My own take on a crossover story. Been in the works for a while now, finally finished. Big thanks to Tox for fixing my grammar.
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"Please don't downvote me. Please don't downvote me. Please don't downvote me."
Aaaaaand downvoted…
+1
I want to make an even more meta story out of this meta story. I wonder if it can be done.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
It turns out all Foundation Facilities have rating modules outside of every containment area. Each personnel can walk by and cast a vote. Up or down, simple as that. Nothing much happens with a positive rating, the SCP just sticks around for a while. If it hits negative, there might be a problem.
If an SCP reaches -10… things start to happen. Terrible, awful things. I saw an SCP reach -68 once… I didn't think it would ever stop screaming. 682 could have been destroyed a long time ago, but everyone just thought it was too cool. Too many new personnel showed up for their first Keter duty, saw a hideous, hateful reptile, and they said "SWEET" as they hammered the Upvote button outside 682's door. Their naivety will be the death of us all.
I was pondering one where the other character began to talk to TCM from the author…
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TCM: "Wait. I'm just a fictional representation of the real-world version of myself, dropped into this situation in order to provide a meta-fictional structure for a crossover tale?"
Guard-speaking-on-behalf-of-Bright-the-author: "Yep."
TCM: "Oh, fuck you, man. Or, wait, would that be 'fuck me'? Goddammit, I hate getting caught in recursive meta-fiction!"
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"Dr. ██████, we've got a situation in Wing B, it may prove problematic for the facility."
"What's that?"
"It appears that a subject has found themselves caught in a recursive meta-fiction."
"Goddammit, again? I swear, this happens every Tuesday."
Plot twist: 963 is arbitrary. Bright himself is the real anomaly, with the ability to create alternate realities through stories. He's immortal because he keeps writing himself into the same universes over and over again.
Hey! I was thinking to do that in a meta tale. A self insert character who is aware that even his own existence is merely a representation of the author of the tale.
"You have to understand that i'm here, but not in a way that you could see clearly. I'm guiding every action in this moment…
I'm not a reality bender, they shift the reality with their minds. I create the reality, not with my mind but the word.
Yes, the word, and letters, sentences, phrases, etc etc etc. Didn't you ever read the bible? God created the universe with his word…."
Ok, my brainstorm stopped here, but you get the point c:.
Damn it! A meta story about a self insert dude from here The Foundation who knows everything! And then it just asks to be protected and provided with SCP-1004. And when I tought it couldn't get worse, he literally begs us to not downvote?
Why is this so brilliant? +1.
This is fantastic. Few other authors could pull this particular piece off.
I still think you dumped on TCM a little too much, but the piece is still damn effective, and who knows, maybe that's part of why.
+1
This sort of thing can so easily become self-indulgent that the fact you managed to avoid it becoming so only makes the piece more effective. I find that articles which discuss the writing process in this way are usually either a great success or an utter failure, and I'm glad to say this is the former.
Goddammit Bright, I was going to write this.
<Initiating sarcasm mode>
You shouldn't do self-inserts. They're bad for the soul. Take my advice, I'm less experienced than you.
<Sarcasm mode quit>
Anyways, well done. +1 because you did better than I ever could've.
Edit. Whoa, sudden realization. He was using 1004 to look at his work on this site in our reality, wasn't he?
I don't think 1004 is what you think it is.
All 1004 does is generate porn movies, and make the viewer progressively more perverted.
He could be using 1004 to look at porn of the objects he created…
An earlier edit had him using 1004 to basically do whatever he wants, but I removed it due to sueishness.
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ChazzK got what I was saying. It (the 1004 article) does say that it will show pornographic materiel of the keywords, but the keywords can be "from the ambiguous to the precise". He could of keyed in the words specifically pertaining to his stories. Using 1004, practically any person could have unrestricted access to anything in any reality. This is, of course, all speculation, so do with this as you will.
Type in something like: "I want to see a screencapture of the current front page of the SCP Wiki from my reality, and there's an animated gif ad at the bottom of the page to 'Meet Hot Chicks Now'." "Okay, now I want to see a screencap of the 'Most Recently Created' page, with the same ad at the bottom."
Technically porn, although barely, and let's TCM keep up to date on what's going on with the wiki. He could use similar methods to keep tabs on, well, anything. "I want to see a live feed of what my wife is doing, except there's a framed picture in the background of us fucking."
EDIT: Also, my headcanon of 1004 is that it doesn't make you watch it in any way. No compulsion, no memetics, no cognitohazards. It's just that human nature is such that, given access to exactly the porn that gets you off, you're going to indulge it and indulge it and start looking up some of that kinky stuff you've heard of but never tried and etc.
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This does put a lot of weight on 1004's perception of time though (also, its perception of reality, since we can't trust it at all).
Yes, but if anyone would know how accurate it would be, it'd be Bright.
Not very accurate without the cheat codes.
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This borders on a necro-post, but I claim a holiday-no-computer exception.
If no porn exists to match the keywords, 1004 generates footage of things that never really happened. Since it isn't anchored in reality, wouldn't any clever uses be unreliable? It's the difference between the world's best portrait painter and a camera. Equally serviceable for most purposes, but not "really real".
It probably doesn't matter much for TCM's purposes here. But let's say The Foundation gets wise and wants to use it to find the next MCD auction. Keywords: Flyer with the date, time, and location of the next scheduled Marshal, Carter, and Dark event; with topless lady clip art. Result: A short film showing the requested page. But no such flyer ever actually existed, obviously. So 1004 generates it whole-cloth. There is no reason to suppose that it didn't make up the data as well. Or pull it from some alterante reality, or whatever it does behind the scenes. Of course, this all goes out the window if Bright says so. Cheat codes are trump.
And I've now officially put too much thought into something everyone was done with two weeks ago.
Bright, you magnificent bastard. I knew you had headcanon along these lines, but I never expected you to explicitly reveal it. And poor Du-… TCM. I think that he's in pretty much the best case scenario for how any of us would survive a transition event.
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Heh. and i even used this tale to further my headcanon of cheat codes.
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