Because these are far too much fun to work on.
SCPs:
- Malfunctioning Auto-Redactor Unit №.██
- Mobile Task Force MT-F ("Mobile Task Force (Mobile Task Force)")
- Special Containment Procedures 3XXX
- This is not SCP-4XXX.
- SCP-4XXX:FAE - CODE NAME: Forgotten (or, Remember Love)
- Uuuthaumatics Department (based on a dream)
- History viewer (based on a dream)
- Locked Noosight (You Don't Need to See)
Tales:
- SCP-579-Thaumiel
- Out of this World (Series)
Hubs:
Brainstorming:
(copy-pasted from discord)
<Her Spacey 9Volt the 1st> - Last Friday at 5:56 PM
I just had an idea that'd probably be super tricky to pull off but I think it could turn fantastic if done right
An anomalous document or some other anomaly which is constantly writing itself in a coldposty newby type way, complete with a blatant self-insert doctor character, and the Foundation is trying to halt the anomaly and interrupt the file
It'd be one hell of a format screw but based on the rough idea that I am envisioning I think it could work
(copy-pasted from discord)
<9Volt> - Today at 7:17 AM
god my dreams just supplied me with some prime SCP fuel. and by prime SCP fuel I mean "I copy what I remember of an SCP article that showed up in my dream"
so, the big details I can remember:
The anomaly was being contained and researched by a Department of Uuuthaumatics (????)
It was conceptual shenanigans
There was no description. Not like a description followed by redacted or something, no, there just wasn't a description at all
The central anomaly went something along these lines: It was a conceptual thing that I guess was preventing any degree of description on itself, located by a patch of forest and in a very decayed part of said forest. The hinted explanation for its existence was that it was created by a group of nature gods that wanted people to stop damaging their stuff, leading to them creating this concept and implanting it
there was more overarching stuff that linked things together but this is all I can remember of it
also in the dream Taffeta was attributed as the author for this, so thanks dream!Taffeta for coming up with this idea I guess
<9Volt> - Today at 7:40 AM
Honestly if only because of the missing description I really want to write this, or something similar to it because what the fuck that's format screw gold
<9Volt> - Today at 2:26 PM
Man it’d be perfect if, in universe, uuuthaumatics was a magic system that fell out of a sleeping deity’s brain. And it all works on dream logic
The only way for the Foundation to contain uuuthaumatic stuff is by playing into that dream logic as much as humanly possible
3:08:15 PM <&NineVolt> btw FoodForethought I had some thought on that idea you threw out in the headcanon thread about the infohazard storage site unknown to everyone. I just realized that this lines of weirdly well with an idea I've had for a memetics storage site named Site █/█. This site isn't being blackboxed because of higher clearance; it's because whatever number or symbols used in its name turned cognitohazardous and have to be masked
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3:16:38 PM <&NineVolt> Probably gonna use Site █/█ in one of my upcoming ideas as well
3:17:07 PM <FloppyPhoenix> sounds spooky
3:18:52 PM <&NineVolt> FloppyPhoenix: just to copy paste what I said above: "I just realized that this lines of weirdly well with an idea I've had for a memetics storage site named Site █/█. This site isn't being blackboxed because of higher clearance; it's because whatever number or symbols used in its name turned cognitohazardous and have to be masked"
3:19:45 PM <FloppyPhoenix> really cool idea tbh
3:25:04 PM <&NineVolt> oh man what if the site was named with symbols in a language native to Samothrace, and when all that stuff went down there the language turned into a hostile memetic entity
3:28:36 PM FoodForethought → &MaliceAF
3:30:00 PM <&MaliceAF> NineVolt: lotta people using my ideas in their stuff lately :P
3:30:31 PM <&weryllium> Man
3:30:36 PM <&weryllium> you nerds are smart
3:30:40 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: :P Note that like I wasn't thinking of it being the same site. The ideas just lined up shocking well
3:30:46 PM <FloppyPhoenix> smort nerds
3:31:05 PM <&weryllium> The most mindfucky thing i've got is probably
3:31:08 PM <&weryllium> SCP-3584
3:31:08 PM <%Secretary_Helen> weryllium: SCP-3584: Mechanical(?) Dandelion Garden (Rating: +41. Written 20 days ago By: Weryllium) - http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3584
3:31:09 PM <&NineVolt> unless you do want to make it the same site tho
3:31:14 PM <&MaliceAF> I still need to write so much of my headcanon
3:31:49 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: God same
3:31:50 PM <&NineVolt> I've got
3:31:59 PM <&NineVolt> god fucking knows how much stuff I want to get out there
3:32:00 PM <&MaliceAF> NineVolt: For the site, which I originally referred to as Site-B1 (as in, basement level 1), I was gonna do a Secure Facility Dossier
3:32:19 PM <&MaliceAF> and then have it be a garbled mess of "ERROR 404" stuff, beneath which is the prose tale
3:32:36 PM <&MaliceAF> we could probably both do our ideas as long as we touch base regularly
3:33:34 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: My idea was that I'd just write a few SCPs stored in Site █/█ and then right a dossier that, in universe is solely viewable by people stationed at the site, and makes reference to loads of different memetic and conceptually fucky things that have happened/go on there
3:33:38 PM <&NineVolt> *write a
3:34:02 PM <&MaliceAF> see, I was gonna have the site staffed entirely by non-human minds and disposable AI
3:34:53 PM <@rounderhouse> https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/1iQTSSnd/image.png
3:34:59 PM <&MaliceAF> vegetative humans controlled by automated subsystems, insane forms of life that are so wildly different to our own that the infohazards have no effect, artificial intelligences that are wiped hourly and rebuilt from scratch
3:35:08 PM <&MaliceAF> rounderhouse: lmao
3:35:57 PM <&MaliceAF> NineVolt: although, it's possible there would be a permanent human staff
3:36:13 PM <&MaliceAF> maybe clones, or just people harvested automatically from the global population and dumped there
3:36:19 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: My dossier idea would have stuff like the samothrace language thing I mentioned, researchers communicating via a memetic entity that is harmless enough to work as a language, the repeated conversion of subterranean site sectors into things that are antimemetic that are replaced and then discovered again, other equally weird shit
3:36:20 PM <@rounderhouse> i don't think i ever showed y'all this screenshot https://usercontent.irccloud-cdn.com/file/kuKHAeuZ/image.png
3:36:50 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: For reference Site █/█ would be known by the Foundation; they just don't allow any real info on it to get out.
3:37:01 PM <&MaliceAF> NineVolt: think we could combine the two?
3:37:13 PM <&MaliceAF> I like the idea that lots of it's antimemetic and constantly being rediscovered
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3:37:31 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: JUST HAD AN IDEA. What if Site █/█ and yours are linked, just that yours is like, the super secretive extension of it that not even people in Site █/█ are normally aware of
3:37:43 PM <&MaliceAF> NineVolt: oooh
3:37:47 PM <&MaliceAF> NineVolt: okay, concept:
3:37:55 PM <&MaliceAF> there are two dossiers
3:37:56 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: Site-B1 is to Site █/█ as Site █/█ is to the Foundation
3:38:30 PM <&MaliceAF> one is only viewable to the people who work at blackbox-slash-blackbox
3:38:41 PM <&MaliceAF> the other isn't viewable to anyone
3:38:46 PM <&NineVolt> Ooooh yessss
3:38:58 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: and both can be like directly linked together or something
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3:39:56 PM <&MaliceAF> your dossier ends with a mention of "Memetic effects render certain aspects of the site permanently inconceivable" or something, which then has "For more information, please consult %%Error: Broken Gateway/File not found%%"
3:40:09 PM <&MaliceAF> I write the second bit, and we post as an intertwined thing
3:40:27 PM <&NineVolt> yess
3:40:32 PM <&NineVolt> I really like the sounds of this
3:40:41 PM <&MaliceAF> (the broken gateway bit would obvs be a link to mine)
3:40:46 PM — &NineVolt nods
3:41:19 PM <&MaliceAF> you up for this?
3:41:27 PM <&NineVolt> Just because it's relevant: this is the only draft of mine that so far makes reference to Site Blackbox/Blackbox http://topia.wikidot.com/pareidolia
3:41:29 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: YES.
3:41:57 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: Bear in mind that I don't know if I'll have the time currently — INTcon needs to be a priority — but I am very much down for this
3:42:06 PM <&MaliceAF> blackbox/blackbox would be the one mentioned in scips, of course :P
3:42:27 PM <&MaliceAF> NineVolt: awesome. I'll make a topiary sandbox for mine, and a hub for the two where we can dump overlapping concepts
3:42:40 PM <&MaliceAF> thoughts on a collective term for the two?
3:42:47 PM <&NineVolt> Hmm
3:42:56 PM <&MaliceAF> Out of Site/Out of Mind
3:43:09 PM <&MaliceAF> or something less lame
3:43:28 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: oh you mean like a collective title of what the foundation would refer to both with
3:43:35 PM <&NineVolt> *collective title or
3:43:44 PM <&MaliceAF> oh no, I meant more out-of-universe
3:44:01 PM <&MaliceAF> B1 would of course never be referred to except in your article
3:44:12 PM <&MaliceAF> from everyone else's point of view, even knowing it exists could be fatal
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3:45:23 PM <&NineVolt> ah gotcha
3:45:34 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: Something like that title could work, yeah
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3:59:47 PM <&MaliceAF> NineVolt: I'm going to make this document themed in the 1940s
3:59:53 PM <&MaliceAF> because that is really cool to me
4:01:07 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: I think mine will just go with a modern look, since that gives me a wider time frame to describe shenanigans and weirdness at Site █/█ but for yours yeah that could be interesting
4:01:23 PM <&NineVolt> especially since i imagine few things are really around to update stuff
4:02:07 PM <&MaliceAF> I think I like the idea of the base file being something that's on the database because nobody can physically remove it, but not maintained for decades
4:02:18 PM <&MaliceAF> so everything's decaying both digitally and memetically
4:03:15 PM — &NineVolt nods
4:03:37 PM <&NineVolt> MaliceAF: just to make sure you mean with B1, right
4:03:45 PM <&MaliceAF> yeah
4:03:51 PM <&NineVolt> gotcha
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4:07:36 PM NineVolt → &BusyVolt
4:07:44 PM <&BusyVolt> MaliceAF: gtg for now, homework needs doing
4:14:05 PM <&MaliceAF> 👍
4:31:53 PM <ch00bakka> SCP-4103
4:31:54 PM <+jarvis> ch00bakka: Unexpected error has occurred. Please report this incident to anqxyr.
4:32:01 PM <ch00bakka> god damnit Jarvis
4:32:11 PM <ch00bakka> Scp-wiki.net/scp-4103
4:32:11 PM <+jarvis> ch00bakka: Unexpected error has occurred. Please report this incident to anqxyr.
4:32:29 PM <&anqxyr> scp-1511
4:32:32 PM <+jarvis> anqxyr: SCP-1511: Mobile Paradise (written 5 years ago by anqxyr; rating: +187) - http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1511
4:32:37 PM <&anqxyr> hrrrrm
4:32:40 PM <&anqxyr> scp-4001
4:32:41 PM <+jarvis> anqxyr: SCP-4001: Alexandria Eternal (written 8 months ago by GentleGifts; rating: +454) - http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4001
4:32:43 PM <ch00bakka> A newbie coldpost rewritten by his friend from discord where he
4:32:52 PM <&anqxyr> oh well, I dunno then
4:33:13 PM <ch00bakka> Uses the phrase “class 3 memetic shielding” and “scp-4103 will memetically will people to touch it”
4:33:56 PM <&anqxyr> will memetically will memetically will
4:35:06 PM <NineVolt> ch00bakka: I know the coldpost def wasn't intended to be interepreted this way but I like to imagine that "class 3 memetic shielding" is somebody getting their mind blasted with so many coghazes that it's impossible for them to comprehend more potent memes anymore
4:35:45 PM <NineVolt> sorta like how being blind makes you immune to visual memetic hazards
4:35:52 PM <NineVolt> well "immune"
4:36:30 PM <NineVolt> except in this case you're breaking your mind to a point where none of this can leave a mark because perception of it is impossible
4:36:57 PM <NineVolt> err, comprehension, not perception
4:37:47 PM <Mortos> im sure ive seen that skip before
4:37:54 PM <Mortos> the whole "consistency of slime" line sounds familiar
4:39:14 PM <NineVolt> …..this suddenly gives me the idea for an SCP where humanity used to have perception sense that has been collective lost, since some informational threat was attacking through it and we had to break our minds to remove the sense
4:39:38 PM <stormfallen> .s body part
4:39:39 PM <+jarvis> stormfallen: SCP-2828: Antimemetic Body Part and Note: A Part of Nobody.
4:39:44 PM <stormfallen> .sm 1
4:39:45 PM <+jarvis> stormfallen: SCP-2828: Antimemetic Body Part (written 3 years ago by ooblex; rating: +178) - http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2828
4:39:49 PM <NineVolt> stormfallen: that was the first thing I thought of
4:41:22 PM <NineVolt> though in this case it's like… inverted. Instead of having this thing that protects us from harm we have to destroy the perception to protect ourselves
4:44:08 PM <ch00bakka> Mortos it’s a rewrite of his first failure
4:44:26 PM <Mortos> ah right
4:44:26 PM <ch00bakka> NineVolt: gotta rearrange your memome
4:44:48 PM <ch00bakka> So you’re no longer in the human noosphere
4:44:54 PM <ch00bakka> Total conceptual alienation
4:45:06 PM <NineVolt> Ooo, that's an interesting prospect
4:46:22 PM <NineVolt> ch00bakka: Actually, what if humanity was like, directly connected to the noosphere way back when, but we had to sever the "noosight" perceptual sense that let us link to it
4:46:57 PM <NineVolt> the noosphere is still present but nobody is still aware of its presence now
4:49:33 PM <ch00bakka> Completely unable to conceive of abstractions
4:49:58 PM <&ARD> shoutout to the time othello compared Chicago spirit to wilson's wildlife solutions and took ten years off my life
4:50:21 PM <stormfallen> that's a compliment to CS :^)
4:50:32 PM <unclenicolini> Well, theyre both gois
4:50:35 PM <DarkStuff> stormfallen: <3 <3 <3
4:50:35 PM <unclenicolini> Thats about it
4:50:47 PM <DarkStuff> Though yea I don't see the comparison
4:50:51 PM <DolphinSlugchugger> yeah but wilsons wildlife solutions is g- *immediately killed*
4:51:04 PM <DolphinSlugchugger> oh damn
4:51:09 PM <DolphinSlugchugger> stormfallen beat me to it
4:51:10 PM <stormfallen> wws>cd
4:51:15 PM <stormfallen> *wws>cs
4:51:22 PM — stormfallen dabs on ard
4:51:22 PM <&ARD> i think you're using the wrong arrow bub
4:51:24 PM <unclenicolini> Wws said trans rights
4:51:36 PM <&ARD> chicago spectre has a canon aroace character
4:51:51 PM <unclenicolini> Hell yeah you go spectre
4:51:59 PM <&ARD> now which one has better representation :^)
4:52:00 PM <DolphinSlugchugger> wws<3<cs
4:52:28 PM <&ARD> actually i don't think there's a single straight character in any of my tales lmao
4:52:32 PM <&ARD> *CS tales
4:52:33 PM <DolphinSlugchugger> actually correction
4:52:38 PM <DolphinSlugchugger> cs<3<wws
4:52:47 PM <NineVolt> ch00bakka: yeah. better yet, back when this perception existed humans could directly "sift" through the noosphere and draw from it
4:53:00 PM <&ARD> DolphinSlugchugger: kimochi warui
4:53:59 PM <NineVolt> ch00bakka: select Foundation personnel unlock the ability for antimemetics research and the like but as a whole it's kept highly secretive, since there is very, very good reason the lock was instated in the first place (coughcough3125)
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4:57:02 PM <NineVolt> eyo shaggydredlocks
4:57:09 PM <ch00bakka> Counterconceptual division all fucked up on 2517
4:57:16 PM <ch00bakka> So that 3125 can’t see ‘em
4:57:28 PM <shaggydredlocks> o/
4:57:36 PM <NineVolt> ch00bakka: heh, yeah