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01-18-24
Dear False Positive Readers,
This is Ashley Walton, Mike’s sister and editor of False Positive. I have really terrible, awful news and a tiny bit of good news.
You might have noticed it’s been a couple years since we’ve posted anything on this website. Well, brace yourself for the saddest update I’ll ever share.
I think they look fine. They’re just a happy couple of happy sludge monsters starting the goo across america.
One People, One nation, One web of protoplasm
How the heck did they get loose? She hit the lockdown.
She hit the alarm.
Naw, she only hit the alarm, quite a different thing depending on security level. That’s why that guard showed up to check up on it. Big mistake.
That guard IS the lockdown.
That is Captain Kevin ‘Lockdown’ McQueen, that is who the lockdown button was summoning. He will no proceed to roundhouse kick the pseudopod and save the day. One does not cross ‘Lockdown’ McQueen.
Exposing the brains of your host like that doesn’t seem like a good survival + dissemination strategy. It looks like this thing might kill its host faster than it can reproduce.
Everything’s gonna be fine, is what I’m saying.
Actually the way I’m seeing this is that whatever that goo is it’s breaking down it’s hosts to add to it’s mass. It doesn’t give a shit whether or not it’s hosts survive- it’ll all become part of the mass not soon before long. It could also be doing a similar thing that the creatures in ache did, controlling all motor functions of their hosts, the difference being this creature gives no shits about whether or not the host is alive. Point is, we don’t know if these guys need to survive being inducted into the space goo cult
I’m going to present a somewhat dissenting interpretation.
Given that you’re some sort of organism with both significant crushing and ablative capabilities (as demonstrated by the “corrosion” of the clothing on one hand, while actually preserving the brain – and the eyes – despite removing a significant chunk of the skull in the victims), what is the best way to interface with your target’s brain?
You could go for a quick penetrative jab through the head’s orifices, but you’re risking damage, from laceration, and even from hydrostatic shock.
So the best way to do that, once you’ve got the target temporarily subdued, is to gently remove the top of the skull – allowing you to interface with a large area of the brain quite quickly, while preserving the “natural” environment present within the head for as long as possible.
In fact, the victims’ heads sort of look like in the midst of a large-scale brain surgery.
Again, what you’re getting is relatively quick coverage of a large area of the central nervous systems, without damaging anything. And by the time someone shoots your victim’s head, you already have extracted enough to at least preserve motor and autonomous control.
Yours Truly,
Binky
Headmaster of the Society for Promotion of Alien Slime Invasion
I like it.
The best reply I could hope for, hands down :).
It seems like the interfacing would have been done within a few seconds, while the scuzz covered the brain, after eating away the skull. Maybe, there was a crossing-over of electrons taken from the frontal lobe area (or something else that controls independent thought) to take over movement. I would guess there are some smaller holes lower down on the head.
It doesn’t seem to be “reproducing” as much as it is “assimilating & spreading.” More like “adding to its own mass,” not “making babies.”
I think this is starting to turn into an alien conga line
Looks like it. Was anyone else reminded of the fairy tale of the simpleton with the Golden Goose everyone wanted to grab a feather from? Or even worse, how to make a string of ducks using a piece of bacon and twine?
SO, the first words out of the Security guy is “Not sure what I’m…” SERIOUSLY?!?!? If I don’t miss the mark, I think he was going to say “Not sure what I’m supposed to do here.” With scientists (and their horrible hazardous substance protocols), Investigators (and their sorry lack on briefing and intel), and security guards (and their complete lack of knowledge of security and breach procedures), it’s really no wonder that not only the original specimen had been missing/taken, but this situation is OBVIOUSLY going to go even further “south” than it already has. How has this specimen not taken over the world already?
It is implied that this IS the missing specimen, and what happened to it is that it managed to get out and hide long enough to… well, do what we’re seeing here.
My first thought was, “Not sure what I’m… seeing.”
or “…looking at.”
Ditto: Not sure what I’m seeing. These motherf*ckers look contaminated or something idk
Looks like SCP-610.
Yeah, creepily so. Wonder if our tourguide has visited the foundation?
Heh.. what an idiot.
“I know what I’m seeing … Danger-Close!” {Slam door}… {lock door}.. run away find lockdown panic button!
Why….why would you open that door. It has a window, you can see not-good stuff is going on.
Because the author is clearly showing that people are idiots.
Very much beginning to doubt those protocols they were so attached to, before…
The protocols really seem to be letting everyone down to be honest. Someone is probably going to get fired for this. Such a shame. They had such a good career future too, but after this? It’s over for them, off to flipping burgers.
I’ll never understand why couples do what they do.