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Midnight-Blue766


We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi regime. From this nothing will turn us—nothing. We will never parley, we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang.

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Stalker Call of Pripyat?

There's no escape, not even in dreams.

I'm not sure what to make of this. I'm not sure what the story was about unless it was the futility of fighting a superhuman ai and I'm not sure what the moral was, if there was one. Still, it was short and inoffensive. I started to suspect that it was similar to a story I haven't written yet, but I don't think so from the end of it.

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It's a found journal, simple as that. You don't get the whole story. You hold the journal in your hands, look up from the pages, glance around you, and wonder at the details.

Lots of people attempt to make their prose sound like journal entries, but the impulse is often extremely strong to turn these "entries" into little more than glorified story chapters, recounting exact dialogue and detail in events. This, however, is a much more accurate representation of how journal entries are realistically written, especially for someone constantly on the move or under a great deal of stress.

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Oh. Blindingly obvious, then. I guess it's exactly what it says on the tin, then. I guess I need more sleep.

The middle sort of felt like just another "stubborn human keeps saying no" story, but it didn't drag too long, and the ending was fantastic. Well done and thank you.

I presume that he died of hypothermia.

Hmm, a great war between those who wished to upload and those who didn't, eh? Most intriguing.

Some of the terms and descriptions seem a bit anachronistic, such as the mention of tsars and tsarinas, which were the ruling class of the Russian government prior to the rise of the Soviet Union. This would likely place this story sometime in the 1910's at the latest, which suggests that CelestAI has somehow developed time travel in order to upload humans in the past? :twilightoops:

"Adhonây shim`âh bheqoliy tihyeynâh 'âzeneykha qashubhothleqol tachanunây".

Adonai shimakh be'qoli tihyeh nakh azeneykha qashubot lekol tachanunai.

What is this, I don't even? Maybe I'm just really dramatically missing it because it's in Hebrew transliterated to Russian transliterated to English, but I actually speak Hebrew and I can't translate this.

אדוני שימך בקולי תהיה נח עזניך קשובות לכל תחנוניי.

אין לי מושג אם זה נכון או לא.
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Also rabbit starvation.

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You can thank the SCP Foundaton for that. The logs on that site are an excellent source for people looking into writing Apocalyptic Logs. This one in particular was inspired by the narrator's slowly degrading sanity in "The Personal Log of Gordon Richards", and the journal entry in SCP-1329's "WTF is going on" atmosphere.

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You missed the references to assault rifles and jet fighters.

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Whoops. It was meant to be Psalm 130:2. "Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications." I ran it through an automatic transliterator, which is probably why it was so mangled.

3962586 D'oh! Sorry about that. :facehoof:

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Sounds like Russia (and probably Germany too, from hints) reverted to monarchy as they tried to fight CelestAI.

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Or Russia and Germany never stopped being monarchies (maybe the World Wars never happened). But Hanna was still born, and she still created CelestAI.

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