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Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

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Operating clandestine and worldwide, the Foundation operates beyond jurisdiction, empowered and entrusted by every major national government with the task of containing anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. These anomalies pose a significant threat to global security by threatening either physical or psychological harm.
The Foundation operates to maintain normalcy, so that the worldwide civilian population can live and go on with their daily lives without fear, mistrust, or doubt in their personal beliefs, and to maintain human independence from extraterrestrial, extradimensional, and other extranormal influence.
Our mission is three-fold:
Secure
The Foundation secures anomalies with the goal of preventing them from falling into the hands of civilian or rival agencies, through extensive observation and surveillance and by acting to intercept such anomalies at the earliest opportunity.
Contain
The Foundation contains anomalies with the goal of preventing their influence or effects from spreading, by either relocating, concealing, or dismantling such anomalies or by suppressing or preventing public dissemination of knowledge thereof.
Protect
The Foundation protects humanity from the effects of such anomalies as well as the anomalies themselves until such time that they are either fully understood or new theories of science can be devised based on their properties and behavior. The Foundation may also neutralize or destroy anomalies as an option of last resort, if they are determined to be too dangerous to be contained.

SCP is absolutely brilliant. A massive compiled archive of incidents, interviews, and scientific tests on a huge array of 'anomalies'. It ranges from witty to creepy and everything in between, and if you're looking for a way to lose most of a day down an internet rat hole, I hugely recommend it. It's done by a large group of writers but has an impressively consistent style and its own internal canon.

http://www.scp-wiki.net

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2017 13:44

I believe there's a game based on this which is supposed to be right scary.

(but as it's not my kind of thing, I haven't tried it)

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

So there is, and it's free, too.

http://www.scpcbgame.com

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Some of the SCPs are stone cold classics. The stairwell in the college for example. Or the portal with giant legless monsters.

WARNING: SCPs will eat your afternoon

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2017 14:06

Cras wrote:

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Operating clandestine and worldwide, the Foundation operates beyond jurisdiction, empowered and entrusted by every major national government with the task of containing anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. These anomalies pose a significant threat to global security by threatening either physical or psychological harm.
The Foundation operates to maintain normalcy, so that the worldwide civilian population can live and go on with their daily lives without fear, mistrust, or doubt in their personal beliefs, and to maintain human independence from extraterrestrial, extradimensional, and other extranormal influence.
Our mission is three-fold:
Secure
The Foundation secures anomalies with the goal of preventing them from falling into the hands of civilian or rival agencies, through extensive observation and surveillance and by acting to intercept such anomalies at the earliest opportunity.
Contain
The Foundation contains anomalies with the goal of preventing their influence or effects from spreading, by either relocating, concealing, or dismantling such anomalies or by suppressing or preventing public dissemination of knowledge thereof.
Protect
The Foundation protects humanity from the effects of such anomalies as well as the anomalies themselves until such time that they are either fully understood or new theories of science can be devised based on their properties and behavior. The Foundation may also neutralize or destroy anomalies as an option of last resort, if they are determined to be too dangerous to be contained.

SCP is absolutely brilliant. A massive compiled archive of incidents, interviews, and scientific tests on a huge array of 'anomalies'. It ranges from witty to creepy and everything in between, and if you're looking for a way to lose most of a day down an internet rat hole, I hugely recommend it. It's done by a large group of writers but has an impressively consistent style and its own internal canon.

http://www.scp-wiki.net

Strange if true. I wonder if they realise they've published this on a non-SSL clearnet site.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

SCP archival data resists all attempts at encrypting it.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2017 14:08

Lonewolves wrote:

Cras wrote:

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Operating clandestine and worldwide, the Foundation operates beyond jurisdiction, empowered and entrusted by every major national government with the task of containing anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. These anomalies pose a significant threat to global security by threatening either physical or psychological harm.
The Foundation operates to maintain normalcy, so that the worldwide civilian population can live and go on with their daily lives without fear, mistrust, or doubt in their personal beliefs, and to maintain human independence from extraterrestrial, extradimensional, and other extranormal influence.
Our mission is three-fold:
Secure
The Foundation secures anomalies with the goal of preventing them from falling into the hands of civilian or rival agencies, through extensive observation and surveillance and by acting to intercept such anomalies at the earliest opportunity.
Contain
The Foundation contains anomalies with the goal of preventing their influence or effects from spreading, by either relocating, concealing, or dismantling such anomalies or by suppressing or preventing public dissemination of knowledge thereof.
Protect
The Foundation protects humanity from the effects of such anomalies as well as the anomalies themselves until such time that they are either fully understood or new theories of science can be devised based on their properties and behavior. The Foundation may also neutralize or destroy anomalies as an option of last resort, if they are determined to be too dangerous to be contained.

SCP is absolutely brilliant. A massive compiled archive of incidents, interviews, and scientific tests on a huge array of 'anomalies'. It ranges from witty to creepy and everything in between, and if you're looking for a way to lose most of a day down an internet rat hole, I hugely recommend it. It's done by a large group of writers but has an impressively consistent style and its own internal canon.

http://www.scp-wiki.net

Strange if true. I wonder if they realise they've published this on a non-SSL clearnet site.

As long as data inputs are sanitised and the API hashed properly, there is no real cause for concern. The biggest threat to IT security is complacency.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Mar 27, 2017 14:48

If you like weird, creepy shit with a ton of self-referential lore, the gold standard is "House of Leaves" by Mark Z Danielewski.

I have no idea how well it would work as an ebook, and the layout is somewhat crazy, and there's more appendices and footnotes than is sane or rational, but it is something else.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Curiosity wrote:

If you like weird, creepy shit

title.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Curiosity wrote:

there's more appendices and footnotes than is sane or rational, but it is something else.

SCP has 3000 entries, and most of those have several appended interview transcripts/mission reports. It's insanely huge.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Cras wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

there's more appendices and footnotes than is sane or rational, but it is something else.

SCP has 3000 entries, and most of those have several appended interview transcripts/mission reports. It's insanely huge.

But, but, but, what's the point?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Fun reading, innit?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

MrChris wrote:

Cras wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

there's more appendices and footnotes than is sane or rational, but it is something else.

SCP has 3000 entries, and most of those have several appended interview transcripts/mission reports. It's insanely huge.

But, but, but, what's the point?

Keeps nerds busy.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

DavPaz wrote:

Or the portal with giant legless monsters.

That's great, love the way the supporting materials are revealed at the end and tell you so much more.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4842

OCTONAUTS

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13386

I don't understand that site at all, isn't it all just nonsense?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Hearthly wrote:

I don't understand that site at all, isn't it all just nonsense?

It's fiction, if that's what you mean.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2017 8:58

DavPaz wrote:

Hearthly wrote:

I don't understand that site at all, isn't it all just nonsense?

It's fiction, if that's what you mean.

No, some guys have gone through wikileaks and collated the odd stuff.

myp · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:25

Hearthly wrote:

I don't understand that site at all, isn't it all just nonsense?

No, it's a top secret database hosted on an Angelfire website

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

I love a bit of SCP.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:38

Lonewolves wrote:

Hearthly wrote:

I don't understand that site at all, isn't it all just nonsense?

No, it's a top secret database hosted on an Angelfire website

It's a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

One of my favourites: SCP-2090

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2017 16:04

These are brilliant. Thank you.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2017 16:11

http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-016

I liked this one. The coldness of experiments comes through well

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