SCP-4246 │ The Dreams of the Firstborn │ Archon │ Hive Mind SCP
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SCP-4246 │ The Dreams of the Firstborn │ Archon │ Hive Mind SCP
Special Containment Procedures: Complete containment of SCP-4246 phenomena is not presently feasible, although it has been hypothesized that efforts to impede or terminate the anomaly may result in events detrimental to the preservation of normalcy. A disinformation campaign is to be maintained to actively discredit the legitimacy of claims made by SCP-4246-1 and their supporters. Such allegations are to be dismissed as works of fiction, the product of mental illness, or religious delusion. Communities and cults comprised of SCP-4246-1 (and non-anomalous associates) are to be closely monitored.
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"they weren't gods, they were cephalopods" sounds like the lyrics you would hear in an educational rap video in biology and I love it
Bars
I want to be
Under the sea,
With the gods
Who are cephalopods
420
Sounds like an MF DOOM line
@eugh9939 that's a huge stretch
As much as I love the normal mysterious scps, this style of scp file seems so much more "in canon" since it makes the document look more like an actual scientific document rather than a strange set of clues about a mostly unknown phenomenon.
Yeah absolutely. I usually dont enjoy the extremely long winded, drawn out, barely-SCP giga stories that are basically just “name: sword. obiect class: safe containment procedures: none. exploration log: *full length novel about some shit thats related to the SCP but that has little to do with the actual SCP itself* but this one didnt tickle that “damnit man its just another fkng sci-fi/fantasy novel thats for some reason being published on the SCP Wiki” reflex in me that a lot of really long articles do. This one really felt like an “SCP” while still managing to give us a really good, in depth, engaging story.
@@mud4309 Its usualy when the SCP article reads the tekst of a journal. Instead of showing an exploration log, or interview. Whitch still allow for some subjectivity but are described as objectively as posible. A found journal realy is often just the author writing a novel. Although some realy good SCPs are done through this format, like "house of the worm" and "paint under the bridge".
@@mud4309
That excactly mine Problem!
See i respect people who do the effort and i enjoy long scp logs
but often (that just how i feel) they miss the mark and rather tell us a story about the scp fundation instead about the scp itself
And mostly is just (extremely powerful world ending thing) that just can't be barely stopped like a kaiju story
@@hugo3627well i gotta watch those now because of your zombie pfp😂😂
SCP 4246
Containment class: esoteric
Secondary class: Archon
Disruption class amita
Risk class: Caution
Complete containment of SCP-4246 phenomena is not presently feasible, all though it has been hypothesized that efforts to impede or terminate the anomaly may result in events detrimental to the preservation of normalcy. A disinformation campaign is to be maintained to actively discredit the legitimacy of claims made bY SCP-4246-1 and their supporters. Such allegations are to be dismissed as works of fiction, the product of mental illness, or religious delusion. Communities and cults comprised of SCP-4246-1 [and non-anomalous associates] are to be closely monitored.
It is of the utmost importance that suspected SCP-4246-1 type B are secured and contained as soon as possible due to their ability to gain preternatural knowledge of the Foundation and its inner-workings. Instances of SCP-4246-1 Type B are to be captured and contained within Psi-resistant humanoid containment cells. SCP-4246-1 TypeB must be physically restrained for their own safety when triangulating the location of [or in close proximity to] SCP-4246 transmitters, such as SCP-4246-2 and SCP-4246-3.
The existence of SCP-4246-2 and SCP-4246-3, along with their creators, must be hidden from the public by any means necessary. In the case ofSCP-4246-3, Provisional Containment Area-48 has been constructed and must be maintained. Members of Mobile Task Force Epsilon-19 "The Psych Ward" are the only individuals allowed within SCP-4246-3 unless authorized by Site Director.
Description:
SCP-4246 primarily manifests as a morbid psychological condition involving dreams, hallucinations, delusions, and fixations of a singular
relation to the ocean and its contents. Individuals afflicted by SCP-4246 are classified as SCP-4246-1 and display significant behavioral changes, including the development of abnormal neuropathologies. Most SCP-4246-1 will eventually come to interpret their anomalous experiences as spiritual visions conveying some manner of revelation or esoteric knowledge, ultimately leading to the creation of cults and related organizations. The most immediate distinction that separates SCP-4246 from unrelated experiences is the inexplicable commonality between episodes and reactions.
Frequently reported elements include:
Visions of sprawling and colossal cities beneath the sea.
The windowless structures display non-Euclidean architecture and are composed of a material described as smooth, seamless, glassy, and black.
Visions involving gardens of coral displaying indescribable colors presumally outside the human visual spectrum.
An uncontrollable psychological urge to immerse themselves in seawater, often to the point of self-endangerment.
Hallucinations involving symbols of unknown origin or context, usually manifesting as short, rapid flashes that leave fleeting imprints upon an individual's paracentral vision.
These visions have been known to trigger dizziness, vertigo, post-traumatic stress, psychosis, mania and/or depression, homicidal/suicidal thoughts and behavior, and the development of new hallucinations. Afflicted individuals have been known to kill family and friends in an effort to "save" them from an ill-defined but never the less impending cataclysm.
Reports of sensations similar to those described by sufferers of phanton pain and body integrity identity disorder but manifesting as heal thy people with their bodies intact feeling as though they are missing limbs that otherwise never existed. Afflicted individuals understand that this feeling is illogical and that the human body [normally] has four limbs, but continue to experience these sensations regardless of acceptance. Individuals have described incidents of phantom pain registering up to 12 meters away from their body, as if these non-existent appendages were significantly longer than their actual limbs. There exist several cases of acutely afflicted individuals removing the limbs of others and attempting to graph them onto their own body with fatal results.
The majority of SCP-4246-1 Will eventually self-terminate by drowning in the ocean. While all appear to suffer the compulsion to do so, a
minority are able to resist the urge.
SCP-4246-1 are divided into Type А, Туре В, and Type C variants.
Туре A individuals are the most common and generally display one or more of the previously noted symptoms. It is unknown how many
SCP-4246-1 Type A exist but their reaction to SCP-4246 is generally self-contained and easily countered by the propagation of disinformation.
Acutely affected individuals exhibit extrasensory perception [ESP], such as the ability to identify information hidden from normal senses, as well as preternatural knowledge of a subject's thoughts and memories. These individuals have been classified as
SCP-4246-1 Type B and, following decades of research, have been determined to be psi-positive [non-psychokinetic] passive receivers - unwillingly absorbing information via ESP but unable to actively transmit it.
Information regarding SCP-4246-1 Type C requires Level 4 clearance or authorization by Project: Awakened Dreamer director Dr.Joan Henrike.
The earliest known effort to catalog and explain the SCP-4246 phenomena was by English occultist Joseph Adler [1833 - 19211,] leader of the Hermetic Order of Universal Wisdom - an organization devoted to the study and practice of the occult, metaphysics, and paranormal activities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. devoted to the study and practice of the occult metaphysics and paranormal SCP-4246 The Dreams of the Firstborn Archon.
(I may add more later. For now, i’m pretty tired)
Anyone else use some of these to sleep, cause tbh I find it soothing to listen to horrifying and conceptually beyond our basic understanding of reality stories
I'm doing the same lol, cheers from France
👀I thought I was the only one.
Thank you for existing 🍻
its too interesting for me to sleep through it. The Volgun's content gets my brain going more than SCP-4246 C :P
I fell asleep, woke up, and kept listening lol
Same
I love the world building with this one, it uses a ton of science to back up the anomalous nature/history and add to the world, instead of just saying "unknown material" "unidentifiable" or the all too famous [redacted]. I also really liked how the story portrays the Foundation as an evolving institution, one that wasn't very good at its job years prior working with simpler tools and a worse understanding of anomalies. They even got beaten by N*z*s with their research. Each time a researcher figured the puzzle out it felt really satisfying, and it happened multiple times. The ending too was icing on the cake.
I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I love the world building of the Archon stories. Gaia is still one of my favorites, and I'll always listen to archon files start to finish. Thank u king.
I love Gaia because it's one of the only SCP's that actually ends on a hopeful note.
Such a great one I relisten to Gaia a lot, the voice acting is amazing
I personally loved Gaia as well, I saved it and give it a listen every once in awhile because it combines some of my favorite things (reverence for nature and deep psionic action). I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one with a very soft spot for Archons!
Gaia was heavy. I remember crying, or at least tearing up or feeling very moved. It's a beautiful piece.
@@rogershaftly6976 kind perusal jjkkji8ijjuij
Absolutely one of my top 5 SCP’s. Wonderfully written, so much historical and and scientific study and it’s story is woven similar to a Lovecraftian tale. Thank you Volgun for covering this one!
Its actually extremely similar to specifically "call of cuthulu"
It would fit very well as an expansion for "at the mountains of madness".
Good afternoon
everyone. My name is Dr Miller
Good afternoon
Good afternoon
Good afternoon everyone ❤
Good night 😩
Now this is how you write an SCP. No silly dimension teleportation sci-fi tech silliness to break suspension of disbelief, no "Feed it 12,000 class D a week and pray the world doesn't end" containment procedures. A slow logical buildup as the foundation uses standard scientific methods and some questionable morals to study and gleam the truth about an anomoly. Turning it from something that seems otherworldly and magic into something that, while foreign, is understandable and real. Brilliant work on the writer's part. This is what makes SCP such a facinating setting.
When you rip off HP Lovecraft you are gonna have a leg up on the competition😊
Oh hell yeah, Volgun narrating one of my favorite SCPs! I love the final twist on this one so much; it's a really interesting take on the traditional cosmic horror genre, and it raises a lot of intriguing possibilities for where the story might go next!
I gotta say, I'll support the new format but I wasn't expecting to miss scrolling text. Kinda felt like it fit the aesthetic.
Same. The only suggestion I have would be adding some kind of transition, a dissolve or something?
Actually, I think I'm gonna add that with ffmpeg later...
@@OhhCrapGuy agreed, something a bit more fitting. Idk, the scrolling text was rather fitting. But maybe it should be more like a file?
i notice a few more errors with the center-focused format as well. maybe if he did left oriented
perhaps he can just increase the text size of the usual scrolling format
Honestly since no one will see this, i fall asleep to volgun and my sleep schedule is based off when he uploads. Goodnight
COMRADE
Same
You're not alone!
Goodnight
1 year on - goodnight
This was truly *EXCEPTIONAL.*
An amazing reinterpretation of H.P. Lovecraft's work, modernized and refined into something that manages to incite a far greater sense of dread and unknowable terror.
Wonderful voice work as always, TheVolgun. You give further life to the SCP omniverse with your admirable skill set.
I realize that the basis of this story is Lovecraftian, however- as a gamer- one cannot help but equate the quadruple-helix description of 4246-2 devices with The Marker in _Dead Space._
*_Altman Be Praised!!_*
@@brianknapp6215 fellow unitologist🤝
It reminded me of the Lovecraft game Sinking City. There's a quest at the beginning that has similar plot points.
@@brianknapp6215 Thats what i thought too but those were double helix, not quadruple.
Can't be lovecraftian in nature. SCP foundation has Cthulhu in custody, and the poor guy just wants to read his newspaper in peace.
AN HOUR?!?! Today we have been blessed.
❤ Amazing video as always my man. Have a good day.
Also appreciate the big text ❤️
its not like an hour long videos are rare loll but they are praised to be back
I like how it's just long enough to establish that sex with a female and sodomy are mutually exclusive. Sigh, where was KY jelly when our forefathers didn't need anymore bastards running about? There are two perfectly good holes to choose from, and both are practical.
As spooky as this SCP can get, in a weird way the end made it kind of wholesome to me.
Cephalopods have their own little personalities, sense of mischief, concepts of teamwork and appreciation. Very curious and prone to wild adventures. So while hyper intelligent/longer lived cephalopods could be very, very alien--knowing the zoological stuff wove a more positive/less scary character into the Tethyans imo.
Enjoyed it a lot (THANKS VOLGUN), but honestly my reaction was prob odd.
It made it very... sad. Wistful; a lost family, not unlike ours, that just had ways of communicating unlike ours. It was another culture, a sentient race of PEOPLE. And something, in the deep, in the stars, in the corner of our eyes perhaps, didn't like what it saw. And it came for them.
Genesis 2:2-3 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed.
Not odd! I have always wanted a salt water tank, and a Common Octopus for it! Precisely because of their intelligence and interactive tendencies. I could see the Tethyans being reasoned with, and likely willing to teach what they know. If their mode of communication didn't cause brain bleeds, I should add.
I've always said that I would never eat octopus because I regard them as sentient beings, so it would be like eating a person. The WAY their intelligence manifests is vastly different to ours, sure, but that's our anthropic bias at play. Whoever said our kind of sentience has to be the only kind that counts? They are so alien compared to us, their entire method of thinking would be so incompatible that even if things like psychic ability existed in the real world we probably wouldn't be able to fathom their thought processes. They may not even HAVE thought processes. But in their own way, I believe they are at least as sophisticated as we are, intellectually speaking.
It may be that they don't behave in manners we think of as personhood because they completely lack a sense of ego, and as such have not cannibalized their evolutionary autopilot system into a synthetic character they identify as "self", as we have. In this way, although our behaviour is more obviously organized and self-serving, it could even be argued they are more advanced than we are. We're all just chasing our own mental tails, at the end of the day. Building layers of habit like computer programming to perpetuate and advance the evolutionary misstep that was our creation of an ego. A mask we wear to present an image of self to the world and to ourselves, so we can continue to fool ourselves into thinking we can pin down our individuality as if understanding its location on a map, and thereby granting ourselves a point of reference from which we can understand the world around us with greater sophistication. If they don't have that, their understanding can only go so far, at least at the individual level.
But WITHOUT the ego, without intercepting the subconscious mind's analyses and attempting to reroute them through that wholly insufficient autopilot program, that was never built for it, maybe we would have advanced even further. What a world that might be. But I imagine to the ego's perspective, that world would look less advanced. Perhaps there would be no structures, no vehicles, no clothing, nothing we from the arrogance of hindsight deign to label as civilized. But allowing our subconscious minds to lead the way, allowing them to interact across subliminal channels without planting our feet and insisting like a petulant child that the flesh should get to decide, maybe that world would be one of greater natural harmony, and a more organic and patient growth to the level of sophistication we have artificially cultivated through the ego. Maybe that's how we would earn the power we now wield with reckless abandon, the spot we have stolen at the summit of the evolutionary arms race.
Who is right? I suppose that depends which side the fence you're on. To cephalopods, we're probably very strange creatures indeed. They might see our relentless pursuit of the ego as curiously as the idea of them submitting to the will of one of their tentacles and allowing it to lead them around like a strong dog on a weak leash. How very mindless we mindful creatures must look to one that lives in harmony with all of its components.
I find it interesting how nothing in this was due to any intentional malice or anything designed to be dangerous. They just had beacons transmitting psychic waves similar to their own minds across the planet, and the effect on humans was completely unintentional and it likely never even occurred to them that it could be a problem, let alone that it would.
you should read Children of Ruin, and its sequel. the first is about Space Spiders. The sequel, Space Squid. oh and yea, there's a few Space Humans, struggling with their own bullshit, as usual. Adrian Tchaikowsky
I love this SCP. Don't get me wrong, I dig them when they are scary because they mean to be. Peanut or Shyguy are awesome, but there is just something amazing about an SCP that isn't hostile but just harms people because it is so beyond us that we just can't keep up with it. That we are too small or primitive to comprehend them.
I miss your post credit analysis, it's a nice touch for the content creator to have some feedback on what they think of the story.
Those are nice but they mainly seem reserved for scps that could use a bit more explanation, while this scp is mysterious at first but relatively straightforward by the end. Scp 3005 definitely needed one because the meaning might be lost on all but the most knowledgeable scp readers, but this one isn't as very confusing and we have a proper understanding of it from the reading alone.
I like the idea of using this hivemind network as a means of creating a way to preserve their civilization through the KPg extinction event (and presumably to avoid this "Beast", whatever that may be) and find a way to restart their society when they were safe. And clearly, once the network understood what it was doing to humanity as a side effect, they fixed the "glitch" in the system and closed the system off from humanity. Using a hivemind as a form of created "afterlife" seems like something George R.R. Martin would write.
It also seems hopeful in a way, while it was originally this unknowable horror that drove those touched by it insane, they were eventually able to expand their knowledge and interact with it in a way that may take humanity to that jump into a truly advanced civilization, and while perhaps it could end up with humanity becoming like them, purposefully devolving themselves to wait for a point when this "beast" was no longer a threat to them, it could lead to at some point in the far future "awakening" alongside this and other species and finally getting to truly know eachother. Or for a more cynical take, humanity in its immense arrogance would believe they could fight this creature and end up extinct, leaving nothing but ruin behind, or killing themselves off before learning to become so advanced as these entities.
It's such a good little story in that it sets up the ideas, strings you along as you find more and more threads, until bringing in all these twists away from the classic "unknowable Lovecraftian horror" trope and hitting you with something even more crazy. Giving us a satisfying and understandable ending but still giving us so much more to speculate on. Amazingly written
SCP saying " oh shit, there are other intelligent creatures out there, and we are HURTING them! They might be worth saving, we HAVE to fix this, like NOW!" Makes sense.
I hear this SCP as Nathan Explosion. He says, "go into the water. Live there, die there." Then Skwisgar comes in with a blazing guitar solo.
I think 4642 has affected the band Dethklok
34:14 - Gone are days of Land Empires
34:32 - Release yourself, Drown with me
34:38 - Lungs transform to take in water
The chorus guitar riffs are God tier
About halfway into it, and that's all I could think of.
"Go into the Water" was recorded in the Dethsub deep within the Mariana Trench for the band's Dethwater album. Later, someone tried to sue Dethklok because his son listened to the song and actually went into the water to live there, which nearly cost him his life. After numerous jokes made by the members of Dethklok, Ofdensen countered the man by telling him that Dethwater is intended for fish only and should not be listened to by anyone other than fish.'
So maybe Ofdensen is a planted SCP agent?
You going to the BABYKLOK concerts this winter?
I love these SCPs that had older records, like, from a Foundation that didn't understand science quite like we do now, and understands more alongside the advance of the outside world's science.
There’s just something about noticing an SCP video from TheVolgun drop and then seeing it’s over an hour of content that fills my heart with joy.
Cosmic horror of a very Lovecraftian sort. I usually groan when I see this kind of thing dumped into SCP (a bias I developed back when Slenderman stories were all the rage and Lovecraft fans kept trying to force the story into their mythos), but this? This was excellent!
First of all, I highly appreciate any story that doesn't just state "oh this object has X effect and X effect is 100% absolute in all circumstances forever and ever". The unkillable lizard in particular has reached that point. When that thing can survive literally changing all the fundamental laws of physics and having the very concept of itself deleted from platonic space, the thought of a vat of acid being able to contain it seems laughable. In this case? There's actually parts of it that can be understood and in believable ways. There's limitations on certain aspects that let us scratch into it and dig a little deeper. It's still ultimately unknowable, but we can dig far deeper than a lot of these stories usually let us, and I'm grateful for it.
I did have a funny thought though. With all the different completely unrelated ancient horrors trying to cross over that have all foreseen our doom, it makes me wonder if they're going to find out about each other and fight each other for the right to vanquish us.
Never pays to vacation in R'lyeh, no matter what the cultists tell you. Our squiggly, squid and octopus ancestors and their living computers deserve their rest, their peace and quiet. Our tiny little minds aren't equipped for the contact.
halfway through dr. freeman's note at the end, it hit me how startlingly well this matches with the whole concept of the department of one. they're nearly the same concept, just across different species, different civilizations, and different time spans, but with a remarkably similar purpose and intent, even if the execution differs in the details.
This way of doing the text is a big improvement. I would often find myself reading ahead and getting out of sync, then looking back trying to sync back up, causing me to stop listening as much, start missing things etc.
Use of word wrap might be prudent.
i can definitely see that being an issue, though i think in some places there is actually too little text on screen with this new format. so if i wanted to read text that was spoken a few seconds ago, id have to rewind the video a bit to see it, which is a bit inconvenient. i think making the total text visible at once consist of fewer words but still be a few sentences in length at any given time would be best. a happy medium. either way, only a small gripe really
I for one am excited to meet our new squid friends. Sounds like the transmitter realized it was hurting the humans…and also maybe transmitting to the wrong creature. At least these guys are usually very friendly and sweet if anything they’ll probably be very helpful.
to quote the exploring series; "for personally, I too welcome our new Architeuthis overlords."
The trouble is a little "dark forest"y. That is, we know they _were_ helpful to each other because they shared a near hive mind.
What we _don't_ know is 1. When did they develop that trait? 2. Assuming they didn't start out with it, what did they do before they got it? And 3. What do they do to sapient species that _don't_ have that trait and the social changes that come with it?
They might be an entirely peace-loving species... And kill or enslave all of humanity in spite of that due to the danger we pose by _not_ being completely peace loving.
Idk man, Seems like Their comms leaked to human brains pretty much involuntarily
And C-16 relayed that really don't want to be bothered right now.
They have their own problems that their offsprings are devolving too much, where they just expect it to stop on a certain point and return.back
They are very nice neighbours, but they are only neighbours. And they have been living on the block longer than us and definitely can split our brains if they want to
And I see that they only want us to not mess the place we both call home while they're solving their own domestics...
We definitely should keep in touch with them, a few shared pan of pies would be nice. But I guess we shouldn't bother them a lot? They seem to be very delicate folks
I kinda suspect the issue would be someone on our side firing the first shot and then us getting our brains melted…we all know there are some organizations that would just..attack the poor things for no reason.
@@AStrangeWindmill or perhaps they won’t even see us as a sapient being due to being incapable of communicating.
ah, my favorite genre of science fiction/cosmic horror:
beating lovecraft at his own game
I love it when Volgun does these longer videos. He has a way to make these stories more immersive with his narrations and voice acting. On top of that, an archon entry, which we don't see a lot of. We have been getting variety lately and this is Volgun at his best.
I love your videos man. I have trouble sleeping due to mental issues but your SCP readings help me so much when trying to sleep. Also I love this SCP and am so glad you decided to do it
Comrade
I find this interesting, because the otherworldly nature of these SCP's does the opposite for me.
Have you ever tried ASMR? His videos also make me sleepy, but that's because it relaxes me, like ASMR does. Maybe soft-spoken videos could help you :)
Same here, the Volgun’s voice is so soothing.
You also should listen to Horrorbabble channel, hundreds of hours of reciting stories
I like how the foundation didn't know that tectonic plates were a thing untill 1956.
the text on the side being bigger makes it so much easier to read. tysm for that
Very good job making a Lovecraft style SCP. And amazing job at investigating it from a modern perspective.
I came for a good old Lovecraftian horror but I ended up with the Dark Forest hypothesis in action. 😂
Wow... Movie length, as usual I will be saving this til tonight for my before bed treat. Thanks for posting. 😸
Beautifully presented. I've ADHD and it takes a lot to keep my attention for 74 minutes but this one nails it :)
Every Sunday is a good Sunday because Volgun uploads.
This was just neat, I got no other real words for it. It is just a good entry that is just......good. well written, well spoken, neat concept, overall just neat.
The development of this story from the 1930s to the time of Dr Freeman was brilliant!
Kind of figured they were cephy near the end haha.
Interesting to hear this from a different perspective than @TheExploringSeries from a year ago. Great work as always.
The last time I was this early, the Red Right Hand was still overtly working for the Foundation...
You have no idea how much I needed this as a distraction. An hour where I can listen and forget about my problems is a blessing ❤️
the thumbnail is insanely eye catching. good work!
Loved this SCP when I first heard it from Exploring Series, and love this log as well. It's something different to hear these logs word for word instead of a summary.
Even without the high production value put into these, the simplest but most respected value I find in these logs is the inherent effort you can hear being put in the readings.
Mmm my weekly hour and a half scp podcast episode
Love it
I found you when I looked up SCP-4999 after watching a CZcams short from another channel explaining SCP-4999 and I've been going down the rabbit hole since
I listen to volgun every night to help me sleep and these ones are my favorite. Nothing's better than a good story based SCP. No other creators come close to this level of love, immersion, and detail.
I do miss the little comments by Dr Miller here in there. Really helped with feeling like you're a part of this world
I love who this not only fits in with the Cthulhu mythos but HP Lovecraft as a character. He was a dreamer clearly.
Well... Unless he was awakened.
An hour-long video?! Man, we must have done something heroic in our past lives to deserve this! :D
"It is a cosmic joke that we even came this far."
Felt that. Spiritually.
Nap noise! Great videos.
I sleep to the narration
Hour long?! Let's go, highlight of my day right here.
This is my favorite prequel to Squidbillies 😉
Very nicely done, loved the audio effects on the recordings!
Now wait a damn minute....
Interesting change with the text on screen. I know you've said you put a lot of effort into the text crawl with keeping it synced but personally I always listen to these in the background.
I like the change to the side text. Much more user friendly IMO.
10:00.” I looked too far, beyond conception, beyond perception, something didn’t appreciate my gaze……” 👀
This has got to be one of the best SCP's yet, they bait you into thinking it's another lame Lovecraftian underwater race until slowly divulging small details that lead to the shocking but expected conclusion, would love that this is connected to SCP-2967, and them recognizing the Crows as another "weakened" race they see as a threat, giving the Crows their own version of SCP-4246.
On a side note, I'm not liking the new format for the side text, words being cut off lines and the short format makes it seem more like subtitles of a podcast.
I appreciate the larger font, but the text just disappearing and leaving me no time to read it after the sentence is done is problematic :/
Excellently done long form. And my favorite topic!
Over an hour long. Nice. Me and my wife relax to these each night.
An hour lecture?
Oh wow
Present!
This is a great Sunday.
Thank you, kind sir. For gracing this day
Clarification: Archons themselves contain things worse than themselves, and as such “containment” is assistance and coverup rather than conventional “shove it in a box”.
A good deal of horror or intrigue can stem from the fact that this usually is discovered after a containment attempt.
THE SPECTER represented the will to fight crime. When the foundation arrested THE SPECTER, a crime wave began at his stomping grounds and the apathy towards fighting crime increased and spread further out as time went on. THE SPECTER was abnormal in of itself, but upheld normalcy, so THE SPECTER was instead released and covered up.
It stands to reason that cephalopods would have had some opportunity to achieve sapience in some way, given their current level of sentience now and the fact that their brains are so overly complex as to require one per individual appendage, never mind the primary brain governing the rest.
And, like Dr. Freeman noted, the fossil record is INCREDIBLY biased against soft-bodied invertebrates, much to the point that finding fossils of cephalopods is very challenging.
All in all, a very interesting SCP to consider.
The final line of this document goes soooo damn hard XD
Thank you for another long read! These are my favorites.
I adoreeee long episodes. So excited and love the world building for sure. I can vividly picture everything happening as I hear you bring these stories to life with Voice Acting. Any mind bending/trippy stuff is always such a treat. Once again I rarely type stuff, but this, this right here is it. 👍😊
Thanks so much for putting in the work to turn these into audio logs to listen. It's given me great amusement
Thanks for the bigger text!!
Much easier to read if you a bit hard of hearing so thanks!
I rarely comment. But god damnit. Over an hour of SCP-Briefing by Volgun? This definitely made my day! ❤
I know the game wasn't received well but this gives me serious Phoenix Point vibes. It's my personal headcannon that this explains what happened right before everyone walked into the ocean during the intro of the game.
Yessss a good deep dive. Love it!!
"The Thethyans are cephalopods."
Me: * looks nervously at my calamari lunch *
Archon class is when the foundation COULD contain something but chooses not to.
Or when thry literally can't contain it. They have no way to actually stop this thing and the best they can do is block some of it to specific individuals. And as the one researcher points out, humanity evolved alongside signal and there's no telling what negative effects it might have on themselves if they stop it.
@@rwberger6 Isn't that just an Apollyon class?
@@rwberger6it's more accurate to say that neutralizing archon anomalies is or is potentially detrimental to humanity
Going from newer videos back to an older one, you can really tell how you've improved your voice acting.
It's always been great, but it's noticeably better now, and I think you should be proud :)
Saw volgun. Got excited. Saw runtime. Got exciteder.
I figured you had a long vid in the works, gonna be getting me through an hour of work today, thanks for your hard work.
George R. R. Martin mixed a lot of H P Lovecraft into his world. I feel like this is a realm where the 2 writers are fused into one.... perhaps a touch of Alister Crowley for good....or malign, measure.
Hey Volgun, as someone with poor eyesight due to age, I really appreciate you making the words bigger. While I don't read all of them, sometimes I like to go back and read something I didn't quite understand or need to hear again, and making the font big enough for me to see is a gift. Thank you!
This really is just the concept of taking some of Lovecraft’s ideas and applying rigorous science to them. It’s very well done!
Ocean nerd here, really cool that whoever wrote this article chose the Pacific Ocean for this. The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean on earth, and rich in oxygen content, which allows sea creatures to get much bigger, especially in the case of cephalopods. One of the larger octopi, the giant pacific octopus, has been recorded reaching sizes of up to 600 pounds and about 30 feet across, and the largest squid has been measured at reaching 1000 pounds and 42 feet in length
I wonder if SCP 4246 was aware of SCP 3426, the entity/force/phenomenon that targets civilizations that advance to a certain level and messes them up real bad. Reverting to simple animals is probably preferable to getting all your electrons turned into neutrinos or something.
What if the doom they were trying to escape was SCP-3426? What if they became advanced enough, realized that they were at imminent risk of being struck by it, and voluntarily chose to put themselves into stasis in order to keep themselves and the planet from being wiped from reality itself?
Then why waiting? My theory - they hiding from 3125 all this talking about "light" and "staying in the dark" saying to me about Fifth God.
We are blessed with the quantity of your huge and pleasurable output. Thanks!
32:39
...*slowly nods quietly* yeap, there it is... I love these type of segments
"The Titan submersible was NOT this craft."
Enshrined
By an ocean divine
Waiting for the truth to come alive
Before your own accursed eyes
The call
The end of it all
Death lingers endlessly below
Awaiting mankind's fall
It comes at last
From ages past
The madness below
Beyond all that we know
Will arise
Nightmares foretold
From days of old
The secrets we keep
And the dreams of the deep
Realized
I like the subtitles on this - it’s much easier to read and I appreciate the effort you put into accessibility.
I love watching your videos, by far my favorite SCP content creator, phenomenal work.
I love the longer ones, thanks for the hard works.
Recently started binging ya videos again
Honestly one of, if not THE best SCP creator out there, keep it up man ❤
Not gonna lie, I clicked because I thought it was a Starcraft video. Still loved it
Dropped on my birthday thank you
♓🍰🎂🥳HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! 🥳🎂🍰♓
Thanks bro, love the long uploads
The new text, once you get the 'hang'(?) of it, feels so much better. thank you for the great content!
oooh, I *really* appreciate and love how clearly readable the text is now!
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. SCP, the execution, the length.
This was such fun to listen to. I love a long Volgun upload! And such a great SCP, too!
This is absolutely incredible. I love the mix of Lovecraft and The Foundations drive to invoke my Thelassaphobia, fascination but ultimate Chapodiphobia, love of Earth History, and obsession with Extradimentional Consciousness. I knew the Thethys Sea was up to unsettling things. Lovely piece of semi-fiction. 😆😱
Oh Subduction, and thine eldrich hidden horrors. How you hunger.
The change to how text is displayed on screen is a much appreciated change! I always like to read along as you narrate and this helps immensely:)
We don't allow ourselves to even have the " luxury" of hallucinating and/or even daydream!!
This has been one of the most enjoyable episodes I've listened to in a while, what a fantastic story, and as always a wonderful narration. Thank you for this video.
Finally, early, thank you volgun I love these readings I've listened to nearly all of them. I'm glad you decided to create this content