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[The sound pops a few times, the microphone getting jostled all over because the guy holding this communicator? Yeah, he's flipping out something fierce.]

No, no, no, this is so-- Oh man. Oh man. Every kind of not good, it's--

[Awkward, nervous chuckle.]

Help destroy the mainframe, get sucked into it. It's like living The Matrix except I'm not Neo and I--

This is one hell of a mental sock, I mean, wacky space ship, big fancy dome that screams perfect, idealized society free of worry and then all the little people trapped on the outside. Sounds like the premise to a summer blockbuster! Or a B movie on SyFy. But it's not. It's gotta be part of the illusion my brain cooked up to constantly keep the adrenaline running.

So, if I'm gonna believe Echo, Priya and Anthony about their reports on what this whole Attic thing is like, where's the constant conflict, the puzzle I keep looping through, never able to solve no matter which way I think about it...?

Oh, oh! Can I take a guess? Because it's a pretty good guess. I'm gonna keep walking down this quaint little path and I'm gonna find Boyd and his little buddy Clyde in Saunders holding Bennett hostage or something. Save the girl, they get on with the thoughtpocalypse. Let them kill Bennett again and bam! Loop stars all over again and never get to know if it saved the world because I just get to agonize over the choice again! And again! Oh man, that sounds like so much fun! Bundles-o-fun like none other! I just can't wait to feel--

I, ah, Yeah. Gonna shut up now, I think.

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As entertaining as your speculation is. I can assure you this is not a product of your own minds.

How can you be so sure? I mean, you could be a product of my own mind and you don't even know it because it's like you've always been here.

[you actually made Rush laugh a little. why do you sound like Eli.]

I'm quite certain I am not. Quite frankly, it's far more likely you are a product of mine and this is a hallucination created by Destiny via the interface chair or some other means. It's not beyond its capabilities and has happened quite frequently in the past.

For the moment, I choose to believe you are real as is this situation and if it is not, the key to our release is likely hidden within the hallucination. I see no reason we cannot employ figments of our own mind in aiding in our release.

Wait, dude. Chair? That sounds suspiciously like the chair I've got back home that can rewire entire brains to do what I want them to so. Still a 50/50 chance there, dude. You could still be a product of mine.

Except if this is the Attic, we'll think we figure it out and then the entire situation will loop back to the start. Never ending cycle to keep our brains fresh and juicy for the mainframe.

This conversation is just getting weirder and weirder.

Destiny is perfectly capable of doing something similar. On both accounts actually.

Well, should that be the case there's little point in wasting time in debate. Real or not there is no reason to sit idly by.

Yeeeah.

Debating this would be a perpetual battle that'd devolve into "But I said so, so nyeh."

So, gonna stop with the sitting and the idling.

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