SCP-444-JP / Discussion

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Maxyfran73 14 Apr 2022 06:54

Author: locker
Translator: Maxyfran73
Original Article: http://scp-jp.wikidot.com/scp-444-jp
Posting Date: 2014-04-26

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Finally, it's here. I'll be honest, I didn't want to be the one to translate this. It's good! It's really good! But it required editing and writing. Turns out, I'm terrible at both. And yet, here we are. I decided to translate an article that required another to work so…
If you don't like how it looks, well, uh, I'm sorry. Maybe someone will do a better job and replace what's here. For now, this is what we have.

Click here to read all text that has been handwritten

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rides the red storm hits the field the Scarlet Bird
The grass at its peak extends what isn’t yet here

through the red gloom the night mows down
the Scarlet Bird eats the grass and the roots
Stretch out your innermost feelings

Crimson, willow plumage
the Scarlet Bird eats the truth and the sleep
Stretch out your feathers

Everything was good while their plan was working
But they failed. THEY FAILED

ah the tilted arrow falls
The Scarlet Bird
eats the nine forks and all sound
Stretch out your hooks

Adenum 3: There was riot. We experimented too much. It fattened up, spread, then took control of those who (only knew) about SCP-444-JP.
It eats people. It eats people’s minds. Words, writing, voices are hunted by it.
, it was a dish to put bait on. Without knowing,
too much. It grew, it spread, then it mixed with our
ed. It’s in all our blood. It devoured everyone
already had 57 amnestics straight into my head and I’m still alive
It won’t allow you to forget. Everyone’s already dead. Site-8141 is sealed off. To stop it, I will die
Don’t know. That’s all it takes.
don’t feed it. Keep it locked in that wasteland
Don’t feed it
Don’t know
Lock it up

Also, for the sake of explaining some of the written text: Each 'poem'-like writing is SCP-444-JP. When it says that SCP-444-JP as a phrase in the shape of a writing format, it refers that each of these poems are composed of the phrase "あかしけ　やなげ　緋色の鳥よ　くさはみねはみ　けをのばせ", or "Akashike yanage hiironotoriyo kusahaminehami kewonobase"; each of the 'poems' are composed of this string of characters, but different kanji (Chinese characters) and thus, different meaning. Essentially, homonyms (Except for hiironotoriyo; that one always means "Scarlet Bird")
Sadly, that cannot be translated accurately into english, so instead, I decided to go for the more literal sense for these poems.

Last edited on 14 Apr 2022 06:54 by Maxyfran73 Show more

tapnek 05 Nov 2022 17:42

This is a pretty neat infohazard. I never thought I would see this translated someday due to the amount of image editing required. The images do have typos and grammar mistakes though, but I'm not sure I'd that's being faithful to the original Japanese.

Maxyfran73 09 Nov 2022 09:48

The original does contain typos here and there. If it's within the 'written by hand' parts, that's part of the article. If there's anything wrong in the 'typed' bits, then that's on me lol.