Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-3426 - Reckoner

Written by: Modulum

Artists Include:

[Site_]

Holy shiiiit! I was part of the contest team for this article. I wrote the Tale “Ignorance is Bliss” as part of the series/canon with this SCP. Very cool to see it featured!

[TheShwiggityshwah]

"This message will repeat until there is no one left to hear it."

My favorite line for this scp.

[MCPhssthpok]

"Focus on a memory of great intensity to you, and be silent until you do not exist." Shudder.

[Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

Pattern Screamers? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time

[rajukoley]

Pattern Screamers as a great filter is a very neat concept and also a very terrifying one at that.

[kamishin]

Pattern Screamers are such a cool concept. Things or beings that shouldn't and don't exist, but do anyway. And the more you observe them, they observe you back and drag you into the void of non existence with them

[Wineblood]

Scientist: Oh that's an odd result.
Result: *confused screaming*

[TheGooseman]

"Henceforth, I, Wi'poi, mother of none, shall scream for eternity"
Been reading SCP content for more than a decade, no SCP terrorizes me like this one. TheVolgun and Dr Maxwell covered it before but damn, still hitting hard. Pattern screamers are the best concept of the SCP universe by far.

[marcsukdumitru]

I swear pattern screamers is one of the best sci-fi concepts ever...you could write endless stories around them and it's ever fascinating, not to mention the cosmic horror not the level of Lovecraft

[kilik]

Imagine being the one on shift to watch the drone after hours of nothing happening and then... "Guys? You're gonna want to come in here!"

[ashleighstratmann]

Pattern Screamers are sure creepy when they are used right in an SCP

[mattwoodard]

As you say the Foundation has a better grasp of Pattern Screamers than most and The Serpents Hand also has some safe info on them as well (Some of the Pattern Screamers don't scream, but whisper). Another advantage the Foundation has is that they have a Department of Unreality who seems to be set up to handle this sort of stuff. This was very creepy. Well done. sm

[WolfCry]

Man, this one was unnerving. Reminded me of vacuum decay but somehow more horrifying

[dfailsthemost]

That "clumps of sand" part was very funny in my head.

[whitemagus]

I really like this one. Also, this is why we can't have nice things in the SCP universe. Once you get a nice utopian society going, you get a high enough tech level, and inevitably discover the pattern screamers, which summons them to wreck the hell out of your nice planet.

[Blewlongmun]

One of the things not mentioned briefly about the Fermi paradox is how relatively quickly and easily life seems to have started on Earth. It was basically as soon as somewhere was cold enough to do so, not only that but rudimentary cells have been formed in labs from amino acids predicted to be relatively common all on human timescales.
Counter intuitively almost every experiment we perform shows life to be far more common than expected. There is a significant portion of the early universe where near everything was 71 C, there should be 40K empires formed in the 10 billion years following that.

Despite all odds, space is cold, dark, and silent.

[BonanzaGY]

There are a lot of SCP youtubers now, and many of them are great yet they always seem to encounter problems with breaking immersion or being too subtle.

The Exploration Series is the closest I've found to be a perfect mix between explaining the article so you understand the horrors behind it, whilst not completely roundhouse-kicking the source material. Good job dude and keep it up!

[SheepyGiblet]

16:19 "It is the very fabric of the multiverse itself that is coming to blot them out"
Amazing

[kingandros]

Reckoner is probably one of, if not IS my favorite SCP. Existential/esoteric SCP are some of the most interesting and cosmic dread inducing SCP and I love it.

[Drifter]

My son is into the universe, especially exoplanets, and it's great hearing the names of these planets.