RPC Authority

Thanks to Sinaticus for helping me write this!

RPC-390-2: WHAT IS YOUR FIRST NAME?

Dr. █████: John

Uh. If -2 found out in some other way like the Doctor accidentally slips his papers revealing a subsection of his name or if, sometime later, -2 found out through overhearing guards or something. Sure it's believable then. Not entirely sure if I believe some random Authority Doctor would just give in to the -2 entity's demands without bargaining for something in return or something directly, physically imposing held against the doctor as a threat.

I feel like the fecal / urine matter was a good, logical step.

+3. It's in that weird spot where it needs to be short, but critical parts are left too vague for my liking like John and George Boston. Outside of the discord meme. Whereas if I expressed something was a cryptid or… used something by its namesake from folklore, at least that has a history on its own to make the reader imagine what it is.

John just sounds like a random name, for a random person, and that's essentially it.

Well, despite the fact that this article is based on a… joke(? [I wasn't there to witness it anyway]) it's quite well-written. However, I do have a few nitpicks:

two members of site security and one janitor were turned into instance of George Boston.

I feel like it's supposed to be "an instance of RPC-390-2"?

The next nitpick I have and the most irritating for me is:

1 instance of RPC-390-1 is to be contained in an anti-memetic page protector in Researcher Thompson's desk.

Because I feel like it's basically the Scranton Reality Anchor from SCP, a cheap way to effectively contain an anomaly and—dare I say—lazy writing?

Final nitpick:

Film cameras are banned within Site-002.

Just the sector containing RPC-390? Or the whole site? Site-002 is supposed to be 1/4ths the size of Las Vegas, 8 levels down; how are you going to record the happenings within?

For now, I'll give it 3 stars.

Late on this one, but this article is piece of work that truly encapsulates how random and unassuming items,in this case a piece of paper, can be demonstrably a good read without needless world-ending excess.

It's weirdly fun, but I can't help but feel that the concept was left undeveloped.

This article has a memorable concept and an image I really like, but the remainder feels like misused potential. It's not an anomaly that can stand without any deeper connection, I'm afraid.

While there's definitely some room for it to get silly, I don't feel like this article takes itself seriously enough. (I know it was based on a joke, but let's use our imagination here.) The "John" bit especially just feels like an inside joke even without context, what with how it's dropped in randomly and isn't explained further.

The interview is good fun, but the article fizzles out after that. The incident and test logs are basically just narrative obligations that restate the description with little flair of their own, and the tests in particular are mostly a sequence of frivolous unrelated events.

There's just about enough to make the phenomenon worthwhile, but it lacks direction and falls flat in its debut story. A promising page for a rewrite, in my book. 3/5