Over the last few months, many new and reimagined elements of SCP: Secret Laboratory have emerged. From the assaults of a living gun, to the reimagining of SCP-106’s dreadful pocket dimension — forever ingrained in these shared moments, we see your creativity, your expressions, interpretations, and so much more. We are excited to share many of the new inventions from our community since the last Community Showcase. Your creations continue to hold a special place in our heart, and we invite you all to take a look and enjoy some of these pieces!

We held a contest in April encouraging the community to share their #StrangelyContainedPlushies on our X and Bluesky. You all shared so many amazing images, and we are delighted to highlight the two winners here!

An absolutely adorable collection of all our plushies contained with you on your road trips! Not sure how well they all get along there though…

It appears dogs and cats can get along after all! Such a peaceful method of containment is a rare sight nowadays.

Much time and dedication went into this beautifully engaging animation. Having kept an eye on it for over a year through progress showcases, it certainly deserves a highlight, as it wonderfully captures both SCP:SL and the original video the short is inspired from.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vVJxVcZmImc

Wielding SCP-127 in full Class-D attire is already awesome on its own, but Grongo brought it to the next level by giving it the ability to speak, truly making them partners in crime!

In honor of our new SCP-106 plushie, sharing this cute and silly artwork of him protecting his son is very fitting! We hope you all cherish it as much as he does.

This image comes from Pyrkon in Poland, a convention that a few of our staff, including Hubert (pictured above) attended! We thought this cosplay, along with the jailbird, was so cool! We hope to feature more cosplays from you all in the future!

When it comes to self-expression and incorporating personal ideas into SCP: Secret Laboratory, plugins have long been a driving force behind creativity and customisation. This ability to modify the game reshapes the experience of playing SCP:SL in many different ways — whether for cosmetics, moderation, or game mechanics.

Scripted Events acts as a plugin akin to a programming language with a community dedicated to mutual support, aid, and learning. It grants its users the ability to create their own event scripts, enabling many opportunities through the automation of simple tasks. The tool provides an alternative pathway for people to try to weave in new concepts for their servers! Scripted Events establishes its potential to recombine many existing aspects of the game by working with a text-based parser. It is the combination of its simplicity along with the expression of most critical plugin-creation concepts that allows for particular beginner-friendliness as well as a broad spectrum of possibilities.
Elektryk Andrzej is the most recent maintainer for SE (Scripted Events) and is currently tackling the development of its successor, SER (Scripted Events Reloaded), aiming to work with the LabAPI plugin framework. A special thank you to him for helping us learn more about this community plugin! Former and initial maintainer Thunder300 has also helped us greatly.

The idea of scripts running custom events in SCP:SL first originated from a plugin called EasyEvents. Initially, SE was intended to recreate this functionality with a crucial quality-of-life tweak. Thunder’s concept included a custom yielding system, as opposed to specifying a time for each step in one’s scripts. With this initial spark, the process of a dedicated community forming and evolving soon began. At first, solutions offered for previous limitations brought people together, giving this new take on the concept a chance. Certain milestones, like the introduction of automatically-executing scripts, later raised the ceiling for what could be created, from simple event scripts closer to the functionality of plugins.
In March of 2023, Andrzej first joined Scripted Events. He originally wanted to create plugins for SCP:SL, but with the conventional solution of programming in C# seeming a bit intimidating, he gravitated to SE.
“SE is a much more approachable alternative compared to making a plugin by yourself using C#, and I know that from experience. Even though I knew languages like Python back then, trying to grasp every aspect of C# and EXILED made me think I was not the type of person for plugin development. Then I found Scripted Events, a plugin which lowered the entry point for server customisation, which was the thing I needed to start.” - Andrzej

There are many individual achievements and additions that could describe the transformation and progression of SE, maintaining its simplicity in use while expanding its potential. Whether it’s allowing people to create custom commands or introducing IF and GOTO statements, at its core, the community’s participation, mutual support, and creativity is the driving force behind the many ideas that come to life.

 “\[…]The scripts that people would share publicly were amazing! One of the very first public scripts in our server was CISpy, which is a classic SCP:SL plugin that spawned a disguised Chaos Insurgent in the MTF wave. When I saw that someone had created CISpy entirely using ScriptedEvents and no C# coding at all, I was blown away and knew that I had created something truly amazing. The talent I saw in the server using my plugin only grew from there as more features were introduced into the ‘language’.” ~Thunder300

While SE’s functionality has steadily increased and grown, the base implementations and design choices dating back over two years have started to pose more challenges. And so, after becoming SE’s current maintainer and developer, Andrzej set out to integrate plenty of updated features and create Scripted Events Reloaded, or SER for short. Elektryk Andrzej is addressing this technical debt and current obstacle from several perspectives, building completely from the ground up. Components like arguments, control flow and variables are receiving a full rework, while documentations, tutorials and a more robust help command are getting added.

As it stands, Scripted Events is bothan entry point of unique simplicity for new server owners and a project expanding towards more complex possibilities. In its existence as a social hub and shared context, it offers many commendable examples of collaboration, all the way up to co-creation.

We are excited to see how the journey ahead unfolds. Best wishes! Current progression and repository for SER: https://github.com/Elektryk-Andrzej/ScriptedEventsReloaded Official server-side plugin loader and framework LabAPI: https://github.com/northwood-studios/LabAPI

Finally, we wanted to thank everyone who came and greeted our staff at Heros Dutch Comic Con! We had a lot of fun meeting some of you and seeing your cosplays. We hope to see you all at future events!
And as always, see you in the dark. - Northwood Studios