The SCP Foundation is a secretive organization that deals with anomalous objects and entities that defy explanation. The article explores 31 proposals for the prestigious SCP-001 designation, which is considered the most powerful and mysterious anomaly. Each proposal describes a unique entity or object with extraordinary abilities, such as the power to create or destroy entire realities. The proposals include entities like the Scarlet King, a malevolent being from another dimension, and the Tindalos Trinity, a convergence of three timelines that feeds back into itself.
The article suggests that the true nature of SCP-001 is unknown, and it may be one of the proposed entities, all of them, or none at all. The information is so sensitive that it is protected by a Memetic Kill Agent that can cause death if accessed without proper authorization. The article concludes by warning readers to be cautious and not to pursue further information without proper clearance.
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1. SCP-001 is a cluster of over 30 different proposals for potential candidates for the prestigious 001 spot.
2. Some believe there's a true 001 hidden in this group and the rest are decoys.
3. Others think that these are all just SCPs catalogued prior to the introduction of the current classification system.
4. The SCP-001 proposals include The Sheaf of Papers, The Prototype, The Gate Guardian, The Lock, and many more.
5. The Sheaf of Papers is a seemingly innocent stack of paper that details the appearance of a new SCP that will inevitably be discovered soon after.
6. The Prototype is an incredibly strange cycloptic creature that emits massive amounts of radiation and can create microsingularities.
7. The Gate Guardian is a huge, multi-winged, sword-wielding Biblical energy-being that may have been the impetus for the founding of the SCP Foundation.
8. The Lock is an onyx gemstone and an incredibly complex lock attached to it that remains a mystery.
9. The Factory is literally a factory founded by a pagan and a devil worshipper that could create just about anything.
10. The Spiral Path is a normal-appearing gravel pathway that, when travelled counter-clockwise, goes uphill forever in defiance of all laws of physics.
11. The Legacy is a collection of seemingly random objects, including a diary from a person claiming to be from another reality.
12. The Database is actually the various authors of the SCP Wiki, who are somehow leaking top-secret information to the public.
13. The Foundation is an anomalous high school building that experiences shifting internal geometry and sometimes manifests hostile humanoids within.
14. Thirty-Six are humans with the ability to dampen or even neutralize any SCP they come into contact with.
15. Keter Duty refers to a containment facility largely filled with Keter-class SCPs, whose presence around each other creates a kind of mutually-assured cancellation.
16. Ouroboros is a proposal that includes four sub-proposals: The Children, The Broken God, Atonement, and The Way It Ends.
17. A Record is an SCP File slot that is itself an SCP, where whatever is written in this slot becomes true.
18. Past and Future are powerful entities that despise humanity and are apparently the source of all anomalous phenomena.
19. The Consensus refers to a reality restructuring event caused by an occult war in a previous reality.
20. When Day Breaks is a potentially world-ending SCP phenomenon, wherein the sun becomes hostile and begins to melt all living beings into a living wax-like substance.
21. God's Blind Spot is an anomalous area referred to as Facility T, in which nobody can die.
22. Normalcy is a document shared among the O5 council that gives solid definitions to the fundamental laws of reality.
23. The World At Large is our home planet Earth and its ability to support life, which was planted on Earth in our reality by another dimension's SCP Foundation.
24. Dead Men was an 84-year-old man whose body, when damaged and mutilated, can affect the very processes of human death at large.
25. The World's Gone Beautiful describes an anomalous event that will take place just before the apocalypse, in which flowers will grow all over the world and everyone will be briefly at peace before their destruction 24 hours later.
26. The Scarlet King is an extremely powerful, extremely malevolent, extremely extra-dimensional being.
27. A Simple Toymaker, aka Dr. Wondertainment, is a reality bender who appears to be a normal human male but has the ability to create other anomalous objects.
28. Story of Your Life is an anomalous document that has the ability to warp reality, but only when the writing contained within conforms to narrative structure.
29. A Good Boy is an anomalous entity created accidentally by the Foundation itself through a neural network.
30. Project Palisade is an anomaly created by the Foundation to combat a potentially reality-destroying entity known as The Worm.
31. O5-13 is the final member of the O5 council who may not even be anomalous, but whose lack of anomalous properties is, therefore, anomalous.
32. Fishook is less an actual SCP and more about the difficult process of ascertaining the true 001 - if such a thing is possible.
33. The Sky Above the Port is a particularly bizarre SCP regarding the permanent threat of a ZK-Class Reality Failure.
34. The Solution is a machine designed with the capability of fully collapsing reality in the event of an end-of-the-world SCP containment breach and then fully rebuilding reality to suit a given narrative.
35. The Tindalos Trinity represents three timelines that converge and feed back in on themselves.