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An Ocean of Jellyfish

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Would you do the challenge?

Yes
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No
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An Ocean of Jellyfish

Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:11 pm

Please consider the following hypothetical:

A supernatural entity comes up to you and offers you 1 million dollars if you accept and pass the Jellyfish Challenge.

The challenge is that you will undergo a supernatural experience but during the entirety of the thing your mouth cannot open at all and your eyes need to stay open except for blinking.

If you accept, the following things will happen.

You will be sealed and surrounded by a completely transparent magical bubble layer the exact shape and form of your entire body that will attach to you. This "bubble layer" will shield you with protection from all physical contact; whilst surrounded by this you will be able to breathe regardless of your location and actual access to oxygen. It cannot be broken. However, you will feel... quite cold and there is a bit of an unpleasant slippery feel.

Then you will be teleported to a magical underwater world somewhere under the ocean of some unknown plane of existence. Despite being quite deep under the surface, the water around you glows bright and blue so that you can see everything. The magical bubble layer will 100% control your movements and make you travel across this glowing ocean world.

Then you will see them... They all appear somehow.

Literally thousands upon thousands upon thousands of jellyfish. Some of them are tiny, however, many of them are as big or bigger than your entire body. Some of them are as big as buildings and whales... The entire glowing ocean is suddenly filled with these things. They seem to be aware of your presence so some of them may keep away but others may approach you and rub against you with their strange blob-like physiques. All of the jellyfish have different colours and patterns. In some sections of the ocean they may be completely white while in others, it might be more multicoloured (red is very scary though).

As the bubble continues to control where you're going, you will not only swim past and through thousands of jellyfish but also go into and through some of the absolutely giant ones the size of whales. The speed with which you are travelling will also vary greatly; sometimes you will travel at a gentle glide... other times as fast as a roller coster.

Remember that your magical bubble layer keeps you protected from the ocean and from physical contact so in fact you are safe. If the jellyfish touch any part of you its the barrier that they touch so you won't actually feel anything.

This supernatural ride will go on for 1 hour before you are teleported back to the human world. During this entire time, the oceans will glow and you will be moved around at varying speeds and paths across an ocean filled with strange supernatural jellyfish of varying sizes and colors.

Remember... your mouth stays closed and your eyes stay completely open for the whole thing. If you fail, no 1 million dollars. Regardless of whether or not you lost the challenge, once you enter it, you are in for the whole 1 hour.

It's intended that blinking (natural) is allowed but closing your eyes for longer would cause you to lose.

...

So NSG, if offered this challenge, would you accept?

Remember the following additional factors:
1. You are not in real physical danger, however scary it might look (the bubble is indestructible, or so you are told)
2. If you suffer any lasting psychological harm or trauma, that's unfortunately something that could happen
3. If the supernatural being doesn't like how you do the challenge (ex you try to "cheat" with vision impairment goggles or something while technically "looking"), it might not give you the money; this is quite arbitrary

Is this worth 1 million dollars?

Why or why not?

Would you do it? Why or why not?

No. Enough said. I think I'd be permanently traumatised (and not even get the money honestly). This is too scary for me.
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Postby Digital Planets » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:13 pm

Sounds like Enter the Void, but even worse.

This is some LSD-grade question you got here tbh,
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Postby Hammer Britannia » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:18 pm

So have a bad LSD trip for 1 mill?

Fuck that.
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Postby Foxfound » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:19 pm

This doesn't seem really scary, though I guess it might if I was actually doing this in real life. Honestly, it sounds more fascinating than anything, though if I had a fear/phobia or jellyfish or the like it obviously wouldn't be.

As stupid as it sounds, my biggest worry is that I'd stupidly open my mouth or close my eyes without even realizing it, and loose the Challenge.

In any case, it couldn't possibly be worse than the time I went to the beach and it was literally covered in jellyfish. Well, maybe it could, but that was still pretty bad.
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Postby Abarri » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:19 pm

No. Not being able to blink while being surrounded by potentially enormous jellyfish is horrifying enough, at least for me.
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Postby Digital Planets » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:20 pm

Foxfound wrote:This doesn't seem really scary, though I guess it might if I was actually doing this in real life. Honestly, it sounds more fascinating than anything, though if I had a fear/phobia or jellyfish or the like it obviously wouldn't be.

As stupid as it sounds, my biggest worry is that I'd stupidly open my mouth or close my eyes without even realizing it, and loose the Challenge.

In any case, it couldn't possibly be worse than the time I went to the beach and it was literally covered in jellyfish. Well, maybe it could, but that was still pretty bad.


I don't think you realize IM is basically asking you to take copious amounts of LSD until you OD.
So you decide to open it anyway? What the heck, man?

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Postby Foxfound » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:21 pm

Abarri wrote:No. Not being able to blink while being surrounded by potentially enormous jellyfish is horrifying enough, at least for me.

Okay, that actually would be pretty freaky.

Digital Planets wrote:
Foxfound wrote:This doesn't seem really scary, though I guess it might if I was actually doing this in real life. Honestly, it sounds more fascinating than anything, though if I had a fear/phobia or jellyfish or the like it obviously wouldn't be.

As stupid as it sounds, my biggest worry is that I'd stupidly open my mouth or close my eyes without even realizing it, and loose the Challenge.

In any case, it couldn't possibly be worse than the time I went to the beach and it was literally covered in jellyfish. Well, maybe it could, but that was still pretty bad.


I don't think you realize IM is basically asking you to take copious amounts of LSD until you OD.

They're just jellyfish. Jellyfish that are physically incapable of hurting you, no less.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:22 pm

Abarri wrote:No. Not being able to blink while being surrounded by potentially enormous jellyfish is horrifying enough, at least for me.


(I nearly cried out in terror)

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Postby United Muscovite Nations » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:24 pm

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Postby Digital Planets » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:24 pm

Foxfound wrote:
Abarri wrote:No. Not being able to blink while being surrounded by potentially enormous jellyfish is horrifying enough, at least for me.

Okay, that actually would be pretty freaky.

Digital Planets wrote:
I don't think you realize IM is basically asking you to take copious amounts of LSD until you OD.

They're just jellyfish. Jellyfish that are physically incapable of hurting you, no less.


Like the ones that are known to pressurize themselves and essentially explode into a poisonous mess?

Yeah, that's how you OD on LSD.
So you decide to open it anyway? What the heck, man?

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Postby Heloin » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:26 pm

Jelly fish aren't that creepy. I like them actually.

Digital Planets wrote:
Foxfound wrote:This doesn't seem really scary, though I guess it might if I was actually doing this in real life. Honestly, it sounds more fascinating than anything, though if I had a fear/phobia or jellyfish or the like it obviously wouldn't be.

As stupid as it sounds, my biggest worry is that I'd stupidly open my mouth or close my eyes without even realizing it, and loose the Challenge.

In any case, it couldn't possibly be worse than the time I went to the beach and it was literally covered in jellyfish. Well, maybe it could, but that was still pretty bad.


I don't think you realize IM is basically asking you to take copious amounts of LSD until you OD.

Go ask Alice, I think she'll know

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Postby Foxfound » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:26 pm

Also, now realizing that this isn't so much a bubble as a layer you're wearing, combined with that picture posted further up the page... yeah, maybe this would be scarier than I thought. I don't want to touch that thing, even if I'm technically separated from it.

Digital Planets wrote:Like the ones that are known to pressurize themselves and essentially explode into a poisonous mess?

Wait what.

You know, I'll admit that at first I was picturing the sort of jellyfish that were in Finding Nemo. In hindsight that was incredibly naive.
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Postby Ifreann » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:27 pm

I would pay money to do something like that.
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Postby Digital Planets » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:27 pm

Foxfound wrote:Also, now realizing that this isn't so much a bubble as a layer you're wearing, combined with that picture posted further up the page... yeah, maybe this would be scarier than I thought. I don't want to touch that thing, even if I'm technically separated from it.

Digital Planets wrote:Like the ones that are known to pressurize themselves and essentially explode into a poisonous mess?

Wait what.

You know, I'll admit that at first I was picturing the sort of jellyfish that were in Finding Nemo. In hindsight that was incredibly naive.


Yeah.

The ocean literally has suicide bombers of their own.
So you decide to open it anyway? What the heck, man?

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Postby Foxfound » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:29 pm

There's also the problem that I haven't yet mastered having a bank account, much less knowing how to handle a million dollars.
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Postby Heloin » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:32 pm

Foxfound wrote:There's also the problem that I haven't yet mastered having a bank account, much less knowing how to handle a million dollars.

You get the LSD trip of your life, then have to find out how to mange a million dollars.

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Postby Ifreann » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:33 pm

Heloin wrote:
Foxfound wrote:There's also the problem that I haven't yet mastered having a bank account, much less knowing how to handle a million dollars.

You get the LSD trip of your life, then have to find out how to mange a million dollars.

Buy more LSD, obvs.
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Postby Digital Planets » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:33 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Heloin wrote:You get the LSD trip of your life, then have to find out how to mange a million dollars.

Buy more LSD, obvs.


Buy a plane, smash into a Taliban stronghold.
So you decide to open it anyway? What the heck, man?

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Postby Ifreann » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:35 pm

Digital Planets wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Buy more LSD, obvs.


Buy a plane, smash into a Taliban stronghold.

Terrorism is boring. Do drugs.
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Postby Heloin » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:35 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Heloin wrote:You get the LSD trip of your life, then have to find out how to mange a million dollars.

Buy more LSD, obvs.

If one LSD trip gets me a million dollars would that mean multiple drug trips would aswell?

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Postby Ifreann » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:36 pm

Heloin wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Buy more LSD, obvs.

If one LSD trip gets me a million dollars would that mean multiple drug trips would aswell?

INFINITE MONEY
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Postby Khasinkonia » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:38 pm

I thought “Ewww I don’t know about jellyfish” but then I remembered I deal with unpleasant situations all the time by dissociating and staring blankly at what bothers me while imagining what satisfaction feels like.

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Postby Heloin » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:40 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Heloin wrote:If one LSD trip gets me a million dollars would that mean multiple drug trips would aswell?

INFINITE MONEY

And my teachers said you wouldn't get anywhere in life if you take drugs :p

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Postby Ifreann » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:40 pm

Heloin wrote:
Ifreann wrote:INFINITE MONEY

And my teachers said you wouldn't get anywhere in life if you take drugs :p

If they knew how to make the big infinite monies, would they be teachers?
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:41 pm

Ifreann wrote:I would pay money to do something like that.


LOL

Talk about British Isles bravery

I’m impressed tbh

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