Rewrite of "Frog Rot" by Gears.
So yeah, enjoy.
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Much improved from the original. I see lots of tone problems were fixed as well.
This reminds me alot of an extremely scientifically-described Innsmouth taint. +1
Which is exactly why this doesn't get my upvote, though I'll commend the author on the tone-over this got.
For the record, my reason for downvoting has nothing to do with the rewrite, it's why I downvoted the original too.
It just feels like it's a write-up of Lovecraft's Innsmouth taint with a few things swapped out. That's just not enough to catch my interest. But like I said, the rewrite is solid.
If you're wondering, it's the process by which human-Deep One hybrids become more amphibious. They start out mostly human, but if they remain in Innsmouth, as they age past 20 or so, they start to become more and more like the Fish-Frog Deep Ones. Emphasis mostly on the frog bit, both in Lovecraft and here obviously. That's why I upvoted, because I love amphibians and body horror.
Nah. For one, that happens when everyone in your town is fucking fish-frogs and not from a fungus. Second, instead of morphing into a frog, the Innsmouthians start looking more and more like fish. Third, the story here's completely different — enough so that I didn't even make the connection myself.
As for the article itself, I'm neutral on it.
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I find the transition from describing the disease into discussing the frog people just really clumsy. The whole run down of symptoms into frog description could be more elegant and flowing.
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I like this quite a bit. One thing, though:
A 1km radius around any areas experiencing an outbreak of SCP-306 are to be quarantined a 1 km radius around the affected area.
I think one of those "1km radius'" need to go, but I may be wrong. Either way, you've still garnered an upvote from this guy.
This just doesn't grab me. It's decently written, but it just doesn't do it for me. I think part of it is that the central theme (the wart-toad connection) is a bit dull for me. It otherwise seems to be a bit all over a the place with warts really being viral, but here being fungal, and leading into amphibians. It just lacks the sort of coherance that makes it sound real and scary. Also, the whole frogs-with-human minds thing feels tacked on. They show little signs of remembering their former lives (minimizing the body horror of being trapped as a frog), and it downplays the infectious nature as the central concept.
No vote for now. I need to mull it over more.
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