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"Do you want the truth or do you want to stop asking questions?" - To be used somewhere, probably by Sal.
| moklin | Hippo: and now i want to write a GAW/Murphy article about a rouge android policeman that's called the PC police |
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| Hippo | I don't see how that would sync with Murphy Law, but I could def. see GAW doing something like that xD |
| WalkingStuff | SCP-2786 |
| jarvis | walkingstuff: SCP-2786: The Archetype (written an hour ago by TheBillith; rating: +0) - http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2786 |
| moklin | it's a rogue policeman |
| moklin | that's like, the epitome of modern noir |
| CaptainKirby | It probably would be. Honestly, I was hoping the irony that emotional abuse created a town that's finally learned to be nice to each other would give the idea the twist it needed. But I see that's not the case. |
| CaptainKirby | I could attempt the parent-child angle, but I have trouble figuring out how to work this into a narrative |
| Hippo | moklin: I disagree! But admittedly this is because I have very specific ideas about the themes of noir as a genre, and I also realize I'm prolly being a bit pedantic for what was just a fun joke you're making (pardon >_>) |
| moklin | nah i actually kinda want to write this now |
| moklin | maybe a clash of buddy cop with noir |
| Hippo | moklin: like we don't get a strong sense of murphy here beyond that he's looking for someone called 'armani' and that he's belligerent to lewis re: being possibly deaf |
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| Hippo | moklin: two of the important tricks re: Murphy Law for me is that every article involving him has to work without reading a previous article (IE they have to be stand-alone), *and* when Murphy enters, he enters big; you have to know precisely who he is in the opening paragraph |
| CimmeriaFK | Modern_Erasmus: Yeah, it's a temporary holding facility for people being deported from heaven until they can be properly processed. |
| Hippo | IE after reading just the first paragraph I should have a clear image of precisely who this guy is and what his deal is |
| moklin | man, that's a big order |
| moklin | i'll try to make it work, though. |
| Hippo | yeah the 'every article must stand alone' part is actually really, really hard |
| CimmeriaFK | not as hard as you might think |
| CimmeriaFK | it's something I strive for in every tale series I write |
| Hippo | cimmeriafk: what makes it hard is that i have to re-introduce murphy's gimmick in a way that's novel every time |
| moklin | CimmeriaFK: it is hard if you're a crap writer, though |
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| CimmeriaFK | moklin: fair |
| Hippo | otherwise old readers will go 'WE GET IT' — or new readers will go 'Buh?!' |
| Hippo | so like every time you need to re-introduce the idea of a metanarrative construct that flattens stories into a 1930s noir movie in a way that is informative and also uniquely entertaining |
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Robots
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Robots_by_William_Richards
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Yamaha_Motobot_Ver.2
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Salvius
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robots_in_Robot_Dream_Exhibition_Hong_Kong.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valkyrie-robot-3.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Virginia_Tech%27s_CHARLI_humanoid_robot_on_display_at_AAAI_2010.jpg
The SCP file is about the Anderson Robotics 1980s Robocop, appearance as-of-yet undecided. Robocop and Murphy are on the hunt for the infamous (Three Portlands?) (Eurtec?) (Probably Eurtec) mob boss Sal Vius (SCP-1167?), who's a robot head on a table. When Sal's caught, Armani goes back to the Foundation to drop off sal, making the object class Euclid. Armani remains at large, Sal rots in a Foundation-approved cell.
FADE IN:
INT. SITE-38 - MORNING
A pale woman sits at her desk. She's writing a report about containment procedures on her clipboard. She's in uniform, a plain white lab coat, grey shirt, and brown pants.
In the doorway stands a man dressed in a trilby and lab coat that are altogether too brown and leathery for the occasion. He's almost outta time, and he's nearly outta bullets.
His name is MURPHY, and he's our narrator. He's got a voice made out of sandpaper, and a face of marble.
He's also been trying to get this woman's attention for the past minute.
NARRATOR
Visiting hours seem to be over. I wish I could've taken her along for the ride, but they've got Armani, and I've got about three minutes.
MURPHY walks to the desk and begins to yank open drawers. He pulls open manilla folders and scans them for anything resembling Armani. His trusty .44 doesn't lose sight of its target, DR. MICHAELS.
DR. MICHAELS
MURPHY
DR. MICHAELS
MURPHY
Now I'm gonna say this one last time.
Where's Armani?
DR. MICHAELS
SCP-XXXX. You're looking for SCP-XXXX.
NARRATOR
My name is Murphy Law. And I'm the guy you call when everything that could go wrong… did.
TITLE SPLASH
Murphy Law in… HERE'S LOOKING AT EUCLID!
FADE OUT.
Not entirely sure what I want to do with the object class here. It flows better if I just go to the containment procedures with Murphy breaking Armani out, but the Object Class is still a part of the SCP, and it needs to be a part of this.
Object Class: Safe Euclid
This bit is the actual Containment Procedures displayed as percentage chances of them existing as described in Murphy's bit, based off of plausibility, repetition in the Murphyverse, etc.
Automated Infohazard Text-Recovery Analysis
78% chance
30% chance
92% chance
47% chance
91% chance
Description: SCP-XXXX is a sapient humanoid robotic entity with a height of 1.7 m and a weight of 70 kg. SCP-XXXX is comprised of equal parts Zinc, Iron-Osmium alloy, Dolomite, Titanium, Chromium, and Lead. SCP-XXXX is capable of independent motion at a rate of ≤ six m/s. "Richard Armani" is painted on the right shoulder of SCP-XXXX. A functional electronic cigarette of undetermined model is welded to the center of the faceplate.
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: It's Sal. Probably not actually accepted as the proper slot for Sal by the Foundation, but that's not the point.