♫ spookiness and synth tunes ♫
So back in 2018 I wrote SCP-3840. The article is a love letter to my own morbid curiosity with the Canadian woods and my love for spooky stories out in the deep wilderness (Search and Rescue Woods inspiration bursting at the seams). It's a batshit article but, at its core, heavily inspired by my favorite kinds of creepypasta. It shows. I dropped a name in there for a small group of people: Parawatch. More of an afterthought than anything. They were only in the article so I could turn their lives into living hell, so I didn't consider a lot about beyond what felt appropriate for a gaggle of conspiracy nerds.
A while later The Great Hippo approaches me with a bunch of ideas. Concepts for Parawatch viewing itself as a guard against the paranormal, investigating but ultimately having no clue what they're getting into. I tell them that I love it and that I'm highly looking forward to whatever ends up written.
It gets quiet for a while. Everyone is working on other projects, with Parawatch for me far in the backburner of groups of mine to established, but every now and then Hippo brings up new ideas: more creepypasta vibes, a work-in-progress theme, various signs of progress.
Then Abwesenheit goes up. Then Tower-B. And suddenly, Parawatch explodes.
I'm writing this less than a week after Abwesenheit was posted, the group now having a full hub, enough articles and authors for official GoI status, and more content looming on the horizon. This has been a fucking wild experience for me and I'm loving every second of it. I do plan to have more involvement than just my sole SCP — I haven't gotten the chance with my overload of concurrent projects — but simply watching a group I started in a single, obscure article boom into popularity fills me with more joy than I can express.
Hope everyone enjoys this as much as I have. And remember, stay wary of the dark corners of your neighborhoods, be it the forest or the ocean or odd, quiet alleyways.
You'll never quite know what's waiting in there for you.
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