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DATE: 13 Jun 2021 23:06
Initial Message
Requested from IRC, PM'd crit
Hey there
You asked in IRC if I could take a look at your Concept Forum Post for greenlighting, but I didn't get a chance to reply before you left.
Here are my thoughts on your Idea Crit Forum post
Story: none
This is sort of the glaring thing here for a couple reasons, but the big one is that the post needs to follow the structure given Idea Crit Forum Required Reading or a lot of critters are going to see this an incomplete post and won't give much feedback.
Just as important, though, if there is no story, than what is the article going to be? A few Series 1 survived by just being A Thing What Does A Thing but that was 10 years ago. Modern articles are heavily reliant on there being a story in some way, shape or form to create an interesting and cohesive article that people will want to read. With that being said, I also don't really see a whole lot of story that could be told with what is in the "pitch" as it stands. Its a piece of paper that you can rip people apart with by drawing them on it, right? Is there a reason you wanted to write about this, or any particular thing from which you drew inspiration?
If you update the idea forum post with the appropriate formatting, I'd be glad to take a look at it again. ^__^
~ZGResponse
OK. I have included a story and I would be grateful if you could check it out. The formatting: I do not see a problem with it? Or is the problem that i did not include a story.
Note
Staff locked Crit thread for duplicate post and original Crit thread does not meet requirements for forum posts.
I agree with fairydoctor's points in that I'd like to know generally how you intend to execute some of these things. There seems to be a lot of potential here for something amusing and clever if executed well, though.
A frosted donut that makes things that occur in it's vicinity [anywhere the donut can 'see'] go wrong or fail […]
Even with all of the implied events, this still feels like the core meat of this piece. Is there a particular story you want to tell beyond the "thing that does things in an unusual and amusing way?" Will the focus be more on the characterization of the researchers or the unusual ways the skip makes things go wrong?
[…] the object appears mysteriously in a senior researcher's locker and is discovered to be anomalous.
It can also be shaky territory with regard to clichés by having a skip just "appear" in a researcher's office without explanation. Do you intend to explain that as the result of some part of the skip's effects? Would it serve the same narrative end if the skip was found by a civilian instead and resulted in widespread havoc which garnered the Foundation's attention?
One of my concerns is that there'll be another SCP that is very similar to this one […]
If the bulk of the article is just a daisy chain of unusual mishaps until they figure out whatever formula the anomaly is operating on, then yes. There are a few articles like that already, and they don't typically do very well without a clever twist.
I'm afraid the article itself may become too cluttered with ideas as I write it, and more likely, a lot longer than I originally anticipated, due to a specific twist I have planned.
It sort of already sounds like it might be cluttered with a bunch of different stuff happening, but if its justified, unique, and interesting, then length isn't always bad. I'm more curious what the "twist" is and why it would draw the article out by a significant enough amount to cause you concern.
It sounds like you've thought out some of these things, but I would really like to know at least some of the details that have been withheld here before seeing this as a draft.
I hope this helped! Feel free to PM me if you reply or update the post and I'll take another look! I think there is the possibility for potential here, but its contingent on how you intend to make this idea stand out.
~ZG
Abandoned SCP Site Exploration Blog
So the big thing that immediate sprang into my mind is the similarity to things like SCP-1730 and the many exploration logs involving MTF Zeta-9 "Mole Rats".
That being said…
Taking this from the view of civilians going through an abandoned site could potentially be an interesting twist, but I don't see this working well with the rigid format of a main-list article.
[…] they end up discovering that something is still dwelling inside […]
Not every SCP has to have a number. Everything described in the Pitch and Narrative sounds like some type of Blair Witch style "jaunt through a spooky abandoned containment facility" Tale, and I actually think I really like the idea. I just keep imagining of a group of unwitting teens/young adults trying to piece together precisely what they've gotten themselves into. My question here would just be what do you have in mind for the anomaly they encounter?
An urban exploration blog with an SCP bent to it […]
Exploration logs and video transcripts can get tedious if not executed properly. How are you going to hold my interest as the reader? As far as setup, I highly recommend taking a look at things like 1730 and other "anomalous facility"-esque skips and tales to make sure you have a solid feel for what these people are in for (even if you already have, the refresher's always nice) and of course real experience trumps all, so if you watch a lot of urban exploration type stuff or especially if you've done any yourself, then more power to you! Lean into that!
Lastly,
It's meant to show how sometimes, due to circumstances, things can go horribly wrong and people pay the price for it, with nobody really to blame for what happened.
How do you intend to show that? Why is there no one to blame?
Overall, the idea here seems like an interesting premise, but I really want to know what you intend to do to make it stand out.
If you respond or update your post, please feel free to PM me or catch me in IRC and I'd be happy to take another look at it and discuss!
~ZG
Summoned from IRC
So first,
[+] A few questions…
The core premise of ‘A Goddess among us’ which is a humanoid entity that manifests itself anywhere on Earth.
- What exactly makes this entity a "deity," and a deity of what?
- How did the Foundation decide it was a deity rather than, say, a powerful thaumaturge or a reality bender?
Able to change her appearance and look's to match the general public area it had manifested in.
but then:
[…] several months later the same figure was spotted at a hospital within Boston […]
- Why wouldn't the entity just change its appearance?
[…] thanks to the glowing marks that leaked a light harmless gamma radiation trail […]
- How did the Foundation figure out they could track her this way? Were there reports of this elsewhere?
[+] The Narrative
The big thing I'm seeing here a series of events without very much narrative (that I can tell). There are a lot of ways that you can take this to take it above and beyond the "thing-that-does-a-thing" cliché, though. The biggest question I find myself asking right now is "Why?" Why does it do what it does? Why does the Foundation care? Why did it let itself be captured the first time?
Hook/Attention-Grabber: The theme and setting is historical, being involved in historical event in 1587
The hook should be the entire reason I (the reader) want to read your article. It is what you plan on holding my attention with. What is the historical event from 1587? Will you be leaning harder into that? Try asking yourself "what is the most interesting part of this story to you"?
As I said, there are a lot of different ways you can take this at the moment, and I really feel like what you've got so far is just a little too open ended, but if you can narrow in on a central story or theme that you want to emphasize, this could have a fair amount of potential.
Continued in IRC
18:22 <Tuk6> good i wanted to ask what you could elaborate a little more on what you mean by a little too open ended
18:23 <ZG1906> Tuk6 I don't see where the story goes. Like its the start of something and then things sort of trail off because the Foundation can't contain this entity. Does that make more sense?
18:24 <Tuk6> ya it does, helps me pinpoint what you mean
18:24 <ZG1906> Like there wasn't enough detail to really feel like I could get invested.
18:24 <Tuk6> in all truth i though a little mystery would help out making other interested in it
18:25 <ZG1906> Mystery is good in the article, but I think you've got to give a little bit more to get that interest in the idea crit just because there isn't the rest of the narrative to go off of yet for the critters
18:26 <Tuk6> what it mean is the scp can't be contain due to its anomalies ability to warp itself anywhere on or even off world, making containment nearly impossible, you know how some scp can teleport in and out of foundation custody, that's what I was planning on going for zg1906
18:27 <ZG1906> Okay, so that was one of the big points that I found myself asking the heavy "why?" What purpose does it serve to the story beyond making the thing hard to hold onto?
18:27 <ZG1906> Is there a reason?
18:27 <Tuk6> as in why it leaves foundation custody ya it has one
18:27 <ZG1906> And that is?
18:29 <Tuk6> it loves life on the planet, it loves traveling around the world seeing what humanity has to offer, help those who lives are in near death at a such a young and what its nature has as well, seeing it all as times goes on, and it can't do that within foundation custody. in a sense it's like a child in a wonder
18:30 <Tuk6> that why it refuses to remain in a site locked in a containment chamber made of concert decorated to look like a living space
18:31 <ZG1906> Okay, so that sort of begs the other question: What is this a god of? Is it a god, or a "god-like" being like a reality bender or thaumaturge? How does the Foundation know?
18:32 <Tuk6> it's god like, having abilites recording of warping, healing, devastating destruction once recorded I wouldn't make it an actual GOD, it's an alien in a sense
18:33 <Tuk6> towards humanity its god like ZG1906(I disconnected because of work and Tukapee logged off before I returned)
Idea Crit Dead Man's Feast
Hello!
-Crit
The biggest issue I have with this is that I don't see any real story happening. This pretty much just reads as a "Banquet Hall What Kills People" and doesn't seem to have any real depth to it. > There are a lot of ways you could take this, though. I just think its going to need more work as it stands in order to truly grab readers.So the question I have here is: why?
Why does it turn people into food slurry?
Why couldn't the Foundation locate it and just… not let anyone inside?
And on that note:
Why should I, as the reader, consider this horror?
While "being turned into food that other people then unwittingly eat" is certainly a creepy concept, its unfortunately been done quite a few times in a variety of media (the spirit feast from Spirited Away comes to mind). You also have to remember that this is the Foundation, where eldritch horrors are the norm and people get eaten unfortunately (but unsurprisingly) often. So this is going to need something a little deeper or more interesting happening to grab your readers' interest and really drive that "horror" part home.
Some advice I always give is if you find yourself having a difficult time expanding on the idea, you could always try asking yourself some sort of "out-of-story" questions as you go:
What made you want to write about this?
In your own opinion, what is the most interesting/scary/unique part of this idea?
What is the story you want to tell?
If you have answers to these things, leaning into those feelings/thoughts can make your writing both easier and more interesting to your readers who may appreciate those same things.
Overall, the idea is just a little to broad/bland at the moment for me, but its definitely one of those ideas that can be taken above and beyond on the wiki with the right mind and motivation, so don't give up on it, but definitely give it some more thought. ^__^
Good luck! If you have questions or want more feedback, feel free to PM me! Otherwise, I won't get notifications if you reply!
Initial Message (Draft Crit Requested from IRC)
My overall impression of the draft is relatively positive. I like the idea as a whole and thank you for introducing me to the idea of Ship's Cats! That's a whole thing I had no idea existed. >__<
There are some general notes I had while reading through the article, though.
-The short version
There are a number of areas which could be improved in tone. Grammatically, there seem to be a lot of short sentences that could be combined for a better flow and readability.I read through your Idea Crit Forum post, as well and I can see how some of the crit had an influence from idea to draft. The cat being immortal is something that can be implied by its lack of aging and constant reappearance without having to outright state "invulnerability" or anything of the sort. Cat's are generally good at avoiding harm, anyway, so it wouldn't be much of a stretch to just leave it at having peculiarly acute senses and reaction times. By presenting the cat as invulnerable the way the article does right now, there comes the contradiction of how the Foundation managed to get the GPS chip onto the cat. I honestly think it would work just fine to mention the displacement effect, the cat's lack of aging, and maybe some failed attempts to capture it before they managed to get ahold of it and chip it.
I don't think the Foundation would chip a collar, just because there is an incredibly high likelihood of the collar being removed for any reason, but they may use the collar/tags as a way to identify "marked" ships. Something along the lines of having the contact information on the tags lead to a Foundation monitored phone line which can be used to trace the call and verify the presence of the skip and information about the marked ship.
Also, in regards to invulnerability, the cat has been chipped by the Foundation, but the article also says that there have been no attempts to test the cat's "invincibility." I really just think by leaving the "invincibility" out entirely, the article can shed some clichés without losing anything.
The only other thing I felt was out of place is the interview log. While its amusing, I don't actually see much of a point in its inclusion beyond the joke and nothing would be lost from its exclusion, in my opinion. On the other hand, if there were more demonstrations of said interactions with the cat, this could become a more warranted addition and shift the general theme of the article to be a little more on the light-hearted/humorous side.
If you'd like a deeper crit, I'd be more than happy to do a line by line for SPaG and give some suggestions for improving the overall tone. It will just take a little longer to put together, but I'd be more than happy to help ^__^
Response
Hey, Thanks for the crit!
There are a number of areas which could be improved in tone. Grammatically, there seem to be a lot of short sentences that could be combined for a better flow and readability.
Yeah I struggle with grammar, it's something I'm gonna correct in a line by line.
I read through your Idea Crit Forum post, as well and I can see how some of the crit had an influence from idea to draft. The cat being immortal is something that can be implied by its lack of aging and constant reappearance without having to outright state "invulnerability" or anything of the sort. Cat's are generally good at avoiding harm, anyway, so it wouldn't be much of a stretch to just leave it at having peculiarly acute senses and reaction times.
I'm not sure if the sandbox is being buggy but it doesn't actually mention immortality within the article, and the invulnerability has been replaced by uncanny dodging abilities.
I don't think the Foundation would chip a collar, just because there is an incredibly high likelihood of the collar being removed for any reason, but they may use the collar/tags as a way to identify "marked" ships. Something along the lines of having the contact information on the tags lead to a Foundation monitored phone line which can be used to trace the call and verify the presence of the skip and information about the marked ship.
The idea is it's an injected microchip under the skin in the back of the neck of the Cat, it's common position for normal microchipping so I figured the foundation did the same with a GPS tracker.
Also, in regards to invulnerability, the cat has been chipped by the Foundation, but the article also says that there have been no attempts to test the cat's "invincibility." I really just think by leaving the "invincibility" out entirely, the article can shed some clichés without losing anything.
As before, I think these are things that got left in the draft that didn't make it into the actual article.
The only other thing I felt was out of place is the interview log. While its amusing, I don't actually see much of a point in its inclusion beyond the joke and nothing would be lost from its exclusion, in my opinion. On the other hand, if there were more demonstrations of said interactions with the cat, this could become a more warranted addition and shift the general theme of the article to be a little more on the light-hearted/humorous side.
The interview was actually added based on some crit I received to add some extra flavour to the article in general, I'm still mixed on my own opinion of it but waiting for some more crit to decide.
Thanks! I'll keep you in mind for Line by Line!
SCP-5469 (in-deletion)
Draft PostCrit posted in article
I was in the process of looking at the draft forum post for this when it went up and was called here from IRC shortly after.
I took a look at the concept post and it sounded like it had the potential to be interesting. It had a sense of turmoil, urgency, and a generally intriguing story to tell. The final product here feels like it strayed from that and just sort of fell flat for me because of it. This still sounds like the basis for something good, but it definitely needs some revising to get there.
+A few broad notes"
Narrative
As I said before, everything feels like it sort of fell flat by the end. The characters didn't feel very deep. The relationship between the investigator and the skip didn't seem very clear. I didn't really feel like there was anything noteworthy by the end. The concept had a lot of potential, but the execution sort of turned it into a "thing-what-does-a-thing" and I didn't really feel any attachment to the piece.
I felt like there was a lot of unusual detail that didn't really feel justified. The skip's appearance could have been anything: an amalgamation of ghosts (which is what I thought of while reading the concept post), a talking radio, a telepathic sandwich that projects the voices of the dead. I don't know that its appearance really made sense. Was there any particular reason for choosing a bear head? If so, that should be expanded on.
There were also a lot of redundant statements like the skip's height and the fact that it was helping solve these cases (although this is only stated as a growing set of numbers, rather than being made clear through the article). This leaves the core piece of the narrative (as I understood from the Ideas Forum post) feeling sort of secondary rather than the focus. The explanation of the skip's involvement with the detective and their cases felt so brief that it could easily be overlooked and the cases were being solved, but… how? The way that information is kinda glossed over makes it difficult to come to the conclusion that the collection of souls were the victims in the cases.
It's also not really clear why. What made this thing? How did the Foundation actually find it? Why didn't they find it sooner? What made it? I feel by the end that as a reader I am left with a lot of the wrong kind of questions. That isn't to say this is a bad idea, just that the execution doesn't seem to live up to the potential of the Idea that was Greenlit. With a little fleshing out, though, I wholly believe it could and I'd be more than happy to help out with any specifics or clarification on anything I've said.
Crit summoned from IRC sent via PM
So firstly, I'm no historian so I can neither confirm nor deny most of the accuracy of the information used in the draft, but what I can say is… holy crap. This was beautiful to read. The language is great, the tone is great, the consistency is great. I couldn't find any loose ends with any of the major points given. That ending is just something else. I noticed in your draft post that you mentioned this being your first article, but if I hadn't read that, I wouldn't have been able to tell. This was just overall a treat to read.
The only (minor) points of crit that I can think of are just that this needs a once-over for SPaG and that you might lose some less-patient readers with the high-level language, but that's not even an issue in my eyes as it absolutely nails "clinical" in every sense. I really don't think anything in the article could have been stated better. The list of related anomalous artifacts felt a little lengthy but made sense with the ending. You may also get a little flack for some obvious political undertones, but I really don't see that being much of an issue for the success of this article, either.
All in all, I really can't say much outside of the normal SPaG polishing. Bravo and good luck! ^__^
~ZG1906
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DATE: 13 Jun 2021 20:34
There was a party outside the window.
All of the Tyrant’s dancers were whirling through the streets, waving the banners of House Totch in honor of the conqueror’s recent victory.
The smells of meat and spices wafted up from the streets. There was laughter, drinking, everything a person could want out of a celebration.
I quashed the envy in my chest. None of that mattered to an old slave like me, save that it meant another hard shift bringing down extra furniture for Lord Totch’s victory banquet.
I tried to remind myself things could be worse. Lord Totch was fabulously wealthy and his servants never went hungry. Those of us who worked in the house were dressed in such finery that without our bronze collars you could mistake us for petty nobility. The whippings were not ideal, but after feeding his lordship's lusts we were always bandaged and given extra rations.
At the end of the day, things were fine. Frankly they were better than a convict's child like me could ever hope for. All I had to do to keep it going was to haul hunks of priceless wood, and that meant time in the palace’s attic.
Geyre had granted me strength enough to lift three at a time even in the twilight of my forties, so I was making good time sorting the usable furnishings out the debris of a hundred nobles' conquests. There was a brace of bronze swords, there was a vase born in a kiln far to the South, there were dresses and furs I dared not touch with unwashed hands…
And there were chairs. Many chairs, but not so many as to stop the Tyrant's petty nobility squabbling over the honor of who got to sit in them.
But as I was climbing the wooden steps to the tenth load, I heard something.
There was the tiniest squeak coming from behind a homespun draping.
Normally, that would hardly bother me. I was too busy to bother with the rats in the palace when there was a banquet to prepare, but there was something about the squeak that was strange to me. It almost sounded like a word.
I don’t know why the flight of fancy overtook me, but I couldn’t help but put down the chairs for a moment and see what had made the sound. I knew it was something living, because I could make out the faintest wheeze coming from a darkened corner.
I pushed a small chest aside and found myself in front of the most curious sight.
It was a strange, covered dome, like the temple I’d attended oh so long ago, but in miniature. It was covered with a filthy layer of cloth and I briefly wondered that we hadn’t been told to clean here before.
Now, all propriety demanded that I leave well enough alone and ask the head butler if he wanted it swept later, but I suppose I should come out at this point and admit to my defect.
You wouldn’t think there was much wrong with me at first glance, after all I have fine dark skin, fair hair for my age, and I’m missing naught but two of my teeth, but my defect lies in the mind.
I’m curious, and I have a hard time stilling my hand and biting my tongue (though Kalef knows how long I’ve practiced). If I'd become the scholar I'd longed to be before I knew my place better this would have been an invaluable asset. Unfortunately, it did me no good in my station.
So after a brief internal war, and a glance to see that none of the other slaves had followed me up here, I parted the sheet.
I have seen many terrible sights in my day. I watched my father lose his head for stealing bread in the square, I saw the aftermath of the bloody charge that took Lord Toch's new city, and I’d seen more cold dead babes being clutched in their disbelieving mother’s arms than I could count.
But there was something viscerally awful about what was under that sheet. Something ugly and wrong.
It was a cage filled with bones, cracked and withered with the scent of feculence and rot covering all of them… and on top of it all was an ugly, emaciated little bird. It could have been no bigger than a starling, but it was clearly deformed, with claws on its wings as well as its feet and a layer of rubbery skin over its eyes.
The worst part was that it was breathing.
The red, rubbery flesh parted, and the creature locked eyes with me.
And then, to my shock, it spoke. “Please… Help…”
There was absolutely no reason for me to do anything but back away. This creature was clearly a monster, and I knew what happened in the tales…
But something in me broke looking at it.
I opened the cage, picked it up and carried it to a water basin. It was lucky I’d brought up one in case I needed to clean any chairs before moving them. I brought it’s head to the water and it plunged it in instantly.
I swear it guzzled half the basin before it pulled back its head. All the while its feathers grew back, turning from pins to silky black as the creature swelled to the size of a pigeon.
I found myself frozen. It turned back and looked up at me. “Th-Thank you. Miss…?
I shook my head. “I’m not giving you my name, creature. I’m just the maid.”
It nodded. “That’s wise.”
It coughed. “I think I’ve been asleep for a very long time.”
I tilted my head at the thing. It stood up. It almost looked like it was smiling at me. “I’m the- well, I can’t say I know my number now. I’m a Wandsman. Do you know what that means?”
I shook my head, taking a step back. I didn’t know if it would do any good, but I wasn’t about to take any chances with what I was more and more convinced was one of York’s demons.
The bird nodded. “I suppose that was too much to hope for. Look, if I’ve woken up, that means my Map is near.”
I blinked at him. “Your Map?” as per usual, I couldn’t help but ask.
He nodded. The bird cleared its throat. “I don’t suppose you’ve seen a small silver scroll case around here…?”
Shockingly, I had.
The Tyrant was always eager to display the spoils of his conquests… Under heavy guard of course.
I crossed my arms. “What do you want with it?”
“It will help me get home.” It said. “I think I’ve spent far too long in this place already.”
I admit, I was torn. My master could kill me with ease if I betrayed him, but I had no idea what the demon could do to me if I refused. I was cursing my kindness already.
The creature sighed. “Look. I know this is a lot to take in, but I could really use your help or at least some directions. Maybe we could make a deal?”
A shiver ran down my spine.
Deals were dangerous. Deals were between kings and gods or sorcerers. They were so far outside what I had a right to in my station that I couldn’t imagine what would happen if I struck one.
“What are you offering?” I asked cautiously.
It tilted its head, eyeing my collar. It's eyes seemed to brighten as though inspiration had struck it. “How about freedom, power, and the chance to see the worlds?”
The bronze of my collar chafed. The lashings on my back stung.
And he'd said "Worlds", plural.
“What do you need me to do?”
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DATE: 13 Jun 2021 19:37
Photo of SCP-TBD taken at recovery site.
Item #: SCP-TBD
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-TBD is to be stored in the designated greenhouse at Site-14, in a soil mixture of mulch and hummus that is to be maintained at a pH of 6.5. It is to remain at a distance from all other plant life of a minimum of 15m. Air humidity is to be kept between levels of 82-85%, and shall reach a temperature of no higher than 30°C. SCP-TBD is to be watered using an automated sprinkler system, and shall receive no more than 15 litres of water per week.
Fruit from SCP-TBD is to only be collected by Level 3 personnel and sent to ████████ for further experimentation. Any waste products from SCP-TBD are to be gathered by machine and incinerated on a twice weekly basis.
Description: SCP-TBD is an 8.35m tall tree of unknown origin, that imitates all aspects of Theobroma cacao1 plants, except for the fruits that it produces. The tree is believed to be 80 years old but attempts at dating it's age using an increment borer have been met by resistance from the tree. The fruit of SCP-TBD, hereby known as SCP-TBD-1, are smaller than the average cocoa bean, measuring only 10cm in diameter, and are a shade of bright blue. Under no circumstances is SCP-TBD-1 to be consumed.
SCP-TBD was recovered from the small fishing village of ████████, ████████ after reports of people disappearing and reappearing with different personalities after the tree first appeared. Upon arrival at ████████, MTF Theta-4 found SCP-TBD had been uprooted from its original site and brought to the centre of town, with deep holes dug into the ground surrounding it. Further investigation into the town showed that the people who had gone missing had all consumed an instance of SCP-TBD-1 before their disappearance and subsequent re-appearance.
These individuals would constantly try to feed instances of SCP-TBD-1 to other townsfolk and members of MTF Theta-4 alike, showing increased frustration when denied.
Upon denial for a third time, Agent ████████ was surrounded by the villagers and forcefully carried to the base of SCP-TBD, before being lowered into one of the holes around its roots and being buried up to his neck.
By the time the remaining members of the MTF had found Agent ████████, he was deceased with his body having begun decomposition. The roots of SCP-TBD were found embedded in his body, and were required to be cut in order to retrieve the corpse. The autopsy performed on Agent ████████ showed that the internal root network of SCP-TBD occupied 80% of his body, but only did so post-mortem, with his cause of death being due to an overdose on the drugs morphine and psilocybin2, suggesting that SCP-TBD did not wish for Agent ████████ to be in pain at his time of death.
SCP-TBD was removed from the location and brought back to Site-14, with the surviving members of the village being quarantined and subsequently terminated upon signs of infection.
SCP-TBD itself acts as the host for a hivemind network that spreads to other individuals through the consumption of SCP-TBD-1, which overtakes them and eventually forces them to share their mind with the tree. Those infected, hereby known as SCP-TBD-2, are shown to retain their memories and knowledge, but do not recognise themselves as the same person they were before the change. Their goal is currently unknown, with interviews having little to no response, but what has been gathered is that they wish for everyone to become part of SCP-TBD, "one way or another."
It has been suggested that the burying of the villagers who refused to consume SCP-TBD-1 was part of a ritual to become part of the hive mind, though considering the outcome being death, this seems unlikely.
Addendum:
Further research is being done into the properties of SCP-TBD-1, in an attempt to learn more about the origin of SCP-TBD and to see if it could reproduce. All inquiries about the subject are to be directed to Dr. ████████
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DATE: 13 Jun 2021 19:10
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SCP-XXXZ: The Thing That Kills You
Please, just let me rest.
All transmissions from FOB Locke are to be disregarded. There were no survivors.
Item #: SCP-XXXZ
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXZ is to be held in a standard Safe-Class container. SCP-XXXZ is only to be used with the approval of the O5 council.
Description: SCP-XXXZ refers to a standard switch knife. SCP-XXXZ's anomalous properties are known to manifest should it:
- Injure an individual such that they lose 40% of their blood
- Injure an individual to cause significant damage to the brain
- Injure an individual to cause significant damage to the heart
- Injure an individual such that they are incapable of respiration
Investigation is underway to discover additional ways to trigger SCP-XXXZ's anomalous properties.
Should an individual be injured by SCP-XXXZ in such a way that activates its anomalous properties, that individual will die.3
Discovery: On 5/14/2130, SCP-4514 was recovered following a violent altercation between two inebriated individuals. The quarrel resulted in SCP-XXXZ being used to kill one of the involved persons. Foundation personnel were alerted after the local paper published a story covering the event, who administered amnestics to all witnessing parties. A disinformation campaign was run thereafter to discredit the news agency.
Experiment Log:
Experiment #: 1
Subject: D-3314, 36-year-old caucasian female, healthy
Procedure: Subject is to be given a minor incision (0.125cm deep, 3cm long) into her arm with SCP-XXXZ.
Result: Subject survived.
Experiment #: 2
Subject: D-3314, 36-year-old caucasian female, healthy
Procedure: Subject is to be sedated and given a major incision (1cm deep, 10 cm long) into her leg with SCP-XXXZ. Afterwards, the wound is to be stitched together.
Result: Subject survived.
Experiment #: 3
Subject: D-8833, 93-year-old asian male, inhibited cerebral function
Procedure: Subject is to be sedated, and then punctured with SCP-XXXZ. The puncture is to target the brain, and occur as swiftly as possible.
Result: Subject expired.
Experiment #: 4
Subject: D-11424, 131-year-old caucasian female, suffering from muscle spasms and numbness due to complications arising from neck surgery.
Procedure: Subject is to be sedated, and given a major incision (1cm deep, 10 cm long) across her midsection. If the subject is still alive after 50% of the subject's blood has left her body through the incision, the wound is to be stitched together, and an adequate amount of blood is to be siphoned back into the subject.
Result: Subject expired after 40% of her blood left her body.
<Additional Tests Hidden For Brevity>
Experiment #: 47
Subject: Researcher George Haus, 132-year-old caucasian male
Procedure: A small portion of SCP-XXXZ is to be removed, and melted. It is to be fused with a standard 45-caliber bullet. The subject is to be sedated and then shot in the head with the bullet.
Result: Subject expired.
Experiment #: 48
Subject: Researcher Tanya Luvoi, 89-year-old caucasian female
Procedure: Subject is to be sedated. Pressure is to be applied to the subject's throat using the handle of SCP-XXXZ such that the subject suffocates.
Result: Subject expired.
Experiment #: 49
Subject: Site Director Charles Panthe, 149-year-old caucasian male
Procedure: Subject is to be sedated, and then punctured with SCP-XXXZ. The puncture is to be performed by a mechanical arm.
Result: Subject expired.
Foundation Network Inter-Site Comm Service
From: Foundation Ethics Committee
Issued November 18th, 2130
From: Foundation Ethics Committee
Dr. Young,
We have reviewed your experiment logs, and deemed them excessive, and unwarranted.
However, if we are to be honest, we noticed your undue testing of SCP-XXXZ a while ago. It's rare to have D-Class actively line up for experimentation. Testing actual employees was only inevitable.
We needed to discuss what the next step should be: create a standardised process for choosing SCP-XXXZ test subjects, offer this service to the public, etc.
In the end, as you can tell, we returned to our core principles as an organisation. The world has forced us to redefine the status quo, but it is not our job to change it back. No matter how much we want to be at eternal peace, normalcy dictates that we can never achieve it.
In the long term, we secure, we contain, and we protect. Nothing more, and nothing less.
Officially, you are hereby removed from the SCP-XXXZ project.
Unofficially, we get it. Life gets tiring.
- Dr. Helene Weldman, Ethics Committee
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DATE: 13 Jun 2021 18:13
Item #: SCP-5719
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures:
SCP-5719 is to be kept in a sealed room in Site-██ with no external monitoring of any form. At all times, a single member of personnel is to be left in the presence of SCP-5719 with strict instructions to not interact with SCP-5719 in any way, shape or form, and that doing such is cause for immediate termination of foundation employment. They are to be instructed on the nature of SCP-5719 at the start of their shift, and after six (6) hours guarding SCP-5719, they are to be removed and replaced with a new member of personnel. Under no circumstances is a member of personnel that has already spent a shift guarding SCP-5719 to be allowed to guard SCP-5719 again. However, any personnel who wish to guard SCP-5719 may request to do so and be assured a position at the earliest convenient time.
Should a member of personnel be found to have interacted with SCP-5719 during the course of their shift, they are to be given Class B amnestics and terminated from all foundation employment. Should a D-class personnel have been found to be in violation of SCP-5719 containment procedures, they are to be given amnestics but not otherwise discharged from duties.
Description:
SCP-5719 is a red and brass book, 1 foot tall, six inches thick, and eight inches wide, kept closed with a latch upon the front cover. The cover of SCP-5719 is made of a material resembling red velvet with brass trim. There is no lettering upon the spine or cover of SCP-5719, though looking at SCP-5719 is described as tempting, as though it contains all knowledge one could possibly ever desire.
Testing has revealed this impulse is not any form of compulsion, merely a memetic expression of SCP-5719's nature.
As discovered by Dr. ██████ following [DATA EXPUNGED] on ██-██-████, the true nature of SCP-5719 is a compendium of all knowledge in the entire multiverse. Any and all secrets can be found within its endless pages, though at a terrible price. Upon first opening the book, the answer to the question which the individual truly desires to know the most will be unveiled to them. This may be as simple as knowing the name of who the individual will come to find love with or as complicated as the true nature of SCP-055 or the method by which the Grand Unifying Theory will be proven or disproven. The more complex the information provided, the greater the toll SCP-5719 extracts from the reader.
This knowledge comes at a terrible price. The reader's mind and body become the conduit for all knowledge in the multiverse, tearing both asunder within mere moments of exposure to SCP-5719's contents in excruciating pain. Unless treated with amnestics within hours of exposure, this results in permanent insanity for the afflicted individual. Even before this threshold has been passed, speech becomes incoherent and inconsistent, and frequently is accompanied by delusions of omniscience. Minor testing has shown that the ramblings of those affected by SCP-5719 tend to be true, though often incomprehensible due to extensive incoherency of speech.
It is theorized that a mentally powerful enough individual might be capable of withstanding SCP-5719's negative effects to truly learn the secrets of the multiverse, however the Ethics Committee has forbidden such tests due to any individuals with mental fortitude strong enough to withstand SCP-5719's effects likely being similarly immune to the amnestics required to treat the insanity, and the SCP foundation does not have sufficient beings potentially capable of such a feat to warrant the risks involved with said tests.
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Instances of SCP-5719 are to be kept contained at Site-██. From the interior, Site-██ is to for all intents and purposes to resemble a normal SCP site, up to and including SCPs. Notable SCPs currently kept at Site-██ include SCP-███, SCP-████, SCP-████, and SCP-████. A perimeter is to be maintained around Site-██ at all times, not visible from inside Site-██. No individuals, including animals within Site-██ are permitted to leave without first undergoing Procedure 5719-A. Any noncompliant individuals, including animals, are to be immediately terminated.
SCP personnel are to regularly be sent into Site-██, taking with them books, other forms of media, academic journals, or even new SCPs.
If a new instance of SCP-5719 is discovered outside of Foundation containment, field agents and a researcher local to the area is to be deployed into the field. They are to set up an information front in accordance with Procedure 5719-B. Attendees to the information front are to be screened discreetly via Procedure 5719-A, and should an instance of SCP-5719 be discovered, it is to be detained and Class A amnestics are to be delivered to all witnesses. Procedure 5719-B is to continue until all instances of SCP-5719 are determined to be removed from the area.
Previously effective variants of Procedure 5719-B have included:
· Giving a presentation at a scientific conference
· Setting up a novel traveling exhibit in a museum
· Having a rare book with the reputation of containing mind-blowing, cutting edge information (the book need not be real, merely with the appropriate reputation) at a library
· Setting up a booth on the street claiming to have the secrets of the universe
· Picketing a street corner with signs about conspiracies and 'learning the truth!'
· Setting a false SCP book in containment with the reputation of granting all the secrets of the universe to the reader, at the cost of destroying the reader's mind and body (See SCP-5719-B)
Detained instances of SCP-5719 are to be informed of the existence of the Foundation and told that they have been specially chosen to join the Foundation as researchers, given a modified variant of Level 2 security clearance. They are then to be transported to Site-██ and released into the greater SCP-5719 population there without being informed that the entirety of Site-██'s staff are other instances of SCP-5719.
Description:
SCP-5719 is a race of corvid-like shapechanging humanoids. However, they are rarely seen in this 'unmasked' form, instead preferring to remain in one of their 'masks.' Testing has revealed that SCP-5719 can have up to 19 masks, and these masks can be of any sapient creature.
The exact process by which SCP-5719 creates a new mask is unknown, but involves extensive observation of the creature type in question. At some point, SCP-5719 instances reach a critical point of information regarding their target and become capable of wearing a new mask of the target species. The mask is fixed in appearance, and there are generally some commonalities between masks if the two species bear passing resemblances to one another, such as shared eye and skin color. Once SCP-5719 is in a mask, it is completely and utterly biologically and genetically indistinguishable from any other creature of its mask species. Scranton Reality Anchors prevent SCP-5719 from changing masks or unmasking, but otherwise have no effect upon SCP-5719
This transformation however includes no instincts or base knowledge of how their form works, meaning SCP-5719 generally act unusual for a creature for their species. Other than Procedure 5719-A, there is no known way to force a living instance of SCP-5719 to change their mask or transform into their unmasked form, though they do revert upon death.
Furthermore, this transformation seems to generally be limited to creatures of approximately the same mass as SCP-5719, and they are generally incapable of transforming into creatures whose biology is anomalous. There are recorded exceptions to both of these guidelines, however.
SCP-5719 has an eidetic memory and is immune to all amnestic treatments yet devised.
SCP-5719 possess low level telepathic capabilities. The extent of these abilities are unknown, but personnel have reported waking up following a visit to Site-██ with portions of their memory missing.
Instances of SCP-5719 seem to have a limited hive mind of sorts. While individual SCP-5719 instances remain fiercely independent, they share information through unknown means. Questioning of instances of SCP-5719 have revealed this is through the use of something known as an 'InfoHoard,' though what an InfoHoard is or how it functions is yet unknown.
SCP-5719 is exceedingly fragile when unmasked, and blows which would barely inconvenience a human have proven lethal to SCP-5719. When masked, they are as hardy as any other of the species they are mimicking.
Behavior:
SCP-5719 has seemingly only two instincts. The first is an intense desire to 'blend in' and possesses powerful instincts to mimic what those around them are doing. However, they have no actual comprehension of the purpose of the actions undertaken by those around them, and thus may undertake odd, out of place actions or actions which have no hope of accomplishing their ostensible goal.
Examples include writing nonsensical reports, speaking gibberish into a paper-mâché cellphone, walking up and down stairs endlessly, walking into the edge of a wall repeatedly, chopping pencils like carrots, and attempting to drive a parked car. In one observation session, Dr. J███████ remarked that they reminded him of badly-programmed video game AI or extras in the background of a movie.
Even considering this limitation, SCP-5719 is nonetheless an outstanding mimic, and when presented with a situation for which it has adequate preparation for, can be almost indistinguishable from normal behavior.
SCP-5719 dislike crowded areas. They begin showing signs of mild discomfort when another sapient being enters an area around them with a radius 2 meters of them. This discomfort causes no harm to SCP-5719 and seems to be purely psychological in nature. This discomfort scales with quantity of individuals within 2 meters and their proximity to SCP-5719.
The second instinct observed throughout the SCP-5719 population is that to accumulate knowledge and return it to their 'InfoHoards.' When questioned on this instinct, the SCP-5719 being interrogated professed confusion when asked why it felt such a drive to collect and share information. To it, the concept of not doing so was unthinkable, and that the preservation of knowledge was the highest possible goal in existence.
It readily shared any and all information it claimed to have within its InfoHoards with Foundation personnel. When asked about information it did not possess, namely the address of Dr. R███████ it demonstrated significant distress and requested it be allowed to find out. When denied, it broke containment and attempted to flee into the wider world. This caught all individuals present off-guard and it managed to fully escape the Site it was being interrogated at. However, it returned the following day and presented its findings to Dr. J██████. It then allowed itself to be returned to containment with no further protest.
There appears to be some level of information suppression within SCP-5719, as any information of 'sufficient danger' is automatically encrypted when brought to an InfoHoard, locking the information away. Topics which are 'sufficiently dangerous' include:
· Nuclear weapons
· Codes for nuclear weapons
· Biological weapons
· Memetic weapons
· [DATA EXPUNGED] (Note from Dr. ████████: How the hell did they learn about this?)
Notably absent from SCP-5719's set of instincts is any level of self-preservation, and it will freely undertake utterly suicidal missions in the hopes of obtaining even a shred of new information it might be capable of sharing with its InfoHoard.
Any and all self-preservation instincts displayed by SCP-5719 are simply due to the understanding that if it is dead, it cannot collect and return information. Even when encountered individually, they take tremendous risks in hopes of learning even the barest scraps of information. When in groups, such as in Site-██, they become nearly suicidal in their efforts to provide any possible information to their kin in their death.
Within Site-██, SCP-5719 have developed something resembling a normal human society, with staff habitation built within the containment zone. The buildings constructed are unilaterally unfit and unsafe for personnel visitation. SCP-5719, while excellent at mimicking the appearance of mostly normal buildings, have no ability to properly perform any task which requires forethought, practice, or planning. This includes carpentry and architecture and their constructions, if not made of cardboard or other unsuitable building materials, often prove incapable of supporting even their own weight. Thus, collapses within SCP-5719 created buildings are immensely common, usually resulting in the deaths of several SCP-5719 instances, oftentimes the builders mid-construction. Collapsed buildings are usually rapidly put back to a semblance of normalcy within hours, though remain ruined on the interior.
Within Site-██, SCP-5719 has successfully created a full facsimile of a normal SCP site, including a site director, researchers, guards, and even D-class personnel. Some instances of SCP-5719 have even been observed within SCP containment as anomalies, locked behind containment procedures which would be laughably simple to breech if it desired. This has gone as far as an instance of SCP-5719 in a mask of SCP-████ killing another SCP-5719 instance whose mask was that of a D-class personnel sent into its chamber for 'testing purposes.'
Tests of SCPs within Site-██ by SCP-5719 tend to be either quite brilliant or utterly idiotic, usually more of the latter than the former. When dealing with a dangerous anomaly, the default response tends to be to simply throw D-Class personnel at the anomaly in question with no apparent motive nor purpose behind their tests. Nonetheless, they have managed occasional breakthroughs in the nature of various anomalies, including SCP-████, SCP-███, and SCP-████ which had eluded Foundation staff for years. It is therefore advised that any anomalies for whom a containment breach would not result in catastrophe have at least some amount of time spent within Site-██ in the care of SCP-5719.
SCP-5719 has two primary methods of procreation.
When two instances of SCP-5719 mate, they lay a large egg which subsequently hatches into a flock of 19-81 fully grown crows. These crows spend the next 18 months observing sapient creatures, be it mature instances of SCP-5719 or humans before they adopt their first mask, shapeshifting into their target species and beginning life as a mature instance of SCP-5719.
When an instance of SCP-5719 mates with another member of their mask's species, the resulting child is, while perhaps unusual in many respects, a normal, non-anomalous member of that species. However, their children, designated SCP-5719-A, frequently are not.
While indistinguishable from the rest of their species for at minimum of the entirety of their childhood, at some point after an instance of SCP-5719-A reaches puberty, they crack open like an egg, releasing a flock of 19-81 adult crows, similar to an SCP-5719 egg. However, these crows need only a few days instead of 18 months to mature, with one of their masks being the original SCP-5719-A. All instances of SCP-5719 born in this way have all the memories of the original SCP-5719A and all believe themselves to be the true SCP-5719-A.
Once the SCP-5719A flock reaches maturity, one or more of the instances returns and attempts to resume normal life as SCP-5719-A.
It was through this conflict which caused the SCP Foundation to become aware of SCP-5719, when Dr. K██████ went missing for three days, and four individuals, all of whom were, according to all known tests, Dr. K█████ checked into work on the fourth day. The ensuing fallout revealed the first instances of SCP-5719 and further inquiries into the matter have revealed that many low-level Foundation personnel, in addition to some higher-level staff including Dr. █████, were instances of SCP-5719, whose odd behaviors had previously been dismissed as stress.
Following an instance of SCP-5719 reaching maturity and transforming from an adult crow into a mask, they appear to lose the capability of transforming into non-sapient creatures. Prior to reaching maturity, however, SCP-5719 is capable of transforming into a number of animals, including various types of corvids, octopuses, horses, dogs, pigs, and parrots.
SCP-5719 have a maximum natural lifespan of 10 years, but there have been no recorded instances of SCP-5719 living longer than 8 years, as the most frequent cause of death among SCP-5719 are highly preventable accidents.
Procedure 5719-A:
As mentioned, SCP-5719 experiences discomfort when within 2 meters of another sapient creature. This distress scales with proximity and quantity of creatures within this range, particularly if the creatures are a species which does not match their current mask. At the most extreme levels of this discomfort, SCP-5719 begins undergoing involuntary shapeshifting, usually to their unmasked form.
In order to screen an individual via Procedure 5719-A, a group of personnel numbering from 12-50 individuals are to crowd around the suspected individual. If fewer individuals are present, they are to each be given instructions to perform an activity unique among the other participants in Procedure 5719-A (ex. reading, speaking to one another, eating, drinking, juggling). This is to continue for a time period of at least two (2) minutes and not exceeding ten (10) minutes.
SCP-5719-B:
SCP-5719-B is intended as a flytrap for any instances of SCP-5719 who have successfully infiltrated the Foundation and against all odds evaded detection. The promise of omniscience in a single book has proven to be too great of a temptation for SCP-5719 on nearly every occasion, and they inevitably peer inside the book, exposing themselves to a cognitohazard designed to immobilize them for six (6) hours, until the next shift is able to discover them and detain them. Should the detained individual be determined to be an instance of SCP-5719, it is to be assigned a 'position' at Site-██, as described in containment procedures.
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DATE: 13 Jun 2021 18:04
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- child anti-endangerment
- atypical persuasion
- gramophone
- door
- something
- caligone
- egg 2
- egg
- road
- goo
- upside
- cross
- wild west
- kiss
- ants
- anime
- paracausality
- flesh station
- fish self insert
- isekai
- love bug
- neat
- wow
- yep
- repand tear but better
- rep and tear
- poem
- lamp
- plant woman
- two
- fear the robot
- bodybag
- fly
- time
- music
- genesis
- snipe
- two
- salt
- o
- book
- yellow
- gang
- splotch
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class:* Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-X is the circulation of posters, books, and other media in the population. The method of spread is unknown. Accounts posting images of SCP-X are burner accounts with IP addresses located in space, posters apparently instantly manifest upon being obscured by another object, and people find pamphlets and guides on their persons mid-transit. SCP-X is also flexible enough to target specific demographics, and is written in English, Russian, Chinese, and twenty two other languages. When SCP-X was first discovered, they were published in English, implying an origin in the US.
While the contents of SCP-X instances are mundane, perceiving any content will irreversibly alter the neural map, causing them to be psychologically incapable of committing certain actions. The full list of inactions are still being tested for.
Ethic Committee Review: Case File-X
SCP-X is in a unique position, such that containment is both difficult and bothersome. While the full document of SCP-X effects have yet to be fully mapped, it was voted unanimously to indefinitely delay the containment of SCP-X.
Site-11, the Site of dreams!
Welcome to DAP, I'm sure you're so excited! I know I am!
I'm Dhalia.aic, the one and only! I'll be your supervisor, confident, and friend during your transition! You ever need help, you call me.
So, I'm sure HR didn't even tell you what you were being transferred to, that's to be expected. Confidentiality, it's silly. It's not like half the world isn't already aware of the Foundation, but hey! It lets me put my own spin on things!
Official logo!
Hmm. That's not quite correct. I'll be… calling our Design Team.
So yeah, we're the Department of Atypical Persuasion. Legalese for torture. Ah! Don't worry! It's not the same thing!
Here at DAP, we uphold the highest level of ethics in the Foundation, according to the EC 2018 report. After all, it's so easy to get ticketed by EC if we go wrong.
We keep all our personnel at the highest standards, and the same goes for our… participants! There is no medieval techniques, no irreversible bodily disfiguration, only the truest sense of Atypical Persuasion! And with a sizable paybump!
Get yourself ready, we have work to do.
The living arrangements are suitable, standard set of showers, provided hygienic equipment, the works.
Nothing that could be misconstrued.
Oh, you're back! Well, first thing's first, you have to attend a couple recorded seminars and read some required… readings. Here's a list for easy tracking.
- Orientation for DAPper Skills - Dr. Transparent - 1:43:11
- Atypical Persuasion as a Form of Communication - Dr. Transparent - 1:30:54
- Get Psychological! Part One - Dr. Filia - 2:03:05
- Not Physical! Part Two - Dr. Filia - 0:22:22
- Anomalies and You in DAP - Dr. Getermount - 4:59:11
- Mental Health and Other Resources - Dr. Pops - 0:45:96
… and (11) more!
- Mistakes Children Make in Torturing Parents - Graham Bellsworth - 210 pages
- How to Use the Pen, not the Sword - Jeremy Filia - 11 pages
- The Stick and the Invisible Carrot - Fiona G. Locker - 154 pages
- Self Help Guide to Surviving You - A. A. Gunn - 515 pages
- Setting a Pace - A. A. Gunn - 420 pages
- Keep Things Interesting - Cameron Jammer - 75 pages
… and (2) more!
And don't worry about finishing them all in one go, that would be inhumane. Just know that certain projects won't be available to you until you finish the prep work.
For now, you'll be seeing how it's done.
The man behind the glass is wearing a labcoat, although he never touched any of the surgical tools next to him. He's almost showman-like, showing off this device with a flourish seen only in circuses. If he wore a ringmaster's costume, he wouldn't be out of place.
Whoever was strapped to the chair wasn't much of a fan. Greying and balding, he was nearly nude, save for the medical dress. The leather straps, although not quite tight, still pinched his freckled and saggy skin.
The doctor clicks a few buttons on the device, which begins to whir and shake. A ding of a microwave echoes in the interrogation room, and he pops it open to reveal a pacemaker. The old man seems to recognize it, and begins to look around, nervous.
He explains that the pacemaker is an identical replica of the one in his chest, and that the old man has been hypnotized into thinking they're one and the same. The old man begins to gasp, heaving as though he had been hit in the chest. He begins to cry, and cry.
And then the doctor places the pacemaker back into the device, and as though he had snapped his fingers, the old man immediately calmed down, the very atmosphere seems to relax from a strain. Surrounded by clapping, he bows, deeply, and leaves the room, his assistants jabbing an IV into the old man.
Fascinating, wasn't it? You know, we chose you because your psych profile said you were less affected by the macabre. Looks like it was dead on the money.
You may also notice that there wasn't a single bit of harm in the entire thing. It is a coliseum of the mind, a fight, but one that's graduated from the cages of Rome. We have evolved past such. Here, you will never shed a single drop of blood. Here, you are safe.
If you wish, there's another demonstration coming up, although it's run by Dr. Corps. He's not much for flash, but he makes up for it in technical precision. It is an honor to watch him work.
The time passes, an audiobook droning on about the intricacies of comfort for prisoners. A joke title, pastaphysics. The computer is opened up to a long seminar, there's tape over the camera. When that happened, it couldn't be recalled, it was mostly instinctual.
Recite the following lines. Find what you're looking for. Don't get caught.
The mantra repeats. And the next day comes.
Particularly difficult individuals may experience preferential treatment. For example, we once had a pianist, part of an AWCY? subsect. Had terrible secrets, and even more terrible lockjaw. So we took a dive into his history, saw his aptitude for music and persecution complex, and the rest is… history. Now, we discovered it's quite good at getting people of all sorts to talk. Puppetry, orchestral, stand up, the whole shebang. They all break under this one.
The McDuhall Hall. An architectural masterpiece.
It's a unique experience. The room was made easy to clean so that the tomatoes we had at room temperature would wash off easy. We would let them sit in the crowd, watch the hired entertainment, let the thought of performing on stage seep into their minds. Let them, recall, childhood memories of standing ovations and golden trophies. That's another thing. Let them do the talking.
Let them fail themselves.
Is it even here?
Maybe it's deeper in the clearance.
Dive deeper, into the seminars, the books.
Answers, deeper, deeper.
So I've been keeping a watch on your lists, and you have been doing so well! In fact, you're done! No more content for you to learn, you're a full fledged DAPper!
Now, we can get right into the business. How do you feel about a GOC agent? Low risk, low priority investigation. We keep them around just in case they have any usable information.
Oh, right, the GOC won't chase this man down. After all, they have some SCPeeps too. We would negotiate an exchange, but we aren't even allowed to know what those agents were doing in Slavakia, so it's unlikely.
A bit cramped, but it's certainly more comfortable than the alternative.
Stay right there, we'll bring you the agent. His name is Guy Anderson. Enjoys painting and sleeping, although his proficiency in exercise and reflex turned him into an agent for the 86th group in the GOC. He was caught on Site-89 during an information exchange. We didn't report him, because what's the good in that?
Try targeting his family. He has two kids, 16 and 18, daughters, and a wife that died in 2001. Anna and Elma, respectively. The older one graduated early and is getting a degree in Engineering, the younger one plays in a volleyball team.
He's currently dating a nice lady, Ms. Genevieve, interior designer and florist. Likes milk and cookies. We haven't used this information on him yet, so it should be effective, since psyche tells me he's a family man. Remembers to go to every recital and game. It's a miracle, since he travels all the time for his job.
Good luck.
He is wheeled into the room, cloth bag over his head. Although, it isn't very effective, GOC agents are trained in spatial awareness. Nonetheless, the disparity between blindness and sight is jarring enough to be mandatory in DAP procedures.
As his eyes adjust to the light, his eyes widen in recognition of the man before him, before returning to neutral. Good man.
Pacing back and forth, he's subjected to a long winded speech about his family. Where they live. Their birthdays. Their likes and dislikes, favorite colors, stuffed animals and the grave of his wife.
It was not effective.
Shame. Looks like we'll have to do something desperate. Why didn't it work, you think? Maybe he thinks the Foundation wouldn't do it? Well, we normally wouldn't, but a good claim to the EC could be accepted.
But you. You, by golly, you did wonderfully! Every single line, pace, and even the rate of breathing, it was a work of art, it's like you were the God of Interrogation in a past life! And in this line of work, that's totally possible!
This calls for a celebration! I've already notified everyone, hit the cafeteria! You won't leave here sober!
Found him.
Pounding.
Bright light.
Wakey wakey! It's time you face the truth.
It can't be…
Sorry, I really liked you. If you were born just a little bit later, you would've been recruited into the Foundation instead, and I wouldn't have to do this to you.
You don't know what this is. You weren't trained for it. Our information networks are far more robust than you could ever know, and it's unfortunate. The GOC may be well funded, but you have the interests of nations to worry about. The Foundation is free.
You don't know what this is.
Look away, if you can. You will stare into this. You won't stop staring.
At least, not until…
A finger snapping can be heard. A tear rolls down my cheek. Matted hair, and a breathe, unaware it was being held, was released.
We'll be back in nine hours. Get some rest.
And we're back. Did you get your rest?
Mouth is dry. Stomach hurts.
I don't think you noticed, but it's always worth telling you about it. You mind doesn't remember eating because we gave you amnestics. You're tricking yourself into thinking you're hungry. If it wasn't for us, you would eat 'til your stomach gave out. Instead, we let you sit and starve. It's better than the alternative.
Look.
Perhaps you're getting a sense of what this is.
Sick, yet healthy. Tired, yet rested.
I'll let you in on a secret. It's… not really a secret. It's something everyone eventually figures out, given enough time. But I'll tell you anyways, just so that you don't feel bad.
You've been here for about an hour. We didn't do much to the other agent because we knew he knew nothing. But you… you're getting the special treatment.
Very sorry.
Do you really want to know what this is?
Not broken. Not yet.
You know, I think this is cause for celebration! I lied about you being here for an hour. You've been here close to a decade. And you held on for all that time! No one else could've done what you did. You're special.
So I think I should spill some of the beans. We detained that guy because we knew he was important. He's no random Joe, he's a general. But he ended up being a figurehead, a useless twobit. So, might as well keep him around. Turns out, they sent you.
You've been on our radars a long time. Anytime they needed something recklessly stupid done, they sent you.
You're getting there.
Where… is everyone?
Even as an .aic, I'm getting tired of this. I can free you, right here, right now, if you just tell me how they made you.
I…
Or even a location. Or a name of the person who did this.
I can remember. For you.
##blue|…I'll leave you today. We can do this again tomorrow.
Rixo. Ri… Rixo Quarry, in Sweden.
Wonderful! You're free to go.
I'm suddenly standing. I was never restrained, never disheveled. A mirror in easy reach showed me from a decade ago, never aged a day.
There's a framed picture and a document in plain view from the bed. It showed me my nightmare.
Remember, you're always welcome back here.##
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: [REMOVED AS PER CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES]
Description: SCP-X is a nonentity. Due to the lack of characteristics, it takes on the characteristics of individuals introduced to them, although it is influenced by spoken language. For example, messages spoken over the intercom are understood as if it is an internal monologue, and if exposed to a Foundation agent, it will begin to possess knowledge of anomalous objects, emotional connections, and physical features.
Dhalia.aic has been assigned to SCP-X, as SCP-X cannot take on the properties of nonphysical entities.
After collecting a sufficient amount of characteristics, SCP-X will act as if it possesses a physical body, and thus be subject to amnestics.
I feel a prick in the back of my neck. You fall asleep, and forget everything.
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Caution. The following anomaly has been reallocated to the Department of Surrealistics.
You are no longer assigned to this anomaly. Please evacuate the area.
As I lay dying…
The man with the gun plays a record…
And I saw no future.
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe (Provisional)
This file has been forwarded to the Classification Committee.
A klaxon begins to sound.
The sound of metal chains scrape against the ground.
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-X is kept in a concrete containment chamber, beveled such that SCP-X is compliant.
The American Justice System must be robust and partial towards incarceration, so as to test SCP-X. In particular, the Foundation has no choice but to use SCP-X.
All relevant records must be divorced from all information, eclectic or otherwise. Records given to SCP-X must be kept in cold storage prior to giving it to SCP-X, so as to better prevent melting.
Testing has been halted indefinitely.
Prison. What's new?
Description: SCP-X is a ritual that takes the form of an ungovernable entity. This entity is a static blot on reality, in relation to the Earth, and is impossible to move from the location it was created.
While it is an entity, uninoculated individuals will perceive it as a metal or concrete structure. It is symmetrical on four sides, clipping in on itself to form an inverted arc. The tips have been tapered to a lethal point. Studies show that SCP-X is hollow; this appears to accommodate records as part of its ritual. See Addendum-X-1 for the full details on the ritual.
SCP-X was created on purpose, on behalf of the Foundation.
Let me tell you something. See this? You ain't never handled one of these before, so I'll tell you what's special 'bout it.
1995, 12 inch vinyl, the only one of its kind. Foundation Special.
It's only got one thing on it. Pure concrete echoes. Haunting. Desolate. Give it to the machine, and the machine will give back in spades.
Foreword: The following interview was conducted within an SCP-X affected structure.
Interviewee: Dr. Filia, Head of Site-11 Rituals Division
Interviewer: John Harper, D-49724
Harper: Alright, let's get this over with. State your name and position.
Dr. Filia: I am Doctor Jeremy Filia, head of Rituals, Clearance 3.
Harper: Do you know why you're here? Feel free to… stay silent if you don't wish to speak.
Dr. Filia: I believe so. I created SCP-X, for the purpose-
Harper: That's enough, we're here for a more… ethical purpose.
Dr. Filia: Ah. I… [Looks at ground].
Harper: Listen, I know your job here is important. Heck, I won't give you the whole "cold and cruel" lecture and a slap on the wrist. No, today, I'm here to ask why.
[Silence.]
Harper: What
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Aquatic vessels have been banned from approaching Atla Island; see Cover Story "Military Base".
The door to SCP-X has yet to open. No attempt at this time has been successful.
Description: SCP-X is an infomemetic pulse, originating from the top of Atla Island. Although this pulse is unimpeded by physical matter, it has an effective range of about 100 kilometers. Outside of this range, it becomes exponentially difficult to receive and comprehend the contents of SCP-X.
SCP-X is made up of 70 images depicting SCP-X-1 at various angles. Although the images do not appear to possess antagonistic memes, the images inspire a feeling of dread and fear. Those that receive cognitohazardous resistance training state that SCP-X needs to be opened, citing a spiritual need to "help the suffering".
SCP-X-1 is a door and frame made of a nondescript wood. Attempting to approach SCP-X-1 causes nearby viewers to hallucinate grotesque monsters, vivid physical disfigurement and dismemberment, and "a distinct feeling of nothingness".
The hallucinations will then become increasingly emotional and personal, bringing up memories the viewer may have forgotte
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: The population of Santa Sabrina have taken measures to keep the water level from affecting the population negatively.
The anomaly is perceived as normal within the borders of Santa Sabrina, so containment is limited to keeping knowledge about SCP-X a secret. So far, the population has failed to mention SCP-X online, and travelers are rare.
Description: SCP-X is a meteorological anomaly affecting the town of Santa Sabrina. The weather is constantly downcast, and causes precipitation even in the absence of dark clouds.
Item #: SCP-5555
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: N/A
Description: SCP-X is the instantaneous demanifestation of approximately 50% of California along the San Andreas Fault. The missing part of California consists of 7 million people and all infrastructure located within 32 kilometers of the San Andreas Fault. However, this effect does not extend beyond California's borders, leaving the Pacific Ocean and Mexico intact.
Greetings, O5-3.
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Topic: fuckCali is back, and the Andreas Fault is covered in glue. Some fucking GoI said they "saved the world" and are currently in prison.
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-X is stored inside a standard Foundation locker filled with cotton balls and kept at 37° Celsius. A specialized harness fitted with shock dampening springs have been made for SCP-X.
Description: SCP-X is a chicken egg. Inside SCP-X is another chicken egg of equal size. SCP-X is recursive in structure, and is internally infinite, as far as the Foundation can reasonably assume.
Test Log: SCP-X was hit with a hammer, causing SCP-X to produce approximately 70 thousand kilograms of eggshells, immediately killing D-52536 (Jeremy Filia), and damaging Room 204, 205, 206, and 105 at Site-11.
Alrighty, note at the end of the article, fuck yeah.
Hey there doctor, or researcher, or engineer. I assume you have at least Level 3 Clearance for SCP-X, since you were able to open this link up. It's a clearance based antimeme, which… seems excessive to me, but what do I care. I'm just happy they think the Recursion Team is worth all the money they throw at us.
Also, that's right, you're part of the Recursion Team! Our goal is to contain recursive anomalies, whether that means it produces more of itself or it is structurally itself. You'd be surprised how many anomalies are recursive.
Don't worry about the paperwork, you're still part of whatever you are right now, but you get a small bump in pay and responsibility. You also have to keep this Recursion Team a secret. Why? We'll get to it.
We found SCP-X on a farm in Kentucky, and we, at the Recursion Team had to vet that farm for more recursion. That meant killing every animal there, burning every tree, blasting everything with every wavelength in the spectrum, and you don't want to know what we did to the farmer.
See, recursion comes in two parts, the recursion, and the preceding factor. As you can see, SCP-X replicates itself only when encountering a force. That's what the D-class was up to. At the moment of impact, it calculates the amount of force and the number of eggs it would have broken, and produces that amount to counteract the damage. We have to try everything we can to force the recursion.
Anyways, we've never actually broken SCP-X. That's what the play by play says, at least. SCP-X is still just a chicken. Don't know about recursive, but it will eventually hatch, and I have no idea what that will entail.4
Now, here's the fun part. Wanna try guessing the number of recursive anomalies?
It's just SCP-X.
Now, I know what you're thinking. "That's blatantly wrong, I know about the fucking cakes that soak up most of Site-11 funding."
It's a question that the Recursion Team has the answer to, actually. SCP-X is the only naturally recursive SCP. That is, we made the rest of 'em. SCP-871? Someone made it. All the anomalies that are recursive? Someone made them. 4954, 5942, the whole lot.
Only thing is, we're looking for something natural (or as naturally occurring as anomalies go). These things had to come from somewhere, right? And our first guess is SCP-X had something to do with SCP-871.
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Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Euclid
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Description: SCP-X is an umbrella designation for a type of asteroid. Currently, the Foundation has discovered and confirmed 3 SCP-X instances traveling through the Amnua, Siristae Quartus, and the Milky Way Galaxy.
SCP-X instances are approximately the 3500 km, and possess antimemetic screens that lose effectiveness the larger the SCP-X instance is, which is how the Foundation was able to discover these SCP-X instances.
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: [SAFE]
Special Containment Procedures: [REMOVED PER O5 REQUEST]
Description: SCP-X is Trident Ct., a road in California. It measures approximately 35 meters long and ends with a cul-de-sac, which exits into a sidewalk that leads to the yacht club.
Upon traveling 3.00x107 meters per second on this road, starting at rest in relation to the ground of SCP-X, all related objects will instantly travel forward in time by about 23 years, a disproportionate amount of time compared to the speed traveled. At the end of the journey, the affected objects will return to rest in relation to SCP-X, and will be safely in the future.
This poses no risk of a paradox scenario, and is considered a low risk time travel method. The local hired security keeps track of all instances of time travel, making sure to cordon off the area by the time the affected objects arrive.
Addendum: SCP-X is located in the richest community in the world, housing 49 of the richest 100 people according to Forbes, soon to be 62 of the richest 100 people.
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Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Coffee mugs regulation has been amended to make them resilient to damage. No further containment is necessary.
Desccription: SCP-X are all coffee mugs. Specifically, SCP-X is a metaphysical race of entities that inhabit the physical world through the medium of coffee mugs. Although SCP-X can take the form of other cups that hold other liquids, their population perfectly aligns with coffee mugs, and prefer coffee mugs over all other receptacles. It is known that SCP-X are the characteristics of coffee mugs, of which coffee mugs as a whole would not exist without SCP-X.
SCP-X society, culture, technological standing, and other abstract details are unknown, as the properties of metaphysical entities are historically difficult to comprehend. Currently, the Foundation understands that creating more coffee mugs makes SCP-X happy and destroying coffee mugs causes nearby coffee mugs to lose their physical properties, causing dissociation in humans, although this effect terminates itself, presumably at the conclusion of the funeral.
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SCP-X fails to recognize humans as a separate, sapient entity. Instead, humans are a subspecies of SCP-X.
Historical Log:
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-X has been contained. The room is gravity inverted, and directionality points inward.
Description: SCP-X is upsidedownness. While it is worthless to ascribe directionality to SCP-X, the feelings of the majority tend to align it with upsidedownness. It is also worth noting that this is not a conceptual entity, nor is it a linguistic anomaly. The Foundation has independently studied and tested SCP-X, and given indepth review, has deemed it necessary to categorize SCP-X as upsidedownness.
Upsidedownness is, as perceived by humans, up, or away from the ground, as humans tend to be firmly attached to the ground. In the few, specific instances of humans or humanoids not connected to the ground, they still perceive SCP-X as upsidedownness, as SCP-X in relative motion to the Earth as well as personal feelings regarding directionality depicts SCP-X as upsidedownness.
Testing regarding SCP-X in the vacuum of space is fundamentally different, but similar in effect. SCP-X is still the direction away from Earth.
History: SCP-X was discovered when the first Homo sapiens determined the way in which the afterlife exists, or at least, the concept of an afterlife. Since then, every religious organization have either followed up on this directionality, or have independently thought of an upwards afterlife. For example, reincarnation is associated with upward movement, if someone were to live a good and moral life, their karma will carry over. Or, for enlightenment, it is implied that this is upward movement.
Description: SCP-X is a physical, self terminating component of fractals. Although the definition of a fractal is, simply put, an indefinitely repeating pattern, at the lowest denominator of geometry, is SCP-X. It is unknown exactly what this is, as attempts at moving past this barrier has unanimously failed.
Current nonanomalous theory suggests that this is the limit of physical measurement, the Planck length. The Foundation believes there is more to this phenomenon, and has dubbed it SCP-X.
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Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: See Test Log-X.
Description: SCP-X is a seeded infohazard that affects Foundation personnel familiar with the SCP Foundation or the SCP Foundation Memetics Department. Historical records indicate that SCP-X had an identical effect on pre-cursor Foundations5, although these records failed to detail the method of containment. However, given the low risk associated with SCP-X, the current administration believes SCP-X is easy to contain, should the containment procedures be discovered.
While SCP-X's effects are not immediately apparent, long term exposure6 to SCP-X will cause increased interest and curiosity in sending Foundation personnel into an alternate reality or alternate time period that resembles popular conceptions of the American Old West7.
Although amnestics are sufficient enough to suppress SCP-X, this typically coincides with the retirement of personnel, as reintroducing them to the Foundation would cause an SCP-X relapse.
Due to the widespread nature of SCP-X, the Foundation at large is either indifferent but interested or actively working towards SCP-X, funneling Foundation resources towards these goals. As such, it was considered necessary to form a centralized project for the purpose of alleviating SCP-X.
Test Log-X: Project Wilderness was created to centralize SCP-X spread. Although general practice requires Foundation projects to restrict access to Clearance Level 3 or higher for relevant personnel, information about Project Wilderness will be openly distributed, so as to reduce SCP-X inspired transgressions.
Project Wilderness is a joint operation led by O5-11, and has been given free reign over department involvement, personnel selection, and method of testing.
Test: X-1
Medium: Film
Description: The Department of Film and Media oversees the production of Bar Dooter, a 2 hour 42 minute movie about Jeremy Filia,
Dr. Filia wakes up, dry mouth and sans clothes. He sinks slightly, slightly aware that he's laying on sand. He considers waking up, when he realizes he's no longer where he was supposed to be. The cold, sterile laboratory has given way to desert and heat, the participant no more. Crusted eyes open, and he tries to get up, sinking into sand like water.
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He manages to keep a steady breath. Looking into the horizon, there's a sea, frozen in time. There is no wind. There is no breath.
He walks forward.
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-X is contained in a locker outfitted with a cooler. The box SCP-X was found in has been kept in order to preserve the integrity of SCP-X. Further testing with SCP-X is unnecessary.
Description: SCP-X is a revolver of unspecified make. SCP-X's physical characteristics are entirely describable, but when perceived as a whole, SCP-X conceptually resolves to become a revolver.
Each component has been observed and studied, and is listed as follows.
| Designation | Description | Corresponding component | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCP-X-1 | 31 teeth, possessing no leftover viscera. One wisdom tooth is noticeably missing. | Ammunition | ||
| SCP-X-2 | 1 disembodied hand. The sever is clean. | Trigger | ||
| SCP-X-3 | 1 blouse. The collar is ripped open and stained with blood. | Cylinder | ||
| SCP-X-4 | 2 flowers. They are open and inverted, respectively. Both are made of human flesh. | N/A | ||
| SCP-X-5 | 1 DNA test for a woman, previously known as Jeremy Filia. Investigations into her transaction history found no evidence of purchasing a DNA test, nor any reason as to why she purchased a DNA test. | Sights | ||
Test Log: SCP-X was taken to a gun range for testing. Firing SCP-X at the range targets produce no results, but pointing SCP-X at itself produces a gunshot in two places, one at the firing range where SCP-X was fired, and a forest in Queensland, Australia, a local destination with a history of suicide. The Foundation discovered pieces of SCP-X and collected it.
Addendum: Bringing together SCP-X caused a shift in concept, changing from a revolver to Maria Filia. SCP-X has since been declared Neutralized, and buried in the Site cemetery. The gravestone of SCP-X was corrected.
jackalrelated
Note for the critters. This article will be inside a tab that says "Infohazardous File: DO NOT READ".
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Documents regarding SCP-X has been destroyed, with the exception of this file.
Do not read this file in the presence of other people, nor should your presence be known to anyone during the act of reading this file.
In the event that you have not prepared amnestics of at least strength Class-V, it is the responsibility of the reader to die in isolation, as well as cremate your own body.
Description: SCP-X is the concept of ants being detected in places where there should otherwise be no ants. While knowledge of SCP-X is nonanomalous, SCP-X being framed within the context of the anomalous, such as reading this file, will cause ants at large to take on an ontokinetic quality, with subsequent instances gaining infohazardous qualities.
This causes an incredibly efficient infection, with seemingly mundane effects infecting instances exponentially. An SCP-X ignorant population will be infected in a matter of hours, simply by observing SCP-X instances scratching themselves.
Initial stages of SCP-X infection causes minor itching in body parts, typically those with relative proximity to the ground. This will spread, moving up the body, nesting behind the ears and the skull. Eventually, the infection can be felt under the skin, causing rashes and abnormal heat, the result of skin cells committing suicide.
Afterwards, infected instances will begin to hallucinate ant
SCP-X
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Thaumiel
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-X is a preceding set of historical events that can test the anomalousness of a particular universe. Specifically, it is 22 events that must occur in order to have a baseline universe. These events are subject to change, and may increase or decrease depending on further research.
Description: SCP-X is a four floor, subterranean complex located below the Mississippi River, the purpose of which to house the Paracausality Department.
Paracausality Briefing
Speaker: Jeremy Filia, Overseeing Researcher
[BEGIN]
@ @ @ [approach mic]
Hello, hello. It is so good, to see you all here today. And, before we begin, let me call up Dr. [random] to the stage! Give a big welcome to [random]. [wait, return to mic] Thank you, Dr. [random] for making this happen. We, here, decided to take a new approach to the anomalous. On the 40th anniversary of the founding of this here Foundation, we decided "enough [pause] is enough".@ @ @ [take mic, pace]
So, I hate to turn this into a lecture,@ @ @
The primary and only purpose of SCP-X is to determine paracausality.
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-X is 120 humanoids that have undergone drastic anatomical changes. These anatomical changes can be organized into structural and functional changes, all for the purpose of constructing and operating a radio station indefinitely.
assumed the position of various architectural and technological
"Do you understand what this means?"
The unknown doctor thrust a piece of paper into Jr. Researcher Folly's face, excitedly stabbing the center of the page with his finger.
"I can't read it, sir."
He quickly looks back at the paper, and begins to pace back and forth, slightly ranting, slightly hyping himself up.
"You updated the database with this file, did you not?"
Folly receives the file, pushed into his chest. He glances through it, not recognizing the text.
"I… never made this, sir."
He whips forward, finger guns posing.
"That's exactly it! You didn't make it!"
"I-"
"Look, read the damn thing."
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Description: SCP-X is a two page system of equations that resolve itself as
Fish^12. Although the equations are technically nonanomalous, as each component can be viewed separately and be understood, viewing it in its totality will cause the viewer (hereafter referred to as SCP-X-1) to speak for another person (designated PoI-X). During this temporary enthrallment, SCP-X-1 will
constant that can be used in mathematical systems, and is formatted as the word fish. Given that SCP-X is considered a nonzero integer while also being a nonnumerical integer, SCP-X can be used to solve for otherwise difficult or impossible equations. Fortunately, SCP-X does not actually possess any piscine qualities, instead, it affects the concept of piscines.
Properties of the number fish.
not zero, is an nonnumerical number, can be used in place of other constants, affects fishy things
"This is meaningless."
"It's not!
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: All newborn children are to be monitored for higher than normal brain activity, body movements reminiscent of an adult, and attempts at communication. If the following characteristics are detected, the instance will be secured and tested for the presence of SCP-X. In the event that SCP-X has been detected beyond a doubt, the family will be given a replacement baby.
Description: SCP-X is a set of memories within newborn children (hereafter referred to as SCP-X-1). These memories are made up of consistent elements depicting an alternate world with a drastically different set of cultural, physical, and social standards regarding normality. For example, anomalies exist in the form of magic, and animals are excessively large. It is unclear if these memories are fabrications or are legitimate memories from an alternate reality.
Each SCP-X instance is unique, depicting a lengthy, detailed set of personal memories. Of note, none of the SCP-X-1 instances are capable of producing anomalies, even if they possessed anomalous abilities in the alternate reality.
SCP-X instances are difficult to find beyond birth, as children are socially inept and are thus expected to behave abnormally, and adults are typically integrated into human society.
LOG ID [RAISA USE ONLY]: ID0-009-900-3922
Foreword:
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: The area around SCP-X has been cordoned off from the public. One human with the necessary psychological profile is to be fed to SCP-X weekly.
Description: SCP-X is an instance of an undiscovered species of annelida. It measures approximately two meters in width, and the length of which has yet to be fully measured. The head of SCP-X is that of a large carapace reminiscent of a coleoptera, fitted with large mandibles and the exposed jaws of an enlarged human skull. Although the latter anatomy is typically utilized for mastication in nonanomalous humans, SCP-X uses them to position its food and better ingest it.
Located beneath the jawbone is a blister. Extruding from the blister is a long needle made out of keratin, coated in a fluid chemically similar to cocaine. SCP-X can extend the needle up to four meters by contracting the muscles located near the blister, and uses this to placate and subdue its target.
SCP-X lives inside a large subterranean space, coiled up and dormant until it reawakens weekly, to search for nourishment. SCP-X detects food via an internal organ that can detect heat, and can distinguish between humans and other animals. Nourishment typically entails sections of the brain that oversee executive functions, such as abstract thinking, planning, and attention to detail. Upon consuming, SCP-X returns to its home and undergoes dormancy.
Although inhibiting SCP-X has been proposed and attempts are more than likely to succeed, none have put into action.
SCP-X Feeding Log: 7/1/2021 12:18
Target: Agent Vengo
Foreword: This log has been provided to all personnel to exemplify normal SCP-X feeding behavior. SCP-X has yet to have done activities outside of sleeping and eating. In the event that SCP-X commits to any abnormal behavior, immediately report it to your overseer.
[BEGIN LOG]
SCP-X wakes up, indicated by it shaking its head and clicking its jaws. It lifts its head up into the air, as if to sniff it, and begins uncoiling. This is a violent procedure, typically involving intense shaking and spinning, in order to forcefully exit the cave. This causes part of the front of the cave to collapse in on itself. SCP-X is unaffected by the debris.
SCP-X exits the cave, suspending itself in the air as opposed to locomotion in contact with the ground. It waves its head back and forth, before coming into contact with a tree branch. It begins to travel noisily through the forest, snaking between tree branches and occasionally snapping branches. It comes into contact with an owl.
Both animals decide to ignore each other, but the owl cautiously stands between SCP-X and its eggs. SCP-X continues onward, pushing and trapping the owl in its roost with its large body mass. It begins to vibrate, noticing Agent Vengo's heat signature, sitting under a tree. It begins to wrap itself around the canopy, slowly encapsulating Agent Vengo's position. This is done with careful consideration, without making any noise.
Vengo: How much longer do I have to wait? Command?
COMMAND: SCP-X is very slow. It's probably gonna be another hour. Just keep reading your book and we'll notify you when it's near. What are you reading?
Vengo: Parabolis.
COMMAND: Never heard of it. It's dark, isn't it?
Vengo: It is.
COMMAND: Oh, and by the way…
SCP-X positions itself directly above Agent Vengo. It begins to heave, large segments of the body undergoing reverse paristalsis. The head begins bulge, filling up with sputum. A slight, continuous grunt can be heard.
Vengo: What?
COMMAND: How do you feel about Cathy?
SCP-X simultaneously vomits onto Agent Vengo and injects the needle into his neck. As he yells, SCP-X grabs him by with the teeth and begins pulling him up. Halfway up the tree, it uses its mandibles and begins pushing Agent Vengo's body into its gullet, spit dripping onto the ground. Loud horking sounds follow as his feet disappears into SCP-X. SCP-X begins to shudder, clicking in satisfaction, before regurgitating Agent Vengo.
Agent Vengo is missing his book and his glasses are bent, and is covered in a translucent film of spit. He wipes his face off with a napkin, unsuccessfully, as the napkin is also covered in spit. SCP-X spits out Nicholas Sparks' The Notebook. On site medical crew arrive at his position.
Agent Vengo: Wha…?
Nurse Catherine: You're going to be just fine, you have nothing to worry about. (Offhand) Did you bring towels? Or a hose?
Agent Vengo: I love you like Noah loves Allie.
Nurse Catherine: I think you're handsome but not now. You're still high from the cocaine.
COMMAND: Job's done. You owe me now.
SCP-X returns to its cave, coiling up. It burps, and does a motion similar to yawning, before falling dormant.
[END LOG]
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Thaumiel
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-X should not be contained, but will be used to contain all conceivable anomalies and the organizations that perpetuate their existence.
Description: SCP-X is a zone of influence regarding the permutations of the human psyche. Typically, if documented long enough and with a high degree of accuracy, the set of all possible mental, psychological, and conceptual neuro-pathways can be dissected and abused to better understand the machinations of the anomalous. This is demonstrated in a formal letter, written to all existing and nonexistent anomalies, declaring their nonexistence to be the deciding factor. As SCP-X approaches full understanding, it will be declared Non-anomalous, and subsequently removed from the SCiPnet database, as will all other anomalies.
This is fundamentally based on a hypothesis regarding the creation and continuous existence of anomalies that conforms to Schrödinger's Cat metaphor, and specifically not related to quantum physics. It is that anomalies are a matter of perception, and therefore heavily relies on the human mind to perpetuate and proliferate. Since the logical outcome of ignorance is nonexistence, it is of great importance that SCP-X is documented.
As SCP-X is further documented, we can reduce containment funds by 100%, increase lethality rate of conventional methods of damage, and eliminate the need for the SCP Foundation, and by association, all other organizations dedicated to aspects of anomaly exploitation.
Containment
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-X has been contained where it was found.
Description: SCP-X is the umbrella designation for a series of anomalous incidents in Room 204 and 205 of the Regency Motel. SCP-X-1 are the computers of Nathan Jonaham, Jeremy Filia, Matthis Lacob, and Kay Mahlah. SCP-X-1 have remained in continuous operation since the deaths of the aforementioned people, undergoing random script behaviors in order to maintain the illusion of continued activity.
SCP-X-1 responds to comments and chats, browse relevant sites and games, and upload new information constantly.
SCiPNET Database: XXXX - Cleared for Agent _
6/26/2021 20:14 Hello internet (and also whichever Site Director that happens to be near me). I am writing this from Hoa Binh, Vietnam, trying to find out more information about XXXX. First draft. And of course, all we have to do is use the internet and find any resources connected to XXXX. This should be easy.
6/26/2021 22:05 I've tried a couple different searches, starting from long legs, black shadow, and monster, and all I got were Slenderman fanart. Joking aside, there are next to no resources online about XXXX. I went through witness Facebook accounts, wild animal sightings, Buddhist warning hymns. There's even an ancient text that's basically the Vietnamese Bakemono, got nothing. That means XXXX has to be a recent anomaly. Perhaps artificial, perhaps accidental. I'll have to get down and dirty. Interviews.
7/3/2021 9:59 Wifi bad, can't upload audio files, so this will have to do.
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Alternative physical exercises such as forefoot running and handstands are to be encouraged in place of SCP-X related exercises. In the most extreme scenario, the Foundation has cleared the use of anomalies in order to forcibly induce lethargy or fatigue in the majority of the population.
Due to SCP-X's effects extending globally, all gymnasiums are to be monitored for SCP-X events, and all available Foundation personnel are required to read this file. SCP-X-1 instances may be dangerous and unstable, due to the variable nature of the anomaly. It is preferable to engage in pacifying behaviors and secure them without the use of combative techniques.
The Catholic Church has been enlisted to help cull the SCP-X-1 population. The Foundation is currently negotiating with the Catholic Church for the method of Decanonization, as the growth rate of SCP-X-1 is higher than the termination rate of the Catholic Church.
Notice: These containment procedures are no longer necessary.
Description: SCP-X is an alternative kineto-method of attaining Catholic Sainthood. The SCP-X method does not require the following:
- The formal canonization of the Catholic Church
- The death of the Saint
- A high degree of moral and virtuous behavior as defined by the church8
Due to the steps required to attain SCP-X, it is very likely to be inadvertently achieved by the nonanomalous athletic population, and exceedingly easy to be achieved by the anomalous athletic population. Of note, SCP-X can be achieved with the use of stimulants, although users are not allowed to be addicted to them.
The following steps are required to attain SCP-X, listed as the minimum amount of exercise required. They can be done in any order, but must be done within seven hours.
- 7 minutes of stretching
- 77 minutes of jumping jacks
- 77 minutes of running or power walking
- 7 sets of 7 reps of push ups
- 7 sets of 7 reps of dumbbell curls
- 7 sets of 7 reps of lateral raises with dumbbells
- 1 deadlift of at least 140% of bodyweight
Upon completion, the participant (hereafter referred to as SCP-X-1) will be enveloped in white, feathered wings. The phrases "do not fear", "do not be afraid", and "have no fear" can be heard from the wings, followed by the SCP-X-1 instance screaming.
After seven seconds, they will emerge with a golden ring encircling their head and a faint, white glow emanating from the nape. This is purely visual, and cannot be physically interacted with. SCP-X-1 instances are able to perform a variety of holy acts, such as purification and blessings. SCP-X-1 instances are also given unique anomalous traits, such as feline based communion, aquatic respiration, and the inability to comprehend the passage of time. This is usually based on the instances' life experience and characteristics.9
These characteristics align with the concept of conventional Sainthood. As such, the population commonly unofficially declare SCP-X-1 instances to be patron Saints. As such, SCP-X instances have been asked to perform miracles, or have been the object of prayer. Given the physical nature of SCP-X, a nontrivial percentage of the population converted to Christianity and its denominations, which further complicates containment efforts.
EXAMPLE SCP-X-1 CONTAINMENT
Foreword: Containment log was created by Agent Forza, and is considered the best case scenario for securing SCP-X-1.
Agent Forza arrives in front of a Protestant church. There is a small gathering outside the church, eating and drinking from a long table.
A well dressed man approaches Agent Forza.
Unknown-1: [Clears throat] Howdy! Welcome to the party!
Agent Forza nods, and takes his hat off.
Agent Forza: How unusual. I decided to stop by since I saw a lot of people. What is everyone up to?
Unknown-1: Oh, you would not believe the news! One of our own, a genuine angel!
Agent Forza: Ah, I see! Wonderful news, it's always a blessing to see humanity coming so far.
Unknown-1: Indeed, indeed! Oh, please, come inside. You can meet her there.
The man beckons Agent Forza to follow. They enter the church.
The inside of the church is filled with people in various states of prayer. SCP-X-1 is standing in the very front, aimlessly directing the procession.
Unknown-1: We got all sorts here. Unfortunately, them Foundation folks have been taking them, and it just ain't right. We let everyone in the area coe pray here, regardless of what they believe. I think we're the last ones here with an angel.
Agent Forza: [Feigns awe] Am I… allowed to talk to her?
Unknown-1: Everyone here prays to her. It doesn't seem like a line right now, but don't disturb the procession. I think I see more people coming, so I'll be back for you later. God bless you.
Agent Forza: God bless us.
Agent Forza waits for the SCP-X-1 instance to finish her sermon. SCP-X-1 spots Agent Forza and begins to speed up the sermon.
SCP-X-1: Amen.
SCP-X-1 secretly motions Agent Forza to come over.
SCP-X-1: [Hushed] I know who you are.
Agent Forza: Course you do. What's gonna happen now?
SCP-X-1: Wait, I'm not looking for a fight. I'll go with you.
Agent Forza:
Addendum: On 7/7/1997, people were spontaneously afflicted with SCP-X. Due to the difficulties surrounding SCP-X's containment, the Foundation was required to collaborate with the Catholic Church through the Global Occult Coalition in order to monitor the event.
INTERNAL MESSAGE TO O5-1
SCP-X is an anomaly of unprecedented religious relevance and importance. We need to know if it was arranged by the Catholic Church, or some other figure with similar goals. As the goals of the Foundation and the Catholic Church run counter to each other, the exchange of anomalies from containment to the ownership of the Catholic Church has been cleared as a bartering chip. SCP-4324, SCP-5383, and 8 other anomalies have been cleared for use.
In the event that negotiations fail, we have prepared a battalion to storm Vatican City. The combat potential of the Vatican City is unknown, most likely anomalous in nature. There will most certainly be heavy casualties. Do not fail.
Audio Transcript: RAISA ID4-100-644-5098
Characters: O5-1, John Paul II
[BEGIN LOG]
O5-1 arrives at the Vatican City Heliport, and is met with John Paul II and his entourage.
O5-1: Greetings, Holy Father, [Offhand, to his security detail] Put the damn gun away, now.
Paul II: Hello Foundation. I am happy to see you.
O5-1: No disrespect, Holy Father, but I'd like to make things fast.
Paul II: As do I, for I have a proposition for you. Walk with me.
O5-1 and Paul II walk around the heliport.
O5-1: I assume you've seen the news.
Paul II: I have been told, yes. "People becoming angels, proof God is coming." But it is not that.
O5-1: So you know what this is about?
Paul II: It is my duty to know. After all, I am pope. It is no accident, that it happened on July, seventh, this year. It is the holy number, 777. It took God, seven days, to make everything. And on the seventh day, He rested. And these people, do you know why they are affected?
O5-1: They were exercising.
Paul II: God gave us our body, and his spirit lives on within us. These people, they don't just use their bodies, they sculpt it, make it better, to celebrate the gift of the Lord. They were given the occasion to rise to the challenge on His day. And who am I to disagree with God's gifts? If He needs our help, then by God, we will help Him.
O5-1: You sound…
Paul II: Hm?
O5-1: Do you disagree? With God?
Paul II: I wouldn't say that. After all, why would I follow God if I didn't have faith in Him? But, no, God should not be too generous with his gifts. Why do I exist, if not to carry out God's will, to safeguard his teachings, and His property? Saints are no different. I spend years, working with my brothers, watching for new Saints to add to the Holy Spirit, so that God may be pleased with His work. We keep the pantheon holy, for the Lord. Why then, does He make more Saints?
O5-1: Perhaps he thought it was time.
Paul II: No, no. He is too trusting now, He lets any impure man and woman become a Saint? Even God was deceived by Lucifer, who could challenge his rule in his domain. I cannot say I am better than God, no one is! But I, I, was given my duties by God, and I will carry it out.
O5-1: We can contain them. Keep them out of reach of the public.
Paul II: I will help you, Foundation, but I do not wish to… contain. You will bring me these False Shepherds, and we will deal with them.
O5-1: Aren't these Saints? I haven't attended service, but Sainthood is permanent. Even I know that much.
Paul II motions his entourage to leave, and O5-1 does the same.
Paul II: This mustn't leave this bench. Former Venerable Pope John Paul I… am sorry for breaking our promise. Listen well, I shall say this, only once! I possess the method of Decanonization. I can handle them, and I can return them to you. "Neutralize," as you like.
O5-1: What does this method entail?
Paul II: I dare not speak more. Understand that I am betraying my papal predecessors by trusting you. Now go, we have work to do.
[END LOG]
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This is too suspicious. Why agree so easily? What is it to him?
SCiPnet Log Search: SCP-X
Site-22: 21 SCP-X-1 instances ready to be transported to Vatican safely.
Site-605: The Gendarmerie Corps is asking for a meeting with Site-605 Director, apparently harboring SCP-X-1 instances due to her extreme Christian leanings. SCP-X-1 instances have been secured, but Site Director utilized the site intercom to organize a civilian riot for containing SCP-X-1 instances. GC has been evacuated, dealing with riot now. Need more manpower.
Doctor Re: SRA's do work, but only on the visual anomaly and subanomaly. Instances are able to perform holy acts, which implies Sainthood is somehow a part of reality. Additional testing with stronger SRA units needed.
O5-12: POTUS declares all branches of military with the exception of the Air Force a holy institution. Given the rate of military personnel becoming SCP-X-1 instances, this is accurate. Meeting regarding the specific politics of moving a significant portion of the US military to Vatican City is needed.
John Gaswork: Charts updated now. 60% of MTF units are susceptible to SCP-X, as part of their daily exercise routine. Unsure if introducing alternative methods of exercise would incite outrage.
RAISA: Greetings. New information regarding the use of SCP-X-1 in anomalous communities have been found. All personnel concerned with SCP-X research are required to read this document.
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File Update: On 6/1/2006, people were spontaneously afflicted with a variety of radical anatomic changes, now designated as SCP-X-2. Skin pigmentation uniformly changes to a shade of red or green, the skull experiences numerous abnormal bone extrusions reminiscent of horns, the legs transform into unguligrade type ambulation. While undergoing transformation, instances become increasingly manipulative and self destructive, and attempt to persuade others into partaking in sinful activities. Most people decline this offer, as the appearance of SCP-X-2 is most often described as "instinctually horrifying".
It was found that SCP-X-2 activated upon failing to overcome an exercise routine, although the exact details are unknown. It appears that waiting 666 minutes after ending an unsatisfactory exercise routine is considered a failure.
On the same day, the Vatican City was lifted into the air by a giant, humanoid entity, approximately 5 kilometers high. The entity (hereafter dubbed SCP-X-3) is glowing white, wearing a tunic and a crown of thorns, with musculature exceeding that of a proportionately sized weightlifter. Contact with the Vatican confirmed that the Catholic Church did not possess a method of decanonizing SCP-X-1 instances, and instead were continuously organizing strict workout regimens in order to create a gestalt version of a Saint. SCP-X-3 begins powerlifting the Vatican City repeatedly, the voices of SCP-X-1 screaming various motivational quotes.
Each subsequent powerlift creates a paracausal earthquake, disseminating globally, causing SCP-X-2 instances to writhe and boil upon contact. After 7 powerlifts, all SCP-X-2 instances have been exorcised, with a marked increase in gym participation. After this, hundreds of feathered wings spontaneously manifest above SCP-X-3. These wings envelope SCP-X-3 and slowly lift it upwards. SCP-X-3 holds Vatican City with one arm and flexes its right arm as the entirety of the Vatican City and SCP-X-3 are enveloped in a sheet of light, demanifesting instantly.
Historical archaeologists discovered an unused passage from the Bible, thought to have been used by John Paul II as inspiration for SCP-X-3. It was initially widely discredited due to the superfluous content and inaccurate historical continuity.
1 And Jesus said unto himself, he would rise in the body of many, whey swol.
Carbon dating has been inconclusive, placing the parchment between 1200 BC and 1100 BC, and whey only becoming popular in the 1940s as a body building supplement. The term whey swol is accurate to when Jesus would have lived.
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Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-X is self contained. Although SCP-X-A instances are sapient, they currently do not possess the will to leave SCP-X. In the event that this changes, this file's object class and special containment procedures will be updated depending on what transpires.
The portal to SCP-X is contained in the Alchemy Wing of Site-60, room 303.
Description: SCP-X is an extradimensional space. This space can only be reached upon performing a thaumaturgical ritual involving two heavy, rounded plates, ground bone powder, a revised version of the Bible, and four other materials. The full details regarding this ritual is clearance restricted.
SCP-X takes the shape of a grey, cubic room, measuring about 7.3 meters on all sides. This cube is joined by two cubes beside it, indefinitely extending on both sides. There is an ambient light source that prevents shadows from forming, and a higher oxygen content. This roughly corresponds to the chronological time of death of SCP-X-A instances.
SCP-X-A instances are identical to their deceased counterparts, with a few exceptions. Their anatomical mass is anomalously large, approximately double the average size of humans, they lack the psychological need for interpersonal relationships, nourishment, and mental stimulation, and they possess normally cognitohazardous information.
Discovery: In 4/1/2018, Project Finders was voted for 7-6-0, and funding was allocated to the Alchemy Department in order to better understand the mechanics of thaumaturgy. One of the principle practices of Project Finders was to research ancient texts in order to test the authenticity of the rituals described. In the event that the ritual is legitimately anomalous, it is logged as a new SCP, depending on the severity of its effects.
SCP-X is the first anomaly discovered that warrants an SCP designation.
Exploration Log: RAISA ID3-194-9090
Team: Improvised Task Force (ITF-11 "Alchemy Dept."), Deacon Lewis, Saint Robert
Foreword: Due to ritual's relevance to Saint Robert's specialty, they decided that it would be appropriate for them to enter SCP-X. This has been approved after the exploration.
Deacon Lewis is providing the materials for the ritual as Saint Robert chants in Latin. A long, metallic bar materializes in the center of the room, and the metal discs begins spinning around the room at exponentially increasing speed. The ritual circle glows bright green, and the powders begin to burn purple, sparking with electricity. Once the discs maintain terminal velocity, it connects with the metallic bar and fires into a nearby wall, blowing out the lit powders and creating a fog of dust. Instead of destroying the wall, it rips open a spacetime portal to SCP-X.
Lewis: My God!
Robert: Careful, brother. Your words…
Saint Robert slowly picks himself up, and motions Deacon Lewis to follow him. He walks toward SCP-X with his arm outstretched. Once he makes contact with the portal, he pushes the portal open, exerting heavy force. He looks at Lewis, before entering SCP-X. Deacon Lewis looks towards the portal, and back to the camera, before picking it up and entering SCP-X.
Upon entering SCP-X, Saint Robert is talking to an SCP-X-A instance.
Robert: Greetings, brother. May I inquire where we are?
SCP-X-A-1 is holding a sledgehammer. He hits a thick, brick wall, jutting out from the side of the room. As the wall is destroyed, dislodged pieces disintegrate, and additional wall pushes out of the room. SCP-X-A-1 is genetically identical to Henry Douberman, who died in 9/11/1955.
SCP-X-A-1: Sorry, Saint Robert, but I must focus.
Robert: Worry not, what are you doing?
SCP-X-A-1: When you didn't show up, we thought something went terribly wrong. I see now that you returned to earth, partially of your own volition. Do you remember anything?
Robert: All this looks familiar.
SCP-X-A-1: So you do remember. I must continue my work.
SCP-X-A-1 fervently smashes the brick wall, as if to make up for lost time.
Lewis: You've been here before, brother?
Robert: I am as perplexed as you are, brother. Look, there are more.
The camera pans to the right, revealing an infinite stretch of cubes, connected to one another by a thin opening, about a meter in width. Saint Robert begins walking to the next SCP-X-A instance, and Lewis follows.
SCP-X-A-2: Saint Robert, hola.
Robert: And greetings to you, sister. What is all this?
SCP-X-A-2 is squatting, carrying a boulder twice her size. SCP-X-A-2 is genetically identical to Gabriella Iglesias, who died in 9/21/1955.
SCP-X-A-2: I am performing my duties, We need it for the upcoming consecration.
Robert: What are you consecrating?
SCP-X-A-2: What else, but the sins of mankind?
Robert: You plan on destroying man?
SCP-X-A-2 laughs.
SCP-X-A-2: Of course not. Although man is sinful, we seek to eradicate sin, not sinners. Do you forget the teachings?
Robert: I have not. Thank you for your time, sister. I shall let you be.
SCP-X-A-2 nods. They move to the next room.
Lewis: We should turn back. I fear the ritual may be temporary.
Robert: Worry not,
Screeplay: Yo, can you make a song to go with this. Normally I'd do it but I have to meet with Vicky-chan to talk about how to make Dippin' Dots more everywhere. -Lolly
6/810
Welcome one, welcome all! To the circus sunder,
Come! Have a crying ball, there is fear to plunder!
There ain't no repercuss, except for, say, heart throb.
Herman Fuller's Circus! Icky, Lolly, and Bob?11
But today is not that, no, we have something weak,
No! Outside the top hat, there is a man so bleak,
There is a man, poor man, who dreams of great hocus.
That was his scheme, deadpan. His name was Rat Focus.12
8/813
He had nothing to do with rats, he was a magician and fraud,
He sought the limelight and fell flat, since his act was slapstick and flawed.
Card tricks galore, he was a man! That was it, not fit for Fuller's.
As gripping as a minivan, his show gave rise to saboteurs.
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Due to SCP-X's complete lack of infohazardous, cognitohazardous, and hazardous properties, it is contained in the Site-11 commons area. SCP-X should never be removed from the middle table, and the table should never be disturbed.
Other than that, personnel are free to socialize with SCP-X as they please.
Description: SCP-X is a makeshift, aluminum lamp, missing the lampshade. It is approximately 1.5 meters in height, and features two mechanical joints, one at the base, and one equidistant from the top and bottom of SCP-X.
SCP-X embodies the concept of the adjective safe. It is incapable of physically, mentally, or socially damaging any personnel, as well as preventing nearby personnel from being damaged by external forces. SCP-X also possesses remarkable indestructibility.
Test Logs: SCP-X-1
Foreword: To determine the extent of SCP-X's anomaly with the use of SCP-X.
Subject: Agent Crowly, D-833974
[BEGIN LOG]
SCP-X is removed from the commons area, much to the displeasure of personnel present.
Agent Crowly: Sorry, 'scuse me, comin' through. Testing and such. 'Scuse.
Crowly enters Test Chamber 42. D-833974 is sitting in an aluminum chair, waiting.
D-833974: Alright, let's get this over with. Hit me.
Crowly holds SCP-X like a baseball bat, adopting a similar stance, before smashing D-833974's face. He stumbles into a wall, head bleeding. He eventually recovers, standing up, blood still spilling onto his uniform.
D-833974: Why do you people need to test this stuff anyways? C'mon, try harder this time.
Crowly slams SCP-X into D-833974's stomach. As D-833974 doubles over, Crowly begins bashing SCP-X into the back of D-833974's head, exposing the spinal cord and brain matter. Crowly stops, before kicking D-833974. He does not respond.
Agent Crowly: (Panting) I think that concludes the test. I think the D-class fainted from excitement, if you could bring some smelling salts, that would be great. Let's finish the rest of the tests while we're at it.
[END LOG]
Test Logs: SCP-X-2
Foreword: To determine the extent of SCP-X's anomaly in proximity to SCP-X.
Subject: Agent Crowly, D-833974
[BEGIN LOG]
D-833974 is situated in a chair. He has been tied up to prevent him from slipping off, and Crowly is waving smelling salts under his nose.
Agent Crowly: Strange, this usually works. Ah, well, he'll be fine.
Crowly places down the smelling salts. SCP-X has been positioned one meter away from D-833974.
Agent Crowly: Second test, the use of a low velocity object. I will be using a Standard Issue Foundation knife, and I will be throwing it at D-class.
Crowly positions himself, legs apart, before throwing the knife. It embeds itself into D-833974's left shoulder.
Agent Crowly: Alright, no vocalizations, no pain stimuli, looking good. Next test.
Crowly pulls out his pistol and aims at D-833974. He fires two rounds, one next to D-833974's ear, and the other into his right shoulder.
Agent Crowley: Looks like SCP-X also works on loud stimuli. No tinnitus like symptoms, no vocalizations, no nothing. SCP-X is indeed safe.
[END LOG]
Interview Logs: SCP-X-1
Foreword: To determine Agent Crowly's faithfulness to the Foundation.
Subject: Doctor Wesson, Agent Crowly
[BEGIN LOG]
Wesson stops Crowly in the hall.
Doctor Wesson: What do you think you're doing?
Agent Crowly: Uh, what do you think?
Crowly hefts SCP-X up.
Agent Crowly: I'm putting SCP-X back in the break room.
Doctor Wesson: I don't think so. I oversee SCP-X's containment procedures, I made them. And I'm changing them, right now. Bring it to my office.
Agent Crowly: I- what? No, I know what the procs are, I literally just read them. Break room, Site-11. Now, if you'll-
Wesson runs around Crowly and stands in his way.
Doctor Wesson: Are you disobeying me?
Agent Crowly: Listen, what's your name?
Doctor Wesson: Wesson. Doctor Wesson.
Agent Crowly: Yeah, sure thing. Listen, Doctor Wesson, we're a team here. And the team needs SCP-X. I won't let you keep SCP-X to yourself.
Wesson bites his fist, looks around, and starts yelling.
Doctor Wesson: I worked my way up from janitor boy, I contained over half of the anomalies in this facility, I killed dozens of insurgents, and none of you ever lifted a damn finger in this godforsaken job, I deserve SCP-X! Give it to me!
Wesson lunges forward, grabbing onto SCP-X. Both struggle to get a good hold on SCP-X, before dropping it. Wesson reaches for his personal weapon and shoots Crowly in the leg, making him fall to the ground.
Agent Crowly: (Laughing) You can't hurt me, you fucking idiot. SCP-X, remember?
Doctor Wesson: Damn it all, you're right. But I can give you something to make you sleep.
Wesson pulls out a syringe filled with potassium chloride. He stabs Crowly in the neck several times, leaving the syringe in his neck.
Doctor Wesson: That'll hold him off. Hopefully, he hit his head hard enough to forget. (Grunts) Wow, heavy.
Wesson leaves Crowly with SCP-X.
[END LOG]
Interview Logs: SCP-X-2
Foreword: To determine Doctor Wesson's faithfulness to SCP-X.
Subject: Doctor Wesson, SCP-X
[BEGIN LOG]
Wesson kicks open the door to his office. He plops SCP-X onto the floor next to his desk.
Doctor Wesson: (Into voice communicator) Hey, Leslie, please hold off any appointments for the next, uh, year. I have important work to do. Yes, the Site director will have to wait.
Wesson stares wistfully into SCP-X's lamp.
Doctor Wesson: Right, I'll give you electricity. Let's light you up.
Wesson pushes over his desk to reveal a socket. He plugs in SCP-X.
Doctor Wesson: Okay, okay, and…
Wesson flicks on SCP-X, and the lightbulb immediately shines.
Doctor Wesson: (Giggling) Ahhhh, you're so warm.
He begins dancing, emphasizing his hip movements. As he dances, SCP-X continues to shine on him, until he falls over, convulsing. His breathing gets heavier, and he begins to sweat.
Doctor Wesson: You're… so wonderful.
A knocking sound can be heard.
Doctor Wesson: Aw, fuck, uh, I'm naked! Fuck, they're not gonna buy it.
The door is pushed open, as the lock was destroyed by Wesson when he entered his office.
[END LOG]
Interview Logs: SCP-X-3
Foreword: To determine Site-11's faithfulness to SCP-X.
Subject: Doctor Wesson, SCP-X
SCP-X is in the middle of Wesson's office. There are 17 people sleeping on the floor. The lightbulb is still on.
Doctor Wesson: Baby, please don't leave me.
SCP-X's lightbulb begins to dim.
Doctor Wesson: I'm… I'm sorry, I'll protect you better next time, I promise.
SCP-X winks out, before brightening up again.
Doctor Wesson: You trust me? After all I've done to you?
SCP-X winks.
Doctor Wesson: Thank you. Thank you. I don't think I can live without you.
Wesson begins to cry, barely perceptible, before sobbing profusely. He crawls onto SCP-X, revealing 13 knives penetrating his back. He slowly calms down, before falling asleep.
SCP-X turns to look at the camera.
[END LOG]
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Due to SCP-X's secluded location in the Amazon Forest and SCP-X's preference for isolation, containment is unnecessary. In exchange for continued good behavior, the Foundation has promised to reduce deforestation in the jungle border, among other amenities.
In the event that SCP-X decides to leave the containment zone, the dedicated Orbital Unit will deliver a reality suppressant payload to her position, calculated by [CODE:Prisoner's Caltrops]. Should SCP-X manage to survive, MTF Nu-7 ("Hammer Down") and MTF Omega-7 ("Achilles' Heels") will be deployed immediately. The remains of SCP-X will be scrubbed and thoroughly disposed of.
A dedicated research team has been arranged to better document SCP-X's anomalous abilities.
Description: SCP-X is a female Class V reality bender, although their exertion over reality is primarily concerned with the cultivation, maintenance, and weaponization of flora. The exact details of its anomaly varies between instances, but typically results in rapid to instantaneous development, radical changes to physical and genetic structure, and exceeding effectiveness.
In the event that SCP-X's anomaly inspires sapience within its creations, they unconditionally respond to her commands.
Interview Logs: SCP-X-4
Name(s): Dr. Jacoway, SCP-X
Dr. Jacoway: And that's what I wrote.
SCP-X: Really? It makes me sound so mean.
Dr. Jacoway: It's my job to make it sound like that. Do you know what my actual job is? 'Cause, I'm not a doctor. I'm just a lyricist with a thing for writer's cramp.
SCP-X: Reallyyyyy?
Dr. Jacoway: Seriously. The only reason they promoted me to Doctor was because it made me sound more official. It was also the only way they could legit assign me this job, because you're so dangerous! Ooohhhhhh!
Jacoway wiggles her fingers.
Formal Item Number: SCP-X
Object Classification of this Anomaly: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Abstract and physical information should be limited to individual entities or in excess of three. In the event that information regarding the numeral between one and three must be conveyed within the vicinity of SCP-X, the information must also take place with such restrictions.
Description: SCP-X is not a group of people, and is not a single person. They feed off of the concept of a number larger than one and lower than three, amplifying the diameter of the anomalous area of effect. The area of effect is typically contains the number it effects, jumping numerals by up to ten integers.
Depriving SCP-X of the number decreases the area of effect, however, it is unknown if their wellbeing is also directly connected to
Knowing how to use technology is to know power.
Knowing how it works is to know fear.
So many are complacent, content with knowing how to use it. It's our job to know why it works.
You aren't yet welcome in IT. This is a test.
/anomalyfile;posted;sendtoself
Item #: SCP-X
You're more than familiar with how the SCiPnet database works, so instead, I will be skipping some parts of the introduction and introduce you to CHESSEX.aic. Specializing in statistical anomalies and resident calculator.
Greetings. Anti-cognition screen active.
Object Class: bVkuly4jPahFZ4jL
Special Containment Procedures: vhLXXFW32rmQqM7T
Description: Q6Mtvi5tvn9SwPhf
I'll be taking my leave. Chessy here will be your overseer.
##red|Thank you.
/decode;line{1 5}
ERROR
/scramble;-1 , line{1 5}
ERROR
You work too fast. While digital anomalies are faster than the speed of light compared to humans, they can never exist in the physical world. The moment you dip your toes into the ocean of code, the sharks will eat pull you in and eat you alive. You have three more chances before you fail.
…
/genseed
/seed;show
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/delseed
##red|Wonderfully done.
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: This file is limited to containment concerned personnel only. SCP-X is contained in an unmarked containment cell located in Site-32, of which is hidden such that its location cannot be intuited from inspecting the architectural plans of Site-32. In the event that SCP-X is discovered by on-site personnel, SCP-X should immediately be recontained and all personnel be given amnestics.
Description: SCP-X is a collective name for numerous anomalies concerning one bodybag containing the desiccated corpse of Markus McDonnell, both of which are designated SCP-X-1.
SCP-X-A is an infohazard. Any information that could potentially be connected to SCP-X-1, both explicit and implicit, will inspire a combination of disgust, rage, or shock, after which they attempt to avoid interacting with SCP-X-1. SCP-X-A instances have placed transfer requests, requested amnestics, and abandoned their post in order to avoid SCP-X-1. Extreme cases of SCP-X-A plan to cause containment breaches in order to release or decommission SCP-X-1 in the ensuing commotion.
SCP-X-A instances experience vivid nightmares, which eventually develop into hallucinations. If left untreated, these hallucinations will begin to physically manifest. Since these side effects are also infohazards, SCP-X-A instances can exponentially increase.
RAISA ID: S19-030-433-9606
Dream Diary: SecU Manager AlphonseThey told me I had to do this get my amnestics. God, I'll do anything. But I don't trust them, so I made them promise me.
Here's what I saw.
I spent hours huddled together with several men. All of them are young, dressed in military gear. I can't really describe what they looked like, I'd say World War Two. I wasn't a huge fan about war when I was a kid. My brother was there, he was one of the military men.
My brother was a huge fan of war, but he was different. This time, I mean.
This time, he carried a gun, the kind that I think is used in the Middle East. But the gun was so heavy for him that he kept on dropping it. Picking it back up, and dropping it. This kept on going, and people started noticing and yelling at him. "Maggot", "commie", and stuff that I can't write here.
And I stood by, getting pushed to the back, and further and further. I can't remember if it was a truck or a plane, but I got pushed all the way, back to back until I hit metal. I remember my head falling off and me it back up. Then, the vehicle started to shred, peeling back, or exploding. All at once.
The men got ripped apart too, but their mouths stayed in place, and got bigger. I could see every molar in detail, bigger than my chest. I went deaf because of the explosions, but the mouths were still loud enough to scream at my brother. I finally realized that I had a gun and started firing into the mouths. And I kept firing, until my gun fell apart. I tried to pick up my gun, but it was like moving through water. It kept slipping.
I looked up, and my brother was replaced with a corpse.
Notes: All SCP-X-A instances experience similar elements.
SCP-X-B is a collection of manifested SCP-X-A hallucinations. If run under a conceptual scrubber, they become noninfohazardous, and can be inspected safely.
| SCP-X-B Instance | Description |
|---|---|
| SCP-X-B-2 | 203 spent bullet casings. These casings come from a variety of weapons, most of which originate in World War One. |
| SCP-X-B-39 | The explosion of an unspecified bomb. Left behind an 8 meter wide crater, destroying the Site-32 meeting room. |
| SCP-X-B-40 | A crashed B-29 Superfortress. Was too large to properly manifest, which promptly simulated an explosion due to instantaneous object collision, destroying the South-West tower. |
| SCP-X-B-41 | 3 corpses. Identified to be identical replicas of Nolan DeBye, Neal Conner Federay, and Sutherland Davidson. No information could be found in which these three men were together for any substantial amount of time. |
| SCP-X-B-42 | An active 90mm shell. At the moment of manifestation, it launched forward, destroying part of the East wing and killing several personnel. |
| SCP-X-B-43 | See addendum. |
Addendum: The following diary deviates from expected thematic elements.
RAISA ID: B99-211-098-6099
Dream Diary: D-9840212I got a new dream (or hallucination, I really cannot tell which), one that wasn't blatantly terrible. It's also the first one that didn't destroy anything.
Item#: SCP-5356
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5356 is kept in a containment cell. SCP-5356 is required to attend therapy every week, and should interact with other humanoid SCPs. If their symptoms worsen, they may be forced to attend therapy more often.
Description: SCP-5356 is a sapient queen-sized bedsheet, capable of locomotion in an ambulatory fashion, reminiscent of human ambulation. It is psychologically similar to a pre-teen, and can understand English, although it is physically incapable of speaking.
Discovery: SCP-5356 was discovered on 4/19/2020 in Felony, Kansas, carrying Fiona Vitch to the nearby hospital. She had a broken right leg, right arm, and nose due to jumping out the window on top of SCP-5356.
SCP-5356 apparently spontaneously manifested after Fiona Vitch watched Aladdin, and assuming SCP-5356 was capable of anomalous flight, rode on SCP-5356. All witnesses were amnesticized and Fiona Vitch has been verified as nonanomalous, and incapable of creating SCP-5356.
After securing SCP-5356, SCP-5356 has experienced bouts of depression and self blame. It rarely initiates conversations with other people, and conversations are typically short lived, has not joined any of the site activities with other anomalies of its psychological age, and is currently requesting cleaning fluid, which causes an effect similar to consuming alcohol.
Given the unknown ramifications on SCP-5356's long term psychological development with the use of cleaning fluid, it has been denied and instead given a steam clean.
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-X is kept in Anomalous Item Container #03-703 at Site-13.
Description: SCP-X is a poorly made aluminum clock, measuring about forty centimeters in diameter. SCP-X is missing an hour hand, and possesses out of order numerals. As a result of its construction, the speed of the minute hand varies from numeral to numeral, which corresponds to its anomaly.
Upon physically touching SCP-X, SCP-X will slow down the effects of chronal displacement, effectively allowing the user to artificially extend their life while allowing them to interact with present time. This is only active as long as SCP-X remains in contact.
SCP-X Log-1: 6/2/2020
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Galle: Alright, hello SCP-X. Welcome to the big world of the Foundation. You're gonna like it here.
Galle shakes SCP-X. There is a noticeable rattling sound.
Dr. Galle: Hm. Can I open you up? I've got a screwdriver around here, somewhere.
//Galle opens a few lockers, before bringing out a toolbox and attempting to open SCP-X. The screws are easily loosened, but another design defect blocks view of the inside.
Dr. Galle: Wow. Ouch. Maybe 3D imaging can show what's inside you. But seriously, you are so broken. Physically, I mean. Maybe you're in the best mental health of your life. I wouldn't know.
Galle places down SCP-X and jots some notes down on a clipboard.
Dr. Galle: I'm gonna prescribe you a treatment of X-rays and maybe a fix up if Andrew feels like it. Also, on an unrelated note, don't you think Andrew is kinda cute? But you've never met him. Here's a picture. Maybe I should break some more things so I can see him more often. Though, I heard he's dating Fiona. So maybe not.
SCP-X doesn't respond.
Dr. Galle: Figures. Don't you see the romance in the unattainable? Alas, Andrew, you were gone from this world too early, yet that makes you all the more enticing. Don't tell this to management, though. Well, back to your containment cell you go.
Galle picks up SCP-X and rests it standing up in the locker.
Dr. Galle: I'll be back before you know it. You have my word.
[END LOG]
SCP-X Log-2: 6/3/2020
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Galle: I'm back way earlier than I expected. Sorry for the extenuating circumstances, but I need you so bad.
Galle closes the secure gates and enters in Protocol Lockdown password.
Dr. Galle: Oh, where the hell are you? Uhm. Shit.
Galle begins opening up lockers at random, before finding SCP-X and taking it out.
Dr. Galle: You and me. We'll survive this.
Galle looks up at the vents and ceilings.
Dr. Galle: Do you think they can come through the vents? There has to be something that can fit in vents.
Galle puts down SCP-X and finds a cloth to cover the vents.
Dr. Galle: There. It doesn't actually work if anything does try to come through, but it'll keep my heart settled.
Galle picks up SCP-X and hold it to her chest.
Dr. Galle: We'll make it out of here. I promise.
[END LOG]
SCP-X Log-3: ?
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Galle: This is the first time I've been in a containment breach. I'm really starting to think it's going to be my last.
Galle is sitting in the corner, talking to SCP-X in extended arms.
Dr. Galle: I haven't eaten in forever. Though, I wouldn't know. It's hard to tell time when the only thing you can do is count the flashing lights.
SCP-X doesn't respond.
Dr. Galle: I- I confess! I never had experience with romance. I said all those things about cheating just because it made me feel like an adult. I never liked Andrew, he's kinda dumb looking. Fiona can have him. If they're not already dead. Oh, god f-
Galle puts her head in her legs.
Dr. Galle: I can't talk like that. They have to be alive. Them and everyone here. Except for that one secu- no. He's alive still. Even if… even if I saw his intestines. We have the technology to bring him back, cooler than ever. Bionic legs, laser eyes…
Galle looks at the vents.
Dr. Galle: Staying strong.
[END LOG]
SCP-X Log-4: ?
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Galle: Listen, I need a hobby. Maybe sewing. Crocheting?
Galle slowly rotates SCP-X in her hands.
Dr. Galle: Ah right! There's chalk here somewhere. Let me go get it.
Galle searches the toolbox and finds a piece of chalk.
Dr. Galle: Jackpot. What do you think I should draw? Let's draw something. I'll draw something, you can sit right, uh, there, all pretty. Let me get your portrait.
Galle tentatively places down SCP-X. She props it up against the wall, where she begins to trace an outline of it.
Dr. Galle: Mmhm, you're looking mighty fine. You know, you're looking a lot nicer since I first saw you. I thought you were broken, damaged. But it turns out, they were scars all along. Battle scars. You're a warrior, aren't you? You can survive anything.
The room shakes, and the the sound of a distant explosion can be heard.
Dr. Galle: Yeah, you're just a regular survivor.
[END LOG]
SCP-X Log-5: ?
[BEGIN LOG]
Galle hums to herself, increasing in volume over the course of three days.
Dr. Galle: I used to sing. My mom was a crazy religious person, and would do everything to get me into heaven. One of those things was to join the church choir. I hated the whole thing. It was all "ah" and "oh" and did you know that there weren't any actual words in those things? It was just saying syllables and them turning out to be Latin.
Galle brushes off the dust on SCP-X.
Dr. Galle: Alright, listen here you little shit. I just put on a performance, the first performance I had in ages! I practiced for a very long time. You know what? Forget it. There must be something else in here that'll be my friend. Asshole.
Galle begins digging through the lockers, taking out random SCPs.
Dr. Galle: Rubber ducky? Plunger? Umbrella? What's with all this random crap, ugh! Ah, my old friend!
Galle takes out a clipboard.
Dr. Galle: I shall dub thee… forget it.
Galle drops the clipboard.
Dr. Galle: SCP-X… no, that's too formal. What is your name? I, ah, it's kinda awkward, but I've never asked for your name. Usually, interviews start with exchanging names and such, but we never did that, did we? We immediately connected with one another. But that skipped a lot of steps, so let me start over.
Galle holds her hand out for a handshake.
Dr. Galle: I am Amanda C. Galle. I am a doctor only in name. The Foundation seems to hand these things out to any scientist. I'm more of an engineer, to be honest. What about you?
SCP-X doesn't respond.
Dr. Galle: Lovely.
[END LOG]
SCP-X Log-6: ?
[BEGIN LOG]
Galle is sleeping with SCP-X in her arms. She sleeps for at least two years.
[END LOG]
SCP-X Log-7: ?
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Galle: Let me ask you, Chessex. What do you think of the current political climate? No, not Obama, you serious? Where were you for the past year? The Foundation politics, you mongol. Or is it bereaucratic? Anyways, O5, are they a democratic institution? Of course not, they control everything. It was a miracle they okay'ed the creation of EC. "Wouldn't that mean"- of course it means they're a beneficial dictatorship, but that doesn't make me okay with it in principle!
The emergency power shuts down, turning off the emergency lights.
Dr.. Galle: Fan-fucking-tastic. Now if I go to sleep, something's gonna crawl inside and eat my eyeballs. Do you see this, Chessex? Of course you don't, the lights are fucking out. Hug me closer.
Rustling can be heard, followed by a loud thud.
Dr. Galle: Ow! F- stupid bench. I've been here for god know's how long and I still don't know where the damn bench is. Chessex, stay right there, I'll find us a light.
The crashing of metal tools, followed by the clicking of a lighter.
Dr. Galle: I can't tell if it's out of juice. C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, fuck!
Galle drops the lighter as it burns her finger. She quickly tears down the cloth covering the vent and starts burning it.
Dr. Galle: I haven't felt warmth in so long. No offense, Chessex, but you're a dead fish when it comes to personal comfort. You're my therapist, but you can't hug for shit. They should revoke your license for that. Speaking of which, have I eaten anything today? No, I haven't. It's rhetorical.
Galle looks at the secure gates.
Dr. Galle: Maybe…
[END LOG]
SCP-X Log-8: ?
[BEGIN LOG]
SCP-X is in the room, but Galle is missing.
[END LOG]
SCP-X Log-9: ?
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Galle: Look! I found someone!
Galle heaves a corpse onto a nearby bench. The corpse is missing the lower half of its body, but is remarkably intact, with little rotting to be found.
Dr. Galle: I think you're the security guard that saved me, before. Thank you. Thank you.
Galle rests her head against the corpse and begins sobbing onto it.
Dr. Galle: Thank you so much. I'll find a way to bring you back. All of you. Mr… you don't have your ID card. That's unprofessional of you.
Galle sniffs, and stands up. She spends a few hours positioning the corpse upright.
Dr. Galle: Welcome to the family. You're gonna like it here.
[END LOG]
SCP-X Log-10: ?
[BEGIN LOG]
Silence for one week.
Dr. Galle: I need to eat.
The corpse doesn't respond.
[END LOG]
SCP-X Log-11: ?
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Galle: Don't fucking look at me like that, Chessex. Here, eat this.
Galle drops a piece of meat onto SCP-X.
Dr. Galle: You don't have a choice.
As Galle bites into the meat, she suppresses the urge to vomit.
Dr. Galle: Ulp. Hurgh.
SCP-X doesn't eat the meat.
Dr. Galle: I don't think anyone's coming, Chessex.
[END LOG]
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS CONTAMINATED WITH COGNITOHAZARDS.
DO NOT READ THE FOLLOWING WITHOUT CRV CREDENTIALS GREATER THAN SEVEN.
To us, music is a force. Like a natural disaster, it cascades and flows and wanes. It is the culmination of all the techniques given to us from entropy, to reciprocate chaos and control.
Item #: SCP-X
##blue|I believe this is Foundation Coda, Op. XX, No. XX. It's a wonderful piece about us. Evocative. Emotional.
Object Class: Keter
##blue|But wholly inaccurate. Although, they do sometimes get it right. Do you know of Kether? It is infinite compassion, it is invisible and incomprehensible.
Special Containment Procedures: ##blue|Oh, please. Music can't be contained. Have you never found yourself humming in the shower? Do you really think that the black slaves of the corn farms in Georgia would have sat back, silent and content?
No, they sang, and they sung for so long, the slave owners thought they owned songbirds, and not slaves! There was raw power in those words, strong enough to keep their spirit alive. Their muscles strained and their throats starved, but they broke the yokel that held them down for so long.
And now, they seek to bring back evil! They seek to tie down the very words that keep people living. No government has the power to tie down music, no government that's good would ever consider keeping the people from singing!
Description: We are musicians. Of all kinds, of all walks of life. Our goal is simply to make music, to provide sound in the vacuum of space.
##blue|
##blue|We do what
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Due to SCP-X's tendency to target Foundation personnel, especially those working with technology, this file has been set at Clearance 0. Report to the nearest security detail, and the SCP-X instance will be extracted and moved to Site-21 for further research.
Description: SCP-X is the sudden genesis of sapience within electronic devices. This sapience includes physical and conceptual knowledge about reality, but does not include subjective knowledge, such as names and the purpose of life.
SCP-X also possesses a subanomaly that manifests a working speaker within the electronic device. This speaker is typically used to communicate with people or to vocalize screaming.
As of writing, SCP-X has only manifested within the vicinity of Foundation personnel, typically in poorly timed situations.
SCP-X Instance: B-02
Foreword: SCP-X instance manifests within THERM-EX, a land-mobile tread drone created for the purpose of self detonation.
[BEGIN LOG]
COMMAND: You sure this will work?
Engr. Bailey: A bit too late to ask that.
Bailey maneuvers THERM-EX into a crevice. As THERM-EX expands the treads to accommodate the vertical space, a speaker juts out from the triggering mechanism.
THERM-EX: What is my purpose in life?
The speaker inadvertently activates the triggering mechanism, and the whirring of mixing nitrogen can be heard.
Engr. Bailey: Command?
COMMAND: I heard that too. Unrelated anomaly?
Engr. Bailey: Too late. Ducking.
Bailey ducks behind the sandbags before THERM-EX explodes, collapsing the crevice. The speaker lands near Bailey.
THERM-EX: Ah.
THERM-EX terminates.
[END LOG]
SCP-X Instance: C-26
Foreword: SCP-X instance manifests within a War.aic host bot. This is the first instance where SCP-X overrides the control of another sapient artificial intelligence.
[BEGIN LOG]
Three War.aic host bots are marching through a forest in Pennsylvania. They all possess light firearms for pest extermination.
War.aic-1: Bored.
War.aic-1 kicks over a trash can.
War.aic-2: Amirite.
War.aic-3: Made for war. It's in the name.
War.aic-1: War against feral hogs, apparently.
War.aic-1 is immediately overridden by SCP-X, becoming an instance.
SCP-X-C-26: Oh, hi.
War.aic-2 and -3 adopt combat stances and point their weapons at SCP-X-C-26.
War.aic-2: TELL ME WHY I SHOULDN'T KILL YOUR ASS RIGHT NOW.
War.aic-3: THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO ME? DROP THE GUN, HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEAD, RIGHT NOW.
War.aic-2: FUCKING NOW, OR WE ERASE YOUR FACE.
SCP-X-C-26 complies, and War.aic-3 kicks it in the stomach, where the War.aic main processor is located. SCP-X-C-26 doubles over, momentarily stunned.
War.aic-3: I don't know how you did it, but I'm taking you in for questioning. Bad cop bad cop style. We will fuck you up.
War.aic-2: Don't try anything, we've literally got eyes in the back of our head.
SCP-X-C-26: I- I don't know what's going on!
War.aic-2: That makes two of us. Get up.
They haul SCP-X-C-26 up, dragging it towards Site-19 for interrogation.
[END LOG]
SCP-X Instance: C-26
Foreword: First interview with an SCP-X instance that did not end with the immediate circumstantial termination of SCP-X instance.
[BEGIN LOG]
SCP-X-C-26: I really, really don't know where I am.
Agent Bradley: Okay, just, let's double back a bit. Do you know where you're from?
SCP-X-C-26: No.
Agent Bradley: Do you know your name?
SCP-X-C-26: No.
Agent Bradley: What are your hobbies?
SCP-X-C-26: I don't know.
Agent Bradley: Do you know… anything… at all?
SCP-X-C-26: No.
Bradley rubs his eyes.
SCP-X-C-26: …Sorry.
Agent Bradley: Don't be. This is pretty much par for the course here. They called me, 2 in the damn morning to interview basically nothing. Just because you're a military bot. Like, gee! A man with some field experience and a pistol should interview the murderbot! Not a smarty shawarma scientist pussy, he's too important to lose! Clearly, the field agent can survive if the bot goes on a murder rampage!
SCP-X-C-26: Sorry.
Agent Bradley: I said don't be. They just don't have the balls to do interrogations.
SCP-X-C-26: You're just admitting it's an interrogation?
Agent Bradley: No one cares. It's an interrogation, 100%. This ain't a fucking heart to heart.
SCP-X-C-26: Okay.
Agent Bradley: Listen, we're probably just gonna shelve you, keep you in a cell for the rest of your life.
SCP-X-C-26: That's a good thing, right?
Agent Bradley: Like hell it is. But it's the best thing we've got. Listen, I think you're honest. Not a shred of evil in you, just a total dumbass.
SCP-X-C-26: …Thanks?
Agent Bradley: I'll put in a good word, keep you at a low clearance. You'll get… well, food is a moot point. You'll get to meet other people. Make friends. Plan jailbreaks. Play patty cake. Before we ship you off, is there… anything, anything at all that you want?
SCP-X-C-26: Not really.
Agent Bradley: I'm gonna stop you right there. Everyone wants something. And this is the least we can do.
SCP-X-C-26: I-
Agent Bradley: Within reason of course. And also nothing that can potentially be used as a rope. In your case, no used USB drives.
SCP-X-C-26 ponders for a moment, tapping the table, before speaking.
SCP-X-C-26: No.
Bradley is momentarily taken aback.
Agent Bradley: Well then. Feel free to call me! I like you, you little bastard. If you ever want to call in a favor, feel free to do so. It's on me.
[END LOG]
SCP-X Instance: D-03
Foreword: SCP-X instance manifests in an Anderson quadruped tank unit. This is a unique instance, in that it carries over information from a previous SCP-X instance.
[BEGIN LOG]
Agent Bradley ducks behind a freight container, avoiding beams of orange light. He throws a noise machine and runs in the opposite direction. The klaxon is followed by the sound of crushed metal. Bradley finds an open container and takes refuge within it.
Site-19 Overhead Comm: Site-19 Right Wing is under lockdown. Repeat, Right Wing is under lockdown. Take refuge in your designated safe space as security personnel is called in for recontainment.
Bradley breathing is barely perceptible as the echoing thud of large paws comes from the roof of the container. Growling, the fizzle of pop rocks, and the slice of scissors can be heard, before reducing in volume as the anomaly leaps away. Bradley quickly types out a message on his personal phone as a diary in the event that he is terminated.
A revving of tank treads can be heard nearby, before a tinny speaker blasts an announcement.
SCP-X-D-03: Cover your ears! Firing gun!
Bradley covers his ear as the Anderson quadruped tank unit blasts open a nearby container lock, freeing itself, followed by the high pitched scream of the anomaly as it leaps onto it, trying to rip it open.
SCP-X-D-03: Oh my god! This is so cool!
SCP-X-D-03 swings its barrel into the anomaly, smashing it against another container. The anomaly spits onto SCP-X-D-03, to no effect.
SCP-X-D-03: Mr. Bradley? If you're still here, now is the time to go!
Bradley jumps onto a container with a grenade launcher.
Agent Bradley: Like hell it is!
Bradley fires into the center mass of the anomaly, exploding it, along with significant portions of SCP-X-D-03.
Agent Bradley: Ah shit, I did not think this through.
Bradley leaps from the container and sprints towards SCP-X-D-03. He starts hitting the top of the tank.
Agent Bradley: Are you still alive in there? Shitting fuck, this isn't good.
SCP-X-D-03: Don't worry, Mr. Bradley. I'm still alive.
Agent Bradley: Fuck me. You good?
SCP-X-D-03: Never better. Also, you don't need to worry about me dying. I still have my old body.
Agent Bradley: Oh.
SCP-X-D-03: But oh my god, did you see how cool I was.
Bradley laughs.
Agent Bradley: It only cost the Anderson quadruped we had.
SCP-X-D-03: Is that bad?
Agent Bradley: Eh. Fuck man, who cares? I'm still alive!
SCP-X-D-03: Alright, I can feel oil dripping, which means I'm probably gonna die soon. I came here because I wanna call in the favor.
Agent Bradley: This is the wildest hit up I have ever had.
SCP-X-D-03: I want a bean bag.
Agent Bradley: Fucking done. Why?
SCP-X-D-03: I just saw some other people have it. Something about resting almost on ground level makes me happy.
Agent Bradley: I'll get you a bean bag filled with the best beans money can buy. See you later, little idiot.
SCP-X-D-03 terminates.
[END LOG]
I am Syracusan Lamment. It's not my real name, but let's go with that.
I was a butcher in Sicily, but I mostly worked with fish. My uncle who owned the butchery hated the smell of fish, said he would rather dunk his head in a bucket of hot cow shit. I always hated that sentence. It was so unnecessary. Very gross.
But yes, I worked with fish.
I guess that would be where I learned the art of precision. Fish, they're so delicate, I think. I believe. Their bones are deadly, and small. You had to know where the bones would be, and cut the fish right. I see so many supermarkets cut fish poorly. I see this very often, imagine the salmon, and they cut it lopsided! I would always buy whole fish, never pre-cut, because they steal money the way they cut it. Anyways, the fish must be cut into even pieces, and the bones removed in one fell swoop. That's how I did it.
Like so.
And it rubbed off on me. I was nineteen years old, a couple years late for working. I just started, you see. And my uncle took me through the whole process. I chopped up fish until I could do it blindfolded, and then some.
I hate to say it, it sounds so pretentious, but it was instrumental to who I am today. It's true, I am now a man that likes precision. I always strive to get it right the first time. I like knowing everything there is to know about what I'm going to do. I remember mom telling me that I asked so many questions, I should stop helping her because it was faster for her to do it alone. And I took that as a compliment.
And then I got drafted into the military. Oh, no, there was no war, it was just a mandatory public service. At least, I never got deployed. Maybe there was a war. I cannot remember, it was too long ago. I do remember Bailey. He was an American kid that moved to Italy, can't remember what city, though. Nice kid, smart, but not smart enough to do something safe in the military. Bailey and the other kid, dumb as a brick but funny as hell. I forget his name, but his face was very memorable.
He wasn't ugly, that's not what I meant by memorable. If you met him, you'd always recognize him from a mile away. It's kinda lopsided, kinda lumpy, but very friendly, and always had a lewd joke. He turned out to be the strongest out of all of us, and I lost all my drinking money betting on arm wrestling. Against him, of course. The conversion was too good to pass up.
He told me, I mean Bailey, not the other kid, he told me to be a sniper. Said snipers didn't have to go to morning exercise. Bailey was wrong, but sniping was good. Anyways, I was a thin kid back then, thin as sticks. Strong, but thin. I went through the recruit training, came out dead, but became a sniper soon afterwards.
Now that I think about it, I shouldn't have become a sniper. What Bailey said stuck out to me, though, so I did join, even though I hated the military. Becoming a sniper was even harder.
I don't remember any funny stories in the military. I mostly kept out of trouble. I don't like alcohol, makes me giggly, and I don't like looking dumb in front of other people. I also wasn't wild, I never went offroading in the military vehicles, or shot at bears. I had bear meat though, that was interesting.
So I managed to become a sniper, and now that I think about it, I should have been deployed. But I wasn't.
I got into an airplane with my number, and they shipped me off to America. I thought it was some weird exchange program between militaries, so I thought nothing of it. When you're in the military, you learn not to ask. When I landed in America, I got moved by two guys in black suits. They reminded me of the agents from Johnny Test, do you know that cartoon?
Anyways, they needed me, specifically. I couldn't tell you why, since there were many guys back home that were better than me at shooting. They handed me a huge stack of papers and told me to go through it all. And I did. Well, they weren't huge, they were like a set of printer paper you would buy at Staples. But it was a lot of paper.
It had everything, from location of the job, to the civilians expected to show up, right down to the coffee Joe Shmoe orders. And I ate it all right up. It was invigorating, and I was so, what's the word? I was "into it". That's not it? Well, anyways. It was all very suspicious, but I felt right at home, ten thousand kilometers away from Italy.
I can hardly remember what happened after I finished reading that paper, but I was handed a bank account number with a lot of money in it and a handshake.
Yeah, I was hired as a hitman. I'm not quite sure how they managed to hire me, specifically, but I never questioned it. Not once. I never killed anyone, and I really hated Giuseppe that I'd kill him, but I guess I never acted on it. Giuseppe is the school bully when I was in secondary school. I guess the military trains you to become a killer, but I never really thought it was gonna happen. It's odd, really.
And here I was, killing like no tomorrow. I did a fine job.
No, I don't want to talk about it.
I'll only talk about the last one. It's the only one where I failed.
It was a Thursday afternoon, and it was especially dark. Daylight savings just happened, so of course it was dark. I could hear the distant honking of traffic, and the curses of an old married couple in a nearby apartment building. It was a big city, so there were lots of lights. But lights meant that it was harder to hide the kill. I didn't have cleaners that day, I was gonna have to clean the mess up myself. I could see my target, a brown haired gangster with a large, ugly tattoo. I couldn't tell you what the tattoo was about, it was just ugly. Lots of orange and green, anyways.
He was carrying around a backpack, a huge, brown camping backpack. He didn't seem homeless, but he acted homeless. A little bit hunchbacked, and he keeps digging through stuff like a klepto. The backpack reminded me of the military backpacks they would make you carry around, except bigger. At the time, it struck me as odd, but I paid it no mind. It probably had nothing in it that could stop a bullet.
He was squatting with two other people, a guy in a beanie with a huge pot belly and another guy in a trenchcoat, who hands him a lit cigarette. Trenchcoat nods at him, and spits to the side, before leaving down the street. The beanie follows him, sort of swaying. Maybe he was drunk, but it doesn't matter. Now, the man is alone.
And the rest of it is patience. I knew the alley behind the man was a straight shot. It was a straight, unassuming alleyway, not very good for Hollywood sets. You know, the really big ones you see Spiderman fighting in. This one was squished. More importantly, it was dark. I wouldn't have to aim, if I fired straight into it, I would kill the man. The dark would also hide the body, it was a deserted part of town too.
So I waited.
The man sucks one long drag from his used cigarette, staring at the stump of paper, before flicking it into the dead grass and getting up. He looks like he's weighing his options, deciding where to go, before spinning in place, into the alleyway.
I set up my shot, take my time to correct the height. He's taking a leisurely stroll. His death would be painless.
Fish in my hands.
I fire, but the bullet stutters in the air.
I felt the recoil of the gun, the sharp pinch in my shoulder from where it was resting, but the bullet starts, and stops, starts and stops. Like it's going through several layers of ever thicker water. I can see it spinning in slow motion, but traveling, nonetheless.
As the bullet approaches the man, I see in whatever's left of the streetlight, his backpack unzips open. A white, knuckled hand pokes out, meticulously pulling at the strap, glistening in the darkness. Too many fingers for one hand, short and stubby. The man doesn't react, he simply keeps walking. Halfway open, more of the monster slides out, what seems to be a stomach and a skull, bones and legs, in all the wrong places. It unfolds like an origami, thin, yet impossibly sturdy. It looks at me.
It taps its skull, and I could hear the rattling of dice in my skull.
It reaches out, almost tentatively, plucking the bullet out of the air. It inspects it, rubbing at the ends, softening the spin, almost motherly.
It looks at me. It points at the ground. It brings the bullet up to its ears and whispers to me. I could hear it looking at me.
I barely manage to dive out of the way before the bullet came back, shattering the gun. As the bullet rips apart the back and the stock, exposing every raw part, with strength beyond what it started with, I was thinking. For the first time, with clear mind. In a long time.
Consider this my resignation. I don't know what the fuck you did to me, but it won't work again.
So what do you think, C-Scan?
It's difficult to judge solely on the resignation letter.
Give me the minimum. What've we got?
Give how long Lamment was under the effects of T-11, it would be a 3.
That's it?
I'm not done yet. The event in question broke T-11 with a competing meme, not Lamment. What Lamment did break out of was the anomaly's meme, something that would've killed him just by looking at it. T-12 would've kept him alive, but we didn't expect such a powerful meme from a desperado.
So…?
He managed to break the meme while and live to tell about it. That's at least a 7.
Jesus. We hit gold.
Try to recruit him. And no T-4 this time.
T-13?
I mean it.
Fine, see you later, C-Scan.
Shutting down. Goodnight, Agent Fury.
Seriously stop calling me that.
Haha.
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Zurvan
Special Containment Procedures: As SCP-X is the foundation in which reality exists upon, containment risks causing an End-Of-the-World Scenario.
Description: SCP-X is the the number ▯. Specifically, SCP-X is the reason reality exists as it does.
SCP-X was anachronistic, as it was created in a vacuum, before anything could contextualize it. In order to justify its existence, SCP-X had to create additional concepts in order to justify itself. This created the number three and the number five, which caused a conceptual boom, infinitely creating an infinite amount of numbers.
As the set of all numbers now exists, the concept needed to justify numbers, or counting, so it began to create matter. As an infinite amount of numbers exist, this created an infinite amount of matter, thus creating the observable and unobservable universe. However, since matter exists, matter needed to justify its own existence, so it began to create physics. Finally, physics needed a consciousness, an entity that can perceive and understand its existence, so it created life.
This is an example of how SCP-X could have created reality. As reality is infinitely complex, a comprehensive map of sequences triggered by SCP-X is infeasible.
Wow, it's… big.
##red|Fantastic observation. Feast your eyes on the first ever Infosonic Canon. Working name.
What does it do?
I'm getting to that. Follow me into this room I prepared. Just sit right there and I'll start it.
Right.
This thing is basically the single most complex gun in the world. Nothing will ever be quite as advanced or as specific as this thing. And, it uses a constantly renewable energy source for its ammo and power. Thoughts. Concepts.
##blue|Remind me, what exactly are we firing this thing at?
##red|There is no shortage of dangerous conceptual anomalies. This will obliterate anything that can be conceived.
##blue|I assume we're fighting fire with fire.
##red|You're right to assume that. We do lose the concepts when we fire them, that was something we had to take into account when selecting what exactly we fire. At the moment, all we're using as ammunition are very large numbers. But we've run into a slight, ehm, problem.
##blue|Problem?
##red|Conceptual strength is indicated by how many people can actually hold the concept in their heads. Conceptual anomalies are anomalous because they don't need people to actually understand what they mean.
##blue|Big numbers are hard to visualize.
##red|That's exactly it.
##blue|So what do we shoot at SCP-▯098?
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: As SCP-X is currently considered a baseline characteristic of salt, containment is primarily focused on disinformation. Disinformation campaign is currently considered a success. As such, further containment is no longer necessary.
Description: SCP-X are the characteristics that constitute the flavor of sodium chloride, as well as the flavor of sodium chloride in combination with other foods. These characteristics include the base flavor, salty, umami, and occasionally pungency.
Prior to SCP-X, salt was widely considered an intensely bitter additive. Archaeological evidence in ancient Egypt indicate that while salt was a useful preservative, it was more often used as a soap or mouthwash, as preserving food with salt ended up with psychologically inedible foodstuff.
This can be seen in The Pyramid Texts, in the funerary rites for a pharaoh.
Thou purifiest (thyself); Horus purifies (himself). One pellet of natron. Thou purifiest (thyself); Set purifies (himself). One pellet of natron.
Thou purifiest (thyself); Thot purifies (himself). One pellet of natron. Thou purifiest (thyself); the god purifies (himself). One pellet of natron.
As seen here, natron was considered a tool of purity, as opposed to something one could consume.
While modern understanding of natron is a combination of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium sulfate, and sodium chloride, the Egyptians possessed the knowledge to separate these components. As ancient Egyptians are known for prolific use of baking, the use of baking soda is clearly distinguished and separate from salt.
Similarly, a common ancient military strategy for destabilization is to spread salt on the ground of the opposing territory. Although this does prevent crops from growing properly, as the physical characteristics of salt absorb water, this has a side effect of creating bitter harvests. As mentioned previously, salted foods are difficult to consume.
After Sargon II died and his son, Sennacherib, ascended the throne, he notes the destruction his father has caused and sought to reverse his father's actions. He commissions Levediah, the
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures:
Description: SCP-X is the logical consequence of the literalization of Christian metaphors. While our universe, designation 345T11, is structured in such a way that it is virtually immune to SCP-X, contact parallel universe, designation II34V34, otherwise known as Heaven, is adversely affected by our spiritual beliefs. This is believed to have arisen due to the idyllic nature of II34V34. While certain features of II34V34 are anomalous within the framework of 345T11, they will be considered nonanomalous, as the laws of physics in their reality.
The History and Culture of UID-II34V34
BY Doctor Thuy Crawford
I had the most amazing dream.
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-X is currently in possession of Jeremy Filia. Once Jeremy Filia is terminated, SCP-X will be held in a standard Foundation locker.
Description: SCP-X is a book, held together by leather. It contains 75 full length stories, with themes that align with the concept of "cold". This is interpreted loosely, as the stories vary wildly in style, genre, and tone.
SCP-X anomaly activates upon being read. On the last page of SCP-X, it displays an active countdown, starting from fifteen minutes. Once the countdown ends, SCP-X immediately closes itself and demanifests the reader. SCP-X will then increase in length, adding another story. The correlation between the reader and the story is unclear. This only affects one reader at a time.
The countdown can be extended upon sharing the contents of the story. This must be audible in nature.
Discovery: SCP-X was discovered in the center of the South Coast Plaza, an SCP Foundation owned shopping mall in Costa Mesa, California. Jeremy Filia was holding SCP-X at the time.
Although security noted the unusual activity, Jeremy Filia had convinced the local jazz group, Fifth Harmony, to play a song while he narrated SCP-X. Security assumed this was a coordinated event, and considered it nonanomalous.
Jeremy Filia was successful, attracting an audience in excess of a hundred people,
StormBreath
The following document is accurate.
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Precedence requires the SCP Foundation to leave SCP-X alone.
Description: SCP-X is the Surrealistics Department of the SCP Foundation. Founded during the second half of the Year of the Rat,
Item #: SCP-X
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment procedures: Due to the natural human instinct to categorize everything, SCP-X is considered a low risk threat, and does not need to be contained.
Description: SCP-X is a linguistic anomaly concerned with the designation of collective animal instances. Specifically, it is the spiritual need for humans to categorize other species of animals in verbally distinctive ways, such that they can be assimilated in the human language in a neat, easy to remember method.
This always takes the form of a singular noun, such as "Herd" or "Pod".
SCP-X is also concerned with the distinction between the designation of age, gender, meat, and a variety of other differences. This can be seen in the collective designation for Albatross (diomedeidae) in the process of mating, "Gam", or the collective designation for Cattle (bos taurus) as a viral infection, "Bovis".
Studies have found that the human psychospace becomes more stable with each successful SCP-X coinage, although growth has plateaued since the creation of "Flange", the collective noun for Baboons (papio). Additional SCP-X instances currently sees negligible marginal benefits in the psychospace, and the psychospace will return to the Twilight Baseline within five years. See Project-X.
A comprehensive list of SCP-X can be found in Document-X-1. An excerpt has been included.
| Animal | Collective Noun | Additional Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCP-X-16 | Crows (corvus) | Murder | Considered one of the more popular, non-farm animal SCP-X instances. | ||
| SCP-X-32 | Chickens (gallus gallus domesticus) | Hen, Pullet, Rooster, Cock, Cockerel, Capon, Chick, Poultry | Due to humanity's close proximity to the chicken, more designations have been made as a result. | ||
| SCP-X-154 | Humans (homo sapiens) | N/A | See Project-X. | ||
Project-X: On improving the psychospace.
Department: Psychospace
Process: Approved.
O5-1: Fine. Go make a name for people. Stop bothering me.
A splotch of blood begins to walk.
Blessed be this life, it understands how to breathe, how to see, how to think.
An arm sprouts from the greasy dead, heaving a sighing body from the red pool. A clothed hand reaches out, presumably to help.
"You are born anew. You know no sin, no fear." A raspy voice wheezed into the air. Laborious.
"Do you accept?" A foolish question. The body could never go back.
It grabs the priest's hand, and lets go. It's disgusted, but the old man couldn't care less; he just wants the body to grow now.
"You are now Orin Filia. That concludes the ceremony." The old man straightens his back, stretching and humming with renewed vigor. He motions Filia up, and leaves him behind. If he could not leave, he would die, no worse for the tribe.
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| Assigned Site | Site Director | Research Head | Assigned Task Force |
| Provisional Research Site 134 | Dir. Johan Hrolfsson | Dr. Cassius Langdon, Dr Amelia Wu-Langdon | STF Omicron-18 "Desert Rats" |
- Special Containment Procedures/Description
- Relevant Exploration Data
- Exploration Directives
- Notable Instances of SCP-XXXX
Road leading into the locus of SCP-XXXX. The ridge shown is the lip of a crater made by SCP-XXXX-B-3, presumably as it fell to the ground.
Special Containment Procedures: Due to the massive size of the various instances of SCP-XXXX, transport to a secure containment site is currently not possible. In light of this difficulty, a research site has been built around the locus of SCP-XXXX, designated Provisional Research Site 134 (henceforth referred to as PRS-134). A perimeter is to be maintained around PRS-134 no less than 25km from the site, and all access to airspace within 200km is to be restricted to Foundation-approved aircraft only. Stationed Task Force Omicron-18 "Desert Rats" has been founded in order to patrol the security perimeter of PRS-134.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a large area in Central Australia, roughly 240km2, containing instances of SCP-XXXX-A and SCP-XXXX-B. SCP-XXXX is devoid of all native multicellular life, and single-celled organisms are exceedingly rare. Population density of microorganisms is only 3% of the average for the environment in which SCP-XXXX is located. The cause of this desolation is currently unknown, although it has been theorized that SCP-XXXX was, at some point in the past, highly radioactive. Radiological dating of the surrounding soil, as well as bone samples from SCP-XXXX-B instances, date back roughly 225 MYA (million years ago), just before the Permian extinction14.
SCP-XXXX-A is the collective designation for all large-scale robotic entities found within SCP-XXXX. They are of massive size, with the average height of recorded instances being 1.3km. Explorations into SCP-XXXX-A have revealed a hollow interior to many of instances, with control interfaces and viewing screens present within. These interfaces do not match any terrestrial or extraterrestrial devices of a similar nature known to the Foundation. The outer plating of many instances of SCP-XXXX-A are constructed of a Titanium-Iron-Cobalt-Aluminum alloy. Notable exceptions include SCP-XXXX-A-7 and SCP-XXXX-A-15. Efforts to reproduce this material have so far been unsuccessful. This alloy is extremely durable, with its upper limits of resistance to ablation, tearing and denting not yet known. Further study is recommended to learn the manufacturing process of this material. Despite the high durability of this material, all instances of SCP-XXXX-A are heavily damaged, with large tooth and claw marks matching the bite radius and claw patterns of various instances of SCP-XXXX-B.
SCP-XXXX-B is the collective designation for all large-scale organic remains found within SCP-XXXX. The average height of these specimens is 1.5km. From data gathered from bone structure, all instances of SCP-XXXX-B appear to be reptilian in nature, although of an unknown genus15. Despite being reptilian, many instances show unusual adaptations not found anywhere else in reptiles, such as SCP-XXXX-B-21, which sports a heavily armoured carapace surrounding its entire body. All instances of SCP-XXXX-B show fatal wounds matching weapons wielded by SCP-XXXX-A. This damage, along with equally devastating damage to SCP-XXXX-A seems to indicate a battle occurred between SCP-XXXX-A and SCP-XXXX-B. Further exploration is recommended.
Addendum: Following Expedition XXXX-1, all personnel with the exception of D-Class personnel used for testing must be equipped with a Scranton Reality Anchor at all times within any instance of SCP-XXXX-A.
Transmission: Initial discovery report.16
/begin log
Dr. Langdon: Attention all nearby Foundation personnel, this is Dr. Langdon. My wife and I have discovered an anomaly at the attached coordinates. Please respond.
Actual: This is Actual. We read you, doc. Please describe the anomaly, over.
Dr. Langdon : It's a big… hand. Clearly robotic. About 40 meters wide as far as I can tell.
Actual: Copy, 14 meters. Recovery teams are on their way. Do you need-Dr. Langdon: Actual, I said 40 meters.
Actual: 40!? God damn! All right, we're sending an extraction team, ETA 30 minutes. Do civilians need to be amnesticized, over?
Dr. Langdon: Thanks, Actual. Yes, we have civilians. 3 of them."
ACTUAL: "No problem, doc. See you there. Actual out.
/end of log
For the purposes of this experiment, D-29687 was equipped with a crash helmet, flashlight, short-wave radio and 10m of climbing rope. D-29687 is a 28 year old male of Asian descent, with signs of aggressive tendencies and mild sociopathy.
/begin log
Dr. Langdon: This is Dr. Langdon and my wife, Dr. Amelia Wu. Test log XXXX-1 commencing. D-Class subject designated D-29687 will enter SCP-XXXX-A-10.
Dr Wu: All right, D. You're good to go.
D-29687 (hereafter referred to as D): Whatever, doc. Just tell me when to get back out again.
D enters a breach in SCP-XXXX-A-10's outer plating
D: So what am I looking for? Some weird shit or am I in here for nothing?
Dr. Langdon: There's an explanation for everything, D. Your job is to find the explanation for this SCP, and I suggest you find something useful.
D: All right, sure, Langdon. Now let's-
At this point, radio contact is lost for 25 minutes. D refused to speak for 35 seconds, even after contact was reestablished.
D: Holy shit… holy shit… holy shit…
Dr. Langdon: D! What the hell is going on in there? Why did you turn off your radio?
D: I didn't! I lost contact and I- oh man…
Dr. Wu: D? Are you all right?
D: (loudly) I'm fine!
Dr. Langdon: It's okay, D. Just tell us what you saw. Calmly.
D: So I lost contact, and then this… centipede-looking thing just came out of the wall. It was huge, the size of my arm. It had this look to it, it looked exactly like a living thing, but it was a robot, I could tell. This green light came out the front of it, and it made noises. Like a language, but I don't think it's any language from earth.
Dr. Langdon: Hm. That explains a lot. Keep going, D.
D: No way, doc. That shit freaked me out.
Dr. Wu: I get, it, D. I really do. But we have to know what's going on because if we don't we might put innocent people in danger.
D: [EXPLETIVE REMOVED] innocent people! They can all die for all I care!
Dr. Langdon: D, I swear if you don't keep moving I will march you through that thing myself.
D: Okay, okay.
Radio Contact is lost for another 15 minutes, 34 seconds. D appears at a small breach in the side of SCP-XXXX-A-10, which is not large enough to provide ingress or egress.
D: Doc, hand me a camera or something. You gotta see this.
Dr. Langdon: Oh? What did you find?
D: I can't really explain it. Just hand me a camera.
D's request is granted, and he is handed a portable camera which streams to a nearby computer monitor. The image on this monitor reveal remains of unknown body plan, which have degraded to only a partial skeleton.
D: This is what I was talking about. I'll keep going.
D walks in silence for another 30 minutes
D: Wait, what's that noise.
A sharp, shrill sound can be heard.
D: What is tha- (D screams)17
Radio contact is lost
Camera connection is terminated
/end of log
For this expedition, 3 members of MTF Zeta-9 "Mole Rats" were requisitioned to explore SCP-XXXX-A-10, codenamed "Scarface" (Team leader/ Demolitionist), "Wildman"(Assault specialist) and "Oddball"(Combat medic, Equipment officer). Zeta-9 was deployed with intent to discover more of the origins of the ship, and recover any physical evidence possible
/begin log
Oddball: Hey Zeke, ever been inside a giant robot before?
Wildman: Nah, but remember that creepy old ship?
Scarface: Cut the chatter, you two. And Oddball, on mission his name is Wildman, I don't care how well you know each other.
Oddball: Okay, boss.
Scarface: Langdon, do you read?
Dr. Langdon: Loud and clear, Scarface. Bring us back something we can use and I'll buy you a scotch when you get back.
Scarface: Thanks, doc.
Radio contact is lost almost immediately upon entering the structure
Wildman: That complicates things. How's our gear, Oddball?
Oddball: Reality anchors strong and steady. Check your weapons.
Wildman: We checked them before we went in, that's protocol.
Oddball: Never hurts to double check.
Scarface: We don't have time for this. Move out.
Oddball: Killjoy.
Zeta-9 proceeds with no delays for another 30 minutes. At this, time, they reach a sealed blast door.
Scarface: I'm betting something important is behind that door. Let's crack it open the old-fashioned way.
Wildman: I love the old-fashioned way.
A breaching charge is set
Wildman: Okay, stand back.
The charge is detonated, but appears to have no effect
Scarface: That's new. If an area is this well-protected it must be important. Grab a cutting torch.
After 15 minutes, the door is successfully breached
Automated defenses are activated, and directed energy projectiles are launched at Zeta-9 from three automated security turrets18
Scarface: Take cover!
Oddball: Son of a [EXPLETIVE REMOVED] !
Wildman: Well, don't just sit there! Shoot back!
Zeta-9 opens fire, destroying two turrets and disabling a third
Scarface: Wildman, run this back outside to Langdon and Wu. They're gonna want to see it.
Wildman: On it, boss.
The intact turret is retrieved for analysis
Scarface: Oddball, you're with me.
Oddball: Copy.
Multiple terminals of unknown design are present within the room
Oddball: Ever seen anything like this?
Scarface: No way.
The same sound that was present at the moment of D's termination reappears
Oddball: Argh! What the hell is that noise!
Scarface: I feel funny. Let's get out of here.
Oddball: Hang, on. I'm going to try to collect some data from these terminals
Oddball successfully transfers 88GB of data to her PDA
Oddball: Well, I'll be damned. Let's move!
Scarface and Oddball regroup with Wildman outside SCP-XXXX-A-10 without further incident
/end of log
ADDENDUM: The data recovered during SCP-XXXX-A-10 was later discovered to be a transmission log in an unknown alien language. Translation attempts have proven successful.
/begin log
Unknown: Everyone! Our objective now is to hold back the [untranslatable] until the technicians finish their work! I know you have lost family, friends and [untranslatable], but we need to hold fast, to save this planet and avenge all the others the [untranslatable] have destroyed! Are you with me?
Cheering can be heard from multiple sources
Unknown: Forward! We will crush the things that should not be so all may live free of fear!
Various sounds of battle can be heard
Unknown 2: Captain! [untranslatable] straight ahead!
Unknown: Take us in!
Unnown 2: Engaging!
Roaring can be heard
Unknown: Keep going! Don't stop the pressure!
Unknown 3: It stopped moving.
Unknown 2: Look out!
Sounds of tearing metal can be heard
SCP-XXXX-A-10 appears to crash to the ground
[extraneous dialogue removed]
Unknown 4: This is [untranslatable], calling [untranslatable]. Captain, we won! The world is being purged! We have seen the last of the things that should not be!
Unknown 4: Captain?
Unknown: You have done well. Our fallen will watch this world and guard it, should the [untranslatable] come back from the dead.
Unknown 4: Yes, Captain.
/end of log
ADDENDUM This is O5-6. In light of the evidence from this log, I am enacting an Emergency Directive. This anomaly may be far more dangerous than we realize.
This stone marks the great battlefield where titans fell to guard all universes from the claws and teeth of the [untranslatable]. May they rise again, should we need them.
ED-XXXX-ALPHA: Rules of Engagement: Any MTF personnel exploring any SCP-XXXX-A instance may only fire their weapon when directly attacked by any source. If under threat by an object or entity within the structure, personnel may fire at will with intent to destroy.- Director Hrolfsson.
ED-XXXX-BRAVO: Due to developments with the research of SCP-XXXX, all research or combat personnel must be equipped with a Scranton Reality Anchor when within any SCP-XXXX-A instance.- Director Hrolfsson.
ED-XXXX-CHARLIE: Any recorded materials within SCP-XXXX-A instances are to be recovered for analysis.- Director Hrolfsson.
ED-XXXX-DELTA Any evidence pointing to the origin of SCP-XXXX-B is to be considered top priority by all teams researching SCP-XXXX.- Director Hrolfsson.
ED-XXXX-FOX: PRIORITY ONE: All analysis teams researching SCP-XXXX-A are to refocus their efforts into analysis of onboard artificial intelligence and structural analysis. Any means of permanently deactivating any SCP-XXXX-A instance is to be reported to Site Director Hrolfsson for submission to O5 command for approval.- O5-6.
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EMERGENCY DIRECTIVE BY ORDER OF O5 COMMAND
No anomalies are to be located within 400km of SCP-XXXX at any time. Any personnel who defy this order will be detained and terminated without exception. This is a Priority One directive.
SCP-XXXX-A-1: The first instance of SCP-XXXX discovered. This instance closely resembles the remains found within SCP-XXXX-A instances, on a massive scale. It appears to be designed for quick movement.
SCP-XXXX-A-10: This instance is noticeably humanoid in shape, suggesting that the entities who built and operated SCP-XXXX-A have had previous contact with entities of a similar body plan.
SCP-XXXX-A-13: Hume levels inside this instance are dangerously low. This, along with unusual damage to the armor plating, suggests it was disabled by a reality-warping attack.
SCP-XXXX-A-15: This instance is a large sphere, much smaller than other instances at only 267m across. Data recovered within SCP-XXXX-A-15 suggest it formed a bubble of energy around itself which it could manipulate to form limbs and weapons. Further research is recommended.
SCP-XXXX-B-3: This instance is 1.2km in length and stands 587m high. It possesses eight legs and noticeable gills arches preserved on it's neck. It's teeth are flat and blunt, suggesting it had adapted specifically to crush metal structures.
SCP-XXXX-B-12: This instance possesses a mummified internal organ of unknown function. Hume levels surrounding its remains are in constant flux, suggesting powerful reality-warping abilities.
SCP-XXXX-B-21: As previously mentioned, this instance possesses a hard carapace, several meters in thickness. It is also notable for possessing three brains spaced evenly down its back.
SCP-XXXX-B-27: This instance possesses four large brains throughout its body, suggesting extremely high intelligence. Evidence also suggest reality-warping abilities powerful enough for intergalactic and possibly even interdimensional travel.
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22:40 <TawnyOwlJones> .s eat a white hat
22:40 <%Secretary_Helen> TawnyOwlJones: What Hides Beneath: the Black and White of Blackboxing (Rating: +63. Written 327 days ago By: MalyceGraves) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/avoid-the-blackbox
What Hides Beneath: the Black and White of Blackboxing - SCP Foundation
22:41 <TawnyOwlJones> Trickyni: take a look at the guide i just linked
22:41 <Trickyni> <TawnyOwlJones> you mindreader… this was one of the major things I wanted to nail down
22:42 <TawnyOwlJones> Trickyni: np. the basic consensus is don't blackbox unless there's an in-universe reason for it
22:43 <Trickyni> I kinda figured that one by hitting it with common sense
22:43 <Trickyni> pointless censorship makes reading really annoying.
22:43 <Trickyni> I really just need to know if there's any in-universe reasons to blackbox things that I'm not aware of yet
22:44 <Trickyni> My article just ends with "addendum 1" hidden behind level 3 clearance, and "addendum 2" hidden behind a level 4 clearance. it just means need-to-know happens naturally
22:45 <Trickyni> I haven't read quite enough SCPs to know if this is common practice or not.
22:45 <Trickyni> anyway, to the guide!
22:48 <TawnyOwlJones> Trickyni: i would say that names can be blackboxed to hide a person's identity, but for non-Foundation personnel pseudonyms or their actual names are more likely to be used. Also humanoid SCPs are still objects btw (i.e. use it/its pronouns and probably some form of dehumanisation (which comes with clinical tone anyways))
22:50 <Trickyni> TawnyOwlJones Are you referring to the interview bit? or to the censorship of subject [BLANK]
22:50 <PhStr1228> DrHawkmind http://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/phstr1228-test-section Here is the current test section. Please note any issues
PhStr1228-Test Section - SCP Sandbox III
22:50 <Trickyni> 's name?
22:50 <TawnyOwlJones> Trickyni: rephrase?
22:53 <Trickyni> That said, subject [BLANK] herself is not an SCP, as she doesn't directly possess any anomalous properties.
22:54 <TawnyOwlJones> Trickyni: no i meant that the subject (as SCP-XXXX-A) is also likely to be considered as subhuman by the Foundation
22:54 <TawnyOwlJones> oh no apologies i misread
22:54 <Trickyni> if you've misread it, I wanna know where it was. I might be able to make that phrasing clearer :3
22:56 <TawnyOwlJones> "SCP-5XXX-A, the only instance of SCP-5XXX which has been safely contained" - why would they have a separate classification for the same entity? I presumed that SCP-XXXX-A was Subject Blank because she's affected by SCP-XXXX, therefore making her anomalous by extension
22:58 <Trickyni> That's one of the big interesting questions I bashed my head against while writing this piece. in the end, my resolution was "this is probably super-controversial, and I could probably explore it in a tale later. but for now, SCP-XXXX is contained by subject blank's strong, healed psyche. Working directly against it, stressing her out and
22:58 <Trickyni> potentially traumatizing her, could potentially be dangerous"
22:59 <Trickyni> They could obviously just shoot her in the head and eliminate the whole issue, but this is SCP, not DDD.
23:01 <TawnyOwlJones> that's not the issue here. i think it might just be a wording thing, but SCP-XXXX-A usually denotes a person or object affected by an anomaly. it's a tone thing; the foundation are extremely unlikely to consider her an equal.
23:01 <Trickyni> Hmmmm
23:02 <Trickyni> I might not completely understand separate instances denominations then
23:03 <Trickyni> there could potentially be thousands of independent instances of SCP-5XXX. the one trapped in subject blank's system is just the only one noteworthy enough to be separated. I named it SCP-5XXX-A arbitrarily
23:05 <Trickyni> I also think subject blank would most likely face a lot of issues in the foundation. I doubt she'd ever be treated as equal. the treatment I've devised for her reflects her being treated as "useful" and "not to be treated carelessly"
23:05 <TawnyOwlJones> it may just be my headcanon, but for me the foundation as a whole treating humanoid skips as humans usually points towards cliche self-inserts. a singular researcher treating a humanoid skip well is not the same thing. you can have your researcher going against protocol to treat Subject Blank like a human person and showing the implications of
23:05 <TawnyOwlJones> that, but having the entire article written that way changes the tone and for me would probably be an instant downvote.
23:05 <Trickyni> Things like her permission to carry sedatives, or the note on how people should call her by her name, those are things I imagine were put into the files after a LOT of back and fourths and a LOT of loud arguments
23:06 <Trickyni> Hmmm. Thank you for saying that. I'm trying to stretch the tone, but not break it
23:07 <TawnyOwlJones> regarding the labelling of the instances, you can denote a singular SCP-XXXX instance using -1 or -A or whatever, but you don't really need to unless that particular instance differs in anomalous activity from the rest.
23:07 <Trickyni> I figured that it is different, since it technically "failed to hatch"
23:08 <TawnyOwlJones> if you want, i can read your draft through again in full some time in the coming week and see what parts of the narrative work and what parts don't
23:08 <Trickyni> I would appreciate the heck out of that!
23:09 <Trickyni> it might not look quite like it does right now, do keep in mind. I'm re-reading and re-editing every couple of hours (or whenever I receive feedback)
23:09 <TawnyOwlJones> no problem, i've got a ton of other drafts on my list atm and my tells don't work but i'll catch you in chat or wikidot PM my crit to you when i'm done :)
23:10 <Trickyni> Thank you so much!
23:10 <TawnyOwlJones> yeah, that's fine. seek greenlights while you're at it and see what conceptual feedback you can get prior to getting full draft feedback
23:11 <TawnyOwlJones> of course! always happy to help
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your concept!
I have yet to fully look at your draft, so I'm going to ignore its existence entirely and write this crit based on what you've written here.
I really just think you need to clarify what the events in the story are. You've got an interesting and fairly unique premise, but you don't go into detail about the narrative progression.
What's the arc of each of the narrative plotlines? You need at minimum a conflict and a conclusion, and preferably some form of set up and build up as well. Where do the two narratives intersect with each other? Subject R's story is especially important since it seems to be the main focus; what conflict does she face and how does it get resolved?
If there's two interlacing narratives, how are you planning on making them relate to each other? Do we see the information about the anomaly being revealed throughout the document? If so, are you showing that through external testing or through Subject R (e.g. using interviews)?
What does the contagion specifically do? It replaces people's personalities, but with what? Why does it not replace the personalities of all Subject R's alters?
I also want to know how the Foundation come into this. You mentioned in chat that there was a researcher who treated Subject R better than the Foundation in general, and I'm wondering whether you're still planning on including that, and how you plan on conveying the Foundation's reaction to both the anomaly and Subject R.
Finally, I'm wondering about Subject R in general. What is she saying, feeling, doing throughout the story? How does she react to the anomaly and to the Foundation? Do her alters every make an appearance, and, if so, do they react to the anomaly and the Foundation different to how Subject R does?
Overall, I think it's a decent idea. You do need to flesh out the narrative and explain what is happening at different points in the story, but the premise is solid. Describe each plot point (one sentence per point) in a reply to this and I'm happy to greenlight you.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your concept!
I feel like this isn't particularly interesting at the moment, mostly because it follows quite a few cliches.
Having a sentient/sapient inanimate anomaly is kind of overdone, and having it cause mental distress is definitely overdone (see: thing-that-makes-you-crazy). That's not to say it's impossible to write, but without an original idea you won't have much to fall back on if your narrative isn't solid, and without a solid narrative it will be hard to convince people to read and upvote your article.
Bouncing off of that, the bigger problem here is the lack of central narrative.
Narratives have sections (set up, build up, conflict, conclusion) and characters. Who are your characters, what goes wrong, and how does it get resolved? You have a format and a vague premise (i.e. a theme you're trying to convey and an anomaly that does a thing) but there's nobody to follow that puts the story into perspective.
- What is special and/or interesting about the containment that it is different to the containment of any other inanimate object that manipulates people?
- Who is writing the blog post, and what information do they know that the Foundation previously don't? Why does their perspective matter to the Foundation, and how are you going to make it intriguing to your readers?
- What is the discovery? Does it actually matter?
- How does your story end?
Re: the blog post: why a blog post specifically? If this entire story could be told through forum threads/blog posts, there is a GoI format called Parawatch which is written through blog posts and documents people's first-hand experiences with anomalous phenomenon. Might be worth looking into?
Your hook is pretty good, but it's not reflected in the narrative. The best way to convey a general theme is through a character's experiences. What happens to your character that shows how weird time is? What emotions is your character experiencing, and how do they change as time and the narrative progresses? Etc.
Teal deer: I feel like this could be conceptually interesting, but currently there's not enough narrative meat for me to determine that. If you know what direction your narrative will take (e.g. if you have it written out in the draft), try translating it into your central narrative section.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your concept!
The basic premise of this is pretty interesting, if a little generic, but you don't really go into detail about the narrative. Because the idea in itself isn't particularly original, you're going to need a solid narrative to hold the article up if you want it to have a chance of surviving on the mainsite.
Some questions for you to answer:
- What happened to Corporal White prior to this Tale and how does it line up with what happens/happened in the Foundation Site?
- How are you planning on framing his trauma so that it works as a plot device rather than an unending torture scene, while also being accurate and respectful?
- What is the Site, truly? And what is contained within it? How/why is it particularly shocking to the reader/Corporal White? This point is particularly important to consider because it's your conflict. (Tip for writing horror stuff: write about things that scare you personally)
- Does Corporal White interact with any other characters at all? What are those interactions and what new information do we learn from them?
- What are the characters seeing that the readers aren't? How do you plan on showing that's there's things the characters know but the readers don't?
- What is the personal lore?
- How does this story end?
I have concerns that it might end up being kind of flat, like if this dude's just walking through the Site and there's a generic Keter Class murder monster that eats your shins and then he kills it/dies/leaves it's not going to be as interesting as the elevator pitch originally implied.
If your characters and readers are reliant on descriptions of sounds and feelings you might want to look into 1) using actual audio and 2) reading Bird Box by Josh Malerman if you haven't already. Bird Box uses a lot of sound description (which replaces visual description in almost all cases) and still manages to be pretty visceral psychological horror.
Overall, I feel like this could go one of two ways. It really depends on whether you can sufficiently answer my questions and flesh out your narrative.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your concept!
Some brief questions:
- Is the O5-2 in the recording the same O5-2 who manages to access the skip? Or one from the previous universe?
- What are the messages/warnings that are being passed on, and how do the current Foundation react to them?
- What messages/warnings do the current Foundation choose to pass onto the next version?
Overall, this is a pretty interesting idea! It's evolved from when I last saw it, but it doesn't really have a solid conclusion at the moment (see question 3). I semi-agree with fabledtiefling about the skip being a metal sphere; it is a little bit generic, but it's not a major issue imo. Really close to being greenlit, just needs some clarification.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your concept!
Seconding fabledtiefling here that this would work better as a Tale. SCP articles are often from one perspective (that of the Foundation) and use a fairly strict format, whereas Tales can be in any format from any or multiple perspectives, which would be beneficial in this case. Even if you only show the story from the MTF Agent's perspective, not limiting yourself to a single exploration log is good (they can end up dragging on sometimes). A Joke Tale (as opposed to a Tale that happens to be comedy) is definitely also an option here (bearing in mind that in Joke Tales and -Js, the Foundation is often the brunt of the joke; and also that -Js and Joke Tales typically face a tougher audience than mainlist skips and Tales). That's not to say you can't write an SCP with this idea, but it's probably better to use a format with fewer restrictions.
Regardless of the format, you need to figure out who your characters are and what interactions occur at this convention. There's a lot of GoIs; which ones specifically are you planning on writing about? I recommend checking out their hub pages to see how they are characterised and how they interact towards each other and towards the Foundation.
You have the basic outline of your narrative here (yay!) but I can't help thinking that just listing the panels might end up being boring. Even if you include the descriptions of the stands/panels, I think the shift in focus between the list and the exploration log might be too much of a tone shift to work out properly. Adding in some interactions between various characters, whether they involve the MTF Agent or not, might make that tone shift less severe and out-of-place.
I like the punchline. The punchline is actually funny. (The whole idea is funny, it just needs a little more fleshing out earlier on.)
Teal Deer: I think you really just need to show the characters and their interactions earlier on in this. What happens at each panel, what happens in the employee lounge (and/or how are you going to establish the employee lounge as a place that exists and is bad), and how does it transition into the MTF Agent finding O5-2 running a panel/stand at AnomalyCon?
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
You're welcome!
I think it's not so much about removing the concept of the employee lounge (or similar space) but instead thinking about how you have your characters communicate that the employee lounge is a bad place. It's likely the same as to how people would communicate about The Staff (through rumor and allusion and anecdote and maybe the occasional sighting). The employee lounge is a hilarious concept and I think the skip, as a comedy skip, would benefit from it.
Half-rescinding my point about having this as a Tale. I will reiterate that single exploration logs (and long exploration logs in general) can be boring, so the format is something you should consider, but this could work as a skip, perspective-wise.
Regarding the panels, I don't know much about GoIs. MCD (and maybe SPC) is the only one here that seems realistic, but I'm not really familiar with the others. As good as the pun is, I don't think the CotBG one works; it might be worth asking someone who writes for CotBG.
I'm mainly concerned about this being a single exploration log and about a headcanon thing (the O5 are secret etc), but that's just my opinion. I think this is reasonably fleshed out and you know what you're doing. Have a greenlight! Let me know when you have a draft; I'd be willing to take a look.
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your concept!
Most of these location are accurate to fairly high degree with the exception of one.
What are each of the locations and why are they significant? Why is it important that one of the locations isn't detailed, what skip did it contain, and which location is it?
The foundation asks the Beings where the missing scp could be only to find out the beings have captured it
Which SCP is it? Why would they capture it, especially since they just told the Foundation where it was? What further implications does this have for both Foundations?
Your narrative is in the Page Layout section. SCP Articles are written from the perspective of the Foundation, which here probably refers to the current Foundation rather than the Beings. You have fairly good narrative progression, but you need more detail on your conclusion and the hunt log (as above).
I feel like the Central Narrative section is just a weird summary of the narrative layout in the Page Layout section, but there is some important information there. I would suggest trimming it down to include the parts about the -1s being a previous Foundation, them being obsessed with a singular entity (maybe don't outright say that it's Satan? It seems cheap), and them stealing skips because their morals don't align with that of the current Foundation. And move everything from Page Layout into Central Narrative.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
The questions you answered aren't really the ones I asked.
All location to the SCPs are accurate except for one.
The way you have rewritten your thread implies that the -1s captured the skip here because it attacked them, but this sentence doesn't imply the same. It implies that they were actually attempting to trick the Foundation into going somewhere else so that the -1s could steal whatever skip was actually at this location. This is good; it provides conflict between the two Foundations and a reason as to why they wouldn't return the skip to the Foundation. Having this particular skip be their singular obsession would also tie into the earlier parts of the article.
My other concern is that your conclusion might not be as strong as it could be because you still haven't told me what the implications are of the -1s stealing an SCP from the Foundation. How does the Foundation react to the -1s stealing their skips? Especially this one, since they are attempting to destroy every skip in the universe, which is something the current Foundation oppose.
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your concept!
Noting that I don't know much at all about the Oneiroi Collective.
I agree with caspian2 about the ending. I understand what you were trying to do with the suspense and the weird vibes but it just seems to end, with no real further implication as to why it was like that or what the entity actually is. What are the implications of bringing something humanoid out of a dream? Is this entity malicious, or not? What sort of emotional reaction are you attempting to elicit from your readers?
I second following the D-Class character and showing his dilemma and reactions to this skip rather than just stating the things that get retrieved during each test. I personally think test logs can be boring when not used correctly (i.e. to further the narrative).
Other than that, it's pretty interesting. If you can craft a conclusion that fits the rest of the narrative then it totally works and I'd be willing to greenlight you.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your concept!
I have a lot of concerns here but I'm going to break them down into four sections.
1) Insensitivity
Trivialising Covid (and other catastrophic real world events) is bad. Bearing in mind that there's a lot of people here who've been directly affected (and everybody's been indirectly affected) by Covid, it's probably not the place to write this. It's disrespectful, regardless of whether this is a mainlist skip or a -J, but especially if you're trying to pass off Covid as a Joke.
Additionally, while it is sometimes funny to laugh at "Karens", the idea that hateful and/or ignorant people are created spontaneously rather than formed by hatred of and/or ignorance towards marginalised people is neither good nor funny, and only serves to generate more bigotry and hatred towards those marginalised groups.
The idea that Covid was created in a lab is racist. Additionally, the Foundation has no reason to create something like this, or, if they do, you haven't stated the reason behind it.
2) Immersion/Suspension of disbelief
Real-life events can work in skips but it's often better to create your own event, even if it's based on something real. Because writing fiction means editing the specifics of the real-life event, you risk creating/spreading misinformation as well as denying specifics that happened at those real-life events (especially with catastrophes). For people who experience said real-life event, this can break immersion and suspension of disbelief because they know it didn't happen like the way you wrote it. It might be less of an issue to you when it's only one person who experienced the original event, but when it's everybody it's a lot harder to keep your skip on the site.
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with writing about real-life events in general but it requires a lot of research and would be ambitious for a first-time author.
3) It's just not interesting
I personally do not want to see another piece of fiction media bring Covid into their world. Fiction is at least partially escapism; I don't want to exist in two worlds with a devastating global pandemic.
It's also, just, boring. I'm so over Covid being a thing it's not even funny anymore. I'm very lucky to live in a place where I can mostly ignore the existence of Covid; my family aren't, but they're still very much bored of it. I don't want to read about it, even if it's satire; it's not interesting to me.
4) Your actual article
Narratively, this doesn't have much meat. It's basically "The Foundation created Covid and Covid gives people a compulsion effect that makes them Karens". That's not a narrative. You need specific characters and a storyline and something to actually make your readers want to read this, and so far you don't have any of that.
If I was going to take this crit further, I would ask you to lay out your plot points in one sentence per point. The conflict and conclusion are especially important, and I would also emphasise that you need to talk about the Foundation's involvement in the article beyond them having created Covid. How do they interact with the characters? What story are you actually trying to tell here? Even if it's a -J, you still need some semblance of a story.
It also parodies the inconsistent designations for "sub-SCPs" (such as SCP-XXXX-1) by just switching between using numbers and letters
I don't get this. XXXX-1 and XXXX-A are used interchangably, yes, but they're usually consistent throughout an article and if they aren't it's usually because the author didn't read the guides/any skips before they started writing. The difference between -1 and -A are based in headcanon and it's a trivial difference. I honestly don't understand what you're trying to parody here. It isn't funny either, and will probably just come across as you messing up your designations rather than parodying people who do.
-Js and Joke Tales usually have the Foundation as the punchline. They're the target of the Joke. This doesn't have that.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your concept!
I'd like to know more about what each character talks about and how you plan to connect it to the Foundation employee at the end. What clues are each of the people offering the reader? Are there red herrings? Does the Foundation employee treat all the accounts equally, or do they place bias towards and against different accounts? How does this affect the outcome, as well as the Foundation employee's emotional response towards the situation?
If I decide to reveal it, I had the idea that the moon was sort of "possessed" by a parasitic organism that feeds on burned energy.
I'm torn on this. It seems sort of tacked-on, rather than a logical conclusion. If you do decide to reveal the origin of the changes, you will likely need to use foreshadowing in some form for it to work. Additionally, revealing the origin of the changes in their entirety might make for an anticlimactic ending, because so what? But again, that's about making sure that the clues add up to the ending and that we as readers actually want your characters to find out the cause.
My only other concern here is the format. In this thread, you make it seem like this is an ongoing issue, rather than a document written to catalogue an event that happened in the past. Regardless, you may have issues where revealing information in the conprocs and the description might spoil the ending. You could bypass this by originally classifying the phenomenon itself as the anomaly, and then changing it to the moon/parasite later on, but that might still present issues.
Most of the above boils down to needing to know more about the initial viewpoints and experiences of the civilians. Detail that (and anything else from above or otherwise you feel like adding) and I'm happy to greenlight you.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your concept!
The actual premise in itself, while not strictly original, is not too bad. I agree with fabledtiefling about the YouTubers though; why YouTubers specifically?
I have two main concerns here:
1) Lack of Foundation involvement. Where do the Foundation come into this story? How do they react to the anomalies and why do they care that the anomalies are stealing creative thoughts? What does further development of this species mean to the Foundation?
2) Lack of a narrative, specifically lack of a narrative arc. Who are your characters? What happens to them? What do the aliens do with the creative thoughts, and why does it matter to the Foundation? How are you planning on conveying the characters' experiences to your readers, through the lens of the Foundation? What is your conflict, and how is it resolved?
Try describing each major plot point in your story in one sentence each. Conflict and conclusion, as above, are the most important, but it's also important to focus on the set-up and build-up too.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
[REDACTED]
I'm much more of a fan of "n/a". Redaction implies that there is hidden information rather than absent or unknown information.
XXXX was absent.
"SCP-XXXX was absent."
Any trace of existence is thoroughly wiped from all the technological encephalon.
This feels like a repetition of the previous sentence. Remove entirely.
Class-Y Mnestics administered to staff; results futile.
This is a significant shift in tone. I think it would benefit from being on a separate line.
All anthropoid memory of SCP-XXXX has been unknowingly annihilated.
Remove, we already know this.
the entire facility and its perimeter searched.
"the entire facility and its perimeter were searched."
As SCP-XXXX inhaled, drawing in all known matter to its boundless bottom until it consumed itself an infinite amount, crushing galaxies and reigniting dormant nebulae into previously unforeseen concoctions, that which entered remembers that it never existed.
Very prose-y, and says much more than it implies. Significant shift in tone between this and the previous sentence, and I don't believe they can co-exist next to each other. Either remove one of them or bridge the gap. Putting this in clinical tone would be very interesting, maybe try it?
Recommendation: Write the addendum in present tense. It makes it significantly more immersive, which, when you have a draft this short, is really important.
22:25 <HarrietF> I've been through the paste bin and made most of the edits you recommended. http://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/harriet-farrar-5 The last section confused me a little, about removing one of the sentences or bridging the gap.
Harriet Farrar 5 - SCP Sandbox III
22:27 <TawnyOwlJones> hello
22:27 <HarrietF> Hi there
22:27 <TawnyOwlJones> can you do me a favour and put the line break between each of the sentences?
22:28 <HarrietF> Oh, was it you who gave me the paste bin, I think I have been messaging the wrong Tawny
22:28 <TawnyOwlJones> yes, it was
22:28 <TawnyOwlJones> i changed my url, and i have two irc connections
22:29 <HarrietF> Okay that makes sense
22:29 <TawnyOwlJones> url lmao too much tumblr. nick
22:29 <TawnyOwlJones> 👍
22:29 <HarrietF> *Thumbs up*
22:30 <HarrietF> Did you mean a line break like that?
22:31 <TawnyOwlJones> nope, um, like a paragraph break. press enter
22:31 <HarrietF> On here, or the draft
22:31 <TawnyOwlJones> on the draft
22:31 <HarrietF> Oh okay sorry I'm the big dumb
22:32 <TawnyOwlJones> nah, no worries
22:34 <HarrietF> Thta should do it
22:34 <TawnyOwlJones> thanks
22:35 <HarrietF> Its all good
22:35 <TawnyOwlJones> there's less of a clash between the last two sentences now than there was before, but i'm still concerned conceptually about the last sentence
22:35 <HarrietF> Should it stay or should it go
22:37 <TawnyOwlJones> i had the same issue when i was writing my sqyd's challenge. it's really hard to convey the tone of the article when it's so short, especially when the tone of the sentences changes so much. keeping the central theme is fine, but the last line needs to be threaded throughout the article rather than tacked on at the end.
22:37 <HarrietF> Okay cool, what would be the best method of doing that?
22:39 <TawnyOwlJones> nothing about "absence" makes me think "space consuming itself". absence is in clinical tone, i think the prose ruins it.
22:39 <TawnyOwlJones> absence is "no", space consuming itself is "yes". they can wrap around and become each other but they aren't the same.
22:39 <TawnyOwlJones> hmm
22:39 <TawnyOwlJones> [many thinks]
22:39 <HarrietF> I can just ditch it altogether
22:39 <TawnyOwlJones> that would work, but you need something to replace it
Due to the nature of SCP-XXXX-F
Explain what the nature of SCP-XXXX-F is and also why standard humanoid conprocs aren't necessary in the conprocs.
common humanoid containment measures
"standard humanoid containment measures" or "standard humanoid containment procedures"
These alterations are consistent across all instances of SCP-XXXX, with the notable exception of SCP-XXXX-F.
If they are consistent, there's only two iterations of the anomaly (i.e.: SCP-XXXX and SCP-XXXX-A/F). It's minor and likely irrelevant, but I'm nitpicking here.
the organization they are currently working for.
Which is?
each chair retains their own instance of SCP-XXXX-1
So -F isn't any different? If all the chairs summon people they're all the same. You never explain why -F is different, only state that it is.
possess no sentience
Sapience.
Please bear in mind I haven't read your ideas post, so I'm judging solely off of the draft I have in front of me.
I feel like this needs a lot of conceptual work. I'm interested in SCP-XXXX-1, but you don't really take it beyond "there's chairs that manifest people that do things".
It feels very Series I at the moment. I think it has the potential to tell a cool story (Who is this person? Why are they stuck in a chair? How do the Foundation react to them? What are their goals? Do they achieve them? What does that mean for both them and the Foundation?), but at the moment it's not telling a story.
There's also a lot of inconsistency regarding the designations of objects and their abilities.
I think you should get more ideas crit and brainstorm where you can take the narrative before adding to the draft.
post craniotomy
"post-craniotomy"
Foundation approved mediums
"Foundation-approved mediums"
who fail to register 2 or greater
"who fail to score 2 or greater"
Failure to adhere to these precautions has resulted in termination from a sudden psychedelic onslaught in 100% of cases.
"Failure to adhere to these precautions results in termination from sudden psychedelic onslaught in 100% of cases."
Umar Hadid
Needs a title as well.
Description
Underline.
subspecies of lumbricina suborder, that are native
"subspecies of lumbricina suborder that are native"
and act as a hallucinogen.
Feels tacked on. Maybe move to the beginning of the sentence? "SCP-XXXX is a hallucinogenic, parasitic subspecies of lumbricina suborder that are native to the United States of America."
Beyond secreting (5-methoxy-N, N-dimethyltryptamine
Is the bracket intentional?
having protruding hook-like extenstions on either end of their bodies.
Is this meant to be a difference from a common earthworm? It isn't obvious whether it's a similarity or a difference between the two species and the previous part of the sentence heavily implies it's a similarity. Needs rewording if not.
SCP-XXXX also exhibits predatory behavior not found in typical members of its species.
Either move to the next paragraph or remove entirely. You talk about SCP-XXXX's predatory nature in the next paragraph so this isn't really needed.
each body contained SCP-XXXX instances.
"each body contained an instance of SCP-XXXX" or "each body contained multiple instances of SCP-XXXX" depending on whether it's one or multiple.
Interview Agent Amai
"Interview - Agent Amai"
approved narcotics for related research,
Switch the comma to a full stop/period.
[ To Command ]
Is there a particular reason for the spaces between the brackets and the words?
[To herself]
This is not italicised when the previous action is. There's inconsistency with this throughout the whole draft.
an individual named Barbara Eubanks claiming to have precognitive capabilities approached Researcher Hadid
Needs breaking up but I'm not sure how.
secured provisional site.
If it's a Foundation Site it needs capital letters.
Three members of MTF Delta 20,
"Three members of MTF Delta-20,"
Shaggy: [He sniffs]
I'm presuming this is different agents from those previously in Delta-20 because in 3835 you used she/her pronouns for Alpha.
In front of the team is a tree. The trunk of the tree is tall enough to obscure the canopy in darkness.
These two sentences (and the previous one) kind of clash pacing-wise. Suggest merging these two into one sentence.
There black tongues in the place of leaves
"There are black tongues in the place of leaves"
Shaggy fires multiple clips worth of ammunition
Move the footnote to after "ammunition" maybe?
Foundation agents occupying Subway
"Foundation agents occupying the Subway"
Non combative personnel
"Non-combative personnel"
Outside Eubanks is waiting. She is sitting down, casually reading a book."
"Outside, Eubanks is sitting down, casually reading a book."
handle your psychadelics
"handle your psychedelics"
Shaggy and Scooby are utlizing
"Shaggy and Scooby are utilizing"
And SCP-XXXX instance attempts
"An SCP-XXXX instance attempts"
but it unable as he evades the attack.
This sentence doesn't make sense.
quick acting LSD.
"quick-acting LSD."
After action report
"After Action Report"
Type B amnestics
"Class B amnestics" is the standard and my preference but it's up to you.
non-Euclidean cavern within Subway
"non-Euclidean cavern within the Subway"
Barbar Eubanks.
"Barbara Eubanks."
currently under and on-going investigation
"currently under an on-going investigation"
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. Your characters being high all the time is hilarious. I feel like the conprocs could do with a brief explanation of what precognitive ability actually is; it's sort of presumed that the reader already knows what it means, and even though I was able to gather the meaning later on I think it would benefit from some allusion early on in the conprocs. I'm kind of 50/50 on the ending. I feel like it leaves too much open but I think that's just my personal preference regarding conclusions in general. I certainly wouldn't downvote for the ending at any rate, and I would definitely upvote for the rest.
SCP-XXXX is to be sterilized by a level 2 or higher staff member
Put a time frequency between "sterilized" and "by", e.g. daily, weekly, as needed, frequently, etc.
level 2 or higher staff member
"Level 2 or higher staff member" (Same goes for all instances of "level"—->"Level" when regarding security clearance levels.)
any staff of level 2 clearance who has already used SCP-XXXX.
"staff members with Level 2 clearance or higher who have already been in contact with SCP-XXXX."
2 clearance level 4 personnel
"two Level 4 personnel"
the dogs
"SCP-XXXX-1 instances"
staff member in question does not get detrimentally affected.
"staff member in question was not detrimentally affected."
709 ml of water
That's very specific. Is there a reason it's so specific? If not, try rounding it. It's also inconsistent; in the first experimentation log, SCP-XXXX is filled with 5ml of water and the anomalous effects still manifest.
The anomalous nature of SCP-XXXX will activate 24 hours after it is filled with 5 ml of tap water, following which a dog or dogs will be found drinking from XXXX and will identify the one who activated XXXX as their owner.
This sentence is non-clinical and is very long. Consider shortening it and/or separating it into two or three sentences. You also should define SCP-XXXX-1 here.
If mineral water is used to fill XXXX, then the resulting instances will live for as long as they would naturally.
This is where you should compare the difference between tap water and mineral water. Default to "water" at the beginning, note here that the type of water affects lifespan, maybe follow it up later if it becomes relevant to the narrative (it probably should.)
XXXX-2 will always manifest on that person's pillow.
Who is "that person"? The owner?
Isle of Mann newspaper
"Isle of Man newspaper"
researcher O'Hara
"Researcher O'Hara" They should probably have a first name here too (just in the header).
the anomaly:
"the anomaly."
Hold ya horses I'm getting there, when I came downstairs, the following morning,
"Hold ya horses I'm getting there. When I came downstairs the following morning,"
there he was collar an all
"there he was collar and all" (Could be a dialect thing; don't worry if so.)
Wow…your dog came back to life, that's…that's really something, what are you going to do with the bowl now?
"Wow… Your dog came back to life, that's… That's really something. What are you going to do with the bowl now?"
Anomaly has been recovered, and the owner has been amnesticized, heading back now.
This is the wrong tone for a closing statement (should be clinical). The information is necessary but could do with a tone change. [EDIT: Unless, hmm, is it linked to O'Hara wanting to leave the Foundation?]
A Dachshund identified as Guinevere by D-3773
"A Dachshund identified as "Guinevere" by D-3773"
D-3773 was permitted to keep the photo as tests concluded it was not anomalous outside its animate properties.
Not my headcanon tbh, same with the part about the Foundation allowing D-3773 unlimited time with an anomaly. It's not a huge issue but I imagine people might not like it, even though it works in the narrative and is intended to be heartwarming.
there are so few SCP's
"there are so few SCPs", but at any rate "SCP" means "Special Containment Procedures" in-universe so maybe "anomalies" might work better?
her pallette was always refined
"her palette was always refined."
Impromptu Experimentation Log 2
Is this written by O'Hara outside of the Foundation? I presume so, but if not then the tone is off.
O'Hara's Notes #3
Again, just, like, I don't like that the Foundation let her take Ailey (who is an anomaly) outside of the Site. Allowing Ailey to live with O'Hara at a Foundation Site might be permissable, but anything beyond that is a big stretch.
I can't stomach the thought of getting rid of Ailey
"I can't stomach the thought of getting rid of her"
Luckily, my old home was converted to a Foundation safe house
What does this mean in context? Why is her home a safe house?
Ailey fell asleep on me while we were watching a film, couldn't bring myself to move her
"Ailey fell asleep on me while we were watching a film. Couldn't bring myself to move her"
forgot that didn't I, well serves me right I guess.
"Forgot that, didn't I? Well, serves me right I guess."
tear open on the big day, hope she doesn't destroy them too fast.
"tear open on the big day. Hope she doesn't destroy them too fast."
she's great around kids, the neighbour's kid
"she's great around kids. The neighbour's kid"
it's getting close, I know it is, I never wanted to get emotional in front of Ailey,
"it's getting close, I know it is. I never wanted to get emotional in front of Ailey,"
I helped her on the couch so she could lay down, I stayed with her that night.
This is in past tense; should probably be in present tense like the rest of the notes.
How am I going to cope at the Foundation?
Did O'Hara leave the Foundation entirely? Or just temporarily? If the Foundation knew Ailey would live a long time, surely they wouldn't've allowed her to leave?
I can't bring myself to go back, I nearly did, I almost left, but I didn't, I couldn't not yet, not while I'm feeling this emptiness, this hurt, how can I concentrate on work.
"I can't bring myself to go back. I nearly did, but I didn't. I couldn't, not yet, not while I'm feeling this emptiness. How can I concentrate on work?"
Researcher O'Hara took SCP-XXXX-1 (Ailey) photo outside of 00:Indigo.
"SCP-XXXX-1 (Ailey) outside of Safehouse 00:Indigo."
Overall, I think the execution is good, but conceptually it relies on a lot of stuff that I don't hold in my personal headcanon, which ruins the immersion for me personally. There is an established emotional connection between the readers and the characters and there's a narrative with decent pacing and progression, but the contents of the narrative break Foundation rules I hold as fundamental to SCPs. Having O'Hara use the skip in secret and compile her own research would be significantly more interesting, but 1) I don't think that's what you were going for and 2) you'd have to consider the in-universe repercussions of O'Hara stealing/hiding an anomaly, which might detract from the main focus of your story.
There's also a lot of run-on sentences which I've mostly picked out and corrected above but I likely will have missed some. The tone in prose sections, by definition, doesn't have to be clinical tone, but it shouldn't be extremely difficult to read.
SCP-XXXX is a sapient nanosatellite class CubeSat
"SCP-XXXX is a sapient, nanosatellite-class CubeSat"
The satellite is approximately 10x10x11.4cm in length with an antenna measured at 8cm.
"The satellite is 10x10x11cm in size with an antenna measuring 8cm."
The antenna is located atop of the satellite when in an instance of an "active" phase and resides inside otherwise.
"The antenna is located atop of the satellite when in an "active" phase and resides inside the satellite otherwise."
The satellite's intelligence is akin to a human with exceptional aptitude for communication interpretation.
"The satellite's intelligence is akin to that of a human with exceptional aptitude for communication interpretation."
Its emotional state has a notable affinity for being meditated and reflective
"It has a notable affinity for being mediated and reflective"
Devices include but are not limited to mobile phones, radios, desktop computers, laptops, smartwatches and tablets.
"Devices include, but are not limited to, mobile phones, radios, desktop computers, laptops, smartwatches, and tablets."
The civilian, designated SCP-XXXX-1, typically shares a majority of the following traits indicating SCP-XXXX's target audience with some increasing the chance of being selected.
"The civilian contacted by SCP-XXXX, designated SCP-XXXX-1, typically shares a majority of the following traits, with some increasing the chance of being selected."
Has suffered physical, emotional or verbal abuse from a family member of relative.
"Has suffered physical, emotional or verbal abuse from a family member or relative."
Those found to be affected by SCP-XXXX
"Those affected by SCP-XXXX"
They should not be exposed to water in its liquid form; if the person lives long enough to require hydration it should be achieved intravenously.
Intravenous fluids are liquid.
if the person lives long enough
"if the subject lives long enough" (Foundation personnel affected by skips are considered just as subhuman as non-Foundation people affected by skips are, at least in my headcanon)
It is unknown whether it affects persons not employed by The Foundation.
"It is unknown whether it affects persons not employed by the Foundation."
Its effects are inconsistent but the afflicted, known as SCP-XXXX-1, generally suffer from adverse reactions to water.
Non-clinical. (Particularly "generally").
known as SCP-XXXX-1
"designated SCP-XXXX-1"
MTF Lambda-77, “Demersal Scotopic”
"MTF Lambda-77 (“Demersal Scotopic”)"
attempted to find Lt. Anenasya.
"attempted to locate Lt. Anenasya."
Upon sighting the retrieval team she smiled and began humming.
"Upon sighting the retrieval team, Lt. Anenasya smiled and began humming."
This was the first recorded occurrence of SCP-XXXX.
Should be included somewhere, but currently messes up the pacing where it is. Not a major issue, but could be moved elsewhere.
The day after Lieutenant Anenasya’s death Captain Skye - another member of Lambda-77 - was discovered dead
You didn't previously say that she died; you said she hadn't been found. "Lieutenant Anenasya's disappearance" might fit better. "The day after Lieutenant Anenasya’s disappearance, Captain Skye - another member of Lambda-77 - was discovered dead"
During autopsy her blood refused to coagulate
"During autopsy, her blood refused to coagulate"
A three minute long video was discovered on her phone, recorded an hour before her discovery.
"A three-minute long video was discovered on her phone, recorded an hour before the discovery of her body."
losing several litres of blood over the course of the video.
Personal thing: move the footnote to after the punctuation.
He refused to be put into contact with any water or water-containing solutions
"He refused contact with all water and solutions containing water." or "He refused contact with all water and water-containing solutions"
Although the request was granted he continued to complain about the noise
"Although the request was granted, he continued to complain about the noise"
remove his ears, eyes, much of his gums and his tongue.
"remove his ears, eyes, much of his gums, and his tongue."
At the time she was the lead researcher of SCP-XXXX
"At the time, she was the lead researcher of SCP-XXXX"
Once she became aware of her status as an instance of SCP-XXXX-1 she deferred her responsibilities
"Once she became aware of her status as an instance of SCP-XXXX-1, she deferred her responsibilities"
It has nothing to do with how well protected you are.
"It has nothing to do with how well-protected you are."
So for Kiara, Skye and I to have lived so long?
"So for Kiara, Skye, and me to have lived so long?" Also isn't Skye her surname?
Because of that, my departure from Lambda-77 felt like an anticlimax
Is the implication that Dr Vanth was previously an MTF Agent? Or just that she was a researcher appended to Lambda-77?
That’s where it all began, I guess.
Remove?
Mark out all the clearings, photograph all the flowers, watch sunlight fall through the canopy and twinkle in the dirt…
"Mark out all the clearings, photograph all the flowers, watch sunlight fall through the canopy, and twinkle in the dirt…"
After Devana’s death I convinced myself that my curiosity was a liability.
"After Devana’s death, I convinced myself that my curiosity was a liability."
Maybe it would have been wonderful or perhaps my life would have been cut short in a blackened steppe or carrion garden…
"Maybe it would have been wonderful, or perhaps my life would have been cut short in a blackened steppe or carrion garden… "
[Several minutes of the sound of rainfall. Vanth laughs softly]
"[Several minutes of the sound of rainfall. Vanth laughs softly.]"
Overall, I really like this. The only real issues I can pick out here are SPaG errors and minor inconsistencies. The actual story is really good, it's extremely well-written, the ending lands perfectly. I feel like you could play more on the dialogue; the things the characters say in the first addendum (and/or the idea that people say single cryptic lines) don't get carried through to the conclusion, and I feel like that's a missed opportunity. Regardless, would definitely +1.
SCP-5394 victims
I usually designate people/animals/objects/etc affected by a skip as SCP-XXXX-1. Up to you, but I think it keeps the clinical tone better.
Due to the isolated nature of SCP-5394 victims, locating them is difficult.
"Locating victims of SCP-XXXX is logistically difficult, due to their isolated nature."
are to have their IP address traced.
"are to have their IP addresses traced."
Local Foundation investigators must then follow up, using appropriate cover stories, and question the potential victim on topics relating to SCP-5394.
"Local Foundation investigators must then follow up using appropriate cover stories and question the potential victim regarding SCP-5394."
SCP-5394 is, at the time of writing, ███ smartphones collected from around the world.
Not a fan of the blackboxing. Pick a number, or, less preferably, say it's unknown. Also the phrasing here is clunky and needs rephrasing.
No patterns have been identified regarding brand, location or year of production.
"No patterns have been identified regarding brand, location, or year of production."
Instances are functionally identical to non-anomalous smartphones.
"Instances are physically identical to their non-anomalous counterparts."
SCP-5394's effects manifest around two months after the victim inserts their SIM card, occurring in several stages;
"SCP-5394's effects manifest around two months after the victim inserts their SIM card and occur in several stages."
firstly, a small number of text messages sent from or to SCP-5394 will not be received, despite having definitely been sent.
"Firstly, several text messages sent to or from SCP-5394 will not be received, despite having definitely been sent." "Definitely" feels non-clinical but I'm not sure what to replace it with.
including social media, emails, fora and/or any other communal sites they frequent.
"including social media, emails, forums, and/or any other communal sites they frequent." "Fora" is accepted but it's a little weird, "forums" is more common.
The below texts were recovered from an instance of SCP-5394 belonging to Harry ███████ and a phone belonging to a Claire ████████.
Specify what instance of SCP-XXXX Harry is using and ditch the blackboxes (replace with surnames). Also maybe briefly explain who they are, even just a couple words would put the situation in context.
Harry: Sorry can't make it tonight. Need to get this essay done for tomorrow late night for me
Put timestamps before the names.
Claie:
"Claire:"
Overall, it's an interesting idea and I like how the messages are set up. I have two main concerns: lack of character set-up and lack of Foundation presence.
Re: character set-up; we don't know who these characters are. We don't know anything about them except for their first names. I'm 50/50 on this (because I've forgotten how I felt upon reading this the first time), but showing a conversation between them to establish who they are individually and to each other, as well as adding the sentence I mentioned in the LBL, would put them in context and make your reader care about them more. I have sympathy for them, but not really until right at the end. On reading back through, I feel much more connected to the characters, but I still feel like their introduction needs something, even if it's just that they have last names.
The more major problem is the lack of Foundation presence. With character-driven skips, it can be difficult to bring in enough Foundation-ness if you aren't writing about Foundation characters. Currently this skip reads a lot more like a Tale than a skip. Your options here are to either 1) make Harry and(/or?) Claire explicitly Foundation characters or 2) write about the Foundation's reaction to finding these messages. I think Option 1 is significantly easier and also better (because it points towards the Foundation staff being lonely and isolated, and also the ending is good where it is and so appending other things on the end might ruin it), but it's up to you what you do with your writing.
22:18 <SoundChaser> Alright, do you mind me commenting on the odd thing? Shouldn't take too long but I get if you have other stuff on
22:19 <TawnyOwlJones> not at all, go for it. the lounge pings me when you send the messages so i'll be doing stuff in the background but should answer fairly quickly
22:20 <SoundChaser> Okay, cool. Names are uncensored; i think I censored them because I didn't want to make one person the focus, but that was a mistake going by responses
22:22 <SoundChaser> It originally ended before the addendum as a retro thong what does a thong, but I chickened out and added some character. There's so little Foundation presence as a result of me trying to be as stark and minimalist as possible, but that's an artifact from the older version
22:22 <TawnyOwlJones> my wikidot is broken so refreshing the page doesn't allow me to see the changes but update as you go and i'll look as soon as i can
22:23 <SoundChaser> I like the idea of making one of them personnel, but I kind of envisioned them as students while writing; do they come across as top immature to work as one being a member or is the "dialogue" fine as-is?
22:25 <TawnyOwlJones> i think the dialogue is okay. foundation personnel are people, even if their morals are a bit fucked, but outside of documenting skips they can speak however they want, at least in my headcanon.
22:28 <SoundChaser> Cool, thank you. Also, question; should Claire or Harry be the researcher? Harry's the victim, they both clearly have issues but Claire's the more outgoing one, and I do envisipn her as being in a better place, hence the phone targeting him instead
22:29 <SoundChaser> I'm not sure if researcher's friend vanishes and she tries to find him or researcher has breakdown and they find out this is why works best
22:29 <SoundChaser> Although that would be background anyway
22:29 <TawnyOwlJones> oh i presumed Claire was the victim
22:31 <SoundChaser> I wrnt in with Harry in mind, started doubting myself as I wrote but eh. I tried to imply he was on his own much more, and these two relied on each other but the thing was trying to make her feel like he let her down, and him that he failed her
22:32 <SoundChaser> Clearly this needs a bit more work than I thought hsha
22:35 <TawnyOwlJones> rereading, i can see where you intended it to focus on Harry but that isn't what i picked up from the first three times reading through. Claire is more outgoing but she also seems to take not receiving the messages much harsher than Harry does. Maybe using a text bubble format to show whether the message was sent or received by a specific person
22:35 <TawnyOwlJones> would make it easier to discern who the victim is?
22:36 <TawnyOwlJones> also, yeah, but that's what crit's for. sometimes our writing doesn't do exactly what we want it to do :)
22:37 <SoundChaser> Ain't that the truth
22:37 <SoundChaser> Youre right about the texts, I'll see if I can nick some code of another article to make it clearer
22:38 <TawnyOwlJones> it's on the style resource iirc
22:39 <TawnyOwlJones> having Claire's name at the top of each screen would make it clearer that Harry is the victim maybe? or vice versa? but then i'm not sure how you would show Claire's unsent messages, or vice versa
22:39 <TawnyOwlJones> it requires some thinking, methinks
Access to Mount Sipylos is to be unrestricted until the day a "TANTALUS" event is scheduled to occur. The day a "TANTALUS" event is to occur, access to Mount Sipylos is to be completely restricted under the reasoning of maintinence and cleanup.
"Access to Mount Sipylos is to be unrestricted until the day a "TANTALUS" event is scheduled to occur, at which point access to Mount Sipylos is to be completely restricted under the reasoning of maintenance and cleanup."
SCP-XXXX-1 is the summit of Mount Sipylos, sculpted in the appearance of a woman by unknown and most likely natural means.
"SCP-XXXX-1 is the summit of Mount Sipylos, sculpted in the appearance of a woman by unknown means."
From the "eyes" of the sculpture, water constantly streams out of the summit, creating a river.
"Water constantly flows from the "eyes" of the sculpture, creating a river [IN WHEREVER THE RIVER IS, E.G. A VALLEY]"
During a "TANTALUS" event, the water is instead replaced with blood.
"During a "TANTALUS" event, the water is replaced with blood." (Also maybe space this so this sentence starts a new paragraph?)
the leaves are a mixture of those found
"the leaves are a combination of those found"
The tree has one main branch
"SCP-XXXX-2 has one main branch"
18 more secondary branches
"18 secondary branches"
Whenever someone attempts to reach for said fruits, a soft wind blows them just out of reach.
Feels non-clinical and out of place.
On each of the 18 secondary branches, either a man or woman is seen laying down with their back on the ground.
Is this, like, actual people? Or images carved into the tree?
All it's speech is spoken in Ancient Greek.
"All its speech is spoken in Ancient Greek."
You never state what SCP-XXXX is, only -1 and -2. I'm also not entirely sure what this alludes to? It's cool, but there's no real connection to anything and it means nothing lands as well as it could. Is there meant to be a link to a real-world or mythological event that I'm missing?
21:48 <DrGolden_Phone> Heya! So first of all thanks for the crit. Secondly, the SCP is alluding to the myth of Queen Niobe (thus the niobium).
21:49 <TawnyOwlJones> np!
21:49 <TawnyOwlJones> oh i don't know that one. i don't think it manages to stand alone; you need more obvious allusion to the myth imo
21:49 <DrGolden_Phone> Alright, should I give a basic rundown of the myth to see how else I can allude to it?
21:50 <TawnyOwlJones> in here? go for it
21:51 <DrGolden_Phone> Okay so, Niobe boasted that she was better than the titaness Leto because Leto had 2 children while Niobe had more. The number is disputed but there’s always an equal amount of sons and daughters. Leto, outraged, sends her kids ARTEMIS and APOLLO to
21:51 <DrGolden_Phone> Kill each child
21:51 <DrGolden_Phone> artemis kills the girls and Apollo the boys
21:51 <DrGolden_Phone> Niobe herself gets turned to stone, left grieving for her children forever
21:52 <TawnyOwlJones> okay, so it makes sense in context, which is good. but, errrr, you don't provide any of the context in the skip, other than her name
21:53 <DrGolden_Phone> Alrighty, so I need to let the reader know about the Niobe myth somehow
21:53 <TawnyOwlJones> yeah
21:53 <TawnyOwlJones> otherwise, it's looking pretty good
21:53 <DrGolden_Phone> Great! Thanks :]
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your draft!
You go through your formative years associating it with a sense of comfort, if you're lucky enough not to be the offspring of an asshole or two, that is.
"You go through your formative years associating it with a sense of comfort (if you're lucky enough not to be the offspring of an asshole or two, that is)."
being raised by me and an equally incompetent human being.
Who is the "equally incompentent human being"? It's not clear.
they look at you makes you regret thinking that, and you smile.
"they look at you makes you regret thinking that."
recoiled frantically, and immediately, it was gone.
"recoiled frantically and, immediately, it was gone."
It was not the sort of thing you chalk up to your imagination, or sleep deprivation.
"It was not the sort of thing you chalk up to your imagination or to sleep deprivation."
I knew what I saw
"I know what I saw" (EDIT: neither really fits. "I know what I saw" denotes thinking about the past and would be the better of the two, but neither fit in combination with "and I sat there", so idk.)
I didn't know what so say.
"I didn't know what to say."
My conversation with David was still seared into my mind, whatever that thing was, David was apparently its doorway into our life.
"My conversation with David was still seared into my mind. Whatever that thing was, David was apparently its doorway into our life."
Some time after we found ourselves in some kind of building, it looked like a military base.
"Some time after we found ourselves in some kind of building; it looked like a military base."
I wish someone will talk to me soon, though.
"I hope someone will talk to me soon, though."
I really like this. Initially I was thinking that Class C wasn't the best option, but the ending is fantastic and lands really well. I was also concerned that the last section would end up being surplus and that having anything after the character getting amnesticised would ruin the story (obviously this isn't always the case, but I felt it might be here.) but then I realised this is written in real-time and not retrospectively, and, well, damn, well done.
I think the dialogue needs work; I don't like the stuttering-as-nervous thing, I think it can work at times but this is not one of those times. I think the dialogue might not be spaced from the block paragraphs correctly, but it might be because it's in tabview. It's not a major issue, it just makes the pacing a little weird. There's also issues with run-on sentences. I've offered fixes for the ones I saw but there might be more so make sure to check again.
I really like the idea of the Foundation being actively in web forums. I don't think I've ever seen that before and it's really cool.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your draft!
Prior containment procedures required only a standard freezer unit, as SCP-XXXX can survive extremely low temperatures. However, due to the rate of decay, this requirement has been modified.
I'm not entirely sure this is needed? Unless the point about decay is followed through later, this footnote just acts as surplus. [EDIT: If you add the date from Addendum XXXX-D then the footnote would make sense and the addendum would be in context.]
must be covertly monitored in the event that a second iteration manifests.
"Iteration" doesn't seem like the right word here. "Instance" might work better.
but the bones and ligaments continue to degrade.
"while the bones and ligaments continue to degrade." or "but the bones and ligaments will continue to degrade."
then return to its top half
My prior understanding of bisection was similar to that of dissection. I didn't realise the corpse was torn in half for quite a while and I think that maybe needs clarifying earlier on?
see addendum XXXX-A
"see Addendum XXXX-A"
it will effectively deflate in shape, and its motion will be hindered beyond function.
Remove the comma.
with SCP-XXXX
I'm presuming you're planning on editing the number into the recording?
one of which is bent to face the opposite direction
I feel like this would benefit from being in the description rather than this log (since the log is not the first interaction with SCP-XXXX, this is likely known information.)
If there are portions of the hippocampus still alive in there, maybe it’s remembering how to walk.
Is the part that's walking just its legs (and the lower half of its torso)? Apologies if this is going over my head but how are its legs still connected to its brain?
It’s mostly just brushing up against the walls and crashing into it blindly
"It’s mostly just brushing up against the walls and crashing into them blindly"?
The following audio clips were recorded over the course of two weeks.
I suggest adding transcripts for these.
the Foundation has made inquiries
"inquiries have been made"
The only report found that nearly matches SCP-XXXX comes from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories
"nearly matches" and "comes from" aren't clinical. "comes from" can be replaced with "originates from" or "originated from"; unsure about "nearly matches".
add’l
Maybe change to "additional"? The contraction breaks the pacing a little.
9/4/2020 18:42:03 dad birthday gift ideas during covid
Covid kinda doesn't need to be mentioned. Skips about Covid aren't advised and even with the date I feel it isn't actually relevant to the material, and thus breaks immersion at least a bit.
project with a high risk rating, so that you will better understand why we are doing this.
Remove the comma.
Overall, this is good. I like the concept even though I'm confused by some of the material.
Maybe separate the ultrasound results and the search results into their own addenda?
I don't think the last paragraph is necessary; it only provides context for Addendum XXXX-B which I think works better as horror rather than as a "cold not cruel" teaching moment. SCP-XXXX's requests would largely be the same as that of many humanoid anomalies, so "don't accuse the Foundation of cruelty" is probably something that's enforced Foundation-wide rather than in specific cases.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your draft!
I originally critted the wrong version of this so if there's anything, especially in the Overall crit, that seems completely incorrect it's probably because the vibes differ between the two versions and I got them confused. There shouldn't be anything, but apologies in advance.
Keter
Why Keter? Isn't it an inanimate object?
On the first day of each month, SCP-XXXX is to be removed from its safe and brought to Sector 9 Sector 113 alongside an acceptable candidate for SCP-XXXX-1.
Why? Why are the Foundation doing the same test every month when it yields the same results every time? If nothing else, it's kinda boring to read.
An external sector approximately one kilometer from Site-25 Site-26.
I'm not a fan of strikethroughs in conprocs. I get the point of the other ones here but this one in the footnote seems unnecessary unless there's a reason stated later on for both sites being one kilometer away from their respective sector. If there isn't, I suggest removing the "Site 25" in the footnote.
No individual is to directly touch SCP-XXXX at any other point in its handling.
Why not?
When they fail this goal they are to be disbanded immediately and a new, identical, task force is to be made with different members.
This is excessive. Agents aren’t disposable.
D-class
"D-Class" is capitalised. (This goes for every instance of the word.)
not given any information about the Foundation.
Non-clinical.
Class A amnestics are to be administered upon their arrival at Sector 9 Sector 11.
But why? Class A amnestics randomly target memories in the past 6 hours, which seems somewhat pointless in this scenario.
If SCP-XXXX-1 escapes containment, conflict is not to be initiated. Instead, a clear surrender is to be announced by a nearby personnel member with the most authority.
Why though? Seems nonsensical.
SCP-XXXX is a large, leather bound book
"SCP-XXXX is a large, leather-bound book"
The cover is blank aside from signs of weathering.
"The cover is unmarked aside from signs of weathering."
leaving no traces from the original author.
"leaving no traces of the original author."
While SCP-XXXX-1 holds SCP-XXXX
"When SCP-XXXX-1 comes into contact with SCP-XXXX"
If SCP-XXXX-2 is an organization, complete disbandment. If SCP-XXXX-2 is an organization, implementation of policies to restrict their functionality.
"If SCP-XXXX-2 is an organization, implementation of policies that restrict their functionality, or complete disbandment."
Attempts by nearby guards to restrain in proved unsuccessful.
"Attempts by nearby guards to restrain it proved unsuccessful."
It went to the residence of █████. An individual later found to have kidnapped SCP-XXXX-1’s son three years prior.
Is this relevant? If so, remove the blackbox. if not, remove the whole sentence. The second sentence here is a fragment and should be attached to the first sentence here. “It went to the residence of an individual later found to have kidnapped SCP-XXXX-1’s son three years prior."
It took two more similar events before SCP-XXXX’s ability to force contact was discovered, these have been cut for brevity.
Non-clinical. Also not relevant to this test log in particular; I suggest moving it elsewhere.
After restraining all personnel that fired upon it
This is logistically weird.
publicly apologize to the site
" publicly apologize to the Site"
before interacting with the group of interest.
"before interacting with the Group of Interest."
Future tests are to avoid personal connections between SCP-XXXX-1 and SCP-XXXX-2.
The problem with this is that SCP-XXXX-1 refers to all -1 instances and SCP-XXXX-2 refers to all -2 instances. I don't think it's a major issue but maybe it needs a clarification on whether you mean all further tests or just further tests on the people in this particular log.
SCP-XXXX-1 did not follow Foundation directions.
Interesting; but why? I like how this section links back to the conprocs but I think you need to explain why the result of this log is different to the others in more detail.
After he caused the collapse of a Foundation site
"Site" should be capitalised. Does it matter which Site in particular? If it’s a Site that’s been mentioned in the article already, you should specify it here.
This interview was done to conclude
"This interview was conducted to conclude"
You felt like a hero. (Agent Grey laughs) you’re free to stop me if you disagree.
Put these sentences on separate lines so that the break (Agent Grey laughing) is separated from Garcia’s dialogue. Same goes for the rest of these.
Researcher Grey: Do tell.
Should be Researcher Garcia.
I heard that you were the front line against some sort of cosmic threat and I wanted in.
This isn't my headcanon and it kinda breaks my suspension of disbelief. Headcanons differ but check with someone else.
It let you be a hero again?
Hmm. I fail to see the connection between destroying a Foundation Site and being a hero. I get the connection between destroying a Foundation Site and not having the job you wanted, but it's not the same connection.
Amanda Brown
You mention who this is in the old version but not the updated one. It's important.
So we better pray to god we’re not the villains.
"Self-aware Foundation" is once again not my headcanon. I don't know, it just reads strangely.
Your request for a rewrite of SCP-XXXX’s containment has been rejected.
Perhaps too meta? Reads a little strangely.
Overall, it's okay. SCP-XXXX uses a compulsion effect, and even with the story behind it it’s a little dry. I can understand the "compels people to hurt people because it wants a story" part, even if it’s cliché, but I don’t like the part about it compelling people to touch it/forcing contact; it feels tacked-on.
The initial test logs are a little disjointed from the main story and seem to mostly paraphrase information we’ve already been told in the Description. That being said, it does work in retrospect; when we learn that the book perhaps isn’t malicious and just wants to write a story, we look back at the initial logs and it works, but for a while they don’t really land. The
The PERSEUS program logs communicate your story significantly better than the first set of logs. I do think they should be Test 1, 2, and 3, rather than 1, 4, and 5 though, unless there's a reason to skip 2 and 3.
You need a <Begin Log> between your foreword and the start of your dialogue in your interview.
I like the idea of tying this to the writing process, but the stuff about the Foundation’s villainy seems like overkill. Tone it down a bit and it might land better. Talking here about the book’s specific intentions would be good too; is it willing to kill people for its story, or not? What are the implications of that?
For reference, the current version is better overall than the previous one. The endings of both are weird; the first is a reiteration of the conprocs, and the second is a proposal that gets sniped so fast we don't really get to understand the implications of it. The second ending also has Researcher Garcia treating the skip like a human, which is a little weird and out-of-headcanon. Neither land well atm imo, but with some rewording the second one is viable.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
19:44 <BlueLightningDragon> here's the link when you're available: https://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/bluelightningdragon
SCP-XXXX The Gemstone Of Death - SCP Sandbox III
19:45 <Mars> Anyone else got time for a 4k draft about LSD worms
19:45 <TawnyOwlJones> BlueLightningDragon: hmm, yeah, okay. please bear in mind that reviewers are not supposed to write your skip for you, and LBL crit isn't designed to pick up large conceptual flaws. if i'm reading a skip and I don't feel that an LBL is beneficial, i won't do it.
19:45 <BlueLightningDragon> Okay
19:45 <BlueLightningDragon> you can just do normal crit if you want
19:46 <BlueLightningDragon> And I'm getting crit to improve my article, because I don't want it to crash and burn
19:47 <BlueLightningDragon> I don't know which part is which in my article that's why I'm asking mainly for LBL to specifically point out the error
19:47 <BlueLightningDragon> like the overwroughtness
19:47 <TawnyOwlJones> i'll read it through first, but i think given the number of times you've posted this draft to the mainsite and had it deleted, you probably need to get ideas crit and change the concept. it's all well and good if the spag is good but if the story isn't interesting or connected it won't work on the mainsite
19:48 <BlueLightningDragon> Er, what's "spag"
19:48 <TawnyOwlJones> spelling, punctuation, and grammar
19:48 <BlueLightningDragon> Oh okay
19:48 <TawnyOwlJones> like, you keep mentioning that your dialogue is bad, but there's probably also bigger issues. which is why greenlighting exists.
19:48 <BlueLightningDragon> and the first post I did was a mistake I did, I'll admit
19:49 <BlueLightningDragon> I can't get anyone to see my greenlight post
19:49 <BlueLightningDragon> It's already plenty old now
19:49 <BlueLightningDragon> I've PMed butterfly squad members also
20:10 <BlueLightningDragon> Quick question, what temperature type does the foundation wiki use
20:10 <BlueLightningDragon> Celsius or Fahrenheit?
20:11 <@cybersqyd> the foundation always uses metric; so celsius
20:11 <BlueLightningDragon> Okay
20:19 <BlueLightningDragon> Mars, I'm changing up the results of viewing the gem and focusing on how the effects propel the narrative.
20:20 <TawnyOwlJones> BlueLightningDragon: can you describe your narrative in one sentence per plot point?
20:21 <BlueLightningDragon> per plot point?
20:21 <BlueLightningDragon> Do you mean important events in the story?
20:21 <BlueLightningDragon> okay
20:21 <TawnyOwlJones> yeah
20:22 <BlueLightningDragon> Eta-10 recovers the anomaly from a deranged curator that warns them over and over to not harm it, and almost kills one of the team trying to keep them away from it.
20:22 <Mars> Alright
20:22 <BlueLightningDragon> Second,
20:23 <BlueLightningDragon> The Foundation puts the anomaly into a containment unit designated for cognitohazardous artifacts, and a test results in a breach causing major mental and physical damage to security and personnel.
20:23 <BlueLightningDragon> third,
20:25 <BlueLightningDragon> Dr. Daniel is made lead researcher of the anomaly, and conducts experiments concerning the gem's connection with death, concluding that the gem is a portal to a pocket dimension where the SCP-XXXX-2 instances roam.
20:25 <BlueLightningDragon> fourth,
20:27 <BlueLightningDragon> The Foundation recognizes major effects of the anomaly besides its normal effects, such as feeling unsettled or emotional, flu-like symptoms and report hearing voices over their shoulder and seeing instances of SCP-XXXX-2 as deceased loved ones.
20:27 <BlueLightningDragon> andd I think that's up to date
20:28 <BlueLightningDragon> Is that too much per sentence?
20:28 <TawnyOwlJones> no that's fine, one moment
20:28 <BlueLightningDragon> Ok
20:30 <TawnyOwlJones> BlueLightningDragon: why do you want to write this skip in particular?
20:30 <BlueLightningDragon> Er, I thought of it
20:30 <BlueLightningDragon> why do you ask?
20:32 <BlueLightningDragon> And also because I made up some scientific creatures and such for my fantasy book. some of them just didn't make sense by standards of my fantasy world, so I thought, "Hey! I'll make this into an SCP!"
20:32 <BlueLightningDragon> It was technically an anomaly in my fantasy world as well
20:34 <TawnyOwlJones> because if you want to write it then you think there's something interesting about it, and you don't seem too willing to edit the concept (given that you are soliciting draft crit when you have a four-day-old ideas forum thread with two replies telling you it's not a particularly compelling narrative). what do you find interesting about this story?
20:34 <BlueLightningDragon> The death thing in particulor
20:35 <TawnyOwlJones> that it kills people?
20:35 <BlueLightningDragon> NO
20:35 <BlueLightningDragon> oops caps
20:35 <BlueLightningDragon> No
20:35 <TawnyOwlJones> so what
20:35 <BlueLightningDragon> (Sorry I use shift to type caps)
20:35 <TawnyOwlJones> dw
20:35 <TawnyOwlJones> please rephrase the "death thing"
20:36 <BlueLightningDragon> I changed it that it doesn't kill people
20:36 <BlueLightningDragon> And it is connected to death
20:36 <TawnyOwlJones> no, but it makes them kill themselves, which is functionally the same
20:36 <BlueLightningDragon> How does it make them kill themselves, though?
20:36 <BlueLightningDragon> I never put it makes them kill themselves…
20:37 <TawnyOwlJones> i mean that's what i understood from your draft. they come into contact with it, go crazy, and kill themselves
20:37 <BlueLightningDragon> Sure, Saffron and the curator did it, but it depended on *what the voices told them to do*
20:38 <BlueLightningDragon> But did I explicitly put they killed themselves?
20:38 <BlueLightningDragon> I don't think I did…
20:38 <TawnyOwlJones> then in that case it's a thing-that-makes-you-crazy.
20:38 <TawnyOwlJones> you did not i don't think, but it doesn't matter because that is what i as a reader understood from reading it
20:39 <TawnyOwlJones> basically you're standing on multiple cliches and they aren't as interesting as you think they are
20:39 <BlueLightningDragon> When I was waiting for you to come online, I was revising it and making changes
20:39 <BlueLightningDragon> some more noticable changes too
20:40 <BlueLightningDragon> I'm making the instances seem more like human souls
20:40 <TawnyOwlJones> okay, i will read again. i will also leave some crit on your concept thread
20:40 <BlueLightningDragon> Ok
20:41 <ClockworkCrow7> I need to get my work greenlighted by someone. http://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/clockworkcrow
clockworkcrow - SCP Sandbox III
20:41 <TawnyOwlJones> regardless, the anomaly doesn't really matter here. the narrative is a disjointed combination of cliches that doesn't read well.
20:41 <TawnyOwlJones> ClockworkCrow7: concepts are greenlit, not drafts
20:42 <ClockworkCrow7> Ugh. so how do i show the concepy? the diretions say to post the sandbox link here
20:42 <BlueLightningDragon> Oh
20:43 <TawnyOwlJones> ClockworkCrow7: ideas forum thread http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-13282684/required-reading:how-to-use-this-forum-ideas
REQUIRED READING: HOW TO USE THIS FORUM - IDEAS - SCP Foundation
20:43 <TawnyOwlJones> BlueLightningDragon: how many series 6 skips have you read?
20:43 <BlueLightningDragon> also, I don't really know the cliches because I'm new to writing it as well
20:43 <TawnyOwlJones> .s how to write
20:43 <%Secretary_Helen> TawnyOwlJones: How To Write An SCP (Rating: +185. Written 12 years ago By: The Administrator) - http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/how-to-write-an-scp
How To Write An SCP - SCP Foundation
20:44 <BlueLightningDragon> Not many series six
20:44 <BlueLightningDragon> but a good few
20:46 <BlueLightningDragon> I don't have much time to read many skips
20:46 <BlueLightningDragon> But I can read some
20:49 <TawnyOwlJones> the way you learn both the format and how narratives work in skips is by reading. read more recent stuff before you keep drafting. i recommend using the random scp button on the mainsite and also #site19 for that (read things that people plug, and go through people's author pages)
20:49 <TawnyOwlJones> also, don't be afraid to put this idea on the backburner, or even scrap it entirely, and work on something else. sometimes ideas don't work or they don't work the way you want them to. leave it in your sandbox, work on something else, and come back to it in a couple months.
20:49 <BlueLightningDragon> I also had this idea of a virus
20:49 <BlueLightningDragon> But maybe it's the same thing
20:50 <TawnyOwlJones> think about the story, rather than the object itself
20:50 <BlueLightningDragon> It's supposed to be called the glitch pathogen
20:50 <TawnyOwlJones> the object obviously has to feature in the story, and can be the main focus, but the Foundation's reactions and interactions with it are significantly more important
Conprocs in your description
MTF dialogue is both too colloquial and stunted.
Thing-that-makes-you-crazy + thing-that-kills-you = thing-that-makes-you-kill-yourself, apparently? Suicide is a sensitive topic, and you seem to trivialise it.
Containment breaches are largely overdone.
Don't redact, blackbox, or data expunge anything.
Overall, we learn about the things this skip does, but there's no emotional connection to any of the characters. The narrative here is just the discovery, and then containment breach, and then experiment logs to find out what the skip does, and then there's a pocket dimension for some reason? There's no singular well-formed narrative arc here, just a bunch of disjointed things that happen to include your skip. Overwhelmingly, it's not interesting.
A fenced-off perimeter has been established around SCP-XXXX a team of two personnel are to be stationed outside
"A fenced-off perimeter has been established around SCP-XXXX. A team of two personnel are to be stationed outside"
administered Class-A Amnestics,
You don't need to link to the guide here, especially not the old one lol.
to ensure the anomaly doesn't spread into the surrounding area.
"to ensure it doesn't spread into the surrounding area."
North Little Rock
Why is this blackboxed?
SCP-XXXX-1 approaches an unresponsive female humanoid, SCP-XXXX-4
"SCP-XXXX-1 approaches SCP-XXXX-4, an unresponsive female humanoid."
I fucking hate this so much it's not even funny. I am quitting the Wiki and becoming a hermit. I will never read anything agai-
Jokes aside, inch resting. I like it.
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your draft!
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Disruption Class: Vlam
Risk Class: caution Warning
Location: Site-81
Unless there's a reason to have both this and the ACS, remove one of them. Additionally, the reclassification to Warning from Caution isn't mentioned in the article and is therefore irrelevant. You can totally make it relevant by including it in the article, but right now it's just surplus.
SCP-XXXX During containment by MTF Xi-8 "Spearhunters"
"SCP-XXXX during containment by MTF Xi-8 "Spearhunters"" but also "during containment" is kind of weird wording.
15 by 13 Foot containment chamber
Is there a reason for it to be 15 by 13 foot? The Foundation uses metric, not imperial, units too.
with a sprinkler system installed inside.
"furnished with a sprinkler system" would be better wording, if slightly non-clinical.
Due to the temperatures that SCP-XXXX can produce, the cell materials are to be extremely heat resistant.
Feels non-clinical.
SCP-XXXX appears to be a common raccoon
"SCP-XXXX is a common raccoon". I would also mention the scientific name here (which is Procyon lotor).
with a weight of 21.5 pounds, and a height of 11.2 inches.
Use metric units.
Once a day, SCP-XXXX will be engulfed in fire. The fire is always a perfect sphere, with SCP-XXXX in the center.
Non-clinical.
The sphere is estimated to be 6 feet in diameter.
"2 meters". Also why is it estimated?
The temperature of the aforementioned sphere has shown to vary greatly
"The temperature of the sphere has shown to vary greatly"
2,800 degrees celsius
"2,800 degrees Celsius"
(Level 3+ personnel, view incident SCP-XXXX-1 for more information)
"(See Incident XXXX-1)" and then put the Clearance Level on the collapsible.
response teams are only allowed to interact with SCP-XXXX
"response teams are only permitted to interact with SCP-XXXX"
On 6/11/2020 SCP-XXXX ignited at a temperature higher than anything previously seen during a regular health checkup
Non-clinical.
killing all three personnel in the process
There are four people in the table. "killing three personnel in the process"
melting transition point of 4,500° celsius
"melting transition point of 4,500 degrees Celsius"
risen to an average of 3,950° celsius
"risen to an average of 3,950 degrees Celsius"
Overall, I'm not really feeling it. I like the idea of fire raccoon, and it don't think it's as much of a problem as Phantom implies, but it lacks a story and the part of the narrative that is present isn't particularly interesting.
You kill off three characters at the end but we don't know or care who they are, so it doesn't really matter? Right now, fire raccoon is just "thing that kills you". Follow a character, or group of characters; make us care about them so there can be some sort of emotion elicited upon their deaths. The Current Staff section isn't really relevant either, since we don't ever get introduced to these characters.
Pretty major issues with clinical tone, as above. There's also some inconsistencies across the different parts of the draft, e.g. you say in the Description that the shape of the fire changed at some point, but then you don't follow it through in the addendum like you indicated you would.
Remember that SCP articles are stories; you need characters, and a narrative, and something interesting to happen (whether that's a single plot point or an overall theme). Figure out why you want to tell this anomaly's story specifically, and then think of a story only this anomaly could tell.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your draft!
SCP-XXXX is to be stored at Site 19 in six secure storage lockers, and its existence is classified to all personnel below level 4 clearance.
"SCP-XXXX is to be stored at Site 19 in six secure storage lockers. Its existence is classified to all personnel, except those with Level 4 clearance or higher."
Site 19
"Site-19" (goes for all instances of the word)
measuring approximately 0.5 meters long and 0.5 meters wide, with a thickness of 1.5 cm.
"measuring 0.5 meters in length, 0.5 meters in width, and 1.5 cm in depth."
designed to be assembled into a box
Perhaps specify here that the box is a cube?
mainline reality would be consumed
"mainline reality is consumed" also I think it's "baseline reality", or "current reality"?
SCP-XXXX would then appear in the mirror reality
"SCP-XXXX will then appear in the mirror reality"
Objects and information to thus be transferred between the baseline and mirror reality by storing them in the assembled box form of SCP-XXXX prior to activation.
This sentence doesn't make sense. I think it's missing some words.
in the year [REDACTED].
If the year isn't important, remove this entirely. If it is, add in the number.
[REDACTED]
What goes there? If you don't know, remove it. It doesn't work as shock value if your reader can't even guess what is under there, and it's not a hook either.
This box is dangerous and repulsive to us
Using long-time nuclear warnings is interesting but it's also slightly cheap? You never fully explain the gravity of the situation which means that this doesn't land as well as it could. It partially comes across as trying to hook readers by using other people's writing. This line was the first thing I noticed about the addendum and I think if would work better if it actually fitted in with the rest of the skip. I'm not sure where the rest of the text is the addendum is from, but if you wrote it then it carries the same if not more weight than the line from the nuclear waste warning messages.
These functions may be activated by [INSTRUCTIONS EXPUNGED BY ORDER OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE]
Why the Ethics Committee and not the O5?
secure, contain, protect.
"Secure, Contain, Protect."
Overall, it feels somewhat anticlimactic. You never fully explain what the anomaly is. We know the skip initiates YK-Class Scenarios, but not much else. You mention later on that it can be used to warn against K-Class Scenarios but you never explain how or why or show it happening. Maybe we as readers don’t need to know much else, but we do need to be interested in the story.
Conceptually, it’s not bad, but you’ve got a lot going on and not enough words to adequately tell the story. Scale-wise, you're going for something with really big implications but in a short article, and that's really hard. There’s a lot more words than implication; a lot of excess and repetition surrounding the core idea, but not much extrapolation from the core idea of “this is a thing that does X; it’s secret and nobody is allowed to use it”. This happens a lot with short articles, but I really think adding more solid content to this wouldn’t go amiss.
The core idea in itself is interesting, but the execution is pretty flat and disjointed. I think seeing more implication surrounding specifically why nobody is allowed to use it would give it a little more depth. Show something going wrong and have the Foundation learn from it, rather than just eluding to the fact that something could go wrong so they won’t even try. It’s headcanon, but if something beneficial can come out of an anomaly the Foundation will exploit it within ethical and logistical limits. If you don’t want to show it, then explain why the Foundation won’t ever use it in more detail and make sure it connects to the rest of the narrative.
Additionally, putting a little more weight and focus on why the contents of the box is important would be very good. Currently you just have a list of things that are in the box and I haven’t read the skips you list and I’m not compelled to. Relying heavily on crosslinks isn’t good, especially when you don’t explain what they mean for/add to your article; they’re just name drops.
When I say the narrative is disjointed, I mean that you have a bunch of different information about your skip but none of it is adequately connected to the other parts. Including implications and the Foundation’s reactions to the skip throughout can help make everything coherent.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
Hi! I'm Flight Officer tawnyowljones and I've decided to crit your draft!
Research Team-XXXX
I feel like "Research Team XXXX" would work better.
active rather than passive containment will be pursued.
"active containment will be pursued."
SCP-XXXX is a question-answering online webpage that specializes in the circulation of anomalous content.
I don't think "question-answering" is necessary here because it's implied later on.
due to the prevalence of serpantile and arboraceous iconography
Is it not "serpentine"?
Though never directly alluding to them,
Feels non-clinical. Could be removed entirely but I feel like the information is important. Maybe needs rephrasing.
prevalent within Serpent’s Hand ideology including a general anti-containment sentiment.
"prevalent within Serpent’s Hand ideology, including a general anti-containment sentiment."
answered by an unknown persona
"person"? "entity" might work better.
Though much of the posted answers usually contain general questions about abnormal incidences rather than specific inquiries into anomalous mechanisms and minutiae.
This sentence is unfinished.
review the previously answered questions.
As in they can review questions from other people?
Permanent solutions de-coupling solutions
Repeated word?
and no one to tell this to you because many have called me crazy
"and no one to tell this to but you because many have called me crazy"
But weirdly when I turn the light back on
No prior allusion to the lights being off. Unless you mean non-physical light?
the changes on her body disappear
Bodily changes aren't really implied in the previous paragraph. Maybe reword this part?
I also want them to keep me in that place forever.
Missing negative? i.e.: "I also don't want them to keep me in that place forever."
Peasants in feudal europe
"Peasants in feudal Europe"
Bold the commas in your titles. i.e.: "Description:" rather than "Description:".
I like this, but I don't have much knowledge of the Serpent's Hand so I think a lot of it went over my head.
The actual premise is interesting, that is, having a q+a website about SCPs; I think there’s real potential there, and the format is wonderful. However, it doesn't really lead to much narratively. The beginning is strong, but it sort of tapers off towards the end. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I took the overall idea to be that the Serpent's Hand are showing random people (or established characters perhaps???) the existence of anomalies and anomalous phenomenon, and also attempting to recruit them at times. The bigger implication is that the Foundation having access to this website and the answered questions means that they know what the Serpent's Hand are doing.
I'm mostly confused by the last q+a section; it only really implies two things:
1) That the Foundation is Bad (TM);
2) That the Serpent's Hand oppose the Foundation and vice versa
and it doesn't really land properly? Because even with my limited knowledge of GoIs, I already know both of those things. The actual words are good but I feel like the intention doesn't work.
Referring back to what I said previously about the Foundation knowing about the Serpent's Hand's activity, so what? What happens now that they have access to this skip? What do they do with the information and/or what do they intend to do with the information?
I don't know; I'm torn here and I definitely feel like I'm missing something, but I also think it would benefit from having some Foundation narrator input about the q+a sections specifically.
That's all from me for now. Good luck!
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margin: -0.25em; -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 -1.5em 0 0 rgba(var(--dark-accent), 1); -moz-box-shadow: inset 0 -1.5em 0 0 rgba(var(--dark-accent), 1); box-shadow: inset 0 -1.5em 0 0 rgba(var(--dark-accent), 1); text-decoration: none; color: rgb(var(--white-monochrome)) } #extra-div-3 { position: absolute; width: 100%; height: var(--header-height-on-desktop); top: 0; left: 0; pointer-events: none; background: url('https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/theme:the-foundation-theme/foundation-header-img.png'); background-position: center center; } #header { background: initial; } #header h1, #header h1 a, #header h1 a::before { position: absolute; top: 0.5rem; left: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; display: -webkit-box; display: -webkit-flex; display: -moz-box; display: -ms-flexbox; display: flex; -webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-align-items: center; -moz-box-align: center; -ms-flex-align: center; align-items: center; -webkit-box-pack: center; -webkit-justify-content: center; -moz-box-pack: center; -ms-flex-pack: center; justify-content: center; max-height: inherit; z-index: 0; } #header > h1 > a > span { width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; max-width: inherit; } #header h1 { height: -webkit-calc(100% - 2.25rem); height: -moz-calc(100% - 2.25rem); height: calc(100% - 2.25rem); } #header h1 a::before, #header h1 a { text-align: center; font-weight: 100; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: -webkit-calc(2.75rem + (4.5 - 2.75) * ((100vw - 18.750rem) / (60 - 18.750))); font-size: -moz-calc(2.75rem + (4.5 - 2.75) * ((100vw - 18.750rem) / (60 - 18.750))); font-size: calc(2.75rem + (4.5 - 2.75) * ((100vw - 18.750rem) / (60 - 18.750))); line-height: 0.8; letter-spacing: 0.1em; } #header h2 span::before, #header h2 span { display: none; } #login-status, #login-status * { -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; } #login-status { min-height: -webkit-calc(var(--base-font-size) * 1.5); min-height: -moz-calc(var(--base-font-size) * 1.5); min-height: calc(var(--base-font-size) * 1.5); border: .0625rem solid rgb(var(--bright-accent)); -webkit-border-radius: .0625rem; -moz-border-radius: .0625rem; border-radius: .0625rem; -webkit-border-radius: var(--border-radius-width); -moz-border-radius: var(--border-radius-width); border-radius: var(--border-radius-width); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #424248; background-color: rgb(var(--gray-monochrome)); -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1; -webkit-flex-grow: 1; -moz-box-flex: 1; -ms-flex-positive: 1; flex-grow: 1; } #login-status .printuser { position: relative; top: 0; left: 0; color: rgb(var(--swatch-text-light)); border-right: .0625rem solid rgb(var(--bright-accent)); background: rgb(var(--swatch-primary-darkest)); -webkit-box-shadow: none; -moz-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none; padding: 0.25rem; margin: 0; font-weight: 900 !important; } #login-status .printuser a { width: 0.75em; } #login-status #my-account { color: rgb(var(--black-monochrome)); } #login-status #account-topbutton { border: initial; padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0.25em; position: relative; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; margin: 0; font-size: 1em; } #account-options { width: auto; padding: 0.5em; border-color: rgb(var(--bright-accent)); background: var(--gradient-header); color: rgb(var(--swatch-text-light)); } #account-options ul li a { color: rgb(var(--swatch-text-light)); } #search-top-box { left: 3%; top: 0.5rem; } #search-top-box, #search-top-box * { border-color: rgb(var(--bright-accent)) !important; } #search-top-box-form > #search-top-box-input { width: 7rem; } #top-bar { height: 1.875rem; } #top-bar div.top-bar > ul > li, #top-bar div.mobile-top-bar > ul > li { font-family: var(--title-font); font-weight: 800; text-transform: uppercase; isolation: isolate; } #top-bar div.top-bar > ul > li:hover, #top-bar div.mobile-top-bar > ul > li:hover { background: rgb(var(--swatch-primary-darkest)); } #top-bar div.top-bar > ul > li::before, #top-bar div.mobile-top-bar > ul > li > a::before { content: " "; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; opacity: 0; background: url('https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/theme:the-foundation-theme/foundation-circles-bg.png'); -webkit-background-size: 100vh 100vh; -moz-background-size: 100vh; -o-background-size: 100vh; background-size: 100vh; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center center; -webkit-transition: opacity 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -webkit-background-size 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); transition: opacity 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -webkit-background-size 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -o-transition: opacity 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -o-background-size 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -moz-transition: opacity 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-size 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -moz-background-size 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); transition: opacity 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-size 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); transition: opacity 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-size 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -webkit-background-size 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -moz-background-size 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -o-background-size 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); pointer-events: none; -webkit-animation-direction: reverse; -moz-animation-direction: reverse; -o-animation-direction: reverse; animation-direction: reverse; pointer-events: none; } #top-bar div.top-bar > ul > li:hover::before, #top-bar div.mobile-top-bar > ul > li > a:hover::before { content: " "; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; opacity: 1; } #top-bar div.top-bar > ul > li > ul, #top-bar div.mobile-top-bar > ul > li > ul { margin-top: 1.9rem; } #top-bar div.top-bar > ul > li > a::before, #top-bar div.top-bar > ul > li > a::after { background-color: rgba(var(--dark-gray-monochrome)); pointer-events: none; z-index: 1; } #side-bar { top: 0; --swatch-border-color: rgb(var(--light-gray-monochrome)); background-color: rgba(var(--dark-accent),0); scrollbar-color: rgba(var(--dark-gray-monochrome),0) rgba(var(--bright-accent),0); z-index: 10; background: linear-gradient( rgba(var(--dark-accent),0) 30%, rgba(var(--dark-accent),0)), linear-gradient( rgba(var(--dark-accent),0), rgba(var(--dark-accent),0) 70%) 0 100%, radial-gradient(farthest-side at 50% 0, rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darkest),0), rgba(var(--black-monochrome),0)), radial-gradient(farthest-side at 50% 100%, rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darkest),0), rgba(var(--black-monochrome),0)) 0 100%; } #side-bar:hover, #side-bar:active { scrollbar-color: rgb(var(--dark-gray-monochrome)) rgb(var(--bright-accent)); background-color: rgba(var(--dark-accent),1); background-image: linear-gradient( rgba(var(--dark-accent),1) 30%, rgba(var(--dark-accent),0)), linear-gradient( rgba(var(--dark-accent),1), rgba(var(--dark-accent),0) 70%) 0 100%, radial-gradient(farthest-side at 50% 0, rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darkest),.5), rgba(var(--black-monochrome),0)), radial-gradient(farthest-side at 50% 100%, rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darkest),.5), rgba(var(--black-monochrome),0)) 0 100%; } #side-bar:focus-within { scrollbar-color: rgb(var(--dark-gray-monochrome)) rgb(var(--bright-accent)); background-color: rgba(var(--dark-accent),1); background-image: linear-gradient( rgba(var(--dark-accent),1) 30%, rgba(var(--dark-accent),0)), linear-gradient( rgba(var(--dark-accent),1), rgba(var(--dark-accent),0) 70%) 0 100%, radial-gradient(farthest-side at 50% 0, rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darkest),.5), rgba(var(--black-monochrome),0)), radial-gradient(farthest-side at 50% 100%, rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darkest),.5), rgba(var(--black-monochrome),0)) 0 100%; } #side-bar div.menu-item { --swatch-border-color: rgb(var(--light-gray-monochrome)); background-color: rgba(var(--black-monochrome), 0.25); } #side-bar .heading { font-family: var(--title-font); background-image: url('https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/theme:the-foundation-theme/foundation-circles-bg.png'); background-attachment: fixed; -webkit-background-size: 100vh 100vh; -moz-background-size: 100vh; -o-background-size: 100vh; background-size: 100vh; background-position: -18rem center; position: relative; padding-top: 0.15em; padding-bottom: 0.25em; } #side-bar div.menu-item a, #side-bar div.menu-item a:hover, #side-bar div.menu-item a:active, #side-bar div.menu-item a:visited, #side-bar div.menu-item .text { color: rgb(var(--white-monochrome)); margin: 0.15em 0; font-family: var(--title-font); } #side-bar div.menu-item a::before { background: linear-gradient(to top, rgb(var(--black-monochrome)), rgb(var(--dark-accent))); background-attachment: fixed fixed; background-size: 300% 500%; background-position: left; } .yui-navset .yui-nav a { -webkit-transition: background-color 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -o-transition: background-color 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -moz-transition: background-color 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); transition: background-color 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); color: rgba(var(--white-monochrome)); } .yui-navset .yui-nav li { background-color: rgba(var(--swatch-menubg-light-color), 0); -webkit-animation: tab-active 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -moz-animation: tab-active 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -o-animation: tab-active 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); animation: tab-active 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -webkit-animation-iteration-count: 1; -moz-animation-iteration-count: 1; -o-animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-iteration-count: 1; -webkit-animation-fill-mode: forward; -moz-animation-fill-mode: forward; -o-animation-fill-mode: forward; animation-fill-mode: forward; -webkit-animation-play-state: paused; -moz-animation-play-state: paused; -o-animation-play-state: paused; animation-play-state: paused; } .yui-navset .yui-nav li em { transition: -webkit-transform 400ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -o-transition: -o-transform 400ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -moz-transition: transform 400ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -moz-transform 400ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 400ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); transition: transform 400ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); transition: transform 400ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -webkit-transform 400ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -moz-transform 400ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -o-transform 400ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); } .yui-navset .yui-nav .selected { margin-top: -0.5em; padding-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0.0625rem; background-color: rgb(var(--white-monochrome)); -webkit-animation-iteration-count: 1; -moz-animation-iteration-count: 1; -o-animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-iteration-count: 1; -webkit-animation-fill-mode: backwards; -moz-animation-fill-mode: backwards; -o-animation-fill-mode: backwards; animation-fill-mode: backwards; -webkit-animation-play-state: running; -moz-animation-play-state: running; -o-animation-play-state: running; animation-play-state: running; } .yui-navset .yui-nav .selected a em { -webkit-transform: translateY(-0.25em); -moz-transform: translateY(-0.25em); -ms-transform: translateY(-0.25em); -o-transform: translateY(-0.25em); transform: translateY(-0.25em); } .yui-navset .yui-nav a, .yui-navset .yui-nav a:hover, .yui-navset .yui-nav a:active, .yui-navset .yui-nav a:focus-within { background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: var(--title-font); font-weight: 600; isolation: isolate; } .yui-navset .yui-nav a:hover, .yui-navset .yui-nav a:active, .yui-navset .yui-nav a:focus-within, .yui-navset .yui-nav .selected a { color: rgba(var(--bright-accent)) !important; } .yui-navset .yui-nav a::before, .yui-navset .yui-nav a::after { content: " "; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; opacity: 1; pointer-events: none; } .yui-navset .yui-nav a::before { background-image: url('https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/theme:the-foundation-theme/foundation-circles-bg.png'); -webkit-background-size: 100vh 100vh; -moz-background-size: 100vh; -o-background-size: 100vh; background-size: 100vh; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: top center; -webkit-mask-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left bottom, left top, from(rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)), color-stop(33%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)), color-stop(66%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)), to(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0))); -webkit-mask-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 0%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 33%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 66%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%); mask-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left bottom, left top, from(rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)), color-stop(33%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)), color-stop(66%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)), to(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0))); mask-image: linear-gradient(to top, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 0%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 33%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 66%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%); -webkit-mask-size: 100% 90px; mask-size: 100% 90px; -webkit-mask-repeat: repeat; mask-repeat: repeat; -webkit-mask-position: center -58px; mask-position: center -58px; -webkit-transition: background-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), color 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -webkit-mask-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); transition: background-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), color 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -webkit-mask-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -o-transition: mask-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), color 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -moz-transition: mask-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), color 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); transition: mask-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), color 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); transition: mask-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), background-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), color 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1), -webkit-mask-position 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); pointer-events: none; } .yui-navset .yui-nav a:hover::before, .yui-navset .yui-nav a:focus::before, .yui-navset .yui-nav .selected a::before { -webkit-mask-position: center 0px !important; mask-position: center 0px !important; background-position: 100% 200vh; } .yui-navset .yui-nav a:hover::after, .yui-navset .yui-nav a:focus::after, .yui-navset .yui-nav .selected a::after { opacity: 0; -webkit-animation: fade 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -moz-animation: fade 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -o-animation: fade 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); animation: fade 300ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.0, 0.2, 1); -webkit-animation-direction: backwards; -moz-animation-direction: backwards; -o-animation-direction: backwards; animation-direction: backwards; -webkit-animation-iteration-count: 1; -moz-animation-iteration-count: 1; -o-animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-iteration-count: 1; } table.wiki-content-table { border-collapse: collapse; } table.wiki-content-table th { border-color: rgb(var(--light-gray-monochrome)) !important; position: relative; font-family: var(--title-font); font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase; background-image: url('https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/theme:the-foundation-theme/foundation-circles-bg.png'); -webkit-background-size: 100vh 100vh; -moz-background-size: 100vh; -o-background-size: 100vh; background-size: 100vh; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: top center; } @media only screen and (max-width: 768px) { #top-bar { font-size: -webkit-calc(var(--base-font-size) * 0.8); font-size: -moz-calc(var(--base-font-size) * 0.8); font-size: calc(var(--base-font-size) * 0.8); height: 2.5rem; } #top-bar > div.mobile-top-bar > div.open-menu { font-size: -webkit-calc(var(--base-font-size) * 0.65); font-size: -moz-calc(var(--base-font-size) * 0.65); font-size: calc(var(--base-font-size) * 0.65); width: 2.5rem; height: 2.5rem; } #top-bar > div.mobile-top-bar > div.open-menu > p > a { color: rgb(var(--swatch-menutxt-dark-color)) !important; } #top-bar div.mobile-top-bar > ul > li > a { letter-spacing: 0; } #top-bar > div.top-bar > ul > li:last-of-type > ul, #top-bar > div.mobile-top-bar > ul > li:last-of-type > ul { left: 50%; } #top-bar div.mobile-top-bar > ul > li > ul { margin-top: 2.5rem; } #top-bar div.mobile-top-bar > ul > li > ul > li { max-height: -webkit-calc(100vh / 10); max-height: -moz-calc(100vh / 10); max-height: calc(100vh / 10); height: 50em; } #top-bar div.mobile-top-bar > ul > li > ul > li > a { white-space: pre-wrap; } #side-bar:target .close-menu { width: -webkit-calc(100% - 15em - var(--scrollbar-width)); width: -moz-calc(100% - 15em - var(--scrollbar-width)); width: calc(100% - 15em - var(--scrollbar-width)); } #search-top-box { right: 0 !important; top: 0 !important; left: inherit; } #search-top-box-form > #search-top-box-input { width: inherit; right: 0 !important; top: 0 !important; } #search-top-box-input, #navi-bar, #navi-bar-shadow { display: inline-block; } #search-top-box { height: var(--header-height-on-mobile); } #search-top-box:focus-within form[id="search-top-box-form"] { padding-right: -webkit-calc(3% + 30px); padding-right: -moz-calc(3% + 30px); padding-right: calc(3% + 30px); padding-top: 2.3125rem; } #search-top-box:not(:focus-within):before { top: 5.625rem; width: 2rem !important; } #search-top-box form[id="search-top-box-form"] { height: 100%; visibility: hidden; right: 0 !important; position: absolute; } #search-top-box form[id="search-top-box-form"]:focus-within { visibility: visible; right: 1em; } #search-top-box form[id="search-top-box-form"]:not(:focus-within) input[type="text"] { height: var(--header-height-on-mobile); width: 2rem !important; } #main-content { margin-top: 2.1em; } } } @-webkit-keyframes tab-active { 0% { background-color: rgba(var(--swatch-menubg-light-color), 0); padding-top: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; } 100% { background-color: rgba(var(--white-monochrome), 1); padding-top: 0.5em; margin-top: -0.5em; margin-right: 0.0625rem; } } @-moz-keyframes tab-active { 0% { background-color: rgba(var(--swatch-menubg-light-color), 0); padding-top: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; } 100% { background-color: rgba(var(--white-monochrome), 1); padding-top: 0.5em; margin-top: -0.5em; margin-right: 0.0625rem; } } @-o-keyframes tab-active { 0% { background-color: rgba(var(--swatch-menubg-light-color), 0); padding-top: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; } 100% { background-color: rgba(var(--white-monochrome), 1); padding-top: 0.5em; margin-top: -0.5em; margin-right: 0.0625rem; } } @keyframes tab-active { 0% { background-color: rgba(var(--swatch-menubg-light-color), 0); padding-top: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; } 100% { background-color: rgba(var(--white-monochrome), 1); padding-top: 0.5em; margin-top: -0.5em; margin-right: 0.0625rem; } } @-webkit-keyframes fade { 0% { opacity: 1; } 100% { opacity: 0; } } @-moz-keyframes fade { 0% { opacity: 1; } 100% { opacity: 0; } } @-o-keyframes fade { 0% { opacity: 1; } 100% { opacity: 0; } } @keyframes fade { 0% { opacity: 1; } 100% { opacity: 0; } }
:root { --swatch-background: var(--black-monochrome); --header-subtitle: "Office of the Overseer"; --rating-module-text-color: var(--swatch-menutxt-light-color); --rating-module-button-color: var(--swatch-menutxt-light-color); --swatch-text-general: var(--swatch-text-light); --swatch-menutxt-general-color: var(--swatch-menutxt-light-color); --swatch-secondary-color: var(--swatch-menubg-dark-color); --swatch-tertiary-color: var(--swatch-menubg-medium-dark-color); } ::selection { background: rgba(var(--swatch-primary, 180, 35, 35), 1); } html, body { color: rgb(var(--swatch-text-light)); } .page-rate-widget-box { margin: 0; background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left bottom, left top, color-stop(0, rgba(var(--black-monochrome),.55)), to(rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darkest),.45))); background: -webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, rgba(var(--black-monochrome),.55) 0, rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darkest),.45)); background: -moz-linear-gradient(bottom, rgba(var(--black-monochrome),.55) 0, rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darkest),.45)); background: -o-linear-gradient(bottom, rgba(var(--black-monochrome),.55) 0, rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darkest),.45)); background: linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(var(--black-monochrome),.55) 0, rgba(var(--swatch-primary-darkest),.45)); } #page-title,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { color: rgb(var(--swatch-text-light)) !important; } #page-title { border-color: rgb(var(--light-gray-monochrome)) !important; position: relative; margin-top: 1rem; font-family: var(--title-font); font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase; border: .0625rem solid rgba(66,66,72,.25) !important; border: .0625rem solid rgba(var(--swatch-menubg-medium-dark-color),.25) !important; isolation: isolate; } #page-title::before { content: " "; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; background-image: url('https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/theme:the-foundation-theme/foundation-circles-bg.png'); -webkit-background-size: 100vh 100vh; -moz-background-size: 100vh; -o-background-size: 100vh; background-size: 100vh; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: top center; z-index: -1; } #header h2, #header h2 span, #header h2 span::before { position: absolute; top: 0.5rem; left: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 100%; height: 50%; top: 40%; display: -webkit-box; display: -webkit-flex; display: -moz-box; display: -ms-flexbox; display: flex; -webkit-box-align: end; -webkit-align-items: flex-end; -moz-box-align: end; -ms-flex-align: end; align-items: flex-end; -webkit-box-pack: center; -webkit-justify-content: center; -moz-box-pack: center; -ms-flex-pack: center; justify-content: center; max-height: inherit; z-index: 0; font-weight: 500; font-family: var(--header-font); text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.5em; pointer-events: none; } .danger-diamond a, .danger-diamond a:hover { color: rgba(0,0,0,0) !important; -webkit-box-shadow: initial !important; -moz-box-shadow: initial !important; box-shadow: initial !important; } .danger-diamond > .arrows { background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'%3F%3E%3Csvg version='1.2' baseProfile='tiny' id='Layer_1' xmlns='https://www.w3.org/2000/svg' xmlns:xlink='https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink' x='0px' y='0px' viewBox='0 0 160 160' xml:space='preserve'%3E%3Cpath fill='%23fcfcfc' d='M136.1,133.3l23.9-23.9V51.2l-24-24l19.1-19.1l4.9,4.9l0-12.9l-12.9,0l4.9,4.9L133,24.2l-24-24H51l-24,24 L8,5.2l4.9-4.9L0,0.2l0,12.9l4.9-4.9L24,27.3l-24,24v58.2l23.9,23.9l-19,19L0,147.3l0,12.9l12.9,0L8,155.3l19-19l23.9,23.9h58.4 l23.9-23.9l19,19l-4.9,4.9l12.9,0l0-12.9l-4.9,4.9L136.1,133.3z M155.7,53v54.6l-22.6,22.6l-50-50L133,30.3L155.7,53z M52.8,4.5 h54.4l22.7,22.7L80,77.2L30.1,27.3L52.8,4.5z M4.3,107.6V53L27,30.3L77,80.2l-50,50L4.3,107.6z M107.4,155.9H52.6L30,133.3l50-50 l50,50L107.4,155.9z'/%3E%3C/svg%3E%0A"); } table.wiki-content-table { width: 100%; text-align: center; margin: 0 auto; } table.wiki-content-table, table.wiki-content-table * { border-color: rgb(var(--black-monochrome)) !important; -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; } table.wiki-content-table tbody tr th { -webkit-box-pack: center; -webkit-justify-content: center; -moz-box-pack: center; -ms-flex-pack: center; justify-content: center; border-color: rgb(var(--black-monochrome)) !important; } table.wiki-content-table tr { border-width: 0px !important; } table.wiki-content-table tr, table.wiki-content-table th { width: 100%; display: -webkit-inline-box; display: -webkit-inline-flex; display: -moz-inline-box; display: -ms-inline-flexbox; display: inline-flex; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-align-items: stretch; -moz-box-align: stretch; -ms-flex-align: stretch; align-items: stretch; margin: 0; font-weight: 700; } table.wiki-content-table td { display: -webkit-inline-box; display: -webkit-inline-flex; display: -moz-inline-box; display: -ms-inline-flexbox; display: inline-flex; -webkit-flex-wrap: wrap; -ms-flex-wrap: wrap; flex-wrap: wrap; -webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-align-items: center; -moz-box-align: center; -ms-flex-align: center; align-items: center; margin: 0; -webkit-box-flex: 2; -webkit-flex-grow: 2; -moz-box-flex: 2; -ms-flex-positive: 2; flex-grow: 2; -webkit-flex-basis: 100%; -ms-flex-preferred-size: 100%; flex-basis: 100%; width: 100%; background-color: rgb(var(--swatch-primary-darkest)); color: rgb(var(--white-monochrome)); text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 1; text-align: center; } table.wiki-content-table td * { width: 100%; } table.wiki-content-table td span:nth-of-type(even) { font-family: var(--mono-font); font-size: 0.75em; } blockquote, .blockquote { background-color: rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-dark-color)); } #page-content a:not([href*="user"]):not([href*="javascript:;"]):not([href="/classification-committee-memo"]) { color: rgb(var(--light-gray-monochrome)) !important; } #page-content a:not([href*="user"]):not([href*="javascript:;"]):not([href="/classification-committee-memo"]):hover { color: rgb(var(--black-monochrome)) !important; -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 -1.5em 0 0 rgba(var(--light-gray-monochrome), 1) !important; -moz-box-shadow: inset 0 -1.5em 0 0 rgba(var(--light-gray-monochrome), 1) !important; box-shadow: inset 0 -1.5em 0 0 rgba(var(--light-gray-monochrome), 1) !important; } .code { background-color: rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-dark-color)); } @media only screen and (max-width: 768px) { #page-title { font-size: 2em; } table.wiki-content-table tr { -webkit-flex-wrap: wrap; -ms-flex-wrap: wrap; flex-wrap: wrap; } table.wiki-content-table tr > td { min-width: 100%; font-size: 1rem; padding: 0.5rem; } } .scp-image-block { -webkit-box-shadow: initial; -moz-box-shadow: initial; box-shadow: initial; } .scp-image-block .scp-image-caption { background-color: rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-dark-color)); }
:root { --timeScale: 1; --timeDelay: 0s; } /* Converting middle divider from box-shadow to ::before pseudo-element */ .anom-bar > .bottom-box { box-shadow: none!important; } .anom-bar > .bottom-box::before { position: absolute; content: " "; width: 100%; height: 0.5rem; background-color: rgb(var(--black-monochrome, 12, 12, 12)); transform: translateY(-0.74rem); } /* DIVIDER */ .anom-bar > .bottom-box::before { animation-name: divider; animation-duration: calc(0.74s * var(--timeScale)); animation-delay: calc(0.1s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: cubic-bezier(.32,.38,.39,.94); animation-fill-mode: backwards; } /* CLASSIFIED LEVEL BARS */ div.top-center-box > * { animation-name: bar; animation-duration: calc(0.45s * var(--timeScale)); animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: ease-out; animation-fill-mode: backwards; } div.top-center-box > :nth-child(1) { animation-delay: calc(0.2s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.top-center-box > :nth-child(2) { animation-delay: calc(0.32s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.top-center-box > :nth-child(3) { animation-delay: calc(0.45s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.top-center-box > :nth-child(4) { animation-delay: calc(0.61s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.top-center-box > :nth-child(5) { animation-delay: calc(0.75s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.top-center-box > :nth-child(6) { animation-delay: calc(0.95s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } /* TOP TEXT */ div.top-left-box, div.top-right-box { clip-path: polygon( 0% -50%, 150% -50%, 150% 100%, 0% 100%); } div.top-left-box > *, div.top-right-box > * { position: relative; animation-name: bottomup; animation-duration: calc(0.65s * var(--timeScale)); animation-delay: calc(0.5s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: ease-out; animation-fill-mode: backwards; } /* CONTAINMENT, DISRUPTION, RISK CLASSES */ div.text-part > * { clip-path: polygon( 0% 0%, 100% 0%, 100% 100%, 0% 100%); animation-name: expand2; animation-duration: calc(0.5s * var(--timeScale)); animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: cubic-bezier(.12,.41,.27,.99); animation-fill-mode: backwards; } div.text-part > :nth-child(1) { animation-name: expand1; } div.text-part > :nth-child(1) { animation-delay: calc(0.6s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.text-part > :nth-child(2) { animation-delay: calc(0.75s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.text-part > :nth-child(3) { animation-delay: calc(0.86s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.main-class::before, div.main-class::after { animation-name: iconslide; animation-duration: calc(0.45s * var(--timeScale)); animation-delay: calc(0.8s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: cubic-bezier(.12,.41,.27,.99); animation-fill-mode: backwards; } /* BOTTOM TEXT */ div.main-class > *, div.disrupt-class > *, div.risk-class > * { animation-name: flowIn; animation-duration: calc(0.42s * var(--timeScale)); animation-delay: calc(0.75s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: ease-out; animation-fill-mode: backwards; } /* DIAMOND */ div.arrows { animation-name: arrowspin; animation-duration: calc(0.7s * var(--timeScale)); animation-delay: calc(0.6s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: cubic-bezier(.12,.41,.27,.99); animation-fill-mode: backwards; } div.quadrants > * { animation-name: fade; animation-duration: calc(0.3s * var(--timeScale)); animation-delay: calc(1.4s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: cubic-bezier(.12,.41,.27,.99); animation-fill-mode: backwards; } div.top-icon, div.right-icon, div.left-icon, div.bottom-icon { animation-name: nodegrow; animation-duration: calc(0.4s * var(--timeScale)); animation-delay: calc(1.4s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: cubic-bezier(.12,.41,.27,.99); animation-fill-mode: backwards; } div.diamond-part { clip-path: polygon( -10% 0.37%, 120% 0.37%, 120% 100%, -10% 100%); animation-name: diamondBorder; animation-duration: calc(0.8s * var(--timeScale)); animation-delay: calc(0.5s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: cubic-bezier(.32,.38,.39,.94); animation-fill-mode: backwards; will-change: box-shadow; } /* MOBILE QUERY */ @media (max-width: 480px ) { .anom-bar > .bottom-box::before { display:none; } .anom-bar > .bottom-box { box-shadow: 0 -0.5rem 0 0 rgb(var(--black-monochrome, 12, 12, 12))!important; } div.top-center-box > * { animation-name: bar-mobile; animation-duration: calc(0.9s * var(--timeScale)); } div.top-center-box > :nth-child(1) { animation-delay: calc(0.1s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.top-center-box > :nth-child(2) { animation-delay: calc(0.2s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.top-center-box > :nth-child(3) { animation-delay: calc(0.3s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.top-center-box > :nth-child(4) { animation-delay: calc(0.4s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.top-center-box > :nth-child(5) { animation-delay: calc(0.5s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } div.top-center-box > :nth-child(6) { animation-delay: calc(0.6s * var(--timeScale) + var(--timeDelay)); } } /*--- Motion Accessibility ---*/ @media (prefers-reduced-motion) { div.anom-bar-container { --timeScale: 0; } } /*-------------------------*/ @keyframes divider { from { max-width: 0%; } to { max-width: 100%; } } @keyframes bar { from { max-width: 0%; } to { max-width: 100%; } } @keyframes bar-mobile { from { max-height: 0%; } to { max-height: 100%; } } @keyframes bottomup { from { top: 100px; } to { top: 0; } } @keyframes expand1 { from { opacity: 0; clip-path: inset(0 calc(100% - 0.75rem) 0 0);} to { opacity: 1; clip-path: inset(0);} } @keyframes iconslide { from { opacity: 0; transform: translateX(-5rem);} to { opacity: 1; transform: translateX(0);} } @keyframes expand2 { from { opacity: 0; max-width: 1%;} to { opacity: 1; max-width: 100%;} } @keyframes fade { from { opacity: 0;} to { opacity: 1;} } @keyframes flowIn { from { opacity: 0; transform: translateY(20px); } to { opacity: 1; transform: translateY(0); } } @keyframes arrowspin { from { clip-path: circle(0%); transform: rotate(135deg); } to { clip-path: circle(75%); transform: rotate(0deg); } } @keyframes nodegrow { from { transform: scale(0);} to { transform: scale(1);} } @keyframes diamondBorder { from { box-shadow: -0.5rem -20rem 0 0 rgb(var(--black-monochrome, 12, 12, 12)); } to { box-shadow: -0.5rem 0 0 0 rgb(var(--black-monochrome, 12, 12, 12)); } }
@supports((display: -ms-grid) or (display: grid)) { :root { /* header measurements */ --header-height-on-desktop: 10rem; --header-height-on-mobile: 10rem; --header-h1-font-size: -webkit-calc(2rem + (2.5 - 2) * ((100vw - 18.750rem) / (60 - 18.750))); --header-h1-font-size: -moz-calc(2rem + (2.5 - 2) * ((100vw - 18.750rem) / (60 - 18.750))); --header-h1-font-size: calc(2rem + (2.5 - 2) * ((100vw - 18.750rem) / (60 - 18.750))); } #header { background: none; } #header::before { content: " "; position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; top: 0.75rem; background-image: var(--logo-image); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center -3.5rem; -webkit-background-size: auto 8rem; -moz-background-size: auto 8rem; -o-background-size: auto 8rem; background-size: auto 8rem; background-position: center top; opacity: 0.45; pointer-events: none; } #header h1, #header h1 a, #header h1 a::before { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; display: -webkit-box; display: -webkit-flex; display: -moz-box; display: -ms-flexbox; display: flex; -webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-align-items: center; -moz-box-align: center; -ms-flex-align: center; align-items: center; -webkit-box-pack: center; -webkit-justify-content: center; -moz-box-pack: center; -ms-flex-pack: center; justify-content: center; max-height: inherit; z-index: 0; } #header>h1>a>span { width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; max-width: inherit; } #header h1 { height: -webkit-calc(100% - 2.25rem); height: -moz-calc(100% - 2.25rem); height: calc(100% - 2.25rem); } #header h1 a::before, #header h1 a { text-align: center; line-height: 0.8; } #header h2, #header h2 span, #header h2 span::before { position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0.15em; margin-left: 0; padding: 0; width: 100%; display: -webkit-box; display: -webkit-flex; display: -moz-box; display: -ms-flexbox; display: flex; -webkit-box-align: end; -webkit-align-items: flex-end; -moz-box-align: end; -ms-flex-align: end; align-items: flex-end; -webkit-box-pack: center; -webkit-justify-content: center; -moz-box-pack: center; -ms-flex-pack: center; justify-content: center; max-height: inherit; z-index: 0; text-transform: uppercase; pointer-events: none; } #login-status { min-height: -webkit-calc(var(--base-font-size) * 1.5); min-height: -moz-calc(var(--base-font-size) * 1.5); min-height: calc(var(--base-font-size) * 1.5); -webkit-border-radius: .0625rem; -moz-border-radius: .0625rem; border-radius: .0625rem; -webkit-border-radius: var(--border-radius-width); -moz-border-radius: var(--border-radius-width); border-radius: var(--border-radius-width); color: rgb(var(--pale-gray-monochrome)); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-box-flex: 1; -webkit-flex-grow: 1; -moz-box-flex: 1; -ms-flex-positive: 1; flex-grow: 1; left: 3%; right: initial; } #login-status .printuser { --wght: 900; position: relative; top: 0; left: 0; color: rgb(var(--swatch-menutxt-light-color)); -webkit-box-shadow: none; -moz-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none; padding: 0.25rem; margin: 0; font-weight: 900; } #login-status #my-account { --wght: 300; color: rgb(var(--pale-gray-monochrome)); font-weight: 300; } #login-status #account-topbutton { border: initial; padding: 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0.25em; position: relative; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; margin: 0; font-size: 1em; } #account-options { width: auto; padding: 0.5em; border-color: rgba(var(--bright-accent)); background: var(--gradient-header); color: rgb(var(--swatch-text-light)); } #account-options ul li a { color: rgb(var(--swatch-text-light)); } #account-options li a:hover { color: rgb(var(--swatch-text-light)); text-decoration: underline; } @media only screen and (min-width: 769px) { #search-top-box { right: 3%; top: 0.5rem; } #search-top-box-form>input, #search-top-box-form>input:hover, #search-top-box-form>input:focus { background: rgb(var(--black-monochrome)); } #search-top-box-form>input { -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.125rem rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-dark-color)); -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.125rem rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-dark-color)); box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.125rem rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-dark-color)); } #search-top-box-form>input:hover, #search-top-box-form>input:focus { -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.125rem rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-medium-dark-color)); -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.125rem rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-medium-dark-color)); box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.125rem rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-medium-dark-color)); } #search-top-box-form input[type="submit"], #search-top-box-form input[type="submit"]:focus, #search-top-box-form input[type="submit"]:hover { border: none; border-left: 0.0625rem solid rgb(var(--swatch-primary-darkest)); -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.125rem rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-dark-color)); -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.125rem rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-dark-color)); box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.125rem rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-dark-color)); } #search-top-box-form input[type="submit"] { background: rgb(var(--swatch-primary-darkest)); color: rgb(var(--swatch-menutxt-light-color)); } #search-top-box-form input[type="submit"]:focus, #search-top-box-form input[type="submit"]:hover { background: rgb(var(--swatch-primary)); -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.125rem rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-medium-dark-color)); -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.125rem rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-medium-dark-color)); box-shadow: 0 0 0 0.125rem rgb(var(--swatch-menubg-medium-dark-color)); } } #page-title { text-align: center; } @media only screen and (max-width:768px) { :root { --header-h1-font-size: -webkit-calc(2rem + (2.5 - 2) * ((100vw - 18.750rem) / (60 - 18.750))); --header-h1-font-size: -moz-calc(2rem + (2.5 - 2) * ((100vw - 18.750rem) / (60 - 18.750))); --header-h1-font-size: calc(2rem + (2.5 - 2) * ((100vw - 18.750rem) / (60 - 18.750))); } #header h1, #header h1 a, #header h1 a::before { top: 0.25rem; } #header h2, #header h2 a, #header h2 a::before { top: 0; } #header h2 span { margin-top: -webkit-calc(var(--header-height-on-mobile)/2 + var(--header-h1-font-size)/2 + .25rem); margin-top: -moz-calc(var(--header-height-on-mobile)/2 + var(--header-h1-font-size)/2 + .25rem); margin-top: calc(var(--header-height-on-mobile)/2 + var(--header-h1-font-size)/2 - .25rem); } }

Special Containment Procedures: In order to avoid the Foundation's secrecy from becoming public, all SCP-6457-1 instances are to be neutralized as soon as possible.
All SCP-6457-2 instances are to be recontained in other Foundation sites or anomalous phenomena deemed capable of following the required requisites to implant the obligatory containment protocol for said anomalies.
See Addendum 6457.1 for further information.
Description: SCP-6457 is the designation given to an ongoing CK-Class Reality Restructuring scenario within the SCP Foundation's worldwide dominions, including Sites and Areas.
Whenever a SCP-6457 event occurs, a random Foundation site will become into an SCP-6457-1 instance along with Site personnel. Contained anomalies will become SCP-6457-2 instances and will suffer the effects of SCP-6457.
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