Issue 26, Page 5
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1: The figure speaks again.
2: The tanuki listens, confused,
3: And then starts to take her helmet off, steam escaping from the seams.
4: The fox puts his hands out, silently yelling.
5: The tanuki and the figure look at him; both now have dark voids for faces, eyeless with glowing teeth.
Phantom Astronauts on the Moon! (Now play at select theaters)
Oh crud!
Get in your spaceship, + get the heck out of there, DUDE!
Problem is, the smokies are standing right next to the rover …
Oh shoot!
🙂
Okay so my working theory is the lack of shankar radiation (or whatever it was called) on the moon is enough to have people turn into black idol things, and the suits keep that from happening. When they take off the helmet the only part changing is the head. Though no other black idol creature has kept clothing on or produced black/purple smoke before.
Problem is, that these things are explicitly different from what forms we know the Black Idol to take. Even in the zero atmosphere of space, both on and under the surface of the moon, the BI has an oily, rubbery composition that still requires eyes, or something like eyes in order to perceive it’s environment and track prey.
Whatever this is, it is -explicitly- stated to have a smokey composition with purple inflections and a -distinct- lack of eyes. Additionally, the eyes are deliberately described as glowing, the teeth and claws of the BI do not do this.
Unless this is an entirely new, lunar adaptation of the BI which evolved independent of the (no longer) petrified collection in the cave, than this is something new… Something which I suspect has audio-memetic abilities, up to and including transmitting itself like a disease (think of a werewolf, except it can infect you with it’s howl instead of it’s bite). This again contradicts the BI which has semi-infectious, visual-memetic abilities (infection by being seen).
Sorry for the rant, but having a biomedical degree, being an aircraft mechanic by trade(don’t ask how that happened), having an HUGE love for the ‘science’ of the SCP foundation, AND having recently finished a long D&D session as my simic combine ‘artificer’ who literally does -this sort of stuff- as his job… Kinda gives me a twisted, if analytical perspective… >.>
Your artificer does what as his job? Studying or analyzing eldritch entities and phenomena?
I’m thinking this might be someone’s nightmare (as opposed to actually (in story, not real-life) happening).
I like the little bumps in the helmets.
I guess they’re on the helmets, to accommodate the furry-astronaut’s ears. They’re cute. 😀
I thought they were cute as well! A nice detail, indeed.
🙂
*cocks shotgun* moon’s haunted