Plots/Subjectivity Distortion Generator

Summary

Nikolai's latest invention is something he's been working to complete for several weeks now. It's a Subjectivity Distortion Generator, similar to one he used once to build his Lab. He's entirely driven to complete this project, but not entirely sure how or why he is. A conversation with ojou suggested that the machine itself is trying to be created, and is distorting things in its own past to enable its own creation. The intent of the machine is to create a temporary realm of destabilized reality, to aid in character's creativity and general mental health. But the machine, as anything Nik creates, has the potential to go wrong and even explode.

A very strong possibility is that Nikolai has somehow powered the machine with the essence of one extremely subjective Zoe, either trapping her essence inside or drawing off this same power source. Is this source a universe of complete improbability and bizarrity? Maybe Zoe is zirself a generator. Maybe the engine created Zoe retroactively after Nik built it. We have yet to see.

What It Does

There has been much speculation on what this machine will do once switched on. Even by Nikolai himself isn't sure what might happen.

Judging by the tests that have not been happening already, the machine at the very least breaks walls and boundaries between the Mess' consensus reality and the higher levels of reality that exist. More than just subjectivity, it seems to shatter OOC and fourth-walls, tapping into the 'real world' and the mind of the Player. This might be a bug. It might be an intended feature. Intended by whom? That is the real question that perhaps only the Red King can answer.

Somewhat involved events

• Nik's recent conversion to a Gridshaman may have something to do with the project. Or he could just have a neat idea and is going with it.

• [This didn't happen. Or it did. Sssh. ]

Possible Players

• Nikolai, the inventor. He assumes.
• Trilogee, moral support and then some.
• Zoe, the heart of subjectivity, perhaps tapped for power. She hasn't been encountered or even sensed since [last Summer]
• Kayle: He was involved in one subjectivity-breaking cross-temporal test so far, and actually remembered it.
• The mysterious Red King. Who could be anyone. Or just might be the soul of the machine.

Potential Events

• For one, Nikolai first has to test the machine. It hasn't been switched on, and it's not known if it can even be switched off.
  • The effects of the machine are perhaps already being felt in the past. Tests are occuring even before it has officially been switched on. So far, nobody has noticed. When a test happens, all local characters and locations involved are dumped into a temporary backup buffer which is then dumped after the test is over. As yet, the only one to detect and remember the one test he was involved in is Kayle. This may be useful.
    • It has been switched on. It was spectacular. Nikolai wasn't around to turn it off, but it's been switched off by now.
• The machine might see some regular use as therapy, vacation from reality, drug trip without the drugs, or even some excessively out-there sex. Ideally for public usage in some established location.
• However, at some point it'd be fun to have the generator explode or at least go wrong, causing a shifting tear in reality much like a 'storm' that could move around. I'm attempting to create a framework for the Dream Sequence concept. It may not have to move around, but instead take over one particular room.

Switching It On

It's been turned on. The results of this will be felt for quite a while. Even though it's supposedly off now. What happened? A meta-gestalt emerged from the merging of characters. And another character was spawned from a different process, which will be known later.

Then there was a lot of odd OOC-forced-to-be-IC muddling. A log is coming, later.

Ideas? Potential Involvement?

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• Kayle's convinced himself that he wasn't hallucinating.

• Clockwork is convinced that It is hallucinating. And wants a Godpad.