CottonOfTheStars

Oh yea we brainstormin' now

Carbon Dated In Front Of A Live Studio Audience

• TV signals from outer space broadcasting, OR a film studio with ghost-y things replaying, a prehistoric sitcom
• dinosaurs were a reasonably advanced race and they made daytime TV
• all kinds of shows spanning about a year, before the broadcast cuts out suddenly as the meteor hits
• what are we implying here
  • some dinos escaped on an ark?
  • dino scp foundation?
  • meteor was an anomaly?
  • maybe the signals are being broadcast from the ark that is now returning to earth from a far away earthlike planet

Why are they shooting TV broadcasts at the earth? The culture of Gliese 667 Cc has had literally hundreds of millions of years to develop, these ancestors likely speak a completely different language, look totally different, and they're coming home to a planet of similarly alienated species. So what do they do to signal their return? They replay the last common pieces of culture the two populations share. Perhaps they know humans are here, maybe they think humans are evolved dinosaurs, maybe they don't know and are instead assuming the Dinos on earth survived. We don't know why they're coming, and therefore their intentions, hence the upgrade to Danger. As for Keter and Ekhi? Try stopping a space-ark that's 23 light years away and getting closer by the second from significantly impacting astronomy, sky observation, and try stopping dinosaur TV from instantly going viral if it ever gets through the array, etc etc.

"Universe"

• giant quotation marks around the entire universe
• big hitchhiker's guide vibes
• maybe the foundation detects the objects outside the universe but doesn't know what they are so there's this big centuries-long project to escape the universe and try to contain them bc they might be hostile and then they see what they are and they just go "oh"

The Eagle Is Stuck

• All the Apollo missions never had a return journey system bc they couldn't make one in time so they said "alright stay up there for a few months while we develop a system and we'll go rescue you" but then NASA funding got cut and they've been trying to make it back ever since
• now there's a whole-ass moon colony that the UIU (and Foundation?) have to hide
• Tie it to the current Second Space Race?

The Great Triscuit Fraud Of 19XX

• if a biscuit can be expressed as 2/2 scuits, then a triscuit can be expressed as 3/2 scuits
• anomalous consumer fraud?

Book Vapors

• burn books to release the hidden information trapped within
• basically the nazis were on to something

i thought the phone rang but it was actually the entire universe

• phone calls making people omniscient
• anomalous caller, or a conceptual universe contained inside the phone lines?

A Titanium Cockroach Turned Yetside Now

• Basically just a regular cockroach that's somehow alive despite being solid titanium
  • UNTIL they look at the reflection in it's shell and realise it's actually existing in a different time period after a catastrophic containment breach
  • Essentially the "now" cockroach and "future" cockroach have been swapped by a 4D inversion, like turning something inside out through time
• people from the future foundation start talking to them by writing stuff and holding it over the shell so they can see the reflection, try to tell them what happened (they lost the roach after the bad breach and only just found it again) and how not to have the breach happen
• As they're talking the breach happens and the roach escapes, foundation says they're gonna develop a faster system of talking to the past so when they find the roach it doesn't happen again and they can break the loop

Reality GAN

• Uhh yea exactly what it says, reality bending computer starts using a Generative Adversarial Network to create the "perfect" reality in a local space, leads to massive localized reality failures
• Stuff looks kinda like the ElegiacAI images, people look like This Person Does Not Exist, etc etc

Alone

• What if humanity IS alone in the universe?
• foundation has to contain information not because it's anomalous but bc if people found out for sure it would irreparably change normalcy, and therefore goes against the foundation's ideals
  • New object class: Pandora? Eden? Sakoku?
• foundation fakes radio signals, sends personnel to far-flung corners of the universe to become "alien" civilisations
• Humanity needs to dream, and be humbled by the cosmos

Lost Hours

• Calculational error (Like benedetti's tuning paradox) in the universe that makes days lose hours
• Anomalous number?
• Foundation stops the anomaly with 24 hours left in the day, make joke about how this will impact productivity
• Insomniacs are actually just people who still run on the old circadian rhythm? They sleep eventually but not for many hundreds of hours like the OG days, but the day-night cycle fucks them up

IDEAS: You can have them, today

• company that sells inspiration?
• Idea NFTs?
  • The company is trying to sue earth for "copying" ideas like gravity, relativity, language, etc, we should "go through the appropriate channels"
  • Maybe past civilisations did that, which is why Mayans sacrificed people to the sun god, etc etc

Dialogue

Item #: SCP-Umm… I can't remember. Do I even have a number?

Object Class: Tired.

Special Containment Procedures: I don't know, I just need to lie down, I think.

Description: Can you be a little more quiet? My head hurts. …I'm just feeling a little worse for wear right now, okay?

Addendum: Thanks.

Validation

• Skips needs narrative validation (read: upvotes) to exist
• Tie 682's immortality to the sheer amount of narrative validation it has received, it is an "essential" component of consensus reality now
• Various useful anomalies keep vanishing
• The foundation tries to kill all the bad anomalies by making their documentation shit?
• Create an in-universe dilemma on whether to make the article good or bad; if the phenomena ceases to exist this problem won't be a thing for the foundation BUT if it continues to exist they might be able to kill some nasty anomalies
• Foundation creates a system to make dangerous anomalies have terrible documentation but thaumiels/archons are given articles with intense narrative interest to allow them to receive validation and become incorporated into baseline reality

Nature

Nature (n.):
The basic or inherent features, character, or qualities of something.

The innate nature of…

• The anomalous? Make it a hypothetical "essence of anomaly"
• The innate nature of the universe? An object in an impenetrable sea of nothing
• What if at first it's just nature, you know a standard anomaly with grass and shit, but then gradually escalates to the *nature* of ???
• *Second* nature?
• Consciousness as a fundamental quality of the universe, it's Nature
• Anomalies as a fundamental quality of the universe?
• The nature of the universe is to be a thinking machine for a higher being? Hmmmmmmmmm or is that too similar to that one Godel class
• Not in your nature? De-anomalising anomalies?
• The Nature of the universe is to be alive? Lily's proposal? Or just generally life as an emergent quality

Nature but I might actually know what I'm doing

Begin with an anomaly that very much fits the generic Nature theme, ya know something's funky with some trees or some shit, and then gradually expand scope to the point where it is revealed that the anomaly is in fact (life? Something else?) as an inherent quality of the universe, it is in the nature of all things to become a part of nature perhaps? Or maybe the very idea that things have natures is what is anomalous?

• Relate to Lily's proposal - earth being alive as proof of the hypothesis, or perhaps the skip is the thing that results in the end of all life on earth? Maybe this destroys the author's original intent though, don't wanna be disrespectful
• Any other skips about planets and other things being alive/sentient?
• So are we talking life as an emergent quality or something weirder?
  • Quantum soul? Like some kind of anomalous interaction with the fabric of reality is what imbues life? (Probably too bullshitty and high-concept)
• Maybe the fact that things can have natures is anomalous because we're in a fictional world, so why are some things off limits to alteration and reinterpretation? "Who watches the watchmen" type thing?

In Your Nature

What if the very fact that something has a nature is anomalous, after all we're in a fictional universe so what if there's something that's off limits to reinterpretation or alteration no matter what?
An "immovable object" in the narrative sense?
Maybe they think it's the authors simply having a deliberate idea for the story but after using a supernarrativic funnel to enter the real world they find out that even the authors can't alter the thing?
That could imply an anomaly that is very real to us, bring the high-concept into the real world

Could use some CSS trickery to have a section where you need to type one thing, but no matter what you actually type it comes up with the "immovable object"

Maybe relate it to Strange Attractors, all interpretations of the thing eventually come back to the one key quality that is "in it's nature" regardless of how wild the interpretation is

An anomaly is pending neutralization, an [OBJECT/PERSON] that is always percieved as (or perhaps has the physical qualities of?) [QUALITY]. This neutralization can be done thanks to recent developments in hypernarrativic technology, that is, the foundation is directly rewriting the contents of the documents on the narrative level above (our level) to bend reality to their will (although this is not how the procedure is described to lower level employees, rather it is described as "Thaumaturgical manipulation of the innate pataphysical nature of an anomaly"). It is then discovered that this [OBJECT/PERSON] is immune to this treatment.

The implications of this should be left somewhat open, but I want to imply that the object's anomaly extends beyond just the fictional world and into our own. I have some ideas for how this could be performed:

• Have a chat log of the article in the process of being written in-universe, and have the reader directly write some lines of the article about the anomaly. When it is discovered that the reader cannot type anything other than [QUALITY], the article ends.

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Item#: XXXX

Level2

Containment Class:

euclid

Secondary Class:

none

Disruption Class:

ekhi

Risk Class:

notice

link to memo

Special Containment Procedures: The Foundation's EHMAN satellite array is to scramble all incoming SCP-XXXX broadcasts and send copies of any signals received to Site-46 for analysis. In the event of a leak consult Document-XT-2 ("Quiet Blue Dot" Protocol).

Foundation web crawlers are to monitor news and scholarly publications in the field of paleontology for mentions of anachronistic artefacts from the Mesozoic Era. In the event such an artefact is discovered, Foundation web crawlers are to wipe all mentions from the web as per standard data censoring protocols, all individuals involved with the discovery are to be amnesticised, and any physical evidence is to be retrieved or destroyed as deemed necessary.

MTFs Gamma-5 ("Red Herrings") and Alpha-4 ("Pony Express") are available to assist in information containment and artefact recovery at the discretion of their respective commanders.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a series of TV broadcasts in the 76 to 82 MHz range emanating from the Gliese 667 system, a triple star system in the constellation Scorpius located 23.6 light years from Earth. Broadcasts consist of TV programs in the style of talk shows, news reports, sit-coms, drama, and reality TV, with all cast members being specimens of the superorder Dinosauria (Henceforth referred to as SCP-XXXX-1), and other flora and fauna being consistent with those of the greater Mesozoic Era.

SCP-XXXX broadcasts take place in environments featuring 20-21st century style, architecture, and technology, but with changes in accessibility and ergonomics to make buildings and objects suitable for use by SCP-XXXX-1 instances. Instances speak English in all broadcasts, however "dubbed" versions of broadcasts have been sent in multiple languages including French, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Hindi. Broadcasts are sent semi-regularly over the course of 12 months documenting a chronological order of events, end abruptly, and then repeat after a 1-month break.

Despite flora, fauna, and climate appearing to match current evidence and hypotheses on the Mesozoic Era, no built remains or other evidence of SCP-XXXX broadcasts being primary sources has been discovered on Earth. The origin and authenticity of the broadcasts are under speculation.

Addendum 1 - Notable Broadcasts: SCP-XXXX was first discovered by the EHMAN array on 09/04/19¹. The following is abridged for brevity, a full list of broadcasts made in a single "loop" is available on request.

Date	Content	Notes
09/04/19	A breakfast news program, SBA News, lasting one hour. Date is given in-broadcast as the 23rd of The New-Sun Moon, 64,976,002, however SCP-XXXX-1 instances refer to years by the last 2 digits unless more are required, for ease of conversation. Topics include a potential tax on non-electronic silicon products, and improved infrastructure development for aquatic species.	First broadcast, sent at the beginning of each loop. Notably, the dating system implies that SCP-XXXX-1 species developed advanced culture, specifically a concept of history and time, significantly faster than Homo Sapiens.
27/05/19	A talk show, The Roar. Discussion includes rights of non-Dinosauria species, celebrity scandals, and mental health. Interviewed is Kyrie ¢ir2, a stunt actor and female member of the genus "Pterodactylus".	First broadcast to include usage of the early language tentatively called "Saurian". Other valuable insights into SCP-XXXX-1 culture.
Date	Some kind of paranormal show, ancient aliens etc type beat, obviously anomalous activity, begin to imply that there's some kind of government coverup agency like the UIU or Foundation. Maybe "UFOs" are actually just the agency doing space experiments, they already know the comet is going to be redirected and there's nothing they can do to stop it.	Notes
15/07/19	SBA News broadcast. Topics are unremarkable, until during the weather report when a breaking news bulletin is delivered stating that "AksR's3 Comet", a comet with an orbital period of 183 years, has abruptly changed course and will now impact Earth in 9 months instead of passing by. Scientists are unable to explain the course change, and world governments release statements within the hour promising to work with other nations and kingdoms to divert the comet or destroy it.	Content of programming changes significantly following this broadcast, almost every news program features an update on the comet, and the comet is frequently referenced in other shows, both fiction and non-fiction. Based on the content of programs, no space or aeronautics program in SCP-XXXX-1 society has succeeded in sending a craft outside of Earth's atmosphere.
Date	Some kind of show rerun, worldbuild on the recent history of dino society	Notes
Date	Talk show/drama show again, talk about disruption to daily life, people have started panic prepping and hoarding	Notes
Date	Science news program on potential solutions to the comet problem, blowing it up with surface to space missile, redirection via drone, some kind of ark project as a last resort. Dinosaurs have made progress, first dino in space, but are nowhere near close to anything they're saying they need to do. Perhaps see if its' possible to imply some of them are working on secret projects with the dino-foundation? Maybe they take some questions about "lights in the sky"?	Notes
T-1 month	Press release from some government/kingdom saying they give up on space-based solutions and are instead constructing bunkers, Deep Impact style. Other nations follow suit.	Notes
T-10ish days	The final news broadcast from an above ground location	Notes
08/04/20	Press release from president of Some Country as they're about to enter the bunker and seal it, barely visible in the background behind clouds is an object taking off	Notes
09/04/20	Emergency broadcast telling people to seek shelter, cuts abruptly to static	Shortest broadcast, lasting only one minute. Final broadcast in loop. Loop begins anew after a 7-day break.

+ [INPUT LEVEL 3 CREDENTIALS]

Addendum 2: On 11/05/20 Foundation telescopes detected an unnatural object performing a transit of Gliese 667 B. 24 hours later, SCP-XXXX broadcasts began to undergo a noticeable increase in doppler blueshift consistent with the origin point accelerating to a speed of 0.8c, directly approaching Earth. Origin point is estimated to arrive within the solar system in the year 2047.

Containment Procedures and Description being rewritten. Clearance to be raised to Level 3. Change of object class to Keter/Danger under consideration.

Footnotes

1. dd/mm/yy

2. "¢" denotes a high-pitched screech similar to a hawk call, which then melds into the following vowel. Sounds are left over from early SCP-XXXX-1 language consisting of roars, screeches, and other "Dinosaur sounds" similar to those used in pop culture. Name is traditional, according to instance.

3. "R" denotes a short, low frequency rumble or growl originating from the lower throat/upper chest.