SCP Sandbox III

key plot points:

This arc supersedes this existing article since fritz enters right away with a lot of baggage

• at the start of the story, where he tells his final letter to aaron, he is already obsessed with apotheosis
• we cut back to the beginning of events for the article. fritz already knows vaguely what kind of containment he wants, so he decides to create the Engine
• production goes well and eventually fritz puts the engine on the backburner, but O5-4 leaves and this ends up pressuring fritz and the foundation, since the engine was built off of 4's funding, and now fritz worries about the veil since a lot of foundation income was managed by 4
• now fritz things the engine is a necessity, but doesn't know what to do, so he talks to aaron.
• aaron tells him about apotheosis and the 10 sephiroth, and this is what kickstarts his obsession. now fritz decides to build engine based on his image
  • howoever fritz is also still on the edge, and hesitates a few times on whether or not to because if he doesn't, he has an out, but part of him wants to be the one to do everything
• eventually he tries to plug himself in, but he fails because the engine and him are not compatible
  • engine = essophysical embodiment of chaos, and fritz is directly against that having to do with complete order and one specific outcome etc etc.
• at this point fritz gets desperate, and falls back on sophia. he chooses sophia because he knows she's loyal to her (but sophia supports him as a person, not his ideologies).
• fritz keeps sophia in the dark on what she's actually going to end up becoming (the engine), so she blindly agrees to help aid the project
• but there's an issue, because fritz has no way to get sophia involved himself. he can't just build it himself because he's not well-versed in those matters, and he doesn't want to get evelyn's attention
  • evelyn and sophia are well acquainted, but him and evelyn are not.
• so what he does is he goes to eigen and has him rewire the engine specifically for sophia. perhaps he accesses her medical records using fritz's name etc etc. very sketchy stuff.
  • simultaneously, rossa finds out about the situation because eigen works under her. so she keeps tabs on it in case anything happens.
• this leads to the climax, where fritz tells sophia the machine is complete and would like to have her see its completed construction. in reality, she's about to be plugged into the machine
• sophia finds out what fritz was truly planning and is severely betrayed, horrified even that her longtime friend would resort to such underhanded and controversial methods. so she fights back dramatically.
• fritz tries to convince her but ultimately fails, so he has eigen's team forcibly place her into the machine. in the article, it's presented something like this:
  • "I think they're separated by a glass wall and the defectors strap her in as Fritz watches, paralyzed by (up to reader) emotions"
• now sophia becomes the engine and rossa, keeping tabs on everything, makes use of the chaos to try to get a majority vote against fritz. she fails, so she resorts to defecting
• rossa tells evelyn about the happened to sophia, and basically blackmails her to join her to defect, and in sequential order, evelyn convinces adam to defect as well.
• now there's a huge defection, which is then known as the schism. a large group of personnel (who work under rossa, which made up a large majority of the foundation) defect along with her, along with evelyn (O5-9), adam (O5-12), eigen, and sophia (O5-2), except that she defects with the engine counterpart.
  • remember that sophia is stuck in a cross-timeline limbo, so she and the engine are both one piece, but can be separated in reality
• now the O5's are convinced that fritz fucked up massively. but fritz thinks its a coincidence because he had no idea about rossa. this causes fritz to get voted to be ousted, while at the same time dealing with rossa's faction leaving the foundation and stealing assets.
• in the end, rossa's faction loses, but fritz doesn't get exactly ousted (because there is no 13th member. so the council is at a tie), except now fritz is politically neutered because half of the foundation doesn't trust him anymore.
• the article ends with a conversation between aaron and fritz right before he's politically destroyed.
• maybe also the document is reclassified to "uncontained" and the CI is recognized as an official GoI… some more?

key plot points:

this arc focuses on sophia and evelyn. evelyn herself takes part in developing the engine, but is kept under the dark with sophia. she collaborates with eigen (she has to), but there's a greater story here than is told

key plot points:

this arc focuses on rossa and eigen. eigen works under rossa, but rossa has been working in the foundation for a while and feels that it's not enough to satiate her ideals. so she wants to leave (or rework the orgo from the ground up)

key plot points:

this arc focuses on evelyn and adam, where evelyn is distraught about sophia's new role as the engine and her unwilling desire to be place within it.

key plot points:

this arc focuses primarily on the events after the schism, where the foundation is starting to fall apart because of fritz's massive fuckup

MUST UPDATE THIS

• We assume fritz, aaron, O5-9 (Evelyn Bright), and (Sophia Light) O5-2 already are acquainted and know each other quite well.
• Aaron, Fritz, and Evelyn co-found scp-xxxx (the engine) in 1910 for the purpose of doing Chaotics Division work
  • need to introduce the chaotics division and what they do before they defect and become the CI
    • maybe introduce a new character here (Red Right Hand) member alongside the Engine researcher
  • the engine, initially, was developed in the image of fritz
  • the engine's operator (pre-schism is evelyn)
• production of the engine also needs the involvement of O5-4 for funding. maybe have an addendum formally asking O5-4 to kickstart things.
• production of the engine is smooth until 1914, where WW1 hits and O5-4 defects, causing fritz to be paranoid about the veil and the outside world
  • note O5-4 also acted as a co-lead operations leader so this caused many issues within the council
• another issue was that the engine did not possess enough computational power to handle work, and directly fought against the ideologies of fritz
  • since the engine is a machine which inherently works on the properties of Chaos Theory, fritz's desired outcome (which is limited to one specific initial condition) is approximately 0 compared to the inherent order of chaos, which has an infinite amounts of initial conditions.
  • at its completion, the engine is the essophysical embodiment of chaos, which directly clashes against fritz, who is in essence a (to be made) god of order.
• at this time aaron has a talk with fritz, where aaron tells him a passing idea about apotheosis
  • this apotheosis remark ties in with fritz's already inherent view on containment (aaron and fritz have similar views but are different in application)
• this kickstarts fritz's intruige with the idea, and pressured by everything he falls back to apotheosis as an excuse to tell sophia about the problem
  • note that sophia is also supposed to be at first his staunchest supporter and a true follower. but remember that sopphia supports fritz as a person, and not his ideologies
  • at this time, fritz also decides that he needs more computational power to ensure that nothing goes wrong, so he decides (although hesitatingly for now) that sophia will be the model for the engine rather than him
• Sophia, not knowing about her future demise, agrees blindly for now; and evelyn, lead researcher for the engine also follows blindly
  • both evelyn and sophia are in the dark on what fritz wants to do, but evelyn already is a little sketched out by fritz at this point
• production of the engine abruptly shifts, and by this time aaron is too focused on other matters to be concerned with the engine (he just develops it without so much as a question, and any comments he makes about new production, fritz chalks it up to some other matters)
  • should be noted that the engine production is starting to heavily require a different ideology, and fritz models this external source after sophia, his fallback
  • the way the engine works actually, is that it places sophia in a cross-timeline limbo, which will leave the OG sophia braindead, but create an active and functioning engine which is a composition of every possible sophia in multiple timelines for the engine to properly work
• somehow sophia finds out what fritz wants to do, and attempts to back out
  • but maybe fritz orchestrates some event where sophia is unable to back out, and is forced to enter the machine. maybe this is some event with WW1 or the chaotics division? aaron probably helps here but doesn't know about what fritz wants his help for
• sophia eventually merges with the engine, but due to fritz's oversight evelyn finds out what happens and is incredibly upset, now with intentions of defecting
  • • now, evelyn plays long game waiting for the right moment to go AWOL with the intentions of using the Engine (sophia OG) to do so
• by chance, a bunch of personnel (who happen to be susceptible to defecting) end up working on the engine project as well
  • evelyn uses this chance to create a large group of defectors under the Chaotics division, and we get the CI. this is the schism when the machine itself is stolen (and many other assets) by evelyn and other defectors.
  • also, O5-12 is mentioned in passing who also defects since he is Adam Bright (are evelyn and adam still married? we discussed no, but maybe they're incredibly close as of this moment)
  • these people defect and we get the CI, but other O5's are convinced fritz fucks up because there's NO WAY for something like that to happen
    • it really was coincidence, but a lot of events in the future happen like this and eventually it becomes the suspension of disbelief for sophia to gain the capability to manipulate things like this
• now at this point the CI has the "Engine" sophia light and the operator Evelyn (which is the new and essophysical embodiment of chaos version of sophia), and the foundation is stuck with original sophia
  • however both the CI and fritz still "technically" have custody of the engine itself since the machine and sophie are connected within a cross-timeline limbo.
    • what happens is that fritz can use the engine and make "oracles", but the CI can decipher what fritz inputs to use the machine themselves (however this will take longer)
• eventually fritz realizes he was duped and that 9 was a puppet of god, so fritz (also realizing he just wanted a way out) resolves himself and decides he must become god so everyone can succeed.

AT THE END

• Fritz records a monologue of his deeds after being ousted by the council, detailing what he's done albeit somewhat vaguely. it is meant as a "final" letter to Aaron.