SCP Foundation

This is my first idea on an SCP….

It consists of an old journal, not completely torn up but looks rather aged, and an old radio from around the 1920s. When one writes an entry in the journal, a radio program will be broadcasted covering those events using voices the writer knows.

Now, after this, it gets a bit sketchy, which is why I'm asking for opinions. I'm thinking of these people automatically starting to play the part they "play" on the radio show, which can be dangerous depending on what they're doing. Of course, it also depends on what transpires in the entry. Say someone's writing a romance, there's going to be 2 random people the writer knows acting out scenes, while the writer hears it broadcasted on the radio. The actors won't realize what's going on while they act out the scene, but retains memories of what happens.

Does this sound good, at all? I'm open for other ideas, obviously, but this was my initial intention.

Well, it does seem interesting, I'll give you that. But, I'm new here. And I've been repeatedly accused that I find too many things interesting.
That said, the idea, however, does seem to have the potential to be rather OP with "Breaking news, in a massacre of unparalelled proportions, D-528907 has managed to kill every single person on the planet, with the exclusion of this humble reporter." not being unlikely. But I'm guessing that could be worked around.

Two question though, one being have you thought about what would happen if the writer included himself into his script?
Also, would ye olde journal ever run out of space? Dissapearing text seems rather cliché, but something happening to the text as it is being acted out or read doesn't seem all that bad. Maybe the text gets sumudged and aged (discoloured) as it is being read. Maybe it's a binder. Maybe the pages contain screenplays or passages on old and well known but unexpected events (like Greece winning the Euro in 2004).

A couple of suggestions to work on the 'core mechanic' (yes, we're going to keep calling it that now):

- They have to be arbitrary people. So they can't even be two first names. That doesn't mean the radio broadcaster can't say names afterwards, it just means that you can't write it down. The event needs to be far enough away and likely enough to actually happen;
- It has to be credible and newsworthy. So not, in the example of Beliaal, two people kissing;
- It has to be explainable necessarily not by the newscaster, but by, for a lack of a better term, science. That isn't to mean that it will be explained by the newscaster or that it can't be very strange or mysterious.

Reasons for these additions:

1) Compare, say, 'the events at Roswell' with 'Geneva experiments actually creating a black hole.' The first requires either some delusions or the actual existence of aliens (the disjunct of which is true, it was either this or that). The latter requires potentially bending the laws of physics. You can imagine events of Roswell occurring when you write down "UFO sighting": a UFO is just an Unidentified Flying Object and in order for it to make the news, enough people simply have to believe the story. You can't really imagine two colliding particles creating a black hole (unless I'm wrong about the physics, but I'm quite sure the whole 'black hole'-thing was made up).

2) Also, compare 'my friend's hot mom and me getting it on' with 'a renown public figure dying in a car crash'. The first would require some odd chain of events to occur where 'your friend's hot mom' all of a sudden walks into the containment cell of the SCP and decides to give you a lap dance. The latter requires no more than a traffic accident, anywhere. (Of course all the events require some odd chain of events, but because of the broadcast they can be vague enough). Anything written down with something specific in mind simply won't work (like 'some president of North Korea' or something). Unless you want to maintain the whole Death Note vibe…

3) You can be completely vague about whether or not everything written down is reported. For example, if you write down 'person in New York gets murdered by person in Sydney within 10 minutes' and the broadcast is silent, there's no way to conclude that necessarily the events didn't occur.

I think from my suggestions its obvious, but I really like the idea. I think you need to sort of work out the details, as I did above or in some fashion you like, but leave enough to the imagination and up for experiment to get the job done.