Exploration Log 1689-I

[@void.control]

One of my favorite things about SCP Foundation is how so many of the SCPs take silly-sounding concepts and realistically depict how dangerous and/or horrifying they would be, and this reading is a prime example of that.

[@TheGirlInFandomWorld]

AHumanCalledSmithy Exactly my thoughts. On paper this sounds so ridiculous, but I was almost crying at the end there; I was rooting (no pun intended) for the Task Force the whole time.

[@24karatHAMSTER]

"We ran out of food rations today. Xander freaked out and started saying we were going to starve, until I told him he was a fucking idiot." Also, what the fuck does Carlen have in her backpack?

[@unixone7558]

+Squiddy Apparently 1) Cooking supplies and 2)Explosive charges. Always be prepared I guess.

[@codyz4346]

+Squiddy Everything except spices apparently

[@LanceTheAutobot]

She also had the key to vector sigma the arms of venus the milo and a mini nuke launcher

[@65infanteria]

she probably has her own pocket dimension filled with walmarts in there.

[@unixone7558]

65infanteria Well gee that would've been helpful to know ;)

[@komaedanagito4real]

its crazy because what we once thought was a benign scp turned to be very morbid

[@Benguin02]

You know, that has got to be the first happy ending I have ever seen in a creepypasta, and I was so relived that they didn't die by being crushed by an expanding cave. That would be just too horrifying. You really captured the feelings in each situation, especially with the mounting fear and dread.

[@SophiaLilithUwU]

+The Benguin I was honestly surprised by the Happy Ending, too. Given this is SCP we are talking about here. That fresh honestly. I like it.

[@cheesewizard3965]

+DarklordAbraxas Originally, the rebuttal at the end didn't happen, but the author got some suggestions to add it. The SCP forums are a strange place.

[@Benguin02]

Mind you it really is a horrific way to go. At least most other SCP's are fast, but potatoes ..... yikes.

[@mebezaccraft]

+The Benguin you did NOT just call an scp a creepypasta.

[@mebezaccraft]

***** im gonna bitchslap him into the old mans pocket dimension.

[@MidnightRaziel]

By far my favorite video from GemoDawn, she gives life to Captain Wells and the story as a whole with the emotions she puts behind her words.

[@goldengameA]

This is actually then vlogging their holiday to Ireland

[@efe_aydal]

This is actually as good as a Stephen King short story. It could even be him who wrote this.

[@BertieMAhern]

This is a good statement

[@Riokushinaku]

It amazes me, how many of the comments are people who obviously didn't watch the whole video, and definitely didn't read the last bit at the end. A lot of them are struggling to understand how the logs were retrieved, or wondering if the team ever made it out. If you're that curious, just watch the whole damn video! *face palm*

[@Total0belisk]

It amazes me how much terror that has been gotten out of a concept like an infinite bag of potatoes, the creativity here definitely deserves some applause and I enjoyed your reading of it.

[@DissedRedEngie]

this sounds like something that could happen in aperture laboratories.

[@microwavegum]

Yes

[@jakemacdonald2507]

A Very Disappointed Red Engineer so this is where all those potato batteries came from

[@koolkassia1433]

I'm just going to say this no one could have done this log better. Your voice is so on point and your tone makes me feel like I'm actually in a sack of potatoes lol! This SCP is so hilarious!

[@captassassin5680]

That was getting real intense for a minute there towards the end. I’m very impressed with the author’s ability to be so creative about such a mundane thing as a sack of potatoes. And I was pleasantly surprised that the team was rescued. It seems like all the other stories involving research teams are told through found journals or video footage. I wouldn’t be surprised if a red T-shirt isn’t part of the standard issue of equipment when going on exploration. But I digress, great narrating Gemo thank you.

[@monstertangle]

I think you just walked into an irishman's stomach

[@Heligoland360]

lol

[@ssohseeker7799]

Adam Collins I just walked into a living tumor

[@Alan-wp9yn]

Potato Captain!

[@jackalmuldipuluscabal5288]

You are a tumour

[@thegreattotemaster]

Don't you mean a tuber? ;)

[@Diluted_Potato]

Just solved world hunger right there.

[@asdf30111]

+VelstryoxDP Nope, in fact the universe may of "died" because of the people in it using such a plan. You need to eat them fast....

[@wickchad101]

+asdf30111 True the original plan would have been to create an organism that could multiple exponentially, but the report gives evidence that it could have been the original "Factory" that started the Foundation.

[@wickchad101]

+ZMmaster One SCP-871 yes it's similar, and also with this SCP there's a vagueness to the origin of the scp. Many scp are "contained" to an extent, but what if there are scp's that have been in the foundation for years like the endless cake. maybe someone had the idea to throw it into another dimension as a way of containment.

[@Diluted_Potato]

+asdf30111 I thought they stopped multiplying once they're out and away from the bag.

[@todengel6692]

Captain Wells would kill you if she heard you sat that XD

[@wafflesthevilwarrior]

I hope you do scp-93 and its corresponding logs someday. Probably some of the best articles on the site.

[@Taevarth]

this really is more fascinating than scary. like, it seems as if that entire universe is literally potatoes, but it wasn't always that if remnants of humans are there. maybe they invented a self-cloning potato but couldn't keep the numbers down enough and everyone died off? maybe that universe is just potatoes, of course its possible that its just an area where there are potatoes, seeing as there is oxygen meaning the entire planet must not be covered. but it makes you wonder how there is even a bag that acts like some kind of dimensional entrance, and why the potatoes don't keep growing into our universe.

[@screamingcactus1753]

Maybe it's something in the atmosphere. Some bacteria or virus or toxin that "kills" the potatoes when they pass to the other side of the bag. But that wouldn't explain the root vegetables from the outside of the bag begin replicating when they're introduced. I think it's an enzyme that escaped into the atmosphere on that side and infects any living thing with a similar genetic makeup as a potato, giving it the ability of asexual reproduction.

[@ChiyuriYami]

Since it;s a bag.. can`t you just turn it inside out? what happen if you do.

[@cailumgrantham-tibbitt8543]

Oh god no

[@slumberingember]

Cimarron Quezada if they stoped digging they wouldn't have any of the logs. So they at some point found the people. They were most likely dead since the logs stop but at least they never gave up

[@Noiwillnot2222]

its probably likely it seems like some werid alternate earth o3o and maybe in this reality they geneticly engeeried potatos to split like bactierum endlessly for endless food in a food crysis or maybe for fuel from the oils o3o or both none the less seems like a geneitic expierment gone horribly wrong

[@ATSucks1]

TUrn it inside out and the patatoes will never stop flowing.

[@Riokushinaku]

The end of the video says that the command team, sent to rescue the potato team, and the potato team finally met up. Although suffering from extreme oxygen deficiency, and degraded mental states, the whole potato team made a full recovery within 3 weeks. Did any of you actually watch the whole video?

[@MarioWendorf]

Beyond the funny "death by potatoes" aspect I have a few ideas about this one. Does anyone remember how the Irish potato famine began? The country began to farm them, and depend on them to a high degree until the disease started to wipe the crops out. The entire country suffered. But what if the people of Ireland could have genetically modified the plants to be resistant. They could become heartier, even seen as the answer to world hunger, if they could even grow without being planted. Replicate them selves at a rapid rate and then be harvested just as rapidly. The catch was that there was no end to the growth and after enough time had passed, this other world destroyed themselves.

[@cheesewizard3965]

Or GRU-Division P are assholes who made a pocket dimension, created the sack, and made infinite potatoes, then destroyed the alternate dimension with potatoes.

[@MarioWendorf]

spencer davis​ Definitely possible. The other demension's somewhat familiar things like concrete and the earth, grass and dead tree point to some degree of human presence at some point in the other world. We didn't see enough to know if those traces were a whole other world or just parts of a pocket world to house the unending potatoes 

[@Fontana22]

loved the voice acting, really nice, i was also relieved at the ending haha

[@egglord7736]

Okay, I have a little theory on how this came to be. I feel like in another universe, a team of scientists invented a way to 'solve world hunger'. And by that, it meant potatoes that grew more potatoes, over and over again. It seemingly went well for a short while, but then there weren't enough people to keep eating them all. Eventually, the situation got so out of hand, they literally suffocated in potatoes. They just covered EVERYTHING. That's probably why they find a bike and a dead tree.

[@Rudofaux]

Beautiful work in the voice acting, captured the stress, frustration, & panic wonderfully.

[@thelaughingrouge]

I love the way your voice slowly devolves in a complete "Fuck it." attitude. Then desperation starts coming in. Well done.

[@dac314]

huzzah for happy endings! what a goddamn spoopy story

[@barbecueshoes9212]

S.C.P: Secure, Contain, Potatoes

[@ingmaster5]

You know the infinite cake scp? what if this alternate potato universe had a potato that functioned just like the cakes?

[@sillypinkewe]

you outdid yourself this time, I think this is the best reading you've done or at least top five. Thank you for doing this I loved it!

[@Corvo_Caligo]

They could've suffered some real Tatalities!

[@acisme6442]

As someone who hates small spaces and shudders at the idea of being in a tunnel that could crumble and bury me alive, this was a particularly hard video to listen to, but God I loved it lolol. All the while I couldn't help but cheer for the team, and I was so relieved to find out they survived. Great fucking voice acting, you had me really immersed there ^^

[@Narstak]

Well... At least it ended kind of well.

[@unixone7558]

+Vincent Pellemans Aside the fact that none of them will eat potatoes ever again, yeah.

[@PresidentFunnyValentine]

They're not Germans or Irish, so what's the problem in that?

[@ethal1222]

I think The Foundation discovered Mark Watney's personal Hell...

[@terryflopycow2231]

ethal1222 and heaven?

[@SomeoneIG42]

It is my heaven

[@ibewither5051]

Ha, this video is awesome! The trend with these Scp related stuff is that they're very well written. Perhaps your Scp will be well written too. You're already an excellent narrator, perhaps you're an excellent writer as well.

[@ATSucks1]

YOurr voice acting in this particulars SCP reading WAs spot on an awesome!!!

[@Veiwer77]

Wow! That was really cool! I love the idea of taking something so simple as an endless bag of potatoes and running with it.

[@adiahaalexander9359]

Good job with the narration, I was totally immersed

[@MrMartechi]

this was pretty fantastic! more exploration logs would be appreciated!

[@alex_ho]

Nice job with the reading, glad it wasn't robotic like most others, I'd actually recommend putting a lot more emotions into your scripts as if you're just conversing casually rather than reading off the list of a to-do's list. It keeps the readers attentive. On the side notes, "So this is how the world ends, not with a blast, but with potatoes."

[@Naoyasha]

After I found out about the self-replication aspect of the taters, I thought they were going to explode... because they were eating them. Maybe it didn't work while they were melted...

[@clan741]

I assume that stomach digestion would destroy them beyond replication.

[@Personoide]

+Vidya Gaymes They found this SCP after an entire village had been using it as its only food source for generations. Kind of out of the question.

[@Acejhm1]

Wow. Props to you for the life you brought to this. Very nicely done!

[@-Minuano-]

Your choice of ambient music is an SCP in itself. Creepy as HECK!

[@mel_energy]

"The ground is made of potatoes" I want that carved into my headstone

[@wagonfixin]

It would be interesting to see these mission logs like animated or skits it would be very cool

[@vigggoda_abe_vigoat]

thank you for doing these videos. i enjoy your voice, keep them coming please.

[@primalflower7253]

glad it worked out in the end, with new info about this strange potatoplague universe and all members alive

[@amy7189]

This one was so well narrated that I actually started to feel nervous =| Well done!

[@amclem5977]

After the reading I was curious if you read the exploration log. I like the hopeful attitude about curing world hunger, but it seems like the people of the 'potato world' tried the same, and it backfired. At that exponential growth 1 potato would become millions in a week. In a year, there would be nothing left... but the mighty spud. Anyway, great as always, Gemo. Can't wait for the next one :)

[@darkzeno13]

+AM Clem I think the endless pizza box would be better for ending world hunger, except to people who don't like pizza. Then again, I'm sure stuff like that is contained not because of the harm it causes but the greed it would inspire.

[@TheGirlInFandomWorld]

So... alternate Earth with a food crisis, hence the dead ground and tree. Someone somewhere takes a basic vegetable, i.e. a potato, and somehow makes a self-replicating form that will never run out. Either the potatoes replicated too fast to control and killed everyone, or the population died out in some other way and the potatoes lived on. Either way, I'm glad the Task Force was okay, I was almost crying by the end. It sounds stupid, but your voice acting was AMAZING.

[@Riokushinaku]

Well, the grass and trees would naturally die, as they had no source of sunlight.

[@TheGirlInFandomWorld]

Rio Which begs the qusetion... how far beyond the atmosphere do the potatoes go???

[@Riokushinaku]

Well, if the potatoes still followed the same rules as normal plant life, the ones that got up high enough would die due to the extreme cold. However, the ones that keep growing underneath would continue to push them up. Theoretically, they could be pouring out into space. However, if this was the case, the atmosphere would no longer be present. So, at the time the exploration team came into this world, the potatoes hadn't fully pushed the atmosphere out. Given the fact that there was also still oxygen left, there should have still been a significant amount of atmosphere remaining. Leading one to believe that the potatoes hadn't piled up too far, relatively speaking.

[@TheGirlInFandomWorld]

Rio True enough... ugh, I swear every SCP I like leaves so much unanswered! I need to know more!

[@chendzeeali6545]

Ooooo I really liked this. As silly as the premise is at, first it's creepy as hell once you realize the fully implications of it.

[@mrground]

I think finding the bicycle is what creped me out the most. Next to the potato hole getting smaller and smaller. :O

[@LezbionestHere]

Holly shit im so happy they survived. I wasn't expecting them to do so

[@r.c.5015]

Oh please, make more of these logs!

[@victorkhor9159]

Gemo,please do more Keter class scp

[@TheGlader2]

Never in my life have I had an emotional roller coaster from potatoes!

[@Nowwer]

Awesome acting! Well done!

[@DracoMagnius]

Wait...Why didn't they use D-Class for this? It seems like an unnecessary risk of good men and women.

[@2004seraph]

fucking exactly, she even said that in the log

[@PsylomeAlpha]

Draco Magnius because potato.

[@professormohawk1]

mission wasnt that deadly. i mean they didnt know about the reproducing thing or what have you tho, they really should have, done so in hindsight

[@BigM33100]

I think it's because they needed specialized tech to get around and traditionally D-classes are outfitted with stock standard hardware store grade stuff, they don't even get guns. I guess since there wasn't a perceived risk of death to the operatives and the fact that they needed experimental gear meant they didn't want to use the expendables.

[@perishedsins]

I wish they had a larger excavation team go in and search around more. I'm curious as to what else they'd find, even bring the expert of the place Captain Wells back to guide them haha

[@Kellenshenton]

This is so well done!! I love this one! :D

[@JoshuaKimbrough]

Amazing job, Dawn!

[@darkunicorn1208]

the main issue with scps is you are always left with questions about them. Like wtf is that bag made of? where did potato land come from? where is it? etc.

[@emovampireteddy]

Burlap. The original file says it's an ordinary looking burlap sack.

[@eddiehoplight2003]

My idea as to what happened to the potatoe universe is there was a shortage of potatoes and a scientist genetically modified potatoes to grow at an exponential rate, and thought they had fixed the problem only realizing to late that the potatoes grow to fast to be consumed and they overtook everything, as to how the potatoe sack ended up in our universe is anyones guess.

[@ronbeck07]

I really liked this! Please do more.. Also it seems like no one reads the actual stories that are on the SCP website. Do you think you could start doing that?

[@Randomonium9]

Wow, that was an incredible reading.

[@microdog]

I honestly enjoy these adventure logs mote than some SCPs

[@dayylikenightyt5923]

"Its bigger on the inside" ITS A 'FRICKIN TARDIS

[@jamesblaylock2914]

endless supply of food right there...world hunger solved

[@trentonprather2166]

It actually really upsets me that not all scps are on in this group of videos and skipped around and over...almost to the point to which I want to make a scp readings channel that goes through ALL of them on the scp-wiki.net

[@geronimolapuz616]

Im just happy they survived that man

[@jacobmortimore]

Haha I wasn't expecting that to have a happy ending.

[@kirbyguy9376]

It's the multi-cake, but with potatoes, and they couldn't contain it properly. that's what happened.

[@therealavagirl]

Such an amazing story about potatoes of all things!!

[@hoomanbeing6254]

this is the type of shit i'm looking for

[@martinsgrosbahs8847]

This is good. Who knows, maybe the potato bag contains a parallel universe in which a "Splitting potato SCP" has multiplied out of control and killed the whole population of earth. That is...actually, seriously scary. I imagine that these series could continue and at some point they could find an archive of dome kind and reveal the story of the potato universe and how it all began.

[@hughmunghus1461]

welp thanksgiving isnt a holiday theyll be looking forward to

[@DyslexicGamer]

I'm not sure how they discovered 10,000 m³ in this place because I couldn't find any more logs describing anymore missions

[@acries3148]

Location of exploration... The State of Idaho

[@chilidog2469]

A terrifying thought is that in a parallel universe there was a scientist that wanted to end world hunger by making a magical potato which accidentally caused the whole world to be covered in Potatoes... the apocalypse by Potato

[@cessatiolux6250]

song at 4:04

[@InsanityProdutions]

WHOA! That was amazing.

[@kneeslappington9003]

well that selttles my curiosity about who survives in the SCP foundation

[@Mobius14]

This is some scary shit right here. A bag of infinite consoles.

[@personamithulu]

Who knew potatoes could be so terrifying.

[@cload9669]

I just thought of something... If this whole thing is in a bag... What happens if you cut the bag up, so it's not containing the potatoes anymore

[@StarHorder]

thank god they got out alive! what an amazing storie!

[@darkzeno13]

Personally, I like the bag of holding potatoes, partly because I love potatoes and potato-based dishes. I have a few suggestions for anyone looking for new SCPs to read, ones that they may not have heard of:-SCP-349: This one is called "The Philosopher's Stone and the Graveyard of the Immortals"- it's a graveyard for people who tried to make themselves immortal and features a few famous mythological names like Nicholas Flamel. Also, Death seems to be kind of a dick as he-or whatever killed these guys-has some pretty snarky epitaphs written on the tombstones.-SCP-719: It's a TV that sends a message from some entity that causes people to spontaneously combust. It features the entity "He-Who-Made-the Light" who is a nice subversion of the whole Dark is Evil trope. Seems Light can be evil too.-SCP-1871: The Vorpal Sword, which is a nice shout-out to Alice in Wonderland. Also, it's a vorpal sword for all the D&D nerds too. This one has a personal connection to me as I did a report on the book in my Victorian Lit class.-SCP-1909: This one is the tomb of Alexander the Great. For history buffs, this one is just cool.

[@bjmccann1]

Excellent!

[@justinoleon9542]

Excellent

[@IsaacCollector]

I have a theory on this: this "Potatoworld" is an alternate dimension of our world. My theory is that somehow, these humans there managed to create these constantly regenerating potatoes. however, they duplicated infinatly, literaly filling the entire universe. so the same people somehow developed a portal to our world, to get rid of the potatoes, in form of the sack. however, it was too late, and they couldnt do it. but, I noticed how the team managed to find both dead plant life, complex human inventions and a house, but no trace of humans or whats left of them. so, my theory goes that the humans built colonies udnerground. I mean, they could've died out, but considering there doesnt seem to be any corpses, nor do the potatoes fully eradicate objects, it seems more plausable to me

[@flidrl]

I was wondering how long since last log were they found. The answer is 8

[@DerpyMudKip-gr5xg]

oh thank goodness they were saved

[@tendakraut9854]

You know for a ridiculous SCP,it actually made me a little depressed.

[@professormohawk1]

so, cuz they poked a hole thru the thing, i dont then you would ever really clear out the wharehouse also, still could be earth. just somewhere that is just known to be a mountain tho, theres some holes in that theory. i dont know of any mountains that have formed in the last century or so

[@sombra1493]

is it solid potatoe or is it just single potatoes?

[@eclipseslayer98]

Bag of potatoeS.

[@Shadybish]

wow this place could be used like a hive, the combs could be low income housing

[@UristMcTubedwarf]

where do you get the music?

[@solowingvalkyrie]

that sounds like the worst way to die

[@LanceTheAutobot]

Easy to think what happend to the previos world it was drowned in potatos hope the fondation can keep this one contained

[@hasturking9635]

the people behind the SCP games should make a potato world game.

[@Ambi-582]

Captain Wells is stuck in the tater realm

[@DrHumbult]

This is really weird who the hell makes potatoes that keep growing and completely cover a world?!

[@mega-ri7vc]

1 spud to rule them all

[@D3w10n]

Wouldn't they be, like... constantly drunk? I mean, all those spuds are bound to start the fermentation process, that is how vodka is made :D