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Junior (?) Researcher Maxim Bakhmet - a shameless self-insert/author-avatar. Background in Science, talks too much, a bit too competitive but soft. Evolves into a RAISA employee. He is the one who recognises the anomaly and proposes it.
Researcher Thomas Troup - an antagonistic frenemy figure for the MB. The head of the team investigating the phenomenon, ambitious, expects raise and becomes O5-6 (for 2950 access) by the prologue.
Junior Researcher Dennis Van Mott - prefers fieldwork, mostly here to provide exposition and may evolve into two or more different characters during the writing process. May become the RRH agent by the prologue (mostly to have a familiar character in there to bounce of the TT).

Prologue

TT gets a notice from the Site Director, which he expects to be a promotion, but turn out to be a new assignment - the Pluto has shrinken (shronk?) and he is in charge of the investigation. He is frustrated, but he can do nothing about it. So he reads on and learns about his colleagues - MB and DVM.

Doctor Thomas Troup was walking down a brightly lit corridor. Turning the corner he opened the door to his office and sat a coffee mug next to the monitor on the desk. An internal mail icon was flashing a notification - Thomas had a new message. "Finally," he thought "I'm being promoted to Senior Researcher!" He clicked the icon about half a dozen times and the message loaded (in fact, all six copies loaded which made scrolling surprisingly laggy).

From: pcs.etis.XX|namweNS#pcs.etis.XX|namweNS - Site Director Syndey Newman
To: pcs.etis.XX|puorTT#pcs.etis.XX|puorTT - Researcher Thomas Troup
Topic: A new assignment. [URGENT]

"FUCK!" The coffee was the victim of Troup's disappointment. Or maybe the desk, it is not easy to tell what suffered more. Having wiped the desk and the monitor clean Thomas continued reading, skipping the usual formalities (He also went and got himself another cup of coffee which would be a tiny bit luckier)

<…> As a reward for your excellent work on devising containment procedures for SCP-YYYY and in preparation for your imminent promotion I am putting you in charge of a small team with an important task.

"Imminent, my ass". Troup rubbed his temples. Only now he was noticing the urgency marker of the marker (of the marker of the marker of the marker of the marker) and that thing never meant anything good. Troup resolved the endless marker of the marker of the marker of the marker situation with the help of a little Foundation bot, closed five out of six copies of the message and continued.

Meanwhile in the brightly lit (being brightly lit is actually pretty heavy on the eyes, but the staff get used to it after a while) canteen two Junior Researchers were discussing their assignment.

"So, Max, have you heard of that Troup guy?" - asked the higher Junior.
"No, Den, I have not," - the slightly chubbier Junior said in response in an irritated voice.
"You know that Den and Dennis are different names, right?"
"Same with Max and Maxim, thank you very much."

/the dialogue is kinda stilted, but what will you do/

Maxim continued, see the signs of understanding of the face of his colleague: "We must make a good impression on the team leader. You don't become one for nothing. Or so I think."
"Like you would know stuck in your archives and data banks," - smirked Dennis.

That would be Act I

That would be Act II

That would be Act III

Epilogue

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Kinda Solipsism

The reality is influenced by the collective conscience of all the living sapient beings in the universe. That explains the existence of reality benders and magic etc. - the innate ability of a mind to influence matter and time, but there are problems: why cannot everyone bend reality, and how new knowledge comes to be.

The first can be explained through sheer will power (of those who can) and the inherent inertia of a mind (of those who cannot) - it is extremely hard to convince people that they can change the world (while they can - remember the book incident). The second is a bit paradoxical. It can be left intentionally unexplained in the article, but the explanation should exist. For humans it is easy - most things were discovered before them.

But how things were first discovered? Due to the use of the collective conscience AND the existence of beings with capabilities beyond human - their minds could have developed this world in a way it is now through their sheer brainpower. It is a bit arbitrary, of course, but I really enjoy the idea of mind over matter and not for select individuals (though it definitely comes down to that) but for everyone. It is important to note that a bit layman-ish similarities between structures of atoms and of solar systems can contribute to this idea.

How this phenomenon became known? That is a hard part. How can a brain understand that his existence is what determines an existence? A plausible way - through the impossibility of the Foundation. Or, at the very least - a very high improbability. That is definitely something that was explored in some ways in 001s, but that is not my goal. It just so happens that this "multi-solipsism" works well in-universe.

How to deliver this in an article? This is the hardest part. I have entertained several ideas:

A third-person tale of a He. A mysterious figure (a Nobody, the Administrator, some high-ranking dude), who knows about this phenomena and goes through his day with the implications in mind.
A story of a researcher or a group of researchers with a task from O5 - that has been done before. On an unrelated note - how the hell does one search for articles, the wikidot search function is shit Thank god for the tag search.
A researcher is studying a new object, which keeps changing form each day. The only thing that is consistent - it comes from an alien world and has some obvious connections to Fiftists (just a GoI that came to mind, since they are, in a way, about changing reality). He starts asking questions, but then, accidentally, posts a version of his draft to the database. This version is read and thus, the object becomes what the draft says. The reason is obvious, but why did the object change shape before? It was not defined by its creators, but now the researcher did exactly that. So what? That leads his supervisor to try and stage an experiment with the permission of the RAISA (I kinda want to have an author avatar in that department…) that escalates to trying to change ANOTHER object through changing the consensus opinion about it, which works. That would obviously lead to a shutdown of the experiment and some repercussions because the Foundation works due to a consensus that it works. And I think of ending (and maybe beginning as in idea 1) with a bit of an O5-x perspective on how this phenomenon affects the Foundation. Ultimately - it is a source of many problems and of the Foundation's success.

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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Physical containment of SCP-XXXX was deemed unethical and therefore impossible by the decree of the Ethics Committee EC-XXXX-650-171230.

Due to the nature of SCP-XXXX-1, all Foundation personnel must wear noise-cancelling headphones when approaching SCP-XXXX's office¹ or when meeting SCP-XXXX in person. All personnel affected by SCP-XXXX-1 are to be administered Class-B amnestics immediately to negate the anomalous effect.

SCP-XXXX is to be kept unaware of his status as an object, the headphones are to be explained with a standard "Anomaly propagating through sound waves" cover story. He is to be constantly recorded for logging purposes.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a member of the Ethics Committee², known as Dr Jeremiah Cimmerian. His anomalous ability is altering the way other humans perceive reality using a cognitohazardous phrase, designated SCP-XXXX-1. SCP-XXXX-1³ is not hazardous in any written or recorded form, which allows Dr J. Cimmerian to continue his Foundation work.

Foundation research into cognitohazards suggests that SCP-XXXX himself is under the influence of SCP-XXXX-1, although there is no explanation for the implied causal loop. The effects of SCP-XXXX-1 can be suppressed with the application of Class-B amnestics. Due to EC-XXXX-650-171230, no testing can be conducted on Dr J. Cimmerian, which makes it impossible to determine whether amnestics would be effecting in nullifying the anomalous ability of SCP-XXXX.

Addendum. SCP-XXXX Incident log:
Foreword: Dates and names of nonanomalous personnel are redacted for security reasons.

Incident XXXX-01

On ██/██/20██ SCP-XXXX was recorded saying "You are wrong about D-class" to Site-17 Personnel Director. That lead to an increased mortality rate among the D-class personnel of Site-17. Personnel Director recovered after the application of Class-B amnestics and the mortality rate decreased back to monthly average among Foundation sites.

Incident XXXX-04

On ██/██/20██⁴ SCP-XXXX was recorded saying "You are wrong about amnestics" to Site-17 Personnel Director. That lead to the recovery of the suppressed memories about Incident XXXX-01. At this time, the anomalous properties of SCP-XXXX were recognized and current containment procedures were installed.

Incident XXXX-05
Classified. Access require 5/XXXX clearance, provide credentials in the form below.

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid, reclassification to Explained pending

Special Containment Procedures: Since 06/06/2019 Foundation efforts are directed at disseminating false information about SCP-XXXX events. The "Ultimate Test Solver" algorithm is repurposed as "UTS-EX" web crawler.

Previous SCP:
The newest iteration of Foundation developed "Ultimate Test Solver" algorithm is to be distributed to all computers used in the Unified State Examination⁵ hosting schools during scheduled maintenance.

The UTS algorithm is to be kept running during the USE season⁶. Any materials⁷ determined to be SCP-XXXX-1 instances by the UTS algorithm are to be seized by the Foundation agents.

If an SCP-XXXX event occurs, USE materials given to the deceased student are added to the UTS algorithm database as SCP-XXXX-1 instances. False information about the event, implying the death to be from natural causes, must be disseminated to the public.

Description: SCP-XXXX is an event that results in deaths of school graduates completing USE. SCP-XXXX events only occur during the testing. SCP-XXXX events always include the following elements:

One student becomes a target of other students' aggression and is subsequently murdered.
Surviving students have no clear memories of the event due to psychological trauma.
Supervising adults always leave the room just before the SCP-XXXX events happen.

SCP-XXXX events are caused by exposure of psychologically vulnerable students to certain USE materials designated SCP-XXXX-1. The origin of SCP-XXXX-1 instances is not different from that of nonanomalous USE materials and they cannot be distinguished by human experts. The Foundation has developed the "Ultimate Test Solver" algorithm for that purpose and is constantly improving it⁸.

Addendum. SCP-XXXX Discovery and Evaluation log: First reports of SCP-XXXX events surfaced in 2011. The Foundation began an investigation into their cause and a disinformation campaign to decrease public awareness of SCP-XXXX. In May of 2012, the Foundation concluded that SCP-XXXX-1 instances cause the SCP-XXXX events. The UTS algorithm was expeditiously developed and containment procedures were established. At the same time, the Foundation began searching for the source of the SCP-XXXX-1⁹, which yielded no notable results.

In 2017 the Foundation enacted the change of the Russian government, replacing Ministry of Education staff for Foundation personnel to determine the source of the presumed anomalous influence. This change was completed in early 2019, yet no outside or inside anomalous influence was detected.

The reevaluation of SCP-XXXX was conducted after SCP-XXXX events had occurred in May of 2019. It was concluded that SCP-XXXX events are nonanomalous in nature and are caused by psychological stress experienced by the students.

As of 06/06/2019 all personnel involved in the containment of SCP-XXXX is reassigned to other projects. The disinformation campaign is continued in exchange for extra funding of the Russian branch of the Foundation by the Russian government.

Footnotes

SCP Sandbox III

Sandbox III: Revenge of the Sandbox

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