Tristan MacIntyre 0

Greetings and salutations! My name is Tristan MacIntyre and I am a writer and creator.

My biggest outlet for this passion is going to be Dungeons & Dragons, as a Dungeon Master. I prefer being a DM over a player, as I quite like weaving stories and seeing how my friends react to the game I create for them.

But you are here for the Scips, of course.

I don’t have much, yet, but I’m looking to change that. Feel free to have a look around.

The Great White Worm

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The Mekhanites delivered their Answer, and the Kalmaktama give their Response.

Seeking Greenlights: YES

Page Type: SCP article (with accompanying tale).

Genre: Mystery, Horror.

Page Layout: Standard article with the works. SCP features multiple layers of clearance, from 1-6. To advance, readers must go through a SCiPNET login using names found in the article. Each clearance reveals a new part of the Anomaly.

Elevator Pitch: Anomaly was the contained aftermath of an event that happens thousands of years ago. The area is uncovered accidentally, and the Foundation’s attempts to study it accidentally make the situation worse. They manage to get it under control, but at a morally compromising cost.

Central Narrative: Each Clearance Level serves to help funnel information slowly to the reader, managing the narrative timeline and total information of the anomaly (which the head researcher also enjoys doing, so it fits in character).

Clearance Levels

L1 - just a weird metal tube that’s electrified, nothing super crazy here. Very redacted.

L2 - actual start for SCP personnel. Discovery, People go missing, MTF investigates a mushroom cave with weird metal tube in middle.

L3 - Test, Foundation accidentally releases what was in the metal tube. Recounts what that is and what released it.

L4 - Containment Breach/Event side a. Foundation engages what was in the metal tube as it beelines for a specific location. Recounts that engagement.

L5 - Containment Breach/Event side b. Recovery of the metal tube from the cave, then temporary neutralization of anomaly. Reveals that mushrooms control what was inside the metal tube. Anomaly is recontained.

L6 - Reveal that this a Sarkic seige engine designed in response to the Mekhanite Colossi. Cavern was designed as a nest and had a Way attached to it. Recounts the mural left in the room, as well as viable Greek Fire (that is to be used SOLELY for this anomaly.)

Tale - the head researcher and MTF captain for this anomaly meet with O5-12 and Dr. Judith Low to discuss.

Hook: I only ADDED information each time, rather than outright change or modify the anomaly for each clearance level. I wanted to subvert ideas of what was going on and leave hints and what it is without just ripping the rug out from the reader and replacing it. Mainly focusses on current events, but features glimpses to what happened long ago (especially if the reader manages to ask themself the right questions.

Additional details: I wrote this separately as a writing exercise, and wanted to see if it could stand up to the test! It’s a hefty lad (Levels 1-5 took up Sandboxes character limit).

Authors Notes: This is sort of a little love note to both SCP-610 and Sarkicism. SCP-610 brought me into the SCP Foundation during its infancy, and then as I grew older it faded to the back of my head, only popping on my radar for one of its games. During 2020 I came across SCP-2480, not realizing that SCP-610 was a possible inspiration. It dragged me back in and I love the way the stories, world, and characters are written. That’s why it was my first attempt at an article.

The story itself really is just about the dead Karcist and the abomination it created. This individual grew up on the stories of how the Kalmaktama lost the War of the Flesh, their love for Ion, and then was put on a pedestal due to their abilities. They decide to use their expertise to strike back at the fear that was ingrained into them. They conceived a child, prematurely had it, and then mutated it with carnomancy, all to stamp out the Mekhanites and then to provide a gift for when Ion returned. We learn that this this creature is intelligent, yet it follows such a strict routine. It’s treated like an animal and object instead of an actual individual. It begs one to wonder, what it was given some respect and love, how smart can it get, and what will it do when it does?

Links: Oops, it’s a hefty chonky lad, and has two whole sandbox pages to contain its girth:

Parts 1 - 5

Part 6 + 1 Tale

The White Throne

I find it is important to keep a notes on basically everything you can think of, most writers call this a “Story Bible”. It contains ALL the information that pertains to the world you are writing, even stuff you haven’t (or won’t) revealed to readers.

You’ll find some tabs here of groups, stories, or mythologies that I’ve kept track of. I consider myself a bit of an archivist, I love learning, collecting, and discussing information.

Please note, this is my personal interpretation of the information provided, though I do try my best to differentiate between what is author/consensus canon and what is hypothetical. Not every story that is involved with a particular topic is included either, as I’ve only collected information if it is very relevant to the central narrative or themes of the topic. Remember: there is no TRUE canon to the SCP Foundation.

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Special Containment Procedures

Description

Discovery

Research Notes

Some great sources for Sarkicism are the Sarkicism Hub, the In Memoria, Adytum Canon, and the Sarkic Tag.

General Files

Character Files

Äiti Joka Vaatii Varpaita

Mānsatt'āppaṁ Kunna Kalākāran

Location Files

Item Files

LINKS

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Excerpts in: of Lovataar and the Throne

A holy text for the Sarkic cults.

From of Lovataar and the Throne.

¹And it came to pass in those days that there was peace upon the land. The host of the Ozi̮rmok had taken much of the land of the Daevites, and there were none to oppose them. ²Ion had taken for his seat the city of Adytum, and he dwelt there for a time in prosperity.

³It was then that a great sadness overwhelmed the Klavigar Lovataar, and she went to Ion and she begged him for a boon. ⁴"Take not thy wrath out upon thine enemies. ⁵Stay thy hand and dismiss thy righteous fire, for that path leads to suffering and death."

⁶And lo, Ion's heart was moved, for he looked upon Lovataar with great affection. He knelt before her and took her into his arms and whispered to her words of comfort. ⁷It was such that her heart was still, and though she wept still for the prophesy that was yet to be fulfilled, her resolve was strengthened.

⁸For it was in those days that she set about to craft a gift for her lord. For thirty days and thirty nights she labored in great agony, growing forth from her bosom a finely wrought seat of such exquisite beauty that all who gazed upon it, marveled.

⁹It was then that the Kalmaktama celebrated the feast of sukanta, as Ion had decreed would fall upon the anniversary of his liberation of the people. ¹⁰It was on the tenth and final day of that great feast did Lovataar present the fruit of her labor to Ion. She had taken the crafting of her flesh and added to it decoration of the finest lapis lazuli from the kingdom of Kemet and jade from far away Zhongguo. ¹¹Together with Saarn, she had crafted a soft pillow to adorn its surface, so that Ion would be at ease upon it, and had crafted it from their own raven locks, so that it would continue to live with their love.

¹²And Ion looked upon the gift and his heart was moved again, for he knew what great cost Lovataar had borne in the crafting of such a gift. And he bade the celebrants of the great feast to be still, and he spake to them of her love. ¹³It was then that he decreed that the seat would travel with him, wherever he should go, to always remind him that he led only by the love of those he would lead.

- The Rise of Kalmaktama, 3:1-13; The Solomonari Valkzaron

Culture Files

SCP Sandbox III

Sandbox III: Revenge of the Sandbox