Start left... Do you think that first one we got is the reading order? Start from the left on the 1 card, then follow the arrows for how to read the rest?
[ You didn't ask your AIs for clarification but I'm making it happen. Nico will helpfully speak as he is the closest to a resident mythology expert among you all even though all of your AIs should technically be on the same level.
Nico
IALDABAOTH is a figure in Gnosticism, identified as a malevolent and false god who keeps the souls of the world trapped within physical bodies, imprisoned in a material universe.
By achieving true knowledge over faith, you break free of the demiurge's, or God's control, and leave the world full of pain and suffering that he created.
[ the link/attachment can't be scanned can it? can she have f.f. scan it for any kind of viruses/anomalies/things that might possibly fuck us up? getting an eye virus sounds like it would suck. ]
Nirvana... Gather... Massacre... like a group killing?
[ Okay. WELL... all three of you decide to watch it.
It's not like anything jumps out of the screen to grab you or anything. It really is just a video. And yet.
Your surroundings distort into grid lines of colour and shape. You see the vertical and horizontal of the warp and weft in the universe. And somewhere there is a seam. Everyone around you turns blue and faceless, models and mannequins of this world.
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... Thanks...?
[ It's censored? What's the point? ]
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The quality's good? [ Anyway, ] So it's card solving time.
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[ my ass is mobile I'll find the cards to solve in a second ]
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T D / 4 [stadium]
A H / 5 [dept store]
I B / 1 [park]
Anyway, Lillium will have Nico pull up a mental display of these cards. as a note, they are still missing shrine for now. ]
Has to be, right?
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Start left... Do you think that first one we got is the reading order? Start from the left on the 1 card, then follow the arrows for how to read the rest?
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So like...
[ start Left / ⤩ [studio]
I B / 1 [park]
- - / 2 [shrine]
L O / 3 [store]
T D / 4 [stadium]
A H / 5 [orphanage] ]
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[ like me, ace is barely literate and is getting lost in the arrow sauce ]
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I - L D A B - O T H??
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[ no. ]
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[ a beat ]
No...
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[ start Left / ⤩ [studio]
I B / 1 [park]
A A / 2 [shrine]
L O / 3 [store]
T D / 4 [stadium]
A H / 5 [orphanage] ]
Uhhh... huh.
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[ he just stares at the cards blankly ]
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[ ........ ]
Okay. Sure. Let's go with that.
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By achieving true knowledge over faith, you break free of the demiurge's, or God's control, and leave the world full of pain and suffering that he created.
And then you get a text in this fine Costcos. ]
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[ the link/attachment can't be scanned can it? can she have f.f. scan it for any kind of viruses/anomalies/things that might possibly fuck us up? getting an eye virus sounds like it would suck. ]
Nirvana... Gather... Massacre... like a group killing?
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The fuck.
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... Okay.
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Uh. Sabo, any analysis on that?
[ I feel like I'm gonna throw up. ]
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It's not like anything jumps out of the screen to grab you or anything. It really is just a video. And yet.
Your surroundings distort into grid lines of colour and shape. You see the vertical and horizontal of the warp and weft in the universe. And somewhere there is a seam. Everyone around you turns blue and faceless, models and mannequins of this world.
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