This next part is going over the last thoughts of a 65 year old, aka
too old. You know, despite raising the...age limit...just a second ago...I'm going to assume this was
before they raised the age limit because otherwise lol.
Your settlement now had the resources to prevent starvation. No more famines like those early winters. And you, you were one of those heroes that braved the blue to get your settlement more food. You were a farmer, a cloudtoucher, and you were damn proud of it. You'd earned that retirement. There was just one thing, one final wish you held. You wanted to see the sun rise again.
I'm not sure who this is, I assume he was some literal "who" who put on some counter weights and grabbed food from...what I assume are surface farms? I'm going to assume-something that is going to be common because time is cringe to the author despite reading a fucking timeline-that this was before the surface was off limits to some ungodly retarded reason.
The security for the counterweights was light, most people were barely even willing to look down the blue, much less walk above it.
I'd imagine these are still important, why in the hell would they leave the front door not guarded? What, did they assume no one would dare try to break in and raid their shit? Especially considering that was an actual threat at one point (towards some secessionists the SCP threatened)
2074: After Settlement-2000 is threatened in a raid, the secessionists surrender;
What? Do you think no one would do the same to you? I highly doubt the Chaos Insurgency, along with a fuck ton of other factions that most likely are still alive wouldn't swing by in the dead of night like this guy is doing and curb stomp you.
A counterweight was a large metal frame with a tank on the bottom of it, and wheels on the top. Inside, a person would be wearing a harness, keeping their center of gravity firmly above the tank, allowing them to stand upright the entire time, to allow people to walk on the surface without getting a headrush. To move in a counterweight, one would strap their feet to the pedals at the bottom, which would allow them to "walk" to move the frame above them, as they steered by pulling levers with their hands. The tank would be filled with water, which, combined with the weight of the metal counterweight, would keep the person weighed against the ground above them, allowing them to walk on the surface above the blue.
How the counterweights work, if anyone has any issues here please name them because I frankly just...don't care.
It was interesting, you reflected, that the word to describe the start of the day was still "sunrise", even after the Capsize. It was some quirk of language, you supposed. Old habits.
Did they invent a new fucking language? Dude, are you not speaking any language perfectly functional known to man before the Capsize? Do other languages not have the world "sunrise" in their dictionary? What in the God damn?
You had a bit of time until the sun came, so you decided to take a short walk through the fields. It was a warm summer night, the crops were well-grown, but it was not quite time to harvest.
Considering this was after the events of the timeline are know to us, they must have re-opened the surface. This should a big event but it's not mentioned. Also since this was after the writer showed off the timeline, why in the fuck is this character's story taking place
before a certain event in the timeline. If this character's story takes place
before 2102, then place it
before you continue the timeline!
The early winters had been a nightmare. You did not think of them much anymore, but you remembered the hunger. Too many mouths to feed, that was the problem. Too many people not pulling their weight. Well, you certainly had pulled yours. You put yourself at risk every day, braving the blue, all to make sure everyone had enough to eat.
I see the Foundation didn't really take "essential personnel only" and "controlled population" seriously, no fucking wonder you were starving.
Something felt strange about your counterweight. It was too easy to move yourself. There was a particular amount of resistance the pedals should have pushed against you, and it was far too weak. You froze. Above you, you heard the faint sound of trickling. Anxiously, you reached your hand behind you, and felt a thin stream of water. Your tank, your old, untouched-for-years tank, was leaking. There was only so much weight keeping you from falling into the blue, and it was descreasing every second.
Safety checks? Cringe. Ignore the fact that they most likely did safety checks every fucking time they went out to the surface, not to mention this was his old, dusty, bet up counterweight which hasn't been touched or even
maintained by anyone because:
Cloudtouchers didn't use another's counterweight, that was basic manners, and it seemed that no one had claimed yours yet.
"Yeah this potentially valuable and useful exoskeleton thing? Yeah we just let them rot once the previous user gets too old and it's impolite to use someone else's despite them not using it, but they can still claim it anyways." And now he's about to fucking die:
With a sense of dread, you felt your counterweight slowly fall away from the soil below. In a quick and desparate move, you grabbed onto some stalks of corn, trying to cling to the ground. For now, those stalks and the counterweight could support you. You at least had a moment to think, though you could feel it getting harder and harder to hold on.
Maybe this is how it's supposed to be, you thought to yourself. It was your deathday, after all. What death were you most suited for than the cloudtoucher's?
You let go of the crops. As you watched the ground rise away, you slipped out of your counterweight, and watched the metal fall and crash to earth. It would be a waste of resources to bring it to the blue with you.
Oh so
now it's a waste of resources? Clearly it wasn't before you stepped into the thing considering it was left to rot and causes your death, but to be fair he was going to die anyway, now instead of being gassed like a kike he "falls" into the sky...so like a kike anyway, except with less ash.
All individuals with significant anomalous knowledge (particularly those with a knowledge of thaumaturgy or anomalous mechanics) are to relocate to Settlement-2000, if possible;
Again with the Thaumaturgy, does it just have a different meaning in the SCP universe? Because otherwise they're just putting wizards in the story. Also wait a minute:
2107: Settlement-2000 is destroyed in a cave-in. Project TOPSIDE is placed on indefinite hiatus;
Again, this guy's formatting is fucking dogshit.
Why did you put this Project Topside so late in the story? And again we're jumping back and forth in the timeline, so this is clearly before the cave-in.
- These experts are to determine a method to reverse SCP-8654;
- Reversal of SCP-8654 is to be considered the Foundation's second-highest priority (after the preservance of sapient life), and Settlement-2000 is to receive the resources necessary to achieve this goal (to be determined by the O5 Council Director's Council);
Considering how we saw no breakthroughs what-so-ever only for the Project to be canned because the settlement collapsed, good call. Oh yeah I forgot to mention, some of the settlements just...disappear, or explode, and nothing becomes of it so far. Kek.
Project Update: on July 10th 2107, Settlement-2000 was destroyed in a cave-in, along with all information relevant to project TOPSIDE. With a unanimous vote by the Director's Council, Project TOPSIDE was moved to an indefinite hiatus.
Ok, so excavate it? You're not starving anymore and you clearly have the manpower, why just cancel the project just like that instead of using that "anomalous excavation equipment" you used to drill holes to connect the settlements? Also how the fuck can a settlement just close itself off and no one cares? You're all connected via the massive underground railway and I'm sure you can spare the manpower to bust open that bitch and terminate whoever thought that was a good idea.
Seventy-one years. Seventy-one. Years. When Project TOPSIDE was started, it was expected to take no more than 3-6 months, a couple years at the longest. Yet, despite all of the resources available at Settlement-2000, it had taken seventy-one years to find the answer. Today, you received the news: a successful method of reversing SCP-8654 had been found. You could finally right the world. As everyone around you cheered, you ran to your office.
Lol who gave that estimate? How do you think "eh, 3-6 months to
a few years to
seventy-one years?" Who the fu - Who is - What - I should kick your fucking ass.
Despite the years you'd worked there, the office of the Director of Settlement-2000 was still frightening. It was at the bottom of Settlement-2000, poking out of the surface. The floor was a large window, with a desk and chair bolted to the middle.
WHO the FUCK thought that was a good idea. That's like going "yeah we're at the bottom of the sea floor and if this glass breaks we'll get crushed from the pressure before we drown, but hey it looks cool so fuck it."
It had been designed to remind the Director of the beauty of the surface world, something that was becoming more and more important with each generation.
Those cave people from earlier disagree, also lol no that's not how that works. It'll take 2 generations, 3 tops, before most born in the "Topsy-Turvey" (
) generation frankly won't give a shit since the underground is all they knew. They might be curious, but they'd more likely be what we saw with the borderline cavemen early in the article, "unga bunga surface scary."
Most people alive today had never seen a tree, or grass, or the stars in the night sky. You saw it every day.
I'm going to-again-assume he means with their own naked eye, because otherwise "what is a photo? what is a window (that is under your fucking desk so surely there are more windows to the surface)?" Wat?
You knew that TOPSIDE was controversial: budget cuts were getting more and more common, and many regarded it as unlikely to ever be successful.
"Yeah the thing that could return us all to normalcy? Yeah we're cutting the funding, even though we had a blank check throughout most of our entire history and money is probably even less relevant to this way of life, we're just not going to allocate the resources to potentially save all of humanity, sorry!" I hope the reason is that this new Director's Council doesn't want a return to normalcy since they can not only remove the mask but also have more influence than being a shadow organization did...if that's even possible considering how much influence the Foundation had.
"It makes sense. I'd suggest you go there. Be with them." Platt sounded like he felt sorry for you. But why would he? After years of failure, you had finally— Something in your brain clicked. It made a sick kind of sense. Why would they give up their power now?
Yeah that makes sense, and is also kind of stupid since not only can they keep their power, they can expand upon it since they practically have the
entire planet for the taking, minus any other SCPs still on the planet that could far more easily escape containment...wait a fucking second, where are the other SCPs? There was
no mention of any other SCP by name at all! There a fuck ton of dangerous anomalies not considered human that should be at least encountered once? The removal of those two settlements from the overall story could've been attacks from SCPs. But no, anything that was anomalous was either SCP-8654 or generic anomalous tunneling equipment, they did mention
SCP-2000 but for some ungodly reason decided to not use it in any capacity, if I'm wrong about how SCP-2000 functions, forgive me because that SCP is silly.
SCP-682 for example is pretty much uncontainable now since I doubt they'd have the manpower to contain him and I'm pretty sure all staff in the sites have moved to the settlements, on site nukes don't kill him obviously. Also off topic but the Past and Future story is retarded and ruins any and all mystery behind anomalies, just wanted to mention it since I found it utterly fucking retarded and I will cover that another time, but basically all anomalies are made by a single entity from humanities past that...no records on the danger of this entity was kept and passed down from what I can tell, but despite clearly being capable of destroying humanity or forcefully enslaving it once again, it doesn't. Because it "loves" us and
knows we'll return to its "loving embrace." But that won't stop it from sending potentially world ending anomalies, which in some universes succeed. Right. Anyway, moving on.
ou stood up, pressing your face into your palms. This situation didn't seem real. You paced across the glass, an old habit of yours, when you heard a loud click followed by a BANG. You were knocked to the floor by the force of the explosion, but were otherwise uninjured. Your desk, on the other hand, was completely destroyed. If you had stayed in your seat…
If you're going to kill him and everyone in the settlement, why such a small bomb that can only kill him if he was sitting down? And why did it take so long? Why not make it just big enough kill/severely injure anyone nearby
and to shatter the convenient glass which would obviously cause his death, seriously that glass was a fucking
crimson flag.
One unlucky shift of weight, or even any movement too strong, and you would fall.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if it didn't break from the explosion immediately, surely you'd be able to quickly stand or crawl somewhere safe by the time it broke? If this wasn't some reinforced glass and was just normal glass then how did it not break immediately? I'm assuming-take a shot-it's reinforced, in which case fucking
move. If not, the author can't glass.
At a glacial pace, you lifted one of your legs into the air, and pulled your body forward one step. The glass cracked loudly and quickly as you did so, but did not shatter. Yes! You began repeating this process with your other leg. This time, as you pulled yourself forward, you heard a loud TINK and saw a much larger crack stretch out from beneath you.
I seriously don't think this would happen, again I think the author can't glass. Also, again,
why the fuck did you think this was a good idea to put this big ass window with no safety net?
Hello, my successor.
It is with a heavy heart that I write this message to you. With this, I fully give up hope on going back to the world I once knew.
The Foundation before the Capsize was an evil organization. I was a young woman then, but even I could recognize that.
HAHAHAHAHA! Have you
seen what the Foundation has to do on a daily basis just to make sure humanity is crunked? Has you seen the good the Foundation has done on top of the
necessary evil? The average troon is more evil than the Foundation in its entirety. Woman moment. While it does depend on the writer, most writers are brainlets, any writer worth their salt knows the SCP is supposed to be cold but loves the world enough to safeguard it from all sorts of utterly batshit anomalies, wouldn't you be? "We die in the dark so that you may live in the light" is their motto afterall.
We all told ourselves that it was worth it, that it was hard decisions that we had to make to save the world. I think I wanted to believe it more than I actually did.
No comment. Actually one, SCP-7795 (there are better ones but I read that one recently). "Muh evil" suck a lemon, they have an ethics committee ffs.
When I became a member of the Director's Council, I was a hopeless dreamer, imagining the world of my youth as the mold for what the world ought to be.
The Foundation before the Capsize was an evil organization. I was a young woman then, but even I could recognize that.
>The foundation is evil
>But I can fix
him it!
Woman moment.
I have learned how naive I truly was.
The Foundation before the Capsize was an evil organization. I was a young woman then, but even I could recognize that.
To my successor, I tell you this: TOPSIDE cannot be allowed to succeed. Consider what recreating humanity before the Capsize would mean. SCP-2000 would recreate only the human population of the time.
That all this horror didn't happen official happened as far as anyone is concerned? Which is the whole point of the fucking SCP?
What about everyone born since then? Given the volume of the population, the Foundation would have only one practical option, one that I know they would take. I will not see generations of children die because they were born after the Capsize.
Ehhh fair point, they have about 70,000,000+ people, and SCP 2000 is supposed to be like the flash device from MiB, "this never happened." Can't exactly do that to however high the population was in 2036. But like I said earlier, they don't
need to fucking do that, they can lead the new population far more than they could when they were the shadowy organization before the Capsize, so why the
fuck are they making this so difficult? Again I want to mention the formatting, SCP articles are supposed to be the equivalent of a research paper, so where are all these second person perspective stories coming from?
topping it then might be unpopular, but peace will prevail this time. If, by some cruel miracle, Project TOPSIDE succeeds before we can stop it, you must take immediate action. Director Ellis will send you a message when it succeeds: When you receive it, activate the bomb hidden in Ellis' desk, then destroy Settlement-2000 with the nuclear warhead at Settlement-41. Their Director knows about this plan, and will cover it up.
First mention of Settlement-41, would make more sense if it was the settlement that disappeared, instead secretly turning into a black site warhead silo for this very moment.
I know that you might think that a plan like betrays the Foundation: It does not. The Foundation likes to say that its purpose is to keep the world safe, but the truth is that it exists to enforce normalcy.
Bitch do you know what would happen if they
didn't enforce normalcy? Which is funny since there are functioning universes where the masquerade fell. Do you know what would happen if the wider world knew about these extremely dangerous anomalies? That a shadow organization was pulling strings in the background for who knows how many years? There's a fucking reason for all of that.
Woman. Moment.
All that I am doing is prioritizing the normalcy of today over the normalcy of seventy years ago.
>My "normalcy" good
>Their normalcy bad
Wo-
I will not see another Capsize happen. We barely survived it once.
Nigger this is not how the world works, this is not how the
universe works (err...mostly), I....no comment.
And what remained fell forever.
I guarantee most other SCP Foundations would look upon these retard's works and go
"What the fuck are you doing?" This was nothing more than some pretentious "more art than story" writing that relied more on feefees than intelligent, thought provoking writing, for the most part at least. I do not know why I have spent hours making this when I could have been doing anything else, but you know what, I'm satisfied.
