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[snowblindmods]

I hope you've had fun.

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[thewarningafter]

They aren't even human.

[snowblindmods]

Obviously.

[thewarningafter]

[A brief stint of silence again, this time in anger.]

Some of us became anomalies, once. Or believed that we did.

[snowblindmods]

You believed that you did.

[thewarningafter]

And how much of this have we just believed we experienced?

[And why couldn't Christine have been one of the things that wasn't real?]

[snowblindmods]

I don't know how much it matters. The experiences felt real to all of you, so they might as well have been.

[thewarningafter]

Like how it felt real that I'd been home and come back here?

[snowblindmods]

Will it be better or worse to know?

[thewarningafter]

We're going to die. The least you can give me is answers.

[snowblindmods]

It was a quantum-based simulation, not unlike that incident where you all saw potential alternate outcomes of your lives here.

[thewarningafter]

[He blows out a ragged breath. He really doesn't know whether that makes it worse. Whether knowing something like that even can make things worse at this point. He's already confirmed the thing that hurts most.]

And in these quantum-based simulations, multiple people just happened to experience the same...what? False memories?

[snowblindmods]

The most likely future outcome of your world, had you remained in it as it was.

[thewarningafter]

What I saw, what I did had universal import. Are you telling me that while I was undergoing a medical treatment the machinery just happened to conduct a years-long simulation of an entire universe alien to the one we're in?

[snowblindmods]

It wasn't as if it actually took years.

[thewarningafter]

That's not the point!

[snowblindmods]

Is it that much stranger than that you're here at all?

[thewarningafter]

How? Piercing the dimensions I understand, but how can it gain the kind of data to make something like that possible?

[snowblindmods]

You can get a lot done with a powerful enough computer.

[thewarningafter]

Bull. Shit.

[snowblindmods]

It's not my problem if you don't believe the answer.

[thewarningafter]

And you want us to believe that's all it ever was. A powerful enough computer. That just explains everything.

[snowblindmods]

What do you want it to have been?

[thewarningafter]

What was the thing at the center? It communicated with us. Wanted to be released.

[snowblindmods]

What you could conceptualize of the town's systems.

[thewarningafter]

And yet those conceptualizations have always been shared. Have always been too consistent.