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SandJosieph Since: Dec, 2009
#1: Feb 26th 2011 at 10:31:47 AM

What kind of things would a person be going through if she had been trapped in a small, dark space unable to move but still fully conscious for a timespan of a hundred years? There's some magic involved but it was only there to keep her from aging physically. She's able to escape her small coffin-sized prison because by the hundredth year wear and tear on the steel and concrete "coffin" had weathered to the point where she was finally able to push her way to freedom.

EldritchBlueRose The Puzzler from A Really Red Room Since: Apr, 2010
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#2: Feb 26th 2011 at 11:56:37 AM

Is this solitary confinement? If it is I have a feeling that she would have gone completely insane, to the point that she cannot do anything. Muscles would probably atrophy.

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SandJosieph Since: Dec, 2009
#3: Feb 26th 2011 at 12:08:41 PM

It was solitary. She was, however, given a kind of companionship in the form of a plants that happened to break through the "coffin". She was also constantly flexing her muscles in attempts at escape.

doorhandle Since: Oct, 2010
#4: Feb 26th 2011 at 1:16:24 PM

If she was constantly flexing, her muscles would probably still atrophy a bit.

And now she's insane with a plant obsession.

cityofmist turning and turning from Meanwhile City Since: Dec, 2010
turning and turning
#5: Feb 26th 2011 at 1:53:21 PM

Presumably if the magic is keeping her from aging then it can also stop her muscles atrophying.

However, I'm forced to agree that she'd come out insane, if not catatonic. The human mind is not designed to deal with stuff like that.

Scepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. - Clarence Darrow
LilPaladinSuzy Chaotic New Troll from 4chan Since: Jul, 2010
Chaotic New Troll
#6: Feb 26th 2011 at 5:17:13 PM

Wasn't there a short horror manga about holes that featured something like this?

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breadloaf Since: Oct, 2010
#7: Feb 26th 2011 at 5:49:53 PM

I'm pretty sure she'd become practically catatonic in there. If that word means what I think it means anyway.

TeraChimera Since: Oct, 2010
#8: Feb 27th 2011 at 7:37:10 PM

[up][up]Yup. The Enigma Of Amigara Fault. Sweet dreams, everybody!

OT: Severely traumatized, possibly unable to remember how to talk or fend for herself, at best. Catatonic beyond all hope at worst.

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