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Welcome to this installment of site news, where we hope you got plenty of tricks and treats in your pillowcases! Here, have two months of news for the price of one!

This is a series showing off news from the site, articles from the past month, and fan-content for you to check out and discover! Be sure to leave a comment with your thoughts!

On-Site News

Featured Articles

• The featured articles for this month areSCP-1791 ("Mobile Homes") byastronautilus andReach's Blueprint Folder byDr Reach. One's about a home and family you can't get away from, and the other is all about the blueprints for the Foundation's advanced tech, with pictures! Check them out!
• The featured articles for October wereSCP-1881 ("Arcade Machine") byzaratustra andTales of the Foundation Force Five byCryogenChaos. One's about a game that you can't stop playing, and the other is about the heroic adventures of the Senior Staff Superheroes. Check them out!
• The featured articles for September wereSCP-2031 ("Ant farm") bysandrewswann andSCUTTLE bypxdnbluesoul. One's about… SHIT. ANTS! And the other is about a system going oh so wrong. Check them out!
• The winners of the 2016 D-Class Contest wereSCP-2439 ("SLOT UNALLOCATED") byJack Ike,SCP-2669 ("Khevtuul 1") byKalinin, andHistory byHumanmale. One's about convicts fighting an invisible war, one's about a space probe piloted by a deranged scientist, and the last is about the day-to-day lives of D-Class personnel. Check them out!

Event-Featured Articles

September:

• September 19 was International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Yarr Gather 'round, and listen toDoctor Cimmerian andFaminepulse's tale ofa ship in space, the crew of the voyajer, and their adventures.
• September 25-26 was World Dream Day! (Night?) Dreams can inspire us to make wonders of the blank slate that is the future. But what happens when something goes wrong with our sleep-time dreams? Consider the case ofA Dream's Nightmare, byKnightKnight.
• September 29 was National Coffee Day! Whether it's keeping you awake, functioning, sane, or some mix of the three, coffee is a pretty great drink! Just be careful if you're usingthat strange coffee percolatorDrBerggren was talking about…

October:

• October 14 was World Egg Day! Take a moment to think of the benefits of eggs. Such as theMAN EGG thatmarslifeform told us about.It seems a little questionable.DO NOT LEAVE EGGS OUTSIDE OF A COLD ENVIRONMENT FOR MORE THAN HALF AN HOUR AT A TIME. IF ANYTHING EMERGES FROM YOUR MAN EGG, PLEASE CALL █-███-███-████.
• October 28 was National Chocolate Day, a day to celebrate all things chocolate! Remember to watch out for that onechocolate fountain byQuikngruvn, though.
• October 31st was Halloween! Hope you had a happy All Hallows' Eve, mortals, enchanters, walkers of the world. Eat candy, spin stories, enjoy the night of fright with friends and folk alike. And, asIhp will tell us of, let usDance the Danse!

Rest of the News

• Holy cow, it's the one-year anniversary of the Site News! Everyone sendDecibelles a thank-you for starting it and delivering your [bi-] monthly happenings on the site for the last twelve months!
• Congratulations toLurkD's●●|●●●●●|●●|● for being the first Series 3 SCP to reach the coveted +1000 votes!
• TheSite Rules have been updated! Self-upvoting (upvoting your own articles) is no longer against the rules!
• The Introduction Forums have been updated! Now all new users can congregate into one thread to introduce themselves and meet other fresh faces!
• The Grand Crosslinking is open for business! Crosslinking to other SCPs is once more welcomed and encouraged in your articles! And if you want to go back and add crosslinks to your older articles, feel free to do so!

Missing out on articles? Enjoy a recap on the articles from the pastmonth two months. A Random Day handled the blurbs for September and the back half of October; rumetzen took care of the blurbs for the front half of October. As we gear up for Thanksgiving, enjoy!

Contest Articles

This fall, the contest of the season was the 2016D-Class Contest, challenging our authors to explore stories around those otherwise highly expendable personnel. The winners are above, but here's a full listing of all the entries. As usual, no blurbs.

September

Week of September 1st:

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a hobolloon!

SCPs:

• SCP-2371 ("A Secret Admirer") - The Foundation has a secret admirer. Not someonein the Foundation, the Foundation itself. Penned byAgent MacLeod.
• SCP-2763 ("The Tragedy of SCP-2763, A Modern Euclid Tale") -Was I born at the time and place of Sir Richard Gloster? Or minutes ago at your desk as you began transcribing this exchange? Written byDr Solo.
• SCP-2924 ("Drifters") - Hoboes that turn into balloons. Enough said. Blown up byCapnThatguy.
• SCP-2398 ("Interdimensional Courier") - Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor the laws of physics stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Delivered byDoc Expletive does not match any existing user name.

Tales:

• Charon (Part 1: Nekyia) - And lo, before me stood a ghost brought about by the nekyia. And I inqured it of its origins, but it would not tell. The price of knowledge was a soul, and my own was paid; and lo, it then spoke, its words birthing horrors to my mind. Unlocked byJack Ike. Continued inThe Keysmith's Bootstrap.
• Closure - Relationships are tangled bundles of sadness, mania, stress, and joy. The nexus of anomalousness that is Sloth's Pit only exacerbates that. Written byIhp.
• Person of Interest File #2273/01 - In the aftermath of theBroken Masquerade, a man from another world ponders his place in this one. Written byAgent MacLeod.
• Matryoshka: In this nine-part spy thriller,The Coldest War heats up as the KGB and Foundation clash over anold man andyoung woman. Written byKalinin.

Week of September 7th:

Deum ex Machina mortis.

SCPs:

• SCP-2927 ("Soundspots") - You can hear it, can't you? The sound coming from nowhere? What happens when they meet? Written byCapnThatguy.
• SCP-2949 ("Observable Televised Feline Migration") - Tyger, tyger, burning bright, in this dim cathode-ray light. What your mortal eyes can see, are cats coming out of your TV. Recorded on VHS byminmin.
• SCP-2630 ("Stock of a Sort") - The butcher's livestock market, now being used to predict the economist's stock market. Don't get too close or your insides will become tomorrow's forecast. Played byTaffeta.
• SCP-2820 ("Vaishnavastra") - The Lord makes his presence known in many forms - including an AI-controlled death ray. Fired byA Random Day.
• SCP-2608 ("Anomalous Indicator Species") - Anomalous canaries in an anomalous coal mine. Written bygemcuttlefish.
• SCP-2904 ("Temporary Immortals") - I've done a lot of awful things to make the world a safer place. If only I could live in it. Written byHumanmale.
• SCP-2974 ("Dried and Salted Lizard") -SCP-2974 was recovered in its current state after reports of a "mummy lizard" from the University of ████████, ███████ ████ were investigated. Questioning of the involved students revealed that the anomaly was discovered in an on-campus vending machine in a bag of trail mix. Packaged bySpectralDragon.
• SCP-2466 ("Slay Dragon Save City") - Pokemon Go Contain Yourself. Played byCommunism will win.
• SCP-013-J ("The Cuttlefish of Ultimate Wisdom") -DEATH RACES FOR US IN ATTRACTIVE YET FUNCTIONAL FOOTWEAR! And unless Foundation Commander ███████ greets all whom she interacts with, with her warmest of hugs, IT SHALL COME FOR HER! Predicted byDomeAcolyte.
• SCP-2883 ("A Rainbow, Holographic, Crystal Dinosaur") - Art, uh, finds a way. Written byMf99k.
• SCP-2415 ("One Half of a Two-Hander") - The middle of the sword might be missing, but all you need is the tip. Forged byWrongJohnSilver.

Tales:

• A Great Idea, Probably... Sit down withSCP-2020 and brainstorm some ideas for your new SCP!
• Portrait of Two Choreographers - Art is messy. Relationships are messier. Painted byLordStonefish.

GoI Formats:

• A Love Letter to a Lady Mantis - Truly, the Lady Zakuro's beauty is matched only by her craftsmanship and swiftness of blade. Composed byZyn.

Author Pages:

• Shaggyheadbox - Get insideShaggydredlocks' shaggy head box!

Week of September 15th:

I've got my (evil) eye on you…

SCPs:

• SCP-2957 ("The Lunar Watchers") - The Servants of the Moon always have something for sale. But beware the Koboldes - to speak of them is to summon them… purchased bycoffeepunk,Dr_Grom, andZyn.
• SCP-2283 ("Spirit Bomb") - This weapon doesn't need five episodes to charge… detonated byresearcher_tm.
• SCP-2729 ("The Throats of the Earth Hum and Howl") - Can you hear it? The music of the Earth? Written byDarkStuff.
• SCP-2795 ("The Can-Do Helper") -"The easy to use pal who will keep chores out of your mind and give fun times that are out of this world!" Written bydeku_link.
• SCP-2624 ("Evil Eyes") - Two in the pinkeye, one in the stink eye. Written byCommunism will win.
• SCP-2376 ("Crow's Revenge") -The spare scarecrow he had nailed up three days before had been replaced with the body of his son. Written byAbsentmindedNihilist.

Tales:

• November Sun: In the conclusion to the thrillingBones of Autumn trilogy, Jordan and Sandy confront the beast that plunged the world into eternal fall. Written bytrennerdios.
• The Pattern: Interlude. In this brief stop-off fromAleph-Null, the Foundation struggles to make sense of the men and women who disappeared intothe House. Written byEekium.
• Sunday Funnies. Slice-of-life comics in the Foundationverse. Drawn byRandomini.

Author Pages:

• Eli Crailey's Personnel File: EC knows AWCY and the E(thics) C(ommittee) like the back of her hand.
• CapnThatguy's Personnel File: Please leave a message after theMEMETIC HAZARD EXPUNGED.

Week of September 22nd-30th

This week in Things We Didn't Know We Wanted: lesbian wendigoes!

SCPs:

• SCP-2804 ("Fire and Forget") - You wanted a deck, I got you a deck. So what if it's floating above the Pacific Ocean? Built byCommunism will win.
• SCP-2766 ("Aqua Caligula") - Way back when, the Romans chained some workaholic spirits to an aqueduct - and they aren't pleased to be on vacation… Written bych00bakka.
• SCP-2912 ("Clowny Clown Clown") - I'm Dick C. Normus, and this is my clown farm. Milked byMetaphysician.
• SCP-2919 ("Protect Kalmaris!") -If you are excited for wormhole transportation, write "Y" on this note! Y Y Y YY Y Y N Y Y Y N N Y. Written byNatVoltaic.
• SCP-19316-J ("Improper Terminology") - How about you contain my middle finger? Written byCommunism will win.
• SCP-2646 ("Water Tower") - Water, water, everywhere, and too many drops to drink. Drunk byCirclesAndSquares.
• SCP-2877 ("it h8s it here") - Gr8 h8 4 8 m8, I r8 8/8. Written byTheShrike.
• SCP-2388 ("CRUISE.EXE") - there is someTHING WEIRD GOING ON HERE. Written byCapnThatguy.
• SCP-2676 ("For S") - Love makes fools of us all. Written byTL333s.
• SCP-2794 ("Cutesy Wutesy Pootesy NK Ladybugs") - We're in deep shit now. Written byFingo7.
• SCP-2462 ("I'm so tired of fake friends, drama, liars, being ignored, and getting hurt") - Just… leave me, myself, and I with my thoughts. Written byCommunism will win.

Tales:

• Whoa, Here She Comes: In the strangest love story ever told, Lakshmi Agarwal must contain a man-eating bone wolf by going on a date with it. Continued inShow You What All That Howl Is For,The Beast You've Made Of Me,I Keep The Wolf From The Door, andI Slip, I'm Still an Animal. Written byAbsentmindedNihilist.
• To Be Noir Not To Be: I'm gonna level with you: At some point in the twenties we figured out how to literally insert ourselves into fiction, and now your job is to stop the intra-literary war between hardboiled detectives and mob hitmen, all armed with weapons straight out of a bad sci-fi novel. Written byTaffeta.
• Inside/Outside:Doors were opened, rooms were crossed, halls were walked, but no exit. No exit. There was no out. Was there an outside? Did an outside even exist? Written byCapnThatguy.
• Not to Disappear - 3: The local arm of the Foundation has detected a breach, and springs into action. An old friend is met, and grievances are shared in Part 3 ofHannah Cho's search for her mother. Written byminmin.
• Paddy's Last Jest: Fuck censorship! Fuck the children! Paddy's had it up to here with your bullshit! Animated bydaveyoufool.
• The Line of Duty: At what point do your commitments to the world outweigh your commitments to your loved ones? Written byApoplexic.

Author Pages:

• AbsentmindedNihilist's Personnel File:AbsentmindedNihilist's author page!
• HexaDon's Arthur Page: Not a typo. In fact, you can't have a typo in an author page that is LITERALLY A COMIC BOOK!

October

Week of October 1st:

SCPs:

• SCP-2531 ("The Pumpkin Man") - Do you know the Pumpkin Man? He lives in Mulberry Lane. Grown byJonathan Whitney.
• SCP-2934 ("WTF I hate Ndrec Gega now!") - If you can't trust the man in your dreams, who can you trust? Written byButtfranklin.
• SCP-2379 ("Roach Motel") - Sometimes, you live in the parasites.Roget's the night manager.
• SCP-739 ("A Mirrored Booth") - There is so much to do. We are ready to complete our work. We will earn your acknowledgement. Originally written byDWR, rewritten bySirens andJack Ike.
• SCP-2385 ("Somewhere in the Between") - There's life in these caves, and they long to return to the world outside. Shepherded byShaggydredlocks.
• SCP-103-2 Confirmed Sightings - They're everywhere! Wake up sheeple! A collaborative log started byCommunism will win.
• SCP-2868 ("Concept Cordyceps") - I knew I'd been seeing more of those fucking street performers lately. Written bySpookyBee does not match any existing user name.
• SCP-2951 ("10,000 Years") - What's the worst thing you could meet in the belly of the Earth? Yourself. Excavated bydjkaktus.
• SCP-2287 ("Mr. Headless") - Ichabod Crane might not be too worried about this one. Written byVoct.
• SCP-2549 ("Animal Assassins") - Sometimes nature bites back. Written byTheShrike.
• SCP-2296 ("Emperor Penguin Tube Mommas") - I don't remember seeing this on Planet Earth. Written byButtfranklin.
• SCP-2947 ("Hot and Cold Running Dogs") - Everyone likes mini-dogs, right? Drown in them. Written byJekeled.
• SCP-2664 ("Q U A C K - Q U A C K") - Turns out Gilbert Gottfried was actually a giant were-duck wearing a mask made of Gottfried's skin. That's the sane part. Played byA Random Day.

Tales:

• Old Kansas Sector ~ 12: Laugh is Okay - Have enjoyable laugh please! Foundation likes to laugh. Do you want to smile with Foundation? Directed byFaminepulse.
• The Lord Judge - The standards are high. The punishment for failure brutal. But the fruits of success? Limitless. Crafted bySmapti.
• Why is Five Afraid of Seven? - What is the true number of the universe? Written bySunnyClockwork.
• Up To No Good - In the latestResurrection tale, it's time for a «road trip!»LurkD called shotgun.
• All Hallows' - Memories of Halloween's past come together. Summoned byJacob Conwell.
• Counterpoint - The story ofSCP-012 continues with the interrogations of a researcher and a dangerous anartist. Led bypsul.

GoI Formats:

• KOI Format - SOME HUMANS ARE BAD HUMANS WHO WILL ATTEMPT TO HURT THE SCHOOL. EAT THEM. Fed bySpectralDragon.

Guides:

• How to Become a Better Critic - Interested in improving the quality of feedback you give? This may be a good place to start. Written byCommunism will win.

Week of October 8th:

• SCP-2632 ("No Fury") - When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws, they prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws. 'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Written byDoctor Cimmerian.
• Di Molte Voci:

Maybe I could write some format screw for the summary? Something posted from the perspective of a made up a doctor discussing the scip. Wait, I don't think that would be meta enough. - rumetzen

-Communism will win

• SCP-2559 ("I've Heard There's Something Going Around") - Hypochondriacs beware. Contracted byRimple.
• Allison Eckhart - Hey, who approved Charlie Kaufman's application? Written byAllison EckhartTaffeta.

Tales:

• Melting in Diminished Time - Routine leads to boredom leads to madness. Written byJekeled.
• SCP TV Pilot: Into the Deep End - Coming soon to your local public broadcast station Sunday 10pm-11pm viewing block. Screenplay bytrb456.

Week of October 15th:

SCPs:

• SCP-2784 ("My friends have made a net") - Even in death Andrew didn't want to inconvenience anyone. Written byLex1nat0r.
• SCP-2943 ("In Case Of Emergency, Break Glass") - Tis a lesson you should heed: Try, try, try again. If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again. Written byJack Ike.
• SCP-61231 ("An Honest Buck") -SCP-61231 is a female of the species Cardisoma armatum, commonly known as a dollar bill. Written byTheShrike.
• SCP-2607 ("Herpes ERPlex") - Be aware of STDs: Sexual Telephone Diseases. Written bych00bakka.
• SCP-2685 ("Thinking in Abstraction"): You can't discuss this SCP if you try using Anglo-Saxon Symbol #5. In fact, this blurb was truly difficult to whip up. Analysis byObserverSeptember.
• SCP-2773 ("Panic Attacks") - How on earth does an apartment building have panic attacks? Oh man, I'm getting a panic attack just thinking about it… Written byOkami069 andZyn.
• SCP-1851-J ("Fibber Lake") - I caught a fish THIS big! See? Oh shit did it just eat Jenkins?! Caught byErazm.
• SCP-1026-J ("Mr. Somebody") - Sorry [DATA EXPUNGED], what was your name again? Oh, right, it's [REDACTED] isn't it? Oh, no, wait, isn't it [SUCKS TO BE YOU]? Forgotten byMf99k.
• SCP-402 ("Obsidian Absorber") - Did it absorb the water, or did it absorbthe concept of water? Written by an unknown author, rewritten byQuantumApples and then rewritten byCommunism will win.
• SCP-2285 ("Cloud-Eating Birds") - SCP-2285 used Rain Dance! SCP-2285 used Hurricane! It's super-effective! Summoned byDragonManipulator372.
• SCP-2467 ("A Sum Greater Than Its Parts") - Beware theDV Toluca. The song it sings makes you want to stay… and then you end up as cast-off detritus. Captained byDr Balthazaar.

Tales:

• Elder Baconator - Captain Strelnikov and Director Moose go out to eat. Ordered byWaxx.

Author Pages:

• C. HOSTILIUS BACCHUS "BINIHIL" -ch00bakka's personnel file!

Week of October 22nd - 31st:

Hope you guys had a frightfully good Halloween!

SCPs:

• SCP-2964 ("Cryonic Tea Party") - How can William Boeing be burning up in the atmosphere if he was cryogenically frozen? Written byJekeled.
• SCP-2968 ("Predatory Bus-iness Practices") - You know, I'm glad that these bus-eating silicon monsters are considerate enough to let passengers off first. Driven byJekeled.
• SCP-2668 ("Blood Eagle") - Look, I'm sorry, but unless you improve your performance this quarter, you will be let go. Then disemboweled. Written byErazm.
• SCP-2486 ("Pomegarrotte") - Pomegranate zombies. Harvested byCommunism will win.
• SCP-2315 ("Mother Always Knows") - I'm very disappointed in you, honey; you were supposed to complete the ritual sacrament and carve this nice man's heart from his chest before I came home! Written byWrongJohnSilver.
• SCP-2535 ("Printers that Eat, and Eaters that Print") - Hewlett-Packard's new integrated business solutions weren't quite what these employees expected. Scanned byminmin.
• SCP-2973 ("Ihct͟o̢ga̴m͠a̢t")- Remember to feed your Tamagotchi o̧r̨ í̵t͝ w҉il̛͟l̸̀͜ ͘͢g͜͠e̶͜t̀͡ H͏U̴͞N̨͟͝G̴R̕Y̢̛ F̸̷OR̕ ̧̢Y͢͢Ó͏̴U̶R̡ S͜͢O̷̶͢UL̸̀. Kept bySpookyBee does not match any existing user name andFaminepulse.
• SCP-2318 ("Country Club Nuisance") - His wife isn't the only thing Tiger Woods cheated on. Played bynimz0.
• SCP-2958 ("Marooned") - Talk about getting stuck in traffic. Written byPenton.
• SCP-2863 ("がしゃどくろ") - Just when you thought Japan couldn't get crazier, they tried weaponizing giant skeletons. Conjured byDr Solo.
• SCP-2396 ("Ms. Sweetie") - Meet Ms. Sweetie, the newest Little Missus from Doctor Wondertainment! Purchased bykinchtheknifeblade.
• SCP-2338 ("An Unorthodox Adoption") - Just some cute kids in Halloween costumes! Definitely nothing more to it than that. Adopted byRimple.
• SCP-SPOOKY-J ("A Veteran Of The Skeleton War") - TIME TO SPOOK THESE FUCCBOIS. Dug up bySpookyBee does not match any existing user name.

Tales:

• Dreams of Flowers, Grass, and Snow - Part 1 - Jenna Thackery must investigate poisoned soup and stolen cash in the Archival Department's newest misadventure. Written byJekeled.
• Holding On -In a small room, a man who sometimes exists greets a man who should no longer be. Written byJack Ike.
• Laughter -The second entails me being placed into a body that goes around and makes people kill each other in a blind panic. I am an evil man who takes great joy in this, only wishing that I could take control of my body and do it more often. Written byCommunism will win.
• Not Fade Away - How could you forget thebodies in the water? Recalled byShaggydredlocks.
• In The Dark - A man and his monster shake a poor sap down. Negotiated byDoctor Cimmerian.

Fandom Stuff

What's been going on in the community aside from our site? Well…

• Has there been stuff in the fandom that I keep missing? Still could not find anything for either month. If you know of something, please let me know, and I dearly apologize for missing it!

Fanart

Art from September

• Daily-SCP has, true to his name, been creating fan art of one SCP every day for more than two years! Check it out!

Art from October

• 伊倉甍 treats us to a lovely sketch ofclassic SCPs going trick-or-treating!
• It wouldn't be Halloween without something spooky. Luckily,noeeel is here to scratch that itch witha containment breach in progress...
• Everybody's favoritedansen is at it again with some more2521 fanart!
• This piece by時果 depictsRoget'sSCP-031 looking for lovein all the wrong places...
• mitasa's got plenty of moe-SCPs to peek at, from 173 to 2999!

Thanks for tuning in again, folks! If you're unsatisfied with the blurb(s) provided for the article(s) you wrote, feel free to change it. Of course, if you write an article and it sticks,please sendA Random Day orrumetzen a blurb for your article. We may or may not use it (if we can think of something more attention-getting, though we can try to stick with one you give us) but we'd really would just like them in order to make the process easier for making these. This is a community thing, and I want authors to give their blurbs to sell these articles much easier. It reduces the workload we have to do, and helps the news come out that much earlier!

Thank you all for continuing to be an excellent community <3