Another Couple of Ideas
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A Couple More Ideas
SrGunk 01 Oct 2017 03:26
More ideas here! Just some ideas that randomly popped up before I went to bed last night.
Disclaimer though, both are pretty lengthy.
1) E.D. Mail
1) Extra Dimensional Mail
Extra dimensional mail, i know, sounds like a bad one, but hear me out on this. This skip would be a collection of enveloped mails spontaneously manifesting inside one of the foundation's sites. Of course, since they're extra dimensional, they'd have some weird ass writings/topics, and maybe even small packages, some the foundation can't really comprehend with.
It would be until one mail manifests addressed to the foundation that have been from an inter dimensional postal service provider's, let's call it "InDi-Mail", customer support. The letter would speak directly to the foundation stating that they've found an interference to their "EM-mailwaves" (placeholder name) or whatever it is they use to send the mail via an unknown type of EM-wave and that they're fixing the mix up.
The interference on the EM-mailwaves would be theorized by the foundation to be due to another SCP on the site which displays electromagnetic anomalies.
Idk what happens after InDi-Mail fixes the fuckup on their deliveries. It might get Neutralized after a halt on random mail popping out of nowhere inside the foundation, or if the foundation continues to search for the whereabouts of InDi-Mail and attempt to make contact once again.
OR, InDi-Mail may end up finding an opportunity seeing their contact with the foundation and could potentially plan to expand their services to our reality. This leads to a new dilemma of course with InDi-Mail attempting to introduce inter dimensional mail delivery in our reality.
Another version I had for this idea is that instead of mail, trash from all sorts of dimensions were being dumped at a foundation site by accident. And instead of an inter dimension postal service provider, it's an inter dimensional trash disposal company meant to take trash from a handful of dimensions.
What do you guys think would work better?
2) Public Service Announcement
It's an idea I revised which was initially an idea for Mr. D.A.R.E., since taking Mr. D.A.R.E. seems to require a better understanding of the issue being parodied, I decided to take my idea to a different direction and revised it.
So for the revised idea, I imagine a television dedicated on displaying Public Service Announcements specifically aimed towards children with its Willy Wonka-ish vibes. These would tackle issues regarding drug use, violence, bullying, bad conduct, etc. You can imagine it as sort of a short children's television program aimed to reform children. Each PSA contains a short whimsical skit tackling the issue, afterwards, a message would be given delivered by the reoccurring female teacher character, we'll call her Miss Conduct for now. Each PSA would only last for a maximum of 5 minutes.
The anomaly would be observed once an individual who viewed the skip's PSA clip attempts to perform such acts showcased in the video. Those who would attempt such acts begin to experience auditory and visual hallucinations of Miss Conduct. It would be described as though "they can see and hear her as they do such acts, creepily reminding them that what they're doing is bad." making it pretty unsettling to perform such acts.
These hallucinations gets to be progressively stronger and more unsettling to the affected individual if said individual stubbornly continues to perform such acts despite the anomaly. These hallucinations of Miss Conduct are also whimsical in nature carrying her behavior from the PSA clips, being unintentionally creepy and psychedelic in nature due to this matter. (ie. Miss Conduct wagging a finger at you from afar, the face of the one you're talking to suddenly shifts into that of Ms. Conduct's, the sun suddenly turns into that of Ms. Conduct's face and speaks to you, etc.)
Ms. Conduct would eventually want to talk to the Foundation through the television screen seeking for comfort. Displaying depression for being ineffective against drug users since they often mistake their anomalous hallucinations to be caused by the drugs they took and shrug off her reminders.
Yet again, what d'you guys think?
Critiques are most welcome, also, do tell if there's a skip similar to these ideas, or if they're is even worth doing at all.
Last edited on 01 Oct 2017 14:10 by SrGunk Show more
Unfold A Couple More Ideas by SrGunk, 01 Oct 2017 03:26
Re: Another Couple of Ideas
Zyn 01 Oct 2017 20:10
Extra Dimensional Mail
We actually have something kind of like this in base concept, but instead of letters, the messages are sent via butterfly: SCP-2332
"InDi-Mail" sounds like Indi-mail, which is hilarious to me for some reason. But maybe it's a new service offered by these hipster spacetime wizards who are helping people send postcards and stuff between interdimensional vacations?
I feel like this could be interesting if it was less predictable, and the mail itself was more specific. Maybe only flat mail, no packages, and certain universes need to have other things added (a sprig of sage in lieu of a postage stamp?) to send correctly? Then there's potential for some interesting test logs if the Foundation tries to send things via InDi-Mail and their stuff keeps getting sent back because they didn't follow the correct procedure?
I'm… not entirely sure about this one. I'm pretty sure we have some articles similar to this, in that they're children's shows or broadcasts directed towards children and teaching them about good behavior… but I can't remember them immediately. I think one involved a male individual standing in a bathroom and maaaaybe LAUGH IS FUN, but if you want to double-check, try searching the tags for "transmission" and maybe "electric" or the like.
Personally though, I'm not super into this idea since the primary anomaly seems to be the compulsion/hallucination effect via Ms. Conduct, and that sort of approach is fairly common.
This might work if you write up some really interesting/wacky/off-the-wall/or unsettling scripts for the broadcasts, though.
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