"How did Nucorp end up in this reality?"
"I hear they came adrift at the northern docks. Like a paper crane floating atop the sea's foam. But the sea doesn't exist, so that rumor is obviously dubious."
"Huh? I've seen the sea myself."
"Odd. I've been all through the city and there's definitely no sea. Outside the city is nothing but rolling hills, stretching to the horizon."
"You must be mistaken."
Crit thread: http://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/forum/t-13835317/last-day-013-contest-crit
Thank you to those who gave feedback at any point during the writing of this article: TheGreatTarbolin69, Almarduk, KaiserXI, moist bread, Fortunae, Kloth2, Prototype_Toaster, H F Dummie, 8ismo, Worm that Walks, bXluYW1lamVmZg, Croal, ieatcrepes
I may have missed some people since most of the crit was over Discord. Let me know if I did.
All music was created by myself. I also used a lot of public domain and CC samples for ambient noise; these sources are below. The four tracks included in this article are part of a larger album called Sounds of the Dreamscape which I've released alongside this article. You can listen to that here. It is about 30 minutes long, and has 4 additional tracks not featured in the article, as well as a few bonus tracks.
The various images in the article were created by myself, mashing together public domain / CC images in Gimp. The sources are all below.
Music was a major inspiration for this article. I think the greatest source was Skylab by Dan Lacksman. I came up with a ton of ideas for the article while listening to this.