Chapter 13: First Event
"Do you really want to do that?" 001 hesitated.
Although the SCP Foundation is not something to be seen, it is recommended to those around you......
I always feel like they're going to look at it in a strange light.
Why don't you pit a wave of netizens on the Internet?
But if you can't directly reprint Foundation documents, wouldn't it be too inefficient to just rely on verbal fooling?
"If you don't feel that the reward is enough, I can give you an incentive policy. An idea popped into Guan Li's heart.
001 perked up: "What incentive policy?"
Is it time to start an event?
He sat in front of the computer and waited left and right, and didn't wait for the other party to reply, "@管理员, are you still there?
And Guan Li didn't have time to pay attention to him at the moment, he was putting into practice the idea that suddenly came to him.
- Thousands of people unlock the national branch online.
In the original world, the SCP Foundation arose from the United States, and the natural English station was the main international station.
However, in addition to the main site, SCP enthusiasts from all over the world have also established their own sub-sites, translated and transported the entries of the main site, and began to write SCP files with their own characteristics.
These linguistic sub-stations are referred to as the national branches of the SCP Foundation.
For example, SCP-CN is the Chinese branch, which contains a number of CN series documents written by natives.
Although the number of creations is far less than that of the main site, some of the branch documents are also unique, and even add a lot of elements that only people from their own country can smile.
Guan Li had planned to find a suitable opportunity to unlock the national branches in the future.
However, plans have not kept up with the changes.
He suddenly realized that there was such a thing as unlocking the national branch...... It can be used as a reward!
Thus was born the Foundation's first activity in this world.
"When the number of simultaneous online users reaches 1,000, we will unlock the national branch with the highest proportion of Chinese nationals online. Guan Li briefly explained the idea of the activity to the system, and asked it to be sorted out and made into an announcement, and by the way, he also asked, "By the way, how many long-term logins do we have now?"
Long-term logins, i.e., those who have been logged in with the Foundation for at least three days.
Those who have only landed once or twice have a good chance of leaving and never returning, and those who have landed three times are mostly attracted to the Foundation to stay.
"289 ......," the system said with a pause, "it's 290 now." ”
"At least there are more than 700 left, and it depends on whether our members can compete. ”
Long-term logins are not equal to the number of people online, and the actual number of people to be invited to achieve simultaneous online achievements is actually much higher.
But it's not bad.
Guan Li believes that this activity will be completed, but the exact time required is a little uncertain.
I hope it won't take long.
He is very optimistic about 001, who is very good at hooking up, and hopes that he can bring some surprises.
As for Esther, another person who has contributed to the Foundation in the same period...... Being too sharp and positive is sometimes not a good thing.
"Administrator, may I ask a question? Why isn't there a U.S. branch in this online unlocking event?"
Just two minutes after the announcement was posted, the doctor, who had been on the Foundation's website almost all day, had already sent a message as Guan Li had expected.
Not only was the U.S. branch excluded from the list of event awards, but even the United Kingdom and Australia were subjected to the same "unequal treatment".
"Because most of the authors of the current master documentation are from these countries, the English sub-site has been merged with the main site. ”
Guan replied bluntly, believing that Esther could understand the meaning.
The SCP Foundation's divisions are not strictly divided by nationality, but by language.
English main station, Russian sub-station, Chinese sub-station......
The Foundation's original authors were all English-speaking people.
Later, the foundation gradually internationalized and began to accept submissions from all over the world, and the proportion of English authors should not be underestimated.
It can be said that the "SCP Foundation" itself developed in the atmosphere of English culture, and only later became global in the process of development.
In such a situation, is it necessary to open another English sub-station in one more move, dig back those English authors who have established their positions, and write what "US" series?
"CN" is the Chinese national domain name that the Chinese station has to add, while the American domain name "US" is almost forgotten by its own people.
Therefore, the so-called "English sub-station" did not exist from the beginning.
How do I unlock something that doesn't exist?
Guan Li couldn't change one out of thin air, so he had to kick out several countries whose national language is English.
In this way, the most competitive English camp is directly out, and the remaining parties ......
The number of people in the other camps combined is not as large as that of the Chinese.
If you have such an absolute advantage, you can still be surpassed by people from other countries......
Well, Guan Li is a very reasonable person.
He won't get angry, so he demoted 001 to D-class and fed 682.
SCP-682-Immortal Lizard, the former Foundation's famous 682 master, universal combat strength unit, infinite D-class processor, best individual for SCP object interaction experiments......
There are so many titles, all of which have never appeared in this world.
The current 682 has not yet been discovered—especially suitable for spoofing/memes/experiments—and Guan Li believes that it is his responsibility to present this excellent secondary creation material to the majority of members.
Put those titles back one by one, just start with "drag it out and feed 682".
If there is no Foundation of "682 Everywhere", is it still a Foundation?
After Guan Li said that, Esther really didn't continue to pursue the issue, but threw him another tricky trouble.
- "I see the same name in both 427 and 582 documents: 'Lovecraft'. The two documents refer to the same person, right? Is he some hidden figure in the Foundation's worldview? Generally speaking, shouldn't this specific person be [DATA EXPUNGED]?"
"......" Guan Li knew that Esther would make trouble for him as much as possible, or this kind of trouble that could not be avoided as soon as he brought it up!
SCP-427-Lovecraft Pendant, a pendant capable of "optimizing" mutating humans in long-term contact into some sort of "flesh beast".
SCP-582 - A collection of materialized stories, a type of story that brings to life a written story, and all stories are related to the contagious phenomenon of an unidentified entity.
These two files are not related in essence, but in their text, there is a name that should not appear-
Lovecraft.
Howard Philip Lovecraft, a name that would not attract anyone's attention in this world, but in a previous life influenced the creation of culture around the world for decades.