The Indigo Branch (Seeking Greenlight)

The Indigo Branch (Seeking Greenlight)

Allister Faraday 25 Nov 2020 04:13

Seeking Greenlights: Yes

Page Type: SCP Article

Genre: Mystery

Elevator Pitch: A dark web page that lists the names of many different people, ranked from 1 to 100. Each name is accompanied by a price, and the names change almost daily. Anyone who views the site will always end up on the list and disappear sometime in the future.

Central Narrative: A recent suicide in urban California has a man dead at his computer, a note at his side, and a bullet through his head. The paper talks of the Indigo Branch, and how to get to it on the dark web. It also talks about how the man had received a steady amount of cryptocurrency over the past few months, and with his life in a bad situation, began using the money in an effort to turn everything around. The sender quickly begins talking to him, and says they will continue giving him money as long as he uses his coding knowledge to help locate information on the people whose names appear on the site. He soon stops helping the anonymous sender, and finds his name in the seventh spot on the list within a few days. He decided to kill himself rather than face the online criminals for his mistake.

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An interested Foundation personnel looks deeper into this case, and starts using the site to track down the people he sees high up on the list. He finds that they all disappear at seemingly random times, some only hours after being on the list, and others who never disappeared before the personnel went missing himself. Because of the bizarre way these people go missing - seeming to vanish out of thin air most times - the Indigo Branch was categorized as an anomaly, and is only viewable by those with higher clearance.

Hook/Attention Grabber: Instead of another entity that just rips your face off for looking at it, or a spooky room that turns you into a chair, the Indigo Branch is just a single web page with names and numbers, who change at random intervals and correspond to real people. Less than being horrifying, this SCP is mysterious, allowing the reader to interpret everything in their own way.

Additional Notes: My biggest concern here is if I mistakenly wrote something that has already been written and solidified as an SCP. There are so many out there, and I have only read a few here and there, that is is a distinct possibility it may already exist. If this is the case, please let me know! (Other feedback on the idea itself is always welcome, of course)

As a courtesy to our readers on mobile devices, please collapse long posts. Also, please note the Ideas Critique required reading wordcount limit; your post is about 20 words over. ~Zyn

Last edited on 25 Nov 2020 06:10 by Zyn Show more

Re: The Indigo Branch (Seeking Greenlight)

DrWhiteFox 25 Nov 2020 04:57

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i really like this, The Central Narrative is very well thought out and planned, however i wondering how this SCP is learning about this people and make them disappear.
overall i really like this, sadly i don't have green-light privilege, you should contact those in Butterfly Squad Roster.

Last edited on 25 Nov 2020 07:07 by DrWhiteFox Show more

Re: The Indigo Branch (Seeking Greenlight)

Allister Faraday 25 Nov 2020 07:53

Thanks! If you're talking about how people know about it and have seen it if they disappear afterwards, think of it like SCP-096; people have looked at the site, taken pictures and what not, and though those people may not be alive, that doesn't mean they haven't shared what they know about the site. I have contacted a few people in the Butterfly Squad, and hope for some feedback in the coming week. Thanks for the support!