And the house-forest
Everything was a simulation, but unlike that of Descartesâ demon, this worldâs simulation isnât a perfect recreation of the real world. An example of these imperfections would be participants whose souls somehow got carried into this simulation and yet still remain as participants despite supposedly not existing in the first place.
Another example would be "whatever happened in my second recorded run, AKA [Death #10]", where certain unexpected events involving both supposedly constant participants and non-constant variables have somehow caused an error in the entire system. A mishap, if you will.
The details of these mishaps have yet to be explored, and if they were explored, then they will most certainly shed some truth into the mystery of this entire scenario itself, rather than the mysteries inside the simulation.
Granted, this may be for naught as there is a non-zero possibility that âthe biggest mysteryâ will be explained in Chapter 1. However, until Chapter 1 arrives, the aforementioned information remains âsupposedly top secretâ, and finding out about these secrets is very enticing to certain individuals like me.
Derailed Content #1
More like, I think Iâm probably the only one invested in this game. It might have come to the point where it is borderline obsession. I genuinely hope this is merely temporary.
I genuinely hope Luna hosts this game on other sites and creates some sort of main hub where the players can discuss about this game. Maybe on Discord or something.
However, a certain question came up to me: âShould people (or rather, just me) even attempt to explore the unknown, by intentionally creating mishaps?â
Whatever happened to me in [Death #10] was merely an accident, and there is no way of telling whether it could ever happen again. (Perhaps they already âpatchedâ the bug.) However, regardless whether it is âfixedâ or not, the origin of this mishap involved the death of a participant, followed by the gradually accelerating rate of everyoneâs disappearance.
I myself struggle to cross this âline of moral ethicsâ, even if the ones involved are merely fictional characters. However, even if I were to not care about my own morals, then an issue appears regarding the matter of observing the mishap.
As mentioned in the logs, my avatar died without knowing how, and likewise he could not observe whatever it was that kept spiriting other participants away from the simulation.
Perhaps it was the coordinator / regulator of the simulation that kept removing the characters from the simulation to quarantaine the error, but as I understand it, that couldnât have been the case.
Derailed Content #2
Well, it could have been the case considering we never heard any notifications regarding his death, but it would be less believable than if the coordinator simply failed to exterminate the anomaly. Because if the coordinator survived, then what wouldâve happened is:
- 01:30, death at summon
- 03:30, death
- 05:00, sacrifice bait; exterminate anomaly; access terminal to quarantaine participants involved
- 06:00, first quarantaine
- 06:30, second quarantaine
- 06:45, third and fourth quarantaine
Why would the removal process take up so much time inbetween? This is simply less believable than if the coordinator shut down his watch before attempting to hunt the anomaly, only to fail in the end.
In fact, this hypothesis is supported by the fact that this timeline did not contain any explosions.
Without being able to observe the mishap, the only thing anyone would be able to do is to get sent to an unrecorded quarantained timeline. That in itself has its own benefits, but ultimately it does not let the players communicate with the entities that are hostile to creator of this simulation.
Assuming the virtual coordinator does know about the identity or identities of the one(s) who spawned the non-constant variable in each timeline, then it is highly unlikely that he will tell anything about it to the players.
Therefore, my conclusion is: âDo not cause mishaps intentionally to communicate with the higher entities. It will never be worth it, and all youâre doing is just irritating the coordinator.â
It is interesting how people came to recognize medusa as a race, even though it isnât. At least, not originally.
Medusa is the name of one of the three gorgon sisters who was slain by Perseus, and supposedly the only gorgon of the three who was not immortal. (Hence how Perseus was able to kill her in the first place.)
Nobody talks about Stheno and Euryale, the other two gorgon sisters, unless they are a historian, someone who reads Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and/or someone who plays Fate games.
Calling âsomeone with snake hair and the ability to turn people to stoneâ to be part of the medusa race is like calling âsomeone who can shoot thunderboltsâ to be part of a zeus race.
I believe the misconception originated from Dungeons and Dragons, which became and still is popular up to this day, but uh⌠I am not certain whether this is the case or not. I am just guessing this is the case, since DnD is the only thing that came up my mind whenever I think of how this misconception came to be.
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Yeah, i should have named her a gorgon.
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But her tribe came after her concept.
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