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This SCP was basically inspired by the fact that I'm not the kind of person who tolerates rollercoasters all that well, and the idea of being on one for what feels like a long-ass time fundamentally disturbs me, especially how people would react to such a situation. There's a bit of The Jaunt in there, now that I think about it.
I realize this skirts the edges of Bigger On The Inside stuff, but I don't think its an issue.
No, I just haven't decided yet. I'm not pretending to have voted, is the thing.
Nicely atmospheric first photo.
I liked it; in that, it is not a roller-coaster i would want to ride. Upvoted.
Needs something more (other than test logs). Doesn't feel like there's enough to be scared of to me.
I upvoted because of potential but I'm not sure whether it'll stay that way.
Well, I'm not quite sure what to add without repeating what I've already done. I could have an interview or something, but that would be the same content with different phrasing. I'm open to suggestions.
Perhaps a journal kept by one of the developers during construction of the ride? It could give some vague insight on why this thing is the way it is, plus it would be kind of interesting to see what the people making this thing were going through if the process was at all abnormal.
Then again, I can see why someone would find it creepier for nothing to have gone wrong during the process and for its effect to have no apparent reason at all. It's really up to you.
Yeah, in my mind there's no passive, vague cause for why 112 is the way it is. Every step of the construction process went as smoothly as making a intended-to-be-country-famous coaster could go. The minute the company's testers started coming back severely weakened and tired, all their expectations went down the toilet.
You've inspired me to perhaps write up an interview from that perspective; the one company tester that lucked into having a short enough subjective ride length (or maybe, she was just a bit more sturdy a person) to basically tell the designers that the ride is horrible. Something that they (mis)translated to "this ride is horrible and unfun" instead of "yeah I was there for X months".
Do multiple subjects on the same ride experience the same time dilation? In my mind, it would be freaky to go on a rollercoaster with your pal and have a pleasant experience, and at the end you realize he's been riding the damn thing for a year. It might also be interesting to do a test to that effect.
if your reading this your gay
That could go somewhere decent. Just imagine being on the ride for a month or so from your perspective. You're scared that you'll never get off, but you're friend acts like they're having the time of his life. Acting like people normally would on a roller coaster, but for a month with no change in behavior. They don't even respond to your questions or cries, they're just cheering and hollering the whole way. On the flip side, your friend is on the coaster for a different period of time, and to them you're acting the way you see them act. It would be enough to break my sanity, sure enough. I'm just rambling, but maybe you could use something like this.
I'm just rambling, but maybe you could use something like this.
No, this was pretty much what I was thinking.
if your reading this your gay
"…during his trip he experienced five months worth of malnutrition and exhaustion…"
That would kill you.
The magic of the ride or some other unmentioned effect keeps you alive.
It's implied but not stated that the last experiment was with a camera mounted on the DClass. I'm assuming the thing is ACTUALLY partially hallucinogenic.
The article makes it pretty clear that no matter how long it felt like it was, it was still 3 minutes.
Not necessarily. I wouldn't trust what the camera recorded too much. It could have been recording much more, only to have three minutes of it remain once it reached Point Omega.
Analogy time: In photoshop, copy a 600 pixel-wide image. Open a blank 100 pixel-wide image and paste. What do you see? 100 pixels of that 600 pixel image. If you then saved that image as a bitmap file, and someone else loaded it, they'd see a 100-pixel image.
Neutral vote from me, since it is an OTT roller coaster, and yes, cliches can be done well, but the lack of explanation why the foundation determined this particular coaster was anomalous kinda bugs me. It reads like people just reported hating the ride, and the company went out of business, so the foundation bought it to find out why people hated the ride.
The writing is good, except for those couple of nitpicks, so no down vote.
While I agree that the backstory is unrealistic (and completely unnecessary I might add), I have a hard time buying that this hits the OTT cliche.
I would also disagree with regards to the writing; the tone needs work, and some of the diction and phrasing would feel off even in an informal document. No vote, though I may go on a proofreading spree later.
Actually, I'd say this does hit the OTT cliche but it does it just right. This is basically a super-duper roller coaster at its heart, the riders are locked in and helpless until the ride is over and all they experience is a roller coaster.
And that's pretty terrifying, it would stop being fun pretty quickly and just keep going and going and going… eight days of torture or more in a three minute ride.
