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%%* AnythingThatMoves: Serra Argent. For example, Black.
%%** One of the rooms in Tamlin did this.

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Vance Goddamn Harding managed to kill a vampire epically while having operational control on a mission.



* HopelessBossFight: Jason Dodridge was boasting about [[TemptingFate how he could have kicked a Tamlin entity's ass]]. O5-6 came in right at that time and invited Jason to [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking partake in a friendly scuffle]].

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* HopelessBossFight: Jason Dodridge was boasting about [[TemptingFate how he could have kicked a Tamlin entity's ass]]. O5-6 came in right at that time and invited Jason to [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking [[RankScalesWithAsskicking partake in a friendly scuffle]].


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* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Vance Goddamn Harding managed to kill a vampire epically while having operational control on a mission.

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--><[[TheHero Jason]]>: "[[NaiveNewcomer Kaze]], we're almost there. I've got [[TheLancer Brad]], [[TheBigGuy Berk]], and [[HotScientist Rosalyn]]."\\

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--><[[TheHero Jason]]>: "[[NaiveNewcomer Kaze]], we're almost there. I've got [[TheLancer Brad]], [[TheBigGuy Berk]], and [[HotScientist Rosalyn]].Rosalyn."\\



* HotScientist: Averted heavily with John Williamson. Even before having been set on fire, set on fire again and then burned with acid, he was no looker. Now, it's advisable not to look at him whilst eating chili-mac.
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Five Man Band is undergoing a wick-cleaning project, so zero-context examples, as well as roles with little to no context, will be deleted.


%%* FiveManBand:
%%-->Jason Dodridge: TheHero
%%-->Brad Gibson: TheLancer
%%-->Alice Erdritch: TheChick
%%-->Linda Aniston: TheSmartGuy
%%-->Berkley Frick: TheBigGuy

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* KnifeNut:
** Director of Espionage Linda Aniston has a bit of a thing for blades.
** In a mission near the end of a raid into a compromised site, a Terminator-like robot barges into a room with all the agents in it and trashes all but one (but then proceeds to beat him up anyway). Instead of shooting at it like everybody else, Makoto lunges at robot (and getting in harm's way) to stab it repeatedly (and failing to do any damage).
--->< Makoto> 2d6 BANZAI MOTHERFUCKER!\\
< Makoto> Makoto launches himself at the robot, trying to stab it\\
< Makoto> 2d6 BACKSTAB LIKE A SPY\\
< Makoto> "MOTHERFUCKER *SHOT* ME!"\\
< Jillian> "It shot me too Makoto, but I didn't try to stab it"\\
< Makoto> "You don't have a knife!"


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* NoSell:
** In a mission near the end of a raid into a compromised site, a Terminator-like robot barges into a room with all the agents in it and trashes all but one (but then proceeds to beat him up anyway). Instead of shooting at it like everybody else, Makoto lunges at robot (and getting in harm's way) to stab it repeatedly (and failing to do any damage).
--->< Makoto> 2d6 BANZAI MOTHERFUCKER!\\
< Makoto> Makoto launches himself at the robot, trying to stab it\\
< Makoto> 2d6 BACKSTAB LIKE A SPY\\
< Makoto> "MOTHERFUCKER *SHOT* ME!"\\
< Jillian> "It shot me too Makoto, but I didn't try to stab it"\\
< Makoto> "You don't have a knife!"
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%%* BadassMustache: Mann.
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-> <pooryoric> "why did you ask if I knew who I am?"
-> <Gerald> "It's either Yoric Elroy or D-1347. The first thing you lose as D-Class is your identity."

-> <O5-6> "Alex, we just lost O5's 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, and 13."

''Active Duty'' was the official roleplay for the (SCP Foundation). It was created to replace the now-defunct Fieldwork roleplay, which everyone can safely say was a good switch.

Taking place at Site 23, buried in the Australian outback, Active Duty (unlike its... "looser" predecessor) emphasized horror, realism, permadeath, and the sheer powerlessness of humans trying to cope with the unknown. Players could explore the constantly changing Tamlin House, contain dangerous outbreaks, or get their character executed for treason.

When that fails, there's always drama!

!! ''Active Duty'' provides examples of:
%%* AboveGoodAndEvil: This is the Foundation- is this surprising?
* AccidentalPervert: Kat accidently copped a feel off a slime [[NotUsingTheZedWord zom- dead Chilean woman.]] [[HilarityEnsues There were laughs]], before Akane slapped her shit for it.
%%* AlmightyJanitor: "Mac" Guffin may well qualify for this, even though he's been promoted to Director of Engineering.
* AlternateSelf: Alternate-Light is the original O5-2, Alternate-Mann is probably running around killing people, and in an unrelated incident, we have no idea what happened to Alternate-Yoric or if he exists.
* AndZoidberg: Paraphrased, for space:
--><[[TheHero Jason]]>: "[[NaiveNewcomer Kaze]], we're almost there. I've got [[TheLancer Brad]], [[TheBigGuy Berk]], and [[HotScientist Rosalyn]]."\\
<Jack>: "And me!"\\
<Jason>: "...And [[ButtMonkey Jack]]."
%%* AnythingThatMoves: Serra Argent. For example, Black.
%%** One of the rooms in Tamlin did this.
%%* AteHisGun: Heiden, and then, shortly after, Facette.
* AuthorAvatar: That weird bearded guy in room 93. Rumor has it that it's Bright, the real Bright.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Vance Goddamn Harding managed to kill a vampire epically while having operational control on a mission.
%%* BackFromTheDead: Yoric and Heiden. Although, technically, Yoric is from an alternate timeline, and Heiden was never actually dead.
* BadFuture: A possible future experienced through the 307 Ale showed a Site infested with 173s. Everyone died. Jason wrote "I LOVE DICKS" on one of their faces. [[MoodWhiplash Then he died.]]
%%* BadassBoast:
%%-->< Makoto: You will let go of me now.
%%* BadassMustache: Mann.
%%* BadassNormal: Pretty much in the job description for O-23.
%%* BadassPreacher: Ruwaydah Al-Jahani (Muslim), Tau Vriska ([[MachineWorship Broken God]]), and Father Robert Jakal (Christian)
%%* BattleCouple: Any couple in the setting, more or less. Currently Alice and Jason(the Directors Dodridge) and John and Akane.
* BerserkButton:
** Staff Sergeant Blevins's wife spends a lot of time with some "Roy" fellow, her "stylist". Several [[PlayerCharacter PCs]] introduced the possibility that she might be cheating. He took it out on the HR department. In the words of Jason Dodridge, "[the] Watercooler breached containment. He terminated it."
** Do not invade Williamson's mind. As one particularly twisted reality warper found out, it's a sure fire way to end up tortured to death (or til he gets bored) with a pair of pliers. In fact, not only will he lose his shit, but John will remember you if you somehow escape. And take your scalp as a trophy.
%%** Jason Dodridge has one for Alice Erdritch.
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** Chad, a mild-mannered, good-natured Foundation motivational speaker and seminar leader, apparently plots the murders of the Omega-23 personnel that constantly make shams of his seminars.
** Director Alice Erdritch, relatively mild-mannered and described as "a bundle of nerves" can outshoot a Marine MP sharpshooter.
* BeyondTheImpossible: Director Tamlin has the [[BiggerOnTheInside entire]] Tamlin House tattooed onto his body. [[MindScrew Both the inside and out.]]
* BigLabyrinthineBuilding: People have been known to get lost in the Tamlin House and die.
%%* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Pretty much all rooms in the Tamlin House.
* BoomHeadshot: Director Dodridge clipped Agent Foley in the head to stop his SCP-029-induced murder spree; justified, as he was using Agent Martin as a human shield.
%%** O5-6 terminating Akane.
%%** Jason again, but with John Williamson. He was aiming for his gun.
%%* BodySurf: Bright ''and'' Jager!
%%* BreakTheCutie: The universe seems determined to insanify Alice Erdritch.
%%* ButtMonkey: Walter, just Walter.
%%** Agent Jack.
%%* BunnyEarsLawyer: You can count the number of times that Ten's been serious on one hand. Yet, somehow, she's still an O5.
%%** Many other characters have quirks that would make it very hard to do their original jobs before the Foundation, especially if their work in the Foundation caused it.
%%* CassandraTruth: Alice, all the time. Why won't you listen to her?
%%* DeadpanSnarker: That's Yoric for you.
* DramaBomb:
** Half of O-23 gets the shit tore out of them, then Alice has Travis, inducing so much drama that time itself got warped for a second.
** Jason gets demoted, Akane promoted, and there's a confrontation on the roof. Akane ends up brainless and John finally snaps. The drama was delicious.
** Priscilla gets reality bent into someone else. Jason and Alice, tired of their bosses being stupid, quit the Foundation.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Agent Jack Harker's death. Finally driven insane, he punched out a dragon before [[SuicideAttack suicide bombing]] the EldritchAbomination Mann by jumping into his mouth. [[RetGone All while Mann was erasing him from existence.]]
%%** Linda Aniston, Brad Gibson, Hadley Park, Kaze Sakura and Bob Jameson all sacrificed themselves to seal Jager. They are now within the Tamlin House. It was ''glorious.''
%%* EarnYourHappyEnding: Alice calls her dad and she and Jason escape The Foundation to "Anyplace better than here."
* TheEngineer: John Williamson. Combat engineer to a T, with a little bit of Demoman thrown in for good measure.
%%* EyepatchOfPower: Tau has one.
%%* ExtranormalInstitute: Site 23.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Chandra Markov was turned to stone, but is [[AndIMustScream fully conscious]] and will technically live forever.
%%* FiveManBand:
%%-->Jason Dodridge: TheHero
%%-->Brad Gibson: TheLancer
%%-->Alice Erdritch: TheChick
%%-->Linda Aniston: TheSmartGuy
%%-->Berkley Frick: TheBigGuy
* FlockOfWolves: Janus's dinner party, which was filled to the brim with [[TheMole people]] with [[DoubleAgent conflicting loyalties]]. Turns out that [[MoleInCharge every director]] at the site was either an infiltrator, or with their own hidden agenda.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: This is "Mac" Guffin's hat, since he has all sorts of schemes, scams, and such running in the background.
%%* FullFrontalAssault: Required, to be able to use the simulacrums in Zeta Wing.
* FunWithAcronyms:
** Site Human Intensive Training - mandatory for insensitive personnel in the workplace. Which is most of the [=PCs=].
** IC and OOC speculation on what the new powered armor should be named. Finally settled on Titanium Reinforced Armed Vanguard Infantry Suite, or TRAVIS.
%%* TheGamePlaysYou: Technically from Fieldwork, but the gameshow plot was one of its finest moments nonetheless.
* GargleBlaster: Linda Aniston and Jake Wilson ordered actual Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters in a room in Tamlin House. It gave them an alcoholic PTSD.
%%* GroinAttack: To Able, courtesy of Black. With a knife.
%%** Chandra Markov to Director Linda Aniston.
* HatesBeingTouched: Akane, due to spending much of her early teenage years 'working' in a brothel.
* HopelessBossFight: Jason Dodridge was boasting about [[TemptingFate how he could have kicked a Tamlin entity's ass]]. O5-6 came in right at that time and invited Jason to [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking partake in a friendly scuffle]].
* HotScientist: Averted heavily with John Williamson. Even before having been set on fire, set on fire again and then burned with acid, he was no looker. Now, it's advisable not to look at him whilst eating chili-mac.
* HurricaneOfPuns: After the electric sheep broke containment, everybody was making sheep-related puns, in-character and out.
%%* IceQueen: Light... and maybe Ten... And a lot of the female characters.
* IdiotBall: John Williamson [[NoKillLikeOverkill fired a grenade]] into a [[ChunkySalsaRule train full of civilians]], in an effort to stop an aggressive D-Class affected by [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-342 SCP-342]].
%%* KilledOffForReal: Theoretically, that's the point of the game. (Except, uh, Bright, Yoric, and Heiden.)
%%* KillerGameMaster: Echo Four Delta is becoming one, but nobody can top Bright.
* KnifeNut:
** Director of Espionage Linda Aniston has a bit of a thing for blades.
** In a mission near the end of a raid into a compromised site, a Terminator-like robot barges into a room with all the agents in it and trashes all but one (but then proceeds to beat him up anyway). Instead of shooting at it like everybody else, Makoto lunges at robot (and getting in harm's way) to stab it repeatedly (and failing to do any damage).
--->< Makoto> 2d6 BANZAI MOTHERFUCKER!\\
< Makoto> Makoto launches himself at the robot, trying to stab it\\
< Makoto> 2d6 BACKSTAB LIKE A SPY\\
< Makoto> "MOTHERFUCKER *SHOT* ME!"\\
< Jillian> "It shot me too Makoto, but I didn't try to stab it"\\
< Makoto> "You don't have a knife!"
%%* LameComeback:
%%-->< Shadow Man: Maybe you should join your friend.\\
%%< Makoto: And maybe you should chill out!
* MadBomber: Agent Jack was discharged from the US Army for causing extensive destruction and casualties thanks to psychological trauma. He's mostly over it.
%%** John Williamson. Mad? Possibly. Bomber? Oh yes.
%%* MadScientist: Again, all of them.
* NuclearOption:
** Jason Dodridge's simulacrum deployed a nuclear grenade in Site Beta. Everything died.
** John Williamson repairing and arming a [=Mk54=] SADM during an incident with 610. Unfortunately, nobody told him that it was put in the wrong spot(not that it mattered). He spent the rest of the night after returning to Site-23 staring wistfully out the window like a lovesick schoolboy.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Jack Bright and Jack Harker in the same room. Yes, it is as confusing as it sounds.
%%* OurElvesAreDifferent: Ghost in the Leaves, a guardian of a Tamlin Artifact and an elf who has a taste for red meat.
* PoweredArmor: Jason Dodridge has a suit of powered combat armor, custom-manufactured by [[TheEngineer John Williamson]] and finished up by Doctor Alice Dodridge.
%%* {{Pun}}:
%%-->[=<LindaAniston>=]: He did a bear-al roll!
%%* PungeonMaster: First Jameson, now Churney. Goddammit.
%%* RealityWarper: SCP-239, SCP-343, Jager, Tamlin, the Little Boy... oh, and that weird bearded guy in room 93.
%%* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The old O5's. And Director Tamlin, who may have been around in the BC.
* RetGone: Agent Jack Harker died while fighting "Bad" Mann. Bad Mann would strike the Task Force [[TimeyWimeyBall through time itself]], and his final strike on Harker reached through his life and killed him in his own crib. Jack's final action before being erased from history was to dodge a ton of created monsters and jump down Bad Mann's throat, igniting a charge of C4.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:
** Stuff tends to die when Jason sees Alice get hurt.
** Hurting Akane physically is a good way to incite one of these. Just ask [[KillItWithFire Ward's sister.]]
* SarcasticConfession: Remember when Akane was all "I killed my Mom, because she was a huge bitch"? And everybody laughed? Well...
%%* SecretGovernmentWarehouse: Again, Site 23.
* SemperFi: A number of combat-oriented agents and researchers are old Marine hands, to include Shane Hayes, Brad Gibson, Jason Dodridge, and most recently Kathrine Smith.
* SlasherSmile: John Williamson. During an incident inside a 'haunted' fun house being controlled by a sociopathic ten year old, he adopted one in an attempt to out-mind-game her. The attempt failed, but it, and his threats during the battle did unsettle those who were on the op with him, despite his claims that it was just an act.
* SmallGirlBigGun: Katherine Smith now uses an M82 Barrett. Alice Dodridge has on occasion fired guns that were as big as her.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: "Don't screw three interns on a desk or you'll be killed by attack helicopter." from Sensitivity Training.
%%* StuffBlowingUp: John Williamson.
* SupremeChef: [=MacKay=] has been known to, and is willing to, cook anything for just about anyone.
%%** Also Pangaea, but we don't talk about him.
%%* SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder: Special Task Force Omega-23 is basically this.
%%* TakenForGranite: Linda Aniston in a room with statue plinths.
%%** Chandra Markov
%%* TechnoWizard: JAK ''upgraded the internet''. Also, Gnosis.
* ThatCameOutWrong:
--><Brad> "I'll cross swords with you, if you know what I--oh god no!" Brad desperately claws at his eyes.\\
<Aniston> "Brad, I think you'll want to look elsewhere for /that/ sort of fun."
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: Jack Harker prefers to be referred to as Agent Jack.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Alice Dodridge is nine months pregnant after two months time.
%%* TookALevelInBadass: Black after joining Pandora's Box, Thompson after fighting Able (Able threw a CAR at his HEAD), and maybe Yoric before joining the Serpent's Hand.
* TooDumbToLive: Katherine Smith. She pressed the button that ends the world. As it turns out, apocalypses are a very personal thing.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Sort of...
--><pooryoric> ONE LENGTHY STOMACH PUMPING LATER
* VisualPun: Berk coming out of the Noodle Room wearing a wedding dress and with a sweet new Church of the Broken God tattoo. [[spoiler: He's married to the Church, get it.]]
* WalkingArmory:
** Director Dodridge carries a combat knife, a handgun, a shotgun, a battle rifle with a grenade launcher, and a heavy machine gun everywhere he goes. While in his PoweredArmor, anyway. Elsewhere, it's just a baton, tazer, another knife, another handgun, and another rifle.
** John Williamson carries an [=M240G=], .22 caliber PDW with 40mm grenade launcher, a martini-Henry rifle chopped down into a pistol and enough explosives to kill just about anything everywhere he goes. On certain missions, add an anti-tank rifle.
%%* WhatTheHellPlayer: During a test involving SCP-342, one panicked civilian passenger tried to leave the car they were occupying. So John Williamson shot a grenade at her.
%%** Makoto trying to stab a robot to death.
%%** Eric using C4 in an old, structurally unstable castle.
%%* WhatTheHellHero: The team was sent out to kidnap a perfectly innocent female police officer Why? Oh, so she can be used as a D Class.
* WildMassGuessing: In-universe. Who the fuck is Coyote? Is he/it an actual god, a reality bender, or a rogue facet of Jager?
%%* ZipMeUp: Jillian Cunningham to Makoto Yamazaki.
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