介绍
嘿。在本帖中，我将检查由Placeholder McD所作的SCP-6416中令人费解的细节。Heyo. In this post, I will be going through the puzzling details of SCP-6416, written by
Placeholder McD.
在我们开始前，有几篇其他的解密我想推荐给大家阅读，还有对它们内容的总结作为对已读过它们的读者的快速回顾。Before we begin, there are some other declassifications I recommend you read first, accompanied by summaries as a refresher for those who have already read them.
- Canon Primer - S & C塑料：描述了本文中的叙事因果现象。: In which the phenomenon of narrative causality displayed here is described.
- SCP-整数：一个由无名森林中的实体逻辑家产生的危害复合体。由于森林的性质，发现该实体的个人将自身的身份与前述的抽象实体部分调换，产生SCP-整数本身，且强迫他使用Placeholder McDoctorate一名。: A HAZARD COMPLEX produced by LOGICIAN【黑条】, an entity present within a certain nameless forest. Due to the attributes of these woods, the individual who discovered the entity swapped parts of his own identity with the aforementioned abstract entity, producing SCP-INTEGER itself and forcing him to assume the name Placeholder McDoctorate.
- SCP-5492：一种现实改变现象，影响各时间线上的McDoctorate博士版本。在其中，一个现实改变设备通过时间旅行尝试确保自身的创建，在不同程度上成功。: A reality-altering phenomenon affecting versions of Doctor McDoctorate across a multitude of timelines. In it, a reality-altering device makes attempts to ensure its own creation through time-travel, to varying degrees of success.
- SCP-5956：反因果联系工具，可以创造不稳定的分支时间线，在其中它成为离悖引擎的一部分。: A retrocausal communicator which created an unstable offshoot timeline, in which it became part of a device known as the Paradox Exodus Engine.
通知与收容措施
该文件开始于一份免责声明，表明这份文档来自于一条不同的时间线，有不同的编号和术语，对于读者的现实可能不适用。更确切地说，文档来自于自称TL-001（“主时间线”）的时间线，但通知将其称为TL-6416-X9C38DAU7E。如果你读过SCP-6820，这应当很熟悉，可能会引起注意。我们一会再说。The file begins with a disclaimer that the file comes from a timeline that has different designations for adjacent realities and has terminology that may not be applicable in the reader's frame of reference. More specifically, the file's origin timeline registered itself as TL-001 ("The Prime-Timeline"), while the notice calls it TL-6416-X9C38DAU7E. If you've read SCP-6820, this should be familiar, and probably raises some red flags, but will get to that later.
SCP-6416的收容措施显示了很多：The procedures for SCP-6416 reveal quite a lot:
- 对异常的任何一种开发都是禁止的，因为它违反了多元宇宙协议。Any exploitation of the anomaly is forbidden, as it violates multi-u agreements.
- 如果SCP-6416-立方（插图上显示的魔方）可被回收，它们需要放在倾斜概率区，后面的脚注解释说是一个在全部可选时间线同等物时间相同的建筑，减少内容物可能的配置结构。If they can be feasibly retrieved, instances of SCP-6416-CUBE (the Rubik's cubes shown in the accompanying photo) are to be put into an oblique possibility wing, which a later footnote explains is a structure which is synchronized with all of its alternate timeline counterparts, reducing the possible configurations of their contents.
- 全部Placeholder McDoctorate相关的实例都要把自己的魔方给予当地RCT-Δt的实例以收容。All related instances of Placeholder McDoctorate should give their puzzle cubes to local RCT-Δt instances for containment.
在此之下我们可以看到一系列McDoctorate博士的时间线相等体，其中很多名字都很傻，但有三个值得注意：Bellow this section we get a list of names for Doctor McDoctorate's alternate timeline counterparts, many of them being quite silly, but 3 of them are noteworthy:
- 技术员路人甲，是SCP-5492-A在自己时间线的附身体，编号为TL-5242-J。正如我们之后会看到的，6416和5492很相似。Technician John Doe, who is the resident instance of SCP-5492-A within their timeline, which is designated TL-5242-J. As we'll see later, 6416 and 5492 are quite similar.
- プレースホルダー，这个名字指向SCP-2844-JP，“天井”系列的开篇之作，这个系列极大地受到了告诫的影响，设定在Site-17深井目录设定之中。プレースホルダー, whose name has an embedded link to SCP-2844-JP, the starting work of the SKYWELLS, a series heavily inspired by ADMONITION, set in an offshoot of the Site-17 DEEPWELL canon.
- PHMD，又名“悖论!Placeholder”，是“告诫”系列中McDoctorate博士的版本，来自于TL-5956-X：在SCP-5956中展现的不稳定平行现实。在他被SCP-6269绑架后，取代了自己在告诫时间线的自己。PHMD, AKA "Paradox!Placeholder", is the version of Dr McDoctorate present throughout the ADMONITION series, and hailing from TL-5956-X: the unstable alternate reality shown in SCP-5956. He replaced his local counterpart in the ADMONITION timeline after the latter was abducted by SCP-6269.
描述
SCP-6416是一项导致不同的魔方和相似项目在不同时间线里变得几乎不可能相同的异常，创造出一个受影响现实，称为时间平面-6416。成为TP-6416部分的时间线条件包括：SCP-6416 is an anomaly which causes different Rubik's cubes and analogous items to become improbably synchronized with alternate timeline counterparts, creating a continuum of affected realities known as Time Plane-6416. The conditions for a timeline to be part of TP-6416 go like this:
- 一个版本的McDoctorate博士，统称为PoI-5242，被自己时间线的基金会同位体雇佣。所有个体在基因层面至少有99.99998%的匹配度。A version of Doctor McDoctorate, broadly designated as PoI-5242, is employed by their timeline's resident Foundation counterpart. All variants are a 99.99998% genetic match to each other at minimum.
- PoI-5242经历身份抽象，由于和SCP-整数的部分身份交换导致。PoI-5242 experiences an identity abstraction brought on by a partial identity swap with SCP-INTEGER.
- PoI-5242所有的一件魔方项目受到SCP-整数影响，成为SCP-6416-立方实例。A puzzle object in PoI-5242's possession is impacted by SCP-INTEGER, becoming an instance of SCP-6416-CUBE.
- PoI-5242始终如一地被提拔至O5-6或相近的职位。PoI-5242 is invariably promoted to the title of o5-6 or an analogous position.
基本上，该身份抽象过程具有对SCP-6416-立方周围的叙事的第四面墙打破效应，导致它们将成为整个TP-6416的同一物件。当该实例的状态改变时，一切其他实例的历史就将经历追溯性重构，以此同步自身状态。Essentially, the abstraction process has a 4th wall-breaking effect on the narrative surrounding SCP-6416-Cube instances, causing them to function as if they were a single object whose presence is spread across TP-6416. When the state of one instance is changed, the history of all other instances is subjected to a process of ret-conjuration which alters their history so they have a matching state.
这些超物理学性质使得SCP-6416得以覆写其他时间线改变，导致整个系统无比具有弹性。例如，SCP-6416-立方的一个实例不能在不摧毁时间平面所有共同体的情况下被摧毁。其他需注意的特性是其他版本跟随最低可变性的道路；SCP-6416会进行最低程度的历史改变以确保立方实体的同步。These pataphysical attributes allow SCP-6416 to overwrite the effect of other chronology shifts, thus making the whole system extremely resilient. For instance, an instance of SCP-6416-CUBE instance can't be destroyed without eliminating all of its counterparts in the timeplane. Another noted trait is that alterations follow a path of least resistance; SCP-6416 makes a minimal amount of historical changes to ensure the CUBE instances are synchronized.
关注SCP-6416超形上学方面的部分有一条链接至原型部系列的超链接。在这个故事系列中，McDoctorate博士使用魔方来进行超形上学扭曲以制作占位勘探引擎，使得魔方成为叙事因果的中心物件。尚不清楚这如何导致SCP-6416-立方的性质，但确实值得关注。The section that notes SCP-6416's pataphysical facets has a crosslink to the tale 占位符 from the Archetypicals series. Within this series, Dr. McDoctorate used a Rubik's cube to create the pataphysical distortions needed to create the Placeholder Exploratory Engine, making the cubes into centrepieces of narrative causality. It's not clear how this contributes to the nature of SCP-6416-CUBE, but it certainly is noteworthy.
由于各种版本的PoI-5242通常将自身的立方实体随身携带，他们更有机会卷入时间重构中，通常导致SCP-6416保留自身存在的本质促动影响。各版本的PoI-5242了解这一点且使用它来保证自身存活。Because versions of PoI-5242 usually carry around their respective CUBE instances, they have a greater chance of being involved in the reconfiguration, frequently prompting SCP-6416 to preserve their existence with its ontokinetic influence. Versions of PoI-5242 are aware of this and use it to keep themselves alive.
任何PoI-5242的给定版本最后都会找到在SCP-6416-立方的状态下编码信息的办法，使得他们能够与自身的多元宇宙副本交流。这使得他们可以得到制作数据屏蔽科技的指导，使自身时间线脱离RCT-Δt的影响。显然，44%的TP-6416已经通过这种方式被孤立。据估计，各种版本的PoI-5242明白自己上升至监督者的行为违反了1981协议，导致他们开始实施先前提及的孤立，以保护自身不受波及。Any given version of PoI-5242 will eventually find ways of encoding messages in the state of SCP-6416-CUBE, allowing them to communicate with their multiversal counterparts. This allows them to get instructions for producing data-shielding technology which cuts their timeline off from RCT-Δt's influence. Apparently, 44% of TP-6416 has been isolated in this way. It's assumed that versions of PoI-5242 know that their ascent to Overseer status violates the 1981 agreement, which prompts them to initiate the aforementioned isolation to protect themselves from the ramifications.
描述终结于一句不知为何被划去的陈述：The description ends with a statement which has been stricken through for some reason:
任何由SCP-6416-立方通讯的智能化设计数据皆可能是由另一名时间线已无法观测的PoI-5242个体产生，尽管该假说不可证伪。
基金会似乎发现了有关孤立科技的什么事情。It seems the Foundation discovered something about the isolation tech.
附录6416/A
在第一个附录中，需要注意属于PoI-5242“Prime”（Abstract M'Doctorat）的魔方已经成为了SCP-6416-立方实例，尽管RCT-Δt实施了制止措施。它被没收且置入倾斜概率区。有一份提议要让M'Doctorat创建一个和自身的其他版本类似的通讯器，将其与CAOCIT程序共同使用以观察SCP-6416在其存在期间的整个发展过程。该提议被通过，6416/PRIME计划启动。In the first addendum, it's noted that a puzzle object belonging to PoI-5242-"Prime" (Abstract M'Doctorat) had become an SCP-6416-CUBE instance despite RCT-Δt's preventative measures. It was confiscated and put into the oblique possibility wing. A proposal is made to enlist M'Doctrat in creating a transmitter like those used by other versions of PoI-5242, and use it in conjunction with CAOCIT procedures to observe SCP-6416's development across its whole duration of occurrence. The proposal is approved, and Project 6416/Prime begins.
随后，M'Doctrat博士和Elliot Reynders（该时间线版本的Ilse Reynders）首次见面。其中许多都是Reynders试图让M'Doctrat的神经多样性官能症得到控制，但其中一部分值得注意：Next, Doctor M'doctrat and Elliot Reynders (the resident version of Ilse Reynders in this timeline) meet at the first conference. Much of it is just Reynders trying to get M'Doctrat's various neuroses under control, but one section is notable:
M'Doctorat博士：好，好……能问问题吗？
Reynders主管：问吧。
M'Doctorat博士：如果我看到了来自物件的信息会不会很危险？如果这些信息是要说服我成为监督者然后隔离这条时间线的话，我们就完蛋了，是吧？
Reynders主管：这是时间平面-6416中第一个RCT-Δt 控制的时间线。似乎异常正在扩散到它最初的因果分支之外，而我们相信‘赶在它前面’可以阻止你——和我们——走上那条路。
SCP-6416正扩散到其他时间线，这就是这个计划被批准的原因；他们终于可以在RCT-Δt的控制下使用它了，而扩散本身也是值得注意的原因。SCP-6416 is spreading into unexpected timelines, which is the whole reason it was approved; they can finally work with it under RCT-Δt control, and the spread itself is also a cause for concern.
附录6416/B
The second addendum begins with what is apparently a communication log from 6416/Prime. However, the whole thing has been expunged. An explanation is found immediately below:
在接触了由新造的谜诗引擎Enigmaverse Engine自SCP-6416解码而来的、带有明显认知危害的通讯之后，Reynders主管坚持临时主持以下任务报告。O5-9，唯一拥有Oracle级认知阻抗内嵌的个人，恰巧在现场检查引擎的工作情况；因此，其得以迅速从设施的另一区域转到Reynders主管所在的录音室。
The project did successfully receive and decode a 6416 transmission, but the output proved to be quite hazardous.
O5-9：<在Reynders主管对面的会议桌坐下> 跟我说说，Elliot。
Reynders主管：我不——我不能说——我做的一切都让我们陷入了危险。
O5-9：你不告诉我出了什么问题的话，我是不能帮到你的。
Reynders主管：<与O5-9对视，抓住桌子，稳住自身。>那是——那是Abbie，全都是Abbie。无处不在。全部都是。
O5-9：我说，Reynders博士，用一用你那么多学位。像科学家一样解释一下。
<录音静默。Reynders主管深呼吸。>
Reynders主管：把Abbie提拔到议会。
O5-9：但是，你的措施——
Reynders主管：去他妈的措施！这已经定了——它已经扩散到了我们这里，而如果我们不与其他时间线保持连接的话就会继续扩散下去。如果有任何阻止它们的希望的话，我们就需要它们。
I'm sorry what?
O5-9：这不是注定的，不然我们应该已经看到它了。
Reynders主管：<弯腰，咳血>那是她。
O5-9：什么？
Reynders主管：Abstract。Placeholder。VOLATILE。疯狂科学家。
O5-9：Elliot，看着我。集中精神！
Reynders主管：<沉重喘息>悖论，是它在杀死那些时间线，将时间线扼杀……Abbie是Place是Holder是无所不知的Doctorface。Doctor who？
O5-9：杀死哪些时间线？<紧急救援人员在O5-9的指示下前来帮助Reynders主管减轻症状。>
Reynders主管：不，那是……那是人工的注定事件。它们会扼杀与自己不相符的时间线。它们都为她工作。
O5-9：<示意救援人员接手Reynders主管，以免她继续暴露在他的认知危害之下>你还能再告诉我点什么吗？我们从来没有接到过任何来自M'Doctorat的时间异常读数——我们怎么可能会从来没注意过她的特殊性？
Reynders主管：<挣扎，疯狂眨眼>她——他——他们都是Placeholder。是悖论。是讲故事者。他们超越时间。
<Reynders主管被救援人员带到记忆删除区，在经过M'Doctorat博士时大声呼喊。>
Director Reynders is not in the soundest mental state, but we can decipher some things. The word VOLATILE is written in blue font, implying that it refers to SCP-INTEGER. Reynders then says that it, the various instances of PoI-5242, and the time paradox that destroyed TL-5956-X are all synonymous to some extent. All of these form a system that is "beyond time" and influences the story of the Foundation to suit some ambiguous ends.
This use of terminology may also relate to Paradox!Placeholder as I mentioned above.
附录6416/III
The nomenclature has shifted from letters to Roman numerals for some reason.
o5-9, the Oracle, holds a meeting with Doctor M'Doctrat to evaluate the incident with Reynders. Abbie accuses Nine of trying to hide things she already knows right before this exchange happens:
M'Doctorat博士：九小姐！如果我很……危险的话，我现在就必须要知道这一点，在我再次接触Elliot看到的东西之前。
O5-9：你只会在你各自迭代的RCT之前碰到SCP-6416才会变得危险。似乎最大的危险就是不配合。
M'Doctorat博士：什么？
O5-9：在TP-6416之外，没有一条时间线中的四阶魔方被SCP-整数抽象化。
M'Doctorat博士：……你是说这已经固定了？
O5-9：我是说有什么东西阻止了任何物件没有导致你成为O5-6并锁闭RCT的时间线出现。
M'Doctorat博士：操。他们应该把这些东西写在工作申请里了，是吧？
This is what Reynders meant: if an SCP-6416-CUBE instance can't get PoI-5242 to the o5-6 position, the timeline it resides in will be destroyed in a reality-disrupting paradox. If they don't complete the chain of events, they're all dead, and the chance to research this phenomenon and protect other timelines will be lost.
M'Doctrat desperately tries to find a way out of this, but the Oracle dismisses all of them due to various flows. Abbie doesn't want to be an Overseer, nor does she want to be a bureaucratic usurper, but all the Oracle can do is apologize.
6416/PRIME计划仍保持活跃状态，其次要目的产生实质性改变。M'Doctorat博士提拔为项目负责人并被告知相关职责；她对超心理学咨询的请求（在八个不同设施中）已批准。
The push to follow SCP-6416's rules is initiated, and we later see the Enigmaverse Engine reactivated.
附录6416/IV
Let's get right to it:
在6416/PRIME计划实施的第四年，M'Doctorat博士的超心理学家和治疗师一致注意到了她情况的极大改善，与此前长期的抑郁形成显著对比。在咨询了项目顾问O5-9后，议会决定M'Doctorat博士将在一周内晋升为监督者，她已经接受了接替O5-6（运营者）的职位所需的必要训练。这使得M'Doctorat博士在这一阶段的注意力从站外的活动中转移。下一周内，M'Doctorat逐渐将一系列各种各样的机械部件和实验设备带往站外，若干项目与构建谜诗引擎所使用的一致。
Abbie used all attention placed on her shift to Overseer status as a distraction so she can do more construction off-site.
2028年4月16日，M'Doctorat博士被发现因脑功能中断而在自己的住处死亡，后来发现是由模因引起的。她的尸体边上放置着第二代引擎，具有双向通讯能力，强制SCP-6416-立方通过一系列部分观察到的状态而旋转至所需的构造。全部先前的交流都已被从记忆中消除；目前尚不明确导致M'Doctorat死亡的认知危害是否由SCP-6416强加或由其自身实施，不论出于有意还是无意。
Abbie created a new version of the Enigmaverse Engine that could change SCP-6416-CUBE instances so their effects loop back to her own timeline in a desirable fashion.
The previous messages are wiped from collective memory, possibly to undo Reynders' cognitohazardous breakdown. Whatever the reason, this gives a more clear reason for the complete redaction of the message log: M'Doctrat forcefully wiped the data from existence.
做得好；她把你藏得很好，
但这不是我们要讲的故事。逻辑家
Oh, so that's how it is.
反思与总结
Looking over this article and related content, many implications come to light:
- LOGICIAN【黑条】 wants to get PoI-5242 into the o5-6 position, seemingly for its own amusement.
- Based on this file and the METAFOUNDATION timeline chart, Paradox!Placeholder likely used SCP-6416 to ensure that DEEPWELL!PLACEHOLDER is taken by SCP-6269, and he could safely replace him without any objections (or suspicion) from the Foundation of TL-4755. It is also likely that many pieces of technology shown in ADMONITION were developed by researching SCP-6416.
- Versions PoI-5242 is considered synonymous with "the paradox" because they swapped fragments of their identities with LOGICIAN【黑条】. This is also what leads to the use of Rubik's cubes in variants of the Exploratory Engine. It is likely that this opened a portal which allowed SCP-6416 to spread into TL-6416-X9C38DAU7E, likely ending in said timeline's destruction.
With all of this in mind, we can now fully summarize the sequence of events:
- PoI-5242 is employed by their timeline's resident Foundation variant.
- This person of interest loses their original name upon discovering their respective version of SCP-INTEGER, swapping parts of their metaphysical structures.
- Under the right circumstances, SCP-INTEGER will exert its influence on a Rubik's cube or analogous object, making it into an instance of SCP-INTEGER-DIGIT.
- The abstracted puzzle object becomes an instance of SCP-6416-CUBE as it is subjected to various shifts in narrative causality.
- PoI-5242 uses SCP-6416-CUBE to send and receive trans-temporal messages, directing them towards assuming the position of o5-6 or some analogue.
- The influence of SCP-6416 spreads backwards in time, ensuring all the above-listed events occur, up to and including PoI-5242's promotion to Overseer status. If the resultant causal loop is broken, the timeline will collapse in a paradoxical incident similar to SCP-5956/TL-5956-X.
- When LOGICIAN【黑条】 properly acknowledged SCP-6416, it decided to halt M'Doctrat's ascension to Overseer status, mainly for the sake of amusing itself. The SCP-6416 file's timeline of origin collapsed after the causal loop was broken.
Thus conclude this summary of SCP-6416: a mind-bending multiversal force parasitizing the Foundation's command structure. Don't bring random toys into places where they may get contaminated.