SCP Foundation

A discussion thread for my first SCP idea. A Beacon that emits a signal on every wavelength and spectrum that must be contained to stop whatever receiving the message from breaching into this universe.

I moved your thread summary content to the first post and trimmed it above, OP, since it was taking up a lot of space on the forum listing. Try to keep thread descriptions under 7 lines so you don't visually crowd out other people's threads. ~Zyn

The Beacon

Object Class (Roughly): Euclid.

My Idea is pretty much to have a mysterious Beacon that emits a strange message (ideas welcome on some text for that) that no one who hears it can make sense of or explain. Other than being able to hear it or looking at the beacon itself gives them a sense of incredible unease. The Beacon is meant to be inactive at the moment but could be triggered by an end of the world scenario or by other as yet to be determined means.

Oh goodness lets get into it! (I really like how your asking for ideas to add on instead of just asking for feedback!)

For an idea for the strange text it kinda is hard to say. The easy way out is making it some giberish with anomalous effect. And that is exactly what you should do a simple explanation for a simple concept. Your idea of having it recovered recently by the foundation is a good idea to make it more interesting. I do have one problem right here, a advanced jamming device is not needed. Unless there is a reason like it could counteract the jammer (which is not stated) there is no need to have nothing more than a simple jammer. The mystery of what could happen if the beacon activates is auctully reccomended to put in your SCP. I support this mystery because it leaves with questions that will never be answered. It makes the ready curious in a good way which I love.

Conclusion: I would reccomend getting more feedback on the idea before moving to drafting. I would reccomend asking somone to give you feedback because it makes it alot quicker. Good luck on a draft that is the hardest part. Honestly most ideas are hard to work with because of how new they are but I enjoyed writing this so good luck on the product!

Right at the end, you mentioned an "Eldritch monstrosity." That sounds like a really good idea if done correctly. Just as a basic idea, the "Eldritch monstrosity" knows about earth, and wants to destroy it (I would imply some motivation for this, for example, the creature wants some special energy from the earth's core.) The problem is, (for the monster) is that it has no idea where earth is, but could find it if the signal from the beacon is broadcast into space.

I really like this idea. Seeing as I’m a noob too and have little to offer beyond my own experience reading the wiki, what I will say is that in this case I think less may be more. Maybe the Foundation is able to partially translate the beacon’s message, getting fragments of thought, singular words, maybe things like “Come”, “Consume”, or “Destroy”. This would firstly make the article seem more realistic, as it would be highly unlikely that the Foundation could fully translate the message, and secondly, if done right, could make the article far more terrifying, with the gaps in the message being left up to the reader’s own imagination as to the being’s intentions for our world, and for us. Just some little bits to help get the gears grinding I hope. Good luck, I think this has potential to be an excellent SCP!