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Bleh, and I hadn't even made my Announcement yet. Give me a few minutes to fix that - I just randomly generated the #.
EDIT: And someone beat me to my own lock, I guess. Well, this is awkward.
EDIT EDIT: Fixed now, by Longing. Better, reject?
I'm not so solid on this one as I was the first time around, though that may just be newbie jitters and wondering if the success of 1620 was a fluke. But anyways.
The seed for this started with a dream fragment where a patch of concrete I was walking on turned into quicksand. I don't remember what happened after, but it was creepy enough to stick with me. Conveniently, I'd also been wanting to do an AWCY-related article, so the trick was figuring out why AWCY would make a concrete slab that eats people, though they'd already been shown to work with weird concrete in 1043. I'm not sure where the idea of a barbershop quartet that sings the victim to their doom came from, but it did - the trick was giving a good tagline to explain the 'art', something Voct was able to help with.
Thanks go to Voct, VAE, and murphy_slaw this time.
1043, hombre, 1043.
That's one of the reasons I like this.. perhaps it's the exhibit the artist went off to make with MOLISOLUS MARK III….
Yeah, 1043. That's totally what I said, any edit stamps are lying.
Fixed those up for you!
Good idea, but no vote yet. I don't think it sells me really.
EDIT: wow ignore
Thanks Longing.
TBH, I'm not entirely solid on the idea myself yet, but there wasn't any feedback available in the live chat or the Help+Advice, so letting it sink or swim seemed to be the only option I had left. Hopefully it's either good enough, or I can get inspiration from the savage downvoting to salvage it (or just let it die).
As I said in chat, a person getting sucked into a slab of concrete which has speaking faces embedded in it reminds me too much of "Love and Monsters" to take it seriously.
No vote.
Oh yeah, and there's that stupid Dr. Who episode damning me by association. :/
My reaction to the barbershop quartet was pure WTFery, but then I hit the addendum and it the impact was completely lost. No vote.
What's wrong with AWCY? I honestly upvoted for that reason.
Well, I like the AWCY connection.
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See, I really like AWCY, but it's quickly devolving into boilerplate pattern of Thing what will Fuck You Up, followed by an AWCY note. To add insult to injury, the notes are usually not nearly as clever or intriguing as the original AWCY document. The more we see of this, the more it cheapens AWCY's mystique. I don't want to see them end up as overdone and predictable as Wondertainment is becomming…
(account deleted)Go back and look at the -1 Shark. That is an AWCY item. Go read notes towards a manifesto again, several times. And please, please delete the AWCY note on this otherwise fine SCP.
See, I did before I started, and if Notes Towards a Manifesto is supposed to be AWCY canon and I wasn't the creator, I'd have thought this matched up pretty well.
"Art is life & life is Art."
"Art is for the people & people are for Art."
"Make Art from their actions."
And as a bonus, directly contradicting "Art is not regurgitation".
The problem is that there's already regurgitation here. The concept of the object itself is great, but the way AWCY used it follows the same pattern as the Absence of Shark, verbatim: leave it in public to endanger random civillians and leave a cryptic and/or clever note. The Sharkless needed a little extra oomph to make it interesting, and that pattern did the trick, particularly since (to my knowledge) it was still novel. Here, though, it's no longer novel, the statement is neither cryptic nor clever, and (most frustrating of all) the object is more than solid enough to stand on its own without the addendum.
This is not an art. This is pretentious hipsters killing random people with an SCP. That element of this is boring, and it detracts from the object.
While the subject is being absorbed, any noises or vocalizations uttered by the subject will be echoed by the four manifested faces in the a capella style of a 'barbershop quartet. The face closest to the point of contact will act as the quartet's lead, with the tenor, bass, and baritone proceeding clockwise around the slab. Coherent exclamations by the subject have a 30% chance of being echoed back, while incoherent noises such as screams approach upward of 90%. When the subject has been completely absorbed, the protruding faces undergo one of two changes. If the absorbed subject was male, The 'lead' face shifts to resemble that of the tenor, the tenor to that of the bass, the bass to that of the baritone, and the baritone face transforms into the face of the absorbed subject. Otherwise, the four faces simply rotate their appearances one 'step' clockwise, then all four faces recede into the surface and disappear.
for some reason, this whole paragraph sounds wrong… not that it doesn't make sense, but that when I try to say it, something in my head jams up.
Other than that, good article.
+1
@Lumancer: Is it the message AWCY is conveying, or the AWCY connection period that you don't like?
@Xiao: Maybe if I remove the 'coherent exclamations' line? It was originally there to stop the heads from just repeating [REDACTED] over and over in tune with the person, but that was when the 'project' had a different intention than it does now. In its current state, that might actually reinforce the message.
See my above comment to Eric. There's really not much you can do to move this out of that pattern that I can see. However, I will say that it would help a LOT if the note were less direct, more open to interpretation, and less intelligible. Between my tastes and my headcanon, if I understand everything an AWCY document is saying then it's a really boring and out-of-character AWCY document.
Weird as hell. I would expect nothing less from AWCY. +1
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