SCP-6751

As SCP-6751 does not exist, containment is unnecessary.

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The House That Wasn't There

SCP-6751
Byㅤ MontagueETCMontagueETC
Published on 15 Jun 2022 00:28

rating: +68+x

What this is

A bunch of miscellaneous CSS 'improvements' that I, CroquemboucheCroquembouche, use on a bunch of pages because I think it makes them easier to deal with.

The changes this component makes are bunch of really trivial modifications to ease the writing experience and to make documenting components/themes a bit easier (which I do a lot). It doesn't change anything about the page visually for the reader — the changes are for the writer.

I wouldn't expect translations of articles that use this component to also use this component, unless the translator likes it and would want to use it anyway.

This component probably won't conflict with other components or themes, and even if it does, it probably won't matter too much.

Usage

On any wiki:

[[include :scp-wiki:component:croqstyle]]

This component is designed to be used on other components. When using on another component, be sure to add this inside the component's [[iftags]] block, so that users of your component are not forced into also using Croqstyle.

Related components

Other personal styling components (which change just a couple things):

Personal styling themes (which are visual overhauls):

CSS changes

Reasonably-sized footnotes

Stops footnotes from being a million miles wide, so that you can actually read them.

.hovertip { max-width: 400px; }

Monospace edit/code

Makes the edit textbox monospace, and also changes all monospace text to Fira Code, the obviously superior monospace font.

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fira+Code:wght@400;700&display=swap');
 
:root { --mono-font: "Fira Code", Cousine, monospace; }
#edit-page-textarea, .code pre, .code p, .code, tt, .page-source { font-family: var(--mono-font); }
.code pre * { white-space: pre; }
.code *, .pre * { font-feature-settings: unset; }

Teletype backgrounds

Adds a light grey background to <tt> elements ({{text}}), so code snippets stand out more.

tt {
  background-color: var(--swatch-something-bhl-idk-will-fix-later, #f4f4f4);
  font-size: 85%;
  padding: 0.2em 0.4em;
  margin: 0;
  border-radius: 6px;
}

No more bigfaces

Stops big pictures from appearing when you hover over someone's avatar image, because they're stupid and really annoying and you can just click on them if you want to see the big version.

.avatar-hover { display: none !important; }

Breaky breaky

Any text inside a div with class nobreak has line-wrapping happen between every letter.

.nobreak { word-break: break-all; }

Code colours

Add my terminal's code colours as variables. Maybe I'll change this to a more common terminal theme like Monokai or something at some point, but for now it's just my personal theme, which is derived from Tomorrow Night Eighties.

Also, adding the .terminal class to a fake code block as [[div class="code terminal"]] gives it a sort of pseudo-terminal look with a dark background. Doesn't work with [[code]], because Wikidot inserts a bunch of syntax highlighting that you can't change yourself without a bunch of CSS. Use it for non-[[code]] code snippets only.

Quick tool to colourise a 'standard' Wikidot component usage example with the above vars: link

:root {
  --c-bg: #393939;
  --c-syntax: #e0e0e0;
  --c-comment: #999999;
  --c-error: #f2777a;
  --c-value: #f99157;
  --c-symbol: #ffcc66;
  --c-string: #99cc99;
  --c-operator: #66cccc;
  --c-builtin: #70a7df;
  --c-keyword: #cc99cc;
}
 
.terminal, .terminal > .code {
  color: var(--c-syntax);
  background: var(--c-bg);
  border: 0.4rem solid var(--c-comment);
  border-radius: 1rem;
}

Debug mode

Draw lines around anything inside .debug-mode. The colour of the lines is red but defers to CSS variable --debug-colour.

You can also add div.debug-info.over and div.debug-info.under inside an element to annotate the debug boxes — though you'll need to make sure to leave enough vertical space that the annotation doesn't overlap the thing above or below it.

…like this!

.debug-mode, .debug-mode *, .debug-mode *::before, .debug-mode *::after {
  outline: 1px solid var(--debug-colour, red);
  position: relative;
}
.debug-info {
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translateX(-50%);
  font-family: 'Fira Code', monospace;
  font-size: 1rem;
  white-space: nowrap;
}
.debug-info.over { top: -2.5rem; }
.debug-info.under { bottom: -2.5rem; }
.debug-info p { margin: 0; }

rating: +68+x

The House That Wasn't There

Item#: SCP-6751
Level3
Containment Class:
kušum
Secondary Class:
{$secondary-class}
Disruption Class:
none
Risk Class:
none

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SCP-6751

Special Containment Procedures: As SCP-6751 does not exist, containment is unnecessary..Kušum: Item's containment has been abandoned indefinitely.

Description: SCP-6751 is a two-story house in Victoria, Canada that does not exist. Though it can be both perceived and physically interacted with, thorough testing.Including but not limited to: sonar, infrared, thermal, electromagnetic, thaumaturgic, and hume scanning. has determined that it is not within actuality. Public records report that SCP-6751 was built in 2007 by "Lacuna Construction and Repair", of which no other information has yet been uncovered.

SCP-6751 is currently inhabited by SCP-6751-A, a 38-year-old man named John Dome. Dome was interviewed in 2012 by Agent N. Nescio, who was disguised as a journalist that was writing profile pieces on average Victorian citizens. Most of the interview's footage and all relevant metadata is inaccessible due to severe data corruption, thanks to a flaw in the construction of Nescio's concealed body camera. The following log is of what little video and audio has been restored.

SCP-6751-A Interview Log


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SCP-6751-A

[SCP-6751-A and Nescio are sitting across from one another at a small table in SCP-6751's kitchen. A stylized painting of the night sky covers the ceiling. Though the room's windows don't appear to be tinted, the natural light has a slightly greenish hue. It appears to be midday.]

SCP-6751-A: —iving here for about… 7 years? I inherited it from my father when he passed.

Nescio: I'm sorry.

SCP-6751-A: [Laughing.] Don't be. He was a real sack of shit. Kicked me out of the house when I was 16 because he [Finger quotes.] "didn't agree with my lifestyle choices."

SCP-6751-A: I only got the house because he never got around to writing a will and nobody really knew what he would've wanted. Most of his things got dumped on me by def—

[No video.]

Nescio: —id you paint these?

SCP-6751-A: Yeah. I've always been a bit of an astronomy nut. I was one of those kids who was convinced he'd grow up to be an astronaut, y'know? Bought my own telescope and everything.

SCP-6751-A: 'Course, light pollution here is only getting worse by the year. So I figured I'd make my own stars.

Nescio: It's beautiful.

SCP-6751-A: Thanks— but it doesn't even scratch the surface. Take a look at this.

[Creaking wood.]

Nescio: [Awed.] Good lord.

[No audio.]

[SCP-6751's kitchen, shortly before or after the events of the first recovered video. SCP-6751-A is standing and the light does not have a greenish hue.]

[As Nescio is sitting, SCP-6751-A's head is out of frame. It appears to be speaking animatedly, gesturing frequently. SCP-6751-A continues this behavior for 2.7 minutes.]

[SCP-6751-A and Nescio stand in SCP-6751's living room. Its ceiling is also covered by a painting of the night sky.]

SCP-6751-A: —stellations, y'know? People taking all this empty sky and these little pinpricks of light and making meaning out of it. It always gets me.

Nescio: Have you ever painted them?

SCP-6751-A: That's the beauty of it— I don't need to. They're already there. See?

[SCP-6751-A takes several steps forward, pointing at the ceiling. Audio of his footsteps is delayed by 4.5 seconds. As Nescio appears to startle slightly when the footsteps become audible, it is possible that this delay is unrelated to the footage's corruption.]

[SCP-6751-A and Nescio stand in the second-floor hallway. The ceiling is not in frame. There is an open door to SCP-6751-A's left, through which a darkened bedroom is partially visible, and a closed door behind it, at the end of the hall. The natural light levels suggest that this takes place at least an hour after the first video's events.]

[For the duration of the video, nothing happens in the bedroom. SCP-6751-A and Nescio do not appear to notice it.]

Nescio: —there?

SCP-6751-A: [Gesturing towards the closed door without turning around.] Stairs to the attic.

Nescio: [Pause.] You have an attic?

SCP-6751-A: Yeah. Though… I haven't been there since I was a kid.

Nescio: Is it unsafe?

SCP-6751-A: Nothing like that. [SCP-6751-A pauses, shifting in place.] My father told me he'd burn whatever I left behind when he kicked me out. If that had been a lie— if he had kept any of my things in storage…

[Inactivity in the bedroom sharply increases.]

SCP-6751-A: Well. It wouldn't mean much. But it would mean something.

SCP-6751-A: I'd rather keep that question unanswered. I've already made peace with the version of him I kn—

[Still frame, continuing for 29 seconds with no audio.]

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Still frame.

[It is night and SCP-6751's living room is dark. SCP-6751-A is standing, faced away from the camera and toward the room's windows.]

[The full moon is visible in the sky but no stars are in view.]

[No audio.]

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Context unavailable.

[It appears to be early morning, potentially the day after the interview. Nescio is outside of SCP-6751 and the front door is ajar. Nescio enters SCP-6751 and passes through each room slowly. All furniture has been removed and the ceilings have been covered over with matte black paint. Every room has nothing in it.]

[After surveying every other room, Nescio approaches the door to the attic and opens it.]

[No video.]

[Door closes.]

[Footsteps on creaking wood. Breathing becomes increasingly audible, as the source of the footsteps (presumably SCP-6751-A) appears to become out of breath.]

SCP-6751-A: I was terrified of the dark when I was a kid, did you know that? Slept with a nightlight 'till I was halfway through college.

[No other voice is audible.]

SCP-6751-A: Yeah, I know I don't look the type. But it's true. Something about the dark always makes my imagination go wild. I can't stop thinking about what could be in those lightless places, even when I know there's nothing there.

[Nobody speaks.]

SCP-6751-A: But that's the thing about it, right? Nothing.

[Nobody speaks.]

SCP-6751-A: We press our palms into our eyes and we see flashes of color. Shapes. Sounds. We can't imagine nothingness without imposing meaning onto it. Can't imagine the huge distances between stars without constellations. It's just not possible.

[Nobody speaks.]

[Nobody speaks.]

[Nobody speaks.]

SCP-6751-A: You're probably right.

[Nobody speaks.]

[Door opens.]

[The sky is full of stars.]

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They are beautiful.

It is not known how the Foundation first became aware of SCP-6751 and its anomalous nature. There is no record of any individual named N. Nescio being in the Foundation's employ.

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