It's... it's the exact same rock you were on before, down to the Wind symbol carved on the ground. There's no escape.
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-- [] contacted animatedArthropology [AA]. --
: Wonderful news. The glitch has been purged from your instance of the Medium and your friends have safely escaped to the Furthest Ring. As much as one can be said to be 'safe' in the Furthest Ring, anyway.
AA: I don't know what any of that means
AA: What glitch? Why did they have to escape? Why would they come to the worst place ever?
: I'm sure you can find out easily by working your contacts, but that isn't what I'm here to talk about.
AA: Who are you
: My last messages to you, Dreamer, will regard circumstantial concordance. You may have heard of circumstantial simultaneity, darling?
AA: No
: It's crucial for the historical analysis of events taking place in different parts of Paradox Space. As you've already learned, there is no point on your timeline within your own universe that corresponds to any point on the timelines of your friends in Amdai. However, any point where those timelines interfere with each other--a conversation, say--is unquestionably simultaneous in a real sense.
: In another sense, even two events touching disparate points on your own timeline can be circumstantially connected. For instance, 'the first contact between your universe and Amdai' could refer to two discrete events, but both of them are the ultimate 'cause' of your collaboration.
: (You'll have to forgive the surfeit of scare quotes, darling, your language hardly has fit words to talk about this sort of thing.)
AA: OK
AA: Why are you telling me this
: These circumstantially concordant events do not necessarily happen at the same point in a narrative, but nevertheless they echo each other. Perhaps there were multiple times when you woke and found yourself alone. Perhaps two different people stood at the edge of two different precipices, unaware. (Though these are only examples, darling.) These moments of waking or suspension are concordant. Indeed, any two moments of waking are concordant to some extent, but stronger concordance is more powerful in other ways.
AA: OK I'll remember that
AA: But actually I wanted to ask if you can tell me how I get out of here
AA: Since we got my friend Kuviu the thing you wanted him to have
: Let me show you an example of how that power can be used. Now that our game data has been erased, what do we naturally do?
AA: I don't know what any of that means
AA: What glitch? Why did they have to escape? Why would they come to the worst place ever?
: I'm sure you can find out easily by working your contacts, but that isn't what I'm here to talk about.
AA: Who are you
: My last messages to you, Dreamer, will regard circumstantial concordance. You may have heard of circumstantial simultaneity, darling?
AA: No
: It's crucial for the historical analysis of events taking place in different parts of Paradox Space. As you've already learned, there is no point on your timeline within your own universe that corresponds to any point on the timelines of your friends in Amdai. However, any point where those timelines interfere with each other--a conversation, say--is unquestionably simultaneous in a real sense.
: In another sense, even two events touching disparate points on your own timeline can be circumstantially connected. For instance, 'the first contact between your universe and Amdai' could refer to two discrete events, but both of them are the ultimate 'cause' of your collaboration.
: (You'll have to forgive the surfeit of scare quotes, darling, your language hardly has fit words to talk about this sort of thing.)
AA: OK
AA: Why are you telling me this
: These circumstantially concordant events do not necessarily happen at the same point in a narrative, but nevertheless they echo each other. Perhaps there were multiple times when you woke and found yourself alone. Perhaps two different people stood at the edge of two different precipices, unaware. (Though these are only examples, darling.) These moments of waking or suspension are concordant. Indeed, any two moments of waking are concordant to some extent, but stronger concordance is more powerful in other ways.
AA: OK I'll remember that
AA: But actually I wanted to ask if you can tell me how I get out of here
AA: Since we got my friend Kuviu the thing you wanted him to have
: Let me show you an example of how that power can be used. Now that our game data has been erased, what do we naturally do?