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REPORT WIRIT 
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REQUESTED 
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1. Paragraphs here are numbered. You should make a specific point 
with each paragraph. If you need more than one paragraph to make 
each point, try to either condense the point (keep in mind that the 
person reading this should already have read several prior-written 
documents and reports about the phenomenon under discussion, so 
they may already know somethings that you can leave out for 
implication purposes, similar to redaction) or split the subject into 
two distinct points. 


2. The document listed here is two pages long for example 
purposes. You're within your rights to vary how long each paragraph 
is and how many paragraphs are on each page, but try to keep the 
dimensions of the resulting finished product approximately page- 
sized (8.5x11in in American terms). (This document is shorter 
because these are bogus points being made here.) | don't think 
people are likely going to take a ruler to their computer monitor to 
check your work, but making a page that's unrealistically way too 
long or way too short will break immersion. 


HEADING OF THIS SECTION:15 
3. More points. 
4. Oh god the points. We're very pointed here. In the case of 


documents such as this that have two pages, you may use a 'page 
wrap' sort of effect by ending a paragraph in mid sentence 


CONFIDENTIAL 


SAME AS ABOVE 

SERIOUSLY, DON'T CHANGE 
ANYTHING ABOUT THESE 

IT WOULDN'T BE A HEADER 

IF IT KEPT CHANGING. BONUS 
POINTS IF ALL DATES ARE 

11 FEBRUARY IN SOME YEAR 


CONFIDENTIAL 


ISLAMIC ARTIFACT RECLAMATION DIRECTORATE 
SHEMIRAN, TEHRAN PROVINCE 
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN 


and continuing the point over on the next page. Be sure to check the 
line length when doing this, since the Wikidot text input box may not 
show you when a line actually ends, and you'll look like a derp if the 
line ends arbitrarily. 


5. Another point is being made here. Such point. Very anomalous. 


6. Side note: Most of these documents make use of Arabic and 
Farsi/Persian terminology nearly-interchangeably. This is because 
ORIA, while based in Iran principally, extends its effective sphere of 
influence across a much larger area. ORIA is the principal authority 
over anomalous phenomena in the Middle East, with substantial 
influence as well in northern Africa (competing with the Foundation, 
Chaos Insurgency, and Manna Charitable Foundation to a lesser 
extent), Central Asia (competing with the Chaos Insurgency and 
GRU-P), and the Indian subcontinent (almost certainly competing 
with somebody). ORIA has agents of many nationalities, religions, 
ethnicities, and native languages, and most of them should be fluent 


in at least either Farsi/Persian or Arabic. 

7. POINTS 

8. srs tho, fuck roget, right? why do we even keep him around 
9. The last point may include date and time of transmission. 


— [TITLE OF AUTHOR] [NAME OF AUTHOR] 


[[size 2.5em] ] CONFIDENTIAL 


OUT OF UNIVERSE NOTES, FOR REFERENCE 
History of the Organization 


The Indo-European world has always had a strong 
tradition of magic, sorcery, and anomalous phenomena. 
One can presume that, as with the ASCI and HURSCP 
in the West, there were precursor organizations, groups, 
or even individuals throughout the Middle East and West 
Asia who worked to harness those powers. The 
Organization for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts, 
or ORIA, coalesced in the post-World War II era as the 
foremost independent agency in the Mideast for 
anomalous phenomenon containment and 
documentation, centered in Shemiran, Tehran Province, 
lran. After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, ORIA was (out 
of necessity) folded into the new Revolutionary 
government as the Islamic Artifact Reclamation 
Directorate; this title, however, is used primarily on 
government documents and the old name is more likely 
to be used and recognized in casual conversation. 


The relative political stability and independence of Iran 
throughout the 19th and 20th century left it the last stable 


place where such an effort could be based. As such, 
ORIA has strong ties throughout the Mideast across 
religious, national, and tribal lines; they have alliances 
with Sunnis as well as Jews, Christians, and assorted 
pagan groups (the hidden Neo-Zoroastrian enclaves in 
particular). The Revolution in 1979 changed little for the 
organization as such; the less diehard-fundamentalist 
Muslims began pretending outwardly to be so in order to 
match new political realities, but nobody in the new 
government is quite willing to tamper with ORIA's 
traditional autonomy so long as ORIA makes no attempt 
to influence the Revolution. Which it doesn't; some 
members of the organization have left-wing, atheistic, or 
anti-Ayatollah tendencies, but a// of the organization is 
strongly loyal to their homelands — Iran in particular, but 
also other Mideastern nations, local tribes, clans, or 
families — and the group is mostly apolitical in nature. 


OOC note: This is a key difference between ORIA and 
the Foundation or GOC, with whom they share some 
methods and procedures but a remarkably different goal. 
ORIA doesn't care about "normalcy"; they care about 
protecting and advancing their homeland(s) from and 
against external threats. To the extent that ORIA cares 
about secrecy, it's to avoid external sabotage and 
interference; to the extent ORIA cares about scientific 
advancement, it's directed towards helping their people 
and families. ORIA has absolutely no qualms about 
helping, using, exploiting, manipulating, or cooperating 
with anomalous phenomena so long as the protection of 
their sphere of influence is maintained, their people are 
helped, or the West is pushed out or kept away. This 
extends also to cooperation/interactions with other 
Groups of Interest; ORIA will work with anyone that can 
advance its interests and opposes anyone that threatens 
them. Pragmatism, first and foremost, is their watchword. 


The Djinn 


The latent reality-bending power of otherwise 


nonanomalous humans has been a topic of some 
discussion, but little evidence has ever been presented 
to prove the existence of this power. Regardless of 
formal evidence, an unusual phenomenon spread 
around the Middle East in the mid seventh-century, 
coinciding with the formation and spread of Islam. 
Sentient memetic organisms developed throughout the 
Muslim world around the conception of "djinn" as 
developed by the new Muslim ruling class. The rapid 
spread of Islam and the Quranic beliefs produced a 
massive change in localized human consciousness; the 
sudden conquest and conversion of so many humans in 
such a short period of time created a manual reality- 
bending effect, conjuring or consolidating sentient, 
independent, humanoid creatures throughout the Dar-al- 
Islam. These beings, numbering in the tens of 
thousands, often emerged near the Middle East and 
Mesopotamia, including Persia; this is due to the strong 
Arab/Muslim influence in their corporeal incarnations. 


Many of the great geniuses of the Western/Middle 
Eastern world for the next several centuries, the ones 
who maintain the great works of classical Greece and 
Rome through the Dark Ages, are, in fact, djinn. Because 
djinn are memetic in nature, they are idea-based and can 
infiltrate into human minds, usually through code phrases 
or incantations; this is responsible for the common idea 
that djinn can "possess" individuals and force them to do 
their bidding. This is hampered by the fact that infiltration 
into a human mind is consistently rather painful for the 
djinn (being creatures of pure idea, immersing 
themselves in a human mind would be like a human 
being diving head-first into a swamp filled with naked, 
screaming strangers, with no definite method of escape) 
and can lead to total loss of identity, insanity, and death. 
Typically, only experienced and trained ajinn attempt 
infiltration. 


Though the existence of djinni are technically supported 
in the Qu'ran as creations of God, they have often been 


persecuted and attacked throughout history due to their 
relatively alien nature and less-than-stellar reputation as 
non-human entities. As a result of this persecution, 
several feuds erupted between several djinn Houses and 
the Muslim-controlled Knwarezmid Empire, the rulers of 
lran beginning in 1077 and for several centuries onward. 
While the Khwarezhmids vastly outnumbered the agjinn, 
the djinn's ability to infiltrate and subvert imperial officers 
allowed them to spark a war between the Khwarezmid 
and Genghis Khan in the thirteenth century. However, 
the Mongol invasion of Iran backfired horrifically for both 
sides, slaughtering fully 90% of the population of Iran, 
placing the Iranian people under Mongol control for 
centuries, and giving the Khans both battle experience 
and geographic access to invade Europe and Northern 
Asia. In the wake of this horrific war, the surviving djinn 
houses began cooperating with indigenous humans to a 
greater extent than ever before; though the djinn 
remained underground to avoid outside investigation, 
they recognized that protection of their homelands 
necessitated a degree of mutual trust, respect, and 
cooperation with their neighboring humans. This loose 
alliance continues to this day; ORIA recruits djinni as 
operatives, both due to their enhanced abilities and their 
greater familiarity with the paranormal. These operatives 
are classified as "Type 2 Special Personnel" in official 
documents. 


(OOC Note: More or less happened, except for the 
//djinni. Also, I'm more than open to less clunky ways of 
expressing "THESE ARE GENIES" in documents; it gets 
awkward having to spell out "Type 2 Special Personnel" 
over and over and over again.) 


The djinn form several Houses in order to support and 
govern themselves as an underground society within 
early Medieval Mesopotamia. The Houses play different 
roles in the lives of their members; some serve as almost 
religious centers, others simply fraternal organizations. 
The oldest and most powerful of these is the House 


a single "nucleating" item will behave as a single entity, even if there 
is no physical connection between the items (see accompanying 
photo-documentation). 


The mode of behaviour of SCP-692-1 depends on the length of 
exposure to the imprinting organism, longer times resulting in a 
higher quality of simulation - approximately three hours of 
uninterrupted contact are sufficient for the imprinting of most 
mammals. 


SCP-692-1 are unaffected by most mechanical damage, and as 
such, incineration is the recommended method of disposal. 


Addendum 692-1: 
TEST LOG SCP-692 


ITEM: 0.5m x 0.3m sheet of cloth 
IMPREGNATING AGENT: A housecat 
EXPOSURE TIME: 5 minutes. 

RESULT: No effect observed even after 10 
hours. Cloth incinerated. 


ITEM: 0.5m x 0.3m sheet of cloth 
IMPREGNATING AGENT: A housecat 
EXPOSURE TIME: 15 minutes. 

RESULT: Two hours after impregnation the 
sheet has wrapped itself as if enveloping the 
body of a housecat of equal size to the 
impregnating agent. Resulting SCP-692-1 
showed no traces of animation. Cutting 
resulting SCP-692-1 into several segments 
produced no adverse effects. Resulting 
SCP-692-1 was subsequently incinerated. 


ITEM: 0.5m x 0.3m sheet of cloth. 
IMPREGNATING AGENT: A housecat. 
EXPOSURE TIME: three (3) hours. 
RESULT: One and half hours after 


Afsaneh, established somewhere in western Persia (now 
Iran). Access to the House is restricted solely to those 
djinn that are members of the House or invited guests; 
knowledge of the physical location of the House is 
restricted solely to higher-order "clergy" within the 
organization; these are common traits of the most 
powerful Houses. Other prominent houses include the 
intellectual but cold djinn of House Roxelana in western 
Turkey, the cosmopolitan (Some would say hedonistic) 
and comparatively liberal ajinn of House Nabhani in 
Oman, and the militant monk djinn of House Khotan in 
the mountains of Outer China. The Houses are allied ina 
loose confederation; cooperation and some degree of 
politeness can be expected for an ORIA operative 
interacting with djinni anywhere, though whether this 
represents real friendship or simple politeness depends 
on the House. 


//OOC note: To create a djinn House for interaction: a) 
locate any area that was predominately controlled by 
Muslims at any point in history, b) identify an intimidating, 
relevant, or historically justifiable proper noun for a 
name, and c) develop a set of relatively unique traits that 
the House can be "known for". That last is sort of cheap 
and you can probably forgo it if you want. // 


Whispers are spoken of a failed attempt by Tamerlane in 
the 14th century to establish a djinn House somewhere 
outside of Eurasia, but these djinn were believed to be 
lost at sea. 


//OOC note: They landed in Australia. 
Writing Style 


Documents depicting ORIA activity take the form of 
communiques, memoranda, and other documents being 
transmitted between ORIA headquarters in Shemiran — 
identified by the codename "Jannah", the Arabic word for 
heaven or paradise — and operatives throughout the 
world. These documents typically reflect the attitudes 


and beliefs of their authors and are neither written for 
mass consumption nor edited later for such a purpose. 
As such, the concept of "clinical tone" as applies to 
scientists is inapplicable here. The tone mostly just 
needs to be justifiable from the perspective of the author 
as well as the recipient; someone reading the document 
has mostly likely already read and has access to other 
documents about the same event, region, or 
phenomenon. For this reason, documents can be written 
with phrasing that assumes the reader is familiar with 
some concepts and does not need full description. 


In the example of Memorandum 0117 Regarding Project 
025, the box on the upper-left corner of each page 
identifies, in order, the primary "case" being discussed in 
the document ("Project 025"), the codename of the case 
("Nowhere Guard"), the codename of the primary ORIA 
operative in field command over the operation or 
situation ("Ibn Rushd"), the author of the memorandum in 
question ("Bijhan"), the destination of the memorandum 
("Jannah"), the number of the memorandum in the file of 
this particular "case" (117) and number of that page out 
of the total (P1/2). The information at the beginning of 
the document identifies the rank and identity of the 
author, the specific identity of the intended recipient 
("Jibril", from the Arabic word for the Archangel Gabriel, 
represents the office of the director of ORIA; "Jibril 
Actual" represents the director himself), the subject, and 
any documents enclosed with the document being 
written here. 


(OOC Note: You might wait until after writing the rest of 
the document out to fill these last two parts in; 
nevertheless, | think they add a certain realistic touch to 
the document, and work much the same as including a 
reference to an Addendum in an SCP even if the 
Addendum is never included itself; it hints at a part of the 
communication that the reader has no access to.) 


The rest of the document is written out in numbered 


paragraphs. In the above document for Project 025, the 
first two paragraphs are notes of particular importance, 
either because the author felt they were or because the 
author was instructed to look into those matters first. The 
numbering is largely arbitrary and mostly reflects a series 
of separate points that can be referred to in future 
memoranda. Document should end with a sign-off from 
the author. 


Other Notes 
Random bits of canon here: