SCP Foundation

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Secure. Contain. Protect.

The SCP Foundation is a writing site focusing on scientific descriptions of terrifying, confusing, or just plain weird monsters, events, locations, etc. Expect plenty of REDACTED all across the website. The community prioritizes quality writing over pretty much everything else, and as such it is THE place to go if you like top-tier horror fiction writing. The fucking huge critical community within will RIP'N'TEAR bad articles to pieces. (On the flip side, if you want to read some hilariously bad writing, go to the lowest-rated articles page. You will know the true meaning of stupid.) The SCP Foundation mainly consists of extremely horrific GRIMDARK, but also has its light-hearted moments, and at points, absurd and ironic humor.

While the descriptions on the SCP Foundation website and the hinted-at setting loosely binding the different articles together are not directly related to any specific traditional games; the whole thing is a goldmine of ideas for your horror games from Delta Green to World of Darkness to Call of Cthulhu and everything in between; or even if you simply want to throw something weird at your players to deal with for a change.

Origins

The SCP Foundation started when some anon on /x/ wrote a clinically-toned article about a homicidal concrete statue that only moves when you don't look at it, spawning the idea of a worldwide conspiracy to suppress similar "anomalies". In this universe, Creepypasta Events like: "If you visit the ninth floor of a certain apartment at midnight, a spirit will assrape you and split your head open" are very much real, and the Foundation finds them and isolates them for the good of the world at large. Said fictional organization would send agents to survey the existence of supernatural phenomena, contain them (if possible) for analysis, and protect the public from the consequences by any means necessary, said means including (and sometimes surpassing) teleportation to alternate universes.

It eventually shaped into a fictional wiki where thousands of these "SCP"s (items, phenomena, or persons) are contained, by ludicrous force if necessary. Extensive descriptions and containment procedures are the most favored parts of the writings, as well as UTTERLY FUCKING TERRIBLE REALIZATIONS that your world is a clusterfuck of horror which out-edges 40K on several levels. For example: SCP-682 is a completely invincible reptilian creature that is extremely hostile to humanity, and can barely be kept at bay via complete immersion in hyper-corrosive acid (and may actually be the anchor of all life in the universe, so destroying it will end all concept of biological life in the cosmos). There are also writings about the personnel within the Foundation, logs of fictional excursions to capture SCPs, and experiment logs to comb through; as well as weapons and personnel that surpass the "legitimate" human authorities' power by magnitudes: extrasolar bases across the universe are the only a fraction of it. We're talking about bases in alternate dimensions for inventory and endless resources dug from a plain of white rock.

And that's just the very tip of the iceberg. One SCP is a genetic phenomena that makes the dreaming person's dreams real. That's right. Everything in reality, from World Wars to history of empires *and* new SCP's (there is a rumor that this phenomena was the start of everything) is rewritten in one night's sleep. The Foundation's obvious response is to capture, detain, drug them into complete and total amnesia, use them as disposable anomaly-destroyers, and quietly kill them afterwards. Obviously this genetic trait is so dangerous and disruptive that the organization will authorize the total genocide of "every population that may exhibit the phenomena above average." Another is Nikolai Tesla's Reverse Entropy Tesla Gun that will DESTROY EXISTENCE in a few centuries, with NO WAY OF STOPPING IT. There's also a rock eating fish that eats California's seabed, slowly worsening the San Andreas Faultline, and the foundation failed to kill them off.

Because of the popularity of the Foundation (and if you take every single article as canon; not everyone does) mankind is now struggling to contain thousands of these things, with dozens of "groups of interest" making that job harder. Dozens of them are world-ending threats the Foundation can't stop, and more than one short story has lampooned the enormous number of SCPs would turn most of humanity into Foundation personnel. Even worse, because the website is ever-growing there are thousands more yet to be contained or even discovered.

So what is the Foundation?

The Foundation is an secret organization that protects the world from supernatural, or anomalous as they prefer to call it, threat by containing and studying objects, people, creatures, places, and phenomena that break the accepted laws of physics and thus threated the world's normalcy. Dangerous or otherwise interesting objects that they discover are classified as SCPs, which stands for Special Containment Procedures.

The Foundation has a policy of focusing on containing the anomalous rather than destruction because they want to understand what they fight against, and because destroying anomalous objects often has unexpected consequences.

Although the Foundation does have some knowledge of magic and other supernatural stuff that could be used to help them contain the supernatural, most SCPs are contained by mundane means if possible. To help keep the existence of anomalies a secret from the world with fewer deaths, the Foundation uses amnestics, drugs that erase memories, on civilians who witness the supernatural. They also use amnestic drugs on their own members to keep dangerous information classified, as well as protection against things like anomalies that can spread just by knowing about them.

But the Foundation is not exactly the good guys, as they are willing to do just about anything to keep the world safe and sane, including performing extremely unethical experiments on people, sacrificing many lives, and imprisoning any anomaly they discover including sapient ones that just want freedom. There are very few lines that they will not cross as long as it furthers their mission.

For dangerous experiments and occasional human sacrifices, the Foundation uses prisoners called D-class personnel, who are mainly recruited from prisons. They are supposed to be mostly death row inmates who are all killed at the end of every month, but one of the above facts probably isn't true.

The Foundation is run by a council of thirteen overseers, who are the mysterious all powerful bosses of the organization, and by an ethic committee, whose job is to decide exactly how evil the foundation is permitted to be. The only person above the O5 Council is the even more mysterious administrator, who rarely does anything.

Classification

Every SCP has a classification. It's basically a handy way of labeling them as to whether they have the power to totally assfuck you or not. Some of them may even have circumstantial benefits for you interacting with them, goodies like healing or granting you (usually abominable) powers. These classes are:

Primary Class

The initial labels given to any anomaly by the Foundation.

• Safe: This does not actually mean that the object is safe, but that the object is simple to contain and it is only dangerous if you mess with it. This includes stuff like people with weird but harmless powers, and objects that cause you to die a horrible death if you touch them but can't stop you from just locking them in a box. For the most part, these are as dangerous as a loaded gun: "safe" if you know what you're doing, and if you stick it in a secure locker, it'll be fine. This does also require that the Foundation can achieve 'you know what you're doing'; nothing is Safe-class when initially acquired, because they don't have a good enough understanding about the anomaly yet.

• Euclid: The object/entity is unpredictable and the Foundation has limited understanding of it. Special containment procedures (title drop) are required to keep it in line; the classic examples are the grand-daddy SCP-173, which has multiple video feeds watched by D-class (convicts stolen from death row) to keep it from moving, and the bigfoot SCP-096, which is stuck in an airtight steel cube with pressure sensors which is checked for holes or cracks, without looking at the wall you're checking, on a weekly basis. The consequence of a containment breach are also significant; at minimum, resecuring it will involve serious injury to Foundation personnel and some amnesticization of civilians, but mass deaths are often a possibility. If it's hard to contain but easy to keep out of sight of the public even if it breaks containment, it's probably Safe-class. Many Euclid entities, or pieces of Euclid entities, are sapient; any non-human-like intelligence is at least Euclid.

• Keter: The good shit. Also the bad shit. Almost all are an extremely dangerous tier entity/object. At best they're heavily guarded, protected by specially trained MTF's (Mobile Task Forces), and if they escaped containment would kill thousands and destroy the masquerade irretrievably. At worst, they would destroy the planet/galaxy/universe/multiverse, and they are being kept in a box which removes most of the avenues by which they could escape, only breaking loose once a year or so with a few hundred Foundation casualties re-containing it for the moment.

Secondary Class

Replacement labels for things re-classified from the Primary Class. Given to SCP's that the staff of the Foundation have a comprehensive understanding of. True safety.

• Neutralized: SCP entities/objects that are dead, destroyed, disabled, or otherwise no longer a threat. Often-times these were former Keter-class SCP's that the Foundation managed to dispose of. Their only remains are what can be gleaned from the heavily-edited documentation and records that the Foundation keeps. No one really wants to keep a doomsday device around, right?

• Explained: SCP entities/objects that are no longer considered to be abnormal, which may be due to the Foundation mistaking something for an anomaly before closer examination, or due to advances in science allowing it to be understood, or due to an anomaly becoming so widespread that it has become the new normal.

• Irrelevant: Like Apollyon, it means simply. "Fuck it." It's gonna happen one way or another.

Esoteric Classes

The following Object Classes fall outside of the purview of standard classification.

• Thaumiel: Anomalous material or entities that can be used by the Foundation to contain or counteract the effects of other highly dangerous anomalies. Sometimes the best thing to do is fight fire with fire. Since its introduction, it's become an unofficial primary class, and is the fourth most-used containment class on the site.

• Apollyon: First used by SCP-2317 (iteration 6, Destroyer of Worlds which cannot be stopped and will destroy the world in the next 30 years) Apollyon is often derisively referred to as "Super-Keter." This class is only used for anomalies that present an apocalyptic threat that the Foundation has no way of stopping, slowing down, or undoing. For example: in one alternate timeline the sun became an Apollyon SCP when something caused the sun to start turning any living thing exposed to sunlight into blob monsters. This included trees, keters, ANYTHING. The author community mostly considers use of Apollyon to be in poor taste; this has been lampshaded in some Tales, like the Antimemetics Division tale Wild Light: "Current thinking...is that Apollyon classification is a confession of defeat. It's bad for morale. It cultivates defeatist attitudes. [Keter is] the top of the hierarchy".

• Archon: One of the more popular esoteric classes, Archon denotes items that would do more damage contained than uncontained.

Famous SCPs

• SCP-001: Unlike other SCP numbers, there are multiple SCP-001 articles, and it is up to the reader to decide which ones are canon. SCP-001 might be the first monster the Foundation ever discovered, or the source of all other SCPs, or the origin of the Foundation, or the biggest apocalyptic threat that they face, or any number of other important things that deserved to be in the number one slot.

• SCP-049: A humanoid resembling a medieval plague-doctor, but he isn't human and that's not a costume. He is obsessed with curing a "pestilence" he perceives in some humans, but he cannot say what this "pestilence" is; in fact, he cannot seem to comprehend that others don't know what it is. When he gets hold of someone, his "cure" turns the victim into a rampaging zombie, which to him is somehow better. It's unclear whether this pestilence is a real thing that only he can see, or if he is just insane.

• SCP-055: An unknown object that erases any memories about itself. The Foundation doesn't even remember when or how they obtained it, or even who wrote the object's containment procedures and why they work, but it is possible to remember what the object isn't, and so the Foundation is figuring it out by elimination. It is classified as Keter because you can't remember if it is actually dangerous or not and it may have killed hundreds of people and no one would remember it. This spawned a long-running series about the "Antimemetics Division", which deals with SCPs which make you forget about them or are literally impossible to think certain thoughts about.

• SCP-087: A seemingly endless stairwell with a voice crying out for help that never gets closer no matter how far down you go. If you go down it too long a floating face will suddenly appear and scare you to death.

• SCP-093: An engraved red disc that turns mirrors into portals to an alternate version of Earth, where a horrible catastrophe has occurred. Based on recovered evidence, a godlike entity made contact and became the sole religion, distributing advanced technology in exchange for worship, including its "Tears" that would wash away "sin." The use of its Tears caused people to mutate into faceless monsters called "Unclean" that consumed other people and caused an extinction-level event.

• SCP-096: A humanoid with abnormally long arms and a very large mouth. Normally it is docile, but if anyone sees its face, it goes berserk and hunts them down, killing them brutally. Once you have seen its face, there is nothing that can stop it; even getting its organs blasted out by a tank round won't slow it down. Even looking at a photograph of it will set it off somehow.

• SCP-106: A old man who can walk through walls, corrodes everything he touches, and can teleport victims to a pocket dimension where he tortures them.

• SCP-140: A book that tells the history of a violent culture called the Daevites. The book can write itself if it comes into contact with ink or blood, changing history in the process. Every time it changes, the Daevites' destruction occurs later; if it goes too far, it could retroactively cause the Daevites to exist into the modern day and come into conflict with other nations. What's worse is that there are a double-digit amount of copies in existence, all with the same properties, and the Foundation hasn't accounted for all of them.

• SCP-173: The Statue (AKA the Original) - A killer statue that can move extremely fast when not being watched and causes a mixture of blood and feces to mysteriously appear on the floor of the room it is kept in. This means people regularly have to enter the room it is stored in to clean it and have to be extremely careful not to blink so it doesn't kill them. Started the whole thing, and yes, Whofags, it came before the Weeping Angels. Was inspired by a creepy photo of a sculpture by a Japanese artist.

• SCP-231-7: The last surviving member of seven young women who were kidnapped and impregnated by a Satanic cult. Progressively horrible things happened when the others gave birth, so the Foundation assumes she'll cause an apocalypse if she does too. The only way to stop her from giving birth is to regularly submit her to something called "Procedure 110-Montauk." It isn't revealed what Procedure 110-Montauk specifically is, but it is something absolutely horrifying, probably some form of disgusting sexual torture, and the Foundation regularly erases her memory to make sure she doesn't get desensitized to it, because the trauma of the procedure is required for it to work. The personnel who work with her also have their memories erased to prevent the trauma from affecting them. The horror doesn't come from the threat to the world she represents, but how far the Foundation is willing to go to keep the world safe: if you had to torture an innocent person to keep other people safe, would you be able to do it?

• SCP-294: A coffee machine that can dispense anything requested from it that can exist in liquid form, as well as several things that normally can't. It's best not to get too ambitious what you ask it for, be damned careful to avoid ambiguity, and god help you if you call something by a euphemistic name.

• SCP-354: A bloody red lake that spawns many terrifying monster 24/7. It spawn many variety of monster that can only be seen in movies and fictions like killer robots, lizard people, elemental monsters, and frigging krakens. The Foundation put up a good fight but decided to abandon the fuck out and nuke the site because they can't kept up the pace and fighting endless waves of monsters to a stalemate. The pool also sentient and will psychically attack you if you try to drain the pool, and it might actually be a living portal between worlds.

• SCP-426: I am a toaster that can only be talked about in first person. Spend to much time around me and you will start to think you are a toaster and will harm yourself trying to do toaster things.

• SCP-447: A spongy ball that constantly exudes a green slime, this substance is extremely useful and is good at improving the quality of whatever it's applied to (gasoline becomes more efficient, smoke grenades last longer, food becomes more delicious). The only catch is that it does something to dead bodies that is apparently extremely dangerous, and the Foundation is so afraid of this effect that even proposing to apply the goo to a dead body is enough to get you demoted to D-class!

• SCP-529 (aka Josie): A half-cat (not that kind), the entirety of her body behind her ribcage is seemingly non-existent. Despite this, she still behaves as though her body is whole. Given that she is a cat, she is allowed to freely roam the lower levels of the facility. However, SCP-529 is not to be given any cheese; if she doesn't get enough cheese, she gets upset.

• SCP-682: The Hard-to-Kill Lizard - A FUCKHUEG lizard that hates all organic life (except SCP-053, an immortal child who drives humans violently insane, for some reason) and cannot be killed. There is a LONG list of attempts, none of them successful. It will either become immune to what you tried to use to kill it with, or will copy the effects and turn them on you. The Foundation has even tried killing or controlling it using dozens of other SCPs, which normally is forbidden, and none of them have worked, and many have backfired spectacularly.

• SCP-895: An empty coffin which causes any camera recording taken too close to it to be filled with horrifying images that can drive you insane.

• SCP-914: The Clockworks - A massive clockwork machine connected to two boxes. Between the boxes is a dial with 5 settings: Rough, Coarse, 1:1, Fine, and Very Fine. Put something in the "Input" box, choose your setting, and pray the result isn't too radioactive. The two lowest settings take objects apart. The middle setting transforms the input into something similar, like maybe turning an apple into an orange. The second highest setting turns the input into a better or more "refined" version of itself. The last setting is similar to the previous one but is extremely unpredictable. The output will usually have a similar function the input but taken to an extreme, and often be anomalous. It is not possible to see inside the input or output box whilst the machine is operating, so nobody knows precisely what happens in there.

• SCP-999: A harmless Slime that eats candy, sweats antidepressants, and loves to tickle people. Fans like to ship it with SCP-682 after a failed attempt at killing 682 with kindness.

• SCP-1471: A malware app that, once installed, causes a skull-faced wolf-thing (the picture on the page is actually a Furry, or skully) to begin stalking you inside your phone until you can see it in real-life. Fortunately, the creature itself is harmless. Unfortunately, this all means that furries in real-real-life are totally obsessed with the character and you can't mention it without risking Rule 34.

• SCP-2000: A large, underground complex located inside or near Yellowstone national park. The entire complex is more or less a "Civilization Reset Button," purpose-built to bring the entirety of human civilization back in the event of the apocalypse. Any information pertaining to its creation has been lost, but it is known that it has been activated at least twice. Not to mention that a 400-year-old corpse that matched a Foundation researcher was found with a note that begged the question of why this thing was built in the first place.

• SCP-2521: A weird tentacle monster that can walk though walls, can only be safely described with pictograms, and loves information about itself, so it steals any document written about it and kidnaps anybody who talks aboutAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! ITS GOT ME! Notable in that the article was written as part of a contest on who could write an SCP in less than 500 words; the use of pictograms meant the the article had exactly zero.

• SCP-2845: A Deer with a human face that can transmute any substance, turn humans into weird Hexagon things, and is thought to be one of the few SCPs that are actual no-holds-barred gods. Its containment requires weird rituals involving castrating D-Class and eating babies. Researchers believe that the ritual only contains the Deer because it thinks it does, and making any changes (like reducing the baby-eating) could let it escape.

• SCP-3008: An infinitely large IKEA store in another dimension, connected to an otherwise-ordinary IKEA store (fortunately cordoned off by the Foundation), and finding an exit is nigh-impossible due to the seemingly-infinite dimensions of the space and the hostile humanoid creatures that come out at "night." Many of the people trapped inside the super IKEA are from other versions of Earth and they are forced to play real-life Dwarf Fortress (or Minecraft for the current gen reader) where they hunt for food and look for an exit during the day and craft weapons and fortresses using IKEA products to defend against the monsters' attacks at night.

• SCP-4000 Taboo: An extra dimensional forest populated with strange magical creatures. The location, landmarks within it, and beings from it cannot be referred to by any consistent name or else bad things happen to the people who named them (so to prevent confusion the document has words that refer to the same thing colored the same way). There also are very strict and complicated rules for safely interacting with the inhabitants.

• SCP-5000: A mechanical suit that contained records of an alternate timeline where the Foundation discovered a horrible secret (hint: it has something to do with SCP-682) that drove them to try to wipe out humanity by weaponizing all of the monsters they once kept contained, while forcing other major factions like the GOC to fight against them.

SCPs with minimal tabletop relevance

• SCP-1024: A set of instruction on how to perform low level spells that actually work, disguised as a Basic Dungeons & Dragons set.

• SCP-3744: A man who has the ability to alter reality, but only while playing Dungeons & Dragons. He suffering from trauma due to nearly causing his brother to drown for real during a game.

• SCP-3973: A sentient Ultramarines miniature that has the ability to control dice rolls in its vicinity. This had the knock-on effect of having his owner accused of cheating when he tried to help him win.

• SCP-5866: The semi-alive corpse of the Babylonian goddess Tiamat, which ends up being brought to life as the five headed dragon from D&D because that's what people think Tiamat looks like now.

• SCP-1974-EX: A d20 that causes hallucinations. Sadly, as indicated by the -EX ending, it turned out the dice was covered in some kind of hallucinogen. Nevertheless the article itself contain many references to /tg/ memes and related games, which is why it is listed here.

Other Factions

The SCP Foundation is not the only organization that protects the world from the supernatural or uses the supernatural for their own goals. Here is a partial list of notable rivals, allies, and enemies of the Foundation.

• Chaos Insurgency: Originally this faction was part of the Foundation, a covert deniable ops team simply named the "Insurgency." Operating under the fictitious pretense of being a group of rogue agents who assassinated and kidnapped on behalf of said organization, without their actions leading back to the foundation. They answered directly to the O5 Council, with little oversight from any other part of the Foundation. That changed when they really did go rogue, releasing various euclid and keter-class SCPs. What their goal is still remains a mystery, as is the reason for their defection. It's suggested that rather than contain SCPs, they want to proactively control and weaponize them. Whatever the case, they're a threat to everything the Foundation works for.

• Global Occult Coalition: The GOC is an organization funded by the United Nations whose mission is to protect humanity from anomalous threats. Unlike the SCP Foundation, they are far more willing to use anomalies to fight against anomalies, but mainly focus on destroying any anomalies that they consider a threat instead of containing and studying them. The Foundation and the GOC have at times allied with each other, although their methodologies are diametrically opposite. Many of the other factions strongly dislike the GOC and see them as needlessly heavy-handed.

• Horizon Initiative: A religious organization formed from the three Abrahamic faiths and several other religions that work together to protect the world from the supernatural. They are particularly hostile to cults like the Church of the Broken God and the Fifthist Church.

• Serpent's Hand: The Serpent's Hand is a loose confederation of humans and other beings that fights for the rights of intelligent anomalies and the pursuit of knowledge. Their base of operations is a magical library between universes. They especially hate the GOC and call them "bookburners", they refer to the Foundation as the "Jailers". Occasional allies of the Foundation, though the Foundation usually comes to regret it later.

• Church of the Broken God: Basically the Adeptus Mechanicus mixed with Gnosticism and a little bit of Greek and Chinese mythology. The CotBG is a religion of machine worshipers that wants to find and reassemble the lost fragments of their god. Although they aren't evil per se, if they were to succeed in their goals it probably would cause the apocalypse; or at the very least turn everything into living clockwork metal, and according to some sources, fixing the god of machines would actually cause the god of flesh to be released which is the opposite of what they want. They are mainly broken into three distinct denominations: the Broken Church (the oldest branch), the Cogworth Orthodox (obsessed with standardization and clockwork body modification, and prefer Industrial Revolution level technology) and the Church of Maxwellism (unlike the other two branches, they embrace the use of electronics and believe that the broken god is a digital being they can connect to through the internet).

• Sarkic Cults: Sarkicism or Nälkä (Finnish for hunger), as its followers call it, is the antithesis of the CotBG. The religion is mostly based on Gnosticism (but in an opposite way than the CotBG) with some elements of Hinduism and other religions mixed in. They revere disease and mutation and seek to achieve godhood by consuming the gods and perfecting themselves through horrifying Fleshcrafting sorcery. If you've ever seen the movie "The Thing", that'll give you the right idea. Most Sarkites are horrifically depraved monsters who should be killed with fire. The CotBG and Sarkites have a very long ongoing historical conflict. Sarkic cults are divided into Proto-Sarkic Cults, which mostly consist of isolated and technophobic communities and primarily worship the founder of the religion who achieved godhood, and Neo-Sarkic Cults, which are hidden in modern society as secret societies and organized crime organizations and worship the god of flesh.

• The Fifth Church: Well... they worship stars and have an obsession with the number 5. It seems to be based partially on Scientology and New Age and other new religious movements and parody religions, but little is actually known about their beliefs, and what is known is mostly incomprehensible. Most of the other factions consider them to be a joke, although they once nearly destroyed reality by selling a book that gave readers reality warping powers at the cost of causing insanity. In the Antimemetics Division canon, it is much worse than that.

• Doctor Wondertainment: Seem to be a company (or an individual. It bounces back and forth) that produces supernatural toys for children, which usually are dangerous if they are not used properly. They often send their products to the Foundation as gifts. For some reason they also created a line of anomalous humanoids called the Little Misters that they challenge the Foundation to collect.

• Are We Cool Yet?: A organization of artists/terrorists with a twisted sense of humor that produces dangerous pieces of anomalous artwork for laughs or for making political statements. Things like paintings that drive people that look at them insane. Pretentious fucks.

• Gamers Against Weed (GAW): Anomalous Internet Memes & the like. Love taking the piss out of the other GoIs; split off from AWCY? at least partly because the former were too high off their own paint fumes. Usually used as comic relief. Their name is also confusing, since they're not actually against weed.

• Marshal, Carter, and Dark Ltd.: An occult business that collects anomalies to sell to anyone for the right price.

• Manna Charitable Foundation: An organization that tries to exploit anomalies for humanitarian purposes, often with disastrous results. The road to hell...

• Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting: A circus that travels between dimensions to put on their shows and recruit more freaks. The Circus tends to be a refuge for the truly strange. Herman was overthrown and it's now lead by a pair of lesbian clown monsters.

• Shark Punching Center: Began as a joke for mocking people who misspelled SCP as SPC. The SPC is a completely insane version of the Foundation from another universe that is dedicated entirely to protecting the world from selachian (shark) entities by punching them. They do a pretty good job.

• SAPPHIRE: An organization of militant atheists who seek to destroy all religions by anomalous means even while being in total denial of the existence of the anomalous. All the other factions think they are insane.

• ☽☽☽: In an alternate timeline, the Earth was saved from destruction by being teleported into an afterlife known as Corbenic and became a third moon. From there, the people of that Earth work to try to save other versions of Earth from going down the same path that lead to their destruction. Living matter cannot enter the world of the living from Corbenic, although they can somehow invade fictional universes, so they mainly act through anomalous machines they send to earth. Most of their anomalies are about turning Humanity into a lighter and kinder temperament, such as a spaceship that warns dictators and mass murderers to step down and accept due process or be shot with a tiny laser beam from space, and editing sadistic media entertainment, giving villains heavy punishments within.

• "dado": an entrepreneur who specializes in making anomalous medicines, often with very unusual effects due to the not-so-good doctor's questionable grasp of... English, science, and common sense. He has collaborated with some the groups mentioned above, and it has bit them in the ass one way or another. Very fond of his pet hamster.

• Cults of the Scarlet King - Very obviously the Satanism analogue of the universe, though like the Sarkics they are a divided faction. They've created several anomalies, most notably a series of Daemonculaba analogues (and all the shit that comes with that), and they worship one of the versions of SCP-001, the eponymous Scarlet King.

And those are just some of the major ones that appear on the English version of the SCP website. Writers on other language versions of the website have come up with tons more. SAPPHIRE in particular first appeared on the French site and was popular enough to get translated and brought over to the English site.

Drama

This article or section is about a topic that is particularly prone to Skub (that is, really loud and/or stupid arguments). Edit at your own risk, and read with a grain of salt, as skubby subjects have a bad habit of causing stupid, even in neutrals trying to summarize the situation.

The RPC/SCP conflict and migration

When you get a group of people to do something together, drama is inevitable. The SCP community has a number of big-names calling the shots, and what they say goes. They set the tone for what's allowed and what's not, and if you piss off the wrong person for a trivial thing or hurt someone's massive over-inflated ego, you can expect your stay on the website to be short. They are no stranger to massive internal strife either; fights between the big boys resulted in a lot of content being discarded at one point. It kind of mirrors TVTropes: the front end has a lot of nice reading but the community side is a dumpster fire of misery, egos and dicks. We do not prefer to give examples to not point hands at anyone in specific, even if indirectly, though.

Early forms of alleged SJWism had been noted in articles spotting unusual genders without them being played for horror, or commented upon at all for that matter. Given a lot of SCPs are frequently not of this Earth/dimension/etc., there's at least SOME reasoning for it; and with stuff like SCP-113 or Dr Clef, few would normally bat an eye. Whether the presence of these in the articles is "forced political correctness" and pandering to SJW's or just a simple yet unusual detail in gender identity that users are making a butthurt and unnecesary fuss about is up to the viewer to decide. The series also suffer from heavy amounts of Pussy Pass as well, such as "female users" being allowed to publish SCP's of Neko Assassin Girls from another dimension who are temporarily caught but somehow act all haughty and dismissive to an organization that snaps entire universes shut and could erase them from existence with a sleeping dreamer on a notice. Dear SCP editors. These users are not even girls. If they were, they wouldn't fuck you.

Amongst those who did interpret these actions as unnecessary politics while accusing the mods of censorship and banning of those who protested against it, and wishing to avoid further debate with the mods or the banhammers both in aligned discord servers and the website itself, founded their own branch/variation of SCP Foundation with a self-proclaimed focus on political neutrality and tonal and writing style similar to that of the early-to-mid SCP Foundation era, named the RPC Authority. The content itself is for the most part articles imported from the dissenting authors with the serial numbers filled off, though further developments did lead to plenty of original SCP's RPC's being create for website.

For the RPC side and those who migrated from the SCP wiki, the mods are at fault for trying to insert SJW content into their articles and shutting down complaints of their actions, arguing that this has alienated the apolitical side of the fandom who participated in the website before it went blatantly political with things like SCP 5004 which made a stab towards Trump with Dr. Light being pushed over despair over the idea that american society was going willingly vote for Trump even without the Foundation's intervention, with this being a essentially recycled idea from SCP-4444. Notably, the article was downvoted to the point of being a candidate of deletion back when it was made and now it sits comfortably in the hundreds, with this being used as proof of the website becoming an echo chamber for SJWery regardless of the article's quality. Complementing this, they mention that the mods have cracked down on any opposition to them both outside the website and in it, and as such have failed to keep the SCP Foundation a free community and Wiki where anyone is free to edit regardless of their political position.

For the SCP side and those who decided to stay or didn't care, it has been pointed out that the SCP Foundation always had articles with political overtones even if these were less common, and that users were making drama over a few articles that they could simply ignore or downvote but decided to bitch about because they couldn't bear the idea of articles containing non-binary characters or jokes mocking capitalism in the wiki (Like SCP-3236 which allows a person to have a erotic dream themed around a concept and upon testing with the word "capitalism" the D-class could only report that he got fucked) while being butthurt over anyone who disagreed, saying that they create articles themselves if they wished to make a political/social stab of their own. To make matters worse, some SCP users alleged that many of these "apolitical" RPC migrators held "politically incorrect" views and that the anti-polical tirades were just masking for their bigotry - not helped by the fact that while the aforementioned blatant political content was one of their main sources of complaint, some went as far as to accuse non-straight relationships and characters with "uncommon" gender identities of being "political pandering".

At the end of the day and regardless of one's own opinion, the RPC wiki did keep their promise and (for the most part) kept politics out of their imported and original articles, with conflict having mostly died down since them outside of the ocasional discussion happening in discord/reddit threads, as both sides have adopted a "out of sight, out of mind" attitude to each other. That being said, do feel free to post one of the circulated prints of the drama in their forums to check out what their reaction will be!

The Other Things

Furthermore, as the community around the SCP Wiki has evolved over time, the tone of the works has shifted. In the first few years of the wiki, there was more of an inclusion of levity and humour, especially in regards to test logs and the antics of senior staffers. Over time the wiki has included less and less of this, as the community broadened and namefags or otherwise notable contributors left, taking their influences and in-universe characters with them which was a good thing. Latest SCP's and many other new SCP entries were little more than worldbuilding with zero clinical analysis but horror pantheons with complex gods, demons, and supernatural powers, completely failing to understand that SCP is a literal dismantling of supernatural into pseudo-mathematical variations. Circa 2018, the wiki is redoubling its efforts to be purely clinical horror, with fewer jokes (for better or worse).

(That being said, there's still room for somewhat "silly" SCPs, you just have to make them the product of an appropriate silly person or group, and make sure to (A) write it up clinically and (B) have something interesting besides the joke. See, for reference, the products of "Gamers Against Weed" or "dado." You can also still do -J articles, like good ol' SCP-420-J.)

More than a few people have also noticed (and mocked) the tendency of assorted SCPs to basically be their creator's fucked up sexual fetishes. One SCP, a more well known one to boot, was even basically implying pedophilia, but thankfully someone went and made a revised, non Loli version that doesn't put the site on a watchlist (though the old version is still available for public shaming continuity purposes).

You also have the Russian branch having to deal with a copyright troll who wants to turn SCP into his own brand, at least in Russia if not internationally. Unlike most trolls they can't ignore this one as they would steal the work of those who wrote there for themselves by extension. Remember kids, copyright/trademark/etc. sniping is not cool.

In May 2022, AdminBright was banned from the Foundation for being a sexual predator. Dr. Bright's List has been deleted and the character unpersoned. While no one besides creeps are defending his sorry ass, going full Excommunicate Traitoris on the character (one which most people didn't know was an actual sona) has resulted in some discussion on if deleting such a popular part of the lore from existence was the right move, or if they should have just tried to divorce the fictional character from the real person.

See also

• Delta Green - The closest thing to a SCP tabletop RPG out there.

• RPC Authority - The OTHER SCP Foundation, see above for details.