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HELL YEAH!!! More Resurrection and more Incident Zero! Good job Clef
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Good tale, but what really surprises me is that Clef is still doing stuff here.
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It's taken over a year for me to run out of fucks to give re: whether the draft I had was worth putting up.
(account deleted)The whole conceit of Omega-7 in this series taking on SCP-2000 reminds me of the entire concept of Riverdale: trying to integrate characters and concepts from bygone eras into a more modern setting, but coming off silly and even more irrelevant as a result.
In short, my response to this is the same it has been to the entirety of Resurrection:
"No. Just… no."
Thank you for your opinion, but frankly, I find your feedback unhelpful.
Incident Zero isn't for you. It's for the type of people who speculate that Chewbacca was a rebel spy all along, or that all of Pixar's movies fall into a giant metaplot, or who try to work out the history of Hyrule. The Doylian answer is that creative decisions change over time and tone and events and canon are malleable. Incident Zero takes a Watsonian view: issues of metaplot have in-world explanations, let's speculate on what they could be.
Given your unwillingness to engage with the canon at all since it's beginning, I find your opinion irrelevant.
I was sort of tempted to bring this up in Part 2, but it's since it's become kind of a big thing: that whole part with 'Yellowstone Mountain' majorly breaks suspension of disbelief. The Yellowstone Supervolcano as a concept is difficult to imagine because it's so goddamn massive,1 but 'Yellowstone Mountain' as you write is not a thing and never has been. The Yellowstone Supervolcano consists of a very large amount of magma underneath a very wide valley bordered by a lot of nonspecific mountains. There can't be a central point of the eruption, because there would be none; the entire valley would just explode and kill everything within a fifty-mile radius. It would also shoot hot ash up to twenty miles up, so if our heroes were in a helicopter like it was written, they'd be summarily fucked no matter what they did.
If Yellowstone erupted, not only would most of the US Northwest be decimated, but the area above/around the park and its general vicinity would not be capable of sustaining life for much longer than .2 seconds. I know there's supposed to be some existential bullshittery going about, but I just thought I'd give you some clarification.
If you've got any questions, you can definitely ask them. I go to Yellowstone pretty frequently, so I know a lot about the topic from firsthand experience. Liking Resurrection otherwise though!
Footnotes
1. See me for clarification: http://www.fourwinds10.net/resources/uploads/image/180563-2.jpg. Caldera outlined in red, points of thinner crust are dotted.
It's not entirely out of the question that Yellowstone being a supervolcano could be a massive cover just in case it ever did blow up. It'd at least be a good excuse to put up fences.
I'mma disagree with you there bro. There's a shitton of geothermal activity happening there, and I have seen the results of this with my own eyes. Keeping the amount of scientists that go there on a daily basis quiet… well, it couldn't happen. Too many scientists. There aren't any fenced-off areas either, because if we were concerned about safety in regard to the potential eruption, we would have GTFO'd when volcanic activity was being discovered in the '60s.
Funny thing about Yellowstone… it is a mountain. The whole thing. The mountains that surround it are actually the rim of the caldera where one big mountain used to be. If any of yellowstone's eruptions had been less energetic or had fragmented the crust in just the right way, it's entirely plausible that yellowstone might still have a central peak, or have formed a new one like the Lake Toba supervolcano's Samosir island.
It's Yellowstone as a deliberate reference to major SCPs located there, by the way. This isn't a bit of worldbuilding unique to Resurrection! FWIW.
Yellowstone Mountain' as you write is not a thing and never has been.
Not in this reality. My take on this is that this reality destabilization ends in a reality restructuring event. In the 'base' (pre-IZ) reality, Yellowstone was a mountain. In the post-IZ reality, it's a supervolcano. Note another important difference here between the 'base' reality and the post-IZ reality: It's Cain who's a member of Ω-7, not Able, who makes his emergence at the end of the tale. Somehow I didn't immediately notice until I got to that part. And then my brain exploded.
He'd been a member of the 69th Pennsylvania under Colonel Joshua T. Owen
As Wikipedia says, "Owen was arrested and relieved of brigade command for reasons unknown. He was then replaced by Alexander S. Webb, who led the brigade admirably at Gettysburg. Owen later returned to his brigade after Gettysburg"
Russian Wikipedia article mentions Dennis O'Kane as the regiment's commander, but I wasn't able to find any proof of that in the English version.
"Frederickson! Everyone's fine, but the back end of the car's stuck in the wall!"
"I can see their front bumper sticking out of the wall behind me"
How could that be? If Car 2 is partially stuck in the wall, all they should see behind themselves should be that very wall.
My guess is that car 3 was beside but slightly slower than car 2
2=humvee 2, 3= humvee 3, | = wall, -=empty space
22|2
-3|33
Looking out the side window, they'd see #3's front bumper sticking out of the wall behind them.
Absolutely loving this series, but my only question here is; What are the two scips mentioned? The fat acidic one and the gray one that took Vince's face? I am drawing a blank on those scips.
Bowe is asking for a dose of amnestics and, if they have access right now, a few memes to make him compliant. You don't dictate to the Foundation what to do, especially during a crisis. And especially when you're running on incomplete intel -something Bowe has to know is incomplete and is ignoring.
I find it really, really hard to believe that many SCPs would appear in the vital Yellowstone site, even with the reality shifts. They wouldn't be stored there, and while the one fat corrosive SCP could move through walls and such, there's still travel time from other compromised sites -and why would they go to the Yellowstone site in the first place?
Cain I'll give a pass to. He tends to be friendly and cooperative.
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