Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-4246 - Thalassomania, or The Dreams of the Firstborn

[@Heizenberg32]

I like the use of deduction and clever research in this one. It's a nice diversion from "What if we send even MORE D-Class into it?".

[@snosaf1757]

Yes, but, hear me out What if we send more D-class into it?

[@ViolentAurora]

I know a lot of parts of scp are meant to be fun, satirical and whatnot. But yes, I constantly think "highly trained professionals who've gone out into the field many times sure seem to die in every scp story' followed by "trained professionals would not do that. That is not regulation. Why didn't they just do this infinitely easier thing that wouldn't have killed anyone?'

[@ViolentAurora]

And then, there's D class. And I was getting to the point where I was wondering who the foundation is keeping any of this secret from because literally for all of this to work, every person would have to work for the foundation knowingly. So where do these D class keep coming from??? Just as I was hitting a head on those thoughts, one of these stories answered my questions. Cloning. I mean, yes alternate dimension versions of ppl. But for D class, Cloning. Because of course it is.

[@PhilieBlunt666]

I got a fever... and the only cure is MORE D-CLASS!!

[@PhilieBlunt666]

@@ViolentAurora oh yah, like the guy from fhe path of the thief

[@nono9543]

This is how you do Lovecraft right and with justice. Instead of just randomly name dropping things, expand on the already existing concepts and introduce things the man himself never got to cover. Also, the fact that this is a civilization far older then Adam El Asems just shows old and massive this universe really is.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

I don’t think this SCP is supposed to be connected to The Kactusverse, it wasn’t even written by DJKactus

[@billflunkendorf]

Well they were around during Pangea so that would be the Permian era so superrrrrrrr old

[@billflunkendorf]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 (at 40:46 he says “a kingdom older then Adam” , idk if it’s the same Adam tho but I’d figured I’d lyk cuz the part came up like right when I read this comment (anomalous coincidence))

[@WD_Gaster66]

@@billflunkendorf They're talking about the Biblical Adam since there's notes of religion in the diary bits

[@nono9543]

@@WD_Gaster66 And Adam El Asem is supposed to be SCPs version of the Biblical Adam. It's cool to see how he's expanded upon by other authors.

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

So these Tethyans took the "Return to Monke" thing too seriously. *They returned to skwid*

[@calvinlucien]

Retroactive temporal anomaly detected

[@grayeaglej]

SKWEED ^-^

[@sanstheskeleton8104]

Go back, i wanna be skwid. *DEVOLVED TO SPERM SOUND EFFECT*

[@whiskeySe7en]

Monkey squid

[@grayeaglej]

@@sanstheskeleton8104 Oh Noh, too far! O.o

[@VioletBaudelaire100]

"the tethyans weren't gods, they were cephalopods" affected me more than it should have

[@apollyonnoctis1291]

YOURE A KID NOW YOURE A SQUID NOW

[@verruxlunox8438]

the transformation has already begun

[@curtailedbike4123]

As soon as he started to mention how they were still here, and had many arms, everything started to make sense. The people were seeing themselves as Cephalopods that’s why they felt like they were missing limbs

[@RedMeansRecording]

Grant us eyes

[@vulcanniko9242]

“Kos or some say Kosm…”

[@voodooozo3755]

Do you hear our prayers?

[@zarlsalamandersspacemarine302]

"Our eyes have yet to open"

[@heuxheux]

Interesting to see you here

[@krokodil7057]

Majestic! A hunter is a hunter, even in a dream. But alas, not too fast! The nightmare swirls and churns unending!

[@UGNAvalon]

“What sane man would tear out his own eyes?” _Psychosis flashbacks intensify_

[@robdeskrd]

Swears bro

[@WatcherOfShadows]

"Where we are going we don't need eyes." XD

[@Bagel920]

You learn new things everyday: The Foundation, The Global force that holds thousands of dangerous anomalies and understands the universe as it truly exists, did not accept tectonic plate theory until 1956.

[@heliveruscalion9124]

sure we contain gods, and beings that defy all natural laws, but _come on_ , you're telling me Africa wants to go on a walk?

[@grayeaglej]

You missed an extremely important Qualifier: THIS Foundation didn't know about Plate Tectonics until the 50s. There are other Foundations that existed before the Universe itself, others that span the current Universe and Multiple Dimensions, still others that only have a hold on this single Solar System, and ones like this that have yet to even leave the Earth itself. When you add things like SCP-2000, SCP-5000, etc into the mix you get MULTIPLE Foundations of varying power levels existing within the same timeline. O.o

[@michaelharris8111]

Tbh, with how insane some anomalies are, you too would be suspicious that the continents drifted naturally.

[@catblue6401]

Continents...... move naturally? without anomalous forces? Nah......

[@polyaddict]

To be fair - "In 1912 the meteorologist Alfred Wegener described what he called continental drift, an idea that culminated fifty years later in the modern theory of plate tectonics." So 1962, SCP foundation was ahead of the curve

[@nom6758]

This is by far the most immersive and serious SCP reading channel. This trepidation I feel is exactly the feeling SCP reading should have.

[@areguycole7336]

You know he didn’t used to be an SCP reading channel. Not tellin’ you what to do of course, but you should check out his playlists, he’s done videos on Celtic mythology, Norse mythology, audiobooks, etc

[@matosz23]

Agree with Cole. ESPECIALLY the 40K playlist.

[@majorgrubert5887]

The Kaktusverse is my favorite on this channel… This upside down tree with the six eyed creature protruding from it and the children of the night! GD what a great story.

[@MaddixCuhming]

I think the volgon does a bit more immersive stuff seriously check some of his stuff very great, but I like this guy a lil more due to the amazing voice and stuff he picks

[@AnomolousGrandeur]

Of course it is! This ain’t no cartoon janky half-ass click bait cartoon SCP Channel!

[@richardneedshelp3872]

I don’t know if it’s intentional but there is definitely a connection to be made to scp 2967, the sapient cephalopod

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Oh yeah! I forgot about that SCP. Now that you mentioned it, there might actually be a connection of some kind!

[@therongjr]

This gives me strong "Star Signs" vibes, too: SCP-1425.

[@billflunkendorf]

I was getting vibes from 3000 the eel because of the way the peoples heads were getting all screws up in the ocean, and how the were talking about “they made a god” I was thinking I was gonna bring up the eel

[@sparking023]

@@billflunkendorf the Eel seems to be something else entirely. In fact, Anatantesha is one of those that really stand out from the crowd and hold itself pretty easily. Not to diss DjKactus or anything, but his works are noce because they intertwine into a mini canonhub. Actually, now that I think if it, if the giga brain stores all the memories of living beings, 3000 might be a huge data leakage. Also te Foundation with how they're trigger happy on the Amnestic Button

[@calamaty2007]

That is what I was thinking and if the final note from that file is anything to go by they might not be that benevolent, or at least expecting humans to destroy themselves.

[@kenguyii9108]

It’s like a crossover between the SCP Foundation, “The Call of Cthulhu” and “At the Mountains of Madness”! 🦑 🐙

[@dumbshitmule2251]

I definitely got these vibes. Didn't hurt that my introduction to it was this guy's narration with some of the same visuals. But still.

[@timharwell6803]

Don't forget "The Shadow out of Time" as well.

[@panoptikum9768]

It also reminds me a lot of Dungeons and Dragons and their Mindflayers and Elder Brains, although those are obviously influenced by Lovecraft.

[@jaymevosburgh3660]

And some elements from Shadow over Innsmouth. Sounds like the dreams and stuff felt during the changes when one becomes a Deep One.

[@EnvisionerWill]

Good mention of AtMoM, because one of the key points of that piece was that, weird though the Elder Things were, they were effectively just the equivalent of humans in their era. As strange and nigh-omnipotent as the Tethyans were compared to us, they aren't Cthulhu...they were Foundation-esque scientists doing everything in their power to protect us AGAINST some even-more-unknowably-horrible Cthulhu-type entity. Building a bunch of Elder Brains and lobotomizing themselves back into unsentience were just the morally-dubious choices they made to ensure that life would continue in the face of this threat.

[@yokothespacewhale]

As much as I like the series 4000+ SCPs, they're getting so large in scope. it's like everything is a god now whereas before it used be like "how do i think of everyday things like vents on a city sidewalk, floppy discs, or train tickets in a scary way."

[@swargpatel7634]

Really? I like them!

[@yokothespacewhale]

@@swargpatel7634 yea don’t get me wrong I like them too. Just miss the more mundane ones.

[@zap4th368]

@@yokothespacewhale yeah. it's like, what happened to having a coffee machine that could produce anything you wanted? or a pizza box that made your perfect pizza? or even cassy (the drawing). she's just an animated drawing.

[@taylor5065]

@@zap4th368 there’s still plenty of those, they just don’t get covered

[@gregoryvn3]

This! So much this!

[@petsan97]

Honestly, this is a sneeky one. I started off rolling my eyes at yet another near word for word rehash of Mountain of Madness and Call of Cthulhu, but I'll be damned if Metaphysician didn't manage to turn it around into a genuinely interesting reimagination by the end. Effectively removing the cosmic horror made for a surprisingly fresh take on the "ancient civilization"-archetype. And moving the danger from unknowable horror to humans being monkeys with wrenches smacking away at something that is benevolent but way too advanced, made it far more tragic and heart-felt.

[@altforauditions9279]

Metaphysician is one of my favorite authors on the site. He isn't a prolific writer, but more than makes up for it in quality.

[@Hugh_Amungus]

Broke: Return to monke Woke: Return to caveman [REDACTED]: Return to -calamari- cephalopod

[@thoughtexperimentsotherstu4680]

[redacted] hard [redacted] cephalopod

[@t-34-36]

this post goes hard, feel free to vibe with the cephalopod homies

[@heliveruscalion9124]

[DATA EXPUNGED]: progress to crab

[@Eagle_the_18th]

[LOCKED BEHIND O-5 CLEARANCE]: Become single-celled

[@Saitam305]

[Restricted Access: O-0 clearance required] Revert unto stardust

[@heinrichze-france4089]

I remember there being an scp that was the reason why there were no advanced alien civilizations. If they became too advanced, something would occur and violently wipe out the civilization, leaving barley any trace. Perhaps the squids realised this and began to revert to avoid it. On another note, at least I now know what the squid city in SCP-6001 was meant to be, kind of.

[@ChrissieBear]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the squid city bit!

[@JanusKastin]

I think the SCP you're referring to is 3426, the Reckoner. If a planet's civilization got too advanced, then SOMETHING very weird and definitely bad would happen to wipe them out, and it may or may not involve pattern screamers. The cephalopods saw it coming and said, "no thanks."

[@BeefMeisterSupreme]

@@JanusKastin yeah it's a pattern-screamer scp, once a civilization get's to type-1 on the kardeshev scale(ability to harness all the planets energy) and all the scientific stuff that entails, the civilization will notice the pattern-screamers and attract their attention.

[@BullMcCloud]

SCP 3426 A Spark Into The Night is probably one of my favorites ever and that's absolutely what this made me think of

[@arnowisp6244]

Wow, that's like the Honkai from Honkai Impact.

[@goldenking2046]

This is brilliant. At first the story sets up the firstborn, these "Tethyans" to be "Cthulhu" essentially. Aquatic beings with black undersea cities with architecture and technology beyond our comprehension. But at the end it drops on us that the Tethyans themselves were running from something. A "beast" that scared them so much they chose to abandon their intelligence and civilization and dive into the depths of ignorance in order to hide form it. "Flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age" as Lovecraft would say. Of course the foundation focuses on the more immediate threat. The Tethyans are returning and they might not be pleased with humanity. Either because of how we've polluted the Earth and its oceans or simply because of how we've replaced them(similar to SCP 1000). But the bigger horror here is the beast. How terrifying is this thing, that it is essentially to the Tethyans what Cthulhu would be to us? What kind of creature could be the "Cthulhu of Cthulhus"?

[@bleddynwolf8463]

if you get deep into cthulhu lore, you learn cthulhu themselves is the least of your problems

[@bleddynwolf8463]

If you get deep into the lore, you learn Cthulhu is the least of your problems.

[@mitchwilliamson5552]

Cthulu is just a priest and leader of the old ones who had a city in the sea called R'lyeh. Cthulu is just an alien, there are loads of beings and actual gods in the cthulu mythos that are much bigger and incomprehensible than cthulu. Like Dagon, Nyarlathotep, or even Azathoth, the dreaming God who dreams the universe itself, and should the outer gods fail to keep it sleeping, all of creation would cease to exist. My point here being that an eldritch being that is to Cthulu as Cthulu is to us is a well established story.

[@wormwoodbecomedelphinus4131]

The things which predate the current universe. They were forced to debase themselves, they blinded and amputated themselves in order to continue existing after the new universe. This existence has corrupted them - the only thing that keeps them from suicide is corrupting everything to eternally experience that pain that they currently experience. The only reason they continue to exist, is to hurt others... to make everything hurt as they do.

[@extremetea]

It was of course yo momma

[@anonymousmind8402]

Suddenly the world of Splatoon has taken a rather dark, Lovecraftian turn, and that is saying something. Not much else to add - this is a new SCP for me - but it is a good experience to highlight comparably obscure SCPs like this one.

[@l-x-10]

funny thing, at the end when the doctor was explaining where Thalassomania went I was thinking in my head "Fish or Human, Fish or Human" waiting for him to say one or the other, You can imagine how hard I laugh when he said Cephalopoda and I realized I was doing the Splatoon meme 😆

[@BeefMeisterSupreme]

@@l-x-10 art thou a kid or a squid?

[@TheKillfish]

Now I crave a Splatoon SCP

[@l-x-10]

@@BeefMeisterSupreme Squid

[@Sluggadome_Rotunda_Bernardson]

Bruh momento

[@GBgames946]

For someone wanting to know what thalassomania means. Thalassa means Ocean/Sea in Greek language. Mania is exactly the opossite word for phobia(fear of something). Thalassomania=Sea fixation

[@Lykoz.]

It's so mind blowing when an scp this big can stand on it's own

[@Malphazar]

Damn Illithids always putting giant brains in pools

[@theHUMANAUT1]

I'm enjoying the 1 hr videos more than the shorter ones, and I think it sets you apart in the SCP readers

[@abcdefghijk123456100]

Thanks for this new entry into the exploring d&d series, mindflayer lore is pretty cool

[@l-x-10]

XD

[@caitlyn1983]

i would like to sincerely thank whoever is in charge of the captions- i need them to consume any type of information and i’m glad even the uber-long videos were made with so much care

[@daniell1483]

I really liked this. It takes a long time to get to the best parts. Cephalopod evolutionary history is really spotty, largely because there is so little hard tissue to fossilize. Their distributed neurological system is also very distinctive; I'm not sure if it is 100% unique to them but this system is at least exceedingly rare. So octopus' ancestors being hyper-advanced is strangely fitting. Few other creatures are as "alien" as they are.

[@Yuri_Burger]

it's so nice to see how big the lore is for SCP

[@zetanone7211]

I’ve never read of this one, and it’s written by Metaphysician! This one’s going to be good!

[@UGNAvalon]

@Stoned Out The description would be a good place to start. Followed by “Random Page”.

[@lavasharkandboygirl9716]

This channels notifications are the only ones I drop everything and click on immediately

[@roryrousseau111]

Bird up

[@slaytonnocte6326]

Indeed

[@lavasharkandboygirl9716]

@@roryrousseau111 wot

[@roryrousseau111]

@@lavasharkandboygirl9716 like i agree but in Eric Andre

[@Vinlaell]

Best part about waking up too early is seeing one of these come out to help me enjoy story for a while before eventually drifting back to sleep

[@enthiegavoir5955]

Foundation: "destroying or even tampering with the brain could possibly screw us over" GOC: "WHAT!? IT'S HARD TO HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF THAT HERESY!"

[@xXDarkxIdealsXx]

So they basically played real-life bloodborne and chose the "I'm a kid now I'm a squid now" ending....interesting.

[@YellowPeej]

These notifications always always ALWAYS make monday mornings better.

[@cameronpearce5943]

I wanna read a story about some poor D class whoes been effected by like hundreds of different anomalies like this. Just theirs brain is like a superconductive beacon for all this crazy psychic stuff

[@josharrowsmith1201]

Connor from Confinement (by Lord Bung) has been exposed to 100s of SCPs, and been killed by almost as many

[@jackbobb2014]

There's an SCP called the reluctant dimensional traveler or something like that, I think he's in the 500s. He just gets randomly teleported to anomalous places and dimensions and can do literally nothing about it, he's just some dude. He's pretty cool

[@patriciaroysdon9540]

Affected...

[@averybaumann]

might be the connor scp mentioned above, but there is a story where the main character is a class d and over time you find out that class d are no longer convicts but clones and he is starting to have some spiritual memory, where he remembers things, from the specific scp he is repeatedly sent into over and over eventually finding his way through it.

[@YerBoiDanul]

Tethyans remind me a bit of the Tool Breeders from All Tomorrows-both really interesting pieces of fiction

[@ChrissieBear]

I have a hypothesis: The brain has realized that we are now smart enough to attract the Beast, just like the Tethyans did. So it wants to bring back the Tethyans in order to either help us avoid it, work with us to kill it, or kill us to stop it from noticing us.

[@arnantphongsatha7906]

Now this would explain the birth of the Return to Monke meme.

[@dracorex426]

I suspect the second. The fact that we showed up is good evidence that hiding won't work. Sure, they could kill us and go back to hiding. Or get us to join them in hiding, but the Corvids would just replace us and they'd have the exact same problem.

[@DarkVeghetta]

@@dracorex426 On the other hand, given that brain is also a universal repository of knowledge for all species on the planet, offering humanity succor in evolutionary ignorance may further stack the deck in civilization's favor. That is, by absorbing, again and again, multiple near-advanced-enough-for-destruction civilizations that alone couldn't fight whatever wants to kill them, the brain-repository could, further down the line, effectively combine all of their sciences and knowledge and offer such to whatever civilization was alive once it determined it had reach a sufficient level of scientific and anomalous knowledge to actually defeat civilization's ultimate foe. This SCP reminds me of 'Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters', given the parallels of advanced species reverting to non-sapience to avert a cosmic foe.

[@sfondi0801]

Still the best SCP channel on youtube. I love the immersion created by this channel, compared to the other animation channel that are more joke-ish

[@babyblue_22]

Woot, a new Exploring Series SCP video to add to my sleep playlist and go to sleep to tonight, nice. 👌 Seriously, I legit can't fall asleep without his videos playing in the background at this point; been falling asleep to this dude's voice for 2+ years now 😴

[@nunya1120]

Don't blame you bro, I do the same shit. I listen while awake too, but sleeping to them just hits different.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

@@nunya1120 Same here! These videos are essentially my sleeping podcasts at night, but I still also enjoy them in the day.

[@CoobyPls]

tfw grown ass people needing bedtime stories

[@babyblue_22]

@@CoobyPls Yeah, pretty much. I don't know about everyone else, but for me I tend to have really bad anxiety at night, with a lot of bad thoughts going through my head. Listening to his videos while I try to fall asleep gives my mind something to focus on and latch onto, rather than the dark thoughts that tend to hit me when I try to sleep with just silence or white noise in the background

[@CoobyPls]

@@babyblue_22 literally me xD

[@nyarparablepsis872]

Metaphysician writes the best SCPs. That man never disappoints.

[@binchamers]

Bummer he got banned. Fair though.

[@cheesedetectiverook5950]

@@binchamers Oh? How so?

[@CoobyPls]

Metaphysician is no longer banned.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@CoobyPls Why did he get banned in the first place?

[@CoobyPls]

@@jakespacepiratee3740 an argument over the authenticity of the authors work

[@ClimberWithoutTheB]

I love how supportive your comments sections is and I 100% agree with them on how much I look forward to your videos

[@bigfongz]

The reveal of what the map was depicting was really well done, I really appreciated that part of the article

[@BLK_MN]

As I read more and more of the article I just kept coming to the same conclusion. “This.... is Dead Space. This is just the plot of Dead Space (particularly the 3rd one). With Octopi.

[@loopdelta]

I have an 8am class, it’s currently 1:33am, I’m definitely still going to watch this

[@roan2288]

I´m just gonna point out that due to plate tectonics the oldest surviving oceanic crust is about 180 million years old, and this crust is only found near the carribean. Older oceanic crusts have all been melted in subduction zones. Also these oldest crusts are underneath 100s of meters of younger sediments.

[@grayeaglej]

Thats why its called Fantasy, because writers pull it out of thier fantASSy o.o

[@roan2288]

@@grayeaglej Still a good story though.

[@grayeaglej]

@@roan2288 SCP Explained tells it well yes. I haven't read the original so i cant say how well it holds up. O.o

[@sharksareneat8723]

Man, I LOVE this twist on the Elder Things.. They aren't some long-dead species, they're right under our nose this whole time.

[@Jimbobob5536]

50:45 "This is the Foundation, where they do what they do because they must." something something This was a triumph something something

[@cv4809]

Triumph of the will?

[@michaelmartin684]

Gotta say man, I come for your soothing voice and fabulous story-telling style but I stay for the nice analysis and summary of each SCP. No other channel (other than *maybe* Dr. Bob) does this so well.

[@kielakeet]

This, when combined with the lore of the Splatoon franchise, suggests a millennia-long cycle of dominance shifts between mammalian and cephalopod life

[@Smithysaur]

I was looking forward to this, the only reason I was glad that my birthday is a Monday was because of a new TES SCP video :)

[@LouisK364]

this feels like a way better rewriting of Call of Cthulhu and i'm thankful for it

[@briankeithevans7972]

One of my favorite so far. Also the foundation ACTUALLY researching

[@LinkLegend0]

bro you been working overtime. take it easy homie we need you around for life.

[@billflunkendorf]

Any body else get scp-3000 “the eel” vibes from this, the way everybody was loosing their minds underwater and how their thoughts were getting jumbled together (in 3000 I think I remember when the MTF was in the sub one of them though the other guys family was his family) I just was hoping they would be connected that’s one of my favorites

[@captaincluckers8686]

Ok, this is easily one of my favorite SCPs. Amazing narration as always Exploring!

[@montikore]

Man I've been hooked on your channel since the very first SCP video I saw. I love the other mythos you delve into as well. Absolutely phenomenal work mate, keep it up!

[@draugarnatt3816]

The virgin "return to monke" vs the Chad "RETURN TO SQUID"

[@AFreakingAxeCH]

SCP-4246: Under the Sea Under the Sea Darling it's Better Down where it's wetter Take it from me

[@LAN2D]

Nice to have a metaphysician SCP considering he was just unbanned.

[@karoluspatricius6271]

YO he’s unbanned now? He’s my pet favourite author and a major inspiration for my own creative works, I’d be stoked to have him unbanned

[@e.t.1947]

Why was he banned?

[@LAN2D]

@@karoluspatricius6271 Yeah he got unbanned like 2 weeks ago, maybe sooner. And as soon as he was unbanned, he released the 5000 entry which he was wrongfully banned for.

[@babyblue_22]

@@LAN2D What was the supposed reason for him being banned, exactly?

[@LAN2D]

@@babyblue_22 I'm not 100% sure on all the details, but I think he used some stuff from Wikipedia without editing it. Staff banned him permanently for this, despite it being within site rules to use Wikipedia sources (It's part of the Creative Commons License). Now, 2 years later, staff have realised they vastly overreacted and motioned to unban him.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

The abyss of the world’s oceans hold more mysteries than one can ever imagine. What lies beyond the darkness could be wonders and terrors far beyond our understanding and ideals, things that were once or still are incredibly powerful that controlled even the very way our world formed. But the question remains whether it is right or wrong to uncover these mysteries, and whatever once existed in the depths might still exist today. After all…there’s often a reason to fear the dark abyss that is the sea.

[@toh786]

I have only been recently introduced to the SCP foundation, but this is by far my favourite SCP yet. It feels like a combination of 'At the Mountains of Madness', 'Call of Cthulhu'' and 'The Shadow over Innsmouth'. My three favourite Lovecraftian books! On top of that, the idea of individuals being perceived as transmitters for a greater entity reminds me of the 2020 "The Empty Man" movie, which in itself was also heavy in its Lovecraftian themes. This story was really good! If you have any recommendations for similar SCPs, I'm all ears!

[@alfredmarcos1761]

The super smart octopus scp makes a whole lot of sense now. Plus it already confirms what would happen if they meet.

[@SnakeVenom12]

I love falling asleep to this stuff. I have the craziest dreams because of it

[@kylepartridge5977]

Hahaha same

[@FanaticBG]

Ditto.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Welcome to the club

[@Deadlyish]

Awesome story, completely nailed the Lovecraftian themes and tone and builds into satisfying reveals of ever greater unknowable horrors. Kudos to the author and narrator for their great work.

[@TheAero1221]

I'm *loving* these longer videos you've been doing lately. Thanks!

[@kimnewtonkassebeer9336]

I never hear audio books. But I hear Exploring the SCP Foundation - this is sooooo good!!! I really like the universe and you Sir, are a superb narrator. The best! Every new story saves my day 🙂 I also hear your channel on Spotify. Please, never ever stop! Thank you so much.

[@MadEyeScienceK]

I like most of this SCP, except for when they get into the tech babble. Like, the "300 decibel" bit. Which is... not how decibels work. The loudest *possible* SOUND, in air, that has a meaningful measure in decibels, is 194dB. Louder than that, and the low-pressure parts of the sound wave are a vacuum. So above 194dB, it's not a sound or a scream; it's just a single shockwave. In water, there's a similar limit: 270dB. 300dB is on the level of a gigantic explosion. For reference: krakatoa could be said to have generated something like a ~300dB sound when it erupted in 1883. The closest people to *survive* were on a ship 60 km away, and a bunch of them had shattered eardrums.

[@Dylbz-ne8st]

That’s actually very interesting. Thank you for sharing that information. 😊

[@calamaty2007]

I would love to see a future SCP or tale that explores what would happen if/when the cephalopods regain their sapience. We do have universes where the foundation has existed hundreds if not thousands of years into the future so such a scenario should be possible. It would be nice if they became a recurring theme of the wiki in the future, like how SCP-1000 became the Children of the Night.

[@DarkVeghetta]

If I'm not mistaken, there is one SCP that was featured on this channel that has such an element. I can't recall the exact number, but it's fairly recent - within the past few months. The cephalopods basically built an ocean-wide megalopolis and basically don't talk to humans unless they have to. To add further details: it was a series that had two separate timelines borne from a fateful decision and the part that featured the squid-civilization used a cat (that was also a doctor) as the tour guide for this alternate world/Foundation. I think the series had 3 parts to it. You'll find it if you listen to most of this channel's more recent SCP videos.

[@alexs1954]

My biggest complaint is the reference to the FSS Amonite using ‘radar’, as opposed to active sonar, which is more likely in such a platform.

[@goosekerr5985]

I love listening to these videos whenever I have the time these less famous scp’s are some of my favorites too

[@CBMX_GAMING]

Highlight of my sleepless nights. Thanks TES.

[@hades_head_empty]

i think they found the answer to what we call fermi's paradox. something resembling the idea of berserker probes, if that makes sense. as they climbed the valley of knowledge, they came to know how steep it was. how incomprehensible the ones who had climbed farther were. how dangerous.

[@samorottheraccoon754]

I thought that this was going to be related to SCP 4812, 4840, and 6666 based on the title, but I was pleasantly surprised.

[@shikikkaneddy]

Honestly THIS is a nice alternative to the Kaktusverse ; or perhaps this hits my "super ancient species lore" likings 👍🏼

[@Nickname-ef9tv]

A species of potential eldritch horrors that turns out to be a bizarre species that evolutionary receeded in a bid to stay clear of the true eldritch horrors is one of the best plot twist i saw in a while.

[@ninjabothandyman6063]

My most FAVORITE and CHERISHED time of Sunday night/early Monday is yet again now here THANK to you good kid sir !!! Love what I've heard/seen on your channel here and weekly come eagerly each and every week to listen to your wonderful choice of a piece that you magnanimously classically enthusiasticly all while still being very animated and keeping everything wild weird intruiging gripping interesting and outright badass 😋 Much Love my friend and hope that you and yours are doing well and having your needs met, also too my best well wishes that you want for nothing with finding true genuinely pure happiness & joy in all facets of life and love !!! This too I'm throwing my energy out there into the either for all your amazing subs good kid sir !!! Much love everyone !!!!!

[@ingmar6666]

By and far my favorite SCP. Kudos to the author and kudos for your excellent reading.

[@Hugh_Amungus]

48:55 'They receive a steady supply of perception altering chemicals, including DMT' Joe Rogan: *_*Heavy breathing_**

[@toooes]

[Topical]

[@TTVDomiNate]

Please do a video on the Pattern Screamers. I've read some of the stuff relating to it but i just can't get my brain around it.

[@DarkAtHearts]

When you stare into the abyss long enough, the abyss stares back

[@VultureSkins]

I think about this video every time I watch any of your Lovecraft audiobooks that involve old creatures with tentacle appendages (which is many of them). And I have a much greater appreciation for the references/aspects of Lovecraft’s works in this article! I’ve heard a couple that try to do Lovecraft, but it’s more like they threw it on top instead of weaving it in.

[@sigmacademy]

From what I can gather from this reading, this doesn't seem like it is a "backup". If anything, it looks like either a hidden boobytrap for the "Beast", or a telepathic node for "accelerating the evolutionary timeline" of the aquatic civilization. I say this because while it may seem on the surface to be just an aquatic race's "ancestral memories", the fact that it almost always leads to violent and deadly consequences for humans tell me it seems more like a kind of weapon or some kind of trap set up to either trigger a specific behavior or a specific event. One can also say it might be telepathically scanning for the memories of all living things, but is it doing so because it wants to "back up" the entire ancestral memory of the hidden aquatic race for a "far future reset" some day when they have evolved back into their natural intellectual state or the threat of the "Beast" has passed, or was it set as a perimeter defense system to ward off other "evolved predators"? :/

[@AnimeShinigami13]

And thus the origin of the Sapient Cephalopods, one of my favorite animal scps.

[@Ginger_FoxxVT]

It's all fun and games until your pet squid starts saying "The Reapers are coming!"

[@arcadiaberger9204]

The ultimate secret of SCP-4246 puts a new spin on the sleeping Kraken who will one day wake.

[@enthiegavoir5955]

"They weren't gods...they were cephilapods. Thank you for coming to my TED talk".

[@lockejawe4050]

So this is why Squidward frequently contemplates about killing himself...

[@nicholash.7656]

You're a gem and I am very appreciative of all that you've done. ❤️

[@vicadelic]

After watching this video I definitely see R.R. Martin’s inspiration behind some of the lore in his world of Ice and Fire books

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

From Dune series too

[@o5ex5scp36]

Amazing story and great work narration. Had a real Call of Cthulhu vibe and great use of art

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

It really does, especially with the big reveal at the end with the Tethyans actually being today’s cephalopods!

[@PsychoTy1998]

I have watched 4246 so many times on Volgun's YT channel. Because I too am drawn to the sea. For reasons I cannot explain, I love the water, love the feel of it, surrounding me, being one, relaxing in its embrace. I wish to sail the seas as a captain on a ship, to uncover a hidden civilization that was lost to time. Not for wealth or power, but because we know so little of our own journey from water-mammal to land-dweller, it would be fair to assume, that we at one point, held very different tone to our great oceans. People may be afraid of the ocean, or Thalassophobia as we call it. But wouldn't that fear be rational, if they subconsciously knew something we didn't that the ocean itself hides a very real danger, that isn't just how deep or massive it is...

[@dylanm1683]

So basically this is SCP is literally inklings and octolings from splatoon just while humans where alive

[@l-x-10]

Yes actually

[@arnantphongsatha7906]

Inb4 the Return to Monke meme is the Foundation, with the Tethyans' help, priming us for a similar procedure.

[@violatorut2003]

“Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.”

[@lifotheparty6195]

Head-cannon. This is the iteration of the world that lead to the events of “document recovered from the marianas trench” as well as “The Class of 76.”

[@craig.6076]

FIIIINALLY. More scps by the goat.

[@kageshadow10]

I love the “they were pacific but, well… they have never met humanity”

[@jpmontano8946]

Even with today's technology, exploring the abyss is still impossible, who knows what story it holds... may be there's really something down there to discover... to fear... and to worship.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Sometimes it’s wise and understandable to fear the sea, for you never know what hides in the darkness of the deepest of abyss

[@jpmontano8946]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 Indeed, whether its the depths of the ocean or the edge of space, man will always either fear or stand in awe in the face of the unknown.

[@Calendator]

Not really

[@UGNAvalon]

So if I’m understanding correctly, the 4246 signal is actually: . . . . . . Just the memories of Tethyans being leaked into the minds of humans not designed for telepathy or for cephalopoidal experiences, and the resulting dissonance causing insanity via phantom limbs & the desire to return to the Tethyans’ watery home.

[@shikikkaneddy]

I love it ! Not since the Kaktusverse have I've been more interested in a Worldwide SCP , if that's the correct term . MORE! *(drops cup to the floor)* (please)

[@LexIconLS]

This is my favorite SCP you've covered recently. I love the revelation at the end. Such a fun and unique spin on so many familiar concepts!

[@WinterOfMen]

TLDR - Someone literally tried to write an SCP about the dreaming city of R'lyeh and Cthulu, but totally not, because its an original idea...

[@remusaldana8147]

Love to put your videos on monday morning as I get ready for work, puts me in a quiet and calm state of mind, even when the video is nihilistic as all F 😅

[@jahmokaeperson4580]

Me who just got done replaying bloodborne and reading a bunch of lovecraft books :O

[@overfailed3639]

The last remaining Tethyan, at least the last thinking one, is working in an underwater fast food restaurant and getting annoyed by a sponge on speed. What a downfall of a species.