 Foundation staff shirm here and welcome to skip dictation live if you're hanging out for today's live stream You're getting a sneak preview of site 42's new show researchers notes, which is the site 42 book club concept I'm using that researchers notes name because it seems a little more themy. So but it's a book club Today we're going to be going through my thoughts as well as a couple other users thoughts of scp 2571 Cragglewood Park So that's today's scp researchers notes. I'm getting the live chat set up I can't see the discord button behind my camera. So I'm gonna pull that up There we go and now to send out the alert Yo dogs It's live stream time it's a live stream o'clock spider fingers Alright, so there we go and then Alright hanging out in general chat So if you're on the discord server, there's no lag. So that's why I keep the discord server open stream and Then I've also got the YouTube chat if you're not a member of the discord server yet Was up Jack made it. Alright streams done. We got Jack. We're cool. Everyone else can go home No, don't come home more people more people come on. Okay, so let me move the camera And pull up audacity audacity audacity I need a Thing to record. Let's get rid of anything else that makes noise Unjumble this camera low camera. Hi. Hello. All right mic check time microphone microphone microphone check Good All right, we are looking good on sound Let's get our 10 seconds of meditation for noise reduction Brilliant All right, we are all set. Let's get rid of that brilliant to caught on the camera. All right So researchers notes two five seven one. Let's get down to business recording Hey there foundation staff sherm here and welcome to our new show Researchers notes the quickest way to describe the show would be the discussion section of an scp meets a book club Each month. We're going to oh, I didn't like how I said each month there Let's back it up. Nice thing about recording ahead of time is I don't have to settle for when I make silly mistakes Hey, everybody who just joined the stream how you guys doing Ryan the scar is here. Yes Welcome Each month is where I'm at Each month, we're going to approach two scp suggested by the community and discuss their themes stories merits and pitfalls to get deep into the mechanics of writing an scp I'm going to give my thoughts and I'm also going to give you guys a chance to voice your opinions as well From the site 42 community I'm asking for requests for scp's to be covered a 30 second to one minute audio recording of your thoughts about the upcoming skip or Or a written transcript that you'd like me to record you can get these things to me through the site 40 tour Site 40 tour you can get it to me through the site 40 tour Say 40 tour Man, you'd think I'd be able to record my own script. Nope. I mess up my own writing can't even say my own words Or a written transcript that you'd like me to record You can get these things to me through the site 42 discord server link in the description Or you can email them to scp site 42 at gmail.com. I'll be revealing the next scp at the end of the episode For our inaugural episode, we're going to be tackling scp 2571 Kraglewood Park by user the great hippo if you haven't read that one yet This would be your chance to pause this video follow the link below to read it and then come back You're back. Let's go For a quick tone check here's an opinion from site 42 discord member try to write Nope, that's not his name It's title right not try to write Let's put that back where it belongs Good keep going roll in excellent. Here we go. Here's an opinion from site 42 discord member title right Kraglewood was an interesting story. It reminded me of a discount theme park where everything is a knockoff and slightly creepier for it Plastic wooden trees that want you to stay forever in the forest whether you like it or not and don't worry about parental supervision Cuz the trees will watch over you unless you got the good sense to run the fuck away Thanks, title right all set to go a bit deeper Let's dive in the summary of the skip goes like this a Disturbingly large amount of people have a childhood memory or dream of visiting a theme park that doesn't exist with a bunch of children They didn't know it's fairly spelled out for us that the children were all sibling pairs And that one sibling had to sacrifice themselves to save the other by the end of the story We realized that those that made the sacrifice stayed behind rode the carousel in the middle of the park and at least in one of the reported memories became one of the Parks creepy-tree people themselves This also caused them to be erased from some facets of existence Their sibling doesn't remember they existed But at least one of them had a bedroom that their sibling was trying to ignore due to the park's influence on his memory for some thematic thoughts Drat. Hey, banana To do oh, no, I minimize the discord. I can't see it. Come back come back to me There we go there we go. Oh and now I see now I see Jack talk. Let me put that down there now. I can clip and But this should be thinner than that so I can clip there and now I can see everything good Oh Jack. Yeah, I've got the whole script written so it's a little too late to Submit sorry dude that some Submission date was three days prior to Halloween. So the 28th But you'll get to do the next one And this one will be open to the public. So yes, if you weren't in the site 42 discord server I'm announcing the new skip that we're doing that way everyone can be included and Although I'm announcing it at the end of the episode you're in the live stream So you're gonna find out anyways the next skip is going to be SCP 3300 the rain That one was suggested in the server. So that is going to be the next one. It's long It's dramatic. They're running from things. So that's gonna be a fun one to tackle so SCP 3300 the rain is gonna be our next one. So you have two weeks to bone up on that Submissions for that one will be due by November 12th 1112 So cool continuing on with the recording as it were Where are we? The park's influence on his memory due to the park's influence on his memory member Tider, right? Cool going on Do-do-do-do-do-do-do Do-do-do-do-do-do-do Do-do-do-do-do-do-do That didn't work trapped in the back bring me back. Cool. All right, we're in business All right Effect on his memory for some thematic thoughts. Let's turn to user Pinko from the site 42 discord server SCP 2571 is an SCP that I find interesting thanks to all the themes it touches Recurring nightmares distorted memories of a distant childhood that could either be true or a sick fever dream you miss remember Combined with the creepy reputations of circuses these days along with perhaps a perverted twist We have of making everything childish terrifying as we grow older think of clowns in the recent years as an example and you have one unsettling bad boy Immediately the containment procedure seemed a tad odd a bot named I O Mandela is to monitor the net for discussions of the SCP for somewhat a bit savvy this small detail perhaps a reference to the Mandela effect can already provide clues as to what the SCP does or at least the themes it will touch Otherwise you have your standard mobile task force team whose nickname the laughing stock seems to be a bit of good old-fashioned dark humor after a few readings The first line of the description reminded me of candle cove which after verification the discussions is on purpose this creepypasta that floated a bear This creepypasta that floated. I wanted to say floated around but that's not what it says so I've got to go with it I'm trying to keep everyone's submissions as close to their wording as I can Just because as long as I don't have to make all the changes like to make it legible I'm trying to keep with people specific voices. So where was I is on purpose is on purpose This creepypasta that floated a few years ago about a bunch of adults in an online forum Rod This creepypasta that floated a few years ago about a bunch of adults on an online forum Remembering watching a TV show for children that got more and more messed up and now as I'm typing this out I'm also reminded of SCP 993 Bob all the clown Of course this SCP 2571 takes it in its own twisted approach on the matter Drat. I said that wrong I wonder how long this episode is gonna be I haven't done Researchers notes before so I don't know how long this is going to turn out SCP 2571 That'll fix it. Perfect. Now I can see all three windows. Good. I'm the winner. All right boom record What am I saying now crap 2571 Takes its own twisted approach on the matter which makes it so It takes its own twisted approach on the matter which makes it so it comes out strong by itself The scp came at a full swing to me with the logs as I slowly realized what it was doing I have many siblings and the fear of losing them is very real to me as there are some of the most precious people in my life Reading about those people slowly realizing what the scp was along with me was a bit of an odd experience to say the least The video log only cements this without ever revealing too much Many scp straddle the line of not showing enough, but this log certainly helps envision what's happening along with adding another layer of mystery to the park How real of the location is it our parallel universe is involved who is filming if there is no parental supervision What's the point of the laughing? How do they know which kids? How do they know which kids? How do they know which kids? How do they know which kids which kids which kids? Okay, moving on. How do they know which kids need to go on the carousel? I can't comment much on the ending of the scp with the singing. However Drat, I'm just gonna redo that take faster. How do they know which kids need to go on the carousel? I can't comment much on the ending of the scp with the singing. However 437 seems to be its own cantal worms and speculating about the two would be interesting But that's more meta than I usually invest myself about when it comes to scp's A solid thanks, Pinko. You've given us a lot to think about To expand a bit on some of the themes Pinko mentioned Thematically there are a lot of classic touchstones of horror that make this stick with people on a personal level Bad things happening to children are having a great heyday in pop culture between stranger things and the new it movie and a quick Perusal of the amusement park of doom list on TV tropes will show you that nearly all of humanity as a whole Hates abandoned and creepy theme parks There's also an added bonus of the fairly recent addition to the cultural lexicon the Mandela effect a great reference Pinko mentioned that I hadn't seen This is the phenomena of a group of people sharing the same false memory Something we now discover more and more in our modern connected age Look up the spelling of the baronstein bears or a film where Sinbad played a genie to dive headfirst into that rabbit hole another another blig another blig Jack mentions hippo really liking trapping things in trees. Is there another scp where he did that? Where sin bad played a genie to dive headfirst into that rabbit hole? Played a genie They've had first in that rabbit hole. Oh, yes, Jack mentions 4 3 7 I do believe that that is true that 4 3 7 has things trapped in trees or something like that I just didn't know he wrote 4 3 7. I Thought that was just a cross link from someone else But now you got me curious and I'm looking it up because But I need to know it is hippo. What I didn't realize that at all. When did he okay? So that was Last edited 10 October. So it was edited. But how old is it? Posted on July 25th. Okay, so wow, you're right. I did not realize that was his gosh darn it bum bum Well, that is a critical research failure on my part shame Although the way that it's like tenuous I'm not sure although see alright, so now you're here for the research and I've got to Go look at the discussion for 2 5 7 1 again Because it's a it's weird because he like decides to cross link it Which is cool. He knew that his stories both of them are but then it's like yo dog I did not think of that ahead of time and because that ahead of time Because it was unplanned. I'm not sure how much the links go together except like their cannon to the author So that's something to do to do to do Off the cannon is being me. It's definitely don't know the answers here as for credit want 437 So yeah, the fact that it wasn't related to 437 ahead of time The fact that that's a like retcon. I don't want to fuss with it too much because it's not like the way the story was written The way it was plotted Okay, so going back to it here. We are Kazam Jack mentions Kazam, but that's Shaq. That's not sin bad Dive headfirst into that rabbit hole. Okay, so moving on after diving headfirst into that rabbit hole Another big plot point related to the Mandela phenomena is a creepypasta called candle Cove Mentioned earlier by Pinko. It's confirmed as an inspiration by the great hippo and it's referenced within the skip in the mobile task force Drat, I cracked my knuckles and that's gonna kick up on the microphone. So I got to start that again drat Hey, penguinators here Another big plot point related to the Mandela phenomena is a creepypasta called Candle Cove Combo Breaker Another big plot point related to the Mandela phenomena is a creepypasta called candle Cove Mentioned earlier by Pinko It's confirmed as an inspiration by the great hippo and it's referenced within the skip in the mobile task force named laughing stocks This is the name of a pirate ship character in the creepypasta candle Cove is structured like a discussion thread about this show that everyone seems to remember from their childhoods and How weird it was and the description starts to spiral into weirder and more horrifying episodes as it goes on The stinger is when a user mentions that their parent told them that they used to sit in front of a TV for 30 minutes watching static If it wasn't real, how could everybody remember it? Personally, I'm a big fan of the piece Crud the Mandela phenomena overall is That what's the phrase I'm looking for is the phenomenon of multiple people misremembering the past The best way to look at it is if you Google the Berenstein bears Conspiracy you'll get really deep into it because that's a recent one about it The internet's blown up because the Berenstein bears that we had when we were kids The spelling of the word Berenstein Everybody seems to remember it being spelled S-t-e-i-n at the end like the Jewish name but Every bit of evidence we can find Has it spelled stain like a stain on your clothes and so Everyone's freaking out because we all know it's Berenstein and yet Every bit of evidence points to it being Berenstein and it's like Conspiracy theory so people are like man. There's parallel universes. The matrix is rebooted. This is what's going on So, yeah, the other thing is the Sinbad is a genie movie, which I'm not a part of that one I don't remember that one. I remember Kazam with Shaq and Sinbad had a bunch of movies, but it didn't know What's the phrase I'm looking for but there was like a fake DVD like a photoshopped one of Sinbad in a genie movie called Shazam, but that's a photoshop thing So fake But yeah, the Berenstein one is still like debated and like you see people like this says this says steen this says stain ah So yeah, it's pretty cool and apparently there's a lot of different things like that if you look up the Mandela effect it was coined in 2010 so I mean fairly recent by like cultural standards Kind of old by internet meme standards. Where were we all seven years ago, right? The internet can tell us personally Personally ah, you're right Jack it is named after the fact that some people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison Despite the fact that he was still alive But everyone seemed to remember him dying in prison So yeah, you get that like there were they imagined news reports about it And like newspapers that said that he died in prison, but he was in fact still alive All right Personally I am a big fan of the skip even without a real personal connection to anything that was written That being said there are critiques to be found for any piece of work and looking at them can help us construct better stories in the future One critique levy that this piece is that without an emotional connection to the subject material it can be seen as formulaic Spooky carnival creepy trees child kidnapping memory erasing You can say that the story has got a heaping spoonful of tropes to be sure Now I won't always come to the defense against a critique in these videos Luke I am your father exactly or be me up Scotty. They never said be me up Scotty I said that live stream viewers who don't get the chat because someone mentioned As them off came in and mentioned Vader saying Luke. I am your father, which he didn't actually say he said no I am your father But that's be me up Scotty is another example of that particular phenomena Phenomenon He being of tropes to be sure Now I won't always come to defense against a critique in these videos But for this one I do want to point out that tropes are not bad and that a proper understanding of story structure I e formula is imperative to writing well a formula is a formula because it works as A creative writing community We may be more prone to quote seeing the code as they say in the matrix and being able to tell what's going on from a Mile away while this isn't a mind-bending skip. It definitely plays its horror hand the way it's supposed to be played To cap off this opening episode of researchers notes I'd like to close with a generous contribution from the great hippo himself. These are his thoughts that he contributed It's weirdly personal but simultaneously not it's not based on any experience I've actually had but rather experience as people I care about have had Like most of my horror skips It's centered around a fairly banal type of horror the horror of children having to make terrible choices to protect each other and The way families will often respond to this horror by covering it up and acting as if nothing happened I don't expect it to resonate with everyone. I think its biggest strength is probably its dreamlike quality the sense of things Not making sense, but still Yes, the phenomena song Welcome to site 42 we rip off Muppet songs and phenomena puns Probably it's dreamlike quality The sense of things not making sense, but still operating on some sort of internal logic. We just can't see I Think it's biggest weakness is the I think it's biggest weakness is Sherman's inability to speak clearly Mumble you're a mumbler What movie is that from mumbler you're a mumbler that's a that's the new Willy Wonka, right the new Willy Wonka Internal logic. We just can't see I think it's biggest weakness is one the use of pictures makes it feel gimmicky and Two a lot of the elements can feel very arbitrary and if you don't buy into it from the start It's probably just gonna fall flat on its face. I will say that although the elements can feel arbitrary They really aren't everything in the piece was chosen for a specific reason Except that the cragles are trees. I picked that literally just because I found scary pictures of trees However, that doesn't mean much if those elements don't work for you So I understand if anyone thinks it's just a creepypasta that's trying way too hard. I Can't thank the great hippo enough for corresponding with site 42 so often and that wraps up the first episode of researchers notes Let me know what you thought about the show in the comments as well as Drat Again, I can't say my own writing. I got through hippos pretty painlessly, but mine. Nope. I Mean I still Quoted the year and on a high note Let me know what you thought about the show in the comments as well as please continue discussing your thoughts and feelings on SCP 2571 New researchers notes episodes are going to release around the 15th and the last day of the month You've got about two weeks to read the next skip and get your recording or transcript me via discord or email Don't forget to check out the site 42 patreon merch shop and discord server and the next SCP We'll be dissecting is SCP 3300 the rain See you next time foundation staff We made it to the end of the skip We made it to the end of the skip It didn't really take too long Not long at all All right, so that's about a nine minute episode. That's pretty good, right? That's a good length It's right almost exactly nine minutes funnily enough It's an album of terrible improvised The sherm songs Okay, let's save that as Rn. Oh, don't put it in the actual work section That would be a bad idea Put it in the SCP folder that way. I don't lose it forever Okay, Rn 2571 and Then oh cool site updates Okay, so Now that we're at the end of the stream things to know number one as always patreon site 42 merch and stuff like that discord server Cool things that are going on right now. We're gonna release this tomorrow for Halloween. It's gonna be spooky Spoiler alert don't get your hopes up because this isn't final, but I'm sharing it with you guys on the stream first Right now I am in talks with the vulgan to Do a voice on a future scp I'm talking to him. He seems interested fingers crossed might be awesome. That'll be cool We're gonna collab. It's gonna be great and then Following that we're also looking at what's the phrase I'm looking for what's the phrase I'm looking for I got the voices in from my buddy Sam and Courtney for SD locks proposal When day breaks, so I've got all of when day breaks except for the parts I need to record So I'm gonna listen to theirs read along the script make sure I know exactly what they want me to do and then The women are 90% of that script So it's gonna be a really quick session for us to live stream and get that down But we're doing shaggy dreadlocks is 001 proposal and it's like 90% done. So that's super exciting We just hit 500 subs and I think that's a pretty good big boisterous thing to have Come out right after that marker. So keep an eye out for this researchers notes tomorrow keep an eye out for the 001 For shaggy dreadlocks keep an eye on any mysterious Vulcan happenings that might come out. I'll keep you guys up on that Jack's right. We're gonna talk to Lord bong about maybe getting me on board of confinement We'll see about that. I'm gonna tweet him and see if he answers back Well, no It's no big deal We're all we're all an SCP community So what I'm hoping is that we can all start to like dip our toes more and more into each other stuff because the wiki is Collaborative and the wiki is like everyone messing with everything and doing stuff and working together and then the YouTube channels I would love it if we all kind of like built ourselves up as well. I Saw someone at some point. I don't I think it was tight or right in the discord server Mentioning that we should like get a bigger YouTube presence on the wiki and I don't think that's the right answer because It's such it's so much more independent on YouTube with like separate channels There's not like a big central source That we can have like a we can all funnel into one giant YouTube thing and there's quality control standards are different on YouTube So I don't think it'll work like that But I think if we can all collab more and drop tracks on each other's channels and How like give ourselves voices in other things? I think that'll help us come together as a youtuber scp community and so we'll have the basically The scp wiki and then we'll have the youtuber branch and that'll be like us our little family of youtubers Throwing things out there putting out high quality stuff So I don't know thinking about stuff like that right now because it'd be cool to like get to make bigger and better things So yeah, that is everything that is my master plan. What haha site 42 Growing better keeping doing things making things good quality content says Jack and I agree So yeah, thank you guys for tuning into the live stream Look out for this look out for all the future stuff, and I'll see you guys in the next video Have yourself a good as a mom. Don't type and drive Don't do it and thank you penguin. That's a yes It is a super cool future, and I'm calling people out for being dangerous Let's let's not darkwing duck this. Let's not get dangerous. Okay, so Yep cut cheers see you guys back with discord server or anywhere else in the comments and See ya finish button. Here's my face in the camera. Oh