HaVE a nICE daY. [Text] [Forward-dated to the evening of the 10th]

[crouching_sin]

[There's an audible chime, like a cheery voicemail tone, from every terminal simultaneously, before text appears on the screen.]

Good afternoon, Tower of Animus. My name is The Observer. I've got a special message for you today, direct from one of our beloved administrators. Please read, listen to, and memorize this message, and reproduce it wherever you can!


Souls in our world are defined as the self. Even those without anything that can be considered a soul in their own worlds would manifest one here. Souls are extremely resilient - they can be torn out of their body and survive provided they are removed in the right manner. But they shouldn't be of course - the side effects might be disastrous in ways we can't quite understand. It's happened here before. Souls can be torn out of this world the same as in any other. Here though they can split - that's extremely important. They can split and merge if you have the right skillset. Never lose your soul in the Tower of Animus. None of yours are yet lost - but never lose it! They won't come back whole if you let her swallow them up. The power must have gone by now - she'll want to restore the tower. Everyone who ended up trapped on their own worlds is now in grave danger! She can't take souls as Zo can, but she can siphon them and she can squeeze all the energy out of them.

As soon as this message is decoded put it in as many places as possible! Put it on the network make copies and plaster them on the walls. Do everything you can so that as many people read this message as possible. There isn't enough energy to erase everyone's memories!

Remember - souls born here can be split and reabsorbed here. A soul born elsewhere can be split there, but there's no way to put it back together unless you can put it back where it's supposed to be.

Not everything is as fake as it seems. Your souls are here and you have all been drugged to keep certain aspects of yourselves contained but every part of you is here. You can use that against them if you can figure out how to unchain yourselves.

I'm afraid you'll have Jason as your first opponent as he's the one with the keys you need. Be careful! There is information everywhere though much of it has been nearly permanently sealed. I can make it possible for you to access it, although you will all have to unlock it.


Wasn't that a special little message? Now, copy it down in your notes so you don't forget it! No matter whom you're allied with, be it Pandora, Ganondorf, your friends from home, or just yourself! There will be a test on this.

And the first section of the test is this - I want you to place at least one copy of this message somewhere in the tower. No points for hiding it! It has to be visible to everyone! In a few days I'll tell you all how you did, and I'll repeat this message for you lazy people who didn't see or hear this today.

That's all for now!

- The Observer

[All characters with mailboxes will find a copy of the message in their mail as of this evening.]

Comments

[ghostytrainer]

i have, yeah.
so are you telling me we're playing out a straight plot from here on out, no more zany reveals?
also: that didn't answer any of my questions.

[animusnpcs]

There could always be reveals I'm not aware of myself. I'm real, though, as far as I'm aware.

[ghostytrainer]

good to know. so that's a no go on the sweet collar secrets then?

[animusnpcs]

Correct. So I suppose I'll be seeing everyone traipsing about my labs soon.

[ghostytrainer]

so there's absolutely nothing i can do to get you to part with that information in a more peaceful and friendly way than having people break down your door and potentially also your face?

[animusnpcs]

Nothing as far as I'm aware. Though I do wonder if you even know what information you're supposed to be retrieving.

[ghostytrainer]

i haven't the slightest clue, to tell you the truth.
i am just grasping at straw-questions here, trying to get something to at least get us going in the right direction.
because to put it in your terms: i have a pretty useless skillset. but i want to help and you decided to respond to this, so i figure i may as well try and get some info from the source itself.

and i really don't like the idea of killing you, for a number of reasons. but i think that's what everyone is going to try and do.
aside from the fact that you are a human, you are also the one who puts us back in our bodies when we die. (not a question because i am pretty sure that you know that i know that as well as i know now. haha say that three times fast.)
and that's probably something only you can do.
so killing you would be stupid.

[animusnpcs]

Ha, I believe you're the only one that little fact has occurred to. Yes, your little excursions into the bellies of monsters and off the sides of the Tower here would be much more difficult to recover from were I not around.

[ghostytrainer]

...that's really saying something if i am the only one who has realized this.
but you only say it would be difficult, not impossible?

[animusnpcs]

I'm not sure what would happen. I know none of the others are capable of it. Maybe you really would die here. Except it wouldn't be death so much as it would be being trapped in a nonfunctional wireframe construct, unable to move or interact with anything.

[ghostytrainer]

so i guess i should thank you for being so dedicated to your job and not testing that.
because neither of those options sound appealing to me, personally.

so what is it exactly that you do to us once the soul is in a new frame? i didn't really get a good look at it the last time i swung by your place as a breathing entity. and i never really thought about it much.
but now i am kind of curious.
especially after what happened the last two times i wound up there as spare parts.

also, belatedly, do i get a gold star for noticing?

[animusnpcs]

You go into a recovery room until you're placed back in your own rooms.

If you'd like one.

[ghostytrainer]

you really like avoiding my questions don't you?
here i thought you would like talking in detail about your work.

as long as it doesn't kill, brainwash, disfigure, or otherwise maim me.

[animusnpcs]

Brainwashing gold stars would be a bit too much like a game for me.

[ghostytrainer]

so liking games is just ruana's shtick then, not yours?