For The FBI group, perhaps we should change it to something not paranormal. Unusual Incidents, or such, to avoid such a direct reference to the paranormal, since sucha thing would likely be first for budget cuts, or removal by any Director.
Dr Bright
I'm kind of skeptical about the existence of a black market for SCPs.
Skeptical!?! Dude, have you ever been to New York City? I could buy lethal doses of every drug known to man, a hooker for every day of the year, a car stolen from James Dean, and the Hope Diamond, all in under 12 hours.
I'd imagine items like [[SCP-005]] had an interesting history involving more than one bank heist. And who wouldn't want SCP-150?
I would spend incomprehensible amounts of money to possess most of the safe or Euclid class objects, personally.
How much would you spend for SCP-999? Sorry, dude. I couldn't resist. BTW, I actually would like your opinion as to whether 999 is improved enough to be readable. If you still dislike the fundamental concept I understand, but I did follow a good deal of your advice.
I was thinking more along the lines of there would be no buyer's market left after every organization on the planet sweeps in to terminate the owners and reclaim the objects. Sure, the seller might be able to protect his group, but individuals, no matter how rich, couldn't possibly hope to hold out against any of the other GoIs.
I made Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. as a non-combative rival. Like a auction house/club for the super-rich. Maybe even pulling strings on other groups, but always behind the scenes. I wanted a group that is not a "guns blazing" kind of organization.
I think a video game would be a great outlet Bijhan, just no idea how to go about doing it.
hells yeah, video game! I just thought of that as I read this today, actually. some sort of FPS, with you working for the foundation as some spec-ops security squad member, and then Site-whatever gets attacked by the CotBG, all screaming "heretic!" and throwing molotovs… then you end up going undercover and finding some obscenely complex plot that leads back to like 1 guy, who's trying to get some weird combination of SCPs together to end the world or gain immortality or something.
1 guy, who's trying to get some weird combination of SCPs together to end the world or gain immortality or something.
Wasn't there a TV miniseries mmuch to this effect?
Yeah, it was called The Lost Room. Kick ass Sci-Fi Channel miniseries.
Removed "Gold Alfa Vacuum". Whoever added this needs to learn the phonetic alphabet.
There's already 950 million Gavs running around as it is. (OK, maybe not for another 1000 years, but still, there'll be plenty.)
I'm not contesting the removal - it can definitely be argued the material was irrelevant or didn't add enough - but Gold Alfa Vacuum wasn't wrong NATO phonetic for "GAV". It was intended to be a security codeword using the pattern 'color, NATO phonetic letter, nonsense placeholder word'. GAV was just a shortened version of the full codeword, which could, for added confusion, be expanded to Golf Alpha (or Alfa, that's a different dispute) Victor.
A question:
A lot of newbies have expressed enjoyment of 'The Factory.' My question to you is, why? What about the Factory do you like?
It's mysterious, to the point where one doesn't know if it even exists (at least in this world/universe). It seems to mass-produce incredibly useful (and Safe-class) SCPs, which appeals to me because I'm the type that tries to look for uses for SCPs. You never know if you've got all of a given object, or if there are more floating around somewhere, or if more will be produced and appear later. You're dealing with an unknown party that apparently possesses extremely advanced technology, and you've got no idea who or where they are, nor what their agenda is.
Ideally, I'd like to see no new information appear on The Factory - the very fact that none of the major groups (the Foundation, MC&D, CBG, IRG, CI) seem to know anything about it adds greatly to the mystique.
I like it because it is a shared origin for some of the SCPs. Most of them are just there, unknowable and unknowing, and all the Foundation can do it contain them to the best of their ability. The Factory SCPs are different in that we don't know the cost of using them, just that they were intended to be used; we don't know how they work, much less how they were made, but we know there were made, industrially at that; and we don't know the intended consumer audience, but the fact there is a consumer audience is scary enough. Add that to the fact that the Factory SCPs are mass-produced and you have a frightening series of SCP articles on your hands.
The things it produces often seem to be intended for use in crime or immoral acts. The part of me that loves heist movies digs the idea of an organisation dedicated to producing relics with criminal intent.
Basically, for me, it's about the possible target customers. The factory seems to be one of the more gloriously mercenary groups in the Foundation universe.
The fact that they have no known motive whatsoever is a big one as well.
The site has cataloged several SCPs so far which have been stolen or reobtained by other factions, such as MC&D or the IRG. However, as we know these groups possess many additional anomalous artifacts which the SCP Foundation may never have acquired, I see a niche for dossiers on these items in the form of comprehensive containment plans predicted to secure them if the Foundation eventually succeeds in their acquisition, before they can be studied and a more efficient containment protocol may be devised.
Possible examples are MC&D's "glass card" maker (evidenced by the cards themselves on members' persons), a Factory device to power and guide manufacturing equipment (evidenced by absent cores in otherwise un-anomalous abandoned equipment), clockwork weapons seen in use by high-ranking Broken God cultists, etc. These items' files would mainly be categorized by theoretical containment protocols, key recognition factors for field agent use, possible locations and owners, and the incident reports which led the Foundation to assume the existence of the item. Much data, necessarily, would be unknown or expunged.
Is this a good idea?
Well, I think part of this is what the GOC website's for… even though they're focusing on broader types of anomalous objects (and how to kill them) while the SCP Foundation concentrates on containing them individually, its inevitable that some things will end up with a passing mention, especially with the case study note sections.
FO0, while later canonized in-story by Fishmonger, was not originally one of his creations and therefore should not be removed from the site. (See revision 6 of the GOI page.)
The Man in Black was changed sufficiently by fishmonger to merit deletion as "foo". Should kain feel it necissary to once again add the Man in Black, rest assured that it will be done, but as it stands, we have lost little.
Yeah, I did add the man in black. Fish was the one who decided to call him foo…
*shrugs*
I only put him in 'cause he seemed to fit the theme of the site at the time… Now I'm not too sure…
I did quite like the man in black, or at least the concept of that character, and think you should put it back.
I would guess that it's because it's a common metasyntactic variable (well, common amongst programmers).
"Foo" and "Bar", from "FUBAR" (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition").
Fish had a story about a guy named Kilroy. Foo is another name for Kilroy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_was_here
That;s what I thought it was.
