SCP-4581: Anti-Racist Audiocassette — A counter-propaganda tool wreaks unintended havoc on Foundation servers.
- "Smile! You Are Being Watched!" — Bad news: Wren Masterson doesn't remember getting caught. Good news: now these stoners can riff the interrogation footage!
SCP-4784: Nature Abhors a Vacuum Tube — Nihilist anart gone awry, intertwined with inexplicable small-town Canadiana.
BONUS TRACK: Somewhere Empty — Masterson hitches a ride into Utah to settle the score with two anomalous terrorists.
SCP-6476: Let A Die Be Cast! — Codename NEMO infiltrates a magical TTRPG group.
Nightmare on Archer Row, Part 2 — Halloween movie night turns into a fight for survival when "Mr. Slasher Villain" crashes the party.
LATEST UPDATE: Being Known, and Other Mortifying Ordeals — Members of Project CLOWNFISH assemble for their inaugural meeting at Site-76.
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The MxTape is strongly influenced by:
Most anomalies featured in the MxTape wind up at SCP Foundation's Reliquary Research and Containment Site-76. Unless it obviously conflicts with the settings above, everything contained at Site-76 should be considered canon. In fact… assume everything linked in an article is part of the MxTape story in some capacity. Simpler that way.
Mind you, the events of the MxTape don't necessarily affect these canons in return (unless the original authors think it's fun, in which case, go wild).
Gamers Against Weed
Most characters, events and anomalies associated with Gamers Against Weed are considered canon. This includes, but is not limited to:
In short: every single GAW anomaly linked in the MxTape is canon to this story.
…and Elsewhere!
If you feel like writing a MxTape story, or including its characters in a parallel universe… whoa! That's incredible! Go right ahead, but do try to keep this in mind:
- "Wren Masterson" only exists in universes which have some version (any version) of Gamers Against Weed.
- Versions of Wren Masterson capable of narrative engineering (or "pataphysics", if you prefer) only exist in universes where:
- "The Developer" died exhibiting SCP-4784, AND
- There is some version of Gamers Against Weed.
- Versions of "The Developer" only survive in universes without a SCP-4784. If Unwinding is completed and exhibited in that branch universe, "The Developer" always dies.
- Nicknames and aliases may vary, but all across the multiverse, every single version of "The Developer" and Wren Masterson will recognize the "steakshift" joke.
Masterson × Multiverse
- SCP-5470, "Why, 2K?" — by
etoisle. This version of "MxMasters" is a teenage Commodore enthusiast immersed in Maxwellist VR.
- So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea — by
ch00bakka and
Tsercele. In the Aces and Eights canon, "Renard Masterson" is a former Union Army musician and a member of the Merry Messengers.
- VNP-8581, "Double Exposure" — by
newnykacolaquantum. Set in the Vanguard timeline of No Return, Wren and Penelope Gore are in a happy relationship, and face the consequences of Wren going public head-on.
1886 — English settler Samuel Tilford murdered by an unknown party in Hornor's Crossing, Ontario. The anonymous killer is tried, sentenced and executed by hanging. The tale of "Tilford's Folly" becomes the only notable piece of local history, yet somehow, Wren Masterson never hears about it.
1985 — Anna Bojarski is born.
1992 — Anna's father tells her the "steak-shift" joke.
2003 — While living with her paternal grandfather, Anna Bojarski discovers that she can influence film and magnetic storage.
[SCENES MISSING]
2008 — Unwinding's debut in Hornor's Crossing kills six members of Are We Cool Yet? (AWCY), including "The Developer". After her inexplicable return, "Anna" is befriended by local librarian Felix Kipp, who helps her build a new identity as "Wren Masterson".
- Jude Kriyot leaves AWCY. He encounters JJ and Esther Kogan, all of whom work together to destroy Jude's former AWCY cell. Numerous anartists are killed, including "The Critic". This friend group goes on to become Gamers Against Weed (GAW).
2011 — Penelope Gore gets her Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from the University of [REDACTED] and begins working for a Foundation front company.
[SCENES MISSING]
2013 — "The Cool War" results in the deaths of multiple AWCY anartists, including Ruiz Duchamp and "The Critic".
2014 — Wren Masterson ("steakshift") meets JJ ("jockjamsvol6") in the ReTerminal.
2015 — Junior Researcher Penelope Gore transfers from Site-17 to Site-76.
- March — Jude Kriyot places a phone call to tell the Foundation about Apartment 420.
- JJ invites Wren into GAW.
- Wren invites their friend Kenneth into GAW.
2016 — More and more GAW anomalies pile up in Foundation containment. The group is moved up the Threat Index.
- October — Kenneth's brother Jordan is arrested by the FBI's Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU). When he asks GAW for help staging a prison break, Jude refuses, and Ken begins weaponizing Mr. Hax instead.
- November — Distressed by the state of American politics, Wren gets very drunk and does "some self-destructive shit", which blows up in their face.
- GAW's "headquarters" (i.e., Jude's apartment) is raided by the SCP Foundation. Key members of the group go to ground until the heat dies down.
- Acting on JJ's instructions, Wren works with members of the Serpent's Hand to take down Ken and Jordan, fulfilling their "quid pro quo" with GAW.
2017 — Wren constructs SCP-4581 to deplatform their racist grandfather, Harold Bojarski. A month later, they send it to polaricecraps, who loses it at a rally. The tape ends up at Site-76, where Researcher Penelope Gore accidentally causes a containment breach.
- May — GAW receives word of "Mr. High-Quality". Wren unlocks "heyjude.zip" and finds a message from AWCY.
2018 — Gore interrogates Masterson at Site-201. Not long afterwards, she is recruited for Project CLOWNFISH, and (reluctantly) starts building a cover as "whistl_stahp".
[SCENES MISSING]
2018 — "whistl_stahp" joins a Gamers Against Weed TTRPG campaign.
[SCENES MISSING]
2019 — Masterson asks Gore for help containing Unwinding.
- June 1 — The conspirators meet in person to discuss their arrangement. When Penelope asks about local history, Wren has no knowledge of Tilford's Folly.
- June 7 — "Pridehacker" makes the leap from Void to physical space.
- July 23 — [DATA EXPUNGED]
- July 24-27 — Waking up post-amnesticization and discovering that Felix Kipp is dead, our protagonists do a little detective work and conclude that the events of the 23rd were pataphysically altered to be mundane. While Masterson is satisfied with this answer, Gore is worried by the possibility of loose ends, and keeps digging.
- The Foundation establishes containment of SCP-4784.
- October 31 — "Mr. Slasher Villain" crashes Halloween movie night in Portland, Oregon.
The future: TBD…