I'm a bit unsure about the addendum. I'm very tired right now, so I'm actually pretty unsure about how this turned out in general. Still, new SCP.
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It appears to be missing a couple sentences, so take a second look at the editing, but overall I think it adds to the article. And I quite like the article itself, although it feels a little weird to me that it's just scarves.
Enh. Scarves that teleport dead people to a factory to make more scarves? I'm sure there's something here, but it doesn't work for me. downvote.
I love the firefox tells me teleport is not a word.
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Letting one of the masterminds run around free because we can't be bothered to chase them seems wrong.
My logic is that they have the information they need from the other two, and that they figure from what they've gleaned that Mr. Chandrasekaran can't do too much on his own. Besides, he's not exactly being let run free. He's a wanted criminal.
The items themselves are kind of blah, although it is a good twist that the scarves don't make them into the usual mindless zombies. I really like the casual evil ess of the factory owner.
So every time you get a worker, they produce 500 (probably more) scarves. This gives you 500 (probably more) workers…
Tribble problem!
You assume they can use every body they get. Remember, they need to sell the scarves they make. Each scarf just gives them an option for an employee. They don't have to take it. Though I could probably make this clearer, I expect that later on they burned most of the corpses they got through 1700-B, simply because they don't have anything to do with them.
I really have to wonder if the gentleman conducting the interview heard that last bit, and suddenly remembered how he felt about the once-monthly protocol concerning D-class personnel…
Could be.
It's no secret my head-canon paints the Foundation as large and mostly dark, but it's not because they LIKE it (well, there will be exceptions, of course). I picture them as people fighting wars against the things that are darker they they are, so the rest of humanity has a world to wake up to.
There has to be a LOT of soul searching at 3am about "Did I do the right thing? Dear god, let it have been at least the least wrong thing…"
I imagine a lot of people at the Foundation drink heavily enough to be considered professional drunks and have tolerances the likes of which frat boys look upon in sheer awe.
And those that can't handle alcohol likely have a serious problem abusing short-term amnestics and/or mood-altering drugs.
Honestly, this is not a happy place to work if you deal with anything dark.
Suddenly it clicks why Character!Gears is emotionless - it's easier that way.
I'm not certain I ever saw an article featuring interviews with the creator of an SCP. That they could design this whole operation is rather chilling, especially given that it's just self-sustaining. I mean, if all they make is scarves that turn corpses into workers, what's the point? Still upvoted. Missing a word after "their relative innocuousness and".
"I found a loose thread in the fabric of reality. I could have ignored it. I could have tugged on it until it revealed more secrets. I could have tried to knit it back together. I chose to use it to make money."
Yea - these guys are definitely ones to mind-rip then use the wood chipper on.
I mean, if all they make is scarves that turn corpses into workers, what's the point?
Money. Lots and lots of it. Remarkably prosaic, don't you think?
I think I brain-farted on that reply. I'm having the thought that they could make the scarves and then have the zombie slaves (I love being able to use that phrase) make something that's more difficult to make using live workers, but more profitable.
Then I remember that the scarves don't kill anyone, so it's kind of a self-perpetuating crapshoot, which makes way more sense.
Protip: I may be overthinking it.
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I'm not sure I like the interview , and the fact that one of the people with … special knowledge is being let to run about, but the rest of the SCP is enough for me to grudgingly upvote.
Seriously, love the basic concept.
I'm not sure I like the interview either. What about it stuck out to you?
As for the latter, I might alter that slightly seeing as a few people have complained about that, but again, it's not like the Foundation just turned him free.
The guys can be perhaps best described as having quite a few levels in Dread Necromancer.
You really think we'd leave them running about where MC&D, GOC, and anyone fucking else can get at them, find out, and of course use the information for whatever, in more sinister ways?
As for the interview… I liked the bit with cattle prods.. it's just that it doesn't provide many useful information that'd need to be in such a document, and sort of feels out of place.
I mean, the guy sounds like explaining the process to a potential business partner, not being interrogated.
Again, he's not being left running about. It's just that there's not much that can be done. He's a fugitive. He'll be caught, or not. If the Foundation were in a position where they could just pick him up, they would.
The guy is for all intents and purposes an E-class object, and needs to be treated appropriately.
The Foundation-verse has a decent amount of magic in it. Just because these guys read a book from the Serpent's Library doesn't make them worthy of SCP designation, any more than the guy from SCP-100 does.
I couldn't disagree more, but then , there's no canon.
Also , downvoted SCP-100 :3… I might have a new least favourite object on the site. I wonder how come I never noticed before.
We could argue about this all day, but in my defense, look at the Groups of Interest. Many members of the Serpent's Hand know a bit of magic, and everyone in Prometheus Labs knows how to make anomalous objects. Yet we don't see
SCP-2100: Bill Johnson, Prometheus lab tech #1
SCP-2101: Alice Garret, Prometheus lab tech #2
SCP-2102: Helena Wang, Prometheus lab tech #3
SCP-2103: Tim Wilkins, Prometheus junior manager.
for very good reason.
With Series 3 opening up in the not-too-distant future, I challenge someone to write one of these.
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Well, I sort of already have SCP-1500: Zach Callahan, Prometheus lab tech #3…
The interview is what sells this, to me. The horror isn't that the dead are being reanimated, or that some portion of their personality remains intact, or even that they're being used for slave labor. It's that the whole purpose of the exercise is to make some mediocre fashion accessories.
That's more or less what I was going for. Glad that came across.
Okay, tweaked it so the Foundation cares a bit more about the third owner. He's still not an SCP, because that would be silly, but they now would rather not just leave him in the custody of the Indian government.
I think there's a mismatch between the Containment procedures and the Description.
It looks like the Containment for B matches C in the description and vice versa. Am I reading it wrong?
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