グランドクロスリンク4の参加記事募集では、参加する場合は各記事の簡素な解説を書く必要がありました。そこでLordStornefishがこの記事の解説を軽くしていたので、ちょっと持ってきてみました。
SCP-4012は、神になろうとする人間を促進するため作られた、遥か古代の中間施設です。そこにはグロテスクな実体が配置されており、彼らの人生の真似事を通じて入場者を導きます。また、内部を観察する者に文字通りの畏敬の念を抱かせるミーム/知覚的な効果を有しています。SCP-3672、神に直接天国へ連れ込まれたマペット操者の続編であり、SCP-4753、現代の契約の箱として機能する神秘的な岩型オブジェクトの前編です。
by LordStonefish 2021/3/2
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14012514/the-grand-crosslinking-4#post-4914454
SCP-4012 - An incredibly ancient waystation designed to speed individuals entering it towards God. It is staffed by grotesque entities who shepherd the entrant through a parody of their life. It has literally awe-inspiring memetic/perceptual effects on people who observe the interior. A sequel to SCP-3672, a Muppeteer who is taken by God directly to heaven, and a prequel to SCP-4753, a mysterious rock-like object that acts as a modern Ark of the Covenant.
Oh! Canada.
On Guard 43はカナダ、オンタリオ州のサイト-43を中心とするカノンです。当初は相互に関連するTaleとSCPの束でしたが、一度そこから離れた記事が書かれて以降 (後者のシリーズを踏まえてるかも)、より一般的な設定となりました。現在、On Guard 43には3つの異なる”シリーズ”が存在します。
On Guard 43 is a canon centred around Site-43 in Ontario, Canada. It began as one set of interlinked tales and SCPs, but has since branched out to become more of a general setting. There are now three distinct "series" being written in On Guard 43:
- 力と毒の言葉は、
HarryBlankが描くサイト-43と不倶戴天の古のミームを振るう敵の戦いの話です。
- ヴィキャンダーニード・テクニカルメディアは、
- アーキティピカルズは、
Placeholder McDが脚本した星間/物語空間の深淵からの冒険の呼び声に答えた非主流キャラクターたちのプレステージドラマです。
プレステージドラマ: 参照
- Words of Power and Poison,
- Vikander-Kneed Technical Media, chronicling the antics of a terrifying, dangerous, and often darkly hilarious memetic media corporation created by
Grigori Karpin;
- Archetypicals,
このカノンで書いてみたいですか？ 確立されたキャラクターを使う必要はありません — もちろんしてもいいですよ！ 既存のストーリーラインに貢献しないといけないわけではありません — もちろんしても構いませんよ！ (アーキティピカルズは除きます。あれは自己完結型のシリーズです) なんならサイト-43自体が出てこなくたっていいのです — もちろん書いてもいいですが — 次のタブに概説される要素を使ってさえいればそれでOK。
Want to write for this canon? You don't have to use the established characters — but you can! You don't have to contribute to existing storylines — but you can! (Except Archetypicals, that's self-contained.) You don't even need to write about Site-43 itself — though you can — as long as you're using some of the elements outlined in the next tab. You should think of this place as a set of storytelling tools. We've got a detailed, well-defined Site, a big ol' cast you can bend to your whims, and a generalized Canadian-ness that should satisfy your entirely inappropriate need to, say, create an actual Canadian branch.
This is a canon about real people in absurd situations. Click onward if that appeals to you at all.
Protecting the Peaceable Kingdom
SCP Foundation Lake Huron Research and Containment Site-43 is the long name of the largest Foundation facility in Canada. Site-43 has three specialities: the abatement of toxic materials generated by anomalous subjects in containment; the discovery of anomalous subjects attested in the historical record but not yet contained; and the preservation of consensus normalcy in the face of persistent memetic attacks from several distinct Groups of Interest.
Canada is a Foundation backwater, so Site-43 is set up differently from most other R&C facilities. Personnel are organized into pseudoacademic Sections and encouraged to engage in long-term collaborative research projects. Containment procedures are more creative than the norm; the intensity of supernatural activity in the Great Lakes region makes putting everything in boxes impractical, so more esoteric solutions are devised. Containment breaches are rare, D-class are nonexistent, and the sense of camaraderie is strong. People live at 43, and they don't all hate it.
One major focus of research is the ancient Austrian secret societies known as the schriftsteller and giftschreiber, memeticists focused on upholding or undermining the cause of universal order. For reasons as yet unknown, the giftschreiber have been conducting a sustained campaign against the Canadian government and Site-43 since the late 1960s. A good primer article is SCP-5054-EX.
Site-43 is also the centre of containment efforts for GoI-5889, Vikander-Kneed Technical Media. Absolutely nothing is known about the origins or motivations of this group, but their effect on the wider American media landscape is all too clear. VKTM produces media which drives people insane, picks away at their insecurities, pokes fun at their failings, and generally unsettles people to unclear ends. What's more, they seem all too aware that 43 is on their case. A good primer article is SCP-5889.
Time Periods: There are three main time periods covered by this canon, roughly defined:
- The Past — From the introduction of the giftschreiber in the seventeenth century, through the foundation of Provisional Site-43 in the 1940s, to the retirement and death of its first director in 1997;
- The Present — From the 1990s, when the present main cast began working at 43, to a floating period one or two years from our real-world moment;
- The Future — the 2030s, wherein Archetypicals takes place.
Crossovers — On Guard 43 considers every canon that doesn't contradict most other canons to be… canon. If it doesn't shoot the setting into space, or break the Veil with kaiju, or say the Foundation never existed, it probably happened. That doesn't mean On Guard 43 exists in all those other universes; it doesn't need to work both ways. Crossing over with other canons is encouraged!
S&C Plastics in particular is a great fit. In fact, S&C Plastics is hard canon for On Guard 43. If you don't like Site-87, Site-43 probably isn't going to be for you.
Elements of Resurrection are hard canon. ETTRA, introduced in the Old Foes splinter, is a major component of Words of Power and Poison. As the New Faces splinter is hard canon to Old Foes, the whole kit and caboodle definitely happened in the context of On Guard 43.
AIAD, by virtue of the Limited Memory series which features Placeholder McDoctorate, is also hard canon.
Dramatis Personae
Site-43 Personnel (Active)
| All-Sections Chief | Chief, Nexus Affairs Section |
|---|---|
| Mohawk warrior from the Kettle Point Reservation of Nexus-94. Cool, collected, a consummate professional. The primary link between the Site's Sections, and the communities surrounding it. | |
| Blank, Dr. Harold Robert | Chair, Archives and Revision Section |
| Historian specializing in the discovery of anomalous objects attested in literary sources. Grouchy, sarcastic, fills all available space with snark. Good heart, poor grooming. Best friends with Dr. Lillihammer. Romantically linked with research partner Dr. Bradbury. | |
| Bradbury, Dr. Melissa | Chair, Research and Experimentation Section |
| Site-43's chief generalist. Took an eighteen-year leave of absence after suffering a traumatic attack by SCP-5056. Much stronger than that makes her sound; most victims claw their eyes out. Romantically linked with Dr. Blank. | |
| Deering, Philip Eugene | Technician JM64, Janitorial and Maintenance Section |
| Career janitor. No ambition, no ego, no hope of promotion. Gentle and good-natured, but capable of acts of bravery when necessary. One half of the SCP-5056 anomaly, constantly badgered by the other half: a mirror monster expressing affection for him via constant verbal abuse. In an extremely stable romantic relationship with Chief Torosyan. | |
| Ibanez, Chief Delfina | Chief, Pursuit and Suppression Section |
| Diminutive leader of Site-43's Mobile Task Forces. Tough as nails, takes zero shit, leads by example and does not delegate. | |
| Lillihammer, Dr. Lillian Shelby | Chair, Memetics and Countermemetics Section |
| Genius-level intellect. Master memeticist: discoverer, interpretor, neutralizer and creator. Always half a dozen steps ahead of everyone else. Lead researcher on Vikander-Kneed Technical Media. Antisocial and arrogant, but so incredibly competent that nobody begrudges it. Best friends with Dr. Blank. | |
| McInnis, Dr. Allan James | Director |
| English-born American expatriate, educated at Eton College and trained at Site-91. Unflappable, stoic and standoffish, but not a harsh taskmaster. Calm under pressure. Gets the best out of his staff without excessive discipline due to his background in communications. | |
| Ngo, Dr. Nhung Tran | Chair, Psychology and Parapsychology Section |
| Lead psychiatist at Site-43, expert in both baseline human and anomalous psychology. Chipper and unbreakable, mentally and physically; martial arts expert as a necessary side-effect of interviewing difficult subjects. | |
| Okorie, Dr. Udo Amara | Chief, Applied Occultism Section |
| English expatriate and heir to a long, proud line of magic gunk dotoxifiers. Youngest Section Chair, wunderkind. More competent than she realizes. Thaumaturge. | |
| Reynders, Dr. Ilse Dorothea | Chief, Acroamatic Abatement Section |
| Time-frozen acroamatic abatement researcher from the 1940s, recently freed. Does not age, and has spent nearly eight decades becoming the Foundation's top mind in over a dozen fields. Eager for human connection after her confinement, but lacks intellectual peers. | |
| Sokolsky, Dr. Daniil | Chief, Emergent Threat Tactical Response Authority Section |
| Scheming, conniving, constantly-planning. Delights in Byzantine intrigue, in keeping ahead of the pack, in showing his colleagues up and embarrassing his enemies. Complexity addiction. Gratingly arrogant personality. | |
| Torosyan, Chief Amelia Ohanna | Chief, Janitorial and Maintenance Section |
| Bright-eyed and earnest queen of the muck-moppers and thing-fixers. Boundless energy, inexhaustable reserves of empathy, rock solid. The far better half of Philip Deering. | |
| Veiksaar, Chief Eileen Katrijn | Chief, Identity and Technocryptography Section |
| Jaded by decades of managing tech for squabbling academics. Had to expose her boss as a Maxwellist mole shortly after being hired; has developed a marked distaste for the unethical use of anomalies by Foundation staff. Formerly romantically linked to Dr. Lillihammer. | |
| Wettle, Dr. William Wallace | Second Chair, Replication Studies Subsection |
| Crass, callous, abrasive, lazy and clumsy. Unimaginative. An unhappy American in a sea of Canadians. Prone to a potentially anomalous amount of bad luck. May have more to him than meets the eye; constant butt of pranks and insults, particularly at the hands of Dr. Blank. | |
Associated Personnel
| ███████, Dr. Daniel | Director, Emergent Threat Tactical Response Authority |
|---|---|
| The first senior staff member to fly too close to the sun. Sentenced to death for intentionally breaching SCP-096's containment to make a point. Instead spent a decade crafting decommissioning proposals before masterminding the Foundation's defense against General George Bowe. Now in charge of coordinated responses to widespread emergencies for the entire Foundation, and atoning for the one decision which defined the rest of his life. | |
| Asheworth, Dr. Daniel | Director, Site-120 |
| Thaumaturge, alchemist, hotheaded and sometimes reluctant hero across many realities. Helped with the construction of the REISNO Cannon. Sometimes has trouble making himself understood. | |
Site-43 Personnel (Inactive)
| Deering, Dr. Dougall Alton | Chair, Applied Occultism Section |
|---|---|
| Estranged brother of Philip. Died under mysterious circumstances in 2002, due to events entirely of his own making. His brother is unaware of his death. | |
| Falkirk, Dr. Edwin Scott | All-Sections Chief, Pro-Tem Director |
| Obnoxious old-boys-club academic, strong believer in a firm hand, a sharp whip and a cold-hearted demeanour. Permanently comatose after an attack by SCP-5056 in 2003. | |
| Rydderech, Dr. Wynn Rhys | Co-Director Emeritus |
| Inventor of acroamatic abatement and co-founder of Provisional Site-43. Lifetime partner with Dr. Scout, in every possible way. Retiring and nervous disposition, though quick to irritation. Now an anomalous reality bender living beneath the Site, continuing to neutralize esoteric effluence for the Foundation. Potentially immortal and mentally unstable. | |
| Scout, Dr. Vivian Lesley | Director Emeritus |
| Pioneer of anomalous historical research and co-founder of Provisional Site-43. Long-lived Site Director, essentially the Foundation's chief operative in Canada. Creator of Nexus-94. Long-term partner of Dr. Rydderech and correspondent with Thilo Zwist. Presided over the expansion of all Site facilities, all hiring, and all training between 1943 and 1996. Died of advanced old age in 1997. | |
Persons of Interest
| Zwist, Thilo | schriftsteller |
|---|---|
| Austrian memeticist from the seventeenth century, kept alive through unclear anomalous mechanisms in order to combat GoI-5054 (the giftschreiber). Nominally allied with Site-43 and the Foundation to counteract harmful memetic activity in North America. Has led a colourful life. May have trained apprentices. | |
Archetypicals Cast
| Blank, Dr. Harold Robert | Director, Site-43 |
|---|---|
| See above. | |
| Dune, Dr. Jason "Jay" | Senior Researcher, Metafictional Anomalies Department |
| Appears uninterested most of the time. Said to be useful. Never seen without his notepad. | |
| Forkley, Dir. Eli | Director, Department of Miscommunications |
| Linguistic magician, begrudging therapist. Ambitious, though not necessarily arrogant. Assisted Place in containment of SCP-INTEGER. Wants to prove his competence, mostly to himself. | |
| Isabi, Dir. Yves | Director, Astrophysics Department |
| An optimist and daydreamer. Studies space, but has never paid a visit. Worked with Place in Site-15's Artificial Intelligence Applications Division almost five decades ago. Excited to explore, and to escape. | |
| King, Madeleine | Junior Researcher, Mathematics Department |
| Competence is her passion, Mathematics is more of a hobby. Daughter of a well-known Director. Trying to live up to her name, with mixed results. | |
| McDoctorate, Dir. Placeholder | Director; Pataphysics Dept., Archetypicals Division |
| Can always tell a good story. Inventor of the Placeholder Exploratory Engine, The REISNO Cannon, several Foundation AI conscripts, and the Narrative-Space-Time model of reality. Cursed by a nomenclative deity to have his identity rewritten. Defended Site-15 from a forgettable army. Trying to understand himself. | |
| Saxon, Dr. Zachary Charles | Senior Researcher, Pataphysics Dept. |
| Professional, consistent, and occasionally irritable. Assistant Director of Pataphysics. Unafraid of Place — they're not necessarily friends, but they have a strong working relationship. Slight neat freak. Expert in dimensional Pataphysics, saved a species of half-fictional characters. Seeks appreciation. | |
| Stern, Holly Dean | Systems Technician, Site-87 |
| An independent thinker; will either prove you right or prove you wrong. Occasionally the smartest, but always the most rational in the room. Specializes in computer science and electrical engineering. Notably, friends with Dr. Saxon. Strives to be unbound by expectations. | |
| Wettle, Dr. William Wallace | Chair, Research and Experimentation Section, Site-43 |
| See above. | |
Timeline of Important Events
1620s
1622
1 April: PoI-382 (Thilo Zwist) born in Amstetten, Austria.
1640s
1644
Bavarian army enlists schriftsteller in the creation of weaponized memes for use in the Thirty Years War.
1645
2 May: Battle of Herbsthausen. Schriftsteller slaughtered by General Franz von Mercy.
3 August: Battle of Nordlingen. PoI-382 (Thilo Zwist) kills von Mercy.
1890s
1897
17 May: W. Rydderech invents acroamatic abatement.
1898
Occultist Morgan Robertson publishes The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility beginning a career of memetic attacks against the stability of worldwide order.
1900s
1905
13 September: V.L. Scout and W. Rydderech meet at Cardiff University, Wales.
1910s
1912
7 July: Dr. W. Rydderech joins the SCP Foundation.
1915
9 January: Dr. W. Rydderech founds the Acroamatic Abatement Group.
1 April: Dr. V.L. Scout joins the SCP Foundation.
5 April: Dr. Scout founds Project CLIO and inaugurates Historical Research Group CLIO-4 under the cover of the "Simpson Centre for Policy."
1916
28 October: SCP-5382 discovered.
1917
1 January: Dr. Lys Reynders succumbs to SCP-5382-B and expires.
1920s
1920
26 March: First contact between Dr. V.L. Scout and PoI-382 (Thilo Zwist).
1928
Native land around Lake Huron sold to developers.
17 October: Royal Commission on Extranormal Phenomena (Watts Commission) begins.
1930s
1931
1 July: Royal Commission on Extranormal Phenomena (Watts Commission) ends. Royal Canadian Mounted Police creates Occult and Supernatural Activities Taskforce (OSAT) under Superintendent Raynard Watts.
1936
Ipperwash Provincial Park created on indigenous land.
1940s
1942
Stony First Nation reservation expropriated by Canadian federal government under War Measures Act. Military Camp Ipperwash created.
1 April: Construction begins on Provisional Site-43 beneath Camp Ipperwash.
3 August: Nexus-94 created on First Nations reservations around Lake Huron.
1943
1 April: Provisional Site-43 completed.
31 December: Dr. Ilse Reynders trapped in the Anomalous Documents Disposal Chamber of Acroamatic Abatement Facility AAF-A.
1960s
1960
18 June: Containment breach incident involving Dr. W. Rydderech and SCP-███.
1964
17 March: Superintendent Raynard Watts of OSAT is killed by a loup-garou in Montréal, Québec.
1965
1 April: Site-43 is promoted from provisional status.
1966
14 November: Dr. W. Rydderech disappears, becoming SCP-5520.
1969
Memetic attacks by GoI-5054 (giftschreiber) begin against the Canadian Prime Minister.
1970s
1979
22 May: Giftschreiber interfere memetically with the Canadian federal election.
25 May: Operation SHADOWPLAY creates fictional Prime Minister Joe Clark.
July 3: Dr. A.J. McInnis joins the SCP Foundation.
1990s
1991
1 September: Dr. V.L. Scout takes on doctoral student H. Blank at the University of Toronto.
1992
9 November: SCP-5281, a child-eating phantom from French Canadian mythology, is "contained" at Site-43.
1995
Drs. H. Blank and L. Lillihammer join the SCP Foundation at Site-43.
Ipperwash Crisis; Department of Defense permanently ejected from Site-43's interdiction zone by indigenous protestors.
1996
Dr. Nathan Valis is involved in a fight against forgettable foes whilst Director of AIAD at Site-15.
6 January: Site-43 Information and Technocryptography Chief R. Marroquin revealed to be a Maxwellist mole.
9 February: Dr. V.L. Scout attempts to decommission SCP-5520.
1 April: Dr. Scout retires. Dr. A.J. McInnis becomes Director of Site-43.
3 April: SCP-5281 decommissioned.
1997
1 April: Dr. V.L. Scout dies.
4 April: PoI-382 (Thilo Zwist) officially allies with the SCP Foundation.
2000s
2002
5 May: Dr. Nathan Valis suffers an identity abstraction, becoming Dr. Placeholder McDoctorate.
8 September: SCP-5243 occurs for the first time. Mass containment breach in Acroamatic Abatement Facility AAF-D, killing seven eight staff members. SCP-███, which caused the breach, is erased from reality.
9 September: SCP-5056 manifests.
2003
8 September: SCP-5243 recurs for the first time. Unstable alternate timeline created.
2007
8 September: SCP-5243 recurs for the fifth time. Unstable alternate timeline created.
2009
9 May: SCP-5109 discovered.
2010s
2011
8 September: SCP-5243 recurs for the ninth time. Unstable alternate timeline created.
2013
7 September: First observation of an annual phenomenon which corrupts objects within a certain Janitorial and Maintenance Section employee storage locker.
2015
8 September: Dr. A. Zlata killed by SCP-5243.
2016
8 September: SCP-5243 recurs for the fourteenth time. Unstable alternate timeline created.
2017
8 September: SCP-5243 recurs for the fifteenth time. Unstable alternate timeline created.
2019
8 September: SCP-███ restored to reality.
2020s
2020
23 October: Site-43 attacked by the Foundation Elimination Coalition.
18-25 December: Site-43 attacked by Are We Cool Yet?
2021
1 January: Sting operation by Site-43 agents against embedded GoI moles worldwide.
22 January: SCP-5866 breaches containment.
30 March: Dr. Ilse Reynders escapes confinement and becomes Chair of Acroamatic Abatement.
8 September: SCP-5243 recurs for the nineteenth time. Unstable alternate timeline created.
2022
8 September: Stable alternate timeline created.
2030s
2033
Archetypicals project begins.
2034
REISNO Cannon invented.
POST-2030s
UNKNOWN
Dr. Ilse Reynders is reassigned to the Temporal Anomalies Department and eventually promoted to the position of Director.
So You Want to Be a Hoser
Want to write something for this canon? It's easy. It's so easy, even Harry can do it. There's two different approaches you can take:
- Read up a little on the first two series listed (Words of Power and Poison, and Vikander-Kneed Technical Media) and see if you think you'd like to contribute to them;
- Do zero research and just ask an existing writer how your interests might fit in;
- Get a sense of the place, come up with your own standalone thing, and write that instead.
You don't need to add to some over-arching narrative to write for this canon. Maybe set something at 43, definitely vibrate on some of the same frequencies as the existing material, and you're good. If you do want to contribute to the two open series, though, there's a few things to keep in mind:
- If you think you might be writing something that'll step on someone else's toys toes, try talking it over with them first;
- Don't write origin stories for other people's toys;
- Don't break other people's toys without asking.
Harry would love to see anything you wanna write about Site-43. If it doesn't impinge on his so-called storyline, though, feel free to ignore the fuck out of him.
Grigori would love to see anything you wanna write about VKTM. Grigori would love to see anything you wanna write about VKTM.
Placeholder's series is Placeholder's series. The man has plans. If you would like to write something relating to the Archetypicals Division (for example, naming and employing them in the containment of a metanarrative anomaly), contact Placeholder McD via wikidot pm. We may be able to work something out.
If you want to add something you wrote to the hub, use the following code:
[[div class="bubble"]]
++ **[[[SCP-XXXX]]]: The Series Title**
A description! Hopefully one that either fits on one line, or fits //well// on two.
If you fuck that up, Harry's probably going to rewrite it on you.
He's probably not gonna ask nicely. He's like that, I'm afraid.
[[/div]]If you're not sure what you've come up with fits into the existing series… good! Add it under "Canadian Cont(ainm)ent." That's where non-series stuff goes. If you end up writing a whole damn thing eventually, we'll give you your own spiffy collapsible and banner. We're nice hosts like that.
Bug Harry when you post something and he'll do you up a little icon like the other entries have. He works fast.
How to Write Politely
Tone — On Guard 43 is neither grimdark nor lolFoundation. You can be gross and scary and upsetting and emotional, and you can be light and airy and absurd, but don't carry either one to the point of cartoonishness. Everything on here so far has an element of humour to it, but try to remember that these are supposed to be real people. Nobody walks around Site-43 with a shotgun, and nobody at Site-43 feeds human beings into a meat grinder.
Topics — On Guard 43 is focused on a Site that does several things differently from the larger Foundation. These include:
- Site-43 has a set of squabbling pseudoacademic Sections instead of departments. Its staff is more likely to be eccentric, more likely to be writing research papers, more likely to be pulling faces behind each others' backs. Academics are both more and much less adult than non-academics;
- Site-43 does historical research. The researchers in the Archives and Revision Section comb through old documents, looking for anomalies that weren't recognized as such at the time. You want to tell a long-form story about an evolving problem? You want to tell a short-form story about something that happened in the past? We're a ready-made framing narrative for you;
- Site-43 does acroamatic abatement. That's the breaking-down of gunk produced by our various subjects in containment. That leaves lots of room for stories about anomalous toxicity, day-to-day working class drudgery, and bonkers disasters;
- Site-43 has a ton of different Sections doing different stuff. Check out the list on the Site dossier and see if anything sparks some ideas;
- Site-43 is targeted by, and is targeting, various Groups of Interest with their fingers in memetic pies. The giftschreiber destabilize order with creative memetic attacks, the schriftsteller try to stabilize society with memetic effects, and Vikander-Kneed is trying to fuck people up with memetic media. You don't need a lot of background to play around with those premises;
- Site-43 is a Foundation backwater. People live much more normal lives here than they do at Site-19. Slice-of-life is very, very welcome in this canon;
- Site-43 is one of the headquarters of the Emergent Threat Tactical Response Authority (ETTRA). That means we spend some time thinking about how we might use our anomalies to combat hostile GOI action. You can too;
- Site-43 is surrounded by a Nexus of First Nations reservations. If you're First Nations yourself, please by all means write about that! If you're not, please don't;
- Site-43 is in Canada. You are allowed to write about Canadian shit. Sorry about that, everybody else.
