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[TheCake]

[Lookbehindyou]

One more thing to ponder. Could HABIT also be a metaphor for the cycle of which they keep repeating over and over as though it is a habit they cannot break? No idea where I'm headed with this thought other than wanting to throw it out there, but it could have some relevance. Another collective so to speak was my only thought.

[seriousbandits]

[qaqa]

Yeah, I think fish is right. My first thought after that re: the trials was out of the much-maligned Alien: Resurrection, when they try to self-destruct the infested spaceship - "I can't stop it." "Then crash it," Sigourney Weaver says. So I thought maybe all the Rabbits pull out and the trials are negated and HABIT is fucked and might then turn to us out of desperation, or something. But that wouldn't really accomplish anything - a) we can't trust HABIT to ever work with us, b) not all the Rabbits will agree to pull out, and c) the trials, according to Fish's theory anyway, have no bearing on the cycle as outlined in the cache notes.

We went over a lot of this in the cache thread but I think the bottom line is this has all happened in some form before and now it is happening again, but I don't believe that the OOG PMs would have told us all this so we could predict and perhaps be let down by every single story beat from now to the end. They want us to know it can be changed and try to stop the cycle. If you can't break it, then crash it.

I don't think we can stop anything up to the Voyeur being found to be "busy behind the scenes." I think that's coming at us very soon. Beyond that, we have to try and I haven't a clue where to start. We've asked them to look at the Corenthals and the past, which is almost surely their past cycle. We may want to look into Steph more as she is not mentioned in the notes and could be a wild card, along with Jessie. And I think we're going to need to take them through all of these notes, what we think they mean, and how we need to stop them.

[awakeasaurusrex]

Hmm. The whole "greater cycle" thing suggests to me that perhaps we don't want to break the cycle so much as perfect it. Maybe the whole thing is cyclical because the participants all have to keep doing it again and again until they get it right? Once they get it right, they can move on to the "greater cycle", whatever that is, and actually make progress. But if they get it wrong, they don't get to move on, they have to redo this cycle until they don't screw it up.

[MsSynclair]

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[purplesharpie]

I'm so confused, you have no idea. I think my tiny pea brain is incapable of understanding anything about this. :P

(Also, 200th post. In like 2 months. I HAVE NO LIFE.)

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[Mochable]

[jdsherrer]

There is a lot to process here.

[qaqa]

Ms, that's why I said I thought better of it. It won't work. We will never get everyone to agree to drop out, and what's more, if lunaticfish's theory is correct, the trials are a new addition by HABIT to escape the cycle and Evan. They have no bearing on the actual cycle. Dismantling the trials would do nothing except maybe leave HABIT even more pissed, or potentially willing to aid us out of spite and frustration.

[MsSynclair]

[Lookbehindyou]

OT: One upsetting piece of information was just delivered to me by my friend who came along with me today. He lost a necklace chain that was very dear to him somewhere in the woods. We checked the car and found nothing. We think it might have happened when we were crossing the stream.

He said it was still worth going because of how much fun we had though, and we may go back to the spot and search for it anyway because I have to wonder if it happened when opening the box.

[Stoicheio]