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satoshi-mochida · 2 months

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Persona 1 Phone Game, ‘Persona: Anomalous Tower Chronicle’ Receives English Fan Translation

From Noisy Pixel

Several Persona fans have united to release an English fan translation for the highly obscure Persona mobile game Persona: Anomalous Tower Chronicle. This 2006 title is a spinoff of sorts of the original Persona, Megami Ibunroku Persona, and it’s a gameplay-heavy experience with not much story to speak of.

Players form a party of four to navigate a tower and acquire orbs in order to reach the structure’s roof. The battle system should be familiar to those who have already played the first Persona. Interestingly, this game was made officially accessible in Japan in September 2023 via G-MODE for Steam and Nintendo Switch. So, it’s neat to see that accessibility made it even more convenient for prospective Western players, thanks to the efforts of dedicated fans.

You can view the credits for this fan translation project below, and yes, these are all verbatim:

Graphics Editing – agarpac

Main Translator; Beta Tester; First to Beat the Game – Gabriulio

Project Originator – Kaisaan

Title Logo/Banner Editing – Laventory

Game Hacking; Work on the Patcher – MKCA

Steam Deck Tester – Alexandra IDV

Lurker – Apollo

Lurker – Bread__Guy

Hyped Supporter; Game Mechanics Analysis – Ginger

Translation Fixes – Hee-Ho

Steam Deck Tester – Hiro

Lurker – Jonker Kujo

Survey Participant – Kularian

Lurked; Asker of Dumb Questions – Lemonov

Tester; Bug Catcher – Lorenzo

Steam Deck Tester – Mordexai

Lurker – Not_a_bear

Tester – Quantum_Dog

Survey Participant – SkyRaiderG7

Lurker – Toppis

Could Not Beat the First Boss – Vanessa

Special Thanks

JTR

For help in sifting through Chinese esoteric and literary knowledge in pursuit of better translation.

Kaisaan

For starting the project and getting the team together.

Quantum_Dog

For letting us headquarter on his Discord server.

You can access and download the English fan translation of Persona: Anomalous Tower Chronicle via GitHub and purchase the game itself via Steam.

The following note is also significant:

PSP Translation Differences

While this translation follows the official English localization of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona for PlayStation Portable, some deliberate changes have been made. A document listing the differences is available here.

Lastly, Quantum Dog and Alexandra_IDV shared a message on Twitter for those intending to play this fan-translated title on Steam Deck.

#Persona: Anomalous Tower Chronicle #Persona 1 #Megami Ibunroku Persona #Persona series #Atlus #G-Mode #fan translation #Noisy Pixel

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swordsandspectacles · 4 months

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Sabdh i have to ask who's discussing boss murder

Melly and Elpis!

Who’re they talking about? Wouldn’t you like to know, weather boy.

#asks #doodles #anomalous chronicles

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occasionalsnippets · 6 days

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Do you have any new fic recs?

Uhh no notes for this time because i'm busy but fic rec part 2 :)

again mix of stuff, gen, romance, x reader, etc etc. some of the crossovers are in random sections b/c i can't be bothered to have a whole separate thing for each crossover

check back in like 2 years maybe for another list

Mashle

Mashig! [Quotev]

Easton’s Prefect Trio and a Round of Old Maid [AO3]

KNY

Determination [Quotev]

Candid [Quotev]

beware the dust devil. [AO3]

The life and times of Kibutsuji Muzan, Bored Immortal Guy [AO3]

the awakening of the demon king [AO3]

BNHA

An Unexpected Training Trip [AO3] [Naruto crossover]

The Future's Keeper [Quotev]

Record of Ragnorak

Ganymede [Quotev]

Obey Me

The Idiot [Quotev]

One Piece

World-Seeing Eyes [Quotev]

Black Butler

my soul, you know it aches for you [Quotev]

Hush, little baby, don't say a word [AO3]

The Art of Mortal Quests [AO3] [Percy Jackson Crossover]

what goes around [AO3]

Ain't No Compass, Ain't No Map [AO3]

DP x DC

Unable to Forward [AO3]

The Peacock Chronicles [AO3]

Putting the Joy in Joyride [AO3]

Dead Man Walking [AO3]

If You Give a Bat a Burger [AO3]

Danny the Intern [AO3]

Wait, I'm a what? [AO3

Ghost in the Morgue [AO3]

Bus to Nowhere [AO3]

DC x Marvel

Untangling the Web [AO3]

Help Me, I Don't Feel Like Myself Anymore [AO3]

Spider and Bat Friends [AO3]

Dark Matter [AO3]

Undertale

Ghost Hunting With Skeletons [AO3]

Help, I've Fallen Into a Surveillance State and I Can't Get Up! [AO3]

Turn The Page [AO3]

with you here between [AO3]

bon courage [AO3]

JJBA

passione speedrun any percent (world record) [AO3]

Naruto

Healthy Coping Mechanisms [AO3]

Last Resort [AO3] [DC crossover]

complete disarray [AO3]

Morpheme [AO3]

JJK

limited vision [AO3]

obito and jjk is occupying my brain and in this essay i will [AO3] [Naruto crossover]

TWST

Team Building Exercises [AO3]

You Will Understand Now That Yours Is Unique in All the World [AO3]

Isekai as the Side Character Destined for Intoxication [AO3]

the seven habits of highly unfortunate souls: a transmigrator’s guide to the coral sea [AO3]

Debut or Die

I must debut (or die) [AO3]

RESET [AO3]

Vacation [AO3]

Date or Die! [AO3]

Shokugeki no Soma

and only the bitterness remains. [AO3]

SVSSS

The Cultivating Force [AO3] [Star Wars crossover]

Misinformation [AO3]

Master of Dual Cultivation [AO3]

Scum Villain's White Lotus Halo [AO3]

how to avoid love for dummies [AO3]

ORV

bet i made you look [AO3]

The Reborn Villainess Can't Possibly Be This Cute! [AO3]

One Kim Dokja to Rule them All [AO3]

you got me starstruck [AO3]

“You are loved,” said Yoo Jonghyuk. “This is a threat,” said Yoo Jonghyuk. [AO3]

TCF

black dragons and white crowns [AO3]

THE GOD'S SYSTEM [AO3]

What Lies ahead [AO3]

Amaranthine [AO3]

Treasure of the (Vampire) Duke's Family?! [AO3]

The Distress of the Middleman [AO3]

everybody talks [AO3]

0% Love [AO3]

Genshin Impact

𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑙𝑑 [AO3]

Bleach

living, not breathing [AO3]

The Fourth Seat [AO3]

Indelible Stains [AO3]

半个花瓣 || Petal Fragment [AO3]

Nothing but the Truth [AO3]

Chilled Peaches [AO3]

Not exactly pushing daisies [AO3]

Bait and Switch [AO3]

The Unfought [AO3]

Sight [AO3]

Swinging Pendulum [AO3]

KnB

Ball Is Life, But You Still Need To Pay Rent [AO3]

Tokyo Revengers

all for one [AO3]

if trouble must come (let it come) [AO3]

Marbled Elbows [AO3]

Original

Chain Me Up, Darling [Quotev]

Anomalous [Quotev]

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ddrqoyote · 4 months

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173 Influential SCPs

I went to SCPper, found the most upvoted articles by users who've made at least one SCP, and sorted by time. These aren't necessarily the 173 best articles on the site, but I think they're likely to be the most influential. Longtime fans have probably read most or all of these but maybe this could be a starting point for newcomers.

I think sorting by time is important because the Foundation's been around almost 17 years. Writers come and go, trends come and go, new writers are influenced by what came before, and later articles are often longer and more complex than earlier ones. Just sorting by most upvoted bounces you around time; on the main wiki you read mostly series 1 articles then get dunked into SCP-5000. I hope this is a more natural progression, and that by the end people have more context for what's going on.

Using upvotes from writers only is important because the more writers like an article, the more likely later SCPs are to be influenced by it, so those articles are more likely to be important for understanding the wiki as a whole.

I might do an alternate version of this list that replaces the extremely long articles with shorter SCPs.

If you have trouble understanding one of the articles (some of the later ones get LONG), look it up on r/SCPDeclassified. If you would prefer audio narration/explanations, The Exploring Series and TheVolgun are both excellent. And of course, make sure to look in the sidebar on the wiki for guides, lists and explanations.

SERIES IV AND LATER ARE IN REBLOGS DUE TO TUMBLR'S POST LIMIT

Series I Era

SCP-173 - The Sculpture - The Original

SCP-093 - Red Sea Object

SCP-294 - The Coffee Machine

SCP-682 - Hard-to-Destroy Reptile

SCP-055 - [unknown]

SCP-914 - The Clockworks

SCP-085 - Hand-drawn "Cassy"

SCP-184 - The Architect

SCP-231 - Special Personnel Requirements

SCP-990 - Dream Man

SCP-999 - The Tickle Monster

SCP-835 - Expunged Data Released

SCP-701 - The Hanged King's Tragedy

SCP-586 - Inscribable Object

SCP-610 - The Flesh that Hates

Log of Anomalous Items Vol I

SCP-087 - The Stairwell

SCP-049 - Plague Doctor

Revised Entry

Document Recovered from the Marianas Trench

SCP-426 - I am a Toaster

SCP-096 - The "Shy Guy"

SCP-106 - The Old Man

SCP-140 - An Incomplete Chronicle

Kill 682

SCP-001-Bright - The Factory

SCP-666-J - The Roaring Flames of Hell

SCP-895 - Camera Disruption

SCP-5308-J - The Collection

SCP-8900-EX - Sky Blue Sky

black white black white black white black white black white gray

Eldritch Application

Nobody Knows

SCP-871 - Self-Replacing Cake

SCP-001-Mann - The Spiral Path

Series II Era

SCP-1000 - Bigfoot

SCP-902 - The Final Countdown

SCP-993 - Bobble the Clown

Transcript of Dr. Clef's seminar, "Reality Benders and You: How to Survive When Existence Doesn't."

SCP-001-Swann - The Database

Bees

SCP-006-J - WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING

10:30 A.M.

Ethics Committee Orientation

SCP-1959 - The Lost Cosmonaut

SCP-____-J - Procrastinati

SCP-1048 - Builder Bear

SCP-001-EX-J - Records of the CKG Gathering

SCP-1893 - The Minotaur's Tale

SCP-1983 - Doorway to Nowhere

SCP-1733 - Season Opener

SCP-1230 - A Hero is Born

SCP-1322 - Glory Hole

SCP-1370 - Pesterbot

SCP-1193 - Buried Giant

SCP-1545 - Larry the Loving Llama

SCP-1981 - "RONALD REAGAN CUT UP WHILE TALKING"

SCP-even number-J - An [Adjective] [Animal]

SCP-1867 - A Gentleman

SCP-1609 - The Remains of a Chair

SCP-1440 - The Old Man from Nowhere

SCP-1425 - Star Signals

SCP-1173 - The Islamic Republic of Eastern Samothrace

SCP-1171 - Humans Go Home

SCP-1678 - UnLondon

UIU Orientation

SCP-1437 - A Hole to Another Place

SCP-1958 - Magic Bus

Quiet Days

Why Change?

SCP-186 - To End All Wars

Treats

SCP-348 - A Gift from Dad

SCP-1295 - Meg's Diner

SCP-1342 - To the Makers of Music

SCP-1504 - Joe Schmo

The Executions of Doctor Bright

SCP-1471 - MalO ver1.0.0

The Young Man

wowwee go kill ursefl

#scp #scp foundation #scp wiki #scp fandom #creepypasta

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frank-olivier · 3 months

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Kelly Chase (The UFO Rabbit Hole Podcast)

"For the first time I’m going to talk about something that I never thought I’d talk about publicly, which is my own anomalous experience and how it changed everything about my life and directly led to me starting this podcast."

Through The Looking Glass [Pt.1]: My Initiation Into The Anomalous (March 2024)

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Steve Neill (Breaking the Silence)

The 'Whisper that Roared' dives into the chronicles of Steve Neill, an individual with an extraordinary tale. Steve's journey diverges into the unknown, as he shares his experiences of being repeatedly abducted by extraterrestrial beings since his very birth. This documentary-style narrative takes you on a voyage through the echoes of Steve's encounters.

The Whisper that Roared (March 2024)

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Sunday, March 3, 2024

#ufo #uap #anomalous experiences #presentations #Youtube

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dailyexo · 1 year

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[NEWS] Chen - 221116 Teen Vogue: “EXO’s Chen Opens Up About His Long-Awaited Homecoming With Album ‘Last Scene’”

"“A lot of things changed, and my thoughts changed during my recent hiatus,” he tells Teen Vogue.

Kim Jongdae, best known initially to fans as Chen, a member of the record-breaking group K-pop EXO, shared a promotional image for his third solo album of a mostly bare room replicated nine times. Shot through a sheer-curtained window, each photo is bathed in a different rich color – purple, blue, orange, green, and in the center, a muted gray. In each one he plants himself in a new position as if surveying the room from different angles, swathed in warm-hued light. He sits on a windowsill, stares through to the outside, and leans against a counter looking straight into the camera. The effect feels like an old-fashioned slide projector scanning through some kind of homecoming, illuminating the memories of a static environment with an ever-shifting perspective.

The idea of homecoming feels fitting for Chen. “A lot of things changed, and my thoughts changed during my recent hiatus,” he tells Teen Vogue over a video call from Seoul. The hiatus he refers to is the mandatory military service that is required for almost all men under the age of 28 in South Korea. After enlisting back in 2020, he was discharged in April of this year.

This new album is ironically called Last Scene, despite it being his re-entry into the world of making music, and its release acts as a sort of bookend to this break. His last solo album, Dear My Dear, and EXO album, Obsession, were both released in 2019. There’s a calm ease that radiates from Chen as he muses on approaching his comfortable creative bedfellow with a renewed frame of mind. “I was able to look back on who I am and reflect on what I am feeling,” he says. “There were a lot of questions that I asked myself throughout this process. It was a time for me to discover more about myself, and I spent time contemplating what I needed to be able to express my stories and ideas.”

The result is a compact but full six-track album, led by its titular song which is an orchestral, epic ballad about heartbreak. Fans will likely feel a soothing sense of familiarity with his genre of choice, as it’s one that has defined his solo output and led to him being dubbed the “Ballad King.”

Time feels omnipresent in conversation with Chen, in both the answers he gives and the space he lingers to take pause in his reflections. Each sentence feels completely intentional, like he doesn’t want to let a single important word go unsaid or clumsily expressed. In a field as fast-moving as K-pop, taking time is a luxury. It’s a concept that sits firmly at the center of the industry. Albums are numbered, birthdays marked with commemorative merch drops, group anniversaries dutifully celebrated like festivals, and metaphorical timers run down, for men at least, to the moment they choose to enlist. Chen’s military service overlapped with a landmark date in his career, EXO’s tenth anniversary.

Chen found fame in 2012 when EXO debuted as an all-singing, all-dancing, all-superpowered group (their concept literally involved each member taking on a particular power to be associated with). Like the lightning that a fresh-faced 19-year-old Chen adopted as a force, they sliced blindingly through the scene to become one of the most successful groups in history, amassing millions of fans worldwide and an enormously dedicated following that’s still anomalous in modern pop music. At the inception of that decade, Chen bowled over new fans with a juxtaposition of unassuming, boyish looks and a velvety, cavernous vocal prowess that lent itself not only to the 15 albums that he’s been a part of with EXO (to date) but to subunit EXO-CBX (alongside bandmates Baekhyun and Xiumin), countless K-Drama OSTs, and the now-three solo albums to his name. As anyone evolving through the ages of 20 to 30 can attest, it’s a period of time chronicled by immeasurable growth and some rather momentous personal life changes.

“With the spotlight comes the responsibility to keep working on myself, and to do my best in every given opportunity. I think these areas have been the biggest areas of change for me: a growing sense of responsibility, and to continuously strive to be a better version of myself, especially on stage,” Chen reflects, once again musing on the nearly packaged decennium of his fame. “When I look back at the past ten years, it still seems like a dream to me. Who else could have experienced what I’ve experienced, and go through what I’ve been through? There are times, even now, when it’s hard for me to grasp onto the fact that I have experienced these things, and that I am a person in the spotlight.”

He’s been fondly reminiscing a lot recently, maybe as a result of being able to celebrate milestones not usually afforded to his contemporaries. He thinks about the early days of EXO and the memories built with its members. The mention of his eight friends elicits a visible warmth that radiates through the screen. The value he places on them is inarguable, especially their support around the release of this long-awaited comeback. “I can’t fully express it in words, but each member gave me a lot of encouragement. They were a great source of strength for me,” he says. “I can still remember how each member treated me like nothing was happening, as though everything was just the same. I get overwhelmed thinking about it.”

There’s clearly an unbreakable bond between the group, something forged in the unique whirlwind they found themselves in 2013 when their album, XOXO, and its lead single “Growl,” became the first K-pop album in over a decade to sell a million copies. It’s impossible to overstate the stratospheric success Chen experienced alongside the rest of EXO, and this concept-appropriate lightning-in-a-bottle moment has filled his thoughts of late. “A memory that suddenly comes into mind is, and I don’t know why, but it’s when we first released our Growl album. It’s the album that played the biggest role in making EXO who we are today, and I had a lot of fun.” He adds that sometimes videos of performances of the song, which are cringingly early 2010’s in their styling, will pop up on his YouTube feed but he’s too embarrassed to click. “I get very shocked watching myself.”

Chen gives the impression of a traveler making stops on a journey through his own past, which is what homecomings often feel like. Like we’re watching an old movie with characters we vaguely remember. The memories we cherish aren’t always the ones we thought we’d hold dear, and moments of insignificance sometimes metastasise into the building blocks of who we become later down the line. “I want to tell my younger self to learn to enjoy each moment a bit more,” Chen says. “I was very young back then, and compared to my age and experience, I received so much love and popularity. I wasn’t able to receive this love and appreciation as wholeheartedly as I hoped. There were times when I blamed myself for this. I look back and wonder now, only if I knew how to enjoy it a bit more. I might have been able to attempt and achieve more things. There’s a sense of regret that remains in me.” Revisiting familiar haunts also makes us confront the reality that our perception of spaces entirely changes depending on where we visit them in our lives. For Chen, the industry and fans may be the same, but he is different.

He’s channeled that new perspective into this album which, alongside the titular ballad, ventures into fresh solo territory like leaning into the R&B and pop that litters EXO’s discography. Those genres are sprinkled into the fourth track on the album, a relatable, and self-penned, ode to unrequited love called “I Don’t Even Mind” which he says took two hours to write.

“It was supposed to be a sketch, so I was a little suspicious when the team told me a couple of days later that these were the final lyrics that were chosen for the song. I said, ‘Are you sure? Is this right?,’” he says, laughing. The art of songwriting isn’t something that necessarily comes naturally to him, but it’s something he notes that allows him to express his interiority in new ways. “I think I get my inspiration from my day-to-day life. It might be a word that clings to me from a conversation with someone, or I also like to write songs based on my personal experiences. In the past, I used my imagination to write songs, but with ‘I Don’t Even Mind,’ I wanted to capture myself, just as I am.”

Another crucial distinction from previous releases was the power of learning to share the load. In interviews around his last album, he mentioned being so stressed he found it hard to sleep. “With the first and second solo albums, I had a lot of ambition and desire. I was quite stubborn about what I wanted to do, and I expressed this quite clearly during our meetings,” he says. “I decided to let go of my stubbornness and listen to the voices around me.” Looking outward and accepting help from others also helped him focus on his true motivations through the reeds. “You know I love music, but I don’t think it’s possible to do it by myself. I know it’s a very cliché answer, but my fans are my biggest motivation. The reason why I could do my music until now is because I have people who love me and support me, and because there is someone that is listening to my voice.” And as for being able to get some shut-eye? “I slept well.”

After any homecoming comes a period of bedding in. The newly familiar becomes comfortable again and focus shifts to where we point that solace next. Within the gilded trappings of stasis grows possibility and the chance for further success with the safety net of security. “As time goes on, I want to be more authentic and be open to express myself fully,” Chen says, hopeful for the opportunities yet to come. “I hope to be someone who is approachable and relatable to my fans, not just in my solo activities, but also in my group activities.”

Once again, talk turns back to EXO, a homecoming within his homecoming. “To be back on stage as a group, to sing together — I missed being together with the group the most,” he says. “It’s already been 10 years for [EXO] as a group, and I can’t wait to see who we will become in the years to come.” For Chen, the future hopefully looks a lot like what he’s known before, just saturated with new lights and colors. And that’s everything he could hope for."

Credit: Teen Vogue.

#EXO #EXO M #Chen #221117 #t:news #album:last scene #fs:teen vogue #comeback:Fight

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nameshifter · 3 months

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SCP-8000 contest entries abridged daily

(Except, like, not well)

djkaktus' entry - The Edge of the World One crosslink (SCP-1867), three collapsibles, no offsets No GOIs, only pre-existing character in the article is Lord Blackwood, however one dr. Ivan Mann is featured, and while he's different enough to Everett, a familiar relation isn't out of the question.

Anomaly detailed is the Edge of the World. Earth, as is commonly known, is round, and while one typically expects round objects not to have edges, SCP-8000 resembles one such edge - a giant edge in south Pacific beyond which exists nothing but the void. Of note is that the place isn't a pocket dimension or extra-spacial, as GPS work and one could freely send drones and vehicles in and out of SCP-8000

Well, somewhat freely - there's a detailed procedure to get to the Edge, which, if not followed, leads to certain demise. It will also mess up any airborne vehicle, rendering seafaring vessels as the only way to safely get to SCP-8000.

On the Edge of the World, there's an island, with a tower/lighthouse being the only structure and a clockwork automaton being the sole inhabitant. The island is surrounded by ship wrecks and pointy rocks which, while menacing, are thoroughly non-anomalous

The island's tower is a cobbled mess of different architectural styles, ranging from ancient Roman style all the way up to 19th century fixtures and everything in-between. Inside is an oil lamp/reflector lighthouse fixture and a library with journals in a great number of different languages. Clockwork automaton says they're from prior tenants/keepers, and that the journals are augmented for longevity

Following the description are addenda that describe various accounts of people who accidentally stumble across SCP-8000 and the island with the tower, excerpts of library's journals and interviews with the clockwork automaton and SCP-1867, the latter of which evidently found out SCP-8000 on his own, some time prior to his containment, and catalogued the anomaly in one of his journals. Of note is that Lord Blackwood, usually boisterous and grandious in his chronicles, is uncharacteristicly laconic and reserved about SCP-8000. When questioned why, Blackwood says that the anomaly made him feel a deep emptiness, as though the world had become much smaller than 1867 previously thought.

After that there's an excerpt from one of the island's previous keepers, detailing the departure of the old keeper before him. The excerpt is rather solemn, if not grim, and one can only presume that after the old keeper had gone to the waves, the new one was left in solitude for a rather long time

Finally, the last addendum is an interview between Ivan Mann and the Clockwork Automaton. She recounts, among other things a story of her friend with whom the two became the new island keepers. Presumably, the Automaton wasn't always robotic and speculates that once, she might've even been human, based on how her friend treated her. Regardless, after she'd been rebuilt, the two came to study the journals in the island library, all the way until the robot's friend came to a realization that he'd become too old to read further. Automaton tells Ivan that he just walks off the island's pier towards the edge of the world, but instead of falling down into the waters and being dragged away into the void, he walks on air as though on land, moving into the distant sunset.

Personally, I found it to be an oddly melancholic scip that, at least as far as I can tell, isn't typically Kaktus' style.

Tl;dr: The edge of the World, kinda like in 2003 Sinbad. Just before the World stops, there's an island with a lighthouse/tower/library thing that collects journals of everyone who came to the island and decided to stay and keep watch. Most everyone who comes feels melancholic, including Lord Blackwood, though it's hardly an anomalous effect and more just the feeling you get when you're faced with an Edge of the World.

#scp #scp 8000 #scp abridged #scp foundation

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julierysava · 6 months

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Voyage of the Starborne Seeker

In the galactic tapestry of the cosmos, where constellations told tales of forgotten realms, Captain Nylomy commanded the starship Celestial Seeker. Her journey through the cosmic ocean was not just a mission; it was a quest for the mysteries which lay beyond the shimmering veil of stars.

The Celestial Seeker, adorned with the scars of interstellar travels, carried a crew as diverse as the galaxies themselves. Among them was Navigator Aric Voss, a keen mind with eyes held the reflections of distant quasars. His nimble fingers danced across holographic star charts, guiding the ship through the celestial symphony.

One fateful day, the Seeker detected anomalous readings from the Nebula of Eternity—a cosmic enigma which whispered promises of untold knowledge. Captain Nylomy, fueled by an insatiable curiosity, set a course for the heart of the nebula.

As the ship ventured deeper, the fabric of space itself seemed to ripple, revealing a corridor to a dimension untouched by mortal hands. The crew, a mosaic of races from far-flung stars, hesitated before this cosmic gateway.

Captain Nylomy, a beacon of determination, led her crew into the unknown. The corridor, a ribbon of iridescence, unfolded like a cosmic road. They emerged on the other side in the Astral Atrium—a celestial nexus suspended amidst the kaleidoscopic nebulae.

Here, they encountered the Luminal Scribes, ethereal beings who chronicled the eons in celestial scripts. The leader, a being of pure light named Marooy, beckoned Nylomy to partake in the weaving of cosmic tales.

Each crew member found a connection with the Astral Atrium. Aric communed with celestial mathematicians, exchanging algorithms that transcended mortal comprehension. Engineer Kaela discovered the harmonies of cosmic energies, tuning the ship's engines to resonate with the music of the spheres.

Captain Nylomy, with hands bathed in starlight, wove her story into the fabric of the universe. The Luminal Scribes, in turn, gifted the Seeker with a stardust-infused crystal—an artifact of cosmic wisdom.

As the Celestial Seeker departed the Astral Atrium, the crew carried with them the echoes of celestial knowledge. Captain Nylomy, now a guardian of cosmic lore, charted a course for unexplored galaxies, her eyes reflecting the luminous trails of newfound wisdom.

And so, under the boundless canopy of stars, the Starborne Seeker continued its voyage—a vessel of dreams, sailing through the cosmic sea in pursuit of the next chapter in the endless saga of the universe.

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ckc4me · 1 year

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Don't It Make My Green Eyes Red: The Beast of Chickamauga Battlefield

Since originally publishing my first account Ole Green Eyes, I have had the good fortune to talk with some folks who have their own encounters with this particular entity, which in turn prompted me to dig deeper into the old accounts and reports.

Ol’ Green Eyes, whatever it may be, has roamed Chickamauga Battlefield since at least the time of the Civil War In my very first book about all things wondrous, wicked, or weird found in the Mid-South, Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground, Chapter 34 revolved around the Haunted Hallowed Ground of Chickamauga. In that chapter, I chronicled several anomalous apparitions and other phenomena…

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#BIGFOOT #CRYPTOZOOLOGY #Fantastic Beasts #Green Ghoul of Chickamauga #LEGENDARY CREATURES #Old Green Eyes #STRANGE TALES

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whitepolaris · 1 year

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Which Came First, the Spark Plug or the Rock?

Debate has raged for over thirty years about a twentieth-century artifact discovered in a half-million-year-old rock. Skeptics and believers are still arguing about it more than forty years after it was found in the Coso Mountains.

On February 13, 1961, Wally Lane, Mike Mikesell, and Virginia Maxey made one of the strangest and most inexplicable archaeological finds in California history. While hunting for geodes, one of the three picked up a brown rock near the top of an unnamed 4,300-foot pea, twelve miles southeast of Olancha. Geodes are generally round (sometimes cigar-shaped) rocks with hollow interior stuffed with mineral crystals. They are highly prized by collectors and dilettantes alike, and specimens that contain amethyst are worth many hundreds of dollars. The three rock hunters had set out to find some specimens for their store in Olancha and were targeting a peak in the Coso Mountains just six miles northeast of their shop.

After a good morning’s collecting, the trio dumped their finds into a sack that Mikesell was toting and headed home. The next day Mikesell pulled a likely-looking, fossil-shell encrusted specimen out of the bag and went to work with a diamond saw. After the blade was nearly ruined, the rock split apart, revealing what looked like a porcelain cylinder surrounding by a shiny metal rod. It also contained what looked like a washer and a nail.

The trio sat on the discovery for a while, but early on, Maxey spoke to a geologist who informed her that the rock encasing the apparently artificial object would have taken 500,000 years to form. Maxey was at first quoted as declaring the find “an instrument as old as Mu or Atlantis. Perhaps it is a communications device or some sort of directional finder or some sort of instrument made to utilize power principles we know nothing about.”

To this day, the bizarre artifact defies explanation. The few who have tried at all say it’s clay-coated piece of mine machinery debris; this is unlikely, since the “Coso Geode” was found several miles from the nearest mine shafts. At any rate, clay concretion process don’t happen in dry, rocky desert regions like the Coso range.

Sometime in the mid-1960s, Ron Calais, a scientist with a heavy creationist bent, was allowed to examine the Coso Geode. He took pictures and X rays of the cut halves, which was a great stroke of luck when the object later went missing. The X rays showed a cylindrical structure with a metal ring at one end and a flared metal cap at the other. A threated screwlike area topped the assemblage.

In 1969, International Fortean Organization (INFO) journal editor Ronald Willis published a careful and thoughtful article on the Coso artifact. In the article, Willis followed the skeptical but interested style of Charles Fort, an early twentieth-century chronicler of the unexplained, Willis commented on the structure of the anomalous object, but stopped short of calling it an advanced piece of technology from a lost age. He simply wrote that the object was “the remains of a corroded piece of metal with threads.” He finally went out on a limb and guessed that the thing might be a spark plug.

Creationists soon latched on to find, since if authentic, it calls into question the ordered pageant of history that mainstream science has presented to us. It was a prime example of an OOPArt (Out Of Place Artifact) such as the Crystal Skull and what appeared to be an ancient battery discovered in Iraq in the 1950s.

In the late 1990s, various magazines reopened investigations into the Coso artifact. They looked at the claims of researchers such as Donald Chittick of the Institute for Creation Research, who started with the premise that the rock was in fact a bone fide geode. Skeptics pointed out that just because the original rock-hunting trio was looking for geode did not necessarily mean that they found one. Since there were other modern objects (the nail and washer) embedded in the surface, along with fossil shells, this indicated that the rock may have been covered with mud sometime between 1910 and 1930, picked up by hitchhikers, and finally hardened in the desert sun.

Pierre Stomberg, a skeptic, contacted the SPCA (that’s Spark Plug Collectors of America) and asked them to look at the X rays. President Chad Windham responded with a letter and two examples of Champion spark plugs from the 1920s. Everything matched up, allowing for corrosion of the metal and other components. The creationists responded that certain parts of the “spark plug, particularly the spring or helix terminal . . . do not correspond to any known spark plug today.” However, many readers of the Creation Outreach Web site tended to agree with the skeptics. So much for faith.

There are plenty of other OOPArts to keep the revisionists busy, many of which are much harder to explain. That’s fortunate, because the spark-plug-in-a-rock is no longer around for investigation. Perhaps it has returned to the space-time transient realm from whence it came. The Coso artifact was on display for a while at the Eastern California Museum in Independence, but was reclaimed by its owner in 1969. After forbidding any further dismantling or examination of the relic, he tried to sell it for a reported $25,000 but couldn’t find a buyer.

Recent attempts to trace the owner, the original finders, or the geode have been unsuccessful. All that’s left of this strange archaeological anomaly is are a few photographs, yellowing accounts in some obscure journals, and a tantalizing archaeological mystery that may never be resolved to anyone’s satisfaction.

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