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Fleep: A man wakes in a strange phone booth surrounded by concrete. Who is he? Where is he? Will he escape before running out of air? No one knows...

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• u/goocy:

  Interesting concept, and smooth execution. It just seems that the protagonist has a bit too much knowledge (e.g., how to calculate coordinates from coriolis deviation) for a typical guy.
  

  • u/Chronophilia:

    The fact that he has weirdly relevant knowledge could be [a clue that ](#s "he's had training for this, but suffered amnesia.")
    
    Either that, or he's just very bright. It's all mathematics, you could figure it out in a phone booth if you had a pen and paper. And imminent death has a wonderful way of focusing the mind.
    
    ... okay, and there's an element of competence porn there too. The story's no fun if he just panics. Part of the point is that the riddle is solvable - for the character, if not for the reader.
    

    • u/DaystarEld:

      > competence porn
      
      Ha. First time coming across that phrase. Love it.
      

      • u/Chronophilia:

        Coined by /u/dysfunctionz [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/2dn4gq/rt_how_to_succeed_in_evil_series_edwin_windsor/cjr6t8x?context=1). I'm trying to get it to catch on.
        

        • u/BT_Uytya:

          According to UrbanDictionary, it was coined [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1yw417/why_do_you_think_weve_gravitated_towards_shows/cfoga9c).
          
          Anyway, "competence porn" is *awesome*, and I very glad that /u/dysfunctionz  used it in this subreddit; I probably wouldn't learned it otherwise.
          

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