SCP-7723

SCP-7723
Byㅤ Lt Flops
Published on 06 Jan 2023 04:59

What this is

A bunch of miscellaneous CSS 'improvements' that I, Croquembouche, 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):

• RSO Component — Rounderhouse

Personal styling themes (which are visual overhauls):

• Magnus Web Format — DrMagnus
• Flopstyle CSS — Lt Flops
• Blankstyle CSS — HarryBlank
• Placestyle CSS — Placeholder McD
• Jakstyle — JakdragonX

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; }

 

SCP-7723 Revolving in a Glass, Intact and Trapped
By Lt Flops
Published on 05 Jan 2023

This article was written for ColdpostCon 2023.
This article is part of the forthcoming Weaving Imperceptible Threads Canon Hub.

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Other Works by Lt Flops!

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SCP Articles
Title	Rating
SCP-4420	+263
SCP-4416	+194
EE-3570	+171
SCP-4790	+169
SCP-4031	+160
SCP-5990	+135
SCP-5810	+128
SCP-3787	+126
SCP-3464	+112
SCP-4190	+99
SCP-3719	+85
SCP-6327	+69
SCP-7723	+54

Tales
Title	Rating
SCP-2	+172
The Abyss Gazes Back (and It's ASCII on a CRT Screen)	+113
SATURN'S CORNER	+97
The Doctor's Dilemma	+88
fifthist family picnic	+82
UMBRAL_​MIGRATORY_​SEQUENCE.txt	+80
Buggy Hardware (or Why I Don't Play Violent Video Games)	+79
What Lurks in the Dark?	+71
Spilled Milk	+68
Illac	+64
A Scene From a Meme(-ory)	+64
A Surprise Encounter with Crispy Sex Pirates	+62
INNER-SPACE	+50
A Necromantic Prelude	+36
A Prologue: An Old, Familiar Dream	+26
Solidão	+25
Samara: Be the Itsy Bitsy Spider.	+22
Pursuing Ghosts, Part I	+22

GOI Formats
Title	Rating
SPC-993: BOBBLE THE CLOWN SHARK	+132
SPC-507: EAGER NETHERENDER	+108
"Scattersomnia": A Disease of the Wise and Drowsy Wanderers	+102

Hubs
Title	Rating
Void Dancer Hub	+94

CSS Themes
Title	Rating
'Pataphysics Department Theme	+115
Classic SCP Foundation Theme	+104
Flopstyle: DARK	+88
Flopstyle: LITE	+71
Pack Of Peanuts Theme	+48
Parawatch Anon Theme	+44
SAPPHIRE Theme	+20

Collaborations

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Co-Authored SCP Articles

SCP-3309 - Where We Go When We Fade, Fade Away
Co-Author	Rating
PhamtomGuy	+1021

SCP-3739 - Mind-Milk™ by Moosphere, Inc.
Co-Author	Rating
KindlyTurtleClem	+263

SCP-4428 Dr. Michaels - Dr. Michaels is not in danger.
Co-Author	Rating
Henzoid	+443

SCP-4475 - So Long, and Thanks for All the Milk
Co-Author	Rating
KindlyTurtleClem	+164

SCP-4519 - Carl Sagan, Godhead
Co-Author	Rating
NatVoltaic	+159

SCP-4795 - Feathered F(r)iends
Co-Author	Rating
Mew-ltiverse	+114

SCP-6447 - Sinners' Symphony
Co-Author	Rating
Elunerazim & Others	+54

SCP-6481 - Nipple Centipedes
Co-Author	Rating
Ellie3	+93

SCP-6705 - The Bicameral Milk
Co-Author	Rating
LordStonefish	+84

SCP-6830 - The Great Hymn to the Aten
Co-Author	Rating
AriadnesThread	+71

SCP-7010 - We Will Endure
Co-Author	Rating
Stormbreath	+131

Co-Authored Tales

Avian Anthology I
Co-Author	Rating
Team Bird	+71

Avian Anthology II
Co-Author	Rating
Team Bird	+85

Land Of Honey
Co-Author	Rating
KindlyTurtleClem	+106

Snippets of an Unveiled World
Co-Author	Rating
Nykacolaquantum & Others	+269

Co-Authored GOI Formats

The Sacred Djehuti
Co-Author	Rating
Ayers	+126

GRANT REQUEST FOR THE RE-CREATION OF AN ADVANCED POSTMORTEM NEURAL PRESERVATION SYSTEM
Co-Author	Rating
Uncle Nicolini	+58

Critter Profile: Bartholomew!
Co-Author	Rating
KindlyTurtleClem	+127

Co-Authored Hubs

Team Bird Hub
Co-Author	Rating
notgull	+232

A Non-Prophet Organization Hub
Co-Author	Rating
Uncle Nicolini	+102

I, Hub (April Fools)
Co-Author	Rating
Elenee FishTruck & Others	+92

SPC Hub
Co-Author	Rating
PeppersGhost, MrWrong, & LORDXVNV	+153

Milk Hub
Co-Author	Rating
LORDXVNV	+65

Other Co-Authored Pages

A Semi-Comprehensive List of Foundation Departments
Co-Author	Rating
TopDownUnder & Dr Moned	+198

Wanderers' Library Entries

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Page	Page Info
Lampyra, the Watcher	Wanderers' Library Author Page
Cave Story	2020 Wanderers' Depths Contest, First Place
Interplanetary Colonization	2021 Scavenger Hunt Contest
I'll Take You to the Parashops	2021 Scavenger Hunt Contest
Talk of the Town	Last Light Canon
The Foolish One	2021 WanderCon

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▸ More by this Author ◂

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SCP-7723

SCP Series 8 » SCP-7723

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VISUAL MEMETIHAZARD DEPLOYED

splay: no

SECURITY INTERLOCKS DISENGAGED

You may continue.

UNLOCK FILE

In light of recent events, the materials that make up this file's historical account have been converted to digital form.

These materials should help position VEILBURST Protocol. MISSING DEFINITIONS — Contact your RAISA liaison. and its unique challenges in a broader context.

— Alexis Rose, Digitization Department Lead, RAISA

SCP Database Entry

ITEM NUMBER: SCP-7723	LEVEL 5/7723
CONTAINMENT CLASS: SAFE	TOP-SECRET

DISRUPTION CLASS: 5/AMIDA

When not in use, SCP-7723 is kept within High-Value Anomalous Item Containment Module #7723 at Overwatch Command. Foundation clairvoyants assigned to SCP-7723 have sole discretion over its containment and handling, and access to the relevant facilities at Overwatch Command.

Foundation clairvoyant Conduit Λ-3 is allotted a comprehensive set of lifelong provisions, which includes:

• hazard pay,
• health benefits,
• living accommodations,
• a personal security detail,
• three weeks annual vacation, and
• expedited passage into an afterlife of their choosing, post-death..After extensive coordination with the relevant Macrocosmic parties, traversal along a secure transcosmic trajectory has been assured.

Conduit Λ-3 must fulfill their designated responsibilities until their natural death. This role must be conferred to a new clairvoyant in advance of their death. Accepting the role of Conduit remains a voluntary action; prospects must undergo the process with clarity of mind.

The search for auxiliary clairvoyants in fulfilling Project HOMEBOUND continues. Selection of clairvoyants must occur outside Foundation operational hierarchy.

SCP-7723 is a primeval energy source encased in a crystalline membrane.

Materials analysis has determined the membrane is fractally complex and supports the continued operation of SCP-7723. Breaching the membrane in any fashion renders SCP-7723 inert. Short of neutralizing it, however, the continued operation of SCP-7723 will persist only after the source of the breach is removed. SCP-7723 autonomously predicts breaches; researchers conclude through spectral analysis that the source becomes inert before any disruption takes place, but this always precedes a planned physical incursion. If the membrane takes superficial damage, it undergoes a brief period of self-repair before returning to its full protective capacity.

Through the coordination of a team of Foundation clairvoyants, the energy source provides direct observation of a pivotal future event, designated Prime-Terminus. Sensory data produced by the event is conferred to a single clairvoyant (currently Conduit Λ-3) via psionic connection.

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ADDENDA MATERIALS

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DEEPWELL SERVER FILES ACCESSED

UTILIZATION RECORD

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By the prolonged use of SCP-7723 across several decades, each Conduit has not only gleaned credible visions of the future, but has also developed an extrasensory perception of a pivotal past event to a sufficient resolution. The use of SCP-7723 in this manner proves painful. The assigned Foundation clairvoyants are currently developing this past-sight technique in Project HOMEBOUND.

Prime-Terminus presently denotes the impending and forcible dissolution of The Foundation, and remains fixed. The Foundation has no known means of averting Prime-Terminus. The gap closes, day by day, and the possibility for aversion may one day shut.

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SECURE

HISTORY

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Foundation of Thirteen

Unification Congress

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Held in 1893, the Unification Congress was a series of meetings that marked a watershed moment in the history of The SCP Foundation.

In these meetings, the Unification of The SCP Foundation was officially declared. The Unification involved thirteen of the most prominent normalcy preservation organizations in the world combining their resources and aligning their operations according to a unified shared interest.

The Unification also established the following.

• The inauguration of the first Overseer Council.
• The binding pact of Security, Containment, and Protection.
• The preliminary development and implementation of the Veil of Normality.

The Foundation has been in the possession of SCP-7723 since the Foundation of Thirteen Unification Congress in 1893. During these meetings, a hitherto unknown party presented SCP-7723 to Foundation Administrator Willhelm Fredericks as a gift of confidence.

A full account of the item's history before Foundation containment does exist. It cannot, however, be stringently verified in line with prevailing Foundation consensus: Accounts exist according to a robust genealogy of oral history.

In 1973, amidst a period of declining health, then-121-year-old Administrator Fredericks. BORN Willhelm Fredericks, 19 July 1852, South African Republic. had devised specialized Class-V Mnestic drugs to protect against the loss of memories about the object's history. Only by “committing the history to memory,” he stated, could he assure the information “would not stain the Veil.”

In the summer of 1976, shortly before his death, Administrator Fredericks relayed the object's history to his chosen successor. This summons involved the transference of other top-secret materials, including the bequeathal of SCP-0262, and access to Class-V Mnestics.

Recognizing the primacy of the knowledge Administrator Fredericks relayed, his successor would later relax the associated informational security protocols. A living record of SCP-7723's known history now exists within the Archival Office database, encrypted within its DEEPWELL servers. His successor would also begin formal research into SCP-7723 and enlist Foundation clairvoyants to the task.

Considering the task singularly burdensome, these clairvoyants would soon appoint one of their own to the role of Conduit — a role only three have held to-date.

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CONTAIN

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

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On 21 June 1976, a fatigued and bedridden Administrator Fredericks made his final recorded appearance. A select group of Foundation officials met at an impromptu gathering at his estate.

An excerpt from several hundred hours of miscellaneous recording, for posterity, is as follows.

ANNOTATED AUDIO LOG

[ BEGIN LOG ]

ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	I demand privacy on my deathbed. Go on, you lot — gorge yourselves.
	Shuffling noises and voices speaking lowly as a group moves down the hall, away from the Administrator's suite.
AIDE	Aside. Let's find the others in the courtyard—
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	You. Stay with me a bit, girl.
AIDE	Of course, sir.
	The aide closes the doors. Having closed, the door locks automatically engage.
AIDE	I can begin preparing the lodgings before you retire, sir.
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	You're off the hook. We're putting the pleasantries and pantomiming behind. He coughs hoarsely. I know how it seems. Here, alone, and with me, a crass old buzzard? But you haven't to fuss. Suite's bugged, at any rate. You're on tape.
AIDE	Understood, sir. You have my undivided attention.
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	Drop the honorific. Indulge me a heart-to-heart. Pause. What are you — Director's assistant?
AIDE	Yes. Personal aide to the co-directorship, Site-17.
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	Terrific. One of Benjamin's girls, then. Give him a kick in the shins, would you? He'll know from who.
AIDE	If you would like, I can buzz in your attendant. Out of the greatest measure of respect, of course.
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	I absolutely would not, and in fact, it would be most distasteful. In 12 hours' time, it won't have mattered.
AIDE	Come again?
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	He speaks slowly and enunciates carefully. There's nary many a man alive who can speak full-throatedly of his death. I've seen mine. A touch past oh-six hundred in the morning, I die in my sleep. Misdiagnosed pancreatic cancer. Exacerbated by mnestic poisoning, no doubt. What greets me with solace, then, is the luxury of knowing all the other awful ways it could have come down. I have seen thousands of my false deaths. Felt them. Intimately. Every bone in my body, crushed through sheer force. My skin, eaten by chemical wash. The grit of my own moldered lungs, being choked upon.
AIDE	If you'd like me to make preparations…?
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	No, you won't. We could map every last discrete interaction that makes up the future and encode it on optical disc. On microfiche, even; the 'how' matters not. Row after row, the data banks would line this estate. They would fill the entire campus of Site-19, above-ground and under it, and we would possess trifle more than our own, unabridged eulogy. What of all the futures we won't see? If we could somehow imprint our every last potential future, on every last grain of sand upon every last beach on Earth. Would satisfaction come then?
	Silence on tape.
AIDE	I will admit this is all a bit sobering. The way that I see it, the future is a bit like the past. Everything follows everything else, and we're able to trace it. But whereas one progresses always to an inevitable state, the other? Well. The other's just hindsight.
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	I knew I would appreciate where this conversation goes.
AIDE	She whispers. Where does it go?
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	He croaks. Patience! Let an old man yarn. The year of Unification — when The Foundation came to be — I had just turned 41 years old.
AIDE	Quietly. Wow. Is this when you spill your secrets to longevity?
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	He scoffs. I have lived as overlong a life as they come. I tell you this in confidence: The fad of eternal life amongst the Overseers is an exercise in futility. We lord over an empire in decay. We are afraid. What we fear, more than anything else, even more than our own mortality, is the disposition of our subjects.
AIDE	The anomalies?
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	We are, all of us, its subjects. The ones in containment, and the ones charged with protection. And what is your name, girl?
AIDE	Irvine. Aisling Irvine.
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	Hushed. You, miz Irvine, are one of its subjects. As was I.
AISLING IRVINE AIDE	I don't follow. Surely, you aren't suggesting —
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	He raises his voice. We Veiled the world! All of it! How foolish we would be, leaving one eye blind? Blind!
AISLING IRVINE AIDE	We took an oath. Those words matter, and the fruits of what we — all of us — have built, they bear out every single day. And if they didn't, we wouldn't be here. You wouldn't be here. You dedicated your entire life to this, and I believe it to be a just cause, sir.
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	Laughing. Old Willie — oh, he's gone senile! Has he not? Well? What is it!
AISLING IRVINE AIDE	You know better than anyone, better than any one man or woman, how many countless lives The Foundation has saved.
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	Precisely. No man knows better than I. Yet you continue to be so obstinate in the face of this man, who tells you that we risked it all, and for a tyrant's ideal! For this square peg — this planet, this pathetic human desire to be saved — jammed in a round hole?
	Administrator Fredericks begins coughing.
AISLING IRVINE AIDE	It doesn't need to be all or nothing. It needs to be enough.
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	“All or nothing?” Coughing. My dear girl — the Veil of Normality rests on exactly such a principle! It rests upon the memetic regime. Upon a populace pumped fat on amnesiacs. Upon ancient pacts to moon gods, and the ichor which flows from bastard realities. And then, at the very top? One, who rests upon thirteen, who rest upon all else! Wheezing. If all the abominations and vermin scurry in the dark, and upon the dirt and shit, we cannot but keep the tablecloth clean. How can we not see the work to its completion?
	Some time during his coughing fit, Site-17 Directorship Aide Aisling Irvine rushes from the room to summon Administrator Frederick's caregiving entourage.
ADMINISTRATOR FREDERICKS	Muffled. Poke and prod and plod over the future. Nudge it onto whichever course we like. I can never unwish the past.

[ END LOG ]

Administrator Fredericks was placed under the watch of an attending nurse and given a prescribed sleep aid.

At 0631 UTC on 22 June 1976, at the natural age of 123 years, 11 months, and 4 days, he passed peacefully in his sleep.

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PROTECT

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[ END OF FILE ]

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