 Item number SCP-2747 Object Class Euclid Keter Threat Level Green Black Special Containment Procedures Foundation watchdog algorithms are to monitor online and print media for mention of SCP-2747 positive keyphrases. All matches are to be tagged and forwarded to the Department of Analytics, which will provide further confirmation of SCP-2747 manifestation. In case of positive identification, all effective media are to be suitably corrected via Standard Foundation Media Alteration Protocols, 912A, Twilight Zone, 943A, Poisoned Well Observational Procedure Lucid Chalice Federal observation of SCP-2747 will take place using local computing resources to procedurally generate narratives of varying levels of complexity and nestedness. Simultaneously, descriptions of the narratives are to be generated using Foundation Media Parsing Analytic Meta-Analytic Software at varying degrees of abstraction. The results can then be examined for signs of SCP-2747 by periodically scanning for data irregularities. Any generated narrative containing such irregularities can then be flagged as an instance of SCP-2747, with its seed conditions subsequently tagged as SCP-2747 conducive. Given a large enough sample size, the boundary conditions of SCP-2747 can then be identified and mapped with a sufficient degree of clarity. Furthermore, a watchlist of 7,000 artists is to be maintained and observed at all times for localized signs of SCP-2747 manifestation and their respective works, using the aforementioned analytic meta-analytic software. In order to increase the observable resolution and range of deeply nested metafictional manifestations, this watchlist should consist mainly of individuals, groups, and organizations whose works tend towards containing meta-fictional content, such as meats and unbeams, and stories within stories. The sponsoring and or covert influencing of such content creators can be sanctioned to that end. The results of Lucid Chalice will be documented within the current documentation as Appendix B. Description SCP-2747 is a phenomenon appearing in print and online media, whereby platforms dedicated to the discussion of works of fiction begin to mention a non-existent instance of fictional media. Despite said non-existence, articles, posts, comments, and other related meta-content created with regard to the non-existent work of fiction will be found treating it as real. The non-existent work of fiction can be mentioned by various individuals in varying capacities, ranging from brief mentions and forum posts to being the subject of entire academic essays. Descriptions, screenshots, photographs of physical copies, and brief segments of text from said work of fiction can often be discovered in SCP-2747-affected media. Descriptions of it are entirely consistent with each other, and it has proven possible to reconstruct whole segments of fictitious media via descriptions of it taken from SCP-2747-generated meta-content. A list of fictitious media generated by SCP-2747 has been appended below, see Appendix A. Where possible, the affected media can be traced to existing individuals. However, when questioned under duress, said individuals are barely denied having written the affected material, and deny all existence of the fictitious media mentioned within. SCP-2747 has never been documented in real time. All observed instances thus far have been recorded post hoc. No instances have been documented prior to January 2008. The reason for this is unknown, conforms to pedophysical observations documented in full in Appendix B. It is the current hypothesis of the Department of Analytics that SCP-2747 represents evidence of a naturally occurring anaphybola, or anti-narrative. A cluster of interdependent signs, iconography, and narrative set, when included to a sufficient extent within a fictional construct, leads to mutual annihilation. A narrative is defined as a base unit of a narrative, much in the same way that a myth theme denotes a base unit of myth, or a meme denotes a base unit of culture. First-hand reconstruction of the anaphybola's properties is impossible, given its anomalous nature. But second-hand and third-hand descriptions have been generated from observational procedure lucid chalice, and appended below, see Appendix B. It can affect through layers of meta-fictional narrative, such as a meta-narrative containing the anaphybola will cease to exist within a narrative, followed by the narrative itself disappearing from our reality. This interpretation of pedophysical reality, layers of meta-fictional narrative, has yet to be verified by Foundation observations at large, but appear concurrent with observations obtained from transfictional anomalies such as SCP-1304, SCP-2614, and 001. The key identifier of the anaphybola is that it invariably represents an in-universe antagonist or anathema in all manifestations of SCP-2747, likely due to inherent narrative components indicating its alien yet centralizing nature. Update The above-mentioned hypothesis has been confirmed as a working model of SCP-2747. Please refer to Appendix B. Update The following procedures are to be enacted following a successful conclusion of observational procedure lucid chalice, see Appendix B. At no time are the properties of the anaphybola as outlined in Appendix B to arise in real life, whether as a result of deliberate or natural action. Any object, person, or event bearing more than significance-level alpha to the similar threshold is to be altered via whatever means possible. Based on information regarding SCP-2747, especially the information contained within Appendix B, it is to be strictly limited to clearance levels 4, 2747, and three analytics. Due to the pathophysical implications and inherent uncontainability of SCP-2747 as detailed in Appendix B, it is to be classified as keyed with immediate effect. Partial List of Manifestations of SCP-2747 Non-existent Work Reference Punta de la Espira Medium Short Story Extent of Manifestation Seventeen articles created and edited on Wikipedia.org Summary of Work Punta de la Espira, English, tipped a spiral. It is apparently a 1951 short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It describes an unnamed protagonist as he sails down a river towards a desolate blackhorn mountain in order to deliver a gift to an unspecified recipient. The journey is rough and treacherous, and he dies of exhaustion at the end of the story, appearing to be no closer to his goal than when he first began. The mountain is described in detail throughout the story, with recurring metaphors alternately alluding to it as either in a boat of the gods or a demonic presence. Non-existent Work Reference Taitaro, Japanese The film's title describes itself. It is the Japanese phonetic pronunciation for the English word title. Medium, Animated Film Extent of Manifestation One article created on TVTropes.org, with fifty-five edits made to various trope pages ranging from the spare event horizon to foreshadowing and what do you mean it wasn't made on drugs. Summary of Work Taitaro appears to be an animated film directed by Satoshi Koon, shortly before his death. It is described as a psychological thriller, chronicling a struggling manga artist as she attempts to complete and publish her first work under a tight deadline. Stress takes its tolls and boundaries blur. She begins to hallucinate, and the movie ends ambiguously as to whether she has achieved her goal or succumbed to her weaknesses. Typical of Koon's style, the animation is described as meticulous, kaleidoscopic, and occasionally deeply disturbing. One scene features the protagonist physically grappling with the shadows in her apartment. Described under the trope entry for Your Mind Makes It Real as the manifestation of her creative block, which eventually engulfs and consumes her. Non-existent work referenced, No Sister of Mine, Medium, Video Game, Extent of Manifestation, seventy-seven threads on somethingawful.com, each carrying between three to one hundred and three comments. Most users were established members of the Something Awful community. Summary of Work No Sister of Mine is supposedly a term-based role-playing video game of the fantasy horror genre published by Pocahont with the Nintendo GameCube in 2005. While Pocahont existed as a major game development studio operating out of soul between 2002 and 2005, no record of No Sister of Mine has ever been found. According to reviewers, the player controls a party of six unnamed characters as they explore a ruined kingdom with the intention to find a lost companion referred to as Sister. It was widely panned by the reviewers, with much criticism being levied at the glitch-filled battle system, incoherent dialogue, seemingly incomplete graphics, repetitive soundtrack described as nauseating and headache-inducing, as well as being impossible to complete. The game's non-playable characters continuously mention a cold black thornbound tome that when read from would enable one to either obtain great power or unleash a dreadful curse. What most reviewers assumed to be the final questline required the player to backtrack through the game's previous areas and recover fragments of the tome using their new found abilities. However, the reviewers unanimously claim that no fragments can be found. One reviewer goes as far as to claim that the items themselves were never found inside the game's coding in the first place. Non-existent work reference, the Scolopendra Wiki, Medium, Collaborative Fiction, Extent of Manifestation, 49 different pieces of fanfiction, ranging from 343 to 2,401 words in length, posted on fanfiction.net, each bearing between 1 and 6 comments. Summary of work, the Scolopendra Wiki is deduced to be an online collaborative fictional universe belonging to the horror, speculative fiction, and weird fiction genres. It appears to have been hosted on some form of Wiki site, though the address itself is never mentioned. The exact nature of Scolopendra's plot is hard to discern, as the various pieces of fanfiction sport vastly different storylines and a range of character interpretations, complicated by the embalment of other fictional universes and settings. What is known is that it involves a cast of seven characters wandering between a series of realms, amassing and collecting items possessing supernatural or abnormal properties. One item features heavily throughout the compiled works, a seven-sided obsidian emblem said to possess the power to destroy any object, person, or abstract concept with a single touch. It appears to be a great interest to the protagonist, who repeatedly make attempts to acquire it. However, it also appears to be currently in the possession of a sinister, unnamed antagonist who has alluded to repeatedly in several works, yet is never seen. Non-existent work reference, I.O., Medium, Musical Album, Extentive Manifestation, review columns in a total of fourteen reputable publications, including the New Bombay Times, Pitchfork, and L.A. Flipside. Summary of Work I.O. is described as the ninth studio album by the now defunct English rock band Radiohead. It contains six tracks measuring a total of thirty-four minutes and eighteen seconds. The majority of tracks appear to consist mostly of digitally manipulated samples from Radiohead's previous albums, layered over with sparse acoustic instrumentation and vocals. Reception of the album appears to be highly positive, with the exception of Pitchfork's Jessica Green, who gave it an average review of 7.0. In particular, Green felt that the albums suffered from hasty and uncoordinated post-production, likely not undertaken by Radiohead themselves. Audio cuts between the fifth and sixth track were described to be unnecessarily jarring, given the seamless flow between every other track in the album. It is mentioned that the album uses a characteristic grating binaural reverb, layered over lead singer Tom York's solo vocal track as a musical motif. Embodied in what the New Bombay Times' Gulshan and Arud believes to be essential themes of spirals of isolation and inspiration, of feedback loops that resonate into the level of the deeply personal, the trembling core creative psyche. Anarud also mentions lyrics referencing suicide and self-harm, though presented through a series of oblique metaphors. I.O. never fears to toy with the idea of self-hatred and self-desecration, yet the album as a whole seems to fall short of its mark, always orbiting yet never quite touching upon the dreadful center. Non-existent work referenced, Mavine, Orr, a treatise on the metaphysics of interspace travel, and the Kingdom of Erechar, whose name is darkness made light, and further theological expositions thereof. Medium, Novel, Extent and Manifestation, seven articles published in a single week and various academic journals of literary criticism, each by reputable scholars. Summary of Work Mavine is described as the contents of a manuscript in a company Charcoal Illustrations, found in the House of Earthabula Abrahames in 2014. Abrahames appears to have been a reclusive writer and artist, working as a maintenance technician in Bloom-bound Tain, South Africa, and clinically diagnosed with schizophrenia. A number of individuals partially mask this description, though no work similar to Mavine exists. Mavine is a nested frame narrative written in Africans, purporting to be a novel by a 17th century Dutch mystic. It describes the journey of the mystic, whose name is only given as moss, learning of the structure of the Earth's interior as revealed to him in a vision. At the beginning of the novel, moss trains of a supernatural being that is aware of its nature as a dream entity, and is highly indebted to moss for bringing it into existence. In exchange, it promises to divulge the moss to secrets of the Earth. Moss being comporial is unable to pass through the ground, and so the being decides to simply narrate the journey. It speaks of six realms demarcated by thresholds, ranging from the realm of treasure and minerals to an intangible plane of light and sound. Beyond these six realms lies another threshold, this time one of cold and silence, which is described to be the Earth's core. Or it can be elaborated upon, moss awakes and the dream ends. Non-existent work referenced, X-Lux, Medium, Interactive Novel, Extent of Manifestation, in-death post of seven different fiction review blogs, along with a mention in a Time magazine article on experimental narrative forms. The End Question Mark Chow, Ingrid, Time, Issue 35, 2008 The title is also mentioned in 175 Twitter posts, largely in the context of recommending it as an interesting, if underrated piece of interactive fiction. Summary of Work X-Lux appears to be a work of interactive fiction of the mystery genre, written in a mixture of English, Catalan, and Spanish. It is presented as a set of epistolary narratives, from the points of view of six characters in a stream of consciousness narration of ambiguous provenance. Readers navigate between the seven-story threads, discovering hints of a murder, or several murders. Eventually the narratives converge on a roadside diner during a thunderstorm, and the characters exchanged their stories. From here, the resultant narrative structure cannot adequately be described as simple framing devices or stories within stories, as the inner tales eventually begin to intertwine such that later tales shed new light on ones recounted earlier, or themselves link to segments of text earlier on in the narrative at the lengthy detours. At several points, characters attempt to consult a testimony of an absent individual, referred to as the stranger. The identity of the murderers or victims is never known, nor does a story have a conventional ending. Appendix B Observations and Conclusions from Lucid Chalice