Location seed: State of Transylvania.

I think that this may have been inspired by a Suppressed Transmission? I can’t remember and my books are behind several physical walls of sewing equipment. But it sounds like an idea that Ken Hite might have.

State of Transylvania – Google Docs

The State of Transylvania

 

It’s always existed, but you’ve never heard of it.  It’s not on the map, there’s no 51st star in the flag, and it has no representation in Washington.  As long as you’re not actually in Transylvania.

 

If you are in Transylvania, then it’s a somewhat rural state whose capital and major city is Teakle. A history of the state — if again, read inside Transylvania — reveals that it became a state in 1815, barely sided with the Union in the Civil War, and generally existed, unremarkably, for the next hundred and fifty years.  The legislature is Democratic, the governor is Republican, and the Senate and House delegation is split evenly. Transylvania has 4 electoral votes, and has been a reliable Republican Presidential state since 2004.  Apparently, Transylvania’s Makepeace Bishop served as Vice President in 1880, and Horace Leviathan Jones was a strong Presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket in 1912. The major industry today is livestock; Transylvania still sends endless streams of cows and pigs north to Chicago for the slaughter.

Again: outside of the state, none of this is true. Inside the state, all of it is.  Call out from inside Transylvania, and people on the other end of the line will matter-of-factly agree that the state exists; but the moment that you go past the border, those same people will suddenly forget that you talked to them.  And, unless you have a particular sort of brain: so will you.

 

There is no explanation.  How can there be?  Everyone thinks that everything is normal. Only a select few people realize that there is an incongruity here, and they often end up in mental institutions if they’re not careful. On either side of the border.

14 thoughts on “Location seed: State of Transylvania.”

  1. Worst of all, they consider mutton to be barbeque.
    (Yes, in Western Kentucky this is really a thing.)

    1. Was the earthquake merely a symptom of some sort of temporal rift? I’m more interested in, if everyone forgets after crossing the line, what happens to all the cattle on the way to Chicago? Are the old stockyards just accustomed to an annual shipment that shows up? Do the cows remember and drive themselves?

      1. Depends on what side of the line you’re on. Inside Transylvania, the cows got there fine and the cattle dealers got paid for it. Outside of Transylvania: what cows?

        1. Exactly, but the cows state of being is not negated, sort of like the Silence in Dr Who, so their effects on the physical environment would still be felt somehow….

          2. Oh, you noticed? We have to be careful, though, or they’re revoke my internet privileges.

        2. Arthur Dent: “We can talk about normal until the cows come home.”
          Ford Prefect: “What is normal?”
          Trillian: “What is home?”
          Zaphod Beeblebrox: “What are cows?”

  4. I have been driving from Atlanta back home to Indiana (near Terre Haute) for almost 30 years and I can tell you that the roads and scenery are ALWAYS changing in very strange ways when one goes through that part of the map. I never knew why….. LOL

  5. This also explains a lot about George Rogers Clark in the Revolutionary War and Indiana’s involvement in the War of 1812.

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