I like the idea. I'd like to see more information about the passengers than the brief blurb, and/or some discussion of the Foundation's attempts to study the train.
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Yeah, just expand on it more. In my opinion, SCPs need to be creepy, witty, or interesting (or some combination of the 3). This is somewhat interesting, but not terribly so, and it certainly isn't creepy. I would either make it more interesting or add some creep to it. Maybe some explanation of its origin, or something creepy described by people who rode it, or yeah maybe an agent from the Foundation gets off and is like "IM FROM THE FUTURE AND HOLY SHIT DON'T LET [DATA EXPUNGED] HAPPEN OR SHIT WILL GO DOWN". Or something.
I was thinking about something on those lines — one of the recovered passengers is a Foundation agent from the future, but from a timeline close to ours, but not quite the same. As such, he has lots of interesting information on some of our SCPs, but some of it is wrong and dangerous, since the SCPs are a bit different where he came from.
I'm not 100% sure this is the way to go, since it would be cross-linking SCPs, and playing with Stuff From The Future — both usually considered bad things to do around here.
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"SCP 682? The demon horse? Yeah, we still have that one. Never could figure out how to kill it."
Heh, "Demon Horse." I guess it is possible that with its adaptation abilities, it could evolve over a few decades and no longer be a reptile.
And yes, I'm aware of how old that post is. I just wanted to say that.
Hey, what an interesting concept! Now, go write the other two thirds of the article.
I need to write up the people who have been recovered from the train, and what has happened to them while on it. Will do that shortly.
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I like this. One question; If someone from 1975 is given a Class A and reintegrated, how would they have learned everything they needed to know? I mean, there are a few things that might raise suspicion if they've never heard of them, especially if it's in New York. The invention of the home computer and Nine-Eleven for example, along with a fuckton of inventions. In my humble opinion, it's a bit of a stretch saying that a Class A can teach thirty-five years of changes sufficiently enough that they can re-integrate.
EDIT I am aware Class-As may be interpreted to plant false memories. Even counting this, my point stands.
I actually wrote up a passenger in this situation (haven't posted the update yet because it needs more work) — the Foundation is holding on to him for exactly the reason you said.
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Question: if the Foundation is actively preventing members of the public in the present from boarding the train, how do people from the future get off? You might want to add something that answers that question?
That's a good point, and there are two different answers:
1. Not everyone on the train is from our future. Alternate timelines…including some with no SCP Foundation.
2. The SCP is adapting and in the future will appear in a different time/place, so it still manages to collect some people.
It's worth mentioning in the article.
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