SCP Foundation

An idea tying into the excellent 2952:

An anomalous 'Cash 4 Gold'-type store, which comes to the Foundation's attention after reports of customers' received cash disappearing hours later. The Foundation sends an agent in to investigate, and finds it's actually being run by fairy folk to acquire gold, but the next day the entire shop has vanished. They think it's neutralised until the same shop pops up halfway across the city. Rinse and repeat ad nauseam.

Eventually following the successful containment of 2952, the Foundation is inspired to attempt cooperative containment, and ends up getting them a real shop unit and helping them exchange some of their gold for real human money to pay customers.

Would this be considered too derivative of 2952? And do people think there's enough of a hook/story here to be engaging?

Hmmmm.

I feel like there's the seed of a good idea here, but you'll need some details to build it up to be more than just "Cash for Gold shop, but run by faeries".

Some things I thought of:

• Are all these fairies all from the same "ethnic" background?
• If they come from different backgrounds, do they get along? Maybe the Foundation can help with that as well if they don't?
• Do the fairies have any quirky shop policies? (No shirt, no shoes, no mushroom offering, no service?)
• Why does the shop move? Maybe the fairies find it tough to pay rent to the otherworldly creatures that occupy those shop spaces, and the Foundation stakes those out just in case?
• How to the fairies react to certain kinds of gold trinkets? Maybe they freak out when they are presented with something damaged by fire, they drool over old things kept well-polished, and they outright refuse to take anything that has strong sentimental value attached to it?

Definitely do some reading into Cash for Gold shops and the kind of exchanges they do. Also, maybe look at other SCP articles tagged with "exchange". (also btw this article about German moon gnomes doing business with the Foundation might merit a read?)