Hi there! I am new to the site, and in the process of patching together an SCP. I was just wondering, though, what specifically is a standard humanoid containment cell? What kinds of furniture does it have?
Well, I think a standard humanoid contaiment cell is a 6 feet by 6 feet room with a door, bed, toilet and if needed something else to fit the SCP.
For expample:
SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a standard humanoid contaiment cell, and must be supplied with atleast four non-fiction books every month. SCP-XXXX's cell must also have a bookshelf with all the books it has read, this bookshelf must be dusted every week. If said bookshelf is full SCP-XXXX will choose a number of books to get rid of.
I imagine that the standardness of it is just the dimensions of the room and you can add anything to fits the SCP's necessities.
I think the simple answer to that question is: "Whatever a standard humanoid needs and little more."
Details like this are probably best left to the imagination of the reader. It's left intentionally ambiguous so that the writer doesn't have to bore everyone with details of the plumbing and room layout.
That said, in my head-canon every containment cell is a medium-sized concrete room with a cot, a toilet, and a small chairdesk (like in a classroom) with a sheaf of paper and some crayons to keep them from going totally nuts. Crayons instead of pencils so Skips can't hurt themselves. Enough room to pace in, but not to run. Naturally, no electrical outlets or windows. Just a pretty crappy, albeit unusually spacious prison.
Oh, I should have been more clear. I know there's no "real" answer to this, just looking for ideas as to what it might be. Yours was very helpful, thanks!
Take an apartment, strip out the kitchen and add a bunch of cameras.
The Foundation wants to minimize difficulties with containing any SCP, and with ones that are people are much easier when there's a degree of comfort for them. So in general any Human SCP would be given decent quality food, a fairly decent sized room (with windows, windows are important) a decent amount of entertainment (books, movies, video games etc.) to ensure that the dude has a comfortable a prison as possible.
The Foundation used to be a bit more lenient but the Able incident made them crack down a bit so privilages got more restricted. It used to be that good behaving Human SCPs were able to leave the cell for a bit as long as they stayed in the general areas of the site and obeyed a cerfew, now they can only leave with an armed escort to a designated exercise area. Rather then be given a small budget for entertainment they must submit each item request for approval and it takes forever.
Still better then the GOC.
This is how I see it. Escape attempts can cost time, money, and trained operatives. The Foundation would try to balance minimization of that with being humane and cost-effective. It's probably all a juggling act, more or less.
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There is no standard.
Containment should be specific to the situation. Ask yourself what your SCP is, what it does, potential dangers, and build your containment unit to reflect that.
Yes and no.
We don't want to see a three-page essay for Containment Procedures. As it turns out, there's a lot of things a humaniform entity requires in order for it to be safely contained — safely being defined as both for it and our sake — and there is absolutely nothing wrong with using "standard humanoid containment cell" as a starting point. The Special Containment Procedures should describe exceptions to this scheme.
Edit: Oh look, a set of guidelines for standard containment. How about that.
Standard humanoid containment cells I imagine are fairly boring in the sense that you probably could tell the difference between one and a high security prison cell in the real world.
Strong walls, no windows, heavy doors, access points for delivering food/items without opening the main door, visual and audio surveillance system installed discretely to avoid tampering, and lighting and emergency lighting. Also some basic furnishings such as a bed, toilet, sink, chair, etc, though these would probably be fairly spartan and sturdy so as not to aid in any negative behaviors such as breaching containment.
Also, I'd imagine that the design would have room for simple additions and variations as needed for the unique properties that a scip might display.










