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Tower, by Ellex, for city exploration challenge

May 21, 2005 22:07

Title: Tower
Author: Ellex
Rating: PG
Summary: It was a whim that brought him to the tower.
Challenge: City exploration
Notes: I seem to remember reading something vaguely similar, once...but I may be mistaken, since I had night terrors as a child that were like this, so any plagiarism is completely unintentional.

( Tower )

challenge: city exploration, author: ellex42

Comments 17

canadian_snoopy May 22 2005, 02:26:44 UTC

Oh *wow*, this is my favourite kind of spooky -- and the imagery of that tree, shambling forward and that staircase going on forever...

*shudders*

So cool and just plain *neat* -- thanks for sharing!

sp23 May 22 2005, 02:44:59 UTC

Very spooky. Even more so since the tower's victim is never identified so it could be anyone's fate. Good job.

*shivers* anonymous May 22 2005, 04:30:43 UTC

Ooh...it's lovely in an eerie sort of way at first, then creeps into the beginning of quietly terrifying. I also liked the observations on the architecture.

Re: *shivers* ellex42 May 22 2005, 05:11:14 UTC

Thanks...I'm particularly taken with the design of Atlantis, both inside and out.

sarren May 22 2005, 05:28:47 UTC

Woah.

I like that it was the type of alien he'd *expected* to find.

Very creepy :)

ellex42 May 22 2005, 05:51:16 UTC

TPTB saves money by making all the aliens human or humanoid...this bugs me.

BTW, I was looking around and the Empire State Building has a little over 1800 steps...whoever this poor schmuck is, he's been climbing for a LONG time.

delurker May 22 2005, 08:14:21 UTC

This is indeed spooky... I love the way he's counting and counting and never reaching the end - I always worry about that in enclosed spiral staircases.

TPTB saves money by making all the aliens human or humanoid...this bugs me.
Apparently another reason is that non-humanoid aliens tend to look really silly. *shrugs* I just wish there was some kind of explanation as to why they all speak English. (Someone suggested that it was the Stargate itself which somehow gave them the knowledge of the native language, which would be cool. But you'd think they could find an Ancient translating device quite easily...)

ellex42 May 22 2005, 18:40:23 UTC

I did read someone's theory that the DHD did some kind of telepathic translation type thing, and I'll buy that for spoken language. You could make a case for it not working on written language (since it's not person-to-person), hence the need to painstakingly translate Ancient.

flatlanddan May 22 2005, 13:00:30 UTC

Fantastic ending!!! :D I kept wondering if the whole thing was real or not....

ellex42 May 22 2005, 18:44:45 UTC

Thanks! I have no idea if what's happening to this fellow is real or not. I was wondering if maybe the sight of the landscape thru the window drove him insane...or maybe he fell off the platform and is hallucinating on the way down, or is dead and in some kind of purgatory.

Sometimes I'm not sure if it's actually me who writes these stories...