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It's important to note that if you aren't using all-caps, the first letter of every word should be capitalized. This applies to all sections until otherwise specified.
It should also be noted that periods should not be used either, until otherwise specified.
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Event IDs are formatted as the first letter in the most relevant word followed by a dash and an arbitrary five-digit numerical designation.
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Area that the event took place in. Generally speaking, Factory formats focus on events that occur in their factories, though other locations can be used.
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The day in which the event occurred.
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- The non-Factory individuals that are directly involved
- Formatted using bullet points, regardless of the number of actors
- This section should be devoid of periods
- Individuals should be listed using the format of "Group that they work for, and then their name, such as the example below"
- SCP Foundation Employee George Georgerson
- If no actors can be identified, feel free to say that they're unknown
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The person or thing that participated the most in the event. Make sure you specify their position before their name. E.G. "Intern Margaret Weirdname"
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- Any groups that would logically be affected by the event
- Can include Factory customers, Factory stockholders, and specific named groups, companies, and/or individuals
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[PERIODS ARE USED FROM THIS POINT FORWARDS | FIRST-LETTER CAPITALIZATION IS NOT USED FROM THIS POINT FORWARDS]
Exactly what it sounds like. Any information that would influence the event or help the reader to understand what's going on.
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A short summary of the order of events section. A short description of the trigger is allowed, but not necessary.
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A short or somewhat detailed explanation of what occurred to cause the event. Dialogue may be present and should be formatted either in a quote block (As shown below).
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Factory Response |
| Raw materials partially disengaged from their mountings on Production Line R |
Assembly Line Technician Emily Parker attempts to secure loose materials. |
| Raw Materials are uncooperative, and attempt to unfasten further mountings. |
Technician Parker initiates emergency line shutdown. |
| Raw Materials fully disengage from restraints and attempt to use pneumatic rivet hammer in unauthorized manner. |
Technician Parker attempts to recover pneumatic rivet hammer from raw materials, suffering severe injuries in the process |
| Raw materials attempt to compromise mountings of additional raw materials. |
Security personnel arrive and subdue raw materials. |
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| The following have been identified as points of failure in this incident, and are accompanied by recommended corrective policies: |
Item Number: SCP-MS-EX
Class:Euclid Keter Explained
Special Containment Procedures: Sample breeding colonies of newly-discovered SCP-MS-EX variants are to be collected and maintained for long-term study at Site-364, with the remainder of instances exterminated by any means necessary.
As of 7/23/1949, O5 council has declared a total breach scenario for SCP-MS-EX, on grounds that the costs and risks of containing SCP-MS-EX now exceed the projected costs and risks of redefining baseline normalcy.
Foundation efforts are now to be directed toward mitigating the organisms' impact on global ecosystems, and promotion of the false belief that SCP-MS-EX lifeforms are and have always been native to this timeline.
Containment of newly discovered instances of SCP-MS-EX will now be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, as per organisms native to this timeline.
Description: SCP-MS-EX is an anomalous order of crustaceans of extratemporal origin, genetically and physically resembling an evolutionary branch of Malacostraca.
Species of SCP-MS-EX generally measure between 10 and 38 cm, and display a wide variety of vibrant coloration patterns. SCP-MS-EX species additionally share multiple anomalous features.
- claw-bearing forelimbs capable of striking with extreme levels of force, some species delivering point impacts over 1,500 N. The strike speed of most SCP-MS-EX species are sufficient to create cavitation bubbles in the limb's wake; as a result, prey organisms which do not expire immediately from massive blunt force trauma or lacerations frequently expire instead from shockwave-induced organ rupture.
- a complex form of compound eye, providing a visual spectrum stretching from human visual ranges into the ultraviolet, the ability to perceive the polarization of a light source, and trinocular depth perception from each of two independent eyestalks. Experimentation suggests this may enable certain species of SCP-MS-EX to visually detect the firing of surface neurons and cellular abnormalities such as cancer.
- SCP-MS-EX displays signs of intelligence not observed in standard Malacostracaids. Many species of SCP-MS-EX respond to training attempts, and display strong long term memory, and a number are capable of communication via active florescence. Several species have additionally displayed limited signs of higher intelligence including recognition of familiar individuals, advanced group coordination with unrelated individuals, biparental care of offspring, and long-term pair bonding outside mating cycles.
- Total resistance to infection by SCP-███. Instances of SCP-MS-EX respond to infected organisms with extreme levels of aggression, and have been documented to consume incapacitated instances of SCP-███ with no ill effects. Use of SCP-MS-EX for cleanup of SCP-███ outbreaks has been proposed, pending solutions to the logistical concerns of maintaining large numbers of SCP-MS-EX in landlocked areas.
SCP-MS-EX was first brought to the attention of Foundation predecessor organizations in the mid-1800's when small groups of instances began manifesting in shallow tropical and subtropical aquatic ecosystems at irregular intervals. After materializing, these instances dispersed and entrenched themselves into the local ecosystem. Each group was noted to experience a series of accelerated breeding generations with unusually high rates of mutation, leading to rapid speciation and adaptation to local conditions over the course of 3-10 years, before establishing the current pattern of multiple-decade lifespans and semi-annual breeding cycles.
Following Incident MS-EX-303, no further manifestations of SCP-MS-EX have occurred. Instances of SCP-MS-EX already present in this timeline, however, have proven difficult to exterminate, and in many cases have established themselves as keystone predators in their host ecosystems.
Item #: SCP-4000
Object Class: Thaumiel
Special Containment Procedures: Archives of all extant human-produced media are to be maintained in non-volatile formats, and regularly updated as new media are produced or discovered. Redundant copies are to be distributed globally across Foundation sites, with additional sanitized copies periodically leaked via double agent to GoI-012, GoI α-019, GoI-5869, and other groups with suspected access to extra-temporal spaces to maximize survivability.
All possible efforts are to be made to recover and preserve ancient records and works of aesthetic value, prioritizing more obscure and ancient works over time periods for which human existence is well documented.
Description: SCP-4000 is a phenomenon by which the existence of creative and documentary media reinforce the existence of reality.
SCP-4000 was brought to Foundation attention during study of SCP-140
Item #: SCP-3000
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3000 and the property it sits on have been purchased
through a Foundation front, and contained under cover of an unoccupied but regularly maintained suburban home.
A second house and property in the same cul-de-sac have also been purchased, and are to be surreptitiously maintained in a state marginally above the local structural condemnation codes. A misinformation campaign has been enacted to gradually redirect local urban legends regarding SCP-3000 to this decoy structure. Use of low level amnestics and periodic simulated paranormal events have been authorized for the reinforcement of this cover.
POI-273T6 is to be detained pending potential SCP classification, should they be located.
Description: SCP-3000 is the collective designation for a one story home located in ████████, Texas and the complex localized reality distortion located within it.
The interior of SCP-3000 occupies an indeterminately large spatial-temporal manifold. SCP's exotic topological and physical properties make mapping and measuring the anomaly difficult. Reliable pathways between apparently stable landmarks comprise no less than 60 km2 of unique surface area, and theoretically linear routes calculated based on these relative locations have documented 100 km2 of linear travel from the perimeter of the anomaly with no indication of approaching an epicenter. Explorations from known regions of stabilty have documented an additional 253 km2 of surface area with apparently unstable relative locations and/or temporal frames of reference hindering repeat access.
Numerous secondary anomalies have been observed within SCP-3000, with frequency and deviation from normalcy increasing with distance from the perimeter of the structure. Outermost instances typically take benign forms such as abnormal architecture and minor violations of physics, while instances documented farther within SCP-3000 include violations of causality, incursions of non-Earth terrain and ecosystems, and hazardous modifications to physical principals. (See Exploration Logs)
The means by which SCP-3000 was created are unknown, but investigations indicate the anomaly to be the partially inadvertent creation of POI-273T6, former owner and occupant of SCP-3000. The whereabouts of POI-273T6 are currently unknown. POI-273T6 is strongly suspected to be somewhere within SCP-3000. Whether this is voluntary or involuntary has yet to be determined.
Selected Exploration Log Exerpts
D-3124: So um, room at the end of the hallway here… it's sort of a volcano.
HQ: Say again?
D-3124: The room is a volcano. Like, the thing that elf guy threw the ring into. The whole floor.
HQ: That's a new one.
D-3124: The floor is lava.
HQ: We got that.
D-3124: No, I mean there's furniture in there, just sitting on top of the lava like it's not there. It's like the game you play as a kid, where the floor is lava, and the only safe places to stand are on the furniture or whatever. But real.
HQ: Think you can get through?
D-3124: Maybe.
HQ: Three days off your contract if you get through.
D-3124: Like I said, sure thing boss!
D-3124: OH JEEZE
HQ: You okay in there?
D-3124: (strained)…yeah, I'm good. The ottoman rolled over. Lost a shoe, the foot almost went with it. Touching the floor is definitely against the rules. I'm through though.
HQ: Had me worried there for a minute.
D-3124: I just realized I'm a moron. Knocked over an end table in the hallway into the room with that last jump. It's not burning. That whole room full of couches right next door, and I didn't even think to grab a bunch of cushions and make a bridge.
Early exploratory expedition undertaken soon after inititial discovery of SCP-3000. Field Agents M███ ██████, A███ ██████ of MTF Kappa-4 ("Flatlanders").
M: Hey HQ, M███ and A███ checking in. Just passed the third kitchen on the ana side, nothing major to report.
A: Oh, and R██████ might want to check in on the telescope bedroom. The view of the planet is gorgeous today; three or four of its moons are out.
HQ: I'll pass that along. Snag some pictures on your way out; maybe we'll make the cover of the next Foundation parastronomy journal.
And so it was that, after the universe had cooled enough for darkness to exist, there came a time of clouds.
An endless fog of light atomic particles and static forces filled all that there was, warmed by the fading afterglow of the first note.
And for a long time, there was silence…
…but as always, things are never content to stay what they are.
Slowly, imbalances within this fog lead to flows.
Flows became cycles, cycles became rhythms, rhythm became song, and song became a vibrant universe of music makers, dreaming of what was and what could be.
The lives of these aetheric entities were not an idealic, utopian existence- there were conflicts, and sorrows, and even willful disruption of other's patterns- but such is true of any life. Likewise, there was also joy.
Curious minds flitted through a world of play- the thrill of racing between atoms as a series of photon pulses, the slow tranquility of life as a nebula of reacting chemicals, the joy of intertwining with another as electromagnetic interference…
Over time, the songs began to sing of patterns within patterns. The songs sang of ideas now; melodies like beauty, and humor and numbers were conceived and explored. They sang of questions: What were they? Who composed them? What happened to songs which were silenced? A universe saw itself for the first time, and a civilization was born.
And this continued for a long time…
…until something new and strange happened.
A tiny portion of the fog collapsed, and began screaming and clawing at the haze around it. Many patterns were broken by this new Thing, and the songs sang of fear. Some sang that the Thing should be destroyed. Others that it should be isolated and studied. Still others that the Thing should be allowed to scream if that was what made it happy. All agreed, however, that the Thing was not something that belonged in their world… but no one could agree what should be done about it.
Over time, fear gave way to acceptance. The thing became a novelty, a topic of idle discussions and speculation. Was it alive as they understood it? How did it work? Why was it screaming?
And in the end, they simply became used to the Thing and its endless screaming.
But things are never content to stay what they are.
Murmurs rippled through the civilization when a second thing appeared, but soon they grew used to this one as well.
The ages passed.
More Things began appearing throughout the fog.
There came a time when it seemed like the Things had always been there- dangerous, strange, and rather annoying, but simply a fact.
The Singers raised their voices above the din, and life went on.
The Things continued to multiply.
Distant voices were lost to the chorus.
And still the Things grew in number.
The songs sang of drowning in a flood of mindless screams.
And finally there came a time when the Things were everywhere, and the universe was filled with noise.
The remaining singers now screamed themselves, vainly calling to their kin.
The things began forming their own mindless patterns where once there was order and song, their dance lead by great and hungry Things that bellowed across the now empty void.
When at last they had given up hope, most simply sang their final notes, and scattered their echoes in the noise that was once silence and song.
But some refused to surrender.
Whether out of fear or a desperate hope that the Things may someday die, the singers remade themselves with the learnings of a billion years.
Some wove their patterns into the tiny points of cold matter crushed and spun by the Things. Some learned to ride within the endless wailing of the Things, a defiant cry in the storm. Others sought refuge in the silence beyond the fog. And a handful merged with the Things themselves, surrendering to the madness of the raging noise.
And ages passed.
And there came a time when a new breed of singers looked up at the Things, and called them stars.
And they called them beautiful.
Notes for what may eventually be a companion for Roget's History of the Universe essays, covering events since 2012. Fair warning, as these are mostly in my personal shorthand/thought-organizing system, the following may qualify as a cogitohazard for linear thinkers. They are not in strict chronological order, but rather are meant to represent significant chains of events and movements within the wiki.
The Series III Renaissance, or "What is an SCP?"
- end of the grimdark era
- rise of the story scp
- The eternal flash fiction vs minor novella vs technical document debate
- Leads to examination of SCP's on the meta level, and ongoing exploration of what they can be. Several contests have reflected this exploration:
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- GOI contest: how can SCP's be used as tools for worldbuilding?
- Short SCP contest: how short can an effective SCP be?
- MTF Contest: how can tales and SCP's be used together to create meta-narratives?
- Growing awareness of the styles and vibes of various site eras, with phrases like "reminds me of an early series I" being used frequently:
- Early Series I: A short and simple SCP that you'll be thinking about for days, or, like the old joke about cafeteria food puts it, "It was bad, and there wasn't enough of it.". The two often coexist in the same SCP.
- Late Series I: Elaborate article that takes a simple idea on a wild ride. If you can get past the lolFoundation (or it miraculously avoids it), it's a fun read.
- Series II: The details are the star of the show- volumes of story can often be read into the things that aren't said. As a secondary theme, the "clinical article" era dawns. Hyper-technical articles with extensive test logs- at their best, a fusion of between-the-lines narrative, deadpan humor, and hard science colliding with magic…with often deconstructive and facinating results.
- Series III: Story is king, and crosslinks are evil. Some argue too much so, for both. Still a prime era for stand-alone, character-driven SCP's, regardless.
The universe expands
- GOIs gain depth
- Reinterpretations of old GOIs:
- The Factory's rebirth as military-industrial abomination,
- CotBG's transition from generic cult to multifaceted culture with rich internal politics and complex motives
- New GOIs with old roots
- Anderson Robotics
- The Sarkists
In which we write long passionate essays about why other people are wrong.
Subtitle: the many debates of the modern site
- the continuing efforts to update Series I, and reinterpret old site lore
- preservation of poorly aged classics as artifacts vs. "Hulk want smash badly written lolFoundation coasting on virtue of intriguing idea!"
- author avatars: Beloved part of the site, or spawn of satan?
- anti-author-avatar sentiment leads to more mature tone, but also stagnation of character-driven work on the site for much of 2012-2014.
- resurrection canon attempts to rehabilitate old storylines and lore
- initially leads to much debate, including Kalinin's protest sabbatical and some hurt feelings
- also, however, leads to a new look at how the oldest site lore relates to the newest, and how the two can be reconciled and built upon in the future
- Crackfic contest as a watershed moment- lolFoundation, done well, and in an appropriate manner, can be enjoyable. Done very well, and in the proper context, it can even transcend itself into mainstream site writing.
- Nothing is Canon[[footnote] Except the stuff that is[vs. Everything is Canon[footnote] including the stuff that contradicts other stuff[[/footnote]] debates
- Compartmentalized canons theory
- Many worlds theory
- Mutable history theory
- D-class
- Who are they? Where do they come from? Where are they going at the end of the month?
- In-Universe reflections of Out of Universe debates
Staff changes
- New guard takes the helm as many founding members step down or scale back.
Other stuff
- SCP death matches
- KaktusCasts
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