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[blattella]

Okay. Hopefully me putting IMPORTANT at the top helps denote this as actually something I personally think is important. Got the idea from username dynamight, so credit goes to them!

But serious talk: this is an experiment. Or it's an Abnormality, maybe? An enclosure either way. Either this city itself wants us here because it's lonely and it wants people around, because what's the point of a city without people in it right?? Or the scientists outside want us in so they can shake us up in this little jar and write down their results. Not sure what end goal there, we'll find out soon enough.

If anyone has any proof or any other theories, please feel free to discuss. I'm open to ideas. And I know figuring out what this place feels pointless, but if we can aim towards figuring out the what, then we'll be able to figure out the how soon enough, right?

And has anyone gotten any useful information in general? I've been nosing around, but all I get is redacted snippets with no actual details to work with. Which cycles back around to my two theories above, I guess; either we really are the first ones to get sucked into this Abnormality and it's just been made out of several lonely people wanting a better life and world, or it's artificially made in which case there's not going to be any public figures or history to learn about.

Anyway.

I just think that we should all check in and talk about anything we've learned. Don't feel like you have to talk to me only, either. Talk amongst yourselves. Information should be freely shared so we can get out faster.

Also if you saw me at the party, hi, I'm the guy with the bug arm, that's me, if you didn't know. Yes it's disgusting. Yes, I hate it too. No, the food or water or air in this place isn't the reason I have the bug arm. I've had it for twenty years or so now.

Okay that's it.

[feel free to mingle online, he's just desperate to feel like he's achieving something here!]

Comments

text: korielxiii

[bisection]

Gregor.

An experiment seems like a sensible conclusion. The ones my brother was subjected to placed him in an artificial simulation. Do you believe that may be possible here?

[ It'd explain... a whole lot of things about his present existence and body, if he considers things that way. ]

I thought such a thing would feel less real. My perception of what is real though, I suppose, is not the most reliable one.

[blattella]

Hey bud, I'm glad that you don't think I'm too far off the mark. It could be anything, of course; it's only been a month and all, but that's just what my experience is saying, you know??

I've seen all sorts of things. Caused by humans, the lot of it. Whether it's magic or science or something else, it's not healthy for us to be in this delusion. Because this place isn't real, that's for sure. Or

it's not reality I should say. It's real, as in the food fills us up and we can drink the water and survive, but it's not reality. And that's the point of a good simulation, is that it feels real, even if it's not realistic.

[bisection]

I think it is saying something sound. At least based on my own.

Being lost in delusion leads to distortion. We will all lose ourselves if we remain in a delusion. We will become grotesques.

If my brother's body distorts, I cannot return it to him.

[blattella]

Distortion can be undone, at least. It's hard, and it's a pain in the neck, but it can be undone.

But let's try to avoid that in the first place, for as long as we can. Yeah?

[bisection]

I have never known distortion to be reversed. It is not well understood in my world.

It would be best to avoid it.