Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-7354: The Cruor Pool

[@Hugh_Amungus]

7354 gives a better explanation as to why the pool exists, but 354's exploration log was way more interesting

[@ricardohoang8452]

7354 is just asking 354 about inspirations 😅

[@bryananderson688]

I prefered the less explained pool, but it's a matter of style and preference. The culture of SCP writing seems to have been undergoing a change from lots of independent stand alone ideas, to trying to link everything to pre-existing lore items. Which is fine - the setting is solidifying, I suppose, but it is different. Rewriting an old stand alone idea in order to conform to one of the big lore items that has taken off is part of this.

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

​@@bryananderson688feels like the MCUification of something that used to be more unique

[@marek1shtar538]

​​@@xXx_Regulus_xXxSomeone tried re-writing the plague doctor into a world ending threat once. It really do feel like that sometimes

[@tommylucatiel7911]

​@@bryananderson688kind of weird since the entire thing about scp is there is no canon

[@creativeevil1369]

To add something, that you probably missed in the article. In the Exploratory Mission 7354 Delta, in the very end, there is a hidden collapse, that, when opened reveals a small hidden text. The text reads as follows " [DATA LOST]: I understand now. They weren't stars at all. " I don’t know how important it is, but I wabted to note it

[@Wineblood]

I reckon cells

[@CYI3ERPUNK]

VERY IMPORTANT

[@notsalty001]

I like to imagine they are eyes, thousand of beastly glowing points, just a small part of Yaldaboath’s wretched form.

[@Tyblimp]

😊😊

[@khathecleric]

Wow that's a Space Odyessey reference

[@kriskobling]

a moment of silence for all the members of the foundation who without a second thought faced unimaginable dangers and lost their lives so that others can live.

[@thechosenone5421]

if we were to stay a milisecond of silence for every ten members we would stay silent until the heat death of the universe

[@kriskobling]

@@thechosenone5421 interesting thought

[@pocadon]

​@@thechosenone5421😂😂

[@michaelliggett1622]

For those confused this is a entry for the remixcon writing contest that happened recently the goal of the contest was to remix and reinterpret old article this entry reinterpret scp 354

[@MontagueETC]

7354's author here! Great job with the video!

[@slavcity406]

​@AdolfHitler-wo1my at least he past art school

[@tinypileofpolydimethylsiloxane]

@AdolfHitler-wo1my omg are you really Adolf Hitler ??? im your biggest fan !

[@kazen16]

I love the work!

[@Ruvaakjun]

Thank you for writing it! I quite enjoyed it. Keep up the good work, and I would love to hear or read more of your work.

[@moonlighttf2]

scp-354 moment

[@WhackedoutCookie]

You are a credit to the SCP community. “Infographics” is why I know about SCP’s but “Exploring Series” is why I love SCP’s.

[@SnifferRiffle]

Infographics is western zionist propaganda.

[@WASDLeftClick]

Infographics is the tip of the iceberg, shallow surface lore that most everyone familiar with the Foundation already know. You have far to go down this rabbit hole yet summer child.

[@WhackedoutCookie]

@@WASDLeftClick tf? Been watching exploring series for over 3 years now. Don’t assume shit.

[@maryogan215]

This is the channel that turned me on to the SCP universe 😀

[@lastofthe4horsemen279]

Try Bedtime SCP. A great addition to SCP content

[@zapan9643]

Nothing beats putting you to sleep than The Exploring Series reading you about horrifying eldritch abominations beyond human comprehension.

[@A_Toaster]

This is beyond true, much like how these entries are beyond my comprehension.

[@JoyGoodchild]

True 😅 somebody should check if that's anomalous 😂

[@jruby9113]

I love the wh40k vids you're doing, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't massively excited the minute I saw a new exploring scp video. Love it as always.

[@kamishin7135]

Sarkicism/Nälkä is a really interesting concept. Great to see more dephts to it

[@videocrowsnest5251]

Would this be an odd time to point out that "nälkä" by the way means "hunger" in Finnish? Dunno if it has anything to do with anything, but well....there is a whole lot of devouring going on when it comes to Sarkicism. Short of it being a coincidence, if this is indeed how you spell it, then I do believe I smell a fellow Finn up to some clever writing antics with that one, or someone with knowledge of Finnish using those words known wisely.

[@kamishin7135]

@@videocrowsnest5251 as far as I know it has actually alot to do about it. There is an inverse sarkic language that was develop using eastern europe etymology. Proto Sarkicism was about devourering the gods to create a better world after allso "hunger" is the name of the religion

[@Mondy667]

​@@videocrowsnest5251It was pointed in the Sarkicism Hub that Nälkä means hunger

[@isomilo]

​​​@@videocrowsnest5251Sarkicism is largely inspired by Uralic/proto-uralic historic traditions and languages, so finns and russians kinda recognize their cultures(minus the flesh stuff tho)

[@Godyeater]

I love how some of these newer SCPs have the number of old SCPs and are the EVOLVED version of those SCPs.

[@MiguelWario05]

Good news: Another excelent video by one of my favourite channels Bad news: I'll hate myself at work in a few hours

[@sylph4252]

I really enjoy this continuity. It neatly ties together concepts that we all know and love. Also, I don't think it's necessarily Yaldabaoth returning. Abel said that a dead body festers with parasites, so this could be any random entity growing by consuming the remains of Ion's power

[@CBMX_GAMING]

Being up this late means my sleep schedule is awful, but at least I can use these vids to wind down 😢

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

That AI drone's got the Iron Lung experience

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

Gen Z when anything metal goes through a red liquid: *”LE IRON LONG?!?”*

[@thaumaturgeslit7759]

So excited for more SCPs! Best part of monday mornings.

[@sacredfire536]

dude i cant even tell you how much i want to hear the rest of the story about that planet with the thin metal walls and black grass. it frustrates me but it also makes it one of my favorite scps because its so captivating.

[@JoshSweetvale]

The fact that this lake looks like 354 and is surrounded by an old SCP base and _bent space_ implies a different universe's 354 was _shoved down its own portal_ (with said space bending) to get rid of it. Hevel's response that the flesh-magic from the spawned creatuee was weird _heavily_ implies that the whole damn multiverse is sourced to spawn these things.

[@redcell9636]

I just realized i have been subscribed to your channel as far back as 2014, when you did the Cthulu Mythos videos and few other such things before your SCP lore journey.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Yay more flesh beasts

[@michaelandreipalon359]

What if Ion became the Pool itself? That scares me more than just the Pool being a portal to another realm.

[@l-x-10]

I think it might be both...

[@brandonspears6996]

I love how you are covering not only SCP stuff, but Warhammer stuff too. I just hope you aren't burning yourself out. Stay happy and healthy brother. Skäl

[@comicstrider4851]

I love how command wanted Able to stay away from the pool, but Able was already uncomfortable and wouldn't have gone there if he hadn't been misinformed

[@josedeliz1404]

I love scp videos that give comprehensive(ish) explanations behind intriguing mysteries that make me go "in a world of bonkers fiction...yeah that makes total sense" I can totally believe that the dead body of a Sarkik god would spawn eldritch horrors and that some unknown force would be keeping the dead body from decaying completely as a means to invade the earth.

[@king_poopsicle2876]

With baldurs gate recently coming out I would love to see more dnd lore content, that game and the dnd universe has taken me for ransom

[@justanotheryoutuber3532]

I love it when they make SCP where the foundation isn't the bad guy like they do so often these days. For the past few years they constantly make the foundation either as a whole or by a specific character the bad guy where they are either incompetent overly cruel or straight up worse then any anomaly when those type of stories should be done by other groups like GOC and FBI with their only being a few articles or characters in the foundation doing shady shit. Now days the foundation seems to be the most dangerous and evil anomaly as if it's being ran by the OG skarlet king and yaldabal

[@WD_Gaster66]

Nah, that's just your perception of it. There's just as many entries and tales where the foundation is doing the good work. I recommend any and all Site-43 related tales and SCPs from VKTM to Thilo Zwist, On Guard 43 and Wrong Tomorrow

[@jimflores9098]

the foundation is always a good guy. Their methods make them look very bad, but... find a better way. Well except in 5000, and a couple SCPs where they just start doing this unjustified and its not a rogue staff member who hasn't been caught, but they usually are justified when the Foundation itself approves.

[@Not-Andy-Here]

I missed your 20 to 30 minute SCP videos so much so I was very happy to see this. I don't blame you for how long they are however as for the past several years, many SCP writers are trying so hard to beat each other in how long/grandiose they can make their SCPs sometimes pretentiously so. Many times there isn't even an interesting monster or something in them so this was a welcomed change of pace for the latest 7000 series.

[@sammytheman7327]

Thanks!

[@zyxaplayssomething]

Look forward to all your weekly uploads, I love these readings, long and short.

[@Tarsibu]

You are like the Rosetta Stone when it comes to SCP anomalies. You make amazing infographics (sometimes I listen to these videos during my commutes to/from work).

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

I think the final picture given by the Probe AI is an upside down picture of it emerging from the Pool…to somewhere else that looks like Earth. The red half is the camera still submerged, with the sky half being the camera viewing the sky. This might be a reference to how the original Red Pool Story had a manned expedition by SCP Personnel in a Submarine who emerged from the Pool into a different Planet/Area/Point in time.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Hell, the whole facility - down to the bent geometry - seems to be another universe's SCP foundation losing *their* pool.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@JoshSweetvale so maybe the red pools are interdimensional portals to different earths?

[@Ginger_FoxxVT]

Worst. Paddling pool. Ever.

[@otakujoo87]

Proceeds to act out Back to the Future meme * "Hey, I've seen this one. (Pacific Rim)"

[@ashleighstratmann7783]

I had to remind myself 7376 version of Able had connections to Sarcism. But I can see the red pool having connections to it as well since most what came out of it were fleshy type of beast.

[@DontTripChocolateDrip]

I was really hoping for another deep dive and exploration into the other side of the Red Pool. This is good too though.

[@DanielSan1776]

*OH BOY! IT’S 3AM!!*

[@nmspy]

Full 8 hours of sleep < random universe lore

[@xxdeadoutxx761]

2AM😂 at least it helps the sleep happen

[@nmspy]

@@xxdeadoutxx761 anyone outside of EST doesn’t exist

[@jacksonwilliams2380]

@@xxdeadoutxx761you are lying to all of us and most importantly yourself. Listening to an SCP without paying attention is how you wake up to spoilers half way through the ouroboros series

[@mattdelarosa6819]

1am actually 😅

[@Mustachioed_Mollusk]

Master class of a narrator! These videos always feel so polished and official

[@GonzaloAPH]

The newer SCP articles feel as stories narrating action, events and a parade of task force teams and doctors. Their recourse to and building of lore, feels like the MCU. Besides, there seems to be a fascination with cryptic and bombastic language. The older ones seem more descriptive documents, asceptical, rigurous and scientific. Less pretentious, more self-suficient. Honestly, I miss the old kind of SCP articles.

[@WD_Gaster66]

There's plenty of old articles with lots of MTF action logs, just as there's plenty of newer straight to the point skips. Of course, the latter don't always make for the best YT content, which is why you don't see them often.

[@bloodyneptune]

YEESSSSSS I gotta go find my headphones and go lay down, time to drift off to another perfectly narrated SCP story 🖤🤍🖤

[@l-x-10]

Oh Boy, we're about to have a BLOODY good time.

[@gokugoma3258]

THE KING OF SCP STORYTELLING IS BACK!! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💯💯💯

[@mathieuleader8601]

love how varied these other demensional creatures are the pool is very potluck

[@CNNRNNTransformer]

Saddens me that more people aren't following the SCP universe or 40K...these writers are so creative!

[@Elusivearth]

You call ripping off an old idea creative? The only creativity behind this article was in the name change

[@zenerstorm95]

I was REALLY hoping this one would get covered, especially how it connects to Qayin and Havel

[@Antony_Coomier]

Is there anything better than waking up making coffee and finding a new story ☕️🙂 Good Morning all

[@jamesbryant8133]

Oh cool. Been avoiding the 40k lore (I played for 20+ yrs) so this is a nice return

[@literalcringe6154]

Ah the 354 nostalgia, this was fun. Thank you.

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

Aeon dying was definitely a massive reveal. Very surprising and powerful.

[@CoobyPls]

Bedtime Crew: *FALL IN!* Blankets - ✔ Pillows - ✔ Mangg with the SCiPs - ✔ Good night boys and girls!

[@SlidesHandler13]

Pissed the bed ✔️👌

[@dmign]

what the fuck is a scip

[@MarkusAldawn]

​@@dmign in-universe (and now out as well), people sometimes refer to anomalies managed by the foundation as SCiPs, pronounced 'skips.'

[@justinsmith5870]

​@@MarkusAldawnwhat's the acronym?

[@MarkusAldawn]

@@justinsmith5870 as far as I know, it's just how they represent the fact that somebody is saying it pronounced 'skips.' It's a bit circular, I realise: they're colloquially called SCiPs because SCPs can be pronounced as 'skips' with only one additional letter. So, when authors are writing dialogue or just don't want to write "SCP objects", they write 'SCiPs." I like what it implies, especially when non-Foundationers use it. A bit like how hoover is a generic term for vacuum cleaner in some places, the term for anomalous objects (among people who don't call them 'anomalous objects') is to name them for the people who always show up to bag and tag the object and take it away somewhere.

[@mxaviervega]

Oh snap, completely here for these iteration of Cain & Abel

[@dank3stdragon872]

It’s so weird to me seeing an upload at midnight PST as I usually am on EST. So OH BOY ITS MIDNIGHT

[@CarsonZXY]

Wait... isn't the Devourer SCP-2317? This is going to get absolutely bonkers. Seven spears for the King!

[@creativeevil1369]

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[@MelodyofDarkness0001]

Canon is fluid.

[@CarsonZXY]

@MelodyofDarkness0001 I know, isn't it awesome?! Also, I prefer "it's *all* canon" instead of "there *is no* cannon". Even the contradictory stuff. All true.

[@MelodyofDarkness0001]

@@CarsonZXY ESPECIALLY the contradictions

[@GankbotShuk]

@@MelodyofDarkness0001 Damit Garak!

[@marek1shtar538]

I stopped midway through this and had to check out 354 this is literally the same scp with a few omissions and changes to the pool monsters with the random sarkic shtuff added. It feels like that "Can i copy your homework?" meme

[@michaelliggett1622]

This is actually a entry from remixcon a scp writing contest that happened recently where the goal was to remix and reinterpret old articles also this isnt the first scp that been remixed in the time scp been a thing far from it heck their are 5 or 6 scp 105 iris thompsons throughout the site including the original

[@WD_Gaster66]

Did the numbers (354/7354) not give it away? It's like super common to make sequels/remixes/spiritual succesors or generally related articles and adding one number at the beginning or end for the

[@Heizenberg32]

This one gives me a warm fuzzy feeling all across my chitinous exoskeleton!

[@silverninja5218]

This scp sounds a lot like the Red Pool SCP. At least during the description.

[@o5-1-formerlycalvinlucien60]

ya it's a parody of 354.

[@UGNAvalon]

Remix*

[@melhupby]

@@UGNAvalon Bastardization*

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@melhupby That sounds mean.

[@UGNAvalon]

@@melhupby It was specifically part of a "remix contest", so it's a remix/reimagining. :P

[@DailyBasicG]

"This is where he died" reminded me of "this is where i died". Gave me goose bumps Gonna listen to "this is where i died" next

[@RIPV3N0M]

Just in time too listen at work gotta love the exploring series

[@drarsen33]

I remember this one from time before new larger cannon started being showed into everything.

[@freetothink284]

Enjoying the new uploads and glad you’re able to expand/revisit series like 40k while still delivering SCP entries

[@philipclay8531]

The absolute best part of Monday mornings

[@odststalker5117]

well I'll be damned, its a literal "god shaped hole"

[@silvermoonlight4520]

Man this scp would make a neat scp boss rush game

[@tomclancy102]

I have a sneaking suspicion you covered a spooky monster kill everything scp either out of nostalgia or to see if it performs better than the more philosophical skips you were covering before the announcement. Love the video anyway, as always.

[@Siegmernes]

Very hyped for this series!

[@frailty7280]

im enjoying seeing older SCPs getting rehashed and refreshed like this. I love the grand interconnected stories and canons of the other later SCPs but I do miss actually being able to explain what a certain scp is and does off the top of my head rather than having to rewatch 4 hours of readings to get refreshed lmao

[@drarsen33]

To me it is opposite. It feels like few writers are encroaching on work of other authors and reshaping their old stories to fit in with their own pet projects. Might be wrong but it is how it feels to me. Before it was lake of red liquid that acts as a portal of sort from which hostile creatures appear. No need for blood cults, Lovecraft copies etc to be added.

[@powarless]

Already wanting more of this!

[@hislastwalk2k24]

Perfect timing I’m gonna fall asleep to this

[@emetanti]

Cant help but assume that the one writing it got inspiration for the monsters from Forbidden Beasts in Dwarf Fortress.

[@Yuri_Burger]

Despite it being on the shorter side, I will still nonetheless tune in for my favorite SCP narrator!

[@OrbitalPulsar]

Im always interested by entities that give way to long and strange voids that terminate in something vague with the colour red. Like the patsphysical tv anomaly, the basketball game recording and the Reckoner scp

[@WD_Gaster66]

Also, the SCP that is the concept of the color red

[@kateglew580]

I like how this expands on the lore around the Red Pool by incorporating elements from the wider SCP mythos while still being faithful to the original, really shows that the author respects the source material and doesn't want to 'one-up' it for the sake of it

[@justinsmith5870]

Wouldn't have thought of this one from a sarkic perspective but it wouldn't be so hard to twist most scp that way.

[@TheActualMrLink]

I honestly miss the quote from the article that used to be at the end of the videos.

[@kazen16]

That's really cool! Love the interaction between the factions

[@MOFFSTER_MUSIC]

this is basically SCP's Pacific Rim. a dimension hole that summons monsters and does so faster as time goes on

[@stargazingskeleton5917]

Today is a blessed day! TES updates means we eatin' good tonight, ya'll!

[@DrCocofruit]

Abel and Cain. Mekhane and Yaldaboth. Oh my god how have I never seen this

[@PopoXReturnz]

Another great presentation! Also... Now i really want a grilling apron with the word "Carnomancer" embroidered on it.

[@noodles2459]

A lot of those creatures sound like the creatures form love crafts dream lands. The crystal moon cat the spider of leng etc. There's a great book with art of it.

[@andrew9371]

Perfect just dropped publicly at 2am hope its nice and creepy

[@happymaster19]

Didn't TES already cover SCP-4010 which warns against trying to jam a common timeline? I miss old SCPs.

[@purplejack2020]

Woo Exploring Series!

[@janefkrbtt]

the pool is like when you dig too deep in dwarf fortress and find the carnival.

[@desiring_machine]

you’re GOAT in scp and lovecraft readings 🐐🐐

[@MrSailorboykelly]

The 🐐 of narration back at it again

[@Sheldezare]

It's a damn dungeon. Now we just need to find the core and break it to rid us of the pool.

[@GoingOnAStreak]

Oh lord knows I need this rn

[@DrBrightRealDefinitely]

One of our favorites.

[@dfailsthemost]

"Hi Robert, it's O-5 allofus, do you have some kind of robot mop that can soak up god blood? Or maybe flesh-prophet blood? Or both? Hypothetical question, of course haha. All our best to robo dreadlocks lady and the kids..."

[@DarkAtHearts]

That's spider.... I would love to see an animation of it ambushen and murdering people.. As it eats the brains, the two mouths whisper loudly talking at the same time but saying different conversations one would think.. Imagine it Saying random sentences from both mouths," I forgot my wife's anniversary last week"," Password is SF8G6J2," "The bodys," "is any one ever safe with these monters around". I want to know more about the monsters that came out whose files got destroyed.

[@salomaogomes7311]

My personal guess is that one of the future articles in this series will rewrite the Scarlet King as actualy being Yaldabaoth (maybe renaming it as the Crimson Queen?).

[@dasdeke]

I was torn in listening to this one. As I really liked the original red pool scp and the mystery behind it. However, this makes a really interesting tale of it and I'm excited to see what comes next.

[@slavcity406]

I wish you would come back to the weekly uploads for SCP. For years, you actually allowed me to keep a stable sleep schedule as your story reading skills and voice kept me entertained while allowing me to fall asleep with relative ease. Anyways amazing video!

[@rickwrites2612]

I havent had electricity in apt for a wk ,( electrician wtg on parts)and have to charge phone in basement laundryroom, so Ive rarely watched more than an occasional short video in order to save battery, but OH BOY EXPLORING SERIES POSTED AN SCP VIDEO IM SPLURGING 20+ MIN!

[@ashleighstratmann7783]

I kinda guess the red pool SCP was mix into this from the thumbnail. The red pool of light the tentacles was emerging from gave it away.

[@HiveTyrant25]

I’m a CotBG fanboy but I’m glad Sarkites are getting more propaganda, I mean “skips.”

[@tylerpierce2349]

I hope this author writes more to add to this story line

[@redlady120]

3PM Philippines = 3 Am somewhere else Now let the witching hour begin!!

[@roeberdt-bT.1021]

"...for integritys sake.,..." ...oh dear God under red sky...,. (...god damn-goddamn...,.) ...thanks for the post in any case, always appreciated.,...

[@darcydreaming6931]

Ooooh, i read this one the other day! Very sweet

[@Taygon45]

Agent Stone not having enough organic matter to be hit by the tumor growth? Is that a Teen Titan's reference?