Plot In Potentia

...That title would be a lot more gripping and intellectual if I knew what the Latin word for "plot" was. Oh well.

That aside, I stumbled across a strange little wiki that has a collection of short pieces of fiction collectively called "SCPs". It stands for Special Containment Procedure, and they're stories written in the form of brief government documents detailing the protocol for containing and maintaining weird-shit artifacts, individuals, and creatures (including a succubus, a dryad, and half a cat that insists on moving around like it's a full cat). Josie the half-cat, of course, is the least dangerous of all the artifacts listed, which also includes a prion that effectively creates zombies, an ancient piece of sheet music that compels individuals to attempt to finish it in their own blood, and an entity that inhabits a fault while it seeks out a host body. Some are more amusing than unsettling, and others are just plain creepifying, but they're all almost equally strange.

So what I got to thinking was that it would make an incredibly interesting framework for a series of stories for some newcomer to a sort of specialized containment team to be taken on a tour of the team's facility, being introduced to the objects held there one by one, with the tale of each being told as they're come across. The main thing would be avoiding making it too much like, say The X-Files, but that oughtn't to be too difficult. For one thing, there's no reason that the characters have to be any kind of government operative. They could just have to deal with this shit, for some reason--ancient curse, obsessive compulsion, or maybe they just feel an obligation to help their fellow man, seeing how they're the only ones with any idea how to. It could make for an interesting jaunt into gritty comic urban fantasy. ...Does that even exist? I might've just made a new niche genre.

Awesome.

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