 Hello and welcome to watch me write an scp number two where I'm going to try and write an scp That'll actually stay on the wiki this time. I Have had an idea for a little while I think I've actually talked about it on a couple of the podcasts that I do with the forlorn foundry in the vulgan about Edward James almost which is an idea that people believe that Edward James almost will make a celebrity appearance at their location and I actually have had a pretty complete idea of the way the story should go for quite some time But I never got around to actually writing it and yes a lot of that is just based entirely upon the pun title I think I read Edward James almost and thought it said almost once and from there I come up with the idea The last idea I did which I believe was the containment at large about the fat guy who couldn't fly Probably not gonna continue with that. I like the idea But there's just no conclusion to it. It doesn't go anywhere So I wanted something that had a little bit more of a complete arc to it I guess even if it doesn't necessarily Complete a story it is one of those things It's just a weird incident or a weird event or a weird object. So with that said let's go over here Now I recorded myself during the entire process of writing it I've sped it up by about four times and I'm gonna watch it and give you some commentary as we go along About what I was thinking whilst I was writing. So here we go that's just That's just me. I was what listening to Genghis Khan by Mike snow Which is a nice just a fast-paced sort of upbeat Thing and right now I'm looking for yep I was gonna type it all the stuff out and then I thought you know what who cares about the object class this time around We're just gonna take it out entirely. I've been meaning to do that for a while We're just gonna do it today. But yeah, I was looking for an article that I could copy and paste the Information from just the formatting and everything so that it would be easier than typing it out. I've done it before It's not that big of a deal. You'll notice actually accidentally cut out special containment procedures And it just says special containment That actually needs to be fixed also item number. Where did I grab that from? I need to fix that where there should be item and the symbol for number not item number the word But here we go It's a shared social delusion predicated on the belief that Edward James almost will arrive imminently at the location currently occupied by a sufferer Yeah, and then we're just gonna talk about how this delusion How this delusion continues. Yeah, the shared delusion lasts for about three hours Begins to convey convince other yeah, so they spread it through literally convincing other people that the That Edward James almost is gonna show up and it's also canceled after three hours by people just Essentially believing it was a hoax and he was never gonna actually be there and The events originally. Yeah, here we go. I'm looking up Edward James almost. I'm writing down Edward James almost like I'm trying to figure out is he a Actor director and writer and I look like I do a yeah, there we go At least one fictional work that ever James almost acted in or directed I'm trying to get the phrasing right here Directed or appeared in as an actor is the best one I was gonna say directed acted in or wrote But then I was like I couldn't find any credits for him as a writer So because actors tend to have a basically those three things. It also produces. Well, but I left that out Yeah, and then original. Yeah, the originator must be capable of vocal communication. That's the primary method the SCP spread And here we go. I have an idea here. That's not gonna work out Standard scent foundation anti-mimetic inoculation is not currently capable of preventing spread. The idea was that this happened at an SCP Site I believe I you yeah is evidenced by the I bet I'm about to say something like outbreak at site 88. Yeah, we go Yeah, and then I get rid of it because it just doesn't it doesn't work for it one This was important because it meant that The the SCP could definite definitive I was worried originally that the SCP was tuned like Close to a non-anomaly problem like people believe that so-and-so is gonna show up at Us event and it doesn't happen. I'm sure that's not super anomalous and I was worried about that So I wanted to have it happen at an SCP site But then I felt that a little bit later on I decide first of all that having it happen at an SCP site is a little Out there it kind of spoils it makes it about that event and that event is not the focus of the article So I took it out eventually Yeah, the fact that individuals can be made aware of the anomalous nature after the first three hours Even if it directly contradicts the belief that SCP XXX was a complete hoax That means basically just that they can be told that it was you know an anomaly and not a hoax and they'll go Oh, I've been affected by an anomaly now Yeah They'll generally become excited the prospect of meeting it and at this point in the article I am still writing Edward James almost for everything a little bit later I'm gonna change that to something else while the originator will often attempt to inform others of works featuring Edward James almost Yeah, here we go. We're starting to Yeah, realize that doesn't really make much sense to follow The other thing and it actually makes more sense to follow Yeah, the second paragraph because it's talking about the originator again and finally the region air must be capable vocal communication Is this method by which it is spread then we continue to talk about the originator? This is another problem. Yeah, here we go an actor famous for so yeah an actor and director Works better as an a footnote. I think there is no long Yeah, this is the point where like how did this get first? Detected and essentially what happens is that there's a social media scraping software that other projects who did you know? We're following social media for one reason or another happen to detect that there's a lot more hoaxes involving Edward James almost not almost I said I actually said it Edward James almost not showing up at these events that were supposed He was supposed to leave, you know supposedly gonna be at and Then I like the idea that like it doesn't stop people from leaving people might get excited and be like oh my god Edward James almost is gonna be here, but they don't like I'm gonna leave my kids at home to starve even though. I only came here to the grit to this grocery store Temporarily because someone just told me Edward James almost is gonna be here. They just get excited and go Oh man, I can't believe I'm gonna miss it and they leave and when that happens So how do they get you know? How do they get non-affected by the anomaly and I decided to make it so they literally just start to forget that the Whole thing happened, which can be detectable since they would probably post social on social media about it Like hey, I gotta leave but come on over to the Walmart on 67. There's Edward James almost is gonna be here any minute Also social media doesn't actually Propagate the effect like the anomalous effect I'm sure people might who know who Edward James almost is and actually care might actually show up But it doesn't like Anomalously make them excited for Edward James almost outside of you know what other people might look and go I mean, yeah It's nice. I guess Yeah, I'm turn. I always forget when I'm writing how the format for mtfs is like and yeah, I'm because Edward James almost was I think hit my favorite role is actually in Blade Runner, so I went ahead and went with tears and rain is the Omega 17 name. I mean and also since they're essentially wiping out these events it kind of makes some sense Here we go So now that we I always wait sometimes for the special containment procedures to get a better idea of what exactly the anomaly is Because even if I have an exact idea, it's best not to write for me Anyway, it's best not to write the special containment procedures first because they'll change so much depending on how the description evolves So I tend to get some of the description. Yeah, so I tend to get some of the I don't know why I said Yeah, that's me like flubbing and then deciding I'm gonna like edit it later even though this is gonna go out mostly unedited but yeah The the description can change so much. I'd like to wait until it gets somewhat solidified before I work on the containment procedures Yeah, here is the what I hope to be a hook for the reader because The idea is that you're reading this article at the exact time after some event has occurred that you're not aware of Whatever that event is it has essentially shut down all experimentation with this object There will be no more experimentation with this object until we can get the containment procedures updated All right You're about to do something. I need to copy and paste some the collapsible Code and I went to SCP 2343 because I knew it had collapsible code in it And what I ended up doing was accidentally I Had previously altered SCP 2343 to be a list pages page Which meant that it's it's a multiple iteration SCP So you click a thing and it changes and I made it so that it all happens on one page But that means that the code for is not the normal page code and here we go Now I am doing the thing that doing a thing that a lot of people don't like to do and don't believe it's necessary. I am I Don't censor dates and names and stuff. So it helps to literally look up actual events that occur And in this particular case I need yeah I need to know where Edward James almost is going to be in a particular on a particular date So that I can set the event up as happening on that date because the test that's about to happen is One of the events goes off people believe Edward James almost is coming and he happens to be nearby So the foundations test is let's send him to the location and see what happens in order to do that I needed to know in the real world where he was at a particular time and the Philadelphia Con and I'm just looking up Denny's Like where in where in Philadelphia are these Denny's because he was at Philadelphia Comic Con I guess on April 13th through 15th. I think it was I had to look it up twice, but Yeah, and it's actually not the Philadelphia Comic Con It's what's called the great Philadelphia Comic Con either way I don't eventually end up leaving that in there, but we're but the important point is is that I know that event occurred So this is an actual This this is consistent with actual real-world events Like if you looked if you look it up on April 13th, Edward James almost was in Philadelphia Which to me feels I like internal consistency in my world It's the reason why I don't censor out dates and names. I feel like It adds a deepness to it like 95 maybe even 99% of people are not gonna look this up but Someone who happened to have been at that at that comic con Will know that this is a real thing that could have happened It just adds a little eye to me personally I feel like it adds a little extra level of here we go We're about to change Edward because I just used the words Edward James almost so much it stopped it like it Didn't have meaning anymore, you know where you lose meaning when you say something often enough So yeah, I changed Edward James almost SCP xxxx-1 Which makes it a little bit and also fixes the tone a little bit Yeah, we've got a consistency of event now I started with I wanted to have like a series of events where things start to go a little weirder and weirder And I I use my love of Blade Runner to inform what the event would be because in Blade Runner Edward James almost his character He folds up some cranes Some origami cranes. Yeah, here we go We start with What are you doing here? We're doing a little bit of editing Yeah, okay, we're doing a little bit of editing on the actual event This is some of this is gonna change because the wording is a little awkward But it's 23 kilometers and I decide 23 kilometers was too far away from the SCP xxxx suffers The affected individuals begin to seek out and collect Paper that is available any paper that is available and it will stop performing any tasks. They were performing That's kind of awkward. I may need to I don't think I fixed that Work in the kitchen stops diners no longer. Yeah, here we go. I decided to list the number of people Give some details about it. Originally. It was like approximately 14 people and I'm like, no, there's video surveillance They know exactly how many people are in there Stops and diners no longer eat foundation personnel Yeah, here we go. We're shortening it down And also, I don't know that the time period involved like it might not take him 10 minutes to go 11 kilometers, but It's in the middle of a city like this this denny's is the located in the middle of philadelphia. So the idea that there might be traffic is reasonable Here we go and we're yeah Especially during a comic-con This event was successful. The foundation driver began to travel to began to transport. Yes, that's important The foundation driver has to take someone somewhere for it to matter In clifton heights, pennsylvania is just a I guess a sub I part of philadelphia. I don't remember exactly It's like uh different different parts of a city of different names Going standard protocol and I don't remember permitted. Yeah, there we go That way that it contains the event as much as possible And then I was like, you know what? I didn't actually include that in the containment procedures There's another thing I forgot to contain in the put in the containment procedures That'll end up being edited in after I posted it because this ends up on the wiki right now It's at plus seven last I looked But uh, yeah the Yeah, I gotta actually prevent people from going into the location. We don't want it to spread too much Okay, so they've taken the paper and they have begun to craft origami cranes with it, which is straight out of uh straight out of blade runner None of the individual Present I hope I changed that to plural none of the individual present had a history of training of or training in the creation of such works It arrives at The SAP affected location He's allowed entry by foundation personnel. Also, you'll notice uh Personnel is just a word. I never spell correctly. I always it's one of those things is like I sometimes it'll hang me up too Uh, yeah, hold the crane. Yeah, I wanted to make him something slightly creepy here They just hold the cranes and don't move And then they look at they look at edward james almost places cranes on the nearest Available surface and then experience a sudden and violent cranial inversion, which is their heads explode All the pencil I like how I include I I don't need to include all of individuals immediately expire That's not necessary, but I put it in anyway And then I was I had an ending involved. I like I had an ending for this Conceived of but I also didn't feel like putting it right here works So instead he speaks for approximately two seconds and leaves. There's no audio on this recording. So they don't know what he said Yeah, should be noted that the that no audio recording was available during this event. Yeah Yeah, and then they transport him away from the location I originally had an idea that the blood and gore from the exploded heads Covers everything inside except for edward james almost but then I decided that was a little off I show no further discussion of the event with any individuals So he basically this happens and he doesn't even mention it to anyone That's me copying pasting the classical code Just because it's so easy to you screw up one line and it's like messed up And here we go. This is where we're going to put our button on like this is the ending, right? This is the ending that I'm thinking of So attempting to understand the anomaly Uh, it'll be update the containment procedures should be updated soon to reflect new knowledge gained during the test It should be noted that lip reading experts have determined the scp xxx-1 statement during the test was That wasn't funny the first time which That was my button. That's supposed to be like you make you think wait, this has happened more than once So yeah, and now we're gonna do start doing cleanup. That's the uh, yeah now we're starting to do cleanup on the Yeah, what are you doing here? We're fiddling a little bit with the special containment procedures Yeah, making it so that entry must be directly approved instead of prevented because I realized that allowing Edward James almost himself into the event would have gone against this containment procedures So I needed to include a caveat that allows the project head to allow people to go in And then I changed the word experiments to tests Excuse me by the way Taking a drink of water Here's the important part that the remember that they lose memory of the event That's very important because otherwise the foundation really wouldn't have a good reason to expect that this is actually an anomaly Like them losing memory is what triggers them to investigate further and Once you you know, like once you see this in social media and you start investigating and investigating Invest again, you realize there's a pattern of behavior, especially when there's Surveillance footage available, which is quite often in public places And then I'd get rid of the comic con stuff. So it doesn't also misspell restaurant quite often It doesn't show up as often as personnel in scp file, but it's another word. I can't spell apparently Uh, but yeah, I took out the comic con thing and now I'm just looking at this and trying to get an idea of what needs to be changed I took out comic con, but the event still Exists the date is right. The place is right Yeah, here's me trying to yeah Here's me trying to work in the blood covering everything but Edward James almost it doesn't work Except for the yeah, just getting rid of it I think I'm gonna I might try once or more. Yeah, I'm gonna try down here. I'm like, well, maybe it could go here Uh Yeah, here we go Uh, nope didn't work it there either. Like I'm thinking it through. I'm like, can I put this in here? I don't know All right, here we go Now we are about to post it onto the wiki and I'm forgetting that this is a Private browsing session, which means I can't actually do anything because I'm not logged in So I actually have to open up a brand new regular browsing session And the wiki is super laggy today Just click something at random put scp 4 6 1 3 in there Copy paste do all my spelling corrections that you can see Uh personnel personnel and also do a little bit editing to make it flow like the visual flow. I should say You don't want to have too blocky of uh paragraphs and now I'm about to change the yep Just do a straight up word replace and then I look at it. I'm like, huh. It looks a little thin And that's because the theme isn't applied properly and there's no rating module. There's stuff missing and I'm just like Don't look quite right to me. So I go over and I open up my sandbox and I believe in my sandbox right now is the old Yeah, there we go. I'm grabbing the code. Okay. Yeah, I haven't even put that in yet I'm about to and then when I preview it's not going to show up and I'm gonna freak out for a second Like tears and rain. No, it's a shame. They won't live but then again who does that's another Both of those are quotes from blade runner One of them one of them is not a correct quote. It's uh, it's a shame. She won't live but then again who does but I I decided to put it differently It's just a little fun note for me and I'm like, okay, it's not showing up So, uh, let's try it in the sandbox, but then the sandbox has got its own theme that overrides So that didn't work either now. I'm looking up an image of Edward James Olmos Because I'm like, why not I don't see a reason why it's like it's like the bare minimum of what you can do So why not right Now I've got to go find an article that has an image and I've got to grab the page source component Yep edit all the editing put it in the right place change that You a lot of a lot of writing scp's is actually just copy pasting code from other plate Like if you don't know how to something works just copy paste it This is me renaming the file so that when I go to upload it will be it will actually work properly I don't have to rename anything or edit anything Nice to be 4613 during an unrelated event That's me grabbing the attribution I'm going to put that in the comments here and then I'm going to copy directly from this is a Every page now has like well not every page, but if you can include a module that will include like notes like this So first thing we're going to do Upload that That's in we're going to do a hard refresh the image works We're going to copy paste our yeah Make sure they put quotes around it so people know it's a quote Then I upvote my own article because I always upvote my own article and I give it a name Even though I have some difficulty getting it to work call Edward James almost And save the page this page always takes forever to save even when like it wiki isn't laggy And that would be the end of it If you like that article going over to scp 4613 there'll be a link in the description Assuming that it's still up by the time this video goes out, which is going to be today And give it a up for a downvote depending on what you think of it and then After you're done with that Or actually before you do that Scroll down and make sure you hit the subscribe button and then the notification bell next to that I may if these videos start doing pretty well write more scps on A recording just so you get a better idea of my process and maybe you can adapt your process to work like mine I don't know if that'll help you if it won't help you Uh, but I think this is an interesting idea for a video and it may become a series Like I said if people enjoy it So let me know in the comments down below if you like this kind of video And I'll keep doing them and if you really want to help support this kind of content Help make it so that I can continue to make this content for you Head on over to patreon.com forward slash decimarian and pledge at any level We have actually I wanted to make a note about this because I forgot to edit it properly for our last video But cassie clark actually upped her pledge from 20 dollars 30 dollars And I felt that was worth a mention I forgot to edit the actual in card for my last video And I wanted to make sure to make a special shout out for that So thank you very much cassie as for the rest of you Thank you for letting me know i'm not alone out here, and I will see you again on tuesday