this was heavily based and adapted from a dream I had.
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It seems to be a mishmash of stasis chambers, alternate/shadow history and ancient museums. Am I missing something?
The people in the complex somehow created the gravitational anomalies, and this is directly responsible for their "frozen" state, via time dilation shenanigans.
Wouldn't the area and the new people entering in get effected as well? How would time-dilation result is erosion of tissue?
They are being affected, and it's not the time dilation causing the erosion of tissud
From what I'm getting (and Andariel can correct me if needed), it isn't the time dilation on the people that is causing the erosion, but the *lack* of dilation of the environment. Rocks and such get eroded slowly by simple wind and rain because they don't move (or do so extremely slowly) over immense periods of time. Human beings are significantly squishier, so a stationary human erodes much faster than a stationary rock. From flying man's perspective, he is periodically being doused by very high-pressure water and constantly being buffeted by hurricane force winds. Depending on exactly how slowly he is moving, he may not even have had time to realize the immense pain that he should be in (or the fact that his arm suddenly disappeared).
I quite like this. It's just the right amount of bizarreness and vivid imagery with the faintest hints of explanation that leaves me with enough questions to linger in my head for awhile, but not so many that I feel completely and utterly bewildered.
+1'd.
And if the whole world is crashing down… fall through space out of mind with me.
I don't really understand what's going on at all, and I'm not sure if the people in the complex are actually frozen in place or capable of extremely slow movement.
It is well-written, however, and I liked some parts of it. I'm gonna no-vote.
EDIT: Actually, reading it a couple more times to try and find the connection, it's grown on me. Also I love the dystopic setting, it gives me 1984 vibes.
+1
Andariel, I really like this! A couple of suggestions, out of love for the article:
Accessible entrances to SCP-2692 are monitored with video surveillance, while the entrances themselves are monitored by on-site personnel.
This sentence is kind of confusing. I assume that the second use of "entrances" refers to the "locations" or "points" themselves, rather than the entrances to the passageways that lead to those points? Maybe replace that with "locations," "points," or "anomalies."
Subject keeps scraps of paper in their pockets with information written in the form of pictograms.
I'd replace "their" with "her." She's a non-anomalous human whose sex/gender we know, so no need for pronoun shenanigans. ;)
Otherwise, this is really good work. Happily upvoted! :)
I really like this one, a lot.
Then I get to "Prescription was filled on date labeled 16/15/99," and I'm like, what the…
This is so very good. +1
EDIT: On further read throughs, I am really curious as to how one guy ended up thousands of meters in the sky.
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