Oh, I thought I'd seen this on the site, I guess I actually saw it in a sandbox.
Anyway +1 for a simple but compelling idea, well-executed
I like the old-school vibe here, and it meshes well with a personal headcanon that this sort of minor anomaly pops up at Foundation sites now and then as a side effect of containing so many anomalous things in one place. This one just happens to be terrifying and potentially hazardous rather than being the bathroom they keep locked and no one talks about.
+1, but one nitpick: D-Class are expendable, but not disposable- even on the coldest level, if they live you can use them for another test. On that logic, the d-class after test 4441-1-7 should totally have had a spacesuit, or at least an oxygen tank and a survival suit.
Also, what if parachutes?
I also have this headcanon. Also everyone's super chill about it (except D-class, obvs). "Ugh, sometimes this stairwell drops you on Mars so I have to avoid it and I guess my walk to the lab takes five extra minutes now, sigh."
Just to be clear, the staircase got fed up with their cheating, so he turned the D-Class into radiation?
Naw. So far as I can tell, the higher you jump from, the further the drop. So you start with a step, a cliff. 3 steps, a really big cliff. A lot of steps, a really drop. The last log is when they tell him to jump from the very top of the stairs, so it should logically be the very longest drop.
My guess is that they dropped him in a star or something and that he was instantaneously vaporized/ blown away so that when he returned, all that was left was the radiation.
A very simple anomaly in a thoroughly mundane, Foundation-local place, with some fun ramifications. I do kind of think that the last three tests are the only ones that need to be security-locked, but that's not enough to keep me from upvoting.
Done really well and very interesting, but the principle feels just a little too similar to 1753, so I'm hesitant to upvote.
Been meaning to get to this one ever since I saw "The Air Stair" on the lc list in the IRC. Let me start off by saying that this has a great title.
While this is a rather simple anomaly, it has an old school vibe that a lot of others have already commented on. Additionally, how the anomaly ramps up as more and more people jump from further and further distances is highly entertaining.
+1. Just because a concept is simple, doesn't mean it can't be both fun and on certain level terrifying. Good job.