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Nexus
/ˈnɛksəs/

  1. a connection or series of connections linking two or more things.
  2. a central or focal point
  3. a concentrated area/zone of anomalous activity

Operational Information on Nexuses

What Is A Nexus?

Never even heard of it before…

A Nexus (plural: Nexuses1) is an area/zone that is actively anomalous, and supports a permanent community. Imagine a city like New York, except that perhaps the city never sees the Sun, or people sometimes turn into animals, and that's perfectly normal for them.

Normally, the Foundation/GoI would classify these places as SCPs and try to get everyone out and lock the place down. Unfortunately, sometimes that isn't always possible or feasible. Hence, they designate those places as a Nexus. This means that these areas are recognised as places of anomalous activity and left be, albeit under supervision from a GoI or government. They are also hidden from the public, and all evidence of its existence hidden.

There are also larger versions of Nexuses, known as Free Ports. These areas are inherently anomalous, often being disconnected from the main world. They act as safe zones where the Veil is not required, as everyone who enters a Free Port knows about the anomalous. Free Ports are usually recognised as sovereign states and are self-managed, albeit with some intervention from federal or international agencies.

Characteristics of a Nexus

The foundations of an idea

Low Population
Most Nexuses have very low population numbers, with the highest being 30,000.2 A large population would often mean news of the Nexus would be spread around much more. It's also an added bonus to the Foundation, which helps them maintain the Veil easily.

Nexus Confines
A Nexus's anomalies only occur within the confines of the Nexus (or in certain cases, other Nexuses). For example, you couldn't force the Goatman from Sloth's Pit to exit the confines of the Nexus: the act would simply make him a normal goat after a while. What happens in the Nexus, stays in the Nexus.

Thematic Influence
Each Nexus has its central theme that encompasses the entire idea of the anomaly in the Nexus. They can exist anywhere in the world, so long as they have around ~25 people at least, and should not match any real-world location. Besides that, you're free to do whatever you want. If you want a Nexus that rains salmon, go ahead3.

Nexus Area Classes

The box test of Nexuses

Criteria for Nexus Area Classes:

  1. How obvious is the Nexus?
  2. How likely are civilians to encounter it?

Nexus Area Classes

Briar
Name derived from the old Briar Patch from Song of the South. A few local curiosities, higher frequency for extranormal events and anomalous objects. Requires little to no cover-up by the Foundation.

Asphodel
Name derived from the Fields of Asphodel, the incredibly mediocre afterlife in Greek Mythology. Civilians will get the feeling that something's off about this place, higher frequency for extranormal events and anomalous objects. Requires some cover-up by the Foundation.

Camelot
Name derived from the King Arthur Legends. Anomalous activity is a fairly integral part of the town. Foundation has to perform cover-ups regularly, as well as make it a bit more difficult for civilians to find by taking it off maps and such. Containment Facilities may be needed on a case-by-case basis.

Shangri-La
Name derived from James Hilton's Lost Horizon novel. Hotbed of anomalous activity. Active attempts to stop civilians. The Foundation rolls with the anomalous as it comes. Containment facility required.

Dunwich
Thank you H.P. Lovecraft. The entire place is practically anomalous. The Nexus is almost entirely cut off from the non-anomalous world. Special measures may be required to keep personnel safe. Containment facility required.

Free Port
Anomalous hubs of commerce and living. These communities are openly aware of the anomalous and actively practice it. These hubs are protected by national/international law, and forbid Foundation intervention. Policing of the Nexus is done though its own agencies. These Nexuses can only be accessed through anomalous means4.

List of Nexuses

Nx-01 | The Wanderer's Library

Area Class: Crossroads5

A vast extradimensional library, allegedly containing all knowledge ever written down, accessible by Ways located throughout the world, as well as in many other realities. Although the Foundation has been aware of the Library since 1955, it has existed for much longer than that. The Library serves as the base of operations for GoI-014, the Serpent's Hand, but various inhuman entities known as Librarians are the ones that actually maintain and protect the Nexus. Individuals that harm the Library, its books or its patrons are punished by being transformed into Librarians to work off their debt. This fate has befallen a number of Foundation personnel and GOC operatives during incursions into the Library, and so the Foundation has adopted a more diplomatic approach to this specific location.

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Nx-02 | Annwn | Site-12

Area Class: Camelot

Description: An island located in an extradimensional space accessible only to those subject to oneirological triggers, Nx-02 is populated by an unknown number of spectral entities. Currently, due to growing animosity between the Foundation and the ruler of Nexus, the Foundation's access to the space has been revoked. Initially believed to have been created and governed by the Fae, recent evidence suggests the Nexus was actually part of a large tribal human government, known as the Mabyn.

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Nx-03 | Hy-Brasil | Site-03

Area Class: Free Port Camelot

Description: A magical island located off the coast of Ireland, that is inaccessible through conventional means. The Nexus is governed by the Tuatha Dé Danann, and acted as a neutral ground for many GoI to operate in, including the Foundation. Devastated following the arrival of LTE-0851-Cetus. The Nexus still remains, however significantly diminished in terms of power, strength, and population.

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Nx-07 | Gwag Hen y Cwn, Swansea, Wales | Site-78

Area Class: Asphodel

Description: A small town located on an island off the southern coast of Wales. Most of its inhabitants suffer from therianthropy, or the ability to metamorphose6 into other animals.

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Nx-14 | Hoiohiña, Guiana Shield | Site-14

Area Class: Dunwich

Description: Subterranean ecosystem located at least 40 km beneath South America, inhabited by large intelligent rodents of the Rattus abissos species. These rodents rely on their skill at biothaumaturgy and paraminerology for survival. Site-14 maintains a diplomatic relationship with these non-human inhabitants of the Nexus, prevents exploration by other groups, and cooperates to contain entities found deeper within the Abyss. Due to its depth, no further containment is required.

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Nx-17 | Boring, Oregon, USA | Site-64

Area Class: Briar

Description: Located southeast of Portland, Oregon, Boring's main anomaly is the growth of almost all known varieties of anomalous fauna. Additionally, Boring is also headquarters to Wilson's Wildlife Solutions (WWS), an organisation concentrated on the discovery and preservation of anomalous flora and fauna. Following the Boring Agreement, the Foundation, via Site-64, and WWS have agreed to support each other and not to interfere in each other's operations.

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Nx-18 | Sloth's Pit, Wisconsin, USA | Site-87

Area Class: Shangri-La

Description: Named after the town's founder, Jackson Sloth, Sloth's Pit is a Nexus driven by its own narrative force. The number of anomalies in the town are many and some still unaccounted for7. Many UAEs8 have emerged from the narrative force of Sloth's Pit, including The Goatman, Sinning Jessie, and the Hook Handed Man. Despite its often goofy and friendly appearance, Sloth's Pit has also been host to multiple terrifying incidents and has its own dark history.

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Nx-25 | Olive Hill, Kentucky, USA | Site-10

Area Class: Camelot

Description: Outside the Veil, Olive Hill is well-known for the Tygarts State Forest; a popular attraction for tourists. But come the later hours of midnight, strange events happen, such as young children going missing and strange noises emanating from the forest itself. Rumors of a witch inhabiting the forest also plague the city's populace as they mourn over their lost children. The forest itself has been avoided by civilians and Foundation personnel alike, as many have entered to explore and investigate the missing children but have yet to return.

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Nx-28 | Broken Hill, Western Australia | Outpost-86

Area Class: Briar

Description: A former mining town in Western Australia, currently populated by a number of ghosts trapped in the mine network underneath the mines. These ghosts are attempting to expand the tunnel network in the search for more gold, causing a network of mines that does not conform to standard topological models.

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Nx-32 | Negaseattle, Washington, USA | Outpost-32

Area Class: Asphodel

Description: A small area of the Cascade Mountain range with a significantly high volume of illusory flora and fauna. Although mostly harmless when left alone, direct interaction with the anomalous plants and animals of the area can yield unpredictable and sometimes dangerous results, as things are often not what they appear to be. The town of Negaseattle is a Foundation retirement village, populated entirely by Foundation employees and former employees and hidden from civilians. It's also the home of the SCP-5132 Project.

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Nx-33 | Drake, Inverness-shire, Scotland | Site-127

Area Class: Camelot

Description: This Nexus is inhabited by HACs9, who have been integrated into everyday life in the Nexus. An abundance of SCP-936 are also located around the town, and may actually be posing as members of the community.

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Nx-36 | Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA | Site-333

Area Class: Briar

Description: Designated as a nexus after the New Jersey Rapture, where 25 kind-hearted individuals inexplicably demanifested. Since this event, the city has gained an abnormal increase in "unfortunate" events, its background Akiva radiation has dropped down to 0 and its residents have been experiencing a constant feeling of despair, hopelessness and distrust on others, as well as general apathy towards the human condition. Notably, these emotions are temporarily diminished when inside the city's various casinos, although whether this is an anomalous phenomenon or a natural reaction is a matter of debate.

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Nx-37 | Daleport, New England, USA | Area-37

Area Class: Dunwich

Description: Daleport is the only Nexus without a mortal population, following an incident in 1997, where a cult in the town attempted to summon multiple omnipotent entities in order to 'cleanse' the town. The ritual failed, and the entire town's population was wiped out. Today, the Nexus is a hotbed of anomalous activity, including the apparition of disembodied limbs and voices belonging to the slaughtered townsfolk.

Associated Articles:

Nx-43 | Verstecktedorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | Site-99

Area Class: Camelot

Description: Verstecktedorf is a small town in Germany, which experiences anomalous activities related to the fairy tales of the Grimm Brothers. This Nexus also hosts the Black Forest, a notable location from the Grimm Brothers tales. Some stories from the town had managed to circulate the Internet through sites such as Parawatch, but are often dismissed as urban legends.

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Nx-51 | Eventide, Oregon, USA | Site-51

Area Class: Dunwich

Description: Eventide is a city in Oregon that never sees the Sun, due to an unknown impermeable object blocking the sky. The almost continuous downpour of rain, along with lack of sunlight and anomalous nature, has accelerated the growth of anomalous fungi, which is used to create anomalous drugs to supply Eventide's black market. Due to the control exerted by the Bavarian Illuminati10 upon the city, the Foundation must operate as a black-ops unit to gain control of the city.

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Nx-52 | Harkness, Maryland, USA | Site-52

Area Class: Dunwich

Description: Harkness, Maryland is the single most concentrated population with anomalous diseases. The equivalent of an anomalous leper community, it is covered in a dense, green miasma, which does not dissipate, or affect the population of Harkness. This Nexus is also used as a vaccine procurement and testing facility due to rare specimens present within the Nexus.

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Nx-56 | Summerstone, Wales | Site-17

Area Class: Camelot

Description: Nx-56 was Summerstone, a Welsh logging town surrounding a temperate rain forest. Originally the host of a semi-stable SCP-4886-A ecosystem, the events of Incident 4886-AO forced the Foundation to reevaluate the extent of Nx-56's anomalous properties. Reevaluation of Nx-56's Nexus status is also being considered.

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Nx-58 | Yumegēmu, Tokushima, Japan | Site-79

Area Class: Shangri-La

Description: Yumugēmu is a Nexus located in Japan that features multiple topographical anomalies. The Nexus also incorporates games and challenges into its surroundings, causing buildings in the Nexus to mirror those often found in video games. The Nexus also causes alterations in the people living in it, as well as show signs of temporal and chronal abnormalities.

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Nx-59 | Amityville, Missouri, USA | Site-59

Area Class: Shangri-La

Description: Unlike the haunted house, Amityville is a small town in Missouri, which relies heavily upon the laws of irony and bad luck. Many events in the town are often accompanied by sudden unpredictable changes, or conform to local superstitions. However, rumours have emerged from the town regarding the abuse of power of Foundation personnel in Site-59, who have allegedly formed a dictatorship in Amityville.

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Nx-64 | Mujin, South Jeolla, South Korea | Site-64K11

Area Class: Asphodel

Description: Mujin is located along the coast of the Yeosu Peninsula, and experiences a neverending fog that blankets the city. In addition to the fog, this Nexus also contains SCP-521-KO, and possesses the lowest Hume level for any known Nexus, catalysing an increase in the number of anomalies encountered by personnel at Site-64K.

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Nx-79 | Gmina Cyców | Site-PL-7912

Area Class: Dunwich

Description: The whole area of the Cyców commune in Poland is classified as Nx-79 "Gmina Cyców" of Dunwich class. Nx-79 is where the barrier separating our reality layer from the demonic reality layer is at its thinnest. Demonic anomalies are extremely common in this area. For this reason, the Foundation isolated the area of the commune from the rest of civilization and established its own Site. The headquarters of GoI-PL-079 ("Hunter Industries") are also located in this nexus.

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Nx-91 | Cipher City | Site-15

Area Class: Turing13

Description: A digital city located in the Maxwellist network. Believers of WAN connect their consciousness to the network through cybernetic implants, and interact with the city through digital avatars. Despite its simulated nature, Cipher functions in many ways like an ordinary city, with buildings, stores and its own currency. To manage the city and raise funds for the church a council composed of six individuals, known as the Hexagon, control the city, conducting their will through a special task force known as The Compilation Layer. While officially only Maxwellists are allowed to access the network, it is possible for AIs and humans alike to infiltrate the city through 'backdoors'.

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Nx-94 | Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada | Site-43

Area Class: Briar

Description: Nx-94 designates not a single contiguous area, but instead a series of First Nations reserves along the coast of Lake Huron where culturally-specific anomalous occurrences are common. As these occurrences typically only involve members of the related cultures, and as local populations are low, only nominal monitoring activities organized at Site-43 have been necessary thus far. Indigenous peoples carrying out their traditional rituals have successfully propitiated nearly all mythological beings within the Nexus, making their actual containment a non-issue.

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Nx-143 | Camp Ipperwash, Ontario, Canada | Site-43

Area Class: Briar

Description: The subterranean footprint of Site-43 and its immediate environs, wherein romantic activities occur at a statistically improbable rate. The effect itself cannot be reversed, as its source is not yet known; SCP Foundation staff are granted access to pharmaceutical means of regulating their libidos.

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Nx-933 | The Piss World | Outpost-933

Area Class: Crossroads

Description: Recognized as one of the more peculiar alternate universes to directly contact baseline reality, the Piss World14 refers to an anomalous planetary body and biosphere which heavily incorporate a potent substance that, for all intents and purposes, is identical to human urine. Residing here is Species of Interest-9155 ("Bacteranoids") — gelatinous, metamorphic organisms responsible for creating entire civilizations, economies and cultures all revolving around the liquid that forms their landscape. A former utopia, Nx-933 and its society is suffering from an ecological catastrophe caused by the gradual, inexplicable disappearance of its main fluid, forcing the species' most brilliant minds to search outside the bounds of their universe in hopes of discovering an alternate source of the only liquid that can save them from an impending apocalypse.

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List of Free Ports

FP-01 | Three Portlands

Area Class: Free Port

Description: A city-state located in its own pocket universe, with connections to the Isle of Portland in the United Kingdom and the cities of Portland in Oregon and Maine, Three Portlands is the largest free port in North America. A haven for anartists, occultists, and parahumans, it has a population of at least 80,000. Foundation operations within the city are prevented or seriously limited by the Hoover Mandate of the United States government. Under the terms of this policy, the United States guarantees the city's independence and status as a Free Port, while assuming responsibility for its security and secrecy; execution of these duties falls to the Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU), which shares law enforcement jurisdiction with the local police.

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FP-02 | Backdoor SoHo

Area Class: Free Port

Description: Backdoor SoHo is a free port dedicated mostly to the artistic display of the anomalous. Similar to the SoHo in Manhattan, it houses multiple GoI, including Ambrose Restaurants and Marshall, Carter & Dark. Policed to some degree by the UIU.

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FP-03 | Eurtec

Area Class: Free Port

Description: Eurtec is the prime technological metropolis in the west and an apple of the Global Occult Coalition's eye. Founded by the Servants of the Silicon Nornir15 in order to speed up the development of paratech for their own agenda. While relatively young, it has nonetheless established its presence in the anomalous world as an important global city and the primary European Free Port. However, it has also garnered an infamous reputation as a hotbed for paracrime that is barely dealt with.

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FP-04 | La Rue Macabre

Area Class: Free Port

Description: La Rue Macabre is an anomalous Free Port accessible by taking a left (on foot) off of Decatur (next to Jackson Square) onto Morgan. Filled with the bizarre, the forgotten, the outcasts, and the shunned, La Rue Macabre is a place made for the dregs of anomalous society. It's a place to meet, to share stories, to drink away worries, maybe make a few bucks working odd jobs in the city, or if you're really strapped for cash, out in the swamp, and to conduct trade. Life is slower here, sweltering in the heat of the swamp.

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FP-08 | Sjhlfels am Rhein

Area Class: Free Port

Description: Sjhlfels am Rhein is an anomalous Freeport with a population of around 12,000 people, located in a pocket dimension accessible from both the Swiss Alps and the Dutch Rhine Delta. Due to its neutrality, the town is home to a number of GoI, including adherents of multiple anomalous religions, the only fixed location of Das Wunderkabinet, and a campus of the Mages' Academy, the Sjhlfelser Hochschule für Angewandte Magie. The German-speaking branch of the Foundation monitors Sjhlfels am Rhein from an Outpost of Site-DE20, while the GOC maintains a presence through St. Caesarius Hospital, a specialist clinic for anomalous ailments operated by the World Parahealth Organisation16.

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FP-88 | Two Blackbutts, Australia

Area Class: Free Port

Description: An extradimensional region of dense Eucalyptus bushland, with artificial clearings used for Parasport Drag Racing. Accessible from Blackbutt, Queensland or Blackbutt, Wollongong, New South Wales, due to a nomenclative connection between the two locations. Objects and entities to be transported to the location must be surrounded with a ring of burning branches taken from Eucalyptus patens, pilularis, or todtiana (all commonly known as blackbutt) trees.

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FP-120 | Esterberg | Site-120

Area Class: Free Port

Description: The largest and oldest still existing city built by anomalous species. Houses some of the biggest Fae and Yeren populations around the world and acts as the main hub for anomalous activity — especially related to the aforementioned species — in Central Europe. Filled with magic on a scale almost never-before-seen, Esterberg is a monument to cooperation between different species, organizations, and people, showing what can be achieved when the good of the many is placed before the good of the few.

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Adding a Nexus to the List?

Documentation of a Nexus

The technical side of a Nexus

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**Nexus #:** Nx-XX

**Civilian Designation:** [Name of Nexus Town]

**Population:** [Approximate number of people living in the Nexus]

**Area Class:** Briar/Asphodel/Camelot/Shangri-La/Dunwich (indicate which class)

**Nexus Interaction Protocol:** [Paragraphs explaining special requirements for personnel working in the Nexus]

**Containment Facility:** [Optional Site/Area dedicated to containment and monitoring]

**Description:** [Paragraphs describing the Nexus]

**Addendum:** [Optional additional paragraphs]
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