Talk:Code 40/@comment-25794593-20180106003005/@comment-10502460-20180106045746

Thanks for the compliments, Banning, especially since I was unsure about even posting this one.

Numa, it's more or less as Banning said, there's no one explanation, I didn't even have a single explanation in my head when I wrote this. This was inspired in part by SCP as well as pastas like A Memo to Disney Cast Members, 12 Rules for the Waterpark at Amityville Amusement, Alert: Threat Level Severe, and Attention Goodshop Customers, stories where the idea is to manipulate mundane procedural media to evoke the feeling of stumbling across someone's creepy inside baseball (granted, several of those stories I mentioned play it for more comedic effect, but they're still interesting reads). The idea for this story basically started out as the narrator stumbles across a confusing warning diagram and wonders "why the hell would someone draw a warning like this", and then evolved from there.

And as banning alluded to, it's meant so that the reader will think of either the last multi-story office campus they visited or, if the story sticks in their head long enough, the next one they visit.