The current leader of the oldest extant denomination of "The Broken 
Church" (GOI-004A) is an individual identified in records as "His 
Holiness Robert Bumaro, Builder of the Broken God", who 
apparently gained the title in 1946.1 While this sect continues its 
efforts to reconstruct their deity, the religion as a whole has at some 
time in the past century undergone a major schism. Two significant 
breakaway movements from the original church have entered into a 
major theological conflict. 


The "Cogwork Orthodox Church" (GOI-004B) espouses a form of 
literal religious iconography known as "Standardization", whereby 
adherents submit to anomalous mechanical enhancement with the 


stated goal of remaking themselves in the image or plan of their 
deity. Due to the extent of their mechanical augmentation, members 
of this sect often emit audible ticking or tapping sounds, and have 
been referred to disparagingly as "Tickers" by members of the other 
two sects. 


Cogwork Orthodoxy deliberately adheres to technological norms of 
the late Industrial Revolution, and regard the mass-production of 
analogue, steam and clockwork-driven machinery as a form of 
prayer. Orthodoxy doctrine is highly centralized and regulated by a 
group of unknown composition, known as the Patriarchs. This body 
issues detailed production orders and design documents, which 
form the core of the group's extremely extensive holy writ. Orthodox 
belief decries the use of electronic or digital devices, and views 
distributed information sharing and decentralization as tantamount to 
the dissolution of divine knowledge. 


The "Church of Maxwellism" (GOI-004C) represents a modernized, 
computation and network oriented means of worship. No central 
organizing church body is known to exist. However, interviews and 
covert surveillance has determined that all known cells are in regular 
contact with one another, and capable of coordination. Maxwellists 
favour small-scale body modification through the use of advanced 
cybernetics and organ enhancement. While artificial limbs or 
reinforced skeletons have been observed, Maxwellist implants focus 
primarily on communication, data storage, networking capabilities, 
and sensory enhancement. 


Maxwellist doctrine interprets the Broken God as a "fragmented" 
deity, which exists as disparate data present in the linked technology 
and cultural zeitgeist of the digital age. Worshipers approach the 
divine by embracing their unique traits and sharing their knowledge 
and capacity for the good of the collective Church. By connecting all 
minds through computer networks, they believe their deity can be 
"recompiled" as the aggregate will of humanity. Due to their use of 
computer fan noise as a meditative aid, members are often referred 
to as "Hummers" by members of the other two factions. 


Holy Writ: 


Book of Pieces, Chapter 12: The Broken Mind 

Volume 55.13.A-96: Of the Retooling of Sector 92, Production Line 
8b, And Other Matters 

GoHW > Chapter_5.js 

Volume 21.01.A-01: Of the Five Pillars of the Standardization of 
Thought 


Tales: 


Implanting God 

Variations on a Schema 
The Heresy of Disassembly 
20 GOTO 10 


SCP-3826 
SCP-3503 
SCP-1917 
SCP-3391 
SCP-2783 
SCP-271 

SCP-3341 
SCP-3777 
SCP-3179 
SCP-813 

SCP-2919 
SCP-3882 
SCP-3221 
SCP-2342 
SCP-3444 
SCP-3434 
SCP-1461 
SCP-475 

SCP-2309 
SCP-2847 
SCP-2105 
SCP-3813 
SCP-2307 
SCP-3477 
SCP-2844 
SCP-2522 


SCP-2474 
SCP-1564 
SCP-808 
SCP-1139 
SCP-2481 
SCP-404-J 
SCP-2660 
SCP-3989 
SCP-2360 
SCP-2406 
SCP-629 
SCP-2510 
SCP-2217 
SCP-217 
TwistedGears-Kaktus Proposal 
SCP-882 


Immolation 

Occult Standards 

Recording Hippodrome-045 
Spark of Wonder 

1,001 Dark and Stormy Nights 
Faith 

Heroic Spirit Alexei Belitrov 
The Builder 


The Broken God Of Ayrshire - Chapter 1 


Whole 

The Man-Machine 
Rapture 

Operation Hippodrome 
Document C 88 II 
Wasteland 

Loss and Nostalgia 
Sic Semper Tyrannis 
Vacation Opportunity 
Down the Silver River 
Paradigm Shift 
Crossing the Frame 

| See a Great Beast within the Fires 


Exit Strategy 

Non-Volatile Memory 

Volatile Memory 

The Best Laid Plans 

CotBG Bible Fragments 

Holy War 

So the Beasts Shall Plague the Land No More 
Rising 

Ignition, Part One- The Artists 

A Man of Clay and Men Formerly Men 

Like Clockwork 

Reversed Engineering 

A Life that Was Simple 

Oricha's Folly 

SCP the Anime, part 4 (Gears/Iceberg, Clef/Kondraki, Rights/ 
Light, Kain, monkey!Bright) 

Ex Nihilo Nihil 

| Care Because You Do 

Dark and Disquieting 

The Karcist And The Mekhanite 

Aftermath 

| Wrote a Tale 

He Was Blind and Deaf on a Sunny Day 
Bumaro and lon sat at a table 

The Fountain of Lamneth 

Herman Fuller Can Shove It Up His Ass 
Mobile Suit Bumaro Versus Tokyo Ghoul lon 
Winding Down 

Broken Faith 

The Day of the Dragon 

Hallow Inside 

Reflections 

Not a contest entry, but a crackfic about gods anyways 
Hello World (Part Ill) 

The Broken Fifth 

Empire Of Dirt (Part 2) 

Attacking The Darkness 

The Iron Wolf 

Hello World (Part IV) 

Hello World (Part Il) 


oO OND 


sculpting tools have been supplied, SCP-602 will 
place its discarded tools in a bucket by the door; 
the bucket may be collected when leaving the 
apartment. 


. All surveillance devices must be announced before 


installation, and their function must be clearly 
described. SCP-602 promptly locates and destroys 
all hidden or otherwise unacknowledged 
surveillance devices, and uses the debris as 
projectiles. Surveillance devices which were 
properly announced remain intact and operational 
until such time as SCP-602 wishes to create or 
modify a statue, at which point it deactivates all 
surveillance devices simultaneously; when it is 
finished, it reactivates the surveillance devices. 


. Never enter the apartment alone. 
. No flash photography. 

. No smoking. 

. No spitting. 

. No chewing gum. 


« SCP-601 | SCP-602 | SCP-603 » 


¢ Mud on the Carpet 

¢ His Clockwork Servants 

¢ What Dragons We Shall Be 

* CotBG Archive / /20 - : Of Dragons and Serpents 

¢ The Maker and the Beast 

¢ When We Came Home 

¢ Sunday Service 

¢ Basic Observations 

¢ About the Serpent 

* The Man from Maple Street 

* Hello World 

* Automata Et Cetera 

¢ The Tick Tock Gospel 

¢ Person of Interest File #2273/01 

¢ Broken? 

* The Analog Kid 

* Factory-Finding Mission 

* Too Slow 

¢ Finding The Machine 

¢ An Anthropological Approach to Sarkicism - Case Study 01: 
The Vasna of Sarvi 

* Rough Beast 

Recovered Document 4761: CotBG-82 

* Reservoir Skips 

Brékkén Giid 

¢ Re: You Want Happy Endings? 

Mission Statement 

Everyone Knows 

* Quiet Days 


Church articles take the form of Holy Writ, a weird combination of 
technical manual and Biblical scripture. As it is obviously somewhat 
difficult to incorporate things like object classifications into scriptural 
form, the formatting guidelines for Church Holy Writ are somewhat 
different. For one, the style depends largely on which section of the 
Church you choose to focus on. They're divided up below. 


Broken God Writ, which is to say the classic or old-school Church 
we know and love, does not follow any specific formatting 


guidelines, but the style is key. These are legends, or the 
transcriptions of legends, which are probably older than most human 
civilizations. The core goal here is a mythic tone, a tendency to 
cover vast sweeps of time and the kinds of writing you'd see in old 
legends and creation stories. These are records of the destruction of 
a god, and should treat their subject matter with the utmost gravitas. 
Classic church Writ is never straightforward: their subject matter is 
couched in deep metaphor and deliberate obfuscations. 


Cogwork Orthodoxy Writ is like you stuck a notebook by Da Vinci 
or Brunel in a blender with a King James Bible. All Cogwork writ is 
taken from their massive Schema of the Patriarchs, and should be 
prefaced by an alphanumeric identification code hinting at the mind- 
numbing volume of written material the Orthodoxy produces. They 
are written in an archaic style with an intense devotion to detail and 
frequent use of cross-referencing. Remember that these are just as 
much factory output records and assembly line oversight documents 
as they are liturgical texts. Lines are individually numbered, with key 
words being capitalized. God is referred to as The MEKHANE, and 
the "Devil" as The FLESH. 


+Useful Notes on the Cogwork Orthodoxy 


What follows is a slightly expanded version of the simple 
organizational notes | kept while planning and writing the 
Cogwork Orthodoxy material for the contest. Obviously, 
none of this background info is totally all-encompassing 
or complete, and there are lots of gaps and absences 
that you, the author, should feel free to expand upon/ 
exploit. 


The Schema of the Patriarchs (Partial) Table of Contents 


Volume # Contains 

1 The Broken God 

2 Church of the Broken God 
History 

3 The Errors of the Church of 
the Broken God 

4 The Schism 

6 Cathedral of Industry 


History 


55 


indices of Standardization 
Standardized Fabrication 
Technologies 
Standardized Personal 
Technologies 
Standardized Components 
Standardized Metaliurgy 
Standardized Weaponry 
Experimental Weaponry 
Quests of the Inventors- 
Faithful 

Quests of the Analytical 
Engines 

Meditation on the Biueprints 
The Heresies of the 
Maxweilists 

The Abominations of The 
FLESH 


Orders of the Orthodoxy 


¢ Patriarchs: A highly insular body of unknown 


composition and extent. Provides final decision- 
making and control over all Church matters, as 
well as producing the memoranda and texts that 
become the Schema. 


Schematists-Faithful: Print, compile and organize 
the Schema based on instructions from the 
Patriarchs. Theoretically equally-ranked with all the 
other Orders, but in practice exert slightly more 
political pull because of their editing privileges over 
Writ. 


Legates-Faithful: Internal affairs/Inquisition/Courts 
system. Investigate heresy, mediate disputes, 
entitled to direct action in cases of conflict within 
the Cathedral or other Church properties. One of 
the two officially Armed Orders, the other being the 
Militants. 


¢ Militants-Faithful: External Affairs/Self-defence. 
Deal directly with overt and covert threats to the 
Church, beyond the purvey of the Legates. 
Function as ambassadors or representatives to 
other groups, except in matters of doctrine 
(wherein Militant forces might be used to 
supplement a core group of Legates). The first of 
the two officially Armed Orders, the other being the 
Legates. 


Fabricators-Faithful: Oversee production on 
Church properties. Act as foremen and quality 
control for Lay-Brothers and Sisters working in 
Fabrication duties. Determine which new 
Inventions are to be sent to the Patriarchs for 
Standardization approval. 


Inventors-Faithful: Tasked with refining and 
creating new potential Standardized designs. 
Embark on Quests to answer key questions of 
theology and design. By default, all Church 
Sentient Analytical Engines act as members of the 
Inventors. 


Notable Saints 


¢ Saint-Legate Trunnion: Patron of the Legates- 
Faithful, of the Tenacious, of Pragmatic 
Compromise. One of very few Orthodoxy Saints 
not canonized posthumously, for her casting out of 
the Factory during the early period of the Schism. 
Sometimes frowned upon by more conservative 
members of the Orthodoxy for her willingness to 
use relatively covert methods to root out heretical 
thought. 


¢ Saint-Schematist Platen: Patron of the Written 
Word, of Editors, of Timetables and of 
Diagrammatic Organization. Enacted massive 
reforms of the newly-founded Schematists-Faithful 
during the early Schism, leading to the highly 


organized and cross-referential form of the 
‘modern’ Schema. Also known for her frequent and 
highly successful dabblings in theology and 
philosophy. 


Saint-Inventor Diaphragm: Patron the Inventors- 
Faithful, of Designers, of Repairmen and of 
Cognition Engines. Founded the Inventors-Faithful 
and began the first Quests for Knowledge that 
would lead to early Cognition and Analytical 
Engines. Engaged in several well-known 
philosophical collaborations with Saint Platen 
which were fundamental to Orthodoxy philosophy 
of the mind. 


Saint Scranton: Patron of Spatial Fabric 
Manipulation, Higher-Dimensional Mathematics 
and Anthracite Coal Extraction. Known in life as 
the 19th-century American industrialist and 
politician George W. Scranton, he was never a 
member of the church but produced several key 
anomalous mechanical technologies that allowed 
for the analog manipulation of multi-dimensional 
spaces. His works were vital jumping-off points for 
both the Church and the SCP Foundation, who 
derived much of their reality-stabilization 
technology from Scranton inventions. 


Saint-Fabricator Baffle: Patron of Workflow and the 
Assembly Line. One of the earliest foremen of the 
Cathedral, Baffle was responsible for laying out the 
general organizational plan that the Cathedral's 
work areas follow today. 


Saint-Inventor Chock: Patron of Chorists. 
Dedicated his life to the study of sound, audiology, 
and to composing many of the Orthodoxy's most 
classic hymns. Most members of the Orthodoxy 
learn some or all of his Symphony of Assembly in 
childhood. 


¢ Saint-Inventor Enrichner: Patron of the 
Enetelechiated. Very little about her personal life is 
known, save that she spontaneously vanished one 
day during a meeting of the other Inventors, 
leaving behind no personal effects save her 
seminal In Search of Disembodiment, considered 
the chief text for those more spiritual members 
who seek life beyond their corporeal forms. 


Church of Maxwellism Writ can be taken from any number of 
sources. Maxwellist religious documents are distributed 
electronically, and are often shared and modified by individual 
members as a collaborative attempt to divine their true meaning. 
Their god supposedly is open-source and DRM-free, after all 
(though sysadmins being what they are, this may not always be the 
case). Maxwellist texts share the line-numbering scheme of 
Orthodox works, and refer to God as 'WAN'. The writing style here 
should be obviously formal, but generally simple and straightforward 
with the exception of technical terms. Instead of cross-referencing or 
providing detailed work figures, Maxwellist Writ emphasizes do-it- 
yourself construction and an almost instruction-booklet feel. Despite 
their sometimes esoteric compiling methods, their intended 
audience is not priests and scholars, but individual adherents of the 
faith. 


All Holy Writ should have the follow title format: 


Title of Book 


Details of Book 


1. Verse 1 
2. Verse 2 
SL EIGrs 


Footnotes 

1. Spanish Nationalist records from 1938 mention a civilian 
mechanic by the name of Umberto Bumaro, who received several 
governmental citations for "Miraculous feats of engineering and 
mechanical repair in service to the State". Whether or not this is the 


same individual, and his whereabouts during the Second World War, 
is unknown. 


The Broken Mind 


The Book of Pieces 


Chapter 12: The Broken Mind of the LORD and How It is to be 


Built 


1; 


So it came to pass that the Heart and the Eye and the Tongue 
were together in one place, and the Quick-silver Ichor had 
been dredged from the Sea of the Dead and gathered into a 
vial, and the Soul—ransomed from the lands of Daevon—was 
sealed up and under watch. 


. The Six Angels, reunited, were pleased with the works of the 


faithful. The people rejoiced in their blessings and protection. 


. Then spake the Angel of Progress to his priests: "The time is