Resurrection Project Hub

Don't Read This Unless You Want To Be Spoiled.

HUB: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/resurrection

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TO-DO:

• Remake the hub with lurkd.
• Write up the plot structure.
• Start adding tales to the plot structure on the sandbox. Figure out a posting order.
• Plan rest of Phase 2.

Other:

• Sapient SCP list for Alpha-9.
• Non-sapient SCP list for Alpha-9 (and Kain).
  • Kain's old projects.

Structure

New Draft Incoming Week of 6/15

Phase 0: This is all one Act, running concurrent with all other acts/phases. We continue adding flashback setup stories to this, where they fit. (We CAN add flashbacks to the other Phases — that's up to us.) This is generally stories that set up key elements & themes of storylines in Resurrection.

Phase 1: Call this ACT ZERO. This is our introductory phase, covering the initial creation of Act 1.

• Help! I don't know what to write! That's okay! Phase 1 is pretty packed as-is. It's definitely do-able to just introduce more characters & storylines into the other Phases — Phase 2 in particular.

Phase 2: Call this ACT ONE. This is mostly the team getting its feet wet, with the introduction of other threats and difficulties. Other GoIs are becoming more aware of Alpha 9, but they're not openly in conflict yet, except where the Foundation is always in conflict. This phase ends when the other GoIs declare war, basically.

• Phase 2 contains a time jump. Stories can take place anytime within this gap. But Alpha-9's first official mission — with Iris, in No Joke — allows for Iris to have received 2 months of training. Everyone else needs 2 months of training too minimum.
  • According to our unofficial internal timeline, the Iris Incident happened mid-March, Iris was recruited at the very end of March, training began for Iris, Adams, & others in April, Camp Granada takes place in May, and No Joke takes place in June.
• This is where we start ramping up the action.
• This is where we largely can begin to introduce GOIs and non-Foundation characters.
• By the end of this phase, most of the major players for the following two Acts (the remainder of the Arc) should be introduced.
• New introductory stories should shy away from Recruitment Into Alpha-9 Stories. You CAN do those, but don't default to them — they will automatically seem more boring because we have so many Recruitment stories now.
• Help! I don't know what to write! Here are some suggestions!
  • Try collaborating with someone on a storyline — the strength of Resurrection lies in its tying together of storylines.
  • Since Phase 2 has more of an action bent — in the context of the situation of the Act, what action scenes might be fun for you to write?
  • Introduce characters from outside the Foundation! Especially GOIs.
  • Don't be afraid to bring in plotlines totally separate from Alpha-9. Alpha-9 is the core of the start of Resurrection, but it was never intended to remain so.
  • Brainstorm with others on some Alpha-9 missions! (Light, Clef, Mann, and Moose are all looking into this in particular.)

Phase 3: Call this ACT TWO. So the GOIs have effectively declared war against the Foundation. This is generally that conflict. It finally gets resolved just as the Bowe Commission reveals itself, which will be the nadir, where the Foundation is at its lowest and most vulnerable. But at that point, they know who their new enemy is, and the other GoIs start seeing the Bowe Commission as a greater threat than the Foundation.

• The turning point comes after the Bowe Commission makes its big move.

Phase 4: Call this ACT THREE. This is the Foundation (with some help from GoIs) going after the Bowe Commission, ending with the BC's defeat (though not destruction, of course), and entering into a new equilibrium and balance of power with the other GoIs.

• GOC & Foundation may end with some form of cooperative agreement (or not).

Phase 5 & Beyond: At this point we shift focus to a new source of conflict.

• One major possibility is the reality-breaking storyline being set up as a long-running subplot through the prior phases. Here is where it could rise to the forefront. Time to save reality, guys!
• REMEMBER: Resurrection's catalyst is Alpha-9, but its fundamental concept is 'continuation of the First Storyline' — which was never just Omega-7. It can incorporate literally anything we have an interest in doing — or anything anyone else wants to bring into that world, who joins us down the line.

CREDIT: Mann proposed this overall structure. Large amounts of this are directly copy/pasted from discussion with Mann.

Reference

The Broken Timeline

Suggested overall timeline changes: I feel like Kondraki's breach of Site-19, and death, and funeral, should take place before Incident Zero. OR, at least, Duke Til Dawn. (I'm actually okay with the death and funeral taking place after.)

I'd move Incident Zero to early 2006, and have Able's Omega-7 slaughter take place in later 2006.

I've made the suggested changes on the timeline already (conservatively, only moving the 19 breach), so let me know if I should change further or revert.

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All dates are subject to change, so don't use them, and no need to use the /exact/ number of years.

APPARENT TIMELINE

• After Adam retires in "I Quit", Break's O5-10 retires too, sometime between 1999 & 2004.
• She is replaced by the male O5-10 in the first part of Incident Zero (internal nickname: "Stone", although at the time, he is called the same as the current Ten, "The Archivist").
• Late [?] 2005: Incident Zero occurs.
• Early [?] 2006: Able kills Omega-7, which is then shuttered.
• March 2011: O5-9 (963-2) is replaced by Donna Whetu Taylor. [Not relevant directly, just for context]
• April 2011: "Stone" goes to SCP-003, intending to ask her to bring her paradise (thereby ending the world). Tries to make some unknown bargain with her.
• April 2011: Stone is executed by the Council and replaced with the current O5-10.
• Shortly after (your call; maybe shortly after if you want to play that for drama, maybe long after), Ten calls the Council together about the broken timeline. The year seems to be 2011, 2012, or later.

ACTUAL TIMELINE

Differences in bold.

• After Adam retires in "I Quit", Break's O5-10 retires too, sometime between 1999 & 2004.
• She is replaced by the male O5-10 in the first part of Incident Zero (internal nickname: "Stone", although at the time, he is called the same as the current Ten, "The Archivist").
• Late [?] 2005: Incident Zero occurs.
• TIME BREAK BEGINS. The following events may not have taken place in the following order.
• Able kills Omega-7, which is then shuttered.
• O5-9 (963-2) is replaced by Donna Whetu Taylor.
• "Stone goes to SCP-003 and tries to bargain with her to end/reconstruct the world. [changes below]
  • (LK-Class Restructuring Scenario — IIRC what happens when everything remains or becomes the same as the original baseline, and Earth and all life are preserved but totally transformed; possibly different definition)
  • Stone/10 He doesn't believe the timeline will stabilize, knows she can stabilize the timeline, and reasons that 003's alien paradise — created for humans — would at least be better than nothing.
  • He also believes her paradise would be a good thing; he'd already been considering it, as it seems in the 'apparent' timeline. (It was a solution he'd been considering to stave off /other/ ends of the world.)
  • He planned to give over humanity in exchange for survival. However, he is either stopped, or she refuses, or both. He is later killed in some fashion, possibly still by the Council.
• Stone is replaced with the current O5-10.
• SCP-2000 may have been used during this stage. Perhaps more than once.
• Any number of re-stabilization attempts took place, some or all of which failed, some or all of which succeeded. [Possible story fodder!]
• TIME BREAK ENDS. (Mostly, at least. Maybe totally?)
  • An unknown number years have passed. At minimum, five years were lost, but quite possibly decades, or even longer!
• Shortly after (your call; maybe shortly after if you want to play that for drama, maybe long after), Ten calls the Council together about the broken timeline. The year seems to be 2011, 2012, or later.

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The Bloom & SCP-2000

pre-Incident Zero Draft; some of this is out of date now

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The Foundation has two "Reset Buttons" (well, more than two, but these are the big ones, especially for these story purposes): SCP-2000, and The Bloom.

SCP-2000 is what you use to fix a timeline that is not permanently broken. It's what you use when the world as we know it has ended, but the world remains.

• SCP-2000's purpose is to restore the world to how it seemed before (mostly). Humans are churned out by machines and repopulate the world, and are memory-altered so that it seems like nothing happened. Likely what was used in Gears' Marianas Trench story.
• SCP-2000 is protected from reality bending, and from being wiped out of existence (via a CK-class restructuring or any form of temporal anomaly), by Scranton Reality Anchors and Xyank/Anastasakos Constant Temporal Sinks.
• The protection isn't perfect; for example, the methods by which SCP-2000 was constructed have been lost. SCP-2000 remains, but it cannot be duplicated.
• It is possible that SCP-2000 can partially repair a timeline destabilized by reality bending or temporal anomalies, but the Foundation doesn't know how to use it that way any longer.
• SCP-2000 has been used a number of times before.
• SCP-2000 does not currently work properly (it cannot currently recreate humans correctly, among other possible problems), and is currently expected to be repaired in 2020.
• In Resurrection's timeline, SCP-2000 was originally constructed partially to avoid using the Bloom. Maybe. At least that's what the current crop of Foundation researchers think.

The Bloom is what you use to fix a timeline that is permanently broken. It's what you use when the world as we know it has ended, and reality itself is likely about to end too.

• The Bloom is essentially a giant psychic plant growing on the universe, located on Earth (possibly brought there by a prior, erased civilization).
• The Bloom rewinds the current timeline. Presently, the Bloom rewinds to the beginning of human civilization. (It may be possible to alter this — and if the story requires, we can change this)
• When the Bloom is used, it repairs any damage to reality, and therefore can be used to stave off a ZK-Class end of reality scenario, or a YK-class end of the universe scenario (and technically most other scenarios as well).
  • I don't have the full details of this worked out. See below.
• The Bloom cannot be activated unless you fulfill its requirements, which are written on the Bloom itself, and change for each timeline. (The Bloom must perceive a timeline as 'broken' before it will allow itself to be used.)
  • The Bloom's requirements are usually events which need to take place, often the deaths of certain people, or groups of people. Sometimes the required events include specific actions which must be taken.
  • In at least one prior timeline, the Foundation had to kill off most of its top agents (as well as thousands of people across the globe) to fulfill the Bloom's requirements.
• The Bloom is partly useful because the reset timeline will not, and cannot unfold the exact same way as the previous timeline. This is because there are always "echoes" — holdovers from the prior timeline — and to some extent, all the prior timelines.
  • Anyone or anything fully or partially resistant to reality shifts will retain traits, information, etc, from prior timelines, and may even exist almost unchanged. This includes anything protected by Scranton Reality Anchors, as well as individuals or objects resistant to reality shifts, such as:
    • SCP-2000
    • SCP-076, and SCP-073 in particular
    • The Wanderers' Library
    • Possibly Clef (depending on how much of the truth he was telling about being resistant to reality shifts; I'd guess offhand he has only partial resistance, and therefore only has partial memories/knowledge of any prior timelines)
    • … and any other GOC/Foundation/Hand members with similar partial protection
    • …as well as, most likely, certain deities and similar entities (and anyone they may have conferred protection on, if they even knew to do so)
    • The Bloom itself
  • Certain events which are not protected will still happen in some way anyway, as "echoes".
• Using the Bloom effectively amounts to killing everything and everyone on Earth by wiping them from existence. This is why SCP-2000, and other methods of controlled CK-class events (IE, not a full reset, but piecemeal alteration), are always preferred over the Bloom.
  • I have no idea if use of the Bloom affects alternate/parallel universes, within the story. We can decide depending on what works for us.
    • BUT: If the Bloom only rewinds our timeline, then that means the source of the reality-breaking does have to come from this timeline, otherwise there'd be no reason the Bloom would fix the problem.
• So far, the Bloom has mostly been used to repair a near-end-of-reality scenario which keeps occurring when our timeline has advanced far enough. (I don't yet have a cause for this, though I have several ideas.)
• The Bloom has been used several times before, probably many times before.
• The Bloom does not stop the end-of-reality scenario from occurring, but only reverses its effects along with the timeline, giving people (ex: the Foundation) another chance to try to stop it.
• The Bloom is a Black Box SCP, like the Council's oracles. Only the O5 Council and their Staff are supposed to know about it, and it has no SCP file.
• SCP-1000 possessed the Bloom before humans did, and may or may not have used it. Human civilization got it after SCP-1000's downfall.
• The Bloom is currently housed underneath SCP-2000. The Foundation does not presently know how to move it. SCP-2000 was constructed on top of it; they are not otherwise connected.
• The Bloom can no longer be used in this timeline (the reason why is up in the air). At best, now, it can be used to glean some information on some prior timelines (the extent of this is also in the air).

Storyline

Arc

The rough outline of the story arc should be:

• character showcase stories
• (likely combined with the above) a bunch of recruitment for Alpha-9, with a bunch of conflict between researchers/SCPs who oppose/support what's going on
• Initial incidents
• flashback stories
• transition to main arc with Alpha-9 fully formed and being put into action

There's tons of character and personal conflict here already. However, we're still working out the primary central core conflict.

Likely some of it will come from dissension within O5 Command… and even more so, Foundation administration. I mean, think how many people would be really angry about this kind of project. Especially given how it turned out last time!

And of course there are also outside threats who would both see the Foundation as becoming more dangerous (and needing to be addressed) and more interesting as a target to raid, or attack, etc. (Of course, the latter might already be happening, as the Foundation stacks up more and more thousands of SCP objects and anomalous items.)

Generally speaking, in-universe we want the Alpha-9 project to go both spectacular badly with enormous negative consequences, and spectacularly well with enormous positive consequences.

You can't really write an Omega-7 sequel story without having an absolute shitload of disaster. But it's got to be overall successful within the story; if we're bothering to write this, there's no need to write the 076-2 logs writ large, and make it a yet fancier ill-conceived tragedy that just gets shut down Forever, again. Also, that would defeat the purpose of a continuing storyline.

And while Omega-7 was often terrible in practice, it was an entertaining, fascinating concept… but if you've read this far you probably agree with me already on that :P

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Proposed Stories

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OPENING

(2-3 tales, possibly the opening of a central series; written by Mann, Moose, certainly others)

A major containment breach occurs at a Site/Area. Iris (105) happens to be there; she is separated from her handler during the confusion. She ends up saving several guards and other SCPs using the skills she learned back during her Omega-7 days.

This prompts O5 Command's resurrection of the Omega-7 project.

The thing is, Iris hates Omega-7. That whole thing went down when she was 14 to 15. It ended with Able slaughtering almost everyone and the rest dying in the nuke. IE: all her friends and people she cared about within the Foundation. All dead. It sucks that she's spent nine years without her camera in a cell, but the absolute last thing she wants to do is be involved with a project like this.

And they want her to lead it.

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We also wanna do a series of Character Showcase Stories. Confirmed so far:

• Zyn/Legacy Kondraki story (Zyn)
  • "Long Live The Queen" — structural sequel to "The King Is Dead", includes some Kondraki flashbacks?
• Bright Site-Omega funeral story (Bright) [semi-confirmed]
• Unspecified Mann story
• Unspecified Moose story
• Unspecified Chelsea Elliott story (Photosynthetic)
• Unspecified Maria Jones Director of RAISA story (Eskobar)
• Clef & Adams story (Clef)

Also, another, which Mann & I brainstormed re: Kain, but which we haven't actually asked Kain about yet:

Kain was left behind by the Foundation's shutting down its research and development programs. His crosstesting was shut down, the Olympia project shuttered, and the Egg Walker sits in a containment garage.

Scene takes place in the containment garage, where Kain is working on fixing a broken part of the Egg Walker (which he mostly can't use anyway) while waiting on a vet checkup. Lack of sense of purpose, or hope.

And he's getting old. It's been nine years, after all. His hips are getting a little arthritic. His muzzles going grey. And inside, he's still a young man.

Under the old Foundation paradigm — he'd have been working on a cure or way to extend his age, with the full endorsement and funding of the Foundation. But those days are over. The only reason he's not in a containment cell is the pity/guilt of the higher-ups… and he may as well be, for all they let him actually do as a researcher.

Gears arrives. He's been playing vet for Kain; this is, of course, highly unusual, since while Gears certainly is capable of acting as a vet, that's not his training. Play off the old implications of close-knit researchers when the Foundation allowed them to essentially do what the fuck they wanted; while Gears isn't going to mention it, he's doing this because he's Kain's friend. He examines Kain in his typical cold fashion, but you know he cares merely because why else would he be doing that personally.

<DrMann> "Notice slight deterioration in the hips. Recommend increase in glucosomine."

The end of the story comes when Foundation higher-ups arrive to ask Kain to restart his shuttered research projects.

(If we want to go more on the nose about it, at the end after they come to him and ask him to make something new for them, he successfully fixes the Egg Walker's broken part that he couldn't figure out how to fix before. Because now he has hope.)

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….and New Decomm Stories.

This story format was incredibly popular and the stories are generally fun to read. The problem is, destroying horribly written SCPs in character is really from a bygone era. No one wants it back.

So the solution is to write decomm stories with SCPs that don't exist.

My thoughts:

Display

(If we want to make a real SCP, we can! But it has to be on the mainlist, succeed on the mainlist, and be categorized as Neutralized, unless we come up with a justification for actually using Decommissioned. Otherwise, make it a little bracketed-off thing in the story itself.)

The rationale would be that they're excessively harmful to the Foundation to contain. Effort should go into the rationale — we'd need to also explain why other SCPs aren't attempted to be neutralized even if they're very harmful. (Though it wouldn't be THAT hard — we do try to destroy SOME SCPs, like 682.)

I would suspect that some justifications for typically keeping SCPs may be research potential, or fear of unexpected drastic consequences for killing it. Keep in mind part of this plotline will involve SCP-1985, aka a method of shotgun researching possible end of the world scenarios involving an SCP, and seeing how to probably avoid causing one via destruction.

Also, most likely under the old regime style, there was a moratorium on deliberately destroying anything (with only a few special exceptions). But given the sheer number of anomalies now… well.

Alpha-9 is likely to be assigned decomms ("neutralizations"), more than individual researchers, but that's an option too; that depends on what we wanna right.

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Other Stories:

• Recruitment into Alpha-9 stories (all)
• <Js story> (Mann)
• Assassination attempt on Dr. Gears by elements within the Foundation who want to stop the O5s' project by (note they're doing this because they think it's necessary to save the Foundation) — Black Queen likely involved with this story
• Reactions to Alpha-9 project by outside GOIs such as ORIA, the Hand, the CI, and the GOC (as the Foundation is essentially suddenly building up a nuclear stockpile)

Characters

Primary writer for each character in [brackets].

Returning Foundation Staff

• Dr. Bright: [Bright] Probably a central character (depends on what RL Bright wants to write)
• Dr. Everett Mann: [Mann] Central character. "He was hired on near the end of the era: they were grooming him to be the next big thing in researchers. Anomalous minds for anomalous work. Not just eccentric, but actually mad. And then things changed, and they had to rein him in. Here comes Agent Lament as a leash." Likely team doctor / experimenter on Alpha-9.
• Dr. Light: [Light] Central character. Details to be determined. Likely the official lead on Alpha-9.
• Dr. Crow: [Possibly Kain] His projects were shuttered. He's getting old — he's a dog. But he was one of best experimental researchers the Foundation had… so with the return to experimental research and cross-testing, they're gonna be paying him a visit.
• Dr. Clef: [Clef] Clef is alive and well and really did the things in the old stories (aka, not Chowderclef) though some details may be seriously exaggerated + enabled by O5s. No shenanigans in a while, because he's no longer being pushed to do them by Overwatch. Understandably bitter and angry about how everything went down nine years ago, and how the old senior staff were treated, and how things shook out. Refuses to take the role he played nine years ago; plays a command and control role. He works especially closely with his longtime secretary, A. Adams. (think Bruce Wayne and Terry McGinnis in Batman Beyond.)
• Dr. Gears: [????] Certainly at least a recurring secondary character.

Referenced Ex-Foundation Staff

• Kondraki: Assassinated by Gears. Kondraki stays dead because Gears wrote a great story and Kondraki is gone and as far as we know not coming back. His legacy has a big impact on the story, though.
• Iceberg: Killed himself years ago. See: Troy's In His Own Image.

New Foundation Staff

[not a complete list]

• Dr. Chelsea Elliott: [Photosynthetic]
• Dr. Zyn Kiryu: [Zyn]
• RAISA Director Maria Jones: [Eskobar]
• Dr. Tilda Moose: [thedeadlymoose]
• Dr. J. Karlyle Aktus: [djkaktus]
• Dr. Django Bridge: [Dexanote]
• Dr. Ralph Roget: [Roget]
• Agent Troy Lament: [???]
• Agent A. Adams: [Clef] Clef's longtime secretary; his effective 'heir'. She's worked opposite Clef for a long time. Adams is quiet, unassuming, seems completely safe… until she's not. When she takes action, she's very direct and effective. Essentially mentored by Clef, but does her own thing. There are hints that she's more than she seems.

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There are two possibilities for who Adams actually is. One possibility is that she is a resurrected or reconstructed "Agent A.A." from SCP-784-ARC and the old Omega-Seven stories. After getting shot in the head, she was secretly returned to SCP Foundation and revived, then placed into a role as a secretary and executive assistant before Clef subtly nudged her into getting into field work.

But the second, even cooler idea, and the one I really want to do (pending approval by Kain.) - Adams is either Olympia Zero, or one of the first generation of Production Model Olympias. In this timeline, after Omega-Seven got shut down, Kain's Olympia project was shuttered. Not wanting to waste perfectly good resources, the currently existing Olympias were memory-wiped and scattered throughout the Foundation's various sites as administrative assistants. Clef took Adams under his wing and nudged her into getting back into field work - his goal is to vindicate Kain's research.

In either case, the major clues are in Adams' relationship to her alleged "super-suit." In actuality, the super-suit doesn't give her powers. All of her powers are innate, either due to the SCP-784-ARC or her Olympia abilities. And over time, bits and pieces about Adams' weirdness will pop up (like the fact that she has no childhood memories)…

SCP Characters

• SCP-105 ("Iris"):
• SCP-073 ("Cain"):
• SCP-076-2 ("Able"):
• [many more humanoid/etc newer SCPs for Alpha-9, prioritizing the work of current authors]

O5 Command

• O5-1: "The Founder": [Any] Characterized mostly by Bright & Mann, but considered everyone's O5.
• O5-2: "The Gardener": [Light] Light's O5.
• O5-3: Offscreen for now
• O5-4: "The Ambassador": [Mann] Mann's new O5.
• O5-5: [Currently by default Light's Blackbird from Flytrap]
• O5-6: "Cowboy": [Bright] Cowboy.
• O5-7: "Green": [Light, others] The -7 from Flytrap, and said to be the O5 who 'adopted' Clef.
• O5-8: "The Newbie" / "Dogwood" [Moose/others] Fell from grace after personally endorsing Kondraki's plan that ended with breaching 682; "Dogwood" is not a real O5 but one of 8's heads of staff. Plays an opposition role.
• O5-9: "The Outsider" [Photosynthetic] Photo's new O5.
• O5-10: "The Archivist" [Moose] Moose's new O5.
• O5-11: Offscreen for now
• O5-12: Offscreen for now
• O5-13: Bright's Tamlin, or a very similar character playing an identical role.

Other

• The Black Queen / Alison Chao / L.S.
• EX-O5-7: "The Heretic": [Moose] One of O5s who defected long ago to the Insurgency. Will come in if the Insurgency does. [Possibly other ex O5s too]

A note on Able.

Here's a thing that's not going to be controversial at all!

We are absolutely using Able. Not everyone likes him, but he's too good a character not to use.

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Able gets brought in midway through. Not running the team — being used as a nuke. Probably more similar to Clef's Unfounded canon stories than the old Omega-7 stuff — though it would be a huge waste not to give him scenes with Iris + others (and Zyn really wants to write a scene with her character stabbing him with a pen so that'll probably happen!).

We're splitting the difference between Fanon Able and the more modern straightforward psychopath. He's got a personality and he's got feelings, but he's also … essentially a shark, in many ways. And he has various moods — and assuming his calmer moods are representative is a fantastic way to get killed. He's a slasher movie villain in a lot of ways.

He's also devastatingly attractive, like in fanon (Able is portrayed as strikingly beautiful in pretty much all fanart (along with Cain), even the ones that align with canon) , but …not in the traditional way.

This particular viewpoint is pointed out by Mann via fan-annotations of the Sandman comics: "Real forests, true bears, true wolves: Akin to Platonic forms, the creatures and places in stories are the true essence of the creature or place, without the rounded-off corners or the compromises required of things that exist. A wolf such as you might meet is hardly more than a dog who has not forgotten how to hunt; a wolf such as you might hear about is a shaggy beast, born to the hunt, little more than hunger and fangs and burning eyes, a creature who might someday hunt you."

In this sense, Abel is a "real man." He is beautiful because he is, in a deeply literal sense, what a human is supposed to be.

Iris hates him like she hates no one else. Again: He murdered everyone she cared about at the time.

But he doesn't want to kill her (in his calmer moments): because she originally got into Omega-7 by competing with him and essentially cheating to win (remember, that's still canon). An absolutely absurd thing to do, but she still did it because she was fourteen and gutsy, and he remembers. (Presumably, she was the only one to try something like that; since the other examples of 'competing with 076 to get on Omega-7' are deleted, they don't need to exist.)

^ The above is iffy, as is much of developing Able as a personality; but I think it's sufficiently interesting to go for. The balancing act with writing him will be allowing for some entertaining doofy stuff while still keeping him scary and like the slasher film villain murderbot he is.

Kain's note:
I've always imagined Able to be bored

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Timeline

http://scpsandbox2.wikidot.com/resurrection-timeline

Further Ideas

Still to come: Villains.

Clef Idea: So General Bowe spent however many years working with SCP Foundation to develop paranormal weapons. And we assume that the U.S. government didn't skim some off the top?

Concept: SFOD-OMEGA (Pandora's Jar). A U.S. military special operations division making strong use of paranormal artifacts and objects. Perhaps they're the black-suited ones who raided the Site in "Immediate Actions"?

Old Notes

This is a writing project aimed at resurrecting the "central storyline" of the SCP Foundation.

Yes, that central storyline: the storyline that the fanbase loves (along with many of us) but mostly stopped being written in 2010.

We take that, and we write more. And we marry it with all the awesome stuff we've written in the five years since.

Phrased another way: This is a modern continuation to the "default canon" of the SCP Foundation.

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(Also, credit where it's due. This is based partly on forum posts by Gears years ago, Light's The Flytrap, and old and new work by an absolute *shitload* of other people.)

To clarify who the hell is doing this: Currently this project is 'run' by me (moose), Mann, Photo, Light, kaktus, Eskobar, Zyn, Bright, Clef, and Kain, EDIT: and a shitton of other other people writing and brainstormin' oh gods I need to update this list. (Troy consulting. <3)

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Writing Principles

1. Fun is the most important thing.
2. Some realism. Strict realism is assumed to be unnecessary. But things should be justified / acknowledged. The old era is gone; we can't play the same stuff straight. The typical reader should be able to suspend disbelief. But we still do fun shit, just better justified.
   • In other words, if you can justify it to other writers and in the story, go ahead and make it happen.
3. Don't assume formative works were stupid and bad. Part of the point of this project is to embrace that stuff. No, we don't have to embrace every aspect (no amount of reinterpretation up would suddenly make Iceberg's sexual harassment attribute okay, for example). But we don't want to just throw stuff out without a reason.
   • For instance: Clef's over-the-top goofy plan in Termination Order can be interpreted as Clef proposing it to see just what he could get signed off so long as it actually fulfilled the end goal; because it was in Clef's personality to do so; because it was in O5-7's personality to sign off on that just to see what would happen; and because Clef wouldn't have proposed it if he hadn't correctly predicted it would get signed off on.
   • The difference is that if we were to write that now, we'd have the same things happen… but have the justifications within the story.
4. Continuity. Pretty much if the fanbase thinks it happened, it happened, at least basically. The justifications for the more batshit stuff in the older material is the fuel to run the new story.
   • Corollary: However, we can move the timeline on. And incorporate the work of other writers. For example: Able really did kill (almost) all of Omega-7. Kondraki and Iceberg are (apparently) dead. So on.
5. Compatibility. Really unusual interpretations are for another canon (we have plenty of alternate canons). This should be compatible with as much "default timeline" material as possible. That said, feel free to suggest anything — you won't know if it's compatible if you don't ask!

A Few Taboos To Break.

• Author Avatars: We make 'em, we use them. We don't worry about "no roleplaying." No rules against anomalous researchers (within moderation). No rules against real-life in-jokes (for example, making characters of real life site administrators into Site Directors if we feel like it).
• Other Characters: Not every character needs to be an author avatar. Example: Maria Jones (Director of RAISA). And SCP-105, "Iris". (Yes. SCPs can be characters.)
• Tale/SCP Links: Highly optional, but I fully intend to link to & reference incidents that take place within this canon into certain SCPs that I'm writing or have already written, when they fit.
• Everything Is Either Grimdark Or A Joke: Why can't we have … both? :) But what this means: the absolute worst possible thing should happen sometimes. But fun heroic shenanigans that actually succeed should happen too. There's no reason to punish for following old tropes.

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Clef: Grimdark, Noblebright

/tg/ likes to use the term "grimdark" to describe settings like, the Warhammer 40,000 setting, have a certain bleak, pessimistic tone. It's hard to exactly pin down what "grimdark" really is, but if I had to break it down into five major themes:

• The world is in slow, painful, decline.
• Your best efforts will only serve to slow down the inevitable.
• Life is cheap. Death, including massive body counts, is distressingly common.
• The innocent exist to be victims of the strong.
• Heroes are naive fools.

But for every yin there is a yang. Grimdark's mirror concept is "NobleBright." NobleBright settings are not exactly happy: there can be dark and gritty things, but the overall feel is less one of despair and one of hope.

• The world is emerging from an age of darkness.
• You can make a difference, no matter how small.
• Even in the midst of mass death, every life you can save is precious.
• The innocent deserve to be protected from the strong.
• Heroes are naive fools… but they are naive fools who can do the impossible!

I'd really like Project Resurrection to embrace the NobleBright tone, in contrast to the original storyline, which focused heavily on the grimdark. There need to be setbacks. There need to be losses. There need to be disasters. But in the end, there needs to be a victory, no matter how small. Something that the reader and the characters can hold onto and think, "Yes. This was worth it."

Nine Years Pass / SCP Series 3

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So nine years pass in relative calm.

(Nine because it's an nice-sounding number, not quite ten, long enough to start forgetting. In real life it was five or six years — six if you count from Duke Til Dawn, five if you count from Fish's exit.)

BIG OUT OF CHARACTER ASIDE.

A bunch of people have been saying that Series 3 has presented something of a creative renaissance for the wiki, and though I'm behind on reading (I should be catching up, not writing this!!!), I tend to agree.

A couple interesting things have occurred, one half-intentional, one unintentional:

1. Partly because of lack of cross-referencing, unintentionally, most SCP objects were apparently written up (and often recovered) in the past few years. Most of thousands. (This goes for both Series 2 & 3.)
2. Suddenly the Foundation seems to be doing a bunch of research. We've seen a bunch of Foundation research journals referenced, something I think Kate McTiriss started and a bunch of people picked up after. This was almost unthinkable for the past few years. But since 2014, it's become a Thing.

(Also, some people, including me, are hoping to re-introduce crosslinks, but that would be counting chickens before they hatch. At the very least, crosslinks are discouraged less and less as time goes by.)

For the purposes of this storyline, we take both elements as canon. We extrapolate:

1. The Foundation (and O5 Command) has been encouraging research on SCPs again.
2. For some unknown reason, in-universe, the anomalous is on the rise, since hundreds if not thousands of SCPs have been classified in the past three years alone.

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Resurrection

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Many people within the Foundation are pushing to ramp up research into the anomalous — and many people within the Foundation want to keep things the way they are, because it's the safest thing to do. Contain. It's what we do best, after all.

But O5 Command is watching the world. The anomalous is on the rise. The number of SCPs is rapidly ballooning.

They start to feel a little desperate.

So they take some researchers and administrators they've had their eyes on. They begin assigning them Projects. Projects investigating long-shuttered avenues of exploration for the Foundation: cross-testing, weaponization, special investigations…

Finally, they decide to create a successor to MTF Omega-7.

MTF Omega-7, "Pandora's Box", was aptly named. In the original myth, opening it let all the evils into the world… and you couldn't put them back in. There was only one thing left in the box, the one good thing: "Hope".

And so, the successor to Omega-7 is named MTF Alpha-9, "Last Hope".