So, my entry for our group's canon is now up. Less centered on the Foundation than the other two, but there's a wider world out there than just the Church.
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Outstanding. I had 3 wrong SCP objects in mind before I realized what this actually was.
I liked this quite a lot! Have yourself a +1. (The tower is also one of my favorite scips, so forgive me for being somewhat biased.)
Pikas wouldn't happen to be yellow rodents, would they?
I like the tower and I like this story. +1
I'm curious what the grey nothing is. Another SCP?
Correct. Just this guy getting delirious and starting to personify the snow.
Ir's just me or the tower actually wrote the last note? Anyway, I waited so much for a 962's tale. You deserve this +1.
It was the obvious one. May I ask for your help to find another?
I believe the author means this tale is composed notes found by members of the Church of the Holy Foundation near to SCP-962.
butts
No. The idea is that this is a guy's journal of his experiences released from the tower in the hopes of convincing his family to join him. Or possibly, it's all a fiction written by the tower to lure people there. I included a couple things suggesting that, although it's not a major element of the tale.
That's what I meant. I meant notes from the tower. I guess I didn't make myself clear. Well done anyway. I enjoyed this, and the same goes to the rest of the canon.
butts
I especially liked the journal format because I didn't guess where it was going. If it had ended with him dying, I would have shaken my head and … probably no-voted, because the writing was good, but still.
But that isn't how it went at all. :D
Did you notice how in the last entry he mentions keen vision and easy walking around a tower that by this point is taller than any man-made one? Despite the injuries he suffered?
The entire journal being from the tower doesn't ring true, for me.
We don't know much about its mental architecture (sorry), but what we do know is that it has a hero worship complex centered on humans. I just don't see it being capable of conceiving a story in which one of the "Great Ones" exhibits poor judgement, self doubt, abject terror, delirium, and ultimately fails in his intended task.
It would be sacrilige. As inconcievable and ridiculous to the tower as Buddha commiting murder is to the Dali Lama.
As the tower is at the time of the writing of SCP-962, yes. But this is hundreds of years in the future. It may have changed, and this may be bait. Alternatively, the tower still has a pretty strong grasp on narrative, and is fine conveying something where the hero goes through a crucible before finally emerging stronger. He ended up at the tower. From the tower's point of view, that's a victory for him. He learned what truly mattered.
Honestly, I'm inclined to think that the journal is an authentic document, but there's ways it can work otherwise.
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