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The car crash example was what made me upvote. It's a great example of "Did the SCP cause the problem, or is it just taking advantage of it?"
One thing that concerns me: How does the Foundation know that these are all the same phenomena? The delivery methods are different enough that it seems like it could be several different anomalous sources.
They really don't know. The only consistent mechanism is the call-in portion, as both the advertisement and the prizes vary both in content, quality, and level of strangeness involved in their delivery.
Retrospectively, I like to imagine that this is the equivalent of a series of prank calls being performed by a pantheon of minor deities, making up these fake contests for giggles and delivering prizes to the best of their various supernatural abilities. Alternately, this is a sort of primal force representing some kind of exchanged repurposed or repacked into call-in contests.
The media and advertisements in the city of ██████, Colorado is
This needs some fixing in terms of verb-subject agreement.
vary immensely
Tone.
This doesn't really do anything for me. The wording is awkward in some way I just can't place my finger on, and it seems pretty boring to me. -1
"escalating until with no known upper limit until the phone is disconnected"
"in a blank envelop."
Just a couple of mistakes I noticed on my first read through. Will check again when I'm less sleepy if someone hasn't already.
I was neutral, but on that last line, I was "Okay, fuck it, this gets an upvote."
That is how you do humor in SCPs.
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This neither impressed me or intrigued me. This is quite dull for a phone-in SCP.
There's a joke to be made here, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is.
He felt that the author phoned it in.
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Honestly this is slightly true. This was the concept that originally evolved into the Doorstep Babies, when I thought maybe one of the things delivered should be a baby, and then I realized that weird babies on your doorstep is more interesting than a plague of contests. I was poking around my documents, came across this, and decided, what the hell, I'll clean it up and submit it, see what happens, and it just happens to be doing quite well for some reason.
This is fucking twisted. (see rating history for conclusion)
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