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Okay, so... I'm not the only person that got visited by a door last night, right? I'm not the only person who noticed it? I'm not the only person who went in, right?

Has anyone else even mentioned this? Are all the entries filtered away from me somehow? Did I hallucinate that I went through a freestanding door and put Renzo to bed somewhere else, where it looked like his dad was somehow still probably around, where Renzo wasn't just a preformed castle baby and was actually someone's kid? I wonder if that me STILL has the cat parts.

Does this sound familiar to someone? Anyone? Anyone at all?

I wonder if the people over there freak out when their kids go missing on a yearly basis. Assuming that's not just... a castle trick.

SOMEBODY knows what I'm talking about, anyway... right?

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Aradia;

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... his name was Madara. And he was pretty evil, but nice to me at the time.

Uh, what do you think it really is?

Rin;

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oh gosh im sorry
that sounds really awkward

i dont know its just a theory
but i suspect that all the so called world changes are actually other places on this same planet
and by extension so is whatever place the wigglers went

Aradia;

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It was a long time ago, at least by the standards here. [In other words, it ain't no thang.]

... Does that mean there might be duplicates of us there, somehow? Because the room looked like - I mean, the parents would have to be there...

Rin;

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its possible
or it could be future versions of ourselves who eventually go back in time
or from alternate timelines
or clones
...
or it could just be other people acting as surrogate caretakers in the same way we were
theres really no way of knowing at this point
i wish id remembered to plant tracking devices on them

Aradia;

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So after that, we still don't know anything for sure. We just have to choose to believe the castle and what it showed us, that they're all right, or think the worst.

Rin;

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sounds about right
what else can we do though

Aradia;

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Nothing. At least, I don't want to make myself completely miserable all the time in the name of beating this place.

Rin;

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considering that the castle likes us miserable its probably counterproductive anyway

Aradia;

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Do you think it really does? If it feeds on our emotions...

Rin forevs

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exactly
why wouldnt it

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Being mad or sad aren't the only things that count as emotions. It could want us to just feel things in general. Happiness too.

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i thought it just allowed us happiness so that when we did experience sadness anger or fear those emotions would be more potent by contrast
to keep it fresh so its captives dont break
im pretty sure thats a cardinal principle of extended torture

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I think that's a little cynical to be honest... I mean, I guess it might be right, but if this place feeds off emotion, than it could feed off our happiness too. It could just want us to feel everything. That's not as good as just wanting us to be happy, but it's not as bad as preferring that we should suffer and just offering us happiness to make the suffering more acute either.