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PoI №: PoI-3856
Primary attributes: Humanoid/anomalous/mortal/stochastic
Primary moniker: Researcher Samuel M. Lloyd
Secondary monikers: (Universe-dependent)
- SCP-3856 — Formal in U-Prime
- URA-1200 — Formal in deviance <.19°
- The Destroyer of Worlds — Informal; Formal in deviance 17°-19.1°; Formal in type-Rel
- ℉⊾o∡ — Surreal; Informal in type-Thau; Formal in type-Se
- SPC-3856 — [FORBIDDEN BELOW LEVEL-5 CLEARANCE]
Operational recommendations: Ensure continued life-signs at all costs. Do not engage in hostilities. Do not attempt termination. Keep safe.
PoI №: PoI-9919
Primary attributes: Humanoid/non-anomalous/mortal/personnel
Primary moniker: Director Eli Forkley
Secondary monikers:
- "Bork" Forkley — Nickname
- TT La,fenshep FLE — Ambient semantic deviation (use not recommended)
- "SCP-6263" — Details redacted per containment procedures
Abridged biography: Born in ###,
Operational recommendations: Currently employed as high-level personnel. Loyalty within acceptable bounds for clearance level. No risk.
TOTAL COUNT: 3 |
SCP-1313 — Solve For Bear
[Keter] :: 700 words on the topic of MATHEMATICS
I don't even with this one. It's the most popular thing I've ever done, and I wrote it in a couple of hours because I wanted to try something humorous and people in IRC kept encouraging me. I posted it against my better judgement because there were a bunch of new Series II slots open, and I'm currently in a state of switching between "I love this and I'm really proud of it" and "I hate that this is my highest-rated article". What can you do, I guess. Sometimes you just gotta take the good with the bears.
SCP-1763-EX — How To Write An SCP
[Keter ⇨ None] :: 1,100 words on the topic of FICTION
SCP-1917 — Industrial Revelation
[Safe] :: 1,600 words on the topic of FORGETTING
They wanna take you, or me
and turn us into something
that we wouldn't recognize
and I don't wanna be a robot
with metal eyes
and a metal tongue
TOTAL COUNT: 3 |
URA-9611 — The Ozymandias Effect
[URA] :: 1,500 words on the topic of ERASURE
SCP-2668 — We who are about to die salute you
[Euclid ⇨ Safe] :: 2,000 words on the topic of CONFRONTATION
Somebody in chat, whose name I can't recall, was writing about a time-loop battle with a bear or something, and asked for ways they could prevent the protagonist from just running away. I semi-jokingly suggested allowing them to live a long and happy life away from the bear, then have them re-spawn when they died of natural causes. Quite rightly, they thought this was both a) too convoluted and b) not something they'd wish on their worst enemy, so it was left up to me, months later, to finally incorporate that idea with a basic concept I'd had a while earlier — an extradimensional battle arena where you could fight against abstract concepts and real people.
Funnily enough, M. Forth started off as an author avatar for myself, and it says a lot about my bibliocidal tendencies that they immediately got trapped for eternity fighting a monster made of forever-shitting ladybugs. I'll try again with the whole 'AA' concept at a later date — Researcher Lloyd seems to be heading that way, so there's probably room for it there.
SCP-2856 — Machines, machinations, and a warehouse in Leipzig
[Safe] :: 1,500 words on the topic of POWER
My third SCP and one of the first that I would consider 'successful'. The ToasterHead scene was ripped almost entirely from a nightmare I had (it's a strange day when your subconscious is a better writer than you), and the narrative just seemed to congeal around it. I knocked out a first draft in a matter of hours, as I do with a lot of spur-of-the-moment concepts, but didn't return to it for months — in the end, I'm extremely glad that I did. While it went through several modifications to fit various different formats (including a tale about SCP-426 that I was sorry to abandon), it returned to something resembling the original SCP article and did surprisingly well for itself.
The 'meaning' behind it is summed up pretty well in DarkStuff's comment; I brainstormed the original idea with him a fair amount, so he has a good grasp of what's going on. The link to █████ Industrial (as detailed in SCP-4029) is purposeful, but something I'm slightly hesitant to reveal 'on camera', as it were. You'll have to wait for me to actually write a tale about them to find out the whole story.
There's not much more to say about this one. It's dark, it's got body-horror, and I've hidden a very, very subtle Easter-egg relating to a fairly popular Series IV scip by a notoriously political user whose works I very much enjoy. 500 MalicePoints™ to anyone who can find it.
TOTAL COUNT: 9 |
SCP-3176 — Estimated Time of Arrival
[Euclid ⇨ Neutralised] :: 1,100 words on the topic of TIME
I avoid the messiness of misery
Playing in dimension number four
I can get away to any time I like
Spacetime's any time and many more
Aaaaargh I love time travel so much. This started off as a writing exercise in which I laid out increasingly convoluted time-travel scenes and attempted to wrap my own head around it — it then developed into an SCPverse-centric concept, and finally re-structured into an article. The fact that I made it an MTF is essentially my own love for that particular element of lore, and the idea of a team of time-travellers jumping about and solving problems is sufficiently cartoonish to make me grin. I do not have a sophisticated sense of humour.
In the end, it's pretty much what-you-see-is-what-you-get. The concept is time travel, the content is extremely convoluted time travel, and the theme is how convoluted and difficult time travel can be. I'm considering using it as the basis for a DoTA series, but that'll depend entirely on how much I improve my long-form narrative skills.
SCP-3317 — Libre la Livres
[Euclid] :: 900 words on the topic of AMALGAMATION
This was my first SCP, and went through a butt-ton of editing and revising before metamorphosing into the beautiful pseudo-Communist bibliovore you see before you today. Initially, it was a fairly basic format screw, with the Supreme Government of the Amalgamated Union of the Textual Plane taking over the 3317 slot. While reasonably interesting, it (ironically) lacked any kind of narrative, and the format-screw angle was eventually ditched in favour of the current layout. Regarding the political angle, and there's been some discussion over this: it's a parody of people misunderstanding Communist ideals. The way the entity chops and changes fragments of concepts, mutilating them to fit its own goals is allegorical of the way certain people wilfully misunderstand Marxist ideologies. This did not, unfortunately, come across as well as I'd hoped. I still love it to pieces, despite its many foibles.
SCP-3564 — The Immortal Bard, Act Ⅱ: Return of Shakespeare
[Euclid] :: 1,400 words on the topic of IMMORTALITY
This is a kind of tribute to CadaverCommander, who I regard as one of the best writers on the site. He's certainly better than me, anyway. He has an incredibly strong talent for writing brilliant characters, and I wanted to emulate that with a concept I'd fallen in love with: the giant zombie mutant clone of William Shakespeare. I don't really care that it hasn't done particularly well, it's certainly not my best work, and character-oriented scips are nowhere near my strong point; I'm just happy it succeeded, so I can use it as a basis for future works in a similar vein.
SCP-3617 — The Parasites of Normal
[Safe] :: 1,800 words on the topic of NORMALCY
SCP-3663 — The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
[Euclid ⇨ Keter] :: 1,700 words on the topic of MAKE-BELIEVE
Ah yes, my second SCP article, and my first real attempt to convey a structured narrative. I had a much clearer picture of what I wanted to do this time round, and got to posting a lot more quickly than with 3317. Certain details have been changed along the way, and the narrative's been re-ordered and clarified more times than I care to count, but the central theme and ideas have remained the same throughout. Consider this one a foray into the lands of humanoid Keters, and one that's been moderately successful. I might go back and rewrite the dialogue a bit eventually, but I can't really see the point at the moment.
SCP-3676 — The Multiversal Megapede
[Keter] :: 1,200 words on the topic of WORMHOLES
SCP-3716 — Boned Beyond Belief
[Euclid] :: 2,100 words on the topic of RELIGION
SCP-3766 — Reverse Cargo Cult
[Euclid] :: 800 words on the topic of LURES
SCP-3856 — Researcher Lloyd, Destroyer of Worlds
[Keter] :: 1,600 words on the topic of ARMAGEDDON
Why should he be alive
Breathing still while others died?
And the only question
Why was he the sole survivor
This was, without a doubt, the single most procrastinated piece of writing I've ever produced. The first draft was made before I'd even conceptualised my first scip (SCP-3317), and looked nothing like the finished product. It was an SCP about a stone sphere that shifted through universes, dragging all information about itself along with it — in addition to this, it would prevent any universe it was in from being destroyed; as a kind of 'backlash' to this, any universe it left would be destroyed shortly afterwards. The Foundation would have had to battle an army of extradimensional invaders who desired this protection, while also dealing with millions of SCP articles from different universes filling up their database. The story here would be presented in the journals of one Researcher Lloyd, who worked with the anomaly in almost every universe. I hope to revisit the concept one day.
As a corollary to the above, it's worth noting that I used the name Samuel Lloyd as a kind of placeholder name in a lot of drafts — I'm not very imaginative, and thought it had a nice ring to it. The first of these drafts to be posted was "The World Forgetting […]", and so when the time came to pin down the multiversal Lloyd draft I'd had in my mind for a year, I had to make it fit with my established canon. 3856 was the result.
So there you have it. One of my most popular articles is a mishmash hodgepodge of scrapped ideas, multiple iterations, unfinished concepts and accidental continuity. I wouldn't have it any other way.
TOTAL COUNT: 15 |
SCP-4029 — Too Many Legs to be Going Nowhere
[Keter] :: 6,100 words on the topic of OVERTIME
I have a vision of a man-made object
(Towering over all)
I have the money, I have the means
I have the strangest dreams
art/fanart goes here
SCP-4096 — The Ol' Switcheroo
[Euclid ⇨ Debated] :: 1,000 words on the topic of BAMBOOZLEMENT
Oh! I just thought of
How to change all the hate, into love
With the old switcheroo
Dancing in my déjà vu
You'll be dancing too
SCP-4177 — 50% Off
[Keter] :: 800 words on the topic of SLIMMING
I need a touch up
Need a nip and a tuck
Need to be cropped and cut
I need a touch up
SCP-4234 — Testicles, and the Sudden Lack Thereof
[Euclid] :: 600 words on the topic of REMOVAL
SCP-4377 — Fight! Fight for the Man of the People!
[Keter] :: 900 words on the topic of BATTLE
SCP-4411 — At Long Last Landing
[Euclid] :: 800 words on the topic of FAILURE
SCP-4417 — The Long Way Round
[Safe] [Thaumiel] :: 1,800×2 words on the topic of PERSISTENCE
This suit doesn't fit me / I made it myself counterfeitly
With buttons of blue / Killing me with déjà vu
It's a gift for you, when I escape at last
When the end of time has passed
But something keeps me as a pet
The only house that's not on fire yet
SCP-4517 — Not Very 𝒩
[Safe] :: 500 words on the topic of ABSENCE
SCP-4617 — Selfish Preservation
[Euclid] :: 750 words on the topic of EMBALMING
SCP-4668 — Since I Left Me
[Keter] :: 1,500 words on the topic of YOU
SCP-4766 — My Beautiful, Beautiful Son
[Euclid] :: 700 words on the topic of PARENTHOOD
SCP-4773-2 — and a stuffed bear
[Neutralised] :: 400 words on the topic of IGNORANCE
SCP-4774 — The Ninth Planet [citation needed]
[Euclid] :: 800 words on the topic of THEORIES
SCP-4817 — Horseman Holiday Rentals in scenic King Louis XVI of France
[Euclid] :: 1,300 words on the topic of DECAPITATION
SCP-4856 — "Test Case One"
[Keter] :: 2,200 words on the topic of DILEMMATA
SCP-4887 — Bloom!
[Keter] :: 8 words on the topic of GROWTH
SCP-4977 — The lucidity of young William Kleiger
[Debated] :: 700 words on the topic of DREAMS
And glow, glow
Melt and flow
Eviscerate your fragile frame
And spill it out in the ragged floor
A thousand different versions of yourself
Ave Imperator
[None] :: 1,400 words on the topic of TRAINING
Conservation of Bullshit
[JamCon] :: 1,500 words on the topic of HOMICIDE
Ex Nihilo Nihil
[None] :: 700 words on the topic of PURPOSE
Factored Obsolescence
[OCT] :: 2,100 words on the topic of LOSS
Interrograde
[Exchange] :: 3,800 words on the topic of TORTURE
Introjection Infection Detection
[JamCon] :: 1,000 words on the topic of REBUTTAL
Magnum Opus; or, A Diatribe In Defence Of Cliche
[None] :: 900 words on the topic of METAFICTION
Old Business
[WW] :: 2,200 words on the topic of WONDER
The Postmodern Prometheus
[AAPA] :: 2,100 words on the topic of SURGERY
Public Static Void
[None] :: 2,300 words on the topic of ENDINGS
RAISA-007710 (RECOVERED DOCUMENT)
[None] :: 200 words on the topic of GHOSTS
Time After Time
[AO] :: 700 words on the topic of CLOCKS
The World Forgetting, By the World Forgot
[None] :: 1,200 words on the topic of AMNESIA
Task Forces
- MTF Chi-9 ("Page Turners")
- MTF Phi-Eolh ("Provident Trawlers")
- MTF Upsilon-Peorð ("Slings and Arrows")
- MTF Nu-4 ("Box Cutters")
- MTF Theta-0 ("Antiheirophanics")
- MTF Eta-Then ("Bootstrappers")
- MTF-Xi-Kai ("Curators")
- RTF Gamma-Digamma ("So Cargo Good")
- PTF Two-Beta ("Anti-Stratfordians")
- MTF Delta-10 ("Answer Key")
- Work Group Zulu-Tau ("Mad Scientists")
- TF Ely-15 ("Background Radiation")
- MTF Theta-0 ("Antihierophanics")
- PTF Duplic-4 ("Inner Workings")