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//By most accounts, Sloth's Pit is one of the weirdest places in the continental United States, but you won't find anything as mundane as a mystery house or a gravity hill here. Instead, we have apple orchards planted by John Chapman himself, where cider flows instead of sap. Every house is haunted, and ghost tours are available, provided by the Sloth's Pit Historical Society and the City Council. Camping equipment is always available to rent, should one be brave enough to venture out and spend a night in the woods, under the cover of starlight and looming trees.// 

- Sloth's Pit Tourist Guide, 2016 edition.
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Sloth's Pit looks like the average midwestern town. It has a downtown centered at the corner of Main St. and Francis Ave. It has a library, a courthouse, a selection of local restaurants that are each more horrid than the last, a local history museum, and both the Catholic and secular high schools, located across the street at the western end of Main. The further you go out from Main Street, you'll find more residential areas, parks, various fast food joints, St. Francis de Sales Hospital, and the Recreational Morgue, amongst other things. Further still, you'll find undeveloped land-- the woods surrounding Sloth's Pit.

But Sloth's Pit is anything but average. Located in the backmost part of Douglas County in Wisconsin, it is one of over thirty [[[nexus-series|Nexuses]]] in the United States of America, and the third most-active, behind Roadkill County, Oregon and [[[scp-1936|Daleport]]]. It is a hotbed of anomalous activity that has had the Foundation's attention since at least the 1970s.

The reason for this becomes clear if you spend even a single day in the city. News broadcasts over the radio always seem to be relevant to one's conversation, the weather is exactly what it should be for every day of the year, and although conflict rises on occasion, it always is resolved in an oddly satisfying manner.

Every Nexus has a theme; Sloth's Pit's theme can be quantified as 'Narrative'. Everything that happens in the city happens along the lines of tropes, motifs, and concepts found in western media, from major spikes in anomalous activity on Christmas and Halloween, to recurring anomalies acting as 'running gags' for the populace, to a first kiss at P.R.O.M. being powerful enough to defeat a monster.

The Narrative is a powerful force in Sloth's Pit. And naturally, the Foundation has been studying it for years.
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++ Site-87

//Site-87 is one of the more oddball sites in the Foundation; not as extreme as Site-19 was circa 1990, but those who live and work within its walls are more prone to have bizarre things happen to them, as is the nature of the nexus. As a result of the unusual happenings, the psyches of the staff have adapted in various manners. They are some of the most diligent workers among the Midwestern Foundation sites, but at the same time, they aren't afraid to have morale-building exercises such as prolonged camping excursions to study the anomalous nature of the forests surrounding the town.//

- Dr. Philip Verhoten, //The Crossroads: A Study of Urban Anomalous Nexuses in the United States.//
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In 1976, the Foundation dispatched a small team to secure and contain a totemic entity that resided within the local summer camp. This entity, known as 'Big Bear', turned out to be a guardian spirit that protected the children of the camp from creatures born of their own homesick nightmares. Its removal allowed these nightmare creatures to run amok; over fifty people died in Camp Krakkow the following night, most of them children.

In early September, the Foundation bought out an abandoned office building on the eastern end of Main Street, atop a hill surrounded by the forest, to act as a provisional containment Site while they scrambled on what to do with this grieving city that was calling for blood from whoever was responsible. Deemed Provisional Site-87, it was manned by a skeleton crew of only fifteen. One of those fifteen happened to be Researcher Phillip Verhoten, appointed as an archival assistant. Over the following month, he discovers dozens of strange things about Sloth's Pit: the library's restricted section that contained hundreds of pieces of anomalous media, townsfolk that were willing to tell him dozens of local legends, and then he started seeing things in the woods...

At this point, the concept of a Nexus was poorly understood by the Foundation. They knew of their existence, but all that were known to them were either outside of their control (such as Three Portlands and La Rue Macabre), inhabited by individuals who were not fully human (such as Hy-Brasil), or had political and cultural considerations surrounding them that made studying the behavior of the Nexus and their inhabitants problematic (such as Lake Huron). Sloth's Pit was, demographically speaking, an average town in the American Midwest that just so happened to be a Nexus. The Foundation immediately began expanding Provisional Site-87 into a proper Site and made its sole directive the study and containment of Sloth's Pit, christened Nexus-18.

But now, the question becomes... how did Sloth's Pit //become// a Nexus?
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[[tab What Lies In The Woods]]

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++ What Lies in the Woods

//When I saw the place where my home once stood, I wailed with such force that snow was shaken from the branches around me. But for the front step, all that remained was a pit that was vast and endless. Gone was my father's lap, where I would sit as he read his latest story. Gone was my mother's bed, where I would bundle up in the cold of winter. Gone was my brother's favorite hatchet, which he would use to keep the house warm. All gone, and in its place, a void. They tell me it is the wind, but I swear I still hear them screaming from within. Perhaps they have not yet hit the bottom?//


//Jasper, dear Jasper... even now, I imagine you climbing from the Pit, holding your favorite hatchet. But you are somehow changed...//

--Excerpt from the journal of Caroline Sloth, Sole Survivor to the Sloth Family.
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At the center of Sloth's Pit-- conceptually, narratively, geographically, metaphysically --is its namesake. Classified as [[[SCP-4040]]] by the larger Foundation, this bottomless pit formed beneath the manor of Jackson Sloth, the town's founder, a lumber magnate, librarian, and aspiring novelist. It has been deemed a 'pataphysical singularity' by the Foundation, a force that pulls in Narrative-friendly events and individuals to the Nexus. 

It formed on Christmas Day of 1890, less than seven years after Sloth founded the city. Originally christened as New Toronto, he lived here with his family: his wife Imogen, his son Jasper, and his daughter Caroline. Caroline survived by a stroke of luck, being sent to the hospital days before Christmas. People already feared the city cursed after the Pit formed, and their whisperings of the curse, of strange things in the woods, of ghosts among them... they all came true, because of the sheer Narrative weight Sloth's Pit held.

From these stories formed a series of bizarre entities-- the Local Legends. Originally, they were entities that would horrify, maim, or outright kill citizens, based on the local superstitions and stories at the time; The Goatman would kill couples who had children out of wedlock, while Sinning Jessie, a one-eyed lady of the night born from an abstinence campaign, would maim any man who took her up on an offer to 'have a good time'. The 1900s brought on a number of additional bizarre beings: the Hook-Handed Man who stalked young couples on the Lover's Lane, the insane King of Knives, the Sloth's Pit Hum. 

This all changed when they saw the destruction wrought upon Camp Krakkow. They vowed that no such thing would happen to the citizens of Sloth's Pit ever again. Their physical forms are malleable, but at their core, they remain loyal to the town, and all its inhabitants.

Complicating matters further is the presence of a miniature Group of Interest inhabiting Sloth's Pit: the Union, a group of anomalously skilled workers that seems to have originated outside of the Nexus, but has made this town its home for reasons unknown. 
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[[tab Sloth's Pit Today]]
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++ Sloth's Pit Today

//The 21st Century has not been kind to the world, whether it be mundane or anomalous. The Veil is more fragile than ever, thanks to the fact that the internet provides access to anything and everything, all of the time. It is now easier than ever to riddle out the existence of the Anomalous, and the Foundation can only spread itself so thin.//

//At this point, it is not a question of if the Veil will fail, but// when, //and what happens to the Foundation after. We need to be prepared to integrate into regular society. And as to how we can do that... we need look no further than Sloth's Pit.//

--Philip Verhoten, //S & C Plastics: Story Of Your Life.//
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Today, Site-87 is considered one of the most unique Foundation Sites.

Some see it as a fascinating window into what the world could look like if the Foundation ever went public. Others see it as a thorn in the side of science due to it legitimizing the field of pataphysics. Others still see it as a necessary evil, due to it hosting the headquarters of the Department of Multi-Universal Affairs and being the center for dozens of world-saving trans-universal business deals. 

Everyone at Site-87 is in a unique position compared to the rest of the Foundation, as well. Several Nexuses either lack the amenities needed for permanent habitation, or else are hostile in a way that requires the Sites that monitor them to focus solely on containment and study, as opposed to interacting with the populace. Sloth's Pit is, for all intents and purposes, an average American city, and because of that, the Personnel of Site-87 consider it less of an assignment, and more of a home-- one that they will lay down their lives to protect.

In short, Sloth's Pit and Site-87 are what happens when the Foundation takes a step back and lets people live normal lives-- well, as normal as they can get in this odd little town.

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+ Stories in the Canon
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S & C Plastics can be roughly divided up into a number of seasons, based on both the style of the tales and the chronology. As a rough rule, anything set before 2012 will be Season 0. More seasons may be added based on any new content written.

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+ 1890-2012
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Before 1976, the Foundation didn't have a hand in the containment of Sloth's Pit... or did they? Due to bureaucratic miscommunication, the containment zone for [[[SCP-097]]], which was contained in 1969, and Site-87 did not know about each other until the neutralization of SCP-097 in 2017. The Foundation may have had other assets in Sloth's Pit before then; alternatively, stories from this era can focus on the townsfolk and individuals who are living somewhat normal lives in Sloth's Pit, before the Foundation discovered it.

Even after the Foundation contained Sloth's Pit, there were growing pains. They didn't fully comprehend how the city worked; even today, they're still not sure on the exact mechanics. Sloth's Pit has Secrets, some of which are buried here, in the past.

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+++ [[[Last Days At Camp]]] 
++++ By Ihp

A look into the last days of Camp Krakkow, before the massacre that would put Sloth's Pit on the map for the Foundation.
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+++ [[[The Great Site-87 Bakesale]]] 
++++ By Ihp

In the 1990s, Site-87 faced a financial crisis: creatures that could literally //eat// wealth attacked the Site's pocketbooks. Their solution came from the most unlikely place: a man named Francis Wojciechoski, better known throughout the Foundation for his ukelele skills...

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+++ [[[Stratagem]]] 
++++ By Djoric

A pair of researchers discuss what they would do in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

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+++ [[[Multi-U 101]]] 
++++ By Djoric

The Department of Multi-Universal Affairs is headquartered at Site-87. The orientations for it can get interesting, due to the fact that the head of Multi-U can be a bit of a jackass.

+++ [[[Friday]]] 
++++ By Djoric

An average day at Site-87. Bets are made, Multi-Universal negotiations break down, and people contemplate their life outside the Site.

+++ [[[SCP-001-D]]] 
++++ By stormbreath

One of the first SCPs contained by the Foundation has been neutralized. Its remains are interred at Site-87. Pity SCP-001.

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+ 2012-2014
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2012 is when Site-87 first began to be noticed by the larger Foundation. While it had been around for over thirty years, it had largely been considered a dead-end Site, barring the existence of the Department of Multi-Universal Affairs. That started to change this year, with a man getting angry at Halloween vandalism.

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+++ [[[Halloween At S & C Plastics]]] 
++++ By Ihp

Site-87 has egg all over it. Johnathan West might have egg on his face if he doesn't figure out how.

+++ [[[And I Feel Fine]]] 
++++ By Ihp

A period piece; during the alleged apocalypse of 2012, Site-87 scrambles to figure out any probable cause.

+++ [[[Life in the Multiverse]]] 
++++ By Ihp

Tristan, Trevor, and Thomas Bailey have all been part of the Department of Multi-Universal Affairs for a long time. Here are just a few of the universes they have visited.

+++ [[[Attack of the Keter Skeeters!]]] 
++++ By Ihp

Jason Hendricks hates insects, and the feeling seems to be mutual. But all the same, it's up to him to save Site-87 when the Keter Skeeters attack! ...or is it?

+++ [[[Playing With Flames]]] 
+++ By Ihp

Dr. Katherine Sinclair is //not// a thaumaturge; she is a mage. She will remind you of this every chance she gets. Her partner, Montgomery Reynolds, tries to keep up with her while she plays with fire.

+++ [[[Unscience]]] 
++++ By Ihp

The staff of Site-87 need to unwind. One of the preferred pasttimes is turning on bad science documentaries and laughing at them.

+++ [[[Four Seconds, Low Pitched]]] 
++++ By ksaid

Jackson Sloth Memorial High School is probably haunted, and it is //definitely// home to several bizarre happenings. Patience is tested more often than the students are.

+++ [[[Nacho Business]]] 
++++ By An Anonymous Author

The testing will continue until morale improves.

+++ [[[Leafers]]] 
++++ By Hammermaiden

Entomologist Marshall Grant learns that sometimes you've just gotta get away from it all...

+++ [[[Local Legends]]] 
++++ By Ihp

There's something to be said for the power of a story-- but have pity for those the story spawns. The Goatman feels wretched, something only a s'more can cure.

+++ [[[Dance the Danse]]] 
++++ By Ihp


+++ [[[A Very Bailey Christmas]]]
++++ By Ihp

Tristan Bailey has a legacy-- his father invented the Multi-Universal Transit Array, the Foundation's door to the Multiverse. It's Christmastime, so it's time to say hi to dad.

+++ [[[Time Crime in Greater Wisconsin - A Primer]]]
+++ By Petrograd

Time travel is a recurring pain.

+++ [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/holy-crap-this-is-a-long-christmas-tale The 12 Days of Site-87's Christmas]
++++ By Ihp

On the 12th day of Christmas Site-87 gave to me...


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+ 2015-2017
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Sloth's Pit enters a somewhat chaotic state. The nexus is, for lack of a better term, encroached upon by new anomalies, forcing the personnel at Site-87 to further broaden their horizons. Then, in 2017, something horrifying happens, and they're forced to put their lives on the line to protect the city.

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+++ [[[Satyr's Reign]]]
++++ By Ihp

A cult has invaded Sloth's Pit to perform a dark ritual. Time to establish new regular characters!

+++ [[[One Spark, Four Flames]]]
++++ By Ralliston

Two thaumaturges and a theologist hunt an entity terrorizing Sloth's Pit. What could possibly go wrong?

+++ [[[Coyotl]]] 
++++ By Ihp

[[[SCP-2547]]] is supposed to stay out in the Southwest-- but the Narrative Singularity that is Sloth's Pit has drawn him to the city. What will he do here?

+++ [[[Happy Howlidays]]] 
++++ By Ihp

Christmas Eve of 2015 just so happened to be a full moon. Sloth's Pit has a small population of lycanthropes that are monitored by the Foundation. You do the math.

+++ [[[SCP-3773]]]-- 9,000 Lives
++++ By Ihp

Cassandra Pike desperately misses her cat. What happens when she has a chance at a reunion?

+++ [[[Dr. Keith Partridge and the Strawberry Banana Smoothie of DOOM!]]] 
++++ By Ihp

The 4th of July is always an eventful day in Sloth's Pit. Just as things were starting to die down, a goddess set up an extradimensional smoothie shop on Main Street.

+++ [[[Black Autumn Hub|Black Autumn]]] 
++++ By Ihp

Halloween is a big part of life in Sloth's Pit, as it is throughout most of the midwest; it's at time when most people can take off their masks. And now, it's been put in danger by something that was here long before Site-87 was. 

+++ [[[Herman Fuller Can Shove It Up His Ass]]] 
++++ By DrChandra

Jeffery Hubble has a problem, and Hermann Fuller can fix it by... well, read the title.

+++ [[[The Superior Incident Debriefing]]] 
++++ By Ihp

At the end of the Black Autumn, tragedy strikes in a shelter for the citizens of Sloth's Pit in the nearby city of Superior, Wisconsin.
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+ 2018
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With the end of the Black Autumn came the discovery of various notes collated by the now-deceased Isaiah Pickman, an archivist at Site-87. These notes, discovered by Cassandra Pike and collated by several members of staff, formed the basis for a new 001 Proposal, which in turn opened the Foundation's eyes to the world around them-- a world that's fueled by stories. A world they can exploit.

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+++ [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/i-h-p-proposal I. H. Pickman's Proposal]- Story of Your Life
++++ By Ihp

Site-87 has landed on the map with their first official 001 Proposal. The pressure's on to make sure it's just right.

+++ [[[SCP-4040]]] - At The Bottom of a Bottomless Pit
++++ By DrChandra

The eponymous Sloth's Pit itself now has an SCP Classification. Join Agents Alison Carol and Robert Tofflemire as they try to get to the bottom of things.

+++ [[[Tight Bookshelves]]]
++++ By Researcher Blasko

Kimba Laslow, being a pataphysicist, often gets lost in a good book.

+++ [http://www.scp-wiki.wikidot.com/rise-of-the-pit-sloth-hub Black Autumn II: Rise of the Pit Sloth]
++++ By Ihp
Why have one horrifying Halloween when you can have two for twice the price?

+++ [[[Starlow Grocery]]]
++++ By Ellie3

Lucius Bell has a new job, and it's got Union benefits. What? Oh, no, his job doesn't have a union, you see-- it's a long story, and it starts with a woman called The Stocker, and a grocery store called Starlow.

+++ [[[A Hero I Would Be!]]]
++++ By Ellie3

The Narrative can be... difficult to deal with.

+++ [[[A Christmas Caterwaul]]]
++++ By Ihp

Seren Pryce and Christmas go together like peanut butter and rusted nails. The season doesn't agree with her, violently so.
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+ 2019-2021

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For reasons that the Foundation can't truly comprehend, Sloth's Pit went into somewhat of a Doldroms in 2019. A downturn in anomalous activity was noted, as if reality was otherwise occupied. This doesn't mean that things didn't happen, just that they weren't necessarily anomalous in nature. This all changed in October of 2020, of course.
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+++ [[[Dr. King Turns Everyone at S & C Plastics Into Appleseeds]]]
++++ By Ihp

"Dr. King? The apple seed guy? He started at Site-87? Honestly doesn't surprise me, given what a clusterfrag that site is."


+++ [[[S & C Plastics Actually Does Their Job]]]
++++ By Ellie3

Despite being called S&C Plastics, no plastic has ever been made at Site-87. One way or another, that's about to change. 

+++ [[[SC Paper | S & C Paper]]]
+++ By Uncle Nicolini

"… so what you're telling me is the Foundation has an anomaly that can change a cotton mill to a hydraulic press on a whim, but not one that just creates paper?"

+++ [[[The Many Business Ventures of S & C Plastics]]]
++++ By Ellie3

Head Researcher Sevens desperately needs some vacation time.

+++ [[[Entangled In An Interdimensional Spirally Dance]]]
++++ By Ellie3

This //is// Koala's Pit, right?

+++ [[[Crying Over Coffee]]]
++++ By Ihp
Dr. Harold West is grieving for someone who hasn't died yet.

+++ [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/i-love-you-too-much "You called my bluff"]
++++  By Ellie3

Dear Olivia...

+++ [[[Discordant Anthology Hub|Black Autumn 3: Discordant Anthology]]]
++++ By Ihp

Halloween weirdness tries to break out of Sloth's Pit.

+++ [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/100th-tale The Tale With No Name]
++++ By Ihp

A sort of metafictional anniversary.

+++ [[[sloths-pit-chrimmas|Sloth's Pit Christmas Façade]]]
++++ By Ellie3

Holiday cheer is //always// real, no matter how "fake" it may seem.

+++ [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/snow-is-hell Snow is Hell]
++++ By Weryllium

Winter, a time where hot chocolate bubbles, snowmen smile upon the fields, and war... war never changes

+++ [[[That's My Jam!]]]
++++ by Ihp

One last bit of normalcy before it all goes away. The Jam Jam is an annual confectionary fair in Sloth's Pit, soon to be menaced by... //The Jamburglar!//

+++ [[[Nothing To Fear Hub | Black Autumn IV: Nothing To Fear]]]
++++ By Ihp

2020 was a rough year for everyone. Anxiety reigned supreme, the status quo died, and we couldn't even go to its funeral because of quarantine.


+++ [[[Not My Sloths, Not My Pit]]], [[[If You Don't Know The Words...]]] and [[[Whack-A-Mole]]]
++++ By HarryBlank

William Wallace Wettle is a miserable human being. In January of 2021, as part of a massive sting operation coordinated by Site-43, he was dispatched to Sloth's Pit, which made him even more miserable. See his story unfold in three parts, and in the [[[The Time After Time Password Hub]]].

+++ [[[Perennial Ritual, Offering Maiden]]]
++++ By Ihp

Some anomalies can only be perceived by children-- or at least, the Foundation thinks so. An example of this can be found in the curse affecting Jackson Sloth Memorial High, and what the Yearbook Committee has to do to ward it off every Valentine's Day.

+++ [[[Chasing The Union]]]
++++ By Uncle Nicolini

Doctor Everwood journeys from Site-55 to Sloth's Pit in an attempt to learn more about the ever-elusive //The// Union and its members. Along the way they meet up with Katherine Sinclair and have a little chat in the Site-87 cafeteria.

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+ June 2021-2030s
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In 2021, [[[SCP-6500]]] was contained and 'neutralized' through a massive, coordinated effort by the Foundation. While magic stopped dying, certain things cannot be undone; over 180 anomalous items, including [[[SCP-963]]], [[[SCP-087]]], [[[SCP-2521]]], and [[[SCP-4999]]] were permanently destroyed, and the Foundation just kept on trucking.

S & C Plastics takes place in the ending of SCP-6500 where the Foundation chose to stay the course, keep the status quo going. The O5 Council is corrupt, but there's some good news: a team of concerned Foundation personnel from around the globe has decided to take it upon themselves to try to change the Foundation from within. Calling themselves Threshold, the Foundation is monitoring their activities with great interest.

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+++ [[[SCP-6500]]]- Inevitable 
++++ By Aethris, DarkStuff, Grigori Karpin, HarryBlank, Ihp, Placeholder McD, and S D Locke

Magic is dying. The Foundation has launched a multi-pronged effort to save the anomalous: make your choice, decide the fate of the Foundation, and choose what sacrifices you'll make along the way.

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+++ [[[SCP-6406]]]- An Exorcism, an Eviction
++++ By Ihp

Dr. Cassandra Pike is haunted by her past, more literally than most. A ghost has come to call, and it's making her life hell. Dr. Tilda D. Moose guest stars as herself.
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+++ [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/many-metaphorical-deaths-part-1 The Many Metaphorical Deaths of Alejandro Carrasco, Part 1] and [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/many-metaphorical-deaths-part-2 Part 2]
++++ By Ihp

Alexander Carracos has a name that isn't his own and a closet with a door that he wants to keep shut at any cost. Maybe he can open it this Christmas?
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+++ [/thereisnocolouroutofspace There Is No Colour Out of Space]
++++ By HarryBlank

A Nobody, a mage, a pataphysicist, an antimemeticist and an invisible monster walk into a --bar-- farm. They don't all walk back.

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+++ [[[SCP-6787]]] - Site-87, Sublevel 13
++++ By Ihp

Site-87 skipped Sublevel 13 when it was being constructed. So what the hell is this library that's suddenly appeared between Sublevel 12 and 14?

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+++ [[[I Director Schwarz | I, Director Schwarz of the Shark Punching Center]]]
++++ By Ihp

There is an element in the town that believes that 'That Giant Invisible Hole In The Sky That Sharks Keep Falling Out Of (not the one in Australia)' is a better name for the town than Sloth's Pit. This is a glimpse into their life.

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+++ [[[A Modest Proposal for a Revised Anomaly Classification System]]]
++++ By Djoric

A brand new way to organize your database, courtesy of the Department of Constructed Languages.

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+ 2027-2037
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(Disclaimer: the Archetypicals series is not intended as a sequel to the events which precede it, and its themes differ notably. Its events are more closely related to On Guard 43, in which it takes place.)

As times change, so do faces; seven years after his transfer to the Pataphysics Department in 2020, Senior Researcher Place H. McD. (as featured in SCP-6500) succeeds Dr. Kimba Laslow as Director of Pataphysics. In the following months, Place publishes several academic works detailing scientific models for narrative-space-time and semi-fictional realities, thereby explaining the phenomena originally observed in Proposals [*/sandrewswann-s-proposal 001-SWANN] and [*/i-h-p-proposal 001-PCKMN].

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++++ By [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/placeholder-mcd-s-authorpage Placeholder McD]

Answering a call to adventure from a higher plane, follow Director Placeholder's rag-tag group of knowingly-archetypical characters across narrative-space-time to research a massive stellar anomaly, exploring the sobering reality of being a secondary character. Are our cast's decisions their own, or are they being manipulated by the STORYHOLE? Will the mad scientist confront his author, or something even beyond?

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After all that, you may be asking...

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++ What is S & C Plastics Actually About?
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It is about a town in Wisconsin called Sloth's Pit, where normality doesn't mean a damn thing.

It is about a Foundation Site run by people who are realizing that the world may not need them to protect it.

It is about the people at Site-87 who have, somehow, broken free of the Foundation's ability to grind individuality, decency, humanity, and common sense into nothingness.

It is about the nature of stories and the things that they build and destroy.

It is about what would happen if the Foundation realized that the walls that they built might need to come down, sooner rather than later.

With that in mind, you can write a variety of stories in S & C Plastics. Romances, coming-of-age stories, horror stories, absurdist stories, stories that just lead up to one godawful pun... all of these exist in the canon already.

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[[tab Themes]]

There are a few running themes throughout the canon that can be expanded upon.

**1. The Foundation is Human**

The Foundation is not necessarily inherently good or inherently evil. Site-87 is made up of people; some people can be right bastards, some people can be saints, but most of them are just trying to make it up as they go along. The larger Foundation might be a bunch of evil fucks, but Site-87 is somehow... different. Why?

**2. The Nexus Changes People**

Members of the Foundation who come to Sloth's Pit find their lives upended in some way. They may find love, new research opportunities, or just a sheer force of positivity bearing down on them that they can't help but change themselves. One of the goals of S & C Plastics, at the outset, was to write characters that were better-developed than the Senior Staff Author Avatars, and a big part of the reason the characters in S & C Plastics are the way they are is because of the exposure to ideas outside of the Foundation's core tenants of Security, Containment and Protection.

**3. The World Might Not Need The Foundation**

Sloth's Pit existed long before the Foundation discovered it, and while they act as a stabilizing force nowadays, they inarguably made the city a worse place when they first arrived. Now, the personnel at Site-87 have to ask if they really are the greater good-- if a city like this could exist in a stable environment, without the Foundation knowing, are they really needed?

**4. The Power of Stories**

Everyone is sick of pataphysics, but there's a reason the concept exists. It's through the medium of narrative that humanity perceives the world; we seek meaning and symbolism in everything when in the end, there's just chaos looming behind it all and every one of us is spiraling out of control. 

Sloth's Pit, and the universe around it, are governed by narrative principles and tropes. The Foundation is realizing this in the 21st century, and its implications stretch far, far into the future. All the world's a story, and Site-87 is writing a new chapter every day.

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Due to S & C Plastic's flexibility as a canon, as well as its relative age, it has crossed over with several canons at several points. The following canons can be considered canonical to S & C Plastics, though in some cases, this may not be mutual.

**[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antarctic-exchange-hub Antarctic Exchange:]** Thomas Bailey, commissioner of relations between the Foundation and the Third Antarctic Empire, is the identical triplet of Tristan and Trevor Bailey, as detailed in Multi-u 101.

**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dread-circuses-hub Dread & Circuses:]** The tale “Herman Fuller Can Shove It Up His Ass” takes place in Sloth’s Pit. 

**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/etdp-hub-page Et Tam Deum Petivi (alt):]** The events of the Mary-Ann and Salah series are canon, with one major exception: Mary-Ann Lewitt survives her confrontation with Moloch, instead of succumbing to her wounds.

**[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/on-guard-43-hub On Guard 43]:** Mutually hard canon to S & C Plastics. Events that happen in OG43 and S & C  Plastics explicitly take place in the same universe.

**[[[Resurrection]]]:**  Specifically the Old Foes and New Faces storylines, are canon to S & C Plastics. Certain elements (such as the nature of Dr. Clef and the survival of Dr. Glass past 2018) contradict S & C Plastics canon. 

**[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-man-who-wasnt-there-hub The Man Who Wasn't There]:** Claire Bright exists as an iteration of Nobody within S & C Plastics, as she does in TMWWT. However, multiple iterations of Nobody exist simultaneously, including Agent Tangerine from [[[The Cool War Hub|The Cool War]]].

**[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/third-law-hub Third Law:]** Several pieces of supplementary material for the canon make reference to Site-87, and Dr. Katherine Sinclair appears in Suspect Ratio.

**[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/war-on-all-fronts-hub War on All Fronts:]** Hy-Brasil is visited by Dr. Sinclair and Consultant Reynolds during the course of SCP-6500.



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[[tab Recommended Reading]]

As you may be able to tell from all the expositing regarding the nature of stories and beliefs, S & C Plastics takes heavy inspiration from the works of Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. If you want to write for S & C Plastics specifically, I'd recommend:

**Good Omens** by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
**American Gods** by Neil Gaiman
**Guards! Guards!** by Sir Terry Pratchett

In addition, S & C Plastics was born with inspiration from a variety of media that depict small towns where bizarre things happen. Examples of this include:

**Gravity Falls**, created by Alex Hirsch
**Twin Peaks**, created by David Lynch
**Eureka**, created by Andrew Cosby & Jaime Paglia

The way magic works in S & C Plastics borrows heavily from **The Dresden Files** by Jim Butcher.

A lot of the influence for the small-town 'feel' of S & C Plastics is derived from the following locales:

* Idaville from the **Encyclopedia Brown** series by Donald J. Sobal. 
* Grover's Corners from the play **Our Town** by Thorton Wilder
* Lake Wobegon from **A Praire Home Companion** from Public Radio International
* Spectre from **Big Fish**, directed by Tim Burton

In addition to that, a lot of S & C Plastics is derived from personal experience and the interests of the authors. 

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This canon has been a work that has been over a decade in the making. Everyone who has written for this has brought something new to the table and influenced the direction of this strange, small town. Hopefully you can stop and stay for just a little bit.

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