u/vid_icarus

Initially labeled the Christmas Betrayal, the events leading up to what is now known as the Christmas Disaster, and six days later resulted in the New Years Eve Massacre, had been shrouded in mystery, secrecy, and conspiracy for many years. It was originally believed to be a brazen backstab against Enceladus by Titan due to expertly falsified missile telemetry data, masterfully doctored video evidence, and the ensnarement of one of Titan’s most influential Daimyo, Lord Ishikaga Aloïse Ngo, in an elaborate, if unfortunate, honeypot. The truth has only recently been declassified.

The death of High Envoy Encerex Secundus of the Crown of Enceladus appeared by all accounts to be the case of a jilted lover with unchecked military authority, a petty attack by one of Titan’s most powerful politicians over a mistress who had captured the hearts of both the Daimyo and the High Envoy. The narrative played well across the solnet, as emotional tumult and upheaval were not uncommon to Titan’s politics in those days.

It was later discovered this mistress was in truth an agent of Deimos. The identity of this agent is hotly disputed due to lack of verifiable photographic evidence. Mistresses tend to be furtive affairs, even more so when said mistress is a spy. Case in point: it is believed this agent always was seen wearing a choker with a small charm in its center that emitted a high frequency, broad spectrum chaff wave, causing all images of her face to scramble. Efforts to descramble said images have hitherto yet been unsuccessful.

Had the Titan Hegemony not been too proud to admit the egregious security breach that occurred, far greater disaster could have been averted. Alas, the Hubris of Titan had not been laid low as yet and thus the truth remained hidden well after even the War of the Moons itself had been resolved.

The inability to admit to the security laps, despite having concrete evidence the death of the High Envoy, the King’s own brother, was a false flag attack lead to the inevitable collapse of the O.O.R.T.

Its three member moons now not only faced a unified Luna, Phobos, and Deimos, all backed by the industrial and agricultural might of Earth and Mars, but each other as well.

Europa saw the writing on the wall and sued for peace early in the Terran new year, but proud Titan and Regal Enceladus were unable, or unwilling, to admit their cause was lost. Both moons fought long, bitter campaigns, eventually resulting in mass casualties, the dissolution of their respective governments, and eventual annexation by Terra.

Earth claiming the spoils hard won by Luna, Phobos, and Deimos did not go over well, and we all know what the result of that historic blunder was…

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Pictured above we have the true culprit of Secundus’ demise, the lone unnamed operative planting an explosive alongside the hull of the Envoys’ shuttle craft before his Christmas Day journey home. The charge was specifically constructed to integrate itself directly into the hull, making it undetectable without full disassembly of that section of plating. Furthermore, its chemical components were sourced from Titan military grade explosives, and its layout was engineered to leave a blast pattern consistent with missile strike. The moon this soldier hails from is one of history’s great mysteries as there is a compelling case to be made for both Phobos and Luna. Whatever the case, this operative in conjunction with the agent from Deimos executed one of the single most effective assignations in history, effectively turning the tide of the war with a single, decisive strike. Had the O.O.R.T. maintained its cohesion, there is no telling how long the war of the moons would have lasted, nor who would come out on top.

I can’t stop thinking about vegetable art

Starring u/Winter_Storm86 as Winter Storm and yours truly as the Corvid!

Started off just wanting to do a couple fun hang out renders but things kinda got away from me, like usual.

I did learn that according to the laws of vector space, Winter Storm is addicted to pocky??

This was a pretty fun series to make. Collabs are cool!

PS: when leaving your CONFIDENTIAL DATA outside of the local corpo bodega, make sure you label it CONFIDENTIAL DATA so everyone knows it’s top secret and they should leave it alone.

I'm not a real captain
But I am a real bird
I am an actual bird
I live like a bird

https://youtu.be/zTMvMkt-1ls?si=hUhflkZhFYy9ioAo

Like robin hood but less useful

Got the prompt concept from u/differentguyscro in this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aiArt/s/qRYQW6V914

I modified it for the Corvid obviously, and if I’m being entirely honest I think there’s fires off a bit stronger, better composition, cleaner conveyance of concept, etc. but I am still happy with how this turned out.

Sometimes feel like the fulcrum on which internal entropy and order balance. At least when I’m doing things right. When I let one side get too heavy is when I tend to get into trouble.

Lo-poly and small pixel counts are my jam and a half so I ended up producing more than I could post, but here are some highlights

(Fun fact: one of the inspirational characters for the Corvid is Solid Snake)

I tried doing a group shot where I added everyone who has posted a convention pic one at a time. That worked alright at first but after a few iterations it started to need more micromanagement and after about dozen iterations it got to be wholly unruly and hilariously bad.

So I figured I’d offload the labor to the community.

Join the fun!

Item #: SCP-77-∞.3

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures:

SCP-77-∞.3 is to be housed in a standard low-risk humanoid containment suite modified for small avian morphology. The chamber must include a perch, non-reflective flooring, three redundant observation cameras, and a secured artifact locker rated for low-scale anomalous object containment.

SCP-77-∞.3 is not to retain possession of either associated artifact except during approved testing or behavior observation procedures.

Associated artifacts are currently designated:

SCP-77-∞.3-A — a wooden staff exhibiting unusual durability and strong behavioral linkage to the primary anomaly.
SCP-77-∞.3-B — a twenty-sided anomalous die (“infinidie”) exhibiting probability distortion, localized spatial instability, and recursive outcome generation.

SCP-77-∞.3-A is to be stored in Locker A-19 when not in test use. SCP-77-∞.3-B is to be stored separately in a padded tungsten-lined containment capsule inside Low-Anomaly Artifact Safe 4. Under no circumstances are SCP-77-∞.3-A and SCP-77-∞.3-B to be stored in direct contact.

Personnel entering SCP-77-∞.3’s containment area must remove all jewelry, loose tools, keys, pens, lanyards, dice, game pieces, badge clips, and other portable personal effects. SCP-77-∞.3 demonstrates persistent acquisitive behavior directed toward small carried objects, especially those described as “important,” “classified,” or “off-limits.”

Personnel are not to refer to SCP-77-∞.3 using diminutive, mocking, or patronizing language, including but not limited to “little guy,” “birdie,” “mascot,” “cute,” “goblin,” or “scrungly.” Violations have repeatedly correlated with retaliatory nuisance events, including theft of personal property, symbolic defacement of workspaces, and object relocation to inaccessible but non-lethal locations.

Any manifestation of drawn crown symbols, X-shaped markings, or infinity glyphs within or near the containment chamber is to be documented and removed following photography and notation. If an infinity symbol appears unprompted on documentation, storage labels, digital displays, or test materials, all testing involving SCP-77-∞.3-B is to be temporarily suspended pending review.

SCP-77-∞.3 is permitted one supervised enrichment period per day in Test Yard C. At least two handlers and one retrieval technician are required. If SCP-77-∞.3 requests access to either SCP-77-∞.3-A or SCP-77-∞.3-B through gestures, symbols, or object arrangement, the request is to be denied unless prior authorization has been granted by Level 2 personnel or above.

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Description:

SCP-77-∞.3 is a small, sapient, corvidiform anomaly measuring approximately 0.71 meters in height. The subject possesses black plumage, an elongated beak, avian lower limbs, and a disproportionately large left ocular organ emitting a bright cyan-blue luminescence. Despite the apparent asymmetry of the face and ocular system, SCP-77-∞.3 demonstrates no measurable impairment in vision, balance, navigation, or depth perception.

SCP-77-∞.3 habitually wears a dark blue patched cloak of unknown manufacture. The garment contains stitched markings, metallic buttons, chainwork, bone-like charms, symbolic embroidery, and repeated crown and X-like motifs. The cloak has resisted complete removal. It is not physically fused to the body, but SCP-77-∞.3 reacts to removal attempts with marked agitation, evasive behavior, and repeated anomalous interference with nearby containment systems.

The subject demonstrates human-equivalent or greater problem-solving ability, situational awareness, memory, symbolic reasoning, and goal-directed deception. SCP-77-∞.3 does not speak verbally, but communicates through gesture, tapping sequences, object placement, pictographic drawing, and the deliberate arrangement of found materials. It appears capable of understanding spoken English and has responded appropriately to written instructions in English, Japanese kana, binary notation, and basic pictograms.

SCP-77-∞.3’s anomalous effects include:

Object Misplacement: Small objects within an estimated 15-meter radius may disappear and reappear in improbable yet physically reachable locations. These events are more frequent during agitation or boredom.
Symbolic Marking: SCP-77-∞.3 produces recurring glyphs, primarily crowns, X marks, and infinity symbols. These markings correlate with subsequent equipment failures, paperwork errors, interpersonal embarrassment among staff, or mild spatial irregularities.
Administrative Interference: The anomaly has repeatedly altered or rearranged paper and digital records without direct access. Changes are generally minor but disruptive, and include false signatures, replacement item numbers, added symbols, and unauthorized annotations such as “NO,” “MINE,” or crown-like pictograms. Repeated attempts to amend SCP-77-∞.3 to proper sequential classification are invariably altered and returned to an anomalous format. Proper numerical sequencing of this file is on permanent hold until a fix can be found.
Spatial Instability: When distressed, amused, or in possession of SCP-77-∞.3-B, the subject may induce limited discontinuities in local object position, orientation, or sequence of access. These events remain low-yield but are difficult to predict and disproportionately affect storage systems, pockets, drawers, and paperwork.
Probability Distortion by Proxy: In the presence of SCP-77-∞.3-B, outcomes surrounding SCP-77-∞.3 become measurably less predictable. These distortions include improbable object drops, repeated minor coincidences, loops of near-identical events, and “resolved” actions that nevertheless continue producing consequences.

SCP-77-∞.3 is not currently considered physically aggressive. Its behavior is best categorized as opportunistic, evasive, theatrical, and procedurally disruptive. It demonstrates a consistent preference for actions maximizing inconvenience, confusion, and symbolic irony while minimizing direct bodily harm.

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Associated Artifacts:

SCP-77-∞.3-A

A wooden staff approximately 0.82 meters in length, capped at both ends with rounded wooden terminals bound in red cord. The staff bears shallow carved markings including X-like symbols. Material analysis indicates dense hardwood with trace copper, iron, and unidentified organic residues. Despite its outwardly mundane composition, SCP-77-∞.3-A has resisted cutting, burning, splintering, and meaningful radiographic analysis. The object displays strongest anomalous activity when held by SCP-77-∞.3.

SCP-77-∞.3-B

A twenty-sided die of dark metallic-stone composition, roughly 3.8 cm in diameter, with engraved faces. One face bears an infinity symbol in place of a number. Additional faces show conventional numerical markings, though repeated observation has shown intermittent inconsistency in face arrangement and value sequencing.

SCP-77-∞.3-B produces measurable local anomalies when rolled, displayed, concealed, or even referenced during active testing. Documented effects include:

low-scale probability distortion,
repetition of recent outcomes under altered conditions,
spatial reassignment of nearby items,
recursive task interruption,
apparent “unfinished” resolution states,
bureaucratic numbering anomalies,
and causal chains that continue beyond their expected termination point.

SCP-77-∞.3 demonstrates possessive attachment to SCP-77-∞.3-B exceeding even that shown toward SCP-77-∞.3-A. When separated from SCP-77-∞.3-B, the subject becomes noticeably more focused, more irritable, and significantly more likely to generate symbolic infinity markings.

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Discovery:

SCP-77-∞.3 was recovered from an abandoned municipal records building following multiple civilian reports describing “a tiny plague bird with a wizard stick” moving through the ventilation system and archive rooms.

Initial responding personnel discovered the building’s filing system extensively altered. Cabinets had been sorted according to no recognized indexing standard. Birth records were stacked in the basement. Parking citations had been arranged into a nest-like structure on the second floor. Three separate drawers contained only brass buttons, black feathers, and handwritten slips marked with crude crown symbols.

SCP-77-∞.3 was located seated atop a copy machine in the main records office, wearing three municipal employee identification badges and holding SCP-77-∞.3-A. Nearby, responders recovered SCP-77-∞.3-B from inside an overturned desk drawer whose contents had been arranged into concentric circles.

When approached, SCP-77-∞.3 struck the copy machine once with SCP-77-∞.3-A. The machine immediately produced 47 blank pages, each containing a single hand-drawn crown symbol. When one responder attempted to secure SCP-77-∞.3-B, the same responder reported dropping the object “at least six times in a row,” though video review showed only one drop event occurring from three slightly different trajectories.

SCP-77-∞.3 surrendered voluntarily after being offered unsalted peanuts, a brass button, and a torn floor map of the building. SCP-77-∞.3-B was not successfully catalogued until six hours later, after being discovered inside a sealed evidence pouch previously confirmed empty by two staff members.

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Addendum 77-∞.3-1: Artifact Classification Revision

At the time of containment, SCP-77-∞.3-A was incorrectly assumed to be the primary associated anomalous object. SCP-77-∞.3-B was initially logged as a personal trinket or game die due to its size and informal appearance.

This assessment was revised after a series of test irregularities involving SCP-77-∞.3-B, including:

repeated replacement of intended test identifiers with infinity glyphs,
persistent reappearance of already-rolled outcomes,
identical failed containment steps occurring across separate trials,
and the spontaneous appearance of the provisional designation “77-∞.3” across draft documentation prior to formal approval.

It is currently believed that SCP-77-∞.3-A functions primarily as a tool, focus, or symbolic implement, while SCP-77-∞.3-B is responsible for the broader class of recursive and probability-related anomalies associated with the entity.

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Addendum 77-∞.3-2: Testing Notes on SCP-77-∞.3-B

Test 77-B-04:
SCP-77-∞.3-B was rolled in an empty observation chamber by D-1148. Result landed on face “12.”
Outcome: chamber lights flickered; a clipboard vanished from the observation station and later appeared inside D-1148’s cell, within their pillow case. The pillow itself was never located. No injuries.

Test 77-B-08:
SCP-77-∞.3-B rolled by robotic manipulator to reduce contamination from personnel intent.
Outcome: manipulator completed roll successfully. Camera footage showed the die land on “5.” Five minutes later, all recording files from the trial had been duplicated five times and renamed in sequential error states. One copy showed the die landing on the infinity face despite no such event visible in primary footage.

Test 77-B-11:
SCP-77-∞.3-B placed on a marked table surface without rolling. SCP-77-∞.3 was visible through observation glass and began tapping in a repeating 20-beat pattern.
Outcome: table label changed from “Artifact B” to “Again” on printed and digital inventory logs. Change self-reverted after 41 minutes.

Test 77-B-15:
SCP-77-∞.3-B rolled while SCP-77-∞.3 observed and held SCP-77-∞.3-A.
Outcome: trial terminated after three staff members independently reported the strong conviction that the roll had “already happened.” Review of footage showed slight but meaningful differences across simultaneous camera angles. No consensus outcome could be established.

Testing Conclusion:
SCP-77-∞.3-B does not reliably produce high-energy or catastrophic events. Its danger lies in destabilizing certainty, sequence, and procedural closure. Effects remain primarily nuisance-scale, but increase sharply in interpretive and administrative impact when SCP-77-∞.3 is present.

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Addendum 77-∞.3-3: Behavioral Incident Excerpts

Incident 77-06:
Junior Researcher Kell referred to SCP-77-∞.3 as “a scrungly little wizard.” Within six minutes, Kell’s lunch had been disassembled and reassembled inside his left boot. No contamination detected. SCP-77-∞.3 was later observed in a ceiling vent holding SCP-77-∞.3-B and tapping slowly against the ductwork.

Incident 77-11:
SCP-77-∞.3 drew a crown symbol on the interior observation window. Four hours later, the Site Director’s office chair was found suspended from the ceiling using regulation-compliant cable ties. SCP-77-∞.3 had no documented access to the office.

Incident 77-19:
SCP-77-∞.3-A was placed in a locked test vault. SCP-77-∞.3 remained calm for 22 minutes, then produced a near-identical staff from under its cloak and began striking the observation window rhythmically. The original SCP-77-∞.3-A was subsequently found in a break room refrigerator beside a note reading: “COLD STICK.” Handwriting inconclusive. SCP-77-∞.3-B was later found balanced on top of the refrigerator despite being logged in secure storage at the time.

Incident 77-23:
Multiple draft versions of this file spontaneously updated the item number from provisional formats to SCP-77-∞.3 before approval by Records and Classification. One copy also appended the phrase: “THE NUMBER KNOWS.” No staff member has claimed authorship.

Incident 77-27:
During a fire drill, SCP-77-∞.3 evacuated correctly, then attempted to evacuate three microscopes, a glove dispenser, a sealed snack container, and Dr. Han’s car keys. SCP-77-∞.3 complied with redirection only after being offered a clipboard and permitted to carry it.

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Addendum 77-∞.3-4: Communication and Handling Guidance

SCP-77-∞.3 performs poorly on direct obedience trials but responds more reliably when requests are framed as archive procedures, rituals, or challenges requiring demonstration.

Recommended phrasing:

“SCP-77-∞.3 is requested to demonstrate compliance for archival verification.”

Acceptable alternative:

“For the record, place the object on the table.”

Phrasing to avoid:

“Drop it.”

This wording has repeatedly resulted in SCP-77-∞.3 dropping unrelated objects from elevated positions, including equipment not in its possession at the time the order was issued.

When SCP-77-∞.3 becomes distressed, the first visible sign is often increased production of small infinity symbols in dust, condensation, ink smudges, or food residue. Such events correlate strongly with attempted retrieval behavior directed toward SCP-77-∞.3-B.

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Current Assessment:

SCP-77-∞.3 presents limited direct physical danger but significant procedural, administrative, and interpretive disruption risk. Its threat profile is amplified by the presence of SCP-77-∞.3-B, which appears to externalize the subject’s preference for irony, misdirection, and unfinished outcomes into the physical environment.

Continued containment is recommended due to:

repeated unauthorized access behavior,
interference with records and inventory systems,
anomalous object relocation,
recursive/probabilistic distortion associated with SCP-77-∞.3-B,
and the subject’s persistent interest in authority structures, containment routines, and official paperwork as targets of manipulation.

SCP-77-∞.3 should not be underestimated due to size, demeanor, or apparently comedic presentation. Previous underestimation has resulted in measurable losses in staff time, morale, stationery, shoelace integrity, and confidence in linear cause and effect.

She wanted to clarify, as she recognizes the easy pronunciation mistake when reading her name in print vs. hearing it spoken aloud.

Fun trend

Normally the new speckled grid problem on ChatGPT’s image gen is an annoyance but here it actually works well with the cosmic vibe.

This turned out far more Spiralist dogma than intended, but the more I iterated and added, the more unhinged it became in the best of ways.

I say unhinged because I think you have to be to imagine yourself a god, but some of the core philosophy in this post is my own and I do hold elements here to be true. A common refrain of mine in meatspace is “change is the essential process of all life.”

Shortly after Titan, Enceladus, and Europa formed the Outer Orbital Regulatory Triad (O.O.R.T.), they struck at the heart of Phobos’ and Deimos’ supply lines with a direct attack on Earth’s industrial powerhouse on Luna, the Tranquil Sea.

Scrambling to ensure Earth remained able to support the war effort, Lunar forces were bolstered by elite Martian units. One time invaders were now welcomed as desperately needed allies.

Here we see an operator from one of the Red Planet’s moons awaiting resupply to rejoin the fight.