Very nicely done - I like the wistful tone and the note of humour when discussing the GoI.
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Wow. Just wow. This was great. Certainly reminds me of that quote:
"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper."
EDIT: This is one of the most profound things I've read. The Foundation basically gets what it wants, in the end. The world no longer needs protecting. Whatever is behind them all, the Universal Theory of Anomalies, it stopped.
Somehow, this is worse than all the K-class scenarios we dreamed of. It's not the end, just the end of the Foundation.
I like the concept of SCPs simply losing their anomalous natures all at once, but the writing really doesn't work for me. It's like one of those wrap-ups at the end of a movie or TV series that tells you (emphasis on "tells") what happens to all the characters. I think there's a reason you only see those in comedies anymore.
I was actually aiming for a Fallout-style narration ending. I can see how you got that feeling though.
I actually like the narration thing. Upboated with great enthusiasm.
Was this inspired by the GOI grand rumble thread?
No word was heard from Doctor Wondertainment for a long time. A year after the end, a new line of Doctor Wondertainment toys was released. While "Doctor Wondertainment's Shooty Man's Vengence" was a perfectly decent game, it was clear his/her heart wasn't in it.
This made me really, really depressed. I mean, nothing else affected me and I didn't care about anyone else. But this leaves me with a deep, deep kind of despair.
Take your upvote while I get a tissue.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
yeah, of all the anomalies to be lost, his are the most depressing, because he honestly just wanted to make people happy.
Poor Dr. Wondertainment…I seriously believe Dr. Wondertainment is Santa's sciency, nerdy little brother. Speaking of which, I wonder if the Foundation would ever attempt to contain Santa, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy? No, I will not make Santa an SCP…
Didn't 239 create Santa in 2004? But without her powers, Santa doesn't exist anymore…sob…
Yes, which is fucking horrifying when you think about it. We have an omnipresent reality bender just sitting around, unable to be sneaked up on. Not only that, but he knows who we are, and he knows about the relatively harmless humanoids that hate being here. He knows about 110-Montauk. Guess who's on his naughty list?
The Foundation gets 500 tonnes of coal every year. They use it to power their facilities, because it's free.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
I think of him more along the line that he's the head of a big business that has harnessed the multiverse.
"To the O5 Council (and the rest of the Foundation, too!) -
Thank you all for being my very best collectors! Sadly, it is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that I do not think I will continue with my work any longer. I've done my part here, and I hope that my products have made people happy (I especially hope that they made YOU all happy as well!). As part of my final goodbyes, I have included a special, one-of-a-kind collectable that I wish for you to have. It may not be as impressive as my other creations, but I hope you find it wonderful in its own right.
Sincerely,
Doctor Wondertainment"
This was the note that was attached to a rather large package wrapped in glimmering purple wrapping paper. When opened, the package contained a rather large replica of Site 19, made out of ordinary plastic. When opened, the model building contained detailed figurines of each of the site personnel, from the O5 personnel down to the lowliest janitors, each poseable and each with noticable smiles on their faces, but otherwise nothing anomalous about them. Each individual figurine has been sent to its appropriate counterpart along with a copy of the note.
This is really too excellent. Brought a little tear to my eye.
(account deleted)I know about the necropost and all, but this is too beautiful to be ignored.
Why can't we upvote comments?
Somewhere in the outskirts of London:
"Mommy."
"Yes, honey?"
"Mr. Smiles suddenly stopped moving. Mr. Calculator is acting sleepy, and I can't find Threaddy anywhere."
"Eric, I think it's just that you are growing up. You've always had a vivid imagination, but now-"
"I don't want to grow up Mommy. I just want my friends."
In my headcanon, the Foundation only has a tiny fraction of what Eric has. Mr. Smiles is one of the items that is close to Eric but the Foundation has no knowledge of. In my headcanon Eric is a reality bender but his parents don't notice it. That's why there's so many of Eric's toys, because his parents don't really care about him and he just creates them out of thin air.
And with this tale Eric became a sad normal child.
Now I'm depressed. But, at least I can play with 173 now.
SCP-085 was gone from its canvas, and its inky plains and fields felt bare and empty without the presence of the young woman who once inhabited them.
…fuck it. That made me cry.
The Church of the Broken God was wiped off the face of the earth. It isn't easy to maintain a working religious organization when all of your artifacts crumble to dust, and it's even more difficult to do so when half of those artifacts are inside your head.
…double fuck it all. This made me laugh.
The members of Are We Cool Yet never did become cool.
To hell with it. Upvoted.
Take note, Foundationeers. This is what a good tale is made out of.
Now let's wait for someone to make a bad (?) sequel to this where all of the SCPs come back and the Foundation celebrates.
The whole time I was reading this I heard this song in my head.
Yes. A thousand times yes. All of the SCPs walking out of the Foundation halls into infinity, waving at the passing staff members as the screen flashes back to classic moments: 173 snapping a D-class' neck, 076-2 going on a killing rampage, Blackwood recounting his tales.
*sniff*
Hm? Just something in my eye.
Sorry for the necropost of 6 1/2 years, but what was the song if you remember? That youtube account was terminated.
According to the Wayback Machine (thanks Lt Flops), the song is Forget About Me by Simple Minds.
Personally, Quiet Days reminded me of Into The Unknown from Over The Garden Wall.
Does it count as necroposting if the comment is "only" 1.5 years old?
Forum signatures were a mistake.
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