I: An anesthetic that allows for more successful surgeries, but makes the pain worse
J: Some Spaceship Wreckage
K: A really weird alternate dimension
My man over here keeping up the trend, nice! :3
This is great, keep it up man.
It seems my policy of "Find the creepiest place on the map and make a B line for it" would have actually benifited here. Cause that would have put me in front of "The End" with my team still mostly intact. Another place I would have headed for was the center tower rather than screwing around in the 3 districts.
Plus there was an alternate deal that could have gotten everyone out. "We will grant you your freedom in exchange for you granting our freedom". While that would have still released these outter entities from what ever prison the paradox had formed it would have also allowed the team to take the information of their existence back to The Foundation. As opposed to the entities escaping with no one to send the report.
This one was unbelievable. Incredible. Horrible. Ugh. It twisted my heart in all the right ways. I hate it. I love it. It was so rich, and so vivid. The gentle unraveling of realizations as I slowly began to grasp the rules of this world along with the characters was delightfully agonizing.
You are my kind of people.
shut up
No, K is for Ketamine
This story could be someone's k-hole report in the form of an SCP. 😅
Ketamine is based, the devil's lettuce is cringe.
@@zapan9643 all drugs are based all drugs at the same time
Agagagagagaga 🦀🦀🦀🦀
I say that drugs are cringe, confronting the bleakness of reality dead sober is based.
Yes, the longest SCP that I've ever translated for the ZH Branch(the record is going to break by another SCP soon). Thank you so much for creating this video that takes me back to the 960 minutes of translation.☺
What is the ZH branch?
@@Lightspeedloser_ Traditional Chinese Branch.
Zh? Neverheard
I really liked this one. I do think there's room for interpretation that allows a silver lining. These entities clearly weren't omnipotent, seeking answers. I consider, that perhaps asking the keystone to send them "where the chronology department can't reach them" may not really be escape after all. Placing yourself outside of time seems like a common way for foundation research teams to get stuck in eternity spirals, so maybe containment was restored?
Yea, outside of time would probably be where they end up, actually. It would kind of mess up their whole "reshape reality into our image" plan.
I love the long " tale" type SCPs
Thankyou so much ES for this incredible month of awesomeness!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
agreed. this is GOLD
They're called "skips" by the community, and not as an insult, either.
*My Hollywood Ending.* 😄
The Keystone has great value to the SCP & since the tracker was still working & the first squad they sent haven't returned yet the SCP could have sent another squad armed with 'god' killing weapons, & as the prisoners walked towards their freedom they saw thru the doorway, the addional SCP Squad could have been standing outside looking in thru the opened doorway with their weapons pointed at the prisoners heads. ...this is where it was the prisoners turn for the lights to go out after hearing a *"click".*
Yes.
This seems more like a Three Moons Initiative ending
Damn good story, one of the best ... unlike the one involving barbedwire coming up out of the ground turning people into sheep, that one gave me nightmares.
Scratching my head to try and figure out which one you're talking about, and the only one I can think of is "This Is How I Died".
@@zypalitra8080that must be it. I made a mistake of playing Volgun's video of that article just when I was about to sleep. The exorcism part literally gave me a nightmare.
@@zypalitra8080 Yes, thats the one. Part of the SCP 5000 series - SPC 5999 "why"
@@zypalitra8080 maybe, but there is one by SCP that Oneroi Collective made- a set of dial-up phone headed sheep made from phonecords that let you custom make a dream, but if you use it too much you turn into one of these sheep
I was disturbed by that one too
I'd like to also add that the hallucination sequence in this SCP is incredibly realistic. I actually felt flashbacks to various Salvia, DMT, ketamine, and LSD hallucinations I've experienced while you were reading which was super cool! Don't worry, they weren't like scary flashbacks, just distilled sense memories of the experiences. Whoever originally wrote this nailed that part, which is VERY hard to do. The nonsensical iterative phrasing flows in such a way that it mirrors a powerful psychedelic hallucination in a way I've never seen before. Great writing all around!
2 hours??? This has to be a dream. Couldn't be happier. Thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart... These videos mean the world to me.
I hope you still have the time to take some time for yourself while you're giving us all this great content. Thank you so much for all the work. It's been incredible.
In the announcement video for this series, Mangg did sound *very* tired.
I really enjoyed this one. Feel like they really pulled one over on me. Hopeful, albeit dwindling hope, until the very end only to realize you've been led along like a sheep to slaughter.
What I felt is frustration by the end. At this point writers are just writing to waste time.
Thanks 1 million for all of the daily post this month. Hope you take a well-deserved time off afterwards.
It's strange, but these stories are comforting to me because they're just like my messed-up dreams.
I, too dream of navigating a much more elaborate version of Pac-Man.
My dreams were half the reason I got into SCPs. I've had dreams about the end of the world, eldrich entities, literal concepts all blended into a single sensation (I did not get much sleep those nights), and don't get me started on the sleep paralysis I've gone through. Honestly, I really should write some novels (or maybe just a couple SCPs).
Hello past me and future me. Today is May 10, 2024. It's about 6 months since the release of this video and the first comment I made.
This is quite possibly the best month of content ever put out in TH-cam's history. Amazing stuff. Thanks.
Hot take: In my opinion, these kind of "hopeless" horror stories are cheap cliffhangers that antagonize infinitely more than they disturb. Instead of instilling a sense of sadness or hoplessness, they rather instill a sense of frustration and anger, like the writer couldn't come up with anything better to end the story with than "There was nothing they could do, the end."
Horror in general may server to distill the negative cicrumstances found in real life, however, the human condition will drive almost anyone, in the face of utter defeat, to choose the only last choice available: defiance.
If any horror can be said to be the end all be all, it is that of mutally assured destruction. No happy ending for either side, no victor, just ash and silence.
I like this hot take, it pretty similar to mine and how I feel that horror media were the villain comes out on top feels cheap and predictable at times.
The ending of the original Saw is one of the most effective endings in horror for that reason.
The horror of knowing that there had been a way out there had been escape, makes the ending despair so sweet.
I mean, Jigsaw's sick modus operandi in the series is that entire feeling but the ending of Saw 1 is the most effective.
Something about this just disturbs me in a way no other scp has been able to do so far. Its a wrongness that I can't really place, like something that should never have been broken was broken, but not really. Genuinely, thank you.
To this god, our universe is a chaotic hell and we are chaos demons. Arguably it has a point. Wants to make the universe more orderly and "right". And maybe it would really be a happier place then? But this happiness is not for us, as we are part of the chaos to be destroyed.
Honestly, the logic of this one is broken in the end.
The entity says they traded the fourth member for a chance of fair treatment (since it's 3v3 then), but then says they traded the chance of fair treatment for ensuring success...which isn't how fair treatment works. Also, you only ever change one thing for one thing, right?
They've broken their own logic, and by that the "deals" should be null and void.
Also you could argue the stone wasn't theirs to barter with its existence was a closed loop that was removed thus stolen from its proper place
Love this one, it’s like a liminal hell with a malevolent demiurge-like entity ruling over it.
This channel has quick become my sleep ritual. I put on a video, I fall asleep during, I wake up in the middle of the night, I hit replay to drive up view time, everybody wins.
EXCELLENT video friend. I loved your ending thoughts on Despair as a theme. I love it so and it's something that many authors or editors seems to shy away from. Owing to the obvious effectiveness of despair as a threat to our consciousness.
This is so far the best of the october uploads, actually had me on the edge of my seat. Genuinely one of the better SCP videos from ES.
Why youtube asked me what I think about your comment?
For the most part I really enjoyed this one. The story is extremely overwritten in places, unnecessarily belaboring points that have already been made well enough...but I don't think I've heard this high a density of extremely cool ideas begging to be expanded since the first time I read The Red Pool's exploration log! I want so badly to know more about The King, The Interloper, and The End, how exactly these three very different beings became one, and why they follow their own rules while having seemingly irreconcileable concepts of order.
This is absolutely amazing It feels like Christmas with your channel as of lately. Loving the daily uploads
I personally really don’t like the more depressing SCP tales or Tale like SCPs, and this one really is no exception. But I will give credit to this guy for reading this long as heck article for almost 2 hours straight.
My 3rd or 4th time listening because i always pass out at some point but found some neat things.
Pyke had 3 pieces of information to help her not get tricked. 1. Blake tapping 4, to hint at 4 pieces. 2. The End attempted to dodge the question on why Blake was taken. It even calls it "unfavourable" 3. Its words were you "We were 3, you were 4"
She was so close!
RIP Agents 🫡
They took the keystone without proper exchange. They broke their rules before the game even started.
Yeah, I was just thinking that. I like to imagine that Kelly miraculously survived. From the interloper was saying. It and the keystone were more or less one of the same, and because the interloper stole the keystone piece from Kelly, as well as his identity, then there's technically nothing stopping Kelly from coming back and taking back both the Keystone and his stolen identity.
I like to think there's a last minute ending where Kelly Wounds the interloper, steals the keystone piece back and effectively sends himself and the entities to a dimension that serves as a new prison.
Either way, if they can break their own rules. So can the team. It's only a fair and equivalent trade.
I love the fact that we keep getting so many SCP's for Halloween, but is anyone else worried about our narrator? Loving all the stuff you put out TES, but remember to take care of yourself. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🙏
I agree,, but lol hearts gay
Man, I can’t wait till he gets to L is for lamentations, it is one of my favourite SCPs ever
So it was like labyrinth if the goblin King was more competent and calculating
I really need to rewatch that movie.
This was an incredible story. The amount of descriptors in the text literally made me imagine everything within the story
I on the other hand found the extremely detailed descriptions excessive. Characters who are fleeing in a blind panic from a darkness blotting out streetlights or a hallucinogenic pollen should not have time to notice every detail of their surroundings, and characters who are concussed and plodding through monotony don't need to extensively analyze and analogyze the symbolism of their surroundings. A lot of the parts of this skip could have been written much more tersely and clearly, rather than seeming like an English college student trying to meet a minimum word count and impress the jaded academics who'll grade its thesis.
I'm in really severe pain right now. I'm glad to have content from you to at least help distract me rn.
Oh? I hope your mom k. If not I hope you recover quickly and rest if you can.
@BlindZubat it's looking like I may have to go to the hospital. Some issue with my hip that is also seemingly affecting the muscle nearby. If it gets any worse I won't be able to get up off a couch without crying.
@@anonymousanonymous6214 Oh geez. That sounds really scary. I hope its nothing serious. Hope you are doing a bit better all these hours later.
@BlindZubat bit less pain but still pretty bad. I'm hoping it can heal on its own
I've been trying to finish this before bed for a week now and I keep falling into a PEACEFUL SLEEP
This guy has captivated my mind since i first discovered this channel .
I wish you many successful years to come and hope your channel gets a well deserved boost after this action packed month of perpetual content 😁💪👍
Oh man are we blessed again! Almost 2 whole hours of your amazing content
1 hour and 51 mins AND a hour early you spoil us to good.
P.S. you definitely deserve an SCP entry for this inhuman amount of content you've been producing:)
Been on youtube for years ofc. Have never subscribed to anything even after years of listening to this and many other channnels, until just now. Hope lots of others do also. Thanks for all you do
My sleep schedule is ruined for the month. I intentionally stay up just waiting for these
Same here!
One dose of the exploring series before sleep is the best medicine for insomnia.
Oh shoot, a long one
Edit: I don't see what others have found disappointing. The bad guys turn out more wily than the reader (myself, at least) expects, and there is a sense of some small hope until the end, especially right before the end. It fits the despairing horror genre. I thought it was cool
Too bleak, stopped caring
@@BeefMeisterSupreme skill issue. this one rocked
@@CloverlyArtist Dead 2020 meme detected.
SHAME. SHAME. SHAME. SHAME. SHAME. SHAME. SHAME. SHAME. SHAME. SHAME.
@@BeefMeisterSupremeloser detected
@@BeefMeisterSupreme I mean, I feel like most horror is bleak anyway
2 hours gawddamn.
*Press play, plug in, lay down, smile.*
*Remember to hit like button, do that, lay down, smile.*
This will make the end of work and commute home much easier, thanks Mangg!
2 am, I'm sicker than heck, thank you for entertaining me while I shiver and sweat. I appreciate you.
Get well soon!
Hope you feel better man. Jello cups are really good when you're sick. At least that's what I go for
Thank you for providing such great long-form listening!
I think what Horror authors forget is that fear is strongest when there’s a sense of hope. Despair to me is not horrific in the slightest. This and all other SCPs with the “now everyone dies the end” are terrible in my opinion because of the way they end. This one had a rather “meh” story to it, but they fall flat on their face when the ending is just “you lose everyone else dies because some deus ex machina on the side of the bad guys the end.”
Diabolos Ex Machina
@@vereinigtestaaten6453 And a Too Bleak, Stopped Caring trope occurence.
@@BeefMeisterSupremebleh, you're the bleak one
For some people the futility is more horrifying than the danger itself.
Nothing is ultimately worse than knowing your/their best just doesn't cut it.
You're talking about this story not having enough contrasting outcomes, but that's not all that horror is (Lovecraft is a great example).
Cosmic horror isn't about surviving the odds, but how the odds are unknown and unsurvivable
@@cris8811 and that dead end of a concept is the most boring thing of all, in my opinion. No chance for growth, no reason to even bother when you know the outcome of the story in advance of reading it.
Getting really into this listening on my phone. at the part where characters have to make a decision near the end and im super invested head phones turned up!
Someone calls and makes me nearly jump out of my skin breaking my focus and browning my pants.
My last name is Pike! Never heard it used in any stories until now. Huge fan man keep up the great videos
The previous day "it feels strange to have a such a short one".... next day a nearly 2 hour video follows😂 incredible
Have u even had a good sleep in October? You've been putting videos out at an anomalous rate. Is this channel a spc itself ❤
You know these were all made at once a while back right.
@lastofthe4horsemen279 yeah...
I wanted to binge watch everything that came out this week. But I think I need a break now. this was on the same level as the Ouroboros cycle thank you TES for making all of this.
Bingara is a very small town to turn up in an SCP
This entity has been stuck in suburban hell land so long it's probably just going to get eating by far more terrible mindless eldrich being the second to wanders outside its bubble if we're being honest
Your readings are seriously getting me though my job rn. Thanks.
Okay hear me out, turn the videos down after three or so seconds then turn them back up and chuckle when they still make sense. This happens because you're a dedicated TES fan and you've got his voice inside your dome.
I've listened to this one a while ago and something that really stuck to me was that definition you gave to "Despair Stories", It's the same feeling I got from that other article about the afterlife tropical island, I like it very much, I think it is my new favorite sub-genre
Your story telling, intonation, and ability to change the mood in telling the story is great.
The triscellion seems innately designed to disorient and confuse the senses, making the team focus on the wrong things.
The King Interloper End may have been prisoners, but I have to wonder how much time they spent gilding their own cage
Holy crap, it's a big plate tonight, we eating good!
I need to reiterate, thanks for taking this on mangg, i especially appreciate your narrations of SCP files.
This was amazing. Thank you, I think "despair" as a genre is an interesting idea, because there are certainly instances of horror media where the despair is evoked through totally normal, human, real means. There are also movies, novels, short stories, SCP's and more that evoke that sense of dread through supernatural or science fiction means, I believe this is Cosmic Horror which I know you love, having heard your HP Lovecraft readings which are amazing.
This gave me a real cosmic horror dread and despair vibe. The entities.... they could be anything. Such an awesome story with such vivid detail.
I just realized why I had a hard time with this one even before the very unsatisfying ending: the characters are written like crap. These are supposed to be professionals who have completed countless missions before, probably many that were as dire and sketchy as this one, yet they act like fresh college grads with no work experience on their first mission.
The bickering between Kelly and Pike, Hanrahan's inability to just make a fucking decision, and then Pike acting like a quivering little schoolgirl at the end was all so contradictory to how they should have behaved that it took me out of it over and over.
Definitely my biggest gripe with this one by far. Overall just terribly written and honestly I hate that you wasted 2 hours recording this one, Mangg. Appreciating all the others so far, though! Gesundheit, Ærials, and all of the medically related ones were awesome!
I thought it was interesting especially the world building but it left me extremely confused.
I think it's just bloated. I have no problem with long videos from either TES, or any other of my regularly watched creators, but a lot of the fat could have been cut. But, that's true, the characters were just kinda wrong. For me, it was just boring, although, as always, I appreciate TES's work.
The enivitabity of the inescapable, unavoidable end made this my favorite so far.
Diving into Lords of The Fallen right now. Perfect video and timing.
Almost 2 hours of SCP content?! You spoil us!
This one was an absolute banger.
The hallucination sequence was amazing btw, great writing.
This man makes my day every time I open TH-cam and see a new video
Omg, this is so long! Mad props for doing this massive project
You've outdone yourself good Sir, and I thank you graciously for it. Amazing work as always
Thank you as always Mr. Series for your hard work and dedication
This took multiple attempts across a few months and multiple restarts, but man, it felt quite poetic that it took so long for me to finish.
I like this one. So many ideas for new tests and new things to explore in the name of science.
2:00AM EST upload.
I have been putting all these on my watch later list. It is so long now.
I just napped TK this so hard but still could here the entire audio in my damn dream and it was so good I’m now skipping my class restarting it and trying again 💀
I hated this tale, I know the hole point was to be all hopeless or something. But I can't stand stories like this. I feel like I've been taken on a pointless ride and duped.
Don't get me wrong this is very well written. Like omg it was sorta glued to it the whole time but I left feeling angry.
Same.
Make this a movie!!!!! This was amazing. Usually my favorite SCP is DJK, but I want more from this author, bravo!
Holy Crap. Truly one of the more nervewracking and misleading SCPs I've read up to know, and I must admit that the focus on despair and hopelessness was spot on. One again TES you have done an amazing job of narrating yet another incredible SCP.
They went to where the chronology Dept can't reach them BUT there are OTHERS who can.
Dude, you're a legend. I've been listening to you for years, I absolutely adore your content. There's been many a night I've gotten through work or a long drive with the help of your content. You're absolutely amazing and I appreciate you so incredibly much. Thank you for all you do and the wonderful videos you do.
Thank you again for making all of these every day. Best October ever!
God! I'm only 40 minutes in, and it just keeps getting better and better! Usually, or at least too often, very long SCP's following the Tale Format even though it's a Database Entry (or, said another way, when an SCP Article is used as a pretext to insert a Tale) end up having multiple similar issues, namely that:
- There are lengthy sections that screw up the Pacing.
- There is a (partial or total) loss of perspective, the Article becoming too focused on the Tale/Story, with the actual SCP in question getting sidestepped, becoming so low in priority that it ends up being barely relevant when it should be THE Centerpiece of the whole Document, including its Special Containment Procedures, its Properties, how they all came to be discovered and put in place, etc..
It doesn't mean that a Story/Tale is inherently bad and goes against the crucial Elements of an SCP Objet/Entity/Phenomenon, far from it!
Just that when a regular SCP Database Entry Fornat is used as the basis of/a Template that is then expanded for a Tale to be inserted, it has to be done with great care so as to be flawless in its execution in order to make the juxtaposition of an Entry & a Tale + the transitions between the two completely seemless.
And inserting a Tale, whatever its length, inside an Article, can be extremely beneficial if done the right way, when the Author focuses on the right Elements with a precise purpose in mind!
The best (and only at this very late hour with my brain turned to mush) example of how a Tale can ADD a ton to an SCP is when the various parts of the Story are used *to bring context, to make us live through:*
- The Events that led up to the SCP's Discovery,
- It's "Capture" or Securing,
- The Containment Efforts leading to the final version of the Containment Procedures,
- The Experimentation to discover its Properties,
- The Exploration Logs as part of a bigger picture in a Story,
... etc., AS LONG AS any or all of this done with great care to SERVE the Article and NOT the opposite, which would be to use the Article Format to serve the Story/Tale!
★I must apologize to you. Since I'm exceedingly tired, I have much more difficulty with being *Concise,* which made this Comment drastically lengthier! ★
~> On an ending note, I want to say that so far, this SCP/Tale Hybrid doesn't suffer from the usual/common problems associated with this type of ambitious endeavor!
Even though sadly, we only get to hear an (excessively) Summarized version of the Author's Literary Work, losing SO MUCH in the process, on top of being dumbed down sometimes to an absolutely Absurd & Excessive Level by TES, nothing can change the fact that *a Good Story will always be great, even if retold by someone using its own words!*
So, at least at the 40 minutes Mark, so far it's building up into an insanely good SCP/Story!
I am commenting to boost engagement because you deserve it and I hope others get the chance to enjoy your content and channel as much as I have
Was not expecting a 2 hour video. Half hour or so, sure, but 2 hour? Was not expecting this. Not complaining though. Love long form content
Identified by Orson Scott Card as "Dread", some of my favorite stories. He has a short story collection called tales of dread, included in the Maps in a Mirror short story collection. The introduction essay on dread is a good read b
20:52 that description reminds me of “rendezvous with Rama”
Wow hour and 51 mins for this one. Maaang u are kicking butt. Its awesome 😎😎😄😄😄 tyvm
I basically live for your longer videos like this. Thanks TES!
1:03:22 this part had me at the edge of my chair flipping awesome narration dude 👌💯🔥
this stuff is like Cinemassacre's Monster madness. but instead of being reasonable length some of these letters are dreadnaughts.
This one made my dream plop me straight into my own (more mundane) version of the House of Leaves. Thanks Mangg!
*OH BOY! IT’S 3AM!!*
Oh hell yeah lords of the fallen all night
2:00am. 😂
Heck yea, ill do one for east coast
2:00
9 am ,_,
Perfect timing for breakfast here in Germany. Thanks for the content❤😊
This tale feels similar to SCP 6820 in its similar experimentation with things that exist outside of human influence or understanding, which is a bit frustrating because it’s hard to get my head around. The entity seems similar to some biblical depictions of God as three beings simultaneously, while also maybe bundling in portrayals of demonic/evil components as one and the same
thanks again for the spooky season scp-a-thon. this is one of the best channels to listen to while working! (:
also, thanks for the closed captions!