I'm very interested in linguistics, especially in the English language. After finishing all my schools, I would love to continue in this field.

However, my biggest interest at the moment is historical fencing. I am taught the german school of fencing with long swords, generally late medieval times. While no expert, I am taught by one of the (in my humble opinion) best Czech fencers, so I believe that his teachings might be worth something.

I really wish to learn, and I hope to help anyone that might be interested in some information about my knowledge.

So, hello!

Anyway, I am PR manager and occasionally host the gaming podcast, podcast 17, I am mainly a PC gamer (sometimes on xbox for BF3), and always love to talk to people. If you are interested in playing a game on steam or want to talk, I am always on steam chat.

Basically, it's an Artificial Intelligence that has integrated itself with technology that allows it to "select" people to die, for whatever reason. It's explained better on the page itself.

If I can get the main file sorted then I can expand to do an Incident Log of the recorded deaths that seem to be caused by the AI, but right now I'm uncertain as to whether it reads well, or if it's all a bit rubbish. I think it's somewhere between "pretty decent" and "good idea written badly", but I'd love to get some feedback on what's there so far, and possible advice on how to spruce it up.

Bare in mind this is my first crack at the SCP writing lark; hopefully it's a reasonable first effort. I just want to be confident it doesn't read terribly before I think about putting it up on this site.

Also, I know I should write in metric (and I have). When you see "imperial foot", understand that it is because the item itself 'works' in feet and it is therefore easier to say "each foot". (P.S. Please don't kill me.)

I'm not an exceptional writer … so if anyone else thinks the idea is worth polishing, I have no problem with it being remade. In fact, since most people on this site are probably better writers than me I'd actually advise someone else redoing it.

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On one of my rare visits to /x/, I stumbled across a thread about the "game" of SCP-087-B. I proceeded to download and play it, and after enjoying being a big baby about it, I managed to track this place down. Since then, I've been browsing through SCPs (up to about 260 so far) and thought I'd make an account to try and contribute my own additions, as well as get into the community a bit.

I have some writing experience from gaming journalism (currently write for a site now and then, not done too much lately though), but haven't done too much "creative" writing since college. Gonna try and change that around here, and hopefully not cock up horrendously. Somewhere between playing too many video games and spending too much money on gigs and festivals, I'll try to write something at least half-decent. I have a couple of ideas, and it feels like the sensible thing to do.

Also, whoever wrote SCP-106 (mainly for the picture choices) gave me a horrific night's sleep on Friday night. So thanks for that.

My first encounter with this site was through that Youtube video someone made for SCP-087. After being introduced to the site proper, I proceeded to lose about 24 straight hours of productivity, and continued to delve into various articles over the course of last week. After starting a list of ideas of my own, I got the nerve up to apply and now here I am!

Aside from writing, I'm into linguistics and general nerd things. While I hope I can use my editing powers to good effect around here, I'm also looking forward to developing my ability to write horror and creepy things, because it's definitely not a strong suit. A little give and take, that's what I'm looking for!

I do have a question. As I'm unfamiliar with Wikidot, what's the best way to keep up with this site? I've just been browsing the newest pages every day, but with forums and whatnot, I'm really not sure where to start!

Looking for feedback and ideas, thanks.

If I posted this in the wrong are let me know, but this seemed like the most fitting place.

The ideas we've had and developed jointly, or that I've bounced off her, are thus:

1. Time Pit/Space Pit - Her version is Time Pit, a gravel pit about thirty feet deep where the flow of time slows exponentially as you approach the bottom. Someone who fell into the pit would see everyone outside begin to move exponentially faster, and would see Armageddon when they finished. My version is Space Pit, a pit that goes down thirty feet from the outside and an infinite distance inside. The further you fall, the more space is stretched, and the flatter you seem to outside observers. Time is unaffected, though the pit has technically-infinite distance. Digging up through the bottom of the Space Pit has been done, it's about thirty feet down from the outside, the effects don't extend outside the walls of the pit, and it's just a regular pit about six feet to a side from the bottom, with no visible light source. Efforts have begun to build a staircase to reach the surface, carved into the pit walls. Digging through the walls of the Space Pit, or any part of the Time Pit, is impossible.

2. Alchemy - Idea I had recently. Brass chamber, about six feet tall and three feet across, no decorations, two levers on one side and a whole mess of pipes opposite the hatch that lead to four boxes. One lever is labelled "Ανάλυση" and the other is labelled "συναθροίζω." Pulling the first lever with something in the chamber causes the object to vanish and the boxes to fill with various amounts of the four 'old' elements, namely air, water, sulphur, and sand. Pulling the second lever with any amount of the four in the boxes causes a seemingly-random object to appear in the chamber.

3. [Anti-Music Man], an unfinished project I've been working on sporadically for the past year. Also, pretty much anything else in there.

Thoughts? Critiques? Suggestions for improvement? Any and all would be welcome.

I just joined after probably over a year of lurking - huzzah!
I discovered this site thanks to a friend who showed me SCP-173. Being a person who has always had a fear of psychological and mysterious horror, naturally I didn't sleep that night*. Since then I have read hundreds of SCP articles, and I've finally decided its time I joined in with the site.

*When something makes me truly scared, it keeps me up all night thinking about it. Once, when I was younger (about 10, I believe), I spent the night UNDER my bed, because I was scared of a monster I had imagined which was ABOVE the bed (contrary much?). Every now and then I dream I'm being abducted by aliens, and I generally have nightmares if I sleep.

How I haven't had some kind of heart problem, I don't know. Funnily enough, I actually enjoy being terrified, it makes life much more exciting when you feel like you're going to be in excruciating pain from some unknown entity hiding around a corner.

Oh man, I really waffled for that long…I'd better stop.
By the way, I wasn't joking in that last paragraph. Look out of the window behind you. ;)

The SCP is a small object, possibly of a very simple shape (I had thought it as a cube, but geometrical shapes seem to be frowned upon, so it may as well be a pen eraser or a plush toy). People exposed to it will become obsessed by it, and keep examining it over and over. If they are removed from the SCP, they will keep describing the object in excruciating details, in whichever media they are comfortable with.
An intellectually-challenged D-class may for instance talk about it at length with his own vocabulary, while a researcher will write papers after papers for describing this SCP. The effect may wane slowly after time, but affected subjects will keep referring to the object in their everyday conversations or written materials.
A side effect of this is that the Foundation now possess an extremely extensive documentation on a very common object that has no other special properties.

Click here to read!

Thanks for your time.

So, um, have at it.

I have had this idea for a while and wanted to finally get someones opinion on it.

Also as a sidenote the name Dr Manfred Lurker is stolen from an actual German historian (maybe, I'm not quite sure of his proffesion) on account of it being the most ridiculous name ever.

A cassette tape and case. On the cassette are embossed the words "Teach Yourself -", with a space for a small peelable sticker, an unspecified number of which are contained in the case.

If someone were to write [JAPANESE] on a sticker, attach it to the cassette and play it, they would hear a 'listen and repeat'-style series of lessons in the Japanese language. The contents would be tailored to their needs or learning ability and, should they reach the end of the tape, continue on the other side ad infinitum until the person had utterly mastered the language.
Writing "Teach Yourself - [JAPAN]" however, would result in a lengthy and exact account of the history and culture of Japan. Any attempts to digitise, copy or erase the tape's contents would be met with either failure or [EXPUNGED].

Experiment logs would eventually lead into testing for other, more abstract concepts such as [SCIENCE] or [CONFIDENCE], eventually leading to a suitably worrisome [DATA EXPUNGED].

Thoughts?

This is a disease that technically doesn't exist. It is not caused by a pathogen or other physical condition. It is transmitted by a subject thinking he has the disease. The disease then enters a primary stage where mild but worsening random symptoms occur. These symptoms can vary between normal things like fevers, to unusual stuff like tissues being converted into other materials. However, these are all mild and will rarely do much other than confuse the subject. These symptoms cannot be treated and will often distress the subject, leading into the secondary stage.

After a certain length of time, the disease will enter a secondary stage where the subject's thoughts about the disease are translated into actual symptoms. Things like heavy fevers, brain damage, physical mutations, and especially death can occur. These symptoms persist, strengthening until a) the subject dies or b) the subject is convinced he has no disease.

Sandbox coming if the idea can work out…

Happy reading.

I've been lurking for months, and have yet to actually publish anything. My current sandbox page is a sullen, depressing list of half-attempted SCPs and other horrors. Regardless, here's some potential concepts free to anyone, with the hope that I'll be able to add to the site in some way.

Anyway yeah, I look forward to learning a thing or two to apply to my own writings from here, collaborative writing is a half-baked pet project of my own but I have found a fully baked one. Huzzah!

So hello all, nice to meet you, I hope you don't shoot me on sight.

Please do not post works in progress on the forums. That's what the sandbox wiki is for. -yoric

noted and will provide a link.- Fred

http://sandbox.scp-wiki.net/a-smile

After reading some really well-written SCPs, and then seeing some of the complaints voiced, along with reasons for downvoting, I am starting to see many of the regular posters' reasoning quite clearly. Without naming names, I'll give the example that really brought it into focus. SCP-1004. I read Bright's 001 proposal before reading this, so of course my view of 1004 is going to be colored a certain (blech) way. I tend to equate The Factory with just about the most negative things you can on this site (and I mean that in a good way). 1004 was a nice blend of creep, mystery, and Factory, well worth the upvote.

What I saw in the Discussion threw me a bit. I understand that people have their own opinions, and I am very new to the site, but even taking those factors into consideration, there were multiple posts from people that just didn't seem to get certain (or all) aspects of the SCP. When Bright eventually burst out with "That's the point!", I was right there.

Anyway. I'm not sure how to turn this into a productive thread, other than to say…does anyone else get this way? Does it get easier to take? I do my best to rein in my volatile nature, hopefully it'll be enough.

The concept is for an un-hero (an anti-hero would be more accurate of a title aside from the grimdark and gritty connotations). What this would mean is that at the most basic, the person would have seemed almost superheroic, a high level metahuman/demon/???/profit sort of creature that tried to right wrongs and overall do good works. Unfortunately, whenever he helps someone, no matter how incidental it is, he damns them to a considerably worse fate later.

For examples, a person saved from a knife-wielding mugger would die in a massive gang war later, their body riddled with bullets. A person saved from a fire would find themselves burned to a crisp at some point later. Saved from a fall? Paraplegic. It would, as the SCP would find out when apprehended, even involve remarkably incidental things; so much as pulling a chair out to offer to someone would cause them to have some sort of ridiculous hip-breaking injury in the immediate future.

I have to admit, when I first looked through SCP-173 it seemed a bit too much like the Weeping Angels, but it's different enough, and it's creep factor and the quality of writing launch it well past those initial fears. SCP-682 already feels like an ultimate ultimate (if that makes sense), and the combination of entertaining (SCP-914) and unsettling (SCP-231…people who think they know disturbing don't yet know 110-Montauk) is insane in a good way.

Anyway, this place is amazing, and I hope I can eventually contribute my own SCP. I had an idea, but after reading the ideas that have been done to death, I really think that mine was a bit too close to one of those ideas, without *quite* the difference or hook I need to distinguish it. Until then, I'll settle for editing and the discussions.

Well, that's it. Thanks for reading it!

I got a link from this on Tvtropes at least two years ago (I believe the particular SCP I looked up was 701, which as an aspiring actor I found incredibly freaky), and I've always found a lot of this site fascinating. I've been lurking on and off for most of that time, but I only really started thinking about applying a week or two ago. I'd previously considered joining shortly after I started lurking, but the extremely complex application form at that time scared me off. Thanks to everyone for making such an addictive site, and thanks to Bright for letting me in (I hope you aren't going to regret it).

I've got an idea or two for articles rattling around in my head that have accumulated during my lurkership, but I'm going to keeping looking around the wiki and seeing what sort of articles are well-received here before I start typing. I'll probably be roaming the wiki voting on articles and adding discussion comments in the near future.

any suggestions or reccomended edits?

-A creature that feeds off of positive energy like a drug. Emits pheromones that make a victim experience elation, self-esteem, and confidence. When the being has had its fill it moves on to a different location, causing the victim to suddenly "crash" and spiral into serious depression and suicide. The SCP itself is actually benign and means no harm to its target, and cannot help that its "friend" dies when he leaves. For added creep factor, victims that have discovered the source of their newfound confidence become desperate and frightened, and go to great (and dangerous) lengths to keep it in their home.

and

-A man who experiences random fits in which he sings at a decibel level so high that it causes deafness and ruptures eardrums.

I have a lot more material for number one, obviously, but I just wanted to get a couple opinions on what would work for either of these. Advice, constructive criticism, and pitiless mockery are all welcome.

In particular, I like how the sci-fi aspects of the site aren't the same run-into-the-ground garbage I've seen a million times. "Hey, [PROBLEM] sucks! Let's use any number of [POWERFUL THING] we have on hand solve [PROBLEM]." All of the SCP termination stories/entries seem to be geared to showing of all the [POWERFUL THING] the Foundation has one had won't work or are a bad idea to attempt using. Really forces a person to be creative (I've been trying to think is there is anything the Foundation has that would be suitable for neutralizing #515…every time I think I've got something, I realize I've ignored one of the rules about this guy).

Also #212 seems like it would have amazing potential for awesomeness.

How's the new year treating everyone else?

This is a skeleton draft.

Nothing is really set in stone, save for the fact that it is a solar entity which arrived on a comet. Thinking eldritch solar parasite, but I want to keep this thing Safe as a malevolent creature of such a size would be impossible to effectively contain.

I need a little help with believable containment procedures. I have a pretty solid idea for the description, and I've been reading up a lot on the sun and NASA for suspension of disbelief and whatnot. For clarification the entity is not a solar flare, and has nothing to do with them. The image of the creature is the tiny white segment located near the bottom.

Here's what I've came up with now, SCP: That's My Name, Don't Wear It Out

My initial idea is very simple: A thing that has the anomalous property that makes anyone who wishes to mention its "Name" in verbal or writing form cannot use the same "Name" twice. Example: if someone mentioned this SCP as "a key", then no one else can mentioned this SCP as "a key" anymore.

I'm not very satisfied with this idea, since it doesn't pose much of a threat (nor creepy). After pondering the main concept for a few days, I added one more anomalous property to this SCP: any words that were used to describe this SCP cannot be used again anymore.

And yes, you guess it right, that's how I got myself stuck. Suddenly I found out that if I'm a researcher of this SCP, I won't be able to write a report about this damn thing at all!

Right now the only solution (as a researcher who has to write this report) I've came up with is adding a five-digit hexadecimal number in front of every word in the report (thus making every word used to name or describe this SCP can be used 16⁵ times). I'm not very sure about this idea since it will make this report very hard to read.

Any suggestions guys?

Please don't posts WIPs in the Forums. We have a sandbox for that. -TroyL

Had this one in my head for a while, the guys with beardage may get this. Ever get that feeling when you're shaving that makes you want to keep shaving? You know, you do your neck, then you decide to get rid of the chin-strap, then hey, maybe I should get rid of the sideburns as well. And the moustache. and the goatee and OH GOD I CAN'T STOP SHAVING.

Shaved By The Bell

http://i.imgur.com/elqqY.png

I'm not familiar with A Facility, does anyone else know anything about it?

Currently at http://sandbox.scp-wiki.net/chazzk under the YMYH header, along with other things I've been tinkering on now and again.

What do I intend to do?
Well, that depends, you'll just have to trust me, I'm a doctor. (not really)

A bit about myself:
I'm nineteen, love creepy stuff and frilly dresses. I live in the woods and listen to a haunting chorus of coyotes near my house each night as I fall to sleep.

Be as open and brutal as usual in your opinion, so long its constructive criticism. ;)

First SCP after random notes. It is a eldritch being that really only wants tea nad someone to talk to. I just threw it together and it likely sucks at the moment; I am very tired and pissed about the Super Bowl, so I am not at peak writing ability.

Please give constructive criticism, and keep in mind this is my first attempt to make an SCP. - FredTheNaughtyBarber

Like the title says, this is my first attempt at an SCP. Feel free to brutally criticize as you see fit.

I would like to present So You Want to Write a Humanoid SCP Object.

http://sandbox.scp-wiki.net/the-creative-coins

It's very much in "beta" as of now, but I like the idea so far. I just need to know what I can do to improve it.

I'll write a few stories, and edit even more. So… yeah.

I'm bad at intro threads.

The first is "The Bed" (obviously these aren't the official titles I'll be giving them)

• A basic twin sized cot, nothing of interest appearance-wise
• Subjects report unusually vivid dreams when sleeping in said cot
• Dreams consist of an ideal world for the subject, all of their aspirations fulfilled, thriving socially and economically, ect. (each dream is subjective, and varies in detail from person to person). Subjects also report that the dreams feel much longer than normal ones.
• Dreams tend to center around a character who the subject is invariably attracted to (this character is their ideal lover manifest)
• Upon waking, subjects invariably report depression, dysphoria, and general feelings of discomfort
• Subjects seek to return to the dream world created by the SCP, though normal beds do not cause this world to manifest in dreams
• After repeated use of the SCP, subjects begin to build a tolerence to it; the dream world gradually begins to grow less and less utopian, yet the subject's "addiction" to it does not waver
• After prolonged use of the SCP, subjects begin to report hallucinations of their manifested "lover" from the dreams, and become convinced that they are calling them back to dream world
• Many cases end in the suicide of the subject, often through overdose of various pills and medications, in most cases the subjects are found dead on the cot

That about wraps up the basics of it, hopefully it sounds viable to you. The next one I like to call

"The Website"

• A website which dates back to the beginning of the world wide web
• Subjects who use the website find that it is dedicated entirely to them
• The website contains detailed information on the subjects life (almost like a precursor to the wikia system)
• There are multiple photos of friends, family and major events from the subject's life, regardless of whether a camera was present or not

Do these sound worth writing out? Any ideas on how I can build upon and improve these ideas? Thanks in advanced, folks.

I suppose the short version of this is: What sort of techniques and equipment would make up the "toolkit" for initial use prior to necessarily knowing anything definite about a dangerous entity? This might be an interesting thing to write up as an "in universe" orientation (beyond the Red Dawn one Waxx drafted a while back).

thoughts, SCPeoples?

Update!:check out "spawnwater" in my sandbox! also i NEED TO KNOW if the pic for "untreated exposure" is too much!