Part three of the Professor's LEctures. Part 4 will be the last.
Thanks to Dr. Reach for coming up with the idea of Aspect Radiation and helping me work out the particulars of Pitch, Hue, and Weave.
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Clef, I beg of you. Add a fifth essay with the professor answering questions. It could be a cooperative page or not, I don't care, just… just add it. Please. :_D
Liked. I loved how you tied Pitches to rituals, by the way. I was thinking about murders and carvings and the like, but I should have thought about sex too… also, I wonder if Sharp and Flat can be tied to sex with protection, or in vitro fertilization.
(account deleted)I really like this. It's a fun and informative little lecture that gives certain parts of the SCP mythos a little more credibility. I'd love to see Volgun do a reading of one of these.
This is still quite good, but I found it a little harder to follow in places.
In particular I found the Speckmann Rebound a bit… unclear. Same with the Everhart Resonator, etc. It may have been intentional to leave this a bit ambiguous to writers could do basically whatever they wanted with them, but I'd have like a few more details and a bit more clarity. Had to read this several times before feeling I mostly understood.
The paragraph starting with "In practice, of course, most modern thaumaturges prefer to use less dramatic Sources for their workings" is especially confusing, because it starts off with discussing Sources, naturally goes to discussing rebound control, then immediately diverts from rebound control back to Sources. (Also, why not explain more on rebound control?)
Also the ending: I'm left wondering why the GOC would've bothered killing thirty people or ordering up a mass orgy for an apparently needless transportation ritual. And if they didn't, and they just used a supermassive Everhart Resonator for a few weeks, then why did the lecturer imply otherwise?
The Everhart Resonator is the GOC's magical macguffin for doing magic powered by electricity.
A Speckmann's Rebound, on the other hand, I can explain. It's basically the whole "Equivalent Exchange" "Conservation of Magic" type thing. The idea behind Backlash is that if you fuck up a spell, you get unintended consequences: you try to bring someone back to life and kill someone else. You try to murder someone and instead end up bringing a field of flowers to life. Evil begets good, good begets evil.
So Speckmann's Rebound basically says: okay, I'm going to deliberately fuck up this spell, get a bunch of Backlash, then redirect that Backlash into a new spell.
Those are good explanations. I'd recommend working more of the Rebound explanation, at least, into the text itself.
(The edit you already made is good.)
EDIT: Or if you want I could phrase it into a question for the Q&A section?
Nice. Will add to head canon. Also, why does the GOC seem to have cooler stuff than the Foundation (Want Orange Suit…)?
Simple answer: The Foundation Contains. The GOC is (more) willing to use paranormal or paranormal-derived items in the pursuit of their mission.
why does the GOC seem to have cooler stuff than the Foundation (Want Orange Suit…)?
Why "seems"? It really has. Cooler equipment, cooler theoretical basis… Only it's mission isn't enough cool, but nobody's perfect.
I love this explanation of magic, deliberately screwing up a spell to use the energy bouncing back, and "we can use electricity to make magic energy, but the conversion ratio sucks."
As for why the GOC has better toys -they're an official government entity that answers to the UN. They have to make limited presentations (per year, probably) to a very small group of people to justify past expenditures and get more funding.
The Foundation is, fundamentally, a private enterprise. Governments may contract with them, but the Foundation isn't a government department and doesn't receive funding like one.
One of the reason governments hire private contractors is they often pay them less to do the same job a government department can do, on the reasoning the company is making money in other ways as well. Because of the nature of what the Foundation is often contracted for, securing, containing, and handling anomalies, most government contacts don't want to know how the money's being used, so they can maintain plausible deniability, such as in the event of a Broken Veil.
The Foundation may not have to externally account for much of the money it spends, but it can be a lot harder to get enough money. The property taxes alone on contain-in-place SCPs-! There's a reason beyond obfuscation here and attracting attention there they have so many front companies. There's also a reason they try for reverse-engineering and non-anomalous versions of SCPs.
If the SCP universe was real, I would want to attend Professor ████████████'s lectures. This is very interesting.
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