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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is contained at its location of discovery. A layer of concrete has been poured over it, and the doorway allowing access to it has been sealed over.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a mass grave in the northwest corner of Site-19's lowest subbasement that is filled with anomalous corpses. Although most of the bodies within SCP-XXXX can be removed without incident, continued excavation of the grave will inevitably reveal further instances of the exhumed bodies. The age, depth, and source of the bodies within SCP-XXXX are unknown. No records of SCP-XXXX have been found within the Foundation's database, and the room allowing access to SCP-XXXX is not present on any of Site-19's blueprints.
Addendum: Excavation Results
| Description of Body | Cause of Death | Additional Notes |
|---|---|---|
| A male of unclear age and ethnicity. The body is perfectly preserved and shows no signs of injury, disease, or decomposition. | Unclear. | |
| An unidentified corpse dressed in yellow. A burlap sack covers its head, tightened in place with a noose. Removing the sack and noose reveals an identical sack and noose beneath. | Ligature strangulation. | The cause of death suggests that the deceased was intended to suffer for some time before dying. |
| A middle-aged Alutiiq female with a skeleton comprised of ice. The ice does not melt regardless of temperature. | Most likely shock, blood loss, or hypothermia. | UPDATE: Under no circumstances is any part of the skeletal system to be exposed. |
| A male human corpse with over 80% of its internal organs replaced with sophisticated gear-driven mechanisms. These mechanisms continue to operate, resulting in post-mortem activity when sufficiently wound. | Repeated extrusion of brass piston from left orbital socket, the result of a feedback loop caused by an operation that divides by zero. | Although the body resembles a person in late-stage SCP-217 infection, the organs are wholly artificial and appear to have been surgically installed. |
| A black stone coffin. Attempts to open the coffin have been stymied by a force being exerted from within. | N/A | It is unclear what is within the coffin, though the context of its location suggests that a human being is inside. |
| An adolescent female of unknown ethnicity with dark blue skin and alopecia universalis (a medical condition characterized by lack of hair), with two severed hands grasping its throat. | Strangulation. | While perceiving the corpse, subjects cannot differentiate between persons they identify as female and non-sapient objects. All attempts to remove the hands have failed. |
| A white teenage girl whose eyes have been gouged out. Photographs of the body show a pair of blue eyes; when viewed through video, the eyes follow the camera. | Skull fracture caused by pressure applied to the ocular orbits. |
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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is currently uncontained under the terms of the [treaty name] of [year]. Certain operatives in the Global Occult Coalition have been mandated with locating SCP-XXXX and, if they deem such an act possible, convincing it to defect to the Foundation.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a radioactive eigenweapon, codenamed "Mahadeva", that was developed jointly by the Global Occult Coalition and the Department of Parapsychology of Andra Pradesh University in 1989 as part of the RAINBOW ASTRA program, most likely as a response to the death of Arjun Ramakrishna Rao. SCP-XXXX was designed to be able to carry out precision assassinations by simply visualizing a target and then incinerating them, regardless of their location or distance from SCP-XXXX.
Physically, SCP-XXXX is a human male of Indian descent and was 35 years old at the time of its development. It is unclear if SCP-XXXX was anomalous prior to its activation during RAINBOW ASTRA.
SCP-XXXX is capable of generating and emitting high-powered lasers from a point just above and between its eyebrows. It is capable of sustaining a 1-Terawatt laser for a full second1 and has been able to emit a 1-Petawatt laser for a full millisecond2.
minmin note: I would go with concrete descriptor -> jargon — "SCP-XXXX is a [human description] [third eye, laser beam]" for the first paragraph, then "SCP-XXXX was [created] in [year] by [ominous GOC Project Name]. [add ominous methodology/creation circumstances]. [add her job scope]."
Addendum: [Optional additional paragraphs]
minmin - Today at 12:55 AM
ok we just need something unexpected to do with it
then you have an easy third
im impartial to a mind-weapon though
specifically if the article can play around with the concept of Dharma
in the same way that the other two astras do
vaishnavastra cant be controlled, it just does what its right automatically; brahmastra seems to be controlled by an external force as well to level the site according to dharma
truffles - Today at 12:57 AM
hm
minmin - Today at 12:57 AM
wait
has there been anything on the site thats like
infinite power as long as its nonviolent
truffles - Today at 12:57 AM
the cold fusion paper towel dispenser?
minmin - Today at 12:57 AM
its a pretty established trope after all
oh no like
reality bender that can do wack shit but contained by his own pacifism
NOT cain pls
truffles - Today at 12:59 AM
hm
dmatix wrote one like that
truffles - Today at 1:00 AM
i like the maheshwarastra actually
minmin - Today at 1:00 AM
what was the dmatix one
truffles - Today at 1:00 AM
that's shiva's third eye unleashing its power as a laser beam
@minmin http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1915
minmin - Today at 1:02 AM
no thats normal man
truffles - Today at 1:02 AM
oh i thought that's what you meant
minmin - Today at 1:03 AM
hm kinda?
im thinking really rigid justifications for nonviolence
like ultra-Jain levels
truffles - Today at 1:03 AM
i mean
jainism is the nonviolent religion
minmin - Today at 1:03 AM
so you need to super-lawyer your way through the rules before activating it
truffles - Today at 1:03 AM
hinduism is bloody as all hell
minmin - Today at 1:03 AM
otherwise the astra will fuck you up
yeah igetcha
truffles - Today at 1:04 AM
that's one of the key aspects of dharma in hinduism - sometimes you gotta spill blood to preserve righteousness
minmin - Today at 1:04 AM
ooh
right i forgot about the Gita
truffles - Today at 1:04 AM
that's part of 2820's character arc as well - he doesn't LIKE obliterating people but does it because that's his duty
although I think I can see something
the maheshwarastra being granted to a pacifist
minmin - Today at 1:05 AM
it wouldnt make sense to theme it around dharma 100% i suppose
truffles - Today at 1:05 AM
It's not necessarily theming it around dharma but making the weapon pacifistic goes against its whole purpose
it's not meant to be pacifistic. it's meant to burn and destroy
minmin - Today at 1:06 AM
that would up the stakes a lot i think
like they could use it to intercept missiles or something but be willing to face the negative karma from killing air pathogens and random pigeons
truffles - Today at 1:08 AM
to clarify, which would up the stakes? @minmin(edited)
minmin - Today at 1:09 AM
the fact that the astra is limited to lasering
im picturing it to have some noodle incident origin story and ending up in the hands of one of the big good guys, either SCP or GOC
maybe GOC would be interesting, because the SCP knows it exists but allows the GOC to keep it because they need to help each other tank the negative karma from each use
and the SCP would rather not have to deal with the karmic fallout personally, but is happy to cooperate
truffles - Today at 1:10 AM
ah yeah
i've got a draft actually with a GOC killsat called TRISHULA
minmin - Today at 1:11 AM
entertaining noodle incident is having a pacifist GOC operator somehow obtain the astra, imbuing it with its preconditions
and thats just
truffles - Today at 1:11 AM
actually i could fuck with that
minmin - Today at 1:11 AM
alluded to and never mentioned again
truffles - Today at 1:11 AM
scp-3570 is a goc operator with a third eye
uncontained because he is a goc operator working under the UN
perhaps from the same program that birthed 2498?
minmin - Today at 1:12 AM
3570 doesnt exist
mmmm
oh thats fuckin dope
•AidenEldritch> i read it
7:36 PM <•AidenEldritch> i'm worried it'll veer close to The More You Know
djkaktus> My biggest issue is that's it's a little too on the nose right now. Straight up saying "this is sarkicism and its also a meme" feels a little too straightforward to me.
7:38 PM <djkaktus> Were it me
7:38 PM <djkaktus> I would say
7:39 PM <djkaktus> that the actual scp is some sort of "anomalously transmitted communal behaviour" which acts like a religion. Then start to tie in Sarkcism, without straight up saying "this is sarkicism"
7:39 PM <djkaktus> The less you can use the word "sarkicism" the better.
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: [Paragraphs explaining the procedures]
Description:
On 8 November 2026, Event Alpha occurred: the Yama Biotechnology production facility in Odisha, India, underwent a catastrophic nuclear accident3, coinciding with the abnormally rapid growth of a 6-kilometer tall tower made of various human body tissues at the epicentre of the event. Although a steam explosion and graphite fire occurred, and the initial explosion of the facility ranked as a Level 7 event on the INES, no radiation was detected more than 3 kilometers around the facility and no symptoms of nuclear fallout were detected in any nearby communities. It is theorized that the tower was responsible for containing the nuclear fallout and utilizing the radiation to fuel its growth.
In addition to the formation of the tower, the ground in a 3 kilometer radius around the facility (henceforth known as the kill zone) was transmuted into human skin. The soil was replaced with human epidermal tissue; attempts to dig into the ground showed that the layers underneath had been replaced with dermal and hypodermal tissue and all other supporting tissue necessary for a fully functioning human integumentary system. Much of the flora and fauna living in the environment were displaced; all plant life around the facility quickly died off and was replaced with hairs of varying sizes and thickness, resulting in the migration of all animal life from the area. Additionally, various human body parts appeared throughout the landscape, such as hands, arms, and mouths.
Initial reconnaissance attempts using drones failed due to heavy radio jamming apparently originating from the facility; D-Class subjects who attempted to cross the kill zone were rapidly subsumed into the kill zone's terrain in a process similar to that of SCP-1227. Satellite observation indicated that the kill zone was expanding at a rate of approximately 1.5 meters per day; thus, Tau-5 were dispatched to investigate and neutralize the anomaly. To facilitate investigation and neutralization, Tau-5 were uploaded into android shells derived from Project Falconry and equipped with prototype cauterization weaponry intended for exterminating SCP-610 outbreaks.
Exploration Video Log Transcript
Date: ██/██/████
Exploration Team: Mobile Task Force Tau-5 “Samsara”
Subject: SCP-XXXX
Team Lead: T-5 Irantu
Team Members: T-5 Munru, T-5 Onru, T-5 Nanku
POV: T-5 Onru
[BEGIN LOG]
The team stands at the edge of the Event Alpha radius, performing self-checks.
Irantu: Mission parameters are as follows: investigate Yama Biotechnology, identify source of anomaly, neutralize if the anomaly's growth cannot be restricted.
Onru, Munru, Nanku: Understood.
Irantu: Check status?
Munru: Green.
Onru: Ready.
Nanku: Green across the board.
Irantu: Right. Engage feet heating coils; let's proceed.
The team enters the kill zone; although the ground attempts to interface with their feet, their heating coils cauterize it and prevent their movement from being hindered.
Onru: Ground is soft. I don't like it.
Munru: It is human flesh.
Nanku: I wonder how it tastes?
Irantu: Thank goodness you can't eat it.
As Onru moves forward, a hand protruding from the ground approximately a meter away suddenly extends and grabs her foot, attracting her attention. She attempts to shake it off unsuccessfully.
Onru: Nasty thing.
As the team looks on, Onru engages the utility blade in her left arm and slices the hand off at the wrist. The rest of the arm begins to bleed heavily and rapidly retracts into the ground. Onru picks up the severed arm and motions for the team to continue moving while examining it.
Onru: I hope this hurts.
Onru drives her utility blade into the ground and resumes walking, thus creating a deep incision from which blood begins to ooze. The remainder of the journey through the kill zone is uneventful, though the team reports that human limbs and male genitalia are appearing with increasing size and frequency as they approach the facility. Additionally, Irantu and Onru observe the formation of slits in the ground, which rapidly develop into large blinking eyes that follow the team as they progress. The team stops outside the main entrance to the facility, which, apart from the central tower, is mostly untouched.
Irantu: Is there any other point of… entry into the structure?
Munru: There were. Hatches to access the sewer and power systems. We would have to cut into the… ground to find them.
Irantu: Ah. And you think there would be resistance.
Nanku deploys her own left utility blade and activates its heating coil.
Nanku: We can handle it.
Onru: Where should I cut?
With a nod from Irantu, Munru directs Onru to a spot directly above the closest hatch; she starts to cut a square around it, keeping the blade in the ground.
Nanku: Maybe we should split up? Two of us through the main entrance, two through the sewers?
Irantu: Maybe.
Onru: I think I've hit the -
At that moment, a large orifice opens up underneath Onru, and she falls in. The hole rapidly seals above her; her headlamps activate in response to the subsequent loss of light, revealing that she has fallen into a large mouth. The mouth is pink and humid; there is a full set of teeth above her, each tooth about as large as a man. Onru turns around to find that she has landed on the frenulum of the tongue.
Onru: Open up.
Behind her, the tongue begins ambulating, seemingly trying to push her upwards to the teeth.
Onru: Open. Up.
The tongue continues to ambulate. Onru retracts her utility blade partially and detaches the outermost segment, extending the blade on her right arm and repeating the process. She adjusts her grip on the segments so that she is holding them like pitons. As Onru attempts to stand, a bubbling, clear liquid starts filling the cavern and the tongue's movements become more forceful, forcing her out from under the frenulum. At the same time, the water filling the cavern begins to drain into another chamber, catching Onru and carrying her out of the cavern.
Onru's camera lens becomes obscured by bubbles for the next several seconds; when the water recedes and the feed becomes visible, she is lying on the ground of a sewer main with her pitons dug into the wall. She stands up and looks around; there is a wall behind her and a large sewage port above, suggesting that she fell through it. There are cracks in the walls, through which a pinkish organic matter can be seen pulsing.
Onru: Come in, Tau-5. Come in, Munru. Come in, Irantu. Come in, Nanku.
There is no response.
Onru: Open up!
Onru pulls her pitons from the wall and uses them to break it open, exposing more of the organic matter, which strongly resembles smooth muscle. She then engages both of her utility blades and drives them into the organic matter. Onru cuts several X-shaped incisions into the matter before inserting white phosphorus grenades into them. She dives away from the resulting explosion, which quickly begins eating into the walls.
As Onru gets to her feet, there is a short earthquake. She examines the newly-made hole in the wall; it is a tunnel approximately five meters long and one meter in diameter. On the other side, another sewer main can be seen, which quickly terminates in a hatch. Onru pokes at the matter around the tunnel with her pitons to no response, then stops and stares at the hole for several seconds before moving away from the tunnel and proceeding down the main corridor.
Onru: I know there's a way out.
She repeats this. The corridor begins to decrease in size until she is forced to stoop. She continues down the tunnel partway before driving both of her hands into the ceiling, breaking through and coming into contact with organic matter, and then extending her utility blades into the matter to gouge out headroom.
Onru: Give me space.
Onru climbs into the tunnel, but halfway through, the ends of the tunnel seal around her.
Onru: Let me out.
Pressure sensors on her shell indicate a shrinking of the tunnel.
Onru: Let. Me. Out!
The tunnel shrinks again.
Onru: Let! Me! Out! Now!
The tunnel shrinks again. The camera lens in Onru's left eye cracks slightly.
Onru: Let me out! Let me out! Let me out let me out let me out!
The tunnel continues shrinking while Onru repeats the phrase "Let me out." It is unclear why she does not use her utility blades to carve out space to crawl. As the pressure in the tunnel increases, the lenses in Onru's implants crack. The tunnel then collapses entirely and the video feed ends.
The video feed reactivates an indefinite time later
Exploration Video Log Transcript
Date: ██/██/████
Exploration Team: Mobile Task Force Tau-5 “Samsara”
Subject: SCP-XXXX
Team Lead: T-5 Irantu
Team Members: T-5 Munru, T-5 Onru, T-5 Nanku
[BEGIN LOG]
Nanku enters the atrium alone. The room is dark, with the exception of the central ring, which is illuminated by the floor lights. The central organic tower extends up through this ring and out of the central skylight. As Nanku approaches the tower, it quivers and then rapidly descends. Nanku prepares her napalm launcher, but the top of the tower descends to her eye level and then ceases to descend. The CEO of Yama Biotechnology, Omoye Odiase, is sitting on the top of the tower, gouging chunks of flesh from the top and eating them.
Odiase: Oh, hello. You're one of the machines, right?
Nanku: … I am a human being who is simply currently in a machine body. You are eating chunks of human flesh. Are you human?
Odiase: [raising her hands in a placating gesture] Alright, alright. Point taken. Humanity comes in many forms - I should have been the first to acknowledge you, I apologize. Why don't we start again? My name is Omoye Odiase. Might I have the pleasure of yours?
Nanku: My desig - name, my name is Nanku.
Odiase: It's a pleasure to meet you, Nanku. I would ask you what brings you here, but… [Odiase looks at the tower and bites into a strip of flesh.] I think that much is obvious. How can I help you?
Nanku: Where did this tower come from?
Odiase: I made it. You must have met the others. They looked inwards, but my own apotheosis came from the outside.
Odiase takes the strip of flesh she is holding and tears it in half. She then proceeds to eat half of the strip, furrowing her face in response and shaking her head rapidly.
Odiase: [makes a sound of disgust] Nanku, do you know what a dislocated knee feels like?
Nanku: Painful?
Odiase: It's like you're paralyzed on half of your body. If you so much as twitch your injured leg it feels like a bomb has gone off. Forget limping, forget walking, forget crawling. You can't do anything but lie there and cry.
Nanku: It sounds, ah… excruciating. When did you dislocate your knee?
Odiase: Never.
Nanku: Then how do you know what it feels like?
Odiase: Because Terrence Richards dislocated his knee on a skiing trip in the seventh grade.
Odiase holds up the other half of the strip.
Odiase: This used to be a part of Terrence Richards, one of the branch's junior accountants. Now it's a part of everyone. By eating it, I imbibed the memory of that skiing trip. I also imbibed the memory of the first time he fell in love with a girl in eighth grade, the taste of the slice of pizza they shared on their first date in the ninth grade, and how she smelled like lavender when they first kissed.
Odiase eats the strip and shakes her head rapidly.
Odiase: They broke up in the tenth grade. She screamed at him so loudly. He wanted to shrink into the floor. You see, Terrence is a part of me now. Everyone in Yama is a part of me now - and now they are all a part of each other. They are humanity - and by consuming them, by sharing their experiences and their memories and their being, I become human.
Odiase digs another chunk from the tower and starts eating it. Blood begins to drip from the gash she has made in the tower.
Odiase: I know what it's like to go skydiving in Brazil. I've seen the majesty of Angel Falls for the very first time. I've spent my adolescence in London and then been uprooted to Gambia. I watched my best friend lose both her arms to a grenade in Pakistan. I watched my father throw boiling water on my mother. I watched my cousins from India experience snow for the very first time in Canada.
Nanku: That's… very… nice… I think. Could I try some?
Odiase: Oh, absolutely! Here. Catch!
Odiase rips a strip of flesh from the tower and throws it to Nanku, who catches it with her free hand. Nanku examines the strip for several seconds before opening the hatch to her organic fuel cell and dropping it in.
Odiase: Is that how you eat? I'm not sure it works if you don't, well, chew.
Nanku: That is… disappointing to hear. Um, I need to ask you some more questions.
Odiase: Ask away! Would you care for some more flesh?
Nanku considers the question for several seconds before nodding. Odiase tears off more strips of flesh and tosses them to her.
Nanku: How did you do all this?
Odiase: Mmmm… I'd say it started five, six years ago? My father, he died of Alzheimer's.
Nanku: Oh. I'm happy for - sorry, I'm sorry for your loss.
Odiase: Don't be. It runs in the family. I was terrified of it, you know. Not the dying, but the rest. The stupidity. The incontinence. He needed a caretaker for two years before he died, just to keep him clean.
Nanku: Oh. Um… how did you do all this?
Odiase: [exhales emphatically] I'm getting to that.
Nanku: Oh, I already tried that. I much prefer being human.
Odiase takes several deep breaths.
Odiase: You know what? I like you. I really do. I think we could be good friends.
Nanku: Well, thank you! I like you too. I'm really sorry but I have to kill you now!
Odiase: Wait -
Nanku engages her napalm launcher and fires a round at Odiase, hitting her in the stomach and detonating.
[END LOG]
Chapter 4: The Soul
The soul is perhaps the most important element of Sarkicism. It is the seat of consciousness, the root of our passions and emotions, and the basis of our drive to become better. The soul is what makes you human, and what contains your potential for divinity. Every person has their own soul, and is their own God. It is crucial that you understand your soul inside and out - if you do not know who you are now, then how could you even imagine what you could become? The conception of the soul is at the heart of Sarkic ethics…
…The soul is at once genderless and all genders, but the mind often feels compelled to determine its own gender. Gender, sex, and sexuality are fluid components of our being. Never let society restrict you to the masculine-feminine dichotomy; the lowly mushroom has thousands of so-called biological sexes. The author herself was formerly considered a male by society. Your gender is merely part of the identity your soul, and just as the entirety of the soul longs for freedom, so too do its parts…
…All human beings have the potential for divinity; we are all gods. Race, ethnicity, sexuality, and every other physical distinction you could make between one human and another have no bearing on that divinity. Let your mind be cleared of prejudice and bigotry, for to hate another is to hate God. Be generous to others and help those people around you. Open your mind to new ideas, cultures, and behaviors; understand the beauty of the divine experience from all perspectives…
Chapter 8: Preparing the Divine Body
The spark of divinity is within you, as it is within every single one of us. But it is still just a spark that must be fanned, and fed, and tendered to grow into the fire of apotheosis. A poor diet and lack of exercise makes you fat, lethargic, and irresolute. You must feed and train your body and mind. Remember, your mind and soul are what make you God - but your body is your Temple. It is your home, your castle,your throne, and your connection to the world. Exercise, a good diet, and a good mind are crucial to cleaning and renovating that house so that it can become a palace fit for a god.
In this chapter, you will learn about the importance of staying healthy and cultivating a mindset for continual self-improvement. In Chapter 8, we will cover nutrition, various types of diets, what separates a good diet from a fad diet, and how to determine the best diet for your needs. In Chapter 9, we will cover human physiology. various types of exercise routines, how different exercises affect different parts of your body, how to synergize your diet and exercise, how to stick with your exercise routines and fun ways to exercise and stay healthy. Chapter 10 is dedicated to keeping the mind sharp; we will learn about meditation, the importance of being well-read, the benefits of pursuing artistic hobbies, and ways to keep learning new things using tools like OpenCourseWare and even the public library…
Chapter 13: Bioreactors
A bioreactor is a machine that influences biological processes for some end goal. Bioreactors are incredibly useful tools for biotechnology and biomedical engineering; they allow us to produce various organic substances with relative ease and study biological processes under controlled conditions.We will be using them to study various types of biological and cellular phenomena, and in later chapters, produce substances like collagen and phospholipids and work our way up to stem cells, immortal cells, and entire organ tissues. Unfortunately, bioreactors can also be quite expensive to produce and maintain - but they don't have to be! In this chapter, we will learn how to produce laboratory and industrial-grade bioreactors using common off-the-shelf parts and household supplies.
Chapter 16: Psionics
… Every individual has some mild psionic capabilities - our minds are manifestations of the electromagnetic force and psionics is simply applying that force in various ways. With practice and training, you can strengthen your psionic abilities like you would any muscle. Unfortunately, most individuals do not have the knowledge to train their capabilities and strengthen them. But you are not most individuals. In this chapter, we will discuss psionics as an extension of the electromagnetic force and how it applies to different physical processes, and build a device to amplify our own psionic capabilities…
…Apply the strips of neurons to the underside of the orichalcum lining, with the agar-epoxy side facing the lining. Each strip should be inbetween two pithing needles. Solder jumper wires between the corresponding pairs of strips at their north and south terminals: the outmost strips, at the left and right ears should be connected at the north terminals and south terminals; the two inmost strips, at the center of the helmet and next to each other, should be connected at the north terminals and south terminals; and so on. Consider wrapping excess wire around the base of the needles…
Chapter 20: Protein Manipulation
The Sonic hedgehog protein - yes, it's actually called that. Even science has a sense of humor! - is a protein that plays a crucial rule in vertebrates, and will play a crucial role in your apotheosis. In developing vertebrates, SHH controls organogenesis: this means that it directs how the cells eventually grow and differentiate into different organs, such as digit formation and the organization of your nervous system and spinal cord. Even in adults, SHH plays a key role in controlling the division of stem cells, which you will remember from Chapter 19.
Chapter 20 is all about manipulating proteins such as SHH to your will. Using the psionic amplification headset we constructed in Chapter 16, we will influence the secretion of this and other proteins so that we can consciously control when and where it is secreted. By the end of this chapter, we will be able to control what cells produce SHH and when. In Chapters 21, 22, and 23, we will be learning about the other types of organic molecules that influence human organ development and how to manipulate them. The goal by the end of Part 4 is for us to be able to manipulate the development of a crude nervous system using the stem cells that we produced in Chapter 19.
Chapter 28: Self-Actualization
Congratulations. You have learned how to become god.
Take a moment to reflect back on what you have done, and reflect on this book. How did you read about it? Was it via audiobook? Podcast? Book? YouTube? Humans created those technologies, even when we weren't gods. We used our creativity, ingenuity, drive, and tenacity to provide others with the means of disseminating and sharing knowledge for self-improvement. The fact that you are reading this is a testament to the willpower, creativity, tenacity, and potential of the human mind. As you stand on the threshold of a new mode of existence, remember that, and never let it go. These qualities are what made you human, and they are what made you divine.
Look within yourself and cease to see yourself as the human you are. Imagine yourself as the divinity you wish to be. Your body will reflect the power, creativity, passion, and love that makes you a human being. Shape your atoms, your cells, your tissues, your organs, and your body to reflect who you truly are.
Now you are truly divine.
ARD> djkaktus: it's an idea. it's not yet been written up but here's how it goes
1:48 PM <djkaktus> ok I will judge
1:48 PM <vezaz> djkaktus okay i cracked the heck up
1:48 PM <ARD> sarkicism isn't a religion dedicated to ion or yaldabaoth or any of those stupid gods
1:48 PM <ARD> sarkicism is a meme that instructs human beings on self-improvement : apotheosis through improvement of the human form
1:49 PM <ARD> the ultimate goal isn't to summon a world eater
1:49 PM <ARD> it's to help every human being achieve their true inner potential through biopunk
1:49 PM <Tuomey> sarkicism is a word I can't help but read as "sarcasm"
1:49 PM <ARD> Stem cell research, bioreactors, gene therapy, nanobots
1:49 PM <ARD> eugenics
1:50 PM <ARD> the idea is an SCP - the anomaly is the meme, sarkicism itself
1:50 PM <•EldritchCadence> excuse you those are my bros you are dissing
1:50 PM <ARD> every human being is a temple
1:51 PM <ARD> they worship themselves and seek to help other individuals perfect themselves
1:51 PM <ARD> stage 1) exercise and eating right
1:51 PM <djkaktus> ok so wait
1:51 PM <djkaktus> this is pretty cool
1:51 PM <djkaktus> but
1:51 PM <djkaktus> what about their fixation on 610 et all.
1:51 PM <djkaktus> Because they are definitely all about that jazz.
1:51 PM <ARD> 610 is a failure
1:51 PM <Silber> djkaktus: he's getting to the rest of the steps
1:52 PM <ARD> 610 is what happened when they tried to achieve apotheosis through black magic and witchcraft
1:52 PM <ARD> No no no no no
1:52 PM <ARD> Apotheosis through science. self-improvement. mastery of the universe through the body and the mind
1:52 PM <ARD> Human beings used their minds to figure out science and make it wokr
1:52 PM <ARD> *work
1:52 PM <ARD> Stage 1) exercise and eating right
1:53 PM <ARD> Stage 2) bio modifications. You are God and your body is your temple. How do you want to make it better
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1:53 PM <ARD> Stage 3) how do you help other people realize their potential to become God
1:53 PM <ARD> Stage 4) how do you help the people who don't want to be helped
1:54 PM <ARD> The idea right now is in one of these places, they reached Stage 4. Every individual achieved apotheosis and realized their true self-images - but these are horrible and grotesque to ordinary humans
1:54 PM <ARD> A massive web of brain tissue, spread out and able to hear the thoughts of every living thing around it
1:54 PM <ARD> A pillar coiled around a nuclear reactor, feeding off of it and subsisting on the energy of the universe directly
1:55 PM <ARD> Millions of microscopic cells, all at once a single brain and an individual brain that can communicate with each other and yet be their own self-realized individual - thinking dust
1:55 PM <ARD> They have reached their own apotheosis and nirvana
1:55 PM <ARD> And they are horrible abominations of the human form and so they must be destroyed
1:56 PM <ARD> This is where the Foundation comes in. Enter an MTF of all-robots
1:56 PM <ARD> which is sent in to sterilize the area
1:56 PM <djkaktus> oh boy.
1:57 PM <ARD> The reason they have to use robots is Stage 3 and 4. Humans are susceptible to the meme because they want to improve - their brains are hardwired to learn and grow and the meme is literally just an amplification of this
1:57 PM <ARD> But computers aren't
1:57 PM <ARD> Thoughts
1:59 PM <djkaktus> I think that's strong, and I want just as much as anyone to see metaphysician's ideas laid low and built up better than he did
1:59 PM <ARD> I sense a but
1:59 PM <djkaktus> but I think a lot of the current popular aspects of sarkicism come from its emphasis on body horror
2:00 PM <djkaktus> which cannot just be replaced with like, existentialist drama
2:00 PM <ARD> Mhm.
2:00 PM <djkaktus> the body horror has to remain
2:00 PM <ARD> I don't want to remove the body horror
2:00 PM <ARD> That's where the new forms come in
2:00 PM <ARD> These are horrible - to regular people. But to the people who achieved those forms, all is right with the world
