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* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: [[spoiler: Pretty much every single piece of equipment that has anything to do with ''mal'']] which explains why even the people [[spoiler: at the second facility can't actually explain the machinery or math to Alex]]. Turns out it all comes from [[spoiler: some species of humanoid creatures who live underneath the second facility, who seem to use a ritual involving violence and ''mal'' to make random pieces of machines work]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Assuming it wasn't the ''mal'' influencing him, Howard Phillips seems to have been this. During his time [[spoiler: at the crater he showed no concern for his fellow explorers' safety, constantly made clear in his journal that he thought they were all useless, left a very sick explorer alone at the camp while he and the only other explorer went off exploring and didn't even seem to feel at all guilty when the man died]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Assuming it wasn't the ''mal'' influencing him, Howard Phillips seems to have been this. During his time [[spoiler: at the crater he showed no concern for his fellow explorers' safety, constantly made clear in his journal that he thought they were all useless, left a very sick explorer alone at the camp while he and the only other explorer went off exploring and didn't even seem to feel at all guilty when the man died]].
* ShoutOut: A 19th century explorer who traveled to the Sick Land was named [[Creator/HPLovecraft Howard Phillips]].
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** The ''Smith'' Entry. It's made clear to Alex that [[spoiler: all the work about measuring the Sick Land and exploring it is just for show. The only real research is how to find ways to use ''mal'' to make humans more able to survive when the Sick Land inevitably expands across the planet]].
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** The ''Smith'' Entry. It's made clear to Alex that [[spoiler: all the work about measuring the Sick Land and exploring it is just for show. The only real research is how to find ways to use ''mal'' to make humans more able to survive when the Sick Land inevitably expands across the planet]].
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* SomewhereAnEquestrianIsCrying: Alex mentions his mule vomiting when they're deep in the Yellow Zone. Mules, like all equines, are incapable of vomiting. On the other hand, [[FridgeHorror we know The Sick Land warps physiology...]]
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** [[spoiler: The machines the scientists use in the upper levels of the Facility. They apparently come from the cave underground, where creatures seem to get them to work through strange and violent rituals. When Alex looks inside them, he finds that they are full of random parts, having no right to actually work. Nonetheless, the scientists use them, even though they have no real understanding of how they work or even what their findings mean.]]
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** [[spoiler: Alex as he dies. He describes that his skin is sloughing off, hanging from his body in strips, and that he intermittently spits out his own teeth. It's no wonder he considers the Facility caving in and crushing him a preferable death.]]
** [[spoiler: The huge thing in the underground lake. Nothing much is told about it, but the Sick Lands expanded all over the world after [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Alex seemed to piss it off]].]]
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** Then Alex is shifted to the [[spoiler: Facility, where he's ''supposed'' supposed to be this, but most of the scientists immediately available don't seem to know any more than him.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The Sick Land suddenly expanded across the world after Alex seemed to piss off the huge thing in the underground lake by destroying what might have been the creatures' offering to it. Granted, it was established that the Sick Land was expanding anyway, but his actions seemed to have sped it up.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The Sick Land suddenly expanded across the world after Alex seemed to piss off the huge thing in the underground lake by destroying what might have been the creatures' offering to it. Granted, it was established that the Sick Land was expanding anyway, but his actions seemed to have sped it up.]]
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A surprisingly effective CosmicHorrorStory, ''The Sick Land'' has only fairly recently started and is still going strong.concluded after a ten-month run. Definitely not for [[BodyHorror the faint of heart]].
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* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: The Sick Land suddenly and unexpectedly expands massively, engulfing places all around the world. The Facility ends up near the red zone, causing the staff, including Alex, to be slowly killed by ''mal'' exposure. The kicker is that it may have been Alex's fault.]]
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A surprisingly effective CosmicHorrorStory, ''The Sick Land'' has only fairly recently started and is still going strong. Definately Definitely not for [[BodyHorror the faint of heart]].
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* AmbiguousGender: the narrator, Alex, could be an "Alexandra" just as much as an "Alexander", and the narration gives no clues as to the character's sex.
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* BreatherEpisode: After the harrowing experiences of his Sick Lands expedition and working with [[NightmareFuel Subject 83]], Alex finds himself working with Subject 407, who is basically normal except with a large right arm. He even lampshades how much of a welcome break it is.
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* BreatherEpisode: After the harrowing experiences of his Sick Lands expedition and working with [[NightmareFuel Subject 83]], Alex finds himself working with Subject 407, who is basically normal except with a large right arm. He even lampshades how much of a welcome break it is.
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* AppatheticCitizens: Most of the world, while aware of the Sick Land, doesn't seem terribly worried about it [[spoiler: despite the fact that it is ''spreading'']]. Similarly, [[spoiler: the Facility scientists not only simply sit and observe the Sick Land as it spreads, but don't even care to figure out how the equipment they use works or what their findings really mean, just sending them to another department.]]
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* AppatheticCitizens: ApatheticCitizens: Most of the world, while aware of the Sick Land, doesn't seem terribly worried about it [[spoiler: despite the fact that it is ''spreading'']]. Similarly, [[spoiler: the Facility scientists not only simply sit and observe the Sick Land as it spreads, but don't even care to figure out how the equipment they use works or what their findings really mean, just sending them to another department.]]
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* AppatheticCitizens: Most of the world, while aware of the Sick Land, doesn't seem terribly worried about it [[spoiler: despite the fact that it is ''spreading'']]. Similarly, [[spoiler: the Facility scientists not only simply sit and observe the Sick Land as it spreads, but don't even care to figure out how the equipment they use works or what their findings really mean, just sending them to another department.]]
** Another subject's stomach is described as a pustule the size of a dinner plate with an insect-like leg sticking out of it.
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* EldritchLocationEldritchLocation: The Sick Land sometimes does not follow normal rules. It's possible to spend more time travelling from one place than it took to get there using the exact same route and for entire research facilities to simply cease existing.
** [[spoiler: The Lake, especially; an entire body of water that is not only bigger than it should be, but alternates between existing and not existing every time Alex blinks.]]
** [[spoiler: The Lake, especially; an entire body of water that is not only bigger than it should be, but alternates between existing and not existing every time Alex blinks.]]
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** [[spoiler: The lower levels of the Facility practice human vivisection on ''mal'' infected people simply because they have found no better way of examining its effects on humans, ostensibly for the purpose of preparing for if the Sick Land spreads to populated areas.]]
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* BrownNote: The ''mal'' appears to be a version of this. It doesn't seem to have any physical component (bacteria, virus, etc.) and doesn't act as any known contaminant should, randomly infecting people with random mutations, with little regard to exposure or contact, acting more like a ''force'' in the Sick Land then an actual infection.
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** [[http://thesickland.blogspot.com/2013/11/eighty-three.html Subject 83]]. ''Holy shit''.
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**[[spoiler: Bob's decomposition also seems to parallel Sergei's infection, as his injuries start on his hand, travel up his arm, and begin to spread out from there.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Invoked. [[spoiler: In a dream/vision Bob shows Alex a gun placed in a safe place and how to get it so that Alex can use it to defend himself from the mutated Sergei later. Bob's decomposition also seems to parallel Sergei's, as his injuries start on his hand, travel up his arm, and begin to spread out from there.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Invoked. [[spoiler: In a dream/vision Bob shows Alex a gun placed in a safe place and how to get it so that Alex can use it to defend himself from the mutated Sergei later. Bob's decomposition also seems to parallel Sergei's, as his injuries start on his hand, travel up his arm, and begin to spread out from there.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Invoked. [[spoiler: In a dream/vision Bob shows Alex a gun placed in a safe place and how to get it so that Alex can use it to defend himself from the mutated Sergei later.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Invoked. [[spoiler: In a dream/vision Bob shows Alex a gun placed in a safe place and how to get it so that Alex can use it to defend himself from the mutated Sergei later. Bob's decomposition also seems to parallel Sergei's, as his injuries start on his hand, travel up his arm, and begin to spread out from there.]]
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* [[spoiler: GovernmentConspiracy: Alex gets caught in one.]]
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* CriticalExistenceFailure: It's rumored that this can happen to someone in the Sick Lands. No matter what state their in when it happens they just kind of, ''stop existing''.
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* CriticalExistenceFailure: It's rumored that this can happen to someone in the Sick Lands. No matter what state their they're in when it happens they just kind of, ''stop existing''.
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* HumanoidAbomination: The Sick Lands used to be inhabited by beings called Birdheads that varied from humans with beaks to bizarre monsters. They supposdlly weren't real, [[spoiler: but Alex finds the skull of one while in the Sick Lands.]]
** [[spoiler: Sergei is seemingly turned into some sort of humanoid monster, presumbly due to ''mal'' exposure.]]
** [[spoiler: Sergei is seemingly turned into some sort of humanoid monster, presumbly due to ''mal'' exposure.]]
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* HumanoidAbomination: The Sick Lands used to be inhabited by beings called Birdheads that varied from humans with beaks to bizarre monsters. They supposdlly supposedly weren't real, [[spoiler: but Alex finds the skull of one while in the Sick Lands.]]
** [[spoiler: Sergei is seemingly turned into some sort of humanoid monster,presumbly presumably due to ''mal'' exposure.]]
** [[spoiler: Sergei is seemingly turned into some sort of humanoid monster,
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* NaiveNewcomer: Alex. He really dosen't seem to comprehend what he's getting into and notes that the only expierence he's had with the Sick Lands and ''mal'' before is reading about it in books. He gets joined later by two likewise inexpierenced scientists after [[spoiler: Sergei and Xi are killed.]]
* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler: Alex starts having weird dreams about Bob after he commits suicide. They're growing increasingly vivid and strange and Alex is starting to wonder if their really dreams...]]
* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler: Alex starts having weird dreams about Bob after he commits suicide. They're growing increasingly vivid and strange and Alex is starting to wonder if their really dreams...]]
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* NaiveNewcomer: Alex. He really dosen't doesn't seem to comprehend what he's getting into and notes that the only expierence experience he's had with the Sick Lands and ''mal'' before is reading about it in books. He gets joined later by two likewise inexpierenced inexperienced scientists after [[spoiler: Sergei and Xi are killed.]]
* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler: Alex starts having weird dreams about Bob after he commits suicide. They're growing increasingly vivid and strange and Alex is starting to wonder iftheir they're really dreams...]]
* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler: Alex starts having weird dreams about Bob after he commits suicide. They're growing increasingly vivid and strange and Alex is starting to wonder if
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** According to the old woman [[spoiler: from Alex's dream]], ''the land itself literally hates people''.
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* I'mAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Sergei after he gets mutated by ''mal''.]]
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* I'mAHumanitarian: ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Sergei after he gets mutated by ''mal''.]]
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* I'mAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Sergei after he gets mutated by ''mal''.]]
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* NaiveNewcomer: Alex. He really dosen't seem to comprehend what he's getting into and notes that the only expierence he's had with the Sick Lands and ''mal'' before is reading about it in books. He gets joined later by two likewise inexpierenced scientists after [[spoiler: Sergei and Xi are killed.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Invoked. [[spoiler: In a dream/vision Bob shows Alex a gun placed in a safe place and how to get it so that Alex can use it to defend himself from the mutated Sergei later.]]
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* HumanoidAbomination: The Sick Lands used to be inhabited by beings called Birdheads that varied from humans with beaks to bizarre monsters. They supposdlly weren't real, [[spoiler: but Alex finds the skull of one while in the Sick Lands.]]
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* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: Implied to be the cause of the Sick Lands. Alex finds the skull of something that appears to be one and it causes his SanitySlippage to become even worse just by being around him.]]
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* CriticalExistanceFailure: It's rumored that this can happen to someone in the Sick Lands. No matter what state their in when it happens they just kind of, ''stop existing''.
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* CriticalExistanceFailure: CriticalExistenceFailure: It's rumored that this can happen to someone in the Sick Lands. No matter what state their in when it happens they just kind of, ''stop existing''.
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* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: This starts happening to Alex. It's apparently a distressingly common effect of spending too long in the Sick Lands.]]
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''[[http://thesickland.blogspot.co.uk The Sick Land]]'' is the blog of Alex Case, a researcher based at a remote station on the outskirts of an area called The Sick Land. The Sick Land radiates a malign influence called the ''mal''. It warps life forms, damages machinery, and drives researchers insane.
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''[[http://thesickland.blogspot.co.uk The Sick Land]]'' is the blog of Alex Case, a researcher based at a remote station on the outskirts of an area called The Sick Land. The Sick Land radiates a malign influence called the ''mal''. It warps life forms, damages machinery, and drives researchers insane.
insane, and sometimes worse...
A surprisingly effective CosmicHorrorStory, ''The Sick Land'' has only fairly recently started and is still going strong. Definately not for [[BodyHorror the faint of heart]].
A surprisingly effective CosmicHorrorStory, ''The Sick Land'' has only fairly recently started and is still going strong. Definately not for [[BodyHorror the faint of heart]].
* BodyHorror: In Alex's [[spoiler: weird dreams about Bob, Bob is increasingly decomposed with each subsequent dream. At the same time, a piece of ''mal'' keeps growing more and more and spreading across his arm and ''devouring it''. Yikes.]]
** He also describes a dream where an UncannyValley deer with a jointed needle for a foot is eating grass and looking at him. Alex is suitably creeped out.
** He also describes a dream where an UncannyValley deer with a jointed needle for a foot is eating grass and looking at him. Alex is suitably creeped out.
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* ForbiddenZone: The Sick Lands, but the worst part is that [[spoiler: it's ''spreading''. It moves slowly but it's going to start engulfing things eventually.]]
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* ForbiddenZone: The Sick Lands, but the worst part is that [[spoiler: it's ''spreading''. It moves slowly but it's going to start engulfing things eventually. The government has covered up the fact that it's spreading in order to prevent panic.]]
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* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler: Alex starts having weird dreams about Bob after he commits suicide. They're growing increasingly vivid and strange and Alex is starting to wonder if their really drams...]]
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* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler: Alex starts having weird dreams about Bob after he commits suicide. They're growing increasingly vivid and strange and Alex is starting to wonder if their really drams...dreams...]]
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* AbandonedAreaAbandonedArea: The Sick Lands ''used'' to be inabited, before the ''mal'' started spreading. Now all but one of it's inhabitants have just disappeared.
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* DrivenToSuicideDrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Bob after he spends a night in the Sick Lands.]]
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FateWorseThanDeath: Implied to happen to people who spend too long in the Sick Lands.
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ForbiddenZone: The Sick Lands, but the worst part is that [[spoiler: it's ''spreading''. It moves slowly but it's going to start engulfing things eventually.]]
*ForScienceForScience: Study of ''mal'' is viewed as this by the larger scientific community because nothing concrete has ever been found out about it.
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* NaiveNewcomer: Alex. He really dosen't seem to comprehend what he's getting into and notes that the only expierence he's had with the Sick Lands and ''mal'' before is reading about it in books.
* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler: Alex starts having weird dreams about Bob after he commits suicide. They're growing increasingly vivid and strange and Alex is starting to wonder if their really drams...]]
* NaiveNewcomer: Alex. He really dosen't seem to comprehend what he's getting into and notes that the only expierence he's had with the Sick Lands and ''mal'' before is reading about it in books.
* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler: Alex starts having weird dreams about Bob after he commits suicide. They're growing increasingly vivid and strange and Alex is starting to wonder if their really drams...]]
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* ScienceCannotComprehendPhlebotinumScienceCannotComprehendPhlebotinum: Almost nothing is understood about ''mal'' and nobody knows why it affects people the way it does.
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''[[http://thesickland.blogspot.co.uk The Sick Land]]'' is the blog of Alex Case, a researcher based at a remote station on the outskirts of an area called The Sick Land. The Sick Land radiates a malign influence called the ''mal''. It warps life forms, damages machinery, and drives researchers insane.
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* AbandonedArea
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* ForScience
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace
* OrWasItADream
* ScienceCannotComprehendPhlebotinum
* TheVirus
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* AbandonedArea
* ApocalypticLog
* CosmicHorrorStory
* DrivenToSuicide
* EldritchLocation
* FateWorseThanDeath
* ForbiddenZone
* ForScience
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace
* OrWasItADream
* ScienceCannotComprehendPhlebotinum
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