SCP Foundation

An SCP about the Zodiac Killer, written for the 72 hour contest, Day One.

The second in my unofficial trilogy about the Foundation getting hoodwinked by memes following SCP-3520, and the first part in my official trilogy about the Kephart Corporation, Sadie Louis, and Davey Kurland. Part Two arrives tomorrow.

Special thanks to John Carroll Lynch and my local escape room

This is confusing and odd in a good way. It reminds me a bit of TotleighSoft as a serial killer, though.

When the first line of the description suggests that the skip is the Zodiac Killer, you know you're in for a doozy.

And holy mother of mercy was this a doozy.

I'm not familiar enough with the original Zodiac letters to comment on the verisimilitude of the ones you have here. However, I can say that your letters absolutely look like they were written by a crazy person—and I say that with admiration, mind you. Honestly, this whole thing feels next-level crazy, and I love it for that. Heck:

Both Researchers were miked as per the letter.

Crap on a cupcake. I thought this said milked, and the fact that that seemed perfectly in line with the article thus far is a testament to how bonkers the whole affair is. And then the article started dipping into almost-but-not-quite-but-maybe-actually meta territory, and then the whole thing is implied to be some sort of ersatz guerrilla marketing campaign, and what even. By all accounts, this should have been a hot mess, but it's so consistent in its insanity that the whole thing somehow works.

The Mark Ruffalo thing was a weak point of the article for me, though. Even with the film connection, it still felt a smidge too lolrandom for skip that's otherwise very thematically coherent (somehow). The 173 reference felt a bit gratuitous as well. Furthermore, a number of sentences throughout this piece have a very long, rambling quality to them—which I assume is due to the furious pace at which you must have typed this—and although it adds to the ambiance of insanity, it also makes the article a little clunky to read. It'd be nice to see this tightened up after the contest is over, but I won't hold it against you if you leave it as-is.

Also, I found a number of little errors in the document. I fixed the ones that looked like they probably weren't intentional, but left a few I was unsure about.

Finally, apropos of nothing:

Foundation-operated web analysis bot

I'm pretty sure I invented this term, and it's nice/surreal to see that it's apparently in common parlance now.

I think I need to go lie down. +1

You use the phrase "you too" multiple times in the log; I think you meant "you two." If not, the sentences containing that phrase are really confusing. Otherwise, this is a good weird messed-up skip. :)