Welcome back everyone - today Im talking about SCP First Contact by Dylan Royalty.
Right now, there are 3 kinds of people watching and youre all welcome.
If youve seen First Contact then youll love all the behind the scenes info Ive gathered,
if you love the SCP Foundation but havent seen First Contact yet - watch it, its on
YouTube, and then watch this - and if you don't recognise any of the words I just said,
well, sit tight, because Im about to bring you into the terrifying and captivating world
of the SCP Foundation.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary SCP First Contact Facts.
Starting off at number 10 now we have The Recap.
For those of you that havent seen First Contact - heres a little recap of the story.
A field agent for the Foundation codenamed -Eugene Smith- requested the Foundation conduct
an armed examination of an unnamed mine in the Yukon territory of Canada.
The foundation sent Mobile Task Force: Omega Orange to investigate.
Through the teams headcams and CCTV cameras, we see the team enter the dark mine and then
discover an abandoned government facility.
They find terrifying audio logs from the scientists who used to work there.
No sooner do they discover this new SCP, when the SCP discovers them.
The hunters become the hunted - who will make it out alive?
Other than that - Im not gonna give you any spoilers - make sure you watch the full video
on Evan Royaltys channel!
Moving on to number 9 we have Omega Orange.
Task Force Omega Orange may look like a bunch of normal special ops soldiers - but theyre
not.
Each and every member has been sentenced for a War Crime.
They now serve the Foundation in special operations such as the one show in the film.
They do this because they have the promise of eventually being released.
They have a service contract negotiated between the Foundation and the US government whereby
they are allowed to take part in missions to earn their freedom.
One caveat is that they must always be microchipped for the duration of their service.
Of course, this raises the question: is it a good idea to give hardened, convicted war
criminals some guns and set them loose in desolate areas?
Well, the story assures us that most unit members behave professionally and follow their
contracts to the letter in hopes of one day being free citizens.
So - Im sure that puts everyone at ease.
Next up at number 8 we have Creating The SCP.
The SCP that Evan created for this isnt actually an official SCP - as far as Im aware its not
even on the Foundations wiki page.
He said that writing the story was easy but he had no real idea about how the SCP would
turn out.
One of the things he wanted to explore was the idea of -investigative horror- … basically,
some characters immediately discover something scary - there is no long build up to that.
Then, with every new scary thing discovered about the scary thing, the stakes are ramped
up - if that makes sense.
With this is mine, its easy to see how he wove this concept into the story.
At first - all you know is that an anomaly has been found an that Omega Orange are sent
to investigate.
Its not until many layers are slowly revealed that we see the full horrific picture …
At number 7 now we have Time.
One thing that is difficult to asertain is when events in the story take place.
Its fair to assume that its present day when the team explore the complex - but when was
the building abandoned?
When McMann first started analysing the computers in the bosses offices - he mentions the date
and the windows operating system - both of these were expunged.
Not much help.
Later on though, he's seen listening to an audio log from a Dr Fields.
The date given is from November 7th 2005.
This would explain why Omega Orange thought the technology looked outdated but not ancient.
This date is somewhat backed up by the look of certain things - the laptops and PC monitors
on the table look like its from around 2005.
The facility may have been set up earlier than this date though and the technology updated
over the years.
Next up at number 6 we have The Easter Egg[a].
At 11 minutes into the video, just after we see McMann listening to an audio log, the
screen glitches and for a split second we see a message on the screen.
Its an angry message from a man called Evan Muir.
He claims he edited this video for the foundation and has been editing videos for them for over
7 years.
He complains that he's sick of the late night, he's sick of having to transfer the footage
to VHS because the Foundation cant stop SCPs from destroying other forms of media, and
he's sick that he cant even get a decent raise.
And so, he says, if they freeze the video at this exact moment and see this letter of
complaint - they can take that as his -retirement letter-, I think he means his resignation.
He finishes off the letter by wanting an employee called Ted to know that he's always disliked
his taste in music, his wife is a 6/10 and that he doesnt like the way he pronounces
the word -again- … its a great little easter egg and Evan confirmed that Evan Muir is actually
his real name.
So he's both the real editor and the fictional one!
And at number 5 now we have The Producer[b].
I figured it would be a good transition here to quickly talk about who made the video - on
YouTube their name is Evan Royalty.
It was uploaded to YouTube on October 26th 2018 - right before Halloween - and that was
no accident.
When sharing the video to Reddit[c] soon after, he said -I make a horror movie every Halloween
for my channel, decided to do one for the SCP universe.
It was a nightmare to make, but now its finally done- … sure enough, Evan has made a number
of other Halloween videos using video games for both the setting and characters.
2017s was called Katabasis[d] while 2016s was called Sacrifice[e].
He also has a soundcloud[f] where he's posted a few remixes and one original track.
He also has a patreon where he recently posted an apology to his donators saying that he
had become disheartened this year when videos he's spent months working on werent getting
any views.
Now that SCP is at 700,000 views and climbing, Evans decided to double down and give his
channel another chance!
Good news!
Next up at the number 4 spot we have The Post Credits.
After the climatic ending of the video, we are given some scrolling texts - almost like
a mission debrief.
It says that 7 months after the events seen in First Contact, the Foundation find out
from the Canadian government that the on site director had not told them the full extent
of the problems they had encountered, by the time the government arrived on site, they
were forced to simply seal the mine.
Thats why the Foundation had no idea what they were up against.
As punishment for this, the sites director was given amnesiacs and served prison time
for a falsified crime that he is unaware that he didnt commit.
Thats pretty shady stuff but its either that or he tells the world whats lurking down in
the mines …
Moving on to number 3 we have Harakiri[g].
In the lore Evan wrote for First Contact, he refers to Omega Orange in brackets as Hara
Kiri.
It turns out that this is a Japanese term, sometimes called Seppuku, that means cutting
the belly.
Its a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment and mainly used by samurai who chose to die
that way with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies and be tortured.
Its interesting that this name is attached the the Omega Orange team.
Is it simply a badass samurai term slapped onto a military unit?
I don't think so.
I think perhaps its a reference to the fact that the team is made up of these convicts
who are seeking to restore their freedom and honor.
To do this, they join Mobile Task Forces like this knowing of the dangerous SCPs they may
come into contact with, they also know that in some cases its practically suicide - just
like Harakiri.
Perhaps Im reading too much into it but I just thought it might be noteworthy - what
do you guys think?
At number 2 we have The Setbacks[h].
Evan talks a lot of the Directors Commentary about all the many setbacks he encountered
while making First Contact.
For starters, he was operating under a strict time limit as he wanted to get the whole thing
released before Halloween - as has become a tradition for his channel over the past
few years.
When it came to producing the video, he had a hard time filming it from the perspective
of the headcams.
A lot of the characters would start stutter stepping and he actually had to fix a rat
on top of peoples heads and then view it through the rats eyes to create the illusion of the
1st person headcam.
He's not even sure why this worked but it did.
There were issues with sound too.
Evan found that one of his voice actors recorded their lines with a very slight amount of reverb
- when he went to add on the radio effects to that voice, the reverb was amplified to
the point where the audio was unusable.
And finally at number 1 we have The Sequel.
For a lot of SCP fans, the first question they ask when they finish watching First Contact
is: how do I watch more?
Well Evan hasnt promised that he will continue to do SCPs - it wasnt something he was known
for before so theres no guarantee he will want to keep going.
However, I suspect that due to the overwhelming success and positive feedback, he may very
well decide to explore the SCP world once more.
In the comments section of his directors commentary, people were suggesting that he covers some
famous SCP mysteries that havent been fleshed out yet.
These include the failed exploration of the caves of SCP 610.
Then theres the containment breach of 096, the question about what happened to site 13
and many, many others.
What SCP would you like to see Evan make next?
And I think thats a great question to end the video on!
Im going to go ask Evan if I can do some voice acting for his next SCP video - why not - it
looks really fun.
What did you guys think of First Contact?
Do you think thats where SCP content should be moving into - more short films than long
wiki articles?
So many questions - cant wait to hear your answers - thanks for watching as always guys,
my name is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the next video!