Chapter 126: Cultural Myths

"SCP-003's organism resolution has reached its lowest level, and the direction of proliferation can be chosen. ”

A simple but clear attribute selection diagram unfolds before the eyes of the cage fish, and the evolutionary characteristics of the biological mother plate are clearly visible.

The creatures it captures will become a template for reconstructing their own forms.

According to SCP-003's file settings, it was very vulnerable in the early stages of breach of containment.

The biological motherboard is not another Einstein anomaly that does not observe the conservation of mass and energy, and it is still relatively scientific in itself.

First, it needs to absorb and convert the matter around it in order to multiply itself, and the Foundation's biological research has always been the subject of its biology.

Secondly, the biological motherboard has an almost fatal weakness: when its temperature reaches more than 35 degrees Celsius, its proliferation will be inhibited, and when it reaches 100 degrees Celsius, the proliferation is likely to be reversed until it returns to its original "motherboard" form.

This makes re-containment of SCP-003 not difficult.

It really can't be dropped, and the instantaneous high temperature and high pressure will clean up the breakthrough site.

However, archives are archives, and players in the game are not facing a normal Foundation.

What is the minimum "Safe" level?

It's probably the level that the Foundation has and doesn't have.

There is no such thing as "Safe" as a normal game option, and the Foundation's minimum alert and defense level is "Euclid".

"Safe" is the "comfort" unique to newcomers to the first game.

But there is only one psychological comfort.

When the Foundation, the sole counterweight to the anomaly, fails, the world quickly descends to hell.

In this way, "Safe" is not safe at all.

From the point of view of design intent, this "newbie benefit" is a complete failure.

On behalf of all the victims, Ye Lingxing strongly demanded that this "novice welfare" that the dead in the pit do not pay for their lives should be removed.

Guan Li did not hesitate to dismiss his protest.

He is very satisfied with this cheat mechanism that has been made by the system, "I think it's pretty good. ”

"Not every player likes to play the game of suffering. Ye Lingxing was so busy that the animation production had already begun, so he could only take the time to go online and chat with Guan Li, "What's more, I don't even know how to die, which will deal a fatal blow to the player's enthusiasm for the game." ”

He's been able to access the backdoor and study Foundation settings for a while, so even if he doesn't know what each SCP designation represents, he can still tell from the game hints and the name of the object.

And what about other players who have never been exposed to SCP Foundation before?

What it would be like to play, you can guess just by thinking about it-

Who am I, where am I, who am I fighting, who is beating me?

"It's not a big problem to get started, as long as there are strategies and tutorials, many players are willing to learn and keep playing, and there will always be a market for suffering games. "Guan Li didn't have the idea that "Endless" could become a hit in the first place, that was simply unrealistic.

If you want money, you don't have money, you want a picture, you want a plot, you don't have a plot, what do you want to fire?

In this era of increasingly surging information exchanges, it is very simple and difficult for something that has no foundation to rise.

The high-speed explosion of the massive hot economy has created batches of meteors that shine and fall in an instant.

Traffic, traffic, now is the era when traffic is king.

As long as you can hit most people's G-spot with something, maybe it's a sentence, maybe it's a picture, maybe it's a story that's hard to tell whether it's true or false, it doesn't matter what form it takes.

The resulting wave of information will create a national carnival that was unheard of in previous eras.

The marketing account from the media will want to smell the smell of blood like sharks swarming to get as many eyes as possible from the storm.

Detonating the network and thinking from a sociological perspective is not an absolutely impossible goal to achieve artificially.

After all, people are conformists.

Guan Li has thought a lot about which angle to start from and what way to make the "SCP Foundation" leap into the eyes of all beings.

Maybe the future will not be as he expected, but in any case, it must not appear in a negative image.

First impressions are too important.

"Endless" was the Foundation's first step out of its own small circle.

He didn't know if the step would be deep or shallow.

But from this moment on, the prologue of the war began.

Memetic effects, cultural trends, the social impact and guiding responsibilities that an IP series can carry......

These are by no means things that a work should think about, and most creators don't even dare to think about it.

This is also something that Guan Li must think about.

- If he wants to make SCP Foundation a truly great classic.

"I can't let the Foundation go out and be on the opposite side of everyone for the first time. He typed out a line.

Ye Lingxing: "...... Then you still set "Endless" like this. ”

Wouldn't it be okay to change the Foundation to the protagonist's side?

"I don't want them to have the first impression of the Foundation as a 'protagonist' who can control the situation with his own aura. ”

"...... you ask for a lot.

However, there is a little bit of truth to it.

Ye Lingxing wiped his face, temporarily blocked You Wei, who had sent several harassing messages in a row, and returned to the conversation with Guan Li, "So not only did you not give up this 'newbie benefit', but also deliberately strengthened it?"

"That's right!" Guan Li's words seemed to be a little cheerful, "Enhanced version, let all players remember - if you lose the Foundation, the world is hell." ”

Do you think you can do whatever you want if you become an anomaly?

It's too easy to think about!

If it hadn't been suppressed by the Foundation, sooner or later he would have been crushed to death by various SCP objects.

Is the relationship between the anomaly and the Foundation purely hostile?

No, no, no, of course not.

The Foundation is only "contained", and there is no "destruction" in their creed.

Many SCP objects have survived even under their protection.

Otherwise, it would have fallen into some mystic/otherworldly creature/cult fanatic who would have been ravaged round after round.

Although the Foundation does not treat "prisoners" well, at least they do not abuse "prisoners" for no reason.

Many humanoid SCP objects are treated much better than D-class.

- SCP-231's "caused" must be abused is not within this scope.

"It's brutal, it's excellent. Ye Lingxing expressed his admiration for this idea.

After thinking about it, you still think it really makes sense?

The atypical narrative structure of SCP Foundation itself creates its grand foundation, and also creates an image of a "protagonist" that is extremely difficult to express externally.

How can we make people know about the "Foundation" and the overall image of this post-modern non-human in a more traditional and popular way?

Guan Li's choice is to let the player experience it for himself.

After the ultimate end of the collapse of the order, it is necessary to understand the indispensability of the Foundation in the following journey.

Humanity needs the Foundation, in order to perpetuate civilization.

They need the Foundation more for these SCP objects, in order to survive.

Without the Foundation, this game can still play a ball!