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Note: Writing this took a while, and i got more and more fatigued as I wrote, so the later ideas don't have as much as detail as the earlier ones do. I apologize for this, and will attempt to expand them at a later date.
A family of 3 (mother, daughter, and son) discover that they can go into this shared "dream world", where they're practically gods. The only "downside" is that they can keep no secrets from each-other, as they all access each-other's mind when accessing the dream.
How did this dream world come about? I dunno yet.
For the mother, who just got through a messy divorce, this is the perfect escape from reality, regardless of whether or not her kids can see what's going on.
For the daughter, who's normal, it's a nice option for relaxation after a rough day, or when she wants to be artistic.
For the son, who's a heroin addict, it's a living hell. He's pretty much forced to experience his hallucinations "in real life" whenever he's high, or in withdrawal, or whenever his mind decides to screw him over. To add to this, his hallucinations leak into his family's mind through the dream, which drags them all down with him.
This all culminates in the son overdosing on the bathroom floor, and all of that heroin flooding the dream. This breaks the mind of the mother and daughter, and they become catatonic while the dream just becomes this acid-scape of horrors.
All of this would be explained through the daughter's journal that she writes during all of this, detailing her mother's increased reclusiveness, his brother's struggles with heroin and how it affects the dream, and her won thoughts and worries about it all.
I just need to learn how to write a character.
Somewhere out there, in some undisclosed yet significant forest, is the tree that is at the center of all of the "tree of life" myths (Yggdrasil is the one that pops into mind first, but I'm sure that there are more). It has worked itself so far into the human psyche that it sort of "pops up" whenever someone thinks about a tree.
It died a few months ago, and it's dragging human consciousness down with it. This effect would start with whatever indigenous tribes that have popped up around it losing their minds, and slowly (or quickly, I'm not sure yet) spreading out until it covers a good portion of the globe.
What'll happen at this point? Probably the Ennui Protocol, forcing the world to forget about the tree to save us all. Or I could make it not-a-tree, and the Ennui Protocol is enacted to force the world to forget about that species of plant all together and replace it with trees.
Somewhere out in the far-flung reaches of the multiverse, there was a humongous war that decimated universes. One of the only survivors of this war, a ridiculously reality bender, saw what destruction he head wrought, and thought it very very bad. To make sure he could never do this again, he cannibalized himself and put various parts of himself in random places around the multiverse.
A significant chunk of his brain, in the form of a large grey sphere, inserted itself a good hundred feet under San Francisco.
Almost immediately, depression diagnoses go on the rise, suicide cults start popping up, and the city just generally shuts down. This, combined with the obvious seismic evidence of a large, unidentified object suddenly appearing under a populated city, gets the Foundation on the job right quick. They excavate down to where the object is, and probably set up a site around it, to study it and (possibly) try and use it. In the meantime, they set up a cover story about a chemical leak causing all of this, and use an aerosolized (if that's the word) anti-depressant to offset the effects of the object.
I'm going to try and drip-feed the "exposition" through journals and other articles from the cults and depressed people, though I might add in an "interview" with the object if I can't get enough information in.
In his childhood, a gifted wizard saw his brother murdered before his very eyes. He never got over it, as one does, and decides to stop such a thing from ever happening again. To this end, he enacts a massive ritual that stops any perceived pain or harm from being inflicted from a conscious source anywhere on Earth.
It works, and it causes many a problem. Shots don't work as those cause pain, surgeries aren't able to happen as there are too many things that could go wrong, and bullets just do nothing.
While all of this is happening, massive gravitational anomalies are manifesting around the ritual site as "blowback" (at least, I think that's the term).
I have no idea where I'll go from here.
A Maxwellist sect in Japan pick up signals from another universe. This universe is full of robotic humanoid robotic entities who say that they are willing to "uplift" (read as: convert) any who are able to make it to their universe. As this is a Maxwellist's wet dream, they immediately begin trying to make a gateway to this universe, but quickly discover that they lack the technology to make this possible.
To get this technology, they use an undercover Maxwellist in the closest Foundation site to create a portal under the guise of ….. some transportation technology, I dunno. The portal device is built, and turned on.
As expected (through the magic of dramatic irony), it makes less of a portal than just an ever-expanding inter-universal rift within the Site. One sorry sap is is pulled through almost immediately, and would probably be one of the main characters of the story as he explores the society.
I'm thinking that there would be 2 other facets to this story, aside from The Sap and the Maxwellists: the Foundation forces in the site who are quickly being squeezed by the Maxwellists on the outside and the rift on the inside; and defectors from the robo-universe who wished to go back to being as human as possible when all you've known is the cyber-utopia, and are also the proxies through which the signal was sent to the Maxwellists.
Somewhere out there in the multiverse is a dimension of sentient roses, of all colors and species. Why are they there? Maybe someone wanted entertainment, maybe someone wanted to create life, maybe someone was bored. I dunno.
These roses all hated each other, and so they tried to eradicate each-other. As there is a dimension full of them, none of them ever fulfilled this goal. But every universe has it's limits, and the roses eventually found the limits of theirs, and broke them down.
So now we have a universe of flowers and thorns just floating around the multiverse, always trying to find ways to eradicate each-other. Whenever they came close to another universe, they attached themselves to it like a parasite, and bore through its walls to infest it.
The latest universe it decides to attach itself to is ours. It originally breaks through into bare inter-planetary space, around Mars. Then they break through on Earth, in the middle of the Arctic, and create a little island for themselves. The Foundation gets involved pretty quickly, and sets up a perimeter around the island.
After a bit, Foundation personnel stationed around the island start to hallucinate voices telling them to help the plants prosper and things like that. It eventually progresses to the point that the personnel start "speaking for the plants", like they know what the plants are saying.
Surprise! The roses are actually speaking THROUGH the person.
This one will probably be the one thrown in the waste-bucket first.
Through much biological and thaumaturgical fuckery (possibly having to do with War of the Roses), a very tiny (~2 microns) hole has been discovered to exist in the brains in every sentient being that possesses a brain. This hole has an extremely low Hume count (like SCP-3001 low). It has been theorized that this is where mental visualization "happens", and possibly where consciousness comes from.
I'll probably add in some eldritch abomination that exists in all of these spaces, but I'm too tired at the moment.
In every "specialized" environment, an entity exists that only exists in one facet of that environment. This entity exists in all that goes away. It can effect anything that is deemed "impermanent" by the common human, like the falling of the leaves, or the waves of the sea, or the patterns made by children in the sand.
The story of this SCP would be about one such entity and a little boy named Charlie, who just wants a friend. Our entity, feeling sad for Charlie, holds a conversation with him by creating small words in the patterns made by the waves when they lap against the shore. They have a few cute chats about child things.
The Charlie gets sick. This is shown through his handwriting being shakier, his words not as deep in the sand. The entity gets worried, as it is an empathetic creature, and knows what it's like to not have a say in the world. It tries to comfort Charlie regardless, yet is unable to assuage all of his worries.
Charlie's health continues to decline, until he eventually passes away. The final message, stating that Charlie "has gone to a better place" along with the date of his death, is in a markedly different handwriting and depth, indicating a different person is writing, presumably one of his parents.
The entity, torn apart from the loss of its friend, decided to break out of its nature and create something semi-permanent: a record of its conversations with Charlie, along with a crude, childlike drawing of what it imagines Charlie to have looked like.
The Foundation leaves the monument open to the public, using the cover story that it's an "experimental art exhibit".
Bullet points 'cuz I'm tired, let's go!
-Memetic infection spread through speech
-2 stages of infection:
-S1: State of intense introspection and rumination about past misdeeds and actions. Vocalizations
during this stage have a small (~10%) chance of spreading the entity to whoever hears it.
-S2: Subject becomes catatonic, only saying the phrase "What a Terrible Thought". Anyone who
hears this phrase is infected and immediately starts S1. After an uncertain amount of time (5
minutes to 6 hours), subject dies of simultaneous seizure and heart attack
-Classified details:
-During S1, anomalous neural structure grows on prefrontal cortex of brain (area that controls
judgement)
-Brainwave scans and dissections reveal that structure is ~99% similar to FOundation agent who
defected a few years ago
-Said agent left to join cult in Himalayas. Said cult was destroyed in GOC raid, with all literature
being destroyed and members killed, except for agent who fled into mountains.
-Short time later, GOC personnel started being infected by the entity, which seem to have spread
from "misplaced hum" that started happening soon after agen disappeared. Signal was sent to
base camp with enough details to keep people from getting infected further (proper precautions,
etc.)
-Foundation intercepted this signal, and sent people up to investigate. Cult compound has since
become a provisional site to study the hum.
-Final "interview"
-Through many acts of lobotomy, Foundation was able to get the structure to "speak" through
infected subjects.
-Turns out, they are being held "on trial" by the defected agent while in S2. If they are unable to
defend themselves in this trial, they are killed, as they "don't deserve to live in their new world".
So yeah, that was a dump of epic proportions.
Are any of these interesting? Is there anything I should add, take away, change entirely? Was this big post worth it?
