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VISTORBELITUNG.COM,SCP-2156, also known as "Red and Black," is a Keter-class human female entity, approximately 20 years old, who exhibits alarming reality-warping properties tied directly to her chronic insomnia and anxiety. Unlike many controlled anomalies, SCP-2156’s powers manifest involuntarily in "active states," brief but chaotic periods that occur multiple times daily.
During these active states, which last for roughly one minute, the physical world surrounding her is subject to spontaneous, localized reality shifts. The effects vary, but the most common include:
Rapid State Alternation: Objects with distinct "on" and "off" or "lit" and "unlit" states such as lightbulbs or candles will cycle rapidly between these conditions.
Perceptual Disconnect: Bizarrely, SCP-2156 perceives these chaotic events as though she is playing several consecutive rounds of the digital card game Klondike Solitaire on an interface reminiscent of Windows 7. She claims to control the cards within the game's rules, though it remains unclear if her actions directly cause the external anomalous events.
The entity itself also undergoes a bizarre physical transformation: her skin pigmentation instantly alternates between bright red and black after each active state.
The Enigma of 'The Shuffle': Background and Origin
Details concerning SCP-2156's pre-containment history are sparse, as is often the case with powerful anomalies. However, the Foundation has documented a unique cyclical event tied to the anomaly:
The Thirteenth Hour Cycle: After every 52nd active state, SCP-2156 will abruptly and completely vanish for thirteen hours and four minutes, before instantly reappearing at her initial location. She refers to this event as being "shuffled."
Following "The Shuffle," SCP-2156 exhibits a substantially heightened mood and alertness for a short period, hinting at a mechanism within her condition she desperately seeks to understand or exploit. The entity is firmly convinced that meeting some "unidentified criteria" during her perceived game of Klondike will miraculously cure her insomnia. This constant, desperate desire to solve an impossible game while simultaneously warping reality makes her both a tragic figure and an extreme containment challenge.
SCP Foundation: The Organization Dedicated to Secrecy
The backdrop to SCP-2156's containment is the SCP Foundation, a fictional global organization created in a collaborative online writing project. The Foundation's sole mandate is to Secure, Contain, and Protect humanity from anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena known collectively as SCPs that defy natural laws and pose a threat to global normalcy.
The Foundation operates in absolute secrecy, maintaining a "Masquerade" to prevent mass hysteria and the collapse of human civilization should the public ever become aware of the reality-bending forces constantly at play. To achieve this, it employs vast resources, global facilities (like Sites and Areas), and specialized Mobile Task Forces (MTFs) to track down, contain, and study these anomalies, assigning them a classification (like Safe, Euclid, or Keter, with Keter denoting an anomaly that is difficult or impossible to consistently contain).
The very existence of entities like SCP-2156 justifies the Foundation's grim work: constant vigilance and containment protocols are the only way to shield the world from forces that could and often do break the very laws of physics and reality.