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Like the concept, not as thrilled with the execution. Just weird dialogue lines like
Dr. Earhart: I think we already determined you don't feel any compulsion. 16891, are you trying to guilt trip us or what?
out of a Foundation researcher in the middle of an interrogation, in the middle of an article full of interrogation logs, throw me off. That and the entire Themis-1531 document is a slightly modified version of the Description section of the main article itself, but unformatted, so it sounds like it's a personal correspondence in clinical tone. It's like trying to seduce a woman using the terminology of the owner's manual of a 1992 Dodge Omni; the language works fine the first time you use it, but it isn't as appropriate the second time. No vote for now.
You have a point here [that I wish people would have expressed before], and on second thought the letter and the experiment logs would sound better if emotionally detached. The whole Steiner character is severely downplayed from the original draft and is no longer really the protagonist of the story. So some of it will leave. 'cept for the whole Maurice part. I like it. It implies things that I like.
Edit: I have actually rewritten the letter, kind of, but the logs were fine for the most part. I don't see the issue as it is.
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I like this, a lot. And I think the execution is perfect upon re-read.
Just weird dialogue lines like
The guy is under a memetic effect to believe anything the box says. Of course he's going to be acting a tiny bit weird.
It does not make people go insane or anything, just paranoia, suspension of disbelief, mental gymnastics here and there, lack of attention to detail…
Plus, they are frustrated that they have an artifact that can do great things and think they are losing a futile war against the bureaucracy that doesn't even let them acquire any new D-Class.
Well done! I would have upvoted even without the final letter.
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I'm neutral on this. The formatting is messy in a lot of places; the interviews would look better and be more readable with the standard interview template, and the last letter could be put in a quotebox and the paragraph breaks edited to match those in the description.
Note that "SCP-1531 is a polygraph that is impossible to deceive" and all other properties SCP-1531 is believed to possess are found true by affected individuals, and as such, any statement regarding the object is a vector of infection.
I'm not sure I understand how that works.
They ran every statement from the false description through the skip, and it deemed everything true.
Everything the infected says in accord with the output is infectious.
Therefore, everything the infected says about the skip is infectious.
You do have a point with the interview format, however. It needs some bolding.
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