Wow! You flipped a card and got: WingedImpurity!!! You ca reload the page or go to the next.
DATE: 15 Jun 2021 13:33
-Sphynx cat but with hairy frog aspects
Wow! You flipped a card and got: SCP-1835!!! You ca reload the page or go to the next.
DATE: 15 Jun 2021 06:56
Item #: SCP-1835
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-1835-1 are to be kept in a padlocked steel container in designated Storage Room 78-B. Storage Room 78-B requires level 3 clearance to access. SCP-1837-1 is to remain in Storage Room 78-B. Two guards must be patrolling Storage Room 78-B at all times. Anybody who has activated SCP-1835 must be subject to Class-C Amnestics.
Description: SCP-1835-1 is a purple box with 'Dr Wonderentertainment's zeppelins- educational action for your children to re-enact the heroic struggles of the Rupertian people facing their Alarian aggressors! (Recommended for those aged 6-14)' printed on the front with an orange font.
The box comes sealed with two small patches of tape on the bottom of the front, which when the tape is cut and the front flap is lifted up, reveals a small model of a 19th century zeppelin measuring 10x7x5cm, referred to as SCP-1835-2, as well as an informative leaflet. Whenever a child in the suggested age group handles SCP-1835-2 it suddenly inflates to a full size 19th century military zeppelin, fully equipped with functioning weaponry. After this event occurs, the child becomes familiar with the events of the great Rupertian Battle of 1899. The child then possesses the knowledge needed to control SCP-1835-2. SCP-1835 has a cognitive effect, which causes the brain to mis-intercept light waves, causing everybody within one kilometer to see the soldiers of the army of Rupertia. According to a child affected by SCP-1835, this is a re-inaction of the Great Battle of 1899, where Rupertian soldiers fought the Alarians. It is thought that Rupertia and Alaria are actually alternate universe versions of Austria and Prussia. The weapons controlled by the child can cause serious damage to the surroundings. If more than one child activates SCP-1835, it causes the children to take sides as either Alaria or Rupertia. The soldiers do not cause real-world damage, as they are entirely a cognitive illusion.
SCP-1835 was discovered in 2005, whenever locals from Surrey, England reported large zeppelins circling the city. Foundation agents discovered the source of the activation a month later. A father had come forward and told the agents (Posing as policemen) that his son had recently acquired an obsession with Zeppelins, and a fictional country, 'Rupertia'. He had told the agents that he had bought a toy zeppelin for his son. By this point, the zeppelins had demolished a large area of land. Mobile Task Force Sigma-9 'Valkyries' swiftly destroyed the zeppelins. All known instances of SCP-1835 have been contained.
Not much information is known about Rupertia. An investigation is pending.
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DATE: 15 Jun 2021 05:19
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SCP 6053 in containment attempt 1
Special Containment Procedures: (Entity 6053 is currently uncontained)
Description: Entity appears to be a goose-like figure with an orange beak and white feathers.
SCP-6053 is 2.7 feet tall and 4.3 feet long.
SCP-6053 is known to cause annoyance, destruction, and has come close to killing people.
6053 makes a honking noise like a goose. Likes lakes and ponds and often steals things from personnel. SCP-6053 is uncontainable, but there have been many containment attempts, such as in the picture above.
Addendum:
Recorded sessions of 6053 escaping:
*Personnel █████ walks by SCP-6053 in containment*
"I can't believe they think this goose can do anything, it's just a goose," says Personnel █████.
SCP-6053 proceeds to instantly breach containment, busting out after Personnel █████ makes the remark. "What the hell?!" says Personnel █████ in shock. Alarms start to roar as SCP-6053 runs 60mph out the facility.
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Wow! You flipped a card and got: no-more-crit-fairy!!! You ca reload the page or go to the next.
DATE: 15 Jun 2021 04:15
[…]for use in order to help them win the cold war,[…]
The Cold War wasn't actually a war. There was no active warring between first and second world countries (capitalist and communist countries respectively). I feel what you intend is that the Soviet Union survives and the USA collapses. (Versus what has happened in our timeline, the USSR collapsed in the early 90s). Which in this case, "Gru-P" division is aiding the USSR to destabalise the US economy. (The USSR collapsed due to economical reasons… as well as a few other things, but economical is a major factor.)
How do you plan on telling this narrative from the Foundation's perspective? As your idea thread currently reads, this would be fine as a tale of a "Gru-P" Group of Interest Format.
[…]artificial temporal attractor field for use by division P[…]
How does the Foundation find out about this? Is this via emails that they found on a hard-drive at an abandoned -P office? Or dossiers at a warehouse? Why did -P create such a machine in the first place? How did the Foundation piece together the reason why they made this machine?
[…]sabotage the carrier of a rival[…]
Who is the rival? Whose rival is it? Where is this rival from? What do you mean by carrier? How are they sabotaged? What is the rival's relationship/past history with the protagonist? (I'm assuming that the rival mentioned here is the rival of Dr. Sokolov.)
[…]rivel falling into depression and alcohol abuse.[…]
What happened in the experiment that led the rival to do this? Why was the rival being experimented on in the first place?
He burns his research and the schematics and destroys the anchor[…]
What information survives that the Foundation discovers? How will the recovered pieces tell the Foundation what the narrative is/what happened to Dr. Sokolov and the rival?
[…]getting part of him stuck in thread space.
How does the Foundation find this out? What is Dr. Sokolov able to do to interact with the Foundation's timeline?
It ends with the interviewer attempting to recruit Sokolov to help the foundation develop such an anchor, Sokolov refuses.
Your thread up to now reads as Dr. Sokolov is already trapped in a type of temporal loop when the anchor et all are discovered by the Foundation. How is the Dr. able to communicate with the Foundation and how is the Foundation able to offer to recruit him at all?
Overall, I really like this piece and the premise is intriguing.
Thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14118083/temporal-scp-seeking-greenlight#post-5006254
Additional/Response: Hey again!
How does Sokolov effect the timeline? Why do the higher ups not like Oblonsky? What specifically does Oblonsky say that gets him fired for disloyalty?
Tell me in two sentences the narrative of your story.
[…]they turn it into an explosive,
They turn what into an explosive? The detergent tablets? The washing machine?
[…]unexplainable incineration of the laundry[…]
How badly incinerated is the launder?
Central Narrative:
At the moment there doesn't seem to be a lot to the narrative. The Foundation are conveniently tipped that dado is selling detergent at a local launder.
- Why is the room empty when the MTF investigate?
- What happened to the people?
- How did the launder obtain the pods?
- What turns into an explosive?
- How dangerous is the explosive?
- Is the Foundation able to interview the owner, or an effected customer of the launder?
- Why is an MTF sent to investigate?
I find exploding tide pods to be hilarious, and dado has a track record of doing silly things like this, however, this feels too formulaic. As a reader I crave something more. I expect something more supstantial than just 'exploding tide pods by dado'.
What narrative do you want to tell with this piece? What narrative do you feel you need to tell with this piece?
Overall I like that you are riffing off of the 'tide pod' meme, but I don't think you're taking this far enough narratively speaking.
Thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14120853/normal-tide-pods-by-dado-seeking-greenlights#post-5006899
Additional Response: Hey again! Thanks for answering my questions! I have a short response:
I know it feels pretty formulaic, but sometimes you really run out of ideas.
Nothing under the sun is new. What's important is that you as the writer, are writing from your own experiences and point of view. I'm working on an SCP where the theatre is alive and consumes people. I'm certain something like that already exists on the wiki. The important bit, and what makes it stand out, is I'm writing about my experiences with identity and memory loss; especially my fear of identity and memory loss.
Also: Tell me in two sentences the narrative of your story.
A forest that once cars are inside the road under them shifts to a different part of the forest, resulting in a crash.
What kind of road? Is this a dirt road, back path? Is it a defunct part of a Route? How many crashes? How long has this been going on? How did the Foundation find out about this?
The forest is littered with its past victims.
How far into the forest is this? Again, how many people/crashes? When does this first start to occur? When does the Foundation find out/when does this take place?
inscribed into a tree is a story of a cult that despised technology and used black magic to give the forest its anomalous property’s
Tell me about a cult! When were they established? What god/gods/deities do they worship/work with? When you say technology, specifically what technology? I assume you mean like computers and modern day technology, but technology can also apply to as far back as the oldowan multitool. "Black magic" ok, but which types/sub-sects of magic? What do they use in their ceremonies? What are anomalies do the trees express other than, "road changes"?
Overall, there isn't anything here for me to consider if I like it or not, and also to be able to help you flesh out your idea. Take your time to think about my questions.
Thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14121177/seeking-greenlight-mechanical-graveyard#post-5007273
Containment is extremely tedious and difficult, but the object is eventually contained through backwards thinking and methods, as well as the object strangely and momentarily ceasing anomalous activity after a couple hours.
What are the containment procedures for the donut? What is the bare minimum that the Foundation is able to do to contain it? What anomlous activity does the Foundation first experience with the donut? How long after them containing it does it stop showing activity? What are the backwards thinking (reverse engineering) and methods that the Foundation does to the donut?
Multiple test logs will be featured in the article, results slowly transitioning from strange and comedic into creepy and, for the lack of a better word, sadistic,[…]
What are the test logs? What tests are you planning on the Foundation performing? What strange and comedic effects does the donut cause? What sadistic effects does the donut cause?
[…]to eat the SCP, in which something unexpected happens.
What happens though? What happens when the D-Class eats the donut?
One of my concerns is that there'll be another SCP that is very similar to this one, and that I accidentally stole from another author.
Your scip vaguely reminds me of the pizza box one in series 1, and vaguely of a coffee joke scip. But this very much doesn't mean that you can't do something similar. Nothing under the sun is new, and what's important is how you bring your own experiences, feelings, and life into the piece. Because no one has the life that you've lived. You are a unique person.
Overall, I see a lot of potential in this. But it needs to be tidied up and the narrative strengthened.
Note:
(EX: Cutting onions and somehow accidentally cutting the knife)
I don't know why I find this to be as funny as I do, but I can't stop giggling.
Thread: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14127301/aloysius-donut-seeking-greenlights#post-5008632
The SCP is a man who generates "character" entities based on his dreams.
This is an interesting premise.
The SCP is an author who lived alone. He used his anomaly to help his writing by recording interviews with his characters.
I identify with this quite a bit. This is vaguely in the pocket of the concept of a thoughtform (both on-site 'canon' and the literal definition of a thoughtform).
The friend had died a long time ago, but the author's dream temporarily brought him back to life as another "character". Seeing his friend again, the author was desperate to keep him for as long as possible. Knowing that he would disappear when he went to sleep again, the author started to drink a lot of coffee to stay awake.
I almost started crying reading this. This is a very good premise. How would you show this narrative? It would have to be through the Foundation's eyes. So I reckon, either through interview logs with the writer or the writer's journals/interview logs with the friend.
Gradually, he recovered, writing with more enthusiasm than before. A few months later, the Foundation found him and brought him into containment.
What if he doesn't recover? What if this is part of how the Foundation finds out about his abilities? Could it be that the local small town is aware of his abilities but in like a local urban legend way?
I personally haven't seen many SCPs relating to dreams, but the main focus is going to be on the man's relationship and history with his friend, which I think would be interesting to explore.
There are quite a few dream scips, but what's important for your piece is very, very, very much the writer's relationship and history with his friend.
The overall narrative can be dialed in more, especially because it's meant to be from the Foundation's perspective, but other than that I really, really dig this idea.
Thread: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14126947/a-lonely-author#post-5008635
22:50:35 fairydoctor: anyone here need a crit?
22:50:44 fairydoctor: or greenlight?
22:50:47 fairydoctor: or both?
22:52:07 DrTrishaVice: just trying to figure out how to describe my SCP's Anomoly
22:53:20 fairydoctor: whats the scoop so far DrTrishaVice
22:54:05 DrTrishaVice: "The anomoly that it possesses is a drug like feeling when it smiles, causes a a sudden of seratonin when anyone is in a 3.048 meter radius of the entity; the seratonin " it's a Humanoid Researcher I had in my head for a while
22:54:19 DrTrishaVice: so trying to work on how her Anomoly works is tricky
22:55:01 fairydoctor: so she smiles and her smile is contagious?
22:55:21 DrTrishaVice: basically, anyone in 10 foot radius of her when she smiles and they can see it feels a high of seratonin
22:56:03 DrTrishaVice: but if she is away from them or they had to leave her, the ones that were affected have major withdrawls depending on how long they were around her when she smiles
22:57:37 DrTrishaVice: also noticed the error in the sentence
22:58:07 DrTrishaVice: "The anomoly that it possesses is a drug like feeling when it smiles, causes a sudden surge of seratonin when anyone is in a 3.048 meter radius of the entity; the seratonin " much better, added "sudden surge"
22:58:32 DrTrishaVice: …it should be causing not causes
23:00:41 fairydoctor: DrTrishaVice: 'drug like' isnt clinical tone, and why is 3.048 meters so specific?
23:01:11 DrTrishaVice: I would of done 10 foot
23:01:31 fairydoctor: 3 meters is probably fine. theres no need to be that exact
23:01:32 DrTrishaVice: and i have no clue what to replace "drug like with"
23:02:37 fairydoctor: The effects of the anomaly causes a surge of serotonin in subjects within a 3 meter radius of Researcher [Name] <- DrTrishaVice how does this sound?
23:03:07 DrTrishaVice: that sounds better than what I could do to be honest.
23:04:40 fairydoctor: DrTrishaVice: so at the core the anomaly is that your Researcher has an infectious smile. and when people leave the radius of 3 meters, they essentially suffer from a mild case of depression fro a few hours
23:04:58 DrTrishaVice: yep
23:05:59 fairydoctor: DrTrishaVice: what is the narrative that youre planning around this anomaly? how does the Researcher discover her anomaly? how does she feel about it? is it only when she smiles? does she ever get depressed? <- DrTrishaVice
23:06:07 fairydoctor: please disregard second ping
23:06:16 fairydoctor: i am tired and have been going cross country
23:07:32 DrTrishaVice: She is just a story I thought of originally while having fun doing an scp rp with friends and wanted to flesh her out as a real SCP, The Narrative is to follow her through her everyday as an SCP and learn about her more
23:08:29 DrTrishaVice: She discovered her anomoly when she worked at a research lab from her previous job, she didn't understand why she had it nor how long she had it.
23:08:42 DrTrishaVice: She thinks she had it from a young age but those memories are foggy to her
23:09:21 fairydoctor: could her ability cause mild memory loss for her?
23:09:26 DrTrishaVice: How she feels about one is well: confused, excited, shocked
23:10:14 DrTrishaVice: maybe? she only remembered she smiled a lot as a little girl and everyone always wanted to be around her, her not understanding why
23:11:27 fairydoctor: damn, i had a thought about the whole sexist society thing of forcing women to smile more. could her ability stem somewhat from that? idk
23:12:28 DrTrishaVice: not really
23:12:42 DrTrishaVice: she's just a very smiley girl and loves the unknown
23:14:06 DrTrishaVice: I have no idea if this sounds good. "Depending on how long the subject was around the anomoly, the higher the dose of seratonin they experience. When away from the anomoly, subjects have suffered from mild to sometimes major depression depending on how long they've been around it."
23:14:56 DrTrishaVice: I know Major should be replaced with severe
23:16:29 fairydoctor: "Depending on how much time has elapsed within the radius of effect is directly proportional to how severe symptoms of depression are experienced by subjects." <- DrTrishaVice maybe?
23:19:24 fairydoctor: "Symptoms of depression experienced by subjects is directly proportional to the time spent within the radius of the anomaly's effect." <- DrTrishaVice how does this sound?
23:19:48 fairydoctor: you could then show a time table or a bullted list to illustrate this?
23:21:29 DrTrishaVice: hmmm trying to see actual science of smiling and serotonin
23:23:00 DrTrishaVice: there is this: "Mirror Neurons: Helping others is often a highly social activity, which creates a beautiful cycle of smiling. When you smile the whole world smiles with you because you are triggering their mirror neurons. Both the giver and the receiver can directly impact the other's brain in a positive way."
23:24:18 DrTrishaVice: and then there is ties to this: "The Happiness Trifecta: Helping others triggers a release of oxytocin, which has the effect of boosting your mood and counteracts the effects of cortisol (the dreaded stress hormone). Interestingly, the higher your levels of oxytocin, the more you want to help others. When oxytocin is boosted, so are serotonin and
23:24:18 DrTrishaVice: dopamine!"
23:25:38 fairydoctor: DrTrishaVice: possibly have a double blind test? have the Foundation ask her to sit in a closed room by herself and to sit and smile. and a D-Class is in a room adj (within 3 meters). and the researcher's asked to observe the two are outside of the 3m radius, but arent told that her effect causes a drastic spike in serotonin levels and all that
23:26:50 fairydoctor: so basically none of them know whats going on, and the data is collected and analysed by other researchers who do know what the effects are?
23:27:28 DrTrishaVice: so how would I go about writing the report?
23:30:50 fairydoctor: actually, DrTrishaVice what do you mean by going about writing the report? they could have them interview the researcher, the d class, and even the foundation researchers. they could have them connected to… MRIs? EKGs? some sort of machine that they can hook the researcher and d class's brains too
23:31:12 fairydoctor: …EKG is heart i think
23:31:26 fairydoctor is not an actual doctor. but is actual magician and fairy
23:34:21 DrTrishaVice: Would her singing a happy song while smiling probably boost that serotonin even more so?
23:34:54 DrTrishaVice: like Smile from MLP
23:35:51 fairydoctor: its whatever you want, but it sounds like a solid thought
23:36:49 DrTrishaVice: Do I add the Test to the uh Addendum part?
23:38:17 fairydoctor: thats a good question! it could go into the main article tbh, but depending on that flow of the narrative it could also be an addendum
23:39:17 DrTrishaVice: what about in the Addendum we learn that when they first learned about her is when she's working?
23:39:59 DrTrishaVice: She's always working and sometimes her coworkers argued over who got to work with her
23:40:13 DrTrishaVice: which honestly she saw it as normal?
23:41:41 fairydoctor: that might be too normal. try to think of something a little more out of the box. like something to do with her psych or therapist, maybe shes on anti depression medication and it messes with her anomlous nature (or helps it?) idk, something a little weirder and more solid that would draw the Foundation's attention?
23:42:04 fairydoctor: posts on social media perhaps?
23:42:15 fairydoctor: private emails and texts between collegues?
23:43:26 DrTrishaVice: hmm maybe when she was out with family or friends in public? Her just smiling causes strangers to want to interact with her?
23:43:44 DrTrishaVice: which to her is normal but to everyone else is weird?creepy?odd?
23:43:53 DrTrishaVice: normally doesn't happen?
23:46:17 fairydoctor: ooooh, like a massive crowd draws around her, and people take out their phones and record her for no reason?
23:46:34 fairydoctor: like "look at this lady's smile! isnt it charming!"
23:46:39 fairydoctor: and they all wanna take selfies
23:47:04 DrTrishaVice: yea!
23:48:42 DrTrishaVice: Now to write it out on how they found out about her in a way that sounds enticing to the reader but also in a professional way
23:49:04 fairydoctor: DrTrishaVice: im gonna wind down with crits for the night, but if you want to talk more send me a PM via the wiki or a .tell on the IRC (my wiki name is the same as it is on IRC)
[…]specifically the tape inside of a VHS[…]
Specifically the tape? So could some of the tape be spliced from the VHS/cassette and spliced into another 'shell'?
[…]DVDs being smashed with no know cause in a Blockbuster Video Store.
How did the Foundation find out about this though? You allude to it, but what are the specifics? Re: Blockbuster, what era are you placing this in? I don't recall Blockbuster being any sort of a thing past 2011.
[…]VHS tape that winds and rewinds itself with no known cause[…]
How did the Foundation discover this? Currently, it's implied that the tape was found doing this.
(complaining that it is just the same movie every time and mentioning the outdated format of VHS)
It would be the same movie every time, unless part of its anomalous ability is the be different each time. Also, as for outdated format, other than in jest why would the researchers really bring this up?
[…]VHS to make a new outer shell to protect itself.
This is very gruesome! The tape itself acts like its a snail/slug, and as a snail, requires a shell.
[…]viewing parties with D-class personnel[…]
What are the contents of the movie?
Overall, I really like this cursed media, and I like the personality you've described so far for it. Although, I would like to see more of a narrative. At the moment there is a suggestion of one but you can push it further.
Thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14129779/an-obsolete-format#post-5010924
This is giving me grey goo vibes. Also, the anomaly is notable but what narrative are you considering with this? At the moment the Foundation nuking it feels both: overkill, and Destroy, Destroy, Destroy which is antithetical to the Foundation motto.
What happened to the family? Where did the baked beans come from? How did the Foundation find out about the family/beans? What happens when someone eats to beans? Or tries to eat the beans? What about unbaked beans that are in the same house? Do the beans bake themselves? You say they are semi-intelligent, what do you mean by this? What do they do? What are they capable of doing? Are they able to communicate?
Thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14129313/need-feedback-on-first-scp-made-from-an-idea-a-friend-came-u#post-5011671
I really like that you're planning on doing a GoI format! The last I read about Corbenic was in early 2017, so I might need a quick synopsis. Regardless, where can I find example templates of the format?
Moving on,
Not all the faeries escaped to the forest outside of normative space during the battle of the Factory in 1911.
Is this a reference to SCP-4000?
[…]appearance of Earth L1 in the sky[…]
What is Earth L1?
Overall, I like concept but I would like to know more about Three Moons from your perspective before I can help more.
Thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14128843/wielka-altana#post-5012785
The simple plot follows a Level 3 researcher as he is called from his current testing grounds to another,[…]
What is this researcher testing? Who is this researcher?
[…]and finds that a fellow researcher is currently testing out the fully repaired Absolute Exclusion Harness, SCP-5000,
How are they testing? Who are they testing it on? What are the two researchers talking about? How is the test structured? What is his relationship with his fellow researcher?
[…]who starts to share his dismay at the state of the area.
Why is he dismayed? What happens during the tests? What happens when they present it to the Site Director? What does the area look like? What area are you talking about in specifics?
Overall, you have the start of something!
Thread: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14120211/seeking-greenlight-unbelievable#post-5013561
Central Narrative:
This seems to be standard thing that makes those around it go crazy. What more is there to it? Where is the owner from? Where did he find the calculator? How did the operator die?
What output does the calculator show for a division by 0? How does that show up on the feed? Does it cause any psychological or physical harm to the viewer?
The experiments and interview logs will give detail into the creature and the "prophet" would be exposed heavily to the entity due to communicate and understand its intentions.
What are those details? What experiments are there? Who is being interviewed? What does 'prophet' mean in this context?
Overall, I like the concept of an anomalous eldritch calculator being able to divide by zero, but there isn't a lot of narrative and sustenance to your piece as it is.
Thread: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14131488/an-accommodating-calculator#post-5013632
Additional:
[…]communicate with any worthless sentient being capable[…]
What do you mean by worthless?
[…]through its psychic capabilities that[…]
I might have missed something, the anomaly also has psychic capabilities? It has the power to read the minds of sapient creatures around it?
[…]this answer is beyond describability[…]
My suggestion is to try your best as an author to describe it. Consider how the anomaly would feel to an observer and what synonyms exist that could fit the description better. Consider how the anomaly would smell, taste, feel, etc… I know you're just describing what dividing something by zero would be (which is visual), but that's kind of the point. Dividing by zero breaks physics, so break away from standard descriptions.
In a way your proposed SCP reminds me of another SCP about a mentally simulated universe. This is only in passing though, and I suggest this SCP as a good read regardless.
Mind you, me bringing up another SCP that did something similar does not by all means mean you can't write your SCP. Nothing under the sun is new, and you are a different person with different experiences writing your piece.
A subject's head exploded during exposure and the other survived with little to none effects.
I think I missed something, because I didn't see this before. This is incredibly powerful imagery and I love it!
[…]of numbers 1 to 10 (more numbers can be shown with authorisation) divided by 0.
Oh I really like this! I can see this being done in a table!
Tell me in two sentences the narrative of your story.
Additional 1:
[…]used to communicate with the entity and the two incidents which occurred during tests.
What questions are asked? What are the two incidents that happen?
The "prophet" plays the bulk of this narrative with his interview logs (until eventually he slips up).
What role does the prophet play? What happens in his interview log? What do you mean by he slips up?
[…]you look at a picture of the galaxy and just realize you are all but a dust particle compared to it all (you get it?).
I sure do! "[…]we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky." The sense of dread, the feeling of being very very small, the Overview Effect, the awe, the wonder, the exotic tones of the alienness of the universe, and on a personal note, when I look up at the nightsky I get vertigo and the sensation that I'm "falling up". I get the sensation that gravity reversed itself.
Describing these types of things is hard to chew on, but I feel its important to describe some of it, even if you're describing the absence of something, or describing the space around it, etc.
Gonna pull from some of Mooagain's crit:
10:08 <Mooagain> I just think the focus of the story should be more on the character behind the calculator, not the calculator itself
I feel that this comment also falls under me encouraging you to try to describe the indescribable. The cognitive effects of the x/0 output can be related in the characterisation of your anomaly itself and vice versa.
A small suggestion for the ending, maybe end with another of its species showing up and putting it in its place? That could be a nice punchline if you go that route.
I really like Mooagain's suggestion.
This amnestic alters the victims perception, making them believe that they are a Victorian child that must embrace the SCP.
Amnestic isn't quite the right word for this, possibly mnestic, but definitely a hallucinatory drug. Is the drug/agent airborne as well?
If the SCP is left uncleaned for too long, a secondary stronger amnestic is created.
If the goo is what causes the effect, then how does someone hold the object? What kind of gloves do they have to wear? Do they have to use a drone or tongs to pick up the object? Does having someone attached to the object effect the production of goo? Does it reverse it?
[…]abnormal disappearances[…]
Is this related to the object? How does the goo/effect make all of those children disappear?
[…]the horrors of this SCP if left unchecked.
What are the horrors of the object if left unchecked? What does it do to the Foundation? What does it do to the investigators?
[…]or a gas mask filter is faulty, then disaster could occur. The invisible nature of the amnestic gas is like a silent killer,[…]
Oh so it does emit a gas, it is airborne. Ok so how does the Foundation know this? How did they contain an object that is also an airborne abnormality?
[…]which could slowly be affecting everyone it is around.
What is the radius on the airborne spread? Is the gas able to replicate itself outside of the object? What are the symptoms of someone suffering from the airborne effects?
Overall a decent concept but the narrative feels like a skeleton right now.
Thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14131170/seeking-greenlights-copy-cat#post-5014310
Additional:
[…]the children were just exploring the ruins and ended up in the enclosed space in which the SCP had been for an undeterminable amount of time,[…]
The ruins of what? Were the parents interviewed after the incidents? Were there any observers to the children sneaking out?
[…]perhaps unable to remember how they got there[…]
If the children are stuck because they no longer know where to go; does that mean that when the Foundation finds the object they would also find the children? Also the gas could be amnestic based then?
[…]goo is slightly corrosive, not enough to melt through steel in a matter of minutes, but enough to overtime destroy its containment box. And of course the longer its left unchecked, the more goo it produces, and the more goo produced, well the more corrosion to its containment.
This feels like you're juggling a number of anomalous elements. The corrosive aside reads like a plot device.
Its unknown what happens to the gas, its just observed that it appears to be recycled[…]
If it's observed to be recycled then it's known that it's recycled.
AHG-B has long term damage including loss of hearing, anterograde amnesia, and in some cases, permanent hallucinations.
OK yea this sounds like an amnestic. Please disregard my previous crit stating it seemed more mnestic. Does the gas act more like a drug or infection for those exposed to it?
The actual narrative should focus on the engravings, and what the Foundation thinks it might mean.
What's on the engravings? Is it going to be the myth of Prometheus? What does the Foundation think the engravings mean? Is anything else found at the site? How does the Foundation experiment on the object? What experiments do they do? Who are the head researchers tasked with this object? What do they as individuals think and feel about it? Is there an actual Prometheus attached to the object?
"This is our first gift."
What are the other gifts given? Are the other gifts mentioned in the engravings?
Overall, I really dig this concept and I would love to know more about it!
Thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14133556/our-first-gift-seeking-critique-greenlight#post-5015814
<TimeElapsed> An ED-K Lethe Event is characterized by the following parameters:
<TimeElapsed> Knowledge of a concept, object, or entity will be expunged through anomalous means from the memory of the affected humans.
<TimeElapsed> Any memories of interactions with things forgotten will still exist, but will have no context in the affected person's frame of reference.
<TimeElapsed> Loss of memory of a concept is long-lasting7 and self-sustaining; if an affected person is reminded of a concept forgotten, they will forget again as soon as the topic changes, and will undergo the same reintroduction every time they are exposed to the concept.
<TimeElapsed> I think these are enough for understanding
<fairydoctor> yea i get it now thanks :D
<fairydoctor> ¨Within minutes, their brain would become a whiteboard.¨ <- im getting super heavy ´snow crash´ and ´neuromancer´ vibes
<fairydoctor> ¨[…]Maxwellism had its scheme as the number of believers[…]¨ what do you mean?
<TimeElapsed> fairydoctor given the fact that so many people dive in the basic layer, the Foundation became alerted
<fairydoctor> so they thought that the maxwellists were doing something suspicious
<TimeElapsed> yep
<TimeElapsed> so Foundation researchers want to find it out, and they go inside, too
<fairydoctor> what are the researchers motivations for hacking in? couldnt they have used D Class or underling researchers?
<TimeElapsed> I thought of the possibility that D-class became the explorer but, I still think the hacking process is pretty technical
<fairydoctor> im not sure how amped up the Foundation would be about having an important asset to the Foundation do something like this, unless thereś a really good reason or if underling/junior researchers
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<TimeElapsed> also D-class didn't do ARTMET, so their memories are too impaired to form complete thoughts
<TimeElapsed> junior researchers are applicable, I reckon
<fairydoctor> ¨paralyze themselves¨ i might have missed context to this. but how are they paralysing themselves?
<TimeElapsed> it's like the feeling of taking drugs
<TimeElapsed> some drugs can paralyze certain functions of your brain
<TimeElapsed> the "feeling" does the same
<fairydoctor> what aspects are paralysed?
<TimeElapsed> maybe vision, hearing, etc.
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<TimeElapsed> My point is, the brain computer can alter the perception (for users to immerse in virtual world), so the special "headache" will change to something else
Thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14133436/ed-k-combined-with-maxwellism
The conprocs read as a little bland. They are straightforward yes, but I feel you can push the concept a little further.
[…]they will experience the transformation of the skin of their back into dollar bills,[…]
This doesn't read as clinical tone. I suggest;
When a viewer purchases an advertised item, the subject will experience standard 1 USD paper bills growing from the back of their neck. The total amount of money grown will be equal to the amount of money spent on the item purchased by the subject.
Examples include: a pile of feces, a blade of grass, a damaged disk of the film Super Mario Bros., a grain of sand, and three shards of glass.
I feel this piece is LolFoundation material. What other typical commercially available items are there that could be used as examples instead? Could you elaborate on the specifics of how each item is subpar? (For example: You put, "a damaged disk of the film Super Mario Bros." this is the tone and example I suggest to list/lean into.)
Transcript of Interview XXXX-A-1
The formatting of this is awkward. This may be my personal opinion though.
[…]first and only individual on record to have been affected by SCP-XXXX.
Very interesting. I suggest you reflect this in your conprocs.
Anthony Schwartz: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Are you… are you telling me… (laughter) are you telling me you called that number on TV just so you could talk to that woman?
This is very unprofessional for a Foundation employee. Also the interview log on the whole didn't go anywhere narratively. What is the narrative that you are aiming for in the interview log?
In regards to conprocs, how would the Foundation have that example list if the only example is Read calling to talk to the lady? Is the lady one of the "call now to talk to hot singles in your area" type of advertisements?
Overall, I'm not feeling this piece. Currently, it is "weird thing what do weird thing". What story are you trying to tell with this?
Thread: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14116252/scp-love-it-or-you-re-money-back#post-5006880
[…]two-meter tall[…]
Is this needed? Is this important for the narrative?
[…]patrolled by security elements,[…]
'Security elements' do you mean 'security personnel'?
[…]two miles outside the outskirts of SCP-XXXX.
I suggest just 'three kilometers outside of SCP-XXXX'.
[…]two security personnel at all time.
'times'
SCP-XXXX is a midwestern American town known as Portsden located in the state of Ohio.
I suggest: 'SCP-XXXX is Portsden, Ohio.' Note: I feel you can also 'SCP-XXXX is Portsden, Ohio in the American Midwest.' But I might be biased. The first iteration is really all you need to be honest.
[…]closely resemble baseline homo sapiens.
'Homo sapiens' (be sure to italicise it too)
SCP-XXXX is subjected to what will henceforth be referred to as a 'cycle'.
I suggest 'SCP-XXXX is subjected to cyclical anomalous events.'
[…]usually revolving around SCP-XXXX-1 through 5.
You haven't told the reader yet what SCP-XXXX-1 to -5 are.
[…]SCP-XXXX-2 being late for a PTA meeting.
That bitch Helen has once again sabotaged Karen.
SCP-XXXX-A instances or SCP-XXXX-1 through 5 will be repaired instantly. Any and all supplies, including food, fuel and luxuries, will instantly reappear at the beginning of each cycle.
Why don't you designate SCP-XXX-1 to -5 AS SCP-XXXX-As so you only have to put SCP-XXXX-A?
You also haven't told the reader what SCP-XXXX-A is yet!!
The inhabitants of SCP-XXXX2 can be divided into two categories; secondary and primary entities.
You need to tell the reader this information sooner, and also not as a footnote.
[…]their close resemblance towards Homo Sapiens,[…]
'Homo sapiens'
Most of the personalities of SCP-XXXX-A instances are described as 'cardboard' and 'two-dimensional' by Foundation psychologists.
The clinical tone is lacking. I suggest you describe the specifics of the -A's personalities using psychological jargon. For example: 'Most of the personalities of SCP-XXXX-A instances lack empathy, sympathy, and social skills.'
[…]there are several 'higher functioning' instances that are shown to be more advanced[…]
Higher functioning how? This sentence is lacking in clinical tone. What specifically do the -1-5's DO and ACT that is notable by Foundation researchers?
The primary entities consist of the towns remaining population, specifically the five members of the 'Hayes' family. The Hayes family members are Alfred and Ruby Hayes,4 the mother and father, along with their three children Ellie,5 Ray6 and Sara.7 These instances will henceforth be referred to as SCP-XXXX-1 through 5. Unlike SCP-XXXX-A instances, SCP-XXXX-1 through 5 are shown to require the same nutritional standards as baseline humans. As for 2021, no SCP-XXXX-A instances have been observed to age, neither has SCP-XXXX-1 through 5.
This entire paragraph is structured oddly and is confusing. I suggest paring down the information as much as possible. The footnotes are also distracting. (On a funny note: Is this Schitt's Creek?)
And my daughter has been one for…I don't know how long. She's hot-wired cars, driven cars, fired guns and even stabbed a guy. I…I don't know what's happened but she's…it's like she's growing up and learning skills but…she's still a baby.
This is really cool actually.
**SCP-XXXX-1: I remember finding[…]
Formatting! You missed the second **
Then I woke up in bed like nothing ever happened.
This is rather emotional, and I get that. But I feel like you haven't pushed this enough. It reads like -1 is living in a really fucked up "Groundhog's Day" and as the reader I really need to feel that.
Agent Joseph Clarke: You said it yourself. This place repaired your entire family being killed…I mean…what could we even do?
SCP-XXXX-1: Make them change channel.
This is a very odd and off final interaction. I don't feel the Foundation would be willing to neutralise the anomaly. I get the vibe you are going for with -1's final statement. But I feel that this can be elaborated on and pushed further. I like where it's going.
Overall, I really dig this piece! But the tone and narrative need to be tightened.
Thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14120376/scp-the-status-quo-is-god#post-5008910
Additional:
The conprocs are still clunky. The first sentence can be broken up into two and should be condensed for clarity.
[…]though the checkpoint must be manned by at least two security personnel at all time.
Is the number of security personnel important?
If an SCP-XXXX-A instance attempts to leave, security personnel are to prevent them from doing so.
I suggest: "Security personnel are to prevent SCP-XXXX-A instances from leaving."
Homo Sapiens
"sapiens" isn't capitalised. Like thus -> Homo sapiens
[…]SCP-XXXX-A instances are noticeably lacking in lack the ability to express[…]
I suggest: "[…]SCP-XXXX-A instances noticeably lack the ability to express[…]"
[…]by Foundation psychologists.2
This part and the footnote aren't needed.
Amongst these secondary entities, there are several 'higher functioning' instances that are shown to be more advanced in terms of behaviour.
I suggest: "Amongst the secondary entities, they exhibit higher cognitive functioning. These instances possess advanced social skills, empathy and sympathy."
[…]when required for their role within SCP-XXXX.
Not needed.
I'm wondering if the higher cognitive instances should have their own collective designation to make writing about them streamlined. Such as "SCP-XXXX-B" with the five instances being "SCP-XXXX-B-1, SCP-XXXX-B-2, etc"
Access Interview Log XXXX-1?
Is the "?" needed?
[…]a tornado came through the town/
"/" needs to be a "."
This ending still feels a little off. "Make them change the channel"? I don't know, overall it could be stronger.
Additional 1:
SCP-XXXX is to be surrounded by an electric fence, which must be patrolled by security personnel, two miles outside SCP-XXXX.
This sentence still feels stilted.
The main road leading to SCP-XXXX is not to be blocked, though the checkpoint must be manned by security personnel at all time.
This is worded weird.
[…]found in Document XXXX-C,[…]
My suggestion is to actually write out Document XXXX-C.
Entrance into SCP-XXXX is to only occur with the approval of level 2 research staff or higher.
"Only staff with Level-2 Clearance are permitted entry into SCP-XXXX". Note on capitalisation, you can capitalise "Level-2 Clearance" however you want, I edited based on my preferences.
The conprocs could be a lot stronger and the tone more clinical. I'm trying to formulate ways for you to reconstruct the sentences but honestly it depends on your narrative and you as a writer. I can't help much more other than say to read more SCPs.
Here is a list of a few SCPs that I recommend reading for location based conprocs (but you don't have to!):
4814 - about a pregnant tree forest.
2099 - about a brain in a jar found in a warehouse.
1730 - about a parallel universe SCP site disrupting baseline reality.
6k entry - about parasitic rabbits in a rural house.
[…]social skills. by Foundation psychologists.
Not needed.
Overall, the clinical tone needs to be tightened. I've given a few examples throughout my crit, and I do recommend reading other SCPs and taking notes while reading them. I don't have much more crit to give to your piece, I suggest soliciting for crit in #thecritters of the SCP IRC.
[Extraneous Logs Removed :P ]
01:46:54 Ecronak: Have you started reading it?
01:49:53 fairydoctor: yes
01:50:30 Ecronak: Awesome. What do you think so far?
01:57:39 fairydoctor: this is really engaging so far, and i really like your clinical tone
01:58:28 Ecronak: Cool!
01:58:32 Ecronak: Hope you enjoy it :)
01:59:28 fairydoctor: "All around you, ants both from Antonia’s family and not run from the ensuing chaos[…]" this sentence reads a little clunky, i think it would flow better without 'both', but also 'and not' is also confusing. i assume you mean 'and not from other colonies' or 'habs'?
02:00:10 fairydoctor: "All around you, ants from Antonia’s family and bugs from other habs run from the ensuing chaos[…]" ?
02:00:12 fairydoctor: maybe?
02:01:07 Ecronak: Yep, definitely.
02:01:10 Ecronak: Noted!
02:04:09 fairydoctor: SCP-XXXX-A-3: What do humans want to do with us?
02:04:09 fairydoctor: SCP-XXXX-B: You guys don’t know it yet, but these people wish to put you away- forever and ever. Roll initiative6.
02:04:10 fairydoctor: OH SICK THE FOUNDATION IS THEIR BATTLE SCENE
02:04:57 Ecronak: You should see the ending XD
02:06:16 fairydoctor: "[…]multiple instances of the phrase “Natural 20”." i fucking LOVE when this happens in a game.
02:08:42 Ecronak: They really did get lucky XD
02:08:57 Ecronak: How was the initial introduction?
02:15:16 fairydoctor: ‘Due to its position south of New Jersey and the fact that it is the current working place of Director Bright, Site-19 has been concluded to be “the Grey Lair”.’
02:15:16 fairydoctor: my suggested edit:
02:15:16 fairydoctor: 'Due to its [who?] position south of New Jersey and the current Director of Site-19 being Dr. Jack Bright, Site-19 has been concluded to be “the Grey Lair”.'
02:15:16 fairydoctor: but
02:15:16 fairydoctor: ‘’Due to its,” who is “its”?
02:15:21 fairydoctor: i really like this btw
02:15:39 fairydoctor: i had a suspicion with the second mention of the demon monkey king it would be bright
02:15:54 fairydoctor: and this finished my suspicions
02:15:58 fairydoctor: *ended
02:16:15 Ecronak: Its is Site-19.
02:19:26 fairydoctor: ok my suggestion is this.
02:19:26 fairydoctor: 'Due to Site-19's location south of New Jersey, and Dr. Jack Bright as the current Site Director, Site-19 has been concluded to be “the Grey Lair”.'
02:19:26 fairydoctor: i still feel like its a little clunky though
02:19:38 fairydoctor: i hope this makes sense… aaa its 2am lmao
02:21:44 fairydoctor: I suggest:
02:21:44 fairydoctor: "Containment procedures have been adequately updated, with on-site operations resuming."
02:23:29 Ecronak: Noted on that!
02:25:04 fairydoctor: I really love where this is going, and i cant stop imagining Foundation operatives are cartoonish MIB agents from the anomaly's perspective
02:25:05 fairydoctor: 'Then, as you settled down for the night, you encountered several of the black-clad humans, ready to take you all.'
02:25:35 fairydoctor: the characterisation and flow is good, the GM's tone is perfect for his role
02:26:13 Ecronak: It was based on Critical Role and Matt Mercer, actually.
02:26:56 fairydoctor: i dont know either of these people, but its def very GM haha
02:27:39 Ecronak: Watch Critical Role, it's awesome XD
02:27:42 Ecronak: But yeah, noted!
02:42:50 fairydoctor: '<begin log>' "b" should be capitalised
02:43:47 fairydoctor: and the log itself (not the afterword) was off. was there an actual bee that he reached out to? why is he bleeding from his nose?
02:45:04 fairydoctor: the ending struck a cord with me.
02:45:07 Ecronak: Yeah, was worried about that. Intention was that he was heading back to join the three, but I'm thinking of just cutting that all together and putting the information at the start.
02:45:14 Ecronak: Ooh, how so?
02:48:49 fairydoctor: 1) id put the info of him going back to the 3, in the conprocs, or early description, make a foreshadow. 2) struck a cord, i thought if my -As died in this manner (a DnD session against Bright), i would be really sad too
02:48:59 fairydoctor: *back to the -A
02:49:09 fairydoctor: join the three
02:50:39 Ecronak: Noted!
02:51:03 Ecronak: Did the characters feel alive and interesting?
02:51:09 fairydoctor: i do like the ending, and overall i feel the characterisation was very well done
02:51:12 fairydoctor: yes quite so!!
02:51:33 Ecronak: Awesome! Did the containment breach feel in anyway contrived?
02:53:21 fairydoctor: part of me thinks that the Foundation would think to check the vents for the adventureing bugs, but its also humourous to consider that they keep dodging the Foundation because the -B's narration is to ultimetly get them to Bright. (this is how im reading it though)
02:53:44 fairydoctor: i dont find it contrieved, it fits with the theme for the bugs
02:53:52 fairydoctor: its very sad
02:54:15 fairydoctor: the story was very engaging. i would have someone look over your tone, only because i feel that that is my weak spot for critting.
02:55:33 Ecronak: Awesome to hear that! Where there any points where the characters' traits seem to be interchangeable with one another?
02:58:50 fairydoctor: none that i could see, they were very much the tropes for support/cleric, tank/barbarian, mage/wizard
02:59:51 Ecronak: Awesome. Thank you very much for critting
02:59:52 Ecronak: *!
02:59:54 fairydoctor: :D
02:59:56 Ecronak: Really appreciate it :)
03:00:09 fairydoctor: :)
Thread Sandbox: http://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/ekronak
The Foundation Department of Propaganda[…]
Oh very interesting! I like this department.
[…]the individual who came in contact with SCP-6050-1 instances has full knowledge of a soldier's or civilian's name, birthplace, and inclinations,[…]
Is the individual a person who contacts an SCP-6050-1 instance? Or is an individual an SCP-6050-1 instance?
Registry checks indicate that these soldiers are registered as either MIA or KIA.
Is this SCP-6050-1 instances? How was this information gathered?
[…]after briefly grappling with them."
I think the " at the end is a mistake.
[…]wrapping themselves around him[…]
Ahh, I love this!
Many onlookers gaze at the stage show, which then perform several dances such as the can-can and the jitterbug.
Among the horror this is a very sombre lighthearted image.
It is already afternoon, and the once-rising sun has set on Manila.
I like the message conveyed, I'm not sure on the tone though.
I like the footage bit but, is Nachton really recording the whole time? Is he following this one kid around the whole time?
Overall, this is very heartfelt and sad. I like how you managed to make 'Kilroy was here' into an anomaly, make it for the memecon, and to make it sad and heartfelt.
Thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14129085/kilroy-was-here#post-5013648
Proposals for the deliberate destruction of SCP-3931 have been reviewed; The item is not currently under consideration for decommissioning, as the potential long-term consequences of such an action are not fully understood at this time.
My suggestion^
Movement away from the Earth has the same effect; were SCP-3931 to break its orbit and enter interplanetary space, it would grow large enough for its gravity to affect the Solar System within two years,[…]
At the distance determined for lunar orbit, it would become impossible to contain it or conceal its existence, and would constitute a Class-3 Broken Veil scenario, however, its threat to humanity would be effectively neutralized.
If the object exerts gravity around it as it gets larger, wouldn't moving it out to lunar orbit be really bad? As suggested if it's moved out to a lunar orbit it would grow large enough to drastically effect gravity on Earth, especially the tides. Wouldn't the object also get large enough to effect the gravitational pull of the entire solar system?
Addendum 3931.1 - Attempted Recovery
What happens? How big did the object get?
Overall, I like where this is going but I also don't know where this is going.
Thread: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14126928/short-and-sweet-hopefully
[…]full containment has been deem currently unfeasible[…]
I suggest, "[…]full containment is deemed currently unfeasible[…]"
Containment efforts are currently to be focused on the capture of SCP-XXXX[…]
Currently is pretty much implied unless there is a previous iteration of the conprocs or if these are the next iteration.
Additionally, sue to the involvement of SCP-XXXX carriers with several Groups of Interest and their propensity of hindering (passively or actively) the Foundation's efforts at maintaining the status-quo and in other seditious activity, such individuals are to be considered enemy combatants until proven otherwise and treated as such in accordance to Policy-1254-A.
I suggest:
Additionally, due to the involvement of SCP-XXXX carriers with several Groups of Interest hostile to the Foundation's efforts, such individuals are to be treated as hostile entities in accordance to Policy-1254-A.
SCP-XXXX currently under the employment or protection of Foundation-affiliated organizations or those protected under other clauses are considered under the jurisdiction of the Foundation Diplomatic Service (FDS) unless otherwise specified by O5-Command.
I suggest:
SCP-XXXX currently under the employment or protection of Foundation-affiliated organizations are under the jurisdiction of the Foundation Diplomatic Service (FDS) unless otherwise specified by O5-Command.
SCP-XXXX, colloquially known as Gandalf Syndrome or Reincarnation Sickness,
Reincarnation Sickness. 😂
[…]through currently unknown means, for[…]
This isn't needed.
[…]personality and sense of self to, following the death of said person's body, re-manifest themselves in a different body elsewhere in the world.[…]
I suggest:
[…]personality, and sense of self to manifest elsewhere in the world following the death of said person's body re-manifest themselves in a different body elsewhere in the world.
The exact mechanics of SCP-XXXX induced "reincarnation"- the transfer of a carrier's personality from a dying body into a new one- remain largely unexplored,[…]
I suggest:
The exact mechanics of SCP-XXXX's anomaly remain largely unexplored,[…]
[…]unknown if SCP-XXXX carries have any control[…]
"carriers"
SCP-XXXX carries often exhibit anomalous[…]
"carriers" also if you're using the designation of "SCP-XXXX carriers" I feel you should give them a specific designation such as "SCP-XXXX-1" or "SCP-XXXX-A". "carries" seems to be a common error in your piece.
[…]for example,an ego-driven[…]
"example, an" space needed.
[…]related to SCP-XXXX, see document XXXX-C2.
Capitalise "Document"
Much like the other phenomena associated with SCP-XXXX, the physical nature of said capability is not fully understood.
I'm unsure if reiterations of this sentence are needed. The information is, by now, implied to the reader that the Foundation doesn't have a clue how this sickness works.
The meeting took place at the ████████ tea house in, ███████████, Istanbul.
I'm lukewarm about the redaction, if it's warranted narratively or not.
[…]late 80s man[…]
Wouldn't this get a hyphen too?
[ Sorry folks, not this time. ].
What is this?
Red Doe: [sighs audibly] Fine. I need you to be clear-headed for this, "Saturn".
👀
Overall, this was very engaging and I enjoyed the worldbuilding. I would like to know more about the direction this is going in, however, shenanigans are implied because of the Great Deer Lord.
Draft Link: http://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/redirect <- second tab
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DATE: 14 Jun 2021 23:29
Item #: SCP-6000
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-6000 is to be contained in the package that it is found in. Any other container will result in SCP-6000 taking any person in a 40,233.6 Meter radius. The location of which site SCP-6000 is secured does not matter as long as it is contained in its original package.
Description: SCP-6000 is a 0.6096 meter by 0.3048 meter by 0.1524 meter package. SCP-6000 is most commonly referred to as Dungeons and Dragons or DND. When taken out of the package SCP-6000 appears to be normal, but when SCP-6000 is played the person or persons playing SCP-6000 will take the person or persons in its self. The only known way to escape SCP-6000 is to win. As of now, only 3 people have been able to escape SCP-6000. One of those people was class D-357.
Addendum: [Optional additional paragraphs]
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Wow! You flipped a card and got: BookPenguin!!! You ca reload the page or go to the next.
DATE: 14 Jun 2021 18:30
To: pcs.TENPiCS|AsirdI#pcs.TENPiCS|AsirdI
From: pcs.TENPiCS|licnuoC5O#pcs.TENPiCS|licnuoC5O
Subject: OPERATION OKLAHOMA
Head Researcher Idris,
Your service in regards to SCP-XXXX has been exemplary. Over the course of OPERATION OKLAHOMA, you have generated hundreds of fresh recruits of higher quality than we have seen for a very long time. For that, you are congratulated.
However, the mass disappearance of the world's best and brightest has left more than a few to wonder. Large numbers of manhunts and investigations have been launched, and several have come close to breaking the Veil. Worse, the manhunt launched to locate one James Kaiser inadvertently stumbled across one of our Ohio sites. The party began fleeing upon seeing the site, and amnesticization was performed via aerosol dispersion from aircraft. We fear that any stragglers wandering away from the main group would have escaped amnesticization, and we now have several witnesses, potentially with clear enough memories to convince a greater populace.
For that, and the recent incident involving SCP-XXXX, we are shelving OPERATION OKLAHOMA until a time when such disappearances can be explained.
Respectfully,
The O5 Council
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX has been approved by the O5 Council to serve as a training site for Operation OKLAHOMA.
Operation Oklahoma is the Secure Containment Procedures Foundation's latest campaign with the purpose of training the next generation of intelligent, capable warriors to defend humanity against whatever the future has to throw at us. In the event of a serious containment breach, a future world, being heavily-connected, would be a perfect thing. A perfect thing if you wanted to break the Veil, that is.
For that reason, the Foundation has invested large amounts of resources into the coming generations, ensuring a steady influx of fresh, bright recruits ready to help humanity to live in the light. You have selected, or been selected for, this responsibility. By contacting, or being contacted by, the Foundation, you take your place as the first line of defense protecting mankind from the unnatural and the obscene.
This may be a jarring experience, and you may not have willingly come, but I assure you that regardless of what happens, the O5 Council sees true potential in each and every one of you. You are the strongest, smartest, and bravest the world has to offer.
The world needs you.
So whether you've joined us at fourteen or forty-one, remember that the Foundation will always be there for you. And with your help, the Foundation will be there for everyone else too, though they might not know it. Guardian angels, as my colleague calls us.
Looking forward to seeing your achievements,
O5-7
SCP-XXXX is to be contained within a Class-IV Reality Bubble in order to prevent reality breaches. The entity is to be surrounded completely by reinforced barrier arranged in a north-facing pentagram. Signals originating from within 15 kilometers of SCP-XXXX are to be monitored for cognitohazards. All staff containing SCP-XXXX are to perform or attend some form of religious or meditative ritual at least once per week. Under no circumstances are the words "sinner," "demon," "devil" (proper or otherwise), or "temptation," or their cognates, to be spoken aloud in any language within the perimeter.
A facility is to be constructing surrounding SCP-XXXX, containing housing and accommodations enough to service 45 Foundation and GOC trainees each. They are to be trained regularly regarding hazard safety, cognito- and otherwise, negotiation with sentient anomalies, anomalous analysis, and containment of hostile anomalies. All training sessions are to be monitored by the Site Manager or his assistant, who will immediately halt the session in the event of a threat beyond the training's scope.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a location in northern Ethiopia, consisting of a circular wall surrounding a partially-outdoors, precisely three square kādam (an ancient Tamil unit of length similar to a kilometer) complex of ziggurat gardens and various indoor accommodations. Several extinct species have been discovered, extant and with stable populations, within the perimeter. The complex is bisected by eight perfectly straight walls and one curved wall, which have been noted to create three superimposed holy symbols: the cross of the Christian faith, the Star of David of the Jewish faith, and the crescent moon of the Muslim faith. It is unknown what, if any, significance is held by the fact that these are all Abrahamic religions.
The structure is composed of gardens constructed in a "ziggurat" style, consisting of stepped pyramids ranging in height from four meters at the perimeter of the entity to nearly half a kilometer in the center. It is unknown how such structures refrain from collapsing, as they appear to be constructed of naturally-occurring Antalo limestone, a material that is not of a high enough compressive strength to suspend such a structure.
Between the hours of 10:00 PM and 7:00 AM, the entity emits a series of low vocalizations resembling speech, with the Latin phrases "Liberate tutemet ex Inferis," (save yourself from Hell) and "paenitentiam" (repent) being the most common.
Situated on the perimeter wall, spaced seven meters apart, are life-sized statues of various deities and deific figures. They appear to shift subjects roughly once per week. The most common subjects are Jesus Christ, the prophet Mohammed, and Michael the Archangel. Once again, the significance of Abrahamic religion is unknown.
In the center of the entity, there is a substantially larger statue atop the center ziggurat, roughly 20 meters tall and displaying a supreme deific figure carrying a scale in their right hand and a sword in their left. The most common subjects for this statue are Zeus, Buddha, and Odin.
Patrolling the grounds of SCP-XXXX are metaphysical, humanoid entities dubbed SCP-XXXX-1, which superficially resemble the "ball lightning" phenomenon. They display anomalous properties in their abilities to rapidly change spatial location or "teleport," travel at supersonic velocities, achieve hovering and gliding flight, and infect media within 60 meters with cognitohazards. Direct contact with an SCP-XXXX-1 instance is fatal in 60% of cases, with those having expired having shown signs of severe overheating and charring of the internal organs suggesting electrocution. However, those who survive said encounters appear unharmed.
Certain areas of the complex are also cognitohazardous, manifesting an illusionary serpentine entity resembling Python sebae, or the African Rock Python. Said entity appears sentient and capable of speech, and will attempt to convince its victim to pick a fruit from the so-called "Tree of Knowledge," an anomalous tree (Dendricius tenebrae) not of any terrestrial genus and radio-dated to be roughly 13.9 billion years old, predating the beginning of the universe, with fruit resembling that of Punica granatum, or the pomegranate tree. If its victim obeys and picks a fruit from the tree, one of several outcomes will occur.
A: The victim immediately becomes invisible to all scans, including gravimetric scans, suggesting that they have either been converted into some anomalous form of dark matter or ejected from the universe entirely.
B: All instances of SCP-XXXX-1 will immediately become hostile towards nearby humans and will invariably terminate the offender.
C: The offender is ejected from the complex. Methods of this vary, and range from teleportation out of the premises to violent ejection at hypersonic speed. Attempts by the offender to re-enter causes a 'B' outcome.
Afterwards, regardless of outcome, a voice, either male or female, will emanate from the center ziggurat, speaking the phrase, "As the Armor defends the Skin, so the Rot will break the Body."
This is audible to a distance of 15 miles. This is followed by a burst of anomalous energy from the apex of the pyramid, which lasts for 3.7 seconds precisely before being replaced by a burst of dark energy lasting for exactly 6 seconds. This has been known to cause local universal expansion in the surrounding area with potentially destructive effects, hence the reality bubble.
SCP-XXXX-2: An underground corridor lined with doors and mirrors of varying technological level and ease of use. Doors appear to lead to various locations both within and beyond our universe, including Three Portlands, SCP-3008, a convenience store in Memphis, Tennessee, and the South Pole. Said doors are easily retraceable and function in both directions, even in anomalies that are impossible to exit normally. Mirrors appear to show alternate universes, in which the subject varies in appearance and injury. Notably, the third mirror from the left contains subjects capable of speech and movement out of turn with our version of the subject. The door on the far end of the corridor is locked with a combination lock requiring pi digits to open. Needless to say, this door has not been opened.
SCP-XXXX-3: An aboveground, circular chamber 10 meters in diameter and containing an elevated pedestal. Certain subjects are capable of phasing through the pedestal while still being tangible. When asked to explain, such subjects replied that the pedestal was on the ceiling, upside-down. All subjects with this ability are D-Class staff with histories of violent or sexual crime. In the "right-side-up" version of the chamber, there is a clay cup, sized to hold 80 ml of liquid and filled with red wine. The cup, if tipped, seems to spill indefinitely, indicating infinite internal volume. Said red wine does not contain alcohol, however, and consumption of the substance over periods of 72 hours or more can slowly cure most human diseases and injuries. Several researchers have postulated that this is the legendary "Holy Grail," or the cup used by Jesus Christ to serve the wine at the biblical Last Supper.
Those who see the pedestal "upside-down" see a golden chalice studded with rubies and diamonds, sized to hold 120 ml of liquid and filled with an endless mixture of human blood, feces, and [DATA EXPUNGED]. The chalice constantly drips said liquid at a rate enough to fill the internal volume of the space within a month. However, said liquid drains into grates mounted into the floor, which appear to lead into an infinite empty space that is still affected by gravity, or in layman's terms, a "bottomless hole."
The chalice and its liquid appears to gravitate toward the ceiling of the chamber. If a subject holds out their hand as if to grasp an object, the chalice will fall into their grasp, always landing right-side-up relative to the subject. Regardless of their attention or reflexes, the subject will always catch the chalice. At this point, the chalice becomes visible to all other observers in the chamber. Subjects have been noted to remark about how appetizing the mixture inside looks and smells, despite its composition. This is a potential cognitohazard. If not stopped, the subject will proceed to drink roughly a liter of the solution, remaining unaffected for roughly four minutes. Afterwards, the subject will begin to undergo an exceptionally painful metamorphosis, eventually becoming one of several entities. Potential entities include, but are not limited to, SCP-XXXX-4, a predatory, horned lupine weighing 3 tonnes, SCP-XXXX-5, an entity displaying no superficial metamorphosis but possessing qualities similar to SCP-096 (except for the immortality), and SCP-XXXX-6, a non-hostile anthropomorphic, horned vulpine capable of teaching a variety of subjects, from proper containment procedures to the kinetoglyphs of SCP-3688. However, SCP-XXXX-6 display a manipulative nature, attempting to convince nearby subjects to imbibe the solution within SCP-XXXX-3. If this is successful, the subject will always turn into SCP-XXXX-6.
SCP-XXXX-7: █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NONONONONONONONONONONON0N0N@*$(!)- [DATA EXPUNGED].
Investigations are underway.
Addendum A: With the enactment of Operation OKLAHOMA, SCP-XXXX has been selected, among others, to serve as sites for training entry-level staff. It has been chosen for its relatively mild effects and levels of danger. Due to its exemplary potential for this purpose (Possessing weak cognitohazards, low-danger entities, and mild reality-warping), it has also been designated as the headquarters for Operation OKLAHOMA, which is situated in a reinforced bunker underneath Area-89, designated as "The Eden Complex." Notable graduates of The Eden Complex's training process can be found below.
Subject: James L. Kaiser
Description: 17-year-old Caucasian (Germanic) male, German-American
Area of Expertise: Theoretical Physics (Bachelor's level), Paranormal Engineering (Master's level), moderate levels of expertise in various scientific fields
Defining Characteristics: IQ of 162, highly analytical personality and love for the sciences, frequent Parawatch activity under the moniker "Causal1ty", lack of respect for authority, Borderline Personality Disorder
Tapped For: Researcher
Interviewer: Dr. Glass
Foreword: Kaiser had been displaying signs of stress ever since his procurement, causing doubt regarding his ease of recruitment and loyalty. More so, he had indirectly caused the death of one (1) retrieving agent, having anticipated their arrival and set up a mechanism that triggered a shotgun facing the front door of his home if it was not opened in a particular way.
<Begin Log, 0900>
Glass: So, Mr. Kaiser.
[Kaiser shifts uncomfortably.]
Kaiser: Uh, you can call me James.
Glass: Alright then, James. Do you know why we've brought you here?
Kaiser: The guard at my door just told me to go with him, but considering your office reminds me of the councilor's at my old high school, you're some kind of psychiatrist?
[Kaiser points to a stress ball on Glass' desk. Glass laughs.]
Glass: There's really no keeping secrets from you, huh? So, you've been taking your medication, correct?
Kaiser: I mean, if I didn't swallow it myself, they'd shove it down my throat with a ramrod, so…
Glass: So if you're on your medication, then there's no point in sending you to a psychiatrist, unless, of course…
[Kaiser smiles.]
Kaiser: Unless you wanted something from me. You being whatever organization that represents.
[Kaiser points to the insignia on Glass' lab coat.]
Glass: Ah, yes. Everyone in this facility is a member of the Foundation. You were taken here as part of Operation OKLAHOMA, which is a recruitment drive for our organization.
Kaiser: So I'm being recruited for the Illuminati.
Glass: It's more complicated than that. You're a fan of the supernatural, right? Spent a few evenings browsing forums about it?
Kaiser: Right. When I joined Parawatch, I was trying to help them out, work out the laws and math behind whatever they were seeing.
Glass: I'm sorry, James, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of logic to these things. Which brings me to our- and by extension, your- purpose here. Our motto is "Secure, Contain, Protect" for a reason. Doubtlessly, you already know what we are referring to. You may not, however, grasp the scope of it all. The Foundation studies, contains, and utilizes anomalies for humanity's benefit. Several of these anomalies can end the world as we know it. We have to operate in secret, or else society as you know it would break down.
Kaiser: Such an organization would have to have deep pockets. How much resources are we talking?
Glass: You're not cleared to know that.
[Kaiser laughs.]
Kaiser: Your expression tells me all I need to know. So, we're also going to hold the ethics?
Glass (indignantly): James.
Kaiser: You're making it too easy. So, we're talking a global organization with basically limitless resources and a willingness to do anything to preserve normality. This is some real New World Order shit. And where do I come in?
Glass: You're a self-styled scientist, correct?
[Kaiser perks up.]
Kaiser: Are you saying what you think I'm saying?
Glass: Normally, we would require a certificate of your knowledge, but we've studied you long enough to see that not everyone needs a piece of paper saying how smart they are. We're willing to offer you an entry-level position in the Foundation.
Kaiser: What kind of position?
Glass: Junior Researcher. If you demonstrate your aptitude to us, you will be promoted to Researcher. Then, you will ascend and descend the ranks as the Foundation sees fit.
Kaiser: Two questions.
Glass: Yes?
Kaiser: One: Can I get a new set of glasses, 'cause they broke mine bagging me.
Glass: Yes.
Kaiser: Two: Do I get to wear a lab coat like yours?
Glass: I don't see why not.
Kaiser: Sold, and I'll start working today.
Glass: Are you sure, because this is a lifelong commitment-
Kaiser: I would like to do science now.
<End Log, 0904>
Closing Statement: James Kaiser was given a position as a Junior Researcher and assigned to the training course at SCP-XXXX. He was also granted a uniform and prescription eyeglasses, as per his request.
Subject: Harlequin C. Grati
Description: 23-year-old Caucasian (English) British national, female
Area of Expertise: Marksmanship (National level), Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor's level), various technical fields
Defining Characteristics: Arrested in 2016 (assault with a deadly weapon) after shooting a would-be mugger, causing permanent paralysis from the waist down, otherwise highly obedient to authority, displays a combative and militaristic outlook on life
Tapped For: Security/MTF
Interviewer: Dr. Fugue
Foreword: Grati had been very obedient while in her cell, never speaking unless spoken to. On the second day of confinement, Grati was observed speaking to herself, revealing her belief that the agency that had kidnapped her was the British intelligence agency MI6, or the Secret Intelligence Service. This belief was not affected by viewing Foundation insignias or hearing "SCPF" or "The Foundation" spoken aloud. At the time of the interview, research was underway into her propensity for denial.
<Begin Log, 0900>
Fugue: Hello, Ms. Grati.
Grati: Greetings, sir.
Fugue: Please, have a seat.
Grati: With all due respect sir, I prefer to remain standing before my superiors, sir!
Fugue: I'm not your superior, at least not yet. Tell me, have you ever heard of the Illuminati?
Grati: I don't understand how that relates to us, sir.
Fugue: If you listen, you'll find out. I hate to break it to you, but we are not MI6.
Grati: I'm sorry, sir?
Fugue: In fact, we don't work for the British government at all. We are the Foundation, an organization dedicated to the containment of objects and creatures that defy nature the world over. You have been selected, among others, to help us in our endeavor to do this. Understand?
Grati: Have- have I been kidnapped?
Fugue: You can say that, yes. It's for a good cause. In other words, it's to save the world.
Grati: This can't be happening. I've gotta be dreaming.
Fugue: Unfortunately for your interpretation of reality, you are not. Revelations like these often come with a shock, but denial will do nothing but delay it.
Grati: This isn't real. I'm dreaming. And when I wake up, I'll be back in my cell awaiting whatever the Queen's got in store for me.
Fugue: You're being irrational. The concept of MI6 kidnapping British citizens is ridiculous.
Grati: As opposed to this? A worldwide circus of all the Parawatch jokes one can muster? No, I don't think I'm being irrational, sir.
Fugue (over radio): Get someone with Class-E amnestics on standby.
Grati: Oh, what now, you're going to shine a light in my eyes and zap my memory, huh? This is insane.
Fugue: Close, but no cigar. Agent Dimms, if you would.
[Grati bolts out of her seat towards the open door, only for a dart containing Class-E amnestic to be shot into her arm. For all those unfamiliar with amnestics, Class E causes acceptance of perceived reality regardless of logical thought. Grati halts and allows Agent Dimms to escort her back to her chair.]
Fugue: Feeling better now?
Grati: Yes. I don't know what came over me, sir. Now, about this Foundation…
Fugue: Fire away.
Grati: Why did they pick me?
Fugue: As you know, you are an extraordinary shot with a rifle, correct?
Grati: Yeah.
Fugue: You would be surprised how many containment breaches are stopped by a single well-placed bullet. Not everything's completely invincible, you know.
Grati: I'm wanted as a sniper?
Fugue: A markswoman, yes.
[Grati appears anxious.]
Fugue: Is something wrong?
Grati: It's just- I've never wanted to do anything with my life more than work for the government or the military. I assume you're kind of both.
Fugue: You know, if you want to say yes, no one's stopping you.
[Grati pauses.]
Grati: Yes.
<End Log, 0907>
Closing Statement: Grati was given a position as MTF Cadet and assigned to training at The Eden Complex.
PLACEHOLDER FOR INCIDENT LOG XXXX-A
Society seizes to exist in America after a nation wide breach caused survivors to move into bunkers underground. 30 years later a survivor writes about her memories, losses and her education about the SCP Foundations failure.
James Kaiser, or as the Foundation called him, Junior Researcher Kaiser, tightened his tie in preparation for what was to come. This was his first (technically second, but the first was a 14-hour flight to Ethiopia for the training course) day as an employee of the Foundation, a clandestine organization with the sole purpose of making sure all the monsters in your closet don't strip the flesh from your bones with a flick of the wrist. Kaiser laughed as he remembered the look on his handler's face when he saw that Kaiser had cut a strip of bulletproof cloth from a guard's backpack when they weren't looking and was sewing it into his lab coat, spaced just close enough together to deflect small-arms fire but still be an efficient use of the limited fabric he had.
For context, Kaiser had never been "normal." Whether it was his account on Parawatch (something his hometown regarded as something of a digital crackhouse), or his Borderline Personality Disorder, those around him always found ways and excuses to avoid him. By the age of fourteen, he had become estranged to the concept of authority, something he saw as built of people that didn't understand him. Almost four years later, it hadn't come back. Ironically, in the clutches of one of the most controlling groups in the world, he had never felt more at home.
When the Foundation had come for him four days previously, he had rigged a shotgun up to the door so it would blow the head off anyone who entered without doing a little jig with the door. He didn't think the first guy would actually trigger it. Next thing he knew, he was clutching the fallen soldier's head, trying to use what little medical knowledge he had to stem the bleeding and ignoring the team right behind him. Next thing he knew, there was a pill shoved down his gob, and his limp form was shoved into their vehicle and retrieved. Once waking up, he spent two days in a cell before being invited for a meeting with Dr. Glass.
He had accepted their request before they made it.
Now, the C-130 brought him, along with thirty-odd initiates, to a landing in the little airfield besides SCP-6066. Judging by the bewildered looks of the rest of them, they weren't here by choice either. Kaiser counted himself lucky for being one of the few to actually believe in the paranormal. It felt less like diving headfirst into a pool of shit, and more like wading in step by step. He had already deduced that there were hostile entities (there were too many eyewitness accounts, Parawatch and otherwise, to deny that), and that they would vary in levels of danger.
He skimmed over the booklet handed to him. On the first page was a supposedly-handwritten letter from O5-7, treating the recruits of Oklahoma like they were superheroes or something. He browsed past explanations of Safe, Euclid, and Keter, along with Disruption Classes and Risk Classes. They all sounded the same to him. He was just reading it for the pictures.
Kaiser's attention was caught by a photograph of a man wearing 14th-century medical garb, his hand outstretched as if to beckon someone or grab something. The label underneath read SCP-049. There was a quick summary of what it did, which was apparently a supreme example of a "skip." If killing you with a single touch was a basic thing… he couldn't tell if he was nervous or excited.
Kaiser had requested all the SCP files he could get his hands on when he got to the facility. His tablet dinged as it received dozens of files. Kaiser couldn't keep the euphoria down, and giggled like a toddler as he perused the stacks of compiled knowledge. To a cryptid enthusiast like Kaiser, access to Foundation files was like giving a kid a billionaire's credit card and steering them in the direction of the nearest candy and/or toy store. Though several could probably stop his heart just looking at him, the sensation of it all was intoxicating. His bunkmate looked at Kaiser like he was insane. It was probably for good reason.
"What're you looking at?" He asked. "Skips." Kaiser replied.
"Skips?"
"Yeah."
"Why?"
"Because they're cool looking."
"You won't care when one's turning your GI tract inside out."
"That doesn't change that they're cool looking."
His bunkmate paused, then laughed. "Does anything faze you?"
"Yeah."
"Like what?"
"I- don't want to talk about it." Kaiser could see the brain matter splattered on the doorframe.
"Ooooooh-kay."
"What's your name?"
"Don Tresco."
"What's the Foundation got you in here for?"
"Something called Mobile Task Force." Whatever that was, it sounded like it could use people like Tresco. The man was built like a bull, even though he couldn't have been much older than Kaiser. He'd need to stay on his good side so he wouldn't use him like a toothpick.
"I'm James Kaiser, Junior Researcher. Pleasure to meet you." They shook hands.
The next week or so was a blur of activity, mostly involving briefings and trainings on the most basic the Foundation had to offer, mostly how to contain (or assist in the containment of) skips. The Researcher course had a lot on gunmanship, which was worrying to say the least. At least he was a decent shot.
But now- here, the fun began. Kaiser had sped through the introductory course (he did that a lot) and was now about to be sent, alongside several others, into the skip the facility surrounded. From what he'd heard, it was the Garden of Eden.
The fucking Garden of Eden.
Just like he had a week before, Kaiser tightened his tie. However, unlike a week before, the next thing he did was slide a .45 pistol into its holster, hidden within Kaiser's unbuttoned labcoat. Clipped to the other side of his coat was something called a "Reality Pen." Apparently, clicking it would generate a field of reality stabilization that would protect him from anything that manipulated spacetime. However, since it had to fit in a pen, he was supposed to use it sparingly due to its drain on the battery. Beside him was MTF Cadets Grati and Tresco. Grati had an antimaterial rifle with an intimidating scope strapped to the back, and Tresco had an assault rifle of some sort, though with his physique he could probably fire one in each hand and be fine. What sort of mission would require this group of heavily-armed trainees?
A scavenger hunt.
Through a three-and-a-half square kilometer maze.
Filled with anomalies.
Fuck.
Kaiser had four magazines of ammunition in his coat. Two were classic full-metal-jacket for corporeal enemies, and in the case of the lightning-things that haunted this place, they also had special Anti-Static Rounds, which would, upon touching an electric anomaly, burst into a cloud of insulative material, severely hampering the anomalies' ability to do harm if not disabling them outright. He also had some sort of energy bolt gun, that would stun anyone it hit like a Taser, but they were instructed to only use it on enemy teams, since using it on the lightning anomalies would only charge them up more. They would be watched from camera drones flying all around, so if they got into any real danger, the trial would be stopped immediately and they would be retrieved. In addition, they were told that two additional anomalies would be released into the perimeter, but not told their abilities. Kaiser knew it was to keep them on their toes.
However, they were told that the first team of three to locate all the objects on the list, along with an anomaly of their choice, and document it, would be granted a bonus two hours of recreation time every day for the next week. Anyone who needed to be retrieved was immediately disqualified. They were going to play two games. One was a cooperative game, where the teams were to locate and cooperate with their GOC counterparts to find the objects, with both teams getting the bonus, and one was a competitive game, where the Foundation and GOC teams were competing to find the objects and only one bonus would be given. There was no time limit, but more anomalies (all incapable of physical harm, of course) would be introduced to the competition as time went on. There were five teams each on the GOC and Foundation sides, all teams of three making thirty in total.
"All personnel-in-training, please prepare for deployment." A voice rang out over the intercom. Kaiser started running in place. The Cadets looked like they were suppressing laughs.
"Deployment in three, two, one…" An airhorn rang out and Team Blue entered the complex through the western gate. Immediately, they were greeted with stepped pyramids of exotic flowers and herbs. Some looked more appetizing than others. "Careful, we don't know which one of these are poisonous." Grati said. The pyramid fields were bisected by a road of perfectly-hexagonal stones, which continued in a straight line into a gate of some sort. Then, it went down, down to somewhere. Kaiser climbed up one of the taller pyramids and surveyed the area. As far as he could see, the triangular sector they were within was, aside from the pyramids, completely featureless, and the tunnel was the only way to got further without climbing gear.
"There's no other way to get further. What're we looking for?" Kaiser asked Grati, who had the list. "First thing is a statuette. Probably anomalous, so maybe don't touch it?" Grati replied. "If I were a statuette, where would I be?" Kaiser thought aloud.
"Probably indoors, so let's start there."
They headed down the tunnel, and Kaiser noticed as a tiny, gray protrusion in the wall swiveled around to look at them. Probably a Foundation camera.
As they entered, Kaiser gestured for Grati to hand him a set of NVGs. She grabbed her spare and handed it to him. Kaiser had to take off his glasses to accommodate them, but it wasn't like he couldn't strain his eyes a little. The pitch-black corridor lit up with pale green light. Tresco activated his laser sight. They continued on like this until Kaiser noticed a doorway in an alcove in the perfect wall. It looked like a normal office door, but in such a strange environment, normal things were the exception.
"We should check it out. Maybe they have something we need." Grati spoke. Carefully, Tresco opened the door and pointed his gun inside.
There was an agonizing pause.
"Clear." Tresco said. His voice seemed abnormally loud. Kaiser and Grati entered next, seeing a hallway with a dozen doors on each side, a door on the end, and mirrors in between each door. When Kaiser walked in, however, he saw a dozen copies of himself, all looking slightly different. In one, he was the MTF agent, and Grati was the Researcher. In another, he was wearing an orange jumpsuit with a blindfold around his head. The most disturbing of the mirrors was one in which there were three misshapen heads, attached by crooked and sticklike necks to a melded, singular body. The worst part?
One of those heads was wearing Kaiser's glasses.
"Hello? Can anyone hear me?" Grati said. Only Grati was to Kaiser's right, and this Grati was coming from the left. Kaiser turned to the source to see yet another mirror, with Grati standing on the other side, facing Kaiser.
"We've got an anomalous mirror. Well, really anomalous." Kaiser said awkwardly.
"What the hell…" Grati whispered, approaching the mirror. The other Grati remained still. "Can you hear me?" The other Grati asked. "Y- yeah, we hear you. What's wrong?" Grati #1 asked.
"Help me! You need to- you need to help me! They're almost here, I've locked the doors!"
"What's happening!?"
"Help me! Please! Let me through!" Grati #2 sounded desperate. Grati #1 pounded on the glass, trying to reach through to grab her hand.
"NO! THEY'RE HERE! I-" Grati #2 doubled over in apparent agony, then went still.
"Grati?" Kaiser asked in horror. Grati #2 rose to her feet, but now her look of panic was replaced with a cold, almost sadistic smile.
"Grati, be a dear and help me through." Grati #2 said, reaching a hand out to touch the glass. There was a look in her eyes that suggested something, close to insanity, but much, much worse. As her fingers touched the glass, the surface began to bulge inward, the glass coating her like some kind of infernal oil. Kaiser thought nothing, just pulled his pistol and fired a full magazine into the glass. The bullets pinged off, like he was shooting tank armor.
"Shit, shit, SHIT!" Kaiser yelled. "RUN!" Tresco turned and fired two bursts into the emerging glass creature, to no effect. They burst out of the door leading back into the tunnel, only for a bolt of cyan energy to glance past Kaiser's head. The glass creature burst from its mirror prison and slipped through the doorway, ignoring Team Blue and sprinting towards Team Green, the ones who had shot at them. In the dark, it would be almost impossible to see, even with NVGs.
"RUUUN!" Kaiser screamed with all his might. The Cadet that fired the bolt had only a moment to register what was going on before the glass creature's hands wrapped around his head and wrenched it to the side with an awful crunch. The Researcher was next, having only the time to let out a strangled gasp before a single .50 round from the former Grati's rifle left her without a head. The other cadet was luckier, getting one or two shots off before three more to his abdomen downed him. The creature lifted him off his feet by the neck. The Cadet made a strangled, desperate noise of two syllables before the creature mercilessly crushed his windpipe.
"Mommy!"
"Command, what the hell did I just see!?" Kaiser said into his radio, hunched with his team behind a tall pyramid.
"Team Blue, description." The cold voice replied.
"We were in this hall, and there were doors and mirrors, and something that looked like my teammate just crawled out of one and fucking murdered Team Green!"
"Are you sure they're dead?"
"It snapped one Cadet's neck, crushed the other's windpipe, and reduced the Researcher's head to fucking mist!"
"Oh, God, ohhh God." Grati said, rocking back and forth in a ball.
"Team Blue, remain at your position, we are extracting all teams from the entity!"
Kaiser looked back at the tunnel. There was no telling if or when that thing was going to come after them. "Negative, we cannot stay here!"
"Team Blue, if you do not remain at your position we will not be able to locate you!"
"Then we're dead either fucking way! That thing ate half of Tresco's mag and one of mine like it was nothing!"
"Cadet Grati is equipped with a 50-caliber anti-materiel rifle. You are ordered to fire upon the entity with it."
"Grati, get your rifle! If it's got tank armor, we're gonna try the anti-tank gun."
"Y- yes, sir." Grati said hesitantly, climbing the pyramid to steady her gun at the top. With that, she was given a five-meter-high vantage point. They waited for the thing to leave the tunnel. Several minutes ticked by. Then, just as they were about to say that it was gone, the creature leaped from the tunnel and sped towards them at what must've been fifty kilometers per hour or more. "FIRE!" Kaiser ordered. Grati fired one shot, then two. The creature staggered back with the first, then fell to its knees on the second. Its glass was visibly fractured. Grati fired her entire magazine into the thing, leaving it a crumpled heap on the ground.
"Command, entity contai-" Kaiser began, only to see it stand up and begin staggering towards them at a pathetic pace.
"Command, the entity was slowed but not terminated."
"Roger, Team Blue. You are free to disengage. We will be landing an MTF chopper in the center square, do everything in your power to make it there."
"Affirmative. Everybody up, we're moving!" Kaiser spoke. They began a brisk jog, watching for anomalies, but strangely enough, the electric ones were absent.
As they wandered the sector adjacent to the starting one, they climbed the taller pyramids closer to the center to survey the area. The center quadrant was a giant hexagon, divided into fourths by a set of walls, leaving room for a small square in the center with a towering, monolithic pyramid before it. From so high up, it seemed kilometers away, and Kaiser felt a feeling of hopelessness, his mind telling him that he would never make it through the maze in time.
Suddenly, someone called out to them. "Hey!" A female voice called. The entirety of Team Blue turned, raising their weapons. "Don't shoot! I'm not trying to hurt you!" The voice said. Cautiously, the team descended the pyramid and looked to the source to see an ajar door in the wall. Tresco entered first, rifle raised. Kaiser entered second, and Grati covered the rear. Tresco flipped his flashlight on.
Standing before them was a woman with orange-and-brown fur, gazelle-like horns, and a predatory, foxlike face. Something about her simultaneously put him on guard and at ease at the same time. The way she held herself indicated some form of docility, but the look in her eyes was unmistakably human, and unmistakably cunning. "Come on, I know a shortcut to the center." She said, taking off into the darkness. They had no choice but to follow. She ran just fast enough to stay at the edge of the light, but just slow enough to still feel the twilight.
The corridor opened up into a large chamber with an empty podium at its center, probably designed to hold some display case or something. As Kaiser inspected the room, something snagged his eye. There was a pedestal hanging from the top of the room, holding a golden chalice filled with red liquid, both cup and contents defying the laws of gravity.
It was then that he noticed Grati and Tresco staring at him incredulously. The fox-person halted in her tracks as well. "Oh, yes, that. You're welcome to take a drink if you so desire. Just hold out your hand."
Calmly, Kaiser stretched out an open palm, without even paying attention to what he was doing. Just like that, he felt something hit his hand, and his fingers wrapped around it without him even thinking. Looking at his hand, the chalice rested in his right hand, having fallen from the ceiling and not spilled a single drop. Impressive.
"If you want to drink, be my guest. In fact, you want to drink too, don't you? I can sense that you're so thirsty…" The fox-person said slyly. As a matter of fact, Kaiser was parched. The stuff in the cup gave off an intoxicating aroma. The fox-woman wanted him to drink, and he would not disappoint…. it looked…. so tasty….
Kaiser had begun raising the goblet to his lips when a gunshot startled him out of whatever trance he was in. The fox-woman gave a gasp, and Kaiser turned around to see her as she stumbled, fell to her knees, and hit the floor, mouth agape, saliva laced with blood. "Cognitohazard 101, Kaiser. Also, how the hell did she convince you to drink- shit and blood!?" Grati said, pulling the goblet from Kaiser's hand and pouring it out. However, after five straight seconds of continuous tipping, the chalice seemed nowhere near empty.
"And the shit never ends!"
Team Blue made their way still towards the center. Despite her… shortcomings, the fox-woman had spoken truthfully when she said that there was a shortcut. And it only costed a bullet, James thought. Though, here, one bullet could certainly be the difference between life and death and- whatever the shit goblet was. "Fucking furries," Tresco mumbled under his breath.
"That's what they want you to do." Kaiser replied.
"God, Kaiser!" Grati and Tresco said simultaneously. Kaiser chuckled.
By this point, the seemingly insurmountable maze had almost melted before them, leaving a clear trail to the exit.
That was when they heard the hissing.
"OH GOD SNAKE!" Tresco yelled, hastily making his way towards the square.
"Why do you fear me?" A low, scraping voice spoke. The very sound sent a terrible feeling down Kaiser's spine, like a nail had been driven between every vertebra. Kaiser turned to see a humanoid creature, but everything about it was wrong. It was covered in brown scales, its eyes were slitted and yellow.
It was a snake.
Not only that, it was a snake contorted and coiled in ways that should not have been possible. It somehow had four tails, one for each limb, even though James saw that its body never split. "Lower your weapons. It would do neither of us well for me to attack you." Kaiser sure as hell didn't follow that command.
"What the hell are you?" Kaiser asked.
"Someone who's here to assist. A… friend, so to speak. Don't worry." It hissed. With that, its eyes pulsed with glowing white, sending a shock across Kaiser's brain. His thoughts began to dissipate into the static. Recognizing what was happening, he wrenched his head to the side, grabbing Grati and covering her eyes. With his other hand, he pulled his pistol and fired two shots at where the sound came from.
"Now that's no way to treat a friend." The snake-thing hissed from behind. Kaiser whipped around, eyes shut, and fired twice more. Then, it hissed an incomprehensible phrase at him from his left. Without Kaiser wanting to, his pistol went to shoot the thing.
Through Kaiser's head.
Kaiser dropped his weapon, only for his hand to go for his throat. "Yes. Die in the dark, as they say." With that, his other hand began to spasm, reducing his ability to not strangle himself. Frantically, he reached for the pen in his pocket-
Click.
Immediately, whatever foul presence taking over his body immediately dissipated and the snake hissed with pain. His risked opening his eyes to see that he wasn't affected anymore. Grati yanked a chain with a crucifix on it off her neck and began swinging it at the snake frantically. When it connected, it didn't seem to do much, but the snake still recoiled as if in agonizing pain. It let out a disturbingly human scream, and then moved for Tresco. He, not having resisted the cognitohazard, wasn't in much shape to resist as an impossibly long tail extended from the thing's "arm" and began dragging him behind it. It was dragging him towards a tree with pale, skin-like bark, branching green leaves, and low-hanging purple fruits. "If we're in the Garden of Eden, then that's the Tree of Knowledge! TRESCO!" Kaiser shouted. Considering the last time someone ate that fruit…
It was too late for Tresco now. The snake had him in its grip. "Are you God?" He said weakly. "No, Donovan." Grati said, her voice cracking as she lined up her shot.
"That's Satan."
Bang.
The round ripped through Tresco's body a moment too late, just as his arm gave a yank on the nearest fruit.
Like that, he was gone.
"Tresco?" Kaiser asked in horror. Silence. Then, he noticed that the light coming from the outside was warped, the complex seeming to get taller and bending to intersect the line formed by Kaiser and the core of the Earth. "Grati, GET DOWN!" Kaiser said, leaping behind the walls of the square.
BOOM!
The entire world went white and all sound was replaced by a horrible ringing in Kaiser's ears. All conscious thought withered away in the firestorm, and Kaiser could do nothing but crawl further behind the wall and curl into the fetal position. Everything was burning hot and freezing cold all at once. It was a solid minute of this, though that felt like every eternity in the multiverse to Kaiser. Shards of rock rained down on him, which would've cut him if not for the armored cloth he had the foresight to sew into his coat.
Then, just like that, it was over. Kaiser couldn't hear anything- in fact, he could feel the blood dripping from his ears- and with his burst eardrums, he had no sense of balance. The entire world spun around him and his sight was blurred and unfocused. Without thinking, he let out a silent scream. A few seconds later, two images of one figure appeared in his vision, wearing a red ribbon tied around their right arm. Kaiser tried to remember what that signified, but found that he could not. The figure lifted him into their arms and began carrying him towards a source of repetitive vibrations, like an engine of some sort. Before his consciousness slipped away entirely, he heard a voice say:
"As the Armor defends the Skin, so the Rot will break the Body."
Kaiser awoke on the helicopter, still completely deaf. He tried to lift his head, but he couldn't tell which way was up and almost vomited. Someone stood over him, holding a syringe. Their helmet was imprinted with a white six-pointed star, indicating an MTF medic, and read MTF G-8. They brought their needle closer, and Kaiser didn't even feel the prick before he was out again.
The next thing Kaiser knew, he was in a clinic, smelling of antiseptic and needles. An alarm went off as his heart rate increased, and before he knew it, there was a doctor with him.
"Can you hear me?" He said.
"Y- yeah." Kaiser croaked. The room wasn't moving in waves under him like before, so that was a plus.
"Good. Junior Researcher Kaiser, I'm sorry to say that you have just experienced your first containment breach."
"My first?"
"Most of them aren't as bad as that one. It was a learning opportunity, though."
"Meaning?"
"The mirrors you encountered would be classified Safe. The creature that left the mirror would be classified Euclid. The serpentine anomaly would be Keter. In fact, me and a few others are submitting a proposal to reclassify the zone Keter."
"Yeah, but how bad is it, doc?"
"The breach or your injuries?"
"Both."
"A total of twenty-two trainees, mostly from the Foundation, were killed, alongside four staff for a total of twenty-six deaths. As for you, you were found with both severe hypothermia and second-to-fourth-degree burns over a significant portion of your body, paradoxically. We had to replace much of your skin with synthskin. The synthskin will take a few days to fully integrate with your body, so you'll have to stay on bed rest until that time. We also had to surgically repair your ears and eyes. On the bright side…" The doctor pulled Kaiser's glasses off. "Hey! I need-" Kaiser grabbed for the glasses, only to realize that he was seeing perfectly well without them.
"Well, that's interesting. What happened to my team?"
"We haven't located Tresco; if he disappeared like observed, he may have been removed from the universe or timeline altogether. As for Grati, she was crying and would not have noticed the oncoming explosion if not for you. In fact, she was substantially less hurt than you. She was able to walk on her own and stayed by your side the whole trip back."
"How long was I out?"
"About thirty-six hours."
There was a knock on the door. "Come in." The doctor said. Two people entered the room. "Kaiser! You're awake!" Grati exclaimed, moving to hug him, but Kaiser stopped her. "New skin." He said. They settled on a handshake instead. The second person was a Researcher, his ID revealing his name as Dr. Nathan Halloway, Head Researcher. He said nothing, only took a small stack of papers in a folder from his coat, laid them on the bedside table, and left.
Kaiser grabbed the papers and began flipping through them. As he read them, his eyes brightened and he pumped his fist. "What is it?" Grati asked.
"I got a promotion!"
Afterword: Junior Researcher Kaiser was promoted to the position of Researcher and assigned to work under Head Researcher Halloway in the OXIDA Project, the official name for actions against "The Church of the Broken God" with intent to slow or halt its acquisition of technological or religious artifacts. During the course of this, a raid was performed by the GoI on his outpost, where he was captured and implanted, along with the entire staff of the outpost, with an anomalous cranial implant rendering him immune to most cognitohazards, being one of two staff to survive the procedure. Dr. Kaiser has not expressed any desire to have this implant removed, considering the incident that started his career left him with a severe aversion to and fear of memetic agents and cognitohazards.
Dr. Kaiser spent his first two years at the Foundation working for Dr. Halloway in this endeavor, using his grasp of paranormal engineering to study, catalogue, and even reverse-engineer Mekhanite entities. When the primary objective of the OXIDA Project was realized and it was disbanded, Dr. Kaiser was reassigned to analysis of SCP-6025 for a period of six months. After distinguishing himself during the "Weeping God" Incident, he was relocated to Site-19, where he now resides as Head Engineering Researcher.
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* [2020 Wikidot Theme]
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SCP Foundation Secure Facility Dossier
Exclusionary Area-174
Founded: 02/05/2021
Area-174, concealed by desert scenery.
Official Designation: SCP Foundation Mojave Desert Exclusionary Area
Facility Identification Code: USCAMO-Area-174
General Information
Purpose: Area-174 has a duel purpose, of both containing local SCP's, and, as an exclusionary area, acting as a "last resort" for Foundation should the need arise, in the event of an XK, or CK scenario.
Founded: 02/05/2020
Location: Mojave Desert, California, USA
Founding Director: Dr. Benjamin Peyton
Size: Total floor area of 17.6 km².
Founding Director Stevenson.
Site Overview
A last resort / Preparing for the worst.
Area-174 is built almost entirely underground, with only one main entrance, via a titanium-chromium seal capable of withstanding a thermal blast of up to 10,000 degrees, and thus, can withstand a nuclear assault. The seal also has a high tensile strength, and can withstand the majority of brute force attacks. The entirety of Area-174 is shielded by Scranton Reality Anchors, and therefore, means the facility is capable of shelter against both conventional assault and reality-warping anomalies.
In the event of an XK or CK class scenario, Area-174 can utilise its protection as an Exclusionary Site, and act as a safe house for the Foundation until normalcy has been restored.
Site Layout
A simplified pictogram of Area-174.
Area-174 consists of 6 primary sectors; listed A through F.
Sector List:
Sector A: Primary entrance sector, Low-risk containment cells.
Sector B: Laboratories and Testing areas.
Sector C: Storage and office areas.
Sector D: Employee recreation area.
Sector E: Dormitories and residential sector.
Sector F: Maintenance and Life support systems.
Access Recent Events
Level 2 Clearance or above required!
Recent Incidents:
Date: 18/06/2021
Incident Number: A174-9
Details: Area-174 was raided by members of the Chaos Insurgency. However, they were unable to breach Seal-01 and access the main facility, and left shortly before Foundation Mobile Task Forces could arrive.
Date: 13/07/2021
Incident Number: A174-10
Details: A low risk anomaly escaped due to an electrical malfunction in the door locking system. The anomaly was placed back into containment, and an inquiry was launched.
Date: 24/06/2021
Incident Number: A174-11
Details: An electrical malfunction in the lighting system occurred. One injury was sustained when an employee fell over, and power was successfully restored. Foundation electrical engineers were unable to find the cause.
Date: 25/06/2021
Incident Number: A174-12
Details: The ventilation system circulating air to lower parts of the facility stopped. No injuries were sustained, and the facility's security was maintained.
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DATE: 14 Jun 2021 15:21
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| Assigned Site |
Site Director |
Research Head |
Assigned Task Force |
| DIM-Site-62 |
Dir. Estelle Isle |
Dr. Uriah Deveyerr |
MTF Lambda-74 "Gamejacker" |
SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES:
[in the event of info leak or whatever ], a disinformation campaign under the guise of an ARG
.Alternate Reality Game. is to be initiated and maintained.
SCP-6970 is a phenomenon in which individuals will suddenly shift from their surrounding area, manifesting inside of an extra-dimensional liminal space.
.Hereby designated SCP-6970-1. Infrequently, also acting as an individual’s form of return from SCP-6970-1.
(see Discovery) Although most cases sharing relations with SCP-6970 are presumed to have expired within SCP-6970-1. No discernible pattern or criteria is needed to be met for persons to be susceptible to SCP-6970.
.Investigations into possible correlation between SCP-6970 and unsolved missing persons cases are in process.
SCP-6970-1 is an indeterminate expanse of randomly segmented corridors and rooms, invariable in appearance, sharing yellowed wallpaper, damp carpet, and possessing light fixtures at inconsistent intervals. .Efforts to locate interiors and settings that share the likeness and superficial features of SCP-6970-1 In baseline reality are ongoing.
Navigation tools such as compasses and other have rendered ineffective for travel inside of SCP-6970-1, though radio communications and electronic transmissions maintain function. (see Addendum 6970.3)
SCP-6970-1 is devoid of life, other entities not to have been observed. (see Addendum 6970.3)
DISCOVERY:
| Proposed Entry Effort |
| use of Konami code through physical movement |
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| use of Konami code through physical movement |
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| use of Konami code through physical movement |
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| use of Konami code through physical movement |
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| use of Konami code through physical movement |
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SCP-001.
| Proposed Entry Effort |
| use of Konami code through physical movement |
| Result |
| Successful! |
EXPEDITION LOG EXCERPTS
6970-1
MTF Lambda-74 "Gamejacker"
- λ74-ALPHA - EMMETT BAN (SOURCE)
- λ74-BETA - LESLY BLOT
- λ74-OMEGA - CARTIER DEFFLE
- λ74-SIGMA - KEVIN ABSTRACT
«BEGIN EXCERPT»
[skraw!]
λ74 | ALPHA:
«END EXCERPT»
lambda-? feels like he has deja vu cause of liminal space - Atlanta pilot vibes
Questions for Critters:
1) clinical tone?
2) should addendum 1-2 be omitted
3) is the atmosphere good
4) is the ending underwhelming
5) is this bad
6) what would help
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backroomscp backroomscp
citing both 5545 and Level 0 on The Backrooms Wiki as i directly pulled from them both for desc
shoutout to critters
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DATE: 14 Jun 2021 15:05
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// COGNITOMOLE NOTICE // : Access to this file is limited to personnel with Level 5-001 clearance. Upon accessing the file, Foundation Cognitomole ARK_cm771 will embed within your subconscious. By continuing, you agree to allow your identity, location, eye and bodily movements, and biosignature to be tracked by ARK_cm771 for up to 72 hours. Unauthorized personnel accessing the file may be subject to disciplinary measures including cognitive suppression and remote termination.
— Dir. Zack Ekshun
Director, Memetics and Infohazards Division
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'PATAPHYSICS NOTICE: The following document describes several potential narrativohazards.narrativohazard (n.): a hazard caused by one's interaction with certain story-structures. They often result in cascading narrative disruptions, causing entities to be injected into, or ejected from, baseline reality.. Attempts to interrupt the described anomaly's story-structures are hazardous and should be limited to controlled testing environments.
— Dir. Place H. McD.
Director, Pataphysics Department
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test page for testing
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2641
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"Tell me about your sex life."
Hey.
AIAD <Artificial Intelligence Applications Division>
The word broke his stupor.
"I'm sorry?"
"Are you sexually active?"
"Oh, no. Not for a couple of months really."
That was a lie; it had been longer. Much longer. He had never been very forthright about his sex life, not even with medical staff. It's not imperative that social histories be as accurate as, say, containment procedures, after all. Right?
"Are you up-to-date on vaccinations?"
"Yes."
"Inoculations?"
"I believe so."
"How much do you weigh?"
"Uh…maybe…" the time he took to formulate a figure bespoke the sensitivity with which he always approached this subject.
"I can weigh you real quick," the nurse stated. She moved her hand aside her waist from where she produced a handheld device resembling an infrared scanner, the sort used for bar codes. She picked it up to her eyesight and took aim at him. The nurse clicked the handle and a monotone beep sounded.
"115," she read off the back of the scanner.
He looked at her incredulously.
"…kilograms," she finished without meeting his gaze. "Okay. The doctor will be in shortly. Can I get you something to drink while you wait?" She started moving towards the door.
"Anything diet?" he quipped.
"I can go check," she replied.
"No, that's okay, thank you though. I'll just watch the news."
"Alright then." She smiled, her lips not parting as she left.
The room was washed featureless in the white hum of the fluorescent lighting. The walls, much farther apart than in the exam rooms he knew as a civilian, defied him to find a blemish upon their padded faces. There aren't many advantages being in one of the highest-risk populations for traumatic amputations, mutant drug-resistant infections, complete and irreversible psychological collapse, hyperacute exsanguination, and degloving injuries; and one in the only at-risk population for pandimensional dematerialization, temporal irretrievability, and the xenochemical liquification of internal tissues. But state-of-the-art medical care standards and capabilities were two, if not the only such advantages.
With the push of a button, the exam chair began its massage therapy. As was his selection, the scents of lemon and rosemary permeated the air, it supplemented with purified oxygen and aerosolized anxiolytics. The extra O2 gave him a nice buzz. He rode it through his thoughtless channel surfing. Sports. Glamor. Politics. He stopped on the Foundation's internal informational channel.
New construction project updates; another site dedicated to object containment. The rate of the Foundation’s discovery of anomalies is accelerating. He liked to believe that they were simply getting better at their jobs…that’s an expected outcome after decades of practice and process, right? Even still, a sulking sensation remained until a suspicion; the anomalous has been brought to a boil. The law of equal-and-opposite forces applied to some fundamental particle responsible for four-thousand anomalous objects’ escape from the conforms of otherwise insurmountable physical constants; the anomaly’s freedom naturally inclined to ride entropy like a wave, now simmering a sort of frustrated potential energy as its collective lay increasingly in stagnation by the hands of the Foundation's tailored special containment procedures; the reclaiming of their rightful place in the natural world, the term ascribed to them becoming less true with each one discovered.
A knock. Even the Foundation’s doctors are advanced…with a sense of punctuality, he thought. The door opened without his reply.
“Mr. Baker?”
“Yes hello, doctor.”
“Hi how are you today? I’m Dr. Fiael and I’m part of the team here managing your care.” This was a tall man with an athletic build, the type those like Luke Paul Baker imagined themselves to stand and walk like in moments of ridiculous hubris. It was rude of course to wonder the degree to which a person’s good looks helped established careers of intellectual authority, but he couldn’t help it here.
“Nice to meet you, doctor.”
Dr. Fiael ritualistically washed his hands as he spoke. “It’s been a while since you’ve been here, hasn’t it? Last time was your initial employee physical and your inoculations. A year or two I read, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, so how has your research duty been, tell me about that. What do you study? Some chemistry, right?” The doctor sat on a stool opposite the exam chair and mimicked the patient’s body language.
“Been good. Yes it is, chemical solutions. We are harnessing a uh…solanaceous exospore that when released forces the individual into ceaseless small-talk.” Baker could almost pinpoint the second the doctor’s regret bloomed upon his thin veil of an expression. He compromised with inaccuracy to redeem the conversation somewhat but also to get through it quicker. “…we study an anomalous potato.”
The doctor nodded, his eyebrows heightened and his lips furrowed slightly at the edges. “Wow, that’s…wow, infectious small-talk huh? Can I get you to test a couple of my coworkers for that while you’re here?” Dr. Fiael’s clinical front broke as he laughed at his own joke. Baker managed to force a relatively convincing laugh; he had a lot of practice with that in response to this very joke having been made on innumerable occasions.
The doctor sighed longingly as his sense of propriety returned him to a neutral demeanor. "But Mr. Baker, let's talk about this visit. Tell me a little bit in your own words what you know about why you're here today."
"Well, I have been having severe itching over my face, arms, and legs for about 2 months now that isn't resolved by the usual topicals. As I understand it, I'm here to follow up from the blood work taken by the on-site nurse last week."
"Very good. We are hiring, you know." The doctor shot a rehearsed smile. There was no laugh. God he was so bad at these moments. The training of medical school couldn't prepare him, or anyone for these diagnoses. "Well, that is right. Such itching is commonly due to a fungal infections on the skin. Now I understand from your chart that you experienced a fungal infection relatively recently. Tell me about that.”
“Like the rest of my team, I was at one point infected with SCP-2641, about 7 months ago. I underwent on-site medical care and my symptoms resolved, like everyone else’s. We know the infection is mild and doesn’t produce these symptoms I’m having now.”
“Okay. Here’s what I’m getting at. Part of the lab work we did was a sample to culture, and we haven't grown anything to date. Um, usually it takes…about 72 hours, and its been well beyond that time so we wouldn't expect to see anything from that. That's good news. The bloodwork however, was more revealing. It showed a high rate of eosinophils." The doctor allowed himself a breath.
“I…don’t understand what that means.”
“…I apologize, I am sorry. Of course, that was poor form. It’s like your potato spores, isn't it?” He really was bad at this.
“Those are cells of the immune system that are elevated when a foreign organism is…actively utilizing the body,” the doctor explained cautiously. He decided to pause and gauge what the patient made of the hint. “…from within. It seems that the infection may not have been eradicated as it was in your coworkers for reasons we can discuss if you’d like.”
“What team do you work for, doctor?”
Thank God, he’s already figuring it. “Infectious diseases…my subspecialty is in those with underlying autoimmune disorders.”
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Cyclospora solanacea Bakerifa. They got to name it, despite all my research, and they named it after me, its flagship, autoimmune, worst-case study. Let’s get this clear; having a systemic fungal parasite named after you is no consolation. What it means is one week follow-ups for your foreseeable future. The nurse exits the room quicker this time, having less to go over but also having less willingness to tolerate a proximity, I’m sure. Even behind a respirator mask, I can still see she’s very pretty.
The walls are the color of limbs robbed of blood. They are suffocating me. The slight padding on the wall makes me wonder if this room could double as a psychiatric isolation. I smack the stale air, tilt my chin towards my chest and pet my stubble. The chair remains still and the television dark.
In walks Dr. Fiael, Chief of Infectious Diseases and Communicable Anomalopathologies. His figure is cloaked in layers of personal protective equipment; an immediately-disposable body gown and some non-latex gloves that I think he has double-layered. These are a new development and “standard” given a positive result on another set of blood cultures. I know he doesn’t mean for it to, but it screams of my inhumanity and also of their utter ignorance of this disease; it was just one week ago that he shook my hand.
"From studies to being studied, right doctor?"
"Hello, Baker. How are you faring?"
"Well enough."
"I see the collection upon your cheek is still swollen…looks a bit angrier than last time. Have you had any…production this last week?"
With a nod, I indicate the specimen collection jar on the table. The materials inside fibrillate upon themselves, as if a mound of seizing worms.
"Oh okay, well, that's not good per se, but at least it gives us more to work with here. Thank you. Honestly, that cheek looks like its ready, do you mind if we try to evacuate it?"
"That's fine. But first, why me? I understand I have a weak immune system. But I got better after a week or so, just like everyone else. How come no one else has relapsed?"
The doctor looks to the bedside table to confirm the needed equipment: some gauze pads, a tongue blade, a sterile specimen cup and some tape. He positions everything just so and swivels the stool to my left side. “Many infectious agents have a dormancy period after an initial infection; syphillis, HIV, even chickenpox, that one lives in your spine for life, ready to bloom into shingles one day.”
I feel the sharp soreness as his fingers flank my cheek and press down. The worst part about the removal of these parasites is that their exiting through the pores of my skin actually feels good. He scraps off the pendulous exudates with the tongue blade and quickly places them in the sterile cup. I can see his brow furrowing in the process. “It’s possible this has a similar prodrome phase. The recent left-shift in your white blood cells could be telling us that it was hidden from the immune system for some time, and it could have been triggered, as in the other infections, by stress…something like that wouldn’t be unheard of. As of now it is idiopathic bandemia though, for sure.”
His statements may as well be squid ink. Like many doctors, he tends to throw out esoteric technical terms to mask that he actually doesn’t know anything about what is going on. It is as informative as it is obfuscating.
"Okay. That's enough for us, but I think we need to go ahead and finish here, so you have some symptomatic relief. I'm going to let the nurse do…all that after we're done talking here. Sound good?"
I finally find the bravery to match his look of disgust with one of my own.
Dr. Fiael continues. "The plastic surgery team can be onboard to wash out the necrosis and patch you up, I've already spoken with that team's lead and he's going to meet with you before you leave today. You and I…need to talk about alternate treatment options. First off, I'm going to prescribe you some high-shelf narcotics for pain."
"But I'm not in any pain."
"I know I know, it's just I'm going to be out of the office next week and would rather cover all possible fronts myself while I'm here so as to not burden my colleagues. Don't worry. It's better to have and not need than need and not have, so. But aside from that, we're going to modify the antimicrobial regimen slightly. The antifungals on board just aren't doing the job, as I know you are aware. This is clearly something we don't understand very well, and so our data on sensitivities aren't going to mean much, but they are all we have to go on to be blunt. There's another drug we'd like to try."
"What are the side effects?"
"Yes, good question. Uh impotence, for one. Kidney damage, liver damage are more concerning; we'll have to draw labs for those weekly while you are on this. I'm more concerned about the eventualities that are more assured if we don't try this though. On one hand, yes, we have some things to watch out for and we can manage those well; but on the other hand we have a fairly certain idea of how this will progress."
The doctor pauses his speech. I know by this point in our interaction that he is providing "therapeutic silence", which is just a fancy phrase for hesitation; the next sentence is going to suck. It becomes awkwardly apparent that the conversation isn’t going to proceed unless I give some sort of volley. "How is that doctor?"
"Well how much detail would you like here?"
"I'm sorry?"
"Some patients don't do well with the details, so we like to ask as a courtesy."
"…I…Jesus…just give me all the details."
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DATE: 14 Jun 2021 07:21
This is a colection of SCP-096's thoughts
I have been here… forever… It's the only place I'm safe. The people outside my room hate my stupid, ugly, useless self. I can't talk, I am that stupid. My… my God, I am dumb. The only time I was a little… haccy… no, it's happy… The only time I was happy it's when the two lab men took me to the mountains. But the orange man saw my face and other people did too. The men in charge now want me dead. Well, I deserve dying. I hate myself. I can't even die. I want death. Death… death… death… my… death. I am nice. I am nice. But when they see my face, I get angry… I have to kill them if they see my ugly face. Nobody should live seeing my ugly face. I want to take it off, but it grows back. I am damned for this. I want to die… or to at least be invisilbe. No, it's invisible.
I am not normal! I am ugly. I am stupid. I am horrifying.
I am too skinny, my hands are too long, my legs are too thin and my face… my face is the worst thing ever.
When they took me to that lizard thing, I wanted it to end me. But it didn't. I want it to.
I wanted to kill it, maybe that's why I didn't die.
Aaa, just end me! I am the lowest form of… creature? Am I a creature? Am I alive?
Ahaha! Ahaha! Ahaha! I welcome death. I don't have any more tears to cry with. They think I am a monster. They are right! They should just kill me! I hate them for not killing me!
No, I don't… They tried..
I will kill myself! I am going to cut my head off! That's right. Oh, it hurts! But I deserve the pain!
Good, the head is down. I am still alive! No! It's growing back! Crap! Crap! Crap!
I guess I will suffer fovever…