Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP xxxx is to be kept at a standard storage locker in site YY. SCP xxxx is not to be observed by researchers with a memetic resistance score less than 75, and any testing is to be done in the presence of an Ethics Committee observer.
SCP-xxxx is not to be performed without express majority approval of the Ethics Committee. Violations of this policy will be punished with disciplinary action up to and including termination.
Description: SCP xxxx is a 74-page English-language script for a stage play titled “Post Tenebras Lux.” The script is typewritten on single-sided A4 paper, held together by three brass fasteners through holes in a standard three-hole-punch configuration. It was originally recovered within a manila envelope stamped with the Foundation seal. Testing of the paper, envelope, ink, and brass fasteners have revealed no anomalous properties.
The play purports to be produced and officially sanctioned by the Foundation. There are no Foundation records of its production, and it is believed to have been created by an extra-dimensional Foundation.
The content of the play itself has been described by analysts as a “propaganda piece” in support of the Foundation, written in allegorical form. The plot follows thirteen “leaders of men” who join in an alliance against vague forces of darkness, which are believed to represent the anomalous in general, as opposed to any specific threat or threats. The script contains a number of monologues given by the members of the thirteen (a thinly veiled reference to the O5 council), in which they weigh the morality of their decisions, and ultimately decide that they are worthy of the power they wield.
Thematic elements of the play have been described as supportive of autocracy. The Foundation office of communications has stated that this play is not indicative of this dimension’s Foundation’s ideals or principles.
Performance of the play has a memetic effect on observers, increasing loyalty towards the foundation, and decreasing critical perceptions of Foundation principles and actions. This effect is at its maximum intensity in the month following exposure, but continues to a lesser extent over the course of the subsequent six months. The effect is much stronger for the actors in the play as well as those involved in production, and the effects on these subjects begin soon after rehearsals are started.
Repeated exposure increases the duration and intensity of this effect. There is significant individual variation of these effects, which has been mediated by existing loyalty towards the Foundation, views towards the anomalous, and tendencies toward sympathy for authoritarianism. Administration of amnestics after viewing reduces the intensity of this effect, but does not negate it entirely.
Subjects must be aware of the Foundation and have a broad understanding of its goals and operations in order to experience a shift in perceptions towards the Foundation. Testing with amnesticized D-Class has demonstrated that this effect can be extended towards any organization of broadly similar goals (real or fabricated), and in one case was even shown to affect perception of a non-anomalous national government.
Subjects without English language proficiency experienced a smaller, but still measurable, shift in perception. This has been attributed to understanding the general structure of the play despite being unable to understand specific spoken dialogue.
Analysis by the Memetics Division has determined much of the memetic properties to be the result of various anomalously memetic phrases embedded in the spoken dialogue of the play; however anomalous mythemes and narremes have been identified as well in the overall plot and structure of the play.
A filtered version has been created by the Memetics Division, which lacks the anomalous memetic and cognito-hazardous effects of the original script. The Memetics Division cautions that while this version is broadly similar to the original script, a large number of smaller details have been altered to negate its mind-affecting properties. This version may be requisitioned from the Memetics Division with approval from level 4 personnel and above. A carbon copy of all requests is forwarded to the Ethics Committee Office of Records for archival purposes.
After initial testing revealed its mind-affecting-properties, the merits of using scp xxxx to improve loyalty among assets of questionable sympathy towards the Foundation’s goals were briefly discussed amongst the O5 council and the Site Directors' Executive Committee of the Whole. This debate was cut short by a summary ruling of the Ethics Committee, who restricted its use, citing Ethics Guideline 448.3 (“Unacceptable Deprivation of Free Will”).
SCP xxxx was recovered from SCP-1437, unaccompanied by any additional documentation. It is unclear what purpose (if any) was intended by its transportation through the anomaly. Some have theorized it was meant to be a sign of goodwill by a Foundation with significantly different morals (who thus did not fully comprehend the ethical dilemma its use entails), or a means of increasing extradimensional support for a particular Foundation, namely, the play’s original authors.
Addendum xxxx-1: Message from Ethics Committee Chair
I can’t believe I even have to send out a memo about this. The answer is no, full stop. Study it if you must, but there is absolutely no reason for this to be used for its intended purpose. None of this “but all the other Foundations are doing it,” this is not who we are. If you have so little faith in our mission that you feel the need to brainwash people to believe that what we are doing is right, then you are the problem, not them. The goals of the foundation stand on their own.
Secure. Contain. Protect.
J. R. Randolph, Ethics Committee Chair
I had hoped to use my javascript skills, such as they are, to create a script which would alter the content of an article when it was off-screen. The end result of this would hopefully be a creepy gaslighting sort of experience, where readers would be unsure if the text of an article had changed or if they were going crazy. Kind of like a text version of 173, which would be a neat effect for things like memetic/antimemetic articles or reality benders.
I ended up concluding that the script would probably only work if the entirety of the article was contained in the same html tag as the script, which would necessitate recreating all the standard wikidot and scp formatting using css. Too much effort for too little benefit, but c'est la vie.
I present the following for academic purposes. It works in theory, just not in practice apparently.
Feel free to fiddle around with it on your own. If you can get it working, let me know, I'd love to know how you did it.
-Marshal Forth
<div id="u-cycle">
<p>this text should change when you scroll away from it
</p>
</div>
<script>
/*
Marshal_Forth hidden text replacement script
adapted with love from
https://gomakethings.com/how-to-test-if-an-element-is-in-the-viewport-with-vanilla-javascript/
https://gomakethings.com/detecting-when-a-visitor-has-stopped-scrolling-with-vanilla-javascript/
under MIT license
https://vanillajstoolkit.com/mit/
This script has to go AFTER any text you want to replace
*/
var isInViewport = function (elem) {
var bounding = elem.getBoundingClientRect();
return (
bounding.top >= 0 &&
bounding.left >= 0 &&
bounding.bottom <= (window.innerHeight || document.documentElement.clientHeight) &&
bounding.right <= (window.innerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)
);
};
// because the event listener exists on the window and not for each element,
// each ID will be triggered once whenever the window is scrolled
// and ANY of that ID is off the screen for 66ms or longer
// practical consequence: each bit of replaced text needs its own
// alterHiddenText event added
var alterHiddenText = function (ID, replace_text) {
var isScrolling;
var cycle_counter=0;
var seen=false; // represents whether the new change has been seen or not
window.addEventListener('scroll', function (event) {
//this code fires every time the event is triggered
var replace= document.getElementById(ID).childNodes[1];
console.log(replace);
window.clearTimeout( isScrolling );
isScrolling = setTimeout(function() {
//this code fires when the timeout is triggered
if (isInViewport(replace)) {
// the element is in view, so set it to seen
seen=true;
}
else{
if(seen){
replace.innerHTML = replace_text[cycle_counter];
seen=false; // a change has been made to an object previously seen, so set seen to false
cycle_counter++;
cycle_counter=cycle_counter%replace_text.length;
}
}
}, 66);
}, false);
};
// here is where you define all the text you want replaced
// alterHiddenText("id_of_element",["here is where you put the text you want it replaced with","text2"]);
// ===
//I'd really rather not do it this way but I can't figure out a better solution
var checkExist = setInterval(function() {
replace=document.getElementById("u-cycle");
console.log(replace)
if (replace) {
console.log("Script loaded!");
console.log("1")
alterHiddenText("u-cycle",["here the text has been changed to the first iteration","and now it is on the second iteration","and finally the third iteration"]);
console.log("2")
console.log(document.getElementById("u-cycle"));
clearInterval(checkExist);
}
}, 100);
// I think wikidot won't let you access stuff from outside the html tag by a js script within the html tag
//i think it might be an iframe thing
//nontheless, this means the whole article would have to be styled in css from scratch
</script>
Item #: SCP X
Class: Euclid
Special containment procedures: Staff are to remain inside of Site 209 until negotiations with the External Foundation conclude.
Description: SCP X is a theatrical production which is performed weekly in dedicated playhouses worldwide. Every playhouse performs the same script, with minor variations. Generally the majority of the audience returns each week to view the performance.
A typical performance is as follows:
Audience is seated. Cast enters, accompanied by a musical number. Main actor gives monologue. Additional cast members, hidden in the audience, go up to stage and give their own monologues. Musical number.
Main actor gives more improvisational monologue, usually incorporating elements of comedy.
Main actor leads audience in a call and response section. Refreshments are served. Main actor gives final monologue, then exits the stage. Cast leaves, followed by audience.
The subject matter is generally one of moral growth, with cannibalism being the usual metaphor for such. Sarkic involvement is suspected.
Audiences and cast members report that the play has its roots in cult activity in the ancient near east.
SCP X came into existence sometime before or on May 9th, 2019. All humans, including all members of the Foundation, except for staff who were present in Site 209 on May 9th, 2019, believe the play to have been performed regularly for several thousand years, and do not see it in any way unusual or concerning.
Several theories have been put forward to explain this phenomenon:
- A memetic agent has spread throughout the human population, beginning on (or shortly before) May 9th, 2019, and concluding with total infection on that same date. This powerful meme has implanted in the minds of the affected the idea of this play and a belief in its claimed historicity. It has also compelled the affected to build playhouses worldwide dedicated solely to putting on productions of SCP X. Potentially an AK-class end of world scenario.
- A CK-class restructuring event has altered reality and introduced this cultural practice to the general human population. Some as-yet-unknown anomalous effect allowed Site 209 to remain unaltered.
In either case, there appears to be some degree of protection possessed by Site 209 which is lacking in the rest of the world. This protection likely has been bestowed by an SCP object stored at Site 209.
Recommend reevaluating Site 209's SCP inventory for possible Thaumiel reclassification.
On May 9th, 2019, the nature of the anomaly was discovered by Site 209 staff, and Site 209’s director and executive council voted to place Site 209 into lockdown, limiting contact and travel between Site 209 and the outside world.
Negotiations have begun with the External Foundation (the organization which claims to be the Foundation, not including Site 209 personnel), to determine whether they will help correct this anomalous effect, or if there is a possibility of Site 209 being re-integrated into the now-altered External Foundation. As supplies and rations within Site 209 are limited, some degree of cooperation with the External Foundation will eventually become necessary.
As part of the opening of negotiations with the External Foundation, the director and executive council of Site 209 have agreed to make the external foundation’s documentation of this phenomenon available to staff within Site 209. The executive council note that the External Foundation conjecturing is almost certainly incorrect, and its slapdash and unconvincing nature of their documentation have hampered negotiations somewhat.
The following document has been screened for basic cognitohazards, and found to be clean, but the possibility of memetic influence has not been conclusively rejected. View at your own risk.
Item #: SCP X
Class: Euclid
Special containment procedures: Personnel are recommended to limit contact with personnel stationed at Site 209 until negotiations conclude. In particular, personnel are cautioned not to discuss SCP X with affected personnel, as they may react in an aggressive, and possibly violent, fashion.
Description: SCP X is a weaponized memetic agent released within Site 209 on May 9th, 2019, which had spread to nearly all personnel stationed in Site 209 before memetic countermeasures were able to arrest its progress. This agent causes the affected to believe that the Christian worship service known as “Mass”, generally held each Sunday, is an anomalous addition to the world. Affected personnel do not have any conception of it having existed before May 9th, 2019, and are unable to recognize it as a form of worship, instead characterizing it as some kind of theatrical performance. Persons affected by SCP X regard this cultural practice as an unknown and threatening change to the status quo, and have placed Site 209 on lockdown to prevent contact with the outside world.
Affected personnel demonstrate an extreme aversion towards accepting any evidence to the contrary of their new belief, and may react with hostility when argued with. Suggestions that affected personnel have been affected by a memetic agent are either disbelieved or ignored.
Rehabilitation and containment efforts have been hampered by the fact that Site 209 has been placed on lockdown, and personnel from outside Site 209 are prevented from entering.
Personnel affected by SCP X will resist any sort of memetic or amnestic treatment, and generally will not accept treatment without the application of force. Proposals to storm Site 209 with MTF agents have been rejected as unnecessarily dangerous, both to MTF agents, as well as to affected personnel within Site 209, who may react to such an act via self-termination.
SCP X is believed to be an attack developed and performed by the chaos insurgency, intended to sow mistrust between the SCP Foundation and the Horizon Initiative. Investigations are ongoing.
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