Secure. Contain. Protect. NEVER SAY DIE

[xeroticDeceiver]

> Be Clef and Kondraki having a fistfight.

[audaciousAdmin]

>Update

[1412]

Sorry, I think this is dead.
It's no longer in the author's sig.

[Todd Ingram]

Never say die...

[Naristar]

Please update!

[Varkarrus]

wooooooo

[Todd Ingram]

HOLIDAY NEWSPOST:

Alright, confession time.

The thing about fan adventures is that they thrive on spontaniety. They run on commands made by the reader, which makes them that much more fun for all who read it, along with the authors.

When I stopped updating SCP, the reason I did so was because I thought I had violated this "rule". I had written up grandiose plans for this story, with tangents and characters that hadn't even been introduced in canon. These got more and more mutated until it became something that had no room for anything suggested by a forumer. Feeling that I had no choice, I closed doors.

However, this holiday has been...a very significant time for me. I'm realizing how much I want to do something significant, even if it starts out small. And S.C.P. is one of the longest stories I've written. And hell if I'm going to let all that go to waste.

So, S.C.P. is not dead. That announcement, I guess, is my holiday present to those who like my characters and their adventures at the Foundation. But, I have a condition:

Let me finish Act 1 (it's in its home stretch) before I post it. I've decided I can trash some of my master plan to open the adventure up to the readers again, but I'd like to use what I had in the forseeable future of S.C.P. before I put my machinations to rest.

This means, unfortunately, that the wait is not over. I can't tell you for sure how long it's going to take, or whether apathy will grip me once again and cause me to lose my motivation. But there's hope. That much is certain. That's what I can give you for Christmas.

I hope to see you all again soon.

[Herzinth]

That year, Christmas seemed merrier than anyone had ever before experiences. And all was well.

[xeroticDeceiver]

Godspeed to you, sir.

[Armok]

Well, that was an unnecessary worry. Basically the *only* way to do these wrong is thinking you're doing something wrong when you're not and stopping something everyone is loving unconditionally. And even that's ok as long as you eventually come back.

[Xindaris]

Well...

As an adventure author myself, albeit 99% text adventures, I can tell you that having grand, titanic, far-reaching plans is in no way a hindrance to allowing user commands to influence events if you handle it right. In my experience, no planned event is quite completely solid until written out, and often it's user commands that give you that extra something, that special push to spice things up a bit. It's helpful, I've found, to think of writing the adventure as partially a game: Sometimes the author presents challenges and the readers answer them, and sometimes the author presents a choice and the readers make it. Sometimes the author knows where he wants to go but not how to get there, and the readers provide him with a perfect transition. Sometimes--and it's absolutely magical when this happens--the author has an event in mind, and the readers ask for it. It's all about how you use things, and there are numerous ways that can work. This is just meant as encouragement, I'll note, since writing the rest of act 1 and then publishing it is a perfectly reasonable thing to want/need to do.

I've enjoyed the tale so far, and will likely enjoy seeing any more of it you're willing to write.

[1412]

HUZZAH! This is returning!
Todd, just remember: There is no canon.