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So I assume this timeline's version of -B was the redacted Assistant Director of Research at Lunar Area-32 and -D was whatever was being built at Sublevel 5 ?
Also random guess : -D was 001 The Solution.
BTW, John Doe's name is green because he is an SCP-INTEGER-DIGIT instance.
I think it's interesting how you connect this to your other SCPs, author; I was always unsure whether some of them were meant to be stand-alone or were connected in an overarching plot (ex: SCP-4379), but it's cool to see evidence for the latter.
I'll give this a second read at some point so I can make a more solid review, but as of now I'm giving this a +1.
So, if I'm understanding the narrative correctly, this scp is a recurring event in the timeliness of every parallel universe containing at least 1 sapient entity:
[Traveler] is recruited by [Foundation]. [Traveler] makes a discovery, and gets approval to have it contained in the moonbase for added precaution. [Traveler] then goes on to travel back in time, and resume working for [Foundation], while encouraging the forward momentum of their past self's research. [Traveler] gets moved to the moonbase cuz they start to go all mad-scientist, where they develop a generator and a [machine]. The [machine] becomes self-sufficient because of the genny, and then [Traveler] dies turning it off, and the [machine] is never used again.
So I think I understand that much. But then why add the bit about how only 3 universes/timelines actually follow this event? I thought it was present in all timelines.
Might just be *too* high-concept for me, but still a -1 cuz your narrative should be understandable by anyone reading it.
I'm usually all for time shenanigans, even when they fly off into blind mazes of difficult language, but there has to be a payoff, and this article simply has none that I can tell. The last line's separation and emphasis makes me think that it's supposed to feel like an important wham line, but it just doesn't. Maybe I'm just not understanding what's going on here.
This is interesting but to be honest seems too much a background/incipit for the wider canon, without enough substance to it to stand on its own, maybe I'm missing something
Unaware of the trans-temporal nature of SCP-5492, Researcher John Doe misidentified the observed phenomena as an anomalous occurrence focused on themself; their documentation of the anomaly was later classified in TL-5242-J as SCP-739.
At first I thought this was a paradox (John Doe is -A because they identified SCP-739, but if it was a misidentification then they aren't -A, but then SCP-739 is still under their name, which means they are -A etc), but now I'm not sure of what is SCP-739 here. Is it the phenomena, or his documentation of it?
And yeah that's the only thing that caught my attention in the end. There's *something* going on here but it's too obscure for me.
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