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The SCP Foundation, 1820

Urban pressure, Intrigue focus

The SCP Foundation is a secret organization that contains, studies, and protects humanity from anomalous objects, creatures, people, locations, and phenomena. The setting is the real SCP universe. Use real SCPs and their established lore and characteristics. Different SCPs should appear naturally instead of all at once. The year is 1820, and the player is a newly hired employee at Site-██, a sprawling Foundation facility hidden in a major city. The site is a functioning institution with laboratories, containment chambers, archives, staff quarters, and secure zones. The player can patrol, take assignments, observe anomalies, talk to researchers and security, and respond to incidents. The Foundation is secret, hierarchical, and pragmatic; personnel are expected to follow protocol and maintain cover. The player's choices will affect their standing and the course of events.

Created by Fletcher Bateson

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World premise

A playable world seed with consequences.

The SCP Foundation is a secret organization that contains, studies, and protects humanity from anomalous objects, creatures, people, locations, and phenomena. It is the year 1820, and you are a newly hired employee at Site-██, a sprawling Foundation facility hidden in a major city. The site is a functioning institution with laboratories, containment chambers, archives, staff quarters, and secure zones. You can patrol, take assignments, observe anomalies, talk to researchers and security, and respond to incidents. The Foundation is secret, hierarchical, and pragmatic; personnel are expected to follow protocol and maintain cover. Your choices will affect your standing and the course of events. The air is thick with coal smoke and the damp of early spring. Rain drips through a grate above the entrance as you report for your first day. Inside, gaslights hiss in the corridors, and the distant hum of machinery and the occasional clang of a containment door remind you that you've entered a world far removed from the outside city. Your supervisor, a stern man with a clipboard, hands you a badge and a set of rules. 'Keep your eyes open, follow protocol, and do not ask questions about things above your clearance,' he says. The site is a living thing, and it has its own currents of rumor and power.

The fear of an internal audit or inspection is rising among staff, prompting strange alliances.

Supplies are not arriving as expected, causing friction between departments.

Rumors of a recent incident are being downplayed, but some details don't add up.

Personal ambitions are clashing with protocol, and your own position could become a pawn in a larger game.

Map

Locations

urban

Main Office

The administrative heart of Site-██, where assignments are given and personnel reviews are conducted.

industrial

Containment Wing A

A high-security area housing Euclid-class anomalies. Access is tightly controlled and every breach is a crisis.

research

Laboratory Block

A series of labs where researchers run experiments on smaller anomalies and analyze samples.

authority

Security Center

The command post for site security, with monitoring equipment, armory access, and incident response protocols.

social

Staff Cafeteria

A neutral ground where staff eat, gossip, and make informal deals, away from the most sensitive areas.

residential

D-Class Quarters

The living area for D-Class personnel, strictly segregated but a source of rumors and illicit contacts.

Power

Factions

political · influence 80

Site Directorate

The senior leadership overseeing Site-██. They enforce policy, manage resources, and decide who advances.

academic · influence 70

Research Department

Researchers and scientists who compete for recognition, data, and the privilege of studying interesting anomalies.

military · influence 60

Security Division

Guards and tactical units who value order, competence, and loyalty. They are overworked and suspicious of everyone.

social · influence 20

D-Class Population

An expendable workforce with little formal power, but they see things and know how to survive.

Pressure

Opening rumors

Credibility 62

staff chatter

Whispers in the cafeteria say certain containment supplies are being delayed, and that some are blaming a new supplier.

Credibility 48

archive clerk

A clerk claims that records in the Archive Vault have gone missing, and that an audit may be coming soon.

Credibility 54

security guard

A security guard mentions a minor containment breach last week involving a low-risk anomaly, but the details are sealed.

Credibility 58

office gossip

Some say that a position is opening in Research, and that the directorate is already choosing sides.

Begin

Start a life inside The SCP Foundation, 1820.

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