Tag Guide

The Tag Guide is periodically updated to include new tags and changes to the definition of existing tags. If you have a proposal for a tag in mind, check the Discussion Thread.

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Tag	Description
acoustic	Transferred with waves through a medium like air.
admin	Meta: If you are an admin of this site and want to do things having to do with administration, use this tag.
aleph-11-tango	Series: Cooperation describing an internal split of the Insurgency.
alive	Able to act or replicate on its own.
animal	A creature resembling or being linked to a known species of the biological kingdom of Animalia.
animate	It moves not by nature, but deliberate manipulation towards auto-motion.
antimemetic	Keeps ideas from multiplying onto other persons.
archived	Meta: This is a piece of the past. Some newer version might already be available.
artifact	Object as testimony to events or people in the past, imbued with meaning.
artificial-intelligence	Created to be able to reason, learn and remember.
audio	Meta: Someone made the effort to attach an audio file here.
author	Meta: This denotes an author site. It is like a self-portrait mixed with a hub.
autonomous	Able to act without outside intervention and act against forces like gravity acting upon it.
avian	Something resembling a bird.
biohazard	It will change your biology in some way. Most likely not in a good way.
biological	We can study it using biology.
botanical	Is either one of these green things called "plant", or relates to them.
broken-god	GoI: Grand machine, with required assembly. Some people think it is divine.
cadaver	The remains of something once alive.
chat	Meta: This tag relates to official methods of communication.
collaboration	Meta: There were at least two people that wrote this piece.
contest	Meta: This is the hub page of a present of past contest.
corrosive	Able to damage material using chemical reaction.
daemonic	Otherworldly with a similarity to malevolent beings from folklore.
disruptor	Highly distracting.
edible	Intended for oral consumption.
empathic	Able to understand emotion.
entity	A being sufficiently separated from its surroundings as a self-contained phenomena.
equipment	Able to be used on a reliable bases to accomplish or ease a task.
explosive	Something rapidly expands, reasonably fast.
extradimensional	You could look all over the universe and would not find where this came from.
extraterrestrial	You can find it in this universe if you look hard enough, but you normally wont find it on earth.
french-translation	Meta: Articles translated from our french sister site.
frequency	Reoccurring somewhat predictably.
generator	It produces something. Sometimes from seemingly nothing.
guide	Meta: It tells you how to do "thing".
haos-project2014	Event: Contest about the leader of the Insurgency. (Still open)
hell-o-when21	Event: The 2021 spooky-season-themed contest. (Closed)
herman-fuller	GoI: Travelling people that are all too familiar with the anomalous.
hub	Meta: One page linking to many pages.
humanoid	It looks like a human if viewed from far enough away.
inactive	What ever it once did, it is not doing it anymore. That does not mean it cant start back up again.
insect	Resembling or being a member of the biological Class Insecta.
interactive	Meta: You can participate, here, now, on this page. The author has given you permission to add your own parts here.
interview	Type: There was a conversation going on. This is what remains from that.
item	Type: Is it in the arsenal? Than it is an Item.
kill-grade-ii	Legacy: Deadly 2
kill-grade-iii	Legacy: Deadly 3
kill-grade-v	Legacy: Deadly 5
location	You can go there and it will most likely still be there.
log	Type: Containing the recording of a conversation or highly structured sequence of events.
marshall-carter-and-dark	GoI: Thieves so cunning, their victims believe to have made a great deal.
mechanism	Constructed with multiple moving parts of mostly inorganic nature.
medical	Able to use be used to improve the health of something alive and doing so far better than its normal life circumstances usually allow.
meteorological	It affects or is affected by the weather.
military	Used in an organized effort to engage in combat.
mind-affecting	If it messes with the mind this tag applies.
moving-shadows	Series: ~
occult	The domination and study of the anomalous via non-scientific means.
omtd2019	Event: Spooktober 2019 Contest (Ended)
person-of-interest	Type: This person is in the unfortunate position to have our interest, while not being part of our organization.
project-haos	Event: Ongoing challenge to write a Haos speech. (Still open)
rac	GoI: Pertaining to the elusive, now defunct organization R.A.C.
radiation	Usually reveres to product of radioactive decay, but in our business it might be something else.
random2014	Event: Contest in which random words were used to generate items. (Ended)
reanimation	Something dead is not dead anymore.
required	Meta: You should have read all of these ad least once. May only be given out by staff.
rewrite	Meta: This existed in some form before.
robotic	Electronics and hydraulics manipulating metal parts.
sapient	Able to act based on experience and understanding.
sarkic	GoI: Religious organization that might bite, might also make your flesh strange.
satellite	It orbits something, usually earth.
scp-foundation	GoI: You know these guys. Where you see them, tag them.
sectors-and-steel	Series: Series within a void where you can "meet" things.
sentient	Able to feel and perceive.
sepia	GoI: They want to break our stuff by turning it normal.
serpent's-hand	GoI: Anomalies collecting anomalies to "do right".
shades	GoI: ~
statue	Created to be a representation of something.
stone	When faced with it you might call it a rock.
supplement	Type: More information on an existing item.
supplier	Gives us useful stuff, we can apply without worry of it running out.
tale	Type: If it tells a story in some way and is not an item, it might as well be a tale.
teal-division	Special people and their special division.
terror-weapon	They know we have it and that scares them.
the-chaos-insurgency	Meta:Content archived from the old Roleplaying Wiki on fandom (formerly Wikia).
theinsurgency	Meta: Content archvied from an alternative younger Insurgency Wiki on WikiDot.
transcript	Type: Events unfolded, and someone was there to document it.
transfigurative	Can alter its own structure.
transmutation	Can alter its other structure.
un-goc	GoI: They think of themselves as the big boys, always meddling in someone else's affairs.
valentine22	Event: Part of the 2022 Saint Valentine's Day Contest. (Ended)
vehicle	Meant to offer someone a ride.
white-empress	PoI: A woman frequently being at right place at the right time.
wip	Legacy: Something old, that was meant to grow but never matured.
_cc-3.0-by-sa	Tech: This is an article that is still licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
_redirect	Tech: This page is a redirect to another page.