Isn't that the tree from harry potter?
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Another horror SCP involving underground spaces and the vulnerability of sleep. I wonder at what stage writing on this site becomes too personally revealing?
Many thanks are owed:
- firstly, to Zhange, who created the rather excellent image used here. Zhange not only worked essentially to (unpaid) commission, but then edited the image when I got picky, and put up with me editing it further. Thank you very much, Zhange - it was great working with you.
- to Mendelssohn, who also drew an image for potential use on the article. I'm really sorry that I couldn't end up using it.
- to Captain Kirby, The Great Hippo, and especially jabyrwock and Hercules Rockefeller, for some terrific and detailed feedback on the forums. I didn't use all of it, but it made me think a lot about what I was doing, and I think that helped the end product.
- to Dr Bleep, for convincing me that the idea was worth pursuing when it was only just formed.
Well, I didn't have Taphophobia before reading this.
+1
Trees hate you... TREES HATE YOU
This nicely combines claustrophobia with an unnerving WTF factor. +1
This, 2571, probably more I've missed, this site has singlehandedly given me an intense fear of trees.
Reminds me of TheGreatHippo, in a good way. Which is not that surprising since he critiqued it.
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Reminds me of TheGreatHippo, in a good way.
Thanks - I take that as a huge compliment.
To Hippo, I owe the suggestion of finding roots in the earth. Until then, there was going to be nothing but dead earth and bones, but the roots are useful for adding a little bit of variety to the weirdness. Hippo was also the one that suggested including the Foundation dig team giving up near the ending, to emphasise the source of the remaining digging noise.
The SCP is a strong idea, i love the use of the tree looking like whomping willow from Harry Potter. The image is great including the actual structure of the logs/ its precise and accurate. Also the tree is good use as a anomalous tree painting. well being as a SCP. The SCP painting looks accurate and a actual sketch with shading is well artistic.
This is superbly creepy. I really enjoyed how human the interactions between the doctor and D-class were, with stuff like asking about the food he'd want after getting out, which gave the D-class's failure and death at the end more impact.
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I really enjoyed how human the interactions between the doctor and D-class were
I'm pleased about this. I figured that spending hundreds of hours with no-one else to talk to, there would be a level of humanisation happening. It was designed to build reader sympathy for D-6042, as you suggest. My other (slightly contradictory) aim with D-6042 was to make them a cipher, a blank into which the reader can imagine themselves. As a result I deliberately avoided giving them a gender, a name or a nationality, their dialogue intentionally skews quite young (to mimic site readership) and I've tried (within reason) to make their house somewhat generic.
A majority of my nightmares, inexplicably, take place in the house I lived in from 1987 to 1997. It wasn't the first place that I have lived in, it wasn't the longest I have lived in the same place, I come from a stable loving family, and nothing more traumatic than ordinary white male suburban adolescence occurred to me there. That this place is the principle setting of terror for my subconscious (and not say, the killing streets of Ar Ramadi), is in and of itself disturbing in its incongruity. That D-6042 returns to that house as well hit me fairly close to where fear lives.
I think this reminds me of a life flashing before a person’s eyes, at the moment of their death (something like that). Might the house represent some of the memories of the D-class? Man!
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As someone who is fascinated by sleep and dreams, and moderately phobic about tight enclosed spaces, I found this utterly terrifying. Things What Kill You are weaksauce compared to the blind unreasoning terror of being trapped where you can't get out and no one can get to you.
Garnish liberally with rotting corpses and serve it forth.
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