Masks Of Smoke

Masks of Smoke

MISSION BEGINS IN 60 SECONDS.

“Say, Spy. How does your mask and disguise thing work?

The RED Spy stiffened. Scout continued talking.

“I mean, all you do is put on a mask and throw a smoke bomb and now everyone thinks you’re the stupid Medic or something. What’s the freakin’ deal with that?”

“Scout, are you sure that your mind the size of a quail egg could understand it in the first place?”

“Of COURSE I can understand it,” said Scout, waving his hands in the air indignantly, “Besides, quail eggs are huge, man! Have you even seen one before?”

Spy blew a puff a smoke and smirked. 

“And have YOU ever seen one? They’re smaller than chicken’s eggs.”

“...quail eggs my ass. Tell me how your freakin’ mask works!”

Spy sighed, then put out his cigarette. 

“Well, the smoke encourages the idea of the mask actually being my face. It’s memetic, I’d say. It makes the enemy team think that I’m one of them with whatever new chemical from Australia it uses.” Scout blinked, his mind hitting a brick wall the second Spy had said the word memetic. Of course, he was the smartest in the entire RED team, so of course he knew what it meant! It was just...used in Spy terms. Yeah, that must be why. Spy’s speaking in Spynese.

“Alright, alright, I understand. But just in case, y’know, could you like...repeat that in English?”

Spy rubbed at his forehead, then mimicked Scout’s voice perfectly.

“Of COURSE I can understand it! Very well Scout, here it is in English. The smoke makes people think that I’m actually whatever mask I am wearing. Without the smoke, people would see me as a man walking around with a mask. And without the mask, the smoke has nothing to convince people of. Understand, Scout?”

“Yeah, I guess. But what makes the smoke ‘memetic’ or whatever?”

“Like I said, it’s something from Australia. No one knows what the hell those Australians do down there, especially after they discovered Australium.”

MISSION BEGINS IN 10 SECONDS.

Spy picked up his balisong and examined it, while Scout pulled his bat up over his shoulder.

“I wish you luck, Scout. This mission isn’t going to be an easy one.”

“Hey, thanks. Get them all smoked up out there for me!”

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Memetic (as from the SCP Wiki) -  Memetics in regards to SCP objects tends to focus on the impossible rather than the mundane, regarding effects that are transmitted via information. In general, the effects themselves should remain in the realm of information. A memetic SCP would be more likely to be a phrase that makes you think you have wings as opposed to a phrase that makes you actually grow a pair of wings. If you write up magic words that make people grow wings, it should be described as something other than memetic.

(is my writing any good? tell me where I can improve in writing, since I’ve never had actual feedback for my work)