 Greed is for lack of a better word good Gordon Gekko Wall Street Welcome to episode 010 of the scp foundation today We're going to talk about my favorite group of interests Marshall Carter and dark a group of interests Which turns the anomalous into commercial products as always the majority of this podcast will contain my own opinions and thoughts on the scp foundation the scp wiki and the writing process Regardless remember that there is only one real rule in the scp universe There is no canon part 1 scarcity The dinner show provided by Marshall Carter and dark limited had been surprisingly pedestrian that evening magician though skilled and pretty had performed anything other than the usual misdirection Which could be seen anywhere the hoop area list Was also very pretty and wearing a costume that left very little to the imagination Did a little more than spin in a ring in various positions and looks seductive There was also little of what many considered the MC&D flavor The curtain closed around the stage as she finished her act and bowed polite applause sounded from the audience along with a few barely audible disappointed sighs when the curtain reopened The hoop had been replaced with a pair of white ribbon like straps a man built like a ballet dancer with bare arms And feet stood next to the straps ready to perform music started playing it was a peaceful melody Light and uplifting the acrobat lifted himself onto the straps and started zacked At first the act looked as though it was going to be as ordinary as the other performances He wrapped the straps around himself like the stripes on a candy cane He hung himself upside down spun himself in circles and held himself parallel to the ground while holding onto the strap Solely with his hands he can taught at his body and to grotesque shapes Which could only be achieved with the help of straps he some assaulted upwards spiraling the ribbons around his arms the audience Said in silence throughout all these moves the area list wrapped himself up Asymmetrically one strap spiraled down his leg while the other wrap tightly around his left bicep There was a twist a sudden drop and a note of discord in the music He was now hanging upside down from the one wrapped leg while the other strap hung down Not wrapped around anything at all. His left hand was still gripping it But his arm had been severed where the strap had been wrapped There was no blood and the air list continued to climb and twist himself on the straps unfazed The arm climbed to wrapping the strap around itself and alternating between gripping with the hand and the elbow No wound on either end of the arm only an expanse of white where bone sinew and other tissues should have been visible The act now seemed to be a strange kind of partner acrobatics a one-armed man and a single arm are both performing tricks Sometimes tricks were separate and sometimes they were in tandem resulting in holes and balances that should have been impossible The arm helped him into another wrap This one around both legs the area list balanced himself like a board for a few seconds While the severed arm held itself straight out above him There was another twist a discordant note in the music drop and he again hung by one leg His right leg had been severed this time and joined the performance as a separate entity Less than a minute later his right arm joined the act The music began to swell as the severed limbs all moving on their own accord helped the area list into position For what could be one final trick His one remaining leg wrapped in a candy cane swirl as his severed arms wrapped the other strap around his neck bringing him into a horizontal balance One hand then brought the strap down and over his throat quickly and closing his neck The body once again was hanging upside down Suspended through a wrap around the left leg that had rolled on the floor It was just as neatly severed as the other three limbs There were no longer attached to the suspended torso his head finished rolling and faced the assemblage of wealth and power The music still played but the show was likely over while the audience sat in stunned silence the magician from earlier into the stage She looked at the hanging body the severed limbs and the head her expression rather than horrified Seemed bemused. She glared at the area lists severed head which turned her expression with a sheepish smile Shaking her head. She started collecting his parts one by one She reattached them to his body wrapping a section of the strap around each one He moved each reattached part into his suspension keeping himself aloft with his strength until he was once again whole Finally, he rolled down the straps to the ground stood up with the magician and bowed And the audience applauded thunderously a Circus for MCND limited by Tara unknown The rich have always had exclusive clubs We like to imagine the rich man of the past with giant handlebar mustaches sitting in private rooms and smoking cigars It's a visual that most people familiar with Western culture can identify immediately But what goes on in those private rooms? Well in the world of anomalies you end up with Marshall Carter and dark Ostensibly an auction house Marshall Carter and dark appear to simply move anomalous items from creators to collectors But they actually do much more than that Their fixers cleaners their middlemen the rich have significant limitations with regards to what money can buy and MCND is in the business of proving that not only can you buy happiness But that they can quantify it and upsell you for the premium brand Outside of the wiki MCND Reminds me of an entity written by Joss Whedon on the television show angel in that show There's a law firm called Wolfram and Hart and Wolfram and Hart is another look at how businesses would operate in a world with supernatural elements Welcome to the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram and Hart the oldest and most powerful law firm in the city Founded in 1791 on ground Deconsecrated by the blood of mass murderer Matthias Povane Wolfram and Hart has put roots down in this glamorous city that grew deep and branches that reach right into the heart of every major Corporation including yoyo dine Waylon Yutani and News Corp that captain of industry we own his soul But fabulous movie queen. She owes us her first born Obviously, Wolfram and Hart is a bit further on the side of evil Well MCND remains firmly in the neutral center of the alignment axis right alongside the foundation MCND will always do what is best for their profit margins And that means the preservation of the veil and ensuring humanity survives But it also means the individuals are treated as human resources in the most literal sense of the word Ultimately when writing MCND you need to think about how people would act in a setting where profit is the primary motive And how do you think people would act if there was a world where every sci-fi and fantasy trope were true? And they could buy it for themselves. How would the company that sells those products act? And if you're trying to find the story there, you don't have to look very far if you're trying to find the story There you don't have to look very far from customers to employees to how they interact with the foundation and other groups of interest The possibilities are endless part 2 Mickey D's Why do rich people care about making money? The poor certainly need to care about doing so when one's resources are only enough to scrape by money is all that matters It is important for the middle class as well. I mean Look at their spouses their children. There's a culture of dependence that weights them down The rich want to make money because they can always become richer There's always another echelon of wealth rise above some degree of opulence that is beyond their grasp They drive to even further heights seeking to slake their thirst for coin They care about making money simply because they can't do so the rich exploit people far below them on the social lack The poorest of the poor to the oil magnet the harshest dictator The kings and queens and lords and ladies the common people are specks of dirt And to Marshall Carter and dark the rich are unto ants People regardless of social standing are all the same The poor may spend their savings on worthless yet treasured trinkets sold by the middle class The salaryman may splurge on a pretty ring for his wife the profits of which go into the pockets of a wealthy mining boss In the same way the gullible rich will burn millions of dollars on a single impossible object Everyone is willing to waste their precious precious money on something out of the ordinary But value is artificial The poor spend their pennies on mass-produced China Convinced that it has some worth to it the rich convinced the middle class that diamonds are rare and valuable Despite the stones being retrieved in Africa by the billion Marshall Carter and dark Convinced the rich that the impossible is value while any an artist on the street can twist a die into a hypercube Methodology of such a scheme is quite simple But the critical step is to gain a market monopoly if you're the only seller in town You can set the price at any level you desire so long as you drum up demand In this regard Marshall Carter and dark have the advantage for hundreds of years They were the only peddlers of anomalous wears in the world They had the time to gain the capital and with that capital they can out price even the most competitive upstart Organizations such as the foundation the GOC and the horizon initiative resent the company's existence They are unable to deal with such an unassailable economic powerhouse with a glance Marshall Carter and dark could level a city bankrupt a country with a single call they could plunge the planet into a Thermonuclear war yet to the eternal relief of all They're the least volatile players in the anomalous field after all at the veil of secrecy Where to break the trinkets would become worthless and their business would crumble and dissolve For Marshall Carter and dark the planet is an intricate network. They have secured safely beneath their thumb We're winning and losing our meaningless terms. There's no need to move pieces and you can move the board And you can end the match at any time. There's only one reason to continue It's all about playing the game Excerpt from the Marshall Carter and dark hub by randamini The earliest article I could find on the site that mentions Marshall Carter and dark is SCP 138 dash arc from 2008 which is currently rated at negative 49 Now this piece mentions an MC&D Christmas charity auction in which an amulet that creates clones based around emotions was sold This amulet shows up in a tale a half a year later called perfection The tale really serves to outline the niche that MC&D occupies in the anomalous world high society and services for the rich and famous Of course, this is reinforced by the next oldest MC&D article SCP 604 Which is likely most people's first real read involving MC&D It is a set of tableware and dishes that creates human flesh out of non-human flesh On the one hand this reinforces the earlier tropes of high society and even immorality Especially in the last test where a human head is created that thinks and feels and talks But it also portrays a hint of excuse the pun humanity in their process See these rich people want to experience the taste of human flesh without having to actually kill a human being If they were just straight up into cannibalism they could with their resources probably acquire a human to eat But they want to retain their morality while doing so and that requires an anomalous solution And MC&D is eager to please Ultimately MC&D remains somewhat static in portrayal until around 2014 with the creation of the MC&D hub by randamini Which helped both flesh out the group solidify some of the baseline lore involving them And perhaps most importantly outline their group of interest document format And following the creation of the hub there was a flurry of activity and portrayal of the GOI on the wiki Most important amongst these was three tales by kate mcteris set in the gulf canon and two tales by dr clef for the resurrection canon and these articles actually all follow a general adherence to a concept of limited cooperation between MC&D and the foundation and prior to this the two were never really in direct opposition to each other And certainly the foundation and MC&D had opposing secondary goals But their primary goals of preserving the veil and post-poting the end of the world were the same Well, of course the foundation was portrayed with a more altruistic intent The fact that MC&D was willing to save the world because dead people can't be customers Doesn't change the alignment of their goals, but in kate mcteris's stories in the greater gulf canon This was literally codified the southern united states Extranormal organization cooperation treaty or susuk'd for short was an agreement by the foundation MC&D and its southern affiliates and the Uiu not to interfere with each other's active operations as long as they qualify under the treaty The idea that the foundation would sign such an agreement would have been unthinkable in the late 2000s But in 2014 after the creation of the MC&D hub Room for these kinds of stories had grown In the resurrection storyline someone released a zombie virus on an MC&D summer camp and the foundation gets called in to help suppress the outbreak And MC&D are more than willing to work with the foundation to find out who did this And make sure that that person is punished as a writer I have personally latched onto these concepts with six different tales GOI documents and scp's written since then that fully embrace either the gulf or resurrection canon interpretations of MC&D Of course, sometimes MC&D is still just an organization the foundation steals items from But today at least the more involved they are in the narrative of the piece The more likely they are to be begrudging allies of the foundation Part three recommended reading Welcome to marshal carter and dark limited if you're here and you have been accepted into our ranks congratulations A short summary of our organization is in order We are a club of sorts and we provide our members with the most exclusive expensive and rare experiences available We are centered in london with agents all over the world finding and retrieving items for us So we may better provide such experiences Now those of you who are here today sitting blindfolded in the audience are to be our finders our retrievers We have selected you from the best the best the most able and intelligence of all who have applied Allow me to explain your duties. You are to be our field agents Many of you have connections to other groups that deal with objects that we are interested in As such as the foundation the serpent's hand in the church of the broken god We expect full loyalty to our cause despite these connections Any sign of deviance will be punished And as you well work on a case by case basis, I will be very broad cases known as acquisitions Will be assigned based on personal statistics You are not allowed to turn down an acquisition while working on an acquisition You will have access to a certain portions of our near unlimited resources depending on the case A abuse of these resources will be punished You are to apply yourself to the assigned acquisition with all due haste while keeping up any required appearances Under no circumstances are you to reveal that you are working for marshal carter and dart Any attempt to speak about marshal carter and dart with people that have not been sanctioned by marshal carter and dart will be punished This concludes your orientation. Please face to the right and take short measured steps Your blindfolds will be removed as you exit the door. Some of you will receive your first acquisitions case Thank you for your time excerpt from mc&d agent orientation by book wizard So now that you've had a little bit of a look at mc&d Let's talk about some articles you can read to get a better sense of what this group of interest is really about Now these are going to be collated by my own personal knowledge So there's going to be some bias towards the things I like Links to all of this will be in the youtube video description And all wiki works mentioned here are licensed creative commons 3.0 share like attribution Operation cannery row document 2o13 4 5 1 a3 I double e And seven visionettes from the life of mckinsey lee crook All three are by kate mcterris and quite worthwhile reads If you'd like a better understanding of mc&d in the gulf canon and specifically the susan Operation camp granada and we've got a good thing going here by dr. Clef for a better look at how mc&d is portrayed in the resurrection canon Rogue ai and brian brayer brand pocket vacations by me dr. Sumerian For look at how an mc&d document is formatted on the wiki and also some fun stories And I want a fun look at the internal workings of mc&d. Check out mickey d's by dr. Shandra Part four credits My name is christopher clayton morris. Although you may know me better under the pseudonym dr. Sumerian This podcast is licensed under creative commons 4.0 attribution share like unported license all works from the scp wiki used or referenced in this podcast or under a creative commons 3.0 attribution share like unported license including the following works a circus for mc&d limited by terra unknown scp 138 dash ark originally posted to the wiki by far too perfection by dr. Gears scp 604 by name Yes, that is correct name mc&d hub by randamini The gulf hub by kate mc tiras the resurrection hub by the deadly moose and mc&d agent orientation by book wizard This podcast utilized a clip of audio from season 5 episode 9 of the television series angel under the principles of fair use through commentary This podcast include the following audio works under a variety of licenses A human being by andy g cohen off the 2016 album through the lens licensed creative commons 4.0 attribution solo by art of escapism in 2017 licensed creative commons 4.0 share alike attribution wall by jazar off the 2017 album super licensed creative commons share alike attribution latinum by drake stafford in 2017 licensed creative commons 4.0 attribution You are currently listening to everyone is so alive by loyalty freak music off the 2017 album robot dance It is a public domain work Thanks for listening You want to know what it takes to sell real estate? 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