Lore?

[Tchortiderritta]

What is the lore behind this?

[rocketship]

It all started with a strange text in one russian forum:

LIVING ON A 556 FLOOR OF A BUILDING P-46
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IT WAS SAMOSBOR YESTERDAY NIGHT AGAIN
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EVEN YOUR FLOOR IS FLOODED NOW
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AFRAID TO LEAVE YOUR ROOM BECAUSE SOMEONE MOANS OUTSIDE
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LIQUIDATORS WILL ARRIVE IN COUPLE OF HOURS AT BEST
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NOW YOU SMELL RAW MEAT IN YOUR ROOM

just write in google the word "САМОСБОР" to get to know the Samosbor-universe:)

[anaphylactic god]

the year is 1958, 5 years since Stalin died and Nikita Khruschev came to power,
Soviet union is struggling with a problem of increased population growth in cities. During Stalin's raign most of the building has been constructed from brick and it took a long time to build. Soviet industry was booming after the war so more and more people would move to city for a job.
Thats when Nikita calls for new building methods and what he's got was 5 story buildings made of conrete panels - they was super easy to construct, some worker groups even claimed they can build one within a month. But those buildings also had one major flaw - if Stalin's building was wast with big rooms then those new buildings (now called Khruschevka) were increadibly small and crumped. People even joked that if someone die inside its easier to just throw body out of window becouse stairs was so crumped you cant move a coffin down, it would stuck (and of course there was no elevators)
SAMOSBOR's setting is GIGAKHRUSHEVKA, a building with no beginning and no end, containing thousands levels and millions citizens cramped inside.
As rocketship above mentioned its all started with a single post but then its quickly spiralled out of control with dozens authors and hundreds of stories.
if its hard for you to imagine this setting - look at "cannon fodder" anime only without cannons and sky.

[[DOOMER]]

1.Open LinkedIn
2.Enter in finder "САМОСБОР"
3.Open first public
4.Read

[iamtakingiteasy]

At it's core it is mostly a collective contribution of short stories done without any organisation. Usually on russian anonymous boards.

Much like SCP is, only more chaotic.

Thematically it is centered around intrinsic slav experience of living in ussr-style ghetto buildings, built en masse in CIS countries in 60s-80s, a bit cranked up and cross-themed with both stalker and warhammer tropes for maximum effect.

Sadly there is little effort being directed to even collecting those stories in one place, let alone translate them.

But honestly, chaotic nature of free writing is part of the appeal. And only few things are considered as hard canon.

e.g. some would not even accept Tchernobog warhammer-ish chaos tropes for being too whacky, even though they are holding presence in a considerable portion of contributions.

[CAT PRIME]

Ran the word САМОСБОР (Samosbor) through Google Translate.
Got the result "SELF-ASSEMBLY".
If this is accurate then this has some interesting implications. Is the Gigakhruchevka continuing to expand itself with the side effect of violently destabilizing reality within itself?
I would dig more into this but I can't read or speak Russian, and googling Samosbor just returns results for this game.

[FUS]

Originally posted by Mizar:

Ran the word САМОСБОР (Samosbor) through Google Translate.
Got the result "SELF-ASSEMBLY".
If this is accurate then this has some interesting implications. Is the Gigakhruchevka continuing to expand itself with the side effect of violently destabilizing reality within itself?
I would dig more into this but I can't read or speak Russian, and googling Samosbor just returns results for this game.

You could interpret it as self-assembly combined with self-collection, since some claim what the dwelling in question is constructed by the use of nanites, who's job is to convert all organic matter surrounding it into the "foamconcrete" and then form the blocks themselves, with an AI controller, who's suprevising the actual construction and fitting the blocks together.
But something, somewhere, went terribly wrong and the process became uncontrollable (the process involving the lead engineer, a controll console, and some unstably placed mushroom tea).

[CAT PRIME]

Originally posted by FusIntel ☠:

Originally posted by Mizar:

Ran the word САМОСБОР (Samosbor) through Google Translate.
Got the result "SELF-ASSEMBLY".
If this is accurate then this has some interesting implications. Is the Gigakhruchevka continuing to expand itself with the side effect of violently destabilizing reality within itself?
I would dig more into this but I can't read or speak Russian, and googling Samosbor just returns results for this game.

You could interpret it as self-assembly combined with self-collection, since some claim what the dwelling in question is constructed by the use of nanites, who's job is to convert all organic matter surrounding it into the "foamconcrete" and then form the blocks themselves, with an AI controller, who's suprevising the actual construction and fitting the blocks together.
But something, somewhere, went terribly wrong and the process became uncontrollable (the process involving the lead engineer, a controll console, and some unstably placed mushroom tea).

An interesting theory, though I like the supernatural approach better.

[-JestemZbychu-]

Is there some soem kind of english forum or do i need to learn russian to enjoy this stuff?

[【🐲】Kobayashi Tohru ★]

Originally posted by -JestemZbychuTTV-:

Is there some soem kind of english forum or do i need to learn russian to enjoy this stuff?

Mostly yes, all of the content was made on Russian and there's almost zero English info

Maybe in distant future I'll make english guide about samosbor.