quarantine 'em

I think the SCP-4987 writeup could be a depiction of the beast in its rampant prime, the Foundation helpless to create a coherent picture of it, let alone contain it. One of those "perpetually a hair's breadth from disaster" scenarios... but with the germs/hints of a solution

I wouldn't even show the eventual successful wrangling or anything after that. Maybe not even Wheeler. I would just set this thing up as a skyscraper of a feat, and leave the rest to your imagination after you join the dots from there to SCP-4987's other narrative appearances

In theory I could alter the number from 4987 to something else to give myself more time but I should probably write more anyway, so I'll give it a go. If someone else takes the number with something unrelated, no problem, there's an obvious in-universe explanation built in

Finally there is SCP-4739 (as seen in http://www.scp-wiki.net/introductory-antimemetics …). This one actually has a decent gimmick where you can't perceive/read the SCP entry until *after* the monster has caught you. The story even contains excerpts from the SCP entry

This is an SCP idea which I actually originally conceived as an SCP, but then reconsidered because I thought a story, with a protagonist and human reactions and tension and suchlike, was a better way to deliver the idea

Just building a conventional SCP-4739 entry out of those snippets would be very doable, but it wouldn't add a whole lot to the existing story. Like I say, redundant. And I figure slightly less effective

However: there's a whole stack of content omitted from the story. The earlier logs, written by numerous different people, all trying independently to save themselves from SCP-4739, all ultimately failing

These many-fold death logs are things which could in theory, and it's incredibly dangerous for someone as unsociable as me to say this, be crowdsourced