It had nothing but itself, a bottle of water, a box of pizza, a section of 
stone and the machine preserving it all. 


There were no tools. 
There were no guides. 
There was no hope. 


Time had long since run out. There were no days, no hours, no 
minutes, no seconds. There was no undoing or redoing. There was 
nothing but now and there. 


The entity turned to see the familiar machine and moved its form for 
the first time in a long, long time. 


It remembered the button. 


It relocated itself to have the large, bright red button conveniently 
accessible to its appendages. 


It remembered what the button does. 
It gently rested an appendage against the button. 
There was nothing left to do. 


The entity consumed the final slice of pizza it had, and cast the box 
out into the hungry abyss. 


There was nothing left to see. 


The entity consumed more of the water, then cast the bottle into the 
abyss with the box. 


There was nothing left. 


Thoughts of its ageless lifetime raced through its mind. It 
remembered everything within an instance, searching vainly for 
anything it could possibly do other than the inevitable. 


There was nothing. 
The entity pushed the button, ordering the machine to stop. 
With one final silent motion, the jaws of the rat snapped shut. 


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Reimagining Contest 


WINNERS HAVE BEEN 
POSTED! 


Contest Entries 


- Playing the Hand You're Dealt by Drewbear 

- The Reassembled One by MrWrong 

- keine Kosten zu hoch by Agent MacLeod 

- It's Just A Dream by WrongJohnSilver 

- SCP-2914 by spikebrennan 

* Probe-H9 by LurkD 

- The Summer King by DrEverettMann 

- The Lucky Dinosaur by Sophia Light 

- The Beginning Of The End by Silberescher 

- Vescatur Perago by Randomini 

* What You Are In the Dark by Doc_Sanford 

- Hello, | Am an Eldritch Horror by KnightKnight 

- Inside-Out by Communism will win 

- PROJECT 4533 by Eskobar 

- Game Manual by TobiasTheTapir 

- Excerpts From The Medical Tragedy of Dr. 
Bartholomew Artz, Author Unknown by Ihp 


Check Out What The Rules Were Here 


Let's get ready to 
rummmbblleeeeeeeeeeceee... 


By popular demand, a new contest is starting up! The 
purpose of this contest is to take a classic idea from the 
site and reimagine it as something new, different, and 
original! 


How does this work? 


The idea here is simple. You take anything written on the 
site from 2011 or earlier, and you reimagine it as 
something new. You put it into a new format (tale, 
recovery logs, interviews, experiment logs, GOT 
formats, or even the SCP format), and you submit it for 
the contest. 


Note that this isn't just taking SCP-173 and writing 
Crunch. It's even more than turning SCP-173 and 
making Revised Entry. This is taking SCP-173 and 
thinking "What if it was as big as Rushmore?" or "Why 
doesn't it play the flute and lure other statues into holes 
in the side of a hill?" or "What if it was actually a pig- 
demon?" 


You are not rewriting. You are not expanding. You are 
reimagining the whole dang concept. 


Alright, but... What if | want to take 
more than one direction? 
This contest anticipates — maybe even hopes — that 


you do. There are two options for how to do your contest 
entry: one single, solid article or a multi-part work. 


Oh, so that's the weird thing about 
this one. 
Yeah, you got it. It works like this. If you want to just write 


One, strong reimagined article for the entire contest, then 
you are totally within your rights to write it, submit it, and 


still have just as good of a chance of winning as a more 
expansive article. 


However, if you want to, for example, write up SCP-682 
as a nearly indestructible adaptive alien god who hates 
humanity, but talks like a Power Rangers villain due to 
improper absorption of our popular culture, then you 
could write a multi-part entry that would look like: 


Part #1: The Global Occult Coalition records of 
an attack by 682 on the United Nations 
demanding to see the world leader so he can 
be properly eaten. 


Part #2: The Black Queen's multiversal 
catalogue entry, using her GOI format. Shows 
neo-682's effect on a bunch of different 
timelines. (Hopefully the theoretical author 
wouldn't just use this as an excuse to bring in 
the original 682; that defeats the purpose!) 


Part #8: is a short tale from the POV of 682 
herself. 


This is completely legal. You can have as many or as 
few pieces to a multi-part entry as you want. When doing 
a multi-part entry, to keep the contest running smoothly, 
please make sure you're using a tabbed document 
and keep all your entries on a single page. 


Note: If you use the SCP format, you need at least three 
parts to your entry. See Rule #3 below. 


Can | get some more concept 
examples? 
Here you go (feel free to steal): 


¢ SCP-008: Zombie plague that turns out to be the 
intended next state of humanity's existence, 


suppressed by occult organizations up until the 
present, who passed this duty on to the 
Foundation. 

* The Broken God: The shattered remnants of a 

deity who allowed herself crucified by the dominant 

religious groups in the universe before this one, so 
as to allow the creation of Earth. Her bones make 
up the bones of Earth, and her cults are trying to 
resurrect her by reinvigorating Earth metals with 
life force via clockwork shrines that crank out 
mechanical worship. 

Profile of The Administrator, Charles Ogden 

Gears: An emotionless man who founded the 

Foundation, after calculating that this was the only 

way to save the world from inevitable destruction 

and plunging into chaos. His plan to reshape the 
world into a mechanical, emotion-free paradise is 

SCP-001, though he is holding off for now because 

he wishes to preserve normalcy for as long as 

possible. SCP-001 will be executed only once the 

Foundation finally fails (as it must). He is opposed 

by freedom fighters called the Chaos Insurgency, 

founded by (a re-imagined) Alto Clef and Kain 

Pathos Crow. Neither faction are villains. 

* The Serpent's Hand: Fighting for the rights of all 
sentient organisms to become sapient and to 
ascend to the next level of evolution. This may or 
may not involve literally giving serpents hands. 

¢ SCP-105: A girl named Iris who can extract light 
from photographs and film and analyze its patterns 
of light on a quantum level. She eventually sees 
through universes. (Don't steal this one: it's been 
done already as an SCP.) 


Contest Rules 


CONFUSED ABOUT THE 


RULES? ESKOBAR WANTS 
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— 


. One entry per author. 
. For the sake of the voting: One page per entry. 


Use tabviews if necessary. 


. You may not have more than one SCP format 


portion in your entry, and if you use the SCP 
format at all, you also need at least two other tabs. 
In other words, you must have at least three 
distinct, substantive documents (three or more 
tabs total) within your entry in any format IF you 
make use of the SCP format. Relying exclusively 
on the familiar is discouraged. If they are found not 
to have sufficient content, your entry will be 
disqualified. 


. Entries can be as long or as short as you want. 


However, if you're using the SCP Format, then the 
other tabs must have substantive content. 


. No significant edits after the entry has been 


posted. If you wouldn't do it to someone else's 
work, don't do it to your own until the contest ends. 


. Once your entry is in, it's in. Entries will be subject 


to the normal deletion process, and authors with 
failed entries will not get another chance. Make 
sure your entry is as good as possible before 
submitting it! 


. Entries must be new. You can use some material 


you've used before, but the bulk of your entry must 
be new material and ideas created for this contest 
(on pain of disqualification). It also must be your 
own idea, not set in someone else's canon. 


. No malicious downvoting. This is always a rule, but 


we mention it here again because contests can get 
competitive. If you do this, not only will you be 
disqualified, you may also be banned from the site. 


. All entries must be tagged with "rei2015" 


(Reimagining Contest 2015) in order to be 


counted. 

10. Do not post before February 20th or after March 
6th. 

11. The winner will be determined on March 10th and 
announced the following day. The winners are 
determined by a combination of rating and judge 
scoring. Judges are chosen from site staff and 
members anonymously. 


Judge's Rubric 


This is being posted by popular request. The precise 
method of ranking may be altered slightly, and the 
wording might be tweaked, but the standards will not 
be. 


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Questions 


Is it more advantageous to post a single piece, or try 
to write something as ambitious as possible? 


Neither. A single-piece entry will be easier to pull off, and 
you'll have much more time to polish it. Same for a few 
short tabs. And people are much more willing to read 
something that's shorter. 


On the other hand, a massive sprawling 20-tab affair 
may dazzle people with its impressiveness. But it will be 
very hard to pull off, and can also end up being too long 
for people to want to read. It also has an Achilles heel: if 
just one tab sucks, the whole thing can get downvoted. 
(That's one reason we're requiring all sub-entries to be 
on one page.) 


Man. Why are you being such dicks about the SCP 


SCP-697: Toxic Terraforming 


Item #: SCP-697 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-697 are 
kept in Storage Section-V of Site 18. The area is forty feet below 
ground level and lined with steel, ensuring only authorized personnel 
may enter. All unauthorized persons attempting to gain access are 
terminated on sight. 


Each instance of SCP-697 is sealed in a depressurized, four-inch 
thick titanium container to avoid accidental activation. Removal from 
the containers is restricted to three instances at a time for Level 4 
access approved experiments only. Under no circumstances are any 
instances of SCP-697 to leave Site 18. Should accidental spills 
occur at any point, Site 18 is to be evacuated, and the area affected 
incinerated. Large scale spills shall lead to total abandonment of the 
Site, and a quarantine of the surrounding area for eight square 
kilometers. 


Further information pertaining to spilling of SCP-697 outside of Site 
18 is located in Document-697- Theta. 


Description: SCP-697 consists of the contents of one-hundred 
(100) toxic-chemical containment drums, consistent with those used 
by Duslo a.s. for waste disposal. All are in either perfect or near- 
perfect condition, and three have yet to be breached by the 
Foundation or other persons. Each drum is filled to the brim with an 
as-yet-unidentified chemical. 


When exposed to any substance other than the drums, SCP-697 
triggers a highly complex chemical process that converts most forms 
of solid matter around it into fully-formed plant-like organisms within 
seconds of contact, effectively terraforming the area immediately 
surrounding it. Existing multicellular life is quickly broken down into 


Format? 


We expect you to be creative and flexible. If your entry 
relied on you just reimaging SCP-108 into a pie monster 
who throw pies and murders babies, and all you wanted 
to do was write up the SCP, then what are you really 
accomplishing? Spread your arms and fly, little birds. We 
have faith in your wings. And even falling is a good 
experience sometimes. 


Can | keep the original concept a secret? 


No. That's counter to the spirit of the contest. This isn't a 
competition for how clever one can be with papering over 
their source material. 


What if we wanna reimagine a central concept 
written during/before 2011, but had a rewrite after 
that? 


You can use any of the base concept from during/before 
2011. Try to avoid using newer material added on to that 
specific concept — otherwise, what's the point? The 
base concept is fair game. 


Can we tie in any newer stuff? 


Sure, as long as your central concept is based on 
something that's classic by this contest's standards. 
Make sure the bulk of the entry qualifies for the contest's 
standards. Newer material should be used for 
ancillary concepts only. 


If you're worried you have too much material based on 
newer stuff, then write more material based on the older 
stuff or cut some of the newer stuff out. 


Do I just have to reimagine SCP articles? 
Nope. Key word: "concept". If you can think of a way to 


reimagine anything on the wiki from 2011 or before, go 
for it. 


Can | use the original names/titles/SCP numbers? 
Yes. 

Can | see a list of articles that qualify? 

Courtesy of Crayne: 


If you want a list of SCPs and tales posted 
before 01-01-2012, click here and look at the 
top two listPages modules. 


Caveat: this lists pages created before 
01-01-2012, not concepts. Some pages with 
pre-2012 concepts have been rewritten en 
reposted. Be sure to always check the 
discussion thread on a page if you want to be 
sure. 


Handy Deadline Timer 


Make sure you get your entries in by the following 
deadlines! 


This contest was proposed by TwistedGears. The hub 
was written by Rejekyl1, thedeadlymoose, and 
Troy. 


Playing the Hand You're Dealt 


Excerpts from D. Walmorgna's Codex of Esoteric Therapeutic 
Tools 


pg. 45 


The tarot deck is commonly seen as a focus tool for 
prognostication and fortune-telling, and there are many 
decks which perform admirably in that capacity. However, 
from 1780-1802 CE, a limner and occultist by the name of 
Francois Desjardins created a series of five known decks 
with properties more suited to investigating the mind. 
Although the sophistication and responsiveness of the 
decks increased with each iteration, they all share the same 
general properties of adapting their imagery, suits, or 
trumps so as to reflect important aspects of the person 
receiving a reading. This did not result in appreciably 
increased forecasting accuracy, but became a valuable 
resource regarding the mindstate of the one receiving a 
reading. As such, these decks offer a valuable opportunity 
to help individuals gain insight into their own situations and, 
with proper guidance, clues as to how to improve that 
personal status. 


pgs. 198-200 
Current Common Variations and their Meanings 


Original Card Replacement Description & 
New Meaning 


VII The Chariot 


VII The Risen 
Queen 


A woman clad in 
scarlet robes, 
reclining upon a 
palanquin draped in 
cloths in various 
shades of green. 
The palanquin is 
carried by six 
monsters or beasts 
while a small child 
carrying a large urn 
is dragged behind 
by achain. The urn 
is occasionally 
broken and emitting 
a black smoke 
which encircles the 
remainder of the 
image.