Dead Man Blues

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Page Type: SCP Article

Genre: Horror ish

Page Layout: SCP Article with interviews and recorded drone footage of inside the club

Elevator Pitch:

  • Jazz Club that appears in different locations around New York if there aren't enough patrons who enter at a given night
  • The doors open at 9:00 P.M. and teh jazz musicians begin playing music at 10:00 P.M. and it apperas to attract people who hear it outside the building
  • The doors of the club close at 12:19:20 A.M. and cannot be openned from the inside or outside
  • At 12:19:20 A.M. the musicians play the jazz song Dead Man Blues. Over song duration, their flesh begins to rapidly decay until only their skeletons remain. But both the musicians and and audience continue as if nothing abnormal is happening.
  • The musicians, now skeletons, play faster jazz over the course of 18 minutes, the audience experiences the same flesh decay and also become skeletons with no visable signs of pain
  • After the music ends the lights in the club shut off and the skeletons of the patrons fall to the ground
  • When the doors reopen again the remains of patrons are no where to be seen
  • Patrons who hate jazz experiance unbearable fear as they watch the musicians' flesh decay
    • They also experiance intense pain as their own flesh decays over the 18 minute time span

Central Narrative:
After hearing several reports of mass disaperances across New York City, the Foundation sends personnel to a popular namless jazz club that appeared seemingly overnight. 3 Foundation personnel entered the club but only 1 reported back who left before 12:19:20 A.M. and was unable to re-enter as the entry doors were sealed shut. The doors open the next night with signs of the patrons or the 2 Foundation personnel anywhere in the club. The Foundation then sends more personnel to form a perimeter under the guise of construction. Even with no one inside the doors still close at 12:19:20 A.M. But the doors instead crack open after 10 minutes. After entering the building, the club that was initially seen by the Foundation officer was gone, the door only leading them down a hallway stopping at a brick wall.

Hook/Attention-Grabber:

  • The jazz music attracts people like moths to a flame and provide a state of euphoria when it is listened to.
  • The musicians are still able to play instruments like the trumpet and trumbone even as skeletons
  • The audience are even more euphoric as their flesh melts and many even go dancing even though it would be biologically impossible do to their decaying state