Kowloon Walled City documentary (Part 1/4) + english subtitles
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- Part 1 of a 1989 probably Austrian (maybe German) documentary on Hong Kong's fabled Kowloon Walled City.
Originally uploaded by aveletrian.
Subtitles added by yours truly.
(C) 1989 Hawke Productions ltd
I bet the mailman broke down in tears of joy when they demolished that place.
I know this is over 20 years old but this is still like, the most futuristic shit ever
Sad thing to say, but likely...
it's kinda mirrors traditional village life, where there were a few specialty tradesman. The fishmonger, the breakmaker etc. Something we've definitely lost in the western world.
my absolute favorite documentary ever. i watched this over 30 times at this point...
I would have loved to have taken a tour of this place.
same bruh. too bad my parents didn't fuck earlier so I could've been alive to see it
You can take a virtual one at the museum there. The best one can do outside of being there.
I get the feeling it stunk worse than you can imagine and you better have your immunizations. Also, probably smart to bring a lot of penicillin. I picture this place just being a cesspool of disease, rancid odors and germs. Like if it didn't get demolished, this is where covid13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,&25 would originate.
i cant imagine the smell there its scary.
For people looking to list this as a source (or are just curious), the documentary is called "Hongkongs geheime Stadt - Ein Labyrinth für 50.000 Menschen" produced by Österreichischer Rundfunk. I'm relatively sure I have the right title, but all the places that list this name seem to be drawing the information from each other, so be aware that I could be wrong.
you are a god if anyone is doing a project on this.
It's like the deep web of real life.
There are still places like this all over HK. Very tightly packed, dirty, and little sunlight. Not as extreme as this, but they're there.
for some reason, this documentary propels me to love humankind ten fold...what amazing conditions to work and live in. Great . . .
Oh THANK YOU!!!!! for doing this! I love this place and have been WAITING for the subtitles for it! I look forward to seeing the other videos!
This is a wonderful documentary. Thank you for sharing this for others to have a chance to learn.
Crazy, I'll never look at noodles the same ever again
This is like city of endor. For some reason this place really really fascinates me
it's hard to believe that there's such place in the world. charming and spooky at the same time.
I've saw this years ago. One of the most fascinating documentaries I have every seen.
Must have been wonderful during a humid monsoon.......
Some strong foundations the lower floors have, pillars too. Sustaining all that added weight without collapsing. When overcapacitated, pillars can explode without warning.
Thank you to whomever subtitled this!
THANK YOU!! I have wanted to see this for years but I don't speak German. THANK YOU!!
The Walled City was one of the most interesting places in the world. A dank, dark labyrinth filled with surprise and danger. I almost wish I could've visited there... Unfortunately, I know for a fact that I would've been too frightened to set foot in there!
This is better than any documentary that you would see on Discovery channel or the History channel. Thanks tuschman168 for posting
Fascinating. Thank you so much for subtitling and sharing!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE SUBTITLES THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU WHY AREN'T YOU KING OF THE PLANET????
This is incredibly and unbelievably fascinating. I am thoroughly intrigued with Kowloon Walled City. Btw, Shenmue II brought me here :)
Cool. I never played Shenmue II. Bloodsport brought me here.
Thank you for sharing this. Quite fascinating. I watched the whole thing.
like something out of the film Ghost in the Shell
Well, I realise this is four years late, but it is something from Ghost in the Shell. The movie is heavily inspired by this city.
Thumbs up if Shenmue bought you here!
Thank you for posting this treasure.
It's a miracle that no major fires broke out within the city.
Extremely interesting. Thank you for posting!
Thank you for doing the subtitles for us
Docu is was Austrian, the Narrator was a knwon speaker for ORF (Austrian Television). It was probably shot around 1990.
Documentary is misleading. Mentions the Triads several times, but the Triads were pressured in the early 1970s, and were largely out of control of the place by the 1980s.
+fisharmor That's what officials said.
That's true, but the documentary also said there are 50 000 people, where I read on wikipedia there were up to 33000 people. Might be what government said but then, where did the guys doing the documentary got their information? It's not like they show an interview or give a citation...
This video looks like it was made in the 80's or before, so it's probably quite accurate.
Too bad they demolished it. It would serve as a great place to shoot films like Neuromancer.
Are there any developments on that front by the way? I'd love a Neuromancer movie.
No, nothing yet. But I have a feeling they might pick it up if Blade Runner 2049 turns out a success.
Let's hope so.
I very much appreciate this being uploaded. A fasinating documentary!
I bet the air condition must have been terrible inside the building
Thank You Thank You Thank You for uploading this with subtitles :D
Thanks i needed this for my essay
Thanks for translating it dude
Full doc on YT (with subs) is called "Kowloon Walled City - ORF (1989) with English subs" if anyone is interested!
Great job! Go ahead and give yourself kudos! You most certainly deserve it! :-) Thank you so much!
Almost 100% sure it's austrian. The narrators voice is well-known in austrian television orf (especially the series "universum") and the guy Hugo Portisch creditet in the endtitles is a very famous journalist for austrian television and news.
Devastatingly beautiful in it's depiction and presentation, this documentary displayed a place and way of life many think terrible but, for some reason the people who live and work in The Walled City have the air of ones who live all over the world; rich or extremely impoverished, people just want to make capital so they can continue living.
You could be a drug lord here without the worries of police. But thugs would interfere all the same.
My friend, bloodsport was filmed in Kowloon walled City! And it is exactly the part where he is on his way to the kumite, which was filmed within the Walled City.
Yeah I recently found that out, actually. We didnt actually go much more north than Mong Kok. I DEFINITELY have to go back now :)
The libertarian dream? Am I wrong?
No law, no regulations, everything is up to the people and look at how well they ended up.
Life under Triad rule with 20 square meters to live in -if- you're rich? Oh yeah. Dream come true for everyone! No. Wait. Libertarian's really have a vivid imagination...
You should think about the following, the people who lived here had two possible reasons for doing so:
1. they were forced to live here by the government
2. they found the conditions inside to be better than the conditions outside
Checkmate, stateists.
If you can only think of two options, perhaps a better 'zinger' would have been "King me!". There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Brixx Box Less sperging with trite Shakespeare quotes, more listing reasons people do anything other than "they want to" or "they have to"
***** Whatever point you tried to make, it was not clear at all. The problem with Libertarianism is that it only works in a bubble; Outside influences and humanity's innate greed bring it crashing down every time as seen by the few attempts at something similar. Somalia is literally a toxic waste dump. Kowloon was owned by organized crime and demolished partly due to it's horrible sanitary conditions. Bitcoins are people scamming each other while believing they're too smart to be scammed. Even Bioshock devolves into a dictatorship then complete anarchy.
How does a Libertarian society defend it's borders without a state army? It's not collecting taxes from millions of citizens to pay for modern planes to defend it's airspace. Who pays the coast guard to make sure other countries aren't pilfering your waters? If you rely on mercenaries, what stops them from just seizing power or carving out their own fiefdoms? The concept of libertarianism is an interesting one, and it would be fantastic if it worked, but it hasn't and doesn't.
I found this section 7:30 incredibly epic especially when he says "That is him, he fled the communists he doesn't work he let other work!"
Hong Kong still has cage homes just like in Kowloon. Hong Kong has the least restrictive economy in the world. Food for thought.
Edit: probably more due to unavoidable population issues, though. ^.^;
People who disagree with you aren't mindless drones. They just have a different set of experiences, or have heard different arguments. Some are open to argument, but most won't tolerate being insulted before you get to know them.
I am a capitalist, just not an unrestricted one. I see capitalism as a first approximation. I believe in the proper tracking of value, to motivate people to produce. I don't think unrestricted capitalism tracks who deserves what properly. I've come to my ideas mostly through thought experiments.
I searched around to check if what you said is true about HK. About 20% of Hong Kong people are under the poverty line, many of them having trouble just eating. The cage homes are due to a housing crisis that happened because of population troubles. The gap between the rich and poor is apparently both expanding, and generating protests.
So I'm not sure what you mean by saying every social class is rich there.
***** Thank you, apology accepted, and also you've changed my view. I now believe the situation in HK is mostly due to population problems and the specific _kind_ of economy. I've edited my original comment to reflect this.
I imagine the free policies were put in place to help the already existing financial services. There'd be some feedback there, as additional services would make HK a home because of the freedom. Meanwhile the blue collar workers basically die out. I would hope they would at least get to eat; wouldn't intervention help with this?
My bottom line, I guess, is that I care about the people. I think having a flourishing economy is great because it helps the people in it. To this end I support a free market.
I don't begrudge the rich, either...most of the money that exists in the 1% is reflected in goods and services that were provided to the rest of the populace. If they have money we spent, we now have the stuff they sold, so their high income is our new material wealth, is how I see it. If I buy a soda, Soda Co. gets richer but I get my soda so why should I complain?
So I'm not a fan of redistribution. Take all Soda Co's money and give it to me, and there won't be any soda to buy it with; I imagine the money itself becomes devalued if you redistribute it. Not only are there no more sodas to buy, decreasing the buying power, but if I was magic and any money I spent magically got sent back to me the next day, people would eventually stop wanting to accept my money.
*As far as capitalism...*
I do think there are many ways to use money in an "evil" way. It's standard practice. A good example is *monopolistic behavior*, where you produce a product, and use the money gained to prevent better products from being made by others. Another is *aggressive marketing*, an abuse of human psychology. It's not really providing or improving the world; I think a lot of human effort is wasted in this way.
The other problem I see with a very free market is *priorities*. The rich are rich because they provide, but provide what? Whatever the world wants and cares about, and like I said, we have major problems with our psychology. We care about having sugary drinks like soda that are bad for us more than we care about starving people...
I guess I dislike the free market to the extent I dislike the nature of people and what we'll do with it.
You can start a police force to prevent stabbings, while still admiring knives for their usefulness. It's not the freedom to use knives that's bad, it's the unrestrained aspect of that freedom.
*Here's a more direct example of the sort of interventionist patching that I support, and my reasoning:*
I support public healthcare, because sick people didn't do anything to deserve it. To say a man who is struck by lightning should pay for his burns is equivalent, to me, to saying that he deserved to be struck. Nature struck him, and it also struck his checkbook; neither was deserved! No one really deserves to foot that bill, but you can't sue nature, so the question becomes, who should foot the bill?
You could spread it over everyone for the sake of fairness. In this case it would be payed by a percent utility tax (or perhaps a flat utility tax), which, due to diminishing marginal utility, translates to an increasing percent of wealth tax (note that this is a bit more vigorous than an income tax). The redistribution of nature's random cruelty in fact decreases the total amount of cruelty (measured in utility), due again to diminishing marginals. Ideally the government would pay the doctors the same prices that would have been set by the free market, to keep the market natural, though I don't know how they'd calculate them.
Any thoughts on this?
P.S. Of course, I argued from fairness and who-deserves-what that the tax should be a constant percent of a person's utility...but I'm undecided between such a merit based philosophy vs. preference utilitarianism over sentient minds weighted by their complexity. If I really wanted to decrease the impact of nature to almost nothing, I might tax the rich even more...or I might tax less, if the effect on the market of such taxation is outweighing the difference in utility gained by redistributing nature's cruelty...
***** Wow, man... Seriously, I don't want to offend you, but this is not how economists, especially no succesfull economist, thinks. Of course it always, as anything in life, depends on which way you look at it. For an individual company, a monopoly would obviously be the most succesful status to achieve. But when we talk about "economic success" we usually (*read always) mean the wealth of nations, that'd be your GDPs, GNPs if we oversimplify it.
So in this context, saying that monopolys "don't hurt the economy", even if it's not a "true monopoly" (the example you gave is more that of a monopolistic competition), is just plain wrong! The losses, i.e. potential loss on profits, the US's economy and any other's for that matter face, due to overblown monopolys (even state-monopolys), are REAL and they are massive. Not just any odd "capitalist", as you say, can enter a monopolistic market, even if the incentive profits were there, you can't just overcome the entry-costs like that, which will be massive, because it's a monopoly... you see?
And as to your first comment... again, you don't have to be a heartless, amoral, hardcore-capitalist to be a successful economist (perhaps for health insurance companies though lol). What the butterfly guy above said is true! Risk-pooling works! And it works great! Not just from a moral point of view, but from a financial one as well! It's efficient AND moral, but that's up to you to decide. Fact is, it's cost-effective and eliminates a big fat layer of administrative fat...
Scources: First semester of any economics course at any uni ever...
In Kowloon I dont think there were cage homes... there were homes. The cage homes in Honkong are just bunkers provided to people to live in.
Bloodsport brought me here : P
i lived in hong kong for several years as a kid.. and i am pretty sure they tore these down a long time ago!
This reminds me of a book I read called ! Wool by Hue Howey! The only difference is that the novel takes place as a post apocalypse, under ground silo as big as a city with thousands of inhabitants. It has it's own laws, regulations and businesses. Crazy!
He does use the word "Ausgedinge" at some point though. That's an Austrian word. Professional narrators tend to be able to speak standard German (which I assume is what you meant by "German dialect") even if they are Austrian.
I have read that book too, is a good recommendation. Lets your mind fly back into those years. Sometimes wish I was that little boy running around the old Hong Kong
Nice detective work, Sherlock.
The ultimate expression of Libertarianism. lol
le epic maymay xD
rexracer861 *Tips fedora* Fifty five upboats for you sir! :^)
+KingFluffs Yeah, 6.4 acres with 50,000 people living there all of their own free will.... the part nobody ever says is that it must have been good somehow, because all any of them had to do is walk a maximum of 600 feet in any direction and they'd leave it.
You're making my point for me. It was better for all of those people than life would have been outside the city. Otherwise they'd leave.
Regarding crime... I'm on the last video and still haven't seen anything that isn't a victimless crime. Lots of people voluntarily doing things that you don't approve of, but nothing with a clear victim.
Of course, you jump straight to deadbeat husbands and pedophilia as pure hypotheticals - despite the fact that you have zero proof of that. Moreover, in order for it even to be an argument in your favor you have to show that pedophilia didn't exist outside KWC, and since it does, A LOT, you don't have a point.
Lastly, regarding the conditions... if it was possible outside of that place for people to gamble, smoke up, run cottage industries, and generally be left the fuck alone, without busybody dogooders like you sticking their unwanted noses in their business, just maybe they wouldn't have packed themselves in there so densely and would have had better living conditions. You literally can't see that your interfering attitude is the reason why they voluntarily chose to live like shit.
+Johan Liebert You are being insensible. Its inhabitants actually wanted to live there. It was their home, where they had their jobs, where they created and raised their family. You are incredible mislead, believing it was fully controlled by triads, that the inhabitants were complete outlaws. Every slum in the world is not deliberated built. It's a social accident, that begins by a huge amount of factors. The people there didn't choose to live in Kowloon because of political and economic ideologies.
An besides that, all slums in the world suffers from crime. I lived in Heliopolis, a slum in Brazil, and a I can say with clearance that, even thought crime influences your life and makes it harder, it does not make you a criminal, a junkie, or a ''pedophile who rapes kiddies in living cages''.
If you want a good information source about Kowloon, the Wall Street Journal made a good project about it, that you can see in this link: projects.wsj.com/kwc/#chapter=intro
It was not perfect. In fact, their life conditions were horrible, but you can't lessen the wonderful and strong people that lived there as mere criminals.
It's like a dystopia.
No sunlight, like a space colony.
when the camera guys started walking down the long dark corridors all i can think about how it reminds me of the 1980's film blood sport when van dam was on his way to the kumite.
very interesting. will there be subs on the other parts to? thanx alot anyway for subbing this one!
Thanks a lot for the subtitles
hopefully you can do the other parts too
In a few hundreds of years, the impoverished and overpopulated Earth will look like Kowloon Walled City.
Populations tend to go down as living conditions go up. Improve education and living conditions and the population will drop.
alisher1984 Actually, this planet can support billions and billions of more humans, but pathological sociopathic, genocidal, indoctrinated sick fucks like you have been led to believe otherwise 👌🏻
@@Colddirector But the places that are still not developed keep the population going. There is a famous graph that shows the four levels of population development(I can't remember the name of it) and as you say the last level is having both births and death percentages very low and on the same level, and that is the sate of most developed countries(Canada is so low that they more deaths than births). But the developing countries in Asia and Africa have very high birth rates as compared to deaths(even though they have many deaths). If it keeps going this way then most of the earth's population will start to live in considerably concentrated areas(cities) and by the point, we stop reproducing we will have enough people to make those cities look like Kowloon Walled city. The reason this won't happen is that humans aren't completely retarded and will 1. plan cities and living conditions much better than this and 2. won't let too many undeveloped people into developed countries. This is at least my take on it based on classes on development and reading. Though it may all be wrong even if I am logically correct, humans are not logical creatures.
@@V0YAG3R In theory, but who is going to build all those living places? Who is going to produce all that food? Why should developed countries *waste* their resources on uneducated people who only bring up the crime rate? Try to convince people to help billions of people without any immediate gain, it will be hard.
thnx for the re-upload with subs mate
wooooww.... great place to film and take photos
The documentary was produced by Hawke Productions ltd but I don't know if it was for a specific TV station or an independant production. I've done a little research but all I could find out is that Hawke Productions is probably based in Austria and not in Germany at all. I should probably change that in the description but I'm not a 100 % sure so I won't.
Kowloon was an exemplary realization of deregulated capitalism and its consequences.
Thank you. I will read it at some point. It doesn't seem terribly difficult to find online.
Thanks for the subtitles
You're right, it could have been the best place to film a dystopian sci-fi movie.
amazing video thnx for uploading this
Thanks for that. Just ordered it!
:D best doc I've found about Kowloon. I got interested from cod
First strike, this city is amazing. Can't believe they demo'd it, they should have at least left a museum....
you're right, i actually didnt really pay much attention to that bit. apologies in my assery
Is it just me or was anyone else waiting for the guy to sing Du Hast?
Just you
There seems to have been a Hawke Films which was based in Hong Kong in 1989 which then turned into Hawke Productions. If you look at the credits of the film you will see Hamdani Milas is the camera man, who has worked with Hawke Films before.
I'm not certain 100%, this is the right company, but I thought you would be interested.
CZcams won't let me post a link, so google for something like 'Keith Hawke linkedin Hawke Productions' and you'll find it :)
You could go to the slums in Mumbai or Rio and have a similar experience. That experience would probably be depressing but interesting.
this video looks to be trying to be a bit sensationalistic, but i'm glad to see it. kowloon walled city was an interesting social experiment.
@LOLWAAHH
Firstly, I thought so too. I am currently living in Kowloon and would have loved to see parts of it. But from what I heard it was not possible because one house leaned against the other. Hence, if you tear down one of them everything will fall apart. Nowadays, there is the "Kowloon Walled City Park" which provides lots of information and a mini-expo about how it used to be.
@tuschman168 Actually Kowloon was an enclave of the PRC that they had lost control of. It was demolished by Hong Kong authorities which was completely separate from the mainland at the time (and pretty much still is)
I would have found this so interesting to visit. shame it got torn down
Reminds me of a mission in COD Black Ops
thats because its the same city..
@masonkim7 I think any fire would be smothered by the city itself because everything is so closely packed together.
It's an Austrian production for sure. The narrator, Otto Clemens, and the writer, Huge Portisch, are both Austrians as well.
I have to admit, you're right, that it was no perfect anarchy. In the books anarchy is not described as a place, where 50 000 people live on 20 000m². And a place, where a majority wants no anarchy, can't be a stable anarchy. Look forward to the Seasteading Project ;)
At least they don't look too unhappy
hello.
the text and the scenario for this documentary was written by hugo portisch who is also the producer, a quite well known and respected TV journalist in austria and it was originally produced for ORF (austrian public television)
the cameraman has today his own company. google: milasfilm
in this transfer the credits are cut, check out the following link to see the full credits:
youtube: JMwbifx0OA0?t=38m46s
Ayn Rand's vision of Utopia.
Lol yes
vanhouten64 Libertarianism =/= Anarchism. But you do you 👌🏻
Excellent reply. Not only dominated by groups that initiate force (governing) but whose industry has another double whammy: forced to be cheaper than the neighboring (governed) market AND to purchase supplies/resources from that same market.
Far from free.
Great job but any way to get this without subtitles?
@MrSoupCan You know, i was gonna make .srt instead of hardcoding it in the video but the software i use to create those files somehow stopped working. Maybe i'll get it to work again but in any case i will first finish the translations for the third and fourth part this way (with WMM, that stupid program). Incidentally you did not find the english subs because they did not exist up until now! Yea, that was all my doing! *boast* Oh, you already knew that. Never mind.
Every Libertarian should watch this
even though this place isn't there no more
I was dispatched to the “Kowloon Walled City” to recover an object, and document anything affected by it. I have never seen such a horrible place. The filth is everywhere, whole walls and even structures made of garbage. If you crack your suit for even a second, you get flooded by the smell of smoke, cooking, sweat, machine oil and excrement. Henry fell into a pit used as a sewer on the ground level after breaking through a trash walkway. He was fine, the suit was just filthy, but he threw up and had to be removed. I’m not sure if he’s going to work out.
Everyone here avoids us like the plague, or darts out to throw trash or insults. They are a tribe, and a territorial one at that. The sheer crush of humanity is intimidating, and I’m glad I have the suit between me and them. The object is supposed to be somewhere in the core of this mass, but getting there is going to be tricky.
Date: June 4th, ████
Local law enforcement led by Agents did a bunch of raids last night. Cleared people out of some of the areas we need to go in, but there are so many people here it’s hard to notice any difference. Yesterdays recon helped uncover a couple “homes” affected by this thing. They don’t look like much, the same squalid homes as everyone else, but they are too big inside. It’s an odd feeling, standing with your hand on the wall, and knowing that by all rights you should be six feet outside the structure, in mid-air. Henry is better today, but seems really jumpy. Lev took him aside and talked to him last night, and I hope it’s helped. I’m getting worried about him. Caught him muttering to himself over the radio today. Told him to knock it off, but didn’t report it, maybe I should have. I think I’m going to ask for him to be put on a different unit after this.
Deep recon this evening, we’re splitting up to try and hunt down where they are storing this thing. Lev and I pulled the short stick and have to hike it around the sewer system. Honestly, it can’t be any worse then topside; at least I won’t have to keep seeing the blank, empty faces of these people.
Date: June 6th, ████
Henry is dead. We didn’t get back until early this morning; we’d been off the radio for several hours because of all the interference. It seems areas affected by this thing screw with radio waves pretty bad. The sewer was a nightmare, but no sign of alteration by the item. When we came back up, Paul gave me the news. Henry and Paul were exploring near the center of the city, when they got attacked. A mob of people swarmed them and dragged Henry off. Paul was hurt and his suit was badly damaged, and he had to leave for medical attention. Henry was screaming over the radio for a while, and then it cut off. Paul and a couple other Mole Rats charged in with some agents to recover Henry, but after a few minutes, Henry came back on the radio.
His receiver was broken, but he could still broadcast. One of the Agents was recording, and he played it back to Lev and I, to see if any of it made sense to us. It didn’t. He was rambling, and sounded like he was hurt. Kept talking about the endless heart of the city, the hell of glass, just crazy stuff. Paul and the rescue team kept trying to find him, but suddenly his radio cut out again.
Henry came tearing down one of those tiny halls, helmet off and screaming like a mad man. He ran right by Paul and smashed an Agent into a wall on his way by. He slammed into a dead end and just exploded through it, right out of the building. He fell six stories onto some metal junk. it took a hour to get his body untangled. We’re done screwing around here. Agent Parks, Lev and me are rounding up what amounts to the city elders, and we’re getting to the damn bottom of this.
Date: June 7th, ████
Interrogation went well. Agent Parks asked the questions, we provided what he called “negative consequences for non-cooperation”. The first guy, some Triad punk, didn’t want to talk. Two broken legs later, and he was a lot more open. Said the thing was called “The Builder”, and nobody knew when it first came to the city. He never had anything to do with it, just helped stand guard outside rooms where it was working. He said that was all he knew, and that we had to talk to one of the elders, Long-Wen, if we wanted it. He apologized for Henry’s death, said it was just the way of things. I broke his jaw in three places.
Long-Wen may be the oldest-looking man I’ve ever seen, and with a will like iron. He just took everything we dished out, and didn’t say a word. Parks said that the next stop was his wife and grandkids, and that got him talking. Told us it was kept in one of the oldest parts of the city, some old temple. It had grown, and made wonderful things, but only the worthy could look upon it and not be overwhelmed by it. He said Henry was shown the wonders, in the hopes that he would be able to convince us to not take The Builder, but that he was not worthy, and was broken.
We made him show us where they keep it. Long-Wen said it wouldn’t do any good, that it was buried too deep. They moved it deep inside when they first caught wind of the Agents; he said we’d never get it back. We’re doing Deep Work tomorrow, and we’re not coming out without it.
Date: June 10th, ████
Been out for a while. This place is amazing. At first, it was just a temple that was too big inside, neat but nothing new. Then we went in deeper. Whole rooms, altars, everything re-created and rearrange by this thing. It’s like someone built twelve whole temples inside this one tiny structure. Agent Parks set up a recall point in the main hall with some other Agents to make sure nobody sneaks up on us. We suited up and went to work. It started getting odd after hour six. Lots of hallways, not as many rooms. then, eighty-three rooms all connected by those sliding doors, each with a tiny Buddha in the center of the floor, and nothing else. Lev grabbed a few for samples. We knew things were getting odd when we came to a perfect reproduction of the first altar room, but appearing to be made of one solid mass of wood.
Thing was beautiful and totally seamless, and not a single tool mark on anything. Paul found some documents, and we scanned them back to Parks. He said they were about the object; apparently they’re calling it SCP-184 now. Parks said it talks about how they moved 184 deeper each time it made a new area. They thought it was some gift from God or something. Used it to expand rooms, if people would donate to the temple, or at least to the gangs that controlled it at the time.
I’ve never been in a place like this. It’s getting harder to maneuver. The halls are starting to get strange, they go up at funny angles, and the last few rooms have been tiny. By Lev’s count, we should be twenty feet above the roof of this whole city by now.
Date: June 12th(?), ████
I’m getting sick of this place. Came to a branch yesterday, had to split the team. I drew the “up” hallway, and set out. Not sure how long I’ve been climbing. The halls aren’t regular anymore; they wave in and out, like a frozen earthquake. Everything seems to be made of stone here. Managed to squeeze into a side room to catch my breath, once I looked around, I saw everything was made of jade. It was all colored right, and had the right texture, but it was jade. Bed, chairs, table, books, everything. I sat on the bed for two hours and didn’t think. I got up and smashed the jade lamp that was probably worth more than my life, and left.
I’m not feeling well. I feel really disconnected here, like an astronaut or something. It’s not like other areas I’ve been in. Never felt so alone. I’m fine, I know that. It's Henry dying, the whole rotten city outside, and me being alone and able to think too much. Rats are tested for mental stability, and I passed with flying colors. It’s just my nerves. I’m sitting on a chair made of thousands of tiny dragon statues, writing on a table made of super-dense paper, and I am fine.
Date: June (?)
I’ve been out too long. Food low. Water low. Not out yet, but getting there. Hearing things. Keep thinking I hear voices. Been climbing for days. Saw light today. At the end of a side-hall, bright yellow light. I climbed into the hall and ran. Smashed through the door, and it was a room. Millions of candles, all lit, but just another room. Pulled off my helmet, smashed the candles with it. Broke my lenses, neck seal, radio. Didn’t care. Sat and cried for hours. Dropped a pick down the shaft today, never heard it hit bottom. Almost jumped to go get it, but stopped. Got to find this thing. Going to smash it to bits. Stomp it. Crush it.
Date: June (?)
Food out. Suit can’t make any more water. Saw a hall with ten thousand doors. Ran down it, smashed a bunch, then kept climbing. Lost my boots. Floor looked like carpet. Made of super-sharp stone. Cut suit to ribbons. Feet too. Blood all over the shaft. Hope it appreciates it. Going to crush this thing. Feel it shatter in my hand. Hate this place. Keep hearing Henry. Keep telling him he’s dead. Won’t listen.
Date: (?)
Top of shaft. Hall to forever. Lights everywhere. Going to kill the heart.
Date: (?)
Hell is Heaven
Heaven is Hell
Life is Wonderful
@Adelphus Several have now told me so. But wasn't the whole point that the walled city was under nobody's rule. Neither the chinese nor the british wanted to do anything about it even though both wouldn't have minded if the other one took action. Wikipedia is really confusing on this issue and I don't know other sources on the subject.
Welcome, to Mega-City One.
Despite the narrator's claim, it doesn't look like he got his pinky "cut off" at all. If you look carefully, you can see all four fingers (plus the thumb) in several different frames, from different angles and in different positions. Maybe he cut a *chunk* off the side of the finger, but the finger itself is intact all the way down to the distal phalanx. But yeah, hard to see how the movement of cutting noodles as shown would ever put the pinky at risk.
@masonkim7 IDK I feel like it would suffocate itself in such a confined space rather quickly. Or just put a bucket or two against the water walls and put it out quick!
like living in the movie blade runner, too awesome
i credible! thanks for the video!
The subject matter of the documentary is incredible and extremely interesting but unfortunately (for me at least) the reporter seems very repetitive and a bit boring
Of course its 3am and I've had a fair few beers and half a bottle of JD