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* GoneHorriblyRight: The nanomachines designed to keep the crew healthy work exactly as intended, healing every injury, curing every illness, even stopping the aging process. [[spoiler: The problem is that nobody ever stopped to consider the long-term effects of functional immortality, for instance a person outliving their own capacity to form and store new memories]].
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* HealingFactor: Nanomachines have given this to everyone. [[spoiler: After the crew gets bored with the books and videogames they have on the ship, they turn to torturing each other for fun, since they'll just recover grom all injuries]].
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* HealingFactor: Nanomachines have given this to everyone. [[spoiler: After the crew gets bored with the books and videogames they have on the ship, they turn to torturing each other for fun, since they'll just recover grom from all injuries]].
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* [[spoiler:TheGreys]]: This story shows how they came to be and why they always act the way they do.
* HealingFactor/ {{Immortality}}: Thanks to advanced medical NanoMachines, the entire crew are immortal, which is pretty handy when getting anywhere in space takes hundreds of years. Leads to some major PowerPerversionPotential when they run out of things to do.
* [[spoiler:HumansThroughAlienEyes]]: [[spoiler:The Third Acting Captain finds humans [[UncannyValley so different despite their similar looks]] that they border on {{Eldritch Abomination}}s]].
* HealingFactor/ {{Immortality}}: Thanks to advanced medical NanoMachines, the entire crew are immortal, which is pretty handy when getting anywhere in space takes hundreds of years. Leads to some major PowerPerversionPotential when they run out of things to do.
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* [[spoiler:TheGreys]]: TheGreys: This story shows how [[spoiler:how they came to be and why they always act the way they do.
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* [[spoiler:HumansThroughAlienEyes]]: [[spoiler:The Third Acting Captain finds humans [[UncannyValley so different despite their similar looks]] that they border on {{Eldritch Abomination}}s]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: Sever crew members decide to kill themselves rather than wait for [[spoiler:their memories to run out, including the first captain]].
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One of the winning entries in ''{{Bogleech}}.com'''s ''CreepyPasta Cookoff 2013'', ''[[http://www.bogleech.com/creepy/creepy13-captainslog.html Captain's Log]]'' is, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a series of log entries by a space captain chronicling a centuries-long voyage to a newly discovered alien planet.
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One of the winning entries in ''{{Bogleech}}.''Website/{{Bogleech}}.com'''s ''CreepyPasta Cookoff 2013'', ''[[http://www.bogleech.com/creepy/creepy13-captainslog.html Captain's Log]]'' is, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a series of log entries by a space captain chronicling a centuries-long voyage to a newly discovered alien planet.
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->"We're collecting another specimen today..."
One of the winning entries in ''{{Bogleech}}.com'''s ''CreepyPasta Cookoff 2013'', ''[[http://www.bogleech.com/creepy/creepy13-captainslog.html Captain's Log]]'' is, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a series of log entries by a space captain chronicling a centuries-long voyage to a newly discovered alien planet.
Notable for its clever, multi-layered TwistEnding, part of which you'll probably see coming a lightyear away, part of it, not so much. Beware of spoilers.
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!!This story provides examples of:
* AlienAbduction: Being space explorers investigating an alien planet, the crew need to collect a few samples of the local life forms.
* AliensStealCattle: The reason they keep mutilating cattle over and over? [[spoiler:They think it's the same cow every time]].
* TheAllConcealingI: You probably figured out from the start that the captain and his crew are [[spoiler:aliens. Precisely what kind of aliens, though...]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: [[spoiler:Despite being HumanoidAliens, from what little description we get, the Greys' physiology seems pretty damn alien (and probably physically impossible). Their eyeballs are so dark because they contain osmium where a human's uses zinc; their skin apparently doesn't secrete oil; they don't appear to even know what hair ''is'' and weirdest of all they don't have DNA. Their genetic material is some sort of base and they're genuinely shocked that Earth creatures' genes are acidic]].
* CaptainsLog: The entire story, natch.
* DrivenToSuicide: Sever crew members decide to kill themselves rather than wait for [[spoiler:their memories to run out, including the first captain]].
* EasyAmnesia: Averted to hell and gone with its rather disturbing portrayal of [[spoiler:anterrograde amnesia]].
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Doing the same things over and over again because your brain has run out of memory]].
* [[spoiler:TheGreys]]: This story shows how they came to be and why they always act the way they do.
* HealingFactor/ {{Immortality}}: Thanks to advanced medical NanoMachines, the entire crew are immortal, which is pretty handy when getting anywhere in space takes hundreds of years. Leads to some major PowerPerversionPotential when they run out of things to do.
* [[spoiler:HumansThroughAlienEyes]]: [[spoiler:The Third Acting Captain finds humans [[UncannyValley so different despite their similar looks]] that they border on {{Eldritch Abomination}}s]].
* NoNameGiven: None of the characters, or the ship for that matter, have names. Pretty typical of CreepyPasta.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: A chilling example of what happens when these aren't taken into account.
* SpaceMadness: The crew starts going [[UnderStatement a little funny]] after they run out of things to read.
* TimeAbyss: By the end the crew have been [[spoiler:abducting people and mutilating cattle for over 30,000 years, probably more]].
* UniversalUniverseTime: In a workaround for this trope used by many harder sci-fi stories, the ship measures time in the orders of magnitude of seconds (kiloseconds, megaseconds, etc.) elapsed since the start of the voyage. That still doesn't explain [[spoiler:the fact that the captain describes the travel time to Earth as around 300 years and the mission time count roughly matches up with that in Earth years despite them not being from Earth. Or that "seconds" is a pretty arbitrary measure of time that aliens probably wouldn't use. Could be another case of the TranslationConvention]].
One of the winning entries in ''{{Bogleech}}.com'''s ''CreepyPasta Cookoff 2013'', ''[[http://www.bogleech.com/creepy/creepy13-captainslog.html Captain's Log]]'' is, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a series of log entries by a space captain chronicling a centuries-long voyage to a newly discovered alien planet.
Notable for its clever, multi-layered TwistEnding, part of which you'll probably see coming a lightyear away, part of it, not so much. Beware of spoilers.
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!!This story provides examples of:
* AlienAbduction: Being space explorers investigating an alien planet, the crew need to collect a few samples of the local life forms.
* AliensStealCattle: The reason they keep mutilating cattle over and over? [[spoiler:They think it's the same cow every time]].
* TheAllConcealingI: You probably figured out from the start that the captain and his crew are [[spoiler:aliens. Precisely what kind of aliens, though...]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: [[spoiler:Despite being HumanoidAliens, from what little description we get, the Greys' physiology seems pretty damn alien (and probably physically impossible). Their eyeballs are so dark because they contain osmium where a human's uses zinc; their skin apparently doesn't secrete oil; they don't appear to even know what hair ''is'' and weirdest of all they don't have DNA. Their genetic material is some sort of base and they're genuinely shocked that Earth creatures' genes are acidic]].
* CaptainsLog: The entire story, natch.
* DrivenToSuicide: Sever crew members decide to kill themselves rather than wait for [[spoiler:their memories to run out, including the first captain]].
* EasyAmnesia: Averted to hell and gone with its rather disturbing portrayal of [[spoiler:anterrograde amnesia]].
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Doing the same things over and over again because your brain has run out of memory]].
* [[spoiler:TheGreys]]: This story shows how they came to be and why they always act the way they do.
* HealingFactor/ {{Immortality}}: Thanks to advanced medical NanoMachines, the entire crew are immortal, which is pretty handy when getting anywhere in space takes hundreds of years. Leads to some major PowerPerversionPotential when they run out of things to do.
* [[spoiler:HumansThroughAlienEyes]]: [[spoiler:The Third Acting Captain finds humans [[UncannyValley so different despite their similar looks]] that they border on {{Eldritch Abomination}}s]].
* NoNameGiven: None of the characters, or the ship for that matter, have names. Pretty typical of CreepyPasta.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: A chilling example of what happens when these aren't taken into account.
* SpaceMadness: The crew starts going [[UnderStatement a little funny]] after they run out of things to read.
* TimeAbyss: By the end the crew have been [[spoiler:abducting people and mutilating cattle for over 30,000 years, probably more]].
* UniversalUniverseTime: In a workaround for this trope used by many harder sci-fi stories, the ship measures time in the orders of magnitude of seconds (kiloseconds, megaseconds, etc.) elapsed since the start of the voyage. That still doesn't explain [[spoiler:the fact that the captain describes the travel time to Earth as around 300 years and the mission time count roughly matches up with that in Earth years despite them not being from Earth. Or that "seconds" is a pretty arbitrary measure of time that aliens probably wouldn't use. Could be another case of the TranslationConvention]].
