I'm aware this is rather unconventional, but I've included three proposals in one. I'm not trying to circumvent anything. I have an idea for a shared narrative between two different SCPs. I tried to include everything in one proposal, but it was clunky and confusing to read through. So instead I've separated them into small and cleaner sections.
Seeking Greenlights: Yes
Page Type: SCP Article, Carroll Article
Genre: Horror, Action, Mystery, Crime
Elevator Pitch: The Debt Collector is an automaton that was used by the Chicago Spirits since their inception. The Foundation will explore the history of the Debt Collector to try and understand what it is, but the further back they look the more intelligent the Debt Collector looks to have been. Even showing complex emotions, and being a close friend to many of the Spirits.
Central Narrative: The Foundation will have recovered the Debt Collector during the raid of an MC&D facility; who had purchased the Debt Collector from the Spirits years earlier. The Foundation will try to piece together the history of the Debt Collector, starting with the most recently dated documentation seized from the initial raid. When it comes into Foundation custody, the Debt Collector behaves more like an animal. But the further back into it's history the Foundation researchers go, the more the Debt Collector is described as a thinking, conscious, and sometime friendly being. They are even able to trace it back to the founding of the Chicago Spirits before prohibition, and a steel mill accident that most likely began the Debt Collector's slow slide into insanity.
Hook/Attention-Grabber: This isn't the first story to show that a monster was more human in it's past, I'm more interested in telling the sequence of events backwards (starting with the most recent event, and working to the oldest event). I think writing an SCP article for the state of Debt Collector as the Foundation knows it, and a Carroll article as the Spirits knew it could really exemplify the contrast between the beginning and end states of the Debt Collector.
Additional Notes: The Debt Collector is a worn automaton powered by unknown means. It's machinery is made a dense, yet unknown silver alloy. It's body is covered in several layers of tattered clothes. It's left arm is missing from the elbow down, and it's right arm has been wrapped and welded to a chain with a sharpened factory hook at it's end. It possessive anomalous control over this makeshift whip like weapon, even being able to bounce it off surface.
For those unfamiliar (I was until recently) a Carroll is basically how the Chicago Spirits refer to anomalies.
Page Type: SCP Article
Genre (Optional): Horror, Drama/Emotional, History, Mystery
Elevator Pitch: The Queen of Puppets had been running a cult in secret, even beyond the foundation's eye. The cult engaged in leader worship, and did not engage in anomalous activity openly. The Queen itself is a plotting, cunning entity. It does not act aggressively or physically attack foundation staff members. Instead it uses nearly invisible silver threads to interact with the world have ever it might need.
Central Narrative: The foundation received a letter directly to the entrance of Site 19, inviting them to come capture the Queen. Wary of something that knows the foundation's location, two different MTF units were dispatched. But the Queen and her cult were captured without incident. The Queen caused a containment breach during a period in which the foundation was unsure of her abilities. The Queen's reach in the facility is unknown after this breach, and staff must try to properly contain the Queen while stopping her threads from taking over the site. All the while a separate team investigates the manor of an anomalous researcher from the 18th century after his notes indicated a link to the Queen.
Hook/Attention-Grabber: The Queen at first seems harmless, but it's willingness to wait and strike at opportune moments makes it truly threatening to the foundation. Not just in physical harm, but in the things it might release, or worse yet learn.
Additional Notes:The Queen of Puppets is is a being that resembles a porcelain doll with elements of a marionette puppet. Her skin is separated into several sections that often have noticeable gaps between them. She speaks fluently in several languages, prefers to be well dressed, and enjoy philosophical conversations.
Page Type: SCP Articles, Tale
Genre (Optional): Horror, Drama/Emotional, History, Mystery
Page Layout (Optional): This narrative is spread between the two SCPs listed above. While each will include their own narratives and a piece of this narrative, it cannot be complete without knowing the other side.
Elevator Pitch: The idea behind this story is that two very similar beings were given different histories and have become almost completely different because of it.
Central Narrative: The narrative will follow two servant automatons of an 18th century anomalous researcher. One male and one female in appearance. The male automaton is injured and breaks part of itself, at which point it's owner discards it. The female on the other hand is subject to the torment of serving a repressed old man who spent his life studying the unknown rather than having a family. The male automaton survives through sacrifice and self repair, while the female bides her time for her master's death to become her own master.
Hook/Attention-Grabber: The story is about upbringing, even for two anomalous automatons. They were given different kinds of terrible upbringings and became two different kinds of terrible beings.
Additional Notes: I plan to write a tale eventually as well to fill in some gaps that would naturally be left in the SCP articles, as well give a more detailed account of the early days of the automatons.
Additional Questions
Did you enjoy the shared narrative, or should they remain separate?
Which of the two seemed more interesting/ was your favorite?
What was the most interesting part about all three pitches?
Do you think either SCP would be able to stand out on it's own, or does the narrative carry it?
Page Type: SCP Article
Genre: Horror, Action, Mystery, Crime
Elevator Pitch: The Debt Collector was once used by MC&D as a form of debt collection enforcement and intimidation. However as the years went by the Collector grew more violent, so it was put away into storage. During the raid of an MC&D facility, staff released the Collector in a desperate attempt to stop the foundation. Through documents seized during the raid, the foundation discovers that the Collector was once a valued part of MC&D's operations.
Central Narrative: The story of the Debt Collector travels backwards from when the foundation first captured it. Using documents found during the raid, the foundation pieces together the series of event in which the Collector went from a high priority asset to a broken tool for MC&D. This path leads the foundation to discover a potential friendship between the Collector and the most powerful name in Marshall, Carter, and Dark, the man that sold the Collector to MC&D, and a line of 18th century automaton servants.
Hook/Attention-Grabber: The Debt Collector initially appears to be another indiscriminate killer, but the foundation uncovers a history of an efficient tool, underworld legend, and even trusted voice inside of MC&D. The further back in time the Foundation looks the less animalistic the Collector seems to have been.
Additional Notes: The Debt Collector is a worn automaton covered in several layers of tattered clothes. It's left arm is missing from the elbow down, and it's right arm has been bonded to a chain with a sharpened factory hook at it's end. It's appearance was meant to intimidate uncooperative customers for MC&D, but the hook and chain were used to bind and cleanly kill targets when needed. As it aged, this process became messier.
Page Type: SCP Article
Genre: Horror, Action, Mystery, Crime
Elevator Pitch: The Debt Collector is an entity that was used by MC&D for an unknown amount of time as an intimidator and enforcer of debt collection. However, MC&D lost control of their enforcer, and after the complete slaughter of one of their retrieval teams, they contacted the foundation to handle the Collector. It's primally aggressive towards any human life, but it's known to actively hunt those it is aware owe any sort of debt. It's behavior is believed to be animistic due to the damage from the methods of MC&D's control.
Central Narrative: The narrative of the Debt Collector will follow several cold case of gruesome murders committed by MC&D. The foundation had previously thought that MC&D might have had an anomalous unit to collect debts, but it was not expected to be a single entity. The mystery of how MC&D controlled the Collector grows when it gets linked back a line of previously thought fictional automaton servants from the 18th century.
Hook/Attention-Grabber: The Debt Collector appears to be a more classical SCP monster, but is actually a broken tool. The foundation tries to piece together what the Collector was like at it's height. A time when even the foundation was truly unaware of it.
Additional Notes: The Debt Collector is an automaton that can barely speak, is covered in tattered rags and chains, and fights with a large hook attached by a chain that it has anomalous control over.
Seeking Greenlights: Yes
Page Type: SCP Articles, (Potentially) Tale
Genre (Optional): Horror, Drama/Emotional, Action, History
Elevator Pitch: The Debt Collector is an entity that was used by MC&D as a… debt collector for an unknown amount of time. The Debt Collector is an automaton that can barely speak, is covered in tattered rags and chains, and fights with a large hook and chain that it has anomalous control over. It is aggressive to almost anything it comes in contact with, especially those that owe a debt of any kind.
The Queen of Puppets is is a being that resembles a porcelain doll. Her skin is broken into several sections that often have noticeable gaps between them. She speaks fluently in several languages, prefers to be well dressed, and enjoy philosophical conversations. She is never outwardly aggressive and tends to be far more manipulative. She possess the ability to control nearly invisible threads of silver that slip out through the openings in her skin.
Central Narrative: While this is technically two unique entries, to complete both narratives requires one another. The narrative between the two will slowly walk backwards to show how two very different entities both started as something similar.
The Debt Collector will have come to the foundation attention when MC&D contacts them and informs the foundation that they lost control of it. Despite little information to go off of, the foundation locates the Debt Collector. There are initially many causalities, but they are eventually able to restrain and transport it to containment. The Debt Collector break containment, after overhearing a researcher thanking another with the phrase "I'm in your debt".
The Queen of Puppets came to the foundation on it's own. At first it seemed to be harmless. However during the initial interview, interviewer offended the Queen of Puppets and she hung the interviewer with her string. The foundation members were unable to see the string that hung the interviewer, and used the Queen had telekinetic abilities and placed her in an anti-telepath containment room. User its physical strands, it was easily able to break containment. The Queen visited The Debt Collector, but did not break it's containment and only spoke to it. After this the Queen's abilities came to light, and her openings were sealed off with a water tight sealant.
Together, they both came from a line of sentient servants developed and sold in the late 1700s. These servants were controlled by an anomalous object referred to as "their strings". Both the Queen and Collector served the same master, however the Debt Collector had been damaged and was thrown out; and it's strings were lost The Queen remained by their master until his death, at which point she stole her own strings.
The two of them are puppets. One of them was cut free of their strings, and the other started pulling the strings for themselves.
Hook/Attention-Grabber: Having two, seemingly unrelated entities share a past has always been an interesting idea, and has been done before. But specifically having two close to identical anomalies evolve differently and seeing how they turned out because of their different histories is what makes this stand out in my opinion.
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