ADR - Episode 501: SCP-Cember - SCP-1678

[00:00:00] Oh hello and welcome to Adente Wiggamortes.

[00:00:21] I'm Review Class.

[00:00:24] And I'm the Grinchon Yellow. So yeah, like think we're about to have some accidental Accidental review like readexes or like redo's rereads But now that I've like properly gone through my SAP list of SAP's that we've tackled and highlighted the ones we've done now we have a comprehensive list of ones we haven't done for now

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[00:02:47] All right, well, let's dive into the rundown

[00:02:49] and find out why we recommend this story.

[00:02:51] Ernest, let's dive into this story

[00:02:53] and find out why we recommend it.

[00:02:55] Starting with the rundown.

[00:02:57] Not featuring the rock, because it's an SCP entry.

[00:02:58] What's wrong with you?

[00:03:00] Mm-hmm.

[00:03:02] I'm also just fair warning.

[00:03:04] So I did not write up my own synopsis of this entry. the SCP-1678 houses of Parliament, serving as the epicenter for the construction process. This is evidenced by the fact that as distance from the house of Parliament increases, there is an exponentially increasing frequency of flaws in the construction of SCP-1678.

[00:04:22] 1678 is believed to have been constructed ceasing their attacks on the perimeter of the Foundation-held area. Long-term aims involve efforts to halt, hinder, and control the aesthetic is also like even like, yeah, even the, yeah, the aesthetic of the city is that of architecture resembling from the Victorian period rather than modern day tech.

[00:07:00] And so,

[00:07:01] Yeah, but it's not like the way London was back then.

[00:07:03] Yeah, because like, I mean, when you're digging in London, you're either going to hit a strange duplicate city of itself that's in Victorian era or dragons. Both are interesting to find. Indeed. But that is the end of the rundown. I suppose we'll move on to everyone taller programming positions at this point.

[00:08:25] I've got a couple actually. It should just be like the only habitants of the city are SCP entities. Yeah. Are SCP ABC. Yeah. They have not recovered any human survivors. Yes. And then my next thing here. SCP 1678 audio transcript entrance.

[00:09:40] The sky has broken the ground heaves with the tramp of terrible feet and all the horror Okay. Weird. It's an it's an SCP entry that got tons of like tons of eyes on it for scrutiny and editing. There's not a lot of grammar and position. Where are the any in any of it's very like how popular they are. Yeah. It's a chip over there at the foundation.

[00:11:00] Yeah. Now it's amazing what happens when you have like multiple eyes with of different people, like reading through your story and then like

[00:12:06] Frankenstein's monster corpse of a person like they with different body parts with like band with their face completely bandaged up and dressed in a Bobby's

[00:12:10] outfit and a Bobby being a Victorian slang for policemen in London. Also the

[00:12:17] son of Hank Hill. Yes. Goddammit Bobby there in the internet that they found and used it for their story and then somebody actually made a photo that is specifically for this entry rather than a a generalized photo. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah because it definitely like the photo is shown like

[00:13:44] actually really gives us like kind of like there is something weird about that. I just assume this is modern time. Yeah. That's not always the case. No, because like this is an art. Technically, this is an archive of different entries from different periods. And unless it tells you a date, it may not necessarily always be best to generate the appearance of victorian london while stuck underground and mimicking the layout of the of the above ground version of itself and it's just gotten it just gotten stuck on victorian era

[00:17:25] is believed to have been constructed instantaneously by unknown means with the SCP-1678 House of Parliament serving as the epicenter for the construction process. This is evidenced by the fact that

[00:17:34] as distance from the House of Parliament increases, there is an exponentially increasing frequency

[00:17:41] of flaws in the construction of SCP-1678, on part of your road, the post itself is gone, but the light is still up in the air. Yeah. It was like that kind of thing. Or it even kind of reminded me of the, the generative game engine for city construction from like Ubisoft games, like Assassin's Creed Syndicate or like any of the Assassin's

[00:19:04] Creed games really, because they read a, properly popped in yet. And like maybe it's sort of like a mini version of like the whole like we're in a simulation concept or just a crazy experiment left to dwell beneath the city, it's replicating just a different era,

[00:20:22] like some kind of like weird social experiment

[00:20:24] or like some kind of weirdmed things of what you want in your base.

[00:21:41] And then it takes all the, as long as you have the raw materials around it.

[00:21:44] So like basically like you put this in a we get from, like the miscellaneous audio transcripts we get from that like pipe in through like through various speakers in the city. It felt that all felt very bio shock. Or even that other that Canadian.

[00:23:02] There's a Canadian video game. I think it's from Montreal.

[00:23:06] We happy few, I think is called.

[00:23:08] Yep.

[00:24:09] food supplement paste does, which I found out so like Fallout 4, it's quite kind of a tangent, but we're talking about video games and like this, like how this entry kind of reminds us of

[00:24:13] certain video games. Fallout 4 also actually had something where like you go into a school and you

[00:24:18] find out that they were doing an experiment, I think it was through Vault Tech as well, where

[00:24:22] they were just instead of like normal food, like you needed more. But yeah, basically what I guess

[00:25:40] and what we're saying here is this whole entry

[00:25:43] is a really good example.

[00:25:44] It really kind of reminds you of various research researchers have advised that most explored buildings within SCP-1678 are unfit for human habitation due to a high propensity for mold or high preponderance? That is a new word on me.

[00:27:01] Actually, I don't look that one up. I kind of think I know what it means, but like I,

[00:28:06] the fall of man and contains representations of several known SCP entities and images and artwork depicting apocalyptic settings. Okay, so Mimik aside, put that away for a second. And even like the

[00:28:16] maybe even the the the fabricator, although I really like that idea now more than the mimic,

[00:28:20] I think, because the the fact that it's just like a self replicating self fabricating city

[00:29:36] So like, maybe this is like either a forgotten version of the SCP protocol like from like Victorian era that was just left alone or like left down underneath the map underneath London and forgotten until like it was found again. Or maybe it's actually like from another universe and it's it's their version of the SCP Foundation and it again, like maybe it's like, this was like the predecessor group before the SCP Foundation was started to what we know today. Or like, it was maybe just redacted out of protocols. And so like, it wasn't until it was finally rediscovered that,

[00:31:02] like, there's something realizing that maybe like's just, yeah, they're like for all we know in the natural history, history museum, there's just a guy that started all this like he grabbed some SCP entity from back in the day. And it basically told them of the end of days is like, okay, fuck, I'm gonna go make

[00:32:23] this place to protect everyone and make it a huge bunker.

[00:32:25] And then he's trying to protect us like that could be one of like

[00:33:41] these beings that was helped build this structure and then like it starts working to its own ends, not ours. Yeah. Yeah. So basically like, I think I'm going to bring this up later in my notes, but like this is basically a strong fodder for like a tabletop scenario or even a campaign, I think, like

[00:35:01] this whole setting. I believe to originate from a building named Bryson's Home for the Poor, as evidenced by an inmate-style jumpsuit worn under the uniform. And at that I was like, oh, oh no. Because when you read the list of miscellaneous audio broadcasts that are transcripted in this entry,

[00:36:22] you get this one. Can't make, I think they might be a construct or they might just be like another SCP entity that's in the, uh, in the city. They're the one, like, they're out of all, like, cause I'm also wondering it's like, do people, do certain, oh God, if people had families,

[00:37:42] like if there were still,

[00:37:43] if there were like families that like hunkered down here

[00:37:45] early on, did the children get like reprocessed for when the end days come and no one is actually living here yet and all that. Yeah. But because like, bobbies are being processed and made and they're still here, like it makes me feel like there was a bunch of people that did go down here. Yeah. And over time they've all been turned into them. I think that's exactly what's happened. There was there was an initial group of people like living in the city.

[00:39:04] And then now they're they are the city.

[00:39:06] Yeah.

[00:40:04] here and the automated defenses are looking for new fodder or new material.

[00:40:10] And so it would go very bio shock very quick.

[00:40:16] Um, and I could easily see this like using this material, um,

[00:40:22] for like a dungeon crawl kind of a kind of game where like you, like this is the dungeon, the sit, the subterranean city is your dungeon.

[00:40:25] Yeah.

[00:40:27] Uh, and you're either. was going to be used for the evacuation of like the city's systems above. There would have to be some kind of a tunnel going back up to the surface. So like maybe it collapsed or something like that partially thus hiding the structure. And then it just took like some team

[00:41:41] above like that was closer to the surface

[00:41:43] to like break through down into the down there.

[00:41:47] Yes, folks. to find out that some of the bobby's are found a way up to the surface, like through tunnels or through like secret maintenance tunnels and stuff. And they're grabbing people off the street that they perceive to be criminals or homeless and bring them back down even the mentions of SCP 1678 BC and D. Like on the same train of thought as like of like making this gameable between the flying surveillance creatures and the beggars that explode into black smoke when you give them stuff.

[00:44:22] And even like the paste like you could throw to be like for Toronto and Chicago and even New York have like whole sections, whole neighborhoods that are built over top of old neighborhoods. It's like a layered cake of city. So you could definitely

[00:45:42] kind of play with that kind of idea of like this, again, the mole people or the subterranean it when it comes to SCPs. Yeah, for sure. Um, then we have my last thing here from SCP 1678D role, food supply, aka Dr. Goody's Wonder Food. It has the same consistency of and taste as porridge as advertised. It contains

[00:47:03] all the nutrients necessary for short- duh. Yeah, no, like I, yeah, it's kind of shady, but it's for the good. I got for sure. It's just D class. They're hard to see. Some may say it's just a fan.

[00:48:22] Um, also when it when it's when it read like a K a Dr.

[00:48:26] Goody's Wonder Food, I've got for my actual thoughts like reading through this I really enjoyed the material and like was just like seeing a Campaign or at least a scenario like a one-shot scenario in my head of like throwing your mic throwing players into this this hell hole

[00:49:43] It would be a bad time

[00:49:47] So what so what are you doing there next Friday gamer for? It could see you radically be happening in our real world because it's way to hell down there. It doesn't influence us at all Yeah, but it's really there guys. Yeah. Oh and like again like it I Said this before I said this read earlier Like there are so many different like underground urban legends around like multiple cities across the world like Toronto

[00:51:02] apparently under one

[00:52:04] make the correction from going is nothing to was nothing, ellipseed out.

[00:52:05] But the dash makes it so it's more like an instant correction,

[00:52:08] not like a drawn out dramatic correction.

[00:52:12] So the difference would be like, the way it is now is,

[00:52:16] there is nothing was nothing we could do to stop them.

[00:52:20] Whereas like ellipseed would be like, there is nothing was

[00:52:24] nothing we could do to stop them. Yeah. Somebody actually had to read off a script to this, not a computer. Yes, for sure. And then during the entrance transcript, it says, let the world above burn. We will endure. Let the monsters have their world. We will prepare and... Oh, there's a front end, oh no. And let's the ground the architecture of the human cities. Like they're modern cities, but they have like this architect, Art Deco or like kind of gothic design to them. Also like, yeah, this speech is very like in reminiscent of like again, the bio shock

[00:55:03] of speeches that you hear, but also like when you were. Like it would sound very kind of like what you hear here. Yeah. Also, rumination is apparently the act or fact of ruining someone or something or of being ruined. Yeah. So the day of rumination of man. Oh man.

[00:56:20] Yeah.

[00:56:22] The day that man got ruined.

[00:56:24] Oh yeah, sorry.

[00:56:25] For some reason I read that as the day of rumination of man that they have to deal with. Like through the transcripts alone, we know that they have to deal with mimetic beings, cortex worms, evil quote unquote, walking in the human flesh, the patterned screamer and the slaver man. Like, since this is a whole city, this has been up literally and physically

[00:57:40] to have so many other SEPs and SEP tails

[00:57:43] take place within it.

[00:57:45] Oh, 100%.

[00:57:46] I get so many lifted some that you can already start. them here, but trust us, yeah, exactly. This is important information that if this is true, if this prophecy is true, we need those that information. Yeah. And I would, I 100% agree. I think even we're adapting it because like, obviously, like from a writer's point of view, maybe the person just wanted to leave it ambiguous.

[00:59:01] It's like, like, oh yeah, there's SCPs there, believe it ambiguous for future writer to

[00:59:05] come up with. from one to seven nine nine there's I'm sure a bunch of empty spots that haven't been taken to yeah yeah there are there not not a lot but there are but yeah like it right now like they're currently we're currently in series I know one two three four six seven eight we're currently in series eight of scps because they they go by like urban exploring into these cave systems and into the city or run it in Vassen and your citizens, that you're the test citizens going down to like to live there when something goes wrong and you're trapped down there as like 19th century characters or

[01:01:42] Victorian era characters dealing and the and with Vassen you can just like basically make scps There is a canon of like stories where it's like the SCP foundation is now in space London, when day breaks. So I think it's... It's not the first SCP.

[01:04:22] No, well, remember SCP-001 has so many different

[01:04:24] SCP, like so many different variants of it, right?

[01:04:27] From different, like cannons? that is cool. The neat idea. That's pretty neat. It is be neat. I don't know how much it is nature, but it's neat. Anyways, ungodly nature. But yeah, I guess that'll do for this week's episode. If you like what you heard, or if you didn't leave us a comment in the comment section below, whether this gets posted. We're both on

[01:05:42] Twitter kind of. The gamer in SCPM trees to look at. And this one specifically, because like, I think like, this is probably one of my favorite like setting like sort of SCPs. Like a lot of the SCPs are just like,

[01:07:00] are like a creature or something like that

[01:07:01] that you can throw anywhere.

[01:07:03] This is an entire setting.

[01:07:06] Yeah.