Imagine, for a moment, that somewhere in the world, a secret group of elite researchers is studying weird and creepy artifacts that could destroy the world.
Well, imagine no more, because it's real. Kind of.
The
SCP-Foundation is a wiki that lists hundreds of "SCPs" or "Special Containment Procedures".
What are those?
Commonly known as 'SCPs,' these articles are overview reports of individual 'Items' in containment by SCP personnel and facilities. They quickly summarize threats and describe Items with only necessary details (as time might be short on hand in the event of a containment breach or other event).
Items can be an object, place, person, animal or even an occurance. They are given an Item# as SCP-XXX and categorized. SCPs are grouped as being 'Safe,' 'Euclid,' or 'Keter' which are classifications that explain expected threat levels.
Anyone may draw up an SCP protocol on any Item and add it to 'The List,' but every author is subject to review by his or her peers, and must adhere to the high standards and clinical approach mandated by his fellows
They range from creepy things, like a
room made out of human flesh, to hilarious things, like
the world's gayest man
At any rate, it's a great way to waste some time or scare yourself silly.
Press random article and get going!
Be warned though, some of this is NSFW
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What spring does with the cherry trees.
yeah seems like it
good way to kill a couple hours at work
TVtropes has dangerously high levels of animu content.
has ruined my productivity a few times before
not again! i won't let you do this to me bugboy
I get there and I start reading and oh god how did six hours pass
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-701 - A play that contains a memetic virus that incites violence
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-668 - The knife that killed Kitty Genovese
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-294 - A vending machine that will dispense any liquid (I think this one was written by someone on these forums, actually)
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-342 - Cursed bus ticket
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 - Unkillable Lizard
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 - An example of how something is scarier when you make up its details for yourself
Also, anyone who gets deep enough into the site to be familiar with a lot of the popular SCPs, or is willing to read side articles every time one is mentioned, needs to read this awesome story:
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/duke-till-dawn
Anyway, yes, I know I'm a bit obsessed with this site. I'm actually planning a phalla set in this universe, just working on getting it balanced.
and I spent 5 hours of my life trawling through the 40K wiki
edit: now that is a coinkydink, kosh
go to the site
you know you want to
as far as I understand
people just make up articles on subjects and try to make them look like they're conspiracies by blacking out information selectively
and that's pretty much it I guess
The website itself should be classified SCP-00X with its ability to fucking absorb time and general productivity.
I forgot about it for a while until it came up in that other thread
It's really weird and doesn't always do it for me but there are some pretty cool elements of the fictional universe that they've built
It's also similar in concept (though not in style or execution) to some short horror fiction I dabbled in writing a while back
Those are almost always references to other fictional works or some historical mysteries, unlike SCP which is mostly original fiction
Which reminds me that I never watched past like the second episode of Warehouse 13 even though I thought it was pretty cool
wooooooow
And then you have entries like that one
That's Abel, right
I think they very nearly deleted that entry until some other people contributed some better-written pieces about him popping up in other areas
The best part is when they take ones that are obviously author self-entries and have the personnel terminate them in various overkill ways
The beginning of that is almost gag-inducing Mary Sue-ism.
what have you done to me
The best one is the green gel that is fantastic with everything unless it comes into contact with a dead body.
Though for the most part the fact that about 70-80% of these are fantastic reads is a bit of an SCP itself .
the
the weeping angels?
Also they have one of these for "creepy pasta" stuff thats pretty good
You think that one's bad, meet his immortal telepathic 17 year old gay lover: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-182
His name is "Saint".
They don't even describe what happens, they're just all "DO NOT PUT NEAR A DEAD BODY, DAMNIT"
I dunno, even though that seems ridiculious, I kind of want to know what would happen if "caine" and "abel" meet.
Oh holy shit
also the weird concrete monster that started it all.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
i dont even
I think my favorite of the self-insertion terminations is that of SCP-809-D
Battlemans: DiscoCabbage | Elite: Dangerous: Aleksandr Khabaj
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.